Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1875, Page 4

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NEW CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark street, botwesn Randolph and Lake, Kelly & Loon's Minstrels, After- noon and evenlug. ADELPHI THEATRE—Deatborn Monroe, Varlety eutertalument, evenlug, HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph street, between Clark and LaSalle, Catifornls Minstreis, Afterucon wnd eveuing, McVICRER'S THEATRE—Madison streot, between Dearborn and Biste, Engagement of isa Stay flow- ard, *lunted Down,” rireet, corner Afternoon aud ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM~Monroe atrcel, between Dear- born and Stats, ‘““Led Astray.” ' Afternoon snd erening, "SOCIETY MEETINGS. TESVERIA LODGE, No, €11,4, T, & A, M ~Anonal communication st Masonic Temple, coruer Randolph and Hslated-sts., thin (Wednesday) evening, Dac, 15, €or the Election of omrtvl-l A0d payment of CHA! L. BRENAN, CHAS. F. FOEKSTER, § The Chicags Tribune. ‘Wodnesday Morning, Docomber 15, 1875, Greenbacks ot the New York Gold Ex- ehange yosterday opened aud closed at 87§, The Senate yesterday confirmed the Presi- dent's nomination of tho Hon. Mank Baxas for United States District-Atiorney for the Northern District of Illinois, e —— Arrangements have been fully perfected for tho meeting in Chicago to-day of the National Transportation Convention, & body wmada up of dolegates from overy State in the Union. A large ailendaunce is anticipated, and the proceedings of the Convention will command a dogree of attention and interest commensurate with the gravity ond impor- tanco of the subjects to bo considered. The Millers of the Northwest, now in Convention in this city, have a serious griovanco to complain of at the hands of the railrond companies, Thoy yesterday adopted aresolution protesting carnestly sgainst the recent advance of 10 cents per barrel on flour rates, asserting it to bo an unjust dis- crimination against flour and in favor of wheat, and asking the rnilronds to place the Tates upon a fair and equnl footing. The Coroner’s Jury which investigated the recent railway accident at Buffalo in their verdict severely consure ‘‘the contemptible falso economy” of the New York Contral Railroad Company in failing to provide the necossary number of employes, and in vio- lating the city ordinance regulating the speed of railway trains, Hard words brenk po Lones, and railrond corporations ars totally indifferent to consure, A prosccation for ‘wonslaughter would ba mora to tho purpose, The repor torney-General Prerne. roNT, submitted to Congross yesterdny, urges that District-Attornoys be paid by salary only, graded according to the extent of their Inbors ; that Congress provide for a uniform method for aelecting juriesin Federnl Courts § that United Stotes Blarshals be held to a stricter accountability in finsncial matters § and that increased safegonrds are nocessary to enablo the Court of Claims to mora offect- ually protect the Troasury agninst improper s2d fraudulont claims. ‘Foy Bcorr's Texas Pacific Railrond mon- strosity bas been fully lnunched upon the sea of Congresaional jobbery. It is essentially a Southern mensure, and is fathered bya brace of Louisiana carpet-boggers—WesT in the Senato, nnd Darpary jn the House, For further and futnro particulars the inquiring voeder {8 respectfully referred to King Layaz, the Caucus potentate, who alone hay the power to determine whother the Big Bonanza ghall be worked np this winter or allowed to remain undeveloped until after woxt year's Presidential olection, Our Canten haa beon heard from. It wag all a mistake; ho did have a bill in his pocket, aud he wns not lacking in the courage which enables a statesman to stand up before all the world und send & page to the Clerk’s desk with o bill, Canten's relates to the Presidency, and is intended to banish the ghost of Civsarism for all time by & constitutional provision. Unfortunately there was o showoer of bills having the samo end in view, and there is renson to fear that, if tho law should over be pnssed, wo should nover be certain that it was our Cantin's, The majority of one which resulted in the nownination of Boannyan as the Republic. an-Democrstic-Tdquor - Dealers'-Common-Car- riers' candidate for the Boston Mayoralty, was not forthcoming at the election yestor- dsy, ‘The Republican bnit earried with jt the press of the city almost without excep- tion, and the support secured far Mayor Conn was suficient {o re-elect him by about 3,000 majority, and to defeat the wnboly sallisnce of ringsters and paliticians by which Boinp- .3MAN'® nomination was first obtained and subsequently ratified by the Democrats, rum- sellers, exprossmon, eto. Msyor Comn had proved himsolf to be tho right sort of Repub- Jicen to tieto, and the Boston boltors ars greatly clated ot their succesa in re-clecting i, The Chicngo produce markets were very irregulur yesterday., Mess pork was activo and 200 per brl higher, closing at $19.50 cash and %19.72)@19.75 for February. Lard was in good dewand and 100 per 100 Idbs higher, closing at $12.474 cash und $12.02% for February., Meuts were quiet aud fo higher, at 74@74o for boxed sloulders, 10jc for do short ribs, and 10jo for do short clears, Highwines were wore active, and 1o lower, at §1.10 per gallon. Flour was active aud unchanged. Wheat was active aud do- clined e, but closed stronger, at Y6jic cash and 97{c for Junuary, Corn was quiet and easier, closing ut 47J0 for December und 4ijc for Jauuury. Oats were active and }@jo lower, closing at 2000 cash, and 30jc for . January, Rye was fira at U8@U8}c. DBarley _wes dull apd essier, closing at 8Gjo for * December. . Hogs were sotive, and advanced 10¢, closing firm at £6.90@7.25 for packing grades. The cattle mnarket was overstocked and 23@d5c lower. Sheep wera active and steady, On Saturday evening last thera was in store in this ecity 1.813,741 bu wheat, 231,411 bu corn. 133,718 bt onts, 138,040 bu rye, and 231921 bu barley. Oune hundred dollara in gold would Ly 114,274 fn green. Lacks at the clos i 1n the trial of the three judges of election for willful neglect