Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 13, 1876, Page 5

' THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNL: THURNDAY, JULY 13, I¥76. S v ———— S PR NI NSRS The Tribwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PATADLE IJN ADVANCR—FOSTAGE PREFAID AT TAIS OFPICE. 1y Edition, postpald, 1 yea 12,00 B TP Lo tatied to sny sadres four Wity 1w ynday Kditlon: Lilersry and ielig m -Weeli ifatd, 1ye o .} Bpecten coples sent free. . ‘To prevent delay sud mistakes, he sure and give Post- .1 Office sddreas {n full, Including Blate and Counly. Remittances may be made clther by draft, cxpress, “Poat-Office order, or {n reglstered jelters, at our risk. 7ERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBRRS. Dafly, dellvered, SBundsy excepted, 25 conts per week. Daily, deilvered, Bunday Included, 80 cents per week Address TIFE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ‘Corner Madison and Dearbora-ats., Chlcago, Bl TRIDUNE FOR TIE SUMMER. ‘Parties leaving the city for the summer can hava “Tnx Dairy TAIRONR forwarded Lo any sddress upon Jeaving orders at aur counting-room. The paper will ‘be promptly mailed in s alngle wrapper, postage patd, for §1 per manth, e——— AMUSEMENTS, 5 Tooley’s Thentre. 'Jllndflyh street, Letween Clark aud Lasalle. **Coa- | ence.” Wood's Munoum. e < bets Dearhorn and Btate. er. L T iyt snd Tom King. Evening, - The reatn Bpy. emmm—se— BOCIETY MEETINGS. NCIL_OF PRINCRS OF JERUSA. LA, SO bira resiar convention.of Irinces of K] Jnr\llllcm‘fll"l'l'ljl;lldnll Gxfin‘"“((“l,l'{lnflf ant 7o' : q B 3gep. Workin the IR ARG GNRILEE! v ED GOODALE, Orand Sccretary, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1876, Groenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- * change yesterday closed at 893, e ———— The Houso yestorday unanimously adopted the rosolntion consuring Somenox for his connoction with the Emma Mino while serv- ing as Minister to tha Conrt of St. James. Thera was no debate on the resolution. : [ Tho Orangemen of this continent yester- day “walked" to their henrts' contont. With the oxception of n small row at Mon. trenl (such as would Le likely to happen any- where or on any occasion), they suffered no molestation whatever. ’ Wo one will be surprised to learn that Progident Graxt intends the removal of Bz~ sen Wasmouny, Chiof of the Treasury Se- . erot-Servico, and that Sax Ferxen isn prom- % incnt and promising candidato for the placo. " Tho removal of the ononnd the sppointment of the -other would make o very completo job of it, A Out of a total voto of 80,072 cast at the @pecial olection for Mayor yosterday, MoNnos Hearn, the Republican candidato, recoived a majority of 15.798 over Jix McGnaw, Democratic short-hair, and 11,613 over Manx Emipary, Democratic swallow-tail. Mr, Heatn's majority over tho combined voto of his opponents was 8,250, Tho cause of honesty and decency in the Qommon Council wns the gainoer yesterdny by the election in the Soventh Ward of Mr. Omanees TArNOw, a rospoctable and intelli- + gont Republican, in place of Hruonern, the Demooratio blatherskito and crooked Ganger who was compelled to rosign. 1t was o Re- publican doy all around in Chicago yester- d 1 oday. 7% | ke prosccution in the impeachment cnse i closed yosterday, Witnosses examined for % " tho dofenso testiflod to BzuxNar's intogrity in his ndministration of the War Offico; also .1 to tho fact that the Secrotary issued. the . proper orders to carry into effect the law fooking to tho suppression of certain ovils connocted with post-tradorships. Mr, Can- renTes secured the introduction of testimony going to prove that Mansn's contract was with Evans only. Berinar's counsel scom to place much confidence in the ovidence that :y Evans will give, They twice endenvored during tho day’s procecdings to sccuro an nd- journment for a fow days, to sllow time for this witness to arrive, but the Senanto was . disinclinod to grant the request. TS rosult of yesterdny's municipal clec. tion proves tho folly of non-partisnn ox- T . periments atn time whon party apirit is at * "% itsheight. Tue Trinuxe hos steadily mnain. tained that there was a general desire among . ¢he Ropublicans of Clicago for a straight e + Ropublican nominntion for the Mnyoralty—n ¢, 0 ' goneral feeling that this was a good ycar to .+ . eloct a3 Mnyor a Ropublican candidate for . . whose administration, if elected, the Repub- " ' Mcan party would hold itself rosponsible, The vote cast for Moxroz Heatn yosterdsy s an evidenco of tho correctness of this view. Tho Ropublicans came out solid for the party nominee, and his suceoss is indisputably & party viotory. Chicago is o Ropublican city, and, as the Ropublicans nominated the best man, they deserved to succoed. — Benator Eomunps, of Vermont, has n tabit of speaking right out in mecting, and 3t frequently happens that the brethren on his own side of the house aro not especially comforted by his romorks. A case in point ¥ pecurred yesterday in tho dobate on the 1 Houso bill to compol the Pacitio Railroads to o pay what thoy ows tho Government. Mr. Epuunps opposed tho reference of tho bill to the Railrond Committes, intimating plainly that thore was little prospect of got~ ting from that Comunittes.a fuvorable report on any mensura not in the interest of the Pucific Railroads. Mcssrs, West and Miton- zrx undertook to dispute this nssertion, but woro sifeuced by Mr, Epaonos’ quotations o from a previous report on a similar question. 1 'The Vormont Beuator is occasionally found . voting with tho minority, and ke is generally ™~ ' found on the sido of right and justice, ! , . The Chicngo gmduce markets were steadior . yesterdny,and soveral of them were stronger, «.t " with afair busincss doing, Mess pork closad ... 200 per brl higher, at $19,60 for July, and b 819,65 for August. Lard closed 10c per 100 v ibs higher, at $10.00 cash, and $10,02} @10.05 for August, Meats were fSrmer at 8}o for boxed ehoulders, 10}a for do short vibs, and 110 for do short clears. Lake ' Ireights were dull, at 1}c for corn to Buffalo, . i ' Rail froighta wero unchanged. IHighwines R wero unchanged, at §1,10} per gallon, Flour ) was more active, but weak, Wheat closed Jo H lower, at 9630 for July and 98}c for August. Corn waa firmer, cloaing at 46jo for July, snd 46jc for t. Oata closed dull ot 28}0 for July or August. Rye was nomi- asl ot 04@650. Barley was quiet at 58c, Hogs were active and 100 higher, with the bulk of the eales at $06.40@0.50. Cattle were in active demand, and aversged 100 higher, selling at 82.60@5.10 for inferior to eitran.The sheop market was steady at $2.60@4.60. