Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 20, 1876, Page 4

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Aftornoon anf, evening, llfl:lcr’l Tacnlrs.d Said dolph street, betweer k and Tasallo. opemant oE Fifir Avetus Compaar. - Pide. Al Toon aad evenlug. DMeVieker's Thontre. R g T T o P uent o Chell Troy 3 Soehn orte ™ Eve Yane Byro v - Adeini mheatrs, rborn strect, corner Monroe, Varlety en ain. mfl;!}nk e Waits Of New Yorkn Aferooon ad Svening, Ene ter- Waod’s Muscum, Afonroe areet, hetween Dearborn an't State, Afters foon, **On Mand." Evening, ** lavis'bie Prince,” and * 000 of Killarney.” P . SOCIETY MEETINGS, NG LODGE 311, A. F, WIN' 1 & A. M.~The L hereby notlfied o mées at Corinthinn Hall on Sunday, the 218t [nat., at1 p. ov,, sharp, 1o ntr tend the Tuneral of our 1ato broUver, Joseph Sobey. . Gnicrof T W SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1876, Greenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- chango yestorday cloged at 88§, . Warm wenther with possibly occasional showers is predicted for this region to-day. ‘The sad news comes this morning that, in nddition to tho ordinary oxpense of o sum- mer’s pleasure tour in the wilds of Conada, o fishing-tax of $1 n day will henceforward bo levied upon every citizen of t'ne United Btates going thither to got the finriy Kanuck an his hook, : President GraNT bas stated to o friend his Intention of making ntonr of the world at tho oxpiration of his term of office. Prob. ably no living Americon is more widely known, or would recoive such marked atten- tion and courtesy abrond, as General and President U. 8. Gravr. The roport of the Sub.Committes on the “Mary Merritt " charges will completely exonerate Secretary BnisTow from #mproper action in that case, but as a salve to the fesls ings of Care, of Wisconsin, who instigated the investigation, the Committee hiave con- sented to animadvert upon tho mathods ‘which prevail in the Treasury Dopariment in tho management.of cases of this charncter, —e A plan for compelling the Pacifia Reflrond Companies {o commence providing for the payment of their debta to the Qovernment boa been matured by the House Judiciary Committee. It contemplates, in tho case of the Union Pacific, that $750,000 shall bo set apart annually forten years, and $1,000,000 annually thereafter, until the sinking-fund thus created shall wipe out the bonds ad- vanced to the Company by the Govornment, It is proposed to apply an equal ratio of an- nual payments'to tho total debt to the other <ompanica, Friends of Gov. Bevemoos at-Springfield nssert that, although his defeat ss & caudi- date seegs to bo o sottled fnct, he will not fiy the track, butremainin thorace until the distavco-flog is dropped in his faco by the Convention, So far as delagates have been instructed and tho prefercnces of others ascertained, thw roturns up {o date give Curroxn 266, Devenmae 100, and Rmawax 52, indicating that Currox will be nominated on the first ballot. This showing does mnot iuclude Cook County, which is almost certain to scnd a Coiox delegation, and sovoral other large counties are yet to bo heard from, Fenxanoo Woon is unalterably opposed to the nomination of Tipex at 8t. Louis, and expresses the bolief that ho could not earry Now yYork. . Ho lays great stress upon the importance of putting forward candidate with an unassailable tecord, and TiLoey, in his estimation, does not #ill tho bill. Judge Davip Daviy is Fennaxpo's ideal of a can. difiate withont 8 record, and henco o valuable candidate for the Democratic party, which has suffered sorely on this account in the past. He thinks Judge Davis, who nover was a Democrat, is the man to fire the Democratic heart and secaro throe-fourths of the electoral vote of 1876, e —— A pleasant interview with the ¥on, Rrca- 4xp M. Tooursox, of Indiana, on the Presi- dentiol canvass in that State, 1 given in our columna this morning, Mr, Tuouwson, speaking for tho sonthern part of the Btate, gives it as his opinion that, next to AouroN, aud in the event that ho should not show sufficient strongth for a nomination, the majorily of the delegation are hicartily for Bumstow, He hiag heard of no expression of Coxgrixg lean- inge in tho Btato, and fow for Barxz. Mox. ‘ToN first, and BuisTow next, is the situation 'in Bouthern Indiann, and it may be pre. sumed to oblain in great measure throughout thoe entire Btate, e —— The Finance Committee of the Common Council are thoroughly in accord with the retrenchmont policy suggestod by Mayor Horg in bis inaugural message, ‘I'hey roal. ize tho critical condition of the city’s finances, and are fully aware that no- thing will so strengthon the munlcipal crodit s a general reduction of expendi- tures, tha discontinuanco of work on all pub- Lio improvemonts that can be delayed, and the application of the strictest economy iu svery department and dotaill. Already the offect of this new order of things is felt in the willingness of bankers and capitalists to came forward with money to sustain the eredit of tho new admintstration. — ‘The Chicago produce markets were gen. enlly ou the downward turn yesterday, with moderste sciivity in breadstufls xnd dullnoss in provisions. Mess pork deckined 7}@100 per brl, closing firm st $20,55 for Juns and #20.72 for July, Iard doblined 6@7§o por 100 Ibs, closing at 812.17§@12.40 cash, and $12.80912.87} for July, Meats declined o per B, closing at 7jo for. Loxed “houlders, { Braxsvy, 10jo for do short ribs, and 110 for do short olears, Lake freighta woro dull, at 2je for whoat to Buffalo. Tail freighta wora dull and unchnngod, Tighwinos woroe pominal, at $1.07} por gallon. Flour waa in fair demand and firm. Wheat closed 10 lower, ot $1.05 cash nnd’ #1.05¢ for Juno., Corn closed {@]c lowor, at 48c cash and 40}o for June, Onts closed firmer, at 810 for May and #0fe for June, Ilye wns stronger at 07@ 67jc. Barley was stoady, closing at 7240 cash and 59 for Juns, Ilogs woro active, with heavy grados ruling fo lower. BSales at $6.50@7.40, Cattle wora activo and firmer. Bheep wora pearco and nominal, One hun- dred dollars in gold would buy $112.62} in graenbacks at tho close, United States rshall Canrnerr, of Chi- cago, yestorday