Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1876—TWELVE PAGES/ e Teibwne. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. PATADLE 1N ADVANCE—FOSTAGH PREFAID AT Ti13 OFFICE. A, 1 YA, per montl 13 Tl wveekiy. o Y'aris of & year, WERKLY EDY Qne copy, per yea! Lsa Club of gve.. S Clnbat twenty, 2000 En":“ prepal i A ecimen coples sent free. o provent delay and mistakes, bosure and give Post offce address tn fall, including State and County, Remittsnces may be mode’ elther by draft, express, ‘Tost-0ffice order, or in regiatered letters, atour risk. TERMS TO CITY SULACHIDLNS, Daily, delivered, Bunday excepted, 23 cents per weak, Daly, deitvered, Bunday Included, 20 cents per week [ireas THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chifcago, Il e CAMPAIGN TRIBUNE. The Tepublican party has now placed fte natlonat ticket and platforin before the peoplo, The ensuing Trosldentlal canvasm will beone of the most exciting and {mrortant that bas ever occurred In this country, Every niap shioutd be furnished with full and correct po- 1itteal Information. In ordertosupply thianced, the pubs shers of Tig Cuicavo THH\\;}.{V: TII\ prh;l s cn:?m:un caltion, cing_fmmediately, and_continuing o R L Glection 1 ovemicr, 1870 nt the following exceedingly low ratea, post pald: reckly Campaign Tninyxi—Aingl Awalyve Cupies Lo NI ADDRERE.., A'wLnty-Nve coples 10 ONE ADDRXAN. et Weekly Campatkn TRIDUN =3} Licven copicd 10 UXK ADINKAR. X Bickvamier o, e coeis, s, gt be 3 cr perso I PALS 5 e et T mber of Jnucs Lty Wil ket for RUCHE mou TAMUSEMENTS, Adelph! Theasre. Monroa street, comner Dearborn, “Bad Dickey.," Afternoon and evening. Tooley’s Thentre. Tandolph street, botween Clhrk and Lasalle. *'The €woOrphane,” Afternoon wid evening. McVicker’s Thentre. o e et Lroun. ALE 5T e Atm s o ALET Py A% So parfunionse.” Evenlug, o La Fila Do dwa. Angot,” Woodn Munecom. tween Dearborn and State, Afters A&l!:m?slrl?cclf hfid (Eufln" aud **The Kougih Dis- wond." Event lic Seven Sisters,” BOCILETY MELTINGS. ORIENTAL CONSISTORY 120 B, P. Ti0 mentbers of Uriuital Consiatory sre ‘ordered pear st thelr Asylum, 74 Laat Monros street, fu wried and equipped, on Sunday moroing, the 8eh th BED 88 T MwEpy for thu puipose of atteudin Tuieral ob lgl(el uf our Iate_deceased Sublime of the Royal Secrety daines Pratt, 943, Ui \“'h‘k‘llfllulll l.’lfililll'e i)‘llll";'kl:_\vflmll street, at Jars to toso Dill. - By ord . Y UGIL. W, DARNARD, 302, Jas. A, T, Binn, 229, Commaudes-1u-Clhiet, Grand Seeretary, e R BUSINESS NOTICE. BASE.BALL—A COMPLETE LIST OF THE GAMES watt and toet; 1y tnuings, of the Lesguv mtoes of '7d, up 10.uiy @, tn he Chicago Ficld, with all the vther Sporte 10 Gventa of tho week, Ko sale by ull news-dealers, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 187G, Greenbocks at the Now York Gold Ex- shange yesterdny closed at 80}, ——s A continuation of the present intensely warm wenther may be looked for to-dny. A Bervinn vietory of considerable fmpor- tanco is announced iu the cable dispatches, Affor ten hours of desperate fighting at Rnchka, the Turks fled, and the place fell Into the bauds of the Servinns. The Sundsy question wan yesterday fii- vived bofore the Centonnial Commission in the form of a resolution providing for the opening of the Exhibition every dsy in tho weuk, Lut prohibiling the use of steam on Bunday. Thu resolution wna dofeated by a vote of 20 to 10, The Tressury Departmont is once more in running order, Mr, Mounizu having yestor- dny qualified ns Bcoretary, and Mr. Wystan 38 Treasurer. For soveral days neithor of these positions wero filled, aud o vast amount of accumulaled business wiil claim the atten- #ion of tho now incumbents, Hr. Monniwr's nccoptance of tho Treasury Becrotaryship creates o vacancy in Maine's Banatorinl ropresentation. Gov. Coxon lins londered thoe appointment to Mr. Brame, who will probnbly accept, though the pres- ent low stato of bis health would provent his entering upon tho duties of Senator for some time. Tho hill to compel the Pacific ailronds to et apart out of their earnings a sum to ap. ply on tho payment of their debt to the Bovernment pased the House yosterday, It Is oxpected that the bill will meot with strong opposition in the Seuate, and it is considered doubtful whether thut body will pass it this sossion, Tho Conferenco Comunil hy agreed upon the Diplomatio and Consular bill, the Senate acceding to the appropria- ‘tiona in the House bill, but at the game time provision s to be medo in the bill nllowing tho Preuident discrotion in using the funds’ appropriated. The bl nlso provides for a Comrmission, whoso duty it shall be to devise nplan for the cntive rcorganization of the diplomatio and Consular sorvice, The ouse Judiciary Committeo has adopt- ed the report of its Bub-Committee deolaring thnt the Houso has jurisdiction in the coses of By Kiva and SonomaxEif, of unplensant notoriety in connection with tho Pacific-Mail $nvestigation. ‘I'his report witl ba submitted to the House, together with the recommon- dation that tho matter bo reforred to the Committee on Civil-Servico Reform for in- vesjigation. The Democratic ratification meating lnst svening woa more romnarkablo for the peopla who stoyed away thau for thoso who at- tended. 'This wag especinily true of severnl * of the speskers announced, who wers con spicuously absent, leaving the talking to bo done by snch local colebrities ns could bo so. cured, It will pass for a Dowmooratio *rally ;" but it will not be until this evening that Chicago,will Lave a genuine ratification westing. L'o-night the Republicans of Chicago’will fairly insugurate the Prosidentinl campaign in a rousing ratification meoting, Arrange. ments have been propared for making the af- fair ono of tho largost and most notable gatherings ever held in Chicago, and ns sevoral of the distinguished speakers who have been invited aro certain {o be present, tha oratorical part of tho procesdings will not ba tho least otiractive. Col. Bon Inces. 