Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1876, Page 4

ST SR T TT TN A S e e b s S 7 5t R £ - RS e ! TERMS OF TIIE TRIBUNE. T RATES dr SUDSCRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANCR), Poatage Prepaid at this OMcee. Doty 1d, 1 7287, o] B, ottt " Yanedtouny addjoa four wenks for: Enect. 7 TrWeel 'Parin of year atsams rate. ' ‘WEERLY EDITION, POST & . POT YEAL... e NEe) ub OF Lwehty, per copy.. The potare 12 15 centa & Bpecimen copten sent free. To prevent delay and mistakes, be eure and give Poite Yen addresa in full, Including Btato and County. Remittances nisy ba mnda eithor by draft, express, Yost-Office order, or in regtatered letters, at our risk. -+ "ERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Dafly, del! rered, Bunday excepted, 23 centa per week. Pally, delivered, Sunday Included, 30 cents per week Adfiresa THR TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearbol ‘hicago, L b TAMUBEMENTS, Acndemy of NMuslo. SBonith Tlnhtmnnflllmlwm Madison and Moaroe. "atfcty entertalinion New Chlengo Theatre. i Taoley’s Thentre. Tandolph street, between Clark and LeSalln, Rns Rguncat of Daly'a Fifth Avenbe Company. ** Flque. MaVicker's Thentre. Madfson street, hetween State and Dearho m. Ens gement - of Baggla Mitchell. ¢'Nannette 9 Woad’s Musenm, i 28 Lotween Dearborn and State. Afters F%fi!""-’ufifffifie Hmeo yentng: Frank i, Alken . In **Bert; or, Ocean to Ocean.™ TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1876, @y Tribwwe, $13.00 1.0 Clark rtrect, between Randolph and Laks. Hooley's ustrels, e Greonbnoks at the Now York Gold Ex- change closad at 89. — Blightly warmer weather is prognosticated by tho weather prophet for this region to- Any. —een Tho House Committeo on Rules have de- fermined to get xid of *‘biger man " Firz- Euon by abolishing tho office of Doorkeeper ot tho present. Frrzruon safely out of the way, & “litler man,” and one not addicted % writing foolish Iottors, will probably bo 3hosen to tho restored offico. An exceedingly sonsible plan ialikoly to bo ngroed upon in case tho Senate assumes Jurisdiction in the BereNap impeachmont. Ta savo time, and onable the Senato to pro- eesd with ita regular business, it is proposed to appoint o commission to take tho testi- wmony in the cass and report to tho Bensate. The expeotod universal hegira to tho Cen- tonnial has not yot taken place, tho attond- anco of people paying 50 eenta apiccs to see the great Exbhibition having, on no doy since the opening, exceeded sixteon thousand. "Tho affair is, however, in overything but attend. snce and liberal, unsoctarisn management, &n effort entirely creditablo to the American people and foreign mnnufacturers who have brought it to its present noar dogroo of com- plotion. Thero aro indications that the British Goy- ernment will rocedo from the position taken In the WiNsLow case, and endeavor to find some rolution of the difficulty other than o point-blank refusal to comply with the terms of the treaty. It is belioved that the Gov- ernment will ask that WinsLowbe further re- manded to-day, and tho Pall Ma.l Gazette, bitherto on tho side of the Government, urges that eteps be taken to refer to tha courts the question whethor tho AsmsunroN Treaty is oxcopted from tho operation of the unicipal act of 1870, Victon Huao yostorday electrified the French Senats by a superb plea for general amnesty for the convicted and exiled Com- munists, Ho was listoned to with enger at. tention, warmly applaudod, and at the close ‘was congratulated by some of his opponenta upon his magnificont speech. Bo far, 5o ‘good. When, howaever, the time came for the Mlinistry to be heard from on the othor mide of the amnesty guostion, the Senator Intrusted with the maotter arose and simply gaid: “The Government finds nothing to reply to in M. Huao's speoch I” The vote * was then taken on the question, and the cause for which the great Radical had ex- orted his brilliant powers of oratory roccived only eight votoes, Tho trisl of ox-Bupoervisor Munx for com- plicity in tho whisky frauds is drawing to & close. Arguments for tne defonsa woroe made yesterday by Messrs. Doorrrriys and Thaensorz, tho specch of the latter being one of the chiof fentures of this intercsting trinl, Referenco was mado in Col. Ixormsorv's ad- dreas, a8 in many other instances during the progress of the caso, to the purchase of testi- mony by the Government at the price af §mmunity or loniency to the partm, Avho have furnisbed fmportant testimony for the proscoution. That there is mot tho stightest foundation for these allegations and inslduntions plainly appears from o dlspatch received yostorday from Bruromp ‘Wison, Solicitor of the Troasury, stating that no arrangement or understanding with Remt or Hestvo has boen hed, tho Bocrotary of thn Treasury leaving that matter entirely to the prosecuting officers and the courts, end regarding tho quostion of immunity to witnesses as oxclusively within tho contral of the Court. Gov. Krrroaa, of Louisiana, has seen tha President, and the lattor has given his opin. don on affairs in Loulaiana, This opinion is &aid to have been of a very direct and out. spoken character, and one which tha Gover- nor could not, if he would, fail to compre- bond. The President, like many others who have thought seriously on the sabject, has questioned the propriety of Krrioso and several of his prominont State officials mak- ing o pralonged visit to the National Capital ot a timo when their presence at home way 80 imperatively noeded. With this viow of the fitness of things the Wationul Ixecutive has informed the Louigionn Governor that tho interests of peaca and good order in his Btata wonld be much botter served if His Excellency Wirz. nx Prrr Keuroas would make hasta to paok his carpet-bag and repair at ouce to Now Orleans instoad of wasting his time in wliciting ald from the Govornment to sup- press disorders which may be properly dealt with by the Btate suthorities it the Governor simsel? will only got to work in tho right viy, The Chicago produca markets were gen- srally loss active and steadier yesterday, ex- tept wheat. Mess pork declined 174c per brl, closing et §20.82} for June and 820.50 for July, Lard was 6o per 100 Ibs lower, closing st $12.20 cash and $12.85 for July, Meats were unchanged, at 7io for boxed shoulders, 10fo fordo short ribs, and 1140 - for do short clears, Lake freights wore dull, at 2}@2jc for wheat to Bufalo, XRall Republicans of the saveral Stntes THI CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, MAY 93, freights wers dull and unchanged. High- wines were firm, ot $1.08 per gallon. Flonr was in fair demand and steady. Wheat closed 13e highor, at $1.06} cash and $1.07} for ‘June. Corn closed jc highor, ot 47{c for Moy and 460 for Juno. Oats closed firm, at 31}@3130 cash and 30]@30}0 for June. Rye was stronger, at 69@700, Darley was casier, at 72@73c for May and 59@593c for Juno. Hoga ware fairly active, at5@100 decline, common to prime selling ot $6.75@7.10, Catlle wore dull and weal. Bheep wero searce. