Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 21, 1876, Page 4

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SOCIETY MEETINGS. : ORIENTAL LODGF, NO. 33, A., ', & A, M.—~Stated *Communicaion thia (Friday) ovening, a2 7:10 o'clock gEompt, for businots and work on the 2, A, Degter, isitors cordially {nviled to moot with us, ~ By ordar of Ihe Master, E. N. TUCKER, Secrotary, COVENANT LODGE, NO, 620, A, F. & A, M, Reguiar communication this (Fridaz) oyenlng, April 21, at Corinthien 1Iali, 187 East’ Kiuzie-st., for work on ‘the B, L. Degree. Visiting brethron cordially invited. By order of the W. M. WILLIAM REKR, Sec, The Ghicago Tribume, Fridsy Morntog, April 21, 1876, Greonbacks nt tho New York Gold Ex- ehange yesterdny closed at 88}, The Moopx and BANEEY revival at New York cloared $103,000, besides a large rov- enue from SaNkey's song-books. The de- pressing effoct of the grest Hippodrome moelings on thentrical interests has noarly bankrupted the ** master-playors,” and thoy | are unanimous in hoping that the good: Brother may like the climate of Florida, where ho has just procesdod for rest and Tecreation., < The damngo in tho country inundated by the break in the Sny leves on the Mississippi is thought now to havo been estimatad at too high o figure. Should the flood recedo im- mediatoly, thore is a good chance that the orop of wheat may survive, and, should it even dig, a crop of corn on the same ground i3 not impossiblo, Still, the poor farmers have suffered n diro calamity in tho almost total loss of their louses, goods, barns, out Imunoa}, and feneing, ht revival of activity yes- terday in the Chicago whisky-fraud prosecu. tions,—just cnough to serve as a retninder that wo once had a Whisky Ring among us. A pnuaber of the smaller fry, Gnugars and Btorckoopers, nppeared in court and antored pleas of guilty of conspiracy to defrand the Government, nnd the Grand Jury brought in two indictments against o witness in the oase of Pamuaax and Rusit, charging him with perjury and conspi; —— Thera is littlo doubt that tho vote at last Tuesdny’s municipal election will bo procaptly canvassed by tho rotiring Council, and the in. coming Aldernmen admitted totheir seats with reasonnblo dispatcl. As thero aro now piend- ing but fow, if any, measures of a suspicious character, it would bs as woll, perhaps, that the rotiring Council should clear up tho ta ble; but thoy should bo quick about it, forr the people are in a hwry for a now deal, The Lake-Front matter, howover, is one of 2080 subjocta which might properly be carrie over, . Our Barver from Bridgeport has mnde smends for the grievanco ot forth in Mr. Bmistow's lotter protesting ogainat a style of investigation secvet to the individunl uniler charges aud publio only to his encmios, Barney conveys tho pssuranco that, in the estimation of his Committes, Mir. Dumistow stands completoly exonerated, ond that the testimony taken was entiraly hearsay and entitled to no weight, This is all that peed be eaid on that point, but it would have loaked bettor and fairer-if the Committeo hod given their opinion it the same timo they permitted tho slander ito bo mzde public, Bansex's amends is coni- prehensive, but tard, Judge OATE, as he ed in Wisconsin, awoke from a long-continued stupor in the Houss yesterdny, and with the utmost for- mality presanted a resolution ealling for an Investigation of the Mary Merritt schooner ;| casa and Secrotary Brisrow's conncetion tuerowith, The learnod Judge, who owes his election, an Chief-Justice R¥an, of Wis. vonsin, himself a Democrat, remarked, to tho grosseat frouds,'has probobly beon n n tosp aleap for a month or more, and had not soen the authoritative denials of this story sad Mr. Bomtow's clallonge to the Demo- cratic House for a thorough investigation. However this may be, Cat's Iate awakening | seoms to have made little impression upon | -the House, e ———— There {s an excollent prospect of exceoding ‘great richnesss in the work of the present Grand Jury of the Criminnl Court. Mr., Hronzy, Editor and Foreman, has taken the goentls MoCaryaexr et his word, and now proposes to ‘‘show ! up some- thing.” It has ‘lenked ont that the Grand Jury have found a candid witnoss in \ths parson of Mr, Euax, the county’s archi- tect Lo the new Court-Houso, who hus been blod and blaclmuiled most unmercifully by Prerousr, the go-budwoen ond * financial sgont™ of the Ring in the County Board, «Eaaw is reported to bave “laid down* on the whole pack of scoundrels, and there is encouragament to hope that he will prove to be & valuatde belper in the effort ta expose and bring to justice the oorrupt bummers who bave %0 lorag defied detection. ‘The Chicavgo produce markets wers gen- erally on the decline yesterday, with more business dcing. Mess pork was active and 16@200 pee brl lower, closing at $21.92) for April rmd $21.95@21.974 for May, Lard was sctive and 5@150 per 100 1bs lower, cloging -at $18.12)@18.16 cash, and $18.15 @18.17) for May, Meats were less activeand easler ut Bjo for boxed shoulders, 12 for do short yibs, and 12Jo for do short clears. Highvrinoes were insotive and firmer st 81.04.4@1.07 per gallon. Flour was in good dem and and firm. Wheat was active and o lower, clowing at $1.02} for regular, and $1.044 for May, Corm was active, and fo Lo wer, closing at 47jo cash, and 480 for Viay, Were more metive and easier, Mexiag b 8240 for Apail and 880 for May, position of all tho facts and tha law. present aspect of tho cngo does not seem to warraut more than the conclusion that money of n certain fund—the Becret-Service fund— was applied to Governmont usss for which it had not beon appropriated; but the indica. tions aro that the service to which it was ap- plicd was in kesping with the law and in the iutorest of an houost election. Ryo was firm at 66jc. Darley was 1i@1c lower, closing at 620 for cash, and 60j@61c for May, Hogs wero in moderate domand at Wodnesday's prices, with tho bulk of the trading at $7.76@7.90. Tho cattle market wus dull and wenk, at $2.50@6.40 for in. farior to extra. Tho sheop mnrket was nn- changed. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $113.00 in greenbacks at the close. Now York is fust boginning to vealize that her supremacy a5 o commercial metropolis is more than threatened,~—thnt it {s actually and unmistakably waning. Statistics just com. piled show a remarknblo falling-off in grain rocoipts, while Baltimore and I‘hilnd’elphln have mnde great strides in tho other diroo. Hon, and are already dangerous rivals, The receipts and exports of grain at these points have increased cach year, while those of Now York have fallen off. The eause is traced to the great railroad combina- tion, Now York having been the nuffuror by the pool rates, while Philadelpliia, Baltimore, and Boston have reaped the lonefit, Vax- oanBinT has given notico of withdrawal from the pool, and the New York morchants are Tooking to him for reliof from tho losses and dissdvantages which their interests have suf- fored in consequonce of the operations of the pool lines, Tho monster sensation which wag peddlad out by the Committee having the subject in chiargs proves to have been a most shameless distortion and oxaggeration of the dovelop- ments resulting from the testimony of ex. Attornoy-General Witrzaxs, whoso statemont bofore the Committce was mnde the subject of editorisl commont by certain Democratio papers which appear to have wholly mis- apprehendod the point at issue, The solemn and melancholy commont of the New York World upon the *‘ money spont in defrauding the Now York City Domocracy of their just weight ot tho ballot-box” is rondored extremely ludicrous by the fact that tho money was paid for servicos ren- dored in accordnnce with an mot of Congress, and that theso services wero in tho interest of, and wera successful in secur. ing, an honest election in Now York., From the completo information embodied in our dispatches it will be seen that the Democrats have exploded an empty bomb-shell so far ns concorns President Grant, whose only fault, if any, was purcly technical, and who At most is chargeablo with having suthor- ized tho payment of money for valunbla services honostly and lawfully rondered, tnd for the payment of which the United States Tressury was unquestionably responsible, from a fund not strictly appropriated for this specific purpose, The President is to bo usked to nppoor beforo the Committeo and mako his statement as soon as a transcript of the testimony alroady taken can be furnished him, THE PRESIDENTIAL BCANDAL, In these times of frequont exposurs and general suspicion of public officials, every suggestion of corruption is eagerly woized upon o4 o new scandal, and accepted as true without waiting to hear both sides of the caso, Thero should bo an excoption to this rulo in the caso of the President of the Unitod States at least, if the American sense of justico does not prompt the henring of all tho cvidenco in the charges against other officials. Ths occasion for a suspension of judgment is furnished by the story rela- tivo to the disbursement of $35,000 or moro for the preparation of specinl rogistry lists in Now York City during the Presidontial cam- paign of 1872, Tho testimony before the Congressional Committes on Expenditures in the Department of Justico to establish this has been furnished by Wmirewy, formerly Ohicf of the Government Becrot Service, and ex-Attorney.-Genoral Wirriaas. money was receivod by Jomy L Davexronr, n United States Commissioner of New York, who ncted as Chief Supervisor of Elections at tho clection of 1872, and was disbursed by him, as it is claimed, for the Lists of voters prepared a8 & check upon the. frouds ot the ballot-box. The money was paid out of the Becret-Sorvice fund, and, as ex-Attorney-General Wrrriams testifies, on tho express orders of the President, This is tho story in brief, newspapers with an opportunity for announc- ing that the nation has been disgraced by the corruption of its Chief Exccutive, nnd to suggest by indirection, if not outright, that The It has furnished certain Gen. Grant bo impeached. Before going to this longth, it will ba well to await n full ex. The 'To undorstand tho merits of the case, it is necessary to go back to the election of 1868, 'Tho frauds on the ballot-box in New York City in that election woro the grossest and most shameless ever perpetrated up to that time, ond only equaled by tho bold attempt a¢ robbing and stuffing by tho thioves in tho recont town clection in South Chicago. The conscquenco of this system of frauds was that Mr, Bevyoun, the Demooratio candidate for Prasidont, received n mafjority in Now York City which wns 40,000 in excosa of auy previous or honest majority, and 20,000 in excess of TiLpEN's majority in the **tidal wave ” oloction of 1874, Tha votes for those years wero ag followa: 1808, BoymotiTyseve 108,316 Grant...... o 47,798 ‘Tilden (Dem.) Dix (Rep)...s Democratio majority. Thus, after a growtl one of the most exciting cleotions that ever occurred, the Democratio majority of New York City fell sliort of that of 1808 by nearly 20,000, end Gueerey's mafority was nearly 40,000 less. No better avidence of the frauds of 1868 could be desired. Indeed, the robbing and stufting of the ballot-boxes wero practi- colly admitted, and the outrago was so great agto fasten the attention of Congress, It was maiuly on soconnt of the frauds in New York City that Congress passed the act (Re- vised Btatutes, 8ce, 2,011) providing for the sppointment by the United States Judges of Bupervisors of Election (two for each voting precinet) in cities and towns of over 20,000 inhabitants, whenever Represontatives in Congresa are voted for, 1t was inthe gen- eral aloction of 1872 that this law was first spplied to prevent and reduce the frauds of Neow York City, with the result already noted. The Jomn L Davadroat who is said to Liave been pald 885,000 for tis preparation \ THE CHICAGO TRIDUNR: FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1570 3 of voting liats, was tho Chict Supervisor in the New York District,—a position provided by the Inw,—and superintonded the super- vision of