8oLy will contribute one of his best speeches, and there will e something worth bhearing, weinug, and fooling. T — The Ohicago produce markots wore rather quiot yestorday, and grain was easfer, Dless pork ‘closod 260 per brl highor, at $19.50 for July, aud $19,82} for August. Tard clossd 2jo por 100 Ibs lower, at §11.16 @11.20 for cash and $11.25@11.27 for Au- gust. Moeats were steadyat 8joc for boxed shoulders, 100 for do short ribs, and 11c for do short clears, Lake freights wore dull, at 20 Tor whaat to Huffalo, Ilall fraights wore un- changed. Iighwines wero unchanged, at $1.10§ per gallon, Flour wns in moderata demnud, Whoat closed jo lower, at $1.013 for July and $1.033 for Augnst. Oorn closod 1@Jo lower, nt 46lo for July nnd 47§ for August. Onts closed §@Jo lower, at 200 for July, and 20e for August. Rye wns steadier at U5c. Barley was dull and nominal at 580, Hogs wero notive, with light weights fio higher. Bales wers principally at #6.50 @06,05. Onttle were activo and firmor, selling ot $2.60@5.00. Blieop were nominal at $82.60@4.60, One hundred dollars in gold \cvlonld buy $112.00 in greenbacks at tho ose, Berrnar's counsel, being convincod that the Senato is in dend enrnest in pushing the impeachmont trial to n conclusion, have de- cided to take an active part in the cross.ex- nmination of witnorses, They informed tho Court yeaterday that their object in lolding nloof on thoe first day of tho formal com- mencement of the trial was the belief that active porticipation in the proceedings might Le taken as an nbandoament of their claim that tho Sennto has already doclared its ina- bility to convict by its vote on the question of jurisdiction. Mr. CanrExTrR, for counsel, thinks it will bo unsafe to lot the Managers hiave it all their own way, The movement to organizea force of vol- unteers to take part in the Indian campnign has assumed dofinito shiapo in Utah, A regi-, ment of 1,200 frontiersmen, armed to tho teoth With wenpons which they know how to use, well mounted and equipped, will be tenderod to the Seoretary of War, and, if nc- cepted, the regiment will be recrnited withont delay and put in rendiness to march ngainst, tho Lostile 8ioux., Tho Far Westis intensely aroused at tho foarful fate of Cusren and his comrades, and all the volunteers necossary could undoubtedly Le raised amoug the men who know an Indisn when they see him, and wlo nre not troubled with auy sentimontal fondness for the noble savage. A few such regimonts as that proposed to be raised {n Utah would make short work of tho Indian question. Now that popular indiguation through. out the country has been thoroughly aroused against tho Indinn outlaw Sirrivo Bury and his desperate gang of £,000 redskins, and now that there arehundreds of men throngh- out tho Western Territorics enger to organ. izo for punishing these villuins and sum. marily suppressing their opportumties for further plunder snd massacre, the best thing the United States Government can do is to accopt volunteers up to a limited number, ~—say 5,000 men,~put them under the regu- lar army officars, and move against tho hos- tilo Indians immedintely and effectively, Gen, SnenripaN is reported as saying that the regources of tho army ars not ade- quate to the prosccution of the Indian war which has been precipitated by Brrrove Bury, and if the unequal stroggle is to be continued, meanwhile wenkoning forts and garrisons in other Indian territory, it may bo that we shall have o war on our hands as long and costly as that waged against tho Seminole Indinns, which lasted soveral yenrs, and cost $10,- 000,000, But volunteors enough, fully armed and equipped, could be put iu the ficld Insixty days to crush out Srrrine Burr's tribe, by meroly nceepting the services of the hardy fellows of the Western Territorics who fre willing and anxious to engago in the en- torpriso, The coat of thoir services woild be snvod ten times over, by shortoning the strugglo and confining it to its present lim- its. Lot tho Prosident take the initiative, aud if tho Demooratic Congress will not sus- tain him, the responsibility bo upon them. REEM'S CASE. The Court has fixed tho ponalty in the case of Jaxz Rems at six months’ imprisonment in the County Jail and o fino of $10,000. It is hardly nocessory to say that this sen. tonce will bo a disappointment and a sourco of rogret to the grest mass of the public. It is concoded that, so far as moral turpitude ia concorned, this man Renx Lad no cqual in the whole conspiracy., As o couspirator for erimingl purposes, for the corruption of oflicers, for compolling mon to bo dishonoest, and for tho aggregato of bis own dishonest gain, this mau stands head and shoulders above any other criminal, official or non- oftigin, in the whisky conspirucy. On this point there is and can Lo no vontroversy, ‘Why, then, does tho sentenco imposo the comparatively slight pensity? When the first arrosts were made, in May, 1873, this man wae in the successful operation of his dishonest conspiracy. Mon of all branches of the whisky businoss, all of whom were bis vietims, wore arrested, but Rem had no ipformation to furnish tho Government, aud when called bofors the Grand Jury was wholly dgnorant of any dishonct transac. tions! Though by the first nrrests he lost a large number of Lis customers, he coutinued to mako his cxnotions down to tho dute of tho second arrcsta. All the information nocessary’ to conviot Rems o the chief conspirator was in the pos- session of the Governmont counsol Ilin conviotion was cortain boyond all question. At this stage he sought tho Governmoent at. tornoyi aud offored to trade,—that is, he offered that, in caso ho was not sent to tho Penitentlary, and hs permitted to esonpo with the lightest ponalty, ho would plead guilty to o single count in tha indietment, aud would go on the stand and swoar that ho had paid monoy corruptly to District-Attornoy Waup, Col. lector Wavswonts, Bupervisor Mony, and two other minor Federal officers, Ho made n statement in writiug of what he would swear to against these officers, This statomont wos forwarded to Washington,— how indorsed, wo do not know, But tho suthoritics at Washington did not know Reuss us ho was known, or ougbt to have boen known, at Chicago. Assuming the statemont by Reust to Linve some, value thu Government suthorities nuthorized an ngroe- mont with him on the terms proposed. T'he sgrooment was : 1, That Reux should in no ovent b sent'to the Lgnitontiary. 