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

4 A THE CHICAGO TRIBUNi3: FRIDAY.’ JULY 7, 1876. @he Teibwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. JATABLE 1X ADVANGE—POSTAGR PREFAID AT THIS OPPICB. Bpecimen coples fent free, 'r‘-; prevent delay aud mistakes, he sure and give Poste Oftico address {n full, including State sod County, Remittances may be made either by draft, exprest, Toat-Onice order, or fu registered ictters, At ogr riak, 7ENMS TO CITT BURSCRINERS, Datly, delivered, Sundsy excepted, 23 cente per week. Dally, dellyered, Sunday Included, S centa per week Adyiress TUR TRIVUNE COMPARY, Corner Madison and Dearborneata., Chilcsgo, 11l pstiuiaiiaty CAMPAIGN TRIBUNF. ‘Tho Republican party haa uow placed its nattonsi tickot ssd platform belore the peaple, The ensulng Presfdential canvas will beone of the most exciting and {mportant that has ever occurrod {n this country. Every maashoudd be furalshed with full and correct po- ticalinformation. Ioordertosupply thlanced, thepb 1ishiors of Tk Cuteado I’rmmzl,“ \:Ill prh;a. L3 v.‘n:rlw‘ll::: mmediately, and contin o ettet ohe erklen 3] eleetion 1h Sovember, THTch a1 the followlng excerdingly 10w rates, postage pati: Back ntimbers uf the campalin edjtion canngt bs L 0 pooner persons opder THE CANPATUN TRINS IJE‘:‘: l’{;l; ;'“\ll‘l'l.fl':l'llulll)\n'l of tasues they will got tor Rlelr tioney. —————— AMUSEMENTS, Adelphi Thentre, Monron strect, toruer Dvarburn, **Bad Dickey.” Honley's Theatrn, Tandolph atreet, between Clark and LaSalla, **The Awo Orpuans,” Mevickern Thentre, t1on street, betwoen State and Deasborn. Engage. roon S he. Aliase Opera-Louto” Troupe. LA Grande Ductieas,™ Wonids Musenm, T between Dearborn and Btate. e B ] s aid " Eie, Kohglh Dia tiond Evening: o Tho8 © Soven Sisters. SOCIETY MEETINGS, ENTAL LODGE, No. A F. & A, M, —8tated cflfimfllmufl Yhie iy Rl a5 0l Yur business. Dy [ Ling M, Becretary. FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1876. [ o ——————— Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex. change yestenlay closed at 89}, Decidedly warmer wosther during the day, with eastorly to sontheasterly winds, follow- od during the night by severe atorms—this iy the mateorological outlook for this region to-day. According o roports in Galician nows. popers, o Russian army of 50,000 mon is ap- proaching Bakowina,—~in rendiness, no doubt, for nctive nssistance in case it should be 2eceded by the Servian furces. BanTA ANNA, the old Mexican President, Dictator, and General, who for nearly fifty yenrs wud o conspicuous figure in Mexican politics, has been gathered to his fathers at ibo ripe ago of 78, Mo died in the City of Mexico on the 24th of Junc, Casnn Prrien, the French statesman, diod yesterday at the age of 75 yenrs, and the’ ~cablo nlso announcos tho denth of tho seulptor Asrranax 8cevona Bosio. Both wero dis- tingnishod Fronchmen, and both had been decoratod with the Cross of the Legion of Honor, . Tho first summer reception of tha Chicago Acadomy of Design at its now quarters oc- swrred last ovening, and was o sclect and brilliant afair. Pictures ropresenting ice- bergs, snow-storms, and other cool condi- tions, wero prosumably the favorites, with The towperature nmong the uinoties, ‘Tho Massachmsotts Prohibitionists are in tho field agoin with o, Btate ticket, and in. dulgo in the vain delusion that they can sop- arate Stato and National {ssues this year so <ar s to elect their ticket, Thoy polled 10, J00 votes lnst year, whon the Presidentisl yuestioa cut nmo figure in tho contest, and they will probably fall farshort of that show- Ing this year. e ————— Virginia City, Nov,, is intensely aropsed at he terriblo fate which befell poor Costen and big gallant comrades, aud & company of volunteors hes already beon organized to start upon tho war-path forthwith it per. mitted. A shwilar movement i8 on faat ut Halt Lako Qity, and there will be no Inck of proffers of first-class Indian-fightiug mato- rial to avengo tho horrors of Littlo Ilorn, (et Advices from tho far West concorning the .mngsncre of CusTen's command are mengre, tho scone of operations bLeing far removed froiz telegraphic communteation. Thero re- muins, however, no réom for doubt that e first necounts, though somewhat exaggor. atod osto the number Lilled, were iu the main correct, We publish this morning an ocenrate map of the region, together with much interesting matter rolative to the cam. paign. Ex-Sccrotary Bnistow wag yesterday in- terrogated by the MHouso Judiciary Commit. toe concerning tho nttituds of the President and Attornoy-Generul at the beginning of the whisky-fraud prosccutions. ~To declined to apawer, upon the groumd that Cabinet consullations wore watters of high priviluge, and the full Commitioo will take up tho question and decido whethier or ot to put ou the inquisitorial scrows in Alr. Bustow's case, ‘'ho managors of (hat blessed charity, tho floating Lospital for the sick children of poor peoplo, have bogun to'carry their gonerous schemo into operation. "I'he puny, ailing little folks, who, for the most part, nro doomed 1o breatho the hented and un- wholesorue air of thickly-populated districts, ero taken out upon tho cool waters of un nland sea for un onlire day of rocrestion, andya ono can toll how much plunsure and health they derive. On such & day as yes- terday it was almost worth whilo to be agick boby for ths sake of tho floating-houpital huxury, The Chicago produce markets were gen. erally quiet yesterday, aud most of them were easier. Meay pork closed fie per brl Ligher, ut $19.45 for July, and $19.66 for August, Lard closed 100 per 100 Ibs Jower, nt $11.20 for July, and $11.30 for August, Meats wuro steady ot 8o for boxed shoulders, 1040 for do short ¥ibs, and 103c for do short clonrs. Lake froights wero dull, at 2o for corn to Buffslo, Rail frofghts wers unchauged. Iighwines were unchunged, a¢ §1.10§ per gollow, Flour wus in moderate dewand, ‘Wheat closud 10 lower, at $1.02} for July . ond $LO4§ for August. Coru closed fo ¢ lower, at 4740 for July and 47jc for August. Oats cloged $@jo lower, at 2940 for July, and 2040 for August, Ryo closed 2o lower, at USo, Baroy was firuwr st O8e f@r July, and m@50je for Auguat. ITogs were active and strong, salling ot §6,25@06.65. Cattle were nctive, at 10c decline, with sales nt $2.00@ 5,20 for inforior to extrn. There was no chango fn the sheep market. One hundred dollars fn gold would buy $111.87} in green- Locks at tho close, ———y Tho Brrxxar impeachment trial has at last opened in oarnest, tho Bonale having yeostorday flatly rafused to accode to a propo- wdtion for postponement, Some half-dozen wilncsses wora oxaminod, principally with reforonce to the monoys passing belween Mansz and Berxyar, Oon. McDowrwy tes. tified that ho lnd endenvored to secure cor- tain reforms in the post-tradership system, but confessed that he had mado little head- way. 