Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 10, 1876, Page 4

' for June. 4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RATHE OF RUTSCRITTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANCR) Pestnge Prepntd nt thia OM, Daily Edition, postpaid, 13eas % Parta of you Farts of yoar at sams rate, WERKLY EDITION, FOSTFAID, 7, o €6} . 1a 15 oente & yoar, Which we will propays Bpacimen coples sent free. and mistakos, bs wurs and givs Porte 1l, inclading State aud County. Remittances may be made either by draft, oxpress, Toat-Oflos ordar, of In registersd letters, at our sk, TRUMS TO CITY SUBKOTIDENS. Dally, deliverod, funday excepted, 273 conts per week, Dyl deliversd, Bundy included, 30 cents par weok. A Samor Madison and Dasih AMUSEMENTS, MOOLEY'S THEATRE—Tandolph strert, between Olark and LaSallo, EnFsarmrul of the Fifth Avenus Won, * Piqua." Afternoon and evening. MOVIOKER'S THEATRE—Madison sirect, between ‘Dearborn na.asuw. Engagement of tho Alaggle itehell Company, * Fanchon," NEW CHIQAGO THEATRE—Clark street, batween andolph and Laka. Hooloy's Minatrels, Afternoon wnd evenlng, ADELPNI THEATRE—Monroe sireet, corner Dear- bom. ~ Vurlely enlertalnment, ** Mazoppa” After- ®oon and evening, BASE BALL GROUNDS—Comer Twentr-third and Dearborn streetn. Champlonsbip gaine between tho Uhicagos and Cincinnatis at 3:45 p, m, The @hisage Tribune, ‘Wodnosday Mormng, May 10, 1870 Greenbacks ot the Now York Gold Ex- ehango yesterdny closed at 887, & * Coolor and partially cloudy wonther is pre- Acted for the Upper Lako rogion to-day, ———————— It is interesting to know that Parson Trowxzow is 03 violent as over in his hntred of the Democracy, and that his first choice is Blontoy, and Huvrs bis second ; but it wonld be moro to the point if Tonnesseo wera likely o bo of any servico in helping to elsct eithor of theso candidates. Thoe etatemont is made with an air ot nu. chority that the President Lns definitely do- termined that ho will not pardon WinLiase MoKee, of 8t, Louis. McKeris ropresented &8 terribly disappointed, crushed, and broken down at his failure to influonco the axercise of Exccutive clemon Now that ex-Mayor Corviv hns gono to moot Ep ParLuirs, Mixe Evaxs, and tho rest of tho go-outs and stay-outs, he will have nmpla leisuro and perfect liberty to go into the courts and seek redress, 1Mo can, in fact, enjoy the luzury of litigation without lect or hindrance, and ho can also have the satisfac- tion of paying the costs out of bLis own pockot. Whilo Mr. Corviyis hus engaged AMayor Hoxxz will perform tho duties of the Mnyoralty, and it will bo a fair exchiango, the latter going out of the law and the former going into it. e — The wholesale liquor-dealers of Chicago Ppropose to organize for n test of the Stato Liquor law with a view to estnblishing the fnct of its unconstitutionnlity. They aro en- couraged to hope for this result by tha statos ment of alawyer who has looked into the matter that tho law was passed in the Senate by 24 votes, whorens 26 votes, a mnjority of sll tho membors, wore required to pass the bill. The dealers, distillers, end brewers will be nfforded an opportunity to contribute toward the cxpenses vonnceted with the legnl Pproceedings, and the temperance orgnniza. tions will doubtless see to it that the liquor ten don't have things all thoeir own way. ——————— RuprssTery, the condemned murderer of Sazms Avzxasprn, has escaped the gallows by the only means which seemed possible in his case,—by dying Lefore the dny sot for Lis execution. Tho wreiched man, who Lad hired a brother Jew to tako the lond of crime from off his soul, Lad been growing s eaker each day under mental strain snd the ruvages of consumption, and was inn pitinblo state of debility and emnciation. e died sudden.- 1y in his cell yesterday forenoon under cir. cumstances suggestive of suicide by poison, thongh the jail authorities deny this theory, and insist that death resulted from naturnl causes. — The country will very generally indorsa tho action of the Prerident in assigning Gen. CosTeR to the command of his regiment, from which ho hiad been relioved, and order- Ing Lim to join the expedition which is now moving against the Indiuns, Gen, CusTeR, slthough he is a very garrulous man and talks too much for his own good, isa gallant officer, whoso past record onght to have spared him the humiliation from which Le has sonar. vowly eacaped. It sliould provean warning lo him, however, of the danger of boing such o ewift and willing witness in partisan investigations, especially when it eventuates that e haz nothing to say of any value. e —— Ex-Mayor Convin still onjoys certain in. alienable rights, among them the right to Issuo proclamations, and Le is indulging in this glorions privilege with all the avidity Imaginable, 1t is o harmless pastime—much better than for the great bandbox. wresller to attempt to block the wheels of reform by foolish acts and silly threats in the Common Council, Ilis two proclamations of yesterday are di- rected respectively to the hends of Dopart- ments and to the peoplo of Clicago in gen. eral, They order that uobody shall recognize Mayor Horsz, and thereby doom that geutle- man to the melancholy fate of being a stran. ger among his friends, CoLviy omits to state what will happen to the luckless indi. vidnal who on the spur of the moment should chance to recogmize Mayor Hoyxe, but it is clear from the langusge of the two proclama. tions that the ouly safe thing to do is to meot the Mayor-elcet with averted g&ze, and under uo circumstances to rashly risk a genial salu. ton. It is hord on Hovwe, but the public peace must Lo preserved, The Chicago produce markets wers irregu. Iar yesterday, provisions being weak, and groin strouger. Most of them were fairly active, Moss pork was 15@200 per brl lower, clouing at $20.425@20.45 for Juno and $20,65 €©20.674 for July, Land was 100 per 100 b lower, closing ot #1215 cash and $12.27j@ 12.20 for July, Meats wero d@{c per v lower, at7jc for Loxed shoulders, 10f0 for do short ribs, and 1lc fordo short clears. Lake freights were dull, at #3@3)e for wheat toBufto, Highwines were steudy, ut $1.07 per gallou. Flour way quict und firm, Wheut closed 13e bigher, nt 9{¢ for May und £1.00} Corn