Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1876, Page 4

1 4 ; THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 187G B e e ——————————— TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. EATES OF SUDICRIPTION (PATABLE TN ADVANCE). Postags Frevald at this Ofiico. Bually Bdition, post-paid, | yeas eeere813.00 Parts of year at samo rat Balled ta any sddress ¥OUR WEEXA [0 1.00 Inaf!{- XEditions :]00 hest... . PrieWeakl; 30 Parts of year at same rate. ‘WEEKLY RDITION, POSTPAID, One copy, per you: ll.}lfl Club of five, per o Ulub of twenty, per ao| . The postage 1a 15 canta & pusr, which we will prepay. Specimen coplen sent free. To prevent delay and misiakns, be sure sud give Pest-Office addresa {n full, including Staleand Sonnty, Temittances may bo made either by draft, exjross, Toat-Office order, or In registersil lotters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY BUBSCRINERE, Dhaily, daltversd, Bundsy excopled, 273 centa per week, Daaly, delivered, Bunday inctuded, 30 centa per week, Address THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madion and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Iil, s ——— AMUSEMENTS, 'S TITEATRE—Madison street, botweon Destoorn snd Btate. Eagagement of Gsorge Rigasid. 3leary V7 IOOLETH THREATRE—Randolph street, betwoen Clark and Lasalie. Engagemont of tha Kellogg Opers- Tronps, * Tha Huguenots,” REW CIT( 0 TREATNE—Clark street, between Tandolph lngAlakn. Engagementof Calleuder’s Geor~ gis Mizatrels. ADELPHI THEATRE-Destborn street, corner * 'The Orgen-Qrinder.” Variety performance, WOO! BEUM-Monroa strest, between Dear- ‘born lgx;s!;:uh. Afternoon., “ A Glost In Hpite of Himself " snd ¢ The Adventares of # Country Girl. Evening, # Under the Ganiight.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Ilalsted strcet, between Madison and Monroe. Engagementof the Georgls Vitnatrels, SOCIETY MEETINGS. WABHINGTON CHAPTER, No. 43, B, A, M.—8pe- glal Convoaation {his (Tuaday) evening, Jan, 11,2t 1:30 o'elock, for work on tha AL, I and AL, E. Degreer, Vietting Compantons cordially invited, By order of the l!.il o {,:a CHAS, B, WRIGLT, Bec, ATTENTION, STR RN1GRTS §t, Bernard Commandery, N day evenlog, Jan, 12 1, © Workt dn U fied Crosa .V $ s courteonaly invited. e s WOODMAN, E. 0. The @hierge Tribune, Tuesday Morning, January 11, 1876. ipecial Canclave of %, K, T., Wednes- Greonbacks at the New York Gold Ex- chango yesterday closed at 8 Senator Azcony, of Miksissippi, was found in his seat yesterday for the first time daring the session of the Forty-fourth Congress. According to the mutcorn]agi‘c;l deductions of tho Weather Bureav, the temperaturo in this locality will rise slowly during tho day. The Common Council Inst evoning signified o willingness to waive all technical irregnlar- Jties or informalities of servico of the xum. mons in the mandamus case, and voted to employ counsel to conduct the caso for the city in the Supreme Conrt. M. Lrox Say, the Freuch Minister of Finance, has resigned at the request of P'resi- dent MacMamos., AL Sav hies been fercely sssiled by the press because of his position at tho hend of a Senatorial ticket inimical to the Government, and his resignation was the Tegult of o pressuro oo strong to be resisted, Duravng, Minister of Justice, is in the same boat, but hes not yet resigned. Gov, Havzs, of Ohio, in his inaugural messago vestordsy devoled his attention largely to the subjeot of local and municipal indebtedness, and asdvocated tho ndoption of alaw wheroby the constitutional provision relating fo Stato taxation and indgbtedness ,may bomade eflcctivain restraining municipal yearporations from rushing hond-over-oars into debt without any provision for tho pnyment @2 intoroat or principal. Missouri can bonst eight doomed murderers who are soon to pass through the hangman'’s /hands into etornity. Chicago weuld be satis- *,fied with a rensonable prospect that scaffold aocommodations would scon bo noeded for only two convicted and sentenced wmnn-slay- lers. But thero is no such plenging ontlook. ' A goft gpot in tho jury and a historical remin- iucence of fits may at any timoe shut out the ~iew in this vicinit Bpeaker Harves had his trip to Springfield all for nothing. He expected to take tho Teins of government for a brief period, and to go down to posterity with the cuphonious prefix of ex-Acting Governor, but when ho arrived at tho Stato House ho found the Ix. eoutive office locked, and n disagrecable jani- tor vouchsafed the information that Licut.- Gov. Grexy was still in tho State, and no vacancy existed. There was nothing to do but to experience a fecling in which sndness and disgust stroggled for tho upper hand, and this was what Spenker Haixes did, The gas-jobbing mnembers of the Common Conncil wers nicely checkiuated in their plan to snub the Comptroller becanss of his oppo- sition to the cow-pasture itlumination séheme., Thoy thought to corner Mr. 1Taxes by calling apon him to report an ordinance for reducing the cost of gaa to tho city, but he took them &t their word, and did submit nuch an ordi. nance, in which it i proposed not to leavo unlighted all but the lamps at the street in- tersections, but to remove the burners now on the lamps, and substitute others with a eapacity reduced to 4 cublc feot of gas per bour, By the ndoption of this mothod, and by enforcing an intelligent timetabls for lighting and catinguishiog the lamps, the Council can effect & marked reduction in the woarly expeaso of lighting the strects, While the jury in the Davismurdor csso were wrangling and fighting against a vordict in the small hours of Sundsy morning, an. other exhibition of paroxyamal insanity was in progrees in another part of the city, A peaceful gathering of Germans was invadod by a party of rowdics, including an ex-police. an who had resigued hiastar but a weok be- fore, and who still carried a rovolver, The result was the shooting of two inoffensive wen, one of whow hag since died, and tho other was fatally woanded. And a police officer who was near at hand not ounly made no effort to arrest the raurderer, but sctually aasisted him