Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: AY, ADPRIL 17, 1876. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RATES OF SURSCTIPTION (PAYADLE'IN ADVANCER), Fastrze Preynkd b this Oee. Daity Cditior, postosse, + 813,00 Parisof yrar sl ramn rate, Mailed {9 eny address FoUR TECKA for 1.00 Foadey Kdition Literary and Holigiow QUL 2.00 ©.50 One cops, par yex Clubof tire, par our Cluv ot twenty, per oopy., 7 hio paetags ia 13 conta Kpacimen conteasent froa, "To pravont delay and mistakes, be wiro and giva Post- Oftico address In full, Includiug Stato and County. Femiuances mez bo tnde olther by draft, oxpress, Fast-Oflico vrdoc, or In roxisternd lottarn, at our thk. 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Monday Morming, April 17, 1876, At the New York Excliange on Saturday the prico of greenbacks fuctunted betweon #8} nud 884, It will neither rain nor snow to-dny, but the wind will kit i' the nor".nor'west, and spring overconts will not bo a burden, So says tho weather man. very sensiblo determination not to interpose in the easo of Con Alsaumy, the convicted Internal Revenne Collector at 8t. Louis, and not to exerciso Excentive clemency in behnlf of any of the whisky thieves, e — When the enthusinstic New Yorkers re- ceived the Emperor of Brazil with Yaukeo shouts of * ‘Rah for Dom Pepro,” it may be imagined that echo auswerod, from the vicin- ity of the threo Becretnries smarting nnder tho snub they ind just cncountered at tho hands of i Excellonc; **D—n Peono!" s his seurrilous flush around to the morning papers at nenrly midnight Sunday for the purpose of heing -too Inta for contemporancous ansvor, hoping thereby to gain ndventage of the effect of his state- meuts in advance of their exposure and rofutation. — An clequent and touching tributo to tho memory of the Inte WinLiax E, Docorrr, of this city, was embodied in a sermon preached yesterdny by Prof. Swiva to his congregation of the Central Church, aud printed in onr columns this morning, *“He was s truo Christian gontleman "—what eulogy could bo finer? ‘Tho impenchiment programmeis announced to includo at the very outset the question of the Seunte’s jurisdiction in tho caso of Brre xxAP, whoso counsel will dispute tho authori- ty of that bedy to sit in judgment upon their grades, 8heep were unchanged—quoted at 4.60@06,78 for .common to choice, Ono lundred dollars in gold would buy $113.57} in greenbacks at the close. Thoe Emperorof Brazil has apparently como to this democratio country deterinined to troat all men alike, with the exeception of Cnbinct officors, of whom late avents seom to have mado him unhappily snspicions. 'Threo of our Secretarics—Fism, Roprsoy, and Tary ~—went ont in' the barbor Saturday to meet tho Dbig Drazilinu, ravagely freezing out all reportorial company, only to find tho mon- arch betweon two gentlemen of tho news. poper press, and entirely unwilling to receive any ministerial attention whanlever, The threo Governmont ofticers barely staid long enongh for Mr. F1sut to firo off s light specch with damp powder and heart-sickoning eof- fect; then they gulped down their distin. guished feelings, and left tho cruel roportors to do justice to the atunning- “ nonchalance" of the South Ameriean Do: e ————— Thera i4 n prospect of grave consequonces in tho event that the Youso persists in re- fusing obedience to the writ of habeas corpus in tho case of 1larrerr Kiroousy, tho recusant witness in the real-estato pool investigation. The Democrats, moved rolely by political considerations, aro determined to retain the custody of Kinmouvny, and they have even sought to influence Judge Brack, Kinnouny's' counsel, to betray Lis eliont in order that their partisan ends might bo served by the abandonment of the habeas corpus proceedings and the complete sur. render of the prisoner to the House—na propo- sition which was promptly rejected. It is said to be certain that, if tho prisoner is not Lrought into court in obedience to tho writ, the Sergeant-at-Arms will Do attnched for contempt by Judge CARTTER, of the District Supreme Court, who is ono of the resolute, fenrless fort, and will nssert the dignity of tho Court whether it involves a collision with the Houso or not. If it should come to this, tho Court will apply directly to the President of the United States for assistanco to enforco its deeree, and tho House may find itsolf in an awkward predicsment. Thero aro grave Issues connected with the Krunouny imbrog- lio, and it is pretty clear that somebody will Liave to back down, COLVIN'S “REPLY.” ‘We publish elsewhero n remarkablo docu- ment sigued by H, D, Corvry, the usurping Alayor of Chicago, aud purporting to bo vrit- ten by him in roply to the demaud for his resignation, made in nccordanee with the action of the great mass-mcoting of 40,000 citizens. I'ho Committeo of Three simply nsled CorviN to resign, to step out, on the ground that tho term for which bo was elected had -expired menrly six months ngo. Instend of malking a brief, dignified reply to this request, snd citing such . legal arguments as he could mus- ter, ho flies into a towering passion, and blackguards his predecessor, the newspapers, tho Relicf nud Aid Society, Joux WexrwonTiz, and tho Committee, through two columns of slush and slander. Bat he will fail to get tho dust into the peoplo's eyes and draw ntten- tion from the real point in the case—viz. : that hei§ a usurper, bont on holding for au. other year an oftice to which Le has no right, moral or legal, ‘Thero aro somo very Iudicrous allegations clicnt now thnt ho is no louger an oficor of | in Lis diatribo, Among these (1) he under- the Government. They will then ask timo | 1okes to hold lis prodecessor responsible for to prepare arguments on the question, nnd | iho effects of the panic of 1873, and tho fail- the Housa managers will also need timo to [ure of Davi A, Guor in consequenco reply. Therefore, & postponement is proba- ble, 7 Mrezs, the bank-robber, is #o anxions that no guilty wman should eseapo that ho will connent to emerge from his seclusion in the Vermont Penitentiary and re.enter public life 0 o