Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1876, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, MATES OF SUDSCRIPTION (TATADLE 1% ADVANCE), Pastage Prevatil Malled to way addrors FoLR Wi 1.00 Bunday lditon Litarat and Hhoet. 34 Tei-Weel G50 *Parts of yoar at same rat, 'WEELLY EDITION, FOSTTAID, tipectmon coplea sent fres. ‘o prevent delay and mistakes, b stro and giva Yost- Office addrows in full, including Btate sud County. Hemittances may bo mado either by draft, espress, Post-Office ordsr, or In registered Jolters, at our risk. TEBMB TO CITY SUNACTINERS. Daily, delivered, Sunday oxcented, 25 cents por week, 30 cents per woeks MPANY, Chicago 11l Daily, delivered, Bunday included ddress THE TRIY Carner Madison and Dol AMUSEMENTS, ACADEMY OF MUSIC—IIalated street, betwoen Madison and Monroe, Engagement of the Julia S A aaque roupts i, 1. L. the Grand Doke.” WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monron strest, between Dear- born and Btate, Afternoon, # Factory Girl." Evening, “'Tna Fool's Jevenge." ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn strest, oorner Monros. ** Humpty Dumpty. 5 HOOLEY'S THEATRE—TRandolph strest, between Qlark and LaSalle. Tho California Minutrels, McVICEER'S THEATRE—Madison street, between Desrborn snd State, Evgagement of John E, Oweas, #Qur Boye," SOCIETY RILWINNING LODGE, No. 311, A P, & A, M.~A Regular Communication will bo Lird of Conuthian 20all, 187 East Kinzle-t., this, Thuraday, evening, March 43, commencing at 750 o'clock, Members aro urgent- 1y requested tonttond on business of importance. Iy order of the W. M. L. 8, CIIARLETTE, Sec. Whe Ehinge Tribuns, Thurssday Morning, March 23, 1870, Groenbacks ot the New York Gold Ex- Tho Houso yesterday passed tho bill for the suppression of political blackmail, having tacked on a large number of amendments, inclunding that proposed by DIMr. BraiNe, whereby Senators and Representatives in Cangress aro debarred from lovying nssess- ments for election expenses upon persons holding office through their influence, Bar- NEY Cavrrieep would not recognizo the bill as it was finally passed, its scope having been onlarged far beyond tho original draft, The Senate hias concluded to postpone con- siderntion of tho DaxA nomination until next Mondany. 'This haos been done nt the request of Benntors at present disinclined to vote favorably on the guestion of confirmation, as well as to allow the fricnds of the nominco to counteract the effects of tho shower of liter- ary mud which tho highly moral nnd truth- loving ex-member from Essex has rained wpon tho heod of Mr. Dava. Bureen satill remains in Washington, and is inclined to fight it out with the same or dirtier wenpons, It is intimated that soveral Democratic Senn. tors, hitherto thought to be opposed to Dans, will vote for his confirmation, The Now York Republican Convention was finally captured for Senator CoNkriNg, who is thereby relieved of tho painful apprehension of a failure to socure for his Presidential condidaturo the backing of his own State. Aftor the immenso amount of labor devoted for months past to the schieme of putting up o Conventian in the ConxwurNg intorest, the only wonder is that thero should huve been o aminority beld enough to mako itself felt in bebnlf of an unpledged delegation, The assuranco thnt tho thirty-five electoral votes of Noew York aro certain to bo cast for ConrriNg in the event of his nomination at Cincinnati will bo taken for what it is worth, and will probably have little weight in the Kational Convention, Mr, Scneicner’s Committeo on the Moxi- can border outrages proposes somo radical romedics for the ills with which the Cexas peoplo havoe been nflicted so long. That Committea will report & joint resolution di- recting the President to send to the Rio Grande two full cavalry regiments of 1,200 won each, with orders to cross the boundery dino into Mexico whenever the trail of the cattle.thieves lends in that dircction, It has been clearly demonsirated that tho border zannot be protected by tho infantry now ns- signed to garrison duty, snd it is probable that a good cavalry force with liberal instruc. Yons and privileges would prove a valuable uxiliary to the border polico. Mansn bas roturned from Canada, lured back by the promiso of free pardon for all %is share in the post-tradership corruption, wd yosterday wans dolivered over to tho Houso Committeo by Attorney General ®iepnzroNt. Mansu's memory secms % lave sufferod somewlat by his aesty journeyings, and he has L remarkablo success in destroying or mislaying various papers and momoranda of fmportance. Novertheless, ho is in thohands of the Democratio seckers nftor truth, to bo used o9 best they con, and Mr, Cuxen will have no need to bundle him out of Washing- ton this time until the Committes and tho Grand Jury and everybody else have finished with him, Mr. Pexpreroy denies with sufficiont com- prohensivencss that any part of tho Kentucky railroad bonanza was pald to the present or previous Mrs. Bereyar, directly or indiroct. ly,but his present version of the matter {s even worse than tho first, Io is underatood to havo stated to the Committeo yosterday that the Bowwren heirs were not, 8y has been supposed, the chie? owners of the railroad and the claim; that in fact it had been decided by the Courts that the ownorship of the road was vested in the countica thrpugh which the line poased. ‘Thug'it appears that Mr, Pexpreroy was en- goged in the manipulution of a claim in be- half of parties who were kuown to have no logal title to it, and who could well afford to allow him the lion's share of the procoods. The Chicago produce markots were less animated yesterday. Mess pork was rather quict and stendier, closing ot $22.47} cash and §22.70 for May, Lard was in good do. mand and 7}@10¢ per 100 tbs higher, closing ot $18.80 cash and $14.00 seller May. Meats were dull and ensier, at 8jo for boxed shoul- ders, 12}o for do short ribs, and 12jo for do short clears. Highwines were inactive and nominally stronger, at $1.06@1.06} per gal- lon. Flour was in good demand and steady. ‘Wheat was less active and jo lower, closing at $1.023 for March und $1.07} for May. Corn was more active and }@jo higher, clos. ing s 44jo for March and 47fc for May, Opts ware more active and §@}o lower, clos- dng ab 820 for March and 34fo forMay, Bye