testified in relation to the Ponsion Agency scandal before tha IHouse Committeo on Civil Bervico Reform. He repented in his testimony the statoments in hia lotter to Miss Swesr—that ho had no 1 knowledge of the bargain betwoen that lady emd Braresy, but loaned the latter $5,000 by indorsing his note for that amount, and sub- tequently becoming responsible for it. IMarshal Camepern, like Miss Sweet, nppears to lave been victimized by ond, again like Miss Swzrt, he sooms to havo entored inte & rather unbusiness-like transaction with the slippery borrower and office-broker, whose roprasentations of solvency e Accopled as trao with a blind trust in human natore not usual in mattors involving dollars and cents, Mr, Camenert was badly . bitten, having refunded all the monoy paid by Miss SweeT on Brakewy's account, and, as he was not privy to the knavish swindlo, ho has suffered sufficiontly for his share in the scandalous transactio The Froedmen's Bank, which served the colored peopls of tho country for several yoars as & rat-hole wherein they could de. posit their savings with the assurance that they would not have the opportunity to in- vest them in unwise speculations, has at lnst been turned inside out, and presenta a spoo- tacle decidedly dishenrtening to its dopos- itors. The names of the porsons who fat- toned on the credulity of the ignorant froed. men aro given to the world, and sre mostly included in tho postiforous body known ag the District Ring. Gen. O. 0. Howairp, tho Christian soldier,” figured in tho transactions as ‘' Honorary Trusteo” of the institution. The remuneration re- ceived for his invaluabla service is not stated, but the Goneral's career in Washington i1 o guarantos that ho has a liberal estimate of hig worlh ns a financial manager. If the parties to whoso doors theso shamelessfrauds havo been traced escape punishment under the law, it will only provo another instance to illustrate the fact that the corrupt Ring wiolds & greater power in the District than the courts of justico. THE DEMOCRATIC PLAN OF CAMPAIGN AND HOW TO MEET IT. The mn}lerof the daily papers and the noter of current political history must be con- vinced that the Democratte party intend to enter into the approaching political enm. paign with no proposed measures of legisla- tion, with no defined policy either ns to finance, taxation, currency, tariff, or anything clse. On all theso questions the party is con. fessedly incompetont to deal, or evon to at- tain tho Jeast harmony among its membors, Having no programme of its own, the party proposes to go into tho campaign upon the broad indictment of tho Republican party for cxcessive taxation, general extravaj in expenditure, frauds in administrition, robbery of the revenucs, bribery and sales of oflices by officials, and defalcations, em- bozzloments, and ‘general corruption in the public sorvice. TResolulions reciting in- stancos of this kind—too rocent and too no- torious to be questioned or denied—vill be adopted at evory town meeting in every county in overy State, and at overy Conven- tion which will be held between now and November. ‘Already every Domocratic Con- vontion that has been held has. proclaimed the record of alleged infamy, and the Na- tional Conventiou at 8t. Louis will recount tha story in all the coloru that can inspirein- dignation or provoke disgust. ‘What bes tho Republican party to say in answer to this Demoeratioindictinent? What is the answer that will silehce the roproach, . oud convert the weapon of offenso into a means of defonso? It cortainly will not do to say that BELNAP or Bancock were soldiers in the War; that Onviu GnaNT was brother to the Prosident; that the Credit-Mobiller robbery of millions, and the back-pay and salary-grob, and the Pension frauds, tho Tatent-Office frauds, the Indian and Land- Office frands, the Custom-House and whisky frauds of 1millions, =nd the bogus-claim frauds, the Post-Offfce freuds, and the Con- gressional extravagancies and wastefulness, were porpetrated by men who wero loyal during tho War, It Will not remove tho odium from the salo of offices to wuay that tho Republican party emancipated 4,000,000 of slaves and conferred ths clective franchiss on them, or that tho Democrats of the North sympaothized with tho Coufederates of tha South, or that tho latter Ku.Kluxed black men, or expelled earpet-baggers, or carried Bouthern cloctions by torrorism sgainst tho freedmen. This i all good as for as it goes, but it does not go far enough, 1t does not mest tho charges which will form the bnais of the Domocratio eampaign, It will not bo suflicient answer to the {ndict.. ment to set up counter-charges of carruption and *“‘officinl irrogularities” of which Demo- crats have been guilty. The ‘you.are. another” argumegt will not satisfy the coun. try. Itcan onlybe pleaded in witigation and not in justification. Yot this is the mistake the machine politicians aro likely to make, Tho past record and the present imbecility of the Domocratic party will furnish no do- fengo or extonuation of the Federal frauds and corruptions which have been so numer- ouws and 60 notorious. They will not answer tho accusation, so long as a hundred Repub- lcan offico-holders are fugitives in Canada, and scores are in the public privons, and other hundreds are waiting sentence, 'Thero must bo o sharper, more aweeping, ore em- phatio answer givon to this indictment for official irregularitics, and that snswer must ba the nomination of a candidate at Oincin- nati whoss very name will silence the whole Demooratio song of Republican office-holding corruption. The nomination of Bowtow will banish Belknapism, and Babeockism, andthe Whisky Ring, and the whols element of oficial fraud, from the campaign. It will silence any claim for Tirvey as a Reforuer, becsuss, contrastod with Baistow, thereis no othor man can rank a9 o Roformer fu the estimation of the country, The country will ask no pledgos,- and care little for platforms or resolusiens if Busrow bo nominated. In him they will recognizo country, party, and roform. ‘Emere will bo no doubts &y’ to what Lo witt be, ov THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 90, 1876~TWELVE PAGI what he will do, if