Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1875, Page 5

q i TIIE CITICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1875, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. @ATTE OF #ITECRIPTION (PATANLE IX ADVANCE). Testaee orll at thin Offlice. Aly Pition, post-naid, 1 Pant . f1nd to any addrese P 2 sday Fendion: Literary and Haiul Bae Parts of yonr WLEKLY EDITION, TOSTRAID, year, which we will prapay. Bpacimen copira sout free, To prevent delsy ond mistakes, be sure snd give Toat-Oftice addresa in full, including Stateand County, Kemuttancenmay be made either by draft, express, ! FPost-Ofice otuler, or in regiaterrd Jetters, at nurrisk, TERMY TO CITY AUDSCEIDERS, Datly, delivered, Bunday cxcapted, 25 conta per week, Daily, delivored, Sundny fnetuded, 38 centn per week, Address TIR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Caraer Madiséh and Dearbarn-ste., Chicago, Hl. AMUSEMENTS, MCVICKER'S TIE. Dearlorn aud Btate, 1 Troupe, * Girofle.Girof ACADEMY OF M Madiroh and Monroe, HOOLLY'S THEATHE—Iandolph stract, between Dlark and Lasallo, California Atiusirels, NEW CIICAUO T! TflE:Chrk strect, betwesn Randolpl and Lake, Kelly & Leon’s Miustrels. WOOD'S MUSEGM—Manros stroet, between Dear- Vorn sud Btate, “Red Itiing-llo:d” and * Conjus @l Lestonn.” Afternoon and eveuing, ADELPHI THEATR! rthorn street, corner Monroe. *“Tho Forty 5 ——— SOCIETY MEETINGS. —Madison strest, between omcat of the Ostes Opers Talsted street, between The Two Orphaus,” ATTENTION, STt KNIGHTR|—The members of [« Comnittders, No, 1), K, T., are hereby noti- appear at the Asylum on Tuesday, Dee, 28, st ., for the pury.oan of attonding the funeral of o late 87 Koight Silos Feabody Crumb, Fuoeral from the Church of the Ep phany, Jeflerson Fark, at 10,30 &, m,, by cars to Roschiil, By order of E, C, Q. A, WILLIAMS, Recarder, Bhass i CLEVELAND T,ODGE, No. 21, A, T. & A, M.— The bretliren arc hiershy nntified {0 meot at Masonie Tesnpio, caniep Halaled aud Kanfolybonte, on Tuewiay moruing wt W10 w'elock, fur the purpone of perform- ing the los #ad duttes for our late Brotler Silan Peas Doy Cramb, Korviees 10 be held bany Chireh, Jusierson Fark, at 10:30 o'l breihren ot Vited to attend, al AL W, 31, LA FAVELTE CIIAPTER, No. 3, T, A 2 Mo, —Stated Convaeation Ui (3 ‘clock, for buninea, xnd tho | clect nnd np;n;mm 1, ng, at the ol E I, D ahe (@D.‘r.'mgo Tribm ne. Monday Morming, Decombor 97, 1878. To-dny wo are promised n moderation of the present rather comfortable chilly weather, and wmoro of the rheumatic air and displriting mud with which wo have been 8o generously endowed along bac! Our usnal Monday morning collection of pulpit matter will be found to embraco pe- culiarly cheery and agroeable sermon by the Rov. Roncor Cornyer, who finds plenty of ,renson why peopls should be cheer- tnl and hopefnl; o sermon by the Rev. D. B. Cnrxey, sketching the progress of the past century made by the Baptist denomination ; and another by the Rev. J. Moxno Gnsoy, of the Sccond ;Presbyterian Church, on the promiso of enlvation as given to the.patri- archs of old. Ex-President Tnreay, after declining in. vitations from eleven departmonts to stand for clection g5 a Senator in the new branch of the French Legislnture about to orgauize, bas necepted o similar proposal fram the Town of Belfort, The advanced ago of this great statesman renders his decision somo- what extraordinary, and arguos the preysure of nearly irresistible importunity, The Re. publicans are said to be sure that the moder- ate breed of their persunsion of Fronchmen will run things in hoth Senate and House of the coming Assembly, Baxpony, the moicty man, has turned up again, and, with Gen, Burncn ns hig counsel, putsin a Lill for £200,000, tho same being 10 per ‘cent of the fines and penaltics col- lected, as Lo cloims, upon information fur. nished by him to the intornal revenue of- ficers. But Sanmonn finds 8 clilly atmos- Phero it the Departments ; it is n bad year for imoieties, Commencing with Commis- sioner Pratr, ke s told to go to Secrotary Brusrow, who declines to entortain the claim, ud tells him to go to Attorney-General Pirsneroxt, with an excellont prospect that the latter will tell him to go to the 41, The Chicngo Communiats are indulging in the barmless luzury of expresslug sympathy for their Lrethren for whom the French Gov. ernment provides gratuitous board and lodg- ing at Naw Cnledonia in consequenco of a fow such “‘noblo and unselfish” ucta s the de. struction of several palaces nud works of art n Parls, and the perpretration of various dendish atrocities during the dark days of the Commune. Thelr sympathizers in this city,. miling themselvos * oitizons of Chicago,” restenday adopted a mewarial on tho sub Ject wlling upon France to mitigatoe the rigor with which the * citizens of Now Caledonia " wo treated, and urging the intervention of hie United States Government in their be. wlf. The memorial is really ngreeable read- ng, supposing it to be partly true, for it af- iords the gratifying sssurance that thero is o dlace on earth where Communists are dealt vithds they deserva, A press dispatch from Louiswille comnpletaly temolishes tho fabrio of fulsehood with which e Tnter-Ocean hins attempted to cover tho wputation of Secrotary Buistow, and shows ho enyer recklossness with whick' fhe rov. mue thieves and their newspaper auxilinrics #ized upon the falntest clow to the theory fiey were _bent upon establishing, The foss wirstitements of fact have oxcited wth ridiculoand indignation in the city of dr, Bristow's resldvuco—ridioule, by rea. on of the extreme absurdity of the stories, ud indignation because of the offort to slacken the character of one of Louigville's wost valued aud highbly.csteemed citizens, the TRinguters and their Journalistio complices and ullis have shot rido of tho mark thia time. Let them ©y ogaing lot them keep on trying, and at Lis rata they will woon make Beeretary Intgzow the most popular man in America, ——— Recent correspondenoe between the United Mates and Mexico on tho enbject of horder ntrages indicates that the Btate Dopartinent a4 8t last made an effort in the right di- ection. Permissdon wus nasked by Minister loares for United Btates troops to follow aiders’ mcross the boundary line when in tase pursuit, or for tho privilege of tem. worarily occupying certain points on Mexican oll whers marauders aro koown to ms smble and crqus over into Lexas, A charac. srietlo roply’ was secelved from the fexican * Beorotary