was qulss at 05c. Barley was dull and easier, closing at 66}@56ie for March nnd 57} @58 for May, Hogs were fairly activo ot 10@20¢ decling, with sales mosily nt $8,10@ 8,30, Cattlo wero nctivo and firmer, selling at §3,76@5.75 for conuuon to extra. Sheep were firm at Tuesdny’s advanco, One hun- dred dollars in gold would buy 114.12} in greenbacks at tho cl Tho Common Council has docided thnt thero shall bo no apecial clection for Mayor ot the general clection for city officers in April; it hoa decided that tho will and wishos of ‘the people, ns expressed by orgnuiza- tions of citizens in nearly every ward throughout tho city, aro of no consequence, By postponing until last evening action upon the ordinanco providing for o special election the Council placed it in the power of any two members to defer finnl action for another week, and thus to defeat tho mensure, since tho time will then lave passed when n legal notice of tho clection fs possible. Lukewarmness on tho part of the genuine friends of the ordinnnes, and cownrdly treachery on the part of thoso who professed 1o favor the clection, but who wero Goeretly in lengue with hold.over Corviy—that's how the thing eamo nhout. CITY INDEBTEDNESS. Tho jssue of certificntes of indebtednsss by the City of Chicago is one ‘of the vital local questions which continue to be dis- Gussed, But the discussion is Inrgoly be. fogged by the suppression of tho controlling facts aud misapplying the Inw. TUnder tho charter aud its amendments of 185, tho issue of temporary loan certiff- cates in anticipation of uncollected taxes was expressly authorized by law, upon tho condition that the loans were not to run be- yond tho succeeding 1st of June, That practico provailed and was in operation at the timo of the adoption of the new Constitution in August, 1870, It was assumed, and wo never beard that its legality was questioned, that tho city charter then in forco continued in operation unchanged by the Constitution until tho latter should be made cspecinlly ap- plicable by act of tho Legislature, This cou- dition of things continucd until the adoption of tho new charter by the ballot-box-stuffers, when all tho provisions of the old charter expresaly permitting temporary loans in nuticipation of revenues wara abol- jshed. 'The City Government, however, con~ tinued to issue certificates of temporary loaus, which recited that they tecre issued by authority of the provisions of the acts of 1865 and 1869, which provisions had notoriously been repesled! Tue Toinuse, though un- willing, oven scemingly, to say o word caleu- lated to wenken the credit of the city, could not forbear romarking on this fatal dofect in the legal character of the certificates, and urging that their farther issue in that form Do discontinued. : Tho Chicago T'mes, which troats all quos- tions after the manner of a wind-mill aud without sense or reason, blindly dononnces the city indebtedness in all its forms and conditions, nud to suit its own ends assumes that Tux Tomuse isof tho snme opinion! In fact, wo widely diffor from tho Zimesin ity construction of tho law and of tha appli- cation of the law to the facts, Tho Consti- tution and now charter, in defining the pow- crs of the city, reads: Jifth—To borrow money on the credit of tho cor- poration for corparate purposcs, and laste ‘bonds therefor, in such amounts and form and on such coge Qitiona aa it ahall prescribe, but shall not become in- debted in mny manner or for any purpods to an amount, fucluding exlsting indoblodnsss, in the sagre- gste to exceed 8 por centum, etc, 1. It will bo scon that tho prohibition is not to the form of the indobtedness, which is left to the discretion of the city, but ia to the fuct. 'The city is forbidden to * become indobted” in any form or for any purposo in cxcess of the & per cent, which limit had at thot timo boen already excoeded. d 2, What constitutes * bocoming indebted"? Thero is nothing so easy ns to incur a'debt. Lo hire n 1sn fora week's labor is to becomo indebted nt the end of tho week. A vorbal ‘bargain ox 6 promiso will incur n debt; tho performance of servica or labor, the delivery of property, or the furnishing of any value- oble consideration in monoy, materials, or labor, or professionnl service; the parchase of o lot for n school-house, engine-house, police-station, or erccting buildings thoreon ; the purchase of firo-ongines, or Lose, or horses; tho building of sowers, or Inyiug water-pips, or the clenning of the river, or repairing the ntroots and sidewnlks ; the employment of policemen, teachers, firomen, and other sor- vants ; In fact, every nct of the City Govern- mont is ¢ becoming indebted"; nnd, unless tha money be in the City Trensury nwaiting the maturity of tho debt, contract, or service, and fo bo tien pald, thero is on indobtedness crented by the cily, According to thoe Ohi- eago T%mes, the city dare not wait for the collection of the tax levied to pay for these obligntions, dare not borrow tho money to fulfill its contracts, dare not change its creditors, and dare mnot lhave creditors in nnticipation of the collec- tion of lovied taxes, Under this wild view of the cnse, tho Constitution is violated overy day the Mayor holds his office and bis salary accrues, unless tho money to poy that salary Is in tho Lreasury; thal the Constitution ia violated so long as a tencher, or policoman, or fireman, or clerk, or laborer, is employed, or o horse purchased, conl bought, orn gus lamp lighted, unless the money nceruing from {axes to pay therefor is first on hand in the ‘Treasury, According to this Z'imes doctrine, theto can bo no sppro- priation of money not actually in the Treasu- ry at the time of the appropristion, and, na there can bo no axes lovied excopt to pay np- propriations proviously wmade, and when ap- propriations can only be paid out of money in the ‘Irensury at the time of the appropria. tion, thero must of mecessity be a general lock.up of all the functions of government, nod appropriation, expenditure, taxation, and becoming indebted must oll be suspend- od together, and city government bo wholly abolished. ‘The xight to inour a dobt in an- ticipation of the tax lovied to pay the same is wholly denled. 