Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 16, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. W——_——s—_————————-—————_——————*—e—“ " majority of the electors are reasonably hon- | 8oma little' newspaper reputation by hiy m‘“‘ TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. ' SATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). Postage Prepaid at this Office. Daily Edition, postpaié. 1 year. .$13.00 Parts of sear at s ad S B To prevent delay and mistakes, bo sure and give Post- Dffice address in fal, inclading State and County. Remittances may be made either by dralt, express, Post-Office rder, or In Tegistared lotters, atour ritk. TERME TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Oaily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week, Ppaily, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents week. Addreas THE TRIBUNE Gu“l?ir\’v. ‘Gorner Madison and Dearborn.ta., Chicazo fiL Sor———— * AMUSEMENTS. - TO-DAY, MCCORMICK HALL—North Clark sireet, corner of Kinzte. Lecture at Sp. mn. by AMrs. Mary A, Liver- more. Subject s Superfiuons Women.” HOOLEYS THEATRE—Randolph street, between Clark and LaSalle. Concertat 3p.m. inaid of the Good Samaritsn Home. NEW CHICAGO THEATRE—~Clark street, between Randolph and Lake, * Dio Memoiren des Teufels.” ADELPHI' THEATRE—Dearborn street, corner Monroe. * Uncle Tow's Cabin,” TO-MOZROW. HOOLEY'S THEATRE-—Randolph stroet, between Clurk aud LaSalle. The California Minstrele. McVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, between Dearborn and State, Engsgement of Edwin Booth. = Eing Lear." WOOD'S MUSEUM—DMonroe street, between Dear- born and Staie. Afternoon, * The Happy Man * and * Sketches in Indis.” Evening, * Relphegor.” ADELYHI THEATRE—Morroe street, corncr Dear- born. Varlety enterfainment. SOCIETY MEETINGS. D, C. CREGIER LODGE, No, 643, A.T. & A, M.— ‘Regular Communication Wednesday evening, April 19, at Odd-Fellows’ Hall, 260 Milwaukeeav., for business and work on the M, M. Degree. All meml are re- «quesicd 10 be prosent. Visiting brethren are cordislly mvited to meet with ua. By order of LENRY MUNSTERMAN, W. M. MASONIC SOCIABLE—~A Calico Party, the last of the serics given by Corinthisn Hall Trustees, will take yplace on Taesday evening, April 18, at their hall, 167 East Ksnziest., to which the fraternity and their 1riends are cordially invited. A very plessant time is saticipated, PLEIADES LODSGE, No. 473, A, F. & A, AL —Stated Communication Thursdsy evening, April 0, Business of importance will be Lroughs before the meetin A and 2 foll attendance 8 rogitestod. Ter order W, A 0. NICKERSON, Sec’y. LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, No. 2, B. A, M.—Hall, 72 Monroest.—Special Cuntvocation 3londsy evening, Arxil 17, 8t 8 o'clock, for work, By order of the H. . E. N. TOCKER, Sezreta: @be (hisage Trilune, Sundsy AMormng, April 18, 1876. WITH SUPPLEMENT. At the New York Exchange on Saturdsy the price of greenbacks fluctuated between 883 and 883. The Grand Jury of the District of Colum- bia have, &s it has several times been hinted they would, returned an indictment against Gen. Bascock for complicity in the safe- surglary business. Indictments are also found against Hamerxerox, WarTeny, BeN- roN, Nrrrresare, and others, as co-conspira. ‘ors in this rascality., Bascock and HaBrING- ox, it is intimated, will have to take the brunt of the whole affair, the others being guaranteed immunity from punishment if ‘hey will come forward and tell all they know tbout the matter. Babcock has give. bail in the sum of $10,000, ex-Gov. SHEPHERD be- coming his security. HarnvaTON'S where- tbouts are not at present known. It is morally certain that, if Chicago had a {ifferent Mayor and a different Council, the lonr bummers.who have usurped the town pffices in South Chicago would not dare resist she popular demand for their’ retirement. They feel, however, that their claim to offics onder bellot-box stuffing is as good as that of Mr. Corvix and those holding place under bim. They feel, also, thet they have the Tapport of the whole system of the City Gov- srmment in all its branches. They are thus mcouraged fo ignore public opinion, and reat with contempt every threat of punish- ment that has been made. But if s Mayor snd Common Council of a different character be provided by the election of next Tuesdsy, ihen theso town bummers will rotire with the. city bummers. Here is another reason for the election of a Reform Council. Havverr Krpoury was the bone of con- tention in the House yesterdsy. The Ju- diciary Committee, which has had the Aabeas corpus question under consideration for sev- eral days, reported unfavorably on the appli- cation, directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to mnke & respectful returnto Judge CarTrER, setting forth the cause of Ermsourn's deten- tion, but to retain the custody of the prisoner. Messrs. Hump, Lawmssce, and Hoar considered the House justified in holding the prisoner in defiance of the Court, while Messrs. GarrreLy, LynpE, and Easson claimed that the House commit- ted an egregious blunder, and should make all haste to remedy the matter by delivering up the prisoner to the Court, or giving him &n unqualified discharge. No decision was reached, it having been announced that Judge Canrres had postponed the further bearing of the caso till Tuesday next. The offics of Journal Clerk of the House of Representatives has been filled faithfully and ably for thirty years by Mr. Bancrax. ‘Whatever changes of administration or party occurred in that time, he remained nn- disturbed, becauss of his valuable and ef- ficient services. ‘The present Democratic majority, however, carried out its boasted “Reform™ by ousting this faithful servant and sppointing. 