Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1875, Page 4

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Warmer ond threatening weather is indi- tated by Old Prob as our portion this day, rene At the New York Gold Exchange yesterday the price of greenbacks ranged from 88} to b3}. ‘The obsoquies of “the late ex-Senator Rron- anpson took place at Quincy yesterday, and wero participated in by a large concourse of people, The Alabama Legislature met yesterday and reocived tho Governor's mossage, which ig dovoted oxclusively to matters of State in- terest, Tho Commissioners appointed to act tle the State debt will submit their report in = few days, Tho President of the Columbin Collego Bont Club characterizus a5 utterly false the state- ment that at tho college regatta the Columbia grew contained five men who had no right to be there. He also calls the assertion an un- truthful and unpardonable calumny, Ex-Senator Canrenren yesterday pulled in his horns sufficiontly to enablo him to con- tinue his walk through life without rubbing against Mr. A. M. 'Tuomsox, of Milwankee, as will be seen by @ referonco to our whisky newa this morning, Ex-Prosident ‘T'arena undoubtedly antici- ates on election to both Houses of tho Congress under the now French Constitution, In a recent letter ho announces that ho shall reserve the right te choose between the two bodies in the event of boing returned to both by the popular yoico. M. Turens also takes occasion to sny that hia hopes and sympathies are for a Conservative Republic, Recognizances on seven indictments for felony against the missing Twrep wera yes torday declared forfeited, The parties whose names appear on these bonds as suretios for Iwexp's appearance will, it is said, claim ox- amption from the forfeiture upon the ground that the escape was due to the negligence or tonnivance of the Iaw officors, and that the voreties cannot therefore bo held account vble. One provision of the new Press bill, now sefore tho French Assembly, deprives Pre. fects of the power of forbidding the snlo of newspapers in the streets. Should this pro. rision become a law, it would give the Parisian public an opportunity of learning moro of what is going on in the warld, and tend to encourage a upirit of competition in the nows-gathering line that has heretofore teen unknown to journaliam in the Drench Dapital. New Year's Day in New York Olty will bo patriotically cclobrated a3 tho contennial of the adoption of the Stara and Stripes as the national emblem. The Board of Aldermon have ordered that flogs be displayed from sunrise to sunset upon all pablie buildings throughout the city, and request that pro- prictors of theatres, hotels, otc., and masters of vessels in the harbor rake o similar dis play of bunting. Chicago should follow snit in this commemoration of the one-hundredth hirthday of the Star Spangled Bannur, Frarx Moviton, whose indignant protast ayninst the entering of 0 nolle prus. in the li- bel case will be remombered, and who vainly pleaded for the privilege of offoring a‘ de- fenge to the indictment procured at the in- stance of the Rev. Henar Wann Becca, has made good hia promise to be heard fron again, heving brought auit against Mr, Baron. wx for malicious prosecution, laying damages at $50,000. As the issue in this action in- volves the question of the truth or falsity of Mr. Movvton’s published utatementa con- cerning the guilt of Mr, Berouxn, the great scandal case must be sifted once moro, with a probability that the sifting process will be more thorough than ever befor: The Chicago produce markets wero easier yestorday, with io0re doing, Afess pork was active and 10@36c per brl lower, cloving at $18.00 cash and $19.17} for Febraary, Lard wos active and eusicr, closing st $12.10@ 12,124 per 100 Ibs cash, and $12.20 for Feb. ruary, Moats were more uctive and easier, at 7o for boxed shoulders, 10u for do short riba, aud 10}c for do short clear. Tighwines were in fair demand at jo decline, closing at 91.09 per gallon, Flour was dull, Wheat was active and 40 lower, closing firin at Y4ju cash and 94Jo for January. Con was wore active and 4@lc lower, closing at 47{0 for December and 48}o for January, Oates were quiet und eador, closing at 2040 cash and 300 for January. Ityo was dull nt G7@68e, Var. ley was in better demand and 1@1}c higher, cloving st 63e cash. Hogs were inactive, with values unsettled, light weights aversg- tug a shade higher, and packers’ grades low. az. Cattle and sheep ruled dull and weak. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: On Saturday evening last thero was in store in thia city 2,218,795 bu whent, 427,711 bu corn, 409,600 bu onts, 111,862 bu rye, and Qno hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.75 in greenbacks nt the close. —_—_——— he Cirand Jury of tho Criminal Court in dealing with the ques- tion of alleged abuses nt tho County Insano Asylum will give additional weight to the reporton the subject. ‘Tho jury chose not to take the customary junketing trip to the Insane Aayliin at the county's expense, with amplo notice of the date of thoir visit, plenty toent and drink when they got there, and the institution expressly propared for inves. tigators; they accepted instend the testl- mony of three medical experts who hnd dropped in unexpectedly at Lio Asylum, and who wero ble to gather facts and draw con- clusions impossible for apy official party of visitors, Tho tax-payers were saved the cx- pense of carringo hiro, whisky, and cigars, and the Grand Jury were able to yaesent an intelligent and reliable showing of the horrid mismauagement poculior to the Cook County Insane Asyla: The more the Common Council gas job is looked into, the more it develops richness. Allowing a clear prodt of $5 per Inmp to the Globe “ Gas-Light” Company, or £10,000 0 yenr on 2,000 fatps, there still remains 5 surplus of 314,000 which is to Us accounted for someliow, or, rather, which helps to ac- count for (bo unanimity and promptnese with which