2. That the Court might fix his imprisonment at six wonths, 8. That the couusol for tho defend. ant should Lae allowod to urge upon the Court full imsnunity, 4. That the wituecss should teutify * fully and fairly " as to all he knew, At the first trinl,—that of Muxy,—Remy swora to tho sama facts thet ho had agroed todo; no man who hoard him testify, or who read his testiniony and knew the man, belived that he had tostified cither * fully or 1airly,” or that ho had revealed all he knew, or that what ho had stated was the whole truth, Ho was wholly uncorroborated, and in nearly every point where his statemont did not rest on his own exclusive knowledge he was flat- ly contradicted. ‘Tho jury, cowposed wholly of unbiased men, promptly acquitted tho ac- oused, They did not believo the witness had testitled ‘fully and fairly” or truthfully. ‘This trisl was not ju fact tho trisl of Munx; 1t waa the trial ol Bxas, through which s, tho great oriminal of all, was purchasing his own cxomption from the penalties of hisown offense, 1lo wucceeded. Fortunately for him, tho only three men in Chicago or in tho United B8tates, who beliovod ho testifiod “fully and falrly” wera the legal ropresentatives of the Government; and thoy, with the utmost enrnestness, declared to the Court that he, haviug ** fully aud fairly ” testiled as to all ho knew, bad filled tho measure of tha contrack This statemnent wns mndo in tho full faco of the confession that, aa tho jury would not be- lisve a word stated by Remy in tho My cnse, it wns not to be expected he would be belioved by any other jury, and, thereforo, tho cases ngainst Wanp and Wapswortn wero dismissed. 3 In tho coses of the persons sentenced o few waeks ago, the Court eontenced Mr, Burrovaus, n junior pariner in a distillery, to twelve months' imprisonment and n fine; and Mr, Hesivg, who lind shared to small ex- tont in Reny's plunder, to two years' impris. onment aud £6,000 fine, Comparsd with these pennlties, taking in viow the magnitude of the crime, the shameless moral Lturpitude displayed at ovory step by tho eriminal, and tho vast sum of monsy ho has hoarded from tho proceeds of tho robbery, this sentence of Renat is calculnted to excite n rovolt in the popular mind, such as is natural from a glar~ ing instauce of the defeat of justice, .No porson, however, can justly place tho responsibility for this act upon the Court. Judge Dropaxrr, in his statement preceding the aeutence, properly places the responsi. bility where it belongs. o was forced by the Jaw and tho practico to recognizo tho agreoments of the Government connsol, o could not ignore the stipulations thoy Lad mads with tho consent, if not by the dirac- tion, of tho law officers of the United States, nor could hoe ignore the solemn and repeated protostations of Messrs. DrxTER, AvEn, and Daxos, that the prisoner had in good faith testiffod ¢ fully and fairly” as to all ho know. ‘The rosponsibility for this practical defent of justice, for this overthrow of the wholo moral effoct of the prosccution, and the bresking up of the conspirncy against the revonue, belongs to the Government coun- sel. Inastond of vindicating law, ofticial in« togrity, and the power of tho Gov- ocrnmont, the prosecutions in Chicago have lost all popular respoct; they havo fallen into general contompt, being now regarded as o mere shield to the great erimi- nnl who instigated and carried on the rob. bery and holds & quarter of a million of the dishonest procceds, and as amounting to op- pression and comparative cruolty to the less guilty, Hard Remx been turnod loose with- . out any ponalty, the public would havo re- garded it ns no worse than the comparatively smnll punishment awarded to him, We know that there are mon, and evon at the Bar, who affect to treat public opinion with contompt, and claim to occupy a higher plane than that of other men; but, neverthe- loss, the administration of the law, to have any value, must have publio respect, or it fails in its ofico. The Governimont counscl in this caso may conclude that with tho sont- ence thero is an end to the maotter, but they may bo mistaken. Outsido of court-rooms, there is a great public conscioncs, which s apt to tako alarm at favoritismmn in the admin- istration of the law, and this conaclence once aroused s apt to scek soma legal bnt affectual mode to ndjust the scales of justice tomp rily displaced from the balance, , - THAT “PUTRID REMINISCENCE." The T'imes returns to ita vomit. It wants Tiroex electod President, aud proposea to do everything it can, in its nusual covert and ambiguous fashion, to bring it about. But, &t the snme time, it does not want to loso its Ropublican readoers and patrons of the past fow years; for tho Democratio party not being composed cf romling men, the papor would go down withont a certain Republicon constituency, Tho Zines wanis some of the TiLoeN campaign fund, but also wants to Lold o placo among Republican nowspaper roaders. Tho situation is a trying one, and it takes a Joromy Diddler of the 7'imes order to worry through it, It will denonnce tho Democratio party one day, and extol TrLpex the next. Yesterday was the Republican day, and tho Z'imes, in good old swashbuck- ler style, doclares: Tho Tines has denounced, and hereby reiterates ita denuuclation of the old rock-rooted-wountaln- Luttressed-copper-bottomed-pro-slavery-Bonrbon- Confedernto combination of political foasils, some- timues styled the Deniocratic party, asu putrid rem. Inlacence and 4 political bad smell of most de- teatablo odor, 5 Yot it is this samo * putrid reminisconco,” and this same Copperltead and Confoderate Democracy, which tho Z%mes dosires to soe restored to the entira control of tho Govern- ment. It is impossiblo, of course, to elect T'ioen without bringlng about this result. No man, indced, could iave been selocted in tho wholo country who would make his elec. tion so essentially n party triumph as Tioxn will, if heshall boclected. Iis Admiuistra. tion will bo in every sonse of the word o Domocratio ** machine” Administration, It will be * Bourbon," * Confoderats,” *moun- tain.buttrossed,” *copper-bottomed,” and copperheaded. It will bring to the front all the old-time Siate rights foeling which made Bocessionists of the Bouthern Domocrata and Copperheads of the Northorn Democrats, ‘Che IHouso of Ropresentatives will go into thelr hands, and thoy will regulato the army ‘and navy accord- ing to their notions and necessities through tho nppropriations. The United States Sen- atowill go into thefr hands, and they will confirm no man for office who is not a truo Confodorato at hoart. 