Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 10, 1876, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RLTES OF AUBSCRIPTION (PAYABLR IN ADVANCE), Pontngo Prepald at this Office. Dally Bdition, postpatd, 1 year. ereerns $13,.00 Parte of yoar at sama rato, Maited (0 any addrows roun werxs far, 1.00 lumfll‘ diton| torary and lleliglou: Nhe 2.00 Cri-Weekly, Bpecimen coplos sent freo. To prevent delsy and mistakes, he sare and give Poit- Offico addeos in full, inolading 8tate and Gounty. Remittances may bs made either by draft, express, Post-Otlics orler, or In registorod lotters, at our tisk. TERMA TO OITY SUDACRINERR, Dully, doliverad, Bunday axconted, 23 conta per week, livarod, Sun: , £H) centa. por wook, Eypivreds Sindey pcutal W IR Uornor Madison and Dearborn-ts., Chicago LI, AN MoVIOKER'S THEATRE—Madison atreet, between Dearboru and Stale, Engsgement of Edwin Booth. * Richard IL" WOOD'8 MUSEUM—\Monros nireet, betwsen Dear: born and Btate. Afternoon, * The Rose of Killarney." Evening, " Agalnst the World. ADELPHI_THEATRE—Dsarborn street, corner onroe, ** Unclo Tom's Osbin,” J100LEY'S THEATRE—Randolph street, between Ciark and JaSalle. The California Minatrels, The @hirage Tribune. Monday Morming, April 10, 1870, Tho Signal Service predicts warmer, cloudy wenther, with wind from the goutheast. At tho New York E;hnugn on Saturday thedollar greenback represontod 88} bo'88% cents, Tt is stated that the Czar of Russin really intended to abdicate, but that a chaunge for the bettar in the coudition of his henith in- duced him to alter his determination, O'Leany, the pedestrinn, has shown the -people of 'Frisco how n Chicngo man can wall when there is monoy at the end of the trip. Ho did 500 niles in 149 Lours and 32 minutes, making his 495th mile in 8:58. Tho new and benutiful edifico just com- pleted by the Firat Baptist Church was dedi- cated yesterday with appropriato exercises, not omitting n gonerous subscription for tho extinguishmeont of the church debt. 'The building is ono of the finest and largest in the city, and is a notablo acquisition to Chi- sago church architecture Aention is mndo in our local columns of n plan of action to Do submitted to tho great mass.meeting at the Exposition Building to- morrow night, ‘Cho matter is in tho hends of earnest, conscientions, able men, who en- joy the full confidonco of tho people, and who can bo relied upon to recommend o plan wortly of scrious congidera Tho Itev. . W, May, a Mothodist minister of Michigan, whoso brothers have reflected honor upon their mother-Commonyealth, hns been found guilty of adultory and perjury, and suspended from the ministry, It is needless to say that many of the **fivst famn- - lies” in thie community which lio has orna- mented steadfnstly rofuse to believe lum fair- 1y judged. Gen, Bancock is promptly on hand with o full deninl of tho testimony of WinreLy con- necting him with tho safe-burglary conspira- cy. o has nu oxplanation of his corre- spondence with Wirrery consistent with his theory of innocence, aud has nssured the Tresident of his nbility to completely rofute ihe charges ogninst lim. The President, liowover, is said to have had bhis £ill of ex. planations and theories of innocence, aud to Liavo mado up his mind at lnst thet he hasbeen grossly deceived and betrayed by the mon about him, Ho i ropresonted a3 being angry at the monner in which kio confldence lns been abused, and as intending shortly to take sowe decisive nction thnt shall fitly and forei- bly express his feolings in this regard. Tlo valno of ublo counsol when n man ls g iu a tight place is curiously illustrated in the caso of Gon, Brrkxar, who hns ongaged four cminent and ecxpensive lawyers to conduct his defense Defore the Senato sitling ns o Court or Impeachment. When he resigned his portfolio Berenar was universally be- lioved to Lo guilty, nnd thera is every roason to suppose Lo believed it himself, But he had not then heard tho evidence, and conldn't Lo expected to fecl sure about it. Morcover, Lo bindn't yet reccived from his lawyers the assurgnco that he was perfectly innocent. Now that the Big Four havo put their hoads together and constructed their plan of do- feuso, BELENAT secis to have changed plnces with himeelf. A flaw hos been discovered in Mansa's testimony, and lo! tho self-con. fessed Lribe-taker {s innoceut, and confident- ly expeets full vindiention, The legal sorv. ices of such a set of lawyors would be cheap 8t any price, The Drravo family are just now the ob. jocta of wmuch solicitude and attontion at the bands of tho Committes on Expenditures in the Interior Depertment, Son Joux's con- nection with various land-survoying contracts in Wyoming Vorritory has been inquired into with espocial intereat, with the result of ns. certaining that the young man’s delicate henlth required that the Burveyor-Goneral of Wyo- ing should seenre for him a share in several coutracts, whereby tho sufferer’s weak lungs were beneflted o the extent of sbout 85,000, For this skillful and successful treatment of the patient, Dr. Reep, tho Burveyor-Genernl, ruceived {hie thanks of Derano senioy, then Becrctary of the Interior, coupled with the Lope that eare had boon taken to avoid any appearance of crookedness in presoribing for his slek son, It ig shown that Ouvire Guant's health was improved in a similar manner, and that the mountain air of Wyoming nlso sgreed with him when received by mail in xegular installments, The Chicago produce markets were again unsettled Baturdsy, Mess pork was active and closed 100 per brl higher, at $22.10@ 22,156 cash and 274@22.80 soller May, Lard was active and weak, closing 6o per 100 1bs lower, at $18.40@14.42} cash and §18.62) @183.55 for May, Meats were less active and steadior, at 8ja for boxed shoulders, 12¢ for do short ribs, and 12fo for do short clears, Highwines wero quiet and steady, at $1.08 per gallon, Flour was quiet and unchangod. ‘Wheat was moderftely active and closed jo lower, at 99}o for April and $1.03 for May, Corn was less active and {o lower, closing at 46]0 for April and 4840 for May, Oata wero more active and jo lower, closing at 81}o for April and 83jo for May, Rye was dull and easler, at 640 forregular, Barley was quiet and essler, closing at 560 for April and 580 fox May, Hogs were qulet and weak, at THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1870 Bo ddcline from Iriday's quotations, light woighta sclling at £8.00@8.20, and common to good heavy at $8.10@8.35, Cattlo were in fair demand and unchanged—quoted at $.50@5.60 for common to choice, 8Bhesp sold at fnlly Friday's figres, common to cxtra Yolng in demand at £5.00@7.560. Ono hun- dred dollars in gold would buy $118.26 in greenbacka at tho close. A Trrouse roporter had o talk with Dave TronytoN on Saturdy night in regard to hia dumping tho contents of nino ballot-boxes into ono promiscuous heap, from which wo extract ny follows ¢ TronxToN—Yon eeo in the Becond snd in the Fourth Warda tho # Silkatockings " foduced ho pro- prietars of the places whero the voting was to be dons to keep thelr places closed, and_coneequently-tho peo- ple took 1ho boxes and opened polls at othier places. Then tho * Silkstockings " fook moap-boxes and opencd polla in tho reguiar places. Ths other boxes woro not watched, and no notics takon of them, an they belloved they would not be accepted. Now, it fs my opinfon that If any “stuffing " was dono it wan oo in thoso bozes, a8 tho parlles hiving chisrgo of them conld do s they plessed, Reportor—As & good and laweablding citizen, it would hiave been your duty {6° oxclude theso bozes, to Do enabled to place the frand, if any were porcetrated. Instead of this, you dumped tho ballots all fn s bosp, 5088 o provent a proper canvass. TrionyToN~I have acted simply by the advice of eminenty conneel, Evaxs, Piuviics, and otbers, brought me opinions from Goupy and TULEY the day after tha eloctlon, to the effect that the votes had fo be w0t 1n a pite and counted together, T refused to act on thefr opinion, and went personaily 1o the aboves named Jawyers, and thoy told me it I must dumn thevote in @ ple, otherwise 1 weould riolate the lat, With wuch advice, hiow could I Lasa dona othiorwise thanas I have? Reporter—If thia bo so, then tho action of both the Weat and North Towns would bo illegal, for they dfd ‘ canvaes tho voto by wards 2 Tionxrox—If they are wrong or violato the law, it 18 1o reason why 1 should do tho same, Tho statement that he was ndvised by counsel thnt the law was imperativo that all the DLallots must be dumped together to bo counted, is n self-ovident lie, There is no stich Inw, and there is no lawyer in this city who will ventaro to give the opinion that thero is. The usage over since there has been moro than ono voting-place in Chicago ot town elections lns cstablishod tho Inw upon that point as by analogy to tho other Tlection lnws, the reason of the case nnd sottled precedent it must bo hetd and always lias been held, to-wit : that the voto at eack subsidinry poll must be counted as at other clections, but the canvass and return must be made *“ns though all the votes had been cast in the samo ballot-box,"—that is, that the entire canvass should be made by tho one Tsoard, and one return mado of all the votes cast at nll tho polls. Andit is so prepos- tetous that it never was claimed until Lironx- Tox, Greasoy, Fo Prisries, and thorest of the thioves, sot it up asa defeaso of their rascality that the law provided for destroying all evi- dence of fraud by dumping together tho ballots from all the boxes before making tho count. Mr, Goupy's cord, which will be found in anothor column, gives the lie direct to 'I'monyToN ns to tho protended illegal legal advice. M. Turery, the other counsel named Ly TuonNToN, Lod not yot boen heard from, but doubtless he also will show T'stonxToN to liave lied nbout it. Further, Mr. Goupy's eard shows that the ndvico given TronyToN was that tho Canvassing Board (consisting of the cight Assistant Modorators and the two con- tostants, besides TroanTox himself as Modera~ tor), ncting ns a Board, must determine in what modo the count should be made, and whether tho ballots should be dumped togother or counted out of each box sepa- rately. What authority Mr, Gouny could find for venturing the opinion that the Board might dump tho contents of all the ballot-boxea into one pile befora boginning tho connt, wae cannot understand. Nelther, wo venturo to assert, can Mr, Govpry, nor any other lawyer, show anything in tho statuto that wounld war. rant such procedurs on tho part of tho Doard. As Mr. Gouny states that * the re- Intion of nttorney and client did not exist" botween himself and TuonxTon,—that is, wo assumo, that the opinion given was not paid for,—wa do not beliove that ho will give it as his professional opinion that in any evont the dumping process could bo legal. But his ndvico to TmonsToN wea oxplicit, not that tho ballots might be dumped, - 83 TronxToN osserts, but that the Board must decide that. Yot with that advice to act npon, and against iho protest of members of the Board present, lio did dump tho ballots into n houp, destroy- ing tho evidences of fraud and consummating the villsiny of the night before, HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE BOVEREIGN PEOPLE. The extraordinary local avents of the last weelt, the bold, Lrazen, and deflant ecorn with which the eriminal class have scized the ballot-boxes, and declared tho most fraudu- lent results, has hod tho effect of arousing public sentimont to such an extent that the participantsinay, bofors thoy are n weekolder, vainly appesl to the laws they have violated for personal protoction from the vongenncoe of un oxcited and outraged people. Tho mattor hins been the subject of universal discussion yesterdsy and on Saturday in all parts of the city, and by nll classes of peoplo, and tho sentiment is unanimous that tho criminals shall not be allowed to profit by their crimes ; that neither of tho scoundrels, Evaxs, Pait- L8, GLrasoy, or Ryay, shall be pormitted to assume tho ofilces they have stolon; and that, to muke that prevontion certain and absolute, “}:anor wmensures nocessary shall bo adopt- L ‘I'ho thiet escaping with Lis stolen property may be shot down; the burglar who enters & Touse to rob, puts his lifo in peril; the man who Jifts his hand aguinst the law wssumes the consoquences, and the four men inter- ested in the corruption of the ballot-boxes, who lavo stolen ofiices, can clalin no im- munity not conceded to other crimiuals caught red-handed in the act, und in the possession of the stolen property. A public mass-meoting of citizons will be hield at tho capacious Exposition Building on Tucedny ovoning. ‘Ihis is not a party meet. ing; it has boen called by Democrats o well as Ropublicans, and tho Democratio City Convention has unanimously indorsed the call, and has denounced the fraudulent oloc- tion of Evans, PuiLrirs, (Greasox, and Ryaw, as *high trenson ogainst tho sovereign peoplo, and not less roproheusible than armed rebellfon.” That vast meeting is to givo expression to the feelings and will of the whole law-ablding population of Ohicago, It i truo that the outrage was imposed upon tle South Town alono, but there are many thousands of votors residing in tho Weat and North Towns who share inthe ownership of tho hundred and fifty millions of proper- ty in the South Town, and pay tazes thereon, and whoso business is carried on in the South Division. 