Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1876, Page 4

among his supporters all the hard-money men of Indisua ond o large proportion of the soft-money men of Ohio and other Statos, and is just now at the Sonth invoking the support of the Confederates. Just at this moment the Democrats of Indiaun havo n Conventlon to nominato can. for State offlces, vontion, among its other duties, will havo to nominate Mr, IIExDRicEs for tho Presiden- cy, nnd at thorame titno present the IleNDRIOKS platform on the ourrency question. As this platform must bo in fovor of paper monoy, and of a paper monoy not merely greenbnck promises-to-pay, but paper dollars requiring no redomption, but final in themselves, it will sadly interforo with Mr, HExpnICRS' suc. cess in tho National Convention. be taken into the Democratic Convention aa tho caudidate of the paper-money party, just as Mr, Monrox will be taken juto the Repub- lican National Convention as the champion of 1t is moro thian likely that the 4 1{ome Guards” of both parties in Indioun will slaughter tho Indiana candidates for President in both National Conventions, The Republicans of Indiaun have greatly dnmaged, if not nlready killed, Mr. Monton's chances by loading him with tho shinplaster platform, and now tho Democracy of the samo State proposo to perform the same oflice for Mr. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, BAYES OF RUDSCRIPTION (PAVADLE TN ADVANCE), dull and o lowor, closing at 42}o for March and 42%c for April. Oats were qnist and firmer, closing ot 13c for March and 820 for April. Ryo was dull at 62G03c. Barloy wns more notive and irregular, closing at 62¢ for March and 52{a for April. Hogs were scarce and firm t 10c advance, with the bulk of the soles nt §7.76@7.00. Cattle wero quiot and closed lower. Shaep were firm at $4.25@6.00 far common to choiee, 1ast thero was in storo in this city 3,149,993 bu wheat, 1,878,753 bu corn, G44,3: bu oats, 146,385 bu rye, and 470,184 DLu barley, One hundred dolinrs in gold would buy §114 in greoubacks at tho close ] Tho great carnival of Mardi Gras, always g0 popular in the Southera cities, was yoster- dny celebrated with an abandon without precedent in America,—n fact largoly due to the universal pressure and effcrvesconce of contenuial enthusinsm. putativo poverty of the South, money wns lavished with skillful prodigality, and, favored with tho most benignant co.operation of the wenther.clork, the citizens of New Orlenns, Memphis, Lonisville, Cincinnati, Wheeling, and other eontros, produced pageantries which, ensily surpassing oversthing of the Lind re- ported proviously, could only rival ench Our tolegrapbic columns hold the montal mirror up to this gorgeous coalition of humor, erudition, and bizarrerie Postage Prennld at this O Daly Bition, poatatd, 1 yenc.... ress FOCN TWEKKS for, . Atoraty and Meligions iont On Saturdny evening 15 ‘which W will Dropay. y and mistaker, be sure and giva Kost- n full, inclading State and County. 1t ray be mada eithor by draft, express, Posl-Ofhos arder, or in ragistered lettors, at our risk, TERMA 7O CITY AUNSCRIBERS, Dally, delivered, Bunday oxcepted, 20 cente ner week, Paily, delivered, Bund. 30 cents per woeke WOOD'S AMUSEUM—Monros street, hetween Dear- Sorn and btate,' Fanchon Aftoracon and evening. Notwithstanding the ‘McVICKER'S THEATRE—Mad| the tag-Baby. Desrbora _and Biafe. mond. ¥ Col. Mullerry Bell |IQOLEY'S_THEATRE—Randolph atreet, between Clark and LaSalie. Tho California Miustrels, = After- noon and evening. ADELPHI TAEATRE—Dearborn atree Afonros, Vatlety performance. Afternoon au —— SOGIETY MEETINGS. ] GEN, BCHENCR ARD THE EMMA MINE. We hinve beforo us both the eovidence of ouo Jaxes E, Lyon beforo the Congressional Committes and tho statement in tho last number of the Anglo-American Times xeln- tivo to Gen, Scursck’s conncetion with the 1t ia only fair that cach should receivo a proper consideration. The former would stamp Gon, SoneNok 8s a “yoper” and *ecapper,” using his ofticial position abroad to Lelp s couplo of advon- turers swindlo Engish capitalists by sclling them n worthless mine for an enormous suwm of money; tho Intter, made up mninly from Gen, Scuevck's sworn statement to the Euglish stockhbolders, would show that he had been swindled (if thero is o swindle) ns well a3 the Englishmen, and that all that can be justly laid at his door is the chargo of gross improprioty in consonting to tho use of his namo 88 o Dircetor in o 1miniog come pany while he was Minister at the Court of 8t. James, n vast differonce botweon the fwo cases, though cither would justify Gen. Sonevcr's reeall, and ought to suggost his resignation, In the one case, howover, he is simply guilty of nn indiscretion whoso sovercst peunlty is a forfeituro of his high place and somo of his reputation for good judgment; in the other, he is dishonored among men and gil- ty of conduct that is even repudiated by gam- blers of protentious respectability. It is not stated who Mr. Jaxes E, Loy is, except that he was one of tho original owners of tho Einma Mino, and that ho claims to have been the owncrof the original patent issued by the Government. Thero was a man of tho name of LyoN who was interested Colorado mining fow years ago in conncction with cor. tain moneyed mon of Chicogo. I tho person who testified before tho Congressional Committee Lo tho same, then it is proper to say that he was formerly regarded by a good many, peoplo 88 n mining adventurer, whoso statements are nlways to bo taken with many Loy, in fact, *‘doth protest Ilis statoment GARDEN CITY LODGE, No. 141, A. F. and A. M.— A Regular Communication will be ield oo W March 1, st Orfentsl Hall, Work on | Degres. Visitiog Dr!lh!unl:mxlcrll;a L1 WADSWORTH, RESPERIA LODGE, No.AlL A, F, & A, M.