Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 23, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 23, 1876-SIXTEEN PAGES. The Tribane, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PATABLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT THIS OFFI sily Ealtion. postpaid, 1 year. iris of & yflr.dpu' ‘month.... 3 :‘u.écd Jods ddremour Wil inca) 01 Lerary a et 3.00 8.0 -Weekl, ¥ arts of a year, per mOK] Specimen copi s To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- )fice address in full, including State and County. Temitsances may be made either by draft, cxpress, 2osi-Office order, or In registered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dy, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 ceats per week. Pany, eelivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cotner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, I ——— TRIBUNE FOR THE SUMMER. Parties leaving the city for the summer can have TuE DarLy TRIBUNE forwarded to any address upon leaving orders at our counting-room. The paper will be promptly matled in a single Wrspper,: postage pald, 3ar $1 per month. SOCIETY MEETINGS. RIE! NSISTORY—Regular meeting B.‘-’. 2 Y‘I‘é‘“ S.C'?:m on Thureday evening, July B7,'st Cousistorial Hall, 72 Monroe-st. Important business and work on the 30th degree by Il Seccond Lieat.-Commander John Q'Neill, 32d. A full attendance of members desired.” Tickets now . ready for excursion to Philadelphia. By order of GIL W. BARNARD, 334, Ill. Com’r-in-Chief. JAMES A. T. BIRD 32d; Gr. Seccretary. 3 KILWINNING LODGE, NO. 311, A. F, & A ML —The aunual picnic will be held mext Tuesdsy, 25th inst., at Sharpshooters’ Park. — Train leaves depot, corner of Clinton and Carroll streets, at 9 o'clocka. m. 'Tickets SL. Can be obtained of the Executive Committes or on the cars, and music furnished by Nevans' Band. T L. S. CHARLETTE, Secretary. BLATR LODGE, XO. 393, A. F. & A. M.—Reg- nlar communication Mondsy evening, July 24, at8 o'clack. i}:’nrkd‘nnntherd’l‘hh;dml)%'re;i Visiti brethren invite order of the W. M. - R 0" ODONNELL, Secretary. GOLDEN,RULE LODGE, NO. 726, A. F. & A. 3L —A special commaunication for work on the E. Al and AL M. degrees will be held at § g'clock Sharp on Tuesday cvening, 25th inst. Visiting dislly invited. brethren corially iovied ;6 ooparaN, W. 2L J. MACFADYEN, Secrotary. = LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, NO. 2, R. A, M.— T1all 72 Monroe street. Stated convocation Monday cvening, July 24. at § o'clock, for business. BY order of the H. P. E. N. TUCKER, Secretary. SUNDAY, JULY 283, 1876. At the New York Gold Exchange on Sat- nrdsy greenbacks were worth 894 cents on Ihe dollar. City-Attorney Turams hes menrly com- pleted the declaration to be filed in the suit 2gainst ex-Treasurer O'Hara for the deficit »f 62,000 in his account. The city has nothing to dowith the Hibernia Bank, which Is said to‘have the money. As the matter ands, Dax O'Hana is a defaulter to the‘city for the sum claimed. If he hss any money on deposit in that bank, it is his business to iraw it out and pay it ov B Specials to New York papers reiterate the roport some days since published in Tme TripryE that Srrrove Brrs was killed in the fight on the Little Horn. It is sincerely to be Lioped that the report will prove true; but weanthile itis to be apprehended that par- ties sent out to identify the remains would be lisble fo find him sitting eround where least expected, and ready to take their scalps nnd to record an exaggerated account of his exploits in s doing in his autobiography in his most graphic stylo of picture-language. The Spencer end anti-Spencer Republican factiors in” Alsbama have withdrawn their Hiate tickets nud united on a ticket headed by X. Waoorrrr, the yresest Mayor of Sel mp. This union of the two factions may not secure the State for the Republican ticket, but it will come very near it. Be- ginning with 1870, Alabaina hds voted as fol- Icws for Governor: . 1570—Lindsey; Dei Swith, Rep. Confed. maj . 1872—Herndon, Dem.. Levwis, Rep.... Rep. maj... aase (Grant on the some day had 10,528 over Greeler). 1S74—Houston, De 107,118 Lewis, Rtep. Confed. maj... geavessens 13,190 1t is possible that this majority cannot be overcome, but it will be whittled down into very smell proportions if the Republicans put forth their full strength. 'The treding-boats that annually come down the Missouri from Fort Peck in their car- goes of thousands of buffalo-robes carry the explanation of how it comes that the Indians are better armed than the troops sent against them, and have ample supplies of ammuni. tion. Since 1872, it has been well known to army officers stationed along the Upper Mis- souri that the traders st Fort Peck secured and maintained slmost a monopoly of the Sioux trede by furnishing the redskins with Winchester rifles in exchange for buffalo- ekins and furs. The rifles the traders have eold at enormons rates, receiving as high as 300 robes, or about $2,400 each, for the rifles, and the enormous cargoes sent down' the river by them were known to have been ob- tained in exchange for Winchester rifles and emmunition. In view of these facts, before the Government sends any more expeditions against the Sioux, it would be in order to send out a company or two to capture those traders and cut off the savage base of sup- plies. S S —— Neither TrupeEN nor HENDRICES seems to Xoow what to say to the country upon the subject of the Presidency,and yet both of them are very glib with the tongue and quick with the pen. It begins to look as if the following suggestion by the New York Her- ald might be correct: *If Hexpricxs could only get it into his head that he is a candi- date for the Vice-Presidency, and not for the Presidency, it would harmonize the Demo- cratic canvass.” Perhaps Troex is waiting until his Southern Reformers get quieted down and stop killing Republicans. Their ection is, of course, very embarrassing to him, and Hexpricss’ position on the ques- tion equally s0. Hespmicss, being a frim- mer by nature, of course both upholds and opposes the Southern Reformers. Perhaps Hepricss is trying to present both sides of the Hamburg question at once. It is high time, however, that somebody should let the people know who the Democratic candidates Bre, 50 that the Republicans may knowwhom they are fighting. The Chicsgo produce markets were-mod- erately active Saturdsy, provisions being beavy, and bresdstuffs steadier. Aless pork . slosed 30c per brl lower, ot $18.30@18.32} for August and §€15.40@16.42} for Septem- ber. ZLard