Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 6, 1876, Page 4

r. The Tribwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, @ATABLR IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PRETAID AT TIIS OPFICE. Postage pn‘pl‘ld. 5 Bpocmen coples sent free, ’K’r:dwm nt dclay and mistakes, ba sure and give Post- ‘Drico addresa in full, incinding Etate and County. Remittances'may be made either by draft, exproms, Fost-Oftico order, or n rogtrtered letters, st our riak, 2 TERMB TO CITY SUDSCRINERS, Dally, delivered, Bunday exceptod, 23 conts per week. ®ally, deitvered, Sunday Included, 30 cents per week THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cotner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Ll kst CAMPAIGN TRIBUNE. *The Republican party has now placed jts natfonal Mokt and platform befora the people. Tho enmning 4 Frestdentisl canvas will boone of tho moat exclting and fmportant that has ever ocenrred {n this country. Rverymanshould ba furnished with full and correct pa- aticattnformation. In ordertosupply thisaced, the pub- Auchersof Turx Girieato TInuxx will pink 8 ufl:‘:m mediately, gnd_con T ential siection i Noerbers ety at ths following excecdingly low ratcs, postage pal Tiack aumbers of the campaign cdilin cannot. ba Th ner perrans ordor Tk CAMPAtaN Tain- TRE, tho reater mambor Of iucs they will gob foF tqhalr money. Adelphl Theatre. Mantos stroet, corner Dearborn, *Tod Dickey." 3 Hooley's Theatre, " Tanfolph street, botween Clark and Lagalle. *The {Fwo Orphans.” NeVicker’s Thentre. Madison street, botween Btate auil Dearborn, Rogages i grent of o Aifaéo Opera-Houde Troups. *La dole wParfumeuss,” Woon Muncnen, Moarog strest, between Dearborn and State, After- 000+ BIRCK-EYcd, hitan " Aud *f Tho, KoUgh Dia- . oamie Eeatag? ® The Doven btatore.» TIHURSDAY, JULY 6, 1876. o Greenbacks ot the New York Gold Ex- chango yesterday closed at 83}, It has beon decided by the Financo Com- ‘mitteo and the Comptroller to place the now ypopular lonn on the market at onco. It will ‘bo affered in tho shape of $1,000,000 of time- revenuo warrants, of denominations not less than $500, payablo in one year, and drswing @ pex cont interest, An erronecous impression sooms t; provail 1 %o some extont among tax-payers—viz.: that tho docision of tho Snpreme Courton * Bill &00" affects nlso the taxes of 1875, Thisis (@ mistake. Tho tax of 1875 was lovied under tho ganeral law, and not under * Bill 300," ‘gnd thoro i8 no quastion as to the legality of lovy. Tho prompt paymont of tha tax {will save troublo to all concernod. \ Preounacy. onght to ba a hoppy man, and thank fortuna for the liberality with which average legislator votes away the public ey. Ho could not be United Btates Son- from Louisinna, but he could get §20,- {4000 worth of consalation, that being the sum {which the Benate docided was abont the ! (.flghn.hing todo for a man who ithad do- ‘N cldod was nover lnwfully clocted. ‘l Arrangements are practically completed (ffor tho grand Haves and Wuzeten ratifica. ,#ion mesting to bo held noxt Baturday even- ing. Among tho speskers announced are Col. Bon Inarnsory, Gov. CuwnLo, and Son- atora Locan and Oorzsny. It will be the -first groat demonstration in the Northwest, end, if the weather permits, it will be a fit- ‘sting inauguration of the campaign. — : | Ex-Sccretary Bristow has been summoned ' {&s a witness hefore the Housa Judiciary Com- X | -amittee, tho cxpectation being that he will dis- {close what has passed botwoen himself and the Prosident concorning the whisky-fraud rosocutions, In this tho Demoecrats will r&'bably be disappointed, as it is belioved Mr. Brigrow will refuse to reveal Cabinot ots, basing his refusal on the ground that ythese are communications of the highest -privilege, and nssuch cannot bo extorted by Oommittoo—a position thatisundoubted. {1y correct. ' The Centennial Fourth was oxcoptionally {etreo from tha ncoldents and casunltios which (mmnlly form o part of tho day’s colebration, "bat what it Incled in mishops resnlting from (ordinary carolesaness and folly wag furnishod fin fearful proportions by the havoe created (by tho cloments, By tho sudden nso of {wator in Catfish Creek the littlo Town of tRockdale, near Dubuque, was almost liter- .ally swopt ont of cxistence, and thirty-nine spersons porished in the terriblo flood, A :sovero tornado visitation foll to the lot of the . People in other parts of Towa the sama night, Lilling nnd wounding soveral persons, and " destroying & large amount of property. ——e Theflfth of the twalve appropriation bills “(:mbe passed by Congress, tho Post-Office , was pasied by tho Houss yestorday, VMoasrs, Towmax and RaNDALL, who had \eon among the most obstinato and persist- {ent opponents of any and all concession, ovi- dontly conclnded that the interosts of tho | party wora not likely to be advanced by fur- thor attempts to cripple the postal sorvice, +for thoy wera found wanting in their firm . dlevotion to the principlesof *rotronchment * and roform” which is expected of Bourbon lendors, They joined the lepnblicans and tho more rensonnble and prudent of tho ma- Jority in passing the bill, which appropriates $§3,000,000 less than last yenr, sald, will dovote all his energies to the work of securing the re- peal of tho Resumption act, ‘This, it ia al- loged, is tho necessary preliminary to hia o~ ceptance of the 8t. Louis nomination, There {8oems to bo considerable doubt whether even 'tho Confederato Houso has the requisite *etrongth wherewith to do its share in.the rwork of ropeal, and ju the present condition of logislation tho chances are largely against . the soft-monoy men having the opportunity to got & squaro vole on their pot mogsure. But then Mr, Hexpricks noed ba in no hurry about nocopting the crmpty honor thrust upon him by the 8t, Loufs gathering. Ilo will Zeel far lesy humiliotion in Noverbar next, ‘when the “Reform * tioket is buried out of gight, if ho shall then know that the popular voice has a goneral rather than a personal application, e ——— The Chicago produce marketa were gon. erally less active and easfer yesterday, ox- copt in corn. Mess pork clossd 12§ per brl lower, ot $19.35@19.40 for July, and $10.50 for August. Lard closed 240 per 100 s lower, ot $11.274 cash, and Q1L.37}@11.40 for August. Meats were steady at 8o for boxed ahioulders, 10jo for do Taka froighta wore dnll, at 20 for éorn to Buffalo. Rail froights ' were unchanged. Highwines were unchanged, at $1.10) per gallon. Tlour was in moderate demand, ‘Whoat closed f§a lower, at $1.033 for July nnd $1.053 for August. Corn closed 1jo higher, at 47}o for July and 48}c for Angust. Oats closed o shade firmer, at 800 cash and 29}a for August. Ryo was dull at 67c. Dar loy was unchanged at 57 cash, and nomi- nally 76@800 for Soptember. ogs were in short supply,nnd, under a good demand, prices ndvanced 20@25a per 100 Mg, selling at $6.25 @0.65 for poor to extra. Cattlo were active, ot 20@260 advance, with sales at $2.95@ 5.20, There wero no receipts of sheep. Last Saturday ovening thern was in store in this city 1,008,058 bu wheat, 858,870 bu corn, 348,027 bu oats, 60,718 bu ryo, and 828,703 bu barley. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.25 in greenbacks ot the close. - Accounts aro received by way of Stillwater, Mont., of s terrible defeat suffered by the troops undfr tho command of Gen, CustER. On the 25th of Juno an attack was made by Gon. Cusren with five companies of cavalry upon o Bioux village of sbout 4,000 warriors, and tho attacking party wns absolutely annmihilated, Gen. Custzn, his two brothers, his nephew, and brother-inlaw being killed. Not a man belonging to tho five companies escaped, the killed numbering three hundred and fiftoen. Major Rexo's dotachment of soven compa- nies narrowly escoped the samo fato, na the Indisns surrounded them in the hills for an entire day, and wére only driven off by the timely arrival of Gipons' command. United States arms and ammunition in the hands of tho Bioux did the fearful work, and the ndvantages of the peace policy have boen once moro illnstrated in a startling manner. Tho colleotive Pavr Pry, so prominently atd persistontly porsonated by the Con- fedorate majority in the National ITouso of Tepresontatives, has at last intruded whore ho is likely to make much trouble for the Prny family at large. This inquisitive in. dividual rocently sent an inquiry to tho In. terior Department (at the same timo having no desire to intrude), the purposa being to learn what, if any, irrogularitics have been detectod in that departmont of late years, in order to havo the proper data to assist him in the groat work of *reform” upon which ho hns entered. The inquiry has brought ont facts and figures which tell. very badly for anto-Rebellion Domocratic Bacrotaries of the Interior De- partment. 'The sympathy of those Cabinet officers with the ultimate end and aim of the socession clemont is amply shown by the piles of worthless bonds, represonting over $4,600,000, accoptod from Southorn gources, which are now bad property, even as old paper, and which were nover worth more than ton cents on tho dollar, It is hardly necessary to add that the facts and figures given tothe House by Mr, Cmaxpres will form no pari of the Domocratic campaign literature, TILDEN AS A REFORMER. Baxoer J. TruoeN, Governor of New York by the gracs of fraud and midnight plotting and corrupt use of money, is sct forth by the Democracy ns the Reform candidate for President. As tho npostle of reform, his req- ord as a reformer should bs above suspicion, ‘What is his rocord ? i The officfal documents nre in existence to show that in 1868, when GmaNT was cheated out of the elactoral vots of New York by o system of fraud and ballot-box stufiing that has never beon paralleled in the political history of this country, TiLpEN was Chair. man of the Democratio State Committee, and was associated with Tweep, who helped to do the stuffing. It will be further. more remembored that in that year the Democrats carried their Btate ticket, electod tho majority of the Legislature, and counted Beymour in by 10,000 majority, although it was proven subsequently by the Congres. sional investigation that Qon. Gmant had 8 clear majority of 20,000, and the Re- publican State ticket roceived a majority of tho legal votes cast. TmoeN, o8 we have said, was the Chairman of Twzep's Commit- too. In order to staff the ballot-boxes irtal. ligently, it was necessary for the conspirators to know how many fraudulont votes wers noceesary to ovorcoma the Republican majoritias, at 12 o'clock on the night of the clection. For the purposo of ascertaining this, the following private ciroular was sent ont by Trmoen, the professional ¢ Ro. former ™ (Private and strictly confidential,] Tooms or DEyocnaTIo STaTE CoMMITTER, Oct. 27, 1808, —My Dran Bin: Pleaso at once to com- municate with some rolisble person, in three or four principal towns and ln cach clty of your county, and request him (expenees duly arranged farat this end) to telographi to WiLLias 2. Twekp, Tammany Uall, at the minute of cloalng the polls, not waitlug for the count, such person's estimate of thu vote, Lot the telegraph be as follows: e Tl A s Dt e oo avae tain: This town will glva s Hepablican (or Democratic) msjority of —. . There ls, of course, an important object to be al- tained by a aimultaneona transmlasion al the houp of closiug the polla, but not longer waiting, Op- portunity can be taken of the usual half-bour Iull in the toloursphic communications over lines bo. toro uctual results begin to be declared, and betoro tho Assoclated Press abdorb the telegraph with ro- tums und interfece with fndlvidual messages, and give orders to watch carcfully tho count. Vory truly, yours, Banuey J, Titney, Chalrman, Mr. TrupeN, whon ho sont 'this ciroular, Imow that Tweep wns a thief and a ballot- box sinffer, 1o was his adviser and agent,— in fact, his right bower, Ilo knew that *‘the expenses duly arranged for at this ond" wore tocomo out of tho Ring to which habelonged oud of which Tweep wos Boss. He knew wall enough that theso ¢ private and striotly confidentinl " midnight dispatches wero for a corrupt and unlawful purpose, and, knowing all this, be lent himsclf to tho corrupt and rascally businoss, and tho infamous fraud was porpotrated. Ono year afterwards, when the full extent of these scoundrelisma bo. camo known, Honaow GrerLey addrossed an opon luttor to ‘l1oeN, in which lo acoused him to his faco of complicity in this whole. salo ballot-box stufing. He boldly told him ; ¢ On the principlo that the recolver iz as bad a4 tho thief, you are as decply implicated in them to-day as though your name were Tweep, O'Baiey, or Oaxey Hatn" We quote an extract from Mr. Gneerer's indig. nant impeachment of Tiroxy, which shows how he and his gang increased tho vote in Now York City: And though our city has largely jucressed Its popalation, the lower wards were quite as poputous then (1840) as they aro to more 80, . . . . Now, four esc wards In 1840 and 1808, respectively: President, 1340, Guvernar, 1888, Hurei- Van Bepub- | Demo- son, Buren. | livan, cral. Fourwards. | 4,703 | 8,001 2,600 | 20388 l'l‘.’