Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1876, Page 4

* In either place for yenrs, would indieato that - at one dose, the Common Council last night 4 e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RATES OF BURSCRIPTION (PAYARLE 1N ADVANCE). Postnge Prepalil at this Omce. “Datly Raltion, postpaid, 1yoar,.. .$13.00 Parts of year at good demand and ruled firm at 10@160 ad. vance, The sheop murket was lifcloss, and values wero nominal, at $4.60@6.26 for com- mon to cholce. One hundred dollars in gold would buy 2114.50 in greenbacks at the close. i G- The Supremo Court of the United States yestorday rendored judgmont, concurred in by the full Bonch, in tho *Chincse cnso,” b Ry #1:48 | nolding tho Chlifornin statuto imposing a tax O povtase a1 cen Wewillprepey. © | upon immigrants unconstitutional. In their Hpecimen coples sent [re To prevent delay and mistakes, be surn and givo Yost- Offics addresa in full, fncluding Stato and County. Ramittances may bo mada efther by draft, expreas, Poat-Office order, or in rogistored letters, at our risk. TENMA TO CITY BUDSCRIDERS, Daily, doltvered, Sunday excapted, 273 conts por week, Dally, delivered, Sunday included, 30 ceats nor wook, Addreas TIE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Carner Madison snd » Oblesgo W, decision the Judges pnss somo govera stric- tures upan tho barbarous anti-Chinese proju- dico of which tho statute was an embodi- ment, whereby doubtless their Honors will call down npon themselves the d enuncintion of the hoodlum press of the Pacific Coast. The Court also decided the Now York and Louisiann statntea imposing the per capita {mmigration tax to bo unconstitutional. Thoe ground of tho decision in all of the ecases was that the States had no power to imposo rostrictions upon immigration, Braptry Bantow, of tho great Western mail-contracting firm of Bantow & Sanpra- soN, was further examined boforo the Houso Postal Committea yesterday, and imparted additionnl interesting information ns to the straw-bid frouds. Ho ndmitted paying $16,- 000 to Gov. Tnostrsoy, of Tdaho, for with. AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Malated street, between Madison and Monroce, Eugsgement of the Jully Mathews Durlesqus Troupe, * Tho Grand Duchess. 4 .WO0OD'S MUSEUM—Monros atreet, between Dear- born and Stale, Afternoon, Factory Girl'* Evening, 4 The Fool's loveuge,” ADELPNI THEATRE—Destborn sirest, ocorner Aonroe. * Humpty Dumpty."” HOOLET'S_ THEATR! dolph atreet, batween Clark and LsSalle, The Californis Minstrels, JcVICRER'S THEATRE—Madison street, between Deatbor andl Stato, Engsgement of Jobn £, Owens. | drawing his bid for tho Oregon and Utah ur Boys,” route, leaving his (Banzow’s) firm to tako it at their own figures; also, that his firm was in tho habit of doing that sort of thing. e denied that the firm hnd bought up officials in tho Post-Ofiico Department, but remem- ‘bered having nccommodated n Gen. Moraan T.. Ssurm, brother of the ex-Sceond-Assistant Tostmaster-General, with n loan of $20,000 during that brother's mcumbency of the lat- ter ofllce. Further investigation into the straw-bid frauds, if conducted to find out, evidently wouldn't be altogether wasted. TSOCIETY M WASHINGTON CHAPTE «clal Convoeatinn this (Tuese ovening at 7130 o'clock, for work on tho Mark Degreo, Vialting Compsuions cordially luviled. By order of thedl, E,JL I, CHAS, B, WRIGLT, Sceretary, 0. 43, It A, M. —Spo- APOLLO COMMANDERY OF KNIGUTS TEMPLAR, ~There will boa Btated Arsembly in Conclavo of Apol- 10 Commandery, at tho Asylum, 76 Monroct,, ! (Tnesday) svening at 8 o'clock, A full attendance is Qeaired us important bustnesswill be presontod, ABULAR LODGE No, 8. F. & A. M.—Teqular mesting this (Tueadoy) evening in thefr hall, No, 70 Montoe-st, for businesn aud work on tho Third D: k¥ee. Tho fraternity cordially duvitad to meot with us, ©.H, CRANE Becrotary. The @hrsago Tribume, Tuosday Mornog, March 31, 1876. By their neglect to order an election for Mayor and sdjourning until Wednesday, tho Common Council Inst night indicated their purpose, in defiance of law, of common justice and common decency, to deprive the people of this city of their right to olect o Chiof Mngistrato to fill the offico that Corvry proposos to hold, without right, to tho cost of tho tox-payers, Tho ndjournment over to Wednesday was a part of this infamous rcheme to foist upon the long-sufforing tax- pnyers more of Covvis, whom they havo al- ready cndured until their powers of en- durance aro well nigh exhausted. Twonty doys' notice must be given of an election for Mayor., 'Tho election must bo held on the 16th of April; and, under tho rules, at tho meoting Wednesdny tho objection of n sin- gle member will prevent consideration of the necessary ordinance. The Council ring ovi- dently counts on thus throttling the ballot and delivering the city to tho lawless, plun- dering rule of the ring, They may find thoy have missed their reckonming in this out- rageous attempt to disfrauchise tho people of Chicngo. Clear and cold weathor is predicted for this locality to-day, P ] Groenbacks nt the New York Gold Ex- chango yosterday closed nt 87 e The Scnnte yesterday confirmed tho ap pointment of Mr. J. D. Hanvex as Collector of Internal Revenuo for this District, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Gen. WensTER. Under the immunity ¢ ed them by the President, in order that BrLuyar and lis confederates in thievery might not escnpe, the Mansars, husband and wife, yestorday afterncon left Montreal for Waoshington, to tell o}l they know about it. Now tha truth, without purtisan distortion or half-suppres- pion, may bo expectod to come out. THE CRIAMINALS BEOWL, Ot course tho oftice-brokers, the subsidy- mongers, the dismissed oficcholders, and every man who has been corrupt in Congress, or sold his votes, or resigned to avoid expul- slon, or who has shared in the plander of the Treasury or the public, is horror-stricken that Tne Cnrcaco Tamuse shall protest agninst members of Congross nsurping the appoint- ing power of tho President, or of lkeeping thicves in, or appointing their own strikera, 'he Constitution of tho United States pro- hibits the legislative branch of the Govern. ment from any participation in the appoint. ing power; yot such has been the ecggressive