Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1876, Page 4

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P. ] LAFATETTE CHAPTER X0.2 T A, 3.—HALL 72 munysé-ru. pr:h}; cox:;ou:im‘g;}liund.y Eveningat 8 o'doek of o e of the He T rork By ory N UbER, secrctars. ) 55, CHICAGD LODGE . 0. F., have re- moved 1o thelr new hail. 216 and 218 East Randolph-st. Mect every Moudsy night. J. D. CLARK, Secrctary. —— e Tyibue, SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1876. § 'At the New York Stock Exchange on Sat- wurday greenbacks ruled at §8}@69 cents on the dollar. > Vox Horxrs, the fugitive defaulting City Collector, has been promptly indicted by the Grand Jury almost before he had time to | shake the dust of Chicago off his feet. Now, if'the “like prompthess ‘is displayed by the officials having the matter’in charge, and red-tape delays are in like manner dispensed with, it ought not to be a long while befors ke is on his way to the Penitentiary. ——————— From present indications, the delegation from this county to the State Convention will be mainly for the Hon. §. M. Corvox for Governor. The feeling which- pervades Re- publican circles seéms to be that - the party cannot afford to have a weak man placed at the head of the ticket, because that would cause the loss of all the close districts, and might cost the .Republicsns of this county slone half a dozen members of the next Leg- idloture, and with them a United Btates Benator. "Notwithstanding the lofty tone assumed in demanding guarantecs before swrrendering ‘Wixstow, the Boston swindler, under the ex- tradition treaty, the British Government, at the expiration of the ten dsys for which he was recommitted to await requitition, yester- day. denied his application for release, | and agein recommitted him for ' ten dsys longer. Evidently the English Ministry are not in hsste 'to rush miatters to a disagreeable issne in_this case, nod perhaps, after all, rather than practically abrogate the extradition t;eaty, will surren- der Wixsrow. A little firmness goes a wonderful way with John Bull, and Secreta- ry Fisa's correspondence in this matter was fall of quiet firmness, - - e —— The testimony of Mrs LEAVENWORTH, widow of the original Treasurer of the St. Louis Whisky-Ring, and the documents she Las furnished in support of it, have avi. dently proved fatal to the hopes of McKxe, of the Globe-Democrat, for s pardon. . ‘Her ltestimony is to the effect that she was present when large sums out of the Ring's plander were paid over to. McKre, and smong the documents she produces 'are McKex's own letters, which, it is stated, for- nish conclusive evidence of his complicity in the Bing. Upon these developments, subse- quent to the trial, District-Attorney Drzi, despite the enormous pressure brought to bear npon him, has reported to Attorney- General Prernepont adversely to the pardon asked, and from present indications McKee Yms no prospect of escaping the fall punish. ment to which he was sentenced. . The Rev. Dr. Taviom peremptorily de- clines to bs made the safe repository, to be double.locked and barved, of Bowzx's testi- mony and BeecrEr's explanations. In.his Pplain-spoken letter to Plymouth Church he takes the very sensible ground that it is un- reasonable to expect of him to express an opinion upon the matters mutuslly confid- od, while the evidence upon which that opinion. is .asked is to be kept under lock and key. He reminds Plymouth Church that the determinstion of the matters in controversy properly belongs to' a Mutual Council—which the partisans of Mr. Beecurs have so pni{lstaldngly avoided. S6 the re- cent confessional project for disposing of the scandal, which it could not have disposed of, comes .to. naught, end tha -scands] . will aever down until daylight is Jet in upon the whole affair withont regard to Touy Srean- 2N’y tears, Bowxx's evasions, or Brrcmrn's eloquent protestations. . Frrrevcs, the Confederate Doorkeeper of the House, 8s will be seen from our Wash- ington dispatches this morning, 38 no longer 50 much “bigger than old GEANT,” as he thought he was when be penned thatre- marksble epistle to a Confederate friend in Texas. . By desperats - effort on be- half of his Confederate backers in Con- gress, the resolutions for his expulsion were yesterdsy sent to the Committes on Rules, to be smothered there. His record as having been indicted in Kentucky for arson, perjury, lerceny, and conspiracy, might have been overlooked by the Confederate majority. But the awful foct that in that famous letter ke wrote himself down an egregious ass can- not be extenuated nor forgiven by them, and slowly and reluctantly they are being forced to the convigtion that his official head omust fall into the ‘basket THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MAY 14, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. Such at least is the' tenor of ths latest sd- vices, though i is not beyond the possibili- ‘ties even, on the eve of a Presidential elac~ tion, that the Confederate majority in Con- gress which selected a man indicted for no less than four several felonies to fill one of the most responsible offices of that body may not also oondone his misfortune—that of being & natural fool. The wry faces they make a¢ the prospect of having to put this Confederate felon and fool out of office, in- dicates precisely what appetite they have for reform of the Civil Bervice. The present status of the Mayoralty ques- tion, boiled down, is this: The Common Council, having canvassed the vote for Mayor, declared Mr. Hoyxz elected to that office, and directed the heads of the several city departments to officially recognize him 85 such, there remains nothing further for that body to do in the matter of settling the Msyoralty muddle. The Council cannot stultify itself by reconsidering its action in the premises, nor by admitting in the least, by any official act, that the intrnder Cornviv has shadow of title to the office, his term in { which has expired. Mr. HovyNe remains Mayor de facto and Mayor de jure also, until, upon & case properly made, the Courts shall decide to the contrary; so that practically there is nothing for the Council to do save to discharge