(‘ci Busxa's majority, 728; Lorrxax's majority, Mr. TiLEN, you know what this contrast ottests. Right well do you comprehend the means whereby the vote of 1868 was thus swalled out of sll pro- oiticos- Thets Ao 0ot 12,000 begal votars Lving In thore tards to-day, though thoy gave Horrxan 17,443 majority. T1LDEN never mot these charges, never do- nied them, nover rofated them. 'Thoy stand againat him to-day as they stood when Mr. Greesey mado them, Thoy stick to him like the poisoned ehirt of Nzasvs. His own pri. vatoand strictly confidential lotter, conpled with the results of the Congrossional inves- tigation, acouse him of crimes sufficlont to sond some men to the Penitentiary, e helped to steal the Stato and elect Horruax in 1868 by gross frand. He was elected him- self in 1874 by slippery work, socrat cirou. lars, midnight plottings, chenting, and swin- dling. It is a public matter that monoy was {frooly spont in Bt Louis to buy his nomina- tion for President, and now his friends opon- 1y bonst of tho two millions of monoy which ho will spend to secure his election. e has nevor washed his hands of this business, and yot he is set up as n model reformer because he prosecutod Twxen ! Aftor the Republicans bad exposed Tweep, and had him down, T1roen valorously turned upon his old friend oud prosecuted him. 1o wna confined for n short timo, and made good his escape, Tre- DEN never lifting his finger to prevent it. Tho Democrats have nominated this man for nreformer! They have presonted tho conntry with a platform which is a long-aud loud bawl for *“ reform,” but in no part of it, from tho first to tho last, isthere any bawling for reform of ballot-box stuffing and corrupt voting, It is timo that this specious Confed- orats howl for reform was shown up in its truo light, and that S8axvey, J. Ty, apos- tlo of reform, should alsoboe oxposed as nn accomplice of Twrep in corruption. Tho proofs of this aro cloar asday. Tho charges lave nover beon disputed. And yot Saswrn J. Tiozx is tho * Roform " candidate of tho Democratic-Confedorato party for the Pres- idency! INCENDIARISM AND REPUDIATION. The Chicago Z%mes dovotes ita issuc on the 4th of July to an appeal to the people of Chicago to pay no taxes, and followed this up on the Gth by a demand for the abolition of all City Government. The second prop- osition is of courso o natural consequence of the first, and the two are consistent and in- separable, Insupport of the first proposi- tion, that paper says : Tho extortlonate levy of over $5,000,000 for 1875, upon which application for Judginent will bo mado in about two weeks, will ho resisted, and it iscarnently to be hoped that the army.of resist- ants will be doublo the number of reslstants lnst year. Last year tho number of tax-fighters woa much greater than in any preceding year since Chicago first became an incorparated town, The amount of taxes included in last year's reslstanco was more than $1,500, 000, —~almost ono-third of the whole tax-lovy, This year the reslstance onght to include twoethirds of the tax-levy. In- deod, 1t ought to include the whole tax-lovy; that 1s to sy, every tax-payer oughtto ndd his strongth and {nfluence to the army of tax-fghters whose ‘battlo agalust an extortionate Clty Governmont s o Lattle for the ealvation of Chicago and of overy owner of the eatate upon which Chicago exists, It must be borne in mind that the tax. lovies of 1873 and 1874 have been set asida by the Courts, not because they wero unjust, or excessive, or unfair, or Imposed for illegal purposes, but because the City Government, supposing it had an option as to which of tho two laws it would procoed under, with proverbial stupidity selected the wrong one, All horoics over the defoat of the tax on the ground of injustice, or extortion, or oppres- sion, are sbsurd, because no such objections were mado to or considered by the Court, The mistake in the law which defeatod the lovies of 1878 and 1874 was not repeated in tho case of the tax of 1876, and, thereforo, tho objection which proved fatal to tho levies of formor years will not apply to the tax of 1875, 8o the attempt to make of each new tax-payer another Iaarpex must prove abortive, Thoso who have escaped taxation by the decision of the Bupremeo Court ocoupy about the same position as tho ‘man who pleads non-age against a bill for his boord, lodging, and washing, But what Lave theso men escaped? The tax which the Court has sot aside will have tobe paid. 