closed o bigber, ut 46{o for llny. and 46jc fur June. ~ Oats were gehigher, closiug st 8030 for May and 81 46 for Juue, Bye was firuier at G2ic, Barley way frreg. F ular, closing nt 69¢ for May and 620 for June. Hogs were dull, and closed weak at 5@10¢ decline. Bales wore al §0.90@7.35 for poor to choice. Cattle wero nctivo nnd stendy. Bheep wero searco and firmer, Lm;t Saturday evening there was in storo in this city 1,046,- 471 bu wheat, 1,200,715 bu corn, 606,955 bu oats, 67,i88 bu ryo, and 123,251 bu barloy. Ono of the most critical episodes in the intorosting carecr of the new Common Coun- cil occurred yestorday afternoon in connee- tion with a resolution offercd by Ald, Az~ pricn, instructing the various officials and departments of the City Government to rec- ognizo Troxuas orxs ns Mayor of Chiengo. Corviv, as presiding ofilcer, refnsed to enter- tain tho motion to adopt the resolution or to enterfain n motion appenling from his do. cision, whoroupon Ald, Arpnicnt was desig. nated as tha person to submit tho question to tho Council. At this point Corvin attempt. ed the game of bluff, hinting that, if the Council persisted in tho effort to pass the resolution, ho should call upon the police forco to prevemt it This was o step beyond tho patience of somo of the Aldermen who had hitherto re- mained rilent. Bpeeches were made by Ald, McCrea, 'Canoor, and OunierToy, all of whom gave warning that the policy of intim. idation kiad better bo abandoned, and Corvry, perceiving his mistake, backed squarely down, nnd tho resolution was put to vote aud ndopted, 26 to 10. The incidont was sig- nificant of tho temper of tho majority of tho Council in the matter of threats or attompted intimidation. They will tolerate nothing of the kind, and if Corviyis wise he will loso no time in recognizing the fact that ho has to deal with men who Inck neithor the cour- nge, tho determination, nor the ability to carry out tho plan they have undertaken, and who aro not to bo frightened from the performnnco of their dut; THE VICTORY OF THE PEOFLE, Tho first meoting of the now Council has given n glorious promise of a complete de- parture from the Ring politics which has swayed the government of this city for moro than two yenrs. Tho unity, quictness, and success of the majority's conduct in tho most trying situntion in which it will ever bo placed, indicato that thero is o combination of honesty and nbility that hns not'been at- tained for many years. The Aldermen clocted to represent tho same peoplo who cast 35,000 votes for Mayor Hoyse fully ap- preciated tho correctness of the popular pro- test against thoe usurpation of ex-Mnyor Cor. vix, and acted together, with a couplo of ex- ceptions (WaerLer of tho Thirteenth aud NizsN of tho Fifteenth), as if under oxplicit instructions. ‘The preliminary preparation for tho strugglo was thorough and intelli- gent, the line of nction was direct aud well understood, nnd the re. sult was cmiuontly satisfactory to tho peoplo and creditablo to their representn. tives, Tho majority acted upon the advieo of the best legal talent that could bo secured, given Dby gentlemen who may be properly classed ns non-politieal Inwyers, Thero was dnnger of n dissension owing to the differ- ence of opinion na to whother the Council should elect from its own number or the peo- plo's choice bo takon, but this was overcomo by tho ready sacrifico of all partisan consid- erations on tho part of the Republicans, and all personal considerations on tho part of Messrs. McCnea and Auonicn, one or the other of whom would probably have been chosen if the Council had clected from itg ownbody. All united with honest cordiality in carrying out the wishea of the people, ox- pressed at the polls, that ex-Mayor Corvin shall be retired (his term having long sinco cxpired), and that his successor shall be recognized and assumo the duties of tho office. Tho Council’s officinl procecedings wero as eflective as their previous preparation had been through. Thero was o persistent devo- tion to the one end in view, and it was reach- ed without any faltering on tha ouo side or bLravado on tho other. Thero wero no mis- takes, aud for this tho peaple are largely in- debted to the experienco and coolness of Ald, CurienroN, who has ncted in good faith in this matter, and who was nbly sustained by the auperior ability of Ald. Troswsox and the personal forco of Ald. Bukmpav, The pro- ceedings wero dignified throughont, excopt as they were marred by the crooked Llather- skito Horeti, who found himself weak and incompotent without a Rting mnjority ot Lis back, Ex-l‘nyar Corviy wns treated with marked consideration, in view of the position of open lostility to the Council and the peo- ple which ho occupied. Ie received n deserved rebuke by tha referenco of his so- cnlled message withont reading, sinco ho had violated all official etiquotto and insulted the new Council by causing it bo pub- lished befora it had beon swbmitted to the DLody to which it had been addressed. It wns just ns well, how- over, as this gratuitous insult enabled the Council to save n couple of hours which would have serionsly intorferad with tho real work of the evening. Having roforred the only thing (viz, : the messnge) which the Council wunted to disposo of thus summarily, aset of rules were ndopted which omitted that permitting the referenco to a comuniitee of evory subject at tho suggestion of a singlo member, 'This shrowd wovement, ontirely legitimate and proper, enabled the Council to do its work immedintely, MHaving got the rules in the proper shapo for action, the firat decisivo step was to reliove cx-Mayor Cor- vin's ex-Clork Fonnrsr from duty, which at tho sume time relieved CoLvix from hLiy par- linmeutary adviser, and left him liky a lonky ship without a rudder. 