the ordinance was passed by the Coun. cil and signed by the Mayor, The firmness of Comptroller Hares in rofusing to sign the contract has blocked the game for the pres- ent, and Judge Dicxry contirms the correet- ness of Mr. Hayes’ position iu an opinion to tho effect that tho contract canuot bind the city until after an approprintion has been made, and that until then the Comptroller ia under no legal obligation to execute tho con. tract. And that is the end, for the present, of the shameless (ob, ‘Kho honest membors of the Conneil will be on the lockout for its ro- Appearance in a new disgni HOW TO RESTORE GOOD TIMES, It is Riven ont at Washington that the Democratic majority in the House of Repre- sentatives propose to reduce the appropria- tions for the support of the various branches of the Government to tho extent of from 842,000,000 to $45,000,000 a year, This re. duction is to bo made in the appropriations for, tho army, navy, for fortifications, for navy-yards, for public buildings, for rivers aud harbors, for Indian affairs, for collecting the revenue, and for salnries of public officers. Asa Republican, representing the mnse of the tax-paying and non-official Ropablicans, we express the hope that this report {1 true. 'This paper has insisted for several years that the national expenditures were too great; but Congress, like all other bodies clothed with the power to spend other people's money aud to ercato offices, scems to have been unable to retrench to any great extent. Now, ther, is the accepted time. The Domocratic Houso has the power to reduce tho oxponditures by abolishing many useless offices and reducing the compensation of as many more, To that reduction of expenditures wo trust the Ro- publican minority will make uo objection or resistance; tho reduction will bo sustained by the country, no matter by whom it is sup- ported and carried, The next thing the Domocratic House should do is to restore the tax on tea and coffee, which the subsidy protectionists, through the ignorance and cowardice of the majority of both partiesin Congross, repented some years ago, and thereby add $20,000,- 000 to the revenue, With the sum saved in expenditures and the puraly rovenue tax on tea and coffee, there will bo a surplus rev- enue of from sixty millions to sixty-five mill- fons of dollars. Having thus economized in the’ way of revenne, the House should then take up the tariff. Every article thercin taxed which is needed or used by any branch of manufactures In this country should be transferred to the freo list. From the ro- niaining tariff taxea tho wholo element of “protection” should bo eliminated oa an outrage and swindle on the American con- sumer. An average reduction of 60 per cont of the remaining taxes sliould be made, If the Democratic House have the courago and the honesty to do theso things, 0 long neglected by their Republican predecessors, they will do much to commend themselves to the favor of the country, and this popular approval will be made stronger and more conspiguous if the Republican members shall make any. united opposition to tho repeal of tho extravagant expenditures and ultra taxation for bounties to individuals, instead of rovenue to the country. With forty millions of dollars saved in ex- ponditures, twenty million dollars increased inoome from tvs and coffee, thers will be no deficiency in the revenue ; on the contrary, the gonoral trade of the country, relieved of its prosent eimbuarrasaments, will produce more rovenue than a mere comparison of quantitica now imported at the presont and reduced rates of duty will indicate, There is no elasticity in our revenue; the inexorable raleof “ protection” keeps the production, exportation, and revenues of the country always at the minimum, Of courses, for those or any revenue or finan. cial reform or improvement there must bo a roturn to staple spocle values, More than tio yuara aud 4 quarter havo passed rince the collapse of speculation and inflation of prices took place in Soptomber, 1873. The artificial and tho fraudulent which wore considered then lo be evidences of prosperity have van- ishod, leaving the real condition of the coun. try o# it bad been for several years expored to the knowledge of all, Thero has, however, been but little substantial rovovery, We hove speoulated Jess; have rofrained from wild ventures ; have settled many debts and blotted out others; but the country gonerally fy etill depressed by the overwhelming bur- deus of a dishouest system of taxation and a legulized syatem of dishonest paper-money vatues, Let the Demooratio House, representing the Amuricun people, put the currency of the country to par; let it reduce the expenditures of the country #10,000,000 annually; let it restore the purely-revonue tax on tea and cofteo; let it use the knife freely by rolieving the tariff from the parasite protection, and it will do more in a single session to restore the conntry to healthful prosperity aud perma- nent wealth than has beon done by Congress ince the War cloged, ten yearu ago. Lot the House do its duty by passing these measures, and we ure satistled that the Republican Ben. ate will heartily respond by an active co-ope. ration in the thorough and long-needed cor rection of abuses and oppressions, ‘The effect of such logialation would, after the few weeks or monthe required for ad: justing buslness to the changed valuations, @ to revivo couiidence, Ws now export WED?I ESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1875. nothing comparatively, except the raw prod- uct of the farm. ‘Tho farmer furnishes nearly all the national oxchange. Under the restoration of specie values, the reduction of national oxpenses, and the abolition of “protective” taxation, the business of tho country will immediately revive, Our mau- ufacturera, instead of running on half-time, or quarter time, merely to supply a Hmited homa inarket, will then maunfacture for ex. portation, The mills will run continu- ously, and the miliswill