Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 24, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JUNE 24, I876—TWELVE PAGE — @ Tribwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PATANLE IN ADVANCE~POSTAGE PRETAID AT VA OFFICE, ity Faitfon, postpaatd, PR ot & yeRr, per MRt Matled 1o iny address four’ Bunday cet Fditfon: Literary and Rejigious Houbla ar, per munth, WEEKLY EDITION, DOSTPAID. Tostage pre &pectnien coples rent free, To prevent deiny nnd mistakes, he rareand give Post. Office sddreas lu full, ncluding State and County. Remfltances may be made clther hy draft, expresy, Post-Office order, of In regiatered letters, at our tlek. 7ERMB TO CITT SUBSCRIBERS. Datly, del! rercd, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Daily, delivered, Sunday Included, 30 centa per weak Addtress THUE TRIBUN Corner Madlzon and Dearborn: i CAMPAIGN TRIBUNE. The Republican party has now placed its natlonal #icket and platform before the people, The enauing Prestdential canvass will be onc of the most exciting and important that hias ever accurred in this country. Every manahiould be furnfshed with full and correct po- icaltnformation. Inordertosupply thisnced,the pube Mshers of THE CiicAn0 TRIBUXE will print a campaign edition, commeneing immediately, and continuing untl sfter the Prestdential clectlon in November, 1876, at the following exceedingly fow rates, pustage paf Weekly Campalin TRInU IPWEIVE Cupics 6 oXk ADD A'wenty-Avo conies 10 AN, Trl-Weekly Campatgn Tain Kieven coyiics 1o ONX alibR; liack numbers of the campnign edition cannot be sent. The sooner persous order Tin CAxPAIGN Thine uxE, the greater number of fasuce they whil get for Welrmoner. e TAMUSEMENTS. ' Chteogo, Tl Haoloy'n Thentres dotph street, hetween Clark and LaSalle. Tne AL B e Uniba Squars Compang, - Ferreol Rieravon sad cveulng, Waad’s Masenm. Monros street, betws Dearborn ‘Miriam's Crime"” and **Peggy Ureen.” ad evenln, ond State, Afterooon Adclplil Theatre. street, corner Deathorn, '«rru({nuumm- p¢ um?’q\meu Liv." " Alternoou and aven! ance. Tmko Front. Foot ot Washington street. IHowe's London Circus. Afternoon and evening. SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 187G, Greenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- changs yesterdsy closed at 89}, Tho Wenther Burcau predicts that thero will bo littlo change in temperature in this region to-day. Our dispntches state that the Consuls from France, Spain, nud the United Ststos, sta- tioned at Quobee, have * protested ngninst being outranked by ordinary civic dignitarics on publio occasions.” Tho precious pouter- pigoon who is doing the United States’ part of this snobbishness might bo in better busi- ness. Mr. Brams has been ordered by his physi- cians to leave Washinglon nt once for a change of climate and scono, and to betake himuolf to a course of absolute snd undis- turbed rest from politics, newspapers, visit- ors, and every other exciting causo or cir- cumstance. Ile will proceed to his home in Maine and not return to Washington during the present session of Congross. Y Tho Republicans of the Third and Fourth wards tried their handsatratification last eve- ningland made a brilliant succoss of it. Thoy turned out in Inrgo numbers, nnd, after listening to_ecapital speeches by SyoNey Basirn, Jases P. Roor, and other epicy talkers, they had arrived at o pitch of genuina enthusiasm on the subject of aves nnd Wurrrer. It is o ticket which grows in favor, and which the eampuign orators can talk about with a vigor and effect liko that which carried the country by storm in 1860 and 1864, whon they hind Annananr LiNcoun for their toxt. A young mnn named Ripp, formerly a clork of CarpwELL's, but now describing him- solt merely s n friend, fathors the dispatch scnt to London dicinating Cuuswasela reply, It io aiugninr that Carpwennu should accopt and follow this dictation a8 it wont to him nnsigned, and not less so than that Mr. Reen should tako interest enough in the mattor to havo paid 52 for sending an anon- ymous dispatch instructing CALbwELL fust what to say in tho Bramse matter, The in- sldent adds auothier to tho complications and mysteries which surround the Braine.Catp. weLL-ScorT matier, which are becoming so thick aa to Jeave poor hope for such disen. ‘augloment as will enlighten the peopla, 1t js regarded ns "somewhnt singular thet tho Scnate should consume an entire day out of the few romaining precious hours in which the appropriation bills enn be passed in the consideration of the bill to amend tho Eu. forcoment act—n measure of importance, to ba sure, but one which could just as well thave been taken up later in tho session, The Aact, morcover, that the House will unques- tionably refuso to pass the ill renders it yot mare difficult to percoive the wisdom or ex- pediency of the Sexato's conrso in deferring notion on tho appropriation bills, Political logislation might well wait until the vitally important necds of the Qovernment have been attended to. e It is now eaid that Judge Davishins written no letter declining to bo o eandidato for the Tresidency, for tho simple renson that he has never publicly acknowledged his candi- dacy. Iiis, however, learned that the Judge would probably consent to the uso of his name if the Democrats could by any possible moans be induced to construct nn nccoptable plstform, andif, after building such plat- form, thoy could place Justice Davis upon it in spite of his ncknowledgment that Inttor- day Domocracy is a political compound with & decidedly robellious smell. These oro sim- plo and reasonable conditions, and beesuse they aro such the B8t. Louls Convention is not likaly to accept them. The London medieal journals have taken up the quostion of the death of the late Sul- tan Apnur-Aziz, and agree in casting serions doubts upon tho correctness and sufficiency of the report made by tho nineteen phy. sicians who pronounced it o caso of suicide. Tho Lancet and Dritish Medical Journal, both high suthoritics, express surpriso that no post-mortem examination was mado to de- tormine, not murely whether tha wounds up- on the body might huve been inflicted with o pair of scinsors and produced destb from hiemorrhage, but whether such was the actunl cause of doath. The spirit of thorough in. vestigation swems to bave been curiously dormant among the ninetosn physiciaus, and the general opinion