Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1875, Page 4

TUHE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNI: TITURSDAY, DECEMBER 1875 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATTA OF ATTSERITTION (PATARLE IN ADVANCE), Tostnxe Frepaid at this Office, Datly Bdition, pest-paid., 1 year, 8 Parte of yearat o 1 Matled tn any eddeess FOUR WEERS for Hunda, Literary and Religi us doubis 13.00 1.00 a.00 650 Tarta of year at safho ra! WEEKLY EDITION, FOSTPAID, Onocops, parse ol Tiver or EoF Clab af tiveaty, por co The postage is 17} ceats & year, which we will prepay. Bpecimen copies sent frea, T prevent delay and mistakes, bo sure and give Poat-Otlice adidress in full, including Stateand County, Hemittancenmay be made either by draft, exyress, Foat-Oftice arder, or §n registered letters, at our risk, TERME TO CITY AUDSCRINERS, Dally, dolivered, Bunday excepte, 23 centa per week. Daily, delivered, Sunday fncluded, 30 centw per week, Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Uadison and Dearborn-ata,, Chicags, Ill, 0 ) T AMUSEMENTS, MCVICRER'S THEATRE—Madlton street, botween Dearbarn and State, F Troupe, * Girole-Qirc ACADEMY OF MU: Aadison and Monroe, The ‘Two Urphans,” HOOLEY'S TIEATRE—Randolph street, betwecn Clark and Lasialle. Callfornis 3tiusirels, NEW CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark street, betwoen Qandolph snd Lake. Kelly & Loon’s Minstirels, ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn Monroe. *The Forty Thieves," — “BOCIETY MEETINGS. TTOS. J. TORNER LODG , 400, A, F, & A, M, ~=Will futall §ts oilicerselcet ihis (Thumaiay) evening 1750 o\ lock, The memborw and vialtiug bieihven sra cordiaily fivited to meet with us, D, C, Crosler, Mcting Oraud Manter ; C, E, Leouard, Grand arsual, J. L. PETTIBONE, Sec, WAUBANSIA LODGE, No, 100, A, T & A, M.—A Special moctiny will Le beld (hfs evoning at Oriental ihal), 132 LaSalle-st., for work on Seiond Degrec, Members and viaitors are condially invited, L. 8T, JUHN, Bec. atreot, corner "BUSINESS NOTICES. 'S DENTAL PARLORS, CORNER . Wiy pay § 0 and ' $50 a set hion you get the i est for $ 57 matmfaction, o money fefundud, ” Filing ut half rates, warranted ten years, fihfi @hieage Tribune, Thursday AMorming, Decembor 30, 1875, At tho New Yorl Gold Exchango yostorday greenbacks wero worth 88} to 88}, — e Warmer wentlier, to bo followed by falling emperature, js predicted for this rogion to- lay. At Oshkosh yesterday a convicted mnrderer isked for n now trinl on the ground that the ary which found him guilty acted under the nfluenco of liquor, This motion the Judge cnied, ovidently believing that, if such o verdiet were duc to such a cause, tho influ- enco of liguor ou juries might bo of salutary benefit to the State in thwarting a farcical interprotation of tho legal ratification of the Sinaitic mandate: * Thou shalt not kill1" Attention is directed to tho eard of Col, Antioxy, of Leavenworth, containing, ad- ditionally to his own nllegations, the states ments of Mayor Asenveruy and cx-Senator Cuozien, substantially proving the unreliabil- ity of tho telegram printed smong our crim- inal nows on the 25th mst. Tho dispatch of the 25th, ag will be scon, falsified tho testi- mony givall by Messrs, AsennrTny and Cro- airn, and“wrongfully represented them to have given testimony in derogation of the sharacter of Col, AxTroNY, An unusunlly striking instance of tho in- equality and injustice of the personal prop- erty tax for the present yearis furnished in the case of A. A. Mousurs, an abstract of whosoe bill will bo found in thelegal columna, Mr. Muneem was, as he states, nssessed nb nbout thirty times the value of his personal property, he Laving omitted to file any ro. tarn through the negligence of the Assessor, who failed to furnish him with the proper blank. A more unoxampled instance of fraud counld not well be found. A suspiclon s now current in Washington that poison was ndministored to Mr. Hop. kN8, 8 juror who died during tle trial of Joun GrrENE upon the chargo of furnishing bogus bail for one of the safo-burglary con. spirators. Mr, Horxing was the only one of the twelve who held out sgamnst & verdict of nequittal, and it is noted thot his successor on the jury joined in such a verdict, although the evidenco scemod to show conclusively that GneeNe was guilty of personating o wenlthy renl-estate owner in furnighing tho fraudulent bail, e e— The Fronch Assembly yesterday, aftor a protracted dcbate, passed a LIl providing for a continuanco of the stage of siego in the Cities of Paris, Versailles, Lyons, and Mar- seilles. Prominent members of the Gax- BETTA faction demounced the bill as a polit- ical measure to bo used by the Government in the cowing elections in the interest of its candidates for (ho Assembly, Tho voto on iho passage of the meusuro was more decisive than had been expectsd. The Pross bill also possed the Assembly with further modifica. tious, Certain Gorman newspopers, talang the horrible crime of 'Tuosassen at Bromerhaven for their toxt, have seen fit to descant un. favorably upon American civilization, some of them holding np this exhibition of brutality 84 one of the natural outgrowths of our form of government. Amoricous residing in Borlin, not willing to romain silent under such groundless asporsions of their national honor, held o moating yesterdny, aud entered a solemn protost against the unwarrautablo ut. terances of the German press, declaring that Tuosaesen's crime affeots the honor of the human raco, not that of auy partioular na- tionality, Au it ALvoNso's troubles with the Cuban in- surgents, the Carlist revolutionists, the Vati- can dictation, anda host of minor complien. tious wero not enough to moke the young monarch's Lfe a burden, his Royal mother, ex.Queen IsanELLa, must needs sdd to the suw of his miseries by inaisting npon taking upherresidencein Spain. The Minjutryare vio- leatly opposed to the introductionofthisnew disturbance in Spanish politics, and o serions split among the Royalists is rogarded s cor- tain to be the result of ALronso's persistence in demanding for his mother au nsylum in Spain and a voice in the administrution of adairs of State, The Chicago produce markets were gen- erlly stronger yesterday, Mess pork was ac. tive and 10@12}c per brl higher, closing at $10.00 asked for cash lots, and $10:27§@19.50 for February, Lard was in good demand, and 5@7jo per 100 ta higher, olosing at #1217} cash and 812.87) for February, hlosta weze moderately active and steady at e for boxed shoulders, 10 for do shcrt riba, and 10}¢ for do short clears. Highwines were in fair demaud at Tuesday' decline, cloring at §1.09 per gallon, Flonr was duil, Whent wns active and le higher, closing firm ot 95]c cash and ¥ic for January, Corn wns lesa active but firmer, closing at 480 for Decomber and 43)c for January, Onts woro quiet nnd unchanged, closing at 2930 cash and 80c for Japuary. Rye was dull at 67@ G7ic. Barley was In fafr domand and 1e higher, cloxing at 8ic cash nnd 81lo for January. 