Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 7, 1876, Page 4

i~ CHICAGO TRIBU 7, 1870, TERMS OI SUBSCRIPTION, PAYANLE IN ADVANCE—I'OSTAGH PREPAID AT rtpald. s bl ol 0 Lflll faur weeks for. dterary and Keligi Matied to h‘muhl{ Rditiont Khieel £ri-Wes I of year 0 TAL ‘WEEKLY EDITION, POSTI'AID, Qne copp. per year, Clubof five, percony.. Ciulof twenly, per co The postage 13 15 cents & ye Specimen coples ent free, To prevant delay and mistakes, be sare and give Post- Ofice addreaa In full, Inciuding State and County, Remittances may be mado clther by drat, express, Toet-Uice uréer, or in regiatered letters, at our rlak. TERME TO CITY DSCRIDENS. Datly, delfrered, Sunday excepted, 35 cents por week, Dally, dolivered, Sunday fneluded, 30 cents per week Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Badton and Deatborn-sta., Chicago, Iil. L3 which we will prepay. Hooley’s Thentre. Randolph street, between Clark and Lnsalle, of ‘Miss Ilioss Eytinge. *‘Roso Allcl *micn Riferioon and uveting. New Clilcngo Theatre Clark street, between Lake and landolph, Hooley's Miustrols. Afterioon and cvening. Woodre Manemm, = Manroe street, botween tate and Deatbarn. Fne garauient of Jobert cWade. ''Lip Van Winkie," Alterneou sud eventog. BOCIETY MELTINGS. ASONIC.-ESPERIA LODGT, X0, 411, A, F. & A?‘n.—}‘l}snllr comuunication st Masonle Tempic, corner Randolph and Halsted-sta,, thin (Wedn cevening, Juac 7. Third Degred cordiatly myited: ARLES 1L B CHARLES F. FOFE! M. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1870, Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at 883. e The weatherwise party in Washington prognosticates cooler wenther for ‘this locali- ty to-day. Tha Senate Committas nppointed at the instance of Senator Davis, of West Virginin, some five months ago, after a thorough in- vestigation of the modes of doing business i the Tressury Department, report that they aro satistied that no eause for complaint exists therei ‘Tho Senate yosterdny voted that on tho Gth day of July it will proceed to henr the ovidence on tho siarits of the BeLrNar im- penchment case. There is, howover, a pos- sibility of postponement until fall, as the Bennte will not consent to procced with the trinl unless the House remains in sossion throughont the summer. The recent reduction in passonger rates on tha railronds lending to the Enst is, in point of fact, no reduction at all. Tho roads are simply selling tickets at Contennial rates, but without the sixty-dny privilege attaching to tho round.trip tickets, Fares to the sen- board cities might be still further reduced with profit to the railroads, and a vory de- cided reduction will be necessary before the great rush of travel sets in that was ex- pected, The Indisn Appropriation bill was passed by tho Houso yesterday, including that sec- tion providing for the transfor of the Indian Bureau to the War Department. A strong effort was mads by the opponents of the proposed transfer to prevent the incorpora. tion of the section in the Approprition bill, but it was ruled that this was propoxly a part of tho mensure and was germano to the bill, on the ground that the transfor to the War Department is in tho interest of retronch- ment, — e —— A canvass of the Now York delegation to the Cincinnati Convontion shows that at least thirteen out of the soventy will not sup- port Mr, CoNrniNe after the first ballot, Al ready the question haa boen discussed where 1o cast the Coxgvuina strongth when it shall bocome certain that he cannot be nominated, ‘There is a strong tendoncy toward Mr. Wasn- BunNe in New York, whera he is regardod na cortain to got nine-tentha of the Germnn vote of the Btate, and especially to wenken the Democracy by drawing off the German Catholic vote. — The bottom hng dropped out of the accusa- tion that the Government had boen out- rageously and systematically swindled in tho woighing of mail matter to bo transported from Chicago to the Pacific const. A Com. mitteo of tho Houso has been investigating tho subject, in the hopa of showing loose. ness or fraud in tho Post-Office Departwent, but the testimony of Mr, Jases E. Wire, of Chicago, who has chargo of tho mails in tho Northwest, yestorday convinced the Committeo that there is no truth in the charges, and the matter will bo droppod, — e Judging from the complaints mada ngainst tho Associated Pross Agent at Washington on account of his failure to tolograph the Bramvg lottors Mondny night, it would ap- peur that thoro is great noed of o live man to succeed the presont slow-going incumbent, A copy of tho lotters was furnished by Mr. Brae to the Agent at an lour sufilciontly oarly to admit of their trausmission in full to the press, but for somo iuscrutablo reason only a fow of the lotters, and theso tho least fuportant, wero sent. An Associnted Pross Agent who is not twenty years buhind tho times would be an improvement upon the Present manngement at Washington, The soft-money micn in tho House have galned an important advantage, which will coable them to fores a vote upon the cur. rency question within the next thirty days. They havo socured an amendmont to the rules whoroby any bill relating to tho curron- ¢y, reportod by the Committeo on Banking and Currency, can bo brought up and voted upon at sny time. It i cortain thut the hnrd-money men on the Committes havo wuccumbed to the pressure and consented to ropourt a bill for the repeal of tlo Resump. tion oct, and, as tho rule will enable tho majority Lo cut off dobnte, the inflationists havo it in their power to bring the House to 8 voto on tho curronoy question whenover they get roady, whick will y.robably not bo uutil after tho Bt. Louis Couvontion, The Chicago produce markets wore active Yosterday, and irropular, Provisions were unsteady. Mosa pork closed 6@74a per brl higher, at $19.76 for Juno and $18.00 for July. Lard ciosed a shade firmer, at $10.56 @10.57} cash and §10.624 for July, Meats wers 4o per 1b higher, at6jc for boxed shoul- ders, 940 for do short ribs, and 930 for do short clears, Laka froights were onsfor, at 2}e for corn to Buffalo. Railfreights wore unchanged. Flour was dull and steady, Wheat closed 2 lower, at 8103} for Wre and 8104} for July. Corn closed e bwar, at 4450 for Junc and 44]c bid for July. Oats wero firmer, closing at 290 for Juuo and 29f0 for July. Ny was