8 new man, Ceamies H. Swite. The new man was not warm in his seat, however, before he was in & scandal by sending circulars to the Town Clerks of New Hampshire, offering to give them 10 per cent of the fees for collecting claims under the bill to equalize bounties, provided they would send the claims to him, he, of course, pock- eting the remaining 90 per cent,—and this even before the bill has become alaw. Itis a very small scandal, but it very clearly illus- trates the pecoliar character of Democratic reform. The Chicago produce markets were steadier Saturdsy. Mess pork wes quiet and 2}@5c per brl lower, closing at $22.30@22.32§ for April and $22.323@22.35 for May. Lard was quiet and easy, closing at $13.40 cash and £13.40@18.42} for May. Meats were less sctive and firm, at 83c for boxed shoulders, 124c for do short ribs, and 12§c for do short clears. - Highwines were inactivo and easy, 8t $1.07 asked per gallon. Flour was quiet end firm. Wheat was more active and lc higher, closing at §1.02 for April and $1.043 for May. Corn was in better demand and 4= higher, closing at 45j¢ for April and 480 oo tay. Oats were quiet and firmer, closing at 30ic for April and 334c for May. Rye was quiet, at 63¢ for regular. Barley was quiet and irregular, closing at 593c for April and 61c for May. Hoge were quiet, at Friday's quotations, selling at $7.65@8.00 for poor to choice; The cattle market was dull and weak, at $2.50@5.40 for inferior to choice grades. - Sheep were unchanged—quoted a¢ $4.50@6.75 for common to choice. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $113.37% in greenbacks at the clos The New York Sun contains the following malicious fling st Mr. Moopy: Thus far Mcsers, Moopy and SaxxET have doubt- less told the trath, but they have wittheld one fact which goch to show that faith, in & pecuniary point of wiew, is a paying investment. Every day they re- ceive by mail voluntary donations fromall classes of enthusisatic people who have become infatusted by the preaching of Moopy and thé singing of SANEEY. ‘Those sums aggregate Euch a large amount that it is s2fe to a1y both of these men are in comfortable cir- cumstances, and are, in reality, profiting largely by therr work. Mr. MooDY has recently purchased & fine bouse in Northfield, Mass. (his notive town), and is now having it refitted and improved, and meantime e has sent bis family to spend the winter montha at fashionable resort in Florida. Thisia what faith will do for 2 man: and by withholding these facts Brother Moopr omits a powerfal argument in his efforts for the salvation of sinners. The Sun msy be gble by such malicious statements as the above to prejudice very credulous people, but they will have no effect in the West, where Mr. Moopy is; kmown. We do not believe that Mr. Moopy is making ‘money out of his evangelizing any more than the Apostle Pavr did. Still tho laborer is worthy of his hire, and there is no harder or more indefatigable worker in this country than Mr. Moopy,—no one who deserves to be more richly repaid. But that, as the Sun alleges, he is working from the sordid motive of laying up trensures where moth and rust corrupt, we do not believe. Like other men, Mr. Moopy must eat. drink, sleep, ind clothe himself, and to do this he must have moncy. He cannot live on faith, The real point at issue mww in the Beecnxs business has been so skillfully concealed un- dsr high-flown verbisge that it is refreshing to find that at last what it all means about Councils and Mutual Couricils, etc., is whether Mr. Beecues shall be tried by his partisans, who are firmly convinced of his innocenco, and that farther investigation wonld be an outrage, or by a tribunal made up half of them and the other half of those who want to get at the facts, no matter what these may be, that the whole truth may come out. In other words, the issue is whether there shall be an investigation to find out, or one to sup- press further exploration after the facts. The Nation, which states it best, says: The difference which lies at the Lottom of tho con- trovarsy botween Mr. BEEONER ana the advocstes of the Andover plan of trial is simple enough, althaugh it is hidden somewhat unders great cloud of words and under the sttempt to make it a question of Con- gregational pality rather than of general jurispru- dence. Mr.Brecmrn and bis church, snd the major- ity of the Ministers' Associstion which bas just eplit over tho case, stek an inquiry conducted on what may ‘be called the co-operative plan,—that is, conducted by persons who, on the whole, believe him innocent, and think his permons, prayers,and gemeral reputation ‘raise a strong presumption in his favor, and who, in examining charges sgainst bhim, would be, as he says, *belping " him to prove his innocence. The Andover party, on the other hand, damand an investigation of the only Kind for which the secalar world, which has little faith fn “the psychological argument,” has any Tespect,—namely, an investigation conducted jointly both by those who believe in Mr. Bercuen and those who do not, nnder the old system of attack and de- fente, which has now beon in uso by the courts of the Anglo-Sazon race for a thoussnd years, and is rccog- nized as the most satisfactory mode of getting ¢ the trath through human testimony, but which the An- dover poople propose to improve on in this case by dis- canding thetechnical rules of evidence, and hearing everybody who haa anything to say. No other kind of inguiry will satisfy the general public. THE BUMMERS OUSTED! The best day's work that has been done in Chicago for a long time was consummated yesterday in the ousting of Mixe Evaxs, En Pronaes, and Jog Greeson from the offices of Collector, Assessor, and Town Clerk of South Chicago, which they had usurped through the brazen frauds perpetrated at the annual town meeting on the 4th jnst. It is nnnccessnri to re- capitulate these frauds, for the city has been ringing with them ever since they became known ; and it was mainly the popu- lar indignation against them that called forth the unprecedented mecting at the Ex- position Building last Tuesdsy. At that ‘meeting & committee of twenty-five citizens was appointed to oust the ballot-box stuff- ers and their allics from the places they bad sttempted to filch. This Committee has been in almost continuous session ever since, and their Iabors have been crowned with complete success. Too much praise cannot be awarded to them for the