Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1876, Page 4

ar THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1876—SIXTEEN PA(':‘[ES. sion, providing anfagency to give it additional TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, BATES OF STBSCRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). Postage Prepaid nt this Office. Dzily Edition, postpaid, 13 per gallon. Flour was quiet and unchanged. ‘Wheat was moderately active and closed 3¢ lower, at 99)c for April and $1.03 for May. Corn was less active and ¢ lower, closing at 45%c for April and 48}c for May. Oats were more active and-ic lower, closing at 81%c for April and 33jc for May. Rye was dull and essier, at 64c for regular. Barley was guiet and easier, closing at 56c for April and 56¢ for May. Hogs were quiet and wesk, at 5c decline from Friday's quotations, light weights selling at §8.00@8.20, and common to good heavy at $£8.10@8.35. Cattle were in fair demand and unchanged—quoted at $3.50@5.50 for common to choice. Sheep sold at fplly Friday's figres, common to extra being in demand at $5.00@7.50. One hun- dred dollars in gold would buy $113.25 in Qus copy, Club of Tverper co Club of twenty, per 1.15 The postage is 135 cents a year, which we will prepay. Specimen copies sent free. To prevent delsy gud mirtakes, be sure and rive Fost- Otice address i full, inclading State and County. Ramiitances may be made either by draft, express, Post-Oftics arder, or in registered letters, at our risk. TERMS O CITY SUBSCRILERS. Daily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 23 cents per week, Daily, deliversd, Sunday ncluded, 30 cents per week. Addrees HR TR RONE CoMBaRy Carner Madison #1d Desrborn-sts.. Chicage IiL* ——n e AMUSEMENTS. greenbacks at the close. TO-DAT. Perhaps there was never any easier ballot- McCORMICE HALL—North Clark street, corzer of Einzie. Lecturs at 3 p, m. by Prof. William Mattews. Subject ; * Oratars and Oratory.” FODRTH UNITARIAN CHURCH—Corner Prairio xvenue and Thirtieth street. Lecture at 8 p. m. by the Hon Leonard Swett, Subject: “ Abraham Lincaln.” FOOLEYS THEATRE—Rsndolph strost, between Ciark and £aSalle. Comcertat 3p.m. inaid of the Go0d Samaritan Home. NEW CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark street, betwean Bandolph and Lake. * Klein Gald. ADELPHI THEATRE-Mozroe strest, corner Dear- brmm, “Quilp box stuffing than that of the lato South Town election. It reguired no time, no esti- mate, no judgment, no risk. Itmade no difference, in robbing the boxes, whether Democratic tickets or Republican tickets wero stolen. Al that needed to be done was to empty some of the boxes of helf their con- tents and substitute tickets that had not been in the field at all. There was no time lost in inspecting the stolen ballots to see that the wrong ones were not extracted. It was a clean sweep. Nor had there been any useless waste of money, and physical exertion, and bad whisky, in the campaign. The stuffed ticket did not even put in an appearance till it jumped up, like Jack-i“the-Box, ready- made, quick, alert, and cheeky. The ballot- box stuffers probably did not even go to the expenso of printing tickets. Last year's tickeis sexved their purpose perfecily well, and they had probably saved over a sufficient number for the occasion. Evaxs, PErLures, To-MoRROW. MCVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison atreet, betireen Dearborn and State, Engagement of Edwin Beoth. * Richard IL” WOOD'S MUSEUM-—Monros street, between Tear- born and State. Afternoan, “ The Rass of Killarusy.” Evening, “ Against the Warld.™ ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearbora AMonroe. “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” HOULEY'S THEATRE—Randolph street, betveen Clark and LaSalle. The Californis Mnatrelz, SOCIETY MEETINGS. CHICAGO COUNCIL PRINCES OF JERUSALEM— Xhe regulsr Convention will occur on next Thurday street, corner :renglg"-:flsfl!h, -& 7’”“‘“”&;‘"" m}i the Fif- | RyaN, GLEASON,—they were the same this Dotifed 1o sppear on Lhs S0ih wil ke duesotca, | Year 28 1ast, and will probubly Do the same next year unless the Town Boards shall be abolished in the meantime. It was a new departure, aud is entitled to the credit of originality and magnificent success. If thers «can be a ludicrous side to 50 das- tardly an outrsge as that committed by the ballot-box stuffers in South Chicago, it is to be found in the contemplation of the Demo- cratic candidates. They have all been re- markably quiet about the bellot-stuffing. They have looked on at the stuffing process placidly and calmly. There has not been a protest from Fraxs Sgenyax or Mr. LOEWEN- THAL. . They slept peacefully while the vigi- lant young men of the Republican persuasion stood guard with revolvers at half-cock over the ballot-boxes that had already been stuffed. The Democratic candidates were thus serene ‘becauss they supposed that any robbing or stuffing of the boxes was in their favor. They were just childlike and bland enough to be- lieve that if Mrxe Evans were elected they would also be elected, and that every vote stuffed for him was a vote stuffed for them. We can fancy the surprise and despair of these Democratic fledgelings when they dis- covered that Mme had ¢ sat down upon them,” and that the stuffing was done entirely in the interest of a ticket that had not been in the field at all. It was cheeky, butin- genions, It was hard on the Democrats who had stood by Mixe, but it served ’em right. If there is any laugh in this affair, it is on AMrxe’s Democratic associates. BAMSON BOUND WITH WITHES. The people of Chicago have, in the de- clared result of the election for the Town of South Chicago, a direct and unmistakable evidence of the boldness and the confidence of the criminal class, and of the determination of that class to perpetuate their control and government of the city. This result is not merely a ‘defiance to the Republican party, but to the Democratic party, and to the law-sbiding, tax-psying, honest people of all classes. The declared result of this elec- tion is that this criminal class have seized the taxing machinery of government, and de- fisntly ask, ‘“What are you going