—Regnlar eommunication at Masonic Temple, coruor Racdolph this (Weduesday) evening, March 1, Senator MonTox's explanation of that part of Lyon's testimony connecting bLis name with the Emma Mine scandal carries with it 1 conviction of its candor and truthfulness, naud will compel from overy ome tho belief that the fair fanio of Indiann's distinguished Senntor has suffered no stain from tho great Mr. MonToN states that Lo was nd Halsted-ata, Third Degres, ~ Viaiting The @hicage Tribune, ‘Wedneadsy Morming, March 1, 1870. brethr.n’ cordially fuvited. Emmn Mine scandal. A in o professional capacity, but, upon learn- ing that it wns n o Scnator of the coso with ‘which United States could not properly be identified, he gave the mat- ter no further attontion, receiving no fee, and taking no part in the effort to securs the removal of Judge McKeax. from Mr. Monron's statement thot his influ. enca was sought by Stewant in the manner deseribed by Livox, and it is equally clear, as TLyox himself yesterdny lostified, that Mr. Montox's conuection with the affair began and onded in tho manner related. A hot engagoment, rosembling in & general way tho pitched battlo on the Amnesty ques- tion, vccurred yesterday in the Iouso in zon- nection with the consideration of tho bill to restore disloyul Confederates to the pension. roll of the vetorans of 1812, and to pay tho arrcarages occasioned by the War of the Re. bellion. The Republicans were, slmost with- out exception, willing to support the billy minun the nrresragoes,—estimated nt from 20,000,000 to $60,000,000,—but tho Confed- erates held out for the whole figure, cost what it might, A few ill-advised remarks by Black- Flag Hiun, of Georgin, embracing various unhistorical slanders against Now England, brought out Geonar F. Hoan, of Massachu- setts, in 8 vigorous nnd pointed rebuke of Hiru fared roughly at tho bonds of the * higher-law fanatic,” wlo also took occasion to give small 3r, Cox nn un- palatable dose of righteous indigoation, and the Democrats wero sorry, as usual, that they wero drawn into tho unprofitable discussion, and glad enough to have the pension subject rocommitted for divestment of its obnoxious ks ot the New York Gold Ex- terdoy closed at 873 e Mr. A. O. Hesmo hng returned, just as wo confidently predicted lio would. Detroit was in the interest of his defense to the indictment pending agrinst him, ond his roturn is not more gratifying to his friends and boudsmen than discomtiting to tho reck- \css authors of tho rumors of his flight. the United States Tho Senate yosterdny passed the West Point appropriation hill as it came from the Appropriation Comumittco of that Lody, but differing widely from tho bill as it camo from tho hands of the Democratic ccono- The Conferonco Com- mittees will have some trouble in nrriving at » schedule of salaries and allownnces aceopta- bla to both braucles of Congress. mista of tho House. Secretnry Ropeson has had a satisfactory suf- ficiency of indulgenco in the luxury of spend- Ing mors money than was approprinted for the Navy Dopartmont, and assures the House Committeo on Approprintions that in future it will be his earnest aim to eat no more cake He hins lost his tnste for Leavy deficiencies, and promises Lereafter to manago tha navy with whatever approprintion Congress sees fit to vote. Tebol impudence. than he can get. The Connecticut Republicans met in Stato Couvention at Hartford yesterdny, nomi- noted o full ticket with Hzxny C. RoniNson At its hend for Govornor, adopted o platform short but cminently sound on all the living lssues, and choso delegates to tho Natiounl Republiean Convention. Conuecticut for AAnsmALL JEWELL 0S B Prosidentinl candidate was indicated, but the #elegntes wera left unpledged ns to any man. too much” in his own bohalf. relievos himself of nll assent to the question. ablo transactions which he charges npon ox- Senator Srewanr nud Trexon W. Pang, though he admits his understauding to bave been that ho was to recoivo 500,000 s his share of tho plunder. ono which scems to bo susceptiblo cithor of afrmative or negative proof. If truo, itis the most seandalons exhibition of official profligacy ond dishonesty that has yet been It brings in United States Sen- B ) DEMOCRATIC TROUBLIS, The Democracy in Congress are sadly per- plexed. They have hada joint Committeo of Senators and Representatives to propare o plan of compromiso on the financial and cur- rency question, but the Committee, afterlong, froquent, and anxious lnbor, have been unable Somo of theso sessions have lasted until 8 n, m., and then broke np cither ina The shinplaster men, who for sovernl weeks have been unable to obtain recognition on the floor by Speaker Kenn or ncting Speaker Cox, dotermined that on Monday, when the States should be ealled for resolutions and bills, to propose their scheme and precipitate o voto of tho ITouse. "Phe session opened, and bills aud resolutions progresaed for somo time, but Mr. Moruisox, who had beeri dancing as if treading on hot iron all day, could not ondure the suspensa very long, 50 at an carly hour e wag recog- nized by the Spenker, aud moved an ad. Thon there wns a scene. inflationists, the rag-money meon, and the softs genorally, all yelled and protested, and finally demanded tho yeas aud noys, When the roll was called the motion to adjourn was lost, and Mr. Monnsox was in an sgony of distrosa; if Lis motion was lost, the Democ- racy would beloose, and would follow LaxpEns, or HoLaax, or any other soft-money leader. But Mr. Bramse ood another Xepublican, taking pity on Kenn and Monnso, kindly changed their votes to tho aflirmative, and the Iouso adjourned,—ycas, 118; nays, 114, Thoro was o Deinocratio cscape, or, rathor, The preference of The story he tells is Tho vangnished Don Carvos, it scems, is festined to have little more peace in Frauce than ho has enjoyed during his Spanish eam- The French authorities have in- _formed Lim that his stay on tho Fronch bor- for must be very briof ; that he must cither trko up his quarters in tho intorior or retrace his cteps Spainward, The roport is cwrent (hat Oanvos intends to take refuge in En- gland, the asylum for the political outcasts of \ll the nations of Europo. dend-lock or o TOW. nearly the whole ravge of tho higher officinls of the Government this sido of the President and tho Stripping the story of its dotail, it appears that Liro's clnim was successfully contestod, and that, during