Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TLRMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATFR OP AUNECAITTICH (PATADLE IN ADVANCE). Penrniae Prepald at thia Onice. Drily Pdition, nost-vald, 1 yoar,. .813.00 Parta cf yearat sama rat drots FOUR WETES fu 4 Jtallgle Danecpr, paryon BT e tub of tweniy, per capy. ‘The postage ls Spacimen copes sewt . a prevent delay and mistakes, be aura nd gise Poat-Oftice addrec in full, including Stateand County, Remittancen may be made either by draft, expros, Post.Offce order, or In regiatered letters, at our riak, TERMS TO CITY SUBYORIDLRS, Dally, deliversd, Bunilay excepted, 23 centa por week, Datly, delivered; Bundsy Included, 30 cents por wock, Add THR THIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Maditon and Dearborn-sts., Oblcago, T, AMUSEMENTS. JOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolrh atrset, between Miark and Latialle. _Engagement of the Eellcgg Opars- Company, * Tus Rose of Caslile” MOVICKEN'S THEATRE~Madison treet, betwoen 9esrborn and Btate, Eogagoment of (e Oates Opera- Jompany. * Les Pres St Gervate, ADELPIT THEATRE—Dearborn atreet, corner ¥ontroe, ' The Forly Thioves,” ACADEMY OF MUBIO—~Islsted street, beiween Iulrlu:m]l‘ and Monrce, Engagement ol the Goorgis natrels., NEW CITCAGO TIEATRE—Clark streat, between Randolph st Lake, Engsgementof the Harrigan sud art Combination, * The Doyle Drothers,” ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM-—Monroe street, betwean Dear- vorn and Siate, Afterncan, * Ited Ruting-Hood ” nd * Dasd Shot.” Kvemng, * Tha Adveatures of s Country Girl " i Desd Siot.” MEETINGS. ATTENTION, STR ENIGIITS 1—Stated Conclare of Apollo Corainandery, No, 1, K. T., this velng at 8 o'clock, st tLo Asylim, for business, Amondment W By-Laws. A full attendance of meme sers deatrod. Iy order of the E. C. 1, 1, W, LOCKE, Tecorder. The @hieago Tribume, Tuesday Morning, Janunry 4, 1876. (Tuesday) 014 Prob, predicts decidedly cold weather ‘or this locality to-day. Groonhnnk—;,fly‘(;l;:\:d;;fl.‘ tho Now York Zold Exchange, closed at 88}, Hsnns varsn'r;n;; lhu—-l'l-c'[:l;hlicnn Gov- wnor-clect of Wisconsin, was formally in- wugurated at Madison yesterday, TTungary Isto ll-l;v_l!—‘; ronl K.i-l;; in the per- 1on of Archduke Rupovrrnk, Prince Imperial of Austria. Il will bo crowned in July next. Philadelphin rejoices over a victory of the Reformers over the Ringsters in the Common Council in clecting a3 the President of that Sody an honest man, and defenting the Ring :andidate for re-clection. Chicago is in a position to'approciate the value and impor- tance of such a vietor It now nppears that the original propos- tion to Chicngo distillers to run * crooked” came from n Bt. Lonis man, as might hinve been expected, St. Louis is not only very wicked herself, but is always engnged in try- ing toinveigle other cities into her wicked ways, Tho Legislature of Louisisun mot yester- dny, bappily without re-ennoting the scence of anarchy the reports of which (hrilled the country on tho 4th of January a year ago. The Democrats are stated to have n majority of ons vole on joint Lallot, and will Le nble to namo a United Slates Senntor should the Pixcinacr's hopes bo forever blasted. They, bowever, aro desirous of sccuring o larger plurality of their persunsion for legishative work, and aro thought to contemplate break- ing the WnerLer Compramise in cverything but the name to secure their end ————————— Tho small number of bidders submitting proposals to furnish county supplies wounld secm to denoto that dealers have come to tho sonclusion thot it is ucclesa to enter into sompetition with contractors who aro alrendy on o firm footing with the Board of Commis- sioners, and who are supposed to enjoy pe- culiar facilities both for underbidding and ob- taining tho contracts, If such an impression bas prevailed heretofore, it will not bs re- moved by the action of the Doard yesterdny In referring ell tho bids to o single Commit- tee, instend of distributing them nround neeording to the usual mode of procedure, Tho case of Davis, charged with the mur. der of Cnanres Wuyzaxo on Thanksgiving- Doy, was cnlled for trial ju the Criminal Court youterdny. Contrary to gencral ox- pectation, the defouso made no effort to se- cure furthor delay, but proceeded at once with the trinl, The day wans cousumed in sccuring 8 jury, the counsel for tho prisoner being determined to obtain, 83 far as possi- ble, jurors who had no share in the puolic indignation which the tragedy called forth, It ig tho right of overy criminal to be tried by » jury froe from projudice, and no ono will begrndge tho slayer of Wurranp the full Bishop Lenocnowskr's term of imprison- ment expiros early in Februory. The Bishop, It is said, bag cxperienced no changs of genti- ment on the subject of the German ecclesi. aatica) laws, nor hins he learned to pursuo the policy of silenca in regard to what he bo- lieves to be unjustifiable persecution. It is intimated that the German Government, in view of thouo facty, will, on the discharge of the offending prolate from custody, ngain ex. erciso its supremo nuthorityand intern him as it did in the case of the Bishop of Paderborn, Lrpocuowssr may possibly prefer solf-ban. ishmeunt, thus saving furthor gotion on the part of tha State authoritics, —— The citizens of South Chicago who groan ander tho extortions of the bummer tax. atherera ure organizing for a joint aud mu. unl resistance by appealing to the courts for redress. At s meeling beld last cveninga sommittes was appointed tosecuro tho names 3f 500 firms who bave been uncqually as- ieased, and steps wero taken to employ legal sounsel to conduct the Injunction proceed. ags. The Bpeclnl Committee of tho Common Counci! will ask the Law Department for an spinion ee to the power of the Coun. :l to afford relief by granting rebates of 2njustly-nasessed taxes, and the Board of County Commiusioners have mnde arrange. ments whersby parties nggrieved may have tonvenlent accoss to the Asscasor’s books in *be office of the