Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 13, 1876, Page 4

THE -CHICAGO “"TRIBUNE: SATURDAY,® MAY *1 TWELVE “PAGES. 4 > TERMS OF THE TRIB £ATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (PATABLE IN ADVANCE). Tostage Prepaid at this Ofice. Daiy Sdicton posipa, 1 year. £atled to any Gidrens 00 werke i Bundsy Edition: Literary an e e 1 " Parca of year ai ‘WEEELY EDITION, POSTPAID. Ore 3 ATz e e cmnfoz ’nr’e'f:pgxmw. 1% e aovees PO SRRy S aar, WHick Wi Wil repay. Spectmen coples sent frec. T:evm\'enl delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Dilice address in full, including State and County. Temiitances may be made efther by draft, express, Posi-Otlice order, or tn registered Jetters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS, Dafly, éeliveree. Sunday excepled, 25 cents per woek. Daily, delivered, Sunday included. 30 cents per week® THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Chicago, L New Chicago Thearre. Clark sireet. Letween Randolph and Lake. Booley's slinstrels. ~Afternoou and eveaing. Heoley®s Theatre. Rsadolph strect, between Clark axd LaSafie. En- cugement of Fifth Avenue Company. **Plque." Aficr- 1von and evening. McVicker’s Thentre. lpon etreet, between State and Dearborn. En- eot of The Manrie Mitchel Troupe. Afternoon: Madt PRt e MG o By Adclnh;l'rbuur‘t;n street, corner Monroe. Varlety entertain- me e R it asen and Sy e ‘Wood’s Maseam. - - 2 berween Dearborn and State. - P R e v R Yt e Alwrnoon snd evening. Dase-Dal Pazke. = Carter of Dearbor and Twenfy-third strects. am- m'umx‘;' Same between the Louisville and Chicazo Cluls. @he Tribwne, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1876. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greenbacks at the New York Gold exchange Festerdsy closed at 89 It begins to look as though BEvermGE would go inio the Convention without a cor- poral's guerd from Chicago. The Second Ward dclegates to be voted for at the primary clection are without exception impressed with the belief that Hlinois can spere the greet Acting-Pardoner from the further ex excise of his clement characteristics, Speaker Krzp'sleave of absence has been wxtended ten days, and it is still a matter of sonjecture whether the conditionof his health #ill not result in the tender of his resignation. Mr. Cox, whoJis Spesker pro tem. would orobebly prefer the continuance of the leave of chsence, but Mr, Raxparr, who came so cear the goal of kis ambition at the begin- uing of the session, and feels sure of better mek pext time, is donbtless convinced that Speaker Krnp's health would be benefited ¥y absolute rest from official Inbors. —— The Committee assigned to the job of oing through the chaotic acconnts of Crare, the Congressional Printer, presented a ro. port yesterday to the effect that they found ovidences of waste, extravagance, misman. ogement, and inefficiency, such as call for n general tearing up of the Government print- ing oifice, the removal of Crarr, and the in- euguration of the contract system to take tho piace of the present mode of doing business. The Committee recommend that Crare bo banded over to the District Court for indict- ment and prosecution, and that the office be cholished. The Democratic statesmen of the House are making a sorry job of the appropriations for the Post-Office Department, of whose noeds and workings they manifest g density of ignorance remarkable even in the average Bourbon legislator. The general idea seems 0 be to cut down something, and they are slaughtering some of the mail routes in Southern and Southwestern States in g reck. less, hit-or-miss style that they will probably Lear from when the thing becomes thorongh- Iy known. As a rule, Democratic. strong- Liolds require only moderate facilities for the transmission of Ietters and newspapers, but they want their share of the appropriations just the same, — Thursdsy evening Alr. Bristow's name wes proposed to be added to the member- shiplist of the Union League Club of New York City, but in the vote which ensued upon the question sufficient objection was shown to cffect the rejection of the Proposi- tion, This extraordinary action is explained in the statement that 8 member of the Club, & sugar-merchant, believing himself aggriev- ed in a decision of the Secretary of the Treasury egainst his house, hed secured the smell number of black-balls requisite to thus stultify the League. 'The remarkable excite--| ment produced among the great body of the orgunization by the announcement of the vote still continues, and portends humilia- tion to the bitter sweet man and his eleven cozdjutors. + —— It was reported yesterdny that Cmarrey Tiax, of the Juter-Occan, had silently skip- ied off to Washington on the Thursday cvening train with a petition to the Presi. deat or Scnator Locay asking that he be ap- pointed Marshal of the Northern District of llinois, eice Mr. B. K. CaaeseLy, whom he expects to have removed on account of the SwEET-Brasxery business. The ides of ap- pointing the editor of the Whisky-Tlicves' Organ Marshal of this District is a little the cheekiest thing the Ring has yet undectaken, Do they understand that the war on stealing the revenue is over; that Secretary Bruszow is to beremoved'; that a sympathizer has been picked out to take his place, and that the carnival of illicit distilling is about to be renewed? It would seem so from this Haar movement., B 1 of Alonms J. Doorer, of - Vox HoLre, the ab- sconding City Cotlector, is given in fall in our columus this worning. There appears to have been among the employes of the office an ignorance of the Collector’s gam. bling propensitics quito remarkable in view of the heary drains he must have made upon the city funds for several months past in order to make good Ius losses at faro, voker, roulette, etc. The statement of the cashier places the total amount of Vox Horven's embezzlement at -$100,000, not taking into account the money for personal taxes he received by mail, sent out receipts for, and caused no entries to be mads on the books. The exact or even the approximate extent of the defaleation can ouly be con- Jectared st present; weeks, and perhaps months, must elapse before the figures can De correctly ascertained. . The Chicago. produce markets were less active yesterday, but most of them were stronger, pertly on sccount of the warlike news regpecting Turkey. Afess pork ade vanced 35@40¢ per brl, closing at $20.90 for June and $21.12}@21.15 for July, Tard was 15¢ per 100 Ibs higher, closing at $12.47% for Jane and §12.55 for July. Aeats wero firmer, at" 7§c for boxed shoulders, 11c for do short ribs, and 11c for do short clears. Lake freights were dull, at 3c for wheat to Buffalo. Rail freights were less active and weak. Highwines were quiet,at $1.07 per gallon. Flonr was in light demand and firm. Whent closed 3ic higher, at $1.04} for May and $1.054 for June. Corn closed @ic higher, at'463c for hiay and 464c for June. Oats were dull and easier, closing at 30jc for May and 3lc for June. Rye was steady, at 63c. Berley was dull and declined 3c, clos- ing et 68c for May and 59c for June. Hogs were active and 5@10c higher, with the bulk of the trading at $7.00@7.15. Cattle were dull and weak. Sheep were firm and unchanged. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.374 in greenbacks at the clase. Ex-Mayor Corvex has finelly resorted to the desperate extremity of “ swinging around the circle,” and appealing in person for the support which the law fails to furnish. His first appearance in this forlorn enterprise was 1made last eveningin the Fifteenth Ward, in a locality where the German clement largely predominates, aud where hg hopes to gain a foothold of sympathy any ‘encourage- ment. Corvry pays the Germans of Chicago a doubtful compliment when he sppeals to them to help him against the tide of public condemeation that hes swamped his admin- istration. The Germans have ro farther u.e for CoLvry or Colvinism now that the Sun- dey liquor questionis no longer a feature of local politics. They have nothing in com- mon with bummer misrale in Chicago; they are an intelligent, law-abiding people, and Covvry will ind no following among them that is respectable either in numbers or quality. — ‘We have received numerous letters of in- quiry concerning the political record of Bex- Jaaay H. Bristow prior to his acceptance of [ the appointment of Secretary of the Treasu- 1y by President GraxT, and in suswer to these we print this morning a comprehensive and interesting summary of Mr. Buistow's military and political carcer. Its perusal will supply all the information that can be derived in reletion to the facts presented, and will serve to thoronghly convince the people of the United States that the man who wes o Republican when it cost courage and fearlessness to stand uwp against the slaveocracy of Eentucky may be safely set down as a pretty good Republican in these later days of peace and good will. Mr. Brs- Towhas not only a record without a flaw as a Republican, but he has figured in his State asa brave soldier on the side of the Union, & wise and consistent legislator, and an un- flinching patriot. This record, coupled with his splendid achievements in the interests of honesty gnd reform as Secretary of the Treasury, will be difficult to distort or be- little in the event of its becoming an impor- tant factor 'in the Presidential problem of 1876. —— ‘WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OWES BRISTOW. Wo ask thinking and reflecting men to recall the wide-spread discontent, alarm, and dissatisfaction which existed all over the country in 1872 and 1874 among Republicans concerning the corrupting influence which Butlerism, or the worst form of machine politics, exercised over the administration of the Government. Butlerism had foll swing in the custom-houses, in all branches of the Tevenue service, and was rampant in oll the departments of the Government. Thenum- ber of employes in all branches of the pablic service was duplicsted and multiplied to provide patronage for members of Congress, who used this force to corrapt the local politics of the soveral States. This discon- tent emong Republicans took the form of antagonism to the re-election of Gen. Grav, and was strong enough to have defeated him, and would have done so had not the com- bined opposition mada the fissco of nomi- nsting Forice Gaeetey. Though bolting Republicans voted for Grerrey by tens of thousands, other tens of thousands either voted for Gmaxr or abstained from voting. This wholesale dissatisfaction in the Democratic party occasioned by Grneerey's nomination defoated the object eought by the anti#fmanr Re- publicans. The victory of 1872 was ac- cepted by the machine politicians as evidence of their mastery, and under the lead of Bur LER Congress immediately enactedthe salary- grab,—back pay and incressed pay, and the general increase of all salaries and public ex- penditares., But the disgust, dissatisfaction, and dis- content which had failed in its attempts at redress in 1872 had become intensified in 1874, while the machine politicians who had accepted the escape in 1872 as duo to their own power and notto the blunders of the opposition, were more offensive and reckless then ever. The election of 1874y however, showed the strength of the populat distrust and dissatisfaction, and of the popular demand for reform. There was s perfect storm of public indignation which Bwept the machine leaders out of Congress. It was the most dreadful blow that sny party in power had ever received from the people. In a single day, the party which for many years hed had a majority of two-thirds and over of the House of Representatives was reduced to a bare third ; the numerical strength of the parties in the House was exactly reversed. The great States of New York, Ohio, Penn- sylvania, Indiana, and Mlinoiswere lost ;even Massachusetts for the first time in thirty years elected a Democratic Governor and Democratic members of Congress. Wiscon- sin and Michignn were nearly captured, and the Republicans lost even a Congressman in Iowa. In Indiana, New York, Penusylvania, Ohio, Connecticut, and several Southern States, the Democrats elected Umted States Senators, and would have gained one in Iili. nois had there been one to elect. In Michi- gan and Wisconsin thers was a bare escape from electing Democratic Senators. As it is, the once three-fourths msjority of the Re- publicans in the Senate has been reduced to avery small majority, and will be lost alto- getherin case of a defeat in 1676, Another esult of that election was the transfer of the Governments of several States from the Ro- publican to the Democratic party. The President was profoundly admonished by the result of that disastrous election of tle necessity for a change in the Administra- tion 5o far as the charseter of the men who officered