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $111,62} in greonbacks at tho closo, Prospects for an agreoment on the im- portant approprintion bills have . brightoned materially within the past twenty-four Lours, and there s reason to expect that the wide differences will bo so narrowed and “bridged ovor a8 to admit of the pnssage of tho billa. Thero have boen large concessions on both sides, notably from tho Ilouse Domo- crats, who lave ovidently concluded that their mulish obstinscy and lofty srrogation of the lion's share of wisdom and economy have not impressed the country so profoundly as to afford en- courngement for continued offort in the same direction. Mr. Raxpart hns vacatod his post at tho head of tho Conforonce Committeo on the Army bill, and it is understood that the Houso will walve ita clause in the Bundry Civil bill for the repeal of tho Election law, 80 that thore is a likelihood of agreemont on these bills, & Chicago has fired the first gun in the Pres- identinl campaign, and hns hit the mark squarely and with telling effect. The nares | of Haxes and Wuzrren were not on tho suc- cossful ticket, but the word *‘Republican” { was, and by that sign we conquered, The Domocrats brought out thoir full strength, and were ignomintously beaten. They trotted out Kixparn for the swallow-tails, and McGratnt for the short-hairs, expocting by the non-partisan and eminently-respect- able dodge to draw off n considerablo support from the Republican nominee, and thus to onable the regular short-haired wing of the Demoeracy to run in Jix MoGraw, whoso election they would have claimed a8 a Democratic victory. 'The Republicans blocked this game by voting straight for their nomince and eloct ing him by o rousing majority on o light 1| vote. 'I'hey earried every one of the eighteen wards for Heatn, who in almost overy in- stance recoived moro votes than his two op- ponents combined. Chicago did this yestor- day because she wanted & Republican Mayor ; 1 anditis indicativo of what she will doin November, when she wants n Ropublican Presidont. TILDEN'S PEACE RECORD. It will be well romombered that, at tho time of the gathering of the Democracy of this State at Springficld to elect delegates to the Bt, Louis Convention, the Chicago Zimes —thon opposing 'TiLpEN, and declaring lio could never be elected, if nommated—mado tho nnnouncement that Tiupen was Chair- man of the Committeo on Resolutions of tho Chicago Convention of 1864 that promul- gated, 08 one of the planks of tho Domo- cratie platform, the following infamous res- olution: Resolved, That thls Convention does cxplicitly declare, as the sense of the Amerlcau people, that, after four years of failuro to restore the Union by the experiment of war,—during which, under the pretense of militory necessity or war power higher than the Conatitutlon, the Conatitution itsclf has been disregarded In every part, and public lberty and private right alike trodden down, and the ma- terlal prosperity of the country essentially imn- paired, —justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate eforts be made for a ccasntion of hostilities, with a view to anultl- mate Conventlon of the States, or other peaceable means, to tho cnd that at the earliest practicablo mowent peace may be restored on tho basis of the Federal States, i As soon 28 the statement was made publio Mr. AlanToxn Manpix, one of TiLoen's strik. ers, mado haste to contradict it in the fol- lowing letter: New Yorg, June 22.—Perry II. Smith: Your tolegram has been shown me, Gov. TILDEN was ot the Chairman of the Platform Committee of the Chicago Natlonal Convention in 1804, Jaxes Gurinug, of Kentocky, was. Gov. TiLpEN op- poscd, In commlttec, that portion of the resolution xaying: ** After four yearsof fallare to prescrve the Union by war," etc. Lo got it struck ont, and cven refused to agrea to the resolution as nmended, 1t wan then Irecgularly rostored. Gov, TiLurs, ot all stages, refused to agrea to the reeolution, ana sent o mesvage by mo to Gen, McCLELLAN, advis- ing bim to discard it fn hla lotter of ucceptance, Gov. Tipzy, morcover, made o specch in the New York delegation against un armistice, which was briefly reported by e in the New York iWorld, and 14 correctly clted by the Courler-Journal, I was pernonally present In the New York delogation, and all meetingy of the Committce In the adjolning roum. (Higned) MANTON ManRLE, The publication of the above lotter has lod to n closer examination of the records of that Convontion, from which it appoars that ManTon Manpre was right in one particular, namoly, that TiLoeN wns not Chairman of the Comumitteo, the Chnirman being Mr. Guranig, of Kentucky, Boyond this unim- portant fact, tho record falsifies Mr. Man- nLe's lettor and commits Tinpes to the reso- lution as wo have printed it. 'The record shows that on the second day of tho Conven- tion, when the roport of the Commitice was called for, Mr, Gurnme stated it was not ready, being in the hands of a sub-commit. too for rovigion, but that the Goneral Com- mittes wero unanimous in their views, and that they bolioved peaco could Lo maiutained. Mr, Trpex followed Mr. Gurmme in the declaration: **I wish to add that, upon tho adjournment of tho General Committee, thore wos no dissent smong the mom. bers.” Mr, Browx, of Delaware, ono of the Comuittes, said: * There is not tho slightest dissenslon among us, We have beon o unit fronf tho first.” Mr., Wentens, of Californin, said: ¢ The Sub-Committee havo ngreed upon the only portion of the platform which by any possi- bility can divide this party. Weare all in Javor of peace, snd the only difforonce of opinion is as to the phrascology to bo used in making that declaration,” Mr. Sautn, of ‘Wisconsin, added to the general testimony upon this point, as follows: **"Choreis no dif- foronco {n the Comuittee, excopt upon mere matters of exprossion." Mr. MoKron, of New York, oxplained the causo of delay as originating with Mr, Varzawpiomay, who wanted tho lougunge of the resolution changed, not Lecause it was too strong, but because 1t was not strong enough to suit Lim. Tinally the rosolution was reported in the shape in which we Lave printed it from the Sub-Committee to the Cowmitteo, and from the Committeo to the Convention, and was adopted without the dissont of a single member of the Committce; and it was not until the indignant wrath of the peoplo all over the North Lad scared him, that Truves advised McOreLrax to refect it, as Mannre alloges,—if Lo ovor tendorod McOLELLAN such advice. 