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.87} in greenbacks at the cloge, Mayor Horxg proposcs that no time shall be lost in earryingout the policy of retrench. ment recommended in his inaugural mes. sage. His authority wna exorcised last evon. ing in communieations to the Council an- nouncing that he had romoved from offico the entire Health Department, from tho Prus- ident of the Board down to and including tho sanitary policemen, and appoint- ed Dr, MoVickan as Health Officor; also that ho had removed Mixe Bairer, Chiof Building JXnspector, and his corps of essistants; that ho had removed B, 8, Haxes, City Comptroller, and appointed R. P. Derroxsox ns his successor; ond that he had romoved It E. GoODELL, City Marshal, and recommending that tho present Buperintendent reorganizo tho police force. In tho cases of the Bonrd of Health and the City Comptroller the aotion of the Mayorwas concurred in by the Common Coun- cil Inst evoning, while tho removals of tho Building Inspectors and City Marshal wero reforred to appropriate committeea. el S ——— Among the Cabinet chianges effocted yos- terdsy nono has sot tho Presidentinl appa- ratus awry so much as the appointment of Dox Caxznox a3 Sacretary of War. There is an excited state of uncertainiy as to the actunl significance of tho appointment— whether it is merely for the purpose of giv- ing Pennsylvania tha Cabinet position which the President has long had in view for her, or whother itis amovo in the interest of CongLiNg, whose prononnced supportors tho Caxcrons are kmown to be. The Brare mon are displeased, for tho new War Socretary is said to bo commitied to tho task of engineering tho Pennsylvanin delega- tion against Brarxe nt Cincinnnti; the Mon. ToN men are nonplussed, because of the President's recent pledge that he would do nothing that should oven have the appear- ance of o preforence in the successorsliip, and tho appointment of Doy Oaumzox is difficult to reconcilo with this pledge. About tho only peopls who keep cool and don’t dis- tross themselves about the matter ara tho Bnstow men, who have nothing to expect from tho machine in any event, and who are firm in the faith that this yoar Washington manipulations will not govern tho result at Oincinnati. THE STATE CONVENTION. Theo Ilinois Republican Stata Convention will moot ot Bpringfield on Wednesday—to- morrow—to nominate o ticket for Btata offf. cers, and to appoint delegates to the Cincin- nati National Convention, That tho Conven- tion will belarge, enthusisstic, and eventually barmonious, there can bo ne doubt, ‘There are two points, howover, on which meditative and thoughtful sction should provail. These are in tho matter of instruct. ing the delegates as to their votes for a Pres- idontial candidate, and with respoct to the platform or doclaration of principles. Tho National Convention will, within twonty days, adopt n national platform upon which the wholo Ropublican party of tho United States will onter the campaign, The mey therofore proporly forego any formal plat~ form, and leavo that business to the National Convontion. To nominate a Btato ticket and Presidentinl elsctors on one platform, and bavo the Presidential candidates nominated on a different, and, as in some cases, noces- sarily o conflicting ono, s one of the om- barrassing accidents linblo to follow any at. tompt to forostall the opinion of the National Convention. The Convention will do well, therefore, to omit any formal doclaration of platform, especially upon all points on which there is a differonco of opinion in the oountry. The BState will bo represented at Cincin- nati by forty-two citizens, choson, presum. obly, for their patriotism, intelligence, and sound judgment. These delegates are to go to Cincinuati to moet with tho delegates of he thirty-soven other States, and with them to act for the beat intorests of the wholo Re. publican party, which are of greater impor- tanco than tho intorests of any individual, and we tako it that delopatos are to be chosen who will voto and act &8 they may think will best promote party success and the national welfare. Delegates from Illinols will meet at Cincinnati otherdelegatos fromother parts of the country, aud tho eventual choice of tho whole Convention is to be determined by such considerations as upon full deliberation and carefol comperison of circamstances shall indicate the man who ought to bo nom. inatod. Thoso delegatos are to be common arbitratora for the whole party. To instruct an erbitrator a8 to the do- cision ho ghall make upon hearing the wholo caso is an injustice. It tios the hands, controls tho will, destroys the influ. cnoe, and ignores tho judgment of the delo- gates ; it loaves them helpless, oxcopt to ro- peat, parrot-liko, tho instructions reccived, and provents their dofeating a bad choice, when if uninstructed they might doso, No candidate ought to be nominated who ean. not obtain the votes of & majority of unin. structed delegates, who, looking at the whola case in the full light of all the information and exporience of six hundred represonta. tives of all parts of tho country, shall reach on impartial deciglon, That theConvention, of loft free, will reach & wiso conclusion we have no doubt, and we think