Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 25, 1876, Page 4

p. 4 - THE CHICAGO TRIBUN’E: SUNDAY. JUNE 25, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. e Tribune, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYADLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE FPREPAID AT THIS OFFICE. ;‘)l"’ E’dlflfln. pg::‘r”r:l,l?l‘ll!b) aPid of 3 year, address four wecks fo e AT ot Tiieraty and Teellgions Dot Epeciinencaples sent e 5 imen coples sen! e, % To prevent delay and mistakes, be sureand give Post- Offce address in full, includiug State sad County. Remfttances may bemade efther by draft, express, Post-Office order, or in reglstered letters, at our risk. “ERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dafly, deligered, Sundsy exceptyd, 25 cents per weck. Dally, deilvered, Sunday ncludid, S0 cents per week Addren THE TRIBUNE COMPANT, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, 11l s CAMPAIGX ?TRIBUNE. The Republican party has now placed its patfonal ticket and platform before the people. 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A, M.~Hall 72 LAFATETTE CHALTE] ?"‘”’"';?E“‘é“ L(:on;wulnl on, o ‘elock, for busine A EN.T X LODGE 141, A. F. & A M.—A nfn’n‘x'n??m&gnunn will e Ueld on Wednesdey .~ Work on the 3L $realse Jungon, at Ortental Tt iren i S oL y L. L. WADSW SUNDAY, JUNE At the New York Gold Exchange on Sat- urdny greenbacks were worth $91@893 cents on the dollar. Half-s-dozen County Commissioners stand & pretty fair chance to occupy adjoining cells with the whisky-thieves, The notorious ras- cal Perrorart, who swindled the county and starved the paupers, should, however, be sdnt down the canal to a reformatory institn- tion near the City of Joliet. Ttis stated that the Joliet Penitentiary is ina drendfully crowdoed condition, there be- ingan average of 1,600 convicts there this Fear as sgainst a nusual average of 1,450. But this need mako no difference in Remr’s case, as the Court, we believe, has the right to send United States convicts to any Peni- tentiary in the comntry; so a less crowded ene maybe selected for Jaxe, if necessary. The gentences already passed in the whisky cases, regarded as a portent of what is to «come, should suggest to the Government de- tectives and Jaxe Reme’s bondsmen to keep & sharp lookout over that gentleman’s move- ments. He will probably experience a strong . temptation to follow Hruprerm and Vo Howxx; and, unfortunately, the deferring of his sentence has given him an admirable opportunity for flight. Ko wonder that Messrs. HurmrsoN, Le Morsr, and Cacrrienp—the three Demo- cratic members misrepresenting the Repub- lican City of Chicago—should feel shaky over their failurs to sscure the $250,000 appro- priation for completing the Chicago Custom- House. If it comes now, of which there is Little hope, it will be by the grace of the Sen- ate, snd no thanks to the Chicago members in the House. Three Republican members could have done better than this even with a Democrstic majority in the House; that Hizreisow, Lz Moyxe, and Cavrrrerd should bave failed while belonging to the party which controls the House, msy well causs ‘them to think that their prospects for re- election are poor. Of course, they all want to go back. We shall ask nothing better this fall than to have the Democrats re- nominnte every one of them; there will then beno danger of Repnblican Chicago being sny longer misrepresented in Congress by Democratic members, ‘Where is the ¢ People's Party " now, which swept this city by 10,000 majority two years ago last fall? Heswe and ““Buffalo” Mir- Lrs are in the County Jail; Vox Horrex and Huoners are fugitive thieves, eluding jus- tice only by flight ; Remu stands at the very threshold of the Penitentiary; CoLviv re- tires to obscurity in a few days, after having wsurped for neamly two years an office to which he knew the people would not re-elect him; some of the county thieves are under indictment for stealing; Pertorar and Kne- BEDRLY, two shining lights of the *‘Teople’s .Party,” are only loose on bail; the **Bean Club*” is scattered and demoralized ; and the Democratic party is loaded down with the dead weight that forms the remment of a wicked combination which appealed to for- eign Know-Nothing prejudices in order to gain an opportunity for plonder. Will the respectable Germsns and decent Irishmen of Chicago ever again lend themselves to such a ‘conspirscy against the public welfare ? — 1t Jooks ss though Mr. Trpex will go into tha St. Lounis Convention with about the same relative . strength (considering the two- thirds rule) that AMlr. Braive had in the Cin- cinnati Convention. The result in the latter «¢ase can scarcely be regarded with cheerful- Biess by Tripes’s friends if they forecast his chances by anslogy. Certainly he will have -8 much and persistent opposition at St. Louis as Branve had in Cincinnati. Besides the personal antagonism and the interest en- listed in behalf of other candidates, Mr. TiLoeN has no longer the claim to availability that he had before the nomination of Haves and Wmerren. Patting the latter on the Republican ticket renders TiLvex's chance for carrying New York exceedingly small, while the nominstion of Haves simply puts the hope of his carrying Ohio out of the question. Nor is it believed that, if be is renominated at the sacrifice of Hex. DRICKS, he will have the ghost of a chance of carrying Indiana. Now, the Democrats fully appreciate the necessity of making a ticket that will have some show for life in the Oc- tober elections in Indians and Ohio. This practically rules Trupex out. HENDRICES is reporied a3 very hopefal that he will be the man. ‘The Chicago produce markets were steadier on Saturdsy,, provisions being guiet, and grain active and firm, Mess pork closed 2} MF5¢ per brl higher, _at §18.90@18.924 for July and $19.12}@19.15 for August. Lard was unchanged, closing at $11.10@11.12} for July and §11.25 for August. Meats were stendy, at 7¥c for boxed shoulders, 104cfor do short ribs, and 10fc for do short clears. Lake freights were easier, at 2¢c for corn to Buffelo. Rail freights were unchanged Highwines were quiet and steady, at $1.10 per gallon. Flour was more active and firm. ‘Wheat closed 1c higher, at $1.05 for June and $1.0:3 for July. Corn closed 3@jc low- er, at 4Gic cash and 46c for July. Oats closed 1@jc higher, at 30c for June or July. Rye waos steadier, at 63@G84c. Barley was easier, at 57@574c. Hogs were active and a shade firmer, at $3.70@5.95. Cattle were quiet and steady, and sheep firm. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.00 ingreenbacks at the close. There will be o very general sense of dis- appointment and regret that the dishonest Gauger Hizprera has escaped punishment by flight. The people of Chicago had many old scores against this fellow which they hoped might be partially expunged by the penalty | be would pay for perjuring himself os a Gov- ernment official and helping to rob the peo- ple who employed and trusted him. Hoprerm is a most confirmed scoun- drel, and has long been a public puisance. The fact that he bas lived chiefly for many years upon his position as Alderman—to which no salary is attached— has been external evidence of his corruption in city affairs, of which moreover there is more direct evidence. But, though it has been generally believed that he was the chief of the old Council Ring, and one of the principsl beneficiaries of certain horse-rail- road and gas jobs, he could never be reached ; and now that he has been overtaken by the United States Government, hnd confessed his guilt, it is a little exasperating to think of his escaping punishment. The only sym- pathy this man Hopgers would have had if he had been sent to the Penitentiary would have come from the Acting Mayor, whoso intimate and ardent supporter he was, and s certain class of his “ pals” in offici ‘bummerism, - The' only consolation decé] people can find at his escape is that he may possibly never dare to.come back,—a con- summation devoutly to be wished. THE WHISKY SENTENCES. The beginning of the end is approaching in the Chicago whisky cases. It will be pos- sible in a very few days for the public to make up its final judgment as to whether the work in behalf of tho Government has been done faithfully, fairly, and thoroughly. Such judgment neither Judge nor Prosecut- ing Attorneys can avoid. It would be pre- mature, however, to make it up on a basis of the sentences that were pronounced yester- day, since only a part of the cases wers dis- posed of, and it cannot be known how the others will be treated till they are presented to the Conrt. All those sentencedso far be- long to what is know as the ‘‘second batch”—that is, those indicted on the evi- dence of the ** first batch" before the Grand Jury. Many of the cases in the “gecond batch” still remain. Lawrevce and BALLANTYNE'S ease wag certified to Judge Duntosp’s court, and has not yet been tried ; Erery and Kxnwiv have withdrawn their plea of * guilty,” which wes put in as to onecount on an understanding of their counsel which the Government does not ngreo to ; thero is a host of Gaugers and Storekeepers who have pleaded guilty ; and Jaxe REmu’s case standsout conspicuonsly as not having yet been presented for sen- tence, though the .indictment was found against him at the same time a3 against Hes- v snd * Buffalo” MriLes, who have now -begun serving out their terms in jail Nearly all, if not ell, the persons belonging to the “ first batch ” have furnished valuable testimony for the Government, and most of those who wereindicted on their information have either pleaded guilty or been convicted on trial. Not so, however, with the so-called “ squealers ” of the ** second batch,” of whom Jaxe Remyr was the chief, and who tried to save themselves in the same way. Moxx, Wanp, and WapsworTH were indicted on Remw's testimony; but the story he told on the witnéss-stand bore so many evi- dences of distortion and improbability that the jury could not separate the lies from the truth, and so brought in a verdict of acquit- tal as to Mouxw. The cases against Warp and ‘Wapswonrta were then abandoned by the Government, because they also rested en- tirely on REm’s evidence, which nobody be- lieved. 1t is also understood that Mr. Wans- WORTH's counsel was prepared to show up Jaxe Reryr’s full record in the Whisky Ring, to demonstrate the means whéreby he forced the distillers into it who wanted to run “ straight,” to trace to him some $400,000 of blackmail which he had levied, and to prove that he had received about a quarter of a million dollars more than he had distributed. This would have made the WApswoRTa trial peculiarly interesting to the public, though it was by no means necessary for the pur pose of convincing auybody that Rem lied when he said he had paid out all the money which be bad extorted from the distillers, Of the sentences passed yesterday there seems a judicious and proper estimato by Judge BrongeTT of the relative guilt of the different distillers. Three months’ imprison- ment and $1,000 fine as & punishment for men who were in some sense unwilling mem- bers of the Ring, and who joined it under the whip of the Ringleader to save their property, will not be regarded as too lenient ; nor can it fairly be looked upon as excessive, in view of the enormity of the offense. It should be remembered that from many of them a large part of the plunder will be re- covered by the confiscatlon of their property. *“Buffalo " Miirer's sentence was increased to $3,000 snd six months in the County Jail. We think the distinetion was a proper one, because he wss, besides being a distiller, & public official ; and, though not in the service of the United States Government, his official character as County Treasurer (dividing the profits of that office with Hesixo) rendered his case the more scandal- ous. It is not 50 easy to exphin why George T. BurrouGas'sentence was stretched out to one year, though he was the active partner of DickeNsoN, Anen & Co. - Heis about the only one of the distillers who is believed to have told the truth relative to the amount of money paid to Jaxe Remx; he testified that he himself, being one of s scors or 50, had paid REms $50,000 or more, while Reuy had sworn that he had received only aboat $115,000 in all. The chief public interest centred in Mr. Hesmva, who was sentenced to a fine of $5,000 and to two yesrsin the County Jail. There was much sympathy felt and ex- pressed for HesiNe yesterdsy, and a good many people seemed to think his punish- ment too severe. This was partly senti- mental, and of the same character as the sympathy excited for McKre, of St. Louis, who occupied a position very similar to Hrsiva here, and who received the same sen- tence. There is & mental and moral recoil which is not easily expressed at the sunouncement that a man who has been 80 conspicuously before the public as Mr. Hesnve should be consigned to the common jail for two years. Besides, he has always liad many warm personal friends, who natu- rally work up this sympathy. There was another large class who refused to pronounce tho HEsiNG sentence fair and just until the sentence of Remy should be made known ; most people, in fact, will estimate it by this gauge, Reaye being confessedly the head devil of the whole conspiracy. At the same time, Ar. Hzsine's claim to be classed among the distillers merely, and treated as such, is not a good one. From the evidence in the Muxy case, and partly by his own admission, Hes- G was a sharer of blackmail money as well as the profits of illicit distilling, snd, while commanding and always professing to merit the confidence of 8 large part of this com- munity, he was sbusing it by political cor- ruption of various kinds. While fully sym- pathizing with Mr. Hesive’s family and friends, justice scarcely permits an estimate of his punishment as too severe, if all the other guilty men are punished in proportion to their relative responsibility. As to the * squealers," so-called : If we re- call correctly the rule of law laid down by Judge Broocerr some months ago, it is necessary that s co-conspirator’ shall have furnished valuable evidence for the prosecu- tion before he will be entitled to immunity ; but in that case immunity follows as a mat- ter of right. This rule, which is undoubted- ly good law if we represent Judge BLobGerT correctly, will save the * first bateh ” of dis- tillers and the Gaugers who have furnished the testimony for convictions. It does not, however, cover the case of Jage Remu, since his testimony can scarcely be called ¢ valua- ble,” when it was reaily the basis for Muxy's ncqfiitln!, and when the Government was forced to abandon all the cases that depended on it, The practico of taking State’s evi- dence in the State Courts is for the witness who offers it to plead *‘ not guilty,” anda nolle is entered after the testimony is given. But 8 nolle connot be entered in Remy's case, even if ‘there were @ dispo- sition to do so on the part of the Government counsel, because he has pleaded “guilty.” We do not, therefors, credit the rumor thathe will not even be presented for sentence. Such a course ‘wonld excite a public indignation that would go be- youd the Government counscl, and make it- self heard even in the court-room and at the Washington Government. Jaxe Remx must, of course, be presented along with others’ who aré guilty, and we know no valid reason to suspect that the Government counsel will particularly recommend him to mercy, since he deceived them, nor that the Judge will neglect to give him the full mensure of pun- ishment 8s chief of the Ring and manjpu- lator of the Government service, in due proportion to the punishment of the others. The sentence passed upon the distillers, and Hesmvg, and ¢ Buflalo " Miiier, would indi- cate that Rems and the Government officials who have not escaped have been reserved for the Penitentiary. This will complete & suc- cessful prosecution of the Chicago Whisky Ring, and furnish a most timely and noedful corrective for that condition of pablic morals which thinks it no crime to rob the Govern- ment, THE ELECTION OF MAYOR. ‘The special election for Mayor will take place on the 12th of July. The people of Chicago last April, aroused by the disgrace- ful frauds upon the ballot-boxes, the open defiance of public morality and decency, and the boastéd supremacy of the criminal classes, gave one day to the election of Al- dermen, and the result was the choice of a City Council which, for the high personal character of its members, has never been equaled in this city. We have now a better City Council than we have had for twenty years. The Council was never so freo of adventurers and jobbers, of speculators and corruptionists, as it is at this time, and has never had such a large proportion of first- closs business men among its members. All that is needed to complete this Government is o first-clasg citizen in the office of Mayor. It is understood that Mr. Corvrx will not be a candidate for re-election. The City of Chicago is a large business corporation whose affairs are insad confusion. The business of the city is not in the least sentimental; it is poinfally practical, being mainly involved in the problem of how to make both ends meet with an empty treasury and alarge debt pay- able on demand. Like the business of any other corporation, it requires to be handled by business men in a business manner, and st this particular time tho necessity for a business man in the office of Mayor is im- perstive. This is no time to clect s man merely to compliment him. The city needs a Mayor competent to take charge of its com- plicated affairs, and bring order out of con- fusion and embarrassment. It wants a man who has shown his business eaprcity by the success in which he has attended to his own business; 8 man who is thoroughly familiar with city affairs, and acqusinted with all jts embarrassments, and with its resources; a man of personal character and standing, one in whose personal and official representations confidence may be placed. Such a man in the Mayor's office at this time will be of in- colealable benefit to the city in countless ways. It would be s restoration of Govern- ment in this city the like of which we have not hed for nearly twenty years. There ought to be no