'The Managors are notna yot taking an aotivo port in the trial, clniming, as thoy have herotofore done, that tho vote of the Senato on the question of jurisdiction was a virtual aoquittal of defendant. Tho Sonsto and House arcno nearer an agreemont than beforo on the Logisiative, Executive, and Judicial Appropristion bill, the point of differance Leiug that the ITouse insists upon a roduction of various snlaries fixed by law, while the Scnato disputes the right of the Houso to put legislation of this kind into an Appropnation bill, Tho amount of the proposad reduction Js so unimportant that it would seetn that tho SBenate might waive the technical point and couenr in the Houso bill. Bettor that few salsries should be reduced irregularly than that the two bod- ics should waato weeks of valuable timo in dissgreemeonts and Conferenco Commiltees. Mr. B. P, HuTcmssoN peremptorily and positively daclines tho nomination of Mayor on the Democratic ticket, nnd the Conven- tion will have to try again. Mr. HuTcumvson would feel ont of place as thio represontative candldato of the class of men who consti- tuted » majority in yesterday's Convontion, and oven if the demands of Lis private nffnirs did not precluda his serving as dlayor, ho would probably not caro Lo accept either & nomination or nn election nt the Liands of such a constitnoncy. Soveral other prowmni. nent gentlomen whose names have been montioned in connection with tho Mnyoralty would probably lock at the maiter in the . smne Jight if tendored tho nomination under Liko circumstances. THE LITTLE-HORN MA3SACRE, Since the murderof Gon. Ciayny by tho Modoces the country hea mot been 1nore startled than it was by the aunonuncement that Geu. Cuarzr and flve compauics of his regiment, the Séventh Cavalry, had been massacred by thoe Sioux Indians in n ravine ou the Littlo Horn River, a tributary to tho Big Uorn, which in turn ewmpties into the Yellowstone, the Indians ontnumbering onr troops ton toone. Gen. Custen had porson- al and soldierly traits which commended him to the people. Ile was an oflicer who did not know the word fear, and, us is ofton the case with soldiers of this stamp, he was reck- less, lnsty, aud impulsive, proferring to mako a dare-devil rush and take risks rather thau to move slower and with moro of cer. tainty. Ho wns a brave, brilliant soldier, Landsome and dashing, with all the ttributes to make him beloved of wemen and admirod of wen; but thess qualitios, howaver ad- mirable they sy be, shonld not blind our oyes to the foct that it was his own madeap haste, rshpess, and love of famo that cost him his own life, and cost the service tho loss of many brave officers nud gallant men. Trom the reports which have come to band, it nppears that, after assigning Maj. Revo with seven companies to attack tho lower part of the Indian camp, sud sistioning threo companies in resorve, Gen. Custen placed himsolf at the hend of ive compauies—about 800 mon— and dasbed into a nost of threo or four thou. sond 8loux warriors, the same men who under Sitrivo Bown recently defestod Gen, Cnook on Rosobud Creck. ''hey drew him into nn ambuscaded ravine just ns they did Onoox’s troopers, only the results wers wmore disnstrous. In the latter cse it was o dofoat with small loss; in this instauce, threo hun- dred troops wero instantly surrounded by 8,000 Indinus, and the fatal ravine became a slaughter-pen from which but few escaped. Nearly the wholo $00went to o death as instant a8 if an enrthquake had swallowed them. -No nccountseems tohnve beon takon of numbors, of the leadership ofthe Sioux, of their past record of cournge and military skill. No ac- connt was oven taken of tho fact that Gen. Gronox was coniing to the Littlo JTorn with reinforcernants, ouly o day’s march bohind, although Gen, Custen way aware of it, o preforred to make o reckloss dash nnd tako the cousequences, in the hope of wmking o personal vietory and adding the glory of another charge to the long list which he has 80 succesafully honded, rather thau ta wait for a sufficiontly powerful forco to mnke the fight successtul, aud shinre the glovy with others, g took the risk aud ho lost, and all that Gen. Ginoox could accomplish when ho ar- rived the next day wos to como to thoe reliet of tho remnaut of the regimont undor Maj, Rexo, which for twenty-four Lours had boen hotly pressed by the viatorious Indlan, There are two important lessons to Le loarnod from this massacre, which has not boon ¢qualed in our Indian wams sinco tho lipappoox dofeat, The first is tho folly ofy underestimating the strength and fighting qualities of tho Indians. Qen. CusTes acted upon the old theory that onv well-arnied whito mau is a match for half.p-dozon In. disng,—n theory derived from excoptional cases, like Pousyrux's gallant defouse. During tha present spring and summor the Sioux Lave shown themsulves not ouly brave and enduring in battle, and enpable of florce re- slstance, Lut posacssed of military skill of n vury oreditablo charaater. At the battle of Rosobud Crock BrrTiNg Burs showed himsell the oqual of the great Indian fighter, Cuoox, in the disposition nud handling of his forces, 1t teaches the lugson that, if the Indiaus are to bo conquered, thoy must be treated nsn formidablo fos, Bucond, under the operntions of the Quaker yolicy, tho Govornment Lns been supplying these very Indiang with urms and ammtni. tion to carry ou tho war, and, while they are ou the war-puth, is feeding their wives and children on tho