its ordinary functions as the legislative body of the city, leaving Mr. Hox»z to discharge the duties of his office &8s Mayor until the Courts settle what is left of the controversy. That noble beast, the British lion, does not cower in quite such sbject terror as erstwhile before & handful of Fenian trait- ors. Fenianism for some time has been dead, so very desd, in fact, that the patriotic servant-girls in America haven't contributed out of their hard-earned wages to the cause, and yet the Fenian convicts have langnished in British dungeons for the awful offense of conspiring to overthrow her most Christian Majesty’s Empire by wholly impracticable, bootless, and visionary agencies, chiefly rhetorical ; and the Min try has shuddered as often as appesls were made for their pardon. At last, however, the Government has so far recovered from the Fenian scare that it has actually made bold to decide that the petitions for amnesty of the Fénian prisoners will be considered, and next, doubtless, John Bull, after careful survey of the situation, will find it absolutely safe to uncage these drendful “‘wild Irish- men.” i The testimony was opened yesterday in the United States Court in the case of ex- Supervisor Moxy, and brought out among other things the interesting fact' that the South Side Distilling Company had gaid to Jaxe Ry, as the official thieves' share of the snd finally $1,500, which latter, Remu sagaciously observed, was easily divided by three. The payments, it appears inci- dentally, were made through that eminent reformer, Mr. A. C. Hesrve, who was a part owner in the distillery. It was also brought out that MuNN once, during this period, found the distillery books had not been writ- ten up, and merely remarked that it was “all right as far as he was concerned, but if officials from Washington shonld happen to come along it would make trouble”— which when communicated to Remy moved that personags to knowingly smile. From the opening, the case promises to be rich in developments as to the true inwardness of - the Chicago Whisky Ring. e sss— COLVIN'S LATEST OUTRAGE. Ez-Mayor CoLviy begun the war to main- tain his usurpation by a show of force to threaten and coerce the majority of the Council. The reliance then was on the po- lice, and 250 men with clubs snd revolvers were paraded in the Council Chamber, that, upon the ‘order of Corviy, they might beat and Imock down any Alderman who should refuss to submit to Hold-Over’s rulings, and, upon like order, to use their clubs upon Mayor Hoyxe should he attempt to sssume the duties of his office. This polioy, though in keeping with CoLvix's own tastes and in- clinations, was a dsngerous one. The Com- mon Council hss legal control over all branches of the pablic service, and are enti- tled to the protection of the police, even against the legal Mayor. The:two-thirds mgjority in the Common Council have there- fore possibly escaped the threatened bratal- ity because of the refussl of the police to be used for any such unlawfal purpose. Bnt the ex-Mayor has not abandoned his purposa to coerce the Common Council into’ submis- sion. He findsthat twenty-six of the thirty-six Aldermen stind resolutely and determinedly to carry out the instructions of the people, ond especially the will of the people in the matter of the election of a Mayor to fill the vacancy in the office temporarily held by Coviv. Having failed to terrify any of thess twenty-six Aldermen, or drive them from their duty by the parade of the armed police and the presence of the mob-of bal. Iot-box stuffers and other criminalsin the Council Chamber, Mr. CoLvay has adopted s new scheme, which is, perhaps, the most disorderly and scandslous that he has at- ‘tempted since he has been Mayor. Ho pro- poses now to attack the Aldermen in detail, and to' have them bullied, denounced, and mobbed separately at their own homes, in- stead of having them clubbed generally in the Council-room. On Friday night he held the first of a series of mestings to denounce the Aldermen at their own doors, and to in- cite the disorderly and criminal class to vio- lence upon the personsof the Aldermen. On Fridsy night CoLviy in person appeared at 8 public meeting at the corner of Sedg- wick street and North avenue. He took with him his personal associates, Goroe Warre and CEARLEY CAMERON. CAMERON oOpened the meeting by an appeal to the crowd as pars of the “people” to-protect ‘Mayor Cowviy,” also one of the - people,” against the “silk-stocking aristocracy,” using the same term which Dive TrornTox employed in describing the class of people who could 1ot compete with the * boys " in stuffing the ballot-boxes. He said that thers were cer- tain Aldermen, Germaus, from the North Side who had proved traitors to the * Peo- ple's party,” and had united with others in " counting the votes given by the people for . Mayor, and bad declared Mr. Hoxxx elected. After CayzroN had exhausted himself in an appesl to the passions and national prejudices of the crowd, Corvms addressed the meeting in person. He stated that he was elected Mayor becauss there were per. sons in Chicsgo who wanted to deprive the ' people of their liberty, and that the people : would not submit to it. He-claimed that he ;a3 Mayor had recognized all nationalities. : If personal liberty was dear in 1878, it was , equally dear now. He then said: i 1f at this time we had the same united front to " Tepresent your ward anda few other wards, we . should have basain 8 position to hsve preveated profits . of running the crooked, €500 per month, then $800, $1.000," . ' We publish this mo; the people, whocalled themsetves then the Law end Order party, from riding rongh-shod over law and everything clse, and attcmpting to put 8 man ont'of the office that the Supreme Court has de- cided occupled it by law. y He drew a contrast between the Alder- men who had represented tho North Side in the Council which had just gone out and some of those now elected and serving, and ‘who would not support him, Resolutions wers then reported dedaring that Aldermen Lavemisarts, Bosem,, snd Wizpo by their votes in the Council acted, against the wishes of their constituents, and, by supporting Hovsz for