8, 'Pur Cmocaco Tninuxe doos not agrec with this suicidal view of the case. This pa. per holds that the Constitution is not vio- 1ated by tho city incurring oy proper, logiti- mate debt for which legal provision has been msds by appropriation and tax lovy, although tho tax may not at the momont be collected. The epirit and the obvious intention of the Constitution was that when a city was in- dobtod to the full extent uf the & per cent limitation its permanent indebtedness shoold not be increased. The city, in the exercise of its unquestioned legal powers, appropri- ates tho sumn of money necessary for its an. nual support, and levies a tax to produce that sum. That tax, from the date of italevy, becomes 8 lien and charge upon the property on which it is levied; it is money ss due and paysble to the city s if it were rapresented by bond and mortgage exscuted by each poparty-holder, The fax bacomes sn asset THE CHICAGO of thocity of tho character of bills pays- Dble,~—not eash, but nn actual lien upon each picco of property for aspecified sum, paya- ble in duo process of thne. The * becoming indebted” for salaries, or for labor, orsupe plics, in anticipation of tho actual collection of the tax levied to pay for tho same, when tho taxes duo,are equal to or exceed the linbilities, ‘is mot nm increass of debt, is not & mow linbility in ex- ccss of tho exlsting & per cont liability. No man cnn question the anthority of the city when it makes its annual levy—say of five miltions of dollars—to disconnt the whole lovy for cash, lenving the nssigneo to receivo tho tax as it may be collected In the name of the city, If itcan do this for fivo miltions, mny it not do so for hinlf n million, or & thou- sand, or o hundred dollars? 1f the City of Chiengo enn, on the day it leviea the annual tax, arrange with the bauks of Chicago for the payment by them of the whole amount of tholovy into the City Treasury, the city a8 it collects the tax to pay it back to the banks, can it bo that the eily cannot make tho same nrrangement for one-half, one- fourth, or onc-tenth of tho tax-lovy? In +what way would tho Constitution be violated ? In what way would the city * become in- debted " against the prohibitions of the Con- stitution? At tho most it would only be dis. counting its bills receivablo; gotting money for tho timo on its unavailablo nssots. It is the universl commereial law that, whers o bank or other corporation holds valid, certain paper, collectable in due time, to nn amount equal or in excess of fts bills payable, itis solvent, So long, therefore, as the city, holding its tax.warrants, s permanent lien on the property of ench tax debtor, can soll or uso theso s n collateral security for appro- pristions legally made for legal purposes, it can borrow money or issuo its certificatos swithin the limits of these tax-warrants, with- out * becoming indebted” beyond the con. stitutional prohibition, nnd in o porfectly valid and legal manner, But this procecding on the part of the city bing its limits, ‘The Constitution is unques- tionably violated every timo whon tho city 4 bocomes indebted” in suy manner or for any purpose when no appropriation has been mado or taxes levied to pay that specific obli- gation, Indobtedness incurred with no pro- vision mado to pay it, is o direct violation of the low, The tax-levy is tho utmost limit of lawful exponditure or linbility ; when that is excceded there is usurpation and constitu- tional violation. To maintain, on the othor hand, that no City Government can ecmploy an officer, a tencher, or fireman, or purchase fuel, or light n lamp, unless it first haevo the money therefor in the Treasury, would close up every City Governmont in the State, would dismiss the Comptroller, would ronder the pnymont of interest on tho debt impossible, and re- mand Chicago Lo such military or othor pro- visional government ns the Governor and Sheriff might establish for common eafoty. 'Tho ground this paper has taken is the only rational one consistent with the law, It pre- serves the spirit and tho lotter of the Consti- tution unbroken, enables the City Govern- ment to exist and porform its functions, in- stend of repudiating five millions of money it has used. The presont cerlificates hove been illegal beenuse on their face they profess to be authorized by o law which has long sinco beon repenlod. But thero is nothing to pre- vent the Law Department from so framing o certificato which will be in accordanco with tho facts, and shall stato on their faca the legal warrant and the purposo for which thoy wers issued. DEMOORATIC IDEA OF RETRENOHMENT. It is o very weak and unworthy protenso of reform which has suggestod to tho Democerats of the House to nominally roduce tho salaries of Government clerks by deducting 10 per cent from the amounts appropriated therefor. This, it should bo known, is not a genuine and permanent reduction, but merely creates a deficiency for which eppropriations may bo made in tho future. The rule by which ap- propriations have been made for forty years pest—a rule made under Domocratic adminis- tration—was that appropristions might not be voted nt less, but could be at more, than tho rates fixed by law. ‘This rulo was not in all respects desirable, sinco it permitted the increaso but not the decrease of salories; and yet it is doubtful whether it has beon im- proved by the rulo adopted by the present Congress, which permits an appropriation of less thon the rate cstablished Dby law, and undor which a reduction of 10 per cont in department salaries is contemplated. Tho cficct of this is simply to with- hold 10 per cent of tho money for tho present, which maybo mado up by any future Congress. 'Tho practical operation would be to cut off 10 per cent from Republican de- portment clerks, but restora it if the Domo- cratic party shall got control of the offices at tho next clection, Tho proposed reduction in the oppropriation for this year, and not o permanent reduction by law, is consoquently o mere decoption that connot be productive of any good to tho country. Alr, Buaing, the thorn in the Democratio sido of tho Houso, again pricked the decep- tion, and showed in a very few worda the {full measuro of Democratio meanncss, | The department salariea of tho four classes of clerks were fixed respectively ot $1,200, 1,400, $1,000, and $1,800 twenty.two years sgo by the Domocrats, when the country had a gold currency, 'Thoy bave never been changed since that thno. 