Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO THEIBUNE: THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1876. S e e T T T TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, SATES OF AUPSCHIPTION (PAYABLR IN ADVANCE). Bt e ey ond Roiaton L] ooy 2.00 e Weskly, porisaid: [ix Parts of ye WRXXLY EDITION, POATF) ] DET Jear fob of fiverpar GIob ot twanty: Dot cob ‘The postage s 15 con! Bpsotmen coples sent freo. To pravent delay and mistakar, b suze and giva Fost- Offos addrosa In fall, including Stato and Connty. Ramittances may bo made sithor by drafl, expross, Pout-Offoa erder, ot In rexistersd lettors, at our risk. TRRMS TO CITY AUNSCIINERA. Baily. dolirored, Bunday excapted, 3 conta er week, d, 00, centa por wooks e ored. Bundgg el A CORARY: Gorner Madteon and Uearborn-s1a., Ohifcago L. AMUSEMENTS. TIE—Tiandolph street, botween O ang TG The Gotforaia Misatres, MOVIOKER'S THEATRE—Madison stroot, between Dearborn and Btate, ** Lady of Lyons.” ADELPHI THEATRE—Monroo stroct, corner Deare barn, Varlety entortainment. "BOCIETY MEETINGS. THOMAS J. TURNER LODGE NO, 409, A, F. & A. M,—Tuls (Thuraday) evening, April 20, for work on Third , 8t Preo” Masons' {fall, 72 Kast Monroe- Express Jullling). Visillug urotbren y invited to meet witli us, Open prompt . Dy order of the W, M. WALLACE B. DOUGLAS, Becretary. GOURGAS OHAPTER OF ROSE OROIX.—Ther will Do requiar assemibly 8t (beir Asylum this (Thuraday) Rcoing at 716 o'clook, Work on the'Bovenioants an ighteenth Degroce, Dy order of 11, 1, TOND, M. W. and P. M, ED, GOODALE, Or, Becretary. The Ghieago Tribume, Thursday Mormng, April 20, 1870, Groenbacks ot the New York Gold Ex- change yostordny closed at 88§, According to the officinl pmactions, thero will bo littlo chango of temporatura in thia rogion to-dny. Doss Peoro paid a flying visit to Chicago yoaterday, morely passing through the city on his way to San Francisco. He saw cnough to make him wish he could stay longer, and to mnko up his mind to give us a moro ex- tended call when he comes this way again, The Mlinois Btato Democratic Stato Cen- tral Committes have fixed upon June 22 ns the dato of tho State Couvention for the so- lection of dolegates to tho National Con. vontion. The Convention for tho nomi- notion of Stato officers will bo held later on. It is understood that the Committeo arc strongly in favor of Judge Davis for the Presidency, and thnt they have no notion of serving as a tail to the Granger kite, but will urgo the nomination of a full Domocratic State ticket. —e, "Tho South Town Board is engaged inan effort to straighton out the finances of tho town, ascertain the debts and resources, and provido a plan for a general squaring of ac- counts. In this thoy are somewhat annoyed by the impudent bluster of Ep Piriies and his pal Greeson, who are ovidently bont on making themsolves ns troublesome as possi. blo. hese bummers have no longer any connection with town affnirs, aud the Board should trent them merely ns meddlosome in- torlopers and disturbers, and politely but firmnly show thom the doo The question of jurisdiction in the Ber- ExAr impenchmont proceedings still stops the way to further progress. The Houso manogers contend that BereNAP was an officor of the United States until after the Commit- teo invostigation and its impeachment prep- arations wero completed, his rosignation to the contrary notwithstanding, ns it was ten- dered with full lnowledgo of the intentions and proparations of tho Committes. The other sido will filo an anawer to this replica. tion, tho House will filo n rojoindor, and the case will not be resuned until a weck from to-dny. Meanwhilo the Seuntors give no sign a8 to their views on the question of jurisdiction, which will consumo much time before a decision is reachod. Toxt Bcorr is not to have things his own way in lobbying for tho Toxas Pacific job. ‘There are compotitors in the fleld who offer Dbottar and fairer torms, proposing to com- ploto the road for the amount of the land- grant, to commenco withont delay nnd con- tinuo operations vigorously, and also to de- posit with tho Governmeut $3,000,000 ns o pledgo of good faith. This is somothing of on improvement upon the 8corr scheme, which contomplates an oxtension of eight years for tho complotion of the road, and a subsidy besides in the shape of a Govern- ment guarantes of 'Poxas PTacific bLonds, And yot the Ponnsylvanin lobbyist s not abaghed ot tha prospoot; he atill oxpects to * persundo™ n - snflicient number of votes to pass his bill, The diplomatio controversy concorning the oxtradition of Winsrow promises to load to the abrogation of the prosent extradition treaty with Great Britajn, That treaty wns made in 1842, and does not include or pro- vide for many of the improvemonts in crime which has taken place sinco then, Tho Brit. ish Government Insists that, when the Unitod States demand the return of a fugitive orim- inal, thoy shall stato tho crimo which he is accused of having committed, and, whon he hiag been surrondered, that he shall be tried for that offenso and not for some other ono, As o principle, the Dritish domand is prob. ably correct, but thero is no such provision in the troaty, and tho present demand is tharefore an addition to the trealy, and ono to which the United States have not given tholr pasent. If this complication will lead to a now treaty, including the Dominion of Canads, it will be a national benefit. Tho proximity of the Canadian border, and tho facility of reaching it, act 8s o constant do. feat of justice, and make tho British prove inces an asylum for o population whick is as detested thore aa it is nooded horo, — The Chicago produce markets generally fook a downward turn yeaterday, Mess pork waa rathur quiet, and doclined 17}@200 per brl, closing at $22.15 for Moy and $22.47} for June, Lard was active and 20¢ per 100 Ibs lower, closing et $18,20 for May and 1887} for June, Maats were sctive and easler ot 8}o for boxed shoulders, 1240 for do ehort ribs, and 12jo for do short clears. Highwines were quiet and unchanged, at §1.00} per gallon. Flour was quict and stronger, Wheat was loss activo and jo low- er, closing at 81,034 for April and $1.054 for Mey. Corn wus moderately active, snd jo lower, closing at 47c for April and 48)o for Msy, Oats wore dull and §@jo lower, clos- fug at 83fo for