Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1876, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, . - #ATES OF SUDSCRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANCE), Pertage Provnid at thin Ofce. Dally Fdition, postpald I sear 313.00 Parts of sen e .00 Gioh Parteof yesr at same rato. WEERLY EDITION, POSTRAID, @ 00py, POF year. A A lub of swaty, per “tho postage s 18 conts & e Epecimen coples sent froe. To prevent delay and uistakes, be mure and niva Poste Oftico nddress In fall, (ncluding State and Connty. Tamittancos may be made eithor by dralt, epress, Toat-Office order, or In registared fottors, at our visk. TENMA %0 CITY AUBACRINERS, Dafly, deltvercd, Lunday excapted, Dally, dottrored, Bundys incind Addreas . fHI TR Coraer Biadison xnd 1): 11 ‘which we will prepay. &onts por woalr, HOOLEY'S THIATRE—Landclph strect, betwoen Clark und IaSalle. ' Tho Califcrnis Minetrels, — After woon and evoning. MOVIORER'S THEATRI—~ tadlson al{net. he;wnn Deacborn and State, Afternoon, * Leap-Year." Evene Ing, “’i“l‘l:ll!\wr:lle ‘s Diary " and ** Tho Dead Bhot.” ADELPHI THCATRE—Dezrborn streat, Monroe, “Quiip,” Afternoon sud evoning. e The @hiengo Tribmme, Baturday Morming, April 8, 1876. WITH SUPPLEMENT. MASS-MEETING OF CITIZENS, Gaturdny . Evening, In Farwell Halle Irrce spective of arty. Qur city ia belloved to bo in danger from throatoncd violence st the approaching city clection on the 18th Anst, 1t has becomo the duty of all good citizens, business men, and tax-payers to deviso means to protect legal voters, ballot-boxes, tho places for holding olections, snd to gavo the city from fnancial ruin by dishonest ‘wen in offics during tho ensuing year. The First Ward Consolidated Republican Club can sttention to the {nfamous mob aud thelr sympathizing pollcemen, ¥ho beat back and drovoaway a lsrge asseme Blsgo of. prominent citizena and tax-payers who had fathered early at No, 204 Lafialle alreet, laat Tucsday morning, for no other purposo than to sccure an honest organization of the South Town moeting. At tho head of this mob was the iuan immediately de- clared elected Moderator. ‘Tho ballots cast ot this South Town meeting, as it is belloved, havo already been tampered with by those who thereby purposo to fecure ' tho election of candl- dntos who, in spito of thoso violent proceedings, were actually defeatad, A mass-meeting of busincss men, tax-payors, and citizous gonerally, without dlstinction of party, will be held ot half-past 7 o'clock, sbarp, this (Saturday) oven- 1ng in Farwell Hall, The Hon, LZONAGD SWETT, the ITon, TiroxAs Horxe, ‘Wit DexTEf, Laq,, tho Rev, Ronxnt CoLwyrn, the Tov. Antnun Alrenrul, Expny A, Gronns, sad othors, will adilress tha meeting. Nevivs' Band end Fraxx Luspano's Glee Club aro ongaged for tls occasfon. The Hon, JouN WuxTworT snd Jous T, McAuLzEY, candidates for Aldermen of tho First Ward, witl be present, Cluba holdipg meotings this (Saturday) ovening in other wards aro cordially invited to adjourn to this mass-moeting of law and order citizens, who Lavo at ‘ieart tho good of tha city, BnoN W, Kisa, Clisirman of Committes on Mans-Mceting. corner Grnenhnc};n‘t‘liv;l"lovw Yv:u'k~ 661(1 Exchazge yosterdny closed at 884 Slightly coolor, to be followed by warmor, weuther are the conditions prodicted for the Lake Region Lo-duy. It i3 thought ¢hat Ar, T'nokee, o solf-con- victed whisky-thief of St. Louis, whoso tes. thnony was guently instrumental in bringing McKre to justice, has unostentatiously launched bis bark upon {he sen. If MoKzg gets a new trial ho will'thus bo likely (o ovado conviction. Thero oro also rumors that Aveny is now very scarce, and that ho too chants to the deep sea’s wmellow note, in the rosy cxpectation of gaining somo shora— England, say—where extradition is honored {n the breach, Mr. Cuyaen's Conmitteo on Exponditures in the War Department is now engaged in geprching for corruption in the Quarter. master-General's Doperiment., A witness has ‘boen found to testify that Gen. Mrran, with all his opportunitics for dishonesty on a magnificont scale, stooped to the petty crime of soliciting a bribo from the inventor of n patont moth-extermmator, giving him to understand that his preparation could only be ndopted by each an nrrongoment, Gen. Mez6s came bofore the Committoe yestordny, and flatly contradicted the stotements of the digappointed inscct-destroyer, whoso nnsup- ported tostimony will probably not bo ro- garded by the Committes as sufficiont to rauke out & casc of impenchinent, Gen.'Buenstax will have an oceasional word w 8oy obout army matters now that head. geuTters aro to bo re-catablished in Washing. lop, and the incumbeont of the War ORice ix flisposed to recognizo his conncction with nilitary affairs. Ile has pronounced views inent - the 'Pexas-border quostion, and is sspecially opposed to tha policy of peritting sur troops to pursue Mexican maraudors scross tho boundary-line. He® believes that border outrages can be provented in s botter wny—i. ¢., by recruiting cavalry regimonts up to the war-standard, and by so stationing tho troops in Texas that cattle-stenling ox- syeditions will be attended with unpleasant Too Iato to prevent thomischicf, butin tima to assist in tracing it, the discovery is mado that Ep Pimnrirs, who was choson es ono of the parties to watch tho ballot-box in the First ‘Ward Tuesdsy night, was a candidato for re- clection as Ansessor,—a fact not then drenmed of by the careful gentlemen who consented to the arrangement, and who would have in. dignantly resisted it had they known of ibo plot to stuff the ballot-boxes with tickots bearing the nanes of Evass, Puir. 28, and GueasoN, Tho opportunity was doubtless improved, and tho success of the desperato stratagem was rendered possible by the co-operation of Dave Tiorxrow, the Moderator, whose subsequont action in or. dering tho ballot-boxes to be emptied into ono pile beforo the counting began