Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 18, 1876, Page 4

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AND A, M.~Mem- ersara hereby notificd ta’ appeat st tho lodge-room, No, 144 Twenty-second strest, at 2 p.m, Tusdsy, April 14, to attend (ho foneral of our late ‘Lrother, Jobn Clicimes, Mombers of Lafayetto Chater aro in’ vited. Dy order E. ¥, TOBEY, W, BL. ABHLAR LODGE, No, 08, F. & A, H.—Tlu%fllr gommunication this (Tuesdsy) evening In {heir hall, No. 76 Monroe-st., for work on the Third Degree, The fratornity cordislly invited O, H, CRANF, Secrstary, The @hisnge Tribume, Tuesday Morning, April 18, 1876, Greenbacka at the Now York Gold Ex- chinngo yostorday closed at 883, Partly clo;!y weather with riging tem- perature is tho metcorological bill of faro placed befors us to-day. Soms peoplo have an erroneons notion that it requircs ninaty daya'residence in a ward to ontitlo a citizen to vote. Bat it only takes s xouidence of thirty days in tho ward for that purpose, DBear this in mind. Yook here! After you have voted, just roflect and seo if you can't think of some person who is likely to negleot voting. Go forhim. Fetch him to tho polls, and put tho right ticket in his hands and sse it voted. During the past year over §20,000,000 of United States taxes hove been collocted in tho Internal-Revenuo District mansged ot presont by Supervisor MaTTmEWS, and com- prohending the States of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan, - Tho whole country will watch the battle ‘between the peoplo and tho bummers to-day with peculinr interest, especintly in the grent cities. If tho people of Chicago win the fight to-day, it will encourage the people clsowliero to oppose the bummers, thieves, and tax-caters, aud smash their combinations, Do not disappaint them, ‘I'ho first duty of every citizen, after he has 6nid his prayers and eaten his broakfast, is to go direetly to the polls and deposit his vote, oud then, if he lins time, seo that all his friends sud acquaintainees voto also, It is important to vote early, since, if it is put off, something may oceur to prevent voting. One lost ballot way turn the result in a precinet. Negotiations which have beon pending for rome time between the Government of Ax. rioxso and the Vatican have been broken off, the Madrid authorities informing thoso ot Rome that Spain will abide by the Con- cordat of 1851, excopting only that clanso which guarantees religious unity, Madrid now awaits farther propositions from the Tlead of tho Chu The death is announced at Detroit yester- fay of Orestes Avausrus DBrowxsoy, the wditor of Brownson's Quarterly Review, dis- tontinued last year, 1o had been a preachér successively in the Presbyterinn, Universalist, aud Unitarinn denominations, then beeame au avowed infidel, and lnter n convert to the Xtomnn Catholio faith. His writings, numer- ous and able, followed tho varying bonts of his religious beticf, and his death at the nge of 73 years closed n busy lifo, —— Another important stop was galned yostor- day in the movement against the South Vown usurpers, snd ono which will enable the tax. payers to hold tho advantage gained by the brilliant coup d'etat of Inst Soturdsy, Gen. Lien yestorday delivered the assessment. books of tho Houth Town to Mr. W, I B, Gnay, the now Asscssor chosen by tho Town Board, thereby completely rocognizing hime 28 tho logally appointed Assessor, Ep Purt- xars hos been effectually bounced, nnd nosw occurs the cheorful inquiry, *What is ho go- 1log to do about it 2" The impenchiuent mill grinds slowly, with B prospect that it will alko grind exceeding small so far us practical results are concerned. Tho Senate assombled with becoming solemnity yesterday, and the plea entered in bebalf of, Berxxar by his counsel was a deninl of tho jurisdiction of the Sonnte, Although this programme had been definitely under- 6tood for goveral days past, the House man. ngers wero taken by surprise, and asked for two days in which to consider their replica- tion to the plea. This granted, the Court sdjourned, aud the first duy of the pompous farco was ended. Mayor Corvix in hls dintribo states that thero aro elght millionx of dollars of taxzes unpaid. He docs not cxplain that this in- cludes five millions of dollars of tho current taxes on real estate, tho time forthe payment of which does not expire until August or Beptowber noxt. Real estato taxes have never beon paid until the time of asking for judgment thorefor, and in this reapoct this Yoar is uo axception to all previous years, Let Corviv, however, mccept JonN West. wonti's offor, and he will ind how readily tho taxes will be puid the moment his resig- nation {a filed. ‘The Chicago produce markots were general. ly frm yesterday. Mess pork was dull and steady, closing at $22,30 for April and 22,85 €or Moy, Lard was moro active, and closed 2§c per 100 s lower, at §18.35@18.874 cash, and $13.47)@18.40 for Msy, Meats were dall and steady, at 8jc for boxed sboulders, 1230 for do sbort ribs, and 12Jo for do short clears. Highwines wero quict and easier, ut $1.06} pergellon. Flour was quict and firm. Wheat wed more uctive oud jo bigher, closing ot §1.044 for April aud §1.06 for Mauy, Corn was in better demasd and §o higher, closing 4 450 for April aud 48]c for Aoy, Oats wero THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1576 activo and }@jo higher, closing at 82}a for April and 83}e for May. Ryo was guiot at 64j@6he. Barloy was in good demand and 1@1}e higher, closing at 630 cnsh or seller 3oy, Hogs were active and nveraged fio higher, with sales prineipally at $7.76@7.90. Catile woro innctive and weak., Bheep wero dull at £00 per 100 Ibs decline—quoted at £4.00@0.75 for common to extra. One hun- dred dollars in gold would buy $113.00 in grecnbacks at the close. Banyey CavrrieLp's Committeo is engaged in n general hunt for something which shall injuro the reputation of Solicitor Druronp Wirsox and grotify the whisky thieves. DBanser and his co-investigotors have sum. nontd to Washinglon reveral persons of questionable repute, in the hope of conneet- ing Mnj, Wirsox with the escapo of MeoOarr- ¥k, tho counterfeiter, and the