it. Shortly after, when Mr. Ricg. anpsox dropped out of an office for which he 'was never competent, he turned his atten- tion to the selection of a man from a better class of statesmen than was farnished by the machine politicians. In his search he re. membered that there wasa man whom he hsd known in the ammy, & man who had dared to be a Republicsn in Kentucky in old Eisvery times; who had served ss United States District Attorney in that State ; and ‘who by his vigor and his ability had grappled with the Ku-Elux organization of that State, ond had so sucessfully and effectunlly crushed it thet it has never raised its head since he placed his footuponit. He remem- bered that this same vigorous, radical Ken- tuckian had served for a time in the snbordi- nate position of Solicitor of the Treasury, and, though unable to accomplish much ow- ing to the weakness and inefficiency of the head of the Treasury, he left a record behind him of ability and zeal which commended him to the President a5 o fitting man to take charge of the most important of all the va- rious branches of the Government. Up to this time there had heen a general depression in the Republican party. Its absolute supremsacy had been broken. Demo- cratic Governors and Legislatures were flaunting their power in a mojority of the Northern States, and the popular discontent was undiminished, and party prospects were never so gloomy. Afr. Bristow, backed by the President, at once introduced a new system. He found innumerable offices that were mers sinecures, created fo furnish patronsge to' members of Congress. Theso he discontinued. He found in and around all the public offices a host of idlers, dend- heads, and loafers, baving nothing to do but draw salaries. All these he dismissed. Ho found meny offices filled with worthless and incompetent men, and these he weeded out, filling their places with men capable and honest. He entered the corrupt Custom- Houses at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere; he applied the knife vigor- ously, cutting off the useless, expelling the raseals, and putting honest men in posi- tions of trust. He attacked the system of smuggling, then in full blast with the connivance of the revenue officers, and broke it up to a large extent. He crippled the general smuggling across the Canadian bor- der. In all this he was emashing the machines. Every person he touched wasa mechine operator; every abuse or fraud he broke up was a machine production. He found the country flooded with counterfoit money, and that crime was having its own way almost unchellenged. He thereupon unceremoniously threw the whole rotten and corrapt Secret Service force out of his de- partment, and sent to Chicago for the man who, as headof the municipal police force, had won a national reputation for fearless- ness, efficiency, and incorruptibility. As eech step made by him in this grand work of systematic reform was made public, it excited the hostility of the machine politi ans, who have arrayed themselves in open per- sonal hostility to him. But at the same time it has been hailed with hopeful confidence by the great body of the Republican press and people, who have been inspired with new zeal at the prospect that the Republican party was not given over irredeemably to the corruptionisis. It gave promise thet there was power within the Republican party to reform all abuses, repress all frauds, to pun- ish all crimes, and to purify the public ser- wice. Confidence in the Republican party dates its revival from Brmistow's drestic applica- tions to the Civil Service. That confidence was fully recovered and econfirmed when he finally grappled with the hydra whisky com.- bination, and, Hercores like, strangled the monster unto death. Desertions from tho Republican parly have been arrested. The great body of Republicans, who in despair had held aloof, or who had in 1574 voted directly to accomplish n change,—the only way then open for reform,—have come back. Even this county, of which Chicago is the centre, which in 1674 had given a Democratic majority, and is represented by three Demo- crats in Congress, has recovered its faith and confidence in the Republicen party, and, with BeisTow as its candidate, will give its old 12,000 Republican majority in 1876, The recent elections all ehow that, with the grest and vigoroms re- forms carried out by this intrepid KHentuekian, who spares no thief, and has no more sympathy for Republicans detected in crime then with any other criminals; who has purified the revenus service from the Commissioner down to the hamblest Gauger, there is no longer any distrust of the Re- publican party, and there is no longer any oceasion to vote with the Democratic party to force a reform in spito of the machine leaders. While this recovery of confidencs is gen- eral, it largely rests wpon personal confi- dence in Bristow, and that his style of ad- ministration shall be continued. Should tha Republican party select as its candidate for the Presidency a man like CoxELING, who is exclusively a machine man, that confidence will be rudely and violently shaken. Bnt if Brisrow be nominated, it will not onlyinclude every Republicen in the land, but also a large portion of the best class of Democrnts, and will lead to the establishment of a re. spectable white Republican party at the Sonth,—an element of political strength far more powerful than carpet-baggers or military force, and of which the Repubhe- an party has always been deprived in that section. To nomimate Bristow is to insure two things,—victory at the election and hon- esty in administration, —— THE VON HOLLEN DEFALCATION, The revelation of the flight of GeoroE Vox Horwey, the perfunctory City Collector, as a result of defalcation estimated as high as $100,000, is the latest addition to the munic- ipal woes of Chicago. To thespublic gen- erally it will be & painfal surprise, but the well-defined rumors of his bad habits and heavy losses at gambling during the last two years have prepared many persons for such an announcement. Vox HoLLeN was a con- spicuous representative of the bummer class of city politicians. He was sbout the only one of that type brought: into official exist. ence by the Fire Ticketof 1871, But during the municipal term succeeding that election Vox HOLLEN was under restraints and sur- rounded by associates that Pprevented any ex- tensive stealing, He was called upon prompt- 1y to tarn over