'The ox-Clerk and parlismentary adviser out of the way, the Council installed its own Inw-adviser, gud was thon ready to procced to the real busi- uesa of the ovening. This was to cauvuss the vote of Mayor Ioyne and declaro him elected, Ex-Mayor Colvin, though intersporsing the procecdings with plaintivo utterances, ridicu. lous blunders, aud significant whines, did not undertaka any positive resistanco to the will of the Council—25 members sgainst 11—un« til after Mayor Horxe's vote bad been can. vassed. e put the motions which author- ized this procoeding, but then refused to put thn_ motion declaring Mayor Hoyxr elected, which, of courie, was the logical result of tho cuuvass, Ex-Mayor CoLviy's desperate at- tachwent to oflica has betrayed him into many insane soctions, but none so conspicuously wenseless as the effort, in hig capacity as pre- siding offizer, to defent the will of woro than two-thirds of a legislative body. We very much fear that his legal advisery Lave caused Lim to ba “writ down an ass,” jn &pite of the fact that the city lins puid thewm $40,000 or $50,000 of lawycrs' fees to help bim fight the people. Tho resnlt must have shown the ex-Mayor that the struggle was o unequal one, and (hat the will of woro than two.thirds of & legialative body is very apt to prevail evon whon & do fucto pre- siding ofiicor refusea to abide by it. Mayor Horxe: was declared elected, aund Ald. Cup- 1rRTON gave a timely notico to Comptrollor Iavzs nol to confuse and complicato thoe city's finances by refusing tosit with tho new Mayor. Tho cage is evon stronger than Ald. CourrertoN put it, The charter of 1872 ex. pressly intrusts tho City Clerk with the du- ties performed by the Comptroller, and mero~ 1y enables the Council to crente tho oflico of Comptroller, if it mees fit, and defino his, duties, The Council mny also discontinue any oflices that have been previously created, 70 that arefusal on the part of Mr, Haves to recognize the new Mnyor can bs mot simply by abolishing the ofice, and transferring its duties to Mr, Burz. The Council was disposed to secept ex. Mayor Corviy's appenl to bo retained moro in pity than in anger, and wo ara content to Iet it go at that without recalling the disn. greeable reminder that he fa responsible for his own troubles, But as Anpx Jomssox held on simply to sustain the Constitution of tho United States, aund as Marr Carrenten took his back pay beeauso the Constitution required him to do 80, 80 Mr. Corvin's offort to continue himself in offico anothor year lins been prompted solely by his construction of the law, which he docs not want to violate by going out. Now, wo suggest that, if cx- Mnyor Corvix will only accopt the situation, Lo will havo sbundant time to establish his claims at law, aud without being hampered by the arduous dutios of the Mayor's offlce, Ile will also bo permitted tho satisfaction of paying his own lawyers' bills instend of charging them up to tho tax-pnyers, as he has beon doing ever sinco tho new charter was adopted, to defend him for contempt of court, to plead his causo beforo the Supreme Court, to writo Lim such opinions as he dosired, ete., ote. Wonro constrained to suggest, howover, that in lis remarknable oration before the Council ho misrepresonted the Supreme Court in stating that it had decided his ferm was cxtonded by the adoption of the new charter, It decided no such thing. It Las nover decided that there wad no vacancy. It has never decided that the peoplo might not fill that vacancy nt the first goneral election, which they did, It has not decided that the Council could not have colled o specinl clection a year ngo, right after tho adoption of the new charter, or at the November clection, or at any other time sinco tho vacancy existed. Tho Supreme Court simply decided ihat it would not com- pel the Council to call & special olection, and this decision was given before the Council bad rofused to call an clection ; bnd tho man- damus been applied for subsequently to their refusnl, the result might have been different. At all events, if Mr. Convin's only interost in this matter is that the law may bo sustained, let him prove it by going to law to recover the place which the people and the Conneil hinvo now conferred upon Mr. Horne. = 15 REFORM T0 BE MADE ODIOUSG: The Omalin Republican resonts, as an out- rage upon tho Ropublican party, our sugges- tion that the Domocratic party has no chanco of electing its Presidential candidnto without tho vote of Now York, and that to sccure tho voto of that State it will nominate TiLpry, who will certainly carry tho Stato unless the Republican party shall nowminato a candidats known to tho country to bo fros from alt complicity in the corruptions of the past and certain to vigorously reform tho administra- tion of the Government. The samo paper assumes that tho suggestion that Triney is the strongest man that the Democrats can nominate is n reflection upon every otlier Republican oxcopt Bristow, ‘That paper BOYA ¢ i Wao aubmit, however, that whatover significanco it posaesses, it means BLAINE Just oa much na {t means Barstow. Haa Lio not parsod through this era of cor- ruption * with clean hands and frve of all participa- tion in the past corruption? Can he pointtono recard 28 & “practical roformer of Government, & weeder-out of the rotten and eriminsl fram tho public wervico”? Undar whose leadership was b that a Rte- publican Houso frat grappled with tho hydra-headed Medusa-balred, and bundred-landed wouster of car- ruption in the Goverumeat, and sll other interests counccted therowith? What mian was it who at ouce clearci Lis own skirts ana Lrowzlt bome o those who bad practiced fraud responstbllity for their evil ways? Whoso hisuds were put forth from within the parly, before LR1stow waa ever heard of, to cast down fts {dols and slay the Moloch that was dovourlng its off- spring? Woreply to this stufl simply that wo may reply to o class of persons who seem to think that every timo “Reform " in the adininistra- tion of the Government and in the collection of the revenues arementioncd there is a covert attack on Ar, Brase. Wolave not attacked Mr. Braing, and if he bo nominated we ex- peet to support him, But wo shall support him for different rensons than uro gwven in thv abovo extract from the Republican pub- lished at Omalia. We shall support him be- causo of his intellectual ability and vigor, becauso of his sterling patriotisin, beeause of his services to the country during his sucess- ive terms in Congress, and bocause of the pe oxperience in public afieirs whick he will bring to the ofiica of President. Weo ndmire, and the conntry admires, tho courage and tho