1fogs wera dull and unchanged. Sales at £6.25@7.23, Cattle were in good demand and the market was stronzer. Sleep ruled dull at former prices. One hundred doflnrs in gold would buy $113.12} in grean. backs at the close. Credence is quite generally given in Wash. ington to n cable dispatch from Vienna, al- leging that Secretary Fisa has officially re. quested of all the European Governments an expression of views regarding American intervention in Cuba, such expression being desired a9 data for President GRraxt's supplementary messago to Congress. The Vienna dispatch further states that, while o satisfactory reply hias been received from nll the Governments, Great Britain is espoaally enger to further the proposed step, and that the otber powers, thongh agreed na to its propriety, hesitato to take the initintive. Secretary Fist presorves his customary reti- cence ns to detnils, and continues to assert that there is an excellent prospect of an amicable adjustment of the Cubnn quastion. Yesterday marked auotler important epi. sode in the eampaign against the whisky thieves in Chicago. A concerted movemeont was made by Supervisor Marriews and Col- lector WEensTER, under instructions from Sec- rotary Brastow, sud the result of the day's work wns tho seizure of four distillerics and an equal number of rectifying establishments, Tho raid was plauned with absolute secrecy and exeented with euliro success, tho pro. prictors of tho various establishments being token by surprise in each ense, so that the Government ofticers wero ablo to obtnin pos. session of nll books and papers. So far as enn be learned at present, the acts of scizure nara based partly upon documentary proofs for some time in the possession of the rev- onue authorities, and partly upon oral evi dence presumably of recent development, ‘The distilleries seized yesterday nggregate a daily capacity of upward of 14,000 gallons of spirits, THE SUBSIDY-BOUNTY BYSTEM. The Bourbon stagnation does not exeln. sively pertnin to the Democratic party. 'The men who are always Jooking to tho past, aund who want always to walk in its shadow; those who nover knew much at any time, and learn nothing from experience, nor the enlightenment of accomplished rosnlts, be. loug to all parties and all ections, Mr. Bourwery, Senntor from Massachusqts and ex-Secrotary of the ‘Crensury, is an illustra. tion of what we have just sunted, ITo sits in the seat once occupied by Evererr, WensteR, and CrioaTe, and at the close of the 100th year of tho national existence he hns pro- posed n Lill granting cash bounties from the Nntional Troasury out of {he tax-payers’ pockets to any person who will build a ship of auy kind in the United States] Jr. Bourwery was one of thoso statosmen who, some fiftean years ago, began tho policy of taxation to raiso bounties for certain priv- ileged classes, which poliey had the effect of taxing American ship-building pretty much out of oxistence. Io was ouo of the wise wen who thought that tho moro taxes the countr§ paid for subsidics and bountics, the greater would be its prosperity ; and that the more of & man's enrnings thers wans taken away from him and given to his neighbor, the prouder the victim ought to be of his contribution to the growth of American in. dustry! Before Mr. BovTwrLy and his asso- ciates got control of legislation, ship-building was ona of the largest and most profitabis of American industrics, American ships were built for ealo in foreign ports, and they were sought after by the merchants of all nations. Mr. Bourwriw and his friends taxed tho business out of profitable existenco, It is true that 3Mr. BourwenL does not beliovo there is any such thing na politieal economy; ho has risen step by step through various offlces, including that of Secretary of the Treasury, and finally renched tho Sonate, without knowing avy- thing of finnncial principles, and the infer. enco ia o strong one to him thatf there is no sach thing s political economy, True to his own convictions on this subject, he has now. introducod a bill *to incronse tho efit- cioney of the navy and to promote the mari- timo interests of the United Stntes " by offer: ing n bounty of §8 por ton for five years, or $40 per ton in afl, for the congtruction of iron stenmships to the extent of 500,000 tons, The bounty to bo paid is $20,000,000, the money to be raised by additional taxation, ‘The bill also offers a bounty of £6 per ton on overy eailing vessol of not less than 400 tons herenfter launched in tho United States and used in the foreign trade; and a like bounty of $4 per ton for every sailing vessel of not less than 200 tous in the consting trade. In nddition, Lo offora to pay for five years to the owners of oll veasols engaged in the cod or mackerel flshory the sum of §4 per ton. 'Chis is the old parental system of Govern. ment. Having robbed and plundered the workman of tho means of carning his livali- hood, the Government doles out to him alms o8 toa pauper. Tho pauper system of Gov- ernment,—~that where the Government takes absolute control of tho affairs of the people, regulates the prices of waterials sod labor, decides what industry shall be profitable and what ghall not bo, closes shipyards that woolon tills may prosper, breaks up and pro- bibits whola branches of industry and fos- ters and subsidizes othors, prohibits cortain productions, limita others, confirms trade to specified tnarkets, and takes from the man who produces a surplus to give the man who produces less than ho consuwes,~such n govornment is Mr, Boutwell's idea of what we should have in this country, Ho would have the peoplo reduced to the condition of paupers, and the Government sot in the capacity of overseors of the poor, * It is questionable whether tha building of wooden ships for foreign commerco can over bo restored to its former proportions ; iron bag largely suporseded wood in the coustruc. tiou of nll sen-going vessels, But we ought to ba 63 superior iu iron ship-building ss we were once in building wooden ehips. Wo have all the materials for cheap iron and steel, and of o quality surpassing, for ship. building purposes, the iron of any other country, We have, howevar, 8o texed iron oud steel and all othor things entering into ship-building, and so taxed al! the ilems on- tering into the cost of living, and consoquent. 