Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 5, 1876, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RATPS OF AURSCRITTION (PAYABLE IN ADVAXCE) Postags Prepald at this OMmco.’ Dally Bdtion, postpid, 1 year, s 818,00 Tartaef yoara Malled to any sddress rouR w unday Kdition: Literary and TR ek, 8 1 Haligior One e Qiob o Hpocimen copioa send fres. ' Ta provent delsy and mistakes, ba suro and civa Vort- ©Ofcs addrems In foll, Inclnding Btate and Couny. Ramlttances may be made sither by draft, oxprots, Yout-Offics arder, o In roglatersd lottcrs, st our slsk. TEAMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERA. Dl delivood, Bunday otenpted, 28 crate per week, nclude O atvored: Bunday laeisiiloh Uorner Madison and NEW CAGO THEATRE—Clark street, betwoen hndolpgxgld Take. lfoolcy's Minateels, ADELPII THEATRE—Monros strect, corner Dears born, Variety entestalnment, HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph strect, between Clark and LaBallo. Eul‘l&a\n!n\ of Salsbury's Trou- W®adours, ‘ Iatchwork,” MOVICKER'S THEATRE~Mnditon street, between Dearborn and Siate, * Much Ado About Nothing.” EXPOSITION BUILDING—Lake 8hore, foot of aireet, Comcort by Gihmoro's Dand, MCCORMICE IALL—North Olark astreot, corner Kinzls, Concert by lans Von Bulow, [ ——— "SOCIETY MEETINGS. WASUINGTON CTAPTER, No. 43, I, A, M.—-Reg. nlar Convocation this (Fridas) avening, at 1:000'clock, Every momher requeated to bo presont, an business of @rsat tmporionce will come hefore s Clipter, Dy wrdorof the M. E.IL T, CHAB, B, WRIGLT, Soc., ORIENTAL LODGE, No, 33, A,, F., and A, M,, fTall 121 LaBalle-at.—Staled Communication this (Friday) wrening, 8¢ 7:30 o'clock_sharp, for business and work s the ¥, O, Degree, Dy order of the Master, E. N, TUCKER, Seo. D, A. CABHMAN LODGE, No. 686, A, T, and A, M.—A Bpecial Communication will bo held at thelr hall, N, W, carner West Madison and Iiobey-sts,, this ‘,Frldly) svening, at 8 o'clock. Work on E, A. Degree, isiting bretiren cordially welcomed, . G, HOMPEON, W, M, LAKESIDE.—A Bpocial Communication of Lakoside !ndlge, V. D., A, P\, and A. M., for work on the B, M, cefld, 'will be hold at 8 o’clock this (Friday) sven« ing. Vistting brethron cordlally fnvitad. GEO, IIOWISON, W, M. F. W, CROFT, Bec. The @hisage Tribuse, Friday Morming, May 5, 1876. Greenbncks yestorday at the New York Gold Exchango were quoted at 88]@883, The Wenther Bureau predicts that the tomperature in this region to.dny will under- go littla chango. The shortest rond to relief of tha fraction. al enrrency stringency is by way of the Com- mittes on Waoys and Means, whose reporta ean be called up at any time, while tho re. port of the Banking and Currency Commitleo must await ita regular order. Appreciating this fact, bIr. Buae yesterdsy offered a res- olution, and it was adopted, calling upon the ‘Ways ond Meaus Committeo for the imme. dinte recommendation of a plan to remedy tho oxisting searcity of small chnoge. By thris method it is possiblo to secura the neces- sary legislation without delay. — Tin ability or the inclination of the Chi. engo Noard of Trade to enforce its rules xclation to tho discouragement and disconn- tenanco of corners’ nud gambling contracts would soem to be a3 yet n matter of some doubt, A. case involving the validity of the rules in this regard, and incidontally raising the question of regularity in connootion with the nction of the Committes on Appeals and the Directors of the Board, has been sub. mitted for judicial settlement, suit being brought to recover an amount paid under protest in adjusting the differonco on a con- tract for futuro delivery. Tho name of Internal Revenuo Suporvisor Heonicr, who developed a decidod financial talent in the manipulation of post-trader- ships, also figures conspicuously in the trial of ex-Ald, Jowas, of Chiesgo, now in progress at Milwaukeo, A letter was placed in evidence in which “IL" is reforred to as having eopaged to furnish the indicted whisky-thieves with an abstract of tho ovi- donco and the names of witnessos to be uscd sgainst them; in fact, to complotely “ give away " the Government in theso cases. A witness testified thot the * EL" in question ‘was nono other than Supervisor Hepaicr, v The great railrond lines running East have boegun to quarrel among themsclves again, and tho result is and will be a grent saving in money to the traveling public. ‘Che Grand Trunk has reduced its fare from Chi- oago to Boaton to $16, and it is thought that to-day tho Erie, Pennsylvania, Now York Contral, and Baltimora & Ohio will fix fares from Now York fo Ohieago at $12. The feoling botween the hend men of these grent corporations is very acrimonious, and the “‘war" thus to bs commenced gives promise of a longth of duration and o recklessness of competition which haa not beforo been wit- pessed. Bo far, tho President, has resisted the strong personal appeals made in behalf of Afr, Winzuar MoKee, now under sentonce as ®» member of the Bt. Louis Whisky Ring, e hias positively declined to exerciso Exccutive clomency or to interfers in any manner in this case; but monster petitions are to bs pro- sonted, influential men have united in writ ing letters, and McKze himaelf will be in ‘Washington to-dny and in person invoke tho Preaidential mercy. It will bo a sovera strain upon the firmness of the President, but he {s famoay for holding to a purpose once delib. eratoly formed, and may prove euperior to the tremendous pressure brought to bear in the interest of MoKee. Tha gcandal-mill of the Committeo on Ex- penditures in the Navy Departmont wasagain sot In motion yesterday, but with mengro and unsatisfactory results. The Committeo listened {o tho testimony of Bewsamix H, Onzxvzs, a professionsl lobbyist, who was sxpected to make important disclosures con. cerning tho influonces and means exerted to secure the sppointment of Jax Cooxe, Mo. Curroon & Co, us fiscal agonts of the Navy Department, It tumed out that Cmezves know absolutely nothing except by heanrsay, nnd this of the most doubtful charncter, es bis {nformant has beon dead for several years, Buch testimony would bo ruled out at the be- gioning by eny court, and even the Demo- oratio mud-slingera Lave the grace to admit that ** therd's nothing in it,” ‘The Chicago produces markets wera stoadier rosterday and generully stronger, with more sctivity in pork, lard, and freights, and less loing in grain. Moss pork udvinced 40@450 . per brl, closing at at §20.90®20.96 for May wd $31.05 for June, Lard advanced 2o par 100 Mo, closing at 312.40@12.45 cash and $12.50@12.55 for June, Meata wers o per Ib higher, at 7ja for boxed shoulders, 11} for do short ribs, aud 11jo for do ahort clears, Laokefreightawerefirmor, at 3j@4cfor wheatto Buffalo, Highwines wero stendy, at $1.07 per gallon, Flour was unchanged. '\Vhelt closed. 