difficulty in selecting such a man for nomination, or in his election. A number of persons have been suggested, among others Mr. Moxror Heirs, who so faithfully served the city in the Council dur- ing the reign of the corrnpt majority of that body. He has ripe experience and valnable personal fomiliarity with a1l the details of city aflairs. Mr..Cmanues E. Cowver, ex-President of the Board of Trnde, has also been strongly commended, as has Mr. Georee ARxOUER, also an honored member of the same body. These gentlemen sare all Republicans, as it is fitting the candidate nominated by a Ropublican Convention should be. But they are, nevertheless, men who have s standing in the community as merchants and men of integrity, wholly indeg e 1deut of their politics, They are all men ejther of whom ss Mayor of the city would be entirely unobjectiona- ble to nny respectable citizen of any party, Thq City of Chicago has deeply snffered from the system of non-psyment of taxes,— the Jaw baving ceased to be coercive. It is true that we have not had for yearsa City Government which has not enjoyed the fall confidence of the public. The Common Coun- cil has always been an object of well-founded suspicion and distrust. But no such excuss or pretext can now be urged. The election of a respectable business man to the office of Mayor will give to Chicago & City Govern-* ment which, for the rectitude and character .of its members, is not excelled in any city of the country. One of the first duties of this Government will be to collect the unpaid taxes, (There are over one million of dollars of the taxes of 1874 locked up in s case pend- ingin the Supreme Court. There is no legal defense to the payment of theso taxes,—the Cour} simply refused judgment of sale be- cause of a conflict of laws in which that pro- ceeding was rendered impossible. But the tax, as a lien, recoverable as a debt, and ad- hering to the property till paid, remains. Other taxes of other years, in like manner, are unpaid, and the city is paying heavy interest on money borrowed to make good the deficiencies in the revenue. In fact, all the financial difficul- ties of the city are the result. of this non-payment of tsxes. A compe- tent business man, acenstomed to treating the collection of debts in a business way, and who instinctively requires that the op. eration shall be at least self-supporting, will naturally address himself to the task of collecting this outstanding revenue, which is amply secured by property. If the existing laws be insufficient to enforce the collection of this due and unpaid tax, it will be the duty of the Mayor and City Council to have prepared such laws as may be necessary, and to have them presented to the Legislature for enactment. It is impossible to carry on o Government if taxes are not paid ; and if taxes are not paid voluntarily, and there be no law to compel their payment, then the Gov- ernment must be abandoned. The people of Chicago should not permit this election of Mayor to go by default. If it be worth having a Mayor at all, it is worth while to have the right kind of a man in the office. Nominating Conventions will, of course, take notice that the city wants a Mayor to attend to its business, and that no other kind of a man can or ought to be alected. THE BUICIDE MANIA. P Suicide in the United Stetes is renching a Ppoint where we are warranted in competing with France, both in the number of those whe shuflle off the mortal coil, and in the unique methods and motives of the operation. The uncouth Indinna farm-hand, whose machine for self-murder has already been deseribed in these columns, has never been rivaled by any madman in France in cool and horrible ingenuity, and the papers during tho past week or two have contrined narratives of suicide, the motives for which are as strango snd unaccountable a3 ever impelled any Frenchmen to jump tho life to come. This mania for suicide is worth the attention of the moralists and the psychologists, not slone for the alarming fre- quency of its manifestations but for the apparent insufficiency of cause that leads to it in so many cases. There are instances where suicide is nof an uunat- ural crime. A man may be afflicted with o painful and incurable disease. . He may have suffered agonies with it for years until life grows to be s burden and deathisa Lappy release, and mather than' suffer on without hope he takes his life and ends his misery. A man may be broken down in health, hopelessly ruined in business, perso- cuted with creditors, deserted by his friends, and seo no avenue of escape from his suffer- ings except by selfmurder. A maninan ungoarded moment may have committed some dishonorable action, and unable to en- dure his shame or to bear the pricks and stings of conscience he frees himself from his mental torture in theonly possible way. In all these cases, although they show a lack of courage, there is o sufficient motive, It hes operated since the creation of the world and will continue to do so to the end of the world, assuming that cowardly people will live uatil that time, ‘There are numerous cases, however, in which no decent cause can be shown, and some for which thero is no cause, decent or indecent. In New Jersey, the other day, one little girl attempted to take her life be- causo she had been naughty and felt badly about it, and another because her little com- panion had died and would be lonesome in Heaven without her. It might be possible for a very maudlin person to estract a grain of sentimentalism out of* these juvenile sui- cides, but the average opinion of sensible peoplo will be that, if the parents of these precocious self-murderers had been more profuse in the use of the birch upon their darlings, they would have had more senss. In Atlants, Ga., a few days since, Miss Ly Hazgisoy, a school-girl of 15, daughter of the most prominent Methodist clergyman of that city, threw herself into the river-rapids and was drowned. The Columbas (Ga.) Sun says that, On reaching the bauk, which is about 40 yards slope to the water, she discov- ered a Mr. Naxs, who, standing not far off, she thought, and