'The fact1s, there- fore, that, allowing for ti% differenco in tho purchasing value of tho money and the cost of living between 1870 and 1854, when thoso solaries were ostablished, the employes of the Government departments are not paid more than two.thirds g8 muck now as they were then, 'The Congressmen fixed their own pay ot $3,000 in 1854 when they fixed the department sal- arles, but since that time they have raised their own salarfes fivet to double that amoust, and, after public protest, only re- docod them again to $5,000. In other words, thopoy of tho Congresswmen hasbeenincreased 60 per cent since that of the department clerls was raised. Now tho Domocrats want to uchieve a reputation for economy by re- ducing their own :;Lhrlen 10 per cent and the wholo lino of department salaries the same, But, as Mr, Brams told them, they could only act falrly and equitably In this matter by first reducing the Congressional salories to $3,000, and scaling off the 10 par cent afterwards, We fancy there will be no desperato and combined cfort among the Demoeratio Congressmen to retrench to this extent. . The fact i3 that there is no genunine re. trenchment in cutting off 10 per cent of the department salaries in the Appropriation bill, which may be mede up as a deficloncy next year, It is likely that money could be saved and the publio service improved by areduction in the numbas of clerks, &n lo. crease {n the hours of labor, and the division of the appropriation at & better rato nmong & smaller number; for such a chango would securo more capnble men and cut off the su. perfluitios nltogether. But neither party seems disposed to undertako tho work, be- cnuse it means civil-service reform, which has ‘boen neglocted by both, In the meantime, however, the Democratic Congressmen can senrooly bo permitted to mako party capital outof a proposition to reduce the pny of Government cmployes 10 per cont below what it was twonty.two yoars ago in gold. while they themselves continue to draw GO per cont moro than they did at that timo. If thoy undertake to forco this unfair proposi- tion, they will find a buzzing about their cars moro general, noisy, and effectivo than that created by tho snlary-grab, which was the means of losing the control of tho Iouso to tha Republicans, The injuslice of the prop- osition 18 8o obvious thatit will be recognizad at onco, everywhero and by nll partics. CAN POLITICAL CRIMINALS BE CONVICT- ED? Tho difficulty of punishing men for polit- fenl offenses hna beon “ngain illustrated in Obieago by tho failure of the jury to agreo in the caso of tho Twentioth Word judges in the Inst election, who have been on trial for tampering with tho ballot-boxes. It would be impossibla to make out n clearer case than was proved ngainst theso three bad men. Their names are CrowLry, Jomxsoy, and SnieLps, One of them is n bartender, whose character was vouched for by such moral luminnries ns Jomizy Conconay, Ton FoLEy, and others of tho samo sort; another {s o piclle-peddler ; and tho third is a confirmed bummer, who did not appear in court owing to o passing attack of tho '*tremens.” The two charges ngainst them woro (1) ojecting o Republican challenger in violation of law, and (2) roturning a smaller num- ber of votes than wero sctually cast for Mr, Huck, the Republican candidato for County Treasurer. Both charges wero proved, but the latter with great particulari- ty. While theso judges roturned only 82 votes for Huck, the proseoution introduced 70 witnesses who swore on the stand that thoy had doposited votes for Huck. The prosecution had still other witnesses who hnd made afidnvits to their votes for Hucr, Tho fraud was palpable, and tho offense was one which cloarly comes under the statute and is the most infamous invasion of the purity of tho ballot-box. Yet the jury in this caso dis- ngreed. . In the present {nstance justice was defeated by nsingle juror,—a fellow named Rexmio- ToN, it is alleged. A specinl venire was asked for the case, and the sclection of the jurors was intrusted into the hands of the Coroner, in order to avoid if possible tho oxperienco with previons juries selected in the usual way, Therais no reason to suspect that the Coroner did not make a proper effort to got together o fair and competont jury, and the position of eloven mon shows that ha exercised good judgment for tho most part. But the system for seleoting our jurics could not suc- ceed in excluding at least one man who would ngreo that it is no crime to tamper with the batlot-boxes, suppress tho votes of clectors, and defeat the public will by rofusing to count all the votes honestly cast,~one man who would consent to ths falsifying of the roturns by judges especially appointed for that purpose. This ia o scrious matter. Whether the disagroement of the jury in this cage was the result of local corruption, or the nataral expression of an indisposition on the port of o certain class to punish political crime, or partly both, it is sll the same o direct monaco at tho purity and validity of clections, and o goneral notice that election judges may resort to ballot-box stuffing and n folsification of tho returns without any dnuger to thomeelves, * This cnso must not bo permitted to rost whiere at 18, To ‘dismiss it thus would be to render honest elections in the fature impossi- ble. Alrendy ono convicted clection judge has been pormitted to escape with a mere nominal punishment, by fineof a fow dollars, that was a travesty on justice, and in the caso of somo others the indictments wero very singularly quashod. If theso cases aro followed by a disagrcament of the jury when tha crime has been proved in the most direct and unmistakable manner, and nothing is dono to countornot 50 gross an outrage, then it will bo better to abandon elections in this community altogether, for thoy will ceaso to bo an expression of the popular choico. Theso threo men must bo brought to another trial immediately, notwithstanding the ob- vious difficulty of getting seventy witnesscs together pgain, Let it be madea test caso to determine, once for all, whether it {s possible or not to moto out justica for the violation of tho Lloction law and 'tampering with tho ‘ballot-boxes. If not, then it is best that the voters of Chicago should know it and save themsolves the -trouble of tho meaningless appearance at the polls to cast their ballots. ‘Wo