Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1876, Page 4

i i | t PR ) TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, " BATES OF SURSCRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANGR). Poatage Prepald nt this Ofmce. Dally Raition, poetpald, 1year.... isnnen 913,00 Partaof year at sama rate. rees FOUR WXEXS for. 1.00 au 388 itoracy snd Hsligions Specimen coples sent fres. To prevent delay and mistakes, be ruro and givd Post- ©Office sddresa In foll, inclnding Stato and County. Tamittances may be made .cither by dralt, expross, Poat-Offica order, or In registored lotters, at our tivk, TRRMS ¥0 CITY ACDECRIDERS. Datly, deitrered, Bunday oxcopted, 20 conts por wook, wally, dolivored, Bunday {ncluded, 30 conts per woek. THE TRIB OMPANY, Chicago 1L NOOLEYS THEATRE—Randolph street, between Clark and Lagialle, The California Alinstrels, Aftes #oon and evening. ADELPII THEATRE—Dearborn streef, corner Monroe, * Lumply Dumpty,” Afternoon and evening, MoVICRER'S TREATRE—Madlson street, betwesn Dearborn and 8tate. Logagement of Emma Wallee, 4 3feg Merrilies.” Afloraoon and evning. WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monros sireet, between Dear- Porn and fitate, * Tiotsof Tyrol" by the Richings- Tiernard Troups, Afternoan aud evening. The @hisago Tribune, Snturdsy Mornmg, Maroh 18, 1870, WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greonbacks at tho Now York Gold Ex- thango yesterday closed at 873 Twenty-ono failuros sum up the resnlts of . the scttloment-day flury on the London Btock Exchange. A botter foeling provails, no furthor suspensions arg expected, and the trouble cvidently bas blown over, leaving only tho wrocks of tho twenty-ono stock-gam- bling concerns to mork its passage—not enough to point a moxal e A Washington spocinl, received nt olate hour lnst night and which will be found in another column, announces that the nomina- tion of Mr. R. P, DenicssoN to be Collector of Internal Revonue for this district will bo withdrawn by the Presidont, ond the namo of Mr, Joer, D. Hanver sent to tho Senate m- stead on Monday. Although & number of emigrants en roule {o the Black Iills aro snowed in upon tha plains, and grave approhensions are expressed 183 to thoir fate, the tide of omigration swecps on toward that supposed now Ll Dorado with undiminished volume. A special train of twelvo cars hind to be sent out from Omoha yesterday to accommodate tho numbor on the way. Qotwithstanding the deplorable state of unreadiness {n which, ns sppears from our xeport, the defesdents in tho Chicago whisky prosecutions found tisscelves whon tho docket was callod yesterdsy, he Court will promptly proceed with the trials, and will begin this morning with* that of Keerex & Kupwry, reotifiers and compounders, and lightning may be expocted to atriko here- sbouts very shortly. T . Tho Senate Ropublican caucus Inst night resolved to disregard the wholesale cuts and reductions in the Appropriation bill made at rondom by the Domocratio Houso, for cam- paign nmmunition's sake, Whilo making all propor reductions, tho caucus ngreed to pro- wida for the actusl proper roquiroments of the Govornment in the various departments, This js but in pursuauce of the policy in- dicated by tho Secnate disagrcoment to the reductions in the West Point Appropriation bill, And now, despite tho alacrity with which Mr, Cryen facilitated his departure, Mansn 1a fo roturn from Conada to tell all ho knows nbout the Berkxar bribery business, He will return not under any assurances of snfety givon by tho Democratic Honse, but upon the pledges of protection given him by the Pres- §dont, through the Attorney-General. Upon fnll cross-examination, instend of a partisan and ex-parte examination such s he was put through by the Domocratic members of tho Committes, probably Mapsn can impart o deal of additional information that will shed w flood of light upon the wholo matter, A Thilndelphia dispatch announces that there is prospect of renewal of litigation by the Trustees of Mount Moriah Cemotery to provent tho drondful doscctation of that rest- ing place for tho dond by tho interment thercinof the romains of doparted negroos. After n protraoted struggle in tho courts, the family of Joxes, tho colored caterer, sccured an aflirmation by the Bupremo Court of their xight to bury his remaing in thoe lot, paid for by them, in tho comotery, and now, before that could bo done, his widow has died, and tho muit will bo brought to provent another * nigger " being buried In that cemetery, pi el et As will bo scen from our Washington dis. patches this morning, the Committea on Post-Offices nnd Post-Ronds, in thelx inves- tigations into tho straw-bid contract thiovery, hava alrendy bronght out tho fact that one great Western mail-contracting fivm regu- larly set nsido o portion of their recoipts for distribution among tho official members of tho ring in the Dopartment under Cnes. werLL's administration, Should tho Commit. too push their explomtions far enough, they will, of courso, succeed in fotching into tho blaze of day a Dewmocratio scgment of the Btraw-Bidas Rin, It is tho uncient ALieN now—him of the fog horn voice nnd dry-nurse of the Ohio rag-baby—who is called to account in court by a suit, thoe allegations of which, it proved, will gend him tuo join Grozue PeNprrToN, Tho suit is brought in tho United States Court to cjoct ALLEN from his famous faria at Fruit 1iill, on the ground that ho Lecamo possessed of t by causing tho will of his (ather-in-law, ox.Gov. Doxoan MoAnTuus, of Dhio, to be sot aside in fraud of the rights of minor heirs, whergby tho property went to Avsxy's wife, 'Who particulars will be found In our dlspatches this morning. ‘The Chicago produce markets were goner- ally tame yecstordny. Mess pork was dull and easler, closing at 22,10 cash and §22,12} 22,16 for April. Lard was active and 15c per 100 1ba higher, closing at $18.374 cash and 818,474 for April. Moats were in mod. erate demand and steady, at 8§o for bozed shoulders, 124c for do short ribs, aud 12j0 tor do short clears, Highwines were moder- stely active and jo lower, at $1.04 per gal. lon. Flour was in better domand and firm, Wisat was sotive and o lower, cloaing at $3:003 for March and §LUL§ for Apell, Corn was dall and jo lower, closing at 434a for March and 483c for April. Oats