Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 10, 1876, Page 4

ll 3 i * Dearborn aud Blate, Engagement of John D‘Lflnn. of the past winter's packing is given in an. other column, One hundred dollars in gold wonld buy $114.624 in groenbacks at the olose. . _TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, PBUBSCRITTION (PAYABLE TN ADYANCR). BATER OF month evary tims Gen. GrART's name is men- {ioned, has raked up the old atory of tha presentation of a watch, five yoars ago, par- porting to have boon mads for Queen Vio. TORIA, to Mra, Gnrant by Gen, Rurvs Inoarts. Tho whole dotails were published in all the papers five years ago, and were spread abrond aa a first-class advertisment for Trrrawy & Co., of Now York. There is nothing to | show, not oven in the note of Gon, Inoirra accompnnying tho wateh, that ho over paid o cont for it. On ths other hand, the note says: ‘‘Bofors an opportunity offered to presant the watch to the Quoon, it was pur- chased by n friend of Gen. Inoarrs and shortly afterwards fell into the latter's posses- #on." Gon. Isoanrs did not receive his pres- ent appointment until more than four years after the presentation of the watch to Mrs. Anaxr, For the New York Sun to rate up this stale advertising dodge and sock to con- neet it with Gon. Inoarts' ad-interim op- pointment of & fow months sgo, betrays a lack of material for fresh charges. — Anitom in yestordny's procecdinga of the County Board is decidedly suggestive of o job, Tho Bonrd voted to award tho contract for tho croction of n morguo, kitchen, ete., ut tho now Connty Hoepital to s single bidder for tho sum in gross of $99,603, when, by the ncceptanco of the goveral lowest bids in detail, tho work could have been contracted for at about §86,000. The successful con. tractor con sublet to the partios making the rejected bids and renlizo a cloar profit of over $14,000 without o dollar of outlay; thatis, 1io can realize $14,000 less the swn which it cost him to sccuro the fat contract. How much that was conld probably not be ascor- tained by o Grand Jury selected by the County Board. In the list of Commissioners who voted to award the contract to the high- est bidder, at an extra costof $14,000 to tho tax-payors, two names npposr which will ex-~ cita somo surprise—thoso of Commissioners Burpick and 'TAvon, who are usually to bo found on tho side of honesty and economy. This is the only circumstance that relieves the contract-lotting from the appearance of an outright stenl. Parta of year st same rate. WEEELY EDITION, POSTPAID, per 16 A0 cente' & yuar, which we will Drepays Bpectmen coploa sent free, 'To prevent delay and mistakes, be snre and ghvd Posl- ©ffica sddrons In fall, nclading State and County. Remittances may ba mado sither by dralt, express, Post-Ofios order, or in rogistersd Jottors, at our riske. TRRMS Y0 CITY SUDACKINRDS. 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The @hieago Tribone, Friday Morning, March 10, 1870, Greenbacks at tho Now York Gold Ex- ehango yesterdny closed at 873, gree. erder of Rain or snow, to be —{—olluwcd by cooler wenther, nro the motoorological conditions predicted for this region to-d Thnt tho peoplo of the North Division have thoroughly awoke to the necessity of mani- fosting an interest in local’ politics was forcibly demonstratcd by tho large mnss meeting at Turner Ilall lnst ovening, The giza nnd character of tho assemblage, tho speeches nnd resolutions, the goneral spirit of tho gathering, all were indicative of a gettled detormination to take town and munie- ipal affairs from the control of the bummer and tax-grabbing element, and to inaugurate ) genuine reform, LIVING BEYOND INCOME. The downfall of Sccretary BeLrnap was the very naural and sppropriato themo of many of tho pulpit, discourses in this city last Sunday, and it suggests many lessons mora for futuro sermons.. Among thoso which we printed Monday was one do- livored by the Rev. D. J. Bunnsru upon this topic, which contains some portineut and timely suggestions. One of these goes to the root not only of the ruin of the Secretary of War, bnt of tho ruin of many othar men in theso riotous and extravagant times. Tho preacher suid: Tho public sentiment with raference to thia matter of debt has put {taslf into such opon conflict witn the principles of justice and right that no feacher of morals ought longer to bold his peace, The best speech that Joms BaNpoLru over made was when ha arous fn the Canlinental Congress and sald: “ Bz, Spoaker, I havo found tha philosopher's stonos Tt fs, “Pay 88 you go.'® And oneof the bestof the many wise things written by Jlomice Gnexrey ia this: Avold pecuniary obligation as you would s peati- lence, Iiunger, cold, rags, -hard work, contempt, are disngrecable, but dobt is infinftely worse than them ell” You mty look in valn through the tables of tho Mosalc law for any procept (unlesa it be tho elghith) bearing dircotly upon this matter; but th apirit which underlios and pervades the whola Docalogue ura aummed up in the good adyiconf PATL: “Owo na man suythlng.” A disregard of thi injunction ia thy bitter spring from which fow noarly all out domestic crimes and scandals, Itis not often that the pulpit treats of worldly mattors s0 squarcly and practically as in this case, and for this renson wo would omphasiza what tho preacher has wald, He is cminently right in assuming that debt ia the * bitter spring from which flow nesrly all our domostic crimes aud scnndals.”» Debt is tho curse of the American people. Thero aro debts in tho way of legitimate business whero thero is @ credit to balance them which aro so obvious that we need not stop to characterizo them, and thoy moy be in- curred without danger, and business conld hardly bo conducted withont incurring thom. But the debt that curses and blights social linppiness, and involves so many families in ruin, and produces so much snflering, and misery, and crime, is tho excess where the ex- pondituro is more thau the income, Such a debt is a frand. It cannot be incurred without dishonesty. It cannot be paid without trickery, injustico, or theft. Its existence i3 duo in almost evory instanco to tho insane desire to keop up appearances, to mpko as good a show ag ono's meighbor, to keep obreast with tho fashionable profligacy