Presidont, On that point thero is no mani of any party who does not know that the man who, by the forco of his own courngeous will, instigated by his con- viotionaof honoesty and daty as a public offi- oery cleared the Treasury sorvics of tho thieves by which it waa infested, rid the pub- lie offices of the dishonest men who hold them, put a stop to countorfeiting, broks up tho wholesale plundering of the Government by smuggling through the connivance of the customs’ agents, *tock the Whisky Ring by tho throat and strangled it, and hes rotrenched the expenses of the Troasury Dopartmiont by millions, as well as pufified it of rasenls, and pilfercrs, and blackmailers,—there is nocitizon, we repeat, who does not know and feel in his hoart that tho man who has done all theso things will, if made Presidont, carry tho same reforms, purifications, and rotrenchmenta into all otber brauchesof the public sorvice, ‘Iho Domocratio indictment of the Ropub- lican party for past frauds, oxtravagancies, nnd corruptions will gain new vigor 1 £ Bns- 1ow bo not nominated at Cincinnatl, They will point to his refection ss evidence that tho Republican party did not want a man of his charactorand purposes ; did not want him to go on in his work of purifying the Gov. ernment service ; did not want official orimoes punished; and will point to the fact that ho was rojecled at Cincinnati that the Republic. an machine leaders might got rid of him and ofy his reform altogethier. Tho public mind will be ripe to accept this view as a just one, and will accopt the rejection of DrisTow ns ovidence that the party does not want to completo the work ho has bogun, and there- fore Relected & man who will lek thwe old con. dition of things return. ‘Wa submit, therefore, to thinking and re- flecting Ropublicans that, in rejecting Brs- Tow at Cincinnati, they may throw away the all.sufficient and at the same tine the only successful snswor they can make to the Dem. oeratic arrayof official Republican corruption and oxtravagance, £ MR, HESING'S TESTIMONY, Tha testimony of Mr, Hesrxo, which bears upon its faco tho impress of truth, taken in connection with Rzu's, reveals n sad picture of political trading, jobbexy, and corruption, baged upon a regularly organized system of swindling the Government out of ils revenue. Mr, Hesive’wns for s long timo the “Boss " of city and county poli- tics, and ho hag now mado a cloan breast of what he knows about corruption in Chieago and Cook County, That those who Liave not read his testimony in dotail may be in pos. session of ite salient points, we presont it in condensed form : 1. It is clearly established that Mr, Hrsma did not corrupt Mr. Rems; on the other band, that all Mr. Remat's relations with Mr. Hzsiva, and all his rolations with other machine politicians and crooked whisky- denlers, go to show that he was born in original sin, and wns nover introduced to corruption through the medium of a tempter. 2. 1t is very clearly shown that Mr. Renx's declarations to Mr, Hesivo and other parties in 3May, 1873, and at other times, that Messrs, Moxy and Hoxr were innocent men and had nothing to do with the conspiracy to dofraud the rovonue, were fabrications, manufactured for a particular purpose; that during tho whole of this time, when Rzmu was pssorting they could not be indicted, ho had a secret understanding with them, and | thot, whon ha was about * to lay down,” ho admitted their guilt to Hesva bimself. 8. Leaving Rems, we come to Hrsmo. It is shown that after ho bocamo intorested in the Keviem Distilling Company and the works wero bwmed, ho nod Rt made use of the knowledga that Buffalo MrLrer was engaged in the “crooked” to lovy tolla upon him at so much per barrel, somotimes mak- ing the colloction s0 extortionnto that Mrr- ren's profits were yuined. Dauring this period HesiNa swems that he kopt $9,000 and gavo Rems $18,000. Jaxe, on tho other hand, swears that he kopt none of his whisky money, but gave it all nway! 4. It is shown that the noxt contribution ‘was lovied upon the Lako Shore Distillory, out of whicl, without embarking any capital or giving any porsonal attontion to the busi- noss, or cven being in the' distillery but onee, ho drow $25,000 in six months, a por- tion of which went, of courss, to Remx, who always took the lon's share in evory scheme of plunder that was afloat in city or county, but never kopt any of it, he sayn, . It is shown that the next contribution waslovied upon the Union Copper Distillery, Mr. Roeriy, of that firm, honding over $18,000, and changing his polities at the time ho paid the money. . 6. The distillery was not the only victim of Hesina's and Rem's suction power, Tho public offices wero also bled. It appears that in the latter part of 1869 Remm wad an ap- plicant for the Collectorslip, but President Gpant would not *'touch him witha forty-foot pole.” Mr. Hesixo then put in his influence for Mr. JuesseN and wasg successful, in con- sideration of which Mr. Jussex was bled to tho tuno of &2,000 for Mr. HesNa's trouble, and afterwards the office was given to Mr, Tasten, who lield it awhilo and then re- signed. 7. Mr, Hesrno next 1aid siege to* Buffalo " “Miures, County 'Treasurer in 1874, It is known that Mr, Hesnia supported him at tho head of the People’s ticket, knowing him ot tho game timo to bo engaged in awindling the Government,—he admits this under oath,—aud that, 28 & consideration, MirrLrs paid him about half tho interest on the caunty depqpits in monthly payments of about 600, sgregating §7,200 per annum. 8, Tiae Braprry, Sheriff, whom Mr, Hza- 1o supportod for offico, was lot off pretty casy, Mo lot Hrsmia hove the use’ of $10,000 of his money for two years without intereat. Baavrxy got off lightly, and hus not much room for complaint, 9. It isshown that Mr. Heamva sold to Mr. Powert, the land on which the South Branch Distillory is located, upon which there was a wartyage of §20,000. As it was nocessary to have this mortgagoe released bofore Powrrn could commeuce the *crooked,” Mr. Hesfio gave Reuse bis cheok vpon a bank in which ho had credit, but no funds, 0 that Powery could get lig license, ‘This check was o very convenieut ome. It was given by Powzwy to Collector Xort to per- susdo him to issue tho license before the mortgage was reloased. The mortgage was subsequently relcased, and the check came back to My, Hesiva without having been peid, the money nover having bevn de. wanded. 