closed 13c per 100 lbs lower, 3t £10.75@10.77 for August and $10.85@ 10.874 for September. Meais were i@ic lower, st 7lc for boxed shoulders, 9o for do short ribs, and 10}c for do short clears. Laske freights were steady, at lic <or corn to Bafialo. Rail freights wers un- changed. Highwines were quiet; at §1.104 pergallon. Flour was dull. Wheat closed jc higher, at 87c cash and 88jc for Au- gust. Corn closed fc lower, at 44jc cash and 43c for August. Oats closed dc higher, at 28c for cash, August, or Septem- ber. Rye was quoted at 52@53c. Barley was nominal, at 64@66c for September. Hogs were in light supply and were firm at Fri- day’s prices, sales being effected at $6.00@ 6.60 for poor to choice. The receipts wers 4,500, and for the week 58,763. Cattle were steady. There wasa good demand, at $4.00 @5.00 for shipping steers and at $2.50@ 8.50 for butchers’ stuff. There was no change in prices of sheep, the market being nominal at $2.50@4.25. One hundred dol- lars in gold would buy $111.75 in green- backs at the close. In gentencing CurnErTON, the ex-Gauger, Judge BLopGeTT said that the minimum pen- alty was a fine of $1,000 and six months’ im- prisonment. This is precisely the penalty, in the matter of imprisonment, that was im- posed on Remy, and . yet CULLERTON Was ac- quitted of all corruption, and convicted of “ negligence.” All claim that he received mohey, or was bribed, or connived at the wrong-doing, or had knowledge of it, was abandoned. The jury considered that he had not been vigilant,—that is, was negligent,— and the lowest imprisonment for this offense was the same s was awarded to Remy, the originator of the whole fraud, and who pock- eted several hundred thousand dollars of the plunder. The sentence in this case was, however, justly suspended for twenty days;’| in order to give time fora presentation of all the facts to theexecative authorities at Wash- ington. If sucha thing be mnecessary, the whole community will unite with the Court and Government Attorney in asking that the fentence be set aside by a pardon. —_— The proposed improvement of State street, from Jackson to Twelfth, still hangs fire, and what should be the fiost splendid thorough- fare in the city, and in any city in the United States, remains an almost impassable quag- mire in wet weather, and a comman recep- tacle for garbage at all seasons. Three- fourths of the property-holders have agreed to pay for the work, but a few of the re- maining property-owners, with an obtuse- ness to their own interests that is incompre- hensible, standin the way of theimprovement. The marked improvement in Wabash avenue property consequent upon its being paved to Twenty-second street has sufficiently demon- strated that such improvemerts pay, espe- cially on the South Side. Bui on State street, with its hundred feet of roadway, and with now more splendid buildings fronting on it than upon any other street n the city, there could be no investment that would so well pay property-holders as that required for this improvement, which is absolutely necessary to lift State street out of the mud and garbage, and make it the Broadway “of Chicago. How much longer is picayune pig-headedness to prevent that being brought about? Relative to the proposed saving in fthe gas bills (which is imperetively necessary, not only on account of the city's embarrassment, but because the year's appropriations for gas are_insufficient to hold out at the present rate of consumption), all will agree that it is better to reduce tha capacity of the burners and shorten the time of the illumination than to srbitrerily turn off eve y alternate Tlight throughout the city, if the same reduc- tion of expense can thereby be accomplished. We are informed that the hour's time saved by the new .tsble which has been adopted for lighting and extinguishing the lamps, and a change from 5-feet to 38-feet ‘burpers will actually save as much consump- tion of gas as if one-balf the lamps shonld be extingunished altogether, and the other half kept burning at the old rate. If Mayor Heatn vetoes the ordinance passed by the Council ordering one-half the lamps to be extinguished, it will probably be because of the danger that the gas companies under their contract will be able to hold the city for damages from such a course, and with the expectation that the Council will adopt the other plan of reducing the capacity of the burners. - At all events, the saving must ‘be made,—if not in one way, then in another. In the scheme of retrenchment at which the Council is now at work so earnestly, the Police Committee will propose next Monday a reduction of the police-force from 535 men, the present number, to 450; the cut- ting down of the pay of the officers some- thing over 10 per cent, and dividing the force of patrolmen into two classes, one set to be paid at the rate of $850 per year, and the other attherateof $750 a year. Soe of the Aldermen even favor areductiéh of the force to 400 men ; but this would prob- ably be too few. With the curtailments recommended, it is probable that 30 per cent can be saved on the police appropriations for the year. It would be bettor still if the force were divided into three classes,—the highest paid £650, thé second $500, and the third $750, with a fourth class for recruits and new beginners at a still lower salary. The first class would consist of the most competent men and those who had been in the service longest, and so they would be graded down. It is the same system which obtsins among the school-teachers, and which ought to be observed among all the city employes. Itis one of the ruling prin- ciples of business \success to encourage faithful and devoted service by holding out the inducement of higher pay in proportion to the term of service and the value of the Iabor. There is no large and successful busi- ness enterprise in the world which does not apply the principle of promotion to its em- ployes; and the same spirit of emuletion and constancy which the system assures in busi- ness life may be excited in the public serv- ice by the same megns. One of the three Confederate organs in this city, which is struggling as desperately for some of TiLpENs ‘*barl of money” as the Morning Telegraph or the Ezening Times, rushes to the defense of the three Demo- cratic nobodies who are misrepresenting Chicago in Congress, and says: The Sundry Civil-Service bill, inclading appro- ‘priations for varions objects, awaits the signature of President Grast. TrE TmIBUNE, which is notorious as never making an exhibition of fair- ness, charges the failure 1o secure an appropria- tion for the Government buildings at Chicago coon Congressmen CACLFIELD and IIARRISON. Tae TrieNz knows that Mr. Harcisox made an able speech in behslf of the appropriation, and that Mr. CauvLriELD worked zealously forit. That it was not secured proves the temper of a Democrstic Congress which was in no measure influenced by eppeals from members of its own party in the furtherance of Jocal interests. The remonstrance of Mr. Harnisox ageinst the action, and his elo- quent plea in behalf of jsborers and mechanics of Chicago, has not been presented to THE TRIGTNE readers. 