of Forelgn Affalry, tho' ropresented that the Prosident ¢ the Republic had no authority #® grant such permission without the ap- moval of Congress, and that the sentiwent B 4 country was such st It would nod be 0 tho matter, prudent to ask tho consent of the Mexican Congress. Mr, Fostrn roplied by diselaim- i Ing for the United States any scheme of ae. ! quisition or extension of territory, but plainly intimating that such a schemo might Le the i inevitablo outgrowth of the present condition i of affairs, and of the ncknowledgment of tho 1 helplessness of the Mexiean Government in ! Thus sort of talk sounds like : business, The formnl opening of P'rof. $wivo's Cens tral Church yesterday was attended by a crowd, in spite of the most wretehed wenther ! of the kenson, which scems to indicate that geutleman in his independont movement nre not morely fair-weather Christiaus. Tho temporary confusion incident to the location of the places that have been resorved will not need to recnr, and fromnow on the enterprise may Lo regarded as one of the prominent religious institutions, conspicuously at- tractive by reason of the endearment in which the pastor is held, the contral location of the building in which the services aro con- dueted, the heartiness of tho congregational singing as contrasted with the formal qunr- tetto choir singing of other churches, and the sincerity of church foeling which is liberated from tho confusivn aud restraint of mere dogmns, In view of the fnct that this church will nlways be crowded, and that there will be o constant dewand for the sents that have not boen reserved and also the re- served seats not ocenpied for the time, Prof. Bwivo will be fully justified in peremptorily clositig the doors at n certain hour. Thus, if tho services begin at o quarter before 11, it will be eutirely proper to refuse ndmission to all who come after 11 o'clock. Justice to those who are already in their seats suggests thot they shinll not bo disturbed after the sermon is begun, nnd tho sirict enforcement of such a rule would soon get the congrega- tion in the habit of prompt nttendance, TRE ASSAULTS ON SECRETARY BRISTOW. The rackless aksanlt on Secretary atstow which the Jnter-Occan published on Saturday was followed by a siwilar attack, though not going to such extromen, in the Washington dispatchies of the Chicago Z'imes yesterduy. ‘There is but one construction to be placed upon such n conrse, and it is that thero ia to bo & despornte effort mude to forco Secrotary Buistow out of the Cabinet or compel him to abandon his proscention of tho revenue thiaves. This programmo iy to receive the netive sapport of the Democrats in Congress (or at least o section of them), who have in- augurated it with RaxpALL’s resolution in- structing the Secretary of the Treasury to expose all tho Governmont cases before they are brought to trial! Tho theory is that noth. ing would be 0 much in tho partisan interest of the Demacratic party as to stop tho Repub- lican eflorts at reforming every branch of tho public service, correcting all the abuses, and punishing all the offenders. Tho Democrats will receive assistonce in this cruade against the roform clement of the Republican party from thecorrupt men whohavo attached them. selves to tho Republican party for personal gnin. The whisky thioves and their mows- paper orgeus will join in this movoment ogainst Secrotary Brisrow, but wo have con-’ £denco that the force of public opinion will provent the success of the dishonest aud dis- Louorable acheme, Tho peoplo have given so honrty a support to the reform mensurcs of tho Administration, and notably to tho wor on the Whisky Ring, that Secrotary Bnistow 8 quite certain to bo sustained againgt nny clique of self-confesaed cor- ruptionists, no matter how formidable in number or influonce. Theso Into assaults on Secrotary Bristow seem to bo based on the allegation that Gen. Bancocr is to appear before the Democtatic Committee snd *“ mnke startling revelo- tions " abont the Whisky Ring, relying upon the statute which provides that such evidenco shall not bo used ngainst the testifying wit- ness in ony criminal prosecution, But it was supposed that Gon. Bancock had no in- formation about the Whisk§ Ring which could implieate himself or anybody else, We presumed that ho had never had anything to do with it. Thiy wo had understood to be tho position which he hns assumed relativo to the chiorges which have been brought ngainst him. This was the resson, ns wo supposed, that @on Rincoox called for a military vourk o: wquiry, consclous of his own pure innocenco and dosiring to get the speediest vindication. But if it is true, as nlleged by both fnter-Occan and 2'imas, that ho hos nban- doned this position and determived to make a *clonn breast” and o general statement of all ke knows nbout whisky frauds in this country, in other words to “squeal” on his confidants, we liope that bo will not fail to tell tho whole story whon he does Hgqueal,” lot it implicate whomsoover it may. ‘Thero is no dnnger of its damaging the Republican party, which ocouaists of more than half of tho entire voting population of the United Statos, with a cotnton desiro and a common® interest for the exposure of frauds and the punishment of revenue thieves. ‘I'ie Repub- lican party as & whole can botter nfford to have all abusos correctod by exposuro than to have thom vovered, denied, or condoned. If Gon. Bagcock is in a position to nssist in this effort wo hopo:that he will do so, even if it Lo for tho purposo of protocting: himself. We havo no doubt that Seeretary Dinisvow will be abundantly ablo to vindicats himself trom tho irresponuible cliarges made against him, andwill promota and encourage auy and every additionn] contribution that can be made to tho exposuro of the frauds. Lot no guilty wman cscnpe. ——— ‘Wo describe elsewhere how and when a corrupt job was rushiod through the Common Council undar the whip of tho provions quess tion and the spur of a ton-thousand dollar bribe, ‘That is the suin stated on the atroets, and talked about in the City-Hall, in * The Btory,” ond in various other drinking aud loafing placos of tho Ring mom. bers of the Councll. This cor. rupt job, whin consunnanted, adus a minimum of $85,000 a year to tho crushing load of taxes under which our people now stagger. Uhe maxitmut miny bo a quarter of amillion, We have no doubt, and indesd are informed, thut several Aldermen voted for the ruscally ordinance without being