Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 15, 1876, Page 4

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The record conclurdsely proves that he wag— 1. A_BECESSIONIST, AND OPYOSED 10 THE WAR FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE UNION. ) OF ** 1038 TWEED" AND ANY GANG, t WHO REDUCED NO 1. CORRULTION, AND TAN IE FOUND 1T, HALLOT-HOX, AND LEADER 1IN FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS, A8 ED UPON 311 BY HORACK GHRELEY, 2 SPLABTERS TO LABOR- 2 IRON REGIONS OF MICUIGAN, [ STROUS RAILRUAD BHARK, WIO AMASEED MILLIONS DY DEVOURING WESTERN RAILROADS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE. Thia grent Campalgn Document fily four pages of Tnimvsrsize. A copy thereof ahould be placed in the Dnnds of every voter In the West, Hayes and Wheeler Cluba overywhere stiould order *Tilden’s RRecord " for distrilution. COST OF THE HECORD, It wiit bo sent by mall or express, with charges patd, on the following terins Bead orders tmmedintely for * s I 3 TRIBUNE C0,, Chicago, TAMUSEMENTS, Adelphi Thentra, Manroe strect, coruer Dearborn, Variety perform- mace, New Chicngo Thentre. Clark street, between Lake and Naodolph, Hoo- ey's Minutrels, Hooley’s Thentra. Randolph strecty tetweon Clark and LaSalle, **Onr +Buardiug-liouse.”} ‘Exposition Bullding. TLake Shore, foot of Adnma street. Promensdo Cone geft by the Germau Military” Daiid. Atternoon and venlni. TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1870, Greonbacks ot the New York Gold Ex- chango yestorday closed at 893, Wa invito ationtion {o the communieation of Judgo Lawnexce, of this city, in reply to -an articlo in the last Now York Natiun on “tho silver-money question. It is strongly written, and does not leave much of tho * Nation's article undemolished. The Judge ds wound on the silver question, A dacided unwillinguess to get at the bot- ‘ tom facts and dovelop the true inwardness of the charges and reflections upon the Board of Education is mnuifestod by the Common Council, 'The roport of the Cum- mitteo on Schools, recommending that the matter bo investigated by n Special Commit- teo, was placed on filo by n vote of 17 to 14, and tho subject is buried for tho present. The Bonrd of Public Works had & narrow The ordinance before the Common Counell, pro- viding that the Board be abolished and its duties transferred to a functionary to be ap- pointed and known as the Commissioner of Works, -received 21 aflirmative and 11 negative votes, and theroforo failed for lack of ono vote to mako the requisite two-thirds, 'fho charges agninst Henlth-Commissioner. MoViczar are, at his own roquest and that of Mayor Hrearn, to bo investigated by a Committes of the Common Council. ‘I'he Thye Tuibane, Mayor urges that*the investigation be mads thorough and soarching, to the end that the facts in the caso wmay be fairly and impar- tinlly obtained for his guidance. He is anxious that thoe truth shall be mnade known, nud deterimined to purge the munieipal ser- vice of every official whose integrity may bo successfully impeached. To all of which the - peoplo will most heartily subseribe. The rumor provalent in tho West Bunday night, that the Sioux had met ono of tho mili. tary columnns in bottle and been badly de- feated, waos ropeated widely yesterdny with- out either contradiction or corroboration. Reogular dispatoles from Gen, Tenny's com- mand to the 7th just. hint of nothing of the naturo of tho squaw's story which has now awskened so much anxious expoctation, The correspondent with T'erny’s zommand draws o bow on the loight of the thermometer in that region which ought to terrify the most credulous, The iden of mon wmarching in 1156 degrees of Fahrenheit in shady places must have indeed ovolved Irom o heated imaginatiol A ronownl of tho proposition to award tho contract for ent stono for the Court-lfonso to Lowin Warken at a priece which admits of dividend to the Ring sufficiont to make them comfortable for life may bo expucted within 8 fow days. Tho County Bonrd hag been fnvited to go down and look at Warxen's quarry at his oxpense, and the invitation hasg) been accopted. It is doubtless hoped by this menns to win over to the support of the $0500,000 stoal somo members who have not yet seen thoir way clear to a justification of tho outrageous job. It will bo interesting to note what, if any, modification of viowa on this subject is mado apparent as the result of this visit to tho quarry—at Warzen's ex. penso. The Chicago produce marketa wera moder- etely active yestorday, and most of them tonded downward, Moess pork closed 45c per brl lower, ot $17.00@17.65 for Beptembor and $16.00 soller the yoar, Lard closed 150 por 100 1bs lower, at $10.80 cash and $9.50 scller the year. Moats wero j@}o per It lower, at GJo for boxed shoulders, 8jo for do short ribs, and 93¢ for do short clears, Lake freighta wero loss aclive, at 1o for comto Butialo. Rall freights were unchangod. Iighwines were quiet, at $1.10) per gallon. Flour was steady. Wheat closed ensler, at Bii}o cash and 88c forSBeptember. Corn closed dclower, at 44}o cash and 44jo for Beptemn- ber. Oats closed a shado firmer, st 80@304c cash and 80c for Beptember. Rye closed higher, at 52c. Barley closed 20 lowor, at 93¢ for Beptember. Hogs wore dull and closed weak, st 5@100 dscline, Bales wero noted at $5.75@0.85 for poor to extra, The THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1876, cattlo morket wns firmer, owing to small ro- ceipta. Snles wore nt $2.23@4.80. Sheep oro salabla at 82,60@4.60 per 100 1bs, One liundred dollars in gold would buy $111.87) in greeubacks at the close. Tho Confederatos met another Gettysbnrg yosterday, It was a curious nffair, with heavy odds in favor of the new-fledged Re- formers. Tho River and Harbor bill was tho objective point, and tho President's point in the gamo was his objections to the many appropriations of n puroly local or in- dividual character that wwere crowded through by the House *“to plenss my constituents.” Tt proved that