3t ia thorefore o meeting in which the wholo peoplo miny properly assemble to denounce an outrage and a crime affecting them all personally, sud which, if allowed to pass unredressod, may be repeated next weok at tho city election. Publio disoussion haa been directed to the question what messures that meeting should ndopt, not only for tho redress of the past, but as n security and ptecedent for the fu- tura ; and the universal sentiment is, that n body of reputable, responsible men, having tho cournge and the ability to mest erimo faco to face, aud ferco it to surronder its stolon gaing, shall ba constituted as a Com- mittee of Public Bafoty. Wo forbear fo nso tho other and moro signifioant torm used in other piaces on occnsions of like publio griovance. Colleoting this public sontinent and reducing it -to consistent form, the sug- gestion is: That tho meeting of Tueaday night shall appoint o select committee of fifty or ixty good citizens, who shall propase n list of one thousand Republican and Democratic ¢ilizens, solected from every ward in tho eity, and from every profession, trade, business, and occnpation, and from overy nationality, Tha selection to Lo confined, however, to nien who enrn thelr living by somo honest, roputable business or employment. This committeo of ona thousand citizens thus con- stitnted to compose Tne CosurTee oF Pup- 110 SArETY. From this Grand Committeo nn Excentive Committoe to beselected, to whom shall bo given the powor to oxecuto tho or- dors of tho Grand Committee. Whon organ- {zed, the first thing for the Committeo to do 13 to summon Evaxs, Puiruirs, Greasox, and Tixay, to appear bofore tho Committoo, with. out delny or failure, and when they ap- pear torequest them to sign n declination or resiguntion of the offlces to which thoy have boon fraudulently declared elected. If they rosign, thon the offices will bo vacant, and can bo filled a8 the law directs. If they rofuso, then tho Committeo shall adopt suck measures as will resull in the eertain prevention of either one of these men officiating to any ex- tentin {heoflico which hehasstalen, The meet- ing of Tuesdny night should unhesitatingly de- clare that neither ono of these men shall over be permitted to officiate, and to the Commit- teo should be committed full power to deter- mine the menns, and to oxcoute them, by which this result can be secured. The crime committed by them is beyond tho contomplation of law, and no remedy is provided therefor. Tho law nassumes such an act as impossiblo, and has, thereforo, pro- vided no remody. The people must do that which the law fails to do, and, as the courts aro powerless, tho poople must furnish tho tribunnl ond the means for exccuting its judgments. At tho same timo thnt tlie Committeo is deal- ing with Evaxs, Pnmues, Rvay, and Grea- 5oy, it can consider the case of the villain Davin 'I'tonNToN, and the other clection judges who, notoriously guilty nand under indictment, have o far cscaped conviction through the connivanco of perjured and corrupt jurors. Theso suggostions embody tho genoral drift of public sentiment throughout the city. Tho whole people are aroused and look to this meeting on Luesday night to provide the mnchinery and the power not only to rebuke’ and defent tho infernal fraud of the town olcction, but to make the means and tho power-thus employed so effective for ita pur- pose that for the futuro no scoundre! will bo so bold as to invoke tho repotition of the popular vengeanco ngainst what the Demo- orntic Convention has so aptly declared to be # high trenson againat the sovercign poople, and not less roprehensible than armod re- bellion.” HOW TO ELECT THE MAYOR. It is now foreordained that ITanver D. Couviy cannot and shall not be Mayor of Chi- cago a year longer. Tho sentimont of the Lionest peoplo {8 nnanimous, dotermined, un- compromiaing. If Covvrx shall be foolhardy enough to refuse to recognizo it and submit to it by a voluntary retiroment, ho will cor- tainly be ousted. Tlis porsonal bearing on tho case, rlways utterly selflsh and low-flung, is now insignificant and obscure as compared with . tho storm of indignation which has Deen raised over tho bummgrism and scoun. drelism of which ho is rogarded as tho rep- resentative. To the extent that he may in- terposo between the popular will and ita real- ization, he will be brushed awny as a gndfly. As compared to the gencral good, his individ- ual badness j8 of no mniore consequence than a dog that falls in tho way of an ad- vancing troop of cavalry in ita chargo upon the enemy, CorLviN must either got out of the way or expoct to be trampled underfoot by the cohorts of tho people. So much is certain, The next step to consider is how the peo- ple shall proceed 5o ag to rid the community of Covviy's oflicial presenco and at tho samo timo keep within the law, Thisis one of the questions to be decided by tho Mass- Meoting ecalled for Tuecsday ovening at the Exposition Building. Thero will be 20,000 people at the meeting, The mass of human- ity will bo as dense as tho spaco can hold. Thore will be but a singlo sontiment, and a unnnimous concurrenco in any effective plan looking to tho end to bo nccomplished, It is well, therefore, that there shall be a proper doliberation as to what is best to be done, in order that the plau submitted may bo equal to tho task undertsken. It will ba well, if possible, to agree upon tho presentation of o man for tho emergency upeon whom both partics can ogroo, that ho may reccive tho unanimous voto of the city. This will rob the courts of every exonso for falling back on quibbles and techniealities, sinco their ro. fusal to correct the abuses of clections has always been based upon an indispo- sition to sot aside tho popular will ag ex- pressed at the ballot-box, But this is not enough. 