usurpation of members of Congress that the appointing power has beon wrested from the honds of tho Executive, and the offices of tho country filled with the henchmen, personal followers, nnd dependents of Senators and mombers of Congress, The result has been tho corruption of tho American civil sefvice, which is, withont cxception, the most dis. honest and incompetent tolerated in any civ« ilized Government. Just at this time, when tho reveuue servico is pnssing through the doublo ordenl of hos- pital nnd quarnntine, when the corrupt and leprous have been in o measuro ejected, and the offices subjected to fumigation; when the Government is {rying to prevent tho re. turn of tho old kind of ofiicers by putting in clean men, it might be cxpected that mem- bers of Congress would abstain from an nssertion of their usurped prerogatives, and give the President au opportunity to get the collection of the publio revenues 1 trustwor- thy hands. But the moment the Presidont nominated an honest, able, upright man for the office of Collector of Internal Rovenne in Chicago without consulting them, the **Illi- nois delegation” had o call to armns, and insisted that tho power to name the candi- date belonged to them and not to tho Presi- deut! Sueh illegal interference Tz TrinoNe has denounced, and overy man with unclean hands and soiled record—tho professional lobbyists and traders, tho organs of the whis. Tiy-thieves, tho worshipers of Senatorial dis- pensers of patronago—have raised the shout that “‘Pe Trisune is hurting the party " by insisting on capability, morality, and honesty inthe filling of the publio offices, ‘Theso very fellows in their very hearts envy Ber- L&NAr, and every one of them, hiad they the opportunity, would repeat his lucrative offengo for tho profit Lo enjoyed, Do that degrndation Lins sunk the morals of the profes- sional office-secker nnd the professional or- gan of ofticu-distribution, I'uc Cnroaco Tribuse has not to learn its Ttepublicanism nor its opinions of sound parly policy from the starviling dismigsed offlceholders who have brought reproach upon the Government, and have, so for ag they could do so, disgraced tho party, Tt has clpimed, and will continuoe to clnim, that the dishonest officcholder should Lo wade the specinl abject of prosecution by the Re. publican parly. ‘Tho Republican parly ean- uot curry Heolknapism, nor crooked whisky- ism, nor blackimail Congressmen, nor corrupt contracts, corrupt appropriations, nor dis. honest elections. 'Ihe Republican party must wash its hands of all these dirty things, und of oll tho dirty fellows involved in them. The Republican party cannot hopo to retain public confidence and ot tha eawe time carry an nrmy of thieves to prey upon tho public. ‘When the Republican party ceases to respect publio- opinion, when it makes plunder its object, and seizes upon the public service as its lawful prey, then Tug Cmicaco TRIDUNE will denounce it as it does any other crgani. zution ut war with public safety and the good of the nation, ‘We have no sympsthy with the crentures in office or out of office, in Congross or cat of Congress, who thiok that members of Congress have tny privileges, personsl or political, save those which the Coustitution confers upon them. Thehistory of the coun. try shows that they havo used the appointing power to the almosd universal corruption of The Treasury Department will receive from San Francisco during the coming weck fourteen tons—$i00,000—of silver, to be sot nside in enticipation of tho silver redemption of the fractionnl currency. The weight, av- oirdupois, wiilgivo the silver-resumptionists somo faint conceplion, perhaps, of the im- practicsbility of using silver in large transac. tiona. s will be seen from our dispatches this morning, is proceeding with the Indinn Ap- propriation bill on tho assumption that tho control of Indian affairs will bo turned over to the War Dopnrtment. So the appropria- tions for Indian Agents, Superintendents, aud their general nnd incidental expenses, 2te., are being carefully stricken out of the bill. The saving effected by the transfer, it is claimed, will amount to nbout $1,500,000. Tho spcll of weather still continues. “Twenty feet of snow along the route of ihe Union Pacific Kailrond and trains blockaded ; nino inches of snow at Littlo Rock, sudn foot at Momphis, moro than they have seen ® good deal of the country has boen over. taken by next winter. Tho same thing seems to have ocgurred in Grent Britain, a telegram from London this morming sunouncing that nenrly aoll the railrosds north of the River Tay nre blockaded by snow. Another attempt was mnde by the ultra-in. flationists of tho Houso yesterdny to pass, un- der o suspension of tho rules, a bill repenling tho Resumption act of 1875, 'The effort secms to have been designed ns a Democratio rovolt against the Payne bill, snd to moko n tost of tho inflation strength in the Houso. ‘With a deal of dodging, the motion to sus. pend tho rules was lost, tho vota being 109 nyes to 108 noes, lesy than thoe requisite two- thirds voting aye, The vote indicated the tempoer of tho 1louso loss than did the dodg- ing, which signified a disposition to defer definite action for the presont npon the cur- renoy question, Finding, n1x1)urenliy:_tllnt u;uy had ot tempted more reform than they could stomach zeconsidered their action at the meoting pre- wvious striking out from the approprintion or. dinance the approprintion for publishing the ofiicinl proceedings of the School Board ; and, with that restored, the ordinance was passod, Yorhiaps, however, the tax-payers should con- gratulato themselves that uu appropriation wasn't also voted for publication of the ofil- cial report of the Council proceedings. There is as much reason for publishing the ono as thero ia for the other; aund there is no renson for publishing either, except for tho job that xoay be in'it, since Tor Tmwuss and other morning journals publish as news, and with- out costing the city unything, full reports of 1he procesdings of both the Council and the School Board. The Chicago producs markets wero gener. ally strongor yesterday. Mess pork was nce tive and 20c per brl higher, closing ut $22.50 eash and $§22,77% seller May. Lard was sctive and 103200 per 100 tus higher, clos- ng ot #13.67) cash