Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1876, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, EATES OF SUDSCRITTION (PAYATLE IN ADVANCE), Pastage Prenntd 1 this Ofte Jally Rditlan, postpatc, ) sea .813.00 Paztaof yearat eame rate. FOLT WEEXS for., rary and Railgius e Fri-Wesky, postiai V’arta of 3oar at same rat WEELKLY EDITION, POSTP. Ona enny, per year Clabiof v, por co Glub of waiiy, prr cany, The poatags v L1 cen Specimen coplos sent free. To pravent dotay and mistakex, be suro and givs Port- Office address In tall, including Stato and County. f TRRME TO CITY STDSCRINKAN, Duily, delivared, Sunday excepted, 203 ceate ber week, Dally dalivered, Bonday Included, 30, esnts por veck. Addre UNK COM THITRIBU Ooraer Madiyon and Dearb HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph strest, between Clark and LaSalle, Tho Csiifornia divatrels, MaoVICKER'S TIIEATRE—Madison street, between Dearborn and tate. *'Tha Ppor Girl's Diary ” snd * The Dead Bhot.” WOOD'S MUSEUM--Monroo atrest, between Dear. m and State, Afternoon: “ The Drunkard,” iEven- ing: * Toving Jack.” ADELPHT THEATRE—Dearborn street, corner Monros. * Quilp,” McCORMICK IALL—North Clark strest, cornsz of Kinzls, Cancert by Gilmore's Band, SOCIETY MEETINGS. THOS. J. TURNER LODGE, No, 409, A, F.and A, e (Thursday) evening, April 6, at 8 o'clock, for business, and work on Third Degree, _Visitors aro cordislly invited to meet with us, at 72 East Monros. at., Free Masons’ Hall (A. AL Express Bullding), By order of W. A, WWALLACE B. DOUGLAS, Secretary, LETADES LODGE, flo, 478, A, F. and A, M.— Blated communteation of Flolades Lodge, No, 478, A., F.and A, M, this (Thflnhi) svening, April G, Dusis noss of importance will ba brought bafora the Lodge, and s full attendancs i8 requestod. Per order W. M, The Ghicage Tribune, Thursdsy Mormmng, April 6, 1876. Groenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- chango yesterdny closed at 88§, It has just ocourred to the Signal-Service Bureau that April has arrived; hence the announcement that warmer woather may be expacted to-da; The election in Rhodo Island yesterday re- fulted in the success of tho Republican ticket. Mexny Lrrrrrr, the Ropublican nomineo for Governor, failed to receive a majority voto over all, but, having reccived & plurality over his Democratic and Prohibi. tion opponents, will be elected by tho Logis- lature, which continnes strongly Ropublican. ] The people of Toxas aro uncertain just how much of a blessing the Mexican revoln- tion will prove.to the border residents. It will attract into tho military servico large numbers of the marauders who have heroto- foro devoted their attention to cattle-atealing, ‘but it will also increaso the demand for beef, and this {s what troubles the stock-raisers of Texas, The 17th of April is the day fixed by the Bonate for Gon. Berxyar to appenr and mako answer to the impenchment articlos, He has xetained as his counsel Moxraosery Bram, Jzre 8, Brack, Bex Burnes, and Matr Can- PEINTER, whoso combined fees will make the post-tradership balance-sheet look unhealthy ond emnocinted. It is understood thot the deferrse will make application for an exten- * sion of two wecks bayond the 17th, Taexon 'W. Panx hos begun his testimony ‘beforo tho Emmn Mino Committee, and of courso ho givos the nssurance that everything pertaining to tho sale of tho stock was hon- orable, fair, opon-and-above-board. He ngrees with Gen. Somexox and ex-Semator BSrewant that the mine is still valuable prop- erty, worth all it wns sold for. If he could only make the English shareholders bolieve ll this, it would simplify matters greatly. Tho Mormon metropolis was yestordsy lit- crally startled by tho explosion of four pow- der-magnzines situated on an outlying hill, Three urching, who caused tho eatastrophe, went into fino fragments immoediately, and furnished a parallel to uncommon yeteoro- {ogical phenomena recently observed in Kon- tucky. An oldlady waa frightened to death by tho crack, and it is said that $50,000 worth of glass was shattered by atmospheric concussion. An order was yostorday issued by the Presi- dunt, through tho Secratary of War, direot- ing the ro-ostablishment of army hendquar- ters in Washington, and aleo providing that in futare nll orders issued by the War Dopart- mont pertaining to military affairs shall bo promulgatod through the General of the Army. It was on this latter point that tho disagroement occurred betweon Gen. Smen- naN and Secrotary BerzNar, lending to the transfor of headquarters to 8t. Louis Now that the respectable citizons and tax. ‘payers of the First Ward know who it ia that they are threatencd with ns Aldermen for the ‘noxt two years, thoy will be more than ever unwilling to take no for an answer from Mr. Wextwontn, They will insist upon support- Ing him at the polls, and, ns ho is a pablic- spirited man, he will not refuse to serve them if elected. Ho can bo_electod boyond question; the result of Tuesday's election proves that the decont elomont outnumbers tho bummor olement in Chicago. ‘While the Democrats in the Houss are on- gaged bringing to book the various offlcials .| supposed to have overdrawn their approprin- tion accounts and incurred indebteduoss pro- hibited by law, it might not be emiss to turn their attontion to ths Ohairmeon of the num- erous Investigating Committees who are sum- moning witnesses at wholesale without a cent loft of the contingont fund to defrsy the expense, This practiceisof daily occurrence, and {s s much in violation of law as any sther kind of indebtedness or deflciency. r——megey In relation to the matter of the mcoept- ances drawn by Secretary Roneson, now in course of investigation, the Becretary has made a statement which takes the wind out of the Democratio sails. Mr, Ronesox in. forms the Committee that the cceptances in question were drawn against the appropria. tions for the ourrent year, and that no deficit has been created, An attempt will be made to show these acceptances to be illegal, but it o 18 probable that tho Becretary knows his bearings, and that he will