May or June, By waus stronger, at 65}@6Ujc. Barloy was quist, closing at 61§@620 for May and 580 for June, Hogs woro moderntely notiveat fio do- cline, Tho bulk of the sales woro at ¥7.76@ 7.00, Oattle wero dull and weak under ox- cessivo offeringy, sclling nt $2,50@5.60, Bheep sold at $4.00@7.25 for poor to oxtra, Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy £113.12} in greenbacka at the oloso, It {sna yot too enrly to obtain from tho Aldormen-clect an expression of their views and intontions concerning the Mayornlty, as many of thom profer not to commit them- selvos on that point until tho controvorsy shall havo assumed a definitc shape. There is, however, littlo doubt ihat & majority of the membors of the new Commion Council aro honrtily disgusted with the usurpor Cor- w18, and will do what shall seem to Lo best to rid tho Oity Govornment of his connection with it. A question has been roised na to whother tho retiring Council may not attempt to block the wheels of roform by rofusal or delay to convass tho roturns; but thereis littlo likelihood that such n schomo is serious. ly contemplated. It would bo attended with n degroo of poril that fow of the Colvinites in tho old Council would dare to jnecur. Slowly but surely the partisan hostility of the Domocrats and tho malignant spite of tho whisky-thioves ara nssisting tho move. ment to nominate Secretary Brisrow s tho Republican candidate for the Presidency. One by ona their vicious slanders nre pro- mulgated, nnd ono by one they are so prompt- 1y and thoroughly refuted that tho attontion of tho wholo nation is centered on this man who scems to be absolutely slander-proof. Tho dirty and disgraceful lio connecting Sec- relary Buistow's name with a corrupt bar- gnin with Kentucky distillers, which was nl. legod to have beon teatified to before Banvry Cavrrienn's Committee, and which was given out to bo tolegraphod to Democratic pnpers ond whisky-thieves' organs, has called forth from Mr. DBamrow a monly and dignified prolest nogainst such mothods of investigation; an indignant deninl of tho alleged testimony, nnd a de- mand for an opportunity to be heard. It now transpires that no such testimony was givon—at lenst, such is the oxplanation of the matter—but it is none tho less certain that thero was a deliberate plot to injure Mr, Bristow by the publication of the slander. ‘Tho thing falls to tho ground,.just ns the mulo aud hog stories foll before it, and just a8 tho later story falls concorning the Mexi- can titles to the Texns Pacific lands. Noth- ing sticke, except it bo tho stigma which attaches to Mr. Bumstow's defamors and the renction in his favor which invariably fol. lows, MORAL OF THE ELECTION. The rosult of the charter elcction in Chi- engo is a grand victory, and primarily a vie- tory of the respectable dlement over the bumuier eloment. The latter lad notico to quit, aud they accopted it. They had been practically repudiated by both parties. Thoy wero not in the ficld at all. Thero was only ono ward—the Tenth—in which they resorted to their old practices. In the three other wards where they achioved a success—the Seventh, Eighth, and Seventeenth—the decent class of tax-payers wero only defeated on account of tho division among themselves. The most striking ovidonco of tho retirement of the bummoer class is to bo found in the over- whelming defont of Frang Warney in tha First Ward, who was confidont of success. Thero are only eight avowoed Colvinites re- turned to tho Council, and theso nre tho only ones among the nowly-clected Aldermen who can be depended on to stand by the bummer aud tax-enting intorests. There are twonty- cight Aldermon who mny be ressonably ex- peeted to represont tho respectable tax-pay- ers and heod tho popular demand for re- tronchment; but cven if n few of theso should fall from grace and disappoint the peoplo who elocted thom, thero will still re- main n largo majority represonting the prop. erty interests and docont peoplo of Chicago, Coming down to party distinctions, the clection wns a glorious vietory for the Repub- licans, Of tho thirty-six Aldermen elocted, only ton are classed among the Democrate, and four of these moy bo counted on to act with the better Republicans in all questions affocting local government. Tho election of the goneral ticket shows that Chicago ia Re- publican by at least 5,000 majority when the opposing candidates are nbout equal in merit, —a majority subject to roduction or increaso according to the inferior or superior qualifica- tions of tho Ropublican eandidates, Tho de. feat of BMr, Lrrg, the Republican candidate for City Trensurcr, by a majority for Alr, Bntaas, the Domocratio candidato, as large as that which the Ropublican candidates for the other offices roceived, is an ovidenco that the indopendont votor waa abroad. Ho is likely honceforth to nssort himself with a strength that may make a change of 10,000 in the voto of Chicago. Me s naturally inclined to vote the Republican ticket, but o will voto the Domocratio ticket whenever the former is conspicuously bad or the latter notably good. Ilo is no longer to bo sneered at. Tho cloction of Mr. Briaas, Domacrat,— ond certalnly as good 8 man s could have been selected for the place, in the face of the defent of oll tho other Demoernts by a mn- Jority of £,000,—should bo secopted ns a warning to both parties, It is a notice to the Domocratio party that they can only hope to overcome the Republicun wgjority by nominating men of on inflnitely highor order of merit; it s o notica to the Republican party that they can only count on their regu. lar majority in the city by nominating just us good men ns thelr opponents can pousibly put in the fluld, In the light of this exporience, both partics should in tho future nominate only their very best mon, since nelther ean afford to risk tho dangor that the other will make superior nominations.’ But the good work of purifying the local Government is not yet completed. It woa begun last fall by the defeat of tho bummer party which nominated Mr, Hesva for Coun- ty Tronsurer, It was followed up by the do- feat of the town bummiers in all three towns, and the ejection of those in the Bouth Town ‘who endeavored to hold over by ballot-box stufing, It was materially advanced by the victory of tho respectable and tax-paying citizons in tho obarter election, It was sigunlized by the vote of 85,163 for Mr, Honie as an independent caudidate for Maoyor, in wpito of the fact that large num. bery refused to vote for him becauss no clec- tlon for Muyor had been callod. But Mr, Hoxnx's vote was, all the #ame, o vigorous ond siguificant protest, But the Augean atables aro not yot thoronghly cleansed. The samo popular intorest and tho samo purity of purposs must be malntained for the local eloction next full, There are then thirty-four local offfice-holdors to bo clected, viz.: State's Attorney, Bherid, Coroner, Rocorder, Clerk of the Cir. oult Court, fivo County Commlssioners, threo Btato Benntors and twenty-ona Ropro- sentatives from Cook County, The samo onergy will be required to purgo the county offices of the taint of bummorism that was necessary in tho cnso of the city officos. Tho Sheriff {8 the oxeentivo officer of tho county, aud the Bonrd of Commissioners aro tho County Legislature, It is imposaible to conceive that eitlor tho oxecutivo or tho leg- islativo brauch should be in worso hands than at present. The Sheriff's office has beon debased to tho vilest possible uses. It has Rupported a lot of roughs aud bummoers in tho subordinate places, Under its prosent manngoment tho impaneling both of grand nnd petit juries has been notoriously favora. blo to tho criminal clnsses in oflico and out of office. It should boswept elean, The ro- tirement of five County Commissioners will cnable the peoplo to improvo the character of tlint Board, which is peculiarly important in view of its part in the seloction of juries nnd the cxtraordinary oxpendi. tures incident to the building of the Conrt-Honso. The five Commissioners who go out this yenr are IIrarino, Jonnsox, Bun- p1cg, LonenoaN, and Busse. Thoro cau bo a decided improvement in all these, un- Iesa it bo Buantox and Busag, who havo gon. erally voted for tho tax-payers, Thero should bo equally stronuons offorts to scouro the olection of nmoro intelligont delegation to tho Legislaturo than was sent two years ngo. It hos been demonstrated that bnmmorlsm is not very highly regarded by the State at largo, and Chicago mien can only seouro recognition and attain influence on merit of their own. There aro many reforms which Chicago and Cook County need that the Leg- islaturo alouo can nfford,—for instance, n ohange in thnt portion of the law which plnces tho colloction of taxes in tho hands of tho Sheriff in counties whore the town offlcors aro nbolished. Unless Chicago shall be.rop- resented by men of ability in the next Legis- Iature, theso roforms will not be secured. Itis vital to tho completion of the work of local reform that the samo onergy shall be excreised by reputable voters ; that our best citizons shall consent to serva the poopls, whether in the County Bonrd or the Legisla- ture; that tho workingmen and salaried classes hinll bo equally impressed with thoe fact that they bear their full sharo of local taxation nnd suffer most from tho dopressing influen. ces of excessive taxation; and, finnlly, that bLummorism shall be as complotoly routed in tho county eleotion ns it has boon in the ro- cent city and town olections. If this can bo done, Chiengo will be better off, politically and commorcially, than any other large city in the country. THE INDIARA DEMOCRATS, Thero was o lively time yosterdny among tho Democrats in tho State Convention of Indinna. Tho rival greenbackers, Horaax nnd LaNpers, wero able to defeat ono an- other, aud thoy did it with a warmth that ovidenced tho bitterness of the fight. Liax- DERS was nominated some months ago by the Groenback Convention for Governor, and the Democrney had no objection to his paper- monoy platform, but they objected to his accopting tho nomination of any other party. The Convention, without a dissenting voice, was as intensely dovoted to tho greenback platform as wns Laxpers, but to nominate Laixpens was to send lrxpricss to the 8t Louis Convention loaded down with the most radical paper-money doctrines and lunatic thcorics. Novertheless, Lanvrns wanted loss than 50 votes of a majority of the whole Couvention, After a season of tumult and disorder, J. D. Wirrrams, a Dom. ocratic inember of the present Congress, was nominnted. The platform adopted was a paper-money one, Itdemands the withdrawnlof the Nation- al Bank note currency, and the substitution therefor of a naw issuo of legnl-tonder groen- backs, and the immediato repeal of the Re. sumption act, and nominated Hexonicks for President. Tho platform is substantially tho inflation resolutions*® repeatedly offered in Congress during the presont session by Ifor. aoN and Lavpeea, Thoro was an effort to avoid a Stato platform until aftor the St. Lonis Convention, but the Rag-Baby Demo- erats of Indiona insisted that Ilevpnroxs should go to 8t. Louis ns & Rag-Baby candl- date or go without the indorsement of his own State. Consequently, the Convention Luried him under a platform which oxcludes the possibility of his election and aven tho posnibility of his nomination. Tho action at Indinnapolis yosterdoy clearly indicates that if tho National Democratic Convention nomi- nate a hard-monoy candidate or adopt a hard- money platform, the Democrats of Indinnn will support neithor, but organize a third party, with old WiLrtam Avriey or Lanpeny s their candidato, The President is deserving of uustinted commendation for his veto of the bill reducing tho salory attached to his offico one-half, The reduction conld not affect Gon. Graxr personally, since it could not constitutionally be oporative until tho closo of Lis term, and thero i no longer nny thought of his renom- ination. is veto was, therefore, solely in deforence to his honest conviction that the salary of §50,000 is not oxorbitant. Having signed tha bill in his first ternn which donbled the salary of the office during his second term, ho could not consistently give his usont to a reduction of the salary to what it was Lofore, In fnct, thore is reason to believe that many of those in Congress who voted for the reduction did so with the purpose of plucing hiw in the embarrassing position of dotermining it; but he acted in the only way conistent with honor and fajrness. The fact is that & great and pros. perous mation like the United States ought not, and probubly does