'The official record of tho Convention com- mits TiLory to this infamous resolution, which he, 88 one of the Committes, in- dorsed. 1lle says himself, * Thero was no dissont among tho moembers,” Slippery as he msy bo, he canuot squirm out of this by hig own slimy efforta or by MantoN Man- nLe's applications of soft soap. ‘The resolu- tion holds him as tightly as a vise, He i stands upon tho record es couspiring with | Varranpiomau et al. to oppose the war and convey aid and comfort to the cnomies of the Qovernment at a timo when our gallant of- ficers and soldiers were beginning to seco their efforts to waintain the honor and i~ received its final porfection, prostration and paralysis of business, pro- dollary tegrity of tho nation crowned with suecess, 1t ig in kooping with tho tonor of this in- famous resolution that, wherever it was praoc- tieable, tho Copperbends of the War have beon selected to carry the nows to Troex of hianomination. Aslininginstance of this fit- ness of selootion may ba found in the person ‘of the Indiana courier to Trupex, Bayresa 'W. Hanwa, of Torro Hauto. At the Demo- eratio Convontion held in Indinnapolls in 1864, about the same timo that TiLpEN was putting himself on record in opposition to tho War, tho Iloosier penco apostle, Mr. 11ANNA, rose in his white robes and waved his palm-branch ps follows : Resolved, That the War now devastating onr be- loved conntry s of Itsolf tho greatest evll In the oyes of Lthe American people, and that the inhuman barbarities, so often taking placo on both sides, sro of themselves a nocessity to the conflict; that & mero change In the mode of conducting tho War will not ovarcome the cvil, and the perpetaation of our Government requires tho sncedy ending of the War. Par nobile fratrum! HMaxxa and TiLoex! Tho cordiality with which thess two veter- ans, who fired so courngeonsly in the rear in 1864, will meet onch other, mny bo imagined. In the light of such rosolutions as these, it is not dificult to understand tho support of the Chicago 2%mes. If Hespniozs had been nominated it could hava howled louder for him bocauso he was in favor of secossion, It can support TILDEN a8 & peaco man without ouy difticulty, since Ttr.ogx and tho Zimes oc- cupied the same ground during the War. They wero both of tho opinion that, after “four years of failure,” the North should yield to the Bouth, and that hostilities should conse, and thoy both fired into the rear with all tho industry of which they ware capable,* As veterans of the Copperhead campaign in the rear of tho Northern boys in blue, they understand each other perfectly, and che Ttmes’ support is logical and consistent, THE PROTECTIVE POLICY. The newspaper organ of the systom of doing business by tho aid of bountivs im- sgines that it is sovoro and crushing when it prints paragraphs like the following : As regards the valuo of the protectivo syatem to 1hls country, the editor-in-chicf of Tue ‘Tiutnuxe long ngo truly sald: ** Every timo this country has tried free trade it has been followed by a disastrous financial convulsion; and overy timo it has tricd protection It has enjoycd commerclal prosperity and rapld growth in national wealth, campletely refutingall Freo-Trade theories on tho subject.* We pit that loglc of experiment agalnst the oppos site vlew expressed by Tug TRisUNE & fow days ago. Had the person roferred to as the writer of the above quoted langunge had before him thoexperiencoof 1873, and the years that have followed, Lo cortainly would have written no statoment so lnmentably deflelent in thelog- io of experiment. The protective system has been in full blast ever since 1862, and in 1867 In 1873 came o duction, aud labor, such ns the world had nover witnessed. 'This prostration’and par, nlysis cannot be in any sense nttributed to o low tariff, or to any Free-Trade theorics. For six yoars: preceding the panio tho United States had o protectivo tariff unequaled in magnitude aud success of its protection by any tariff proviously known to ecivilization. The artificial wenlth it Lad engondered, the seductions it had offered capital to withdraw from slow but logitimate production to on- gnge in manufactures in oxcess of the limited market, the speculativo mania it had on- couraged, had all produced an unnatural con- dition of affairs, Short-cuts to wealth be- camo the goneral rulo, whila the broad rond of thrift and toil was nbandoned to tho fow. ‘Then camo tho crash, Tho bottom fell out of speculation, The mill- iona of fictitions go-callod securitics censed to have any valno; ten thousand and more miles of railway, built and oparated on credit, so far ns they wero productive became inoum. brances on the land thoy ocoupied. substantial disappeared from sight, and pro- ‘The in- tection wng illustrated in closed mills and furnaces, in tho enforced idlencss of & half- million of operatives, with o suspension of wages, poverty, destitution, and want, fol- lowed, as Mr. Kerrzy states, by forcing the hardy laborers and mechinics to tako to the highway and become tramps, preying upon tho property of other mon, and desperately selzing food where thoy could get it. in tho logic of experiment, in the mattor of protection, 'Tho roform of this groat ovil is noar at hand. 1t is one of tho abuses which This will be reformed undortho change of Adinin- istration,—when under Haves' Administra- tion the whole system of tariff and finance will be sottled not ns moro party quostions, but ns questions of national interest. The whole bounty business, which hns bscome n great national abuse, will have to be reform- od; the parental system will have to bo ex- tirpated, and the commorce, aud production, and the labor of the country must bo discin- barrassed of class rogulations and special re- strictions, oxcopt so far as tho dewands of the nation for rovenue may require. THE BELENAP IMPEACHMENT. Prof, GoLowiN