Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1876, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. —_————— TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (PATADLE IN ADVANCE). Postage Prepaid at this Ofdce. Daily Edition, postpaic.1ycer... ..813.00 Parts of year at same rate. 100 1o eny address FOTR WEEES for. Literary aad Eeligiou Bailed Bundey Editot She Qne capy, per year. Club of five, per oo} Club of twents, per cony. The postago 13 15 centsa Specimen copies sent free. 2 To prevent delas and mistakes, be sure and girs rost- OFice address in fall, including State and Conaty. Remittances may be mado either by dralt, express, Post-Ofice order. or in registered lotters, at ourrisk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Dafly, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents ver week, Daily, delivered, Sundas included, 30 cents por week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn sts.., Chicago Lk — ANMUSEMENTS. TO-DAT. AfcCORMICE HALL—North Clark strest, corner of Ripzie. Lectureat 3p. m. by the Bev. Brookes Her- Zord. 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ORICNTAL CONSISTORY, S~ R,".8, 32°—Slated Aszcmbiy at Consistorial Hzll, 72 Monro-at., on Thura- Qey evening, March 23, Remident members are o- guested to appear 1n uniform. By order ‘GIL, W. BARNARD, 33%, Com.-in-Chief. 3axes A, T. Bup, £, Grand Secretary, 3TASONIC.—lmportant announcement. John She- wille, A, M., will deliver his lecture entitled ~ Obscrva- tions in Egypt and the Holy Land,” before Minam Chapter, Order of Esstern Star, on Siturdsy evening, terch 25, at Acordia Hall, 112 and 114 Ezst Rrudolph- S Master Masuns and their lady trieuds are cordially Lvited to be prasent. AIHS. O. NICEERSON, Sec. NATIONAL LODGE, No, 596.A. F, & A 3L—3 Siated Cemmunication will be held at Masonic Yem- ple, ccrner Halsted apd Randolpl-sts., on Tnesday Sxeaimp, March 21, at § o'clock, _ Work on M. 3L De- frie, Visiting brethren cordilly invited. By order WL A.G. LCNDBURG, Secretary. ATTENTION, SIR KNIGHTS !—Stated Ocnclave of Ciicagn Commands » 19, K. T., Mondey evening, March 20, at 7:30 0'clock for bueiness znd work ou the K. T. Order. Visiting Sir Knights courteously invited. BY order,of the E. C. CHAS. J. TROWBRIDGE, Recorder. LUTLER CHAPTER. U. D., Order of the Eastern il give a Calico Hop 1 Owsley's Hall, cornes of dison 2nd Nobey-bts., Wednesday evening, March 231576, The friends of the order are cordisliy invited ' at MRS, J. BOTLER, W, M, MES, G. F. BROWY, Sec'y. * CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, No. 60, R. A. SL—Spe- nlar_Convocation Mondzy evening, at 7:30 oclock. Work on the R. A, Degree. 8. M. HENDERSON, H. P, J. 0. DICKERSO, Sec’y. The Chirago Wribme, Sundsy Mornmg, March 19, 1876. At the New York Exchango on Saturdsy the dollar greenback represented ST3@87§ cents. The charges affecting the personal integrity of Sccretary Buistow have been refuted, es everybody supposed they would be. As was shown in the case of Gen. WEBSTEE, the cor- rupt end frightened members of the Whisky Ring bave begun s series of systematic Bt tacks upon the men most prominently con- zormned in the prosecution,—the ruling prin- ciple of lying and chenting being apparently strengest in desth. Aftor all, speedy justice is not to be meted ut to RupenstE, the murderer of Siza DER. A respite has been granted n order to let his case be heard before fall Bench of the Supreme Court for the Erooklyn District. After that, of course, will se & writ of error to the Court of Appeals; _sut, better that, with all the popular impa- Soence for the hanging of somebody when strocions murder has been committed, 2 thet the wrong person be hanged by mis- wis, and it is Dot always easy to determine 3] on the evidence who is the murderer. e “Ihe trial of the Twentieth Ward Judges of Zlection, upon an indictment charging them %ith frauds at the fall election, wee"yesterday wljonrned over 1a the Criminal Court uniil \londay. The testimony is somewhat vo- urminous, but has been so carefally prepared diat there seems little doubt butthat the sottom facts will be reached. Thus far wout fifty witnesses lave been examined, #ho testified that in the First Precinct they joted for Hucx, and we beliuve there will be wlditionn] witnesses called to testify to the same effect as to their votes, while the fudges' return shows bat thirty-two votes, all told, for Hucx. Whatever the verdict may be,—and what will be the verdict of a jury in sny case is one of those things no fellow can find out,—the fact of false count of the bal- tots is already established The Government counsel in charge of the whisky prosecutions have very properly re- fused to make an exception from the authori- tative well-established practice in the United States Courts, in favor of AMfr. J. D. Warp, in urder toenable him to appear before the Grand Jury to testify in his own bekalf, and to introduce other witnesses to testify in his defense to the charges which it is reported that body is considering against him. There is nu better settled rule of law than that Grand Juries are not to determine the guilt or innocence of parties mecused, but are simply to ascertain whether there is sufficient proof against such to warrant sending them into court for trial upon indictment. The Grand Jury, therefore, is precluded from hesring testimony for the defemse; and neither Mr. Warp nor his friends can com- plain that the inflexible rule of law is adkered to in this instance, while to have set it aside at his solicitation would have savored of un- due favoritism. | The Chicago producef markets were gener- ally stronger on Saturday. Mess pork was more active and 20c per brl higher, closing st ©22.273@22.30 cash| and $22.32}@22.35 for April. Lard was quite active and 10c per 100 bs higher, closing at $13.50 cash and $13.523 for April. |Meats were in mod- erste demand and firm, ot 8o for boxed thonlders, 124c for do short ribs, and 12}c for do short clears. Highwines were moder- ately gctive and unchanged, at $1.04 per gal- lon. Flour was in good demand and firm. Wheat was active and 13¢ higher, closing at £1.023 for March and $1.03 for April. Corn was quiet and 3@3o higher, closing at 43c for March snd 43¢ for April. Oats were «aiet and unchanged. :closing at 330 for March and B4jc for May. Rye wi meT, 2t Gilc. Barley was moderately active and stronger, closing at 581¢ for April or Jay. Hogs were in smell supply and sold 10¢ high- er thau Friday, with {be bulk of the trans- fers at $8.00@S. Cattle were quiet and unchanged—quoted at $2.50@3.50. Thero were no receipts of sheep, and values were nominally steady, at $4.00@6.00 for poor to choice. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $114.50 in greenbacks at the close. The City Council hes postponed to ihe last moment the calling of an election of Mayor; atd, as twenty days' notice is re- quired under the charter, we presume that o failure to take action at tho regular Council meeting to-morrow night may be regarded as conclusive that the Council does not intend to comply with the wishes of the people in this regard. There can be no longer any doubt of the drift of public sentiment in this matter. It has been conveyed to the Alder- men by every channel possible. The Ward Clubs hove instructed the Aldermen to vote for calling an election. The newspapers kave gathered the expression of leading men who desire that an election be called. Pri- vato discussion of the matter has all been favorbla to this course. If, after all this, the Aldermen decline to call the election, they will assume the responsibility of going counter to public sentiment. They will also Liave to bear theresponsibility of the zdditional financial depression in the city, which Cor- +1n's determination to hold over will put upon it. If indulged in the selfish and impertinent claim to coutinue an admin- istration which Las become so objectionable, the city will find it more difficult than ever to secure the necessary financial help to bridge over the present embarressments. At all events, the proposition to call an election should be brought to a vote, that the people may know just what Aldermen haves decided to array themselves against public opinion. ettt ey Another Democratic Presidential aspirant, the most prominent of them all, H=NpaICES, is well on the way-t0 join Gronce H. PeN- prETON. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, in recently writing up HENDRICES, incautiously observed to the effect that, with all Hespricss' political sinuosities, no taint of personal dishonesty sttached to him. Thereon somebody set that correspondent upon track of the facts, and he has felt com- pelled to take it back, and ‘publishes an in- terview with Gen. McGmyxiss, & well-known, responsible - citizen of Indisnapolis, who divulges the facts, which, if not quick- ly fully spswered, will not leave enough of Hespricks for a stigma to be fastened to. Theyrelate to the Indianapolis Water- Works Ring, which began operations by plac- ing $250,000 of their stock *‘where it would do most good,” under which gratuitous dis- tribution $35,000 of it fell to the share of Gov. Hexpnicss. HENDRICES, as 8 Director | of the Company, then voted for sale of $100,- 000 of the water-works bonds to an Indian- apolis bank at 97} cents ; voted to buy them back at par; and then voted to sell them to 2 Directors’ Ring, of which he was a member, at 70 cents,—all which wasdone. Healso, us Director, voted $10,000 to himself and each of the other Ring Directors for their valuablo services in guaranteeing payment of interest on the bonds. Altogether it reads very like a chapter out of Erie, and Hexorices’ part is most like that of Jax Gourp, save that GouLp oceasionally risks his own money, while Hex- prices did not risk & penny. According to the eternal fitness of things, HENDRICKS should be the Tammany Ring's candidate for the Presidency. The investigation of the Srevcem case, which opened with such feeble show of proof on Friday before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, begins to wear the appearance of touching bottom, in view of the testimony given yesterday and reported in our Washington dispatches. Among other witnesses, Barnour, Clerk of one branch of the Legislature which elected Spexcen to the Senate, tells an interesting story of how he was promised by SrENCER an appoint- ment as United States Marshal, and how, thereon, he (Bampour) kidnapped and kept under guard all night & couple of dis- affected colored Republican members who threatened to break the quorum by going over to *‘the other "—Democratic—Legisla- ture. In the morning, Bamsoun testifies, e took his prisoners to SpExcEn’s room at the hotel, where, being promised offices by Srexcen, they relented, promised him their votes, gnd were conveyed to the Legisla- ture to carry out their share of tho compnet. Another witness, a member of the Legisloture, testified that SeeNcEm was prodigal in his promises of appoint- ment to Government offices to those who voted for him, and promised and secured for the witness an appointment in the Mobile Custom-House, - though he did not live in l)Inbile and was not there during the time for which he drew his pay with great rcgular- ity. On the whole, it is not remarkable that Mr. Spevcen has been one of the mosi strennous of the Senators in asserting their right to control Presidential appointments, It will be a greater wonder, unless it be proved that he be the victim of unparaileled perjury, if he be permitted much longer to hoid a sent in the United States Senate. Mr. Cryuen's Democratic Committee either et MansE run away, or frightened him into running away; and having, by theirown act, | got rid of the solo proof in support of the ¢ articles of impeachmert against BELRNAP, made themselves yet more a langhing-stock by their clamor against the President, charg- ing upon him the consequences of their own imbecility or bad faith in the matter. The plight in which they placed the country was that of pitiful incapacity to mete out pun- jshment to the perpetrator of the most in- famous crime, one without a precedent in the hundred years of our history, and to refect upon the nation the shame of that imbeciiity of thews, unequal to punish- ment of that crime. The President was driven to the alternative of condoning the ofiense of o particeps criminis, or of suflering the chief offender, whose crime