of duty, which was begun yeaterday in the Criminal Court, it waa clear- Iy evident that the Sheriff hnd undertaken the disposal of tho case by means of the jury. Tho originnl panel wns oxhausted in per- omplory challenges and challenges for ease by the proscention, the panel Leing made up of saloon-loafers, bummers, gamblers, ete, The special tvenire was ne betler, although the Sherif was eapecinlly ehinrged with the duty of bringing in reputable business-men. Tho Htate's- Attoruey. having exhausted his limit in per- emptory challenges, was forced to accert an unsatistectory jury at Inat, with a prospeet of ncquittal or disagreement, no matter what the evidence may be! ‘There scemed to bs no remedy for this state of things—at lest, none that the prosecution could devise or enforce. The Citizens' Assovintion, through its efficient Committeo on 'I'axntion, has beon engaged in {uvestigating the subject of South Chicago tax-stenling, aud the report pre- sented by the Committcs abounds in plain statements and vigorous recommendations. Inspite of tho fret that they were unlaw- fully denied nccess to the records in the oflice of tho Town Clerk, the investigators weve ablo to ascertain beyond question that under the guise of * salarics and exponses ” of town officers the {ax-payers have been villninously robbed, Four remedics are proposed, viz.: Enjoining the collection of the town tax; onjoining the misappropriation of the noney after it iu collected; bringing suit against the officers and their sureties to recover the amounts illegally taken; and the indictmont of tho tax.grabbers. The Committeo recom- meud that all these remedies be tried tfo- gethor, so that if tho guilty officials escape on ona count thoy may bo held on another, — KING LAMAR, . The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives hos sbdicated. Humbly conscious of the fact that it was in fmminent danger of making a collective fool of itself, it has hnatily thrown away the power it was nfraid to use, has elected tho ex-Confedernto Lasan ns its King, snd has empowered him to appoint, purely in nccordance with hisown royal will, a Btar-Chamber of thirtoen por- sons, who ara to inform the Democratio sheep in Congress assembled what monsures mny be introduced and what course shall be takon on cach. ‘Tha * thirteon” are to ba ringmasters and tho rest the trained mules in tho circus. The Democrats were sactunlly afraid toeven trust themseclves with the choice of their boker's dozen of despots. They supinely placed overything in the hands of King L. This action, though unprecedented in some vospects, still revives memories of the past. The Northorn Democracy has always bowed submissively to the Southern section. The slave.barons used to elbow their way to seata st tho hoad of the table and thence crack the party-whip over their sbrinking collengues from tho North, Now the old ¢ donghfaco” sentiment shows itself sgain. The party throws itself at tho feet of a man who served in tho Confedeorate army, sat in the Confed- crate Congress, and represented the Confed- oracy at n foroign Capital. He is nblo to sit in our Congress only because o Republican House and Senate relioved him, by special voto, from the consequences of his trenson to his country, and sv allowed him to hold high place under tho Government b tricd to de- stroy, Now the Democrats bave given Lim nbsolute power over that Government, as far ns they can. Ho can coustitute the Star. Chamber precigely as he wishes, and can so0 shape the whole legislative policy of the coun. try. In thus placing prectically supreme power in uiterly irrosponsible hands, the Democrats, sgain, have simply followed their favorite party policy of creating o ¢ Boss.” Laxag is their Bogs, Hois tho Smox who snys % Thumbs up!” and **Thumbs down!" and in obediently followed by the cringing Northerners whom he rulos and the hiughty Southorners whom he represents, The Unit~ ed Statesis not yet ready to beruled bya Doss, not even when he is an ex-Confederate. ‘What were the Northern Democrats sent to Washington for ? The country put them there to discusa meosures and pasy such laws a4 might seem to the best interests of the country in their sober judgment. We have already pointed out various reasons to distrust that judgment, but we never expected the very men who were sent to publicly confess that thoy could not bo trusted, even by thom- solves, and thot the rule of an irresponuible Sunhedrim and an ex-Confoderate Bosa was safor and botter than that of the chosen reprosentatives of the Democratic party. ¢'The masses” of Bourbon Congressmon havo voluntarily changed that descriptive torm to ‘them asses,” and lave besought King Laaan to rule them as he will. They have thus been grossly discourteons to their own Speaker. After choosing Mr, Kemn to select their Committeen, thoy have deliber- ately snubbed him, and hiave subjected him, the Committecs, and themselves to o Con- federate chieftain, who is to appoint a Board of Gusrdians, thelittle finger of which will bo thicker than tho Bpeaker's loins, Having chosen a Northern man a8 their shiom supe- rior, they now maka a Southerner their renl ruler. Cnucus government is bad enough; Star-Chamber government will be worso yet. Even if his Imperial Majesty appoints the thirteen viceroya of the party with perfect foirness and doss not pack the Commities in such o way that ‘Toa Bcorr’s subsidy schorney, the Bouthern clulms, and othor steals are sure to bo forcod by it through tho House, the engincers of all these jobs have only to persunds or buy a majority of the Thirteen in order to insure tha sevept- ance of thoir schemes by a subservient sot of scared Congressmen, afrald of each other and of themselvos. Whon, atter fifteen years' ex- clusion, the nation trusts the Democratio party with a share of tbe Government, the wen selected meekly howl fu unison; * Dear e, we ain’t it to do auy governing,” and forthwith appoint a dictator, with an ommnipo- tent body-guard solected by hiwself, OQut upon such cowards! They Lave run away from the dutiea they wero choson to perfon, and have thus blazoned to the world their uu- fitness for the honorable