1@1}o higher, at 97§c for May" nnd 00jc for June, Corn ndvanced j@je, closing at 460 cnsh .and 4Cfe for July. Oats wero @jo higher, closing at 800 for May and 30}c for June. 1ya was dull at 61jc. Darley was lo higher, closing at 63}e for May. There was an notive demand for hogs, and the market was firm at Tuosdny's prices,—sales chiefly at $7.00@7.10, Qattle wore active nnd a shado higher, Sheep were dull at $4.50@ 6.25. Ono bundred dollars in gold would buy $112.76 in groenbacks at the close, Itis n’nw confidently enleulated that the new Common Council will have a strong working majority firmly committed to the immediate ousting of the usurper whe now cxercicos the fanctionsof the Mayoralty. A well-nttended identified with tho cumbent purpose best method of procedure, and it is under- stood that the majority of the Council will Lo thoroughly propared to take prompt and decisive sction next Monday evening, If of Aldermen anti-Corvix in- wag held yestorday for tho of consulintion as to the meoting Curviy is wise he will simplify matters by {ailing to putinan appearance, and by making no attempt to hinder tho complete oxcention of the verdict of the peoplo as expressod through the ballot-box, The messago of President aANT, gont to the Honsae yesterday in respouse to a rosolu- tion of inquiry ns to the time passed by the Exocutive outside of Washington, was & well- deserved and fitting robuko to the partisan spite and importinenco which prompted the resolution of inquiry. f matic and dignified habiliments, and stripped down to the plain vernacular, the message means : '* It's nano of your business, and you were guilty of gross impudence in making the inquiry.” Much has been said about the frequent nbsenco of Presidont Gmant from the scat of Governmient, and he has thought proper to furnish some intoresting informa. tion concerning the customs and habits of his predecessors in the mattor, showing that lis Administration will compare favorably Divested of ita diplo- with those of all the carlior Presidents respect~ ing the nverago timo of absenco from the National Capital. The Contennial Commission yesterday de- cided to take no action in regard to the sale of beer and wine on the Exposition grounds, and, therefore, not to disturb the privileges nlready sold by the Finance Board. If the temporance bigots want the old statute en. forced which prohibits the sale of liquors in Fairmount Park thoy are at liberty to in- stituto proceedings against the propriotors of hotels and rofreshment stands, but the lager and the wine will be dispensed at convenient places just tho same. the Commission in refusing to prohibit the sole of harmless tho highest degreo sonsible and prudent. A contrary courso would linve been productive of grent loss to the Exhibition, and a vast nmount of needless aggravation and incon- venienco to its pntrons, and all this without in tho least diminishing tho consumption of The action of beverages is in beor and wine, which would bo sought for with all the moro avidity elsewhers on account of the deprivation on the Centenninl promises. TEE MAYOR'S ELECTIORN, Theopinion of City-Attornoy Jaxirson fur- nished to the Qity Council a fow days ago subatantially assumed that thore had mever been a vacancy in the offico of Alayor since Corvix's clection in Decomber, 1878, time ho was elected for two yoars, and Mr, Janrzson was clected Attorney for two years, ench to scrvo until their successors wora clected and officers obtuin authority to hold their respect- iva ofiices nfter tho oxpiration of tho terms for which they wero eclected ? Tho Logisla. tura could not pgive them such authority, beeanso the Constitution expressly prohibits any enactmont extending the term for whioh thoy were clected. Assuming that the torm for which theso officers were olooted expirod inDacember, 1875, thoir continuance in office after that date was *‘until their successors wero clected and qualified.” But that there wos a vacancy in such ofico from that date 1o ono can questiou or dispute, At that qualified. When did these There is, howover, another view as to the time the vncanoy occurred in the ofilce of Mayor aund Oity Attorney. 1872, adopted in April, and deelared in forco May 1, 1875, becamo the supreme law for tho government of Ohicago from the latter date. all proviously existing offices and croated others, When the new charter was adopted The chartor of ‘That charter abolished it went into operatiou as exclusively as if thero had been no provious charter in force in this city, Tho charter created new ofllces of Mayor, ‘Ironsurer, and Attorney; it did not continue one of tho old ones. It created those now oftices, and of course this sponged ont of legal existence the provious offices of Mayor, Attornoy, and Trensurer, and so much of the termsof those officos s woro unexpired was summarily abolished. ‘Cho charter, however, provided that the persons thon in offico should continue, not as Maoyor, Attornoy, or ‘I'rensuror, because such n provision of Inw would be a legislative appolutmont to office, which is prohibited by tho Coustitution, but should continne to “ exercise the powors” of the officers who wero to be electad fo fill the offlces cro- ated by the chartor. Tho charter continued no mnn in office ; it vacated them all from tho moment it was adopted. The men then in officowero authorized to execute the dutios of the new offices unti! the people should, at aregular apocial eloction, il them. They were in tho exact position officially of ofil cers whoso terms had expired, and who con- tinued to porform the duties until their succossors should bo elected and qualify. But the vacanoy existed, and