Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 28, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY., MAY 28, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. The Teibwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PATABLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT ‘THIS OPFICE. ey i g U Mzlled to any adcress four weeks for. Sunday Editfon: Literary and Religl G o s e, ‘WEEKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. One copr, year.. Cluof Tick: per co ] Club of twenty, per coj 1.15 “The portage 8 15 cents & year, which we will prepay. Specimen coples sent free. To preveat delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Office address in full, including State and County. Remittances may be made efther by draft, express, ‘Post-Office order, or In registered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. - Dafly, delfeered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Datly, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANT, Corper Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, Dl AMUSEMEN TS. New Clicago Theatre. Clark street, between Randolph and Lake. Belvll Rysnin ** Caste.” McCormick TIall. North Clark etrect, cornerof Kinzie. Readingsand Musicut3 p. m. e SOCIETY MEETINGS. SPECIAL NOTICE—MEMBERS OF LADY WASH- ING HAPTEL, No. 158, D. E.S.—You are rc- 20 meet at the all, corner of Blue Island-av. urtceaiat, Tuesfay evening, ay S0 ac § %\':‘ quested aud F portance. A McHUGHL, Sccretary. OXIC—ORIENTAL LODGE, No. 33 A. F. & A. bers nre hereby notified to meet at Orlental 122 LaSalic-st., thls (Sunday) morning at 11 10 sttend the funeral of our late brother Hiram aster. TUCKER, Secretary. N, SIR KNIGHTS—STATED CONCLAVE mmanders, No. 19, K. T., Monday even- fvz. w for work ou the K. T. order. Visiting SIF Enfghts courteously invited. By order of th E. C. CHAS.J. TROWBRIDGE, Recorder. MASONIC.—There wil bt & regular sssembly of Ven ¢ Hte sth degrees. By order of E. P. * E. GUODALE, Gr. Sec'y. MASONIC—LAFAYETTE CHAPTER. NO. 2, R. A, cclal Convocation Monday evenlug, May 29,2t 8 o'clock. By order of the K. TUCKER. Secretary. SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1876. Greenbacks declined at the New York Ex- change on Saturday, ruling at $8@853. The resignation of Mr. JawzsF. Joy as President of the Michigan Central Railroad will occasion a good deal of surprise just at this time, though it is known that his posi- tion has not been s comfortzble one in his relution to many of the stockhoiders for some time past. Whether it means that Ar. Jox is mo longer able to control the stock and management of the Company, or that he vol- uatarily abandons a contest which no longer las any attrictions for him, can only be demonstrated by subsequent developments. Wis railroad career has been one of the most ambitions and enterprising even in this coun~ try of railroad monarchs. A Washington speclal states that the minority of the Committee on Pacific Rail- ronds have agreed to. report adversely to Judge Lawrexce's. bill providing for collec- tion of the minety-four millions due the Government by these railrosds. This on the ground that the Laweence bill is unconstitutional, because impair- ing the obligation of the contract be- tween the roads cnd the Government which js embodied in the various acts under which the roads were constructed. The re- port of the minority is reassertion of the doctrine that the roads are in fact superior to the Government, aud that against them the Government is wholly without redress. *- 3Ir. Corviy on Friday issued a mnotice to various city officers, in which he said: “I shall hold you personaily responsible to me, as the lawful 3ayor of Chicago, for the con- duct and management of your office, and I hereby direct you to pay no attention what- ever to eny order, direction, or communica- tion'of any character affecting your officied | acts emanating from said Hoyse” Since Mr. Haveshasbeen removed, and has reacked the conclusion that the world has become upside down, and must remain so unless he is restored, Couviy and Mixe Bamzy have put in their claims, and insist that. Chicago has fallen into the bands of repudiators, ap” it is necessary for them to assert theirir q.- feasible right to hold office. In the time, Covviy, incited by Haxes, whathecanto produce insubordiue” the city officers, and, if possi® down the suthority of the G The Comnon Council is # thority of this city, and 3’;’] ('“3\. Government® |, et to its con- trol. No officer car Wi out putting at der - follow r. Couve with- == annce the City Council. —e mean- is doing .don among Jle, to break .y Government. ae legislative au- all departments of s thes? ounding of felonics, thraugh 5 _nief upon returning a portion of l;:,s j‘:‘”" ser goes unwhipt of justice to steal s',lz: 15 bad enough when done by private g viduals anxious torecover their proper%y, .ough it visits almost infinite mischief upon community. But now the City of Buffalo is seriously proposing to en- ter into that same business of compounding fclony. Bonx, the City Treasurer, who has just served out his official term, is a de- faulter to the zmount of o half million. Not having his plunder in svailable shape for transportation, he has not run away, but in- stead hasmade a statement of his affairs,show- ing that zothing could be realized by legal proceedings ageinst him, but suggesting to the Common Council that, if they will leave him free to *‘manipulate” his various assets, he will mortgage the szme to trustees, the proceeds to be applied to make up for his stealing. A striking feature of the affnir is that nobody in Buffalo, so far as heard from, objects to this compounding of felony by the city, if it only be made sure that money will be realized out of it. Only a few such amicable settlements with official thicves are necessary to lead to a multiplica- tion of official defalcations, and the City of Buffalo seems disposed to make the first of conducted * according to the most ancient Egyptian ritual.” It is very questionable -whether anybody knows what was the most ancient Egytian ritual. But under the direc- tion of the Theosophists (who, as the term implics, have direct knowledge of and com- munication with the Deity) it may be so con- ducted. If not, doubtless the rites, including cremation on a funeral pyre, will be most fantastic and imposing. The four Western base-ball League clubs which last Tuesdsy went Down East to