1y the wages of lavor, that we aro Lelpless. What is needed to make ship-buildiug sgain an aotive aud protitable industry is the re- moval or reduction of nll tatres upon tho materinl outering into ahip-building and tho living expensesof ship-bnilding workmen, the restorationof honestmoney and honest values, the reduction of every tnx, except such asmay bo needed for revenue, now lovied upon overything pertaining to the domestie econo- my of labor. Abolish nll taxes for bounties ond subsidies. Let production be jncronsed ; let the surplus agricultural products now ex- ported bo supplemented by manufactured products of equal value ; lot us pay for all wo buy with what we prodice, Tet us add to individual and national wealth by giving labor constant employment ; let us with the re. turns for our products increase our dcposits, and thereby make Joanable funds abundast at low interest. Let us lift the industrial labor of the country from the pauperism to which protective houuties havo reduced it, and, withdrawing the hand of the Governwent from all interference with the labor aud com- merco of the country, leavathe peoplo free to engngo in any and every branch of productive interest they may select, Let us abandon the pauper system of alms.ouso woup to those whom the Inw has impoverished, A WARNING TO WHISRY THIEVES. Tho * whisky thieves” will find out heforo long, if they continne their present tactics of vilifying and defaming Secreta:, Bnistow for performing bis duty manfully and fenrlessly, that the peoplo support him, and that they will defend and sustain himn with an unanim. ity and heartiness that will surprise them, Secretary DBristow is doing just what the people want doue in permitting no guilty man to escape, and in prosecating the de- frauders of tho revenue to the extent of tho Inw., They demand that all the officials, from thoe highost to the lowest, no mmatter who they wmay happen to be, who have been couspiring ngainst the rovenue, who havo sheltered dishonest distillers and forced Lon- cst ones into their corrupt ring and thon divided the plunder, shall be puaished. They demand that these rings shall be rooted out and broken up, and that every person who {4 guilty shall suffer, They demand, now that the work of remov- ing tho corrption has commenced, that it shall go on until it is completely eradicated and the thivves and conspirators meet with thoir just penalty. The people nre terribly in earnest in demanding that the frauds upon tho revenuo shall be exposed and tho de- frandors punished, and they will stand be. hind Sccretary Bnmsrow in the war which he has inougurated upon the rascals, no matter wherae tho bolts fall or whom they hit. They will defend him ngainst the libel, and slander, and malicious defamation which tho whisky thieven and their organs have commenced to hurl at him with the vain hope of deterring bim from his work, The poeoplo have joined tho President in his injunction to the Secretary mnot to let any guilty mwon vseepe, aud they have joined the Secrotary in his determination to enforco the order to the uttermost limit. If the whisky thioves, the crooked distillers, the conspiracy officinls, ond the whisky thioves' organs, keap up their malicions defamation of Secrotary Brisrow much longer, one resnlt is as suro to happou a4 the rising of the sun, namely, that theoy will place Secretary Buwstow in tho White House. If they want him to stop up higher, all they have to do is to pursue him as they are now doing. Tho Republican party and tho people generally want just such a mun,—n man who knows his duty and is not afraid to do it,—n man who will not let guilty mon cscape the penalty of thoir misdeeds, If they wish to see their onergotio prosecutor in the Whito House, all they havo to do is to con- tinue their present malicious and libelous courso, DOLLAR P Prof. Newcoxn 18 giving eusy leusons in finance through the colutana of Harper's Weekly, Here ia ono of Lis propoaitionn : *Clalling & dollar docs not make 1t a dollar, sny more than ealiing » atone bread makes it bread.” With all due doference to tha Professor,wo must inaiat that calling a dollar a dollar s just what consti- tutes » dollar ; for a dollar is nothlng but the product of e act of Congross, Doubtloas the Profeasor would 1ok very wiso and aay in response to our proposition ¢ “A dollar {s 238-10 gralns of gold™ But the Pro- fessor knows better ; he knows that 25 8.10 grains of gold in 8 lump s 10 more a dollar than & pleca of Creen paper is o dollar, The grainsof gold may bo mads s dollar {n pursuance of law to that effect, by aflizing upon the limp the Government stamo; tho ploce of green paper msy bomade a dollar by afz- Ing upon it tho Government stsmp. In fact, thia g precieely what lus been douo with the grains of gold and with the pleco of parer, Why should the bullion- 1ata 80 peralutently misrepresont tho doligr? For fa- stance, 3 certaln quantity—25 510 gralns—of gold s constantly reforred to aa * the constitutional dollar,” There s o kuch thing as tho constitutional dollar, The dollar Is a creaturs of law, The word dollar ia uowhore found in the Constitution, Congress once enacted tho word dollar, and declared that it should conalst of 25 810 graios of gold, Bupposs the Forty- fourth Congress shiould onact that * from and after,” eta., “ten graie of gold shall coustitutes dollurt" This would be “calling” somothing *a dollsr " that i not now “a dollar.” But thereafter ten gralng of gold would bo & dollar (providing it recelved the necessary Government atamp), precisaly an the 25 8-10 grains 1a now s dollar, Theso curious statomonts are taken from tho Chicago organ upon whioh tho rag-baby and whisky-thief play by torns. The Con- stitution recognizes no money but the precious metals, It anthorizes Congress, but forbids the States, to * coin money.” Only metals can bo coined. Paper is printed, or stamped, or written, but not coined. You can no more coin n dollar-note than you cun coln an Aldernoy cow or a bull-pup, Con. gress, ooting’on tho authority of another clausa of the Constitution, has fixed the welght of the gold dollar at 25.8 grains, of which nbout 10 per cent is nlloy for the pur- pode of havdening the imnotal. This