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

{ i THE UHICAGU TRIBUNE: MONDAY, ~ AUGUNT 21, 1890, — T —————— Clye Tribun TERMS OF SBUBSCRIPTION. SATADLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGH PREPAID AT TINS OTFICE 1, 1 year ont,. .. four weeks for, rary and Hellgi 883 33 £33 Yostage prep: EBpeetinen coples st free. ‘To prevent delay and infstakes, be sreand give Post Ofce nddress [n full, including State and County. Remittaices may bomaide elther by dralt, expresy, Pest-Oice order. or in reglatered letters, st our risk. 7ERMS TO CITT SUBSCRINENS, Dafly, delteered, Bunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Datly, delivered, Sunday Inchided, 30 centa per week Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Aladison and Deatbort-ats., Chileago, il TILDEN’S RECOID. A GRPAT CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT. *fhe record conclutdvely proves that he was— 1. A BECESSIONIST, OPPOSED 'I'O.THE WAR FOR THE MAINTE! Clt OF THR UNION. 2. A BOSOM FRIEND OF ;‘AB(‘H?‘AT‘:BEED“ AND A MEMDEIL OF TIE TAMMANY GANG. 3. A BOGUS REFORM: ‘WHO REDUCED XO TAXES, REFORME NALCOR! lbl"l‘lflgl.AN!J MADE NOTHING BETTER THAN ME FOUND 1T, 4. A CORRUPTEL OF THE BALLOT-BOX, AND i1t 1IN FRAUDULENT FLRCTI A8 PON HIA DY HORACE GREELEY, NG MEN TIIE 10N REGLON! N. n:h A MONSTROUS RAILROAD BUARK, WHO AMABSED MILLION RBY DEVOURING WESTERN RATLROADS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLR, This grest Campalgn Docainent flls four pages of TninuNxaize, A copy thereof abould be placed in the Liands of every voter in the West. res and Wheeler Clubs evorywhere atiould order *Tiiden's Record” for distribution. COST OF THE RECORD. 1t will bosent by mail or express, with eharges paid, on the following terms: 81.50 23 By the 1,000 special rates will be charged. Sead onders tmmediately for **Tiiden's Record.” TRIDUNE CO., Chicago. AMUSEMENTS, Haverly’s Theatro. Tandolph strect, between Clark and Lagalle, Calle Lornia Mlustrels. McVicker’s Theatre, Mndlson street, betweon Dearborn and State. *‘The Three Guardsmen. " Woed’s Musenm. ‘Monroe street, batween Destborn and State. '*Ane dersonvilic.”” . Adelph) Theatres Manroo street, corner Dearborn. Varlety performe eace, Tiooley’s New Chicege Thentre. 3 Mf‘“{k Sireet, between Lako and Randoloh. Hooley's nstrels. MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1876, At the New York Gold Exchange on Sat- urdny the dollar groenback represontod 90}c in gold. " The officers of the Signal Bervica predict & rising temperature with inoressing eastorly to goutherly winds. Under the hoad of ** The Pulpit” will be found this morning sermons by tho Rev. Jomy ATrivgoN on the Providence of God in tho Haxrorp murder; by tho Rev, Jauzs AMacravonraN,on the question of the Bible in the schools ; by the Rov, Jomy Winrtams, on the moral influences of games and pastimes ; an account of the dedication of & new Ro- man Catholio Church, and a desoription of the poculiar worship practiced by the Disci. ples, Alr, Parniox Faxnixo affirms tha corroct. ness of tho copy of the *agroement” be- twoen himself and MoNmr for & division of , the profita on tho Court-House stono con- tract, ns published in Sunday’s Trmuxe o declares his intention to hold MoNem to tho terms of tho copartnership agreement in caso tho County Boord to.day ratifies the nction of the Committee,—in which case, where would the Ring dividends come from? The thing is getting complicated and vexa- \ous for McCarrrer's * oight.” . A fresh-water yacht disaster occurred dur. Ing the gale of Saturday night off Racine, Wis, The yacht Sylvia, on her way from Milwaukee to Chicago to take part in the regatta to be sailed at this city, was disabled and partially capsized by the violonce of the wind and sen, and two of her crow perighed before assistanca could reach them. No wspecial blame seoms to attach to any one, anless all hands were to blame for putting their lives in the keeping of a craft so poorly htted to withstand rough weather. A letter published elsewhero in this lssue gives n graphioc and circometantinl account of tho terriblo condition of affairs in the anthracite conl-fiolds of Pennsylvanis, which scemn to have been wholly given over to tho lawless and murderous dominion of the Molly Maguires. The infamous order has galnod & large membership, which is s0id to include many of tho local officials, so that nssassination and outrage are seldom punished. Hero {8 an opportunity