wero quiet and steady ot 32]o for March and Bijo for May. Riye was quiet bt Gde. Borley was quiet and 1c highor, closing at 574@374c for April and 570 for May. Hogs wera nctive and 5@100 higher, with most of the trading nt $8,00G8.25. Catile wera in good demand and wore firmer. Bheop were searco ot $4.00 @0.26 for common to extra, Ono hundrod dollars in gold would buy $114.50 in green- backs ot the closo, The testimony of the witness Pecx, given yestorday boforo tho Commitiee on Expendi- turca in the War Department, al-o further {llustrates the trafllo in post-traderships. Tho witness was of the firm of Donrrer & Prck, which formerly beld the post-traderships nt sovoral forts on tho frontier, which ho testi- flod were taken from his firm and sold to other parties, whoso names ho gives, and which he charges was done through tho in- strumentnlity of Onvirs Gmawt, Prcr's testimony, while' perhaps open to the eriti- cism that his nnimus is hostile to thoso who supplanted him in business, indicates lenda to be shnrply followed up, to the end that no-guilty man escape. How closely Mr. PrnpLETON grazed tho ountermost verge of the truth in giving his testimony—tho which constituted his com. plete vindication—before the Cryaes Com- mitteo s apparent from tho facts which he aid not disclose. Ha swore ho paid no money to any member of BELENAP'S family, nor person connceted with the Govornment. e didu't, for the present Mrs, BEngNAP wag not thon & momber of BrrrNar's family, her marriage having taken place at a later dato, nor was she connected with the Government. Ho also swore that neithor Mrs, Mansi nor Mrs, Benmuar traveled with him and his fomily. They didu't. Tis fatily was at Paris whilo ho made o tour of Spain and tho provinces with those ladics as his traveling compauions, It was, it will bo scen, all literally truo that Gentleman Gronoe swore to, but somchow he succeeded in gotting n long way from the truth, The facts, it gmatifying to know, are about {o be developed as to whether Sonator Spencen, of Alabama, scoured his scat by Lribery and drugging and kiduapping of members of tho Alnbama Legislature, as charged by the report of o committeo of that Vody. 'Tho Senate Committes on Privilegos and Elections yesterdny commeonced tho in- vestigotion of theso charges; and that the full testimony might bo given to the public, sat with open doors. The only incident of noto was the deninl, under onth, by J. J. Movrtoy, formerly Postmaster of Mobile, now Collector of Internal Revenuo of that district, of tho testimony ascribed to him in the report of the Alabama Logislative Com- mittee, to the offect that heacted a3 Seencen's ngent in disbursing corruption funds, Mourrox denied in fofo that Lo gave such testimony before that Committee, and ro- pudisted wholly what was published in the Committeo's xeport as his testimony before them. THE CABE OF MR, DERICKSON. The attitude taken by those who are de- seribed as the “Republican members of Con- gresa from the Northern Districts of Tilinois,” concerning the nomination of the Hon, R. P. Denicesox 08 Collector of Internal Revenue for this Distriot, presents one of tho gravest questions arising under our form of Govern. ment, The objoction to Mr., DenicksoN is placed on the ground that he was selocted and nom- inated Ly the Presidont; and that the Sen- ators and members of Congress from this Stato have tho right of selecting the person to be appointed to an oxecutive office. As a right based upon law or Constitution, tho claim is wholly without warrant; as o right ‘based upon morality, it is tho fountain of an nbuse which is the most scandalous and do- moralizing of the soveral which have grown up under tho administration of our Govern- ment. The most perverted judgment, the most uninformed of the propricties and fit- ness of the constitutional requirements, can- not invont or suggest any more scan- dalous or dangerous sbuse of power than for the legislative branch of Con- gress to grasp the appointing power, snd claim that no man shall hold office gnve ot their nomination, Ilitherto this claim has beon asserted as the prerogative of Sendtors. Now, ond in this enso, we are in- formed that tho claimants includo a Senalor and all the Republican Represcntatives from tho northiern part of tho State of Illinois, aud this but serves to prove the insolonce which provails in office the momont ons usurpation is permitted to pass unpunished, Who aro theso “‘claimauts”? Senator: Jonx A, LooaN. Ropresontatives: Third District, €. B, Fanweryn; Fourth, Sreemex A, Hunwoor; Fifth, I, O, Buroumisp) Sixth, Tuoaras J, HeNDERSON, Now, where in the cconomy of govern- ment, human or divine, did these gentle. men, individually or collectively, roccive from tho people or the law the power to moko an appointment for thoe City of Chi- cngo af Collector in tho revenuo servico? The power and the duty of making such nppointment is wvested by the Constitution in tho Dresident. The nominotion depends upon {ho approval of tho Benate.. Wao concede that i¢ Messra. Loaax and Oaresnr have any obfection to MMr, Denioxson, their declaration to tho Sen- ato that he is an unfit person for that office should prevail with the Beoate, But when theso men objoct to his confirmation on the solo ground that they, and not the President, Lave the right to select tho officer, then their objection Las no autherity other thon' the jin- pudent one which s sot up by those members of Congross who claim a vested and n pecu. niary right in the distribution of official pat. ronage, 'S Until wo havo furtber ovidence, wo must decline belioving that Gen, Hexpgnson or Mr, Buncuanp have had anything to do with this impudent nssumption of authority. What aro tho fucta? Messrs, LooaN and Fanwerw reside in Chiengo, aud kuow Alr, Deniouson personally, Thoey know bis abili- ty, his intclligenco, his worth. They know him to bo honest and capable, and that Lis in- tegrity is of that inflexible gharacter which has been g0 long wanting in the revenue servico, They know dhat while le is Collector thera will be no dishonesty porpetuated or permitted, hidden, suppreas- ed, or apologized for, Xnowing this, . their objection to Lis appointment can raise but the one presumption, and that {s, they don't want a man of that kind in ths office | 1t fa notorious that Gen, Wzoaten was the only man connccted with tho Internal Rev. enue service in Chicogo, or perhaps in the Btate, whose appointment waa not diotated by the Congressmen in whole oz in part. He was sppointed f1 doflance of the wsuypation, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SAWURDAY. MARCH I8, 187%—TWELVE PAGES. He was honest, capablo, and incorruptibla; let tho lists of fugitives from justice and of the indleted and convicted and confessod toll the story of the othors, & ‘There may s well bo plain talk with theso gontlomen in Congress who sot themsclves up 08 mastors and nlmoners of tho appointing power. This is not a favor- able year for sympathy with offioial crimo and revenue stenling. 