Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1876, Page 4

{o lower, at 8430 cash, and 86]e for Augast, Corn dechined jo, but alosed johigher, at 4o for July mnd 43ja for August. Osts elonad Jolowor, at 27jc for July or August. Ry was nominally woak at 66@660. Barley was dull and weak, seling at 48c. Hogs were dull and a strong 10a lower, closing weak at §0.25 @8.70 for poor to choico, Cstile wers in good demand and steady, Bhesp were rominal. One hundred dollars in gold wounld ' @I}v Tribnae, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. . PATADLR IR ADYANCE—POSTAGE PREFAID AT TINS OFFICH. 2, i:uny Fditton, wnp-ld.“l“y'w !l‘.m L0 2 e L Aoy TR foT s‘u'-;’a-, Piions TAterary nd Teligious Doubio ‘Khest . uable one, and the reaction will bes lughly beneficial to the Republican party of Illinois. — e whits peopls in the Bouthern Btates who in their hearta reprobate and denounce the mur- derous propeusities of the majority, we do not doubt. Dut theee people, while holding aloof from all personal participation in such crimes, by their silence and cowardice givo S B e AT RS A L A TR A A S AT ST B AR O LR MR TR A - THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JULY 21, 187G, . eling oxponses, comas on tha 81st of Dorom- ber, 1875, tha last businoss day of his term of offics, naothor obargs of $286.03 for *ftraveling expenscs of Governor and Pri- wate Seoretary in examining difforent rail- ronds, Wisconsin and Fox River lmprove- ment, and in discherge of other official du- tios roquiring their presence in difforent parts of the State, $285,98. And during the last throe days of his term he appropri- ated to himaclf, as shown by the official re. those who srs droppod, whilo a lot of poli- ticians, ambitiona therely to make capital for & campaign, might have done an aniount of mischiof which would have required years of time and millions upon millions of dollara to countersct, A Commission organized upon the snme principles is suggestod by the Senate with roforenco to the Consular and Diplomatio bill, instead of crippling this service without system by a promiscuous outting of salarios; and, in aacopting this MORAL COWARDIUEK AT THE BOUTH. ' That there is a class of honorable Christian FPostage nrrrlxl Ve Bpeclmen coples sent free. Tfpreuul delay and mistakes, be sure and give Poste OMee addres in full, including State and County, Itemistances may be niade either by draft, express, Tost-Office order, or In reglstered loteers, st our rlak, YERMH TO CITY SUBSORIBRRS. Datly, deltrercd, Bundsy excepted, 25 cents per week. Tintly, deiivered, Bunday Included, 30 cents per week Aditress THE TRIBUNE COMI'ANT, Corner Madison and Desrbornesta., Chicago, il PO, * TRIBUNE FOR TIIE SUMMER, Partiesleaving the city for the summer can have Taix DafLy TRISUNE forwarded to sny address upon leaving ordersat onr cousting-roon, The paper will ‘be prompily matied in aaingle wrappes, postage veld, 3or $1 por month. AMUSEMENTS. Tionley's Theatre, Tandolph et Letween Clark sud Lasalfe. **Two Mo of Sandy liar." Waooil’s l"llllslllll.4 dtatns Wk treet, hetween Dearborn snd State, *' Wep e(’-fi%fil’-fifi:‘bmnu. Afieraoun sl evesing. N0, 810, A F. & A M,— wntcation at their hall, American Ex T nrociitey \hin (FLdAY) CHERUNE A # o'clock snurp, | Work ot M. M. degree. Visltlng brstion shealpty " JOIIN SUTTON, W. M. 3. D, MORAY, Becretary. : LODOE_X0. ® A, F. AND A, )\oflxlfmi;fi' L':s-lnu’:l Htated communleation uué- (Friday) E;Egfl!‘v“"“ o'clock fur business aud work, AEUCRRIEE B E. N. TUCKER, Secratary. —_——— " FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1870. e _— Greenbocks at the Now York Gold Ex- change yestordny closed nt 893, piic Sstduttndisiind, Y DEARNORN LODGE, NO. 810, A, F. Eowm Boor, the well-known tragedinn, has beon discharged from bankraptey, his creditors having facilitated this happy issue out of his financial difficulties by tho assigu- ment of 4he larger part of their claims to his frionds, in whose hands they are no longer clnims. ' The rumored denth of Birtmve Burr, Onazy Honsr, sud Braor Mooy, in the fight with CusTer's command, is confirmed ins specinl to'the St. Paul Pioneer-Press from Bigmarck, It is insisted that these throe groat Chicfs of the boutilo Sioux wers, slain ot the battle of the Little Horn, snd that obout 400 of their followers were sent to meet thom in tho happy hunting-grounds, New York City continues to suffer under intensae heat, and a fearful mortality among children is the result. The averago of deaths of those under 5 years of sge, far the past - twonty-five days, has been nearly 100 daily. In Brooklyn the case is no better. Tho desth roto there lnst week was tho largoat over known, 890 out of 533 being children. 1In Milford, Pa., yesterday, the weather was tho hottest known in twenty years—104 in he shade, Chicago yesterdny was luxuriat- ing in o temperature of about 85, with a cool breezo from tho Inke! Probably no city in America is so fortunate ns Chicogo in tho abundant distribution of pure, wholesomo water, and certainly nono shich s0 abuses this priceless boon by neod- less waste, Lvory summor there ars loud complaints of this wasto on'tho part of those whoso supply is diminished in consequence, snd tho Bonrd of Publio Workshave propared an ondinoneo for the considoration of the Common Council, forbidding the practices which give rise to the complaints of water- waostage, and imposing certain penalties for violation of the regulation. Somothing of the kind is needad. e — The dispatch of our special corrospondont, “Phacion,” from Fort Abrahsm Lincoln, published in this issue of Tnx Tamone, givos the first suceinct, reliable information a3 to the reinforcomonts dispatched to Gen, Trrny, from which it will bo scen that the reinforcements cannot resch Trrny until nbout the 1st of August. Tho graphic de- seription in “Phbocion's” dispatch of the war-dnnco test to which tho savages are put before they are ndmitted to place mmong Birrive Burr's braves, will enable our read- ora to form something like an adequato con- coption of tho sort of fighting material that hoa to be mot and overcome among the Bioux, It is denied that Gov, OmasmERrLAIN, Of Bouth