these Reformers aro moro profesaors, and not practical workers, in the achool of cconomy. It also proved that the TProsident is dotermined, notwithstanding the many stumbling-blocks placed in the way of the proper excoution of tho various trusts imposed on him by thoe Constitution, to so oxpend the various funds sppropriated by Congress as to subsorve the interest of the conntry at large. % The cabla dispatches chronicle n magnifi- cent success for the second day's installmont of Waoner's great musical work at Bairouth. The performaunce of *‘ Dor Walkueren * ocou- pied five hours and a half, extending from 4 o'clock in the naftarnoon until Lilf-past 9 in the evening, with intervals of an honr betweoen acts. The rapresontation is eaid to liavo elicitod unbounded enthusinsm on the part of the vast auditory, and an innnvnsinn upon stago custoras peculinrly characteristio of Rtonanp WaaNER is noled in the refusal of the eccentria composer to appear himeolf or permit the appearance of the leading artists before the curtain in response to ro. peated calls, this refusal being based upon the theory that a compliance with the flat- tering demonstration of the andienco would violate tha unity of the ropreasentation. President Grant yesterday improved an oxcellent opportunity to read the Domoeratia Honso a much-noedod lesson upon economy and common-gense. The River and Harbor bill—a weasure which was crammed full of privato jobs and approprintions for objects not in any sense of a national character— wns the occasion of the Prosident’s homily, which doeg eredit to his good somse aud firmness. Whilo ofixing his signaturo to the bill, he took care to explain that he would hiavo vetoed the bill if its provisions appropriating monoy had boen maudatory as to its expenditure for the purposes desig- nated; but it happons, fortunataly, that the Presidont condo as he likes about the money approvriated, aud he notifies the House that ho sliall forbid any outlay not necessary for the proper presorvation of work in an un- finishod state, and shall quietly squelch all tho little jobs smuggled into the bill. The Democrats wero disposed to resent this sharp reminder of their delinquencies, snd only Horyay, of Indiann,'had the eandor to ad- mit the justness and correctness of the President's posjtion. Tho House Committee yesterday took no nction on the Post-Ofice and Post-Roads bill, which was referred to that Committes on Saturday as it eamo back from the Senate londed down with extravagant appropri- ations for fast-mail service over many routes and @& restoration of the franking dend-hend privilego. The Sen- dtors calculated that the Honss would voto tho former for the sake of the Iutter, and so londed down tho bill. Wa hope the Committes may not report the bill, but let it dio. 1t was concaived in sin, 'Tho dend-head franking privilege is an infa- ‘mons swindle on tho poople for the benefit of Congressionnl domngogues. Dawes’ rea- sons for voling {o restore the swindlo were fulso ones, Therenl ones wera conconled, chiof among which wns his desive to make the mails cnrry his frothy, valueless ha- rangues frec of cost to the authorof the trash, Hosnays the pross is hostilo to the Congressional franking privilege, Lditors huvo to prepay postage on overy shect thoy send through the mail; why should not demagogues also pay postage for transmit. ting their specches ? TILDEN'S CONFESBION., In February, 1876, tho 8t. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railrond Company instituted suit againat Sam J, TiLoeN and three others for thoe recovery of certain bonds and stocks, claimed by that Comnpany to have been with. held unlawfully by -said Timpen. Mr. Tr- pEXN obtained nuntil tho 1st of August, 1876, to answer the bill and has just rande answer. The answer places Mr. TILDEN in a moro questionable position than beforo. Ponding his auswor to tho Lill he wad entitled to the presamption that ho had a legal and an hon. orable dofense. 1lis nuswer confesscs that ho has neithor, and that he cnn only clain an acquittal on the ground that the Railroad Company as now orgauized Lns no legal in. terost in tho property of the old Cowpany, which has long since ceanod to oxist. The faots nro fow and simple. ‘The Comn- pany which oporated tho roud in Indiaua aud Ilinois, under charters from both Htates, beeameo lopelessly in debt. Its crylitors wero the first and second mortgago holders, the stockholdors, and various others, TiLnex was o stockholder.e The first aud second mortgago holders aud some of tho stocklhiolders signed an agrocmont that Tioey and two othors shonld Lo n Purchnsing Committeo to purchaso the rond and roorganizo the Company. 'TiLpes und his associntos purchasod the road sud organ- ized n now Corupauy, and sold the road to this Company, 'Uho Purchasing Committoe, hav. fng full powor over tho property, executed two doods of trust to secure the first aud sec- ond mortgagos. In tho monipulation of the business the complainants allego that, in ad. ditionto his fees and allowauncos for legal worvices, Mr. TiLoEN and tho Turchasing Comuittes have faflod to account for funds to the amount of $284,000, preforred stock worth $180,000, and common stock worth $360,000, Thoy also alloge that Tizozy and his friends held and rotained control in tho now Company until June, 1875; that the new Directory thon invostigated the business, and for the first time this appropriation of the property of the Company was discovered, and suit for its recovory was soon after insti. tuted, Now, what is Mr. TiLozn's answer to these charges? Does ho deny tho possession and appropriation of the property as charged? Certainly not. i defonso is: 1, That tho Purchasing Committos acted for thoso croditors aud stockholders whohad signed the agreement, and not for the inter. oat of inferior creditors and stockholders who had ot signed it, ‘4, That the mombors of the Purchasing Comunitteo dil not act as trustoos; that thoey made the purchase porsonally, in their own name, and not as sgents for any per- sons, 8. That under the law of Illinois thoy were authorized to issue stock to any amount they might deem naceasary, not ex~ ceeding any limitation which might have been fixed by agroemont. - 4. That there was no such limitation fixed by ngreement or otherwisa. 