Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 9, 1876, Page 4

"THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 9, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. The Tribwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. #PATABLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT THIS OFPICE- Daily Edition, postpald, 1 ye 12.00 of a year, per month.... 1.00 'y cet ?1 Weekly, postpald, 1 year. 6.00 4728 Of & year, per mouth, 50 One co) 1.50 Ciub o " 6.00 Club of tweaty. 2000 Postage prepaid. Specimen coples sent frce. “To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Office address in full, including State and County. Remittances may be mede ecither by draft, express, Post-Office order, or in regletered letters, atour risk. . TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Datly, dellrered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. afly, delivered, Sundsy Included, 30 ceats per weck Adfiress THE TRIBUNE COMPANT, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Tl CAMPAIGN TRIBUNE. The Republican party has now piaced its national ticket and platform before the people. The ensuing Presidential canvass will beone of the most exclting ‘and tinportant that has ever occurred in this countrs. Every man should be furnished with full aud correct po- 1itical {nformation. In order tosupply thisnced, the pub- lshers of Tu Culcago TEISTNE will prigca un:;np;.:fir: stely, and com O S oR T L i election Jh November, 1876, atithe following exceedingly low rates, patd: Back pumbers of the camp: sent. The xovner personsorder Tug CAMPAIGY Tul O e e emer Paumber of issuca thoy Will get for thelr moaey. i SOCIETY MEETINGS. GARDEY CITY LODGE, NO. 141, A. F. & A, M.— The members are hereby notified toappear at their Jodge rooms on Sunday, July 9, 9:30 8. m., for the pur- osc of attending the funeral of our late brother, BRtnes ratt. Meibers of sister fodges fraternally fu- ~ited. H. F. JIOLCOMB, W. 3L 4 L. L WADSWORTIL Sce. GA’ N Cr LODGE 141, A. F. & A M.—A v mu.m{n:::%mmunll'ercflun ‘will be 'held at Oriental Hall on Wednesdsy evening, July 12 Work on the AL U Degree. Vldtmg?r%xhlfisl%gfifer‘%nl\y!ln\'lmfl. L. L. WADSWOLTH. Secretary. LITAN LODGE XO. 6, Knights of Pythias R e vension Thursday Gvenlngs hereatter. Visitfog parties zordlally invited. LAFAYETTE CHAPTER. X0, 2. . Monroe-st. Stated Convocation Mondsy evening, July {lg. at BDEIQCK. fl;r hu!sllr;u‘;{ x\‘lemben requested 10 of the 1. P- prompt. By order of th ' TUCKER, Secretary. 2, R. A.M.—Hall. 72 changed. Highwines wero unchanged, &t | crisis in city affairs. The City Government §1.10} per gallon. Flour was in small | —by which we mean the protection of life demand. Wheat closed 1i@13c lower, at | and property—cannot go onunless the money §1.00} for July and §1.022 for August. Corn | is renlized from the sale of these warrants to closed @1c lower, at 4Ge for July and 463c | pay the policemen, and firemen, and the gas for August. Oats were steadier, closing aé | companies for the lighting of the strects. 20c cash and 28jc for August. Rye was | Thero is and will be no money forthcoming quiet, at G5c. Barley was nearly nominal, at | from taxes for a year'stime which can be 57@58¢ for July and 75@80c (new) for Sep- | used to pay these current debts for services tember. Hogs were active and easier, clos- [ rendered. The money now coming in from ing weak at 10c decline. Sales chiefly at | the taxlevy of 1875 should and must go to $6.40@6.50. Cattle were in fair demand, at | the payment of claims for services rendered Friday's quotations. The range of sales | in 1875, and the tax-levy of this year is not was $2.50@5.35 for inferior to sxtra. Sheep | collectablo before July of next year. There were in better supply, but under a fair de- | is, therefore, positively no other way of mand prices were- sustained, at $2.50@4.50. | running the Government meanwhile except One hundred dollars in gold would buy | by the means now proposed; and, if the $111.87} in gréenbacks at the close. people of Chicago do not como forward with e liberal subscriptions, there will be no alterna- .tivebut an abandonmentof all that protection of person and property for which municipal government is instituted. The Democratic-Confederate Convention failed utterly to find any respectable, compe- tent citizen to accept their nomination for Mayor, and adjourned in despair. Next the matter was taken up by their Central Com- LOOE OUT FOR JIM M'GRATH. mittee, who offered the nomination first to There are.just two candidates for Mayor one person and then to another, without | before the people, notwithstanding Mr. finding takers. At last they hit on old Mr. | Mans Krwearr's professed nomination by Mang Knssars, who, it is reported, accepted | the Domocrats. One is Mr. Moxnoz Heatm, jt. Mr. Knauis a respectable .citizen, a | who was nominated by the Republican Con- man of good private character, and successful | vention, and the other is Jmr McGrats, who in business. In politics he has always been | is ranning independently. The Democrats, a Democrat, and is supporting Trpex | in nominating Mr. HurcHmNsow, a Repub- and Hesonicks for the Presidencies— | lican who wouldn't stick, probably intended Chief and Vice. The more reputable | by this means to give McGrata a chance to classes of Democrats will support him, | rake in the Democratic vote. Such is the but the roughs and scalawags of | effect at all events. The unwarranted use that party intend to vote for Jma Mo- of McVicker's name and the names of some Gratw, who is their style of professional | other gentlemen who will not be candidates bummer. There is just one danger to be ap- [ Was another blind. MoGrarr is the only prehended, and that is, that enongh Republic- | formidable candidate in tho field besides ans in the South Division may vote for | Heate. Butit must not be forgotten that Aurs Knmarsto let McGrata slip in be- | /e & in the field, and that, without the sup- tween him and HeaTtm. There isnot the | port of any newspaper except indirectly that slightest chance of Enmar's election if Ji | which the Times gives him by opposing McGeaTH stays on the track. The latter | Hearm, he will poll a very large will receive two—perhaps four—votes to the | vote. Some ‘of the Democrats will vote former’s one. The fight will be between [ for him in their insanoc desird to Hrata and McGrats, and decent Democrats | oppose every candidate who is put forward who would have the city escape the disgrace | by the Republican party, and thinking there and injury that would attend the election of | is no Democratic nominee, aund there is no AMcGrara should not waste their votes on | man in Chicagowho could better unite the EKrwsary, but cast them for HeaTs. entire bummer vote of the city. His candi- dature must not, therefore, be underestimat- SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1876. At the New York Gold Exchange on Sat- urdsy, greenbacks were steady at 89} T — Lieut.