Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1876, Page 4

—<—<——=—=—=—_—_"——_—= TERMS*OF THE TRIBUNE, AATES OF ACTSCRICTION (PAYADLR IN ADVARCE). Postage Prepalt ot this OMce, BMalted feany add Sunday Rdition: Shows. ‘The postagt Bpeeimen coples sent treo. ‘To pravent delay and mistakes, be gure and give Post~ fice address In foll, Including State and Coanty. Remittances may be made either by draft, express Port-Ofhos order, or in registered letters, at our tisk. ‘TERMS TO CITY BUNSCHINERS., Pally, delivered, Bunday axcepted, 25 conta ver week, Daly; delivered, Bands included. 20 conte per yotks Hg VI BUNE COMPANY, ‘Gorner Maduesti ‘Dest + Onleago sll, MUSE! MoVICKEN'S THEATRE—3adlion atreet, between Petzhorn and biate, Engegement of Hedwih Booth. hichard 1.” a ADELPHI THEATNE—Dearborn atreat, corner ‘Wonroe, “Uncle Tom's Osbin.” Afternoon and Wentng. HOOLEYS THEATRE—Randolph street, between ‘Park avd LaSalle. The California Minatrola, After~ toon and evening. e 2 : Obieaga Crbure. Wednesday Morning, April 12, 1870. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greenbacks at tho New York Gold Ex- fhange yeaterday closed st 88}. ee Tho silvor era is coming nono to econ to fo away with » petty and annoying nui- anco—that of the extensive counterfeiting «f nickel flye-cont pieces. The counterfoita sro worth evory whit as muchas the gonuine, boing identical ia weight ond finoness, which Is not saying much, os tho regular mintnickel half-dimo costs the Government all told but half acent, and that is procisoly what it is worth, Government stamp and all. One of tho heavicat blows sustained by Gon. Bancock among all thot have fallen upon him ainco his fortunes began to wane was shat inflicted by tho Senato yesterday in the passngo of a bill for the improvemont of tho Copitel grounds with a provision that none pf tho money thus appropriated shall pass through the hands of Gon. Bancoog as Com- missionor of Public Buildings and Grounds. Lho Democratic Houss had already exprossod tnasgimilor manner its Ick of confidence, tnd this action of tho Republican Sonate is peculiarly significant. Crantrs O'Conor, the distinguished Now Fork lawyer, has recently been tho subject of tnpleasant notoriety through the publication of astotement that be had reserved for him- self as counsel fecs the larger part of tho monoy received as alimony by the divorced wife of Epwin Foanest. Mr, O'Conor is ont fn o vigorous card pronouncing the charge [also and libelous in every porticular, and giviag notico of hia intention to prosecute those who havo given it publicity. Ho states that it has been a matter of principle with him nover to work for nothing, but that his fees in the casa of Mira. Fornest, roported to have boon about $60,000, actually amounted to 87,000. Tho Waya and Moans Committes have at Jost finished tho Monnwon Tariff bill, and sgreed to report it to tho Honse, Tho tea and coffco clauses, after much debate, woro stricken from the mensuro, leaving those ar- ticles, as at present, on tho froo list The vate on & proposition to fix the duty on coffee at 2 conta per pound, and that on tea at 10 conts, was protty ovenly divided politi- cally, Messrs, Ganrizip and Busomanp voting with the Domocrats in tho afiirmative, In the voto on the final adoption of the bill, Hancock, Democrat, voted with the Republic- Bus agsinstsuch action, Monnison will, whon the bill comes up in the House, move an amendment taxing tea and coffee, Tho House having called for tho roport of Mr. D. 1. Pauuirs, of Springfield, Il, who was appointed Special Revenue Agont to in- vestigate the whisky and customs frouds in Ban Francisco, tho publication of that docu- ment is certain to produce ascnsation. In his report Mr. Prurtirs distinctly asserts that tho whisky thieves in California have onloyed tho powerful protection of Senator Sancenr and other Congrearmen from that Stato, and, backed by this influence, have sct at deflance all attempts to probo and punish tho frauds ‘pon the revonuo, Secretary Bristow has ‘undertaken to protect the Governmont and crush out tho thieves in gpito of the Ring, with what result has not yot been doveloped. The publication of Mr, Piruurra’ fearless ro- port is not unlikely to assist materially in bringing matters to a crisis, ‘The good work goes forward bravely, The North Town Board yesterday took action on the claims of the Collector for compensation, and instead of tho extravagant sums horcto- fore voted with prodigal rocklessnoss the Board only consented to allow a fair and moderato sum for the services rendorad. ‘fhe Board, morcovor, adopted a resolution in fa- vorof abolishing township organization in North Ohicago, and, curiously enough, the only negative votes were those of tho Super- visor and Town Clerk, ‘he South Lown Board has yet to deal with Mice Evans’ claim for compensation, amounting to $12,000, and it should hardly bo neccasary to suggest to the Justices that this is not a good time to be liberal with the people's money. ‘We republish this morning from the Quincy Whig an interesting reviow of the political aituation fn Dinois, belug more particularly a thorough ond careful canvass of tho Guber- matorial question, Reports have been ro- celved from nearly all the counties in the Btate, “showing the provailing sentiment among Ropublicans concerning tho relative Btrength, fitness, and sccoptability of the yarions candidates, Messrs. Buveninar and Dourow have undeniably made hesdway ; it would be strange if months of active, ener- yetlo work had not accomplished something ; but quietly, steadily, surely, the candidacy of Mr, Wasaovenx bas gained in strongth and fpopulsrity among the rank and file, and is pti] gsining, In many of the counties the Domination of Mr. Wasnavans is regarded as she one thing needful to insure the Republio- 3m party of Linois against defeat; in almost Svery instance his nomination would be hailed with satiafaction and enthusiasm, ‘The Ohicago produce markets were unset fled yesterday, Mess pork was quistand 5 @150 per bri lower, closing at $22.12} cash and $22.20 for May. Lard was active and 50 per 3100 the lower, closing at $18.85 cash and 618.47) tor May. Monte ware leas notiveand caalen, 21 Oho for boxed ahouldess, 1348 for do