5. That in selling the road to the prosent Company they acted na individuala for thomsolves, and not ns agonta. 0. All the bonds nnd stocks now songht to bo rocovered wore ‘delivered to thom as part of the considerntion, nud wera redoived by thom as Lheir personal property. 7. That thoy held nothing in trust, and havo violated nome. That, having pur- chased the road, the property of ons Com- pany, and recoived thorefor the bonds and stocks of the Company to which they sold the rond, they, as individuals ncting for themselves, wero entitled to keep whatover surplus thero remained. 8. That the present Company was not organizad at the time, nor was it a party to theso transactions, and has no right or claim upon TiLDEN, and cannol maintain any se- tion in this matter. This is tho confession of a Credit Mobilier dating back to 1861.'62. Tipes add n fow assaciates wore stockhioldera in an embar- rnssed Compnny ; they purchased tho rond, aud then, having organized as & Compnuy, sold it to themselves ns a Company, obiain- ing therefor a surplus of bonds and stocks which they pocketed, No wonderthat a fow years later, when OAxes Ases wanted to or~ ganizo the Credit Mobilier in the Union Pa- cific, he was advised by Mr, TrupeN how to do it successfully. Wo submit that a candidate yho thus in writing confosses that he induced tho own. ers of & railroad to place it in his hands that it might bo reorganized, and who, withont L advancing o dollar of monoy, technically purchased the romd of ona Company and sold it to a mew Company, and who so manipulated the procecdings ns to exclude dobty due to lonest creditors, and who pocketed $750,000 of the bonds and stock, for which he gave no consideration, is not a man of the charnctor fitted to bo Presidont of tho United States, The unsavory charac~ ter of tho transaction is aggravated by the interposition of a plen that the Company now claiming a roturn of the abstracted bonds is not technieally the Company which was defrauded, and is not, therefore, cn- titled to demand the restoration. : As this transnction in railrond jobbery is but one of a series of like kind, it cstablishes the fact that Mr. Trupen is professionally a railrond-wracker,—a spoiler who takes pos- session of embarrnssed railrond corporations on shares; who ojects the stockholders and n large portion of the creditors; and, after taking a large share of what is left, hands ovor tho remnants to his confederates. In this wny and in thiskind of business he has, during the last twenty yoars, accumulated a fortune of several millions of dollars, which he nowemploys to corrupt tho politics of the conntry nn% Presidoncy, Shall such a man be selectod by tho American peoplo for the office of Presi- dont of the United Statea? Shall the second centennial of the Republic be marked by the election of a man of such charnoter to the Presidency 7 TWO DEMOCRATIC SAURIANS, Two of the orginal Egyptinns of the Saurian period have turned up jn Southern Dlinois. One of them is the editor of the Free Press, s Trioen and HENDRICES poper printed at Mount Vernon, Jefferson County. A fow days ago he lappened to pick up a copy of WeneTeR's Unabridged, and, spelling his way through the appendix of the volume, in the part devoted to the names of noted fictitions porsons and places he stumbled upon the following paragraph: Earer.—A ciot populae deslgmation ofathe southern portion of the State of Ililnols,~belng a figurative mllusion to the **thick darkness™ in which anclent Egypt waa_involved for three days, intho time of Mases, The Inhabitants of South- ern 1linols have had the generwd reputation of be- ing extremely ignorant, Turning bnck to the beginming of tho vocabulary to sce who was responsible for this slander upon Egypt, ho was delighted to find the name of Wmriam A. Wureren. Here was his long-sought opportunity to mako political capital in Egypt. What conld be a botter target for his blunderbuas than the Republican candidate for the Vico- Presidoncy blackening tho charncter of all the Egyptisns ? So e sat him down with fire in hus oye and fury in his pen, and he wrote a savage onslaught upon the Ropublic- an candidate, the spirit of which way be inforred from the following choico extract: Can we, a8 “Hn{punnn," who lave & nght to make sonie protentions to'intelligence, allow sich an Insult a8 the nbove to go by unresented? Most certalnly not. In the publication of that cursory sentence, Witggien has done Southers 1linols an injustice thut shie will never overcome. Thounands " and thousands of dollars bave been lost from the coffers by that misrepresentation. 1le hins glven us & nama all over the world that dlagusts us 61} to hear, Ho has driven from thls fertile spot of more respectuble thun ho, Many a_forest ond rairle which now lles kdlo would have been nt thin Ime over-laded with arich harvest, had It not been for this sirofl.'llm.'