Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1876, Page 4

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WOOD'S MUBEUM--Monroa sirect, between Deare born and titate, ** Wild BUL" ACADEMY_OF MUSIC—MHalsted street, betwoen Madfson aud Monron, The Heywood Combination, FIRST METTIODIST CHURCH—Locturs by Elfza- beth J, French, X . D, at 3 p.m. ] The Ghicage Taibune. Thuraday Morming, February 24, 1870, Greonbacks at the New York Gold Ex. shango yesterday closed at 87§, Warmer and partly cloudy weather in this rogion to-dny, Bex Hru is anxious to fire off an intensely yatriotic speech in support of the bill grant- Ing pensions to the veterans of 1812, hoping Jo thereby take the curso off Lis traitorous amnesty barangue. ‘Too late; too long ago; too thin; won't do. Tho Democratio Nations! Exceutive Com- mitteo docline to tale any action on the prop- osition to abolish the two-thirds rule, prefer- tlement by tho Convention, which has the power to readopt or to abolish the old rule, Just as a majority of the delegates may choose. The candidates aro understood to desiro that the rule shall bo so amended that n majority of all the votes in the Convention shall gettlo the nomination, and it is proba- bl that their wishes will be gratified. Trenchery is charged upon Avaustus Benery, Chairman of the Democratic National Exccutive Committee, in that le sold out Twoey and went over to tho aid and comfort of Hexpnicks whea he suddenly changed frout and voted for 8t. Louis ns the place for holding the Convention, taking with him enough votes to decide tho matter. It is aleged that Somxry is publicly a supporter of TiLpeN, but privately a Hexpnions man, and there is 0 good deal of angry comment among tho Eastern Democrata in consequence of his double-dealin The ense of Gen. Broourierp, ox-Super- visor of Internal Revenne, furnishes anin. stdnco of tho grave conscquences that may follow a trivial and natural error. Ou tho strength of o lottor dated Jan. 15, 1871, tho Grand Jury of the United States Court at Bpringfleld returned an indictment charging him with conspiracy to defraud the Govorn- ment. Bubsequently it was demonstrated beyond question that the lotter was wrongly dated ; that it should have been Jan. 15, 1572, ot which timo Gen. BrooxrrrLp was no Jonger a -Supervisor, having previously re. migned. The Grand Jury very proporly ro- considered the indictment yesterdsy, and Gen, Broourierp stands completely vindi. cated. Not many of the inculpated revenuo officials can hopo to establish their innocenco vo casily and effeotunlly. e After nlengthy and hoated disenssion of the subject, tho Advisory Council has voted to rocommond another investigation of ¢ the muain question "—the guilt or innocence of tho Rov. Ilexny Wanp Bezcren of tho crimes of odultery, hypocrisy, and per. jury. Just how the investigation shall bo held tho Councii has mot yot sossion of tho Plymouth Church Examining Commit- too was productive of exciting ovents not down in tho published programme. Ar, Bowrey and his sons were present, and the charges against Mr. Breones wero submitted in full. When Mr, Bowey had finished hig statement he attempted to withdraw, The doors wero locked, and ha and his tons es. caped from the room in a state of grent ex- citement, asserting that violenco had been used upon them. This version of the offair {s doubtless an exaggeration, but it is clear that the sceno was an extraordinary one, and that the Plymouth brethron and the Bowexs wero in astato of mind not alto- gether Christian and affectionate. It is evi. dant that thera wag somathing of a row. The Common Council has begnn the con- sideration of tho aunual appropriation ordi. manco, having sensibly elected to pass upon tho estimates in open Council, instead of ro- ferring them to the Financo Committee, aud then acting independoutly of its recommend- ations, aa has been the routine in previous yeara. A good beginning wea mado yesterdny, and ono which gives promiso thnt the Council clearly perceives tho imperative duty of tho hour—that of tho most persistont and rigid retrenchment in providing for the expendi- tures of tho current year. Tho eatimates of tho Board of Education wero pared down $280,000, and olthough the publio schools have claims for liberality which are dacined almost sacred by the peoplo, the reductions made in this branch of municipul outlay will meet with general approval, provided the pruning-knife is applied with equal firmness and fairness to tho estimates throughout, But the tax-payers will not tolerate economy at the expenso of the publioc ‘schools, and ox. travagance and favoritism in other depart. ments. 8o far, the Councll has done well ; all the moro neccssity that it should go through tha entire appropriation ordinance on tho samo syatem. STmesa——— The Chicago produce markets were steadier yesterday, with leas doing. Mess pork was in moderate demsand and firm, cloning at §31,30 for March ard $2155@2LC0 for April. Lard was quict and easier, closing at 812.75@ 13.80 for March and 812,95@12,97} for April. Meats werq quist and steady, closing at 6jo for bosed shonldors, 113e for do short rils, and 120 for do short clears. Highwines were in fair requast aud uushenged, at §1.00 per wilon. Nieur was wmore aotive and sasler, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 187 Wheat was quict and jo lower, closing nt 1,03 cash and 8076 for March, Corn was dull and §@jo lower, closing nt 424c cash and 42 for March. Onts wero quict and e lower, closing at 320 cash and 324e for March. Ryo wns quict nt GGie,’ Barley was moro aetivo and 2@3e lower, closing nt fi8o for Februnry and &7c for March, Ifogs wera nctive and stronger, with the bulk of sales nt £8.00@ 8.25. Cattle were moro notive without change in prices. Bheop were in good demand and ruled firm. One hundred dollars in gold wonld buy $114.12} in greonbacks nt tho closa, An investigation of various well-defined