task imposed upon them by their coustituents. Even when the oldon-time Congrosses were in reality wholly wubject to the dictation of a fow Boutherners, there was never such an open nbdication of power. ‘I'ha protense of independence was still kept up. ‘Tho Northe ern sssraners pretended to speak and vote a8 the7 ¢3p gt This iy changed now. Thoy have provided for the appointment of a Com. mitteo which is to kecp them from speaking and voting as they think, and make them do as tho Commitleo thinks, The donghface enters onr polities onee more, The. Demo- cratic IHouse commits hari-kars, Its power iy dead. LaMan possesscs it. Long live the Kingt THE FELON TWEED, A dispatch from New York intimntes upon pretty good nuthority that tho felon Twrep is at large in New York City, and that ho hng mado no effort to leave it. ‘Whether this dispatch be true or untrue, the esanpe of 'Twikp and the fafluro to make him disgorge nro a dreadful comment upon the pusillnnimons and contemptible manner in sehieh juastieo has boen adwinistered. From tho first institution of tho suily ngoinst Twrp, the conrts and the lawyers have bedoviled and deluded the law, justice, and the public, and disgusted the wholo nation. Tween was placed on Blackwell's Island for a short time, and was then guibbled ont and into Tudlow Street Jnil, from which ho walked out with immunity, the conven- jent deputics leaving the doors open for him. During his pretended inearcer- ation ho lived like a Prince, Ilowas allowed to rido nbout tho city, to air himself in Cen. tral Park, to visit his friends, and to dine in the club-honses, in charge of an ensy-going deputy. Finally, his jail-doors ara opened aud he walks off, still haviug the six millions which he Liay stolen in his possession. No attempt was mado to stop him. No well- organized attempt will be made to recover hiw, No earnost effort will bo made to seize the six millions which he las stolen. And this is the way they treat a felon sud o rob. ber in New York! They do these things better among the '‘effetc monarchies” of the Old World, upon which we affect to look down with lofty con- tempt and compnssion, and at whose adminlstration of justice and government ‘we are nocustomed to smile. I'ie contrast is not strikingly in our favor when we lovk at their method of administering justico to official thieves. How long is this infamous condition of things to remain without chango? Is this lax aud corrupt method of tampering with tho laws nover to be ro- formed? Why has Twrrp not been pun- ished? What provents tho immodiste sciz- ure of the property which he has stolen? If the Inws cautot be ndwinistered, why are they not remodeled? If they are so full of techuicalitics and quibbles that a convieted felon caunot, be punished, why are they not divested of these quibbles and technicalities ? This mockery of justico cannot go on for- over, 'There must be a limit to it somewhere, and unless reforms are iustituted thiat limit will be found in the courts of Judge Lyvcn and at the Iamp-po LET UB INVESTIGATE. The new Cougress is little moro than n week old, and already the champion investi- gator has appeared. LurTrers of Californin is bie hight, and of courvo he is s rock-rooted and mountnin-buttressed Bourbon, There is nothing small or mean about LurtrerLs, He is going inté the wholesale business, and is prepared to make **Rome howl" 'The American Engle will have to scream now if he hng never scremmed before, and pluck ont all his tail-fenthers in an ngony of despnir. Says Turrreen of California, the investigator: “Demoerats of the House, cach of these points covers a wrong to be exposed and checked. ‘FThe people demnnd truth at your honds. They will sustain you in unveiling it.” And then the ruthless Lurtrriy of Californin commences to removo the veil from the fifty investigations which he proposes to male,— veil denser, moro mysterious, and consider ably Inrger than the one Kiomassaw wore. The nogligent telegraph has not yot given us the details of these fifty investigations which aro to cause such a commotion in tho breast of the American Eagle and shattor tho last lingering relinnce we have in official intogrity. It only gives us o glimpse of n few. Itovi dently intends to brenk the mews gradually and lot us down ensily. The few which aro given, howaver, are gigaatic, overpowering, stunning, bewildering. 'They take * tho breath away and lenve tho redder dazed. First comes Berknie, Secretary of War, Lorrezen of California wants Lim' investi- gated for carrying off cannon, guns, and blunderbusses, war-horses, jacks, aud males, tents, dvercoats, and blankets, jerked beef, hard-tack, and pen coffec, and other materinl of war to the valuo of $800,000,000, for which money ho has pover made account! No wonder our army is a little, starveling one, Theso milliona would not only pur- chase all the war-material in the country, but also the whole army,—Colonels, Brigadier- Generals, Major-Generals, Lieutounnt-Gen- orals, and General, with West Point, all the frontier forts, and the militia of the country, ineluding the First Illinois Regimont, thrown in, Tt is high time that rapacious robber, that greody son of Mans and Brrrowa, who gnards the Star-Spangled Danner and awos the effeto monarchies of Europs, was stopped in his furtive careor, If not checked he will carry off the American Eaglo himself ond scll Lim to some foreign power. But Bereyar s not nlone in his stealing. Lur- reLu of California boldly slloges that our jolly sen-dog and son of Neprunz who pre. sides over our navy has coolly walked awsy with $40,000,000 worth of monitors, sloops of war, tugs, anchors, lockers, chains, and ballust, and gold them at the old junk. stores. Bo hore wo are, liable at any moment to be juvolved in a war with the bloody Don Arronso or somae otffer Spanish Dow, aud when we got ready to go to worls, find ourselves withont either army or navy, both having been stolen and sold for $810,000,000~in which millions the Secre. taries of the War aud Nuvy sre now rolling over and over. Lurruery of Californin also takes high moral ground. 