- whao i too conteinptiblo in the eyes of thu people of Southern Hlinols tu reculve u decent recoznitlon. Irom Maine to Culifornia, Byt Ia known iy evers one, In evorybody's mouth fs unjust condemnaiion for her industry, That word {s world-wide, nod sges will not wipe thie stulu from our skirts. But tho oditor of tho Free I’ress was not tho only ignoramus. Tho oditor of the Cairo Lulletin reproduced the article, snd accom- punicd jt with o savage demand for ven. geance Mninst the Ropublican libeler. Other Domoeratic oditors have taken up the slan- der, and are sounding the alogan, WieeLen in rearified at overy cross.ronds from Spring. field to Oniro, aud WensTeR's Unabridged hns beon placed on tho Index Expurgatorius. Vigilanco Committees aro forming to lynch dictionary ngents, and overy Democratic fawily that possosses o * Wessten Un. nbridged " is expeoted to kindle the fire with it. All Domocratic Egypt is up in arms ngaivst their Republican traducer, and the slandering loxicographor’s publishior who al. lowed the Republican candidate for Vico- Prosident to vilify them, A littlo lenrning is a dangerous thing, and it is espocially dangerons for an Egyptian editor with little learning to attempt to com- prehend the dictlouary, The WiLum A, WuerLrn who wroto the aforesaid voecabu- Inry is not the Ropublican candidate for the Vico-Presidency, but DProf, WiLLiax A. ‘Wazeven, of Boston, the philologist. The Republican Waeeren is guiltless of the Egyptian slander, Tho editor of tho Fres Press, and the other Democratic editors who have been betrayed by thelr iguorance, have been making assos of thomselves, They havo fired their blunderbusses at o man of straw, Thoy have boen on the rampage in vain, ‘There are threo reasons why Southorn Il- linois hos been oalled Egypt., First, because It 1s the most fruitful part of the State. It hag shorter winters and longor summerws than Northorn Illinols. Ity woil yiolds rich crops of fruits and vegetables, Iis broad nores furnish abundancs of corn, It teems with milk and honey. Itis a voritable land of promise, and so from its glorfous fertility it camo to be called Egypt. Second, whon the Republican party was formed, this saction wes facetiously ealled Egypt, promote his own clection to%he - Southern INinols thousauds of honest laburlng twon Dbeeause of the donse ignorance of the Demo- Fnesonr did not receiva the voto of a corparal's guard. The people in tHat section could not ses the Northern sido cratic masses, of the slavery question. All was s dark s Egypt. Ienco the yame. S8inca that time, howover, when LooaN was the leador of the Democracy, and was olested by 20,000 ma- Jority, thera has beon a obango in Egypt, and the Rapublicans now poll a8 mauy votes ns the Democrats, Third, the consus of 1850 is also responsibla for the application of the term, sluce it made an ofticial aunouncement of Lho ignorauce of that scction by showing tho immonge numbsr of people who could neither read nor write. At that time tho pioneers from the Houthern Slates wero as abundant as they woro ignorant, and the consus showed them at o great disndvaniage as compared with tho pioncers of Northern Illinois, who had come from tho educated and progressivo Enstern States, Iu this respoct, algo, thera has boen a grontchange. Solool. housea nre now as common in Egypt ss in tho northern part of the State, and the rising goneration is intelligont and well educatod. All that romains npw of tho orig- inal significance of tho term “Egypt” is its fortility,and this will alwnys remain. That somo of tho original ignoramuses of the period of Egyptian darkness slill survive, however, is shown by tho facts we have given tonching upon the colossal ignorance of the cditors of the Mount Vernon Z'rec Press and Cairo Bulletin, They would do well horenfter to boware of tho dictionary. Itis an edged tool in the hands of a dullard. EARL DISRAELI. The recent clovation of Dismartt to the Peeraga is at once o mark of honor and an indication of a want of power and loss of uscfulness, The great Tory lender has led a remarkablo life, Btarting out as a succossful literatour, ho fought his way np to the po- sition of agront and successful politician, ‘His carcer has been poculinrly aggressive, and marked by radical changes of policy and opinion, but he always continued upon the Tory sido, and at last renched tho unchal- lenged position of leador of the great Tory party, and led it'to viotory ovor hia old an- tagonist, Grapsroxe. For threo yoars his parlinmontary skill and ability have kept that party in power, but thé incessant and arduous labors incumbent on the position havo at last broken him down. He is an old man, whose days are nently numbered, and is no longer oqual to the dutios dovolving upon him, which have now been in- trusted to Bir Srarrorp Nonrucore, n younger and physically moro active man, Whethor ho possesses the strategio skill and oxscutive ability, however, that charactorized Dismarr: remains to be seen. Ho comen to tho front atn very im- portant time, when tho relations betwoen England and the Continental Powors are vory delicate, nud a slight mistake may dofeat the Conservatives and place tho Liborals in pow- er. Horotofore Dissaxrt has refused all dig- nities and titles, although he consented that his wifo should accopt the title of Viscount- oss of Benconsfleld. Tho Housoe of Lords, howaver, is the conventional asylum for de. cayed statesmen, and in accopting the Peer. ago as the Earl of Beaconsfield ho only fol- lowed illustrious precedents, which he could do without any loss of solf-respect. He will spond the remainder of his days in this asy lum, but, let us hope, the world may yet hoar from him, Iis iutollactual faculties aro still undimmed. It is comparatively but a short time sinco Lo wroto * Lothair.” Old men rotiring from aclive business often re- sume the lightor labors of carly youth, Dig. RaZLt mny yot, befora he passes away, charm the world with another ** Vivian Grey * and “ Contarini Floming.” BLUFORD WILSON'S TESTIMONY. Maj. Bruronp Witson, eox-Sollcitor of the Trensury, was summonod to Wnshington a short time since by a Committco of the House of Rteproseniatives as a witness inn ponding investigation. e oboyed the sub- pona of the House, and answered the ques- tions put to him. Ilis tostimony was do- livered in a straightforward manner, and was supported in the most important particulars by documentary eovidenco. As to other particulars, wherotno documentary evidenco oxisted, his testimony has - been con- tradioted by A. P. Turroy, Homice Pon- Ter, and one or two others, It has boen substantiated in general by Eraen Wasn. nuny, Col. A, C. Marruews, and Judge Banoes, It cannot be said that bis testimony hns boen impeached In any particular, al- though upon two or threo points conflicting testimony has boen offered. - It has boon alleged by ono or two witness- es