-Gen. Srrmipax, in his dispateh of Festerday to Gen. SmERMAN, expresses the opinion that there is no occasion to call for volunteer cavalry for the campaign sgainst Brrrive Burn. With the six companies of the Twenty-second Infantry, Gen. SHERIDAN says Teney's force will amount to about 2,000 men, and that Croox, when joined by Mer- zrrT, will have an equal force, which it is Jeft to be implied will be amply sufiicient for the movement against the Sioux. Gen. Trrey's officinl report adds nothing of importance to what intelligence had al- ready been received concerning the fight at the Little Horn. It confirms the previous reports os to the disaster, and estimates the fighting force of the Indisus at 2,500, or rhout eight iimes Custen's force. A later dispatch from Terey indicates that the In- dieus have retreated, dividing into two par- ties, one of which was going towsrd the Big Horn Mountains, while the trail of the other was eastward. Word comes from Washington that few, if £y, reports will be made at this session up- on the half-hundred, more or less, investiga- tions instituted by the Democratic majority of the House. The investigation smut-mill ‘as ground out such exceedingly small grist, znd at each turn of the erank Democratic statesmen have been 50 besmirched, that the Democratic-Confederate managers are anx- dous to conceal the results from the pepple, aad have been driven to abandon the cam- paign ammunition prepared in anticipation of the startling disclosures the smelling com- mittees were to make of Republican corrup- tion. At this precise juncture, when Gen. SHER- 10AX could do best service to the country in organizing and directing, a5 he was prepar- ing to do, the campaign against the Sioux, we learn that he has been summoned to Washington to testify in the Berzvap im- peachment trial, upon which, probably, the managers will keep him dancing attendance for an indefinite period. Itis, of course, desirable that he should tell what he knows concerning the BeLeNap business, but it is a mighty sight more important that he should attend to the Sioux, and it isn't likely that his testimony would spoil if kept until he Ead disposed of that weightier matter, But red-tape seems to forbid it. The wretched picayune Government of Beyti, it sppears from our dispatches, has rhosen this Centennial year as the season for 2 gross insult {o our flag, in training artillery npon the United States steamship Tlybee, to prevent hor departure from San Domingo, end, against the protests of her commander, §n boarding her with a body of troops and. 2t the muzzle of the musket taking from ander the protection of our flag the Haytien ex-Minister of War. There may be small oceasion for regret that he has fallen into their hands. But that Hayti, the very rap- scallion of Governments, fit to figure as such only in opera-bouffe, should have had the unparalleled effrontery to effect his eapture by such indignity to our flag, is calculated to rile one’s feelings. A long article upon the strength of the Russian army, written by a military expert, oppears in the Magdeburg Gaztte, the writer arriving at the conclusion that the universal lisbility to military service in Russia has not worked as well as was expected. Instead of producing an army of 2,500,000 men, it is now evident that the largest force Russia can muster on a peace footing is 30,000 officers and 730.000 men, and on & war footing 40,000 officers and 1,200,000 men. The same writer 8dds : ' Notwithstanding the considerable progress which b been made in organization and equipment, the enormons distances, and often very defective meaus of communication, present very formidsble difficulties to the concentrztion of a Jarge force at any given point. It is further to be considered that a great portion of the Jocal troops-in the in- terior of Russia will have to be retained there, and that the Russian soldier leaves a zreat deal to be dceired both 28 regards morality and intelligence. The reforms of the Emperor ALEXANDER are, no doubt, constantly developing themselves, and tend .20 satiefy the requirements of modern army organ- - fzation; but this object s a8 yet far from being attained. The Chicago produce markets were gener- ally quiet and essier Saturdsy. Mess pork €losed 23c¢ per brl lower, at $19.70@19.75 for July and $19.773@19.80 for August. Lard closed 124c per 100 tbslower, at $11.05 @11.074 cash and §11.12}@11.15 for Aug- ust. Meats were steady, at 8ic for boxed shoulders, 03¢ for do skort ribs, and 11c for do short clears. Lake freights were dull, at2c for wheat to Buffalo. Rail freights were ua- The great Republican mass-meeting last | o3 gng the election must not be permitted night wasan auspicious opening of the PO- | 45 05 by default. The respectable citizens litical campaign in the Northwest. The vast [ 5,9 tax-payers must all vote for Hraram if concourse assembled at Market and Madison they would avert the danger and disgrace of streets to ratify the nomination of HAYES |y o mon like Jow MoGrata May and Wrerrer was composed of the bestand | g, go Byor of most substantial voters of the city,—men | "y ol b i, anll outrage to not given to rabble-rousing demonstra- | 1oy MoGeyre glip into the Mayor's office. tions, and whose presence there Was | Ho more than any other man in Chicago, is an indication of the deep interest | ;ognongible for the loss of the $2,000,000 of they feel in tho approaching Presidential | hocy taves which have been expunged from contest and in the success of the grand old | 4o city's assots by the late decision of the Republican party. The speech of the Hon. SueLsY M. Cuzrox was in admirable spirit, and was well reccived. The emphatic re- sponses of the vast audience to his dissec- tion of the pretensions of TrupEN, the