awaro of ity aweeping and illognl charactor, and without being awure that thero was, a8 is owrently reported, s oontlogent fes of $10,000 or more to bo pald when the ordi- nauce was passed and the contraot signed. The job {a un outrayeous one, even omilting tha corryption, An Aldernien voting for it ought ta be corrupt enough to demand 4 con. sideratiou for guch an illogal act and sych & flagraut dlaregard of publio interests, Tho Cowptroller deserves publis thunks for his courss in the mutter; and, though he may be overruled in this matter si'in othew, we trust he will not resign, but stand in his plaocs, and thereby give asaurance to the pub~ ’ the prople who have joined *this eminont | o that thera in at lenst one man honest and fenrless enough to refuse to violate law or to take the price paid for oMeint corruption. —— THE RAVAL EXPENDITURES. It will be remembered that, some five or | New York, Philadelphin, and Washington, in- | dienting large expenditures in tho naval de- partment, econducted in the most mysterions manner, and apparently in the apprehiension of an outbreak of Lostility with rome foreign nation. The only plansible explanation that | could be mndo of {heso expenditures at the i timo wns that the Government was in pos. session of some special aud startling informa- tion which showed tho necessity of putting tho navy instantly ona war footing. It was expected that the President's messago would give n clow to the real cause, But it was not | found there. There was nothing in the Trosident’s message, nor in the correspond- ence of tho State Department, nor in the re- port of the Secretary of the Nuvy, that afford- ed n warrant for uch henvy expenditures ns had been reported, or of any extra outlny of moncy, and the public has ever sinco been in ignorance of why thess proparations had been made. Tt is this air of mystery that gives a plausi- bility to the Democratic version that has now been placed on these cxpenditures. It is al- legred that there was n mere show of spending a large amonnt of monoy for the purposo of covering np former expenditures that had been unanthorized. An allegation of this kind should eall for the strict investiygation which it isstated Congress will institute immedintely after the holidays. It is to be hoped that the natter will be probed to tho bottom, Whether alarge sum of money hns boen expended re- contly when thero were no foroign complica~ tions to warrant it, or whether these nnware mnted expenditures wero mado carlier and outside of the approprintions, it s to bo hoped that tho investigation will exposo tho exact condition of things, and that the Do~ partment bo held strictly accountable for the appropriations, ‘Whatever may be the result of this invest- igntion, wo approve nlso of the announced intention of the House Committee on Appro- priutions to cut down expénses beavily in this Department, and not {0 allow for Any uban. thorized expenditures. * The conntry will not suffer if this Department be held down tq the lowest figure compatible with the publie interest. The personnel of the navy might Do largely reduced without any injury to the service, and o strict revision will likely dis. cover many items that mny be lopped off with advantage. Our navy is not ina con. dition for activoservice,and in time of peace it is not likely nor well that it be kept so. ‘While this is admitted, the best .courso is to maintain it at tho smallest possiblé cost to the country, and to waste no money on old and damagod ships of war that could not be used if war should come. ANOTHER CORRUPT MOUNICIPAL J0D. On the evening of Dee, 14, the Committeo on Gas Lighta of the Chicago Common Coun- cil reported an ordinance; the previous ques- tion wny seconded by a vote of 26 to 10, and tho ordinanco was at onco rushed through, This ordinanes 14 of the most remarkablo charaeter. It muthorizes snd directs the Aayor and Comptroller to make and exccuto a contract in the name of the city with the ‘‘Globo Gas-Light Company”™ of Cincinnati to light cortain stroats beyond tho present gos-mnaing, to be namod by the Council, for tho period of five years,—~said contract to ‘provide for at least 2,000 lamps, Tho Com- pouy is to roceivo for ench of sald Mghts at the rato of $44 per annum. At the ond of ench year tho Common Council is to fix tho prico to bo paid per lamp for the year ensu. ing. Whenever the gns-mains are oxtended to districts I'ghted Ly tho Globe Company, the Company shall remove its posts and Iamps to such other points as may ba directed by the Common Council, This proposition is not & new ons. Weo understand it was substantially made a yoar g0 at o less prico,—a prico too low to justify tho mecossary division, should one be de- manded, The Globe Company can hardly call itsolf a gas company; it is more prop- erly an oil compnny. Esch Inmp-post and Inntern is n completa gns works for itself. ‘The matarial used is an oil which can bo purchased ot a few cents per gallon, Two gullons will run cach lamp for all the nights in the year when lights are used. "Tho posts are wrooden, and tho avernge cost of post and lantern will probably not exceed §7. The principal cost is in the wages of men to light and extinguish tho Junps, It will bo readily socn, therefore, that tho Company can well afford to keep 2,000 lamps, or ns it will prob- ably turn out 10,000, at £25 or U0 o year and mnko an onorinous profit, “Tho eity has alrendy extended its gas-lamps over many miles of open expanso where thero are no houschold consumers. Those /s~ lamps on tho prairie ara very costly, and their priucipal use is to enhance the valuo of out- l;:ida lots held upon speculation, For this purpose the Proporty of the city generally is taxed lcavily. A vory large proportion of thesa gos-lamps wight be dispensed with, and o saving seouved of tens of thousands of dollars, ‘The Common Council, lowever, do uot propose to cconomize by reducing the gas-bills, They proposo to start off with an ;extra expenditure of $88,000 a yenr to light jup all the unocenpied real estate held in the present or prospective Umits of Chicago, Tho ordinance provides that the now lawps shall never ba less than 2,000 in number, but the Council rotaius the power to incrense the number from time to timo indefinitely by n moroorder. Itisgafo to say that, if 2, bo ‘coutracted for, five times that number will be found inadequate to light up the unoc. cupled country adjacent to inhabited Chi- cago. The cows vt Cook County will enjoy '[thu luxury of pasturnge by gos-light, when the moon is not shining. The prico to Lo pald for lighting 5,000 of theso lumps will bo #220,000 a your in addition to our present gas-bills, which - have recontly beon swollen to §700,000 a year. Each additioual 1,000 lamps will be $44,000 a year added to tho crushed tax-payors, Each Alder- wan will have an opportunity of placing a Jamp-post and lamp in front of tho shop, dwelling, or saloon of every ono of Lis fron. tier vonstituents, To but fuintly light up the streets lald out un the prairies of the Seventh Ward alone will requiro at least 2,000 lamps; while tho Sixth, Eighth, Thirteenth, Four. teenth, aud Yiftoenth Wards will each re- quire us wauny—and several of them will re- quite twico as many—lamps to light up those portions of their territory lying beyond the prosent gas-maing, " The ordivance waa rushed through with littlo or no dobate, and promptly signed by the Muyor, The Comptrollor, however, bud serious scruples on the subjoct, but those in. torested hud the contruot propared, mud the Mayor uigned it. On Friday last e number of Ring Aldermen and the represontative of the * Globe Company ¥ labored with Comp- | i weeka ago. thero wero daily dvices from o0 S LY aith whieh ho furmishes f troller TEavrs to induce him to Aling contract. Ie statdd his le tinns, when it was reported that &n * opin. ion " as to the legality of the ordinance had Deen alrendy given by City-Attorney Jastiu. BoN, who is beeoming conspienons for the opinions for the Ring. Dut the Comptroller still refused to sign until so advised by tho Corporation Counsel. The mnatter, theve- fore, rests with Judgze Drcxiy, who will probably give his opinion to.day or to.mor- row, nnd Ly that opinion the Comptroller will, it is snid, be gaverned 1 his action, At present he i« in contlict with the Mayor and with the Ring mombers of the Couneil who voted for this ordinanee. 1le opposes the ex- ceution of the ordinance Liecause such a con- tract as it is required ho shall executo is pro. hibited by tho charter, which reads, Art. 7, Secs, 10 and 91 : Neithier tho City Council nor way dopartment or officer of the corporation aliall add to the corporatioa cxpenditures in any one year ansthing over and above the amount provided for {n the annual appro- priation 1ol of that year, oxcept an_hereln atlierwizo eapectally provided. ., Provided, however, that nothing hereln contatned sball provent the City Coun- «ll from ordering, by o two-thirds vote, any Impravo- ment, the necorrity of whicl fa causod by any casualty or accident bappealng after such annusl appropria tlon #» made. No contract shall bo Lioresfter made by tho City Council, or any commitlee or memtar of thereof, and no oxpense shall be fucurred by any of the piticers ot departmeats of the corporation, whether the object of the expenditure shall havo been ordered by the City Council or not, unless an appropriation ahall have been previausly made concerning stich oz- pense, excopt hieroln otherwiss axpressly provided, The criminal code of tho State, Sec. 203, provides : Every petnon bolding any pubilie office, State, conn- 15, or municipal, who shall bo guilty of any palpablo ominsion of dw'y, . . orwho shall ba gufity of con- tracting, directly or {ndirectly, for tho expendituro of & greater sumor amonut of money than may Lave Leen, st tha timoof making tho contracts, appropti- ated or setapart by law o bocontracted for or ex- pended upon the subject matter of tho contracts, . , when no apecial provision shall have beon mado for the punishment thereof, shall Lo tined not exceading 10,000, and may be removod from his offico, trust, or employmont, Theso sections of the new charter are amply suflicient to show the illegality of the proposed contract. It cannot bo claimed that the nnlighted condition of the outside and vacant territory of the city is in any way uo to any * casunlty or sceident happening after” Juno 80, 1873, tho dato of tho Inst appropriation crdinance; and n contract in. volving an immediate expenditure of monoy without any provious approprintion for that purposo is mado & ponal offense by tho ofti- cor executing such contract, The Cormmon Council cannot by ordinance require the Mnyor or Comptroller to do an act prohibited by tho law of the State. THE ABINGDON ASSASSINATION, The disgraceful allair at Abingdon, 1il., on Christmns-Day, ths details of which woro printed in our last issue, lead one nlmost to doubt the eflicacy of Christinnity and eduen tion na preventives of erimo. Abingdon Col- lego is an educational institution under the control and in tho interosts of the Campbell- ite or Christinn Church, The ndministration of its government hay been marked by wran. gling and dissension for many yoars, which have succeeded in dividing the friends of'the istitution and tho members of the Church into Ditter and turbulont factions, known o8 the Burien ond Penrer factions. Tho contest nssumed the shnpo of open warfare two yoars ago. 'Tho first step was the removal of Mr. Borizn, then President of the Collogo, by the Prreey faction, which bad succeoded in elocting a mnjority of the Trustees. Tho Church then stopped in and songht to punish one of the Professors who had been instrumontal in re- moving Bures and appointing Peakgy, the result of which wos a eplit in the membor- ship and the organization of auother Church, ‘The fight now waxed fiorcar and fiercer, ay it was a counteet not only batween two college factions but between fwo Churclios. ,The quarrel went into the courts, and i still pending thero, but meanwhile there has beon 1o truce. The fight sssumed & persopal character, anil threats of violence wero opon- ly mode. Ffiigies wero suspended in tho town, dwullings wero dofaced, and the local papers wore filled with vindictive and inflommatory nrticles, aud thus the latred was nourished and gradually worked up to the point of ontbreak. At last tho culmina. tion camao. While the Church which had se- ceded was holding a Sabbath-school sociable, at which Presfdent Prriey was in attondance, tho BurLEn faction grow so noisy and turbu. lent that interference bosamo necousary, and during thoe interferonce the President was struck upon the head with some blunt instra- ment, and at Jast accounts was in o dying condition.' Forther than this, tho digpatches Intimnte thero is danger of n general outbronk among the poople, &0 bitter is the prevailing hatred. o It is not very plensant to reflect that this infamous and bloody