is that the report of their vescarchos by no means eottles the question a8 to the method of the lato Sultan's taking- off, Ths Chlc—;go produce marketa were less active yestorday and geuerully steadier, with o firmer feeling in several wepartimepts. Mess pork closed 2}c per brl lower, at $18.90 for July and $19.10 for Augnst, Lard closed 2}c per 100 Ibe higher, at $11.10 for Julyand B11.22) for Angnust. Monts werestendy,at7io for boxed shonldore, 10§cfor doshortribs, and 10je for do short clears. Lake freighta wers onsfer, At 2}e for corn to Duffalo. Rail froights were unchanged. IHighwines wero quict and steady, at $1.10 por gallon. Flour waa dull and irm. Wheat closed 10 higher, at §1.04} for June and $1.04} for July. Corn closed fo higher, at 4Gjc for Juno and 4Gjo for July. Oats closed 4o lower, at 204c for June and 29}e for July, Ryoe wns ensier, at 63@68jc. Barley closed nominal, at 67je. Hogs wero active and firm, at 100 advance, with sales principally at $5.76@5.90. Cattle wore in good demand ond ruled flrm, Sheop were quict. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.00 ingreenbacks at tho close. And now comes o suggestion that Con- gressman Henay B, Pavse, of Ohio, may prove to bo tha dark horse in the Domo- cratio race. It is urged in his bohalf that he is tho only man in Ohio who could beat Gov, Havzs; that his views on the curroncy are not o motallio but that they can bo twisted to the satiafaction of tho inflationists;and, bost of all, that ke iz a millionaire and could be induced to *coma down” hand- somely for campoign exponses, All of which is good so far as it happons to be true. PAYNe may be as rich ss Tipen, and his financial sentiments s olastio and sdjnstable ns thoso of Henpricks, but if his chances for the Democratic nomination depend upon anything like o gencral belief that he could enrry Ohio sgainst Ifayes, the Clovaland Onxsus may as well bo counted out of the race. Fraxg MovrTon's star is in tho ascendant oneo more, nnd hs can now seo his way cloar to obtain the vindication and reparation which woro denjed him by Judge Dyxrexan in his ruling that the entcring of a nolle pros. was & bar to an action for malicious proseon- tion. MourTox, it will be remembered, was indicted for perjury at the instanca and upon the testimony of ennr Warp Bescuen be- foro the Brooklyn Graud Jury, He clamored for a speedy trial, but, to his disgust and dis- may, tho District-Attorney, n strong Plym. outh partisan, coolly ontered a nolle pros., leaving the stigma of the indictmont still resting upon Movrtoy, but affording him no opportunity for vindieation. It was given out that Mr, Beecaer maguanimously doclined to prosceuto tho cose, and MourToy, smart- ing under this ontrageous injustice, and de- termined to forco matters to tho ono single issuo, whether himself or Brzcusr ought to bo in the Penitentiary, brought an action for malicious prosecution. A demurrer was en- tered by the defendnnt’s counscl, and sus. tainad by the Court on the gronnd that where o nolle prox. had been entered this action could not lie. This decision, upon reviownl by the New York Bupreme Court, has been reversed, and MoovroN may now press his suit. Mr. Breeuer will probably carry the caso to the Courtof Appenls, his object being to delay, and if possible pravent, tho reopen- ing of the Groat Seandal in any form that is likely to bring out the ‘*bottom facts,” ond this is what Mouxron's suit wonld probably result in. DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATION FOR FRAUDS. The nomination of Haves and Wuerrer hos aroused tho Democracy in Congross to tho certainty of the defeot which awaits them nnd to the nocessity of action to avort it. On Thursday, when the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was befora the House, tho section making appropristious for tho ju- dicinry contained n proviso repealing all the Inws in relation to registration of voters, the appointwent of Supervisors of Elections, and of special Marshals and Daputies to en- force the Election lawa, This provisois o fingrant violation of the laws which prohibit legisiation on nn appropriation bill, And ns such should not bo tolerated. The Repub- licans secking to debnts tho subject, Mr, 8ax Ranpary moved that debate shonld close in hlf o minute, and this motion was carried, —yons, 12L; nuys, 7hy—nall tho yeas being Dewmocrats. Al motions to amend the sec~ tion and preserve the laws for the purity of wlections wero voted dowu in like mannor, ‘I'he purposo of tho Democrats is revoln- tionary. In the absenca of tho protection furnished by the United States laws, and the appointment of United States officors to supervise tho registration of voters and the making of roturns, the whole machjuery of eleotions in the Southorn States will be in tho hands of tho Stale Governmonts, and there will not even bo a protonse of a fair olection in any place where fraud may be necessnry to elect tho Demoeratio ticket. It will not bo confined to the Southern Stntes, whero the negro vote will bo effectually driven from the polls, but will be practiced in Now York, Itwill be remembered tuat in 1868 there were notorious frands in New York. Horace Gneerey always maintained that that Stute had given a Repullican ma. Jority of 25,000 at the election in that yonr ; but there was o voto counted up for Brraoun and Hovruay in Now York City which over- came this mojority and guve the vote of the State to tho Democrnta. That elees tion was notorionsly froudulent. Under tho ncts of Congress providing meaus for tho pravention of olection frands, tho imtmonse Democratic mafority in Now York City immediately shrunk, espocially at all national clactions. Tho revelations at Wash. ington by Davesronr and others showed thut under the operations of that law these fraudy wero rendered largely impoasiblo, and have never been repested. Tho law now stands in the way of a repetitionof the froud at the Presidential election of 187G, and henco the Democracy insist upon its repeal. ‘The Democracy, to elect thefr candidate, must got the eloctaral voto of Florida, Louis- iana, Mississippi, aud Alabama at the South, In all theso States theru is a Republican mu- joris, which can only bo overcomo by forca and intimidation, which may be practiced with impunity if the Federal laws on the snbject bo repenled. DBut the voto of New York fs fully us cssential as that of these Bouthern States, beeause without it tho Democratio candidate can have not a hope of an clection. A fraudulent and dishonest olection may ba nocessary to carry that Btate, and, whatever is necessary, the Democrats intend shall bo doue, ‘Ihey therefore pro- pose to repeal the law which suthorizes the Federal Courts of New York to appoint supervisors to sea that there bo an honest registration of voters, an honest counting, aud houest returns of the votes. 