stronger, ut T0@7ic. Barley was uuchnoged, at &ic, higher than Mouday, Sales wera at $5.50@ 6,10, Cattle were in good demand nad ruled steady. S8heep wore unchanged. Last Bat- urday thero was in store in this city 916,308 bu whent, 797,322 bn corn, 857,051 bu onts, 42,778 bu ryo, aud 285,004 bu barley. One hundred dollars in gold would buy 8112.624 in grocnbacks at tho closo, It oppoars thnt Adting-Mayor Corvis's premnture removal of the Public Works Commissionors was snggeated by motives of roveugo, ongenderod by tho Board's recog- nitlon of Mr. Hovye whilo ho was acting s Mnayor, but prompted mainly becanse tho Board had removed somo of Convix's pots. Among the Intter wero Huaner Reep, a fel. low named Cantaomaw, and Mr. Canxox, an ex-Alderman, two of whomn aro said to havo beon efficient in the charter clection whiclt was carried by fraud and ballot-box stnfling. It is said that Convin intends to carry hia policy of rovengo still further, and will remove Superintendent Hicxer beenuso the latter maunged the polica in tho intercst of peace and quiot during Corvin's contro- vorsy with Howxe. Very well; let Acting- Mayor CoLvin go ahead, Nothing good con bo expected from him, aud the moro disrep- utable he mnkes himself and his administra- tion, tha bettor it will bo for the people in tho ond. ——— Another shining light in the ranks of the Pcople’s Party bas beea extinguished ; an- other of CoLvin's supporters has surrondored unconditionally, Iizprera bins gono to meet Hesva, Rexxt, Bufinlo Minver, and the rest. The * young Destosrrenes " of the Common Council bas * laid down” and ** given up.’ His cnso wns called for trial yesterday in the United States Conrt, snd Hrr. orern entered n plea of guilty & two counts of tho indictment chorg- ing him with crookedness ns a Gauger. Ho bas thrown hiwmsolf upon the clemency of the Court, and if his youth and inexpori- ence, his purity of charictor, his pe vers of oratory, and his distingnished sorvices to the tax-payers of Chicago in the capncity of Alderman, aro given properweight in the fix- ing of his punishment, there is encournge- ment to expect that HiLprern's banishmont from his favorite sphere of usefulness will not exceed ten yenrs. Under less extenuat- ing circumstances it might be for life, ——— MR, BLAINE'S MAGNIFICENT AUDACITY, ‘Whatever clse may bo snid against Jases G, Braixg, ho cannot be charged with cow- ardice or timidity after his bold and brilliant confronting of his accusers on Monday, o seoms to havo adopted DaxTon's famous mot. to for his policy: *De I audace, encore de U audace, toujours de I audace.” ¥e had boen advised by two of the sharpest lawyers iu Washington, Jere Brack and Marr Can- PENTER, not to make tho Mlurrioan lotters public, and, in defianco of their advice, ho rigked the consequences of that publicity on the floor of the House in the very face of his onemics. Ho knew that those lotters must slow him to have been engaged in all sorts of wildeat stock operations, holding options for himuel? and others, accepting and giving back stocks, involved in the Credit-Mobilier operations of several railroad companies, mixed up in rifle contracts, and in general dobbling *and dickering in a varicty of dubious speculations which might not be improper for a speculative private indi- vidual, but do not look well in a statesman and Spenker of tho House and candidate for tho Prosidency. o knew that tho exposure must be dnmaging to himself and mortifying to his friends, but ho risked it. However we may viow the undeniable parts of those lotters it is impossible not to admire tho brilliancy, boldness, vigor, power, and talent ho displayed in opening thoso lotters and uncovering himself to tho onemy, knowing that they would be at once searchingly eriticised by his opponents and in the public press. In some respects ho ressmbled Srermex A. Dovoras, although Mr, Dovaras never found himself whero he hnd to mnke desperata defcnse of his personal transac- tions, or where he was forced to ro- venl his private correspondence to the public, Novertheless, Buamxe displayed much of that samo gnt and power that charneterized the *‘Little Giant,” and ho posscsses much of that samo personal mag- netismn which rallied people about Dovarag when he went to his Waterloo dofeat, 'There aro thousands of men now, dazzled by the boldness and audacity of Braine, who will rally about him and wage n strong battle in Lis behalf, following him to a msgnificent defent. Were tho election to be held this weok, Mr. Brame's brilliont strategy and highly melodramatio action might coine pretty near winning. Its first dazzling effect miglit not pass nway in time for the admiring spocta- tors to recover their cooler judgmonts and look behind the scenes. Tho despair of tho situntion, however, botk for Mr, Bramg and bis friends is, that thero aro yot fire long months befora election. In politics as in diplomacy, weeks and mouths bring abont great changes. Fivo months is long enonugh time for tho popular enthustasm tococl down and abnto, and for the popular Judgment to grow exacting, In that timo theso lotters, aud othiers that may como to light, will bo discussed and eriticised. ‘TRey presont many valnerablo points which will b exposed by Democratic papers sud stumpers, and there will be no DBranes to reply with an ovorwhelming aud momentury display of nervo and audacity. 'This dramatio business of Monday, brilliant and pyrotechnic ny it was, will soon pnss away, and then comes the serious business of theso lettors and the stock-jobbing charges ogainst Mr, Brane, In this liea the danger of tho situation, Tug Curcago Trinung admired Mr, Brling as sinoerely as any one of his friends, but when these dolicato chaptors in his record leaked out, and when these gavoe riso to tho sus- picion that there might be still moro in re- sorve equally damaging, it had to look be- youd tho magnotio personality of the man to tho consoquences of his actions, and the in- fluence they would exort upon the campaign and the prospects of the party in caso Mr. Braxe should bo ita standard-bearer, Other men besides Brang havo boen bold, brilliont, and audacious. Crax oud Docoras were certainly his equals in this rospect; but thoy found their Waterloos, although they had no privato business lotters to read to tho public, noexplanations to make