to escape ! Iero is au- other instanca pf tho impunity with which the law sgaiust carrying concealed weapons Is disregarded in Chicago, und snother op- portanity for the exercise of skill in working up & casw of temporary inssuity as & peg upon which a willing juror or two may haug their scruplos agoinst a verdict of guilty. ——— The Chicago produce merkets wore steadier Yestordsy, Moss pork was quict and un- changed, closingat $19,37§ cash and §$19.42} for February, Lard was in moderate request and firm, closing at'$12.82} por 100 bs cash aud §12.42} for February, Muats wero less sotive and firmer, at 7o for shoulders, boxed, 10jo 2oz 8o shart ribs, and 1040 for doshort clears. Highwines wera quiet and easier, at #£1.08 per gallon. Flour waa dull. Wheat was active and 1]e higher, closing nt 074 cnsh and 97§c for February. Corn was dull and oasfer, closing strong at 44}c cash’and 434 for Februnry. Oats were quict and firm, closing at #0jc cash and 30fc for Feb- mary. Itye was quiet at GGle. Barley was in better demnnd nod 1@2¢ higher, closing at 810 for Jannary and 78}c for February. Hogs were aclive and firmer, solling chivtly ab $7.06@7.25. Cnttle were steady. Sheep wore in good demnandl and ruled firmer, One hundred doliars in gold wonld buy $113 in greenbneks at tho close, The annual meeting of the Chicago Board of Tradoe lnst evening was not so largely at- tendod as some of its predeceseors, but it was hearty gathering, and the prevalent sontie mont had the right ring in it. Tho remarks of the incoming President on tho character of n contract were Indorsed by soveral sub- soqnent spoakers, All agreed that the mles of tho Bonrd should furnish no loop-hole of evasion of the responsibility which the sign- ing of a contract is supposed to involve, and that, while the rnles in force up to nino months permitted abuses in tho slapo of corners, even thoso evils were preferablo to ‘breaches of fnith by refnsing to deliver prop- erty that has been sold. It is probable that tho rules of the Board touching the linbility of parties to n contract will soon be antonded, and that the new rules will bo nenrer to right than cither the present ones or those formerly in force. Thero is littlo room to donbt that the advantago taken of the present rules, rather than the rales themselves, has been the cause of somo falling off in the volume of our trado in produce, The re- marks of tho Bonrd of Directors in relation to freight discriminations agninst Chicago by tho rnilroads, and to the importance of lake navigation to our commorce, wore also well timed and foreible. Tho consideration of Mr, Raxparr's Un- conditional Amnesty bill in the Houso yoster- day, gave rise to thio most exciting pnssnge- at-arms of the session thus for, and proved onca more the great valud of parlinmentary nptness as opposed to the brote force of tho majority. An attempt by Mr, Ravoawrn to cut off nmendments, and rush tho bill throngh with but an hour for debate on both sides, was cleverly frustrated by Mr. Brazye, who, when the Democrats had ordered tho main question, in accordance with the Raxparn policy, and when the Dbill bed failed of pnssage for lack of tho roquisite two-thirds vote, adroitly moved o reconsideration, and by this means obtain- ed tho floor for a lengthy speech on the mmuesty question, The spoech was remark. able forits firo nnd foree, and was the sen. sation of tho dny.- Ho favorcd the complote romoval of the disabilitios imposed by the TFourteenth Amendment, excepting only Jer- reasoN Davis, whoss responsibility for the horriblo atrocitics of Andersonville Trison wag held ap to view in an iitenso light, Of tho seven former Republicans who voted with the Democrats for the RANDALL bill, the names of Gen. Baxgs and Judge Kennry wege the most conspicuous, while Prof. SerLyE, the Massachusetts Liberal, voted with the Republicans against the mensure, THE COMEDY OF MURDER, "T'hero was & time when murder was & hor- riblo crime, and the murderor an object of lonthing and delestation. Tho nct of killing o fellow-being wasd looked upon ns a tragedy in real life that had no elements of sympothy or human interest, cxcept of pity for tho victim and his family, The only demand made by the goneral publie was that the mur- derer should be puniahed as #peedily s pos- sible, and, in forcign countrios at least, a black flag hoisted wpon the jml-wall nn- nonnced to tho communily that justice had Leen vindicated. 1lis mewmory was held in excerntion aud his fate was held up by the woral teachers agan awful warning, Of late, lowover, murder hag become an art, a sensa- tion for tho gratification of depraved ouriosi- ty, a comedy in which tho crime, the trial, and tho exvoution are the three acts, the ruf- fian becoming o haro in tho denouemont. Tho first nct is thoe crime itself, which is very cntertaining, and is speedily worked up inton very gratifying amusement. The press furnishes comploto details, written up with rhapsodical rhetorie and pre-Raplaelito close. nesd of description, The illustrated papers print views of all the incidents of the murder, —the portrait of the murderer, the house whero his crimo wos committed, the vary room in which it was dono, the instrument which the murderer used, and portraits of all concerned. Photographs of tho murderer find their way into the shop-windows by the sido of tho nctors and singers. Prior to all theso incidenta in tho first act of tho dramna, the murderer was in all probability an ugly, drunken brate, unknown to the general pub- lie, und an objact of interest only to police- won, police courts, and hisbrutalcompanions, but now Lo finds himgelf upon the high rond to fume, His namo figures conspicuously in the public printa. ITe looks with compla- cency upon the wood-cut of ANprew Jack. soN or Louws Narorroy which does duty for his ugly physiognomy. Philanthropio old woinen entertain themselves by writing sym. puthetio letters in Lis bebalf, and maudlin young women amuss themselves by sending him lowers and Dbilletdoux, The public is informed how ho spends Lis time in, the jil, what be eats and drinks, what books he rends, what peopls he