that Maj. Wirsox urged tho indictment of Gon. LooaxN aud G, B. Fanwery for par- ticipation in whisky frauds, without evi- douce, alloging that tha evidenco would bo procured after indictment. This statoment Maj. Wirsox flatly donies, and the witness. os offered to prove that he did so are, to say tho least, slippery customers, A lotter wus produced, written by Maj, Wirsoy to See- retary BinisTow, in which tho foraer stated that ho had had an intorviow with B, O, Coox, and that Cook hnd roceived a letter from n reliable frivnd in Chicago stating that Loaan's illucss was the result of sheor fright ot o rumor charging that Lo (Lovan) * was in it." It is not dunied that Wison had such au juterview with Coox, and it in not dened that Coox received such a letter; but all that is & very different thing from the chargo brought agninst Wirsoy, that he tried to get LooaN indleted withoutevidonco. Mo} Wizsox testified that Honace Pouren gave him a cortain explanation of the origin of the signatore *“8ylph,” which Bancocx apponded to one of his telegrams to McDox- aLn, 'I'he explanation wos that this was the professional uamoe of a lowd woman fn 8t. Louis who had given the Dresident much trouble, and who was got rid of by the joint offorts of Bauvcock and McDonatp. Muj. Wizson added that whon Ponren told him tho story ho didu't Leliovo it was trae; that ho afterwards mentioned it to the President, aud that tho President dismissed it with n’ gosture of contempt. Mr, Portew now testi- fles that he never told Wirsox any such thing, sad ho gives, ag second-hand, n new explanation of tho origin of *8ylph,” viz, : that Bancock and MoDoNnirp wers on the falr.grounds in 8t. Louis one day, and MuDovarp pointed out a handsomo but corpulent woinu ou the grounds and called her a sylph ;' that the designation was so ve. markably facetious that they incorporated it in thelr loxicons at once, and Bavcoox some. times signed his letters that way., Wo take tho liberty to disbelieve Tonren's second ex- planation as complotely a8 Wirsox disbeliov- &d his first one, Bapcock and Portes were privato secre. tariey to the Tresidont at the time of the famoug Black Friday conapiracy. Maf, Wir. sox testified thot tho reason why tho Prosi. idont removed Banoocx from the position of private scorelary was that ho (the President) recelved certain papors from Now York, after Bancocr’s trial at Bt, Louls, showing that Bancock hind beon fu the Blnck Friday con- spirady, aud had loat $40,000, and that the poerson who nctedl as trusteo in settling up his account in that affair was the samo per- son who waa nfterward nppointed Prosident of tho Military Court of Inquiry to investi- gato Bancock’s connection with the St. Louis Whisky-Ring, This wns regarded by the President ns a suspicious oirenmstanco, and ha naccordingly suspended Bancocx's func. tions na private secretary. In referenco to Black Friday, Pouten testifled that ho didu’t beliove that Bascoox had auything to do with it, becanse ho (Ponten) knew nothing about it. Ifo (Ponter) and Bancoox hnd bought o conple of lots in- Now York in pariner. ship, and the President had recoived Romo pupers in reforence to these lots, but they contained nothing implicat- ing Bancoox In auy way with Black Fridoy. Wby any papors should bo sent to the Prosidont in reference to Ponten and Baxcook's transaotions in real estato has not been explained. 'That Ponten would bo very likely to know of Bancocg's connaction with the Black Friday conspivacy if the latter wera connectod with it, and would bo- very likely to bo in it himself if Bancoox was, i3 pre- sumptively true, But we do not see that Pon- Tin's testinony has shakon Wison's in tho slightest degreo. Various absurd charges hiave been brought agninst Wirsox by the familiars of tho Whis- ky Riug; nmnong others, that he hasboen put forwyard by ex-Secretn'y Bamtow to tell things that he (Bristow) could not tell without violating tho confidenses of his position as a member of the Cabinet ; that lio hns como forward as a swift witness to volunteer testimony damaging to tho Prosident; that ho has borno falso wit- ness against tho Presidont, ete., ote, The implication of all this stufl is that after Wiz 80N was summoned ns o witness hio ought to liave fled to Canada to avoid testifying, or that, having avswered tho subpoona of the House, ho ought to have rofused to testify and gone to jail. Wedo not perceive why ho shonld have taken oither courso, unloss he wero guilty of some disgraceful act him- solf. ‘Tho fact that he appeared at tho proper timo and gavo ‘his testimony with- out hesitation is vory mach in his favor, showing at all events thathe waa confidont that the truth could not hurt him. Ho has bornehimsolf thronghout the whole affair, and thronghout his administration of tho office of Bolicitor of the Treasury, a3 a courngeous andfaithful publicoficorand citizon,and o truly dalf-poised charnctor, to whom the jeers and rago of the rascals andblackguards ho has helped to expuse are perfectly indifferent. Tho insinuation that such a man is the atool- pigeon of Gen. Bristow is unworthy of a moment's thought, and is ns unjast to Bris- Tow 08 to WiLsox. As far as the Prosidont i/ oncerued, he has not given the public any resson to suppose that ke considers any statemont of Wirson's damaging to himaolf, still less that any such statoments are false, THE W4GNER FESTIVAL. The quiot little mountain town of Bai- routh, hitherto unknown to fame, has sud- denly become the focus of the oyes of the whole musical world, and for two or three weeks to come will occupy a prominont place 1n the news intelligence and criticisms of the day. Riomarp Waoxen, whose whola life has been & battlo with fate and fortune, is presenting to n jury composed of the most prominont represantatives of art, literaturo, and music in all Europe the crowning work of his life. ‘He is now an old man, and it is not within the possibilitics of things that he can extond tho fleld of his composition. Tha success or faflure of