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

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HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph atreet, between Clark and LaSalle. The California Minstrels, After- moon and avening, ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn street, corner ‘Monroe, Varicty performance. Afternoon and ovening. “SOCIETY MEETINGS. icea of Miriam Chanter No, 1, at Accordis it Randotplent, this (Saturday) even ing at 1ig o’ctock. Ar. O. M. Hath, Pant G, Z., will ire.an interesting lecture on, tho Adoptive dite.” it will be public to all, By order of W. P, O, NIOKERSON, Secretary, The Chisags Tribus, Saturday Morning, March a 1876. WITH SUPPLEMENT. ‘Warmer weather is predicted for thia re- gion to-day, Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at 87}. Tho Massachusetts Senate puts a damper on the aspirations of the ahricking sisterhood din that State. A third rending of tho bill to ‘vote and hold offico in connection with municipal affairs was refused yesterday by a ‘vote of 19 to 11. A proposition of undoubted strength, and one suggestive of tearful manifestations if thoroughly investigated, is pending in the Ohio Legislature, Itis in the form of a bill to compel Supreme Courts to fix the weight of ® bushel of onions at 60 pounds, ————E——— Tho Rov. Dr. Riozanp 8, Sronna, of Brook- iyn, has not in words given his opinion of tho Advisory Council, but the two facta that ho has resigned his position os President of the American Congregational Union ond his Directorship in tho Homo Missionary Socioty are sufficient to indicate pretty plainly what ‘his opinion ia, Yesterday's developments in the all-cn- grossing event of day and ago afford no now ocension for wonderment. Now that tho doors of secrecy are thrown wide open, there ig a grand rush of poople who had “ known it all the time,” aud the molancholy‘nggregate of official wonkness and crime is continually increasing its proportions, As yot, the President has mado no selection of a succes- gar to the War Department portfolio, rr Ono of tho most remarkable features ‘of tho terrible scandal nt Washington is tho fact thero was no trath in tho rumor that tho disgracod and ruined Secrotary had com mitted suicide, A foture so hopeless of peace and comfort, and so full of ignominy and sufforing, would tempt most men under similar circumstances to shrink from such a prospect, and choose instend the easy excapo beld out by solf-destruction, Tho Sonate yesterday had sufficiently ro- covered from the shock of the War Depart- ment disclosures to be able to devote some time to debate on Priounacs's case, Mr. Epsronps, of Vormont, mado good his promise to strenuously oppose gle admission of Prvompacx, althongh admitting that tho ro- sult was 8 foreyono conclusion, Senators Monton and Bruce spoke on behalf of tho Louisiana applicant, and, without coming to vote, the Senate adjourned until Monday. Senator Hawuin has introduced a bill to undo tho mischief of which ho was the mover iy the Forty-third Congress,’ Hia bill pro- vides o sliding scale of rates, according to distanco, upon third-class mail matter, bo- ginning at 1 cent for ench 2ouncea not ex- veeding 300 miles; for 800 miles, 2 conta; for 1,500 miles, 3 centa; and for ench addi. tional 1,000 milos, 1 cont oxtra for exch 2 ounces. <A apeoial and cheapor rate is pro- posed for transiont newspapers and maga. anes, The failuro of the scheme to secure the wapport of the Now York Zimes for tho Coxxuna interest is the subject of an inter- tating dispatch from onr Now York corre- kpondent. The rotirement of Mr. Louis J. Jexwcras was o sad blight upon the Prosi- dential prospecta of the New York Senator, and if, oa Monar Iarsrea so confidently os- sarta, the Conxuina movement means third- term, it ig a wattor for congratulation that Mr. Jones was successful in dofeating the plot, and in securing the Z'mes to tho best interests of the Republican party at largo. ‘The House Judiciary Committee is believed to have determined upon 9 report which will tarry joy to the hearts of the unsuccessful claimants for damages ‘under tho Genova award. It is proposed to disburse the ro- maining unexponded balance of the fund among the persons whose claims for indirect or consequential damages wera excluded by the Genova arbitrators, the Committee hold- ing the finding of that body to have been merely interlocutory, and not final, and that Congress has tho authority to determine what Sspodtion shall be made of the fund yet on and, ‘The Chicago produce markets were goner- ally strong yesterday, Mess pork was active and 450 per brl higher, closing at $22.40@ 22,45 cash, and $22,624 for April, Lard was in good demand and 17}0 per 190 Ibs higher, closing at $13.25 cash and $13.42} seller April, Meats were fairly active and a ahade firmer, alosing ut 830 for boxed shoulders, 120 for do short ribs, and 12} for do short clears. Highwines were active and 10 lower, at $1.05 per gallon, Flour was quiet and steady. Wheat was active and firmer, closing at 98jofor March and 99}o for April, Corn ‘was in better demand and fo higher, closing at 430 for March and 43}o for April. Oats ‘were quiet and firmer, closing at 324@32}0 cash and 82§@32}d for April. Rye waa firmer, at 60@Gic. Barley was activo and 1@1}c higher, closing at 660 for March and 5G)o for May. Hoge wore activo and a shade higher, fancy hoavy salling at $9.60@9.75, Cattle were active and firm, with sales ot 92,60@5,62}. Sheep were quict and for lower grades prices woro “off.” Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $114.75 in greonbacks at the close. “Phe views of the two well-known Cincin- nati editors, Murat Harstzap and Ricrarp Smrrn, on the political situation in general and tho Presidential outlook in particular, asexpressed to our correspondent and given elsewhere in this issuc, will not fail to bo read with interest, Messrs. Hatstzap and Surrn are oxcollont authority on Ohio poli- tics, and it is a significant fact that both are agreed in tho opinion that the Hares movo- ment in that State hag not yet acquired defl- nitonora nor strongth to any grent extent, and that Obio will not insist in the National Convention upon the nomination of her pop- ular Governor as the only man who can carry the State for the Republican party. It will also bo noticed that Bnrsrow stock is quiot but firm in Ohio at present, with o prospect of for greator activity about tho timo tho Convention meets. The ineffable mennness of the Democratic partisans who would faston the crime of Seo- retary Berznar and hia wife on the Republic. an party is almost beyond comprehension. Instead of feoling sorrow ond shame at tho national disgrace, these malignants gloat ovor it and rub their hands together in groat glec, “This makes asure thing of New Hamp- shiro and Connecticut for the Democrats,” say they, with a chuckle of delight. A Con- fedorate mombar of Congress fitly rebuked a gang of these partisans who wero rojoicing in his presence at the prospective injury the exposure of Berxxar would inflict on tho Republicans. Snid he: ‘Tho Republican party is no moro responsible for Bre xnar’s bribery than the Southorn ladles ore forthe blackmail his Kentucky wifo levied on the sutlor.” If partics or soctions are to bo charged with their guilt, the South and the Democracy must share it with tho North and the Republicans, Benenar wns always a Democrat,—went into the War one, came out ono, was promoted when one, and was ono when he -fcll, But wo feel as bitterly over tho disgraceful causo of that fall os if he had been born and lived a Republican, Ho was on American, a patriot, a brave man, and, until he yiolded to social temptation, an hon- orable and an honest man, His crime and disgrace reflect on us all alike, for wo are his countrymen, and, ss Socrotary of War, he represonted us all in the Government of the nation, BEORETARY BELKNAP DOWNFALL, ‘The swift and suddon downfall of Secre- tary Berenap is one of tho saddest and moat terrible episodes of social and political lifo that has ever occurred in modern times. As a political offender, Congress may deal with him through the instrumentality of impench- ment. As o criminal offender, tho courts may dotermino the penalty that shall make amends for his crime, But ns a crime ogainst society and the family, neither Congress nor courts can adjudicato. The offense carries its own punishment with it, and that punish- ment ia more disgracofal than impeachment, more rigorous than confinemont within the walls of o penitentiary. Tho story of the Secretary's fall is a story as old os tirge. In all ita phasos, in its incep- tion, its progress, and its calamitous result, it is the old story of Anas and Rve over again, Up to tho time that Gen. Benxnar went to Washington ho stood in an honorable posi- rion before the country. He had been a good citizen, o gallant soldier in the War, and an honorable man, His services to his country were rowarded by an appointment in tho Cabinet, and the day before his disgrace was known there was probobly not a person in the country, Republican or Democrat, ontside of tho Investigating Committee, who had a suspicion of his moral honesty, Mrs, Beugxar was 1 woman who had been accustomed to movo in the fashion- able walks of society, who had many pro- fossed personal friends, who was 8 woman of moro than ordinary ability and even cul- ture, and of more than ordinary pervonal beauty. Tho man and woman seemod fitted to adorn tho high position which they oc- cupicd. It is ovident that at tho timo of their marringo scandal had been busy with Mrs, Brranar's famo, but aftor tho nuptials scan- dal ceased its defamation, Whatover these rumors may have been, or whatever truth they may havo had, matters little now. They have no immediato connection ‘with the .pres- ent calamity, although the air is again full of them. ‘Tho causes which have led to the downfall of the Secretary date back to the time whon tho siren‘who first fascinated ond then ruined him wont to Paris with wealthy spendthrift friends, She spent 4 season in that gay city, reveling in its pleasures, courted and admired by foreigners, eating of the apple of pleasure in the Edon which sho ad found, ‘Lhe gay widow returned to this country, a dovoteo of luxury, fashionable profligacy, and personal display, and in tho Washington receptions sho soon becamo ono of the most conspicuous figures. ‘Then fol- lowod tho marringe to Secretary Berenar (who had beon proviously married to hor slater), almost before the funeral baked meats wero cold, Tho siron had capti- vated him long before, Her last ambi- tion was now gratified. She was the wifo of a Cabinet officer; but o Cablnot officer's alary conld not snpport tha magnificence of Yer style, The personal adornments of dresses, diamonds, and laces with which she sought to heighten her fatal charms, the prodigal exponses of hor brilliant receptions, the costly luxuries with which she surrounded horsolf, must bo paid for from eomo other source than hor husband's alondor salary, and then Evz ate of the forbidden fruit, How eho obtained the money to sup- port her Iuxurious lifo has already been told, It was a disgrace, however, which she could not and would not endure nlone, She had fascinated her husband before, It was no difficult matter to do it again, It probably did not require great persuasion to induce him to yield to the temptation and to ent tho fruit with her, ‘The two were now sharors in the proceeds of bribery and blackmail, and for a brief time the giddy whirl of their son. suous lives was kept up upon the money ex- torted from the post-traders, for there must have been more than one violin of the wom- en's prodigality, Then came the first peal which in one instant foretold the coming storm, with its inevitable sequencu of shane, disgrace, downfall, and ruin, ‘I'he misarablo woman, in tho midst of her fineries and splendor, saw with a woman's intutive glance the precipice before her and the throatened ruin of her