Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 17, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MARCII 17, 1876. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, BATRS OF AUDACTITTION (PAYATLR 1N ADYANCE). Postngo Prenald nt thin OMes. Dalty B4 1100, POIDAI, ] FEAR.evcssrsa s Matt '::fll of l’llrll!lml}flh. af] [ rees FOUR WEEKS fo II;M!.I‘ E’mfl{m Liternry aud lellgious £ri-Woek . Bpeotmen coplos sent freo, i Toprovant delay and mistakes, ba worn and givs Yost- Office sddresa In full, including Stats and Connly. ,_Romittances may be mada efther by draft, oxpross, iPost-Offios onder, or In roglstored lottors, t our risk. TEBMS TO CITY SUTACRINERA. Daily, delivared, Sunday sxcoptod, 25 conts per weok, Uslly, delirered, Sunday Included, 30 conts por week. Address THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Comer Madtson and Dostborn-ats., Ohicago 1L AMUSEMENTS, HOOLEY'S THEATIE-Tandolph strest, between Pt R A e ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn sireot, corger Monros, “ Humpty Dumpty,”" ! MoVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, betweon Dearborn and Blate, Engagement of Emma Waller, # Meg Marrillea.” WOOD'S MUBEUM—Monroo stroet, between Doare born_and Blate. Afternoon, “ Day After the Wed- ding " and * Alarming Bacrifice.” Kyoning, © Latty," by the Richings-Boruatd Troupe. SOCIETY MEETINGS. COVENANT LODGE, No, 620, A., F. 4d A. M.~ lar Corsmunication this (rfmuyz evening at 7:30 o'clock, at Corinthian Mall, 167 Eaxl Kinzie-st., for work on tho M, M, Degroe. Viaiting brothren cordlal- iy lnvited. 1 order of tho Wy M, WAL, KERR, Sec. WASHINGTON CHAPTER, NO. 43, ular Convocatlon this (Friday) ovening at 7: for buainess and work vn the P, and M, Degroos, Vllmnicomylnlonl cordially invited. Uy order of the AL E. IL P, CHAS, B, WRIGHT, Becretaty, , ORIENTAL LODGE, NO.33, A., F. & A, M.—Stated Communication this (Friday) evoning, at 7:30 o'clock, for business and work. lli order of the Mastor, N. TUOKER, Becretary. The @hiesgo Tribumne, Friday Mormng, March 17, 1870. Greenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- change yestordny closed at 873, n The woman's-suffrago movement is loom- ing up again in Massachusetts, tho Upper House of the Legisiature of that Stato having, by a voto of 18 to 10 yesterday, passed tho femalo-suflrage amondment to the Constitu. tion, " By our London dispatcfies it will bo scen tlat while the Arctio wave has been sweop- ing over tha North and West, nccompanied by furious gales and leavy snows, a terrific (storm prevailed throughout England, and dostractive inundations occurred. A new party was born lnst night at the Tromont House,—though whether it diod n bornin’ remains to be seen,—and christoned the Independent Greenbackers. 'Tho’ gen. tlemeon who officinted resoluted to tho offcct that thoy wilt enter the ficld with their infant organization ot the coming 4nunicipal con. test, thorby, of course, to mnke monoy plenty and cheapor. . From our Bloomington specinl it would scem that Judge TieroN, of tho Cirenit Court, proposes to go ahead making orders 83 to the disposition of the Clinton & Gilman Railrond ns though tho whole caso had not already passed beyond his jurisdiction into that of tho United States Court. Possibly Judge Druantond will have somewhat to say sbout it boforo tho matter is ended. The rag-baby sontiment among the Domo- eratio Senators does not seem altogether aver- powering from tho vote in cnucus on the Parye bill, - This very much of o milk-and- water resumption measure wns talen as’] ogainst inflation, and so voted on; and, of the twenty-four Democratic Senators at tho oaucus, twenty-threo voted for it, reducieg the Democratic rag-inflatiofi_party in the Sanata to a single voto. i The Democrats of the Houso have ruceeed- ed in another investigation, ns they have sue. cceded in all that did not como to nought,— in digging mp Domocratio corruption. In the enso of Congressman Havs, of Alnbams, charged with eolling o West Point cadotship, Lruuy, the Washington cadetship broker, yes- terdny testified*that ho nover pnid monoy to a Congressman for o cadetship but onco, Then it was to Corrnoty, of Pennsylvania, a Democratio member of the Fortieth Con- gress, who pockoted 2600 for it. e —— The oternal veritics are hard to got at in ‘tho Mansn-Brrxnar business, but, if we live Jong enough, doubtless wo will know more alout it. Wo learn now that Munsm, at Moxztreal, bears himsolf es though ho wore a martyl;, and that somebody hos counted them ond found that Mrs. Mansn wenrs diamond earrings and brooch, and three dismond rings on her xight and four on her left hand. - We lenrn alsb that Mrs, Ber- £XAP, with another Kentucky lady, did make aflag for a Unfon regimont, and that she didn't como of * gerub stock,” though we be. lieve nobody over asserted she did. (oo mitcbindiiisdbey In a fit of common genso, such as it is to bo -trusted may not be of raro occurronco hereafter, the Common Council, at their 808~ sion lnst night, struck out of the Appropria tion bill the items for publishing 'tho official report of its proccedings and that of the proceedings of tho Bchool Board, T'he re- ports publishell by Tue TrinuNe and other city journals ns a matter of nows, without costing the city.a ponny, have long boen in. finitely superior to the officlal roport, snd the Qouncil Las at last found it out, and tho thousands of dollars annually wasted horoto- foro for publication of the offlalal roport will be saved this year, It is announced in our Washington specinls that the opposition to the confirmation of Mr, B, P. Dentoxsox as Collector of this Dis. # triot is not as to his fitness or integrity, but on the ground that the nomination was mado without consultation with the Congresaional elogation from Northern llinols. It is atat~ »d that the Presidont has been malking rove. uue appointments without consultation with wembers, and that the Northern Illinois dele. gation has resclved to make of the Drnicz. BON case @ test 8s to what they regard thelr prerogation in the matter of appoint. ments. The dslegative has sgreed upon Mr, J. D, Hunvey as Gen, Wrnsten's