'They want tho law repealad which authorizes the Courts to appoint registers of votes, snd Marshals to urrest {llegnl voters, falsa wwearers, and other sgonts of dishonest clections. The law for the purity of elections is an obstruc- tion to Domocratic majorities, aud hence the Dewocrats fusist that the law shall bo re. pealed. 1f this law bo repealed, then the Democrats can put down New York as certain for any oandidate who may be nominated at Bt Louis. Whatever vote may bo necessnry to carry that State will, of course, be forth. coming, and the oloctoral vote of that Btate mny at onco bs counted for the Bt. Lonis nomines, withont any rofer. ence to tho actual vote of the people in November. The people of Chi- cago have had somo experionce of this busi- nesa. The procecdings of Dave TRORXTON, Grrrson, Ep Paivries, aud the othor gentry whose ‘town meoting” aleation in April aroused such a storm of indignation, were but faint ripplinga compared with the tor- ront of fraud which will sweep through tho ballot-boxes of Now York City and Brook- 1yn, and possibly in the neighboring cities of Now Jorsoy, if this Election law bo repenled. The result actually dopending on tho repoal of this Election law is: Shall tho electornl votes of New York, Now Jersey, Louisiana, Alnbamn, Aississippi, and Florida be de- clared to be given to the Democratio candi- date without any roferonce to the will of the people of cither of those Btates, or shall thore be a fair and honest eloction in those States, the clactoral vote of cach to bo given a3 the majority shall decide? That is the issue raised by Mr. Baa Raxpary and his Confedernte associates, and, of conrse, the Demooratio members of the House unani. mously voted for the repeal. The proposition to ropeal the law is made more iniquitous by the way in which it is attempted to bo forced through, It i at- tached to one of tho appropriation bills, and the Senate is required to vote far the ropent of the Eloction law or defoat the approprin. tion bill. That is compulsory and not free logislation. TItis logialation nnder coercion. Tho Republican party is charged with the execution of the lawa and the administration of the Governmont. It cannct administer the Government without money, nor can it draw monoy from the Tronsury unless it bo appropriated. To dofeat this appropriation bill is to practically suspend many Lranches of the public servicse, In many States, in- cluding tho southern district of Iiinoie, the courtgaro nowsusponded for want of money. After the 18t of July this suspension will bs genoral, The Sunate iz therefore required to roject the whole appropristionbill, or pass it and repeal the law to protect the purity of clections. That modo of legislation i3 mnot fair, noris it honest. It is viciouslegislation, Tt is, in fact, part of the revolutionary pro- grammo by which the allied Confederates propose to seizo and control the Government ‘which they failed to destroy by force. THE NATIONAL EXPENDITURES, Sonator Moznitr, who has boen appointed Secrotary of the Treasury, will not bo able to resign his seat in tho Sennte until probsbly the close of tho sussion, beeause ho is Chair- mnn of the Committeo on Approprintions in that body, and becauso of tho wide diversity in the action of the two Houses on the sub- ject of ratrenchment. Appropristions are mainly of two classes: 1. Thosawhich ara discretionary with Con- gross, both as to the nmount as well as to tho oxpondituro itself, In these cases a failure to make an appropriation suspends the ex- ponditure, or, if the amount be reduced, the cxpenditure is limited to the sum appropri- ated. 2. Tho buik of the appropriations aro to moet exponditures required by law, 'Thus the Inw eatnblishes tho nwaber of rank and file in the army, with the pay of each man; it requires tho transportation of traops, their mnaintenance, food, and clothing, Congress can at any time chango this law, and reduce the pay, or reduca tho numbor of officera and men, or do both. 8o with tho oxpenditares of tho navy, and so with the expendituros of the Stato Department, and of the Troas- ury and Interior Departments, Dut the Democratio House, in order to make ecapital by high.sounding honsts of cutting down the exponditures forty millions of dollars, logislated for popular effect and not to save money. Instead of remodeling the laws crenting expenditures, they lot all tho laws stand, and confined their economy to the reduction of the nppropriations. Thus, in. stead of reducing the army and thoreby re- ducing the nnunal cost thereaf, they lot tha Iaw axing the number and tho pay remain tho sawe, but reduced the amount appropri- oted. 'This accomplished no reduction in cost ; it merely hod tho effect of leaving the army short of fands andrunning on credit,re- quiring a deficiency bill in the futuro to make good the shortage. The Ropublican Sonate, together with n number of moro rational Democrats of both Houses, opposod this rockless systom aof legislation. The Senate has therefora made large additions to the Ifouss approprintions, which ndditions the Houso has rojected, producing such a dead-lock as to threaten tho rejection of all the nppropriation bills. ‘'hero can bo no doubt that thero fs wide roon for the reduction of nationnl expondi- tures. They are largoly maintained on tho war standard. A reduction of expenditures is one of the most difficult of all legislntive nots. An expenso ouce incroased is nlmost cortain to bocomo permanont. The ordinary legislator will voto ten times to cresto new or to cnlargs expenditures to the onco that ho will voto to abolish or cat down. Inre. sisting the absurd and rockiess rednctions of the House thore has beon a danger that the Benate would run to the opposite extrome, and, beeauso the House had been indikerimi. nato in its reductions, it was possible the Senate would as indiseriminately roject them, Whorever there is room for