Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1876, Page 4

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Musenm, Tiearborn and State. Frank of-Leave Man," Afteruovn Farwell iall, Madison street, hetwern Clark and LaSalle, Concert by the German Miliney Haud. MABONIC. ~HESPERIA LODGE. T. & . 411, A, tasonle’ Tem pit ey fi; 2 '\"1'1 nv.-..nu\‘-“]nyx g Viniting hrethren ot T, N A, W S CiA 5 WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1876, Warmor weather, with perhaps oceasional showers, is what the weather man gives us for to-day. The death is nunounced this morning of Mr. Joux C. Partringr, an old and highly-ro- apectable citizen of Chiengo. A notice of higlifowill be found elsewhero in our col- umns. ——— The Centennial Exposition was moro lib- erally patronized yesterday than it "had been sny day previous, cxcepting tho 10th of May, The large attendanco (40,000 souls) is nt- tributed to the closing of business conse- fuent upon the unusunlly general observance weorded to Decoration-Day. , A grent couflagration swept over a portion of tho City of Quebee yosterday, and ata late hour lnst night the fire was still raging, though with better promise that it wonld roon be under control. The devastated dis- trict is what is known as tho St. Louis suburbs, in which about 1,000 houses were aurzied, with a loss estimated at 1,000,000, The gathering of dolegates to the Missouri Demoeratic Convention which meets at Jef- Terson City to-day bas devecloped a totally uncxpected and amazing preponderance of preference for Tinony, 'Fhe State is said to Save turned from Hespricss to TiLpes in suo month's time, and the friends of the former claim that the change hes been brought tbout by tho Invish expenditure of moncy. ‘I'ie Domoeratio Convention of ‘Tenncssee meets at Nashvillo to-dny. 'Tho policy to be wlopted, looking to final relief from the 3nancial cmbarrassmonts of the State Gov- trument, will call forth great differences of spinion and uncompromising obstinacy of divergent purposcs, so much so, it is thought, w to completely cclipse tho importanee of \be Presidentinl question. Itis geatifying tolearn that the strike at the Union Rolling Mills in this city is at an end, aud that, with the exception of a few of the ringlendors, the strilers linvo resumed work at the old rates. 'The employers were firm in refusing to comply with the demand for an merense of wages, and the dissatisfied work- wmiew, after o brief period of idlences, choso die more sensible course, and returned to vork, — By woy of Washington there comen the seport that the CoNsnixa managers, in the went of the failure of their candidate, will ‘ransfer their strength at Cinciunati to Wast- sunse. Nothing could bo moroe unlikely than that the class of mnchine politiciany ~ho are engineering the Coxgrize interest should heve any such intentions concerning » thoroughly anti-machine man of the Wasn. BunNE stawp, It is far more likely that the runior is given ont with a view to eapturing » fuw CoNsLING Voles in the [llinois delegu- Yion, — Mr. I P, Kiunary, the Winnebago Conn- by Agricnltural Hociety Socretary, who saised anch n broezo Iast year by his invitn- tion to Jerr Davis to como and deliver an wddresn at the Caunty Fair, lins oneco mora tome to grief as un apostle of reconcilintion, Yhis timo ho gushed over tho neglect of the graves of tho Rebel soldiers on Decoration- Day, whereas the fact is that the good peo. ple of Winucbago County bave since 1868 wade 8 specinl point of strawing flowora apen the graves of the Rebel dead in the Rockford Cewctery. Mr. Knmann wos resterdsy apprisod of this fact in & manner 1o pointed and public as to draw general at- lention to bis iguoranco of ovents transpir- Ing in his own vicinity, ns well as to his cheap bid for notoricty as bridger of bloody chasns. — Tho rovolution in Turkey, if Inte dis- patches are to Lo credited, has in it much political significnnce. Not only haa it given uew hope of the peacoable settlement of the difilculties now existing in the ‘Murkish-Yuro- pean provinces, Lut promisos to bring about radical reforms in Constantinople ~—reforms in keeping with thoe civilization of tho nincteenth century. Tho now Sultan is id to have assmined tho task of perfecting theso reforms as o condition precedent to the aigh proferment bestowed upon bim, The promised new order of things includes o justitution of o permanent As. sombly, tho sbolition of the seraglio, sud the reduction of tho civil list oo sum commensurate with the resources of the pution. If these promises can bo succossfally carried out, there i Lope even for the land where moral precopts havo never flourished, and whore civil liberty in its full uceeptation hes been a thing unknown. S — The Chieago produco markets were irregu- lar youterday, provisions being very weak and grain steadier, though wheat was lowor nnd corn casier. Megy pork declined #LOT} per brl, closing firmer, at $17.873@17.90 for Juno and §18.10 for July. Lard was 40@50¢ por 100 1bs lower, closiug at $10.70@10.72} cash wnd §10.87)@10,90 for July, Meats wors daydc per th lower, at Gle for bezud shoulders, Bfo for do short riby, and Do fur model ruler—for a "Turk. aud the Great Powers, hts wero acl Rinil do short clenrs. and firmer, at 2}e for wheat to Buffalo. freiphts wero dull and nunchanged. ITigh. wities wero firn, at $1.00 per gallon, Flonr was in Jight demand and ensy, Whent was 1}c lower, clcsing at §1.05% for Juno and 81.05} for July. Corn way j@lc lower, closing at 44¢ cash and 4i3fe for June, QOatn were a shade firmer, closing st 283e for May or Juno.. Ryo was easler, at 69}@70a. Barley wns frregular, closing nominal, at 73 @ida for May and G@hse for dune. Iogs were dull, and navernged 2fic lower, closing wenk ot 23.00@6.15 for common to choico. The enttle market was moderately nctive. nt 10@150 declino in common and medinm grades, Hheep were easier, with sales mostly ot §4.2560.25. Last Saturday evening thero was in store in this city 907,844 bu wheat, 621,475 but corn, 282,607 bu oats, 46,940 bu rye, aud 199,830 bu barley, One hundred | dollnrs in gold would buy $112.87} in green- backs at the close, The Democrats in Congress will find it dificult to sustain their nssortions that tho