subsoquont forfeituro of his bail-bond, but the prospect is that they will confor n poaitive bencfit upon the object of their spite by showing that then, n3 now, BLurorp Wirson was a most vigorous and efflolent prosccutor of thicvea and criminals, Tho Honse of Representatives wastod an. other day over tho case of Kivwoony, tho racusant witness, and, at the conclusion of a long and somowhat personal controversy be- twoen Mr, Braise and Mr, Tocker, the Vir- ginln ropresontative, on the subject of Stato rights and constitntional lnw, adopted a proposition made by Mr, Lysor, of Wis. consin, that tho Sergeant-at-Arms mako re- turn, as directed by tho original resolution, and that ho take with him befors the Court the body of Kmmouny. As in the easo of Inwiy, of Pacific Mail notorioty, in which the District Judge declined to accept the re- turn in the absonco of tho body of the nc- cused, it is presumed that Judgoe OCanrren, upon a presentation of the facts in tho ensv by the proper officor of the House, will de- cido that ho hns no jurisdiction, and remand Kiupouny to the custody of the House, ey The record of disasters and cnsualtios in this morning's issuo is unusunlly heavy. At Hannibal, Mo., the steamer Dictator was wrecked wiile attempting to pass through the draw of the railrond bridge across the Migsissippi at that point, and snvk instantly, with o loss of ten lives and heavy damngo to the bridge. Notwithstauding all the efforts of nearly all tho citizens of Hannibal to avert an overflow of tho Fathor of Waters at their city, tho Sny levco gave way yestordny, and & volumo of water 300 fect wide nnd soveral fect decp is nvw Inundating over 100,000 acroa of cultivated land, and the poor farmors of the vicinity are represented 0s flecing to the bluffs for their lives. 'The river at Quincy, IlL, is higher than at any time since 1857, and four miles abovo that city rolls with n majestic and awe-inspiring width of 20 miles. No loss of life is chron- icled, but the destruetion of property, espe- cially that of railway companics, is estimated ot & high figure. Further down the river, in Bolivar County, Miss., another fearful brenk Las occurred in the levee, and o large number of plantations are inundated. The Supreme Court of the United States yesterdny rendered decisions in soveral cases of great intercst to the people of Ilinois, The cases woro on appeal from the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of lllinois, in which permanent injunctions weore issucd to restrain tho colloction of State taxea upon tho capital stock of railronds, theso injunctions being in dircct contravontion of the decisions of tho State Courts nffinning the right to collect the tax in question, The United States Suprome Court reverses the judgment of tho Court below, and holds that tho rcystem of rmilrond texation created by the nct of 1872,—treating tracks, rolling-stock, franchise, and capital as a unit for taxation, and distributing the assossed valuo of this unit according ss the lougth of the road in such county, city, and town bears to the wholo length of rond,—that such a system is entirely within the power of the Stato to create, and that the question of the validity and construction of tho State Inw is altogether within tho jurisdiction of the Stato courts, ‘The injunctiona are dissolved, and tho rnilronds are notified that they must pay thoir taxes, and not look to the Federal courts for rolief in the form of injunctions, Tho amount of tax affected by the decision i3 estimated Dbetween $4,000,000 gnd 6,000,000, COLVIN'S MENDACITY, . In Cowviy's incolierent und mmblflsg letter, published yesterday, thers occurs a paragraph which, while ungrammatical and obscure, is ovidently intended to insinunte frauds in the management of sovoral publio funds, The cowardly and snenking manner in which ke makes the accusations does not lessen tho malignity which suggested them. o says: When my predecessor came {nto office It 18 true ho fouud o burned city, Dutthls very destruction was tho means uf concentraing hero larga amouuts of money. This moncy came from the itate, from tho contributions to the rolief of tho aufferers by tho Ore, sud from Jeans to tho city, Theso amounts must havo aggregated s aum not far from $3,0J0,000 (clght miilion dollars) over and above the amounty pald by the insurance companies, upon which gigantic specu- Iatlous wero reared, In theso speculations many of tho leading gentlemen of your moeting wero cugnged, Out of this oucy, it is freely stated In privte clrcics, uewapapors wero subeidized ; out of this money somo 300,000, If ucks much yreater amount, s has been more than ifuthmated by my uredecessor in tho columna of Tus Cricaao TIILUNK, Wag permanently appropriatad to bis own usa by the Treavurer dlected on tho Reform ket with e, Mupiet. Yet, in the auitdet of all this sbundance of foating ovpital iu tho pawor of the lata Mayor aud hix fumediate friends, all of whoso operations can be easly traced through tho Rellef and Ald Commnittees, speoulation in park property, aud bank depoaita (the same naracs falth. fully rosppearing from Ume to timo whevever the publio demauded (o know what bad Lecs dons with their tmonoy), tho thou Admiufstration could not bor- row for city purposes except at ratod one-tllrd to one- half greater than my Administration Las Loes up to thia time enabled to obtaln it. It is pomowhat difficult to understand what the man who wrote thnt maudlin paragraph roally meant, but that e was trying meanly and bascly to hint or insinuate womuthing iy ovident. As well ns we can understand Lim, ho says that the fact of the dostruction of the city had the effect of bringing large sums of money here, This is true. The whole sum expended in robuiling tho clty was brought here and invested by persons who had confidenco in thoe futuro of Chicago. But Cowviy doos not mean this capital, Ilo purticulurizes the money to which he refers u4 the money recoived from tho * Btate,” tho woney reecived by the Reliof and Ald Soclety, aud from towns to tho city, and these amounts he sayp aggrogated nbout £8,000,000 over and abovo the amounts paid by thio fnsurance companics, *‘upou which glgantio specula- tions were reared,” and in those speoalations, Lo alloges, muny of those who took part in ‘the Citizens'mecting were engogod. What- ever obseurity mny rest upon this atatoment, bocause of the peculiar construction of the sentence, may be overlooked, becauss in the nxt sontonce the insinuntion is wore broadly made, Beforo examining that, let us state briofly the amonnt of “this monoy ” to which specific referonce is mado. Tho State, in No- vember, 1871, by Iaw provided for the roleaso of the lion held by tho City of Chicago on the cannl the sum of 23,121,420, inclnding inter- st thoreon, which sum tho Legialaturo ap- propriated to specific purposes, aud which wns oxponded as follows: For rebullding bridges and visduets, Lo To pay Fire Depattment,.. 