Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1876, Page 4

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Somuel J, Tilden bas clatmed sface he put himselt forward as & candidate for Presldent of thc Untted States, and the party which bave taken him up as ther etandard-bearer have done lkewise, that be Das always been: 1. AX EARNEST PATRIOT. 2. Tug DEaTeoven of TWEED AXD Tx CORRUPT e AXD EFFICIENT RRFORNER. 4. AN ADVOCATE OF PrRx ELECTIONS AND OFPOSED 70 FRAUDCLENT VOTING. 5 OrPoSED TO THE IBSUING AND CIECTLATION OF * BHINPLASTETS. § 6. HONEST DEALTSG WITH WESTERN RAILROADS IN' Distness. A regard for historic truth and the reneral welfare ompels Tox TRILUNE 10 thow that all these clalms of ' Mr. Tilden {n his own belialf are not only untrue, but that the very revers» s the fact. X, BOSOM FRIEND OF A MEMBER OF THE TAMMAXY GANG. R ADE NOTHING BETTER 4. A CORRUPTER OF TH! A LEADER JN FRAUDULENT ELECTIO) CHARGED UPON HIM DY HORACE GREELEY. ST PLASFERS TO LABOR- THE IROX REGIOKS OF MICHIGAXN. A MONSTROUS RAILROAD SHARK. WHO AMASSED MILLIONS BY DEVOURING WESTERN RAILHOADS IN FI '[AL TROUBLE. followlng are the captionsof a few of the counts 1den’s indictment: i OF SH u Tilden. —Tweed, Tilden, and Tammany. Pili-Shop—stiowlug_tiow the ** Great Re- former ™ heaetitted ot the expense of the people. road Physician—How Sammy eucher- the old Galer:a sockholders; how lie pinyed It on the Lowie, Alton & Terre Haute Road; how the lessees of tfie Telfeville & Southern 1ilinofs Road were mate “1; 1w he hocus-pocused Saramy's connection with n Pucific Ring. Tiiden as 2 Financler—How his Lake Superior Iron £ ade thelr laborers take Shinplasters. ki Patriot—Hls connection with the **sur- lutione of 1864: his Tefvsalfo sign s call of mnintataing the'laws and Constitution of State, it 5 on 353 Reformer—His attempt 1o get credit for the Iteput licans have doues his connection with cw York ciection frauds of 1803, as exposed by ce Greeley; how Sammy whinsswed buyer snd ‘Tom Hendricks' Record ~Fis Rebelsympathics during the War: how he **worked " & fraudulent army (mule) ciaim;: hisopposition to the Thirteenth, Fourtsenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. “This great Campaign Document fills four pages of TRIDUNR size. A copy thereof should be placed in the hends of every voter in the West. Hayes zad Wheeler Clubs everywhere should order **Tilden's Record™ for distribntion. COST OP THE RECORD. It will be sent by mail or express, with charges psid, d. Ti)den's Record. " Sead orders immediatelysfor TRIBUNE CO., Chicago. SOCIETY MEETINGS. LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, 0. 2, R. A. M.—Fan 72 Monroc-st.—Stated _convocation’ Monday evening, Aug. 14, for busine:s und work on the M. M. Dezree. By Grder of the L. . E. N, TUCKER, Seay. ST. PATRICK T. A. AND B. SOCIETY will hold thelr annoal picafc on Thursday, the 24th inst.,at Glen- coc, ontheC. & N. W. R R. Dancing, ball-plsying, £ varlous oitie smuserients wil be e order of the 5. KEYSTONE LODGE. NO. 639, A F. & A. M.— Regular communication will be held in thetr Hail, 62 and 64 North Clark-st., Wedne y cvening nexs. at8 o'clock. yrompt. Members expected 1o attend, - Visii- ars invited. J. I DIXON, W. 3. BEN F. PRINCE, Sec. WATUBAXSIA LODGE. X0. 160, A. F. AXD A. M. Regulsr communication next Thursday evening, Aug. 17, at Orental Hall. No. 122 LaSalle-st. Work on the 3. M. Degree. Visiiing brethren cordially fnvited. & T. J. TUSTIN, W. 3L L. D. TOWNSLEY, Secretary. SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 1876. At the New York Gold, Exchange on Sat- urday greenbacks ruled steady at 893. Gen. McArrmo, of the ¢ Consumers’ Gas- Tight and Coke Compsany,” looks for an im- mediate reduction of. gas to $1 as the essen- tial resnlt of the cownpetition which 15ill arise from the establishrnent of the new c:ompany. And all right-mjuded citizens con tempora- aeously ejaculate, * Let us pray.” Honuce Pox'rer appears as an ey e-witness and tells the origin of the term “sylph.” One dzy on the St. Louis Fair Grormds, Jogw McDoxarn, Bascock, Porrer, and several others noticed a large womsn yuassing by, and McDoxarp jocularly remarke d, * There goes & s51ph,” and the woman jumped into' fawme in spite of her size. Mr. “Wrxnox took the foor in the House yesterdny to show up Democratic economy. Dropping info demnition disa greeable fig- ures, be showed up the demagcigism of the Confederate element of Ccmgress, and demoustrated the inconsistency of the gang that would shut down on necissary sppro- pristions unless they were to help biger men than old GraxT.” Later developments seem to inclicate that Moses Hooxx did smite the rock known as DowxET, and that there did flow therefrom the sum of £50 per month, which Moses claims was for *‘keeping Dowsex’s books.” Laracy swears that Dr. McVicrae established cquine relations with Dowser, and still drives the horse. Whereof the end is not yet, for an investigation is demandad. e The Consular and Diplcanatic bill, as agreed upon by the Conference Committee, virtnal- 1y ebolishes the offices of Ministers to Portu- gal, Switzerland, Bolivar, Ecuador, Colom- bia, Paraguay, Graguay, Greoce, and Denmark, providing for Clarges d"4glaires to Port ugal, Greece, Denxark, and Paraguay, at a salary of £5,000 each per year. The Consulats to Swatow, Sonthampton, Malta, Viadwostock, Oporto, Senta Cruz, Port Said, Nantes, La Tochelle, Port Mshon, Valencia, Stettin, Mararham, Cyprus, Buclrarest, Venice, Mila, Gaboon, Turk’s Island, Hakodadi, Goderich aud Windsor, Canada West, not having been: provided for, are virtually abolished. —— The Chicago produce markets were moder ately active onSaturdsy, and generelly easier. 3less pork closed 30c per brllower, at $18.10 18.12} for August or September. ILard closed 2ic per 100 Ibs lower, at £10.97i@ 11.00. Aeats were Jc per Ib lower, at 7ie for boxed shoulders, 94c for do short ribs, ond 93¢ for do sbort clears. Lake freights were more active, :at 13c for corn to Buffalo. Rail freights werr: unchanged. Highwines were quiet, at $1°101 per gallon. Flour was steady. Wheat closed 1c lower, at 8533c cash and 87ic for Sentember. Corn closed fclow- er, at 45c cash anid 44 c for September.. Oats closed easier, at 30c for August orSeptember. Rye was steady, at 5le. Barley was quiet, at 75p for September. Hogs were dull and closed weak at 10@15¢ decline. Sales wero noted at $5.75@6.35—the bulk at $6.15@ 6.25. Cattle were in fair demand and ruled sbout steady, with sales at $2.25@5.00 for poor to extra. The sheep market was weak, at $2.50@4.50. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $111.374 in greenbacks at the close. 1t is worthy of notice that, during the en- tire proceedings in the County Court concern~ ing the tax warrants, Mr. Ep Pmuies, who made the assessment for 1875, could not be found. His testimony was necessary at al- most every stage to explain matters in cases where specific objections were filed ; but he was beyond reach, and so unaccountably as to leave the impression that the absence was intentional. His errors, blunders, and mis- takes cost the State, city, and county thirty or forty thousand dollars, which sum 18 to be added to the price the public have paid for his official service: The House Committee is reported as hav- ing agreed to the increase of the cavalry regi- ments urged by Gens. SmeryaN and SmEe- IDAN, and recommended by the President. The Democrats evidently do mnot care to shoulder theresponsibility of a long, tedious, and costly Indian war on account of their mock economy, nor the repetitions of the CusTar massacre because of thcir pretense of retrenchment. Yet, had they followed out the programme for still forther reducing the skeleton of the army npon which they insisted so long, the United States Govern- ment would have been helpless to resist the ‘Thostile Indians, the officers and men of the army would have been sacrificed, and a gen- eral Indian war would have been precipitated that would have cost twenty times more than the saving that would have been made for the time bein; The restoration of the franking privilege, which is fully presaged by its adoption in the Senate, is a sample, of the common vi- ciousness that attaches to all the politics of this country,—a disposition to use the sub- stance of the people for partisan purposes. The restoration cannot be fairly charged on either party, since the majority given it in the Senate was made up from both parties, which will also be the case when the House concars. It has evidently been agreed upon by both parties as a means for the free use of the mails to disseminate partisan docu- ‘ments during the pending political campaign. As such it isan abuse which the people will have to pay for in making up an increased excess of the Post-Office expenses over re- ceipts. We desire particularly to enter a protest against the reason which 2. Dawes gave for voting for restoration. He made the assertion that *Its repeal was brought about by the metropolitan press, which desired to control all information for the people, and prevent Senators and members from disseminating intelligence.” Now, Mr. Dawrs, as an in- telligent man, ought to know that there is no foundation for such an assertion. The news- papers urged its repeal because it was a heavy load on the Post-Office Department, increased the public printing bills, and add- ed to the public taxes for” the purpose of gratifying the vanity of Congressmen and affording party managers an opportunity for spreading their political gospel at the ex- pensé of people who don't want it. When Mr. Dawss says that newspaper correspond- ents color their dispatches,” the reply is that the Associated Press reports facts and utterances without color, because it serves ‘both Democratic and Republican newspapers, while there isn’t a man in Congress in-either party who doesn't ““color” his speeches more or less to suit the party to which he belongs. The simple fact is that most of the Congressmen have been itching for this perquisite ever since it was taken away, and there has been an agreement between both parties to fleece the publio for their individ- wual accommodation. THE CITY AND THE GAS COMPANIES, ‘We cannot, in the nature of things, place much faith in the relief promised from the gas monopoly by the franchise given to the so-called Consumers’ Gas-Light and Coke Company. The experience of nesly all cities with gas companies is that competition merely leads to combination, and the public as well as private consumers in the end are made to pay dearly for any temporary advan- tages they may have epjoyed. Among all the numerous privileges sought and obtained during several years past for Iaying gas mains in the strect, but one company—now the West Side Company—proceeded to contest the old monopoly, and the result in that case was a prompt division of the territory and & complete renewal of the monopoly. In oth- er cases the existing companies have been blackmailed by the threats, Aldermanic and otherwise, of new competition, and have merely added the blackmail money to the gos bills. Past experience does not justify any hope from thé mew project; and, in placing the pricc of gas at SL50 per 1,000 feet for the new company, we doubt very much whether the necessary capital can be found to erect the works and lay mains and pipes throughout the entire city. Still, we have no objection to trying it. We have no particnlar objec- tion now to the gas companies being black- mailed, though we do not mean to intimate that such is the purpose of the new project. ‘We simply mean that we shall not object to the Council's throwing the doors wide open and letting everybody in that wants a fran- chise. Henceforththe gas companies will have to pay their own blackmail money. The peo- ple will no longer contribute it in increased Dbills. They will shut off their gas, as they are already doing to a large extent. The smeller consumers will burn oil. The larger consumers—hotels, theatres, manufacturing establishments, etc—will manufacture their own gas. Andwe are entirely willing that the present gas companies shall be well pun- ished, for they are acting badly and unrea- sonably. Baut the Council should act promptly upon the opinion given by Corporation-Counsel AxTrONT, who holds that the city has an in~ herent authority to abrogate the present gas contracts, and establish a regulation burner of small capacity as well as adifferent price. This is the common-sense view of the con- troversy, and one which we believe will be sustained by the Courts on principles of eguity. The Council of 1869 undertook to bind the people of Chicago for a period of ten years to take gas from a particular com- pany at a fixed pric® and rate of consump- tion. If they