Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 13, 1876, Page 4

2 ‘ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TIURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1876 R e —————————— T e e e e ey e e e ) ————— T TBe e | 108 10WST, closing at $13.82}@13.35 cash and | mittee to exeouto tha declaration that theso ticket are Messrs, Itoszxpera and Barrarp, | Maine House, then for years a Roprosantative ( can brookfast, sugar or sirup faan universal | the Committes, This Invitation ought ta 813.45 for May. Ments were more active and | men * 8hall not hold thoso offices? If this | and on tho Democratio tiokot Messra. Firz- | in Congross and Spenker, thia scandal all | requisite. Coffeo mny bo disponsdd with or | gocnre at lonst'n prospect of terminating thia enler, at 8o for boxed shonlders, 124o for do | mecond meoting shall resolve to accopt tho | azmarb and Krixarn. Wo undorstand that the whilo Iying dormant, and thon suddenly | ten may, be omitted ; substitutes for one or | misorable business. 1t there aro any partion short tibs, and 12jo for do short clears. | frauds, then that meeting will bo the grentest | Mr. Barzanp has signified hin willingness to | leaping into lifo when Lo is mentioned fortho | the other may be used ; but sugnris an ab- | having evidonco, they ought to coma for. PATES OF. BUBSCRIPTION (PAYADLE 1N ADVANCE). o 13.00 Ilighwines wero quict and unchanged, at | curso to Chicago that hog ever boon inflicted | withdraw in favor of Mr, Hovxr, and ono of | Presidency, Nothing meancr Lis over been | rolutoly indisponsablo necossity, espoolally | ward t onco aud giva it to the Committes, - L'JM '::fi:f‘im‘n'&".fifi.nm aubis Lo $1.07 per gallon. Flour was quiet and firm. | on the oity, But wo warn these criminals | the two Democratio candidaten ought to do | dovised by partisan malico than this attempt | when ten or coffco is wsed, 'Tholast Con- | and the Committeo should give it to oo, 390 | Whent was quict and closed 4o higher, nt | that if that second meeting bo nocossary, and | tho same, Mr. Horna thus olacted Alder- [ to drag Mr. Brame's wifo and children into | gress incrensod tho tax on e 26 per unnt,.' tho public. Thoro must bo no secrot Parts of yeai me ra $1.004 for Apriland $1.04} for May. Corn | mede 6o by tho definuce of thewo men, that [ man, the new Council will fotlow tho will of tho political contost, aud besmiroh his domes. ( Now lot us figuro out the *freo-brenkfast” | mootings, no Star.Chamber proceedings, o i A A T wan loss active and firmer, closing jo lower, | tho City of Chieago will not be largo enough | the peoplo, ns expressed at tho polls, and | tio relations. It is a gamo which will not [ theory, Jad thero boon a tax on tea and | Plymouth Church must have nothing to SRS T epr o l‘qg at 43 for April and 47§c for May, Onts wore | to furnish them with places to hide from an | eleot him to fill the vacaney in the Mayor's | work. Mr. Braivg ia no half-way man, and | coffoo in 1875, the Government would have | do with it, mor Mr. Bzromzm, nor Tenr. Glabat tweaty, pet ‘Which w -uinr'n-‘!! active and onsior, closing at J0jo for April | outrnged and indignant people executing the | office. if the chinrgo {8 pressed sgainst him ho will | rocelved from the tax on sngars, tes, and | ful Toanry, nor Parson HALLIDAY, nor any Hpecimen caples sont free. ‘To pravent delay and mistakes, ba soro and giva oste ©Office address in fall, including State and County. coffeo na follows : Articl Tevennarec'd, Whole tax. and 82]c for May. "Ryo was quiot nt 63¢ for | general demand that vacancies bo created in April. Barley was in better demaud and 1} | those four offices, meot it in o mauner which will not only sot Tho choice of Mr, Horxe by the mass. the slander at reat, but will also aiterly con- other of Mr. Bezomen's friends or par. meoting was o fortunate one, not merely tisans. Let the evidenco bo contributed, ang 0,000,0 ! el Ty b e e L e e | @2]c higher, closing at §8}@HY0 for April — — Deeauso ho is & gontloman, a tax-payer, sudan | found aud overwhelm the political slanderers o400 lot the Committoa give it to the public, and e ot i el and G0o for May. Iogs woro dull and 10@ THE BUMMERS' OHALLENGE, uncompromising enemy $o the bumtner class, | and backbiters who have been clrculating it. 1500, the public judge of its value, Thero i3 no Datly, dultrared, Bbday escepted, 21 cenia ver wosk, Dally, daliversd, Bunday Included, () centa ‘ru woel ress 1K TRIEUNR COMPARY, A Uorner Madison and Doarbor . Ohicsgo 11l e AMUSEMENTS, p ER'S TIEATRE—Madison strest, betwaen Dethond Bate Fagegement of Edwin Dot “ Bhylock.” 250 Jower, with the bulk of tho salos at $7.76 | Conscions of how richly they merited it, @7.90, Cattlo wera slow at weak and irrogu. | the bummer-thieves nre nstonished at finding lar pricés, sclling at $2,60@5.60. Bheop sold | themselves unhnung. Forty thousand honest st $4.874@7.50 for poor {0 oxtra. One hun. | mon met at the Ezpesition Building to dred dollars in gold would buy $118.12} in | orgnnize a rovolt against the despotism of greenbacks at the close, gnmblers, thioves, and ruflinns, snd did not 3 e} forthwith go forth to striug thess banditti A proposition has Leen submitted to the | up to lamp-posts. Instead, the 40,000 in South Town Board, the majority of which is | orderly, deliberato fashion appointed a com. composed of the Justices of tho Peace, de- { mitteo of most reputable, responsible eiti- claring the office of Supervisor vacant on ne- | zens to invite tho thicves who have stolen count of his failure to make a return of his | ofiico to resign, and to report tho result at nceounts nccording to the terms of the law, | the next meeting. The ounly construction and that the Board will then proceed to ecloct | the thieves put upon all this is that the a sucecssor to RyaN. But this, if practica- [ peoplo of Chicago daro not protect them- ble, would only rid the Board of ono of tho [ selves, and that ** this thing will soon blow Leneficiarios of the ballot-box stufiing, and | aver,” That, in substance, {s what Mr. Ep perhaps tho lenst disreputable of oll of them. | PriLtirs, one of tho chief of tho thieves, Bosides, it would be n diversion from tho | imports to the Chicago publie in his inter- main point in issue, It is neceseary that | view yestorday with a Journal roporter. e these four men shall bo constrainod to a [ has ‘‘no intention” now, ho avows, of voluntary retirement from the oflices which | “lenving tho city on nccount of the d—da they havo seized. 