Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 26, 1876, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1870, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, at $13.27} for May and $13.42} for Junc. Meats were in light demand and ensier, at 8}o for boxed shoulders, 11jc for do short ribs, and 12jo for do short clears, Highwinos wero quiet and firm, at §1.07 per gallon, Flonr woas quiot and stendy. Whent was nctive and 2@2}c Jowar, closing at 94}e for regular and 99 for May. Corn wna nctive and 10 lower, closing at 453 for April and 45}o for May, Onts were modorately active, and 4o lowor, closing at 8230 for May and 820 for Juno, Ryo waa dull nt 65@G5je. Darley was quiet and 1@1jc lower, closing at 670 for May nnd Gt}e for June. Hogs wero in good demnnd at Go decline, aclling at $7.60@8.25 for poor to extra. Tho cattlo trado was lifeloss, with prices weak, Snles ut $2.60@5.10 for inferior to choico, Bhesp woro dull and weak, Last Saturday ovoning {hero was in atoro in this city 2,665,330 bu wheat, 1,310,820 bu corn, 588,625 bu oats, £6,692 bu ryo, and 198,196 bu barloy, Ono Lundred dollars in gold would buy $112.50 in grecnbacks at the closo. vieting Prypreroy and Berrxae. It hes beon ablealso toaddelightly to the piloof muck under which Bancocx is buried. It hns beon able to deteot frauds in the Indian servics, among petty clorks, contractors, aud others of liko character ; but such things are com. mon at all times, nnd always will be so long ns wo continuo tho rotton Civil-Service sya- tom invented and put in force by the Demo- cratio party. Investigation hos perhaps bocn more of failure than it would hiave otherwisa boen had not every step been interrupted by a Demo- crat praying meroy ot tho hands of his frionds, Tho Demoeratic party in Congress hns proved n failnre ; has proved to bo uiterly incapnblo of legislaling on any subject. It hins no policy in favor of which it can con- centrate a majority votoot its own members, 'The ontiro energies of the lenders secem to bo required to koop a majority from doing that which in their sublime ignorance aud idiotic frenzy it naturally inclines to do. 'Tho ro- enlt is that the few intelligont men abandon all reformntory legislation in consideration of the majorily omitting their Larlequin por- formnuces. Within a fow weoks both parlies will havo nominated their Presidentinl tickets, and Congress will have ndjourned, leaving every- thing at odds and ends as they were cighteon months ago. The Democratic parly must go before the country confessing that, after six months' absoluta control of the Houso of Reprosentatives, that party was incompent to agreo upon one act of legislation to correet or reform any of the many errors of the Re- publican party during its rule of sixtoon years. With this confession of notorious unfitness to logislate or govern, of tho ig- norance and demngogism of its leaders in and out of Congress, it can hardly make a decent appeal to the peoplo to renow its con- trol in Congress, or to bo intrusted with the goneral control of tho Government, prise by the Compirollor of tho Currency? | operation less than Ove yeara; it hnd not It would certainly scem, unless thero is a de. | then rencied its maturity, Its enormity was fect in tho Inw, that the Bank Exnmiuer | grontly incrensed tho next year. Duringthe should ba able to Inform himselt of any con- | War thero was no fair opportunity to test it. dition of a bank which threatons suspension, | Iut the fest did come in time. Tho Whig and that he should thon domand that the | tariff of 1812, which was strictly protective, bank strongthon itself, undor penaity of ex- | had hnd but a short life. The protective posuro and the proper procoedings for wind- | tarif of 1861, which attnined its highost ing up its affnirs, & point in 1807, had n fair test, and onded in TT—m——— tho annihilation of the foreign trade in all PABTISAN DIRTY WORK. protectod Amencan manufactures ; reducod The Houso Committes on Exponditures in { roquotion nnd consimption, and finally the Iutorlor Dopartmont i composed of the | 1,101 tho grand financial collapse and disas. following nonontitics: Wizt Muzenrrn, | 4 e 1873, which oxcaoded anything of tho of Pennsylvania, whoever he may be, Chair- | 3114 i1 this country, To-day, undor o tariff mon; ona Axprew k. Booxs, of Kentucky; | piorg protective than was ever known in Winuias B, AnpensoN, of Illinols; & Mr. | yie op any othor country, thero fs Lu'mm D. Woonwouru, of Oblo; and Joun | o gronter gtagnation in manufactures, Q. 'Turrs, Republican, of Towa. Who theso |\ pronior proportion of mills and mines gentlemen avo, or where they cama from, or | (1aged, and mors operatives out of employ- what thoy aro in the House for, no one ean | 1ot ang nctunlly living upon chority, than ‘say with nny certninty who hns not the Con- | o0 aver exporionced in tha listory of tho gressional mouuals fn his library for refor- | ynion, Tho protoctive tariff bos beon prac- cnco. Itisto bo prosumed, however, that | yieqlly togtad, and the result fs o ruin and thoy wero elocted by tho poople of soma dis- [ gegoiation which will bo felt for many yoors tricta to Congress, nnd that thoy have con- | 45 come, Tn 1866 tho cost of transportation stituonts bohind thom, and that thoy are | yoqnn intolorable ovil; pinco 1860 the ox- serving thoir country ot the cuatomary per | noqorated costs of transportation have beon diem and milenge, This Colnmittco nl. un- [ ontly reduced, and, though they nro yot knowns has omerged from its conventional high, thoy aro gonorally ns low as thoy were obscurity nt last, evidently desiring to omu- | ;3860 “But the high-tariff opprossion con- Inte Baney Osvsrretp's Committoo on Ex- | yinyeq, fho bitter and costly cxporicnco penditures in the Dopartmont of Justice. | op ¢po protective tariff has awakened tho Tho Iatter Committeo having spread its not | 1,014 country to the pernicious policy on for tho Prosidont, and failed to snare Mm, | yyioly it is founded, and sooner or later thio <dofiee . Hins now mada 8 very ro-| g political party which ignores the ne- markablo attompt in tho samo diroc- | gogsity for ita