not, dosire to pay its Chiet Executive ot the rato of only hLalf 08 much as the Dominion of Conadn peya its Governor, The snlary of £50,000 is not excessive in view of the high responsibilitios assumed by the Presidont and the oxtraordinary oxpenscs {ncident to the tenure of tho oflica, Iocent action of Gen. Guaxt in his privato affairs indicates that he will go out of the offico o poor man, notwith- stunding the liberality of the nation to him a8 General of the Army bofore he became Presidont, Instend of reducing the sularies of tho officlals in bigh places and with great responaibilitice, tho tendency of the time should be to increaso them to ot lenst a suf. ficient amount to compots with business cor- porations In attracting good men to the publio servico. In tho case of the proposed reduc. tion of the President’s salary, it was peculiarly niggardly in Congross without at the same time proposiug a proportionate reduction in Congressional ealaries. The pay of the President bas been increased but once since tho organization of the Govermment, and thon bat 100 per cent; the pay of Congress. wen has beun increased sevoral times during the same period, and in the sggregute €00 per cent, As the increase and reduction of both are in the hands of Oongress, this ex- hibit is not very favorablo to tho motives of Congress, As n matter of fact, the move- mont seoms to have boon formed by n com. bination of the demngogues with the rem- nant of salary-grabbors who remain in Congress. Tho former thought in this way to win some cheap applauso, and the Iatter songht n mean revengo for their own punish. mont for salary-grabbing. It will probably not be possible to pasa tho bill over the veto. CITY OERTIFICATES. On Tnosday tho Judges of the Circnit and Buperior Courts of this county designated Jndge MoAvrusten to ofllcially hear, the other Judges being prosent, an argument upon an ngreed ense instituted by Mr, Comp- troller Haves to test tho validity of the cortifientes cf indebtedness issued by tho city, 'Tho cnsa was argued 770 and con by tho employos of the city, nnd Ly Mr, Onapian JAcRsoX ns o citizon. In the somewhnt gon- eral discussion that took place Mr. Haves phrticipated, directing his remarks to a congorious criticism of tho nowspapors, Mr. Harves scemnod to be Iaboring undor tho ide that the nowspapera had destroyed tho eredit of the city, and that bad tho nowspapers kept silent tho city conld have gone on indefinitely issuing cortificates and borrowing monoy to pay thom, until this form of publio debt ox. ceoded ovon the bonded debt. It isnsuf- flcient nuswer to Mr. Haves to say that he has vory narrow views of the functions of tha daily press and of its duties to the publio; that whon ko nssumes that it is ovidencoof o want of patriotism when the newspnpers criti. cigo the netions of the City Govornment and protest in the namoof Inw and of justice ngainst tho creation of dobts of doubtful validity, he misunderstands what ho is talk. ing about. A vory respoctablo Judge of one of tho Oircuit Courts of this State, and tho only Judgoe to whom tho question had beon submitted, decided—with great confidence in tho corrcctuess of his judgmont—that tho isauo of such cortificates by a City Govern- ment was prohibited by the Constitution ; and ho granted an order restraining thoir issuo or the payment of thoso alrendy issucd. Beenuse a Court, acting under its responsi- bility to the law and in justice to the goneral public, considerod such an injunction propor, it does not follow that the learned Judgo was in any way wanting in potriotism. Tho judgmont of that Court has been indorsed by tho professional opinions of a numbor of Inwyem in good standing porsonally and at the Bor. Mr, Haves geems to complnin that such opinions should havo been furnishod, and trents themn as he doos the newspapor ar- ticles—as purely sensationnl attacks on the City Governmeont, Ty Cuzeaco Tanose has disoussed this question of the validity of these certificates without the’permission of the City Govern- ment, and will continue to doso. ‘Thispaper has novor denied the right of the city to issuo a cortificato of lawfally-incurrod indobtodness, ‘but this paper hns questioned the authority of tho city to create dobts or * become in- dobted " under the circumstances which have led to the issuo of some of theso cortificates. Wo hwve also objected to the validity of tho form of theso cortiticates, espocinlly to the rocitnl that they were issued under cortain sections of tho laws of 1865."9 which havo been repenled by tho chartor adopted in 1875, ‘I'he Constitution of the State and tha charter of tho city Loth prohibit the city from * bo- coming indebted ” in any manner or for any pmrposo in excesg of the constitutional limit. Wo have argued that of necessity, and in the full conteraplation of the Constitution, the city is authorized to provide all the machin- ery of local governmont, and to approprints money to be paid in the future, the city lovy- ing taxes fo cover the wholo amount thus oppropriated. 'Tho salary of tho Mayor of the city is continuous ; it is & debt accruing without intermission; Lut wo have always hield that it was o debt logal in every senso, and not falling within the prohibitions of the Congtitution and chartor. Tho fact that tho tax to pny thot salary is not collected in ad- vaneo does not affact the legality of the debt duo to tho Mayor for his salary. ‘I'ho dobt itself being a legal oue, tho having * becomo indebted” to tho Mayor for his salary boing fully authorized by law and not prohibited by the Constitutior, we see no violation of law in issuing to the Mayor a certificate that tho city is indebted to him. Tho mere issuing of the cortificate does not crento a debt, becnuse tho debt exints beforchand; it is merely & chiange in the form,—the giving of a note as ovidenco of un acknowledged dobt adding nothing to the demand agaiust the city. Originally lawful, to issuo a cortificato that it is duo can in no senso bo construcd as ““ be. coming indebted ” unlawfully. Mr, Haves bas choson to disrogard this viow of the case, and to rely upon the author- ity of the sections of tho roponled chartor, ond npou an ordinanco of the Common Coun- cil authorizing the city to borrow monoy. It is porbaps fortunate that this matter has beon put in a shapo in which