'The community needs the | newspaper talk.” Prior to the monster: moral forco of this course. After their re- | inceting, he took care to get his tiroment, if thero is o legal way for the Jus- | precious carcass out of tho rench of a ticos to ill tho offices without tho cost and | Vigilanto Commitiee’s hangman. IHis fetlow- trouble of & new olection, that will be the | thioves baving escaped the hempen noose, best means to ndopt. he has returned to *‘ check it out" against TR tho outraged sentiment of the entire populn- "Ihera is no question but tho hardihood of | tion of this great city. Ha has even the the four town bummers in refusing to rc}im audacity, sinco the hanging has not beon be- from tho officcs they have unlawfully ncquired | pun, to nasert that he was honestly clected, is tho result of tha utterances of tho morning | and makes bold declaration that he doesn't and evening newspapor npologists for the | mean to bo frightoned, With afino satira thicves. Theso newspapers lave told the | that will bo keenly relished by those who be- bummers that their persons aro sacred, and | forg pncked juries havo sought justico against that they will bo proteeted in the occupancy | the thioves, and with n firm confidence in of thoir usurped and stolen offices. Theso | packed juries ng tho thieves' bulwark ngninst newapnpers have reiterated twico overy day | justico, ho challenges a trinl in court, the statoment that thero is no way for oust- | Ho concludes by contemptuous refcrenco ing tho bummors. Theso nowspapers bava | to tho grest mecting, and declares that roveled in tho reflection that tho courts will | ho will not resign. Meanwhile the thieves' not, and the people dare nat, oust men who | own organ strongthens the nssuranco of hold offico under stuffed ballots, Theso | Privrars and bis fellow-thioves by oxpa. nowspapers have given tho bummors to | tinting upon tho inviolablo sanctity of the understand that all it is nocessary for them | thioves’ persons, and cncourages them to 1o do is obstinately to cling to their stolen | defy the moral sentiment of tho whole city offices, and that the little storm of public by deriding it and holding up awful picturca wrath will soon blow over. It is such utter- | of the vengennce that would be visited upon ances 08 these which induco Evaxs, Puit- | honest folk by the thioves, did that moral xz1ps, R¥aN, and GLEESON to stand up against | gentiment assert itself by force when all tho whole community and defiantly rofuse to | other monns had failed against tho banditti, obey tho maudate of the people. ' Thoy have | Purvrirs' declaration—nnd tho thieves' organ received no comfort from any other quarter. { gubsisted on plunder backs it up—is a defi- It is proper tho public should understand | anca to all moral sentiment. It is tho thioves' that the two thieves’ orgaus have 50 strength- | own challongo to all decent men of this ened the bummer ond criminol class in this | city: “What aro you going to do community that they aro about ready to | about it?" It isa declaration on tho part moke a desperate stand, ond defend their | of tho bummer-pirates who have seized the plunder with their lives. ‘ofices that the Committeo to wait upon s them and demand thoir resignation will bo PEACEABLY IF WE CAN: FORCIBLY IF ‘WE - BUST, Totaleereraes sesnee $33,000,000 960,000,000 Mero is A tax of £60,000,000 on the “Drenkfast table.” Of this tax the Irensury would havo recoived $53,000,000, and the othor $13,000,000 would have gone to the protected classes. But Congress, under tho load of these “froo-breakfast” demagoguoes, rejected the revonue tax of 316,000,000 on toa and coffeo, all of which would have gone into the Troas- ury, and increased tha protective tox on sugnr, nono of which entered the Treasury, $10,000,000. Tho Philadelphis rofiners Lind more weight and power in Oongresa than the forty millions of poople who sit down to 8 taxed broakfast table. Had an attempt been mado to reduco the tax on suguwr and molasses, theso freo-brenkfast gentry would have gone wild with their indignation. They would nover have eacrificed tho interests of thirly sugar refineries to have given froo brookfasts to tho whole American people, Taxing ton and coffoo would have made the wholo tax on thess throo bronkfast articles $G66,000,000, of which $50,000,000 are on gugar, and yet these demsgogues on tho Committes of Ways nnd Means profess o horror of imposing a tax on the ¢ free break- fasts" of tho Amorican poople. Ask them to reduco the tax on sugar to one cent s pound, a roleaso of $28,000,000 of tax a year, and they would go into spnsms becauss of the probable reduction in the dividends of tho refiners, and yot thoy have the face to talk of giving froe breakfasts to the people ! In addition to the tax on sugar and siraps, these mon who talk of freo breskfasts have atax on palt and a tax on tho breakfaat-table itself, They tax the table-cloth 50 per cont of its value; they tax the coffoe-pot and tho toa-pot; thoy tax the stoye on which both are propared; thoy tax tho mill in which the coffeo is gronnd ; they tax the cups in which tho tea and coffee aro sorvod ; the spoons, tho knives and forks on the table, the carpots on the floor, tho cotton blinds on the windows, ond the sirup-juf on the tablo. If any-] ono seoks to esoaps taxation by using water, these men put a tax on the glass goblets and a tax on tho pitoher in which the water is brought to the table. And still theso dema-~ gogues toll tho people, ¢ Wo give you o froo bronkfast,” ¥ » If his enemies wish to securo for him the sympathy of the whole country, all thoy bave to do ia to continue this shameless attack upon his fami but also becausa ho is a Domocrat. Had a Republican been designated under the clr- cumstances, it would have given Convix a pratoxt for urging upon the Domoorats that it was simply a partisan mofement to enabla the Republican party to seize control of tho City Government. With this strong partisan plea ho would undonbtedly have built up a following, which would either have refrained from voting for Mayor or nominated an op- position candidate. Ho would bhave im. proved to tho utmost this opportunity for creating a division among the people, and the rosult would have boon in his intercat. No such plea can he made with Mr, Hoyne os the people’s candidate. 