in tho namo of settle the title. favor of tho settlers in the United States District Court; ‘decided in thoir favor by the United States Circuit Court; Sapremo title of tho settlers, Tho docision, ay re- ported, does not touch tho question as to tho right of homestead settlers upon lands which short ribs, and 1230 for do short clonra, Highwines wero quiet and casior, at $1.07 por gallon, Flour was quiet and firm. Whent was moderataly active and closed 140 lower, at $1.00} for April and $1.04] for BIny, Corn yyna lesa active nnd firmer, closing 4c higher, nt 46} for April and 48c for May. Onts wero moro active nnd 4@I1o lower, closing at 30{o for April and {3340 for May.. Ityo was dull and nominal, at 630 for regular, Barloy was quiot and firmer, closing at S80 for May. Hoga wero dull and ‘10@350 lower, closing weak at $7.86@8.50 for common to oxtra. TPhoro was a modorately active cattle market, at nbout Monday's’ prices, Sheep were frm and unchanged. Last Saturday ovening thero was in atoro in this city 3,162,111 bu whent, 2,089,701 bu corn, 710,437 bu oats, 101,437 bu rye, and 252,982 bu barley, Also, aflont in the harbor, 185,820 bu wheat, 468,670 bu corn, 93,954 bn oats, and 29,997 bu ryo, Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.87} in greenbacks at tho closo. —_—_—_—_—_ ‘The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in tho Osago land caso is so manifestly according to the dictates of jastice and common senso that the wonder is tho auit could have been ao lovg and stubbornly contested. It involved tho title to nearly a million scres of land in Kansas, which by tha treaty of 1867 was ceded by tho Osaga Indians to the Goneral Government, By act of Congress, passed in 1869, sale of the land to notual sottlors was authorized, and was no- cordingly mado, Then the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the Leavenworth, Lawronco & Galveston Railway Companics set up claim of right to locate thoso very lands under tho grants mado to them prior to tho treaty by which tho Government acquirod title, The claim was without a shadow of foundation in right, ond waa simply on attompt of the Companies to rob tho settlers of their im- provements, and mude upon the thoory that tho longest purso must win in tho ond in tho courts, Authority, however, was obtained from the Attorney-Genoral to bring suit tho United States to This was decided in then, on appeal, again and now by tho Court, firming finally the the Unitod States owned at the timo of land. grants mnde to railway companies, under which tha latter seck to locate tho Jand. It indicates, however, that the leaning of the Court is toward upholding tho rights of bona- fide sottlors against the land-grant companios, which, in order to escape local taxation, do- for locating theirgrants until thoy have mado sales, which thoy do without rogard to the rights of sottlors, whose means rendor it practically impossible for thom to contest tho tile in tho courts a3 against-the rich corporations. An act of Congress is nooded to protect their rights. THE MONSTER MEETIN' ‘Tho mecting at Exposition Hal! ich Jast night was in al respects the greatest moeting ever held under a roof in this city. numbers it far oxcee@d any assemblage over witnessod in tho West. wwhon the meeting organized ond for somo In point of ‘The monster hall, timo after, contained not less than 25,000 persons. ‘Though there were two stands, ono at ench ond, largo part of the multitude could not hear, and retired. | Still, for two hours thero was 9 constant stream of persons entoring the hall, taking the places of those passing out. It is safo to say that during the ovoning 40,000 persons, almost without ex- coption votors, attended tho mecting. Such an outpouring of earnest mon has rarely ‘boon witnessed. Everything was quiot and orderly, ordor wore ominous of the firmness and de- tormination of the mon thero assembled. No sugh yast crowd of resolnte men, meoting under such strong provocstion, to considor gach an infamous outrage on pnblio liberty, was evor more moderate and dignified in their proceedings. and this’ very quiet and We can tell the four impostora who have usurped the town ofileca that tho moderation of the meoting was full of significance. ‘These men at Exposition Hall last night know their strength and their powor; they felt thot in an hour thoy could havo crushed theso criminals, broken up their dens of infamy, and swopt the whole combihtion out of ex- istonce, but they forbora. rior measures bad not yot arrived. If the great and always hazardous romedy for great pub- io wrongs is to ba resorted to, it should not bo done in oxcitemont, but after full do- liberation, and aftor giving the guilty the op- portunity to render it unnecessary, Tho time for ulte- ‘Tho mocting, thercfore, appointed a com. mitteo of citizens to submit this whole matter to the four mon, Evans, Pomutrs, Ryan, and Guragon, and demand that they resign or declino the offices thoy have usurped. In caso these men shall defiantly porsist in their usurpation, and challenge the people of Chicago to do thelr worst, then this Com. mitteo shall call the people to ngain ossomble and inatruct the Committes, and to give it powers to carry those instructions into execu- tion. It is to be seen whether theso four men, aud their rash and unprincipled ad- visors, will venture to provoke a second on- semblage of the people of Chicago. A committee of citizens was appointed to wait upon Mayor Conviy and request his resignation, in the interost of peace ond order, and to avoid all legal controvergy betwoon him and the Mayor to be voted for on Tuesday next, The meeting then designated the Mon, Tuomas Horns to be voted for on Tuesday next for Mayor. A third committee of 150 citizens was ap. pointed to wait on the Common Council on Friday evening and ask that body to further purify tho list of election judges. We refer the reader to tho report of the proceedings for the detail of tho resolutions, which cover the whole ground and state tho whole question. ‘To those who expected rash and inconsiderate action, the resolu. tions give the best answer, ‘The resolutions embody distinctly the will and the deter. mination of the multitude at the meoting, and will be religiously