216,508 To pay Tolice I?c riment 278,401 Ta genoral fund, for municl To newerago fund, for futeraat on sower: and rivar bonds., . To wator fund—intereat on wter bon Publle buildings account—uew City-Hall, Balanco unpaid Decenier, 1874 120,438 Whols amount of Sats money. $3,121,420 "Iho monoy, except tho $120,458, was re. ceived in installmonts ruuning through the yonrs 1872 and 1873, 'Tho city hns had the use of tho $664,136, City-all building fund, and the §120,458 sinco collectod, aggrogating 784,605, without intorest, and not repre- sonted by outstanding certificates, The Xolief and Ald Bociety, according to their novernl aunual reports, recoived in money nearly five millions of dollars. Tho city, through Mayor Masox, borrowed from tho Relief and Aid Socioty about 375,000, and gavo- certificates of indebted- nesa therofor, 'This was all the monoy that ever was borrowed or roceived by tho City Government from that source, unlesa Afr, Corviy has got monoy from tho funds of that Society, on which point ho is silont. With the exception of the ono lonn men- tioned during Mason's aduinistration, the city borrowed nono of the Relief nnd Aid funds, and tho tate monoy wns expended for tho purposes to which the State had by Inw approprinted it, except tho £664,000 left to tho crodit of tho new Court-Houso build- ing nnd tho $120,000 which Mr. Corviv drew from the Btate Troasury. After the fire the Common Council, during Mayor Masos's administration, rescinded $1,412,790 of the taxes coming due, and tho Legislnture, for the relief of tho losora by fire, ordered robates to bo mado of municipal taxos on dostroyed property, which amountod to nbout 325,000, making togethera loss of city rovenue of $1,767,000. To make good this deficioncy necessarily swallowed up an equal amount of the money rocelved from tho Btate. And still the Acting Mayor don’t know what became of tho money obtained {from thoState! Nor does he appear to have tho slightest recollection thnt city property was destroyed or damaged by firo to the amount of mora than-threo aund n half mill- ions of dollars, which had to bo rebuilt and replaced by his predocessor, # ‘When Mr, Corvin says that *out of thig money,"” Stato aid or Reliof funds, * newspa- pers wero subsidized,” ho states au untruth, Not & newspaper in Chicago recoived n dollar, ~certainly not from the oity, nor by loan or otherwiso from tho Relief and Aid Society. That Gaoer uged for his own purposes city monoy, over what ho has sinco refunded, and what is in the suspended bauks, and tho so- called interest monoy, somo 300,000, is o notorious fact. Upon these premises the usurper then indulges in tho statement that ** in the midst of this floating capital ” i tho puwer of the late Mayor and his immediato fricuds, nll of whose operations (with this money) “can bo traced through Relief and Aid Cownmittees, speculation in park prop- erty, and bank deposits, tho same names faithfully appenring from timo to time when- over the public demannded to know wha¢ had been dono with their money.” 'Thia in,contemptible insinuation, malicions fnlsilication, and an nct of moan blackguard. ism on the part of the ayor of Chicago, So far &y tho allegation is wade thot any part of * this money " belonging to the city or con- trolled by tho city, except that takon by Gace, wad ovor wused for ‘*‘speculn. tion in park property,” or to subsl- dize nowspapery, or used in any *oper- ation” othor thpn a purely municipal one, is mondncious. It i the bnse insinua- tion of o profligate, rockless usurper, trying to avoid public contempt nnd consare. If ho menns that the funds of the Reliof and Aid Socloty wero used for such purposes, then ho is guilty of an equally ntrocious libel, and one that he has personal knowledgoe to bon acandnlous falschood, 'The peoplo nover de. manded what lad been dono with their monoy and wore refused. A committes of Corvy's own Council, at the request of the * Communists,” fuvestigaied tho affairs of the Bociety, had overy facility extonded them, nnd roported the facts to the publie, De- cause soma of tho mon who had given their timo and labor to the great work of that So- cloty participated in tho snecting which de- clared Corviv an usirperand requested him to resign, e seeks the revengo charncteristio of tho man, of calumulating them by insinue- tions that are as malignant as " they aro false. ‘WHO WEOIE COLVIN'S LETTER P The importance that has hitherto attached to the historie questions, * Who killed Cocle Robin?” and “ Whostruck Birry Parrrnson?” hos temporarily sunk into insignificance s compared with the greater importancs of the now question, *Who wrote CoLvin's letter ?" We have uo doubt this question was ssked wmoro frequontly yestorday than all the other conundrums of the day put together. Itis beset with the most oxnsperating doubts and tho most inextricable perplexities, There is only one certainty about it, and that is thero is ono man who didn't write it. This i the man whose namo was attached to it. "Thore aro occasional inatauces in it of Mr, Corvin's altitudinous contempt for tha convontionali- tics of grammar, the rigiduess of rhetoric, and clearness of expression. Jut hisrovision of the letter would account for the fow that are found, and thelr paucity is sufiiciont evi- denco that the composition was not his own. Corvix might tell who wrote it, but he won't, ‘Wheon an enterprising