Garolinn, is going to Washington to Invoko the assistance of tho Government in dealing srith tho porpotrators of the Ham. burg atrocity. o has no such intention, but believes that the Btate suthorities are able to bring the murderers to justice 80 soon s the investigation now in progress by a Coroner’s jury shall dctormino who tho pguilty parties arc. In the avVent of any forel. ble vesistance, Gov, Cmaxperpary will call npon the respoctable add. law-abid- Ing peoploof tho adjacont counties, both white and colored, for support and asaist- ance, He is confident there will bs no oce tasion to apply for tho oxercise of the Fed- »ral power in South Corolina, Indiana Democrats, inreality representing Hexpuioxs, though professing to labor only for the succoss of the party in that Btats, are besocching Congress to come to tho rescus of tho imperiled cause by the prompt repeal of the Resumption act, urging that in no othier way can Indiana be carried in Qatober, They reprosent that considerablodamage Lins already beon dono by the refusal of tho ouse to follow the inatructions of the 8t. Louls Convention, and earnestly proy for the action that will prevont a wholessle bolt in Indlana to the Indepondent or Greenback party. But tho Committee on Banking and Currency resolutely refuses o report a re. peal-bill, the Truoen influence being all. powerful in the Houso. The TioeN mon lLold to their position previous to the nom- Ination ot Bt. Louis—that thoy can get along without the October Biates. The Chicogo produce marketa were again weok yesterday, and provisions were active, with more doing in wheat and corn. Mess pork declined $1.07} per brl, and closed 800 lower, ot $18.90 for August and $19.03 for Boptember, Yard declined, 62}c per 100 1bs, and closed 150 lower, at $10.07} for August and $11,07} forSeptember, Meats wero §@ 4o lower, at 7{c for boxed shoulders, 1030 “for do abort ribs, and 10jc for do short cloars, Lake freights were-moro aotive, at 14c for corn to Buffalo. Rail freights were unchanged, Highwines wero quiet, at $1.10} pergallon, Flour was dull Wheat closed ©83 | buy $111,75 in greenbacks st the closs, m‘iE It is a mattor of congratulation that the Iack of appropriations.seoms to cut off all necessity for dlsenssing the proposition in. troduced into the, Council to fix the pay of Aldermen st $3 a day for sctual scrvice, This is not the time to come forward with any such movement, when the necousitles of tho city and tho domands of the public are all in the dircction of retrenchment. Al tho Aldormon now sorving wera elected whon no pay was attached to tho position, and, though the charter of 1872 authorizes a compensation, thers was no roason for them to expeot it; and the public oertainly did not antfcipate that it would be proposed. It is absurd to intimate, as was done in the Coun- cil, that $3 n mooting will keep auy Aldor- man from stealing or accapting o bribe; if thero aro any Aldermen in the Council so disposed, wo fear that thoy will indulge thomselves, if thoy oan, pay or no pay. the proposition wore ‘put to a vote, wo aro confident it would bo defeated by a large mafority ; but it will be more creditablo sim- ply to drbp 1t out of sight. ‘Wuesres, aceepting the Republican nomi- nation for Vice-President, may be read in Ture Trmuse this morning. sensible, and patriotic document, such ne mightl @ axpoctad from nstatesman of hisabili- ty, experienco, and consurvatism, o cor- roctly atates that tho mission of the Ropub- hean party will be nccomplished only whon the American citizon, without regard to color, shall wenr the panoply of citizonship « gg fully aud securely in the canobrakos of Louisinnn ns on the banks of the St. Law- rence,” Tho lotter gives no uncortain sound on any of tha great questions of public poli- cy ; ho is for honest money ond honest ro- domption of onr pecuniary obligations, for cconomy in expenditures, and declares thnt offico is & publio trust, and nota place for private advantage. On the questions of pub- lic schools and the security to the liberty of tho citizen, Lio indorses the views of the Con- vontion most cordially. ingness of the Republican party to summarily punish all offonders against. the laws of the country. The letter i a briof but strong summary of the dootrines, and policy of tha Republican party, upon which it presonts its claims to tho intelligence and patriotism of the American poople for a continunnce in control of the Governmont. No one should fail to road the lottor. throughout Illinois which wero given to the State Central Committea by gentlemen from all parta'of tho State are of tho moat oncour. aging description, and havo the merit of bo- ing direct aud trustworthy, They mean sometling more than the casting of tho elec- toral vote of Dlinois for 1Taves snd Wuzeren and the election of Mr, Curzox as Governor, for no snane man Lias doubted that; but thoy mean nlso that tho Republicans, with proper barmony among themselves and diligent or- gonization, will rogain the ground that was lost two years ngo in the State Logislature and the Nationn! Congresa. It is propostor- nus that Dlinols, one of the staunch Re- publican States of the Union, almost sura of 40,000 mojority in a Presidential clection, should havo been ropresented, or rather mis- represontad, for two years in Congress by thirtcen Demoorats out of the nincteen wmembers. Two yoars ago eight Republican distriota—tho -First, Becond, Third, Sov- onth, Tenth, Thirtconth, Sixteenth, snd Eighteonth—wore permitted to pass into the crats and those who called themsolves Indepondents, from mere negloot nnd mis- mausgement. Most of thom woro lost by small mojorities, and might have beon saved if tho Republican voters hnd forescen the renl monning of o Confederate Congress as it hins sinco exhibited itself, wore permitted in tho samo way to got con. trol of the State Legislature with the help of tlie so-called Indopondonts, or Grangers, who jmmedintely joined hands with the Demo- orats, ‘Tho resnlt was equally unsatisfactory with the Congressional oxperience, sinte the Legislature proved itself incompotont and disgracefal, It is not likely tlat the Ropub- licans in any part of the