mects, und what hie says to them, Thus he comes to the end of tho firut act, and the curtain falls upon Lim contemplating himself with a large dogroe of satisfaction, ‘T'ho second act is tho trinl, and it is a much funnier net than the first, and nffords groat smusemont to the publie, There is much entertainmment in the impaneling snd pooking and bribing of the jury, The evidence brims over with fun, and draws crowded houses, At the end of each day's proceedings the hero ia escorted to his cell by o large and admiring constituoncy, The law- yers afford infinite nmusement by browbeat. ing wituesses, and the closing apeeches give the crawd a threo days’ carnival. Then the funny jury disagroes, and this gives an op- portunity for the introduction of mmusing exceptions, writs of error, supemiedenses, and new trinds, until the publio gets tired of the fun, and the murderer goes scot-freo, The leading motive of the not has been the establishmeant of the amusing fact that the Lero wuy paroxysinally insune ut the woment lio committed the funny deed, sud this fur. uisbes ontertoinment to doctors and scientifto men, who awuse the great public with their wranglings. Bometimes, not often, the comedy Las o third aet, Tho hero is found guilty and sen. tenced to be hauged. ‘This ought to he a serious und very tragical act, but in reality it 18 tho funniest of the three, ‘I'ho hanging is mede & great publio show, at which those who deuire msy fully gratify their morbid and bratal enriosity, and erack their jokes as thelicro swings out of life. Everything is arranged with a view to legitimate dramatic offcct. The hero is surrounded by an admir- ing crowd, and, after assuring them of his dis- tingulshed consideration for them s friends, tnkes an affectionate lcave of them with the announcement that he i4 comfortably sure of everlasting happiness, and, being {u this serene framo of mind, forgives the authorities for the injustico they aro about toinflict upon him. Thisis the end of {ho funny drama, and the people who have derived so much enterlaimment wait impatiently for the naxt case, in which somo other vulgar villnin mny bo exalted, and they can again exert their abilities as connoisseurs in tho flue-nrt comedy of murder. ‘Thers mny como n timo, ' however, when this comedy will boa real tragedy. There nre thinking people who do not seo any ninuse- ment in murder, snd they may some time fancy that tho farce lins gone on long enongh, and turn it into tho real old-fnshioned tragedy that it used to bo. CONFEDERATE ECONOMY, A mental picture of the present state of af. faira at Washington shows the vaults of the ‘Tronsury in tho background, with a choice arrny of ex-Confederates brenking many and yawning holes through the walls, whilo o fow Northern Democrats nre anxiously trying to putty up a fow minute leaks which they think they havo discovered {n other parts of the self-samo walls, * Tako cura of the pennics and allow ex-Confederates to grab the dol- lars," is tho appavent motto of tho party in power in the House. What they scom to want todo is to carry ont the programme sketehed in the following paragraphs, By abolishing the offico of Genernl of the Army, the pay and allowance of Gen, Snen- AN con bo saved. Tho amounnt thus gained, multiplied one-hundredth-fold, can thon bo used to compensate the owners of the hams consumed by the army that made that fa. mous march from Atlnats to the sen. A fow more millions added to this sum wonld reim. burso tho Southern States for the money they spent for the cannons and munitions of war wantonly and malicionsly eaptured by Smeraeay during his eamnpaigns. e Snenroax is, of course, an expensive Inx- ury. By dispensing with him and his staff,n saving can be mado that will enable the Gov- crnmment to mako up any little losses that tho Shenandonh Valloy may have suffered from his brutal pemsistency in fighting for the Union when the inhabitants of tho Valley were fighting againat it. The restitution would require, it ia truo, much more money than tho stoppage of the Licutenant-Genor- al's pay would save, but the differenco ean bo mado wp by levying » tax on something ex. clusively used in tho North, Onr pension-roll requires snany millions of dollars every year. It supports a number of crippled veterans who offend a fastidious Confederato taste by limping avound on crutches, or wearing stumps of arms in slingy, or Iying on sick-beds, or conghing blood from lungs that hold Confederate bullots. The repeal of all laws granting pensions to Union soldiers and soldiers’ widowa would ennble the House to pny the persons who crippled naud killed onr veterans for the powder and lend consumed in that lLoly work, ‘The sale of n new ueries of bonds wonld enablo it, too, to creato n now pension.ist, south of Masoy and Dixox's line. Fvery person whose name figured on it would ba obliged, of coursg, to take nn oath that ho or she hind boon steedily disloyal to the United States during tho War, By senttering nll the versels in tho navy, by presenting all tho cannon of the army to Southern cities to be used as tho material for statucs of Confederate heroes, by abolishing all tho machinery of tax-collection at the South, by trebling the taxes of the North, by cutting down the salarics of all non-Demo- cratic members of Congress, by repealing all laws providing for the maintenance of tho Diplomatio Corps, and by issuing a fow thousand million of bonds, onough money can be pgot to pay of the Confedorate debt, refund the ocotton-tax, build the Southern Pacific Railway, give Jrr¥ Davis an annuity of $100,000 in grate- fpl recognition of his services, meet tho crop of Bonthern claims, and pay for tho emanci- pated slaves, oxcopt in those sovereign Btates which prefer to rc.ostablish slavery, In 1heso, the masters will of courss bo suthor- ized to catch their niggers and the nigger' children born since emancipation by tho aid aud at the expenso of this great and glorious Union. “'The gray's on deck again,” sure cuough; how do the woarers of the bluo like this stute of affairs? — THE USELESS NAVY-YARDS, Among tho projected reforms in national