Bmti, in a recont lotter which ho published in England on American affairs, recommonded among other things that trinl by impenchment for official crimes should bo abandoned in favor of a law more oxplicitly definivg ofticlal and politieal offeuscs, .and providing trial and punishment ns for other offeuses agninst the law. forca of this rccommendation is very aptly The illustrated by tho large amount of time ex- bausted in the preliminary arrangemonts and ponding trial of ox-8Becrotary of War Brr- gNar, Tho pressing public buainesa of the nation s loft to waft and suffer while soventy. four Unitod States Bonators, sitting as a High Court, of Impeachmont, and soveral members of tho Houso acting ns Managers, aro devoting themaclves, at a cost of soveral thousand o duy, to trying a inun who virtually confossed his guilt whon it was first brought home to bhim, and who is under indictment before o criminal court for his acceptance of a bribe, Following a French proverb, *The game is not worth the caudle.” All that conviction by the Court of Impeachment can do iu tho prosent case is to disqualify DeLeNar from furthor holding ofilcs, and the likelikood of his ever obtaining any more political honors must bo concoded to bo very romote in any event; Had he clung to his ofico and insisted upon fmpeachment as o means of vindicating himselt in the most conspicuous manner before the country, there might have been some oxcuse for the present trinl beforo the Sonate; but, when be voluntarily resigned his place, resisted fnpeachmont all he could, and is only out on bail to await a common criminal prgsecu. tion,—being mow a private citizon in nof very good standing,—it is exceedingly doubt- ful whothor all tho expense, and troublo, and attention are net wasted upon such very small game, If he had been an officer of the Government, elocted by tho peoplo, whoso romoval could ouly be compassod by this means, the caso would again bave beon a different ono; but Lo was a subordinato of the President, sub- jeot to immedinta romoval if he had not vol- untarily stepped down, and also subject to eriminnl prosecution,—which, indecd, wns promptly bogun againat lim. Thero scems to bo little doubt that the Houaoe Managers will have made ont a caso againat Beuryar, though the evidenco on kia bohalf Is yot to be heard. Mansu's tostimony before the Bonate is the samo aa he gavo bo- fore the Honse Committee, and the corrob- orating circumstances appoar to be conelusive that Berryar used bis appointing power for personal profit. Mansit testifles that thero was no understanding betweon him and Ber. xyap that ho should pay tho latter for his ap- pointment, but that ho did pay a port of the proceeds to tho first Mrs, Brimyar, nlso to tho second Mrs, Berrwar, aud also to DzrrNar himself while the Intter wns Socrotary, 'The circumstance that thero ‘wos no explanation made by Alirsnt whore the money camo from, or whatit was paid for, is about as conclusive ngainst Brrxxar a9 if the two had gone over the matter every timo the money pnssod hauds. The infer- enco i that Berexar knew what the monoy wns pald for, and did not noed to ask any questions, 'I‘im other evidence with refor- ence to the general wmauagemont of the post-traderships is a furtbor blow ot Ber ExAP which his defense will scarcely bo able to counternot. But the results of a convic- tion will hardly componsate for the dreadful wasto of time and money it will have re. quired, The disgraco that Berxvar will suffer from this conviction will not be as much punishment to him as confinoment in a common jail or Penitentiary liko any other felon, and the warning to future officials not balf so effective ns the other punishment. ‘Whatever may bo thoisstnoof thocase, it should suggest to the noxt Congress (the time left to tho present Congress belng otherwiso pro- vided for) to passa law dofining official mis- fensance more strictly, and providing for its prompt punishment or conviction in the courts; and then to limit trial by impench- ment t> the President and Vice-President, and the United Btates Judiciary appointed for life. The process is too slow and costly to serve for all mannor of officiala. TILDEN'S 8PEECH. Tho spocch of Tripex to tha Committeo which formally notified him of his nomina. tion wns in ono sense adroit, but was of- fansively cgotistical. Ho ‘assumed that his perzonal charactor and nbilities had left the Convention no othor course to follow than to nominate bim, and he accopted the nomi- nation ns a personal tribute and as a recog- nition of his superior merit and qualification. In his remarks he more than once congratu- Iates the country upon his nomination. Of course, ho would not be Tibex if ho did not remind tho country that he was an experiencod reformer. He states the issuo of the clection to bo administrative reform, and with characteristic modesty clnimed that thoe Convention had, in nominating him, meroly doclared ““in favor of the adminia- trative reform with which ovents had asso- clated aw in the public mind.” Proceeding still further, tho old man’s vanity again broke out in saying to the Committeo, “I am not without experionco of the difficulty and Inbor of offecting ndminiatrative roform; ¥ and again that the routine duties of his offico have been light compared with his labors to reform the State Government, *‘of which I bave boon the Executive head.,” He gravely tolla tha country that, if elooted, it will not bo a holiday for him, but the aessuming of great labors as n reformor. i ‘Thoro never was & more unblushing pro- tonso than that Trupey has been or attempt. ed to bo a reformer in Now York. When he was elccted Governor he wasa porfectly famil- iar, by long personal and political association with the Canal Ring, of the robberies and frauds which for thirty yenrs had been com- mitted upon the people of Now York, He know who wore the guilty mon, and knew whera he could put his hand on the evidenco of their guilt, e published a history of the caflal frauds, all of which had been writton over and over again ; 8aw Tinpex told noth- ing new, but ko promisoed to put ail the guilty men in tho Btate's Prison, sot asido all tho illegsl contracts, and make thoso who had robbod tho Stato pay back tho millions thoy had takon. Now, what hns he done in this work of reform? Ho appointed Commis- sioners and specinl