re- ports concerning the discharge by the Crim- inal Court Grand Jury of Roxry, Gnurrz- aacnen, and Harson, tho men charged with tho murdor of ScmarrzLEIx and Roos on the the 9th of January lnst, has resulted in the development of a condition of things which niay well excito the consternation of the peoplo of Chicago. It nppears from tho statements of severnl piartics ovidently en- titled to belief that tho escape of Roscy, tho confessed murdorer, nand the two nlleged nccessories from indictment for the terrible crime was tho result of n concerted plan, in tho oxccation of which money was freely used ; and that the Grand Jury was o party to tho scheme. No other conclusion is possible, in viow of tho statoments given in onr local columus, than ihnt nn infamous ontrago has been perpe- trated in this matter. ItoxEr, the ncknowl- edged mnridorer of two inoffensive men, hns eseaped, ond is now far from the reach of the officers of justice, but there must e somo law to reach the corrupt scoundrels who conspired to sot him freo, bo they Grand Jurors or who they mny, If monoy caun pur- chnse immunity for murdorers in Chicago, it is time the people know it. THE PRESIDENT AND MR. BRISTOW, The Washington special dispatch published inToe Tnibune yesterday, concerning thecon- dition of the disagreement betwoen the Presi. dent and Sceretary Brisrow, was a revelation which the country will receivo with painful regret. The substanco of the information is, that the Secretary of the Trensury is waiting in expeetation for au order of dismissal from the President ; that such an order is consid- erad inovitablo; and that tho producing cnuso is the prosecution of Col. Bancoox. In whatover light this proceeding mny bo viewed, it cannot holp to be regarded with regrot by every honest member of tho Re- publican pnrty and by every personal and political friend of President Graxr, Wo fonr it will bo the great blunder of his officinl lifo, will strip his Administration of much of its distinction, and will do moro than any other act he could commit to creato s sentiment among the American pooplo of mortification and resontwont. The President cannot satisfy the country that ho is not governed in such an nact by personal foclings and sympathies which are opposed to considerations of the public good. It was not until his privato secretary, Bap- cock, becamo involved in the prosecutions ngninst the revenue thieves nnd robbers that tho President has discovered any fanlt with the vigor with which the Treasury Depart- ment hos performed its duty, Thero is nothing so offensive to tho public sense of propriety as to have tho ¢riminal law admin- istered according to the personal or oflicial relations of the nccused and the Government, 'That the Prosident has n waria personal re- gard for Mr. Baucock, and a atrong conviotion of his innocence, is no roproach to tho Presi- dent; but when that personal friendship and personal confidence in his integrity sre em. ployed to obstruct the regular courso of the administration of justico, and to excite the personal wrath of the Prosident against the officers charged with the administration of tho laws, it becomes one of tho most offensivoe of all Exccutive acts, The Secretary of tho Troasury, with an ability, an encrgy, a courage, and an integrity which have had no precedent in any othor Department of the Government under Gen. Graxt, uncarthed this wido-spread ond in- famous and successful conspircy to rob tho Troasury of tho United States, and ho brought cortain officers of the Government to tho bar of justice. At that time he had no knowledgo or suspicion of any interest ar participation, real or suspoected, of Col, Ban- coox in the frauds. It wasnot until tho trials of Joyce and McDonavo—notoriously guilty mon—thnt thero was any disclosuro of any acquaintance or correspondenco betwoen them and Aveny and Bascock, Then Aveny was tried and convicted, and then the Grand Jury of twonty.threo men, aftor long deliberation snd delay, united in finding nn!mlictmune_ sgainst Bancoox. Even supposing that tho Secretary of the ‘Trensury had been wenk onough to inter. poso his suthority to provent the trinl of one person after four othors had beon con- victed, what act could ho do that would lead to the reloaso of Bincoox from the legal sus- picion which kad been cast upon him? Had ho undertaken to sereen Bancoox and pro- vent a trinl, he wonld simply have converted public suspicion into conviction of his guilt, Lverybody then would have belloved Ban. coox guilty, and though porhaps innocent, Lo would have gone forth a leper in publio es- timation. Thero wos no way to savo Ban. coox's chameter after the Grand Jury found o truo bill of indictment except by an open trinl, whore the world would hear tho testi- mony. Bnisrow would simply havo ruined bimself while vainly trying to screen Ban. cocx. Bo thero was no other way by which Bascoor could be saved except by standing bis trisl, and wo ore surprised that tho President had not weon it in that light, But tho Presidont, with the inpulsive encrgy of a soldier, ordered that Bancock should be soparated from the vulgar herd of other no. cused persons, and shonld bo tried Ly a mili. tary court! Could anything have bocn more fatal to Bapcock's character than to remove hin case from tho ordinary tribunals of the law to bo heard beforo a military court hav. ing no possiblo jurisdiction of crimes com- mitted ngainst the rovenue lawa? Tho ac. quittal by a military court would have left him in tho estimation of the country with blackoned repatation, aggravated by tho innuendo that he had escaped tho fato of the other accused becauso of the aot of taking his case ont of the civil courts, Had the Bocretory directed that tho proscontion of Ool. Bancocx should be abandoned, he would Liavo taken the oase from the investigation of & jury,—a proceeding which tho Court itself refused to penmnit,—aud an acquittal by