should think, too, that the circumstances of the disagreement in this case aro such as to warrant n strict inquiry on the part of the Court as to the process by which it was brought about, A CHAPTER OF SE0ESH HISTORY, The chapter from tho early history of tho Robollion which was printed in Tag Tnin. une of Monday morning is a significant com- ment upon the present nttitnde af the Domo- cratic majority in the House. From this chaptor it appears that, as far back as 1851, ton yenrs befora the outbreak of the Rebell- jou, Jerpenson Davis and othor conspirators wore plotting to destroy the Union, The chapter, as will bo romombered, contained a lotter indorsed by Davis from A, P, Burnes, United States Senator from Bouth Carolina, canvassing the possibility that South Caro- lina might mako a trial of separato secsssion, and inquiring how it would affect Mississippl and othor States. In 1856 another letter, from J, M. Masox, of Virginia, to JerrersoN Davis, shows that an sgreemont bad beon made by the Governors of Louisiana, North Curolina, and Bouth Carolina, to meet at Raleigh and make arrangements for seces- slon, and that JerrzrsoN Davis bimself, then Becretary of War, was exchanging the percus- vlon muskets of the United Stateafor Virginia flint-locks, Still later, in the same year, appears o lettor advocating making the elec. tion of BucuaNaN available to the South. Bays the writer: ** Let us so constitute Mr. ‘Buonanan's Cabinet that the sinews of power will be availoble in the ovent of the election of o Black Republican in 1860. S8ee tot, you Southern men sbout Washington, that the Departments ot the Treasury and War, and even of the Navy, ara retained in Southern ‘hands, for it a Black Republican is elected in 1860 the Govermment should not be permit- ted to pass into their power. A Napoleonio demonstration would {n thia event bo called for, Grab.game is the policy, Therefore, I rapent, lot cortain Departmenta b given to true Bouthern men,” Here was the theory of Btate Boversignty clearly snunaiated, and TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 187G. stops taken to carry tho theory into practice. | Meouwbile, a Republiean President waa clected, Theso men tested their theory upon tho battle-ficld and lost. Tho South woa subjugnted. Its ¢ peculiar institution " was crushied, but ita thoory of State Hov- orcignty and tho right of any Btato to lenvo the Union of States nt its own option was not lost. For ten years it wos held in aboyauce, Leeauso there was no opportunity to cuunciate it. Now, howover, the Demo- cratic party ina a majority in tho Honso and all the Sonthorn SBtates aro roprosented, and onco toro the infamous doctrine is reaflirmed upon the floor of the House by the Southern Domoerats in tho very form in which it was once osserted for tho destruction of the Union, and finds ready response and sympn- thy from Northern dongbfaco Democrats now as it did before tho War, TFifteen yoors ago it tend to war, and although " in that fear- ful strugglo the body of the Robollion was crushed, events now clenrly enough show that tho spirit atill lives, nnd only awaits its opportunity to renssert itsolf and nppeal onco moro to the issuo of the battie-field. Tho Nopoleonio demoustration and the grab-game moy yot ocour, and nt mo distent doy, unless the patriotio peoplo of this country arise and crush out al the ballot-box the abominable and wickod heresy of Stato Sov- orelgnty, with its implled right of secession. 1ts recont roaffirmation upon tho floor of the Houss ought to be a worning that tho Gov- ernmont is,only safo in Republican hands,—in the hands of the men who have saved it from tho nssaults of those who are now secking to goin power, and have alrendy boldly pro- claimed pgnin tho very dooirine which they sought to carry out by on appeal to arms. Thia doctrine will not die out until tho pres- ent goneration of Union and Constitution- baters has pussed away, and, until that time, tho patriotic and law-abiding people, both South and North, must retain control of the Government. Thera is no safoty in any other course, ‘Tho present situntion is full of dan- ger, ond deserves the earnest considoration of every patriotio citizen and lover of his coun- try, lest in this Contennial year, in which wo observe tho celebrations of nntional unity and fresdom, tho Government pass into the hands of thosa who claim tho right of any State to withdraw from tho Union, and have already unblushingly proclaimed it upon the floor of Congresa. POLITICAL BLACEMAIL, Mr. Bannzy, CAULFIELD, the member from Bridgeport, started out doy before yesterdsy to do o very creditable thing, and then made o lamentablo personal and political failure beforo he got through with it. He roported from the Judiciary Committeo a bill making it a misdemenuor, punishable with fino, for any person in the employ of the United States to eithar solicit or contributo funds for clection purposes. Such o measuro, proporly constracted, is needed, and no member of the National Legislature will care to incur tho suspicion under which an opposition to this bill would place him. It is highly desirablo that tho practico of levying contributions for election purpuses upon men occupying sub- ordinate Govornment ofices which searcely yield a living salary shall be discontinuad by lsw; and it is shll mora doslrable thet the superior officers of the Government—thoso at tho head of De- portnents, and local Post-offices, Custom- Touses, ote.