secrecy and diligence with which they have pursued their object. Their success shows what can be done by the force of an aroused public opinion coupled with intelligent and de- termined action. It was found that the law provides that in cases where s vacancy exists in any town office through desth, resignation, failure to clect, or otherwise, the Justices of tho Pesce, the Sapervisor, and Town Clerk shall consti- tate & Board of Appointment, hav- ing power to meet and fill snch vacancy. A statement was prepared in the nature of a petition or memorial to this Board of Appoiniment, and signed by & number of citizens of South Chicago, setting forth the failure to elect officers at the annual town meseting, by reason of frauds so glaring as to entirely vitiata the election, and pray- ing the Board to meet and fill the vacancies. The Board met yesterdsy at 5 o’clock at No, 204 La Salle street. A large number of citizens were present, 60 large in fact that the Board were compelled to adjourn to more commo- dious quarters at the Grand Pacific Hotel. The full Board was present, consisting of Justices D'Wovp, FooTe, WaLLACE, StaMER- FreLp, Poax, MEEcE, and Harves, Super- visor Ryaw, and Town Clak Gruee- soN. Shortly after assembling, Supervisor Rryax handed in his resignation, and Rosear T. LixcoLN was appointed Supervisor in his place. It should be remarked that Mr. Ryan has behaved handsomely throughout this whole affair. It has never been charged that he had any share in the frauds on the ballot- box, and he has manifested the desire at all times to perform the part of a good citizen. The Board took a vote on the question of proceeding to hear testimony on the subject of the Iate town meeting, and here the fact was developed that only two of the Justices were disposed to side with the ballot-box stuffers and face the community in which they live as the allies of Evaxs, Prrrres, and GrEesoN,—viz.: Gxomez A, ,Mercm and J. Ceamizs Harxes. We desire that the public shall take particalar notice of their action. As for Mexcw, we are not surprised at his behavior, since his in- stincts are of the bummer sort, but the young man Harves had promised faithfully to stand by and support the action of the Committee. He even went 60 far as to ad- vise them to act expeditionsly, implying that if they delayed there was danger some mem- bers of the Board would be “seen” by the other side. The event would indicate that at least one of them was ““seen.” The Board proceeded to take testimony. The witnesses of the election frauds were sworn, and the examination was continued till nearly 11 o'clock last night, prov- ing conclusively that tne ballot-boxes had been tampered with to ° such an extent that 1no valid election had been held; after which the Board voted by 6 to 3 that vacancies existed in the offices of Collector, Assessor, and Town Clerk The vote stood as follows : > Afirmative. Negative. D'WoLr, Mexcy, UMMERFIELD, Harxss, Foote, Greeson—3, WaLLice, POLLAX, LNcoLN—6, ““What are you going to do sbout it ?" This has been the taunt of the three cheap rascals who had constituted themselves the taxing power of South Chicago. They now Iknow what the people were going to do about it, but perhaps they don't know the whole .yet. The Grand Jury is in session, and if it performs its daty it will indict the perpetrators of thess elec- tion frauds and bring them to a speedy trial for their ecrime. We congratulate the people of Chicago, not merely those of the South Division but of all the Divisions, that this precious trio” have been effectually circumvented, and ousted from their nsurped positions. The thanks of the community are due to the Commit- teo of Twenty-five, who have so zealously pushed forward the work committed to them, and to the members of the Town Board of Appointment who co-operated with them. After declaring the vacancies the Board proceeded to fill them by appointing the fol. lowing officers for the ensuing year: Assessor—W. B, H. GuaT. Collector—BEBNABD CALLAGHAN, Supervisor—Rourer T. LINcoLY, Town Clerk—WiLs D, CaRvER. TEE CAFDIDATES FOR ALDERMEN. No more serious or timely thought - can oc- cupy men’s minds to-day than the considera- tion of their duty as citizens in the exercise of their right of suffrage next Tuesdsy. The prosperity of the city, the growth of trade, the sanctity of the home, the influences for pgood or bad, the value of property, the cost of living, are all involved in the character of the new Council which is then to be chosen. It will be the only opportunity of years to make a clean sweep of bnmmerism and intro- duce a preponderance of the respectable ele- ment. Infutore elections but one-half the whole number of Aldermen will be chosen, but next Tuesday the entire Conncil is to be “clected. If the new regime can be started out with good men there will be little" diffi- culty in maintaining character and respecta- bility in the future; if not, then there will be little hope for decent people and the tax- payers for years to come. The present city charter intrusts the Council with all the im- portant duties of the City Government. Re- form must begin there. Without its co-op- eration it will be impossible to rid the city of Corvix’s presence as Mayor, and impossible to reduce the num- ber of bummers and loafers who subsist upon the taxes, orin any other way to cut down the extravagant appropriations which are eating up men’s property, closing up manufactures, throwing workmen out of em- ployment, and contracting the volume of business. It is in the interest of every man who earns an honest livelihood, .whother he be in business for himeelf or have employment from others, to vote for those candidates in his ward who promise to inaugurate a new Government, from Mayor down, on the principle of honesty and retrenchment. In the First Ward the men who ought fo be elected are D. E. Pearson and McAurey, since Mr. WenTwoRTH has absolutely de- clined to stand. Pranso is a liberal-minded Democerat, who makes it a rule in city mat- ters always to vote for the best men, and slways to oppose bulnmerism. He is & large property-holder, and is engaged now in spend- ing a good desl of money in the erection of new buildings in the city. The other candi- dnte, Jomx 'I. McAurey, is o Republican, and was a brave soldier in the Union Army; he is a business man of excellent char- acter, intelligent, honest, and publio spirited. 