oxpenditures by the present House of Repre- sentatives iy that of reducing the nwmber of navy-yards. For the yenr onding June 30, 1874, the total expenditures on account of tho naval establishment was $£31,000,000. Of this sum the expenditurcs in the construction and ropairs of vessels, pay of mechanics and laborers ot the several navy-yards, and pay of officars on duty st the yards, aggregated, in round numbers, 511,000,000, This is ex- clusive of tho cost of materials, It is esti. wated that it costs the United States from 60 o 100 por cent moro to have a vessel repaired ot one of the national yards than the same work could be dono forin a private yard. Owing to political influcuces, the cost of run. ning a publio ship-yard is greally advanced boyond what it would bs, in a well-managed ostablishment owned by private capital. This I8 well known and understood. In fact, the whole navy-yard system is noth. ing but o means for gpending public woney for political purposes, Al the navy-yards of the United Btates, save, perhaps, that at Washington and one on the Pacific Const, might be closed up and sold without the least loss to the publio service aud to tho great saving of publio money, Yot theso shops for spending money are kopt going yenr after year, as if the Government considerod that it was part of its duty to dis. Lurse 5o many wiltions of dollars annually in the intereut of certain towns and for the por- sonal benefit of Congressmcn rupresonting tho favored localities. 'I'ho mbuses of the navy-yard systewmn are glaringly exhibited at the recurring olections. As the elcctions ap- proach, tho foros of workmen in theso yards is rocruited largely; and, though it is not writen in the contract, it is well known, in fact is not denied, that the whole forcein that yard, and especially the extra men intro- duced, are employed: to vote the ticket of tha party in power. Tho eleotion over, the men are discharged. Now lot us examine tho financial ontcome of such a proceeding. 'I'ho extra forco, consliting of 500 men, are employed on an average forty.five days each at ¥2 a day, waking au expenditure of $45,000 for each elcction, aud as thero ia an average of two cloctions each year, there isa direct coutribu. / tion of $90,000 from tho Publio Trensury to control tha politica of the Btate and of the immadiate locality in which tho navy-yard is located. Tn somo yards tho oxtra mon om- ployed on tha ave of an eloction number from 1,000 to 4,000, The objeotion to the aboli- tion of theso yards haa been that if thoy wera closed, thien tho politica of tho Btato would be changged. Vo can imngine no bettor rea- son for closing tho navy-ynrds than that their only purposeis to farnish n protext for expond. ing public money to control tho loeal politics of nuy part of the country. This navy-yard abuse {8 nothing new. It hns come down to us from the days of Demoaratic ruls, but wo may ndd, without violating truth, that the Republicans have made ns good use of it ns their Democratie predocossors did in their day. ‘The time is propitions for abolishing the wholo systom. Congress has been dallying with the proposition to spond soveral millious of dollars for a new navy-yard near Philadet- phis, Now is o favorable time to drop that job sltogether. The prosent navy-yards nre thoso at Kittery, Mo., Charlostown, Mass,, ‘Whashington City, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Ponsacoln, Norfolk, Maro Island, Cal,, and tho naval station nt League Island, near Philndelphin. Of these, all may bo abolished except, perhaps, one on the Atlantic and one on the I'ncitic Const, which would be nmple for nll the service required by the Covern. ment. ‘We Lavo a small navy, but one fully as large as the country requires; 'The whole naval establishinent is an exponsive toy,—its uses being in the inverse proportion to its cost. 1t is nskeleton, but a lively ono, whose pow- ers of consumption are marvelous, It is orunmental, but the ornament is extravagant in itsoxpenditure, We do not underrato the nbility, accomplishmants, patriotism and ser. vices of the gallant men on the naval lists, and wo would not urge their dismiasal, but their rotention in the pablic servico without any daty is opposed to thoe general theory of our Government, Leaving thom for the pres- cat without any action, there can bo no logiti- mnto roason given why most of tho navy- yards may not be closed up, and several mill- ions of dollars now spont for tho more sake of sponding saved to the Trersury. TRE LAW_OF CEARITABLE DEQUESTS, In the ILegal News of last week is pub- lished n communieation in which that part of tho will of tho late Mr, H. H. Tavron creat- ing n trust for o ‘new charily " is coasid- ored fromn n logal standpoint, and an opinion renched that that part of tho will cannot be maintained. 1t will bo romembered that SIr. TAxLOR, in his will, after setting a part of his ostuto npart for his wifo and only child, then pro- vided that *“ull tho rest, residue, and re- mainder of my estate” is given to certain persons therein named in trust, *the samo to be Ly them applied nnd devoted to tho founding or endowing here, in tho City of Chicago, upon a lasting basis, of such a char- itable or other institution na in their opinion, orin the opinion of a majority of them, is most noeded and will do tho most positive and enduring good and the least harm "; and ho added to this, ‘and provided further, that if the majority of said ‘I'rustees shall be un- willing or deom it inoxpediont to organize a new oharity, they may duly certify the same to my administrators and exccutors, who shall then pay over the same to the lawful Man- ngera or Truateos of the Home of the Friend- leus in the said City of Chicago.” Tho writer in the Legal News, while con- ceding that tho policy of the law and of tho courts oncournges gifts for charitable pur- poses, and that it is clsnr thot Mr. Tavron desired to give tho residue of his eatato to charity, there are defocts in the manner in which that desire or intontion on his part was oxpressad. o cites various authorities, En. glish and American, a3 establishing that the only