'The wholo foreign sorvice will go into their hands, and they will begin to mauufacture sentimont in all the countries of the world In behalf of the “lost causa,” ke civil vervice at home will go into their hands, and it will be a gigantic machine for keeping down the negro vote at the South and manipnlading Btate politics at tho North in fuvor of the Confederates. ‘The State Governtnents will largely go into thelr hauds, ond when this shall Lave been brought nbout, then the work will be begun in esruvst of repealing the Constitutional Amondments and undoing the results of the War of the Rebellion, Who can doubt, after the exhibitions of the Confoderate soutiment at Washington thesa last eight months, inder the restraint of a Republican Sonato and with a Presiden- tinl eloction ahead to hold them down, thst ‘when they mccede to the coutrol of all the branchos of the Government they will tako stops Lo’ reimburse the Bouth for jte losses during the War, to deprive thoe negroof the right of suifrage, and to instituto a systom of black labor at the Bouth that will support tho whites in their constitutional and Leroditary idleness? It is the hope of this that induced tho Houthern Democrats to proclaim boldly that they would acospt any candidate and avy platform that tho Northerp Democrats could suggest thab would be likely to carry sufficlent Northern Btates to jusure vletory, Tioex, or Hexonrons, or TROURMAN, or A1~ LEN, or HaNcooE, or any other man; bard moncy or goft money, high tariff or froo- trade, Chineso or anti-Chineso—it waa all the samo {o them; they simply want control, that they may dictate to the North the pay. mont of tho Southorn States' dobts, the al- lowanee of Southern cottonand other claims, {tho abrogation of tho Consatitutional Ainend. monts, and the reassertion of the State rights dootrines, upon which sccossion i founded. This is the real significance of the * putrid rominisconce,” and the editor of the Chicago T'imes, approaching tho close of life, is a8 {air a type of what ho protonda to denounce ns counld be possibly discovercd. Ho {8 n Stato rights man and Confederate at heart, and always has beon, 110 waa so during the ‘War, and ho is too old a dog to learn now tricks. 1o feigned n change of heart to save bis skin and his newspapor, but now that thero ncems to bo n chance to restors the ““putrid reminiscance” by the clection of TiLvex, ho proposes to do all he can to help on the schome, He knows that Tr.oen's elec- tion would Lring about all we have deseribod, ond that is the reason ho supports bhim, Per- sonally, Lo probably does not like TinneN, Broney's porsonal animosity for TiLpex was shown by his oxtrnordinary offorts to have tho St. Louis Conveniion nominato some- Dody clic—nnybody elso; but he now sup- ports even TtLorN, in ordor to support tho “putrid rominisconco ” of which both Trr~ peN and Bronky aro component and me- phitic parts. Dut Storey underestimates the intolligence of Lis Republican ronders if ho thinks lio can decsive thom by pretending to abusa the Confedorntes as a party while do- ing everything he can to restore them to power. 'Thia Bort of thing might deceive the average Democratio intclligonce, but the in- tolligenco of tho Republican readera is ad- vanced beyond it. They will not fail to rec- ognizo the real object, and thoy will refuse to countenance it, but drop the paper to which Brorer bhus atiracted many of them by his falso protenses. Beratch n Russian and you find o Tarlar, and the T'%mes, boing seratched, reveals tho Copperhend, THE The dispatches from Europe relative to the Turko-Servian war at lnst begin to be ration- ol cnough to give us an intolligent idon of tho nctual movements of the campaign. Thero o many little detachments ‘of Serv- mns fighting in guorrills fashion, but the main army -is divided into two columns, which are striking for footholds in Bosnia ond Bulgarin. The first, under the ex-Aus- trian General, Zucy, starting ‘from Shabatz, in tho extreme northwostorn part of Sorvia, marched along the Save in a westerly dirco- tion, and crossing the Drins, o tributary of the Bavo, nttacked the Turks at tho littlo town of Belina, on tho 8d inst,, cutting to picees 2,000 Tarkish regulars, carrying thoir position ond firing the town, thus at the very ontsot chocking the Tarks in their ef- forts to cross tho Bervian frontier. The other eolumn, under the Russinn General, TemenNAYEYF, has thus far met with remark- able success, if the dispatches are to be cred- ited. He crossed the southeastorn frontier of Servin into Bulgarin, and almest immedi- atoly defeated a small Turkish force at DBobiannglava. On the 8@ he mot the main Turkish column wunder Hamvpr Pasua, near Nissa, turned its flank, and, arriving in safoty at Pirat, effected n junction with the Bulgarian insurgents, who aro rapidly growing into quite a formidablo little army, and is now threatoning Sofls, & placa of strategic importance down nesr to the Balkan Mountains, If lio succeeds in reaching it, he will command the railroad to Constantinoplo and thus isolate the Turkish forcas in Bulgnria. The third column oper- ating ngainst the Turks is that of the Mon- tonegrins, who appoar to be acting inde. poudently of the Sorvian advauce. Thoy havoe as yot met with no opposition to their advanco, and are already iu close proximity to Mostar, the Onpital of Herzegovinn, the Mussulmans fleeing to the fortrasses as