there can bo o judicial opinion obtalued. In addition to this caso, tho one from Springfeld is beforo the Bupremo Court, and there is, therefore, & promise of au early and authoritative judg- ment on the law involved. THE TURKISH QUESTIOR. Tho Turkish question, which hna hereto- fore only intimately concorned Turkoy and hor rebellious Christlan provinces, now bo- gins to nssume wmuch graver importanco aa it involves Gormany, Austria, and Russin, As theso Powers now stand to-day, Austrin is liablo to interfere in ‘Furkish affairs, Russia is oponly oncournging Servin and other prov- inces Immediately adjacont to her southern boundaries to revolt, and Germany is unoasi- 1y watching both, for fear that thoy may any moment break the triple alliance which Bis« »anck wos enablod to establish immedintoly after tho Franco-German war. Upon this al- liance Busaanox dopended to maintain the atatu quo, and soitle Europosn affairs by their mutual decisions. This alliance is now threatonod by on unforesoen emerguncy,—tho prospective rotiroment of the Czar and the resignation of his movereignty into tho hands of his son. The Czar is growing old, morbid, gloomy, and melan. choly, and bis health 14 rapidly failing, He is about to leave for softer climos to obtaln rest and recrontion, and during his sbsence bo will invest bis son, as Regent, with full power. Bolong as tho Ozar was in powor thero was no danger of a disturbance of the triplo alliance, In the first place, the family ties connecting him with the German Em. poror were very strong; in tho sacond placo, ho has been averse to war sinco the disas. trous lesson of the Orimoa. 1lis son, how- ever, is ““no such man.” He ig the ropre- sorgdative of Young Ruusia, which advocates Russifying all the Christian provinces of Turkoy. ‘Thd London Spectator thus com. pares the two; Tho father (a8 Gorman, the son s Bussian. The fathor is a droamer, the son & mun of sction. The father bus known docp sdveraity,—for the fallure in tho Orimea was felt in tho Winter Falace ruptoy would be felt in 8 Fondon middie-ciass honse,— Aho son haa Iacked that chantoning experience, Above all, {f wo undorstand auything of tho two cliaractors, thie fathor {a self-distrusttul man, who aeckd advico anitscca obstacloa; tho son an absolutaly self-trunting ‘man, one in whoso mind to will and {0 act are almost aynchronous emotions., e s even cradited, though that may ba mors goaslp, with the tendeney to violent imperionsness which has marked at difforent timea sa many Princcs of his housa, " Thero can bo but littlo doubt that the Czare- -witch will rovorso the policy of his father, and that in this he will bo influenced not only by his friendship for tho oppressod Ohristians in tho Turkish provinces, but also by his wifo, tho Princess Dacaran, who haa not yot recov- ered from the humiliation that was put upon Donmark by Gormany, The rupturc of the allianoo therofors by tho rotiremont of one of tho parties to it, and tho principal party upon ‘whom Bissanck dopended to proserve it un. impalred through this Turkish trouble, must ontail upon tho German Promier nnow for- cign polioy with referenco to tho genoral con- dition of Earopean affairs; and this of itself {6 sufficient to produce goneral distrust and depression in Germany. The situation upon tho political ohess-board thoroforo is sub- stantinlly aa follows: Germnny is watching Austria and Russia with the utmost uncasi. ness, and is approhonsive that very serious ovonts aro closo ot hand requiring a now Ger- man policy. Austrin, which is desirous of quict, mnaturnlly lonms toward Tur. koy and tho suppression of the Ifer- zegovinion rovolt 8o very docidedly that there has alrendy beon n rupture botween tho Austrion and Russian Courts, followed by tho rosignation of tho Russian Minister, M. Novirorr, at Vienna. Ttussin hins alroady shown her polioy, by giving the Sorvians to understond that, if thoy decide to join in the rovolt, none of the Great Powern shall inter- fero with hor, which is just as valuable nssist- anco to the insurgents nsif the Russinns hod sont thom men and war material. Tur- key is still working away to put down her re- bellion, with sbont ns much success as Dama Parmivaron had when she tried to mop tho Atlantic out of her house. Tho only other Powers worth considering are England and Franco, The former sits quiotly by onting her Egyptian eako, contonted with anything thot may happen, since she has a mortgago on Egypt, and hor Queen, by tho addition of Empress to hor title, will be ns Tmporial ns auy one in the other threo Empires. France's opportunity for an alliance may como whon tho othior Powors get fairly into motion, and, if Germany interfores, it is not impossiblo that the Czarewitoh may find n closo friond in France. What will become of tho insur. gents in caso the Great Powers shall mix in tho conflict, no ono can tell beyond the very palpable fact that they will bo partitioned and devoured past all recognition, The victory over tho Aldermanic bummers would have been mora comploto if the frionds of reform and honesty could have adjusted their irreconcilablo differences as to Aldormnnio candidates, ond concentrated their strength on two men in ench ward; but they persisted in scattering and dividing thoir votes nmong n mob of enndidates, and theroby dofoated themsclves in sovernl wards, "Thus in the Seventh Ward thoy ran siz candi- dates, and of course lot tho * crooked ** bum- mer-blathorskito Hizonern slip in botween them, Tho Ropublican vote cast for City Clerk was 1,169, tho Domoeratic voto 2,328, total, 8,492, and yet Hinonerr, who rocoived only 1,275 votes, or ono-third of the num. bor polled, is elected. Ifad his opponents united thoir strongth he would have been overwholmingly defeated. In the Fifth ‘Ward (Bridgoport) tho oppononts of Sos- Men, who voted to keep Couvrx in offics, aplit up their strenpgth nmong five candidatos, and thorcby olected him. The Democratic vote of tho ward was 2,698 and the Ropub- lican voto 1,130, and yet Soanm:n, who only sot 1,624 votes, is elocted. In the Bixth, which is tho southwestern ward, the Ropub- licans polled 1,897 votes for Uity Clerk againet 1,60¢ for the Democratic candidato, and with this strength they undertook to elect three Aldermon, and of course elocted none. Inthe Eighth (old Niuth), which is