'They have merely postponed tho day of reckoning., Thé 1,600,000 of taxcs sot asido are represonted by an equal deficit in the City Treasury, and this deficit must be made good by taxation, Thoin. justico and robbery are in tho fact that this million and six hundrod thousand dollars, thus avoided by thoso who can best afford to pay it, will have to be colleoted by taxation from the citizens generally; theso men have escaped taxation to throw the burden on their neighbors, : The argument that tho non-payment of taxes will cure any evil is the argument of a madwan or nknave. This city has to pay annually over one million dollara interest on itadobt. Will the non-payment of taxea stop tho interest falling due, or dofent the ultimnte payment of both intorcat and prin. cipal? Will tho non.payment of taxes hava any other effect than to destroy public and private oredit, and have the peoplo of Chica- go all rankod with tho aathor of the propo- sition as 8 raco of sourvy demngogucs and knaves? The man who proposes to repudi. ato one dollar of the public dobt is a public enemy,—n cnrso to tho persons ho may do- coivo, and a curso to the community which he wonld destroy, Thero I8 no way to cs- cape from public dobt oxcept by payment, and there is no way to pay o publio debt ex- copt by the procoeds of taxation. Thae debt will not be extingulshed, theoratically or in fact, by the non-payment of taxes. If Chi. cago proposea to continue as a civilized city, and not to ba a more ablding place for.rufli- anism and crime, we must maintain paved streots, wator supply, schools, and sewors; and wo must keop 4heso in repair andin operation, and, to do this, employ fnen and pay they; have lawa to protect lives and property, and courts and officers to enforce these laws, In fact, wo mmnst linve some recognized Government, with the power &t hand to compel obedience to ita authority, To support aud masintsin this Govern- ment and to provide such permanent Improvemonts as water, sewers, strocts, and bridges, wo must have monoy, and that monsy can only bo had through the process of toxation. Tho man who refuses to pay a tax levied for o lawful purpose necossarily tries to foist upon others the payment of his debts. e wants all tho advantages of government, but wants to compal others to pay for them. Tho man who rofusos to pay taxes levied for a lawful purpose is liken man who refuses to perform military duty when required. o is & political dead-beat. It is proposed in the Common Council to publish the nomes of thoie who have €s- caped psymant of the taxes of 1874 through tho legal blunder of the city authorities. A wuch better and far moro efficacious mn.da of roaching all theye parties is to have To- corded in tho Record of Deads that thoown- ers of the property on which theso taxes wore levied having failod to pay the eamo, and the Court having refused to give judg- ment of gale therofor, the city novertheless claims a llen on all the property, and gives this notico to all purchasers that it will en- force that claim. Bubssquent purchasors may, but it is not likely, prrchase subject to this lion and subjest to fatnrs lawsnita; | but the probability is that no part of that property can ovor bo sold withont the pay- ment of this tax. Such a notice as this placed upon the public records of titles will accomplish the end sought for moro cer- tainly and with much less oxponso than the moro publication of the names of tho non. tax-payara. If men withont sny pretonse that thoy were unjustly taxed, or taxed for an unlaw- ful purpose, or on property not subject to toxation, rofuse to pay their taxes, then thoy eannot object to have it indorsed on tho ro- corded titles of their property that thero is dug and unpaid thereon thae proportionnte shiaros of tho tax for the Oity Governmont, for the yenrs 1873 and 1874, Thie socond suggestion—to abolish the City Governmont—is, as wo havo said, consistont with tho first. The abolition of the police forco, of tho Firo Dopartment, of tha schools,of the departments of waler, sewers, street-ro- pairs and cleaning, the discharge of tho bridge-tondors and the permanont closing of the bridges, all aro proposed, and each of which must of pocessity follow the non-pay- ment of taxes. Inshort, it is proposed to invito hither all the criminals of the land, that, in the nbsence of any organized or ro. sponsiblo governmpnt, they may ply their vo- cation. What would Ghicago be withont wa- tor, sowers, polico, paved streots, bridges, lightod stroets, schools, or, a Fire Depnrie mont? It would rolapro into border barbnr- ism, would ceaso to be a eivilized city, wonld censio to bo linbitable, would cease to have trado, oredit, or eapital, and would Lo avoid- ed by travelers and commercial donlers an if it wero n don of pirates and ont-thronts. It is urged that, if the City Govern. mont woro abolished, tho people would vol- unteer to do their own police worle; that they would subscribe individually to pay for & Fire Dopartinent and for schools, and for whatevor elso would bo noeded. Who wonld subscribo? Would the men who refuse to pay. their taxes, lovied for lawful purposes, subscribo voluntarily to pay ten times the amount of their tax? Would the man who barred his door against the Tax-Collector, and remained ina state of siogo for throo woeks in order to avoid payment of 923 tax for tho support of State, county, town, and city ? How much would he subseribe to pay for schools, or Fire Dopartment, or paved streets, or sowers ? How much of tho city expenses would he and those like him vol- untarily contribute, when thoy refuse to pay tho comparatively small sum imposed by law ? Tho coolést part of this infamous incen. diary appeal is the suggestion that itis ap- proved by Mesars. Henky W. Kino, Man- smarn Frerp, O, P. Keuroaa, Gronae L. Donrae, Wmrnazp Woopinp, nand Anven ‘TavLon, either of whom, it is claimed, is will- ing to bocome a candidate for dayor on this repudiation nnd snti-City Govornment platform. , We question whother, outsido of tho Ttmes offico, thero iu a respgotable citizen in Chicago who will publicly approva this proposition to abolish all City Governmont and nover-pay-auy-tax policy. 