witness beforo Procron Kyorr's Committeo in the safe-burglary investigution, Such devotion and self-uncrifica should not g0 unrecognized, and probably would not but for the nnpntriotic obstinacy of the Ver- mont authorities, whose consent cuts an ime portant fignre in the scheme, e Afr, Mortox fecls relieved at tho nssurance that il in all n mistake obout President Guaxt's having declared for CongLixg, or that the influence of tho Administration will Le excerled to securo the nominntion of either CoxkLixg, Monroy, or any othier candidate, Tho Indirna Scnator might have drawn n Tong broath some time ngo if it hnd only oc- curred fo him that it wouldn't make much differenco anyhow. It is the provailing im- pression that Administration preferences will oot conirol the National Couvention this year, — The Rov. Anrnun Mrrenrir, D, D, the **little domimio " of admirable renown in con. nection with the reeent stivring events in tho thereof, (%) Ho would similarly plece iho responsi- bility for the failuso. of tlrs peuplo to pany their taxes to tho extent of $850,000, and for the fact that the city was compelled to Lid in their property. What mors could Acting- Mayor Boxw do thnn to turn over theso tax- certiticates to CoLvin? 'There was no power vested in the Mayor to compol {La peopla to pay the monoy, und it is undisputed that the panic caused this deliv.quoncy in the payment of tnxes, Corva nsserts that ho was * enriched by a mountain of dabt” of 1,850,000 from his, predecessor, which. was just about tho sum that said predeceswor received from Jis prede. cessor. It wos sirply tho old ante-fire float- ing debt remaining unpaid ; but when CorLviy goet out-ho will turn over (o his successor n debet nbout throo times as great. After the panie of 1873 nearly all business houses in the United States requiring money ceased, in a great measiro, and the demand for money fell off to an extraordinary dogreo; monoy became, in financial parlance, a *“drug ;" the rata of irderest doerensed from one-quarler to one-halfy and suybady could borrow who lad good erodit. 'Tho City of OChicago haél good ecredit when CoLviv becomo oyor, and conscquontly his Comptroller was cwabled to bLorrow Bouth Town, preached a sermon yesterdny in | woney ut reduced ratys wntil the credit of bis pulpit at the First Presbyterian Church | the vity wus ruined, andl money could not bo on ‘‘fhe Dutses of Christian Citizons in tho | borrowed at auy rato of: interest. Present Crigis.” A clergyman who Luows bow to net ought to know how to preach sbout an emergoncy. Sermons on the samo subject by the Rev, J. H. Watgtn, of the Tte- auion Presbyterian Church, and tho Rev, T. P, Manen, of Graco Methodist QOhurch, and o lecture by Exeny A, Stoans, Esq., aro also given elsewhero in this issu It i3 understood that the plan adopted and well-nigh carried into offect for the ousting of tho Bouth Town scoundrels will recalve the hicarty aud valuble co-operation of Gen, Laen, the County Clerk, This assurance is most gratifying, ns Gen, Taxn will prove an eflicients ally in the bottle ngaintt (Lo ballot. box stuffers, his official position baing tuch 88 to render his ald espechally importunt, Like hundreds of other prominent Dotmo- crats, Gen, Lixy places himself squarely on the side of honest elections and n reloaso from the cxecrable bondngs of bummer con. trol, and {s ready to stand up and do his duty, ——— The Chicago produce markets were steadier Boturday, Mess pork was quiet and 2@ per brl lower, closing at §u2.30@2y B2y April and §: 245 for May, Lard was Ruiet and ecsy, closing at $13.40 cash and B13.40@18.42}) for May. Meats wero less setive and firm, at 6jo for boxed shoulders, 124 for do short ribs, and 12{c for do short clears, ighwines were insctivo and easy, 8t §L.07 asked por gallon. Flour was quiet The mennest and most dastardly part of Lotve's “reply” to the demand for his Tesignation is bis slanderous asssult on the Relit und Ald Bociety; and ita noble work for the weliet of tho distressod multic tudes in stricken Thicogo, Corvy, backed by his bummors in the Council, las eggad on two or thireo investigations of that Hocioty's doirgs, with tho invariuble result of heing covspelled to report every account aceurato and tho affairs of the Bociety prop- erly managed. Llo will gain nothing but deeper public contompt and exeeration by his abuso of tho Relief Society, Corvan will resign, ho says, if certain wmen will poy their taxes. On 'Tuesday of (his week. tho tax-payers intend to elect w Com. mon. Council which will provide for him o sue sasor, and after this is dono delinquents propose to pay their arresrages of taxes, What they objuct to is to allow CoLvry nnd Ljs bummers to spend auy more of their 1nonoy. If, o4 hourges, money was plouty and rents good before the panio, but that since then rents have fallen and monoy is hard to .get or earn, why has not his administration ) reduced publio oxpenditurcs and taxes in T | cquul proportion? “axes onght not to ex- { ceed 34,000,000, whereas CoLviy is spending nearly $6,000,000 & yoar. It is high timo this usurping tax-eater waa got out of ofiice beforo the wubstauce of the peojply is all de- voured.! T —— ‘the general ordér ixsued to tho police by sud firm. Wheat was more nctive and le Buperintoudent Hixey, rolative to their higher, closing at $1,02 for April aud $1.043 for May. Corm wes in better demand and ‘o higher, closing at 45{c for April and 18jo ‘or May. Oats were quiet and firmer, closing at 304a for April and 83} for May, “ulet, at 630 for regular, and fegular, cloaing at 590 for April and 1o for May, Hogs were quliet, vosk, b $2.50@85,40 Ryo was | mitted to work or act Barley was quiet | politieal party, ot Friday's | This sounds well. uotations, selling at §7.65@8,10 for poor to they will aot with cbolos, The cattle marke) wes doll and judging from tho dutles ou Tuesdsy, I3 an admirublo one upon the surfaco. It would have been still bottor if it had beenalitth more circnmstantial, **No member of the polica forco will be por- in the interest of any further than to vote, if he please, for whom he ploase,” says the order, There