Mayor, they were helping to produce disorder and lawlessness; that such action was disepproved by the “ citizens of . the North Side,” who now de- manded that thess Aldermen henceforth: support Corviy until his term expires in | 1877. They also resolved to rally to the assistance of Corvin “ when he shall call upon us to protect himin his legal righte.” ‘We have never been ealled upon to record & mord disgraceful appeal o mob violence sagainst respectable citizens than this by the man who claims to be Mayor of Chicago. On the same night a Corvix meeting was held in the Fourteenth Ward, and the mob visited the house of Ald. BivsGarTEN, and hooted and groaned because he would not support Corviy in his attempt to hold over after his successor was clected. Shonld any violence be offered to any of thesg Addermen, either to their persons or to their property, there will be no difficulty in placing tho re- sponsibility for the crime upon this exoffi- cial who has resorted to this system of neighborhood denuncistion of men who are conscientiously performing their official duty. o The majority against Cozvix in the Coun- cil is now over two-thirds, and is in absolute control under the law. The law of 1875 gives to two-thirds of the Council the power to’ prevent the removal of any officer. 8o, even if Corvay were Mayor, he could not re- move any officer of the corporation against the will of the Council. There is - not, therefore, an officer of the city who is rot perfectly independent of Corvmy. If three or four Aldermen eould be bought, or driven, or terrified by violence to himsslf or hig fam- ily into a support of Corviy, then the latter, under his pretense of being Mayor, might thresten his subordinates with a defiance of the Common Council. Baut, s it is, he can- not even bully a policeman or a bridge-tend- er, or any one else, 50 long as thers are two- thirds of the Common Council to protect the officer who dares to do his duty. Asmatters stand, it is not in his power to remove any one. A FEW CORRECTIONS, ‘While we are disposed to encourage Mr. Corvmn's speech-making proclivities, we can- not permit his misrepresentations to go un- answered. ‘One of them was corrected by the Citizens’ Association the other day. "In his speech to the Council he claimed credit for proposing a made-up case which went before the Supreme Court; whereas the fact is that CoLvIN was not even a party to that suit. This was the application for a ‘mandamus compelling the old Council to call an election before it had refused to do so. CorviN's agreement or disegreement to the proceedings had nothing whatever to do with it. The action was brought by competent persons, and the Council was forced into Court. The decision was really no decision at all, but a tie vote of the Judges,” three of whom declined to take action, becauss the Council had not at that time refused to do what the Court was asked to compel them to do. 'The subsequent action of the old Coun- cil, under the pressure of the Covviy gong, enabled him to hold his office until the peo- ple had an opportunity for themselves to vote in a successor. 8 Of a similar character was the misrepre- sentation which Corvry made in his speech o some North-Siders last Friday evening. He sought to gain some credit by the state- ment ‘that he was agein willing to go into the Courts on & made-up case and abide by the issue. He neglected to explain to his hearers (and they were probably of a class who would not have understood it if he had explained) that' his proposition was to sub- mit a side-issue which was sure to result in +his recognion as the de fucto Mayor, and that he wanted the whole case to rest upen this side-issue. That is, he desired the refusal of the City Treasurer to cash an order signed by him to be mads the basis of & case, when it isa well-known practice of the Courts to Tecognize 8 de facto Government in order that the public service may not suffer by bringing the public business to a standstill, Such a case as GoLviN proposed would prob. ably ‘have been decided without including any decision on the rights of Mayor Horse and the rights of the people whom Mayor Hox~E represents. Now, if there is a particle of decency left in Mr. CoLviN's composition, ‘and if he-is content, as he professes, to rest his claim upon the decision of the Courts, why does he Dot sue out & writ of quo warranto instituting an inquiry why Mayor Hoy~E assumes to ex- ercise the functions of Mayor. No delay will be interposed to the immediate decision of such an inquiry, and Mayor. Hoxse will abide by the result. Let such a case be tak- en before the Circuit Court, or the Superior Court, or both, and Mayor Hoxxe will abide by the decision of the majority of the Judges without appeal. But it is absurdly presump- tuous in Mr. CoLvry fo ask that Mayor Hor¥e shall retire and make a fight for the.office, since he was elected by the people at the last election, and has been recognized 85 the lawful Mayor by the legislative body of the city. Mayor Hovse has the office now; he is fally recognized by tha Common Council, by the City Attorndy, by the City Clerk, and by the City Tressuver, and he is in a position to coerce the recognition of the other city officers appointed by the Mayor, or to fill their places. Now, if Mr. CoLvmy thinks his rights have been unjustly forfeited, he should look for his relief where othe: -citizens must go, viz., in the Courts. In his case, however, there is additional enconrags- ment to proceed in this way, since Mr. Horxe indicates a willingness to abide by the first decision, without invoking any of the nsual delays of the law. Let Mr. Corvay either do this or cease to claim in his ward harangues any forbearance on acconnt of his willing- ness to stand on his rights as defined by the Courts. ———— g the letters which have passed between Marshal Caurnprn and Miss Bweez, the Pension Agent, growing out of BLArLY's manipulations of the latter office. Cuaxeprwy, explains the cir- cumstances under which he loaned his credit o Braxziy (as scores of others can also do), and how Braxery failed to protect the paper. That CaxperLy became responsible for the monay ; and how, when Braxery was about leaving the Pension