State will permit a reourrence of thoss disasters by sheor inac. tion on thelr part. tinning tho Republican adwinistration of national affairs, which was never more sp. parent than it is now, will bring out the full atrongth of the party vots, and restors a propor representation of tho people in Con- grass and tho Logialature. recont conforenceis the evidence that tha redfidiisiblo for tho Republican losses two years ago, have roturnod to tho party almost it without being awallowod up by the Domo. if it had not boen for tha ervor of the Gor- socura tho repeal of this ordinance, they united with tho lowest eloments of city o ridioulously small msjority. to the atrocity its strongest encouragement and proteotion. Thera oan be no popular corime, rogular, general, and systematic, which is not sanctioned by publio opinion either directly by approval or indirectly by silonco and acqniescence, There is no publio opin. fon at the South which dare avow itself in opposition to thess murderons onalaughts upon the colored people. Whatover moral sontiment may exist condemnatory of such transactions, dare not be oxpressoad; the moral sentinmont dare not rebuke the assas. sing; and murdorons ruffianism rules su. . promo becauss no one dars denouncs it, An instanco of this cowardico is furnished by the Augusta (Ga.) Conastitutionalist, ono of the oldest and bost-established -papers in the country. That paper within o fow days after tho massacro published the following craven apology, which on its face is a falsehood : 1In our report of the Mamburg riot yestorday, tho types made us say: While evory honest and fatr-minded man in Sonth Carolina ani Georgta, and tha whols country, must cundemh 'tha coursa ‘pursucd by en. BUTLRL ad ik What we really Intended to say was that, ' while every honest snd falz-minded man In South Caro- 1ina and Goorgla must zegret the conrse of roms of Gen. Butixn'a won,” cte. Engagements olso- ‘where provented a reading of the proofs, and hence the error of the report. Paragrapha following the above relative to the noble gentleman, Gen, Bur- LEn, whose kindness of heart la only equaled by ‘his intrepidity, show that the sentence alluded to was simply & lapse which tho best of us, in the midst of excitement ond annoyance, may fall [nto, ‘Wae make tho enrllest possible amende onorable, The ijnference is that public opinion in Augusta and Georgin sustains and applands tho “noble gentleman® whose kindness of heart and intropidity were shown in the cowardly slanghtor of prisoners unlawfully held. Had Gen, BuTLen refrained from any participation in the illegal and disgraceful proccedings to disarm the military company, or bad he, better atill, placed himself on the sido of law, justice, and humanity, there would have been no violenco and no murder Had he defonded s a soldier and a citizon the right of these militiamen to bear arms and to rotain them, and if nced bo to use them in their defense, he would have shown & moral intrapidity which wonld have ro- ficeted more glory upon his name than any- thing ho over did in the field. As it is, this noble gentleman will go down to history as the ringleader of a gang of whito cowards ‘whe murdored in cold blood a squad of pris- oners, and prisoners over whom thoy held illegat control. The Augusta editor would hovo rondered tho people of the Bouth, both whites and blacks, an infinite sorvice if, instead of attompting to smend the righteons condem- nation of Burrez and his war, ho had reitar- atod the denunciation and demanded that tho people of Augusta should deliver the murdar- ers up to justice, sud disciaimed oll perdonal and political rolations witk men counseling, aiding, or sharing in tho atrocity. ‘Wo again call tho attontion of the poople North to this condition of public opinion at tho Sonth, and remind the that thoso peo- plo only wait for tho election of a Dem- ocratio Govarnment, that the Hamburg mas. sacre may become goneral in all parts of the South whore the nogro poputation may von- turo the exerciss of any civil or politicnl rights. Inthe light of this massncra by “noble gentlomen™ of Georgia, our poopla mny estimate what the gonoral population will do when the Dewocrata are in power, ond announce that the General Govornment will not interfore to protect the colored poo- ple from violenca. It Tho lettor of tho Hon, Wiitam A. It is a olear, Ho asserts tho will- THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS, The reports as to the political prospecta A MODEL DEMOOBATIC REFORMER. The latest Demoeratio réformer to bo in- vestigated is Tavron, the Democratic-Reform Goveornor of Wisconsin, The result of tho investigation, 88 of every lottingof daylight in upon the record of Damooratic profession- al reformers, is to expose this Democratio. Reform Governor as a fraud, and to convict him of misappropriation of public moneys in such monking fashion a8 does not rise even to the dignity of petit larcony, The only public money at his disposal was that appro- printed fqr tho contingent fund,—amounting during his Administration to a littlo qver threo thousand dollars. In the courso of bhands of professed Demo- The Democrals of this fund, the Legislative Committeo found that thero wero no vouchers on filo for tho most part of it. Thereen, in order to give him full opportunity to sxploin the mnt- +tor, Gov, Tayros was himscl! sworn aa » witness, and testified beforo tho Investigat- ing Committeo. Aud in his own sworn atatoment {8 it that he oxhibita himself as the paltriest official peculator on record. Thus he was askod ag to tho following item, for which the® was no youcher: s Aug. 1, 187e.~Expenses to and from Milwau- l'(eg 81 staff ‘o sttend Light Guard analvorsary,” 47. 