to do about it ?” The question is a pertinent one, and one which every citizen must ask himself. Itis a question which cannot be postponed, and must be answered at once. Is there any remedy? Here we have the case of the peo- pleof the South Town, aroused to o high sense of indignation by the recent outrage of excessive, unfair, and dishonest assessments, turning out in unprecedented numbers for & town election to protect themselves for the future against like oppressions, and in the whole town they are only credited with having polled for their candidates 3,472 votes, of which 1,672 were polled in one pre- cinct alone. There were not only Repub- lican votes en masse, but there were largs numbers of Democrats who voted the Re- publican ticket. The Democrats had nom- inated Gen. SEemyaAN and Mr. LOEWENTHAL, both popular and respectable men ; butin all South Chicago they were credited with less than1,500 votes! On the day of election thers were & Republican ticket and a Democratic ticket ; Mrxe Evans was on the Democratic ticket for Collector, and Par O'Brrex was running in opposition to him. No other candidates had been announced ; no tickets were circulated or scen anywhere with other names on them; but, when the result was declared, it was found that the notorious Ep Paruries was elected Assessor, the equally notorious GressoN was elected Clerk, and 8 fellow called Ryax Super- visor. So ignorant were the citizens who had given the whole day to the election that Prruues was o candidate, they consented at midnight that he should be oneof the two ‘men who should remain all night to guard the ‘ballot-boxes against any tampering! It was ot known or suspected gatil the ballots from all the boxes of the sixwards had bsen thrown into a common pile, and then opened, that either PAILLIPS or GLEASON Was & candi- date. The Moderator declared that each had received nearly four thousand votes from a people who were profoundly igrorant that either of them was a candidate! ‘We need only refer to the crowning act of this election: The storage of the ballot- boxesin & vault, the key of which was in the hands of Prmxrrs, GLessoy, and THORN- ‘ToN, and the discovery of these men in the vault by the citizens who went to the place between 1 and 2 o'clock next morning. Taking the vote as declared, with this pro- cceding, 1o honest man can have any hesita- tion as to the object and the result of that surreptitious visit to the ballot-boxes. Ten days hence there is to be an election for city officers and an entire Board of Alder- men. Why may not the monstrous frauds of last Taesday be repeated on Tuesday of next week? These town elections have been for some years mere contests between one gang of loafers and criminals, and another gang of the same class. Each staffed the boxes on the other. The fact that these men thug eleoted became city officers in 1875 at Iast ‘brought the iniquity home to the knowledge of other classen, The blackmail of Asssasors, Election in Hage Craix Chapter postponed until May 25, By order of JOHN O'NEILL, 8, P G.* M. ‘Ep. Gooparz, Gr, Sec'y., GAUNTLET LODGE NO. 4, ENIGETS OF PYTHIAS —Regular Couvention Tusedsy evening, 11ih inst., at 3345 p. 1., for work on Thira Rank in amplised form. Alsoat 6 o'clock p. m., same day, for workon First Bunk. Visitors cordiafly nvited. 3. W. ACKERMANN, K. R, snd & Chan. Com. CETSADE LODGE XNO. 1, K. OF P.—All members wre requested 1o meet at their Castls Hall, 208 Lasallo- st., on Thursday evening, 15th inst., at 8 o’clock aharp, Tor work, Business of importance will alsq be ‘brought hefare the Lodge. Visiting brethren cordially invited. By arder, 4 N. NABROTH, C, C. Joms J. MrrcmELy, E. of B. and 8, HOME LODGE, No, 505, A, F. & A."M.—Members sre requested to attend th 3 this tle deccased are also respactfally invited to attend, L. P. TOBEY, W. M. ATTENTION, ST ENIGHTS !—S; Conclave of Chicago Commandery, No. 19, K. T., Mondsy cvening, April 10, for work on the K. T.Onder. Visiting Sir Enighta courteously invited. By orderof the E- C. CHAS. J. TROWBRIDGE, Becarder. LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, No.2, R. A, M—Hall 72 Monroest.—§tated Convocation ~ Mondsy _evening, April 10, for business important o the Chapter znd wozk ontho B, A. Degree. By order of the H. P. E. N. TUCKER, Socretary. (CORINTEIAN CHAPTEE, No. &, iz.m;. M—Beg. ») Ivocat Mondsy evening, 10, at ®alock, Wark an the Mark 8.2 HENDERSON, H. P. J. 0. DICKERSOK, ‘Sec'y. The Ghieago Tribume, Sunday Mornmng, April 9, 1876. At the New York Exchange on Saturdsy the dollar greenback represented 834 to 884 cents, One very self-evident reasonfor the falling- off in the Chiness demand for trade-dollars, snd the consequent glut in silver, has been discovered. Thess have been coined chiefly st the Branch Mint at Carson, Nev., and it sppears the trade.dollars for some time turned out therefrom have invariably been short in weight from one-half to two cents each. The Chinese bankers were not slow to detect this, and have thrown out the trade- dollar. The Sen Francisco Alfa, which has been investigating the matter, has found that some of the trade-dollars from the Carson Mint of the coinage of this year are four grains short of full weight, and that the only solution of it is that systematic and extensive stealing must have been practiced there, and that the test scales must have been tampered with. The full weight of silver, of the standard fineness, has in every instance been turned in to be coined at the Branch Mint, and what has not been returned in coin of full weight has been stolen. This is the first instance in which such frauds have been detected in the Mint, and the result has been to shake confidence in the Carson coinage, not only abroad but in California, and se arch- ing investigation is demanded. The statement is made that Jomx Roux- TREE, the perfunctory attorney who draws a salory from the county, has advised the County Commissioners severzlly to deny any petition the voters may present to submit the question of discontinuing the township or- ganizotions in this city. Of comrse Jomy RouxTeEe, perfunciory attorney, has no valid reason for giving any such opinion, and, if he has