of the day. When an individual onco com- mences to live beyond his income, the debt goos on increasing ot a frightful rate, until at lnst it reachea figures where paymont is an impossibility. A man with an income of £3,000 thin year, who sponds $4,000, will in o}l probability spend 5,000 next year, al- though his income remains stationary, and thus the dobt gocs on incrensing until he cithor makes it good by theft and bribery or defrauds his creditors in Lankruptcy, ‘The rule holds trne from the Becrotary of War dawn to a dry.goods clerk. No man is safo who once commences this false atyle of liv- ing. Tho temptations to which it gives rise ara too strong for human paturo to reaist. Ho must place his hand in some other man’s pockets to make up his excess, Theft, brib- ery, blackmail, embezzloment, and fraud, in their various forms, are the hitter fruit of this living beyoud one's means, and its inovitable ond i ruin, Secretary Berxxae 8 not an isolated instance of this curso of debt, Attention has been drawn to him becauss ho stood in a prom. inent place befora the country and tha world, 'The country f8 full of such fn. stances, The mania for running into debt to keep up sppearances pervades overy rank of lite, and in our own city mauy a busincss failuro as well as many an individual roin may be tracod back directly to the fact that the parties involved wera sponding more overy year than they received. Tha work of decpening the channel st the mouth of the Mississippi i8 progressing very favornbly, But nsmnll portion of the sys- tem of jettics or piors lina as yob been com- pleted, but so far as the work hns proceeded the resulta aro reported to be ewinently satis- factory. Owners of lines of steamers plying betweon New Orleans and other Southern porta are preparing {o send all their vessels through the new South Poss chaonel, which mow hag a permaucnt dopth oxcoeding by 4 or 5 feot the aversgo souudings in {hat pass one year ago. Scnator Gorvox, of Georgin, yesterday liberated an cloborate speech which has ‘been imprisoned in his intentions something like to months, It was devoted to the In- ternal Rovenuo system, nnd was an attempt to prove by the Whisky-Ring frauds that tho futuro collection of tho exciso tax shonld be intrusted to an army of Pemocratic oflivials kolding thelr places for Jife. Senators Blonrox, BumruaaN, and Ep- wonDs bad something fto say on the subject, snd the dintribe of the Scnatorinl ex-Rebel was not permitted to go unanawered. It is now clear why Prvonnack telographed 2o his wifo that ho was **beaten but not dis- oursged.” s expects, now that the Senate Jhas refused him a seat under the election, to got the appointment to the vacancy at the tands of Gov, Keuroga, As the Legislature hns adjourned, he cloims that tho vacaney nust be filled by the Governor. We don't know Lut that Prycumack hes as good o ‘chanco a3 anybody. The sppointmont can. ot bo retroactive in ita nature, and Pnica BACE, if appointed and seated, would only b nator from tho dataof the appointmont till tho expiration of the term in 1879, and ke would have no claim on the back pay. Hiznter Crysmen I8 a lawyor by profession, and 50 aro gnme of his Damoeratic associates on the Committee which investigated the . War Department. But these gontlemen have iennmieu {n their own party who cany their -malico to tha extant of inveuting some ex- ‘ltmonlimu—y excuses for the romissness of the Cammittee in permitting Mansit to shacond, "Amnng othor explanations it is urged that :Mr. Crnxs and the Democratio members of ‘tho Committco supposed that the written ‘tunmript of Manan'’s testimony would bo :lnfllclenl for the purposes of the jmpeach ‘ynont trial! And yet, us before remarked, Dir. Crysen and somo of his brethren of the Comuiittee arv lawyers, Col. Ass Bmp NER, Judge-Advocate of ths Court of Inquiry convened at Gon. ‘Bancoon's demand,-appears to have talien it in high dudgeon that District-Attorney Dren ‘rofused to *give away"” the case against Ban- Tgocx, even thongh that refusal involved dis- Tobodienco ‘to the Attornoy-General's direcs tious in the matter, Col. GanpNER's roport 'fs amoug tho documents yesterday submitted dn responso to ths request of the Houso, na 'alio Mr, Prennrroxt’s letter to Mr. Dyzs, and nothing is discoverable in the corre- ‘spondence to alter the general verdict of the country at the time,~which was, that Dren's perceptions of duty were right, though not exactly in sccordance with army discipline, e e The Chicago produce markoets wero goner- -ally stendy yesterday, with a moderate sggre- gate of busineay. Mless pork was quiet and 22jo per brl higher, closing at $22,27} cash ‘and §22.40 for April. Lard was active and 100 per 100 Ibs higher, closing at 313.20 cash nnd §13.82 eellor April. Aleats were in bat. bot demand and firm, at 8§0 for boxed shoul. ders, 120 for do short ribs, and 12}o for do short clears. Highwines were quict and unchanged, at $1.05 per gellon, Flour was nuiet and steady. Whoat was sctive and jo bLigher, closing at 873c for March and 08}c-for April. Corn was quiet and $o lower, closing st 43{c for March and 43jo for April. Oats wero quiet and steady, closing st 82jc for March and 84§o for May., Rye was firm at J3}@64c. Barley waa dull and easler, closing At 57c for March and GUo for April. Hogs were in good dewand at Wednesday’s pricea. Yales at $7.50@10.00 for inferior to fancy. fhe cattle market was less active and canier, vilh sales at §3.00@5.60. Bheep wero in osr domand a$ unchanged privesn A report to this low stage of publio morality, and that is to live within means, and to punish with severity overy form of corruption, whether private or public. As Dr, Farrows well 8aid in his sermon on Bunday last: Wemust begln agala in the old-fsshioned faith in God. We must revive ths old.fashioned virtues of itegrity, honesty, economy, and stmplicity of char- We must pay our debts, one bundred cents o wa are able Lo doil, even if of fnanclal obligations et Afty within our means, We must wear our old clolies,~lag bebind tho styles, if need bs. We must livo on homely food, We must frown on atl specios of gumbitng, We must abut ke vary apresrance of evil, in the taking of the most tucon- siderable of Lribea, Upon the ability and determination of the American people