had any such power as that they might have made the term s hundred years as well as ten, made the burners 10 feet as well as 5, and the price $6 instead of 3. In other words, a Council elected for one year to represent the tax-payers could barter away the rights of those tax-payers, and their heirs and assigns, prectically for the. all time. They could mortgage future gen- erations, and make contracts thet wonld amount to a confiscation of property. No such authority will be sanctioned by the Courts, and it is excecdingly doubtful whether any contract would be held to be valid which extends beyond the municipal year for which the appropriations are made to meet the requirements of the contract. The thing for the Council to do, therefore, is to test the validity of the existing contracts, to order a change of burners to 3-feet, and fix upon a fair and equitable price to pay the gas cogpanies per 1,000 feet. If the gas companies do not want to abide by these terms, let them sue under their contract, or take the responsibility of turning off the gas from the street-lamps if they choose. The city: can then resort to oil until they be brought to terms, or other companies on a new basis can be got into operation. The Council have already taken the first step in this direction by ordering a change of burners. Even with the nominal use of 3- feet burners, the way in which the gas com- panies make out their bills brings it up to 5- feet consumption, justas their bills frequent- Iy showed & 7-feet consumption, while the contract called only for 5feet burners. The gas companies claim that, in order to get a pressure of 5 feet at the outskirts of the city, it is necessary for them to furnish a pressure that burns 7 feet in the immediate vicinity of the works, and graduates down through 6}, 6, and 53, till the 5-feet pressure is reached in the lamps lo- cated at the greatest distance from the orks. Itis on this theory that, whilenom- nally furnishing gas for 5-feet burners, they have been collecting at a higher rate of con- sumption. The Council should insist on psying only for 3-feet burners, nd at a rate which they may determine to be fair and equitable, allowing 75 cents per 1,000 as the cost of ‘manufncture and the interest on the capital nctuallyinvested, witha fair margin of profit. E The gas companies, fike the railroad com- panies, generally have some means, either by watered stock or otherwise, of represent- ing & nominal capital largely in excess of their actual investments, and eclalming the right to earn an interest on that capital. But the people of this country hava about got through paying interest on fictitious capi- tal for the benefit of monopolies, and gas companies must come down to the hard-pan as well as railrords and other inflated insti- tutions. Thus Mr. Brurines, of the West Side Gas Company, is believed to have been negotiating a loan in London to the amount of £4,500,000 on the West Side gas works and franchise. If he has actually made such 2 loan, it smounts to selling the West Side gas works to a company of Englishmen for at least one-third more than he wanted the city to pay for them two or thres years ago. Yet the gas-consumers would be expected to pay such rates as will yield the usual divi- dend on this inflated and fictitious capital. The people will simply refuse to do it, aud the City Government should exercise its plain suthority to be the first to insist upon fair treatment. The gas expenses of this city form the greatest single abuse of public affairs, and it is time to correct it. Probably $300,000 a year, at least, can Le saved without doing the gas companies any injustice ; and, if they are ‘too obdurate to concede fair terms, the City Goverument must take steps to enforce them. THE COURT-HOUSE RING. Since Tae TrsuNe pointed out that edi- torials printed in the Chicago Zimes were written in the interest of the Ring and the ‘Wavrxer contract, no more such articles have appeared in that journal, and it is to be hoped the editor of the paper has gathered his wits about him, and refused to permit it to be made one of the agencies for swindling the people of this city and county out of at least half amillion dollars, and perhaps more. There is little doubt that the brazen conduct of the Ring Committes which resolved to re- port favorably on Warker's bid, though there was another bid folly complying with all the terms which would make s saving of $327,- 000, was encouraged by those articles, and counted on the support of one newspaper to sustain the robbery. Mr. Faxymve, in an interview with a reporter of one of the vcity papers, charges direct- ly that money has been paid to somebody connected with the Times, and says he can prove it. Another stone man says that he sent a communication to that paper several days ago making the same charge, and that the communication has never been printed, nor any answer made to it. The Ring show some signs of weakening. They have not yet dared to present the re- port of the Comnittee approving the Warx- ER bid. Mr. Bugpick could not draw it out, because the Ringsters were afraid to meet the protests which had been put in by Messrs. Favnve, Orieans, and others, all lower bidders than Wairker. But this temporary forbearance on the part of the Ring must not be construed to mean an abandonment of their scheme. There is too much money in it for that. They may pos- sibly decide to present it in some other shape, though they mayalsobebold enough to attempt carrying it out withthe same brazen impudence they exhibited in first accepting WaLkER's bid in the Committee, and which only indicted men would risk. Mesnwhile, Mr. FaxNne shows that his bid is $100,000 lower than Warmer’s for that part of the work advertised for, and that the city and county will save $480,000 in all by awarding him the contrect. Healso agrees to comply with all the conditions that were framed to suit WALEER's case and exclude other bidders. Other bidders bave made a similar showing. In the meantime, PertoraT, who is still out on bail, is running Warxer’s bid and the Ring, and it only remeins to sce just what shape the deviltry will assume. There is one consideration not to be over- looked in this matter. If this robbery is consummated by the Ring, the Democratic party of Chicago and Cook County must bear the responsibility for .it. The large majority of the