Buocoessor, and, with the view indieated, will, i¢ is stated, inslst upon Lis appointniont. e i b A The Chicago produce marketa wers unsst. tled yesterday, Mess pork wes qulet, and 3 @12fo por brl higher, cloaing at §22.12) cash and $22.15@22.17} for April. Lard was In moderats demand end S0 per 100 Ibs tgher, closing at $13.20913,224 cash und firmer, at 83c for Loxed shounlders, 1230 for do short ribs, and 123c for do short cloars. Highwines were dull nnd nominnl at $1.04} por gallon, Flour was {n batter demand and firm, Whoat was netivo and 1o higher, clos- ing at 81,01} for March and 21,02} for April. Corn waa less active and Jo higher, closing at. 4330 for March nand 43jc for April. Oats were quict and firm, closing nt 82{o for March and 340 for May. Rye was quiot at 6o, DBarloy was dull and ensier, closing nt &7¢ for Mnrch and 66jc for April. Hogs wero notive and easfer, with the bulk of the sales at $7.00@8.05. Cattlo wore quiet and wenk, with sales nt 82.60@5.30. Sheep wero dull and heavy. One hundred dollnrs in gold would buy $114,07} in greenbacks od-tho close, The Committce on Improvement of the At. mosphere of the Honso—for the lungs, merely, not the moral or political atmosphere, save as fresh nir might better theso—yesterdny re- ported that it couldn’t bo done. No plan of ventilntion hins beon dovised, they state, by which fresh air enough to supply more than six hundred pairs of lungs can be introduced into the hall, surrounded as it is by lobbies, barbor-shiops, cont-rooms, etc., excluding ven- tilation save from tho basement, They rec- ommended oxcluding from tho galleries ni| persons excopt reporters, membern of the dip- lomatio corps, and visitors admilted on cards from members, he report was rocommitted, and the legislation of the nation will go onin an atmosphore well nigh as fotid us that of o Canal'streot dive, 4 Mr, Cryaen's Cominittoe is progressing in its groping nfter tho facts as to how, until nowspaper correspondont got after him, Mr. Cryaen, with painstaking caro, got out of the way of proof ns to Mr, PexpLerox's Ken- tucky-railrond-claim job, 'The Committea lins nlrendy got so far as to draw out that Mr, Crxuen discovered that thero was no data on which to investigate Pexprerow, though, as Gen. Kinpoo observed to Cuyatcn, thore was as much testimony against PrNpLEToN ns thero was ngainst BELrxA® when the investi- gotion ngainst him was sot on foot. Yet the same Mrs, Mansn, whoso lively tongue startod tho stories against Berryar, also told of the PevprETON job, and Cryumen was in- formed of it by Gon. Kippoo, as a matter do- serving of investigation. Furtber rather breezy developments as to Brreyar's traffio in post-traderships will be found in our New York special this morning. Twelve thousand a year for that at Fort Lin- coln, $76,000 from the sale of Fort Fetterman, and lesser posts at corresponding scale, show that the business must have boen almost ns profitable as that of tho Whisky Ring in its flourishing state ero Bristow smashed it It paid so well that of course there had to ba a divide, and a Senator, an ex-Scnator, and a Governor of a Lerritory wero among those who shared in tho proceeds. One of tho curiositics of Ameriean polities, brought to light in tho matter, is a bachelor Goneral of such sybaritic tastes that ho couldn't survive without his cod-fishing in summer, a trip to Florida in winter, and $100,000 o year for spending-monoy. Apparently there will ben deal more yet disclosed, provided the Demo- cratic Committee don't get 5o cmbarrassed in ‘shielding Democratio thieves that they forget to lot daylight in upon the whole business, THE DEMOCRATIO FINANCE BILL. The Democratic Congressional caucus has, by o majority vota of 69 nyes to 46 noes, do. clared n preferonco for tho Parse Finance bill; and though the cauncus.disclaimed any controlling powor over the votes of members in tho Iouse, the opinion of the majority may bo accepted as indicating the policy of the whole party. We havo soveral times ox- plained what this Payne bill is, and, a3 we will now probably hear considorably moro of it, wo will ropont its provisions substantially, It provides: 1. That after July, 1876, and annually un- .til the United States legal-tonder notes ghall appreciate in valuo at par to gold, the Secre- tary of the 'Treasury shall retain in coin in the Trensury an smount equal to 3 per cont of the whole nmount of such legal-tendor notes outstanding; such amount so rotained shall be held as a resumption fund, and shall nover be roduced bolow 80 por cent of tho amount of legal-tender notes, 2, That each National Bank, until tho full rosumption of payment in specie of its bank notes, shall rotain from the coin intorest on ita bonds an amount equal to 3 per cont of ita circulation; and from the dato of resumnp- tion of specie paymeonts such resorvo of coin shall nover boless than 30 per cent of its whole circulation, The reserve of gold in tho Treasury to bo part of the sinking fund required by law, and tho reserve of coin by the banks to bo counted as part of tho reserve now required by law. The bill, it will be seen, simply provides for honrding coin by the Government and the bonks until the greenbacks snd the bank notes both bocomo convertiblo into coin; then the banks are to resumespecio paymonts by paying out coln in redemption of their notes, and at tho same time malntain their 30 per cent of coln resorve. What ia to ba dono with the greenbacks the bill does not state, 'There is no provision for thefr ro- domption, nor for their rotiracy; so far ag the bill is concorned, thoy aro to be recelved and paid out a8 usual, In the case of the greonbaoks, tho hoarding of gold is not for any purposo of redeoming the notes ; it {a to be held for the parpose of giving them o value; but the possossion of $111,000,600 of coln in tho Truasury- can give no additional valeo to the groenbacke unless that coln is hold for, and is ultimately to Lo applied to, the redemption of such notes. If it {a nover to be applied to the redemption of the notes, it may os well bo left in the mines, o far as its mero posseasion can give valus to tho cur. renoy, ‘The bill proposes