to retar to thess old, but afe aud slwplo standards, depends tho very N There is but one remedy which can apply THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1876 perpetuity of tho Republie, There ia no botter time than the Contennial year to make this detormination. It Is not & very plensant showing that we aro about to make to foreign- arg who will como hern this yoar to study re- publican institutions and the charactor of tho people. ‘The pulpit hns done woll to sound the note of alarm. It haa a great work be- fore it. The establishmant and direction of tho lawa of public opinfon rest largely within the jurisdiction of the Church. Courtsand Logislatures cannot mold popular opinion. The Church, with thoaid of tho press, can to o great oxtent, The Church, if it does its duty, can presorvo the home, and establish lionosty aud simplicity in it. If the howo is saved, tho nation ig safe, . P THE TERMINAL GRAIN CHARGES. Wo infor from the letter nddrossed to the Board of Trado Transportation Qommittes by Mr. Wicken, the General Agont of the Balti- moro & Ohio Railrond, that mno progress whatever has been mode in the way of ro- ducing the terminal charges on grain con. signed to Chicago, though it Tias beohr sup- posed that tho swiiching and trimming charges nt least wero to be stricken off. The laat heard of it was thattho Western raflronds wero willing to do their part if tho Eastern roads would consent, but it wonld seem from Mr. Wroxen's lotter that the Western roads have not yet agreed to do away with thess charges. Thero has evidently beon dilly- dallying on all sides, and we suspact that tho owners of the elevators are not entirely froo from blamo. At all events, wo believe that thoy have it in thelr power to coerco a reform, if they themselves are willing to onter into it and contrilute their just proportion to it. If tho clovators would say to the Board of Trade somothing as follows : “ Wo aro satisfled that the welfaro of the Chicngo shipping-trade doponds largely upon the reduction of tho terminal chargos, at least to the extent that they are in oxcoss of tho charges at other citics, Wo have, there- fore, determined to do our sharo in the work. ‘We shall honceforth charge 1’ cant a bushel for ton days’ storage, instead of 2 centas for twenty doys or any part thereof, loaving the charges for extrn storage as thoy are now, ‘Wo shall also discontinue the charge of $1 per car for ‘ trimming.’ Therest remains with the railroads,” Withsuch a notification from the owners’of the clevators, the Board of Trado could bring an influence to bear on the railronds which the Iatter would not be able to rosist. They wonld certainlyRee- curo the abolition of tho charge of $2 for switching, also tho exorbi. tant charga for sido-tracking, and prob- nbly the railronds would oven sgroo to pay the 1 cent charge for original stornge of ten days, as thoy provide reasonable storage froo on all other freight they bandle. If this could be done, Chicago would have an ad- vautage over other shipping points, instead of being at a disndvantage, as at present, Tho propor point of depariuro in this movement is with the elovators, Their business is 5o intimately connected with the Board of Trade that the Intter ahould not find it diffeult to influence them in & matter in which the intorests of both aro" so seriously concerned. The reduction asked of the clevators ia. not below tho charges at which elovators in othor ocities aro able to meke monoy ; and the new rato proposed would unquestionably yield a profit to those elovatora actunlly doing tho business if thoy gave up tho illegitimato burden of cnrrying the idlo olovatorn. The Board of Trado should make o sirong cifort to induce the clovator-ownera to take the initintive in this reformn 3 we nre porsuaded that the railronds will be constrained to do their share after the clovators shall havo taken the first step. Lot it bo tried on this bosis at lesat, and, if the roilronds still resist, it will then be time to look for some other romedy. The daobata upon the Brruxesr complica- tion in Congress grows more nnd more in. teresting, aud more and more unerringly points to the fact that the Democratic Housa ocither caunot, will not, or dare not, either impeach or indict the ex-Secrotary of War, 1t shows that thoy have hooked o fish which thoy either cannot land or are afraid to land. With his customary ndroitness and boldness of attack, Mr. Braixg, at the head of tho Re- publican minority, bas turned the tables and pushod the Democratic mnjority to tho wall and compelled them to defend themselves, They led tho attack with a good deal of vigor and mors blustor up to a certain point, and then weakoned, The advantage was im. proved, and the Domocrats must now defend themsolves in their unpleasant dilemma. Either they bhave boen guilly of blundering ond stupid management which will allow BeLEnAP {0 cicapo, or they dara not impeach him for fear of having the chalice commend- od to their own lipa, 'The report of the Ju. diclary Committes is & lamentabls, pitiable confeasion of failare. That report recites tho following resolution : Rizsolvd, That the resolution inatructing the Come mittes on the Judiclary to prepare articlea of Impeach- ment against WiLLIAM W, UELENAP, lute Secrelary of War, for high crimes and misdemeanors tn ofics, be recommitted tosail Commlites, with power to tako furtber proofs, to send for persons and papers, to sl during the scssions of tis House, and 4o report at any Umo. The necessity for this resolution is con- tained in its preamble: “The Committes on the Judiclary wonld respectfally report that, in pursuance of the lustructions of the House, (hicy bLave prepared articles of fmpeackment ogainst WiLLxX W, DrLxnar, late Secretary of War, for Ligh crimes abd misdemeanors in ofiico, but that alnoa proparing the same they bave been fuformed aud beliovo that Carxn P, Mamsit, upon whose testimony befora the Commit!ea on Esyenditures in the War De- partment aald articles were framed, has goue beyond the jurisdicion of the Government of the United Blatcs, and that probably hisatiendance s » witness Lelare the enate, sitting as a Gourt of Impeachuent, caunot be procured to convict sald WrLLIAM W. Dite Exav of high crimen and misdensosnors in ofiios, How