i3 little danger that the Ropubdicau party, but, past, (iere fa danger that for, {nferlox to cholos | they will aeh with the, bummers, nod by nctunl interforenco in thoir bollf, bnt by ! winking at thely operntions. **T'he polico. men will nrrest promptly any person or por- sonfydisorderly or distarbing tho peace, or nsing loud or boislerous languaga tond. ing to provoke o breach of the peaco at any voling place, nud nlso nny person agninat whom thero may bo sufficient ovi- danco of frandulent or illegal voting.” Thia also ounds well, but it woult sonnd bettor if tho publio could feel sntisfied that it would bo so construed by the Corviy authoritios and their polico av to be earried ont against tlio bummers, seallnwagr, and thieves, Thoro i3 no danger of the oscapo from arxest of any Republican voter who may happon to bo dis- orderly on Tuesday. Tho polico will be vig. ilant in uch a case, and of courso thoy ought to be, but tho public would be hotder satisfied if they could feel that disorderly bummers would ba arrested slso, The polica hava nlwaya been vigilant at elections, but unfor- tnnately their vigilanco has always heon one- sided and pardi THE COMMITTEE AND 1T8 WORR, 1t is to'Le hoped for tho saka of truth and docency that tho Chieago Z%mes will now censo its misrepresentations and its vitupe- rations relative to thu recont great popular mnsmeoting at the Exposition Building. Sinco that mooting, ita course hns been to givoaid and comfort to the bummers and the usurping town ofiicers by eritioising the speakers and committeas of that meeting as ‘“‘horn-blowers," by taunting them with n Incle of cournge and spirit, and aceusing them of surremlering to the bummors. 'Theso nccusations have bLeen at the same timo malicious and gratnitons, and have grown ont of ita spleon because its violent programme was not carried out. The com- mitteo of twenty-fivo citizens which was ap- pointed at that meeting received the follow- ing instructions : Reaotved, That those town officers dectared elocted wero nod elected, and shatl not Aold thess ofices ; and Wo hereby pledgo ouraclves that we will stand ty one another, and act unltedly, aud rostat overy pretended oxerciso of tho functiona of thoso ofices by the men declarod clected until we get them out. Resolved, That the Chialrman svpolot o committce of tvienty-1ivo to go to thoso men and demand thewr renynation s and the Commiltos are instructed, in caso tholr demand shiall not bo complicd wit, to cal & me«ting of citizcus, to bo hold at this same place, to Teelve thelr roport with sueh recommindations as the exizencics of the occarion ahall require, The Committco has acted just as it should'bavo done, It first sought to find n Peaceable and legal way of ousting them, and it wonld not have been justiied in employing any other means, so long ns Lhero wus n logal method which they could’adopt. Having discovered the legal remedy, it went beforo the Doard of Appointment with the opinion of ten eminent lawyers that the election was vitinted and that tho offlces wero vacant, and it introdneed abundant ovidenco to prove these facts, Tha evidence having been henrd, the Board declared s vacancy in the oftices ond filled them ot once. Thus tho Commit- teo succeoded peacefully and legnlly, and the usaipery wero quickly and cficiently ousted without tho necessity of having recourse to forciblo measures, If tho Committoe, on the other Ilnnd, had bLeon unsuccessful in its offorts, and the usurpers had not beon got out, it would lave been tho duty of that Committes to Luve reconvened the citizons at the Exposition Building, and so reported to them, with the view {o receiving furthoer inatructions, It is tho height of foliy to suppose for a single instant that tho people wauld hovo lot the matter drop with such an impotont conclusion, There would have been no surrender to the bummers and senl- Inwags. The unanimous instruotion of tho peoplo.to this or some other Committeo would have Leen substantially this: '« Go and vacnte those offlees. Ejoob tho thieves peacelully if you can, forcibly if you must,” and it would have heen dome. That would Linvo been the temper and spirit of the peo- ple. "o assumo that they would nct in nny other way is at onco erroncons nnd seanda- lous, and for tho Zimes to keep up this kind of n firo.in-the-renr shows, to put the case ns mildly as possible, an inexcusable ‘misappre- Lension of the popular temper in denling with lawless scoundrels, Thoro was no dis- Dosition on the part of the pooplo. to form themselves into omobor to commit open violenco 5o long as thero was & peaceablo or a logal way of getting tho usurpers to quit; but this fact docs not dispose of tho additional one that, legal moans failing, thoy would have compelled them to quit ot all hazards, MIKE EVANS' PRECEDERT, When tho Town Board on Saturdsy had “ bounced ™ Evany, Puistars, nnd GLEESON, and tho question was asked them What are you going to do about it ? Evans was ready with a precedent. e said that in 1863 ho was a candidato for Collector on the Demo. cratic ticket, and was olected, and that the Town Bosrd then declared, as tho Town Board hos now deelared, that ho was not clected ; and that he took the mattor beforo Judge Manmner, who roversed the action of the Town Board, nnd that the other sido proposed to appeal until the Judgo roquired aboud equal to the sum of the legal omolu. monts of the oftice, when the appeal was abimdoned, [ Unfortunately for Mr. Bvaxs his memory is Wlightly defoctive. ‘Tho election for town officors in 1862 taok placo in November, at tho samo timo and at the same polls with the goneral election for county ofticary, including members of the Legislature, Under the law, the returns for township officora wore mado to the Town Board, whose duty it was to can- vast and declare the result, Tho returns for county oflicers woro made to the County Clerk, and he, with certain Justiovs, declared the rogalt. Doth tio County Hoard oud the Town Loard, in canvassing tho returns, rejectod the votes of certain pre- ciucts becauso of somo informalities. ‘Che Tefection of theso precinctaolected