ropesl, and refuses to make tion. Looking sbout for somo witness | 4ot repent a distinct pledge, will bo swaopt who know-somothing about tho Presidont, it | from politienl existonco by n peoplo who at last secured a very remarkablo one,—a | puye gubmitted so long fo bo plundered witness as myatorious and almost na silont 8 | 570 ruined by corrupt and cowardly pol- tho Sphinx. Ho woa witness who was big | jygiang who, bobind the claim of pro- with o sceret which he would not divulge sorving their consistency, consont to tho for his life. It was something drendful, grossost robbery of tho people, ‘The pro- ominous, and portontous, howover ; 0 the | yo040q cotton manufacturers of Now England Committes went ot him and bored for tho | yu00 thrown consistoncy to tho dogs, and socrot. Thoy pumped him, threatened him, | 4r6 now practically ropudinting protection” eajoled him, bumml‘hhn, browbeat him, and by making cotton goods and exporting and at lnst, after badgoring him for a full hous, | gojling them in successful competition with they threatened him with immodiate lmpris- | 4 go_called pauper labor of other countries, onmont. Thoen tho myslerious witnoss was % delivered of his harrowing socrot. The President of tho United Btatos had ruined Lis botrothed. Hero was _ richnoess,—an em- barrnssment of riches oven. The Domo- cratic unknowns jumped at it like o trout at a fly, and thoy pressed him to a climax that they might know the full longth and breadth of tho Beecherian wrong which the Prosi- dent hnd inflicted upon this man's domestio happiness; that they might bruit it abroad in all the Demo- cratic newspapera low a Republican liod worked the ruin of a virtuous maid and betrayed tho confidenco of an honest man ; that thoy might got Gnaxt into the cave of gloom after riding him on the ragged edge, and stamping him as a lecherous Lothario, ‘Then up spoke this model witness, and said ho: * I want you to understand, gentlemen, that President Gnaxr in the body nover did meor mine harm, Mo has only done me thnt great wrong as s spirit.” Tho corpus of tho President slipped out of the not. The country was safo, Having no jurisdiction ovor the President ns o spirit, ghost, or view- less entity, the Committeo dropped their wondorful witness as if he were a hot pokor. The lunatic took his departure, vacantly smiling nt the other five lunatics before him, leaving President Grant freo to go on with his etherenl ruination of corporeal women. The courso of this Committes is in koop- given to tenants, which will induce permanent and handsoms improvemonts, in. stend of the wretched pine shanttes whicl now stand in tho village and nlong the banks of the creck, In fact, now that thotitle ia in tho Governmont, it can mnke of thoso springs, which are tho most notable curativa springs in tho country, a grent Spa, liko the famous Germnn watering places, In this view of tho case, Ltho decision of the SBuprome Conrt s in tho interest of tho wholo coun- ,try, and will have a tendenoy to maka this remarkable reglon available to o much larger number of people than it fanow., Asitis a matter of national importance, it should se- curo carly attontion at the hands of Congress, We courleoun; we repl . Honssayo In to Victor 1lugo as » penoy whistle to a great organ, Trof. Evans, formerly of the University of Michigam, i8 now o resident of London, where ho 10 ongaged on important rossarches In the Vodas, [le has rocontly abtalned for the naw Tlopkins Collogo in Baltimoro a valuable Orfents ol library, fucluding » completo ast of the Rig- Yoda in tho originol. For thoes books the Fn- gllsh India House would acoept no payment on loarning that thoy woro for an Amorican collego, Tho Roclioater Democrat noticen that some of the Domocrstio organs are so melancholio abousy the corruption at Washington thnt they cannog find timo to publish the truth. Tho New York World, for iostance, weeps coutinuously, and cannot soe to read the Iatost nowa concorning the acousation against Gon, Urant. A roador of Tur Tninune roquests ua to ex- amine & Bpanlsh dictionary and see whother “Don" or *Dom™ Is the proper way to epoll tho word, Wo shiould look in & Portugaese dlo- tlonary it it wore nocessary to look at allj and “Dom”™ would be found there withont sny trouble, Dom Pedro, belng & Brazilian, s of Portuguone doscent, Ter Mnjosty Quoen Victoria racolved the Mar. shal-Prosidont, Mac)Manon, she boing seated in hor carriago, whon passing through Paris on her roturn from Germany. French dignity 13 thus sntisflod for thoslight which it imagined it had re- coived hy tho Queen not having called on the Ropublican Executive an her outward journey to 8axo Coburg-Gotha, It {8 underatood that Mr. Robert Buochanan will soon inatituto a libel snit againat Mr, Swin- burno aad thy proprictor and the editor of the London Eraminer, charging them with a cone spiracy to ruin bim. The only evidenco of this conspiracy ia a particularly lacorating criticism of Buchanan's works which appeared in the Ex. aminer some months ago, and was written by Mr. Swinburne. Tho roport of the death in a Russian railway train of the famous medium, Mr. Home, was in 80 far woll founded that Home was sent back from 8t. Peteraburg ** doad beat" after » profound investigation of bis spiritual powors. ‘Tbo invoatigation was undertakon by a joint commission of bolisvors and ekeptics, and Homa utterly falied to produce the most importsnt of the promissd results. Thiors told s correspondont recontly that though ho had not been in power for three yoars, his ideas still rulo; he llkes ihat better. A groat mind, as ho s, profers to ses ila polioy in powor rathor than iteclf, Arscne Housssye adds to this: * But & small numboer of women vialt M. Thiers, for tho reason that women do notknow how to liston—oxospt when you speak to them of themselves."” Tho 8t Louis Republican, in & drosmy, une constraned spirit, remarkas : ** Herbort Bpencer says that tho gold ring now worn by married ‘womeon s the sign of the iron ring that was worn about the nock or anklo in olden times, and in. dicates tho submission of tho wearer. Horbert Bponoer is an impracticable droamer. The