test the mettle of the Eastern League clubs have made a creditable showing thus far, the score standing two out of three in favor of the Chicago, St. Louis, and Louisville Clubs, though the Cincinnati's record is that of three consecutive defeats. The heavy work hss fallen to the lot of the Chicago Club, which has met the crack Eestern nine, the Hartfords, who were relied upon to save the championship for the East; and the result is that the Chicagos won two out of the three games, which unmistakably indicates that, unless some extraordinary mishap befall them, they will win the championshi The Chicago produce markets were irreg- tlor on Saturday. Wheat was steadier, un- der a good demand for shipment, and rye firm. Other grain and provisions were weak, Mess pork declined 43¢ per brl, closing at $19.10@19.12% for June and $19.32}@ 19.35 for July. Lard was 25@35¢ per 100 Ibs lower, closing ‘at $11.20 cashand $11.40 seller July. Meats were active and 1@ic lower, at Gic for boxed shoulders, 9¢c for do short ribs, and 9ic for do short clears. Lake freights were more active, at 2k¢ for wheat to Boffalo. Rail freights were dull and un- chenged. Highwines were firm, at $1.09 per gollon. Flour was in Jlight demand and steady. Wheat was active and closed 1c higher, at $1.05} cash and $1.08 for June. Corn declined {c, closing at 45ic for May and 44c for June. Osats declined jc, closing . at 28%c for Mny end 28}c for June. Rye was firmer, at 70@70}c. Barley declined 2@ 3c, closing at 66c for May and 53}c for June. Hogs were active and advanced 10c, closing firm at $6.20@6.60 for commion to choice. Cattle were quiet and steady, at $2.50@35.00 for inferior to choice. Sheep were scarce and nominally firm at Friday's quotstions. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $113.00 in greenbacks at the close. The policy of the Council Finance Com- mittee relative to the financial embarrass- ments of the city is very fully set forth in the document read by Mr. ELL1oTT ANTHONY at the meeting of citizens yesterday, and printed this morning in our local columns. They pledge the city to the payment within three yearsof the debt represented by the out- standing certificates of indebtedness, amount- ing to about $3,000,000, with the payment in the meantime of 7 per cent interest there- on ; but they refuse to issue any certificates in their place, because they believe those now outstanding to have been illegally issued, in which csse a new issue to take them up would be equelly unlawfal. Those falling due in June and July they hope to pay in cash, and they offer to receive them in pay- ment for past-due and unpaid taxes for the years during which the certificates wera is- sued. The city has also about 1,000,000 of tax-certificates representing its own- s chases at tax-sales, end it is intendiy i offer a large rebate on the allowed by law in order to attract the're- demption of these certificates, whicit, of course, are a perpetual lien upom the prop- erty sold for taxes. All these are wise con- cessioms, and, if they are met in the proper spirit by those who are still in default of the paymunt of back taxes, two-thirds of the ount- standing certificates of indebtedness can Re wiped out within a short time. There isrno difference of opinion as to the authority to issue certificates to raise money to pay: the obligutions incurred within the presenk year, drawn ageiost the tax-levy, and this -will be done. THE CITY FINANCES.. The ionference of city offcers and of banker.5 and merchants held or Saturday was 8 7 atifying one. “question that there wes no person, official or It determimed beyond all unofficial, who had the remote:st wish or pur- pose to repudiate any portion. of the city pa- per, nor any disposition to quibble, or delay, or postpone payment becasiso of any techni- cal or even substantial illegality in the way the debt was created; the purpose was gen- eral to pay as speedily as possible everything which bears the name of Chicago as & debt- or. Theonly difference of opinion was as to how this could be done in the specdiest possible manner. An interesting part of the proceedings was & statement by Mr. PEam- 50N, of the Finance Comiittee, exhibiting the actual state of the city’s obligations. The whole amount is £G,526,000; against which there are somé $7,500,000 uncollected taxes. P i It will be seen that the assets in the shape of unpaid or uncollected taxes far exceed the amount of the outstanding obligations. If these taxes could be collected there would be no trouble in paying the paper. Hence that policy which can induce the payment of taxes is, of course, the safest, wisest, and the most certain in producing relief. Of this debt of £6,526,000, some $2,984,- 000 are represented by certificates which are held in various parts of the country. These certificates are payable out of these uncol- lected {axes, ang not out of any other fund, even if the city had any such fund within jts control. The taxes, when collected, can- not be lawfully used for any other purpose than to pay this debt. Here, then, we have the combination,—that the uncollected taxes cannot be used except to pay this debt, and this debt cannot be paid out of any other fund. Evidently, therefore, any policy which will convert the unpaid taxes into city serip, or the serip into taxes, is the only policy that isopen. There is no second choice. The law and the bond are inexorable. The scrip can only be paid with the taxes; and why not them. Our dispatches announce that to-day at New York will be celebrated according to the rites of the Egyptians of the time of the Prorraes the obsequies of the late Baron DE Para. The deceased was a gentleman of considerable fortunewho, odd as it may seem in this matter-of-fact nge of incredulity, was 8 professor of the * occult sciences,” pre- sumably the same pursued by the Chaldeans and alchemists, and also the same ‘with which CacriostRo, the Prince of Impostors, humbugged all Earope. The late Baron besides was a RBosicrucian of the Heidelberg Lodge—which we believe is one of the grafts upon: free-masonry of the mythical ancient orders which CacLiosTEO pr’ezended to restore, and the funerul. it is stated, will take place from the Mrsonic Temple, under the immediate auspices, how- ever, of the’ Theosophical Society, of which the Baron was s member. Iy the direction of his will it is w0 be therefore permit the taxes to be paid with the serip 2 If a citizen to-morrow