ability with which he encountered tho Coufedarato wmajority in the House, and £o puccessfully silenced ita domands. Mr. Brasxe does not claim that he was in any way the discoverer nud prosccutor of the Credit-Mobilier frauds. Tho facts of that caso were published in the summer of 1573 in the New York Sun, in the form of n sworn statement by I. 8, M’Coup, in a suit then pending in the Pennsylvanin courts, 3r'Coxmn furnished o list, given him by Oaxrs Asres, of persous to whota Axws had given Credit- Mobilierstock, ete. This list included sovoral members of Congress, the Vice-Pyesident, and ono or more Sonators, and among the names wns that of Mr. Bramve, Thoe matter was discussed in all the papers of tho country until the meeting of Congress in Decemn- er, 1872, There was no escapo from jnvesti. gation, The charges were direct, yandincluded too 1onny members to permit investigation to b stifled, Mr. Bramve wag Speaker, and hie could not woll designato the Comnittes, soLe vacated tho chnir and made n motion that the temporary incumbent, Afr, Cox, ap- point the Committee. Mr, Braise, belng under the snme charge os others who wore subsequently proved guilty, could do no less than Le did do. The Committee would bave been sppointed anyhow, und he could not ap- point it; so ho nnticipated tho making of the motion by another, which wag wmevitable, by moving ity appointment himself, The Committeo subsequently acquitted him of every suspicion of guilt, though it convicted several other nombers of Congress, It reported in favor of tho uxprdsion of Oaxes Aues and Jawes Buooks, Lut the House refused to adopt it Mr, BraiNg has many admirers and friends, bLut nouo of them until within o fow weeks bave claimed for bim & record asa * Ra. forwer " becuuse of his action in the Credit. Mobilier case. That aotion was that of o man, conscious of his own integrity, courting aff investigation which he knew wonld result in his own scqnittal ; Lnt it was an investi- gation that made sad havoo with tho repnta- tions of o good many other honorablo gontle. men who had carried their hends high and enjoyed the confidence of the conntry, 8TOW, A month or two ago tho Whisky Ring and the runners with the machine insisted that Brisrow was a great favorite with the Demo- ernts, which, they contonded, was o very snspicioun eiremmnstanco. But when tho Democratic pross and lendern bogan to sav- ngoly nssail him, and moko desporate cfforls to besmirch him, tho runners with the ma- cltine hnd to chango thoir tactics. They now say that ho is a Kentuckian, and not in Lnr- mony with the radical Republican sentiment of the North, Dut the machine-ranners are troubled to nccount for the fact that Bnrstow is stronger in New IEngland than any other candidate, Ilo is the first chiolco of a mafori- ty of tho Republicans of overy Now England Stato except Maino, and is tho second choico of the Ropublicans of Maine, Tho Now- Englanders have been investigating his rco- ord, and find the following facts : Brisrow was raised in nn Abolition family, nnd was educated in & Northiorn collogo, As there woro only two politienl partios in Kon- tucky provious to 1860, ho- acted with tho ‘Whigs, becauso thoy wera opposed to the Btato Bovereiguty doctrine, and were less pro-slavery than the Domocrats, At the ngo of 27 ho declined to voto for Ber, the Whig candidate for Governor of Kentucky, becauso Lo declared for tho Daep Scorr decision. His fathor wns one of tho sevon members of the Constitutional Convention in Kentucky who voted ngainst the fomous declaration in the Stato Constitution that tho right of prop- erty in n slave is absoluto +and inviolablo, During tho angry period befora the ontbreak of tho Rebeltion, ho was an outspoken Na- tionnlist, and donounced thoe secession movo- ment. Ho voted for Laxcowx in 1860, At the opening of tho War ho helped to raisc regiment of Kentucky Unionists, and dis- tinguishod himsolf at tho hard-fought battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh, While in the army he was clected to the Stato Senate, and was always among the most radical e publicans. He and ecleven others voted for the cmancipntion mwmondmont and sgainst paying tho slavo-holders for the slayes, and Lo demnanded and advocated the equal civil rights of tho negro. In two or three political campaigns since the War he stumped his State for tho Re- publican ticket, and maintained radical doe- trines agninst all antagonists, As District Attornoy ho rooted out tho Ku-Klux, and the confidenco in him of his radical follow-Re- publicans of the State is boundless and en- thusiastic. Ho is the first Socrotary of the Treasury who has successfully grappled with the frauds in the Now York and other Eastern Custom- Touses, and put a stop to them, and ho is the first Scerotary of the Tronsury who has POB- sossed tho norve and ability to take hold of the poworful Whisky Ring and smash it, con. signing ity membors to the jails and Peniton- tlaries,—thoso of them who are not fugitives in foreign conntries. Among honest men theso are pleasant things to know of Alr. Bristow., That his nominntion for Prosident would be enthusi- astically recoived by tho masses of tho peo- plo is perfectly certain { but we are not at all confidont that he will bo nominated. Tho ‘‘ runners with the machina” will be in con- trol of the Cincinngti Convontion, and ho is instinctively felt by them not to bo in sym. pathy with them. Thoy nare thinking only of oftico and tho spoils theroof, Ilo is think- ing of reform in offica-holding, and in the colloction of tho rovonues. Ho is, theraforo, not their sort of a man, and they will defeat Lis nomination if in their power. Anybody to beat Bristow, is their watchword, e ———— COLVIN A5 A BON OF MARS, It is n curious quostion in esthotie philoso- pby what subtlo influences thero are in the carrying of boxes and baled® that infuso o man with the war spirit; in other words, how does tho ezprows business develop n man's belligeront qualities? Ostonsibly it would scem {0 bo o very peaceful occupntion, conducted by mild-mannered drivers, clorks, and agents, and which might bs run from Yyear to year without provoking oven n fisti- cuff squabblo or a dangerous differonce of opinion. But Lero is