charity recognized by the courts nre public charitics—publie in their nature. Further, that the courts will not establish any trusts for indofinite purposes of a benev- olont natare, even when thero is an exlsting Trustee in whom it is vostod, bnt will declare the trust void nnd distribute the property among the noxt of kin. Ho holds that a mere benavolent intontion appearing on tho faco of the will ia not auflicient, but the dovise must be absolutely to n charitablo uso. If the will does not clearly show that tho deviso is for charity and nothing elso, it is void, In o caso whero the boquest was to such charitablo or public purpose or purposo, par- won or persons, a8 the Trustees should in their diserotion think fit, it was held void beoause it wag not limited to charitablo objects. A baquost for such charitable or other purposes ws the Trusleos should think it was held void for uncertainty, "Thorule of lnw seoms to he that a bequest must bo limited to charitable purposes, and, when it goes beyond this and invests the ‘Crustecs to apply it to “other purposes,” then the bequeat is void, Though the clause in tha will providing that in case of the failure to establish o now charity the money intended therefor shall bo paid to tholTome of the Friondless is obscure, it is suscoptible of clear explanation, sud the writer assumey that tho courts, without hou- itation, will award the bequest to tho Howa of the Friendloss. MUNICIPAL DEBTS AND TAXATION, Gov, Hantraner, of Penusylvania, in his mesange to tho Legislature, givos considera- Dle space to tho consideration of the govern- ment of cities, Ho quotes with approval the statement that our cities aro the proy of job. bers, and the curse and puzzo of our civ- ilization, and that this is mors tho result of tho system than tho fault of the city officinls. Men cannot be made honest by legislation, but to the power for evil of thoso who are dishonest or carcless a limit can and should be fixed. 1o insists that the princi. pal source of abusio i8 not in the disposition to do wrong, but in the liconse to peculate and plunder, Without taking away tho power to plunder, mere changus in the men composing the Common Council will accom- plish nothing, e says: ‘Wo must not forgot that there {s & grave difforence ‘between the conaclunce of the individual and the public conscience. A man will hesitate, unless ko fu thor- ougbly dishoneat, Lefore Lie takea advantago of hix Delghbor, but the sanie man will not saruple s tnoment when Lis approval {s asked for o project which, under the gulsa of & publis {mprovenient, i to despoll the commuuity of a part of fts property. Agaln, u admitted fact that every publlo enterpriss al ways costs more, and someltmes twice 14 much us b privalo ouo, sud the cost to sdiminister the saveral do- partmunte in our cltics 1 8 striking fllustcation of his truth, Is thero any good rexson why tho cost of tho manigemout of thieso departments should fu some in- stances bo four or five tinies 1m excess of the awount 'pald filecn yeurw ago, while compared therowith the iucreaso of population snd sppreciation of property has Loen merely nomiual Ho vofers with inuch forca to the indiffer. enco and inertuess with which the mass of tax-payens look upon the extravagance of City Governments, Those people wake no effart to reform, aud the very freedon from criticiam gives encouragment and protection s to overy invontion of frand and plander, and thoe * pooplo who are taxed and who supinely submit are {o a great extent responaible thetefor.” The Governor argues that the hulk of the tazation in the large citlesfalls up- on tho property-holders, whilo the masaof the citizens do not feel its burdons, and are eithor unconcerned or rejoiced nt the public expend- iture, This mnss clect tho members of the locnl Legislatures, who are freqently as jmn. provident and wasteful as their constituents, Porsistence, however, in this policy will of necessity work acrious and permanont injury to the very class who urge and vote this waste, - It {a suicidal thus to exhaust and dry up the very sources of onr prosperity. Appended to the massage is an elaborate table, giving th amount of the debts of n numbor of citios in the United States in 1867 and 1875, with the amount of tax levies in thoso yonrs, From this tablo we compile the following ¢ ] ] umia0g o wndppeynd| 1) 3103 MIN 1930 "XATIVL It should bo stated that Daltimore las a large investment inbonds which bear inter. ent and neutrnlizen the greater pnrt of tho debt.. Wo give the debt of Now York City less the mmount in the sinking fund. From & table appended to tho mossage of Gov. Tinex wo find tho figures of the ng- groegato State, county, city, and town taxes in the Unitod Btates ns follows: 1830, $43,- 000,000; 1860, 394,186,716 ; 1870, $260,301,~ 2t 1In the ninetcon citios wo have given in the tablo, the sggregato debt in 1876 amounts to £498,097,635, ngninst $134,897,805 in 1867, or only eight years ago. The inerense is over £200,000,000, and represents an expendituro over and abovo tho amount raised by taxa- tion. Tho taxation nud debt stated ars for municipal exponditures slone, These figures exhibit tho wastofulness of Municipal Gov. ernments when unrestrained by constitutional prohibitions, lungs are busy at present in this city in holding mectings and making speeches in bohalf of o reorganized and reformed Dam. ocracy. At tho same timo a number of their colleagues are busy in committing one of the biggest tnx.stenls on record. Tho Repub- lican party is, meanwhile, punishing it ras- cals, 'We suggest to tho Democratic reformn- crsof this locality tho expedioncy of doing the samo thing, Tnoyas HoyNe and Judge Mizien would do considernbly mora service to tho city and to their party if thoy would go to work to haul the Evaxses, and Pom- rirees, and Lvaxs, and Iannivane be- foro the Grand Jury, instend of serv- ing on Central Committecea and go- ing iuto evancscont clubs with theso birds of prey. We have hnd enough tallk nbout roform; mnow lot these gentlemen follow the Republican procedent and nct in tho matter. If half the leaders of the Demo- eratic party