to discontinue the trifling reduction going on in tho reduction of the amount of greenbacks, and cousequently 3 per cont of the present amount of groou- backs will bo, in round numbors, §11,000,~ *000 annually ; this amount of gold coin Is to be extorted by taxation annually from the people, nnd laid away carefully in the ‘Ireasury vaults, to remain idle, until an ag. gregato of $112,000,000 of gold ecoin shall be accumulated ; and then, and &o far as this bill ia concerned, indetinitely for all time to come, this 112,000,000 of coin ia to remain idle, In the meantime an equal amount of national bonds, payable at par in coin and bearing 6 por cent annual interest in gold, will remain outstanding against the Govern. ment, The hoarding proposition is, there. fore, squal to borrowing 811,000,000 {n gold annually for ten years at ¢ per cent, not to vodeom greenbacks, but to keep in the ‘Frensury, to give themn o charactor, This Domocratio Lill, thereforo, meana that tho Governaient sball extort from the ¢ @BA0 for April. Mests were quiss sud | puople 13,000,000 {n coin aunually, and shall pny G per cont interest thorcon in- dofinitoly—and for what? o rodeom tha greonbacks? Cortainly not; but to ralson ausplcion that the gold mny at some timo bo used for that purpose, ) Tho bill farther proposes’ that tho banks mnst Iny by 8 per cent gold coin aunually uutil thoy resuma specio payments, and must koep in coln n sum equal to 80 por cont of their circulation. Tho encourngement given to the banks to recumo is not very serious. They oro to put up bonds oqual to $105 in gold nnd $40 in coin for the privilege of issuing $90 in notes redeemablo on demnnd in gold. Ifow many banks will resume specio payments under thoso circumstances? How many will hoard gold to resume specio pay- ments years henco after their cbarters have oxpired? IInlf the charters will havo ox- pired before tho ten years, As wo hiavonore than once asked, Iow long does Mr. Monnsox suppose n Democratic Congress, or a Republican Congress, or any othier kind of Congress, will allow flfty or sixty millions of dollars of gold coin, inoreasing at tho rato,of cloven millions of dollars a yoar, to rennin idle in the Trensury? Do any of the ndvocates of the hoarding policy beliove that twenty sessions of Congress, or ten seasions, or flve sessions, or two sossions of Congresg, will pass by without o legislativo grob at tho hoarded pold, and the explosion of the resumption-throngh-hoarding policy ? Tho fact ig the bill is 8 mere mako-shift,— an coxpedient to avoid doing auything, to eacapo n party. complication upon'a question upon which the party is hopelesaly divided. This bill is not intonded by its authors to becomo alaw, It i & monningloss proposi. tion, which thoy offer to bridgoe over the Prosidential campaign, after which it will bo heard of no more. g BPOILS-BRIDERY, In lnst’Sunday’s Trinune was published o graphio and brilliant resume, based upon un- questioned authorities, of the history of cor~ ruption in office in Great Britain. Upon ronding it, the patriotioc American sovercign might complacently nssure himself that our cousing across the water are abont tho lnst people in the world who can afford to throw stones at us because of tho BELENAP affnir and the like, But that arlicle was only o sumiing-up of the festering rottenness in which tho spoils system of distribnting offica calminated in England when the priviloged classes, which did the governing, were far less in numbers than now; and tho depths of infamy to which the British civil servico thent punk is a light affair as compnred with that to which the spoils-bribery systom promises to lead in this country, whero there is -no mon so high or so low that ho mny not aspire to boe a political bummer, and peddle his influenco or position and plunder the public. The nccessary supplement to tho article referred to is found in the state- ment that, when tho corruptions under which Grent Britain groaned at last becamo insup- portable, tho Government was compolled to begin at the foundation by an entiro recon- struction of tho civil servico, making integ- rity and efficiency the standard of appoint~ mont, and faithfal dischargo of duty tho con- dition of continuance in office, the tenuro of which ran so long g8 these continued. Tha inoral to all of it, if moral is to bo extrnoted from it, is, not that Jomx Burr lives in a glass house nnd had bettor not throw stoncs, but whether wo shall continue our spoils- bribory system of civil servico until it sinks to oven o lower depth of infamy thon ever it did in England, and our Government, instend of being that of tho people, by the people, for tho peoplo, shall degenerate into that of public plunder for public planderers, - In Esgland nowadsys, under®the com- potitive-cxaminntion systom of selocting ap- pointees, aud by making the tenure of offico dependont upon tho fidolity and eflicioncy of the incumboent, overything is done to elevate the service, In thin country overything scems dono to degrado it. In Ingland a young mau who aspires to office begins by qualifying himself for it. In the United States, under the spoils systom, qualifications aro of no consequonce, and he must begin by mnking himself useful to soma spoils-taker, and the chances ara nino out of ton that our aspiring young man will start in s a political bnmmer, and, no matter what his prefor. ment, will continue n bummer, nnd, if suc- cossful, will graduato as such of the largor growth. In Grent Britatn, if his qualifications fit him for it and ho gets an appointment, his 6ifico lasts for so long o3 ho officiently dischiarges its duties; and, besides, he is in tho line of preferment according to the man. ner in which he scquits himself and tho length of his servico. Under our systom, offlce is bestowed upon him as the roward for his political bummeriam ; is held on condi- tion that ho continuo efiicient ns a party striker, and he accepts it with tho full un. derstanding that he is to be dismissed whon a turn in politica gives the spoils to tho other party. Under such conditions the naturnl and inevitable tomptation is to make the most out of