did Mr, Oaren P, Mixzsn suoceed in gotting beyond the jurisdiction of the Gov- emment of the Unlted States? Bimply be. cause tho Houso Committes released him from custody as a witneas when it was in their power to detain him. o was released at a full meeting of tho Committee, with the assout of the Democratio members, the Xo. publicans protesting, e was reloased by that Committos with tho full knowledge that Lo was wanted as & witness in the impeach. ment proceedings, ond released with the knowledge also, if the Democratio membery kuow anything, that e would leave tho coun. try as fost a8 tiuoe and trains could carry him, More than this, the opportunity was afforded him of taking with him the originals of all the important papera in the case, including the checks given Brrxxar by him, The thin protext that Mansn was frightencd away by fear of prosecution is disposed of by thow focts in the case, Ho could have been rotained, even if he was frightened, by the failure of the Committee to discharge him. Thot he was not frightoned off by the an. nouncement that he would bo prosecuted is shown by the fact that ho was out of ‘Washingtou three hours before the repart of the Committos was mads to tha Iouso, ond that, instead of instruotions having emanated from the Oabinot for his prosccu. tion, Mansn's onse wns nevor considered in the Cabinet, and, evon if it had been, ho was in Montreal bofore any of tho Oabinet's pro- coedings which rolnted to the prosecution of BetuNAP wore published. Thus this thin Domooratio pretext to cover up either a blun. dor or somothing worse falls to the ground, ond, as the natural. sequenco of nll this misorable managoment, the impeschment business hns been recommitted to tho Ju. diclary Committes, which will probably be tho end of it, notwithstauding the chenp in- dignation expressed in Mr. Kxorr's bill in ro- lation to fugitive witnesses, whick locks tho stable door after tho horso hns escaped, and notwithatanding the bill which was passed to protect witneases, which will have no effect ns an indncemont for Ar, Jansk to roturn to the United States. ‘Whatover may be the reason, whether it bo n blunder or an act of cowardice, in ol- lowing both the indictment and the impeach- bocoming indebted in some way for some pur- pose. 'This prohibition in the new charter ja not roforrod to by tho OComptroller or the attorneys whose opinions he obtained, nor was our attention callod to it until recontly, ‘When wo observed that tho cortificates of in- dobtodness now being issuod professod on their face to be issned by ‘virtuo of the pro- visions of the old charter, which are null aud vold becnuso in direot antagonism with tho now charter, wo could not believe tho sct to bo legal, and sald so. We kuow thatitis olaimed that the proviaion .in the Constitu~ tion applies only to bonded debt, and .does not apply to any other form of indebtedness ; but this is manifestly absurd, and would ren- der the constitutional prohibition ridiculous, There would be no limit on this aida of total bankraptey to, the extont of the debt that could be piled up under such 4 construotion of the Constitutio: The Union Pacifio Railrond Company in its annual report mskes a very handsome showing of profits, ns follows: Gross earnings in 1875.... $11,903,533 ment to fall to tho ground, the Democrats in | Operating exponses..... 4,087,047 the Honso bave again shown their signal in- 37070 Burplus esrnings Burplus earnings 181 Tncreass in 1673, . Land bonds {swued. Retired and cancel competonoy to deal with publio nffairs, as 8,703,178 wellastheirgrosa ignoranco of duty in dealing ‘with malfeasance in offico. It is ovident that if any corrupt men in tho Gnanr Administra. tion are to be punished, it must be done by Outatsnding.. 37,692,000 Ropublicans, who have already, in the Ber. | Land sale notes on 8,013,800 ENAP case, indicated their position by voting for the impeachment which has been thwarted by the Democrats, and by voling to send the evidence Leforo tho Criminal Court nccessary to indict him, which the Democrats voted down. If the Democrats. really want Berexar eithor impeached or in~ dicted, lot them give tho case to the Repub..| licans and thoy will find a way to accomplish | both, without any unnecessary delay, Balance due on bands.. $ 4,619,500 Novortheless, this road, which was built without cost to the Company, which has sur- plus carnings of $7,000,000, s year, cannot pay the intorest on the bonds issued by tho Governmont. Tho annual interest on theso bonds issued to this Company is $1,620,000, but the Company rafusca {o pay it Jotting it accamulate, until now it amounts to nearly holf tho principal of the debt. Is it mot possible for the United Btates to reach this enormous nbusoe of the nation’s liternlity ? THE TWEED VERDICT, The verdict of 6,500,000 rendered agninst Tweep for moneys froudnlently obtained by tho systom of over-pay on contracts which ho invented daring his rule of Now York is probably the largest verdict ever rendered in this country agninst an individual. Itis great trinmph, inasmnuch os it complotes, as far g3 can be, the crusade of reform inaugu. rated by the people of Now York n few years ngo. Ilow ronch of the monoy will bo ac- tunlly recovered remaing yet to be seen, but it Is ovidont that the samo strlet ruling which has onabled tho prosccution to get the ver- dict will also enable it to hunt out tho wealth of Twzep wherover it is concealed and how- over it may be covered up. ' The smme Epirit ot justice which prompted this verdiot will force the men who have acquired Tween's property by fraud or without consider- ation to disgorge, and his estate ., will be swallowed up and evorything recov- orod which has not been actually taken out of tho country. 