testimony of Iansry against Speaker Krnn is tho result of n Republican conwpiracy, All tho civeumstances connceted with the in. vestigntion tond to upset this theory, The fact i3 that Mr. Kenn has received from the Republican members of the Committee degree of honorable and considerats treat- ment contrasting strongly with tho stabs in the dark given to nearly every Ropublican whose conduet has been nnder investigation, No testimony was permitted to be taken until Mr. Kenr and his counsel could be pres- ent, thongh the absence of two Democratic members of the Committee placed the Re- publicans in the majority for the time, and the evidence of JLanNy might have been mysterionsly peddled out after tho fashion of Demoeratie investigators. Nothing of the kind was permitted, but,on the con- trary, the Republicans almost without ex- ception have trented the matter fairly and dispassionately, earneatly hoping that Mr. Kenn may suceessfully and thoroughly re- futo the ternblo accusation. If this consti- tutes o conspiracy, Mr. Kran Las reason to feel grateful to the conspirators, — There hiave heen rumors for somo days that the Grand Jury, now abont to closo up its work, kas evidenco before it which war- rauts the indictment of several members and somo of the cx-mombers of tho County Board of Commissioners for corrupt prac- tices and conspiring to defraud the. public, These rumors having come to the oars of certnin parties who have cvidently renson to think they aro among the number, wo un- derstand that they have approached keveral Grand Jurors with personal appenls not to bring in the indictments. ‘I'his is simply in- famons, Every man who has used personal influence with n Grand Juror to cscapo in- dictmeut has furnished o now rea. son why nn indictment should be found sgainst him. Every man who has done this hes laid himself under A new suspicion, He has nlso attempted n new crime—that of persnading Grand Ju- rors to violate their oaths. It is a flagrant contempt of Court, for which these persons should bo reported and punished. We havo no iden that theso attempts at suborning tha Grand Jurors to forswear thomsetves will in- duco any of them to do so. On the contrary, every juror who Las been approached in this matter will feel himself under ndditional obligation to vote for an indictment wher- ever the evidence warrnuts it. No member of the Grand Jury will care to rest under the suspicion that he bas yielded to outside in- fluence to violato Lis onth and his duty, ——e THE DETHRONEMENT OF THE SULTAN, The importaut news contes from Turkey that o rovolution has broken out in Con- stantinople, resulting in the dethroning of Appui-Az1z, the Sultan. 1is suceessor, Mo- 1axyep Morap Lrresps, the presumptive hir, son of tho Inst Sultan, Anpur-Mrpap, tucceeds hita under the "Turkish lnw of sue- eession, whichgives the throne to the oldest male member of the faumly of Orusas, sprung from the Diperial urem, which is considered & permanent State institution. The lzte Sultan, who wns sccond son of Mauxoun IL, was born Feb, ), 1830, and is ten years older than his suceessor. Ile ruc- cecded to the throne June 23, 1861, and at the outsot of his earcor promised to be a e wns lavish in the announcement of roforms ho intended making, and made good his promises for n time by dismissing the corrupt Minister of Finance, reducing tho civil list, abolishing the neraglio, deelaring that he would not indulge in ing of the publie polygomy, and innugurat- mensures in tho interests welfare, In order to avail himself of the benefit of Iluropean civilization ho traveled through France, England, aud Austrin in 1867, and on his re. turn allowed foreigners to hold renl catate, established publie high schools and scien- tifle institutions, andl ordered the Supremo Conrt tadraw up n civil code, Among the important political events of his carcer wero the recognition of the indopendence of Ttaly, the negotiation of commereinl trenties with England and Franco, the suppression of re. bellions in Mantenegro and Crete, the sign- ing of tho trenty dencutralizing tho Black Hen, and tho acknowledgment of the nceession to the Itoumanian throne of Princo Cirantes of Hohionzollern. The promises of the earlicr yenrsof his reign, howover, were not ful- filled, Tho seraglio was ro-cstablished. Cor. ruptions of overy description erept into his administration, Ho squandered the monay lonned Turkey by England to repair tho losses ocemsioned by the Crimenn War in tho most reckless profligney, and has reduced Turkey to bankruptey, ‘Tho crowning misory of his career hns coms in the uprising of the Bclavie Christians many agnainat long-continued misrule and tyranny, nrbitrary and onerous taxation, unjust dis- criminations, and persecutions of the most cruel description, It is ns yot somowhat premature to specn- Into upon the efiects that this change will have upon the relations between the Turks sud the Christinng and betweon the Turks 1t is safa to assuine that it will hardly result in mitigating tho asperitics of tho Mussulmen to the Clris- tinus, from a religious poiut of viow., 'The Iata Sultan hod always boon distasteful to the orthodox Mussulinen, their hatred of him commencing when he mado his European tour, and tho Hoftas, o very powerful and fanatical seet, have for soma time been plot- tiug for his abidication and inciting the peo. ple to revolution, English people scemn to beliove that the abdication isIn the Interests of peuco, and on the London Stock Exchauge Turkish socuritios uro stronger and moro setive at a decided advanee. Whether the chango will lift the war-oloud remats to bo acen, and it moy lead to now aud iportaut cowplications, eipecially if the uew Sultan shoald Lappen .to Ly under the domination of tho ** Softus,"” Politioslly, howover, the lity that the audden change will not precipitate a crisis, but innsmuch as tho old Snltan was hostile to the Berlin agreement, it is highly proba- blo that tho new Sultan mny favor it, in which enso it beeomes an open question whether tho Turks will bo nblo to carry out the reforms demanded by the Grent Powers, Ihe changa does not alter {he attitude of Englaud, sinco the (ireat Powers will not abato thoir demands because a new Sultan is on tho throne. The English (lovernment was in nccord with the Iato Sultan, since both had rojected tho agreoment. If the new Sultan shall accept it, England will be loft impotently alone, A very few hours may show whether Munrap Errespr is any moro liberal or pacifio than Anvui-Aziz, THE CASE AGAINST SPEARKER KERRE. Spenker Kenn's statement beforo the Cryuzr Committes will disappoint all who had hoped he would promptly vindicate him- self against the serious charge, supported by dircet testimony, that is brought ngainst him, 1fis statement is a goneral denial, but it does not cover the gronnd. It leaves too nmch unexplained, and requires too much explanntion to bo aceopted ns answering the testimony - ngainst him. 