G, W. Gaax to tho Legislaturo over his Democratic oppo- nent, and dofoated tho election of tho Evana ticket for township officers, Tho case befora Judge Mastenuz turned upon tho uow familiar quostion ns to the powur of the Canvasiing Board to reject tho returns made by tho clection judges of any precinet, No ono will now protend that a mere Board of Convaasers bave auy such outhority, Judge Manenus having so decided, the Evans ticket was thereforo doclared eleoted, ond, though Mr. Gaoe wont to Springfiold with his certificato, tho House excluded him and admitted tho contestant, ‘I'his was o very differont onso from {lio presout. ‘Tho ‘Fown Bourd then sat ns u Can. vassing Board, and docided that Evans was not clected and that his opponent was. In this enso the Town Bourd hLay not acted ay a Canvassing Board, but has decided that there was no legal election, and that neithor the persons ou the Evaxs ticket nor ouany other ticket wero olectod, They decided that thero had boen * a total feilure” to eleot any onme of tho sovernl town officers, Having doter- mined this, the Board, comsisting 6f the Justices, Bupervisor, aud Town Olerlt, pro- cocded, as the law provides, to clect porsons to 1ill nuch ofiven, The cases of 1863 and that of 1876 nre not parallel, but widely divegont, Tho pofnt ovor which Evans seems to chucklo with pleasura is that, in 1863, Judgo Maxrenrne roquired o bond cqual to tho lo- gnl emoluments of the offices. At that time, theso officers wero paid by fees; at the pres. ent timo, the Collector s paid by a anlary of 81,600, which is fixed by Inw, That ia the only lawful demand ho ean make. All other allowances nro purely gratuitous. 'Tho legal allowanco of the Assessor s nbont $100; that of tho Supervisor, 45 and Clerk, 875, Should n bond bo necessory in n sum cover- ing theso allowaneem or in any other sum, there will bo no dificulty to obtain it, In tho monntime, it is to bo hoped tho steps will be takeon to abolish thewhole town- ohip organization RISE AND FALL OF BALLOT-STUEFFING, With all the political abuses Chicago Las suffered sinco the wunicipality was formed, wo beliove there was never nny systematio and formidable ballot-Lox stufing untit resort waghad to that infamous practico to carry the reorganization of the'city under the gen. erht chiarter of 1872, Tho success which nt tonded that effort, and tho rofusnl of the Courts to afford the people a remedy against the fraudulent nullification of their own votes, oncouraged tho bummers secking the town oflices to o more Lrazen application of the snmo practice. Had the socond and bolder effort succeeded also, it is snfo to sny that thero would bave bLeen nothing like an elee- tion by the peoplo for many years to coma. Tho oflices in county, city, nnd towns would thenceforth have been filled by the solo se- lection of the bnllot-box stuffers, nnd the honest voter would have been nbaolutely dis- franchised. The displacement of tho benofi- ciarics of the recont ballot-stuffing must be regarded, therofors, in the nature of a grand triumph, which not only sots aside the rosults of this specitic instance of ballot-stufling, but practically guaranteos tho intogrity of the ballot in ‘this city for years to come. Tha reign of tho hallot-box eluffers in Chicago wes brief and inglorious. ‘Wo havo now, in the proccedings of the Town Bord which deposed tho bummers, a full and authoritative statement of the caso against them. Heretoforo there havo only been rumors and unanthoritative statoments ; but the Committee in charge presontod o caso substantinted by unimpenchablo testimony under oath, and sustained by the legal opin- ions of ten amoung the foremost nttorneys in Chicago, A recapitulation will how tho in- harent strongth of that case, and fully justify tlua action of the Town Board. 1. Thoro was sbundant proof that there was o violation of law in the refusal of Grexsox, then Town Clerk, to recogniza the mnjority of tho town meoting nt No. 204 La- Sallo street in the choice of a Moderator, Grezaon nominated Tronyron and put the nominntion to vote; and, after henring tho aycs, declorod Tnonntoy elected Moderator without ealling for the noes. When constrain- cdafterward to call the noes, the proof isabun- dant that they provailed largely, Btill Gree- soN declared TnorxToN to have boou clocted. Subsequently Toosas HoxNe was nominated, and, when put to vote, tho proponderance wni enormously in favor of Lis clection, Still Grezson porsisted. in declaring Trony.- ToN elected, and Tronxtox nided and abetted ‘him by seizing the place and holding it, in apito of tho vola of the peoplo. This was ‘tho first violation of law, 2. At tho subsidiery voting-places tho same progranimo was carriod out ; the voice of the peoplo 1u the choico of Assistant Modarators | wes ignored; tho ballot-boxes had boon seized ‘by the bummer eaudidates and their hench- men ; and the people, noting in solf-defonse, wera constrained to sct up voting-places and ‘improviso ballot-boxes of their own, 8. Thero is ample proof that tho ballot- boxes wero tompored with after thoy had been doposited iu the vault of the office No. 204 LaSallo street. They were left under A guard of two, one represonting tho Repub- ‘licons, the other the bummers, besides tho policcinen, But soveral gentlemen, the Rev. Anrnon Mrrenenn and Winnax R. Pack among the number, returning to carry the | Republican guard a lunch, discovered that tho policomon had let Tuonntoy and Grres \ #ox inlo tho office, aud that they had opencd tho vault door, A second time they were seen in the neighborhood of the vault door, and this timo # man who was not rocognizod was alio discovered, which seems to stroiagthen the theory that o man had been kepte in tho vault to do the stufling, and the work of TrorNToN and GLEESON consist~ ed cf gotting himn out. Tho avidenco of all this s incontestible, 4, When it came to tho canvassing of the vote, TisonxToy, the Moderator, insisted upon dumping the contents of all tho boxes so ns to pravont the tmeing of the frauds. Ho clrimedt that ho had been advisod that this wia tho Iawful course by Messrs, Turey nnd