tnpunished tsrnished the Administration and affixed & lasting stigma upon the nation, to go un- whipped of justice. And the President has promptly decided. - He means business in this matter. He has no Georer H PENDLE- TON to shield from exposure. He means that BreLENAP shall be indicted, publicly tried, and publicly punished, according to the full meas- are of his crime, when legslly established. He means that no guilty man shsll escape. To this end, accepting the slternative to which he was forced by Democratic imbecil- ity, or Democratic treachery and connivance with crime, he bas, as will be found by refer- ence to this morning’s dispatches, in sub- stance granted to Mansr a full pardon, upon condition that the latter return from under cover in theDominion and testify in the Brr- nxap cose; and Maxsy will return. There is no nonsense about it from this time forth. The President's action in this emergency wiil 2 1o justice the Cabinet ctficer whose shameful erime is noprecedented in the first ceatury of our national life; and the effect of the President’s action will be, by fetching Brrrxar to condign punishment, to preserve the nation from like shame during the next hundred years of its career. The fullo;i::g dispatch from Washington came to a city paper yesterday : 1t is currently reported that, on account of the op- which has rasnifeated itaclf to the confirma- it ticn of Xr. DERIOISON as Collector at Chicago, Lie has been requested to dectine the position, so ax to relieve Senator LocaN and the Ropresentatives, who ere not oppesed to him personally, but object to the manner in which he was appointed, without {heir being con- suited. We belisve that such a request was ad- dressed to Mr. Dericksoy, and that hevery properly declined to accede to it. To place AMr. DEericssoy right before the people in this matter, it should be stated that he never made an application for the office, never thought of it, and was taken entirely by sur- prise when appointed. It is believed that his name was suggested to tha President by AMr. Jomx C. Dorr, who was in Washington at the timo, and, if so, the suggestion refiects credit upon Mr. Dozr’s good judgment. At all events, Mr. Denicrsox's reply to the re- quest to withdraw was that, though he did *pot want the office, the President, having ap- pointed him witkout his solicitation, must also take the responsibility of withdrawing him. Those opposing Mr. DeRicssox’s con- firmation have not intimated the slightest objection to him, as they couid not, but have simply insisted upon HamvEy to main- tain what they call their *right” of dic- tating the nomination,—a right that has no foundetion in law or in morals. It is proper to say that there is o grest deal of indigna- tion et the manner in which Mr. DERICESON has been treated in this afair, and that those responsible for this treatment must expect to feel the resentment. It is astorishing how grossly ignorant some persons are who write for the newspapers for the ‘enlightenment and instruction of othera, They are veritoble blind guides of the blind. Oneof these individuals, who pre- tends to understand fiscal questions, writes as follows : The greenbackers demand thet greenbacks shall be made interchungeable with Government bonds bearing » fixed rate of interest. This fixed rate of interest has given stability to the value of irredeemable English bonds (consols) and to American bonds sinco the War. Thero a no reason under Heavea why thia fized rate of interest would mot give permanment stability to American 8 well as British bonds, aud that the green- ‘backs convertibleat thowill of the holder into these bonds would Eo just as certain and fixed in thoir valuo 2s the bomds themselves. Practically, then, the greenbackers are in favor of a * convertible cur- reney,” and if tho rate of interest be placed hich enough to make the bonds worth their facein gold then this currency would be equal to gold in value. There is this * reason under Heaven,” that the fixed rate of interest on British consols is payable in solid gold, and not in irredeem- able scrip, whereas the ** greenbackers ” pro- pose to pay the interest on their intercon- Vertible bonds in shinplasters, which in turn are to be redeemeble ouly in shinplaster bonds. * Practically, then, the greenbackers are in favor of” tom-foolery; and if they were to make the rate of interest on their convertible shinplaster bonds 50 per cent, they would not be worth their face in gold, because neither principal nor interest is pay- gble in anything but irredecmeblo shin- plasters. . The scheme is simply one to in- crease the quantity of chaf. It does mot provide anyadmixture of wheat, and, no mat- ter what the bulk mey be, it is still only chaff, and therefore worthless. But as long as fools and visionaries exist there will be found persons who indorse such absurditics. CONDITION OF THE CITY’S FINANCES. We invite the earnest attention of the business men of Chicago to the peril which new threatens the Municipal Government of the city from the failure of tax-collection. Superior to all questions of debt, bad Gov- ernment, corrupt bummerism, ballot-box stuffing, and other matters, thero is the vital question, Can city taxes be collected ? If taxes can no longer bo collected in Chicago, then every business man can understand the necessary consequences as well as we can. We ask attention to the following exhibit of uncollected taxes, as it stood on the 1st of January, 1876, sccording to the report of Comptroller HAYES: Year. Personal. _ Real 36). Unkuown. Unknown., Grand total uncollected. ... ceeeee $3,252,160 The records of unpaid real-estate taxes be- fore the fire wera destroyed, and Mr. Haxes places the amount of taxes lost by the fire at £750,000, none of which will ever be col- lected ; but the City Governments before {be firc had spent the monsy, and it now figures as part of the floating aeébt of the city, and has drawn interest as such for five years. For some reason, after the tax assessments have passed out of the hends of the Town Collectors, the County Treasurers never col- lect any personal taxes worth mentioning. The tases put down in the foregoing list as due prior to 1872 may be regarded as wholly lost. So to a large extent may bo classed the great bulk of the personal-property tax for the years 1872,1873, and 1874, Since January s portion of the personal tax of 1874 was collected, and perhaps two-thirds of the personal tax of 1875 have been also col- lected. Since January the city has gathered in perhaps nearly one million of dollars from the personal taxes of 1875, 1874, and 1873, the redemption of tax certificates of back years, and sometlung of taxes heretofore tied up in appealed cases. As security for part of these real-estate taxes, the city holds certificates of tax-sale purchases at sales 1 the following yeers, as .