that Illinols, who has no ¢ favorite son,” but who wants the beat man, should leave her delegates freo to act for tho best interests of the party as the eircumstances ot Cincinnati may dator- mine, Tt appears that certain Congressmon from this Btate have concluded that the Republic- ans of Tllinois are not able to got through a Btate Convention without somebody coming from Waslungton to steer them. They have sccordingly scnt one of. their number to accomplish tho job of instructing the dele. gatea to Cincinnatito voto as a unit for a par. ticular candidnte, The impolicy of such action is obvious, for the reason that ovents may happen botween now and tha 14th of June which will rondor the instructions a source of cxtreme embarrassment. The other Western States which have no candi- date of their own to present have wisely loft their delogates froo to do the best thing for their party, and Illinois shonld do the same, more especially since Nlinols has had the Presidency four terms in succession, Moreover, tha attempt of Congrossman to diotata to s Btate Convontion has always beon asignal failure in the past, and ought to bo. DRISTOW AS FPRESIDENT—SOUTHERN CLAIMS, A woll and forcibly written lotter, in which tho probablo conrse of Mr. BrisTow, in case ho bo elected Prosidont, upon cerinin points is discussed, appears in Tnz Tninune this morning, Conceding everythingthathasbeen clalmed for Mr, Brisrow, tho writer, for him. gelf and others, presents cortain radical ob- jeotions which he considers must be satis- factorily removed. 'These objections, briefly stated, are aa follows: 1. Will Mr, Bristow, s President of the United Btates, with a Confederato Congresa to deal with, in case of a conflict of intorosts ‘botweon the Union and the Confoderate scc- tions, hove the courago and pntriotism to protect the formor? 2, That the Confedorates have a majority in one 1louse and are strong in the other; that tho South domanda in the way of claims by her citizens compensation for all the dam- nges and losses suatained by tho War; that it {s within tho discrotion of Congross to pay theso claims or not ; that in the domaand tho South will bo & unit; would Bmstow, if President, approve or veto tha Dbills pnssed allowing those claima ? 8. In the Ropublican party so poor in hon. st and ablo men that it must go to Kon. tucky—a Stato which will' not give it an electoral vote—for a candidate? Thero soems to be an assumption that tha next President must have a Confed- orata Congress to deal with, If thero bo a Republican President eleoted in November, thoro will almost certainly be a Republican majority in the next ITouse of Representa. tives. A Ropublican President, thereforoe, whather it bo Bnistow or any other, will bave o party mnjority in both branches of Congress at loast during the first two years of his torm, ' Tho quostion of Sonthern claims is, wo confess, ono of tho many serious subjects which threaten tho integrity of tho Union. Though mensurably unseen, it is the bed- rock on which rests the Bouthern advocacy of anunlimited issue of paper money. When the monoy gets chieap, o systom of magnifi- cent expenditure is tofollow. Evory schemo of subsidy is to be voted, a liberal policy is to bo oxtonded to clnimants, tho incxorable law which stands between tho bankruptoy of tho Union and the confiscation of tho War losses of the Bonthern people is to ba swept sway, and upon tho nation at large is to be ontailed the burden of paying tho actual losses of all the people. Wa regret to sny that on this guostion there has boen much Inmentable wenkness on the part of Northern Ropublicans in Con- gress, By legislation the doors of the Court of Claims havo been gradually widened, and mnny Southern claims, once excluded, have found thoir way there to judgment and pay- ment. Nothing has been easicr, A number of claimanta barred by law from a hearing in thiat Court club together, employ ox-Cabinet officors, ex-Senators, aud others, and in time the gates of the Court aro opened and fresh classes of claims are admitted. It wounld possibly be a national blessing if the Court of Clnims were abolished. The grest law governing all the claims made by peoplo in tho Southern or Reobel States is the universal ono that g persons residing in timo of war in an cnomy's coun- try are to bo held as onemics, and thoy havo 1o claim for any damages rosulting from the prosecution of the war to thoir persons or property in tho enomy’s country. That is the universal 1aw, which, once thrown down, places the people of Toxas and Alabama, so far as war lossos, on the same footing with tho people of Ohio ond Ponnsylvania, Yeb eminont Republican Bonators, like Hows of ‘Wisconsin, have sdvocated the making of oxceptions to this rule of war, and to what extent claima have been nllowed and passed by Republican Congresses we cannot now 80y, TEach of the Departments have committed to them by Congress sovernl closses of claims, with authority and direction to aottlo. Many and copspicuous have been the mis. takes, blundors, and gross outragos commit. ted by Becretarios in the payment of theso Southern claims, many of them largely fraudulont, Tho BeraNap-PENDLETON cuso was ono of this class. Since Mr. BrisTow hns beon Secrotary of tho Treasury he has sigmalized his administration by the rojection of every one of theso claims over which the law gave him tho least discretion. Thoungh o Kentockinn, and all parties supposed to bo concerned wero Kentuckians, no man will pretend that Boistow wonld have reopencd that Kontueky railroad case for Mr. Penpre- Ton; that was a favor he got from Mr, Brr- ENAY, of Towa. What guarantee ia there that 8 Ropublican Congress elocted with the Republican Presi- dent in 1876 will not brenk down moro of this law which excludes thoss Southorn claims ? Shonld that Congress do this, what gnarantee ia there that tho Prosidont clected with that Congress will not approve the action of his party? Thoe only guarantee for the futare is tho racord of the past, and there can be no moro certain ono, Why is Mr. Bristow alone to bo considered unsafe? Has he ovor violated tho law, or strained the law, or ovadod the