'Tho orim- inal classes aro not to eloct the President, nor tho Senators, nor tho Roprosentatives fn Con- gress, to bo chosen this year. Tho eloctions this year will bo on o higher plone. Tolitieal parties will hnsten to divest themsolves of ro- _pronch by cutting loose from overy individual of whom nn unfavorable opinion may be, formed from tho charactor of his nesocintes. Tho man who can say * I provented the ap- pointment of an honest and capabla mon to Lo Collector of Rovenue in a district where thero had been forty conviclions of fraud,” must look elsewhero than to the peoplo for support. Bummerism hos exhansted publio patience; playing tho go-between with offi- cinl thieves nnd revenue-robbors is no longer regarded a8 rospectable in Hlinois nor in any part of the country, andis regarded ns dis. graceful on tho part of exccutive or lez. islativo officials as it is to tho humblest wurd lonfer in any large city. ‘We can sny to theso Senators and Repre- sentatives in Congress that the peopls of Chicago will not nccept tho flimsy claim that they have the right to name and distato the Collector of Rovenue in this city, as indicat- ing the real reason for rojecting Mr. Denick- soN. The peoplo of this city aro sick and disgusted with the falsehood, equivocation, corruption, and dishonesty which have been doveloped in the investigation of the revenue frawls. Tho men of the most violent pro- testations of innocenco have proved to be the most guilly, and nothing but the most absolute separation of all officials from any interference with tho collection of the rove- nuoe will sotisfy the people. Tho Treasury, and not tho Senato, is charged with tho col- lection of the rovenuo ; the Sceretary of the Tronsury Depnrtment, and not the Ilinois delogation in tho Iouse of Representatives, is responsible for exceuting the revouuelaws in Chicago. The claim of onr Senators and of our Rep- resentatives to the right to appoint s Col- lector of Revenuo is not only unconstitution. ], but is a most vicious and scandalous one, —n claim the too frequent submission to which has filled the public service with cor. rupt, dishonest, and shamoless officers, It is i claim which, in the light of recont roveln- tions, has no possible justification or pallin- tion, and tho energy with which it is urged is caleulnated to causo tho most pninful sur- mises that tho work of purification has not yot reachied o finish, and that thero is still o danger that somo guilty man will escape, . DR, BACON FOR PROSECUTOR, In all probability nothing will ever come of tho Scandal Commission to any eatisfac. tory purpose, unless thero shall be somo pub- lic prosecutor to tako charge of the cago and to mako thorough work of it. Who ia the man for this? Dr. Bacox, in this week's Clris- tian Union, in o tone of really oxquisito irony, calls upon one of the lately-snubbed Andover Professors to como forward and as. sumo the duty. But is not Dr. Bacow him. self tho man? Plymouth Church (and the world knows it noeded it!) wanted advice. Accordingly it called an Advisory Couneil, asked and took its ndvice. Moraover, finding that Connoil 80 warmly disposed to be friendly and favora- ble, the church took occasion of tho pres- enco of this very kind advisory nssem- bly to welcomo still moro sdvice. The tochnical IHmitations imposed upon a Council (as all tho lending Rabbis of tho denomination agreo in aflirming) by the vory theory of the Congregational system and*by immemorial usage hitherto, which make it unlawful for a Council to take note of ony questions not distinctly specified in tho so-called Lottor-Missive, appoar to have been, in this caso, oasily dismissed from sight. Whother tho uniqua oxigencies of this particular case justified this disregard of ecclesinstical red-tape ornot, is not a question of interest to tho general public. But the publio is concerned in the scttlement and effoctual subsidenco of tho noisomo scandal, Furthermore, it is clear that the poople st largo are getling impatient of the timid, ‘blundering, shilly-shally method of the de- nomination, with its endless mero talk sbout tho matter, snd ita ingenious * devices,” marvelously suited to illustrato ot onco how to do and how mot to do n thing. Porhaps, after all, tho Springfleld Republican was right in declaring that, while Plymouth and its pastor will not prové * too big for the digestion of history,” they are too much for tho Congregational ecclesinstical systom to denl with, At'all events, it is protty evident that no otber party to the affair is now quite so clearly on trial as Con. gregationnlism itself, If thero is anything that its leadors can do to save it from tho ignominy of obvious dofeat, wo respectfully submit they will do well not to loso nny time in doing it. Now, no other person in the country has had %0 much responsibility for *stirring up tho muss " again and again, and preveating the world from forgetting that the scandal-mys- his 76th year, but: ho has lost noth. ing of his ancient vigor. He hns exactly described tho mon to sssume this great responedbility ; and he himsolf fills his own bill: “Who shall bo the complainant in this cass,” he * who, In theintereat of purity and pesos; who, in bobalf of the ministry aud the churches; who, for tho eake of an fnvostigation which absll exposs the very bottom of the terrible scandal, and which shall s beyond the resch of doubt efther the innocence of thy groat preacher or his unparalleled wicksdness, will asaumo the patnful responsibiilty of formulating a complalnt, of maintaining it, and of taking care ‘iliat acts adverso to A, Dexomen and pertl- 0 bo properly submitted 7' Samobody ought to do this—somchoily, let ma ssy, who can bring to the task tho dignity of an honored character and positton, the forco of a cultivated and balanced mind, the dispassionate calmuess of a heart without mal' co or proposkession, and the pura candor of & soul wot,king not for victory, but for truth."