'To begin with, thore is required considerable explanation of why Mr. Kesn did not recommend tho appointment from his own district or State, instend of going to New York to find 6 young man upon whom to bestow it. At thnt time, when he was of tho minority, it was the most suluablo patronage controlled by Mr, Kerr. The nppointmont is one that is nlways engerly sought. Then (1866), just after tho close of the War, donbtless thero were not less than five hundred young men in Mr. Kern's own district who, on being apprised there was a Licutennncy to be filled, would have sharply competed for it Mnuy of them doubtless would have been commended by their own worth. Others, of conrse, would have brought strong politicat influenco to bear to securo the appointment, ‘Why did Mr. Keoe ignore his own constitu- ents, to whom the appointment properly bo- longed, and bestow it upon young Greex, of Now York? Then there is disclosed, not by the teati- mony of Hanyey, but by the ofticial records, an extroordinary solicitude on the part of Mr. Kenn to make sure of tho commission in question for young GrerN., Mr, Kenn's original appointee, who twas from In. dinun, it scoms fuiled to pass examination and was rejected. But when Mr. Kenn ap- pointed young GrexN, of Now Yorl, he pro. vided that youth with a letter, upon tho strength of which ho recoived his com- missiod *“without examination by any Bonrd,"” asho himaelf testifled, It must strike overy one 08 strange that when his lottera wero 50 potent in this regard, Mr, Kenn did not tako the trouble to write one for his ITudinua appointee, as ho did for Gnery, of Now York. Why was Mr, K secure {ho appointment of Grexny so much greater than to securo the appointment of o young man from his (Kern's) own district ? Farther, Greey, who earcfully avoids in- culpating Kean, testifies that ho paid Hanszy to procuro the sppointment ; that Hanvey named Kenr ns the man through whom it wns to be obtained; and that, when Hanxey hind been paid, Keng did proenro it for Greex, Mr. Kenn testities that ho never kuow 1lan- Ny in his life, though Hanxey, being one of tho Doorkeepers of the House, must lhave been seen daily during tho entire seasion by Krum Mr. Kenw, with unnecessary com- prehensivoness, adds : ** T nover conseiously exchanged one minute's conversation, hatween Leaven and earth, with that porson (Hansex), I never received any money from hirm," What. thon, was it that induced Mr, Kenr to throw away this important and much- sought appointment upon a young maen he did not know, and who did not live in Keun's State nor district, and had nobody to securo it for him cxeept Hansey, who received 3150 to buy it with? Mr. Kesn would not have it believed ho was such an innocent ns to throw away such important patronage, Han. Ny swears Lo paid the money to Kenn Certain it is that the appointment followed the payment of the bribe-money to anvey. According to Mr. Kenn's statement, Hanney himself was unknown to, aud could havo had no influence with, him (Kenn), What, then, was it that influenced Mr. Kenn to bestaw the appointment upon young Gaeey, who paid for it ? —— PAY OT THE CITY EMPLOYES, Thero is one phnse of tha city's financinl embarrassment which the Couueil Finoncinl Committes's sehemeo does not provide for, and that s the payment to tho city em- ployes of the wages due them prior to April 1, when the present fiscal year began, which still remnin wnpnid. It is understood that this portion of the unpaid wages amounts to about 500,000, It eaunot be paid out of tlio money raised by tho igwme of the now certificates druwn agninst tho tax.lovy of [ 1876, for tho law requires that funds raised on theko certifientes shall be oxclusively np- plied to tho payment of obligations created by tho npproprintions of the current fiseal year, and wo refer to that portion of the un. pnid woges which became due prior to the present flveal yoar. In the abscuco of any wpecinl provision, then, the city employes will be forced to wait for tho collection of the taxes of 1675, the bulk of which will not be paid before some time in August or eatly in September, 04 it is not till then that paymont can be enforeed by judgment and sale, Iiut in this case tho relief for the city employes will only be partinl, and W do not beliove that they aro in a condition to wait threo juonths longer for the wages thoy earued threo tonths ago. As tho city owes thew this money, ko they owo it to others. Thoy owo it for rent to their landlords, for supplies to their butchors and grocurs, for clothing and household goods to the shop- koepers, for conl and wood, cte. It is prob- ublo that the rotail dealers have carried these 4500 or 3,000 peaple aslong us they ean afford to doso; and to lny out of $500,000 or 600,000 for threo months longer will necessarily occasion a very great dosl of sufering. Unless the Finance Committeo have ngroed upon some better plau for raising tho moncy to pay the wages duu prior to April 1, we would suggest that werip be jusued to the persons who have rendered service, at theiv option, specifying the amount dae them from the tax-lovy of 1875, making theso cer. titicates payablo Sept. 1 noxt out of the tax- colloctions that will bo made before that time, and mesnwhile making them raceiv- able for the taxes of 1874, 'I'his courso will Le in aceordanca with law, aud will serve to reliove thoe necessities of the many peoplo to whom the monoy is due. The shopkeepers, grocers, butchers, sud sup- ply-venders will take this serip very gludly ot ite face, because they cun mako uso of it at its faco value. If it bo issucd in small sums, any of tho creditors of the cwployes may themselves uso of it to pny their own taxos, At nll evonts, it will have a recognized valuo for that purposo, and will bo taken by the bankers and brokers readily. 