touching their personul honesty, At the prosent time, when the publio mind i8 80 sonsilive in tho mattor of vpeculations, stock-jobberies, Credit Mobiliers, rings, and swindles of all descriptions, when the bal. ance af power iu held in tho hands of tho in. dopondout voters, and the independent voters aro abroad in the land and will not be dictated to by the machine politicians, it is tho part of prudence to look facts squarely in tho face, to lot the brilliant and dazzling drawatic spectaclo go for amusement, and tako a peep bobind the socuos and to ask ouo's welt tho question, What shull wo gain it wo have & magnetic, audncious man for a enudidato and lose the election and control of the Govornment 2 Of what avail was Dan- ToN's De l'audace, encore de Vaudace, et tou- Jours de Taudacs to him when ha lost his hond 7 Audacity on tho floor of Congress in facing foes wing admiration, but it is not availablo when sproad over s continent for fivo months as a shicld agninst innumerable assnults, with cool and cynical mon for au- ditors and spoctators, S BORE HEARTS. At the mecting of Republicans held a fow nights ngo to form a Damrow Club, ono of the spenkers stated that thoy niot not ns sore hends, but na men with * sore hearts,” to lo- mont over tho ovil times which had befallen the country. The orgnns of the whisky thioves and blacknnilers hava sinco then in- dulged in all mauner of sncers and ruffanly comments upon the mon with * goro hearts,” Thesa ringsters do not conceive how any person outside of a Ponitontiary or dis- missed from offico can havoa ‘‘sors henrt.” "To them personal freedom from the penal- tics of felony ia a realization of human hap. pluess,—of politieal bliss. "his clnas of persons do not understand how any Ropublican sbould havo a sore henrt at tho disgraceful fall of BrLxar; thoy can understand no grief but Beuknar's personal sorrow at the loss of his handsome income from thoe offices he had sold, Any such thing ns national regret, public humilintion, political disgraco, grief, and distress at the low standard to which official morality had fallen, cxceedoth tho comprehension of tho professional thief, Tho man with 26,000 stolen from the Trensury under tho protenss of back pay is unablo to sympathize with those who mourn over the decadence of Con- gressional morality ; nor does he see how the American people can have sore hoarts over the nation's disgiaco when his heart is re. joieing in the posscssion of & sum of stolen money groater than he ever carned by hon- est work in all his life, To bo turned out of Congiess, and do- prived of tho means of plunder, or to bo turned out of & Cuatom- Housa or other office, is o griof that the average machino politician cnn undorstand ; but that tho publio should feel wronged or outraged at oflicial corrup- tion, Governmental dishonesty, or personal depravity of party leaders, is a mystery be- yond their comprehonsion. Hence they sucer when honoest men with * soro hearts " griove over the disgraceful spectacle of an ex-member of Congress who bLad lined his pockets with Pacifle Mail bribes being ap- pointed a delegate to sclect some other bribed scoundrel ns the candidate for whom decent and honest people ghall vote for President. The man who mourns over the conviction of a Cabinot officer of officinl dishonesty as & public calamity, or who is humilinted thata Speaker of the Houso of Representatives should writo that he, s Speaker, had given an official decision in Congress in favor of n wildeat railrond, and urgo this nsa reason why the agent of that corporationshould troat him with special fuvor in the distribution of its bogus bonds and othorsocurities, is hold by thomen who fol- low politics for tho dishonest gain thoy may make a8 & simpluton or sentimontal fool, The only dacadonce in American moraly which these political thioves, who sncer at soro hearts, recognizo is tho public respect shown for men like Bustow, who puts ofticial thieves in prison, aud forces them to dis- gorgo the property they lhave stolen. The only rotrogression the ringsters can see in American statesmanship js the expulsion of tho carpet-bag thieves from the Southern States, and tho toleration of honost men in offico in their places. 'Tho only thing which scens to them to bo disgraceful in Governmental policy is the rotention of tho Secrotary of the 'Treasury in offico after ho hins hod somo of the best, and purest, and brightest rovenue thieves indicted, convioted, and sentenced, and broken nup in busincss, and deprived of the mneans of supporting starveling nowspaper organs! What, thoy ask, is tho use of an Administration which permits this man to treat theft na n crime, ond loyal, patriotic Republicans s proper victims for punishmont under old senti- meutal statutes agninst robbing the Treasury? Theso men cough and sucer ot the idea that thero can be soro hearts among tho peo- plo wheun tho choice of a candidate for Pres- ident has now to bo made by comparison of quostionablo rocords ; and wonder why there are no hearts sore becnuso of the inhuman imprisoninont of the poctic Jovce, the pious McKee, the chivalric MoDoxawp, or the statesman Macvmne. To them nothing is disgraceful Lut detection, and all oxprossions of publio sorrow or indignation nt the growth of political and officinl crimo is but the drivel of n respectability that has not tested the sweots of corruption, nor palmed the bribe, nor gold tho publio interest for private gain. ————— ACTING-MAYOR COLVIN, The conduct of Mr. CoLvin since the de- clsion of the quo warranto case would indi. cato that he accopts that verdict as n sort of triumph of his porsonnl causa over the pub- lic desire to got rid of him. As a mattor of fact, there is nothing in either the wajority or minority opinions of the Court which will warraut this construction. The only disa. greemeont between the Judges was sbout the suthority of tho poople to flll the vacaecy by an cloction whon the proper tribunal had neglected to give notico in the mauner and form preseribed by law, 'I'wo of the Judges took the broad and correct view that the will of tho peoplo unwmistakably exprossed at the polls cannot bo defeated by any provious neglect on tho part of public officials, and that this rule applics ta special elections on n goneral clection doy ns well as to thoso which recur regularly