rail- rozd king, operator, and sssociate of Boss TwEED, to be a reformer, showed that they remembered the record Trroey made for him- self during the War, and as a member of the Committee on Resolutions of the Demo- cratic National Convention of 1864 which reported the infamous pecce resolution. ‘Thronghout, as often os contrast was made of the record, and-pretensions, and promises of the Democretie party, it was manifest, unmistakably, that the intelligent masses of this city have not so forgotten the history of the past fifteen years as to look for reform from the Democretic party, nor to intrust it with the administration of affairs. The vast outpouring of the people last night to ratify the nomination of HAYES was, in short, but an earnest of the tremendous majority by which they will in November ratify it at the polls. THE POPULAR LOAN. The City Comptroller has advertised for subscriptions to the Popular Loan of $1,000,- 000, whereby it is proposed to relieve the City of Chicago from its pressing nocessi- ties. This loan has been formally uulhm:-’ ized by an ordinance of the Common Coun- i, and the, revenue warrants will be drawn in conformity with the recent decision of the Circuit Court. They will run twelve months from date and draw interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum. It is not yet stated thet they will be receivable for the taxes of 1876, with interest, and probably. because the County Treasurer has not yet consented to receive them; but, as the ordinance au- thorizing this loan provided for this, it ought to be a condition of the warrants, and the Comptroller may arrange for receiving them in payment of taxes himself, and tempora- rily paying thecurrency to the County Treas- urer, to be turned over to the city. "Thereis no doubt that they will be the more easily negotinted with this provision, particularly s the warrants are issued in denominations of $500. Many persons who will have this amount of taxes to pay will thus seek them who would otherwise not invest in them. The fact is, that, both as to security and the rate of interest offered, these warrants are the mostdesirable short-time investments that are now offered to the public. They should be entirely disassociated from the out- standing certificates, which were not issued in conformity to the law, and for the pay- ment of which there was no definite pro- vision. The new revenue warrants are drawn against, and are a lien upon, the tax-levy of 1876. In the aggregate they will not amount to one-third of the tax-collections, so that their payment is abundantly assured. Tke funds which they represent will be used for the payment of the current expenses of 1876, ‘which will be reduced by the Council far be- low the appropriations for the yoar. 'The whole tax-levy will be promptly collected, since the assessment and collection will be under the General Revenue law of the State, so that payment cannot be avoided, or post- poned, as in the past. These revenue warrants should commend themselves particularly to those who have small amounts of money lying idle, and who desire to place it where they cen make it available at short notice. The warrants will always be negotiable at home. They will draw 2 per cent more interest per annum than the savings banks now pay, and proba- bly from 3 to 4 per cent more than the sav- ings banks will pay after a little-while, since these institutions cannot with safety con- tinue to pay 6 percent for money which they cannot easily reinvest at § per cent. Indeed, the savings banks themselves, which are protected from runs by the thirty and sixty dsys’ notices, and not hampered by the same considerations as the National Banks, will find it difficult to place their deposits more advantageously and securely than in these city warrants, To another class of men — our more wealthy citizens—these city warrants should present themselves with a certain claim on their duty. None are so much interested in the preservation of the city's credit, and the maintenance of the Police and Fire Depart- ments, as those who have large property and | business interests in Chicago, There isa Supreme Court. The Common Council was warned, after the first decision invalideting the tax-levy under Bill 300, to proceed thenceforth under the General Revenue law, and s large number of the Al- dermen (among them Moxsor Hearm) desired to do s0. But two men— McGrate and Von Horien—held affices which ensbled them to draw sbout $100,000 a year out of the City Treasury, and which would have been abandoned by drop- ping Bill 800. MoGrare had long been the chief of the bummer Council, and had more influence with the Ring Aldermen than any other man in Chicago. Ho bent all his en- ergies to the retention of Bill 300 in order to save his place as Tax-Commissioner and the patronage attached to it. Tho result was that the assessment was made and the collec- tion attempted under Bill 300, after it had been declared incompetent, and fully $2,000,- 000 of assets were lost to the city, and can probably never be recoverod. And the man who brought this about for his own selfish purposes now proposes to drag out enough votes from the alleys, and gutters, and slums of Chicago to be elected Mayor. And he may succeed in doing it if there is any apathy among the respectable people and property- owners. The situation is such that good citizens must not throw away their votes for Mr. Enmavr, but must, irrespective of party, vote for HeaTH in order to render McGRATHE'S defeat certain. THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION IN EUROPE. The present physical conflict between the Greek Christinns and the Mohammedans upon the battle-ficlds of Bulgaria and Bosnia is hardly more interesting or exciting than the great moral struggle between the Tl- trumontanes and the Liberals of Europe, precipitated by Pope Prus IX. = The London Times very aptly states tho merits of this contflict in the following words: The problem of civilized lifc fsto combine the influcnces of religion with the craving for freedom and movement, and Pope Prus EX. will be memor- nble in history for having pledged the Roman Catholic Church to their pormanent separation. Instead of reserving religion for the control of the conecience and the heart, he has made it a matter of politiesand of force; and has anmounced that his Church will nowhere be at