correctly too, was watching her. She immedintely rushed for the river. Mr. Naues pursued her. ‘When he was within 40 feet of her she had reached the water's edge —she tore her collar loose in front, looked around with a smile as thongh exulting over s conquest, gave three swings and leaped from the rock.,” A very melodramatic exit from the world, but no cause is known why the young girl should wish to make any exit atall. In New York City, last Sunday,a young lad of 16, clerk in a bauking-honse, shot himself, and no cause is known why he did jt. Sometimes the motive for suicide verges on the ridiculous, as in the case of Diepgrcst BRAUNLIEREY, 62 years of age, and old enough to have known better. This precious fool cut his venerable throat be- cause his second wife refused to go with him aud assist him paying his respects to the grave of his first wife. The only creditable feature of the affair is that he had the good taste to cut his own throst, instead of getting mad with the second Mrs. BrauNLizsey and cutting hers, For the suicide of fools and madmen, of grown-up male idiots and adult maudlin women, we may at least invent somo excuse, but what excuse will bo sufficient to explain this dreadful propensity of children to com- mit gelf-murder? What possible cause can there be that the dawning of life should be s0 clouded over? Young life never has a de- nouement of tragedy. There is no situation in childhood 5o desperate and distressing that there is not & strong probability of relief, The sky is not always overclonded in youth. The storm and shine alternate in every young life, however hard the circumstances of its swronndings may be. Despair only springs from the accumulations of years and the buffetings of fate continuing until the vie- tim is no longer able to endure them. The cause of these juvenile suicidesis hard to find, because, in & natural, healthy child, the ‘whole course and condition of life tend in an opposite diraction. The New York Tribune, ina recent discussion of this subject, says very pertinently : Many 2 boy bas been rained for life by a mis- understanding of his idiosyncrasies on the part of those to whom his culture was confided. 1f ne has naturally a bad temper, or is continually despond- ing, orif these is an abnormal development of his Imiganation or of his cutlosity, he may, whenever safficiently and peculiarly excited, seck gratifica- tion or relief throngh a resource about which he doca not stop to reason. ‘This may #pecially be the case with children of an epileptic diatheafs. It {s for parents carefully to watch their charges, and fully to comprehend, if possible, their peculiari- tits, adapting culture ond discipline to each particular case. ‘This view of the case might be emphasized by calling attention to the importance of Watching the reading of such achild. A child who is morbid in temperament or over- sentimental in its imaginings may find an impelling cause towards suicide in the reams of sickly swash that are issued from some of our publication houses, both in the shape of newspapers and books. They will lead a child of this kind just as surely towards suicide as they will Iead & child of immoral téndencies towardg crime. Whatever may Le the cause, however, the fact exists, and the fact is of a consegnence so alarming as to demand the earnest attention of the moralists. CONSOLIDATE THE CHARITIES. There was recently printed in Tue Trrn- ONE a list of fifty or mores charitable institu- tions in New York City which have recently been benefited by contributions from Mrs. A. T. Stewarr, to the amount of $75,000. ‘We have no disposition to comment upon this graceful and generous act on Mrs. Srewant's part. Charity is always commend- able. especially in view of its rarity ; but this enormous list of institutions, which is far from being complete, suggests one impor- tant consideration, which grows out of its very length, namely : the greit wastage of money in caring for theso institutions which are devoted to maintaining officials or main- taining public establishments to give officials something to do. The same evil exists here, and in every other large city of the country, and it suggests at once the absolute' necessi- ty of consolidating all classes of chgrities of the same general character, so that they may have the same officials and pay- rolls. 1In the large cities, immense buildings are owned, with large capital invested, orare leased at Leavy rentals ; tax, gas, and water bills have to be paid ; an army of matrons, assistants, andservantsisemployed ; and there is an almost wicked waste of money to take care of a mere handful of destitute or un- fortunate people. If these New York in- stitutions were investigated, it wounld bo scen that more than one-half, perhaps two- thirds, of the entire contributions of charita- ble people are eaten up in the running ex- penses,—a large proportion of which goes into the pockets of useless officials. Proba- bly 33 per cent of the entire amount repre- sents what goes upon the backs aud into the stomachs of the inmates. The system of maintaining public charities as it now exists has become a chronic sbuse all over tho country, and we have only to look at bome to be convinced of the necessity of an immediate reform. We have two or three times too many charitable institutions in Chi- cago, maintained apart from each other and running as separate institutions. Every at- tempt at consolidation heretofore has been combated Dby interested cliques, who either ‘waht the glory and publicity of running them, or who are meking a living out of the contri- butions of the charitable. Our public chari- tieware rapidly becoming the homes for idle pensioners and dead-beats, who are eating up the money contributed for the afHlicted. There is no peed of so many institutions. They are established in the interest of cler- ical idlers, of men who have axes to grind, and of ladies who want to appear benevolent in print and have their nomes published once A year in a gilt-edged pamphlet, the issuo of which alone oftentimes costs about as much as the expenses of the unfor- tupate