overwhelmingly Democratio, thoy ran four candidates, but by good Inck nbout a thou- sand Democrnts votod for one of them, and elocted him, beating tho Corvin bummer Bamey, If there had been nny unity of action among the frionds of Srovronp, Prznce, and Roessivg, the othor bummer, O'Butey, would also have been laid out, for ho only reccived 1,654 votes out of tho 2,845 Democratio votes that wero cast. The Rte- publican voto alone, if it had boen concen- trated, would have smashod him. Ono seat in tho Council from the Thirteonth Ward was lost by partisan quarroling, the Republicans ranning four or flve candidates, whoreby Waerren (Dom,) slipped in botwoon them, beating Quinz (Rep.) by 48 votes, When will men claiming to bo intelligont scquiro sonse? For tho apecial odification of Our Bannzy from Bridgeport, who represents one of the Chicago Districts so nobly in Congross, wo prosent the following comparative figures touching election matters, and ns shodding light on Lis prospects of re-oloction. Ban- NeyY CavLrmenp ran against Sroney Surrn in tho tidal-wavo year of 1874, In the city wards of his District the vote was as followa ; Osulflold, Bmith, s B0 Caulfield's majority . 800 The same wards n Tuosday last— taking the average Ropublican and Domo- cratio voto—as follows ¢ Bepublican Demoeratio Wards, ticket, tickut, Fint und Becond consolidated..,, 1,079 192 Ol ‘Third Y Lo o 0ld Fourt 1,559 i Old Fitth, 8L Old Blxf ! 2,738 0ld Heventh. 0T 1,504 Total vote....., 170 Tepublican majority. "3 Tho remander of ths District can be de- pended upon to increase this mojority to something over 4,500 for the Republican nominee, The gallant manner in which Our Banxgy defended his constituents sgainst the slandorous assaults of the Confedorate mem. ber of Congross, Bex Hiuy, has endeared him to the hearts of his loving constituents—over the loft, The Domooratio olerks of the Housa appear to be admirable and conslstent illuatrations of the boauties of Domocratio reform. With the detalls of the removal of the clerk of the Committoe of Ways and Means, who mignnl- ized himself by naming one of his children for President LincoLn's nigasain, our readers oro famillar, Wo have also announced tho fact that the Domocrats, having removed the incorruptible Journal Olerk, Mr, Banoray, who had served with groat ability for thirty years in that position, and appointed one Cmanrxs H, Bart, axe now noocssitated to ask Mr, 8urrer to step down and out on ac- count of jrregular practices. Tho Assistant Journal Clerk is also rapidly getting himsolt into truuble. It now appears that one of the Deomoeratio Doorkeepers has been rotirad, that two othor officors of tho House, Gon, Bovanron, clerk of tho Mili- tary Committeo, and Greey Apams, of tho Committeo on Expenditures in the Post- Offico Dopartment, are undor investigation, and that another Ligh officor of tho House in soon to bo investignted npon chinrges of hav- ing boon {ndicted two or threo times for very gravo offenses. 'This makes soven all told that havo turned up in tho short timo tho Democrats have Lnad the majority in the House, This is corininly making rapid progross, considoring their timo and oppor- tunities, Butif they can sccomplish such Tosults na these with only the control of tlo Houso, what might thoy not bo abla to affect with tho control of tho Government and its immonso patronnge ? The queation isworthy of sorious considoration by the averago votor, 08 oponing up vistas of reform in the ovent that the Democrats gain control of the Gov- ornmont next fall. If thoy can o success. fully prck the Houso committees, what will they not do when they have an opportunity to pack tho custom-houscs, rovenue offlces, post-offices, and othor dopartments under their patronago? e ! In rome rn:neeu tho revolution in ward poli- tlos achioved in tho Eightoonth (old Twontioth) Ward {s tho mose pignificant o8 woll as gratify- ing of all thoresults of Tuosday. The cloctionsin theold Twontloth Ward (now Lighteonth) had for sovoral yoars beon a mass of festoring frauds, Dallot-box stufug was reduced to a flue art, ana majoritios could ho obiained to order for who- ovor pald tho nighost prico for votes, Tho gang bad thoir bendquarters at tho Ilatoh Ilonso, and it was thoro tho villamons frauda woro batched, But tho srousod and indignant citizens araso in thoir wrath and squelched tho hatchieg of frauds in the Hatch Houso. Tako the Iatch Houso Procinet, and comparo last fall with this spring : LANT NOVEMBED, Hatch Houee Preciuct ¢ For Comminsionsr—NxL3oN (Rep.). For Commisstonor—CLeAny (Buni, LAST TURBDAT, Iatch House Precinc For Clork—Liest (Ilop,). FoClerk—UoNitrep (Dom. Tho Democrats polled all tho logal votes thoy «could serapo up in tho precinet, and could only beat their opponente from 20 to 38 majority on tho wvarious candidates, whoreas last fall the bummors countod thomaolvos & majority of 643 In that one procinot. Tho Ropublican Olub, after Inst fall's oloction, obtalned the afdavits of niuety-five mon that they voted tho Repub- lican tioket, yot only thirty-two Ropublican vates woera returnod, whilo more than 600 bogus tok- ela wero added to the bummor sido. The ocor- Tupt voto of this single prooinct boat Murny Nevsox and oloctod CLeany County Commiesion- er. The ward itgolf is now redoomed, and may bo haroaftor sot down amoug tho reliable Ropub- lican wards whon good candidates aro offorod for thoir suftrages, Tho ward votod on Tuosday on tho avorage tickot ag follows For the Rapublican candidaten For tho Democratic candidates., Average Ropublican majority.. Last fall tho bummors coun! solvea a majority of 691 votes. —_— Tho London Times hns boen discussing tho genoral quostion of Presidontinl oloctions in this country, oapecially with rogard to the * color- lesa rospoctabilitics,” ag 1t calls thom, who havo 80 ofton boen elocted to oftico since tho daya of Avaxa and Jerrenson, and, io commonting upon the causes of tho storility, tolls some vory plaln homo truths, which nro epecially remarkablo as coming frum an English spectator of our na- tional bystom of politica. The Zimes saya : How to use all the forms of democratio rulo so that milllons of poople shall nominally be free to chiooss any peraon and yot fu realliy o as clearly forcad o accopt & particulur man as it thoy lived under ab dron deaputini, 18 » problam whicl'the ;wirepullers of the United States have solyed with much skill a8 to u be- yond the language of adulation, AUuUsTUg himself tlid not #o adroilly drapo absoluto powcr undor the forma of fecedom, Tlo was a mero bungler compared with tho unknown * politicians ¥ who will form tho Nutioual Itepublican und the Nutional Dewocratfo Couvoutions, 'The taetbers of these Lodics will shaw that the manipulation of popular votes, so far from belng governod by the rule-of-thimb, is really o branch of applied mathemsatics. 