was of courss foreseen when Lo was unlawfully choscn on the morning of the vluction, The Chicago produco markets wera unset- tled yesterdny, Mess pork wils activoe aud weak, closing 10 per brl lower, at $22.05@ 22,10 cash, snd $22.17§@22,20 for May. Lard was less sotive and 156 per 100 1bs lower, closing at $18.50 cash aud $14.67}@18,60 for Aay. Meats wero moro active and easier, at 80 for boxed shoulders, 12¢ for do short ribs, snd 12§c for do short clears. Highwines were quict and 1o higher, at $1.08 per gallon, Tlousr was quiet wnd unchangod. Wheat was more active, and closed go lower, ut ¥9jc for ‘but it is not tho hond of honest investi April and $1.04} for Mny, Corn was moro netive, and closed fo bigher, at 4Gic for April and 48%c for Mey. Oats wero quict and nn- changed, closing at #2@42jc for April and 83l for May. Tiye was quict, at Glo for April and 68G46090 for Moy, Darley wes dnll and 1e lower, clesing ab 67a for Apuil and K8c paked for Mey., loga wero quiet and ensier, but without quotabla change. Sales wera principally af $8.05@8.25, Caltle woro fnirly active and unchianged, with sales at £3,00@0.00. Theto was a {irm shecp market, common to oxirn grades selling at §6.00@7.50. One hundred doliavs in gold would buy $118,12} in greonbacka nt the close. Tha Iouse Judicinty Committeo have touched bottom in the safe-buralary investi- gation, and they hava fonnd Gen. Bancock there. Wuttny, ex-Chief of tho Treasury Seerot Service, having returned to Washing. ton under an assurance of iimmuaity and pro- teclion, was before the Committee yesterday and gave the history of thoe famous safe-burglary conspiracy from flrst to Inst. There i3 & great deal of Bancocz in it, and 1nobt a little of ex-Attorney-Gonoral WirLuat, tow (hut Winzeey hing **laid down * and ¢ squealed.” Tt is cxpected that Witniaas will “give away " tha ex-Private Seerotary, as ho noeds must to clent.his own skirts, it is said. Then Dancogk will explain and deny, and there will bo proof forthcoming that Winteey is a Iying scoundrel and alweys was. But wheth. or there willbe n verdict of acquittal, & com- pleto vindicntion, and tho congratulations of frionds, is yet to o scen. e e o) The outrageonn frauds committed in pursn. ance of tho concpiracy to keep in oftice for auother yeertho South Town oflicers of 1875 were sweeping and comprchunsivgh covering the entira ticket, from Collector to.Town Clerk. According to tho vote ns it was counted yesterday, Mixr Evass, Ep Punries, Ryay, and Greasox are made out to hinve raceived votes suflicient to eloct them by wn- jorities ranging from 800 to 1,000 inclwding tho disputed Loxes in the Second and Fonrth Wards, Whera thess votes camo from, in what wards they were smuggled icto tho boxes, by whom, in what mauner, at what time—of sll this nothing can bo definitely stated at present. It is on- 1y known thnt n monstrous, dangerous, cx- ssperating fraud has bLeen perpetrated. Of this there is absolutely no doubt. The dis- franchised and defrzuded tax-payers of South Chicago will opon their eyes in astonishment when they read the full particulars of the ontrago. 'Their oyes onco oponed, what will they do next? Communities plundered by horse-thioves, burglnrs, and highwaymen hiave beforo now found tha remedy for n stato of things which the conrts were powerless to correet, nnd the seme remedy mmny cuggest itself ere long in Chicago. Bbluch has been suffered alrendy ; how wuch more will the peoplo bear 2 TOSTAGES FOR THE FUTURE. If the Republican party wish to succeed in the Presidential election of 1876, it must put itself before the people in a somewhat changed aspect than has been the rulo sinco 186, battle for the Union won, and, as o distinet issue, the War eannot be fought over again, The Republican party ennmot expect {o be successful by pointing to ita glorions history of the past, except o far as that history is sustained by the certain nction of the prrty for the future, The War hns been fought and the The country hay made up a deliberate judgment that thore in and has been an ime mensily of corruption committed in oflica by persons who have been elected and who Liold oftice under sppointaent from tho Re- publican party, This corruption has nol beou confinzd to petly ofiicers or to petty robberics, It bas been s wide-sprend as to almost demand the defimtion of genoral, It hins been confined to no branel of the publio sorvice and to no department. ruption has been practiced in the Army and Navy, in the Indian, Pension, and Pontn] Sorvice, and hay had its ugontsin the Nn- tionnl Legislatuve. District of Columbia has been a hive whero tho industry of oqualed only by their audacity aud their greed, theso crimes to uny that Democrats hevo Leen concerued in thom; that, in fuct, is an aggra- vation of tho crime, which was perfidy to the Government, perfidy to party, and perfidy to the general interests und morals of tho country, Coz- Outsido of this, the the oporators las been It is no extanuation or palliation of tho Republican ‘T'ho hand of investigation has been by tion, It has been a partial, unfair inquir because, instead of being directed to tho dis- covery aud exposure of frauds end abuses, nnd tho pushing of the guilty to conviction, it has been oxelusively and purposely directed to make all possible capitel against the Re- publican party aud to sereen Democerats and the Democrntio party. Tact las been o dishonesty Nevortheloss, uaquentioned thnt vast amount of officinl practived under the Gov- vrnmont by corrupt men in oflico nsting with corrupt men ot of ofiice, It iy equally noto- rlous that tho men inseparobly connected with theso frauds heve been the loudest fn thoir protestations of pavty fenlty, and have heen ofticially and socially recognized by tho purty as men {0 bo defended, protected, and vindi- cated on overy ocension, T'ho only rlict to this sorry picturo fu the oBtirse of tho "I'veasury Depavtmont fn the