and firmly excouted to the letter, The New York Z'ridune publishes a col- umn of élaborate computations, or rather speculations, as to tho result of the first bal- lot in the Cincinnati Convention, It reckona for him of the New England States, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and 18 of tho 26 votes of Masaachusotts; of the Bouthorn States, Maryland, Virginia, North Qarolina, Louisiana; of the Western States, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesots, Ne- braska, Kanses, and Illinola; besides Dola. swere, 10 votes from Now York, and Califor. pia, Oregon, and Nevads, and the nine Terri. Gecieay—-Ln all, 256 votes, Indiana, Missouri, eauso ho docs not mean anything, but if ho QHE CHICAGU ‘LRLBU /: DNESDAs, APRIL 12, Yos6—'"Liny -PAGLS, ‘Arkansna, Missisalppl, Alnbaria, ‘Texns, Ton- neenco, Weat Virginin, Georgin, Florida, and tho District of Columbin—183 votca—aro set down for Monrox. ‘To Bristow are assigned Vermont, Connecticut, South’ Carolina (if tho Caampentars Ropublicana contro! the Btato Convention), a fow votes from Now York and Kentneky,—perhaps 76 votes in all, As to.Bmsrow, tho prodiction is hnzarded thnt ho will prove cither n hopelessly weak or an irresistibly strong candidate, owing to the fact that no ‘organized "—that is, machine—efforts ore being maito in his behalf, ond ‘that his prow pects depend upon tho breaking down of snch efforts mae in the interest of other candidates, ‘This estimate apparently con- cedes to Mr. Bratue the utmont that his friends claim for Lim, and more than he can bo reckoned assured of by full 60 votes, from present fndicntions, since more than that nuinber of delegates counted for him may bo sent to tho Convention unpledged or some of them instructed for other candidates, ‘Tho Cincinnati. Commercial, surveying the field from the West, sets down Braine’s first serl- ous failure, thus far, og that of not securing hia native State, Pennsylvania, which, in tho Commercafs phrase, deprives him of efficient ‘trading capital,” and Oanenoy is ngninst him, Now Wompshire will, tho Commerciad predicta, cast half her vote for Baistow, with aawift disposition on the part of tho Braz mon of tho delegation to go over to Bristow. Brarxe's Northwestern strength, that papor seta down os waning, and concludes that, without the undivided aupport of Now En- gland ond Ponnsylvanin, which there is no prospect of his securing, he must foil Tho Commercial finds the prospect far more promising for Bats. tow. It concedes that all tho ‘ma- chine" will grind out delegates hostile to him ; that ho has no '* favorite-sonny " sup- port; and that. he cannot be a compromise candidate, for ho cannot be nominated be- ducting the election in thers spectfled wards, and frand on tho part of the judges of clec- tion in those wards, atill an olection is not necessarily to bo made void on auch grounds, especially in tho other wards of tho city. “The RULES PREscRinED By THE LAW FOR CONDUCTING AN ELECTION Ahk DINEZCTORY MENELY AND NoT onttaaTony.” Having thus swopt away all the safeguards against election-frauda provided by law, tho Court wont furthor and solemnly declared that, though the 6,000 illegal votes counted for tho chartor largely escedded tho declarod majority by whick tho charter was adopted, it was immaterial, becauso thero ‘might hove been equal {rregularity affecting tho re- turns of alike number of votes against in- corporation” in other wards! ‘Tho Court fund before it tho fact that 5,000 fraudulont votes hnd beon given for thecharter; that the whola majority for euch chartor, including these votes, was 1,000; and the Court offsot this fact by assuming tho possibility that there wera 5,000 illegal votes given on tho other sido! of which thora was not tho re- motest suggestion or proof, So the Court turned the people out of doors, and gava the protection of the Jaw to, tho criminals who had stuffed tho ballot-boxes and forged the roturns. All that Mraz Evaxs and Ep Pninnirs luavo to say now in answer to the appeal to the couris ia that, in the language of the Supremo Court, the laws regulating elections aro “ merely directory and not obligatory.” Tho law directs that elections shall bo hon- est, but docs not make it obligatory! That, whilo the Inw directs that the judges of clec- tion shall count the ballots deposited by the voters, and no others, and shall not count othor batlots put in the box by tho thousand, still. this is not obligatory on the election judges, who, if thoy include 5,000 illegal bal- Jota in tho count, mny fairly assume thot thoy aro only offsetting s liko proceeding in other wards! And, in the faco ofthis decis- ion, thore aro intelligont men who talk of an appcal to the Courts against ballot-box stuff- ing and fraudulont returns! Thero is no relief or protection for ballot- box stuffing to bo received from the Courts. ‘The criminals of Chicago aro covered by tho ggis of tho Supromo Court ; the law against such crime is no longor obligatory—it is moro- ly “directory.” The omptying of the legal. votes cast at an’ olection, and tho filling of tho boxes with othor ballots not polled ot all, by the sworn officers of tho election, aro no longer crimes; thoy arosimply non-conforim- ities with the non-obligatory directions of the statute law of tho Stato of Illinois! There boing no faw, and no court to which the four hundred thgusand owners of four hundred millions of property in this city can appeal for protection against the organized criminal classes who have usurped all tho divisions of the local government, what aro the peoplo to do? Aro they poworless? |, Have they no right to opposo force by forces? Is the law which sccuros these criminal usurpors in their places ‘obligatory or “directory”? Have tho pooplo over sur. rendered the right to expel the usurper who entors their houses to take control of their households? Havo tho people in the aggro- gate surrendored thoir right to oxpol the men who havo seized the offices to which thoy havo nevor boon olocted, and who havo con- verted the forms of low and tho offices of civil government into a license to crime, and tho means of robbory, plunder, and con- fiscation? MR. COLVIN ON BALLOT-STUFFING. Mr, Convin has appeared in a now r0le,— that of