reporter of Tuz Tnin- UNE, recognizing the wide interest that would Lo felt in this matter, asked Mr. Corvin for the names of the nuthors, he very unroason- ably refused to give them, sud then waxed wrath and used profano language on Sunday night, ns lio was coming from the saloon, at what he called tho impertinence of tho quos- tion, Btill, Mr. CoLviy did not sot up tho preposterons claim that ho had written it himsclf; o probably thought it wouldn't * go down," o to spenk.” Of course the conjecturo as to the author ship of Corvin's letter has boon rife and variod. Thero {8 a goneral disposition to acquit bis private sccrotury of the responsi- bility for it, which is peculinrly fortunate for that gentlemnn, sinco ho will soon be looking for another situntion. Rumor has largely fixed upon Mr, JonN Rounrnee as thio author, becauso ho suggested the theory ubout tax-fighting in a recont communici- tion to the newspapers; but we can scarcely fmagine that Jack could find time in his arduons duties and unremitting labors aa County Attorney for the preparation of o elaborato a ducoment. Tho voluminous referonce to finnuces has created o suspiclon that Comptrollor IAyrs proparod tho lottor; bnt tho probability of this is considerably leasened by the frequont nnd nnkind allusions to tax-fighting, which Mr, IIaves i ssid to have practicod to n considorable oxtent in his own caso, Tho poot, Jo K. O. Forngsr, tho rotiring City Clork, i nlso charged by nomo porsonn with the responsibility of writing it, but there are good rensons for doubting it. In tho first place, the latter is in promo, whils Mr. Fon. nest Inttorly writes only in vorse; next, it is | only threo columns long, which wonld not suflico Mr. Fonnrsr to dispose of n single poiut in tho controversy; and, finally, it Iacks the rounded periods nnd finished stylo characteristic of tho retiring City Clork, Thero nro better rensous for attributing tho authorship (except n fow sentonces *‘lhove in" by Corvin himself) to Mr, FrANg Apans, the ncting Counsel to the Corporation (Mr, Corvry boing the Corporation), as a moro perfunctory not™ It has something of the digjointed and jorky nnture of Mr. Apams' composition ; and yet, as hois a candidnte on n tickot hended by Mr. Hoxxe for Mayor, it i scarcely fair to suspect him of secrotly manufacturing a dofenge for a man whotn o openly opposes, So with the other well-known literary gen- tlemen intimately nssociated with 3Mr, Cor- vi¥, who have been sovernlly canvassed fn connection with tho nuthorship of Mr. Cor- VIN'8 opistlo to tha {ax-payers, thero aro spo- cifio reasons for dismissing all of them from tha nccusation. But thero is one gontleman whoso namae ling searcely beon suggestod, but whose common Interest with Mr, Cozvry and whoso distinguished litevary attainments give him n good claim to the disputed nuthorship. We refer, of course, to Mr, Mixx Evana, It would be very hatural if Mignaew, foresceing tho preparation of his own defenso for lold- ing nu offico attnined through ballot-box stuffing, should fit himself for tho task by defending Mr. Conviy for holding ofiico under the samo conditions, It would also be very natural for Mr. Corviy, in deforence to Mixe's suporior ability and special literary training, to appenl to him to writo tho lotter, Mixr, too, has o certain dishonest shrowd- ness in attack ond impudence tu resisting, which are the distinguishing characteristies of the epistla signed by Corviy, So, whilo wo have no nctual ovidonco that Mr. Evanas is tho author of the letter, tho circumstances certninly warrant the inferonce. If ho is not the author, we presuma ho will promptly deny it. Otherwise BMr. Corviy may et all borrassing doubts at rest by telling who did writo it. But it Evans refuses to father it and Corvry refanes to rovenl the namo of the writer, the epistlo will pass into history with ns profound n mystery concorning its nuthor- ship as ntteches to the, * Lotters of Junius," Y CHARACTER.” The usurper Cowviy, intho roply which was written for him, says: * Now, n word concerning mysolf: Nenrly overy issuo of the 7'mes and Triuxs during the past year has been moro or less dedicnted to infamous sssaults upon my character both as n citizon nud og » public officer.” So far as Tz T~ uNr is concerned in tho above mournful how!, what hny been said in ita columns about Cor.- vIN, eithor ag a citizen or an ofiicial, requires no apology or defense, Its statements have nover been refnted or questioned, and cannot bo succossfully controvorted. Upto tho time that the city charter was ballot-box stuffed into power and forced by fraud upon tho peoplo of thia city, and up to tho time that lie rowarded with offico the thioves and bum. mens who stuffed tho ballot-boxes nnd chent- od the peoplaof thoir rights, ko might have pointed in vain to anything in the columns of Tue Tanuse to whick any fair-minded official could have taken excoption. The corrupt condition of his ndministration sinco thot timo DIas como in for roproof aud criticium, When he porsisted in Lolding his office after his term had expired, Tue Trimuse did not fail to donounce him 88 6 usurpor, 68 it had the right and was ity duty to do. It wonld have Leen derelict i ita duty ns a conservator'of tho rights of the peoplo had it failed in doing so. It wonld havo been justly accused of being an indorsor of Corvin's usurpation and bummorism, In this denuncintion it hns hod the support of all the honest and right-minded people of this city, It has had the support of both the great partivs. It has had the support aud in- dorseiment of 40,000 of thp best citizens of this city, nssembled in mass-meoting, to de. mand that ho step out of the offico Lo is usurping. It has had the support of the tax. payers of Chieago, and of overy man who works for n living and is determined that Lis property, large or littlo, shall not bo dev- nstated und devoured by Convin’s gang of tax-outers. ‘What is moro, Tug Trmune pro- poses to koop up this firo until ho steps down and out, bo the timo long or short, and to make the fire hotter the Ionger Lo holds on, If Mr. Corviy considers this an * infamous nssault upon his privato character as a