Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1876, Page 4

The Tribyowe, TENRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYADLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT 5 st THWeekiy RUEOl yeur & WHRKLY EDITION, FOSTPAID. One copy, per year. Club of 7 COpYe Club of twenty, per co The poatage 18 15 conts a yo Bpecimen coples sent free, To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Oftice sddres In ful), Including State and County. Remittances may be made either by draft, express, Poat-Offica order, of In registered letters, at our riak. YERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS, Dally, deliyered, Bunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Dally, deitvered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week ‘which we will prepay. Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madtson and Dearborn: Chicago, L. S —————— AMUSEMENTS. Hesley’s Theatre. nf",',“?"l“ street, between Clarkand Lasalle. *'Rose chel, " New Chicnge Theatre, Clark street, between Handolph and Lake. Hooley's Minstrels, et ————— MONDAY, MAY 29, 1876. Greenbacks declined at the Now York Ex- change on Saturdsy, ruling at 88}@883. The Turkish Government iamoving vigor- ously in its deslings with tho Baloniea rioters, of whom ninoteon wero sontenced on Friday and Satarday last—four to capital punishment, and the othera to forced labor for life, and to various terms of imprison- ment. Tho results of tho trinls st Salonica aro tolegraphed to the Turkish Ministors at the leading Capitals s an assurance of the intention of the Porte to amply punish tho rocent torriblo massacro. The order adopted by the Senate on Satur- day, that the quostion of jurisdiction in the Berrxyap cass shall bo finally voted upon Monday, does not necessarily imply that the matter will bo scttled to-dsy. Tho debate may, and probably will, be prolonged far into the night, and possibly up to Tuesday noon. 1If the Senate should assume jurisdiction, the impeachment trial will give place to general business for a time, to bo taken up, itis thought, when the Cofference Committoes of the two Houses shall have bogun their Inbors onthe various Appropriation bills, concern- ing which the Senate and House are now widely at variance. It would nob be surpris. ing if the impeachment trinl were finished ‘before the Conferonce Committees succeed in adjusting their differences. 1t is stated that tho mysterions secrot so- ciety conceived for tho purposo of thwarting tho nggression of Popery has organized oo 8 national basis, twenty-one State bodies par- ticipating in the movement, and that it will drop into politica this year for the purposes of cxpurgating Roman Catholio devotees from all places of civil trnst, and the per- potunl retention of the Protestant Bible in oll common schools, without compromise. Hendquarters have beon established in Phila- delphin, and representatives of the Order will go to the Cincinnati and 8t. Louis Con- ventions, The schome is hampered with sec- tarinnism, blotted with the stigma and injus- tice of Know-Nothingism, and otherwise re~ stricted to such a dogree as to utterly destroy its chances for future weight in general politica. Admiral GoLpsponouen has been quoted B8 testifying to unlawful oxpenditures in excess of appropriations in the Navy De- partment in the rcpair and rebuilding of ships. It now appears that Lo testified to nothing of the sort, aud that Sccretary TRopesoN has kept within the letter of the law in this regard. e has, however, commenced elaborate ropairs and alter ations, taking possibly a plank or two of an old hulk and adding enough to make up a new vesgel—undertakings, the completion of which would largely exceed tho appropri- ation—but bas done the work piccemeal, awnrding no contracts beyoud the lawful limit, and trusting to foture appropriations to finish the jobs. In this manner Mr, RopesoN has spent & vast amount of monoy, and has laid the foundation for spending a vast amount hereaftor, but, while severely bending the law to suit his purposes, it appoars ho hes not yet broken it outright. The sudden death is announced of Wirr- 1ax D, Bross, one of the editors of the Cin- cinnati Enquirer, who was run over by the cars and ingtantly Lilled last evening while walking glong the track of the Littla Miami Railroad, near Branch Iill Station, whers he rosided. Mr, Bross hud been connected with the Enquirer for twonty-two years, and was widely known es an abla political writer and statistician, Though a life-long avd prominent Democrat, he had never held office. Xle wos nominated for Congress two years ngo, but was unsuccessfal by reason of the lukewarm support rendered by his party. Mr. Bross, even moro than HoraoeGrerryy, was fumous in the newspaper world for the remarkable eccentricity of his handwriting, which to an unpracticed reader was absolutely illegible and unintelligible, and could only be decipherod by cortain epecial compositors in the Enquirer office. Ho wes in his fiftieth year, and leaves a wifo and four children to mourn his sad and untimely death. —— A heavy reduction in passenger rates is announced by the New York Central man- agement, owing, it is said, to cutting under by rival lines leading west from Boston. The new tariff to go into offect to-day on the New York Contral places tho fare be- tween Chicago and Now York ot $17, instead of $25, us before; Oincinnati, §15; Indisn- apolis, $16; Bt, Louis, $22; Louisville, $19 ; Detroit, $18. Thia will compel a cor- responding reduction upon the com. poting lines from OChicogo to the sen board, and, the war once bogun in earnest, !.h«m is 1o {elling where rates may go to. It is pot unlikely, aftor all, that peopls can aunke tho Centonnial trip for a reasonable mnount of money before the summer is over. The Erio Road has already promptly taken tho field agalust its powerful adversary, and has anuounced a schedule of rates one dollar lower in every instance than the Central figures given abave, The Pennsylvaniaand Baltimoro & Ohio Roads maybe expected to, follow guit forthwith, and a general rallroad war i8 ons of the near probabilities, The Chicago produce markets were irreg- ular on Saturdsy. Wheat was steadier, un- der a good demand for shipment, and rye fin. Other grain and provisions wure weuk. Bless pork declined 450 per brl, closing st $19.10@19.12} for June sud $19.32}@ 19,85 for July, Lard wag 25@350 per 100 1bs lower, closing at $11.20 cashund $11.40 seller July, Meats were active and @jc lower, at Gdc fur boxed shoulders, Y30 for do shost ribs, and 9e for do short clears. Lake freights woro moroe active, at 2} for wheat to Buffalo. Rail freights were dull and un- changed. Highwines wero firm, st $1.00 per gallon. Flour wns in light demond and stendy, Wheat waa active and closed le higher, at 81.08} cash and $1.08} for Juna, Corn declined {o, closing at 45jo for May and 44o for Juna, Oata declined je, closing at 283c for May and 28}c for Jume. Rye was firmer, at 70@70}c. Barley declined 2@ 80, closing at 6Ga for May and 45jc for Juns, Hogs woro active and advanced 10c, closing firm at £06.30@6.60 for common to choice. Cattls wore quiet and steady, at $2.50@5.00 for inferior to choico. Bheop were scarce and nomiually firm at Friday’s quotationa. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $113.00 in greenbacks at the close. i i The charges agninst Bpeaker KEmrr—that ho received monoy in 1866 for-hu influence in socuring the appointment of n First Lien- tonant in tho regular army—are attracting considerablonttentionin Washington. Greey, tho appointee, has testified that he paid $600 to ono Hanxgr, Assistant-Doorkeeper of tho House, tha latter assuring him that he knew a Congrossman who conld *fix matters.” Hs was by Ilanser introduced to Mr Kenn, through whose cxertions he wns sppointed and obtnined his commis- sion, but with whom thero was no allusion whatover to any money con- sidoration, Grery also testificd that per- sons acting in behalf of Mr. Kenr ap- proached him in Now York recontly, aund endeavored to obtain from him a donial noder onth of tho whole story, but be re- fused. IIanNex is expeetod to be on hinnd to-day to testify, and the Committee are in- formed that he will swear positively that he paid the money to Mr. Kenn. The latter clnims that bo will be nble to show the utter falsity of these charges, and his frionds are confident that he will do so. THE CITY CERTIFICATES There are just two problems which will confront the Council Committce and the Committes of Citizens who hold a confer- enco this morning on the municipal finances. One is tho best disposition to make of the cloima which aro in the shape of city certifi- cates maturing from month to month ; there are a little over £3,000,000 of these outstand- ing. Tho second is the necossity for providing for the current expenditures since April 1 and from now on, In the effort at solving both problems these gentlemen will be mot by the stubborn fact that the Qity Treasury is out of funds, and that its assots in the shape of taxes cannot ho immedistely collected by compulsion. All that is left to do, then, is to seok some fair and practicable menns of converting theso assets. Thers are two ways, and they may be worked out together. One is offsot, whoreby the city shall offer to deliver over ita claim for taxes in exchiange for certificates of indobtedness held against it. The other is to offer inducements for tho payment of taxes, or the exchange of certifi- cates for taxes due, by a reasonable discount for speedy realization on the various tax- claims. 'This general principlo may bo ap- plied both to tho past claims and fatare claims, 1. Aato the past.—There is n growing in- disposition on the part of tho present City Government to jesue new certificatos in ex- change for thoss now outstanding, because the decision of the Court docs not scom to warrant any such excharge, Thereisalso an indisposition on the part of bankers and other persons who hold these old certificates to give them up in exchange for new ones, becauss the old ones wero issued to innocent purchosers befors the recent judicial con- struction of the law, and are moro apt to be lawful and collectablo than 8 new issue in exchango for them at the present timo. Itis better for both parties, therefore, that the old certificates should be held until thoy con be paid or exchanged for taxes, aud they may bo given a new value by resolution of tho Couneil that they shall be paid on or be- foro a fixed dnto and draw 7 per cent interost until redeemed. This resolution shall also set forth that theso old certificatea will baro- ceived by the Comptroller at any timo for the payment of taxes for the year 1875 and previous yoars, allowing interest on them up to the time of their receipt for taxes. ‘'Theso conditions having been indorsed on the outstanding certificates, they will have & steadicr valuo than new cortifl- cates issued in exchango. They will be legnl- tendor for taxes past-dus and unpaid, and, when received for these unpaid taxes, it will simply be a fair exchangs of mutual obliga- tions, whereby both the cily and the tax- payer dischargo some old dobts, Thero could be no simpler nor fairer way of ro- deeming the old certificatos, and nundoubtedly a largo part of the back taxes will bo paid in this way that would otlherwise be allowed to run, There might and should be atill further efforts to reduce the amount of tho outstand- ing certificates. The money now collected for taxes is on the tax-devy of 1875, and it is proper that, after paying up the policemcen, firemen, school-teachers, clerks, ete., of the city to April 1, 1876, tho residue of tho money should be, s far as possible, used for the redemption of the cortiticates of 1875, Money can be secured also by offering a rebate on the premiums due upon the tax-certificates which have boen bought in by the city at tax-sales, ond which amount to about $1,000,000; and the money received on theso should likewise be employed in tho liguidation of the ontstand- ing cortificates, With these threo resources, viz.: the acceptance of old certificates in payment of old debts, the money coming in from the taxes of 1875, and the money that may bo obtained by tho surrender of tax cortificates at a discount on tho large pre. _mium or intereat they bear,~wo beliove that the old certificates muy be wiped out within a yoar's time. 2, Aatothe future.