'Fho iutorest it will draw and tho eertainty of its payment in threo months will mako it desirablo paper, and the probability in that thoe great hulk of it wonld find its way futo the hands of tho Comptroller before maturity as tonder for tho paymeont of tho taxes of 1875, This is tho only way thnt suggesta itself to us ns practicable for discharging at onco the indebtedness to city employes which hnd ncerued during the months of January, Feb- ruary, and March, unless there is suflicient aceumulation alrendy from the tax-colicetions of 1874 to pay thatindebteduess. 'This plan, however, woukl leave the tnx-collections of the next month to pay the July interest on tho bonded dobt and take up & part of tho old outstanding certificates. Tho proposed serip would have almost the character of cur- roncy, owiug to its boing legal-tendor for tho tnxes of 1875 now due, and because it would De payable in so short a time. Tho “shave” on such paper would Lo infinitesimal, and it certainly would b fairer treatment of those who have worked for tho city than tonllow tho prerent nrrearhgo to run nlong threo months more, Buch an arrangement, along with the ensh payment of wages earned sinco April 1, would relieve the strain wondorfully both for the city and its uupaid employes. + It may be feasiblo and more desirable, perhaps, to nogotinto this scrip in largo amounts with our home baukers, payable Sept. 1 out of the taxes of 1875, if the bank- ers sco fit to take it. 'I'his would have the advantage of enabling the payment of tho employes in full and in ecnsh, and wonld simplify the transaction. The local banks have amplo funds, aud we presume they will be eager to inke this ninety-day paper at 7 per cont, with absolute security ; it would ba regularly in the lino of banking, whilo tha negotintion of the mew certificates of 1876, payablo in the summer of 1877, would appeal to another kind of capital looking for longer investment, ——— DECORATION DAY, Eleven years have elapsed sinco the close of the War of the Robellion, and marvelous changes—social, material, and political—havo taken place since those stirring times, but the memorics of our dead soldiers still re- main fresh, and yesterday the peoplo of Chicago in a vast concourse gathered together and paid our fallen heroes their annunl tribute of love and respect by decorating their graves with flowers at Roschill, Grace- land, Calvary, and Oakwood Cemeteries, 'The day wns a lovely one, asif mnde expressly for tha observance of this patriotic and af- fectionnto custom. Every cemetery was crowded, and no grave was refused its tributo of flowers, the decorators not stopping to qnestion whether these graves contained Northiern or Southern soldiers. The music wiais ppproprinte to tha ocension, and the ad- dresses wero short and suitablo, and no un- toward incident marked the proccedings in any of the cometerics. T'ho unanimity and enthusinsm with which the decorations wero mado show that thero is no abatement of the public spirit which first suggested thiy aunual observanco. They show that, though time wenrs on and other things change, the mewory of the dead soldiers still remains fresh and green. Tho impartial distribution of tho flowors shows that tho scctional passions engendered by the War have cooled, and that tho dust of oll who slecp in theso graves is aliko sacred. ‘Lo snateh one day out of the year away from the roar and rush of business, and devoto it to the memory of tho dend, is in the intorest of peaco and reconcilintion, and overy year that it is dono it brings North and South moro closely together. Tho lesson taught from theso silent graves is n powerful and cloquent one. It teaches a higher und no- bler loynlty, n closer affiliation of the peo- ple, and their grand duty to live for the Ito- publie for which the dead gavo their lives. Rovrnr Couryen, in his uddress «t Groco- land, ndmirably epitomized the spirit of tho dny in theso words: 1 count cvery attempt to raka up the old trouble a violent, bitter thing, unworthy of our nation and our great Anglo-taxon family, and I am ashamed of the nien of my own State who could say the thing that hins just been said In our own State Cap- ftal that they might add wormwood to gall, Weo are one family North and Seath. Wo can only work out that destiny through peace and good will, Ou thls sumumer morning ax wo stind together the dunt of thewe deud men Is risfuz. The sun cannot tell which Is rebel dastand which iy logal, It (s all one to the xun. "The rain cannot tell oy It falls w0 mweetly on tho graves. 1t is all onc to the min, It Dlends In the grass, blows In the flowers, It blends ull together, for aa God willa, 1t cannot be utherwlse In our hearts LF wi are true, ‘I'he work has been dove, The dead sleep leneath their flowers. We return once more to tho demands of business, the hurly-burly of polities, and the thousand-and-one carey of life, the bettor prepared to meet and per- form them by virtuo of this day given to the dead, THE OLD CITY CERTIFICATES, Tn declining to issue new certificatos of in- dabteducss to tako up thoso now outstand- ing, it does not seem to bo generally under- stood thut the present City Government is acting ns much in the interest of the holders of thoso certificates ag it is in its own inter. est. All who are now in posscssion of tho old certificates aro now iunocent holders, who acceptod them in good faith, belioving them to belawful, and before there had been a decision of Court which inforentially makes them unlawful. If they shiould now yield up theso outstanding certiticates for new certifl. cates which the city has no right to issuo (the only authority now being to draw against the tax-levy of 1876 for the pnyment of obli- gotions aceruing in the present fiseal year), the city's creditors would not have so good a claim for the pnymont of tho paper, They wonld in that case necept au ovidenco of debt not authorized by law, sincs our 