Connty Clerk, The Chicago produce markats were rather dlow yesterday after the Lolidays, Meus pork was quist and steady, closing ot $19.12}@ 19.16 onsh and €18.40 for February, Lard way quiet and 5o per 100 1ba higher, closing ot 312,83 cash and §12.46@12.474 for Febru. ary. Hoats were qufet and steady at 7o for boxod shiouldess, 100 for do short ribs, and 10]e for do short clenrs, Highwines were dull and unchanged at £1.09 per gallon, Flour was dull, Wheat waa nctive and jo lower, closing ot 9Gjo for January snd Yife for February. Corn was dull and stendy, closing at 440 for January, and 43c for Feb. runry, Onta in fair demond and easier, closs ing at 293c cash, and 80jc for Fobruary. Rye was qulct at G7o. Darley was nctiveand 1ic lower, closing at 7fe ensh aud 770 for February. Hogs were dull at 10 alivanco over Fridsy's quotations, selling at $6,70@ 7.20 for common to choics, Cattle wero in. nctive and nshade lower, Shesp woro flrm Onoe hundred dollara in gold in groenbacks at the close. Wo publish this morning a communication from Mr. Guy Mactk, late city-editor of the Inter-Ocean, and whose conuection with that paper was severed in consequence of the ma- lignnnt attack upon Secrotary Brisrow, for which it appears Mr. Maoer wns imme- diatoly responsible. While permitting the uso of our columns {o him, ns to every individunl who desires to reach the enr of tho public, it is proper to state that wo do not consider Mr. Maaer's per. sonnl and unsupportsd allegations concorn- ing Secrotary Dristow ns entitled to any credence whatover in excess of ihat obtained by the original publication, which was uni- veraaHy regarded as false and malicious, b According to the messnge of Gov, Keuroos, submitted yesterday to tho Louisinua Legis. Iature, the City of Now Orlenns is hopelessly insolvent, having a total debt of over $23, 000,000, interest on which to tho amount of £129,005 was defoulted last year, Itis pro- posed by the Governer thet an ndjustment be mndo with the city’s creditors, and to this end he rocwinmends the appointment of Board of Cowmmissioners, two to be selected by the City Council, two by the Ioard of Underwriters nnd Now Orlenns Clearing- House, nud the fifth by tho Governor or the Legislature, tho Commission to have full power to negotiato a compromise which shall be binding upon tha city, District-Attorney BnrrroN, of Brookiyn, yosterduy oatered a nolle pros, in the Gases of Loapen and Price, under indictment for por- jury in conncction with the Brrcnen-Tirron seandal. Tho District-Attornoy’s reason for this conrse, ns given in lis remarks to the Court, is, mainly, that e had discovered that Loiper, befora signing the affidavit in question, wans assured that the document would not bo used in court, and this fact Brirrox considered so important as to render the chances of conviction much less than they would otherwise Linvo been. The addi- tional knowledgoe that it would require two or three months' Lime to try the case, deter- mined the District-Attorney, as Le says, to sk the Court to dismiss thie case. The election of J. R. Bewsurey, Eaq., Yesterday, as President of the Doard of Trade for tho cuarrent yoar, may probably be re- @arded ns a test vate on the subject of comer rules. 'Thero wns little personal room for choice between the two candidates, both being prominent and usaful members of the Doard, nud of unimpeachable commer- cial record. But they differed widely on the question of corner legislation,—Alr. Wrnianr being Chairmen of tho Com- mitiee that framed the new rules, while Mr. Brssuey opposed their adoption, and afterwardy took an active part in pro. curing a change to the form in which they now stand. It is gonerally conceded that the old rules erred in giving too much Inti- tudo to men who were engaged in running corners ; but thero {s strong ground for be. lieving that they wero changed round too much towards the opposite extrems, In other words, the reform was too sweoping to be desirnble, and it now soems probable that nnather chauge, back a little nearer to the ancient conditions, will scon ba made. DFXOCRATIC ACTION ON FINANCES, Senttor McDoxap, of Indiana, who hes been enjoying somewhat of & national repu- tation upon the subject of finances, has rucently expressed his opinions upon tho probable actionof the Demacrats in Congress, Taken in conncction with the utterances of Ropresentative Laxpzns, of Indianapolis, it would seem that the Indiona Democracy are preparing o sort of financiel platform upon which to place Mr, Hexpnicks ns o candidate for President. r, McDoxawp, who has won his distinetion s an opponent of inflation nnd an advoeste of specio resumption, frank. 1y declares that in his opinion the Democrats in Cougress will voto unitedly to repesl the nct of last winter which fixed Jan, 1, 1870, as tho date for resumption of specie payments by the Government, Mo inclines to the opinion that the repealing act will cortainly pass the Houge, and asserts confidently that Spenker Kenn iain favor of it. Ilealso de- clares himsel? to be in favor of tho nomina. tion of Iexoricks, and insists that Mr. Kenn is also enlisted for Hrxpmicks. Wo mny thereforo aceept the repenl of the nct of lnst Congresa ns the Indiana or Hrxonioxs plat- form, Though Senator MoDoxALD exprosses some doubt 04 o the passago of the repenling bill by the Senate, he assumes that it will receive the votes of all the Domocratic fenators, It this latter statement Lo true, then it will re- quire the votes of but very fow Republican Sounators to sccuroits passage. Last year tho bill rocolved the unanimous vote of tho Re. publican members of both Iouses, and nothing bas slnce oceurred that is kely to have changed thelr judgmount. Even Sonator Monton hing sinco then defendad his vote for thnt Lill, The otject of repealing thet law la not cleurly apparent. It is, in whatevor light it may bo looked at, o very barmless and in. nocest plece of legislation, It declares that on the 1st of January, 1879, tho Unlted States will resume spocio payments, but carefully