10, Lastly, it ie shown by Mr. Hxsma that in 1874 his son WasuinoToN was a candidate for Congress in competition with Famwery ; that subsequently Wasumoron withdrew, and that right awsy Mr. Hzsnia obtained $20,000 from Wasp and Fanwzrs on his own “paper, and a promise of 16,000 more which ho failed to got, ¢ becausa he opposed Fan. weLL" Theso ars the salisnt polnts of Mr, Hzs- e wseimr mvo's testimony, Add, this to what revoaled to tho court and jury, and thoy bring to the surface the details of a gigantic conspiraoy ngalnst the revenus nnd publio offices, 'Takon in connection with othor tes- timony, thoy presont a distressing plcture of machino depravity, They do not need com- mont furthor than the expression of the hops that the bottom 18 now renchod. It is now timo for Justico to play hor part, ———— AN INJUST! NORTHERN PARMERS. ‘Thera iy one monsure pending in Congroesn which shonld seriously ongage the attontion of Northern {mnou, and that {a the pro- posed appropriation for the Lowor Mississippl lovees. An o class, the Northern farmers have suffpred almost incaleulable damnge from floada sinco last fall. ‘Thoir foncos and farm buildings havo boen wnshed awny, ‘Their crops have beon submergod sud ruined. It will cost them n year's profits to repair damages and get their forms into running order again, T'ho floods have not been con- fined to any partientar incnlily. Almost overy river, creek, and brook has been on tho rampnge, covered its banks and swopt awny its dams, spreading destruction far and wide. X'rom Maino to Oregon the farmers have suffered, and in hony cases have boen driven from their Lomes, with tho loss of their stack, buildings, and working materlal, It {s of intoreat, thorofore, for thom to bear in mind that tho Demooratic party in the Houso proposes to take sev- oral millions of money out of thoir pockets to pay over to specu- latorsin the bottom Iands of the Lowor Mis- sissippi for the building of levees. Thoy should watch and remember every Congress- man who votes for this outrageous jobbery. Thoy should ask the question, Why is money o be squandered upon Southern speculators, and not one cont to be devoted to the Northorn farmers, who havo lost more than tho Southern? The proposed appropriation is a fraud upon its face, The Governmont has no more right to protect the plontation of a cotton-grower nlong the Mississippi than it hns to protect the prop- erty of a farmer on the Illinois or Wabnsh Rivor. If it gives money out of tho Public Tressury to tho one, it is bonund to doso to tho other. ¢If it repairs the damoges along the Lower Mississippi River, it wmust consistently ropair the damnges oc- onsioned by tho overflow of Northern rivers, But the proposition ia not so much intended to protect farms ag it is to im. prove the property of tho Southorn specu- Iators, and, it tho Government illegnlly and unjustly npplics the public monagy this yenr to theso speculators, they will clamor for money still more lustily next yonr, and, tho door once opened, thero will be no end to claims which cannot bo denied. Tho appro- priations will involve millions of dollars, and will open up claims for relict of overy description. The prineipal point to bo con- siderod, however, ig this—that if the South- ern planter is to bo relieved, the Northorn farmer, shonld also bo relieved. 1If tho Sonthern speculators can have their proper- ty improved at the Goneral Govornment's oxponse, thon the Northern speculator has dn equidly just claim, If the Government is going to pension the farming interests of the South, then it has no right to rofuse tho North. Andwhere will this lead? Lot the Northern farmers, therefore, watch this picco of jobbery. THE NEW CITY GOVERNMENT, Mayor Hoxne's inaugural moessage signal- izes the commencoment of tha reform move- mont for which the mass of the peopls voted ot the Inst oity clection. It hos the true ring, and it found so ready and unanimons a responso from the Council that the hope is warranted that the affairs of the corporation, will bo managed hercafter with something like tho intolligonce, honesty, and cconomy of privato businoss affairs. Mr, Hoxne hns apprehendod correotly the mieaning of the popular voica as expressed at the polls, aud he hos stated the demands of the peopls with clenrness, forcs, and directness, 'Ihe movement of the buginess and industrinl clasges, of tho professional ang laboring classes, of tho diroct tax-payors and the in. direct tax-payers,.as doveloped in tho defeat of Hesiva last fall, the monster mass moot- ing in the Exposition Building, and the oloction of Aldermen this spring, Was pri- marily in the intorest of rotrenchment. As o necessary incident to the attainment of this purpose was tho ; defeat and rout of the bummer class, which Mr, Horne has pictured so strikingly in his message, It is n distinctive and indopondent body of tnx- eaters, who prey upon the community with utter indifforence to the fact that they aro gorging themselves upon the substance of the peopls without proper return. This clasa had attained enormous dimonsions and monstrous impudenco under Mayor Hoyxe's predecessor, who lad, for oqually selfish purposos, pandercd to and. encournged its tax-gating proolivities. Po destroy the body, it was necessary to lop off the hesd. The opportunity for this was afforded by tho at- tempt at usurpation, which was intonded to carry the wholo tribe of tax-caters anothor year beyond tho leaso of life which they had nequired under s demornlized and rotten sys- tom, The chiafs—the late Mayor and most of the late Aldermanic Ring—have been forced to give way, and now the guillotine must bo set to work on their retainers and underlings, & This was tho objectivo point of Mayor Horxe's messago, nud ho reached it by n series of generalizatioris that embody the sentimenta of all thinking people ana reflact credit upon his own perceptions, It s not enough to have overthirown usurpation, not onough to have administerod a robuke to