at utatod intervals. But o baro mnjority of the Judges were held down by the generio judiclal droad of dopart. ing from the techuical constructions of a statuto, and thereforo hold that Mr, Hoyng had not beon legally elected. A majority of the Judgos agreed in the conclusion that thero hins been a vacancy in the oflico of Mayor since May, 1875, whon the now charter was * stuffed " on the peo- ple. In this respoct the verdict was a ro- buko to Mr. CoLviv, and in no sonso «n trinaph. It was a formal declaration from tho Bonch that the Circuit Judges of Cook County beliove with the peoplo of Chicago thnt Mr, CoLvix (instead of having the right to thoe oftlce upon which ho ko {nsisted all along) hos been permitted to serve ouly by tho refusal of the old Council todo ita duty and call a apocial electlon for Mayor, Now, it is notorious that Mr. CouviN porsonally used bis official influence to prevent the calling of a special clection. He hod helped to force the adoption of the charter of 1872 under tho impression thet it would extend’| his torm till April, 1877, and ho worked as. siduously to give it this effeot by persunding the Ring Aldermen to vote sgainst the ocall for & special eloction, He used tha city's wmoney to engago outside sttorneys to fur- nish him with opinions favorable to his pol. ioy of holding on to the office, He unsed aud pronisd the patronnga of tho city to induce the venal Aldermen to stand by him; ha ngreed that they nand their frionds should continuo to proflt by the prolonged tenurg of oftice. Ifo resortod to every means which wily advisers could auggost, and pandered to overy intorost at tho sacrifice of tho publie wolfaro, to defeat tho Inwful offect of tho charter ns it has heen construed by the Judges to whom the case was submitted. Most men receiving fudicial notice that they had arrayed thomaclves againat tho Inw 04 well ns againet tho will of tho people for more than a yenr would have takon ocea- sion to sbandon the position, and would bave smought to counternct s much as possible the pernicions offects of such policy. 8o Mr. Convty would have done hnd ho been nctunted by any higher motive than that of clinging to offico for his own porsomal beuefit and that of his retainors and frionds. If ho had the sensitivencss of a mulo ha would havae resigned his placo fm- medintoly upon tho prommigation of a ver- diet so humiliating to him. On the con. trary, he construed it simply as a war- rant for his continuing as locum tenens for twenty or thirty days longer, and began (n‘mudlatoly to nssert himsolf nnd harase the Council in overy way posst. ble, If it was his purposo to embarrass the city he could not proceed more snccesstully than he hag proceeded. * Rulo or Ruin” is the motto which scems to govern his nc- tions, and after him he hopes to leave noth- ing but chaos, Thismust have been his mo- tivo in removing the entirs Bourd of Public Works before mzking any provision for fill. ing tho duties thoy havoe discharged. 1If this wag not his idea, then his nction was sug- gested by some recent hostility to the gon- tlomen constituting that Bonrd, or by a dem- ngogical desba to pander in an unpractical and unsafe way to the public demand for ro- troncliment and consalidation of officeswhich bad been popularly inaugurated by Mr. Horxe during his bricef tenuro of the of- fico. Mr, CoLvin ought nt least to have con- sideration enough for the peoplo of Chicago to remomber that ho is only tho Acting Mayor,—acting becauso & former corrupt Council had failed in its duty to call an elec- tion to fill a vacancy in tho office,—and that, at the very best, he cannot hapo to remain in the position thirty days longer, Let Lim also remember, if ho wonld retain a vestige of respoot for himsolf, that the majority in the present.Council roprosent tho presont feeling and desires of the community, andso not opposa them. A man who bns at onco the peopls, the Council, tho law,and the Courts opposed to him, and whoso desperate grip will not keep him in offico more then a month longer, ought to defer romewhat to the public welfare and the popular senti- ment, A PUT-UP JOB. TR friends of Mr. CowviN have eansed & flctitious case to be brought in the naturo of & quo warranto, in which one Jaxzs Srrrin, & contractor, ia relator and Couvry respond. ent, The proccedings aro upon an ngreed statemont of facts; judgment for Corvin was taken by consent, aud the enso hurried down to Mount Vernon. The aim is to have tho Bupremo Court, upon thoe facts as stated in that record, try and decide the question of who is Mayor of Chieago. That kind of practice may bo sharp, but the Supreme Court will not bo entrapped in that way. Judge Dicxer, of the Supreme Court, who ns Corporation Counsel has given official opin- {ons fn this caso, will not permit theimportant question involved to be decided by the Court in this partial and incomplets manner, pre- sented by ono side only. 8hould the main question in this case over be taken to the Supreme Court, it should go thero upon a tull racord, and be properly represented by tho people a8 well ns by Mr. ConviN. The counsel who have filed this bill requiring Corvin to show cause why he pretonds to be Mayor, and who have agreed to tho facts, and who consonted to judgment for Cowvry, and who nre prepared to consont to n liko judgment for him in the Supreme Court, are Messry, E. 3L Hawnes and W, W, O'Briew. The wholo case s so transparently a put-up job, —a fictitious snit,—that we have no doubt the Bupromo Court would, upon proper sug- gestion, strike it from tho docket, The Gitizens' Associntion may properly take such monsures as will inform the Su. preme Court of the renl charncter of this proceeding, and provent that body being en. trapped into hearing n fraudulent case, with fraudulent partics, upon false issues, and rendoring a decision thercon which may in. volve the peaco and erodit of o whole mu- nicipality, — THE RESUMPTION ACT, A correspondent at Paxton, L., nsks if Tue Trinune is in favor of the repeal of the Resumption act. Tuz Triuuse has on more than one oocaslon expressed its opinion of the Resumption act very freely. Tho act so far as it relates to * resumption,” wns a very harmloss pleco of logis!nfiou: It declared that the Unitod Btates will resume wpe- olo paymont Jan. 1, 1879, but provided no practical