the litigation, in which he charges that United States Judges and Mar- shals in Utah wero corruptly influenced by their own intercsts, tho ore from the Emma pocket had beon exbausted, leaving it com- porativoly worthless. He wns thon advised by his counsel, Sonator BrzwanT, 08 he says, to entor into nn armngement with Pank, rop- rosenting the contestants, to scll tho mine at It sooms that Lvox tacitly acquiescod in this, if he was not active in bringing it about, for he now npparently exposes tho schemo because Lo did not ro- ceive his promised $500,000. At all cvents, %o says thot the suls to the English capitalists was made by wholesale corruption oaud bribery, Ho charges that Prof, SiLinan yeceived §20,000 for making a favorable re- port of & mino nlready exhausted; that Gen, Scurvok was given 500 shared, with the guarnuteo that they should yield him £20n share ; that Baron Grant received $500,000, Jax Coogr, McCurroon & Co, $125,000, and others atill other specified sams. Lyow, it seemy, nssisted in a bogus purchinge of shares to put up tho prico in tho English market with monoy which he says Pank furnished, and Parg subsoquently unlonded for himself and Scoenck. Ielntive to Sonexck's claim that bo bought the shares ho bheld, and gave Pang liia noto for them with security, Lvox tostifica that there was no such transaction until after o rcsolution had been introduced to investigate his connection with theschenio. ‘T'his Is LiyoN's story. I'hg statemnont mado by Gen, Bonexog him. self, and supported by tho Anglo-American Times in Loudon, to which we have referred, maintains that Gen. Scuexck first met Sena- tor Srewant and Mr, Park in o London hotel in company with Mr, Evants, who was then on his way to Geneva to represent the United States ns counsel in the Geneva case, Evants introduced Pang, and at subsequent meetings ho and 8TEwART urged upon Souexck the value of the Emmsa Miue shares as an jovestment, till ot last Pank offered to ad- vauce the money on ScHeNck's note, with security for one year, this thut Gen. Scuexcr was requested to be- come one of the Directors, as he uays, and 1lie only counsented after thu question of pro- priety biad been settled by tho showing that other men prominent in diplomatic circley wero serving in o similar capacity in other His confidenca in the scheme betrayed him into giving it this ad. ditional indorsement, and when he retired from tho Directory his letter of resigoation expressed coutinued confidence in the valug of the mine. 'This, Lyox says, Panx forced from Scmrnce by mesns of the hold Leale yondy Liad upon him, The Angl-American Times, on the other haud, is still confident of the value of this mine, and concludes its statement 2s follows : Gan. Bcursox became ihe vietim of the mansge- mant, The property sold by Tuksos Pazx will s0on Supreme Court, Strrinoe Bout has dotermined to try con- slusions with tho United States troops on the question of the observance of the treaty requiring his tribo to rebinin on the resorva- tion. Ho has collected 1,500 braves at the mouth of Powder River, in the Yellowstono country, ond defies tho combined forces of Gens. Cosrer and CROOK, numbering 2,000 men, to convince him that the Government renlly amounts to anything. is already en route for the neighborhood of the obstinate redskins, and it is safe to pre- dlict that beforo many moons aro wasted Sirrine Bonn will ecesa to bo a sitting bully in that locality. sn exorbitant price. An expedition The witness Lyox rosumed tho stand be foro the Committeo on Foreign Affnirs yos- tordsy, aud gave furthor testimony of the same gencral drift as that of Monday, Ilis statements wero in support of the allegation that Gen, Bouesok way tho tool of Tnexon W, Parg, ond was handsomely rowarded for bia services in bolstering up tho premium on 'ho Committes wmani- fest n disposition to pursue tho investigation with foirness and jmpartinlity, pumnoned ex-Senator STEWART, now in Cali- fornia, and . W. Pang, who isin South Amorics, snd will nfford Gen. Scuexck and bis friends an opportunity to appear beforo the Committes and presont their sido of the the paper-monsy The failure of the Coucus Coramitteo to sgreo is Lut an in- dication of how widely apart are the viowaof the members of the whole party. Union, compromise, and a common plan ure essential to tho party; if the Democratio members of Congress eannot ageeo upon & common plun of action with regnrd to tho currency, what liope du thero that u Democratic Convention con ever doso? If the Democrutic majority in Congress, whose only hope for re-clection is in tho success of their platfona in the com- ing Presidentinl canpuign, are unableto agree even under the coercive pressure of a caucns, whether tho country is to bave honest metal- lic dollars ns o standurd of vulucs, or the Lawpens milk-ticket paper dollars, then how can the Democratic Convontion, composod of more excitablo and less responsible persons, ever reach an ngreement on that question ? ‘The anxiuty of Mr, Monuisox and of Speaker Kean to provent a preumature cxplosion is natural, and, though it is painful to witnesa the despair of such estimublo gentlemen, we canuot sympathizo with them. They are in command of a majority oLtained by fulse pre- touses ; they know that that wmmfority was elected by o decoived and swindled peoplo; {hey now find that inuubordinution isa nat- ural sequence to fraud, and that their follow- ers, solected from the rag, tag, and bobtail of politicy, fitly repregent tho rag, tog, und bob- 1ail of curroncy. Terhapu the best thing for them to do would bo to adjourn the House and disperse the whole Confedurate as- much longer. Emus Mino shares, Tho Caucas Commmittee gives it up. Thero 18 no such thing s making o Bourbon infla- tionist consent to any compromise which recognizes Lard wmoney as o consummation ever to be wished, and the Committco haa wdjourned sine dis, lenving tho rag-baby mis nority wholly unreconcilod and intractablo, while the majority will agrec upon a modi- fled plan of resumption, and report to the- caucus. ‘The split is us wide as over, and ol rendy