citi- zon,” lio mnay make tho mnost of it. It is the plain duty of Tz Tnisuse to continuo ita attack upon this usurpation, and his gang of bummers, and upon their corruptions, until there is an end of thom, and we can assure Nr. Corviy he will nover have ocension to no- cuso Tur: TunoNe of lukewananess or dore- liction of its duty in this rogard, TO-DAY, Thorg remains but one thing to bo doue to froo Chicago from the despotic rule of thieves and bummers, and, loft undone, it will but ombolden them to moro thievery and worse ocarruption. ‘Chat is, that tho decent citizens, overy voter of them, to-duy go to the polls and voto for lLonost mou, There has been talk enough. It is Lime to do; and to-day is the only timo for doiug, Every man In tho city knows what atrocious thievery hina boon procticed upon us and will be continued unless the thieves bo to-dny doposed at tho polls. Every man in the city knows, too, that all that is necossary to make an end of bumerism and thiovery in the mumeipal governmont iy that tho law-abiding, tax-poy- ing, houcst voters do their dnty at tho polls to-dsy. Upon them dopends wholly and solely whether the rule of the rowdics and criminal clagses, under which tho Troasury hos beon bankrupted, the clty's crodit ex- houstod, and .plunder unparallcled, shall bo perpotusted. For the result the honest voters of Clicago will bo alone responsible, They constituta the overwhelining majority, They can vote thievery, bummnerism, and Colvin- ism out of office, aud restore the City Gov- orument o tho handa of honest offfolals rep- reaenting the people, not plundering ringy. Now is the tine to do it. This opportunity aud duty dovolves upon evory voter in the citydoday, Lat every man of them pvail himielf of that opportunity, and discharge that duty by going to the polls and voting for honest mon and sgainst publio plunder. ¢rs. There can be no business for to-day so important sy this. There can be nothing that will wurraut any man who is in favor of honost, dacont govornment in neglecting to voto for it to-day. Those who stay away from tho polls not only will have no right to complain {f they nro again outraged and plundored undor bummor rule, but will have only thomsolves to blamo; for only by fault of the decent portion of the community in lotting tha olootion go by dofanlt can tha bummor regime bo porpotuated. Not a gam- blor, thief, rowdy, or uncagod jail-bird in Cliiongo will to-day fail to voto nt lehst onco for tho porpetuntion of tho rule of the gamblors, thioves, rowdies, snd jail-birds. Not ono of them will nogleot opportunity to ropont and stuff tho ballot-boxes, 'The voto of every honest mnn is noeded to put thom down, and the utmost vigilanco of honost votors is requirod to mako sure that no frauds bo perpotrated, Thore is no othor way in which the oity can bo rescited from bummera and thieves. It can be donoe finnlly and de- cisively in that fashion, Lot overy honest votor in the city do that share of it which nono other can do for him, by going to tho polls to-day and voting for tho honost peoplo’a candidates, and Chicago will be rodeemed. DOM PEDRO'S RECEPTION, Dox Prono, Emperor of all tho Brazils, bos arrived in Now York, and has alroady shocked the Governmont officials, among thom tho Becrotaries of State, War, and tho Novy, by giving thom the snub direct. Tha threo Sccretarics sailod down New York Bay, ench charged and primed with n speech to firo off at him, This is tho first impulso of tho averago Amorican oitizan, There are Fodernl officials liko Beoretary Fism, who make flowery and dignified speoches, and there nre Mayors like Conviy, who mnke boora aud clowns of thomsclves upon such ocensions; but all, from Cabinot officials to Councilmon, feol it incumbent upon them- solves ns roprosentatives of tho groat Ameri- can peoplo to *shoot off " a speech at every foroign potoutato who visits our shores, Some potontates enjoy it ; somo do not; and nmong tho Intter is Do Pepno. According- ly, whon Sccrotary Fisi bonrded tho stonmer, he had no soonor stepped over tho talfrail than ho bogan hislittlo specch, Dox Peono ovidontly considored that the best and most effcctusl mnnner of damming up tho flood of American cloquence about to ovorwholm him was to commenco at tho very outsot, Ilo therefore quiotly knocked Secrotary Fisn's speoch on tho hoad by interrupting it and infarming our polished diplomat with lnconio brovity that ho didn't want any moro of it. By this litlle coup d'ctat ho saved himsclf a narrativp of tho glories of Brazil, of the progress of Amoriea, and of a detailed history of the diplomatic rolations between tho two countries, 1lo saved himself tho tedium of listening to o history of our army and its oporations. Ho farthermore savod himself the boro of hear- To sum it all up, ho wns spared from a great many vory remarkablo statements nbout this very ro. marknble country and its equally rematkable poople. Whon ho arrived at the city another attempt was mado to get at him by the Com. mon Council, which sent him a communien- tion signed by half a dozen Irish barkeepers To this im- pertinent and insulting pieco of business, His Mnjesty paid no attention whatever. During his stay in-Now York thus far, ho has sedu- lously but courteously nvoided the publio au. thorities, and has gone about enjoying himselt in his own quiet way on the stroot, behind tho scones at tho theatres, in tho nowspaper oflices, a¢t Moody's religions mootings, and wherover sights are to bo scon attractive to ing about onr remarkable navy. profiering him their attentions, Brazilian eycs. It is probably mortifying for n Secrotary of Stato to bo choked off in the midst of his clo~ quence. ‘Thero is a remote possibility that n Now York Alderraan may ba enpablo of mor. tifleation when a European doclines his im. pertinent proffers of recaption, Tha eirenin- stances of tho cass, howover, warraut Dost Peoro in the courso he has {nken, ITo cama to this country not as an Empoeror to bo courted and foled, dined and wined, and talked to denth, but as plain Dox Pepno, to havo o good time in his own quict way, and pay for Lis good time out of his own imporial pockot-book, He even took the