'The trial which has had this result was also romarkable for the reap- pesarance of Cuantes O'Coxor, who walked into the court-room asif from tho grave, and gove the case 8 new impetus, = Nelther Judges, oilorneys, nor jurymen dared to bo- tray the publio while this man was alive and pointing the finger of fato at them. 0'Coxon has beon Tween's Nemesls, and it was fitting that Lis lifo should have been spared to wit- ness thoe final act in this drama of retribution. The defenso of TwEED was necessarily wenk. 1t rosted upon Davio Dunary Frewo, Fierp's argument conaisted largely of an apology for his appesrance os Twzrp's ndvoeate. Such an apalogy of itself was enoughto court a verdict ngainst hig client. Tho rest of tho defonse was based (1) upon tho nilogation that thero had never been but one meoting of the fomous Board of Audit, when it was de- cided that the certificato of the Presi- dent or Clerk shonld be ovidonco that tho work - certiffied had been done; and (2) upon the ground that Tweep was ignorant of tho forgeries upon which a part of the monoy wus obtained, and should not, therefore, be linble for so much of it. The effort of his connnel was to reduce the amount of the verditt, but the jury evidently lield that, when tho Board of Audit was created, it was for the purposo of examining the correctness of bills, and that the failuro to do this rondercd Twxeo linble for the losses as well ag his own stealings. Now it is to bo hoped the effort to collect under this judgment will bo a3 vigorous as has been the offort to get a verdict. At all events, let it bo demoustrated that property stolen from tho publio is not more sacred and cannot bo retained any moro than property stolen from private individuale, If thic be made a preo- edont in the case of Tweep and the whisky thioves, covering both local and National Governmant, thothefts will heacoforth de- Creaso, Wo trled to lat Mr, A. O, Wizzanp down as casily ns posaibls, and refrainod from pointing out the glaring inconsistenclea in his account of the inatruotions Gov. BEVRRIDGE gave him as to the courss the Post and Mail should pursuo on the HesixaTreasurership mattor, Buthosxhibits Do gratitude for tho kinduess shown him, and does not scem dispoged to ot woll enough slone. On tho contrary, he {s apiteful and venomous. s cane is thin: Ilo wont around elcosionoor- ing with Ropublican Aldermon and othara for the city printiog for tho Pos! and Mail, snd, whon his attontion was calied to tho troacherous cons dact of his paper [nytho aat fall'y campaign, Vo gavons en oxcuso thorofor that he had acted under tlo advico of the CGovernor.’ To /A, Sroxe, of the Fifth Ward, ho confessod that “ (ov. BEVRIIDAX 0ame up hiero In Octobe.r and callod at tho oflice and said, in tho cowrs(s of the contersation with me, tal it was nothing but a scrub race, amd he guesscd we! might as well support Testva as' the othor - man," Boan aftorwards WiLrano ot Alr. W. I, Hunres, snd in the couwse of conversation said o him: “Now, I wil rtoll you the facts alypnt that, Tarronand I are good Ropubliconw, and have hean Bo all along, bul, afler the Repy splican Con vention last full, Gov. BEvERIDGE ! game lo onr qffice and said: *This is going . Lo be a scrud race, anyway, and I think you a in make more capital by supporting Mr. HE3ING 4 than you can by supporting Mr. Huck'” In tne msanwhile support Mr. Ilzarya, but, o7y tho contrary, ho truth? WILLARD consumaid more than g colnmn of TumsuNE spaco in “ expliaining,” and a pretty nious he mada of it. Fio daro not deny, in piain torms, wehat no told Al). Hcoxs and Mr. HanrEn, but ho tries to craw! through a small erack by saying that **tho tall. ho hrd with Gov. Brven- ipaE ocourrad priors-to the holdiog of the Re- publican Municipal: Coavontion, and whilo the vpropristy of buving much a Qon - vention was s mootod polnt. It - thls wore 50, how in thn namo of common ssnxs could he quote véist Beveumax said boforo tho nomination in Juntificntion of tho P, and M.'s purfidy to the Repub Kcan candidato for 'rons~ uror sfter (ho nomiuntion ? If WiLuanp had told Beasrs. SraNe <and Haneen what ha now vrotonds, they would have lsugtied in his faco, as it would hinvo bron too abaurd to quots what the Governor sald at a timo whon tho Ropublis cans had not even made up thelr minds to run a tickot, 88 ndyico or instructiona to tho Post aftor Huck was placed bafore tho paoplo as the Ropublican-can didste-sgainst alr, HestNa as tho ““People's™ candidete, But Ald SroNm ox- prosely contradicts thls after-thought, for ho #ays Woranp told him that “the Governor camo up bore in Qctober, sad said to him that bo guessed wo (the Post and Mail) might e woll support .Hzsmva a8 « the othor man,” Tho other man, of courss, moant Hucx, aud this I8 proven by the stato- ment of AMr, Hameim, sa Wrutarp eald to him that *after the Republican Com- vantion la st fall, Gov. BeveRioar came to our office and mald, ‘This In golag to be & uerub race, any way, and I think yoa can make, more vapital "y supporting Mr. Hxsixa than you can by supporting Mr, Huck.'" ‘Tho slo'aent of chronrlogical mecuracy doea not ssora to bo wantrog in this recital. The faot is, i did not ocow: to Mr. WiLLanp whon b raado thess reva lations that they would flud tl'air way Into print. It is Iwportant for the G bvernor that they shonld bo denled or ex'ylainod away. Wireano finds himself In & serspea for blabblng on his master, and, not knowing ‘what olse to do o/ say, has taken to mud-flingin g and repeating vome of Bevrnipax's contsmy tible aspersions, *whicn will not advauce the infureats oz crodit of . oithor of tuew, g —————— 1f & review of New Humpehiie politics printed by the New York Zviune ma:} be trusted, cor- tainly the result of the elactfon in that Htate ought not to bave any influence in the country whichover way it goes. It la “feported that both aidos admit that votes are Vought and that the Btato 1s always carried by mejney. A momber of the Democratio Central Clomralttes told tho Tribune’s correspondent that, in & vote of 80,000 io » closely-contesded, elsction, at loast 8,000, or one-tenth, are 8¢ cured by bribery. The correapondent ropoated U 16 statoment at Repub- lican headquarters, whor e hs ssys it.was pro- nounced somewhst exa¢ gerated, but suvataus tially corroct, - Voles av ¢, gaid in closo towns to bo worth as bigh as 8775, and ons town is spoken of In which at least */210,000 is always spent by the two partios, F ¢ theso aro the '“grest offorta™ always mo te to carry Naw Hampshire, thoy might botter 'ysye apared, and both partios would do well 10 )+ New Hampshire go by de- fault, ‘I'ho Post und Muil sooks an advertisement by charging 'fam TumoNe with inconsistency in having, in Soptember, 1875, coditorially in- dorsed the opiulon of Ay Havres, the City Comptroller, backed by tlat of the Corpora. tion Counsel and other eminent lawyers, to the effect that the cortificates of oity indebt- edness drawn ogoinst taxes levied but not collected wera legal and valid. 