§263,809 L5055 Tosal (less redeemed Jatels)....cunen oo 8921361 Of the-renl-estate taxes of 1874, there are about $1,200,000 tied up in an appeal from Judge Warrace's Court, who decided against the erty, which appeal is now pending in the Supreme Counrt, and ought to be ready for decision. What that decision may be is s grave matter for the city. If adverse, the city will be left ina bad plight, and, even if favorable, it will take a long time to coilect it under our dilatory tax laws. The latest statement of the outstanding certificates of indebtedness and obligations to ‘be met by midsumnmer is sbout as follows: Certificates falling due in Mareh, with m-$ _ . 463,015 Cerafi g 1n May, with interest.. 1,603,503 Certificates due June 1, Wil 'interest........ 1,053,637 ,806,454 244,848 4,518 Total to June 1........ Certificutes maturing in Jaly. Certiticates falling dus in Avgust.. Iaterest on bonded debt to be pald July L... 466,000 Total abligutions to July.. Add pay-rolle to June L. Totzl payments 10 be made. ...+ The city hes, in round figures, sbout 3500,- 000 in the Treasury, end is indebted to the water fund and City-Hall building fund, for money borrowed, about $1,000,000; and for gas and miscellaneous claims balf to three- quarters of a million more. Wesubmit theso statements of the sctual financial condition of the city at this time for the consideration of tkoso who are most deeply concerned in its welfare, and who are to be the most seriously embarrassed by suy interruption in the credit of the city. The array of unpaid taxes, though nomi- nally in excess of eight millions of dollars, is subject to so many contingencies and serious deductions that we forbear placing any value onit. It has no immediate availuble value. If every dollar which can or will ever be made out of that list of unpaid taxes were paid into the City Treasury before July 1 pext, it would not more than meet the getual demands required to be met by the first day of July. That, then, would be nu exhaus- tion of the wholo revenue provision of the city, and leave it nothing on which to carry on the Government until the collection of the taxes of 1876, some timo in September, 1877. The city cannot e maintained on bor: rowed money. It must bo supported by taxation, and taxes must be paid, and there must besome system devised by which when taxes aro levied their collection can be promptly and relinbly enforced by Iaw. The revenne law no longer offers any in- ducement to any person to purchase real estate at tex sale; the property sold in’the absence of any bidders is forfeited to the State, or county, end can be redecmed upon peying the tax with only &n per cent inter- est! Under these circamstances, tax sales have no terrors and no penaltics for de- linquents, ond taxes go on unpaid year after year, to the utter destruction of the credit of the muricipalities for whose support they have been levied. We suggest that, in the figures we have given of the city’s available menns and liabil- ities, there is ample reason why the property- owners and business men of tho city shall take immediate steps to devise some means for the enforcement of thio collection of taxes. A committee of citizens should be appointed to act with the City Government in the preparation of some plan by which the collection of city taxes may be made possible, not only st this juncture, bui for the future. No Government can exist without revenue, and to have revenue texes must be paid Cities must pey their debts and expenses, and borrowing money is not payment. There must be tasation, snd taxes must be paid, or Government must stop, and then come anarchy and the mob. One of these mornings the people of Chicago will wake up to find that their .city is bankrupt on account of the non-payment of overdue taxes. It is mearer the precipico than is agreeable to state. SIMPLICITY AND ECONOMY. The New York Vation, which often takes Droad views of affairs, has an article on “The Economy and Simplicity of Our Forefathers,” which disposes very thoroughly of the thoughtless and impracticable recommenda- tions elicited by the BELENAP catastrophe to tho effect that we should return to the stand- ard of expenditure which prevailed one hun- dred years ago. The absurdity of such & suggestion in this centennial year is manifest from the fact that the whole country is making claborate preparations for celebrating the progress of the first hundred years of our national existence, and that this progress is notably illustrated by the development 'of our material resources, the increase of moncy- making machinery, the improvementof trans- portetion facilities, the growth of commercial cities, the extension of our trade, and the enlargement in almost eyery sphere of life of the rotio of production and the accumnlation of wealth. In other words, we are celebrat- ing the very change of standard, and are now asked to bewail it in its specific application to Mr. Bzrxxar and the particular cless of officeholders of whom he is an example. The fact is ignored that a full return to the «goonomy and simplicity of our forefathers” necessarily includes a return to their primi- tive conditions in other respects, and that this would include an abandonment of the rail- road, the telegraph, the steamship, the pow- er-loom,.the spinning-jenny, and the thou- sand subsidiary improvements for the more rapid production and exchange of commodi- ties. We would have to secure by some un- discovered means a retura to the value of the dollar of those days, when its purchasing pow- erwas equivalent to that of six or seven dollars now. We would have to abandon many things which are now regarded as necessities that were formerly unknown, and, 1 a word, go backwards. Ecouomy and simplicity ere comparative ; what was extravagaace a hun- dred years ago would be eimplicity now. The demand for a return to the simplicity of those times is idle, visionary, and meaning. less. The corruption of our time, ag illustrated by the BELeNAP scandal, rests primarily upon the Inxity of public morals, which is an out- growth of the spoils-system. Personal end domestic extravagence ig simply an incident. 