'These gentlemen have been united upon with great unanimity by the respectable Democrats and Republicans in opposition to the bummers' candidates, Fravg Wagrexy and D. J. Lyox, who were nominated by a crowd of imported roughs. The issne in this ward is essentially CoLvy and anti-Corvry. Thereisno other. War- zev and Lyoy are bound to Cornviy, and every vote given for them is avote given for CoLviN's retention of the office of Mayor in opposition to the popular will. In the Second Ward the Republican can- didates are Jacon RoseNpERG and ApDISON Barrarp, both excellent men, well known and respected in business. The principal Democratic candidate is Frrzeerarn, one of the Corvin Aldermen of the present Council. The respectable Democratic voters should unite on Rosexsere and Bavrawp in their common interest to secure the best men for the new Council. In the Third Ward there will be no serious. opposition to Messrs. WiLLiay Arprics and J. L. TaoMPSON, Who are both first-class men |' and will do their full share in the purification of the new Council. In the Fourth Ward all four candidates are good men, but the ward is Iargely Republican, and Messrs. STEwART and GILBERT, the Re- publican candidates, will undoubtedly be elected, as they ought to be, by 1,000 ma- jority. In the Fifth Ward there ars two Repub- lican candidates, ScruiTz and Vay O'LaNpa. Both are good men. Scasrrz has served in Council and made a clean record. The reg- ular Democratic nominees (SosEr and ‘TracEY) are scaly fellows, and ought to be defeated. Many decent Democrats who are not willing to vote for the Republican candi- dates are supporting Mairg SpErmay, who is Tunning independently. Thoy want an Al- derman who will vote to put Cownviy out of the Mayoralty. In the Sixth Ward the Republican nomi- nees are L Eaxvsss and Hexny Vorz. The former is a Bohemian, of which nationality thero is a large element in the ward. They are both respectable citizens and well spoken of by their neighbors. The ward is strongly Democratic, but, we hope, not given over to ‘bummerism or Colvinism. k In the Seventh Ward there are eight or nine - candidates altogether. But the tax~ payers and decent people ought to unite so 85 to defeat the indicted blatherskite, Hri- DRETH, Who is CorviN's principal henchman, and Marr Frmuse, who is of the same stripe. The Republicans are running one most excellent man, Hexey Kersen, o boss stone-cutter, and as honest and upright a man 8s can be found in the ward. AN the decent and anti-bummer men should go solid for Krnper. Amiong the candidates isP. O. MoDoxaLD, an Independent Democrat snd member of the present Council, in which he voted against CorLvry and in favor of calling an election for Mayor. He is infinitely pref- erabloto the crooked Hrrppsra. T. T. Pross- £, an Independent Republican candidate, is also a good man. In the Eighth Ward the Ropublican candi- dates are Geogae .W. Sporrosp and Franz Lawses. If elected, the ward will be far better represented than it has been for years. They can be elected if tho respectable class of voters unite upon them ; but we under- stand that Messrs, Prerce snd Rozsmic pro- Pposa to run as independents, which will sim- ply result in the election of the two old CoLvty bummers, O'Briex and Barey, two of the very worst men in the Council. In the Ninth Ward the Republicans have nominated Jacos Berprenand J. M. Van- 0Ospez, and no better men can be found any- where in the city. Inthe Tenth Ward the only candidate smong all whose names are mentioned whom we are inclined to recommend i 8 Mr. A. H. Samrrw, who is said to be s good man. It is to be hoped that Warre may be defeated. In the Eleventh Ward the Republican can- didates, J. B. Briaes gnd A. G. Tupoop, ars among the best men in the ward and in the city. They will be electad, as they ought to be. In the Twelfth Ward §. H. McCrea and Jaxes T. Rawires are running independ- ently. Both are prominent business men, old residents, and among the very best selec- tions that have been made for the Reform Council. Their election seoms to be pretty well assured, smee Mr. Cramg, ono of the contestants, has withdrawn ; but Caaesenn will poll a strong vote. In the Thirteonth Ward the Republican majority is imperiled by faction-fighting, feuds, and bickering. Ald. CrEvenanp will be re-elected, we think, as he deserves to be. ‘Who the other successful candidate will be is hard to tell, as things are badly mired. Itis @ great pity there cannot be unity. A -'seat in the Conneil will probably be thrown away, and the bummers will gain an Alderman. In the Fourteenth Ward the Republican candidates, BavxncarTex and W. F. Jomnsox, are by all odds the best men of the two tickets. In the Fifteenth Ward the principal work of the voters, irrespective of party, ehould be to defeat the bummer Tox Stour, and Prre Mamg, in case the latter is a candidate. They are two of the worst men in the Council. In the Sixteenth Ward, whoever elsa may be voted for, Jase LevcacEer and Pat Ker- LY ouglt 7ot to be. ArNo Voss, a Democrat, and Fraxs LrvsessarTE, independent Re- publican, are probably the best men in the field. In the Seventeenth Ward there are about seventosn candidates, including Toxt CARNEY. The chief public interest in the fight in that ward is that Swzevsy and Mureny, two Col- vinite Aldermen in the present Council, may be defeated. The regular candidates in the Eighteenth ‘Ward are belioved to be good men on both sides, but it will be safest to elect Messrs. Kipg Hawes and Jacos Bosem. All parties should wateh the Corcorax gang to see that they do not run him in ahead of all the kmown candidates when the votes come to be counted. ‘We have thus endeavored to make a fair canvasa of the Aldermanic contest, without political bias and with a single view to a reformation in the Council, beginning with