'Tue Trinong, if tho case stood in the same light that it then did, would be disposed to take the same view of the case now. In tho elaborate paper writ- ten by Mr, Haves, end in the oplnion of Judge Digxey, and the indorsements by Judge Lawzexcr, Judgoe Brogwrrn, Mr. Hrrescook, and the othor lawyers, it is stated, or as- sumed, that the provisious of the chartor of 1865, and tho smendments of 1869, under which the city had beou governed for yonrs, wers atill in forco, ‘There is no mention of ar rofercncs to the fact that there had been a now charter adopted which had repealed all previous charter laws and euthority in regard to borrowing money, incarring dobt, and iasn. ing cortificates of indobtednesa; nor is thero any mention of the fact that in the new chuor. tor was re-enncted a4 part of the city charter tho constitutional prohibition against any municipal corporation becoming indebted, “in any way for any purpose,” boyond the & por cent limitation. Tho abseuce of any such reforenco to the now charter was natu. Tal and proper, because at that date it was an open question, pending in the oourts, whother the new charter liad legelly super- seded the old ono or not. The condition of motters hne changed siuce then. It has now been practically decided that the charter of 1872 was ndopted in April, 1875, and is now, and hes been ever sinco that time, the govern. ing law of thia city. The aot of 1865, which waa & part of the old charter, provides that tho city may borrow, in anticipation of the taxcs lovied, such sums ag the city may need for a time not cxtending beyond the succeed- fng June. Tho chartor declared adopted in 1875 repeals all previous laws jucon. sistent therewith, and declares that the city sholl not becomo indebted, “in any way for any purposo,” boyond the & por cent limitation. As that limitation has been ex- ceeded by the bonded debt, the isate of loan certificates payable six montha after dats is T TS In quittiog Er, pland, Gen. Scurxcx avidontly stald not upon ¥ *ae order of his going, but weut at once, aud, ir | golug at onco, kicked over all tha propristies ., and the etiquatte of courta In the most ruth! paymanner, After having taught the Englishp pople what he know abont bogus mioing-8tock 1, aud revealed to them the mys- terles of pol :er, in pursuznce of his position s Miniater to the Court of Bt. James, thon to run A&y, CATDY gt-bag In hand, from the Court, with- out even jgaying good-by, was at leaat an indi- cation of jndecent haste. It was Gen. Bciiesx's bounden guty to have gone to Victouis, Queen of Engh ,nd, Irelsnd, and Hootlsnd, Defender of the ¥aith Empress of Indis, Canads, and the P 4 Jelands, kissod the royal baud, and walked | backwards, with sverted gaze, dropped 3 tes ¢ for old associations’ sake, and lerg with digity. The Geperal, however, was 100 wery for apsthing of the sort. lo Ene’ g that {f he went to bid Victomu good. by: §t would be squivalent to ssying to by, Eoglish peopls be was BQd coming Beveninar, in his oord to Tas T a1suxa, declarcs that **he ditl nof advise tho: Fost and Mail to protosted sgaknst such & Course ™! Hero iss fist coutradletion. Which.' of thom tefla the' back again, Dat if bo bad made such an an- nouncoment, then tha writs would have beon served tipon him} in other words, if ke Liad patd his respocta to the Queen, tho Bhoriff wonld liavo paid his roapects to him. QGen, Henexok is too good b poker-player not to have known if I callod on the Quoon the Sheriff would have seon, bim and raised him. Ho Le foldod his tent Uka an Arab, and silently stole away, withont saying good-by to Iler Majosly. It is fortunate, now that 8 saccessor hes been nominated who, when it comen ls turn to take farowoll o7 the Court of 8t.Jamos, will prosorvo all tho ameul- tlos and loave wilh porpondicalar cgat-talls, But, even at tho risk of tho anguinh thie axtraor- dinary oxit of BcueNk's may have Majesty, nothing can bo more {1 soothing to tho American peopls thao, his retutn, however lurrisd or ridiculons it moy appear to our Euglish brothron, —_——— . The profect for transforming tho Colorado desort of Bouthorn Callfornin "into a Iake by turning fnto it tho waters of tho Rie Colorado is agaln sgitated in Californin, What is known aa the desert iv a district about 100 milea wido, lying botween the rivar and the monntaing on tho woet, o'ad oxtonding into Lowor Californis. Portigam of {t aro from- 100 to 120 foot bolow amon-lovel, nud the theory ia that, by shifting of the sand, bars were'| formed, cutting off tho suiannel connecting the Rulf thon covering tha yegion with tho ocean, and that, In time, the virder covering the dessrt was carriod off by owporation. Tho region ia rainlesg, snd the mhl-day boat In summor av- erages 140 dogreos. “fot, a8 oftsn a3 tho Colk orado overflows ands "tho wator finds its way into tho desert n ‘g'ort distanco along the bayou known as 1,144 Now Rivor, luxuriant vege- tation springs wy. Tho project in fact is not for forming alal.o (though ono would be formod) for ths sake ot inducing rainfall, but for a gigsutlo system, of (rrigation by tapping tue Colorado near YWort Yuma. Yoars ago the nec- ©88Rry concess pion was obtainoed from Moxico, into which tlv y lnke formed would probably ex- toud, and e} qutor for the project oblained from the Callfarr fa Loglalatura. Only tho nocousary grant frowr, Congresa was lacking, and that the Alla Cal'fornia states will again be applied for. It e ¢l imod that thoschemn, it carried out, will rod] aim millions of acres of now desort, un- inhably able torzitory. D e G711 mEnr LEWIs, 8 boy 10 years old, who has bowa, from infanoy an fnmate of the Paupor Ho.m1o at Tarrytown, Pa., has found his long-lost w.othor, Blelost kim and hor husband duriug !.be War, learned that her husband had commit- tod sulcido, and thereupon marrled a nobleman In Russis. Tho boy is now to be educated in ’ Frauco. Why is it that novels and plays always end at oxactly this point in domestio romances ? ‘Tho boginning might be made here. The suthor might show the' difficulty of eradicating labita formed in oarly youth ; tho lothargy