3E. MONROE HEATIL There was probably never a grossor libol nor a more palpable falschood uttered than whon tho Clicago Z¥mes charged Mr. Monnox Hearn with being’n Colvinito and in full sympathy with the Col¥inian system of City Government. Mr. HxaTn himsclf gave the lio to the assertion in tho little specch homada accepting the nomination for Mayor, in which hosald: 1 now accept tho nomination, and will slmply say that if clected I will do all In my powor to give you an econvmical ond honest admiulstration, I may that with o great deal of confidence from the fact that we now have a Council compoved of tho best business men of the Cliy of Chicago,—mon who have hod long experlence, and auccessfully carrled ont thelr own affulrs, and who will take Told of and manage the clty's affalrs with the sama vigor that thoy have manifested Iu thelr own, I have no doubt that with their advice sud nasistance the municipal Yusiness will be advanced and ad- minletered In such manner as Lo restore contidence to thoentire community. Our affaits areln o critical condition now, but, us 1 eald befors, I have implicit confidence in the new Councll, and that on fmprovement will soon be visible, It elected, T shall co-operato with the Council atways and exert myself to promote the general wolfare of the city, This is cortainly not tho expression of a man who has the slightest sympathy with Corvin's bummer Administration, nor with the recklessness, oxtravsgance, and official corruption which it has prodnced. Itiun pledgo to abandon the Colvinian policy of resisting the roform and retronchment ‘which our Council of business mon aro seck- ing to acliove, and Mr, Heati's previous conduot In city affairs loaves no room to doubt thnt he will carry out this pledgo fully and foithfully, As an Alennan during Corvin'a term, ho waa always associnted with tho minority which strugglod against tho bummwor and ring majority. Mo wns o primo mover in the effort to have n specinl election called by the Connoll when Corvin's original torm hod oxpired. e was ono of tho first to discover and oxposo the hopeless financial condition into which the city was pormitted to drift. Ilo was tho very first to ro. fuso to wign, ns & member of the Fi. nanco Committee, tho iregular certificates of indebtedness, ‘und did so immedintoly upon tho oxposure by Tur “Tnmune of the fact that these certificntos’'woro issned under tho authority of the old chartor long aftor tho new chartor had boen adcpted and was in operntion. 1a did not wat for the decision of the Court invalidating #iis mode of issu- ing the cortificates, but declined to be n party to tha issue just na'soon ny Lis own judgmont warned him Uit thoy wore not logal in form. Iie is scarcoly to bo blamed for not foreseceing the Judgment of a Courh by two years, when somo ¢f the most prac- ticed lawyers.in city affair took the opposite viow, and he can umoly[m blamed for not corzeoting a viclous systeig and its ovils whon ho waa hopeleasly in the njnority, Mr, Moxanok Hzatn is'a business man of oxcellent standing and a successful carcer, To is in no senso a politichn, but his service in the Common Oouncil hnt given him n fa- millarity with city affaira yhich is especially desirable at tho present fme, Ioisnot a lawyer nor a sposch-maler, but a plain, lionest, straightforward tusiness man, who will co-operata. earnestlyjand energetically with the other business 12n who now form a majority of the Comma: Council to bring about the rotrenchment yaich is absolately casential to tho continuedprosperity of tho city, and which alone can'ommand the con. fidence necessary to tide gver the finaucial embarrassmonts that havq been brought on by mismanagement and caruption. That is the kind of 1an the pegle have been de- manding over since CoLyN usurped the of- fice; and, noy that Mr. 7a is willing to stand in th® breach, by Chicago ZT%mes maligns him and lics aboy bim, simply be- cause ho happens to bo s Bpublican, Inits new zeal for tho Confoddate causo, begin- ning ogaln where it loft ¥ at thae closo of THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1870. tho War, tho Obicago organ of the Confod- orate canso will do no man justice who ro- fuses allogianco Lo the 8t. Louis candidate. FIRST WAR, Tho blow has been struck., ‘Tho Borvians on Mondny Inst crossed their frontier, both nerth and south, and ‘attacked the Turks at threo diffaront points. Tho Montenogring nlso erossod thoir mountainona bordor into Horzegovina, nnd struck an important blow, It was n somowlnt nnusual speotacle, the wonkor power taking the nggrossivo, march- ing into the enemy’s torritory, and attacking, but the wenker power knows that bohind it aro the solid Russian columns for it to fall back upon if worsted. The day's work saoms to.have resulted in one victory for the Turks and-four victorics for the Serviana and allies, o that, in tho language of tho din- mond-fleld, the scoro stands 4 to 1 in favor of tho Belavie Christiana. The telegraphic butchiery of names of placen makes it almoat impossiblo to find the exact localities of the different engngomonts on Monday, but it can be atated with cor- tainty that the Servians crossed the frontier at threo differont points—from the north- east, routheast, and northwest. On the northenat, Turkish ndvices announce n Ber- vian dofeat. Thoy atlacked the Turks at Zuicar or Snitschnr, o placo not Inid down on any of tho mnps, but probably situated in Northwestern Bulgaria, near the locality of the recent horrible erucltios practicod by tho Bashi-Bozouks, whom tho ,Turks lot looso upon the Bulgarians, The Turkish forces wora led by Oaxax Pasia, who ropulsed the Borvinns and drove them back into their own territory with a loss of 1,300 killed and 1,600 wonnded, the ‘Curkish loss being 450 killed and 800 wounded. Itshould bo remembered, however, that the first reports of victories ove alwoys exaggerated, that we have ouly honrd tha Turkish vorsions of the ongage. ment, vin Widdin, a ‘Curkish fortross, and Constantinople, and that the Turks aro the champlon linrs of the world,’ On tho south- cast tho Servians gained signal succcasos, Aftor a throo hours’ fight, one division of tho Serviaus captured the 'Curkish fortified camp of Babinaglana with all tho onemny's arms, bnggoge, accoutromonts, and supplies, The mnin body of the Sorvians, under the TRussian General Tonensaverr, who ‘has recently Leen invested with the supremo command of the Servian army, attacked tho Turkish forces at Nitsch, and defonted them after a very sovers engsgement. On the northwest, the Borvinns crossed tho Drin near its junction with the Danube, and fought a battlo with tho Turks near Bolina, in Bosnin, tho result of which is not stated. Meanwhile, on this memorable Monday, the little principality of Montenegro, which kas joined hands with Sarvis, was not idle. The Montenogring, moving suddenly across their monntninous frontier into