Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 6, 1876, Page 4

a THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SBATURDAY, MAY 6, IB76—TWELVE, PAGUS, e = = = —————————————— Kontucky, where it requirod more than ordi- nory strongth of character to resist the personal, social, and politioal ostracism which pursued overy Abolitionist. Itis within tho memory. of men now living when ** Abo- litioniats” ware mobbed even in Boston, and it has boen buta very few yearssinco the torm * Abolitionist " was generally resonted 24 n personal insult in Chicago. During tho advanced j@Je, closing at 453a oash aud 46} for July. Oats wers J@jo higher, clos- ing at 80}o for May aud 80jo for June. Rye was quict at Glje. Barley was sirouger, closing at G4ja for May and GOs for June. Tho hog wmnrket was active and sirong at Thursday'a quotations, with most of the soles ot $7.00@7.16. Cattle wera active and n shade highor, common to cholfco selling at TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATES 0¥ RTBECAIPTION (PAYABLR IX ADVANCE) Postage Prepnld nt this Ofee. 300 1.00 &8 .5 g gfl:‘\f:{ 0, pat. .glfg #4.00@5.05. Bhoop wore scarce at $4.50@ | last sixty yonrs thoro wasin Kontucky, in "’a‘:!’.“m‘.‘-'.':é'n‘-"n'é?;‘:’c. repare | 0.60 for common to oxtra. Ono hundred | the hieart of an excitable slave-holding com. Bpectmon coples sent fres, dollars in gold would buy $112.75 in green- backs at tho close, munity, o family of sturdy Abolitionists bravely denouncing slavery, practically eman- clpating their slaves, and boldly, by precept and oxample, in the face of intolerant pro- goription, opposing the ‘‘peculiar inatitu- To prevent delay and mistakes, be ware and give Post- Office sddress in foll, Including Slats and County. Remittances may be mada either by draft, exprossy Post-Offos order, or In teglatered lottors, atour risk. TERAS ¥O GITY SUDACHIDERA. Daily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 20 conts per woek, Benator Cowntrxa is endly in need of a newspaper orgaa in New York City, and it is u:lAl‘:A“d‘-.llund. fl"“fi’u‘fl“-’x"rfifi'u B0 A;l;..h sald that the Custom-House managers and | tion,” In this fawily Mr. Bristow was Camer Madison and Dearbo hicsgo 1L ralsed and educated. When the Republican prty was organized, thero wors fow men in Kentucky who dared to admit that they be- longed to it; among thoso fow were the Bristows. In 1860 thoy were numerous enough to poll 1,064 votes for Lixcony, and among theso wero the Bamrows. At that time and for years previous the popular title givon to theso snti-slavery men was ¢ Black Ropublicans,” and the term was frecly applied by men who were then Domo- crats, and who now, conspicuous as Republic- ons, say it{s unsafo to nominnte Brisrow becauso he was born in the Sonth. When the War broke out, Bastow, then a young lawyer enjoying a largs legal prac. tico, declared for the Union. He was Lisutenant-Colonel of one of the first Union regiments raised in Kentuoky ; subsequently ho raised another regiment, of which he be- came Colonel, and it was part of this regi- ment that captured Jonx Moraay in his raid in Ohio and Indiann. Whila in the army he was elected to the Btate Benate, and during his whole term was the loader of the Repub- lican and anti-slavery party in that body. Hig votos in that body on every question of n party character were in keoping with his TRopublican and anti-slavery Whig record. Ho voted with the minority in favor of ratify- ing tho Thirteenth Amondment to the Con- stitution nbolishing slavery. Bnmrtow, with his littls band of Radical Republicans, faith- ful to principle and unawed by threats, fought the battlo of the Union in the Legis- Inturo to the last. In 1868 ho stumped the State for Gnant, and in 1871 for Gen. Hanvay, the Republican candidate for Gov- emor, who reccived ncarly 90,000 votes. His speeches during that campnign are dis- tinguished alike for their ability as for thoir radical defense of the principles of the Re- publican party, There is nothing in the past history of Mr. Bristow to canse tho slightest fear that, if clected, he may prove untruoe to his party. Anranax Lincory, Ricrarp Yares, and Ricn- anp J. Oanesny,—threo men known to every mnninIllinois,—wereall bornin Kentucky,and yot neither of them was ever so identified in their lives, personally and socially, with the abolition of elavary, as Bnistow, who almost alone, ngainst the entire public opinion of the people of that Btate, bravely and reso- lutely from his earlicst manhood opposed and denounced tho institution, and upheld the cause of the Union and of tha Republican party ngainst Stato SBovereignty and seces- slon, and against the Confedorates, It was on this record, backed up oy the personal character of the man, his inflexible integrity, his vigorous intellect, hia indomit- ablo conrage, and his batred of dishonest of- ficials, that we have felt it to be our duty as a journalist to suggest that Mr, Bristow's nomination will beat fill the measuro of the popular expectation of the wan noeded at this particular juncture to execute the need- ed general reform in the public service, manchine manipulators are engaged in raising tho money necessary to completo the favor- ito son's equipment for tho Presidential race. Rumor has it that the sum of 600,000 hns been subscribod, and Louvis J. Jrwnmies, Intely editor-in-chicf of tho ZVmes, is to havo tho direction of the new organ. If the scheme should succoed it would seoure tho distribution of n large sum of monoy among many worthy people, including editors, ro- portors, printers, paper-makers, etc., aud in this way would accomplish some good; but it wonld not nominate AMr. Coxgrina for tho Prosidency, and would not elect him if nom. inated. Hence it is to bo loped that the now organ will be started. ST Judge Hoprrxs rendered an important de- cision yesterday as to the liability of a bank in collecting drafts. It apponrs that the Baok of Montreal, of this city, recoived n draft somo time ago from ona of its corre- spondents, drawn on the Btate Street Savings Bank. Fhailing to collect the monay at once, tho bank hnd the paper accepted, and during tho threo dnys that intervened before pre- sentation for payment the Savings Bank failed. Buit was brought sgainst tho Bank of Montreal, and the Judge held that the action of the bank in having the draft ac- copted instend of insisting on immedinte payment ronderod it liable, as it crented a now contract, and discharged the drawers of the draft. 