the registry lists, Atnong the duties of his position defined 1n Revised Stat- utes, See. 2,026, is the following: The Chief Suporvisor aball propare and fornich all nocossary books, forme, Llauks, aud inatructions for the use and dircction of the Bupervisora of Election In the aeveral citfes and towns in their respective dis- tricts; o o . hoshall require of the Supervisors of Electlon, when necessary, lista of (he persons who may reglator and vote, or elther, In tholr respective etection disteicts or voting prectuicts, and causo the names of thors on any such list whose right to regis- tor or vote {8 Lonostly doubted to bo verlfiod by proper inquiry and oxamination at tho reapective places by them sssigned a8 their residencos, * This is precisely what BIr. Davesronr did, Ho lind n comploto list of voters made for Now York City, That list enabled him and his subordinates to check the frauds, and tho result was n decroase of 40,000 in tho Demnocratio majority. Probably by renson of this list, nnd the facilities it afforded for rovising tho registration, New York City had the first honest clection that hiag been hold there for many yenrs, Davexrort did not excced his nuthority in this respect, and theroforo the only questions are: Was tho pay for this work excessivo, and was thoro auy authority to pay for it out of the Sccrot- Sorvico fund? It may bo that tho work cost more than it should havo cost, and it may be thatthero wasno techniealauthority for paying for it out of the Sccrot-Servico fund. In the first case, Davexront would bo to blame; and, in the second, the President would bo to blame, since ho ordered the payment in this manner. But while tho work itsclf was authorized by law, while it wns conceded to be necessary, and while it nctually accom- plished just what the Iaw intended it should accomplish,—tho provention of frauds at the Congressional clections,—it scems absurd to talkk gbout tho corruption of the President and his impeachmont, If the money of a special fund was used in a service for which it had not been nppropriated, such use was a technicnl violation of law, and is reprebensi- ble oven though the purpose was to carry out tho provisions of law and serve tho publio intorests, But this i3 certainly the worst that can be said of the caso as it atands at present, $ BIL CHANGE, The work of geiting tho silver eoins in circulation in place of the fractional cur. rency was begun yesterday, and tho kindli- ness with which the people take to it was il- lustrated in Chicago by n demand upon the Sub-Tropsurer lnrgely in excess of his silver resources, ‘There was a stock of $85,000 on hand, and it was entirely exhausted, with o demand for more. It is probable that the de- mand in other citios was just ns large. There will bo no difficulty in substituting the silver coin for the shinplasters, nnd it can be done as rapidly as tho Government can isane it. But it is likely that thero will be a serieus difficulty in keeping tho silver in circulation. It is safo to say that, while $40,000,000 in fractional ourrency was found to be ample for the necessities of tha country in emall change, it will requiro at least §100,000,000 in silver coing to take its placo; and, if Congresa shall restrict the Sccretary of the Troasury in the issue of silver to the amount of outstanding fraotionals, thero will probebly bs o serions and em- barrassing famine of swall change. The reasons for apprehonding this are ob. vious, It has beon flfteen years sinco silver was in general circulation in this country, and during that time it has beon regarded popularly ns on a par with gold. Tho first and natural tendency will bo to hoard silver just as gold would bo hoarded. The aggro- gate amount that will bo taken liome to give to women and children aa curiositics, keop- sakes, and **lucky pieces,” will of itself bo onormous. To this must be added the indis- position to pay it out when auy sort of scrip oan be pald,—whether greoubacks, fraction. als, or what not. It will croato a very marked economy insmallthings. ‘Cho gontlomen who have been buying 25.cont cigars will hositato about paying o silver quarter for a single cignr inferior in quality to such as they formerly got at the®ato of four for a quarter when silver waa in circulation, Bo tho ladios will doprive themsolves of little knicklnncks and gew. gaws which they have beon in the habit of gotting in return for worn and soiled serip, whon it comes to paying out bright, shining, and handsome coin for them, In this respect the silver coin will be useful in the domestic economy, and tond to Uring prices down to n logitimatae basis, but it will bo a specios of hoarding nll the same, Bat tho greatest drain upon the supply will be by tho foreign population of this coun. try,—poople who woro accustomed to silver in thoir native homes, and who have been de- prived of it. Cheir habit at home was to stow away silver coin in an old stocking, hide it under o mattross, or put it awny in a chest, and they will bo the moro inclined to revert to this praotico because of the uncertainty of its remaining in ciroulation. In this they will be imitated by tho American farmers. ‘I'he legitimato consequence of this—tho dis- apposrance of the silvor—will bo upon the community very soon, unloss the Govern- ment is prepared to supply silver change ovor and above the amount of fractionsls retired, “Thls should be done, for an enforced resort to *milk tickets" and token ourrency will bo evon worss than tho fractionals, IRDIANA DEMOCRATS ASSISTING NATURE, "The Indinna Domocratic platform is a po- litical curiosity,—one of the most extroordi- nary contradictions and complications of truth and falschood that has been produced by any convention of any pnfi-ty in any Btate, Tho trouble with both parties in Indiana is that ench has a ** favorite son * candidate for tho Presidency. The Republican 8tate Con- vention had the task of nominating Mr. Mouron, and, embarrassed by thnt business, produced a financial platform that, with most coucenlinent, exprossed tho loast ideaa in tho greatest numbor of