thoy approach, and the Turkish army under Me. HEMID Awt retiring towards Bosnla. Thoen. gogemonts which havo thus far been fought have not been gerious in character, and are only incidental to the gon- eral plans of tho campaign, which seom to be, on the Bervian side, to got possession of Bosnin on tho one hand, and form a comploto union with tho Bulgarinns on the other, thus isolating the Turkish forcos in tho northwestern and southoastern dlstricts, threatening the Turkish possesslon of Bosnia on the ono hand and Constsnti. nople on the ofher. The Great Powers still romain as paasivo spoctators, but thero ara ominous signs of interferonce in tho sudden concentration of tho Austrian army und the roport that tho Russians are approaching Bukowinn, an Austrian distriet, which will give thom ontranceinto Turkey via Aoldavia and Wallachia, and place thom within co- oporating distanco of TonenNAYEvF's forces, THE BTORY OF THE MASSACRE The dispatches from Gou. ‘I'ensy and the information afforded by Gon, SurstpaN rels- tive to tho pending Indian campnign furnish a completo view of the operations prior to Custee's dreadful digastor and of the finme-. disto causes of the massacre, and moroe clear. 1y thau ever show it to have beon occasioned by a most fatal and deplorable error of judg. ment on Ousten's part. Tho campoign against the Sionx commenced in April last, at which timo four judependent movoments woro plauned, with the common purpose of homming in the Indians and crushing them between the concentrating columna. Gon, COpoox’s force of 1,600 men moved north from Fort Fottorman to Fort Kearney at the Leadquartors of the Tongne River, and in its progress met with n recoption from the Sloux at Rosebud Oreck, which dorauged his plans and oaused him to fall back. Gen. Giopox, with the samoe number of men, at tho same time movod from Fort Ellis north. east along the Yellowstone to make a junce tion with Tenmy ot the month of the Little Powder River, Gen. Mxnuirr, with o swallor force, marched mnorth from Fort Laramnie up towands the Black IIills to intercept tho Indiauns as they should fall back, Tho last column was that of Gen, Trnuy, whose line of march was from Fort Abrsham Lincoln west to (ho mouth of the Powder River, thon south to the forks of the Liitle Powder, thence west acroas the Tonguo and Rosebud Creeks to the Little Horn, whore they wourd make a junction with Gunoon and drive the Indians out from tho rogion of the tributarics of the Yellowstone southoerly, to bo jutercopted by Oroox. and Menurrt, ‘The four columns wers converg. ing from the northeast, northwest, south, and southeast, and were closing in upon tho Indiang, as the hunter close in upou their game, With the exception of tho tomporary repulse to Caoox's colutn, all'was goiug well until the worniug of the 25th of June. Tho Indions bad been driven beforo tho advauc- ing columny, and were pannod up In the hilla nesr tho mouth of tho Little Ilorn River. On the morning of tho 22d, Gon. ‘Fxnpy's forco renchod the mouth of Rose~ bud Croek, so near the Indians that movements must bo mndo with cantion. Teany mado his junction with Ginnon at this point, aud upon consultation it was decided that Custen should take his regl- ment, the Soventh, consisting of about (00 mon, in the advance a8 scouts, Ilis ordors waoro oxplicit to tako n cortain route aud not to fight the Indinus, but, in miliiary phrase, “to fecl of thom.” 'Tho routo proposed mado auch o detour {hat it would give time for Ginnox to come up with his infantry and striko o decisivo blow, Custen loft the month of Rosebnd Creok ou tho 224, but did not tnko the trail proposed. On that dny he marched 12 milos; on the 23d, 85 milea; on the 24th, 45 miles, and then, aftor nslight rest, 23 wiley furthor, which brought kim on the morning of tho 25th closo up ngaiust tho Indlan encampment, Gen, Tznny statos in 1is dispatch that Costin acted upon the mis- appreheusion tiat the Indians were running nway—rotrenting, Whatever may have beon his apprehension, he dotnched Mnj. Rexo with seven companies to attack tho Indinn villaga on tho left, Rexo was almost in- stantly surroundod, but cut his way through, and, after being hotly proased for forty-cight Lours, was fnally relieved from Custen's fato by Col. Giupon's infautry, who mado a forced march to render belp. Custen, with flve companics, attacked on tho right, sud found himself in tho midst of 2,000 or moro Iodinus. In ono hiour’s time his forco wns aunibilated, Hnd he waited twenty-four hours longor, tho Indians wonld hiavo boon crushed, if thoy lind risked o bat- tlo, nud the war might have beon ended, for on the 26th, exactly as had been caleulated, GIppoN was at the mouth of the Littlo Horn, As it is, the Iudians havo escaped, and Tenny, who can hear nothing from Croox, mnst fall ‘back to await supplies and reinforcoments, and fall back immedintely, as in a very short timo the rivers will be ot such n low stage a8 to bo unnavigable. Tt is hnrd to criticise such 5 gallant man anq hrillinnt soldier as CusTee, but tho dia- priches from tho scene of conflict, and tho sta.cmonts ¢f his suporior oMMcers, all go to show that by his rashness and impotuosity hemado a most dieastrous blundoer, which not only involved his ow lifo, but sacrificed the lives of nearly 300 gallant officors and men, and nllowed tho Indians to escape. Iind ho followed his instructions not to fight the Iudions untit Gionon's colnmn came up, in twenty.four hours the Indinn war might have beon ended, Now it will probnbly take o year's time, nn oxpondi- ture of millions of moncy, and a sacrifico of still more lite beforo the savages aro sub- dued. Ho neglectod nll precautions of safety by doclining to take with him the additional forca which Tenrny offered and the battery of guns which was also tendered him, He vio- lated the orders of his superior by not taking tho trail which wns lald ont for him, and then, ncting uponanerror of judgment, stril- ing the wholo Indian forco, instend of wait- ing until the next day. He acted indopend- ontly of the goneral plan of the campnign, and mado it an individual campaign