* THOE CORVICTIONS YESTERDAY, Yesterday thers was reaped the firut orop of convictions in the rovenuo-fraud gases, Among the porsons who pleaded guilty was the conspicuous Jacon Reust, who, according to tha roports of the distillers, wns tho activa operator of the Ring. It was ho, thoy say, who collected the clection funds from tho dis- tillers nnd rectifiers, and distributed tho money among tho cleot; it was he, thoy eay, who made and unmada Storckeepers and Gangers; ond it was he, they deolare, who took tho lion's share of tho spoils. If all these charges ara true, though ho held no oftlicinl position in tho revenuo servico, hio was tho pivot on which the whole appointing ma- chinery turned; all men in offico considered Jaxze Remy, according to tho distillers’ ver. gion, importaut—cssential to tho political existonco of thosa who controlled the appoint- ing power, and hence his authority over tho subordinates. For n long time ho maintained his innoconce, It is said that ho wont bofore the Grand Jury and nsserted that innocenco, but tho Government persistontly followed up ita clows, and yesterdny Jacon Rem plended guilty. In the long list of thoso who have or will stand convicted thero aro several who will hove more personal sympathy and commiseration than tho silont, cold man Inown 6o long to Chicago politics. The next in point of conspicuity is Ax- mmosy O Ilestva, He, too, pleaded guilty after a long and peraistent affirmation of en- tire and completo innoconco, which was very generally belioved. Ho, tao, has béon long familinar to the politics of this city. Ho hns not been 50 much an ofliceholder as au office- maker. Ho was nctive and bold ; s mon of great enorgy, many gencrous and worm- Dlooded porsonal qunlities, ambitious of dis- tinction, nnd exercising for many years enor- mous control ovor the politics of the German population. A vigorous, impulsivo spenker, o hoarty friend, a bifter enomy, ho was n famous partisan leador. In 1873 ho aban- doned the Republican party and or- ganized on Independent party; in 1874 lie acted oponly with tho Domocrats, and in 1876 was their candidate for County Trensurer, nnd was dofeated aftor o most bitter and desperate battle, Asone of tho proprietors of tho Illinois Staats-Zeitung ho has onjoyed ndditional distinction. Ho yestorday pleaded guilty, to the astonishment of the publis, and with Remr now awaits thosentence and moroy of the Court. Ex-Deputy Collector Horx hns absconded and fled the clty ; ox-Colloctor WanswonTn's trinlon his indictment was fixed for next waek; nnd ex-Supervisor Muxy also had a delay for a fow days, for the trial of his indictment, Atlast the question has been answerod, ¢ Will anybody ever be tried nnd convicted in Chicago?” Tho question is answored in tho casos of Messrs. Hesine and Rem; neither of them, however,- was an official, Tho others will follow in duo time, Puablic opinion, which has been so long uncertain whother the prosecution of crime was real or simulatod, and whether it would ever reach conviction, has now some assurance that the ‘Trensury Dopartmont has boon fearlesaly and honestly discharging its duty to the publio. Tho story of the Chicago cascs has not yot been officinlly divulged. The pleas of guilt have been ruceived, but the evidonce has yot to bo hoard, and the history of the gigantic fraud has yot to bo related in g connected and suthenticated form. But o beginning has been mnde, The trisla havo begun. The roll of convicts has been opened with con. spicuous names, and thore s o promiso that in time law and justice will bevindicatod, and an honest execution of tho revenue laws once moro socured. CLYMER AND PERDLETON. Tho Bersnar scandal firat led to tho ex- posure of PeNpLETON'S questionablo transac. tion in tho Kentucky Contral Railrond case, and now thero is certainly suficiont ground for the grave suspicion that Mr. CryMeR, as Chairman of the Investigating Committeo, failed to take prompt and efioient measures to lay baro the Prnpreton scandal. When this chargo was first intimatod in some of the nowspapers, Mr, Cuyuen made an indignant doninl in Congress, and began calling nows- paper correspondents for the double purposo of vindicating himself and punishing the carrespondonts for dissominaling the news, Ho was probably not awaro of tho ultimate outcomo of this personal vindication or he would havo dismissed the nowspapor atate- ments 08 irresponsiblo and thera lot the mat- tery has mever boen mettled, ns tho | terrest. Asitis,thestatomentoriginally made Rev. Dr. Lrovanp Bacoy, of Now | by Gon. BownToN in Lis newspaper corro- Hoven. From tho beginning ho has | spondence, and communicated by him to chnrged himself withk tho solemn duty of {usisting that something must bo done, In this, ot all events, he has been per- fectly consitent. The policy of do-nothing bas beon abliorent tohim. 1f at any time noth- ing else appeared to be going on, Lo wonld write a letter about it forull the papers to copy. Inail this thero has been something almost lorolo, By nature ko is one of the gamest of men, Hia fearlesancss ia absolute. Ho is nover so happy 8a when champloning a Just cause, and brandishing arguments contra mundum/ The recent Council made him Moderator, but he mado them more trouble th.nu all the rest of themewmbers put together, Lis battery woa alwsys full-charged: and no- one dared to guess just whero his lightning would striko next. And yot withnl ho has never been accused of exhibiting a partisan spirit, Somo moy say he ia too liable to put in a8 quick ond . sturdy blow on both sides to admit of that, No iman in tho country commands more fully the un- qualified respect of the publio for the purity of hig motives. If o public prosecutor is needed to come forward and conduct the case of the People vs, Mr, Bxzomen iu this final trial bofore the Scandal Commission, Dr. Ba- con, of all othor won, s the man todoit. Let him not sbrink fromit. ¥e can connt with certainty upon the support of sil good men. That Prof, Buyrn—as Dr. Baconurges —should