8o far ns the Democrats are concerned, thoy know Hoxne to Lo a better Democrat and a botter man than Corviv, Ho far as tho Republicans are concerned, thora {8 no valid reason why any one of them should decline to voto for Mr. Hoxne on partisan grounds. Is it not better for Re- publicans to have such a Domocrat as Tnosas Horxe in tho office of Mayor than auch a Democrat as Hanver D, Caouve? This is the alternative, Nor is it likely that Mr. Horxz will ever prostituto tho office in behalf of hia party, though it is certain that Corvin has not hesitatod to do so. Mr, Hoyne is not tho candidnto of the Domocratio party ; ho is the candidate of tho pooplo irrespective of party. e is not run &S a partisan, but as the embodiment of tho popular protest ngainst usurpation, officlal bummorism, muaicipal extravagance, ring gavernmont, and ballot-stufling, In politics ns wall as in private and business relations, Mr. Hosnm bas always been o gontleman, and he has on mora than ono occasion acted with the Republicons when ho felt that this was tho best way in which decency and hon- esty could prevail, and whon the interests of the city were paramaunt to all party inter. ests. Certainly Republicans cannot now consistently doclino to act with him for the samo worthy purpose. We do not boliove thnt any respoctable and honest Republicans contemplato anything clse than giving Mr, | Hovwe the most cordial and unanimous sup- port in this fight against tho political iniqui. tics and municipal oppressions inaugurated under Corvin's shameful administration. Our confidence in Mr. Hoxne's honesty of purpose in this matter is confirmed by the following statement which he made yestor- dnyin roply to an insinuation that he will usa the offica of Mayor in tho interest of tho Domaocratia pasty in the coming Prosidentinl oloction. He said: ‘The statement {8 false, I do not conaider it & partl- san nomination ip snysonse. Tho patronage will ba distributod srithout any regard to party ; indeed, it will be my chief dealre to avold the fmputation of be- ings partisan Msyor. I will not attend = partissn ‘meeting during the campaign, snd deny uttorly that there ia any party algnificance (o the nomisstion, It was mado by tie peopla of both partles, and I aak the people {0 bolieva thst It was nccepted by mo In good falth, and (hat both parties wilt fairly be entitled toa share of tho patronsgo, Nobody knows better than the Democrats themselves that they could not use me for sny such purposs if they desired, which I do not beliove they do, prospect that churches, or church commit. tees, or church conventions can ever arrive at any satisfactory decision, The priblio can if tho ovidenco is" presonted, but it must not be sifted through cclesinatical bodies of any sort. Lot tha public have it pure and simplo, and it will soon judga of the ques. tion of guilt or innoconao, Mr, Dicrexa has taught us to beliove that thers are in London regulnr schools for thieves. American citios have not advanced so far in crimo, but thero ia mo lack of pro- fessionnl and unblushing npologists for the thioves, and we are ashamed to confess that they are found largely in the newspaper pro- fession, Weo aro moro than half inclined to tho opinion that the latter are more dangor- ous to society than the Faarns of London. Tho educators of thieves teach young profii- gotes to pick individunl pockets, but tho apologiats for thieves palliste the plundering of tho entire community. Thore is n con. spicuous exponent of this now school of pro. fesaional apologista for thioves in this city, which {s always alert to gloss over politienl infamy and defend official corruption, It ronches a small circle under the guise of n newspapor, which enables n sot of ex-office- holders to defend the corrupt practices of prosent office-holders, The inferonce i forced upon the public that the apologists are nctuated partly by a consciousncss of their own shortcomings. In fact, tho prin. cipal editor of the paper wa have in mind was onco sn accidental Con- gressman from & neighboring Stato, and his Congressional servico was only sigoalized by his pocketing double tho pay attached to tho office when he took it. His attitade in this matter was vory much lile that of o cashier in n busingss house who agrees to serve his employers for a stated amount, and then grabs from the till twice the nmount of tho pay ngreed upon ond runs off with it. It wonld bo embezzlement in business life. 1t is not strange that this individual, having left his Btato for his Btate's good with only this disreputablo political logacy, and set up o newspaper in Ohicago with his dishonest grabbings, should fly to the championship of all the political scoundrelism of tho doy. This is one explanation of it. Anotheris that the concern controlled by this grabbing ex-Congressman is subsidized and hired by tho local thioves in Chiengo, and stands by them and defonds them liko o shyster for the game sclfish roasons that it endeavored so persistently to break down the prosecution of tho whisky-thieves. Tho paper is inre- oceipt of city prog and county prog. It lives mainly on tho so-callsd official advertising and poy for shyster service. Whon it accopt- ed this stipend, there was & tocit sgreoment that it shonld defond the viclous practices of Corvin's administra- tion. It hny dono its dirty work heartily and con amore. It has gone even further than its implied contract required. It virtu- ally dofonds the town ballot-box stuffors as well as thoe city ballgt-box stuffers. It de- crics the popular demand that tho four bum. mers who elocted thomselves shall resign. It draws upon its imagination to pictura impos- sible riots and exnggerated goro na tho result of an assertion by the people of their own rights. It odvises submission to barefaced fraud under tho pretense of koeping the poace. 