coin is the constitutional doliar, Itsmaterial is fixed by the Conatitution; its woight by a lnw pussed by virtue of the autherity conferred on Congreas by the Constitution, The stamp upon it adds nothing to its value or purchas. ing power and takes nothing from its value, It simply outhenticates the quantity of metal in ench picce, It fs a certificato that the coln in quoestion contains 50 many graius of yold. But the coln is worth something, will buy something, not bucause it benrs this certificate of its quantity of matal, but becauso it actually contains this gold. Ibis true that Congress can fix any other weight it pleases aud call it o dollar, If 1t should enact that it ghall consist of only 10 graing henceforth, the new coin might still be called a dollar, but it would buy only 40 per cent as much ps the present dollar will, Aud this fact which is trinmphantly adduced Dy tho rag-babyites, is fatal to their pet theory that it is the Governmicnt stamp which makes {he value of money. Yor the stamp would be the suwoe in both cases, und yet abig **dol- lar” would buy two and onc-balf times as much as the little one,—that is, be worth two und one-half times as mugh sa the other, The same fact may be illustrated in snother way. ‘'he Government of the United States stamps certain coins and certain plecos of green paper with the words * One dollar.,” If the stunp wade the dollar, thess two things would be equal in value or purchasing power. But, a8 a maiter of faol, this wopld not be, -Tha paper * dollar,” aaide from pnyivg debts previously contracted, would Lo worth noth. ing. Tor buyiug purposes it woald be good for nothing boyond what dobtors wonld give for it to forco on their creditors, No new debts could bo contracted in such dollnss, On tho other hand, tho gold doliar would still continug to buy a bushel of wheat or two bushels of corn,—moro or less, ne- cording to tho fluctuntions of the market,— and to purchaso of all other kinds of proper. ty in liko proportion, For purchasing pur. 1oses gold dust is worth ns much 8s coined dollars, weight for weight, whether in Amor- icn, Lurope, Aeia, Africa, or tho islands of the sea, What, then, becomes of the wild, noncon- sical nssertion that a dollar stamp is o dollar? ‘I'he difference between the dollar and tho greenback s, that the first is money, nctuat nnd constitutional, and the second a promise 1o pay moncy, & ¢., gold, On this point wo qnote the decisive nuthority af the United States Supreme Court, which is supposed to bo pretty good authority, It snya: Too dollar note s an engsgement (o pag a doflar, and the dollar fntenced {a the eoin dollr of the United Stutes,—g eertatn quantily in weaht and finenees of nold and ailver, authenticated as such by ths siamp of the Gorernme: —— THE COUNTY INSANE, ‘Wo desiro to enll attention again to the re- cent report of the Grand Jury ou the condi- tion and mausgement of the County Insane Asylutn, The case has been froukly stated in tho following extract from the Grand Jury's report : There are neatly 300 inmates, and coly two phyafe ciaus attendiog, neither of whom 18 competent, with- out any experience, aud nefthor of thesa graduates of medicine, Thero {u Do reguiar apothscary there. These paraons, and all the nurses, cightoon in num- ber, aro directly under tho control of the Warden, subjoct to bla will and autuority, who has no experi- onco in the managemout of the Insane, but wl:o s well informed in political clrcles in the selection of his Lelp, The food furnishod the patients, they may, is very ordluary, unrewonably bad, and wholly fuade- quate to tho wants of tho fusaue~not auch as to aid In their xecovery, It is much below the grado necessary to atd and asnist in theie curo, The lusano require better food than those in Leaith, better nourlshmont to bulld them up and strongthen tho brain, Tho coffco and tea wero of tho commonest grades, Tha beds aro Inforlor, inado of commun airaw, too short, and sometimes without piliows, Thelr clothing s rough, aud not tho moat eowfortable, Tho pbysicians are of the opluion that, under such management, and with such pour medical troatment, there can bo no posuiblo iopo of cure to auy ono now coufined in that dopartment, "This investigation must not bo permitted to pnss over without any result, If it does, no future Grand Jury will take the pains to go over the same ground and assume labors that are productive of no good results, The relief is in the honds of tho County Board, whiely, wo rogret to say, almost unanimously re-clected Krspenny Wardon, nolwithstand- ing his demonstrated unfitness for the place. If the condition of things ot the Insane Asylum is s bad as the Grond Jury bas re- ported, it is timo that some ndictments were found, and to indict the Connty Commission. ers who sanctioned the re-election of K. Berny ond the continuance of the misman- agoement described, would bo to strike at the fountain-liead. Wo know of no way in which the abuses of the County Government, in- cluding the cruelties and extravagance of the Insane Asylum, can bo corrected than by the conviction of somo County Commissioners for misuse of their offices. ‘Tho people pay $77,057 in ono item a yoar for supporting the County Insune Asylum, or $260 a year for every inmate, or 5 a week for ovory ono of the unfortunates. ‘Ihis cost is over nnd above tho furnishing of grounds and building and the exemption from taxa. tion,—itoms whicli onter into every private account. In other words, the people are pay- ing moro for the support of the conuty in. snno thon tho working classes pay for their own support. For this it seems that only the poorest quality of food, the nost wreothed bedding, and the roughest and flim- siest sort of clothing, are provided. The cost does mot include medicnl ottondance, of which, indeed, tho coonty insane seem to havenone, It docs include, however, the support of alot of lazy bummers with whom the Warden has supplicd the Asylum, and whom ho hns sclectod with reference to his political associntions, The expenditure of this large amount of monoy considered in connection with the wretched condition of the Asylum, the dep- rivation of its inmates of all medical holp or competent attondance, the inferior quality of the food, and the utter failure to afford them any assistanco to recovery, is evidence cnough without going any further that thore 1y stealing going on in and about this institu- tion. 