the Nibelungen Trilogy, thorefore, must seal the work of his life. From the day that he firat sot foot in Porls, with, his whole wealth comprisod in the geora of **Rienzi,” .without money in his pockot or friends to asaist him, down to the present time, his life has been a continual warfaro. No man over had bitlerer or moro implncable enomies. He sot out in his musical coreor with cortain idens which have boen gradually developed through “ Rienzi,” “Dor Fliegende Hol- lander,” * Lohengrin,” ** Tannhauser,” *The Meistersaongor,” * Tristan und Isolde,” nnd aro now brought out in their completeness in the Trilogy. What those ideas are we ncod not now rehearse, The peouliar conception of the predominance of the dramatio over the lyric, and the manner in which ho gives emotional exprossion tomusic, must be famil. iar to all renders who know anything of mu- sical progress, The interest of tho Baireuth festival now centres in ita success or failure, becauso it involves the personal work of ‘Waaner, Ifit succoeds, if he mnakes anim- pression upon this jury of tho truth and fit- noss of his idona, his musio will no longer be what he himself has termed it, *The nusio of tho futare,” It will bo the musio of the prosent, and his roward will come in secing its ncooptance. If it fails, his life-work will be lost, and he will go to his grave a disap- pointed man, If energy, industry, porsovorance, and courngo merit success, then cortainly Rion- Anp Waanen deserves it, aud those who ad- mire these qualities will rojoice it he carns it. For yonrs he fought the world single-hauded ond made a gallant battle agninst poverty, dissppointments, snoers, intrigues, and ingratityde. As the yonrs went on, howevor, a fow frionds rallied about him, and, ns they came to know'the man and to study and sppraciate his idons, thoy soon bacnme prosolytes, Liszt in Gormany, Huer- ven in England, and 1'nxonone ‘Tuomas in this country, have done a gront work in moking the poople acquainted with his tech- nical idens aud with the grandeur of his musje, It has beon a stubborn conquest, however, While all his works have boon heard in Germany, it was ouly the other doy that ** Lohengrin” and *‘I'sunhauser” were first hoard in England, while in our own country we only know these two oporas throngh very imperfect porformances, which bavo failed to do justice to thom, aud have ouly given hearors their bare outlines, 'I'he ground las beon broken, however, for the fatare harvest, which will be a fruitful oue should the performances at Baireuth prove successful, The proparations for this success have heen made upon a colossal seale, und noth. ing hus been left undone that would give tho fullest opportunitics for his grand ex. periment. 1o himself chosa that grandest of eplcs, the Nibelungen Lied, with its dwarfs und gnoros, its giants ahd gobling, its -gods wnd demigods, its Titanio battles, exalted passions, and herole loves, oy the sub- jeot of his work. Io has devoted yuars of tiwo to the proparation of tho librettos and scores, He selvotud for the loculity of the performancos & votired, sleepy country vil 1age, but beautiful and grand in its surround. inga, so that ho might ba freo from the din, confusion, aud tarmoll, ns well es from tho passions and intrigues, of tho gréat cities. 1o has had the freedom of s Royal purso and the proceedu of lavish subscriptions to nid him in the croction of a theatro that ox- nctly nuits his idoas, and combines the Intost improvements in scenio nrt and me. chanical appliances. Tho loading nrtists of Germany, among thom Ninstany, Brrz, Unees, Voor, Frau Mateans, SBonerzey, and Gaux luve volunteored thoir servicus to sing. His orcheatrn, hoaded by Wirnsuas, undoubtad- 1y tho finest violinist in the world, is dom- posed of 110 of tha best playors in all Gor- mouy, Lastly, his audlonco is made up of Kings and Emporors, poots, composors, pninters, stulptors, authors, and the foro. most critics of Burops. Nover beforo hns opern beon givon undor such advantages. Nover befora lins n composer been invested with such absolute power. If Lo succeeds, Lis success will o for all thno, If ho fails, he must fail utterly. But whother muccood- ingor failing, his cournge, indomitable will, industry, and persoverance against all olsta- cles will bo none the loss romnrkable, Ilo may fail, but even in his failure mon will adiniro him as o second ProseriEus, pun. ished by tho gods for seoking to steal the sncred fire and bring it to mortals, of curroncy is svident in placing ‘TiLbEN and Iirxpniors on the gamo ticket. Thore is to bo evon a moro barefaced oxhibition of this duplicity in Ohio. 'I'ho Domocrats of that Stato have ngreod to make n contest at the QOctober election, and to make that contest on tho rng-baby issus, All the soft-money men, from Oldl Bitn Auren down to tho smallest village orator, is to advocato Tiroen's clection on tho ground that, in his let- ter of acceptanco, he favoied tho ropest of tho Resumption got, and wurged the ivdefinito. postponcment of specio pay- ments, Gov, Haxzs occupice no equive ocal position on this subject. Ho has openly oxprossed his views, and lnst your fought the groat fight with Avntex on that subjoot. The Democrats proposo to fight that battlo once ngain, depending upon tho full vote of the hard-money Demacrats, and Iooking to the Temperance party to draw off 10,000 to 15,000 Ropubliocan votes, In Ohio T1rpEN's lotter is to bo construed as promis- ing that thore shall be no specie payments until,the Lrensury Lias three of four hundred millions of gold,—an improbable if not im. possible event ; cortainly not possiblo within the next thirty years. On this construction evon ALty is to como forth from bis rotire- ment and to advocate TiLvEN's oloction. In Indiana prociscly the same polioy is to bo adopted, the offort being to swallow up the Greenback party in both Btates and yet ro- tain tho votes of the hard-monoy men of the party. In Now England, New Jorsoy, and Neow York, TiLOeN is, of course, to run as the only candidate