5 per cont lim. itation has wlroady been exceeded, and in full kuowledgo of that fact. Thoy could no longer urge that they are innocent purchasers and holders of tho paper issued rogularly, ac. cording to the custum of the city, and befors o judicial construction of tho law had limited the city's authority to issue it. It is n much safer guoranteo of payment to retain the old certificates, with the assurance of the Council that they will be paid off ns rapidly as possi- Lle, than it is to exchange them for now cer. titicatos which are of doubtful validity at the best. The plen upon which Mr. Ilavzs and & fow othors baso an anthority to issue new certifi. catos in that they may be mado out *in an- ticipation of tho taxes of 1575, '74, 73, and '72.” But how long may this process of ** anticipation ” be continued? Can it go on mdefinitely? There secms to bo o con. tradiction of terms here. ('an that be “an. ticipated” which is alrevdy and long sinco past due? 'T'o construe the authority of the city aftor this fashion would be to nullify the material point in tho decision of the Conrt detining tho character of the eity certificutes. The purpose of that decision was to avoid the iucurring of indebtedness beyond tho it which has nlroady been reached, Dint it wouldcertainly bo incarring indebtedness to go on ranowing paper in ox- ceka of tho limit for an indofinite poriod, If this bo not debt, then the word has nomean. ing. 5i’lm tronblo with thesn old certifienton i that thoy were insued without any referenco to spocific tax-lovies, without any reforence to anything except ‘“shinning,” and without any prepnration for paying them 08 they became due. 1In other words, in the manner and form in which they were put out thoy wore an unlawful in- crenso of the city's debt, and to renew thom now would bo to unlawfully continue the original infraction of law. All the city ean legally do is to mnkoe every effort to pay them ay soon as possiblo and got them out of the way. This is the proposition, and the holders of the old certificates who neeepted thom ot a time when thera was no ocension to question their legality will do better to ro- tain them now until paid than to excliange them for other pleces of paper which the city now has no authority to lssue, and which thoy are fully informed would bo il- legal. THE ART OF REPUDIATION. The English peoplo are having some ouri- ous experiences with their nationnl creditors, and the English papers, in a grimly humor- ousway, aro beginning to discuss repudiation a8 ascionco or fine art, Tho London Spee. tator, in an article upon this topie, calls at- tention to the peculiar financiering of threo or four nations whose bonds ave in every true Driton’s pocket. First, come the Turkish vipers, who have turned upon their English Lenefnctors and stung them after having been defendod against the great Rus- sinn Bear and accommodated with millions of money to mnke good their war losses. Aud now the * Sick Man " of Constantinoplo hins so managed his oxcheequer as to utterly extinguish his credit, As the Spectator says: *“The thcory of tho Porto is that the Governufent will pay half their prom- ised interest regularly, and if they do, *Turks® are worth at least 50, G por cont being about the usunl interest required on n second-class security ; but what with promises of improbablo future pay- monts, and issues of bonds for interest which only increase the debt, and ridiculous pay- ments to sinking funds, * Warks' are worth 15, and tho floating debt increnses overy day.,” Spnain iz another instanco which brings griof to tho British pocket filled with Spanish honds, sinco she alse is on the royal rond to rupudintion, Spain has the honor of competing with Great Britain in ono respoct. She s n public debt almost as big as the British, aud increasing so fast that it will soon meet and pass it. Thoroid no possi- bility that it ean ever bo paid. Sho conld, however, by removing her floating debt, pay, as the Spectator intimates, about $15,000,000 per onnum, which ecould Lo incrensed in timo with more neienlific taxetion, but in- stend of this, tho Blinister of Tinance has munilo o compromise which has sent Spanish stocks down to 14, With a debt of 3,300, 000,000, the intcrest on which more than consumes nll tho revenues of the Kingdom, tho Iidalgos nro advanecing merrily along to bankraptey. The Peruvinns have been re- markably handy in bankmpting themselves, and Peruvian bonds have been as plenty in England as plum-puddings, and the Spectator mournfully Inments thet *‘the Peruvian Government—which has this ndventago over most other Governments, that it can pawn a vistble and tangible article as collateral se- cuity, ean, as it were, doposit jewels to Linck its note of hand—has vacillated, and intrigued, and jobbed till its credit i5 de- stroyed and its ecreditors ruined, with- out any suflicient reliecf to its Trensury, whicl, by all accounts, is moro ecmpty than when it was paying interest over the counter,” Lastly, the Lgyptians are be- ginning to play fast and loose with their bonds, and to act ag if they also wero start- ing out on the rond to repudintion. Jomy Burr is cvidently in a snd plight, as he stands with his pockets stuffed with the 1. 0. U's of the Turks, Spaniards, Peruvians, Egyptiavs, and othor heathen, and watches his dobtors going into bankruptcy, one after tho other, preparatory to landing in final ro- pudintion, 1lis plight, in fact, is almost pitiable, ns may bo seen by the following sample lnment from the Spectator ; No good, whatever, that we sec, accruento any- Dody from this sort of blundering, and lenst of all to the State, which fn the only party o the affulr whose Interests we need consider to-day, or per- haps at any thne. ‘The case must e very excep- tional In which the wikest arrangemont for the State i not ulso the wisest for the bondholders, und we may take it, for the purpose of thls argu- ment, that their Interests aro fdentleal. Suppos- Ingg, then, that u Stato, cither through Interual dif- ficultics snch ns civil war, ar through the fallure of 1ta revennies, or throngh a continued course of ex- travagance, has hecoue unable to meet its engage. pients, but hus still some spare revenne left, what course