the abolition of an oflice, the discontinuance of o sinecure, the abatemont of an nbuso, or the entting of of an useless expenditure, it s tho duty of Congress to act in tho interest of retrench. ment. Thero s, howeber, a party always in Congress that mensures the dignity and uso- fulness of Congress by the magnitude of its appropriations. Thoy desire n *“magnifi. ceut” Government, and refuso to understand why, with the unlimited power of taxation, Congreas should hesitate about appropristing monay, This party is generally strong in the Benate, and refrenchment must becomes sn imperative nocessity beforo that body will reduco expenses, Wo aroglad to sco that a portion of the Sonnto has awakenod to the necessity of re- trenchment, Instend of joiniug in indis- criminate rojoction of all the reductions made by tho Houso, several Benators, under the lcad of Senators Epxunps and Burzuan, have insisted that whon such reductions wore within the discrotion of Congress as to the amount of wmoney to ho cxpended, thero should be somoe respoct shown for tho condi- tion of the Treasury, Mr. Buzruan notified tho Benate that, uuless thore was a rovival of business, thore would have to bo o compnl- sory raduction of expenditures next year of $15,000,000, BMr, BanarnT, of Cul!romh;, bowevor, who belongs to that achool of statosmen who regard the power to tax o8 an fnoxhaustible bousuza of which tho most should bo 1ade, was clamorous for the largest exponditures. Navy-yards are a great featuro in Covorumont for this class. bocause m-ro money can be wasted—sctually squandered— in anavy.yardin & year than in any other item of the public eervics. Now that the Senators havo aroused themselvea to the no- censity of many nand large reductions in the national expenditnres, and show o disposition to moot the THouse in all cases where such reduction iy just aud proper, aud is suthorized by law, and to co-operate with that bodyin bringing the cost of Government nearsr to a ponco stand- ard, thore i a prospect of an agrecmont. It is to boe hoped that the majority in the Honse, secing tho utter folly of attempting to roduce oxpenditures by mercly sppropriating hatf the money required by law, and leaving the Inw authorizing expenditures unchanged, will, upon conferenco, yield thair domands, and permit the appropriation bills to pnus beforo the first of Jul, THE LAXE-FRONT BILL, With tho highest possiblo respect for Mr, CanTen Hamnison's ominent legal attain- ments, we must still beg to diffor with him on tha cffcct of tha Laeke-Frout bill which he is enginncering through Congress, and we shall reqaire the opinion of some lawyers in more aotive practice bofore we can be- como convinced that the bill Liohas in chargoe will placo Chicngo ip any better position than it is now with referenco to tho lako. front property. Iis bill conveys the title to tho property, *‘provided, however, that this act shall in no wise impair the dedication heretofore made of said grounds.” That is to #ay, tho title to tho property will have been conveyad, if the bill becomnes a law, subject to an oxpross condition, and a failuro to ful. fill this condition will naturally leave tho titlo where it is mow, Tho * dedication herotoforo made " was for public grounds, and tho inferenco from tho wording of the act is that tho title is to be conveyed to Chi- cago on the sole condition that it sliall not vacate the property as public ground, and that, if it docs, the act shnall bo nuil nud void, and the property rovert to the United States Government. Now tho only renson why Chicago wants any furthor title from the United Btntes for this property is for the purposs of selling it, though oven this is not necessary sinco the railrond companies aro willing to tako a quit- claim deed from the city now withont any spprehension that the United States will ever nssert any rovorsionary claim to it by reason of impairing the original grant, That por- tionof the ground which thoy want to buy, and which the city wants to sell them, is no longer fit for park uses. It is hemmed in by warehouses and railrond-tracks, and tho pri- vate property fronting on it will nover have any salable valuo until that portion of the park shall have been vacated, aud the whole neighborhood given up to business. The United States Government hos reelly no in- terest whatever in tho matter, outside of n technicallegnl intorest. Unlossit resigns this interest formally by act of Congress, thero i8 no demand for any logislation on the pub- ject. Todo this would bo to convey the property in foo to the City of Chieago, or, at lensit, quit-claim tho Governmont title with- out any conditions, But when it undertnkes to make such n title subjoeot to n presorvation of the ground a8 a parl, the gift mercly con- firms tho dedieation without in any respect nssisting Chicago. If thero were a disposi- tionto resign absolutely and for all timno all Government claim to the property in nny ovent, that fact could have been elenrly stated, and it would thon have been for Chi- cago to dispese of the Iand ns it might choose, ‘'Whatovoer righta tho private ownors have would bo protected by the Conrts, but thoy could po longer stand bokind the Gov- ornment with a techuieal claim aimply suf- ficient to stop the sale of the property. If Mr, Hannisox could not get tho bill reported freo of tho condition now tacked on, wo think it would have been botter not to ask for any legislntion on tho subject. THE ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS. The outcomo of the Illinois Demoeratia Stato Convention leaves the delegation from this State to St. Louis an indoterminate and conglomerato erew withont following or in~ fluenro. The same old crowd gathersd at Springfield which has been going there these many years, and they bickered and quarreled as merrily ns over. Tho only noticenblo chango is that Mr, Cootnavanr did not get his usual placo ns Dolegato-nt-Large, but ho iy #till ropresented by Mr. Mervinre W, For- zen, who has the distingnished honor of having boen selected by tho Mixr Evans and Dave Tuonxton crowd in preferonco to Mr, Monan. It doesn't matter much, however, who goes to St. Louis, or who sends thom thero. Ilinois in a National Democratic Convention js as much out of placo nsn member of the Young Mon's Christinn Asso. ciation 13 in a bar-room. It represents an old Bourbon vote of the rural