in Cook County will put the other half in tho Penitontiary, whera they belong, we shall have some faith in the party's professions of reform, and shall ad- mit that the political firm of McCormicx, Mizrn, and Hoxxe is worthy of some confl- dence, Caunot theso gentlomen seo that at prosont they are more cat'’s-paws of tho rogues who cheer in public and laugh in pri- vata at their labored euloglums of reform ? ‘What iz nceded now is not essays on Demo- cratio doctrine, but the presence of a fow Democratio leaders behind prison.bars, Tho organ of tho whisky-thieves in thiscity has now taken a new tack, and comes to the defense of the guilty ofiicials in the “crookod"” business, Iis mew position i3 that tho distillers oud rectifiers alona are guilty ; that the Government officials, who formed tho combinations and went in part- nership with them, who divided the plunder with them, who blackmailed them and in- crensod their lovies upon them, who compellod them to enlarge their busi. ness that the profits might bo groater, and who perjured themselves and grow rich upon corruption, aro mot guilty and ought not to bo punished ;+and that the TRepublican party is doing wrong to farret them out. 'W'hisis tho roal meaning of its attack npon Tk Trinuxe: for demanding that no guilty man shall ascape, Its abuse of Tae Trinuxe Is only o pretenss to cover up the fact that il ia tho official organ of the thieves. It has pursued the same palicy in its discussion of Southorn politics, It has dofouded tho carpet-baggers and their cor- ruptions and upheld offlclal villnins, whila at tho ramo timo it haa vilified the Administra- tion which lLad control of these Btatesand lout it through the oparations of the very ras. cals whom this unscrupulous sheot has up- hold, Itis tho policy which hos marked its course from the vory finst, and the policy which might be expected from a papor which has beon coanvicted of being the oflicial organ of thieves. Thoso who belleve in special providence might bo pardoned if they regard the ex- coptionally mild weather of the winter, thus far, a8 o direct interposition in behalf of Chi- cago. 'T'heunrightcous railrond combination, which has discriminated so heavily against thiu city in tho matter of freights, has been thwarted to & considersble extent by the wenther, and that only, The Grand Trunk Railway was not in the combination, but would havo been at ita mercy with frozen har. bors Lero aud at Milwaukeo, because the othor lines refused to carry for it unless the freight were chiarged full rates all through, Fortunatoly, however, steamers have becn able to ply from Chicogo and Milwaukee to Grand Haven, making diroct conneotions with tho tracks of the Grand Trunk, and that road hos dono a first-class business, while the grain cars of other lines bave waited for employment, except as they could obtain it by reaching out to points beyond this city. It has also transpired that somo of tho roads, especially those at the Eastern end of the routos, havo suffered so heavily by the com. petition of more southern lnes, which have accepted low freight rates, that thoy are now wealiening. A speedy collapse of the whole cowbination i now considured to bo very probable ; thoy having soon found that their inatructiona lavo returned *‘ to plaguo the inventor,” A correspondent in tho last issuo of Tnr Onutoauo Tribung asks tho pertinont ques- tions *Ilas an attorney, in a closing speech to n jury, any right to attack a witness or a testifying expert, and to slander and ahusa Lim in any way ho chooses, mo matter whether he is entitled in the slightest degreo to a suspicion of that man's character?” Our correspondent is not alone in his interrog- atory. It is boing adked by many people, and there is a strong probability that some day somo ono mny auswor it inn mannor convincing to thoso legal ruflians who wake o practice of insulting and vilifying wit- nesses who, being compelled to testily or called as oxports, aver what they conscien- tiously helieve to bo the trath, In the re. cont Davis trial, a respeotable physician who did wot beliovo in tho farca of the mur- derer's {nsanity had the manlinoss nad hon. osty to stato his honest bolief, for doing which ho was grossly abused nnd maligned, and eolled a quack ond u perjurer. Every wituess hasa right to protoction, and it ia the duty of every Court to give him that protec- tion, A Judgo who sits idly by and listens to such abuso without reproving tho legal slanderer who utters it hardly does his whole daty. T — Tho Rheims Chamber 6f Commarco re- cently published returns of the qunntity of champague mndo in the Departmentof Marno during tho year ending April 1, 1875, from which it appears tha 15,118,345 bottles were oxported, and 3,517,182 sold for consumption in Iranco. Tho saddest featuro to con- sumers in this country will be the nunounce- ment that tho average price per bottle do- livered at the nearest railway ntation wasonly G0 cents per bottle! Chicago drinkers of champagne paying anywhers from 28 to $3 cnn find n liberal margin for refloction in this statoment. Tle Boaton papors announce that tho minis tors of Dodbam, Mass., recently gave m vory plessing and profitalle entertaivmont for tha benefiv of the boat-club of thot town. This #hiows great progress on tho pars of tho clorgy, of ono locaiity nt least, and it is espocinily admirablo becauss tho co-operation of tho clorgy with the young sthlotes will tend to remove many objectionablo foaturoa from boat- ing 88 now practiced, nnd 10 olavato o manly and noble form of amusoment, The action of the Dedham ministera {8 worthy of emulation in meny other localitics. Thora are many amusements and sports, {nnocent in thom- solves, which aro only objectionablo bocause respectablo pooplo allow thom to fall into tho control of poople who aro not respectable. — Tho Pall Mall Gazelle prints somo facts fouch- ing Gormany's wae proparatious which go to show that hor devolopment and fncronse of tho army aronot out of praportion to her oporations in o naval direction. Noxt yonr, twonty-two ships will bo added to the navy,—throe armod turrot trigatos, five