we hear of Democrats talking of an adjournment by the widdlo of May, with the carrency question etill unsettled, and the party policy undefined, snbject into the National Couvention, there 1o be digposed of by the warring clements which will make up that bod, prbchts Sttt A It was not till after This will carry the 'The Chicago produce markets wers irrcgu- Mess pork was in modernte roquest and 150 per brl higher, closing at $21.50@21,62§ cash and §21.80}@21.82) for April. Lard was rather quiet and steadier, closing at §12.60@12,82} cash and 13,00 for April. Meats were more active and firm, closing at 8jc for boxed shoulders, 11jc for do short ribs, and 11joc for do short clears, Highwines were quist and unchanged, at $1.00 per gallon. Vlour wes dull and steady. Wheay wes active and 2¢ lower, closing at 983 fag Masch aod 9810 for April. Corn was stock companies. Nar is the Democratio tranquillity disturbed merely by tho discordant feeling in Congress. The Western Demoerats fovor Mr, Hexe piuces’ nomination for President. Hexpuicks can only hope to be nominated by his fricnds holding out that Le is a better hard-money man than Tirpey, and more in- tensely in favor of paper mouey than even tho venerable Winszans Awsey, He includes THE .Cl-IICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, , 1t may b more, 1t may b 8 largo sum allzed on thls market; but tho scandalous misman. agewment which haa becoma a Ly-word along the Pacida Elope wro:ked tho Lright prospocts aud landed tho Company inrun. Dy a pecaliarly hard fate, olther those guilly of the mismanagement, or shareholdors who permitted or encoursged tha mismanagement—or rather tho speculstors who purchaned the sharen at tho heavy deprociation—have turned, to reilize through some legal procems, the profis they Bave fafled o procuring from the mine ftsolf, Tholr ldes of Utah miniog 1s to work In London law courte, and thelr goal, of course, i ta the Courtol Bakenptes; but those upon wham thte responeihility will yet be fixed have sought aa ane of their victime the man who was bimself the chief vicilm of the con- spiracy,—it consplracy thore wero,—~who basloat In money {oan extent far beyond avy of themn; who has been defamenl In charactar, and porsesuted for yesrs, Bavinr o bear, shackled, in a forelgn land, the as- saultu made upon Lim at home, from which hl« aplen- didrecord might elsawhere bave proved a abiclds sufferlug in purso and porsou for tho aliortcomlugs of the very meu who are his porsccutors, We havo thus given both sides of this wn. fortunato scandal, On tha part of Mr ScHENCE, it will o insisted that Lrox's re- cent statement shnll be supported Ly further evidenco gnthered from among the circum- stances and incidents ho has detailed before it is worthy of credoncg, On the other hand, it will always be regarded as suspicions that Pank should hiave been so prompt to “loan™ Gen. Scuevcx the money for this investment, and that Scoexcxk should havo taken so grent arisk, 1lis subsequont service as Dircctor and his pufiing of the mino whon he resigned his place on the Bonrd, will also be regarded with suspicion in view of tho presont condi- tion of tho mine, Butif it should {rauspiro that the mino still has a large value, and that it is being misrepresented now in order to got it awny from the English owners, such a re- snlt would place Gen. Scnexck in a little bat. ter position, though ho will atill ba bLlam- able for allowing tho use of bis name in any case. 'Tho more serious chargo nagainst bim of conspiracy with StEwAnT, PARK, and Lyox to defrand English copitalists should not be creditod without additional evidence. COMMENDABLE RETRENCHMERT. The Common Council is eutitled to com= mondation for tho manner in which it has cut down tho estimates of Departments, es- pecially the School, Fire, and Police. As will bo scen by tho report of proceedings printed yestordny, the Departmout cstimates that have been rovised for the next nine months, of £2,457,879, reduced by the Comptroller to £1,948,200, have been still further cut down by the Council to §1,745,630, boing 302,669 1css than the Comptroller recommonded, and $712,348 loss than the Dopartments rathor impudently demanded, Tho demnnds of the Departments were simply outrageous, snd represented the maximnm of tax-eating, impudence, and rapaeity. They wers mude without regard to the ability of tho tax-payers to pny this smount, without nny caro for tho financlal condition of the city, nod without any cxpectation that the city would furnish the monoy asked for. The demand, thercfors, was gratuitonsly im- pudont, and tho Council has not applied the knife any too vigorously, deeply, or soverely. It has only reduced tho estimates to thostand- ord that Chicngo can furnish at present. There mny possibly bo some squirming over thp rofusal of the Council to givo the Fire Marshal all tho money he wanted to waste or squander, and it may bo commented upon by invidious critics sabroad, but tho usefulness or efliciency of the Fire Department has not been intexfered with in any respoct, The Council has not taken anything away {hat it hos hod, but has simply declined to furnish it with o multitude of new appliances and things which aro not cssentinl, for tho presont at lonst. The Firo Morshal was ns importunate ng Oraven Twist. Ho wanted more engines, moro horses, more men, more houses, more tolograph wires, more every- thing, 'The Council, however, evidently recognized the fact that when the now Water- Works are completed this coming summer, tho capacity of the Tire Department for ex- tinguishing fires will ba doublad, on account of tho immensely-increased pressure thero will be in nll the wooden and dangerous portions of tho city, Thereafterin the Sixth, Soventh, Eighth, aud Ninth Wards, where fow of tho houses are moro than two or three storics high, and also in the North Division, fires can bo oxtinguished without engines by simply attaching hoso to tho fire-plugs. Henco tho domsand of the Marshal for buildings, engines, lots, and appliances of all sorta portaining to the Dopartment in that section was not absolutely