shall pay £10,000 in cash for that much taxes due on his property for 1875, the city counld not law- fully use a dollar of the money except to pay or take up the scrip. issued in 1875. What possible objection can there be, or ought there to be, to permitting any citizen paying his taxes for 1875, or previous years, in this city serip? Is not the payment of that scrip the object sought by the holder? Is not the collection of the tax, that the scrip may be taken up, the sole object of the city? Why not, therefore, remove all obstacles in the way of citizens paying their taxes with the serip, and why not offer special inducements for them to doso? Between the present date and the st of July there are certificates to the amount of $1,649,000 falling due. These certificates bear inferest. Suppose the City Council shall by ordinance make these certificates receivable at their full value, including in- | tereat to tho time they fall due, in paymeont of taxes for 1675 and prior years. There are several millions of dollars of taxesto be paid between now and Sept. 1. By that same date there will be over two millions of dollars of certificates mature. They can only be paid out of the taxes. There is an average of two months’ interest to accrue on all these certif- icates, or a sum equal to nearly $50,000. If these oertificates were made receivable, at their matured value, for taxes, there would be the inducement of nearly $50,000 to pay the taxes now. Each tax-payer would have the inducement of two months’ interest on his taxes, and the sooner he paid his taxes the longer time would he draw interest. The taxes on real-estate are inescapable. They follow the land as a perpetual lien. To accept this scrip in payment of the tax will crento a market for it for that purpose, and the collection of the tax and the redemption of the scrip will both be accomplished. There is no necessity for a dollar of these back taxes passing into the City Treasury in the fiorm of cash while any of these certifi- cate:s are outstanding. If paidin cash, it can only lawfully Leused to take up the certifi- cates. So, therefore, the collecticn of the tax in the.form of the certificates is the simjile and the natural way of adjusting the balances between the city and its creditors. Whem two men hold each other’s paper, and each. have mno othe: means of payment, is thers any process so reasonable and so equitable as for them to exchange the evi- dences of their respective liabilities and ex- tingnish both ? The fact that the city has a large sum due to it in axcess of what it owes rendprs it feasible for the city to offer to take its own paper at its altimate value in present payment. ‘With reference to the revenns necded for the current year, there is but one source, and that is to borrow the money in anticipa- tionof the collection of taxes. This, itis conczded, is lawful and porfectly proper Now, the value of theso certiticates may be considersbly enhanced. and a permanent de- mand created for them, by making them : 1. Paysble out of the taxes of 1876 collected prior to April, 1877, and out of the %axes col- lectod prior to Aug. 1, 1877. The personal taxes of 1S76 are payable and col- Rectable affor Jan. 1, 1877, and the taxes en real proparty, while due at the same time, cannot be enforced until July afterwards. 2. By making these certificates benr interest until April and until August, 1877, and re- ceiv.sble at their value, including interest un- til niaturity, at any time in payment of any city taxes for 1876. The city could issue this pap-:r now. To tax-payers it would have an extr nordinary value. The man who on June 1, 1 #76, would take a certificate for $1,000, recc évable on or before April 1, 1877, in pay ment of taxes, would haveon the st of Jan nory, 1877, the meansof paying $1,038.34, anc | the man who had a like certificate paya- ble.in August, 1877, could pay therewith at an y time sfter January next §1,081.67 of city taces. If these certificates were issued in su ms ranging from $50 to $1,000 each, they wouid find ready market from tex-payers. "V 7hil e bearing bat -7 per cent as an invest- n1ent;, they wonld be worth for purposes of 1:aying taxes nearly i1 per cent, because they woul dbe available for that purposeafter Jan- aary,, and it would be to the interest of the tax-p ayer to pay his taxes as soon as they fell due. In this way all the city certificates, being sta large premium for paying taxes, would suny plly find their way back into the City Tres sury, be redeemed, and paid as, in con- tenr plation of law, they only cen be paid. I : the Common Council at its mecting to mo crow night will consider that all this in- del stedness is the result of the non-collection of taxes, that if the taxes were paid the W aole debt could be discharged, and then o Fer to the delinguent tax-payer to receive Ahese certificates now at the value they will have at maturity, there will be such an in- ducement as will create a demand for the certificates for that purpose. A like offer witlh respect to the certificates for 1876 would enable the city to obtain all the money needed for current purposes, and lead to the collection of next year's taxes without any deliy. ) PIIOGRAMME OF THE COLVIN CROWD. 1t was hoped when Mr. Hoy~E, by order of the City Legislature, took the active contasol of :municipal affairs as Mayor of the city, and, Mr. CoLviy assumed the defensive, and was; willing to contest his presumptuous claim in the Courts, that nothing would be dot1e to impede the even progress of the new Ad ministration in the work of reform which wa s expected of it. But the CoLviy crowd of bummers evidently do not intend to keep faitth, as unplied by their Chief’s application tothe Court for relief. Every day develops an ow disposition to throw the city into such cordusion as will injure its credit, break dovrn the efficiency of all the departments, sto p the reform measures that have been in- augurated, and créate glarm and apprehen- sio:2 among the citizens. That this is the pregramume of the CoLviN gang is very evi- dent from some recent events. Certain he:uds of departments, who gave in their alle- gia ace to Mayor HoxNe when CoLviN him- self’ acknowledged him as Mayor de Jucto by bringing the quo warranto suit, noss recant their acknowledgment because they see that the new Mayor will not consent to the same reckless, loose, and extravagant management of city affairs, and because he desires