Agency, he repre. sented that he had perfected business rela- tions with Miss Swzrr, who would, pay to Caxrarry, certsin money dus to Braxmuy, That Miss Swrer personslly informed him that she would pay the money, and offered her personal obligation therefor. He explic- itly denies that he was aware of, or was in any way a party to, the arrangement, which it now appears was made by Braxery, that this money was to be paid as part of the con- sideration for her receiving the office of Pen- sion Agent. If, as Mr, CampBrLL avers, he was not a party to the disgraceful black- mail contract made by Braxesy with Miss Swrer, further than that he was to receive from Braxery through her certain sums of money to be applied-to the psyment of Braxeny's note, and that he was not aware of the consideration, then we do not see how. Mr. Caxpaerz is to be held culpable in the matter. BLaxrry had removed from Chicago, leaving Miss Sw=rr as his business ageni. Marshal Caserery, however, has pat himself right in the matter by waiving all legal right and claim to the money by inclosing to Miss Sweer his check for the whole sum received by him from Braxery through her, and she accepts the money and gratefully acquits Marshal Caxesery, of all injustice, or oppres- sion, or unkindness on his part. Braxery's attempt to pay his debts for borrowed ‘money, and to cover his defaleation by the sale of a public office, has come near involv- ing his two friends as participants in his mendacity. BETTER MEN FOR LOCAL OFFICES. . The defaleation of Collector Vox Horrey shonld be 8 warning to both political parties to select their candidates from a better class ,of men than they have been accustomed to take up asarule. Vox HOLLEX Was arep- resentative of the bummer class of local poki- ticians, He.had never, in a business, pro- fessional, or social way, done anything to justify the people in reposing a large pablic trust in his hands. His sssociations were bad, Lis instinots were low, his office-seeking suspicious. He had never been in a position ‘where he handled large sums of money. He had been in no business of his own, nor in any’ executive position for others, which could have educated him for responsible duties. Yethe was suddenly placed in an office where millions of dollars annually passed through his hands, .and the honest and capable administration thereof de- pended solely on his personal integrity and character. .The circumstances presented more than an ordinary temptation. A tramp suddenly placed on guard in a bank, with money on all sides of him, and with no re- straint upon his reaching out for it, wonld scarcely be subjected to a greater temptation than a man of the calibre and habits of Vox Horrzx placed in s public office to take care of millions of public money. Dissipation, bad women, gambling, and all the vices to which he was naturally inclined, wers en- couraged by the slothfnl habits of public ser- vice and the control of money in larger amounts than he had ever dreamt of before. The result was very natural, and the people, in suffering a loss of $100,000, are only bear- ing the penalty of their own folly in select- ing such a men. There has.been latterly a disposition in, both parties in Chicago to put forward better men for the local offices, and the Vox Horrex case ought to encourage and strengthen this disposition. The abuses of our local govern- ment—city, town, and county—haveinduced & better class of citizens to accept the public offices, if they are put upon them, and to give their time to the discharge of public" duties. The large number of gentlemen in the new Council who-have been taken from men of intelligence, position, and important ‘business interests, isan evidence of this. The fact that the Democrats at the last election were able to elect .their candidate for City Treasurer, while all the restof their city ticket was badly defeated, was owing to their ‘having selected a gentleman whosevery name commanded confidence. Both parties should follow the same course in selecting their candidates next fall. The nominees on both sides for Sheriff, Coroner, Recorder, County Commissioners, and the Legislaturs; should be taken from the business and professional men of the city; and the professional office- seekers and the bummer class should be left out in the cold. if this rule be followed, there will be fower defaleations. LONERGAN'S RECORD. B 1t will be remembered by our readers that the last Grand Jury presented a terrible in- dictment against the County Commissioner Ring for corruption and dishonesty, show- ing beyond all reasonsble doubt that thess ‘Commissioners were morally criminals, who had escaped indictment through perjury of witnesses and technicalities known to rings. 1t will be further remembered that, after the appearance of this report, Mr. Trouas LoN- ERGAN, 8 member of the County Board Ring, printed & card in which he challenged *¢ Joserg Meprr, Witsug F. Srorey, or any other citizen, to prove against me a corrupt |, or dishonorable act before or since I was elected to.the offics \of County Commis- sioner.” Mr. LoNERGAN'S challenge has been accepted, and the réply to it will be found elsewhere, prepared by a gentleman well ac- quainted with his record from official sources, and who knows whereof he speaks. We call the attention ‘of our readers to this communication. We call Mr. LowenGax's attention to this indictment of himself, which shows so unmistakably that he was a mem- ber of the Ring. We call his at‘ention to his relations: with Ecan and Gresox; to his rentals of buildings to the county at twice the rents it would have had to pay elsowhera; to his recorded votes for Ring contractors as ngainst all other competitors ; to his frustra- tioh of ‘the investigation to see whether changes had been made in the construetion of the Jail and Criminal Court building; to his relations with Perrorar; to his action in fixing selaries; to his connection with the county printing steals ; and to his votes with the Ring in the City-Hall business. We call his attention to the fact that every measure of a doubtful character that was brought up in the County Board he voted for; that whenever public moneys were squandered, he