districts allied with the bummer voto of Chicngo, and to- gether they aro pretty sure of o minarity in the State all the way from 20,000 to 50,000 votes, Nevertheless, thero hns beon a despernta offort for several montls to make the Illinoly delegation useful in the causcof Mr, 'F1LoeN, Mr. Penny IL Sautn (whose residenco Mr. Gus HennmvatoN locates in Wisconsin) s beon figuring largely in loeal politics for soveral months witha single view to sccure Illinois for Truoey. It hns boon understood that Mr, SBsirn carrics the TiLoes purse for this Stato, and on that nccount he has been received with distinguished considoration umony tha Demoernts. Ilo has beou inti- mate with r. Stonky and has beon talking extensivo newspaper purchases; but, as ho didn't purchaso, the Jimes is still for Davis, Tlo has beon aawisted, howover, by tho Staats-Zeitung crowd, who huve hammered away for Tioex and hard-monoy, but now seem to have dropped tho former, But the trouble is that there are no Illinols Germans in the Democratic party to speak of, and so Mr. Rasten's free use of German idioms in Tsuoex's bohnlf hay counted for nothing, Tho ‘Trupex movement in Illinois, which was looked upon so confidently by Tiroes's friends at tho Enst, hus beon o falluro, and Mr. Penry I, Burro will probably retire from politics in disgust. Bo far from getting a unanimous delegation, as ho anticipated, n canvass of tho relative strength shows that Tioen has only eighteen, with twenty-four of the Illinofs delegates ngainst him. 'Tho Stuto Convention evon failed to instruct tho delegation to vote as a unit, o8 it hos becn accustomed to do, 80 it will not bo able to do snything effective for TrLney, Mr, Penuy I, Ssitn came vory mnear making oue serious mistake in producing Mr, BMaxrox Maruer's lotter, explaining that Mr, TiLpex was not the Chairman of the Com- mittee on Resolutions in the Nutional Cog- voution of 1884 which uominated McCrrr- LaN, aud not responsible for the resolution decluring tho War » failure. Now, if Mr, Bairn 8 really friendly to Mr, TiLoen he will do well not to produce that lutter at 8t. Louis, If read to the 8t. Louis Convention it would certainly defeat I'tLory. There is perhaps some littlo bope for the New York candidate yet, if the Confedorates are por- mitted to bollove thiat he was the author, or sugoster, or advosato of tho doclarntion that tho Wnr was u failure. Tho Confederntes thought so then, and they think so now. Dut if ManTox Mansre shall injudiciously ro- movo this fmprossion, Mr. TiLocN may ns well give up all hopo of receiving the Con- fodorate nomination, Illinois, thon, will cut no particular fignro at 8t. Louis. It i renlly proper that it shouldn't, for the Democrnta enn expest no moro holp from Ilinois in the Presidantial fght than from Tahitt or South Africa.Hhis leaves the St. Louis Convention fn tho sawo ausponso aud doubt as before the Ilinoi delegntion was appolnted,—with the single cortainty that New York won't voto for Heypnrces, nor Indisna for TiLDEN, nér Olio for either of them, nor any ono of those Btatea for Davis, THE LAW OF LIBEL. Mr. Davio Duprey Fien, counsel for Boss Twrerep, Jix Fi8g, and Jay Goury, hina relieved himself by an arttelo in the Interna- tional Review, entitied **'Tho Nowspaper Press and tho Law of Libel.” To make a pertinent comment upon it, it is first neces. sary to reproduca the spirit of tho articlo, Mr, Finp thinks that the newspnper press of tho United Statos is * putresconce putri- fled,” whatever that may be; that newspa. pors are the personal organs of their editors, ** tho instruments of their likes aud dislikes, their self-love and their apite, their friend. shipe and their hates”; that tho pross is so conducted ns * to moke cownrds of nino- tonths of our public men"; that reporters aro ‘¢ cormorants”; that oditors ave ** tran- siont and irresponsible adventurers'; and that tho hest way to meot tho charges of newspa- pers is to treat them with silenco. In this instance, however, the doctor does not take his own medicine, as isshown by his unnsu- ally long nnd venomous reply to the newspa. pors which have attacked him, instead of the silenco and indifference which heso os- tontatiously recommmends, As a remedy for the *‘brlofal influence” of the pross, Ar Davio Duvrer Freup rocommends a mora stringent law of libel. o thinks thet in s civil action for libel two-thirds of the jury sliould be competent to roturn n verdict ; that netions for libel should have proference on the court enlendars; that, in ordor torem. edy the possibility of an award of nominal daminges, tho law should fix & sum to bo given in all cises of ascertained libel, unless tho jury should agree upon a larger sum ; that the defendant should not be allowed to pro- duco evidenco a8 fo tho character of the plaintiff, except in strict justification of the libel ; nnd that the law provide * thotlare- spousibla individual publisher of every nows- pnper should Lo rogisterod, nnd that the nnmo of the writer should be published at the foot of every articlo reflecting upon character.” Tu 1870 thero wore 40,736 lnwyers in tho Ubitod States. ‘There aro probably many more now, for the schools, ncaduinies, and colloges have ground them out very rapidly of lato yearu. Out of thoso forty thousand or moro Inwyers thoro is but one who hns been constantly, persistently, nud consistontly attacked by the whole newspnper press of tho country, regardless of politics, and who bids fair to ba {ta target for soma fime to cowme, unless he amend his ways, and thero is but one who is sensitive in the matfor of tlho law of libel. And who is this ono exceptiou? Davio Doprer Fieup has beon the attorney of Jux Fux, of Jay Gourp, of Boss Twerp, and other prominont representatives of public and private immorality, stock-jobbery, and gonernl corruption and scoundrelism. He lhns boon the npologist for public misconduct and offleial ftreach. cry. Ho has boen the champion of thorings and the bully of the formm. Ilo has been the inventor of now methods of thwarting justico, Lrowbeating courts, and ‘bamboozling juries. By his cunning dovices Jist Fisg was enabled to corrupt courts aud pursne o carcor of unblushing immorlity, which wns only atopped by a muvderer's bullet § and Boss Tweep to plunder tha City of Now York of millions, defy its peoplo to punish him, and eseape with his plunder, "This is tho man, standing