'The decision will ba of considora- ble interest to business-men and banks, and the opinion will bo found in another column. AMUSEMENTS, NEW OHIOAGO THEATRE—Clatk street, botween Tandolph and Lake, Hooloy's Minstrels, ~ Afternoon and oveaing, LI'HI THEATRE—Monroe atreet, cornor Dear- h&l{hflu!! entertaiument, Afternoon and evening. MOOLEY'S THEATRE~TRandolph street, belween Clark and LaBalls. Enqfltmenl of Balabury’s Trou- bedours, ¢ Patchwork,” Afternoon aad evening. MoVICRER'S THEATRE—A Dearborn and State. Afternoon, ¥ Henry VIIL" and ‘¢ Kathari n street, between Othello,” Evening, «hd Petrucio,” EXPOSITION BUILDING-—-Lake Bhore, Adams street, Concert by Gilmore's Band, nooh and evening. foot of After- McCORMICR HALL—North Clark sircet, corner Kinzie, Concert at 2 p. m. by Hans Von Bulow, @bt @hicago Tribune. ' Baturdsy Mornming, May G, 1870. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Groonbacks yesterdny at the New York Gold Exchange closed at §83@883. Blightly warmer weathor, with possibly rain arens, is the condition meteorclogical predicted to-dny. Georgia's ropresontation in the National Ropublican Convention is mixed in more ways than ono. Thero ara thirteen white and nine colored delegates, estimated to stand: BrLAINg, 8; Bristow, 6 ; MontoN, 6} Covkrivg, 8. But for the timely interposition of Toa Scorr the country would have been afforded the extrnordinary spectaclo of the entire body of members of Congress paying their way like any common individunl. Mr. Hmguey, of the Philadelphis, Wilmington & Baltimore Ratlrond, a corporation which has no subsidy schemes beforo Congress and no favors to ask, rofused to dead-head tho Centennial ox- cursionists or to permit Tox Scorr to trans- port them ovor that rond, Thore was dan- ger that the attondance at Pliladclphia of patriotic statesmen would be extremely meagre, and there was also an opportunity to put in a telling stroke for tho Toxas Pacific job, and Col. ScoTr came promptly to the rescue with two froe trainsover a roundabout route, Tho Congressmen will save their rail. road fars to the Centennial opening, and the great Pennsylvania lobbyist will have placed the whole party under a personal obligation. It was a great achisvement. Mombers of the Committce on Expendi- tures in the Treasury Department, which has been engaged in hearing testimony in the re- wvivified mule case, yesterday callod upon Sec- retary Brisrow and assured him that tho re- ports of the testimony procured by corre- spondents of Democratic newspapers from Democratic Committeomen wero false and garbled, and that no testimony was given be- fore the Committes which Mr, Brisrow need take any notice of. It wes announced yesterday in the Genornj Conference of the Methodist Church ot Balti- more that a fraternal delegation from the Methodist Church South is oxpected soon to be in attendance in response to the in. vitation extendod to the Southern Conforence et its scasion in 1874, The hope waa fer- vently expressed that the visit of the delegn- tign would open the way for a speedy reunion of the two branchos separated by the bitter- ness and misunderstandings growing out of * the War of the Rebellion. 18 BRISTOW A RELIABLE REPUBLICAN P The question is often addressed to this journal, by Republicans who honestly desire the nomination by the Cincinnati Convention of aman who can bo conscientiously sup- ported for his personal integrity and execu- tivo honesty, what sssurance there is that Brisrow, a native Kentuckian, born and bred amid slaveholders, under the shadows of the peculiar institution, will not, if electod, do 03 Tyren tho Virginian and ANprew Jomn. sox the Tenncssean did—betray the party that elects him and go with the South., Tax COmicaao TRIUNE has on this question, as on all others, acted for the public interest in urging that the Republican party cut away from all connection with the corruption of the past ; that it extirpate and cast off every porson and policy that had the least com- plicity with fraud and dishonesty, and that it would give tho poople the enrncst assurance of a thorough roform aud purification of the whole administrative service of the Government. DBelioving such to bo the future policy and purpose of the Ropublican party, wo have thought it to bo our duty to furnish all the information calonlated to aid the public in selecting a candidate whose own porsonal history and character and whose official record would give the best assurance to the public that such a policy would be honestly and fearlessly exccuted. ‘Wo have inclined to the opinion that,'taking all things into consideration, Buistow was tho bost and safest man for the occasion, and while wo havo nover sald that he is sure to ‘e nominnted, we have declared that in our judgment ho onght to bo nomiuated, and, if nominated, we have no doubt that he will be clected, Our mission has been to furnish lonest information, and tho fact that Mr. Baistow hias no machinery to push Conven- tions in his own behalf, and is therefore less 1ikely to be nominated than othors who have, could not induce us to ignore the fact that of all othors who have beon named he best meots the public demand for a man who will Do untrammeled by past relations in the vital work of purifying the public servico, ‘We haye not advised the nominntion of AMr, BnisTow without investigating his porsonal history and the political and ofi¢ial record he has made. There is nothing in his record which gubjects him to tho suspicion of *Joln- sonizing.” Jomx Tyren, though nominally a Whig, was an oxtrome States' Rights man and a believer in the right of secession, On all fundamental dootrines he was an extronio Demacrat; ho quarreled with Jacmsox be- cause of tho latter's proclamation sagainst South Oarolina nullification, and the Whig lendors had no right to expect that he would go with that party on any question mpon which tho South had peouliar notions, Ax. pnrew Jonnsox hnad been a Democrat from his