business originated in the bosom of a Christian Church—and of Church which makes specinl application of the nune * Christian,” and thot the consum- mation of this business took placo in a Sab. bath-school-room upon a day which of {all othera is sacred to the momory of tho angols’ legend—** Good-will towards men," In all its nspeots, it benrs tho character of those bar-roow feuds which are tho frequont fruits of political partisanship among loafers, vaga. Londs, and bummers, and in such o quagter would not mttract partioular attention; but that & quarrel arising in n Christian, Church over & question of the government of o coliego should not only result in dividing the Church, but at last reach the sanguinary and cownrdly act of assassination, must of neces- sity give ua pause, and in that pauss two or thres suggestions inevitably will ocour, First, that this Lloody and brutal business once wora conflrms the old truth, ko often exem- plitled in the history of individuals aa well as | of nations, that, of ull hatreds, religlons ha. trods are tho most virulent and violent. Bec- ond, it gives rise to & doubt at Jeast whethor Clristinnity snd education can completely avercome the dopravity of Luman nature, The third soggestion touches the fu. turo. Justice must now step in bo. tween theso miserasblo and disgrace- ful factions and mote out punfshmont, and that punishmont whould be all the more prompt and sovers siuce the perpetrators of this outrugo ure presumed, at lenst, to have had those ndvantages of religion and oduca- tion which aro not enjoyed by the lower ranks of crinioalv, Having punisbed the perpetrators of this immedinte outruge, the partisans upon both sidea shonld be disposed of in the apeediest and most offective manner posaible, so that ihe publio can be guaranteod sgaiust o rvepotition of their unseemly and disgraceful brawla, Aost of our ¢ statesmen " are not states. men, They aro politiciana. ‘They ropresent uo grest ldes. A search into the record of the new Olaivman of tho Ways and Means Committee seoms to exclude Mr. Mormsow from the category of the stateamen, It fs lnnid that ho ““hins never mado a speech in t Congress on any subjeet, and hins nover in- | trodnced an important measure,” He hng al- 1 7o failed to vote on many important meay- | ures, Among theso were tho Senate inflation bill which Gnant vetoed; Kriier's 8,65 | shinplaster-bond schemo ; Hoan's nmendment ! making only gold and silver legal-tender nftar } Jduly 4, 1876 ; Fosten's amendment reducing i the amount of greenbacks to $300,000,- | 0005 and, on ita final passage, tho | Honse currency bill, We trust hnt | Mr. Monnisox's record in the future will bo | fuller than it hns been in the past. What is ! needed just now is agyressive reform,—votes for posilivo measures, Let the Ways and means Committeo report such mensures, and let ity Chaitman earry them through. Br, Monnisox hns an ndmirable opportunity, 1If be fails to utilize it, the fault will bo hisown. OUR PROTECTION AGAINST PIRE, The communieation written by Mr, Arrs- ANDER SULLIVAN, Hecretary of the Doard of Tublic Works of this city, to the manager of o London insurance company, which was printed in the last issue of Tan TRiDUNE, containg fomo facts of prime importanca touching the security of Chicago against fires, completely answers the carping criti- cisms of the New York press, and ought to be a suflicient inducement for insurance com- panics to reduce their rates. First, as ro- gords the security of Chicago against fire. 'Tho total pipe Inid from April 1, 1874, to Dec. 7, 1875, was 802,172 feet, or 57 miles nod 1,212 feel; 46,533 feet of 4.inch pipe have been taken up and thrown awny and Inrger pipe substituted. The mean dinmeter of the pipe lnid in 1872 was 7,81 fuchos, and tho menn dinmoter now is 8,61 inches, Sinco April, 1872, the dolivering capacity of Chi- cago’s water-pipo Las been incressed 27 per cont. At tho time of tho Groat Firo thero wero 1,662 hydrauts; now thero aro 2,807, Thon, OChicago had 272 miles of water-pipo; now it has 408 miles. In nddition to 1ihis, tho city is now surrounded by 36 ond 24 inch mains, {rom whicl pipes radiato in every direction, frequently tapped by hydrants, A new tun- nel hus been constructed. The fire limits hinve been made commensurato with the limits of the city, The wooden buildings burned in tho two great fires hava been havo boen ro- placed by brick and stone structures. In overy possible way, Chicago has protected horsclf, until she Lins become one of tho safest, if not the safest, city in the Union. Mr. Sunuivan's report furnishes another important fact in its complete answer to tho oecritics of - the New York stamp. On Doe. 7, 1875, Chicago had 2,157,788 foot of pipe, and on Nov. 1%, 1875, Now York had bat 2,178,730 foet. In other words, Chicago had 408 miles and Now York 412 miles, and during 1874 and 1875 Chicago Imd four limes as much pipo ns New York. The smaller-sized pipes in Chicago aro moro efficient than those in New York, for tho ren- son that they are connected at overy streot- crossing, while in Now York there is no system of inter-connection, Wo commend theso facts to the New York World in answor to its criticisms, a8 well s to tho recent ‘statements mado by the Committes of East. ern, Underwriters. In viow of theso unanswerablo facts, thero is no good reason why tho insurancoe com- panios should not redace their rates. The figures furnished by the Becrotary of tho Bonrd show that Chicago is not only more secure than Now York, but that, as compared with nny other city in this conntry, it is o firstclass risk. S8ince the July firo, thero have been searcely any fires worth mention, and tho loss hns been very small. They have already saved {n thoir oxtra rates moro than thoy lost in the July fire. In addition to all those reasons, it may be urged that the Fire Dopartmont was nover bettor officered and equipped than now, mor has it ever renched o higher degroo of efficioncy, Its prompiness and thoroughness have been tested over and over again. The outlay which Chicago has mado, the resources which sho has collected with that outlay, the policy which sho is puresing with regard to Bocurity from fire, awd the profitable field which she now offers for undorwriting, should load the insurance companics to reduce thoir rates cor- rospoudingly. Clicago deserves it by what she has dono and is still doing. £ G TO PIEOES, It has long boen ovident that the Ottoman Empire was a hollow shell, but o letter from