rescuo of tho RNovenue Bervies from the hands of the organized thieves who had obtained control of it, and the vigorous indictment, prosccution, and conviction of {le guilty, without roforonce to the political, personat, or oficial position of tho offende ‘I'hig fact that the pnbliv servica is largely corrupt, aud that in ito ramiticutions ury in. cluded hundreds whoso names have not been winde public, is known to tho whole people of tho United Btntes, and there is a flxed, uu. nlterable purposo to have the publio service purifled by the wholesale chiango of tho men who control it, whether these nien be in the Cubinet, or in Congress, or in whatever branch of the National Government, Of this there ean bo uo question or doubt, and the Ropublican party may as well preparo to meet the emergency, 1f that party will not purify itaelf, the pooplo will do tho work at tho polls. Thero i3 nothing iu this faet, how- over, to disconrnge thoe Ropublican party; on the contrary, thera ia overything in it to promiso success to the porty in November next, if tho party will tako thut courso in the selection of its candidates which will give agsurance that thero will bo o clinngo of men, aud that thero will be o Lonishment from the councils and the confidoncs of the Republic. un purty of every mau who has used his placo, his position, und ki utlu. euco in tho interest of the vilo horde of scoundrels who in the umme of the remaing thero THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL & I1876—TWELVE PAGES. tho party havo been plandering the conntry, Dlatforms and resolutions will bo tronted no idlo wind, meaning nothing. Irofessions will not bo reganled. Tavorilo sons must hnvo somothing to commend them besides records which are blank. 'Tho candidntes themselves must of their own charncter give ninple warrant that they have bieon untainted with tho past, and have no unseemly compll- entionn to follow tlm in the fnture. Take Mr, CoXxrixg ns an illustration. Ifo hasloen apart of the past. 1Mo is inscparably con- nectad with tho good ns well a3 tha evil of tho last ten years, o has, a8 Senator, held {ho rank of Viceroy of tho great Stato of New York., Not n cross-ronds Postmaster nora Ganger in tho Federal servico in that State bt has held his placo #s o personal gift from tho Sountor from New York; and in that ten years the aggregato of personal and oflivial corruption, of the fraud and bribery and rob- Lery porpotratod in the Federnl sorvico in that ono Stato, if foroscen, would have par- alyzed the men who framed tho Constitution, and defeatod tho oxporimont of popular Gov- ernment. The nomination of CoNkuiNo would be rocoived with scorn by the people. It wonld contnin no promiso for tho futuro beyond that, if olected, Conklingism, as part of the corrupf pnst, would be perpotuatod. Tho Republican party can only hopa to be eaeecssful at the next Prosidentinl electionby giving hotages to the people in tha persous of enudidates whose names alone will givo ns- suranco that they do not belong to the corrupt. past, and will have no sympnthy for or con- nection with the cvil men sud evil policies of tlio men who havae disgraced and dishonored the country and the Govornment. ¥ {he Ropublican party hiave no such candidatos to present, or, having them, shall disregard pub- lic opinion by sotting them nsido and seloct- ing others notoriously dofondors or quicscont actors in the past, it can only escapo deserved and disastrous defeat becauso of the greater profligacy and blundering of tho Democratic party. WIIAT ARE Y0U xnrmg&?b' DO ABOUT b Yoot Tuesday tho tax-payors of Sonth Chi* eago, smarting under the infliction of an out- rageous assessmont and an unfair colleotion of taxes, both too recent to bo forgotien, turnod out ¢z masse to protect themselves for tho ensningyear from similar ostortion. The Board of Tynde adjourned over Linlf the day ; the banks closed their doors; the mer- chnnts went {o the polls and gave their em- ployes timo to do the same ; many profes- sionnlmen dovoted the entire day to the watch- ing of tho polls; every man owning proper- ty, overy man doing business for himself, and overy man omployed in avocations depend- ent upon general business prosperity, felt it to be an imperntive necessity that the com- potont men nominated for the town officea Dy tho respectable peoplo shonld Lo clected. The result of this universal con- cern was the polling of n Inrge vote, of which tho tally-keepers nnd observers throughout tho dny set down tho resnlt in fovor of the tex-payers’ ticket as moro than two toone. Therois no doubt that there wa3 a majority ngaiost tho bummers of be- tween 5,000 and 4,000 of tho votes cast, And yet it seems likely that tho bummers and thieves will be eountad {n, and that cov. tainly Mixe Evass and probebly thoe entira bummor ticket will be permitted to usurp tho placos from which thoy wero overwhelm. ingly onsted by the popular voto. And now they are in o position to ask in the nsual “ring" paslauce, * What are you going to do about it ¥ ) Tho seallawags sot out to defy and defent tho populur will by every device known to disreputablo wad polities. Thoy gathered their ronghs and shoulder-hitters early in the morning, and begau by intimidation and actuul pushing to displaco the vigilant eiti. zens, Tinding thet they conld not drive the rospectable voters away, and availing thom- selves of the posscasion of the ballot-boxes, thoy seized tho polls and placed their own men in charge. They put in disropu- tablo characters ns Moderntor and Assistaut Moderators in deliberate opposition to the popular voice. 'They carried tho boxes to tho headquarters of tho bununcrs in the prozent Assessor's oftica. Some of them were sicaled and somc wero not. 