words, Now comes the Domocratio Convention, which kad the job of nominating the other favorita son, Mr, Hex. pricks, aud of framing o platform which would ald Lim the mout and domage him the laast, and at the samo time retainthe support of the Rag-Baby factions of the party, The result is o sad jumble of gross inconsisten. cies. The first declaration is such a model of good eengo and propriety that we reproduce it entire, and commond it for general adop- tion by all political conveutions. It yeads; Yourth--We belloven our ancient doctrine thatgold the true and safe busls for tho currency 1n favor of measures nud policles thas will producs an uniformity in value iu the coln and paper maney of the country without destroying or embar- rasaing the business interesta of the peopls, Had the Convention said nothing more on the currency question, and placed Mr. Hex. pricks fairly and squarely on that resolution, be would very probably have captured the Democratio National Convontion, But that would nod do. Honesty and candor are oon. sidered to bs exiremely dangerous by the machine politician, go the Indiana Demoorats tacked on to this sound rosolution others de- claring : 1. Opposition to contraction of irredcom. ablo curroncy, and in favor of substituting forced notes in place of National Bank notos, 2, That, in spito of the intorforence with commercinl laws, the currency has improved 88 our wealth has increased (7); that anatural return to spocic-payments will be promoted by tho increase of nmationnl wealth and in- dustries, 8. That legnl-tendernotes ara asafo curren- oy, espacinlly valuable to the debtor becauso & legnl-tender ; and that the Iaw providing for its gradual withdrawal should be repealed. »> 4. That tho Resumption net should bo ro- pealed, and notling put in ita place, becauge it paralyzes industry and turns the laborer and producer out of employment, ~ Hero wo havenn emphatic declaration that, while gold aud silver aro the truo and safo bnais for currency, and the party is in favor of mengures that will produce an uniformity in value in tho coin and paper, the contrac. tion of tho volumo of the depreciated paper should bo arrested, and that volume should bo incrensed and doubldd, the new paper to bo irredeemablo in gold, silver, or anything elso at any time or place. The Republican Convention got off a roso- lution about * the country growing up to specie-paymonta ; but the Demooratio Con- vention improves on this humbug by stating tho relf-ovident falsehood that our currency Zas improved ns the national wealth has in- crensed, In March, 1870, six years ago, gold was quoted at 110}, the greenback be- ing worth 90 conts and over; tho currency fuctunted between 86 and 90 cents during 1870 and 1871, and in Janunry,’ 1872, reached 92}, and in Novomber, 1878, reachod 94} in gold, The owrrency hns sinco then fluctu. ated botweon 84 and 8Y cents, showing that for . over « six . years thero ; hag been no ! permanont * advance in s its valuo, and no approximation to an equality with coin. During thoss six years there hins been a vast addition to the national wealth, There has been o steady incroasa of production, but, while the country has grown in population, production, and wenlth, there hos been in fact a decline in the value of the curroncy. At this rate of progress, how long will it take for a * naturnl roturn ™ to specio- payments, espocinlly if the amount of the forced irredosmablo psper be dombled? It will bo seon that the Demacracy of Indiana take no mnotice of the fact that thore is o na. tional compact with the public creditors that there shall bo no incroaso of legal-tender notes boyond the four hundred million maxi- mum, and that the power to make Treasury- notes o legaltender was & war power, and only lagal becauso of tha great, overshadow- ing oxigencies of the war for the national preservation. The Convention thorenpon—in flat contra- diction of their first declaration in favor of maengures to produce .an uniformity of valua in thocurrencyand coin—violently oppose any moasuro having any such tendency, demand tho rapeal of all oxisting laws for that pur- pose, proposing no substitute, and insist that tho alrondy wide margin botween tho value of tho currency and tho gold shall Lo in- creased by doubling tho amount of tho irre. deeniable forced paper in circulation. Tho sbsurdity of the theory of growing up to spocic-payments, or of awaiting for a “natu- ral roturn,” is shown in the urgency with which thoso inflationists and Rag-Baby Domo- orats ingist upon * nssisting nature,” by o now ond unlimited issuc of tho same irro. deemable paper, nnd making it money. “This patchwork platform, this presontation of commingled inconsistent jargon, is the personal platform of Mr, Hexpaicks, proe pared by his own hand, and is the card upon which ho asks the nomination for the Presi- denoy at the St. Louis Convention, Ile was the mastor and ruler of the Convention. Xt is tho Henpniors platfonn, and is charactoristio of tho Janus-faced policy by which the Hoosier statesman expects to advanco his personal nnd political fortunes. HOW A QREAT §' DLE WAS DEFEATED, Our roadors are familiar with the groat fraud committed in Congress in 1804 with rospact to the bonds of the Pacifio Rail. ronds. In that caso Congress had chartered the ronds in 1862, and had directed that tho Trensury Deportment should issue to the several companies United Btates bonds, at a certain amount per mile, bearing 6 per cont interost, and that the Uuited States should have o first lien on the road and ita property, to secure the paymont of the principal and intorest of the bonds, In 1864 the several companics obtained, through fraud and cor. ruption, the passage of a bill authorizing the companies to issue their own bonds to the amount of $04,000,000, and to give a first mortgage to socure them, and that the lien of tho Unitad Btates for tho same nmount of ‘bonds should be a second mortgage, In 1864 Congress also charterod what was known as the Northern Pacifie Railroad Com- pany,andhad doubled the ususl amount of land douated, giving