tho office whilo he has it, The system is admirably contrived to graduato thieving officials, ns it seems doing, nud the wondor is that thero are not moro of them. And the spoils system corrupts not only the National Administration, but ns well and in grentor degree that of tha cities, counties, nnd States, ng the swarms of tax.oaters and tho host of plundered tax-payers throughont tho country sufficiontly attest. The question which it inevitably presents {s, How much longor shall this éorruphn;; spolle-bribo system bo tolorated 7 And that question hns not as yet even boen fairly con- sidored. When Tresident Gmant wag re- elected, a feablo, uncertain effort was made to bring about'a reform of fla civil servico in the Notional Administrotion. Tho Demo- crats in Congress dismissed the matter with o soeer. Bince the days of Jacksox their party Lias been builded upon tho spoils.bribe sys tem; ond they wonld bo lnat to destroy the foundations of thoir party. Republican Son- ators and Representatives ridiculed it, and pointed thair satire with facetions refercnces to the “ruleof the schoolmastor,” ng it, be. tweoen the political striker and-bummer and the schoolmaster, no sane persqn could hesi- tate to select the bummer pund striker for o ruler, Other Republican Congrossmen, who obtained their seats through the spoils-bribo system, or who expeoted thereby 1o seoure ro.clection, oppos. ed it, and altogether, with a deal of demagogical shamming, the Civil-Sorvice Reform was smothered. The rosults are daily more and wmore becoming apparent, not only in the Natlonal and Stato Administra. tions, but go less in thoso of the citles and counties; and there could be no more timely soason for the poople to take home to them. selves the question whother the spoils-bribe system, which breeds officlal thieves and in. capables, and makes the bummer a power in politics, shall be supplanted by an efficlent oivil-service reform which, in the National, State, Olty, and County Governments, aliall N maka nppointment to offlco contingont upon qualifications proved on competitive ex- nmination, and the tonura of office depond- ont rolely upon fidelity {n tha dischargo of tho duties of office. THE OHICAGO TOWN ELEOTIONS, Ouo of the serious annoyancos incident to tho adoption of the chartor.of 1872 for the local Government of Chicago s tho oceur- ronco within a fortnight of each other of the election of town officors and the clection of city officers. Tho offect of this circum- stanco this yenr, whon tho public nttention is concentrated upon the necossity of sacur- ing o roform element in tho Common Council and among the oflicers of the City Covern. ment, is that the importance of the town clections is too apt to bo ignored. Now, ns tha town olectiong ocenr first, and as thoy involve not only the useless espendituro .of some $100,000 of the public money, but the Dbasis upon which the taxes for State, county, city, and town are distributed, their import is not sccond to that of the city elec- tion; nnd, owing to the peenlinr npn- thy among tho voters gonerally nbout theso town oloctions, they arc oven moro likely to go by default than the city clection. It mustndt Lo forgotten that the inoquality of taxation of which there hns beon so much just complaint for soveral nionths is nll owing to a failure on the part of tho tnx-payers to nominate and elect hon- ost, competont men who would protect thoir intorests, Tho practice hns béen to leave theso clections in tho hands of the profes- sional bummers, and when there have boon two tickets in the field there has beon no choico between thom, ench being composed of incompetont and untrustworthy men. The Ropublicana ave this year for the first time giving tho town clections tho considern- tion which they deserve, and will put tickets in the fleld in the Houth, West, and North Divisions. Thero aro certain thingy, how- over, which the Republican manngers must keep woll in mind. First, it is not onough to puta ticket in the field, but tho Repub- lican voters must bo convinced of tho im-’ portanco of voting for that ticket. As thoy havo not boon accustomed to voto nt tho town elections herotofore, it will be no easy matter to get them out this yenr, The Ro- publican town tickets will bo opposed by bummor tickots, by which all thoso who havo heretofore disputed among themsolves the rogult of theso elections will now make com. mon causo against tho tax-payers and com- bino to defent tho tax-payers' ticket, In the noxt place, the tickets put forward by the Republicans must bo good in every sense of tho word ; that is, the candidntes must bo at onco competent and honest, 'I'horo are two things to bo desired of tho town ofiicers, viz,: (1) Thot they shall bo ablo to make a fair, just, and uniform assossmont and a thorough collection of tho taxes; and (2) that they shall 1ot voto thomsclves oxorbitant pay for sorvices that the people might well dispense with altogether. The nctual work of tho town officors is confined to the Asscssor and Collector, nnd doos not extend for theso two officors boyond a fow wocks in the yoar. It ought not to bo diffieult, there- fore, to find men of charnctor and eapncity willing to undertako tho work at fair pay, instend of irresponsible snd incompotent bummers at exorbitant rates, If the topub- licans can do this, nnd bring tho tax-payers to o realization of the importanco of the elec- tion, the evils of an unjust assessment which hava Boen endured this yenr may bo avoided nest year, and, before the succoeding year brings about another town eloction, it is to bo hoped that tho Legislature will relevo this community of the Town Board nuisance, or the peoplo will havo voted themselves out of it in the manner prescribed by the law, THE TURKISH REVOLT., The news frow tho Northwestorn Turkish provinces comes through 80 many channels, and is subject to 5o many consorships, that it is about impossible to detormine what tho exact condition of tho revolt is, or how wide- ly it hos oxtended. It seems, howaeyer, to be constantly growing, and it is likely soon, as the dispatches expross it, to ‘unito tho ‘wholo Sorb raco ngainst the Tarks,” At