abutaing from making any provision for that event, Tho law contains soveral other pro- visions, (1.) Establishing froe banking, leaving every person free to organize Na. tiounl Banks in suy part of tha United States, thereby removing what Lad been considered & monopoly. (2.) Providing that for every 100 additionnl bank-note circulation fxsued thero should ba B80 of greonbacks rotired and cancoled until the wholo amount of the Iatter should bs reduced to £300,000,000. (3.) That fho Secretary of the Treasury should, as soon ns prace ticuble, redeern the present fractional cur. venoy in ailver coins of ten, twenty-five, and fifty cents. (4.) The Becretary is also aithor. ized to ugo the surplus revenues which may acerue o the Treasury, aud to sell at not less thun par in coin either of the descriptions of bonds named in the Funding act of 1870, and apply the proceods thereof to tho redemp. tion. All these provisions are very simple and barmless, Thero has boen nothing done un. due the authority to coln silver to redvem traotioual ourronoy, which 'coutinuea to bo 'RIBUNE: TUESDAY. JANUARY 4, 1876. issued by the Treasury. The number of new National Bauks established hns not Leen 80 large ns to make any serious reduction in {ha greenback issue, which continues to be in cxcess of tho amount outstanding before the panie. Tho nutlority given to the See- retary to soll bonds st par in coin was con- fined to bonds bearing 5, 43, and 4 per cent interest. Of theso, sl the 5 per conts have bean exchanged for Gs, nnd tho Sceretary s now confined to the sala of the others, which he cannot soll at par, or perhaps above 92 or 94, and, therefore, cannot sell at all. 'Tho nck therefors remaing inoperative, requiring fuvther legislation to carry out all its provis. jons. Wo do not understand whothor ths Democrats proposs to repeal the wholo nct, or merely that part fixing o date for resumption. They cortainly do not propose to repoal the frec-banking clause, becauso that hins been a leading Demo. cratic measure. Even the exiremists who propose to abolish tho National Bank curron. oy and issue greenbncks in lieu of it do not propose to abolish the banks themselves, ‘There is, of courso, n largo number of per. song who wont to go back to the old Btate- Lank business, but we havo no fdea that theso are in & majority in either Iouso, Beyond tho date flxed for resumption thors is there. fore little or nothing in tho nct to bere. pealed. ‘This brings us to the point that thereisa necessity for tha Republicans to initinte logis- lation either to carry ont the nct of last win- ter or to provide o substitate therefor. The Republican party cannot afford to go into the Prosidential cluction ignoring the question of finances. 'Tho opinions and purposea of tho Presidont on this subject are well known, ITe is in favor of re.ostablishing permanent spe- cio values at tho earliest practicable moment. The wholo country knows lis position, In his late mevsage he mado a distinct proposi- tisn which would bave the effact of rolisving the conniry of the deprossing and over- wholming evil of adepreciated and fluctuating currency which is at the ssmo tima o logal-tender. The whole series of *“‘hard Limos,” unemployed labor, silent workshops, closed mills, extinguished furnnces, lack of production, nnd the consequent sullering and discontent, are dug to this paralyzing and poisonons offonse against honesty,—an irre. decmable legal-tender, Siatesmen who have awbitionsly had themselves pushel forward ag candidates for Presidont have, during the lnst ten yeers, cowardly permitted the coun- try to drift day after day towards ruin and baukruptcy, and have nover done anything to regtore the foances to a healthy condition. Tho President alone has done this, and should the Republicon party now fail to do its duty, and provide by law 6ome measure to put an end to this paper desolation, the country will not hesitato to mako pointed comparisons be- twean the statesmon in Congress and the President, who has not rosorted to evasion or doublo dealing in a matter so serious and grave. The Democrats will not propose any snb. stitute for the law they will voto to repeal. They will force tha Ropublicans to voto on the ropeal of the Resumption law or go into the olection upon that nct, which is utterly inoperative of itself. The Presidont proposecs tofix o day when irredoowmable scrip shell cense to be a legal tonder for now contrnets, ond for tho ultimate retirement of the cur- rency. Can it ba that Congress is so full of aspirants for the Presidency that this plaiu aud practical measure caunot have & hearing in the Republican party, lest its adoption mnay give to its author a standing before the coun- try dangerous to those who have great aspirn- tions ? A BLANDER UPON REPUBLICANS. The Chicago Organ says: We deny that tho Bepablican pariy st the North is responsille at ull for what baa happesed o South Curoliba, The Domocratio pasty at the North; the Naton, the Now York fridune, and Tuc Cincano Tmtrx, and a hal-dozen otber newnpapers of thy same cowardiy Atripa, oro resvonsible for whatover of {allure has befallea reconstruction, In answer to this contemptible slander, not upon Tae Caicaqo Tninuse a9.onoe of the parties named, but upon the Republican party, we deny that any failure has befallen roconstruction in the Southorn States, Ev- ery menyure of reconstruction fnitiated by the Republican party and supported by Tue ‘I'RInUNZ 08 one of its cxpononts has been successfully carried out, including sl the constitutionn]l amendmonts and laws, the assistanco through the agency of the courls in carrying out forco bills aud anti-En.Klux Iaws, and the compro:ise logislation of last winter. Tho Republican party originated theso legialative measures and carried them out successtully, It has faithfully dono ita duty in reconstructing the politicnl relations of twelve millions of people, and harmoniz- ing two races baving little in common with ench other except in thoir previous rela- tions of master and slave, It s both admirablo and amazing that the Republican party should Lave succoeded so well. It was nccomplished in tho face of in- numerable obstacles, against the dismal prophecies of outsiders, against the opposi. tion of the Confedorates of the Bouth and the Domocratic party in the North, and agninst tho jnsane aud rabid advico of just stch hot-beads os the Organ, which advice, if it had been followed, would have ruined evory effort at reoonstruction. It has accom. plished better, more speedy, tnd more suc- cessful renults thon the most saugnine re. flecting Repablican ten years ngo dared evon to hopo for, 'Tho succews hns boon absolute. 