be increased. Labor will bo employed, not as now, spastnodi- enlly, but all the time, and tho nnmbor em- ployed will be increased in ordor to keep up with tho inervased production, American. goods will be in demand and for sale in all parts of tho habitable globe, and American commorco will but il- fustrate the tongnituds of the pro- ductions of the American people, An §ucreased ond increasing commerce will cre- ate o necessity for an American marine, and the American flag, coveriag an American commercial unvy, will no longer be a stran- ger in the ports of civilized nations, There ig no branch of production that will not {col the impetus given by a restored system of honest moncy, revenuo taxation, and eco- nomical expenditure. Before the renewed vigor aud prosperity, and consequent wealth of tho country, the public debt will pass away, and tho American name and American credit will take a rank appropriate to our vast productive trade, Blessed as no other land is with a varied supply, of raw material of every character, with inexhaust- ible deposits of fucl, and with a system of in- ternal trausportation unequaled, wa ought before this have been the great manufactur- ing nation of the earth, Instead of this, we export Jess rannfactures now than wo did ff. teen years ago, and have to ship our gold by avery steamer to pay balances. We trand- port what wo buy and sell in foreign-owned vessels, and have an immense population un- employed because we are prohibited bynahigh tariff from converting our raw material in manufactured forms for export. Congress ean give ushonest moncy, honest taxes, re- duced exponses, an jmmenso national produc- tion of manufactured wares for exportation ; constant employment to Inbor, incrensed syenlth, reduction of interest, more loannblo funds in savings aud other depositories, por- sonal and national prosperity. Let the Dem- ocratic House pass the legisintion for these purposes, and half the Republicans in and out of Congress will not oppose and the other lntf will not venture to resist them, oven ifso disposed. Tux Trivxz has now made a pretty full exposition of the flagrant injustice which has been worked out under the namo of the South ‘Town assessment, It is no longer do- nied that the personal proporty is assessed double as high as thot of the West and North Sides in the aggregate; that this oppression ig aggravated and intensified by letting largo numbers escape assessment altogether; that many others have been assesued at ridicu- lously low figures, and that, in order to make up for these deficiencies, othars have been assessed at throe and four times as much as they ought to pny. While the facts ore not denied, thero is an effort, as in all such cases, to shift the responsibility, Pauineirs, the Assessor, pretends to blame it portly upon the law, which, ax ho says, gives the Asser- sor too short a‘time for the amount of labor to be dono (7) and part- ly upon his assistsnts, o majority of whom ho alleges to have been appointed at the instance of the Justices of the Pence, who constitute a majority of the ‘Yown Board, Puu.iirspomits to state, how. ever, that he permitted the Justices of the Peace to dictnte these appointments, because he looked to them to vote him an erorbitant compensation in excess of the amount al. lowed by law, The simple fact is, that tho Assessor, like ‘the other town officers, is cleoted every spring by a mob, composed of reokless nad disroput- able loafers, ready to carry tho day by repeat- ing or ballot-box stuffing, if necessary. Thia system haa gone on so long that respectable citizens have givon over covery purpose of contesting it No decent man goes to the polls at thess town elections,—no- body except those who are drummed up for voting purposes out of tho grog-shopa in the interast of the bummor candidates. Hav- ing thus observed tho appearanco of having been elected, tha Assessor proceeds to ap- pointe large corps of assistants, mode up mainly of the rapscailious who asaisted in collecting the vagabonds that voted and stuffed him in, and partly of the meu who are recommended by tho Justices in ordor to secure the acquiescenco of the latter in ox- orbitant pay, Tho Assessor's force is thus composed of a lot of characterless rowdles, to whom the entire distribution of millions of dollars of taxes {9 allotted, and who aro ready to rolense one man who will contribute a suit of clothes, a new hat, a pair of boots, or @ $10 bill, and oppreasively assess another who refusos to ‘come down.” It ia not necessary to look for any further oxplana- tion of the outrage which the tax-payers of South Chicago are forced to submit to this year, What is the remedy ? It is with the respectable people and tax. psyers themselves, The Republicans sre now engaged in forming local organizations with tho purpose of enlisting the best men in tho neighborhood in political affairs, ‘There uro five of these ward clubs already started in the South Division. Let every good citizen of Republican attachments join the club in his ward, and lond his presence and advice to the association of his club with the best political purposes, and to the exclusion of the low and vicious political elements, Let the good cit- izens who vote generally with the Democratic party follow the fame course, and organize thenisolves into local clubs, with special rof. erence to the improvement of our municipal politics, If both parties can thus be placed in tho hands of the best men in each, two good tickets can be nominated at overy town eloction, nnd the bummers will be left out in the cold, forced to vote for respectable and competent men or not voto at all, Wo know of no other means whereby the recurrence of the tax outrage can be averted next year, Thero is no Legisluturo this year to which application can be made for relief from the Towa Board syatem, or for tho au- thorization of a County Tux Commissioner, corresponding to tho aame oftice in tha City Government which has afforded relict from unjnst