1le wants a com- 1mnittee to investigato whether the approprin. tions for internal improvewent sre not un. dermining public morulity. ‘Ihis is impor- tant, and the investigation ought to bo thorough. The public is yearniog to know it the improvemonts in the Calumot River may not after all Lo at the bottom of the dreadful condition of things in our City Government; if (lo location of new light-houses I8 wot luring on untold thousands to destraction; if the building of new customn-houses and post- oftices is not offsetting the labors of our Young Men's Christiau Aesociations; and it new railroads, Indisn rescrvations, packages of socds, and improvements of dams and dalles are not preventing missionary labors, Who knows thut the settling of the Chicago Gaovernment buildings may not be account- oble for the corvuptions in our County Board and the woral apathy of Corvin? Who knows that Tweep did not escape owing to the agitation of the Southern Pacific Railroad sobemo? 'Theso possibilities wmust be looked to. aving investigated these three grounds of complaint, Lurrai, of Californis must have a committeo to investigate Bry Burrer and discover how it is that this cross.eyed man of destiny always turng up ag connsel in im- portant coses. Thisis a matter which does not concern the people so much as it does Mr. Betern, Dt at the samo time we aro ramewlhint mrurprised lo did not include in this particular fuvestigation why Senator Bavanp, every time ho js mentioned for the Presidency, turns up in a diferont State, In his investigation No. 6, LurtreLu of Cali- fornin is going to find ont why Jax Cooke pocketed £80,000.000 (TurTnest of Californin is nlways inthemillions) of Government bonds with Secretary McCurrocu's permission, Wao regret that he hns not included in this specification the repudiation of its bonds by the Turkish Government, which must also have been donoe with McCvtLocit's, and per- haps even with Bnistow's, permission. In. vestigation No. 6 will show that the liberties of the people are violated by the internal. revenue system, If this be 0, down with the internal-revenue kystem, death to tho Collectors, Assessors, Agents, and Super. visors. Shall the freadom for which our forefathers fought, Lled, and died be projn. diced Ly the Teutonic bLrewer of beer who ruthlessly tampers with the stamp on his buug ? Never! 8hall our free institutions, which are the pride and bonst of the world, be undermined, becnuse dise tillers will ba crooked and tobncconists will not rveverence tho sauctity of the blue prper that envelops their cigar-boxes? Nover, never! Ininvestigation No, 7, Lur- TorLL of Californin will relieve the yearning anxiety of onr merchauts to know whether they have not been robbed by tho fraudulent incronse in tho vnluo of the French frano, Why does Lutrnesn of Californin stop with tho French frano? Why does he not also include the pousiblo liberties that have been taken with the Chincse cash, the Russinn kopecks, the Italian scudi, the German pfon- nings and kreutzers, the Belgian lires, aad the Brazilian reis? None of theso coins are the snperiors of the Froneh franes in moral honusty, while all great Bis. Marce's dowminions are floaded with white. washed copper aud Dburnished pewter coina that may be robbing our unsuspecting merchants. These are only seven of the in- vessigations which Lurrrert of California proposes tomake, Therero forty-thraomors | As the fifty committees will bo triplots, the whole Democratic forco of the Houso being ongaged in investigntions, of course'we shall Tose oll the Democratic reforms wo wero to have, and Mr, Bapyer CauLriern's plan for 1he restoration of the Republic to the primi. tivo simplicity of the fathers will die of in. anition, and Canten Hannison's burning olo- quence and withering scorn will be smoth. ered, DButlet it come, Ring up the cur- tain, Enter Lurrnets of California, Room for tho champion investigator. Long live Dox Quixors, nud death to the windmills, THIS WAY, MR. MERBIMON. The recent Washington advices of Tum ‘Trisuse have foreshadowed very distinetly tho purposs of at least o formidable faction of the Democratic party to remove irom all claimants for damnges ngainst the United Statos Government the taint of disloyalty, and theroby givo tho ox-Rebeis and Rebel sympathizers equal opportunities for raids upon the Treasury with those who took no part in the Rebollion, but stood for the Union, This prediction has been received by the Northern and more consorvative Dewo- cratic press with derision, and as somothing altogsther unworthy of serious consideration. Yot this faction of the Democracy has alrendy shown its hand, Among tha very first bills introduced into tho United States Sennto was ono by ex-Rebel Senntor Menantox, of Xorth Cavoling, providing for the repeal of so much of that section of the Revised Statutes which forbids the payment of *cortaln claims.” To mako the matter plain, we quots.the law which Alr. Menrryon desires to repeal : That, untfl otherwiso ordered, it shall be unlawtul for any oficer of the United States Qovarnment to pay anyaccountor demand sgsinst said Government which accrued or exlsted prior to April 18, 1831, fn favor of any person who promoted, encouraged, or in any man- ner austained tho Jate Rebellion; or in favor of any perton who, during said Rebe'liou, was not ¥nown to be opposed therelo, and distipotly in favor of fts suspression; and no patdon beretofore granted, ar berealter to ba grantsd, ahall suthorize the payment of such, account, claim, or demind, un- i this resolution s modified or reposled: Pro- vtded, That this resolution snall not be construed 10 prohibit the payment of claims foundod upon con- tracts mado by any of the Dopartments, when such claims were seslgned, or contractod to be nssigned, prior t0 April 1, 1891, to crodltors of mid contracto loyal cltizens of Joyal Btates, in psyment of debls in- curred prior o March 1, 1831, Now that & bill for tho repeal of this pro. hibition bas been actually introduced into tho Benate, we prosume that an allegation of such o purposo will not be hooted at as im. possible and ridiculous. Of course, Mr, Mesarmvoy does not hope to secure tho pas- snge of such a bill in the Sonate, whero there