law, for any scction of country, or family, or person? Are his personal nnto- codents less trustwortby than those of Mr. Braivg, or Mr, Conxrixg, or Mr. Monton? Is he not na a lawyer head and shoulders sbove either of them, not only so far as a Lnowledge of the law, bat in tha habit of rigidly executing it? Ho hds doubtless long considered the law of this question of Sonth. ern claims; ia fully aware that to admit ‘boyond which thers is to bo no virtuo, hon- esty, nbility, or statesmanship is to attempt to amond the providonco of the Almighty. It in pertinent that wo shonld add that the want of substanco in this lust objection is shown by the avowed preference for Judge Davis,—a gentloman born and raised to man- hood among the slavcholders of Maryland. In a nation like this, with the froe Intercourse and intor-Stato migration of tho American peoplo, to mrgue that confidoncs ia to bo givon or withheld bocause of the State in which & man may ave boen born, would be to array socioty in every locality in domestio strifo. Confidenco and trust, if given at all, must Lo reposed in the aMaw; and among the statos- men of the present day that man who, with puro hands, intollectual ability, unblemished official and personal record, knowa his duty and is not afraid to perform it, be ho opposed by ‘whomsoover daro do g0, can bo most safely trusted, oven if ho were not born in Now England and was born in Kentucky. REGULATING JUNK-SHOPS. The Grand Jury, in its report to the Com- mon Council with reforenco to tho regula- tion of the trafic of jink-shops, haa struck nt ono of the most fruitful sources of erimo in this city. Iis reportisall the more valun- ble beeauso the jury is not satisfied with merely calling attention to the evil and sug- gesting the nccessity of reform, but it pro- poses two practical methods of dealing with it, which desorve the immedinte attention of the Council. The junk-shops, 8 well as the pawnbrokers’ shops, which are also included them is to doublo the national debt; ana is it likely that Mr, Bristow or any other Ro. publican elected to the Presidency, in the absence of personal corruption, would break down his own Administration by sanctioning or approving any such policy as admitting na lawful a domand for soveral thousands of millions of dellars to pay for the Bouthern losses in the War? Dut, it is eaid, Mr, Bristow is a Kentuck. inn, and, while any man at tho North may be trusted, the place of his nativity must bo ac- copted as fatal, This objection is one that does not ndmit of argument. Personal hon- esty, intellectual ability, and indomitable courago have no Btate limits within which to exist, Wherever they aro found they aro the samo, in tho black race or tho white raco, They are nowhero indigenous. To nssert that no man can boe honest or trusted who was bomn in any of tho old slaveholding Btates is to rewrits tho history of the Ameri- can Union, Bome of our ablest and purost statesmen have beed of foroign birth. Avrexanpes Hauwron compares favorably with Alnox Bugs, Hexuy Ouay and Avea- uax LixconN suffer nothing in history be- cause born in Kentucky. Inthe great Amer- ican fomily, Btates are but local pracinets into which the national horitage is divided; tho same flag, the same name, the same nas tionality, cover all. To attempt to fix limits in the report of the jury, are nurscrios of crime. ‘'There may be honest junk-dealers, and thero may be now and thon such a rara avisas an honest pawnbroker, but the ma- jority of them are not, and, as thoy pny but a mero pittance for second-hand articles, they can afford to run any risk of reclamation. It adds to the seccurity of thoir businoss that much of the second-hand property disposed of at theirplaces, especinlly atthe junk-shops, cannot bo identified except with considorable difficulty. The fact, therefore, that there aro huhdreds, if not thousauds, of places open in this city whore goods can be disposed of without question and with perfoct seaurity, is an immensa temptation to the idle and dissoluto of all clnsses, There is in this city, 28 in all Inrger cities, o clnss of young vaga- bonds who aro nover under rostraint, and who spend their time wandering about in senrch of plunder, prowling about citizona' yards during the daytime, entering vncant houses and carrying off faucots and plumbing moterinls, This latler kind of larceny has grown to be such a serions evil that no va. cant house in the city, unlesa it is constantly watched, is sccuro from the depredations of theso young thioves, who know that theycan steal with impunity, and dispose of their plunder without a question being asked of them. Theso shops are therefore the direct nursories of crime, not only affording a shel- tor for the idle, shiftless, dissolute, but nlso tompting otherwise well-disposed childron to steal, bocause thoy ean do so with safoty. They aro filling tho city with youthful criminals, Thoy aro aducating children for tho Penitontiary. They are inimical to the interests of proper- ty-holders, and, ns at present oporated, dofy tho property-holder to recover his goods or get any eatisfaction from the man who hag purchased them, Imowing them to bo stolen. Houscholders, rotail dealers, railroad corpo- rations, in fact almost every person owning property which is movablo, aro suffering continunl losses, owing to the swarms of youthful thioves who can stenl with impunity nand disposo of their plundernt these roposi- tories for stolen goods. To corroct this evil, the Grand Jury sug- gost #omo very practical remedics. First, that ull second-hand dealers, pnwnbrokers, junk-dealers, or what-not, shall file every morning &t the Central Polics Btation n complete inventory of the articlea pur- chased by thom tho day before, and that they shall keep theso articles five days beforo solling them, so that people may bLavo an opportunity of reclaiming their property. Seccond, that the rates of licenso shall be greatly incrensed, that none but persons of honest roputation shall be licensed, and that they shall be required to givo bonds that thoy will obey the law. As the law now stands, any dishenest man in the community can go