'The time having passed for call- ing an clection for Mayor as requived by the present charter, and tho Council Ring having insolently refused todafford a lawful opportunity for the cxpression of the popular will, there séems to bo suthority provided by the charter for holding tho eloction, 'The Ring judges in some precinets may possibly refuse to count the votes for Mayor, The Ring momnbers of the Council may refuse to canvass tho voto after it ins been cast, for it will fall into their hands, Foreseeing all this, the Lieat thing the people can do i to agreo upon a candidate who shall also be elected a momber of the new Council, and may thus bo legally chosen to fill the vacancy in tho Moyor's office in conformity with the terms of the chiarter. The provisions of the charter aro a8 follows : 1. Whenever & vacancy alali happen {n the ofce of the Mayor, when the unexpired terin shall ba one year or over from the date when the vacancy ocor aball bo fillad by su eloction, 9, 1f_thoyacancy ia less than one year, tho City Council slial slact ono of {1a mowmbers ta act aa Mayor, who shall possess all the rights snd powers of the Mayor until tne next annual elsction, snd usti} his auccessor i electod sod qualified, The vacancy was originally more than one year, but the Couucil refused to do its duty, and refused to call an election. It will beless than one yeor the day after the new Council shall organize, and the only way to fill it, ua. der the law, will be for the Council to choose onsof itsown number, The voteof the poople will, therefore, be in the nature of in- structions o the Council what to do and whom to choose. But whoover is thus desig- nated must aleo bo elocted to the Council from the ward in which he lives. Thus, if Alr, Trtoatas Hovxz shall be designated by the meoting of to-morrow ovening, he muat bo nominnted and eleoted to the Common Coun. cil bythe votorsof the Second Ward, in which o livos, and one of the candidates on ench ticket must withdraw in his favor, Or, if it shall bo doemed advisablo that each of tho two parties shall designato a candidate for Mayor, to bo voted for at tho noxt election, then both these persons muat bo elected to tho Council from tho ward or wards in which thoy live, so that, whichever party shall pre. vail, tho snccessful eahdidate may bo chosen in compliance with the terms of the charter. Tho adoption of this course will prevent tha defent of the popular will upon suy logal technicality, and will ennblo tho new Reform Conncil to recognize the now Mayor alons, and proceed without any regard to the man who so insanely undertakes to sot the popn- Iar will at deflance by holding offico after his term is out. Tho ndoption of this plan will Lo n formal notico to Ad Interim Corsin that ho must quit, and that helind bottor not stop on the order of his going, but go at onco. COLVIN AND THE DEMOORATS, Any notion that tho movement to oust Couvin from his nsurpation of the ofiice of Mayor is in any sense n Republican partisnn movement must have been completely dissi- pated by the decisive action tho Democraoy took in their City Convention on Saturday. ‘This was n Convention called to nominate a city tioket. It was the party with which My, CoLvix pretends to have been ncting for tho past two yonrs nnd o half, If there was any place where he, could look for aid and comfort, it was here, The ticket to bo nom- nated by this Convention was to depond Inrgaly for its succoss upon the support of the Court-Mouse crowd and tho votes of the mob of office-holders whom CorviN hns ro- tained in place. It was thus made to their interest, inn partisan scnse, to sustain the Covviy usurpation and securo his co.opera- tion and nasistance in the sppronching clec- tion. But tho honest and decent clement prevailed in tho Convention, and it refused fo yicld to the temptationpresonted toit, Mr, J. R. DooniTrLE offorcd aseriasof resolutions, which, after sotting forth the outrages por- petrated in the Bouth Town canvass, pro. ceeded ns follows : Waznrar, Nothing {s more repugnant fo the prin- clplea of Democratio government than the Loldlng over of an eloctive oflicer after ufa torm of ofiico has expirod,—a practico which savors of usurpation and contempt for the will of the peoplo; and Wizneas, The Common Councll bave refused to call a speclal election to fill tho vacancy exlating in the office of Mayor, and, in this courso of action, tave re- cefvod tho approval and support of the Actlug Bayor of the city; Resoleed, That we disapprova tho actlon of ihe Common Council as dealgued Lo deprive tho people of thiole right to elect o Mayor, Rtesoloed, Tost MANVEY D. Corvan, liaving baen elo- vated to power by the votes of tho peopls, is bound, in honor and good faith, voluntarily to surrendor to the people tho functions of tho ofiics which they con- fidod to him, and tht the apparent affort on bis part 10 ozerelao tho powars of tho offico for » year and & Lalf nfter thoexplrntion of tho torm to which ho was clected fa undignified and unworlly: it aggravatos tho financial embarrassmonts of tho city, and threat ens disaster to ita crodit. Resotved, That wo favor tho action of tho Repub- lican City Gonvention in calling o mass-mosting of eltizens, rreapoctive of party, to mast at tho Expoal- tion Dullding ou Tuosday ovening nost, o tako soe tion with referenca to tho Mayoralty, s that wo ro- apectfully recommend to thiat mecting for nomination 1o tho affico of Mayor tho Hon, Tioxas oxnz, Of courso Corvx hind somo of his blowers and atrikers in tho Convontion, who made desperate appeals on his belalf, Tho Con- vention was labored with on the ground that Corvy is a Democrat, and is working for the Domocratio party, and putting its men into nll the offices, The movor of the reso- lutions mado o fow remarks which went Liome to the trno inwardness ofgthe Conven- tion. Among other things, ho said in roply to one of {ho ward bummers : 1o waa glad that Afayor COLVIN Liad at least onoman todefond bim In public. 