to lop off the saperfluous attach- ments and scrape off some of the barnacles. They acknowledge his authority becsuse it seexaed to be in their self-interest, and now they desive to ignore his authority for simi- larly selfish purposes. Corviy is doing every- thing in his power to foment the discord. He is writing absurd orders to all the depart- ments. He is pricking on Mr. Haves to act as that gentleman never would have acted prior to his association with the Convix crew. He is endeavoring to bring about such a state of affairs that no money shall be paid into the City Treasury and no money paid out. We have even heard it stated that he purposes to-morrow, evening going into the Council and claiming the right to preside over that body,—a claim which he volun- tarily resigned,—and to thus bring on a con- flict which will force the police to take one side or the other. Now, Mr. Corvz¥ had better go slowly in this matter. He has occasioned the people of Chicago asbout as much trouble and loss as can be endured with patience from a single individual. He hes been the foun- tain-head of the system which hasled the city into all its financial troubles. When he acknowledged Mr. Hor~z as Mayor by bringing the guo warranto proceedings, he left him nothing but a legacy of debt. There were nearly a million of dollars owing to the employes of the city ; perhaps balf as much more due contractors and laborers ; nearly balf a million to the gas companies; nearly $1,500,000 due to various special funds ; and about $3,000,000 of outstanding certificates of indebtedness,—in all notless than $6,500,~ 090_ of floating indebtedness without any pro- vision for its payment, and with no compe- tent scheme for the collection of back-taxes, from which alone it can be paid. This cer- tainly was bad enough. Yet some credit was given this man Corviy when he offered to fight his claim to the Mayoralty in the Courts, gnd in the meantime to permit the people to do something for themselves through the representatives theyhad chosen. But CoLvay's actions for the past two or three days, and the actions of thosewhose fortunes are identified with him, indicate that there was never any honest purpose of letting go the hold they had on the city funds and abid- ing by the decision of the Court. Having brought on the city all the misfortunes it suffers, this disreputable crowd are now en- deavoring still further to confuse, compli- cate, and hamper the municipality. CoLvIN is trying the patience of a patient people too sorcly. He may go too far. Now that he has appealed to the Court for the privilegeof mismanaging city affairs another year, cominon decency, even if he has no concern for the welfare of the city, should prompt him to await the decision of the Court, and in the meantime hold aloof from the affairs of the municipality. He may rest assured that, if the Court awards him the office he covets 50 desperately, he shall have it with- out hindrance ; but he may also rest assured that he can not have it till such an award be made. G There have been serious efforts for many years to tap Chicago's grain-trade and divert it to the other cities. It has been properly recognized as the basis of our commercial prosperity and the rapid growth of the city. 1t has been coveted®and sought after by all the devices that greed could prompt and in- genuity suggest. There have been open and vigorous assaults, and there have been sneak- ing and treacherous combinations. It is useless to deny that these various and per- sistent efforts bave made some inrond upon the bulk of the trade, for the statistics plainly show this to be the case; but itis a proper and timely inquiry to seek in how far the Chicago people themseclves are re- sponsible for such loss s has occurred, how tho decline may be checked now, and the lost trade regnined or replaced by other grain tributaries of equal value. A very little thought will convince the merchants of Chicago that this is altogether the most important matter now exacting their con- sideration. First ‘as to railroad conditions: It is not probable that Chicago can again be made the victim of such a combination as that of last winter, which was the chief agency in the diversion of the trade to the south of Chi- cago. Tho management of the New York Central Road, without which no such coali- tion is possible, seems now fally convineced of the error it committed in pooling with the other lines on a basis of mileage,—a system of pooling, by the way, which is unscientific and necessarily unfair tosome of the parties to the arrangement. Thus there is a differ- ence of about 100 miles between Chicago to New York by way of the New York Central Road and between the same cities by way of the Pennsylvania Central route. The run- ning distance is 200 miles less, we will say, from Chicago to Baltimore or Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania Central or the Baltimors.& Ohio, than from Chicago to New,York by the New York Central Road. Any arrangement, then, requiring a fixed rate per mile on all the ronds necessarily operates against the New York Central ; and the effect of this, as was discovered last winter, is to discriminate against Chicsgo, But Mr. VANDERBILT now announces it as his intention to decline all propositions for agreed xates that shall not be based upon longitudinal rates from West- ern points to the seaboard. In'the failure to establish rates on this basis, he declares that he will continue to manage his business in his own way without reference to other roads. We believe that he is in a position to do this. For, though his road is somewhat longer, it has topographical and other ad- vantages which enable it to carry freight at even less cost than the shorter roads to the seaboard. It runs comparatively on a plane, and avoids the necessity of elevating and lowering its freight nearly a mile between the two termini. It hassu- perior track facilities (two double tracks), which avorl the delays aud accidents that the others must endure. The resultis that 200 tons of freight can be hauled from Chi- cago to New York over the New York Central Road in quicker time and at less cost than over the other ronds. Herein consists the justice of Mr. VaxperpiLT’s claim that the difference in mileage shall not operate against his road, and herein also consists his ability to enforce this claim if it be resisted. If he stand by it firmly, as self-interest suggests, Chicago