upon: ‘his own risks, and lost. There must now Lo pause in tho cam- paign. Croox is cripplod, and has fallen ‘bnck whoro he i not in communieation with Trury, and Tenny 8 so erippled that he too must fall buck to await supplies and rein. forcoments, Mesnwhilo it is the duty of the Governmont to insugurate such active meas- ures aa shall in some sort compensate for the damages occasioned by Custer’s disas- trous error, The war must not stop until theao Indians are either compelled to romain upon their reservations or ara extorminated, and notill Brrrive Bury meots with Oapramd Jaor's fate. If tho rogular forces are not suflicient to wipe out tho Bioux, then let the Govornment accapt tho servicos of the gal. Iant pioneor hunters and fronticrsmen who aro already cager to attack the Indians, and who know how to fight Indians in Indinn fashion, Srrrmve Burr s beon on the war. path for thirteon years, and during that time Lins not only refused to go upon a reserva- tion, but has massacred miners and sottlers, mado war npon the commerce of tho Mis- souri, and alaughtered the friendly Indians wherever ho could find them, If thoro is no other way to ovorcome him and his warriors cxcept by extermination, then exterminate thom as quickly as possible. x LITTLE SAWMMY €OX. Littlo Baxosy Cox is mad. His carsor for the past year has beon a long serios and rap- 1d succossion of personal mistakes and’ par. sonal disappointments, The rosult is that ho has grown oross, and snapplsh, and unrea. sonablo. Ho overestimated his stature and calibre, and thought ho was really a very big man nfter the Democratio party came into power, But tho party soon tanght him his insignifleance. He wanted to bo Speaker, and failed in that, He wantad to be Chair. mau of the lending Committes, aud failed in that, TFinally ho sooured a sort of residoary clalm on the chair In Kern's absence, but he desorted Lis post, and lost §t. Tfe went to Bt. Louis at the behest of Tammany to beat Tir- oy, and fallod ngain, Then he cmmno back to find his towmporary Congressional honors taken from him ; and now, liko alachrymose burlesque on little Jack ITonnen, Lie sitsin a corner ecating his humble ple, snd cries “ Whot a small boy am L" Bome allow- ance, thorefors, onght to be madoe for Sauncy when ho comes to the front as a pos. simist, and abusea overybody and everything without tho striotest regard for voraclty. His epleen got the botter of him Thursday in tho @obate on the Appropriation bill, when, among other unworthy insinuations, he made the following mean aud inferantially antrue statoment ¢ . It has been & time of profonnd poace surrender nt Appomattox Court-Houno, turbances made since that thno have been caused by political futerference with local self-govern. ment, and now you talk about tho army, when Bumninax s in_ Philudelphia rotlicking on the Con. tennful, and when Costen folle in the wilderneas, and you say you have not ot troope enough, Whero are your 25,000 men? ‘Tlhrew thousand of them are ju Misslaalppl, Loulsiann, and some other Southern Htates, What ure they dolny there? ‘There I¥ no revolt, uo rebellion, no eloctiou yet, and only 5,000 men sro sent out to fight tho wita Sloux ludians, Now if Basuy would but recollect, hamust rocall the fact that, on geveral oceasions with. in tifo past yoar or two even, and froquently bofore that, tho United Btates Government had to send troops down Bouth to keep the fire-eators from cotling thelr own tbroats, and to provent wholesale massaoros of the blacks. But Basnay says that there are 3,000 troops In the South now, Woll, is that out of proportion? Isu't tho number considera- bly less than tho Bouth ought tohiave withits relative proportion of population and forti- fied placea? Bauur says that these troopa are located in * Loulsians, Misalssippl, and otlier Southorn Btates.” Now didn't Basux koow, aud intentionally suppress the fact, that most of tho troops are in ‘I'exas, and siretchod along the borders for several hua. drod miles, from tho mouth of tho Lo Grando to the Indian Torritory? Doesn't Lo know that the Texas people aro constantly begging for moro troops to protoet thom and thoir property from the roide of the Indiana and Mexican yroasora? Doesn’t ho Lnow that troopa nre required all along the Atlnutio const and tho Pacifle const to pro- toct the fortified places, and in all the Westorn Territories to put down the demon- atrations of the hostilo Indinna? Docan't ho know it to boa fact that tho United States army Is seattered about this entire continent in handfuls, and necessarily so, and that in the Bouthern Biates gonernlly there are not ag many troops as thero ought to bo to guard the United States forts, and in Toxas not as miany ns the peopla demand ? ‘We very much fenr that Sasnry is cognizant of nll theso faots, and that his intimation abovo was a awggestio fulsi, it nothing worse, which o made partly for partisan purposcs and partly out of that personal spite, conso- quent upon his numorons disappointments, which prompta him to say monn and hateful things whera ho used to say jolly and cheor- ful things, OFf all tho mistakes Sasny hag made, evidently the most gerious was when ho voluntarily abandoned the humorous field to Canzen Iiannison and envolled himsolf among the sombre malconients, VOLUNTARY GOVERNMENTS, Deapito the intonscly hot weather, the peopla of Chiengo must laugh at the venera- ble old gentlemnn who owns the Ohicago Ttmes, and who is advising everybody not to poy taxes, declaring that Bunpewsnuny, B NEY, ‘“and their compeers,” no less than Hanvrpex and Cnouwery, Groras WasiING- TON, Sast Apawms, and Haxcoox, refused to pay their taxes, and that tho Chicago tax- fighter may oxpect to live in the world's re- nown with thoso historie persons. Let us look into this pieco of history: Did Oriver Croxwery, Jonw Ilaxcoor, Iaepey, Geonar WasmmNaToN, Sunewsnuny, SioNey, and Baa Avams, when enlled upon to con- tribute, say, $100 onch, to pay their local taxes, cmploy nn attorney, stating that, if hio could by any legal ingonuity and device, nny technienl error in the proceodings, any misteke on tho