1f there has been any trouble in the local ad- ministration of the affairs of Bouth Carollus, Missiusippi, or any other Southern Btate, if ignorance or rascality has prevailed, if the judiciary has beon corrupt, if State funds have bean stolen, if tho Btates Lave mads slow materinl progress, the fanlt and crimo of the fuilure are duo to the poople themsclves, nat to the DRepublican party of tho North, 'Thoy wore left fros to govern thomselves, and they are responsible for any fallure, not the party which gave them tho frecdom and opportunity, Thoe fnsolent ns. sumption of the Organ, thercfore, is o slauder upou the Republican party, That party did not undertake to furnish tho peo- ploof South Carolina with brains, fidelity, houesty, exporionca, or capacity for self-gov- ermment, It presupposed that the poople after a contury's experience in the oxperi- maut of governing thomsolves were qualified to take caro of themselves, to rally from the wmaterial drawbacks of war, and] to resume their old condition of progress and pros- perity. It gave them, however, the oppor tunity and the protsction of the courtsand the lows, publio sympatly, and every facility in the way of recoustruction machinory to work out prosperity. If they are not skillful enough to ruu thu machine after it is given thens, and they have been told and shown Low to run it, besides haviag the oxamplo of all the NorthernBtates to profit by, the foult s their own, not that of the Republican party of thy North, TLas parly hias done all it can do, and rests from ita labors, It hns done mora than any one expected it would or could do, The future of South Carolina nnd all the other Bouthern States depends upon the Houthern peoplo themselves, THE PERSION FRAUDS, Becretary Craxpres s boldly supploment. ing in tho Interior Department the reform work inaugurated by Sccrctaries Busrow and Juwret, in the Treasury and Post-Offico De- partments, Having sct the machinery to work to root out the abuses which hind grown up in tho Indian service, Mr. CuanpLER hag now turned his nttention to the Pension Bu. rean, Wa apprehond that he will find nmwple motorial here for reform, The cxpenditures on nccount of ponsions amount in round numbers to thirty millions yearly,—a sumn which of itsclf ivresistibly atiracts corrup- tion. Tho systom, too, has been ono that adinits of miareprosentations and frauds, nnd thore has alwnya been 50 atroug an indis. position on the part of tho public, Congress, and the Government to do any injustice to thoso cntitled to the gratitude of the conn. try that the liborality hes been shamelessly abused. Probably the most fruitful source of frauds in the Pension Department has boon in tho colluslon between the examining phy- sicians and corrupt Pension Agents. Tleso dato mainly ton years back, when the exnm. ining surgeons woro appointod through po- litical 1nfluenco. Another closs is made up of those who shiould have been dropped,—ox- #8ldiers who have died and thair childron who have long sinca become of ags. Tho rulo of the service scems to have been that, once on the pension-rolls, tha rocipiont never dica and never grows old ; somobody is found to draw the pension all the same in eithier con- tingoncy, Tho forgerios have beon and atill are enormous. The ore recent frands aro probably in the names ndded on the cortifi- cates of surgeons that the persons aro suffer- ing from diseaso which was the result of nc- tunl gervice, whereas they are eithicr suflering of no disenso whatever or else from some ail mont that they would havo had if they had naver been in the army. The Intter clnss of frauds nre thoce most likely to Lo continued in the future uuless they shall bo headod off by ndditional checks. Becretary Cnaxpren goos to the bottom of the trouble, and will probably snggest radical changes in the system, among which is the proposition that thera shall hencaforth be State Doards of Examination in place of a lot of irresponsible physicians upon whom there isno restraint, and who ore generally rondy to mako any certifiento that may-be asked of them. Thero is no objection now to the in. anguration of a stricter mode of cxamination, and every reason why it should bo ndopted. Any liberality of the nation henceforth that takes the shane of an cesy access to the pen- sion-rolls will bo entirely misconceived, ns it will not benefit any of thoso who actually fought in the War, nor their descendants snffering from wounds, injuries, or*disenses their protectorsrecaived in tho service of their country ; it will merely hold open the doors %0 swindlers who will resort to every con- ceivablo device forraiding the Treasury under the gnise of past services, Mr. Coavnpren is reported ns haviug eati- mated that changes in tho discipline nod con- duet of the Pension Burean will save $2,000,- 000 sunually, If peravaded of - this, thore is no doubt that ho will recommend theso changes to Congress, aud point out the means by which the saving can be made. Congress will havo to meet him in this proposed ro- trenchment. It isa motter for congratula. tion that the Administration of its own mo- tion is proposing to reduce expenditures in various departments, and it is to bo hoped that tho Democratic majority in the House will nccopt this effort in the spirit which evi- dently prompts it, and join in the purposo of cutting down in the proper places without crippling the Government. CONCERNING