'That would be fair, but would not be hide-bonnd partissnship. Now, whatever Messrs. HagrisoN, Lx- Mox~E, and CAULFIELD may have done or, may not have done, the fact remains that, while nearly every community represented by Democrats in Congress, and notably St. Louis, received large appropriations for their Government works, not & penny was voted to Chicago for the work on the Custom- House after the old appropriation shall be exhausted; not a penny for the improvement of our harbor, though it is second in im- portance only to the New York harbor; and even the $5,000 inserted for a light-housé at the crib was stricken out. Now, if this has any meaning, it must be accepted as a formal notice from Congress that Chicago must send some different sort of people there if it expects to hold its own in the consideration of the nation. It is a repudiation by a Democratic Congress of the thres Demo- cratie Congressmen from this city ; andthey must fall behind from the sheer imbecility and impotency which they have abundantly demonstrated. The terrible accident to the English war- vessel tho Thunderer, during her trial trip, by which forty persons were killed and many more injured, has already been noticed in Tre TRIBUNE at somo length. Since the ac- count appeared, howerver, the cause of the explosior has been ascertained. It seems that, & few days before the trip, the boiler that exploded was tested by hydraulic pres- sure, and that during the test the saféty, communication, and relief valves, in fact all communication with the engine, werp wedged down, and that these wedges were never re- moved, Of course when steam was raiséd for the trip it had to escape somewhere, and found its outlet in the explosion of the boiler, scattering death and destruction on every side. During the past two or three years, disasters more or less serious have happened to ten of the English iron- clads, showing a very serious defect in En- glish skill, workfianship, and seamenship. It now appears that to these defects must be added gross carelessness. Under the circum- stances, this carelessness was criminzl, and these forty sailors were murdered by official neglect and remissness of duty. If “English justice possesses that severity which is usu- olly attributed to it, the deaths of these men should be avenged by the prompt pun- ishment of those who have been guilty of the carelessness. The people of Aiken and Edgefield Coun- ties, South Carolina, who reinforced * Gen.” Borrer's Georgian mob in the attack upon and massacre of negroes at Hamburg, have, it appears, resolved that the majesty of the law requires that the murderers be brought to justice. The natural supposition might be that meant the apprehension, trial, con- viction, and execution of the assassins of the five negroes who were murdered by the mob. But it does not mean anything of the sort. The people of Aiken and Edgefield Counties have not yet discovered that the “ nigger- kilhng ” was murder. But, in self-defenss, tho megroes, when besieged sb their armory and fired upon, shot one white man in the murderous, attacking mob. That is the mur- der for which the people of Aiken and Edge- field Counties are determined the perpetra- tors shall be brought to justice, as the fol- lowing Angusta special from the Charleston News and Courier discloses : N A consultation of several white citizens of Aiken and Edgefield Counties, South Carolina, was held at the Central Hotel, in this city, to-day. It was decided to take out warranta for the arrest of the members of the Hambarg militia company, on the charge of murder, insurrection. riot, and conspir- acy. Iaminformed that warrants for the arrest of thirty-five members of the cowpany on these charges were issncd during the afternoon. The thirty-five members of the Hamburg militia company comprise the whole number who were left after the massacre; and, ac- cording to this programme, they should ba got rid of by hanging, thus completing the work,. which the Hamburg mob left unfin- ished, of extermination of that colored mili- &ia company, so that nevér ngain need ¢ Gen."” BuTzn summon a mob to attack them. The interesting question which re- mains is, When is Gov. CHAM®ERATY, of South Carolina, going to demand, by re- quisition upon the Governor of Georgia, the surrender of BuTiem and the other Georgia assassins, that justice may be dealt out to them for their crimes ? THE £1,800,000 LOST TAXES, A few days sgo we discussed the impor- tant question whether there was eny prospect of a recovery of the $1,304,000 taxes for 1873 and '74 which were supposed to have been lost because of the decision of the Supreme Court declaring that Bill 300 had never beenalaw. We called attention to the sections of the Revenue law of the State, very appropriately published in the Statutes under the sub-title of ** Saving Clauses,” and which were intended by the Legislature to prevent the escape of any property from its due proportion of taxation.- We learn that the Finance Committee of the Common Council, the Mayor, and the Law Depart- ment have been considering the subject, and that it is probable that, resort will be had to legal mensures in the manner pointed out by the General Revenuo law for the recovery of all theanpaid city taxes for the years 1873 and 1874, As this is an important matter, deep- lyafiecting the interests of the city, arecalling of afew facts will render it understandnble toall. In 1673, and againin 1574, the ci assessed the property within the corporal limits, and levied thereon a tax equal to the sum of the appropriations. These proceed- ingswere all taken under a special law, known 8s Bill 300. When application was made to the Courts for judgment for delinquent taves, Judge Warrsce refused judgment in every case where objection was made. The aggre- gate tax for the two years for which judg- ment was refused was $1,504,000, all on real estate. The city appealed to the Supreme Court, and that body decided that Bill 300 never was a law, and that all the proceed- ings, nssessment, and tax-levy under that so-called law were absolutely void. 