'The vota was not canvassed that night, and the boxes wero placed in a vault, with ong representative of each party to watch them. Tho others en Loth sides withdrow, with tho agreertient that (heso two persons should remain nlone, But the vepreseutatives of the Itepublican tickot, suspecting bad faith on.tho part of the Dmmmers, returned aftor an hour and funnd two of the bummer lendors—Tnons- tox nnd Greison—had roturned ana got in. ‘Ihe representatives of the Republicana wag innome way derelict in his duty. Ho says that bo did not drink (thongh liquor had boen brought in), but ndmits that he yielded to tho temptation of the seductive gamo of poker, which ovcupied his attention. This lapso wans all that was necessary for villains, The result is that s wmnjority of more than two to ono for tho tax-payers has beon changed into a mnjority for tho over- whelmingly dufeated bummers and thieves, Buch ot lenat is the roport ab this writing, “What ara you going to do about it?" the reonndrels, with drunken leer, ask. There is no question but the ballot-hoxes wore tampored with, Thoy were flvst rob- Led of Republican tickets and thon stuffed with bumwor tickets. It is known that the First Ward Lox was not sealed, and there 15 reason to Dbeliovo that somo others were oqunlly necessible, It required but o few minutes’ work to draw out a conplo of hand- fuls of votes from thoso boxes in which the Republican ballots were at the rate of three or four to one, and to replacy thens by bum- mer tickets, This did the busincas, Then, when it came to the can. vass, the contonts of the boxes were all dumped together, ro that it wonld be hinpousibla to trace the fruuda by refer- eneo to tho tally-lista of the severul voting- plicen, ‘This wis tho procest. And’ the vesult is that tho extraordinary and carnest work of tho respectublo people (for hundreds of Demoerats voted tho Ropublican ticket that day) counts for nothing, and & fow min. utes’ frandulent work prevails. * What are you geing to do shont ity ¢ “Thero s no relicf in the Chicago courts against ballot-lox stutting, ‘Lhis s beon abundantly demonstrated, The eitizens spent & largo amount of time and large sums of money in testing this in tho charter clee. tion. Tho courts would not go back of o scoundrelly canvass of stutfed ballots, In the last cleetion three inspectors wery in. dicted for tumpering ‘with the ballot-box, aud tho casu was proved againut them by witnesscg who swore to having deposited Republican ballota to double the number found iu the box; yet tho jury disagreed! It is utterly vain to attompt to secure from tho courts any relief from tha sbuses of tho ballot; thoy have detcrmined simply to sbide by the declared result, with. |, but approve his course, is pitiful pattifogging out inquiring furthor. to do abont it?" ‘We nro reluctant to ruggest recourse to any measure for protoction outsido of the forus proseribed by abortive law. It is n danger- oun departure, and almest corfain to lead to excesses, Dut ““What are you going to do about §t?"” Shall the nen who own the prop- orty and pa§ tho taxes, after having olected their own ofticors by n vast majority of Inwfnl votes, qfiletly submit toa brazen systemn of plunder from a set of scoundrols who have openly, defiantly, aud villainously robbed tho ballot-boxos and declared themaelves ro-olect- ed? Thin isthe only nltornetive that pro- senta itsolf unless the tax-payers and respect. oblo voters take tho matter in their own hands. Now ** WHAT -ARZ TOU GOING TO DO Anour 1T ?" # What aro yon going | betweon Mr, Cararsn and the Bonrd alboub the uso of o smoke-burnor which 3Mr. Onearen claims might burn out tho boilers. Dut Mr. Onroirn, having Justified, himsolf by giving his opinion asan engineer, did not and would not refuso to apply nnd uso this smoko- burner on orders. Ho thus is no valid renson for hiu romoval. Tho simple fact is that it has beon determined to punishMr, CRzaren for not taking an nactive partin behalf of Cor~ vry's usurpntion. It isnlso snid that Ald, T, 0. Crapks, who voted ngninst this usurpa. tion, has beon nesociated with Mr. Onceizn. This wna enmuso enongh, acoording to the Colvininn school of politics, to warrant the removnl, oven at tha sacrifico of the publie interests. But in this caso hio swill probably discover that, instend of helping Lis Admin- ictration Ly putting a supposed opponent out of the way, the removal will only hasten and strengthen the determinrtion of the peoplo to roove Corvin himself by the clection of o Council oppoped to nsurpation, Tho Washington Nepublican, tho organ of Boss Snerurrp and tho Real-Estate Ring, the Indinu Ring, and all other Ringa that infest tho National Cnpitel, and “which is pro- cminently the exponcut of the strikers and machino-workers who have foisted themselves upon the Ropublican party, is deeply con- cerned respecting Scerotmy Bnistow. The spoilsmun aud campfollowers wlio hang upon tho party have without oxception long Deing filled with solicitude concerning Bmis- Tow. Iaving uttorly failed to convinco him that bis vigorous and offectivo onslaughts upon the Whisky Ring were damnging the party,~which the Riug-thioves cheokily ns. sume to bo,—this organ of nll tho Riugs warns him of his impending peril. It is struck ol of aheap, so to speak, by tho fact that even Democrats are compolled to join with Republicans in indorsing his courso in sceing to it that no guilly man ercapes. Tho Whisky-Thieves' Ring, and by that natu. ral sympathy which comes of fellow-feeling, all tho other Ring-thioves and their organs, have all along suspected that Bristow was impleated in o malign plot against tho Re- publican party which ko has been excenting by seizing upon tho thioves who lave sneaked into the party to steal and sending them where they belong, to-wit, to the Peni. tentinry. That suspicion of o horrid plot is confirmed in tho estimntion of the thioves and their newspapers, of which tho Zepus- lican is chief, by the fact that honest Demo- crats foel constrained to approve his courso. Tho Republican, with as sneaking insinua- tion as thot with which that