by direct opera- tion of law from the hour ths new charter went into operation, Tho talk about Corvin'a term befng ex. tended by Iaw until 1877 is simply abaurd, He nover began an offloial term of Mayor un. der the now charter, gud his term under the old charter was terminated when tho new charter went into operation. There never was a Mayor olectod or appointed under tha new charter; tho office has never been filled; the vacancy has been continuous, CoLyIN ex. ercising the powars of tho Mayor to bo elect- ed until such oficer should be clocted. Whether tho vacanvy in this office might have beon fillod by spocial election or not during the interval wince the last of April, 1875, is not now material ; the City Council refused to call such pocial election, and the office remained yacant, Waa it in the power THE CHICAGO.TRIBUNE: FRIDAY. MAY G5, 1876. W—*flm Jof tho lawful voters at the first genornl elec- tion of city offlcors, on the day fixed by law for such clection, to meet at tho polls and elect a citizon to lll the office of AMayor, which offica had never beon filled under the char- tor ? Tho attorneys for the nsurpation doctrine maiotain that, as the vacaucy oceurred moro than a yoar befors the oxpiration of the term of the Mayor to be clected, it must be filled by spocial olection, and that no special elec- tion is legal unless there be duo notice given thereof, oto. The Suprems Cowrt of this Btate lhas held that *‘elections fixed by lav at a cortain time and place may be legally holden, although notice has not been published or given, but if tha time ba not de- fined by statute, and it is to Lo fixed by no- tics, tho notico rgquired is imperative.” This dccls(o‘, however, did not rolate to the case of an clection by tho people to fill an office notoriously vacant. It wos with reference to & specinl election held not to alect officers, but to determine some question submitted to the people, There is a whole series of decisions in cases whero the ques- tlon submitted was of voting subscriptions to railroad stock, of moving county seats, of voting the issuo of water bonds, and special questions of that character. In all such glec- tions there can bo no gonaral time fixed. They happen rarely and at long intervals, and notice of time and place of clection is nn essontinl fact, ‘But the chartor of Chica- go doclares that cn the third Tuesdny of April of each year there shnll bo a general eloation for city offlcers. What officers? For all city officorn whose terms have expired, and to fill all offices then vocant whosa temporary incumbents aro serving until the vncancios shall be filled by pop- ular oloction. The oclection on the third Tuesday of April, 1876, was a ‘¢ goneral oloction for city officers”; thero being no Mayor then in office, the offlce novor having beon filled except temporarily until the next eclection, whot was tliors to make the clection of a Mayor at that time an oxception to the well-catnblished rulo that all genaral olections held on the goneral day fixed by law for an offico thon vacant shall not be rendered illegal or void because there waa a failure to give the notico prescribed by tha statuto? ¢ The new City Council will, of necessity, canvasgs the roturns of tho recent cloction for Aoyor, and doclare the result; and Mr. Hoxne will take tho oath of office, and be recoguized by the Common Council ; and if 3r. Corvry, in his insano contempt for pub- lic apinion, shall persist in his usurpation, and employ force to roverae the declared will of the people, he must expoct to take the consaquonces. REMINISCENCES OF DARK DAYS, ‘Weo hopo Mr. Sprrvoes, of Southern Iili. nais, and the New York Vorld nro now sat- isfied. 'Their unseomly partisanship, as con- scionceless as it was zenlous, betrayed them into giving Seuntor MonroN nn admirablo and entirely proper opportunity for restating the obatacles he encountered from the Demo- cratio party in tho prosecntion of Indiana’s share in putting down the Nebellion. That the statement is a powerful one is sufficiontly evidonced by tho fact that Mr, MortoN made it. So far as the account of moneys are con- cerned, ho has put it briefly, plainly, and comprehensibly. The charge laving beon investigated by tho Democrats in his own State, who wero unable to report even a sus- picion of corruption, Mr, MoxToN was able premptly to present the exact figures and uses of tho $250,000 which ho roceived as Governor of Indisun from the Goneral Gov- ornment, nnd which, with the aid of liberal contributions from the loyal peopla of his own Slate, enabled him to equip tho Indinna troops, and put them in the flold and keep down tho Robels at home, in spite of the refusal of the Democratic Legis- lature end Btate officers to give lum the proper appropriation in the proper way. It is ag well, perhaps, that all this should be rocalled at the present time, when the Con- fedorate coloment in Congress is nsserting itselt in eo offensive o mnuner, especinlly since it naturally comos up at the instance of the Democrats, who are scoking to find cor- ruption in every caso of distinguished loyalty and eminent services during the War. I, Montox's statemont should bo supple- mented by an oxplanation of the circum- stances which at that time placed tho Demo- crats in a position to worry him and jeopard- ize his usefulness ns Govornor of Indinnm, as they did also with Gov. Yares, of Minois, "Tho Rebel olement in the Northern Democ- racy hnd asserted itself in this State as well 24 in Indiana, They had gained a temporary superiority of numbersand nssumeda boldand defiant attitude on nccount of n series of ovents unfavorable to the Union causo, Prior to the State clections of 1862 tho Union arms had suffered severe reverses under McoCrer~ TAN and Pore in the Enst, aud had necessi. tated the call for 600,000 moro men for threa yenrs. The rospouss for this call camo main. iy from the Republicans, and, while it filled the rankgof the Union army with brave and loyal men, it decimated tho ranks of the Re- publican party at homo, and emabled tho Democrats in Indiana and Illinois, as well as in sevoral other States, to eleot the Legisla. tures. To show tho difforonce which this eall for troops made in the relative strength of the