Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1876, Page 4

a TH TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, ATES OF AUNSCHIPTION (FAYADLE IN ADVANCE). Postage Prepatd at this Oftice. Daly Raition, poatpald, Ly0arssssesereseveesesesF2200 Pattry C year at samo rato, Matied to.any addreen FOUN WHERA f 1,00 “CHICAGO “TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, MARCII 28, 1876. ’ short clonrs, ‘Tighwines were quiet and firm, nt $1.07 per gallon. Flour was quiet and unchanged, Wheat was more activo, and Je higher, closing at $1.02} for cnsh and $1.07} for Mey. Corn was active and lo higher, closing nt 46fc for Morch and 49}o for May. Onta were quict and easy, closing at 830 for March and 34jo for May. Ryo was qniot, nt 660, Darloy wasin good de- mand and firmor, closing at 68$0 for April and 5Qc for May. Hogs woro fairly active nt 5@ 100 dectino, closing firm at $8.00@8.15 for light, and at $8.10@8.40 for commonto primo heavy. Cattle wero duil aud lower. Sheep wero in good demand, and ruled strong at $4.75@6,50 for common to choice, Ono hun- dred dollars in gold would buy $114.00 in greenbacks at the clos and Yates, and until 1860 had always opposed | school-tenchors—which tho Constitution pro- the Democratio party. In 1860 ho wascon- | hibits, If thoy may bo bargained with for gpicnous as o Ropublican, thongh then on | sorvices before tho taxes aro collected to pny tho Circuit Honch in Contral Illinois, Ho| thom, as Tae Tninuns contoenda may bo actively labored with Mr, Lixconn to havo | dono, thon it is Inwful to faauo to cach one a hia nephow, Henny Winrra Davis, made | cortificato for his or hor month's salary,— Attorney General, but Mr, Ianconn mado } payable whon tho taxoa aro collocted,—or tho another choice. In 1862 ho was appointed | city may have the cortificntes cashed bya Justico of tho Snprome Court, Wodo not} bank and pay tho procoods to tho employes, propose to criticise his courso a8 a Judgo. | and owo tho bank until tax-pnying timo, The No one distrusta hia integrity nor hia fair- | City of Chicago cortainly cannot do tho mani- ness, and, wore it not for his implicd cnndi- | fest injustice of employing all thoso peopla doy for tho Prosidonoy, como of hia opinions | without any right to do ro, and without any would not probably be supposed to havo beon } authority to provide for thoir paymont, propared for tho goncral instead of for tho} ‘Tho Z'imes seoka in vain to avoid tho inovi- legal and judicial public, and as on orpros- | tablo outcome of its argument that tho Con- sion of hia porsonal as woll os of his judicial | stitution prohibits tho incurring of n tempo- judgment, rary indebtedness, which is, that the City Our objection to Judgo Davis for the Pres- | Governmont must bo practically disbanded {dency is not » personal one, Politically, wo | until a year's taxos shall bo collected to start know of no man in public life who has so] with, It says that the difficulty can bo ovor- firmly and consistently opposod tho Demo- | come by reducing tho taxes by one-half, or to cratic party, or who moro resolutely sus- | on annual expenditure of $2,500,000. ‘Chia tained the War and tho reconstruction meas- | would certainly bo vory gratoful to ovory tax. ures of tho Republican party, In point of | payer, but how would it change tho prosont ability ho is tho equal of any man who has | order of things? It would bo oqually noces- boon of lato years named ns n Democratic | sary then ns it is now to anticipate tho col- candidate, aud as the nominco of tho Demo- | Icction of taxes, thongh not to tho samo cratic party his race would bo that of Honaog | amonnt of taxes. It would be equally nocos- Gneeney over ognin—his capital would bo | sary to incur indebtedness for tho sorvices rou- exbaustod in thirty days. dered tho city to tho oxtont of 32,500,000, Strong a is tho national feoling against o | aud until taxos to that amount could be col- third term, it is not so doop-sented and uni- | lected to liquidnto this indohtedness. Now, versal os the notional distrust of a political | if the city can becomo indebted Jawfally for Suprome Court. Tho Supremo Court, onco | $2,600,000 in anticipation of taxos in this convicted of boing partisan, sinks into public | mannor, thon it mny lnwfally become in- contompt. ‘The momout tho Supreme Court | debted tomporarily for twico that amount if ‘becomes recognized na o stepping-stone to | it levies twico that amount of taxes, Tho tho Presidency, it loses public respect and | reduction of taxes, thon, howovor demrablo confidence, Its mombora will no longor bo | in itsolf, will not do sway with tho practico rogarded os Judges, but os so many Domo- | of anticipating tho collection of taxes ; and, eratio nnd so many Republican politicians | if thia practico is unconstitutional, thon it and political aspirants, The decisions will | would bo cqually so with a tax-lovy of be hold ss the docisiona of partisan majori- | $2,500,000 or $1,000,000 ns with a larger ties, to be reversed upon a chango of tho | sum. political majority. If ono candidato bo} ‘tho only cortificntos of indebtedness which taken from the Bonch, both may bo; | Tar 'I'nmonx holds to have been unlavfully if the precedent bo onco fixcd that] jssucd aro thoso ropresonting debts unlaw- tho Judges of that Court aro merely in| fully incurred,—that is, dobts mado for training for tho Presidency, then the Court } which thoro wore no appropriations or as- itsolf will degonerato into mora cabal of | gessmouta of taxes loviod for tho payment oflice-seoking politicians, rivals in begging } thoroof. As to debts reprosonting taxes that nominations, and giving opinions as other | havo boon lost, wa think they should bo demagogues to catch the applause of factions. | pnid, but it is extromely doubtful whother 'The Judges of that Court oujoy the profound | certificates can bo issucd against such do- respect and confidence of tho people, a8 | ficits—at lonst until further ssacssmonts are Judges; but os Democrat and Republican | Jeyied to pay them. As for those lawfully partisans, seoking advancement as mombers | issued to anticipate the collection of taxcs of parties, the Court will fall into