wonderful mule- story and the hog-story were eet afloat to bo exploded before thoy could damnge Bistow, now frantieally urges that thero is somothing dovilish sly " in this honest Democratic ap- proval of an honest Ropublican ofticial. It thinks the people want to know about it, and that Burstow, particnlarly sinco ho happened to be born south of dMasox and Dixon's ling, should lot them know whother he hay gono or is going over to the Democwnts. In frame of mind it hysterically oxclnims ¢ It ia o disquicting matter to Kepublicous to read {biere roponted comments on the viriuos of Mr, Bns- 7 from the Demozrutte fileq, aud to kuuw that there 1 auch a studied effort to get on tho right aido of him, It does not mecessarily rofloct upon Mr. Dursrow that hio glyes no ottention to them, but o whleepread fecling of inecnrity nbout it {s, Torhaps, not an un. natural resull in tho Ught of oxperfenco, Mz, Duts 0w {y & Scuthern man, and needs, therefore, to give an unquestionabls assurance of unalfered sllegisnce to tho Ropublica party. But thero is no oceasion for the Repudlican to tako on in this dreadful style. Therois no disquiet savoin the minds of tho Ring-thieves, whoso prospects of Ieeping out of tho State’s Prison dopend upon getting rid of Bnisrow orof thwarting Lim in tho whisky prosocn. tions. The people feel the strongest quict as- surance that so long as he is lot alpne tho thieves will bo deslt withk according to their just dererts. So long g ho gocs ahead as he is doing with his drendful plot to collar thieves who have stolen into the party, and clnp them into the Penitentiary, ro long Ttepublicans will ho moro than ever assured of his Ropublicanism. ‘Thero iz no ocea- sion for lis stopping to deny this hob. goblin plot ngaingt thioves. It js known that ho wns au sntislavery man in n slave Stato in the days when to avow such nontiments involved public odium, was fotal to political aspirations, and oven compromised ono's personal safoty ; thet he has been o Ropublican from the outset, when to be a Rophblican was to eut one's self off from all prospect of place or spoils; and that e sorved gellantly in tho Union army. But aboveall it is kuown, and every day's record of his ofileial caveor ndds to the proof ol it, that ho is waging relentless war agninst cor- ruption in ofilco, and that ho is triwnphing, over it. To nsk that ho shall stop in this work to slap in the face tho lonest men nmonyg his politieal opponents who caunot Boma of the pretentious organs of itre- deomablo serip ourrancy exhibil in a remark- able degreo how little of knowledgo is neces- nry to a professed tencher. An nrticle in ono of thoso shoets stnrls ont with tho assumption that our banking in for- mor times wns derived from tho English system. Why Lnglish more than Scotch, or French, or Gormon? Tho English systom is distingnished by fis rigorous limitation of currenoy issnes, and tho requiromont of the best soonrity for their prompt and certain convertibility into gold on demand. The Beotch system is a freo ong, allowing any one to issue notes, compelling no one lo take them, and applying ouly the Inw of deblor and creditor to liold the bauker to a proper ac- countability, In the formerease, tho Govern- mont undertakes Lo protect the people ngainal a bad currenoy ; in the latter, tho people are put upon their guard, aud warned to keep a shorp look-ont lest they loso by bank. notes. Both plans in their respeetivo placos have worked well. ¢ But,” says tho rag- baby orncle, ** the practical resnlt has been, in England, the conversion of the promiscs into tho thing promised or the absoluto sus- pension of specic-payments, nccompanied by wide-sprend and dovastating commercial erises during each deeade.” Thinis conspion- ously untrue and false,—n historical fact cvolved from inuer consciousnoess or tho im- nginntion of a dishonest writor, Thero is no foundation whatever for tho assertion. Not oven in tho tompest of 1525, nor 1845, nor 1866, did the Bank of England snspond spe- cie-payments, Under an order in Couneil, effirmed by nct of Parliament, the Bank sus- poniled from 1797 1o 1819, during the grent French war, Dut ruch o mensure was not thought of at other times, and wounld not have been considored during the Napoleonic wars but for thg Inrge demand for gold by the Government. Even this suspension under the pressuro of o gifzantio war hns beon condemned s unwiso by tho pgreatest English statesmen ound cconomists. If the rag-baby orgen wishes to 8a0 Low the memorablo bank restriction was reguvded after yenrw of experionce, lot ita ignorant editor read tho Parliamentary do- bates in 1811 and ongain in 1819, the spoochies of TonNer, Lord Liverpool, Husris- foy, and Caxsixg, of Prer, Lord Ko, and Treryay, and tho writings of Ricarvo and Tooxx, e may pget some ideas, some facts and fgures, more valuublo than his own cogi- tations, g ‘Tho commorcinl crises in England for tho past fifty yoara have had littlo referouce fo tha oxpansion of tha eurroncy. Her currency i tho sarae in amount, or noarly so, Thrico in o great pauic the Bank has boon dirceted by 4 Ordors in Council” to disregard tho logal Umit in the issuo of notes, in order to nfford relief to solvent borrowers who are in danger of being crushed for want of not for gold but for hank-notes, o complete is tho security on which the bank-notes are issued, that no question of their soundness is over raised. In tho midst of tho great panic of 1825 theBank enlarged itslonns £8,000,000, r ,000,000, A1l who could give valid so- curity wero accommodated. The expansion was temporary, and the notos wero placed where they afforded completo relicf. Isit not well nigh a crime that an editor should essume to instruct the public out of his own vicious ignoranco? Cannot the rag-baby argan aford to employ a writer upon this most important - subject who can speak from Lunowledge, and attain the' ¢ full assuranco of understanding'? Tho