discrlm{uations in tho assessment. If no movement is inaugnrated by the tax-pay- ing citizens with referonce to the clections next spring, thia year’s experience will un- questionably bo repeated, Thore should bo no difficulty in securing competent and trust- worthy men for tho ofloea of Assessor and Collector, The work of the Assessor is com. prehended within throe months of the year, and the Town Doard makes liberal allowance for assistants, Tho South Town hed for a namwper of years a competent Asressot, who was displaced to make room for the bummer element, it is work which requires special preparation and Jarge experience, and tho proper method is to secure a competent man and retain him in the office. ‘lhe only way to do this is by the system of local orgeniza- tion which wo have suggested, in which both parties should pneti THISVES' ORGAN.” Tt ia proper that Gen. Bancock should bo given the full beneflt of his explicit, and un- qualified, and indignant denial of all co-ap- eration in the reckless attack upon Secretary Baistow recently made by the Whisky. Thtcces? Oryan in this city, Tho orticlo itself, among ita tissue of cold-blooded fabrications, alleged all sorts of actions nnd intentions on the part of Banvecn ; in fact it mado Rancock respon- sible for nearly all the statements it printed. ‘The offect of this article was ns damaging to Bancock on this account os it was to the Organ itself. Ho long as Bancock was snp- posed to be responsible for tho publication, the inference in hia casa wae inevitable that ba had some guilty connec. tion with the Whisky Ring, Indeed, the Whisky Thictes’ Organ stated outright, in tha slang peculiar to the Ring, that Bancocr was rendy to ‘pive up” all he knows and “fally explain his counection with the Whisky Ring.” Geu. Dancock denounces the publi- cation 18 an attempt to embroil him with Seerctary Buisrow, and og untruo in every particular, As all tho nlegations of the arti- ele have been found to be untrue ontside of Baucocr’s denial, it is only fair to credit him as against the Organ, and regard him 1m the samo lightin which he was rogarded before its publication,—as 4 man ander indictmont for cousplring to defraud the revenue, bat entilled to be held as innocent of the charge until be shall have been fairly triod and con- victed, Asto the position of tho Whisky-Thieves' Organ, it now seems content to look back upon its work as having made a “sensation.” It jaa good deal such n sensation as Joxce made when he delivered his colebrated speech just before he assumed the position of “ bookkeeper "in the Missouri Penitentiary. It is such a sensation og a guilty person makes when he concocts 2 series of startling lies with the purpose of diverting attention from himself forthe moment. It ia such a sensation as Bancock might have made him. self if ho had doue and proposed to do what the Organ attributed to him, Tho Organ soys that Bancock ‘has for o long timo hunted up Baisrow’s record.” Baucocn saya he hasn't been doing aaything of tho kind. Tho Organ says that Bancocx’ intends to “squeal” in order ta implicate Brisrow og well as himself, und Bancoer sys lio doesn't intend anything of ‘the sort. In fact, every- thing which the Organ aceredits to Bancoor as having done, doing, or nhont to do, Ban- cocn denies fn tuto, and pronounces to he manufactured out of wholo cloth by the Organ. ‘The denials of everyboily clse ave ns full nnd complcte ns Bancock’s relative to every- thing set forth by the Wiisty-Thicrey Organ. Mr. Groven, ox-Diatnot Attommey, to whom very damaging statements concorning Secre- tary Brisrow wore accredited, says that he was entirely misrepresonted in the Organ’s interviow, that he did not say what he was roported to have safd, and that tha case referred to was one in which tho Govern- mont was probably at fonlt, and with which Secretary Bristow had nothing to do in any event, Socverybody elac, whoso name was mentioned in tho article, has made a flat denial of the statements, ond some of the men who were cited os intimate frionds of tho Seerctary have not oven the honor of his acquaintance, All these dovelopments leave tho Whisky.Thieces’ Organ with a sonsation on its hands of which it will be heartily tired beforo the end shall ba reached, oven if it ig not now, and-one that bas left a aus- picion in the public mind of a complicity of some of the Organ's peaple in tha Whisky Ring, which will not bo ontirely removed until after all the triala shall have been com- ploted and nono of those peoplo convicted, THE PARDONING POWER AGAIN, Wo print elsewhere a reply to the editorial article which appeared in Tue Trinuxe upon obuues of the pardoning power, as illustrated by the releasa of two murderora from the Jolict Penitentiary on Christmas Day. It pre- sents the sentimontal sido of sympathy for criminals os forcibly perhaps as it can bo shown, but tbe arguments aro profitless bo. eausa thero is no sentimental sido to murder, its commission, and its ponalties, It ia a fearful, torrible reality. Thero aro only two points really worth considering in the commmicntion of our cor- respondent, Tho first of these is the attempt on his part to assign a reason for these par- dons. In the article to which he replies it was stated thot wo wero unaware of tho special influences which induced tho Gov- ornor to discharge these two murderers, Our correspondent also does not ap- pear to bo aware of them, but ns. signg as 8 rnflicient general reason that the murderers had beon well behaved. ‘Thia is no reason whatevor for tha exercise of tho pardoning power, It iy expected of every convict that he will he well be- haved ond diligently observe all the rules of the prison. Ylaving behaved badly out of the Penitontiary, it is oxpected of him that hia conduct shall be exemplary in the Pen- itentiary. Furthermore, as if for tho vory purpose of showing that good conduct is not a renson for pardon, tho statute thomaolves offer a reward for it by requiring the Ward. en to keep a record of