betweon the peo- plo and justice, defonding fraud, corruption, and plander, whose roputation has been mando ay the champion of ofiicial villniny, who complains of newspapers, and would so hum. por thom by legal provisions that criticisms of public scoundrels would be sup. pressed. Mr. Davip Dubrey TFrend will have somo eympathy for his prop- ositions, but it will not come from the gencral publioc nor from kis own pro. fosnion, The rings of the largo citios, unprin. cipled stock-jobbers, official plundorers of city and county trensuries, whisky thieves, railrond Credit Mobiliers, land-grant steal. ers, political bullics nnd ringsters, court-cor- rapters, jury-packers, and official scoundrels of overy comploxion, will heartily sympatbizo with him. Tho heartiest sympnthizer of them oll will bo Boss 'I'werp himself, who, in his place of exile, will re-echo these senti- ments, nnd wish that they Liad Deen carried out long ago. It is nlittle remnrkablo that Mr. Davip Duprry Freeo did not udvocate the suppression of any and all criticism of the press upon the actions of public officlals, This would have secured thom a more com- plete immunity, and would have been hearti- ly approved by Boss Tween, Then official scoundrols, as well as tholr apologists, might. ‘have had full scope. ‘Tho mistakoe that Mr, Davfb Dobrey Freen makes is that ho imagines ho represouts the public. He only reprosents himsolf,—one who hins nmassed wealth s the defender of ofilcial peculntors and the ropresontativo spocimen of tho vices of his own profession, The publio long ago formed its opinion of him, and that opinion has boen expressed in the papers of this country, which have given tho reflections of pullic sentimont ns nffect- ing him and his eminent patrons, Jix Fisx, Jax Goury, and Boss Tweenp, Thero s un- doubtedly room for amondment in tho per- sonal jourpalism of the present day, but amendiments are not in order from suchn man ns Davip Duneey Freeo, Tho murderer might as well domand that the Judge who trios him shell bo restricted from carrying out tho full sentence of tho law, the thief demand that the doteotives shall'bo ro- strained by statutory provisions from intoer- foring with his depredations upon property, 84 that Mr, Fierp should have o special law of libel for his own protection, There has been an extraordinary ramor in circulution for sevoral duys to tho offect that in thoawarding of punishmont among the conspirators againat tho revenne the noto- rions Jaxe Reuxt was to be allowod to go acot freo] This rumor may have had its origin, or may have boeen strengthenod by the circumnstauce, that in the preliminary musteringof thoso to basontenced this man posnotcalled. Wo do not believe tho ru. wor hastho least foundationin fact. Wohave a high respect for the judiciary personally aud officially, and @ high vespeot for the logal gentlemen representing the Government, and | theroforo roject the ramer a flsa and rean- dalous, Of all the mon whose conncetion with ,Wisbnsinosshins beon oxposed, Renxis the It man who should go froe of punishment. Ho hna boen the hemd-contro of the whole biackniniling and roveuuo-dofrauding busi- nesa, and the ohicf rocipient of the extortions. As matters turned out, his turning State's ovi- dence hins been of no sorvico to the Govern- wiont, ns in the only case whoro he was nsed a4 n witnosn his testimony was discredited by the jury and the prironer was acquitted, In soyeral other important cases the Govern. mont was afraid to go to trial on his tosti- mony, nnd abaudoned the prosecutions. 'To lot this mnn go froe, or go unpunished pro- portionately to the magnitudo of Lis offenses, would naver occur to the Court. It can only bo tho result of tho officinl advice and roquost of tho ropresentntives of the Govornmout. Theso officers aro too jnst and hionorablo to ko sieh a raquost without nt the snmo timo nskting for the unconditional pardon of all the other persons awaiting seutenco. In tho various enleulntions for President, the State of North Caroliun is uniformly con- coded to tho Confederates. On what grounds, it is dibleett to Imngine. At tho October clection, in 1872, the 8tato was carried by tho Ttepublionus, fairly and wsquarcly, afier o Linrd contest, by ueatly 2,000 majority, Tho vote for Governor was: CALpwELL, Rep.. Msuninoy, Confed, Republlean mojority, At the Presidential election, o wards, Graxt’s mnjority was 23,004, —the Confederntos being utterly discouraged and demoralizod. At the next Stato olection, in 1874, the Domocratic tidal-wave, which sub- merged the Republicans of Iilinols, nlso rolled over tho Ropublicans of North Caro- line, and buried them under an adverss ma- jority of 14,036, But the vory noxt election «lost fall, st the election for delepntes to tho Constitational Convention—tho Repub- icans corried the State. Taking all the oloctions togother sinco 1868, and the Re- publicans have won North Carolina oftoner than they bave lost it. The delegates at the Cincinnnti Convention from that Btato ex- pressed the utmost confidenco that Haves and Wieeren would carry North Carolins if the Govornment will take steps to iusure a foir clection, ns thoy did in 1872, and, ns thon, provent tho employment of rovolver,| and shot.gun arguments upon the colored volers, Bome dispatches from $t. Louds indicato that T1LpeN's frionds aro marshaling there, detormined to make a desperate fight for bim nnd hard-money. We wish them suc- cesg, 03 it would be to the lonor of the country to have both pnrties declare for an hongst currency; but, with tho record of the Ohio and Indinna Democrucy, wo foar tho doclaration “would not com- mond very genoral respect. As to Mr, TiLbex, his frionds had bottor concen- troto their nttack on the *two-thirds rule,” if thoy desire to succoed. The oppo- sition to TiLpeN in certain quarters, not excluding his own Btuto, scems to bs too bittor and formidablo to permit his nomina. tion by n two-tlirds vote, though it is still probable that he could get a mojority, It will, novertholess, be diflleult to overcome tho disappointmont as to the IHinois delega. tion; asd ovon tha Staats-Zeituny of thiscity, which at one time looked to Tmory ssa sort of forlorn hope, now scems to think that it would not bo possible Lo romove the * projudico " that will bo entertained agninst him forhis * war-failure” resolution. 