the tax-tbioves, not cnough to have gained poasesaion of the chief places of the Municipal Qovernment, Thesa wero but the preliminary steps. The real work of ro- form beging now. It is to mow downand cart off tho rank growth of weeds, Itisto swoep clean those branches of the City Gov- ernment which have been A part of the gon- eral acheme of plunder, It is to rid thd city of tho men who have bagn tho boueficiaries, through themselves, theiv relatives, friends, and followers, of the substance taken from the property-owners and tax-payers, It is to roduce the number of officus and places, Al them with a bettor claws of men whore changes can be made to advautage, and ud. Juss tholr pgy in proportion to the earnings ot similar labor and capacity in private busi. noss, Tho salaries paid now are juaterially tho e as those established during tho flush timos, whon mechanics woro earning from $4 to 35 a doy aud laborers $3 a dsy, The profits of privato business have con- tractgd since thew, capital earny loss interost, clorks ore paid smaller sularies, mochanics and laborers veceive loss wagos, ronts are lower, and the costof living has beon reduced. Wly, thon, ghould mon in tho amploy of the corporation receive the same compensation aa before this genoral and radical chaugo ocourred? Is thore any- thing 8o pure and saored about the class of -olders and place-seckers that thoy should bo mado an oxception to the rulo? Is thelr work zo exhausting, oris there such oxcoptionable ability required, that those peoplo who work for the tax.paycrs as an aggregation should be paid so much more than those who work for the tax.payers as individuals ? i The pruning-knife must be applied all around. In this wo fully agres with the splrit of Mnyor Hovxe's mossage, nnd we belore that the Council will co-operato with Lim in carrying it ont. Thero will naturally be some difforenca of opinfon as to the de- tails, We do not believe, for instance, thnt tho depnrtment of achools should Lo made an oxcoption to the gonoral policy of re- trenohment, Thero is no more reason why salaries in this branch of the publie scrvice should average $1,000 s yoar than thero is for mnintaining that averngo in the Police and Fire Dopartmonts, Tho employes aro Iargoly women, tho work is light, tha sorvice of teacliors compreliends only eight or nite months of tho year, tho hours aro limited to five or six daily. Thero ‘mny cer- tainly Lo reductions haro na fairly s in othor departments, It will bo bettor to cut down 20 per cont here and 20 per cont in the Police and Fire Departments, than 40 per cent in the lotter and nome at all in the schools, 'Thers should bo nanearly ns pos- sible a uniform reduction all around. The Inrgo snlaries should be roduced in oqual proportion with the small ealaries. 'Iha number of omployes in tho various depart- ments should be reduced ns much g possible, ond those retained should bo required to do moro servico, Some of the superfluous bureaus mny bo dispensed with altogethor, and the duties of certain officors consolidated with those of other officors who are retained. To this we 1mako reforonco in another article. The enormous gas-billa should be reduced fully ofte-hinlf. The expenditure of belweon $700,000 and $800,000 for lighting this city is perfoctly outrageous. The number of Ismps, tho time of lighting and extinguish. ing them, the forco of the gas furnished, tha mode and rate of payment, may all be ochonged to advantage. We hope and bellevo that tho soveral Council Committees who have the considoration of these several sub- jects will tnke them up with the interest and intelligonce that pervade the Mayor's mas- sago, nud thus doviso n harmonious scheme for rotronchment that will save tho tax-payors at least $1,500,000 ayear. Such a course will enhauea tho valuo of Chiongo property, enlargo tho business of the city, atiract now men and now capital, and reators confidonce and progress in & degree not to be attained in any otlier way. THE EENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS, That was the right kind of talk incorpo- rated in their platform by the Kentucky Re- publicans at their latd Btate Convention. Their declaration ngainst ropudistion in any form as a crimo, and against indefinite post- ponement of the time of roturn to specio payment; their demand of such reform of the Oivil Bervice ns will provent the prostitu. tion of office by the spoils-patronage system, and, as o guaranteo of honest ndministration, of the nomination of men who have cournge to fight corruption, will meet an earnest re- sponsa in tho breast of overy honest man. Thoy go on to declaro: As Kentucky’ gave Annamax Lixcoln to hls country and to mankind for tho great work dono by him, sho now presents Brxaauiy H. Buistow to complete the corrcction of itla ever incldent to svar. s poat condnct In ofice 1e the trucst evi- dence of his future course, o has Leen trae to Republican principles in war snd peace, ever mane 1y, calm, and courageous, and ever falthful In the dlacharge of s duty, There hns bean no moro comprehonsive, dircot statoment of tho political requiromont of the timen as iy condonsed in' the phrase *“the correction of the ills incident to tha War.” The corruption and jobbery that have infected tho national, State, and munic. ipal administrations; tho cloboration and oxtension of tho spoils and machine system ; and the consequont low tone of official mo- rality, which are the crying evil and disgrace of tho doy, aro tho necessary and inevitable, “ills incident to the War," which over is o) broeder of corruption, It took Great Britain & half contury to rid herself of the coxrup. tion begotten by the Napoleonic wars, and the task ‘before us now is acarco less than that which Prrr loft for Great Britain, ‘Thero is none of tha favorite-son clap-trap in presenting Bnistow to complote this work, which is indispensabla ta the consummation of tho great work accomplished - by LincorN. DBnisrow i pre-ominently the man who has proved that ho has the moral stamina {o fight corruption, and the adminis- trativo nbility to win in that fight, despite the most formidsble machine influence brought to bear againat him that ever was organized in this