trouble to announce boforchand that such was his intention, ovidently with the hopo that this would secure him immunity from being bored with speeches and racoptions, which aro his daily diot when at home. Ile was going off on a vacation for rest and recreation, and thera it no grontor rest for an Emperor than to be plain Mr. Bo-and-So, freo to wander about untrammelod with tho resleaints of offleinl otiquetto, and pay for what Lo secs and hears like any one of tho untorrificd American sovereigns when nabrosd. Loast of all did ke care o subject himself to the an- noyance of having his billa flung in his face, as happoned to poor King Karaxava in Now York and President Goanr in Boston, after being tho municipal guests, o press spocch- es and receptions upon him, therefore, under ‘such circumstunces, is impertinonce. Mo hios como horo to sece tho Contennial Ex. hibition and tske a look at the coun- try o3 plain Mr, Bamrrm or Browy might do. e inay not save lim- solf tho annoyanco of being stared nt, for it is ono of tho ponnltics of colebrity in tho United States. All Americans aro hero. worshipers, It ia our failing, As plain re- publicans wo do o great denl of uscless run. ning after royalty, and the cltizon of this re. mnrkablo country who can sit near a Royal Iighuess at & dinner glts on tho top round of tholnddor of happiness, But whilo he may not savo himself the nuisance of being run aftor and stared nt by the American sov- oreigns, ho should at loast bo let alone by Cabinot offlcors, Stato officlals, Common Coungils, County Commissloners, literary clubs, and other human aggregates destituto of judividunl rosources, The most choorful view of Doy Peono's snub of tho ofiiclals nt New York is the fact that it will possibly save him from CoLviv's clownishness whon bo ar. rives biere; and this in turn will save tho re- spectable peaplo of this city from the shame and mortification thoy have hitherto oxpe- rienced when Covvin has ropresentod tho oity in receiving famous visitors, *Long Joun" has accepted CoLviN's chal. lenge. Ho proposes to place a blank chock in tho hands of Judge Warraow, giving that gentleman full discretion to Il {t up for tha amount of all taxes he may owe tho city, if Covvix will also place his resignation in the same hands, This s proclscly what CoLvin bas domanded. Mr. Wenrwonta was Chalr. man of tho Exposition meoting, and wes s~ pecially singled out by Couvin as owing the city ularge amount of money for taxes, Now the issuo is made. Mr. Wentwouts will pay overy dollar of his taxea if Cosvix will keep his word and * step down and out.” Will Corvei doit? If he does, it will bo the first notable instance of his keeping his word. But we foar ho will not. e did not expect to, be so promptly wet, He thought this . tho Committee, subterfugo would furnish him with an ex- tonnation for his continued usurpation, It hos foiled. Now lot Corvin deposit that res. ignation with Judge WArnAck within twenty- four honrs, s ho agreed to do in his lottor to Thia will enably him to go out justat tho time Ar, Hoxnm sball bo olocted. Mayor CorviN s not only indifferent to truth, but he is so rookless that tho proof of his misstatomonts is nbundant. Iero is o samplo of bis fulminntions; Of the many bequosts left (o me by my prodecestor, the Ion. Joszrir Mepity, the following woro amoug the most valuablo: ' * 1. 1o boquoatlied to ma, of unavailsblo nosels, tox certificatea to the amount of §330,000, 2. Conteactors’ vouchors which had beon drawn ‘pon the Comptrotlor by the Boird of Publlo Warks, and unpald, amounting to $500,000, 3. Blortage In tho Troasury in conssquence of Caoz's dofelostion amounling to over half amilifon dollar—making » total of over £1,850,000. (It i n tittle diffienlt to comprehsnd how thé gusets, callod l::-e)mmum, can bo put down a9 dabis ogainst tho city.] Tt enriched hys mountain of dobt I began my adminfstration. Tho fuances of the city wora in o deplorablo shepe (1), Thoy had boen earciod on upon & widely extandod crodit systew, and, in painbof fact, tho corporatiod was literally bankeupt (7). 1. Mr, Haves, in Lis report in April, 1874, atates thoro wero thon uucoliseted tax pur- chasos in his hands of only $398,675, show- ing that in the intorvening four months ho had colloctod 430,000 of theso ** unavailablo assets}” and on Jan, 1, 1876, ho roports that only $144,500 was due, and theso included $12,000 on warrnnts which had beon burned, 8o Mr. CorviN colleoted over 700,000 of theso “unavailablo nssots.” 2. Tho allegation that thore woro R0 00,000 of contractors’ vouchers unpnid is a false- hood; tho sum did not oxeosd $23,000, oven if it ronched that amonnt, 8, That the corporation was bankrupt is anothor falschood. 'Tho outstanding cor- tificates running to June, 1874, amounted to $1,613,743. Against this Corvin had: Tax’ purchases, of which Lo hos collocted ey 705, 010,307 140,000 Total available nmu........u..........;l—,fi_g,nav In addition, hie hind the tax warrant for over five millions of the taxes of 1873, At that timo ho admits that, wanting money to pay tho hinlf-yearly interost, ho got it by merely asking for it, admitting the full credit of the city. Why he cannot borrow now he ean find ont upon inquiring of those who refuse to lend, Tho Zhicves Organ’ yesterday dovoted itself to tho vindiention of Colvinism, Voters must romember that a voto for Mr, Hoyne is but o protest ngainst Corviy's continued wsurpa- tion. If Hoyne docs not get n mnjority-of the whole voto cast at tho clection, CoLviy will cluim it as n popular vindieation of his own right to romain in offico ns Mayor, and in order that homny do so tho Lieres’ Organ is imploring Itepublicsns not to vote for Mayor! It wants to claiin o victory for Cor- vIN. In ita issuo yesterday it sought to deter voters from voting by saying: In the “ Law of American Kloctions,” Sec, 3¢9, tho suthor, the Hon. G, W, McCuany, wuya: It i3 well seltled that whera a mited number of persona are to bo chosen to fili given ollice, o ballot contaming the tanies uf o greater number for thal office 13 void.” Of coutse if o ticket contaius the names of tio porsons for Mayor, ov two porsons for Troasnaror, it