Goupy, It hos slnce transpired from tho ovIdonoo of these gentlemen that My, Trney wuis not consulted on this point at all, and th at Mr, Goupy edvised that action should bo gerverned by the declsion of tho Canvassing Beard, Thoro ia further proof that theother m ymbers of the Canvassing Bonrd present rotested agninst the dumping, but that 'I's 1onNTON nssumed that ho was ** Loss,” and 80 cmpticd tho boxes that the vote at tha dif- {o ront polling-plnces could not be compared wi th tho tally-lists, " 5 Tho total count, novertholess, showed a deBcionoy in the baliots of 1,467 below the wkaolo number of votos actunlly polled. It wid1 impossiblo that thero could be any such detl clency by accident, and, inconncotion with tho other evidonces of fraud, it bocame con. clusive that tho ballot-boxes lind beon robbed, and that, even with tho stufing subsequently don o, thero had not been onough fraudu. lont. votos insorted fo equal by 1,467 tho hou ost’ votes that had been stolen, The vote uting of this (‘aficinuuy alone would have givim the Republican ticket a majority evon ovi ¢ the stuffed ballots, The stuflng was furl hor attested by the discovory among the Vol counted of a large numberof long, thin lip 4 of psper which had, not been seen at tho polls at all, and which contsined the nanies of those declared to be clocted, but thry:e of whom lad not been known as can. didistes during the election. These ballots weta cleun and smooth, and entirely different from tho ballota which had been handled and deposited by voters, Thisis tho evidonce in the case, not fur. nlshed by one person but by twenty, and not the result of observation at sny one point or any ono particular timo, but at all points yud throughout the entire election and cauvasd. ‘The law points are oquully strong. ‘I'ho record of the town meoting fails to show that ‘TuoiaTox was ever sworn ag Moderator, which thoe statute requires, The statuts also roquires thint there shall be no adjournment tll all this votes oast at » town election shall havo been counted and tho result publicty announced j but an adjournment was takon and tha votes wero not conuted fmme- dintely, thug piving timo anl opperlunity for robbing and stutiing tho boxes. ‘Lhis wna nlso a violation of the law whioh proved fatal. Tho law requires tho signature of tho Modorator to tho rocord of tho town meot- ing; the Modorator, as n matter of fact, did niotnign the record, and it was consequently illegal. The clinching law point, attested by ton of the ablent lnuwyers in the city,~half Republicaus and half Democrats,—is the nuthority of the Towa Donrd, consisting mainly of tho Justices of tho Ponce, to take cognizanco of the failuro to clect and fll the vacaneics before proeuring o judicial declnra- tion that thore nro vacanclos, It ianot to ho sarionsly questioned that this opinion will be sustained by the Courts, Messrs, Meron and Haanes a9 logal luminaries to tho contrary notwithstanding. Thus o symnfotrical and complete caso bias been made out ngainst the buunmors, They have been dispossessed of the spoils of their fraud. The oflices have been filled by good and competent mon. And, best of all, ballot-box stufling {n Chicago has roceived ita quiotns once for nil. ——— T0-MOBRROW, The imperativo nocessity for a thorough, sweeping reform of the City Government is known by every tax-payer and honest voter in Chiengo. There i no ocension for Tum Trwuye to agaln argue that point which it ling go long Inbored to impress upon the pub- He. 'Tho issue is betweon thieves and honest mon. It hns been snficiently argued, The caso has been summed up and sbbmitted to the jury of the people, To.morrow thoy will be called upon at the polls to render their verdict. Wo will now only remind’them that whother they shall be ridded of tho rule of thiovery and bummerism doponds upon thomsclves, By dovoting a fow hours to that work to-morrow, the decent poople of Chica- go can effect an entiro roform in the City Government, can take it out of tha control of Dallot-box stuffors and plunderers and placo it where it belongs—in the lands of tho citizens. No other argument should need be presented to prompt overy good citizon to do his duty ot the polls to-morrow. No multiplication of words could make that duty plainer, nor sccomplish for tho people what thoy alone can do for them- solves. All that is necossary is for overy voter opposed to thievery and bummerism to go to tho polls nnd vote againstit, and see to it that his voto is counted, and that there is no bollot-stufling, 1If reform is worth anything, it is worth one’ day's effort on the part of overy Rouest citizen. That is prociscly what it will cost, all that it will cost, and without that no reform can bo nccomplished, If tho decent citizens will to-morrow do ko much, on Wednesday Tne Tnisune will have the ploasuro of amnouncing to them at their brenkfast-tables that Colvinism, bummerism, and scoundrelism have been swopt from offlce in this city, and that the poople so long subject to the despotism of thioves havo re- gained the right of solf-government. CONKLING—BLAINE, Woare often asked if it is truo that the distinguished statesmen whose names hend this articlo are unfriendly to cach otlor, nnd if 80, the causo of it; and if it is of such o charnctor as would be likely to provent the cordinl support of one by the other for tho Presidency in enso of his nomination at Ciu- cinnatl, 'Wo have been compollod to answor that wo did not know ; but to cnable our in- torrogators to judgo a3 well ns we, it may be stated for their information tho causo of the quarral, and leave them to form their own opinions. We beliovo that these gentlemen hinve exchanged no courtosics for the past ten years, but a common dangor to the country it is quito likely would Lring thom again ta- gother, On the 24th of April, 1866, while thoe Army Appropristion bill was under discussion in tho Iousv, Mr, Coxkrino reflected severcly upon Gen, Fry, Pro. vost Marshal Goneral during the War. Brarxe defonded Fry, doclaring that thoro wag not & moro honorzblo and high-tonod officer in the army than ho. He furthor said: ‘¢ That officer, I doubt not, is rendy to meet tho gentloman from Néw York or anybody olse in tho proper forum. X must say thot I do not thiuk that it is any very creditabla procceding for the gentleman from New York hero ir this placa to traduce Gen. Fny na nmilitary officer whon he hos no op- portunity to be heard,” Coxkurve rosponded: “If Gon, Favis redluced to depending for vindieation upon tho gentleman from Mnino, ho is to bo com- miserated cortainly, If I have fallen to the necossity of taking lossons from that gentlo- man in tho rules of propriet§, or of right or wrong, God holp mo.” On a subsoquent day Mr, Briyy read a letter in tho Iouse from Gen, Fuy, which closed as follows: ¢ o (Covxriva) can therofore only esoapo the chargorof deliberato and malignant falsehood a3 & mombor of Congress by confessing an unpardonablo breach of duty as Judge Adve- cato, Ho held both ofices and took pay for both at the same timo ; ho has cortainly been falso to honor in one, and porhaps, as tho sequel mny show, in both,” This drew aun explauation from CoNEriNg of tho manner ho was omployed by the Gov- ornment, Brarve charged that he vielated the law, which he quoted, prohibiting him to recelve componsation while holding tho ofice Le did. . Inthe progress of tho discussion Coxxring onid: “If the gontleman from Maino had the least iden how profoundly in. differont I am to his oplnion upon tho sub- ject ho has been discussing, or upon any other subject portinent to me, I think that he would hardly take tho trouble to rise here and express his opinion, and, as it is a matter of entiro indifferoncs to me whnt that oplnion may bo, I certainly will not detain the House by discussing tho question whothor it is well or {ll-founded, or by noticing what ha says,” aud concluded by calling DBrae’s conduct ‘‘ungentlowanly, impertinent, and having nothing whatever to do with the question,” Brarxe closed the discussion as follows: **As 1o the gentloman's cruel sarcasm, I hope ho will not be too sovers, The contempt of thet large-minded gontleman isso wliting; his hsughty disdain, his graundiloquent swell, bis majestlo, superominent, over- powering turkey.gobbler strut has been 80 crushing to mysclf and all the mombors of this ‘FHouse, thotI know that it was an act of the grentest temority for me to venturo upon a controversy with him, But, sir, T know who s responsible for all this, T know that, within the last five weoks, 23 members of the Houso will recollect, an oxtra strut has charaoterized the gentleman's bearing, It .is not his fault, It is the fault of snother. ‘That gifted and satirical writer, Turopors Tiuron, of the New York Jnde- Pendent, spent wome weeks rocontly in this city. His lotters published in that papor embraced, with 'many serious statements, a little jocose matire, a part of which was the statement that the mantle of the late Winran Davis had fallon upon the membor from Now York. Tho gontleman took it sorfously, and it has given his atrnt additions! pomposity, ‘Cho rewemblance is preat, Tt in atriking, Hypanios to a Batyr, Tuensites to Hencures, mud to marble, dung-hill to dinmond, o singed cat to o Bongnl tigor, n whiniug puppy to roaring lion, Slado of tho mighty Davis, forgive the almost profanation of that jocose satire 1" That passnge-nt-arms botween tho two dis- tingnished gontlomen onded their personnl and social relations, nnd to eacl: otber thoy hiave never spoken since, e e ) 'Tho bummor Greesox ovidently did not know now completely he had beon oircum- vented when, after the adjournment of the Town Jonrd, bo mado his empty throst of contesting the nction of the Bonrd, Ho ig. nored the fact that ho was convicted out of his own mouth, ns witnessoth the following notico of Mr, LincoLy's sppoiniment as Su. pervisor Siate of Iinals, Cuk Coungy, Biate of 1ilinois to Kopeat Town of Soulli Chieago, greefing : WuEncas, At the sunual town meeting of aald fown, held on tho'4th day of April, A, D, 1476, said forcn firled to leet a Sutervisor of gatd town for the current ear, wheroby safd oflice hina Lecomio” vacant, there. or0 we, reporing full confldoncs i 3our integrily and sLility, have appointed, and do Leroby appoint. vou, “Towti Butervinor of asid town, to hold said ofice un. Uit ntiall bo Olled by eloction ot the next snuual wmoeting of said town, and until yonr succeasor ahall be electod, or aupolnted and qualliled. Witneas our hauds aud reals, this 16th day of April, D. 1878, CALYIN D'Wovr, J, J, BusensieLo, Gronax A, Mesot, J, T, J, CanLEs HAINKS, J, B, JuBErn YoLLAK, J. I, L, D, Watticr, 3, ., JAMER GLrVION, Pxren Foorr, d, P, Board of Appointment of South Chicago, Ryay, the only ono of the four who had sufficient self-roapect to defer to the public sentiment, has hended in his resignntion. ‘Tho Board thereupon procceded to fill tho vacancy. But the vacancy waa filled on the #1.—The Prople of the teoLN, Esq., of the = samo ground as the vaeancies in the other town officos, viz, : because thers had been a failure to cloct, and the notico of Mr, Lix- coLN's nppointment oxprosaly sots this forth, To this notico GrezsoN attuched Lis name, thereby acknowledging that thero had been o failaro to olect. How can ho now maintain that there was no such failurs, after having attosted" it over his own signature? The point is ono which would probably cut no figuro in the courts, but it sorves to show the utter recklessncss and incompotency of the bummer who signs a certificate of his own dismissal, and then maintaing that Lie has not been dismisaed. e —— Tho Mayor hos issued his customary proc- lamation requiring tho saloons to bo closed ou Tuesday, in conformity with the statutos. This proclamation has boon issued with ro- freshing regularity at overy elcetion of Inte, aud, we may add, it Las been disrogarded with a regularity equally refreshing. Upon this oceasion, whon the respectable and law- abiding people of this city have detormined that docent and honost men shall bo eloctod to the Common Council, it fa more than ovor important that the saloons shallbo shut whila tho polls mro open, The ballot-box guards thomselves should sea to