Herzegovina, eom- pelled Movxran Paans, whose army, recently at Gasko, was concentratiug eround Mostar, the Capital of Herzegovinn, to abandon his position and rotire into Bosnin. In addition "to thie, thoy defeated n Turkish expedition sont againat Rutche, have boleaguored Med- din, and are throntening Solgoretra. ‘Chus the situntion stands at presont. From the initiatory movements of the re- spective armies, it would appoar that the principnl battle-gronnds aro to be in Bosnin and northwostern Bulgarin, until such timo a8 Austrin and Russia shall intorvene, The Iatter power has already concontrated n strong forco in Bessorabin, and the Austrians have stopped thoir usual summer maneuvres, have placed their army on a war footing, and are dispatching troops to the Servian frontier with n dispatch that means business. That the Turkish Governmont approhonds the gravity of the situation is evident from its congcription of all Mohammednns into tho ranks betweon the ages of 17 pnd 70. It is to be a fight to the doath, — THE REAY ISSUE, The Chieago Z'tmes, having definitely con- clnded its arrangements for tho sale or dispo- sition of its ‘*independent * influence during this campnign, has attached itself porma- nontly to the fortunes of Sax Tiupex and the Confederate party, and has gulped down Toa Henonions a8 & part of the bitter doso, It .is now engnged, liko tho vericst party hack, in stultifying itself by printing daily articles shockingly at variance with its pra. vious utternuces about the Confederate-Dem- ocratic party in general and Sast Titpey in particular, Having argood against both, it is now content with assumptions favorable to both, It now nssumena that there s 80 much similarity botween the Oincinuati and 8t Louis platforms that thero is renlly no iusno botweon the two parties; and, as to the can- didates, it assumos that Mr, Titory s a vnstly botter and mors moral and efflcient man than Mr. Haves, This is its justificn. tion for a dishonest alleginnco to n party which it Las donounced for yonrs as a “ putrid rominisconco,” and to a man whom it lins likowise denounced as a Rebol sympa- thizer and arraut demagogue, 1t i truo that tho Domocratio party at the 8t, Louls Convention followed closely in the wako of tho Ciucinuati Convontion in mak- ing up ita platform. It gave an insincero nequiescence to the Constitutional Amend- ments, which it has always refused heroto- foro, nud it deolared itsolf in favor of spocio- resumption by the curious meaus of ropeal- Ing the only not that over definitely contem. plated resumption. It did not dare oponly to fight ovor the old battle for State sov. eroigntyland ropudiation in which it bas so ofton boon dofeated, and thero is no doubt that an effort was made to couform tho gen. oralizations of the platform es nearly ag sible to tho principles which the Republican party has faithfully applied for sixteon years, In this way it wns axpected some people of tho North might be wheedled into o>-opera- tion who would othorwiso hold aloof, whilo the Confederates of the South would accopt tho uttorances for just what they aro worth, But, if it was thought that this plan would leave the camprign without an issue, thers was a very scrious miscalonlation, The issuoc {8 s palpable &g if . there were no platforms, It has been fro- quontly stated by the Chicsgo Times dur. ing the last fow months, It is, in brio?, whether the Gonfoderates of the South shall ba permitted, os a scotional class and with soctional designs, to solze the Govorn- ment of the United Btates and ro-establish the ante-war cligarchy of scotionallsm and miarule at Washington, Probably no journal in the country has in. sisted more strongly upon this fact than the Chicago Z'imes evor ince it becamo avident that the Confederates are the ruling spirita in the Democratio Congress. It has exposed and denounced their various legislative proj. oots looking to a recommittal of the Gov- ernment into thoir hands with the purpose of rocouping the losses incurred in a war which they brought on. It declared, just be- fory the 8t, Louis Convention, aod all during the Convention, that the nomination of T~ oz would be the vidtory of the Oanfeder- B aton, It raked up Tipex's rocord in the Ohicago Convontlon of 1804, and pointed out his intimate porsonal connection with the resolution doclaring. tha War a failure, It froquently dopioted the ovils and terrors that wouldrosultif theConfaderateschomersshould sucocod in nominating him., For one day aftor the Convention, whon the Confoderates had succooded in doing the very thing the Times professed to foar most, it was silent ; since then it Las oxtolled the cotrso which it had previously denounced as vicious and dangerous. It will not do for the Chicago Zimes to £all back upon a comparison betweon the two candidatea as n warrant for lts dishonest course, for here its assumptions are too pnl- pably falso to deceive an infantin arma. No effort on its part to belittle Mr, Haves will obliterats the fact that during a long public caroer, and with the many bitter politieal campaigns ho has had to fight, not one word hns ever beon uttored imponching his™ char- noter, not oven a breath of suspicion bas sul- lied his fair namo, No scofling at Haxes as an ‘‘unknown quantity” can blot out his accomplishments in the War, during which wo believe ho nover loft tho front from the beginuing to tho closo, nor make people forget that he hns successively beaten Tuunsay, PrsprrroN, and Bmr Ariex in Ohio, and that ho has nlwayg boon cfitcient and faithfnl in the trusts con. fided to him. Ho is an educated man, a gon- Hleman, o goldier, nud o statesman, Iow is 1t with his opponent? Whoro hns ‘Trupex Liad the vast oxperienco in publio lifo which ia alleged to bo wanting in HAyes? Ho has been once Governor of Now York, achioving that position by mauipulating the voters of that Stato after a fashion peculinely his own. And that is o was nover in the army as was IAyes, because his sympathies wero with tho other side. ITo hns never beon in Congress, whero Haves has been, Io has been once Governor of Now York, and Haves thrico Governor of Ohio, His lifo has beon spent