is o Republican majority, but he has intro. duced it in order to give the Democratic sen- timent in Congross au opportunity to oxpress itaelf, and to set a procedont which the Dem- ocratio side in the House will not be slow to follow. # Mr. Mesrixox's bill is modest in jts pro. posed appropriation of only $400,000 to begin with for the paymeunt of claims of those who were in robellion ogainst the Gov- ernment. This wonld be but a drop in the bucket. O, rather, it wo~1d serve as a wedge to make an opening large onough to absorb untold scores of millions of the publio money. The prohibition removed, and the precedont of an appropriation onco fairly es. tablished, the mmount sot aside for this pur- pose would increase with every session of Congress, notwithstanding which the number of claims would nover be less, Awong the claims which would be revived by the ropeal of this prohibition are those of the ex-Rebel census-takers of 1860 in the Bouthorn States ; the ante-bellum mail-contractors, whoso routes wore broken up by the Robellion ; and the Southern Postmusters, who claim reim. bursement for losses in postage-stamps on band at the tinio the Wur broke out, and who will alo desire, in il probability, to be made good for their loss of salary during the entire interregnum of tho Civil War, But this now raid of disloyalista on tho United Btates Lreasury will not stop with the ante-belm cluims that wore wiped out by the subsoquent treason of the claimauts, Once disavow the unsvorsal dootrine that tresson is & bar to any claim upon thoe Government, and the sufforers from the War at tho South will endeavor to restore their fortuncs at the Gov- ornment expense, which means at the expense of the people of tha North Admit their ight to ante-bellum claiws, and their nest step will bo the refuuding of the $U5,000,000 of colton tox, with many yoars' intercst, Next if order will bo the losses sustained dur- igg the War st the hands of the Unfon troops. Paymont for the emancipated slaves, assumption of the Confederate debt, reim- bursement for property destroyed during Sherman’s March to the Sea and other de- structive marches of the Usnlon anmies, are 500 of the more colossal claims that wilt bo presented for payment, ‘Uhewo are not any mmora rapnlsive to patriotism and common konge than the ante-bellrm claims which Mr. Mrnrurstos wants to admit, 5o far as the prin- ciplo iteelf is coneerned, It now remains to be seen, Mr. MrrnrixoN having propared tho way, how numerous and important n faction of the Democrats in Qongross will approve the general proposition to removo the ban. Many of those really favorablo to it may be restrained by fear of public opinion, nnd defor any opon expression of their viows until after the Presidential election. It will e the duty of the press and the public to watci the Democratie tendency closaly, and {ndge of it by tho fairest indica- tions, Theundoing of the results of the War in the great danger to be appreliended from Democratic ascendoney, aud it is fmportant to nscertain dQuring the present session how Inrge o proportion of the Democrats favor that policy, . THE EX-CONGRESSMAN. Tho ex-Congressman in Washington is s pitiable creature. 1lis Lricf hold on plnce, power, aud pelf has unfitted him for theordi- nary pursuits of life, Lean aud hungry, he yearns for the public crib, He wanders un. ensily nbout the city whence ho used to frauk bis washing home and distribute dried seeds or pub. docs. to his constitutents, nccording as the latter dwelt in the country and wanted cattle.feed, or in the cityand lacked kindling- atter for their fires, Ilols a constant ap- plicant for oftice, willing to go ns Minister to any Europenn power, not unwilling to take o clerkship, sometimes i? tho plight of Presi- dent JacksoN's visitor, Who began Uy asking for the mission to England nnd ended by in. quiring whethertho President had an old pair of breaches ho could spare! Sometimes tho ex-Congressman gets tho mission, some- times tho clerkship or gaugerslip, some. times the old tronsers. Mo is ubiquitous, Ho swarms nt Washington, The Depart- ments ave interspersed with him, Tho lobby knows him well; the country knows him too well in that capacity, Io somotimes gaing edmittance, in the more humble capacity cf Doorkeoper, to the floor which he once Le- strode as a full-fledged M, C, One ex-Con- gressman is a subordinate of the Chief Clerk of tue House. Another is a messenger to the Doorkecper of tho House! Not long ago another, who had been discharged from a clerkship and waos unable to find employ- ment, beecams ernzed by his woes, and tried to kill es-Senator Poxrroy, whom ho aceused of causing his discharge, It is not ofton, however, that the ex-Congressman grows bloodthirsty, Mia triumphs have been those of peaceful warfare, and he thoreforo prefers politics to pistols. Ha always bas a lurking hope that his ex-constit- uents will onco more reflect credit upon themsclves by rejecting the ignoble person who succeeded him and replacing him in the House, or sending, him to the Legislature, or moking h'm Aldermon. Mo hns no affection for his successor, and is usually descanting on the person's evil qualities when he is not applying for an office, or haranguing some kindred unfortunate on the ingratitudo of Republics, or displaying o marvelous memory of overy montion of his nnmo in the days when it occnsionolly crept into the Congressional Globe t tho beginning of the speech he mado to Monday's emp. ty benches, then carefully studded with brackots contnining wsuch words ns ‘“applause,” ‘“‘immense applause,” *lnughter,” *cries of good, good,” and 4 peneral hilarily,” and finally franked to his constituents, who immedintely made the for- tune of the wandering rag-man, He is fond of telling his involuntary, always involunta. ry, ouditors of his jntimate acquaintance withthe *“giants” of histime, andof how such- and-such o person besought him to allow his namo to be pushed for the Presidency—** but, gnd, sir, I wasn't going to deprive LincoLy of o renomination; you know that story I told bim about not swapping horses when you're crossing a stream?” And eo the ex- Congressman wauuders