it that tho saloonsin the vicinity of the polls ara closed, and, if thoy aro not, should eall the attention of the polico to tho fact, and if the polico refuse or fail to take cognizance of it, to take the number of tho polico aud complain of thei to the Mar: shal, If tho' saloons aro closed and drunk- onness aud fighting stopped, the bummiers will lose their grip upon their gangs of votars. It is onc of tho most important featurcs of tho election that every saloon should bo closed. Lat theMayor's proclamation, thore- fore, ba rigidly enforced, The ono singlo fact that the contents of the nino town ballot-boxes which wero dumped together in a pile wore found to be 1,467 votes short of the names on the poll. list proves beyond all question that the bal. lot-hoxes had boen tampered with, and that number of tickets purloined therofrom. "I'his theft of the tickets rendored tho rosult totally uncertain, tainted the eloction with {fraud, and left the Town Bonrd absolutely no discrotion in the case oxcept to declare tho election void on acoount of fraud and uncor- tainty. ' Mizz Evans ought to have sonse onough to seo that Lis littlo gamo is lost, and that ho is out. e — Ono of tho notablo incldonts connected with the revolt of tho people of Chioago against bum- merlsm 1s the acceptance, by Rosent T, Lixe CoLN, of tho oftico of Towe: Bupervisor, Mo has been notod horatofore for uis aversion to politl- callife, and for tho quiet rosolution with which he bas rofused to pormit Lis friends to put bim forward for nomination or appolotment to any office. Slnce Lia udmission to tho Bar, some ten yoars ago, ho has resisted all solicitations to ombark upon a political carcer, and has closely and sucoeesfuly appliod bimaclf to the practico of his profession, DBus the whilo ho has not suf- tored himselt to loso wight of hin dutios as a citizen, and upon tho perpotration of tho troa- sonublo frauds by which tho Lumhers choated the peoplo of tho right of self-governmont, ha turow naide Wisscraplos, camo to tho froot, and accoptod tho rathor lumblo ofiice of Supervior of the Bouth Town, in order to aid tho taz-payora and docont citizens In froeing themselves from plundoting bummerlsm, The example Lio Liaa wet in this rogard should nos bo loat upon all citizeus who, while they mre doter- mived $0 koop out of politics as far aa office- sooking ia concerned, would do woll to remember that it is chielly for that ronson that the ofticos, eupacially the lessor ones, aro given over to tho thievos and bummors, Until the best men, in ordor to servethe public, will nccopt thess at what porsonal sacrifica they may wvolvo, thore ia slendor proupact of any parmanent, offoctive ro- form, and it Is to bo truated his oxample will be followed, moro eupeciatly by thoss business mon and heavy tax-payers wao are glven to ocatempt of smail ofticos, and in consequence are plua- dered by thioves who captura the eame, S S i ey It appears at last that PaNDLETON was indesd alaughtered in the house of hiy friond,—that frioud being nous othor than Wasu MoLxay, of tha Cincianstl Enquirer, who first dlscoverod in PeNvLrzon material for a Prosldont. MoLean's sou-in-law, Gen. Hazey, was ordored to au out- of-iho-world post ou the frontlor, and appesls weare mada to BLrNAP for revocation of tle or- dor. This bo rofused to do, and tho AoLuana became espeaially indignant thereat, and fatked about post-tradersinps aud the Kentuoky rail- road claim job in throstouing manner to move Hurgyar, sod talked %o loud about 1t to no pur- poso that the whole story got out, It ruined LrreNar, butit also seut rnpLeron to join tha illustrlous political defuoot, —_— Tha villain who robbed the town ballot-boxes of fivo or wix thousand tickots, aud then blun- dored in the stuing operation tu the extent of 1,467 votea, should Lae called to accouus by bis pals for the shocking manner In whioh he butche. ered their listle Job. Unless he ascured his pay io advanco, he fs not likely to roceive it here- After—oxcept from the courzis. —_— Tha question which has been raised by some of the nowspaver quid-nunca and wade a deal of pother abous, whether it 1 posuible to hold & [ oo for Congresumen f{u Obhlo, since the act of Cougress fixing tho Arst Tussday af- tor the firu) Mouday in Novembar a4 the dsy for 156 slesuion, § sanlly daposed of, Dy Sep 0 of the Act of March 8, 1875, the originat sct i amendod so a8 to except from Its operstions thoso States the Conalltationa of which preacriby another day for the elootion, The Conatitution of Ohin provides for tho elaction fn Octo. bor, when, ander the sct of Oongross as well, & nust be held. . ¥ — Mr. Brorer fs foroman of the Grand Jury which 18 Investizating the eloction frauds. \Ve clip tho following interesting item of Grand Jury nows from Lis papor of yostorday, which was s “2c00p " on the othier papors for obviouy reraons " Tho Grand Jury furtbier {nvestigstod the Bonty Town clection outrage yestordny [Baturday] afternoon, and exanined about twenly wiineasss, I'rom revols: tions niade it would appest that a man had boen con. coalud in the vault wlien th orited tlere s eirmined that when ArTitun Mrronkzt and othen #aw TRORNTON and GLEXSON in the vault, they Wore lelling their frioud out,—the stufng Having boen ucatly scconiplishied. Farther it §s alieged thit the 1ame of the *handy 1nan wio did this work for Evaxa, Tronaron & Co, 1 Preen MoGer, omployed ann har-tender by Ald, Fouxy, Inlercsting develop. 