vesorvations with pn. vental fondness, These Indiaus are pro- vided with the very bost long.range rifles, which they bhave bought of tradors with the aunuitios furnished them by the Government. They are awply supplied from the smno sources with horses and nm- munition, and they ara using their matgrial sgainst awall whito forcea with torribly dis. astrous cffect. *Their success will inspire thom with new hope and coursge, and will rally the Indisus from ol points, thus making & long aud expensive war, unless measures are takon to stawp them out at once. It {5 time to quit the Bunday. school polloy, aud let Buentvax reeruit rogi. meuts of Western pioneer hunters andscouts, aud exterminate overy Indian who will not romain upon tho reservations, The beat nso to make of an Indian who will not stay upon a resorvation is to kilt him. It js time that tho dawdling, maudlin peace-policy was abandoned. The Indian can nover be sub- dued by Quakers, and it fs certain that ho will never be subdued by such mndeap charges nw that mado by Custen. 1o must be trented as n cuuning, courageous, and dosperate foe, who must be met with somethiug like equnl foroes, and with o strategy and bolduess equal to his awn. ANTI-TAX DEMAGOGUES, Oceasionally there is an outbreak of what 18 populntly called Communism in Chieago, and, when theso meotings are held and tho wild Linrangmes delivored, there is oxcitement among those who own properly, and thoy demand that the constituted suthorities shall, by police,and evon military force,brenk up nnid disperso the incondiary organizations. 'Tho City of Chicago to-day Incks §6,260,000 of her revenue, witliheld by this very clasa of por- sons who ara 80 infuriate ngninst tho Com- munists, Thoso non are principally tho large propriotors of real estate, charged with taxes o support the City Govermment ; taxes lovied topay interest on tho city dobt, to ropair and clenn tho stroots, tobuild sowers and keop them in repair, lo lay water-pipe, tolight tho streats, to Liro policemon snd firemen, to support schools, to maintain and operate DLridges, and to support courts to enforee tho Inws, There has not boen n tax-levy by the City of Chicago for an unlawful purpose, nor n tax lovied upon property not liable to iax- ation ; aud yot the owners of proporty have falien in arroars for their taxes to the amount”| of $6,250,000, for which the papor of the city hins gono to protest. The Communists® demond that they shall -bo supported by the publie, and whorein are the property- ownors who refuse to pay taxes any balter than Communists? Are not both at war upon the commnunity, and Loth secking to live ot tha expense of others? Are not tho property-ownors who refuso to pay toxes tho worse of the two classes ? What is Government instituted for? It is to furnish & central nuthority to enforce tho lawa necesyary to protect person aud proper- ty, and to perform such administrativo fune. tions as the people cannot do in their indi. vidnnl cnpacity, Lifo would not be endur- able in Chiengu without seweragoe and a water supply. Tho omission to clean and ropair tho sowers of Chicago for six monthy wonld produce a pestilence. Absolutely nocessary to business and intercourso betwoew tho dif- feront ports of the city nro the bridges; these havo to bo operatad aud kept in repair. ‘Lo city has long since outgrown its water system, and health and protection from fire demauded its eplargoment, and this cost money, and it will cost more money to operate it, We havo not sehool accommoda. tions for moro than half tho children in tho city; it costs money to provide aud maintsin theso schools, It would be impossible to carry on businesy in Chicago without paved: streots, and these have to be kopt in ropnir and in some degroo clean. The City of Chi. cago bas an extornal commerce amounting to five hundred millions of dollars snnually, Thisis tho market for woveral millious of peoplo, a largo proportion of whom visit this city , personally during the year, Theso strangors—our customers—are ontitlod to per- sonal protection whilo here, and havo n right to expoct all tho conditions of n flrst-olass city. To claim that it is possible to runn city of tho territoral extent and vast popula- tion of Chicago, with its daily thousands of atrangers, without a governmont, and to run a governmont without expense, is pure dem. agogism of the rankest Communistic order. Botween thaChicago Z¥mes and Kanu Krinos the differenco is small, but what thero Is is in favor of Krivos, Both are demagoguos. One demands that ho be provided with o living at the public oxpense, nnd tho other demands that it be exempted from tazation. Kurxas domandy that the Government which will not support him bo overthrown, and the othor demands that the Governmony which demands taxos bo ovorthrowi. In bath casos tho end sought is tho sawe,—to compel the publio at large to bear their porsonal burden, Kurrvas domands that the proporty which is not taxed to support him shall bo seized by the multitude and destroyed ; the man who refusea to pay taxes to support the Gov- ernment demands that that Govern- ment which ho wants overthrown sball protect Lis property from Krivos nnd Lis oswsociates, Tho owner of proporty who refuses to pay taxes hny no moral elalin to any of the advantages of tho Governnient, 1o refusos o coritribute anything to pay the interest on tho city dobt, to pay for draiunge, stroot ropnirs, schools, bridges, or lighted stroots, or for proteotion by police or Fire Do- partwent, Ho {8 willing to enjoy all these, and counts in his wenlth the property which would bo worthless withont those, but throws hia taxnpon his neighbors, dnd shouts forthe abotition of Government! Such a citizen iy social drong,~n political dead-bent, n Com. munist in ono seuss, sud that of the most solfsly churactor, Wa 2o not wish to bo understood as deny. ing that there Las beon extravagauco sud criminal wastofulness in expenditures, and that the taxes for thoso expenditures have been proportionately in excesa of what an economical Govornment required. But tho expenditures huve been mado, nnd have been for n lawlul purpose, aud within the power of the city. ‘Iliero hag nover beon an objection that