Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1876, Page 4

Thye Tribwwe, < TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. S PATADLE IV An\"AXCE—PO!‘MOE PHEPAID AT TS OPFPICI 4 Rditlon, postpatd, 1 ;-’:Hl’.f, e e, e, Mailed 1o Any addrass four Bunday BEditions Trweei Tarts of & year, per month. « One ror‘. per Club of five. Clubof twenty. Fostagn prepaid. Bpecimen capirs sent free, To prevent delay and mistakes, be rure and give Poste ©Mee nddrear fo full, Including State and County. Remiltances may be made elther by draft, expres, Fost-Ofice order, or In reglstered letters, at our siak, *RIIMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dafly, deleered, Bunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Daly, deitvered, Sundny Included, 30 cents por week Adilress THE TRIBUNE COMPANT, Carner Madison and Liearbol Chicago, Il TILDEN'S RECORD. A OREAT CAMPAION DOCUMENT. ‘The record conclhulvely proves that he was— 1. A BECKSSIONIST, AND OPPOSED 10 THE WAL FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE UNION. 3. A BOSOM FRIEND OF » 11033 1;\:;&50" AND MEMBRR OF THE TAMMANY OANG, Asn. A _DOGUS REFORMIIt WIIO REDUCED NO TAXES.REFORMED NO CANALCORRUPTION, AND MADR NOTHING DETTER THAN IIE FOUND IT. 4. A CORRUPTER OF TIR LLOT-BOX, AND A LEADER IN FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS, AS CIARGED UPON TIIM BT HORACK GREELEY, &, AX ISSUER OF SHBINPLASTERS TO LADOR- ING MEN 1IN TIIE IRON REGIONS OF MICIHIGAN, 0. A MONSTROUS RAILUOAD SHARK, WHO AMASSED MILLIONS BY DEVOURING WESTELRN RAILIIOADS IX FiNANCIAL TROUBLE. This great Campaign Document 8la foor pages of Tunuxrslze, A copy thereof ahould be placad tn the bands of every voter [n the West. Ilayes and Wheeler Clubs everywhers should order **Tilden's Record * for distributfon. COAT 0P TI{R TLECORD. 1t =11 bo snnt by matl or express, with charges paid, an the following tern Per 100 cople: For & dozen c Bingle copy. Ry the 1,000 coplea. soecial 1 6cad orders lmwedlately for ** Tiiden's Recal NE CU., Chicsgo, TAMUSEMENTS. Adelphi Thentro, Monros street, corner Dearborn. Varlety performe ance, New Chicago Thextre. Clark street, between Lake and Misadolph, Hooe tey's Minstrels, Ifooley’s Thentre. Tandolnh streat, between Clark and Lasalle, ** Oor Tosrding-touse.” Txposltion nnllrllnru. it Lake Shore, foot of Adama steeet, Promenade Cone cert ‘hy thie German Mifitary Dand, ~ Aftaroon and ovening. TIIURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 187G Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- chango yesterdny closcd at 80%. Tho metoorological authorities prediot slight change in tho temporature of this rogion to-day, with, perhaps, oconsional showers, the Mongolian Commission appointed by tho acting Speaker of the House, on the last day of the session. Baxt Canv's lotter accepting the Greenback nomination for Vico-President fs at band. ¥lo sconta the idea of a gold basis for the American dollar; the faith and resonrces of tlie nation are good enough for him. e is in foll harmony with 'Poxt Ewivo, By Arrry, and the Cincinnati Enql*'m' on the currency question. . * Honlth Commissioner MoVioman's case Tins been investigatod by a Committce of the Common Council. Tho chargos embodied In tho affidavit of the contractor LANDER are denied under octh by Dr. MoViczan, and tho question of veracity as botween the ppartics, in the absenco of corroboration, must ba gettled by the Committes. The Republicans of Ohio ars making up a ¥plendid list of Congresgional nominations, aud aro ovidently dotermined upon roversing tho tidal wavo of 1874 which gave the Demo- crats thirteen out of tho twenty Repre. sentatives from that State. In the Bixth (tho Toledo) District the Hon. J, D, Cox was nominatod yesterday, and, as there is o ma- jority of less than 2,000 to overcome, it is e to sob down n Republican goin of at 1 .t one Congressman, ‘Thero is o prospect of o vacaucy all around on tho Missouri Gubernatorial tickets, Mr, Fisgrrynrng, the Republican candidate, re- news the positive declination he announced provious to the nominatiou, and refuses to make the eunvass; while in tho esso of Mr. Turres, the Democratic nominco, the ovi- denco in support of the allegations of Jocherons conduct of an nggravated character is snid to have taken such u shape as to in- dicato the probability that his name will be Aropped from the ticket, — President Iticuneno, of the Boord of Edu- cation, is tho anthor of a brilliant plan for mettling the wholo controversy concorning roflections coutained in the recent report of the Common Council Committeo on Schools. His mode of convincing everybody that thers 15 no Riug in the Board s to’ simply adopt o resolntion denyiug tho charge. Soveral mem- bers ef tho Board cbject to this cheap and ensy whitewashing process ns not caloulated to hnvo the desired effect, The Board, how- over, nted not hesitate for lack of procedonts; BMr. Reep can furnish any number out of his daily exporience iu the Criminal Court, whore sgimilar pleas of “‘not guilty " ara of common accurronce. e Tho County Board Committee having in chargo tho matter of the Court-Houso stons contract aro making n sorry meus of it. Having been suficiently warnod ngainst pro- ceeding incautiously in the perpotuation of the Warken stoal, tho Committos is now in. dustriously engaged in demonstrating the inability of the lower bidders to furnish stone of tho requisita thickness for certain portions of the work, and the session yester- day was wholly dovoted to this attempt, It wa3 a lserablo failuro, the rival bidders showing conclusively that no such flimsy pretext will po down. It begins to look ss though tho Ring would huve to chaago their scheme—drop Warzen and Pentozat, and take up with somothing that promiscs amall. er dividends. Their procecdings are belng closely watched, und thoy may us well make 8 virtua of necessity and abandon the $500,000 steal. The Chicago produce murkots woro steadier yeaterduy, and wheat and corn were flrmer, Mess pork closed 130 per brl higher, at 817.424@17.46 for August or Soptember, ond $14.97}@16.00 scller the year, Lard elosud 7§@106 per 100 1Ly higher, at $10.67§ @I0.60 cush, and $9.87F ucller the year, Meata wero steadier, ut Ge for boxed shoul- ders, Bje for do sbort ribs, und 94c for do short cleari. Lake freights wero activo, at e for corn to Buffalo. Ttail freights wero unchuuged, Highwvines wero quiet, at $1.10% per gollon, Tlour wes aclive and firm, Wheat closed do lower, at 85c cash snd 88fc for September. Corn closed n sindo higher, at 443c ensh and 44}e for Beptomber. Oats were unchanged, at 30¢ cash or September. Rye wns firimer, ot 61}@33c. Darley was quiet, at 72]@73¢ for September. Hogs were quiet. Light weights ruled steady, grades 10alower. Snlesat $5.70@6. were in fair demand nt Tuesday's prices. Sheep wore slendy at £2.50@4.50. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $111.37} in greenbacks at the clos The peculiar claims of Sax TiLpry npon the good.will of the workingmen of Amer. icn aro shown in a lotter which wo print this morning from a correspondent who hins beon at considerabls pains to search the official records in Northern Michigan for facts in ro- gard to TiLprN's connection with iron mines, his fssue of shinplasters, and his heartless treatment of the minors rendered deatituto by the collnpse of one of TiLbex's com. panfes. Tho great Reformer was assoss- ed the sum of $1,000—to 8 man of his vast wealth a mers bagatolle—as his sharo of the amount proposed to be raised to pay tho penniless employes their just dues for Iabor performed, ‘To an carncst appeal in bohalf of these workingmen- he gave & cold refusal, and tho plan failed in conse- qnence, This is TrLoew's record in Michi- gon, n Stato which he dare not enter lest he should become amenabla to logal proceedings npon numerous judgments cntored against him in the courts, How well the working- mon of the Peninsula understand tho matter is ovidenced by the membersitip rolls of the TIaves and Wueeren Cloba organized in the iron-mining districts. The magnanimous majority of the Honse of Represontatives, on the 10th inst., having been awkwardly entrapped by the indiscreet miember from New York, Mr. Scorr Lonb, placed itself on rocord in favor of a strict onforcement of the Fiftecenth Amendment, by odopling o resolution strongly favoring the punishmont of all crimes against the bellot-box past and prospeclive. President Grayt hiardly needod this hint to prompt him in the proper discharge of his duties, yetho is npparently well pleasod with the knowledge that ho will have the sympathy of both political parties in all monsures taken by him to secure & fair election in all the Btates in Novomber, The Chief Magistrate has, with this end in view, issued throngh tho Socretary of War to Gon. Smenmax a pre- lminary order to so distribute Lis troops as to be propared to assist the proper ewil authorities if callod upon to aid in the en- forcement of the Election lnws. Mr. Tir- DEX'S friends at the Southk will doubtless bo much gratified when they learn that the Pros- ident lLaa thus promptly responded to tho gentiments of the Democracy as represented by the majority in the National House of Ropresentatives, THE CONFEDERATES' LAST GABP. The bill authorizing the filling-up of the skeleton cavalry rogiments for the prosecu- tion of the war sgainst tho Sioux Indinna under the leadership of Sitrrxa Bury was finally possed in the louso only by the obstinata refusal of the Seuate Lo agreo to an adjournment without it. I'he Confederates made desperats efforts to avoid it, and the scsaion has actually been prolonged two or three days by filibustering, with the hope that tho Senate would either rocode or nccept a compromise in ruising volunteers. The Confederates in the House were willing to agres to calling 5,000 volunteers, or double the number of men it will require to fill up the regular cavalry, snd at doublo ihe coat for tho prosent, with a faturo cost for bounties, peusions, etc., that is bo- yond all cstimate, rather than invreaso the eflicioncy of the rogular army. Two or three times thoy refused to sauction tho conclusion resched by tho Conference Committee, and when the bill was finally passed, in order to socure adjournment and beeause the Northern Democrats began to soo that the real motive for opposing it was apparent to tho country, there were 39 votes against it in the emall number prosent, only 4 of which were furnished by Northern Dem- ocrats and the other 35 by Southern Con- federates. Tho policy of adopting this moasure could not be reasonably questioned. It fol- lows out the very purpose for which the skoleton organization of the army was re. tained, viz.: That tho existing rogimonts might be filled up whenever oceasion should dempnd it, with n full complement of offi- cer, and around the nuclous of thoroughly- drilled and well-disciplined men, ‘The ocea- sion had come for carrying out this pro- gramme, 6o far as tho cavalry regi- monts are concernod. Twenty-five hundred men can in this way be made more offectivo against the Siouz than 1,000 rangers organized in indepondent com- panies and regimonts, with volunteor and in. exporionced officers. Besidos, the total cost is comprebonded when the regulars are pald. With volunteers it simply adds to the bounty and pension lists, and tho expenso is not concluded until all tho men who volun- teored, and all their widowsand orphans, shall havo doparted this life, ‘Lhe difference in cost to the Government will bomany millions of dollars in tho aggregate. The Republican Seunto knew this; so did all intolligent mon in the ITouse, Lut tho opposition of the Con. foderates was suggested by another motive, Tha slmplo fact iy, that the Bouthern Con- fedorates dare not risk any policy which may possibly provent their intimidation of the blacks in the Cotton Htates, or assura o fair expression of tho popular voice at tho polls, Of the 26,000 soldiers of whom tho United States army now consists, nbout 8,000 are located in the Southern States, engagoed iu the routine work of oc- cupyiug nrsenals, gnarding forts, ete. Thoy are in no senso ecflicient to support any re. siutance of the Repnblicans of the South ngainst the policy of intimidation which has bacn 6o succensfully adopted by tho Con. federates, nor sufficiuntly numerous to encour- ago tho bincks to attempt an assertion of tho political rights guaranteed them by the Con. stitution. Tho Confederates do not propose that thero shall Le any further show of main- taining the coustitutional rights of the blacks at the South than there is now. In fact, they sought to force the Gov- emmont to withdraw evon the handful of {roops mow stationed at Southern forts and gurrisous, by refusing tho necessary recruits for the prosecution of the Indiau war., This was tho real design of the Confoderate Congress in refusing so obsti- untelyto authorize the filling-up of thecavalry rughnents, T'he Confederntes of the South have got tho negroes and a large proportion of the white Republicans thoroughly [rightened, 4 It will requirc butanother murder or two,” said o prominent Iepublican ot the South & day or two 8o, ‘‘toenable the Confederates to carry ¢von Bouth Carolina.” 