deop and | to pay indobtedness incurred currently for merited popular contempt, and tho American | servicoa rondered, wo hold them to bo law- judiciary, fallen from its high estate, will de- | fal; and, if thoy aro not Jawful, thon tho gonerato to tho level of a ward caucur. City Government should bo disbanded at Our objection, and it is ono universal | onco until it shall hove collected taxes in ad- among the American peoplo, is not porsonal | yance of expenditures, to Judge Davis, but will apply to tho candi- ere docy of any other Judge, or tho nomination ANOTHER BANKRUPT NATION, of one of those Judges by the Republican | ‘Tho recent rofusal of Drsnavtr to make Convention. Political Conrts, political | public tho report of tho special invostigation Judges, office-scoking Judges, and Jndges as | which has beon mado on tho part of tho En- candidates for Presidential! honors, aro held | glish Government into tho flnances of Egypt by tho pooplo, and will bo trented by tho | has precipitated a panio in Egyptian soouri- people, as ampug tho rovolting abominations | ties, which havo declined from 6 to 7 por of corrupt and dogenerate politics, Lotus | cont in London. Tho public mind was pre- not commence tho second cantury by destroy- | pared for this by tho refusal of the English ing the Supreme Court. Government to appoint ono of threo Direct- grnous and curious medloy, which conformed to the atandand of no school, and was like nothing but itsolf. Whon this compromise plan was submitted to tho County Board and niopted by it for the county's half of tho building, it was described in the papors, but not minutoly, slnco the prospect of any build- ing thon scomed remote, Since thnt timo, howovor, it has boon moro critically exam- ined, among others by 8 prominont Chicago architect, who states to us that, if tho ex- terlor ia constructed according to the presont dosigns, it will bo n disgraco to tho city, In othor words, his vordiot is that tho plan is an architectural monatrosity. and is no outland. ialily bad that tho building, whon orocted, will disgust the genoral publio almost as much ns it will the trained oyo of tho architect, Tho domes, which nro to bo tho most expensive fonturo of the building, ara commonted upon as resombling closely the tin cover of a frying-pnan,—an observation which was made somo time ago. It is sug- gested, in order to avert tho calamity of tho orection of such a building, that the leading architecta of the city send in a protest to tha County Bonrd. ‘There are many ronsons, howover, why this would bo unavailing. A better course would perhaps bo, if the coun- ty iato croot the whole building, to return to tho bald simplicity of Eoan'a original plan, which was cheaper than tho presont ono, and not go offensive to tho educated eyo. It will not bo beautiful, but at loast it will not bo a jumble of tho different schools of archi+ tecture. who will not bo suffered to taka his dinner at | tho amendment he fe now preparing, to airy tho same tablo with bisown progeny, when | moro businces from the malts to thoso mato thoir advent? Our parvonuos aro | oxpress companios. Tia argument fs, they bad onongh, but, bad ns thoy are, they novor Hi arden peeasthlag fae a ite ay conld involve usin such a pack of troublo y at nox, about nothing, aa has the Royal family with | #2 Nocost to tha parties diroctly bonofited, mut mote tho Portal Dopartmont solf-metaining, ita binesblood, brought upon England in this | forcing tho business as far as practicable te uy, moattor. ey oxpross companies at a greater cost to the put. Itog and by virtually depriving pooplo tn romot, Itis onnounced that Mayor Convin has at- it ote tachod his algnaturo to the aununl appro- localities which tho oxpross Hnos do uot roach of tholr only means of transportation for amsij priation bill as it passed the Council, which packages, by excluding fram tha mails moet o appropriated tho monoy of the tax-payors for | auch matter'na now gous through them, and tar tho onguing nine months ot tho rato of | thor incronsing the rates on tha roast... Mr. lay. 85,600,000 for the yonr. ‘This sum, in tho | 11's proposed monsura will only oxclte n Norcey {aco of hard times, a barron 'Troasury, crippled | storm of {udignation than did hls oxpress com, crodit, and with n soriona doubt whether any | antes Job of last aosefon, arrangement for borrowing money can bo =a Following tho oxpoauro of tho outrageo made, {a altogether the most extravagant ernoltica in the Massachusetts alinahouse, San and outrageous pleco of oficial oxtravaganco | 4149 diaclosuro of oqual atrocitlcs in the Ohlg to which this city hna boon forced to submit | gotdiora’ Orplians' Homo,—an institution in the for years. An appropriation of five and 4] managomont of which, {f snywhoro, ordinary half millions for s yenr will coat tho tax-| humanity might bo oxpocted to obtain, Day payors as many days’ work tocarn tho monoy only to yours since tho Superintondont was dis, ag olght millions would roquiro before tho meet for abnetng e ‘orphan ews under panic, Monsured by the purchasing power h hy Charge, 20); 0) Own to have practiced atrocious cruoltics upon tho chi} of money; by tho difficulty of raising taxos, * | dron gonerally, Sworn tostimony tnken in on by tho quantity of proporty that sum will | ronttor ontablishos that tho Huporintondont, buy or amount of Inbor it would hiro in private | Kenn, habitually maintained disclplino to this hands, itis by one-third tho heaviost assess- | home for orphans by lifting small boys from o mont over made on tho tax-payors of this city. | tho floor by tho ear, by having them beaten by It cannot bo urged on Ootvin's behalf that | tho atronaauts with barrol-stavos, by pounding hho was poworless, for ho has full authority, | thelr Hees ae Hey ere ack and ins and y. out of all gomblanco 0 human counton: Hee ere er iotes ie the Tal eink hosides which tho Matrona woro authorized to i ardizing tho bill oto. If hi punish tho children os ofton as they pleased, with out jeopardizing tho bill 1 8 whole. H6 | only tho prndont rostriction that they should nop had beon at all inclined to liston to tho do- } proak tho Little onos’ honos, aud thoroby incur