'The Court decided that the only law applicable to the assessment, tax-levy,*and collection of city taxes was the General Revenue law of the State. In addition to the amouni of tax in the cases appealed, there were other texes, rep- resented by certificates of tax sales for the two years amounting to possibly $500,000, which have never been paid, and which swell the total of unpaid taxes for the two years to, in round numbers, $1,500,000. The re- meaining taxes for those same yesrs, amount- ing to 7,500,000, have been paid by the property charged therewith. One portion of the people have paid $7,500,000 taxes, while the other portion have escaped to the sam of $1,500,000. _The Revenue law contains the following sections: . SEC. 276. If any real or personal property shall be omitted in the assessment of any year or num- ber of years, or the tax thereon, for which such property was liable, from any cause, has not been paid, or if any such properts by reazon of defec- tive description or assesariient thereof shall fail to pay taxes for any year or years, in either case the same, when discovered, shall Le listed and as- sessed by the Aesessor and placed on the assess- ment books. The arrearages of tax which might huve been assessed, with 10 per cent interest thereon, from the time the same ought to have been pald, shall be charged ag ch proverty by the County Clerk. It ahall be the duty of County Clerks to add uncollected personal property tax to the tax of any subsequent year, whenever they may find the person owinzsuch uncollected tax ag- esessed for any subsequent yesr. Ste. 277. 1f the tax or assessment on property liable to taxationis prevented from being collected forany year or years, by reason of uny ¢rroneous proceeding or other Bause, the amount of such tax or aascsement which such property should have paid may be added to the tax on such property for any subsequent year, in separate columns, desig- nating the year or years. It will be remombered that the Court has decided that there was no tax-levy for city taxes for the year 1873, or 1874 ; consequent- -1y by reason of erroneous proceedings there was legally a fotal failure to levy any tax for those two years. There was, however, a legal assessmeht, which is a matter of record. TUnder the law which the Court states gov- erned the levy and collection of . taxes, the city anthorities must certify to the County Clerk the gross amount of tax to be collect- ed from the taxable property so sssessed. The city therefore must begin de novo, and by ordinance certify that for the year 1873 it hed made appropriations to the amount named, and that in 1874 like appropriations weremade, and that no tax was levied for the said years or collected, and that the property assessed and returned as liable to taxation has not paid any tax for said years, and the same is now due and unpaid, and directing the County Clerk to apportion on said prop- erty such rate of taxas will produce there- from the get amount of the revenue thus certified as needed to meet the appropriations for 1873 and 1874 Having done this the County Clerk will, in the manner provided by law, charge up agaidst the taxable prop- erty of the city the whole amount of the appropriations for 1673 and for 1874, and add them to the tax for 1876. ’ The fact that three-fourtls of the amount of these appropriations have been already voluntarily paid by citizens will not work any injury. Though they are in form taxed over again for what they have already paid, there need be no trouble on that score. The Council, by ordinance, can direct that whenever any person owning property thus assessed had paid into the 'Freasury a sum of money professing to be for the taxesof 1873 or 187+ shall present a receipt for such money, he shall bo entitled to a credit on his tax bill for the amount so voluntarily paid into the City Treasury. The details are more formidable in appear- ance than in fact, and injury or double taxa- tion will be impossible. The only persons who will feel any rigor will be those who in 1874 and 1875 combined to beat the city out of its revenue to escape from taxation, to pocket £1,500,000 of the public revenue, and to compel their neighbors to pay their taxes. These geniry will find themselves taxed not only for the payment of the taxes of 1878 and 1874, but, under the law, with 10 per cent additionel. As thess peoplo have already paid 20 per cent for services to defeat that tax, they will find that the hon- est paymont of public dues is, afterell, the chegpest. In the end they will have to pay the tax, with 10 per cent, in addition to the 20 per cent they have had to contribute to the conspiracy fund. ;3 It is likely that alarge number of those who have so far resisted the payment of their honest dues will hesitate before paying another heavy percentage to carry on the doubtful war against the public. But, nev- ertheless, that such resistance will be made by some there is no doubt. Their resistance this time, however, will of necessity be on the plein, undisguised plea that they desire exemption from taxation exscted of all oth- ers of their fellow-citizens, and, this plea be- ing dishonest in itself, opposed to public policy, and, if allowed, destructive of all government, will receive little countenance frond the Courts, who will in ®very case where the law will permit sustain the action of the Government in collecting its revonue. In Eansas, not long ago, a few days before the date on which taxes attach {o property, aman converted his money into national bonds, and, after the time for assessment passed by, disposed of the bonds. The bonds were exempt from taxation. He was, never- theless, assessed and texed, and the Supreme Court of the United States, to which the case was taken, decided that, though the bonds were not taxable, the Courts would not* lend their aunthority in any case to sustain a man in avoiding the payment of taxes by a resort to en evasion of the law; and it required the person to pay the tax. To escape taxation authorized by law the Courts will insist that there be equity ; and in the cnse of these tax-fighters of 1873 and 1874 there is no pretense of equity. Itisa bald attempt to esmpel other persons to pay those people’s Iawful debts. . The proper certification of these taxes of 1873 and 1574 must be made, if made at all, in time to have them collected with the tax of 1876, which will be collected a year hence. ‘The