8o a man should submit to the burg. lar or highway-robber. It will opposo the spontangous popular movement to voto for a Mayor because it is bounden to Cowvin by the strong ties of plunder of the tax-payers. ‘This §s tho reason for the pretonded dovotion to party and the absurd and ridicnlous ap- prohension of mob.law. Tho apologist for the thioves doos not desiro that Conviw, Pamrres, or Evans shall rotire, nor that ballot-stufling and other political corruption sliall bo suppressed, because it subsista with them on plundor and blackmail. BRAZEN DEMAGOOISM. The Committoo on Ways and Means {n the Houso of Rapresontatives have been playing tho old farce of a ** Freo Breakfast,” and the potors think they have docoived tho poople. Congress throe years ngo repealed the duty on ten and coffeo, Tho bill before the Com., mittee proposed to restoro this duty, 8 cents per pound on coffee and 10 cents por pound on ton, Wheroupon the majority of the Com. mitteo shouted that thoy insisted that the people should have a ‘*free breakfast,” and rejected the proposed duty. Those who voted to report in favor of the duty on teasnd coffes woro : Monnison, of Illinois; Haxooox, of Texas; Buromanp, Illinois; Garrsup, Obio; and Cuariy, Mnsunhmgua. ‘Those voting against it wero: Bramg, of Maine; Kerrzy, of Pennsylvania ; Fravanoo Woop, of New York; Hi, of Georgia; Tuoxxs, of Virginia; and Tuowas, of Maryland, Thia ia disgraceful domagogiem, It {3 an assumption by this majority that the people aro too ignorant to seo the fraud committed on thom by this voto, Ihe attompt to de. fond this voto on the ground that it wasin the interest of a * free broakfast” ia too sallow to decoivo any one, and is worthy only of public contompt. The tax on tea and coffoo was a purely revenus tax, adding little or nothing to the cost of tho articles, and all the proceeds were reccived into the Treasury. Itis one of tho few exceptional taxes which are not felt by the consumer. Wa have fre- quontly expodod this fallaoy of a free.break- fast pretense to which these mombers of the Committeo resorted, on the expressed ground that it would bs unpopular to put a tax on those articles on the eve of a Presi. dentlal elaction. Tho ten jmported into the United Btates in 1875 was 64,421,614 pounds, which, at 10 cents per pound, would have produced $0,442,161 revenus, 'Tho smount of coffee was 817,000,000 pounds, which, at 8 cents per pound, would have produced $9,500,000 rovenus, The sggrogate revenue iax would have been 310,000,000, During that samo yoar there was colleoted from the tax on sugar and sirups the sum of $37,157,245. But this was not all the tax. The whole American crop of 200,000 tons was also taxed in the same proportion. ‘I'here was also a protective tax. Raw sugar is ndmitted at a low rate, but refined sugar is charged a bigher tax, Tho raw rugar having to be refined, the difference i a tax levied on the sugar for tho benefit of the refinér, The consumption of sugar and molasses In the United Btates ia very great, and tho total tax paid thereon was not less than $50,000,000, of whish the Government received 937,000,000, Notw, in the sconomy of the average Ameri. ADELPHI THEATRE—Deatborn sirsel, corner ‘Monros, * Uncle Tom's Cabin,' 4ELL'S ENOYOLOPEDIA. This work, ombracod In two large volumes, clalma sovoral veculinr advantsgos over rival publlcations. It is priutod in_ condensed form, and ean be furnishod at much loss oxponse than tho extondod worke of ArrLEToN and OuA- BERs; wilbiont being 80 comploto or oxhaustive in its troatmont of gabjocts, it i mora concise and convoniont for roady reforance, and it cov. ora, though not parfectly, a wider field of Invess tigation. The best fosturos of ZRLL'S aro ita maps, which, for ordinary purposes, answor foy anathes; its complotoncas as s gszotteor, and ita goneral careful treatment of scientific tap- ics. Tho maps in the firet volume are somo dog- en in number, and sro far euperlor in color, fin-; {al, and acouracy to thoso which can be foand in' an ordinary atlas. Tho intontion of the pobe lishers is to give in the proper oonnections s se. ries of maps svhich will cover tho whole surfaco of tho globo, tha moro civilized countrics belug soparatoly and distinotly shown, The mapa of REogland, Huogary, and Austria, the QGermsn Emplro, and France are spoci- mens of the care and thoroughnoss with which th{s foature of tho cncyclopmdla has boen brought out. Not only the gencral outlines of each country, but the counties and provincos aro delinoated, and. tho principal phyaicsl char- wctorlstics of oach accuratoly markod out. Noxt in tmporiance and excellance to tho maps s the gnzottoor, which has boen embodied in tho en- oyclopmdin, Wo are not propared to say that a catalognoe of towns and couatries, with a briof compendium of statiutica attachod to every namo, {s altogether harmonions with the plan of an cnoyclopwdia ; tho gazetteor in itsolf s 8o +vast au undertaking as almost to desorvo aepa- rato troatment, and many of tha details wiich aro appropriato to a gazetteer are trifllog {n an oncyclopmdia ; but whethor harmonious or pot, the gazeottoor thus farnished is4imely and noo- ossary, and desorves o be welcomed as a valua- ble addition to every library of roference. Tho oxcellence of tho enoyclopmdia asa dictlonary of eclonco is another of its commendabie foa- tures., In this department it {s very full, sud, 80 farag wo bavo boon ablo to oxamine it, te- markably olear and well-inforwed. * Among the demerits of tho book is the clumsy arrangomont of sdditions and revisions in an ap- pendix to each lotter, €0 that in tho caso of Chi- cago, for fustance, tho story of the Firs Is told in an appendix, whilo the history of tho city bo- foro the Fire, which haa now to be viowed in oo tirely new rolations, is given in ita regalar placa a8 found in former oditiops, Thore I8 also up- paront st times o want of good judgmont {n tha soleotion of topies, and an undue ambitioa to * liave the encyclopmdin distingaished more for the numbor of words it Includes in alphabetical ordor than for copiousnoss of information. We aro proparad, after s careful examination of the first volume, whioh Lias now come to hand, to recommond the enoyclopmdis sa an oxcoeds fngly useful and sufffolontly complote book of Teforenco for ordinary purposes, The prize of it is £40 for tho two volumos, which, 1n viow of tholr great size and tho engravings and mapa contained in them, muat bo considered oxtromoly modorate, ZzLu's will doubtloss find & place on the bookahelves of many porsons who havo not tho moans with which to purcbaso the larger works, and porsons with amplor moans will fcol that & library without ZxLy's is not completo. TIEATRE—~Tandolph strest, betwsen m'.’:?