1fe was astonlahied at tho - loglcal aititudo assumed by Mr, Oaneron, It was well known that the so-callod charter of 1871 was carrled by fraud,—unblusbing fraud,—at which Hanvex D, Corvay himsolf connived, (Applsuse and confusion,] Ho did not propose to make o loug-winded speoclt up- on tho subject, It wos patent to all that Corviy usurped hia oftic, and & mora tochnicality could not screen bim from odium, Ho felt confident that the mass-meehing at the Exposition Bultding would nomi- nato a Mayor and wou d olect bim, The poopla would not anly eleot him, but thoy would put him in the office, [Loud cheers, and a few crics of * No,"] Muzs Kenoe, ono of tha bitterest par- tisans in tho city, noxt spoke. Ho enid: ‘Tho peoplo d1d not want a man to hold ofiico for o longer term than ho wan ckectod for, and that was a Democratic principle. Upou that principlo the Dome. ocratia party should act, It shiould not say oue thing and act anotlier, The party should not go bafore the people with abams, Tho law had been overridden, tho great principle of Domocracy had been traus- gressed, and 1t was tho dutyof the Convention to vindlcata that principle, T did not know whetter a new Mayor could take hia seat or not, but he would voto for tho nomines ou principle, Strong pnrtisan appeals were mado by somo ward bummers, catering to the most selfish interests, but it failed. Ireo discns. sion wad given, and tho Colvinites hind their 8ay, but when the vote was taken tho honest and docent element provailed by an over- whelming mnjority. The resolutions were adopted with cheers by o voto of 118 to 80, fleoting upon him, to which he had responded by deolaring his anxioty to vindicato himsolt boforo the Dritish Courls, in the justico of which he professod confldenco, while avowing his detormination to stay to nequit himself before them, nand that, wlhen thio writ was rerved wpon lim, he gracefully reforred tho oflicer morving it to Earl Derby, by which formality Mr, Souzxck availed himself of his diplomatie privilege to ovade tho suit, Theso things would have deopened tho impression ns to tho wholo affair upon the momory of an ordinary mortal, But Mr, Bonencr ia not an ordinary mortal, e is n great poker-player, and forgot it all. 8o, after he has appeared bofore tho Con- gressional Committee, and out of Lis own month convicted himself of receiving from the promotors of tho schemo shores in the Emmna Mine, dividends upon which were guaranteed, all to secure his indorsemont, with the welght of his ofiicial position added, of the project, ho demands that tho Commit too nhall proceed to try the charges of fraud against him which are now pending in the Brit- ish Courts. Tho transaction out of which these charges ariso ocourred in London. Tho parties nggrieved are residont thore, and havo afforded Mr, Scuexck full opportunity to mcot their charges and proof in tho Courts there. Tho witnosses are thore, and tho facts can only bo got at there. Evidently Mr. Scnencn hasn't forgotten all this when, having availed limself of his diplomatio privilego to steal away from his English snitors and their witnesses, ho de- mands to be exculpated by a Congressional Comunitice, beforo which tlte partics com- plaining are not represented, and which can- not procure the testimony of the swindled shara-holders aud other witnesses agninst hins. It shows that whatevor clso tho Pro- fossor of Pokor has forgotten, ho still re- members tha intelleotual gmme of bluff, It should bo beaten by rofusal to Mr, S8cmevex of the trinl which ho demands in the absenco of witnesses and prosocutors who await him in tho English Courts. Io has already con- fessed to acceptance of tho stock, which was simply tho prico for which his approval of thoe Emma-Mind*schemo was purchased. That convicts him of prostitution of his office ns American Ministor to aid tho scheme of stock-jobbers, If ho yoarns to provoe that ho was mneithor o knave or fool, and doesn't want to plead the baby act, as he protests ho doesn't, the British Courts, in the fairness and justico of which ho hos professed full confidence, ars opon to him. There ho can confront his ac- cusors and the witnesses ngainst him. Any * vindication " obtnined by dodging them, and bofore a Congressional Committes which can do nothing but report tho absenco of proof, which he gots out of the way of, will but add to the disreputablo odor of his connection with the Emma-Mine affair, which he would wind up by this tricky * blufll ” of n defeated card-player. THE EMMA MINE. Tho nsseverations of Taenon W, Panx and Geon, Scuevor that the Emma Mino is atill warth the price it was sold for, and that thoy can prove it, aro very romarkablo indeed. They must lave astonished the Committeo on Forelgn Affairs, and still moro the stock- holders of the Emmn Mining Company. The mino was sold for $5,000,000 gold. Its stock bas gone down to a few shillings in tho pound, and, if it is still worth 5,000,000, Pank and Souexor can mako good their lossos in the property, and much more, by buying it up ot the presont dopreciation. To say that the minoe is still worth what it sold for is like snying two and two make saven, The mine is mot now worth what it sold for, and it nover was! What its prospective value may bo is quite another question, and if Scmenex and Pang wonld content themselves with expressing tha opinion, or venturing tho prediction, that o body of oro will eventually be found below the old workings rich enough and ex- tonsive enough to make it worth $5,000,000, that would bo a prediction moro or less valu- nble to the stockholders and tho public, ne- cording to the estimato thoy might placo npon Scuexcr and Pank as geologists and mining exports. The speculative or ideal value of the Emma Mino is the valno that anybody chooses to place upon it. The aetnal valuo is what it can ba bought for in opon market. ‘Wo presumo that Gon, Scmenck, havieg never seen the property, but being deoply in- terested in the conclusions the Committes and tho public may arrivo at, has taken the statemnonts of Pazx and others for absolute truth, and consequently foels justified in soying to the Committco that ho liag beon neither a knave nor a dupe, and that the mine is still worth all that was paid for it, to.wit : $4,000,000. At the Intest accounts, the Emma Mine was