country. Tho time has come when no platform doclarations against corruption and pledges of reform will avail. It is imperative that in and of himeself the condidate be a pledge of reform, whose rocord shall guarantee it. Bniarow fills that bill, His nomination at Cincinnati would have a wondroas purifying effect upon the whole political atmosphere. It would im- press upon Congressmen, Presidentinl as- pirants, Governors, Leogislators, Mayors, Common Councils, and the whole body of publio officials, Notional, Btate, and BMunic. pal, that the honesty of the American people is mightior than the ‘machine, and would inovitdbly lead to tho cultivation of cour. ageous honoaty and efficienoy in office in place of working of themachife. That wholesome lesson cannot too soon+be taught thomen who conduct, or aspiro to conduct, public affairs; and it is tho busineasot tho Republican party, ropresenting the best intelligence of the country and its progrossive tendency, to teach that lesson, It cannot be better done than by the recognition and indorsement of fearlons integrity in'office, and guaranteging ita continunnce, by tho nowmination of Bris. Tow ot Cineinnati, If "he be not the nom. inee, it is already plain that the candidate thoro nominated must, to ba electod, bo not any doubtful * unknown," but one whoss record uno lossaguarantes of his determina-. tion aud capacity to overthrow corruption in office than i that of Buwrow. Elsoit will be impossiblo to oxousa or justify to the Amorican people tho throwing overboard of Boistow, % The living issue of the coming Presiden. tial campalgn will bo roform of official sor- vice. The Democratio stock in trade will bo charges sbout Republican corruption, reve. nue stealing, ets. The candidates will he the platform, If the machine politicians throw Baiszow ovorboard at Cincinuuti, thoy will bavo to explain the reason for dolug iton the stump, and they will not have time for much eleo. The Democrats will press them on that point at every stepof thecanvass, Proaching refona sfter ulaying tho cham- plon thiof-catcher will not carry conviction of incerity to the casual mind. Advocating offiein]l honosty and Oivil-Servica purifica- tion, after rejocting the man who put these princlples into practice in tho Treasury De- partmont, will be regarded as sounding brags and hollow hypocrisy by the numoroug elass of indepondont votors who constitutd the balanco of power betweon partios, ‘WOMAN-SUFFRAGE IN, ENGLAND, The chongo of views of Joun Brianr on the woman-suffrage question, and his spoech in Parlisment agninst the bill enfronchising women, produceil quite o gonsation in En. gland, JHs brother, Jicon Briorr, had spoken fn support of tho bill, and must have beon murprised to listen to Joun's reply. Hitherto he hna supported the bill on the ground that no mischief was likely to arise from its passago, and in fact no diroct re- sults of any importance, and consequently voted for it beeauso he did not lika to opposo it. When the bill camo to n vote, howover, ho rone and explainod that his views bad changed, snd he plnaced his- negative vote upon the radical grounds that, whatever might bo the immodiate econsaquencos of the mensure, it was prompted by o false concep- tion of the relative position of men and womon and of {honature of womon them- aelves, therefore he"would oppose the bill as boing mischiovous in its tendoncy, The fol- lowing oxtrnot will explain his position still mors olearly : 1t has been dute to the gradual growth of a higher standard of manliness that the position of women has heen so vastly Improved In Europe; and it wos Dy tho strong instincts of men, not by any formal power of women, that the prinelplesof chivalry wero catablished and malntained. It 1s In the strong arma of good men that women have always found thefr moat offectunt protection, and conse- scquently it Is ridiculons to ropresont women as needing somo speclal protection agninst their hus- bands, brothers, and sons in the Houso of Com- mone, Evory man who ia worthy of the name cat- ries some woman or other In his heart as a part of his domestic life, and her Inltuence is thus dlrectly exerted npon his political and socinl conduct. Ono man with respeet to another is an fudependent and often a hostile forces but, by the very nature af the sexes and of family ife, womenare forall purposcs of actlon united with men. The London Z%mes, which has opposod tho bill, omphnsizes thia position of Ar. Bntent by showing that the tendency of the mensure would be to disintegrate the fomily life, and there is no doubt of the truth of this position. The whole organiza- tion of life, of sociaty, of good governmont, of law, order, and public security goes upon the nssumption that the family is the unit of society, not the individual. 'To chango this order of things and place the individual in- depondont, would not only male marringe an " nceident or Incident of life, and evontuclly a farce or somothing skin to it, butit would work irzetrievable injury to man, woman, and child. The 7%mes says very foroibly : A greater moral Injury than would be Infilctod by sny diminution of that senscof responibility could hurdly be concelved, 1t svould not only destroy the greatest charm i the rolation of the sexes, but it would undermine the etrongest, because the most delicagp, motivo for monly respect and gentloness, Awomanas a dependent bulng, appeaiing by lier trust and affection to every sentiment of honor ina man's heart, 18 the most powerful nfluence, prob ably, In the world, and the ways aro innumerable in which he modifics the whole curront of his life ond thonght, But a wpman as an Independent be- ing, relylng on her own encrgy, her own vote, and her own Intellect, fnslinply a political force which would not in_the rough struggle of 1ifo be found very posverful. Too much stress cannot be laid upon this argument, Xt lies at the vory roots of the motter. The principlo that has obtained since tho creation of tho world, that is en- Joined in the Scriptares, that is demonstrat- ed by the oxporiences of thousands of yonrs, cannot be disturbed without scrious danger to society, and that principle is that upon man rests tho responsibility, and that woman is linked to'man in a subordination of affec tion and estoem. The most' satisfactory "proof of this ganeral principle lios in the fact that the vast majority of women fecl, and know, and acknowledgo it, and that if the franchiss were ever given to them they would oxpress their beliof in it at tho very first opportunity. 