tho tax waa lovied for an unlawful pur- pose, or that the property was not gub- ject to the tax, ‘Thero isp therefors, no morn) objection to tho tax which theso men refusd to pay. The Bupremo Court decided that the tax of 1874 was luvied under ove act, when it should bave beon levied nnder an. other; hnd the tax boen levied under the proper law, it would have boen preciscly the sawe fn amount ns that which theso peoplo refuse to pay, Tho cseapo from tho tox is not heeanso of any fllegality in thoe purposo of {he tax or jn its amount, butisduo to a blunder of tho logal advisers of tha eity, ‘When tho Comuuniuts next present their domand for bread or blood, and when they threaten tho destruction of Goverumont and property, lot tha responsible citizen who ro. fuses upou u (uibble to pay his tax, and who claims protection for bis property and his person, ask himsolf how Le can expect such protection when ho co-oporates with the Com. munists in dostroying all government, all Iaw, oll political and social obligations, and invites tho mob to do as ke dovs,—put tho Goveruniout ot defiance, pay no taxes, and live ot tho cost of others. In the loug list of tax-payers the vast ojority are the owners of a single bomestead, or of property not cxcoeding $10,000 in valuo, 'These pereons pay thoir taxes prompily and hounestly. To do so Is a bardship, becauso they aro maiuly pemsons of humble weans, living upon tho income of their daily labor, 'The non-tax-payors wro, as o class, wneh who would resont a4 libelaus an intinu- tian that they ware potrich,~men whose an- e kv 3 Y3 47 B LR B i S 44 A S 7 i a2 1 A Srermin it e nunl perronal expenditures are counted by tons of thonsande, and who * retrench” in beating tho city ont of its just revanue, Mow long do theso wenlihy proparty-ownera think this condition of things will last? How long do they suppose the man with o family, struggling to live, tho ownor of o homestand, will continue to pay his own tux, and the tax of gome other man who counts his wenlth by hnndreds of thousands? Is not this making the comparatively poor mul- titude pay the taxes of the rich in addition to their own n dangerous experimont?. May it not prove n costly ona? Is it not playing with a dangorone soutimont? s thore not dauger thatthe demagogues who refuse lo pay inxes may. cronta other dbmagogues, who will prociaim that those who pay the taxes arg ontitled to own and hold the prop. orty, to tho exglusion of the dend-beats, who enjoy all things and pay for nothing ? f e T N THE BERVIAN WAR. Thonows from the 'Turko-Servian cam. paign does not yet develop any docisivo cn- gngoinents botweon the main avinies. Both sides, ns usual, claim the advantage in tho battles of the,dd and 4th in Herzegovina aud Balgarin. 'The Turks claim a victory at Urkul, with a Sorvinn loss of 600, which is tho only engagemeont of importance since thoso roported on the 3. 'Tho vivtory of, Gen, LonrnNavery, tho Sorvian lender, on the southenstorn frontier, is oven more fm- portaut than was flrst announced. It now appears that he turned the Turkish flank at Nitsch (probnbly Nisun), and is marching ou Hofla, driving the ‘Curks down towards tho Balkan Mountaing, Meanwhilo au insurrec- tion hag broken out-in Sofia, so that the ‘Curks hava the viclorious Hervion army in their xenr amd an insurrection fu front of themi. From a military point of view, the town ig of moro than ordinary importance, a8 it isbnt 300 miles from Constantinoplo, on tho direet route from Servin to the Iatter elty. Itina strougly fortifled place, in a mountainous district, sud, ns o strategic position, occupies a commanding place. It had o popnlation of 50,000, und iy noted for its mavufactures of woolen and silk fabrics, *In this quarter the Bervian appenrs to have achioved a very imporlant success. Ou the northonst and northwest, howover, if the Turkish ndvices can bo eredited, they bave met with repulscs, although nono of the en- gogemonts in thogo dircetions roach the dig- vity of iwportant battles, ns they wero not fought hetween the main armics. Nothing further is heard from tho reported battle nt Suitschinr, in Northweslern Bulgaris, but on tho northwestern froutior of Servia the Turks claim a victory al Belina, where an engagement wns roported on tho #d. The Montenegrin colmnn is still pushing on, and hes pushied the Turks 50 far nhead of it towards Bosnia ns to invest the fortress of Ylotuk Korgenitch, near Trobigne, Mean. while, the cammand of thoe Turkish army in Herzegoving hes suddenly boon tmnsforred to Meaeymmo Anr, and Movkran Pasia, the old leader, has hastily left for the Bervian frontier, which wonld seem to indicata that things avo uot ns lovely in Bosnia as tho Turks roport, The most important news concerning tho situation is to the effect that Egypt hus con- tributed ita contingont of men to Turkey, tho Khedivo baving sent 10,000, and that the Government of Greeco Lins assured the Porta of its pucific wentbmonts. The action of Egypt will not occasion any surprise, sinco tho conditions attached to tho sovereignty of that country arc similar to thoso in other Curkish quasi-independent SBtatos, namely that the Khiedive shall pay an annual tributo and foruish a contingent of troops in timg of war. 'The monifesto issugd by the Princo M1ran, howover, which declares * the Mou. tenegrins willbe on our side, and it will not Lo long beforo the Merzogoyinians, Bosnians, Bulgarinns, and Greeks will co-operate with us," does not yet seom to bo true so far ay tho Greeks are concarned, 'ho Grocks, howover, can play but a very small part in the war, whichover sido they may take, as their entiro population ig lees than a millien ond o half, aud thelr army numbers but 14,063 men all told, A BENSATIONAL DEATH. Fnepenics A, Jerynevs’ name will be mig. spelled in all the nowspapers of tho land, and known to all resding peoplo for n fow moments of o singlo day, and it was for this ho died. 1fo was uy erazy as o Mareh haro ; there is no doubt nbout that ; but there was a singular mothod in his mndness, o was ovidently nactuated by an iusano desiro to crento a sensntion by his death,~~something hecould probubly never bive achioved in lite, ~—ond ho sot nbout