first the rebellion against Ottoman rule was con- fined to Herzegovina, but Bosnin soon showed sympathy with it, and now wo lenrn that Bolgrade, the Capital of Scrvin, and one of tho most important citica on the Lower Danube, was illuminnted on the 13th in honor of tho battle of Muratovizza. Thore is troublo nlio bolweon Roumania asud tho Porte, and it is now stated in n dispatoh from London that * Grooco has offered to form nn offonsive and defonsive alliance with Bervin and Roumanin.” Itis believed that Russia will not permit Austrin to ocoupy Servia, though itia stated that tho Landwehr haa heen ordered to ocoupy Crontia and the Tyrol. Albania oconpies the spaco between Greeco and the nortliwestern rovolted prov- inces, and as yet has not been heard from ; but, should it unito with Grecco and the northwestern provincen, and Russin, Austrio, and tho other great States will keep hands off, the Turk would very likely be driven across the Bosplorus before the yenr closes. It i3 doubtfal whether the States of Turkoy in Europe could unite and form o new kingdom ; neither would Russia and Austrin pormit them to do it if thoy could. It is nlmost cortain thoy will inslst on dividing tha * SickMan's " effoots, and tho sooner thoy come to an agreomont about it tho better for the ‘people moat intercsted and for mankind in general. Pending tho arrival of othor news,a faw' topographical and other facts In rogard to some of the provinces whora the disturbance exista inay bo nccoptable to our regders, As- suming “that Borvia hns joined Herzego- vins, the revolted district, if Montenegro be included, would be embraced iu what is nearly nu isoscelos trianglo, the left foot of which would rest on the Adriatio at the mouth of tho Moracea River, and the other on the Danube at the mouth of ths Timok. The Welobitach Mountains bound it on the southeast, and the Bave and tho Danube Rivers on the north, Herzegovinn lies be- tweon the Welebltach, Alps, and the Vissava Mountains, The best information. at com. mand gives a population of 700,000 to 800,- 000 souls, and some 10,000 or 12,000 square miles. . Dosnta is the most northwesterly province of Turkey. It contains 18,800 squaro miles, and sbout 1,000,000 of inhabitants, They embrace a great variety of races, ara eaid to Le brave, hardy, and rapaclous towards othor peoples, but honest and quiet among them. selves, They aro principally engaged in agri- cultural pursuits, for which their country is speclally adapted. The surface is broken and hilly. The hilla are covered donsely with the finest timber, whila the rich valleys produce grains and other farm produots in abundance, In religion the native psople are mainly di. vided between the Gresk and the Roman Oatholis Churchea. ~‘The Turks mumbar e ——————e—————t e — about omo.quarter of tho populntion, and nro, of + courss, Mohammodana, Tho nativo tribes aro the inveterato cnomios of the Turks, which three and n half ‘con. turies of Moslom rulo hns not tended to modify. Lo this they were obliged to sub. mit in 1522 by Bornax the Maguificent. Thoy made 8 bold. strike for freedom from Turkish tyravny in 1861, but wore ngain sub. dued by Oman Pasma. Tho Province of Borvin lies due east of Tosnin, both provineces boing ontirely in the valldy of the Danubo. BServia contnins 21,280 square miles, so that tho wholo territory in rovolt is about n3 Jargo ns tho State of New York. Servin has n population of 1,200,000, who roprosent a great many differont races, all'of which cordially Lnto their Turkish mas- tors, Tho country, excopt Jthe valloy along tho Save and Danube, {s mountainous, Theso nre covered with denso forests, and tho valloys along tho rivers and strenms aro rich and Lighly productive. Grain, rice, hewp, flax, and tobacco, ave extonsively cul- tivated, and nll the domestic animals are redsed in abundance, It is ovident, therofors, that if the prov- incea ombraced in the trinnglo above referred to, with Greece ns an ally, becomo thor- oughly united and exort all their powers, thoy havo tho menns to give tho * Sick Man” about all the business ho can possibly do, In former rovolts againat Turkish rule, and thoy have boon many, cach has gonerally fought its own battles, and thoy havo not been able singly to beat back the Turkish armies. If wisor counsels now pre-, vail, ond, a3 above suggested, Austrin nnd tho othor great Powors lot theso opprossed people alone, in the present stato of the ‘Purkish finances, and their demoralized nrmy 08 well, thoy will bo quito sure in tho end to nachiovo theindopendonce, It Is quite timo that the Turk wns driven back to the fast- nesses about the Caspian Bes, from whenco ho camo, o has polluted and cursed Europe long enough. - NEW MEXICO. Tho bill bofora Congress authorlzing the admission of Now Mexico into the Unionas a Btato ought not to becomo a law. Thore is rot ono good reason that can bo suggested for such an nct. Thero is no oceasion for it; tho people there are wholly unfit for n Stato . Governmont; nefthor do they ask for it; thoy wonld not comprohend tho chango if it ‘wero made, oxcopt by the reanlting in creased taxntion. Tho aron of the Torritory is about 120,0008quare miles, chiefly of mountains and arid doserts; tho total populntion five yoaras ngo was 91,874, Thero msy be a fow thou. 4 rand more peoplo thero now, but there is not yet one inhabitant to the square mile, al. though New Moxico has boen an organized torritory for moro than 200 years. There aro two wards in Chicago which have a popu. lation equal to that of all Now Mexico. The people -of Noew Mexico aro not of Amorican origin, nor do they sposk English, Though tho. country ‘was annexed nearly thirty years ago, the character of the inhab- itants hns not changed. Tho population is of mixed: blood—Spanish, dilated with in- fugons of Indian nnd negro blood. They nro not an onterprising nor a progresaive peo- plo; thoy are not an educated people, nor do thoy suek to bo edq‘:ntud; they have no per- sonal, political, or commercisl ambition; they nro content to live in thoir simplicity, ignorance, and poverty, and to eroct them in- to a8tate would be a3 great a burlesque on propriety