4 BNARL. Ty the Fdlior of The Triduna, CmicAdo, May 19— tuke exception to the edi- torlu] paragraph in thls morning's Trinuxz, soyin that Kentucly had furnished one grand Prosiden in LixcoLw, and was anxlous to repeat the dona. tion, 1f ABRAUAX LincoLN had lived at the time of his election In 1800 in the State mentioned, ho would not have been elected to the smallest ofiico in the Stato ou account of the yriuciples by advo- cuted. Wa clain Annauas LixcoLN 8a 6 cltizen of lllinols, and 1, 2s one, object to credit him toa Btata whoto ho only recelved 104 votes,—~n tato where even these Tow voters wery notified to leave, belng known on account of open ballots, Aud where all Unloniem, with the exeeption of the votcs glven for LiNcaLy, was nothing but sham and secession indlsgulse, Andnow, ta go and Way that Ken- tucky furnished LixcoLx {s not only false, but com- mitting & great wrong on the State of hiv hame and adoptlon. ~ 1f [t had been loft for Kentucky to far- nigh o Presldent, it would not have hm”i" LANcm.)L owover the writer of tho nbove may euarl, it remains o fact that LiXcoLn was born in Kentucky, and spent his boyhood days there; and if the Kentuckluns are now proud of it we see no good reason for sbuslng them therefor, Govs. YaTes, OdLrsny, und PALMENL were also born in Kentucky. Instead of Lincouy In 1880 recciving only 104 votes In Kentucky for President hegot 1,884 votes, and one of them was opeuly cast by Bexsasan 1L BuisTow, and nefther bo nor the other 1,303 Republicans were cxpelled from the State for votlng for bim. e reccived votes in seventy- four counties, and In-one county 814 votes; in Kenton 207, ip Jefferson 106, In Jackson 101, in Madison 85, in Rock Castle 84, ln Pulaski 65, fn Estill 56, in Mason 20, and from 1 to 18 {n tho restof the seventy-four countles, ad thovoting beenby secret ballot instead of viva voce, hewould huave recelved ten thmea ss nuny as ho ad In 1860, For many' years there had been a formidable emancipation clement fn Ken- Jtucky., Haexnny CLay woas an Emancipationist, aud tried hard to persunde his 8tate to eimanct- pato tho slaves, Voluntary emuncipation wos very commou in that State. Kentucky was fully represented at the Nao- tional Conventlon {n Chlcage fu 1860 which nomliated LixcoLN, On the first bullot the Kentucky delegation voted 6 for LINCOLN, B for B8EWARD, 8 for Citass, 3 for WapE, and 1 cach for 8UuNBu and MoLea¥. On the second bal- lot Liicowx recelved 9, Bawanp 7, and Crass 0. Ou tho third and deelsive ballot, LincoLy ot 17, und Brwann 6. LincoLn rather boasted of his Kentucky na- tivity, Ho wus proud of it, and fclt throughout the War, and until his death, s warm affeetion for the people of his native Btate. * Tho growth of the Republican party In Ken- tucky Lag been steady and ropld. This Is the records % Jl:l'ul dent, ” Vote, 'or LINCOLY, ©] Tor Lincorn, Hop 26,602 ¥or Gnant, Hop 808 40,000 For Guant; Rep 872 88,700 With Bustow for President, the Republican voto will swell to at Jeast 130,000, and that will carry the Btate. e The Loulsville Courler-Journal, * with every- thing to justify it too, biza chosen this Centen- ntal year for tho celebration of {tavlf on the oo~ caslon of its removal to its magnificent new bullding, which is one of the handsomest and most commodious newspsper offices in tho United States. The Courier~Journal had ita humble beginning, 1t 18 true, and has grown up to mature wetropolitan proportlons in ol its departiments, upon which 1t s to be congrata- lated. But, n velebrating itaclf, that now great newspaper may 1Jso congratulate jtacl? upon tho fact that ut thé beginning It was unything but & smull coucern, OBQuaw D, Pruntics was ono of those rurely gifted men fu- capable of yyunivg o smull newspaper, and under hia editorfal supervisfon from the outset tho Journal wias @ great paper, becnuso It was the exponent of hie own vigorous, versatile individuality, and roflected tho viows of a clear-headed, keen, fearless thinker and accomplished writor, Upe on bls death; tha editoral eonduct of the paper dovolved upon Ienny WATTRNSON, the present editor, who fu 81l respects has proved himeelf worthy to bo tho successor of PuznTics, Tha consolldation of tho Journal, Courler, and Demy ocrat terminnted tho rulnous compotition that mado metropolitan journallsm Impossible af Loulsville, and sccured for the CourlerJournag} a falr fleld, and placed at Mr. WATTERSON'S dlg posal ample capital, which ho has Ilberally cx. pended with judiclous enterprise, the resuly being to make the ConrlerJournal tho bLost and She most influentinl paper in the whole Bouth, asftis to~lny, Tha TiipuNe has had oceaston from time to time to dissent from tho courso of the Courler-Journal on questions of publie polle cy, bt haa never falleld to recognize the cne lightened liberallam that has characterfzed it under Mr, WATTZRSON'S cditorlal map. g;‘;eu\e&n. Through it he has probge one more than an; o’ tho” Oito™ 1o, 1 e peomma” of 40 South out of the slough of despond, and tq fetch public sentiment there in true accord wity the new order, and that work ho s vigorously prosccuting. Withal, the CourterJournat fy brighter than ever, Influltely more newsy, and, coversa far broader field. To the business gne gaclty of W, N. IIALDRMAR, the publisher, the Courler~Tournal 18 no less Indebted for (ts ro. markable auccess, tho greatest achleved by any Bouthern journnl. Indeed, without Mr. Harpp, MAN It may safely be sald that succesa would have been hupossible, and for his stetlfng qunt tics hie mnerits s full share of it. With it splenflld new slx-story bullding that wil 1ot suffer on comparlson with the newspaper officeq of New York and Chifeago, its new Bullack presn its well-organized news-hureau and editorial stafy under command of Mr., WATTERSON, the Courlen Journal has entered upon a Dew carcer thnf must enlarge its uscfuluess, and we canuot ds