'Thero is no question but the Inspne Asylum is costing the people twice or threo times ag much per yoar as it ought to cost with tho treatment the insane roceive, and probably twico as much as it would cost to maintain it properly, furnish comfortable clothing and bedding, and manago it with a referenco to Jho relief and possible rocovery of the unforrunate people conflned there, Wo Love mo doabt that competent physicians could be found who would take the contract of managing this institution and supporting its inmates decently ata very much smaller cost than the county now pays for maintain. ing an institution that is at once cruel and disgracoful. It is a publio scanda} that ought to be blotted out, and the responaibility for which ought to be severoly punished. ENGLAND AND THE SUEZ OANAEL, The London 7'inies hos got into one of its periodical squabbles with the Moscow Ga- celte, tho organ of tho old Muscovite party in Russia, which hates Western interesta 28 represented by England quite as cordially ad tho London Z%imes hnteu Eastern intervsts o4 represented by Rusala, The quarrel this timo is over the motives of England in pur- ohnsing the Khedive's shares of Suez Canal stack, and the vindictivo character of the Gasette's attack hos brought out in the col- umns of the Times an cditarial statement which is of value ns showing the real induce- ments which led England to purchass the stock. The Garetts in the first instance charged that England, in purohusing this stock, had taken the initiatory step in the partition of Turkey, and that, not content with seizing distant lands, she had pocketed the koy to the whols of Bouthern and East- orn Europe, and thus constituted herself the judge of what was good and profitable for other countries conoerned, which counduct it declares is of a plece with * the jealousy and supercilious Lnuteur marking British policy towards other countricw.” The ZVmes an- swers the Guzetts in admirable temper, and its anawer brings out somne valuable informa. tion as to tho real purposes and motives of the negotiation which was so succossfully made by Mr, DismarLi As the announge- mont fs {n tho nature of n semi-official notif. catlon to the world, wo reproduce the spirit ofit. The Zimes utterly dlsclaims any ag- gression or any seizure of the canal, and Pplaces the purchase of the shares partly upon commeicial nacessity. ““Our influence,” xays the T¥mes, ** will be used to make the caual mot an English butl an international highway. We have both tho will and the power to make it perfectly nentral, and wo bought our righlsa Decauso weo doubted whether any other nation lind either the will or the power to put it strictly to fls proper use," It arguos that as England has nban- donod every vestigo of the old protective sys. tem, no nation hos any reason to fear that {ts shipping will be interfored with or that differentinl duties will be placéd on foreiyn fabrics, *‘If the halt of the Buez Conal shares had passed into the bands of Ruasia or France, other nntions might have feared that their commercial jutorests would bo sacrificed; but evon hypoerisy itself can wearcely, in its eoaler moments, attributesnch adesign to England, She, if any country, is tho best fitted, then, to gnard tho geueral interests of trade." Inving disposed of tho commercinl aspects of tho negotintion, ft passes to tho political, contained in the inti- mation of tho Gazette that the canal i3 the key to the whole of Southern and Eastern Turope, the fallncy in whichi it exposesby show. ing that the eanal is the key to nothing but certnin parts of Asin, and especially of India, It shows that Frauce hos no fear, since she has no political business in the East, and could not have purchased the shares without the confession that she intended to mako Egypt and Byria French provinces, Russia has as littlo cause for fear, becanso **ghe has no Indin or Australia to defend, and the Tsthmus of Suez is mot her shortest way to Kashgar,” If sho hav any ground of com. plaint, the Z%mes affirns it can only exiat be. causo she intends to scize everything betweon the Lesont aud the Indus. ‘The Zimes closes its statemenp very skillfully by showing what might have happened if the shares had fallan into the hands of nny other country. Suys the T%mes: Tho Khedive would fnstantly have fallen under ine fluences which might bave becn alarining, The canal might have been fortified, or it might Lave been ob- structed in the hour of need, 1fad avy Enropean ni {ion gafued auch & powor, it might, espectally i raled by a dynssty which depended for prostigs on s “briliant forelgn policy,” be tempted to go besond tlie necessities of ity owns materlal intoreats, Thus ft might buvo cast us {nlo » panle, perlisps needioss, perkiaps not, but at all events damgerous, Thoold quarsel Letween France aud Eugland about Egypt shiould sutilco ta show thio wisdom of removing templa- tions from tho path of friendly matious, especlally If ihey run any riak of fuillng under dynaaties who hsvo & family interest tn Egypt and who go to war for fdeas, Asum of four millions iaa very emall nsorance against atch » poril. Bomo day the French will thark us for thua helping lo put an end to thelr ruinows dreamns of Eastern amblticn, We have a right to ex. pect, nlso, that other nattons will acquit us of any am- bitlous derigns when they sco that wa moroly mean to dofend Egypt ogalust aggression, and when they ro- Lect on the roctitude of their own futentions, So farms it goed, tho statoment of the Z'mes is very cloar nnd dandid, but it will bLardly prove sstisfactory to tho Eastorn pow- ers, for tho réason thatit leaves one very im- portant cousideration unsaid. The partition of Turkoy is inovitable. Tho Russian Gov- erument, through its representative at Con- stantinople, has alrendy intimated such an evont, Ciermany aund Austrin aro confidently awaiting it. '"Turkey is hopolossly bankrupt, nod a debtor to England to the tune of three hundred millions of dollars, By the pur- chaso of the canal shares, which gives to En. gland a protectorata over Egypt, England has poved the way not only towards heuring the debt which Turkey owes ler, bnt also a seat at tho tablo with Germany, Austrin, and Rus- sin, and o commanding voice when tho work of partition commences. THE GAS JOB. Mr, Hayes is entitled to the pratitudo of the overburdened tax-payers of Chicago for refusing in his eapacity of Comptroller to sign tho contract for supplying the outlying districts of tho city with not less than 2,000 street-lamps on woodon posts, to be lighted with oil, or gasoline, or something of that kind. The position he has taken