in whose election there in tho lemst hope of a roturn to specle pay- menta; and it will bs oven claimed down there that Hunpatoxs has abandoned all soft- money notious, and has become an ardent advocats for specie rosumption. Tho timo has gone by in this country whon this double-faced policy can deceive any porson. That TiLoex is A hard-money man, an advo- cato of all payments in gold, and of immodi- ato speclo poayments, is undoubted. No Grecnback man in Ohio or Indiann can ques- tion this without denying his own intelli- gonce. Tho trick won't wi; E———— BAD BUENES IN A OEMETERY, The old Catholie Cemetery on Dearborn street, Just south of North avenue, has becoma une of the most Intcresting, aud to nervous people one of the most disgusting, localities in town. A . project for cutting it up into bLuilding lots has induced the removal of bodies mnterred thereln, but with a degree of recklessncss almost criin- fnalin its disrespect of the dead the laborers employed In the exhumation have scattered the remains of the lato lamented all’ through the ficld. No attention has been pald to the filling-in of graves, and great, gapiog holes, fringed with bones and decorated with rosaries, yawn bencath the feet of the passer-by. Relles of poor mortality ahound on every side, and skulls, musscs of hair, and the bleaching remnants of the dear departed lio scattered through the grass, without a friendly land to turn them back to the longing worm and the {dlo grave, It lsnot an uncommon sight that of children marching off with the pale reminis- cence of n defunct limb, and not long ago twoe youths engoged In combat, cach armed with the rclit of au arm, Pleces of coMns lie sround loose, aud commingle their dust with the rattling beads and varfous othier emblems of faith, consceration,and death, No ecffort has been made to gather up this debris, Where the body s exhumed, the mojor part I8 hurried into a cart,* and the rest left to the ralnaud the ravens, Thers §s no acin-~ Dblauce of reapect for the remains, and the res- urrectionists swear and laugh as thoe coflin comes up fn pleces and the skeleton brenks in half. Buch scencs are barbarous; und, were it not within the jurisdiction of the prejudices of clyilization to respect the dead, gome degree of care for the scusibllitfes of the quick would suggest better treatment of the remalns of those who bave gone before, —————— ‘The Auditor’s report of thenumber of horses, cattlo, sheep, mules, and bogs in Oblu and Illinols has been published. Wo print o com- purative table for 1876: Ohlo— Harscs, Iinols—Hora Ohlo=- Cattle, Tl il From this tablo it {s seen tha Ohio on horses by nearly 200,000; on mules by five to one; on eattlo over 400,000; on hogs by nearly anflllon; but on sbeep Ohlo beats INf- nois nearly five to ony, or more thun three milllons. The aggreguto home valuy of the do- mestic anfals of the two Btutes Is slightly with Illinols, Tho value per Liead Is with Ohlo, as hier farmers ave an nverage of 300miles nearer tho Eastern markets, which deternine the price of live stock In u great measure fn cach Btate, Thearea of Illfnols i8 nearly one-third greater than that of Oblo, while the popuiation of the two Btates is just about the same, ——e— The Post tatks of ** Blanchie's * Ves Larmes,’ tn, “Vanity Falr’ "1 Bhado of Pendenuls, what do you think ot that! Buch an error, when any schoolboy could have furnlshed the fact, Is hard- 1y the thing for o critical ucwspaper, 1t should keep fts TuACKERAY hanglng up within reach of its Journnlistic fledgellngs. A ———— L. P, Ricnanpson, the necwspaper corres spondent who was charged with having been kllled by the Indlans, sends his paper 8 ruther equivocal ‘denful of the stotement, and the journal publishes it ascoming from him without any Indorscment. b e ——— . There have been sold 85,000 copiea of Tne Tusuxe's edition of 8ax TiLoeN's Recurd alnee last Suturday morning., The IAYEs aud Wueeter Clubs ave sending In orders from the country pretty fast. Every club In tho West ought tu e supplied at once, It 15 a great ducument, e e — e ‘Though Mrs. TiuToN flatly refused to accept money from her husband, it {8 now asserted that she a living on his bounty, paid through the huudy of u venerable aud well-known New York lawyer, ‘The strougest uud inost convineing campaign docunient yet fasued {s Tus Trasone's Political Record of TiLpEN and HENDRICKS, now ready for distribution ot this office. Every citizen deslring to get at the facts, In a clear aud cor. pact form, should have a copy. After readin, Ity e will want edditional coples to send to hi: ncqualntances nbrosd. It ' precisely the thh)! to clrautate aitong; the people, Al Marps g ‘WitzrLen Clubs should supply themeelves Wity this frrefutablo document, ~Spectmen supjos sent on request, ¢ ———————— Broxss’ term of Imprisonment cxplry 2 but ha clafms bis right to depart ,I,roo:x 9{:. burn on the Gth of September, and las asked permiesion {0 lot his besrd grow, 1lu s dlaily fn tho recelpt of 1siters threatening hls ife if ha roturus to New = t— Winutast Mickoux, better recoznized GBI Biit,” s eew sliot and kfllcliunln[" ‘Thin last mukes the fourth time in three that the volunteer Marshal of the Indian N, lias heen gathered to his fathiers througl g hanible fustrumentality of a bullet, e WiLniax E, Rosineon, ex-metber of Cone gress from a Brovklyn distrlet, has futg the Darwinlsm of the Ameriean specles, ;‘n‘: book demonstrates that a large majority of *we, the people,” wear Irish Hlood fnour velng, ot e v g A Chicago edifor s engaged In the Preparg. tlonof n parugraph demonstrating thut longs legged boots iud turn-down collars are full dress for goclnl ocenstons, —g— The Inter-Ocean has been editorlalizing on ‘4 The Cause of Hard Times,” and {s now Prac tically demonsirating the ruu!t thereof, It {s now nsscrted that TTLDEN'S Alabamg Topp has more of the lemon than the sugar [n her compoeition, —— The Bhierl of Atlantie County, N. J., fs hunt. ing up the murderers of Farmer ELLwoow with bloodlounds. PERSONAL. Prof, Huxley