a resident of Constantinople to onr Now York namesako shows that intornal decay has gono 80 for that the shell must soon collapse from its own weight. Tho Government is powor- less to control ita own subordinates. There is no pretenae to tho contrary, Imperial do- crees aro issued for the sake of their effect upon the Europesn guardians of tho Bick Man, not with sny ides that thoy will be oboyod. Thus the produce tax has boen nominally reduced from 12} to 10 per cont, but the tax-ggfherors rigidly colleot the old rato. In Cuppadoois, taxes not due wuntil 1877 are mnow being wrung from the poople. Of course, littlo or noue of this monay will reach Constantinople, The offlcials Leliove that the Empire is doomed, and aro making use of thelr hrief nuthority to got rich whilo they may, In Armenia, theso harpics aro morcilessly enforo- ing wholly imaginary claims'for *arreurs.” There is a case on record in which n widow has been forced to sell bor houseliold furni- turo to pay the ‘*military-oxomption tax” for her husband during the ton years sinco his death, ~ While the Goverpment is thus helpless to keop its promises to its subjects, it is equally impotent or faithlesa in its prom. Ises to the citizens of other nations and to the nations thomselves. It bas ropudisted part of its dobt, and it has just signed the internationnl postal treaty only to broak it. By the terma of tho treaty, & lettor can bo sent nnywhero in Turkey for 5 cents. Bnt in fact, the old charge of 8 conts for 100 houny' travel of the postmian, 16 for 200, and 82 for 800 or over, is etill maintained. An onvelope with a S-cont stamp attached msy got to Constantinople, but .no farthor. = As mighf bo expeoted from such a state of af- fairy the men high in office aro rotten with corruption, The present Minister of Marine was disgraced for embezzlement ten yearw sgo, and has wince lived comfortably on tho sum ke stols,—some §25,000,000, If ‘I'werp should relurn to this country in 1880, and be elected to some high oflleo,—~as, not to unduly praise our civiliza- tion, he might be,~—~we shonld have a paral- lel hero to tho present condition of things in the Turkish Ministry. The Grand Vizer Limsolf was arrestod three years ago for em- bezzling $1,000,000, and the misalng money Lias novor been accounted for. ‘Tho Minister of War {8 no better than he should be, no bat. ter than Fronch war ofticlals under Narorxon 11, weze, for the neceasity of equipping troope for thé Herzegovina ocampaign has shown that the clothing supposed to be in stors consists of worthless rmgs, whilo the gunpowder is represented by nent packnges of charcoal dust. Tho huge fabric of mis. rulo and oppression, of publio and private vice, which is called tho Ottomnn Einpire, hian been undormined by those whose duty it was to strengthen it, and is now the tottering Empire, The University of Chicngo ia to bo con. gratulate 1 upon tho selection of Aronzo ABERNETHY ns Prosident and tho probability that he will accept tho position. Mr, Aper. NETAY s 8 graduate of tho University, was Colonel f one of tho Towa regiments during the War und has many yenrs been Superin- tendent +f Public Tnstruction in Towa, 1o differs iy snany essentials froni any of the former Presidents of the University, and will qupply the practical, administrative, aud popular,qualities which hove heretofors been padly defieient in that inatitntion. While o Baptist in denomtnationsl profession, he is not the man to eneourage any serious charnc. teristies in the mnnagement of the Collega. Ho is o young man and & gallant sort of fel- low, who will command at onco tho respoct, admiration, and good-will of tho students, and prabably contribute in n very marked degreo to the popularizing of the institution. With tho selection of Mr. Apenxeruy thers seems to be a now departure, and n determiontion that the University shall bo freed from tho internal dissensions that have chiefly im- paired its usefulness in the past. Tho fact that we ha ennial year to celerate, ou and nfter uoxt Batarday, i3 due to Grorae WaAsuINGTON moro thon to any othor one men. Wa sugwrest, therefora, that hts mom- ory should bo treated vith due rospect. Amoar- foan routiment ia poserless to control forcign- era, and wo ean thus only sigh over the fact that Turren bes wtitten a play nbout G. W., but the vopular feeling should have prevented our own cltizons from wronging tha Fathor of his Coun- ty fn a elmilar way, Yot Loro is a certain ehameless Sixcram, who hss covstructed a mochanical drama on the ssmo theme ns that of TorrEn, and sctuslly mccusos tho latter of plagiarizing from him. Turren and Titcoun mre the ooly persona who ever pla- glarizo from each otlior, aud they morely tako theirown. BiNcrAmR must Lavon low opinion of his own play it ho thinks that Tureen's is like it. Iut tho catalogua of wrongs to Wasi- vaToN doca not end here. 8till a third porson proposes to put him on tho pillory of a play. Mr. Ixamnsorn Lockwoop,! ex-Consal and progent lawyor, bas ruthlossly publishod * An Original Drama of the Rovolution, entitled ! WasntyaTon.'”" Thus the efitd of tho Fathor of his'Cauntry is to soo thres wiedon Wasniia- o stalking across tho boards during tho con- tennial yonr. Wo protest. Lot tho progenitar of tho lsnd of Crodit-Mobiliers and Whiaky- Riogs and Twezpe and publiv schools nud freedom and things rest in tho tomb whicha prateful peoplo has suffered to docay within sight of the monumeot which n grateful people lizs nover tniskod. Thore nover wae a more un- fit figure far tho atago; nevor a groster figure for history. R — §1. PAUL, Minn,, Dec. 23,~The Cathollcs of this city have yiroparoud o formal protest to the removsl of Chiof-Justico DUXNR, of Arlzoua, claimlugit to be uuconstitutional and contrary to the apirit of the age. Freaa dispateh, Wa nover beforo heard any one deny the au- thority of the Chief Magistrats to romove s Judge of a Torritory. If it fs unconstitutional to do g0, we should like to hava pointed out the article and section of thoe Constitution prokibite iug tho Proaident from making such & romoval. An to the romoval belug ** contrary to the spirit of tuo agoe,” that deponds on the facts. It is al- loged that Chiof-Justico Dunxzwas a veho- ment, advocsto of the divislon of the publia chool monoys of the Torritory to promoto sac- tarinn purpioses, aud that he waanted a part of the educations] funds divorted from the public uchools nod turned over 40 pricats to bo used in teaching Catholic dogmas. T'bis aroused