05, His answer (we quote from the official ro- port of his testimony) was that this “in. cludes his own expenses also; balance of charg:s sbove voucher of*$17.25 was for haclehire and several items, for which no voulier was taken; was of improssion that $40.66 was exponded at the time for pur- pses montichod,” That is, he took a trip from Madison to Milwaukee, attonded the piculo of a volunteor company, sud, besides charging tho State $17.25 for his hack-hire, spent $47.05 additional whilo theds, and charged it all fo the contiugent fund. At the same time, by the amendment to the Wisconsin Conatitution, adopted in 1869, his salary of $0,000, it was provided, ehould be “In fall jor all traveling or other expenses incident to his dutles,” so that he was not "ontitled to ono dollar of the amouut, even biad ho expended so much in attending that picuie, 8o, in violation of thia constitntional pro- hibition, he charges to the contingent fund his oxponses on a trip to Milwaukee on the 18th of May, 1874, $15; his exponses, July 25,1874, on a trip to Towa, which he admits in his testimony ‘‘ waw partly on hisown business,” $25; expenses, inspeoting the Contral Railroad, Nov, 21, 1874, $27.50; travellng oxpensos, Sopt. 14, 1874, on official business, $60, and a hoat of othor similar items, his practica seeming to have boen to cliarge all his Lotel and railroad-fare bills to tho contingent fund, In like manner he charged his subserip. tion to the papers to the contingont fund, and of date Dec. 81, 1875, deducta therefrom 160,75, in explanation of which he testifled betook forly or ifty papers,—at the State'sex- peuse, DBesides, of date March 1%, 1875, only nine wouths provious, is another chargo of $207.76 for *telegraphbing, ohasities, grasshoppers, and indigent soldiers, newspa- pers, sud travellug oxpenses on Egeoutive busloese.” _ Aftor all the other fllegal charges for trav- The importance of con. Tho most significant fact doveloped by tho Gormans and tho Grangers, who were mainly a body, convinoed that thoy cannot desort cratic party, to which thoy have no inclinn- tion. There is no rensonable doubt that Re- publicans would havo boon elected from all thraa of the Chicago Congrossional Districts maus of this city in holding the Republicav party rosponaiblo for the local Sunday luw which was go objectionable to them. To politics, and did not foresee that snch & anc- aess would bo turnod to the advantage of tho Demoorats, as it was, Tha condition of Chicago politics waa auch that, in the throo Republican Jistricts, one Ropublicau candl- dato was cheated out of his place in tho elec- tion, another by the Confuderato Congress aftor hio was electod, and the third heaton by ‘The thing canpot bo roposted. The Germans have no desiro, and had npot in the first instancs, to bo represented in Congress by Confederates, und will mot again, by thelr votaw or influence, be respon- sible for such gross misreprosentation as Chlcrgo has ju the psons of its three Dam. oarativ Congressmen. As in Chicago thero oannot recur the sume couditions which led to the election of three Demacratio Congress- men from three Republican districts, so in othorparts of the State asimilarexperionce hos convinced nll those who had become dissatis- fied from ono cause and ancthor that they are botter off whore they were than to ssek vom- fort amcng the Oonfederatos. This experi- onoo has wlso taught the necesaity for harmo- ny and system in orgauization, and has con- vinoed the atay-at-homes thatthoy cannot af- fordto neglect thelr duty of voting, The loson in this Btate has beon a cosily bat val- their investigations ns. to the disbursement’ port of the Committe, “over $1,000 for which no vonchers appear en fle, and that 10 ontrica had beon mede in the nccount for several months previous,” The whola noeds no comment. It is but tho rocord of politionl filehing from the Pub- lic Troasury on tho mostshamoless pretenses, But, as an {llustration of what s Damoeratio Roformer will pocket whoro there waa so 1it- tlo to bo stolen, it seems to indicato how larger opportunity would be improved by tho Democratio Reformors éf whom ho is oug of the most notabla. e———— THE INTER.COLLEGIATE REGATTA, Notwithstanding the many gfirring eventa conncoted with tho Contennial yoar—tho Prosidential campaign, the Indian war, snd Turko-Servian campaign—which are occupy- ing the public mind, the nunual collogiata race at Saratoga scoms to have lost nono of its interest. Tho crowd attracted to soe it wns quite as large, the enthuisiasm quite ns pronounced, and the desoriptionsof it quita as broozy, as ever. As waa tho case lastyear, a fresh-water college, Cornoll, won the race, —in fact, won all the threa races of the day. The result wns in accordance with * the etornal fitness of things.” It will bo accopt. od with equanimity by the mejority of people, because it will take tho concelt out of salt.-water colloges very thoroughly, Thero aro one ortwo of the old Now En- gland institutions, like Yale and Horvard, which have made thomsclves insaf- ferable nuisancos by the patronizing and intolorant spirit thoy have manifested to- wards younger and inland institutions. ¥alo and Harvard havo beon the represontatives of this snobbish spirit. Satisfled with her oxporiences of last yoar, ¥alo did not put in nnappearance this year, but Harvard did, ond with the same degree of pretontious rivalry and publio bonst that hus always charnctorized her studonts, not alono in boat- ing, but in all hor intercourse with othor col leges. The conceit was taken out of her very handsomely by Coruell, and next year it may bo assumed thot sho will sing very small. o Leaving out tho unplensant foatures of this rivalry, Harvard s to bo congratulated upon being *‘ a good sccond,” and all the clubs are to bo congratulated upon the hand- some display of skill and strongth displayed by them, ond also upon the gentlemnnly conduet'of the participants. In this Intter respect, thera was nono of the wrangling and quarroling bolweon thoe clubs, and none of the disgraceful, rowdyish after-scones, thnt havo characterized somo of thoss inter-col- legiate rcgattns in years past. It iy pleasant also to noto the progress that is mado from year to year in athlatia sports os a part of the colleginte curricnlum, It is but a short tima since the only gaine of An athletic char- nctar that eugaged tho attention of students was football—a pastime more provocative of bruises to shinsand fistiouffs than of do- volopmont of muscle. Now buse-ball, cricket, and rowing have bocome regular foatures of sport in nearly all our collogos, Throo or fourat least of our colleges can