on, until be secs somebody with *‘ influonce * ncross the street, and darts across {0 find out whather he can't got an office. For the first timo since the evil days of Bucnaxan's Presidency, the Democratic party has secured control of the Houso of Repro- sentatives, and will virtually be responsible for the legislation of Congress. They have alrendy inangurated the ** spoils” system of Civil-Service Roform by dismissing the maimed Union vetorans from all the small offices of the House aud fllling their places with Confoderates and ** Copperhends,” In view of this unjust and Infamous proceduro, Mr. Fonrr, of Illinois, offered a resolution in the Housc yesterday exprossing the judg- mont of the Houso that, in the matter of subordinate appointments, men who had served in the Union army and ro- ceived wounds should have the prefer- ence, and upon this demanded the provious question, The Democrats voted solidly against the resolution nnd dofeated it, Then, in order to break tho force of this vote, Mr, Cox offered an smendment, expressing the view that, as the country was now united, all citizons were entitled to ay equal privilege, whicl was carried by o vote of 168 to 102,— the latter all Republicans. As the offices Laove been already nearly oll filled with ex. Rebels, this resclution of Mr. Cox's must be regarded as ono of that gentlemnan's jokes. ‘This {8 o foretasts of Democratic reform,— dismisaing the one-armed and one-legged veot- orans who fought for the Union and giving their places to ex-Rebels, Go on with re- form, gentlemen. What next? Tersons who wish to buy the bondsof Ten- nessee can do 6o by paying 46 cents on the dollar for them, though why any one should care to buy them we cannot see. The Btate sooms to be flagrantly dishonest. Its bonded debt {s only $23,000,000 and tho floating ad- dition theroto only $3,000,000. ®he annual interest smounta to but $1,400,000, but no Legislature is honest enough or bold enough to impose the comparatively low tax needed to mcet the most solemn obligations of the Htate,—obligations incurred, not by carpet. ‘baggers, but by native.born citizens. Whea Axprew JonnsoN was stumping Tennesseo during his compaiga for the Scnatorship, he boldly advocated, sccording to the reports published at the time and never contradicted, the repudiation of balf the anuual intereston the bonds. If Tennessoe thinks that it is cheaper for her to save $700,000 a year than to be honest, she is making a great wmistake. Tho inequalities of the English electoral systom aro strikingly shown in a recont specch of Mr, Fonetes (o his constijuents at Uredford. He said that sevouty-one boroughs in England and Wales contain oply 4 per cent of the voters and returns 10 por cent of the M. P.'s, while ten other boroughs contair 10 per cent of the voters and return less than 6 per centaf the mombers of Padiament. And tho speaker went on to say that ‘' a change of one in twenty in the votes of only sixty.sovon English constituencies wonld turn tho present Liberal minority of 11 in the Commons into a majority of 0y, and n change of 1,900 voten throughout thirty-four boroughs would turn the whole majority of tha Conservatives into n minority of £3." The ** Essays and Lecturen " of Prof, and Mra, FaworrT contaln a number of other proofs of the glaring inequality of representa- tion in the House of Commons, This bad practice has resulted in the birth of a number of good theories of minority representation on English soil. Tho system in vogue in IIIL nois was first suggested by an Inglislinan, and Mr. Hare made nn original discovery of his admirable, though complicated, plan, despite the fact that it was put in practice in Bweden aud Denmnrk many yenrs befove ho thought of it. The squabble smong the Prosbyterlan mims- ters oud eldera in Bau Irancisco {4 ovon morn disgracofal than tho ona whith was lately dragged beforo the publicin Chicazo, The dif- forences hore nroso out of doctinal vagarios ; thora tho fauits jmpected to tho nccusad cleray- mon are of A graver Lind. Dawsox is at the bottom of the di-tu-bance, 1le e the clergy- man wbo was disciplined some months ago for gambling In stocks und for cond set towards the weaker sex unbocominr a ciorgymao and o goutloman. Wuen bo was ou triol bofore the Preabytery it was gonorally supposod that he alone had been seized by the dMammon of un- rightecusners. Later davelunments show that be wns merely nn justrumout in the bands of Providenco to accomplish the rain of miviatatist bretbron, Bmall eams wers con- fided to him for Inveatmant In stocis by the Rov. O. T. Mictem, D. D. Prio- cipal of Mills Femalo Ssmnsry, the Rov. Dr. Poos, of Oaklaud, the Rov, F. 8. BiteArens, agent of tho Ametfcan Tract Bocioty, tho Rev. Mr. McCanrur, acting-prator of the South Sin Franciseo Churob, J. M. Covprr, Chiteso mis- sionary, the Rov. L, P. WinTiya, of tue Potrero Chureb, aud soversl ocbers, Wiou stocks wore ‘*w-booming,"” in the laugnage of tho stroet, tho miuisterial Bpeoulators cou d not sueal too high- Iy of Brothor Dawsox; when the tido turncd and thoy lost beavile, they arraigned JJawsoN be- fore the Piesbylery snd tuined hiw out of tho Churcs, Tuus thoy offercd o vicarious atous- ment for their logses, novel 1t 1ormit not in sub- #inuco, Wo diroct tho atteation of the noxt Genoral Assamlly to tho Sun Franelsco Prea- bytery. 