Commissioners—and we be- lieve all the Ring—are Democrats, and were elected to their present places by Democratic votes. There are six Irish Democrats in the Board,—CoxLY, CarRroLL, DCCAFFREY, Lox- ERGAN, CLEARY, and Murros,—three of whom we believe have been indicted for swindling the county and starving the paupers. Alc- CarFrEY, CovLy, and CAnROLL are the recog- nized engineers of the WALEER job; CrLEART votes with them in the Committee, and Muz- rox will probably vote with them' in the Board, ss he has done before; LoNERGAN, who has often voted with them in the past, seems to have discovered the infamy, and refused to sanction the Wirxer steal by his vote. Thus, if the job is pushed through finally it will be mainly with the votes of the Irish Democrats in the Board. ‘This fact should excite the decent Democrats and respectable Irishmen of Chicago and Cook County to nse all their infinence to de- feat the swindling job. The Democrats and Trish must divide between them, to the ex- tent that they are not identical, the respon- sibity for an outright robbery that may amount to several hundred thousand dollars before it is entirely completed. Itmay be that, if necessary, the steal can be prevented by a resort to the Courts; but, unless the local Democratic leaders and respectable members of that party can break it up be- fore that, their party must be held accounta- ble for it. Meanwhile, we hope the Ring will find no more aid and comfort from any Chicago newspaper pretending to represent the public interest, ——— THE NEGRO IN POLITICS. a There is much outery against the negro when he makes his appearance in politics. Many dislike to see him there, and we con- fess that there is n sense in which we also dislike the sight. We always suspect some- thing wrong when any class of men appear, as aclass, in politics. Either they are suffer- ing wrong, so that they are compelled to combine for protectionand redress, or else they are meditating an evil design sagninst others, which requires a similar combination. There is unhealthiness somewhere when parties are formed and lines drawn on class distinctions, We like to have all men come to the polls simply as citizens, and not as Protestants and Roman Catholics, or as Americans and foreigners, or as the rich and the poor, or as black and white. And so, when a black man or a German casts his bal- lot with other voters, and neither he nor others say anything about his color or de- scent, we have a normal illustration of Re- publican institations. It is en illustration of something quite different when a German comes s & German, or an Irishman as an Irishman, or o negro as & negro, seeking race-interests, irrespective of public inter- ests, or under a compulsion of aggression on the part of others, ‘We admit, then, that in some sense it is unpleasant to ses the negro prominent in politics. 'We should prefer to have it other- wise, and to hear no remarks from any quar- ter about the black vote. Let men rally to the polls &s members of partees representing principles and measures of statesmanship, and not as rival or hostilo races. But mow comes the question, Who is responsible for this continual appearance of the negro in politics? Who thrusts him forward, and will not allow him modestly to retire? Who is 50 fond of seeing his ebony face and ivory teeth as carefully to provide that he shall be prominent on all oceasions? Verily, wo think we must hold the Democratic party re- sponsible for this. It was that party which persistently guarded the system of slavery, and leagued with those who made it the basis of all their political operstions. The South knew which party it could trust and use on that subject ; which party, while professedly siming at other objects, was always willing to carry out the behests of the slaveholders for the protection of their institution, at whatever cost to other interests. It was the Democratic party which was ever pandering to the prejudice against the African race, and whose Northern orators in Congress habit- ually spiced their eloguence with the use of the elegant word ““nigger,” while their party con- stituentsat hometook pleasure in mobbingthe wearer of a black skin. It was that party which was relied on to pass fugitive slave laws; to admit new Slave States; to vote down Wirmor provisos of freedom for the Territories, and thus to make slavery national and freedom sectional ; and, finally, to repeal the Missouri Compromise, whereby a pre- vious. generation of slaveholders had guar- anteed liberty above the latitude of AMasox & Drxox’s line. By such a policy, disgraceful to tho country and to humanity, the negro was kept contirtually before the public mind. For the negro was thus necessarily identified with every political issue which arose. No question could come before Congress and be settled simply upon its merits. It was con- sidered invariably according toits relation to the negro-question, as that lay in the mind of the Southern slaveholders and of their Northern Democratic allies. Such subjects as the tariff, the sale of public lands, admis- sion of new States, the organization of Ter- ritories, census-tables, foreign diplomatic appointments, the ratio of Congressional representation, the management of the army and navy, and the prosecution of war, were decided by their favorable or unfavorable bearing upon the price of slaves and of the productions of slave Iabor. “Cotton is King” becams a proverb in those days, and the Democratic party rode steadily into pow- er mounted on the back of the negro slave. It was the Democratic party which thuspre- ferred to keep the negro in politics till they had brought ahout a civil war. For that party held a negro so close to its eyes that it could see nothing else, and so allowed the Secessionists to rule the Administration, to form its Cabinet, and to prepare all needful measures for the rupture, even to the steal- ing of the munitions of war of the United States, It was a Democratic President, also, who refused to fake any coercive measures against the seceding States, and it was the Democratic party which threw all possible obstacles in the way of the successful prose- cution of the War after the Government came into Republican hands, and who de- nounced the proclemation of emancipation and the forming of black regiments. In other words, every time the Democrats had a chance to