husband, who had beon the in. fetuated instrument sho had used for tho THE*CHICAGO “TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 4876—TWELVE ‘PAGES.' gratification of hor desires, Sha sought to ward off the blow with her wenk hands, Sho went with hor babe through the storm snd tho darkness to plead with a mombor of the ‘Military Committee, who was tho hnaband of ono of hor school-day friends ; but all in vain sho plonded, and begged, and raved. It was all in vain that she cried in piteous tones that the fanlt was all her own, that hor hnaband waa innocent, that sheatone should be puniah- ed. Neither her blaudishmonts nor her teara could avail her more. ‘Tho blow fell, and awift as Luctrer out of Ienven tho Secretary of War went to his moral doath, The guilty pair aro now fn very much the samo condition as that of Apaxt and Eve, driven ont of their Edon. A‘stain is upon thom that can nover be removed, and wherever they may wander their crime will: follow them. It mattors lit. tlo, 80 far as punishmont is concerned, wheth- er the Secretary be impeached by Congress or not. It matters little whothor he be imprisoned ornot, Ho carries his punishment with him Ike the Ancient Mariner. His soldier's record lias been honorable, bat it can avail himnothing now. Her bewitching beauty and brillianey, her diamonds, laces, and velvots mako no amends for her griovous fault. It is asad picturo of a woman's silly vanity and of 4 man’s moral weakness. It would boa more cheerful ono if we could only be convinced that we should seo no more like them. But there are other silly, thoughtless, vain women who will stop ot no desire that will yield them the opportunity of gratifying their love of show. There are other weak, susceptible, irresolute mon who will not hesitato to gratify them oven at the risk of wrecking thomeelves for life, The ruin of this guilty pair iso ter- rible warning. Will its lesson bo in vain? CINCINNATI HOTEL-SHARKS AND THE CONVELITION. The whole truth about the oxtortion which the Cincinnati hotel-keepers have banded to- gethor to practice upon delogates and visitors to the National Republican Convention is disclosed in our special correspondence from that city, published in to-day’s Tninune. Thoy have already takon the trouble to tele- graph all over the country that thoy have ogreod thero shall be no advance in their rogalar rates daring tho Oonvention. But it seems thero is an extraordinary mental reservation about that agreemont ; which thoy have. sedalously refrained from publishing. Tho regular full ratos will bo charged,—those who ara content to be stowed away in upper chambers, like dried herrings in a barrel, four beda in & room, and two persons in each bed. Whoover wants to indulge in the very moderate Inxury _ (very necessary conven- fence it would bo esteemed elsowhere, no matter how it may bo rated at Cincinnati) of a bed-chamber ‘all for himsolf,"” must pay fox itos many times tho regular rate as the number of inmates yho might be stored away in it, two ins bed or cot, and as many beds and cots in the room as could be crowd- ed there. That, according to the statement of one of the propriotors of tho Gibson Houso,—the largest of the three hotels which comprigo all that are fit to stop at in Cincin- nati,—is the oxplanation of tho famous dis- patch, so long denied, domanding $33 per doy for a room forasinglo guest. The price givon, as the hotel proprietor lucidly explained, was for a suite—parlor and two bed-rooms. On nics computation it was discovered that eight persons might ba crowded into that little suite to stew and awolter of Juno nights in the tornd sultriness for which at that season Cincinnati is unsurpassed. Tho charge was fixed accordingly,—cight guests at #4 perday, with ono dollar thrown in, for superior loca. tion probably,—-@33 per diem, 80 those who want in the privacy of their own apartments to-perform their ablutions, change their linon, and enjoy sole occupancy of a full-sized bed, can have all this at from $16 to $25 per day during the Convention,—tho price being do- termined by estimating the capacity of the room when packed with cots, and two guesta assigned to onch. ‘he theory scoms to be that those who como to Cincin- nati must be prepared to rough it, as obvious. ly they must, whilo to ask reasonable con. yeniencos and comforts, to bo hod at hotels anywhere olso at usual rates, for less than from four to oight times as muchjat Cincin- nati, is to be ridiculously stuck up, Tho worst of it ia that tho three hotels of Gincin. nati, with tho cheap taverns thrown in, can only in such fashion make partinl provision for the crowd that will bo in attendanco upon tho Convention, and that even the mea- gre accommodations afforded will:command a premium, That constitutes no pallintion of the rapacity of tho Cincinnati landlords; byt it shows how impossible it will bo to e80upo it, oxcept by romoving the Convention, ag should be done, to some place blossr.d with mora than three hotels, and where, the laud- lords ore lesa piratical, MORE INVESTIGATION “WANTED, ‘Tho astounding revelations connected with Gen, Beuenar’s administration as Secretary of War have alrondy excited curiosity respecting the singular order issued by Gon, Derxnar, about cight months ogo, and made publio Inst month, di- reeting Quartermaster-General Mzras to go abroad on an eighteen months’ trip to inspect the Quartermaster servico of European armies, ‘Two orders of this kind were issued, The firat one seoming to bo ineffectual to’ overcome the inertia of the Quartermaster. Goneral, n socond aud mora peremptory one was delivered to him. The second one was a cnriosity in ita way, for it not only directed him to “movyo on” without dolay, bat it provided him with secrotarjes, aid, lnckeys, camp equipage, and bills vf exchange on London fit for a pasha of threo tails, Gen, Meras, it is presumed, bowed and dopartod, for he was afterwards heard of in Switzerland, Franco, Prussia, Italy, and other countrias, inupecting the