which over- takos & mind long unuaed to excrcisa ; the mor-~ al docay which I8 communicatod to s child by pauper life. Bal this, alas! would nos be ro- ‘mance; it would bo history. Tho Oliver Twist of real life i not a nice thing to take into the bosom of & family. _————— ‘Thoy had & big tume at tholr Mardi-Gras car~ nival ot Cincinuat, At least aeverybody who Jjoined In tho procession en masque, and dancod at the ball, and next mornjog got up with a boadache, declared they had s big timo. Bat they aro not done with 1t yot. Tho awful ques. tionromains, who's to pay for it, and that the masquers aro now wondering. Tho receipts from the ball wore insufficient to pay tho ex- penses ‘of tho whole affair, and Col. Niox Ropents—woll known in amusomont circles— claims tho profita of tha ball propor, aa'tho re- ward for Lia ahare in gotting up the colebration. To further complicate matters Ropears has had o rough-aud-tamblo enooanter with snother of tho managors, who i{nsisted that Ropente should como down with the net proceods of the ball. 'Tho end is not yat with tho great jamborae, Ad the charming Jaabella obsorvos, ** 1t is ex- colleut to have a giant's strongth, but it is tyranoous to ugo itlike a giant.” That is why tho thouglitful printer, more merciful than the wrter, mado & yawaing Lrosch in a paragraph on tho Public Library and tho Chicago ZTimes, published in yestordsy's Tnibuxe, Tho Times will not know whero to attack, unloss ita noso Is. pointad in the right direction ; and wo thore- fore tako plessure in informing it that tho sen- toncee~‘‘Tiin beat patrons of the Library does not patronize the ZT'imes*—is absolutely Inde- fonsiblo, But porbaps it would be the part of wisdom for the T¥mes to tet tho blundsr pnss unnoticed; its roadors conld nevor bo mado to understand whero the laugh should come in, e, Tho Washington Republican publishod Wednes- day the rosolutions of censuro which woro pags- ed by the North Carolina Senate on WirrLrax M, Rounixs, a momber of that body, for accopting o bribo {n Augnst, 1868, for sccuring the pass- ago of & resoiution through the Sonate, Tho bribo was the small sum of 20, A rosolution of expulsion was dofeated by a voto of 15 to 18 agajuat. Tho resolution of consurs was passed by o vote of 28t08. NopniNs 1 a Domocratic Topresontative in the preseut Congress, and as a mombor of tho House Committes on War Ex- ponditures has beon active in trying to fasten upon the Republican party tho responeibility for Brukyvar's wisdoiugs. Il is a nico duck, e The aucceesor to the lato Fuancis Dearx in the Hungariau Parlisment {s Bishop Honvarm, who wag & rovolutionlst in 1848 snd driven {nto exile by thie Russian Intoryention of 1849, Ifo spont bin exile partly in Parin and partly in Switzer~ land. 'Thuugh condemned to doath at one time, Lo was readmitted to Hungary under tho gener- al amnesaty of 1857; =ad tha Austrian dofsat at Sadowa, whick compelled the Bmperor Fuanols Josxrn to call Hungarians to his ald, made Ion- varn the first Minlater of Justice in the Hun- perian Cabluct. e has always boon moderate aud conservative in hig trestmeut of the re- liglous quastions {n Hungary, and i3 & man (now uearly 70 yoars old) of grast powsr smong the pooplo. —— A Tniovsx anbacriber in ono of tho southorn counties writes as follows : **X wish Tar Taip- Uz woald thump the Btale ofcors who sra using Stato eruployea for electioneering pur- posos, At present, from six to eight men (em- ployes) drawing salarias from the Stata are oot electionearing for State ofticors desirlng renom- ination, Counting the time of thess mon, and thetimo of others engaged in letter-writing, postage, stationory, eto., it will cost tho paople $0,000 or $7,000 for tho alectionaering expans of thoso gentlomon dosiring resomination,” The gulity Btate oMcern will consider themsalyes goveraly ** thumped.” 3. (S The attendanco at the representations of Draox's new comody, ** Married in Haute," now ourront at MoVicken's Thostre, shows that the peopls of Chleago will patronize & good thing ‘when thoy havo a falr chance, Tho play is well givan, MoVioxer's company baving the assist- onco of throe outside artlsts, The fact that the resources of tho company aro not adequato to the productlon of such & work without assist anco {a proot positive that ths judgment of the publio upon st is just, In fact, the publis, with all its caralesnesa aud Ignorence, scldom errs in its verdich; snd, in moy case, It has the comfortablo sseuranco that from the court which i1t presides over thore is no sppeal, The Canadians hiave preserved theScotoh rule relative to common carriers deststing from thair labors over Bunday, 6o far as thelr canals ars conoernod, while the Canadian railroads ave op~ orated on Bunday the eame as otber days. The distiocuon is by no means obvious, At thesams time the cansl-boats on the Welland Oaual are brought to a sudden stand-atill evary Baturday vight at 12 o'clock, snd are. not permisted to move on till midoight the following Bunday, Bo serious s detriment has this rule been to com- mezce that the Clevelsnd Bosrd of Trads bas s — '} ad Aressed 8 romonstranes to the Canadian Py, 1 ament, which will bo conatrained, we sh 1 Iilnk, either to abolish the rulo as to canalyee apply it as to all monns of transportation, i i . Bmith College, at Northampton, Bass,, 'hkl‘ 18 Intonded to secura for women opportunitley for & univorsity education, ia really, as the Naip, desoribes it, ** & mass of promisen.” Nor 18 thy chargo that it Is *‘fecbly-codowed and ingad, clontly oquipped " refated by the complacey atatemont of its frisnda that It has s prodaetiy, fund of £400,000. This sum {a the merest tolls a8 comparod with the resources of th uviversitios worthy the name sn thls connt, bip ® only England. Bmith Colloga shonlid bave baen my, an adjunct of Marvard or Yale, not an .pondont inatituti inds i MO VR Tho Haw York Uniyoralty boys Istely snjoyy a¢rash” In the strosta—enjoyed It, thatiy untll the police nabbed s nambor of tho partly, panta and lodged them in the lock-up, Thy cards that the Jocked-up ones wrots the nyw papors to explaln hiow it all luppened quite f1ightfal to soe, i s ISPy Mra. Bowena to Secrotary DELKMAP ¢ win Coms to tho Dowkns, love, post-traded for you; Your bad shall be Mansngs, all coversd with