the complete lotter-writer. Wo havo had froquent specimens of his oratarical paw- era, Ho hos oxtended the hospitelitics of tho city to all sorts of people, from tho Governor- General of Canada to professional pedes- trians, and has displayed o faculty for elo- quence of specch that can only bo described as astonishing. hero was o tine whon it der-hittors,” and “bummorr,” and thieves to organizo fighta and ministnra riots around the polls—one of them right opposite tho City-I[all—for the purporo of intimidat- ing tho honest voters, Thoy permitted such handling of tho ballot-boxes as mado tho atnfing process possible. As agninst nll this, ‘Mr. Couvin wroto no letters and issued no orders until public sontiment became fo hot and determined that he could no longor ignore it, and thon he warned the police to look ont for tho respectable people, but not the thieves and scoundrels, Now the simplo foct is that ballot-box stnfflog waa inaugn- rated in Obicago during Mr. Convin's admin- istration, viz: at tho charter olcction,, and that ho was tho first and chief bonoficiary of its operntion, His letters and orders may possibly have some value og Iterary ctriosi- ties, but thoy will Lave no woight in estab. lishing bis abhorronco of ballot-box stufllng as long o8 ho continues to hold an office, for the continued occupancy of which thero ja no other protonse of authority than the pro- visions of a charter foisted upon the peoplo by ballot-box stuffing, If Mr. Convin wishes the people to boliove that ho is opposed to pallot-box stuffing and its results, ho will refuso longer to avail himeelf of the benefit thereof, ‘and voluntarily retire from his proa- ont usurpation, —————_ THE POWER) BEHIND THE OFFIOIAL : THIEVES. third mortgage on two milos of the road, viz.: tho bridge nnd its approaches, Congréss would annetion such sn dxpendituro of money. ‘Tho special act of Congress was on- tirely unnecessary for tho purpose of build- ing tho bridge, but, in order to borrow money abrond, it was anpposod to be usoful as con- voying an implication that tho proposed mortgage would be a first lion on the bridgo. ‘Tho money was borrowed, and, two or threo lndred thouannd dollars boing left over after the work was completed nud pald for, it is supposed and believed that tho managers put tho surplus in thelr pockets, At all events, when the bridge wan ready for use thoy commenced charging 50 cents for ench -passonger and $10 for ench .car-lond of freight passing over tha bridge. Fifty conts was the amount of faro tharged by tho ommibus ond ferry companica for carrying passongors from Council Bluffs to Omaha hofore the bridge was built, so that, to tho public, no saving of monoy was effected by tho building of tho bridge, The interest on tho bridge bounds amounted to less than $200,000 per annum, but tho rates of toll oxncted from the public amounted to fully threa times that sum, It was supposed that this heyday of extor-’ tion had been put an end to by tho rocent de- cision of the Supreme Court, which dectarod that the Omaha bridge was simply s part of tha road, differing in no respect from any other bridga on the lino, and that no highcr rato of toll could bo charged on it than on any other two m'les of distance betwoon the eastern aud western tormini. But not tho slightest heed, bas been paid to the decision up to the presont time, ‘Che charge of 50 cents por head is exnctod from all passongers going over tha bridge, the aame as boforo. Tt strikes us it ia timo Congress took somo action to bring this swindling and Jaw- Jess corporation to justice, Its history has been marked by fraud and bribery from tho beginning. Credit-Mobitior is a dark chop- ter in the history of this country, but it is only of o piece with numerous other tronsne- tions of liko character, of which this bridge transaction is ono, It isa woll-known fact that tho Union Pacifta Company was warned at the outest by tho Governmont Directora that the Omaha bridge was only o section of tho main road, and that the attempt to sep- orate it from the road and charge o special toll upon it was illegal, and that the mort. gage on it would not bo o first lion, But the ehances to makes new Oredit-Mobilier job ont of tho building of tho bridge, and to gouge the public by the use of it afterward, was not tobo resisted. Woe invite the Pacific Rail. road Committees of Congress to the infrac- tion of Inw daily committed in the levying of napeciol toll on the Omaha bridge. Proba- bly Jax Goutp & Co. expect to putench pas- senger and freight-shipper to the oxpenss of commoncing a lawsuit to recover the illegal charge, ‘hero js a shorter woy to roach the ovil than that, ‘bill passed the Hor increasing the pay of Com Rreaamen from $2,000 to $5,000 per scation, Savers! days before this bill waa introduced, Mr, ‘Wasitnunxe, whose health had ontirely broten down, saked leave of absenco, and rocalved {t, Whon tho ayes and noos wero called, tho vote stood for adding G6 por cent to thotr ealarice, nyos, GL; noon, 60; tho one majority was ture nished by the Hon, 8, M, Coniow, of Bpring- field, tho Journal's candidate for Governor, and if Me, Wasupunne's salary was inoressed during the remainder of the timo ho aorvedin Congroas, it was tho result of CuLLon's vote, That pure patriot of tho County Board dis. guisod uniter tno name and reputation of Jony MoCar'yney neod not aunpose that Time Trinuyg will conse to watch over tho rascalitics of that Board bocause ono of the invostigations it pro. posed has been whlterraahed. Thore 1s golug to bo abundant opportunity for jabbery aud thtoying in the building of tho Court-Honse, and Mr. McOarrney may make up bis mind that ‘Tne Tatouns will keop a steady look-out, Au to McCarrner’s little joke about sonding the bill to'Tne Trinunz for the pretended Investl. gation, wo wourd romind him that hedid not por. mit THz Trrauxr to make tho investigation vor oloose the oxporta who did It; on this principle, probably thoman who waa inveatlgatod could well afford to pay the bill, But, on the other hand, if the investigation (as seems to be the caso) had tho effect of making sll the accounts in the Recorder's office right, the county can very woll afford to pay the bill of $150, and the pooplo have atill somothing