every infraction of the rules of prison discipline, and he is also required to inform every prisoner that each succeeding month of good behavior’ ontitles him to adoduction of a certain number of days from his term of sentence, tho ratio of which isfixed by law. Should any convict pass the whole time of his soutonce in obedience to the prison rules, be is entitled to a certifi. cate thereof from the Warden, und upon its presentation to the Governor ho is entitled ta a certificate of restoration to ull his righta of oltizouship, whioh have been forfeited by his conviction, From this provision it is ap- parent that neithor in Jaw nor in equity is good conduct a suificiont reasun for pardon, and this is the only reason which our corre- spondent alleges In theso onsex, ‘Lhe second point which uur correspondent aecky to mako is that tho prisoner is not pardoned for his crime but from hia im- prisonment, ‘Tho crime, then, still remains, ‘Che man’s guilt remains, The crimo is un- stoned. The murderer is unpunished, A guilty unan is let looso upon the community without having paid tho penalty of his guilt ws adjudged by court, ury, aud law, and in this tustance, as In almost every other instance, tho mon guilty of the most horrible of all crimes are selected as the recipients of pardon, and they go out into soolsty as ving proofs thet justice has been thwarted and crimo can go wppunished, Tho pardoning power ts n prerogative which should only be exercised in rare ine stances and where there ia good and sufilcient reason. Ib was not bestowed upon the Gov- ernor merely to relense men from imprison. ment beeause they have bean ‘well be- haved," or upon any gronnds of sontiment orsympathy, If this were so, then a syni- pathetic and tender-hearted Governor might open tho prison doors and lot all the convicts go free, ‘The partoning power was given hit to be exercised in cnsea where an innocent person, by an unfortunate combination of circumstances, hns been convicted, and clear proof is shown to the Governor that such ia the caso ; or whore mitigating circumstances mny be furnished to show that tho prisoner was not really as guilty og the jury found bin to be, and consequently is suilering too much punishment for his crime. Thero sro no other casey whero it should be exercised. It is a prerogative purely in tho interests of Justice, not of good behavior, sentiment, or sympathy, In the case of murder, whero tho erlmo is clearly proven there should never be a pardon issued. A inurderer hos for- feited his right to live among his fellows. Punishment by death is the only completo realization of justice, the only complete penalty for his crime, tho only complete protection of society. Upon the very showing of tho advoentes of impria- onment for life thnt this form of punishment protects society by shutting the murderors out from it, and that whilo he is thus dead to worldly things he is gtven time to make his peaco with God and preparu himself to die in a befitting frame of mind, which he cannot do in tho brief time between the murder and the gallows—oven admitting that there is some force in these pleas, it does not present any argument for pardon, The pardoning power—when used except for the causes wo have indicated—is an interference with the powers of court, with the administra. tion of justice, and with the protec- tion of socicty, It sends criminals out into the world without paying the pennl- ty of their crimes, and thus leads evil dispos- ed persons to believe that they, too, can com- mit crime and exeape with light punisbmont. It is @ prerogative which is alwnys liable to abuse, and theso rabnses have become so frequent, and have so materially interfered with the administration of justice, that it has been found nocessary in mony States to define by statute tho exact cases in which the State Executiyo may exerciso it. It has been abuselin this State, and it may yet be necessary for tho people in convention tods- vise means to keep murdorars in the Peniton- tiory after they have succeeded in gotting them in there, Our correspondent draws & very sentimental picture of these pardons, but we can assure him that the peoplo of TWinois have no sentiurontal notions about murder or murderers, and that it will bos long time before semtiment is allowed to usurp tho place of justice. If that timo should over come, noriety would have a car. nival ruled by demons, in which tho weak and defenseless would go to the wall and brute forco would reign triumphant. The Grand Jury of the Criminal Court has reported that they oxamined a nuimbor of physicians of this cily who visited tho County Insauc Asylum as 9 committee; that these physicians report that thera aro 300 in- mates of the Asylum, under the general charge of tho Warden of tho Alms-Houso, who is wholly inexpexicuced and incompetent to mannge such an institution, Thoy report piso that these 800 anfortunates are undor tho spegint care of two persons, neither of thom a graduate of medicine, and who are both incompetent ta fill the places they hold. Tho-Grand Jury, upon the evidence before them, find that the insaue department of the Alms-Houso is “most ignorautly und ont- rageously mismanaged.” Thoy roport that tho food furnished the insono is unreasonably bad, inndequate, and inappropriate to the condition of tho unfortunates, ‘With such treatment, ond under auch ignorant caro, itis declared thore is no possible hopo of eure to any one now confined there. The expenditures for tho maintenance and care of theso ingane poor during the last yoar aver- eged $257 por head, or over $6 per week for each one of the 800 patients. For less monoy than this, theso poor people could be provided with comfortable lodging, appropriate and wholesome food, and skilled and experienced treatment, It is evident that the institution ig run for the profit of others than tho ob- jects of the public charity. The public monoy is.stolon, and tho insane aro left to starvo and perish for wout of food and want of proper