means for carrying that declaration into offoct, The act awnmoed furthor and future legisiation, ovon to tho extonsion of the time named for rosumption. Without further logislation tho uct iy a dead lottor, and undor it thoro will bo no more resump- tion of specie payments on the 1st of Janu- ary, 1879, than would take place if no such act had over beon passed. The not was purcly & picco of sentimontalism, It was passed at the time to direct public opinion to the desirablo end of specio resumption, It wad & plan of resumption, with tho plan left out. Its onactment was seizod upon by domagogues ns o monsure for positive ro- sumption at the timo fixed, and as the bill had no special frionds, and thero was noth- ing in it to dofond, the Resumption net has becomo & maummoth searecrow, throntening tho country with all manuer of ovils, It is & matter of supreme indifforence whether the sot bo repealed or not, oxcopt so far as the ropeal may quict tho alarm of many need- lossly-disturbed peoplo, Thore is at prosent no means on hand by which the Government can undertako to ro- sume spocio paymeats. |, It has not the gold, in whole or in part, and no means have beon provided for obtaining it. Thero boing no 1enns to resume by paying gold, the only mode whereby tho Governuent paper can bo put at par is to offer tho holders tho original .terms on which tho paper was issued, and that is the privilogoof exchanging them for abond. The intoroit on this bond may be put down 8s low as G or 4}, or even 4 per cent, and to fund ths currency at that rate would bo much chosper than hoarding gold Whilo 6 por cout londs were outstanding. Tho retirement of the currercy would be ulow, and would jrobubly stop whan the notes reached par. That would bo resump. tion by gradual, tatural, and legitunate moans, producing no sudden or violeut con. traction or dlsturbance of contraots, In the matter of flm bonks,—and no part of the modern elvilized world hLas vet been ablo to do business without banks,—the question of rosumption ia one purely of bus. iness. Tho legitimnto control of tho National Government over tho banks Is mainly con. fined to protecting tho billholder ngainst loss, 1y allowing tho banks to doposit & cent gold bonds or gold with the T'ronsury to an amount dollar for dollar with the notes inated by them, relieving them of the oxnc. tions now mnde of them, thero would be no diffloulty in the way of the banks maintain- ing a curroncy rodeomable on demand in coin, Tho Ropublican party at Cincinnati will uuquostionably rofloct tho moral sontiment of the vast majority of the peopls by pro- nouncing agninst any incronso of Govern- ment currency, and in favor of aspeody re- turn to gold ns tho only honest national standard of values, ‘Tho promise or declara- tion to resumo specio payments in 1879 is, as wo hnve said, n picco of harmloas sonti. montalism to which the party, dealing with facts and principlos, fs in no way bound to commit itsclf. At the samo time, tho de- mand for {ta ropenl is but sonseless olamor,— the ropeal in no wiso postponing or other- wiso affecting the timewhen specio pnyments will bo resumed, —_— THE SPECIAL MAYOR'S ELECTION, The ordinnuce propoted in the Common Council ordering a special election to fill the vacancy in tho office of Mayor, which ordi- nance is to be acted on to.night, is, it seemu to us, defectivo, and its passage in its pres. ent form may load to further troublo, Tho ordinance provides that the clection take place on the 27th of June. The law of the State requires twonty days’ notico of all spe- cial olections to fill vacancios. This ordi- nanco, if pnssed to-night, will, we Bup- pose, have to be approved by the Mayor, which ho may not do in five days, in which caso there will not be time for the notice re- quired by law, and tho ocloction will be ngain void for want of nolice. Morcover, the Actiug Mnyor hing the powor to veto the ordi- nance, and will undoubtedly do so, in. which caso tho ordinance will not bo passed until some time noxt week, all too late to pormit twenty days' notico beforo the election. The Council to-night should amend tho ordinance by fixing tho date of tho eloction on Tues- dny, July 11, and, if it be passed to-night and votood, and passed over the veto next woek, will give time for all these dolays and leave the twonty days' notice required by law. The Council should undorstand that they have to donl with an unscrupulous ad- versary, acting under malignant and revo- lutionary advice, and thoy should so act ns to permit no advantago to be taken of their procecdings. To pass the ordinance in the presont shapo would be to delay the clection until August. An ordinance returned undor veto cannot be amonded, but must bo re- passed or rejected as it originally pussed. —— THE LATE SULTAN. “Tor who would bear the whips and scorns of timo when he himself might his quiotus mako with a bara bodkin?” Anpur- Az1z has gone furtherthan Hasxuer, Ho ling jumped the life to como. Borrowing the scissors from one of his fair Circagsians, ho opencd his veins, and is now gone to meet the Prophet, and thore is now a wail among | tho Iato inmates of the soraglio. The dis. patchos atlirm that he committed suicide. This is unlikely, however, The Turks save their Sultans this troublo by assassination. They bowstring them, They bag them, and throw thom to tho fishof the Bosphorus. They alit their weazens. If Anpur-Aziz really committed suicide, he is the first Turk- igk Sultan who has beon allowod to doit. Tho manner of his death, however, is immpn. torial. Appur-Aziz is dead nsa door nail, There is no doubt of that, Anpul-Aziz wos not a bad man ns Turks go, but he was a weak, irrosoluto man, steoped in profligacy, with facultics nenrly deranged by sensual excessos. Ilis roign opened auspiciously. ‘When ho ascended the throna ho recopnized what Turkey wanted, ond ho mnde a brave cffort to secure It. During his obsourity ho had cnltivated o modol farm at Beutari, and displayed indus- try, onergy, and intelligence. Just after his sccession to the throno of Oruman he made a tour of Austris, France, and England, and brought back with him valuably ideas which ho had goined from bis observation of European civilization, He wns lavish in promises of reform, Io dismissed tho Ministers. Ho reduced the civil list to n ronsonable