1f extravagance and corraption hold ihe rela- tion of ceuse and cffect to each other, then cormption is the cause and extravagance the result. In any event, the cause of the cor- ruption must be looked for somewhere else, and, so far as the cost of living is involved, it must be traced as much to the niggardly rate of paying public servants who sssume great responsibilities as to the espensive habits of the day. Of course extravagance is no escuse for corrup- tion, any more thau the converse of the prop- osition would be true; but the psy of our leading officinls is such as to expose to temp- {ation those who are willing to accept the offices on these terms and to keep out of the public service men who are sufficiently capa- ble and honest to earn more money outside. This was not the practice in the days of our forefathers. - It was then the rule to pay high public officials a salary commensurate with the demands upon the office, and large enough to secure the best men who could be obtained for the places. Thus the pay of the Presi- dent was fixed at 000, which was fuily equivalent to from $125,000 to £150,000 now. Yet this pay was never raised until four years ngo, and now there is o movement to place it back where it was upon the first formation of the Government. The Nation says: 1n like manner, shen they cams to fix the ralaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court, they did mot thrust one hand under their coattails, end Tun the other through their bair, and pour fortha stresm of blatherskite about the way an idzal Judge ought to live, and about the smaliness of the sum for which 00d Inwsers of their own scqusintsnce could be got to fill the place. Theyeaid: * The Supreme Court oughtto contain the best lawyers in the countrs, and in choosing the Judges for it we ought not to b re- stricted to men of accumulated fortunes. Therefore, to get the best lawyers we must pay as much annually 83 the leading lawyers actually earn in the cem- tres of the largest practice.” Having ascertained that this was obout $3,000, they fixed the salary of tho Chic-Justice at§4,000a year, and that of tho Associate Justices nt§3,500. They followeda eimflar courss with regard to all the other offices of the Goverument. ‘They offered, in short, such salaries s would fn the market of that dsy command the best Isbor of the kind the public service required, and made absolutely no extrsordinary derisnd on the vir- tuo of tho candidates, They no more thought af treating the public eervice as a monasters, and exact- ing » vow of poverty from those entering it, than pri- vata bankers thought of it. They knew that men would serve the Government from ordinary motives; thit good men would need good poy, 3nd security, and tho chanco of living in the zamo style oa the peo- plo with whom they naturally associated in other call- ings, and they seted accordingly. E To apply this to Beuxxae, whose case 1s now one in point, we find that he was elevat- ed to a position where he was charged with the disbursement of $32,000,000 n year on & salary of $8,000a year. He was not afit man for the place, it must be edmitted. He had never done anything in public life or private enterprise which entitied him to the public confidence that he could asdminister this vast fund. But what mon who had al- ready demonstrated his capacity for so great a trust could be induced to accept it for that pay ? 3len who heve alrendy proved their honesty and capability in disbursing funds and administering trusts to anything liko this amount are able to command four and five times s much pay for their services, and it is not likely that they will resign such service in private life to accept equal responsibilities under the Government at an incrensed cost "of living, and for one-fourth or one-ifth the pay. When they do, it is gener- slly becanse they have large private | resources.” The recent difficulty —which Secretary Craxprer found in §lling the place of Indian Commissioner with a gentleman who would command public confidence was an instanco of the short-sighted policy of the people in this respect. Large salaries will not keep men honest who are inclined to be corrupt, nor will they make men capable who are not capable, but they will attract men to the public service who arcat once capablo aud honest, but who will not accept responsi- bilities at a rate of compensation which will not defray their living expenses on the same seale as their fellows. - Instead of recom- mending an impossibility,—a return to the simple habits of o hundred years ago,—it wonld be better to imitate the judgment and liberality of our forefathers by paying our public servants enongh to command the best order of talent desired, and eo protect the’ offices from a class of men who will under- take to sustain a course of life that costs £30,000 & year on & salary of $£.,000 5 year. THE WARD WILL. There has been a conditional compromise agreecd upon by the attorneys in the cele- ‘brated Waro will case in Detroit, which only neeeds the assent of the t¥o parties to the suit and 2 payment of $125,000 within a year to close-up the main estate, to bo carried into effect. These conditions onght to be com- plied with and the estate divided. The terms seem to bs equitable, and the saving to both parties in tho cost of litigation will more than compensate for any sacrifice which each party thinks it is making. Be- sides, tho estate is so enormous that the terms of the compromise leave each one of the heirs on both sides in possession of a larger share of this world's goods than is sllotted to one person in a hundred thou- sand. This fact alone suggests perfect con- tent with the result. Ar. Wanp's estate hns been estimated at between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000. He left children by two marriages, five by the first marriage and two infant children es well as the widow of the second marriage. His last will contained a codicil which left the heirs of the first marringe only $200 o month each, and made them ebsolutely dependent on the Trustees appointed to administer the estate. 