into the business by simply paying tho licenso.rate, whick is ri- diculously small, considering the largo profits of tho business, The third sugges. tion, which is a very important one, rends as follows Buying such articles from minors should be pro- hibited, unless accompanied by the weitten consent of parents or guardlnns; and in the caso of second. hand lead plpe, or lend in any ahape, melted from such pipe, elnks, fuucets, and all kinds of sccond- hand plunbing materials, the purchaxe of all such minors should bo sbuolutely prohibited; and, furs ther, should not be allawed to be uold vr purchased by perdons af lawful age, except the certificate and cansent of thio owncr or agunt of the building from which it was taken (glving the exact number and Aocallty of sald bullding) shall {n every caso accome pany tha material sold. 1ith rigid penalties for tho violation of theso ordingnces there is no doubt they would tend to suppress a large share of tho petty larconics by young boys and half- grown vagabonds which kave becomo such nuisance in this city, It may not bo possi- Lle to check thom nitogether, bat it is cer tninly a safoguard which honest people have the right to claim that some measure shall bo devised by the Common Councll to protect them from the depredntions of theso yonth. ful scoundrols und the recelvers of stolen property. It may be that the Council ean doviso atill more radicdl and satisfactory pro- tactive laws. Be this as it may, tho honest people of the city will look to the new Coun- cil to do something in their intoresta, THE CABINET CIZANGES, Tho Cabinot changes annouuced this morn. ing are the moat sonsational news from Wash-. ington. They havo grown out of the necos- sity for filling the vacant mission to England. Br. Epwanps PrxnueroNt having been ap- pointed to this post, the office of Attorney- General waa vacated. Mr. Avronzo W, Tarr, who succeoded Brrxxar as Secretary of War, waas selected as Attornoy-Gonoral, which left tho Secrotaryship of War opon, and to this Doy CawenoN hos been nominated. Two of the appointmentaaro good. Mr. Presreroxt is probably as fit o man ag could have been induced to accept tho English misaion at the present time, when but a fow months remain Veforo the oxpiration of Gen. GuaNT's torm, and Mr, Tarr is evon bottor adapted for the ofiicoof Attorney-Gonoral than ho was for the War Dopartment; and, in his new position, he will bring intelligent and ofiicdent support to the prosecution of the rovenus thieves which has been so succossfally inaugurated by the Hocretary of the Treasuny, DBut it would al- most oem that thesa changes wera all muda to put Mr. Dox, Qaueron in the position formerly held by his father, Mr, DoN Caw. £308 i5 an able 1man, and a “chip of the old block,” and a perfect ring politiclan. e has been a successful railroad maunger and has ¢ 18%6. sbundant ability; but ho is not the kind of man to command h'msolf to the present tono of public sentiment, which {8 opposod to that sort of politics with which tho Oamznon family have gonerally boen nasociated. Wo very much fear that the now Scerotary ‘would not make thesaving of 36,000,000 for the noxt flgeal year which Mr. Tarr discovered was possiblo. It is also hinted that Mr. Cast- ¥nox's appointmont is a concessibn to tho Pennsylvania maohino men in the interests of Mr. Coxxrva's nomination nt.Cincinnati. If thero is any truth in this rumor, it 18 fore- ing tho people to pay somewhat dearly for somothing thoy do not want at any prico, Of course the changes that hnve beon made havo provoked rumors of othor changes yot to come, and among these is predicted the rotiramont of Secrotary Brusrow. Some con- firmation of this is aited in the passage by the Bennte of o rolief bill over the velo of the President, said veto having been suggest- ed, as is alleged, by the Becrotary of the Trensury. We do not iake much stock in this ramor. Tho bill in question was com- paratively unimportant. It involved n claim of 3164, which is said to have beon wrong- fully collocted from n couple of men named Trien and LuorerT, o038 keopers of n bonded warchouse in Kontucky. Now, evon if the Becrotary of the Treasury o mistaken in his judgment in this matter,— though thesentimont of. the Sonats is by no means conolusive as to this,—wa cannot sco in what sense n couple of men who.were nevor henrd of before, or an error of judg- ment in the right diroction to collect a tax of $164, can bo permitted to lend to tho rotire- mont from tho Onbinet of the most efficient and valunble officor of the Government. The whole story sounds too much like n tompest in a teapot, and Gen. Gnant can hardly afford to permit Mr. Bristow to retire from tho Treasury Dopartment just aftor he has appointed Dox Caxesox to the War De- partment. VOK HOLLEN'S CORRUPTION, Crasrxs Hereer, brother-in-law of Vox Hounex, tho defanlting and fugitive Oity Colloctor, has explained (porhaps unwitting. 1y) the real secrot of the latter's corruption. Vox Horrrw's downfall is attributable, from the ovidence of those most intimnte with his caroor, to his connection with the so-called “Poople’s Party,” which was organized two and a half years ago ostensibly to ¢ liberal- 1ze" the liqnor and Sunday ordinances, but renllly for publio plunder, Von Hornez was a tolorably decont fellow when first elected to offico. His habits were good, and his in~ clinations seomed to be honest. During the firut two years of his service thero was prob- ably no time when he could not havoe made good his accounts, The testimony of Bz NaAN, his first cashier, is to this offect, and it is ‘worthy of credenco. But when ho iden- tified himaclf with the bummor clement and boeame their candidate for ro-election, he gore himsolf up freely to the now nssocin- tions ho was forced tb cultivate. From that .