s bit- ter opposition to him on the part of all the {riends of su unsectarisn publie sclicol aystem, which culminated in his romoval, ta compliance with tho wishes of a large majority of the citi- zens of tho Torritory. - —— A dispatch from Paris, printod in the Iast is- #ue of Tug ToinuNz, rovesls a glimpse of the posgiblitios of Ultramontacism which one cau contomplate with proflt, since the fangs havse boon drawn. Muaie, GAspancy, baving prosentod a copy of hor husband’s worke to the library at Bousseuois,’ tho Diractor of tho libracy writes ‘back to her in an insultiog mauner: ‘Tuia very morniug we madetle finest firo ever anen with o]l thicso works. How pleasant, ngw tho morn- 1oge ate chilly, to warm oue’s fingars’ with M. do Gas- ranIN's books | They burn wpleadidly. Onco more thanks, Madame, Ganeve papor, -p:vhll( 3, do Gas- PARIN'S, has dono us l#reat acrvico, and we hope to warm ourselves again with his hooke. MMeanwhilo, pray accept vur warmest complimonts, The delight of the Boussanois Diroctor over tho burning books reminds ono of tho horrible satigtaction of o canulbalrubbing his hands as ho watches tho misslooary cooking bLofore him, It showa In a vory cloar light what French Ultra~ montantam might do had it the powor that it wiclded in tho daya of tho Inquisition. Commenting on the President’s Doa Molues apoceh, the Catholic World for Janunry savs: Taking all things {nto considorstion, the speech Ia fally équal to auy Written production of {hu Prosident. It1a oirect, It fa platu, It 18 manly aud vigoruus, and far nuperlar to auy othor oration which we huve hoard from the saune dlsiinguished quarter, Beyond ol things it exprestos betlos than mauny Imagine, the comnum sentments of tha Anierkan veople, Tho Times declares this languago to bo *velled irony," and tho idea the ¥orld mesut to convoy is exaotly reverss of what tho worde impart, Por- hopa; but if so, the *ironv” fs * veiled” too doop for thie posception of ordinery mortals, At ali ovonts, & vast msss of peopls will agree with tho oplulon which the IYorld seema to express, viz.t that tho Desdoioes apeech of the President on the soliool question * oxpresses bettor than many imasima the common seutiment of tho Americsn people.” e e 8t Lonls celebrated Cbristmas-Day in a msn- ner poculiar to that city, In a fight betwoen somn bovs, ooe shot the otherin tho mouth. Iu a domestio row, & woman chopped up & man with & hatohet. Anothier boy was stabbed in tho knea by s bootblack. Two women got on & Clristnas drunk, and ono slashod the othor with arszor. Tho list of festivitles closea with ac- other domestio alfray, ip which one man beats another with a club slmost to death for haviog’ invadod the counubisl privacies of his houso. Ths dispatch nalvoly eays that Clristmas was colebrated in St. Louia in tho usual manoer, Whilo this sort of & celebration of the birth of our Lord was going on ln Bt, Louis, the good people of Chicago met in their temples with pralse and song, and gathered about thoir wall- Iaden tables, and colobrated tho day in a seemly and reverential maouer. % JE— The Cincinnati Enguirer ia anxions to hive thernle ropealed which requirca a two-thirds vota for s Presidential nomiuation by s Demo- orstio Convention. ience we infor thas the ZEnquirer thinka the **greenbackers” will ba & majorlty, bos not two-thirds, of the next Oonyen- tlod of its party. The Khodive hag imported an Englishman to take caro of his inances. The programmae to be followed has been announced. I¢ may be summed up In one phrase,—Clvil-Bervics Re- form. It would bo a trifie disgracaful it Egypt should outstzip us in this respect. et “ " By Iy McDoXALD says, on the olher hand, “the saying 18 Bunzow's, aud It was suggested by bim to GRAXT,— A¢w York Sun, Baisrow ought 10 know. In his telegraphis Iottor he doolsred that after resding it to the Proudant the latter ordered bim 60 Dress va bhe invostigations and prosecutions, snd addeds * Lot no guilty man osospe.” Dr. 3. Q. HoLtAKD says that * tho curs foy goanip ia culture.” What a galo for Awerican literature it would bo if the editor of Scribnar's Monthiy ubould becomna eultured, POLITICAL KOTE3, The shock of an ecarthquako waa folt ia Wanbiogton on Thursdsy. So it must bave takon three days for the snnouncoment of Kerr's committees to he hoard down below.—8t. Louis Glohe-Democrat, ‘The Cincinnatl Enquirer, which, sinco the do. miso of the rag-baby, and Mr, Pendloton came out for specle rosumptlon, announces it hns no Dresidential candidate, and pauscs to remark : 8 m Tilden §s approoching tho White Houso by the Erin Canal route, It I8 wald {hat Mr.y Hondrickn is anxlous to ride n on the tralny of the Sauthorn Pa- elfie, g In undirgulaed disgust at Speaker Korr'a come mitteo appointmonts, the New York Sun saya s Ve arnocompelled to may that Mr. Kerr has d inted public expectation in uunnll.lm[ the o topresevtatlyes, and hian folled to exhibit the ang ot skili which were attributed to him, and which #0 fndispensabls in the place ho liss asaumed. Tho Cinclovat! Commercial, which araumes to know somswhat of tha true inwardnesn of the ‘“torooked " {n this city, saya *‘two sofs of de- tectivos aro enpaged in the worl of ferroting out the whisky frauda in Chiengo. Tho internal revenuo force aro trying to discover tho guilty partics, and the Treasury Secrot Service force a10 shadowing the olbers and proventing thoie fuccess on account of a jealousy oxisting bo- twoen the two,” Unless thd Washiogton correspondents are imistaken, Tom Scott has not loat anything by the olection of Mr. Kerr as Spoaker. The unenimous oplnion appears to bo that tho Committee on the Paafic Railroad {s mado up 1n the intereat of the Houthern Pacific route. It remains to ba seon whethior tho membera of thoe Honse wera honost fu passing & resolution sgainst granting subnldien.