and 13,90 seller May, Meats were activo’snd firmer, at 6ic for Yoxed shoulders, 1240 for do short ribs, and 2o for do short clears. Highwines were pactive oud nominally firmer, at $1.05 per tallon, Flour was in good demand and firm. Mheat was active and 1G2¢ higher, closing ! $1.03§ for March and $1.08j for Muy. Oorn wos more activo and }@jo higher, tlosing ot 4430 for March and 47}e for May. Dats were in better demand and fizmer, clos- ing ot 83fc for March and £4io for May. Bye was firmer, at G5c. Barley was quict and irregular, closing at 58)o for March and B8o far May. Togs were scarco and prices advanced 150 per 100 tbs, with sales at §8.00 @%.50 fur comumon to good. Cattle wese in THE CHICAGO 'fRIBUNE: TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1876. tho polities of the country, and have de- | enjoy the prosperity which hna attonded bauchod the morals of official life. Of oll | their commorco. They have tho marketa of depositoriea of the power of appointment, | the world in which to sell everything thoy tho averago membor of Congress is the lenst | can produce, and in which to purchaso every- compotent for an honest oxorcise of the | thing thoy may need. Tho law permits them privilege. to purchiaso every raw mnterial of mnnufac- Trr Cnicado Trinuwe proposes to con- | tures freo of tax, thus ennbling them to pro- tinne its courso perfectly indifferent to nil the | duco all that they can soll at a cost as low an whines and lowls of tho whisky-thieves’ | is protienblo. Tho peoplo of Cannda have organs, nnd of tho corrupt politicians whose | every facility which tho Inw can farnish for days are now nnmbered, and who will bo dis- | tho manufacturo of all articles, while a pro- persed as with o sword of fire. The sur- tactive tarif wounld Lave tho effect of o in- vivors of the Grand Jury and tho Criminal | creasing the production §n Conndn that Courts may take warning that their race is [ foroign goods would come in and eventunlly run, and the rotarn of old-fashionod honesty undersell them in the Canadinn markets, No 1o tho public service will eall for newo mon, peoplo havo more reason to congratulate themselves upon the wisdom of their Gove ernment than have tho people of the Do- minion of Canada. Thoy hava escaped o policy cortain to ond in oxtravagance, spolia- tion, exceasivo taxation, and reduced populs- tlon, DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, This s bad year for Presidontinl candi- dates on tho Democratic side. Ono by one they drop by the wayside, Prominont men- tion in connection with tho pomination at 8t. Louis seoms to cnn"y with it some rovela~ tion of porsonal unfiiness by reason of a blomish in the record. Mr. Henonicss is the Iatest vietim to the pains of Democratio can- didature, His alleged operations in GATLING gun contracts havo been followed by a moro serious and better established charge relm- tive to liis intorest in the Indinnopolis Water- Works, which scem to have applied the prin- ciples of Credit Mobiler to something besides railwny speculations. The charge made ngainst him is that, ag o Director of the Com- pany, ho used his position in connection with other Directors to manipulate stocks and bonds in his own interest nnd nt the ex. penso of tho stockholders. Tndeed, it scems that, in tho first place, he nccopted a gift of stock to act as Director, which of itself is a questionablo if not dishonest transaction, nnd generally cnrries with it tho pre. PERSONAL. Tho Chicago Jnter-Occan yesterday, in an effort to stem the general feeling of publio in- dignation enused by tho offensive combinn- tion of tho Senators and Ropresentatives from Illinais to forco the President to withdrw the nomination of Mr, Denicksox, and to ap- point a Collector of Internal Rovenuo in Chicngo dictatod by thom, has endoavored to mnke the motter o personal one, and there- foro utters various falsehoods concerning the editor of this paper. Hero is » formal state- ment made by that paper ¢ Mr, Jorz D, HARYET i one of the hondsman of the Iate Collector, Soon after tho denth of Gen. WRSSTER, Joszeit MxpiLy, editor-in-chief of Tz TIIDUNE, who fanlro on tholate Collector's bond, called upon Mr, Hanvey, and urged Jam (1) to accept the appointe nient to the vacaney created by the deathof the Collect- or, maying that Le (MepiLe) would write a letter to tho President in hin (Eanvey's) bohalf, Tho nestday Blr, HanvEy met Mr, Mzore,and asked him If ho had written the letter In question, M. Meoizt said 4o, snd Added that hio had bean placed in ontagons 1sm to Senator Loaax n two or threa fnstances, anid fearcd that by recommending him (LiARvES) e might #0 placo himaclt again, which Lo did not wish to do Tuat thfs was not tho resl reason .why the Ilon, Joscrn MEpiLy broko bis word of Louor Is apparent, a3 woshall aliow, Aftor Laving promjscd to recom- mend Mr, Hanves, Mr. MEDILL got some new light on tho subject of tho successorship to Gen, Wenszen, and /o, instead of writing a letter to the Irestdent re- quenting tho appointment of M, Hamvey, he joined 3. Russcts JoNEs, Customs Colloctor of this District, inatelegram to tho Becrotary of tho Treasury, re- | sumption that the man who nceepts questing thosppointment of R, P, Dentonso¥. . . | the gratuily has cousented to be . . Thlsinthonccret of Mr. Meprurs horror st | ycoq to flont o schemo which will thie temerity of partissn Senators and Congressmon fn 1 om i i, After hovi rocommending candidates for ofictal position. 