ns it would bo incomprohensible to tho peoplo themsolves, The natural resources of Now Moxico nre quite limited. Sheop- grazing is tho chiof business. Tho elimate ia so rainless and the country so mountainous aud arid that little or nothing can be grown oxcept by irrgation, nor is thero much land suscoptible of cultivation that way, The American population of the Territory— those who tako any intorest in its political aflairs—doos not excoed probably 5,000 per- sons. Very fow of the nativo population can road or write. They recognize but two au- thoritics, the priest and Alealdo ; all other things aro loft to tho fow Ynnkeos to mannge s thoy plense. The real applicants for the admission of Now Mexico ns a Stato aro the handful of American adventurors who hava followed tho army or have gone ns traders or spoculators to tho Territory. The very ignorance and indifferenco of tho natives but offor grenter promisos to the enterprising whites, With Now Moxico as a Stato, thoro will bo.a Stato Government, with its long list of exceutive, judioinl, and legislative offl- cerd; thero will bo Bheriffis and Coro- ners, and Commissionors and Auditors, Clorls and Treasurers, and Assessors and Collectors. Thero will be two Senators of the United States, to bo elected by a Stato Log- islature, to offset Illinois or New York in tha Benate. Thero will bo a State Capital to be logated and n State-Houso to be bailt ; thero will bo a Btate penitentiary, and insano, blind, deaf, and dumb asylums, and uni. voraity to ba ostablished. There will bo railrond companten to be chartered and dona- tions of land and bonds voted away; then, tho State to bo on a perfect footing with tha other States, must havo a debt, There will hava to bo loans,—one, two, throe, and 8o on, as long as anybody can bo found to lend any money, Then, o8 a *Bovoreign State,” thero mmust bo a few Custom-Houses built of Now England granite; oach * port of ontry " must have its corps of rovenuo officors, There must be an United States Marshal, with a deputy in each county, and rogular sessions of tho Federal Courts engnged in law, equity, bankruptcy, and especially in admiralty, with masters, and proctors, and onstodians, nud grand and petit jurors, Buch a brilliant vista of plunder, and’ honor, mnd glory—such an opening for statesmon—has not offered itself for many yeary, especially where the general popula- tion, spealdng a foreign tongus, would ba wholly ignorant of what will be going on, leaving the whole profit to the carpet-bag “ govorning clasa,” Instead of admitting New Mexico, that Territory ought to be consolidated with Ari. zona. It possible, the Territory of Utah ought to be included within the Btate of Nevada,—that shameloss evidenca of the abuse of the power of making now Btates, But let us not bo inflicted with New Mexi. 00 83 & Stats. Pocket Btates without popu- lation are numerous enough now, ‘New Mox. ico i now a comparatively cheap affair; lot us hope that Congrese will not turn it over to the terrible hands of adventurers and plundorers as a Stats, The Common Counctl, in the consideration of the annual Appropriation bill reported by the Committes of the Whole, are now ap- Proaching that portion where they can render the best sorvico to the commaunity, but also ‘whero thero s tho greates$ temptation to go wrong,—that is, in the fixing of salaries. The Committes of the Wholo did very good work, but the Council might better improve on it than restore any of the items which wroro out off or rednced by the Committeo. In tho mniter of salaries, most of tho om- ployes of tho ity are now rocelving ns much poy ng thoy did botore the fire or bofora tho pnnio, though the cost of living at that timo wos onethind greator than ot present, and it wns thon one.third ensior“to pay tho tax-levy than it is now. Tho very lonst that onn be dono by tho Council now is to make n goneral reduotion of, say, 10 per cont on the whola line of city snlarles. Lot avory Aldermnn bring tho easo homo to him- nolf. 'Thoro fa not ona in the Conncil with money enough to employ n man for a week who wonld think of paying for private ser- vico as much as the oity now pays for the samo class of work, The Aldermen should not consont thnt the olty shall pay more for ita services than thoy would pay if they wore omploying tho samo men on .a private ao- count. By cutting down tho salarics 10 per cont, tho Council can save oéne-half the ap- propriation of $500,000 which they have maode to meut the deficlencies represented by outatanding certificates of indobtedness, It is worthy of note that among all tho confessed Presidentinl candidates in tho United States Senate, Mr. Bavarp alono had the temerity to voto ngainst tho bill passed in that body for the reduction of tho President's salary from $50,000 of dopreciated groon. bneks to $25,000, the amount paid befors the increnso for President Gnant’s lnst term. Of the other gentlemon in the Bonate who open- 1y aspira to tho Whito Ifouso, Medars, Conx- 1180, Loo4n, Monzon, and TrunsaN, all voted in favor of tho reduction. Can this menn that all these gontlomen have abandoned the hopo of gotting the nomination from thoir respectivo parties? Or did they volo for tho reduction under the impression that such voto will help them in tho Conventions? 