ina dingy offico, schoming ns n partisan manipulator, or as a railrond and corporation lawyer to possess himsolf of tho money of confiding stockholders, whilo Haxes hasbeon a life-stndent of political economy and the seienco of Government. TiLEN a9 a reformer {8 ns much o contra. diction of terms as to sposk of the Domo- cratio party as a roform party, o is an old linok jobber, battered and bruised by his desperate and unscrupulous offorts at monoy- getting and political machine manngoment, Hia connection with politics has always been selfish and devoid of principle. IHonicz Gnezrey, when alive, openly oharged him with having beon an nccomplico of Tween's in the wholesale eloction frauds of 1868, cammitted in behalf of Sevmoun; and the man who would help or sanction the corrnp- tion of the ballot-box in behalf of another would not hesitate to do the same thing for himself. Itis true that he afterwards jump- od and trampled upon. his old sssocinte, TweED, but this was not until after Tween had been knocked down, and his gang protty well dispersed, by the Now York Z%¥mes nnd the Ropublican party of that city and State. This is his chiof claim s a * roformer,” in which 7ole ho is alrandy procecding to bartor off all tho 80,000 offices in the United Staten conditioned upon his election to the Presi- dency, Tho Ohicago T'imes may eat its own vomit if its taste runs that way; it is not the first time it hins done that, and probably will not bo the last timo, But it assumes that its ronders aro fools if it thinks it can persuade them thero is no issue in this campaign, There is an issue in principlos and in men. The Democratio party, controlled by tho Confederates, want to restoro {ho South to ‘power to enablo tho Southern whites to ro- imburse thomselves out of the substance of tho North for their losses in the War, and to resume their former kabit of living on poli- tica and the labor of the negroes; and they have chosen a man as their candidato who will asgist them in accomplishing their do- sign. It is not surprising, therofore, that the Chicago T'fmes has wheeled around into the position it oconpled ten yoara ngo, —ere GERMANY TO AMERICA, GREETING, Our Centenninl Fourth of July celebra- tion was something more thin a family ten. party ona national scale. Emperor Wrrniaa of Germauy was tho only foreign potentato who saw boyond its domestio charactor. ITo sent America tho felicitations of Germany on its hundrod yoars of life as an indopendent nation, and has thercby strongthenod the tics of sympathy that first sprang up a hun. dred years ngo, when BteruneNy and DeKarp ndded German blood to that which flowed from American voins, and when Freperics tho Great rocognized the independence that has llved to DLe recognized again by his descendant Winntam, Drazil was represonted by Emperor Dox Peono in person at Philadelphia, and the Beandinavinn Princo was alao thoro to tender the congratu. Intions of his country. But whore was the Russian Bear that kugged Columbia so fond, 1y whon Alaska was to ‘ba sold? Have tho miserablo Fism-OaTacazy' quarrcls at Wash- ington and the probably unintentional alight of President Gnant to Arexis alienated our groat Europoan friend? England could Lordly be oxpected to give official saluta- tion to the naughty obild tiat ron away from lhome .ome hundred yeara ago, and the haughty silonce of Ler aristocratic Govornment was not miused in tho warm-hearted greetings of the 80,000 Irishmon who mot in Dublin under the Amcrican flag. France, the land of Lavay- r17E and Roouauneav, conld gracefully have soluted its now matare but still grateful young friend, but MaoMauoy said nothing, Porhiaps tho Frouch are displeased with tho lack of sympathy thoy got from her during thoir war with Germany under the mislead. ing of Nairorzon. Italy, home of Gasr. Daror end Vietor Eunnnves, let our Contenninl festival pass without o word of remembrance. The Popo slono of all sovereigns recognizod the Cone foderates aa an independent power, and his silence was consequently auspicious, DBut the sturdy little Republics of Switzerland could hiave sent a mossage that would have been apprecisted by the Great Republic, Those words unsaid leave a gap in the records of the day. The omission of some of the Great Powers to notice the day Is all tho more conspicuons becausoe of the interna- tional tone we have given the proceedings of or Centonnial year by our Expositionat Phile adelphis. DBut the truth is, few of the Europsan Governments think it prudent to advertise to their paople the success Amerioa bas had in dispensing for a hundred years with dynasties. e ——— Judge Davio Davis was widely talked of in Democratio ciroles for President. Many fondly thought he would be their nomineo, Bat it seems that, after he had read the Cin- cinnati platform and learned that Gov, Hayxs, of Ohio, and the Houw W. W, Waxsza, of New Vook, had bean saminated for President and Vics-Prosident, he oxpress. od his entir satisfaction therowith, and stated in n privata lottor to a personal friond that he intended to vote for Harzs, and thought all Liboral Republicans should do so, It ap- pears that ho also wrote a letter to a leading Demoora, declining to bg a candidate on the Democratic-Confodorate ticket, and this ac- counts for tho fact that he received no votos in the Bt. Louis Convention. The fact s, that Judgo Daviscould not act with the Con. federata party if ho would try. o was born o Whig, and continued one until that party dissolved, When he nnd Lincory, YaTes, Lovesoy, TnomnuLy, Pazaen, Juon, Pxox, and other old anti-glavery mon, organized the Republican party in Illinois, Judge Davis nover strayed away further than ¢ Liboral Republicanism,” which was rathor an advance than a ronr guard, as the objoct was purifics. tion rather than destruction of the Ropublic. an party, —e e In tho roport of the Financo Committes on tho city finances, thoro was a general atatomontof an nggregate sum duatho Trons- ury by D. A, Gaak, Dunoaw, Saensan & Co., and D. O'Hara, Mr. O'Hana is the ox-City Treagurer, and an inferonce might be drawn that, like Gaog, ho was nlso a defaulter. On . his retiring from offico