1io* | Nt stand on its own merits. r hiaving declares that the Government s golug to pleces be- cause *the Republican members of Cougress from the Northern District of Illinots™ sclect and recom- mend & person to ba appotnted to offico in tholr dis- triet; but straightway himsclt telegraphs tho Preal~ dont recommending o person for the same place! Lo ing defoatod, he realizes that his personal influence fs not equal to that of o hialf dozen chosen ropresenta- tives of the peoplo, One dny lust week, perhaps on Monday, March 13, Mr, J. D. Hanvey called at the office of Tur Tninuxe to discuss the death of Gen, Wepsree, HARvET at that time asked the editorof Tue Tnmune to writo n letter to the President (or Sccretary of the Treas. ury) recommending him for tho vacancy. I'he acquaintance with Mr. Hanvey was n slight one, dating perhaps only to the weck preceding, nnd grow ont of the circumstance that tho name of the editor of this paper was one of those signed to Gen. Wenstzn's bond, 3Mr. Hanvey was little known personally and unknown politically in this office, the only knowledgo of him being that he was somo Lind of an agent in closing up somo bank- rupt corporutions. The request of Mr, Ilan- vey was reluctantly acquicsced in, 'The noxt morning he called again, and 1nquired if tho letter hnd beon sent, and was told that it had not yet been writton, and that upon further refloction it was @cemed best not to write it. Little more was said on either sido, and Mr. 0, withdrew, On tho samo day, perhiaps, Jr. J. R. Joxes, Collector of Customs, called at this office and exhibited o dispatch received by him from Washington City. This dispatch, which was not from the Presidont, in substanca stated that the names of four citizons of Chicago had been recommended for tho vacant office, nnd read something liko this : ¢ Messrn, (A), @), (0), and Denicrsos aro proposed for the vacant office of Gen, Wensten, Z%e latler seems o be the most strongly urged. Which do you think is the most suitablo?"” This was tho charncter of the dispateh, and almost if not tho exact words, to tho best of our recollection. Mr, Hanvey's name was not ono of the four mentioned in the telegtam. 'Ihere was no inquiry o3 to him. Tho dis- patch asked which of the four persons named was tho most suitable. The four names were olono discussed. 'Tho editor of Tiw TninuNe expressed to Mr. Jowes tho opinion that, it Gon. Wrpstcn were living acd had the selection of his successor from the list of four persons, ho would chooso DEricrsoN, though tho others were oxcellent men; ono of them would not probably nccept the placo, and, under all the circumstances, he thought Denrcrsox’s appointment would give tho most publio satisfaction, To this Mr. Joxzs ngreed, and ho answered the telegram from Washington accordingly., Wo havo not seen tho dispatch he sont, but Mr. Joxrs states that ho included the namo of the editor of Tue Tomuse with his own and that of some otlier gentlomon whom lio hed also consulted, —nll giving tho preferenco to Mr. Denic. sox nmong tho four names mentioned in the Washington dispatch, Iero was the begin. ning and the ending of any connoction on the part of the editor of this paper with recommending Mr, Destcrsox or any other person for tho oftico of Callector, o neither wroto letters or dispatchies to any porson on the subjeet, and what he said vorbally to Mr. Joxes was in the way of discussing o ques- tion submitted from Washington concerning four persons, of whom Denicrsox was ouo and l{anvEy was not one. > Wo submit these facts as nu all-suficient reply to tho scandalous perversions and fnlso- lioods by which the organ bf all the thieves— personal aod political—seeks to represent tho editor of I'nz Tnivuxe as engaged in office- broking, and compeling in that lino with Hienators and mewmbers of Congress nt Wash. ington, who claim tho profits of that busi. neas o perquisites of their oflices, entored the Company on thege dubious terms, it ig further charged that Gov. Hexpricks shared in commissions for tho sale of bonds 1o himself and other Dircctors, and otherwiso monipulated the affairs of the Compnny in such monner 89 to scquire somo $62,450 worth of stock aud bonds at 8 cost to himself of only 31%7,6001 If this is true, it wos simply a swindle on all stockholders in the Company who pnid for their investments; and nobody will undertake {o controvert the proposition that n man who will consent to any question- sblo operations in & private or comparatively small way will not lesitate to lend himself to operations of the same nature on a more extensive seale. ‘Whereds this thing going to stop? And will the Democrats have any Presiden- tinl candidates left, if the thing goes on? Theso nro questions that have becomo pertinent and important in view of Inte dovelopments, There was Mr. Pex- preroy, who was known 08 ‘ Gentleman QGronae,” and who has recently loomed up into more prominenca than at any time sinco hio contosted the nomiuation with Jr. Seymoun, But * Gentlemnn Grorce," by his own admission, ncted ns n claim-agent againat tho Government, and recovered $148,- 538 on n claim which the principal owner thereof lind pronounced not worth five cents on the dollar, and then appropriated to his privato use 50 per cent thercof. Indeed, it is Lelioved thnt thers is still somothing worso in this Pexpreron affair. So ho is out of the way. Then s serious chargo has beon mado ngainst Mr, Trupey in connoetion with the mauagement of the Torre Hnute, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, which he cannat afford to pnss over in silence, Rag-Baby Arrey is also in trouble for having hold his farm, which Lo acquired through his wife, na ngainst lioirs who were entitled to their part of it. And now Mr, Ilenpnices fs implicated in a transaction that involves bad mornls and dis- reputablo practices; and his part in it is stated with so much particularity that we grontly fear there is basis for it. .As ngninst Mr. Tuuniray, thero secms to have ‘becn no allegetion of personal corruption so far, but ho Lias not been very prominent as a ‘ candidate of Iate, and Lis double-dealing on tho currency question i politieally reprehon- sible. Then there is the old Whig and Re- publican, Judgo DAvip Davis, of Illinols, but tho Democrats will certainly hesitate to en- danger the futuro usefulness and integrity of the Supremo Court by taking a Presidontial candidate from that Bench, and thoroby offer- ing o temptation to all Supreme Judges in tho futuro to prostituto their position to politioal and partisan onds Chief-Justico Warre, n much nbler man than Davis, re. cently declined to permit tho uso of his name in connection with the TPresidency on this very gronnd. If Judge Davis does not tako equally high ground, the Democrats will senrcely sot 5o dangerous n precodent ai his nomination would establish, So there ro- aing to them only Gov, Trven, who na little off color, and Senator Baxanp, who hag never baen namod oxeept s o possible com< promiso candidato, And yet this wholesale slnughter of Democratio. candidates is in o party which has not been exposed to the trials and temptations of uational offico-holdy ing for sixteen years. 