two parties, it is onfy necessary to ro- fer to tho voto of those States in 1860 and 1862, In 1860 LiscorN's majority in Indi- ana over Dovaras was 23,624 ; yet in 1802 the Democrata carried the Blate by 9,648, So in Illinois, LincoLN's majarity over Dova- 148 Was 12,000 in 1860, and iff 1864 the Demo- cxataelected thoStataticket and both branches of tho Logislaturo by nnajority of 16,446, An ovidence that this change had been brought ubout by tho respomse to tho President's call for three-years troops is found in tho fact that the Republican voto in linois fell off from 172,000 iun 1860 to 120,000 in 1862, and in Indiana from 139,000 in 1860 to 118,000 in 1862, while the Democratic vote in Illinois in 1862 was ns lnrgo o3, and in Indiana larger than, the Donio- cratic vote of 1860. In many of theothor States the Union party saved itsolf from a similar resnlt by enlling epecial sessions of the Leg- islature and pessing lows enabling the sol. dlerato vote in the fleld. Iinois and In- dlana were inhibited from adopting thia pol- ioy by the peculiar wording of their Consti- tutions, and it was not till 1864, when Heero. tary BrantoN furloughed scores of regiments from theso Btates to come home and vote, that they were rodecemed from the taint of disloyalty and the clulch of Copperheadism, and it was then that the disloyal Demoeracy of Dlinois received a blow from which it Las nevor recovered. Benator MontoN Las shown how seriously ho was embarrassed by the organization of the Dewocrats into treasonablo secret socie- ties known ns the *‘ Bons of Liberty,” and by the effort of the Democratio Legislature to divest the Governorof all his constitu. “lagos; tional powors and confer thém upon Demo- cratlo Stato officers, who wore subseqnently shown to be in league with tho traltors nt home and the Rebels beyond the lines. Tho oxposuro of thesa schones in Indiana forms one of the most consplouous opisodes in the listory of tho War. Gov. Yares, in this " Stato, was confronted with almost ns much Confederato opposition, 'The ebel majority in the Legislatura proposed all sorts of schomes in the intercst of the Confederacy, —among others a truco and the intrusting of a genoral sottlement of the War issua into tho hionds of a Commission. only defeated their machinntions by porsist- ont rosistance and procrastination until the legal termination of the Leglslature had been reached, whon, in tho inability of the two Tlouses to agree upon an adjournment, Gov. Yarres fasued o proclamation dispersing the Legislature. nuthority, as did the Republican members of tha House, lonving tho Iatter without n quorhm, The muthority of Gov. Yates twas afterwards questioned in a suit brought be- fore the Supreme Court of tho State; but that tribunal held that, the Legislature hav- ing dispersed in complianco with the procla- mation, it was useless to pass a judicial opin. fon on the competency of tho Governor's ock. The Unionists The Sennte acknowledged his Thuy; were dark dnys 1n the history of tho Ropublic, whon the *fira in the rear” was more formidable than tho Confclornte guns at the front, and had it not been for tho steadfnst loyalty of such Btato Governors a3 MontoN, Brouvam, Moraaw, Cortry, and Yares, the Union canse would have been jeopardized beyond tedemption, as it was seriously throatoned. Wirrians, the Democratio candidate for Governor of Indiana, vory wisely counsols, it will bo batter for tho Democratic party not to rovivo the rocollections of those days if they can help it, as they can only dsmage their proapecta for the future. which attaches to tha Domocratic party from that time may be taoitly ignored, but it can nover be expunged, andtue Democratashould be content with all the silence and obsourity which their opponents have been willing to givo it As Mr, Butternut The disgrnco OENTERNIAL FOLLY, The decision of tho Boerd of Contonnial Commissioners to close tho Intcrnational buildings and grounds on Sundays is & grave mistake. It is full of disastor to thosuccess of tho exhibition, although it may be in peefoct consonnnce with puritanical bigotry and folly. injustico to thousands of people. It is an act of rank discourtosy to Europeans and to European-born residents of this country, to invite them to this exhibition and then shut .ita doors in their faces one doy in the week, without the grace to romit their cxpenses for It is boyond this an act of flagrant that day, They thereby compel thousands of peoplo to remain idlo ono day, with noth- ing to do nond no place to go, and the privilege of paying ten dollars or more for itheir day’s idleness. It is still more an act of discourtesy that, after inviting Europeans here, an attempt should bo mado to forco an obsorvance of Sabbatarinn notions upon people who are not Sabbatarians, aspects, it is & narrow-minded, bigoted, and puritanienl act, and shows that the managera of the Contonnial aro no farther ndvanced than tho Puritans wero 200 years ago, if Philadelphin proposos to enforca a Sunday law in this respeot, why not in all? If it is a brenkago of the Sunday to visit the Con- tonnial buildings and look at pictures, machinery, and othor objaots, is it not wrong algo for hotels to do extra work at oxtortion- ato prices, for streot cars to run, for railronds aund telegraph offices to transnct business, for private conveyances to bo used, for bar- bers to shave, for soda fonntains to sizzle ? Where Aftor they bave from their show aro thoy going to do with them? They ean't coop them up in the churches, becauso there isn't room for them, and, cven if thera wore, thero are thousands of people who don't caro to pay an extortionate prico for the privilege of going to a Philadelphin church on & Dblazing snmmor's day. Thoy will go there to see tho exhibition, not to go to churoh, and they will filnd thomselves chentod out of just onec-soventh of thoir time, aud not only cheated out of their time, but compelled to pay an outrageous price for Viowoed in ita most favorable But doos tho distinetion como in? shut out the people on Sundays, what the privilege of Leing cheated,—nll of which will tond to give foreignors a moat oxalted opinion of our much-vaunted liborty snd equality, as well as of our consistency, whon they find