the Becretary of tho'I'reasury, taken with the con- viotion of all others, would bave left Col. Bapooox under the presumption of guilt and as oseaping by Executive favor, and in what plight would this hava left tho Presi. dent ? ‘Ihio only possiblo course the Becretary of the Tressary could take, cousistent with friendship for Col, Banoook, was tolet the cans take its rogular course and be fried. Thero could be no vindication of Bancock except by an acyuittal by a jury of his coun- trymen, To oxempt him from trinl, or to dis- chargo him without trial, would have been to disgrace him foraver, and to besmirch the Administration, from tho President down, with tho filth of favoritism in tho admistration of {ustico, If Col. Bancoox bo guilty, thon ho ought to b convicted,—the abuso of his high posi- tion, and of the confidenco and friendship of the Presidont, nggravating instend of oxtenu- ating his guilt, Ifho boinnocent, as tho jury in his caso will probably determine, then his vindication in that form was 5o essential to his charnctor that o could not bo vindicated in nny other way. Since the procoedings wora instituted in tho caso of BAncoox, the President has been importuned, direclly and indireetly, by the connsel of Bancock, by the friends of Bap- cock, by tho counscl and friends of all tho indicted thieves in tho country, including men in Congress, by Senators and ex-Sona- tor, to look upon the Secretary of the Treas- ury a8 a porsonal cnemy,—using his office for tho oppression and perseention of the friends of the President, and secking to disgraco the President by the conviction of thoso who aro nenr and friendly to him! Every whisky- thief in the United States undor indictmont and in dnnger of conviction for robbing the rovonuo hna added his wail to tho general howl ngainst the Becrotary of tho Treasury. They have tried, sud scemingly successfully, to poison the mind of tho Prosident with ly- ing storics that Mr. Bnistow has boon nte tompting to mako himself conspicuous by malicions efforts to disgraco tho President and members of his houschold, and all this in tho hopo that, with the dismissal of Bnis- Tow, nnd his courngeous, able, and cfficient assistant, Col, Wisoy, there will be a prac tical abandonment, or at lenat faiture of, tho prosecutions, and “al the guilty mon will cseape.” - Wo warn the President against this fatal error. The Administration Liag gained now lustre, hos won national confidence, has silenced long-standing reproaches and doubts, and carned o character for fonrlessness in tho discharge of its dnties, by the bold and man- ly conduct of Secrotary Brusrow. The honor and credit now belong to the Administration, Docs the President imagino that he can dis- misy the Secretary of the Treasury at the ro- quest of the convicted and unconvicted thioves and robbers and their paid attornoys, withont courting and recoiving that disgraco which pertains to the official protection of crimo? o may dismiss tho Secrotary of tho Trcosury, but in so doing ho will dismiss with him tho honor aud credit which tho country has given tho Administration for tho magnificent and successful battle with an or- ganized body of official and other robbers. Ho will give o flat controdiction to any claim by nny member of the Government to any sharoin the prosccution of tho guilty aave by tho honest and fearless Sccrotary who dared to do his duty. Let us hopo that the President will seo be- foro it is too lato the selfish, the criminal, and the vindictive spirit which nctuates theso villning who ‘whisper cnlumnios and breathe suspicion against his Cabinet officer, and that ho will sparo the country, the Administration, tho Republican party, and his over-carnest friends, tho disgraco which must follow such an act as it is now given out he intonds to commit. GOV. BEVERIDGE ON POLITICAL HONESTY. It wns vory proper that Gov. Bevenrinoe should have baen requested to Joad off in the general epecchifying meeting of tho Ropub- licans, hold in tho rotundn of the Pacific Hotel Tuesday, and incidental to tho mesting of tho Stato Contral Committce. As Acting- Govornor of tho State, he econples, by cour- tesy ot lenst, the most conspicnons position in the Republican party of tho State, o was on this account the first who was asked to speak, and his utterances weore naturally awnited with an interest coextonsivo with the dignity of his offico and as an acknowledged spokesman of tho party. Wo regard it as unfortanate, therefore, that Gov. BevErmar did not apprehend more clearly tho rolative importanco of tho issues which will be pre- sented to the people during the coming Pros- identinl campaign, and that he outlined themn in o mannor calculated to mislead the publio in regard to the Republican party's highest and noblest miksion at the present time. I'he burden of Gov. Bevxnivor's address was, that it is not recomstruction, mor the curroncy, nor the tariff, nor taxation, nor the issue of ** corruption or honest Government,” which constitutes the * great issuo of tho day, but that it is * whother the Government shall remain in tho bands of tho men who fought for and preserved it, or whether it gholl pass into tho hands of the people who, fought to destroy it.” We havo no doubt that Gov. Bevenmok belioves the case to be just es ho states 18, but we aro oqually confl- dont that the great mass of the Ropublicans in this State and throughout the Union plnco tho issuo of honest Government much highor in the scalo of rolative importance than tho place Gov. Bevenipar has given it. It will bo discussed in a gonoral way, and with moro or less effect, whether it {s safo to intrust the Govornment into tho hands of the Democratio party ond their Southorn Confod. cratez. But this, while very important, will not be tho vital point an which tho issuo will turn in the minds of tho votors who, in all well.contested eloctions, consti- tato the balance of power, With this bale