stesr clear of Vreakers this tr The Chicago produce markets were more infnated yesterdsy, Bless pork was more sctive and 5@10c per brl lower, closing st $22.25 cash and $2U.47§®22.50 seller May, Lard was in falr yequest and easler, closing 8t $18.70@18,73) emh and.918.89)@18,85 Cor May, Mests ware more active and easlez, at 84c for boxed shoulders, 1240 for do short ribs, and 1236 for do short clears, Highwines wera qniet and steady, at £1.07 per gallon. Flour was quict and firm, Wheat was quiet, nnd clased 1§e lower, at :31.00 for April and 1,043 for May. Corn was more active and 3elower, closing at 4:ije for April and 480 for May. Oats wero active and jo lower, closing ot 523c for April and 340 for May. Ilye was quiet and firm n¢ G4}@65¢ for April and 700 for May. Barley wns quiet and steadier, closing at 583e for April and #9ja for May. flogs were in good demand, at 5@10e ad- vance, selling al £8.00@9.00, Cattle wero fairly Active nnd firmer, with sales nt £3.60@ 4,80 for common to prime. Sheep were with- out important change. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112,75 in greenbacks at the closo, The * Independent Greenbackers” invest- ed Bomo of their favorite currency yesterday in a band of music, which mnde a part of the day hideous in the streets of Chicago, to drnm up an attendance at n meeting which thoy held in Farwoll Hall, Porhaps the nows from Connecticut tanght them the nocessity for resorting to some oxlr;mrdlnnry method for sccuring n show of constituency, When o whole State, after forming a party ex- pressly in the interest of an irredecmnblo currency, could only drum up 1,800 votes, there was certainly causo for the greenback- ers of Chicago to become apprehensive of & failure to get together n respectablo nnmber of peoplo to liston to their unmitigated stu- pidity, The fact that tho primary election in tho THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY. APRIL 6, 1876, e R R T T O R R R R R R R U e R e R e —————— ] the tarif on woola, wools in this country, but foreign wools aro dofeated by tho excessive tax on tho foreign wools. The result is an immense importa- fining of Ameriean woolen mnuoufactures to the conrser qualitics of goods, on which there is an excossive tax, and of which thore to the manufactarers. If all wools wher- ever grown wore made free, if the manu. with manufacturors of other countries, and were nllowed to produce all manner of woolen goods, there wonld be an incrensed general production, including an inereased consump- tion of American wool, and the terrible by tho exportation of tho surplus. Tho Tarif bill pending in Congress is o measure lending up to theso results. It does not nbsolutoly makoe raw materials froe, but it reduces the tax on them, and is & bill the most favorable to American monufacturera that Las beon proposed in Congross since the tariff of 18: Tirst Ward yesterday waa carried by Fravk ‘Wannex and Dave Lyox does not imply that these men are the Republican candidates for Aldermen, Thoy aro the ecandidates of the bummiers, gamblers, hack-drivers, thiavos, and confidence-men, and will be repudiated by tho Republicans of tho ward. The Firat Ward Republican Club had already nomi. nated Messrs. Wentwortn and McAurey, with the intention of supporting them, with. out regard to the primary election. This in- tontion will be carried out at the polls un the day of tho city eclection, when, it is to be hoped, the decent men of the ward, irre- spective of party, will make common cause against Warnex and Lyoy, and send to the Common Council two Aldermen who will fit- 1y represent the large property interesta of the ward, THE TARIFF BILL IN CONGRESS, Tho Committeo of 'Ways and Aleans in tho House of Representatives have been consid- ering the now Tariff bill in detail, and henring suggestions and argnments from the interest. ed partics. A day or two ago the Committea roached theitemof woolen,—* webbings, belt~ ings, bindings, braids, buttons, galloons,” otc., on which the duty or tax is 50 cents per pound and 50 conts ad valorem. Alr, Eaxes, of Rhodo Island, appeared before the Com- mittee exhibiting lettors from some of his constituents, in which thoy declared that if this duty bo reducod tho manufacture of this class of goods in the United States must cease, ‘This is the stercotypod protest which 1wmonopolists always make in such cases, The man who should undertake to raise cocon- nuts in Michigan could hardly be able to sell his product short of a protection of §00 per cont, and he might well ssy that if sucha duty were repealed or reduced the cultivation of cocon-nuts in this country would have to bo abandoned. Tho present duty on these woolen articles is oqual to 68} por cent in gold, or 77} por cent in ourrency, and it is questionable whether the maintenance of s manuofactare at sugh n heavy tax upon the general publio isso extremely desirnblo.. The proposition beforo the Committeo is to ropeal the duty of £O per cent ad valorem, leaving the tax of G0 cents per pound romaining in force. Tho manu. facture of these goods in this country is con- fined to comparatively fow cstablishments, and the fact that they charge up the pro- tective tax on the domestio goods is shown in the fact that in the flacal year of 1875 goods of this description to the value of $1,687,600 were imported, which would not have been possiblo hod not tho domestic manufacturers had their goqu at the lighestrate. Itisa question whother 45,000,000 people in the United States shall continue to be taxed 77 por cont, or perhaps twelve millions of dollars, worth of these goods, for the mere profit of a few persons doing business in Rhode Tsland. Better import the wholo amount at 25 per cent, and have the tax of $3,000,000 go into tho Treasury, than to tax the people 9,000,000, and have but $1,000,000 re. caivable by the United States, The proposed reduction in the tarif rates on cotton goods has thus far failed to pro- duco any serious remonstrance even from Rhodo Island. Tho fact is, the tariff duties on cotton goods, though averaging 40 per cont, have ccased