rest, or allow rest to any community, until she hos asserted a complete control over the national as well as the individual life. For what purposes that control will be ex- ercised the world well knows; and the victory of the Church is an-impossibility. The recent collision between the Ultra- montanes and Liberals in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, and other citiecs of Belgium, in which many buildings were destroyed and many people wounded by Liberal partisans who were incensed at the sight of Ultramon- tane processions, wasa phase of this great conflict which is liable to occur at any time in countries where the two bodies are so nearly alike in numbers and influence. We aro accustomed to regard Belgium as strong- ly Roman Catholic. Thisis true in one re- spect and false in another. The Protestants of the MarTiy LuTeER stamp are weak in numbers ; but the number of those who pro- test against Ultramontanism in behalf of modern thought and progress' is sufficiently large to be mearly able to control the Gov- ernment of that country. Out of a popula- tion of 4,500,000 there are at least 2,000,000 of these protesting Liberals who have ar- ranged themselves against Ultramontanism and are fighting against the interfer- ence of the Church with civil affairs. They were not broaght up in the Protestant faith. They do not go to Church at all. But the Ultramontane pretensions, and the at- tempt of the Pope to mix up the things that are Czsar’s and the things that are Curist's, have become so odious to them that they will not endure it any longer, and resist it as bit- terly and defiantly as if they were religions partisans of an entirely opposite household. In France, the samo movement is taking place, only it is more formidable. The Bishop of Orleans proclaimed but a few days sgo that the struggle was a bitter one. In the recent elections, the Liberals obtain- ed 8 large majority in the popular branch of the Assembly, and made the Senate nearly 8 tie; and this in France, the oldest daughter of the Church! One-half of the people of France are intelligent, and they read and think, and, as in Belgium, never darken the church-doors because of this Papal preten- sion to subject the State to the Charch and dictate policies to the Government. Tae condition of things in France and Belgium may be more clearly realized upon the sup- position that the Protestant population of Treland was twice or three times esstrong asit is now. By making this supposition we can understand more clearly the intense bitterness and hata that exist between the two parties. In Spain, the Liberals are now underfood and are persecuted by the Clericals and Ultra- montanes. Qut of sixtesn millions of popu- Iation, there are four or five millions, per- haps, of Liberals; but they have no show, 28 the Ultramontanes have complete possession of the Government eud the army. Spain is the only country in Europe in which Ultra- montanism has & complete foothold and in which the Pope can insist upon an interfer- ence with civil affairs. In Germany, the rigid esecution of the Faxcx laws has at last produced quict. Last year at this time the Empire was excited from one end to the other over BisMancx's straggle with the Pope. Tho Pope thun- dered, Archbishops threatened, Bishops re- fused to obey the laws and were summarily fined or interned for their contumacy, but, when their terms expired and they were re- leased, they did not renew their contumacy. They did not martyrize well, but settled downin a surly acquiescence to the will of the majority and to the additional fact that the Ilaity were satisfied - with the new privileges which they had ob- tained under the Farck laws of electing their own priests and managing their own church property. The great majority of the people of Germany are’ inflexibly and unal- terably opposed to Ultramontanism. There aro 14,000,000 of Catholics in Germany, but there are 27,000,000 of Liberals who are hostile to the interference of the Church with civil affairs. The only remnant of hostility left is in Bavaria, where the two parties are more closely balanced, as in Bel- gium; bat even in Ultramontane Bavaria the Liberals are rapidly gaining ground. In Great Britain, the Protestant power is too strong for Ultramontanism to lift its head. In Austris, it has more power than elsewhere in Europe, except in Spain, but even in this Empire it has to move cautiously, since any overt act would probably lead to revolt. In Ttaly, there are influences at work which promise well for Liberal reforms, as will be seen by the following extract from a letter to the New York Zimes: The interesting question of the Jiberty of election by the people of the priests who have charge of the spiritual cure i8 still an open one, as the Govern- ment has ot yet passed any law of guarantecs giving the protection asked for by parishes which have already taken action or ure ready to act. In many districts the inhabitants arc prepared to take matters into their own hands, and they are en- couraged to do 8o by zome of the most enlightencd leaders of opinfon, and by the position of an- tagonism in which the Bishops hold themsclves to patriotic aspirations. . ‘The good results of the system long in action in Protestant com- munitics are frequently cited, and the sccular power is more and more disposed to take leseons from such exsmples. Efort is made to give new vigor to public life, and, while progress is going on in the direction of elementary instruction, there ' is a desire to awaken a more lively sense of re- sponsibility for the well-being of the community among the masses of the population. The people are to be taught to become the directors of their own aflairsin every class of interests. The English word gelf-government is adopted into the vocabu- lary of thiyconntry, and both the phrase and the principle are becoming more familiar to the people by practice. The general review of the ground shows that the attempt of the Pope to turn back the hands on the dial of Progress is not working well, and that in this studious but stupid effort to array ignorance against intel- ligenco he is doomed to defeat. AMERICAN WOMEN ABROAD. Mrs, Jane Guey SwissEeryr is doing her traveling countrywomen s great service by drawing prominent attention in her letters to TeE Cmicaco TrimuNE to the insults to which American women are