mand of the tax-pnyors, he would havo oxor- | jawauits for damages. Tho mannor in which oised that right, and thus cut off o fow hun- | thoso disclosures wore brought about fa sugger dred of tho supornumernry tax-entors that aro | ive. Tho Superintondont bad politcal influonce, living upon the public. But this is prooisoly | aud his exposuro would havo damaged hile poll. what Mr, Corvin did not want to do. Tho pal bask: who ted i turn dnilusiat cont “ vonty' ” |. | to dofoat in tho Logislaturo 8 roolution fog Hrched abr aPhesadlt aeee bart inyoatigation of tho chargos bronght, Thereos, two mombors of the Bouse, dotermtnod to get tholr treachery to tho poople by the rotontion | at tho facts, obsorving the duo logal formalities of their ward-bummors as sidowalk-inspect- | on thoir own account inatitutod theinvestigatiog ors, water-police, cto. otc, Evon Convin's | rogulting in thedlacloauros stated. What polly Uckspittle organ protested against his aflix- | fcal influonco had to do with this caso ft laa to ing his signature to tho bill, in tho following | do with almost ovory abuso oxposod in putila words: charitable institutions, and yet mora with thy If Mayor Convne wanta to noutralizo what he claims abugos that ara shiclded from exposure, Unde to bs the Hea told about him by some of the papers, | our syatomof machiuo polltica, tho managoment tet hin use his powors a8 Mayor, and voto auch por- | af orphan ond insaue asylums, simalouses, tions of tho Appropriation bill asare unnocossary to | institutions for tho doaf and biind, oto, is se tho offictont and economical conduct of the affatra of | siguod poiltical workors accordiug to thelr " Infa. thocity, A few Judicioas strokos of his pon at this | gues,” na thotr epolle-roward. Tho supply-com point will bean eloquent and conclusive reply to tho | tracts aro auslgned otbor political workors, ts alandors of his cuemien, A tholr spoil. So with tho appointment of the But Corvin undorstands on what torms the boards of iuspoction, ote., and the wonder is Council Ring rofusod to oust him, and he has | tnt tho system dooa not brood moro brutshiy now paid tho price for his holding ovor,—but | than it doos,—though oa to what atrovitios it at the exponso of tho tax-payers. Joads, tho public only gota an inkling from whit —_—_—_ occasionally Joaks out, And wo in tho nature of Ald. Hipnera, the special counsel for | thinge will 1, bo until the managomont, control, the Ad Interim Mayor, pottifogged Mr, | and inspoction of all charitablo institutions it Couvin’s caso to tho satisfaction of tho | wrested from tho epoilemon. ‘Twonty-Ono. The most impudent ond un- Pye eee teathfal thing ho said was, that tho Supremo | , A¥t*ANpnn P. Turron, Gaporisos of the Tale A lolpbia Internal Rovonuo District, who ts co Court hnd decided that Convin had # legal | ranch opposud to using * equoaling” tostimony, right to continuo in office beyond his term } hay boon transforrod to tho Loulsvillo District until April, 1877! ‘Tho simplo facts of tho | Ho was promptly interviowod by tho Courlen cnso aro these : Tho Citizons’ Association, be- | Journal, and smong other things is thus re coming apprehensive that Corvey would so | ported on ono point: r seeulemiite anlorliy of Sonal seat eee guile iim couseraing tho ate sae oy would neglec provide for n special | ato: Loaan's and Con, an FAnwexi’s complleity clection for Mayor this spring to fill tho ox. fhe frauda, HHowatd that Le had been connected 4 some extent with the prosecutions there, and, ao farst isting vacancy, applicd to the Supromo | ho know, thoro waa nota word of truth tn ‘the accuse v0, Glub of twenty, pee Sop. ‘the postage te 16 cents Hpecimen copies sent fi ‘To provont delay and mistakes, bo eure and gira Hoet= Office adcrosa in fall, including State and County. Remittancoa may be mada elther by draft, xpress Post-Ofice ordor, or In registered letters, at our risk. TRIE TO CITY BUNSCNINENS. Daily, dolteared, Bunday excepted, 26 centa ner week, Dally, doltrored, Sunday Included, 80 cents por wook. ddrees THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ‘Corner Madieon and Dearborn-sts., Chloago Ml, —_—— AMUSEMENTS. WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monros atroet, betwen Deare born and State, Afternoon, “Tho Serious Family." Eventng, “ The Uunchback."” | Orfto moro defent has attonded the attompt to induco the Common Council to call 5 special olection for Mayor, and tho matter is settled so far ns that delectablo body tins anything to do with it. What tho pcoplo in their sovereign capacity may do with rogard to the ofectment of the usurping Conyne ro- mains to be determined, Tho hold-ovor Ring prosented an unbroken front lastevening, and the ranks of the reercant Ropublicans whose personal obligations to Convin outweigh their sonse of duty to their constituents wero swelled by tho acccssion of Ald. Diczisoy, whoso identification with tho corrupt Ring must bo especially offensive and aggravating to tho largo clement of respectable voters in the ward which bo misroprosenta. ‘Tho twenty-two who voted to defeat tho will of the pooplo havo cast thoir lot with Convin and his administration of misrule and cor- ruption, and this issac thoy must abide by as enndidates for re-election. A vote for any of theso Ringstora will bo on indorsemont of Convrs and his scandalous crow—a factwhich will not bo lost sight of at the April oleotion. HOOLEY'A THEATRE—Randolph street, botwosn Clark and LaSalle, Tho California Minstrels, MoVICKEN'S THRATNE—Madtson atroct, botwoon, Drarborn and Btato, Engagoment of John E, Owons, * Onr Boye.” ACADEMY OF MUSIO—Italeted street, between Madison and Monroe, Engagement of (he Jutta Mathows Burlesque Troupo, '* La Fillo Mad, Angot." ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn etrest, corner Monroe, “ Tho Flying Head,” FARWELL HALL—Mndlson street, botwcen Clarke and Lasalie, Lecture by Prof, RAs Proctor, Bub- Ject: “ Other Snna than Ours,” SOCIETY MEETINGS. WASHINGTON CHAPTER, NO, 43, R. A. M.