JURIES. It is becoming an important question whether a country which Las put down the grontest rebollion of modorn times iy capa- ble of gotting honest juries in her eriminal courts, Wa are moved to this line of thought by certein revelations in the juris- prudence of the District of Columbin, though wo might posaibly find equally glaring illus. trations at homo. It is now nearly twa years gince the famous ‘‘ safo-burglary " was per- petrated in the office of the District-Attorney in Washington City, the particulars of which are too well known to need racapitulation. Aftor long and toilsome effort in the face of perjury, bribery, and every ingonions ob- struction that could besot the pathway of Justice, tho officora of tho law aucceeded in putting thoir hands on one Sx¥bex, who was believed to have had a hand in tho burg. Inry. Bxvnzr was orrested and required to give bail, s bondsman purported to bo o Mr, Eapes, n wealthy and responsible citi. zon of Georgotown. After tho bail had beon soceptod, 8xypen nbsconded, aud it wes dise covered that Mr. Eanes hind not given bail for him at all, but that e hod been falsely per. sonated by somobody else. A fresh sonrch was instituted for the rasonl who had assumed tho nnno of Eipes ond thus facilitated the eseape of Bxynur, Mo was at last discoverod in the person of o Baltimore barber named Gnexy, Bo Grneex was bronght to trial, The proof against him was perfeotly conclu. sive, bul, to the surprise of the Judges and the amazoment of everybody eluo, the jury falled to convict, Tho .uatural inforence in that the jury was bribed and packed. Tho dispatohos say that it is now proposed to * go after” the jury and seo who thoy are and how thoy got appoiuted to the duty of trylug the man that personated Eipes, that wount bail for Snypen, that blew opon the safe that contalned acconnta of the District Ring. We ndnire the persovernnce of tho District officers who have hunted down Sxyvoes ond forrotod out Grecy, Wo shall admire them atill more if thoy now prosscute the jury, It e high timo that the foroman of a jury was sent to the Penitentiary, together with the party through whoss instrumeatality he was put ou the jury, And it would seom a3 it this Wushington City forecman wore n good one to make an examplo of, if, a3 the dis. patches intimate, ke bias already scrved one term in o Ponnaylvania prison, Juryspack. ing ia about tho last downward step thata country takos cre it plunges into aaarchy or takes rafugo in despotism, and the %act that a country has put down tho greatwst rebellion of modorn times will not hedp it to avoid ono or tho other of those eltamatives if its fountaing of justice bacoma polluted. Wa presume there s not & Julge in thiy city who has not reymatedly had jurks before him that ha was morally con. vinced had been tempered with before over they took fhe onth to ronder an impartial verdicl pocording to tho law and the ovide,fe. Wo say morally conm. vinced. Of domrs, if the Judge hnd any tangible e'¢idenve $hnt the jury bad Lven Y packed, ho would apply the swminary reme- dies which the law furaishos for that species of raseality, In nine easos ontof tem, wo venturo to aay, this moral conviction on the part of the Judge.has beon justified by the verdict, or by the failure of the jury to agree, And such cages na these nro visibly multiply- ing. The Washington City case is ouly one of n muititude, What is to be done? It is rensonably cortain that tho fonntain of justico will not rise higher that its sonree, Every jury that comes into eourt is soleated by sonecbody, and when the vordict rendered is maonifestly contrary to law and ovi- dence it is safa to conclude that that somobody lias conspired to commit a frand on the commonwunlth. Jurios aro not packed withont the nacncy of a packer. In this Wushington City cnse, the ends of justicn will not be renciied—will not be approached— unless tha packer is found and procoeded ngainst a3 & conspirator and particeps criminis in tho safe-burglary, 'Tho American people in tho nass aro not corrupt. It is much onsier to got honest juries from among them than dishonest ones, it tho functionavies ap- pointed to solect thom arv thomsclves honest. To get nrascally jury, or cven to got one raseal on a jury, requires much ingenuity and involves a high degroa of risk—unless public opinion hos bocome so debauched that it talas no notico of such transactions. We caunot adwit that publio opinion has reached 50 desperate o pas that the packing of juries con ba obzarvod without a shudder nnd without a daoterininod efort at reform, If tho Judges of our courts and the at- torneys practicing beforo them will **spot” every cnso of jury-packing that thoy have ronson to suspect, and apply all the romedios that the law places in their hands, we promiso thein tho aid of Tur Triuxe in the fornm of public opinion, and of the Logis. Intures, Stato nnd National, to exposo and punish all persons who pack and tamper with juries, and to inaugurste o system under which such villainy shall bo rondered im- possible. THE RAILROAD DISCRUMINATIONS. The Chenp Transporiation Association of New York is orgauized on a business basis, and hos n practienl influcnce in tho matters to which it gives its nttention, Iu its recent controversy with Vaxpensiut relative to the cutting of rates, its position was go fair that it made an impression even upon the rail- ronds. It opposes the cut-thront policy ns well ns tho combination for high rates. Its wmomboers have the good sense to nppreciate that o temporary reduction of rates below paying point will only bo followed, aftor the fight is over, by an incronse sulliciently ex- oritant to mnke up for the past losses, They also kaow that Western rates from Now Yorlk at too low o prico, ard those from the West to New York at too high a price, will be of no permanent valuo to thom; nnd they opposa tho systom of special rates which Vaxperpint contended weve in the interest of New York, beeanso they know that it simply affords the roilrond manngers an opportunity for showing favoritism in which tho larger number of merchauts have no ndvantage. By constantly watching the raifrond maneuvers, promptly exposing tho exorbilant rates, and vigoronsly protesting ngainst discriminntions and injustico of every kind, this Associntion hins beennblo to accom- plisk much for the mercantile community. the magnificent port of Antwerp and all the ! 