1f actunted by the latter motive, Senator Bay- Anp's vote sgainst tho reduction is a moro bonest one, particularly ns we bolieve some of tho gentlemen now voting for tho reduc. tion voted originally for tho incronse. Prosi- dent WasnmvaToN was paid a salary of $25,000 in gold, whon o dollar had tho purchasing power of two dollars of groenbacks now, and when tho population of the country was not one.tonth part, nor the property one- twentieth, of what they are now. ,Tho Governor-Geonoral of Canada gots 848,067 in gold per annum, besides residonco froo and hia staff paid by the Govornmont. The Do- minion has about the same populstion as the State of Pennsylvania. Outting down the President's salary to really less than half the value of monoy paid to WasaINGTON, ADAMS, or JerrensoN, whon the nation was poor, foeble, and undeveloped, is small business, Eithor tho Senators have acted the part of domngogues or they areafraid of tho clamor of demagogues, If tho bill should pass, it cannot take effect anyway until after the expiration of Gon, Grant's presont torm. Ex-Deputy Collector Hoxr, in leaving his old stamping.ground betweon two days to seek the favorito winter resort which Canadn g becomo for n tortain class of American ofilec-holders, loft his attornays a very touch- ing note, in which "ho attributed Lis sudden departuro for ‘‘fresh flelds snd pastures new" to be owing to the forthcoming testi- mony of *‘perjured scoundrols.” Mr, Hoyr exprossod tha opinion that this testimony is “nbsolutely appalling,” and eaid that his frionds bogged him to go away and let “ thogo villaina " got thoir immunity by the conviction of somo one elso. Thoso ex- pressions aro all very strong, and might make n Insting impression upon tho publio it they wore not already excoeded by the famous spoach of tho coavict Jovor, who protested, evon after the vordiet agalust him, bosed on the clearest ovidence, with an cloquence which Horr ean scarcely. hopo to attain. That oratorical flight just before the high-flying bird was caged in tho Missouri State's Prison has con- sidarably lessened the force of strong adjoc- tives which come from gentlemen who are unfortunate onough to boimplicated in the whisky frands. Ware it not for Jovce, Hoxr's appeal might strike deoper into tho hearts of his countrymen, As it is, and in view of the fact that Jaxe Rena and Hreasive, who were indicted ag co-conspirators with IToxr, have confessed, tho departure of the latter must rather bo admired ns an ovidenco of good judgment. Thoro wasn't very much chance for Hovr thia side of Canada, it must bo ad- mitted, and it is well that he recognized it in time, After ho has lived a fow yoars in exile intheQueon'adominionshe will foel homesick; but when he retnrns his trial and couviction nro gure if tho Republican party be still in power. ‘Tho Ropublican majority in New Hampshirs Ia far greator, aud the trinmph much moro com- plote, than tho firet roporta indloated. 'I'ie back towsahips como in splendidly, The latest foot~ ing we hiavo neen gives thomo results fur Gov- 42310 Tepublican majority.usssiveresngasaioirsses 723 Tho voto 18 tho Iargost evor cast in the Stato. ‘Tho Council stands 4 Republicans, 1 Democrat, In the House there are 207 Republicans and 176 Domocrate, Tho Nopublican majority, it is thought, will ba260r 80 fn the House, The voto is Increasod about 1,200 over last yoar, belng about 81,000, and is tho Iargest.over cast In the Btato, Last yoar a great struggle was made by Dboth partics, with thia result: Democratio, 8y,121; Republicas, 89,2037 Prohibition, 702, Itepublican plurality, 172. Varioua causea con- tributed to the Republican victory., One was tho amnesty debato; another the utter failure of tho Domocrats In Congress to agreo an any plan or programme for a roform of tho ourrency, which disgusted o good many hard-monoy Demo- crata; and yot another cause was the dreadful botoh the Democrats in Congresa had mado of the Berxyar Impoachment business. Add to these the genoral dlegnst folt by docont Demo- crota at the revaintions and confeasiona of ons of their most prominent eandidates for Presl- dent, who was oxbibited in the rols of & lobby- ist, gouging the Government out of $148,000, and employing the fnfluenco of a pretty Ken« tucky widow over a weak-pated, susceptiblo Beoretary of War to help Lim get his arm wmto the Treasury, This was too much for the vir- tuous Democracy, and thoy bolted. —_—————— A Washiogton dispatoh yesterday to an atier noon paper saya i Bonatur CaMEroR read an extract from Tom Curcas @0 THIDUNK, charying him and Benstory Louaw, WEsT, aud WRIGHT With having departinent clerks ss vate secretarics, and deniod ths sume, Tha other ihroo Bensiors 80 clarged donisd the sime, Beustor Loaan took occasion 10 properly brund the falselood clrculatad some Hime ago, Atleruptiug 10 wonuect bum with the Whisxy Ling, ‘This repors conveys the {dea that Tux Omica- ao Tumune had made the charge against the Beonators named, which s not true, Tas Tain. Uk has alloged: nothing, of the sors, and has no original information on the subjeot. It was. the Now York Afercury that made the cbarge sgainet Bonators Oamenon, Wesr, Waianr, and Loaax. OQuc Wsshivgton correspondent called their attention simply to the allogation, which they have now denled o betrus, The Mercury’s slatement, through its Washicgton correspond- oab, was as follows ¢ R A 143,600 & your Lsa, for nearly two years, been detafled an privato sccretary to Benator Jamzmox. 1is doos nothing elao, is_ novor at thie Tressury étcept when drawiug hia alsry, and in tais way the peopls of the United Hiates aro taxed ta pay for tho private secrotary tan Henator who, moro than any othar, can afford to hiave vno for himself. Thare aro otlier Banstom whio are favored in tho samo way, The privato asaretary of Beustor Wear, of Louisiana, is s olork iu the War Do stment. ~ Ahother youug man from the Indlan fureau fills the namo position for Benator Wntan, of Towa, nnd another from the War Department in ac. rolary for Benstor Loaaw, of Illinain, All thess mon are pald by tho Treasury, though they perform no ublic mervice, Hocretary Iimtstow knowa it, yot e sclines Lo {itorfero, e Unloas tho Whisky Ring bo at tho bottom of i, woareat alossto understand tho opposition which ia roportod aa boing mado in the Henate to tho confirmation of Mr, DentoxsoN as Collsotor of Intornal Rovonus for this Distriot. If the peoplo of Chicago mosg intorostod in tho honost adminlstration of the” ravenue service bied had tho aeloction of a snccossor to tho Jamented Gen, Wroaten, and Mr. DEnzozsox had beon a can- didato, thero i & strang probabitity that he would havo boon elected in preferonce to any ono olso. Thero {s nothing in his record which could jdstis fyarofusal to confirm hir, Hola anold citi- £on, an upright man, s hard worker, a good Re- publican, and with sufticlont pluck and energy to fight tho ringators, Any schemo to socure hia rojoction by the Henato must bo prompted by some unworthy porsonal motive, which