will not again be forced to contend sgainst the inducements which the Pennsyl- vanis Central and Baltimore & Ohio were nble to offer last winter for the direct ship- ment of grain from the interior points to Philadelphia and Baltimore, avoiding Chicago altogether. Of course there is a certain part of the grain trade which formerly came to Chicago that will naturally seek a more direct route to the seaboard through thelater railway con- nections. Some of the grain of Southern Tllinois, Missouri, Kansas, and the Indian Territory will go direet to Baltimore for shipment to Europe, and thers is no longer any renson why such of it from certain sec- tions as seeks a market abroad should first come to this city. But there is no reason why this loss should not be more than coun- terbalanced by the furnishing from Chicago of all the grain needed for the growing local consumption of Canada, New York, and the New England States, and also all the grain for foreign export that comes from North- ern Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and the great and rich Northwestern coun- try. The railronds reaching this territory centre in Chicago, and the outlet by water and rail offers facilities superior to every other market. This trade is permanent in character and growing in tendency. It can- not be turned awsay from Chicago except by the blind stupidity of the Chicago people themselves in refusing, as they never have done before, to provide proper accommoda- tions, fair treatment, and reasonable charges in handling 1t. The only serious danger, then, that threat- ens the Chicago grain trade may be over- come by the Chicago people. 'The same en- terprise, energy, foresight, and fair dealing that secured the drift of the grain trade to this city in the first instance may retain it snd incresse it from now on. There are certein things that ought to e done at once. There should be o radical change in the so- called anti.corner rule of the Board of Trade, the effect of which has been proved to be in the interest of those who desire to keep down the price'of grain in this mar- Lket. The merchants of Chicago who are ‘members of the Board of Trade, but not in the speculative crowd, shoald begin to look into this matter for themselves. If they dis- cover, as we believe they will, that this rale has deprived the Chicago grain market of its former bubgency and elasticity, that it has defeated the efforts to keep the Chicago prices for grain uniformly higher than those of the Eastern and forcign mrrkets, and that its operation has caused the farmers to seek other markets in preference to Chicago for their wheat and corn, then they will not be slow to move for the repeal of the rule. The merchants cannot afford to be made sub- servient to either one or the other of the speculative cliques on the Board of Trade. They are confronted with the fact that the grain trade is falling off, and they must know that their own business will necessarily follow the grain trade, and either increase or decrease in proportion. This is their first and only interest in the effect of the present rule for the settlement of time trades on the | Board, and their personal examination of the matter should begin with this end in view. At the same time thera should be a vigor- ous movement to reduce the switching, ele- vator, and all other terminal charges on grain to as low and fair a figure as prevails inany other city. The practice must be abandoned of carrying o lot of empty ware- houses by the inereased charges of those which continue to do the business. The term of first stornge charges must be changed so as to conform to the different necessities and desires of the different shippers. New York shonld also do something in the same direc- tion, for in this matter the interests of New York and Chicago are identical. With the proper facilities at both ends for handling the grain at reasonable charges, the tendency to a decline may be changed to a tendency to on increase in the grain trade of both cities. F THE BERLIN AGREEMENT ABOUT TURKEY Thoe agreement at Berlin between the Em- perors, and their Chancellors, of Austria, Germany, and Russia, with reference to the policy of theso three Powers towards the brutel Torks and the Sclavie Christian in- surgents, does not seetn to meet with that cordial greeting which was expected, nor does it scem, at present, at least, likely to promote relations of harmony between Tur- key snd her rebellious subjects. Englend bas set her face like a flint against the agree- ment, evidently because she is not yet satis- fied as to the ultimate designs of Russia with regard to the Eastern question, and therefore does not care to commit herself to any policy. It is not likely that she will in any event as- sume an active policy. She has Egypt in her clutches, and will quietly wait the opportunity to steal off with her plunder when the other Powers becomo embroiled in this gigentic war of races, which now looms up in the Eastern horizon, and will settle France's claims ss best she may.. Still more import- ant than England’s attitude towsrds the agreement is the announcement that the Sul- tan himself will not accept the agreement, but will demand that the European Powers shall keep within the limitsof the Paris treaty, and not interfere with the iaternal affairs of Turkey. As thera is every probability that Turkey will reject this agreement, therefore,—in fact she could not carry it outif she accepted it,—the terms of the agreement become of interest. Yesterdsy’s dispatches give us the first full summary of them. It contains six distinet propositions. The first provides for a two months’ armistice; the second, for a restoration by the Turks to the Clristians of their houses and churches that have been destroyed, a supply of fuel for one year, and exemption of taxation for three years (a measurs which the Turks would not agree to if they could); the third, for the appointment of a Commission, to be presided over by Christians, to distribute this relief; fourth, for the withdrawal of the Turkish troops, except from six fortress- es, until the complete pacification of the country ; fifth; that the Christians shall not lay down their arms until the Turks have carried out their reforms; and sixth, that the Consuls or delegates of Germany, Austria, and Russia shall superintend the general exe- cution of the reforms. - It will be seen that the propositions of this agreement