subjected on the Continent of Europe. It isa fact that re- spectable American women cannot walk alone in the streets of any city in France, Germany, or Italy, even in broad daylight, without at the least being stared out of countenance, and very likely insultingly addressed by those who profess to be gentlemen. The men are brates, according to our ideas of propriety and decency, but some allowange must be made for the difference in the traditions and customs of the countries. In America every woman is regarded as virtuous until she so conducts herself as to excite suspicion to the contrary; in Europesn citics the rule is almost reversed. With us young women may go where they like, and are protected by the moral and social code that exacts deference and respect for the fair sex. The very fact of & woman’s being unprotect- ed renders every decent man she meets a pro- tector. But in Europe it is not regarded proper for young women to go out alone even in the daytime without a male com-. panion or an elderly caperone; even a car- riage fails to afford the necessary protection. When girls or young snd attractive women are seen in the street alone, men so inclined jump at the conclusion that they are bidding for the attention of strangers, and conduct themselves accordingly. It is a brutal sort of code, but on alevel with the same con- dition of women in Germany that makes them farm-hands and the companions of dogs in drawing carts among the lower classes, and among the higher classes gives men the exclusive right of bowing first or refusing recognition when they meet lady acquaintances. However distesteful all this may be to Americens, and even though it be radically wrong and disgraceful, American travelers in Europe cannot hope to reform the social habits of old and populous countries, and must therefore adapt themselves to the con- dition of things as they find them. *‘If you are in Rome do as the Romans do,” is a mot- to that is founded in good sense, wherein it differs from a good many of the staple aphor- isms. American women must not attempt to exercise in European cities the same froedom which they are freely accorded at home. They must not take passage across the At- lantic under the impression that they can travel about alone on the European Conti- nent with as much safety from insult as they do in the United States. - There is no other country in the world where they can do it. And when sojourning for a time in European cities they must exact from their male com- psnions a more constant attendance than they receive .at home, while the gen- tlemen may take the opportunity of a Europesn tour to be initisted into the mysteries of millinery and shopping. One thing is certain: American women abroad cannot with impunity indulge in the same personal freedom as at home without being insulted, and if they desire to avoid it they will seek to conform to the habits of the countries they visit. We very much fear, too, that many of the American women who go abroad are partly | responsible for the conduct of the men who address them. The social folly kmown here ‘as “flirting” becomes & vice in Paris, Ber- lin, or Vienns. We do not doubt that many immature and thoughtless girls in American cities, encouraged by the freedom univer- sally accorded to them, adopt the usual prac- tices of “firting” from the windows or the carringe, on the street or at the theatre, without eny ulterior thought of harm, thougk it is always a foolish and dangerons tling; but they cannot do it with impunity in Europe. The slightest indication of *flirt- ing” or “making eyes” to a Pa- risian or n Berliner is instantly accepted ag a solicitation of favors, and sacted upon assuch. It is not improb- gble, then, that many American girls in Eu- rope, almost withont' knowing it, have brought upon themselves the insults they resent. It is also a fact that American wom- en, in their eagerness to see everything, go to places where no respectable French or German woman is ever seen,—the Mabille or the Bouffes in Paris, for instance,—and, arguing from their own date and experience, the Frenchimen and Germans are warranted in their conclusions. ‘While American women can do much them- selves in the way of avoiding the insults which Mrs. Swisseery has brought into prominence, and in which all American trav- elers abroad have had more or less expe- rience, we shall not object to any lessons in decency which American men may give the flancurs who insult their wives and daugh- tets; and we heartily wish enough of the French and Germans could visit the United States during this Centennial year to learn the superior decency of our social code in this regard. TILDEN'S CANAL-REFORM FRAUD. The Democratic candidate for President bases his claims to the office upon tle ground . of reform. Said Mr. TrmpEN, on hearing of his nomination: ¢ This nomination was not made by the leaders of the party. It was the people who made it. They want reform.” ‘We have already shown in these columns how TrrpeN acted as a reformer, when Chair- man of the Democratic State Committes in 1868. 'We have shown that at that time, act- ing as agent and adviser of Boss TwEEp, he served as an accomplice in stuffing ballot- boxes, and helped to steal the electoral vote of the State, giving HorrauN for Governor 10,000 majority, when, 88 was afterwards shown by thé Congressional investigation, the Republicans carried the State by 20,000. The chief reform, however, upon which Trx~ DEN proposes to run his campaign in the East and carry New York is the Canal re- form, which he aunounced with such aflourish of trumpets in his canal message in March, 1875. We print elsewhere from the New York ZTimes an exhaustive article showing the extent of this reform and ex- actly what has been accomplished. It isgood reading in this hot weather for those who look upon TILDEN as the great canal reform- er. Figures don't lie, and these figures not only don't lie, but they expose the . shallow- ness of this reform trick in a very eloguent manner. From the publication of the canal message in 1875 to the present time, three suits have been brought, one of them an old one commenced by Atty.