will como to liglit to the discomflturo of the person or pers eons who are fndulging it. Probably capitalista and business men will honcolarth bo avorso to fnvesting in enterprisos with Mr. Gronruz I. PENDLETON 28 much as nolitieal partios will be nverso to sasooiating him with public oftice, o ropresented throe-fitthe or o clear control of tho Kentucky Contral Rail- road, and took advantage of this oircumatance to give bimsolf n commlssion of G0 per cont to colloct tho alaim againat tho Governmont, Asa matler of faot, ho kept £80,000 for Limsolf, £68,000 golng to tho Company. Of tho Iatter sum lo also rocolvod throo-fifths, loaving nls partners only 828,000, or, aftor dednoting what was paid the clork, but Mtttle more than 830,000 out of tho origlngl olaim of $148,000. As a part- nor Mr, PENDLETON {8 not moro dosirable than hio ia ag n Prosldontial candidato juat now. —_— ‘The Governor-Gonoral of Canada, who fa ths aamo 83 Prosldent, gots $48,660.00 In gold n year, bemdos his residonce and staff; the Premior re- colvos £8,000, and tho twolve othor Minlstors 87,000 oach; tho Licutonant-Governora of On. tarlo, Quebec, and Manitoba and the Northweat- ern 'Torritorfos $10,000 oach those of Nova Beotls, Now Brunewick, and British Colnmbia £9,000 each; and tho Lieutonant-Governor of Priaco Edward'a Tsland $7,000; tho Oblof-Tus- tice of the Bupreme Court has £8,000, and the five Juatices §7,000 cach, The Domocratio nowspaper organ in Whabing~ ton nonounced yoaterday in positive torms that PexNpLETON has resolved to pass over bhis right, titlo, and interost to tho Presidontial nomination at Bt. Lonis to Senator TuURMAN. As **Gontlo- man Geonoe” ia totally played out, Lo has neithor right, title, nor interost to tho Prosi~ dentlal nomination to agsign to anybody. . Ilahog olrendy stopped down and out, and bidden nn otornal farewoll to ail his prospective groatnoss, — e Col. H., W. Fannan telographa to the Evening Journal, from Washington, that bo is not soelk~ fog the offics of Ponsion Agont nt Chicago. Buch o roport has been current in Chicago for'a woek or moro,-and, o& tho Journal did not con- tradiet it, peoplo bogan to faar 1t was truo, but will now bo rolioved. The goneral wish i3 to ot Miss Apa BweeT—thio deccased soldiot's daughe tor—remain 1n chargo of ths afilos. It is suggented by a Domocratio- papor that * Gentleman Gronor” i lald on tho shol? as a Domocratio candidate for Prosident—unloss ho contributes the money ho choused out of the Government to the CGoeneral Campaign Com- mittoo for electioneoring purposes, Theamouns waa §80,000 or £00,000 that hie pockotod for his little commission—ho swears that ho forgets which sum It was, e i o ‘Tho firat batch of indleted mon having ** given sway” the socond batch; and, of tho socond bateh, Hestka and Reust having *lald down,™ and Hore aud Burpars having run away, who is to be broughit to trial this morning ? _ PERSONAL. ' "¢ Mras, Partington ™ is 77 yoars old, and ho nss white bair, = Nellio Grant-Sartoria will not rotnrn to Amar- {ea until fall, Thomas Oarlyle and Prof. Huxley witnoesod Prof, Tyndall's wedding. Aloxandor Dumas, tho fathor, sald of his son: “*Aloxandor is » reallst; I am an fdealist, I draw ; lio photographs.™ ‘The cblof novelty in the liternry world of Paris fa Goorge 8and's now work of fiction, sn- titled * Lo Tour do Percemont." The Empross of Austria has taken Easton Noston, Northamptonsbire, England, for hor rosldonce during the prosent awmmer, Lucy Hoopor belloves that young American glrls should not go abrosd to study musio, “Paria is not tho placo whure an unprolected gitl-student sbionld abide.” It 1s whispored—onty whispered, mind youl— that Miss Cary did not succoed in opora at Vionna, Our Carysslma has no mood of Vion- nedo applauso. The Chicago Times will bo glad to Lnuw that Rubsenstein hes beon washed, agalnat his will, by hia jallers, His father ia eaid to bo highly indige nant and apprehensive Jeat Pesach may catoh cold, Flour {s £40 » barrol at tho Black THlla, bal whisky I8 & faocy article, worth ita weight i gold. Whtlo the staff of death remains at this exorbitant olevation, no ambitions yonug man will a-gold-hunting. Bam Cox condemns the Tartar custom of pull- ing & man by tho oars whon they want him tg drink till he opena his mouth, and then pouring down the liquors, He aays he knows s man ‘whoso cars do not require to bo pulled. A Paris correspondont denics the common ro- vort that Marshal MacMahon Is “an old fool,' and adda that be is ** a mers nullity.” Ils scoms to havo boen a pretty wiss nullity, knowiang the virtuo of salf-restralnt, and exhibitiog the high« ost patriotiam. Tho Mootreal gossips say that Mra, Marsh Is *the mbat diatingalshed-looking littio lady that evor came from tho States,” Bhoseoms to bs aboat 82 yoars of age. Bhorocoives no visltors, and seldom goes out. The dlamonds which shs weary o the hotel diniug-table aro said ta be worth $12,000. ‘Tho Farl of Dunraven, concerning whom there was recently an unplessant and uttosly faleo elopoment-scandal lu New York, wears earrings. e, like all other Irishmen, s ssid to bo descended from the Irish Kings ; and ha felb that he muat have some mark of distinction bo+ sidos & pedigree, Vaoderbilt tald & reporter recently that Ls was going to hear Moody and HBaukey, whon there was no crowd at the Hippodrome, Whon thiore {a 0o orowd there will be no Moody aod Bankey, The Commodore is sorry for Danisl Drew, whom hoe always advised to slop epecu: Iating and turn plona in real earnest, Av Englishman wagered £50 with Oapt. Do gerdus that he conld not kill the next bird in thetrap. The bet was acoopted, the champlos put In readiness, and the trap sprung ; but tho bird did not riss. It was dead. Bogardus pald the bet, simply remarking 1 *‘This is Eoglisn fair play, and this is what the old country had come to." Qen. Bolkuap lived for a short time, on firk Roibg to Washington, {n the fatal house buill with prize-money by Commodore Bogers, fathen In-Jew of Gen, Meigs. In this house Seoretar] Boward lived at the fim:h of lhnmumm nltinl:‘l John 0. Bpénoer reaided thare wi 0D w! hung o4 the yardarea of Ahe vesselln whish be