for Gov. Hanrnanet to show his capacity for handling @ regiment or two of State troops, Tho trail which Gens. Cnoox and Temny oro following with all possible speed indi. cateaa forco of between 7,000 and 8,000 ‘warriors, besides many wounded and squaws, ‘The Indians are belisvod to have been re. duced to severe straita by starvation, obser- vations in their desorted camps ahowing that they lave been compelled to use their ponies and dogs for food. Srrrve Buwr is, however, accomplishing his rotroat with the same consummate skill that hs been shown in all Lis movements, in- variably solscting an impregnable position for his camp, aud manifesting no intention to offer battle until he can do so under con- ditious favorable to Lis peculiar methods of warfare. Our correspondent, * Phocion,” is of tho opinion that the Indians will either be forced to fight, or disbaud and hide in the Dad Lasnds, fho Chicago produce mnrkets were quiot Saturdoy. = Moss pork closed’ 100 por brl higher, st $17.30@17.32} cash aud $15.05 seller the year. Lard closed “j¢ por 100 lbs higher, at $10.65@10.57 cash and $9.45 seller the yenr, Beats wero quict, at 6jc for boxed shoulders, 8J¢ for do short ribs, and 9}c for do short clears. Lake freights wero quiet, at 1jo for corn to Buffulo. Rail froights were unchanged. Highwines were stendy, ut $1.10 per gallon, TFlour was less active aud firm, Wheat closed 3o lower, at 87c for Aupust aud 8ijo for September. Corn closed §o lower, at 4130 cash and 44}o for Septomber, Oata closed }@jo lower, at 80fc cash and B80jo for Beptember. Rye was firm, at 53}@530. Barley was dull and easier, at 69'c, Ilogs were in good demund wnd ruled firm, closing at $6.20@0.25 for light and at $5.76@0.10 for common to prime heavy, Received, 4,000, and for the weck, 48,000, 'The cattle murket was mod- cratoly active and firm, sales making on a basis of $8.00@5.00 for common to choice. Raceipts for the week, 15,001, There were no sales of sheep. Poor to choice were quoted at £3,00@4.50 per 100 bk, One hun- dred dollars in gold would buy $110.62} in greenbacks at the close. — The death of the Hon. Alzémart, O, Kenn, fpenker of the Houso of Rapresentatives of the Forty-fourth Congrass, ocourred at Rack- bridge Alum Springs, Va., at half-pnst 7 o'clock Baturday ovening. Tho event had been anticipated for sevoral wecks, Mr. Kean's condltion being such as to forbid any woll.grounded hopo of his recovery. The sfck man Limself was perfoctly advised of the nenrness of his end, nod ho met it with great fortitude mnd onlmness. At the very last his intense sufferings mercifully nbated, and ho passed away poscofully and without pain. The remains will be taken for burial to the family home in New Albauy, Ind., in charge of o smnll Con- grersional escort, though an effort will be made by Mr, 8ayren, Speaker pro tem., to Liavo the body brought to Washington and placed in state in the Capitel for one day. It is to be hoped that this may be done, and an opportunity thus afforded for n public demonstration Lefitting the exaltad character and position of the deceased. Tt has remained for a Democratio news. paperin the Bouth, the Charleston, 8. O, News and Courter, to supply valuable in- formation for the guidance of Attorney- Goneral Tarr and Gen. SsenyaN in carrying out the instructions contained in the recent order of the Prosident relativo to the location of troopsin the South. A dispatch to thai poper from Aiken, 8, C., gives n Domocratic version of the manner in which a Republican meeting, at which Gov. CHAMBERLAIN and Cougressman Sxtarrs were to bave spoken, was. broken wup nnd isken possession of by abont 600 mounted whites and a largo crowd on foot. 'The colored Republicans, wa aro told, dispersed quietly, and did not attompt to hold another meeting, while the 600 mounted Domocrats and their infantry support organized a meeting and proclaimed thefr intontion to carry the county elec- tion poacenbly if they could, forcibly if thoy must, and to provent tho holding of Republican meetings. This account, which must bo reliable, as it comes from Confed- erate sources, shows at lenst one locality whore troops are noeded to insuro a frea and fair olection. THE SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS, FThe States of Mnine snd Vermont hold their elections for Congross and Stato officers in the early weeks of September, Vermont voting on the 5th and Maine on the 11th. There are thoss Democrats who