still closed up, with no oro coming out of it, and no work in progress to demonstrate tho existonco of ore, ‘The profitable working of the mine was interrupted by a * fsult” in the rocks, and tho prosumption smang goolo- gista is that thero exista n vein of ore ot some pont beneath the old workings, belonging to the Emmao property. This is somothing In nino of tho wards CoLviy did not receive 2:::0; ":;:n cu;j:l:t;r;, b;::“:‘:: “}m: L o single vote in his behalf, and in sov- : ek e (v, ey hvin do\vn' e GhE el other mines on tho Pacifio Coast, Novertheless it is a matter of Inference ond pot o matter of proof warranting the statements attributed to Bcrienok and Panx in tho reports of their rocent testimony. A lottor was published in the Cincinnati Gazette o alort time ago eaying that a tuonel had been driven under the old workings and had struck the Emma vein. Tho- writer added that everybody conceded thnt it was the Emma vein, excopt tho ownors of tho tunnel. "Thoy, of courso, claimed that it was their vein, and being the only persons ina position to form any judgment 03 to tho ownership, two., 'There was- nlmost literally nono so poor ag to do him roverence, Thua do- nounced by the Ropublicans, kicked out by the Democrats, and despised by tax-payers and decent ten of all parties, the position which ho ocoupies before this community is less onviablo thnn that of a night-scavenger, and more humiliating than that of a confessed whisky-thief, 'The voto by wards in favor of the resolutions to elect n Mayor, and holst the usurper out into the stroot, was as fol- lows: First Ward, A3 3% | and likowise having posacasion, which is said d : to bo nine points in mining law a8 well as . | other kinds of law, they will naturally hold 10 . | the vein, if they have really found one, until f‘?“flfi?‘\ ‘)v-ru. 3 xé ousted by a lawsuit or placated by a com- Nl Werd o 0| promise. While tho fair prosumption is that E;;‘:n}"’lfl"l ‘; + | any vein struck by tho tunnel company Twellth Wa) 5 .. |under the Emma hill in proximity Folstomie ¢+ |to tho boundaries of the Emma patent Fifteonth Wi 8 1 | does belong to the Emma Company, it is imn. Riztoenth W 8 1| possible for anybody to determine this fact Efghtesnth Ward 10 .. | oxcept by accurato moasurements, and, in the Total, T3 5o | last resort, by boring downward or following the vein upward, to soo where it leads, Neither of theso methods of arriving at the truth, we venturo to say, haa yot been resort- ed to, 'Thereforo the statemonts of Gon. Sonexck and Mr, PArk ove to be taken as the expressions of thelr opinion merely, and in. asmuch as the Committece on Foroign Affairs bave nothing to do with tho prospective valuo of the proporty, or even with its pres- ent valne, but only with Gen. Bomexox's con- neotion with a stock-jobbing operation, they aro justiffied in declining to send for o lot of witnesses from Salt Lake Oity to de- termine a point not within the ssope of their inquiry. If themine is atill worth all that i§ It is o triflng circumstance no ordinary mortal would forget within six weeka after ita occurronce, that, as ho was about to board an English steamer for New York, a writ was served upon him from Wostminster, sum- mguing him to appear in court and wake his defenso to o sult brought against him on charge of swindling. That is procisely what bappened to ex-inister Somenox, There were thoe additional trivial ciroumstances to impress it upon Mr, SourNox's memory, that the Emma-Mive swindle, about which the sult was brought, had been the subject of sharp criticim in the London jowrnaly ree was rold for, that fact will be known in dus time, and Gen, Bonzxnox will get the benofit of it. But it hns no benring on the question wheather our Minister to England was justi- fled in becoming n Director in the Company when it must have boen known to himself, as well a3 to Stzwant and PARK, that tho ob. joet of his nssuming that position was to givo charnctor and confidonce to tho achema among the poople to whom he was aceredit- ed ad & publio envoy, v [ S — It soems that Jrt GreasoN fsanold and ox- porionced biand at ballot-box cheating, o was indicted for corruptly refuslng to meke roturn of tho voten cast in ona of the prozincts of tho Tourth Ward last fall, whoreby ovor 900 citizons waro disfranchised at that oloction, Winr Dex- 1ex, in his spocch on Haturday night, thus ro- fora to GLeAsoN: . 1o stated that ho hiad helped to prosecute ths man named JAMFA (LeAsoN in the Criminal Court for not nusking eloction returns, but, though ho admiited his und, tho Sury was comnposod of fust much mon s had controlled the batlota of cilizens laat Tueadny, Courls vioro inadequate, Tho Rebelllon could nat Nave becn ut down by the Clreuit Court of Cook County, Tho tobcls did the aamo as tho rufiane of Chicago Tad done, and swhat was dono with them 1 They aliot them. [Applause,) It ia highly intorosting to know that the pra- clous person of DAvE THORNTON was sacradly guarded Saturday night by a squad of polica upacially dotailod for that duty. UDavip is o rare product of bummoném fu our midat, and if ono thing maro than anothor 18 Bottled, it Is that wo shall not beliold bis like again, save mayhap dangling at o ropo's ond, and it may bo well that ko ahiould bo guarded carefully, aa tho last of his spocies In Chicago, But wherofore this extromo sollcitude about his sccunty Baturday night? Tuo poople were not huating aftor him to hang bim, Whou they go ont on a hunt of that sort thero will be too many thonsand of them for all tho police in tho city to save him. Bus tho peo- ple wers simply quietly considering tha situa- tion that night. It was only DAvip's own senge of guilt that made a coward of him. 8o woll did 10 know that ho richly doserved banging that he expected nothing less, should b fall into tho hands of the peoplo, and he mont for tho police aand fled, though none pursued. And the polico, who sympathized and frator- nized with him sod bis ruffians and thioves in thelr Jawleas outrages, rualiod to bia protection. Was it tho Mayor, or tho Marehal, or Capt. Buogry who was so concernod about thoe safoty of this doloctablo porson ? Why was tho solici- tudo displayed for the protection of thia one gamblor and rough so much more lively than far tho protection of decent law-abiding cltizens ngainat bim