1oenta ara expocted when tho cass I8 resumed Lo morrow, If tho right man has been found by the Grand Jury, it may bo unfortunnte that Lls pame hay beon made publio, as the probabilities aza Lo will abecond to Canada bofore a reluctant Sheritt will erroat and jug i, . —— Tho tostluiony given befors tho Town Boara proved vory cloarly that Dave Tuonxzox was not olected Moderator, but that Ticeas Horng was olected to that office by an averwholming majority of the citizens who wore presont, Dui Grexson, with the asaistance of a gang of roughy and loafors, ehouldsred in their pal, Dava ‘TuonNToN, fu violation of ail parliamentary and statute lsw, The town Lummors had batched out the scliome this day bofors for seizing cone tral of tho polla ud making fales raturns whick would elect thomsolvos, GrLErsox carried out hin part of the villainy with considerablo nerve, but tho ignorant koavos blundored at evary stop, and oxposod their frauds to the publio gazo, e We arc assured by thoso who profosa to know that tho indiviaual called D. J. LYo, who ia one of the bummora' candldates for Aldorman in the st Ward, doos not own a dollar'a worth of Pproperty in the olty, and does not pay a cont of taxes. Thoro is no salary sttachod to tho office of Aiderman, aud no Iawful pecuniary compen- sation of nny kind. Why, then,is he so very anxious to roprosent tho property-owners of the ward in tho Council? Thore is probably not a repatable tax-payer in tho entire consolldatod. FPirst Ward who desires bisgervices as Alderman, A parcel of whisky-soaked loafors bave boon proclaimiog about the strect that tho roason of tho pupho bostility to Mixx Evans scting as Collector was because ho was & Domocrat and an Irishman, That gun is spikod, for aftor he was ousted on account of the frauds bis placa was fllled bys botter Demoorat than himself, and a niuch decentor Irshmau—BEaNAnD Oire LAQUAN, S PERBONAL. Monsignor Nardi, of Romo, doclaros that Dr. Doeltinger 18 on the highway to tho kingdom of Frea Thought, Mr. Bayard Toylor had gono to Philadelpbia t¢ reprosent the Now York Z'ribune aa **a staff cor~ respondent ™ at tho Contenntal, Two children of Mr. John Quinoy Adams, of Boston, have died thls week from diphtharis, and a third is not expuctod to live, Au Austeian Princo, who i an srdent Catholio, bhiea rofased to give his daughter in marxiage ta young Herbert, son of Princo Bismarck, It was winspered in the Plymouth Church prayer-mooting Friday night that Mr, Desche Liad tho gout, for ke eatered in gort elippors, Tho **Iion,” Johu Mormrigsoy has paid $60,000 to the Louisville Jockey Club for the exclusive privilego of pool-gelling on ita grounds for five yoars. ‘Tho Inat sentence of the second artlcls in Mr. Btewart's will is a welghty one. It reads: “Fox which service, and sas mark of my regard, 1 givo to eaid Hilton $1,000,600." TFelix Rogamey, thoartist, formerly of Chi- cago, lins wottled in Boston, The Sunday Times of that city Is printing a series of cartoons on toplca of the day from his pencil. The New York Leralds * Pussonal Intellls gencor™ wag violontly ejosted from Booth'a Iheatre Inat weols becauss o porsisted in wear- ing hils ears wing-and-wing instead of fore-and. uft, aud 80 robbing tho spectssorsin five sectlons of a view of tho stage, 5 ® Tho late William Koster, of Msryland, bo queathod 8200,000 to the daughtor of his do coased brother, Frank Foster,-the lattor having died a poor man in the Weat. The young lady, who was residing with adopted parents in Leave oanwortl, hays juat beon notifled of her good forv tune, Jobn Sullivan and Catharine Bowlor, the for mer bliud and tho otuer douf, wore run oval while waiking on tho track of the Providence 4 Wostern Rallrord at Blackstono, Mass., Friday, Boths wore Ladly mangled. The woman diod soon after the accident, aud the man is not ex- poctod to rocover, Totrolonm V, Nasby’s (D. R. Locke's) nem comedy~drama of * Intiation ” fu thus charaotore ized by s Baltunoro journal: * The play is es~ sontlslly un Indifferont one. The dislogue is alipshod, unnatural, aud ofton 1ntolerably proe Aix, the bumor vapid and pointleas, while of plot thero is next to none,” . Aunie Besant, the English radica). borolns, has startod a petition to Parliament praying that no further granuts of mouoy to or for ths Royal fam- ly or any membor of it aliall bo given under any clrcumatances whatovor, The sigoatures have now run up into tho neighborkood of 80,000, and ‘whon presented it will be the largew petition ever sont to that body. Miss Anoa Diokinson's new play, which is to bo produced on thie occasion of her debut at the Boston (Hlobe Thoatro, May 8, {8 entitled **'The Crown of Thorus," and aims to represent the charaoter and Listory of Aune Boloyn in wnew light, aa » lovivg girl rather than a sohoming coquotte, Misa Dickinson had no assistance in tlio composition of ¢tho play. A Boston nowspapor says: ‘*Miss Adelalds Phillips, the famous coutralto, was at Miss Booth's recoption, iu Now York, on Huturdsy night. Bhe fu petite, piquont, acd protty, aud #o young that it does not soem poseiblo that she could have suug in thisclly thirtenn yoars ago. Noxt Sunday oveniug shio sppears iz tho oratorio of * Joshus,' in Boston. Thls oritorio has never botore besn produced in thls oity, wod, se it coniatod the well-known march, ¢Hes the Oone quoriog Horo Comes,' i1t wight be well to pasa it along." MOTEL ABNIVALS, Patmer House—W, R, Undorbil, New York; B, 0, Maclay, Bt Louls; H, H, A, Stowart, Pittaburg: the Mondelssohn Quintette Club, Dovton; Jobin Hale, Bas ton; Clarsnco W, Bowon, Drooklyn; I, E. Abboy, Now York ; T, D, Bagsadle, Bpriugteld; O, O, Dairg, Philadelpbia; J, 2, Payson, FPortlad; Dr, Herrlek, Bsu Prancisco; A, Van du Lindur, Maxlo W. U, King, Des Moluea,,,.Grand Fuoiio—W. De Ells, Fhliadelybla; ¥ A, Bchinleuturg, St Lot} the Hom, P, W, ppult, Providetoe, P Jutgs Owout, D 4 D, L. Rulliip, Hpringteld; vudg Clark, i ¥, 0. Cummiugy, avilla Fort Dodge; M. Meseks, Pittabury, and Thoniae' L, itatburt, Chippowa Falis; J. sy, Binghamton, N. Y.....fvewont fouse—3rs, Mary A, Liveruore, Boston; Tieary ¥riend und Jamod D. tlendorson, Now York; J, O ill, Loaton ; tus Hton, A, L. Sfartlu, Putiadsiphta; tho ioa. J N. etght, Laks uperioe; Col. V. W, Bulluek, Buriog: 100 thu How, L. B, ¥elf, Galoua; Gen, i1, I, D Ed Wilirod, Ouialing L. K. Kea J. Ik, Hicliards, Washlnguon; Peraival Lowell, Quloey + o Sherman ifouss—L. if, Day, Now YorX; L. Webly ast Grauvilly, V&, § B, A, I(uhun{x. 81, Loula; B B Yentou, Now York; T’ If, Switd, Asysrille, Br o 1, a, Boston; Jamod Wilion, alro, 0. A Uakes,’ New York; E, 8. Hllureti, Doaton; D Finyer, Bt Joseph "ot ol Veauicrs, Dresdey Gerizahy : B, A, Wiswell, New York; F, G, Leons: T i e, W - s Mol % e s, 23 uD, AL Trou| mn'«ua, Onu....'g;udnw House—'l'y Wi &