counsel, to whom ho has paid out of the Btate Treasury 100,000, Monoy recovered, none; suits to rocover, two,—one of which was dismissed, and the other has nover been triod; con. tracts sot aside, none; guilty robbers tried and convicted, one. Tho total result of tho administrative reforms with which Lo has beon idontified is the conviction of one dis- honest contractor, of tho name of Lonp, a Democrat. ‘The conviction of this man has o history which illustrates ‘[rpen's notions of roform. Tho Lonp family is a Inrge one, oxerciaing groat political pawor inNow York; is all Democratic, hns been in the canal frauds a long timo, is vory rich, and, from the fathor down to tho sons and the collaternls, has always been personally op- posed to Trory, Tiuoen, who might have convicted a score of persons, selected one of the sons of tho voteran Democratioc lender of ‘Western New York, and had him convicted. No sentence has been passed upon Lim, and he is at large, and the opposition of the Lonn family to TiLpex has boen silonced, and will romain 80 while T1roeN s & candldate, How many othors made their peace with Tinpex before conviction we eannot say, but no one has ever boen bronght to trial excopt young Lonp, the son of TiLoex's veteran Douio- cratio enemy. That is the beginning and end, tho sum total and substance, of ‘fiLoex's great # gdministrative roforms in tho Governmont of which I am tho Executive.” Tho wholo criminal law of the Btate has been used to crush out and silenco the opposition of a sin.” glo Domocratic fawily, and the conviction is hield over that family to insure its silence until afterthoolection. And Tirpen had the faco to claim the character of an experi- enced reformor upon this single result of two yoars' arduous labors, ‘This false reputation as areformer, and which TiLoeN knows porsonally to be falso and wholly undeserved, and resting exclu. sively upon a trick as disgraceful to him as an Excoutive as it is base and malignant in him o4 un {ndividual, {s the enire stock in trade of Bax Tiuoey, Ho hos used his office ox- clusively to compel men to give him a polit. ical support, using for that purpose the whole machinory of the criminal law, and his entire reform is confined to this one purpose. No groater abuse of Executive power was ever committed by any man, especially in the name of Rerory, It Mossrs. BuxrMan, Bourwery, and Boay, on the part of the Benato, and Mesars, RaN- paLL, Lanpens, and Payng, on the part of tho House, conld agree ona Bilver bill, we do not see why the two Hounses may not do 80. 'Tho bill, which has only been briefly outlined in the dispatches, scems to have boen wade up in part from both Alr, Ranpawr's and Mr, Pawue's ] tha for purchaso out of surplus funds and the issue of §20,000,000 in silver, providing, however, that not moro than $1,000,000 shall be pur. origionl billa. It* provides chnsed at oy ono timo, This is really adding $20,000,000 to the currency of the country, but it scems to bo justified by the urgont necossitics of tho country for more small money, and, na it will necessarily como out very slowly, the effact of the inflation will not bo percoptible. Indeed, in the long run, since tha bill lmnits thoe total fssue of silver to £i0,000,000, inclnding that which ehiall bo oxchiangod for fractional currency, and a8 no moro feactionals can be issued, it i probablo that tho volumne of money will not oxceed what 1t hins boen, Bilver will bo the small chango of the country, and the fractionals not oxchangod therefor will wear out nod disappenr. 8o, probably, the beat thing Congress can do is to pnsa the Silver mittea. —— OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS, An interesting fenturo of tho first day's proceadings of the National TEdueational As- soclation, now in sossion in Baltimore, was the portion of tho oponing address by tho Prosidont of the Asscciation, WiLiax E. Puevrrs, of Winona, Minn., dovoted to & com- porative statoment of educationnl progress during the past hundred yenrsof our history. A resume of his statoment will be valuable forroferonce. In 1776 thorewere but nine col- leges in tho United States; now thore ara 400 colloges and univeraitic8, with 57,000 studonts and 8,700 Profestors and teachors. Then littls or nothing was done for the education of womnan; now there ara 209 female som- inaries, with 23,445 students and 2,286 teach- ers, At that timo professional schools were unknown; now thero ave #2¢ profossional _pehools, with 23,280 students and 2,490 tonchors, 'Then there wege no nornal schools; now thoro are 124, with’ 24,405 students and 965 tonchers. Then there were no commerciol colleges; now there are 127, with 25,802 students and 577 teachors. Tho socondary and proparatory schools were almost unknown thon ; now thore are 1,122, with 100,698 pupils and 6,163 teachers. 'The uchool population of that day is unknown, but ot prosent it is moro than 18,000,000, and the school enrollment now amounts to 8,000,000. Tho total income of tho public sohools at presont is $82,000,000; expond- iturcs, $756,000,000; value of property, $166,000,000. The figures abovo given are vory eloquent as showing what has been sc- complishiod, but tho following extract from the report is quite as eloquent in showing that much yot remains to be done- before tho whole field of education is fully occupicd and doveloped. Tho roport says: The number of 1literates by the census of 1870 above the age of 10 years wos, in round numbers, 5,500,000, - Of theso more than 2,000,600 wero odults; upward of 2,000,000 more were from 15 to 21 yoars of age, and 1,000,000 were between 10 and 16 years old. Of the number botween 16 and 21 years, It is estimatod that about ono-holf have passcd the opportunity for education, and, since it fawell understood thata Jarge proportion of thechil. dren in this country leave the schools perhapsat an average age of 10 or 12 years, the conclusion I8 fir- roslatible that tens of thousands of those who are reported o filiterntea between 10 and 15 yoars of ago will forever romain so, OFf tho 030,000 illit- crate porsons between 106 and 21 years of age who have pssed thelr opportunitics for Instruction, 157,000 are in the Northern States, 15,000 in the Paclfic and 778 000 1n the Sonthern. ‘The great majority of illiterate persons in the Bouth—over throe-fourths—emphasuizes