for which they may thank Tox Tarnonz, which is more than Mo Carrnsy can claim, PERSONAL. Now, if Mike Evans will como ont with® card requesting Mayor Colvin to resign, honors will bo ensy. 3 Bismarck was born on April Foo!'s Day, and ¢ dreadfal April Fool he bas boen to all sorte of people. Mr. Robort Buchavan {8 collocting considera blo mony in London for the rollef of Walt Whitman. ‘Mrs. Scott-Siddons is now on hor way to Aua- tralia, It is presumed that abo hes takon Mr, 8.8, with hor, . ‘Tho popular air for wodding parties going ont ofchurch now ia: ‘Ob, no, wo'll never got drunk: any more," for tho bonofit of the groom, Tho Queen of England's paintings at the American Centennial will bo guarded by a squad of policomen. Thoy are heavily insurod In cight Englieh companios, Congressman Scalos seks ** What fs the use of tho 40,000 paira of gattora sont by the Govern- mont to tho Indian women, unaccompanied by a singlo pair of stockings ?” It is undorstood that, iv cano Gon. Schofield is mado Commandant of West Point Acadamy, Gen, McDowell will be transferred to the Do- partment of Californis, now In charge of Baho- flold. ‘The Now York Post notices tho yolume of wolrd stories by Mies Floronco McLondburgh, of Chicayo, soun to bo publiahod by Janaen, McClurg & Co., aud eaya it will be looked for with no little Intoreet. ‘Tho officers of tho Arcadian Olub in Now York desire to correct tho orroncous impression thas tho Club is now in serious financial difficultios. ‘The organization ia mado up of Bohemians, aud has no partioular standing. A Kansaa City paper ventures tho opinion that Lydia Thompson would be obliged ta pall down her yest if sho should happen to bo in Chicago during Mr. Storoy'a term of sorylee n4 foreman of the Grand Jury. A romantic story has beon invented of a dis- tngnisbod Now York merchant who subscribed $50,000 to dofray the exponses of tho Mooily snd Sankoy mootings on losroing that bia fa- vorito son” had beon convorted, ‘Tho Stato’a Attorney of a Vormont district, when asked by the Judgo whetber he was resdy to proceed with a cago, replied: ‘Yes—no— your Honor. Tho Ststo la not—in a state to try this caso to-day; the State, your Honor—is drunk.” Mr. Mackenzie, the Canadian Promlor, ia worl ing too hard, takivg but eix hours’ glosp, aud participating in oll tho nctive business of Parlin ment, Ho haa had the good sonse to put a volo on Lord Dufferin's proposod appropriation of | 975,000 for a stato visit to the Contennial. ‘The men who nominally hold the town offices in South Chicago by virtue of ntufing tho ballot-boxes have bean detorrod from 4 moro prompt recognition of public sontimont by the number and charactor of their retain- ers, ‘Tho Assossor and Collector havo .some 70 or 80 dependents, in the shapa of doputics and assistanta, Theso mon are takon from tho samo class to which Purutirs and Evans belong. ‘Thoy got their living out of theso places, and therefore urgo Paria and Evans to holdon. 'Thoy do more than this, Thoy bolong to tho dangorous classes. Thoy are saloon-sonkers, roughse, and vagabonds, 'Yhoy tell the Pauitrs crowd that, if thoy will keep their places, they (the roughs) will soa them through. Moro than this. Tho Prutrs crowd beliove that they have tho activo sympathy and will havo tho active sup- portof tho mass of minor officcholders under tho prosent City Administration, who ara also of tho Yoafor andsonllawag calibro, Thoso tax-eaters know that they hold their offices nt tho pleasuro of the usurper Couvry, and that Convin holds his oflice sinco Decomber last through ballot-box stuff- ing. They aro aversotoa pracedont which will maka ballot-stufling practically inoperative, for their turn may comonext. Sotho whole set of official bummors in the omploy of the city encourage tho Pat.irs gang to holdon. It is also felt by theso people that thoy will on- joy tho special protection of Coxvin's police. All these circumstances have encouraged them to resist tho demand for their resigna- tion longer than their own cowardly natures would suggest. But, in spito of this moral, or rathor im. moral, support, it is definitely settled that all those men must got out of tho way, their dependents and retainers to the contrary not- withstanding. It is not prematuro, there- fore, to consider tho manner of filling tho vacancies, ‘Tho provision of tho law relative to the resignation is ns follows: ‘Tho Justices of the Poaco of a town may, for sufl- cient cause shown to them, accopt tho resignation of any town officer of thelr town, sud whenover they shall accept any auch rostgnation, they sball forth- ‘swith give auch notice therco? to the Town Clerk of the town, who shall mskoa minute thereof upon the town records; Providel, that in towns having more than two Justices of tho Peace, auex realgnatton may bo dheceptod by any two of them; and in cazo of tho res tquatioa of a Justicaof the Pesco or Constable, tho "Sown Clerk shall {mmediately, upon rocelving notice thereof, transmit a copy of such notice to the County Clork, + As to tho matter of filling tho vacancies there seems to bo two ways. {t can cortainly ‘bo dono by special clection, for the law pro- vides for special town mectings when any is nominated it will bo becauso ho means o gront deal, of which his courso os Secretary givea assurance ; and that ‘his nomination de- ponds upon the recognition by tho country of his ominont fitnoss for office." Tho coun- try is rapidly recognizing that, and the pop- ular senso of his fitness is daily broadening. At Cincinnati, tho partisana of Monroy, Conxirxo, and Bua, who, together, will constitute the majority of the Convention, will mect with tho cortainty that neithor of theso can command a majority, and after tho first ballot the Commercial predicts that ‘all the loose votes "—thoso freod from their instructions by the firat ballot—will flowtohim, ‘ because it will thon bo manifest from tho strong popular curront for him, that, if nominated, his election will bo cer- tain.” ‘The Commercial, in conclusion, says : ‘Tho Connocticut election ts a worning that tho to publicon politicians cannot holp heeding. It means plainly (hat withont Daisrow they lose the campaign, for the South is Democratic at ali events, and tne Re- publican