Lo gave chocks on the various banks for tho amount due by him to tho Treasury. One of tho checks waa for 81,000, on deposit in the Hibornian Bank. That bavk, it secms, holds somo $67,000 of city cortificatos, past duo, and tho President demanded that theso should bo prid ont of tho city funds on deposit, and refused to pay the clieck on any other tarms, To this Mr, O'Hana would not consont, and this accounts for thoe faot that ho s charged on the books of the ul_ty with $81,000. Itis understood that, if tho bauk does not aban- don the harsh, and eevere, and unvxpected grab upon the Treasurer's funds to pay tho city dobt, the money will bo raised other- wiso and paid over to tho city, ‘Wo print this morning sn opinion deliv- ered by the Bupreme Court in June, 1875, in a cago whoro tha City of Olnoy was con- corned, That eity, like Chicago, had & spo- cinl 'charter, and undertook to colloct its taxes under Bill 300. An appeal was made to tho Supreme Court. That tribunal held that Bill 800 wns an ** indepondent act,” and not an amendment to the General Revenuo law, Tha Conrt diseussed ils provisions, held them applicablo to all citics, but gava no word of intimation that the law was un- constitutional and void, If the Court nt that tima had uot loarned that the nct wns void, how is it possible for the Common Council or the Bar of Chicago, with that opinion before them, to have known the fact? As part of the judicial history of tho times, wa print this decision of 1875, to be road alongside of the doclsion of 1876, The Bupremoe Court on June 30 filed an opinion in tho ocase of Pioxerma vs, Case, involving the legality of ‘““option " contracts, Chiof Justice SoorT defines the differsnce, be- tween timo contracts, or contracts for futuro delivery, and spoculative contracts based on differences in market values, Ho doclarca these contracts which are to be filled by morely paying the difference between tho contract prico and tho market prico at the time agreed upon for delivery, to be void at common law, becanso inhibited by a sound public morality ; and; being in the nature of gambling transactions, the law will not tol- erato thom. The Buperior Court had randor- ed a liko judgmont, which the Bupreme Court hins now affirmed, It is, therefore, op- tional with the loser in an *“ option " contract to pay or not. Thore is no law to compel him to pay. The Evansville (Ind.) Courier, a leading Demo- cratic dally of Indiana, draws a nice and pecul- farly Democratic distinetlon betwoen journale istfe independenco and journalisticindependenco in a pecuniary polnt of view. Before and after the 8t. Louls Conventlon the Courler denounced ‘T1LDEN 03 the Raflroad-Ring attorney and stock- Jobber and shawm roformer ho fs. It declared it would never, never, never support him, becauso ho was o cheat aud n sham. That was {nde- pendence. But, on the third day after tho St. Louls Conventlon, the cditor of thu Courier awoke to a realizing sense of independence fn o pecuniary polnt of view, Io announced that the Courier wasn't Independent cnough, {n tho pecuniary point of view, to oppose the New York sham reformer, and 80 would support bim, —tlienecessary inference being, lnorderto sccuro that same Independence In o pecuniary point of view, Would the like franknesa un the part of the Cinclnnat! Enquirer and Knnaas City 7imes, and other leading Domocratic organs which so ifopendently denounced TILDEN ns o sham reformer and Ring candidate, disclose that thoy too recogulze this distinction between {nde pendence and fndependence In a pecunlary poing of view, A —eg— Ballot-box stufling Is treason againat the pube le. It is the highest political crimo that can ba committed in a freo country, for it defeats tho willof the people, folsts ofllelals upon them they never eleeted, Imposes upon them ndminis- trations they never chose, and nkes laws for them antagonistic to the popular will. The Democratie-Coufederate platform heglns cach plank with the declaration that “Reform Is necessary " to this, that, and the other thing; for evorything, in short, that can beconvelved of, except the ons thing more necessury than all others, und upon that it is silout, viz.: ballute box stufllng. - There is not a word or whisper fn favor of reform of ballot-box stufling,. Why was the Convention silent on that wicked, cor- rupt practice 1 If Republicans were in the hublt of fruudulent voting, it would have been tlereely condemned tu the Confederata platform, But, as fraudulent yoting and ballot-box stufling nre Democratic practices, there s not a word In thelr platform condemnlug this worst of all po- litieal crimes. ———— We havo offered alarge reward to n sharp- eyed Democratie reformer to tind the plank, or splinter of one, I the Confederute platform whlcheoudemus Lallot-bpx: stufling or fraudu- Jent voting. Ho lus spent neprly o weok, with the ald of & powerful msgumlying-glass, to tind it, audis still scarching, Ho says he {s surcit ia there, us it 1a tho biggest thing that needs ro- farming. A In order to tickla tho car of the Germans, and cateh their votes, the Confederate platform speaks of confidence “in the Hberty of indi vidual conduct unvexed by sumptuary laws," and then, for the purpose of retalning the supe port of the Prohibition Democrats, the Con.ed- erates nominated Gov, HeNDRICKS, who signed the Baxren law, for the stcond pluve on their ticket. It s doubtful if the little gume works. —— Tho Cinclunati Gazetls thinks that, *if Bris. TOW had been Becretary of the Treasury scyiral years ago, that distillery of TILLEN & Brother, in New York, would have been contiscated, aud TILDEN—~8AMURL J.—would haye less money to help bim {a the campaign.” — e ——— The Chillicothe (0.) Keglater (Dem.) remarkss “The nomination of TiLDEN fell like & sharp frost Iate in the season on tho hopes of Ross County Democrats, and blackened the buds of promise which were bloomlag in thelr bosowms." ——— v We can bardly credit the report that the Dem- ocratic Conventlon to-dsy seriously thinks of nominating Tuzopous Bouintz for Mayor, e that he would accept, as it would be spt ta re- vive unpleasans reminiscences 1o ragand (o some