shout “Negro,” they did it, and they thrust that sable individual continually in the fore-front, thinking o use him as a national scarecrow. They have not yet changed their policy. They claim that they can carry every South- ern State but South Carolina, and that the South is thus thoroughly Democratic. And what has been their pletform in rallying that section to their party ? The cardinal doctrine has been to keep the negro in politics,—to insist on a * color-line,” on the one side of which should stand the Democratic whites, and on the other the Republican blacks, the Iatter to be proscribed, and intimidated, and thrown out of their rights, even where they were in the majority. How they worked it in Mississippi, the report of the Committee just made to Congress incontestably shows, and the Hamburg massacre further illustrates the same spirit. And yet they profess to wonder that the negro will continue to make his appearance in politics! They say that his injudicious friends are always dragging him forward! They protest that it is time to ignore his presence, and to be deaf to his noisy clamor, and to pny nitention to another class of political questions. What absurdity and hypocrisy ! We will tell our Democratic friends how they may succeed in bavishing the negro from politics. The method is simple and in- fallible. Give him his rights, and supply the meaus for his intellectual and moral eleva- tion. The Republicans have been at work at this process for years, and, but for Demo cratic indifference and opposition, would ‘have advanced far towards a solution of the problem. They numberin their ranks the larger part of the religions and moral men of the North, who have been steadily pushing educationnl and chureh work among the freedmen through the instrumentility of the American Missionary Association (Congrega- tional) and the kindred societia§ of the Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians. In proportion as the North shall multiply tlu?se efforts, and the South shall desist from vio- lence, and shall provide a broad and impartial system of public schools for the whole populstion, will the ne- gro disappear from politics. Having no wrongs to redress, no fears against which to guard, no political enemies to fight, he will need no association for his special protection, and will call for no measures for his partic- ular benefit. In his place will come ‘‘the American citizen of African descent,” as President LiNcorx approprintely named him, who will seclect his political party without reference to race questions. The colored people willglivide among themselves politi- cally, in the same manner and for the same reason as do the whites; for they will attend the snmo meetings, read the same papers, pamphlets, and books, and be affected by the same arguments and interests. Sarely, every reflecting man must sce that this is the course pointed out by philanthropy, patriotism, and religion, and that in this way we can dismiss Saxmo from politics in the same sense that we dismiss Patrick and JorNxy, SaxDy and Eaxs, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. The Board of Education proves itself no exception to “Bonrds” genetally. It can- not bring itself to reduce expenditures by abolishing offices. Each member of the Board knows that the city has no money, and cannot obtain it; that really it is a ques- tion of financial ability whether it can keep the schools going or not. At -the last meet- ing it adopted a scale of reductions of sala- ries, but we looked in vain for a reduction of employes. Here are the officers and their salaries : Ogicers—One Superintendent of Schools, $3,000; one Assistant. $2,7530; _one attorney, $1,875; one clerk, S1,875; onesupply agent, $1,875; one school agent, $450: 'one assistant clerks, $800; one mes- senger, $800. Total, $13,435. This is at the reduced scale. Board, if acting as business men, in the em- barrassed condition of the city, would not have hesitated in dropping the Assistant Superintendent, the attorney, and the assist- ant clerk, and saved $3,425. But the Board was not able, any more than any other ¢ Board,"” to abolish s useless office, no mat- ter if the schools were never opened again. High School—~One at $2.250, $2,250; three at $1,875, four at $1,630, $6,000; five at £1,500, $7.500; twelve at §750, $9,0005 one at $600, 3600; two at 8750, $1,500. Here are twenty-eight teachers, consum- ing §33,135 a year. Here was room for the reduction of the number of employes and the saving of at least $12,000. Other Schools—Four Principals at $1,650, 86,0005 thirteen Principale at $1,500, $19,500; one Prin- cipal at &1, $1,350; one Principal at $1,200. 12200, $2,400; three Principuls at $825, §2,475; fourteen Principals at §900, $12,600: three Principals ut $627, S1,911; 9ve Principals at $625, $3,125; total, $51,161. Here sre go less than forty-six *‘ Prinei- pals,” who are pnid not as teachers, but as “Principals.” This number might be re- duced to twenty, and the others being paid 85 teachers, the saving would be $16,000. Three head arzistants at $800, §2,400; twenty head assistants at §750, $15, 00( eachers at $650, $130,0005 10 J 73, $57,5005 100 teachers at 100 teach- ers ot $47 teachers at ;sixty, 5,500; sixty teachers at $375, §22,500; 420 tenchers at $353,300—being twenty teachers less than the number with which we closed Jast term, a reduction of forty teachers. Here are twenty-three hoad sssistants who are practicelly deputy Principals; that is, they, as a general thing, do the teaching of a5 many “ Principals.” Now, either the head assistants ought te be teachers, and the Prin- cipals discharged, or the Principals and head assistants should all be teachers and be paid s teachers exclusively. The Board say they have discharged twenty teachers; but they might have retained the teachers and dis- charged the higher and supernumerary of- ficers, who do not teach. The schools have 10 need, under the present circamstances, of any walking gentlemen or ladies, or super- visors, or supernumeraries; the most that the city can afford is to pay teachers for teaching, and the dispensing of the services of all others would have been a reform in the right direction. The reduction in num- bers at the head is & more efficacions reform than the reduction of wages of thoss who really teach. —— GROSS OFFICIAL BLUNDERS. The tax cases before the