not been misrepresented, he bas simply, as an officer of the county, ad- vised other officers of the county to violate the law in the interest of ringsters and ballot-box stuffers. But, in this case, if his position is correctly reported, Mr. RouNTREE will probably fail to do the scoundrels the service he hos undertaken. The law says: ** Upon the petition of atleast one-fifth of the legal voters of any county having adopted township organization, to be ascertained by the vote cast at the last preceding Presidentinl election, the County Board shall cause to be submitted to the voters of such county st the next general election the ques- tion of the continuance of township organi- zstion.” No discretion is given to the Conn- ty Board in the matter. The law is manda- tory. Mr. BouxTaez is also mistaken if he thinks sufficient delsy can be secured by the denial of the petition to extend the life of the Town Bosrds beyond another election. If the Board refuses to submit the question at the election next fall, an spplication can be made directly to the Supreme Court for a mandamus compelling it to comply with the law ; and the Supreme Court will not refuse such application. Let the Citizens’ Associa- Lon proceed at ones to the obtaining of the requisite number of signatures, and there is no question but the County Board will either submit the question voluntarily, or be com- pelled to do so, The Chicago produce markets were again unsettled Saturdsy. Mess pork was active and closed 10c per brl higher, at $22.10@ 22,15 cash and $22.273@22.30 seller May. TLard was active and weak, closing 5c per 100 Ibs lower, st $13.40@14.42} cash and $13.52% @13.56 for May. Meats were less active and steadier, at 8fc for boxed shoulders, 120 for do short ribs, and 120 for do short clears. Highwines were guiet and steady, at 9108 and the vengeance upon those who would not be blackmailed, was written on every page of the assessment books. The respect- able and substantial people of the city were ‘brought face to face with tho results of elec- tions controlled by criminals. A general purpose to reform the evil was formed. In the West and North Towns this purpose was triumphantly accomplished, but in the South Town, where the groatest outrages had been perpetrated, where the people were most in- dignant, the criminal class have defeated the public will, and, seizing the machinery and the ballot-boxes, have declared all the noto- rious officers of last yoar re-elected, without reference to the actaal vote polled. During the last twenty years theelectionsin the City of Chicago(except these town affairs) have been conducted with ordinary fairness. There may have been occasionsl illegal vot- ing, but, as a whole, the results declared were in accordance with the vote polled. In 1875, however, the henchmen of the Mayot of Chi- cago, and his gang of adherents in the Coun- cil, and men employed by them for that pur- pose, introduced into charter elections for the first time the stuffing of ballot-boxes, the forging of returns, the destruction of honest Dballots, and the declaration of fraudulent re- sults. The same illegal machinery of ballot- box stuffing used in the first week of April in the contest between the Evaxs and Forey gangs of criminals was employed in the last week of April to carry the election in favor of the new obarter, under which the Mayor usurps the office which he holds That was the beginning. The success with which the criminal class has goy- erned Chicego through that fraudulent, election, and has perpetuateq its rule without even the form of an election, has rendered it defisnt. It holds the populer will in con- tempt. A majority of the Common Council deliberately defied the people of Chicago by prohibiting them from electing a Mayor. With the City Government under its absolnte control, a Meyor and police in sctive sym- pathy with them, there i3 no outrage or crime they will not perpetrate to preserve their ascendency. The city election takes place mext week. The same Alayor, tho same police, the same corrapt majority in the Common Council, ex- ist. Shall the ballot-boxes be stuffed mnext week in the, interest of the Warneys, the Hirprerns, the Warres, the LeNcacHErs, the Stouts, the MurprTys, and the O'Brrexs? ‘We submit to "the people of Chicago the question whether the right of election is to be nbondoned. Shall the people submit to the rule of the criminal class? Shall all elections pass into the hands of the ballot- box stuffers, and crime becoms absolute in its government ? The greatest crime against human society in this country is the corruption of the ballot- box. Itis revolution, treason. It is a war against Iaw, order; agninst property, against public peace snd personal liberty; a war against social purity, decency, and safety. It is o crime that exceeds all others in enor- mity, because directed against all that is sacred among men,* 1t is said there isno legal redress and no logal preventives or restraint ; that the Courts will do nothing, and that the mob is su- preme. It becomes, therefore, a grave ques- tion for each citizen to consider and decide ‘what is his personal duty in the premises. THE CITY ELECTION NEXT WEEK. The peculiar ingenuity and unblushing gudacity of the ballot-box stuffers in the recent town election, whereby both the tickets were deliberately thrown out of the Doxes and the old town officers substituted, must not discourage tho voters of Chicago from doing their full duty at the city elec- tion which occurs a week from nest Tuesday. The late experience should rather prompt them to renewed action, with a firmer deter- mination than ever to break down the fraudu- lent combination against the tax-payers and punish the ringsters. So solid a front should be opposed to the scoundrels that even their sudncity shall be dismayed. So thorough and sweeping o reform should be mads in all the local offices that they will have no- where to look for countenance or comfort. The defeat of the popular will by fraud must be followed by the reassertion of the popular will in still stronger terms. One of tworo- sults must ensue. Either the ringsters and ballot-box stuffers must give way before