canuot bo counted for eithor of tha two perrons named. But solong ns there is but one Mayor to bo clected, and ono name only is votad for, tho ballot remains good. Evon if there wuro a dozen porsons voted for, for ns many oflicos for which thpro was no logal election, it would not impair the validity of the ballot for thoso officers which aro to Dbe clected. The vast mootiog which assembled last Tuos- day night in the Exposition Bullding appointed ncommitton of threo citizons to walt ou the Act- ing Mayor and request him to rosign on tho groaud that hly torm hod long sinco oxpired. ‘This {3 a part of Lis reply—one of hia rossons for refusing : Bomo 31,000,000 were recelved by tho city after the QOreat Fire la 1871, for the uso and benatit Of the snf- fering poor of our city,—all of whick went Into the Lank for thetr uso aud accommouation, and has beau dealt ont by the Relief and Ald Soclety to our poor in -mmaq lustallments, when 1= could no longer bo re. ned, What kas tho Ald and Reliof Socioty's distri- bution of tho contributions to do with tho do- mand of tho mass-maatiug for hia resignation 7 What councction Is thore betwoen the two thinga? The Ala ond Leliof Bocioty paid out tbo money and other contributions in the way which thoy judgod would rollovo tho most suf- foring and do tho most good. If they Lad acted on his suggestion to have dividod up all tho con- tributions at the outsot among thoso who clam- ored for largo dlvidonds, tons of thousands of peopla would have been i a starving and frooze ing condition boforo the end of tho tirat wintor aftor the fire, avd thon what? Dy tho way, & largo part of tho Enstern donations, which em- braced a majority of the whole, wera nover de- pomted in tho Clicago banks, but in tho Esstern banks, and wera chcoked out as ncoded by tho Bocioty. - g e Tho unpaid employes of tho Citv of Chleago havo a most vital interest in tho oloctlon which taltos placo to-day. 1t i3 vital beeauso It con- cern thoir brond and bulter and tho support of tholr familics, IHuudrodu if niot thousauds of them havo biad no money sinco March, and it is -very cloar tliat thoir prospeeta will not grow any more oucouraginy 60 long 08 tho CoLvis oliquo rowsin In offico. It is manifoet that this om- barresmont will continuo #o long as the tax~ payors havono faith {u the thieves and bum- mors who have the diutribution of the rovounes fu thelr bande, It ls thoroforo for the interoat of these unpald employes that thoey should make common csuse with the tax-pavors, and work aud vote with thom for tho oloction of honoat ofiicials and an, bonest Cummon Council. In such an event, tho Comptroller will bo onablod to sottle tho bills of all employes, If, howover, tho otoction to-day ehall result in the retontion of Corviy aud his bummors in office, thewss bard-worked and poorty-pald employes of the city can whistle for thelr pay. If there are any funds in the City Troasury, thoy may dopend upon it that they will go Into the pookstsof Corvin'a bummory sud not into thelrs, el el Nt ey TuosTen Pork, who diod at 86, Louis on Bat- urday, was olocted Qovernor of Missouri in 1856, and tho yoor following was by tho anti« Benton faction elucted to the United SBtates Bonsto, About the time Sonator Jessz D, Buant, of Tudiana, was detootod in troasonabla correspondeuce witn Jepregson Davis, Porx waa dlucoversd actively engaged in the Hoboel cor spiracy, left the Bouate tu embark in' it, and wan oxpelled in 1802. Ho was iu ante-War timos con- spicuoun in Mivsourl politics, but was porhspa mous distiugulebied for his botrayal of Col, Bex- 7ToN in the final effort of the latter's political caroor. Torx lived to flud himself too obscure for disturbance by tho cuuntry ho had sought to betray, and had so uttorly pavsod out of the memory of the prosent generation that tho tols- geaph-operators didn's evon know lis nsme, which In the dispatoh announcing hils doath was transtormed into * Truster of Polk,” — The Mayoralty usurper, in closing his howl, requests those who have not paid their taxes to do so. Does ho not koow that tuey intend to pay up Just aa 8000 84 ko {s out uf oftice? Thoy do uat pay now, becauso they have no confidenco in bim or his bummers. ‘They do not pay now, beoause thay do not want their tazoes stolsn and squanderad, Inatead of being appliod to theyy logitimate uses, Thoy will pay up when he N out. As it is evident, thorofors, that the only obatacle which atands i the way of the fm. provemont of tho city's fingucon is CoLvin bim. folf, the Mayor should remove him at ouce, "I'bo poople should ald bim to-day by olecting ag honest Common Council, which will help him ty got Corvin ont. T ey Mr. WexTwonTm, like many othors who noy domand UoLvin's reslgnstion, voted for that i, dividual for Mayor, Ho hes, thorefots, & specis) right (o criticias the Oonvix sdminlstration, Hin ruggestion s poouliarly timely, that Corvix, ifho has so much confidenca in hin appoint. monta, shall tranalor all his ofticlal sudorlings 't the employ of tho Express Compeny, and Phaey the oxpresamon in tho city ofiloos. Tho #chemy would bo a good ono, but we fonr it ia not prag. ticablo, ‘Tho mausgersof tho Express Company wouldn't permit {t. They would oven prefor, wy suspoct, to disponso with CoLvix's sorvices. No man who has tho intorests of bia city henrt shoutd fail to cast bis ballot to-dsy, Ab. sonco from tho polls upon such an occaslon ay: this will bo Mitle less than criminal, Last fay tho county bummors wore ousted and tholr come bination waa broken becaueo tho respoclabiy aud honost peoplo of tho clty turned ont ang voted, Tho corrupl city ning can be brokey Junt a8 complotely, if the poople do their daty at tho polls, Every man abould vote, and ovary man who can should also stay snd work, Thy people will not bo chosted this time. Tiy ballot-boxas will bo watchiod and guarded, I, theroforo, the pooplo only turn out and vota, thoy will bo rowarded with victory. —_—— Thero are Probably 5,000 citizens who omplay one or more ifed mon about tholr Louses y help, conchmon, éta, Nearly all theoo mon wiy choorfully voto the same kind of tickot as theip omployers, it spoken to on the snbject. I nothing 18 