in this mat. tor has not only saved the city at lonst $88,- 000, and probably $200,000 or £800,000 0 year, but it has defeated, for tho prosont at loast, a palpable job. The Corporation Coun- sol gustains the Comptroller in his right to refuse his signature to the contract until after it shall have boen remdered valid and oporative by the necessary appropriation for carrying it out, which is expressly provided in tho charter of 1872, ‘The Corporation Counsel says that, even with Mr. Haxes' siguatnre, tho contract would not Lind the city until the appropriation shonld bo made. Dut Mr, Haves has wisoly dotor- mined to oxerciso his privilege of not signing it, nevertheless; for, if he did so, thore is little doubt that the appropriation would be mado when the timo should come around, ‘whercas, without his signature, thers will bo nothing done to commit the city dnd warrant the Globe Gas-Light Company in proceeding to place the lamps and got things in condi- tion to carry out the job. Tho first-serious objoction to the proposi. tion ig that the proposed lamps, which would quickly be run up to 4,000 or 5,000 in num- ber, aro not needed st all, but wonld be lo- cated in prairic and uninhobited districts. The only purpose thoy conld subserve would be to odvertiso some suburban real es- tate at the genoral expense of the tax-payers, Tho city is now paying out thousands upon thousands of dollars per year for gaslampa which were not needed, and which wore provided lavishly for tho outlying districts merely to enable certain Aldermen to pander to the selfizh intercsts of rool ostate speculators at the cost of the city at large. Tho next reason why the proposed contract should not be made ia that, even it additionnl lamps were needed at this timo, city canno¢ afford in ita prosout financial condition to supply them. The cast of light. ‘ng the streeta of Chicago is now about as arge ¢s that of running the police force, or !the Firo Department, or the public schools, and this vcpense should be reduced very largely. 1t would be an outrage on the tax.payers to increaso thia jtem of expenditure for years to come. It hes been outrageously increased within the past two yoars. In the next place, this process of lighting is simply adapted to villago-lite, and where thers is any real neces- ity for lighting city streets it is altogether jnsufficient. 'The probability is, and the case “could not well ba worss, that these oll-lamps would give even a more foeble light than that which the gas compunies now furnish the clty. Undor these circumstances, why s it that certain Aldermen in the Common Counell have boon so unreasonably anxieus to get this contract signed ? Why is it that thore Lias been a howl on the part of certain Alder- men to have the contract formally saddled upon the city long before the Council can appropriate the necessary funds to fulfill it ¢ Why is it that oue of the German Ring or- gans of the Aldermen comes out with a cry of despair at the prospect that the contract will not be carried out? The only reason- able answor we can find for these ques- tions {8 in the fino “margin® left in the proposed ocontract over and above ihe natural profits that the contractors would asle I8 is proposed fo clarge 44 for ench ofl lnmp for tho first year, in. cluding tho lumps and wooden posts. Tho cost of the lamp and post will not exceed &6, thus leaving $318 for the oil and attendance, which hava been proviously offered tha city nt §25, and which ean bo furnished ot that rato with a big profit. But $33 is tho largest prico charged oven in villages, whero the con- sumption is small ; and, at this rate, there would be o margin of €5 n Iamp, or £10,000 for 2,000 lamps, to be “divided.” This is tho milk in the cocoanut, nud this is the rea. son why Mr, HAves bas been hounded by certnin Aldermen for refusing his sigonture lo an illegal contract for nn unnecessary expense in the present stato of things. THE MOULTON-BEECHER BUIT, Tho kaleidoscope of thoe Brrcnzn scandal is continnally turning and doveloping now shapes, Tho most recent is the suit brought by Mr. Mourtox against Mr. Bezcuen for having instituted a malicious prosccution by indictment against him. This prosccution, a5 will be remembered by our readers, wns commenced by Mr, Beecnen somo time sinco in the shapo of an indictinent ngainat Mr. MourroN, chnrging him with perjury and couspiracy, which wns subsequently aup. pressed by s nolle prosequi entered by tho District Attorney of Brooklyn, without any confereneo with Mr., Mourtoy, but with Mr. Bercusn's cognizance, Our renders will fur- thermore remember that Mr. MovrToy was nbsent at the time the proccodings under the indictment wero abandoned, and that ho was chnrged by the Beecherites with cowardico and floeing from an indictment; and that, when he returned, ho vehomently protested agaiust the abandonment of the case, and de- manded that it shonld be reinstated, and ex- pressed Limself as ready to meet the charges of libel made against him by Mr, Berenen. His request, howover, was contemnpt- vously refused, and the Plymouth peoplo railed at him as a braggart. As tho moun- tain would not come to Manoster, Manossr lias now gono to the mountain, and there is every probability that when Mamower gets nt thin mountain the result will not bo— nascctur ridiculus mus, Mr, Mourzon has all along shown himself n man not to Lo trifled with,—a man of force, courage, and decision of character, In tho suit which ho has instituted Le will have the sympnthy of many people in Irooklyn, from the fact that he has brought it to vindicato his own ropu- tation from the charges of conspiracy, por- jury, and blackmailing mnde against him publicly and privately by Mr. Beccaen and his friends and partisans, and still circulated witl: the intention to injure him in his social position and business success. Mr. Movz- ToN has only ncted as a high-spirited man would act in resenting theso unrotracted ohavges against him, sud in removing tho stain of the indictment. In digging into the tax-books 1 Bearch of per. sonal aesoaement for taxation na propared by Ep PussLirs, ono of the reportors camo across theso specimons of imvartiality aud equal rights s Tho following ia another extract from Coliector Eva ANu' personal-tax Lookw, showiug the ani which Kotmo of the ¥ Oppodition ¥ purty ure ussexsod 3 ayor CoLviy, City-Clrk J, K, C. iomursr, County-Com- missoner MuLLoy, and Ald. Tox FULEY are uot ta ba found oo the st, 'MIkL Evans w put down at §401; Anheasor PUILLIVE 0t $.00; Col, CLEART ut $1,000F dtaf Mcganny, saluon-keoper, ut § 4000, s It will bo obseryed liow suveroly Mr.'Ep Prir- uirs prossed tho burden of nssessmont on bim- dolf. He returus 8300 worth of property while diawing & salary of 80,000 sud what ho can “muoke " besides. A reporter visited the Wost Sido Collector's oilic to fiud out, as Lo save, how tho “ Pooplo’s ™ party politicials were troatod by their frioud, Abstenor Ryax: An examination of the books showod that Jorw Cos- 1958, Olerk of tho Quubity Livard, was uot assensod, Ex-Adl, Rasyenry, a sbiuing iight i {ho pasty, was treated with the sume roualdurauion, and ko wero' Al dermen CunLenrox, HILDRETE, and Uaurkr, AW, O'BR1eN was usa.zsed ot #132, biv tax botug only $6.571 County Commisajoner HULDEN st $012, Lie tax _being 8003 Lanwr O'Disr, Olork of the South Side - ica Court, ut $04, bin tax bolug $12.94 ; County Com- mibvloner’ LONEKOAN, Who fs Toporied to be vers wealihy, at §1,320, Lis tax being $0),46; Alr, W, J, ONa~ aX, who 1a widd fo be woll off, &t $104, bis tax boing 13,13 ; and Duilding-tunpector BAILEY s let off with the maruo amount, Qolloctor IIALLINAX fs not assossed acall, and the samo {s trus of some, if not of all, the the West Side Justices, - e The marrisga of Mr, ATwaten, the United Btatos Conaul at Tahiti, to the greatost heiress in the Kingdom 13 an event of almost interna- tionel importance. Ons of the results of the union lo the not romoto future may be the bringing together of the group of islands known a4 the Lower Socloty Islauds, or the Four Kiug- doms. Atwarsm, it ia koown, has lately tra. versed tho ground thorougbly, and if hia diplo- matio abilities are as groat as his matrimonial Buccoss geoma to indicste, thera is scarcoly the ponsibility of fallure in his nogotiations. The four principal islands kmown as the Four King- dows nre Huabeiuo, Rieats, Tahos, and Borabora, the Iatter having as & dopeudency Bctly Istand, valuable for it peari-flahories, and now the proporty of Mrs, Arwaren, If the Arwartza marriago results In the political anlon already noticed, American influonce will of coursa pro- in the now Government, and ATwa- 0 1n that rogion what SBTirNpenogn is At Bamos., The American Gavernment can view this prospact calmly., Thero Is noresson why this conntry should not furoish ali the foreign dynsatios that there 18 any demand for. The New York Sun started a charscteristio story, some time sgo, to the effect that Misg BwzkT, the Pevslon Agent In this oity, was pay- ing s regular stipend to Senator Looax and United Ktatos Mazshal OAMPLELL 6 tho price of thelr wullngnw to allow ber to rowain 1n oftice. Misa Swexr b8 now denied pact of this story, Hhe writes to Gon. Loaax: “'8o far nathe charges made sgalust you are concerned, they aro utterly falss. . . Ihavousver paid money. directly or ludirectly, to you.” The New York Times, which prints her latter In fall, contaln Washington speciat on the subject, sayiog: **I¢ will be noted, perhaps, 88 curlons that the writor does not way she hus not paid money to soy ono; sho only scquite Gen. Looan; it is privately etatod that she makes the atatement thus guard- d for a sutficiont reason, = = Various reporla of proparation for celobrating the Centennial New Year's Day resoh us, Now York is to put up & f8rest of flag-atamu and cover heruelf with the Stars and Stripes, Philadelphla {s to have a banquet and artillery disobarges, Daltimore Ju to be waked up by the riogiog of bells from midalght until somo time In the early moroing. Clocinoati 18 to enjoy a genersl pan- demomum. At the stroke of 13, Friday night, all the bulla in the city are to be rung, cannon are to be fired from the surrounding Lills, and a torclilight procession of yelling ofiiciaia aud boys is to parade through the strests. The Mayor #ays that ** No cltizen should bo aslecp at suctis time,” and if this programme is carried out, probably no citizen will be, although a good many will wisti thoy were. In Chioago, endugh tax-payers will be sweariog through the day to muke all nocescary nolso, —_— A mnovel theary about therights of authors Is brosched by & correspondent of the Literary World, Ho ssya free librariea lutlict great in- Jury upon writers, because people who can afford to pay for reading are woan enough uot to do so, *The very lcast," ho adds, ** a fres library could do under tho circumstances would be to bang Top a contrlbutlon-box in s doorway sod label tuat box with the words, ‘For the relief of tloso whose intereats aro affected peoumiarily by the exiatenco of tbls institution,’ Then su honest s would bave the opportaaity to aay: *X have bad » dollar's worth of reading'in this place, and, aa I can afford Lo pay tor it, [ will doso.'% The Lox probably would 4od Lreak down wilh the weight of tho ectip thrust fnto it. And how would tho charity fund be distributed ? Author- ablp, it tn true, is vory poorly paid in monoy, Lut tho prico ia sometimen eliod out by a good deat of fame, Tho contribution-hox s the bano of our chutchos let us keop it out of our librae g, ————— The New York Zicrald has given fresh proof of its onterprise by ordoilng special cable dis- pateties from Loudon on literary and art topica. Tt micht give good proof of common sa:so by cutting out from futuro dispatetips of this nas turo postry and proso that ata not news,* The publication of such etul undor the head-line **mpecial eablo dispntch,” throwa discredit on tlhio whole enterpize ; and wo think uo candid Journaliat who has ~srofully oxamived thesa dis- patchien will deny that many of them do vontain newa-itoms of ———— Tho sgitation for somo moro humane method of putting murderers to doath hLas brought out n Now York inventor, who shows an apparatus for freeziug people to death within four min- uter, A rogioia placed oa 8 chair luside, and the mixture of a fow chemicals j.roduces such a0 Intense cold that he fs numbed st once and dios without ado or groan, Now, 1f the now refriyerator could bo coustructed on n gigautia scalo, brought out heie in sections, and put up around the City-Ilall or the Sherift’s office, the plaa could have a fair triasl on zome fit subjects. Will Alr, F. W. Patuzn, editor of tha Inler- Ocean, be good enough to name the Aldormen to whom be refers in lua paper as making certaln libolous statoments fn regnrd to the editor of this papor wheu ho was acting in an official ca~ pacly? Wa focl very cartalu (bat no Aldorman nho served iu tho Council between Decomber, 1871, and Octobor, 1873, ia vile or matigoant onough to cast aspersions on the