Mr, anvey D. Corviy, lnte Mayor, who for many years had success- fully conducted the express business, and nchioved a wide-spresd roputation as a hand- ler of band-boxes, bales, and crates, and is now about to euter upon it ngain, and, to tho surprise of every one in the community, Iro suddenly looms up as & sanguinary crea. tare, o monster thirsting for gore, a ferocious human being who believes in war as the nor- al condition of the human race, n General Boum suufling powder, a Jomlastes who wonid deluge the world with wicked wars woro his boots displaced. The chango in his disposition scems to have come vory suddenly. Prior to 186¢ he was very sereno and sunny, and manifestod no martial spirit further than furious charges upon Muwnm and Roederer. In that yoar, howevor, he suffered o sudden change, and from a peaceful express agent suddenly bloomed out into & flerce and truculent war- rior, arrayed in the full pauoply of battlo, ‘Wo havo his own words in thematter, Aftor keoping up a firo-fu-the-rear with tho Demo- crata for three years, ho left thom and went to the front with the Ropublicans, and then thore was war in enrnost. It was thon, as our readers will remember, that the tidy turned sorapidly against the Domocrats, and the Btars and Bars bogan to trail in the dust. It was not until the news renched the Confed. racy that Corvix hnd drawn tho trusty blade that the Rebels wavered. 3fr. CoLvin says: ‘I hind o fother in the Warof 181214 on the frontier, - Ihiad ason in the Fedoral Army. Iom awar man, + I attended all the war meetings with the City Clerk thers. + Wo were membera of tho Union Defense Com- mittee,” Toop la! Why did he neglect to stnto that bis grandfather *fit into the War | of the Itevolution,” and Lis ancestors in tho ‘Wars of tho Rosea and at tho siego of Troy ? Perhaps oven CowviN himsel? was at tho Battlo of the Nile, all the while, He may cven have fought * mit Srarr.” Like Aure. sus Wanp, be may have sacrificed all hig wifo's rolations, At all evants, we know he was a potriot in the stirring doys of 1804 that tried men's souls and pocketbooks, and guve us milk-tickets for ourruncy. This, however, is o small part of his war- like record. His martial coresr covers all past timo back to the days of dim tradition, and strotclics to the end of time, Hayu this griro warrler : 4 X was for war—for nll tho wand that had been or that wire to coine, slnk or swhm, survive or perish, every time," Forall the wars of Isruel agrinst her eno- 1ics, the great Cmsarian capaigns, the loug Trojun war, the conquestn of the Turks, THE CIIIéAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY: MAY 10, 1876, the crusado for the Holy Sepulchre, the wors of tho BSaxons and Normaus, the mighly battles of Narorrow, tho struggle in the Crimon, for all the revolutions of Moxico nnd Bouth Amerien, for the visings of Commnnists and the massncres of religionists, and for every occasion when tho sword las beon drawn or a brickbat hurled, from the timo that the Dovil waa pitehedoverthe hattloments of Ileavon, down to tho cliarge of tho Communists upon the lumber-yands tho other day, Conviy has Loon in favor of thom all. It follows, as n matter of course, that Lo is now in favor of tho Ier. zogovininn inswrroction, the Halonican mnassa- cro, the Duteh-Achinese war, the rovolution in Iayti, tho uprising in tho Barbadoes, ¢Bink or swim, survive or perish,” But he does not evon pausa here, ‘This monster, thirsting for gore, hins not only been in favor of nll tho wars that have ever takon placo, and all that aro taking placo novw, but ko i8 nlso in favor of all that ore going to tako placo Lo tho lnst syllablo of re- corded time, Now, wo put tho questiou in all sincerity to Alr, Ilanvey D. QoLvin, lato Mayor, if this ia in renlity a faithful picturo of his belligeront and bloody sclf, why wero you handling boxes and bales during the War of the Rebollion? If you have boon in favor of all the wars of the past and all that aro to come, why did you not then fight, bleed, and dio? Why woro you, n son of Mars, caper- ing nimbly in a lady's chamber to tho lnscivi- ous plensiugs of o lute, whon you should have mounted your barbed stoed to fright tho souls of fearful adversarics? Invo tho spiders apun thoir wobs across the mouths of your canuon, have the birds built thoir nests in your mortars, has your sword rusted in its sheath and your blunderbuss rotted on tho wall, that you, Big Injun, tho warrior of all tho centuries, you who have fought with 8aur, Cxsan, Tameniane, Hasnpan, and Naroreoy, should stand up before s Common Conncil and snivel and whine when they kick you out? Whero was your bonsted mar- tinl spirit that you did not mount yodr fiery steed, aud with Jor Fonngsr, Hinprrrm, O'Brniey, Muneny, nnd Sweesner heading your cohorts, ery havoo and lot alip the dogs of war, nnil the hends of CoLrenToN, ALpRICcH, and TuostrsoN to the Crib, and swoop the city with the besom of your colossal six-foot wrath? You protest too much. You a soldier ! ELpiff, paff, pouft; ta ra, ta, ta, poum, 4 buta ooty Generah ZEourn, Botm, Lotim, THE BALE OF THE PENSION AGENQY. "Tho disclosures in the case of the Ponsion Agoney in this city, though the subject of common rumor for some months, prove to be moro disgraceful than waa ever anticipated or suspected. Gon. J. B. Bweer, n brave sol- dicr, who had been wounded nud crippled during the War, was appointed Pension Agent at this place. 