iron-clad gnn-boots, oight corvottos, thrae torpodo-boats, two avisos, and a yacht, Of the scrow corvettes, four of thom will bo very poworfal, having ongines of 4,800 Lorso-power, and each armod with twelvo navy-guus. Throa of theuo vesgels will bo wont to tho Wost Indies, ono to Eastern Asia, and ono to tho Mediterra- nean. ‘ T —— Citizona of Chlengo who wish to murdor ob- noxious persous will horoaftor, if thoy are wiso, tako caro to bocomo eminent gamblors first. Then thoy nood foar no juries that can bo im- paneled in a Chicago court. PERSONAL, There is nothing new yot in bonnets—not even ideas, Sir Anthony Rothachild was ona of the lions of the Dritish turf. s winuings in 1875 are sot at the respeotable figure of £20,000, Tbe Austrinu Govorument dlso has offerod a Professorship to Max Muller, joned with the extraordinary permission to sslect the aubjocts of Ins lectures. TLast woek wo had Oates nnd Kellogg togathor; now wo havo only Kollogg and notes ; aud tho way ehe exchaugos hor uotes for cura tsn caution to tho poor in purso. Aloxander Stophens is a confirmed invalid, Ho hiss not left his room in mouths, and there s no immediate prospect of lhis gotling well enough to takie his sest ia Gongress. Willlam Page, tha artlet, hna already mado great progress with a portralt of President Eliot, of Harvard Colloge, and thoro is a general de- mand in Boston that {s be placed on exhibition when finlshed. Bignor Rosai hns made his appearanco in Parla as Romeo. i porsonation of the character ls much admired. Maurice Grau is now in Paris, and has almost complotod s second contract for tho appearance of Rossi L this conntry, Alioss company in o Now Lngland vitlage asked tho Boston Apollo Club to naue ita terms for ono concort in aid of the company. Tno Club folt that the company was playing upon its foclinge, and rofused to comply, It should havo aung a Losanna, Misa Anna E. Dickipson has quite recovered {from bor recont {ndispouition, and {a flling her postponed locture engagoments. IHor new loct nro fa cntitld “Bowing and Roapiog sud doals with questions of prisog-roforin sad the provention of crime, Col. Bakor, the British oflicer who s naw in Jail for indecent ausault, Is sald to bo immensoly popular in Paris, aud Aliss Dickinson, hia vio- tim, s Just the revorss.” Ono of tha most popu. lar songs of tho day colobrates the virtues of tho recreant Colouel. The London Academy tegreta that the dnty of Belocting persous who should bo asked to sign tho mmemerial to Carlylo waa wo carolossly per- formod. Itways: “Tho number of nobodies who have managed to advortiva thomselves by siguing tho nddross fs curiously large," Lord Dorby's roctoriel address as -the Unl- vorsity of Edinburg was chiofly dovoted to a considoratron of tho advantages of calture, in that it eeta & man free from the dangor of at- taching too much value to his own thoughts, or even tho thoughts of his owa day aud gonora- tion, Not geasonablo, but funny : **Say, Mistor," aald & woilod-looking boy at tho market, **do you over give a piece o' watormelon to & poor boy whoso fathier 'n mothor's dead, 'n who goes to Sunday-achool, 'n has got a sore heel ?* Tho man was deoply touched and gave him & large alice of a decayed one. Prince Bismarck haa choson one rather pooul- far way of showing bis griel At tho death of his intended sou-in-law, Count vou Eulenberg, Lio doen not intend to reduco tho number of enter« taloments thathe had planned to give during the winter, but ho proposes to excluds Iadies. Quly gentlemen will be invited. The Duko of Galltera’s prosent to the munio- tpality of Genoa of 8,800,000 francs, to be used in tho improvement of the Liarbor, (s the largeat private doustion of which we have auy rocent account. Bome of the newspapers intimate that the Dake's munificsnco might have been bouter directod towards the eduoation of the masses in Ttaly, Miss Louise L. Alcolt, who [8 spending the winter iu New York, *‘roceived™ for tho first timo in her lifo ou New-Year'a Day, and thought it “great fun.® Bhe chattod o her pleasant way with Dr. J. Q. Hollaod, with quaiot Jobn Hwinton, whom she calls the wodern American Goldamith, and with K. L Btoddard, who writes and odits tho *Brig-a-Isso™ verles with his lofy 5 ‘ hand (hia right hand belog useless from rhews motism), and, with thin awollen member rosting upon & ensbilon, soemol to thoronghly enjoy a gomeip with tho author of * Little Women,” Tho common Impression that Mius Alcott is potiton figuro 18 orronsous. Bhe is tall aud slately, Coutrary to genoral expactation, ths appolnt ment of Lord Lytton to tha Viceroyalty of India s favorably recoived by all tho upper olasaes In England, Tho Now York WWorld speals of tho new Vicoroy as **tho author of ‘Owen Meredith,'™ whorana that gontloman has been ia his gravo pomo time. Tord Lytton ia * Owen Meredith " and the author of ** Luaille,” The Bt, Louls Republiotn of Bunday has the following iutorssting paragraphis °**Yostorday forty-nine years ago our seulor, George Knapp, ontored the Missourt Reputlican oflico, & boy of 12 years, and he Lias heen continnously conneote ol with the Republican as apprentice, journey. 1aan, propriotor, and editor up to the present time. Hoisstillin what might be considersd *he prime of life, onjoying pood hoalth, and ate tendiug rogularly to pusiness," TOTEL ANBIVALS, Pabiner House—Tha fion, B. 8, Polter, West Band, Wia.; Gen, I, M. Enos, U, B, A,y Judge J, C, Hope ,Xv"‘s'r'llfi‘fig."g:'nlz Lfi.‘k. = ,”xw:"k-e::f ;’ 32 o Diteoit; G, 0, sielion, Biriningham, Conn. § 'St Fricdlander 'and E. Heller, 8an_Fraucitco; B. A, Grocene, Pliladelphia; Dr, Gerhiard Bohefs, Germany ; Ju B, Marks, Bochieater,’ N, To...Grand . Pocifo-s 7. Stone, 'Albany; ¥, Chenoy, Doston; olly, Chartes Bk M. ORI Pafne,” Clevelind ; ‘I £. Studobaker, South Bend ; L. Milcs, Aurora; George Olde, 8 Josephy Toof, Now Haveu : G, Milburn, Tolado : B Fhiladelphin g . B. Churel, &t, Paul} 11" Lo, Orent hapi X iisbebok, 1oh 0; A, B, ran \p! ., Babeoe! thacs, «iocTremant House—il, W, Prico, Ttockford ; V. B 3artin, Cincinnali; W, C. Tesss, New York’; Joha Felling, Mllwaukeo; George Rignold Tondon, Eng. ; I, A, Ellott, Combination ; 0. E, Dnit, W. 8, Hinman, Miwtukee....Sherman_Hotse—Drots [Bamuel Giarduor, Wnlln[n(tun % the Hon. John A, Bher Duffas and” wife, ruan, Walerte . i the Hon. Rufus Cheeney, Madison, Wie ho Hon, J. AL Gillett, Fond du Lios Inane M, Cate oston 3 J. R, Case, Ishpeming ; Cok A. 3, Cooper, Miiwaukee; Gen, Georgs Kleinemi, Handwich; N, C, Forresler, Frank Fflrna ‘Combina- Alon,.,.. Gurdner Tlouse—W, 1L, Shafer, I’, P, Car Co, § Mzn, Harvey, Darlington, Win, : Mrs, Claveland, Unre llngton ; G, ¥*, Reynoldw, Norfolk, Va.; 0. 