a new Mayor. Al citizens, whether Democrats or Republicans, should be governed by the same motive at this time, and vote accord- ingly. ———— THE ELECTION AND THE CITY CREDIT. One of ‘the most striking and beneficial ef- fects of & complete change in the City Gov- ernment, the election of a new Council com- posed of business men, and the election by them of an honest business man for Mayor, will be the general revival of public confi- dence. ’ The city is in immediate want of money to avoid protest on paper falling due. It has tried other markets and has failed to obtain it; it has tried the home market with no bet- ter success. The reasonof these failures has been that those in Chicago who might ad- vance the money have had no confidence in the executive manngement of the Mayor, or in the integrity of the Common Council, in the wisdom of its appropristions, or in the character of its expenditures. - The whole character of the City Government resting upon the conduct of the Mayor and Council ’has been destructive of public confidence and respect. The capitalists of other parts of the country havelost confidence in a city the people of which have not the patriotism to give time enough to vote for an honest City Government, and leave all things to the rule of the criminal classes. x . At the election on Tuesday the people of Chicago can do much to restore the confi- dence which is now wanting. The election of anew Council with a majority of two- thirds composed of honest, well-known busi- ness men, and the election by that body of a Mayor of ndifferent class than the present one, will have the immediate effact of re- storing confidence both at home and else- ‘where. ’ There is 2 large sum of taxes unpaid, and they are unpaid largely because of the char- acter of the City Government. The continu- ance in office of the present dyrasty will swell the sum of unpaid taxes. So mniversal and deep-rooted is the distrust of Corviy and his Common Council that no man feels the least hesitation in declining to pay taxes to be expended by the Common Council. A radical change in the character of the men composing the Council, and the placing of the affairs of the city in the hands of men familiar with business, ' themselves tax- payers and deeply interested in the welfate of Chicago, will remove this popular distrust. There will be & gen- eral willingness to relievo the city of its embarrassments,—a readiness to co-operate, by the payment of the overdue taxes, with the new Government in the ex- trication of the city from its present financial discredit. There has never -been the least intention to repudiate the city debts or to repudiate taxation. Tho- distrust has been of the Government, and the purpose has been to keep from it the possession and con- trol of the meansof perpetusting its own official existence. Had Mr. CoLvix resigned a month ago and invited the people to choose their own Mayor, the city wonld not have been subjected to the financial homil- jations it has experienced since then. Mr. Corvry would have enjoyed a degree of por- sonal respect he can never hope for assn usurper. The election of next Tuesday will, therefore, if the business community and the hard-working artisans do their dutyin the selection of Aldermen, be a deliverance of the city from the disgrace and discredit, financial and political, to which it is now subjected, and there will be a restoration of confidence in the administration of city af- fairs that hasnot existed duripg the last year. Weall want the credit and means of the city re-established, and the wages of the policemen, firemen, school-tenchers, and other employes paid; we all want a police force, a fire-department, and schools ; sud the only way to prevent the disbandment of these is to elect a Government which will in- spire confidence and respect. IMFORTANCE OF TUESDAY'S ELECTION. The election of Tuesday, it should not be forgotten, is for thirty-six Aldermen, being an entire new Board. In all the wards there are candidates who ought to be elected. There are & multitude of candidates, but there has been an energy and a public spirit strong enough to indpee at least two good men in each ward.to consent to serve as Aldermen, if elected. In several wards the candidates on both sides are personally men of character, and these wards will be repre- sented creditably whichever ticket be elected. In othor wards there is large room for choice, and we earnestly advise every respectablo citizen to ignore party nominations in voting for Aldermen, when by so doing he can se- cure the election of a better man. The nomination of Mr. Hoxye for Mayor, unless he be also elected an Aldermen, will be no more than a great public protest sgainst CorviN's usurpation. It will be put- ting, in a direct and condensed form, an ex- pression of the judgment of the people of the city sgainst Colvinism. But the Mayor must be elected by the Com- mon Council from among its own members, nnd hence the imperious necessity of voting for and electing the very best men as Alder- men. To elect 8 majority of Aldermen op- posed to the elaction of a Mayor will be claimed by Corvix as a popular verdict in his favor, and he will be entitled to claim it. ‘Wasting votes therefore on personal or other grounds in the choice of Aldermen is in the interest of CoLvix. It should be remembered that under the present charter nearly all the powers of Gov- ernment are concentrated in the hands of the Common Council.:’, They have the power to create offices without number, and to abolish them at will; they have the power to fix sal- aries; they are required to makea new code of city laws ; have ample authority to engage in constructing public buildings, and in all other public improvements, and may appro- priste and expend money without any other restriction than their own discretion. Their power to taxJs as unlimited as their power to expend. The Common Council is'clothed with absolute and unrestrained power to an extent beyond anything lmown to any previous charter. Hence the necessity, in- creased necessity, for the election of a strong majority