wonll a eensilile Minister adopt? Wao can- not but belleve thut 1t would be exactly the cons trary courae to the one now habitually adopted,— that be would contract the smount of _nominal liu- bility, rather than the amount of ninnl interest, Tho beat featuro of tho new financial sehemo adopted by the Common Council s the classification of the outstanding cortifi- cates; the payment pro rata of tho back tnxes os they are collected; tho accoptance of tho certificates in paymont of theso back taxes; the regular payment of intercst there- on, and, finally, the prowmise of an approprin- tion by tho city to pay any defiest that may ro- main at the end of threo yoars. Wo predict, howover, that n faithful adhierence to this schemo will eancel all the outstanding certifi- cates long before tho three years sholl have clapsod. Meanwhile tho holders of tho cer- titicates mny congratulate themselves that thoir paper is in a much better condition than at any timo since its validity was called into question, and alko much botter than nevw cortificates would bo if issued to take up tho old. This action of the new City Gov- ernment ought to make tho credit of the city for tho future Lotter than it has boen at any time within two years, and we have nodoubt that it will have jnst that effect. The Whisky-Thieves' Organ in this city and its soveral tendors through tho Btnte arovery much exercisod about the loss of "'z Trip- uNe's influenco, They are never able to agroe just whon this **influence " abandoned Tue Tuinuxe, Somethnes they sny it was throe or four years ago; again within a year, aud geoerally within the current week. Now we desiro no stronger attestation of T'ux Trinune's influence than the continued Low! from theso organs of varied officinl scoundrelism. If it is monnt thot T'ux Tnip- uNe hos “no iufluence” with the gang which they represont in national and mu. nicipnl politics, we take it as a compliment, That it has some influenco, in so far as it represonts aud dovelops honest public seutiment, is tolerably clear, however, from the fact that whenever the Ringu succeed in packing a Committee, or carrying ont a jab, or stealing a march on the people, they yell with wild delight, and thereby attest tho ex- coptional charnctor of thoir victory., When roguery haa attained the davelopmont of theso later dnys, Tue T'rinuxe connot al- waya defeat it; neither ean tho peoplo on the instant. But neither the peoplo nor Tur Tnmune will indorse the roguery on that account. Menuwhile, tho goneral flut- tering when Tur I'ninuxs fires o shot shows that sovernl Lirds have been bit, TRE LAST OF BARON VON PALM. Josgen HeNny Louts Cuartes, Baron vox Pars, Grand Cross Communider of the Sover- elgn Order of the Holy Sepulchre nt Jerusalem, Kuight of 8t. Joux of Malta, Princs of tho Roman Empire, Iate Chamberlain to s Majesty the King of Bavarly, und more Iately cltizen of Chifeago, I8 dead, and hus gone to his everlnsting rest. Hedled (o New York, and was buried with the mystie Egyptian rites of the Theosophic Order, of which he was w member. With all his titles and decorattons, and notwithstanding his strungely cheequered earcer, he made more of o acnsation in his death than in his life. At the dead Baron’s iond stood o brazen cross, sym- bolleal of the Phallic worship of the creative principle, snd around §t twined a green apatted scrpent, and st the dead Baron's turned-up toes wns an hour-glass with the sunds run out, symbollcal of death, Baron vox Pawns, ss he watked the streets of Chiengo or lounted In the Iobbies of the opera, ns was his delight, wns o plain, slmple, unostentatfons man, and yet the Lluck, gloomy catafalque was en- livened with Lils fusignia and decorations. There were the white star of the Kuights of St. Joun, the gleaming silver of the German Ritter Order, the red cross of the IToly Sepulchre, and the star of the Grand Cross of Louts of Ba- varfy, none of which glittering gew-gaws were displayed by this plain man when ho dined at Inscit's, or took his beer of o Sunday night at Turner Hall, listenlng to the musicol Waangn, who was one of his fricnds, and cursing the quallty of the beer. Beven of his brethren fn black robes, bearing green palin branchies, stoud by his coflin, fluninated with parti-colored ean- dles, malntaining o solemn silence while the cholr intoned an Orphie hymn, set to the music of an old Ttallan mass written 300 years ngo. The pricsts then prayed, and then the High Priest ndvanced and repeated the anclent Egyptian lturgy, and asked varlous questlons touching the fnnmortality of the dead Baron's soul, and this was followed by an address from the Iflgh Pricat, made at the DBaron's request, In which he expounded the dactrine of Theosophy, When he had closed, Emara Hanpixe Brirrow, the Spirit- uallst, whose faith {8 allled to the theosophical, mude n rief uddress, which she closed with the followlng graceful farewell to our Baron: “8peed home, friend and companion! Thou las not left us. We know that thou hast passed the golden zates wherein sorrow ‘enter- cth not, and wo bld thee God-speed to thy home of light. Although the goldon bowl {3 broken and the silver cord fs loosed, we put on noweeds of mourning, and wo offer the symbols of full- Dlown human life with these flowers.” This closed the obsequis, and the Baron wus left alone, stripped of all his decorations, with ouly a few palm-branches on_his eofiin, until night, when a solitary undertaker took the dead Buron to the cemetery und deposited him In the Egyp- tinn darkness of the vault, where may he rest in peace until the resurrection morning which will solve the teuth of all doetrines. The Baron voNPALM was a well-known char- acter in our Chicago life. It was not strange that e adopted a Pagan bellef. As Max MuL- .Lek suid of Gourtue, lic was “a grand old heathen.” ITe moved about in the roar aud bustle and stir of our busy streets without be- ing s part of it. The modern rush of lfe never made any fmpressfon upon him. Ile drifted along on the calm surfuce outside of the swift currenty und contented himself with looking and wonderlng at it. Ie might have been Cuzors' Superintendent of Constructlon of the Pyramids or Chamberlain ot tho Court of CupuncNes, so far W8 any