1o had a family to support, and the compensation was hardly mora than equal to that ond. Mis daughtor, s most excellent and competent lady, was cmployed in her fathor's office, and mnnaged the dotails in a most sntisfactory manner. In time, it appears, 6 demand was mnde upon Gen, Swrer that ho appoint a Mr. Oamroern o clerk in hiu offico at a salary of $2,500 ayear, Gon, Sweer protested, but, under fear of re- moval, e oppointed AMr, CamenEeL, tho com- pensation of the latter being takon out of Swrzr’s own allowanco, Aftor two or threo mouths Swrzr discharged Canr- pELy, ond in dme timo was him- self removed, it was charged, through Marshall Casepern's influonce, backed up by Sonatorial and Ropresontative aid, Davip Brazrvy, then editor of the Erening Post, was appointed. Upon taking chargo of tho offico ho found Miss Sweer employed thoro ns n clerk on n small galary, and continued her, she performing tho dutics honestly ond ef. flciently. Mr, Braxery bad the fortunate or unfor- tunnte capacity of getting into debt deoper on the lonst protense and on the lonst re- sponsibility than any man wo have over known, From first to lnst, wa supposo tho aggregate sum which his victims * put up " or became lisblo for on his account, and which is still unpnid, does not fall much, it nny, short of $130,000. Of course such a mnn was certain to be n defaulter, At lost Lo could hold the offico no longer, and ho turned his attention to finding a purchaser to whom ho could sell it. In March, 1874, ho informed Miss Swexr that ho wished to ro- sign, and that his mrangements at Washing- ton wore such that ho could control tho ap- pointment of lis successor. Ho urged Ler to becomo an applicant and ko would sccure her appointment, she to pay Lim all tho income save . $1,600 a year, which she mights " retnin s her enlary, Ho refused her permission to consult her friends, insisting on keeping the arrangoment secret, She consented. It was then agreed that sho should pay to Marshal B. II Ossuzrry §2,100 between April, 1874, and April, 1875, if sho was appointed. She waos appoiated. Brarery was then discov- ered to bes in default $,000, and ho went with Cavrprun to Miss Sweer—according to tho lady%s sworn statement—and coorcod her to give him an official receipt for the money, sho thus becoming responsiblo for that much money asif it had been turned over to her officially by Braxzrny, Caurnert nnd Braxe- 1, sho enys, both refused hor permission to consult with frionds. Undor fear of removal sho consented, jthus nssuming $5,100 of Draxey's debts,” Braxery promised to mako good tho deflcit in a short time, but he did uot do s0. Subsequently Baken, the Com- misaioner of Penslons, who, it is slleged, was familiar with the whole arrangomont, threat- ened to roport lior as o defaulter if she did not pay the money within a cortain time, Bhe raisod $2,000 upon amortgage upon Ler father's cstato and tho other $1,000 upon some notes which she had discounted, and paid the money, Of this sum DBrageny has sinco pald $2,000, In April, 1875, she pald Oaxrurin the last of the $2,100. + Blio swears that Oaxporry then in- sistod that she should pay Braxzry's dobts to the sum of $5,000, but sho refused to pay any more. Cameprry then threatoned her with removal, and, upon her hearing that he ‘was working for that purposo at Washington, sho proceeded to Washington, and the Presi. dent nsgured her whe should not be removed without a hoaring, Under this assurance she peremptorily refused to pay CimruxLy any more money, In November, 1875, tho story was hinted at in the papers, Gen. Loaan being named as o recipicnt of part of the money, but Miss Bwerr denied, in & published card, that he had roceived any ; on tho contrary, she said, he had been Ler earnost frisnd. In Decem- bor shie again went to Washington and told a part of the story to tho Prosident, who gave her every assurance of protection, Whon she published the card exomerating Gen. LogaN, Oaurnery demanded of her o like card concerning himself, which she refused, and, when he heard she had boen gytamoncd o to Wasbinglon, Oamrnetr appenled to hor to mako n harmloss statemont, and to assuro the Committos thnt if tho transaction was considored wrong ho would refund tho monay,—so sho swears beforo tho Committec. ‘This is the record s stated by Miss Bweer, Tho whole business is most discroditable. It establishon a cloar enso of tho anle of an offico by Braxesy, who plundered this young lady, the daughter of a gallant ofcor who had been turnedont of the samo offico to make room for Brakery, Tho Commissioner of Ponsions, Baren, figuros so discreditably in the affair that his romoval from the offleo of Burveyor~ General of Blinnesots, to which ho has sinco Leen appointed, would bs but showing com- mon respect for public deconcy. Two things ought to bo dono instantly. Brageny sbould bo made to pay the 81,000 &till dus on his dofalcation, and for which thin girl is responsible, and CanrpeLy should pay back that 32,100 of which sho has been plundered, with interest, A more unmanly act than the victimizing of this lady has not beon ades public for years, The law of the United States governing this ense, nud seomingly applicable to the conduct of Brarery, is found in the Rovised Statutea, 8ee, 1,781, which rends na follows : BrcTion 1,761, Every member of Congress or any officer or agent of tho Government who, directly or indirectly, takes, roceives, or agrees to rocolve, any money, property, or othier valuable coneideratinn whatovor, from any person for procuring, or alding to [procure, any contract, office, or place from ths Gove crnmont or any departmont thereof, or from any offi- cor of tho United Bates, for any porson whatever, ar for giving any much contract, oftics, oF place to any peruon whomsoovar, aud every person who directly or indirectly offers or agrees to givo, or gives, or bestows suy money, proporty, or othor valusblo considoration whatever, for tho procuriug or aiding to procure any such contract, oftic, or placo . , , shall bo docmed gullty of o misdemeanor, and shatl be Smpris- uned not more than two years, and fined mot more thsn $10,000, And any anch contrsct or agreomont may, at tho option of tho Presidont, be declared abso- lutely null and vold; and any member of Congress or officer convicted of a violation of this section sball, morcover, be disqualified from kolding any offics of honor, profit, or trust under the Govornment of the Usited Elates, — TEF. DEPRECIATI OF BILVER. Thore is an article in a late number of Macmillan's Magazine which gives some in. toresting and important statisties about the production of silver, and what becomos of it. ‘The annual product les incrensed gradually but lorgoly in the United Btates since 1870, but it has remained about the snme in Mexico, South America, and other countries. ‘The total product of the year 1875 was £16,000,- 000, as against £14,000,000 in 1874, about the same in 1873, £12,750,000 in 1872, and £11,600,000 in 1871. That is to eny, the Iatest snd Inrgest annual product was about 80,000,000, with nu average annual produc- tion during tha last five years of nbout 568,600,000, Of thin, Indin and the Enst have sbsorbod on an average $83,500,000, Ieaving 335,000,000 to be carod for by other countrics, This production did not scom to Lo cxcessive till Gormany do- mounetized silver, which suddenly throw nbout $200,000,000 of silver on the market. 