peraonal of of- ficinl lutegrity of the then Mayor. A correspondent cf the Now York Tribune, in roplyiug to suolher correspondent, aaya : “J, W, R.," of Morristown, N, J., undertakes tn exe cludo th Cathiolicu frons tas force of thsterm sect, Liv forgets {bat when COx :ANTINE uiada the City of Conatantinople thio Caj atus of the Roman Empire, the vant Lody of Clirfatiaun were In Asia snd tho Est, ‘and that the Patrlareh of Constantinupls oxcommuuicated thie Thshop of Rome. Of courso thst act of cutidug off rendercd the Catholics *a sect * {n tho saimo sonso ihag tho Protestanta are aud for & slmiilar causs, —— Senator LouaN 14 preparing auother atfack 1o socure tho seaip of BLUYORD WiLwoN, tho Solicitor of the “Creasury Departuicnt, WILso was in tho Logislatura Whicl elocted Louax fo the Senato, but worked agsinat him, Hence Looax's desire for bis removal— iaahe inaton Lusnateh to the Ciicinnals Enquirer, This information comos from & sourcoe not ene titled to muck credit. 1t {6 eaid that soothor corporation hias tapped tho velu of ore belonping to the Emma Minae Had not Geun. Bongxck better come home to Pro= teot Lis juterests ? PERSONAL, Charles Lamb, according to a now biograpler, tnd ilvo brothets aad wistors, inatoad of two, as gonerally raportod. Gen. Grant's editorial worl in tho Washington Republican oxcitos the adumiration of thoe Bpring~ flold papor of tho sawmo name, It thinks we may have tho Prosident in ** the profossion ™ yet, Mr. James Qorddn Bennott's plen of giving 810 opicca toall tha destitato pooplo in New York 18 working alowly, but it is said ho hna aiready d'sposed of a larga sum tao this manner. Thera are vague and horriblo hints that Gor. Rico, of Massachusatts, will imitats the exam- plo of his prodocessor, and refase eithor to dun the boy-flend Pomoroy or to order Lis oxe ecution, The Now York Times thinks it may say, withe ont brag, that Now York bas ‘*mare firat-rate aftar-dinuer rpenkers thaa auy city in the Unft- ed States.” Is not Now York in tho United Btatos, thon ? * Protty bad under foot to-day,” sald ono citle zon to auothor, as thoy rot in the strost. *Yes, but it's tiuo overhioad,” repliod the other, *Trus onouch,” roplied tha other ; *but then very fow are going that way,” Walt Whitman recently presanted tho Camden Homo for Frioudless Chiliren with a G0-pound pig, and o card accompsnying it road s follows: **Dear children—Mnko room for this Hisle pig among you. WALT WaITsaN.” Joaquin Millor'a affectation of ignorance lsnot admired in Now York, Though he pratends he nover reads auything but Byron and the Bible, bis writiugs show that maoy other sources of ine spiration aro drawn upon by him, A momber of tho British Parlisment dent » pineapple to & powerful constituent, sud had ta auffer the mortflostion of hearing that it was oot thought to bo eavory. The powortul cun- slituent had boflod bis pinoapole with a log of motton, . It waa a gon of ex-Gov, Moses, not the ox-Governor hilmaelf, who waa recently electod & Judge by tho Bouth Carolins Legislature. The son 80 closoly resombles hia father in charactor that evon tho nowspapers of tho State have con- fused thie two, Mr, Boechor's newspaper has had somo new blood infused into its debilitated body, bue it ssema to be Incapable of wakiog aoy for itself, Trausfusion of blood 19 & desporats remedy at best, and when it does not causa a restoration of original vigor it Is worso than useless, bacause it is wasteful, A Metuodist divine of Clocinnatl savs thay Bacrotary Driston’s attack on the Whisky Rlog 18 & groat moral work, * Every time the Poni- tentiary~dooc shuts on & favored official or & miilionalre, it saye there is a hell where God will shut up the wicked. The people who say *Qood for Bristow' must justity the Judge of All the Earth.” This is souud Methodlst doo- tring, no doubt, Mosers. Bowles, Halstoad, and Waf be amused by the comp: Louis Globe-Democral insiituios between thoir proposad address to the Iudepondeat Yoter and Doan Bwift'a roading of tle service to a solitary hearer,—*Dearly baloved Iloger, the Baripture moveth you sud me In suudry piaces,” eto, The addrosy to the Indopondont Voler, says the Qlobe-Democrat, should be modeled on this fashion. Threo coplesof it will go around. John Symes, of the LaCrosse Democral, has readtbainterview with ** Brick " Pomeroy recout Iy published in Tak Trmuosg; aud he 1y, to use aciassio phrass, * consldorably alsgruntied™ by 1t, e saya be Lins soveral timos oiroumatantially rofutod tho statement that b dheated Pomoroy out of the Dumocral property. * I have,” cone tinuss Mr. Bymea, *abundance of documontary evidenco for that purpose iu M, M. Pomeroy's onn bandwniting. If Lo ever gives ovideuoe of rosponatblilty, I will prove to him, iu some court, under his own haud aud seal. what an un- mitigated Uar wod braggert he {s." Theu he fim 0D 10 ptate hisaide of thacase ; and, it what 0 says fy trus, Pomoroy fs certainly a great deal worse than ho has the reputation of beiug. HOTKL ARRIVALY, Patmer Houss—P. R, B, Hurdenberg, 8t. Paul ; Litoe uel Kllaworth, Milwsukee ; W, L, Hatiscoin, Fhiladel: Ll A. Gordou, Cuiclunadl; tue Fort Wayus itle Teawa ; G. I Webater, Rochieater, N. ¥, ; W, £y Woely, York; the Jackson (iclr) Ritle "Team § 1L, A, Sorrow, W, B, Hibe U.'B, A, Baton Houge; bara, A. 8, Hibbard, and'T. . Ruuusy, Miwa Heury Cbilds, Buitslo; W. M. Fisker and O, K, Heate {gs, New York: 0. B, Templer, Londou; II, D, I, Cuists, Grest lend, Po.. Grand Aurfo~Thomes el Clinton A, Leoly Graud Repida Frederic. Stot, Des Moirics’; 8, 1, IL Olark, T» . Kimball, and 0. ¥/ Davia, U, P, R, Omaha ;' T. D, Wadeworth, A 15 Hokey ubd Nutiel Datsud, Loutsetie r.3 Capt. J. W, Reflly, U. B, A.: W, Ganduer, Pittaburg s 3, Woolworth, Saudusky; W, ¥. biudobiker, Hacre: meato; <, W, Thoman, 8t Lioyd H,” Mapri 8t Latle; £ 8. Buloy, Clinton, —D, B, McCounell, Logenapoit o J Opers Troupe; W, &, Boyly, Miwuukee; W, W, Mure 592 Vice Conul 4t Ereget Qermsny; Hon, V. Drooktos, - Yaniten, D. ;" 3. '8, Gargo, Milwaukeas &, T Marnll, ‘Beloft ;' L. L. Sweetsy, Phfladehuta; K. D, Utley, ‘Rote, N, Y.} J. W, Bisiop, Bt Paul; Robert’ Quyler, Pitsburg i Fater Aecleudy, Codar Falls. ... Shermas House—s, Dows, Codar Rapida; J. AL all Hunter, Bt. Louis; I, k. At Col. W, Voorhies, Jr., m\uulm‘rh.'. R Huf Paul ; Georye Grvew, Montaguey b, W. Bush, 4 3 H. W. Newol, Columbus; D, D. Danisls A, Bloan, B, Louls} J, M. Paitarson, Nushus, Bl ‘urgr«hwamurn. aa "7{' innux. Bia § 0, 8. Gleason and fanully, Dison bloodiiagicn) W, 4. Biests. blumace ! Ll -