compoto with professional oarsmen. Har- vord has a very good base-ball club, and Yale has turned ont o nine which has even beaten tho Hartfords, the compotitors of aur own nito for the championship, All this sugurs woll for the collegiato hygiens. * It promises that tho colleges will not turn out as large a crop af pale-faced, crookad-backed, and wenle-nerved young gontlemen ag usual, bot that there will be in their places some brawny arms, strong hands, and stout logs. Combine these with oloar hoads, tho sana mena in sano corpore, and our colloges will turn ont por- foct men who will plend better, pronch bot- ter, doctor botter, do overything betier, than tho same men could do with the gound mind in on unsound body, It is also promising for tho futurs usefulness of graduates that tho Faculties of the various colleges are recognizing theso athletio sports, and that they turn out to welcome the victors nnd takoa pridein their exploits, With such careful rogulation snd sdvico as the older heads may givo the young athletes, great good may bo nccomplished; in fact, the gentlemanly man- ner fa which the studonts conducted thom- selves in the lute race is undoubtedly due in larga dogreo ta tha recoguition and encour- sgoment of their aducational superiors, iy THE NATIONAL APPROPRIATIONS, In virtually sgrecing upon a basis for the army and sundry clvil appropristions, the Benate and House bave disposed of the most gerious differoncos thnt oxisted betweon thom, and wo do not see why, with tho prop- or disposition to do so0, Congross should not bo able to adjourn within a few dnys. Thers remain, it Is true, tho Legislative, Execntive, Judicial, and Consular and Diplomatie bills to disposo of, but an agreement upon the Army bill, which wsa the main occasion of the dissonsion, ought to induce a ready as- sont to the other mensurcs. The position of tho Bonate in most of these disagreoments hns been just and patriotic. It has at no time, as for as wo kuow, interposed to save approprintions which could bo dispensed with without serlously infaring the publie sorvice, But it has insistod on two things, viz.t (1) that thoro slall not now boa re- duction bolow the actunl nocessitics of the servico for mero campaign purposes, and on. ly to bo, mado up subsequently by de- ficlenoy appropriations; and (2) that the House shall- not in tho appro- propristion Dbills undertako to reorganize the various branclies of the Government servios, for which special investigation and separate logiulation should be instituted, Tho justice of both these pointsis too ape parent to bo insisted upon. The Ifouse fully scocded in the final ar. rangement of the Army bill to the Scnate’s position, Though there is a reduction of neaxly $2,000,000 in the appropristions for the army, all attempts were sbaudoned to reduco tho pay, diminish the numbers, and reorganizo the army, With a formidable Indian war sctually on our hands in the West, with the threatening altitude of the outlaws of tho Boath, and with the Demo- orata of Texas dvmanding still more effective army police along tho Moxican bordor, it was reckless aud malloioug to contemplate the reduction of an srmy which is at besta meore skeloton, and it way espocially foollsh t mako this attempt without investigation or system. 'Tho Commisslon provided for, which cousists of two Henators, two Represontativos, two army oftlcers, and tho Becretury of War, will be compotent to devise moasurcs for the reduction of the army, if indeed }t is at all practicable, which will at least only wesken it 0 the exient of 5 basis of settloment with referouco to tho army, we do not see how the House can reasonably reject it with referance to the foreign sorvice. Tho saving of $10,000,000 in the Bundry Oivil bill, though it has prob. ably boen sconred phrtly by an unfair saerl- flco of cortain sections of tho country and tho raving of otber mections, is worthy of commondation aa a whole. The Now York Worldis not vory happy at the oxcoss of zeal manifested Ly Bouthern Democrats, who, whero thoy hava tho power, have commonced their old work of hunting and murdoring negroos who vote tho Repub- lican tickot. It attempts to cover up the murderous enthusinsm of iis co-laborers in the Bouth by the following plea, which has noithor the merit of noveltyortruth ¢ * For this work of reconstruotion and its resnits tho Republican party must tako tho respon- sibility, ‘The mnssacres, outragos, and rob- Lories ara ite own, and it must auswer for them. It hod tho authority to bring pesco and prosperity to the South, and did not do it.” Tho anaweor to this specious rensoning is vory simple. The Ropubliean party re- constructed tho Sonthern Blates and rostored their machinory of governmont ns it was be- forg tho War, Further than thisit hns no responsibility, If the Southern States ean- not maintain pence and order and put down the outcroppings of rebellion, it is not tlio fault of the Ropublican party, but of tho Soathern people, Tho Republican party has not undertaken, and has mo authority to undertake, the police business and keep ponco in evory Southorn city, town, and village, When tho Administration re- storod their Legislatures and courts, and rendmitted the Confederates to a placo in tho National Govornmont, without punish. ing thom nt all for thoir crimes agninat tho Government, it was expocted that they would go to work aud uso that machinery, not to hunt down aud murder Ropublican Llack men, but to keep order and maintain ponco. But, says tho World, * wherever tho Democratic party has got control, thore are peaco and lappincss,” Tho Democrntic party had control tho other duy at Ham! burg, but ‘the blacks of Hamburg wero not particularly happy over that foct, unless tho World's idea of bhappiness is in seizing upon negroes who are guilty of no offense whatever, and slooting them in cold blood, In IKentucky, Missouri, and Lodisiana, ‘where the Democrals are in power, tho Rebel flag was hoisted and car- riod in processions on tho Fourth of July. Is this the World'sidea of peaco and happi- ness? In Carlislo, Ky., on tho same day, o young man was foally murdered booause ho protested against tho infamous conduot