| time lio began to'stay out Inte at night and negloct his homo and family. Ho had olmost constant business with “Mr. Me. Ganry” or “Mr. Forzy.” Ho became nn habitue of the soloons. Ho took to drinking maro or less. o joined the Bean Club and tho Cesmops. . Ho was contaminated by the crowd he was training with, and when ho got to gambling thero was soon an end of him. His habits aud the condition of his nccounts would have attracted attention long before if the Oity Government and Couneil had beon in tho hands of a difforent class of men, und alargo pnrt of his defal- cation might have boon saved by n prompt oxposaro of his real condition. Dut the clags in control were naccustomed to drink- ing, sprecing, and gnmbling, and a part of them were deriving too much personal profit from plucking him to assist in stopping his syatem of plundor. So ho was permitted to run the length of his rope, and it was not till ho beeams satisfied that the late city ad- ministration could hold on no longer that ho confessed his crimo by flight toa foreign country, Howover sorrowfal the personal aspects of such a carcor are, s much more important consideration is the public intorest, and Von Hor.uex's corruption shonld bring forcibly to mind that public trusts cannot be confided to the class that Lins been running this city for two yoars aud o half without serious conso- quences, of which Von Horrex's defalcation is n specimen. Wheother or not his plunder. ing is tho only caso that will bo exposed, time alono can establish. But the people of Chi- cago have had o narrow escape, They per- mitted the control of municipal affairs to pas into the hands of loafers, gamblers, and saloon-keopars of tho bummer class, SBome of thesa fellows are now beforo the community as confossed thicves and blackmailers, Tho ro. action last fall did not come one moment too soon, and it is fortunato that the defeat of Hrumve was followed up this spring by tho election of o Reform Cowneil and tho over- throw of the usarping Mayor whom Hesmve and Rema sot up. But the people must be vigilant in their own bohalf, There is renson to appreliend that the bummer lead- ors are so confidont in tho demornlization of this community, brought about by contam- ination such as Von Howren suffered, that thoy beliove thoy will bo permitted to re- sumo their former influonce. Thero is no doubt that they will bo make o despernto fight to that ond. Tho poople must not weary in the new political interest they have doveloped, and thoe noxt point of attack should be the County Board. THE NAVAL INVESTIGATIOR. . The investigation into the conduoct of the Naval Dopartmont has not rosulted in mak- ing out an actual case of Belknapery sgainst Bearatary Ropeson. He i not proved to hawo been a bribe-taker himsolf, but he has kept nearhim as his next friends the Oar- Tenrs, who have made use of their closs re. Iations with him to blackmail contractors, which they confcss to have done to the amount of upwards of throa hundrsd thou. sand dollara. Thoy in fact stood so olose to the Bacretary that contraotora could only got al the Department through them and upon poyment of thelr blackmail commissions. Thus a singlo firm waa forcad to pay the Oar- rerLs $140,000 to obtain one contract, and the liko laviea have beon inade upon other contractors running through ths whole of Rourson's administration. The corrapt funds have not been traced to his possession, but tho affair has an ugly look ; and the best. possibla that can ba said of him is that in the most culpabla manner ha utterly noglected tho duties of his office, and kept 80 near him these OatTERLLS, who were old Jersoy friends of his, that it ho had paid the slightest re. gard to what wos going on he must have known they wero stealing. The investigation discloscs the most shamoful state of corvuption in ths mnavy- yords, Rotton ships were repaired and sev- eral veasels taken to pleces for no other pur- posa than to necessitato the purchase of moro matérial, and the making consequent _might bo tho subjocts of nover-ending ex- 1y of more contrnets, with Oarrert's com- misslons to como in, Vessols wero built that rotted on the stocks, and rotten hulks kopt aflont at great exponss, simply that thoy peusivo ropairs, nll which conld not make thom seaworthy, No contracts wore allowed tobo lot outsida the Ring built up by the Cat- TELLS, and when bids wore invited thoy wore for what articles woro wanted, together with many others that were not wanted, the wholo being included in ono bid. Tho Ring mado the lowest bid on the whole, and was systomatically rolieved from furnishing tho articles not required, whilo as systematieally the Ring's bids for thoe articlos required nnd nccopted were at the higheiit figures. The liko wastefulness, oxtravaganee, ond corrup- tion are disclosed in every branch of the De- partment, and, while it is gratifying to find thnt Itonrson is not implicated in the Iattor, it is very clear that, in viow of all theso things, it would have beon far better for tho Administeation and for tho country if ho hnd Leon removed long ago. Ile has, sinco his ontranceinto the Cnabinot, boon recklessly ex- travagnnt in tho conduct of his Depnrtmont, and has opposed all propositions for retrench- ment, The feeling has long pervaded tho Ttepublican party that bocause of this he was not tho right man in the right place, and, in view of tho recont disclosures, there will bo na imperative demand that his portfolic be trausferred to some man of the Bristow type, who has the administrative ability to check stonling in his Depariment, and the courago to do it. THE CITY CERTIFIC, 3 Mr. Comptrollor Haves is excessively tenn- cious of his own opinions, and weakens him- self in the cstimation of the publio by the carnestness with which he insists that all other persons shall agros with him. Wo take occasion, however, to repeat that the system of issuing cortifieatos and borrowing money thereon is eapable of being abused by o dishonest oflicer, It is, morcover, ns ac- tually practicod for n year past, illogal. In tho suit instituted by Mr. Haxes, the unanimous opinion of the Circuit Judges of this county, with an ex-Supromo Judgo at their head, was to the offect that the power of thae city to borrow money is limited to the issue of cer. tiflentes in anticipation of the collection of taxes alrondy lovied and specinlly appropri- atod for the current year. There the power of tho city to borrow monoy beging and ends, and consequontly : 1. Tho city hns zo authority to issne cer- tificates in anticipation of the taxes of 1876, and use the monoy to tako up eertificates is- sued beforo April 1, 1876. 