it with a daliboration and o winuteness of proparation which ave not infrequontly the nccessorles of mental de- rungemont, Most suicides since the days of the old Grocian and Rowan philosophers Lave beun traccable tosome great disappoint- meont, to deep-sot despondency, or u crazed condition of pain or sorrow; but hore was o young man who was apparoutly prosperous, whoso habits appear to have beon good, who has hiad no unfortunate love affair, who hind moncy enough to travel and pay his bllls ab first-class hotels, who seoms to have possessed more than the avernge in. telliganee, and to have enjoyed an uverage education, and who says hiwself in tha letter he left belind that ““no one hay over passed four wmonths of such genuine happiness ay the last four months bas boeen to me.” Ile wag very solicitons to impress upon thoso who should read tho letter ho luft that death had no terrors for hiw, that there was no particular reason for his commitling suicide, and thut he only sought for the grehter blessings which are to e found (possilbly) in the noxt life, The real reason was left for iuferenco, and this is prutty cloar from tho following extract from the letter Lo left ; When night comea on 1 shall draw aplece of wire seross the bath-tub Jengthwlse, Ita une to be soon explained. Thowirs will Yo properly adjusted, the plstol luaded, and with the raxor "conventently bungon strings where [ ean resdidy reach them, Tho pulsons wil) then be carefully Rxed and mized, The rope, underitand, by ta cotno whero It will suspend my bouy, when uitached, exactly over the middle of the tunk, Directly over thiv rope, ond on the Wire befurs mentioned, J sholl utfuch cutton or something ¢lss wiich witl burn well when alealiol ie poured op it Tho nuose wh) huve been made In the cord, and above iy head on the rope shall by placed a like turch, whichi, wheu fgnited, will burn tho cord and let me down. 1 will then puck every- thiug Lut the clothes which T am to wear, snd then, belug a1l ready, TR M1 the tank with as 40y water 4 1 con gete Then wount thy tub, with u fuot vn cach wide of It, carefully pour the Jinuor over my pants- ond cout and -uh%; will allow 8 rope of sonie solt mulerlal te fall from tho torch above duwn my backs will then light the prepared torch on the wire which I then will be standing over; will ralée myeclt upon tip.toe sud 0x the rope pbout my ucck. It wball be well seaped, so bat, when amy feet -lave tho ablvs of the tank aud my full welgit cumes upon i, it will diaw up pretty tight. Oue thing I had alnost furgotten to mention: [ am guing to put o mircror beforv wte just to wee JF T will be (rigtencd. 1 tuluk it da more 1ikely that 1ehall lsugh, but vel want 10 enfoy 1t all V)l pnt the glaes up duyhow, Noxg Lreachs for Qe tumbler of polsons, conven lently near, und swallow its contents sutice, prob- ubly shull **uigh for wore.* Well, at thls polot § shall burey up, for desdly uelds work destruction quickly, Tnext grasp my pretty littlo dirk and send (L wilh all my force (nta my breast as near to n blackened xpot showingwherethe lieart 1n a8 pos- sible, Tho razok and platol ara all ready, and sus- pended by cords, It mnst be romembered, B0 after plunging the dagger tn I do not want to withdraw 1, but taka the razor in my JoIt hand, and as firmly as [ aw ablo wnder the clrcumstances to do, while [ graap nnd cock my 1iitle aliver-piounted platol; this [ plnce to my head and puil the teigger as 1 draw the keen-bladed razor ncross iy neck. My feet must slip from thele places by this time, and my legs will come Into contact with the wire and the fire npon {t, which wlll of conrse immedintoly sot my clothing alight, I intend the flame shall run np the rope 1 shall allow to hang down my back to the place whero tho other torch will havo been pro+ pared, ‘This must sever the strands of rope, and I can bub fall fnto the water Lelow to cook aud drown, "I'is programmo was deliborately carried out to the latter, excapt that tho dagger wns not used, tho pistol and razor haviug done their work too offectually to permit of it Tho death was also n partial faflure, inns- much ns the preparations for cremation mis- carried ; but tho suicido evidently snticipated somothing of tha kind, for he left directions behind to consign his body to a Buffalo doc- tor, 8till the partial failure phiows that thore are disnppointments in death as well o lifo, and Jerneys’ soul, it still marching on like Joux DBnows's, must ba considerably Linr- rowed up by tha reflection. Nevertheless, le ig outitled to tho satisfaotion of knowing that ho achicved, on tho whole, 8 remarkably succesaful and superlativoly sonsational denth. Chiengo should hasten to give him credit for this mueh, becsuss lie chosy this clty wa the scone of his taking-off in pure deference to its superior werits, and to ancourage us in oar progress, Ile gays in his posthumons publication : ¢ There is an emulation and generous rivalry botween 8%, Louis and Chicago whieh I like, and Chicego being my favorite I shiall Lielp her 'in my humblo way, and knock the spots off 8t Louls in cclo. broting the Conteuninl Fowrth.” And he did. Wao boldly nud confideutly clnllange 8. Louis to point to a parallel in thoe way of sgiu'u!n at nuy timoe during the recently de. parted century. Now, baving given Jereess proper recog- nition for s oxceptional degreo of success in the death-struggle, which every mau onght to have, we nro temptod to nsk: ** Where is this thing going 1o stop #" 'fhis poor fool who courted death to ke n sen- sation was ovidently prompted to it by the Lafayotto iliot who was oply less ingonious in the iuvention of an amateur guillotine. It the latter inspived omulation, the Chicago sunicida will excito a . vory genernl rivalry, and we wmay expect io hesr of mon embarking for tha river Btyx in all sorts of barbarous and fautastic stylos. Isn’t thero somo way to put o stop tait? At one thae, when thero was a mania among young women in Franco for commit. ting suiclde, it was checked by the public oxposuro of the neked bodies of those whe Lilled thetnselves ; but no post-mortem indig- nity can doter men who butcher and muti- lato their own bodios by the mesns thoy adopt for sevaring