—There is no question sbout the authority of the city to issue new certificates drawn aguinst the tax-lovy of the presont year, which nmounts to about $4,000,000, and to be used in the disoharge of tho current oxponditures of the year, But the question has beon usked: Who will buy thesonow cortificates inthe face of the protest of thoold puper? The auswer i4that the protest roferred to amounts to little ; that shortly provision will be made for the old cortificates which will be satisfactory to the Lioldors; and that after the taxes of this sum. mer are puid they will be able to redeem thom in cash or reccive them, as suggested, in liqul- dgtion of back taxe:, But thv sale of these new certificates imay be made certain by in- serting in uvory one that it will be received in payment for taxes of 1876 at its juce value and the interest at maturity odded, 'his con. dition will insure a local demand for the now cortificates, for tho partics purchasing them with aview to paying taxes therewith will onjoy virtuslly a discount at the rato of 7 por cent per supum. Thus one million of cer- titleates may safely e fusued aguinst the per- uuxlml tuxes which will full Que und’ must by paid before April 3, 1877, Muke thow re- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. MAY 29, 1876. ceivable at any time for the personal taxes of 1876, along with the fall amonnt of interest they will draw at maturity. Then $3,000,000 of certificates may bo issued falling dus Aug. 1, 1877, aud recoivablo with the full amount of intorest at any time in payment of the renl-catnte taxes of 1876, 'There will be no lhesitation on the port of eapitalists to invest in this kind of security. It will havo tho character of cnsh collateral, and can bo used as sach at any bank in largo or sinall amounts. Every tax- payer can got tho equivalent of oash, along with the full amount of interest long hefore it is due, by paying hio taxes in cortificates, The city loses nothing, as it would have to pay the interest in any ovent, and aa it has no other lawful use for the tax-collections than the payment of the certifiontes; but it would gain in the prompt collection of these taxer in this manuver and the rapid extin. guishment before matnrity of its ontstand. ing obligations. We hazard tho opinion that, if tho new certificates be issued undor this condition, the demand for them will be greater than the nocessity for their issue, since they nced only be put out as money is neoded from month to month after the pres- ent arrearnge to omployes shall have beon discharged. Tho system of liquidation which is hera suggested is simply that of passing ont a good nssot for the discharge of an equivalont obligation. It may be applied both to the old, outstanding certificates and to all cor- tificates issned in the future. It is only necessary to keep in mind the distinction be- tweon the old debt to be paid out of the old taxes and the now dobt to be paid out of the new taxes, The old certificates should be received with the accrued interest st the timo of tondoring them in payment of taxes of 1875 and previous years. The new cer tificates should be issucd, say, $1,000,000 as ngainst tho personal tax, and due on or beforo April 1, 1877, and 33,000,000 as against the real tax, which must bo paid by Aug. 1, 1877,—under the condition that thoy will ba received, and the full amount of intorest thoy draw at maturity allowed on them, at any timo they may be tondered in payment of tho taxes of 1876. WHO I8 THE DARK HORSE 1 In the Illinois Convention, by a union of thoso who wers for Braivg as a first choice with those who were for *‘anybody to beat Bnistow,” the delogation, though wholly uninstructed, aro ostensibly nearly all for Brawvg. But there isa significant lack of asgurance that the entire delegation will re- main steadfast to the implied condition under which they were selocted, and the platform besrs 80 many evidences of an “opposition to the well-known and declared sentiments of Mr. Brarve, that thoro is & natural curiosity to know who is thought of ss complying with the political profercnces thorein set forth by the Whisky-Ringstors and Congros- sional and ex-Congressional manngers of the Springfield Convention. The peoplo cer- tainly have oright to information on this point, since the managers made up n platform to suit thomselves, and one noto- riously opposed to Mr. Brainw's scntiments and record. Now, who is the man ? We havo already pointed eut in what man- ner Mr. Braixz is inhibited from standing on such a platform as the INinois Convention managens so impertinently dictated to the National Republican Convention. ¥o has Dot a single idea in common with the dev- oteclsm 1o the “ Rog.Baby,” and ho made n powerful speech in Congress to dofine his adhorence to specie resmmption and hard monoy as an honest basia for his candidaturo for the Presidency. e hns never been en- goged in tho * bloody-shirt” business, and in his speech on Andersonvills (which did so much to give him promincnce a8 a candidate) ho declared himsolf in favor of universal omnesty, with tho single exception of Jrr Davis, and in hig case opposed amnesty only on the broad ground of humanity, and asa fitting punishment for Jery Davis' approval of the Andersonville horrors. He is like- wise opposod to the salary.grabs, to the cor- ruption that has crept into the publie sor- vice, and to the thievish carpet-bng iniqui- tics, and he appointed the very Committscs who have done most to expose and bring into condemnation tho abuscs which the INli- nois platform inferentially indorses. 8o it isn't Bramve the managers had in their mind's eye. Is it Conarinu? He fills the bloody-shirt part of the bill excellently well. While bo does not often talk, his voice is still for war, and & carpst-bag thief always finds in him supporter und dofonder, flo was strong for the Force bill, which was bappily dofeated through Bramve's influonce. But, on the other hand, Conxrina is a pronounced ad- vocste of o spoedy return to specie-pay- ments, and follows the New York and Now England sentiment in this direotion. Can it be MonToN, who hias & patent on the * bloody shirt ¥ which was slightly infringed by Oavresny when the latter apostrophized the blood-atained greenbacks? Yet Monton's later position on the money question docs not go tho full length o? declaring the groon- backs in their present irrodoomable shape ns “tho best system of papor carroncy ever de- vised,” and “dsprocating any logislation that might by any possibility cause a return to tho systom of (kpecio-redeomed) paper currency in existence before the War." Not- withstanding Mr. Monton's elastio adapt- ability on this question, he would hardly be willing to commit himself to so broad a atatement as this, Tho most that Mr. Mon- Ton wauta