rag-baby organ proposes as a ronedy for all our financial ills a currency medo up of Government debts not benring interest, con- vertible into other dobty benring eurrency in- torest, and the intercst-bearing debts rccon. vertiblo into debts not bearing intereat. This is the double.roversible, back-netion, sclf-rog- ulating curroncy-bond theory. It means o cuwrrency of Governinent dobts, not converti- blo into specie or anything elso; o currency that must be tho football of political partios; o curronoy that makes a standard of value impossiblo; a currency that will banish xeal money from domestio circnlation and use, { If anything hos beon domonstrated boyond all doubt or cavil in the whole scionce’of monoy, it is that paper promises or prom- of any kind avo worth only what they bring in gold, nnd that a noto that reprosonts woney can only be maintained at par by its chenp aud certain convertibility into gold at the will of the holder. 1t is further ovident at a glouce thata standard must possess tho qualitica which it is expocted to moasure, A standard of lungth must have length, a standard measure of copneity must hove capacity, n mensure of welght must bave weight, and o standard of valuo must have valto, Thero 1a no eseape from thess conditions, Governments eannot mnke sprce, or length, or weight, but thoy mny fix and declare the units by which they aro to bo measured and expressed, No uoro can Governments make vulug; thoy may declaro Low much of gold or silver shall bo the unit of value, and 5o moro. All attenipts boyond this aro as fntile as **climbing upon the house-top to clutch the stars,”—nn amusoment of fools, a torror to prudent men, o T — Mr, Beecuen's * triumph," o it has been anuouneed, in tho suit for mulicious proso- cution.brought sgainst him by Fnang Mour- ToN, turns out to have been another doubtful victory in supprossing investigation of the scandal, - Mourron, it will be remembered, wag, upon Breonen's testimony, indicted for perjury in tho Breroues.TiLton trial, and, it ‘whna proclaimed, would be landed in the Peni- tentiary, After the Tizon-Brecurn Htiga. tlon Lind passod, u nolls prosequi wos entered totheindictment agninst Mourron. Thiswas also done at Bexouen's instance and against the protest of Mourtoy, who demanded & trinl, Thereon he brought tho suit for wmaliclous prosocution, Instend of moet- ng it with proof to show that to which only the crenturcs of the thioving Rings could resort after sli {heir efforts other- wiss to Lol him in tiat work had boen foiled. ‘T'hat tho intogrity of his efforts in smeshing the Rings in 50 unmistakable that it oven extorts tho approval of his political op- ponents, will only contirm trye Republicans everywhero in their conviction that his Ro- priblicaniumn is of the right sort. o eanuat botter prove it than by going shoad, n4 ha will do, THE REMOVAL OF CREGIZR, The removal of Mr. Cixarzx from his posi tion as Enginecr of the Chicage Water-Works, by order of the usurper CoLviy, in the most fingrant violation of ofticial suthority that hay ocourred even under the present shomeless administration of city affaivs. Mr, Cheaizn started in with tho water-works systom of Chicago nearly n guarter of u century ago, und hay been identitied with its progress and dovelopment at uvery step, Tle has held s position for twenty.-three consecutive years, through all the changes in politics and local interests, Ilo hias earned for himself a ropu. tation for skill, perisonal horesty, compotenay, and dovotion to the publie servics which is exceptionalin theso days, e defles any ono to suggest evon o suspicion of his Integrity; or poiut to n single iustanee vf his negloct of duty. Yet ho ia discharged at the persousl request of tho Mayor without tho assignmont of eny repson. The Board of Public Works aro poweiless, as they are also subject to removal by tho wsurper who is playing Jayor, and probably would be removed if thoy refused to' do his bidding in this ont. rogeous caso; but they are careful to explain that they were not instrumoutal In sccuring tho removal, uud are loth to part with so good & man, It must also be humiliating to the gentlemen serving on this Doard to be forced to an action 80 manifestly wrong and oppased to the best interests of the city, and it is a wonder that thoso wembers of tho Board who aro not dependent on their offiial places for their livelibood should consent to retuin ofleo subject to such Lumiliating and unwarranted dictation, Ad’Interita Corvin has assumed to romove Mr. Cueoten beeanso tho latter is undorstood to bo opposcd to the bumerism which now controly the city affairs and keeps Corvex in oftice. 'Ihiero in sumo talk about o difference rondy currency. At such times the run is. Movrtoy bhad perjured himself, swhere- fore the prosecution wns well fonnded, Mr. Beronen, through his connacl, domurred to Mourtox's petition. Tho ground of do- mwnrer was that, tecinically, no aclion for malicious proseoution could bo broright, be. cansa Mourton lind not beon tried upon the indictmont and nequitted ; in frct, couldn’t got ntrinl, The Brooklyn Judge so ruled, sus. taining the qomurror, His deoislon in offoct was that nny person nceused of a crimo may go bofore the Grand Jury and have indicted for perjury tho chiof witness ngainst him In ordor to discrodit that witness' testimony, ‘That done, he may noxt procure tha entry of a nolle prosequt, so that tho witness indicted for perfury. shall have no eppertunity for vindicating himself; and that, no mattor whether this wore done sualicionsly or not, the person so indicted and donied a trinl can rocover mno * dumnnges beeauso he hins not bLeen ‘ried! That mny Do ‘law, but it is mneithor justico ‘nor common sonso, Tho damnge done Mounton by prevonting his trinl upon the indictment for porjury is far greater than If hoe had heon tried and nequitted. The indictment, s0 the Brooklyn Judgo rules, yot holds