'This unusunl surplus, along with the proportionate absorption of gold in Germany to take tho plnco of the demonetized silver, and the in- crensed product of tho Amorican mines, oc- casioned o romarkable decrenso in the gold value, which was accolerated by the panicky feeling resulting npon the marked change in values. It is suggosted in the article we have roferred to that Indie shall demonetize silver, —that is, make it legal tender only for small sums; but this would bo manifestly bad policy. It is not apparent what could bo dono with the surplus silver, and the depre- ciation would be more rapid snd disastrous than ever., Indin may suffor somo loss in oxchanges incident to tho late dopreciation, but that peopla would suffer tenfold moro, and be tho cause of their own misfortuncs, if they should *bear” the prico of silver still further by demonotization at home, As it is now, the deprecintion must bs nearly at an end. ‘The prospoct of silver bemng brought into circulation in the United Statcs, and the consequont demand thers will bo for from $100,000,000 to 160,000,000, has nlready mado nchange. Silver is now worth a couple of penca more per ounce than it was just after tho Germen demonctization, and the prospect is now that, withont any other un- usual disturbance in tho market, it will.con- tinue to onhanco in value. We havo the tos- timony of Scnator Jowrs, of Nevnda, nn ox- pert, that tho exhaustion of the principal American mines now oporated can already bo forosicon, and tho present indications from the Pacific const in mining stocks confirm the statemont. Meanwhile, the commorcial uses for silver will incresse, so that tlerois no reason to apprehend a very long duration of tho present depression, On tho contrary, it is reasonable to presume, from past experience, that silver will gradually appreciate, and thereby relieve the political economists from their prosont embarrassments, Gaaperra cortainly achieved a distin- guished succoss in the late French elcctions, having Leen elected to the new Chamber from Paris, Marscilles, Bordeaux, and Lille, and his party hiaving secured & majority of the Doputies. Tl rule of responsible Gov- ornment obtaining in England would have placed him at tho head of anow Cabinet to bo formod by himsclf. Constitutionalism is not advanced this far in France, But Gax. BETTA'S Btrongth os leader of o great party 1ing been recognized by his appointment as President of tho Budget Commission of 1877, which is ono of the most responsible posi- tions of tho Government, It is sald that ho will move for tho establishment of au income- tax, which England has found to be one of tho best and fairest menus of raising revenuo; and, if he shall succeed in getting it adopted, it will relieve Franco of many burdsnsome though indirect taxes which it now sustains, ‘Tho income-tax bas alrendy beon advocated by Boxner and other contemporaneous po- litical cconomiuta of France, and, if adopted, it will probably be one of tho most useful mensures of thoe Republican Government, — e The Dotroit Lost, Zaon Cuanpres's paper, dovotes a considerable portion of its procious spaca to demolishing what it denominates “Tho conspiracy sgamst Bramne,” Tha con- spirators aro thus torn to pleces in the moat unfeeling wanner: Ha Joskrn MepiLy, of Tnx Ourcico TEIDUNE; Deacon 81z, of tho Ciuclnnsti Gazelts; Mumar Tarstea, of the Cincinnatl Commereias, and Gen, Borxzox, Washington correspondent of the Clucine nall Gazette, took it upon (hemaslves (7), fn secrel mostings, 10 ducide whiether the great National Repub- licau pasty should be allowsd to nominste Mr, BLanm for Prealdsnt, and resolved that the Republican party ahould uot be allowed o ssitlo thla question for Lt solf ’ Eleme what question? Whether the §04,000 Littlo Rock bond chiarges were trus, or the J, B, Brzwamr Kansas Paciflo bond statemont, or what? How was the Ropub- lican party to settle those questions for it. sclf? Beofore what tribunal wore the charges to be brought? Those wicked editors waliciously resolved that it were better to bave Huawxs himselt *gettle this question” than to relogato it to the Ropublican porty Bramez thought so himself, and settlod them, But old Zaon's papor is not satisfled, and takos on torribly about it. It wanted tha “Republiean party® to Investigato the charges against Dramve, and rendor iis vor. diot, The party could only nct through its National Gonvention. Tho chargeangainst Brame shonld have been kopt secrot until tho assembling of the Convention at Cinoin. oatf, aud thon, according to the Post, they should bo Iald befors that august tribunal for its owful consideration, But the editorial syndicato above named and aforosaid, in theix weakness or wickednoss, thonght differontly, and *“sccrotly” called on Brains to oxplain mattors publicly, which ho has done at thefr instance, aud thus the ‘“Ropublican party haa not been allowed to sottle this quostion for itselt.” It fa dreadful! And now what is old Zacn's Post going to do about it ? e No ons ean rend the confession of the in. famous wretch Pirzn, who murdored tho little girl in the church bolfry, without » fooling of loathing and horror, and without tho hope that tho authoritics of Massnchue sotta will not'stop in the order of their work, but dispateh this'loathsome murderer out of tho world at once. By hia own confession Lo has committed three murders, simply be. causo ho bad & desire to kill some one. In ono enso ho aoloctod & prostitute and killod her whilo she was sleeping, and in tho othor coses ho salected defenseless children and mnde thom the objoot of his brutal and bloody disposition. Massachusotts has an. other criminal upon hor hands of n similar charactor, the boy-flend Poueroy. The mandlin sontimentalista of Boston will undoubtedly bring a pressure to bedr upon the Governor to condone tho crimes of Prezn s they alroady