gold ring & woman woars now s simply indleative of ihe ring ber huaband must joln in order to food the bills.” Charlotto Caoshman, it is roported, leaves property valued at $600,000, nono of which is to be dovoted to charitablo purposes. The pro- bating of the will has been delayod by the ab- surd ignorance of tho exocutors as to one Jona« than Young Scammon, af Chleago, who cannot be found. Newport may affect to know nothing of Mr. Scammon, but to the rest of the world ho s almost as well known as the Preaident of tho United Statos. The Pbiladelpbis Zimes prints an ablo edito- rial, entitled: **Chicago s & Ring-Smasher," in the courso of which the writer atates the situn- tion thus: * Another of tho objects of tho popn- lar uprising was to rovolutionize the Govern- ment of the South Bido,—an important suburb ‘which ati)l votes ss s town.” The modest writer probably moant to claim Chicago as *anim- wuTES OF BUDECRIVTION (FATABLE IN ADVANCE). Bpecimen coples sent fros. To prevent delay and mistakes, bo wnre and gire Post ©fice address In full, Inclnding State and County. Remittancos tnay be mada efther by drall, espress, Post-Office ordor, or in registored lottern, at our risk. TKRM TO GITY BUBACRINFIA. Dty delirarod, tisndy excaptad, 23 conta per week, I} l, Bunday (neladed, 30 conts por weaek. Oy rerod Bonday N COMTARY udison and Dearbo; Ubleago 1. "Comer M A rocent intoresting lottor in tho Boston Jour- nal gives somo dotalls of tho display in the woman's deparimont of the forthcoming Con- tennial Exlibition which are very significaut. The women of Eogland will be ropresentod by varlous works of art aud a rare collection of old and now embroiderios. In tho artistic depart- ment, the Princess Cnnistiay of Bohloswig- Tiolstoin, tho Princess Louisk, and other Royal ladios, will contribute. Tho women of Franoco, Austris, and Bolgium haso sont a multitudo of fabrics mado by them in tho finor industries, ‘The Beandinavian housowlives écnd a largo col- leotion of usoful articlos mado by their hands, ‘Thoe woman artiats in Italy will bo richly repre- souted in paintings and soulpture, aud tho Italian women sond many Landsome eamples of their homo industries, Tho Chiness and Japa- ness womon havo sont ** fabrics whose mubtle colors and dolicate woofs toll of tho secrets which the fair slstors of tho Celostial and tha Flowery Kingdoms know.” From Bwitzoriand, Cannds, 8pain, and Egypt aleo have como nu- morous curlous artioles, the rosults of womau's Landiwork, Tho womon of this country will bo principally represontod fn dopartmonts of labor such as photography, carving furniture, engrav- ing, palnting china-waro, sewing, embroldering, and weaving, and models of nll patents ever gocured by women in the United Btatos will aleo be exbibitod. The scope of the woman’s exhi- bitlon will thus bo eeen to bo vory comprohon- ive, but it is not comprehensive onough to cov- or one dopartment of woman's work—that is, tho fomale shrickers for the ballot. All the otber busy women of tho world will bo ropre- sonted. Thoy alono have nothing to show. The oontrast is at once striking and suggestive, AMUSEMENTS. HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Tandolph street, between Clark and . Lasialle, Epgagement of Katle Putnam, Afternoon, * Little Barefool.” Evening, * Fanchon," MOVICKER'S TII Desrborn and Bial ADELPHI THEATRE—Monroo streot, corner Dear- born, Varlely eutortainment. Afternoon and svening. RE—Mndison street, betweon amlet,” Banxer Cavnricnp's Committeo got small satisfaction from tho examination of ex-At- {orney-General ARenMAN 1n relation to the expoudituro of tho Beeret Sorvice fund for {ho prevention of New York clection frauds, fhey mado a great ndo over his unwilling- 1088 to repoat private converantions between himself and tho President, and when they ' Lind serewed up their cournge to tho point of voting to compel him to divulge, it tronspired that thero was nothing to tell. In ploce of tho Stale secrets they expected to oxtort, tho voluble wituess poured into unwilling cars his knowledge of tho gigantic frauds perpotrated by the Neow York Domocraoy,—pracisely the things which tho majority of the Committeo did not want to hear, ‘‘Littlo JonNxy Daven. ront" is to be heard again, in the expectn~ tion of developing that he made big profits in Liis position as Supervisor of Elections, when the fact is that his enthusiasm for tho work carried him heavily into debt., Bamnzr's scavengers aro Laving a tedious time in scour. ing for Presidential scondal. TESPERTA LODGE, No. 411, A, F. & A, M.—Regular communication this (Wednesday) evening, April 20, at 7:30 o'clock, A full attendance is desired as business of importanca will bo trought before tho Lodge. O, 11, BRENAN, W. . . F. FOEISTER, Boc. @he Ghieago Tribune, ‘Wodnesday Mormng, April 28, 1870. ‘Warmer and partly cloudy wonther is un- derlined for this region to.dny. changa yestorday closed nt 88, Tho Mississippi Committoe of the Senate is about to begin its inquiry into the election frauds and outrages committed in that State, Ex-Gov. Axrajs to be in Washington soon, and will bo the first witness to bo heard. After that the Committes will proceed to Mississippi ond hold sessions at various points. MR, BLAINE'S EXPLANATION. The personal statement made by the Hon, Janes G, Buaye in roply to recont charges will be accepted by the publio as n satisfac- tory vindication of his personal and official integrity 8o for as it was affected by tho caso he considered. 