tiey which could bo done with ‘abaro bodkin." Our objection to a further continuation of those practices isnot 50 much thoe loss of the suicides themselves, sinco tho world ean very well gpare such men, but the danger that theso novel ex. parimants, looking at once to death and cre- mation, way possibly Iend to the taking off of other peopla who nre not yot rendy and snxious to go. Bat perhaps tho hopeloss- noess of exceoding the sensationnlism of this Intest death will deter other young mon am- bittous in the same direction, and Jrrenurs nmny bo dismissed with tho opitaph Shak- spearo wroto for him : Nothing in his lite Became him lke tho leaving it; ho Ged As ono that had been studied In his doath, To throw away the dearest (hing ho ownug, As "Uyore n carcless trifl ;mromt——xr 18 ME. Tho best picco of avting connoeted with - tho St. Louls nominations was by Sam ‘FrzoeN himself, Tho Associated Press dis- patch from Albany stated : Uov. TioeN pmsed the duy at the Executlve Manslon surrounded by members of his honschold, 1a recetved but fow dlapatches from St Louls, and ment nouo thero. The facts are, that Bonator Kenvaw, Joun Moznissey, and Gov. Dorsneruen sent him dispatches overy few minutes, and received scorcs of amswers, orders, and diroctions from him,—capeciolly on the night before the dny for tho balloting, whivh was the tima the * unpurchasable” reform ¢lement of tho Convontion was bought up to vote for C'ruoeR. The roal work of couvinejug tho 4 doubtful™ dolegates was gobt iu during those maiduight Lours, when Monrmsey aud Kunsax wers holding confidontial consultas tion with their chief in Albany over the wires. Says the pross dispateh: This evening, when tho Asanclated Prees dls- pateh announcing slmply, ** Teukn nombusted on second ballot, ™ was recelvod, It was sent up to the Exccutiye Munelon, Thers were present with the Goyernar, Comptroller RoninsoX, State Engineer Vax Bunex, and four or five othor rlends, Mr, Newreel took the dispatch and read it alond 1o the Governor. **Ts that sor' he luquired fn the calwest toney, and with not even a swile on his countenghce. Gov. Trues know beforchand almost to o unit the exact number of votes ho would re. coive, Having paid for his men, and know. ivg just what they had cost Lim, he conld well afford to appuar celm in the presencs of the press roporter, and to funoceutly nsk ¢ Iy that so?" without even *a amilo on hig countonance.” A loss rich man wounll bave stood aghnst at tho cost, but Samuy evinced no omotion } he was very * ealm.” Subse. quontly tho following dispatch was roceived; T, Lovis, June 28.~To Gov, Semuel J, Tilten: | congratulste yui un your enthugiaatlo noiination, Kentucky will0ost heartlly Tudoray you with lier 40,+ QWRABII. 4 onuntGoresion oF o paady, This wus oleo read tathe Governor, who thon oxhiblted algus of Interest, and fnguleed if any one knew what the vols wus, sud what the platform tlunlzluc(L “No one presvns cowld unswer the Ques. tlon. ‘Tltin wana capital poting. *‘Then it was that he exliibitod signs of interest.® Up to that poiut he hiad been wholly unconcerned! He had not felb tho stighteat intereat in the proveudings of the Convoution, or what it might do, or whether he was nomiuated or not. * But the moment the platform was montioned, which ho himself bad writton and sent to the' Convention in the hands of Donsuensen, he was athirst to learn its.con- tents, nlthough ho hadl committed every word of it to heart. 1lokad exhibited no signs of jutercst in the prosonce of the re. porter asto hisown success or defest, but Lis ouriosity was all on fire to know what the platform which ke hind written- contalued ! But the mastersitroke of consummmuate net. fng wos resorved for the conclusion, thus deseribed in tho press dispatch: UBPORM—-O'EST MOL. ‘The Governur then drew lfour or five of thoss presont about hiw, snd, ina tune scarcely sbove s whisper, said: ** I cau tell you what has been done. Thl¥ nomination wis not made by Lho leadord of the ‘purty (). It wus the people who made ft. Thoy want reform. 'Phey have wanted it a long whtle, uud 1n looking about they nave become con- vinced that 1t fa 1o be found here {polating uf him- sel/), ‘Vhoy wuut It That ls what they ute aftur, 'Tley wre slck of tho corruptions snd waladiiue- tration of thelr afalrs. They want a change, and one for tho bietter, ~n thoroaghf reformatlon, ™ “This nomination was not mado by tho lenders of the party 1" What was not made Ly the *‘leadors” was mnda by monsy. ““They ([the people] wmnt *roform.' Thoy have wanted it for a loug time, nud in look- ing about they have found it here [poiuting at himsalf]. That ia what they aro ftor, and lo! it is horo!” The astonishing modosty of Sansy stands out conspicuously fn this declaration, Ho declares thot he s the ins carnation of reform. Xeform and Basscy are synonymous terms, Whan a man thinks of tho word reform, it means thoe ol bacle- lor Trnpen, and whon he thinks of TiLpeEN it ia tho snma na i ha wns cogitaling about roform, e has an oxclusive'patent on tho {den, It s his, Lecouse ho invented it and owns {t, or it itvonted and owns bimn, Thoy corrolate into one pnothor. I'hoy work to. gother gynchironously, Obliterate roform, and Treoew is nomoro, Lot TiLpeN dio, ud tuat i3 the ond of reform. It wonld be n drendful calawmity if anything should happen to this solo ewbodimont of roform, as he wonld lenve no successor, for when he dies reform becomos extinot by the samo strokeof fate. They wore lovely in their lives, ond in their deaths they caunot Lo parted, MORE DEMOCRATIC REFORM, The Democrats of thg Hougo, in search of matorial forn campaign docwmont, passed a resolution the uther day eulling npon Hecre- tary Ouanpren to communicato all possible information relating to the investment of the Indian trust fund by formor Becrotarios of the Interfor, Notwithstauding the bot weather, old Zacn et about the worlk, and, although he {s not yet half through, he Las opened up a mine of Dumocratic rottonness thnt is panning out with extraordinary rich. nesy. Under the law which was passed in 1841 the Hecrelary of the Interior was directed to invest the money hold in trust for the benofit of cortain tribes fn United States bouds, but the statement of the Democratic robberies which Scerctary Cuaxpres has propared, and upon which ho is bringing suits to recover, shows that tho difforent Becretaries juvest- od largely in Southern Stato bonds old el nud tarnpike stock, repudinted bonds, und other truck which wes compara- tively worthlesy, and much of it nover ne- otiable. In this way of Democratio invest. wmwnt ovor two million of dullars wore plncad, Mr. Bucuanan's Socretary of tho Iuterior, Jacon "Tirostrson, belng responsibla for one- Bialf of the robbery. Vith principal aud in- terest, the Govormment iy out to the tuno of 95,000,000, 'Fuomrson’s share of the plun- der wont into the Confederacy and helped it along. 