—fipe eta} Convocation thia (Tuceday) evening af 7:30 o'clock, for work on the Mark Degree. Visiting Companions cordially invited, By order of the M, HH. P, OHAS. B, WRIGHT, Secretary, he Mhiengo Gribumne, Tuesdsy Morning, March 28, 1876. QUEEN OR EMPRESS, It is. 8 woman's vanity or caprieo now that aogitates Great Britain; and bocauso of o woman's idle vanity is it that Lords, Com- mons, and peoplo have beon all torn up in mind nbout a ridiculous bayble, Wore not that woman the Queen, the common sonso of tho United Kingdom would ignoro tho wholo mattor as childish, As it is, all claases and ranks, dospito their loyalty, aro moro than half-ashamed of it, But tho divinity that doth hedge about the Crown has sufficed to invest with such sanctity hor voriost whim that Drsnarrx ponderously trents it og o grave State question, Parlinmont wrostles with it, tho press elaboratoly discusses it, and the whole British public is wrought up over it, Queen or Empress is what the pother is about. Sinco her: Majesty's daughtor mar- riod tho Crown Princo of Prussia, tho latter has been clovated to the rank of Princo Im. perlol of the Gorman Empire, Thon the Duko of Edinburg, married daughter of tho Czar of Russia, Tho result is, that, ac- cording to the codo of otiquotte that obtains in rogal circles, Vioronra's daughter and daughter-in-law, both wearing Imperial titles, outrank the Queen herself, as well as her un- marricd daughter Bzarnice and the Mar- chioness of Lorwz. In short, not to put too fine a point upon it, by that code, inexorable as tho laws of the Modes and Porsians, Queen Vicronra, tho beautiful Bearnios, and the Marchioncss of Lore, occupy a dograded po- sition na compared with two othor mombors of the family,—the Imperial Princess of Ger- many, and Hor Imperial Highness, the Duch- ess of Edinburg. ‘Cho scandal that resulted ‘The Supremo Court of tho United Btates has reached o decision in tho Grant Parish, La., cases, which wero carriod from tho Louisiana Circuit Court for final dotermina- tion. The lowor Court had docidod that theso cases did not properly come within the scope of the Enforcomont acts; that they re- lnted to offenses of which tho State Courts should tako cognizance. In other words, it was intimated that offenses of a similar class havo always beon punishablo under Stato laws in other sections of the Union. This ruling the Supreme Court aflirms in o longthy decision, in which the wholo subject of intimidation and election frauds is oxhaustively treated. A similar Aocision is rendered in the Kentucky election ease, wheroin the upper Court considers at great longth tho provisions of the Enforco- ment acts, and comes to tho conclusion- that Congress has not provided by appropriate legislation tho punishment for the offense charged. Itis, ot least, curious to observe tho contrast batween tho Iegisiative and ju. dicial views on this important subject whon wo place the rocent debates in tho Senateand theso decisions side by side. ——————— THE SUPREME COURT AND THE PRESI. DENOY, Greenbacks ot the New York Gold Ex- ghango yosterday closed at 87}. Tho weather man prodicta colder weather for this rogion to-day. : An interesting letter from a correspondent at Virginia City, Nov., published thia morn- ing, convoys much information attractively spiced with gossip concerning the wonderful region which hns como to bo regarded os tho silver contro of the universe and tho bullion magnates who thrive thereabouts, Millions are mentioned with something of the samo ensual levity that ordinarily attaches to nick- ls in less favored localitios, Tho cheese-paring economists in the House will be confronted with strong opposition by tho Senate to many of tho reduotiona in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill. An amendmont restoring to $17,000 each the salaries of the Ministers to Great Britain, France, Germany, ond Russia, was adopted by the Sonate yostorday by a vote of 24 to 17, Sonator Bayanp ond threo other Domocrts voting in the affirmative. The Suprome Court of tho United States — - tone, ‘Tho only circumstatioa that looked auspiciou, In tho course of tho effort to soil the good | has always beon tho object of just prido to SS ors, to bo nominated respoctively by Groat | from tho offorta to dogrado tho lattor too | Court for an order commanding thom to call | Rtthe timo of sho, investigutions. waa the "alnvovery xoputo of Socretary Bristow by raking up | the American people. During its ninoty {THE CITY CERTIFICATES. Britain, France, and Italy, to o National rank below Beatutoz, by aserics of crucl | such an clection. ‘Tho Suprome Court heard | that ono of the distillers caught had kept a bank accouat tho mulo case, it has como to light that a no less prominont Domocrat than James B. Brox, United States Senator-clect from Kentucky, was an ardent advocate of the claim while 2 member of tho House, appearing twice bo- fore tho Committeo on Claims to oxplain the caso and arguo its justnoss. By this devel- opment the Democrits on the Committes of Investigation will bo greatly assisted in reaching the correct conclusion that there ‘was no crookodness in the caso. It makes a difference who gets kicked by this mulo. years of existenco, tho Court has preservod its character a8 an oblo, fearless, and non- partisan tribunol—tho Court of last rosort. This has beon the moro difficult because of tho appointment of these Judges from the ranks of those who had boen moro or less engaged in politica, While this has not been always tho cnso, the pressure of party has beon such that, since Gen, Jacksox appointed Joun MoLxan and Rogen B, Tanex, the ap. pointmenta have been mado from the friends of the party in powor. It has, howovor, boon o striking mstance of the sanctity in ‘which tho offico has boon hold by the Judges, that the decisions of the Court have goner- ally escaped the suspicion of being moro in tho interests of party than in nccordanca with Inw. This has been duo largoly to tho with Jon V. Fanwett, brother of the Congressman, tho arguments pro and con, and refused, anil a largo Shleago tnerchant, The on concerning ; nblished extonalvoly at the time, bu by a tio voto, cither to command the Coun- | Piatitr way saiatactorily explained and ie’ susgcea cil to call tho election, or to decide that they slesrod Lang, Ho far aa. re aro Cae Louies was not a shadow of evidon: could or