onrliost vote; an extreme Southern man, who, though belonging to tho ‘‘poor white trash,” Lad boen all his life a champion of slavery, and an anatagonist of tho rights of the negroes in everysense, Thoreisnothingin the record of Col. Buwrow in common with that of Axpr Jounsoy, except that he was born, like LincoLN, in nslave State. What- ever inferonces might be ordinarily drawn from this circumstanco is nogatived by the actual focts. His grandfather, a soldier of the War of 1812, was a Baptist minister and au anti-slavery man; his father was a Whig ewancipationist, who, inheriting slaves through his wife's parents, immodiately grant- ed all of themtheir liberty, oxcopt afow whoso ago or infirmity provented them earning a living, and theso, through foclings of hu. manity, the fathersupported. It was in g family of this kind, which for two genora- tions bad been anti-slavery, that Bamstow was* ralsed e inberited and was edu. cated in stroug hostility to slavery, and this, i abould be wa In Pooria Prscbytery proposes to enforce its authority in the case of the reverend seducer who is installed ns pastor of tho church at Henry, and is rotained in spito of the formal judgmont of the Presbytery that he is an anfi person to fill the sacred offico of minis. ter of the Gospel, and sgainst the wishes of & large portion of the membership of the church. At a meeting of the Presbytery Thursday evening a Committer wns ap- pointed to ndmonish tho ohurch at Honry of tho irregularity of their course in continuing to tolerate (GLeNDENNTNG'S ministrations, and to order the church to bounce him forth- with, Binyer Oivrriern's olass in politieal his. fory is making good progress under the skill- ful instruction of Little Jounxy DAvexvonT. Among other thinga thoy learncd yestorday that the roster of the New York Union Leaguo Club, under whose nuspices DaveN- ronr worked, was not an exclusively Repub- lican organization, but contained the names of soveral Democrats and Liberals ; aud that Ihe effort to prevent illegal voting was not confined to Democrats, s number of Repub- + licans having boen arrested, among thom many clerks from the Departments in Wash- Ington, who had gone to Now York for the purpose of voting, while others wero turned back who intended to go. THE PRESIDENT'S ANSWER, The fellow in the play, who goes around with o green umbrella poking his nose inte everybody's affairs and his umbrella into everybody's ribs, has a numerous prototype among the Democratic members of Congress. Curaen, and Oavrrrewp, and Oare, and Brackuury, and othor small fry, have vari- ously sssumod tho charscter of Paul Pry with the usual aud proper discomfiture, and now Mr, Braczousx has been summarily, ovon thongh figuratively, kicked down atairs, where he ought to stay. A Paul Pryis cor- tainly a very disagrecablo and objactional person on general prinoiples, but his carcer during tho presont Congress s been rather beneficial than otherwise to thoe Republican Administration and party. For instance, Mr, Bracknuny's impertinont resolution, calling upon the President for information which Congress had no authority to ask, gave Gen, Gnanr the opportunity for an official reply to the Democratic critiolsm which has been made for yenrs on his oconsional absonco from Washington. Aslong as this eriticism was conflued to party newspapors and the stump-speeches of his political opponents, it would have been undignified in the Prosident of tho United Btates to take notice of it even though it was entirely unjust ; but when Con- gross gava an official expression to this criti- cism, it was propor for Gen. Guaxt toreply to it in fitting terms, and indicate not merely its injustice, but also its impertinence, This ho haa done thoroughly in the recent message he sont to tho Houso, The popular interest in this controversy will be mninly confined to tho answer the President makes to the charge that he has noglected his dutics by absentiug himself from the Capital during the dog-days, and by an occasional attendanco upon consplouous publio colebrations, 'There 14 something in. finitesimally smal in the assumption that the American people dony to their Chiof FExcentive the midsummer haliday taken by the most obscurs clork in any of the Government Departments in Washington, A continuous residonce n that city during the summer, partionlarly for persons who were not renrad in the climats, is not merely dis. agreenble, but dangerous, There is a sullen sort of sultriness about Washington summer weathor, with its scorching sun and lack of winds, The situation is low, and the city is cut off by tho surrounding hilla from the purification of tho winds, It is too far re. moved from the sea to enjoy the salt air, and the Potomac at low wator diffuses noxious and unhenlthy smells, In escaping from all this, tho Prosident sclected n summer rasi. dence within reach of the Capital by a few hours of travel and a fow minutes' commu. nication by telegraph, There is no evidence that the public business has ever suffored from this temporary absonce from the Capi- tal. Tha other occasions of Gen. Gmant's absence from the Capital Lave been a fow doys' rapid journey to his 8t Louis farm, an attendance upon tho wedding of a son, the prosence at a funeral of some distinguished Awerican like Ylonace GneeLzy, or the participation 1 8 Grand Army re. union, or some other occasion of national aclobration, But Lo has never yet gone junketing about the country to mako political speoches, like bis immmediate predecessor, nor has he (notwitbstanding the superior facilitios of communioation) wbsentsd bimselt in the In grateful contrast with tho greedy, grasp- Ing policy of their compotitors, the Direct Cable Company promptly announcs that their ratos will not be advancedin conse- quence of the break in the Anglo.American and French cables, but that, on tho contrary, tho rates will romain unchanged, and the busi- ness of tho disabled lines, including press dispatches, will bo forwarded with all possiblo facility, tho Direct Cable Com- pany only asking that all messages bo con- densed within the briefost compass, in order that averybody may be accommodated. It is an examplo of genorosity and fairness which should not bo