1t was this codicil which led the heirs of the first marrisga to contest the will and seek to have it set sside altogether. They set up that this provision, virtually cutting them off from their share of the property, had been procnred through undue influence, o2-d the trial was rendered the more interesting by the allegation and the proof introduced that the deceased had been controlied by so-called spiritual dictation. But after s long trinl, in which both parties were represented by sble attorneys, thero was o disagreement of the jury. Tho stroggle was to be made all over again, and the new trinl began early Inst week. It lasted but two days, however, when the terms of the compromise were an- nounced. Under this compromise the widow and her two infant children are to receive property valued at $1,500,000, and the other heirs are to have the remainder of the prop- erty, which is valued at $2,000,000 after the dischargo of the indebtedness thereon, 1f it iad not been for the greed end com- bativoness of human nature, some such com- promise as this would have been adopted Sithout any trial. It represents a fair distri- bution among all those who have recognized claims on the deceased'’s estate, and cor- rects any injustice that may have been done on either side by the influence of intermed- dling spooks or scheming sactualities. It furnishes the basis on which Mr. Warp ought to have distributed his property. It leaves a widow who cannot be altogether dis- consolate with Lalf a million dollars ; and an infant who starts off inlife with an equal amount may reasonably hops to escape the poorhouse with the exercise of fair economy and good habits. As to the adult heirs, who have several hundred thousand dollars apiece, it is barely possible that ordinary application and industry will enable them to pull through. At ol events, it is pretty evident that thevast mejority of people will agreo to compromise on the same terms, and the Warp heirs will be great fools if they refuse to do so. There is just now a storm Taging through the country which threatens to destroy all the Presidential timber the Democrats own. The Cincinnati Enquirer, a day or two ago, began to halloo before it was out of the woods, but, coneerning its favorites, ventared the follow- ing assertion : Even tho BELENAP. nd Dancock, snd GRANT Re- publicans have not nttempted to accuse Gos. ALLEN, of OLio, of any public wrong. Ifit1s because they do ot fear him they may be mietaken. Gov. ALLEN has Eeer closa to the Presidency mora than once. But the Enquirer had scarcely laid this flattering unction to its soul when the mer- ciless telegraph spread broadeast the an- nouncement that Old Fog-Horn had got pos- session of an immensa farm near Chillicotke, 0., which really belonged to minor heirs, and that they have brought suit to eject him from their property, which he managed in some crooked way to get hold of. The digpatch A8 2 Proceedings wera commenced in the Tnited States Court in Cineinnat! to-day by ALLAN CaMPBELL Mo- ARTHCR and other grandchildren of DuNcaN McAz- TmOR, a former Governor of Ohio,to efect ex-Gov, WiLLrae ALrcx from his farm mear Chillicotbe, known s Fruit Hill, and compel him to account to the legal heirs of DoNCAN MCARTOTR for all rents and profita of the- estate alleged to be illegally withbeld from the heirs, It appears thst Gov, McARTHECE, who died tn 1829, was the owner of immense landed wealth, and left & will bequeathing all his property to Lis wife and WiLLiau Key Boxp #8 Trustees to bold until his youngest grandchild became of age, with annual divi- denda of tho protits of the estate amony the heirs. YWhen the youngest grandehild became of age the ‘propesty was to be divided among nll the heirs. The will was set aside, and the la=ger portion of the estate came into the possession af Ars, Cooxs, o dsughter of McArrmoR, who afterwards married Gov. ALLEN. The principal contestant became of age abaut & year 550, 1nd, having learued the etory of tho will and its Qisposition in court, his commenced & Eult, With others, to recover. Should the sult be decided sgainst Gov. ALLEY, it will leave him 8 poor man, Tho eatate involved embraces about 8,000 scres in Rosa County, ineluding a portion of tho City of Chillicotbe. ECHOOL EXI‘ENDITUE;ES. The very full statements made in Tme Tasuse yesterday by President RicEnene and Mr, Wrrch, of the Board of Education,, and by Superintendent Prczarp, though con- tradictory, furnished information enough to satisfy tho public that there is ample room and sufficient couse for a large reduction of the expenditnres of tho Board of Education. ILike all other ¢ Bonrds,” the Board of Education has an jdea that the object of its organization is to expend the largest possible sum of money .within the briefest ‘possible space of - time ; bat, es it can only expend what it can obtain from the Common Council, the first object is to get all it can from the Common Council. For this purpose it annually throws out a large met baited with all manner of choico rhetoric,—seeking about double as much as they expect to get. When the ap- propriation is obtained, then ‘the Board of Education sdministers the fund. The mem- bers of the Board of Education are generally respectable men, but are nevertheless human, and some of them very weak. Like all other men charged with the duty of spending other people’s money, the tendency is to enlarge the salary-list. This tendency is the bane of American Governments. It rests on the theory that Governments are designed to give employment and wages to the greatest number of people, st the cost of the tax- payers. In 1875, the Board of Education succeeded in getting from the Common Council 2o ap- propriation of over £100,000 for school sites, and £316,000 for new school buildings, with £39,000 for furniture, otc. A tax was levied for this sum, but not a dollar of the tax has been collected ; the school-houses have not been built, but the appropriation is outstand- ing, and as fast as the tex is collected it will be used for something elso ; and certificates bearing 7 or mors per cent interest will be issued and sold on the strects, and the pro- cceds will bo applied to paying the salaries of tho dead-beats and bummers on the pay- rollsof the city. Afr. RIcHBERG, President of the Board of Education, says that the Bonrd now wants for salaries $427,355 for September, October, November, December, 1876, and for January, February, and March, 1877. This is at the rate of 61,000 per school month! 