whose names do notappearinit. We- have urged ‘tho importance of consolidating charitable institutions beforein Tre TrinuNE, and the publication of the enormous list of charities living upon Mrs. STEWART suggests the matter afrosh. The evil is growing all the time. The number of officials increases end the inmates get less and less every year.: If there is any way in which the burdens of the public can be lessened, it ought to.be tried, and this is not only practicable and fensible, but sn imperative duty. It is a measure in the interest of the unfortunate themselves. By a consolidation they wonld be better cared for, which is certainly more important than the public maintenance of an army of idlé official paupers. —— REORGANIZATION OF THE POLICE. A Committee of the Common Conncil and Superintendent Hickey aro endeavoring to reorganize the police force of Chicago, hav- ing in view the increased efficiency of the body and s reduction of expenses. It is no easy matter to establish an efficient police force, and this difficulty is incrensed when appointments to the police are a matter of favor to ward politicians or for party pur- poses. There should be no mere partisan- ship in the selection of policemen than in the selection of troops. The duty of a policeman js an important one. He shounld be able-bodied, of sound health, capablo of much endurnnce, of at least avernge intelli- gence, and be reasonably familiar with the law pertaining to his office. His qualifica- tions should be above those of an ordinary laborer. He is s man nccessarily clothed with discretionary powers, and at times with serious responsibilities. Ile has to encoun- ter personal denger, bo brought suddenly into violent contact with desperate men, and should be physically aud intellectnally equal to the emergency. Itisneedless toaddthat he should be sober, vigilant, andhonest. Though there are ten men seeking places on the po- lice forca to the one who can be appointed, it is safe to sny that not more than'one Qut of each ten is in all respects fit for the place, and that unfortunately under our system this one is rarely ever appointed. The rule of appointment hitherto has been that the designation of the great body of the force hasbeen delegated tothe Aldermen, and in this way ench Alderman has had as an official per- quisite the appointment of ten or more police- men. His constituents—that is, the ward loafers and bummers—take care that he shall atnotime be represented on the force by less than his full proportion. A police force thus selected and constituted is not capable of being made efficient. It is made up on the rule that the place is to be provided for the man, instead of the proper rule that the man should be gualified for the place. Capt. Hicxey frankly concedes that at least 100 men now on the force might be removed to make room for as many other men fit for the daties. : % At present all the men are paid the same wages. The able-bodied, intelligent, and vigilant officer is paid no more than the sot or loafer who holds his place by Aldermanic or otherpolitical protection. Merit ceases to be adistinction, and “influence ” is the over- ruling qualification. Thisisunjust, and there can be no efficiency so long as there is no re- ward or inducement for faithful performance of duty. Theforce should thereforebegreded, and the salary should be graded accordingly. No man should be continued on the force one day who does not meet the full requisites of the office ; and continued service, being of it- self evidence of fitness and fidelity, should be rewarded with promotion. Assuming $1,000 8 year to be the mavimum pay of o patrolman, the force might be di ed. into three grades. 1. The recruit, who during a period of six months might be paid 3509 a yeor. 2. The patrolman, who should receive £750 the first year, and $50 a year increase un il his pay reached $900, or until promot- ed to (8) the first class of patrolmen, receiving $1,000 a year. All appointments to be made to the class of recruits, and all Sergeants and Captaing to be appointed from men who have gonme through the force. .? force of 450 patrolmen might be thus divided: First class, 230; second class, 150; re- cruits, 50. Any officor guilty of any;offense, or falling into prohibited habits or otherwise ‘becoming unfit, should be dropped perempto- rily. In no case should the force be made an asylum for men whose services are not worth the sum paid them. In such a classi- fication there would be every inducement for improvement and fidelity. The great reward of promotion would be held ount ss the price of fidelity. Competent men would enter the force at the compara- tively low pay in consideration of the perma- nency of the place and the advance which will follow an attention to duty. We do not shere in the judgment that will reduce the pay of competent policemen to that of ordinary Iaborers’ wages. These men are, or ought to be, selected men,—selected for their physicsl ability, for their correct habits, and for their capacity to perform intelligently their important duties. . They" work 365 days in the year, and twelve hours of laborious service each day. They carry their lives in their hand always, are the special objects of revenge from the desper- ate and vicious classes, and have no rests or vacations. Their business is on the street, by day end by night, at all seasons. They are exposed to all manner of cnsunlu'es.'snd are liable to countless occurrences disabiing them from all active employment. In this respect they differ from all other of the city employer, except the firemen; and, instead of the police being selected from all other of the city’s servants for an arbitrary reduc- tion of salarios, they might well be made an exception from the general reduction. But, whether their salaries be reduced or not, the force should be graded ; it should be relieved of the incompetents that now crowd its ranks ; and the increased efliciency which such classification will give to the force will be equal to the addition of 100 men to the force as now made up and operated. A LESSON OF THE CONVENTIONS, The