tents, baggage-wagons, oud soup-kettles of European armies ag far os ho was allowed to, Gen, Rurus Inoauns was inatallod in Lis place ns acting Quartermaster- General at Washington, About six months before the issuance of this order, however, a story got bruited about that Gon, Mzrs had boon offered the appoint. mont of Minister to Russia, and had declined it,—the object of the appointment und the reason for declining being that Inaanis would succeed to the oflice of Quartormaster-Gen- eral, It will be remombered that during the progress of the l'ranco-Prussian war 9 great scandal grew out of the eale of arms from our Government arienals to lrance, Tho scandal was two-fold: First, agit was an not calculated to givo offense to Germany os a breach of neutrality; aud second, as it was alleged that the sales (amounting to somo 2,000,000 rifles) netted a very large profit to parties in this country, and presumably to Government officials, Gen, Brixnar was then Secretary of War, and he ordered the sales to bo made from time to time, An in- vestigation more or lesg thorough was mado by the Senate, and the name of Inganis wos vory conspicuous throughout, but nothing waa proved to tho detrimont of anybody, ox- cept that it was rhown that the French Gov. ernment either pafd much moro for tho guna than they were worth, or our Government received much lesa than they wore worth, for tho profits to the middlemen wero enormous. When Congress assembled in Docomber Inst, Mr. Annam 8, Hewrrr, of New York, offered a resolution, which was passed, in- quiring what claims, if auy, had been aol- lowed by the Quartormaster’a Dopartment within the®past six months. Tho suswor was rather slow in comin, but it did como at last, and it showed n fow claims of inconsid- erable amount; buta story got out that ‘a claim of $11,000 or moro had been allowed by the Department, had gono to tho Treasury for payment, had passed throngh certain tages, and been recalled immediately after the passage of Mr, Hewrrt's resolution. Wo vonture to recall the attention of Congrcsa to this matter, and also to the extraordinary order sending Mrtcs to Enropo, The coun- try would like to know by virtue of what law military officers nre provided with costly retihues and sont off to travel in Europo at the public expenso. The Inw for the gov- ernment of the army provides certain modes of procedure whon the publio sorvico ro- quires officers to travel without troops, munitions, or supplies, and fixes their allowances at 10 centa por milo for the distance actually travoled. It mnkes no provision for scoretaries, servants, or bills of exchange, but declares that tha allowanco shall be paid by a Paymaster of tho army and in no other way. ‘The caso cortainly merits investigation, and wo ‘hope it may receive an ample share of it, There is no use in mincing matters now. Nothing can happen, nothing can be proved, worse than has alroady happened and been proved. Much worse will bofall, however, if tho Republican party shows any timidity in going to the bottom of tho sink, It is idlo to talk abont the disgrace of exposure to tho eyes of the world in the Contennial year, for the exposura has already boen made. Tho way to recover our lost credit is to pursue the rascals with the utmost diligence, and to lash them wherever found. Thon the Republican party must out loose from all doubtful char. acters, demand a now deol, and make its ap- peal to the country on the basis of o clear and indisputable purpose to reform tho civil sorvico from top to bottom, No half-way measures will answer now, : BOWEN, There is a species of snake—the black snake, we believe—that takes to tho grav, and runs away when attacked, but turns about and pursues ita enemy if it disce,yorg any evidence of fear; it runs away if; pur: aned; it pursues if run away from, Mr, Henny 0, Bowen, of Brooklyn, s00".ng to havo some such nature as tho black s’agke, Ever since tho first whisperings of the Brrcurn scandal, this man Bowen has been playing hide-and-seek with Plymouth, Ghurch and the public,—now protending tr, know everything, now nothing ; now prof¢ ssing a willingness to reveal what he has pr otended to know, and again announcing hin’ self as under tho most “‘ sacred pledge of &jonco"; sceking his hole when he was soug) t, and protruding his ugly presonco when }.6 thought tho Plymouth Church people ¥ vero running away from him, Atlast it wourd appear that Mr. Bowen lins been run down, and,the exact amount of his “original” information protty definitely ascertaing d, though ho still declines to give names & ad dates except to a sclect committeo of thiy.o, sworn to secrecy. This silly prop- ositiezn ia in keeping with Bowen's provious cov duct, and it sepmsa to have been mado be- ¢7.u88 he was convinced that it would not bo accepted, What good could o scerct com- mittes accomplish? If thoy withheld their evidonce, their report would not influence a aingle person in the whole world. If thoy’ pronounced Mr. Beecuen guilty, his friends and partisans would denounco them ; if they pronounced him innocent, those who beliova bir. Beecuen guilty would simply dismiss thoir roport ag that of o packed committee, No report, unaccompanied by the ovidence npon which it was founded, would chango in the least the presont situation; snd it would ben wasto of time and tho public pationco to enter into ant such investigation of ‘sworn secrecy” o8 Bowen has proposed. It was probably beca.nso ho was fully persuaded that a0 ridiculous a proposition would be rojected that ho made it, thus furnishing him with an. othur pretoxt for professing a knowledgo of things unrevealed, and to rovive tho farce ho ‘has beon phhying for yoars, with tho refrain “T could on’ I would.” Yet there aro reports which seem to bo snfficiently authentic of what Br. Bowry would roveal to his invostigating committco “‘aworn to wocrecy”; and these revolations, according to such reports, would be the al. leged confessions of Mrs, Tinton to her brother and brother's