County Clerk have been heard and disposed of, and Judge Wa1- LACE gave judgment upon the warrants. All the general objections were overruled. One of these was that township organization had been sbolished in this county, and therefore the County Treasurer was not the collector of taxes. This objection went to the whole warrant. Another objection peculiar to the city tax was that the levy included a tax to pay interest on city certifiates, the validity of* which was disputed. This the Judge overruled. The objections, however, to juagment against particular pieces of prop- erty were more fortunate, and the city, State, and county lose a large aggregate of taxes through the errors, ignorance, rank stupidity, and clerical mistakes of the public officers. We give a few instances of this kind for the instruction aud edification of the public, and especially of those who pay taxes. Judge Farwern and ex-Judge Jomw M. ‘Wrzsox are interested in the block on which the Central Hotel stends, at the junction of Madison and Alarket streets. Some years 8go the city purchased a small strip of the land at the river and paid for it; it also took 2 small piece on the line of Madison street. The Assessor, we think in 1572, returned the property, describing it as it had previ- ously been bounded, and not deducting these small alterations in the line. The tax levied for 1872 was objected to because of this mis- description, and the Court sustained the ob~ jection, and the tax weslost. But the ex- traordinary part of the proceeding is that the misdescription was repeated the next year, and has been repeated every year since, notwithstanding that the Court has annually sustaized the objection, and the tex has an- nuzally been lost. We presume the error is repeated in the assessment for 1876, amd that next year the tax will be lost again. The amount of the tax this year was 9,000, and this property has in this way escaped taxa- tion for several years, and, for the mere want of common intelligence on the part of the Assessors, will coatinue to escape taxgtion for all time to come. The Ashland Block, at the northeast corner of Clark and Randolph streets, now owned by the Rebel Gen. Buckyer, and formerly of the KINGSBURY estate, also escaped. In 13851 Kixaspury leased the ground undivided for twenty years to Dr. Brarmxarp. The Doctor mede a subdivision of it as lessee, and rented the subdivided lots to his tenants. In 1871 thelense expired, and with it the subdivision, and the fire earried off the build- ings. The owner thereupon built one build- ing covering all the originalsite. The Asses- Now, the i quiry, ssseszed the property sccording to BrAINARD's old subdivision, which had ex- pired, and the Court declared the assessment void for misdescription; and the taxes on this, one of the most valusble and productive properties in the city, was lost. Taking no heed of the action of the Court, the Assessor the next year repented his blunder, and has repeated it every year since, notwithstanding the as often repeated decisions of the Court. A third and hardly less surprising case is that of Block 1 in Doucrss’ Subdivision, lying southwest of the University. It is owned by Mr. Loxsarp. Pariires, the As- sessor, acting, it is supposed, upon some in- formation, returned the block in 1875 as subdivided into 163 lots, and assessed it by lots. Now comes Mr. Lowsanp, who makes oath that he has never mado any subdivision of this block, which standsnow, s it has done for years, undivided. The tax on this property, State, city, and county, amounts to $3,000, and is lost. In each of these cases the . Court held ,there was 3 fatal mis- description. The counsel for the city and county offered to correct the pleadings and make them conform with the facts. The Court, however, refused this, holding that to correct the record and give judgment thereon would be to give judgment against property without any notice, as required by law. Another case was where a piece of proper- ty was properly described and assessed as Lot 15 in Block 16, but in the printed no- tice it read Lot 15 in Block 13, and the Court refused judgment. We have a high respect for Judge WaLrace's learning and fairness, end suppose that his decisions in these matters, which are technical errors, blunders, and accidents, are such as will be sustained by Courts generally ; nevertheless, here is a large amount of property which is thus exempted from taxstion, not because of any such substantial misdeseription of prop- erty as to leave any doubt of its identity, or of any objection going to the’vu!idif.y or fair- ness of the tax itself, but because of errors, all of them of a clerical character. The law is evidently defective, and it is to be hoped that, as these defects defeat the collection of State taxes as well as Iocal taxes, the Legis- lature will this winter pay some attention to the complaints, which have heretofore proved unavailing. The Revenue law requires amendments having for their purpose the compulsory payment of taxes, and for sweep- ing sway all trifling quibbles and technical- ities behind which the property-holder takes refuge and defrauds the State of its lawful vevenue, and imposing an unjust burden np- on other property-owners who pay their taxes. A number of property-owners of Hyde Park have requested us to poiut out the disastrous ef- fect the Stock-Yard and slaughter-house Férty- third street-sewer will have on tne Iake water which the people of Hycde Park drink and use for domestic purposes. Thelake current always moves south along the shore. Any blood, filth, decayed animal matter, and carrion sub- stance emptied into the lake from the proposed sewer at the Reform-School Depot will float along the shore to the basin from which the Hyde Park Pumping-Works are supplied. From there the vile fluids will be sucked up and fur- nished to the people of the village to drink. The condition of the water the people of Chi- cago had to use before the tunnel was run oat two miles under the lake is not yet forgotten by the older Inhabitants. It would be a nice thing for the Stock-Yards to drain the contents of their rendering-factories aud slaughter-houses and the washings of their cattle-yards into the lake, through a great sewer built at the pense of Hyde Park property-owners; but, the fun for the boysin Zsor’s frog-fable, it ‘would be death to the Hyde-Parkers. ———— A