agninst him, and ho is not only denied opportunity to vin- diento himself, but, nccording to that Judgo's ruling, cannot recover dnmages until ho bas beon tried andacquitted. Mourron's counael will carry the enso to the Court of Appenls, whero probably it will bo deeided that he is not without a remedy, and that no man can instituto proscoution ngainst anothor and by dropping it after indictinent e¢scnpo linbility, if tha prosecution wore malicious, COMPLETING A RGCORD. A fow days sinco we ropublished from the Congressional Globe tho rcburd of tho nyes and noes on Mr. Wasununwe’s motion to gtriko out from tho Pacifie Railrond bill the tenth seotion, which rcleased the Govern- ment's first mortgago and nccoplod in lieu thereof n worthless second mortgege, swine dling the Treasury out of ninety odd millions, "The voto stood {18 nyes to 81 noos. Lo com- plote tho record tho names of the dodgers should also bo published. Wo havo thore- foro made n eareful examination of tho Glube s to the 63 non-voting members, and find that tho following, rccorded ns not voting, manifestly dodged, ns thoir votes avo rocord- edin tho Missottri contested olection casos, on which the ayes and noes wero called about n half hour before the vote on Wasununye's amendment, which shows they wers ukulking in tho cloek-rooms nud outside of tho bar of the Mouse : LI3T OF DODARAH. Wit I, Arres, Minots, Joun B, ALtr¥, Mansachusetts, AvousTus O, BALDWIN, Alichigan, Gronae DLisg, Ollo, Jatrs B, Buows, Wisconsin, WILLIAM G, BROWN, Virginta, Lucius 1. CuANLEn, Virsinia, Fuxzyran OrAnks, Now York, Arixsxpen 3. CorrroTIz, Pennaghv 41, Jaxes A, Oravesy, Indiana, RrooEN E, FextoN, New Yoriz, AvavaTus FraNk, New York, T11031a8 A, JENORES, Now Jeraey, PutLsr Jonxsox, Penusyivanis, Mantiy KAroveencn, New York, Jusse Lazean, Yenngylvanla, RosERT MaLLOnY, Kentncky, ABOHIDALD MCALLISTZ, Yennesivania, Jaxes K, Moonuran, Penunylvania, Moses F, Opr:Ly, New York, Ja3E3 W, PATTERNeN, Now Hampshiro. Freorniox A, Pixy, Moo, J. V. L, Prosy, New Yark. W. M, Ravronp, Now York, * JaxEs O, Rov1xsoy, Tlinols, MsEn Brnovst, Pevnsylvania, Frasers Tiroxas, Maryland. FuntaNno Woan, New York—31, T'ho following by the record scem to have been paired, or nbuent cither from the city or from the Cnpitol : NOT VOITNG AND TROBABLY AUSENT. Tastra C. Arsew, Tiinols, AvounTus Draxoroze, Connoctient. BruTos 3, OuaY, Kentuoky, H, 8, Cox, Ohlo, IExny Wrsten Davis, Marslana, Ensizen DUMoxT, Indlana, J. B, Gminnesiy Iova, Wirta A, HALy, Missourd, Quanres M, Hannre, Kentucky, Sasturr, Hoorzn, Massachusotta, W, A, Huzonixs, Ohlo, . 0, INorusovt, Tilinofs, 3, A Xassox, Towa, A, A Kva, Margland, B, F, Loax, Maryland, W. D. MclIxnoz, Wisconsin, 3, F. MoKrner, Ohto, Gronok MipvLrroy, New Jeroy, WirLias I, Mincn, Penusylvanis, Gronok 1, PENDLETON, Ohlo, Nenewran Prony, Now Jorzoy, WiLLtax 1Y, RasnaLr, Rentueky, ¥y Avrxanpen L, Itick, Nawschusctis, Qnxen Cray Hsutn, Rentucky, J. ¥, SrAnn, Now Jorsey. 11, G. BrERINg, Now York, D, W, Voannszs, Indlana, W, H, Wapswonrir, Kontueky, CuatuToN A, Winire, Indians, A, C. Wirpen, Kaouau, 1, 1%, Woannsmax, Vermont, G, L, YeAana #1ho Ttopublicans in solid column, and ro- inforced by hundrods of respectablo Demo- crats, voted for the following candidntes in tho South Town of Chicagh 'lnst Tuesdny : Tor Supervisor, Gronor I", Konu; Assossor, W. 8. 11, Guay; Collector, A, J. Ganroway, The bummers had nominated the following list of candidates: Bupervisor, BentuoLn LOEWENTHAL; Assessor, Frang Suuman; Collector, Mixke Evavs; JTown Clerk, Crannes EatoN. O'Butex bolted and ran for Collector againat Mine Evans, and polied n respectable vote, "Laking all the reports that were made during the election duy by the ticket-peddlers, the challengers, and those who kept the closest run of lLow tho voting progressed, aud the following is a fuir und tolerably reliable estimate of the vote as nctually cast by thosa who wonl to the polls; ;) g A to, 'umllnw-y, Evans, | 0'Bricu. 23 250 200 200 4y 1,019 ‘I'bis estimato is too liberal for vans by 400 to 600 votes, DBoth Garzoway und O'Bmex rocelved muoro votes than tho above estimate gives thom. And yot Bixs Evana has counted himself in, and has counted in Lis pgt, Eo Puruuwes, who was not known ad o candidate, and whose namo was sésrcoly seen on o ticket during the whole day, as he is profoundly exacrated by nearly the entiro voting population of the South Division. . piebradlvtiaabaig The Senate Committce on TFinance have roported tho Bilver Coinage bill with amend- ments, Ono of these nmendments strikes out the section making aitver dollnrs o Jegal. tender for $i0 aud smuller silver coins logal-tonder for $25. Anothor amendmont {s to authorize tho coinago of the old Amer- jcan silver dollar, tho coinage of which was susponded in 1853, This dollar weighs 412} groins of stondard silver, while two half. dollars only contain 892 grafus, ‘It Is pro- posed to make this dollsr a logal-tender ty tha amount of 20, and to declaro the Bpecin] coin known s a trade-dollar no longor n sy, vor dollar, Anothor section authorizo thy Hecratary of tho Trensury to oxchange silyey doltars for United States Trenaury-notos, the Intter to ho ennceled. 