part of tho publio ofiicers, defent tho collection of tho tax, thoy would omch give him 10 per cent of tho sum saved ; that is to say, thatif he could by legal ingennity awindle tho Government out of its lawful revenuo, they would givo him 10 per cont of the pro- ceods of tho robbery? Did Onoxwery and Geonar Wasmmnaron, Hawrpex and Joms Hancocx, resist tyranny by any such potti- fogging as this? Are thoy to bo held up as cxamples for men who repudiate debts, and rofuse to pay ratablo contributions to tha or- dinary exponditures of their local Govern. mont ? ‘We think there aro other historical exam- ples who will fit the cnso bottor, Suppose wo substitute Jaxy Rens for Geonar Wasn- 1aToy, sud the Whisky Ring for CroxMwrry and *his compeers,” and perhaps wo will find that the OChicngo tav-fightor is more fitly reprosented. Tho whisky men owed the Government 90 conts per gallon tax ; in- stead of pnyingtho tax, they paid Jaxe Rema 20 conts, the Goaugors 5, and somo other persons 20, and the other 45 they kept. The QGovernmoent lost all, and for this con. dnet the American people hold them ‘justly punished by conviction as criminals and imprisonment in jail and Ponitentiary, The - Chicago tnx- fighters mnke similar arrangoments; thoy hire somo one for a percentage of thl tnx to defeat ils colloction, and thon pocket so much of the tax they avoidpaying as may bo loft after division with the sttorney. And this the Chicago T¥mes says was tho courso adopted by OnomwrLL and 8ax Apams, Geonux WasnnoroN und Haarpen, Man. kind genorally will troat it os hardly differ- ont from the proceedings of Jaxe Rein, McDonaLp, and Joyox, who are the *com. peors ™ of the men who gosbares on dofrand- ing the city of its rovenues, and compol others to pay their debts. The orgnu of the dead-bests demands the abolition of all Oity Government, and a re- sort to the volunteer systom—tlat is, vol- unteer policewen, volunteer firemen, volun- toor bridgo-tenders, voluntoor sewer-build- ers, and sireet-pavers. . If any money bo needod, nman is to go around with the hat aond collest onough volunteer subscriptious to pay the intorest on the dubt, ote., mnd if thore be noth- ing voluntarily subseribed, then the interest is to go unpald. Undor the volun- teor system ench man who is so disposed mpy hang out alamp, ora lantem witha candlo in it, but there* will be nothing com. pulsory, and thus tho streots will be lighted. f'he wator-works will be maintained by voluntary contributions, and the schools in tho same way; but the fundamental princi- plo of Ouwven Cromwerrn, W. F, Sroney, Gronae WasumatoN, and ANpre AlaTresoN iy, that taxation i tyranny, and resistance to tyronta is oboedionce to God, and erpo the man who pays taxes in Ohicago is not obe- diont to God. This proposition to institute alocal Governmant to be supported -exclu- slvaly by volnntary subscriptions is so su. promely rediculous that it excites tho risibles of ovon tho dead-boat fraternity who pay no taxes. As aclass, this fraternity ore notin favor of the voluntary system, They want a strong Governmont, one which will moke liberal exponditures for the public peace, health, comfort, and protection ; but they want others to pay the tax ; thoy now share thebenefits and comforts Lo secure which the clty expended the 8,400,000 which it has failed to collect from taxcs, The dead-bests have avolded that much taxes, and they have no objoction to taxation provided the tax is to De colleoted of others, They tako no stock in, but contemptuously ‘laugh at, the Junaoy exproased in the following : 'fhere 9 nothing so very dreadful in the dlemis- 3] of the police, the Fire Dopartment, tho super- fuous Board of Works, putting out the gas, and,in ® word, whutting up tho **busted” wmuniclpul ahop —for It is useless to pretend that the munlcipal shop f¥not **buasted." 7T'hat which causes men to shrfuk from taking this step extats nowhoro but fn their own fancy, The dismissal of the police ‘would no more turn the city ovor tothioves und sufians than it would convert 200.000 adult men iuto Liviplesa babes. The discontinuanco of a tax- fed Fire Department which ought never to have been orected wonld no more cosslgn tho city to Osmes than It would couvert ita proporty-owuners foto incendiarica, The closing of the gigantic works swiudle woald burt nobody but the noblu army of contractors. The closing of the public achools would simply reopen s greater pumber of more vsetul and economical private achools, ‘The exstingulshment of the street-lamps, supported by public taxation, would aimply cause them to Lo rotighted nt less than Lalf tho cost by the neighbor- ing merchants and hunechulders; who would proba- Dy prefer, as equally good and wore economicsl, 10 wubstituto head-Hght ofl lawps fu place of the moro costly bus nos more brilliant gas lamps ja the strosti. i It should nover be forgotten thet at no time and under no circumstancos has thero over boen an objootion to the city taxes which these modorn Opouwzrrs, and Ilaxp- Dexg, and Baat Wirxxns refuse to pay, that such tax wes fraudalsnt, or levied for au ————, illogal purposo; tho solo objootion wan thy toohnical logal mistake of tho Inw offlcers of tho city, COL. KEYES AND THE MILWAUKER W1s, KY RING, Tha person who figured mont conspien, ously in the Milwaukes Whisky Ring wag Mr. 8. J, Conxu, ITo wna tho boss, op ‘ mocher," as he was dosignated on (hy stubs of Touis Rinpsxors's checks drawp for payment of the blackmail lovies maie by tho official Ring upon tho maunfacturars of the crooked. As Bpecial Revenue Agont, it was Conrury who organized and mantpy, lated tho officinl sogment of tho Ring which shiclded the distillors and rectifiors in plup. doring tho Governmont, .and then robled them of the largest part of tho plunder. 