—Lartford Courant, Concerning what Joyco nnd McDonald, the convicted Whirky-Ring thieves, give out they could teil, tho New York Tribune portinontly re- marks : Joyeo and MeDomld aro moved by only ono impnise in tliefr intorsfow: they want to gut out. Each takes the couruo ho thiuks most promising, Ono cafoles, the other threstens, Decent Im)gla will let them both alone, Lo erve their tormn iu the solitude snd disgrace tley havo merited, ‘Thero 18 no palitical eipital to ba made out of either thelr prafacs or thelr sbuso, It Bpeakor Korr had beon esnecially dosirous of teaching Indopondents, Liberals, sad =it other unnitached people of that kind, to go back to tholr own plsco, he could scarcely havo devigod & better plan thau ho fell upon in the appointment of soman of his committoes. Snube bing Mr. Chittenden, Gon. Bauka, and ohers, is likely to be construed a8 a good indication that tho Democratic party wants no ald from peoplo who do not run * with the machine,"—New York T fbune, What 3r. Morrison must do to provo his fitness for tho Chairmanship of the [fouss Ways and Moane Committoo iy thus stated by the Now York Tribune: 1t Mr, Morrison wllt report at an early day, and fozco Lhirough tho touma which ba ian beon solected to lead, a bl providiug means for apecie resumption, 50 dirozt and “praciical that it can Lo ozocuted with cere tafoty, and 4o farfu_accord with the views of tho Sece retary of the Travaury that it wiil be qifficut for a Re. publicau Bouato to oppose ft, b will very cffectaally tura thio tables on those gentlemen whoss virtuo it hns hean to mavo faming speechcs, but who hnve naver proposed practical moisures, nor nccomplialied vractis cal Tosultz, o do mot know that hio con do this, If Lis cannot, with bisposition and command of the floor 10 3 Honss wheh electod BIr. Kerr its Bpeakar, bo cane not load thie Tlouse, A Hartford correspondont of the Springflold Republican, writing on Conuecticut politics, says thio Rohablicana ara proparing to trads the Gove ernorship off. for tho Unitod Btates Sonatorship, of clty are . aud adde ¢ That Fostmaster-General Jowoll will bo thefr candle dute for Seuntor tiera in little, i€ any, doutt, Mem- Yiewa of tle Committeo aay that Gen, ilawley is sullrely out of tho fitht, and that ho has hia friends t) thanl for it, It soems to mo that they are right in this, for tho much groter political ahrewdnoss of Me, Jowell haa told Lieavlly [n bis favor. Three years aga ho was lesw 8 favorita than Gon, Hawloy: to-day be is morg 0, for his sdmizabls administration of the Post-Office Deprrtment ha won him so much roputation smong thoso who seek a purer ciril sorvice and reform in the ublia ndminisization, ibat theve, unstd to tho rogu. ar wwiro pullers, who bavo xlwiys found * Joo * t00 obe ntinate und outapoken, will givo him the majorlty of the party in any Legislatire olected nest yoar, If the Democrdey run (ov, Ingersoll sgalu they can elect hiim, aud cught to make bl Hooator alzo ; but if they run Barnum or Guv, Euglish for the Senate, lot ut Lopo that the genlal Postmasier-General will outatrig arh of thear, an T supposo no other Republican can, thongh Osnpocticut ought to have ooe orator fn Cone m+-ucn 0 ono na Hedry B, Harrison, for instance, {Medning Carter Harrison, of Chivago.] The Nowark (N, J.) Advertiser haa been shown a small handbill whicl it says was secrote 1y lasued during the recont oloction in AMaryland, and which resds aa follows : Catholiedt Itemember our holy caune, Those wha have stood by s wa must defeud ol aupport, Thy eleciion will declde srhiother the 1})rlm:lplu of tho gode loss Biamarck [slo] sball prevall in tuis land of ous adoption, We can look only to tha Domorratic party for ielp, The Dethocratlc nominees for tno Lagfalas ture havo beon selociod with duo regard for onr inter oats. Tho MHon, John Les Corroll has already bees trisd and not fouud wanting, Ho assures ua of re newed Im'{h in our behalf, "Be viglisnt (o the canst of our falth, Mo, Q. U, A Wasbington letter-writor says : The Ifoise Domocrats are not fecling quite so h’}:m aver Speinger's tifrd-term resolution as they did af one time, On louking uver tho majter they begin fa nco that {t waa 8 blunder on thelr patt, for the cry, the hugbear of “{bird term,” i4 at un ‘end, Whalever Gen, Graut may propuss, afier suich & vote as thet, ne 438 tan can clarge guch & purposs on the Republh can party, ‘Tl proniluent Kepnbllcaus of the Loure ary glad that the vote i1 taken, uud some of the most wacate Democrata confoes that it was o miatake to pre 2 50t on the subject, for they admit that they woul Tather have Gen. Grant run (boo almost any other Ror poblican, awd yet thay have dous what they could ta rin him oif tho truck, aud msko Bristow, Dlaina, o) Washburne poenitio, ' Tha sceno of tho vole was greaty Iy overdrawn by soma of the correspondents, Donbt. fean thoro wara & dozen Tispuliteans presctt whow porsonal retations with Gen, Grant are such that in dislilied t0 vate on the resolution, but five-sixths those iu the House were yrvatly plossed that & vou waa furced by thelr ouemios, I'was on tho floar at thy tlme, and happen to kuow (o sentimedia of many Topublicanw, And, the nost day, everybody on thal side wus glad, Diatue and Gurold and Wheelor and atbers, ralolced tist sod for the setsion, No longe Vroachie, and diamissod for ”?d'a".'f'n{?' alpe ut e o 1ire, oau tho Dewnocrute try to frighten cry of third tlnnlv And they he strouger man in nomtnation for PERSONAL Von Bulow begloa his sacond series of plang rocitala in Now York to-night. The New York World exonses itself in twe columna of flue print for being fond of Auguste Evane’ novole, = Col. Valeutine Baker {s ssid to be employing hiawpara time {o prison In writing » book about his campaign in Khiva. Bisbop Gilbert Haven firat becams famons by advocating miscogonation as a scientlfo solutioq of tho issuoa loft by the War, The Prince of Wales has an income of only $575,000 per annuw, and ho couldn't afford t4 pay Lis own expenses in Indla. New Jorvey trampa are put ina lock-up and glven o steady diet of orackers and water. Binot tho adoption of this system New Jersey h-, fox trampa, Cardinal Maoglng, in & recent lacture, said tlst o no coaotry fn the world was the adminle. tration of justice mose unimpaachabla than ia England. The London Ezaminer says the burlesqui poem “Jonks Fisher” was writien *elther by Bobert Browning or the devil,” Robert Brown {ng denies having written it. Miss Cora A. Dillon, s daughter of Bidney Dillon, was married in Now York s few days aga The most couspionous presonts were from Mra Bldney Dillon and Mrs. Jay Gould, Prot, 8tanley Jevon's artiote in the Forinightiy dealgoed to show that the purchiase of the tele graph lives in Eoglaod by the Government # great blunder, has attraoted atteation in infl satial quarters. Burrogate Hutohins, of Now York, has refusel to admit o probate the will of Ana Elisa Dakel a widow ladv about 40 years of nge, who deads her property, smounting o $10,000, to her faxs iy physiclan, The evidencs sbowed thatthe d cedent was addloted 40 the use of fntonloatlt driuks, 804 had besn undsr tho sire of & phst