839 ho has mnde Germany his home territory occupied by Germanio peoplo in Bel- | during the past ten years; that la gium, The rest of the little Kingdom is Gol- | gpoke Gorman fluently, learned from lic, Catholie, nud Ultramontaue, and would bo | hig mother; that he invonted and construet. of no strength to tho Empiro, What the Iat- | od his infornal mnachine in Gormany and do- ter wants above all is Aniwerp, with ita Iand- | gtroyed 200 German lives withit. It s al, Toctied port, ono of tho finest in tho world; | Gornon from beginuing to end. Tho rosult its great stono docks, built by Navorron L ; | ahows low unsafe s well as ungonorous the ita enormouns possibilitica for foreign com- | courte of the German newspapera hias been, merco. Tho soquisition of Holland would | 1t ought to tench them a usafnl lesson in the add o Protestant 8tate nnd an array of fm- | futuro to bo more caroful about their facts portout colonies to the Ewmpire, and tho no- | bafore thoy leap up indircriminate abusa quisition of Antwerp and tho adjacent terri- | upon another country, for, if their own alla, tory would give Germany n grent start in tho | gntions bo true, that any particular corl"utry ia race for the commmercinl supremacy of | reaponsiblo for the production of a monster Europo. England would havo mout to loss | 1ike this, then in this caso Germany alone is by the arrangemont, for Autwerp, with nu [ respousible, Empire of 50,000,000 behind it, would bon — — ~ far more formidablo rival of London than CGen, Sicxees went to Spain as an Envoy now. Its harbor is quite ns spacious, and | Extraordinary. Ho was an extraordinary pors much deeper. Tho Thames con bo block- | fion to send, nnd his conduct, as it has since aded, but to wateh the many moutha of tho | been ravenled in courts of law, was extraordi. Scheldt would require a whole navy. English | hary. is appesrance in Now York as an ate opposition, howaever, would not be likely to | tornoy for one gang of gamblers in Erie stock count for, much with n Primo Minister who | at a time whon howns being paid for his sup. has publicly said that Great Britain **is no It would ba well for the merchants, com- mission men, and shippers to form a similar Association in this ecity, and thers will never be a grenter incentive for such a step than tho present dishonest and unjnst discrimina- tious ngninst Chicago, growing outof the combinntion not to eunt rates at this point, Lut not extending to points west of Chicago. The New York Association numbers 1,300 members, nnd hns various committoes to which distinct branches of the railway ques. tion aro iutrnsted. It not only under- takes to discuss milwny wmatters in o geveral way, but is primarily orgen- izod for correcting gricvances, whether borne by the community at lavge or by individual members, If thero wero an effect- ive orgnnization of this kind in Chicago at the presont time, the griovance which Chica~ go haos would be righted. If necessary, the Associntion conld enforce an abandonimont of the policy of discrimination. It could throw all its custom to any one road agrecing not to ent nnder at points west of Chicago, and theroby bring all the roads to terms. Prob. ably, however, this extreme measare would not have to be ndopted, ns tho Association would bave sufficient influenco and morat strongth to procure the correction of so griovous an offonso agaiust the business in- torests of tho city as thecarrying of flounr, for instance, from Milwaukes to Now York through Chicago nt 10 cents losa per barrel thon from Chicago to New York, Tho Board of Trade will do woll to move in the organi- zation of such nn Association, both for thy, prosont and future emergencies, HOCH-DEUTSCH AND PLATT-DEUTEC 3, Tho Berlin agent of the Associatod P eas ia ovidently a jovial fellow, fond of cele’ jrating lolidays, nnd partial to egg-nogg 83 g menns of colobration. His conssquent condition mny explnin the dispateh ho sew'y Saturday night. Hosngely romarkod that the Govern- ment was ¢ concilinting " the Cr tholic clergy, —the process of councilintion 8¢ gmg to be put- ting some of thew in prison and chasing the others ncross the frontier _gnd that the Empire wos threatening # o nbsorb part of Switzersland and all BV fiym. This double plan of torritoriol aggrs’ adizement is doubt. less duo to the f#¢ ulty of the Lumon eye for scoing doublo under cor tain egg-nogginn cir wnstances. ‘Tho Switz- erland schome mny Bafoly bo et down 0a the shads .y double dua to aleohol. The olber 108y have somewhat more sub- stance, Body+ patching hos alwnys been o favorlte pursr it of the orowned hesds of Europe. Wb on p nation bocomes moribund, it ia soized~ -to carry out the metaphor—for purposes o' diascotion. A century ago, from the fimt partition in 1772 to the third and st In ‘1795, Prussin, Russia, and Austris wera ¥ aying this gamo with Poland. The three ‘Empires aro agein leagued togother, Forod mniex tho Great, tho man of ¢“blood ond firon,” finds his parallel now in Drssancr, the man of fron and blood. But the "¢y plan of partition differs in somo T gpecta from the old. In the eigh- toonth century, the territory that was divided was all contiguons., Itisnow widely separated, ' Russin and Austria want slicos of Turkey; Gormany wants Holland and Northe ern Belgium. We place no faith in the re. port that thore {s any immediate danger of annexatiao on pither hand ; but when Turkey is sbared, the prico of Gormany's consent will ba tho nddition of the Plait-Doutsch to the the llecls-Doutsch,or Deutsoh proper, Butthe Platt-kdeutsch inhabit a small (northern) part of Bayium. If Gormany should take the four North oro priwvinces, Limberg, Antwerp, and