11y At was who, to the distillers aud rectifle reprosented the ¢ official and political in. fluenco " which insistod upon a divide of thy craoked etenlings, and which forced itsclt into partnorship with the Whisky Ring, ‘Whon * lightning struck,” Lo was one of tho first 1o seok cover in Onnada, nod from thency linstoned to open correspondenco with thy Governmont counsol with n viow to securing fmmunity from punishinent upon returning to tostify ngainst his confederates in tho Ring. When moking blackmnil lovies upon crooked rectifiors and distillers, Cowxray nffected to represout important politiciang and high ofileials, his vaguo and mysterions reforonces to whomn served to powerfully ro inforce his rapncious demands. When le mada his overtures to the. Government for immunity upon condition of becoming n wit. ners for tho prosecution, he naturally aud neoessarily adhered to his previous stato. ments a to the pringipals for whom he bl colleoted the blackmail upon the Whisky Iting, and to the Govornment counsel ho named the Iion. E. W, Keyes, Chalrman of the Wisconsin Ilepublican Committea, aud ox-Souator Oanrexten, as having knowingly used nnd consented to tho uso of the share of the Whisky Ring's stealings by him collect. od, to securo tho re-olection of the latter to tha United States Senate, The upshot of Coxxrin's negotistions with the Govornmont officials ot Milwaukee wos that at last Lo was permitted to roturn to testify in the whisky prosccations thore, whon ho wns summoned to Washington to ropent boforo tho Ilouse Committoe his atate. manta counecling QanventEn and Keyes with the Whisky Ring. There Coxnriy had every oppartunity afforded him to make good his chargos againat them, and Lo complately failed. Mr. Keres also appenred, and in. sisted npon boing oxamined under oath as to the mattora charged by Conkrin, The result was that it apponred that less than ono thon- snnd dollars Liad been contributed by Conrrry to Carrnnren's compnign fund; that thé source from whonco it was dorived wns coin. municated nefther to Kxyes nor OarvexTER; and that the latter had peromptorily refused to permit Whisky-Ring fands to bo used for his re-oledtion, or to permit any corrupt nso of monoy for olectionoering purposes, It further appearcd that the first informntion lodged with tho Department ngeinst tho Wis. consin Whisky Ring came from Krres him. solf,—the very man who, according to Conz- riN'g story, was 8 membor of the Ring; and Keyes' lottors, in which ho dirocted attention to the frauds being practiced upon the reve. nuo, 'nre now on file in tho Departmont. As Tne Trmone published as o mattor of curront nows Coneun's lettor in which the oharges reforred to were made pgainst Mossrs. Oanrenten nud Keres, wo fool that it is a matter of simple justice to thoso gen. tlemen that the complote explosion of thoso chorges should be noticed in these columns. This we do the moreo readily because of tho fact that not only did Cownkriy fail to sub- stantiate his charges, and that theso were ro- futed, but that manifestly, after tho manner of our virtuous Remy, Mr, CoNgLy was in- tent upon saving himself by swenring that Oaunrxnren and Keyes worb his soducors, Col. Keyes roturned home on Monday evening, where ho received quite an ovation from his neighbors and friends, irrespoctive of party, in consequence of his complete vin- dication. He was.mot st the dopot and es. corted to his hotol by n crowd of friends, preceded by a band of musio, Gen, Bayanr made o welecoming spaceh, in which ho said: ‘Wo have waited confidently for your fall vindica- tlon, That vindlestion has cumne; 5o completely, s0 trlumphantly, that it Is concoded even by thoie who wonld profit by your downfall. Not ouly Les fore the people of il State, but before the peuplo of the whole United States, ias it boen made. Nob only has the special accusation ngainst you been shown to bo groundless, but the vindication s broader than that. Tt has lifted and dlspolicd the whole cloud of susplcion which recklvss asiortion and {neinuation have trled to gather around your head. It has shawn that fn the eager struggle for political success you have not been, coutd not be, tempted to forget your duty as a cltizen, As your old aclghbors and friend, without dlatinction ot party, we rejoleo that you have come hack tous with no stala upon your honor. THE FOURTEENTH COLONY, An almost forgotten pago in our natlonn} annals, of which o little is now known that it will be matter of gonuino nows to mout folks, furnishes an interesting supplement to Tne ‘Iawune's Centennial historio resume, published on T'ucsday. This serap from our Colonial history discloses that there would have beon fourtoen instend of thirtaonstripes in tho national flag, but for the land-gvab- bing rapasity and carpot-bag despotism ot~ tempted by tho biggest of the Colonfes upon tho least. It was not until 1724 that tho finst white settlemont was made within the Hmits of what is now Vermont, which, from the timo of its exploration by Cmamrraiy until then,—over a contury,—lad been shunned a4 tho baitle-ground of the Algonquina and Iro- quois, The tide of immigration shortly after sot in, and In 1768 no loss than o hundred and thirty-olght townships within tho pros- ent boundaries of the Groon Mountain Htato had beon granted to settlers by tho Govoruor of New Hampshirs, who, it may be assumod, stimulated tho immigration to the utmost, singe for every township sold, ke resorved to himself as his speclal feo and ewmoluwmont five hundred acres, 5 But ere this New York eot up claim to this same torritory, then known as tho *Now Hampshire grants,” On tho 28th of Docem- ber, 1763, the Gavernor of Now York issuod his proclamation alaiming that domatn under grant from OCuanies tho Socond to the Duke of York, Tho yearfollowing, the Gov- ernor of New Hampshire jssuod a counter- proclamation, New York appealed to the Orown, and, Now Hampshire lettingtho mat~ ter goby dofault, tho King coutirmed tho jurisdiotion of New York, The Naw York authorities, having without jot or tittle of logol or equitable claim thus consummated their land-grab, undertook to dispossess tho sottlors undor the New Hampshiro grants, A judioiary riot less corrupt than that which did Pux's Erio dirty work was the agenocy through which the New-Yorkers sought to accomplish this, There was no trouble about it in the Courts, no more than about the Erie Ring’s obtaining judgment before Judge BARRARD, and judgments of evictior