recovery of these 21,500,000 taxes sup- posed to be lost will be o matter of rejoicing to every honest manin Chicago, and there will be no sympathy for those who have wasted so much fo eseape them, and who will at last be compelled to pay. THEE POPULAR LOAN. ‘We understand that the Finance Commit- tee will recommend to the Council such a modification of the ordinance anthorizing the popular loan as will enable the Comp- troller to receive subscriptions in sums as low ‘as 100, and issus revenue war- rants therefor. This should be done, as we have already counseled, in order to give the city the full benefit of the provision for receiving the new warrants in payment for the taxes of 1876. This provision will be largely inoperative if no warrants are issued for less than £500, since the number of those whose city taxes alone amount to $500 is comparatively small. But, if issued in smounts of $100, s large number of per- sons woald invest in them with a view to paying their taxes with them subsequently, but drawing the intercst thereon in the meantime. Snch 2 provision will in no wise interfere with subscriptions for larger aomounts which ought to be made by our wenlthier citizens who have the welfare of the city at heart, and who can- not at the present find & surer or better in- vestment. The subscriptions to the popular loan so far have been kept down somewhet by the fact that some of these Treasury war- rants have been issued to contractors in pay- ment of claims; andthe contractors, needing the money, have offered them for sale on the streets at a discount. So Ilong eos this con- tinues, of course there will be few subscrip- tions at par et the Comptroller’s office. All those having money they wish to invest in this way will naturally hold off in the hope of buying up the warrants at a discount. The practice of issuing them to contractors has been stopped, we understand, so that the only way to obtain them hereafter will be to sabscribe for them directly at the Comptrol- ler's office. These changes made, we think that there people of Chicago to subscribe to this loan. 1t is the only why, indeed, in which the city can be relieved from its temporary embar- rassments and ensbled to maintain L}m Police and Fire Departments, and other indis- peusable adjuncts of the Municipal Govern- ment. The pgyment of the new cettiflcat?s is positively assured, since they will motin all exceed one-fourth of the tax-levy of 1876, out of which they aro payable. Meanwhile, the prospect of recovering the tax-levies of 1873 and 1874, which “were supposed to be irrevocably lost by the decision of the Su- preme Court on Bill 300, is excee.dingly good. We have explained in another article the procedure by which it is hoped and ex- pected to enforce the collection of the lost taxes of those years by means of a reassess- ment under tho -General Law, which the Courts are now committed to sustain. The plan seems to be in strict complianco with the law, and it is only reasonable to expect that i will be successful, This will restore about, $2,000,000 of the revenue of the city, supposed to have been lost,— $1,300,000 of contested and unpaid taxes, and another large sum of tax-certificates now lying in the Comptroller’s office.. With this assistance, Chicago will be able to wipe out its floating debt, and the credit of the city will be completely restored throughout the world. 'Then the certificates drawing 8 per cent interest, which are now sold by the city at par, will be worth & premium —_— FIGHTING LIES. The record of the Turko-Servian campaign is arecord of lies. The Turks lie and the Servians lie. Which lies the worst, time only can tell. Yesterdsy morning the tide of battle had turned, and Servian sueccess was apparent in three important quarters, which, if true, would have had a very im- portant beering upon the ultimate issue of the campaign, since it would have secured the Servians strategic advantages for which they have been working from the very out- set. It will be remembered that the Servian army, under Navxo Ornrercs, crossed the Drina nearly threc weeks agop and advanced upon Bjelins, a strongly-forti- fied Turkish position, just across the northwestern frontier. Several engngements oave taken place around Bjeling, the most of which were only skirmishes, with varying successes to either side. On Thurs- day last, the Turks, evidently alarmed at the threatening attitude of the Montenegrins near Mostar, who, if successful at that point, would seriously gndanger their left, made a forious assault upon the Servians with the intention of driving them over'the frontier. After a furious fight of six hours, however, they were repulsed and driven back to their intrenchments with heavy loss. Such was the report in the morning from Servian sources. At night eomes the news from the Turkish side * that the Servians were defeat- ed near Bjelina on Thursdsy. MusrarEa Paspa and Somuizsr PasEA, with seven bat- talions of infantry, four companies, and eight guns, attacked the Servians in their intrench- ment at Raka before Bjelina, and after four hours’ sanguinary combet the Servians fled. The Turks captured four guns, and four small forts, and the Servinn General Orniu- pics’ line of retreat was cut off.” Here is one instance of first-class Iyjcg. The ssme kind of lying seems to be going on in the East. To appreciate {he situation in the Bast it is necessary to refer to the map. This will show that the valieys of the Timok and the Morava ran paraliel to each other in the south of Servis, being separated from each other by a mountein chain which strikes the Danube above Widdin. The val- ley of the Timok was occupied by one Ser- vian column under Col. Besyaxty, which has had several contests about Saitschar with the Turks under OsyaNy Pasms. Yesterday, morning it was gallantly holding its own. At night it was cut to pieces. Another column, evidently a portion of TCHERNAYEFF's army, - under Col. MmKovIC, occupied the valley of the Morava, near the junction of the two branches of that river, threatening both Alexinatz and Nissa. It is now report- ed that this column was attacked by the Turks on Wednesdey" lest at Gramada, a short distance east of Alexinatz. The two armies fought for ten l,mm on that day without decisive result, but on the next day they were repulsed, leaving the Servians in command of the' communuications between Nissa and Saitschar. The news has not yet ‘been contradicted, but may be in a few hours. The lnst news heard from Tcmen- NAYEFF he was threatening Sophia. Now it appears he wes defeated et