wife, and to Mra. Branton and Miss Antioxy, ‘hero is noth. ing new in all this. Tho only way in which these rumored confeasions could be brought before tho publio with any effect would be as ovidence in o court of law, cithor in a trial of Bercnzr and Mra, Truron for adultery, or inva trial of Movnron or ono of the othora for slander, Mr, Bowen's ropotition of theso stories gives thom no weight. They havo only becn repeated to him as to othors, It has>come to be pretty generally believed that such confessions were inado, and that they enme to him second-hand is of no very great iinportance. It may strengthon Mr, Bowen's right to beliove Bezcnen guilty of adultery; but it cuta no figuro ay be. tween Bowen and tho public. ‘Tho public does not care what Bowen thinks ; but it had been led to bolieva that Bowen was in possession of favts, and could adduce proofs of Brercurn’a guilt. This is what Bowen himself had led the public to expect. Now, thero scema to be but ono original circum. stunco that Bowen claims to have knowledge of which would point to Bexonen’s guilt, and this ia communiented in so veguo ond indeterminate a way os,not to command cro- dence in its presont abape, at least, It seams, according to his story, that Bowen was mado the repository of some complaints of a jealous woman, whose name ho does not give, but who told him some ten years ago that sho had held crhninal relations with Mr. Bexonen, extending over a considerable term, ‘This confession docs not seem to have beon prompted by any ropontance on the part of the woman, but by jealousy at secing an- other woman center Bzxourn’s siudy. Nor doos Bowen seem to havo used this knowledgo for any better purjioso than to have secretly incited Tinton to an open donunciation of Bezcuen, and then 4o have sueaked out of the case, Moanwhile ho has continued to eit under B.rrouen’s aninigtrations, whereby he has been able to excite moro doubts and create more dissen- sion than if ho had, like a true and loyal aman, abandoned a church infected with its «pastor's infamy, % ) Hxormx Wann Bzrcuen,may or may not be guilty; or, if*guilty, tho crime laid at his door may nover bo proved against him, But, whothor with thoso who beliove Mr. Bercnen guilty or those who beolfave him innocent, Mr, Bowrn hoa frittered away all his power of influencing the case oma way or the other.- Mo has acted ot once fiho parts of sneak, hypocrite, and coward. He claima that ho haa boon in possession of evidence of Brecuen's guilt for ten years, but bas sup- pressod it for tho sake of the woman in- volved ; yet ho has hoped that tho giving-out of this much would servo to’ damage Brron- n'a caso. Ho now consents to sharo his secret with o fow othors, though this would be equally o betrayal of | the woman, if there is a womnn in tho caso, Thus he proposes to become doubly o traitor, Bowzn hag acted like o man who hos wanted to strike Bezcnen for years but did not dare, and who has incited others to undortake the business for which he Incked tho courage, Wad he been o man of honor, he would have adopted ono of two courses, viz.: Ho weonld have held it to be his duty to protect the woman who had con- fided her scerct to hina, and would novor by word or action havo thinted that he was pos- sessed of ovidenco of Bercnzn’s guilt; or he would have held it to bo his duty to pull- down from his high estate a man whom ho could prove to bo an. ad‘ultorer, ond he would linve proceeded abowt the business in o straightforward mariner. To hos dono neither tho ono nor the other, but adopted o weak, vacillating, ond unmavly policy, playing fast nnd }ooso, acting the sncak al- ways, and finally placing himeclf in tho pitiablo attitude w tore ho commands neither respect nor credg nce from pither Breciten'’s partisans or Bars jsren's opponents. THE DEM ORALIZATION OF WAR. The history ‘of modern States furntishes no grenter calanz ity resulting from war fhan the corrupting av d domoralizing of tho porsonal honesty, vir tuo, industrious habits, thrift, and the ny orl and religious sentiments of the peopla, Tho victors aro too often more severely yyunishod, in tho rosults of their victory, ‘chan the vanquished. ‘Tho Intter may bo k aft bloeding, destitute, and stricken, but theis : poverty is by no means 40° danger- ous or d estructive as aro the sooinl corrup- tions w-hich have been planted among tho victors, ‘The long wars of England, nt tho close ¢.f tho last century, wore as franght with } oss to her as to hor enomios, Com- ‘para ively, sho had but fow of hor own troops engaged. Hor contnbution to tha war was chiefly in monoy and subgidies to hor allies, and money is the least expen- niva part of war, Sho was, to o greot extent, the manufacturer and sutlor of Europe. Sho made and sold the guns and powder, tho clothing, and tho provisions ond supplics of war. Hostilo armies nover stood upon hor soil, Her people wore employed working for the troopsintheficld. Her morchants were tho traders and sutlers of Europe, and grew rich ; the middio and the higher classes had such incomes that they would not have cared if war was perpotual, With depreciated cur- rency, high tariffs, and enormously increns- ing paper wealth, the peoplo of England lost their long-established rectitude, Wealth, sud- donly obtained, was the ond sought by all, and in that search tho moral principlos wero lost sight of, and socicty was dobsuched,— was a continuous revel, marked by oxtrava- gant expenditures, tho wreck of femala honor and of male integrity. With peaco, there was no abandonmont of tho habits of war, Thoso who had made money and those who sought to make money without work continued thoir reckless career, and it was not until a fearful panio had swept away the Ul-gotten gains of war, and reduced tho country to the alternative of starvation or labor, that Englaud recovered from tha re- sults of her own victorious wars. We, too, have passed through a senson.of war and debauchery. Into four briof years we hnd concentrated grenter military