it prosont, if the Indiana platform may be accopted aaan expressionof hisviews, is to wtand atill and do npothing with the currency, 8o this mysterious Ilinois plat- form ey not meau MonroN, Certainly it docsn't point to Wuxeren, of New York, nor Havyes nor Tavr, of Olhio, nor WasuDURNE, of Ilinois, all of whom are opposed to the sentiments therein expressed. In some re. spects it soewns to fit Mr., Pig-Iron Keviryy, of Pennsylvania, though ho has no particu- lar sywpathy with bayonet-rule at the South ; Desides, if Keurey had been intended, the 8.65 irrodesmable.bond Lobby wonld have Voon introduced. ‘Whois it, thon? There is only one man wo can think of who answers the demands of the platform in every particular, and who would certainly lave dictated just such an oxpression of sentiment if ho had been called upon. We are forced to the conviction, therofore, that tho Whisky.Ringsters and the Congressional and ex-Congressional man- sgers of the Ilinols Convention hod their line of vision fixed upon Mr, Benzauin I, Burren, of Massachusetts. The platformn is an expression of * Butlerism,” and all that that tern implies. It embodies tho true-inwardness of that illustrious bumuer, Burees thinks it was the lenient policy to- wards the Houth and not tho scandulous corpuptions which he helped to introduce and encournged that cast the party iuto a miunority, and imperiled-ita very life. Bor. Lxu s in fuvor of all manner of grabs and * fat taken.” Burren is the origionl advo- cato of an otornally irredcomablo paper eur< roney, and does not hewitate to subscribe to the doctrine that such a currency is *‘ tha beat that has over been dovised.” Burtsa delights in maintaining the color.line st the Bouth, and in compelling the Bouthorn Statos at the point of the bLayonot to olect none hut carpet-baggers to office. Burtes indorsos the old spoils system of politics, aud uses overy excrtion to suppress expos- ures inside tho, party. BuTiEn is the very ombodiment of tho sontiments set forth in tho Ilinois platform, and we coneludo, thereforo, that ho is tho **Great Unknown” whom the platform-makers thought of while doluding tho people with a supposed Brainx delegation. ‘Wa may be in error in supposing the au- thors of the platform had Burres in their minds, but it is very cortain that Brarve is not the man they want nowminnted, as ho is noither rag-baby nor bleody-shirt. P. 8,—0n further roflection, we are of opinion thero ia ono other eandidate who would fit the platform as well as Burnen, and ho does not livo more than a thousand miles from Illinofw, either, THE WAR ON TILDEN. The Democracy aro just now having their own domestic troubles. It is known that, unless tlie Ropublican party mako such & nomination aa to virtually abandon the con- test, the Democrats cannot elect n candidate withont the vote of the State of New York. Mr. Virpex has won national fame ns & re- former, first by his voluntary and vigorous investigation and formal prossoution of the Tweep Ring, ending in the conviction of the majority of timt gang, and the recovery of civil judgments for the amounts stolen ; and, socond, by his equally vigorous disruption of tho great Canal Ring, and the prosecution of the guilty members of that party, This fact has commonded him a8 a reformer to the American peoplo, and has made him an eligiblo candidate for the votes of the wholo Indopendent party, who may not find a more accoptable man in the fleld a8 n candidate. Bo irresistible was the logic of facts that T1LDEN'S nomination as the Democratic candi- date n fow weoks ago was considerod a fore- gone conclusion. But official corruption and dishonesty, howevor bafiled, can hate. It is vindictive, it is rovengeful. Consequently, Tween’s Tammany nnd the Canal Ring thieves have vowed the defeat of TILDEN, Within & month the men upon whom T pen had placed - the brand of infamy, and whom be hnd made disgorge the public plunder, and whose profitable business of robbery he bad destroyed, put up their three hundred thousand dollars and purchased the New York ZLrpress, and made it an anti- TiupeN organ. They thon moved further ; they purchasod the Now York World and convertod that paper into an anti-Tripen organ. Doth organs are now engnged in proving that Tipex is tho woakest of all candidates; that ho cammot carry New York; and that dofeat is certain if he be tho candi- date, ‘Thia iz a warning to all honest men. If yousoo a man picking a pocket, robbing a house, or sotting fire to s store, the safest policy is to turn aside and let the wickedness go on, lest, noxt day, you be denounced in the organs for having injared tho party by insisting on honesty and integrity, Tivpes, who alone of the Democratio candidates might have a large support outsido of his party, is to be slaughtered in his own party because he prosecuted Tweep and his asso- cintes, and broke up the Now York Canal Ring, which had been robbing the Btate for thirty-five years, The convicted thieves in the Democrntic party have their wrongs to rodrosa and revenges to gratify ; to themn the torm Reformer is o personal grievance, and, lot the Ropublicans do what they may, these scaly convicts have determined thero shall bo no Tmoes, T e —— ‘THE GREAT LAND SALE, ‘Wo have several times called attontion to tho demanda of tha soveral Paciflo Railway Companies, which demands are growing in ingolence and in megnitude. It will bo re- membered that Congress made a donation to these roads of many inillions of acres of public lands. 