gave it his approval ; that he was in favor of and voted for every measure which the peo- ple believe to be & swindle and a steal; that he helped to confirm every contract that will ot bear investigation. Does Mr. Troyas LoxergaN want any further proof of his mis- doings as a member of the County Board Ring? If 50, he has only to- carefully look over his record, and he will find plenty of it. ————— The Chicago produce markets wers irreg ular Saturday. Provisions were quiet and firm; grain active and lower. Mess pork closed steady, at $20.90 for June and $21.12} for July. Lard closed 10c per 100 ibs higher, at $12.50 for June and $12.60@12.62} for July. Meats were firm, at 7jc for boxed shoulders, 11c for do short ribs, and 11e for do short clears. Take freights were dull, at 2{c for wheat to Buffalo. Rail freights were more active and unchanged. = Highwines were quiet, at $1.07 per gallon. Flour was in light demand and firm. Wheat closed 1c lower, at $1.03f.fér May and $L043 for ,and 45%c for June, June. Cmdceadfielowc,fll(}gc!ormy'flm extension of the suffrage o Oats closed steady, at 30}o for May and 80jc for June. Rye was stronger, at 634@64e. Barley closed ¢ lower, at 67}c for May and 58c for June. Hogs wero active and 5c higher, inferior to extra selling at $6.80@7.60. Cattle were in mod- erate demand at easy pricas—common to choice quoted at $3.50@5.35. Sheep wers scarce and firm. One hundred dollars in gold would" buy $112.50 in greenbacks at the close, S ———— THE DELINQUENT PERSONAL TAX. - The defalcation and flight of Von HoLrex ought to suggest to the City Council the propriety of ordering a complete list of the delinquent personal taxes to be published in both English and German newspapers, There isno other way of arriving at an_ accurate estimate of the defaleation. The mere tracing of the amounts of money which Vox Horxen took from the safe, and for which he |- substituted his individual cheoks or due-bills,” will not, probably, cover half the amount of the deficiency. The Cashier“has testified that Von Horren was in the habit of opening the letters that came to the office, and he probably took checks and money which he never had credited on the books at all, though he’ returned the receipts. So he may have done with collections which he made per- sonally, Now there is no means of check- ing off such collections, as-po-delinquent list of the personal tax has gver been printed, and there is no evidence of payment ex- cept that contained in the Collactor's books or .attested by the receipts in the hands of those who have paid their taxes. A publication in English and German of . an alphabetical list of all the persons who stand charged on the books with unpaid per- sonal tax at any time since the fire (the tax- lists before the fire having been burned) will reach the great majority of those against whom & personal tax has been assessed. All thoss who are charged with taxes which they have already paid will promptly produce their receipts to be credited with the'amonnt, and the total of these, along with the amount known to have been taken from the office,," will represent Vo Horrew's sggregate defalcation. The publication will neced to ‘be merely an alphabetical list of names of the delinquents, and the amounts as the books show them, 8o that the cost of publi- cation will be small as compared with the real-estate tax-list. But, while this will serve as a.means for ascertaining Vox Horren's defalcation, it wilkbe no safoguard for the future, and the city will consequently continue to act at the mercy of a dishonest return of personal-tax collections unless soma different .system be adopted. There wasa City Collector before the fire who was strongly suspected of having misappropriated some of thess persenal-tar collections, and measures had been taken to lend to his de- tection, when the fire came and destroyed the records. The same danger will exist so long as the present slovenly system of collecting the personal tax shall be continued. Some- thing ean be done in the way of reform by abolishing the office. of City Collector alto- gother. It isno longer necessary except for picking up old baclk taxes, as the collecting of both real-estate and personal taxes is now in the hands of the ,Town Collectors and County Treasurer. The collecting of license fees can be given over to the City Clerk, and $25,000 or $30,000 a year saved to the péople by abolishing the perfunctory City Collector” and his retinne. e JOHN BRIGAT ON FEMALE SUFFRAGE. The ¢ Women's Disabilities Removal bill,” 88 is awkwardly styled the bill for female suf- frage, was lately again brought before the British Parliament, only to be again defeat- ed. The eventof the protracted debate to which it led wes the speech against the bill of that pre-eminent exponent of sturdy En- glish common-sense and liberali: Jomw Brieut, who, when the samé measure was brought forward by Jomw Stuarr Mz, in 1867, heartily supported it. Sober second- thought has led Mr. Barorr to wholly re- consider his views as to the ‘* subjugation of women,” and as to whether the extension of the franchise to them would free them from_ that subjugstion, whatever that may mean. -| Discarding altogether the ' gentimentalism that obscures the question, he challenged the assumption of 'the supporters of the bill that women must nceds be armed the tyranny of men. This, he declared, was based upon that other assumption, that' women are legislated against as a * class,” as for example are criminals; and he thus dis- posed of that branch of the subject : Nothing can be more monstrous or absard than euch anappellation for women. Why, sir, women, - 80 to speak, are everywhere. Not in o class as agricultarsl laborers orfactory workers. - They are in your highest, your middle, your humblest ranks. They are our mothers, our wives, oar sisters, and ourdaughters. Thoy are ourselves. We care o8 mauch for them sitting in this House as members of Parliament, as legislators for this country, and they are as near our hearts here as in oar homes and our families. I venturo to esy thatit isa scandalons and an odious libelto eay that women dre a class, and that therefore they are eycluded from our