tho point so often mnde by Tme Cmoaco Tamuxe of the influenco of ignorance in rostraining the matorial growth of tho South and continuing the nnarchy aud disorder that havo prevailed in some scotions since tho oloso of tho War. Golng still further into details, ‘the edncational roports from the South, a summary of which was printed in tho June numbor of the Atlantic Aonthly, showed that the lowest standard of education prevailed in Louisinnn, Arkansas, Mississippi, Toxns, and South Carolina. It adds to the force of the argument that those Btates have boen the principal locality of blood- shed, torrorism, and anarchy, and that thelr industrial and gonoral mate- rial growth has been excossively small, a8 compnred with the other Bouthern Btates, whore somo attontion has beon paid to education, Thoreports from Georgia showher educational standard to bo the highest, Hor moral, social, industrial, and commereial standards ore likowise the highest. Tho Bouthern social philosophors may find food for shought in thoso educationnl statistica, e e BEGULARS OR RANGERS, Gon. Buenyax ia roported as having ex. pressod an opposition to the achome already favored by many Western Congressmon for accopting the scrvices of volunteer Rangors to assist the army in tho war against the Sloux Indians, Thero are certainly somo se- rious objcctions to the plan, though tho Tangers would moke o quick and effective eampaign against Srrrivag Borz and his mur- derous savngos, Ono of these objections is that the Governmont would have another war logacy on its honds, which would last forty or fifty years aftor the Bioux had been whipped and the war ended. Every man who is now anxious and enger to have his sorvices accopted for a speoitiod sum of mon. oy would hereafter becomo clients of the clnim-ngents. Boon after being musterod out the claim-ngonta would organize a campaign against the Treasury for land.sorip, and next for unpromisod bounties, The widows and rolatives of " the men who would bappen to got Lilled or dic in hospital wonld come in for pensions during their lives. For the noxt score of yoars, ag fast ns tho men thomselvos lost their health *from any cause, the claim-ngents would pro- cure for them physicians’ certifieatos that the failing Lealth was duo to the hardships en. countered in the Sloux campaign, After the lapse of a certain poriod, the claim.agents would bully aud wheedlo Congressinto putting all the survivors or thelr widows on the poansion list for the remainder of their Lives, By these and similar dovices, the original cost of, say, #10,000,000 for Rangers for fighting the Sioux would awell to $40,000,000 or §50,000,000 beforo the country would see the end of it. This has been the experience of the American peoplo in all former wars, ‘Weo have just about got through scttling up the claims of tho Revolutionary War, althongh we aro colebrating the end of the first century, We havon't yet exhausted the stock of pensioners and claimunts left to us by the War of 1812, The ‘' veterans"” of the Moxican War are in their prime, and thelr wives, children, and rolatives are as the sands of tho sea-shors, Of course, wo have only begun on the War of the Rebellion, and another Centennial will be celebrated before the United Btates shall bo done with the swelling bounties and pensions growing out of it. ‘Wo can scarcely afford to ndd to the stock of claimants soveral thousand Rangers, unleas it shall bocome abeolutely necessary. It will be much choaper to fill up the regular regi- ments, which have only onc-half their fnll force, It ia tho policy of the Government to bill agreed upon in the Confercnce Com-, maintain in time of peaco tho orgunization of the regular rogimonts with nbout one-linlf tho full number, with a view to filling up on an omergency like tho present, If four or five of the cavalry rogimonts should be im- modiately rooruited for notive sorvice, and fome of the infantry regimenta filled up to ocoupy the present qunricrs of troops that could bo made servicenblo against the Sionx Indians, thus adding perhaps 5,000 men to the rogular troops, the army would be in ox- collent condition to bring the present Indian war to a spocdy termination. The actual paymont and support of theso troops would comprehond all the cost of the war, and there would bo no futurs land.grants, bounties, and pensions to drag out the noxt fifty yonrs on account of it. The 8t. Petersburg correspondont of tha Edinburg Scotsman mnkos a vory romarkablo statoment touching the corruptions of Rus- sinn officialism, from which it appears that corruption in that Empire is not character- istio of this or that branch of the Admin. {stration, but pervades the wholo public sorv- ico.. All clnsses are demornlized by it, and Princes of the Itoyal blood, a3 well ns the howers of wood ond drawers of water, practice it openly. Tho customs officors accopt bribes and relenso half the dutics, The postal officials will not deliver letters punctually unless they sre paid for it. Univorsity Professors will not gront tho cortificatos, which shorten the term of army service, without pay. The Russian infantry soldiers ara compelled to givo half thoir pay to the Captains, and o proportionate bleeding of officers ocenrs through all the grades of tho service. This correspondont says: ‘‘Every one who has dealings with Russia knows that for money he ean buy any concession whatsoever, and at any price ho may choose to put on the results.” The differcnco botwoen Russia and other countries in this rogard is, that in the former corruption is looked upon as legiti- mate, and, as there is no punishment for it, it 18 universal. It is morcover convenicnt for the Government, which can rednc solaries to the minimum, since the ofllcinfl can raise thoir own salaries by drafts upon tho popular pocket. Apparently Russin would be a paradise for Tweeb, ‘They don'’t scruple about lynching men In Texas. But they are partleularly scrupulous about it that the lynching shall be all regular; aud, if there be any polot more than another upon which the representativo Texan is super- sensitive, and which it would be liable to prove unbealthy to discuss with him, it is ns to the regularity of the inpromptu hangingathat from time to time, and pretty much all the time, come off in that State. The latest of these ec- curred a few days since