'Tho chargo, or rather the in. ginuation circulated by Morron's friends, was that Mr. Bramse had corruptly nccepted a number of bonds of the Fort Smith & Little Rock Railrond, for which ho gave no other consideration than his Congressional voto ond influenco for some bill. The charge had never been very distinctly formulated. Thero was no pretense on tho part of anybody of direct personnl knowledge of a transfer of theso bonds to Mr. BLaINE 08 o grataity, It was, at bost an inforence from certain cir- cumstances and statements, It was known that Mr, Bramve was the possessor of some of theso bonds, Then it came out that Mr. Harnisoy, of Indianapolis, n MontoN man, and a Government Dircctor of the Union Pa- cific, had discovered on the books of the company a poyment of $G4,000 to Mon- ToN, Bruiss & Co. for $75,000 of the Fort Bmith & Littlo Rock bonds, which were comparatively worthless, Ar, Han. nmoN says tHat ho moved an investi- gation of this transaction by the Doard of Directors, but was induced to withdraw his resolution by E, H. Ronurys, Irensurer of the Union Pacific Rnilrond Company, who said Bramse had got the money, r. Janes F. Wrsox, of fowa, another Government MR, WASHBURNE DECOLINES, At noon to-day, the Hon, J. RusskLL Joxxs, of this city, recsived tho following dispatch s Pants, Frauce, April 33.—T0 J, Ruasell Jonen, Chi- cago: T would be compeliod to decline, abaolutely, the nomination for Governor, E. B, WasHounye This {s quite unespected, oven to Mr. Jonss and othier frionds of Mr, Wasunurng in thls city. As soou as Jearning that the above dispatch had been received, s representativa of the Journal called on Ber, Joxgs at the Custom-Houss, and the result of the interviow may ba stated in theso words by that gentlo- mand “ You aak mo why, at this atage of the canvass, Mr, Wasonunxr declines, after my positive assurance that ho would accept the momination, All I canat prosent say is, that on my return from Europe last fall, X was written to oud asked by many prominent men of tho Republicsn party from various yarts of the Btato whollior Mr, WisitnuzNE would ac- copt the nomination of Governor if tendered him, I Teplied that In & conversation with Mr, Wasnnonxe, in Parls, omo montha ngo, T asked him what hie ex- pacted to do on us return home, s then remarked that, ¢Bhould I continuo in public Jife, no position in the gift of the Btato of Tilinota would gralify mo so much s that ot Governor.’ On tho strength of this, Mr, Wasunumnw's friends have urgoed his mame in connection with the Governorship, I am sorry ho de- clines, for T regard his nomination as & foregons cone clusion, If he should consent to run; and I think no onocan doubt that he would binve been the strongest man §n the Blate at the head of our ticket.” Tifs unoxpected nows may causo somo important changen in tha aspect of the Gubernatorial canvass,— Chicago Journal. ‘Wa were vory much surprised to find the above in lost evening's Journal. Itis most likely that when Mr. Wasnsunse observed In relation to the Kansas Pacific bond charges, concerning which no allusion was made by Mr. Bramg in his statement of Aonday, n Topeks, Kan,, dispatch supplies varions faots of interest, It appears that tho story is an old one, having been published in 1872 by tho New York Z'ribune, and subse- quently disproved nnd withdrawn, The porson in question is not tho Hon. Janzs G. Braing, but is Joux E. BraiNg, formerly of Konsns, and now of Montana, The latter obtained some Kansas Pacific bonds in 1861 or 1862, botween one and two years previous to the nomination of James G, DBrag for his first Con- gressional term. Statements in writing woro mado in 1872 by Tooauas Ewxe, Jr., and Col, Jouxy B. STEwWART, both in the employ of the Kausns Pacifle Rond, distinetly and specific- ally denying thot Jaues G. Bramve up to that timo had any connoction with, or interest in, the Company, cither as stockholder, ngent, or employe, orin any capacity whatsoover, Morcover, it appears that the court records do not show the name of Jastes G, Braws, and that the revival of the story, which waa set at rest long ago, is utterly gratuitous and malicious. A very sensible propositlon, if tho work canbo properly dono, rocoives the indorsement of a proclemation by the Acting Govornor lssuod yesterday, It ls that tho Contennial Fourih of July shall be colobrated by the dolivery of a hia- torical skotch in overy city and town of Illinois, It is turthor suggosted that stops shall be taken at onco to intrust the proparation of thoss his- torios into tho hands of compotent peraons, and that, whon finished, there shall be at least two coples printed, one to bo filed in the oftico of the Clork of the county in which each s located, and the other lo the affic of the Librarian of Con- gross, It would bo well alao to have a third filed In the offico of the Becrotary of State of Il- linols, 8o that, taken togethor, tho variouslooal skotchos would give a cowplote history of the Btate. Buch s colloction would be not merely of passing local intorest and a fitting celobration of tho Centonninl Fourth of July, but it would be of great value to future historians, and the most trustworthy ns woll as losst costly mothod of gotbering tho materinls for & Btate history, which somo oxperionced person might afterwards cdit and condonse into a popular size and atyle. It is to be hoped that all tho cities and towna in Illmols will comply with tho recommendation. S The Cincinnati Enquirerillustrates the tenaoi- ty with which men stick to their party in Ohio, and how tho son takes his politics from hia father, by citing the voto cast in a dozen coun- tlow for Jacrsox and Cray in 1832 and in tho asmo countlea for AzreN and Haves last fall : Tho base-ball season may now be consid- ercd as foirly insugurated, tho Ohicago Club having played its first game. Louisville hnd the honor of contributing to the first victory of the rcorganized nine from Chiengo, nnd Cincinnati and 8t. Lounis will be similarly favored as soon ns may be, It will bo in- teresting to note the rivalry Letweon these threo Weatern cities toseo which shall realize the proud entisfaction of being second to Chicago in base-ball, The Demoeratio City Conncil, of Indinn. spolis, called asly special meoting Monday afternoon, prepared an ordingnce gerryman- dering the wards of the city, and passed tho same ordinnnce Monday night at o regular session. The dispatches state that tha Ro- publicans of the city held an indignation meeting in front of the Journal office lnst night, and that the unwashed, for the sake of returning an unterrified Roranp for thoir opponents’ menacing Oraver, will hold o ratification pow-wow to-uight in front of tho Sentinel offico. DEMOORATIO CONGRESSIONAL IMBEOIL- Five montha have passod nway sinco tho The legality of the recent action of the Town Board of South Chicago in declaring town offices vacant and filling them by ap- pointment is about to Lo tested in the 0 Democratic Housa of Reprosentatives organ- | pirector of Union Pacifle, is said, upon hear- | ith the whole tonor of the Democratio | that his nomination wonld be attended by a Te02. portant suburb” of the Contennial City, &0 Courts, Ep PainLn g . BRI ng wi y hnvins'rfla‘enhy np‘x‘;’icttlhi?oro::‘iz‘;nfig::::ug ized and cntered upon the long-promised | jng tho yemark, to havo repeated it to ingesfignuonn. For malignnnt partisanship | heated struggle in the Convention, he con- = callod becauss it wakes up once in & hundred restrain his successor from entering upon worl of restoring the Government to a sound | Brirve, and also to have subsequontly re- | and oxtromo unfairness, there is nothing like | cluded not to accept it under thoso circum- Counttes, [ years. 