mske no concessions to the Turks, but, on the other hand, are drawn in the di- rect interest of the Christians. They con- cede every one of the reforms asked for, and, while they compel the Turks to evacu- ate the Christian provinces, except in garri- sons, they allow the insurgents to remain under arms until the reforms are accom- plished. The Turks would not accede to theso demands if they could; they could not if they would. They have already failed to malke easier and less exacting reforms which they bad promised; and the insurgents, knowing the futility of waiting for any fur- ther reforms, have determined to continue the war, notwithstanding the agreement, until the independence of Bosnia and Herze- govina is conceded. In view of the utter improbability that this agroement will conduce to the establishment of pacific relations Between the Turks and Christians, the active interference of the three Powers must be the next step. That Turkey will reject the agreement is already shown by the fact that the Sultan has called ont all the resorves. What the result of the contest will be is still more cloquently shown by the snnouncement that the cash in the Turkish Treasury has given out. It is already intimated that the three Powers are to meet again at Ems very shortly. In case the re- sult of that conference should be an armed interference, then the contest becomes in re- ality a war of races,—a struggle for existence between the Mohammedans and the Chris- tians, with the sure result thet the latter must be victorious. All the Sclavonic races north of the Balkans, incited by years of op- pression and the cruelties growing out of re- ligious fanaticism, will spring to arms. Rou- mania, Bulgaria, and Servia, with their warlike mountaineers, will swell the little armies of Herzegovina, Bosnia, and Montenegro, and hurl themselves in irresistible masses upon the Turks. It will be a brief but decisive contest. The Turks can only occupy their present foothold north of the Balkans in the relations of serfs to the Christians. As they will never consent to this, they must be ex- terminated or else driven south of the Bal- kans, forced closer to Constantinople, and across the Dardanclles to their original Asiatic possessions, where they will speedily be absorbed among the Asiatic races. It is by no means au impossibility that the out- come of this Eastern difficulty, which is now 8 year old, will be the blotting out of Turkey from the map of Europe, and the blotting out of the Turks from the family of nations. And this would be a consummation in the in- terests of religion, civilization, and progress. At the meeting of bankers, citizens, and others yesterdny, an extraordinary letter was read from Mr. Haves, which letter will be found elsewhere in Tue Tamusz. When it is remembered that Mr. Haves was removed a week ago, and that the City Council con- firmed the appointment of his successor, this letter from him is open to the term ‘‘pe- culiar.” Having been relieved from office, he is doing violence to his own credit and standing by this pretended claim to an office he did not want. His claim to be *fiscal agemt” of the city might provoks s smile were it not for the announcement that he bolds two millions of city scrip which be and Corviy signed in anticipation of their removal, and with which they were, we suppose, to carry on a sort of inde- pendent Government. Mr. Hives has sbout as much authority to sell city bonds or certificates, or to create any city indebtedness, as Mrxx Barvey has. He has no authority to sell bonds or perform any other official duty as Comptroller, except to hand over the books and other public prop- erty to his successor. Heis officially de- funct. Solong as Mr. Hayes confined him- self to lamentations over the loss of Tis office,—which office, by the way, he has always said he held at a great personal sacri- fice,—his complairts were harmless. But now that he has set himself up as a ** fiscal ngent " of the city, and offers to sell bonds to the amount of two millions of dollars, he puts himself in a less favorable light, and warrants the suggestion that he is himself suxious to hold the office. He forgets that the credit of the City of Chicago does not depend upon his being the Comptroller; that the meney to be borrowed is to be borrowed upon the credit of the city, and not upon that of the Comptroller; that the personal and official credit of Mr. Dericrsox is fully equal to that of Mr. Haxes; and that his present proceedings look very much as if he sought to destroy what e is not allowed to govern and control at his pleasure. His letter'is an indication of moral wenkness which is not natural to Mr. Haxes, and it is to be hoped he will discover how rapidly he is wearing away the patience of his warmest personal friends. TOSSES IN THE ART-WORLD. The dispatches in yesterday’s TRIBUNE con- tained two very important items relative to the fine arts, which do not often figure in the telegraph columns of the daily press. The first of these was the destruction by fire at Cincinnati of the memmoth painting of “fhe Prodigal Son.” 'The patient work of years was destroyed in a moment's time by a careless janitor. Probably no other painting in the United States—not even Church’s “Niagara " or ‘* Heart of the Andes"—was s0 well known, or has attracted so much popu- lar interest. It had been exhibited in all the principal cities of the couutry, and thon- sands of people had visited and admired it, both on account of the familiarity of the subject and the immensity and grandeur of the artist's design, as well as of the brillianecy and beauty with which that design was executed. While we would bhardly place it among paint- ings of the first rank, as judged by the standards of high art, it was nevertheless a noble work ond = public educator, and its destruction thousands of people will almost fecl as o personal loss. Commercially speak- ing, its value was very large, as it was con- stantly yielding a large interest to the owner upon his investment, which the insurance will fail to make good. Another notsble picture was lost on the same day, but not by fire. It was Gamvs- BorouGH's portrait of the Duchess of Devon- shire, who bought votes with kisses. It had been sold only a few days before for the enormous sum of 352,500, which was about the price set on ‘‘ The Prodigal Son,” and the owner hardly found it in his possession be- fore some thief cut it from its