'The Government also donated to tho Contral and Union Pacific Railway Companies United Btates bonds bearing 6 por cent interest, and running thirty years, to thd nmouunt of $64,000,000. Tho Companies havo failed to pay tho intercst on the bonds, which has all been paid by the United Btates, excopt n small amount paid in the way of charges for transportation. The re- sult ia that the nmonnt of principal and in- torest duo on these bonda now, in May, 1876, roachos €87,077,853. The bonds have an average of twenty yoara more to run, and at the end of the term the Unitod States will have a cluim for principal and interest amounting to ¥135,000,000 secured by a second mortgage | ‘I'hese Railway Companies have selocted all the landy thoy need for all purposcs of the road; tho officers have taken all the eligible town sites, all tho water stations havo been appropriated, and all the agricultural lands have boen disposod of, and the Companies find themselves with some fiftoon or twenty millions of acres of land which aro compara- tively valueloss, not boing worth, on an aver- age, 10 cents an acre, T'herofore, thoy now make n now demand on Congress, and a comittes of tho Senate have reported in favor of granting it. - The grant of land to the Union and Cen- tral Pacific Roads was at the rata of 12,800 acres per mile. This Committes now proposs that the United Statesshall parchasethorefase land at ¥2.50 per acre, or at the rate of £32,000 per milo of the rond ; that the United States shall allow the Companies interest on that sum at the rate of & percont, com- pounded, and that the Companies shall, in small annual payments, moke up the defi- clency, and thus be discharged of all lisbility for priucipal aud interest ta the Government on account of the bonds, But tuis achéme does mnot rest here, Congress also granted the Northern Pacifio Railroad land in the proportion of 25,600 acres to the mile of tho rondway, It also granted to Tox Bcorr's Texas & Bouthern Pucific Railway Jand at the same rute, All this Iand, west of the 100th degree of longi- tudy, is barren, not capable of supporting lifo. All this land is offered for salo to tho Government st $2.60 per acro, for which the Companies are willing to nccept Govern- mont bonds, Now let us look at the amount of real-cstate which the Government, having onee given away, is now asked to buy back at the rate of $2.60 por acro, Acres of land, , 000, 000 7 00").”“0 , UK, *Cnlon Pacite Central Paci N, Puclfic (naln road) North Pucitic tbrauch). 25,000,000 Southern P, 1. Londs, 50,000,000 Totalteusveesnr. $131,600,000 218, 750,000 'I'bis iu the whole job. For the present the bill making the grant of bonds to Lo Beorr's roady, in exchangu for the !nm.u, is postponed until after tho Presidential elec- sa taking any action on thia question tion; noither party having tho courago put itaelt on record ngainat the bill and [ any mora than it does on tho eurroncy ques- thoroby risk the voto of Pennaylvanin, which Mr. 8corr is Rupposed to control. Tut the Senate Committco have reported a bill, recsmmnending ita passage, Lo carry out thio job ko far as the Union Paciflo and Con- tral Pnoific Railrond Companies aud their attachmonts are eoncernod. This will do for a boginning, and overy man knows that beforo the two Housea of Congross shall be- come corrupted to the extent of voting away the thirty-five or forty millions of dollars to thesa two Companles there will not bo hon- est men onough loft in either Houso to mako the lenst possible resisiance to the wholo schemo of three hundred and fifty millions of dollars, ‘Wo invito the attention of the people to tha boldness which this Pacifio Railroad swin- dlo has assumed. The Bonato Committeo on Ruoilronds, which lias reportod these bills, is composed of the following Sonators: WesT, of Louisiann; Hiromcocs, of Nebraska; Craary, of New Hampshire; Howz, of Wis- consin ; Haxivron, of Toxns; MrroneLy, of Oregon; Dawes, of Massachusotts; Ran- oM, of North Carolina; Kenuy, of Oregon; Carrnron, of West Virginia; and Eaton, of Connecticut. Tho four last named aro Dem- ocrats and the other seven are Republicans. It is to bo hoped that there were some dis- seoting members of the Committee, and that the country wns not left without at least ono man to oppose”the monstrous job in its in- ception. It should be stated, na a mat- tor of justice, that the House Com- mittes on ‘the Judiciary refused to enter- tain a similar proposition roferred to them. This enormity having taken this tangible ghape, it will ba the duty of tho Republican party at tho Cincinoati Convention to re- pudiate all responsibility for it, and to de- clare that the party shall, both through the Leogislative and throngh the Executive branches, opposo the enactment of any such Iaw, or the subsidizing of any railroad or other corporntion with either national bonds or Government oredit, or by the pur- chase of any public lands. Tho people at tho polls will not hesitate to place their veto upon any mon or party that shall give coun- tenance or Fupport to such n measure, Tho political arithmeticiana of the New York press aro just now busy with slate and penail figuring away upon tha resalts of the apening ballot at the Cincinnati Convention. They are all working industrionsly and cov- oring their slates with columns of figuros, and how many of them will get thoir sums right romains to be seen, The New York Tribune's and Zimes figures come protty closa to each other in somo of their totals. The Wew York T'ribune reachos this result: Diaine, 282 Dristow 28 Mortan 10 Conklinj 87 Hartrunft b8 Tayes . 46 Jewell, 10 Warhibs 1 Unknown i Thowholo voteof the Conventionis 756; noc- ensary for ncholoo, 870, Tha 7%mes figures na follows, basing itafiguros on tho returna from States in which Convontions have been held: egntes yot tobachosen, from Iows, Louisians, and Florida. It will bo observed that thero is a wido discropancy botween the Z'ridnne and Times 08 to the number of votes that the Great Unknown will recsive. Perhaps if the respective figurers had used algebra in- stend of arithmetic in doing their gums, thoy might havelit nearer the result, na then they could havo used a reprosentative of the Un- known quantity. Itis somo time yot, how- aever, before the moocting of the Convention, and thero will be opportunitics for changing the figures and getting the sums right, be- sides ascertaining tho exact valuo of the Un- known quantity, to whom Our Cantenm al- luded so eloquently as ha pictured him with hia foet on the balustrade and n cigar in his mouth listening to the Marine Band. One of the most significant signs of & coming storm on the Eastern question is tho declino in English consols, tho unloading of the Rormsouirps, and the panio on the Lon. don Btock Exchange. The English pockot- Look is peculiarly sensitivo to political changes, and indicates areas of low barome- tors and coming storms in the political wbrld with unerring precision. Viowed in the most favorable light, England is in a bad way. Turkey has declined to accept the agrecmont of the thres Powers,—Germany, Austria, and Russin,—and the insurgents, Lknowing that Turkey will not aud caunot carry out any roform, are determined to fight on until the indepondence of Itosnig and Herzogovins is concodod, which would be tho entering