hias agreed (o doliver an address sy the formal opening of the Johns Hopkios Uniser. aity, In Baltiniore, Sept. 32, The Frince do Starholner, of Yienna, has eloped with an actress, leaving a wifoand five chlldren, The Princess has obtamed a divorce amensa of thoro, ‘'Helen's Bables," a book written by & New. York gentleman, and published anonymously iy Doston, hus becn tho success of tho summer- scason, Bull has written a letter to tha Madiven Journal, glving on sccount of her trip across the Atlantic, aud conveying Intelligenco of her re- unton with her husbaml in Normandy. Some foolish mnewspapor-correspondents hava glven cnrrency to tho roport that Gen. Sherman will shortly resign his position at the head of the army to mnake a place for Gen. Grant. The report 18, of coursy, ubsolutoly without foundation. The rumors lataly clrculated, to the effcct that Lord Lytton, Viceroy of Indls, {sin falling health and will be compelled to resigm hia odlce beforo the retura of the hot season, linve bren authoritatiyely cantradlcted. Lord Lytton has beon sullering only from Indlgestion, which 1 ylelding to treatment. Mr, Mortimer Collins, the voluminoua English novellat, dled about two weeks ago. Although he had a large constituency, the returns from the sale af his books woro not suftictent to put himabove the neceessity of constunt work, ind It 1s presamed that tho strain to which ho wassubjected was tho romote cause of hia death, The Americus Clab-Flonse, formerly kept by Twecd and his friends na a summer headquarters, fsnow o summor hotol.. The beautifal viltage of Greenwlch, In which the hotel Is situated, shows the results of the downfall of Twecd. Many of the fing residencen aro to let, tho streots ure noglected, sud (he stores wear an appearance of decay. The Prince of Wales, it s sald, wns much astonished ot secing in Indla tho gult which scparates Europeans from natives In all soclal mat. ters, 1lis Royal Highoess, to his credit bo [t sald, aliowed no discrimination botween black and white 10 bo shiown by the membors of his sulte, 80 far as the externals of oficlal decorum ivere concerncd, ‘The helr-preanmptive to the throne, orcrown, or whatever they may call It, of Turkey i very nnlike the present Sultan Whilo the latter s of s miid and rather indolent dlsposition, Abdul Hamid is strong and healthy, both in body and mind; and the cnergy of hiw character, should he succecd, world probally ecause now complications in the politica of Europe, Mr, Disracli, by all accounts, did not get Inta the Touse of Lords too soon. The leading organs of English opinion were beginulng to speak of him in terms more forciblo than polite, The lust issus of the Fortnightly Revlew refors to Uim as *'a sccond-rate novel-writer,” and the Quarterly Re- view says tho demoralizing Inflnence of Lis so- premacy cannot enslly be eatimated. The marriage at Paris of Count do Fersan with Mlie. Mario Polrson is annonnced. The bride-groom wasn Sub-Licutenant of srtlllery during the last war, andhad both his legs carrled off at Scdan by acannon-ball. The young peopls wore aflianced fn thelr fufancy, and the lady Inaleted apon kecping har word, Fho {s the duughter of & very wealthy ship-own: ) whilst her husband has only his cross of the Leglou of Houor. - _The editor of the Army and Nary Journal #cknowledges the recelpt of 81.500 fn amall sub- scriptions for the rellef of tho widows and orphant of thiose who fell with Gen. Custer. This amount bas been forwardod to Fort Abraham Limcoln, Bubacriptions will still be recelved by the editor of that papor, or by Ma), P, P. G, lall, Paymaster, U. 8. A, Army Duilding, at Groeno and Houston atroets, Now York. Publlc acknowledgmenta will be made for all sums recelved. Goorge Elfot s the daughter of a Dlsacnting clorgyman, Ifer pridciples of dlssent were carried to an extremo that hor reverend fathor nuver con- templated, and hor first literary work, sccomplishe ed In early llfe, was a translation from the German of Strauss’ **Life of Jesas." Yor some time, about the same porfod, sho was joiut oditor of the Westminater Revlew, an heterodox organ; and it 14 a well-known fact that alnce then she has not been, clther fn theory or in practico, an adheront of an Evangelical denominatlon, ‘Thero died recontly on Clarke's Teland—the only one fu Plymouth Horbar—Mr. Edword Winalow ‘Watson, known to hils nolghbors ns the **Lord of thelsle,” Ior nearly two centurles his family has been In possession of tho fsland on which he lved snd died, 1le was an odd gonius, having no edu- cation In the common acceptation of thu phrasc, but belng both a studont of poctry and a poet him- sclf {n all his babits of thought, o was @tirely unconventlanal, but witbout talnt of coarscness; hie kopt, throughout youth and manhood, o viger- ouw, hoalthtul, nweet, uud ingenuous nature, A tnomber of tho Houso of Commona writces to .tho London T¥mes a description of his experlenco ina trip across the Channel in the new Besyouiet steamship Castalln. Al manner of obstacles were thrown {n his way by the railrond-ofclaly to pro- vent hia taking possage by the Custalia; but, theso ohstacles once surmounted, the traveler found blhnsel! removed from all the ordinary discomforts of thu trip, For the firat timo {n Lis lite, he soys, he pasecd in porfect comfort It seems now tobe the common opinion thatthe rallway com- panles will soon bo obliged to put-on tho new style of ateamer, o to experience & tatul lack of patrun: #go for the regular muil linos, UOTEL ARRIVALS, n¢ House—J. ¢, 8Btorrs, Loa Anfiolu'c. B, Fletcher, Eugland; G. 0. Marey, DPhiladel Unliod States Marehal Tuxasid. Ailling- Paw- Hand,' New York.... . ilawkins, Qolonn; Gon, Q. L. Linsley, U, 8. A., New York; the lfon. Il Bash, Michigan; if, Os- terberg, R, L., 8t. L &C, I, R.; tho llon, Johin Lake, Itockford; P, Johnson, M 111 Col. J. 1. Jolloy, New Orleand: the luu, Wheelor, Waupun; J. A. Uralisg, I C. M. Cattrell, Milwsnkes: tho Hom, G, C. 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