anco-of-power class of voters who hold suo- cess or dofeat in their hands, and can elect whichover ticket thoy support, tho great issuo is that which Gov. BevEpo® passed over a8 merely incidental and comparatively unimportant, viz.: Whether or not the Ite- publican party, if the further administration of the Government be intrusted to it, will continue its work of rooting out tho abuses aud corruplions that have fastencd them- sclves upon the public service, of punishing tha ofticinls who havo botrayed tho interests of the peoplo for their own selflsh benefit, ond of introducing reform wherever it i needed, 50 83 to assure moro Loneaty and gronter purity and fidelity in the future, It tho peoplo ara persuaded that tho Re- publican party may bo trusted to do all this, thero is no question but tho Ilopublican ticket will bo triumphantly elected in this State and in tho Unlon ; but it thore is & reasonablo doubt of this, or if tho supreme importanco of this issue ia ignored by those who profess to speak for the Hepublican party, the defeat of the Repub- lican tiokot in 1876 is a matter of certainty, 1t is for this reason that we regard tho Acting. Governor's utterance na unfortunate, and that we protest against it os not representing the renl sentiment of the Republican party as made up by the mass of honest voters. ‘T'here ought to be no need to remind Gov, Bzv‘nmu‘; of pmfl events that aro o re- cent as those w! sbow he; &0y ques- tios hat honset Gonmmanylmllld rufir by gront ssuo of tho day. As ho sooms to havo overlooked them, however, wo only noed to refer to the patent fact that it was the dis. covery of tho Credit-Mobllier swindle, the subsidy frauds, the Congressional corruption in various phases, the rings that had been formed in difforont departmenta of tho pub. He service, the back.pny salary-grab, sud tho Joss of public confidonce in tho honesty of tho existing Adminlstration of the Government, which caused the appalling do- fent of the Republican party in 1874, and lost Lo it such Statos as Massachusetts, Now York, Ponnsylvanin, Ohio, Illinois, Wiscon- sin, and others, that bad been regorded ns permanontly Republican in politics, It was this samo rovulsion which gave the popular brauch of Congress into tho lands of the Domocratio party by almost n two-thirds ma. jority. Gov. Bevenipae hns singularly over- looked this fact. Ifo Lins nlso neglected tho strong and convineing proofs that the partial racovery lnst fall by the Republican party of the ground lost in 1874 hns been chiefly dua to the purging of the party of some of tho corruption nnd tho corrubtionists, and to the vigorons efforts of tho Administration to de- tect the abuses and to punish tho officiala who have been responsible for them. 'This fact is as significant ns the othor, and attests still ‘'moro the importance of insisting upon tho reform policy ns the essential issue of the day. 3 ANOTHER DEMOCRATIO BLUNDER. If the Republicans had mapped out n se. riea of blundara for the Democrats thoy could searcely inve mada eolections moro favorable to the Republican causo than the Domocrats have committed of their own motion. Tho latost blunder ia the location of thoir National Convention ot St. Touis. It is peculinrly significant by reason of tho circumstances that havo governed tho choice. It is a tri- umph of tho two most dangorous elements of the Domoeratic party soting in hnrmony,— tho inflationists and the Confederntes. It is a confession that tho Demoorats have dotor mined to guide their Proaidential cumnpaign by tho same policy ns that advocated by the 8t. Louis Zmes, which may honceforth be regarded 88 the organ of the National Demo- cratio Convention. Tho choico of St. Louis hns not been accidental, but deliborate; not dictated by any notions of persoual comfort, coolness in hot weather, or accessibility, but Ly tha prevailing sontiment of the party in Missouri; not prompted by any desire to oxert an important influenco over the Btate of Missouri, which is alrendy Confederate to tha coro, but by tho purpose of having the Missouri sen- timent influonce the action of tho Conven- tion, Tho Confederato sentiment of Alis- souriis probably ns promonnced as thot in any othor Bouthern Stato in the Union. Daring tho War, tho Missouri Rebels were tho uglicst customers to deal with; they woro guorrillas by preforenco. Belonging to o State which was geographically a part of tha North and which did not formnlly sccedo from tho Union, the Confederates of that Stato wero nocessarily outlaws oven among the secossionists with whom they cast their lot. Since tho War, ns soon ns thoy obtainod control of the Btato, this Confederato senti- ment has reassertod itself in the regular old guerrillastyle. It was this sentimont which abandoned sn nblo and distinguished states- man like Cant, Scmurz, who was not ncting with tho Ropublican psty, to fill his placo in tho Tnitoed Ktates Senate with o man who had nothing: to recommend him but his provious nsgocistion with guerrillas, one who wns scarcely known in the South and had novor beon lheard of ot tho North, 'T'his. Confoderate sentiment bas natarally afiliated with the worshipers nt the shrino of the Rag-Baby, and with the full knowledgo based on Qonfederato oxperi- encoe that o limitless, irrodeemablo currency’ leads to repudiation and bankruptoy. This is the influonce to whioh tho Democratic Na- tlonnl Convontion is to bo subjected. The influences presonted clsowhoro were not to the likingof the Democratic manngors. Qliengo offered material comforts for the delegates and visitors to the Convention which no other city could offer, but it was felt that Ohieago is in favor of honest money, and that tho Chicago Democrats, for the most port, wero loyal during the War, All this was just tho opposito of what the Democratic manngers wanted, By locating the Conven- tion at Cincinnati, tho Democrats might have hopod to counteract to some extent