it forty.four millons of acres ofland. In consideration of the enormous grant of Innd, it was provided in the charter: ‘That 0o monoy aball ba drawn from the Treseury of tho United Btates to ald in the construction of the sald Northern Pacific Raliroad, The Company thus chartered, or the indi. viduals who Liad got legal possession of this charter and'its enormouns lanl.grant, sub- sequently sold the charter for $150,000, and tho. new purchasers went to Washington in 1806, and npplied to the Commmnittes on Pacific Railronds to have them vated, in addition to tho vast land-grant, o money subsidy. Thore was an onormoud and active lobby which swarmed in and around the House. On the 24th of April, Mr, Price, of Town, reported the bill. It was to umend the charter of 1864 in various ways, but the main point ‘was that the United States should guarantee tho principal aud interest of the bonds of the Company at the rate of so much per mile, the bonds to bear 8 per cont interest and to run twonty yoars. ‘The principal of tho bonds thus to bo guarantced, and of. course to be paid by tho United States, waa sizty-nirts mill- ons of dollars, and the Interest thereon for twenty yoars would amount to wmore than the principal, making the cash to bo paid by the United States at least 8150,000,000. This bill s subatantially of the same kind as that now ponding before Congress for the roliof of 'Tox Hcorr's Texas, Arizona & Pa- cifio Railroad bill, An attempt was madé to forca the bill through the House without dabate, but this was sbandoned. It was then debated on seve eral quccesaive days, Mr. Joun WrNTwoRTH, of Llinois, led off in denvnciation of ths tre. mendous fraud on the Government, followed by 'Mr, Fumu B, Wasmsuens, of Ilinois, who, during the four or five days' argument, sustained the bruntof the battle. He was ably supported in opposition to the bill by Ar. Faxnswoat, of Illinols; Mr, 8raLomNg, of Ohio ; Mr, Hixoma,'of Ohioj and Raxe DaxLy of Peunsylvanis, The bill was advoe oated by n dozen members, including Titan Srrvens and W, D, Kenner, of Pennsylvania, Dawes and Bivamax, of Ohio, The lobby was grently exoited. 'Tho grant of sixty-nine millions of dollars wis a rich prize of grab money., But tho exposure of tha fraud was too vigorous, and the iniquity of the steal too evidont, and on the 27th of April Mr, Srar. ntxa moved that the bill bo Iaid on the table, and the motion prevailed,—yens, 76 ; nays, &8, Those voting yea—to lny on tha tablo— werengainst the ill ; those voting No—ngninst tabling the bill—wore in favor of the bill, and the vote was as follows : Agatnat the biti—Ancons, Pa.; Daker, TIL; Denja- min, Mo.t Dorgen, N, X.; Ilow, Mo.; loyer, Pa; Bromwell, 1,; Buckland, 0.; Bundy, O.; Chanlee, N, Y.i R. WV, Olntko, O. ; Cobb, Wis.; Conkling, N. Y, Cook, 1lL,: Cullom, Tl : Farnsworth, IiL ; Farquhar, renncr, Fa,; Grider, Ky.; arding, 1ll.; Jages, Tlumphrey, N, non, Is.; Koteh Lawrence, Pa. abiatl, TIL3 Milier, Pu, 3 Moorlicad, Pa.; Morrlll, Vb, 3 Motris, N. Y. ; Moulton, IiL.; Newell, N, J.; Niblack, Ind, ; Nicholson, Delj Orth, Ind,; Piko, Me,: Plants, 0.7 Randall, Pa.; W, I, Itanda Ritter, K.y Toes, 1. ; Sawyar, Wis.; Scofield, uanklen, Ky, Bhellabargor, O,; Spalding, tiilwell, Ind.; Tabor, N, Y.; Taylor, N, Y.; Thayer, Pa,; Thomas, Md.; Thornton, Tl Ward, N, Y.; Elihu 1, Washburne, IWL; 11, D, Wasliburn, Ind.; Wentworth, IIL ; Will- iams, Pa.; Wintield, N, Y.; Wright, N.J, « In javor of the biti—Allson, Ta.; Ames, Mass,; Andorson, Mo, D.R. Ashloy, Novada; Bauk, Baxter, V&.; Deaman, Mich.; Didwell, Cal, bam, O.; Doutwell, Mass.i Clarko, Kan.j Ing, N, ¥.; Dawes, Maws,; Dodge, N.T,; Donnelly, Minn,; Driggs, Mich,; Ferry,Mich,; Grinnefl, I, Griswold, N, ¥,; Tarris, Md.; Henderson, Oregon; Highy, Cal.; Hotchkiss, N, Yai A, W, Hubbard, T, ©. D. Hubbard, W, Va.; Mulburd, N.Y.; Kolley, Pa,; Relso, Mo.; Kuy Kondall, IiL; Laflin, N, Y.} Loan, Mo.; Lingyear, Mich.; Lynch, Mo.; Mars- ton, N. 11,; Marsin, N, Y.; McClurg, Mo, ; McKeo, Ky.; McRuer, Cal Myers, Pa.; Patierson, N, JL§ Perham, Mo.; Prics, In; J.H. Rice, Mo.; Nog- ers, N, J.; Toltins, N, I.; Rousseau, Ky.; Stevens, .4 Trowbridge, Mich.: Upon, Mich,: Van Iorn, Van Hom, Mo.; Wamer, Conn,; W. B Washburn, Mass,; Wilson, Ia.; Windom, Minn.; Woodbridge, V¢, By this voto, the result of a vigorous bat. tlo, tho swindling measure was exposed and dofeatod. Thore were fifty-one membera who were nbsont or did not vote, and the Globe containe the following: *Mr, Barve—I havo paired on il votes rolating to this quostion with Mr. Jonx L. Tromas. If ke icere here lis would vots against the bill and I would vots for it,” Had this bill passed we would now be labor- ing under a second railroad debt, and this ono largor than the first, But the bill was for. tunately beaten, and the Government was saved tho issuo of gmixty-nino millions of bonds. ) HOW TO IMPROVE THE VICTORY. The tax-payers of Chicago aro to bo con- gratulated upon tho magnificont victory which thoy won on Tuesday in the interest of honesty, economy, and good govornment. 'They worked hard, and the result crowns the work, Thoy administered a crushing blow to tho tax-eators nnd bummors, oven in thoir most formidable strongholds, They have onca moro proven that, when the honest aud rospectablo people of a community tako issue with tho corrupt officials and eriminal clnsses, they bring s moral forco to boar upon eloc- tions against which tho schomes of the cor- rupt rings oo poworless. But this victory, completo and satisfaotory ag it is, will be at best but a barren ono if it is not followed up and improved, Tho work of the peoplo has only com- menced, To be suro they havoe defented the bummers, and con nssure theifselves good government and an honest administen- tion of the city finances for a year to come; but thoy have not wiped out tho causes of bummoerism, These will always remain, In every largo city thero must always boe a numorous class of ignorant, degraded, and un- principled mon, mainly vagabonds, vagrants, ond loafers, mixed with criminals, who are the fncile ngents of demngogues of