—shall bo prohibited by law from levying contributions on men who are dopendont upon those superiors for their places, This practice has in tho past been tho source of mamy of the most serious abusos of our civil sorvice, and it is time that it should bo stopped. But Mr. Cavrrizip did not go far enough in his proposed reform. Ho omitted to include Senators and Repro- sontatives in Congress from tho proposed prohibition. The advantage of making the law opplicablo to them also. is obvious from the fact that tho Congressmen claim tho patronage, and assume to dictato to heads of Dopartments, Postmastors, Collectors, eto., and even to tho President himself, the per- sons who shall enjoy the possession of the Government places, and aro therofore in a position to more successfolly levy political blackmail than any officers of the Government. Mr, Brune wea quick to soo the importanco of this omis- sion ond at onco suggested it to Mr. Cavrrrery, who first gave him leavo to offer on amendment including them. Bat then 1t accurred to Mr, OavLvrerp that Bramwe must linvo somo ginistor design upon tho Damo- cratio party, and he thorefore withdrew his permission for tho amendmont, In this way Cavrrreep laida trap for himself. Mr. Brame appealed to the Honse, which almost unani. mously sustained him in his purpose of in- oluding Congressmen among the prohibition of political blackmail. Thia gives Mr. Bramvg the control of the bill, which is fortunato for tho reform. ‘The bill will now be presented in a shape to precludo evasion and render it operative after it bacomes a law. It should command the support of all the mombers of both Houscs withont regard to party, and it isto be hoped that it will suffice to cure one of the most disreputable of all eloction cus- tome. At the same time wo extend to our member from Bridgeport our commiscration at the lossof this opportunity for doing his country some service,—tho more 8o a4 Wo foar that no other opportunity will ever again ocour to him., The Investigation by tho Messachusotts Bosrd of Charities of the Btato Almshouse st Tawke- bury bas rosulted in another of thioss exposuren of cruelty aud bestislity which suggest inquiry #5 to what there is about oor system of publle charitioa that makes them so susceptible of sach disboltoal perversion, Thie fnstitution contalns on an average about 1,000 inmates, & number of whom are insano and a groater number inill health, It s undor charge of well-paid officiala abundant funds for its support are regularly ap- propristed by the Legislature ; & full medical ataft is provided ; and over sl is placed a Buper- jutendont and & DBosrd of Inspactors. Yot the first result of an investiga- tion to find out ia the aiscovery that neither the Superintendent nor Inapeciors know what goos on in the Almshonse; that the 1medical ataff is 5o incompetent that it soems an open question whother inmates deceased were Lilled by disense or by lgnorant doaing with drugs; that the noglect of the inmates was in- bumaa ; aud the whole is summed up o the figurea showing that of 2,840 porsons sdmitted fast yoar, 825 died within the year, and that in ca of any contagious dlsease. Further oxplorations - developed thal insane inmates were punished for refusal to work by conflue- mont in underground cells, where, without chars, tables, or bods, and on bread-and-water diet, they were kopt for eight weeks aia time and that the desth of some of them shortly after their relesse from this Imprisonment was solemnly mscribed as *‘Frovidential " causes. Alore repellant were the sickening dis- closures 8s to the debauchery of fomale lumates by employes of thoe lnstitation, and tho disgost- 1ng atatistics showing the illogitimate biztus, the fruits of thet debauchery. This all fn this Oon- teunial yearin the enlightened Commonwsalth of Maasachussits saggeats thad there ls some. tbing radically wroag in the ovganisation of the grost publio charities, and that ono of the metest worka for tho time s their reorganiza- tion on such pian that thoy will not in fsot bo great public nuisances and erimes. Dut doen the new charter excesd {lio Conatitation In Jts probibitive clauso against debt? Are kot the ferma used precisoly alika? Uniler the Comatitution waa it legal 0 {asue the cortificates put forth by Mayor Mwoiin ] 1€ 8o, why i8 1t not cqually lawful for Mayor CoLVIN (0 fssio them? Ts not the Comatitu. ton—tho fandamental law—-an Linding a1 sny atat. uto made in secordance therewlth? If the iasuo ct certificates does not conflict with tho Constitution, which pronibits sndobtedness ** in any manner or fpr any purposo ' beyond the 8 por cent limit, how ean It conffict with precisely the samo words in tho Geacral Incorporation Iaw of 1872 7—/0st und arl, Wo will ropoat again, aund for the dozonth time, that tho objection to tho prosent cortifieaton of jndobtodnoss la to the form. They purport on thoir faco to be {ssucd hy authority of tho old cliartor, and not by that of the new onaj but tho old charter was abolished by tho ballot-box stuffers, and the now one adopted long ago. We challonge the legality of lssuing cortificatos of indobtodness which recito that they nro author- jzed by tho provisions of tho dead oharter. Whaile tho old charter romainodalive, it was logal to convert any dobt that was couatitutionaily 1n- ourred into temporary cortificates, Tho consti- tutional conflict was with the crontion of the debt originally. If tho dobt was lawfully incurred, tho old charter oxprosaly suthor- izod tho fssuing of cortificates to procure the mousy wheramih to pay it Buch cortificatea did not make or create tho debt, but only changed its form. Tho debt or obligation against the city would continuo la either case until it was fioatly liquidated by tho proceeds of taxes, It was theroforo porfectly logal sod proper to lesuo cortlficates under tho old chatter, whichepecially suthorized it tobo done, provided, aswo boforo eaid, that tho debt for which they were issucd waa covatltutionally ineurred, That is the only point in the mattor. Tho samo thing can bo dono undor tho now chartor and to tho samo extont, For any debt that Is consti- tutionally incurred certiloates may now bo sold to pay It, becauso this ndde nothing to the law- fuldobt. But theso certificates must not rocito on thoit faco that they aro lesuod by virtue of tho old, reposled charter. Wo bave now made this matter so plaln that any one excopt a knave or » fool will admit thoy understand it. The Cologno Gazetle has made soveral strong argumonts of Iate for tho introduction of tlo Tioman intead of the German oharacters i Ger- man newapapore, upon the gronnd that the Ger- man cinractors aro * crabbed, ‘perverso, anti- quated, abominablo, and abaurd " that the Ro- man characters sre muok clonrer and less fa- tiguing to sight ; and that they ocenpy & much smoaller spaco. The change has alroady boen mado to a very largo extont in books, and has proved a very grateful one, especially to fareign- ora. ‘Tho Gazellealso furnishes tho information that **Even in Gormany itself the Latin char- setor has beon adopted for sclontific books, by tradesmen for tho inecriptions on thelr shops, Ly tho Miut for the lottors on the German colns, by the raitway suthorities (oxcopt