business letter from Frederick County, Maryland, containing a remittance for a club of the Campalgn TRIBUNE adds in a postscript that “The prospects of the Republicans of Maryland are better than for many years; all united and perfectly pleased with the Presidential candi- dates. We shall gain at least two Congress- men, but the Confederates are sure of the State. However, we shall run them so close that they will feel uncomfortable. HAves and WHEELERR Clubs are being formed all over the State, and considerable enthusiasm prevails, wkile the Confeds can’t raise a ripple. They know that their ‘Reform’ candidates are frauds, and their clection will prove s curse to the American people.”” ———— We are informed that the lowest bid for the construction of the Forty-third street sewer is $41,000, but the Board of Village Trus- tees propose to assess a tax of $80,000 to pay forit! Part of this enormous discrepancy may be accounted for on the grounds explained by J. R. BENSLEY, the President of the Board, that only 75 per cent of the taxes are collected, and hence it is mecessary to levy 33 per cent extra on the willing tax-payers to make good the sums uncollected from the tax-resistants. But this hypothesis will only account for $10,000 of the extra assessment. For what reason is the additional $30,000 to be levied? Have addition, division, and silence anything to do with iti, et foiita o ‘The strongest and most convincing camp: document yet issued is the * Political Record of Sam TILDEN,” now ready at this office. Every citizen desiring to get at the facts, in a clear and compact form, should have a copy. After reading it, he will want extra copics to send to his acquaintances abroad. It is precise- 1y the thing to circulate among the people. —————— England scts up another Borgra. Mrs. Bravo is charged with poisoning two husbands throagh her love for the physician who furnish- ed the drug. The cases are surrounded with many poetical and tragical clements, and there is a strong probability that the introduction of rope will save further decimation of lovely England’s loyal subjects. —— The revolutionists of Mexico declared that there should be no election of President, and that the country should have no Government save that which the revolutionists threatened to thrust on the nation at the point of the bayo- net. Whercat the people arose and re-elected SEBASTIAN LERDO DE TEJADA. ———— The Village Board of Hyde Park Trustees consist of J. R. Bexsiey, H. B. BoGug, Dua. TAYLOR, POWELL, MARTIN FARrReLL, and PeTER ScaLoxp. The North Hyde-Parkers are inter- ested in the doings of this Board next Tuesday evening. A Bergen (N. Y.) Demoeratie candidate for Congress took exception to his wife's conduct, and, throwiug her down, covered ker from head to foot with a coat of whitewash, and his con- stituents point to his record with commendable pride. — A Democratic paper complains that it is hard work to raise money for the campaizn. Any capitalist desirous of opportunitics for a per- manent iuvestment will kindly apply to the Democratic Central Committee. 1t. D. R. e —— A French savan has discovered that Cincinnati hams are impregnated with chromatesof lead, a deadly poison, which gives a sudden resup- tion aspect to the covering. P — A death-bed repentance is better than none. Mr. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS has Dbeen enter- taining a colored school pieafe on his grounds. ————— The sycamores have been dying in St. Louis ever since the effort of the Tall One of the Wa- bash in favor of Undcle BiLLy McKes. ——— An exchange says: “TILDEN is a political PAGANINI; he plays upon one string.” The frayed-out purse-striugs of various railroads, now encased in angel plumage, wouid indicats that the old man’s musical preference is for the barp with multitudinous guts. . One J. H. PIERCE, of Mississippi, has snceesg. ed in elcvating himself to the standard of ™ ass by challenging two editors. L — Fiat justitia, ruat cedum. They have arresteq a man in Maine for stealing an umbrella. ————— PERSONAL. Mrs. Lincoln, widow of President Lincoln, hyy been stayiog in Boulder, Col. The Rev. Dr. H. N. Powers has been vistting Mr. William Cullen Bryant, at his home in Cog. mington, Mass. In reviewing Bret Harte's ** Gabricl Conroy, "4y, London Ezaminer concludes with. this pungen; sentence: **After all, Boccaceio wrote only short stories.” The Nation is moved to make casual reference ty Mr. Proctor Enott's **blackguard speech, ang venture the opinion, in spite of it, that *he 4 not & remarkably bad man, as men go.” Ex-Secretary Bristow, the Rev. James Freemay Clarke, Mlr. James T. Fields, and others, are yachy. ing along the New Englund coast. They were soeg off Manchester (Masa.) harbor on Monday after. noon. Mr. W. L.B. Jenney, the well-known architect of this city, has accepted the position of Professor of Architecture and Design In the School of Amy. tectare and Design attached to the Univeraity of Michigan. Mr. John T. Leater, of the Grm of Lyon, Lester & Co.,and Mr. Ed Ay, son of E.G. Asy, Esq., will leave this city this evening for ey York, from whence they will eail for Earopsog the 23d inst. John Morrissey, Jr., son of the Hon. John Mor. rissey, celebrated his majority lnst Monday aven. ing. Arcception was givenby his parents in hope of the occasion. The father presented his tri. umphant offspring with a deed to property ext. mated to be worth $10,000. At o recent agricnltural meeting In Eng Lord Honghton said that, aithough the United States were larzely engszed in making oratlons 2bout English tyrauny ang English oppression, i his opinion, they 283 nation held to England g fecling of fraternal und filial regard. Why does ot Stanley Africanns tell us some- thing that will increase onrknowledge of the con- try in which he is presumed tobe traveling? He has not aone much in that dircction as yer. The most that the intelligent reader can hope to gain from a perusul of his letters is a hearty respect for *‘the clephant-ritle.” +*The Empress Eugenie,” 8ays a correspondent, **has broken sadly in the lust yesr or two, and re- tnins scarcely a trace of her former beauty. She has grown very stout, dyes Ler hair, and covers her face with powder, while the slight lameness which she used to conceal so skillfally has become very apparent in her gait.” Mrs. Theodore Mors gave a formal **breakfast™ Tuesday, at