1t may bo profitablo to 1uq ure whetlior wpeculating iu stocks is rigbt 5o Juug #8010 WS Aud Wrong 4o moment one begiuy to lone, That uoadultorated Bourbon shoot, tho St Louis Times. while evidently cordialy bating Mr. BLAINE for low generat poskitess fo puucr turing Domocratio buncowbo on the lloor of the House, thinks it Lad discoverod how he nuny prove o blessing in disguiso Lo the rock-rooted Borrbor membura, It charees that tho Repub- Lican poiloy is to apoil the Dem cratic investi- gations, aud geverally to demorauze the Demo- cratic mujoritv, and ndds : For thus tort of tactics no bettor 1{ter then Drane could e outaized, atid 1f ho Almglly consd be suduc- €d (0 raanufacturs oue espe iy fur tho work, It i doubtiut whettier it would not 16 to the futereat of the Tlepub feans 1o refect the epecia. creatlon wnd coutinue {u buainues ul tho ofd stand, All which must besiniply appalling {o the aver- ago Dewoeratio undorstatdiug, Tho Zimes, Lowever, cxtracts thesofrom thus erumb of com- fort, which betiavs a nico wppreciationof the dunderheadedness of the Domocrutio leasors ¢ Tlowevyer, all thia ia for tha best, La:ause there aren good m.py beads on the Demucratic wide that wilt Luver recelvo uny fenso escept thal whieh oonics in uuder tho mild persuasion of o c.ub, sud BNE b the Tollow to wicld the pursuasive hickory, The Cityof ITygoinisa muonicipality which unfortunately exists unly io the imagination o Dr.B. W. Ricuagpeoy, F, R, 8., who eketohed it in his opening sddress to the Health Hection, at the recent meeting of tho Evgluh Social Belence Congress, ‘U'o imaginary Ilygeia con- taine 100,00v iubabi'auts, who livein 20,000 bouses that cover 4.00) acroi of land. There are no tenomont houscs. There arn no collars, Everv building rosts on eold brick arches, through which all waste watur sud housenold rofuso i3 discharged into the sower-systom of tha city, All smoxe iscoosumed, The kitchons are uext to tho roof. The inside walis of the houses are of glazed brick, fiushed ln dilferont colots, Caryets aro replaced by rugs, which rost lightly oo volished wood tloors. The character- Intics of thus citv inthe airaeem to bo the ap- plication of housebold art to the furnishiug, and scionutic common-souse to the comtruction, of houzos, By the time that E. E, Haig's droam of tha City of Bybaris ia roshized, Dr. Ricmann- sox's dream of Hygols may e, tuo. b SR, The Now York Times, ofter dovoting & colomn of editorial comment upon the erualiy of & brutal schoolmacter iu Alameda County, Cal,, wio pun- ished & boy by compelivg him to asceud the uchool house stars 100 times, closcs ite cow- ments by sayivg that Mr. Buopt, tho teacber, shou'd be * ted to & s2ques’ered tros, aud iy scholais permitced to devolo au afteruoon to amusing bim o somo {noccent sud cheerful way. Aftor which = now teachor coald be im- ported, aud a Bubsceiption talen up smoog the mombers of the Alameda County Board of Edu- cation tor arnfca salve and o free railioad-ticket o Chicago for the ingenious Mr. Bronr.,” With the oxcotion of the freo rail oad-ticket to Chi- cago, we concur in tho above proposition. We csn Be@ 1o use for such & brute In Chicago, He would be tolerated hoto such & very short time hat 1t wonld bo better for she Alameda Board ot Educatlon to presest him with s through tickot ta New fork, — Whatever elae may come of it, thore {4 gratify- Ing proapoct that the libel s.it of TurNos W. Pankagalost the New York ribune will serve to make public the whole truth relative (o the Em- ma Mine swindle, In his complaint in the au, filed ast Baturday in the Un.ted Btates Circuit Court for New York, Pank vets up that bo waa actively iatrumontal in aifactivg ihe eslo to the British capltalivta; that a2 his request diuister BeugNcx did subscrive for shares of the stuck ; and that be (PAnk) agsisted ScueNex io paying fur it, Lut that the sale to the LEnghwsh atock- holders and bis (Pank's) conueciion therowith wad “'io all jewpects falr, bonest, and without frand,” Thatputsin fssue the wholo of the frauds chaiged, aad presenta opportunitv for tull legal investigation of tlia ohtire transaction, which seemu {0 atana lu nead of thorouh ven- tilation. —_— 1t muut be presumod there In Isw o warrant it, but it is nono Lho leas romarkable, the prav. tice In the United Statos Court st 3iiwaulies of admittiog tho whisky thievea to bail after thexr couvictlon. Two of the convicted membard of the Ring, wha wers suffercd o remasin at jarge on bail alter the return of s verdict of guilty sgainst thom, huve alresdy avhiled thotdselven of the opportunity {resented by ths action of the Court torun away, forfeiting their ball fu the fosignificant Higure, for tha Whisky Ring, of £0,000 each. Aud now Buunock and Rzyxoros, the latest Whisky-Ring convicts, have also peen reloased ou bail uotil seutence-day, Possibly on that day tuey will appear hke liitlo meu to bo sont to pnsonj sud quite sy likely about thae time the Iimg will have secured the Loudawen. and the convicts will be sately lauded over the boder. And now upriss the * Progressive Women of the Hepublic " and enter thoir protest against suy appropriation by Coogress in aid of the Ceu- tennial Exbibition. Cause why, that **tbe doors of the Exlibitipa Palaco linve been closed iu womasn's face,” As tuough that ungallaos coue duct ou the euough, the progressive pr scend [l us, shelier outsidet the ied aud ations ; ludisus, Luing dce ded to CH:IMI, Freeowialile Keorers, and varioun other parties, whote works 100 4 yinty to mention, In common w.thall 1he diffen entan to.shiaws, we re formally pernitied to occupy 'y small spare, We, tharfore, In the most wmphaiy terms, denonnes the Gosit N GILt.xarrs Pagods Cone «optiun ; wliich, Arcordiug totho 1o citeuter fyenaz Ly the feiale Preadont, proves thet within ecen thy wulla of thin fancitul 10y the women urtlsans of g nation & onted 3 place. Thare, now, what has the Goanory-Cirtrary Pazoda Concoption got to say for it Aftep robbing the Proeressive Womon and shulting the door In vl err facea? g Thero was & gentloman rocently decessed [y Los Ange'es County, who seema to hayy bad a very curlous and ow projudice azatast Clicago. Ho loit 310,000 to that county o tras unlil tho principal and intersnt shail amount tq #30,000, when the county ahall have jtab-olutely, It Los Avgeles County i1efuses to accept it howaver, unon these conditious. then it ia to go touny other county in tho Unlon that il go. copt it, escopt * Cook County, IN., In which Chicaga in situatod,” The vast majority of mep, it thoy wera to salect counties as objacts of bg. quest, would molect Cook County, and that the Los Angeles gontleroan praved himeelf tobey siugular excoption to (be rulo must be dus to one of two facts—either ko was o 1y from 8t. Louls, and 1osans, or ho muss have heard that wicked fegoud which otiginated fu Cineine vati, Milwaakee. or some other jealous suburh, to tho offecs that PETER will not allow Chicagy poople withiu te cetontial gates, and therofors