1t is very sad. ULE STORY, Mr, PeypretoN having, by his own confes- sfon in the Keontucky Railroad business, doowed himself to an untimely political gravo from which thero is no rosurrection; the Indianapolis water-works stock-jobbing swindle haviug been brought to light and 1aid out Hexprices cold os o pickled mackerel; ond the Terro Haute Railroad job having, wo dreadfally fear, sont that illustrious reformer Sas Truvey to join the throng of defunct Democratic politiclans, the organs of that party have engaged in mud-flinging with re. doubled vigor, Percelving the bootlossuess of all efforts to galvanize into vitality their defunct chieftaing and Prosidential aspirants, they have embarked in & camnpaign of scandal for the purpose of making out that every lonest man fn the Repullicau party who is liable to bo nominated is mo beiter than tho Democratic defunct afore- smd ond tho other shining lights who are on (tho way to joln them. Naturally, Secrelary Butatow, whose incorruptiblo in. tegrity ond the courage and vigor with which ho smashed tho Whisky Ring make him es- pecially odious to them, has been singlod out for nttack, They have sot about demolishing him with a mulo tale. Itis soontold In March, 1865, when the Confederacy was tot- tering on its last legs, *‘Pap"” Tuomis was preparing for a flual, rapid, decisive advance in his department, aud {4 couldn't be made until o large lot of mules had been secured The Ministry of the Dominion of Canads, ofter patiently enduring the clamor and de- nunciations of a Inrge faction, refused to rec- ommuend or to propose to Parlinment the re- wodcling of the Canadinn toriff upon o pro- tective bnsin, After tho long debate, on a formal motion the Mimstry was sustained by nearly o two-thirds vote of the Parlisment, This result is ereditable to the intelligenco of iho Canadian people. Al the incidents of sclfishness suggested 3 protective tarid. American goods are carried over tho Lorder and sold thero cheapor than Canadian goods can be produced, and cheaper than English goods can bo imported and soltl for, ‘Tho country is of wido area, the population com- paratively small, capital abundant and cheap, and, ** protected ™ by law, Caundicns could give their manufacturers an exclusive markot for o short time, Fortunately, however, tho Coanadians had the good seuse to profit by the melancholy reaults of ffteen years' protection in the Unl(_ved States, and | for the necessary trausportation sud supply= thereforo avoided the like calamities, The | traine. Of course every effort was made to people of Canada, therefore, will continue to | procura them with the utmons dispatch) snd smong other contracts mnde in that ‘regard waa ons by Quartermaster Howrawp, of which tho following memorandum was mndot OFFioM AMUTANT QUARTERMASTED, NARUVILLE, Tonn,, March 9, 1465,—1 hereby abligate myuelf, as sn oMcer of the Governmont, to recaivo of T. T, Tavton, agent, 1,000 good, serviceablo mules that will inopect up to the required standardl, rald mules to bo deliverod in Nastillo, Tonn., on or bofore the 30th day of April next, at the following prices, to-wit. : $160, $167.50, and $175 oach, reapoctivoly, for 14, 113, and 13 band wules, 1znny HOWLAND, Capiain and Acting Quartermanter, Ono hundred of the animals were delivered wnder this contract, and the remninder had beon purchased or contracted for, when the Rebellion collapsed ; and the contractors in question, in common with other contractors, found left on thoir hande droves of mules Lought for tho Government which the Intter didu't want, while tho sales of army mules, for which thero was no longor use, broke tho nanrket. Whero there wns no disputo ng to tho validity of the contract, tho Govornment roimbursed the contractors for the losses by them sustained. Thero was question ns to the validity of the Howraxp contract. 'That was obviously whother the written memo- randum, which alone wag n mere proposition, wns nccopted by the other party.’ 'Tho con- tract was not such ns the law requires to be reduced to writing, nnd the acceptance mnlk.- ing it complete might have been oral, or im- plied from the ncls of the contractors with the approval of tho Quartermaster. It wasa question of law for tho courts, to bo dotor~ mined upon all the facts, whether the Howraxp contract was binding upon the Government. The Court of Clnims was established to adjudicate, preciscly such questions, nnd thither this mule claim was tnken. A brief of the caso was prepared by nlpwyer for the claimants,’who engaged Mr. Buistow, then not a Goverament official but s practicing attorney, to' simply argue Lefore the Court of Olaims the law points raised upon tho brief. He did so, and on the law points secured a decision in favor of tho claimants, for which his feo wag ol 5O per cent, 09 has been falsoly stated, but 10 per cent, the usual fee in litigated collection cases, Thero is no pretense that tho dam- ages allowed wero too great. The solo ques- tion is as to whether tho contract was obliga- tory upon tha Government. That the Court decided, nfter henring, in the offirmntive. Mr. Brwmtow Leld no offi. clal position, brought to bear no party pressure or personal or political influ. cnce upon the Court, Lut simply, upon the brief made up by the lawyer originally em- ployed in the caso, argued the law pomtsin- volved; and tho majority of the Court sus. tained him. For it all he charged tho ondi- nary fee for collection in litigated cases. And that is all thero is of it, and tho utmost malovolence can find about it nothing un- professionnl nor dishonorable, All the mud- flinging in tho world cannot disguiss it, nor bring his action in this matter to bo regarded ason a par with Mr. Henonicks' Wator-Works Ring operations, Mr, Trroen's railroad flnan- ciering a la JAx Gourp, or Mr, PexpLETON'S lobbying through the War Department of a stals, rofected fraudulent railroad claim, to do which ho paid ono bribe of $30,000, and then for himself pocketed one-half the entiro proceeds. ‘Tha mule story is harmless to the man ngainst whom it is brought. After the manner of the mulo itself, it will damage only those who stand behind it. COLLECTING THE WHISKY-TAX. Scnator GonpoN, of Georgin, mode & speech in the Sonate last week in support of