to protect the manufactur. ers, who have to contend with domestiu over- production, which in turn admits foreign competition, Last year wo imported $25,- 000,000 of cotton manufactures despite the Ligh tariff, which goods were sold in compe- tition with domestio cottons. During that time the cotton.mills, protected by n duty of 40 per cent, were working on half or one. third time, trying, by reducing production, to Leep up the price in the homo market. But that policy has been nbandoned. Protection has proved a sunre and o delusion too loug ; and now theso same mills aro working on fuil time, not meroly to supply the kome market but to export, The mills of Fall River undertook the business first, and now the mills of other placos in Massachusetts and the mills of Rhodo Island are busy producing cotton to bo oxported to be eold in all foreign markets in compotition with the cloth of Great Britain, which has herotofore hnd a monopoly of the foreign trado in that lino, There is no euch thing a3 n successfol manu. facturing nation which produces only for the home market; to be successful ps a manu. facturing nation there must be n production for exportation, OQur cotton-manufacturers bave at last discovered that with a foreign consnmption of five hundred millions of yards of cotton cloth annually, it is supremo folly for the United States, with all tha zaw mata. rials, and machinery, snd labor at their door, to abandon that trade and rely exclu. sively on a home consumption, to meet which there ia alwaya mn over.production. The possible export of $75,000,000 of American cotton goods annually {s a complete explo alon of the fallaoy of protection. - ‘What is true of the cotton manufactures is equally true as to Iron and woolen manufac. tures. There is no reason why the United Btates should not bave an absolute monopoly of the home market for woolen goods, This cannot be secured by proteotive tariffe, It can only be seoured by allowing our manu. facturors to obtain all their raw material as oheaply a8 the manufacturers of other coun. tries can do #o. Wool of all kinds ahould be admitted fres of duty, or at moat a & nomi. aal daty, All (e other ingredienta entazing ABOLISH THE TOWN BOARDS. The exceptionably large numbor of tax- payers who wero in nttondance at the town mootings last Tuesday, and the choico of compotont nnd rospectable men to fill the town offices, shows that the property-ownoers of Chicago aro at last awake to tho fact that they must talo gtops to sava their property from confiscation. This is n correct state- ment of the cnse., If the old system of plunder and mirmanagement had gone on in the Town Boards much longer, it would have been o misfortune to own property in this city. The large turn-out last Tuesday is also tho more significant ns it indicates that the respoctablo and tax.paying citizons will fol. low up their victery by similar interest and onergy at tho approaching city election. This will secure a more reputable Common Council than Chijeago has had for many yaars, ond the offoct of the two victorics will be noticeable during the coming year in the re. duction of the. tax-lovy and the fairar nssess- mont thereof. But all this is not enough. Tho reform will not be complete until the systom of Town Boards shall bo abandoned altogether for Cook County. The law provides for this in mnch the same manner na the organiza. tion and roorganization of cities under either ono of the two goncral charters, In the case of towns it is necessary to sccure a petition of ono-fifth tho legal voters of the county, ascertained by tho vote cast at the proceding Presidontial eleotion; and when this is pro. sonted to tho County Board it bocomes their duty to causo to-be submitted to the voters at tho next general election the question whether the township organization shall bo continued or not. .The Citizens' Association, a3 wa underatand, have undertaken to socnrs the necessary numbor of signatures to such o potition, and they will have no trouble in gotting them. But the work should bo be. gun at once. 'The sooner the petition is pro- sented to the County Board the bettor. The quostion must be submitted at tho goneral election next fall, and thera is no doubt that the Town Board system will bo abandoned if tho issuo be properly explained to the poo- plo of Cook Couaty. The ovils of this systom, o far s Chicago is concerned, are numerous. First, there is tho constant violation of tho law limiting tho componsation of the town officers, who voto themselves exorbitant salaries and outrageous allownnces for clerk-hire. In the next place, it hos been customary to make the assessmont o means for blackmailing,—piling it on those who refuse to submit, and letting those off who contribute, and in proportion to the money they pay the Assessors. In tho third placo, the collection is likewise made the ma- chinery for blackmailing, Those who will poy the Colloctors more in the way of black- mpail than the commissions smount to may bo protty sure of being relieved of the neces- sity of paying the tax itself. Added to all these abuses is the usual ignormnce of the persons intrusted with the asseasment and colloction of taxes under the Town Board system. It is rarely that our citizens can be sufficiently aroused to thoir own inter ests to fight the bummers at an olection where there are but few polling-places, and whera tha law permits voting in any part of the town. The opportunities afforded for reponting and ballot-3tufling are 8o numerous that, a3 o rule, tho bummers will always carry theso town elections in Chicago. The only safe way, therofore, to avoid tho evils incident to tho systom is to abolish the sys- tom itself. The Oltizens' Assoclation should ot to work at once in this mattor so that thore may be no doubt of sccuring the requisito number of names, and the petition should be started off by the names of the Republican town officers just olected. CIVIL WAR IN MEXICO. Thero is another revolution in Mesico, It was about time to oxpect it. Merico haa been penceful too long for the comfirt of its reatless