the funds he collected, and he had 8 cashier (Alr. BRENNAN, since cashier i the City Treasurer’s office) who would not bave sanctioned any unlawful with. holding of the furds of the office. But Vox Hov1eX's natural affiliation with the bummer clement secured him the Tnomination at the hands of the same party which placed Cor~ VIN in office ; and, like many other attaches of that political combination, he accepted the vote as a popular indorsement of un- bridled baumming and public plunder. He soon fell into constant and intimate associn tion with gamblers and tho habitaes of low saldons, and st last he has run through his riotous career at a cosi of §100,000 to the people of Chicago, and at a time when the City Treasury is more sorely inneed of money then ever before, It will Probably be found that nearly all of the defalcation was taken from the personal tax collections, 08 ogainsg which thers is o leck of the proper ahesks. Vo Horrry hes not collected any real-estate taxes for a year, which were returned to the County Treasury when the Town Collector hed finished. - The system of special assessments is such as to prevent his taking any money from this fund without discovery. The demand for the money from licenses is such thathe coul.d not have withheld any large portion of it withont certain detection. But he has had inhis hands the lists of nnpaid personal taxes for several years, and there is no print- ed or advertised lists of these which would farnish a check upon his disposition of the money roceived from that source. His office for a year or more has been merely perfunc- tory, and the only employment for himself and clerks was to drum up these old collec- tions. This also gave him smple time for spending the money so collected in the saloons, at the poker-table, and in the faro- banks. It is an -uncomfortable snggestion that the people have been paying s large part of their taxes for the benefit of gam- blers and loafers, but thers seems to be no escapo from it until all the bummers are cleaned out. It is also mtimated that a class of non-professional gamblers, among whom one or two local officials arec named, have possessed themselves of a part of the money. The hold-over City Government and the late Common Council ere chiefly responsible for Vox HorreN’s defaleation. The pro- priety of abolishing the office of City Col- lector was urged upon the Council immedi- ately after tho adoption of the charter of 1872, because it was a useless appendage and unnecessary expense. But Vox HoLrex was 8 strong supporter of the CoLviy usurpation and bummer rule, and so he and his office were retained, though the bulk of collecting had to be done under the law by the Town Collectors and the County Treasuxer, and the collecting of the license-fees could have been done by the Comptroller's or City Clerk’s force. All of the money ho has taken within the Iast year might have been saved to the people if the Common Council had done its duty, as Vox Horrex would have been de- prived of his office and his opportunities. It is strange, too, that, while the city has been so sorely pressed for money, ex-Mayor Cowvry, Comptrollor Havrs, and the Coun- cil Finance Committee should not have made greater demands upon Vo Horrey from day to day for money in his posses- sion; end it is also strange that, with all the rumors of his heavy losses at gambling-hells and poker-parties, they should have taken no steps to investigate his eccounts and bring him to scttlement. 'The immediate occasion of Vox Horuex's flight was probably the conviction that CoLviy could not maintain ‘’his hold any longer, aad that he wounld then either be legislated out of office or made to account for his money. There is a long list of bondsmen, who are said to be abls to cover the deficiency, but the city will only succeed in compelling them to make it good. after long litigation, if at all. The only pos- sible benefit that can come from the an- nouncement of the defaleation at the present time is that it will convineo the people more than ever of the necessity for establishing the new Mayor and the new City Govern- ment in spite of the desperats effort of the Corvrx gang to hold on to the offices. Let us have n general straightening up ail sround. ANOTHER PLYMOUTH POW-WOW. The telegraph & day or two since reported another Plymouth Charch pow-wow, at which the expulsion of Mr. Bowex was dis- cussed, but it hardly did justice to the spirit of the occasion as it is reflected in the ver- batim reports. It isevident from these that the meeting was not of that character which is usually spoken of as a refreshing season of grace, and that there was not a very exnber- ant display of brotherly love; on the other hand, it appears to have been o few degrees elevated above a ward politicnl meeting and very much like a circus. A brief sketch of the proceedings will serve to show the spirit of forbearance and charity, as well as the dignity and solemnity, which pervaded the tumultuous mob of brethren andsisters. The meeting was called to listen to the report of the Committee appointed to investigate the charges of Brother Warre against Brother Bowey. The Commuttee with cheerful im- partiality found Brother Bowxx guilty of all the charges and specifications made against him; and by virtus of this finding charged him with the violation .of his church covenant, equivocation, slander, and unchristian, disreputable, end dishonorable conduct. The charges do not specify any farther details. Perhaps it was unnecessary, as they are broad enough to cover all the crimnes in the calendar. They therefore reported in favor of excommuni- cating Brother Bowz, and ocasting him out from the fellowship of Beecmen and Plym- outh Church. The Committe having re- ported, o spicy and breezy talk followed, which resulted in postponing action until the 18th inst. At this point it would Lave been eminently proper for the meeting to adjourn, but having got a fresh start in the scandal business, all hands were Ioth to let go. The brethren first warmed up, and had a refreshing season over the unwillingness of Brother Bowex to meet Mr. Bescaen and Brother Pzarr (Chairman of the Committee) to tell them what he knew of Brother Beecuen's slips, except in the presence of Frax Movrroy. During this discussion, Brother Wrre asked the Rev. Dr. Wanp (= Congregational clergyman and the business manager of the Jndependent) why Mourton was insisted upon ss a