ras, —_— g PERSONAL. every inch & King. tong to tha New or tha Old Behool ? Tho Philadelphia Times says Bolknap subtle man but Marsh was a sutler, Annis Alontagus, of the Keliogg Don Catlos is 6 fest 8 inches tall, but py Mrs. Belknap in a Prosbyterian. Does aheby g Opay ‘Troupe, was born in the Bandwicli Islands, Guizotleft s **Popular History of England! in manuecript, which is shortly to be printed. Edward King says Castelar as an orator “iy vests tho commonest matter with his almostdy vine afllatus,” %o Little ook, Ark,, to live. donca from Amesbury to Pesbody. The mno Valley mourns it loss. An Amhorss man, who 18 somewhat of wrote (n hia hat, Golgotha, which, belng lated, maans *the place of » sknll."” tain contemporary editors * bragzen-faoed WAYS. fitting that *'Around the Worl played in the Globs, Bomsbody else said fore liitn, though. . furnishiog uniforms to the Government during tho War, Bhoddy? + Gen. Shorman eaya Afrs, Grant asked expatience, mattor at all, in Northern Itaty and parts of the Tyrol. of tho world nowadays, glish commoerco must wipe oft all thas j proschies which have boen brought agalos| devots thewsslves to commores. Adirondack Murray says heaven Is no! tho other way. The man who fails of componsation will insure him haaven. Mionie Hauck has the act, the executora of the estate gould hiold responasible. ‘The principle of woman suffrage is doacona Is continually increasing. The pi with waxed ends, - 5 ‘Tonnie Claflin announces that ** wo aro Poor Tennis [ onos powerful mind I8 now o ruin. Gi ‘meet swect Willlam Kelley. M. de Vaulegrement, an officer of Gen. legs broken in an itallan railiray acciden thio clispel has not been built, Ab Ki {u the Chineso intarpreter in the into the Chineso quariors mpa atirs mp Lancea among bis countrymen. Then he preta the teatimony to suit the highest Ex-Senator Brownlow's dsughter Fanniewy recontly married in Enoxville, Teno. She g ‘The poet Whittier Is abous to move hls ruy Manm aong traps \ Murray, editor of tho Golden Itule, oalle ear Llars} His is & Golden Iiule thot doesn't work boty +Qullp,” of the Boston Post, usys It {a mogt should by it ba Caleb P. Marsh, tho chief witness agaiog Belknap, mada his fortune out of & contract fay troopd by glvo her son Frod a place om his staft, andle rofusod, becanse tho young man lscked age sxd Gen. Grant nover moved (n i Austrisand Italyare trying to sgres oar treaty to prevent tha dastruction of amall birdy Livte birda do not tell anybody anylhing in hatput * Mr. Grant Duff sald, in s speech recently & livored at the Uity of Loodon College, that B just re 18 be- fore the sons of England could be expeciedts b pop ulated with sioging thisves or patm-benring bankrupts, The general impression ssems tobs ever thing olee assnmes that the dlvino principlest * ured & judgment for €2,708.76 againat Lafayette Harrison, on scuount of an unfilled contract made in 1868, 8. N. Pis signad the contract as gusrantor, bat the ol decidod tbat, an there was no consideration for nabh t talting deep root in the Congregational churchesel Conneoticat, and the number of bald-headsd nston, on tho otber haud, genorally wear luxurist treasos parted in tho middle, sod mustacha on'the eve of ooe of tho grandeat climactario convok slons In financo which the world has over known.” Bhe, too, has boen roading (bt financial ariioles in tho newapapors, and het ona 10 b7/ miranlt's staff in the Fronch srmy, had both bis ¢ H recovered heavy damages, which he devoted o building & votive chapol, and put into a bank fo1, that purpose, The bavk hag just broksn o 4ad court of Novads. When business gets alsck, he gost duster dntere ddet. Genius of this order cannot have a chance pand anywhero short of Washingtoa, 1\ \ It i tho candid opinlon of Col. Anthony, tM oditor of the Leavenworth T¥mes, that bLis s ter never gaye authority for tho publicaticn el tho Conuacll Bluffs statement. * IfMias Antlio]; slould make a atatemont, and £ that atatemes! should reflact npon Bescher, Beecher's friendl wonld damn her snd tha atatement too.” Mr, Emery A, Storrs delivexed a lecture Bt urday sfternoon befors tha Chicago Goll Law on tho subject of * Logal Tachnioall oge o ties lo Criminal Casea.” Wa prosume it is the aamé that e delivered atthe Unitod States Cout room in this clty, the week bmfore, on eocasiod ot Babcock's benefit.—S2, Louis Times. William Walter Phelps was oloctod Commence* mont orator of Columbla Callogo fast fall He afteriarda declined the appologmnot at the ¢ quest of bia alternate, Mr, Wiikam Hayes, who wss aoxious le sorve. A committes of Ib4 Alumai, baving examined tue,mattor, bave & clared tho oftice vacsat and elpoted another & tor, the Hon. L. Bradford Prince. Anold gentleman with white halrattondd the Moody and Sankoy moetings at the Ne¥ York Hippodroms lately, and, Jlor*want of tor seat, took n placo at the repiorbers’ tabl rTeportors wera aboat to roquest- kis withd: when ho said: **1 fosl sntitled abe o T rawsk 18 place herk beoause I am the oldoat reporten in New York” Tho old man waa Thurlow Weed. | E.P. Whipple noticss, in s recent megazind article, that many plocos of postry which have becomoe popular have had the effect to obscust other work of the authors not Joes meritorloss Lucy Larcom’s * Hannah Binding Shoes,” a.P Morris' “Woodman, Bpare Thas Tree,” Howsrd Payne's “Bweet Home,” and Francis * Btar Spangled Banner," are.inatances ab Koyt Dan M. Bowmar, before our gress fire bé energotia Bocretary of the Mutual Seoumrity 1o surance Company, of thls oity, ' hag become 14 editor of the Woodford cownty (Ky) ekt and a sight bright, eprightly paper (¢t is, Dsa ¥ & very tudustrious and thoroughly honest and bis native Btate will ba all the bettar f ma% or bl control of one of ita leading conntry jousnsls An enthusiastlo fashion’ correapaudedt writed from Washingtoo: *If Mra. Grant, Junloh fe't the daintest, sweetoal, mos} from Paradiso. Some women are bewp! &0, bui birs. Fred Grant bas s!f those sod too,—sout aud lifo aod ozpression atyl f kindling the depths of Ler velvet, g fram ber dalay Lpe." sutiful woman in the world, the otier worpad can't b a womaa at all, but must bo-somn Jari strs)! wax dolls, 60 far w8 color and form susl featar® mork, oslisg wmidoight eyes, abining from bez sparkling faee u:.\hull-'.'