'The balanco probably was devoted to the intereats of Democratic reform. It wna o neat littls oporation—the purchase of theso stocks ot sn jumonse discount, the bost of them nover Leing worth over fifty conts on the dollur, and their entry upon the books of tho Department ns bought st faco value, Meanwhile, the Government under tho Inw basbeon paying the Indians b per cont interost from the Limo when the bonds’ wero purchased until tho present time, and, a8 the bonds have of course yielded no intor- cht fo offsot the interest appropriation, tho Goverument is out for both principal and intorest. Secretary Cmasoren's tabulated statomont shows a vory neat instance of Dumocratic tinaucioring, but it is not of that partivular sort which the Democrats will want to use as o enpaign documont, Thoy strnck a very pecullar bonanza, which pauned ont tho wrong way,whon they rau over little Jousny Davenront; but in this caso the devolopmons is much richer, since Secrotary Cmanpren Lins nlready unearthed a Democratic robbory of fivo millions, and iy not nearly throngh yot. Btill, with what Wmoen knows of Lpllot-box stuling and with what the party kvown of stealing from trust-funds, there is an cminently cloerfal prospect of purity in tho Demoeratio adwinistration. The Domocrats wndo sevoral lusty and vigorous howls for reform in their platform, Lut thoy did not Lowl for roform ‘in the practico of stufing ballot-boxes or utenling electoral votes. Wo do not rotaembor thnt thero s any howl in the platform for roform of the practico of stealing millions from funds held ju trust for Indinus. e LR, EVARTS' OBATION--A FAILURE, Wo think Mr. Evasay’ Contonninl oratfon has been aceopted, on the wholo, ns wdisap- pomtment. 1t was the graud opportunity of nn orator’s lifoiime, but Mr. Bvants seems rathor to have undercstimated it and placed it on g lovel with the ordinary Fourth-of-July celebrations. 1o dragged out o speech be. youd the paticnco of such on sudicuce 1 hio was addeessing, inflamed with the pout-up patriotisat of a contury, which hnad been re. kindlod with local prids and fanned to a white hentby soveral years of specia) preparn. tion. Tho occasion was one'when an orutor miglit well inve been oxcused for sacrificing all other cousiderntiony to the mere firo and forco of cloquonce. ‘There should have been & condensntion and concontration into o fif- teen minutes' spooch, overy period and evory word of which should have rung out as clearly and brightly to the world as the tones of the vow Liberty bell that rang intho new na. tional century. It should have beon elo- quonco of the Parntox Hesuy sehool,—~im- pulsive, rhnapsodic, and glowing~ond not tho display of learning that is oxpectod in tho modvrn forum, or of ncumen that best graces plending at the Bar. ‘There are mon who wonld have loft an oration #it to Jive in his. tory, and that would fiud itself into thoread- ing-books alongsido of somo Hrxny's, Wen- srEn's, and Bveneer's, Our own Boy Inoks. soLy would iave hoon equal to tho ocension, snd would have stirred up not ouly the cool- blooded und essy-going Qunkers of Philu dolphis, but would have uroused tho whole country to nu enthusinsm aud patriotism which all tho fuforaal luventlony of Ohinesu diablerle foiled to cxpross, Thiladelphis hus an orstor of its own—Daxten, Dovuurnry— who would have risen to equal heights with Inaeusorr, who would have wmado it the gruud event of hia life, and who would have left an uttorance to bo owbalmed in jmmor- tality ; but o prophet is not without honor suvo in his own country, aud o it scowms to Lo tho case in Philadelphia, Tut, taking My, Evanta on his own ground, and assuming that ko sought lo yive a purely intllectunl und philosoplical discourse with intentional opposition to the vivid nud piet~ wrosque, we think e falled in the analysis of oertain featurca of the past history, whers he wight bave given the humanities evon a Ligher place, and in his forecast of the fu- turo, whero it was proper to warn Lis coun. trymon of tho dangors ahend, It would have beun better, it Mr. Evamrs aspired to ba plllosaphical and analytical, to polat out tha differanca batween the theory of cur Govern- ment, which is porfoot, and the partial failures st havo cowo frawn our experimontal appli- cation of thig theory. Thore will bu neathier thue duriug snother contury whon s uingle wan can commend the attantion of the coun. ——eeeee e e try ro ontirely, and it was therofore the one ocensfon of Mr, EvArmy' eareor to indiente thy weak poiuts of our system aud doplotjn strong terms, the daugera that threnten popn. lar governmont. 1o might Liave dwelt, with tho depth of n philosopher and the fores of an orator, upon tho fact that the edueated olass of o country will nlwass bo the govern. ing cinss, and that, as ours is to bo nnation of salf-governmont, there must Lo universal education to sustatn this condition. Iio should have warned the poopls, all listoning to o mnn, that the moral tono of tho count y should bo kopt pure, and 1is Intellectun) charneter bright and oative, in orda to defeat the demogogwe who pane dors to the vicious and imposes upon the ignorant, It wonld not havo bean innppropriate in o professedly philosoplia dirconrso, indeed, to have entored sven moro fully futo tho dotails of our governmental systom, and to have thng socured n betfer popular comprohonsion of tha mecessity for cortain changes. Ho should not lLiave hesis tated td adwit that, while England hos erect. ol n grent, harmonions civil servico that promises to andure forever with all the parity that can be oxpected from humon institu. tions, our civil service has dogonorated dur. ing the contury from the purest patriotisn oud selt-sncrifice to a seandalous portisan sormnbla for office and an insatiato ond dise Lonest groed for porsonal gotn, IHo should have indicated tho sorious dofoet in our sys tomn which fnils to provide for a responsiblo Exeoulive, aud which brings about such con- flots as we hiave slrendy seen, nuder Pyrxn, Fruuvone, nand Jomison. e might bhave adverted o the crror of eleeting n new Congress severnd wonths be- foro it can assume its functions, whicl gives the oxisting Government, i easa it Be at va. riance with the will of the people, abundant opportunity to harnss and defent tlio popular voico. 