near Gonzales, where McEtnor and thetwo CAsPnELLS were hanged, 08 to whichsthe Gulveston News made somemild strictures to tho effect that the men, no matter what their erfmes, should havo been left to be dealt with regularly by law. The editor of the News was too remote from the scenc of the mob-murders for those who took a hand therein to engage him in a ** personal discussion,” so thoy were drlven to the alternative of arguing it with bim, which they did In the followlng communlcation, which speaks for itself: Goxzatus, Tex., Julf 0, 1870,—xde, News: T send yoi m-dn{ by mail the noose cut from the ropo with which Stuart CAxepELL was hung on Pench Creok. It was broughit hers yesterday by a gentleman llving near where the” hanging took rln:c. My object in sending It {4 to alow you that ho hanging waa not done {n haste nor in'a bratal manner, but after the fashlon which the faw di- rects, Cool, deliberate, nnd determined men, the beat in this section, were in the crowd. Time was glven the murderers for prayer, ete, The kot is o regular **hangiman’s knot." The thres were made to stand on horses, which were led from under them, Tucke Canrskit and McBunoy's necks wore broken,. whila Stuant Caxpsein, died by strangulntion. SaLEUIL Upon the receipt of this the Galveston editor caved—everything having been regular about the hanglng, cven down to tho regular tie In the hangman's noose. . ————— 01 WiLLIAM ALLEN hos ngain risen up, but only to sit down again. This timo he hns sat downupon SaxMyY TILDEN, It is natural thatold BiLry shouldn't lke Saxsry, There s a great Aiscrepancy {n their ages. Consldered apart or with reference to most mankind, SAMMY is him- sclf an old man; but, ascompared to old WiLr- 1AM, ho hasn't outgrown his adolescence. Old WiLrias naturally looks down on 8AMMY ns an Immaturo youth, who has grabbed the prize which he—old Wittias—has been tolllug for these many generations, and e vory properly regards 8AMMY's conduct as so reprehensible that even extreme youth cannot cxtenuate it. 8o old WiLLIAN, regarding BAMMY as s “d—d barren {deality,” has told a reporter of the Cin. cinnatl Enquirer that he does not Intend to tuke “any deelded stand in support of Mr. TiLbEN," though hegenerously adds that he will not uso anyinfluence he moy have agalust him. Wisrias thinks Oljo can only be carrled by adhering to his policy of Iufiation and repudiation, and ad- viscs fighting It out on that line without auy re- gard to the 8t. Louls platform or candidate. Hlo snys that, it the Ohio Congressmen can bo elected on that basls, he is willing it should inure to the beneflt of Titprx. But,as for the venerable WiLLiAs himself, he has concluded that he hes had enough of politics, and an- nounces his retirement “forever and frrevoca. Lly.* o will probably not be disappointed. —————————— BTANLEY {5 once moro lost. The lnst that waa beard from lifm was in April, 1875, and then Lo was on the eve of exploring the Albert N'yanza Luke, from thenco pussing into theTan- gonylke, through the conncction the cxistence of which lic has always maintained. The Royal Geographieal Boclety of London, .however, haa recelved the intelligence that Col. Gonrpon hus succeeded fn placing a small steamer on the Albert N'yanza, and circumnavigated {t, find- tug it to be d-lake 140 miles In length and 50 miles wide In the widest part, and also discoy- ering that there {8 no connectlon between it and the Tanganylka. The most fmportant nows which bo comumnunlcates is, that be found no truces of STANLEY, and tho snnouncement has coused great uncasiness mmong s friends, ‘Those who think that he s still alive arc confl- dentthat, fluding there was no connection be- tyreon tho two lukes, hio struck across the couns try 400 miles to the grest Lualaba River, and will descend, via that river and tho Congo, to the weat coust, 1f this were Lis route, it would be somo tlme yet before any tidings would be heard from him, Every one will hope that the intrepid explorer will reach a safe haven at the mouth of the Congo, but the prospect is a gloomy one, when it I8 remembered that his route would lay through a region filled with hostlle tribes, and that he would be exposed to the fatal discascs of that part of the country. e ———— ‘The Chicagoer Handels-Zeltung,devoted to com- merciul and industrial {ntercsts, and printed {n thia city, at Nos, 78 and 70 Ashland litock, Ly the German Publishing Association, of which E, A, 8itT10 18 President and C. A. WENBORNE Beeretary, sppears with its contents printed in Roman type, We belicve this is the only Ger- man newspaper in tho United Btates that has mado this new doparture, and we are glad to bo Informed by its proprictors that the change from the old Qothlic to the Roman type ls meeting with great favor among the Germans, and that, since the change, the subscription-list 1s rapldly Increasing, Iu Germany, thouseof tho Roman letter i3 becoming very fre- quent, especlully in pamphlets, programmes, posters, aud scicntific works,, and & move- ment §s nmow on foot to Introduce it in echool-books. It {3 only the old, conservative npewspapers In that country which adhere strictly to the Germun type, The Handds-Zeitung has done well to break loose from the old fashion, and will undoubtedly reap 80 rich a reward that other German papers will follow its example. The Roman typs 18 more pleasing and less trying to the Its uso will commend Gurrr{uf ncwqx:!;!:;‘:“d the Uerman langungs to hundreds i noy umn : sands of Amerleans who are now frlghre, o away from it and turn their attention to Fm:‘:‘ becausc of the typo in which It Is printed, 7y, Handels-Zelluny duserves suceess in cvery p.,' ticulor, It Is & lnrge, handsomely-printed paper’ octavo form, printed weekly, and 18 filed wyy excellently written editorial matter, as wel i a dlserlminnting yot comprehensive selection ot nrticles and news of Intercst to merchanty, Its handsomely-iilied advertlaing columng tow that our Lusincss-men appreelate its value "y medium of communleation with the Uermang, ———— Among the deaths recently reported are liosy of Mrs. EL1zA 7, ESDAILLE, the only surylyy, daughter und first child of SHELLRY, the pogt by his fll-fated wife, IAnmirT WesTntook; of Ezrxizt, WepsTER DYMOND, the Professop of Chemlstry In tho Ny Iampshire College of Agrlculture and Mechnnle Arts; of Bexsay 8uleRALY, nn old