'L'hore iy no doubt that thoy count upon carrying every Bouthern Stato, and they base their Lopo on THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TIIURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 187 the fact that thousands of blacks and hun. dreds of whito Rapnblicans in tha South dare not go to the polls. 'The Confederates havo regnined (heir power in sovernl States whera tho negroes and Republican whites aro known to bo in the majority by the froo usa of tho revolver and shot-gun, until now mere threats suflica. The threats aro not wanling, Even tho Southern nowspapers print them boldly. The Confederates pro- pose to hold the Ropublicans of the South by the throat with a cocked pistol at thoir hends, That is what they aro doing. Their Northern allies do not propose that the Gov- erument shall have the power to meot this intimidation with the strong arm of author. ity. 'To do so wonld bo to render the defeat of Tiory and Ilevpnicks cortain yot not todoso mny precipitato upon this country all the ills which the samo sectional party aud raceissne once befors hrought upon it. THE FAVORITE BTONE-CONTRACTOR. Mr, Epwin Warsen, tho favorite stone- contractor of tho Court-Ilonse Ring, whom it is proposed to pay at tho rate of about $500,000 more than the same work and naterinl can be obtained for from others, hay not a very savory repatation, If the stories are trno relative to this My, Epwin Warxen's appenrauce before the Groud Jury that was iu scssion in Cook County in Februnry, 1875, then he is not the kind of man from whom any bid should be accepted or to whom any contract should bo nwarded. For the con- clusiou that must inevilably be reached from theso stories about Mr. Warxen is that there is not any surplua truth in his possession, and that fair dealing cannot reasonably bo expected from him. The Grand Jury to which we have referred was engoged n investigating the gambling in Chicago, and had gone to work on that part of tho Jaw which makes the owner of o Luilding n sort of sponsor for his tennnts, and roquires him to keep it free from gambling-hells. Alr. Warren was the re. puted owner of a building in which there was a gambling-house gonerally underatood to bo the property of Alixe MoDoNawLp, soute- what notorious as a “boss" gambler and Domocratio politiciau. 3Mr, Warngen, weo have beon informed by an ex-Grand Juror, was called before the Grand Jury and lesti- fied that he had leased the rooms to some unknown party, but that his agent who made the leases was in Now York and uot to be found. The Grand Jury, weo arc told, found the agent novertheless, and it ix beliovod he Lind not been out of town. When the leases wore produced, which ‘Warxen is said to have aworn wero original and mado out the May provious, it was dis. covered that the namo of this unknown party was written in with differont ink which seemed to be ouly a day or so old. ‘We are further informed by an ex-Grand Juror that Mr. Watxen was subsequently forced to confess that such was the case, not- withstanding his provious statoment, Of course all these statements, if made, wore made under oath, and any man cootradicting himsclf under oath is not entitled to be be- licved or trusted under any cironmstances whero hin own intereats avo involved. Nowif tho job is pressed in the Board to Iot tho stone contract tothis Mr. Epwix Warzen at a rate exceeding other bids by hnlt amillion dollars for the entire work, let Mr, Bunpick, or Mr, GUENTHER, or soma of the honest membors, turn to the records, find the names of the Grand Jurors of February, 1876, and call some of them before tho Board to verify or disprove the statemont that is made relative to Lis veracity under oath. If it is found to be wubstantially correct, and the EpwiN WaLker before the Grand Jury ia tho same Epwmy Warxer who wants the stono job at the rate of half a million higher than others bid, then it will bo nu additional renson for not lotting him the contract at any prico. DEMOCRATIC CORRUPTION, -The burden of the Democratic hne and cry is the corruption of the Administration, 'I'he party organs aro full of it. 'I'he Demo- cratic Convention filled its platform with it, ‘The Democratic stump-speskers find nothing clso to talk about, Even Slippery Sis T DEN, the most eorrupt of modern politicians, says: ‘¢ Whatdowe find? Everywhereabuses, peculations, frauds, and corruption, uutil we ure almost becoming ashamed of tho institu- tions of our country, and, instead of holding them up ns examples for the imitation of op- pressed pooplo of other countries, wo are confessing them ns n scandal in tho eyes of mankind.” And from all this ho infors that we are reaching the worst condition of the conutries of the Old World, The entiro doc- laration is very naive and rofreshing, com- ing from such a source, but the most Iaugh- able anid absurd featuro of it is the solemn and wnjestic manner in which Slippery Saxx dwells upon Administrative corruption, as if it wero somothing now under the sun, A Uriof glaoco at tho rocords of the past will show that, so far from Administrative corruption being somothing now, the Domeo- cratic Administrations havo been tainted with it from tho oarlicat days of our political his- tory. ‘l'uoas JeprEnsoN regretted the clec- tion of Vax Braex to the United Btates Senate in 1821, because Le would introduce the spoils-system of Now York into the Fed. cral Administration, Ona of the slrongest arguments against Van Bunex's confirma. tion s Minister to England waa that he was nn unscrupulous advocate of this system, Manoy, who wns ono of Vax Buren's cham- pions, Inid down the Domacratic doctrine, “To the victors belong tho spoils.” "The cleotion of Jacksox was followod ly a wave of corruption, cspecially in Now York poli- tics. Wituess the following lotter from a prominent Now York politician of the good old Democratio sort Wastiyaran, March 14, 1820, —~My DrAk Jrser (Wovr): Your very beaut]ful and interesting letter of the Bth was recelved In due courve of Jaw, ol to your docteluifully, that o d—d ruseal who maile use of Wis oflice, or ite profite, for tho purpose of keeping M IAvK- . Anavs ln ol Ge goxont of power ls cutitll touny leaity orwerey, save that of hanging, So wu think both sllke on that head, Whether or not [ shall get anything in il serarable for plunier remaina 1 by but I ratlier, gue ew | uhall, What §t wilt , perhaps keeper of tho ley. BAN BwautwouT, ‘Ihis Swawrworr, who was mado Collector of tho Port of New York, ombezzlod §1,205,- 035 of the Govermment moucy and fled to South Amorica. 