Nissa and is in Alexinatz. Thus the lies go and come. it will be next in order to hear.a report from the Turks that they have taken possession of St. Petersburg, and an equally vigorous as- sertion from the Servians that they are occu- pying Constantinople. The only reports that have not yet been contradicted come from the operations of the Montenegrins. They seem, considering the smallness of their force, to have met with remarkable success. They made their first success on the 3d, under their Prince, Nixrra, north of Scutari; a week later de- feated the Turks at Gatschko; and, after skirmishing about Podgoritza for soveral days, at last defeated the Turks at that place and have carried the heights that command Mostar, the Capital of Herzegovina. Tt is evident from these successes that the Aontenegrins must be stronger than is gen- erally supposed. The London Z%mes of the 8th, in fact, assorts that the Albanian Chris- tians have joined the Montenegrins, and that the Slavonic tribes of Kucsi and Wasojevici, to the northenst of Montenegro, and likewise the Korjenici, to the northesst of Trebinje, who have remained quiet until recently, have also risen to join the ndyance. The impor- tance of the Montenegrin advance lies in the fact that it tends to isolate the Turks at Nissa and Widdin by cutting the communi- cations between the Turks in Bosnia and Herzegovina from their friends in the East. We have already recommended that the Cook County Normal School be abandoned, partly because it is unnecessery, partly on sccount of the strife that hes sprung up rela- tive to the late Principal of the institution, and partly because it has already been proved more of an expense than a benefit. - A good and proper use for the building has occarred to us from the suggestion that there are some 300 young deaf.mutes in this county who ought to be cared for and educated. The State Asylum for these unfortunates at Jacksonville is slready overrun, {here being nearly 400 pupils there in all, while in New York State but 200 are allowed to each school, five of which are meintained by the State Government. The State should charge itself with the care of the Cook County deaf-mute children, and the number is large enough to warrant the location of a district school in “the county. ‘We should not be surprised, therefore, if the county could sell the Normal-School build- ing and grounds at Englewood to the State to be used for this purpose. If this is feasi- will be a more general disposition among the | ble, it is the best disposition that conld be made of the property. But, if the State will not buy, then the County Board msy serve a greater charity and do more pub}ic good by devoting the building, under its own management, to the education of the decf-mutes of this county, than by running it as a normal school to turn out a few teach- ers overy year, when the City High School and Normal School, and State Normal School, furnish en ample supply. First, let ‘an effort be made to sell to the State; if that fails, let the Englewood property be used as & Cook County School and Asylum for Deaf-Mautes. e ——— THE HON. CHARLES B. I‘AEWELL‘ We have received from Mr. CHARLES B. FAR- WELL, who represented Chicagoin Congress one term when there was but one district in the city, and who was twice elected from the North Side and Lake County District, but thrown out by the Confederate Congress during his last term, the following letter declining to b\? a candidate for re-election: s T the Fditor, of The une. Cricaco. July 21— Knowing that many of my friends oxpect that T will again be a- candidate for Congress, I desire to say to them through your pa- per that 1 am now, and_have always been, opposed t0 **the third term.” I think that I should not be required to serve longer. 1 believe in the doctrine that public trasts shotld be neither sought nor de- clined. I certainly do not ecek .o renomination (having been elected twice from the Third Di trict), and think I have a right to ask tobe exc from kerving longer. Ido not propose to retire from political life, becanse that would be avoiding a public duty which no good citizen ghould be guilty of " But 1 propose to support the Kepublican tick= et, whoever niizy be nominated, frowm President to Constable. Yours truly, C. B. FALWELL. Mr. FARWELL has probably been induced to decline 2 nomination which would this year un- questionably be equivalent to an election from personal and business considerations. He is an active managing partner in oue of the largest mereantile houses in the country, and evidently thinks that he has given as much time to Con- gressional service as he can afford. It is only just to him to say that he made an able and efficient member of Congress, and during his service was always attentive and energetic in behalf of Chicago’s interests. In this respect he was worth a scorcof LEMOTNES, HARRISONS, and CAGLFIELDS, who, though all Democrats, have failed to secure from a Democratic House 2 dollar of appropriations for the necessary pub- lic worls in'this city and for this harbor. His absence from the present Congress—to which e was honestly elected—has been notably felt, and it will be with considerable regret thatlarge numbers of Chicago people, both in Mr. FaR- wELL's district and outside of it, will learn of his determination not to stand for election thisfall. His timely notice, however, is fair and thought- ful, and it will give the Republicans of the Third District ample time to select a candidate of equal political strength, and similar character and ability, to displacethe present Democratic member who is misrepresenting them. ———— Among recent deaths not reported by tele- graph are those of the Rev. ARTINGE CAVERNO, one of the best-known Frec-Baptist clergymen in New England, who preachéed during the fifty- four years of his ministry 6,000 sermons, bap- tized 430 persons, solemnized 323 marriages, and attended 500 funerals; of the Rev. Mr. Mog- RISON, pastor of a church at Selma, Ala., and brother-in-law of STONEWALL Ji0RsON; of CLARA BATER, the Russian novelist, who lived for some time in the family of BIsMARCE when he was Minister to Russia, and whose last novel, A Document,” is said to be without a supe- rior in its excellent deseription of Russian so- i of GEORGE W. CUTLER, President of the tional Bank at Palmyra, N. Y., for some time 2 Director of the New York Central for a long time a prominent Dem- ocratle poiitician; of Mrs. IIARPER, wife of J. W. HARPER, the cidest son of FLETCHER Ham- PER, Sr., who died at Irvington, N. Y., from the