assume this office would, jn the cir- oumatances, be wholly improper. That Dr. Bacox himselt should do it will commend it. slt to every one Ib is trus he 14 Jn other correspondents, hds beon fully borno ont by Gen. Koo in his statement to the Committeo. This gontloman distinctly ro- calls having spoken to Mr. Crymen after Mansu's testimony about Mr. Pznprrron's railrond job, Mo romembers that he told Mr, Cryaen thot there was just as much foundation for the investigation of tho Pen. pLeToN matter as thero was ot first for the investigation of Drrzxar, Mo advised Mr, Crnaes to call Mrs, Mansm as a witnees, and repeated a convorsation he hnd with that lady in which shehad charged Mre, BeLenar with taking $70,000 from PenprxToN, and elicited from Mrs. Bzrenar the reply that she did not receive ‘*thal smount.” This left the inferenco, that Mrs, Berznar did recaive some olhor amount, Gen. Kippoo furtber stated to the Committes that ke had told Mr, Cryares that if no further steps wers taken toexpose the PrxoLrron job,he (Kinnoo) would fmpart his knowledgo to tho newspa. pers, and so make tho matter public. There- upon Mr, CLraen promised that it should be investigated, and yei his manner was such aa to impress upon Kioooo the bellef that he ‘was not over-anxious to pursuo the investiga- tion. [Lie fact is that, after having thia conver- sation with Gen. Kimpoo, Mr. Cunaen neg- lected to take any steps toward bringing tho Pxxprxzon trangaction to light. The most that he did was to request a correspondent of the New York Sun to look into i8, though it ‘was in 0o sense the business of the oorrs. spondent to do (hls Congrassional work, The correspondent, it seoms, .paid no further nttention to i, and mefther did Mr, CLyuEr, On the contrary, he per- mitted, or advised moro likely, Ars. Mansa to escapo and, join her husband in Caundn without making sny effort to sccure hor presonco beforo the Committes, though he know sho was tho person eaid to bo in posses- slon of tho facts, nnd the ono who could give Mrs, Berrnar's versionof her instrumentality in procuring tho paymont of tho claim. This negleot on the part of Crymen, in con- noction with tho warning which ho had recoived from Gen. Kippoo, not only justifiod tho newspapor corrospondents in sending tho dispatches which Mr, Cuyaten donounced, but nlso warrants, tho suspicion, aftor all tho facts aro in, that Mr. Crymen did desiro to protect a shining light of his own party for party purposes; and that, nctu- ated by this purpose, he negleoted to dis- chargo his dutics ns o Congressman and as tho Chairman of tho Investigating Commit- teo. If tho present Congress wero sincero in tho desire to exposo corruption whersver it exists, and to punish the corruptionists whether they be Democrats or Ropublicans, it would not hesitate in deposing Mr. Crxmen from the Chairmanship of this Committee, and put in his place n man who would bo guided rather by considerations of the publio servico than a truckling disposition to sub- gervo mero party onds, Itis more likely, however, that Mr, Cuyaen will receive tho tacit approval of the Demacratic mnfority in Congresa for tho loyalty to his party in trying to save one of its Presidentinl enndidates. iy rotontion ns Ohairman of this Committeo, aftor his lopse in regard to the PENDLETON investigation, will be the evidenco of such approval, —Sincowritingthoforogoing, n Washington dispatch haos been published which sets forth further ovidence of Pexpreron’s guilt, and shows that $80,000 of the money Lo and Bzrnar cheated tho Governmont out of was poid to Mrs, Bowen—now Mrs, BeLuwae, It reads: Lyvidenco has been dlscoverod showing conclusively that $30,000 of the monoy received by PrxpLeTON for getting tho Kontucky Contral Tallroad claim atlowed went {nto tha Lands of Mrs, Bowsn (now Ars, Brt- ENAT), but was not pald to her dirootly, Tho evidence alrcady taken abows that PErDLETON Liad the amiount of tho elnim divided up Into threo Treasury warrants, one of which, smounting ta $30,000, was {ndorsed by him sod medo payabla to the First Na- tonsl Park Dank, of New York. In tracing the Isst-named draft a clow was obtained, which, boing followed, reaulted in finding what is considored conclusive proof that tho money, after paseing timough tho handa of two petons, was paid over to Mra, Bow- xR in person, in the City of New York, A prominont Javyer, who has taken much interest in this matter, ‘and han Liad it thoroughly probed, assursa your corro- sponaent that the caso i8 & very clear onc, and that it will bean casy matter for Mz, Orraten's Commition to got at tho facts, if 5o disposed, It tho Committeo do not push an fnquiry ia the direction indicated, other Liands will take hold of it and bring all the facts befors tho public, Tho same gontleman ssys that Lo knows tha names of the persons through whose hands this money pessed, the timo and the placo when the money waa paid over to Mm, Bowsn, who took 1t and placed it in' the hands of Mr, CALEn Mansn for safo keeping and investment, Of all this, Mr, PrapLrToN, your correspondent’s informnnt sayw, must havo known, and his testimony ‘beforothe Committes wan very {ngenfous, and 5o adroitly given 2310 mislead and not bring out all the facts. Ho #wars that ho had not pald to tho Secretary of War, or any member of s family, or any other person for bim, directly or indirectly, any conaideration for his action, but he did not testify that he bad not pald to rs, Bowen, directly or indirectly, money for horsolt for her aesistance. Thé money wss not, 88 will be stown, puid to Mra, Bowks, butto other perscns, who pald it to ber. PROTECTION AND MORALITY, Of oll the artioles that have over been written in behnl? of that species of public robbery falsely known as **proteotion,” tho most remarkable that has come under onr | notico is that printed by the Chicago Journal undur tho title of *The Immorality of Freo Trade,” Under tho protonso of commenting on.n recent speech made by Prof. Suen, in which he declared that the best way to pro- mote prosperity is to place no artificial Yo. strictions on trado and commerce, the writer doliberately libels Rionarp Conpex by charg- ing him with the forgery of trade-marks, ond misrepresents English Governmont, o- ciety, and morals in order to prove that froo trade and crime and corraption go hand in hand, The