'Phis same Jessy Toyr, to whom Bwantwaor wrote, indited s letterto Vay Bunex when the latter was Secrotary of Btate, in which ho enunciated the following goud Democratio doctrine s For my political education T am mnlnl‘)' Indahted to you, and 1 have learned that polities fa o mutior of dollars und centw, and adherence to party the ouly hopo of galu. 'You aro aware iny delity and fuithfulicss luve benefited you, And 1 wmay way here thut 1 have been prowined your ald, and that 1 havo strang clahin on you as 4 party man and pers soval fricnd. Hoyr practically carried out Lis finnncial views of polities by defaulting to thommount of several hundred thousand dollars when he was Collector, vice his friend Bwanswour. ‘I'ho publis ig already protty fuwiliar with the fact that inthe campaign of 1863, Tie. vz, then Chairman of the State Cowmittee, issued a circular sotting forth tho detuils of the plan which lm_ and Bosy Lwrzp had cooked up for overcoming the Republican majority in the Stato by manufactnring the returnsin New York City. ‘This was nothing now, howover. Ilis predecessors had been in the business also, In 1 daring the JacksoN camipaign, Vax Durey wroto to Hoxr ns follows: ** W ahall thereforo havo voles enough to put Jackson's eloction out of all question, and what is over ix only im= Jortant on the score of bets,” About this time, cighteen lotters written by Joux Vax Buney, son of the Presilent, which made confession of lobbyiug, swindling stock operations, and the exintence of a betting ring, in whosa in- terests the roturns wero manipulatad, got into the public prints, In 1536, whon Mantiy VAN BureN was running for tho Presidency, Lis son Joux wroto to LoxT ns follows: 11, 183 —Mry Dean lovs: T (and so dues my faiher) — 1lea feom Vennn, bet- o In N, n 2. or (Joil's suke feiends turn all thelr attention to New Jersey, and not lie caught napping thore ux iu Connecticnt. My fathier wishes mu to say w0 1o )un:, mu:l trul, . Vax B All the partics mentioned nbove, Marcy, the two VAN Borexs, and the two defeulters, 8wantwour and Ilorr, were Democrats in good standing, and the confessions made by their letters show thnt Adwministrative cor- ruption was good Democrntic doctring, In the light of these documents and nmmerous others that could be produced, show- ing up Democratic cmbezzlements, lob- by and ewindling stock jobs, and ballot-box stufiing, the current Democratic outery of corruption as gomething which has come to tho surfaco during the past half- dozen years, is too absurd for further notice. In viow of the fact, howover. that corruption lins always been a Democratio practice in the past, and that Tiepry is tho prominent rep- rosentative of Democratic corruption in the presont, it in littla wonder that tho Cincin- nati Knquirer(Democratic) was recently con- strained to sy @ It conld not hut he that a man educated in cune ning. in hypoceisy, m iniquity, nominated in cor. ruption and khameless effrontery, even though hin millions could elect him, would give us the most corrupt Administration the country has ever known, TAX-MACHINERY. We printed yesterday the letter of Mr ErniorT AxTitoxy on the subject of taxation and the laws for its collection, The letter is an admirablo one, and is especially timely in this State, 1In it is explained tho rise of tho extraordinary difficultics which prevail in Tllinois in tho collection of ‘rovenue, Tho doctrine grow into favor somo time in 1841 and subsequent years, when the State had suspended paymonts and was ranked as hav- ing repudiated, and when public and privato eredit had sunk to the lowest obb, that taxes boing heavy, they onght not to bo paid. The failire of the Internal Improvement system hed loft the State responsible for a heavy debt, and there wore not wanting doma. gogues who boldly took the ground that it would be oppressive to tax the people to pny cither intorest or principnl, and that if n tax was lovied tho best thing was to refuse pay- mont. A result was, that after an abortive effort to colleet a tax, taxation for that pur- poso was abandonod, 'Lhen eame loss of credit, suspension of trade and productions, and “hard times.” Al taxes bocame opprossive. Under theso circumstances thero grow up a popular antagonism to taxea generally, which antagonism is expressed in Bracgwerr's definition of taxos: * Durdens or chargos imposed by tha logislativa power of a State npou persons or properly to raise money for publio purposes,” Popular senti? ment undor the false tenching of successful repudiation rocognized taxation as an unjust exnction. ‘Lo chargo a man with a tax was like charging him with a crime; in both cuses Lo clnimed the presumption of law that ho was innocent until found guilty ; and that iu tho trial to recover a tax the citizen waa outitled to overy dotail of technical particu- Inrity, exactitude, and proof that he could claim in a tril under indictmont for murder, ‘The Courts, which were not superior to the influence of public opinion, sccepted this doctrino that & tax was an attempt to,de- prive & man of his property without con- sideration, and that it was tho duty of tho Courts to iusist in defonse of the citizen upon the strict complianco with every dotail of the law, and that errors, however trivial or acei- dental, even in puuctuation or description, wero to bo treated as fatal to the demands of tho State. 