have dono in the caso of Powrnoy, upon the ground that he is insano and not morally responsible for his acts. Any loniency, howover, shown to thoso two inhuman and flendish brates will bo @ supreme mintake, and will load to m bitter crop of murdera in the futaro, Thoir prompt execution, on the other hand, may havo the tondency to provent the growth of other monstrosities, and at all avents will make socloty mors socure by virtuo of their everlasting absence from it. That socurity can never bo folt so long as they ore alive, and maudlin, morbid pcoplo exists and Gov- ernors have the pardoning powor. Tho only safoty lios in their immediate execntion, — The shoep of the fold at Ashland, Ky, art buntiog sftor tho shopherd, the Rev, L. 1L Pangen, Presiding Etdor of tho church there, not precisely in shoepiah fashion, though doubte loss they facl rathor sheepish about it. . Ho has boon prominent in the Mothodist Church in that vicinity and o Soutbern Obio for about twenty yoars, and now he Las gone, leaving wifo and ohildren, sand taking with him ona of tho Jawnbs, in tho persun of Miss BweeTaMAN, s rather ma« turo Misa, The futorest in the afMair arises chiefly from the awful susplcions afloat among Tanxen's lato congrogation that he didn't elopa with hier, but that sho forcibly snd violently ran awsy with bim, It seoms that ho hiad borrowsd monoy from his frienda to dofray his oxpenses to the Genoral Conforonce, of which ho was a ‘momber, and on tho route stopped nt Catlolts~ burg. That night, on one of- the stern-whool stosmors plying the Big Sandy, arrived Miss BWRETMAN, accompanled by a male friond, whosa solo oftico acems to Liave been to appriss Panken of her arrival, and that dono, the fricnd drops out of the whole affair and disappenrs. Why she should have roquired bis friondly offlces at all 18 not quite clear, sinco it appoary sho waa armed with & big platol, upon which, evi- dently, from her casual remarkslduring tho trip, she placed Lior main retlance, and which she ox= plained, incidontally, she carriod along * to make old Panken live up to his promise.” From Catlottsburg eho disnppearcd in company with him. Shortly after, tho pair turned up at Cin- cinoatl, rogistored at & hotel as man and wife, and thon all trace of both waa lost in the coal- smoke in which that town is buriod. The case soroly oxercises his late congrogation, Had fc veon s regular Besonsn business, thoy might lave calted an Advisory Council, or tho young woman'a nearost male relativomight have ondea the scandal in old Kentucky style by pistoling Pangen, Dut, as it is, thoy aro Involved in & stato of awful susponse consoquent upon the un- cortalnty a8 to whother the Rov. Panxen waa oloped with by tho woman with the big pistol ; and already the party in the church from which ho ghonld have setacted the Council to try him declaro that Lo fa the victim of a plot, aud that ho bas beon forced to hia ruin, ¥ —_— ‘We Liavo already printod in theao columna the noblo Centennial Hymn writton by the venorabla Wnrrtizs. Wo can bardly be mistaken in the angertion that it will always bo regarded as one of the most digoified and impressive lIyrica evar produced by an Amorican post, and that it will do asmuch to perpetuate his fame as any othor poom, he bias over written, Our roadors cannot have’ falled to notice tho absonco of the Star-8pangled Banner, she Sproad Eagle, Hail Colambis, and othor cheap patriotlo fustion which is now eo provalent. The Hymnis constructed upon an elogant classical model, and moves from the opening line to the close with a atately grace snd besutiful musical flow, Its eentiment Is morked with the calm retlection, maturs judg~ mont, and lofty elevation of thought whict havo slways charactorized tho good Quaker poet. Every verss 18 full of admonition and warning to tho poople of this country, of thankfulnoss to God, and of hope for the futuro. The Atlantic Monthly for June contalns tho Hymn, and also tho muslo that bag beon sot to it by J. K. Payne, of DBos- ton, Profeasor of Muslc at Harvara Collegs, and 1t Is ploasant to note that verse snd melody are happily weddod. The muste, liko tho text, ll 1mpressive, dignified, snd amooth in its flow,— the whala forming a marked contrast to tho stilted stuft which Broney LaNizr furnished Duprey Bucx {n “The Centeunlal Moditation of Columbls," and to the muaio which AMr, Buex Las o desparately sougbt to illustrate its meaning with. The Contennial year haa al- ready prodnced & flood of patriotio fustian, but this oan be overlooked for tho sake of this noble Hymn and its equally noble muaical set- ting. Holdom in those dr in roal life thatin’ traglo pathios surpass all that ever was writ by playwright, bss been brought to light sny- thing more touching than tho few lines, in school- glrl sorawl, addressed her parenta and aisters, by Juiw BronxL, s boautiful young Jewesa of San Fraucisoo, who & fow days since committed aulcido, Hers was almply the old story of unre- qulted love, Tuere waa no taint of guilt about it to awaken remoree, nor broken vows to be ro- proschied, but only blauk despair. As in those few lines she unwittingly betrays, her love Was unsought, but so all-compasslog was it, thaf, with unmaidenly boldness, she sued for love in retarn, and, finding that hopeleas, the Light went out of hor life aud shis sought refuge in death, Har lottors tall § with that transparent mm- plicity which no art can wmulate. To her parcnts ahe wrote ; Dzan MoreEs AND Fatnen: 1 yr‘x you will for glve the sorrow I cause you Ly my raah act, but lifs le one dull blank to me now, Do not blame lixx, for bs bas kried o reason with me, bus all in vain, 'He can @give me no hope thal I sball'ever be more to him than & friond, and, rather tuan liva without his lovs, I Lave determined 1o take my lifo, There ara & fow roquests 1 would ask of you, and then I am ready to dls, of all, promise oar fallier, that you will Lold Dax satirsly blameless, and for e love T bore bim trest Lim averas s friend. Ido not wank mother, ANNiX, or MOLLI® to wear mourning for ms, for tie black arments would ooly be & reminder of mysad end, §Vina be buried where thesun shines and try 16 Xcop my grave grean. Bay X disd for love, That i 0T wF B o kadw, Sy 4o baar iy