lost on the Anglo-American and Erench Diroctors when a broak occurs here- efter in the line of their rival, —_— Rourus Haton, the New York banker and financier, has contributed an interesting ox- pression of views on the subject of finance by invitation of the House Committea on Waya and Means, Mr. Haton looks with disfavor upon the proposition to issuo $500,- 000,000 in thirty-year bonds bearing intercat at 4} per cent, regarding this rato of interest aa higher than necessary to socure the nugo- tiation of the bonds which, already posscss- ing the valunble characteristica of perfoct safety and nogotiability, require only the element of durability to ronder them roadily salable at 4 per cent interest. Ho is in favor of long bonds at o low rate of intorest, and «of the enactment of a sinking-fund law as o means of elevating the credit of the Govern. ment all over the world, T ————— The Oblcago produce markets wers otesdier yesterday, but generally firmer on bread- stufls, with rather less dofng. Mess pork declined 160 per brl, closing firm at at $20.90 @20.874 for Moy and $21.00921.02§ for June, Lard declined 100 per 100 Ibs, clos. Ing firmer at $12,87}@12.40 cash and $12.45 @12.50 for June, Meats were easicr, at 7jo for boxed shoulders, 310 for do short ribs, aud 11jofordoshort clears. Lake freights wero firw, at 8j@4o for wheat to Buffalo, Migh- wines were steady, at $1.07 por gallon. Flour was doll and easy, Wheat closed 1o higher, o4 98jo for May and 91004 for Juns, Com sggrogato 50 much as many of the distin. gnished Demooratia pentlomen who held tho office in tho “good old days.” Mr. Jerren- sox, it appoars from the record, was absont from the Capital more than two years out of the oight whioh ho sorved as President; all the incumbents of tho ofiice, from Wasnina- ToN to Lixcorw, exercised their own discro- tion about nbsonting themselves, nnd many of them spont much more of their timo else- where than Gen, GranT has spent. tion, that the President has no nuthority to do any official nots ontalde of Washington, it simply shows the jgnorance of the men whom the Democrats have chosen to reprosont thom in Congress, stitution, nor in the laws of the United States, nor in the procedonts, which warrants any such nssumption. the soent of Government contained in the Constitution is in the onumeration of the powers of Congress, which esys that Con- gross shall “oxerolse exclusive legislation in all onses whatsoover ovor such distriet (not exceeding 10 miles squars) as may, by cession of partionlar States and the ac- coptanco of Congross, of the Government of tho United States,” ote. tho constant rosidence of tho President in that seat of Government, though it is evidently his implied duty to make it his headquarters. There are many supposable oirenmstances, however, whioh wonld necos- sitate his removal, and many former Presi. couts (among thom WasmiNgTON, ADAMS, Jerrenson and Mapison) exercised the pow- ers of thooffice at a distanco from the Capital at thelr own plensurs and convenionce. ‘were anyof these gentlemen ever oalled upon by a Congress of ignoramusesto make apology or explanation for doing what they had a right to do. As to Mr, Braogsuny, who in- stigated the ndoption of the impudent reso- lution of inquiry, it will be well for his con. stituents to relegato him to private life until hio shall have acquired some of tho rudiments of law and the public service. HERDAICES' APOLOGY FOR THE NEGRO MABSACRE, had settled down to the conviotion that the last had been heard of the White-Line justifi- cation of massacros of negroos,—to-wit: that invariably in self-defonse the White-Liners had to slaughter the blacks. It has been ad- vanced for the whole terrible catalogue of negro-murdering from tho outset down to himselt and in order to maintain the self-respect of the American poople, there will be no further offorta—Congressional, Aldermanio, or othorwise—to forco upon him recoptions which he doos not want and demonstrations that are distastoful to him. Though a King, he certainly has a right in this free country to travel nbout unmolested nan privato gentleman, without submitting to the indignity of having somebody elsa pay his bills or the discomfort of listening to dreary spoeches. Ho esoaped the clutches of Corvme and the tortures of one of CoLvi's addrosses by coming into Chicago yesterday at n very early hour (before the Oity Govern- mont gets up, though not always before it goes to bed), by staying hore only n couple of hours, and by escaping during that time to the rolitude of the Orib and the exclusive quarters of o tug-boat. We hcpa ho may bo equally succesaful in eluding the vigilance of professional l{on-hunters and Congressional tondies whon ho shall visit Washington. As to the inforonco from tho Houso resolu. There is nothing in the Con- The only location of LOOAL TAXATION AND DEBI IN ENGLAKD. The March numbor, of Fraser's AMagazine oontains o criticism upon the Annual Report of the English Iocal Governmont Board, ‘which brings out some facts touching loeal taxation and local government which are not genorally known or understood in this conn- t1y, a summary of which will prove of in- torost, as giving a genoral view of tho ox- ponditare of England. The amount of the national expenditure for 1874 was $874,610,~ 200, which has since beon incronsed $986,~ 000,000, and in addition to this sumthere has been oxpended under tho head of local tax~ ation $163,824,775, thus muoking the total national outlny $583,838,883, The increase of local indebtedness has beoen remarkable. While the expenditure under tho head of local taxation has boen $103,824,775, the amount raised by annual imposts has been only $114,785,166, leaving n difference of 848,539,020, represonting the debt incurred during the year, Ths local taxation as com- pnred with our own country is only about one-half the latter, Our local taxation in 1870 was $280,591,5621, and during the succeeding six years it has probably inoreased to $350,- 000,000,—the excoss over the English tax be- ing due to our larger country and population, although Great Britain hns twico tho amount of property drawing intorest to bo lovied on. 