National Convention which has just been held in Cincinnati and the Convention 1o be held this week in St. Louis teach one lesson in common, namely : the absurdity of selecting two such cities as places for Nation- al Conventions. The lesson was palpable in Cincinnati before the Convention was over; it is palpable in St. Louis before the Conven- tion is in session. There 18 no complaint to be made of the manner in which the dele- gates to Cincinnati were tréated. The peo- ple were hospitable, the living was good, and there was a general disposition to make the crowd as comfortable as possible. Every- thing was done 8o far as the facilities would allow, but the facilities were not sufficient. There were many drawbacks to person- al comfort, however. The weather was ex- cessively hot. Cincinnati is always hot. The delegates perspired, swoltered, wilted, ander the blazing sun. The means of transporte- tion to the Convention building were men- grely insefficient, and crowds of delegates, as well as spectators, were obliged to walk a mile and & half in the ardent heat, and back again, after tho tiresome work of the dny. The hotels were insufficient to properly act commodate their guests. The Convention ‘building itself, spart from its distance from the heart of the city, was insufficient to ac- commodate the crowds whe wantead to obtain admission. Convention week, therefore, was aweek of discomfort, not from any omission on the part of the people, or from any i tention to be discourteous, but because Cin- cinnati has not the facilities for handling National Conventions, and is not con- veniently located. The same causes which 1 operate to make Cincinnati ineligible exist in St. Louis, only in larger degree. St. Louis is o hotter and more uncomfortable city than Cincinnati. For Republican pur- poses, it is a city of bad water: for Demo- crats, of bad whisky. It has mo cool air to temper its torrid heat. The delegates will be walled in with brick and stone, shutting out the breezes. It has but one hotel capa- ble of accommodations that are first-class. It has no plece fit for the holding of a Con- vention, and out of sheer despair the people have hod to select the Chamberof Com- merce, for which there is no particular com- mercial use. This is comparatively a small room, and so badly constructed that speakers cannot be heard acrossit. It can only ac- commodate a handful of people, and what little space there is has been mostly monopo- lized by members of the Chamber. A rural delegate has alresdy written to the St. Louis papers protesting pagainst the * disposition by St. Louis to appropriate most of the room in the hall to her own use’ and benefit, to the exclusion of the rest of the State and distinguished visitors from other States.” The St. Louis Republican faintly *acknowledges the corn ” as follows : ** Rural " delegates will have their due and fair proportion of the tickels of admision, and they must share with the National Committee the effect of the disappointments of the thousands sho will not he able to get into the hall. Some St. Louis people, donbtless, will have a chsnce to witness the proceedings, and it may pot be entirely possible to restrain curiosity on the part of leading men who have coutriblted their moneyand time to embellish the hall and arrange for the convenience and com- fort of the delegates; but, as forany disposition to crowd out strangers or to monopolize the space allotted to spectators, there {s nothing of it, that we have heard of, «ith some opportunities to hear. Imagine Chicago sapologizing for want of room! We have in this city an elegant building capable of accommodating 50,000 people. If either of the Conventions had come here and we had had no building, we should have erected one, as in the first Lry- OOLN campaign. We presume by this time the managers of both parties have discovered their mistake. Hereafter they will' be com- pelled to take into account the superior ad- vantages which Chicago offers, and the pe- culiar facilities it has for handling such large bodies as National Conventions. These ad- vantages are cool weather, pure air, the best water in the world, the largest and coolest Convention building in the country, the finest and most numerous hotels, railroad connection with every point. The smartest newspaper press, the most accomplished reporters (Chi- cago reporters had to give the Cincinnati news to the whole eountry), and every possible means of accommodation, comfort, and con- venieuce. The reasons for locating the Con. ventions in St. Louis and- Cincinnati were as absurdas the selections. The Democrats went to St. Louis because there was no simon-pure, rellable Democratic paper in Chicago, forget- ting thet they could procure in this city ab- solutely verbutim reporta of their proceed- ings. The Republicans went to Cincinnati because Mr. Morrox thought his chances would be iniproved there, and, as it turneq t out, he was at the bottom of the heap, time the party managers will chooge ‘wisely. Next oz THE ANTI-XASONIC SIMPLETONg, The annual gathering of gogd-natureq ‘and credulous simpletons who have Msso:u—y on the brain, and have been chasing the provey, binl goat for some years past in the vaip at. tempt to catch that nimble animal by fh, horns and throw him, has taken place, anq the usual farce of making speeches, Passing resolutions, and nominating candidateg for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency has been played to its denouement, with 1o very 1, markable result, except to display the dirty feet of one of the members in his illustratioy of the dreadful doings of Masonry. Thess harmless gatherings have been ridiculed gf. ficiently and without effect. Pehaps it would be as well now to address a few sober, seriogg words to thess people, who seem to have a8 much horror of MMasons, Odd Fellows, Geod Templars, Knights of Pythis, Sons of Hermenn, and other sceret qr. ders, as a mad dJog does of water Is it pot o little curious that these grave and venerable men, who in all other respects are good, honest, sepsible people, shonlg waste their time and their money in getting