'Wo lind a woeful instanco of n Pros. ident's power in this regard during Bucuax- a’s lnst mounths, when his Administration helped the Soutl to prepare for the struggle they. hed detormined upon. Mr. Bvaury might also havo dirccted the popular ntten. tion Lo the menace of misgovernment in our large citics, which is dolug moro to corrupt tho ballot-box aud vitiate popular suffrage than any othor of our abusos. These nnd othor $hings hie might bave ireated in carry- ing out his iden of a discursive and philo- sophic oration, that would havearrcated pub. Jic attention and done tho country somo serv- fee, Asitis, wofear the grost opportunity of his lifo and this generation Las passed Ly unbmproved. Inatend of more empirical taxi n?;rrnngnmcnh, the imporntive need of Chicago 18 lower tazatlon, Instead of §3,000,000, the city tax.levy must bo cut down to §2,000,000. I tux-caters und politi- eal quacks sny it cannot bo dene, the snewer s, it must be done, It can be done.~Chicego Thnes. Certainly, and it can be ent down to $200,« 000, or to $2,000, or {o$2, 'f'ocommenco with, 91,300,006 of taxes can be saved by repudiating the city dobt, and psying no more interest thercon. It cosls now one millionn year for the intorest on the funded dobt, and 300,000 per snnum for interest on the floating debt; both sums enn bo saved by the sitple process of repudintion, which tho Z%mes seems to favor, ‘The public schools for the education of 40,000 to 50,000 children, including the building of new school-houses, costs in tha vicinity of threc- quarters of a million n year, Shut up tho reo yehools, aud this expense can be added the other saving that would be offceted by repudiation, ‘The patrictie and publie. spirited Confoderato who runms two Trunen papers, both daily, stronuously insists upon tho abandonmont of alf municipal. govern. ment in order to avoid paylhg any taxes, On the Fourth of July ho declared, as his Doclaration of Independencs, *to slhut up, the wunicipal shop.” He proposed ng fol- lows: 1. That tho Public Worka branch of the shop aliall never ngain be apened, * 2. 'That the tax-fed Fire Department branch of the shiop shn}l nover again be opened, 4, 'Chat tho stroet-llghting branch of the shop ehall never again be opencd, 4, That tho pollce Lranch of the shop shall bo reopened only to the extent of meand actually fa land ta pay the opgratives, “Tho slmple lncz.gw:lcn may juat as woll be met. nowus at auy time, I8 that the city establishment and expenditures must be cut down to the root. Tho best possible way, becuuso §t fs the surest and perbaps the only possible way of cfecting the ruqulsite voductlon, by to ** brluyg matterd to u crisls byn short turu, " With this programmo in forco pandemo- nium wonld brenk loose, aud one of the very first vietims would be the man who devised it, s In tho course of n recent article the Richmond (V) Bugqulrer suys: “In tho first place, tho Radleal hold upou power hus herotofore do pended on the solid support of suyeral hundred thousand voters of an lulerjor and Ignorant race, who were unconstitutionally clothed with the suffrage by tho grace of arbitrary legislation und the point of the bayonet. But vven without de- ductfug this great moss of muchine-voters, who ure maved Nke puppeta by the steing whick the carpet-baggers move and pull, thers g still o greut majority of tho people to whow the very name of the Radleal party 1a a stench and abomination.” It this means anything, it means thay theseveral hundred thousand voters Yot an ignorant and inferfor race M arenot to Lo allowed to vote this year, In pursusice of this palley, Mr, Cox wants the army to bo abollshed uatil after Novembor. ———— The Burlington Juwkeye says that * Gen, TUTTLE, of Des Motnes, o life-long Domocrat, refuses Lo tralu under the Democrstie flagy now that that porty s again under theleadership and nanagement of the ex-Rebels, and b comes out boldly for Haves und WHEELERY 5 ————— 4 None of Uncle Sam's barrel of monoy Is sulary grab,” says tho Madison Denocrat, "The Poat and Maif yeplies, “But 1t &5 wl) rallrond steal,” aud it does not see whereln that 1a suy better, PERSONAL Mre, Admiral Farragut fs at Saratogs. 3t 1 satd that Slgnor Salvinl had cances, Junauschiock hay Just arrlved in New York. Amo, amas, smat; Aluco Is teuching the people that. . { ] Charles Dudley Warner has arzived at his homa {n Hartford from Burope. . Ten't 1t about time ta cutablish a fuw moro Suas, day-schuoles awony tho Sloux? ‘The Yale crow had thels boat costied (n the Tourth uf July proceaslon ut Now Huvon, Our saldlers aro only oo brave, and agulnst sol- diees thts can hardly bo urged as o reproach, ‘The Judians seeny to be co-operuting with the Democratic party in the reduction of the uruy, Tho fngenious suiclde never thought of having himaed! talked to death, That would have buen tog ' horrible, Clara Loulse Kellogg sang the *'Star-Spangled Dauner ' ok tho celebration of the Pourth in New Uartrord, . ¢ Qall Hamtiton, ™ is well advanced towards mid- dio Iife, Lut wit]l looks as pluwp and rosy ay § countey schaol-giel, : Minleter Waahburno was at Carlsbad on the Fourth, aud thero was consequently uo banquet at the Awericau Kwbosay in Pacls, * Forly milllons of poople enjoyed themselves on the Fourtl, in blesicd unconsclousness of tho fact tust Old Probabiltics bad ahodup hia shop ana gous ulf en u bolidey spress S8 Was the swiul