reedical care, This ia but another instance of tho goneral way in which tho affairs of tho public ara managed. ‘The people pay liberal- ly for charity, but thore is gravo reason for supposing that the recipients of thia charity are not the unfortunate poor, but the con- tructors and their dependents, offlc’tal and un- ofticial, The maltroatment of tho insane poor is an outrage for which there can ba no apology or excus Ameoting of persons intereatod,in reyenuo reform will probably be bold in tltia city somo time next week; for the purpose of welcom- ing the Hon. W. G. Susnven, Profossor of Politleal Economy at Yale, who is to lecture here next Sundoy, Prof. Svatwxs, who is well’ known as Lhe author of the ‘* History of Amorican Currency” ond as a writor and speaker on economic themes, is one of tho fow ‘scholars in politica” who sre deserving of that ame, Ho has recently boon sug- gested as the Republican candidate for Cen- tennial Governor of Connecticut, but ia understood to have refuxod the use of he name for that position, His visit to tho city aay result in the formation of a Free-Trade Club on the plan we sketched tho other day, and at any rate his lecture, which will be a logical and interesting presentation of wound doctrine on somo of the most important ques- tions now beforo the pablic, cannot fail to do good. It soome that the murdoror Reowsurnt over- rancued bimedlf iu big curious contraut with » fellow Jew, by which the Iottor aswumed bis sing god promised to be responeible for them in the next world, Tho consideration was 45 ueidin band. The contract was drown to cover tho last Day of Atonement, which waa soveral months ogo, to the death of Rupixwrmin, All would bave boen well, aud the contracting Jow would have been to-day responsithe fur the horriblo crine which Revista: has committed, if the tenas bad beon # little more geverous, ‘The Rabbinical Court, before whom the mat- ter was brought, seas the contract aside on the ground that the person assuming the ving did not receive suficiont remu- neration for tis rlvka The Talmud forbids one Jew to vhost anothor, and the Rabbloical Court held that fraud must be presumed in @ contact when # pasty tot ia overchsrged or underpaid over one-aixth of the amuuut involved. Bincy the murdor hat beon fully exposed, the sin-con- tractor most rejoice thas bia contract bas been broken, and Buouestaw must moura that lle paraimony has brought his immortal soul into euch imminont porll, It 18 dificult to decide whiok party to this interesting coutract prosentea tho moat oxtrnordinary character, Tho man whe agrood to teko tho other's ging, at first sight, neors to have little faith in futuro punishatont of any kind; but, ainco Le conshierod the risk worth €43, he must cortainly bave beon more dovout than bo appoarod, Ronisftei’s faith algo must have boon shaky, or he woul! not have hositated to disburse a fow doflara more to save his soul. POOR PERIOLAT. This ts ead. This ia vory ead. Tho anime penchable secords on filo at tho Ausossor’s offlcs show that the Bean Hoss owns only £3,000 worth of porgonal property, Buraly, the way of the tranegrosaor mast bo hard and honesty must bo tho best polley, if yoata of assiduoue toll In Boll- ing nwety beaue and official votes liave endowed Mr. Pentonat with oniy 83,000, Hero ia a man who aupplios Cook County with beans and Cook County officials with percentages, who has now grasped the business of St. Louis, who sells eversthing for about throo times the market price, who is always taking contracts for any ond everything, from food for paupera to fees for pirates who have “influence” to oll, ang who ia worth only $3,000,~only a thousand for ovory two million dollare which bia New Yurk prototypo managod to accumulate by similar moans, Chicago entorprnse has boon, wo foar, unduly praised. Heratofore, while be- ing plundered, wo have had tho congolation of thinking that our Boss was galning on tho ox- Bors of the motropolis in tho samo rapid ratio that Chicago ftalns on Now York, Alas, our idol {s shatterod. Oar Venrotar appears in the Asacesor's books almoat As poor ne tho very pau- pers who, when hunger-driven, bave gulped down his musty beans io tho Poor-Houso. if by somo wolucky epccuiation, say an fil-timod favestment in Akjornien, bo should Jose £3,000, he might bo obliged to sook that Poor-Houao limeolf, to abandon the store ho lonees from ono County Commissioner, to stop supplying otbor County Commissioners with groceries, to ont hhimsetf tho beans and sour flour of pauperism. There havo been poople who have predicted that ourtownaman’s career would end In tho Peni- fontlary, but tha Poor-Houso baa never beforo been thought of ae hia goal. It in sad to think that a man who has lived for the sole purpose of making money, who hay bartered therefor tho respect of all other mon and bis own soul, should bo ao poor. Surely, somo of the Commissioncra and Aldormon who have profited so much by their nequaintance with Peniotat should aubscribe a percentago of their percentages in order to sayo him from im- modiate want, And yot we cannot but admiro the business wlill which our Boas dispiaye in doing so largo o business on #0 emall n capital. It is not every may who, with only $3,000, could monopaliza the oficial trade of Chicago and ft. Louls, Still, thoro are paraltels for this, ‘Tho Ramblor who suporvisea stuffing tho ballot- boxes at our recurring olections doca a heavy businesa. Ho hae hia ronnora throughout the city, bunkoing strangers and robbing citizens. Ho hag an clegantly-furnishod “ hol!," where grocn- Lorne aud boys logo their own and thoir omploy- en’ mousy, Ho invests no small sume, from time to time, in esciping convictions for per- jury, sevaulta with intent to kill, ete. Yet he raanages to got along with just S1,f00 of tax- ablo porsonal property. As lo owns no roat es- tato, this trifliug sum is all the capital taveste? in this fargo and varied busluess, ‘Tho astonish ing poverty of Mosars, Pentonst, McDonaup, and othors