-Gen. Banrow and abandoned as hopeless. Two of them were brought to trial, and one conviction was ob- tained. One suit was dismissed by Court, and one is now pending. Not one cent of money has been recovered, and it has cost the tax-payers of New York $100,000 in expenses of Commission and counsel, and not one existing fraudulent con- troct has been stopped. This is the sum and substance, therefore, of TrpEx's hullabaloo about canal reform : that the people of New York have had to pay $100,000 for the dismissal of one suit and & conviction in the second,—the conviction being that of Lozp, after two trials, who was a strenuous opposer of TrLpEN when he was seeking the nomina- tion for Governor in 1874, and refused to contribute to the campaign fund when he ‘was nominated. After spending $100,000 of the people’s money, he has convicted one man, who is not yet sentenced, and probably never will be, and has not recovered one cent. How much will it cost the peopls of New York if Trpex should carry out his ex- pensive system of reform and prosecute the long array of canal contractors? The summary of the Zimes shows the emptiness of TrupEN's pretenses as a canal reformer. The reform policy of TILDEN is a reform policy to erush political rivals. Beyond this he has no use for reform. His whole record down to the present time has been that of a cunning, scheming, selfish partisan, bent only upon advancing his own interests, at one time acting as an accomplice with Twern in stuffing ballot-boxes to do it, at another time throwing away thousands of dollars of the tax-payers’ money upon alleged reforms, which in reality are vain endeavors to crush out political rivals. Tmpey has & host of political enemies ; but can the people of New York afford to pay $100,000 for each of their scalps, in order to gratify this reform charla- tan ? THE F¥LOATING T, In the local columns of Tur TRIBUNE & few days ago was sketched a proposition, said to be under consideration by the city authorities, having in view the release of the city from its present financial embarrass- ments. To understand this proposition & knowledge of a few preliminary facts is necessary. The Constitution of the State prohibits any city or county from contracting a debt exceeding 5 per cent of the total value of the taxable property within such city, as assessed at the last previous assessment for State taxes. The last assessment of taxable prop- orty in Chicsgo aggregated $171,000,000, which, under the 5 per cent limitation, authorized a debt of $8,530,000. The City of Chicago, however, had, prior to the adoption of this constitutional prohibition, a funded debt of §13,500,000,—a sum largely in excess of the 5 per cent limitation. The Constitution hus also s prohibition upon taxes by counties for current expenditures in excess of 75 cents per $100 of valuation. The assessments for State taxation are an- nually made by local Assessors; the assess- ments of the several counties are aggregated and submitted to the State Board of Equali- zation. That body may *‘ equalizo” these assessments as between counties, but cannot add to or take from the aggregate more than 2 per cent. The proposition now under consideration by the city authorities is that the assessment for State purposes in this county, but espe- cially in this city, shall be increased from the $171,000,000 of 1875 to such sum as will ena- ble the city to fund its present floating debt of, say, $3.500,000, making the total funded debt $17,000,000. This will require that the assessment of taxable property in the city shall be increased from last year's $171,000,000 to $310,000,000. Under such & valuation the whole floating debt could be funded, and the problem how to get out of the difficulty would be solved. There are, however, grave objections to this proceeding. In the first place, 1t is an evasion of one of the best provisions of the Constitution. Had there been no such pro- vision in the Constitution, it 18 probable that our funded debt st this time would be $30,000,000, if the city conld have borrowed that much money, It is dangerous policy to evade the Constitdtion; the precedent is apt to become the rule ; and the increased assess- ment of this year will be followed next year, until extravagance, waste, and corruption will have absolute sway under a system of issuing bonds. We admit the exceptional condition of the city finances, but the remedy proposed will only aggravate the evil. It is claimed that as the city tax is now levied in s round sum, and not by rates, it will not incrense taxes whether the valuation be doubled or trebled. This is true in one par- ticular, but not true in others. So far as the city tax is concerned, it will mske no difference to sany fax- payer whether his property be valued at $1,000 or $100,000, if the im:reuse. be ap- plicable to all property. The city is now paying on its bonded debt $1,000,000 interest annually. To add $3,500,000 is to ndd §245,000 sunually for aun indefinite term to the interest item, and of course that much to the annual tax-levy. Would it not be better to raise that sum snnually and ap- ply it to the extinguishment of tho floating debt, and get rid of the latter and of the tax together? But Chicago hes a second legisla- ture. Cook County includes Chicggo ; and to double the assessment is to double tho limi- tation within which the Board of County Commissioners may create s public county debt by borrowing, and to double the amount of tax they may levy for current expendi- tures. They can now tex to the extent of 75 cents per $100 of valuation; to double the valuationis to suthorize them to levy $1.50 ‘where they now levy 75 cents. The law to increase the assessment of tax- sble property in Chicago to $350,000,000 will necessitate the reduction of the assess- ment on the property in gll the rest of the State to an amount equal to that added to the valustion in Chicago” Assuming the ad- dition necessary to be £175,000,000, it will be a transfer of the tax on that amount of prop- erty in other parts of the State to the prop- erty in this city. In other words, for thepriv- ilego of evading the Constitution, and adding $3,500,000 to our permanent debt, Chicago will assume to pay, in addition+to her own share, one-sixth of the whole State tax. We believe that the additional State tax thus transferred to Chicago, in order to accom- plish this temporary relief, will not be less than $400,000. Are ws so blessed with ple- thoric purses that we can afford to go out into the rural districts and assume the pay- ment of the taxes of other