con- neetion with modern Ufe Is concerned, Tle had traveled the world over, heard all that was worth hearlng, seen all that was worth scelng, sucked the orange dry and thrown the peel nwuy, and he was therefore content to return to first principles. A glass of Tokay aund a free ticket to the opers, and he was never without elther, expressed to him themnax- fmumn of earthly pleasure, provided the Tokuy was free from suspiclon and the opers was good, There was, however, one slight lnk that con- neeted him with the Present, There was o dash of the IlirtoLd SKiMPoLE In his composi- sitiun, The ot request hie made of the writer was for the temporary loan of a dollar, 1t was adull time for the Theosoph. [lis favorite ven- der of Tokay, who, like himself, was something of a pagan and more of & scholar, had solved the doctring of Immortality nund settled the atrife of spirit and matter by blowing his bralus out, o that there was no more good Tokny to be had, It was outof the opera scason also, and all his favorite singing-hirds had flown off to coaler sputs. It was a dull, sud time for the Theosoph. If a dollar wonld huve rafsed him to the maximum of earthly bllss, he must have Leen stony-hearted who would have refused t, more particuiorly os the Theosoph would have given hislast dollur to nny one who had asked for it. He had purticipated in the stirring times of the German Revolution,hud served under King Fenninann, had waited upon royalty, had wan- dered I far countries, had DLeen edu- cated I diplomncy, had lived with the Indians n the Northwest, had dabbled in sliver mines, had nade fortunes and lost them, knew the prima donnus and all the dane- Ingz honrls of the stage, would have made an exeellent Callph of Bugdad and a stitl better PraTo, and yet wus quict, unostentatious, affa- Dle, eonrteous, slmple-minded, combug out of his shell only when the opera came, having the good will of everybudy, und a good word for everybody. And nuw the Baron vox PALM has quit drink- Ing Tokay, and will have no more opera unless perhaps the dead and gone. prima donnas are still singing In the Theosuph's IHeaven, wherey- er that may be. Good Christian souls may shudder ut the thought that the dend Buron was o Pagan; but it s at least bettertodicn good Pagan than a bad Chrlstian. 8o, God rest e soul. Whether Pagan or not, he died o gentleman, and that fa something worth aceom- plishing [n this nuughty world. It {s intimated that his friends will cremate him, 1f they can ob- taln permission from the authoritles. It would be more in keeplng with his Egyptian belfef. it they would make a blessed muminy of hiin, embalm him with splees, swathio him {n fino ltnen, glve him o scarabwua and u wisp of wheat, and then stand him up In some quict place where e would not be disturbed by the rush and din of nodern life, to walt for GABRIEL. e ——— It 18 not very cheerful news to lovers of good musle, tho unuouncement that comes from Phitadetphls to the effect that Tuzoponm TuosAs has had to discontlnue his concerts for luck of patronage, and that the musicians of Iuis orchiestra are on a strike for thelr pay. To those aequatnted with the facts in the case, how- ever, the news will not be unexpected. Mr., TuoMAs' scason In New York lust year was o very disastrous oue, owing to causes beyond his control, At its close he was fu debt to his or- chestra, but thero waa a flattering prospect thut the Philsdelphia season would help him out. The reverse of this appears to ho tho case. It will beasud calamity to tnusic In this country 1f this faflure shall result i the disbandioent of thls aplendid organization und the retire- ment of Mr, Tiouas from tho posi- tlon fn which ho lhas done such inag- nitleent although thunkless work for musie, und it 13 to bo hoped that somo of his fricnds will prove publie-spirited enough toavert such a Qisaster. It [s stated fu the suno dfspateh that Mr. Gumons hus secured the control of the musfc fur Fourth of July, and will repeat his Boston panjundruwm with thousands of yolees, anvils, cannons, bells, and wusleal sky-rocketa, ‘Thls I8 ull well enough, but it fs only for a duy. Mr. Tuowas was enguged {n u great work of musicul education reaching into the future, It will be @ thousand pitfes If that work shall top. ‘There fs an avenue of cacaps, howe wer, Let Mr. THOMAS pateh up hig trouhles or thlrn them over In pome manner unti next o)) aad then make Chleago bis home, L ———— For n few daya past, on the atrength of g pe. port to that effect, there has heen alively hope that DoN Camzioy would deeling to aceept the appolutment of Sceretary of War. By now comes the unpleasant Intelligence that hie hng signifled his neceptance. This leaves us tothing more to do than to bow In ahedience to the In. serutable power behiud the throne, and to pring the followlng sketch of the new warrdor: D CAuznoN, the new Sccretary of Wap, un of Senator StioN CaMeui, and it A8 years of age, thougl he lookrmuch younger. 1y in & native of Harelsbisrg, n_gradusto of Do hciton + 0t hefore he Wit 100 wan Caahier of g utown Hunle. "The hulk of bis fife was yiyey to bueincss pursuita, rllrosd and bunk e went belng bix apeclalties. 10 hus far s Tons. Lieen Preaident of the Northern Central Ital{r Dt left the fiovitlon two yours azo wiien tho G #ylvani Haflroad secured and Col. Tuostas A. § amafority of (e s COTT wun clioven Broides Inhls wtend. Tie did not enter Into politics. about ten yenrs ago, at which time ho began to de. velop the pucullur tactiea of hin fathor i the s agement of Legislatures nad State Conver iy Hls wil tn munlpalations of thix kind 1y more featy anl culturcd tha that of hin father, Tackin ns ho docs thie senfor Senator's bluniness Hj specch and Brasquencas af manner. 