of that ilkshonld wara young mon of tha fact that tho wagoa of atu ara low, very Jow—in the books of ovr Asvossors, go Tt fe ploaging to know that ag lavory bo- comes moro of & fino ait, the dotection and punishmont of kusyes is becoming a sclouce, Wo ara duped, cheated, robbed nowadays in ways far boyond the kon of tho vulgar thicves of the past, but wo catub our thieves—uonices thoy Layo stolen over a miltion, and cau thorsroro put 8 groonback plaster over tho oyoa of justice —in new and improved ways. The Now York G@raphio occasionally prints portraits of abycond- ing defauttera, which aro scattered over tho whole country, 80 that the embezzlor moata ble own counterfoit presentmont wherayor ho Koos, Btill avother now detective dodgo fs reportod from Florida. ‘The teller of a Montroal bank abaconded on tho llth of Septembor Jest, and took with lim bis fathor, whose departure tho bank could havo cheorfully endurod, ond # largo sum of monoy, which the bank wanted, A do- tectivo tracked the two fugitives to St. Augue- tine, Thay could not be oxtradited, but the olilcer placardad the city with circulars contain- ingan accurate description of soo sod fathor, and detailing the former's crime. Freel circa Inra wore posted ovory day in the office of tho hotel where tho tio wero staying. ‘Thoir now acquaintances abandoned thom, ‘hoy wore pointed oat on tho atrests and feerodat, Con- acious guilt unnerved the young mau. He broke down aud voluutarily returned to Cannda with the detective, whose shrawd scheme notted him hevetal thousand dollars. ——— Tho pluck of the farmora of the grasa- hoppered districta: ‘of Kansas, Nobravks, aud ‘Miagourl in roplanting, with a favorable sexeon to aid thom, has beon rewarded by full crops qbich they aro solling at good prices, But to thelr pluok thoy abould now add prudaut foro- sight, and in this regard might du well to copy after the Mormons, Extondod observationa (a. Idaho, Montana, Wyomlog, and Utah ebow that tho hoppers of the last saason hava dopoalted their eggs in untold quantities, snd that ao eoou as tho warm wosther comes thoro will bo a worso visitation of those poaty tna coming year than evor bofore, Bo far as obsorvations bayo been msde, the sane ia true of tho region in Kansas, Nebraska, aud Mlusouri last sommor devastated by the ‘hoppors, In Utah, by ordor of Batomax Youxa, tho farmors sro storing thoir cropa in viow of tho possibility of another plague of the ‘hoppers, Bhould 1% come thoy will bo prepared for it. Butio Mieaouri, Kanaas, aud Nobraska, whore thore is equal room for apprehouding a visita- tion by the tcousts again next apring and aum- mior, vo such precautions are being taken; tho farmer are uolling tholr cropa aud spending tho money as usual, and, if yielted by the locusts, will agai bo compelled to appeal to the country for help, Thoy mignt do woll to emulate Bara- vum'a examplo in guarding against auch # calamity, —_—-—— Mr. Tagormzvs Suits, a momber of the Ohurch of England, has recently had ocoasion to alow that the obarity of that organization does not begin at bome. le vicar Jately advisod iim uot to atteod a Nonconformiat meoting, and suid that it waa altogether covirary to the doctrize nnd discipline of the Olurob of England that either hor clergy or her faithfut faity whould at- toad @ service in # Dissonting chapel. Ar, Santa thon carried the matter up by a sort of private sppeat to bis Bishop, Dr. Harotp Buowns, of Winchester, inquiring whether » layman could be disciplined for associating with Dissenters, Tho diroct polut way ovaded, but the Bishop did not hesitate to say that no wolle Instructed oburchmsn coull attend the wervico of other communions, This dictum ja rather noticeable frow the fact that the author of it took # promicent part in tho Old Catbollo Congreas in Cologuo in 1872, The Bishop scone to have found among forelgnere tho good qualities of heart and mind which bo could not discover at his own doore. There is, after all, @ good dea) of Jogio In the Church of Englsnd policy whon it 1 conalatently adhored to; but it docs not adinit of occasions) wua- penalony, such ua that which the Bishop of Win- chester brought about at Coloyn A notable temparance meeting was held at tho revideuce of Witttam E, Dopax in New York on ‘Tuurvday of lat weak. It wee dodigned as a woloome to Jauxe H. Rares, the Dritivh tomper- ance advocate, Dr. Manx Hormins, ox-Preale deut of Williams College, was the iret epeaker, Ho laid down the brond logical proposition that whatever {a physiologically wrong Ie morally wrong, Mr, Haren, who followed tho @x-Preal- dent, extonded hie proposition by adding that whatever ta moratly wrong {9 politically wrong. ‘This stadoment of the caee would not, perhaps, be agreed to by tho mont eminent teachera of social acience, and it 1s doubtful if Dr. Hop- nine himself would accept the samondment, Dr. McCostt, of Princoton Coltego, said that the recent action of the Feculty of that institution in supprosaing tho secrot scclotica WAS taken mainly bocnuso all seorst sociotios are” product- iyo of great dissipation, The discussion wag highly interosting and valuable. Dr, Morxixs addrcea in particular showed a catholic eplrit aud a cultivated knowledgo of tho subject tha might well bo imitated by the moro oxtremt advocates of pobibitory logialation. —— For the benofltof Mr. Jasren D, Wann, whe tince (he termination of bia official oareor it te underatood had done the hoayvy scurrilous para gravbing on tho Post and Mail, aud whoinre turn for our special forboarance toward bin when bo found it nacowsary ta stop down aud out of the District-Attornoy's offloo has almed hia sourrlitty at Tix Prtouxg, itis etatod tha Toe Trine novor paid $9,000 damages for def amation of anybody's charactor; noithor has Tne Tamvne over paid one dollar of damages to anybody for libel, nqr has any suit therofor ever boon sustained agalust us, If wo sto mis- informod as tothe autuority of the scandalous paragraphs of latc so frequent in the columns of tho