of o goug of Democerata and ox-Rebels - in pulling down the Stara and Stripes and hoisting o Tlebol flag. Is this tho TWorid's idea of ponce and happiness? The Oharleston Vews and Courier, which is working for TiLpen and Hespniexs, says tho condition of the nogroes in South Carolina iz that of * terri- fiod submission.” Is that a condition of penco and happiness? Wo comniend to the World tho following from the New York Ierald, which cannot be considered o Ro- publican newspaper : . The Democrats have o singular way of condnct- fng o political campalgn, Assoon as 8 Proslden- tlal contest comuencod they start out on Ku-Klux expeditions, and indulge In the sport of shooting thqgolored people of the South, Of course their object must be to Impross upon tho country & sense of the Domocratic hatred of the llack race, and to afford o guarantee that if In power thoy would In- gtitute tho now national sport of nogro-hunting, SERVIAN PROSPECTS. Making duo sllowances for tho oxaggera- tions nud contradictions of the reports from the Turko-Servian campaigs, and discrim. inating as well a3 we can betwoen the dis- patchos emanating from Constantinoplo and thosa from Bolgrado, it appenrs that the Bervians, instead of making an offensive warfaro against Turkoy, aro in reality folling brok nnder tho weight of numbers, and wiil ghortly have to preserve the intogrity of Bervin ngainst Turkish invasion. It is not impossible that Prince Mirax went into this struggle withont sufficient prepavation, and did not sufficlontly consider the real stfongth of tho Turks, Ho counted upon the help of Greoce, but it has not come; on the other hand, tho Groeks nro solfishly hold- ing back, awalting tho result of the is- sup,—to sido with Turkoy if Tarkoy is success(ul, to soize upon Epirus and Theasaly it Servia ia successful, He counted upon the help of Roumania, Xt did look for a timo as if Roumania were about to taks tho field aa an auxillary, but later ad- vioces show ' that, under the counsel of tho Great Powers, Roumania, which could have furaished a very powerful army, is likely to presorve a strict neutrality, He morcover countod apon o refusal from the Khodive of Egypt to furnish help to'Lurkey ; but, instend of rofusing, the Ihedive has sent a contin. gont of troops to. Constantinople with un. usual promptuess and alacrity, and, in addi- tion, has gono beyond what could ba lawfully expooted of bim by sonding 25,000 rifies to the Bultau a3 & porsonal presont. Tho AMonte- “negrins have beon faithful to thelr promises, aud, considering the amallnoss of their army, have mot with remarkablo sucoesses in their march towards Mostar; but thoy seem tobo nat. ingindependently of the Berviaus,—at loast, no movoment of theiraas yet gives any hint of preconcertod action with the Sorvians or intondod combination, On tho other hand, thoy nro marching away from tho Bervians, along the sen.coast, whilo the lattor ave in. land, and soroly pressod, evon up to their wostorn frontler; by the Turks. Although thero hiave beon no lorge engegaments fought and nao action that.can bo called general or docisive in character, it still remains as the outcome of the oampaign thus far that the four Sorvian columnswhich set out-throo weeks ngo to invado Turkey have boen met by tour Turkish columns, ench of auflleient strength to force its antagonist baok, with moro or less of loas, to the frontior, so that the war is likely to bo fought in Borvis, nnd what thet implies may be imagined when the flondishness of Turkish cru. oty is romombered. In addition to its troubles in front, & flre in the rear has bLeen commenced by Kama. aronaEvITel, who was deposed in 1838 for his complacency towards the Turks during tho Orimean war, and who is now renowing his pretensions to tho thromo, and stirring up the people to rovolt against the Prince Miran. If tho majority of the dispatches bo true, there can be bat little help for Servia cxcept through the intervention of Russis, What atitods that Power will aasume must be made known very shortly, for overy day brings Borvia's peril to o more dangerous crisis, that must end befors long eithier in intarvontion in her behalf or in submisafon to the Turk, Rambling, that they pleaded guilty, s for the offenne. P il ey Bubsoquently we copiod from the lizan the statement of Judge Lanv, wfi:q;: _beon one of the Grand Jurom who indi them. Horsays tho proo! wes tht th Sy - Kxares and thirty-five othier young m“: Ot the two propositiona snbmitted at tho | Bl. Touls wero shown tohavostaked 10 conts, last meoting of tho Common Council with | OF clgars, clder, cakes, or ica-oream; on socly roforancé to tho building of the City-Hall, | games of cards, and that tho Grand Jy that of Ald. Barn's is not only the wisest, but thoonly practical method. Ald, Bar- LAnD's proposition, ** that the City Attorney Do dirocted to procced at once, on tho part of tho City of Chioago, to enjoin the County Commissionors from proceoding further with thio bullding of the county part of the Court- ouse, or the lotting of any further con- tracte, until there is an understanding aud arrangemont ontered into. botween the city and county to build togethier,” nmounts to nothing. Tho ofly is netoriously out of monoy. If the city enjoins the county, and keops it waitinguntil it gets money ononghto poy its part of tho exponso, how long will it tako,~—two, five, or ton years? Wo wont o plan badly enough that will harmonizo both wings and allow city and county to work togothar, buttho cityhas no moncy. What tha city recolved from tho Btato was spontlong 0go, and cannot bo roplaced, owing to the tax-fighters. So long ns' the city is without money it is sbsurd to propose enjoining the connty, and keep it wnaiting for that very uncertain time when the City Tronsury will bo filled again, Ald Ssrrn's proposition, although a goneral one, is the bost, It suggests ‘‘thnt, innsmuch as the city is nt presont unable to build its part of tho snid Court-Ilouse, the Finance Committeo ‘of the City Qouncil be, and thay are hereby, {nstructed to consult with tho County Com- missioners of Cook County, without delsy, on gomo plan whereby tho city can bo aided 1% aoid county in the drection of said Court- Houso, ns it i8 most ocasentinl to build to- gother,” The plan hos altwdy been sug- gosted by Tuu ‘Tnmune, namely, for the county to build the whale bullding, and for tha city to pay the intorest on half the bonds, taking cara of the principal when it comes due, ten, twenty, or thirty years jence. Tho county hos nuthority to issuc bonds, the eity has not, Thig is not only tha best' way, but the only way in which tho City-Iall can bo built, doubted if such games came within the sla utory prohibition. The Judge adds: Wo, the jury, theroforowent bofore Judge 1,ycx, LAKD for instruictions In (he prowmises, nnd e by him informed that **In the eye. o7 (i fais et man or person wagering even o amall a mum ..