inbabitants, with their tmditional fondness for guorrilla warfaro, Tho immedi- ato occasion foran outbreak at the present timo is an approaching election for Presi- dont, But if it hadn't boen this, somo other excuso would have beon difcoverod for blood- lotting. Thero is 8o much bad blood in that country that it can only be purified by occa- sional civil war, the chief trouble of which is that the nuwber slain {s disproportionately small to the amount of fighting done, Thus, on Bunday, after soveral hours' fight, in which a coupla of thousand were engaged on both eldes, and soveral hundred of the loyalist troops mode prisonors, the highest number reportod as killed is five and of wonnded twenty, Torbaps this is the renson why tho internecine struggles in Mexioo Jast 8o long,— baocause the contestants are tuore successful in dodging than in firing their shots, The Bpaniards in Bpain having got through with thelr civil war,—having finished their throat-outting,—the Amorican branch of the family have begun the same business in Moxico, Juanzz had s troubled relgn as Presidential Diotator for several years, ana, dying, waa succeeded by Judge Lxano pe Txsans, who had comparatively & pesceful time for two years, and is now threatened by a revolution, Dis has beon m candidate for Yrosident for many years, » chronio revolutionist, The into tho mnnnfacture of woolen goods shonld be ndmitted free. Tho American wool-grow- era havo boon badly deceived and swindlod by Under an imaginary protection to American wools, they hinve been taxed from GO to 100 per cent on all tho woolen fabrics thoy have had to uso. No foreign wools can compote with American essentinl in lnrgo quantities for mixing with tho domestio wool, The production in this country of those finer cloths, made by mix. ing wools not produced in tho United States with tho American wools, is wholly tion of fine cloths, tho suppression of that class of American manufactures, and the con- 18 a constant over-production, ending in losses facturors woro placed on an equal fooling losses of over-production would bo avoided with her under the title of Peono ITL. He died in 1786, and the Queen soon after be- and s Cantral Governmen) has never been able fo malntaln ita aathiorlly (4 (he fron. tiors, ospocially on the morthern or United Statos boundary. Diaz, on Sunday, pounced down on a small force of the Federal army at Matamoras, on the Rio Grande, One- lf the Federal army doserted to kim, and the Fedoral Goneral, with such of his troops who adherod to him, was forced to seok safety on the American eide of the river. Mexican troops aro peculinr, The numbor of Genor- nls is immeonso. ‘The troops, as a whole, Loth national and revolutioniats, are for snle to the pnrty which will pay tho best or givo thom tho largest liberty of plundering tho country, Mexico hns been improving for some timo, ‘The condition of tho country hins Leen prosperous under the comparative peace which has prevailed during tho lnst fow yenrs, but tho Spanish yearning for re., volt, the Bpanish love of idleness aud plun.’ der, nnd the Spanish dislike for work, have again produced n revolution, with its mur. dors, assassinations, plunder, and spolintions, 1t is queationnble whether the National Gov- ornment ean put a force in the field equal to tho dispersion of the morcenary adventurera and desporadoes who are roady to partici- pate in any revolution, Gon, D1ag, the aspirant for the Presidency, cortainly gained considegable ground in Sun. doy's fight, and tho refusal of the loyalist troops to oppose him as vigorously ns they might have done, ns well ns tho charactor of his reception after ho had entered Matamoras, would indicate that he will bo successtul in tho rovolution lie has inspired in his own be- half. Another ronson for thinking so is that ho ig now.the revolutionist ;- but, if he snc- ceeds, it will only Le to give way to some now rovolutionist, and he will be lucky if ha shall rotain his questionable honors as long 0s Lerpo pe Tasapa, the prosent incumbent of tho chief office. The American interost in this stroggle will bo chiefly confined to tho Moxican border, the condition of which will be rondered moro lawless than ever by now raids and incrensed domoralization. AN AMERICAN EMPEROR AND EMPRESS, Peoro IL, Emperor of Brazil, and the Empress Taenria, aro now on their way to tho United States. Thoyintend to be present at tho opening of tho Contonnial, and expect to romain in the United States some threo months, visiting Chicago and the Pacific States. Tho Emperor wasborn Deo. 2, 1825, and has been Emperor sinco 1831, or forty- six years. Ho isof the house of Portugal. Tho Empress is of tho Royal houso of the Two Bicilios, boing the daughter of Fravos I, Kingof the Two 8icilies (who died in 1830), She was born in 1822, and is o fow years older than the Emperor., The Brazilian Empire is of comparatively regont origin, It is the only monarchy crected on this continent that has over had any stability, or that has escaped the rovolu- tions which seem to bo imsoparable from Sonth American Governmonts, of whatover form thoy may be. As the only existing Emperor in America, and a8 s wise, progress. ive, and learned gentloman, governing a prosperous people with grent satisfaction, he comes to this country ontitled to the respect of tho American people. A brief sketch of the rise of the present Government of Brazil ond of the family of the Emperor may not bo uninteresting at this time. Brazil was discovered in January, 1500, by VmvoexT Rvzow, a Spaniard, o companion of Corvamus, who elaimed it in the name of tho King of Castile. In April of the samo year Peono Oannar, 8 Portuguese navigator, ex- plored the const, and took possession in the name of Euanver, thon King of Portugal. In 1604 a Portugueso colony was planted, and for over 800 years tho country remained o dopendency of Portugal, though during that time Brazil was subject to froquent inva- sions by the Dutch and English. The Kingdom of Portugal, at the timo of the discovery of America, was 'in a prospor- aus condition, The monarchy