in somo placos 1n South Geormany) for tho tablos of fares, and by the municipsl authoritiea for tho names of ptroota,” Therocan be mo doubs that such a chauge {n the nowspaper type would make the German journals mach more widely road than thoy ore now by those who are deterred from doipg Bo by the present antiquatod and oyu- trylog type. —_— Tho pet project of Clncinnati, the building of anow and ologant Musio Iall dovotsd to the ‘uson of tho pubilo, for which the handsome sub- scription of 2250,000 has boon mado, haa resched s suddon halt, owing to tho offort of the Mayor and Board of City Improvements to have a voice {n the managemont of the hall and a representa~ tion upon the Boord of Trustees. Tho proposi- tion has ralsed n vory lvely broezo among the subacribors, as might have boen oxpectod, and thoy now threaten to withdraw thelr subscrip- tions if tho city usists upon thia impudont de- mand. It would bo o pity for Cincinuati to loso sach s elogant Musie Hall, but & would bo & thoussnd times moro pitisblo to divido the au- thority of managoment betwean privata citizens and public ofticials, and thus drag in political influences to disturb tho harmony in the temple of tho musoa. The aubscrivora are right in the position they have taken, If tho Musio Hall can- not ba kopt out of the influsnce of polltics, 1t would ba batter nover to build it. The crosadors and prohibitionista will be do- lightod to kaow that vary little boor ia consumed in the Unitod Stntes in comparison with the Europoan countrics, some of which are not Inrger than oue of our States. M. Nopack, an eminont Fronoh sclentist, has computed that each person in Bavaria consumes upon the aver- sgo 643{ gallons por annum; io Bolgium, 453§ gallons; in Wurtembarg, 38)4 gallons in Great Britain and lreland, 29%¢ gallous; in Baxony, 15 galtons ; in Baden, 14 gallons; in Aleace-Lor- raine, 12} gallone; in Pruesia and Honover, 03¢ gallons; in Holland, 9} gallons; and in Austria, 834 gallons. Inthe UnitedStates, how- over, cach inhabitant consumes por abnum but 6% gallons, Whlle the crasader sud prohibl- tionint will rejolce at this, tho antl-probibition- ist and lagor-lovor will cheorfully rocogalze tho fact that wa dtinlk more beer than France, Nor- way, Rusain, sud Bwedon, the people of which aversge 43¢, 8, 854, and 334 gallons, respectively. —_—— The Allegan (Mleh.) Journal comes to us in enlarged form'and with an jmproved typograph- ical apposrance, Its contenta are largely orig- inal, and tho solections are judiclous. Tho Journal s a good Republican nowapaper, thoronghly sonnd in the faith, but showing a proper spirit of independonco within party linos. _—————— PERSONAL Lot no gllt-edged man escapo. Heilbron has mado a hit at Vieona ss Violetla in ** La Traviata." Holman Huot's portrait of himsslt {a to be oxhibited at the Centonnial. Bpinner bobs for eels 1a- Florids just asif somobody elso were not Controller of Naw York. Offenbach Is comling to the Oentennial. He will give expreasiou to the soul of bouffe politics. The fomale lobbyists at Washiogton sre reoc- ognized branches of industry, but bawen branches. Mr, Hoory Watterson, of Loulsville, Ky., who has been seriously il for some tumo past, has racovered. The Herald calls him plaln *Mr." Bulow, Why not Mr. Rubiostern, Me. Verdy Ar, Mozart, e, Boathoven ? Mrs. Scott-Biddons haa been playiog Viola in “Teelfth Night * at John MoCullough's theatre in Ban Fraucisco. Joaquin Miller's * Firet Families of the Slor- rsa" in ustd by the Cincinnati Commarcial to be w1ull of valgarity of style.” 1t I8 expocted that at tho next Papal Conslat- ory Dishop Uorrigan, of New York, will be pre- ocognized cosdjutor to Archbinhop MoOloskey. The proper caricatars for the new bonmets, according to Jeonis June, 18 & wide flowerpot, with & fountaw ossting up apray lo the middle. Csapt. Harry Wright, the base-ball qelebrity, is not Iying at the potot of death In Bavannsh, Hels now in Florids, and galning streogth rapidly. Mru. Margaret F. Sullivan (Buchaoao) is the autbor of the very resdable paper iu the April number of the Cathalio World entitled A Fast Among the Posta.” M. John Lewmolnne, the new French Academi- olan, Ia 60 years of age, married, has two daugh- tors, and {8 vory English in appearance and morals. He was eduoated at Harrow, The poor Count Joannes, whose unfortunate mengtal weakness seoms to certaln New York pa- pera a fit themo for jesting, hss been again e« posiug himself in s letter to the Aum, in which s mays, referring to an artiole loths World: o [usy that such insulting and injurions eple Ahots agaiad & cittian, whodd gredd mantsl git aro from the Almighty—(avon enamied admit)~ aro implous and irsoligious insulte to God Him. melt.” Tuo buffoon spicit in Parls, & recont writer saya, has not survived tho fall of Napoloon Ii1, ‘Tho poople at carnival time are atill bufoons, ‘but not apontanaocualy ao. Thiera' old coachman was & notorious drunk. ard, bat knew his businose so well that he enly oncocsme into collision with s velilcle, which caused Thiors to ask him, * Are you sober " Carloton, tha baritons of tho Kollogg troups, ison nccpmpuahnd singor of cradlo-songe, baving had four children to prhotico on. But ' Tha ileart Plowed Dosm * fs atill his mastorpieco, John T, Raymoni i going to Europo with his oye-water in 1877, o eays tho English poopls ought to approciata Ool. Seliers aftor tho oxper. ouce they have had of Hchenck and the Emma Mine. Quaen Viotoria will call hersalf tho Countess of Tiosonsu doring hor European tour, Woat Ilarks—and nonsensel As If Quoen Victorls could be any more {ncog, sa & Countess than ag » Quoon. Tha Jewish Messenger spitofally calls attens tion to tho fact that Rubeostoin ia tho only Jaw over convicted of murder in tho United States, whilo Presbyterians, Methodiats, Catholion, and other Christians have had their hands In aui sorts of wickedness from the beginning of sheir oxistence. Tho Prosidont of Harverd Univorsity hies forn bidden Grmeo-Roman wrostling in the gymns. eum of the jnsttution, having roceived asar- nncos that tho practice is dangerous to life and limb, Tho students would have healthier de- volopment if thoy wrostled more with Groek roots aud Roman history. An article on *‘T'ha Philosophy of Art™ in the 1ast numbor of tho Journal of Speculativa Philos. ophy, by Goorge 8, Morrls, is attracting much sttention, The Now York Post eays **it1s ons of the memorable signs of tho prosent reaction of culturo againet the new matorialism.” Thly +ropotion " gocms to be & thing assumed. Iiram Powore, tho sculptor, who lLiad eplrituat vislons, esid that if & man's norvous systom wore carefully soparated from the roat of hiy body, it 18 so complex and great that it would appent a8 a perfect representation of the man, “\hy, then,” said ho, *‘cannot that whichis bolow tho deticate nervons systom ba revealed to .us in spirituat monifostations 2" Daniel Urow's bankruptey has seriously erip- plod the Drow Thoological Sominary, ‘The en dowment of the Beminary was s note for $250,- 000, the principal of which was not to be paid ‘beforo death. 