are arguing that if thess States show a falling off in tho Ropublican majorities at theso Septomber elections, it willindicatea popular tide infavor of TiroEx that must bo followad by a aweep- ing Democratic victory in the West. Now, tho fact is, that the result of tho clections in Ver- mont and Maine in 1876 will have no materinl significance. Thero is not & man who does not know that the Republicans will carry both States by not only a large but an em- phatic majority, and that such a result will influence no man’s opinions as to the prob. able outcomo of the Presidential clection, During the Inst twenty years tho Ropublican majority in Vormont Lias ranged from 18,077 to 80,6564, The fact that the majority in one yoar was fivo or six thousand greater or less than it was the year before had no possiblo significanco. In Maine in 1856, the Republican majority was 25,000 ; 1t has since then beon as low as 15,000 and 88 high as 83,000. In 1870 it was less than 4,000, DBut tho result wna cach timo a fore- gone conclusion, tho actual majerity, being governed by & full or a light vote, gave no indication as to any changs in popular feel. ing, Tho Philadelphia- Yimes, discussing this question, claims that *if Vormont shall fall matorinily below her September majori- tios for GranT in 1868 and 1872, and Maine, under the immediato inspiration of her fa- vorite son, shall recede one-third or one-lalf of her GnaxT majoritios, it will be a procla- mation that the Republican lines have given way, and that tho Congervativo and Reform eloments of the party have cast their lot with Ticoex,” This is not only ridiculous, but is contradicted by all the facta. In the first place it should be remembered that the Ropublican majorities in 1868 and 1872 were beyond all procedent, and that the election of the Republican candidatos with a majori. ty in Congress will not require a repetition of tho largs majoritien of 1872 in any State. But, of all the States of the Union, -a falling-off or even an - incrense in the majority in Vermont and Maine would furnish the lenst indieation of n change of publio gentiment in the Western States or elsowhore, In 1872 the Republican majori- ty at the Beptember election in Vermont was 25,338 ; in November following, 30,654, In Maine, in 1872, at the September election, the Republican majority was 17,216, and in November 82,835, In Octobor and Novem- ‘ber, 1874, the Ilopublican party sustained a goneral dofeot all over the country, Massa. chusetts, Now York, Pounsylvauis, Olio, Tllinols, Michigan, Indinng, New Jersoy, and Copnectiout, &ll yiolded to the tidal wave which gave so many Btates and one ‘branch of Congress to the Domooratic party. The olections in Vermont aud Maino wero held in Boptember of that year, just thirty danys before Pennaylvania and Ohio, and did they give any warning that tho Republican lines had given way ? Here is tho vote: VERMONT. Rep, A 17,210 ‘ 13,807 8 53,218 672 'Fhe result in Vermont and Mpine in Sop- tomber, 1874, indicated only that the vote by both parties was u light ona; that in Maine the Republicans bad polled about 19,000 and tho Democrats 12,0001ess thanat the provious election, but the majority was proportion- ately an average one on tho total vote polled. In Vermont tho majority, though less than the year previous, was an avernge ono. Thero was nothing in these figures to inspire the Democrats of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and oveon of Jowa, with any spocinl hops of suc- cess, nor was thero in these figures auy in. dication that the country was about to aban. don the Republican party, aud doliver a dozen Republican $tates and o majority in tho llouse of Representatives to the Demo- crats, The fact fs the vlections in Maine and Vermont furnish no jndication as to the pub- lic sentiment outside of New England. This is further confirmod by the fact that, whilein all the eloctions of 1875 the Republicans gained and rocovered lurgely what thoy had lost in 1874, the State of Malne barely eleoted the Republican tickot. 