tho bum- mor class, Bo long as tho revenues of a city aro largo, these demngogues will be tempted to manipnlate them for the sake of the stenl- .ngs, and, aided by the present machinery of politics, which i8 go loosely constructed ns to be capablo of all sorts of irregular uses, to ugo these igmorant and criminal classes to clovato thomsolves into power. The inovitable tondency of this combina- tion of circumstances is towards bad government and corrupt use of the munici- pal revenues. Tho only way in which this tondency ean bo thwarted has nlready beon illustrated in the county election of last fall and tho work of last Tuesdsy. Dut now comes in the danger that, having defeated the bummers, the poople will rest contented with their victory under the impression that bum. merism is squelched. This will be a sorious mistake. The bummer is a snnke, who may bo scotched but is nover killed. This class nlways exists in tho large cities, and the causes which bring it to the surface always exist also. The moment, therefore, that the peoplerelax their hold or censs their vigilanca, the bummer class, headed by the dema- gogues, who aro always on the alert, will rush in and geize the Govern. mont ogain. ‘Tho Mixz Evanses, Srouts, Corvins, Greesons, and Purrureses will not be suppressed unless the peoplo keep them down all tho time. They gained their power originnlly, not beoause they were more pow- erful than the people, but becauso the peaplo did not nssort thoir power, did not organize themsclves, staid away from the polls, or lat the bummors wrest the victory from thom by getting control of the polls, Thoy rogained their power on Tuesday last because thoy wore compactly organizod, because thoy went to the polls, and not only went there, but staid thero; becauso thoy voted, and, having voted, protected their votes from being stolen or destroyed by watching tho ballot-boxes until the counts were guade. This organiza- tion, vigilance, and Industry must bo kept up, or, as wo have said, the victory will be a barren ono at best, The moment they relax their hold the bum- mers will pour in again as water rushes through a crovice in an embankment, quickly carrying away everything before it. If the same vigilance is not exercised at the noxt election, the same miserable, debauched sys- tom of government that has characterized Corvin's administration during the post year, which has nearly ruined the city at home, and serlously damaged its good name and credit abroad, will be repeated another year, The principle which underlies this rccent election is too vitally important to be sacri- ficed by negligenco hereafter, The people of Chicngo were not fighting simply to over- throw the corrupt usurper ot the head of the city ring and his corrupt hirelings in the Council and city offices which he controls. This wes only an incident of the contest. It was a battle fought for a grest prin. ciple, and that principle was honest municipal government. It was a battlo of tax-payers against tax-eaters for self-pres- ervation, Ii wasa battle of honesty, scon emy, reform, intalligenss, law, and erder agninat dishonesty, extravagance, degrada- tion, lawlessness, and disorder, 'Tho result was n viclory which affeets not Chieago nlone, but tho other large citios of this country which nro suffering under the samo Dburdens from which we Lave mnow freed ourselves, 'Thero is no other subjeot befors the couutry,whioh has nitracted such universal attention in the Inrga citica ns this election, not becnuse thoy eared a straw for Corvin, or even know who CoLviy was, but because thoy have the snmo battle {o fight. Iaving won the fight, now let the peaplo improve the vistory by perpetuating its reaulis. ** Etornal vigilance ia tho price of liberty.” THE REVOLT IN TURKEY: The ravolt of tha Herzegovininns is assum. ing dimensionsof avery formidabla charaoter, and almost daily develops in a manner that s full of portenlous warning to the 8ick Man in Constantinople. Tholatest dispatches indicnte rome very important resulls in favor of the Clristinn insurgents, and thoy are thesa: First, that Mourran Pisma, the Turkish Goneral in Iferzegovina, hns been badly dofeated and compelled to retreat, and that the retrent eventually became almost'a rout, the victorious insurgenta following up tho Turkish army and inflicting terrible in- jury upon them in the narrow defiles and mountain gorges; nnd that the Turkish gar- rison at Nicsics {s so complotely hemmed in that thoy must soon starve or surrender. Second, that the Hervians will take tho field in Mny, and that official nssurances hnve been conveyed to them from Russia that they need not fenr any foreign intorference with thom. Third, that the Turkish Goner- als thomselves assert that, in the recont de- feat of MourTar Pasna, 7,000 Montonegring wero ongaged with tho Herzegovinians, thus showing that the quasi-independent Provinco of Montencgro is in opon revolt against the Turks. Fourth, that Dosnin has also joined in the revolt. Fifth, that the Sultan is about to raigo tho standard of the Prophot, and thus incite the Mohammedans to relig- ious frenzy and bring about a war of rolig- ions, and that the three Northorn Powors, Russia, Austrin, and Gormany, have notified him that, if any mnasacro of Christinng fol- lows the arming of the Mohammedans, na will be sure to follow, a military expedition of Austrinn and Russian troops will bo sont into Turkey. e A glanee at tho map will show tne immense importanco of tho nccessions to the ranks of the insurgents. Ilerzegovina is a mountain. bound province. It is hemmed in with lofty mountain ranges on the east, couth, pand wost, By trenty with Austrin, the ‘Turks .havoe the right to onter Herzegovina from the west across Dalmatin at Ragusa; but this pass in the mountains is impracticable for military purposes. Accesa by the south, via Montenegro, is also impossible, or ncross the costern chain of mountains, Hitherto, however, tho Turks have had sn easy nl- thongh very roundabout routeinto the Herzs- govinian Valley by crossing the Balkan Moun. taing, travorsing