people? Itmay be said that this_business will be only for & single year, and that, having evaded the Con- stitution, next year we can return to the old valustion.. The State Board of Equelization has been, under one pretext or another, add- ing largely every year to tho proportionate share of Cook County’s State tax. This has’ been done remorselessly. To accomplish what is now proposed, we must substantiaily ask that our proper proportion be doubled. Next year, having once tasted the luxury of having their State tax paid by Chicego, the other districts will hold us to our own figures of 1876, and the assessment of 1876 will be- come permanent. In 1873, the State Board added an average of 90 per cent to the share of State taxes to be paid by this county, and has kept that proportionate incresse ever since. Shall we now invite them to increase our tax another 100 per cent; and if we do, what hope is there that it will ever be voluntarily relinquished? The State Board has no power to makea general increase of the State assessment; if the Legislature could be induced to grant them such power, then every city, county, town, and village in llinois would be equally privileged to add to its funded debt, thereby increasing the elready enormous municipal indcbtedness throughout the State, and giv- ing the local suthorities power to double the local taxation. The proposed scheme is fall of evil. It may afford temporary relief, but at a terrible cost. There is but one way to get out of debt. Short cuts and sharp expedients may often prove very costly. The only way to get out of debt is to pay. The only way the city can get rid of its debt is to pay it, and to pay it the necessary money must be raised by taxation. Wo must expend less. We must dispense with luxuries. We must re- Just such a monument, With tho statues of Anyy, and JEyPERSOY, 6%le by side and hand in hay upon the same base, preseing npon cach other, 1 mutual acknowledymant and deference, the vieyg, palm of a triumph for which tiiey must ererpy held in common and equal henoz ! Tt would pe 5 new tie between Massachusetts and Virginia, would be a new bond of that Union which is th, safety and glory of bc!h'. It wonld be a new Dledes of that restored good-will between the Norty a0} South which is the herald and barbinger of second centory of national independence, 1 would be a fit recognition of the great hand of Gogy in our history I—Robert C. Winthrop's Fourth.of, July Oration. We do not know where Mr. ‘WStz has read the history of his country orthy lives of JerrersoN and Apaws, but we cen conceive of nothing more inEongmmuM anhistorical than such a statue ashe sug. gests. Mr. JerFERsoN was the first ¢ py; fier” in our history. He was the author g the ““resolutions of '98,” which containeq not merely the germ of the nullification of 1852 and the rebellion of 1861, but thy precise idea and Ianguage of both thoga g tempts at disunion. In esserting this plapy and well-known fact, it is not necessary tg assert that JEFFERSON was not 2 patriot. H, was prodigiously mistaken in his coneeptioy of our Constitution and form of government, To propose & joint monument for him and Apaws, in the attitude of two generony rivals seeking to adorn each other with thy wreath of superior statesmanship, is quite &, malapropos as to put CairEovN and Wi sTER on the same pedestal, and almostay mauch so as to put JEFF Davis and Aseamy LiavcoLy in the same affectionatd relations, Let JerFersoN have as many monuments ay you please, but for the sake of the eternal verities let his and Apavs’ be on opposite sides of the street. An unusually brilliant meteor passed across the Chicago sky at Sh. 4{m. on Saturday evening, lighting up the ground ten or twelve times more than it is illuminated by the fall moon, and leaving a very bright track, which was visible for fully four minutes. As seen {from a station one mile west from the TriBuNg office, the meteor passed almost precisely over Epsilon in Delphinus, and thence to Gamma fn Cygnus, disappearing opposite Alphain Cygnus, If equally close observations of its path were made elsewhere, and the results made kunown, it would not be difficult to calculate the actnal path of the meteor in space. It probably passed out of the earth’s atmosphere, and continued to journey around the sun, but in an-altered orbit. Our celestial visitant, that came near to losing {ts {ndividuat- ity and becoming a part of the earth, is prob- ably a small asterold—at least several yardsin diameter. ——— . The July number of the New York ITnsufai Monitor, the leading insurance journal of the United States, pays the following deserved com- pliment to one of THE TRIBUNE'S correspond- ents: Tt is rarely that we ever observe in the daily press any contributions upon the subject of jnsurance -which are either original or meritorious. Itis with the more pleasure, therefore, that we notice Tam Cmicaeo TRIUNE containg an occasional letter from this city, signed *‘Nemo,” ou insursnce matters, which is apparently written by some one who has trustworthy sources of information. ands suflicient familiarity with the business to write In- telligently and well npon the many topics inter- esting to insurance readers. The issue of May G contains 3 review of the National Board meeting which is full of meat, and eparkling with bright ideas in every paragraph. The publication of such inteliigent information upon insnrance matters lsa Denefi€ to the community. S The late ABDUL-Az1z, of blessed memory, & appears, was a patron of art, and iif a very pe- culiar way. He employed a European artist by the day to paint battles between the Turks and the Christians upon the walls of his palace, and to depict the Turks as victorious in each case. He used to watch the painter very narrowly, and, if he caught him painting a Christian bigger than a Turk, would threaten to’ bowstring him. In this manner the Sultan succeeded in record- ing Turkish history in the most approved Mo- hammedan style. As to his musical taste little can be said, since the only operatic scenc that ever delighted him was that in ‘I Barbiere,” where Figaro shaves the Don. This used to de- light him, probably because he saw an admira- ble opportunity for Figaro to take off the Don's head. 2 —— The charge made by the Chicago Zimes, that MoxzoE HEATH was a supporter of COLVIN or Colvinism, is conspicuously