of thorongh business men to the next Council. The election of such a Board will give new life to the feeble and waning credit of the city. It will give to the public an assurance that the affairs of the city will be administered by business men in a business way. The people will pay their taxes when they know the money will not be wasted, or stolen, or used for the support of bummers. The distressed and empty Treasury will be revived under the confidence inspired by the change. Thae city laborers and other ser- vants will be paid their wages. Kiting will give way to legitimate financiering; the pub- lic creditors will be satisfied; and the good name and credit of Chicago will be restored. Nothing, howaver, can ba done unless the people turn out on Tuesdsy next and devote the day to the election of honest Aldermen. CORRUFTION OF THE BALLOT IN ERGLAND. The English Pecksniffian journals, and or- gans of the flunkey clubs, continue to des- cant upon the decline of public morals in the United States, to the great delectation of snobdom, Even tho London ZTimes, which deals with all topics with a broader range and better comprehension than any other British paper, has fallen, to some extent, into the like vein, and finds it necessary to assura its readers that the American people are honest at the core; and, altogether, a deal of printer’s ink is wasted and good white paper spoiled in Her Majesty's realm in pointing out the festering corruption in our public -affairs of which the people of this country are setting about purging the body politic. Incidentally, however, the scent of the Brit- ish papers for corruption at long range is disturbed by the reeking rottenness under theirown nostrils, and,coming down from lofty critical heights, to which they mounted for our benefit and their own awful warn- ing, the English newspapers are com- pelled to make' mentionr of the plague-spotsin their own political system. Thus it comes that the press of all England is occupied with discussion of the corrup- tion of the ballot in that couniry, as com- pared with which the rascalities of the Twesp Ring in New York, and even the exploits of our own THORNTON, of the House of David, and his fellows, were mild offenses. The tes- timony taken by the Royal Commission as to the elective corruption at Norwich discloses what may be assumed to be the condition of affairs in many other large towns. The in- vestigation was brought abont by the fact that for years the election thers has been fol- lowed by contest and unseating of the mem- ber returned to the House of Commons, and the Commission was appointed to find out what was the matter of Norwich. . Upon claborate investigation it was found that the corruption, like the common law, dates back to the time when the memory of msn runneth not to the-contrary. There was, in short, no record of a time when voters did not sell their votes, and every free- man for generations had looked forward to the increase of his imcome, upon his arrival at the legal age, by peddling his vote. In Norwich there wers, until the Reform act of 1867, but about 17,000 voters,—freemen, free- holders, and householders; but that act, under the £10 rental clause, added nearly ten thousand to the number of honseholding voters. It was, according to the report, gimply the addition of so many purchasable voters to the whole number before upon the market. The new voters, who for long years had been excluded from the electoral franchise, and with envy had beheld how their more favored neighbors drove a pros- perous trade insale of their votes, in slang phrase, upon acquiring the ballot, went in to make up for lost time. - The effect of the competition in corruption was to reduce the market quotation for votes. That brought about more shameless peddling of them to find the highest bidders, and the voters of all classes, it was proved, are now in the habit of besieging the political committees and mansgers for money on every and any pretext. The Commission finds that there are not less than between three and four thousand voters in the town who are regular- ly bribed on one sids or the other at every election, and whose votes can only be ge- cured by purchase. It is concluded that a est,—that is, would decline to sell their votes outright,—but they are so open to in- direct bribery that they afford no sort of protection against the prevalent cor- ruption . dating from time immemorial. Even under the British civil service members of Parliament possess considerable power of patronage, and & member can do a great deal for his town and his constita- ents, all which he does and disposes of to purchase votes, very much as it is done un- der our spoils system, only more so. = With 38 shillings 6 pence as the estabiished market price for the votes directly put upon the market, and the patronage corruption of the other electors, the corruption is found hope- less,—so hopeless that, when the Commis- sioners inquired if, by union of the: better class of voters against bribery, by agreement on both sides, it might not be abandoned, the reply was that it was impossible. The moral to it all comes in the report of the ‘Commission, which hopelessly states the focts withont any recommendation, maun- ifestly despairing of any relief what- ever. The only suggestion made thus far, and that through the newspapers, is disfranchisement of the entire town. But, that precedent once set, the gueryis whether thers could be any effective relief unless the disfranchisement were extended until about all the large towns were disfran- chised, which, of course, is impossible. With all the corruption exposed in this country, we have never yet reached that point whon such a suggestion could be seriously made, nor when the decent portion of the community could not control the elections, when they chose to make the effort. Nor is there peril that such time will come. Unless there be prospect of that we can endure the ills we suffer until we succeed in redressing them ; and meanwhile, with kmowledge of the corruption they suffer in England, we ought to be able to bear with equanimity