proposterous doctrine is 8ot up that, when a Government declines to ropress trade or hamper it with discriminating taxes, 8 basis is furnished upon which the people build up o system of swindling, justified to thomselves by tho rofusal of Government to interfore in avery transaction, and charge n toll for tho. beneflt of special classes. Itis useless to argue in the abstract a doctrino so abhorrent to every principle of individual conscienco and common sonse, but the Talsity thereof can best bo disposed of in its appli- cation to frocdom of commerca by a brief oxaminntion of the facta in tho case. En gland and the United States will serve to flins. trate tho whole caso; tho former is a coun- try of unshackled trado, tho latter a country of ““protection,” or shackled trade. First as to England : It is o matter of no- toriety, domonstrabla from contemporancous English history apd social statistics, that the public morals of. that country have improved nlong with its prosperity over sinco tho prin. ciple of freo, unshackled trade was ndopted. It was tho first of tho long series of reforms that have characterized English legislation during the past quarter of o contury, It was followed by an improvewent in all kinds of taxation, until the revenue is raised upon tho swallest number of articles of luxury and to the relief of tho largest number of the people. It opened tho way for tho growth of the liborsl sontiment which has encournged social, political, and Yeligions froedom, 'The extension of educational facilities, tho dis- entablishment of tho Irish Church, the lib- ernlization of suffrage, establishment of froo schools, nre all reforms that never would bavo been realized if the power of roform had not first asserted itsolt in the abrogationof* the injustice of hightariff, Incident tothese and other mensurea for the amolioration of the condition of the English pooplo have beon the growth of intelligenco and educa- tion, the incrensed power of enlightoned publio opinion, the improvement and purifi. cation of tho civil service, and the decrense of crime, until to-day tho English Govern- ment {s cited a3 6 model in its essuranco of individual rights and personal liborty, as the Engtish people are noted for the high degreo of prosperity, All this has notonly been sccomplished under freedom of trade, but freo trade waa the starting-point from which these conditions took their impetus, A fortnight ago'we roceived a copy of the London Z'imes, containing an elaborato yo- viow of the edvancement of Great Britala sinco 1851,—twenty-five years. Ita figures ‘were so remarkable that we here republish a paragraph from an abstract of its articlos The populstion of the United Eingdom rose from 27,893,357 11 1651 10 83,737,405 4 1876, Pauperago aleo sbowa 8 decresse, notwithstauding the large incresse of populstion, The numbss of paupers in ihe United Eingdom 15 1853 was 1,184,480 I 1878 1t waa 1,002,476, abiowing & decresss of 164,483, The criminal statistica zbeven tmore remarkable, 1o 1851 ihare were 56,648 parsciu foz trial, 02 ) parsod 1 every kbd) whils 1 1675 there were 32,135/ but 14n 1,480 of the population. In the primary achools of Grest Dritain there wera 271,126 children 10 1851, while in 1378 thero wero 2,010,781, showlng that, while 1 child for every 70 poraons was recelving instruction fn 1841/ 1 cLild for overy 13 persans was recolving instruction fn 1375, ‘Thus muchs for the fnorsass of papulstion, industry, and education, and the diminution of erimo. Per contra, the United Btatos Government furnishes nn instance of tho influonce of high tariff for protection on public morals, 1t offect hins beon to mnko tho National Con- gross n more trading-post, whoro subsidies and npproprintions aro bartered off in ox- change for n continuation and nggravation of the system which onables n small class of peoplo to plundor tho mnssos. The uso of mouey in olections hna grown into frightful proportions uudor tho stimulant of the profit to o gained by mnintaming tho Congresaional majority in favor of tho * protection " rob- bery. ‘Thoso States whero this robbery hns its strongest hold avo notoriously corrupt in their politics, Side by sido with tho Con- grossional log-rolling and the bribery nt elee- tions (fosterad by tho bonoficiarios, of the high.tariff swindle) is found tho corrup- tion of tho civil servics, which hns produced o plass of offico-holdors of whom Beurnar {8 a conspiouous example. Tho feoling Lids been encouraged that, if o cortain class of manufacturers aro {o rocoive Government sanction in plundoring the peo- plo, then there is equal warrant for plunder- ing under tho system of Oredil Mobilier, and, if Congress can bo governed by the fow represontatives andattornoys of the protected clasgos, then it is mo worso for officials to lond themsolves to other mensures for de- frauding the peoplo, such as * crooked” whisky. Thus it is notorious that thero has never beon 5o corrupt a publio service, nover 50 much bare-faced bribory, never so much cextravaganco, and never so much criie, as since the pornicious doctrine of *protec- tion" has obtained,—ono specios of corrup- tion fostering and leading to another. Tho simplo fact is that thero is no publio policy which is so productive of commercinl rasenlity, os well ng officinl corruption, ns that of o tariff for protection. Imitations, frauds, ndulterations, short woights, folse in- voices, bribery of offlcials, and smugglivg of every description, are dircot nund inovitablo outgrowths of this system. Theso practicos in turn demoralize the public and busi- ness sontiment in overy other rolation, and it iz safo to say that thero is no other singlo fenturo of the presont American sys- tom which is responsible to tho samo extont as tho high tariff for tho confossod corruption and demoralization of tho country. DANA ARD LAWRENGE, Tho contest over Bfr. Dawa's confirmation a8 Ministér to England soems to bo a tompoat in a teapot. Aftor refraining from comment on tho case until we conld obtain full ovi- denco on both sides, we aro forced to tho con- clusion that there is nothing in the litigation botween Messrs. Liwnexcs and Dana that re- fleots any discredit upon tho latter. e odited an cdition of Wiuearon, ns did Alr, Lawnexoe, and ho was specially prevailed upon to undertake tho work by Mry Wizar- ox's