'The Revenue laws of lllinois in this way were judiciously constrned as erimi- nal laws, with all the presumptions in favor of the innocence of the accused. In 1848 thoro was s now Constitntion adopted, making the Jovy of taxes impera- tive; but the old popular and judicinl estima- tion of & tux wns ustablished ; it had becomo tho law of the State, and for a quarter of a century tho Courts of Hlinois have beon en. gaged in a strugglo to dbfeat the collection of taxes on the principle that taxes were ogeinst common right, and were the demand of a despotic power to possess itself of the property of the citizon, and assuch to bo tolerntod only in the abseuco of nny teclni. cal objection. ‘This doctrino haa prevailed in Illinols to a greater oxtent, perliaps, than elsewhere, and while this dofinition of the tax has Lesu ex- ploded in other places, no relnzation of the rule adopted in tho old doys of repudiation aud Inws for staying the col. lection of dobthus takon placoin this State until within the last year, when the Courts Liavo been dismissing appenls from taxation, rominding thoss who soelt to escape that aniong the duties which tho citizen owes to the Btata is thut of paying taxes, Joun Haurpen lins consed to ba as poten- tinl an authority against the lovy and collec- tion of & tux for sowers aud water-pipes as he hou hitherto been, and thers iv u prob- ability that in Hmoe he will ceaso to bo cited as un exumple for profeasionnl dead- Deats, Tho judicinl suti-tax code which has grown up in Illinois during the last forty years has pocessitated n frightful code, on tho othor hand, to sustain tayation. 'Fhe Revennu law of Iilinois is a inonnment to the ingonuity of ita authors, It is ngyressivo, defousive, pallintive, suggestive, cxhoustive, oppressive, ovasive, inquisitive, nud fenr- fully expensive. 'L'o collect the texes of this Btuta costs 25 per cont, inclnding those which the Courts set aside. ‘I'o preparo tho fax- lists of Conl: County for callection requlves more books and of larger dimensions than i required {o conduct tho business of the Bank of England. ‘Uhat thero muy ba some generaliden of the requisite Lookkeeping, wo will try to enumerats the soveral timestho the tux-lst is copled : 1, The Assgszors copy futo thelr books for 1875 the Mst of 1674, 2 'l‘hrr return 0 st of all the property, with auch additlons as they ok, to the LCounty Cloriz, 3, Counly Clerk furnlshicn Hata to each Town “ollector, which they retuen Lo the County Treas- urer. v v ‘ounty Treasurer or ('vllector returas o uuty Cleik, showing collections und delinguente. b. Coupty Collector miakes mnother st for the vrinter. 0. 'The County Clerk Lies a list for application Ement 3t o the application, and & new It 18 preparcil and embadled fn the Sudgment. K. The County CoMectar malkes return Hstaof the property sald for faxes, ofc. 0. i Clerk certifies to the Stato Auditor a 1is of yraperty forfelted to the State. In addition, separate tate, throngh all those proceedings, are made of the property subject lo Past taxea: Hore is n list of property subject to taxa. tion iu this county which, in order to be collectable, has to ba copled substantially) cight or nino times, Each of theso lists will fill an avernge of (hree large volumos, cach volume being as much ny n person of ordi. navy otrongth can lift, Each of these lists costs to innke it from $£5.000 to £8,000, be- sides the $15,000 to 820,000 tor printing one, In theso various copyings it is impossible to cseapo mistakos of figures, words, commns, nnd semicolons; and ench time n “5" (s crroneonsly copied ns a **4," Jony IIAstepEN in trotted iuto court to demnnd and have the tax declared vold! 'Theso twonty.seven to thirty manuscript volumes anoualiy havo al. ready accemwmulated, and in o few yenrs they will constitute n library requiring n special building for their snfe-keoping. 'This same multitudinous bookkeeping is going on in the 101 other counties of the State, and is required by the Rovenue law, which in turn is ingeniously coustructed to dodge and evade the anti-tax rulings of tho Courts, Tho Supreme Court of tho United States hag within the last fow years laid a crushing Land upon all attempts coming within its Jurisdiction to avold taxation on any otlier ground than fraud, or taxation of property not lawfully subject to tax, or where the tax was lovied without legal authority or for an unlawful purpose. Ithns treatodall attempts to caeapo taxation on any other ground with undisguised contempt s unworthy the re- spect of Courts, Courts in many States have also taken ground against all attempts to evado taxes except on objections going totho merits of the tax itself, Now that our Su. premo Court has shown by its recent decis. ions n purposa to recognize that Govern. menty ere essontinl, and that taxes are essontinl to the continunnco of Governments, snd that each mnn owes it as & duty to con. tributo his share to maintain the Govern- ment whose blessings and benefits ho on. joys, and thus rendering the vast machinery and detail of tho State Revenuo Inw unneces- sary, is it not a proper time for the Legis- Intura to nbolish that machinery ? ‘I'nxes are by the Constitution mede esson. tial to the support of the Governments. Each pteco of proporty is of necessity sub- ject to a tax lovied for nll legal purposes. Now, to collect that tax, ought there to bo any legal machinery nocossary other than a goneral notic that within thirty dnys from the dato of the notice all taxcs on all taxable property wilhin the county will be due and payable ; and that all property on which such tax shall not bo paid within sixty days aftor becoming duo and payable will Le sold for tho amount of tax duo thercon ? Does not every man who owna property know that there is an annual tax thereon ? Does he re- quiro n apecial notico describing cach picco of land ho owns to inform him that ho has not paid his tax ? Will not a gencral notico inform him that his taxes aro due as well ag a specifio ono included in a newspaper with 100 pages of othor similar notices? Why not, tharefors, abolish all the usecless details, and bring the collection of taxes down.tothe business form of the collection of any other debt or linbility ? ‘The groat error of thoso who are indiffer. ent to this business of defeating texes is in not acquainting themselves with its offoct. When