frame and carried off the fair Duchess. The first question that will occur is, What will he do with it? It would seem to be an elephant in the hands even of the most expert thief. He cannot openly sell it, nor would any pawnbroker take it in pledge, or reputable dealer dare to buy it. ‘The practice of stealing pictures from their frames, however, has been reduced to a science, and there is evidently a ring formed between these picture-thieves and dis- reputable dealers, by which the plander changes hands, and money is made out of it before it gets back to the hands of the originel owmer, as it eventually must. It wil be remembered that ome of the saints was recently cut out of a Murillo picture in & Spanish cathedral, and that his saintship traveled about Europe for some time, and that after a year's absence he turned up in a New York picture-store, where he was reclaimed by the cathedral and taken back to his home above the altar. The Duchess of Devonshire nay have a like fate, and even turn up in Chicago some day as the result of & cheap bargain, but she will get home again. She is too valuable to keep, and is too well known to remain in one place any length of “time, Mr. F. H. RipDLE, a delegate from the * West Side” to the State Convention, and there ap- poitited a member of the Platform Committee, wishes to be set right before the public. A communication by a delegate from the First District which appeared in yesterday’s TRIBUNE said that “F. H. Riddle is in favor, as I under- stand him, of the Government issuing all the currency and legislating the National Banks out of existence,”” ete. Mr. RIDDLE says he never told any delegate anything of the sort; that he is a hard-money man, and not a rag- babyite, and, furthermore, that he is a BrisTow mun, and there were a great many more of them in the Convention than is supposed. He admits that the whisky-ringsters, and those who sympathize with them, “ran” the Convention to the tunc of Anybody to beat Bristow. Mr. RIDDLE is free to admit that the platform framed by the Committee is a rather poor job of carpenter, work, and that it is diflicult to comprebend ‘some parts of it. He tried to get a Civil-Service plank, but the controlling spirits of the Committee would consent to an avowal in favor of no reform of that kind, e A meeting of the Cook County delegation to the late Republican.State Convention was held the night before the Convention at Agri- cultural Hall, Springfield, for the purpose of choosing a Delegate-ut-Large to the Cincinnati Convention, which choice, the explicit under- standing was, the Convention of course would ratify. At that meeting Capt. GEORGE Scuxel- DER was almost unanimously chosen such Dele- gute-at-Large, which was ordered reported to the Convention in the usual order. When the names of the dclegates were in the regular routine of business reported to the Con- ble antecedents. He was swindled ont of his election, as has been stated, because he Was believed to be for BRISTOW, but in truth be. cause he would not have permitted his vote at Cincinnati to have been controlled by the mg. chine politicians. The responsibility should be fixed for this disgraceful machine-swind]q whereby Mr. SCHNEIDER, Who was electeq as Delegate-at-Large to Cincinnati, wuscheateq out of his seat, and Mr. BoNGS, who was not el was thrust into it. The somebody who substituted the name of Baxcs, who was not chosen, for that of Scnszmzn, in the interest of the machine, shoulq be held to sharp accountability. That some. body TrE TRIBUNE has been informed by letter and orally by 2 number of delegates was 3, CuARLES B. FARWELL, and it now devolves np: on him torise and explain what sharc, It aqy, he had in the matter. Information is wanted upon that subject, and Mr. FARWELL can fmparg it none too soon. But the matter should not rest at that. Mr. SCUNBIDER is entitled to the place in the delegation that by fraud has been assigned to Mr. BaxGS, and Mr. BANGS should forthwith step down and out, restoring to Mr, ScuNEIDER the place that to him belongs. e ———— s PERSONAL. Tennyson has headed the subscription for Waly Whitman's poems in England. The testimonial fund for Capt. Webb, who swym across the English Chunnel, has reached about $20,000. Bartholdy, the French sculptor, who modeled the colossal statae of Liberty for New York harbor,” is now in that city. The Madrid correspondent of the Puris Journa writes admiringly of the Prince of Wales: **Hel aman of fron.” Brains and all? Dom Pedro says the Corliss engine at the Centen. nial show beats the Sonth American Republics iz number of revolutions per minute. G. W. Childs is 50 years of age. Tiis business- profits, mostly obtained by ehort flights of the obituary muse, arc said to be $100 an hour. ‘The lecture-agent of Mr. Theodore Tilton deniey unqualitiedly the stories of the latter's drunken. ness circulated by country mewspapers in the West. A Mr. Richard Scudder, the man who wrote that stunninglic known as the De Souza-Cabral wedding- _hoax, lus left the Albany Journal and become 3 Methodist preacher. . The latest device of the circnlators of advertising cards i to place them in envelopes inscribed: **To the Lady of the House—For your life do not open this before cight minntes past 8 to-night." veution for confirmation, it was impossible, from the seats assigned the Cook County delegation, to distinguish the names reported. Nothing, however, had occurred to lead to suspicion of any bad faith, and assuming that the name of Capt. SCHNEIDER had been reportedy the dele- gation voted for confirmation of the nomina- tions reported. But after the Convention had adjourncd, it was discovered that somebody, in deliberate fraud upon the Cook County delega- tlo, lad struck out the name of Capt. ScHNEIDER and substituted the naweof GEORGE S. BANGS, late Mail Agent, in the report to the Convention. This performance was simply an atrocions outrage upon Couk County of the same sort and no less infamous than the ballot- stuffing exploits of Ep PuiLries and GLEESOX, —the object in each case being to cheat the peo- ple out of their choice, and it is an outrage to which the Republicans of €ook County will not tamely submit. Mr. ScuNEIDER has been a Republican since the organization of the party, has done distinguished service as editor of a German Republican journal, and is a man of the highest standing and unimpeucha- Dr. 3. Adams Allen has been sclected as the ora- torof the