tho work of tho National Republican Convention to bo held thero; but they would bhave encoun. tered in Cincinnati something of tho same Union sontiment as in Chicago, ; Giving Cin- cinnatl the cold shoulder scems to bo, under the circumstances, n eonfession that thero 18 no hope of earrying Oblo for tha Domocrats, and Ohio has its Btato election in October, & month preceding tho Presi. dentinl elootion. A Republican vietory in that Btato will resound throughout the nation with a ring that will terrify tho * unterri. fled,” But 8t Louis wes chosen, and tho sa- perior advantages of othear cities both in per- sonal and politicalibeariugs forfeited, solely that tho Confederate and Rag-Baby sontiment of that city might bo tho atmoaphere sur- rounding the Convention. As far ns tho nominotion goes, the location nt Bt, Louis is probably favorable to tho ambiguous Hew. pricks, who seems to be the favorito among the Southorn Confedorates, and who is pro- pared to accopt auy financial platform which may bo sdopted by the Convention, and to look both ways while standingon {t. Thi wilt be a Jogical conclusion of tho party policy indicatod by the clioice of Bt, Louis, and help on o the defeat which the Democrats seam publican Conventions and gatherings of Tues. day was the adoption by the Wisconsin'State Convention of the following resolntion 1 stesolwed, That, while we belleve the clioice of {he Duion Republicans of Wisconsin {6 emphatically in fa- vor of the nominstion of tho nstion's glfted son, (he 1ion, Jaxys G. Bras, yot, i view of the tme to intervens before tho asacmbling of the Natlonal Con- vention, we doem it inexpedient to fnatruct our dele- gates, but trust 10 shelr intolligence, discretion, sud fdelity to falrly represent their constituents in the Qischiarge of thelr important duty, The action of the Indinna Convention in. structing ita delegates to present tho name of Benator MouToN was a natural and proper testimonial to tho eminont services of the mau who haa boen the Republican leader in Indizna for more than twenty years, In this sense it was n doserved compliment, but it hes no gencral political significance, being mercly a local, Stato natter., Not so, how- ovep, in the caso of Brans end Wisconsiu, the Wisconain Convention melected Mr, Bramee from among all tho candidatos beforo them without any * State pride in the ease, ‘Their seloction, too, ia but the expression of o growing sentiment in favorof Mr. Brame that hasg sseertod iteelf unmistakably through. out the West during the last faw weeks, ‘There is every probability that ths sotion of thre Wisoonidn Oouvention Wil be fullowdd ‘powor in Paris, nnd puts now opportunitics by that of Iows, Minnesotn, Michigan, Kan- gas, Nebrasko, and the Pacifio States. Tlli- nois, too, though haviog tho samd natural preforenco for Mr. Wasnnunwe thnt Indiana lins for Mr. Montox, docs not fecl like press- {ng hor candidate after having enjoyed tho lionor of the Preaidency for sixteen years, unless in the ovent of such a division in tho Convontion ns shonld warrant the presont- ment and zenlous and persistent advooncy of Mr. Washnonye ; and sosho will probably Join with tho othor Weatern States in sup- porting Mr, Brame's candldnaturo at tho out- sob 08 ngafnst that of nny ono else, Tho sound of thp popular voleo for Drame in this pact of tho country is by no means un- cortain, immoediately oftor tho tion of Irince Lzorotp, and whilo the Kingdom was {n utter confusion, and tho ngitation for n renowal of tho Republie was once more sot in motion, tho Carlists made en irruption iuto Navarre, but wore agnin dofoated. Mennwhilo Asaprua mount od tho throne and for a time quict reigned at Madrid, but the Carlists wera soon busy ngain. In ‘April, 1872, Dox Oantos, calling himself Cinvos VIL., crossed tho frontier nt Vora and took command of his forces only to Lo routed in Novarro by the overwhelming forces undor Sznmaso. Lessor dofents fol. fowed in Moy, and nt 1ast the Carlista com- menced surrendering and dispersing, nnd tho causo of Doy Canros scemed hopeless, In tho Intter part of May, Bsnnano offered am- foroed resigna- TRE FRENOH ELEOTIORS, The recent Parliamentary oloction in Franco is of extremo interast in this country, since it haa gono so largely and unexpectedly Ropublican, and bas been conducted to this successful issuo without any outbreak or vio- lence or disturbanco of the political currents. In il respects it seorns to havo been s quiet and tranquil as our own elections, and in somo respects was even marked by less of partisan virulenco and bitterness. Themem- bers elect aro sot down as follows: Repub- licons, 108; Conservative Republicans, who can hardly be counted in the Republican ma- jority, ns thoy are not unalterably opposed to o monarchy, 75; Donapnrtists, G4; Logiti- mists, 26; Conservatives, 24; Constitutional- ists, 20; Iladicals, who, when necessary, will aot with tho Ropublicans, 17, It is further stated that second ballots sre necossary in 100 districts, ond that whon theso aro de- cided the Ropublieans will havo 283 seats in o total of 630, which gives thom a clear working mnjority, although not a largo one, divided betwoen the Left ond tho Extremo Loft. This sudden chiange in tho Administration, if tho Republieans have the pradenco and moderation to avail themselves of it withont cutting and splitting into factions and war- ring ngninst ench other, will result in groat blessing to Franco. It will sccure n Cabinot moro in tho interests of Ropublicanism than any sinco the downfallof NaroLzoy, and also o Republican rovision of tho Conatitution, giving now guarantees to the Fronch Re- publio. It is a blow at the centralization of in Juno Oarlism was incrensing ogain so fast tbat tho Ministry proposed martial Iaw, ThoKing opposed it and the Ministry reaigned. In February, 1878, Axapevs abdi- ented, and Carlism reomed thoreupon imbuad with fresh lifp. During that month they Boized