soms resolutions which ho introduced to so- cure & radical change in the presont system of collecting the whisky-tax. Fis speech drow out & reply from Senator Morroy, of Indiana, and the imporfect Associated Press report of the debato lod Tae TRrsuNE at the time to eriticieo both gontlomen for o partisan. consideration of a subject which ought to be disposed of on its morits, without any regard to party bear- ings. A later porusal of tho verbatim report of Senator Gornox's speech lins con. vinced us that his purposo was higher and Dettor than that which we attributed to him ; and, though thero wero somo of his remarks which wero well caleulated to stir up Senator MonTon's hot blood, the spoech for tho most part looked to the improvemont of the reve. nue system without. undertoking to make party capital out of the occasion, Indeed, the Senator disclaimed in advance any reflec- tion on the Administration, and attacked tho system itsolf ns so defoctive and false that no porty conld hope to escapo tho corruption incident to it; and he also appealed very eloquently to the Senato to bury party con- siderations in a common effort to bring about a permanent reform in the excise. In this songe, Senator Gonpox's rosolutions are worthy of scrious conslideration, and ought to command the co-operation of all the honest mon in Congress. Tho following is their toxt: WixRRas, The frequent snormous frauds comnuite ted by distillors and Government ofiicials have do- prived tho Governmont of a large proportion of ita lo- gitimate revonuo and brought dlarsputo upon an ime portant branch of thio publla service; and Witenas, Tho interasts of (ho peopls and the good namo of the Govornment demand that Congress shsll take Immediate staps tos0 amend the laws 2a tosocure economy sud honesty in the callction of tho internal ruvenue: Thorefore, Rewolved, Tunt the Commities on Finance ho in- structad to ascertaln, if possible, what ars the dufects 1u tho prescnt aystem, and what leghalation i3 nocos- sary to remedy thess dofects; and espectally (o in- B rit—Whethor 1t bo advlssble to 10 amend the laws as 10 levy thio whisky tax directly upon tho capacity of the fermenting tube and require it tobe collscted in advance; and, Second—To creata s corp of excisa to hold offca IndeSoltely, remorable only for lucapacity or ml- fesnance {n office. Tho loss in revonue from the failurs to collect tho tox on whisky was estimated by Alr. Gonpox from ono of Mr, FrsscypeN's re. ports when the lattor was Sccretary of tho ‘[rensury, Mr. Fessenoey, in 1864, declared the yleld of the distilleries to have been sbout 100,000,000 gallons for that year, and he also stated (which no ono will be inclined to deny) that “the demand is asg steady as the appo- tite {8 fixed and exacting.” It is probablo that tho average yield hos very largely in. creased sinco that time, but we think the Secretary's estimate too high, but at all events it i3 safe to nssumo that the consumption has nover ginco been less than in 1864, whother tho tax was §2 or 20 cents a gallon. Tax should havo paid, on this basis, on 1,300,- 000,000 gallons of whisky daring thirteen years, and this would havo ylelded $1,200,~ 000,000 from tho varying ratea of excluo that have been levied. But Mr. Pratr, Commis. sloner of Internal Revenue, reports that only £490,000,000, in round numbers, have beon collected from this source during tho thirtecn years, or a loas to the Government of more than half certalnly for that time. This showing proves sufficiently that soms change is imperative, and the resolution requiring the Finance Committeo to canvass the chango recommended by Mr, Gonnox was timely and proper. Though that portion of the vesolution looks ing to the greation of an axcles cosph 40 hold office subject to romoval for ineapacity or malfensance only, was placed second, Senntor Gorvox gave it the first placo in his speech. As o practicable and pormanent improvement in the civil service, this proposition is entitled to the support of every man, Republican or Domocrat, who Is opposed to tho spoils sys- tem of patronage, which appoints and re- moves arbitrarily for partiean purposes. In commenting on the facs that Groat Dritain can collect a tax of $2.60 gold per gallon from the distillers, while the American Gov- ornment hns nover been able to colleot tho moiety, it any, tax (even when it was as low as 20 conts), the principal reason which Mr, Gorvox gave for this discropancy wwas that England appoints her oflicors solely to coliect her taxes, whilo they aro appointed in this country to aid the party which happens to hove tho appointing power for the timo boing. Wore thero no other differonce thon thig, it would Le enmough, wo think, to nc- count for the ndvantage England has in this respect. Mr, Gonoon described the English exciso sorvico ns follows ; 8lr, beforo ono of England's citizens is consldered contpotent to hiold tho vory loweat position fu her rev- cnua service, o muat bo nominated by the Troasury, examined by boarda of ofiicers, put out to tuition, and re-oxnmined aa to qualifications sud character, This, 1 aay, Is requirad for the applicant for the loweat ofico beforo he can step upon tho first round of the oficlal laddor, with & palary almost contemptiblo fn amount, aud with dutlea loas fmportant than tlose of an ordinary clerk, But what is tho oaso horo? A political partiean, without auy esperlonce, withont any training, without sny exawiurtion, often, alan, without any qualificatioua saso tho Jufiuouce bring to tho party, steps at onoe upon tho topmost round of tho ladder; fs clothed with inquisitorial power ; aent forth upon his mission for the party, and trusted with untold ifilions of the peoplo’s mouey and the Government rovenue. But not yet Ia Great Dritain's rovenuo officer conatd- ered worlliy tho post of & Collector, o must serve s aatisfactory period beforo ho {s promoted to tho second position. Not yot can be bocomo even an Examiner until ho hiaa served his Qovernment as long s Jacon waited for Racnel and equally ns dovotedly. Stil Tinglsnd refuses Lo rogard hitm na competent to tho hiigh dutios of & Collector. Three moro years must ha werve, aud even then can only be promoted upon un. challenged merit and upon oxamination and re-cxam- ination a8 to bis accounts, as to hls