and his ruflians at the olection? Ian tho estimation of the polico suthoritios, his pereon manifostly is more sacrod than that of all tho citizons whom his builies overawed on oloctiou-day, whon by forco and fraud ho was made Moderator of tho town mesting. There was groat rofs ang on Baturday o the Villago of Edgowood, on tho Illinois Central Tailroad, ovar the dlacovery of = flue veln of coal, A farmor named Lax, living closo to the placo, has sunk & shaft 200 feot, at which dopth tho diggera found n 0-foot veln of oxceliont coal, Although {t is fully 200 miles from Chicago to Edgewood, we bellevo this to bo tho first work- nble voln of coal that has beon found on tho las of tho Illinois Contral Rond south of this city. Our townsman GALLOWAY, who has just beon “ counted out ™ of tho Collectorshls of tho Bouth Division, 1ald out the Town of Edgawood, ond {a the principal proprietor thercof. Tho discovery of the fact that his town ia nnderlud by a C-foot vein of good coal wil bo no {njury to tho valuo of hia property. —_— Tho besnty of our present postal [aw, onacted for tha bonefit of the oxpress companios, and which Mr, Haxriy i dofonding in the Bonate, {a manifest fromtho fact that tho otherday a Dotrott soed firm, haviog a largo lot of catalogues to distributo, sent them over tho rivorto Windsor, Ont,, matlod thom thoro to post-ofices in the Unitod States, and saved $3,170 by tho opera- tion. Tho profita will not seom so0 large, how- over, whon it {a statod that, under our postal treaty with Canada, tho poatagoon * third-class mattor” from the Dominion to any post-ofice in the United Statos ia but one-fourth what it ia betweon post-ofiices in tho Unitod Btates. phusasiasetis ohiudinti This resolution was unanimously adopted by the Domocratio City Convontion on Baturday, by a loud shont that scomod to moan business on Tuesday avoning next : Witkneas, Thero Ia strong reason ta belfova that the wholo procoedings of thio lust town election 0f South Chicago have boek chiaracterized by stupendous and unblushing frauds; Resoloed, That the Domocratio party of Chicago, in convention azgcmbled, condomn and denounce sil ate {empta o dofeat the will of tho honost voter through fraudulent votiug or ballol-box staMing as high trea- £0n agalast 1his sovarelyn peapls, aud not Less repre- henaible than armed rol lon, Thers was a rumor on the streots laat svening that TuonnToN, Evans, PumLuirs, GLeasox, aod Ryax do not intend to walt in Chicago foran answer to their conundrum, *\What aro you go- ing to doabout It ?* from Tuosday's mass-meet- ing, but will receive dispatches at Windsor, Can, —_—— There fa one thing that may bo set down as cortain, which is, that Ep Pmruwrs and Mixs Tvana will nover again assoss taxes and colloct them from tho pooplo of the Bonth Towa, Thare will be no moro blaokmail and percentages paid to them. —_—— Jevrrnson sald of oftice-holdors, **Faw dio and none resign." Thore aro four ballot-box stuffors 1n Chicago who olaim to be office- bolders, who probably will die if thoy don'f rosign. S E—— Tho citizons of Clicago appear to be pretty rapidly maklog up their minds na to *what they aro going to do about it." To-morrow evening thoy will probably bo read y to explain it, — L Mixe, Evans, Ep PmiLrirs, and Jir Gressox a8k {o chorus, ** Well, what are ye goin' to doo about it 7 * Lot them wait until Toeadsy night and pernaps they wil find out. P S Mixe Evans, Ep Pusruies, Joe Greasox, and Par Ryax would do & wise thing It they imltated Capt. Boorr's 'coon, end ofimb down befors the people shoot. PERSONAL. Jennle Colling, of Boston, the working-girls® triond, lad her pocket picked of $220 the other day. Constant Mayer, the woll-known New York artist, will tako » summer vacation in Europs, wailing May 3, Tho Faoulty of the Johns Hopkine University will consist of ton or twelys reaidont Professors, aud ten non-rosidenta, Ilonry Ward Boecher asys if Calvinism were tho doctrine of Gud ba would reject it. In that case God would probably dsal roughiy with Afr. Beecher, Daniol Drew confossos that he was oyercome by the passion for gambling in stooks. He ale ‘waya thought ke could stop whon he wanted to, but he never could, It is nnderstood that Mr, F. D. Warde, now acting at MoVicker's Theatre fn this city, is_en- gaged a8 Jeading man for next scason at John BcUullough'a California Theatre. Bt. Louis Republican: **The first name of & Californis journallat is Le Graode, and 1t'aead o thiok of sman with such s title having to write s paragraph wbout a dog-fight.” The resemblance of the Hounae of David to the Houso tha Jack Built shonld be pointed cut by somo gifted thymer. WhLo the rats are that eat tho malt thas Jies 1n the House of David, every. body knows, Prof, Bwing's delicate irony seemed to be ap- preciated by the Farwall Hall moeting. Ho was for the wusket of Bwett, tha conciliation of Dexe tor, and the gospsl of Mitchell—-all at onos. ‘The sudience spplauded him, just a8 ey lud spe planded each of the preceaing sposkers ; but he, like his hearers, approciated tho earnestnosa ang lioneaty and substsntial harmony of all that had ‘bean aald. A, T. Btewart waa so plossed with the Moissonler for which ho paid $300,000 thay he wrote to tha artist for s picturss he re. celved {n roturn, no tho staty goos, s portrait of Meisnonior paintod by himself. Prof, Tice, of Bt. Lonie, desires to hava i known that his seathor forccasts ars **compre. honsivo,” and are not intonded to spply to any particular Jocality on the enrth's surface. They ought to bo coming truo st tho antipodes abony now. Tho now comedy entitled *'I'wing,” by A. q, Wheoler, dramatlo oditor of the Now York TWorld, and J. P. Macknyao, is to bo produced ay Wallack's Theatro noxt Wednesday nlght. My, ‘Wheolor has some roputation at stake upon tho rosult, Williamas Collego Is to bo reprozontod at the Contennlal by s sot, In uniform biuding, of al} tho Looks recently writton by mombers of tha Facnlty and olhors closely coonocted with the collego. Dr, Durfoo, tho statisticisy, Is of courso fucluded. Tho ndmirable Trench Comedy Company, which has boen plaging with indifferont auccess thls sonson in New York, Now Orieans, and Philadelplis, will pay a sccond -visit to Boston this wook, In any city with s large French. spoaking population performancos of this naturg ought bo