did not wish to sppear beforo bim with any sus pieion of baving favorod Culeago. Tho artist of tho Now York Graphic hs dig. covored tho manter of Twerp's oscape. The +old man " went up ina katloon. He mustlave* gono in that way, for tie officers of ths law haye shown that tho ugaal meaus of t:avel from Naw York were not open to him. Tbe Luoyant power in tho coma of the bailoon wus furuished, no doubc, by iuflation currency, of wblch it Iy koown Tweep and s fricads bad a large sups pls, We ruppeso thae proprietors of the Graphie Lalloon were not piicy to Its wuso for the base purpose to which it hes boen pat, and thoy cane uot bo held responsivle at law ; but it must be wome small gratitiention to them that their bal. loon has mado tho trip to Burope, sftersil Twrep can hardly have touched land bytht time, o will bs fur some days yet— Up tu & Lulloon, boga ; up 1o » balloon, All amony the Mttic sturs, miling ‘round the moon, Ty the Editor af The Chieam ne BaLra, i,y Dae, 11 —Pawe oxplain, through tht columus of Tite DAty TrtuvNz, the differouce be- tween KELLEY'S 3,07 boud and the bond which you propoac. Yours very traly, Reanax, Rerpy,~The Kerrey bond is not to be o legak tendor for dabla yast, present, or fature. The futarcet therain 18 to bo paid lu dopraciated uotes, which notes sre never to bo redeemed it acything except Krrixy's bonds, and the boud are to b couvestible futo the notes, The whols contrivance runs rouud aud round, Uke » kit ten 1o chaeo of its tuil, Thers Leing no simje Jarity dotweon the two piaus, it Is usaleas ta pulut ous the difference. ¥ S S The enlightonod element in tho Texas Consty tutionsl Couvontion finaily eriumphed over the bull-whackers, and tbe now Constitution, ae it will bo subm.ited to the poopls next Fevrusry, ‘ appropriates ono-fourth the total Stata revenus sud the po'l-tax ani interest on the #chool-fund for tho support of the public echools. [nall, I is computed (ho avs.lable faod for nohool pur poues will amount to $650,000 per annum, Thers are, hosdes, 60,000,000 sctos of schuol-lands {n tho State, which, though now not avaiisvle, wil nltimately add largoly to the scbool-fund. Tho Impeschment of Qov. Aares, of Minis aippl, by the Democratio Legiatature is now re- gerded ns o forogono conciu«ion bv the Vieks burg Herald vud the leading White-Line organs of that State, Among the witoesses who will prooably be cnl'ed against him to aestablich the chargea of corrustion In ofcs the Viexsburg Herald pamos Judze PEYTOX, of the Supreme Court of the Slato; United Stetes Marsnal Laxe ; WiLter WELLES, CrANORLLOD DREXNAYN, Col. C. E. Furtoso, and other prominent Aise ateslppi Ropublicans, Tho Now York Herald is struck all of s hesp by that Bishios HAVEN buslusss, andbereon res urrecing the Herald's own third-term spook, xomarke s a Tuis Boston Convention of sbout 820 Ly a0/ B‘fl!w(.l 14 & much more reapectablo ond mml ody of men thin any of the great political partie will aucce:d In bLringing togetner unlew they do beiter thau has been thefr o 8om. And we caznod but look upon it as tie opening of the campaign, I¥ 1 1o firat qun. e 1t is gratifving to note the growth of our & port trade io cloths, Tehsve been sending oot~ ton sbootings to Euglind for tome time, ahd now wo hava ehipped aboad from New Yorka large quantity of Twhep—|erbaps. —_—_— A good many people owe hig bills to New York City,~Qxz~zr, Sweaxgy, sod CoNNOLLY amoDg thom,—bu . thie biggess bill of anv is thatowed Ly the Waden of Ladlow Btrest Jall,~Dil TweED, The Iatest mavement in the way of gettlng Up Presidenual tickets for 1876 18 for puttiog O aiee . OLAT on the Democratio ticket for Vicos President, with Gov. TiLDxN for the Preaideacy. PERBONAL Sam Do Bow, Eaq., Geners] Forsixn Fralghte . Ageut of the Erle Railway, is a guest of the Tremong flouse. Tho Hon. J. N. MoOullough, of Pittsburg, Fiest Vico-Prealdont of the Pittabug & Fort ‘Wayne Railroad, {s at the Tramout. Houry Walnwright, who hss been seutsnced to doath for tho Whitechspel murder fn London, assorts bis innocenco. e saye be never Ared 8 fiatol in his Nte, ‘The lngering (ilness of Clarles O'Conor, the colobrated New York lawver, is 831d to baye w0r0. hin, completely out, and e longs for domth te roleass b from his sulferings. The sexion of the cuurch {n Baston whers little Mabel Young was murdored, told hus pastor on & cerlaln oceasion that the book be was resds fug waa ** Coru aiud Clieese "} it was * Curd 43 Crecao.” Tho Chicago Times snuounced in Its dis patches: * Dabcack left Washington ‘on’ to- dsy”; and oow the Bt Loals Zwmes wonders why be didn’s take & tratn, as he way golog 10 Chlcago. Miss Kato Daternan argued in her suit for damages agals st Mr, Daly for bringing out bet play, * The Naw Leab,” that the work would b likely to suffer 1n the hauds of sn inferlor artish namely, Miss Clars Morsli, Thera I8 some prospact of thie French fastitots Inslng Jules Janin's boquest of 600,000 Yoluwmas Tho coundiilon was that they saould be kept #9 themaclves, but tho Tastitute, disragarding this Mma, Janlu bas sonounced taat wbe whil ke legal proceediugs, Mus Augusis J. Evans prefsces ber new novel, ** Infellce,” with the rapler-like thrast utterod by Dlurselis * To-morrow she ortics will commence--you know who the criucs m'l' The men who have failed In Htersture and art Can Miss Evavs conscieniously put bersslf in the category of a:tits?. At tie {oaugural meeting of tbe Clicby Phlles technlo Assooistion, AL, Jules Simon strook the old nole of nations! revenge sud recovery. He waid; *When those now learniog the slphabded will read sud understand the mastorolases of 09° poets and the works of cur bhilosophers, ibe liour of Qeliverance will atrike the hour of Bie tiousl revenge againss the eusmies withoub the encmise within." Col, Robert Doa Anges, Doputy Collactor oF the Fort of New York, who swindled she Gor erament oab of 300,000, is now io the AlbsoY Poultentisry, slong with ex-Senator William M- Grabam, who swindied the Walkill Hask out of $185,000; Frauk L, Salntor, Casbier of the At Iantic Baok, New York, who swiodied the benk ous of $70,000; Msj. Dodge, Pansion Azect, ¥bo wniudied the Govesnment ouh of $3000L