capacity, an to tho choracter io hias borno throughout all his servico, and {ho smallest atain upon his reputation ls fatal to his prefermont, This system as compared with the Ameri- con system (vividly illustrated just now by tho opposition in the United States Senato to tho confirmntion of Mr. Demicksoy) is a much more rational explanation of the fail. ure to colloct tho tax in this country than to assumo that Americons aro more dishonest than Englishmon. Such a reform in the ex- ciso system would be desirable not only in itself, but beeauso it would open the way for o similor roform in other branches of the piblio servico, Senator Gonnox also supports warmly his proposition to tax tho capacity of the for- menting tubs nnd require it to be collected in ndvance. Ho makes the point that this is not the system which wes onco tried and fuiled in Scotland. That was a tax upon the “ atills,” the capacity of which could be in. crensed in defianco of the officers; but tho tubs are simply wooden vessels, tho capacity of which can be ascertained by mensurement. In fact, tho capacity of all fermenting tabs in uso is now o matter of record in the Rove- nus Department, so that the change, if thought desirable, could be made at onco. It would dispense with s hords of office- ‘holders, and save probably 00 per cont of tho cost of collecting the tax. The proposition should bo sariously considered, and, if inves- tigntion indicates that it is fensible, it ought to bo tried. For ourselvos, we can scarcely doubt that it will be an improvement over the present systom, that o very much larger proportion of the tax will bo collected, and that the purity of the publio service will be promoted thereby. offectunlly protestod. The main causs of fear i that in the claims of private buslnesy this town meoting moy bo neglected, ang tho delegatlons filled from the clnss who havs herotoforo manipulatod thoso Conventiong, Tho Republican olubs, now for tho greates part composed of tho bottor class of citizens, and who have excrcised their best judgment in tho scloction of delegntes, will hold tn latter responsible for non-attendance, Tho subatanco of the res n of Nr., E, g, Ketrar, and the romarks of that gontlemay bofore the Third (old Fourth) Ward Ropublicay Club of this city on Baturdsy evening, reganiing tho intorferonce by Illinols Reprosentatives jn tho nomination of Mr. Denicksox as Collsetor st Chicogo, had alrosdy beon anticipatod ahq commented on in this paper. To tho sabject, however, s furthor allusion ta praper, on sccount of the well-known businosa roputation of the gonlloman who offored the resolution, and aleg on account of the class prosont at thls mocting, and of which ho waa a fair reprosontative. Itfy probable that at no ward meoling over held (g this city has hoon gathered a groater element of commorclal and financial steongth., Tho rocep. tion of tho resotution, and it unanimous sag enthusisstic adoption, are & mont docialva pro. tost by this eloment against tho intorference by Congressmon—far uo othier rosson than that they wero not tirst consulted—in tho nomins. tion of unozcoptionable men for positions of responalbility aud trust under the Government, We con sssure our represontatives, whatever opinlons moay oxist on tho atrength of ward clubs gonerally, that their disrexard of tho reso. lution alluded to, or of tho principle involred therein, can but result in & condemnation from which they will hardly recover. 3. BronEy roiteratos his falso statomont that ex-Mayor Mepitr * Invented and put into opers. tlon the cortificates of dobt.” It would Lave been ao easy matter for tho editor of tho Times to havo sent ono of his roporters to tho Comp. trollor'a office to agcartain tho facts. Ho would hrvo thoro lonrned that on tho 4th day of De comber, 1871, when the Mayor-cloct took pos sossion of his office, thoro was outatandlog con tificatos of Indebrodnags to the amount of $133,. 707, As the now Conatitutlon wont into offect in August, 1870, fiftcen months proviously, those cortificates must havo boon issuod Afte) that date. It Is dificult to porceive what object tho editor of tho ZTimes desires to accomplisy by making false charges sgalnst the ex-Mayot of the firo period. The occupanoy of tho office bed enough vexations, ombarradsmonte, sad *unpleasantnesses " connectod with it, withont adding others which have no botter bsais tha malicions inveation, —_— PERSONAL Judgo Taft is » Unitarian. . Tho debut of Fechtor's daughtor in Paris hig boen postponed until noxt year. 3L Taine writes : **A fixed idealsliko tharon rod which the soulptors put in thelr statacs, It impates and sustaing.” One of Gon, Bchonck's danghtors accompanies him in hia burried trip s0 Amories ; the others romaln in England for a short tiawe. An Jowa papor invonted as an appropriste head-live for the dispatch about the meat-shower in Kentucky this: **That Alr Moat.,” i Charlotte Cushman loft property supposad ts ‘bo worth 500,000 ; but, 28 the will has not yet boen published, nobody can tell the sxact truth about it. 5 Sarah Bernbart, tho Parisian sctress-sculp- tros, mow winning now fame In Domu' « L'Etrangers,” has & life-sized group fa thiy yoar's ealon. It is rolated that s Hartford (Conn,) gontle. man invited Alr, Sothern, the sotor, to visit him, and requested him to “bring Dundreary, aleo, if you canl" Bhoridan said : *Though I never scruplo s lio to sorve a friend, it hurts one's consoisnce to bo found out.” What are the Whisky-Ring ‘poople going to do about 6? Robert Collyer spoke & good word for David at tho Installation of Robert Laird; bub tae Graphio saya the people dan't want thelr new minister to admire David too much. Tho Safurday Review calls Buchansn's lsita on bebalf of t¥alt Whitman an fnsulting appssl to Eoglisumen on behalf of -the spostls of benstliness and sn advertising trick. Tho Howo memorial fand has roached about 21,600, and Mrs. Howe is engaged on the memoir of hor husband, which is to bs printed for tho btind at tho expenss of tho fund. A rancorous party question has arisen in Eo- gland out of **a proposition of making the Kobi- noor a gom for the imperial disdem.” That is tho figarativo and rathor obsoure way in which the Herald's London correspondent makes & simple statomont of fact. Schoponliaor saya that * womer: romain all