ropresentatives, in order to countoract tho pernicious influenco of Ar. Lawnexce's aunotations, which woro nil dictated by his devotion to Calhounism, Lawxrexox put forth theso notes at a time when the interprotation of the- Biates' Rights dootrine hod an important bearing on tho rolations between the United States and En. gland, and it was folt that ho lhad misconstrued WieaTon in many important particulars. ~When Dana hod published his odition, LawzneNce sued him forinfringement of copyright ; and, in deciding the case, the Judge ruled partly in favor of LawneNow and partly in favor of Dava. The case was then given to a Master in Chancery to ascer- tnin whother Mr. Lawnexor had suffered any damnges, and there it still rests. It s said that an nltimate decision can only be looked for in tho Bupreme Court ; but, meanwhilp, g it turns mwpon tho question whether Mr. Daxa has tho right to cito somoe of tho samo outhorities Mr, Lawnence had proviously cited, it does not involve any dishonorable aoction on the part of Mr. Daxa, nor any con- pideration which should justly lead to his re- joction by tho Sonate. W print elsowhero a full and intelligent account of the affair from | tho Boston Z’ranscript, which soems to be sn entirely correct veraion, And now comos the Now York T¥mes, which spesks of Mr. Witriast Beaon Lawnexce, who ia opposing Mr, Dana's confirmation os Minister to England, as & man *‘whose pri- vate character and socisl rolations will kardly ‘boar public scrutiny.” Wo are not informed of what this can refer to, but the ZTimesis too careful and conservative o journal to make uso of such an expression without full war- rant. It is true that Mr, Lawnenor isnot on trinl, Not having been nominated for Minis. ter to England or any other Government offico, it is not for the United Btates Scnato to sean his record. Yot it is natural that any dishonorable action on the part of Lawnexoz would go far toward impeaching the purity of hisvmotives in endesvoring to encompass Daxa's rejhction. As thero hoa boon yot no award of damages for Mr, Daxa's alloged use of LawneNoe's aunptations in his edition of Wazaton's * Elements of International Law,” it ia only fair to assumo that Lawnence is jmpolled in tho present case by personal wpleen; and it is certain that Burrxs, who is working against DaNa on the Republican sido, s actunted by no higher motive, Wo have no intereat in seeing Ar. Dana go to ‘England, or any desire that ho should bo sont thero if thore is tho slightest taint on bhis charnctor ; but the case mode out sgainst him go far doos not scem to warrnnt the hue and cry that has beon raised over it. Onthe contrary, it does not seem to be worthy of any further consideration. A corrcapondont aske for informatlon con- corning tho present atatus of the Drecurn- Mourkox and Mourron-Beecuen suits, A nolls pros. has boen sntered in tho caso of Drxouxn sgainat MouLToX for slandor. In tho case of MouLTox agsinat Bexousn, for malicious proso- outlon, counsel for defondant filed a demurror, malntaining that the entorlng of a wolle pros. fn tho former case was & Lar to prococdiugs for damages, Thbis issus hiss been tsken nuder ad- visemont by the Jocal court. Whatevor the do- clelon may be on this point, it 1s probable that tho dofoatsd party will jumedlately take the watzer up to the Court of Errora and Appeals, —————— Speaking of tho opposition of tho Iiliols membors of Congross to tue confrmation of the Hon, }t. P, Denicksox se Colloctor of Internal Revonuo 8t Ublosgo, the Kveaing Journal of yostorday ways ¢ 1t fa suniouuced from Weshington that ¢ tho delega. ttou 10 thie House frum Nortbern llinols * Lave united the confirmation of the Hon, K. 2, JokauN 84 Collector of Iuternal Reveoue si Chicago Ly thie Bouste, becauss, forsooth, the Preaident did noy counult them beforosending in bisnams. ‘This may be a good enough reason for * i fust mo reason at als 10, aa il of s B B I A L0t Sios. oy thsoute Boaest, capable, and ‘well qualified--the pedpla would B e o biin.. ht auttiion for th0 e iams v8 10 0! lon (o1 Bt usate fo ik 1a Hob Wi v o lioro, and_ probably but a few b nos what the b Qe aaton i 10 Tro S e A Breaan, v Sy woald s ses | 4hat Muas Prillipa Intmant affect the interests of ‘h!vrnblla sarvioy, 'hers Liss ben & good deal lon much of political fore foolery in counection with Federal fllpo{nlmmlt In il veglon heretofors, and b §a Ligh time for y change, Tho Washington dlspatch to the Oincinnay Enquirer (rag-baby organ) thus groans ovoer the aation of tho Democratio canous on tho onr. rency queation, Wo roally do not see why {4 fools so badly. Tha cancus did nothing to make money eithor better or plontior, doarer or choap. ore Wall stroet hue teiumphed, and, notwithatanding th 1oud rebuxo of tho Nosw Hampsiilra election, the fexd. ers of the Democracy inve cut theif throais from eap 10 oxr, and this Presidentlal canipaign 18 10 bo fougnt m tho platforin of the onemy. Tho Domocrals |y ‘caucn to-utghit sdopted PAYNR' cotpromise. Ticey wera about 150 Doniocrata prese much debato, but the Manoy Lower Lss thelr ruin, _ifotarax offerel n aulstituto for PArnxs Guupmign-Killer bill providing for & rojeal of tho HResumption act, This was vofed down, ang Pavses compromio was adopted Ly n vols of sovonty to fifty. OF the Oblo delegation PAvwx ang Huny voted for th compromise, and BOUTUARD, Mo MAlON, NEAL, VANOE, FOPPLETON, CowRx, HAvang, RicE, HAvLEn, and BANNIXG voled sgainst’ it, ViX inia and ftio Bouth went with Wall stroof, aud Won irginls was delivered over by FAULRNER. ' Bl'Siourl, ‘Tenncaace, and Indiana stood nlmost aolid with Oblo; ‘Lha greonback mon refuso to bo bound by the actio of the enucus, Tho hard-monoy men saw tiat It woulg not do to attompt to bind tliom. Tho groenbacken will make an offurt in tho Hoiusn 10 substitute o Pavse's bill au act providing for an unconditional re sl of tie ewumption ack. 