dates with Avrovso L, in 1130, Fis descondant, Jomy II, who ruled from 1476 to 1495, was the groat patron of navigation and discovery, at- tracting to his Copital the most: learned and skillful navigators. Under his successor, Eamanver tho Great, Brazil was discovored. ‘The direot malo succossion of tho family ran out in 1680, and a Spanish branch governed wuntil 1640, whon Jonx IV., Duke of Bragan- 20, wos doclared King. In 1777, Many, daughtor of the preceding King, succeedod 10 the throne, B8hewas then 48 years of nge, and had seventeen yoars previously mar. ried her uncle, Pzoro, who ruled jointly came ingane. Their son, Jomy VL, was made Rogent, . Jonx VI, struggled for some years with the complications existing in Europe. Ho joined the first conlition againat France in 1793, but made peaco with France in 1801. In 1807 Junor, with a Fronch army, took possession of Portugal, and Jony, taking with him tho insone Queen, his mother, and the other members of tho Royal family, sailed for Bra- zil, mrriving ot Bahia in Janunry, 1808. The Queon Mother lived until 1816, and upon her death Joux was declared King of Portu. gal, but he continued to reside in Brazil. In 1815 ho hnd been proclaimed King of Brazil. As King of Portugol, Brazil, and Algarve, ha ruled theso countriea from his Capital in Bra. zil, In 1820 tho Portuguese Cortes demanded tho return of the King to Portugal, and in obedience to the command he returned to Lisbon, first appointing his son, Peoro, Re- gent in Brazil, Xn 1822 the Cortos of Brazil declared the indlepondenca of tho country, with Dom Peoro as Emperor. Jouy VI roigned in Portugal until his death, in 1826, and Peono I, of Brazil bocamoe Peoro IV. of Portugnl. Mo iramediately abdicated as King of Portugal in favor of his daughter, Manm Da Gronm, she being then 7 years of age. By n family compoct it wasarranged that her uncle, Dom Mrouet, was to be Regent until sho roached marriageable age; that then the Regont and Queen were to be married, but Miraves declared himself King, and, aftor some years of civil war, England and Franca intorfered, expelled Miguzy and placed the Queen on tho throne, Her son is at present King of Portugal, Pzono I of Brazil, being engrossed with tho sffairs of his daughter in Portugul, abdi- catod as Emperor of Brazil April 9, 163¢,and his gon, the present Emperor, then 5 years old, succeaded s Pxoro IL In July, 1841, being then 16 years old, he was declared of age and crowned Emperor. In 1848 he mar- rled the Princess Tuxaxaa of Naples. The Empress can claim & Royal descent as histor~ foal and ancient as that of the Emperor. The direct line bagins with Roaxs, first King of Biclly, about 1100, & Prince of the Norman blood, The Kingdoms of Naples and Biaily passed 1o tedly under the familles of Fyance, Castile, Arragon, and Awstrls, and the relgning Princes were oclosely connected by marrisge with all the Royal housss of Fu. rops. 1In 1740 the Crown of the unitsd Nas ples and Blolly passed to the Bpanish branch of ihe Bourbon family, in which famlly fzs. mained until the rcorganization of taly in 1860. Ter father was Francis I and her mother tho Princess Many Isanerta of 8pain, aunt of Isanzwta, the deposed Queen of Spain. I'ho Emperor has no male descondnnts. Two sons, born in 1847 nnd 1848, died at an enrly ngo. His elder daughter, Isanztra, born in 1846, is married to Louss of Orloans, Count of Eu, grandson of the Iate Lous Prtrieer of France. They have one child, n Trince, born in 1875. The second daughter, Lrororvina, wns married to AvausTus of Snxe Coburg-Gotha. 8he died in Eu- rope in 1871, leaving four sons, Prpomo, Avavstus, Josr, and Louis. During the nbsence of tho Emperor, tho Princoss Isa- DELLA govorns ns Regont, ‘I'he Government of Brazilis o constitu- tional monarchy, and its policy of tho most liberal characler. Though the religion of tho majority of the people aud of the Royal fomily is Romnn Catholic, all other religions are tolorated and protected. Liberal pro- visions aroe mado for goneral education, Trade and commerco ara encouraged, and, generally, Brazil enjoys n high prosperity, and the peoplo aro contented and happy, contrasting in theso respects most con- spicuously with all the othernations of South Ameriea. Thero is o large trado botween the United Statos and Brazil, which, howevor, would be much greator wero it not for our extraordinary tariff, which prohibits importa- tions of American manufactures to Brazil, and forcing that trade into the hands of the ZEnglish. T'he Empoeror is a grent travelor, having of Into yonrs spent much of his timo in Europe. This is his first visit to the United Btates, and after leaving hero ho will go to Europe, intonding a long stay i, the countries of the East. Tho anti-Chineso agitation in California is now being avowedly enginacred with a viow to forcing the Chinese-immigration question into the appronching Presidentinl canvnss. Sinco the decision of the United States Su. preme Court declaring tho head-money tax unconstitutional, it has dawned upon the Californin demagogues who would exclude cheap laborers from thoir State,—which more than any other in the Union {s suffering for Inck of laborers,—that go long oa tho Bunrv- aAnz treaty stands Chinese immigration can. not be obstructed, and their movement is to fetch o pressuro to bear upon Congress for | the abrogation of that treaty, and the anti- Chinose mass-meotings aro held to bring this about. Their boast is that upon that issuc will depend thoe eletoral votes of California, Oregon, and Nevads, snd thot the con. tost is so close theso cannot be ignored. To aid in importing the Chincso question into national politics, tho Ban Francisco Chronicle, Independent Republicnn, republishes, with high Inndatoryapproval, an old speech of Gov. Hexonicrs, inwhich he doclares that Ohineso immigration should bo exoluded altogether. This ovidontly is designed by the Chronicls 14 notico to the Republicans that it is season to put in their bid on the Chinese question for the clectornl votes of the Paciflc States. The San Francisco Bulletin, also Independent