1Mo is nlso anthorlzcg to purchaso silver bullion at its mnrket valug with silver dolinrs at their market value, A report from Washington states that grey opposition to the bill as roported ling nlreng; boon developed in tho Bonato, which cagly doubt on its pssage. After TronnTon, tho thisves' Mm!crneop' bind dumped the contonts of all the ballop, Loses of the Houlh Division into one pro, miseuous pile, the tickets wora connted, ang wery found to nmaber 6,763 ballots, Tjy the poll-books showed that 7,166 men hog deposited in those Idontienl boxes, 1lora way n shorthgo of 977 baollotal What lind b, coma of them? How had mearly op thousand tekets disappenred from tho boxes| ‘T'hint they hiad beon voted thorawns no douly for thero were the poll-lists with 7,166 namey of citizens who had handed their ballots g tho judges, and their namos had been ep, terad in black and whita on the pollnhaoku, and yat hero were only 6,748 tickets. Wheg thiz astonnding diszovery was mado, Tuintars, GrLeasox, nud TrHonNToN chuckled, end safd: ¢ Well, that roliovey us from thy chinrgo of siufling the boxes, No ono way over kuown fo stufl n box aud theroby pro duco n shortago,” BDut it doos not velieyy thom of the charge of robbing the boxes They or their cronics stole V77 tickets ont of tho boxes, They did moro than that, ‘They atolo at lonst 5,000 tickots out of thy hoxes, and rovlaced nll Dut the Y77 with Muxz Bvans and Ep Puntes ticko!s. Thay stola withoa! slopping to count, and stuffed without having (ime to count; houco the diseropanoy. When waa this villainy perpa trated? It was partly dono batwean the timo of tho closing of tha polls aud deposit. ing tho ballot-boxes in tho a1fo; the restol it was dono Quring tho night, whon the safa was opencil by Tuoriron and Grzasay ‘Fho ronson ‘PitorytoN persisted in dnmply tho contents of all tho Loxes in ono pile bp fora ths counting commenced wns to govy tracks and provent detection, If the con tonta of onch box had beon countod separnte 1y, the enormouy stufilug nud stealing wouli havo heen located and identified,” The vi) Inins well knew this, and thierofore they a plicd to cortain lawyers to know whothy they dare to ompty all the tickets promiscu. ously upon ono pile, and, when assived they wight do it, thoy Jost no timo ecnrrying th schemo into offcct. Well, what ia to bo don about it ? Wil tho defrauded, outraged cib izonn tamely submit to this unprecedentel villainy ? while holding a commission in the Interia Depnrtment, which was his roward for it, In ¢ was employed to ateal ivom District-Attorney Dyrn the testimony against Bancoor, has had {reo ndvertisement of the bad chhraoter ng eribed to him. When boiled down, this was t¢ thoeffect that he was given todrinlk and didn always repay money ho borrowed, which o1 the whole wasn't o remarksbly bad character for a man who would engage in such servie ns ho did intho Bancocr ease. It did nol impeach his testimony beforo the Crymm Committeo, which in nota fow partioulars was corroborated by District-Attornoy Dyes and by Secretary Cuanpren, and has not yel boen contradicted upon any materinl poiut Now the testimony as to DBriu's good charncter is produced. The Washington cor respondent of the Now York Zimes say Bewn hag in his possession autograph Iotters of Prosidont Gnavr and Gons. Suemay, Tonunut, and other army officors, showing that during the War he was omployed in 4 tho most dnngerous and important sorvieo® a3 n acout nnd spy, and that * the most ime plicit confidence was reposed in his integrity.” Dut tho way to gt at what truth thero is in Bery's lestunony i3 not through investigation of his charnoter, but by the moro dircel mothod of tho most searching exploration of tho facts as to procisely by whom ho was omployed, while pnid us n Government do. tective, to steal tho Governmont's testiniony agninst p man under indictment. Dryexs ovidenco loaves littlo doubt that Brun did maka nso of his position as a Govarnment do- tectivo to do this; and indications wero numerous ou tho triel that Bancock and hit counsel had boen fully advised of tho cnss ageinst him. Brra couldn’t have eogaged in thnat porilons business for nothing, and further evidenco ay to his character ean ba digpensed with for tho presont, What is wanted is disclosnro of who contrivad this criminal sttempt to interforo with the admin. istration of justico which BeLr was to cxo- cute, Tho nomination of CLaxg Lars for City Treaw uror does not soem to evolve s much enthue slasm amoug the marses of respootablo people 88 his frionds had loped or promised. Thia failuro to produco n spontancous outburst in Lie behul! is attributed by somo to his lving cliefly at Jia McGanny's saloon, Tho offect is to mako the other saloon-koopers joalous, oy thoy don't ko to seo ono concarn havo a monopoly of his lucrativo patronago and intellcctual nociety. . C——— Spoaking of tho nsurpation of tho Booateln maling appoiutments, tho Nalion obsorvos : It lma already fillod the Clvil Bervico with ils creatures, and s sro now witneaslug an pliom)R to PuLits creature in the White lousv, ~Gen, Gnawt has noteriously Leon for soma timo in the hands of » kad of mauagiisg committee, which Harver's Jecily calld the fienatorial (iroup," and the rojoction of DaNA f8 due far more 10 lrritation at tho Prenident's fnsubore dination in sending in o name which waa not on thole *alale " thau to anything clve, ——— PLRSONAL Brot Harta is in Washington, Almeo nill como over on tho same steamer with Offeuback. - A bust of tho Iato Canon Kingsley is to bo eroctod ln Chestor Cathodeal, Tuo Boston Post facls authorized to aay that Beheuck will nover give up the chlp. Ex-Gov. Fonton has roturned from Florids, and waa at last accounts in Washington. Tho Rov, W. R, Alger's * Life of Edwin For reat," announced a long tume ago, is slow to ap- pear. ‘Iho condition of Mr. A. T, Biewsrt ia such s to oxcito apprehonelous among his fricnds and bueineus asociates. Walt Whitman, throngh Mr. Moncure D, Con- way, has informod his officions Euglish frieudd that Lo is not fn poverty or distross. 8amue] Korr, son of the Spesker, attalnod la mafority last week, and the young ladicsof Washington gave him & leap-year party. Aius Olars Morely bad o relapse in Wasbloge tou n wools ago, and was for s timo dangerously i1, but she {a now ont of immediato davger- Mr, J. B, T. Marsb, formerly editor of the Advance, hps totuzned from Europe, snd ene tored upon tho discharge of hiv dutios ss Tress- uror of Obetlia College. Mr. SBwinburno bas jomed the Committeo for & monument to Byron on fuyitation, The sub- seriptious, sowo time 8go. excesdod £2,000, in sums not loss thau £3 each, Among tho sude