5 . L tho duties of the ofiice. This move will b | #Y8tem of financo, curroncy, tarifl, tazation, | ported Buanxe ns'snying that ho had sold | it in tho political history of this country. | stances. Iftho publio sontiment had pretty H o M0 Miabeco!D: Opiar willed condeitor 1hd vigorously resisted by able Jawyers, and, as it and of general administration. But tho Sive | thage bonds for o friend. This was the basis | To carry out their desperate purposes thoy | unanimously settled downon him as a Guber- = t:::““gi‘ :m ii:ulr)ag byvan cmlnn: i ia the duty nnd inclination of the courta to | MOnths have gone by and so far thero has not | for the intimation that Mr. Busrve had in | have not hesitated to summon o cloud of wit- | natorial candidate he would probably not 7wl sand, bettor sequatnted with the subjoct of tho protect tho interests of honesty and decenoy, beon a roforuintory act passed; not even a | ¢y, first placo received Fort Smith & Little | nesss actuatod by malico against tho Admin- | have folt at liborty to peremptorily decline ; i:{{l} momoir than any ono living, that thore re amang it may bo snfely predicted that Pamrres will | "°81¢ proposition matured to givo assurance | Rock bonds a3 a gratuity for nssisting, as | istration for fancied wrongs,—employes dis- | but wo suspect he folt distasta to be placed ot Mouroo.. uid theso materials facts of tho ntmost importance have no casy rond to the possession of an and confidence to an anxious and expectant | Spenker of tho House, in the extension of a | charged for incompatency, drunkenncss, or | the head of tho ticket if it involved a wrangle Porage s ,_M[ concerning Bwift sud his times—facts nover ofiice to which ho was naver eleotod. country, Forsixteen yoars the Democratic | Jand.grant which had lapsed, and in the next | other cause; perjurers, detectives, adventur- | or turmoil in the party to obtain the position. | Fairfil 2,048 printed or made known—which will require fur- — party has been asking the country to give it | plgco of having unlonded thess bonds, [ ers, soiled women, dend-bonts, blackmatlers, | Thero is littlo doubt that he would have been 100 Lovel| age ther sitention, and probably make it neosasary Tho House Judiciary Committeo han caused | 6 majority in Congress that it might | {hrough tho ngency of Col.Tnoxas A, Scorr, | lobby agents, criminals under indictment, | nominated, but perhaps not until after the Zml 2ol Lo that the biography shall be placed in. compatont to bo sont to cach of the Pacific Railroad | bring the country back to a sound | npon tho Union Pacific Company. prison conviets, and lastly lunntica, Tho | second or third bollot. He was boyond all LT 2l bands for complotion. . currency, low taxation, and general prosperity, and for six months the Democratio fparty has been in tho abso- lute control of the Houss of Representatives, the fountain of all revenue legislation, and what has it done? The Democratic members of both Houses, after protracted cauncusing, wers nnable to agreo upon any moasure relating to green- backs, National Bank notes, expansion or contraction, or specie payments. Though the Democrats arc numorically almost two to one, no propoaition of any kind rolating to either of thesa subjects has received the vote to take it up for consideration, much loss o vote approving it. On all that relates to financo aud currency, tho House is more at goa than it has been for ten years, and tho Domocratic majority confesa to an utter in- ability to doal with any branch of the quos. tion, or to puss any act of leglslation in re- lation thereto, For fiftcen years the peoplo and the coun. try have boen subjocted to an infamous sys. tem of tariff taxation which has been destroy- ing the trade, defenting rovenus, impoverish. ing the producers, and consuming the sub. stance of tho whole people, If thers be oue thing in the ante-War hiatory of the Demo- cratic party eutitling it to lonor and credit it was tho zeal, and earnestncss, and fidelity with which it confined taxation to revenue purposes, snd administored the tariff on sound and correct principlea. A tariff for rovonuo ounly, eud no taxation excopt for ravento, constituted a policy whick, while seouring prosperity to the country, wes ne- ocopted gospel in tho Democratic party, Dut the Democratio Touse, with liberal aid from the Republicans, have not dared to present that question to & vote. The moment that it was suggestod that 50 per cent bo taken from the tax on tho shirts, coats, pantaloons, overconts, bats, and boota nnd shoes of men, snd o5 much be tsken from the tox on the clothing of women and children, end from the tools, implements, and ma. chinery of production, aud from all the arti. cles entering into the general uses of domes. Presidents a lotter inviting propositions for the creation of a sinking fund to apply on tho payment of the principal and interoat of the bonds advanced by the Government, The Committeo would like to know what the companics will do in dollars and cents, but intimates plaiuly that a ropetition of tho monstrous impudence which charncterized the offer to roconvey millions of acres of worthlesalands at $2.50 per acro will not be nccoptable, It is time these grabbing