her Long Branch villa. The invits- tions were Issued five years 220, but afterwards re- called. Taving been reissued, all the invited guests were present, and in the mezntime there had been added two uninvited guests,—the latest additions to the Moss family. ‘The American Rifle-Team is notso backward in preparation for the Centennial match as has been reported. The practice scores of late indicate de- cided improvement. At the recent firing contest, the whole score was 1,567, which is above that of England. Ireland, or Scotland in_any one of their contests for the Elcho shield during the last thres years, The place of ** the acholar in politics,” left va- cant Ly the retirement of Prof. Seclye, will soon Be flied, if Prof. J. Lawrence Smith, of the Fifth Kentucky District, has his way. e has announced himseif a3 a candidate for Congress. He is zn ex- President of the American Associatzon for the Ad- vancement of Science, an experienced meteorols- gist, and by marriage the possessor of sn smpls fortune. Lanman's ** Blographicsl Annals of the Cisil Government of the United States " has been pub- lished by James Anglim, Washington. 1tis the familiar ** Dictionary of Congress ™ expsnded into & work of & diffevent class, embracing, besides the sketch of States and United States officisls, some brief biographies of military and naval oficers, and amass of historical documents pre- pared for ready reference. Haydon's picture, **Christ's Entry into Jera- salem,™ is not at Philadelphis, as a Quarterly re- vlewer says it 14, nor was it deatroyed by fire, a1 Mr. Stoddard, in the preface to Haydon's lite, statea {twas. It now leans agsinst the wall of St. Peter's Cathedral in Cincinnati, laving been bought for a small sum from Nicholas Biddle by a friend of the church about the year 1845. A local critic describesitas **anill-arrsnged composition, defective both in drawing and coloring. " The Redpath Lyccama Burean, of Boston, bat establiehed @ branch of its basiness in Chicszo under chsrge of Col. W. F. Morse. Tals agency conducts the business of nearly all the leading lecturers in the country, and of a number of musfc- aland dramatic companies. Col. Morse is now arranging a farewell tour through the West for John B. Gongh, who will speak Nov. 20 in Chi- cao, and afterwards visit Wisconsin, Minnesots, Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio. The office of the Lyceam will be Room 30 Triauxz Bullding. Mr. Sims Reeves, the English tenor, adds his testimony to that of other famous singers to the ef- fect that alcoholic or malt drinks are injurious to the voice. Inaletterto Dr. Lennox Brown, sur- geon to the Royal Society of Musicians, Mr. Reeves said: **Whatever may have been the practice in + the past, such notions as that the drinking of s0 many bottles of beer or stont per evening will give voice are us obsolete s, T am happy to say, is the 1dea that no man {s a hospitable gentleman who al- lows his guests to go home sober. . . . By long experience I find it better to do withont them entirely. " Connt Arnim summoned M. Thiers to appear 33 witness in his behalf. The latter replied that, while willing to pay all possible deference to the administration of justice in a foreign country, e could not recognize as & part of that administration an individual appeal, especially aince he was not conscions of having any valuable testimony to ise, either for or against Count Arnim. In speaking of the incident to one of his fricnds, M. Thiers sald: ¢+ would have gone williugly to Berlin but for the excessive fatigue, for in claimingme ns a witness in his defense Count Arnim has rendered ahomage tomy characterof whichI am really sensible, which many of my countrymen would only render me after I am dead.” There should be no failure to notice that **The Thunderer™ bas beea thundering of late. Tbe extracts from editorial articles of the London Times vrinted in the cable-aispatches show that the contest between Mr. Disracli and the leviathss of the press has come to close quarters. The 7imed basall along maintained that the Buigsriaz ool rages called for the interference of the Power while the Prime Minister has attempted to make light of the newspaper reports, claiming that they were not anthentic. The 7imes has the advantze? of fighting on the side of truth and humanity, 22d ‘with such allies on its side the fasne of the combst can scarcely be considered doubtful. Jn thiscon* nection it is interesting to notice that the Tina has improved wonderfully of late in its news de- partments, having secured a new and efficiens managing editor, As an orzan of opinion It b3 always been, of course, easily in the first place. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Gardner Housz—J . Tomkinson, Thomas Brows- ing, Thomas Tyers, and Wiltlam Tayburn, Maz- chester, tng.; J. I Sheldon, New York; F. M. ‘Thomson, Ashkum; M. H. Walker, Indianapolis; J. C. Eldredge, New York; C. Krum, Daven port: R. Stafford, New York; Joseph Winter botham, Joliet; W. J. Smith, Batler, Mo-; O Olney, St. Louis: Robert Gilmer, Spris- field; E. Bird and J. W. Teneh Fairmount, Minn. ..... Grand Pacific—R. W. Bickor, Cleveland; ex-Gov. "C. C. Washburn, Witcontlyi Joseph_ Collett, Terre Hante: E. S, Dabcock Evansville; J. and F. 1. Sherwood, Boston; Jae? and "Edwin Sculiian, Buffalo; 'W. C. Bls New Orleans; J. Goodmow, Atlants, G*'l H. Bamey, ' Migsissippi; = J. D. Redd San Francisco. .. .Sherman ' Honss—The Hon. I Eri Col. taoz, K. White, Cleveland; H. M. ie, Pu. ; Furnizs, Philadelphis; J. 1. Cook, _Sterling: Charles Webb, Mobile: the Hon. . P. Watsan, Washinaton; Col. G. . Hubbard, Connecticut: Tl B. Jonmes, Sun’ Francisco; W. Jol son, Buckier. 11l 5 J. i . B. Fuller, U. S. .. Teegarden, Californin: Burton Hill. San Frauciico: the \West End Buse-Ball Club, Milwaukee: F Gault, St. Paul: O. L. Garrison, St. Louls: Cennett, Pittsburz; Charles Zung, H. H. Cobi New Yorl J. W. Clarke, mS!dney Youngstowis Strong, g3 hio... Patmer Houte—J. . Todd. Ornsnct . A, Finkelnbarz S Cincinnati: ol Department, U. 8. A.; G. {"9‘“55 Meusienrs Merchant and Roland, P: Brooke, New Yori:J. ¥. Richards, Lesve! worth; C. ¥. Millard, Louisville; M. L. Coutbref, T. H. Watrons, New Haven: J. B Do Clough, Dr. 'Hudson, J. Rysn. B D. Cane, J. 1lsam, and W. Weagze, Victoris Anstralia; H. G, Burton, U, §. A, : "A. . Moor® and C. M. Smitle, Holly Springs, Miss.