'Hotaeix gave notice thy he would move » surpousion of the rules noxt Mon, day for thoe purnoso of {ntroducing a bill providing foy tha repenl of tho Resumplion sct.” Thero are enongy Topublfcans wha hava not forgotten thalr constituanty to get such a bill through, _——— Tho New York Times, speaking of tho absurg proposition before Congreas to erect the Torr. tory of New Mexico into n sovoroigu Blate, nay; It would b prepostorous lo, endow sueh a peopiy with & Btato Government. To admit this unintelligen| Iittio community to an cqual fooling with tha oty Btaten would Lo creating a rotten Lorough, frog which wo should hava & couple of political adventuren coming to take scats in {ho United tates Benate, Y voto_cqually on national mensurca vrith n Bouatoriy delegation from Now York, Obio, snd Pennsglvanla Tho Legialaturs, which 13 now a motley mob of mixed races, aud_which prints fta_enactmonta in & fo lagriags, would bo af the morcy of polltical shar and tho ttato Governmont would probably bankry, the cattlo-borders and camp-followors within iny yoars, 01d Sroney's biatherskito who writos his igno. rant and reckless artioles on city finances sayar To Jox MxpILL belongs the bad distinction of beln, that Mnyor of Glilengo unaer whom tho * cortificate debt ' moda of nullitying the constitutionsl limitation upon the debt-incurring powor of municlpalities wu juvented and put into oporation, This assertion is » poiut-blank falschooa. Boty Mronky and tho fellow who ponned tho lis know vory woll that Aayor Mason's Administra tion isaued tho **cortificato of dobt,” and thatit waa ono of tho lepacios lofe to ita euccossor, Evory Adminiatration einco 1806 has beon obliged to mako temporary loans In anticlpation of the collection of taxes. —_— Spoaking of the Governorship of Tilinols, thy Rockford Regisier romarka : Tho matter of the Ropublican nomination for Gore ernor 1a altracting no small attention n somo party of the State, 1t hannot Leen very thoroughly discussed avo mada up thelr minds as to who will be the most successful or moil destrablo candldste, Thero fs ono name, howersr, which would carry welght in cither a Stato Conventiod for the nomination of Governor, or s Natlonal Con- vention for nominating & candidato for tho Presh dency, That nome is ELing B, Wasnnunng. If il coutd e known that he would allow Lis game ta by used in connection with the aonmor-hl?. hera is g doubt that the_northwestern diutricts, it not tho e tire Btats, would unito heartily in his support, ———— In snswer to 8 ql'usuun wo Btato that the dato of the eun's conjunction with the vern cequinox thia year will be at twonty minutes pul tho midnight botwoon Sunday and Mondsy, As tronomically spoaking, the date is Macch 19, 1h 20m, Oblcago time—the beginniog of the diy being the instant of mean noon, - —_— - PERSONAL Bt, Patrick had his day yesterdsy, and a very bad day it waa. De Witt Taimage is lecturiog in Canads on the ususl thomo: *Iand My God." Uncle Daplel Drow {s nearer 80 than 70, but he bas abandoned all nopos of arriving at par, “I'hio high tone of Irish socisty on the 17th of March I8 easily accounted for. The children of the Emerald Islo aro alt patric-fans. Prince Oscar, second son of the King of Bwedon, will be in Philadelphia July4. IHels 10 yoars of age, & naval cadet, and a good boy. A stato-coach, formerly owned by Louis Na poleon, and sald to have cost 25,000 francs, ba Dboon imported for exhibition at the Contonoiak Mr. Ruskin haa boen ro-elected to tho Sladt Profossorship of Fiue Arts gt Oxford Univer sity, an offics hio has hold for two torms of thres yoars, = Mr. R, H, Daos, Jr., is in ontire aympathy with the Establishied Church of ingland, baiog not only an Episcopalian, but s advanoced Rit- ualist. What enconragement is thero for poor artish to porsovore when Mr, Wakemau Holberton, of New York, can got but #10 each for his paintingt at public salo? Weston's tongue is ontdoing his legs In Ene gland. He teltn the Dritons in epooches that, at home, ho i s Mothodist clergyman and aa editorial writer for the Sun. It is eald that tho Rothechilds decline to hars any buslnéss transactiona with porsons twho ate oat of plumb, physically or otherwise., Larper's Weekly tolls this atory s it it bolioved {E. The Now York Independent guggests that r. A.T. Btowart allow o pubiio exhibition of kbis Meissonior, for whick 800,000 franca woro paid, for tho bonoflt of the Motropolitan Art Museum. A MY, Maguire, Boston correspondont of tbt New York Herald, haa recolved a logacy of 850,000 from n New York gontloman whost daughter ho resoucd from drowning somo time 8go. . Prof. Lowell, na illustrating the humorous ‘montfons an sdvertisoment that caught his eye some time aince: **Wanted, by & boy, n situs tion In mn eating-homse, He Is usod to thl busluess," 7 Elizaboth Oskes Smith writes In tho Hom Journal that tho immediate causo of Edgar A Poa's death waa a Bovors beatlng which he te ceived from the friond of a oman whom hebud deoolved and betrayad. Tho losa of Lis wife fa the socond bereavé ment ox-Sonator Schurz has suffered durlog bit Drief residonce In New York, Hia fathor died loes than & mooth ago. Mrs. Schurz was (bt daughter of & morchaut in Hamburg, Carne, the member of the Fronch Acsdemf wau somuthing of a bors, and, for a time, “M tirosome as Carne” waa & curront phrase in bt anlons. A old gentloman ono evenlug asked! wit what ho thought of e cortain work. 4 tiresome #s Oarne," was the rosponsa, Tha ol gentloman wag Carue himsolf. A Ban Franclaco correspondent of the Net York Tymes wiitess * Wachtel you know t1o¢ woll to require any apecial reference to hisbi# tory. Wo know ghat ho'kept o livery-stable & hiu estlior yesrs, aud, after paying 5 for a sedl the other night to hoar bim sing, I regrotted fl_‘ ceedingly that hie ever sbandoned the businost Acurlous case of doubtfalidantity has Jus! beensettled in Ireland by death, Lady Lot ford In 1804 gave birth to twin sons, Ae i elder must inberit tho titlo and estates of Loos* ford, caro was taken to mark the firat-comer b tying a blae ribbon about hia Little arm, 1M palr, however, having been carelessly Jaid b1 the nurse o ona cradle some dsye after, it ribbon came off, and had to bo sgala put oa bl guens-work] Willlam, tho elder thua seloctsds died the other day, and Thomas bhas now come, without a disturbiug doubt, Lord Paken Lam by coustesy, sud if he lives will becoms Eazl of Longford, \ Thera are now lviog In Amboy, Iil, threé orpban ohildren of Augustus N. Dickens, + Box" who has becgme in some measure kno¥? to the world tbrough his famous brother, T8! children were born to Augustus Dickens by ! Mixs Phitlips, with whom he eloped from gland during ihe lifetime of his wife, who, whsd he deserted her, was eally blind, Ib s o ol know Ais wite wed