cor- porations were brought to torms, — We might coxfinus Ihjfl ll:vln‘;d lnfl‘r‘llfll‘n;lfi ;lln it1s Fredorick Douglasssays: **WhatI wantto . neo 16 JACKHON pomeceatney, The sesdee i s, Lt Hia JAOSON | g botore I dlo s momument reprasenting the }y.llm}lnr X: that ""'jn,}'" m; ncmy half » ?13’:\‘17 negro not couchsnt on his knees liko n four- lor. S0F ALLER il AYEs LoF OdVOrnos.of 0. | footod animal, but eroct on his feet like & man, ;fil-'t :m';‘ffi:fl&i';‘;m :: %;’:‘lfi:‘i‘mu ELUs « « » The :nera act of breaking the nogro's e chain was the sct of Abratiam Lincoln, but the In justice to tho Park Commiesloners of North | act by which the negro was mado a citizen of Chicago It should be said that, in the remarke | the Unitod States was pre-eminently the actof of Tre Tninuxx concerning the logal efforts to | President Grant.” The suggestion of Douglass prevent & vote of tho peoplo to abolish town- | fa that Grant should have n monument sigoale ship organization, the Commiesioners have | {zing his scrvices to the colored raca. taken no action whatover. Parsonally, sll the The widow of Admiral Dahigren has bought Compmissionera ate in favor of abolishing tawn- | tho celobrated Bouth Mountain Houso, which is ship organizstion, aituated on the aummit of the South Mountain in Maryland, on the nationa! turnptko, and i FERSONAL. the middle of tho battlofield of Antiotam. The iace hias acquired an historio name from hav- Louis J, Jonnings, formerly editor of the New p York Times, sailed for Europe on Saturday. ing boen s resort of Henry Olay, Thomas IL Benton, Jobn J. Orittenden, Gen, Andrew Jack- Mllx;. ::”d"‘ next objoctive palnt will bo | gop ‘and many othor notod man, It will be [ontreal. handsomoly titted up by Mrs, Dahigren as her The Emporor of Brazil never miasoaan oppor- | summer home. tunity o go ta tha thastre. HostoppedinHalt | go), v, Lodernstorn, Chiaf of the Department Laka Qity for (st exprodn porpone; of favalid Oficers of tho Prussisn War Depart- Messrs, John Jacob Astor and Willlam B. | popt, commisted auicide Maroh 20 at Berlin, Astor liava ench recently glven 25,000 to the | haying praviously shot lus dementod wife, Tne funds of Bt. Luka's Hospltal, in New York Oity. | motives which led to the tzagedy, as related by My, O'Brien, ot Newark, N. J., had his wife | bimsolf in & note to his brothor-ofiicors, were arrested for asesult and battery, and the lady | his absorbing love for his wife, who suffered argued Lita onso for him by flogging him again in | terribly from the combined effoats of disesse the polico ofica. and drugs, and his dosire to reliova her from Prof, Tyndall, tho prayerless, has boon urged | sgony and die with her. Dut a post-mortem re- by the aristocratic circle with which he has long | veatod that the wife waa dead beyond & doubs Doen & favarite and {s now conneoted by mar- { When she waa shot, and the atatement of the riage to sccopt a Baronntoy, ofiicer to hls comrades was soon to Lis a mere Itis mald that Mr. Loogfellow is writing an | subterfogo in pailiation of hia suloldo, / ode to his Brazilisn Jlajesty. Tho Ewmpororis [ The variations in thospellingot Shakspoare'd an sdmiror of Longfellow, and has translated | name fornishes tha topla for an ariiole in the some of his postry Into Portuguess. gfiy numbfix; of Sartg:'m'; ‘:la:lltlly,“bys.:;.l:. Julius Crsar * was soted in New Havon re- more. There ara five autographs 4 aently with tho saslstanca of Yale Colloge stu- | PROAT® In existonco acknowledged to be genuius, dents s Roman Souatora and Lictors, and the | four of which are spailed Blakspore aud the Yale Unlversity crew as oaptursd Huna, fitth Buakspears, Mr. Gilmore concludes a3 Mr. Willism Murray, of the Chucago Doard of | follows: * From an inapaction of thess auio: rads, exbibits & motch-safe for the pocket | KPDLM it 18 ovidant that, Bowovor S-k-sp-r-E1b) which coat $100 fn gold at Ban Francluco, These | Bv8 varied lo spolling the lsst asliable of b olsborate propsrations suggest that be has & m;::"“l‘ A 80, T say One sy Whe m;; m;:urlhu?xn d;wu m:‘L‘l"“‘ °l:" h b takes the palns to examine the fso aimiles. On r; Chisdaa James box; OF Liverpoot, teg be- he spurious a genuine auto: queathiod £100 to Dradlaugl, who never saw :‘;:'pfi,"'::;'.u gl gy bim, Mr. Conway romarks that this i enough TOTEL ARRIVALS. to make the bonea of tho famons rival of Pitt | pupner Hous—B, ¥, Felt, Galens; L, I, For, De snd champlon of the then Prince of Wales rattle | troit; W. L. Stevenson, Now Sonth Wales; Dr. M. A Tn hisroply tothis insinuntion Mr. Brarve choge to ignore the statoments attributed to Messrs, Hanrnmon, WrirsoN, and Rorrixs, since tho lottor which he produces from tho Inst-named does not refor to the remark he mado to Mr. ITinnisoN, The reasou for this is probably thaot nomo of thess statomonts camo directly from these gentlemen, and Mr, Braxe had no personal kuowledge that they had made the remarks attributed to them. But ho took up the gravamen of the charge, and denied fully and explicitly that he had over roceived a dollar in bonds or other so- curities from the Fort Smith & Little Rock Rallroad a9 a gratuity, or that he had ever sold nny bonds to Col, Scotr, or to MonTtox, Buiss & Co., or to the Union Pacific Company. This ia in contravention of the explanation which Mr. BraiNe was said to have mado to Mr. James F, Wizsoy, Mr. Brame sustaing his statemont of tho case by loiters from SioNeY DinroN, now President of the Union Pacitic, E. H. Rorus, Trensurer of that Compnny, Col Bcorr, formerly Presi- dont of Union Pacifio, and Mesars. MonToN, Briss & Co,, brokers, all of whom deny very explicitly that they have had, either for thom. golvea or tho Company they roprosent, any dealings with Mr, Brang, or that ha received, directly or Indirectly, auy benofit from the monoy pnid by the Union Pacific to MorToN, Brss & Co. for tho Fort Smith & Little Rock bonds, In addition to thess confirmatory letters, Mr. Braixe makes o statomont of his purchnse of n cortaln amount of these bonda at a time when othier New England capitaliste were investing in the sume securities, and of his having lost §20,000 by the subsoquent declino in