together every year, making speeches, pass. ing resolutions, and denouncing their neigh. bors, because the younger members of the community choose to meet together privately for a charitable purpose, and choose to recog. nize ench other by certain winks, nods, grips, aud grimaces not . known to the outside world? Even if all they churge bo true, what does it amount to? They do not show that the work of Masonry is not a good work, They do not give us any proof that Masonry is not based mpon a sound morality. We may go o step further and challenge these people to dispute the assumnption that Ja. sonry is based upon the truths of Christiani. ty; hat a good Mason, who conscientionsly fulfills his duties and obligations, is a good Bible Christian; and that a bad Mason is bad’becanse he fails to carry them out,— the distinction being precisely that between agood and a bad Christian. We wonld like to ask these men why people have not the right in this free country to do good in a private and secret way, if they are so dis- posed? The Masonic system of charity is based upon the Scriptaral injunction mnot ta let one hand know what the other doeth. They prefer to do their good and contributs their charities in secret rather than to blazon them before the world ; and if they prefer, 8s accessories to their secret action, to wear 8 white apro, or ride a goat, or cany a tin sword and & trowel, that is a wenkness of human nature which is more than ofsct by the great blessing thoy accomplish. If they prefer to relieve their destitate brethren, to minister to widows and orphans, to lelp a brother pay his reat, to send a barrel of meator aload of fuel to his house privately, without wounding his feelings or injuring his pride by publicity, we do not see that any exception can be taken to it, and any exception that is taken to it is ungracious, uncharitable, and unworthy of any person making pretensions to ordinary humaxzity. Alillions of money have been expended om benefactions by this organization of which the world knows nothing, and but for tha Masons these millions would have been a burden upon the general pnblic. The active duties of Masonry fall upon the younger members of the community. As men reach the graver and more toilsoma period of life they naturally drop ont of Masonry. Isit well to chill the charitable feelings of the .young, to stop tho incules- tion of the doctrines of brotberly love ard charity, based upon the foundation prin- ciples laid down by Cmmsr Him- self? Suppose these fanatics should succeed in breaking up Masonry? who - would profit by it? Certainly not those who are continually attacking it ‘Who would suffer by it? Thousands of men, ‘women, and children, aad the whole public, who would be taxed to support ther. The charges made by thesé men are bosh. Their action is silly and childish, They have no purpose, but only a prejudice. It is becom- ing a serious question whether their annual gutharings are not # public nnisance, OBITUARY. COUNT LOUIS JOSEPI NARCISSE MARCHARD,- On Thursday last Count Loo1s JosEru NAR- CISSE MARCUAND, the faithful follower of Narorrox I, died in Paris, In the 85th year of hisage. Hewas bornin that city in 1791, was educated at the Lyceum, and in 1811 entered the service of Manria Lbuisa, whence he was transferred to that of her husband, the Em- peror. From that time he was faithful to him and his fortunes. Iewent with him to Elba, shared his captivity at St. Hetena, cdited his manuscripts on C.£3AR'S wars, was one of the executors of his will, and married the daughter of one of the Old Guards, fn consonance with NAroLeoN’s wish. In 1836 be published Na- roLEON’S Ca&saR manuscripts. In 1540 he was ‘made a member of the Legion of Houor, when NAroLEON'S body was brought to France. Tu 1861, when the body was placed in the crypt of the Invalides, he was promoted to the rank of au officer in the Legion, and in 18570 be wit- nessed the overthrow of the Napoleoniv dynasty. OTHER DEATHS, Among other deaths recently reported are those of Judge MaTTuEwW Bmluare, 2 promi- nent Ohio Democrat, who was Postmaster of Warren, Ohio, in 1820.23; Judge of Common Pleas in 1883-'36; Solicitor of the General Land Office at Washington, 1836-'39; Solicitor of the United States Treasury, 1838415 Supreme Judge of Ohio, 1842; u member of the Legis- lature, 1853; stoce that time practicing his pro- fession. Duke GEORGE of Mecklehburg-Stre- litz, only brother of the reigning Grand Duke of that little monarchy, and Lusband of the Grand Duchess Caruering, da ughter of the Grand Duke MicHAEL of Russia; and of the Chevalier N1coLa La. VOLPE, the aldest resident painter of Naplcs. % - ——— Weil-dreased London roughs have a new sonrce of amusement in the **ladics’ tormentor. ™ a little tin fountain filled with so-called lavender-water, but which is anything but a pleasant compound. 3?‘:;2“;‘,‘,“?2”}.‘“’“ Squirting this stufl in the faces Shdiies Ina crowd, and cojoying their surprise If any American, reading the ahove, fecls a thrill of Centennial pride over the supposed fact that such disagreeable conduct is possible ouly among the effete monarchies and bloated aris- tocracies of Europe, let the insufliciently- informed patsfot peruse the following, and ha will becomg: a’sadder and a wiser man: A young rufian came, with a lotof his com- panions, fo the Chattanooga depot ane day Poliel SRl Shd Rrel, Norner it e Boyin bies, The crows seatierea,” "o RE The Whisky-Ring gentlemen who were yester day sentenced aud consigned to Jail bave oua satisfaction at least, which is that before they were interned they had the double satisfaction of aiding in the defeat for President” of the man who brought them to justice and disgrace rm. stealing the Government revenue, und of :‘eleex'ng him retire from the Cabinent into privats ———— People in this city will be apt to turn their sttention to some other speculation than steal- ing Uncle Sau's highwine excises; better let them be; they are dangerons to grab. ——————— Those who appropriated the Government highwine reveuues to their own tses may thank their stars that they have not been sentenced ta