'The clomentary principles of s belence arn simple. “Tho frst rulo i, thot tho worst of all candidntea woutd be meu 1iks Mr, AAss or Mr, Mor- LEY, Liocause, buing perverted by dignity, atrong cone victions, and’ high culuro, thoy havo tnady, or will mako, many enounics, and would not obey the'word of command, ~ Thoy woull bo Inoludnf!cn ent to follow party mauagers for whom_thoy would certamly fecl a profound disrespact, Perliaps they might alsio refuso to “stump™ half-a-dozeu States for any opinfon but tlelr own, and thelr,own would certainiy bo unpopu- lar. Nor, if they were to reach the \White Houso, would they put the patronsge and tho powera of tho Slate nt tho command of tho bustling, skillful * polj. ticiana ™ to whom tlioy would owe tliclr soverelgnty. As candidates thoy would eplit up tholr party, ond as Presidents they would nemloct it. To clodio them would ba to caurt dufeat, sud, oven ‘u tho lmprobable event of victory, to sacriiicu i{a frults, B Tho ropott that tho Bultan offers to compro- miso with Lis Jowish creditors by turning over to them the Tloly Land in paymont of his bondas, hag started anow tho etorios about tho schownes of tho Jows for return of thoir peopla from all quartors of tho glolio to Palestino, Christian tradition assigus to thom sn Irrepressible louging to do that same, and now the opportunity ls afforded them to do it, All that i necossary ia for tho RotuscniLpa to pay what would be a moro bagatolln for them, as tho papers which aro running tho story for the dozenth timo put it, and tho droam of Judes may bo falflled. Al whiol: is vory fino, but nobody hns yob dls- covored among tho Jows of Loudon, Franktort. Pans, Viouns, and Now York, {n which oities thoy are tho monoy-kings, mn Irroprossible louging to betako thomselves to tho dosert Byrian wastos, and to surronder tho placo thoy fill fu tho groat world to sink their capiial in auy Quixotio ettomps to bulld up & picayuno goverhmontal ecatdb lisbmont thero, Thero ara fow people In tho world who Lisve bettor reason to bo satiafled with tho powor thay wiold throngh tholr woalth Iu ovory land, Everywlhore thoro aro mon of the highest oulture snd sitajumonts among them, who are nitachod to their surroundings, and who wonld no moro think of an exodus to Byria than tho average Amorican would of sob- thog in Central Afrios, aud, altogether, if we wait for tho Jows to rotura to tho Land of Anna nAM, we will doubtless Liavo to walt a good while yot, —_— The Thieves' Organ yoaterday moming smalo & ghastly smilo over tho result of Tuosdey's olection, It waa sick and sore over tho squolch- ing of its bummor confodorates, as woll aa for itself, The twonty or thirty thousand dollars 8 yoar of ‘‘ofiicial” plunder it draws from tho city and couuty boging to look like & vanlshing quantity, snd bofore loug thiy yora- clous tax-cater will be obliged to work for its living fustead of subslsting on the Troasury. The little afternoon Brvenivak bummer-priut sppeared even moro lugubrious than the morn~ ing Qonviy organ, They Lave a dismal timo protending to be ploased with the election ro~ turng, IS R There is something atmost ludicrous in tho way in which the uowspaper reportors of New York stole the Emperor of Hrazil from the United Statea Govornment aa ropresontod by the Becrotarios of Htate, War, and Navy and the Marine Band, which might not inaptly form » good subject for lnvestigation Dy one of the House Committoes, sasy Bauney OAvLmxry's, for instauce, Whilo tue Government, in $he poreons of Its Becrotarios, was gotting itself ready to go down Now York Bay to the Empor. or's stoawer sad rocelve Lim, the newspapor re- portors started off without getting thomuelves roady, and wora on board the Hovellus beforo tho Govarument had completed its tollot. Whon the Qovernment arrived, It found Dom Promo baod in glove with the roporters, as it ho had known them for yesrs. They had mads him no apoochies, and thoro was no *‘blasted ™ etiquatts botween them, When the Governmont tried to mako ita Apocches, Dom Pzpno wouldn't ilston, and the Govornmont therofors took it etiquetts, snd its spoochos, and ita Marine Band to another vosol, aud salled glumly back, Dox Proro and the reportors moeanwhile sailing up the harbor liand in glovo together, The factsIn tho oase aro snfliclently grave to warrant some striking commenta on the floor of Congross againat the unblushing influonce and unmuzzloed froodom of tho Amorlcan pross in prosuming (o etoal a live Emperor right out of the hands of tho Govorn. ment, i The venerable Tuuntow WED has written g lotter to tho Now York Tribune upon the quos. tioo of excludlng (ho Biblo from tho publig sechooly, In which ho oxprosses a regrot that an old class-book of half a century ago, known ag tho “Donuties of tho Dible,” has boon por. mittod to drop out of tho solools, Mr, Wkep 88ya of thia book ¢ The ‘ gleautics of tho Bible," of which the Rav, Ezna Bamaox, of Hudson, is tho sutlior, was Sirst puly Hialied in 1800, and contafns 262 pages, 1f this bool nhould ba resiorod to our sckioold, the boat parts of Beripturo would_constituta an important branch of commion school education. Our childron, while learn. ing toread, wonld become imbuod with the spirit of Chriptianity. Tho presont scerun 8 ling ocossion ta call tho attention of educationsl bords and the clergy to thls book, 1f, simultancously with the grost uprisiug of the peoplo undor the cloqusnt Gospel appeals of Mr, Moopr and tho tranquilleing harmontes of Mr, Baxker, tho * Doauties of the Biblo” anould ba in. troduced na s class-Look in our common schools, thousands upon thousands of our gratoful chlldres will rigo up to thank thoso who conferred this biessing tpon them, Tho recommondations of Mr. WeeD will coms with focreasod force when It is conalderod that Lo hae noarly reachod