3Mr. Ropyer WeLCH, another member, says that the Board asks for the same amount of money for salaries, but he and Ricmmera differ wholly as to the time for which the money is needed. Mr. Wercm, however, referred to several instances wherg the money was use- lessly expended He ddkcribes a class of tenchers known as * floaters,”—that is, extra tenchers turned loose in the schools, having no special rooms in which to teach. The appointment of these teachers illustrates the facility with which places aremade. There is a % rule "—why mnde is not explained—that forty-cight scholars and no more, in the grammar divisions, shall be assigned to each teacher ; if by any accident there may hap- pen to bo mors than an average of forty-eight to each teacher, sn exira teacher is put in the building, though while she teaches some other teaching hns to stop. So in the lower classes : if the prescribed average is exceeded, an extra teacher is appointed to work round, dividing the time with the other teachers. This is practically a taxeating abuse,—a mere pretext to employ thirty-nine persons st a selary who are not needed. In the wisdom of the School Board * music” is pat down as a study; so is “ drawing,” and so is ‘ German,”—the language, not the dance. These are ‘‘specialties” for which specinl tenchers are selected. The schools have a General Superintendent, as well as an Assistant Superintendent, who have general jurisdiction over eil the schools. But that is not enough. The Board has a * Superin- tendent” of drawing teachers, a ¢ Super- intendent” of German teachers, and & « Superintendent” of music teachers. The Board has not yet renched the point of hav- ing Superintendents of teachers engaged in tenching resding, writing, blackboard exer- cises, arithmetie, geography, and spelling, rospectively. The Board has so far only got five Superintendents, when there was room for a dozen, although one wes enough. 3Ir. Wercn well says that these special Superin- tendents may be all abolished, as indeed mr:r the instruction in German and drawing. With an empty Tressury, and. the city's | revenues anticipated to the amount of five or six millions of dollars, with no additional revenue collectable for overa year, it does seem that the issme of illegal certificates to pay for superintending the tenching of Ger- man in the primary schools might be omitted. Such o thing as a reduction of salaries nover enters into the administrative notions of a **Board.” The Common Council, know- ing the fact that it may be impossible to pay the police and other salaries of the citr at all, positively refuses to reduce a salary or discharge an unnecessary officer. The Board of Education, blindly closing its eyes to {he desperate financial condition of the city, will not reduce a salary, nor dismissa Superin- tendent, nor reduce the number of super- numerary persons, nor retrench an item of wasteful expenditure. It is more than likely that if theso members were expending their own money, and found themselves in the de- plorable financial condition in which the City Governiment now finds itself, they would hava no difficulty in finding how to reduce expenditures very largely, in lopping off floaters and all the revenue-consuming dis- penssbles pertaining to n large public service. Though there is a wide difference between the statements of Mr. Wercm and those of Ar. Riceperg and Mr. Picearp upon the general proposition that the expenditures of the Board of Education cannot be reduced, there can be but one judgment among think- ing men. There is no money in the Treasury spplicable to the support of the schools; there will not be any money there for six months which has not already been antici- pated; and the next levy for schools will not be collected for sixteen months hence. Under this showing of facts, notorious to the Board of Education, how long does that Board sup- pose the present reto of expenditure can be maintained? So long as each branch of the public service insists wpon retaining its ac- customed rate of lavish expenditure, and the general aggregate is kept up to the highest point, then the city must of necessity fail. Hal there been o patriotic spirit showu,— had each Boerd and Department, under thy adverse condition of the city finances, re. dueed their expenditures one-haif, and heg asked for thres millions wherethey have noy grebbed five millions, they would have dong much to avert the calamity which nom threatens to make it necessary to dischargg every person in the city employ before thiy year ends. The Whisky-Thieves’ Organ, after allits des perate efforts, has not yet succeeded in effecting the escape of any of the revenue robbera of thig district—excopt those it may bave advised oy sided torun off. Its fire-in-the-rear has gy won. —_——— PER30NAL, Aloan, & loan,—alL, all, aJoan.