oxpenditure. o stopped the prodignl wnsto of money, for which the Turk has beon notorious from timo immemorial. o abolished the seraglio and announcod his determination to have but one wife. Iio introduced common-school oducation in his Empire. For a timo ho was 8 model Turk and o model rulor, Dut all his reforms wero antagonistio to the couservative upirit of Mohammedanism, and the orthodox Mussulmans watchod his innovations with a Jealous eyo, and at last brought such a pros- sura to bear upon him that ho abolished all his reforms and roturned things to their old condition. Corrupt ministers again sur- rounded him. The civil list become ruin. ously ezpensive, and the Sultan's per. sonal expenditures were almost unlimit- ed. The soraglio Was roinstated and restocked with Circasslen alaves. The European school system wus supprossed, “ho Christians, who had enjoyed immunity from persecution for ashort time, wera again ground down into the dust, swindled, robbed, toxed to death, and pemocuted in tho most bitter and odious manner, When he found himsolf involved in war with Russia, ho way snved by Englond and France, not becauso thoy liked him particularly, but bocanse they feared Russlan aggrandizoment. The war stripped him of monoy. England stepped in and lent him hundrods of willions, and enco moro he wos prodigpl in promises of reforms, not one of which wus over accomplishod. Ho flung away the money in riotous living and costly oxtravagancios, and when the time came to pay his interest he was In dofault, and speedily, swindled his En- glish fricuds' by going into bank. ruptoy. 'To rniso money for his excesses he oxacted the uttermost farthing from his Clristinn subjects, robbed them of their lands und stock, compelled them to oy ex- orbitant tithes, and punished thom with doath in default of contribution. 'Ihe Obris. tions endured until it ceased to bo a virtuo, ,and then rose in rebellion against the tyrant ono year ago, In the year that has passoed, thoy have made groat headway. The re- bellion, which at first only involved Horzo. govina, has spresd through Montenegro, Bosnin, Bervin, Bulgaria, and TRoumania, and Greaco is now rising for tha recovery of Ma. codonia, Thossaly, and Albania, Six of the great European Powers—Iuasia, Germany, Austria, Italy, England, and France—aro al- ready involved i & complication, which at any wowment may procipitate a gonoral Euro. pean war, Aupur-Aziz moanwhile, s if confounded by the storm he had ruised sbout his cars, was unablo to put down Lis reboll. ious wubjocts, incompetent to deal in diplomacy with the other Powers, and una: blo meot the demnnds of his English crodit. ors, howling for their money, At Inat, dis- affection aroso in Constantinople, and in ono day awept him from his throne and placod upon it Munan Erresni, who commonces with the samo promises that Anvur-Aziz made, and will end in the satne mannor. warof rascs Lins bogun; n war of Christianity ngainst Islamism; o war of civilization and progresa against barbarism and auperatition, Tho ond must bo the oxtinction of the Turk, orhis ojection from Europe. Mumap Er. FENDI cAn 1o more Atay tho irresistible march of destiny than Anpur-Aziz. o moy ad well got his #cissorn rendy. The opening specch at the Antstow meeting was made by ME, E, C, Lansen. 1t was unjust In many polnta, and pusitively untrie fn wome. The Mot ‘.’]I‘ll’l"j{ mlsstatement was o cha 2 that AMr, 31.AINE had never duic anything for reforn, it n A well-known fact that to'him belongs the incom- parable honor of nawgurating tho Credit-Mobilive nvestigation, which putan end to rallway subsi- di nd started the ball of reform in motlon, — Chicayo Journal, We suspect that our amtable evening contem- porary has not examined the grounds very close- 1y on which Mr, BuaiNg's claims ns s reforiner rests, or It would not make the assertfon it does. Mr. LARNED'S statement {8 strictly cor- reet. Mr. BLANE does not clafm that any honor belonga to hln for naugurating the Credit-Mo- bitler Investigation, which ruined 50 nany Con- gressional reputations, What he did In that matter was In self-defense. 1le had been accused of dabbling In Credit-Mobilier sharcs, and he denled and called for a committee of Iuvestiga- ton, not with any reformatory {deas or purposcs in Lis head, but purely to save himself from political ruin and destruction, The facts of that cago were published fn the swmmer of 1872 in the New York Sun, in the formn of asworn state- ment by I1. 8. M'Coxn, fn o suit then pending in the Pennsylvania courts, M'Comn furnfshed a list, glven him by Oaxes Ames, of persous to whom AMEs had given Credit-Moblller stock, ete. This lst included several members of Con- gress, the Viee-Preatdent, und one or more Sen- ators, and among the names was that of Mr. Brawe, The matter was discussed in all the papers of the countéy untll the meeting of Con- gress In December, 1872, There was no es- cape from {nvestigation, The charges were direct, and ncluded too many members to per-, mit {uvestigation to be stificd. Mr. Braing was Speaker, and he could mnot well designute the Committee, so he vacnt- ed the chair aud made & motion that the temporary Iucumbent, Mr. Cox, ap- point the Committee. Mr. Bramsg, belng un- der the same charge a8 others who were subse- quently proved guilty, could do no less than lic didde, The Committes would have been op- poluted aughow, and he could not appofnt it ; so be antfelpated the making of the motion by an- other, which was Inevitable, by moving its ap- polntment himeelf, The Committee subse- quently acquitted him of gulit, though it con- victed several other members of Congress. It reported In favor of the expulston of OAxes Axes and Javgs Brooks, but the IHouse re- fused to ndopt it. Mr. BLaong bas many ad- mirers and frlends, but none of thew until quite recently have clnimed for him s record ns 4 “Reformer? beeause of his action In the Credit-Mobllicr case, which was ‘“Inaugurated " to taka care of himsclf. The Journal will render {tself, as well as Mr, BLAINE, ridiculous by sct- ting him up in the role of reformer If it has noth- ing better than his action in the Credit-Mobilier frauds to offer, S S They seem remarkably particular about the payment of rewards for the capturo of banditt{ ‘*deador allye ” in Californin. Rewurds of that sort, were offered for the capture