Republican, and probably the most influen- tial journal on the Cosst, also significantly remarks of the agitation for abrogation of the treaty that, **if it ia to bo attempted, the scasion of Congress proceding o Presidential clection is thoe most promising. The Demo- cratic Houso, if & show of unanimity and determination oan be presented, will not be disposod to throw away the votes of the Pa~ cific States, for wo presume Nevada and Oro- gon will bo with us in this matter, The Re- publican Senate will bo likely to bo swoyed by precisely the samo motives.” Among the possibilities of the approaching national can- vass may therofore bo rockoned a discussion of this Chinose problem which may fan the trades-union Communistio spirit to a flerce flame, A correspondent asks us if the bill bofora Congress making the silver dollar a logal- tender to the amount of $60 in one poyment becomes a law, whother it will not operate to the injury of the working-classcs and the rotailers, who will be compelled to take sil- vor, which is not worth ss much as greon. backs. Tho argumont is that, as all bills over $h0 must be pnid in groenbncks, that tho rotailer who receives silver only will have to make up the difference betweon the valuo of the two curroncies, If this bill becomes n law and silver shall continue to decline, it is possible that silver coins may stand in the same relation to greonbacks that tho latter do to gold. Tho country hns for many years been dealing with greenbacks, but in fact prices are largely upon the gold basis, with tho depreciation of the paper and o large margin for fluctustions added, The country has a large annual amount of money to pny in foreign countrios of whom we buy sngars, teas, coffees, and a va- rioty of goods. 'This sum has to be pnid in gold, nnd the value of the greenback is deter- mined by the amount of gold it will buy. ‘Tho only goneral mensure of valuoof all things bought and sold is gold. Prices in greenbacks aro incrensed by the addition of the deprecia- tion and o margin of fluctuntion. The wages of labor paid in greenbacks only purchase the nmount of groceries whith could be pur- chased by the value of theso greenbacks tarned into gold. The creation of & new le- gal-tender of a differont valuo than that of gold or paper is only tho greenback abomi. nation repeated in an additional form, It will servo to explode the theory that the Government stamp can confer value, Al deprecinted currency, whether of silver or paper, is a cheat and o fraud, the evil of which folls largely on classes who live by their daily or weokly wages. bt i el ‘What there {s bohind the bill for the ad- mission of New Mexico, tho Utah cor- raspondent of the Now York Sun states, 14 nothing less than the ostablishment of a Mormon Btate, 'The bill provides that, upon the adoption of a Constitution, Now Mexico shall be admitted. Tho schemo is attributed to Briamax Youna, who, in consequence of the influx of Gontiles in Utah, hasdetermined upon the removal of the Kingdom of Latter- Day Baints, and s attracted to New Mexico by the fertility of the soil and mildness of the climato, and the jgnorance and supersti. tion of the half-breed population, whom it is belleved could be essily proselytized. It is reoalled that AxTeey, the Territorial Govern- er of New Moxioo, was lately Governor of Utah, and as such sustained intimate rela. tions to Biromaw, whose confidence he en. joyed to an sextraordinary degres. It is also noted that a letter over the signature El Obizpo (the Bishop), extolling the great advantages of New Aexico and its acoessi. bility from Utah, of whioh Axtars admits he ‘was the writer, was lately published by Baio- sa’s organs at Balt Lake Oty ; that Mox mon Elders bave baen seni to New Mexloo to réconnoitrs, axd tha the Mornmon priesthe are of 1ate aselduoualy applylng theiassives to the study of tho Spanish languago. Bnio. mas's schomo 18 said to bo to grab_the good land of Now Mezico under Spanish grants, otc., 80 ns to bo enabled to exclude Gentiles by refusing to sell to them, and to make an exodus with his entive following to that Ter- ritory, form n Constitution, as under the Congressional bill ho is ot liberty to do, that will legnlizo polygamy, and, with the neces sions ho expectsto receivo from the native population, fo re-ostablish on n firmer basis Lis hierarcl Wo invito attention to tho evidence of tho Intost but most nfamous of all tho attempts mado to corrupt the ballot.boxes by tho des. perate scoundrels who havo been ruling this city at ita elections so long. On Tucsday night, after the clection, all the ballot-boxes of the Town of South Chicngo were brought to tho placo of the town meoting, at the cor- ner of LaSallo and Monroo atreots, Aftera long wranglo, tho Loxes were locked up in a wvault, thero to remaln until Wednesday morning, when the ballots wero to bo counted. In the moantime it was to be determined which of tha dupli- cate boxes in the Third Ward, if cither, was to bo counted. It was sgreed that n person designatod by the eitizens and the notorious GrEABON wero to romain in charge, and to ‘watch that no porson should touch the boxes ; all others wero to rotire. A number of citi- zens thon wont in search of somo food—it being aftor midnight—for the watchors, and on their return they found that tho Ropub- lican watchor had becomo incapacitated, and they saw Dave ‘TronxtoN and the man GLEA- soN retreating from the open vault whora the boxes were, Thoy saw thisthroughan aperturo in the door, but in answer to their knooking and onteries could got no responso, They persisted in their domands for admission, which wero unhoeded until TmorsToN and GreasoN had got through with thelr work. Tho avidonce of this most infamous and diabolical outrage,—this agsnult upon tho ballot-box,—is farnished by such men as Errior ANTHONY, the Rev. Antnun Mrronery, and Mr, W, R. Pace, oud ls therofore not hearsay. Wo invito a careful perusal of the testimony. As part of tho proceeding, it will be noticed that these sconndrels were not ready to count tho votod yestorday. have beon engnged