sympathy, and that Parlisment can do no justice in regard to them. But, what may at last be styled a senti- mental view of the question was that upbn which he based his chief objection to the bill His sentimentalism in this, however, was but that the foroe of which must needs be ap- precisted by every father, husband, and brother. It was as to the effect upon the sex of introducing them into the foul atmosphere of party politics, upon which he said, with significant emphasis: * ‘We in this House have one peculiar knowledge, that is, of the penslties we pay for our constitn- tional freedom. Therc are many men in this Honse who cannot Jook back upon their election- cering experience withont feelings of regret, and 1am afraid there are some who must look back with feelings of humilintion. . Now, I should like to el the Hause whether it is desirable to intro- duce’ our mothers, aud wives, and sisters, and danghters into the excitement and the tarmoil, snd, it may be, into the very humiliation which scems in every country so far to attend a system of Parliamentary representation, ~whether it be in the United States, where 0 many systems are tried, or in this country, and in France, of which we recently had an exsmple. We seo there how mauch there s that candidates can scarcely avold, yet must greatly deplore, and we are asked to in- troduce the women of England Into a system like this from which we can hardly extract ourselves withont taint of pollution, which we.look back upon'even with shame and disgust. - “Heevidently sets little store upon the ar- gument that women would enter upon poli- ties in the missionary spirit to purify them; nor that if they did that they conld succesd: The dangerous power which they wonld certainly bring into politics, he did not hesitate to declare, was, as & matter of fact which could not be denied, ‘¢ that the influ- ence of priest, parson, and minister would be greatly incressed if this bill and ‘similar Imeagures Were passed.” And one of the most Necessary reforms yet to be accomplished in Great Britain is to get rid of the priests and parsons in politica, ) 3 " His conclusions upon the whols subject ‘wers that the so-called subjugation of wom- en is but & mere figureof speech, 80 far as political subjugation is, concerned: that women can remedy 1none of the grievances of the sex, which are mnot those of s class, but of individuals, and which a higher civilization ,and higher morality can wipe out; and in conclusion he summed up by declaring that while he al- ways had and still did favor the extension of the right of suffrage upon these considera- tions, for the sake of the women themselves, he felt compelled to vote against the mess- ure. His argnment was not altogether new, but it signalized in & remarkable degree the change that has come over British Liberal sentiment upon. this question since Jomw Sroaer Mmy published his work ‘on the ““Snbjugation of Women,” and indicates that: there is less prospect than ever of the ter- mination of that servitude by her being made & voter by act of Parlisment. St—— ANKA DICKINEON A8 AN ACTRESS, Miss ARNA DicKINsony well known to public -fame as & lecturer upomm socfal topics, recently made her debut in Boston in an bistorical play of her own composition, entitled “A Crown of Thorns,” based upon' the story of ANNE BoLEYN, in which she surstained the role of that unfortunate woman, assisted by the excellent company of the Glol)e Theatre. She was - greeted by a large and lrilliant audience, rep~ resenting the intellectiial aristocracy of Bos- ton. The rushto witne:ss her debut had only been equaled on two previous oceasions in the past half century. The' one was the opening concert of JERNY LIND; the other the opening reading of CmanLES Dicizens. Poets, essayists, painters, lawyers, singers, lberal clergymen, the leaders of society,i and the leaders of thought, gathered togetherin her honor, and those who couldn’t come: sent her letters of en- coursgement and proplsecies of success. They applauded her lustily, nodded spprovingly, offered her congratuleitions, and buried herin flowers, throwing her wreaths of posics to cover her Crown of Thorn:s.” It was an audience of her friends, and acdiences of friends always do foolish things, and turn the heads of debu- tantes with well-méant flatteries and ill-timed zeal. Fortunately, AxNA DicEINsON has 8 strgpg head, or it might bave-been turned. Perhaps it is strong enough, now ‘that the ex- citement of the dcbut is overand the flowers have faded, for her' to sit down coolly and ssk herself the ‘questions whether she is an actress and whether she gives any signs of being one. The verdict of the critics of the press answers these questions n the negative. Both the New York and the Boston papers agree in their decis- ions, slthough they are differently expressed. The New York papers, proverbial for their ha- tred of Boston and eve Bostonian, as- sailed Miss DICKINSOY in & savage and ungentle- manly manner. Criticism degenerated with them into personal abuse, bordering on scurrility. It would not have happened had she chosen New York asthe scene of her debut. 'The Boston papers, in a gentlemanly way, confirmed what the New York papers safd in an ungentlemanly way. They strained the limits of kindness and the quality of their mercy; but bekow all their kindness, and courtesy, and faint praise, it is impossible not to read the verdict Failure.” And failure with Miss Dickmison is final, for scveral reasons. i Miss DicErNsoN has-been upon the lecturs stage for many years. She has made an excel- lent reputation and a handsome fortune. No other lady-lecturer has had such = close hold upon the sympathies of the public or received more unstinted welcome and patronage. - She’ ‘has acquired fame a3 3 woman of intellect and cultore. But in her lecture experiences, run~ ning over such a long term of years, she has acquired certain habits of delivery and mannerf of presence that have becpme part of herself, and have been very strongly em- phasized by her assoclations with the stronge minded of her own sex. Mrs. LIVERMORE, Su- 8AX B. ANTHONY, ABBY KRLLY, all the shriek- ing sistersin fact, are like each otherin their manrier of contact