Tess than wish it well. e — JOHNEON'S OYOLOPEDIA, Jonxsox's New Unlversal Cyclopedin: 4 Scientific and Popular Treasuryof Useful Know) edge, Hllustrated with maps, plang, and engran fogs, Editots-in-Chlef, FREDERICK A. P, BAny Nanp, President of Columbis College, Ney York; Anxorv Guvor, Professor of Geology and Physfeal Geography, Collego of New Jersey, Complete In four volumes. Vol. 1, A-E, 4to,, Pp.,1000. Sold by subscription. Chicago ngent, C. @. G. P41xg, former teacher In Chicago High Belools This noblo work owes its Inception and plan to the lnte Honack Guerrzy. Withall the pre-cxisting encyclopedias and dictionaries at’ his band, furnishing In their separato and dis. tinctive ways the kuowledge which tho student and writer must have for continual reference, the practical-minded editor of the New Yoilk T'ribune still folt thte need of n cyclopedia that would more exaetly meet the demandsof o busy yorker; which would fn the quickest and brief- cst manner anawer the multitudinous requtres ments for Informatlon that dally arise Inthe prosecution of the Journalist’s dutice. First of all, Mr. Greruey cBhaldored that the model encyclopedin should Ye u table-book; that it should be in-so compact ashape 0s to find room on the writing-desk, and thus be ot oll timea within easy reach, Next, he nsked that it should be a compllation of simple facts, undke Tuted with rhetorie or criticlsm, facts aud I will supply tho words,” was hig motto, und the nceessity of wusting tme cole lecting statistics from the mass of comments and opinfons that usually cncumber them fn works_ of reference was un cndless {rritation. Finally, he demanded that -the data provided should be uniformly accurate snd brought down to the hour of publication. In his desire ta seeure & work posscasing these essontfal charnce terlstics Mr, Gurzrey applied to his friend, the publisber, Mr, A. J. Jouxson, and the oncyclos pedia under notice is the result, Durlng the few montha that Mr. GnigLEY's life was pro longed nfter tho work was put under way he constantly alded in its excention by his advice, nd contributed liberally to it with hia pen. The.last article of importance which he ever wrote wos the eluborate paper on the “Confederato States” which appears fn this volume. As the work was so truly the frult of his own conception, it may bo regarded I tha light of a final bequest to the Amerlean people Ly ono whoee life as spunt in advancing évery cause that was believed to serva thelr Lest In terests. In the names of the cditors and assoclat editors which areinscribed upon the title-page of the present volume there Is a trustworthy nssure ance that the scheme of this work s belng can ried out with fidelity.. In the catalogue of thin ty-two aasoclate editors mnay be noted cx-Presh * dent WooLsey, of Yale College, Prof. HeNny; of the Bmithsonian Institute, Dr. Asa Gray, oo Howard Unlverslty, Dr. ANDEisON, Presidens of the University of Rochester, Dr, Hansts, Buperintendent of Schools,” 8t. Louls, Tngoe poRe Gity, of Washington, Dr, Dwiont, Proe fessor of Municipal Law, Columbia College, Wirranp Parken, Professor of Surgery, Co- Tumbix College, and Dr. 8cuary, Professor of Bacred Literature, Unlon Theological Seminary, New York., Inthe list of contributors stand tho names of 120 American scholars well known for thelr attalnments fu the varlous departments ot knowledge. With a corps of writers 80 exten- slve, and composed of men conspleuous for Tearning and fndustry, it may justly be expect- cd that the work they produce will' sustain thy - closest scrutiny, | 5 And so it proves on examination, The arti clea aro mainly short, condensed, and pithy, In harmony with tho original lutentton; but they cover nlmost every known tople, and crowd futo the smallest space the salfent polnts relat ing to ench. Particular attention has been paid to geography, cspecially to that of the Unlted Btatcs. Every township fa given, with Its populution fu 1870, and cvery town with 1,000 inkiabitauts and upwards has s description accopding with its sizo and importance. For- cign geography s treated with Jess detall, and yeb 1s unusunlly fall. The section of biography has been judiclously superviged, and tho namcy of many Hving men of note are found within {d which elsewhere cannot bo met with, To glve thicm room, some worthles of past ages, whose furne hws become searcely more than a traditlon, have necessarily and wisely been dropped out. In the departmenits of law, medicing, philosor pliy, aud physical and natural aclence, the same caro for practical uscfulnees hos been manilests ed. ‘To omit nothing of value to tbe work, the features of a pronouncing dictionary ara sdded, every titlo of un urticle Leing accented, and, fn puzeling cases, tho phonutic spelling belng als ven. " The encyclopodia 18 to bo complete in font volumes, and the first ono (now ready for clreus lation) wil), on & cursory fuspoction, satlafy the moat critical that the work has unique aud I valusble merits, ————— Boys will be, boys the world over doubtlesy until boys cdise coming Into the world, avd sd doubtleas untll the race be extinet, Anglo-Saxos boys, during the thres or four years before theli bLeards sprout, will develop the {nnate proclivit to tyronnizo over thelr felldws. Kor ages thal boyish barbarism has been proof agalnet e} th civiiling Influences college tutors and profesa ors could bring to bear In Eugland and fn thit country; and the boys of cach generaton, sup posed of course to have outgrown it, only wen{ out from collego into tho world more firmly set in the same obstinate notlon of getting d,mll rights by trampling upon cverbody clse's— which sggressive Anglo-Saxon tralt, perhapt dfter all, 1s at the basoof our democracy thut Ieaves every max to * fight {6 out " for lmsell in life, provided elways Lo makes a falr fight of it. Whether that be tho logloof it or not, at all ovents that boy-barbarlsu, manifest iu the tyranuy of sophomores over freshuen and the Jike, survives quita as lustlly os any ather rells of barbariam in our midst. In fack, it has Just won annther triumph atthe Wesloyan University of 3iddletown, Coou, That was brought plughats and caucs, It 4 ono of the juslicoable “@ive mo the . /