popalar indignation, or that indignation will grow in strength and proportions until it shall resort even to viclence for its remedy. We hopa for the former, but there is now a deep-rooted sentiment among the people which will not avoid the latter if come it must. The first stand must be made at the elec- tion of Aldermen. A full Council is to be chosen. The Ring is putting forth its strong- est efforts to secure control of thenew Council, as they had of the old. Thereon depends the very existence of the Ring. Under the present charter the Council hes the power to do and undo anything and everything in local gov- ernment. It controls, directly or indirectly, all the expenditures, contracts, and appoint- ments. If in full sympathy with the present Mayor, who insists upon holding the office in defiance of the popular will, they can together load down the people with a burden of taxation which Chicago can no longer sustain. Thoy w«ill doit. It is for this they are striving. There will never be another opportunity so favorable for routing them, horse, foot, and dragoons. The fight must be made on the Aldermen. The general ticket is comparatively unimportant: in any case, it will follow the Aldermanic vote. But, in the case of Aldermen, the voters of each district must decide for themselves who are the best men to represent their interestsin this emergency. We believe, as a whole, the Republican nominations for the Council are the best; but, wherever.a citizen is satisfied that the candidate on the opposite ticket will serve better the interests of the tax-poyers, then it is his duty to cast his vote according to that conviction. 'The importancs of local interests at this time is paramount to that of partisan interests. It is more necessary that every Alderman should favor o réduction of taxes and oppose the Ring of tax-eaters and thieves than that he should be & Republican or a Democrat.” We believe the betterclass of Democrats also feel in this way. In the First ‘Ward they have resolved to support Wy wopTH and McAurey instead of making nominations of their own. So the Republican voters, wherever the regular candidates are not men who are certsin to act with the tax- payers against the thieves, then they should vota for the irregular, the independent, or the Democratic candidates, if they are men who can be depended upon to do right. If the people of Chicago fail to elect a Re- form Council this year, CoLvrs will succeed in holding the office of Mayor another year, and the villainies, corruptions, and oppres. sions of our City Government will continue and incresse. CoLviy can only be displaced by the new Council's electing ame of thair own number to the vacancy in the Mayor's office. There is no objection to fl:e‘peopla protesting against Corviv's usurpation by uniting on a candidate and giving hu'n a unanimous vote. Such a proceeding xmght possibly shame Corviv into a resignatidn, though that is doubtful. At all events,_ it would be such an expression of public opin- ion that the new Council would not dare to igtiore it. But, in -doing this, it would be well for the people to designate at the polls 2 gentleman who will slso be elected to the Council; then the choice in the Comnoil would be a double protest, which neither Corviy nor the. Courts could longer resist. But, above all, let there bo a choice of honest and decent Aldermen who will rescue the people from the threatening bankruptcy of the city and the certain destruction of its business prosperity. Retrenchment alona can save us, and retrenchment can be made only through the Council. t THE FARWELYL HALL MEETING, The immense assemblage at Farwell Hall last night was an unmistakable manifesta- tion of the readiness of the decent popula. tion of Chieago to promptly respond to the question, “What they are going to do” sbout meintaining the right of self-gov- ernment, which has been wrested from them by bummers and ballot-box stuff- ers? That is the question which has been thrust upon them by the high. handed outrages of Tuesdsy last. Of the thonsands who packed the hell, and the other thousands who were turned away be- cause it was impossible to crowd in, there was none whose expression and bearing did not attest the deep conviction that the time for talking had passed, and that the time for action had come. There was no effer- vescence of spluttering indignation. There was too profound senseof the situation at this crisis for that. The vast sudience was remarkabty quiet; but it was the quiet of so- ber ecrnestness. There was no oceasion to expatiate to tho thousands of solid citizens gathered there, upon the atrocious out- rage praticed uwpon them by black-legs, ruffisns, thieves and, tax-eaters. Of them all, unmistakably every man of that vast throng had come theroe not fo discuss what should be done to restore Gov- ernment by the ballot and rid the city of the rule of thieves and ballot-stuffers, but to do what must needs be done to accomplish that. Neither could it be mistaken that the thousands of honest citizens there assembled, and the thomsands others they represented, had made up their minds what must needs be done to redeem the city from tho regime of bummerism. There was no suggestiont of recourse to the courts for redress. ‘The futility of that, with lawyers quibbles and packed juries, was felt by every man present. It needs d bat a word to have led to the orgenization, then and there, of & Vigilance Committee not less than five thou- sand strong, which wonld forthwith have proceeded, with the order and precision of veteransexecuting their evolutions on parade, to have hanged tho leaders in the villainy of Tuesdsy, and to have left the others an Lour in which to quit the city forever, on penalty, if they refused, of like fate. With the calm- ness that comes of fixed purpose and con- scious strength, the great crowd waited for that word to be spoken. It wasnot uttered; but manifestly they went awsy with their determination unaltered, and, inspired thera- by, will reassemble at the Exposition ‘building Tuesday evening. They manifested no disposition for hasty action ; neither did the San Francisco Vigilantes who conducted their proceedings