witness. The Rev- erend Doctor silenced Brother Wz by in- forming him it was none of his business. The next little episode was a pleasant one between Brather Bowzx and Brother Brece- er. The former offered to meet the latter alone and tell him what he knew, a Pproposi- tion which the latter peremptorily declined. Then Brother Beecmen called Brother Bowex rotten and treacherous, to which Brother Bowsx retorted by heaping coals of fire on Brother Brecmee, ecalling him guilty, but penitent. This neat hit produced a lull, but it was only the calm before the storm. Brother Bowex named the Rov. Dr. Wrrrraar AL Tavroz, of the Broadway Tabernecle, us 8 witness to listen to the little story which he would tell Brother Beecaer, provided Dr. Taxron would agree not to tell any one about it. Thereupon the following brisk little con- versation ensned : MMr. Ravxoxp—T wonld like to ask Mr. Bowexy two questious. Is the impartial listener to be re- stricted from saying which is right® If Mr. BEECUER says something occurred and Mr. Bowey denics it, muy the third person decide? Second- 15, will Dr. TATLOR consent? Mir. Bowex—I do mot know Dr, Tayron's fecl- ings or senthments toward any aspect of the case. Mr. Warp—ir. BoweX does not desire to tel), hus not desired to tell, these facts to Dr. Tarron or to any oac else. He desired to protect those who would be riined by the exposures. Yon are pushing him. On you be the blame and carse of it Mr. BEECHTR (in a decp, powerful voice): “‘1am charged with & most 1noRstrous crime —— “*Yes, and you are guilly of it,” said Dr. Tarp, ina lower tone, but audible to all. Tho rag was waved befare the bull Dr, ‘Wanp was speedily the centre of most un~ usual fervor. Flo had roused up the whole mest of hornets. The brethren sprang to their feet. The- sisters also sprang to thoir feet. The brothren Uhwled Pitch him out.” The sisters screamed “Shame, shame,” snd some of the boldest of them fiercely and fero- ciously fainted on the spot. After dancing aboutthe room for several minutes like whirl- ing Dervishes, the congregation at last settled down, and a motion was made that Dr. WARD either retractwhat he had said or be expelled from the meeting. The Doctor refused to retract, and, sdvancing towards Brother Beecner and looking him in the face, said : “I have acted before the Examining Com- mittee as becomes & man who believes Mr. Brzcuee guilty. I have had oceasion at its meetings to tell him so. I still believe it. I was ont of order, and am sorry for it, but I can retract nothing.” Then the fun grew fast and furious, and the brethren and sisters howled in discordant tones at the maligner of Brother Bercmer. The dancing about began again, and during the dancing young BoweN requested the venerable Deacon Howarp to shut up his head. Thereupon the venerable Deacon lost all his Christian graces, and was about to. punch the nose of young Bowzx, but finally controlled his temper and contented himself by asking the junior Bowex : ¢ How dare you talk to me 50,5ir?” The juvenile Bowex attempted to answer the good old Deacon's conundrum, but tho answer is irretrievably lost, owing to the noise and howling of the brethren and sisters. Atlast the turbulence subsided, and the meeting adjourned after the pnssage of two resolutions. The first approved Dr. TavLoR's nomination nsone of the Council of Three, and requested that he and Mr. Bowex and Mr. Beecrez meet, AMr. Bowex to tell.all that he knows derogatory to the moral character of Mr. Beecuen. The second re- solved “That, since Mr. BoweNassents (o the foregoing only on condition that Dr. Taxron be restricted from divulging what he hears, this church reluctantly sccepts that con- dition.” And all this happened in one of the Jargest and most powerful Christian churches of this country, presided over by the representative clergyman of his denomination and ¢ the foremost minister of his time.” ¢ How pleasant ’tis to see brethren and friends agree.” The story circalated sbout the streets yes- terday that Mayor Hov~e had consented to some contrivance called ‘‘an agreed case,” which would hold his rights in suspense, is utterly untrne. The reported plan of trying the merits of the dispute is absurd om its face. Couviy was to sign a Comptroller's warrent on the City Treasurer. The lotter was to refuse to cash it. Thereupon the Law Department was to sue out s mandamus in behalf of Corviv to compel the payment of the warrant. If the Court decided that it must be paid, then Corvry was to be declared lawful Mayor another year, and Hoyne was to step down and ont. This was said to be 3fr. Govoy's innocent little trap for catch- ing Msyor Howsz. But the spring and teeth were quite visible to the naked eye, and sccordingly it did not entch anybody. By such a procedure Corvry would be placed on the inside track. The Court could decide that Corviy was perfunctory Mayor, and therefore the warrant was legally drawn, and must be paid, and that, too, without touching upon the question at issne. Mayor Horxz has nothing whatever to do with any patent compromise scheme. He was elected Mayor by the citizens of Chicago at a gen- eral election by nearlya three-fourths vote,— the term of his predecessor having expired five months previously; the votes cast for him were canvassed by the City Council ac- cording to law, and they declared him duly and Iawfully elected, and fixed his bond. He filed a satisfactory bond, which the Council approved, and took the oath of office. The City Council passed a resolution notifying and commanding all departments of the Ma- nicipal Government to respect and obey him as Mayor of Chicago, and he hss entered upon the discharge of his official daties. Now, in the face of those undeniable facts, where is there any room for compromise dodges? He has nothing to give away. His business is to enforce the laws and ordi- nances of the city, and preside over the meetings of the City Council. If ex-Mayor Corviy wants to dispute Mayor Horze's of- fice, let him hire his lawyers with his own money, and get out his writ of quo warranto, and show the Court, if he can, that he has s better right to the office than the Mayor- elect. He can commence such procsedings whenever he plesses. Mayor Hoyyg will de- fend against any claimant, and yield the of- fice gracefully the moment anybody can prove a better title to it than he possesses. That is the only compromise which is possi- ble. —e The proposition made by the