candidate must carry Connceticut, Now Jer- tey, and New York; andaa the Republican politicians —moyhine-managers and grist-grinders—do not lack {ateligence, thoy will epeedily seo that this time, in- stead of leading the people, they must fallin behind tho popular movement whieh ia directed by the pub- Uc consciousness that Bazstow is the man who isin wianlug conditloi In arecont of Tne Taoxr appeared » minor editorial aummarizing o dispatch which roflected upon the relations of Gov, Coausen- LAIN, of South Carolina, to the Sonoson Bank, by failuro of which tho Stato loat over $200,000 on deposit thore, Tho dispatch in question pur- ported to bo an abstract of toatimony taken bo- foro the Legislative Investigating Committoo, But upon examination of tho roport itself wo find that tno statemonta made in tho dispatch wore unfounded in fact, and that there was nothing-in the testimony taken by the Com- mittoo to warrant tho strictures prescd upon Gov. Cuamnentatn. The testimony disclosed that he bold but $600, inatead of, os atated, €5,000 atock in the bank, and thst this was taken by him bofore ho became Govornor, In payment for hia feea sa attoruoy, When he was inaugurated ho found tho en- tiro funds of tho Stato Treasury on dopoalt in this bank, and ono of bis first official acta ta 8 member of tho Board to deelgnate the State dopositories was to divide tho doposits among six banks, of which Sgio:ton'a waa one, aud to mit the doposite there, which had beon APPEALING TO THE COURTS TO PUNISH ELECTION FRAUDS. Tho plea that the four man who have fraudulently seized the town offices in South Chicago, in behalf of themselves and four- score bummer deputies, should not be dis- turbed until dispossessed by the Supromo Court, however good in ordinary cases and under ordinary circumstances, is wholly inap- plicable in this cese. The peoploof Chicago have for years danced obsequious attendanco onthe Supremo Court, begging that Court to interpose tho judicial anthority of tho State to protect them against lawlogancss, official bribery and corruption, and against fraudulent clections and forged and porjured returns, and the Court has invarinbly dis. waa thought that he would rotire from the Mayor's offics to sot up a new school of ora- tory. But he bos now turned his talents in another direction, It remained for Conv to tako his pen in hand to demonstrate the full enpacity of tho English longuago for complex- ity and obscurity, Ho has written a letter to Marshal Goopet which isevidently all his own, Neither Mr. Fonrrst, the City Clerk, nor his Secretary, will claim any portion of tho credit for this romarkablo production. Wo quote a small portion of the opening sontence as 8 samplo: ‘Wiens, At the recent town election in South Chi- cago a groxs outrage waa committed on the rights of the people by the fraudulent substitution of other bale Jote for thoso cant by the electors, to socurs the illegal return of officers who were not tho choice of the ma- fority, if the public opinion, apparently well founded, be correct; and whereas, etc., eto, We hopo Mr. Goopert understands this, Wo confees that we donot. We can only catch occasional glimpses of meaning in this composition, Perhaps Mr. Convin himself did not exactly know what he wanted to say. Porhaps he did not want Marshal Goopetu and his police force to understand it. He was doaling with o delicate subject. Any utterance from Mr. Conv on ballot-box stufting must be peculiarly ombarressing, and is apt to be obdcure. Wo infor, however, that he is inclined to gdmit that thoro baa been some. sort of an outrage, though ho is yet a» little doubtful about tho ad- ovor $1,000,000, to about $200,000, The baok was of the lirst standing financially. HanprSoro- Moy, tho chiof owner, was reported ono of the woalthiost men in the Stato, aud so strong waa the public confidence fn him and his bank that tho partial removal of the deposita was in many quastora sharply criticlaed. Omaamenvarn, though nominally a Diroctor, bad nothing what over to do with ita management, and knew noth- ing of ita condition, except what appeared from tho statements made by Soroxron, which showed it to bo in sound condition. The statemont made and copled py Tue Temune on tho adthor- ity of tho dispatch cited, that Gov. Craupzn- ‘LAIN, a8 Director, mado afildavit to a statemont of the bank in which flctitious aasote were rook~ oved in order to show solvency, turns out to haye beon wholly falso. He nover avore to any atstemont of the bank, As late as Juno last the public confidence in tho bank waa unshaken, and tho bank itself at that timo had such power in business and po- litical circlos that it wos able to seriously em- barrass Gov, Cuasmennatn in his struggle with tho infamons Mosxs-Wuieren faction of pro- tended Republicans, and did so, Its fallure shortly sftorward was wholly unoxpected, and could not have been, nor was it, anticipated elthor by the Govyarnor cr the business cammu- nity. Gov, Cuaspxnism’s action against pow- erful opposition in romoving tho bulk of the State dopoalts, not because ho suspected tho solvency of tho bank, but simply because he be- oeved it unwise to risk the entire funds of the Tyessury on ths solvency of any one bank, saved tho bulk of the monoy, The ,only possible missed the appeals, telling them in effect that there was no legal redress for stuffed ballot boxes, no punishment for offleint bribory, and no logal powor to restrain illogal and dishonest official acts. Wo aro not arraigning or criticiéing the Su- preme Court; wo aro not questioning its learning or its politics; we refer to those things to show that, as against the opon, con- fessed, andnotorious frauds of last weak, thero is no legal redress, no judicial deliverance, no remedy and no prevention, and for such crimes thero is no legal punishment, Such ia tho solomn adjudication of tho highest Court in Dlinois, The courts being closed to the people both na for protection and rodresa of frauds and for punishment of tho crime, the fatal consequences are now upon the pub- lio, A year ago thero was a town election in this city, in which the contestants, Toss Forzy and Ming Evans, Powwirs and Giza- son, publicly and ostentatiously stuffed, the ballot-boxos on one another, and