that in every large city in the coun- try, parks, libraries, art-gallerics, museums, theatres, concert-rooms, aud almost overy other form of nmusomont and ontortainment, aro thrown opon to the publioc on Sunday, whilo tho Intornational Exhibition alone is closed, and theroby ceases to, be intorna- tional and becomes a puritanical show, reg- ulated by Biuo Lows. There is another serious featuro to be con. sidored in this matter, Tho closing of the exhibition on the first day of tho woek virtn. ally excludes the working class of peaple, who aro tho cnes to be most benefited by such an exhibjtion. Bunday is the only day upon which tons of thousands of them can go, bocauso thoy aro engnged in earning their bread by hard labor every other day in tho week, As n Philadolphia paper remarks: There would bave boen moru visltors on Sundasy tlan auy olhior dsy, and three-fourths of them from tho working classes, Hunday trains would hava run from New York and Baltlmore, bringing multitudes from theso citiod and the intormediate towns and vil- it {n quite safs to calculate that tne action of the managers wiil prevent two or thres milllon paopla from svalling themselves of an opportunity for enter~ tainmeut and {nstruction such aa thoy hava nover had befor d never will have sgaln, Again, ns if dotermined to place every possible obstacle in the way of the succesa of the Exposition, some of the mana. gors have dog up'a park ordinance that wos obsoleto years ago, forbidding the sale of wine, beer, or othor liquors in Fair. mount Park, and have attempted to enforceit, and thus to cut off thousands of peoplo who will swalter through Philadelphin heat this summer, which is worse than any other heat, from any beverage excopt the impure water of the Behuylkill, which {8 surfaco water be. fouled with drainage and sewsge, and this is the form of entertalument to which French. men, Germans, tho English, ond other Europeans, ara invited! Tho effect of the ane measure is to compel people to pny from ten to twenty-fivo dollars for the priviloge of listening to a dull Philadelphia ser- mon on o hot Sunday, or pay the same | price for loafing about hotels and try- ing to kill time. ‘The effect of the other Is to drive people into the city saloons and forco thom to pay threo or four prices for villain. ous decoctions. If tho managers of the Big Bhow aro golug to enforce puritanical ideas, why are they not consistent ? Why do they not carry out the Blue Laws to the limits, ocompol every ruan, woman, and ¢hild to go to church, imprison every person who a not in bed at 9 p. m., pillory every young man found speaking to a young woman, and Long afow old women as an iliustration of the froedom nnd equality of this ‘‘great and gelorious kedntry.” Between tho puritan- ism of the managors and the rapacity of the people of DIhiladelphin, it will bo littlp won- dor if tho Contonninl does not provo 40 bo misorable failure, 'The Philadelphin Jtem very clonrly foreehadows this in the follow- ing annonncemont 3 ‘Tho cndl ia not yet. To-day is the 20th of Anrll, and tho Expostilon cannot by any earthly poestbility open on May 10, Tho butidings ate not ready; evorytlilng 1% In confuston, and it wonld take a miracls to arrange things in time. It cannot bedome. If thingsaroin order by the end of May wa aliall be surprized, 1t hea beon owlng to no superior management that the build- ings bavo been advanced as fur as they sre, but meee- Iy becauso tho winter han beon_ extraordinarlly mild and favarable. Wo haveavery right ta fear that, with the sdm!salon 50 conts and no aeason tickots, and with tho buildings closed on Sundsy, the Expasition will be . Unless the managers change their policy of bigotry and folly, it ought to boa —. REFORM WITHIN THE PARIY. Thero has been no more significaut pro- test ngninst the machine politicinna and thair tactics thau that embodied in tho declaration of thoe Ropublicsu Reform Club of Now York, The Club was organized last Tuesday even- ing by five hundred of tho leading Republic- nns of tho city, ineluding Wrrrzan E. Donos, Lroyp Asrywarn, A, A. Low, Joux Jacon Asron, tho Rev. Dr. Berrows, Winrtasm H. Gurox, Davip Dows, J.D. Venauvnys, and other well-known representative men, not simply to give voico to tho unanimous honest sentimont of tho party against the machine, but to take active imeasures to defeat the machinations of the machine-men, who plot the capture of the party. Thoy neither propose the formntion of & now pariy nor the abandonment of the Re: publican party to self-appointed loadors who make o trade of politics aud manago tho cou- ous, Their purposo is to maintain and strengthen it, not as a machine for the cap- turo of spoils, but an the sole hopeful means for securing an honest, eflicient Administra- tion, truly representative of the will of tho gront body of Tlepubliean voters, They recognize that the peril menacing tho party and the country is the insidious corrupting machine influence, in all respects identical with that which long ngo desiroyed all possi- bility of good in tho Democratio party, and left it but o putrid reminiscenco that must noeds be buried out of sight that it may no longer poison the political atmonphore. Preciscly such fato is it that the machine- politician would fotch upon the Republican porty; and upon the first manifestation of the 1machine-programme these New York Ropublicaus, prompted by the purpose which inspires the ontire rank and file of the party, have spoken out in phrase that cannot be mistakon. They declore that the timo hns come when thoe interests of office-holders and office-seckers should be ignored ; that thopub- lin is sickened * with the spectaclo of betray- od trusts and corruption in office, of high places sought and held solely for privato gain, or s o means toadvance private intorests,” and “with aclass who trade in politics and manage the machinory of partios solely in the interest of oflice-holdors or offlce-geckers,” They rocall that ‘*in the ecarly days of our nntional lifo office was nccepted by those whom the people sought, and was adminis- tered with scrupnlous fidelity in the intorest rlono of thoso who imposud the trust; that men conspiouous for their wisdom and virtue wore placed in charge of