a tax is lovied to meot & given amount of appropriations, and any portion of tho tax is not collected, there is a deficioncy which Les to bo met by an sdditional tex, If 100 men be taxed $100,000 and soventy-five poy and twenty-fiva cscape, then to raise the required revonuo roquires that ench of the soventy-five who pay; instend of paying their just proportion, $1,000 ench, shall pay $1,434 each. Every timo ono plece of prop- erty oscapes taxation the tax on all othor property is increased. If those persons who pay their taxes will bear thia fact in mind, they will in time discovor that thoy ave pay- ing other people’s taxcs. ISABELLA IN SPAIN. After nearly eight years of abisence, the expatrinted Quoen Isanerra is once miors in Spain, and her roturn, as might be expected, has alrendy cansed a political commotion, Boforo lonving France, the ox-Queon gave ont that her visit to Spain had no political significance, but that she wos only a visitor to places for which she felt o stroug attach- meont, Bhewaa tostaysome weeksat the baths of Outeda for her hoalth, and would spend the remaindur of tho sonson at Santander, She would thon go to Maidrid for a ahort visit {o her son. From thers she would go to Saville to moet her sister, tho Ducloss of Moxreensten. 8ho even wrote to President MacXManox that sho should keop hor honss in Paria and roturn thore for the winter, and ijutimated that her real purpose was to ar- rango a marriage botween her son and lis cousin, tho Infanta-Menceors, daughter of tho Duc do MoNTreNsIER, All ihin sounds very plausible, bat subso- quent ovents have shown thatitis justes impossibla for o Bourbon to remaln in Spein auy length of time without engaging in po- litical conspiracies as it is for an Irishman to wituess o row without becoming an activa participant in it. IsapeLra is not only n Bourbon, but she is 2 bitter Ultrnmontane and defendor of the Papacy. When she loft Bpuin the Pope conferred unusual favors up- ou her as a faithful daughtor of the Churel, Although hor Court was the tuost corrupt in Europe, it Lad been a stvong champion of the Vatican, and although she horself was the contral figure in this corruption, she was a veligious fanatic, who never failed to mako tho State subkervient to the intercsts of tho Church, Her roturn to Bpain at this time, thereforo, and her enthusiastic recep- tion by tho Clerical party, indicato that it has bLeen brought shpout to sccomplish a given purpose, and - that that pur. poso is to offset ond counteract ihe constantly growing strougth and influenco of tho Libarals by the control sho may exer. cise over her son. It is not possible thnt sho i3 Intriguing to regain the crown for Lerself. Altbough n Bourbon uever learns auylhing, she knows well onough that Ler reocoupancy of the throme would Lo the justant signal of a vovolution that would not only unsent her, but ulso overthrow the now and uot altogether secure monarchy, But she would be satisfied, likewise the Pope and the Clerienl parly, with the restoration of ler nuthority, which would at once bring back tho Papal Nuncio and counteract the dispositionof tho young King to compromisa witl tho Liberals, thereby uvoiding tho pos- sibilities of revolution, Tbis is undoubt. edly the ineaning of the visit of Isaverra to Spuiu at the prosent time, Hpain is the only country in Europe whero tho Papacy retains in auy degreo ity old sbsolute power and its supremncy over the State, but during the pust fow years the rapidly-succeeding changes of Government, the ndmixture of Liberalism in th nistry, and tho growth of Ropub- licnnism hnvo undermined the authority of tha Church. The young King cannot be relied upon to restoro it, but, if his mother's mithority is still potent over him, she may Lo enabled to accomplish the work and place the Clerical party in sbsolute poswer nunin. The premonitions of this vesult begin to ap- penr already, Wa hear nothing of the Queen's visit to sulphur baths, nor does the approaching marringe of her son tigure in Spanish news, Iler work beging to be ap- parent ir the aunouncements of Cabinet chnnges and the xapid appronch of n Min. interinl crisis. Tlow it will end no one can foresco. No prophot ean forelell Low Spon. ish complieations will result. It s omiuous, however, that even the sincero friunds of the monarchy confess that TsaneLua’s veturn bodes no good, and that public apinion doos not favor, her influénce, Any day may wite ness her violent expulsion fromn Spain, o?an open rupturo between the Clericals nnd Liborals, It {s not impossiblo that this matornal visit mpy cost Dow Arroxao his throne. POLITICAL GAS-MAKXING, We aro surprised to lenrn that Mayor Reatn is disposed to lend n favorable env to the proposition of the gas comipanies, sug- gested by the sly old Mr, Binuings, of the West Side, to Iease their works to the city for 10 per cent of their valuntion, 'Thisisa reuewnl of an old iden long ontertained by Mr, Birnavas, and brought to the surface whenever the public got him at n disad- vantage. We have no doubt that he would be cxceedingly glad to get 10 per centon i valuation of his gas-works of three or four timos their nctual value. If the two gns companics could make a trade of this kind, it would be fully ns profitable to them s drawing somo $700,000 avery year out of tho city, in addition to the exaggorated gas- bills which thoe private consumers nro forced to pay them. As 10 por cent s about twice as much as large amounts of invested oapital can earn nowrdnys, and as the nominal valuo of the gas.works ropresents perhaps four times what thoy actually cost, the arrango. ment would bo n vory comfortable one for the owners of the gas-stock ; but wo do not so0 how any publio ofticor can seriously sanction it. Why, Mr, Birrives is said to havoe negotinted & foroign loan of 21,500,000 on Lis West 8ida gas-works, which is proba. +bly double the capital invested, and yet, in selling or leasing to the city, ho would un- quostionably hold that if he could borrow that amount of money his plant must bo worth at lonst 6,000,000, snd probably more. Besides the present advantages of leasing the works on such favor. able terms, the gas companies would socure tho atill gronter advantage of having their works, mains, pipes, otc., all ronewed nnd enlarged within tho term