'The Statistical Dopartment of tho Local Gov- ornment Board also furnishes some intorest- ing figures respecting the total indebtedness of the lacal authorities of England for loans in 1878, '74, '76, tho nggregate of which renches the handsome sum of $415,810,000, tho heavior nmounts of which were raised at 4} per cent, giving an approximnte annual amount of intorest of 918,675,000, which is 17 por cont of the interest of the permanent national debt, tha latter amounting to $108,- 900,140. Tho total exponditure of this local ecome tho seat Bat there is nothing requiring Nor With fealing of profound relief the country Y¥azoo and Coushatta Parish, nntil even the White-Liners of Mississippl scarca have the offrontery to longer seck sheltor behind such pitiful plea. It has remained for His Excol~ lency Gov. Hevonicss, of Indians, to again urgo this justification in its thinnest guise for the White-Line massacre of nogroes ot Indionapolis at the lato olection. | taxation is divided into soven heads, the Ho did so in bhis interviow with o | itemsof which nro as follows Tamuxe reportor, published yesterday, But § Donleston of s anc peeperty gg:m:’-"" for tho negro-repeating, Gov. Hrxpnicks | 8. Land and sea communications, 43,917,800 explained, thore would have been no trouble. | §: }‘zfifm"&‘,fl,’w‘;“‘” ‘g:';""o}:l” Hitherto, as overybody knows, the ‘high art | & Education and rel ;,;g.g}lg of repenting has been monopolized by its o i Democratio inventors, They have regularly +$163,424,775 p ms in this schedulo are the fifth and socond, and in one of theso taxation has beon remunerative, and in tho other a return has not beon had for the money. Tho exponditure for relief of tho poor seems to have been somewhat remarka. blo in its xeults, ns a fow figures will show, The mean number of paupers in receipt of reliof from rates in 1874 was less than that in any year sinco 1849, which is the first year for which figures are given. In the quartor of a contury whick has intervened, the pnu- perism of the country hns been reduced one- fourth, while the population hns incrensed in that time by six millions, The numbor of vagranta throughout the country has also di- minished by more than one-fourth since 1860, the numbers being 4,409 on Jan. 1, 1866, and 3,089 on Jan. 1, 1874, In the City of London the reduction has been much more considera- Dle, the number being 1,501 in 1806, and 642 in 1874. Tho showing of tho administration of tho Inws rolating to tho public health is not so favorable. Upon this point the writer of tho article In question anys: Tiathor more than thirteon-and-a-half millions of money has beon borrowed for sanitary purposcs sinco 1848, During the year ending Dec, 51, 1874, the Local Governmont Board Lave sanctionsd the rasing of £13,333,181 by urbou sanitary authorities, and of £110,315 by rursl saoliary authorities, by way of losn, At tho sama timo tho groatest anxlety is manlfested, in many places, for definite oftictal counsel aa to the Lest mode of dealing with the prousing nuisance of sewago, Ths beneficial action which might be oxpect- ed from tho sdministration has beon paralyzed by the misdirection given to legluation in 1872 Opposite and contradiclory demands are made on the local su- thoritles, They are enjoined to remove offensive matter from babitations, Theyare prohibited from throwing it Into the rivers, Thoy aak In vain for ad- ‘vice a1 to what iliey are to do to Rot zid of i, The failure scews to arise not so much from iguorant ndministration of the laws as from the inoperative character of tho specinl act passed by Parliament in 1872, With refor- onco to tho other jtoms in tho schedule, the taxation seoms to have beon remuncrative, tho average Englishman getting a falr roturn for tho monoy which he hns paid to the loeal Governmeont, which I8 much moro than the nvorsge American can ey, especially it he happens to live in Chicag carried New York City elcctions by repeat- ing; by that carried the State for Sermoun for Govarnor by 40,000 majority ; and have practiced repeating in every city in the country, including Indianapolis, as doubtless thoy did thore at the late election. It is uot dispated that the blacks are lenrning rapidly, but that they should already have attained the Democratic high art of ropeating, and that they should have ventured to practice it, too, in the face of such threats as were openly made sgninst thom on election-day at Indianapolis, is simply incrodible, and unless Gov. Henpnioks adduces satisfactory evi- denco in support of this chiarge he will bo set down as o deliberato falsifier, The chargo of negro-repeating, howaver, is ouly made by Gov. Hexpriors in palliation of the mnegro-massacro which he decorously doplores, just as the well-to-do planters of Mississippi are wont to cite the *‘nigger in. solenco " that provokes their young men to slaughter of niggers. Gov. HeNpniozs goes on to say that at 6 o'clock in the evening —whon the negroes ought to have comploted their repeating—word seems to have been conveyed to the Fourth (a nogro) Ward. that in the Sixth (an Irish) Ward tho colored voters wero, 05 the Governor mildly puts it, “ being imposed upon.” The negroes of the Fourth Ward know enough to know that that meant the colored voters wero ot the mercy of a Domocratic mob i1 the Bixth, and a hundred of them started to tho roscue, Gov, Henorioxs says thet the hundred, on arriving at tho Bixth Ward, found all quiet, but proceeded to raise a rumpus by attompt. ing repeating there, whioh they were not permitted to do; and thereon avose the riot in which only negroes were wounded and killed, His Excellency had very little to eny about the murder done, but dilates upon tho pro- tonded negro outrage upon the ballot in a placid sorved-them-right strain that irresisti. bly prompts inquiry as to what ghost of n chance of a Demooratio victory thero would bo in most of the Democratio city strong- holds if ropeaters were summarily dispatched upon the spot, as from his siatement, tho in. foronce g, was done at Indinnapolis. A very plaln statement of the facts as given by oye- witnesses, published in his own city and re. printed in Tar Tamuse of yesterday, dis. poses of his lame apology for this Domocratic massacre of negro voters, Word was sont to the Fourth Ward that an attack had been made upon negrovoters in the Bixth, and a party started to their rcscue, But tefore reaching tho 8jxth the roport was discovered to ba false, and they began returning. Then it was that tho mob attack—which, from the Governor's own statement, it appears had beon throatenoed all day—waa madeuponthem, and tho nogroes as thoy fled wore shot down. Tho pursuit continucd ss long as thers was a negro in sight, the mob shouting *Kill the niggers," *What right lave they to voto?” “Bhoot them," otc. Then the dead were gotherod up and there was no white man among thom, but the Democratio police, who had been foremost in tho outrage, arrcsted o lot of negroes for riot. 