Lust hud West Flanders, sbe would haye longer na European power.” And England, too, 1ight fiud that silenco paid if its prico should happen to bo Egypt. Holland lias boen foarfal of absorption since tho day Prussia seized Alsace.Lorraine, That, to be sure, was announced ns a muns- ure of defense, but powaor is never in lack of protexts, and ** defenso” is a comprehensive term. It fu said that tho Dutch Governmont has plerced the dikes in such a way that the country can be flooded at a fow hours' notice ; but the Germnus, unlike the Spanish, might Yosed services aa United States Ministor al Madrid was s good denl of nshock to the American mind, but his appearauce as plain. iff in thoe case of Brorrrs vs. Nonns, in the English Conrt of Common Pleas, is a much mors unplensant fact, Nozmis {a the agent of the Remington Arms Company. S10KLES, when Minister to Madrid, was hired by hita to lobby through a contract of that Company with tho Spanilsh Govornwent, In retarn for such dignified services the misrepresenta. tive of the Awaricnu nation was to rocoive 8 percentnge. Ha is now suing for tho prica be better able to stand the temporary sub- | of his labor, but apparently, wo are glad te morsion of Iolland than the Hollanders see, without much chanco of succoss. Has themselves, The most probablo moeans of | our Diplomatic Sorvico sunk so low that every annexation, moreover, is not war, but nego- tintion. 1f Holland and Belgium should first bo thoroughly scared, and then the for mer, with thu northern slice of the Intter, to include Antwerp, should bo offered admission into the German Empiroas a Btate, with loeal autonomy and perhaps with the special privi- loges onfoyed by Bavaria or Snxony, the of- for might be accopted as the least of all pos- sible ovils. Tho ill-honlth of Sponker Kemr, which seoms to increnso rather than abato with his Speakership honors, has given rise to a dis- cuggion as to what rhall be dono in the event of his inability to preside in the House. Bo soriously il was ho on Now Yoar's Day that Mrs, Kenn, who had mado’ proparation to roceive cnllors, wns compelled to doeline. The talk at Washington is that Mr. Monrzson, | of Tllinofs, Chairman of tho great Committeo | on Ways and Mleans, will ba elected Spoaker | pro tempore. Tu this event the unsavory | Fenvanpo Woop will Lecome Chairman of | the Cownmittes of Waysnad Menus, The vic. ! tory which tho conatry gninod in the elaction of Mr. Kenn is in danger of boing lost by the misfortune which has ovortaken him., His prostration by ill-honlth may result in n national calamity. Tho transfer of Mr. Mz~ nisoN from the hond of tho Committos on Ways nnd Maans to the Spaaker's chairy, ns the clection of n Spenker pro tem, will p roba- bly bgcome n permanency, may of itself malte no serious differenco, On all qu stiona of politics he and Mr. Kenne are pgree . Ho is rn honost man, opposed to all ate als and frands; o fair maw, and, from, expe. rienco nnd natural qualifications, better fitted for the Spoaker's chair than for the arduous and intricate dutics of Clhwmirs man of the Committce on Ways and Meons, Tho House might make o much worse reloction of Speaker. But the eleva. tion of Fenyaxpo Woop to tha position of lender of the House, the foreman of tho ma. jority, and tho oracle of that Committee which wos of nover so much importance as v, would be worsae than o misfortune,—it would bo o positive disgraco to tho country. It cannot be eaid that Woop is o man witbout character, Unfortunately, he has & wids- sprend character 80 gonerally ropulsive that wo question whether there iv, o district in the country outside of the City of Now York in which Lo could bo elected, to Congress. It is to bo hoped that Mr, Euna's henlth may be suflicicntly restored $hat ho mny be able to A1l the high office to which he bas beon clected with surh popular approval, If, however, a 8pet’cer pro tem. must bo elected, let there bo ‘some arrangement made by which Fzrya’spo Woop may not in any way be made’ th,e organ of any branch of the National C,overnment, Tt Ix*now certain that the Citizens® Assocla- tion w ill apply to the Supremo Court for o mond amus compelling the Common Council t0 @ 211 an eloction for Mayor to fill the vacan- y which CoLviy proposes to hold in defiance 1 law ond Counstitution till the spring of 1876. 'Tha Supreme Court has original juris. diction in the matter, and it is to be hoped that it will recognize the fmnportanco of the caso to the City of Chicago, and give it imme- diate und enrncst atteution. Thora are two questions of serious concern involved in the decision. The first is whother the people shail bo doprived of choosing their own rep- regentativo for Mayor, when the time of the occupant hos expired, or whother this orig- innl right of the poople under our Govern- ment shall be defeated by the importinent and obstinate resistance of o singlo person in pite of expresa constitutional prohibition. The sccond mattor, of equal import, is whether or not the peoplo of Chicago shall have an opportunity this coming spring to rid themsolves of tho scalawag nnd bummor ofi- membber of it is peddling out *‘influence ™ to tho highest bidder? Ooant ANprassy's plan for the settlemeant of .affairs in tho Christian provinces of Tur. keyr has been npproved by Russia, and proba. by will be by the other guaranteeing powera, If it Is put into offcct, it will amounnt to the d estriotion of Turkish supromacy north of tho Balkan Mountains, The provinces are to ’havo almost complete local solf-government, voting and raising their own taxes, and simply ronding a gross snnual {ribute to Constantinople, Bubstantinlly this same srrangement has resulted in tho praotical ladependence of Egypt and Roumanis, It will evidently have this result in the case of tho provinces which are now wholly or partial- lyinrovolt. Tho adoption of the plan would postpone the day when the Turk ia finally driven across the Bosphorus and out of Europo, but it wonld insure at onco and without war the deliveranco of the Christinn