—4. B. ¥, R. F. Straine, of the Signsl Sorvics, laaa Chicago soon for Colorado Springs, where hy will spend the summer. Mr. Lawrence Barrett contributes an artien on '*The Bonanza Mines of Nevada® tothy April number of tne Galazy. The St, Lonia Globe thicks it would take .llx. George II. Pendleton many years to eam 280,000 honestly. Who can tell? Perhapshs has never tried. Mrs. Livermore asserts that tbere are only 3,000 “decent, respectable, loving husbands in the country.” And she counted Calorado s¥ a Stata when sha did the gum. Afra. Watts Sherman, of Duncan, Sherman & Co., is having & splendid $100,000 mansion built at Newport. Duncan, Sherman & Co. failed & ghort time ago for a beavy eum. Gen. Batterfield explicitly denies, 80 far 35 he is concorned, the statement of Gen. Kilpatrick that an army officer some time ago obtained, by a bribe of 820,000, the position of Assistant- Treasurer at New York. A cock-and-ball story has been invented by one of the India papers to the efect tha the aesassination of the Prince of Wales was planned inDelhi, and that the plan waa anly frustrated by an interposition of Divine Provideace, 3fies Susan B. Anthony has lectared 120 times during the 1ast lecturing season, and has real- izod cnough to pay off her 310,000 debt, in- carred by the bankruptcy of the Kevolution. The 1ast dollar of this obligation was pad last week. The French poet, Maurice Boucher, in a re- cent volume of poems, does Tennyson some credit at the expense of Poo, writing : Ce douloareux Neesrmore ! Que Tennyson a pleure ! The wife of ex-Senator Schurz was the daugh- ter of a wealthy Hamburg merchant. Their marriage was a love-match, Mr. Scharz at that time being young, poor, & defeated revolutionist, s0d an exile from Prussia with s price npon hig head. The confederate of Harmens, the Dutchman recently arrested for uegotiating forged Ameri- can raflway securities in Belgium, was an Ameri- can residiog in Brussets, named Rollina. Americw seems to have s hand in about all the * rascality goiog- Lord John Ruseell, who has been deprived of tho custody of his grandchildren by the will ot their father, Lord Amberly, is in his 8ith year. He is a devout Christian, and is consequently much distressed at the arrangement whereby his grandchildren are to be trained up a3 infidels. A *lady " correspondent at Washington was recently canght in the act of attempting to steal a photograph of Mra. Belknap from the albam of Rirs. Bristow. The correspondent had been offercd $125 for the photograph by the man- agers of one of the New York illustrated papers. The Governor-General of Canada is paid $48.- 66.66 a year, besidos his residence and staff. Ta comparison with this compensation, the salary paid the President of the United States doea not seem to be such an outrageous imposition upon a free and independent pation of 40,000,000 peo- ple. A specimen of tho Thomassen dynamite clock, constructed to run ten days and at the ead of that time touch off an infernal machine, is now on exhibition in New York. The man ontside calls it ** The Thomss Hell machine,” while the man inside shows it to be & very simple appa- ratus, as hell machimes generally are, The New York World imoginesz that Mr Moody’s reformed inebrizte, who saved 2100 & yearand putit in tbe Third Avenue Savings Bank, must regret Laving lost the price of sa many eya-opening drinks. The Third Avenue Bank absorbed tha -reformed inebriate’s earn- ings s though they were nothing, and left notn wreck behind. re. Georgisna Nichols, wife of William B. Nichols, of No. 16 East Seventy-fourth street, New York, has sued:for a limited divorce, on ths ground of cruelty. She alleges that her hus- band is worth £500,000, owns fast horses, yachts, and otker fast thicgs. and is a man af expansive babits. The wife thorefors claima & liboral al- lowance for alimony. Afrs. Stiling, the sccompliched actrass, has come to be considered by the quid nuncs in Lon- don the clovercst aftor-dinoer speaker in En- gland. At the dinnur of the Dramatic Fund she made a keen and ripid review of the progress of London in twenty years, conceiving our ami- able friend, Joe Jefferson, to have slept ever since his firss appearaace in the metropolia, and now commenced his ex;plorations anew. 1t Lias been alleged that Supervisor McDonald, of . Lois, presented & $2,00v diamond to Gen. Babeock, in Juccard's jesvelry etore. The story bas been denied, but & well-known gentleman of St. Louis now testifies that he gave sach s dis- mond 2a security for a loan of 3500 to AlcDonad, and was afterwards informed that the latter hsd given the jewel away. The story is not per- fectly authenticsted, but it noema to have sab- stance enough for the parpioses of newspaper sensation. * Dr. Hopworth, s0mo time ngo, in the courss of asermon delivered in the New York Hippo- dromo, talked sbout Beeing the sutographs of Moody and Sankey on the souls of certain con- vorts who bad united with his church, and no® Dr. Deems tells us that it is his habit to prey o0 the first day of eack month for all of his flock whose names begim with A, on the second dsy for those who begin to spell their names with B, 2ad £o on until the alpbabet znd calendar a8 simaltaneously exbausted. Tho poet and prose suthor, Joseph Victot Schaffel, who is held in honor at all the niver- sities of South Germany, celsbrated the fifeiath abniversary of his birth in Carlsruhe on the 17th of February. During the day be received congratulations and gifis from various individ nals and corporations; among them an 32 nouncement from the Grand Dake of Baden 60- nobling Scheffel and afl his descendants of both sexes; an album fromn fhe Society of Artistt contsining specimens of each members handl work; and from the town of Radolfzell the pre- sentationof the freedom of the town, boauti- {ally inscribed by Werner in aquarelle on parche ment. A very clever version of ono of Esop's !nblgfl containing a lesson for the populsr English actor, Alr. Irving, appears in & Tecont nuambsr of Punch. The sctor is represented 88 h_mnl beon condemned to death *for wurderiog Moorish Captain in tho employment of the Venetion Republic.” While on his waylo the place of exccution, the unhappy mad aaked Dormission to shake fiands with bis eritics, B¢ tollowed in the crowd weepiog. The favot wal granted, but in this act of apparent cordislity the condemned man contrived to twist out of joiit the pen-fingers of tbe critics’ hands. To- happy man!” exclaimed the bystwoders, “will vou, at this awfal moment, add yet another te your catalozue of crimes. tbat you treat mu: Your bess friends and advisers?” = Not ‘:}v reptied the condemned man. «If theas ReD! e men Liad not told me when I was a begione® that I wes a happy mixtare of Roscios, Bettertod. Gurrick, Kemble, and Kean, I might never have come to this anhappy fate!” Moral—-supet tuows.