Appropris- tion Committee that the postal-delivery sys- tem by carriers should be discontinued in all cities having less than 40,000 inhabitants was defeated in the House of Representa- tives yesterday by-a vote of 125 to 29, It is likely that there conld be a fairer saving of money by this proposed limitation than in some of the other proposed reductions to cripple the postal service, but the Demo- cratic Congressmen were frightened off by the fear that the mensure would excito the hostility of their constituents in the numer- ous small cities who wonld thus be deprived of the carricrsystem, and hence they re- fused to stand by ths recommendation of their Appropriation Committes. The defeat of the proposition is not to be regretted par- ticolarly, unless it leads to a reduction in other and more important branches of the service. Though the carriers are not so necessary in the smaller citics, they are zn important part of a complete postal system, and the citics that have become accustomed to them conld ill afford to dispense with the convenience. — The result of the Republican Stote Cor- vention in Michigan is more satisfactory than the reform element of the Republican party could possibly have hoped for. The delegation chosen to the National Conven- tion go uninstructed. An estimste by’ a Braise newspaper of the preferences of the delegates gives sixteen for Brameg, four for Baisrow, one for Coskrme, and ome for Haves; but a dispatch to the Detroit Free Press from the Convention, which was held at Grand Rapids, divides the delegeation as follows: Twelve for Bramve, nize for Bris- Tow, and one for Haves, The Iatter esti- mate is probably the more correct of the two, since it was made in the Convention and by the representative of a Jjournal that would naturally be hostile to Mr. Bristow 8s the most formidable candidate against the Democrats. Thisis an indication . that the people in Michigan are also exercisin, an irresistible influence over the Bepublican politicians of that Btate, who would more naturally lean to Brarsn; and, if Bastow starts off with nine out of a delegation of twenty-two, it is probable that !!.Je entire delegation will gofor him under the influence of the intelligent people of that State the moment it shall become apparent that Mr. Brarse cannot be nominated. Why can't Michigan start the ticket—Bristow and Bramwg? They would bea vrmnmg team. Mr, Brarse is an experienced parliaments- rian, an excellent presiding oflicet:, and wn):ld make in every respect an admirable Vice- President, while Bristow is an \msnrpnss'ed executive officer, and would make & mn,;n.xfi. cent President. No Demccratic combination could beat that ticket. RISE UP, BARNEY, AND EXPLAIN, ‘There {s no longer any mystery as to how the city account came tobe placed at Mr. B. F. ALLEN'S rotten, swindling Cook County Na- tional Bank. Onc of ALLEN’S letters to his partners in New York, now on filein asuit in the United States Court at Des Moines, explains it. The following is a copy of the letter,which, it should be explained, was & memorandum of dis- counted notes inclosed, to be ** shoved on the street at New Yo;s-:lsfl - oo Lcrgxgtalofn:a‘x?vlmplemnnm; Bunt, $3,000, good; lives ut Des Molnes, drug store, stands’ well; Srx- crain, $5,000; Dexxis & K., $3,000, No. 1, Des Moines; CauLPIELD, S6,000—an attorney at law, and is wealty, J¢ iz through hiz £ qot the cily ac- count.— which explanation, for having discounted paper not strictly mercantile, ALLEN seems to have felt it nccessary to make. In a similar memo- randum of discounted notes sent by ALLEN to his New York partners to be unloaded there, which memorandum is dated Dec. 93, 1574, andon file in the suit referred to,is entered another note of B. G. CAULPIELD, for 21,662, It is notorious that Mr. B. F. Arres's Cook County Bank was a swindle from the day he took charge of it; and] that at no time under his administration was its credit good. It subsisted by plander of its depositors, and tokeep it afloat ArreN had Mr. F. W. PaLyeR, of the Jnter- Ocean, lobbying to secure the State Treasury de- posits; somebudy else for the Iowa Pension Agency deposits; and for the city deposits Mr. CAULFIELD, who got them. At the time CavL- FIELD'S §G,000 note was discounted, the Cook County Bank was in such desperate condition that no city bank would buy its bill of exchange on New York, and depositors were drawing out their balances as rapldly as they could get. them. ALLEN'S sense of gratitude was emphatically of favors to come, and without doubt there was then dauger of the withdrawal of the city deposits when the bank would have collapsed. Still later, when the conditfon of the bank was worse, appears the discount of 3 sccond note of CAULFIELD'S for $1,662. Mr. CavL- FiELD has distinguished himself as an investi- gator. He has fnvestigated the hog-case, and the mulc-case, and pretty much all the other cases of Sceretary BrisTow's private law-prac- tice, and i3 still, we believe, diligently investi- tigating Bristow. But when Mr. CicLPIELD is done with that, we suggest that he aid us in explaining how it was and for what considera- tion he got the city’s moncy deposited in ArLen's wild-cat bank. Mr. CATLFITLD was not Treasurer, and had nothing to do with the deposit of the city funds. How came it that he was able to place them in the Cook County Bank, imperiling the tax-payers’ money? How didhedo it, and was the consideration for it the discount of his own notes by the bank, which then had to use the money of the city or some other depositor to make the discount? 3ir. Tnvestigator CAULFIELD might find some- what in these queries demarding no less sharp investigation than that he bestowed on the hog and mule cases. ——— The English people bave a monstrous war ves- scl upon their bands, the Jnflezitle, npon which they are lsvishing almost untold millions of ‘mouey, taking in receipt for it 1 rather inordi- nate degree of pride at the fact that they have the largest war vessel in the world. The Inflexi- Bleis a turret ship with two turrets, each carry- ing two guns and placed ina sort of a citadel. She is covered with 24-inch armor to 5 feet be- low the water-line. The armor consists of w0 12-Inch plates separated by a composition of wood and iron. The citadel itself is 110 feet long and 75 feet brond. The armament consists of four 8l-ton guns, which are to be worked by hydraulic mochinery. While the English people can boast the possession of the largest war vessel in the world at present, the bozst must be & short-lived one. In ordnance Sir WILLA¥ ARMSTRONG i§ already building guns of 100 tons for the Italian pavy, and the Woolwich constructors are proposing to build them of 200tons. In armor, solid plates of iron 22 inches thick ere being constructed for two vessels now in process of building for the Italian Government. Italy, therefore, will very soon have two vessels more powerful than the JInjlezible, thus compelling England either to remsin inferior or spend millions more upon vessels still larger and more power- ful. Whether this can be done, however, remains tobescen. There must be some lmitation. Tpon this point the Saturday Review says: There docs, however. appear to be one point of finality which has been ahwost, if not uite, reached ; and that isin regard fo the weight of ships. 