with as methodical order as that of the courts ; and the example of the San Francisco Vigilantes was in the mind of every man present, and every reference to it provoked significant approval. It wasremem- bered that at San Francisco the-candidates fraudulently declared elected, and all their kind in office, were given choice between res- ignation and quitting the “city at unce, or short shrift of hemp; that the like alterna- tive was submitted to those of their gang whom it was not deemed necessary to hang, and that then the Vigilantes flect;d & decent city ticket to fill the vacancies in'office, Had it been submitted to vote last night, that is precisely what the eight orten thousand voters in and sbout the meeting would unanimous- ly have voted to do, and wounld then have proceeded to do. From the temper evinced there, that is not unlikely what they msy do Tuesdsy night; for never was thers in our midst such wide-spread,settled convie- tion that forbearance has become disgrace- ful; that the law affords no remedy; and that the people’s only relief is in taking it into their own hands. THE BEECHER BUSINESS. “The combat thickens.” The last week witnessed important events in connection with Brooklyn effairs. Drs. R. S. Srtomms and BuprxaTow, this time in connection with the Rev. Dr. Tavror, of the New York Tabernacle Church, the Rev. Dr. Waxp, of the Independent, and Prof. Manrry, of the University, took » very decided step. It came sbout in this way. The Committee ap- pointed by the New York and Brooklyn As- sociation of Congregational Ministers, last sutumn, to report whether steps should be taken in reference to Mr. Brzcars, reported that further investigation was indispensable, but that it was not best for the Association to move until after it should appear what would be the result of the Commission raised by the recent Advisory Council, or of the Andover proposition of a council of investi- 'gation. 'This threw open for discussion the whole subject. The Association contains members who took an active part in the Ad- visory Council, and they were determined to obtain action that should virtually indorse the. proceedings of that body. Hence the Rev. Dr. Hexny M. Stones (a cousin of the Rev. Dr. Ricmanp S. Stomes), one of the Corresponding Seccretaries of the American Home Missionary Society, who was a mem- ber of the Advisory Council, introduced a proposition to raise a committes of five to 2id the investigations of the Coancil’s Com- mission by procuring and presenting evi- dence; of which committee Drs. R, 8. Srores and BupmyaToy should be members, _ It has beenunderstood that when Plymouth Church, to its astonishment, found that the result of the huge Advisory Council was met on every side with criticism and repudiation, and that its famous device of a Commission 'was likely to prove a mortifying failure,—not from lack of cherges to be made, or of sup- posed evidence to be presented, but from an utter refusal of witnesses to appear befors it,—it was determined to prevent such a re- sult if possible, and to put the machinery in motion. The proposition before the Asso- cintion seems to have been part of this plan, 1t adroitly included several points thought to be desirable. (1) It headed off any investiga: tion independent of the Commission. (2) It respectability, and to furnish it an oppor- tunity to getinto being and action. (8) It placed Drs. R. S. Srorss and BupmNaToN in 8 dilemma. If they consented to serve on the Committeo of Five, they wounld be compelled to accept and use the Commission, the crea- tion of which they had so severely criticised ; if theyrefused to serve on it, it would be said that they clamored for an investigation, yet declined to act as- investigators. "A long and earnest discussion ensued, which resulted in the adoption of the proposition mentioned above, and in the rejection of Prof. ManTIN'S substitute, that the Association do its own nvestigating. The resistance to the pro- posed Committee’s action was on the gronnd that it would not command public confidence while connected with a Commission so widely repudiated by the denomination. After the action, a protest was submitted, setting forth thiz objection, aud resolutions. were offered reciting tho true doctrines of | Congregationnlism in the respects involved. ‘When these .were tabled, Dr. R. S. Storss, BupincroN, and TAvrom, and the Rev. Mr. AlcFarLanp (New York correspondent of the Congregationalist), withdrew from member- ship in the New York and Brooklyn Associa- tion. This probably means, first of all, a de- termination to be out of the local Association which includes Hevry Wimp BEECHER. These distinguished ministers have submitted, as long as they think that duty required, to the unpleasant fact that they were members of the same Association, and were thus in- dorsers of his character and responsible for an investigation of the charges made against: him. Having failed to indace that body to take such 2 step 2s would command public confidence, and thinking that it had commit- ted itself to revolutionary doctrines and prac- tices, they entered their protest and with- drew ; thus clearing their skirts of responsi- bility for Mr. BeecsEs and for the new Con- gregationalism. But probebly something further is meant. The joint withdrawal of four such ministers points to united action in the future, es- pecially in view of the fact that several oth- ers are known to sympathize with them, such as Drs. Warp, Magrmy, and ScUpDER. As every recognized Congregational minister is a member of some District Association, and through it of the State Association, these gentlemen will not be content with the mere- 1y negative act of withdrawal. It has been supposed that Drs. Stores and Bupmicron 1might become Presbyterians if no satisfac- tion could be had in their present relations. Bat this joint action with Dr. Tavror and others points to another course. They will, ro doubt, proceed to organize a new Associa- tion for that region, to which will gather thoso like-minded, leaving Mr. Beecmer to the immediate fellowship of those who be- lieve in his innocence. This step will make a profound sensation in the denomination, cnd will