needed, and in- volved lnrgo expenso, and the Council did well to throw it out. The demand of the Polico Department was simply impudent. Instead of increasing tho number of men, of station-houscs, and the other appliances, including cavalry, if the polico nuthorities would work their men effectively, discipline them properly, and gelect them with strict regard to fidelity, respoctability, strongth, and courage, the city would be more auply protected than it hos been since the days of Wasu- nuny, who bad ono-third less men than there are now in the Department, and yet could guard tho city ond the rights of citizens more efficiontly than it is done now, simply bocsuso the men aro not commanded ns they should be, and tho head of the City Government has not the disposition to inter- fers with tho operations of the criminal classes, The Council, therefore, has done well also in entting off tho uscless and ex- travagant waste of money which this Depart- ment proposed to make, Tho Council will earn the gratitude of tho tax-payers' if it continues in its work of retrenchmont as it lias commenced. A New York p report eaya that an anti® resumption meeting was held under the auspices'of the Legal-Tender Club in one of the wards,’at which the meoting *‘demanded that all National Bank olrculation be promptly and permanontly rotired, and legal-tendera be jssued in its place, by and upon the fuith of the Goneral Government.” We have often asked tho question what this *faith of the General Government ¥ means, and no man hay expluined, and we aro still left in the dork about it. Does it mean confidence that the General Government will redecm some pledge it hos piven? Iu tho caso of the green- Lacks, the Governmeut has promised to pay the bearer * dollars" for them, snd the Supreme Court defines a *dol. lar” to bo s pieco of comed gold, weighing nbout 24 grains. Do the Legal. ‘Pender Clubs wish to convey the idea that they have confidence that the Government is going to redeem its notes in gold dollara ? 1t 5o, when ? for time is the essence of con- tracts and sgreements, Perhaps it is some other ‘kind of *faith” they mean. Hat foith is a belief that some promise is to be fulfilled, or ** the assent of tho mind of some truth doclared by auother, resting,” as WepsTen says, * solely and implicitly on his nutbority and veracity.” Now, what is the promise the Grecuback Clubs have fuith the Government will perform? - If the lsgal. .and children work; thoy are an intelligent MARCH 1, 1876. tonder notes aro maver to bo redeomed, it that is the understanding,—thera Is nothing to have falth in. Tho new legal- tonder of the Independentsis not to be n promiso to pay gold ou presoutation, or anye. thing clse that possessea value; therefore no faith i3 neoded on the part of anybody. Thero is to bo no rademption of this paper curroncy, because each piece is to bo called monoey, and the peopla ara to bo commanded to recelvo it in exchangs not only for dobts, but labor, land, and commoditics. Tho “ Groenbnek Clubs” must change tho Ian- guage of their resolutions, No *faith” is required, because no promiso is to Lo made. ‘Tho now legal-tenders are not to bo notos to ho rodeemed in something of value, Lut, by resolution of Congress, are to bo declared of intrinsic value themnselves, the samo as wheat, butter, corn, cloth, conl, iron, or gold, and aro nevor to Lo redeemed in anything, Per- hinps, however, ** faith ” will be needed to bo- liavo that Congross ean thus confer valuo on that which las none in itsolf and mnke wenlth ont of that which Is poverty by joint resolution, HONEST MONEY IN CONNECTICUT. The Demoerats of Connecticut have given to tho country n comparatively fair and hon- ost expression of opinion on the currency question. 'Thoy say ¢ Sixth—The only currency known o the Constitutlon of the United Btates Is gold and silver, and colu forms the only atablo baals for the commor:ial uecessitics of the world, The Domocratic party of the Unlon has never failed to recognize snd support thia essontial principlo, but, following a grest sud coatly war, we find an irredecmable currency at our doors. It is, therefore, the duty of Congress to sdopt such meas. ures as siall lead to an early rosumption of mpecle payments, while guarding ita ncts by that prudenco which the intcresta of the commercial, mauufacturing, and industrial pursuits imperatively demand, Scenth—That the act of tholast Congress passed by tho Republican majority declaring that there shall bo apecis payments on the 1at duy of Janusry, 1870, was o uchieme of meze party expediency, supportod Ly no moasure tending to socure resumption. It was ade- ception and & fraud, Its results have been injurious, a8 the business Intercats of the country could not be shaped and conducted to harmonizo with sn ueffectivo and decoptivo act. We respectfully ask Congress to subatituto for it well-delined snd practical legislation, tending to an accumulation of coin nsa basis for ro-. sumption or tho funding and csnceliation of s portion of the greenback circulstion {n a converiible boud ‘bearing & low rato of intereat, Tho timo wag when tho declaration that the' only currency known to the Constitution of tho United Btates is gold and silver, and .that coin forms the only stable basia for tio'¢oni- mercial necessities of tho world, would have beon accopted as a truism by every Democrat in the country, Now it is openly repudiated by o very largo portion, perhaps n majority;- and is also rojected by no inconmsiderablo number of porsons who are not Democrats, In Connscticut, however, there is hardly any division of sentiment on this question, nnd the whole population of both parties ngreo, Tho Connectiout Democrats, whilo betray- ing their party prejudice in declaring the Re- sumption act of last winter a “ deception and a fraud,” and demanding ils repeal, qualify that demand by requiring that Congress shall substitute therefor somo other monsure” lead- ing to resumption, and the rotiring of the greenback cwrroncy, This is plain, dircct, and practical. The Resumption nct was merely sentimental. It was a doclaration