'Tho facts need no comment, They disclose that the massacro waa the result of tho White-Line barbarism which nullifios tha Fifteenth Amendment by shooting colored votors. Gov. Ienpricxs appeals to that barbariam by apologizing for the murderors, ond he further identifica himself therewith by perverting the facts to make that barbarous apology, while he dis- tingulshen himself by his conspicaous neglect to offer rewards for the apprehension of the murderers he apologizes for. Mr, Brarpmo, distinguished Amerfoan on- gincer, has submitted a schemo to the Rus. sian Governmeut for the improvement of the great aterile waste in Central Asin, which is commauding unusual attention in Russia, and is now thasubject of very carncst discussion and investigation by the Imperial Geograph- foal and Btatistical Commisalon of that country, His proposition 18 tantamount to turning the Mediterranoan Sea into Asia, and thus irrigating the arid wates adjacent to the Caspian and Black Beas, The subatance of Mr, Srarpiva's proposition is to the follow- ing offect: Tho Ural and Volga Rivers, which ompty into the Caspian Sea and drain & largo part of the Russian Empire, have for o great lougth of time, by the usual pro. cesson of dotrition and alluvion, deposited the soll of the distriots drained by them into the Casplan, until the dimensions of the son hiavo been greatly reduced, so that by the absonce of raln in that region, and the diminution of spaco availablo for evap- oration, thero is a prospect that eventually -the soa will bocomo o marsh and the country a dosort. The same causes have been in oporation upon the Hoa of Aral, east of the Casplan, and Lake Balkash, on the border of Toorkistan and the Chineso Empire, so that o great desert iv now in process of formation in Central Asfa and in the vory midst of the Russian Empire. To oheck this sterile growth and to save lands which are still pro- ductive is the purpose of Mr. Sparpina, In looking about for the requisite supply of ‘wator, he finds it in the Black Bes, which is much higher than the Oaspian, and has im. mediate connection with the Mediterrancan, thns scouring an unfalling and ample supply of water, To acsomwmplish this he proposes to Ilis Tmporial Majosty Dom Pepro of Bruzil is avery sensible old gentleman, with 8 capacity for travel pnd & knack of rapid sight-secing which discounts the average American tourist in Europe. e hope that, both a8 a maiter of personal comfort to cut conals across the ridge dlviding the two #ons, a distance of 250 vorsts, or about 80 miles, conneoting them upon the samo lovel, Of tho operation of the water pouring throngh this cutting Mr. Srarnine says: The moremont of the water through & chaunel of 3 by 50 metres, at a rate of 12 kilometres por hour,would il & space in & year cqual to 623 aquara kilometros, from tha level of the Oaspian tothat of tho Black Hen, ‘This would il the pressntarea of the Casplan to tho level of the Disck Ses inabout 700 years; but, as it would be enlerged by the process from about 493,000 aquare kilometrea Lo about 700,000 square kilometres, the flllng would go on very slowly until tho chenncl of 1hb new strait should have bacome enlsrged {o it fall dimensions, This enlargement would proceed at the male of about une verat per woek, and, as the entire dlstance to bo enlarged would probably not ex- ceed 500 vorats, it would be comploled in sbout slx yoars, aftor which the Alling would proceed with & curront of about 20 kilometrea por hour, Ro that, at the end of forly years from tho beginning of the work, the lovels of tho two seas would be #o nearly uniform that navigation of the new channel could be- gin. 'This time it is proposed to shorten still more by uniting the Don and the Volga, which would requiro only a very short cut- ting, and, by roversing the current of the Don as the current of the Chicago River was reversed, making it empty into the Cas- plon Bea through the Volgn, instead of into the Ben of Azof, its prosent outlot, By these oporations it is contended that an additional arca of nearly of nearly one.half wonld bo mado to the Cnapian Sea, thus increasing the roinfoll proportionately of the districta adja- cent to the Caspinn, and also the rainfall up- on the slopes drained into tho Aral Sea and Lako Balkash, These natural results are not tho only cbanges Mr, Sraroma forosees. There are also material rosults of the utmost impor- tanco to Russin. By Lis schome a new Medi- torranean wounld be created, navigable for large ships from tho borders of Persin to about tho G60th parallel of north Intitude, along the estunries formed by the Ural and the Volgs, and navigable for smaller sen-go- ing vessols to Orenburg on the Uraland a point still further north on the Volga, thus giving nccess to the forests, conl, iron, and other oros of Enstern Russis, In point of {act, Mr, SpaLDvG grows quite eloguent in his prophecies. Ho Bays : By the construction of lines of rallway from the contral portions of Weatern Biberi#to Orenburg, tho shipment of grain and othor heavy agricultural pro- ductions of that region would greatly Incrosse, be- causa thess require the cheaper water transportation to stimulate increased production, By railways from Toorkistan and Weatorn Ghlna to the River Emba, a port in tho valley of thatnosw useless atream would 4oon come into existence where tha wool, aotton, tos, and other productions of thoso countries would bo ex- changed with the Mediterransan for the fraits, wincs, and manufactures of that reglon, The productious