deepen the feeling which already ex- ists among the churches. It does not neces- sarily indicate a danger of like separa- tions elsewhere; becanse the senmsitive- ness will noturally be less at a dis- tanco than in the Association where the accused man is 8 member, and on the ground where the criticised Council has been held. In other places, those of differing judgments will probebly be satisfied with earnest discus- sion of the principles involved. Yetitis ev- ident that much sore feeling exists, and the special Congregational advocates of - Mr. Beecmer and Plymouth Church sre under- stood to be loud in their condemnation of the ministers and feligious papers that are not in harmony with their judgment. As to thede- nominational religious papers, the Advisory Council finds favor only with the Christian Afirror (Maine), whose proprietor and editor were members of that body. As the Inde- pendent is wholly anti-BrecuEr, the Christian Union, BEECHER'S own paper, would seem to be all that is left for their patronage of the undenominational papers, and that is report- ed to have fallen off immensely in its ciren- lation since its editor was subjected to such serious charges. Meanwhile, the Andover movement is not yet abandoned. If the sixty deys shall pass without the constituting of the Commission, or if the Commission shall begin the form of an investigation, when it is known that the principal witnesses refuse to appear before it because of its one-sided origin, the Ando- ver Church will probably renew its attempt to have a thorough investigation by a Coun- cil such as would be called to try charges against any other accused minister. If Plym- outh Church shall refuse to co-operate in this method, as now seems certain will be the case, Andover will proceed, alone or in asso- cintion with some other church, to call such a Council, to examine into offered evidence, and to - decide whether denominational fellowship shall Ionger be extended to Mr. BeecmER aS & minister. Perhaps the case of Mrs. Tmrox will suffice for action, after, in addition to the evidenca of Mr. and Mrs, Moorrox and Mr. Trurox, that of Mrs. Brapsmaw, Miss AxTeONY, Mr. and Mrs. RicHAnDS, Mr. CARPENTER, and Mrs, _Hoozxr shall have been heard. If not, in- vestigation will probably be made of three or four of tho many similar cases which are alleged, by more or less definite rumor, to exist. Should the examination of them all yield no inculpatory evidence, not Mr, Beecr- = only, but all Christendom, might be con- gratulated on the favorable termination of an unprecedented scandal. But, one way orthe other, a final decision on the merits of the case -is bound to bo reached. Thé world demands it, and men of influence, of intelligence, and of determination, aro purposed to secure 1t. . — ' TrORNTON, tho thieves’ Moderator, duamped the contents of nine ballot-boxes on one pile. The number of names on the poli-books of 658 more votes in two polling places alone than he is given at the whole nine pol.ls! Bat Mizz Evans was moro generous to him- sclf than to his pal. He, or his fellows for him, stole more of Garroway'’s tickets than of Gmay’s. Hereis how he dished up the thing for himself : Gazrowax received within fifty votes as many in the Third Ward alone as the villains reported for him in the nine voting places. His honest majority was much -greater than all the votes actually cast for Evaxs. But the old question comes up: What is to be done about it ? The people of the North Division, after the election last fall, invited the voters of a par- ticular precinct to call at s place named and indicate by affidavit how they kad voted for County Treasurer. Over one hundred and twenty citizens of that precinct voluntarily appeared and mado affidavit that they had voted for gHucs, while the Election Judges had falsely returned only 32 votes for that person! In this way there was a moral con- viction of these men, though they escaped a legal conviction by the corrupt perversity of asingle juror. Itis now proposed that a somewhat similar course be adopted with re- spect to the late election for the collection of ‘olection, but kept away from the polls. Two +Evaxs and Ep Punres out-stuffed and out- "the town from the control of the thieves; but these nine voting places was 7,630. Tha number of votes found in the pile was 6,709. This makes a shortage of 971. The ballot- box stuffers performed this part of their ne- forious job clumsily, and exposed them. selves. Nosuch deficit was possible except by | abstracting the tickets after they had been voted. The number of names on each of the poll-books of the nine voting places are as follows: First Ward Hocond Wi Third Ward. Fourth Ward, Fourth Ward, secand precinct. Fifth Ward, first precinct, . Fifth Ward, second procinc Fifth Wazd, third precinct, Fifth Ward, fourth precinct.. Total.. veveneseane. e 680 The ballot-box stuffers apportioned these votes among thres candidates for Assessor as follows : As a matter of fact, Grax received more votes in the First and Third Wards than the ballot-box staffers allowed to bim in the whole nine voting places. In the Third ‘Ward ho reocaived mare than 1,450 votes, and in the Fixst Ward aver 1,000 votes, making . cers of the Bouth Division of Chicago last Tues- the evidence to prove the wholesale fraud at’ the late town election in South Chicago. The mensure can easily be executed. A city elec- tion will be held on the 18th of April. There can be selected a reputable citizen, suthor- ized to administer oaths, to serve at each pre- cinet, who will be provided with printed blanks worded substantially as follows : 1, , o Iegal voter residing st No. —,on street, in the Ward of the City of Chicago. do swear that at tho town election held in South Chicago on Tuesdsy, April 8, 1875, T voted » printed ballot bearing the names of A.J. GALLOWAY for_Collector, W.B, H, GRax for Assessor, GEORGE F. EoLug for Supervisor, and E, L. BARBER for Clerk, swnfifi::!a;e ma thia 18th day of April, m‘% Each voter may be asked as he approaches the polls how he voted at the town election, and, if he voted the Republican ticket, he will not hesitate to take time enough to make and sign the