4 ship is bound to float, and the bacyancy which must be sceured for her imposes a check on the indefinite heapingnpof srmorand armaments, ‘Whatever addition 15 made to the weight of a ship above a certain point must now be made up for by a reduction in some other direction. If the guns grow heavier the armor must be lighter, and if the armor it increased in thickness the guns most give way. ———— Mayor HoYNe has addressed the following cirealer letter to the beads of the various city departments: Mavor's OFFice, Caicaco, Ma; 12, 1876, —Dear Sirz 1 am informed by the City Clerk that you have becn furnished with a copy of the resolutions of the City Council adopted on the 9th inst., declaring that I have been duly elected and qualified Mayoe of Chicago, end requiring the various departments of the Cliy Government fo recognize me ug Masae: No reply having been received from yeu, T horeby respectfully request of you an immediste answer, expressly consenting or declining to comply with said reeolution of the City Coumcil. I am, sir, yours, etc., Troxas HorNE, Mayor, 1t is about time the heads of departments had made up their minds as to whether they are willing to recognize the new Mayor or not. The City Council is in no temper to be trifled with much longer. The usurpation business has becen carried on about long enough. These offi- cials cannot serve two masters; they must make thelr cholce, and there is no time to lase, They can elther retire with the ex-Mayor or remain with the actual Mayor. Come, gentlemen, show your colors. Time is called. ———— 1t is rumored on the stréet that the friends of Mr. Cmaries H. Hay, dt the Tnter-Ocean, are reulating for signatures a petition to the Pres- ident toappoint Mr. Hax United States Mar. shal for the Northern District of Mlinols, in place of B. H. CaxPBELL, who is expected to tender his resignation soon. The friends of Mr. Ham are taking unnecessary trouble with thelr petition in eanvassing the streets for names; they might take a shorter route and £ave steps by going direct to the Chicago Whisky Ring with the petition. They could get more siguatures, and those that are better known in stah!ngwn. There is probably not an indicted whisky-chief in Chicago who would refuse to sign the petition. ————— It is doubtfnl whether the Police Marshal wonld now obey an order from COLVIN to arrest llnyo; gox;)hrz d::nd;ake him to the lock-up, and pound the heads of the City Council for ha dedlared him elected, : s Tieg ———— The idea of employing the police to club ths Aldermen until they should recognize CoLvix 2s Mayor was not so popular yesterday among the bummers as it hod been when first sug- gested. ——— The New York papers contain an announce- ment of the death of WrLiiaar Varrey, who kas long been known tn criminal annals g *‘Reddy the Blacksmith” For more than six- teen years he has been kmown as a dangerous 7 and most of that time had kept a thieves’ resort. He was noted more as & disor- derly character than as a thief, and has spent much of his time in brief periods of enforeeq absence from soclety, of which he was not a very useful member or illustrions Ornameng, It is cheering to learn from his obituraries hie died a devoted Catholic, in view of Whith thy world will hardly mourn his loss. If he werg Ppenitent, it was much better that he shauld quit the world before backsliding. ——— PERSONAL Gen. Prado, the President-electof P well entertained in England. o belzg 3iss Colenso, daughter of the Bishop of ay is now publishing an interesting novel ig the Nata] Colonist. The late Lord Amberley's book Belief " will be published 83 soon be prepared. The fashionable men of Paris ride sear. The bigger the rider, steed, the greater the style. The Boston Pos( observes that modem Salonie, which was anclent Thesslonics, seems 10 have yeeg ap the counsel Paal gave it, and o be in want of y litsle more. This voundsike a call for Talmage, 3ir. Philo Remington, of Ilion, N. Y., has dong an act of charity as judicious as generons, in giy. ing to the University of Syraense the sum of $10y. . 000, on the condition that hercafter the Universy will keep ita expenses within its income. 3re. Adelnlde Thompson nee Brash, who whig stilla girl displayed remarkable conrage and hero. ism at the sfnking of the propeller Pevwaubie, gng was awarded the gold medal of the Life-Sy Asaociation for her intrepldity, died in Detrois oy the 10th inst. Offenbach believes that inwriting an o evena minor compasition, the tate of the publi of the city where it is offered should be consulted: by believes frmly in local color. Thenif he bringy outa new piece in Philadelphis, a3he has promises, he will patinit drab. William Varley, a notorious raffan and plug.ogry of New York City, better known as ** the Blacksmith,” dicd Wedneeday of consumption. e had Lilled several men and been acquitted oy technicalities. Itis sald that he was a consin of Varley, the English revivalist. ‘The Boston Advertiser criticises the title of M Dickinson's new play—**A Crown of Thomsmr **because it will offend the sensibility of hus dreds and the taste of thousands.” We fesr thy Adrertiger's remarks, if they had circalation cnongh, would offend the £0od Sense of hundreds of thousands, G The Dr. Madd who slts fn the Marylsnd Legian Iature as 1 Repablican is not, it appears, the gur geonof the same name who set the broken legol John Wilkes Booth. The mistaken identity resulted naturally from the similarity of the names. Sep.' ator George D. Mudd has always been kuown s an ardent Unjon man. The New York eritics went up to Boston to e in