of Peraiaand hor imports also would bo sent to the Liarbor formed by the Atreck Diver, instesd of golng totbe Indion Ocoan and the Perstan Gulf, And thus thia new Moditerranean would rival In fmportance tho ‘woll-known sea of anciont and modern times, ‘Whether all 3r. EpaLping's oloquent proph- ecies of tho material results which will flow from his schome will over bo realized may admit of doubt, but its effects upon the phys- ical condition of the conntry are in accord- ance With natural laws, and, as it is shown that the work can ba oasily and satisfactorily accomplished at roasonable exponso and with- in reasonable timo, it is not at nll improbable that the Commission now investigating the schemo may report favorably upon it to the Government ; and it adds to the probability of ity acceptance that, if successful, it is in con. sonance with Russia’s ideas upon the Eastorn question, — Tho official vote of Indianapolis last Tues- day was o8 followa ; ‘Total Republican vote,, Democratio vof ee00s10,612 130 13 2eer e 16,000 Bepublican mafority ovor Democratio voto, ... 4,332 Last spring the total vote was 17,767, and the Re- {n;g_l,um majorities on city oflicors ranged from 480 to ,297, Notwithstanding all the oxcltement and of- fort put forth by both sides, the total vote {alls short of that cast ono year ngo by 800, Last spring the Republicans polled 9,497 votes and tho Demoorats 8,260 votes, The Sentinel on the morning after the olec- tion filled most of a page with assortions that the Republican triumph was wholly due to stupendous ropenting on tho part of the negroes! Ttecalls the rosult **a victory of shame.” It groans thusly : The citizens of tho State at large should not be de- ceived by falso Toports of s Hopublican victory and great galn o this city yesterday. Thers was open corruption of tho ballot-box by armed negro ropeat- ers, by fraudulent voters from other places, and at Teast 5,000 flicgsl votes wore cast, [Bosh!] The vio tory s one of shameto the Republican party, aud ol the docent men of that party feol humiifatod at the dastardly outrages thelr party leadora organized. Thoy wera confident of losing tho election on s falr feat, Thoy hiad polled tho ety and could approximato the result, It waa thon thoy cancelved tha plan of kiaving thencgroes take tho polls, Thoy hirca men to per- Juro themselves by tho hour in swearing In the negro and white ropeators, Theso wers surrounded by thelr friends so that thioy could not be arrested, The ne- grocs had been inflamed by incendiary sppesls, aud whicn they weat to work thoy could not be called off, It is o sufficiont answer to all this absurd bosh that tho illogal voting of nogroes could not have reduced the Democratio vote, al- though it might have incrensed that of the Ropublicans. The Democratio vote is 2,080 short of what it was ono yenr ago, while the Republican is less than 1,000 groater, The rosult simply shows thatseveral hundrod Democrats, utterly disgustod with tho mis. oconduct of their own party in-local and na- tional matters, voted tho Republican ticket, and soveral other hundreds, who Lad left tho Ropublicans on tho Temperanco question and other sido-lssucs, have returned to their par- ty; and, lastly, that nenrly 1,000 disgust- od Democrats stayed away from the election and refused to voto, Ilie charges mado by tho Sentinel and Gov. HeNpnioks against tho negroes aro not ouly. fulse but foolish, Tho poor blacks ars only too well satisfied to bo allowed to vote once uumolested and unmob- bed. The idea that the Domocratio Irish of Indianapolis stood by all day looking at the Republican negroos going around repeating without taking a hand at their favorite game is too proposterous for beliof. Lot Gov. Hex- oricks and his organ toll that story to the morines—the Irlsh, at loast, will never be- liove it. The woes of Banner Caurrrep aro fast incrensing, and rapidly making him an object for publio commiseration, without regard to race, color, or provious condition. First, Mr, Bristow eat down upon him ; then a funatic sat down upon him; then Jounny DavENPORT not only sat down upon him but rolled over him, in Jounny Davexrort's **way"; and now comos the majority of his own Commit. tee and sits down upon him in a manner so emphatio that it quite took away his breath, Tho occasion of it was this: Littlo Jomnny Davenront still being under examination, Mr. Conazm, of the Committee, asked the witness soveral proper questions, to which Mr, Cavryixep took excoptions, making most stronuous obfections to each, Finally Mr, Civiyierp objected to the queations being answercd unless the Qomulttee decided it by wvate, wheroupon the Committee decided, by four to three, {hat the witneas should answer the quostions, Banxor squirmed as the Committes sat down upon him, and growled, ** Well, you will sos where this thing will load to now.” DBamnay has been floored so many times by Little Jomyxny Davexrort that he ought to be good suthority on what it will lond to, but now that ho hing lost the confldence of his own Committos, and nover had tho confldenge ovon of his own constiluents, it wonld seom that the most nppropriate move for him now would bo to closo out the investigation bust. noss and rotire to that obsourity in which Our NanTten is jnst at presont so conspicuous, —— Ex.Gov. Ames, of Mississippl, in his testi. mony before tha Senate Committoe of that Btate, makes somo staloments which Demo. erats will not be disposed to like. With roforonce to the lnst cloction ho states that tho population of Mississippi i about 850, 000,—the blacka oxcoeding the whites by 80,000, At lenst 09 out of every 100 of the blacks nre Ropublicans, and the logitimnte Republican majority in the Btate is from 20,000 to 80,000, and yot at this olection tho Democrats carried the Btate by over 80,000, the result boing accomplished by fraud and violonce, Tho lowest estimate mada by the most moderate Republicans of murdors com. mitted to carry that election has beon put at 800. In his interview with a reporter of tha New York Z'imes, Gov. Aurs throws soma light upon Mr. Xuaan's consistency. Ho says : I’:Inn mukes very different spesches in Mississippl from those he delivers for the Northern markets ‘While the