affidavit. In this way, at the twenty-four or twenty-five precincts in South Chicago, there can be collected the sworn testimony of enough voters to demonstrate the utter falsity of the result declared by Dave TrorxTox and his villainous associates. We suggest that these affidavits be printed in large numbers, and that the ward clubs take action to have a Notary at each precinct, and have persons especially sppointed to request voters to make the affidavits. Let the vil- lainy be demonstrated in a way that even the thieves cannot gainsay. SHAKRPEARE'S BIRTHDAY. The engagement of Mr. Epwiy Boors, which begins ot McVicker's Theatre to-morrow night, has s special interest this vear on several ac- counts. It is the first engagement he has played in Chicago smnce the severe accident which came so near robbing the American stage of his steady 'and efficient work in the highest school of the drama. He also sppears in some new sindies, notably King Richard I1. apd Lear, snd the former especially ought to command public attention on account of the coraparative rarity of its production an the stage. He will be here, t00, on the anniversary of SAKSPEARE'S birthday, and tlus circumstance should suggest sowe special celebratian of tho event as one that canpot be too vividly recailed to the minds of managers, dramatists, sctors, cnitics, and the theatre-going public. As the aaniversary comes this year on Bunday (April 23) any formal dramatic observanco of it would properly be on the Saturday preceding or on the Monday fol- lowiog. A fitting memorial performance might be dovised by two performances on Saturday, in which a series of the favorits Shakspearean char- acters assumed by Mr. Boora might be present~ ed in isolated scenes or acts. Such an arrange- ment, though not altogether artistic, would af- ford an opportunity to many parsons to ses & wider range of Shakspearean character thzn they might otherwisa be able to see in several years of occasional theatre-going. It would be sppropriste also, in addition to this varied featuro of a memorial performancs, to set aside a portion of the receipts to some en- terprise calculated to preserve and extol the name of SHAESPRARE in the minds of the people. ‘There is an Associstion in Siratford-on-Avon which had boen organized with the view of pro- viding a Memorial Theatre in SEARSrEARE'S birthplace, and cresting a fund for a school of Shakspeatean studies, for Shak- spesrean lecturee, and o Shakspearean art- galery. This Association looks to mana- gere thronghout the world to eupply the means of carrying out its parposes through memorial performances. We have no doubt that both Messrs. Boorsr and McVicser would co-operats in a movement for such a memorial performance in Chicago, if it wero properly organized, and consent to set seide a part of the proceeds either for the benefit of the Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Theatre, or toward a sShakspearean buet or statuo for this city. Here is an oppor- tunityforthe Chicago Literary Club, which might signalize its youthful existence by such an en- tersaloment a8 would be the event of the sea- gon. At any rate, the coincidence of MMr. Boora's presence in the city, and the occnr- rence of SHAKSPEARE'S birthday, ought to be improved o secure somo notable dramatic and literacy celebration of the event. —_— A year sgo tho tax-payers and reputable citi- zens of the South Town did not voto at the town gangs of bummers, thieves, and scoundrels fought for the spoils. The gang led by Mixe cheated the gang led by the rumseller Tox Forzy, and seized tho offices. This spring the tax-payers and reputable citizens, smarting un- dor the robveries committed by the Evaxs- ProLrres gang, turned out 1n great numbers and overwhelmed the villains by upwards of 8,000 majority. They supposed they had redeemed the thieves bad no intention of surrendering the plunder. They had the' poll-boxes mn their bands. It was not difficult to open half-a- dozen of them, abstract the contents, and fill them up with ballots containing the names of Evass, Paruures, GieasoN, and Rran. This ‘was done by them, and the scoundrels have de- clared themselvea re-elected, and are now with drunken and insulting loers asking the enragea citizens whas they are going to doabous it if they don't like it. —_— The Chicago Etening Journal narrates at some length tie successive ateps by which the four Bummer viliains elected themselves town offi- dsy, Wednesday, Thurday, and Friday, sad oon- cludes ite article in this langaago: Now what a to bo done sbont it slava tho decent e icago no remedy 7 they submit to pe ke Yy the ot scallswaga in the community? Let (ks tax-payers answer, In smaller places the whols gana of rufians would be hangea 1n one night, In Chi- g0 We havo some for [sw, but tne law does 00t seem to reach the lawless, Something must and will be done. The peopls aro aroused and excited, and 3,410p must be put o these outragss, and the sconer o Chicago has become quite a Iarge town. Soms people think it is nearly large enongh to have & Vigilance Committes, and that thers is uss for ons, Wrevr F. Stomzy, foreman of the Cook County Grand Jury, has now an opportuaity to stiow what kind of stuff heismsads of. The tazing powsr of the divislon of the-sity . scandalized the churchmen of London bysitend & -overcoat to pronounce the benediction at all. ,cause. which he resides bas been stolen o zen by a gang of ballot-box -euem:h Lt who they are, and they are asking whay I going to do about it. Has he any nnswar N —_— Mrxe Evays, Ep Pmmrrres, Grrasgy, RyYAN Iaugh heartily over the dsmnaple | they perpotrated. Thoy Bay tax-payery py waro swindlod ont of thair votea will holy py. ings, pass resolutions, and then—submy . thay the whole thing will blow over in s weey twa ; and that nat one ballot:box stufe i hurt. —_— Thore ara 3,000 tax-payers of the South Divisy fon of Chicago whose votes for Guapgyy, Gray, and EoLBE have been stalen by b Evaxs, Ep Purries, ToorsToy, and G; Thoso tax-payers demand tbat thess shail give back tha stolen ballots. The nave gol to be surrenderad ! balloty As regards the EvaNs-Pomrres baylg, stuffing villainy. it is pretly apparent fron tone of BEVERIDGE'S organ, that if by any of the sconndrols should be convicted spg sent to the Penitentiary, a pardon awaits thuy, The number of enraged citizens who entranca to Farwell Hall last night way to have filled four such halls—yast ag it js, —_— Is the whole thing going to blow over [y 1 week or two ? If not, What are you going to g aboutit ? p Not one cont for ballot-box stuffers, kuf lars for hemp. = i PERSORAL. Becretary Bristow is resting in Lo uisville, The Czar is the tallest sovereign in Earopy, Von Bulow is Doctor of Laws, not s Doctorsy Mausic. e Colfax has made $12,000 by leciuring xizyy last summer. 