“.’:.’i’xfs.fi. The ‘Catifornia’ Mizstreis, ‘McCORMICE HALL—North Clark street, corner Kingle, Cenlennial Concert, PARWELL HALL—Madlson stre sad Lagalle. Lecture by R, U, I} ¥ Revalstions and Practical between Clark , D, Bubject: oroscope.” SOCIETY MEETINGS. THOMAS J. TURNER LODGE NO. 40, A, F. & A M.—This (Thursday) evening, April 13, at'8 oiclock, at Free Aasons’ 11sll (American Expross Luilding),No. 72 East Monroo-st,, for business sud work on AL M. Degree. Visitors are cordially ited 1o moet with o By arderof .2, The M. M. Degres will be orred ou the h, also ust, WALLACL B. DOUGLAS, Bocretary, WAUBANSIA LODGE, NO, 160, A, F. aud A, M.— cla] comnitinieation this evening at Orlental Usll, o, 122 Eafalleat, at 130 sharp, for work on 3L 2L degres, Visiling brethren cor y welcome, o T. J. TRESTON, W, M. T, WIHIT PERRY, Sec'y. COOPERS, ATTENTION I—There will be & meeting at79 Dearborn streel, Friday evening, April 14, al 8 o'clock, tu discuns tho evils of convict labor, Employ- ora and otliozs jntereated aro invited to attend, R. M, WIDDICOMBE, Chslrman Commitiee. '@fl}t Ohicage Tribane, Thuradsy Morning, April 13, 1870, Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex. change yesterday closed at 88}, —e No official reporis of the oxcitement on tha Rio Grando at Laredo have yet reachod the War Department, and it is qnite probable that the mowspaper nccounts of tho troubles will turn out to liave been highly colored. ‘What to do with stragglers who oscape into --Toxas is o question which Seccretsry Tarr is called upon to consider, and 1t is understood that orders will ba issued directing that the cefugees bo disarmed and allowed to go whero thoy plense. Tho ravolt of the peoplo of Chicago against the rule of tho bummers and ballot-box stuff~ ora ig attracting general attontion throughout the country, and farther proccedings are awaited with liveliest intorost. From every quarter thero is but one expression—that the infamous frauds and outrageous means by which the despotism of bummerism has boon. fastoned upon us have beon intolerable. The Cleveland Ilerald, in o leader upon tho situa- tion here, under tho eaption, ** Iow honest votors aro cheated,” says that tho political villainy here **has rarely been matched im the annals of cloction frauds,” Tho Milwau~ koo Sentinel says the Tammany chieftains, in their palmiest days, *‘never achieved such marvolous feats of taxation” ns bave our town ofllcinls, nor were guilty of mora atro- cious misrule. Tho Detroit Z'ribune says the contost has been between the ‘‘property- holdors and decont men of all parties” and “tho roughs and loafers,” aund that by ‘ wholesale and atrocious fraud” the latter have trinmphed. The Bloomington Panta- graph rocounts the infamics of the town clections, and says: *“There aro outrages for which the halting processes of law are quito inadequate,” and inclines to rogard theso ag among them, Tho Milwaukeo News sums up tho outrages to which we have been subject with the opinion that possibly wo may get along withont resort to a Vigilunce Committee, but observes that *' n littlo homp judiciously applied sometimes helps wonder- fully as o onic to tono up publio morality." The Madison (Wis.) Journal saya that * the facts are that the bummers and scallawngs perpotrated ono of the most outrageous and barefaced olection swindlos ever known.” Bimilar utterances come from sll quarters, 'There is, coupled with these, expression of confidenco that the people of Chicago will rid themselves of the rule of the thieves. Thero 18 no fecling that thero noed be npprohension that the people will do anything with hot- headed violenco or wrongfully; but that they will with cool and deliberate determination procoed to redress the unendurablo wrongs to which thoy have so long submitted that the public safety demands thoy no longor go un- redressed. 'Tho result, wo feel assurod, will justify these expectations, The people of Chicago are abundantly able to free them. selves from the despotism of thieves and bal. lot-box stuffors, and will do it. ] Tho Sonato ‘has passed the silver coinage bill in an amended form,—that fs, it has stricken out so much as relates tp making the silver coloage @ logal-tondor boyond $5, as at presont, and the House has conourred, and, a8 soon as tho Prosident signs it, it will bo the law. Thobill as passed provides that tho Bocrotary of the ‘Treasury ba nuthorized to purchase bullion and have it coined into 10, 20, 25, and 60 cont piecos, and paid out in exchange for the fractional currency. We suggest that, aa thore are multitudes of counterfoit 5-cent nickel coins in circulation,—perhaps as many 24 thora are genuine,—that the coinage of the 5-cont ailver pieces might be resumed. Tho nickel coin has an intrinsic value of less than one cont, thus affording to counterfoiters n profit of over 400 per cont, even if they make the countorfeit exactly correspond to tho original, The whole nickel coinage is fraud- ulent, even it it is profitable, and, now that Pprivato porsons have entered into successful competition with the Government, the latter might abandon the business and resuma the .cent silver place. There are several mill- jons of the fractional ourrency on deposit wailing for thia bill to pass. Large sums of silver colus have been forwarded to all the large citles to be paid out in exchange for the curroncy, aud in a few daya the new, ‘bright, and clean silver pisces will be in gon. eral ciroulation. No one will regret the paper fraction The story of Geonaz Mives, told yestorday to a Tnipuse correspondent at Windsor, Vt., whero Mires is serving & term of imprison- ment of fourteen years for bank-robbery, will bo read with intorest. Mires was the “*me- chanic” who was employed in th famous safo-burglory ot Washington, and his stato- ments implicato Gen. Danocock and ex-Dis. trict-Attornoy Hannrxaro in that conspiracy. Gen. Bapcock pronounces the story of Mirrg talso in overy particular, met by an insolent refusal, and because not ;4 tho pirato crow has been approached The meeting of Tuesday night mado up nn | 98¢ of tho p 3 P! fasuo on tho part of the people ugninnl.pthu by the sole argument which can have effect ballot-bos stullers, which issuo s o plain, di- | 0 8uch—tho haltor. Wo shall sco, then, rect, and comprohensive one, Tho vast meot- | Whether the twico forty thousand decent men ing ndopted those resolutions unanimously : who will nssomblo at call of the Committea Reasired, Thot thoso town officers declarod elocted | £0_receive repart of tho bummer insolonco weronot elected, and shatt not huld those ofiees ; and | Will tamely pocket it and go home lsughing ‘wo heroby plodge oursclees that wo will stand by one | at that conundrum which they give up, of snother, and act unitedly, sud resiat ovory pretendod | Wit are you going to do about it ? while ;:fih"fir:"‘lg;‘::;::“:‘l"",’:::“&':;"‘:?