Borvin and Bosnia in a northwesterly dircction, and entering the country from the north by essy passes through the mountains. This route, how- over, is now most effectually cut off by the open rovolt of Bosnia and Servin, and the cortainty that the Turks will e opposed at overy step in theso provinces, as woll ns tho prospect that Russia will not suffer Turkish occupation or invasion of the lattor provinco, The accession of these countrios will moroover place the Herze- govininna almost upon terms of equality with the Turks, 50 far as moen and materinl are concerned, Borvia, which is n semi-inde- pendent province, with a population of abont 1,600,000 people, and having no publie debt, has an army of over 100,000 men, and is in o very flourishing condition materially, Bosnia hnsanarmy of 50,000, and Montenegro, although it has o very small standing army, could probably contribute between 15,000 and 20,000 men. In addition to theso provinces, their rovold is al- most morally cortain to bo followed by tho rovolt of Roumanin and Bulgarin, which are in closo relation with Servia as well a8 with Russii. Theso two groat provinces will add nonrly 100,000 more men, who can bo called out in an emorgoncy, Thoe infamy of "Turkish misrnle and despotism is evidont- 1y near its end. ‘The 8ick Man's constitution grows weaker and woaker, and his country'’s dismembermont is only a question of time, and very little time ot that. Meanwhile, England quiotly waits the partition by Austrin, Russia, and Gormany, knowing that France is powerless to interfers, and that Egypt must fall to her, thus opening her pathway to her.Indian poseessions. * A DOYAL TIGER HUNT. The hunting which .the Prince of Wales onjoyed in Nepaul, India, during hin recent vigit to that country, av deseribed in the London ZTimes, is calculated to make the mouth of the ordinary spotsman, who never bags anything bigger than a anipe or a duck, water. Nepaul is one of the quasi-independ- ont provinces of India, with an aroaof 54,000 square miles and a population of 2,000,000, and is ruled by 8ir Juxa Bamaboon. The latter has been in England soveral times, and upon such occasions was hospitably txeated by the Prince and introduced to all the lons and elophants of London, and ho Lad also assisted England at tho relief of Lucknow. Whon tho Prince arrived in Indis, therefors, 8ir Juna returned the compliment by inviting the Princs to Nepaul and introducing him to the tigers and elephants of that Province. ‘The Prince may have hunted the tiger in the wilds of London under the auspices of Gen. Bcmnog, but ho had tiger-hunting of a dif. ferent sort whon Le reacked Nopaul. Tho hunt was on the 22d of February, and on tho ovening of the 21st tho preparations commonced for tho next day's uport. Nolosa than eight hundred elophants were moored about the jungles whora the tigera wore en sconced, and a line of grass huts was con- structed, in which 1,800 natives were stationed to keop up fires through the night, so that the tigors could not break through, The next morning the mighty circle of elephants, with their long retinue of horses, camels, and na. tives, commenced the march of doom to the tigers, The correspondent thus describes the animated scene ; 1o ten miuutes or a quarter of an hour we came on. the rondesyous of the howdah and Buddes or pad ele- phanty, snd which seemsd to form a dark-brown wall across the glade in front, The sportamen dismounted and handed the Lorsss to the Bycos, the howdah els. phants kuelt down for the abooters; then thore wasa grest clamor of voices ss the line was formed by many hundreds of slephauts, 80 closoly packed tlat s walxing-stiok could scarcely have boon thrust betwesn them at times, and that in placos the lne was two and {broe deep. 'Tho Volcea of command, 1he yells ef the Jemadars—+Rokol* (Halt), “Chelol" (Go on), “Daineko1" (To the left), “Dabine-Xol™ (T the ight); tho blows of the hircus om elophanta’ hesds, tue sbouts of mabouts, the crashing of branchss above and of ssplings below, mads the forest ring, A% times & hall was called, and thers was a comparative tell, Through $be speningu ia ths glsde we eould soe Bards of emsetad and 002y 30ble SumbUY bennding in wild terror na theelrcle closed {n en them, In fnchy wood it was only pousitls to see thate on one's imms Qlato right and left, but we knew ihat eleplsnts wery advancing Lo meet us from the appoalte side. As the huge clrclo tightened ita coils, ench link of which was an elephant, tha space {n. closod was rapidly fiiled with cheotabs, deer, and other animals, which were allowed to Dreak through nnd escape. The corrospond. ent thus doscribos the death of the tiger which fell at tho hiands of the Princo : Immodiately after two shots wers heard closs on the right of thaline whera I was placod, and In haif o minuts n tiger appearod on ground which way comparatively opeu, maving in what looked like an eany canter right acrops our front, st a distance of some 16 or 20 yards, e was growling as Lo ran, his tall waving aloft, and hoseemed minded to goab tne elephants on our left, but to change his mind of sudden, and to think it best to conslder the aftuation in (e scclusion of & mmall matural slrubbery juny undor our noses, Into this ho nt once dropped, and waa lost to view, If thero had been nolss befors it was to what now aroes s {he, cooing of a dove to tho roar of a lon, In & fow weconds the Princo emerged on bis elephant from tho wood and appearod n tho clear spaco befors the shrubbery aa | may call it, some %0 yarda from it, with o lino of elophanta {n bia rear. "1t was Smposaiblo to sy wiiers tho tiger would break, ana riion woro grasped in case of neceasity; but thoy wers not needod. The ger, after two or threo growls, which had somothing fn tliem of the bellow of an angry bull and the suatl of o dog commiugled, loaped through the brushwood as it to clinrge tho line whera tha Princa was, Onel twa| ‘Tho Princo fired coolly, The lastshot turned bim, and ho rushed futo the covert again for an instant, ovidently hit, but in that fury of rage which enda in 3 Jump at the