public affairs, and tho desires of the people for good government were unobstructed, and their best sontiment had fair oxpression through legislntion.” A roturn to that system {s what they de- mand in place of the programme which the machine-men would foist upon tho Republic- on party ; and in that demand they will bo soconded by the moral sentiment of the whole party and of the whole country. They onlist for no man, but demand a candidato who in and of himsolf will bo n * guarantee of official integrity ”; who shall be ‘“not a mero political partisan, but a statesman of tried character, in sympathy with tho best sonti. ments of the people on all public questions, conversant with the aflairs of Government, discriminnting and independent in tho cholco of publio servauts, ono who will thor- oughly reform the public servico,” Though ho is not nomed, it is impossiblo to mistake that thoy intend thoe only man who anwers that description, Bristow. 'That will ba so recognized by the wholo country, and the declaration of ihe New York Repub- lican Reform Club but gives expression to tho common Ropublican sentiment through- out the land, protesting ngainst the mn- chino, and demnnding that that protest bo mado oTective by tha nomination at Cinoin- nati of Bristow, whose oxposuro and punish- mont of machine-corruption has not only brought upon him the relontless hostility of the machine.mon, but hins demonatratod that heis the man wanted at this juncture to com- plote the demolition of the machine. BTOCE-JOBEERY IN ENGLAND, The late panic on the London Stock-Ex- change, while it docs not scem to have per- ceptibly affeotod tho Htreet, swept awny millions of pounds of the cepital of private investors, and has dirceted the attention of tho British pross to the liability of millions moro of private capital to bo swept away in the hike fashion. As England, with her great monoy-making industries and commerce, hng gone on adding every year to her immense accumulated capital, corresponding low rates of interest havo ruled, and the tomptation to sdok all sorts of investments that promised more then 8 per cent per annum has been multiplied. Meanwhile all the peuniless Gov- ernmonts and minor powers with no avail- able assets bave stood rendy to promise to poy from 7to 10 per cont, with discounts allowed, fetching it from 2 to 8 percent higher, and have so regularly and systemat- ically rolioved tho English of their surplus capital, leaving small prospect of its ever being repaid, Tho heavy capitalists, after sovero experiences in suvh investments, have come to loarn that 8 per cent, with payment guaranteed, 1s infinitely preforable to uncer- tain promises of from 7 to 10 per cent. But to tho thousands of English people possessed of small fortunes, say from £2,000 to £10,000, the prospeot of doubling their incomes by an investment that will double tho interest upon their capital is slmost irresistible, ‘The Spectator, ovo of tho most thought. ful and wellinformed English jour. nals, which "has been investigating the matter, find that these Invest without any real knowledge of the value of the se. curities taken, or as to the resources of the Governmenta by which they wero issued, sim- ply on the recommendation of their brokers. ‘Thus it is that the London market is flooded with the Argentine loans, Egyptian loans, Khedive's loans, Turkish and South Ameri- can loans, ‘What makes it worse Is that the very iguo. rance of the investors ronders them espooially liablo to panics, and tho ensy vietims of the experiencod operators of the Exchinnge. The Spectator discloses that the recent panle in these shares, licld chiofly Ly small inventors, was precipitated and nggravated by n dishon. ast boar movement, the result of which was to ruin thousauds of families nud cnrich a fow heavy oporators, ‘T'he following figures show bow complote and ruinous was the do- cline in a single forinight: Btackn, Argentines, 188 Price on Prico on Feb25, April 12, 1 (1] Argentiuow, 187 " Argentinen, 187 I Egyntiann, 1861 3 £ Egyptiaus, 1664 E 4 Yy ptlans, Vice, Loan, o Ehedive w I ] 18 I'lie loss, which amounted to millions, fell not upon steck-gamblors, but upon duiat in- vestora so fenrful, of nothing as of stock- gambling, and the profits were bagged by the gomblors, Llow much the decline was duo to tho intrinsio doubtful valuo of the socuri- ties, and how much to the bear movement, it is difficult 1t this distonce to detormine, But the offcet hias been to frighten investors away from the Stock Exchange, and to woaken the public confidenco in all securities except con~ sols. And yet go enormous is the accumu. lnlcd'cl\p‘ilnl of the country that the Specta- tor predicts the gudgeons will bite again, and anya: " ‘Tbe publio can do nothing, for it canmot, as a body, scquire the kuowledge which would make invostment insuch stocks inoderataly, safe, and cannot conquer tho temptation to makn smati amounts of monoy ylold & percoptibiodividend. It {n il vory,wéll to talk abous greediness, but a widow with £2,00 cannot live upon £06 8 year and can live on £140, anebe buys prom- Iscsof 7 per centas showould gointos busincas. That fathe root of tha ability of tho distrusted States to raise moncy, and It {a incurablo excopt by thelr banke ruptey, and uot alwaya curable by that, There {s no curs for the readiness of people to buy the bonds of rascally States, any mora tuan thero Is & cure for their readiness to Jnvest in swindling compantes, and they must Just 10so tholr monoy. In a cursory aljusion to the apparent diffi- culty which tho United States authioritios are linving to find just claimouts for the entire amount of damages allowed by the Goneva nward, the London Zimes says ingonuously that .