'The ouly circumstances which could give these Beptembor oloctions & siguificance as fndicating & popular abundonment of the Republican party would be if tho Btate of Vermont, upon a full vote of (0,000, should increase tho Democratio voto by several thousauds and reduca the Republican vote proportionately; or if the Biate of Maina, AIND, 4,701 41,734 upon a full vote of 130,000, shonld add 10,000 to tho Democratio vote and reduce the Republican voto proportionntely. In these cases the elections would indicato that in thoso two Btatos thore had been a change of publio sentiment, which, so far asthe rame elrcumstances existed beyond those Btates, wonld indicate a like chango of senti. ment elsewhero, But a mero variation of the Republican majority becanso of & light vote, or tho unpopularity of its local candidates, or the introduction of local issucs, will afford no indiestion of any popular changa from Repnblicanism to Democracy any moro thau n change, even by roveral thousands, in the Democratio majority in Kentucky, or Miesourl, or Texas will indicate that these States promiso to become Republican. We have no idea that the Republican majority in MMaine or Vormont in 1876 will be any less thnn At the State oloctions in any of the preceding yenrs of Presidentinl olec- tions. These elections aro the occasions of the strongest contest. Lvery Democratio vole in thoso States will be polled, thers being no division in the party in that scc- tion, Nevertheless, wo are satisfied that both States will show that Iaves and WoueeLes ara ns strong with the people there as any othor candidates would have been, and that the majoritics will show that Maino and Vermont are as strong in the faith ag ever, TILDEN'S INDICTMENT, The Cincinuati Z%mes hns summed up the charges made against Tirpex in the four weoks which have clapsed since the nomi- nation. It makos no account of mero cam- pnign stories nnd rumors, but confines its list to charges which are suscoptiblo of direct and positive proof, and it finds that TrupEN i guilty, first, of disloyalty to hia country nnd of such sympathy with armed treason ns to demand an immediate cessation of the War, and the holding of & peace con- voution with the robellious States; second, of making an immense fortune through the instrumentality of railrond rings at tho ex- penso of farmers and stockholders ; third, of brenches of trust ns attorney for individuals aud roilroads ; fourth, of lending his name and influenco to gigantic frauds by which IforraaN was counted in as Gov- ernor of New York; fifth, of being a close friend and political partner of Bows ‘Pweep at the time the latter was plundering New York City of millions of dollars; sixth, of continuing his relations with the mostcor- rupt members of Tammany after their cor- ruptions had been publicly exposed ; seventh, of receiving §5,000 from Boss Twrep to nid in tho fraudulent campnign of 1868; cighth, of refusing to assist in the movemeont to break up the Twrep Ring until forced to do 80 by the sccidental securing of tho books of the thieves by the Now York Z%men ; ninth, of taking no steps to punish tho officers who nllowed TwErD to eseape, and of pardoning thisves from . tho DPenitontiary who were convicted with Twrep; tonth, of being tho legal counselor and man- ager of such frauds ns the Erie Ring, the Fort Wayne Ring, and the Continental Improvement Company; eleventh, of being the legal counselor and trusted advisor of the infamous Credit-Mobilier fraud; twelfth, of complicity with thie wholesale bribery of the Now York press under tho regime of 'Tweep and company, These twelve charges thnt bave already hoon made sro capable of proof that would bo decmed sufliciont in a court of law. There are numerous others that aro matters of public notoriety. No public man in American history las ever come before the people asking for office with such a terrible indictment banging over him, And yet this man, Joaded down with corrup- tions and iniquitics, haa the impudence and bypocrisy to talk of reform, and to ask for tho suffrages of tho American people upon the ground that Le is going to purify politics! ‘TILDEN AND BUCHANAN. Thoe two Dnouios of American politica aro James Bucmaxan and Samven J. Trepew, Senrch their records from Alpha to Omegn, and it will be found they lave hunted in couples. Two links from the same sausage- string were nover mora alike. Parallol lines were never drawn mors exact by the geome- tricinn than the similitudes of their personal and political records. Alike in attributes and cliaractoristica of life, nlike in political pur. poses, methods, and motives, alike in ambi. tions and ultimate designs, alike in character snd composition, it followa that if Mr, Tir. pEN is eleoted the only diffaronce betweoen his Administration and that of Mr. Buomanax will bo that whila the latter was compnrative- ly bad, the farnier’s will bo sliperlatively so, "Prupex’s natwral abilities in craft and oppor- tunities for groed boing greater than those of Bucnanax, Look at the punllel'. BuonANAX was an old, worn-out, selfish bachelor. 