nearest wmen or bosst, Ita aido, se by crouched, was exposed to the Princo, whose elephant lisd movod nearcr, and, as the Lranchea snd grag wero sbnken violontly, tho report of his rifio was beard, and with & suffocated yoll the tiger roiled halt aver on ita side, raised itacif, and fell dead as the sec. ond barrel sont » bullet through and through hiy body. 3 The description of the kLilling of the firay tiger may serve for all. When night camo tho Prince had bagged cight more animals, and achieved tho honor of killing more tigers in onodny than any mon in Indis had ever dono before, and the Princs's shooting wes g0 good as to call ot encomiuma from 8ir Juxa, who las killed with his own rifle 560 tigers, and hopes to make his score GOO be- foro ho quits the field, The following fact, narrated by the correspondent, will bo of in. torest, as corrocting tho very genoral impres. gion that all tigers are linble to attack and de. vour human Beings: *‘ One, atlenst, of the beasta which perished to-day was not content with deer,—a tigress, fetid, lean, and hid. oous ; sho was o man-eater, and within this very weok had dovoured s human being. Her food did not ngreco with her, at all ovents, for sho was lauk and wretchod-look. ing. It is goncrally an old or sickly tiger which takes to man.cnting., Too slow or too wenk to run down antclope or doer, ho pouncoes on somo poor wayfarer at nightfall, oud onca hio hns found out how easy a proy a mon is, he never trics for any other food.” Compared with this colossal hunt, arranged by the mighty Indian Nmurop, the ordincry hunter’s sport seoms tame indeod. One of its most satisfactory featuros is tho fact that tho murderous work of the Princo among the Nepaul tigers was a blessing to the people who aro linble to bo dovoured by tho *‘mun. caters,” and whose hords aro so constantly the victims of those tigers, who prefer beef, mutton, and pork to the flesh of mon, women, and children. Notwithstanding the fact that they are provided with teoth, claws, and stouinchg, and must have food to eatinte their appetites, thoro will be a gonoral feeling of satisfaction that justico hes overtaken n fow mora of theso creatures, and that the Princa of Wales has shown himsolf to bo of some uso in tho world. Princes as arulo arc as superfluous as tigers, and somotimes more troublesome, Whon it happens, therefors, that they perform an nct that is of popular benofit, the fact is worth recording, although it may bo nothing moro dignified than the _lnilling of half-n-dozen tigers. Tho grandeat *‘Spanish land.grant ™ suit ot all hos been entered in the United Statou Dis- triot Court of Callfornia, in benalf of the boirs of ITunpipx, who in 1622 for a fow months, whea ho was overtbhrown by SBANTA ANNA, relgnod as Emperor of Moxico. Tho clalm Ib for twenty square leagacs, comnprising unearly ssven cuuns tlos in Californfa, which was granted him by the Mexiean Congresa in rocognition of lis korvices In tho Mexican war of indepondence, and which it is clatmod wae Jocated iu 1845,—prior ta the sequisition of Alta Californis, us it was thon stylod, by tho United States. ITURDIDE was uliod in sn ottempt to rovotutionize against Banra ANNA in 1823, and the claimants are Madame Itunping, the wifo of his son, sod her boy AvousTiNE, who two or throe yeara since oamo to tho United States and settlod at Georgotown, D. 0., whore tho grandson of tho Emporor and chiot clalmant to this immonso domuin {a now 28 achool. Ho may live to sco the ond of the big law-suit begun in his belalf, but it he does ke will {lkely ba woll along in his second contury. —_— The bummare yiold with a bad gracs, At tle maooting of ths Town DBoard of Bouth Ohi on Wednoaday, Puirrirs and GrLERSON appearcd, Puirries bad the faco to ask for the appoiut- mont of his sesistants to ald him in making tho assossment, and gevorally acted as iI he wad the Assessor, and had novor beon bounced for the frauda. Of course he was not rccognized, but nevertholess impudently obtruded himselt GLECSON was, If anything, more impudent th Purzars, Iis wsnt of decency fudicates 8 want of sense. Ilo thinks it s smart in him to clam to be Town Clerk, and therefore mskes himself especlally offonmive, It is gatting nesr time to have the two nuisances abated, Tbo rule of bummerism ia brokoa 1a Chicago, 1In » paragraph yeatorday about the Aldermen~ {c election in the Fifteonth Ward, Mr. Dz Pux wes described as & *trickster,” which some of the citizons aaaure us is erroncous, Our informs- tlon bad been tuat he bad aold oat Hirrio, bud shis soemu to bo a mistake. RMr, Dx Por is rep- resented to bo an honorable man, and a good citizen, but in trying to carry Tox Brour be was crushed under the unbearanls waight of thad bummer, Thae two bummer nawspaper concernsof this city chiarge Tus Trinusx with failivg to prevent the defest of soveral Repubilcan candidstos, such ns Tox Brour, ¥uiNk Wannex, snd Ouang Lirk which, they allege, it mignt havadone, Tux Tatn- uxg s undoubtedly s powerful and jnfluentist paper, ss thoy alloge, but it had nob strength onough t0 save thess candidstes. No mortal aid would have availed anything, Ieacurss of Bauson could not hisve oleoted them. i et s s 0 The Thieves' Organ continues to groan Ovey the reault of the election in Chicago last Tues- Like Racuxy, mourning for her ohildren, 10 be comforted. Ita bummor friends were slain {n great numbers, and ita chisfisls, Mr. Hold-Op, was knocked higher than a kite Henoe these toars and lamentations. The little DBxveamax bummer newspaps! sonoorn should not take the séault of the ey election 80 much to heart aad keep on boohoolod about it because ita big bummer pal ks sll tore upinfwmind. Thera are fiscal resaons for the xrief of the big bummer orgsn, buk Ross fo8 shat of tha little bummer thing, The morning after the great mass-moeohing in the Expoaltion Building, Tew Tatsone sald that 40,000 citizons had assemblod and passcd reac- lutions demanding that 1. D, CoLvix anould ‘vacate the office he mnl;nrph‘: n::. g:xynu: zesolved to suppord o0, TxO! s successor, We eutamitied ax eeror i sayiag