British homilies on the decline of public morals in the United States. SPOT *EM. A large number of Corviv's Aldermenic gang are making a desperats effort to get re- elected to the Council. It is their mission to sustain the usurpation and ell the ills incident toit. They are the confessed advocates of Communism and municipal extravagance. They want to go back: to the Council to keop Corvry in his place another yesr after his term has expired. They want to keep’ him in his place to provide for the large circlo of loafers by whom the public service is loaded down. The anti-tax-eaters of all parties should spot these men. Here is the list of fellows who voted in the Council against call- ing an election for Mayor ; who voted against letting the people elect a Mayor, notwith- standing Corvin's term had expired last fall ; who voted against home-rule and self-gov- ernment. They are all candidates for re- election, and asking the votes of the honest people whom they so basely betrayed. Read the black-list: ‘Warren, of the First. Fitzzerald, of the Sccond. Sommer, of the Fifth. Hitdreth, the ‘“crooked,” of tho Sevent— . - Tom ¥. Bailey and Jim O’Bricn. ef tho Eighth. WWhite, of the Tenth. Ryan, of the Foartcenth. Tom Stout, of the Fifteenth. Lengacher, of the Sixteenth. Sweenoy and Murply, of the Seventeenth. There are two others who, though not openly professing to be candidates, are likely to strive for re-election, and spring it upon the people. Thess are Prre Maug and . JoENNY CorcoRAX, the former of the Fifteenth and the latter of the Eighteenth Ward. When Con- conaN was Iast elected to the Council, he was scarcely. known: to be a candidate, and had promised hissupport to ons of theregnlarDem- ocratic nominees ; but he ran his votes in, or counted himself in, all the same, and the returns showed him to bo elected. These two men maust also be watched. In meking up this black-list we have not stopped to consider whether these men pro- fess to be Republicans or Democrats. In this election they are neither one nor the other. They are simply upholders of bum- merism and -usurpation, with all the term implies. If they gain seats in the new Coun- cil their first effort will be to retain Cornviy 08 Mayor another year, and thereafter to maintain the same disgraceful system of bummerism that has ruled the city for the past two years. Every one of them should be defeated, without any regard to their professed political affilistions. It will be possible in every case to find better and safer men among the candidates opposing them. It is not possible, under the circumstances, that any one of those opposing them should ‘be more dangerous, for these men advocate that which includes all the municipal evils and dangers of the time, viz.: the continua- tion of the usurper in office. PERSONAL. The flowern at A. T. Stewart’s funeral cost 810,000, Cardidal McCloskey is recovering from his recent severe illness. Charlotte Bronte's piano is advertised for sale in the London Zimes. The Vokes family arrived in New York Wed- nesdsy by steamer from England. Col. Jobn W. Torney will soon publish his Centennia}Earopean letters in book-form. President Prado, of Pern, attended the Fifth Avenus Theatre in New York Tharsday night. The pioas newspaper-men of Boston stop work on Fast-Day and attend the matinees at the the- atres ina body.* 3Ir. Blaine is sa{d by the New York Sun to ba the richest man in the State of Aaine with one exception, or possibly two. A ““History of the City of New York.” on which Mra. Martha J. Lamb has been engaged for ten years, is now nearly ready for publica~ tion. Benator Sharon, of Nevads, after s very brief attendance upon the sessions of Congress, hay left Washington and returned to California. He will not be in hia seat again during the present session. ' The original manascriptsof **The Epicurean™ and ** LallaRookb,” and various manascripte and sutographs of Tom Moore, will soon be sold in London. A son and namesske of Dr. Leonard Baconm, of New Haven, is now preaching regularly and publishing & semi-weskly newspaper at Geneva, Switzerland. . Mr. Jobn W. Garrett, Preaident of the Balti- ‘more & Ohio Bailroad, is to leavo Baltimors for California to-morrow morning, goiog throngh without chaoge in his special car. The day after the instantaneous oensus was taken in Philadelphia, a happy father came up to the Clerk’s office with an extra, and littie Sallis was pat into the Centennisl records. The most popular sctress on the Germen stage 18 Fraulein Hedwig Rasbs. Her reputation, it is sa1d, is not dus 80 much to her sbulitiés as to the notoriety which she has acquired through a liaison with Niemann, the idol of the German opera aud the husband of Maris Seebach. Heary W. Raymond, only son of Henry J. Raymond, of New York, has become a partnar in the bookselling firm of Hadley Brothers, this ity, and will soon remove here. Hs has made from New York to ‘the Boston Globe, and vy probably act as correspondent of that Paper it Chicago. i Mr. H. Byner, the Jokn of Gauntin Richany IL,” has severed his connection with McVickery Thestrs, and Mr. Frank B. Pierce, & compateny sctor, has been engaged to fill tha vacancy, An Knglish critio writes of his awn oonatry ‘e do not require Mendelsscbas or Ry 4 Hurdy-gurdy turmers and Photographers an more in our hne, Give usa brazen tuna, 4 speaking portrais.” ) Whon Daos, of the Sun, went back to Nay York, after having vainly endeavored to run ont TaE TRIBUNE with the Republican, he remarked; *Hitherto I've been trying to make moneyrs. #pectably ; now Il try to make monsy.” The Philadelphua Conncils have sansibly dacig. ed not to repair the old Independence bell, belisy. ing that it is more sn object of interest in ity predent historic condition than it would be § made spick-and-span new, 80 that it conld M rung. Can thare be any truth in the awfal ramor thay Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, will not visig Chicago durtog his present American tonr? I there be, Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, hay less taste and discernment than he has besy credited with. An