110 hay meveh hekd u poiltical ollice, wnd nuver wought. o A few yenrs ago, when Grant refused him the Teessiry ottt therely eniai on cstruugr et Wifeh duopmeatcd hoiley” wlmy Was iy partially enubled father and son'to conceal, —————— PERSONAL. The home of Charles Fechter, the actor, has beea condemned by the Sherlff of Ducks County, I'a, Aloxunder L. Blephons s much Improved | heulth, und hopes 1o he cotirely restored beforg cold weather comes again, Banche Tucker hos fuund a valuable protector and friend tn Mine. Adelina Patti, under whone ql. rection she 1s studylng the part of Somnambula, Among the Chicago people mentioned ns having cottages ut Newport thiv summerare K, N, Willard, N. J. Barney, Judge Hugh T, Dickey, and T, v, Phlnney, Mru. Helknap and her little dunghter, the Wash. Ingtow ¢hronicle says, will leave that ity in a few dnys, und pass the summer tn some quiet villuge near New York. Mr. Dann saya: ** Brother Blalne mayas well hang up hls fddle,” 1f he does, ho will probably come down on the floor and show the brethren how the dance ought to be done. Irreverent parngeanhers apeak of Marshal Mac- Mahon as ** the man who 18 silent fn seven lun. gunges." Thut nccounts for his never baving found a womnan worthy to marry him, Charler Francls Adams refused an Invitatlon to dellver a Centenntal oration in Cooper Instltute, New York, having already accepted o similar Invis tation from the Town of Tauuton, Mass. Poole, the famous English taflor, used to fay that the French and Americans were his besj friondy, becnuse it ls only the English arlstacency who feel that they ean afford to swear old clothes. Julius Chambers® book, **A Mad World,” re. cently published in London, is the record of a vals vntary incarceratlon in a lunatle asylum In New York, The book fa prefaced by n complimentary letter from Charlea Reade, ‘The London Safurday Review hasanother ** high Jinky editorlal, solemnly wolghing the probabill ty of the Republicaniem of the United States being whaken by the consplcuous presence of the Empero of Brazll at the opening of the Centennlal, Mr. Richord Scudder, nuthor of the Drazilin wedding huasx, wus too royally Imuginative for the newspaper business, o had to gu Into the Meth odist mlnlatry in order to get a while enougl tlell for theexerclve of hlw powers. The credit 8 thi discovery fa due Lo the sober-minded $t, Louls Lo publican. Kate Field writes homo that her first dress, or tho occaston of her debut, ** was lovely white sllk and roses, " and who snys further, **I had thret lovely bouquets sent me."” Everything scoma te bave been lovely. But we fenr Mies Field has sunk gomething of her literary taste fn Lier wild passioy for bistrlonlg fame, The Cincinnati Commercial Is, ar pretends to bo, dieturbed I wind becanse Richurd Smith, whom it playfully catis ** Dencon, ™ attended s horse-racy ou Friday last. It Is much to tho credit of Mr. Swmith that lie can attend horsc-rucen and ot the samo°time make aa good 4pd pure and dignifed a newspaper as he doea, M. D. Conwny writes that be met George Crulk- fhank at n reeeption of the Urbun Club, London, The urtist 18 B3 years old, and huw developed peend- furitien, ¥e polnted to one of Landscer's pictures and complacently remarked, **He got the fdea from we;" and he Smaglnes that numerons other pletures were similarly Inspired by him, The New York Sun does not object to Mr, Hene nelt's keeping un African exploter, o four-In-hand couch, and a mustang, but it Is grieved to see him 50 wantonly throwIng away his money on cabla diapatches that might aa well have been written In New York as In London," ‘The charity which can pardon the mustang ought to overlook the other extravagances of youth. A well-known acteess temarked, the other day, that sho would bave left the prufesslonlf Anna Dickinzon lind mlccecded, because she would have lost nll respect for a culling whose highest position conld be reached at & step, Nonsense! Tho **well-known actress * would probahly have first endured, then pitied, then embraced Miss Dickin- son,and finally have hated her intensely and beaten hier out of the field. The managers of tho 8t. Louls Dase-Ball Clut lave expelled McGeary, one of the players, who was convicted of purposcly losinz the Mutand game on Just Satnrday, in tho intercst of a crowd of gamblers. This action s exactly right and Righly commendable, Any doubt In regard to the integrity of u buse-ball club in fatal to ita ex- istence, and a serloun Injury to the whole profes- slon. It [s much more esvontlal 4o the preservation of this dellghttn] und Iunocent ficld-sport that it should be played honeatly than that it should Lo played well. Some personal remliniscences of Mr, Bloss, the well-known editor of the Cincinnatl Enguirer, sro furnished by that paper. At the thue of the sad accldent which resulted In his denth, Mr, Bloss hal been connected with the Euquirer Lwenty-four yeurs, Durlng the lut fow years of hls scrvice, he was a privileged churacter, and could write ay lttle or aw much editorlol matter us bo chose. Ifs uncompromising honesty and independenco often pluced him in o posltion of antagoutum to the pollcy of the paper, and thy respousible editors were frequently obllged to cross out what he had written ufter it had been put In type. He hos been knawn to write an cditorlal In dircet opposl- tion toone that hud appenred In tho Euguirer & few hours before, Productiuns of thls sort, of course, never saw tho light of day, Befors his matter had been put in type, none of his edllorlal assoclates could read 1t. Thers were just four compositora in the offce—known as Bloss’ compositors—who could declpher hiy manuscript. Three of them huve been worklug for the Enquirer over twenty years, and the fourth cightecn years. Tlo wna n man of large Information, futense vanity, lovable disposition, unwearled industry, and con- vivial habits, witkout dignity or halance of mind, 1Mo never traveled, and was never cuvy away from hisdeak. Once when he had been almoat vrdored away for a vacatlon liv roturned at the explration of threo days, and, complaining of lonelincss, was allowed to resume hiv work, Bloss was not more than b feet 6 Inches In helght, and scarcely ever reached 120 pounds in welght, Ile waa 40 years ot age, TOTEL ANLRIVALS, Palmer House—Matthew Clark and George Rich- mond, Scotland; A, B, Hall, England; L. T, Grif- fin, Detrolt; Willlam Stecdman and W. E. Juse sell, England; Mugnu Taoug and A. W, Gorans- son, Sweden; J. D, Gitbert, Strutford, Conn, 5 W, B, Miller, Springeld: B, Namaden, Fulton, N, i Charles Beott, “I'rentoy, N, J.; Tun Karl an Tagliapletra, New York. «Grand Pactfic=1lenr) Viicent, London, En oury Kip, Buffalo;J. C. 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