mado the form of an olection a broad burlesque upon law, morality, and desoncy, As the issue was couilued in that caso to the mero supromacy of one gang of criminals ovor nnothor, the declared result was o matter of indifference to tho general public, But a fow days after that disgraceful exhibition, the offlcial and per- sonal dependents of the Mayor, and of the Jobn A. Rice, of Chiosgo, is to bo manager ot the now Globo Hotel in Philadelphia daring the Contonnisl. ‘Tho bar of tho hotel hus ben leased for’$50,000 cash, and tha lessees egros to pay to the propriotors 15 por cont of the gross recoipte after $160,000 have been taken in. The Boston Saturday Evening Gazelle says: “Miaa Kellogg raroly, if avor, gives her profea- sional services, Mr. Carloton, who is one of tha oporatic stare, blossod with a largo family, had to pay hor $200 for two songs sho sung at bia bonefit at tho Boston Thoatro a wook ago.” The Brooklyn Eagle says of Gon, John A Dit: “A man who at 80can turn hia hand to tho transiation of s Latin poom, or who can turn out of bed at 4 o'clock in tho morning to go duok-shooting,—holding his own with the boys, too,—is » good deal of » man apy way you take him.” ‘Mr, Moncure D. Conway writes from England: “To plain truth, the Queon is very homely, and sho gota no lovelier fast, aud it is m question which not even the satutoness of her thoatrioa Primo Minister can decide whothor the lustre of the English throne is moro dimmod by her ap- pearance In state or by hor secluaton.” Lord Amberly'a infidel work, entitled “An Analyela of Mcligious Boliof,” is soon to bo pub- Ushed, notwithatanding the earnest protest of his father, Earl Russell. Moncuro Conway writes, atter a viow of the books It is diMioult to detormine what wero the affirmative views of tho late Viscount, oven whether howas a Thelst, Dut ho certaluly was of an almost {dealiatio spirit." two town ofileern, togother with at least fif- teen voters of tho town, ‘shall filo m tho office of tho Town Clerk a statement in writ- ing that a special mooting is necessary for tho interest of the town, and setting forth the object of tha meoting.” But it is possible that these officca moy bo filled without a apecial olection, which should bo avoided if it is posaiblo to fill tho vacanclos with honest and competont mon without the cost of nnothor election. The following provision of tho law would soem to cover the case: ‘Whenover any town aball fall to clect the proper numbor of town officors to which such tawn may ba entitled by Iaw, oF when any person electod to any town office eball fall to qualify, or whenovor any va- cancy ebal! Lappen in any town, from death, resigna- tion, removal from the town, or other cause, it shall Lo lawful for the Justices of the Pasco of tha town, together with tho Supervisor and ‘Town Clork, to Mll tho vacancy by appointment, by warrant under thelr hands and scala; aud the porsous so sppotnted shall hold thelr respective offices during the unoxpired term of the persons in whose stosd thoy hare been ap- pointed, and until others are elected and appointed in tholr places, and shall havo the aame powers and be audjoct to tha aame duties and penalties as {f they had been duly electod or appointed by the electors, . Tho Justicos of the Pesce form a large ma jority of the South Town Board, and they could probably bo trusted at this time to mako proper appointments, If tho intoresta of the tax-pnyers can bo protected in the as- ecsament and collection of taxes without aub- jocting citizens to thenoceasity of leaving thoir ‘ e isabilit t thi ‘jusiness another day inorder to votedown tho | stricture that can bo passed npon him is that ho'} ‘Tuo agents for tho champagno wines of @, HL. corrupt majority in the Common Council, and | ¥ ab y of admitting i Mr. Cott a ommer clement, it will bo wise andeconom. | did not personally investigate tho condition of | Mnmm & Co. in the United Btates have began in the soveral branches of the City Govern- | vm'a hesitation on this point is feat to adopt thle course, If 1 th Te rane et ihe dime: ghiee woald havo. shown | eult agains anumber of lquor-dealere in Now ment, hired and employed the same machine. | natural enough, When he speaks of P me ecekgary, How- that ite crodit was chiofly fictitions. We doubt whother that criticlam ia deserved, sinco the sol- vonoy of tho bank was unquostioned and its crodit wolt ostabliebed ia fusnolal circles, Bo that es it may, cortain itis that it ia the worst than can bo aald of him in roiation to the whole affalr, Equally cgrtain is it that the reporta to the contrary have one ana all been malicious falsehoods given currency by the Mosgs-Waor~ Pen Ring, which bad a good deal to do with tne bank, in ordor to balk him in the manly fight he ig making againat the corruption that hes dis- graced the Btato, ———— ‘The most artlatic foatin the way of gorry- mandering in tho apportionment for Congress- ional} districts bas Iatoly boou completed by the Miaslsaippi White-Line Legisiature. The entire bottom-Jand region along the Mlsaissippi River and the Loulatana border, fore atrotch of nearly 400 sulles in Jengi, and in many placos not over 20 miles wide, Las been thrown Into one district. But it will not make it » Black Republican dis- trict,—not bya great desl. Itis altogether too conyen{ent to tho Arkauaas and Loulsiana bor- der across the river for that to be taken as granted. Butit masses tho negro minjoxity 20 48 to make sure that the roat of the districts in ever, tho tax-payers will consent to givo an- other day to tho work of purifying olections and protecting their property, York, charging them with manafacturing and dealing in a spurious article, Mumm's wives aroa favorite brand, and there is no doubt but that counterfeiting has been carried on by many @enlers, and Western ssloon-keepers have con- nived at tho frande, Behopenhauer, the Germen philosopher, wae accustomed to place a gold-plece by the aide of big plate ag he eat down to dinner, carefully pocketing it again whon he had dono eating. Several noble ofticors ove day asked him jes ingly what was the reason of his ourioas action. He replied: ‘I bave yowed to give this gold- plece to = beggar the day you and your cok leagues etop talking about women and horess. Lhave been walting ten yoara,” 2 HOTEL ADRIVALA, —Owen ¥, Le Foon, Denvor, Coli J+ A id Dexter Helxnsp, Loulé- ff We F Man, Loulgyilley O, Je Mant, Butfie 10; A. Howard, Deirolt; H, Ht Collis, Troy, N. ¥.3 Robert Wallace, ‘Londons Gat; James’ N, Alllaod, Beoond Cavslty, U. 