effects of the heat; and of M. AssEzaT and L AVENSL, two very promincct men of letters in France. —_——— ELL10TT ANTHONY is talked of for Congress- man of the North District of Cook County. He has rebuilt on the site of his former residence, destroyed by the fire, and moved back to his old place and among his old neighbors. E. C. “LARNED’s name is alsomentioned pretty promi- nently for Congress in the same district. They are both vers able men. Acting-Gov. BEVERIDGY, it issaid, could be persuaded to condescend to accept a nomination for Con- gress, although Evaaston has an excellent picce of timber in Gen. JuLits Warre. On the West Side, among those most conspicuonsly designated =s suitable candidates are S. K. Dow, HERMAN RASTER, and WiLLARD Woop- ArD. For the same office on the South Side, the names of Kirk HAWES, Gen. THOMPSOX, E. A. Storms, Jorx C. Dore, and Dr. DrER are mentioned. SipNEY SautE declines to be a candidate. ————— At New York they seem a deal nigher s water famine than there is peril of at Chicago, and from the like reason, the unnecessary waste” How to check that is one of the questions now seriously considered by the New Yorkers; and how important that problem is deemed is man- ifest from the following from the Sun of Friday: A The gotesof the gardensin Stnyvesant Square are shul at sundown, but the two large fount- aine in them playall night. This is a willfol waste of water, while people down town can scarce- Iy get it up tothe second floor. This is no time forany one to throw away water. Itisnot atail unlikely that in another month we may be on short commons as regards this article of dict. e —m—— Is Tratn going to adopt the Colvinian motto: **Let no dirty street be scraped ' —Zimes. If property-owners follow the urgent advice of the Times to pay no city taxes, Mayor Heatn will have to let the streets go unscraped, whether he wants them cleaned or not. Labor- ers will not scrape them gratuitously,—work for nothing and board themselves. ——— Sax Bowres’ p:\pL’lJ strains 2 point to say a mood word for “SmaM-u-wCLL™ TILDEN; but the most it can be screwed up to say is this: Mr. T1LDEN certainly is not an ideal statesman or an ideal reformer. But he is a pretty good stutes- man and reform T a Democrat. . The country wants something better thaa that. e s : That new Know-Nothing Society, the “ 0. A. U.,” about which the New York Herald made such a fussa while ago, has published a summary of its principles. It's of no consequence. ——— PERSONAL, John T. Raymond's real nime is John O'Brien. Thomas Hughes wrote the obituary of Harrief AMartineau for the London cademy. % Bret Harte's play i< to be produced st the Union- Square Theatre, New York, Aug. 25. The statement that Sir Charles Dilke is coming to America with the Parliamentary excarsionists is contradicted. Don Carlos is in New York, and the indefatiga- ble Gilmore has advertised Lim asan attraction at the beer-garden. Alr. Thomas Carlrle has been visiting his sister and brother-jn-law in Scotland, and is reported to be in excellent health. Mr. Stoart Robson. the comedian, was educated for the ministry, and Miss Exte Claxton is tke granddanghter of a minister. - The Rev. John Rowlands, rector of Hope, Flint- shire, England, has Leen maulcted in £850 ‘dam- ages for breach of promise to marry. The London Saturday Reriew eays that the American public schools, *‘from the lowest to the highest, are theatres of public display.” The Rov. Richard Cloze, of the Grammar School, Woodstecl, England, has been sentenced to twelve ‘months’ hard labor for indecent assanit. De Wit Talmage says that Caristians who go to summetr-gesorts leave their religion behind. What baggage did he bring with him to Chicago? Moody and Sanke's tones zre used for dancing ot comd of the watering-places. No wonder Brothel Falmage holds up his hands in herror The How York Sun says that three-fourths of the dnels that have been fought or arranged in the South «ince the War have been caused by women. A yotig German actress, Mias Toni Stein, com- mitted aricide by a pistol-shot at Ems a few days ago. 8&t selected a romantic spot in the wooded heights i Ems and shot herself throngh the heart. Iu fier inad she held a volume of Goethe's ** Wil- helm-Melster, " in the leaves of which was s to me-not. Disappointment in love wounld au:::‘- have been the cause of the rash act. s Dr. Sanders, the well-known Bayou Teche region In Louisiana, this city with his Chicsgo partner, Lyon. Bismarcls has sent an autograph letter of thagyy to Gen. Meredith Read in recognition of the ere icesof the latter to German residents in M during the war. George F. Hoar’s reason for declinf; nation to Congress is that he dulre:f&fl;:::l the practice of his profession—provided he mfil be elected to the United States Senate. i George Alfred Townsend says t] has studied the Tndian character lol::?nf;::'uc'&? his mind has become like the Inaian's, Winl: **Gath's ™ mind like—a bottle of ‘champagne? Theodore Tilton once wrote to g committee, naming **The Art of Using the Mind" ag hig po lecture. Hewas surprised to find himeelt billeq for a lecture on **The Artof Raisingthe Wind.» De Witt Talmage, %00, recognizes the claimg of Chicago as & summer-resort, and he sends to Ty : TriUNEa pamphlet in drab covery bemnm': title **Temptstions of Summer Watering-Placgsn Mr. Wall, the latest translator of Aoliere, determined to preserve the fisvor of the ariging paseages In patois, has secared the help of 5 wep. known English ‘dialect writer to reproduce 1y French patois in ** Zummerset.” Balwin, a Spiritualist lecturer fn San Fray. cisco, offered to perform every feat that sny con,. petitor in his line could exhibit. He was obligeg to confess himseif beaten when “one Schimmong proposed to match him i eating ten graingof strychnine. Schimmons has been a condrmeq strychnine-eater for years, One who has seen **Pique ™ at Daly's Thestre New York recently reports that Misa Ads Gilmag has taken the place of Sydney Cowell as g the waif. The audience was wretchedly small and the indications were that Mr. Daly was back. ing his plece against the weather in order to pro. long the run and give it a big name, Itissaid of the late Augustus Hemenway, of Boston, who left a fortune of $15,000,000, thay ha* read the first volume of Lyell's Geology between tea and bedtime, while sitting in a parloralive wity! merry chat, and retained afterwards an exact and comprehensive recollection of thecontentsof the book. Men worth 28 much as $15, 000,000 often have this sort of thingeaid of them, both befors and afterdeath. Anice