wedge for tha indopendence of all the other Belavic provinces, It is necessa- ry, therefore, for tho throe Powors to confer again, and the now conferenca is nlready an- nounced to take place at Ems. Moanwhile Italy has sent in hor adferenco to tho memo- randum of the three Powers, #o that Rusain, Austria, Gormany, snd Italy are united in thoir policy on the Easternqnestion, o far as it rolatos to the present Christian insurroc- tion against the Turks, while England and Francs areopposed to it. But in this matter there is a wheel within a wheel. England is directly intorested in tho Fastern question, but Franco is not. But Frauce is intorested in Egypt, which England now holds ns s sort of security with which to make good her lossos frown Turkish indebtedness, when the three Powers actively intorfere with Turkish affairs. Hence, when England ehall atterupt to collect her security, she must of necessity become involved with Franoe, In this com- plication of affaira thero is very good reason for the eudden fall of the political thermom- eter in England and the panlc in stocks, It scems to be conceded that Mr. Monnr. 80N, the Chairman of tho Ways and Moans Committee, made a fair, modorate, and log- ical epeech in advocacy of the new Tariff bill which he introduced into the House some months ago, But supposo he did—cui dono # It hiss attracted no attention, and we think wo can tell Mr, Mosrmon why. However sincoro he may be in his desire to reform the revenue system in customs, he has no sincere backing in hia party. The bistory of this very bil has demonstrated this much. Though it is several months since Mr. Monrisou first in- troduced it, the Committee have alept on it, 1t hes roceived only occasional and cursory consideration, nnd then for the purposo of crippling it. The very heart of the bill bay been cut out by refusing to permit the tea and coffeo clauso to stand. Thore has been 10 caucus nor united effort to push the bill, Nor will thero be. In epite of the standing resolution of Democratio Btate Conventions declaring that party tobe in favorof a tariff for rovenuo only, the prosont Congress docs Rob tion. It desires to atand still and do nothing. That hag beon ita progrmmme from tho first, and it will continuo to b its programmo till tho end; and Mr. MNonrimon is wnsting hia strongth in devising menatrea for reforming tho tariff, and spending his breath fn a vain advoeacy thereof, so long as he has no back- ing oxcept that of his own party cauone in Congresa. It is a fair sample of tho honosty ot Domocratio pretenso, The New York Jferald continues {ta vaticina- tions upon the Presidential prospect, with view to satis(y itsc)f that Conxuing must be nom- inated at Cinclnuatl, The Herald'alatest offort in this lne s used upon the President's friend- shlp for CoNkLINg, and tho assumption that “the falntest fnthmation of President GrANT'S wish will turn over the Southern dolegation to CoXR1ING 8 soon a8 they are satlsfivd Mouron eannot be elected,’” This I8 assuming o deal more than the facts warrant, and Ignores alto- gether that both Bristow and BLAINE, more ca- peclally the foriner, have doveloped no small strength {n the South. But, after anssuming so much, the Ierald concedes that to make sure of the nomination CoNkLING must get the vote of Ohlon the Conventlun, and to sccure that proposes that the ticket bo CoNkuING and IHarms. Aslde from the fact that TATRS might decllne to be placed on the tieket as a tafl-plece to CONRLING, and the fur- ther fact that never yot wus a ticket carried through by any tall-plece attachment, the self- cvident truth is that even IlAvEs couldn’t pull CoxxLiNG through fu Ohlo. To place IIAYES second on the ticket would be simply to awamp it in Ohlo; aud it would encounter tho like fate in New York. Haves and CoNKLING might bo dragged through in Ohio, but the chances are that the tail-plece attachment in that care would prove too heavy, even with HAYES at the heod, and would be altke fatally disastrous to him. CowELING could not carry a single Western State, and all these schemes of the machine- politicians of Manhattau Island, Philadelphin, Harrisburg, and Washington to folst him upon the purty at Cinciunati mean simply schemes to secure the crushiug defeat of the Repub- llean party, If , CoNkLING I8 to have the firet place on the ticket, nefther FAYms, Buistow, BrAiNg, MonrTox, nor anybody clso 08 sccond, or In any other capaclty, can save it. The machine men who are running the CoNRLING movement may as well disabuse themselves of the notfon that by any combination or trado a single clectoral vote can bescenred for him from the West, or even Western support fn the Con- ventlon, —————— Occastonally the Peorln Transeript falls into an fronfeal vein of composition. Thus, speak- ing of the rag-baby plank of the Springfleld platform, {t saya: ‘Tho reaolution deprecates any course or Iegtsia- tion which mny drive out of existence our present admirble system(1) of hipur Sutsoncy, o place 1n Jts stead the Ieresponsible, irredeumable curron- cy in circulation befors tho War. Tho platform very winely(1) falla to express any opinion upon the question ot 8 prompt retarn to o hard-moncy finan- cinl basis, The sardonie puff of our fluctuating, frre- decmable currency, which is at a varying dis- count of 10 to 20 per cent, Is very fine, and call- ing the curroncy “itresponsible and frredeema- ble” which was Iseued befors the War by New York, New England, Ohlo, Indiana, Maryland, Virginla, Louislana, and several other States (constituting nine-tenths of the whole paper issue), which wes punctually redeemed in gold on demand, 18 most excellent {rony, and proves the able cditor a great humorist. The editor of the Quiney Whiy, who is not a humorlat, spenks his mind more openly and bluntly of the rag- baby and bloody-shirt mess of trash, called the Iinols Republican platform, s follows: As for our platform, it s unnocessary to say that the platform brought forth at Springfield s as oiidless and senseless a plecs of Lwaddle, from eginnlng (o end, an wis over complacently raticd by a good-naturéd Cenvention that waa i a furry toadjourn. Not but that tho gentlemen who coin- osed it were abundantly able to Lave produced a elter one; but they secin to bave exerted thelr talents in'an effort to produce womething that should be entirely harmless, and as foolish as pos- sible; and the effort was perfectly