their value, Tt waa ptobably the poasosaion of some of these bonde that gave a color of truth to tho insinuations relative to his acquiring them as & gratuity, In this case wo are free to say that Mr. Bramne's statement impresass us as full, satisfactory, and convincing, in the absence of anything to the contrary, except the irresponsible rumors which wore sct afloat by In. dianapolis parties in tho interest of Mr. Mouroy, Tis statement Lns sn appoarance crack-brained witncss who was to convict the President is not the only Bedlamito who has been summoned before theso Democratio committees. A lunatio was allowed to testify without any restraint against Gen. Metas beforo Crruen’s Committeo. And thia whole crowd of unprineipled and irresponsi- ble riff-rat has beon allowed to testify ageinst the roputations of honorablo gentle. men without even cross-examination, and thoir lying and malicious utterances have beon heralded all over the country for parti- san purposcs, Men whose whole record has been honost, army officers and civilians who bave mover had astain upon their names, have beon at the mercy of a gang of wit- nesses who would not be believed undoer onth in o court of justice, and whose testl. mony would have convicted thom as liars had an opportunity been afforded of cross-exame ining them. And this {9 what is callod Dem- ocratio roform! This is tho Domocratic style of purifying the publio service! In the history of this country thera is nothing more disgraceful and dishonest than the secret star-chambers of the Democracy of the present Housde, where evory unprincipled vagabond and desd-boat is summoned to blacken the character of Republicans, and poid for his dirty work out of the Puhlic Tronsury, 2 question the strongest man yet mentioned for tho placo, and his clection would have Lonored the Btate and given dignity to.the office. The contrast betwcon a statesman like WasnnunNz, with a nntionnl and interna- tional fame, and the mousing demsgogus who now occupies and belittles the Gubernatorial office, is that botweon atrength and foeble- ness, It is too painful to contomplate. THE HOT BPRINGS DECISION. The decision of the United States Bupremeo Court affirming the decision of the Court of Olaims, that the squatter or individual claima to the - Hot Springs territory in Arkansas are untenable, and vesting the title in the United Statos, is one of more than ordinary impor- tance. The Hot Springs villago occuples a valloy running north and south, botween two spurs of the Ozark Blountain, its southern end being traversed by Hot Springs Creck, an afiuent of the Washita River. The springa are contiguous to the banks of this brook, and tholr healing qualities ara well. known throughout the Union. A flourish- ing village has grown up about the springs, and there is probably an avorage of 2,000 visitors at the springs to avail thomsclves of tho remarkable remedial propertica of the waters, Those springs and their modici- nal qualities were well known to the early Spanish adventurors, and even to the Indians bofore them, who told tho Span- iards storics of ‘‘a fountain whose magio wators would heal the sick, rejuvenata the nged, and collfor an ever-youthful immortali. ty.” Intho time of Apawns, the Government laid out a reservation, covering the territory in which these springs aro located. After the earthquake which sunk so much of the coun. try below Cairo and made so much land un- tenable, Congress pussed a law giving those who had suffered the right to pre-empt quar- tor acctiona of land, or an area equivalent to what thoy had lost, within certain limits and upon oertnin conditions, Bomo of the par- ties who scoured the sorip, in looking about, hit upon thia Hot Bprings property, and lo- cated their scrip upon the very ground which Massnchusetts is in o state of formontation on tho subject of Presidential candidates, and the State Convontion, which meets to- day to select delegates to Oincinnati, is ex- pected to bo the scene of n spirited contest betwcon the supporters of Bris- cow and Brame. A strong movement in the Buistow intorest hns been successfully inaugurated, and it is bolieved that it will be ablo to securs n majority of tho delega- tion, The Boston Bristow Club held a publio meeting last evening, dedicating its new hall tothe cause of “‘Bnmrow and Honesty," Tho address was delivercd by the Rev, Jaues Freesay Ovanxe, and tho ovént was a nota. ble one in Massachusotts politics. —— The Common Council had a profitless ses« gion last night, and adjourncd nfter accom. plishing very lttlo toward complating tho canvasa of the voto, ‘'Lhe difficulty svems to bo to preserve a quorum in the cham. ber during the canvass, which could bo rapidly finished if there wore more work and less talk, The respectabls mem. bers of the Council are anxious that the canvass should proceed with all possible dis- patch, but unless tho door s locked or the neighboring saloons closod, there s not much use in trying to keop the bummor cloment at work, It may become nocessary to supply boor and whisky in the ante-roow, ip order to insure_the attendance of a quorum and the cou?plodon of the canvass, Tn 18660 thera was o call issued in this city for a publio meeting to osganize a lesgue or socioty to promote tho polioy embodied in what isknown as s " Protective Tarif." Tho presont editor of Tur Tninunz was one of the signora of that call. Ons of the idiotic papors that profeases to belitve that the owl is the embodiment of wisdom, because it nover changes an opinion, gravely contrasts the views of Tue Trisune with the language of the call for the Protection moeting in 1866, and howls about ‘‘ consistency.” It &a; 1n 1860 he declared “ that avery time this country Do triod ¢ ¥res Trade’ it has been followed by dis- satrous financial revulslon; and every {ime 1§ Laa tried Protection 1t haa enjoyed commercial prosparity and rapid growth in pational weslth, completaly re- futing all free-trade theories on thesubject;” fu 1676 They have what thoy call a New York Pioneer Association in Toronto. Why this in their coflin, Yorx, Bhullsburg, Wis,; E. A, Clapp, Boston ; the Lo ‘body adopted thi it b tic cconomy, which reduction of tax might | of grank ithout any show of i | e pronounces every such declarstion tobes false- | tho Government had met epart as a national oy A el ph 230 o York in g{“ -Snonnn:;:::a mn:fi:‘,h;m stated | nade with Tittle o no loss of revenue, innocenczu:ux;d:ovoid of e{n t; bnvul:':;xg: hood, 118G ho inalsted that Weslern farmers were | youorynpion, They squatted upon it, and | Mias Dlanche Tuoker, the Chicsgo prims 310 Barvery Fituburg; O, fl.