in running down the con- duct of Secrotary Ronesox in connection with Jax Cookr, MoCurtocn & Co, that he did mako tho doposit of $1,500,000 during the panic 03 charged, and tho later deposit to which ho referred in his explanation was merely an addition thereto. ‘Tho Becrotary oxplained, it will be remombered, that the transfer of 31,600,000 was made to Brap- ¥onp, the Paymnster-General of tho Navy, who was then in London. But the probabil. ity that this mqnoy was deposited with Jax Coore, MoCurroon & Co., and sent there for that purpose, is increased by the charncter of the dispatches sont by Brapronp, in which he described the condition of the houds, and spokoe of it as unwiso for the Government to taks any ac. tion crushing the house at that time, and also by the allegation that the“transforof this amount of money at that season of the yoenr was altogether unusunl. It is now chnrged that the amount of funds doposited within n very few woeks in the hands of Cooxe, MaCurroon & Co. was as follows : -fl.m:‘%‘ Uct.18 Various deposits October and November. Total vivesruae von. Yot the highost nmount ever doposited in an ontire fiscal year previous to this was $8,600,000, whilo tho usual annual deposit with the Basma Brothers was §2,600,000, showiug an excessive and unusunl deposit of between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 within three or four montha. The Springfleld Journal, instead of openly daclaring ita preforenco for any particular eondidate for Governor, prefers to conduct the cawpaign in bshalf of its favorite by as. saulting Mr. Wasnpunne ns the most fbrmid- able contestant, and by making unwarranted insinuations concerning the motive of Tuz ToisuNe in suppbrting Mr. Wasmsunne's candidature. Now it is nbout time for the State Journal to stop this dirty business. The simple fact s that the Journal is the organ of a Ring, and it is also in favor of Mr. Curon 88 the Republican candidate for Governor, This colucidence is partioularly unfortunate for Mr. Ouvrrow. It croates o suspicion whioh will grow and gain strongth it tho Journal persists in, and Mr. Cunrox encournges, the snenking courss which that paper has takon in this matter. Mr, Wasmsunye is & msn of distin. guished politicnl purity, and Trs Triune, in favoring his nomination, ia actuated solely by the wolfare of the Ropublican party and tho State. Now, the Springfleld people whe ore engnged in this guerrilla warfare on Mr, Wasnsonye and Tax Tnone live in glass houses, and thoy had better bo ocareful how they throw stones or mud. We give them timely notico to call off thelr dogs. The Democratio mojority in Connectient is somowliat largor than was stated yesterday. The votes on Governor lnst year and this were aa followa: Demooratio majority,. Thls year—Ingeraoll (Dem, 1tobinson (Wep.)er.e Democratio majority. Bomething less than 4,000 votes wero cast in about equal proportions for those who wish to prohibit the use of all stimulants and of all gold, The Senate stands 18 Demoorata and 3 Republicans, a Democratio gain of one from lnst year. The Lower House stands 85 Republicans, 169 Democrats, and 2 Inde. pondents ; last yoear, 107 Republicans, 187 Democrats, and 1 Independent, & Demooratio gain of 23, The Democratioc majority on joint ballot will bo 87. Tux Tamune predicted when 3Mr, Davip A. Wzirs was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of his distriot in Conneotlont that he was more likely t» be defeated by Demooratio votes than Republican votes. The result shows the prediotion to have been correot in the main, a3 he received a smaller number of votes than the Democratio candi. date who ran at the preceding election. The reason of this s that he loat all those Demo. oratio votes which went over to the *Inde. pondent Greenbackers,” and probably a good many from the high-tari?t Democrats, The hightariff and Inflstion people are afraldto have a man of the lntelligence and progress. fve views of Mr, Warzs attain a sead in Cona gross, Mr. A T\ Brawinr's plan for the establishe mand of p workingmen's botel on Fourth Avenus, Beaz \he snttauce do the rallwsy bunnel, Now Yark, suutas o) Ladb to ba b Auo way o8 oooe- \ pletion, Tho building originally intanded for thin purpose is now baing proparad for tho chango, and will bo ready for occupancy hetore tho oponing of wintor, Thoro Ia no doubt thay much good can ba done by an nstitation of this doreription ; whetlier aay good witl be dona wil dopend in groat part upon the ensrgy and meth. oda of tho prajeotor, A clalm has been ot up by tho helrs of Jacquea CrAxonoAx, s Hpanish trader, to Jarge tracta of land in Lincoln snd Bt, Charles Coup. ty, Mo. Thoe original titlo of OLAMORGAN way dorived directly from tho Bpanish Government, and tho grant was mado to him as a reward for hls aervicos in Governmont oxplorations and sarveys. Threo ot hia four children diod with. out fssue ; the fourth left four children, Hexny, Louis, Louisa, and CypniaN. Louisa diod in 1833 and loft no childron; Loum died about 1850, and 18 reprosoned by tvo chile dron; iIzxny and CyvRiaN are stll living, the formor in 8t. Lonis, tho lattor in Hardin County, Il Jacques CraMonaa¥, the original proptie. tor, diod in 1814, Oct. 20, 1813, ha conveyed to Jonx Ent TuorosoN 448,000 arponta (over G50,. 