**no ono scems to havo suggested the simple plan of repaying it into our [i. e., the Dritish] oxchequer.,” This would be, as n matter of fact, the faircat way of disposing of any surplus after a full and equitablo dis. tribution of the funds among Wil good claim- ants. It would bo much better than to allow it to the insurance companies, which dis. counted the risks thoy took by the exorbitant premiums they demanded. It might bo said that any residne nfter the paymont of individual elaim- ants should bo tummed into the United Htates 'Tronsury in partisl compensa- tion for the damangos tho Government re- coived from the aid givon by Great Britain to the privateers, if it woro not that tho doc- trine of consequontial damnges was fully con- sidered by tho Gonoya Court of Arbitration, ‘ond decided adversely. The United States is bound by tho verdict.of that Court as well ns Grent Britain, The roturn of any surplus to Great Britain would also do much to allay the Lad fecling which the award left among cer- tain classes in England; but we very much fonr that tho rapncity of tho Great American Claimant will scarcoly permit the ostablish- ment of a precedont wheroby auy fund for distribution shall havo anything left and un. distributed. The Now York Jerald has made an intima- tion of great significance to tho eoffect that the DBritish refusnl to surrender Winsrow without an assurpuce fronuthis Government that he shall not bo tricd excopt on the chargo for which he*was demanded, is sug- gested by tho selfish purpose of establishing a precedent to covor the cnso of LawneNoE nnd protect certain porsons of high standing both in England and Amorica whom Law- neNez is said to bo able to implicate in smug- gling. Lawnexck wns surrendered to this Government somo time since to bo tricd onn chargo of forgory. Bince Lis surrender it is said that n discovery has been mado of his connection with oxtonsive smuggling opera- tions, by means of which tho United States QGoverument hos been defrauded of savoral nmillions of dollars, If this is true, thero i searcely any doubt that be wasin the employ of merchants, on both sides of the water, of grent wenlth and prominence, It is cited in confirmation of this story that the pressure for the English statuto of 1870 is very sudden in view of the fac! that it has been ignored for six years, and now, all at once, there in to persistent a demand for its recognition that England is willing to havo the extradition troaty abolished rathor than forego this con- dition. If thero is any good foundation for tho story, it ought to bo investigatod and the oxact truth ascertained, The experionces of Darney CAvLFIELD and his Committen with little Jounny Davenrort have come to bo the funuy feature of Wash. ington nows. Liko the Irishman's flos, Bax- Ny puts his finger on Jouxny, as he supposos, only to find that Jounny is not there. On Wednesdny Oavrrierp had o brief scason with him, trying to make him answor to suit tho Democrats, but he don't scem to answer that way. His replies invariably tond to ex- poso Democratic frauds and corruptions, After badgoring him, browbeating him, and furning him inside out, the Committoe final- ly got tired of him nnd turned him over to another day, as it haa been doing for several doys past. It is & littlo remnrkable that some of the Democratio managers do not see that tho investigation has drifted far away from its original bearings, ond cowne to the relief of CavrrieLp by stopping Davexront's fu- vestigations of Democratio rascalities. It would be kindness to animalg, if nothing clse, to rescue CaurLrieLp aud his Committee from littlo Jomuwnx'a clutches. v o There need be littlo surprive it shartly there be & tremendous craxh in the Bouauzs stocks that will flatten out mattora on tho Pacitio Coust more completely than did tho collapsaof the Bank of California. On tho st of Aprll, the shares which had boen multiplied ten times by the watering procssa were quotod at 838. On the last business day of the month they had follen to §72,—s decline of noariy 20 per cent, roprosentiog & sbrinkage of millions. 1t is, of course, impossible at this distauce to got at a koowledgo of tho true lnwardness of thio oper- stions, but it ta significant that the Inat lssue of the Ban Francisco Stock Meporler contaivs a column interview with Jaxes O, Froop, tho cblet of the Bouanza owners, and reputed him- sclf worth between ton and twenty millions, which interview, in the language of the street, ln eimply & pitcous *‘squeal" amgainat Jaues Ky, auother heavy operator, who {s boarlug the Bonanza stocks. Keenm is cuormously woaltby, but has never been ratsd sy possessing half the osplisl that dop, Froop, mor more than a tithe that of the latier's firm, Froop, O'Bnrax, Mackey & Fara. Yetia this {nterviow, mani {eatly furnished for effoct upon Californis atrost, Froop dilates upon the hostile * animus” of Reexe, sud complaing billerly of Keenk's at- tack upon the value of tho Bonsnra mines, 1If theso wero in fact unimpaired, if Froon's firm wero posnosaed of the sarplus millions withy which It {8 credited, whiat would ho care for the daproetation of the stock, except to make mancy out of it by buying up the outstanding shares at les than their vaiue? But if the puy-ore ia glving out, it the dividonds of $1,600,000 per month (doolared with snch romarkable regularity ‘monthly foraome time, as though tho recolpts and oxpongens of the mines woro uniform,—a thing aaldom if evor tha case bofors) bave beon fle- titlous, aud patd by loans mado for that pur- poeo, just much & * squoal " might bo oxpocted from Mr. Froop, Ths whole may bo o stock- Jobbing operation. But tho history of mining in tha Comstock lode shows that toro can bono cortalnty aa to the extont of any veins, no mat- ter how richj no nssuranco how soon the pay- ore may be exhausted, and that such may have boon tho case with the Donsoza minos would aurprize nobody acquainted with the history ot tho Comstack. Basldos, Froop, O'Bniex, MAckEY & Famn yot oncounter ths Lostility of those thoy corpered when thoy crusliod the Bank of Calie fornia, aud in- their turn Aro liablo sooner or lator thomsolvas to meot tho lke fate, — Bhould the anti-Chincso sgitation in Oalifors nis result in the oxtermination, wholly or.in pait, of the Colestials thoro, lot thero be no mistako as to tho responsibility for it, but fix it whero it belongs, to that pig-tailod pagan Hoxa Cruxa. 