and occupied a largo part of Catalonta, In April, howover, they mot with sorlous ro- vorses. In June, victory wns on their side again. Thoy Inid succesaful siege to Irun, dofented Oaatanon ot Unriotn, and defeated and killed Oanvmvery. During tho romainder of 1873 and in 1874 they had mado such hendwny that when Arronso msconded tho throne they held Navarre, Biacny, Catalonin, and a considorable portion of Central Spain, In April and in May of 1876 tho Oarlist forces of Donnraanay wero defeated and driven out of Valencia, In Juno, tured tho Carlist citadoel of viejs, and drove the the Ebro, nnd in the samo month Gen. ‘Werren defeatod tho Oarlists in Arragon, In August commenced the sioge of the famous Onrlist citadel of Leo do Urgel, which finally cnpitulated, togother with ita Ultramontane Bishop, and led to Sanarrs' flight into France. The year closod with tho fragments of tho hemmed in by the Alfonsists, Tho rigors of the Alfonsists, under Joveuran's direction, havoat last crushed out Doy Cantos and his ill-fated followers. BMany of tho leaders hnve has fallen into the honds of ArroNso, who is now received with tho willest en- thusinsm by the people of the prov- inces lately occupied by tho lists. DEven tho Vatican hns notified its favorite son that fie had boiter lay down tho sword, and presumably with it the crown which the Papal Envoy placed upon Lis head with so much bombastic show whon Dox Canvoy crossed from France into Spain, ‘Tho suppression of Cnrlism now leaves Ar. roxso freo to doal with his rebellions sub- jects in Cuba, and, while it affords ground for hopo of the restoration of poace and ardor to that aflicted island, it at tho samo timeo dofines the responsibility of Spain in her relntions to tho United States more sharply than ever. Tho latter may now de- mand, with a greater dogreo of justice than ovor bofors, thnt Spain shall suppress the Cuban rebellion. into the hands of thoss Ropublicans who have hithorto beon working under great difl- cultica for tho spread of ediication among the masses. ‘The illiteracy of France has been its curso, and this fact hag boen rocognized by tho Republicans, who ara now in a position to commenco its romoval. 'The clection agoin is o trinmph over tho Vatican, all of whose agents in Franco were mrayed agninst the Republicans. It is a blow ot priestly rule and dictation that will not be rclished by Europemn Ultramontanes, Its tendency is to omancipato the Stata from tho Church, Inall these respects, tho result of tho eloction is extremely grotifying, It now remning to bo soen, howovor, whother the Fronch Republicans have the faoulty of gov- orning themselves and theroby improving the odvantago they have gained to placo the Ropublican form of Government upon a firm nnd enduring basis, If eo, this clection cannot but rosult in perma- nont blessing to France. The political rec. ords of tho Assombly, howover, during the past fow years aro not very oucouraging in this dircotion. Hitherto Ropublicanism has Doon on Ides, nnd of all impracticablo things tho French Iden is tho most so. It remains to be scen whether tho Fronch Republicans can reduce their Idea to a fact, s reality, o matter of ovory-day practico, THE TURKISH INSURRECTION, Tho accoptance of Count Anpnassy's note by tho Bublimo Porte suggesting cortain re- forms, inspired by Anslr%n, Germnny, and Russin, secms to havo arousad in some qunr- tors an anticipation that it wonld have & ma- terial influenco in quolling the insurrection ond seouring tho Christinn subjects of the Bublimo Porte in cortain rights which wonld reconcilo thom to "Curkish rule, The infer. onco would bo warranted, porhaps, it that sublimely-imbecile monarch who adminis- tors tho Govornment had the power to en- forco tho roforms suggested by Count AN- pnassy, and his present firman would be moro hopefal if any of his provious firmans had been respested or onforoed. A corre- spondent of tho Pall Mall Gazetts cxplaing vory clently why there is no probability .that the firman inthis caso will bo obeyed. Hoex- plaina that down to 1856 evary national act was discussed and voted in an Assembly,and only thon promulgated in the name and exscuted by tho authority of the Bultan. In 1856, however, the reigning Sultan cstablished an nbeoluto despotism by disregarding any ncta of the Assembly and issuing firmans on his own authority. Tho practice has been con- tinued antil this day, and the peoplo Lave continued to dixregard them, and to system. atically disoboy them. In the present caso, oven hod the Bultan been disposed to submit Count ANDRAssY's noto to the Assembly and to place the reforms before the poople as part and parcel of the fundamontal law, thoro is littlo doubt that thoy would bo just as sys- tomatically disregarded and disoboyed. It is not a question of Murk against Turk, but of Turk against Christian, in which the hatrods of raco and religion play a prominent part, It is just ns impossiblo to carry out these roforms in Turkey as it wonld have been for JevrrnsoN Davis or ALEXANDER BrerEENs, in cose we had not had 6 Olvil War, to give tho negroos their freedom and eivil. rights by issuing a decroe to that effoct. Tho sloveholders nover wounld have obeyed or oven rocoguized it. The Christians inTurkey aro virtually in the ssme condition as our negroes wero before tho War of tho Rebellion. To all intents and purposes they aro slaves, The Turks aro tho master raco and own tho lands, Thoy hold nil the ofices, They aro the Judgos, Magistrates, Bheriffs, and polico, They gather the taxos and tithes. Thereis no appenl from their docisions. Tho Chris- tians cannot bear witness ogainst the Turks, 'Thoy are to-duy the samo Ohristian dogs in tho Turkish estimation that they woro contu. ries ngo. Thoy are only serfu working upon lands they can nover own, ot least un. der Turkish rule. 