8o is Tyr- pxN, Buomanan did profess to have loved 8 womnn when ho was young and manifested o feminine fondness when he was old, hat no woman ever looked upou him and wished that 1feaven bnd mude her such o man, Tho aversion to tho other sex ia so strongin ‘Truoex's selfish, cold, and egotistical compo- sition that ho hns gono from infancy almost into sacond childhood untoucked by tho common pussion of all humanity. Wrapped up in himself, worshipinz at the altar of Momraon, fooding upon the greed of miserly nequinition, deadoned to all the promptingys of sexunl affection, no woman will miss him ‘when he is gone, and no child will boar his name or cherish his momory. 'The absence of the common instinet of humankind fitted thess two wmon for treason, stratagoms, and apoils, and the issue of their lives shows Low completely they realizod this fitness, Both theso men, having no wife or family to live for, devoted themselves to the fuliill. mont of their own selfish ambition. Bu. craNax lived for politics ; Tiuoen has lived for monoy. NucmaNAN was satisfled with the reputation and notoriety he conld make out of politica, Truoex has used polities to make mouey by manipulating legislation to carry out his railrbad jobs and other corrupt schemes for personal sggrandizewent, Both these men made the same loud nnd empty promiscs of roform, Bucmanaw, like TirLvex, warranted an incorruptible Adwinistration, I'pey, like Bucuanaw, promises to purify politics ; aud both of them have rehearned the same twaddle about elevating tho civil survico, Buomanax was an intensely ssctional man in his fuelings. 8o 18 TipeN, His inter. osts and sympathies wero south of Mason & Dixon's line. So aro TrLoex's, o was a Btate-Sovereignty advocate and an|intenss Copperhiead. Bo s Treoen, Hissubservien. cy to tho South before the War was precise. ly that of TN during the War, As soon\ as DBucmaNan was elected, he commonced playiug into the hands of plotting Nebets and oncouraging them, Ile laid down the dootrine, and in. sisted upon it, that the Governwent had no right to coerce sovereign Siates or make war upon them n the eventof their seccusion from the Union, and but for him the attempt never would have been made. When he found they wore going, ho helped them, Ha sealtored the regular army s much as possible in inconvenient loenlitiea where it wounld bo powerless to prevent secession, He gent the nrmny officers known to be Southern sympathizers where they could lielp tho Bouth, 1o left the Bouthern forts oithor stripped of rosources for dofenss or commanded by Bouthern officers, so that they coulll be easily eaptured, with the ex. ception of Sumter, whero he mistook his man, Ho shifted arms and war materinl from the North to the South, and dispatched the navy upon long cruises 8o it should not sland in the way or return bofore the Rebellion was fairly launched. 1iad Tioew been Dresident instoad of Buosanay, he would have done the snmo,— perbaps would have been oven more auda. cious in alding the South, The Democrats of Pennsylvania were never so subservient to the Bouth asthose of New York, and Truvey was brought up in a district of that Stato which nover mnauifested nny loyalty to the Unfon. Ho served as*n politician in Now York City when Mho Democrats wero disloyal almoat to a mnn. Ilo nevortheless, not being President, did what he could to 0id tho Bouth, Ile refused to participate in mootings called to sympathizo with tho sol- diers and oxpress loynlty to the Union. IHe opposed the suppression of the Rebellion, the enlistment of soldiers, tho contribution of money. Ho made publio speeches ngainst the further prosccution of the War. He wns an open sympathizer with Vartanotonay. o wns o member of that infamous New York socioty which flood- ed the conntry with treasonable documents intho very darkest hour of its peril. o was & member of tho Committee in the Dem- ocratio National Convention that framed tho resolution declaring the War n failuro and demanding its cessation. And now he is making just the samo false protenses of Unionism, when he fiuds his War record con. fronting his Presidontial aspirations, that Buemavay did. ‘The wise men of Greeco had a saying that tho first time a people