'The Staats-Zeitung fully apprecintes tho fact that the Germanbs of this country will nover approve of the candidaturs of any man who wig in nny way responsible for thnt resolu- tion; but t?uu they are not likely to go for the 8t. Loufs nomince, whoover lio may be, oo ‘The foreign ndviees coutlri tho old story of the cruelties of the Turke. It will be reusem.” bered that 8 few weeks ago an fusurrection” broke out in e small mountainous section of Bulgaris. It wos a short-llved affalr, was at no time serlous In 1ts aspects, and was soonfsip- pressed. The Turkish butchiers, however, found time to destroy thirty-seven villages, to plunder mavable property, burn houses, and sluughter old men, women, and children. The number of lives of nou-combatants sacrificed hos been placed variously at from 8,000 to 30,000. The diapatelies say: Among the refugeos, the number of whom is very small, there bs not ngirl over 10 yeara of nge, In the Village of Serurtitza, District of Phtlilppopollu, 1,1500 pereons are known to uve been killed, This village consisted of 100 huuscs, and wav prowperons eacetul. ~Every house has been burned, and nli the Inlinbitants kflled excepta fow women and children, who took refuge in Philllppopolis, aud lumfi wouen who were carricd off by e i$ashi Da- zouks, For such inhuman cruelties and persecutions, which surpnss the savagery of the Modoes, there must come a duy of reckondug, und that speed- Ny e eg— Spectat Dispate o the Rulttmors Qasette, WamNGTON, June 10,—11 hiny transpired that the Cinclnnatl Conventlon was munaged entlrely in the interest of the nomination of 1, It Haves with the aid of Froatdent Gatant and of oll ‘the Admin- itration aupportors, the hieet Lelny to perpetuato hin Administrution’ bath by the charscter of tho men selucted for the Cabinet and by the chiarncter of the political counsclors of th Republican Freat- dent, in the event, of course, of lHaves and WuezLER's clection, Nothing of the sort has “transpired ™ except in the brain of the writer of the dispateh. Mo never heard anybody make thestatement; it s utterly false that Prestdent Grant alded Gov, Haves, directly or indirectly, or had auy moro expectation even thun otlier intelligent men who had carefully fuoked over the tield. The President {8 well acqualnted with Gov, Haves persanally, and they are both Buckeyes by bleth, and be §s undoubtedly satisfied with the cholee a9 shio wisest compromise that could bo made, It was pretty well known that the Preeldent’s tlrst cholee was CONKLING, his secand choles Mon- 70N, und his third, if he had any, BLaiNe, ———a— Tne TRineNe this mumln§ nys that *'Qov. 1laves s o member of the Metliodivt Iiplscopnl Chiureh,™ 14 follows thin by the assertion that S gov. Mavee lsa Presbyterian. "~ Post and Mail, % You puys your money und you tekes your chofce, ua the showinan sald, as to which was tho bear aud which the Mon, Each stutement fa half truth, TheGovernor's wifo {s an Eplscopal Mcthodist, and ho usuatly attends the Methodist church with her, though not o member himself of any denomination. On his father's slde ho was o Methodist, and fs purtly clafmed by that denomiustion, On his mother's side his rela- tives and ancestors belonged to the Presbyteriun (or Congregational) persussion. Bome of the Eastern papers on thut account claln himasa Preabyterian, while somne of the Ohlo papers set. him dowa as 8 Methodist; henco the elight vari- ance between two of T Trisung writers, which was overlooked by the supervising editor, But il agree that Qov. HAYEs is a practival Chrlstlan, o liberalaninded wun, u sound Repub- Mean, and 8 gentleman, e ———— ‘The gentleqian who objects to the recalling of tho last City Couvention to nomiuate o candi- date for Mayor, aud wants an entlrely new Cons ventfon cuiled, doea so evidontly utiler & nfs- opprehension. 1ls intimation thut thero ls the ellghtest danger of the Repubilican party, or any other party, nominating a wman in favor of re- sWRIng the Bunday ordinance has no foundation outsids of his own imegination. That {ssue was fought out three years ugo, and the Bundsy ordinance ordered repealed by u wafority of 10,000; wobody hes uny thought of muking o new £, in its belalf. Thu evils the city hus sullered on secount of that unfortunate strugylo 76 100 Lumerous and recent to perint o reyival =—=—r + of the Issun. Aa to the lata City Conventun, which s now called to nominate s Mayor to 1t | the exlsting vacaney, it represents the varlous sentfments und clements of the Republican ! party very falrly, and the (lermans partieularly kave fall representation. ‘Tho matter of tho Busday lswa will not b so tuch as mentioned in the Convention, unleas by sowe agent of the bummers sent there for that purpose. et The Brookiyn (N. Y.) Temperanco Brothere lood are just ut present ina condition of cxe treme dlsgust, They employed two mwen, Outynw Corrzn and Joun Lawg, to obtain evidence agalust Nquar-dealers violeting ¢xelso Jaws. The two men started off fn the morning full of the uplrit of the cause, and before night were full of the spirit of the grog-shops. In point of fact, they went upon n roaring Bpreey Rot very drunk, nud were aveested. The Brook- Iyn Tenperance Unlon nre $n s fine feeling of diegust us that which fnsplred EccrLrs when Lo mistouk the contants of the teapot for giu, S S The Unlon Puclile Rallway Company has just declared annther quarterly 2 per cent dividend on Its watered stock, At the wame time tho Cumpany stublburnly refuses to pay the nter- est on fts honds, whilo pocketingd per cent o year on slock not representing 5 per share in the construction of the road, What 13 Congre pottering ahout that it does not compel Cowmpany to pay the Interest on its bondst ————— PEJS0NAL. Lager beer docen't Intosleato—~when It 13 net taken inwardly, William M, Evarta hus subscribed 8250 to eave the O1d South Church, Davls declines; It Ia feared he has been taking Jeesons from Horntlo Soyonr. The Domnocratic candidate for tho Presldency will be **The Great Unknoswn** after election. Prealdent Ellot, of Harvard College, witl nail for Europe after Commencoment, to be absent nina montha. Ynle's valedictorion this year 13 tho only son of the lnte Prof. lindley, and s the youngest man tn his class. % Prestdent Grant has appointed twenty-five Cable net oflicers, & much larger numbar than any of hia predecesvora. Perry Smith won n barren victory over Dave Thornton, Mike Evane, John