‘fif' by the men | y1.q thioves go on stenling in stolon offices, Resolved, That the Chafrman appolnt & committes | It i8 for this miserable haudful of rufilans of twenty-ivo to o to thoso men and demand their | and roughs to chooso whother, by insolent re. resignation ; and the Committes ara Insiructed, in Eoa thels Bimiand il it b cavaplled ity to”cal [ L1024 to sssendar tha offices they have stolen, a mosting of eltizens, (o bo held st this same place, to shall be forced npon ux‘o people thoquestion of raceive tlislr roport with such recommendations as the | Yesort to tho natural right of defenso ngninst exigencies of the occarion shall require. highwaymen. If they do, that question will ‘Thero can be no mistaking the import of | be promptly mot and decided, and all tho theso resolutions. The impostors must be | howls of the thioves' organs will not eave put out of office, They are, as is right, to | them from the fate they have invoked. be asked to resign; then the people are to be — called to meet ogain, and to detormine how | THE HON, THOMAS HOYNE FOR MAYOR, theso mon are to bo got out, In sgrecing upon tho presentation of tho In California the citizens' meeting request- | Flon, Tnoxas Horxz's namo to bo voted for ed the men elooted by stafling tha Lallot- | as Mayor, without regard to partisan attach. boxes to resign, 7'hey refused. Thetrnews- | monts and without any opposition whatevor, paper organs cncouraged them to rofuse, | the vast mass-meoting of Tuesday evening The people again nssombled, and in s fow | adopted the most practical way for embody- honrs the men who had refused to resign | ing the popular protest against Convin's wore houged! And that was what was done | usurpation. Tt must be kept inmind by about it. thoee who are inclined to presorve the party Earnestly colicitous for the preserva- | distinctions onall occasions that there is, s tion of the public peace, wo warn these | & matter of fact, no regular election for usurpors and their bad advisers not to forca | Mayor this spring. Tho Ring membors of the resssembling of the peoplo. The effect | the Council refused to acknowledge the va- of such adefiant challengeno man ean foretell, | cancy and declined to call an election within To have four men, notoriously professional | the time required by the charter, Thore is, ballot-box stuffers,~men who hire themselves | consoquently, no authority for voting for out to stull the ballot-boxes for whoover will | Mayor next 'I'uesday, except that which may pay them thomost,~toinsolently anddefinntly | be based on the unanimous and undisputed challengo the wholo people of Chicago to do | exorcise of the popular will. It would have their worst, is to court whatever violende, | been unwise, under those eircumstances, to oven to bloodshed, that may be found neees- | have divided the popular vote, and such a sary to reduce them o submission or to ren- | courso would havo given CoLviN an excuso der their offices vacaat, for refusing to yield. But if Couvin may bo The position taken bytho citizens issuchas | impressed at all by the fiat of the popular connot bo mistaken, ‘The resolutiona we { voico, it will be whon he finds a unani- have quotod pssert that these men have got | mousvote, without party or other dissensions, to be put out!—voluntarily, it possible, butgo | agninst bis longer continuation in the offico out they must, by whatever means they may | of Mayor, This is what tho voto for Mr. make necessary, That is tho issuo a it now | Hoyne will bo. If Covin will ncknowledgo stands, Will these men go out of office | the forcs of such a popular protest and volun. of their own motion, or will they in- | tarily rotire from the offico aftor Mr. Hovne sist upon beinglifted out ? Tho citizens have | shall have been clected, then there will be no doclared that theso ballobbox stuffers | question as lo the latter's right to serve, ¢ ghall, not Lold those ofices,” Having | Thero will bo no ono to dispute Mr, Hoxne's doclared this, they have domanded tho resig- | claim ; aud, if his rightia questioned in any nations of the impostors. 1f those resigna. | collaternl cases that may get into the courts, tions be given, that will bo the end of tho | the Supreme Court will nnqucsfionnbly BUs matter; if those resiguations be mot given, | tain Mr, Howxe's suthority, on the ground then the meeting sball be reconvened and | that his occupation of tho ofice waa the ro- tho mensures taken to oxecute the amphatic | sult of a vote of the people and was not con. resolve that these men **sliall not hold those | tested, and that a vacanoy existed which was offices,” filled by the people. Wodonot believe that the citizens of | ‘ua judges of election will scarcely dare Chicago hold Evans, Pustrirs, and thelr as- | to refuss tho ballots that shall bo cast for soclates in such fear that they will shrink | Mr, Howg, nor to decline to return them to from their purposs to vacate this fraudulent | the Council. The Councll, ps the Canvassing election. If Mizx Evans and Ep Purnuivs, | Board, will scarcoly venturo to refuse to fo- by a parade of the inmates of their grog- | clare tho result of the voto for Mr, Hoxxe, shops, can insultingly defy the whole people | The peoplo are too much in earnest of Chicago anddrive them from thelr solomn | to be thwarted in this matter, and the regolve, then Mixs Evans and Paiiriea | bummer element among the election judges and their associates, whon they stuffed theso | and