'Tho flrman, therefors, that the imbocilo Bultan hng fssued will nover bo enforced, first, becauso tho Turks them. selvoa will rogard it as another act of despot- ism, and second, bocause it will strip them ot their revenues and award privileges to n race towards whom they aro invincibly hostile and whom they have boen acenstomed to re- gard as thelr slaves, However favorably dls. posed the Sultan may feel towards the re. forms which Austria, Germany, and Russia have compelled him to promulgate, he has no power to exccute thom, and even if he had the powoer the ‘Turkish people wounld find ton thousand ways to evado them. In our own country there was no way to secure tho negrood in their rights exeopt by an sppeal to war and tho subjugation of the elave-masters, Just 80 in Turkey, When the Tarks have beon defeated and driven over the Bosphorus, whonco they came, the Ohristlans will have their rights, and not before then. Tho question of enforcement of roforms, hawever, is noither Lero nor there. The in. surgents hava pevemptorily stated that they will not accept tho proposed reforms, but will fight on until they are viotorious or exe ternitouted, Thay bavo gaided an important ally in Bervis, whose peoples, thfough thy THE DOWNFALL OF CARLISM, Tho Carlist insurroction has at last been complotaly suppressed. The army of Don COanvos is shattered. His strongholds have surrondered. His war matorinl has fallen into tho handa of the victorious Alfonsists, His troops are floging in oll directions for safety, and the Pretender himself is making ropid tracks for an nsylum in Austrin, It will in a1l probability be along time bofore Dox Cirros will raiso the standard again, and Dox Auroxso is now left freo to denl with his Onban insurgents and such Reopublican or International uprisings as may oceur in Spain ot no distant day. ‘The Oarlist insurrections havo ocoupied 80 prominent a placo in the history of tho last fifty yoars that a resumo of tho fluctuating fortuncs of tho various pretendors will be of interost. The Carlist uprisings really date back to the timo when tho socond Dox Oaxzros, son of Cnanves IV., made his advent in Bpanish offairs, His brother, Feromvaxo VIL, was childless, and upon this fact his friends based the hope that, upon the deceaso of Fenpmvanp, Don Oanros would reuch the throno. This hopo was frustrated by tho ab- rogation of tho Balic law which placed Isapzrra upon the throne. When FerpinAND died, in 1838, Dox Oanvos proclaimoed himself King. Manta Onmistiva, who was then Re- gont, declared him a rebel, and concluded tho quadruple alliance with Gront Britain, France, and Portugal, which resulted in the oxpulsion of Dox Oanros from Spain and Portugal. Ho smuggled himself back into Spain, how- aver, and for ix yoars maintained a guerrilla kind of warfore, until ho was eventunlly drivon into Franco. In 1845 he anbdi- cated in favor of his son, Oinros Lus Manra Fepnanoo, known as the Count of Montemolin. The latter, in 1849, ontered Spain in disguise, but was discoverod and arvested. Ho was subsequently released and went to England, but with the pertinacity which has charactorized all tho Dox Oarvosrs, in 1860 he was sgain in Spain ot the head of o small army, Ho was overwholmingly de- feated nt Tortosn and mado o prisoner, but was released upon renouncing his elaim to thethrone. Therenunciation wasmade only to e broken,and he in turn abdicated in favor of his brother, DoN Oarros Juan Maria Jsroon, who, in October, 1868, resigned his claims in favor of his son, the prosent Pretender, Canros Manra JuaN Istpon, now in his 28th yoar, who, with his younger brother, Don Arvovso, has maintained for soveral years tho insarrection which has ot last beon sup- preased undortho administration of hia cousin, Dox ‘Avronso, now King of Spain, This uprising bas been maintained with the most dogged pertinacity for cight years with varying fortunes, Thore have been times during tho transition periods of the Government at Madrid when it seemed a3 if Dox Canwos wero on the sure road to tho throno, but tho next wave would hurl him back again, Buppressed in one placo, tho robellion would break out in another. After o succession of reverses, money and arms would pour in again from England and Tranco, and DoN Oarros’ bonner would ouco more rise, The evonts qf thesa eight years clearly whow these fluctustions. Ho mado his first uprising at La Monoha and Ciudad Ttoal in 1809, during the Regeney of Bxanaxo, bat Was guickly “ stppremsed In 1870, nosty to Carlists who would surrender, but JoveLran eap- Canta- insurgents ncross Carlists pushed up againat the Pyrences and winter and the united and telling blows of entered France, and nll their moterial of war Car- Bkuptschina, have declared in favor of way ogninat Turkoy. Berviaina poworful prov. neo, which, after conturios of resiatance to Turkish tyranny, has maintained n quasi in. dopondenco for thirty yonrs, paying (lia Turke aamall tributo, but otherwine managing hor own affalrs. Ithnas a population of 1,200,. 000 inhiabitants, and o Inrge srmy wall drilleq and disciplined, organized on tho German plan, and equipped with il tho modern ap. pliances of warfare, Without the ald of the Borvinns tho insurgonts have already suc. coeded in holding the Turka at bay in their mountain fastnessor, and, with their afd snd tho nid which must inovitably come from the Austrlan frontier, which is in active sym. pathy with the Christians, thore onn Lo little doubt that in a short time they would achieve their independonce. Tho only obstacle which lioa in tho way of such n result is tho possi. bility of an interforonce by tho Grent Pow. ors, who may not yat bo ready for tho parti. tion of Turkey, which would in all probabil. ity follow tho victory of tho insurgents, In. ssmuch, howaver, na the reforms.which they havo suggestad -cannot be enforced, they are in honor bound to make moro imperative de. mands yot of Turkoy, That they will not be is alrendy shown by the roport of the Groek Consul at Barissa, who