should not call ona. ‘Tho Court mero- | fhowledge auainat him. ifo did not funk. that xy Ty declined to issuo the writ of mandamus. | other Persons of reputation Dayana. od bg a local ‘pole Thoy did not decido that tho Common Coun- | {lanl bed any connection soy ele cil should not call a spocial olection, but Ald, MoDonatn's record on tho question of morcly that tho Court declined to compel | atiowing the people of Chicago to elect thelt thom to do it, ‘Tho Court relognted tho | own Mayor stands ont in otriking contrast with whole queation back to the Council to dotor- | that of Lia associate, Hinnuta. Tho former mino whether thoy would or not order an | ovidently bolioves in tho doctrine of ‘+ Homes cloction for Mayor. ‘Tho matter was loft on- Tule," and tho latter 1a usarpation, Thero are tiroly to the disoretion and. judgmont of tho | *g00d many mon in that ward Hike Ald. Mo- local logistative body, and s majority of that | DONALD who do their own Haina and bit ob body havo deliberately voted to nullify the | “Tue” by bunmors or biatharskitos, and doot y f bellovo in tho monarchical principlo, ‘hoy may popular will, provont the pooplo from seloct- | 45 anrd from on oloction-day in the Soventn ing thoir own Mayor, and continuo the pres- (now Eighth) Ward. ent usurpation a year longer. Verhops tho ee teres. snubs nt Court-receptions and the like, is not yot hushed. That course of treatment to- wards tho Princoss Imperial of Germany is as impossible as it provod futile toward tho Duchess of Edinburg, so somothing’s got to bo dono to save Vicronra’s dignity, and to en- abla her to sleop soundly of nights and to on- joy her dinnor. It happons that, under tho British Coustitu- tion, sho can novor’ bo more than Queon—the Imperial powor boing vested solely and cx- clusively in Parliament, which, by changing the succession, as it has donc, can mako and unmake Kings and Queens, But thero is tho greatest of the British colonial dependoncics, India, an Empire in territorial extent and with 200,000,000 population, and hor Majosty at lost sottlod that hor digestion and wonted Tho swashbuckler of tho Zines is making | Bank of Egypt, which akould tako chargo of progress. Ina now column of old verbiage | tho funding of the Egyptian dobt and tho he has actually approached a dim comprehon- | collection of tho taxes to meot tho interest. sion of tho difforonco betweon the substanco | ‘Iho refusal of England to go into this and shadow in the disoussion of the validity | schomo is wiso. It would be o mora mako- of tho city cortiflcates, Ha begins to admit | shift to delay for a time tho inevitable bank- that ho has not meant to impeach tho validity | raptey which awaits Egypt, and moanwhila of tho certificates themselves, except inas- | tho apparent partnorship of tho English Gov- much os thoy represent a dobt unlawfully in- | crnmont, ang tho supervision which it would curred. ‘Then ho has failed with surprising | be prosumod to oxorcise, would attract tho persistency and singular atupidity to oxpress | investment of now capital in a foeling of se. his meaning in words. But even now, od- | curity that would probably novar bo realizod. mitting oa ho doos in soveral places that “it | Tho English Government is too cautious to is tho Ming, city indobtedness, which tho | enter inte any such schome, If tho Constitution prohibits,” and that ‘per so o| money which Egypt got from France for form of words called a cortificato is not pro- | tho Sucz Canal did not hold out but a hibited by tho Constitution at all," ovonthon | vory fow months at most, until tho Govern- tho Z'imes docs not disavow tho purpose of | mont was agnin prossed by ita nocessitics, the Tho record of the ycas and nays on the yoto by which tho Common Council indorsed tho hold-over oxpressman furnishes tho ma- terinl.for a black-list to ba usod for the guid- anco of every citizen who dosires tho rostora- tion-of honesty and deconcy in tho Municipal universal assumption by the people that tho | advocating the repudiation of these cortifi- | indications aro that the Governmont is too placidity of temper would be restored if to | people will acquicsco in this outrago, and | In sll parts of the city outslde of the Twalfth Government of Chicngo. It is o favorito | man who ie appointed to tho Supremo Bench | cates, which haa beon tho logical sequenco of | seriously involved to ndmit of honorable | bor othor titles were addod Empress of India. | then may bo thoy won't. (now Elovonth) Ward thoro oxists a strong proverb of tho refined and high-toned indi- | takes the plnco for life, and that thenceforth his provious uttorauces on the subject, How- | liquidation, ‘Tho roticonce of Disnavur con- ever, having in some imeasuro drivon the | corning it is confirmatory of this view. Times into on acknowledgmont of the real Egypt has simply been overtaken by tho point in issuo, it is now porsible to discuss it | fate of all peoplo who live boyond their with o botter prospoct of arriving at tho cf- | means, and endeavor to do moro than their focts of the theory it advocates. resources warrant. It is probably as badly off ‘The real point in issuo, then, which tho | os ‘Turkey, though its financial ombarrass- Times now professes to understand, is whoth- | ments are more tho result of bad investmonta er the city may lawfully become indebted for | and abnormal development than of univorsal any purposo or in any mannor, since the | dissipation and official corruption. By a ou- bonded debt of tho city alroady oxcoods tho | rious indirection, Egypt’s misfortunes began constitutional limitation of 6 per cont, If it | with o delusive prospority brought about by may do 60, then it is lawful to borrow tho | the American War of tho Robellion. Tho money to pay snch indebtedness, and it is lo- | price of cotton rose to such o figuro os to gal to issue certificates representing such in- | dazzle the Egyptians, Mon who had worked dobtedness to the city's creditors or to bank. | amall farms thomselyes began to hiro thoir In era who may seo fit to cash thom, This can-} bor, and flocked to tho citics to squander not bo denied. Wo now understand tho| their monoy. Thoy also exponded largo Ttmes to maintain that it is not lawful to be- | amounts of moncy on machinory ond tho come temporarily indebted for services, and, | improvements with which to cultivate consequently, not lawful to issue certificates | tho barron Innd. Whon the declino represonting such indebtedness until the tax-| camo, the farmera were personally levy therefor can bo first collected and depos- | bankrupt, and tho Government stopped in ited in the City ‘Treasury, and tho indebted-| ond advanced monoy on land-mortgages, ness discharged with such monoy. 