in the Council are aware of it. The re- Lallot-boxes, hiad a proper knowledge of tha | tirement of CoLv, then, when Mr, HoxNg cowardico and abject servility of the people | ghall demand the oflice, will bo an ond of the they wero swindling and cheating, We do | matter. But steps ehould nlso be taken to not belleve that the people of this city will | provide for the emergency that Cowvin may accept this judgment of thelr courage, their | refuse to retire,—an emergenoy that is by no charaoter, or their fonrs. Bhould thess men | means improbable in view of his pertinacity rofuse to resign, the fssue will be a direct | thus far, CorviN can only bo legally ousted one: leg will bo n dead.lock,—the one | from the office by an election of Mayor by alde declaring those men *Shall not hold | the new Council from among their own num. those offices,” and these men declaring *Wa | ber, It will be well, thereforo, to elect Mr. will hold the oftices, and defy you I" Horwe to the Councll from his ward as well If the second moeling shal! bacoma neces- | as vote for him for Mayor in the city at largo, sary, then the question will be, Bhall the | To make sure of this, tho better way will bs people back down, consent to the frauds, and | to plece him both upon the Republican and acoopt the supremaoy of the criminal class, | Democratio ticke!s in the Second Ward, The or shall they difech and empowez {halr Oom- | present candidsies upon the Republican All tho malicions slanders industriously circulated during the past fow days did not bave tho desirod effect—that of injuring Ar. { Brunxr's prospects before tho Virginia Re- publican Convention. The extra cfforts eaid to have been put forth to the same end in tho intercst of Senator Coxngurva by the Ad- ministration were equally unsuccessful, judging from the indications of yesterday. It is said that the Convention will declare for Bramve, bard money, and cheap transports- tion from the Woat to the seaboard. A DESPICADLE BLANDER. Tho Chicago Z'imes, in its issno of tho 11th, printa a dispatch from Nashville containing tho dotails of a scandal touching the domestio lifo of Mr, Brawve, which seems to have ap. peared in the initial number of the Nashville Banner,—a paper which has started into lifo with a vile slander and malicious falschood dofiling its pages. The scandal is to tho effect that, twenty-six years ago, while Mr, Braive was & Professor in tho Military Insti- tute at Georgotown, Ky., ho seduced a femalo teacher in tho samoe, institution, and that hor friends compelled him to morry her by throats of violence and rosort to blows, and that shortly nftor tho marringe tho wife sickened and died. This ia tho substance of the out. rogeous falschood that s beon suddenly sprung upon Mr. Brame by his enemiea. This miserablo slander i3 not new at tho pregent time. It camo to our attention o year ago, and at that time wo ran it down until wo were satisfled thit thoro was not n seintilla of truth in the chargs. At the out- set, it is very well known that Mr, Brane has never had but ono wifo, and that he is now living and always hai lived with that Indy in the bhappiest and most congeninl manner, * False in one, false in all.” This fact alono stamps the untwth of the whole campnign slander, which «fter a lapse of a quarter of a century haa been sot aflont by Mr, Braxe's enomies for the purpose of injuring him. Wo bave the additional authority of his most personal friends, a3 well naof his most personal opponents, of gentlemen of character and influenco in Maino as well asin Kentucky, who aro thoroughly cognizant of M. Braixx's lifo in Ponnsyivania, Kentucky, and Maino, to stamp the whole story as a basoe slander. The same charge was made soven vears ago by tho Z'rze Kentuckian, a fireonting Bouthern sheet, which was a bit- tor political opponent of Mr, Braiwx, but was subsequontly rotracted by that paper in the following manly atyle: In & rocent {ssue of (bis psper we alluded to some rumored fudiscretions of the Hon. Jauxs G, Braiwe, Bpesker of tha United Blates Hcuse of Repressnts- tives. Our articlo was aimed at the Radical party and mot ab Az, 1.; but facts that have ainea coms (o our Xknowledge convince us that wo wero under & wrong {mpreasion in regard toths circamatances, snd not wishilng to wantonly Infilct pain tpon even our bister- est political antagonist, we hastento express our rs- gret at the unintentional fnjusticesnd 1o make & frank and Just smenda, Wo have tho muthorily of thoss moat Intimately scqusintsd with Mr, B, duriog bia residence in Kentucky, now more than twenly yesrs past,—geutlamen of character and influsnce who re. maig his parsonal friends though decided political ope ponents, & faot which should add to the forcs of thelr teatimony,—for saylng that hls sataciations wess those of a gentlemen, As wo said at the outaet, Mr. Braine has had but one wife, and has always lived with that wifo happily snd congenfally, His houschold is widely known in Maine for its happiness, choerfulness, and hospitality, and Mrs. Buave is everywhere respacted for her excellence of character, her good senve, and her culture, nowhera more 80 than in her own locality, where Mr, Bramve and his family are regarded without spot or blemish, and this in a New England socioly remarkable for its precision, amounting to prudery, where such aacandal, if there had been any truth in it, would have come out long ago to Mr. Branxs injury, It will strike the country &8 exceedingly strange thataman could be for years a wellknown political editor, then for years & member of the Malne ZLaglalsture and Spmker of the The South Town Board of Auditors have passed upon Mmr Evans' bill, allowing him his logal salary of $1,600 as Collector, and §4,000 for the poy of his nsslstants—n just and -sufficient award, though over $,000 be- low tho smount claimed. In addition, Evans receives & commission of 2 por cent upon the taxes collected for tho city, amounting to sbout $12,000, o that ho has not fared badly after all, The Board asdopted a resolution recommending the abolition of township or- ganization at the earliest practicable moment. The psgan Clhlnce who, at tho rate of 15,008 or 16,000 » year, aro invading Californin to 1o duco tho white population to boggary:by worke ing for them at half-price, are