of Cnzrvez, ono of VAsquez' bund of highwaymen. He waa pursucd from one of the southern countles of Californla into Arfzons, where o few days slnce e was shot by a party of men who had under- tuken the job of cupturing Cnevez dead or alive. To avold lawyers! quibblea and deluys of all sorts n getting the reward, the captors sim- ply cut oft Cuxvez’ head and put it into s bot- tle, and with that ghustly trophy st out for Sucramento to claim the reward. Arrived there, the authorities refused to pay a dollar of the reward offered untfl the head wns fdentifled as that of the bundit. Accordingly the cluimants, carrylng 1t with them, went to San Juan, where Crevez lind once ltved, and there witnessea were found who made affidavit that the decapitated head was that which had rested on his shoulders. The cuptors, stlll hear- ing that horrid evidence of thelr right to the re- ward, reinforced by theso aflidavits, thercon returned to Sacramento to find that the sppro- priatlon makiug the reward had lapsed, so they couldu't get u dollar for killing thelr man and cutting off bls heud. Not In the least discour- aged, however, they hed the head hermet- leally sealed up to be kept fur {den- tification until tho next Leglslature shall puss u bill appropriating money for payment of the reward, The story of these re- ward-clafmants traveling ubout with the Lead of the man they killed {n hope of capturing the reward for tuking bim, dead or nllve, is o start- Hug commentary on the barbarism of the laws that legallzdthe offer of such rewards, which are slmply rewards for murder; and, ns {u this case, are taken advantage of only by bloud- thirsty mercenuries, themselves evidently richly deserving the halter. — — . A San Franclsco newspaper hos got at the bottom facts in regard to the Herzegovinlan fmbrogliv that 18 perhaps golng to lead to a re- construction of the map of Europe, According to the vernclous "Frisco shect, the bottom fact about it all Is that o Yankee was ut the bottom of it all-Erwin Davis, formerly abroker on the Paciflc Const, and it was all brought about by bl as s gigantic stock-operator. Having fafled [n Bun Franclsco, Davis, some years sfuce, went to London and became an operator onthe Btock Exchange. There, about two years siice, he orgunized a pool with £4,000,- 000 capital to bear Turkish bonds. That done, he hied binfto Herzegoving, and by judiclous outlay of money incited the revolt, In anticipu- tica of which the pool sold short, Turkish stocks, of courae, declined frightfully, aud the pool renlized £20,000,000, of which Davis Bgot £7,000,000—or §35,000,000 gold—as his shure, Allof which shows that Yuukee enterprise {s equal to running the effeto monarchics as a stock-jobbing operation, But the question which remulns fe, Uow fs it that the English pupers don't mention Davis and his millions bagged, or a stngle operation which threatens all Europe fo wart ——————— It scems that with all the vast Intereats at stuke, aud the luwycrs employed in the matter, the will of the late A. T. STEWART was at lust Improperly admitted to probate, Tho statutes of New York require that uotfce shall be pub- lished, citing all partiea i Intercst, next of kin, cte, tonppear at 4 day nmmed, and attend at tho probating of the will—which, of course, Is that they may have opportunity to make contest of its valldity. The next of kin are to by named In tho notice, if thelr names ean be ascertalned. But it appeurs that n the Brwanr will cuse, upon the ex parte afidavit of Mrs, STEWART that she was the sole helr, as he left no rela- tives, the Burrogatoe dispensed, or attempted to dispense, which was manifeatly flegal, with the publication of thy notive required, aud, throo days after STewaART's death, udmitted the will to probate, The omission to publish the proper uotive will doubiticss of ftself b held sufll- clent to invalidate the probate, so that the whule matter will have to be cotnmenced, over sgaln at the Legluniug, ————— ‘The Irish Home-Rule members of Parlfament have achieved o notable victory by carrying the auendient to the law which forbids the sule of intoxicating Mquors during a portion of Sun- day 80 s to muke it apply to the whole of that duy. The resolutlon to this effect was intro- duced by Mr, 8syry, member for London- derry, and the Government opposed It, thy op- position arlsing from the Indebteduess of the Government to the beer Interests. It there- fore, the Governens sbould allow the Irish to up thelr shops and keep sober on g, the English people might clatin the san The (overnment obstinately refuseq Undays, e rhy t any compromiae, and it was ru\vnnlcduf;:hx’: obstinacy by defeat, the Home-Rulcrs, witl the nkl of the Liberals, carryling the ment by n vote of 224 to 167, " Tiie an"'fll;lfl ernment, therefore, waa dofouted I fia nyygn to get the Irish drunk on Sunday. ? A Corvin has sald all along that he algn nstantly if the Cnuru‘c;lcuh]ull Ah;’t“]‘:l‘lw: not luwlully entitled to the office, The Judgey were unanimous In the oplulon that the «unu, beeame vacant fmmedlately upon the adoption of the charter. After Judges MeArvisrag, Boorir, and Fanwerr, had announced thay |,: thelr opinlon a vacancy oceurted In the ofii op Mayor In May, 1875, Judge Roozns sald: Blnee Judze itanwras stated that he coneuerag iy the dinsenting opinlon, 1 wH xay thi § e e b it ingwelf coneue with Judgo Sty g the main question, that the election held In, for Mayor wun an' absolute nuliity gl Bponkinig for myaclf, anwiiming it thov \od vicancy, If Mayor Couviy wa not entitied the chirter to tinlg his oflice until 1877, then ooy, cur il ko dook Jutle WiLLIANA conciir i The por, :l:lllilxl'.