move- ments than those of England's twenty years of conflict, Woe had taken in ono way or tho other into the ficld two millions and a half of tho best of the young and able-bodied mon of all the States, and for four years kept hurl- ing them against cach othor, and read cagerly the daily bulletins announcing tho killed of our countrymen by the thousand, In addition, wo had another willion of men omployed in producing food and clothing and arms for tho mon in tho fleld. Upon this carnage, and blood, and murder, there was foeding an army of vnitures, in tho disguise of contractors, and plunderers, and speculators, and thieves, of every possible shape and form. As one army of these got gorged it made room for a suc- cossor, and in a brief time we had a now society,—the men who had grown rich inn day by tho more aleight-of-hand in oxccuting a swindling contract, or solling a contract, or in tho robbery of the nation, Sudden wealth is proverbially dazzling. Strokes of fortune have poculiar attractions. Wealth can only be acquired suddenly, and at tho samo timo honestly, with the infrequency of lightning visitations, But wealth can bo acquirod sud- denly and dishonestly by nearly any of tho forms of crime. ‘Tho ambition onco fixed to seoure large wealth without labor, the obscura- tion of the moral sonses is rapid; and, tho opportunity offered, the means become a matter of minor concern. Tho mon who got rich in the early part of the War employed that wealth not to promote any intellectual or business purpose, ‘Their immediate appli- cation of it was to the purchaso of a mansion, its coutly furnishing; the purchase of car- rioges and horses, and plate and diamonds; the employment of hosts of sorvants; the Procurement of the most costly apparel, with the extras of laces and jewelry. They pro- duced a social’ rovolution, Weak men and weaker women aspired to the possession of the same, Women bartered peace and hap- piness, honor and honesty, to procure tho gilded evidences of depraved taste and sense- less vanity. Men abandoned tho slow plod- ding of honest labor to gamble for riches that thoy might rival the shoddy mushroom who had got rich by selling papor-soled boots and shoddy conta aud blankets to the army. Down in the social ladder to the lowest round industry and virtue wero corrupted. The boy behind the counter, the tellor in the bank, the watchman in the warehouse, the manager in the oxpress office,—everybody who had the opportunity of enlarging his in- come dishonestly, tempted to rival in dis- play some other person,—adopted the theory that honesty was too slow, and that the truo policy was to take all that could be got, Oaths taken under the golemnity of courts and of law onco had woight upon the bumen consolence and inspired confidence. Who places confidence in an oath now, whon the man detected with his hand in the eafo will appeal to Heaven to strike him dead if he be guilty? Oaths have become a mere aux- iliary to crime, enabling men to legally do- fraud, which they could not do by telling the truth, Forgery and perjury are com: ablo‘curao of w: Companica, During tho past year the Council has ordered the establishmont of 1,700 ad- ditional lamp-posts, ‘These, with the cost of of the lamps aro burning on astrects oithor residents. Most of this profligate waste of mon orimes, and nro committed by those who hold what in other dayr would bo called reapectnhlo places in society, Tho family relation is fearfully wonkened aud de- stroyed. Incidental to the acquisition of dis- lionest wealth suddenly aud without labor has beon the enlargement of vicious propon- aities, Tho unambitious home that once fur- nished happincss and contentment has been supplomented by a fashtonablo establishmont, at tho hend of which is placed anothor who prefers monoy and shame to au inability to dress as well ox some acquaintance, Though wo have had oloven years sinco the War was closed, tho consequences of tha War are yot conspicuously visible in tho moral corruptiona and vices, tho extravagant and wasteful habits, the thirst for money, tho abhorrofice of labor, the idlencss of youth, tho disrespect for law and religion, the contempt for tho obligations of oaths, and the reckless, untam- ablo rearch after opportunitios to become rich in a doy and an hour, devil,—offering everything that pertains to honesty, purity, pence, aud prosperity, per- sonal and national, for monoy,—for that which will purchaso sonsuous enjoymont, flam, and exemption from labor. BSocicty has become # Until tho horrid domon of war was lot loose, the people of this country were pros- perous and happy. Their wealth was hon- estly acquired, aud the man who would com. mit fraud or steal was the excoption and not tho rule. ward to succosa in lifo ag tho result of indus- try and rectitude, tricts send their boys and girls to the great cities, not to learn tomperance, industry, and honesty, or useful trades, but to bo adopts in all the tricks and devices of getting money in the largest quantity and in the shortest space of timo, that they may spend it in the utmoat oxtravaganco, aud be ablo to indulge in more vices and questionable display than thoir fathers and mothers ever dreamt of. Thon boys ond girls looked for- Now the agricultural dis- When the War ended, and the three mill. jonsadny which it cost was stopped, tho speculative classes rushed into othor entor- prises for reckless oxponditnro, railrond building by Credit Mobilier com- panies commenced, and hundreds of millions of dollars wore borrowed on bonds and voted by municipalities and cities, and a large part of the money was stolen, and tho ronds ora now bankrupt. An orn of Every city developed o Brut, Tween class of professional tax-caters, who sold bonds, multiplied municipal debts, incrensed taxes, and robbed the people, as well as mortgaged their proporty, the tariff was incronsed, in wholo or part, in order that those having stocks of goods could mark up the price on the consumors and rob thom. down to suit the