states that, notwithstanding the Sultan’s firman, an in. cronso of tho tithes has been summarily de. manded in tho Provinces of Epirns nnd Thessaly, and the evidenco of Christians iy stiil rejected in the courts. In those prov. inces the firman romains o doad lotter, and i will romain so in all Tho old adage, **What is sauco for the goose ia sauco for the gandor,” is exemplified in moro ways than ono in connection with the recont Now York firo, It will bo remom. bered that, after tho groat fira in Chicago, the peoplo of this city wero severely criticised for the large number of unsafe buildings, the Inck of firo-proof atructures, tho ineffl. ciency of tho Firo Department, and the in. . sufficioncy of the water supply. Sinco the New York firo, lowover, it has been found that that city also hoas un. safe buildings, structures that ara not five-proof, n Firo Departmont that is badly managed, and n water supply that is much more doficient in proportion to the sizo of tho cities thon our own evor was, It will also bo remembered that it wns o scrious cause of complaint ogainst our local insuranco companies that our risks ware so largely located in Ohicago, It now appears that the samo holds trite of no less than thirty-nino New York Oity insuranco com. panies whoso risks are located almost entiroly in the meroantilo part of that city. In case of a disnstrous conflagration approximating in loss to tho Chicago fire, the assets of these companies would shrivel up quito as succoss- fully as did those of our own companies. It begins to appear that all tho lossons wo wera compelled to leorn from our great conflagra~ tion the New Yorkers have yet to learn from their little blaz The Wisconsin Republican Convention pnssed this expression of opinion on the car. roncy question: o Wo belleve 1n honest moneg, that tho currency ct tho nation should, as soon as consistent with business {nterosts and safely, be made equal togold, and uatil that timo ahould continue as legal-tender, T'his rends very- differently from the cow ardly utterances of the Hoosiera on tho same day, who vociferously demanded the uncon- ditional repeal of the Resumption act, substi- tuting nothing in its placo oxcept what they, call the ‘“natural laws of trade.” Thoy want the eurrancy ‘neithor’ expanded nor contracted,” but to remain permanently une disturbed 08 an irredcemable, depreciatod, and fluctuating medium of oxchange, and by ¢ gteadily pursuing” this do.less polioy they look for ** ultimato resumption of specie-pay- monta.® Tho next best thing for those who Delieve in this idiotio, polioy 18 to go and voto for Franx LaNpeny, the Btumptaif candidate for Governor. Tho Wisconsin Ropublicans do not advoeste tho repenl of the Resumption act. Thoy have avoided making any expres- sion on tho subject, proferring to loavo tho mattor to tho wisdom of Congross, but at the samo timo thoy declaro their faith in honest money, and their wish that tho paper our. rency shonld be made equal to gold in valuo, ' but until that time that it shall continue g logal-tender, Tho Hon. E. L. Browx was olectod Prosldent of the Nepublioan Stato Conventlon of Wiscon- elo on Tuesdey. In his remarks on taking the chalr be sald, speaking of the Republican pariy : Under sil clrcumstances §t bas been faithiful to its trust. Its misslon fa nob ended. Experience has demonstrated that this Government is aafest in the hauds of itu frionds, and theso friends are the Re-' publican parly. We do what no other pusty evee did,’ —wo hunt out frsud and corruption in high places sé woll ax low. There ia a hesp of truth in thia clalm, Itls, quito cortain tlio Domooratio party nover hunts out the fraud snd corruption in high places or, low placos when committed by membors of its party. The rule is to concoal aud deny, and mako monoy out of the officce. ———— Gov. BaaLsy, of Michigan, has isaued s procs lamation in commemoration of the Centennial yoar; aud 1f his words carry no special wolght With thom, they at least indicato o good dleposl-' tion sud patriotlo feolings on tho part of the! Governor. Tho principal recommondation of; tho proclamation is that ovory citizen of Michi- gan on the 16th of April next plant a tree, to be known by futuro gonerations as tho Centennial treco. Tho Clovornor also urges the people to tako agaln thelr political reckoniugs, and dovote thomaolves atow to the maintenanco of our re- publican Government inall ita original purity and vigor. Tho planct Jupiter ia now in the hoead of the constollation Beorpio. e will be very pear to Bota of the second magnitudo next Bunday night, and &t 1 o'olock Monday morning his ane gular distance below that star will bo only four seconda of aro, or onc-ninth pat of Jupiter's apparent dlameter, FPERSONAL The New York Herald aaya that Gen. wept 1o court when Btorrs drew his pathetic pleturo of the praylog wife and ohlidron a$ home. Dr, Hall's 0ld stone church In New York ia be- ing taken down piecamenl and rebuilt without material alteration in Weat Fifty-seventh street. The material in the building was given away to the Contral Preabyterian Ohurch, Mesara, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, nold last month s Bible, onos the property of Oharles II,, with the goys! armsin silver, for £90 6s. It was printed by Field, Cambridge, in 160, snd the plates wers by Hollsr snd Vischer, o One of the members of the Advisory Counall at Brooklyn is the Rev. J. G. Morrill, pastor of the First Congrogational Ghurch of Davennort, who dencanced Theodere Tilton from bis pulpll, and Legged his congregation nob to aitend we lecturo ou **The Problem of Lite." Ons of Brigham Young's daughte as lately warried clandestinely a Gentile, but in a day o two retarnod to ber fathor's housa. Another dsugltor, Misa Nabbis, has nabbied s rich yousg Rormon, aud taken him In trinmph oa a bridale tour to Hew York, Brighawm's theoty of piorsl aittinges nros buasiltes be Indasvealend whiest