'Thoso mortgages wero subsequently foro- Let us take o caso in illustration of the | closcd, and thus it is said that ono-third of tho Zimev latest position in this matter. | all tho land of Egypt has now passed over to Tho city is avery day Lecoming indebted for | tho Khodive. Thus the Government has boon services rendered by the police at tho rato of, | carrying on tho business of forming in addi- say, $60,000 a mouth; for tho sorvices of | tion to its othor schemes. At tho same timo tho Fire Dopartment at tha rate of $50,000 0 | it hns boon reaching out in all directions, month ; and for the services of the school- | building railroads and canals, and carrying tenchora at tho rato of $60,000 a month,— | on gigantic onterpriscs of internal dovelop- making, wo will say, $170,000 for tho month | mont. It has also’ sustained a largo army, of March for theso threo branchos of tho | which it has sought, with the aid of Amori- service, This will bo due next Saturday, | can and English officers, to place on tho foot- April 1, and poyable dndor common usage | ing of tho armics of Western Europe, It ond justice a fow days later. But it is now | has undertaken oxpeditions into tho interior &nown, and it was known at tho timo tho city | of Africa, and has conqnerad and annoxed hogan to inour tho indcbtodness to those per- | territory. All this has been done on credit, sons, that there will not bo $170,000 of | and now tho timo for sottlement is noaring. monoy in tho City 'Iroasury on tho first day | It is useless to delay it by any deceptive and of April, from tho collection of taxes, with | temporary snbtorfuges, which will only en- which to pay off tho indebtodnoss thus tem- | courage Egypt to continua the extravagance Porarily incurred. Yet those sorvicos have | which has betrayed it into all its troubles, beon contracted for and have beon| This is probably the viow tho English Gov. valuoblo, if not indisponsablo, to tho | ernment takes of tho matter. city. ‘Tho persons and proporty of the citi- ————— zens have beon protected from violonce ‘Tho action of the Committee on Public ly tho polico; tho Firo Dopartmont } Buildings of the City Council, in roporting bos saved the city from posaible do | favorably on tho proposition that tho county struction by fire; the teachers havo | build tho city’s portion of tho Court-Honse, boon employed in instructing 40,000 childron | tho latter paying ront thorofor, and tho prob- who would otherwise bo running tho atreeta | ability that both tho Council and tho County and growing up in ignorance to be bad citi- | Board will unite on this plan, has callod geng, Horctofore wo have undorstood tho public attontion to the Court-Houso question, Times to object to the issuo of certificates by | which has for somo timo beon “in abeyanco, which tho indebteducss to thouo porsons for | and oupecially to tho subject of tho plans for their services could bo discharged; but now, | that edifice. Some months ogo, it may bo aswe understand the Z'mes, tho dete itself | romembered, tho two architects—Tuuzy and cannot bo incurred lawfally, for the Y'imes | oan—wero provailod upon to waive somo of has boen forced to admit that it is not the,| the points which had separated them, and to cortificate that is prohibited by tho Constf-| propare compromise plans, Up to that timo tution, but tho inourment of tho dobt, What | ‘Tuer had held fast to tho rich ornaments. then romaing, if tho Zimes be corrovt in its} tion of the Euroka design, while Eaan had latest position, but to dischargo tho police, | duplicated tho North Side County Build. the firomen, and the school-teachors? It is| ing. ‘Tho latter, in his now drawings, the act or fact of becoming indebted—that is, | mode conceasions to the architectural of hiring tho policomen, tho firemen, ond the | ideas of bis rival, tho regult boing an incon- It wasnnd is an awful question, that of her Majesty's digestion and tempor, and right loyally has her Majesty's Prime Minister od. drossod himself to it. It is only necessary to read his specch in Parlinmont to grasp somo conception of the momentous in- toresta staked upon the Moyal peaco o' mind on a point of otiquotte. Bringing profound historio —_ research to bear, be prepared tho way for what was to follow by showing that “Royal Majesty" meant precisoly the same as‘ Imporial Moj- esty,” wherefore nobody could object to do- claring her Royal Majesty hor ‘ Imperial Majesty.” But it was only, ho declarod, ‘ by tho amplification of title ” that they ‘could touch and satisfy the imagination of nations.” And that wos what was the matter. Hor loyal subjecta in India, inspired theroto, we prosumo, more, especially by tho gallant pig- sticking oxploits of the Prince of Wales, yearned and plued, with longing unutterable, tohavo her for their Empresa. Queon only did not “touch and satisfy their imagination ;” nothing less than the Imperial title could do that. Tho loyal Commons latoned, and, after some discussion, wore convinced, and passod the bill, which is now bofore tho Mouse of Lords, and of coursa will bo passed. | Andnow comes the rub, The London Z'imes, which pre-ominently is the organ of British sturdy common-sensa, and did not hesitate to declare Distaxst’s argument in support of the bill **ludicrously inconclusivo,”” comos to the front and strongly declares that, in fact, Hor Majesty can Lavo, and will have, no Imporial powors in India, go that more than eyer tho title will be ridiculous. English power in India indeed is Imperial, but it vosted not in tho Queen, but in Parliament, which rolin- quishes no jot or tittle of its imperial prarog- atives thore, ‘Then, as to touching