2. Tho city has no logal authority to use tho taxes of 1875 a8 collocted to meet tho current oxpenses of 1876, but must apply thoso taxos a8 collected to tho rodemption of the outstanding certificates of 1875, 8. Tha cily has no power in 1876 to issuo cortificates in anticipation of the uncollected taxes of 1875, those taxes baving beon al- ready snticipated by the issue of outstanding paper. It will be seon, therefore, that the author- ity of tho city to borrow money is clenr- ly defined by the_Court, and is strictly limited, and that when the city goes beyond that limitation it is viclating the law and is suing unlawfal paper. How does Mr. Haves propose to pay the 23,000,000 of old outstanding certificates? Is it by tho salo of certificates issued against the taxes of 18767 If this bo done, it isin clear and direct violation of law. In what other way can ho take up those old certifi- catos savo by applying thoreto, as fast as colleeted, tha tax of 1875 and prior years? It is o question which we will not now disonss whother the city can now, in 1876, issno n cortificato to bo given in ex- chango or rencwal of one issucd ngainst lnst year's taxes; and it is slso a question whather it is not bottor policy to lot all thoso outstanding cortificatos remain as they are until thoy can be taken up with the monoy received from the taxes, Tho question whother the city can issuo paper payable on o fixed dato, whether the taxes out of which it is to bo paid are then collected or not, was cortainly denied by the docision of the Court. Tho outstanding paper, whother it to recites or not, is only payable out of the taxes when . collected ; consequently, to leave that paper until the tax ia collocted will not chaunge or weaken tho only legal obligation that paper enn have. Tho taxes for 1876 cover the nuthorized ex- penditures from April1 to Deo, 1, 1876, Nono of theso taxes will bo collocted before Janunry, 1877, and the great bulk will not be collected before August, 1877, We confess that we do not seo how the city can pay its curront expenses, including the interest on tho public dobt, July and January, without borrowing nonoy in anticipation of those uncollected taxes. On this last point thera is no question ns to the power of the city to borrow tho monoy, and, howevor much the necessity for resorting fo that proceeding is to bo regrotted, we do not seo how it is to be wholly avoided. It may bo in part avoided by tho suspousion of several contracts, the abolition of sovernl offices, the goneral re- duction of salarics, and tho goneral reduction of expenditures. 1 Mr, Hayes in his Yettersays: | The $2,800, 000 of our temporary deht, belng all that remains unpaid, was incurrod for money to pay the Interest on our funded debt and for other 1igitimate purposes, all in snticipation of taxcs and within the approptiations. 1am for paying this debt honestly na it matnrcs, Tui Treouse s not, but wishes the city to take the position of an fusolvent debtor, under the falie sssumption that tho obligation is questionable. This is nothing but repudlation In dlsguise, and but thinly dlsguised at that, This is cheap buncombe, all the more cheap because wholly unfounded. T Omoago ‘TninoNs hos never proposed the repudintion of a dollar of the public debt, whether tho samo wes roprosented by cer- tificates legally issmed or not. When Mr. Haves vehemently and for so long insisted that it was repudiation to question tho legal- ity of scrip which recited that it was issued under authority of laws that had been re- pealed, Tie TrmoNe, while holding the scrip to boillegal, contonded that itshould be paid. And now, when thoe Courts have compelled. the Comptroller to abandon his old form of cortificatos and adopt a logal one, wo have the old ory of repudiation. The best and most certaln woy to avold repudiation is for the Comptrollor to keep within the law. Bo long as he does that, thers will be no taJk of repudiation. e wsust learn uu.lemn that, evon ho is subject to the law, 1f the Comptroller will dovote a little of his energy to the proparation of some amendments to tho Revenue law, whereby the collection of back taxes can be promoted, and whereby it will become mora profitable to the tax-payer to pay his taxes than not to do 60, he will contribute largely to the rem- edy of the evil under which this and all other cities in Dlinois labar in the way of colloct- ing taxes. Asitis, the law allows the tax- payer to borrow the amount of his taxes from the State, ooanty, and other municipal | valuabla + time, we ity, instend of paying thoss taxces to carry on the Govornmont, Tho Congrensional investigation Into Me, Bramve's allegod roceipt of Little Rock & Tort Hmith Railrond honds aa a gratulty having fully dotormined that ho was nover tho ownor of tho bonds roferred to (which Col. Scotr aftorwards put off on the Unlon Pacific), Mr. Joszrn B. Brzwant has now mndo n atatomont which just as complotely sots at rest tho' etory in rogard to Bripm’s acceptanco of Kanans Pacifio bonds, Divest. ed of nlotof complications arising ount of the law.suit which Mr, BTEwant brought agninst tho Knnsns Pacifio, the charga wag that BTEWART, a3 an agent of the Kansag Pacifie (then the Eastern Division of the Union Pacific), hnd delivered to Mr. Branm twouty-fivoof its Louds as n gratuity. It way cited in support of this charge that Jaaers W, KnowrrtoN, now decensed, but formetly a student in tho Isw-ofilco of Britwanr & Rioorx, in Washington, had one:o witnessed the transfer of twenty.five XKnnsns Pacific bonda while Mr. BLAINE was clo soted innn inner office with Mr, Stew. ame. It 'wns also snid that the rocord of - Srewanr's caso ogainst the Konsas Paific Company showed that ho had wr itten o lotter to Jony D. Peany, Pr. ssidont of the Kausns Pacifio Company, in wh jch he roferred to bonds transforred to ¢- — Bramiz" among othors, ond that the roc ord further contained a stipulation be. tw: son the two partion to the suit that * Jomy E. Braxc” was tho holder of