‘Z conts upon a game of cards was Jiable to & gambler,'" e dermng The jury theroupon rolurned irue billg agninst n couplo of score of young Tellovs, including the Kwarrs, The young mev: plended gnilty nod had a nominal fino and thy conts imposod. The whole matter wns lookeq upon as a good joke, and furnislied materiy afterwards for many n langh at thelr oxpony, 1t is hardly fair, under these circumstances, for the Globe-Democrat to call tho Kyarps * blacklegs,” aud Tug 'Tnmoxe wns wrong in enying that the @.-D. had * made good ita nssertion,” The Toronto Leader rathor impertinently announces that Cannda will not haud over such of tho Bioux as may escapa from Czoox and Tenny into their territory, until the United States hands over the' Feninns {o England wh8 havo crcaped from Australis, ‘Thio announcement strikes us as impertinent, for three rensons: Firat, impertinont a9 clnssifying Foninng on the same plano with Sioux. Becond, importinent bacausze Gens, Cnoox and Tenny will aco to it that the Bionz Indisns donot cross into Dritish Territory, Third, impertinent becauso the English press, headed by * the Thundorer,” have informed the United States thatit will be nfavor o Eugland to tako tho Feninng and keop them, Tho littlo organ over in Toronto evidontly it not grinding the samo tune as tho big orgam in London. OBITT. ALEXANDER RUSSEL. A cable dispatch o day ortwo since annotned the death of Mr. ALEXANDER RuUSSEL, o promb nent Scoteh writer. e was born in Edinburg, Dee. 10, 1814, was cducated In that city, and al first Intended to big a printer, but suhsequently changed his views ind commenced writing for Taits Magazine. In 1830 he became odiorof the Derwick Advertiser, and, after holding the position three years, took the editorial control of the Fife Zerald. In 1844 hostarted a Liberl naper In Kilinarnock, fn 1846 became conneeted Jvith the Edinburg Scotaman, and subsequently succeeded to {taeditorship. With its fortunet hewas conuccted nearly to the time of hit death, anad Lo his vigorous pen its present cos mopolitan greutness s attributed, As a cone traversial welter of the Lold, slashiug atyle, he 13 said to have had no equal on the British press. Of ull the great leading questions advoeated by tho Whigs and Moderato Liberals lie was the foremost champion, He was also s [requent contributor to the London Zimes aud Pall Mall CGazelte. Of all thomen in Congress, Mr. 8, 8. Cox hos lot himself down to tho lowest and mennest lovol. There was not & Confedorata in Congruss who venturad a word, publicly, in defonse of the Inmburg mnssacre. They loft that business to such mou ss Cox, who naturally voluntcered ns' champions of the chivalry, 2s in tho ante-war times they made themsslves chomplons of slavery, When Mr. Baarrs, of South Caroling, read in the Ilouse of Ntoprosentatives the lotter describ- ing thb Hamburg massscro, MP. Cox hur- riedly obtained tho floor, and tried to treat the whole thing ns & joke, Tho Congression- al Record reports tho following: Mr. Cox--, . . Thisletier was Intended to ho ehaken Into the faco of tho flodse for political and ‘bad purty purposcs, for the gentloman knows that In tho distributions of the onny there ls strength enouglhi in the South to protect overy one to whom protection In the Sonth 1s duo. Mr, Ilii~The Hamburg rlot was got up for that ‘express ptirpose, i Mr, Cox~I have no donbt of {t. Mr, Bry Huuz suggests,and Mr, Cox n- stantly adopta tho theory that the negroes at Hamburg got themselves murdeored ** for po- litical and bnd party purposcs.” This lsa degroe of party zeal which is without proce. dent. Hore is Alr. Cox, who,n few woeks 8go, waa ordorod to resign or go to 8t. Louls for *‘political and bad party purposes,” and who profortod to go to St Lowis, who ac- counts for the Hamburg massacre thus: A number of negroes of Mamburg, being Re- publicans, and desiring to defent Sas TsLpey, six months ngo . organized aa a company of State militia, and on the Fourth of July pars- ded; that they paraded on a atroct where two white men wers in a buggy; that they in. duced the whito men to drive through the ranks of tho company, and they pormitied the outrage; that thoy induced tha white men to nocuse the soldiors with obstruating the highway; that they induced tho Justice to decido that the negroos should deliver their arms and disband ; that the company then went to tho armory andinduced the white men to follow them and sssault the nrmory, driving out some and capturing the others; that the prisoncrs then induced tho white mon to shoot thoe prisoners in the pros- once of their wives nud children; and, hav~ ing beon murdered .through their own pro- curomont for the **political and bad party purpose” of defenting Titoe, thoy really sere not ontitled to sympathy. This is Mr, Cox’s explanation and version of the wholo affoir, and for it Mr. Cox deserves the con- tompt of every white man in the country, both at the North and at the South. OTHER DEATTR, Among other dentis recently announced arg thoss of Wax S1aNg, n member of the Chlness Grand Council, who wus one of the fow Chincs oftictals belleved ta -be atrietly honest; of the Rev, Joux D. Braty, recontly pastor of the TRoseville Mothodlst Church, at Newark, N. J, ond for some years agent of tho Natlonal Teme perance Soclety; of Dr. Jonx Jrrrnies, one of the bLest-known of the old physiclans of Bos ton, who for many years was oncof tho con sulting physlclans of the Massaclufsctts