'Tho intorost on the note was the only source of incomo the 1nstitation posasssed, and this 18 now cut off. Does Dr. Tiffany con- slder this a providential dispensation ? Migs Harriot Hosmer stipulates that her worky designed for exhibition at tho Centenntal show ghall bo placed in the Womsn's Pavilion, 8he sonds a group of sculpturo reprosonting Emanci- pation,—the inscription being **Tho African Biby) Foreshadowing the Froodom of Iier Raco," —tho largest ideal statuo Bbio haa over oxecuted. 8ho also sonds “A copy of Lord Brownlow's Qates, which aro 10 fect wide and 17 faet high; they contain soventy-ons fignros, beside sbun- dant roprescutations of the anlmal and vego- table kingdoma." +1n the English Parlismont, the other: day,” says tho Now York Tridune, *Mr. Gathorns Hardy, beiog questioned aa to the overcrowdiog ot soldiors in cortain British forts, and the num- ‘bor of moen and swomen {n the sAmMo room, grave- Iy statod that the quantity of cublo air allotted to each person waa In accordanco with the laws of modern sctence. The utter inappropriato- ness of the answor is almost as smusing as was tho simplicity of the Princess Borgheso when, having stood to Canova aa what the echools of art would torm an ‘undraped model,’ and being asked by & lsdy how sho had falt, she replied that uhe had not been at all cold, as thero was a firo in the room. It also suggests Buffon's naive answer when roproached by s lady friend for haviog dlassoted the corpss of bls alster-in- law, ‘2on Die, madam! she woman was dead® HOTRL ARRIVALA. Patmer House—O ol W. P. Rogers, Us B, A4 Lewis Rindskopt, Milwaiikea; Col. E. It Blake Tl consin: Com. M, Englemau, Milwaukos: A, J, Bene ford, Wixconsi . W Spuding 8t Touis} BL B. Smith, New Yorks Gen, ‘B, It White, Syrscuse ; Gen. Burnett_Forbes, New_¥ork ; W. Gunn, Montreal; & Gunn, Kiogston; L. 3. Knowles ‘and C, E. Hutchine, Worcestor; J. 1L Perry, Little Rock ; George Glassoock, Btn Franciico....Grana Paciie—D. T. Ayars, Now Orloans; Emory Cabb, Kankskeo: B.R. Houghion, cotnb; O, I, Booth, Alaustiold; E, K. Barney, Day- i 8. W, Buller, Bandusky: Dr, 8. Dy ter, :'Gen, J, M. Hedrick, . Ottumwa; L. ), Larzis, 88, Louls; E, d, oy, Clinton; Cirlinville; John T Howe, = Minneapoliai dvemont House—Ool. in Kano, Now York ; the Hlon, G.W. Fuuk, MlcLain: Dr. B, 8, Dodd, Buchana, Mich,; O, AL Cottrill, Milwankoe; R, 1L 1, W, Dryaot, Bt Lou! Francisco ; the Hon., R. M. 8 . B, Frisle, New York New York; s 3.8, Balth, Detroit. ... X, Tiurlolgh, Yaukton, Haverly's Allustrels; Tia; Capt. G W. Davi Lalighlin, Spriogtield;’ A, f, Togors, Sycamaro; W, 0., Batiey, Hareiaiieg lind} D, Northway, Joferao CANADIAN ITEMS, Svecial Diepateh to The Chicaoo Triduns, MoxTuear, March 22.—Fhe wife of Col, Dyder of this city, 1aono of the hoirs to tho catate of Bir John Holt, just passed through chancery. Fixteen million dallats is to be divided amonget tho hofrs, A number of whom reside in ths Btatos, The Ok Indians have ontered sult agalnst the Seminaty of 8t. Bulpioe, to compal tha latter to build a chutch torn down at Oks. Plalatiffs also aak 230,000 damages. Atrain of - olgbtcen cars left to-day for the Contennlal Exhibition, contamnlng tho grestes portion of the goods from the Moutreal sec ton, The Gormans of this city are colebrating to- day in honor of Emperor Willlam'a 70tk birthe gl{l.mlkanrmn flsg i flying at the Consulsis ul g, The lsfolrd of Trado, at a mesting thia sfter noon, decided it not pradent to proosed at pess ent with tho schome of building the new Alberd Bridge across tho River Bt. Luswronce. BSuch » recomwmendation wiil be acat to Ottaws, Speesal Dapateh to The Chicaga Tribune, ConnwaLL, March 42.—At thio assizes hore Grand Jury fo-dsy brought in true bill agaiout George Burden, proprictor of the Coruw Uazette, for tibel on Honry Bandfield Macdooald in referenca to_bhis alleged improper inf with a young lady in Montreal, TELEQGRAPHIC NOTES. Garar Fauzs, N, I, March 22.—A reduoticd of 12} per cont in wagea sk the wooloa-mills went into offoct yesterdsy, and the weavers laft In & body, refusing to work, PmLADZLEEIA, Pa., March 22.—~The steamship Oblo arrived here last evaning from Liverpoot with 808 casos of goods for exhibition in ibe British section of the Centenntal Expoatsion, Spectal Dupateh to Tha Chicaae 7 ridur, MixNzaroLws, Ming,, darch %2.—The libol scit brought by L. M. Stewart sgamnst B, M. Wilsos and Oliff ord Tuomson, ex-editor of the Minne apolis Tribune, was dismissed on motion of the dotenso to-day. tipeciol Drapatch ta The Chisaaw Tridund, Jowa Orr, Ia., March 23.—For somoe time our city hae been infoated with tramps. Our new Mayor, HMenry Morrow, recommanded, {n [ recent inaugural addross to the City Counells thoe provision of special quarters for thia clsss of persons, and that they be mads ta pay theit way by labor. ' The recent Btate hquhdw upon thia subject i3 prompting munic pal cor* porations Lo make_ provision againes this of wortl and dangerous crestures who are roving about the country in inoressed ‘pumbers. New Yon, March 22.—A fow prominout mer chants and bankers of this city, zealous 1o WO; moting measures for the resumption of s y-ym-nl-hhsu ocontributed & fund for pnatiog and distriboting the spesch delivered by Benstot Bhermau, March ¢, on the n-‘uun-l finances, . Army? the Hon. A- B, Daohes, U, 8, Aui . ismilton, Foud du Lao! W, W, Parker) Clave: pecial Diavateh ta The Chicage Triduns, Dayvirs, 11k, Maroh 22.—A yomw entiernan from the country by the name of Iflun Crsif pomt tgbad lgcy batore 3 138 M 0 v s ours a0 i0 and On:f dissovered almosh [felass nh\lhl ald of ph‘ oland he was will prebably Yoks