with an audience and their Tanner of impressing themselves upon people. Miss DICRINSON has acquired much of this man- ner. Were she 25 old as they she would exhibit them in an equally prononnced manner. These couventionalities and mannerismsof the lecture- Toom she has cartied upon the dramatic stage. It was impossible for her to do otherwise, for’ they have become fixed hobits, which unfit her for the arduous duties of an actress. They bave become so thoronghly a part of her that they have narrowed her down to one department of work, and utterly unfitted her for the versa- tile and very comprehensive labors of the stage. She might play the par* of a lecturer, a satirist, ora didectic part, de. .d tothe development of. the humanitics and the moralitiés, or she might possibly succeed to a certain cxtent if her business on the stage were devoted to the expression of her own ideas. There i3 another very scrious obstacle in the way of her success as an actress, and that is her. age. We have no mtention of " being so un- gallant asto reflect upon Miss DICKINSON's age, but age after all is age, and is & very important element in the matter of artistic success. Miss DiCKINSON s not yet oldin years as life goes, but in years as art: goes, although art is long, she is old. She is advanced enough to have all her habits of life fixed, and the manner of her life has been such as to make these habits posi- tive and ingrained. She has had the worst pos- «ible training for the stage, and the result of that training will always stand in the way of her unlearning the old and learning the new. Success upon the dramatic stage must have its starting point in youth, and it must be the re- sult of education upon the stage and develop- ment in the atmosphere of the theatre from childhood up. It fs as impossible for lady, af- ter she has arrived in the neighborhood of the thirties or upwards, to become an actress as it is for her to become a singer. The dramatic con- ditions - are as imperative as the musical. The successful singers have been those who com- menced to practice their scales when- children. The unsuccessful are those who have tried to form a method Iate in Hfe. The successful act- ors. have been those who have been born and brought up, os it were, in the theatre, and have acquired their lmowledge of the stage, stage business, action, and what pleases people, by all kinds of experiences, pleasant and mn- pleasant; through long and weary years of labor. Onme person may acquire some repnta- tion as an actress; commencin; g after the bloom of yeuth begins to fade; but, where one person thus succeeds in o small way, one thousand misernbly fail in a large way and disappear for- ever from the public sight after the first per- formance. - Fortunately, Miss DICEINSON, . al- though she may fail as an actress, need not dis- appear from the public sight. The lecture- rooms of the land are open to her, and for many years yet. She may derive’money and fame from them. 8he should return to the lecture stage forthwith. She has had one night before the footlights and has had the applause of her friends. She should retire contented with 1t and once more devote her graces of calture, her scarching analysis, and caustic satire to the evils of society. 3 % ——— Bhe was an untutored ¢hild of Nature, though for short an “Injun Squaw,” they called her, and her story should be an awful warning to all the other dusky daughtars of the forest—as doubtless it would be If i conld only be read by them. She appeared at Columbus, 0., a few days since, sccompanied by a man whom the people there were at 2 10ss whether to set down as a Sfoux brave’ or a bummer from off the plains, but who finally satisfied them that he Was 8 genuine long-lost son, and proceeded to hunt up his relatives who were well-to- do residents there. He had gone West a dozen years before, and, not having since been heard from, had been given up as dead. He had, however, only been captured by the Indians, had lived among them until he grew tired of it, and returned to his old home, ac- companied by his Indian wife, who could not be induced to leave him. Her devotion he there- on proceeded to reward by decoying her upon 8 outward-bound tratn, from which he jummed 83 800m 83 the cars began to move, ber to be carried off somewhere, he &id not carg where, while he returned to his friends apq relatives. Her fare had been pald to port, Ind., and there she was ‘put off the trafn, * She was unable:to speak English, save few broken phrases, and was almost frantle with gricf at having lost her busband, the of desertion by whom scems never to have ‘.. curred to her. that she had ¥ the train at Columbus, somebody paid her fayg thither. Arrived there again, she made her ‘way to the houss of her husband’s’ relatives ¢5 ; be told he was dead and to be herself tumneq- out. The husband meanwhile dodged. abont town to keep out of sight of his fafthfn} Bpoi who was turned into the street to live or starve, with every prospect of doing the latter. Mean. ‘while the newspapers of that civilized burg find nothing so entertaining as the sufferings of this! poor savage In Her quest for the husband who ; has in such cowardly fashion deserted her; ang .| the query which their facetious reports of thy, . affair irresistibly prompts 1s, whether she hag' ot fallen among greater savages than those of her own tribe. = In the recent debate in the English Parltg ment upon the Women’s Disabilities Remoyal bill (which wus defeated by a vote of 23§ 152), Jacos® BRIGHT spoke in favor of the measure and his brother, JOIN BRIGHT, repifeq. to him against it, taking themunndlba:mg;.: en are inno sense a political class, but one of, the main constituents of every class in the. country, and that their interests, therefore, an, Jjust as adequately. represented by men as the. interests of men themselves. Mr. BRIGHT salds 1f the House belleved that they could mot legls. 