of the leass at tho cost of tho city, and they wonld receiva in return property vastly more valusblo than they originally leased. Mean- whilo another tremendous agency for ring politics and for the plunder of the people would bo placed within tempting reach of tho bummor politiciana. The duty of the city officers in this gas controvorsy is perfectly plain. Thero is no rongonable excuse for anybody going wrong, The gas companies must be mot upon the exigencios of tho times, the shrinksge in values, and the opinion of Corporation Coun- sol Antrony, They mnst bo notified that thoy can no longer flooce the corporation un- der tho protonso of & contract which is not binding boyondayenr's appropriations. Thoy must bo compelied to reduce the capacity of tho strect-lamp burners to 3 feot, to light ond extingnish the lamps by a soientific timo- table, and to tako wuch o prico o4 shall bo agreed apon as o fair componsation after es. timating tho actual cost of their plant and the nctual cost of manufacturing thoir ghs. If their greed, so Juxuriously gratified during many years past, has not overridden their judgment, they will accapt tho situation, bo content to make more reasonablo profits on their original investmonts, and share along with all tho rost of the world the univorsal shrinkage in the facilities for specnlative monoy-making. If thoy aro not disposcd to oct sensibly, then let them turn off the gas and sue under thoir oppressivo but worthloss contracts, Wo are informed that o company standa ready to make an offer to light tho sireets of this city with oil for $200,000 per annum, guarantaeing as good n quality of light as wo now get from the gas com. panics, if not bettar, and supplying the samo number of lamps for the kame number of Lours which now cost the city $700,000 per annum, This new light is of the samo char- ncter and quality furnished by the eo-called studonts’ Inmps, which the privato oxperi. onco of many persons hos proved to be supe- rior nnd preferable to gri. Tach lamp will Lo supplied from & amall reservoir attached to it, and it only remains to perfect arrange-~ ments for protecting and adjusting the ap- paratas in the case of stroot-lamps to ronder the light ag practicable and desirable for pub- lic as for privato use. 'The prospect of this in of itsolf sufficient to make it un. wiso to negotinte with the gas companics for tho lenso or purchese of their works, and the motives of any publiq officer who favora such purchase or leass under the cironmatancos will be cloaely scrutinized. All thot it is necessary to do for the present i4 to insfst that tho gus companies shall act fairly without regnrd tothoirbogus contracts, and leave the city, like private consumers, froa (o avail itaelf of any cheaper or moro desirable light that may bo offerod in tho near or rewoto futnre. It is time to demon- strato that the public has some rights which even the gas companies are bound to re. spect, — Early Inst winter Mr. Buaive introduced in thu Hlouse of Representatives an amend- menut to the Coustitution of the United States prohibiting the use of uny school fund or other publio money by any Btate or municipal Governmout for the endowmont of any school or oducstionsl or other in- stitution under the contigl of uny religious sect or denomination, or where any religious doutriny, dogrn, elo., shall be taught, ete. The proposed mmendment was reported unanimously from the Judiciary Comitteo, und pussed the louse of ltepresentatives with but one ur two dissenting votes, When the amendmont renched tho Benute, tho lawyers of that body pronounced Xlr, Bramw's amondment us altogether too loose; that it did uot contain enough ; and there- upon they procceded to eclaborate it, and sueceeded in making.it more of a statute then o constitutional ‘provision. 'They fur. therineluded in it a proviso that it was ot to bo coustrued to prohibit the roaling of the Biblo in nuy schools, which proviso wos susceptible of meaning that such resding of the Biblo should not ba excluded, It also provided that where deuoralngtional schools waere already publicly endowed, such ondow. ments were not to impaired. The result was that an opposition way cvoked, aud the mendment fuiled, to receive tho reauired vote. The ono Houso did not put enongh iy the amoendment and the other put too Tuch in it, and betweon the twvo the Amendineny faflod to pnsw, traordinavy jobs n the way of contract-lctting is that vovealed iy the bills for laging the foandation nf {he county hinlf of the new Conrt-lonve, "Phe contrnet was lot to Hansts for exeavating, Diling, ang the stonu work for the fonndation at $90,000, the work to s douo uccording to oy l‘.ilhg: tions,—uny additionn! work, resulting from chaugo of plans, to be paid for according to the architect’s ostimato. Hans went on with his work. The architect advised o chango in the plan, and the Bonrd approyeq it, and now comes Tlanxs' hill: Contracy price, $31,000; rdditional work for chiange in plans, $70,000; total, $154,000. Wo gnt. wit this as a sample of the way in which the voutracts for this building are to bo jet, I ia too transpavent that, while Fauys techpi, cally bid for the ¥81,000 job, he really Ly for the 3154,000, nud that whatever proit | 1any bave is in the whole bid, The original Lid was ton close for dividends; but, inclyd, ing the 270,000 extra, whick wns wholly H0pe pressed from publie knowledge, tha job ey been a remuncrative one to the contractor, cunbling lim to o liboralto his friends, 1s this to Le the niode of letting contraets on the building? If tho first bid for stone bo 675,000, how mueh will it ba when the cx. tras for changes are allowed ? To-morrow morning Lefore sunrise the Dlanet Venus will appear to buvery elose ton star of the fourth mngnitude, which Is known ag Lumnbdatn Geminl, The planet will be (astro. nomically) south of the star. The star will by on the Ine of the planctary cusps at Bh, 4o, o m.; the distance between the two centros befug about ¥ seconds of are, and the dlameter of the planct 303 seconds, The timo of nea cat appronch will bo 4h. 2im, a. m., Clifeago mean thwe, The appulse will probably be watehied, and the apparent distance measured, from several of the observatorles in the ‘Weste ern Ilemispliere. Tt Iins heen thought that the phenomenon will