provinces from tho yoko of Turkish rule. If 1Mt is gained, the world can afford to wait for the rest, The increase of the national debt as noted! in the current monthly stalement is ab- tributed partly to tho Iate extraordindry ex- penditures in the naval servica and the de. creasa in rovenua from the customns, The former will probably bo explained by the President in his promised special mesange on Cuban affairs. In regard to the diminished rovenue, asmall portion of it wny ba no counted for, perhaps, by tho continnation of Linrd times which has induced a goneral dis- position to cconomizo; but tho greater past of it must bo trncod to tho increnso of dutien made by tho last Congress in restoriug the 10 per cent that had Doen previously talen off the wholo line of dutiable articles, Thit ootrrse hina proved prohibitory in its effacton cortain articles, and 50 cat down the rovenus, Here is n point whero the Democrats in Cone gress might do the conntry o raal sorvice, —— Axd now St. Loufs isin a muddle about her new Custom-House, the Supervising Arohitsct having received a lotter from Seo retary Bristow to stop operations, Thi throws 260 mon out of work, who will bo ¢ serions tax upon that city. In addition & this, the air is full of rumora of maladminis tration, malfensanco, disagroements, ete., eto ‘When Clricago was in a similar muddle witk its Custom-House, St. Louis had o great dax’ to soy about Chicago bungling, mismansgo ment, corruption, ete. Now that 8t. Louis it adllicted in o similar mannor, we shialibe gon: arous enough not to make unkind allusiont about it, nor sneor and malign, We will sim. 1ply placo one little coal on her head by as) itng her how sha likes it hersal! Jessz Posesar Is still an object of latercat ¢ tfhe doctors and acientific men ; andordinary peo 1ple, without sny pretensions to tochuioal knawle 1dgo of his symptoms, are watching the cane ssarefully, In the curront numbor of tho Med- skeal and Burgteal Journal, Dr. O, F. Fouioy, sa aminent cxpert in mental diseases, treats fully ot Poxenoy's pathological condition, He sbows tihat the boy cannot bo sufforing from any of the iivo recoguizod forms of montal disosus, The nlv evidonce at jusanity ba has given s the Ihorrible nature of his crimes, and this, withoul wther symploms, Is *‘roally no ovidence what- uvor,” Gov. Rice shows unexpected unwilllug- nesd to order the execmtion of the boy. The stommon impresston now i that he will dlspose ot the mattor i tho same mauner as hia prede- ceasor—by holding it in abevance until the end of hia torm of oftice, Huch & course soems to be cowardly, but verhapa it can be fusufied on grounds of expsdiency. If the Governor adopte it,'bo must be propared to meat the charga of avoiding the responsibility which the peopls thruet upon Lim whon they eleciod him to of fice —_———— Dr. Cierey, for o long time o oharge of the Asvlum for the Insans at Lexingtos, Ey., 18 givon my suthority for tho statoment that Jomy cinls in our City Government, and earry to tho | A, Joroz was twive confinod fo that ssylum. ond the defoat of the Rings which wns so | Confirmation of this statement may be found (o Lopefully innugurated last fall. If the peo- [ the remarkable literary offuaions whioli hatt plo are called upon to voto for Mayor and & full list of clty officers, the election will at- tract sufliclont interest to ennbla the tax-pay- era and good citizons to assert their strength ; it pot, thon Chicago will have to suffer another yoar from the reign of rowdylsm and corruption. It is devoutly to be wishod that tho Supreme Court may interpret the law in conformance with the spirit of our Govern- ment and the State Constitution, ————e. Aud now it appears that Trowsassey, the dynamito Hend, was not an American at all, but a German. We do not mako the an- nouncement in the splrit of fauit-finding with the German peoplo for having given ex- jatenca to such o flond. It mattera little what country gave birth to such an extraor- dinary monster, it should not be held re- sponsible for bim. But it will be remom. bered that tho German press, upon tho assumption that he was an American, broke out into a violant tirado of abuse against us, proclaimed him the product of American justitutions, ungencrously declaved that such a monster was the necessary outgrowth of our mothods of life, and that no other na- tions have ever or can ever produce his like. And now it appears, after all this uncalled- for personal abuse, that Tnossassey wau only American by ndoptlon ; that he was German jby Lith and alo by obolcs, inmasmuch beon put forth by Jorox sinco his coovictios nod sentence to the Penftentiary, It would bi diffiouls to sy whether hia spesch at Jeftersoz City to Judge and Jury, or his sutobiography,— exiracts from whion bave been printed in Tm TrIBUNE, —A0seryod tho palm for furgid rhotort and foolish thought, JoYCE may bo mad; and the fact that be did vot plead maduesa o mligs tion of punishment ia nat proof of sanity. He would sarely havo doneso if ho hed had tho gensd tothiuk of it. On the other hand, the lo timationa of his present madoess may bo only proofs of cunining resson, Tho subject is & per plexiog one, Tus contamplation of it is well fittod to lead tho acutost iutelleat iato a maze of spoculation, from which no Asupxg's thresd can show the way to salety. 1t is almoat impresible, in » work of such msg* nituda ax that lavolved in roviewlug tho tradt and commeses of city llke Chioago, to avold errors, both {n manusaript sud [n proof-readivg: We noto the followiog in our lwsua of Ss:urdsy last: ‘the recelpts of lumbsr in Novembor wert sbout 120,000,000 fuot. The mstes of ron scd atool aliould read 95,003,000, instesd of §$300,0%- The produot of our confecilonery munulsck waa 82,000,000, the avorage maks belog uot 189 from 10 fous per day tbroughout the ys Number of bands, about 500, Astolroles fn Clnclunatl bave besa much 30 tarbed of Lste by the repart that a geauine M8 tll1o was rosently boughis for 67 st auotion. 18 0ow owned u that cliy, The Enguirer ssss'®