1%, Gluson, city; 0. G, :ker, Chicago, POLITICAL NOTE3. Randsll bas hio hair in Blaino’s hands ; that ia tho way Raudall lias Blaine. Tho public dobatos botween Gen. Stewart L. Woodford and Gen, Ewlug daring the last Ohio canvass will soon bo published in book form. It insaid thet o recont privato canvass of the Lower Houao of Congross showa that it contalna 100 uncompromislog hard-money men, & gain of tionty-llivo over laat yoar. Ham Cox applied hia littlo joker onco-too aften to tho curroncy quostion during tho Ohilo came palgn; and now the paople aro glad his Come mitteo fa ndt to havo charge of tho matter. Thern ia a gonoral fecling in all parts of the country that Sonator Thurman doth protest too niich. No man over yob was chosen to tho Presidency simply becanso ho possessed the gltt of gab. ‘Woliope Mr. L. Q. O, Lamar will roflect bo~ foro hoe accepts n sent lo the United States Ben ato, Ho will not bo of much {mportance in the Upper Houso ; and bo fs litorally monarch of all ho surveys below, . Damo Rumor Las protruded ono of her thon- sand tongued into her left choels, nnd wo given 1i8o to the roport that ex-Speaker Blaiuo is act~ 1voly interested in & movement for the repeal of tha Prohibitory law in Maiue. Tha Tbird-Torm howl Is too slily for anything. Evon the Now York Zribune, a recognlzed Til- don organ, remarks that tho Democratic is the only party that would bail the nomioation of Gen. Grant with acclamationa. Tho Springtleld Republican thioks the Con- gressmon who have alroady begun to set trapa for each other aro ongaged in protty smal nese. Tho conntry bins work to be don "twero well it were done quickly, Ucngressmen Wheoler ia confidont of o Re« publican victory noxt fall. He is underatood to bo himself tho noweat aspirant for Presidontiai bonora; and tho mention of his name in this connection does not provoke & amile. Tsaac Caldwell, Esq., whoss namo has bsen montioned in connection with the Senatoriat oloction in Koutucky, bas published & card do- clining torun, 1tis uanderstood that his sup- port will bo throwan for Bouator Htevonson. Beck is bluo. The white citizens of Somtor County, 8, C., the * Qame-Cock” ocounty, have met and resolnted that ¢ Mosen shall never take his sest a8 Judgo In our Court-Houss, unless placed thore by Foderal bayonets.” Now, then, what 18 Modes going to do about it 2 g ‘Tho Boston Journal is opposed to having the National Ropubsican Conveation held in Wash- togton. Anywhare olso, it thin ks, would be bat~ ter. How would Alasks do? Tho Inhabitants of that Arcadian rotreat, we are sure, would bring no local pressaro to boar npon the dole- gates. Tho Democratio Congress cannot appeal to the conntry for tho appro7al of its record while » siogle apple-woman romalos intrenched in the ombrasures of the Government bulldings. This i & day of gmall things, Let the apple-women bo swapt out as tho monoy~changars were from the tomple. Sonator West, of Loulsians, i said to express confidonco that, if propor spaakera shoald be see loctod to atomp that State at the naxt slection, and thioy wore not "shot-ganned™ out of the parishes, tho Ropublicana woukl carry the day. How many Ropublican sponkers will take the riak of the shot-gun contingency ? Tho hiut of a movement in fayor of tho re~ eloction ot Benstor Wright by the Ioma Leglsla- turo, contained in a lettor published yesterdsy, i anew and startling development. The Beos~ tor has positively declined once, butitin quite pongible that ho finde odicial 1ife harder to re= linquieh than ho supposed it would be. The Governor of Marylaad, in his annual mes- sage, distinctly favors the granting of ald to soctarian inetitations, o owes hla election to tho Catholic population, aud ho is becomingly grateful ; but 1s not this rathor » confesaion of what the Catbotio policy will bo if ever the Dem- ocratio party obtains control of the polticsl machinery of the country ? The custom s in Masaschugotts for the Gowe ernor to read his own mosasges to the Legiulee ture ; and wo are glad tojhour that Gov. Rlco aoe quitted himself sdmirably, with s sonorous voice, for about an hour and a balf. No doubd the effort would have been still more accaptable it tho Governor's sonorous voles Lud beem huslied at tho expiration of, say, half an houre Asltfs, the Hartford Courani declaves thal Gov, Rice's mesnago is decidedly superior ts that of Qov. Tilden, though it may be fisd burglary to eay ao. Fitz-John Porter {s again the occasion of *¢ tronble” in New York. The World made tha gratuitons statement that ** nobody had deniod that Fitz-John Portor was houest and capable.” ‘The Times therefore hastens to make the der nial. It says: * Nobody has asserted that Commissioner Porter poddled ou$ labor-tickets, or exacted a considoration from the barbers, blind moo, aud saloon-keopory, who bave béen apponted to do the work of practical masons ia bls department. Dut it {a poasible o be dls- Lonest without picking pookets or getting monsy undor false pretenses.” Tho hibel-suit of the Boston Herald, in ‘yhicty Qen. Butler was counsei for the plaiotiff, re- sulted in & subatantial verdiot for the defendant. ‘The Uerald Lss slnco had occasion to give But- lor & hauling over the coals for his appearsuce in tho matter, sud especially for an attemps on his part to undervaluo the newspaper. Itss serts that bofore a cortain Gubernatorisl oame paigu Butler attompted to purchase the loe luence of the Merald, snd was foformed that be could have it for tho full yalue of the concernmy which wss placed at & much lugher Sgure than he gave in the Lbel-suit,