posstbly furnish & cheek upoy the recent determinatlons of solar parallax, hut there nre grave difficulties In the way, not the leust of which fs that attending the attempt to fix the limit of the disc of tho planet, on as count of lier greut brilliancy and dense atmos- phere. We noticed the event at greater length ubout three weeks ago. ————— At the recent meeting of the Natfonal Piison Asgociation in New York, complaiut was made by some delegates from the Ceutral West on uccount of the polley adopted by the Chlldren’s Ald Saclety, In accordance with which homeless cbildren are scttled in the West, It was ale leged that Western prisons and reformatories were belng filled with children from New York, In order to correct these statements the manae gers of the Children’s All Soclety caused thelr realdent Western agent, Mr. C. R. Fny, to make a personal examination of the prisons and reformatorfes referred to. His report, which lies hefore us, shows the complaint of the Weste ert delegutes had no justification and no foundation in fact. Not ope of the 1,60 prisoners in the Penitentiary ot Jollet was found to be from the Children's Ald So- clety, although 5,000 children have been placed by it In thia State, Not one was found in the Chieazo Houso of Correetion, or In the State Reform 8chool, or {n the Indiana State Prisons, or fn the Michigan Reform School, ur In the” Michigan State Trison. Yet the Boclety has placed ,000 children In Indiana and 4,000 in Michigan. ‘The only color of truth in the alle- Batfon of the Western delegntes was furnlshed In the fact that one girl from the Children’s Ald Soclety was found fn the Women's Prison and Reformatory near Indianapolls, and four boys in the Reforin School near Plainfleld. That so few out of g0 many children seut out by the Chlldren's Ald Soclety have gonme to the bad is certainly a sufliclent answer to the com- plalnt. ——— Many of aur exchanges take tho sama view ot womun's status as thut put forth by Tz Thue UNB the duy after the wmurder of Hanronn by SvLuivaN. Tho Boston Guselte, after de- scribing the tragedy, remarks: Her husband startod ont to_demand sn npnlx'.vy and retenction of 1IANToRD. Thie was refused, tnd 2 personal encounter ensued, in the midst of whict Alr. SULLIVAX drow u pistol and shot Iaxroun dead. Heshot Lim becanse, oy he sud, he hind ine sulted hin wife, Yet It does not uppear that Mrs, Surrsvay had been attacked in her character as n woman, ~ She had enguged in s public worlc; had becomo a Journnlint and politiclan; had interested herself i clections. She wan out of domentic life, and was in n sphere where there wis really no reas son to expect the immunitios of lier aex'to ghield her. She nppears to have expected, however, did ateo her husbsnd for hier, the rams priviloges of toleration s 1€ whe had confined lieesel to tie re- tirement of tho home and socisl cirele, In other words, it seemed to bo suppored that a woman canld n{m-nd do things for which a man would . severely ealled ta acconnt, and encapo under the privileges that gl lantry or chivalry accords the sex, -~ Had Mr, Hax- youn, who way agerleved by her aetlon, used the same language towardyaman thnt hy Bplled t her, 1t would have burdly attracted attenfion; yet her husband 14 rendered almost Insane hecanse it s directed aguinat hia wife, und wipes out the tuanlt in blood, “If conflicts Hke this aro to occup~td Wo sce no reason why others should not follow—it luobylonsly necessary to define what ave ta be women's priviieges and inmunitien, * If the sex aro to be chartered to rall without vetart, It 3 well to kuow ft: but the cooler and the fafrer Judiment #secms Lo us 1o bo that, if they Inaint on taking pact n public affuiry, they shull not clabin to be exenipt from the responsibilitica thiat such a chuice of a sphere of action bringy with it —e— The New York Times, in notleing Tz Cir caco Tupuyn's * Revord of 8ast Tirnen,” campares It with its own supplement, und adds: Wanceept it us a very omphatic compliment lo the arrangement of our sapplumont thut Tice Tiine uNE should have copied sy cliely onr description of contents, oven while showing a very propor de- gree of Independence I the selectionof "the mate- riuls for the Indictment of tho **Shum Reformer." As Tun TrisuNs campaign document was o type and stereotyped before it was known hers that the 2¥mes was printing such & document, und 50,000 coplea struck off before a copy of the Times supplement had got west of Buffalo, the remark that ‘e TRIDVUNE “copled closely " the contents of the Times supplement is erro- neous, to say theleast. But a comparison of the two documents, treating on the same sub- jeot, shiows that while they must necessarily huve u shoilurity, yet they differ so widely In matter and make-up that thers i3 very littlo Jap of one over the vther, They are both excel- lent cunpain ducumenta—altogether superior to uny specch or uther niatter sent out by the Cougressioual Committeo from Washington. B s S e A Missourd editor writes 1o ask the Sun whether he whould say "> editor " ur ** editreas * fn apeaking of & ludy Jowrnalist. We hope that ho will invarls ably use Oho formier, ¥altrcan le an abominable word. There s nomore occaslon for i thau foe gu:um. compusitress, or profcisress, —New 1or! un, ‘That depends entirely on whetlier it s dealred to make known the sex of the writer, Itis shorter to write “editress® than * female editor ™ or %lady Journulst.” WeosTEW'S Quarto Lexicon gives both cditress and doctress s good Euglish worids. The surviving members of the Onc-Hundreds aud-Pwelfth Teghnent Nimots Volunteers will bold thelr eleveuth annual reunfon at Geneaco, Uenry County, Sept. 2% Members of other vegimenta are invited to attend, Menbers of the One-llundred-ond-Fwellth who recelye ne formal luvitation are requested Lo attend withe out further notice, as {n many ®uses the Seere- tary bias been unable to ascertain addresscs, O — ‘Tho 8t. Louls Republican man woke up sober tho other morning and remarked: * ‘Che at- mosphere was ko singularly elear that tho blutfs on the Minols sldu of the river appeared but 8 miloor two distant. The cffect was alwost that of o wirage? o —e— There has been establizhed at Dwight, 1L, bright looking newspaper called the Westers Lostad Kevlew, the obiect of which v suiidensty