‘?tn‘iuf"qn'-‘x’mi [ ;N dons i 1 Ak 1 that | rolbed by the cost of transportation to & distant douns, who rocently mads her debut in opers n | Jioleston, New Boutks Walsst W, G beckh Schlrd cluded not to Centennialize this year, The | 00 to substitute a low tax on tea and coffes, | mugt commend it to fair-minded men. If | market, not by the tarif, safree-tradors alleged; n | 28 there was no immodiate contest | FOVOR WEESOCPA W 0 B0 TS B PRETA o0 | ot A ¥. 1.’ Dudlols, Boaton: . excuss for omitting to celsbrato fs given | Whiohs when colleoted, would ba all revenus, | gither Mr, Hanmsox or Mr. WiLson know | 1470 boinsiate that the sobbery is dons by the tariy, | they &t once commenced building, leasing o J Tobitson Olasn, 1ue! hor flrst appearance in oratorlo with Mlle. 3 ela, Mion, ; O, H, Kelicsd Titlons at Bostop, Masw., April12, wera both T Higgins, lflndnn;fl.l‘lnmdl.lmhm“ formerly of LaCrosse, Wiw: B, Ward, J. “_’-m,' Lot fli"u,,... Txports havo decided that My, DaWité Tal- | Aurors L. O, Hsuna, Clevelsnd; G, 1l At mage hes the requisiio wind to make & good | Gor i Ae Bt R e waltader, Kaubs player on thecornet, The large majority of per- | keo; O. Hhesby, Dmon“; 3. B. Webb, l}.m‘:lala.' i-l‘; i formors on this instrament, 1t hse beon diucov- | ¥ Tawis, Ir e Biieiutos ) Lo Lowel ored, are drawn from the ranksof book-sgents, lite-insurance agonts, and leotuzers on woman's | HanMSE - rights. 1; the Ho Arsens Tonssaye seoms to be the Ei Perkins m_‘l’hfi'}l‘“ of Paris. Ilia lottors to the Now Yorx Tribune | Galssburg; aze chiofly remarkable for the sublime coucelt | Sherman and sudscisy thoy displsy. Under date of March | Fidstte, Wia, 8, for instance, Houssaye writea; * The auto- graph muolaatill rages in Parls, Howaver, it ' sppears that this floe frenzy has selzed the | five. *%Gon o i Amerlcsns, for they write a great deal to Viotor | Bostoni Col, H. A, ¥sllows, I 1uo, and they do me the bonor of writing | . I ! niuch to nie, naturally n order o ged Enawess. 'n‘u‘fiu. tha traditional followers of the great Demo- cratio fathors, ancient and modern, to use one of the cant expressions, laid down on the new Tariff bill, Fruwanpo Woop, who claims to be the modern JzrrzrsoN, 8ax RanpaLr, the FLauinToN of this age, Bannuy, who per- sonifies the wisdom of MipisoN, and Lun- vrny, compared with whom Jaoxsoy was insigoificant, all entered their protest agajust avy such rational and intelligent proceeding, The Tarift bill—the mesasure which might have been boneficial to the country and creditable to the party—ia therefore as dead in the Demooratic House as if tho only Dem- ocrats in the body repressnted Pennsylvania jron and Vermont alate-pencila, The Houss has undertaken to investigate, and has been sucosssful to the extens of cone not by the cost of tranaportation, 1t the editor of Tux Tmibone ton years ogo held erroneous notions in regard to the tarif or any other polloy, that ia no reason why he should cling to error when he discov- crathat the facts aro against him, Consistency maintained against light is the infirmity of weak minds, It is the wise men who pro- grosses, and tho biggest fool who atands still and refuses to rocognize the truth, One of the distinguishing difforencea between man and the brute is, that man by observation und experionce corrects his errors ; the brute keeps right along in the old way, impelled by instinct, Those persons who imitate the brutes in adhberonce to follies do 50 because their natures are bxutedike. In 1888 the prolective ari had bsen in though, and it is so Cannuckish that, wers the datae to the dispatch containing the item omitted, there would be Ltile trouble in guessing at ita sourco, After much disous- sion thess aforetime New Yorkors concluded that their mission was to honor Cansdians and not Americans, and thus they declined to efervasce. They are possibly the immedi. ais descendants of the men who left New York for Oanada about the year '76, and who ‘Wwere not partioular &g to the manner of their e — The Chlorgo producemarkets wereirregular gostarday, Mess pork was dull, and de. elined 150 per brl, closlng at §21.62} for and 31,77} for June. Lard was lesa 204 50 per 100 1ba lower, olosing sasy ground, and drawing ronts, and many men have mada fortuncs out of their leases. Bome fiftoen or twenty years ago suits wero com- menced involving the propristorship of the grounds, Tha contest has been & long and desporate one, It was interrupted by tho War, but has since been renawed, and is now closed by the decision of the Bupreme Court, which disposes of all tho individual claims and vesta the title in the Government. The Government having been successfal can now make these springs a great uational blessing by convesting thess grounds into a national parl, and building a great national hospital. This will naturally tend to im. prove the present inconvenient means of ac- ocess to thom, Better pplice regulations csu b4 had than exisd now, Long leases can be anything to the contrary, now ia the time for them to speak; if they do not, Mr. Brine atands fully acquitted before the people so far as the Little Rock bond story is con. cerned. — The snnouncement is made that the sus- pension of the City Natlonal Bank was heard of with great surprise by Comptroller Knox, and that the local Bank Examiner will now undertake a speclal investigation of its af- fairs. Would it not be better to have speciul investigntions before rather than afler the closlog of the doors of weak banks? Ia there not an omission of duty somewhere if, uotwithstanding perlodical examinations on the part of the Government, the necessity for a bank suspeusion s learned with sur.