certain bonds, 8u ch was the circumstantial evidence tend. ing : to councet Jamra G. Bramvz with the trn nsaction, I1n dispelling the orroneous _inference drn avn from those ciroumstances, Mr, Brzw. An1! has found it necossary to onter into the dotails of his law-suit, ocoupying soveral celumns and of no intorest to the publio, ‘Ho produces, however, a power-of-attornoy from Jom:n E. Braing, which forms part of tho rocoril, and which was dated ns far back 08 1863, * As this portion of his statoment of itsolf disjproves the charga that James G. B over had any interest in the bonds, we reprodinca it. Mr, STEwanT snys: I wns employed by & number of those holding the so clalma: and alleged intercats in the Leaven. wo rth, Pawneo & Western Rallrond Cdmpany to sot tloand adjust their claims against tho Union Pac ific Railway, E. D., and among others I re. cohh red the following power and warrant of attor- ney from Jonx E. Bras: tate of Kansas, Clly of Leavenworth: Enow men by these presonts that Joszen B, Srzwanr, - Washington, D, C., ia fally empowered and torizcd by mo to settle my clalms sgainst the xenworth, Pawnee & Weatern Railrond Com. ¥ bearing date May 23, 1862, and to sdjust the ie on any basia that may secrn to him fair snd Hable, and to receive and recolpt for, in ny 10, oll'dnes to me from said Leavenworih, Paw. & Western Rallrond Company, Witness my o and seal this 10th day of May, 1863, Joux E, Drarym. itnesa: Tromas P, FENLON. *his power-of-attorney I8 dated May 10, 1803, 11s witnessed by the Hon. Tnoxas P. Fenvox, sof tho first Jawversand & lcading Democratic Gitfclan in the Btate of Kanses, and was racelved me in due course of mall after its date, and 1 1adjusted the claim by compromiso under ane sity of this power of attornoy on the part of oNE. Braixs with the lote SamuEr Haznzr dly two yesrs before I made the personal ac. nintanco of tho Hon. Jaxrs G. Brame, which ia not till carly in tho year 1805, and beforo I sew that Jonx E. BLANE was his brother. This power-of-attornoy shows conolusively at Janes @, Bramnve was novor intercsted . tho transaction, which seoms to have been tiroly legitimato asbatween Joun E. Brax an d tho Knnsos Pacific Company. As to the let ilor from Mr. BrewAnT to Perny, Presidont ot the.Knnsas Pacifio, the former says he did 1 ot wri\'e —— Brame,"” but spoke of Braixg 1 sy the :family name simply, ns of the others 1 !or whon t he had transferred bonds, simply * hooansa £,hey wers all known to Penny, and it wos not necessary to uso first npmes. The stipulation that Jomy E. Brimve was Lho. holder of o certain number of bonds was not oxcoptional, and had not the significance which has boen attached to it, sinca other stipulations of a similar character aroof record, and wiore made to simplify the caso by disposing «>f that portion,of tha bonds about which tl1ere was no dispute botween Stewanr and t he Company. As to Kxowi- Tow's appearance in the controversy, Mr. StewarT maints ins stontly that he had never goen Mr. Jaues < G, BLAIne in his (STzwarr's) office, bircauss ElLAIN nover was thore, and it must ‘have beol1 a caso of mistakon {dentl- ‘ty. Srxwvant ace odos to Mr. Ripprr's prop- wsition, however, that the bonds shall be sproduced’ to soo whothor Mr. KxowrTon's namo is on them, and ho has sent to the Mastor 1y Ohanecer:y of tho United States Oironit Cr surt for Kansas, in whoso possessi ion tho bonds now ave, nsking him to givo the necessary information. Hs knows that Mr. Krowrror 1 witnessod many popers whils i his office, tutis confident thesa ‘bonds were not amony § the numbor. g OBITUARY, cqu nay nee hap F2225F89888 .., OWEN MARLOWE. Tho telc grraph Saturday recorded the deathat the Masss ehusetts General Hospital of the fa vordte act or, OweN Maniowz. He wasof Eo- glish birt. b, and about 40 ycars of sge. Hecamo to Amerls . nt the age of 25, and made his debut at the ol 4 Barnum’s Muscum, New York (‘n Beptembs x, 1855, playing Lamp tn O'Keefo's “WIld O ats. After o short scasan ho mado & tour thr ougl: Buffalo, Toronto, and soveral Southern , cltie -5, establishing himself everywhere a8 & ge nernl favoritc. He mext appeared af Laurs K ecnc’s ‘Theatre, and in 1803 becamo ! member of thrs Arch Streot Theatre, Philade: phi, uo der N lrs. Joun DuEw's mansgemen He rem: iined * there four seasons, and then turned to Wi illack’s, where lic gave the Ih% perforn sanco 1 of Caplain Hawtres In ¥ Coste! He rensained st Wallick's thres scasons ad then went to € ‘alifornis, playing two scasonst Ban Francisco, After & fying visit to Englsd he reappeared in Now York in “Around he World In Efgd ity Days,” and last sesson oo menced o seried § Ir;( ‘t’nmlhm performances atho oston. ('mnb"’r::‘:xul"w?-. (TIOMAB RUQNNE LEGONAIS. The New Yor K papers record the death ofthe Rev. Tromas: Euaexa- LraoNals, which 0o carredl in that.e 1ty Tuesday last. He wes arery omincnt ccclesii 1atic and a member of the fl‘\"‘ of Jesus. Hew 18 born at Nantes In 1703, ad ll au carly age: B ‘gan the study of tholaw. Al “though he mack »a brilifant start (n his pnles& slon, in 1831 he . catered the Soclety of Jesus an was ordained @ ciNTRE. In163 3he came to America and oflml: menced bis miss lonary labors st Bt. Mary' Col lege, Kentucky, . where Lo remeined fourteen years, e thia 1 went to Bt Jobn's Collcz:. Fardham, and 00 r twenty-three years wad u:\:;l “ the miosy prot ninent members of the Orde: thoro. In1369 be removed toBt. Francs Xavier Collegey, Now ¥ ‘ork, whero he died. ———— s is omi ) -nulsanca in tho clty of & very !e‘rl;gfi? chjarach 3, Which should at coce ungt:fi: tho atte ntion of ¢ the pollce, We alludo to the crowds of boy & swarming $a all the m:lm- where ¢ here aro shade trees, kililng snd :‘l‘lh ing bin ls with rubber-spring guns or ‘s:; which f1 1 velocity 7 apd accuracy 80 nlmlu - efective ) an firens s, This practice s going o coustan Hy right In tho face of the yollc;, ;n aro stro. Oing abaut with nothing wd%mu 13 thoday, andwho szem to be calinly in ?’el!# totha f act that ‘It is in dlroctvlnlmo:f L ordlnan ws. As theso guardiaos of nm have mc. dhing else’ with which 10 occupy i \suggest to them that . four yoars later by Mgr.Hra~