000 acres), conatituting the wholo of tho grant, Threo daya Ister this proporty was reconvesed to ono of the natural sons, who died withont iseuo, This samo property was aftersards ro. convoyed, without color of titlo, by TnoLosoy lo othor parttes. The grandson of CrAMomoAy now c'aima a portion of the land under the Orst salo by Tuotosox to hia unolo, Cyraran Maxisuy CramongAN, the other grandchildren baving provionsly parted with thelr intoreat to porsons in New York, Thoro seoms to bo littlo douby but that tho title is equitable, and tho present CrrRIAN CLAMORGAN Liss snnounced his Inten. tion to proas it to the end in tho courts. Thougy adwisod by bLis attorneys to compromiso, ho res fusos todo 80, and a long aud oxpsnsive law-auit {s in prospoot, Tho value of the estale fanot exactly known, but it is supposod to e vory great. Tho Grand Jury of Bt. Lows haa eot a nobls example for Mr, Brongr and his followa of the orand inquisition of Cook County. Thoro have & 0 beon frauds, and corruptions, and munieipa] nuge in that suburb ou the Misalsslppl, and so extensivo wero too alliances of tho ringe that 1} was most difficalt to got at the facts. Butn. atesd of boglnuiug by resolving that lifo was tog short for tho villalny to bo explored, the St Louis Grand Jury set about it, and oxamined over two huudrod witneesss, mainly city officials, onnumbor of whom perjured themsolves, and will be indicted for that. Tho upshot of it way that tostimony was eficited upon which four mombors of the City Councll of ‘St. Louis wers indicted for accopting bribos iu the matterof what-is known as tho * Norihwostorn Rallroad schomo,” and tho bribo-takers are now in s fair way to secure passago to the Pouitentiary, To bo sure, it took the Bt. Louls Grand Jurys mooth to do all this. But thoy are a slow lot ab 8t. Louls anyhow, and thoy bave no such fore- man ag tho ablo editor of the Times. It hoang his fellow Graud Jurors, howaver, will do ma much toward fetching ring thioves horo to jus- tico, though it tukes double tho time to dolt, the public for once mav have reason to onter tain feelings of livoly gratitudo toward bim, i el Tha history of BeLi, the detactive who Lofore tho Cryxen Commitioa testifiod to having been omployed to eteal tho testimony sgainut Dan. CooK, 18 not such aa to inupiro confidence in him, It seoms that in 1871 he appeared at Xonia, Ohlo, end with nis brother opencd & dry-goods store, contracted debta rapidly, borrowed money from ovorybody ho could, and wound up by tak. iog the benest of tuo Bankrupt law. In 1875 he came to Cincluoati as a Specicl Agont of the Post-Ofice Depurtment to look up & case of mail-robbery. - Ho succeeded in borrawing 925 of tho Cincinnatt Chlef of Police and varlous small sums of monoy of other Qoveroment of- ficiata ; drank hoavily till bo gop- the delirium {remens; was wont to the bospital, sod upon hin recovery loft withoat ropaying what ho had borrowed, At Indinnapolls and Lawroncebarg ho also mado his advent as a Spocial Agent of the Departmont, borrowed monoy, which he never ropaid, of the officials, got glorlonsly drunk, and, upon report of tho facta to the De partment, was dismisand. It does not appoar, howevaor, thas when sober he was given to Iyiug, neither hus Lis testimony boforn the Orrusa Committes yet boen materislly contradicted nor Impeachod. Horatto Beyaoun {a slroady effusively pro testing sgalost being nominated for the Presl doucs, snd in & way that recalls his tearful declarations that tho caudidato he coulan't be when he sold out tho Crasz men and accepted tne nomination at New York. TFdxy ma ever, Honario ia waiting for the St. Louls Convontion to forco the nomloation upon him agaiost bis will, and with & bit of unconscious satiro imparts to & Now York Tribuna reporter that his (Ser- oun's) nomination would bg *a desecration of tho grave,"—as in truth it would. Since bisio- torment, however, Honatro has learned some- thing, for to the intorviowoer ho said that nows. days it bas como to pass that tho White Hours In aimply & place that 1s besieged by offico-seok- ors, and that * tho Proatdont livos in an uncom« fortablo houso, flllod with the worst company, without leiaure for reflection, avd doos not hese an honoest truth during lns torm of office.” M Bevtoon,’ notwithstanding, keops Lis weathor eya mot toward tho Whito House, and, with » viow to kllling off TrLoey, in tho ssmo inter view remarks that “if at tho proper time it should be expediont to nominate TiLDEN," sud s+4¢ it conld be dous with the cordlal assent of all gections of the country,” he (S8xxatoun) would support Bastsry, That male-olaim story, etarted on Secrolary Bmigrow, who has clearod hils skirts in tho mate ter, {8 now returning to torment ita invontors. If there was any crookednees about it, thatat- tachiod to the men who backed up the oase, snd of theso Democratio Benator-cloct Brox, of Ken- tucky, was chief. So now the Oinclnnatt Ene quirer, which bas beon consplouously active in retalling slanders agaiust Secretary Bristow, hat sent & mpocial correspondent down Into Ken tucky to work up & defeuso for Beox ; aud the best the Iatter has been able to do has beeo, aftor {otervioning divera parties, to write bsck, 28 ho bina dons to the Enguirer, tothe effect that the mule cage did mot refleot discredit upon Brisraw, and thas Deok's connection with it hat not shaken the confidence of the Iatter'scon- stituents in him, g . The fact that this Is the Centonnlal yoar,which innlso to be tho yesr of speoial profit tothe thrifty Philsdolphians, has inspired the Noith Carolinian who halda tho titla-decds to 408 acred of the grounds oo whioh the Exposition build: ings have been erected to go into court with his clalm, fetchiog an action in ‘equity which, i be galna the anit, will aven * oust™ the Ceutennl! Exhibition itselt. The deed {n which the lana it convayed to his ancesiors st $1 per sore is fof *'a place of woods situstod on the west sideof Little Bart HIIL," aod the propesty is now val- ued at $15,000,000. —_——— New York also furnishes s Democratlo candd date for the Vico-Presidenoy in the persod of Wirzaane H, Wioxuaw, pressnt Mayor of the oity. His strangth appears to lie in the fach that his private secretary, Hanaisox, was the private socretary of Jerrxason Davia whon the Iatter wan Preaident of the now defunot Gonfed- erady, Through Hamnisox, Wiczmax count upon securing the Confederate vots in the Bl Louls Convention, snd has alresdy seoursd sumptaous apartments ab & leading house there ubohnndu his beadquartars dariog the God* veution, —_—— Along with the other cherlshed myths of out oblldhood, the lconoclssts are now trying 4 destroy tha legend thas Fanmaour lasbed hlme st In the rigglog of his fag-ship during Ibt bombardment of New Orleaus. Fortusa! tliey are zob Ukely 40 sucsesd in Lhis usden taking, Wounw Paen ibe arilsh, whedd maselsdle panliag of Fasasave ex the on