Gen cral ITospital; of tho Marquls of CoNyNanan, who was Under-Scerctary of State for Forelgn Affairs fron 1823 to 1825, Postmaster-General under Lord MuLBounnE in 1834, and a member of tho I'rivy Council in 1835; and of SipNar RiepoN, the successor of Jor Ssritit, at Nuue voo, but for the Inst thivty yearan resldent of the Geneses Valley, N. Y., where ho bas been studying and lecturing upon geology, —— The;New York World, TiLDEN's home organ, exonerates the White-Liners who unlawfullysure rounded and captured a ‘company of colored militia in Hamburg, 8. C., aud thon murdored & partof thelr prisoners. It not only vindicates tho assassins, but lays the blame on tho colored wen in this paragraphs The statoment of Gen. M. C. Bursen, of Georgla, prominent in the recent ambury, 8. .. mgefiy. prosen thas tho netoos fred the s} ehot 1 thia deplorable affaie, und that the firmt blood Is Lo be Iala to thiclr accannt, It was for the safety of tho whole section that the riotous negroes ulrauld bo disarmed, and thia_reault Gen, BuTLEn undertook to effact. For tho bloody ascquel ho was fn nowlse rosponsitle, Howasn't! What right had Gen, ButLrn, of Georgia, to cross the Savannah Rivor into Hame ‘burg, South Caroling, to take away the arms of a company .of Stute wmilitin The militiamen hind the lawful right to firo the firat shoty but Gen, Butten Hes when ho says they did so, Ile and his Ku-Klux surrounded and drove thirty- " clght of them fnto thelr armory, demanded thelr surrender and thatof their State muskets, and, upon thefr refusal to comply with those unlawful demands, ButLEr and his Ku-Kiux opened flre upon them, and brought overa cannon from Augusts, Ga., to help force them to yleld thelr persons nod’ their guns, The World knowsthesctobe the facts, anditisgulity of willful falsification when it calls the company of State militis “riotous negroes.” Thoy wore gullty of no riot, and had mobbed or molested nobady, but liad strictly minded thelr business, and tried to defend thelr porsonal, political, aud Inalionable rights when set upon by Gen, Bure vei und his Ku-Klux cut-throats without causs or provocation, Tho Council has overcome tho dificnlty thiat seomod to be in the way of making tho rovenue warrants of 1876 reccivable for the taxes of 1876 by nuthorizing tho City Troas. urer to pay them off whenover thoy ara pre- sonted along with the tax.receipts represent. ing the samo or a larger amount. By this meons it will only be necessary for any ono dosirous of paying taxes with the revenue warrants to use or borrow the money for au Liour or two, pay his taxes, show his re- ceipta to tho City Treasurer, and gob tho money for his warrant, The necessity for this roundnbout way is occasloned ULy the fact that the OCounty Troasurer is permitted to rccolve nothing. but’ ourrenoy. In order to give this now feature of tho city certificatos the nddi- tional inducement to iuvestinent for which it ia designed, wo think tho minimum amount for which subscriptiona to the popular loan aro rocoived should be reduced to $100 at most. The number of porsons who pay $500 ayenrin cily taxes nlono is comparatively sall, while largs numbers of people would take warrants for suins of §100, knowing they can roalize on them by tho payment of taxes next year, and In the moantime draw intercst theron, As tho intorest is ab tho rato of 8 per cent, such an inveitment with this abso~ lute guaranty will be infinitely preferablo to depositing in a savings bank at from 4 to 6 por cont. After half o contury of abuse and of wrong, after half a century of perslstont wrong, after Westminster has refused adimission to hix ashes and Mrs. 5TOW= lna hisuled over his ashes with .the rake of a scavenger, the Englisht people ure about to pay a small tribute to lord Braow, and commemorate his gonfus with a monument to bo erected in tho Green Park, London, within view of the spot whero he spent tho firat yeor of his wedded life, Tho statue of Briox, which was made by TnonwiLpsey fn 1824, aud which was refused admisslon inte Westminster by Dr, INELAND, then Dean, it now in the library of Trinity Colloge, Came bridge, in Which ho passed ks Untversity years, The proceedings of the Natlonal Board or Edueation at Baltimore, on Tuesday Igst, cone taincd somo very [uteresting inforination os to the progress of education InJapag, Dr. Mun- nAY, froin that country, reported that there aro three clnases of schools, . the higher lustitutions belng under control of the central Government, sl the public schools undercontrol of the Jocal Uovernments. Tho schools are regulurly fns spected, and ut eazh centro of local Guyernment there is » Bureau of Dircetion. Japan has seven norinal schools, and at the closo of 1874 had 20,- 038 publis scliools, 83,805 teachers, and about £,000,000 pupils. A fow days ago wo reforred to tho bitter porsonal warfarg going on botwoen the pro- prietors of the Bt Louls Repudlican and the Glode-Democrat, and how the latter got back on the former by dlgging out of the musty, dusty files of the Oriminal Coust the ‘offjcial vocord of the conviotion of the MKwares, with & score of others, for *f gambling® twonty yegrs ago. In describing the case, this sentence ocourred in Tox Tamsus's ar. ticlo: Aftor sn upusnaily sovere nssault from the Re- publican, the Globe-Demacrat came out tho next morning with the assertion that the Xxaees were blacklegs, and made good Ite sasertion by the obi. clal records of the Courts, from which it appears ver twi $s laadlng Democrats of ths uu:ngtm::ufl The Ohlo State Journal says thot “ GALUSIA A, Grow, who was out with GresLey in 157, has come back to the Republican party. G- LUBIEA, put on clean ralment and help yoursell totheveal.? Fercontra, JanssM, AsuLEyis for ‘TiLDEN, aud {3 feading on the husks that awino do eat; Joun F, FArNswourit ditto, They call 1t “reform,” ————— The 8t. Lonls Conventlon *‘looked, acted, howled, drank wlnhk;. aworo, and hit out from the shoulder like the samo old Blave-driviug crowd."—CAleago Tiuiss, And the Chicago Z¥mes Is now supportiug the nominges of that hard old crowd. What 1s bré in the bone will come out fn the flesh. T4 Qinws ahid its editor were basn and brought @