3 Dr. Schliemann says the brigands of Sigy never molest foreigaera. ] The Queen has presented Mr. Disrasli withy | ‘portraic of herself painted in oil. Ar, Blaine, Msyor Wickbam, and Gov, My. | gsn attended a Moody sud Sankey masting ‘Wednesday. Mr. Bennett's marriage with Miss Mayhy, aocording to the Washington Chronicle, b ‘postponed for a year. ‘x Thomas W. Gordon, before committiog s cide in Baffalo, willed his body to the gociry - for dissecting purposes. i The Boston Herald hears that Gen. Baflery ‘handsome face is to be represented in bas-relisf on Boston's soldiers’' monumen:s. A fow days ago a jury in the Westarn wili gave the following verdict in a case of suicide; | “We find the deceased was a fool.” 1 Ara. Mackenzie, it seems, is not toseeskad |. vorcs, but her husband 18 vo petition the Domis ion Parliament for a divorce from her. i It ia eaid that the organ of the Church of fiy Disciples, New York, has boen conveyedtoly |, pastor, the Rev. Dr. Hepworth, to securs ki salary. ! Richard H. Dana was never befars them 7 in a whaler. Neither of the vessels in which bs served was eagsged in tha valgar pursuitrs ferred to. Bishop Coxe, of New York, said in s reced lecture that the pretensions of Soathernersts ‘high birth, to the exclusion of Now Englandery waa absurd. B 18 The Emperor of Brazil has secared apartmeryy on the parlor-figor of the Fifth Avenue Hotelln New York for his accomniodation during hisssy f in that city. ‘Weston is on intimate terms with many Ege glish Lords and prize-fightera. It ia still a moee ed question whether he is ranked as a Lord aref a prize-fighter, E ‘Titiens 8aid to Mra. Grant: **Yon havensvet * been in Europe.” The ieply was: “No;nd ; set, DBut Mr. Grant will woon be at leisure, axd then no doubt we shall go.”" The Commonplsce Book of John Miizon, dis - covered in October, 1875 and just printed by the Camden Bociety, is said to be commonplas in character as well a8 iu nnime. i If there is anything about the late outrsgeoms - town election frauds which can be described a1 fundy, it was the watching of the ballot-bat guards on the second night, after the boxes had been beaatifully and completely scuffed. 4 " The Cincionati Commercial, witk: malice afors | thought, says: * Kilbourn handles s billof = {fare with the dexterity and thoroughness of a3 ... Indians editor.” And he pays for what heeatl with the same dexterity and thoronghness. i Dr. Tait, the Archbishop of Canterbury, kst :.: ing the opening of the Londow Hospitaland ; pronouncing the benediction in an: Ulster ovar cont. Itis something for a man s+itn an Ulstar : Mr. Shearmaa says it would be contempt of court, and punishable 25 such, for any church to deal with a witness on scconnt of testimony gwwen in the Tilton-Beecher suit while it is sl pending in conrt; aod Dr. Leonard Bacon tellf Mr. Shearman he could not go to fail in a betist One hundred years ago the members of tis British Pailiament hed not become emancipated from the trammels of dress, nud & distinguwished Irish member was known ag **Mr. Tottenhamis ' his boots,” because oa tha occasion of & veJ - close division he Lad committed the enormityel | . walkiog into the House in his boots. 2 Tourguineff, tbo fsmous Rossian novelish: . modestly says: ‘I have not a bit of imagiod tion. I couldn’tivventanjihing if I tried. Al my characters are ‘aken froru 'ife. Iamonlyd . photographer.” To which Tate Finld addst ° ** Tourgnineff zodoubtediy hes seen all his pe> ple, but he has clothed tham in garments st 8 10 other brain corld fashion.” : Sanator Hamlin has bsen in Jongress over § : quarter of a centary, and sow he is oblixed 8 make the bumilinting confession that, whew hit Postal bill prased, he Was not awara that third clags mail matter incladed newspapers. Seps tor Hamlin may not be aware either that 368 effect of his bill iato muke the cost of sendivg a dmly newspaper witis sapplement a few miles by mail equal to thae ficat cost of the psper to b8 people. David A. Wells made s gallzot canvass fof Congress in Connecticat, the gallantry of it €00 sisting in the remarkable facc that he refused 0 ‘ work™ for an election. The Springfeld B publican thinks that if he knd sdopted the methods he wonld have been olected. As it Wss he redaced the Repnblican majority to less thsd 200, and would have been olected if hebsdre coived the full Democratic vote. AMany Bepud licans voted for him. 4 The Boston Fost tells this story : * The blisd devotion with which the late John Forater's se vant Honry did his service was illnstrated o8 one oceasion when his master had a dipnerps®™ ty. During the dinner Henry was nervons, made two or three blunders. His msster chaled 8nd fumed, and cast angry glances st his s vaot ; but the poor man could not settle guietly tohis duty. At last, when tho dsssest and Wis® had been pleced upon the table, Te stole HmdY behind Mr. Forster's chair and said : * Pleas 8IT, canyouepare me now? My housa haa bees on fire for the 1sst hour and & haif.'™ At » ball recently given to the opera-bouf8 artists, Offenbach presented a large dismonds worth several thousand dollars, to Horeos Bchneider, the original Grands. Duchesse. 529 wag delighted with her present, ant! throw ber self (she is by no moana exmall) upon his bressh with sach energy, kissing him raptuzously, {8 she nearly carried him to the floor. He Iat and said : ** You overwhelm me with your afe tion, Hortense1” 1 wish you, Jnoqaes, to1oe the weight of my gratitade,” sho reglied; MY he rejoined : % Never was gratitnds W“:‘ in sare Libaral or mors Iovable prpacticas!”,