of faith, but specie paymonts cannot be accom- plished by more faith in the wisdom of that policy. Something more is essontial to Lring about the specie resumption, and we have no objaction whatever to the ropeal of tho Re- sumption act if Congress will give the coun- try in place of it something that is practical. Wo suggest these resolutions of the Con- necticut Democracy to the consideration of our roaders of all parties. They aro in ad- mirsble contrast with the unmenning and oquivocating platforms of many State Con- ventions, and particularly of the recont Con. vention in Indiana, where a largo and en- thusiastio Convention, which in addition to all its other functions had a candidato for tho Presidency to nominate, substantially declar- od that, while gold and silver was tho only honest monoy, the Republicans of that Stato did not think it cxpediont to have honest money, and that honest money shail bo post- poned until public opinion shall grow up to the atandard of honesty. The platform of the Connecticut Democ- raoy bas been substantinlly adopted by tho TRepublicans of that State, It is, therefors, tho platform of one of tho most thrifty and laborious populations in the country. s Connecticut all are workingmen,—the women and thinking people. Thoy are thrifty, and thoir savings and accnmulations aro larger than thoss of the same number of peoplo in any othor part of tho country. They are all peoplo working for wages; they know tho valuo of honest money to those who live by wages, and, nsa body of intelligent work. men, thoy aro in favor of gotting rid of irre- decmable aud fluctuating paper, and of re- turning again to honest money. THE REDISTRICTING OF THE CITY. The ordinanco which was passed at tho last meoting of the Common Council, redistrict- ing the oity by cossolidating tho Ninstcenth and T'wentieth Wards and the First and Scc- ond Wards, thus making two wards loss, and giving tho West Side an equal number of reprosontatives with the North and South Bides, is undoubtedly tho best solution of this voxod problom that can be mado for the present, It is only four yours to the next national census, and until that time the ar- rangoment {8 as practical es any that can bo made. It does not disturb the Logislative or Congressionnl distrizts, nor disloento the pres- ent voting precincte. It is o pretty fair df- vision of tho populaticn as represented in the Common Council by votes, the voters in the North and South Divisiczs being fully as many as in the West Divigion, while the tax. able property of the former is mitch largor, 1In 1880, the Federnl census willbe takon, ond then the city con be redistrictod on the bosls of numbery, including children: and alicns, By'that timo the old burnt distdct ent rato of progress, and the population will bo re-established. The new ward made b the consolidation of tho Ninetcenth I'wentisth cast at the last election votes, and its neighbor, the Elghteen votes, giviug the former a prepondey, 897 votes, to equalize which a proposi} been made to run the division Jine them on Wells strost instead of Fran| now, which would throw ono tler of north and south into the Eighte thus spproximately equalize tho but as this would interfero wi tive districts, the Lighte with tho West Sido practical, The First a represont & vast amount aud over 4,000 legal vot short of wowmen and d do not contain perha) of the Fifteenth W cast as many votes ar times as much & foro, this will have beon entirely built up, at the preds’ pomo vory glaring incqualities, ond will answer very well until the Federal conaus ia takon, by which time the North aud Bouth Divisions having recovered from their fira losses, a final renpportionment can bo made which will bo sntisfactory to all divisions of tho city and give thom all o fair ropresenta. tion. As it atands now, the nino West Bido wards romain untouched, the North has four and tho South five, aud this fa ns fair o division 8 can ba made at present, At the Iast meoting o cil, ex-Ald. McGnaty, the Tax Commissioner, sent {n n communieation askiug that an ap- propriation of $11,000, together with an un- oxpended balance of $7,600 of provious ap- propriations, bo made for tho salaries of the T'ax Commissioner, Assessor, nnd their nasint- ants for 1876, including the nocossary station. ery, ete. 'The reason why the offices of Tox Commissioner and 'City Assessor have not heratoforo boen nbolished s, ns we aro in- formed, that the books of that department are tho result of many years of labor and correction, The change of the nsscssment and colloction of city taxes from tha city to the Stato machinery was unavoldable, oven if it was not politic, We think it was n wiso chnuge in many respects. Tho city nssoss- ment for 1875 had largely Leen made when tho change beeamo necossary, nnd the Asscs. sor and Tax Commissioner have both boen permitted to romain in office 50 ns to complete that nsseasment and to per- fect the books, That work is mow done, ‘Tho bpoks nre completed, and it is desirablo that they be filed awny nnd preserved, so that in caso tho city shall herenfter find it ncces- sary to return to city assessments, or in caso township organization shall be abolished and o mnow county _system adopted, these books will furnish a completo enumerntion and de- seription of xeal property in the city, and be valuable for referenco. The books will be worth all they have cost, But in the mean. time, and until such an emergoncy arises, thero is no moro occasion for o City Assessor or o Tax Commissioner than there is for an extrs Mayor. Thero is positively no duty theso officers™ can perform, The $18,000 asked for them will be absolutely wasted. Tho now appropriation ought to bo rojected, and the unexpended appropriation roturned to tho “Treasury; and tho ofiices nbolished. The Council can hardly justify the psyment of snlavies to theso oflicers n dny longer. —— Ty The cjty authoritios should give their at- tention at once to a sense of dangor in the ‘lumber district in the southwestern part of the city, botween the South Branch and Twonty-second stroet, north and south, and Loomis and Morgan strects, east and west. It appears that Lumber street aud the lots between it and the South Branch are com- plotely covered with lumber-piles, so that in case of n fire in that district it will be utterly impossible for tho steamers to get to the South Branch ncross Lumber streot, or to the 1nteral slips, cxcopt ot a long distance from tho sceno of the fire, and thus n disastrons conflagration may occur at any timo, simply becauso the short-sighted lumber-denlers have blocked up the thoroughfare of Lumber streot. 