ltountres, and tho other Demacraty, Almee hns discovered thnt lemon-colored silk with white-lace flovers fs the most becomlng dress for her style of kicking-beanty, Trof. Beclye, whose judgment 13 not a8 good s hls ntentions, thinks the Cloctnnaty ticket would have been otter the atber end firsy, Outalde newrpapers remark of the Chlengo Ecen- ing Telegraph as Betny Prig 43 of Mry, Harris— “*Tdon't believo thero aln't no such person,™ James Gordon Bennett Is off with the old love andon with the niew,~ha hanabandoned the 'Mird- ‘Term agltation as a bad job, and {4 devoting all his cnergles to Polo, The Intercolleptnta Literary Conteats scem likely to fall thronsh of thelr own welght, Willlams and Dartmonth students have virtually decided not to enter the contestat all, Honorablo and intelilgent men In Coole County etn never be Induced 1o vote with Mike Lvany, Dave Thornton, gud the other ballot-box stuffers, ta elect the Democratic tieket, Offenbach’s managers have come down from thelr high horaes, and aro now giving garden-cons certs In Philadelphia, the adintsslon-fee to which Lus been fixed at 50 conts, E. H. Rolling, United States Benator-clect from New Hampehlre, has served three terms in Cone gress, and has had vast experlenco fu ** pulling ropes " and ** Jaying wires." ‘The London Spectaior says deorge Sand's French style **was nerhape as near to achieving the per- foct expreesion of hor thonght as any liternry ctylo which the world has ever kuown. " Nowspapers contlnue to wultiply cven fn the mont outiandish localitien. Wao hear that ** Corea hau started n newspaper," 1t s stylod * plous nnd oflictal, and which all ought to read.™ Tho yreatest lawyers I England, Mr, Conwny wites, do not receive such feew us aro frequent In America, Neltlier do the greatest ) ers of En- glund'defend the greatest seampa In England. Aayes I not only o Preebyterian anda Mothodtst; he s nlso o soldler, a lawyer, a politician, a ro- former, n Uavernor, & prospectise President, o wentieinnn fearless and abose reproach, undau brick, Mr, Blatne once called Roscoe Conkling n tu gobbler; he would probably agree to consider S ‘Tilden u ralirond-gobbler. The unprejudiced mning Wwill deetde that rallroads are more Indigestibl than turkeys, The Rochester Democraf, without warning o provocation, remarks: **The frouble with the un. cducated nussos of this conntry 1u thut thoy wam tunes.” Wit this observation, it accounts for the pecunlary fafluco of Von Bulow's recent tour, Monenre Conway mays Judah P, Benjamin, €Q. C., ex-Confederate Mimster and ex-Unfled States Senator, must be regarded as the most dis. tinguished ndvocate at the Iritish Dar, buthe ir 1osing caste on nccount of **sharp" practlee, ‘The estimates of Abdul Aziz's hoarded treasure vary fram £2, 000,000 in Turkish consolidee, wortt less than £300,000, to £30,000,000, Tt1s rumored that the new Sultan Tias debty that will uheorb large share of the treasure, oven I it should reack the latter sum, Tilden has Tammany agalnst him; so he eannol carry Now York. If hobad Tammany with him decent men elsewhore would not vote for him. This dilemmn hne always beon presonted to the Democratic Presldontial candldates since tho War; and, either way It 1e taken, It means destruetion. In the eyeu of certain Democrats It v not euch & aln to have written the peacu resolution of 1801 us to have broken up the flouriahing Canal Ring in New York., Tiden's managers should bend thelr encrgies to provhi that hix war upon the Ring has reully been a sham battle; this ls thelr only hope, In the Gentlemun's Nagazine thero are somo ene tertaining notes by Kurl Blind on the **White Woman of Berlin," wha appears before n death in the roynl family, Itsoeiss she s really u form uf Friga, or Dertha, the mythicul ancestreey, ns Odin 1s the wythical ancestor, of ail old Qermun famllles. Miss Claxton 1 to play Loulse, the bllnd glrl, in the rovivai of **The Two Orphany™ at Mooley's Thoatre next week by thu Unlon Square Compuny. The perfarmancen of this fne company are atiruct- {ing the best people In the ¢ity, und the Theatre §s almost ay gay every night s durlug the helght of tho opcru-atason. The London Saturday Rertew has doae Mr, bd- wards Plerrepout, Minlater to Encland, the favot to discover that he v of **Norman lineage,” Jlo claims to be unly u member of the prond Knfeker- Docker race, who trace thelr descent directly from tho anclent tobucconlst, Kilol-kl-nick. Nick- ugh-"bacca was the early family name, woet-Willium Kelley, of Philadelphla, 1 snp- ported for ro-clection to Congreas by Mr. Forney's Prezs on the ground that hie hiad shown commenilia ble independence and has properly reprevented the views of & large majority of Uis puety. Then why dld his party adopt u hord-money resolution at Clnclnoativ Mr, Fornoy ls vither crazy or un lu- Hationtat, Mr, Jones, of the Oates Opera Company, slapped Mr. Nichols' fucs und threw u glass of wuler ovor i shict-front, Justitying his conduct by tue broad statement thal the Jalter way » coward and 1o gentleman, It oppeare thut Nichols hus been Aattempting to make trouble between Jonex and hia wite, who I al50 3 momber of the company. Nn G, 1%, Hall testificd that Nichols wae a meddlevome tale-Dearer, and deseryed £o bnvo hix facy slapped. ‘Thla was an undecss burlesque rehearsal, . UOTEL ANRIVALS, Palmer House=W. 8. Putrlck and D, V. Delly Detrolt; ¥. W, Clark, Toouls; J. M. Pendlcton, Westerly, R L G, C. Duvienfer, U, 5, K. M3 15 Bartely, Germany: A, J, and 8 udlurd, Loutsville: W, un, New y; louls Hapleha, Pr woontirand - Pacipc i Hou. Deter White, Murquettes the Hou, J, M. Denbsun, Baltmore; Alexander Taylur, New York: M. New York Mayor Opdyeke, Now York; ¢, W. Meud Louty; W, ¥, Vilas, Mudio ', N. nitul, Mo, ; £. Do Culyer, fleanfort, N. U B Ancoua, Reuding, Pa.; 1. 3 Lremont House 13 the Hon, J. D. Nurton, W, Biickney, ULoston Bostan; the l{nmA 4 v H.; the Hen. 1. N. Con the’ Yo, W, T fisvicroft, L' Dufty, Brooklyn Sua; thi Tusyee and ke o A un Dr. 1 et oo Shermn > Gcetty, Muskegon; Me. “Futon, the Jlon, D. F. McKay, Brigge, Mancheuter, ucoln, Neb. Port 1l umu" T, Minnls, B .. Do alianan fouse—The ' Hon T A, Mescll, Leiroit; tha Hoa, George Sanfurd, Crawn Polnt; R, I, Deun, Adsue, Muas, ; Col. G. as City; L. Harels, W, T, Shepe Beatty, Portland, Oregou; J. I g aukes; Anion Hopfen, New York; B Calkins, Milwaukeej G, Wy Montord, Lives- oL