legal question is developing itself con. nected with the death of Mr. House, the New Yok divorce lawyer. He was shot by his wife, who iz under arrest, but who produces a will in which his cntire estate fa bequeathed to her, and applies for lctters of cdministration. If this is allowed ska will have her husband's money with which to de- fend herself in couct, and if she is cleared she can ot once enter into posscasion andtake life come fortavly. X Dr. Kenenly has recently appeared as defendant in a enit instituted by the benchers of Gray's Inn, Heattempted to ralse the question of the legality of his disbarment, and argued the point laborious. ly. A correspondent writes: **One thing which is remarkable in the whole proceeding, so far as it at present goes, is that Dr. Kenealy was not offen- sive except in 50 far as he was offensive in arguing a question which he was told would not admit of argument.' In the recent libel suit of Mr. Robert Buchsnan against the London Eraminer he acknowledged, on the witnesa-stand, that he thought it insulting to calla man 2 monkey; bat, on beingtaxed with some lines in which he had applied that aspersion toMr. Swinburne, excused himself on the ground that he did not think it was insulting to a msn that did not belicve inasoul, and who traced his descent from 3 monkey,—a shaft at Mr, Swine barne's materizlistic views. Bayard Taylor tellsof a Yankee who, walking the streets of St. Petersburg one muddy day, met the Grand Duke Constantine. The sidewalk was not wide enongh for two to pass, and the street was very deep in filth. The American took a silver rouble from his pocket, shook it in his clozed hand, and cried out, ‘‘Crown or tailr *‘Crown,” guessed the Duke. **Your Highness has won," cried the American, looking at the rouble and stepping into the mud. ‘The next day the Yankes was ifivited by the Grand Duke to dinner. Alexandre Dumas is writinga new play for the Gymnase in Paris, and 2 coolness has consequent- 1y arisen between him and the manager of the The- atre Frzncaise. M. Montigny, manager of the Gymnaase, is Dumas® old frivnd, and was the first to recognize his genius when he nad been scorn- fully turned away from the Theatre Francais. By the way, It 18 worth noticing that Dumas’ new play, **L'Etrangere, " has been guietly withdrawn fromthe stage in England, being pronounced a dead tailure. The New York Zribune says: **More than six months ago rome of the advocates of Female Suf- frage begun in this city their crusade against cele- brating the Centennizl anniversary. of a nation wherein women are not permitted to vote. The demand of Miss Anthony and Mre. Gage to beal- lowed to take Ertin a commemoration (the one in Independence Square) which they or their associ- ates disconraged and denounced would have been a cool proceeding had it been made inadvance. Made as it was, through a very discourteous inter- ruption, it prefignres new forms of violence and disrezard of order wiich may accompany the par- ticipation of women in active partisan politics. ™ The New York Sun pretends to exphin howa® step-son of Attorney-General Williame was ranoct of Washington three years ago. The story runs, that the boy was a scamp, and not above stealing; e bad, in fact, taken money belonging to the Gos» ernment. The Attorney-Genoral employed two detectives to get him ont of the country. They arranged to engage the young man in somé trans- action which he shonld suppose 1o be criminal, and. "ofterwards to threaten him with exposurc. One of the detectives personated a countryman, and the other, in conjunction with the step-son of the Attorney-General, played the confidence-game. They took the bozus coun- tryman’s money and watch, and traveled from New York to New Orleans. In the latter city, the companion of the young man showed him franda- lent handbills offering a large reward for their ap- prehension on a charge of marder. They hnrned over into Texas, reached the Mexican border, and there separated, —the detective alleging that each ‘would have 2 better chance of safety if travehng alone. The young man passed over into Mexico, and may be therc yet, as nothing has becn heard of him since. HENDRICKES AND HIS LITTLE CROW. [Air—""Yary Had a Littie Lamb."] Hendricks had a little crow Whose color was not black, . ‘The best the world did ever kncw, And glossy-green its back. It followed to St. Loais one day, Tndes the two-thirds rule; 1t made Dorsheimer laugh and say ‘That crow was 2 blamed fool. Sothe Convention turned it ont, But still it lingered near, And waited patiently about Of the balloting to hear. **What makes the crow love Hendricks so?” The Indianians cry; “‘Becanse Hendricks is so fond of crow," The Tildenites reply. Planter of gy is_etoppi, Mr. :lnn:’: 3 THE REASON OPIT. * Since the St. Louis Convention was held, Lessloud the old Rebel war-cry's been yelled. Why do the Democrats make such o panse? Why hear we so little about the Lost Canse? To a sensible person it looks much as though The Caws have been lost, for they'se eatenths - Crow. % TIOTEL ARRIVALS. Sherman House—The Hon. B. C. Truman, Los Angeles, Cal.; W. Manifold, London, Eng.; the Hon. George Sanford, Crown Point; D. E. Dyer, Boston; T. C. Phelps, Des Moines: J. I White, Fort Wayne: R. S. Mcallister, Barlingto Tremont House—J. M. Deming. Kingston, Ia. ; the lon. W. T, Luckey, Los Angeles, Cal. ; Colorado; Cel. J."'C. Millizan, New York: Elbe, New York; W. A. Atkinson, Roches- ter; R T. Paine, New Yo G, B Dotrow, Galveston, Tex. : the Hon. J. W, Edds, Millinzton; Jobn W. Harris, Indianapoiis Senfinely Gen. W. B. Bradford, Lafayette; D. Willis James, New York.... Palmer_ House—Joseph A. Rice, Washington: Ckarles Ray, Milwaukee: Dr. G. E- Crooke, Louisville; ~V." Hen: and T. Raj o3 . Rap- , Paris; H. G. Holit and Wille Aliorth, Norway: R Schimutzor, dava: Jobn Wilaime. " Seonnd: D. D. Murdoch and George Buckley, New Zealand; Thomas Smith, Scotland; J. A. Potter, U. & 4.7 J. AL Tarner, Lansing. Mich. ; Francis ). Jencks, New York.... Gardner House—J. Ridgewsy, P. P+ C, C., Baltimore; W. Ellis, Rockford; W. Wilson, Cincinnati: C. B. Dunning, Bedford, 1a. 5 . H. Stope, Detroit; C. N. Higginbotham, Mso- chester, ~ Eng.: Willism Cook, Salford. Eng.... Grand Pucific—Isanc R.Stearn3, Boston; G- W. Dillawny, Muscatine; G. H. Fairchild, Bis- marck, D. T.; H. Mattalatz, Pittsbarg; E. S- Kearney, Washington, D. C. ; L. H. Foote, Sacra- mento,” Cal.; Jolin 7. Carey, Aiiwsukee; E. Bradley ond' Thomas Fecley, Sovannah, Gs.3 Mons. aske, France: S. G. Curlice, Rochestest Thomss H. Learned. Pittafeld. Mass.