'Their action is entirely unwarrnnted, Lumbor streot being a recorded street and not o private way. Tho Aayor, Police and Fire Departmonts should nttoud to this mat- tor at onco, and, if the lumbormen will not attond to the removal of theso piles, the nu- thorities themsolves should clear the strect in tho speediest mannor possible. FOR BECRET. 'ATE, Ma). Geonas Sonoaay, editor of the Champaign (1) Gazelte, I au active and formidabloe caudi~ date for Secretary of Stats, So ia tho prosent incumbent, Cal. Hantow, who desires a ro-uleo- tion, as most oftice-holdors do. IIo is o very popular man, and hao pleased evory- vody who bas had nuy business to transact with tho offico, and withal he is one of tho Old Guard Republicans, * who can dio, but never surrondor.” 'On tho othor band, Ma}, Bcroaos {8 ons of the risiog young mon of tho Stato. Ile was an oxcellont soldior, won hia promotion fairly, edita a capital country paper, i8 *hunki-dori” with ail the country cditors, and—wante Col, Ilaurow's place. Thoy are both, as (bhe English would say, ‘“dovilish fino fellabs,” and, while neatly everybody waots to soe Maj, Scnoaas Beeretary of State, they droadfully Late to turn Col. Hlanrow out to make room for him. The party is, therefore, iu & sort of dilemma. Somo bavo suggosted that tho bost way out of the trouble would be for Scnooas torun forGavernor, or Hanrow to make & dash nt tho Sousto. 1llow- evor, this is all prefatory to what follows. One ot Scnoaas’ frionda has Leon to Springfield to sce Liow tho **cat was jumping,” and writes the fol- lowiug letter to Tne Trinune, with a strong sppoal fn a privato note to print it. It secms that peaple on the ‘‘insido of politica® have some advantsges over those on tho outside thereof, whercof wa woro not herotofore aware, Dut after the Major gots in, afsor awhile, ho will enjoy the samo advantage whon eanvassing for Lifs accond torm that his friend complaing Lol, Low now enjoys. Iero is the letter: h . Lut , the Capltal City tho Blatc, wu liave candidates for about every posl- tion to Us fifled on tho Ktate tickel. What is (he uso for the balsnce of the Commonweaith to be botheriny about politica? Let us runit, Of course, many of our caudidates sro_gentlemon desiring renomination, Aud wiiynot? They Lavo the enlire State ta back them in their endeavors, Por {ostance, st mow golug on for Becrotury uf Hate. 1€ Mr. Henoaos, the Cliampsign County caudidule, wants to canvaen ‘tho Blate, lot bim do {tat bis own exponte, and if ho gets' tho mominstion hell know Not %o Hantow, Affer wizton years ing, he _ knows the Topes, and s botter apurectated, Wy, the wholo State 'is backing him, Smart ard ‘dapper clerks who draw pay from the Btato Treasury put (n their tinie canvaiuing for him, and thoss oot 80 employed put in thesr hine grinding out letters by the ream, and thise lotters, orusmented with the spread-eaglo insignin of power, aak in gentool phruso aud e copy-hand that tha rociplent support for ronowination’ the oficer ‘Whoso nkme 1y hiappen to bo signud therato, Now, cat & fafr, uqiiare contcat bs made in any such way? Certaluly not, Let each candidate attend to 1is own case, and pay the expensos of his canvuss, It in certainly wrong for Btate ofticers dosiring renominas o clorka or Slate proprly (o order to aa8 fu_which ouly telr pervonal fnter- Call in your clerks, gentiowen, sud put, thom o work,” 1f you want 1,400 0r 1,600 tters written o * men of jnfinence,” then du it your. selvea or iro 1t dono, Don't ask the people to pay your eluctiunesriuy expenses, Onennvan, portor, in hie interview with Mr, A; f AvLen, Ketrn & Co,, misappre- tleman iu cne or tvo important ALLEN did not atate, a8 ree lad never had any paper did say way that uons of esu ol the atreot except of bumness, Mr. Ate :t the statomont that, 'm do not exceed el paper ne- tiad they so ber, Lut ence, of covery, ho anize & new ccotash and ereafter, lo- uo fealure of boon distributed amoug the descon 8 of “old comers by tho firat throe vessela of Plymonth Pilgrims," which would seom to fndicate the slarming fact that Mr. IlorLTox liad sn ancoator who nchieved tho somowhat remarkable feat of comiug over horo in threo vessols at once, —— e 5 PERSONAL Tobert Bonner saya ho would as noon think oy buyiog the City-ilalias tho New York Tvibuna, Anna Distinson's Weat Indian trip appoars to linvo been to Boston, where alio is to make hey (hoatrical debut April 17. Gon, Garitaldl'a health §s not 0 good aa iy wes, The failure of hias Tiber schome has bad g deprosalug offect npon him, Mra, Charles Kingsloy will ahorily publish 4 memoir of her husband, with largo selection; feom hils correspondonce and unpublished writ. ings. A higheminded pbysician on the Waat Sidy Riven this notice on hin nign: '*Bpecial atiep. tion devoted to chronlo discasos and normal growths,” Mr. @. E. Morrow, until recently agricoitury oditor of the Western Rural, han been faviteq to tako tho 1'rofomsorsbip of Agriculture in tee Jowa Agricultaral Collego. Toverdy Johnson lost thasight of jone of hiy oyes whilo teaining Edward Btanioy to fight Heg. 1y A. Wise, Stanloy’s bullot glauced from a treg and lodgod in bia instructor's eye. Castlo, tho tenor, waa a triflo too vigorona ay Fdgardoin “Lucla™ recontly, and noarly ter. rmoinated his lite in carncat with o vigorous stad, ‘Tho ntoel penetrated an foch into his broast, A Miss Ienderson rccently sang in Ttalian opera at Naples, and she pleascd the young men In tho audionco so much that thoy pulled her carringa to the hotel, The lady ia from New Havoo, Qeorgo Eliot says that girls are delicato ves sela in whicli {s borno onward through tho agey the treasure of human affection. Qirls are dell. cato vesaels which roquire a small fortune every soason to koop them in sails. ‘Tho Guendolen Haricth of Georgo Ellot's new novel is said to hiave hor original_in tho persan of a young English lauy at Hombourg, which placo, rather than Baden, is doscribed, aithough the latter namo {s incidentally glven. r. Garrott, of tho Bsltimoro & Obio Railrosd, {8 vory much intorosted in the new Johns Hop kine Univorsity. Ilo Is one of the Trustew under tho will. IIis intorest may bo oxpressed, at somo future time, in a substantial form. Hecretary Diletow’s military titlo s Colone) not General. Ho doeca not say, howaver, like many pompous voterang of the late Waz, “Call mo aimply *Colonol.’ ” Plain Mr. Dristow heis and Mr, Briatow Lo is contont to bo called. Barry Sullivan is to begin an engsgoment fr Ban Francieco noxt Monday at Maguire's nes thoatro. o will have tho support of Ar, Cath. cart aud the old Hooloy company. Mrs. Scalt Blddons {8 uow playing at the Oaliforals Tuentre, Mrs. Cadwoll, tho businoss partner of Gentile, tho woll-known photographer, laft for Daven. port, Ia., last evooing, to attond tho Butder and Lgg Convention, which moots at tuat plnce this weok. 3lrs, Cadwoll is an extonaivo egg-paoker, ‘which business ehe has carried on extensiyely in addition to her photographic gallery. Ar. P, McCarthy, an Euglish artist, has re. cently comploted & group of Hamlet and Oplilia, - {llustrating tho scene described by the Jatter : Ho toook me Ly tho wrist, and held me hard; “Theu went io to the lengfh of all his arm, BT bk oraeed of oy futey O™ 'A% o would draw fte wrien Mz, George A, Gordon, & brilliant young joun nalist of thia oity, formerly of Taz Tainune but at presont a member of the Infer-Ocvan staff, bas accopted s position on the Brooklyn ZEagle, and will soon romove to that city. A Gordon has hosta of frionda in this city whe will regrot hia going away. Ono of James Lick's gifts was for an obsorvs tory on Mount Hamilton, in Santa Olara Connty, Cal. Tho county officers, thinking that it might be well to have aroad built tothe sita'of th promised obaervatory, sot about constructing tht g, lighway; =od now Alr. Lick bas informed (kv Trusteon that, if they hire n siugle Chineso Y help moka the road, he will once mora revoko his beruest, 1 A gontleman of Halifax, N. 8,, proposos the ‘building of a cuirn, or ship-barrow, &8 & monu ment to the momory of the late George Brown, the large stones in the ollipae, thixty-slx in num- ber (o correapond with George's ago). to bo ool loss Lhinn 234 toos each, except those at oach end tobeabout 17 feot high. The ostimated cost would 10 81,000 ; and it is a condition of an offer of 300 towards it that the wurk be procesded wah at once. Flippant members of Parlinment uaed to esl Burke “the Dinner-Boll," becauss s speech from tim wan always the signal for a general oxit for refrosbmenta, Who ever before hesrd of & log- [utator running away from a dinner-bell? Haz 1ttt conceived the fault in Burke to be that bt » alwaya gavo o reason for everythiug, while, for an orator, baro assertion is bettor. Tteasoniog ongendera doubs, which subsequont argumes! may uol be sufliciont to romove. Burko was toa solid an orator and a scholar to be n populst speakor, Weston has been born agalo In London. Th! Now York Herald correspondont talegraphs: “The doctors and the Lancel, & profession! organ, are disoussing Weston from o ‘hygionlt point of viow, white * Mother * Btowart is proodly * claiming him as ‘an jutlexiblo ropudiator of th w maddening wine-cup,’ forgotiing, sathe Ao reminds ber, that Weston sbsorbs his whisk] from his boots upward." We wish thoao doctort would perform a surgical operation on thost wiso heads and Insert in thou tho fact that therd are thousanda of better walkers than Weston 18 America, and one in Chicago who has besta Weston severely in & long watk, koopiog essl ahoad of him from tho start to the finish, Misa Iolen Potter has arousod somo porsonst antagonism in Towa by her Imitations of Aood Dickivson, Tho Gate City says ber impersobd tlon waa & most unaccouusable caricatara. *We don’t presume that Anna Dickinson is personsllf the most awlable and sgreeablo companionis tho world. Dut sho in nono {ho less s graod character. Bhela tho most intenso orstor 8 Amerlca. Sho has earned of the American e plo tho right to ba eutimated by her strengit uot by foibles. Yon may differ with her ot cluslons, but what is herolc in the achlovomer!d - of Aworican personal charaoter, what s o ulatiug and ennobling in its individual perform auco, what 18 varnest and_ sincere in its couvid: tions, what fu lofly (n ita wmoral, soclal, s political purposo, this whilom Philadalpbis streot-awoeping girl ombodlon in Lerself ever/ timo sho stands bofore an sudicnco.” HOTHL ALNIVALA, Palner House—W, O. Klag, Topeks rti G, L, Yeaso and Kan.j n‘x!‘- Davenport, £ o, W, L, Cary, i F, 0, ¥ U, P B Ig 3, T, Buad, Ml ccomb and 1. B, iendall, Bost {ngiton, Dl.y 8, N, Campbell Bt esbiurg § J, Ve u-fi: Tuefle=0, D, Rémingiom, Now 'Yorki E. B Wrigbt, Tocumsel, Neb.i' G, W. Taylon Now York; O. F, W ; 0. 4 Worceater; I, _Coben, Hun = Franchcli 'Morton, Nebraska; L, Ward aud O, Dobd, AW tslin; W, ¥, Dinllowen, Now South Wales; 0. W James, Mlwsukeo: Rovert G, Vats and wife, H{ I;wa. Germauy; P, u.Duomar.ll. fi ingland § W, He » ol G, L. Miler, Giusbai B Hlo 4 . T, Bailtmors, . 4y Hot Tisbat, ¥ond du Lno ; Do Urdway, Milwai u, . Bmib, n«lnrfl Miunegerods, Jr,, Bt Louls; John Chambers, fl; Lurgh; Jurome P, M Detroit ; 0, % Brovks, Loulsville 3 Col W, N, Hunce, Baldmort} iho $ion, Edward Hoper, Mliwsuki el Quincyt If, B. Lodyard, Detrof sud Cal, J, Hill, " Logessport; sud L. B. Babeock, Galvburg. Col, David Fiuger, 8t. Jo*, Mu, F, A, Gsrdiver, Boaton U, D, Gorbim, ©; It 1.3 J, D, Caruin, Puiladelphia Ghi fugton s Col, ¥, 1 W, ), Auders on; K. O, Enagge, Bhsboygan. George Surdar shd wiie, Siliw and ot Hock Ialand J, K. Msaon and wits, Dubuqus’ 0. W. "A, 1, Morvison, 8 Joaupb, Mich, § G, 0. Jonsa aud J. X Joaes. Jowa-