{ of the oplnion as read by Judye Mcdnug, This mnkes the opinfon of the Court unant. mous that CoLvIN has only been n locum tenens, or sort of usurper for a year past, and yet lu' does not reslgn and get out of the wiy. let CoLv1x {a not nlone in his desperate love fo office. The tenncity with which Mr. I1xyy versista In holding ou for w month longer even more renwrkable, The Councll have e fused to coneur In the Acting-Mayor'y remoyy| of DEnieRsoy, and haye passed the resolutiy approving DERICKY0N'S bond over the Acting. Mayor's veto, Yet Mr. HAvRS refuses to Duslge or hand uver the books and papers pertaining (g the ofllee. Equully with Cotvis, It scems 1oy his purpose to embarrass the ity and opposg the wishes of the people as long 0a possible, Wiy he docs so Is altogether inexpHeable Iy 5 man who has hitherto stood so well before this community as Mr, 8, 8. Ifaves, ————— . Tho Loutsville Courier~Journal's objection to running Judge DAvis, of the Supreme Conrt, as the Confederate candidate for President, i, that *thouggh pure aud upright, bie 1s, after . u Hberal aud enlightened Old-Line Abolitionist, 4 dreadful & Republionn ns GREELEY ever was, und henee ineligible ns w Democratie-Confeder, ate cundidate. Besldes, while he would, no doubt, make a fair Prestdent, he 1y serving thy country acceptably where he 1s, and it would he ascandal and ubud precedent to go into the Supreme Court for a party nominee.” There Iy not mueh danger of the Confederntes golug In. tothe Republican party for n candidate in '5¢ 88 they did fu /72 One experiment of that sorf will lust them for n generation ot least. Tue Twiness I8 lstaken when it says Mr, Brat wifo s a Catholic, She 1s 2 member of the Longregutional Church, ** of the utrictest acet, and Mr."BLAINE b n regular utiendant of tho sume, —Chlcugo Journal, Wo have no objection to stand vorrected, The Btatement wus based on the suthority of a gen- temun who professed to know the facts, and who enfd Mr. BLAINE was the ouly member of his family not s Catholle, Another evening puper, we observe, statea that the lady s not a Congrezutlonalist, but *a straight, stubliory Yunkee Presbyterun,"—of the same Church n MoLLIOAN, who wus alleged to be u blgoted Catholle under Jesult fnflucnce revengefully trylng to stub Braine beeause he had goue ustray from Lis mother's Church, ———— Mr. GooprLy was long ngo removed from his position s Superintendent of Pollce by the press of this city, with the exseption of the Tievea! Organ. He ws long ngo removed by the publie. Ile was recently removed by Mr, Hoyne, Hels now removed by Couvin, not withstanding the fuct that he hos stuck by the great Locum Tenens. Is Mr. GoobEtLy now satlsfled that he Isremoved 1 Does he now un derstand that he was not wanted by angbody,~ press, publie, nctual Muyors, hold-on Mayors. or hold-over Muyors! Does he now understand that he was drwwing money out of the City Treasury without rendering any servlee? Our Canten, in hls advocacy of miscegenn tlon as means for civilizing the Indtan, poluted to hirself us a proof of the advantages of the left-handed marringes of Indian squnws und white men. The proof, however, fs 1ot u very gouwd one. Our CanTen fs uvery remarkable balf-breed, especiully In his devotion to cagles oud brass bands, but he fs hardly ilustrlous ot Important enough In the estimation of the putr Il to warrant n very general ndoptlon of Indisn marrlages. If thy best that this crossing of . bloods can do 18 to produce Canten Hannisos, it stands as an arzument agufnst it o s not a good representative hybrid, ——— The New York Zribune says that Bristow voted to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, pro- vided loyal men who had ot partiepated fn the Rebelllon or glven afd or comfort were com- pensuted for losses then sustained. That [s un- true, Biiszow voted n the Kentucky Senate for the Thirteenth Amendment without condi- tione, and voted squarcly against o resolutlon which proposed to ratify the amendment upon condition that slave property was pald for. The New York Z'ribune hns no’ moral right to mis- represent Gen, Biustow's record on the Euune clpation Awcndment. PERSONAL. respectfully suggust to Mr. Moody that v rousing meoting In Cincinnatl about the 14th of June might do this great country n world of good. Tmpoverished husbuuds witl be grievod to hear that dhe Bupremo Court of New York hay dechied sgninst a Benedlet {n that State who contested th puyinent of a DUl contracted by hls wife, **Skirmish along the best way possible,” Mr. Colvin, und the praple will take caru of you In about twenty days, The express business s been Jangufshing of late; [t must uced your valusble scr- v 3. Blaine's Spencer-riflo stock was pald for In notes; thoss notes were tuken up with dividendu; and thero was o bandsome surplus beeldes, 1t was n fortunate epeculation, The last dividends wero puld in 1870, The County Toard has hnd enoigh of pleked Grand Jurics, and now lntends to return to the old system of chuosing humble and **#afe” men, A Joke's & Joke, and the Board belloves the last Grand Jury careled the Joke too far. Jerome Bouaparte’s addreas to his constituents accepty the Republic unrescrvedly as the only forim of Government posalble In France, but ft is noticed that ho took iy et n the Awsembly on the Right, back of the Bonpartists, 1t Is casy to Imagine the Washington carrespond- ont of the Chlcago 7imes quoting Thuckerwy to the head-line man: **1 have no objections to your put- ting my dlspatches under your feet, but I'du object to your atlcking your oars through them, " 1t 1 not u bad Idea, that of Mr, Rosslter Johne son, wio hus undertaken to edlt u seeles of ** Con- dented Clussics, " embracing & number of standard worke of Englivh fction, What wonders cun be wrought with ¢*Our Mutual Fricad ™ by ukllifut condenser) The vullng of Judge Donohuo, of New York, 88 to the Mubllity of “tapiri™ who work for galu to pay a license-fee, has sug- geated to the World that the Rev, Mr, Talmage, belng @ perdon wha performu eccentric feats fot money ju the shapo of o salary, cught to take vut a license, On Monday last Mr. Arthur Whoeler and the Mcuurs, lolt, sons of Mr, D, R. Ifolt, of this city, feturned to Chicago ufter a prolonged tour ubrond. Mr. Whoeler has just Solshed a trip around the world, and tho readers of Tuw TuinuNxwill remems ber vurious interesting lutters wrltten by him oves tho aignaturo of ** Arthur," Ueorgo L. Alken, & brother of Frank K. snd Albert L., died recently of dipbtherla on City Helghts, Ilo was 46 years of sge. Lo gave dramutic forin to meny Ledger atorics io the zenith of thelr popalarity, and bis venson of *+ Uncle Tom's Cabln * had 4 prolonged run at the Nations! Theatsd, New York, Mr. Winter, drawatic critc of the New Yor¥ Tribune, has takon {u hand the persunsl sapects ob Mlus Auna Dickinson's theatrical experlonce. He treats hor severely, but sceius to havu fuuticaon his elde, and as sho did not besitate to impugu his boas eaty, e certatuly ad provecation euough. Mr