Ropublican pspors of the North are glad ta publish his speeches in Congress on account of thelr liverality, the Domocratlo papers in Missisalppi are, afcald to publish his spoechos in that Btafs on sccount, of thelr Littorneas, Lo made the most vituperativo speochen during the last campaign, and Lo owes his election as United Btates Senator to that fact, Heox- plained away his eulogy on Busnzx a8 being 8 politls cal necemsity,—to give tho Bouth a hoaring in the North, Banxspark, the most bloodth {rsty journalist and most fofluential Democratio politiclan in Misssise #ippi, 1e hia chief supporter, The climate of Hayti does not seem to he particularly conducive to good temper, and the concentrated bad humor of that hot. blooded nation is generally levied ot the oftice-holders, Amerioan experience will cor. tninly not justify any great condemnation of tho direction which Haytien ill-humor tnkes, though there may be some moral compunce tions nbout indorsing the summery taking. off of theso geutlomen, Wo can scarcely imagino, howaver, that there is any such extensive class of offica-scokers in Hoytl ag * in the United States, for it is as much as a man’s life is«worth there o become Presi. dent. Every President is assnsinated as a matter of course; but, a3 ha has gonerally attained his place by nssassinating some one or moro of his predecessors, he hns no par ticular right to complain. Tho last roports from Hayti show only one President’ killed that day ; but that was two or three weoks 8go, and it is probable that thore are now ns many ghosts of recently-slaughtered dig. nitaries stalking about tho country ns the bloody Ricnanp saw in his drenm. Hayt evidantly would not be a very good abiding. place for politicinns of the Convin stripe, The first protest has beon mado agajnst the bill introduced in the French Assembly by M. WappineTox with roferenca to the regu. lation of educational matters in that country. 1t comes from the Archbishop of Paris, wha nddressod the Congress of Catholic Commit. tees which recently held its session in thal city, He dencunced tho bill as an organized effort to destroy Catholio schools, and claimad that its suthor and advocates sought to deprive Catholics of the little (!) liberty thoy had formerly enjoyed in educationnl and charitablo movements, ‘The Archbishop, Lowever, had not the grace to touch upon tho points nt issue, namely, the efforts of the Church to control the State through educa tion, and its attempt to retain political as cendency by kaeeping the people in ignoranco. ‘The whole object of M. Wappinaron's bill iy to offset the contralization of power in Parit by promoting popular intelligence, *Tha only way, therefore, in which this bill could do stroy Catholicism would be by the dissemi nation of education, The Liborals in the British Parliament haven't yet got through with the Royal Titlos' bill, and havo given notice that the votes which gave it n mnjority wero cast un. der o misapprolension of the menning and effect s explained by the Government, Dissarer shows no dispesition to shirk the fight, nevertheloss, and has fixed next Thurs. dny ns tha timu for discussing this attempt ta reopon the case. The advices aro tlnt he does not proposo in any caso to forego hia advantages, and that, even if the discussion goos against him, ho will take it as a vate of censuro, and not 03 an oxpression of a lack of confidonco. He ovidently has no iden of ro. tiring, if ho can help it. ABOUT SILVER, Yo the Edlior of The Chicago Tribuner “ Furron County, Iil, AMsy 8.—If by on st of om National Leglalaturo now markots could bs opened o ol ouea calargod for any one of our staplo produo. tlons, it would b unirersally acknowlodyed as an act of wino statoamanship, \Vhfi,,lhul, oo L'tz Tuimuxs snd some others think it wlso to contract the markut for ouo of our largest productions, viz, silvar, by iflhflng England and Gormany in demonetizing Ity—= us contractiug the market and reducing the price ot ono of our mout valusblo productions? This in & sort of conuudrum that we cau't aolve,—perhaps you 3¢ tho ald averago standsrd of roisiive valu (165¢ to 1] bas Loen permunontly changed by our large prosent and probable future productlons, why not so clange aur silver cofuajio 80 a8 to make 1t 16 (0 1, thus making ¥ equal to gold 7 Granars, Rerry: Our correspondont haa mistaken the viows of Tur Trimuxg on the silver question, The * domonetization " of ailver in this country took place as long sgo a8 1853, Provious tu that timo silvor and gold coinage were both a logal-tender for thelr nominal valus for any amount, Thosudden fncrease in thoe produc- tion of gold snd tho more than ordiuary supply tncrossod the relative valuo of silver and de- creasod that of gold, Tho consequonce was that our silver coluago, which had & wolght of 41234 gralns of 000 dneness in the dollar, and a proportionats welghtin the minor colus, Lnd & groater valuo in gold as bullion than it had a8 goin, and was therofore exported as (ast &% colued. The valuation at tuat timo was 10 of silver to 1 of gald. Coogress then provided by Iaw, Feb, 21, 1853, the discontinuance of the coluage of ailver on private account, and re- ducod the waight of tho half-doliar from 2003 graing to 192 grains, and the smaller colus in the same proportion. This made the allver coiua worth more a3 coln then ss bullion, Dy the ssme act ailvor ceased to be a legal-tender ex- copt for suma not oxceeding 5. Tho standard welght of the llver dollar was not chauged, but its colnsge waa discontinued, In tho codificas tion of the laws in 1878 all tho coinago sots wero reduced to ome, but no materisl change was made in the matter of silver colnaga, * *Bilvor has now fallen 1n ita relations to gold far below (he value 1t had in 1833, and conse- quently the cofosge i8 worth less, compars~ tively, than was provided for by that act, ‘Tus TuisuNg bas urged the renswed coloage of the American dollaratiteold standard welght of 413} graios, snd that it be calued continu- ously untll it shall take the place of all other ourrenoy, jucluding sll bank billa of small de- nominations, sud that it be made a legal-tonder forat least 830, to start with. As we have shown, the demaustization of silvey look plece