interests of tho gainblers and thioves, ond thus matters wera con- ducted. Evory session of Congress 'The whisky tax was changed up and Two years anda half ago we had a col- lapse of inflated credit and a financial revo. lution that swept avwoy tho means c. tens of thousands, In the ruin woro buried the vain ambitions of tho prematurely rich, Though gaunt poverty stands ot many ao threshold, the riotous and extravagant habits produced by the War still ourso the land, and are fast bringing the nation to financial ruin only equaled by the moral wreck already pro- duced. : ‘That man is alone sorving his country, his family, and his rnco, who firmly limits his exponditures to his actual noeds, and thus secures safety in the deluge that is rapidly engulfing all othors, and which is the inevit- Tho Common Council has gono through tho city Appropriation bill in Committee of the Whole, and agreed to vote taxcs to the amount of $4,802,771 for the exponsos of the city for nine montis, They also appro- priated all unexpended balances from last yoar, which on tho lat of January amounted to $1,651,844, ‘Che total, however, of ac. counta overdrawn ot the somo timo was $389,221, lenving a balance to be expended of $1,202,623, The budget stands thus: ‘Throo months of last yoar'a timo, Jan. 1 to April 1, 1876, inexponded net Latsnce, ... ..8 ‘New appropriations for 9 months from ‘Aj 1, 1810, to Jan, 1, 1877... Appropriations for a yea: After all the talk about rotronchment, this eum considorably exceeds that voted Inst yoar for s year’s expenditures, Roductions aro not mado on Jost year’s amounts, but merely on the exorbitant requirements of tho differant taxlevouring departments and bureaus, ‘Phese tax-entors had tho brazen impudence to domand $6,010,639 for nine months, and tho Council compromised by giving them all thoy got last year and somo moro, But thero is one itom which has not beon provided for, Only half a million has been appropriated for gas, whereas the consumption is excoeding $800,000 per annum, and thoro is now duo between aquerter and o half million to the Gas gas, have addod over $100,000 tothe oxpense, but they mado no appropriation for tho pay- ment of this reckloss profligacy. ‘Thousands not inhabited or having but a few scattering means is in the intercat of real estate specu- lators who want to sell their lots, Tho developements attending the downfall of Secretary Betznar have brought out one abuse which needs immediate attontion, namely, the enormous profits of post-trading at tho frontior forte, It appears from the testimony of Mansy that Evans, who was, the post-trader at Fort Sill whon Mans was aseking the appointment, proposed a bonus of a certain portion of the profits to Mansx if ha would allow him to hold tho position and continue the business, The sum of $16,000 ‘was agreed upon, which was subsoquontly ro. duced to $12,000 whon it was found that somo of tho troops were to bo removed from the fort, which would cause a reduction of the profits. It is ovidont that Evans could not have made this proposition to Mans unless he was confident of making as much as he was to give him, which would place his prop- caition upon a basis of $30,000 profits per sunum. ‘This proposition shows conclusively enough that theso post-traderships at the fronticr forts are nests of awindlers, who are engaged in robbing officers and soldiers, and probably also trappers, hunters, and Indians, by charging thom fivo or six prices for thelr traps. ‘Ihe first suggestion arising from this miserable business, thereforo, is the impera- tive demand fora reform iu tho prices charged soldiors by these rapacious yulturos who have the monopoly of aclling goods to them, A fow months ago the London Times made arrangements to receiyo daily a long spocial cable dispatoh from America. All theimportaot pews and every event of note arotelographed to it, Formerly the news by cablo from this con- tinent rarely exceeded » fow words or lines, Now tho news transplring on this aide of the Atlantic ls transmitted to the Times nearly as fol an the European nows that comes by eabiy tous, The alooking and disgracofnl revelations of tho Scoretary of War and his wife woro tels. graphed iu extengo to the Times night hetory last, woro read yoatorday throughout Grey Britain, and have been translated into Fre; German, Spantab, Itallan, Russlao,Boandinariay and othor European tongues, and published ang readin all parte of the Old World. Itis ad, liclous American dish to placo before tho mop. archies snd ariatooractos and supporters of royalty. . To-day is the Fourth of March. One yay hence a now Presidont will ead bis insugany message, nud take tho oath of office on the eu; Portico of tho Capitol, PERSONAL, ‘The Nation says “ tho sense of the univors)* is constant, omnipresent in Goorgo Elicty novels, é Me Thore is a strong movement In Now York to tho appofniment of Richard Grant White to uy Position of Librarian of tho Astor Library. Gen, Comly, & well-known Journalist of C9, Jumbus, O., is au applicant for the mission 4 Austria, with flattering prospoots of success, Mr. E. L, Godkin, editor of tha Nation, }) written a work on Government, which will bf published daring the year by Henry Holt & ¢q' Jamos Gordon Bonnett and his fancee anjoy. od tholr bawl in Ottawa immonssly, No invils. tion from the Govornor-Genoral was roquireg for that. A nowspaper correspondent in Homo happity describes Garibaldi by roforring to him ag 4, fugitive from tho horoic ago.” He tn to-day thy most popular man in Italy. Gambotta underatands « Hiborat man to be on who reapcots all variotion of roligloue belief, cluding thoir ministers, and all the practicg which apring naturally, even if remotely, from religious opinious. Whats pity it {s the soolety reporters of Washington nevor thought of becoming detec ivew! By ascertaining not only what dresseg cost, but how thoy aro paid for, they might ren dor substantia! sorvice to thelr country. Emerson advises unknown poets to publish thoir vorses, if