successful. It {8 worse than that: {£1s treacherous, false, aud wallcious, und fs a fraud on the sentiments and feelings of the people of IlMuols, — Hiesny KinosLey, whose death was announc- ed by cable dlspatch o duy or two sgo, wasa brother of Canon KiNastsy. He was born at Hotne, Devonshire, England, In 1824, and was cducated at Oxford. Althiough somewhat over- shadowed by the fame of his moro brilllant brother, he nchieved considerable reputation by his novels, among them, * ‘Fhe Recollections of Geoffroy Hamlyn," * Ravenshoe,” * Austin Eliot," * Lelghton Court,” * Mademolselle Ma~ thilde,” * Stretton,” * Hetty,” and * Old Mar- guret.” e was for some time editor of the London Dully feview, and wns also its corre- spondent during the Franco-German War. The muils also bring the Intelligence of the death of the Rev. Dr. Peck, a brother of Bishop Peok, who, In 1848, was tho editor-fn-chlef of the Christian Advocate, and who wus the author of several works, amonyg them a *‘History of the Wyoming Valley 3 also of Mrs, DUNCAN, the widow of the late Gov..JosEpi DUNOAN, of this Btate. The Jacksonville Journal givea the fol- lowing obituary notice of her: Evizanemi Catowrnt DuxeaN svas born March 28, 1808, In Pear] atrect, New York City. Her futher, Janks I SsuTi, & prominent merchant of that city, died when whe was quito young. In con- sequence of this sho spens hor glrlhood with an elder sister in Washington, ), C. lero she met her husbsnd, the Hon. Josers DUNCAN, then member of Congress from the State of Tllinols,' who had wop renown as a General In the United Statea army In tho War of 1812, Thuy were mar- ried May 13, 1828, and came to Kaskaskla, in this Btate, to reslde. In 1820 they removed to Jack- souville, which hasheen hier home eversince, Aftor their marriage, and before the Ueneral's death In January, 1844, ho was re-clected to the Nationsl - Hougo and chosen anthe Governar of the State, Mra, Duxcan has been the mother of only three of whom survive: Mrs. of Davenport, Ta.; Mra. Jutia K and Joskiu €, Duxcay, of Chicago. o — ‘The English have just set afloat anothier mon- ster, the Temeralre, which, ulthough not aslurge a8 tho Inflerible, i3 still a verv powerful and formldable vesscl, Bhe combines both the tur- ret and broadside systems. Her armor is con- fined principally to the hull and vital parts of the ship, having 11-inch plates for thebulland 2 inchhorizontal deck-plating. Herbroudsideguns aro gix in number, four of 25 tons and two of 18. Her guns on the upper deck, one of 25 tous and theother of 18, are mounted en barbette and com- pletely exposed. With regard to the vessels ro- cently constructed, the Loudon Times says: b lmEmlnIlllHly of uniting in one vessel all that is wanted in 8 man-of-war atiost {s becoming, in fact, more manifest every year. We have beom obiliged to sacrliice armamicnt for stabllity and sea- worthiness; annor and srmament for speed snd endurance at sca; rigging, speed, and seaworthi. nese for arwament and armor; aud srmament and armor for specd snd ramming, S0 we have In their relative order, as typea of thewe scparute sac. rifices, tho Sullan with broadalde gune; the Jucon- stant with her Nght ordnunce and absence of ar- mor; the Devasialion with hor mastlese form; and {ue Rupert with hor deficient snnor sud sria- wment, But these, aftor all, aro but compromises compared with wbat might almost be called the abandonment of principle expressed in the con- siruction of the Twueraire. e e— The Cluclonatl Ewquirer, which lives, and moves, aud has its being in shinplasters, and fruntlcally supports old Fog-Horn BiLk ALLey for President, {8 greatly pleased with the rag- baby plavk in the Iilinols Rupublcun platform. 1t says, slgniticautly : The author of that wanted to say more, but he did not acw very well_how Lo could do it without burting the party, . We are not astonished that an orgun like Tus Cuicavo Trisuxs, claiming to by Nepublican, should declare that *‘It {s oat of place,” ond that ** it can command nefther the re. apect nor tho support of the Stale,” aud denounce tt‘u **a fraud upon the Rupublican party.™ luven children, Many Pursan, 7, of our city; e Queer will casos are becoming very cornmon In the courts, but one of the yucerest Is that of DaxnisL MiNgk, a wealthy Pennsylvanis farmer, who died receutly, und whose will is now ju contest. It uppears that the decensed crected two houses upou onc of his farma, in one of which Hved Catnenine Hooxux, and fu the other Racuxn Ryvenr, Both these wowen wers his nstresscs, and bo had three chfldren by ewch. By the provislous of his will be be- quenthed ouo farmto one of theao women and other to tho second. Bince the filing of the wil the chiltdren of = dcserted wife In Naw York hays - turned up aud are now contesting it. He man tled his wife In 1825, and, after having seven children by her, left her, and was never after scen by any member of tho family, The wity dled tn 1869, and tho seven children now pro- pone to have the two farms, Instead of the twq tmlstresscs and thelr six children, ————— ‘The New York Times in a long leading articlq calls attention to the fact that there Is now for the first time the germ of a native Proteatany church in Mexico, and, that being Eplacopnl In its form and discipline, it will probably haso before long a Bishop consecrated by the aue thority of the House of Bishops of the Eplscopal Chureh in the United States, The movement, 1t appears, waa started sbout ten ycars Ago, Quring MAXIMILIANS rule, by s priest nameq Auaurag, who had scceded from the Romish Church. He hegan with a congregation of only fitty people, which {ncrensed steadily under by work. Two years afterwards he died, and the Rev, Henny C. Riney, a Chillan-born clergy. man of the Eplscopal Church, came to Mexico and took up AGUILAR'S Work with such euccess that the Roman Cotholics became alstmed, A Dominfean friar, Man. URL Acuas, a man cminent for hig learning and plety, was selected to offset the in. fluence of Mr, RirLgy, but before he had labored long he himselt beesme a sincere Protestant, and commenced an nggressive warfare agalnsg tho Catholic Church, accusing It of idolatry, He waa excommunicated, and sfter excommu. nlcatlon was elected Blshop of the Proteatant Church at Ban Joso do Gracla. He waa never consccrated, however, and died In 1871, Under Mr. RiLey's netive labors, fifty little vongrepa. "Hm lave been organized, and, as in Mexico, M8 Protestants are under the protection of the law, it is probable that Protestantism will rapid. 