judgment upon Anna Dickinson 35 az sctress and they treated heras though she were engagedin 2 confidence game or a blackmailing operation, The comments of Mr. Winter, of the Tribune, sad Mr. Schwab, of the Timee, were cruel, and 0 ex- treme that they carried with them an antidote ta the poison which they administered. Miss Dickin- son was entltled, at least, to respectfal treatment. The Alta California of the 5th inst. containa thy following curions item: *¢Messrs. Sherman & Hyde have published a waltz dedicated to the mem- bersof the San Francisco Stock and Ex Board. The composition I3 that of Mlss MaryJ, Shawhan, o young lady of 10 years, and the dsugh- ; terof the well-known operator, Mr. J. E. Shawe hap. Itisa composition of considerable merit, and wonld do high credit to 8 mach more matured masical genius. ™ 2 A murderer named Fish was detected and bronght to justice in London lately by means of s blood- hound, which scented up a chimney whers the skull of the victim—a little girl-was concealed. The owner of the bloodhound now propoaes to ex- bibit the animal, and divide the proceeds with tha wife of the murderer. All the respectable partion if London is aghast at ‘the idea, and really fean there s danger of the general importation of Amers ican sensationalisma. . Gov. Hayes, of ORio, startled his friends {8 Toledo the otherday. They had been saying that hewas in favor o} the nnconditional repeal of the Resumptionact, end blowing trumpets on account of his euperiority to Bristow in this respect. Nowhs has said to s reporter of the Cincinnati Commercial **Certainly, Tam not in favorof the repeal of the Resumption oct, unless something is substituted tiat will more effectually bringabout specie pays ments a8 eoon as the time prescribed in that act.” Mr. Charles Dudley Warner hasbeen at some pains to ascertain the reasons of the growing cold nessof the Germans towards the United States, Aside from the soffering coused by frandaleal Amerlean sccurities, there is no doub that the Gers man Government spreads abroad reports unfavors able to America with a view tostopping emigration, and this movement s assisted by the statements of Germans who have retarned from this country te their own, after having made unsuccessfal busines ventures, 9 ’ Petko, ome of the most eminent robbers of Greece, who had amassed sufficient wealth to ene able him to lead the life of a peacefal citizes at Athens, has become disgusted with the ennni of respectability, and has betaken himself to Thracs, —the scene of his former exploits,—where he it roving and plundering with great success, and witk _ all his formef activity. It 1s hoped that Mr, Tweed, of New York, and Mr. Von Hollen, of Chicago, may be Induced to join him. _Petkoisol years of age, and fond of womankind. The ado that is being mnde In New York over X Offenbach excites the wrath of some edncated per sons, who happen to know how he and kit masjc are esteemed in Earope. The Xew Yord Timeseags: *‘The opera boutle is simply the sex ual instinct expressed in melody, and fts libreto i anew Heptameron eclipsing in indecency the bolde cst efforts of Qneen Margarct. That this is 8 falt estimate of AL Offenbach’s work he himaelf wonld not diepute. And yet New York welcomes him with Sankey's hymns, and its clubs are eager fo1 the privilege of dining him?" A clerk in the English Dead-Letter office recently opence a letter which proved to be so mysteriout and suggéstive that it was referred to the palice. Inquiry showed that a Mre. Helen Soee, 8ged 30, bad advertised for a medical man, promising topef liberally for professional assistance in an Interest- ing experiment. What she wanted, it appeared ou examination, was a poison that would do its work surely and safely, ond leave no resalts that wonld excite suspicion. The advertisement was answered by 2 Mr. Williom Kimpton Vance, a medical stas dent. The lady alleged that she proposed killing herself, and Mr. Vance writes entirely on that sup- position; but the police evidently suspect an intens tion to murder, and are prodncing evidence s ta property to be acquired ina certain event. The crime, as far as Vance is concerned, would be tha same in either case. Reble College Chapel, - Oxford—described a8 !*one of the most beautiful structures of modern England”—wss opened with much ceremony Tuesday three weeks. The same day, the fonndse tion-stone of the Library building was laid. The Marquis of Salisbury, n performing the ceremony, remarked that, in this age of negative philosophyy it was significant that the first new college Which Oxford bas founded for & centaryanda balf shoukd be devoted to the Christian faith. He sald: **The negative philogophers have no creed which they care to disseminute, and eo even the day of thelr snccess they found nothing.™ The Spectalor noticing the line of argument pursued by the Mar- quis, says: **Itis true that Keble College repro- ECRts a certain fmpnlse of real fuith, bt it fa tros also that it represents a rather hesitating kind of faith, which has wavered much between Keble'w day and the present. _The Puseyites, 88 rep! ed by the * Christian Year, * are hardjy, we 8 even in a majority at Keble College now.” on “Religiogs 8521 index cay Ponies thiy 88 Compured with hi C. Kingsbury, Montana T. H. field; ¥ R. Seymour, Burliny Bulzio; ¥ 3 Eg neidn,’ N. Y.: E. E. Dea 3 > Hopkiris “and"J. 8, Preatis, Miwsakeei W- M. Angue, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng. ; E- Cromwell, Conn.... Grand Pacifio—The Hon. B.G. Ingersoll, Peoria; . R. Myers, Pitwsburg; Jobs W. Bunn, Springfieid: G. W, Allen, Aubam, N. Y.; S!S Munn, Eigin; J. H. ll]ld.r%p. Bel« Yidere; D. V. Lusk, Pekin, 10,: G. N. Bardicks Philadelphin; W. H. Cottrill, Milwaukee; Judgo Stephen R. "Moo, i mond, Quebecs Cor! A G Matibews, Spruglelds on juebec; Col N tthews, S, Paris, New York.... flrma:tllms.—g. ". JOY, FPresident 3. C. R} Detroit; M. C. Robinson,” Fox, and W. L. Simmoas, lelbonrne, Aus- tralia; L. W. Heath, Lawrence, Mich. ; the Bev. T. L. Mellwell, Millington; Col._R. B. Knight Lincoln; the Hon M. H. jris oor, Boston; the Hon. George Millard, Barling- ton; the Hon. EL. L Anges, Banger, Me.; Willa Venable, Macomb: the Hon. les Kellogg,, Buffalo; P. M. Goodrl H Grand'Rapt Kilburn, Efy Davis, Cleveland; Col ¥. A Di Pitcher, New York; H. B. Orford, Toron! St Duy.:!r‘v'eg York; the n?::f . 5 dake urg; W. C, Barthaaser and Char New York; the Hon. B. B. Shuler, Minnespolis-