thoy must soo thelr workin print, in the poots’ corner of the country newspaper, “Yon cannot put good vorres' In #0 obscure corner that thoy will not reach tho eye thoy were mado for." “Tho charm of Fronch goolaty,” writos « cor. respondect, ‘is to bo found in thoso salon which aro froquentod by the Kings of Parisian Bohomia—jourualiste, poote, dramatiars, artiag —whorein the Republic fs Queen aud Victor Hugo a god.” Macready fixed the limit for s thoatrical audi. onco worth playing to at nalf the numberof righteous required for the saving of Sodom, On ono occasion tho actor actually went throughs heavy porformance for tho edification and amusement of fivo paying auditors, Tronty yoars ago, when the present Dr. Eliot was atutorat Harvard, he heard the student spon of him ag ‘Old Ellot.” But Inat winter, walking into town ono evening, ho met twoun, * dorgraduater, and heard one sayto the other, when ho had passed by, ‘*I wonder whore Char. Ue is golng at this timo of night.” The Hon. Eli P. Norton, a nativo of Mansfield, TIL, and for many years a prominont lawyer of Cincinnatl, Now York, and Washington, deliber. atoly starved himscif to doath in the latter city, ~ dying on the 28th ult, He was absolutely with. ** out money or means of gotting it, and proferred death by starvation to the acceptance of charity. Leraolf {n person, 600 membors of the Commons triod to appear at tho bar of the Lords, which ir a pen caloulated to hold fifty or sixty person. Tho consequence was that poor old Disraeli was noarly squeezed to death, and had to be carried homoinacab, Tho Amorican Congress is not facilo princeps avon in the oxbibition of bad manuerd. The Dotroit Post thinka Dean Stanloy was not _ Whon the Queen's apsoch was delivoredby . oqual to his opportunities in conducting the ; niarriago ceromony of Prof. Tyndall, The Desa might have asked thé bride if she would tate that anthropoid to be her co-ordinate, to love with ber nervo-contrea and to cherish with her whole collulsr tissuo, until @ float molecular dis primitive atoms, But ho didn’t, Ton years ago Gibson died in Rome, loaving £40,000 to the London Royal Acadomy in trut for tho nation, provided thoy exhibited his v ons works, algo loft in the aanie baquost, ina gallory to be built for the purpose. ‘ihe gallery waa to be fitted for tho reception of other ap proved works in sculpture, but it has not been built to this day, and the works of Gibson re main in tho cellars of Bartlngton Houso. Lord Lytton, the new Governor-Genoral of court on the principles euunociated in hia Owes Moredith ": We may live without pootry, music, and art; We may liva without couscionce, aud live without without friends, we may live withoul Oks, — But civilized man cannot live without cooks, He may live without Looks,—what la knowledge ba! grieving? He may in without bope,—what ts hope but decelr- ayy He may live without love,—what is passion but ple ng? But where da tho man that can live without dining? HOTEL ARRIVALS. Patmer House~E. Fenton, Kansas; John Taylor, Oincinnat!; H,D. Winsor, Detroit; N. 8, McDonsld and W, 8, Vont, London, Ont, ; 0,3, Quinn, Beranton, Pa. 3J.¥. Mortimer, Philsdolphis; J. ¥, Emerson, Lafayette; Davin Gibaon, Minnespolis; L, H. Eames, Oltawa; 0, W, MacLaren, Grand Haplda; W. ‘Weeks, Now York; 8.8, Pratt, Clinton ; W, Dunham, Mantutoo....Grand Jueyic—-E, HM, Buebler, New ‘Thomas “Axworthy, Cleveland; |‘. Greenaboro, i We may Ih bo | Keogh, N. Teahoad, Des G, L, Frost, Now York; Thomas Snell, Clinton; B te Wolard, Cleveland; 36% Sullivant, 1b J He jateb, New Yor! ncer Lafayette; W. 1. Itc Hi, J, Merrill, Indianspolin; ¥. Ds Gant, Gorham, R, E., Engiend; el Povlght Agent’ We Ut Hslroat; Kuwsell wage, Jr, Milwaukes & Bt. Px Rallroa alvidoro.... Sherman a; den. r, * House—J, O'Connor, Vatavia, Tj" Gol, Ae P, Dil, Mchmond, Ind.;J, 1, Edwards, U, 8, Ai the lon, W. 0, Hamilton, Fond du Lao; K.Z,, 1teltom, Cincinnati; the Hon. 8.8, Burt, Marquette; Col. ‘H, Wilson, Btorling; Gen, W. 8. Walbridge, Toledo; Gardiner, Detroit; the lion, 8, 8, Kerr, Butsl? jardner House—J, E Cullimore, Baltimore; D- arr, Boston; O, N, Frean, Baltimore; 0. Me Tason, Streator; J, P, McNamara, Foirview; 1. B Aiillikxen, Zancavi THE ERODIUM, Dr. Ans Gray dosoribes, in tho Journal of Selence and Arts, tho ourlous provielou by which tho seeds of the Zrodium (wild geranium) are enabled to plant themsolves in the ground ‘Tho narrow carpel is pointed at the base, aod terminated at the opposite end with a long st71y or awn, that is bearded on the undor side, 39 drying, thisawn bonds at right anglea with tbe carple, and twiata itself many times, according! the degrees of weathor,—untwisting when itl wet. Au those carpela are acattered by the wind oyor the looue or naudy soil in which the 2ro- dium grows, they fall with the heavy, acod-bear ing enddownward, This forms a comparatively tixed polnt anchored to the ground, around whi the long awn makes circular uweeps, both ia twistiog or untwisting, ‘The action of the sa gives a rotary movement to the carpel, aud, Sr- jug-tho sbarp end in the soll, caasas it to bore info ‘and completely bury itself in the ground. M. Roux, of Lyons, france, adda to Di ‘ Gray'a observations that, wien the carpe has been thus interred, the molsturo af the soi! soon dostroys the epidermis, and this allows the long besk to detach itacif at its artioulation with the atyle, leaving the seed planted ip condition, quietly to germinate. Heveral sj of the Erodium are found in Texas ao fornia, but none ate indigenous north of the former State, The grain of the Stipa (feather, grees) {a armed like the carpel of the Rrodiwm snd is buried in the ground in the same way: ——— EX.GOV. LETCHER ILL. Tucnuoxp, Va.,. March 8,—Ex-Qor. Joho Letcher was stricken with paralysia yesterdsy. His condition is serious, i) hea ie O.;, Wesley, Moines; J. if. Woyeth, "Bt, Lous turbance shonld resolve his orgaulam to ite ~ India, is expoctod to maintain bis yvice-rogyy * a "rem in. E, Bradley, Alilwsukes; W. A. Bhp, -