learning. Inro- sponao to the desperate appoals of tho 'Friaco hoodluma for tho extormiuation of thesa in- +vaders who, by working at half-wagos for tho ‘Proud Caucasians, aro stealing the broad out ol the lattor's mouths, the Bix Companles have fa- suod an addross to the Amarican publle on the subjoct of Chiness immigration. Therein those spokesmen of tho benighted Celestials explain that the Chineso in Oalifornia ask nothiug botter tban that the immlgration ba checked, Under the co-operativo system which ia at tho basis of tho organization of the Bix Companies, overy frosh arrival la a charge upon the China- mon whbo procedod him until he obtsing omployment. Of courss, too, though with pagan mookness thoy are ‘too mod+ est to say mo0, tho fresh arrivals entet into competition In tho Iabor-market with tliose already on tho Pacific Coast, and by wo much tend to take the broad out of thefr mouths, Tuo matter {s, as tho address puts it, that there fa s constanf and growing demand for Chinese cheap Isbor in Californis, and the immigrauta continua to comein responsa td®it. Donightod heathen that thoy are, they work cheaper and barder and longer than anybody elss when thoy come. 0 the more monev is made out of them and more of thom sro wantod, That it {s that brings npou them the mob oytrages and {udignitios which, na thoy nalvely put i, they *‘cannot returo in kind, lest other nations hoaring of such thingt should ridiculo the laws of this honorable conn- try as of po uso. Yona Qur, Prosident of one of the Companies-explaina tuat practically the condition snnexed to tho BURLINGAME treaty, which opena the Chinese ports to our commerod and under which the Coleatials wera invited to como to thia country, was that thay should work cheap whon thoy got hore, 'Donse aa is their pagan ignorance, and firmly rooted as is thelt viclous propensity to work harder and more houra than anybody alse, they have not sunk to that dopth of degradation whers Lhey are uDe Lappy, if thoy are more than half-paid for thelr work, 'Yona Cut lucidly explaios it as tothe cheap Chiucae laborer 1 ould n o e g ol ot v piople. Tae only tulng which cau override your prefudics of cssta 18 snoney, mousy, monay. If you can maka more oub of » Culnswnan {lan & white man you, will hire him. If the Chiuaman demands the same wages, you will Josa bim by and o wil starve, T de the oy work 40 chieaply, That in the solution of the Chiness cheap i bor conundrum fn a nutahell. Pay thom whaj their Inbor is worth, snd there will bo ro mord choap labor about it, aud shey will cosse $0 Ime povetish thelr Caucasian emgloyers by workiog for them af lesa than half prico. Ropeal tho treaty 80 that no more can come, s0d gradually thoss now in Califorals, reliowd of Chinese cheap competition, will cese ts ruln tha Btate by worklu g cheaply, and ulbmately will strik for full wages, Btrangeit « that Californls shoutd have waited to lesn this from the pa- gans, aud stranger still, #hile they sze talking about oxtermiuating tbs Oitinese with *fira and ateal,” that thoy fail -0 ppreciate the delioate satire conveyed in t1e spology of the Ohineas for coming, to-wir: that ¢“they thought they wore comlng to s kod more elvilised than thelr own," In the United States Circuiit Court at Mil- waukeo yesterdny, Judge Dnusstopp presid- ing, O. F. Q. Morren, the gouging Gangor, nfter ingtructing the Court personally and by counsel a3 to tho amount of punishment to which, in his view of the eternal fitness of things, ho was entitled, wns told by His Honor gravely and in the most formal man- nor that he, the aforesaid Aforrrs, would bo porsonally cared for at tho State Penitentiary for the period of one year, and that the sum of $2,600 with the costs of the suit would be charged to Mr. Mowren's account. Rev- xowps, the sinuous concoctor of picnickian concomitants, was allotted six months in the County Jail, togothor with one.half the charges attending the suit. —_— Information has boen received in London that Gen. Scmexcx may be expected to re- turn to that city in his former capacity, and our Washington advices are to the effect that the President fully intends the restoration of the functions of tho Iate Minister to England in caso tho action of the Honsa Committos on Foreign Affaira and of the Houso itsolf in tho Emma Mine matter renders possible Gen. Scurxcx's return with the staln removed from his reputation. It is probable, how- ever, that the House will not goe fit to furnish the requisite certificate of good character, but will, on the contrary, place upon record a judgment of censure and condemnation, In this ovent it is hoped the country will be spared the mortification of Mr, Scnzyox's re- {nstatement. The Senate holds a loverage which, it prop- erly and judicionaly employed, will prove of value in checking the evident propensity of the Democratio House to embarrass the pub. lio service by refusing to make appropriations actoally mecossary. A case in point is the pasaage by the House yesterdoy of an item of $10,000 for the expenses of the Benate's Misgisaippli Committee. This would have beon refusod, undoubtedly, but for the knowledgoe that the Senato would bs certain to rotaliate by rofusing any appropriation to cover the heavy deficlency created by the numerous investigating committees of the Houss, The exercise of this balance of power by the Banate is likely to be of service in assisting an sgreement as to various other sppropristion items in regard to which the two bodiss are now widely at variance, ———— The Chicago produce marketa were steadier yestarday., Moss pork was dull and easier, uhlqfimflmr .A'rrn and $942.80 for My, Sardwa ve and S0 par 100 The Commissioners appointed by the New York and Brooklyn Assooiation of Con. gregstional Minlsters have issued a call for evidence regarding tho Bxrcmen scandal, and invite all parties having ovidence, or knowl. edge of any evidence, not produced befors , the civil courts, to present ihs same bafore ——— Beoing that w6 B-cent nickel is belng coua~ tertelted by tlo million, and that 18 ropresents coly & cent it vaiue, including material, labor, sad all the csat of nukl:n 18, is §s not Illlhfl‘i rreverent, I0 §ay the leas), 10 engrave upon {50 lokend. 1 God we sexat™? 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