false. Ald. HzaTH +was one of the minority of the Council who op* posed CoLvIN’s usurpations and demagogism from first to last. The minority party in the last Council numbered fiftcen toseventeen mem- bers; they did all in their power to retrench ex- penditures and save’ the pockets of the tax- payers. But they were bound dowir by the COLVIN - MCGRATH-VON - HOLUEN - HILDRETR duce the current demands for money, incur no new debts, and steadily pay somsthing annually, until we get out of debt. We have already mado a beginning of half a million of dollars, which, with half a million more |- saved in expenditure, will tend to relieve embarrassments. Two years more of like policy will carry the city through its greatest difficultics, and show the way clear for an ultimaterelease from the calamitous condition of the Treasury. The Corporation Counsel and the law ad- visers of the city have concluded to apply to the Supreme Court for a rehearing in the tax cases, and a modification of the judgment, to the extent that the taxes of 1874, having been leviedin good faith, without fraud, by the officers acting for the city, and for purposes unquestionably legal and necessary for the support of the city, that such taxes may, when authorized by the Legislature, become a lien on the specific property on which they were levied. This proposition, which is cer- tainly within the limits of ordinary legal practice, and which is in the interests of the fifty thousand and more tax-payers who have paid their taxes, is denounced by the Chicago Times, which undertakes to decide in advanco what the Supreme Court will do. If any man were to destroy $1,300,000 of the city property by fire or otherwise, there would be but few persons who would not insist upon having the public loss made good by whatever proceedings the laws might war- rant. Some few handred persons have con- spired to deprive the city of $1,300,000 of its revenue, and the Corporation Counsel proposes to appeal to the Courts to have that revenue secdred. The Chicago Z'imes, meking itself' the organ of the men who have substantially abstracted that much money from the City Treasury, protests against and denounces any attempt to re- coverit. Canit be that the men who un- dertook this job of defrauding the City Treasury, by offering ““shares™ of the plun- der to those who helped them, have taken the precaution to give 1, 5, or 10 per cent for an ‘“organ” to defend them, and to abuse everybody who represents the public interests and the public Treasury ? In the intercsting little city of Weimar, re- nowned as the resort and residence of more than one of the greatet philozophers and poets of Ger- many, many a traveler must haveseen and admired the charming statues of Gozrne and ScmiLLrm, standing side by side and hand in hand, on a single pedestal, and offering, s it ‘were, the lnurel wreath of literary priority or pre-eminence to each other. Few nobler works of art, in conception or execution, can be found on the Continent of Europe. And what could be a worthier or juster commemoration of the marvelous coincidence of which I have just spoken, and of the men who were the subjects of it, ana of the Declarationwith which, alike in their lives and in their deaths, they are 30 peculiarly 2nd so signally mssociated, that crowd of tax-eaters. JMr. HEeaTH, if elected Mayor, will work harmoniously with the new Council in favor of all good and proper meéas- ures. He ispledged to this, and it would be hit nature to act on the side of reform. e —— The election for Mayor takes place mexi ‘Wednesday. The dangeris that the Republicans will neglect to vote, and let Jix McGRATE step in and disgrace the city. Who will subscribe money to the popular loan to pay off the city employes, policemen, firemen, school-teachers, bridge-tenders, street-cleaners, etc., if the bum- mers and scalawags run that individual into the Mayor's office? Colvinism has brought the city to a sorry plight; McGrathery would about fin- ishit. Voting for .MArx KrMpaLL is merely helping McGRATH, for- KiuBALL has not the slightest chance of being elected. v e ! Some persons appear to think that the Demo- cratic nominee for Mayor is the old Comptroller, under ex-Mayor RICE, which is a mistake, as his_ name is WALTER KIMBALL, 2 Republican. Itis the other KneBaLL, who is a Democrat, that is recommeénded by the TILDEN Central Commit~ tee to the TILDEN men of the city. Everybody acquainted with Mark Kiwparr is surprised that he complied with the request to be a candi- date, as hefis a very quiet, retired man, wholly unacquainted with municipal affairs, and utterly. without knowledge or experience of the duties or requirements of the office, 4 T — AsTraxax Scevora Bosio,the French sculptory whose death was announced by cable on Friday, wasknown in his early days as Bosio the younger, to distinguish him from his father, = JEAN Bos10, the historical painter. He was & pupil of his uncle, the celebrated sculptor, Barox Bosro. His first work of repute, a bust - of Admiral BOGGAINVILLE, was cxhibited in 1831. This was followed by *The Young Hunt- ress Staunching the Wound of Her Dog,” “A! Roman Soldier,” *Flora, the Courtesan,” and various bustsand bas-reliefs. He took a second premium In 1833 ——— As a supplement to the English Domesday Book, which included the ownership of land in England, Scotland, and Wales, a return has re- | cently been issued of owners of land in Ireland. The total area in Ireland s 20,153,678 acres, 8od - the valuation $67,006,290. The number of own- ers of Tand over one acre is 32,416. and under it of 36,144, which Is considered as proof that the farming community in Ireland have of late years been acquiring possession of propertyy and now constitute a very formidable influencs of hostility to any interference with property- —————— If MoxroE HeaTH was a relinble TIDEX Democrat, the Wellsstreet concern would be advocating his election with all its might. Bot. 2s he is a good and true Republican, it vilifies and opposes him. ———— ‘The English House of Commons recently re: fused toread = Banns-of-Marriage (Scotland} bill 2 second {ime. The bill proposedto sub- stitute for the proclamation of bannsin the kirk - 2 notice published by the Registrar of the .dis- trict in which the marrizge was to take place The Scotch, therefore, will for some time longer Tetain the zood old cnstom of nroclaiming tha