1y fucrease, notwithstanding tho hatred and malice of tho Catholic Church towards thesq little congregations, ——— The affairs of Ole Bull and his wife, whick acemed to bo pretty thoroughly ventilated In o recent dispateh from Madlson to Tus TRisuUNE, arc again involved in impenctrable fog by the following statement of the Cincinnat! Com mercial: *“We learn from private sources that Ole Bull, during the past winter, and on the cfr. cult of a concert tour in Continental citles, rep” resented to his Norweglan countrymen there that he had not only finally scparated from big wife, but that he never was legally married ta. her at all.” The Commercial adds that evidencs of tho legality of the marriage can easlly be proe cured, “But that there has been misunder standing and separation, and that Ole Bull will never agaln take up bed and board with s young Amerlcan wife, unless foreed to it, thero is no doubt whatever.” TazTRIBUNE st puts confldence in ts Madison correspondent, and believes tho marital relations of Mr. and Mra, Bull are as they should be. ——————— A Washington dispatch to the New York ITerald says: The friends of Senator CoNkLING have recetved telegrams to-day from well-informed partics In 111inols, who deny that the outlook thero Is over- whetmingly favorabla to Mr. BLAivs, The dia- patchea say that eve uurfi from a CoNK1.aNa stand pointis working well. Every move Ia observee A:lmlin careful index kept by the best-trained poli- clans, There {s sometbing Incongruous bstween BLAINE for o candidate and the rag-baby and bloody-shirt platform which wos adopted. And then the delegntes were uninstructed for any candidate, which leaves room for trading and changing without violating any finstructions. There Is many o slip *twixt the cup and thelip. Suppose it should tarn out that the ** Great Un- known” was a_horse called Jonn A. Logoaw, what would BLAINR'S friends say? ————— Bome of the Democratle papers indulge In personalities. For exampls, the Independent Domocratic Herald thus refers to the retirement of Mr. MantoN MAnnLs of the Democratla World ¢ Mr. Blannre's deep Interest [n this high range of topics may have impaired the success of his Jour. nn" by the prominence he has given to discussions which aro above the average intelligence of ths community, If he made any mistake as a fournul fst it was In_supposing that tho ordinary publit could be made to take un intereat in all the sab- Jects which so doeply Intereated himeclf. Whercupon the Democratic Fnguirer, 6 Cl cinnatl, obscrves: The lclmlnrl( fienu:mcn in the Herald office have carefally avoided Mr, Mansrz's mistake. By dint of close application and hard labor they have kep) their papor_down to the understanding of Mr. DensETT’s hostlers. Ilence the.success of tht Merald, = Nine cadet midshipmen of the sccond of third classes havobeen expelled from the Ne val Academy at Annapolls for stealing “gen- tlemen’s furnishing® goods from a Baltimort drummer. The telegraph {s rather reticent fa informing us what was the naturc of thes¢ # furnishing goods.” There {s a dffercnce of {dcas among gentlemen as to what kind of fur niture and equipment for the battle of life 1 gentleman most needs, Weo suspect that la this particular instanco the * furnishing goods * consisted of sour-mash whisky,—" fine as silk,* “best In the world,” ete,—and a chofcs scleo tlon of raro old Iavana cigars. It Is pretty hard on the boys to expel them for plundering such astorchouse of swects as this, especially o8 the Baltimore drummer led them into temp- tation by leaving his “eamplea® unprotected in the rooms of the first class, e — The editors of tho Globe-Democrat and tho % | Clucinnat! Gazette are good friends, so good as to take libertics with one another and indulge in persoual pleasantrics, of which the following are recent specimens: ‘The Glabe- Demacral of 'l‘hnmdnf says: ‘¢Iow doca Deacon Ricuann Ssarn, the llttle red-hesded rarcal of the Cincinnat! Gazeite, liko tho looks of things this morning? The “whisky-thleves' or gun " scemv Lo us to bo a ittle ahead.™ And the Cincinnotl Gazelfe of Friday snawers: *‘Whenover you find 8 whisky-thief, a smuggler, a Treasury-eater, or a fellow who expects 1o ingke a living by trading In patronage, you will find sa opponent of Bristow.” e —— There wos & sharp contest in the Missourl Con- vention over the appolntment of delegates. The Whisky-Ring fought desperately against the cholee of BrisTow men, and succeeded in most cases. Ex-Senator HENDERSON, the nblest Republican in the State, and who 8o powerfully prosecuted the first cascs sgalnst the Whisky- Ring in St. Louis, was put down asan “nlter- nate' of Vax IlorN, Vaw, of course, will go to the Convention, and HENDERSON will atay s home. e —— e The New York World denles that Mn. 8. L. M. Banrow, who fs supposcd to be the renl pur chaser of the World,ls a brother-in-law of Scnator BAvanp, of Delaware. We were misted into the notion by a speciat dispatch from New York which suld: “8. L. M. Banrow, the for- mer owner and chicf stockholder, I8 a brother-in- Taw of Bavanp, and {8 understood Banuow has bought Manbra's {utercst.” ———————— PEBSONAL, Boond tle loud timbrel, wave the bloody shist, rock the rag-baby, Frank Palmer la bosal ‘Tlticns tells ber London fricnds that she had 8 Jolty good time In the United States. Why, sha never aw Chlcagol Tennyson's ** Queon Mary ™ has been withdrawn from tho stage of thy Loudon Lyceum Theatre—a confussed fallure. Krupp, the cannon-maker, {u the richest man ln Prussla. Iis income:tax ropresenta a yesrly scale of profits oxceeding $1, 250,000, The Pope was 84 years old on the 13th fnat. 1t he lives until the 1ith of June he will bave oceu pled the Pontifical throne Just thirty years. Barry Sullivan, the Irlsh-English tragedfan, hat recelved more than §140,000 for 235 performanced fn ule country, e valls for Busope June 7. J. Lorimer Qraham, Consul to Florence, latel) deceased, spent twonty times hin salary n enters tafuing hls countrymen who visited that city. Hr. Honry Irving was ono of tho guests at the Royal Academny dinner this yoar, 1lo s tho frsi actor to recelve an lavitation sluce Macresdy. Ex-Qov, Bullock, of Massachusctts, waa arrest- ed ot the Fifth Avenue Motel, New York, lasl Thuriday, but was releassd when the amcers dise