indignant editor who haa read Prof. Prog. tor's account of ‘‘aknmife-tarowing™ at Des Moines, calls him * Mountabank Proo. tor,” and advises him to spend the money he has esrned in America to better purposs tha the circulation of libels. Lord Macaulsy had wonderfal confideneain his powers of memory. He ones said, according to his latest biographer, that if, by some mira. cle, all copies of * Paradiss Lost "and ** Pilgrim'q Progress " were deatroyed, hs would undeartaxe to reproduce them both. Lord Houghton has just been elected s honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, The other honorary Fellows ars Sir Georga Airy, Astronomer Royal, Mr. Tensyson, Prof. Lights foot, Mr. Spedding, the editor of Bacon, Mr," Cayley, and Prof. Maxwall. It has been proved on official examination tha the real name of the man Thomaa, who commit. ted the dvnamite outrage, is Alexander Keith, He was born at Halifax, where his father ang uncle kept a brewery. The German indignation at America on this account seems to have bean a trifie premature. ‘The Mayor of Fordwich, Engiand, is daad, aftey snuninterrupted tenure of office for twenty-thrse years. Itis the rule in the borough, if any per son refuses to accept the office of Mavor, topulf down his house, It would be healthy for Mr. Colvin to build 8 house in that town; it would never be palled down on sccount of say unwill- ingness on his part to hold office. Antonio Petito, the famous Naples puleinellq, has died in harness.. He had just made acrowd. ed theatrs ring with boisteroua lsughter, sad glipped bebind the scencs for s drink of watsr, when he fell dead, whereat the sudience becama frantic with grief and excitement. All Naples except the prisets, turned ont at his funeral, and there was but one expression of sorrow heard, ¢ Povero Pulcinello! Eastern papers have snnounced aa a positive fixture for shis month the matrisge of Lord Rosebery, the rich young Eoglish Peez, whois devoted alike to race-harses, gocisl seience, aad Americsn travel, and Miss Dancan, whoss father was of the firm of Duncan, Shermsn & Co, It may be well to say that not only will the marrisge not take place, but that all the talk about an engagement exiating was purely fao- cifat. Mr. Barnoy Williams, the actor, is suffering from corebral paralysie. It produces hallucins. tions, and while onder their influence he grows violent, But he has never ‘been unconscious, His physician entertains strogg hoped of his res covery. Mr. W. J. Florence appears to be ase necessarily excited by a newspaper statement that Mr. Williams has never had any children, and writes to the New York Times in correctios, saying: *The statement is a most glaring false hood.” k ‘The Helvetius, with the Emperor of Branl o board, is momentarily expected in New Yorkal the present writing. Secretary Fish is to be assisted inthe reception of the Kmperar by Gen. Joka A. Dix, Royal Phelps, William AL Evarts, Wiliiam Callen Bryant, Charlea O'Conor, W. H. Wickham, John Jacob Astor, Theodore Rooses velt, E. D. Morgan, Cyrus W. Field, W. H. Ap- pleton, Chiaf-Justics C. P, Daly, and C. B Agnew, sad probably Secretaries Taft sad Rabeson. s Why James Gordon Benneit’s marrisge witk 2MMiss May is not to take place this week, but ha’ bean postponed for a year, 1s s matter of some ouriosity. The truth appears to be that the groom-expectant’s sister Jeannstis is religious 1y inclined, =nd, 1f her brother marries, will take the veil and devote herself and her foptansto the Church. With her brother’s marriags, it wonld secm, will vaoish her interest in matters mune dane ; hence—there existing between the two children s lively affection—the brother's delsyia sssuming the matrimonial yoke. The New York Tribune publishes the followe ing announcement, which may be considared as- thoritative: ** Miss Anna E. Dickinson is a¢ last to make her appesrance upon the stage, in Bos ton, on Msy 8, at the Globs Theatre, in a playal her own composition, which is deacribed asa historical melodrama. Miss Dickinwon at 088 time had on arrangement with Ar. Augustia Daly for an appearance at the Fifth Avenut Theatro in this city, but it is understood that i€ state of her health Iast winter prevented bat from keeping it.” The Baroness Eleanore Borsch once Iadris waiting to the Duchess of Coburg-Kohary, hst vublished in Viennaa ‘‘novel” of 800 psgdt entitled ¢ Fata Morgans,” which bas stirred 1p as much scandal in certain Austro-Hopgarisd circles 83 Fanny Lear's book did in France. Th# high military officer whom the jeaious faryof 8 scorned women seeks to injore by the ravelse tions of the book is the Cavalry General Barod Edelsheim Gyulay, who a few yeara sincy maf ried Misn Kronau, a Vieuness actrezs of somé note. The Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, who writel latters from New York to the Boaton Journal overthe signatars of *Burleigh,” says, ucdst datoof April11: ¢ Mr. Stewart's church bomd was *St. Mark's on the Bowary,” the old Knicke ervocer church of the city. Here Mr. Secre tary Fish worships, and other .solid men of the city. The churchissanold edificy, mod 80 88 t0 embrace all the improvements, et o taining much of the quaint elegance of tho ik en times. The Old Burying-Ground the chureh, and here Btewart's mather snd si# ters were buried, and here ia his own tomb,” HOTEL ARRIVALS. - 7Tremont House—The Hon. Daniel Harris, Quinefi ‘Henry Friena and J. D. Henderson, Kew York; J. & Hill, Boston; the Hon. A. L. Martin, PhiladelphiB) . Wright, Laks Superior; Col. v.m uuommg‘x,h& York. ... Pak ) ow York, ... Palmer E.S. Cullen, St Paul; Joba G Madison, Wis. ; f Piper, Bpringfiad ; Dantel E. Day, Providence, B L3 0. B. Gumm nd H. Gardzer, s K, orey, Montreal: G & Ferry, Now Yark; John Drake, Bay City, sl Thomas Barrett, Memphis; John W. Papper, Phiseh phis....Grand Pacifle—Siaros Sol , San Fraody * Tarrs os, co; O.'H. Schalenburger, Cheyenns, W. T- Thomss H. Nelson, ex-Minister of Mexico, Haute; W. B. McKean, President Vandalis zoad, Terre Hsute; 'R. B. Crawford, Davenport; Misa Dorrance, Warten and H. 8. Carter, New York: lough and wife and Miss Maud McC Y.