and sat- isfying the forvid Indian imagination, tho Tines oxplains, first, that tho Indians have not heard about the proposod addition to her title ; noxt, that in all probability thoy never will, for thero is no equivalent in thoir tonguo for tho word Empress, and no words in it would expross o highor rank than that ex- pressed by tho present title thoy give her of “+ Kaisorim,” or “ Tho Omnipotent Ono.” In- deed, how shecan boranked highor than “Tho Omnipotent Ono" cannot be discovered, though thoso who profesa acquaintance with the capabilities of tho Indian tonguo affoct to boliove that ‘*Padishow,” as ashe would be known, if the bill pass, would go boyond tho superlative, ‘The Omnipotent Ons.” However, without doubt the bill will pasa, It is to be trusted it will savo her Majesty the pangs inflicted by etiquette, the code of which oven Parliamontcannot amend. And oa tho English will havo Royalty set over thom, it certainly is their duty to case, as far ax may be, tho pangsof Royalty, But what thon of poor Lonyx, who, when the Imperial honors fall also on his wife, will bo farther than over separated from her socially, and —_—— wisn that Ald. Hearu and Warenaan would Mr. Payne, of Ohio, may now bo connted | consont to sorve another torm. ‘Thoy ar¢ ” among the defunct doctors of finance—killod | both very valuablo mombors, and havo male ‘ ‘ +, | most oxcallent records, Either of them fa q by 8 oo ot a nan pee ieee suitable timber for Alayor, and the noxt Conveil i in all probability will oloct one of its number menningtoss and purposeless ag anything | payor for tho wnoxpired torm, aa tho charter which could havo been dovised. All thero | really mekos it their duty to do. wosin it was that the Govornmont should pay 6 per cent interest for $10,000,000 in PERSONAL. eld ane at Lad amey antl The effects of tho Samana Bay Compan) b séara tox do the samo thing, and thot | Prought $90 at publlo sale in Now York, aanipr es "Tho firm of Bowles Brothera, London and Paris was all of it. Tho House yesterday by atwo- bankers, is to bo resuucltatod, third voto rofasod to recoive the bill, That) J 405, van Lerlus, one of the most distio monstrosity having boon put out of the way, now let Congress go to work and romovo tho bend artlgtis of Bolgltimy led Ric Mlaebisy Earn eat tae eople, |" Lotta wrote in aady's album, undor the ine ‘ “A laycr."—E. L. Davenron?, . when thoy plowo, Tho Banking law as it 4 food banjorplayer."—Lovra, stands, and tho Logal-Tondor act ns it stands, “Jonnlo Juno” saya that Mr, A, P. Burbank, both prohibit the reaumption of spocio-pay- | Of Chicago, 1a ono of tho two moat popular pab- monta, Lot Congress addross itaclf to some- lio readors in New York City, thing practical, and havo done with the wild fan Dae Cis been snared tone . etao ‘ollows’ ir in Portlans Cy a a te schemes which aro wholly im- diately upon her roturn from Europa, yrpetcane Myra Clarko Gaines rogards the rocont d- s “Tae O'R} cision of tho United Btatos Supromo Court at ry ae a toe Ae een of He excoedingly fayorablo to her interests, i Moy envion of oledting a Mayor this | ESTY Barrett, the actor, mado a Drills coe A a et eae ttt | aoeech at tho Bt, Patrick's Banquet in Now York . 4 vory deolded majority of the Voters of tho | tho Into Horatio Harris, of Boston, who wa old Ninth ara “ Homo-Rulors,” aud don’t he- | supposed to bo oncrmously wealthy, iu insolvent. liove in tho divine right of Kings to rale,} Father Tom Burko's letter to tho St Patrick cithor in Ohicago or Ircland. ‘These treach- | Society of Bt. Loule, dated Marob 7, 1870, asid crous Aldermen will bo very apt to hoar| nothing about his death,—the bull bolongs? * something drop on election-day, ‘Tho darkey | to subject. said he climbod to tho top of atreo after a Aare hotel cpaplisbad. sanjay se " @ prosontly “he heord somethin’ | gland and Amorica, entitled Comin’ throl dap,” and ‘on looking around ho found it tho Tr” i understood to be the work o Mise was himeolf, with a broken arm and dislo- anightons : cia bit cated hip.’ On tho night of tho election |, Mr. Barney Williams, tho Trish comodian, . tho polot of death. Ho may lingor for some Mosars, O'Bazn and Barter, tho Anti-Homo- ‘hi Tulors of the Ninth Ward, moy find thom. timo, but will probably never recover. The a =: Ising is spinal discago, aclves in tho colored individual’s condition atic A Goorgis editor wpoaks of ‘the abirt of ate ee ae of tho Convin ‘coon up the | yostor, if my memory sorves me right.” Not: gum-troo, tor, bolog the wisest among the Greeks i ra yory old, probably woro sevoral shirts, an Benator Haar is atill intent upon having | oreronce is therefore not plain, the ratoa of postage on third-class mail matter od, i fixed at a roally highor rate than by tho amond- | _ The causo of our open wintor ia explained. ment emugglod through. the last Congrosy in | 18 #aggostod that tho last expodition bit a the interest of tha expross companics, and | ceeded in roxching tho pole, and bea ae which the Sonsto haa not yot found timo to re- | the mouth of th cavo from which Old sais posl, Hle plan 14, a8 sop to tho newepapory, to | 48s vontod his wrath for untold centuriod in make special rates for thom and magazines of | Past. 1 coat for overy 2 ounces (tho old rate) for any Rumor io Montreal says that Mra. MoKonzi distance not exceoding 1,000 mitoa ; snd 1 cent | who oloped to Philadelphia with Mr. Brydges per ounce for groator distancos. Then bo pro- | bas gone to Chicago, aud intends to remain there poses to detinc—that ts, to rostrict—-tho articlos | with « viow of golting 8 divorce from her bur that may be transported through tho mails other | band, aud that the husband, for tho asko of bit than newspapers, ato.; and, tnstoad of lower- | cbildron, doclines to sue for » divorce on bu ing, to incroaso the rates (alrosdy doubled) for }| own scoount. 