the close of Lialong aud busy lifo, and that tho hand whbich has written 80 ofton and 80 poworfully on worldly matters now takes tho pon In dofense of one of the moat sacred recollectious of his youngor daya, —_— The voto of tho Fifteonth Ward was right to tho point, Thero wns no fooling away of the ballots of respectablo citizons on tho bummer Brour and his now chum Dz Puv. This fa tha way thoy fixod those enterprisiog bummers : For Dz Puy (trickalor),,ieuss For WaLvo (honeat cltizon)., For Erour (UokviN bummer). For Nixazn (boucat citizan)... Majorlty against Dz Poy, Majority ausiust Brour. Thot will do for one day. — e Doos BAnNEY CAULFILLD suppose that bo rope rosouts tho proeent political sentiments of tha votora of hia District 7 1f he doos, wo advies him to study tho roturns of last Tuosday's oloos tion, which will foform him that ho is off the track. Tho thing for him to do i3 to change his courso or resign and como home, as he is mis- representiog tho views and principlea of hig constituonts, —_— Tho bummor Lenoacnen, of tho Bixtoonth ‘Ward, {s olected over Voss only by forty-nine votea {n apoll of 2,900, Tho honest mon came protty near requiring thia Inaividual to earn his own living bereafter, instead of subsisting on an offico to which no galary is attachiod. PERBONAL. Mr. Moody left New York for Florida Tuesdsy, Tho modietes of Boston recommend black cor sota for full mourniug. Qorome, the French painter, has gone to Con stantinople to fill soma orders for the Sultan. Mr. Boecher’s now leaturs, which is to be do~ livored in Boston to-night, is entitled, ''The Ministry of Wealth." 2 Tho DBaltimore American heads a long obitu ary ** A, Turney Btowart,” which amounts to the discovery of a now horror, Bayard Taylor declarea that the Contonnial Commission ** havo dono their whole duty, falth. fully and unwoarledly,” Thoy Liavo mado him Centonuisl poot. Ar. Moody tersoly says that people cau't be religious iu bad afr. This is not all of tho faith onco delivored to tho aninta; vomo of thom wore tolerably faithfal uuder moro advorss circum- stancos—In hot alr, for instanco, Mr. Loronzo Brentano, ono of Chicago's wall- koown and much-csteemed German citizons, who hing recontly resigned the position of United Btatos Consul at Dresden, which ho haa fillod for ovor thres yoars past, bas returnod to hia old homo. o eays ho cau find no botter placs for a permanent residence than Cnloago, He bocama o citizon of Chicago In 1859, wus oditor of the Stuats-Zeitung for sovou years, from 1801 to 1868, and was Pronidont of tho Boarld of Ednes- tlon in 1868 and '60. Ilu hnas always been & stanch radical Iopublican, and for maay years wag one of tho lendors of German thought in thia city. Cel, Joyco, the convicted whisky thiof, now In the Mlgsour] Penitontiary, said to a roporter: I do not wish to put a book on tho market that will bavo n tranaitory oxistonco and be forgotten. Iwant to builda book, tho greatness of which will go ringiug down tho eorridors of all future timo, and ono that will placo my namo along with tho clansio writers of Rome and Greoce.” Ho onjoys tho distinction e has obtalucd from hLis connoation with the Whisky Ring, nod says: “It's no emall thing to hinvo beon tho hosd of & gigontic conspiracy llko the Whisky ung, I'd rather be Oaptaiu of & band of robbers any time than a mera private," J An amusiog controveray has grown out of the production of *“Twine," Mr. A. O. Wheeler's play, in Now York, RAlIr. Wheolor §a a dramatio and musical oritio of many years ' standing and quito as high protonsions as his quality will sllow. In tho course of Lis profossionnl dutics te Las had oceasion to offend many managore, among the rest, it appoars, Max Muretzek, The birth of Mr. Wheeler's “Twins® gave thess wmanagers just tho opportunity thoy had bees waiting for. * Marotzok aont to ono of the papers and had published & notice of the play and the author, which, though not flattering. was In thoe maln jJust, Whoeler re. plied somewhat cavaliorly io a card to tho Graphic, Maretzek now rojolns in & crusbing manuer, Ilo eays: **Br, Whooler protenda to say that I omploy othor persons to writo for mo, This at all oveats would bo & prudont proceoding, and X adviso My, Wheeler by all moans to have his mext play writ- ten by momobody else than himsalf,” As to Mr, Whedler's capacity as s critio Marotzok tells thia etory: ‘¢ Only two months ago, aftor the first appearsnce of Titiens {n the old haokneyod opera of * Norms," Mr, Whoeler wroto in the TWorld newapaper that Daccel needed tho voice of a Tamburini o sing the part ot Pollio, Out of tho 2,000 persons prokont on the occaslon the too sonsitive aod critical Br. Wheelor was probably the only por- gon who did not know that Tamburinl was & baritone, and that thoe role of Pollio was written for a tenor."” TOTRL, ARNIVALA, JPatmer House—B., o, Burbyte, River Falls, Wis.; O B, Slayback, 8L, Louls] H, O, Wilks, Curo; ¥ravk E- Baow, Dotroit: ¥, O, Goods, Hpringfield, O, . B aelvibie, Engldmi : W, ¥, Wlaship, Tutisnd H, Bror Youngutown, O3 . Brimloy, 1 aciphin 3. 8. 1o b, ' Golory lesdoll, Dison, ' ill; B, G McDougal, Aty ¥, W, 'Jacks, Nilea, hilch, nd_Pacific—y Raobaort Loy Jows; Goorge Beohly, New York; tho Hon. 0. 15, Aarvin, Brootion; OOk i, 1 rooklyn, 1, Haylls, Now York; Davld iabougy, New Yorki Leaco, Bin h b g&. M. Howe J. Bterling Morton, Nebraska; E. W, Fraucluco; 1, 1, Smith, Columby taud, Now thawwais O, V. Taruard, Jipei T. 1 Oulors bng, Rock Isindi J, O, itominglon, Bostodi Johin "B, MUlor, De Aloluea; A B Ludiow, " Clocinnall,’ ,2vemont Houss—Tuo Rete D, G, Yradford, Prineoan, Iil; Richard Foster, Ha3 l’r\ndmé L L, Gilbe em, O.; 0. O Bpragus, 1. Loula; Gon, . 6. "Fowler, Wiidna{ 1he on, ackson, Janeaville: the Hon, John Web- lay, Lisioli, Neb.; 0, 4, Hamillon, Waterbury, Cons.i Moridun, Qond,; Gen, J. P, Dut fve, Now York; Beu Dellar, bt, Louls; the oo, K_‘l% ulnoy.... Shermanfiouse—Tho Hon, J. AL ond d Laot Gol. J, F\ Hubbard, New Yorki P, 0. Loo; Hubberd, U. B nard, Boslon: Dr, V., B. A Army; B. D, Galdwell: Nochester, N, Y. \Willism Whiio, Uties, Ills.; Witledn, Lanicasters Pa.; tho Hod. Wilifsm T; Shaw, Lows; J. 'H, Freder” icks, Pittsburg ; O, H. Mansfleld, Wheler, Wauptus, Wis.; J. D, nam:‘nvwi Wi Gardnar House—¥. M, Bruce, Buffalo; &, It St s Bt Do Y H o A Ctu 3 O, G, Wickes, Dakota,