1ate justly for their mothers, their wives, their sis. * ters, and their daughters, the Honse might abdl. - cate, and might pass that bill. But he belleved: ' that Parlisment wonld not, unless it were {n Jg., norance, be otherwise than gun to the women’of this country, with whom they were 80" intimately: allled; and if Parllsment were In ignorance, then, . no doubt, tho women of the country wonld bs 1y ignorance, too, for what the women kinow, the men’ ‘are sure to know also. . % The Spectator says that the division showed g worse result for the friends of the bill than any; division since the Parliament of 1868. ! ————————— i The ex-Mayor has taken to the stump, and e 13 making a desperate effort, with the asaistance. of a played-ont and disreputable Democratiy: bummer named CHARLEY CAMEROS, to drum up some constituency. If COLVIN'S cauie and; {riends can stand his speech-making, his oppo.: _nents will make no effort to put a stop tolt. It there were any way posaible whereby Covvis'y usurpation and the fisgrant abuses of his ad. ministration conld be brought into greater com tempt than i3 already entertained, it would ba’ Dy inducing him and CHARLEY CAMEROK togo around arm-in-arm and exhibit themselves ag: fair samples of the Colvinian System. If Mr GEorGE Vox HouLEN had not been suddenly called to Enrope to look after a family he would probably accompany Mr. COLVIN also, a8 he was a devoted adherent of the usurpation,’ If he wercon hand, the representation of the CovLvix administration would be tolerably come plete. 5 ———— The average Tennessee girl's papa does nol; seem tobe of ‘the wholly unsympathetic sart, to judge from the Nashville American’s account: of thelatest tragedy in that locality, in which .a young lady, her papa, and her lover were the actors. It was a case of hopeless love, it seems, . on the young man’s part, and he resolved upon suicide in consequence. To carry his full design into execntion, he went to the residence of his: inamorata’s parents, and on entering shot him., self, probably intending to send the bullet to: his beart, but. instead only inflicting 3 bad wound, whereon the young lady’s father, un.. willing tosee the young man fofled in his sufcidal: design simply through bad marksmanship or’ ignorance of anatomy, discharged a load of shot: into the young man, which effectually finishok - Gen. PLRASONTON, of cavalry famé, has elah: orated a new theory of the universe that is ta, upset NEWTON'S law of gravitation, and reduee” the direnlation of the blood and all vital fores, in animals and plants, as well as the phenomens’ of light, heat, and magnetism, to manifestations’ of elcctricity. He rejects wholly the theory, that the sun fs surrounded by a luminous st mosphere of metallic gases, and holds that itis. simply 2 huge reflector and magnet, regulating,” by its attraction as such, the movements of the, planets. The most curlous feature of his theory- is the application of it to the phenomens of 1ife; in man, 88 to Which he claims that all vital; foroes in the human system depend upon eles. tricity, and that he finds in our bodles that pre- cise relation of acid and alkaloid finids neces. sary.to the development of electricity. R ———— " The Paris Figaronow and then makes & fright ful mistake shout American matters.” One'of its'tallest is the following, which is taken from- 1ts pages: “Our readers will remember the Mise" ANxa DICEINSON, the English girl who sued Col. BAxER for too abusive gallantry toward herin araflway car. This modest miss, profit. ing by the notoriety which she - gained by thix, trial, has recently been giving lectures in' the- United States, and we are now informed thst she is soon to make. her debut on the stage o’ Boston.” Thisis pretty hard upon our ARNY; Who has just had the sdditions! misfortmmé to make a faflure upon the stage.- The same pspe recently muddled up ALBERT GRANY Of Emms Mine notoriety with President GRANT. oy ——— : Linsgnsant, BoskR, and WALDo, atan incen~ dhrymurlng r;%l& on the !fifih dgd% last mngg: Touliraaor to,Tho Zesolution pamipd st Bat meeting ** denouncing the mob spirit of the ms-- Jority of the Common Council, * and offeting *'to Tally to the assistance " of Mayor CoLVIX when ba shall call wpon them, ia sfmply the vaparingafbrain= 1oes braggnrts. If there wercanything necessaryta demonstrate the entire unfitness of Mr. CoLvmfia Boering Joemat 8 : We greatly mistake the manhood of thest’ Aldermen if ‘they allow themselves to be im flaenced ar frightened by such insolent menscet of bummerism. ) e —— e 1 - Harper's Weekly, the current number, containt one of NasT's best cartoons. The Demoatié tiger, his tail pulled off by his friends who bad tried to hold him back, fs jumplng throaghthe .. afrat bis own reflection, which be seesin the. glassbefore him, fancying it to be his Repad Hean opponent. A smaller picture shows the animal half way throngh the glass, with nothing on the other side of it, and the ghattered edget- sticking into his body. It isa palpable sstine on Democratic investigations, and this particw, lar tiger is an“animal Bamwgy Cavremip wil be apt to appreciate. - o ———— i - The despicable attempt of the Staats-Zahmg & &tir ap a foreigh Know-Nothing prejudice against the Americans to help CoLvix keep sod his relatives longer in office, will not succeed: ‘The respectable Germans and the Americans 81t friends, and act together in politlcs, -snd Mn Hesvg cannot -separate or convert them inld enemies. . They propose to.work together for the public good and against bummesism. - ! ————— . When DAvE GAGE'S misappropriation of city. money came tolight, Afr. Hrsrxe snd the Staas: Zeitung pointed the finger of scorn at the Amer icans because GaGE happened to be spstlie born. ‘We shall not return the taunt in the case’ of Vox HOLLEYN, because personal or officisl honesty is not a matter of nationslity. Noo® tion bas a monopoly of honesty. = .. - ! —————— All of that group of politicians who bellen? that the chicf utflity of offices fs as bribes %oF partisan support, and that the real use of powel is to take care of ‘yourself and purish yout * "'znemies, ars opposed to the momination &f BRISTOW, every man of them. E: R — g . The sanction of & unlversa “exhibition of & dustry and art for May 1, 1578, by .the French Government looks very much lke mmrl_% thrown to the Parisians. Naporsox .8 will be remembered, nsed to keep themg! ‘With ehows snd parades. The Government Proposes to spend $24,000,000 in sdorning Fi®