4 all distances over S00fmileg,—that is, for alt dis-| Prof, James Sylvester, of England, who bit tances botwoon 200 aud 800 miles, 2 cents for | boon clected’s member of the Faculty of tht every 2 ouncey; batwoon 600 and 1,00 mites, | Jouna Hopkina Univorsity, is sald by ono #LO Boouts; and for cach 1,000 miles additional, 1 | knows tim to beemiuently qualifiod for the cont for every 2 ounces, Mr, Hawtin protests | position, Ho is recognized everywhere as ‘one that he basn't ropentod of, or apologized for, | of tho moat yplendid and ripeat mathonuatician® hiy course in putting through the express com- | England poseossos. Nor 1s he only a mathems panies’ postal emeadmont doubling ratea un | tician, Ho {ws brilliant oritio, and la she a third-clasa mattor, and roally proposes, by | thor of » littlo work called tho ‘ Lawa of Vor" ridual who usurps the Mayoralty that “a man who lies down with a dog will got up with fleas,” and tho twenty-two who con- tinded to make this choico of o bod-fellow will bo afforded an opportunity to judgo of he is utterly withdrawn from politics, and his future public life is to bo dovoted oxclu- sively to the exalted duties of a high Judgo. Tho Constitution contemplates this very result, Though it docs not prohibit a Justico of the Supreme Court from aspiring to a po- litical office, it quiotly assumes that, onco ap- pointed, he will romain a Judgo thenceforth for lifo, Political parties havo acted upon this assumption, and moro than one person who entertained vexatious aspirations to the Presidency has boon suppressed,—rotired for- over to the judicial office, It was thus that Gen. Jackson disposed of his ambitious Post- aaster-Goneral, McLean, who waa using his office to promote his own political ends, At a later day, the Democratic party was relioved of the importunitics of Lavt Woopnuuy by his appointment to the Supromo Court. At o still later day, it was thought that Br, Cuase’s Prosidontial aspirations were in liko inanner extinguished by a like appointment, Excopt Mossrs, MoLean and Crasz, no per- son appointed to that Court has over aftor- wards professed a desire for the Prosidoncy, The vote upon the Parne bill in tho House yestorday—68 Domocrats voting in the affirm. stivo and 63 in tho negatlve—is o significant confirmation of the prediction that no com- promiso can bo effected between {he pro- nounced inflationists and the reat and half- way hard-monoy Domocrats, The formar op- posed the bill because it admita tho possibili- ty of resumption at somo indefinite dato, and not oven tho dictum of tho caucus could overcome thofr settled hostility to anything which squints at hard moucy. Leaving tho Republican minority out of the question, the Democrats could not muster strength cnough fo pnas tho bill by tho requisito majority, ‘Tho Confederates aro about to enter upon on investigation into the conduct of tho war, {u tho hopo of domonstrating to an astound. ed ation that tho horses in ie Army of tho me in both enna the popular distaste for tho Yotomno wero not properly fod, and that tho een of a President from tho Suprome ‘uniforms of the Boys in Lluo wore abandoned eh orerealad syon: the judgment of, per to the ravages of the moth which corrupts, pes err “ho eountry bas always shrinks In short, tho vanquished Confederates expect bt ct ishing a precodont fo full of don to show that the victorous Union armies wera | 8 Dori to publi iborty; and! ea sartain badly mannged a8 regards horse-foddor and Ho.ond in the conversion of the Court into a clothing, and that some of tho Quarter. | OP artisan tribunal, whore decisions would masters wore not as honest as they should pe fhe rele et ee catala and: party plat- havo been, Incidental to tho investigation it | OTS; 60 “ho et fo have persistently ro- will be necessary to show that the Quarter. fused to rocoguize the candidacy of any mom- mastore, horses, and moths wore all Republi- ber of, that Court for'n palitical often. cans; elso why invostigate? 4, bome Cime'auo many leading Republicans of Ohio, in searching after o candidate for tho Presidency, sottled down to the opinion that Chiof-Justice Warrs would bo an adinira. ple seloction; finally a lutter was addressed. him on tho subject, to which ho replied in terms which not only expressed his personal viows, but reflected the viows of tho Ameri. can poople gonorally as to the impropricty and impolicy of any Justica of the Supremo Court accepting or seeking the nomination for the Presidency or any other office at tho hands of partisan politicians, ‘Thero has beon such a general wrock among the Democratio aspirants to the Preaidonoy —Denpizton’a fall has been followed so rap- idly by that of Hznpnioxs and Titpen—that, scomingly in despair, the politicians at Wash- ington tolk of nomiuating Judge Davin Davis, of Dlinois, at the St. Louis Convention, Such 8 nomination will be the first doparture from the established policy of the American Re- public,—that of keeping the Supromo Court out of politics, Judgo Davis is now 61 years of age; forty yoars of his life have beon spent in Illinois, he having como hither from Maryland, whero he was born, Ie was nover a Domocrat; ho never voted a Democratic ticket in his life, aud probably novor will if ho lives until ho is 100 years old. Ho was first an Anti-Slavery Whig, as was Lixcony ee be ™ Ft A plan ha’ been dovised by Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, whereby it is hoped to suppress tho system of straw bids in tho award of aaail contracts, oy well as to prevont the buying off of low bidders. ‘Tho plan is sim- plo but apparontly feasible, and if enforced should go far towurd chocking the gross frauds in the mail-carrying sorvico, It con. templates tho onactmeut of a law requiring that in tho event of a default by ono or moro of tho lowest bidders the Postmantor-General ehall award the contract at a vote not above that namod in the lowest bid, andif this cannot be done he is to readvertise, the sano rulo as to the lowest bid governing all con. traote for temporary service, Tho strict en. forcement of this regulation, it is belloved, would make utraw-bids unprofitabla, and on- eran honest bidders to compete in good ‘Tho Chicago produce markets were rathor xrogular yostorday, Mess pork waa quict ind easter, closing at §22.40@22.42} cash and $22.70 seller Moy. Lard was moderately active, and 100 por 100 tbs higher, closing at $13.80 cash and $14.00 seller May, MMcata were quiet and steady, at bgo for boxed shoul. ders, 1240 for do short ribs, and izfo for do