1o is one of the Mongolian in-~ vadors who, presumably with the rost, is ruin- ing California by dofog from 82 to 84 worth or work a day for the proud Oaucasians for loss than half that amount of pay for it, and, horrid heathon that ha 18, wanis to keep on working evon at those figuros. He has evidently had translated from the Ban Franclsco papers tho focondiary articles designed o incite mob vio- lonco againat the Chiness, mot becaase thoy work chenply, wheroby monoy is made out of them, bnt bocause thoy do not **assimilate ™ with the white population of the Btato, but romain ‘*foreign barbariane in oar midat." Thoreon it dawned upon Hoxa Cuuxa that all that was necossary was for thom to “assimilate” with the whites, He scoma to have imparied this information to his brothor pig-tails, for whon the othor day ho was examined boforo the Legislative Commisslon he tostified that ho bolleved thoy generslly mow looked forward to the timo whun they would bo full-fledgod fres American eitizons, and bave their share in the Government. On cross-oxaml- nation ho even adwmitted that there might bo Chinamen on the Pacific 8lape now who would consont to fill tho State ofiices if electod therato. This it {s that has fired the hoarts of the IHood- lum fatbers. The word has gono forth thaz tho pig-tails who wonldh't ** assimilate” propoxo ta assimilate, ana tho awful conundrum is pro- pounded throughout the longth and broadth of tho Btate, Would you have your daughter mar- ry a Chiuamnn? for, as the Sacramonto Records Union assurés thom, *whon the door is once opened he can always go in, and a time will sure- Jy comoe when the assimilative procose shall bring him to this also.” No wondor the olamor for tho sbrogation of the BuRLINGAME treaty is rodoubled with that appalling prospect befors them, nor that the anti-Chiness olubs are talk- ing about organizing thomsolves into military companios, = — Thers {8 a bitter quarrel in tho Republican ranks in Alabams betweon the maohine carpote baggers, lod by Soustor BreNcen, and those who act with such men s@ ex-Gov. Sarra, Judge Rice, formerly Chief Justice of the Bnpreme Court of tho State; ex-Gov. Pansons, ox-Con- gressman BuoRiey, aud others, and 1including neatly all tho respoctable white mombers of the party in that Btate and a largs majority of no- groes. 'I'hoy have fixed the 16th of May as tho date of their State Convention to aclact detegatos to tho National Convontion ab Cinclnnatl. The other crowd, who train undor Bexroen, will hold a socond Convontion and sond a separato deles Ration to Ciucionati, ‘The regulars are about ’| equally divided betwoon Dristow and BLAINg, whilo the Sponcerites favor Monrox first, and for sscond choico Benator CoNkriNg, Thoe quar- rol smong Alabama Ropublicans is that, while tho Srexcen delegation will rapresont only nbout 10 por cent of tho Ropublican voto of the State, it will, having control of the machino politi= cloos, secure adminsion to the Cincinnati Con- vention to the exclusion of the representntives of the mora respectabls portion of tho party. The New .York Tribune contalns some {oten enting dotails of the life of Hawnan Cox, ono of the littlo baud of original Abolitionists, wha died at Longwood, Pa., oo ths 1Gth ult,, at the advancod age of 80 years. Bhe was desconded from one of tho Quaker colonists who came over with Wrnrase - Pesy, and joined in tho vory firab movement of emancipation, bier house being tho {favorite rosort of Lunpy, Garnisox, WiiTTED, Lucneria Morr, aod othors, whon thoy wero sacial outlaws. Iv was aleo the firet station n tho undorground road on ths way to tho Canae dian torminue, In Septombor, 1873, abio and hor husband colebrated their golden wedding, upon which occasion WrmirTien sont thom hls poem on ** The Goldon Wedding of Longwood.” Of Mrs, Cox the T'ribune snys: Bho waa n woman of equal onergy and swootneas of chara oad and comprebenalve {u ber syms patlics; @ studont of Listory and literature, no loss 1hian o reformer, during ull tho years of her busy lifa; » farmer's wife, 'with tho easa and grace of a milutress of society, 8 domocrat, with the Dative dlgnity of & Duchess, ' No peasimistio theory could llve in hee prosonco: {0 know her was to bellevo i @ battar Iutara for the whole human race. s Messachusotta is experiencing s mining ex- cltomont consequent upon ‘the developmont of sllvor oro in paying quontity in what s knowa sa tho Chipman lode, st Nowburyport. Work is belng activoly proacontod thoro by a company which Lias already sunk a shaft to the depth of 185 foot, with drifte at the GO-foot and 100-foot lovols, ono of thom now ia 500 foet, and have algo two tunnels well undor wey. - At present tho company omploys soventy men, and i la claimed tako ont an average of botwoen four and five tons a day, which will sseay 8100 to the ton. The work has been in progross for a yoar, in which time 1t fa roported between 824,000 aud £26,000 worth of ailver bias been takon out, bo- sldes 1,000 tons of ore which it i3 olaimed will ylold $100 to tho ton. Newburyport is alroady looked upon ag tho New Eldorado, and tho local journals are publishing comparativo statemonts to show how much better the first yoar's opera- tiona in the Chipman lode havo paid than they did in the Comstock, and claim that tho verit~ able Big Bonanza is not in Nevads, but down ab Newburyport. —_——— There {8 a raport qulstly olrenlating in coofle Qentisl political circles that aa soon as tho Aat- fog Governor can offoot & rellof Joan of $25,000 for tho Aasignee of the * crooked’ machine organ it Is coming out for him for Goversor againat CoLrox, This will make the llttlo twi- Mgt concern jeslous. A 81,600 Penitentlary- ehip 1s not enough for thoe amount of shyatering required, and it will be heard crying out fn piplog trenle, “Drink fair, Bainxr; drink fair, whatever yo do," —_——— Our attention has bson callod to a Oblosgo apocial to tho New York Times, reforriog to the declioation of Mr, E. B, Wasusunsz ss o csudl, date for Governor, which states that ¢3r, Wasununne's friends had, for somo hitle time past, bean consldering whather it would oot bo best to draw him off before hin chances at Olu- cinnatl wore irretriovably rulned by the rofusal of his own Btato to indorae bim, This contio- goncy was forossen aud provided for, a blank- datod lotter declining to sccept the pousustivr baving becn plecsd in the hands of Alr, Joszrs Mzpuy, of Tus Tumuns, for use whon nesos= slsy should arise.” There In not & word of truth in this yarn, No auch Jetter was placed in the bands of the individeal mentioned, or any oa