printer In Plitsburg, Po., whq was long connected with the Philadelphin Lafye as pressman, and for many years past has beey State Printer at Iarrisburg; and of Epwanp Youne Pansons, member of Congress from Kentucky, Mr. PAnsons was born at Mildle town, Ky., in 1842, and graduated at tha Ugl. veraity af tho public schools of Louisslile fy 1860. o taught at tho University for somg three years, and gradunted ot the Law School of Louisvillo in 1865, He practiced law at Ifen. derson, Ky., for some time, but finally sctiteq down in Loulsville, where he was elected to thy Forty-fourth Congress by an almost unanimoug vote. —_—— The sham battle fought In the bay ot 8an Franclsco on tho Glorlous Fourth was not wholly bootless In its results, It served to demonstrate to the citizens the rellance that might be placed upon the navy In case thay city was attacked from the sea. The thren United States men-of-war which aro stationed there to guard the Golden Gate trained thelr guns upon o scow, moored at short range. and banged away at it with shot and shell all day, witliout ouce hitting their mark, and that scow still floats to attest tho prowess of our squale ron on the Pacife Const. And now the San Franclsco people are anxlously discussing about what protection those men-of-war afford the clty anyhiow, and whether it isn’t time some gunners were placed aboard them who couliin't fire all day nt a target at short range without once hitting it, when that target was a good. sized scow. 4 ———— Messrs. Arexanozit, Emperor of all the Russlas, and VicTon EMMANUEL, King of Italy, have added thefr congratulations to tliose of Katser Winnzes on the celebration of the Amerlcan Centennfnl, As the German Empe- ror was cnterprising enought to send his com- munfeation on proioptly for delivery on the Centenninl Fourth, he recelved exciusive credit for Iiis thoughtfulness and good feellng, But, as the {utentions of the Russian und Itallan rulera wero just as good, and thelr nssurances of good feellng just ns fervent, it is proper that we should make due acknowledgments. Terhaps the wholo matter can be best disposed of by ex- pressing the hope, ex cathedra, that the friendly relations between the United States and all the rest of the world may continue undisturbed until tho next Centennial celebration shall coms around, — , When the Chieago Times—both daily—supe ports the tandldate or ticket of Tugs TRIBUNE, it Is pretty ncarly nlwaya on the victorlous - side, After the fight Is over, It cgotistically claima the credit of it. For the purpose of demonstrating to the commnunity the vast In- fluenve it wiclded, and showing Tuz Tnipunz that it had none, the Times—both of them— pitched Into Tur TRIBUNe's candldate most furlously, and turned over to Mang Kimarn their whola inftuence, and elected hiin by a tre- mendous majority—to rematn at home and at- tend to hls own business. Old Sroney would make money going around taking contracts to clect candidates by the ald of his two papers, both daily, and defeat those supported by Tuz Tripune. —_—— Marg KiMparL, the Democratic nominee, Jives in the Third Ward. That ward voted for Mayor: Mank Kntnart, 425 Muxnon Heatit & Jnr McGraTi, bummer candldate, lves n the Fourteenth Ward, That ward voted for 4 ,012 The new May In ard. That ward voted for Mayors Moxnor. EATI, Y Jixt McORATI hos aspired to the Mayoralty for acveral years. In 1873, and agaln in 1873, whilo an Alderman from tho Fiftecnth Ward, he sought to bo elected Mavor pro tem. by tho Coitneil, but was ‘‘sat down upon,” and his ambition was sadly crushed. Walting for a fa- vorable opportunity to take an appeal to tho sovercign people, hie ut last found it. He mado his appeal, submitted his clalms, and challenged the ndmiration und support of the sovereigns. I Jix McGuatie will carcfully examine tho returns of yesterday's clection, ho will learn the estimation (n which he is heldby the citizens of Chlcago, — Manrg Krmpav recelved adouble nomination, —first by TiLDEN and HENDRICKS Democrats, second by the Cltizens’ Reforin organization, He was also supported by twonewspapers, both daily, viz.: themorning cdition of the Teleyraph, edited by one MarTesoN, ond the evening cdition of the T¥mes, run by old man 8ronny, The powerful inllucncs of those two orgous of the * putrid reminlscence” is strikingly ex- Libited In the number of votes recelved by the candidate they supported and urged upon the public contldence. —— Jix McGRATR boasted beforcthe electionthat he would carry his own ward—the Fourteenth— by mors than 2,000 mujority. When tho bal- lots were counted, it was found, on the con- trary, that he was beaten by nearly 800 majority In his own ward! And he can't lay the blame on Marg KimuaLy, as Heati received moro votes fn the ward thau both of thew put toe gether, —— siness-hours yesterday, the ot o e o i oias ot the groenback dollar was worth 89, 34 cents conta more than **tho dollar of tho father: einnatl Enguirer. But it was worth 11 per cent kes than “‘the dollar of the motbers,” who always want tho full and completo dollur, equal In valuo tu 10 cents in the yellow stufl, B —— Yesterday Chicago fired the first gun of the Presidentiul campalgn, electlng Monnon HBarn, stralght Haves and WugsLEn Ropub- lcaw, by 11,613 mujority over Mank KiMpaLL, Tizvex Hord-8hell Democrat. Then 8,803 votes weru cast for Jid McGraw, mostly by * green. backers,' ns he was ‘softer " than elther of tho other csudidates by considerable. ——— It was scen yesterday beforo noon that Mc. Gnrati had no “show? of un clection, where. upou the Democrats, from then till night, voted sulld for Kimsary in the hopes of runniug him In by the atd of *Citizen Reform ™ Republican votes, * But thu effurt fafled badly—~Mank wap nowhere, * Jint has been awake at night thinking what he would do when elected Mayor, He maoy amuse himself tho residuc of Lis lifetimo fn the sane way, 88 hic Is not the atyle of man people wan! for that ofilce, o Maux KIMBALL {8 & very decent citizen, and &y ardent TILDKN Democrat. 1o is held ines- timation by the citizeus of Chicago, but not for Mayor,~ncither ls TiLDEN for Presfduent. o ——— For the past two or three woeks BTOREY hat sbused and lled about the new Mayor, Mr Mongos Hzgarn, in the most scandalous mao ner, through the columns of hlstwe newspapeia, both dafly. His aim snd intention weso {0