Post and Mail, thashove statemeut may bo conaidored ag wsdo for tho enlightenment of “ Fatty“ Epwanps, 4 ——_--—__—. ‘The “Black Friday” business is to be over hauled inthe courts in a guit brought by the Assignee in Baukruptey of Jay Cooxe & Co. against Jay Govtp and his pastnern in tho fa- mons gold oporations of that day, The pload- inga set forth that Govtp's pool deposited with day Caonr & Co. $900,000, gold, on which that firm mado an advance of $1,237,000 currency, of which ouly $45,000 has beat returned, leaving tho Jay Cooke concorn shott $71,970, Bosidos, €100,000 damages aro claimed on a gol asle to the broker Sparen, actiog for Govnp's pool, apd whose inganity consequent upon Uovtp’s ropu- Gistion of bis gold contracts furnished the thoma for Brepwan’s celobrated poom. For dofense, Gootp and bis associates coolly act up that their contract with Jay Coons & Co, was s gambling transaction, and in violation of the laws of thé State, aud thorofore void. oo A Bertin correspondent of the New York Tris une thinka he has discovered a growing dislike of Americana throughoat Germany. Tho chiot reason for it ho conceives to bo that tho Gow pinns are now proud of United Fatherland, and have lesa aympsthy with thelr countrymon wha aro domiciled in this country. IC thero is any such feeling ic eziatonco, it afforda an iustaoce of national togratitude which canuct bo too con- apicuoualy uoticed. During the French aud Gorman war thero wore no stronger frienda of United Germany than tho Germans in Americs, Yuoir devotion and enthusiasm nover flagged. Tney sent substantial tokens of their regard by every steamer. They aro naw as proud of Fatherland aa any Gormans can bo, and Fathers land has as much reason to bo proud of thom ag Of her most loyal aubjects, pie ae Se Last year, when thero wero a few Lova in the Sodom and Gomorrah of tha County Board, Dr. Mennottn was County Physicinn., Ho did all tho wari, and did it promptly aud woll. A Ring can- didato bas superseded him, and ia go incopablo of doing as wellas he did that tho Board now Proposes to appoint an acsistaut aud tex tho poople £2,000 a year ta pay him for holping another man to do one man's work. ‘Thia is tho samo sort of robbery that ofllcial roguca prace Meo at San Francisco, oti) that admirable Vigi- lance Comrulttas ornemonted the hotel-balconios of Montgomery streot with # choice selection of doad thioves. ——__-—__ E. B. Mextz, Parish Judgo of St. Mary'sin Louisiana, bas boon potatediy requested to re- sign, He refuass to do so, on tho gronnd that the slgnora of tho petition ratorred-to did not voto for bins at tho election, and sro not his con- stituents. Slo ia Iiterally correct, Tho petition: eradid uot yote for him, They uover had any doubt of his incompetency. Thoy are tho moat eminent membors of the Bar practicing before him, I¢ romains to bo seon what will be the re- sult of the impeachmont proceedings which ar¢ to be taken. 3 ———-—__——_ 'The aditorisl rooms of the London Athenaum acom to have been turned into a dissecting room, for that paper gravoly—it is a grave sub: fect—saye: "Wo lave on our tablo the Re- mains of the Inte Lov, So-and-80." Tho 'Re- mains” doubtloss canalst of print and paper iu- stead of flosh and blood, but the angouncemont iy a startling ono. “Long Jomn" must be losing hls vast woalth very faut. It is reported that bia taxable pore noual property, as put down by Ep Pauwurs, amounta to but $2,000. Wo trust that he will give thst olghty-scro lot for a» park bofore it slips through his tlogora, as so much of his property haw alroady done. oo The American journalist will celebrate the contonnlal year of his country’s independence by working for 300 days, It's leap yoar, an- fortuontely, z “Thore’s no place like home"--for Gen. Bousnox. i PERSONAL The Washington Chronicle announces thai Soustor Logan has recovered hie health, It {a question whother J, Proctor Kuott, of Koutacky, or W, A. Plpor, of California, is tho homoelieat man in the new House of Ropre- sentatives, It ls esay to datect in some of the mewapapor commonts upon tho withdrawal of Yale and Harvard from tho Rowing Association the in- fluonce of college prejudicos upon the writers. Hall’s Dramatic Company, formerly the Now Chicago Thoatro Company, is billod to appear at Spnogheld, ML, noxt Friday and Saturday nighte, Tho company has beon as far South ap Savaouab, and og far Hast a3 Charleston. It will be remembored that Olive Logan did not fli ber lecture engagement in Hacino, inst week, Porhspa tho reanon waa that she wan aunounced by e local editor na having been for “forty yeara the prido and ornsmunt of the American atage.” Tho Rev. Dr. Cuylor, who is known to be almost as fond of notoristy as De Witt Tal- mage, saya boldly that chix nation sponds as much money annually for intoxicating drink as it does for all tho bread it eats, all the clothes woars, and all the books it rade, Tho accuracy of this atacement ts questionable, Bpeakor Korr’s health iu again loss than satis factory, and the ponalbility that he will have to retire from active sotvics ia being seriously talked of, The Speaker pro tomn,, if one should be appointed, would have uo power to maco any changes in the Committees. Such a power # nevor exercised by the Speaker himself, Goorge Mortia, who brutally murdered a youvg mulatto woinan in Now Orleans, Noy. 80, was called up for trial a few daya sgo, He pleaded guilty, aud said the sooner he was banged the batter, The Judge, rather startled by thia novel procedure, refused to sentence the priaduer, but ordered a jury to bo rmpanolod to pass apoo the case. Pagl do Cassagnac's Imperialiat lecture at Dolloville seas to have bess entirely Innocent and moderate in {ie tose, It cortaialy did Mtwe harin; there were so fow present to hear it who did not already sympathizo with the sentiments of tho speaker. The workmen, for whom the lecture was intended, geuvoraliy stayed away, andjo thelr place came shoals of Imponalista Oassagoss bolisyes that tho people of Hsance