thirty-sixth Annual Convention of the Chi- Psi Society, which is to be held at Middlebiry Col- lege, Vermont. This will necessitate his absenca from the city for the next two weeks. All the large prices at the publicspelliag-becs in London sre won by & few experts connected with publishing houses, who know the dictionary by beart. One of the experts has Iately been adding £20 a week to his salary in zhis manner. Gen. Banks sayshis **heart would poaritsclf ont in tears™ if the Charlestown Navy-Yard should be wiped out, for it would be degrading and dishonor- The General is supposed to hase ing Bunker Hill. been writing a Fourth of July oration whea he pausad to make this remark. The aflecting story of an old man who fell asleep in an Omaha church, and got his nosg wedged ins book-rack and had to be hewed out with anax, should be a warning to somnolent persons in middle-life the, country over. We fear the first effect of it will be a strong movement for the abo- lition of book-racks. A foolish young man has written to. one of the newspapers in New York that he proposes to get drank every Sunday until the law forbidding the sale of liquors on that day is repealed. It is thought that if he should terminate his career in his frenzy the result would not be 5o severely felt by the com- munity as by himself. Prince Bismarck reccived an address recently from some tradesmen, complaining of the dullness of trade. Inreply the Prince wrote a terse letter, Eaying that he was not a whit better off; that the produce of his cstates sold only at unremnnerative prices, and concluding by exhorting his fellow-saf- ferers to patriotic patience in expectation of better days. At meeting lately held in New York to protest against the enforcement of the Sunday liguor-law, the Rev. Father Scheibel justified the drinking of wines and liquors by alluding 1o the practices of the founders of Christianity and the Sacrament m- stituted by Christ. He indignantly denfed that the clergy had ineited this movement against liguor- sclling on Sunday. Susan B. Anthony discoursed at the Parker Me- morial in Boston, Sunday morning, on ** Woman and Social Parity.”. She remarked, by way of pre- face, that, being a Quaker by birth and education, she didn't know as she could even read a hymn, but she made out to, neverthelss, and also wore her pull-back and jewels as gracefully es if she had been one of the world's people. Custer committed his great indiscretion when he wrote in the Galary that McClellan was a soldier t‘whose mental training ond abilities were of & higher order, and whose military qualifications and knowledge were superior to those possessed by any officer who subsequently led the Army of the Potomac to battle.” Gen. Grant would be more than human if he could submit cslmly to this from a subordinate. The Washington correspondent of the Safurday Eening Lierald writes: **The engngement of Mixt Frelinghuysen and Mr. Chandler Robbins is not only postponed, but broken off entirely, owing ta the gentleman’s wish to have, the wedding post- poned after the cards had been made ready. Thit he did four times with his first wife, and_ Senatot Frelinghuysen wisely concluded such o man could not make Lis daughter happy.™ Emst Von Bardel, the aged sculptor, to whose unflagging exertions the erection of the Hermann monument in the Teutoburg Forestis due, is go- ing to Italy. During his stay in Southern Germany he reccived many proofs of public sympathy and recognition. He is 78 years of age, butstillin vigorous health. Besides his work with the chisel, b is now writing his memoire. For pleasure and exercise, he climbs the mountains, and manifests Do fatigue. It may not be generally known to the readers of Tite Trinosk that there s at present in this city an excellent copy of ‘onc of Corregio's master- pieces, **Jupiter and To.” Itis from the easelof 3r. Julius Gollman, one of our best known por- trait and figure painters, who, baving dixposed of the remainder of his Works, will shortly leave for 2 permunent residence in Europe. Mr. Gollman's studio is in Tue TaisuNx Building, und he will be pleused to exhibit to connoisseurs what is more than a copy, o translation as it \ere, of one of the greatest works of one of the most renowned of the old masters, An English theatrical paper announces a suit by 4 costumer against **Mrs. Powell” to recove: $57.50, the value of a white zatin dress supplied to her ot the thestre for her Grande Ducliesse role. She contended that the management paid for snch tritles, and won her case. The itcw is giv- en here asof possible interest to the impressible young men who went mad sbout Emily Soldent when she was bLere. Emily Soldene is Mrs. Pow- cll, and Tus Trisusewill add, for the benefit of the critics who sald when Miss Veazey was playiog with ber that the Iatter was a formidable rival, that Miss Veazey is Emily Soldenc's dnughter. A literary hoax not often written ubout, but almost equal in its way to those of Ircland. Mac- pherson, and Chatierton, was perpetrated in 1704 by s person calling himself George Psulmanazov, who cigimed to be a Christianized native of th Island of Formosa. He published a book purport- ing o be a ** History and Description of the Island of Formosa, " profasely illustrated, and explaining the habits, religion, and political institutions of the people. Me was made & hero of in London rociety, bat became stricken with remorse and con- fessed hiy fraud. He was a Swiss, and bad been enconraged and ussisted In his scheme by an army chaplain in Holland, who brought him to England, and obtained the necessary introductions for him. The Joan of Arc festival at Orleans, France, seems to have been imposing nud animated in the extreme. Monday morning, May 8, therewasa grand religious ceremony, attended by every ose in the department entitled to weag o Judze's gow, an embroidered scarf, or a tri-colored scarf. Monsignor Dupanloup, assisted by an American Bishop, ofiiciated at the Pontifical Mass. The Marquise de McMahon, sister-in-law of the Presi- dent, made 2 collection. She was attired in a blue tunic, embroidered in white, and a bonnet entirely - composed of peach andpear blossoms. The Mayor of Orleans held her immense round bouquet, snd gave her hisarm. The Abbe d'Hulst, Vicar-Gen- eral of the Archbishop of Paris and Archdeacon of St. Deniyg delivered » panegyric on the Pucelle- ‘The sermon hit hard at English heretics, Germans,. and French Republicans.