highly succesaful, A fallon woman dled lsst wook at Youngs. town, 0., clasping to Lior breast an old and tat. torod lettor from lier” mother, whicl, with her 1ast broath, sho kissed passlonntoly, Blie sald to the bystanders: ** When I am dead—mind, when I am dead—I want you to telograpa to my mothor, and toll her abont it.” B A Upited Drother in Ohio stopped his sub. seription to tho Dayton Telescope becauso it had published s fablo in which a worm that had boen cat into oponed a convorsation with & man. The United Brothor bolloved wilh RNoussenu, that peaplo should not read fablos lost thoy might beliove that bonsta and birds really talked. A Gormnn journa! ridiculea tho nows {tem which says that tho Duclesa of Edinburg {a to ratutn to tho patornal roof becauso sho Lins not beon granted procedonce over thejQueen's daugh. tors, Tho unquestioned rulos of court etiquotte give the Duko aud Duchesa .of . Edinburg rank noxt after tho Princo and Princess of Wales. Prof. Poppor’a apparatus, {noluding tho ghost and othor startling effeots, woro sold at ShonT's salo s fow wookes ago to matisly n debt of some yeara’ standing, Thoy wero yoaterday purchased by Prof. Towne, ot Louisville, and will probably @ind their way back fnto the hands of Paopper, who {a engaged to deliver o course of lectures in that city. An offort was mado in Chicago to rodoom them for tho first ownor, but without. success. Mr. Trovolyan’s new biography of Lord Ma- caulay gives & wonderful oxample of lus almost incrodible powers of momory. Asa more boy, ho once went with his father to make an aftor. noon call; ho found on tho table Scott's * Lay of the Last Minatrol.” which ke had novor scon befors; while his eldors were talking he devour« ed tho volumo ; and on his return homo ho was able to repeat to his mother as mnny cantos ag eho had tho patlence or tho strongth tolisten to, One of Woston's competitors in a walkiog- matoh in England was a man of tho name ot Martin, who had his skull trepanned after tha battle of Inkermann, his breastbone and seversl riba set after tho storming of Rodan, and a bul. 1ot takon ont of his right leg during tho Indian mutioy, In consoquonce of the wound in bhit hesd ho was subject to epiloptic fits, and ha was soized in this manner during his matoh with Woston. ‘ Mr. Disrasli eald not many days sgo: **The groat thing in statesmansbip is imagination,and tho want of it is tho rosson why most men fail inpubliclite,” The London correapondont of tha Now York Tribune, commeating on thin aphor« ism, aayas: “The English ara boginniog to think a Minister may havo too much 8a well as too lite tlo imagination, and thatin Mr, Disraeli's case some of it might advantageously be replaced by sound common sense and solidity of convic tlon." ‘Tho New York Tribung haa broken with John Paul, its watering-placa and European funny correspondent, in a charactoristically mean and enoakiog manner, Hia last lotter is published withont tho usualline, ** From our regular corro- epondont,” aud apponded to it 18 » noto thros weooks old, from & New Haven aubscribor, con- dompiog *John Panl” for flippsncy and ir- rovoronce, **John Paul® may bs * flippant and irrovorant,” but he is not stupld or cowardly or treachorons or a stock-jobblog atool-pigeon. A young man of Portsmouth, N, I, who was numborsd with the nngodly, went home from church with lus girl the ather night and raably accepted an invitation to *come in.” Family “prayers wors immediataly broachod by the hesd of tho houae, and whon the plous paront had warmod himsolf to his work ho prayed thal *tno young man who, for the timo belng, isin our midet, may be directod towarda hia Fathers house." The young man, In high dudgoon, and withous moro ado, seized his hat and strodt away home, saying that a hint wes bottor thau s kick to a mulo. It Florence, tho sctor, ia obliged to pay tht $25,000 in which ho has beon muloted by Judgt Daly, on the bail-bond of Tiolds, tho depatted Ring thief, he will bo loft comparatively a poot man, Ho has mado several fortunes, and, belog opan-handed and generous to an unusual dogres, o biss apont about all he Lss mado, joiniog il Lis relatives in hls own good luck. *The Mighty Dollar” Las proved a sort of a bonanzt to him, but it cannot as yot have ** panned out” moro than $25,000. Barnoy Williams, 10 ‘brothor-lo-law of Ficrenco, on tho other hand, it weaithy, Tt is aaid that ho put 100,000 in bavk for his daughter, now 11 years of age, ou e day of her birth, and that monoy is atili uae touched. The Now York Sunsdvises Mr, Bonnett 0 muppress * tho vulgar, trifiiug, and utterly silly hnlf column which ho prints daily on hia othor wiso able editorial page, under tho headiug of +Peraonal Intetlizence.’ Wit and bumor, ss Mre Hounott wall knows, sre most desirablo spicts for tho mewspaper dish; but you cau't mate black sand pepper, simply bocausa it looke like it, nor will uquash take the plsce of curry be* canse it looks yellow." The troubls with the Jlerald man fa that ho itles to be funny in every- thiog he writes, and, as ho never succoeds, b8 ‘bacomes at tines monatouoas. Chuuks of fack are tho bost thinge for personal colamas, aftef all, Tho Sun, liko Tux Toinune, has a coluwn of nows items, tho: design of which ia to afford entertainment by giving nows rather than by ‘making pune or sinog cheap wit, uotzrL aAnutvars. . Pa tmer House—Charles . Bwitt, Now York; D, ¥ Marsh, Benton, M, T.; B, Borgan, Laltimore; ¥s ¥ Chase, Bpringfield; Daatel A, Hunt, Providencej He M. Russell, Qalesburg; -J, J, Boyd snd J. J, sger man, Alilwaukeo; J, G. Flanders, Milwsukeoj Wil iam Ohnmbers, Omaha; Col, F, D, Grant, U, 8. Arfi Ohatles do Young, San Francisco ;... Grand Pucifio= H, T, Paddock snd wife (Magglo Mitchell), Now Yokl Oapt, James Allon, United Statos Army; tho Hou. B Mo New London, Coun,; Willlam A, Jounsdy Yhiladeiphis; Col Hdward T, . Preston, st ford; M, M, Prics, S Louws; I, 0. Clib son, Topess; J. A, Brown, Ssu Francuch Manson sud N A, w York I.l-mll;unu:(‘:._ s ;,: ingtel o orpeles, New HOrk s op Shirman Hou ey U g Avmys Colo i Lo Lii Hon, I, 8, Dizon, Missiesippi, &, O. Army; O. Mitlen, Ne Ql‘k'he. ook Kirk ek, Do g ana o . ols; ¥, L . umu“" o aynar Housspire: ¥, L O . Ot ek, aul ud Miss dlbmn: Lyon, Mass.p E W, wmfim Eansas; Dr, M. %fiéflhfl é‘ufl 5’3:{ L, c"i"fi':"&" i B Ty e vk