thelr life big childron ; they have an oye for the thing which is nearest to them; thoy attach themnolvos to tho present ; thoy mistake thi appoarance for tho reality, and they set meidi tho most momentons question for the verles! triflo,” The London fress, inclading the Times sod Telegraph, which at first approved onthuaisutio- ally the proposed addition of the title of Em+ pross to that of Quoen, aro now opposlug the 1den a8 decidedly. Tho Times says tho title it “un-English,” Ti seems to bo good Eogllsh se cording to the Book of Snoba. Tho opening oxeroises of the Contennlal will bo democratio, and quite unlike tho kid-glors and dress-coat affair of Vieuna, Thore will b au ode by Mr, Bayard Taylor, a cantata by Ar. Sidooy Lanicr, some othor musle vooal and fo- strumontal, a very brlef address of welcomo ¢ Presldsnt Grant, and an equally briaf reapones. Lady Augusta Stanley, whoso doath recently brought such grot grief to tha Royal housshold in Ebgland, was marriod to Doan Stanley Dec. 16, 1863, Sho was & ldy-in-waiting to the Duchees of Kent, wasin attendance on her dure ing lior mortal illnoss, and wes, owing to her unromittiog attondancs on tho mother of the Queen, afterwards appointed s bodohamber- woman to the Quoso. Baoveral yoara ngo tho Afethodista of New York hogged Daolel Draw to stop speculatingy bub ho was confident of hin ability to win in the longrun, It is o slgoificant fact that in the schodule 6f assets which he has made for the fotormation of Lis creditora are inoluded §150 worth of Biblos aud hyma-books, snd $100 worth of clothing, Tho Intter item, it is thought, bst been lergely overestimated, but the Bibles are of priceless valao. LOTEL ARMIVALE, Palmer Houss—Col, I, B, Mackenzio and J, 3L B om, United Histes Army; W, F, Peddrick, 8t Loulsi A, H, Tuttle, New York; D, O. Tiffany, New Yorki 3, i1 Morryman, United Btates Rovenue Marine; Er Vallette, Middlebury, Codn,: A, B, Ho D troit; A, 1L, Wolf, Washington: Fred Ls) waukee: P, I, Shumway, Streator; M Lafay L. H, Flold, Jacksouj A. Alexss: der, Oloveland,...Grand Pacife—J. L. Dlsgohard Hartford; 8. A. billler, Lowisville; Joun ¥, Owedh Mise Minelts Thompsos, aud G, ¥, ¥uller, Baltimorsi . H, Marvh and W, i, Gilbrt, Budtaio; W, B, 8ipets Plilidelphia; J. H, Smytbe snd J, AL snd B W. Butler, Philsdeipbis: Joun ¥, Roiman, Usited Buites Atiny; . A, Barnard, Burtingtos, V E. P, Alis' Milwsukeo; Col. Halpn Pl Sirestor; the Hon. H. 8, Oreen, Springfeld. I Judge O 1. Hopkins, Milwaukse; Jadga J, e Millsr Des” Molnes, ... Iremont ~Houae—J, 3. Hicks York; J, M. Apibery, dilwauked; Jjohn McCullously Ban Trancitcos A, K. Winfleld, Detroit; blaj. 3L W Canniug, New York ; the Mon. 0. Kablo, mww‘g M. Q) Rhbode,' Bt 1o helly, Versailles, Frau York; Robert Pritcha Jobn T, Blewart, Couscll Hiuft Prof. it A, Proctor, Loudou, Eaf.i Mr. Rrcmanp H. Daxa, Jr., was perfoctly right in declining to appear before the Com- mitteo of the United States Senato having his nomination in charge. That Committee having consented to hear sn ex-parfs state- ment of his case, mede by two of his enc- mies, and having reached their conclusion on this evidonce, it was o humiliation for Mr. Davato nppoar befors them, to which Lo ought not to have subjected himself. Had thera been a disposition to troat his caso fairly, the Senato Committeo would hava called upon him or his friends for the other aide of tho caso before renching a conclusion. Hav- ing neglected to do this, Mr, Daxa is justified in the inforenco that thoro was no intention todo bim justice, and this was sufficient resson for his dotormination not to appear after the cnso had been virtually decided, In tho meantime tho disoussion in the publio prints hns failed to elicit nuything that re- flocts dishonor on Mr, Daxa. On the con- trary, the statements show at tho most an undecided lawsuit, with partisans on both sides, and with s much probability that it will be nltimately decided in Mr. Daxa's favor os in that of Mr, Lawrence, Mr. Dana hasprobably eonoluded, too, thatif the avowed cnmity of Bzy Boren ia sofflcient to war- rant his rejection by the United States Ben- ato, thon ho would domean himsalf by con. tosting the issue, Unless emlgran work cutting timbor and tilling the ground, and to assnme the other trinls and pains of a ploneer life to cko out an existonce, they ghould take warning from the experienca of nman writing from Custer City, in Black Hills, to Ti ‘Tnrount. He finds that olaim- owners are anxious to trade off their claims for flour and bacon, and that the miners woro earning at the most from &0 conts to $1 a day, To has not been able to find any oceu- pation that would yield a fair day's wages. Such direct testimony aa this ought to doter men from yiclding to the new fover which tho roport of the gold in the Black Ifills has oxcited, and ought to offset the efforts of speculators who are making up emigration partics for their own porsonal profit. Tho amount of poverty, suffering, deprivation, and misery in the Black Hills during tho coming season will only be lim. jted by the number of impecunious emigrants who shall flock thither in tho expectation of flnding gold in paying quantities, Evon if there wero moro gold there than hns yet boen discoverod, the cost af getting it would in tho aggregato largely exceed ita value aftor it was obtained ; but, under the present circumstances, ony man who goos to the Black Hills for any other purpose than that of pleasurs, health, or sight-sceing, i3 wasting his money and timo only to court danger and suffering. —e =i The South Town Republican Convention meets to-day at Y60 Wabash avenue for the nomination of its officers. The most im. Juli , Lo Rar, portant offlcca are those of Assessor and Col- Q‘a‘xf‘;;.,,",,:‘y‘{:;?'g'. . el lector. 'The different Republican ward | §ond du Laoi1. ¥ Holinew, Clov 5t . heyton, Bpringfeld; B. by clubs have malnly eleoted delegates in whom | Charles, Mo.; ~A. - ¥, Emmous, i g st {ho citizens repose tho highest confidence, | o75r s ise; r‘;‘d‘,m' T e and §t can thereforo bo safely expected that ,c_mna, &'z‘n m?;y’. i;. ".mmx, B, u‘:u"": men will bo chosen who will not commit the | & Jerm %" biismona a2 “Q"%"...mu( W Ep. Panims outrsges sgainsd which the | Iv )l‘-nuuu T g:nw-? s Wu fax-payas bave %0 sbrongly bat 0 ine Bavpi D, Rapdody