'B, Aj Layton, 'B, Bhepherd,’ Lateyette; Buperior; the “Hon. le . Gttaws, Lig Sota A. Blewart, Plorids....@rand Pucyte—H, P, Ely, Marquette; Charles Mf, Oaborn, Hock Island; 'R, Guoper, Peters: ce ry and the game meang uncd ot the town meatings to stuff the ballot-boxea, forge ro- turng, and secure a fraudulent declared result of a clty election. And so succossful were theso moans employod that, through these frauds, the old existing city, charter was wiped out, obliterated, and a new ouo adopted continuing the Mayor in office, sa it was daimed, cighteen months boyond the term for which he was clected, although such a thing ia plainly prohibited by tho Constitu- tion, ‘The people then resorted to the caurta, and thoy submitted to the Supreme Court an appeal for redreus, The case presented showed to the Court: That at suck election in many wards no Poll-books wore kept; that no clerks were appointed; that no record of the number of names or voters wos kept or returned; that the ballota were not numbered ;_ that the re- turns were not signed by any clerks; no poll- lists or tally-sheata were returned; that the majority cast for the charter at the several polis at which these errors and omissions wore made exceeded tho entire majority de- “ tho illegal return of officors who were not the choice of the majority,” ho must bo re- minded of the fact that he ozcupies precisely that position before the pcople of Chicago. Ho has himself been holding the office of Mayor ever sinco last December contrary to the choico of a majority and through an illegal return of votes, It is just as much & matter of notoriety that the charter election ono year ago was carried by fraud and gross ballot-box stuffing as tho town election of last week, Both were carriod in (he camo way, viz., by tho stuffing of the ballot-boxes. It was just as palpable that the honest voto was againat the charter; as that the honest vote was againat tho Evans-Puiiiirs gang. Yot it was the adoption of this charter that enabled Coxnvin, by alogal distortion of its mesning, to hold on to the office of Mayor ; and {tis by virtue of the game distortion that he esserta his impudent clalin to hold on 6 year longor, In this view of tho case, it msy be that Mr. Coxyin's letter to bis perfunctory Mar- shal was deaignedly made obscure, though e ———_—— THE UNION PACIFIO RAILROAD—-OMAHA BRIDGE, ‘We called attention a few days since to the vote in Congress by which the Government's firat mortgage on the Paoific Railroads was released anda second mortgage taken in its place, the interest upon which second mort- gage is now several millions of dollars in do. fault, ‘The “cheek” of these overreaching corporations has been manifested in a varicty of ways eince that time, but in nothing has tho Union Paciflo displayed its characteristic impudence and groed more conspicuously than in ignoring and disregarding the recent decision of tho Supreme Court respectiig ,the Omaha bridge. It wil] ba remembered that the Company, although required to build aroad, with the necessary bridges, from the wostern boundary of lowa toa point of in- terasction with the Central Pacific Road of Callfornis, and, having ample means in the shape of Government bonds for the purpose, , Pet burg, Bich; the Hon. D. M, Kelly, Wisconsin; 2 Barney, Dayton; ¥. 8, Proaier, Duitalo; W.D, Biel ardsou, Spriugdeld; O, A. Bwineford, Baraboo; 8 Sanborn, Winona; A. Kolder, Oakland, Oal.5 E,W. Keyes, Madison, Wis. r and amonition. ————_— i ite Lt E, P. Wiliams, Wort Wa; clared to have been given for the charter in | bis natural talent for obscurity of expression | neglected to bridge the Missouri River at Lienitpee ee RHE uy eal ane & ce Piro, Boston 3. Be sdk wes the whole city; that st many polls voters | came to his aid. There isono other feature! Qmaba. Subsequently, however, they asked | tent, so that it will work @ great saving of shot | The Ton, 4. A. Daj, Hoston; the lion, Daniel Harr wera allowed to deposit two ballots, both | of Mr, Convin's offictal letter which is worthy | Congross to pass an act empowering them Suing Sob. Halen Si ‘Btreator; ¥. Q. Bu ballots going into the same box; that largo numbers of ballots were fraudulently in- aerted in tho ballot-boros in a numbor of specified wards; thatthe judges in certain- named wards added to the count in favor of the charter 2,000 votes which had nover been cast. ~ Upon this showing the Supreme Court held the election to be Said,—the Court saying that while there was gross ixregulatity in oon: of notice, He was exceedingly prompt to forecast danger from a meeting of respects. ble citizens and voters, and to call out his police in force to maintain publio order, but he took no such precautionary measures in regard to the roughs and ballot-bor stuffers. Mr, Conyin's police permitted these scoun- drels to seize the ballot-boxes and the voting- places and to shove the honest voters away. They permitted the ‘! knuoks,"Jand “shoal B Btowart, Sugland; @. Johnson, ‘Bt. Louis; 0, . Foyatte;' af. ¥ngloman, Hon, #. Briggs, Ban Franclaco, .. gee Mure, somes Wantsatoay Cot, , 8, A.; the Hon. 6 it) gi Witeating, W, Veet, tue Hom. 3, wong to build a bridge at Omaha and to mortgage it in ordor to yalse money for the purpose. ‘Thore were already two mortgages on the entire road, Qongress passed the act, bat inserted o proviso that it should not be con- atrued to change the eastern terminus of the rosd as already established bylaw. The im- plloation of this proviso was that, if capital. ints chose to lend two or three milllons of dollars to the Company on the security of 5 , Wastavnrn's 6 t mallengeg 600m ose teospringhald (Ring) Jeurnah Mr. Wastavnne rocelycd precisely the com- pensation tho law gave him, be the same more or legs, He servod for the salary attached tothe office. Ho was guilty Of no extra back-pay grabs, no salary-grabe of any xind, nor was hea party $0 bis palary, a2 is sbpeare his compete Gate ON thd BFib of July, 1548, 0,