8ald to thom, most of them will nog. lact to vdto st all, and others may bo imposed upon by.bummoars whon thoy go to the polls, ‘This ia o vory important matter, and should net be neglocted, Tho voto in tho Firat and Bocond Wards la Iall was a5 follows: Hvoxk, 1,795; Kxerer, 20, HesiNg, 1,085, This showa thot tho bummen nro in & docided minority, and.if ad honest vole 18 Lad, that Wanngs will bo dofeated. Many of thoso who votod for HesiNo or Kxrey then will voto against the bummers' candidatos now. At o Republican Club meotiog 1o ths Thin teonth Ward, on Baturday night, Mr. A M, Wniont, o leading and influontial mombar of tho Board of rade, was nominated for Alder man. BShould Lo bo elected, we pradict that he wilt mako'a first-class mombor. i Thora aro roporis that Cranx Lirx may by soralohod more or less in the Bouth Diviston, whoro ko is not much known but fn the Wes Division, whoro everybody knows him, it is be licved Lo will run far ahead of bis tickot. oy o *solid cltizen,” sud ono of the largost tax. payers in the Wost Division. ‘TuTiitL I8 o sonud Lawyer, and s bold, llrl(filfim wanl man, snd will, ns City Attornoy, work in ban mony with the uow reform Common Councll, Vot for him,—FEveniny Journat, 1t Fraxe Avaxs {8 olocted ho will do all in hiy power to provent the usurper from bolyg bouneed, Keop that in mmd whilo voting. A In maling ont his list of dolinquent tax-pap oy, HARVEY, {n his hoyl, forgot to say whother ho {8 Iu arrears Limsolf, and in fact rafralned from staling whothor Lo pays any taxes. He also omitted to put down his Comptroller as one of {ho dolinquenta. i o B Judge Oms pronounces Cowvin's statemani Inlsa that bo 8 a tnz-fighter; but would pay bis #arcssmonts with considerably more atisfaction it bumme:s wore not to devour thom, e PERSONAL. Mrs, Elizaboth Pattorson-Bonnparte, of Baltl moro, it seriously 11}, As sho fs more than 9 yoars old, her rocovery is considerod doubtfal, Dom Pedro, Empor or of Brazil, stands 6 feol 3 inches in his stockings ; and, whon he souly throo mombera of the Amorican Cabinot, Lo is probably propared to afford the satiafaction usual amoug gentiomen who fight in this goner ation, * Lo Lifo of Macaulay,” which hna jaat ap peared in London, 18 excitiog a noneation fn thy roading world. Hin biographer utates that Ms caulay was not ablo to earn mora than £200 por annum at & tie whon he was writing kis flnes caaays, Mr. Howoella' new mstory, ** Privata Thoatrl- coly,” s finishod In the May Atlantic, mud the publisbers bave arrauggod for a stury from the pen of Heary James, Jr., who, howevor the crib ios may praise him, hainot made much of » popular succeds, A Mr, Btowart, of No, 703 Wyoming sirost, Philadolphls, claima to be a firat counln of A. T, Btewart, Ho was uot mentioned in the will, snd the claim la not fully verifled {u viow of the fnct that Mr. A. T' Btowars has always said he Lud no blood relstiona. Edmund Yates always dictates his novols, and has for an amanuonsis an oxcosdingly grave aud unimsginativo man, On onoe occasion, whoo about to bogin his day's work, Mr, Yates fo. quired : * Where did we leavo off 7" ** Whero ¢ wero pressing hor lips, sir,” roplied tha socro- tury, in & mattor-of-fact way, Tho closing sentoucos of Georgs Willlam Curtia' lootnre on ** Womon of tho Old Time and tho Now " ara aa follows: * Yostordsy is geone, aud to-day 18 come. 'Tho frotted alave of tho (reok biousohold, and the idlo ggy and dofl of thoaga of Chenterfiold, has given pluco ta n better idea ; and we go forward, with God't Liolp, to find the truo woman in the freo Amerk cau hotwa," Qoorgo Ellot is & tremendous worker aud & bard studont, Like hor hushand, sho1s an”ex collont lugnier, reading Frouch, Gonnan Icalian, Spanish, and Dutch with tho grestes! ense and with critical comprehension, Her con stitution is good, but her lenlth Is dolicate on account of tho porpetual etrain sho puts upos 1t.. Bho hoa earnod by her pon, it s reportod, including her pay for ** Deronda,” from 180,008 to §200,000, Brot Harto modostly asys : * Of conrse I am glad that tho pablio approciate my eketches of tho odd clisracters froquently met with on the Pacific slopo ; but you and I and every othet Californian koow that I havo not half done jus tice to tho subjeots, consldering the material st tand. I hove Just stuok the pick in, and atruck apaying pooket, Bomebody else will come nlong and prospoct fa the ssme bole and strike tho truo vein." LOTEL ABRIVALA, Palmer House—R, W, Bhoppell and Chatles Cluess, New York; I, 0, Kufght, Providence; 8, T, Caidwell Eddyville, Is. 3 O, H, Deere, Moltne; J.8cott, Eogland; thio liov, . Dunne, Iilinolu; Goorge nmhua, Alig- 1L, Buurey, Montroal; A, H. Xeudall, Kew . ¥, oughfon, Madison, Wis,; 1f, £, Wasb: purn, Boston; J, D. Totter, Aassachuseits: Piper, Wheaton,,,,.Urand Pucyie—8, 8, Morvill, Mil- waukvo; Gou. Judson Kilpairick, Now Jorwey; b8 ltev, Dr, Lilleuthal, Cincinusti: Proctor Tsylory Tantiso, ' Ml.; W, J, Obitlenden, Dutrolti Georgo' L, Diz, Hoston; Gen, Willam Atyere, U 8 oW A Umalis; L) Liliontlal, M. D, tornoy-Qetecal Edaall, Bpringheld. s 0. Kenoslia; §t, 8, Warren aud 0, D, Whitoo, York; ¥, 1.’ Dubols, Springfiold; IiL Lo Morso, Macon ouumv D, Buwlin, Omabs..., Tré- mont House—Uen. W. W, Hortou, Michigan; d; A Eimborley, Neouaii, Wis.; Newtou Goodwi: v Yorkj W 8. Alaxsndar, i Peul; Dr, Tosgst: den, " Raciue; the lton, J, W, ks 5. Mlling toni Gen, Harry Wadawirth, Omahai Gon. O: &t Husimason, Godusctlout; Gol, O, ¥, Urary, Oubkoshi Percival Lowsll, Quincy Lmn ‘Barr, Bher] Jn:' [ E, Downey, Racine, .. Sherman fHouse—The Lou. I, Wilion, Blorllog; the iion. Georgo 8, Ioblcsoy Hyracuso, hI.L(I.l Owen and J, Fraslez, New Yorki the ifon, K. It Alighel, Qarvon City . J, Maher, Cinclonati} thellon, J, H. Ammon, lonf w{l"'m‘: Linker, Calro; Col, K, U, Watson, Now York; liou, dcLane ‘Btimson, Taronto]' I, E. Fairitakh tidails ; the Hon, W, Eston, Councotiout; solis P Haxs, Han Franclsco......Cardner Houss—W, Htowo aud Mise Mary i ork; Miss H, Blovenh i York ; ‘A T, 0. theer, Now I Now York; mond, Butfalos J, 11, Besrs, New York ln" Boston { W, M. Sscomb, Aurors § Edwin . Lancaster, N, X,; Miss Mary Livers, New Jersay-