werae botrayed, the be- trayer was to blamo; the second time, them. selves were to blmne, The people of the United States wero iaken unawares when Janes Buciaxay betrayed them, They will have only themselves to blame if thoy now allow themselves to be betrayed by Tiuom, who will take up the corruptions and treach. ery of BuonaNax whero the latter left off. Forowarned should bo forearmed. INDIANA REFOEMERS, The Stato of Indisua seoms to be particn. Iarly unfortunate in the chnracter of its Demoeratio Reformers. Two of their nom- inces for tho Supreme Bonch have been re- moved from the State tickot, a third is looked upon with suspicion, and now nnother on- thusinstic Reformer, Jony 8, Scopey, of Greensburg, who is a candidate for Elector at Large, and is cauvassing the State for those other Reformers (1), TiLpeN and Hex. Dricks, must step down and out; first, be- cause it appears from the records of hisown county, according to the Indianapolis Jour- nal, that he has been more than once sued to recover monoya which ho had collected as attornoy for parties; and, second, becauso of the following, which wa copy from the Journal: ‘There aro sevoral other cases to which we may refer hereafter, but will mention noiv ono more, which at the time wad of soma Intereat to M, Sconuy: The State of Indiana rs. John 8. Scobey—Indict ment for forgery, Tho Gram dury at the selie tern of 1870, lawtully aworn and clieied, tound that Jomy 8 Bdonky did then il thera unlawfully, felontously, and. fatsely R TR Tichnt uf indiciinents, No. 1y pagos s and g, of Deentur County, ‘Lhiere is another Roformer at Inrge’in In- disnn—Cranenoe A, DBusring, Democratio candidato for Attornoy-General, who Leaded a party of Copporheads in 1862, paid Var. zANDIonAM o visit while ho was in exile in Canada, and made & speoch to that notorions traitor, of which tho following is a sample extract : Sir, yon stand in a peenlinr attitade before the world, Banlshed for no other crime than that of loving your country too well to ccase your labors In ita servico av the commuand of a military despot, in your person have been violated the rightsund honor of gvery Amerlean, It was your inalienable birtheight nuder the Constitution to discnss the po- Htica} questions and war-politica of the day; it waas your duty as n patriot to denounce the men who, with insidlous craft, had set up a mllitary despotismn over the llberties of a once freo and truly happy people. You enjoyed your birthright as an Amerlcan, you performed your duty as a pateiot, and mab, law in tho shape of military power pronounced your exile. Truly, the way of the Domooratic Re. former is hard. Bnt how much more evi- denco do the people of this country need to convince them of the humbug of this Dem- ocratic hullabaloo for reform ? i THE NAVY AND ITS APPROPRIATIONS, Already the navy establishment is begin- ning to put forth compluinta about the re- duotions it has suffored from the curtailmont of this year's appropriations, The furlough. od officers—a sort of semi-retired list—will have to pull through on a somewhat reduced gratuity, and thoy and thoir friends are rais- ing a decided hiow] nbout it. Having nothing elso to do, their time for howling is unlimit- ed, and their capacity for that work is in in. verse proportion to their capacity for any other kind of work, Now the fact s that there wau less injustico done in the curtall- ment of appropriations for the Navy Depart- muent than in any other phase of retrench- ment adopted by tho Confoderate Congress. The evidonco taken before the Naval Committee, & largo part of which camo from the older and more capable navy officers in reply to a cirenlar-lotter sent them, was sufficient to warrant all the reductions: that have been made in that branch of the wervice, and tho individuals who will ba forced to give up some of thoir pap and grog on that uccount will find it difiicult to srouse any uympathy in their behalf throughout the country, Tho interrogatories sent out by the Naval Committeo wero in rogard to the personnel of the navy, the management of the navy. yards, the condition and efliciency of vessols, and the mothods of obtaining supplies, The publio hins bad a part of this mformation in the report on the navy-yords ; o writer who has gono over the testimony and made a digest of it furnishes some new information in regard to the personnel and materiel of the navy, 'The chief complaint concerning the reductions will be ou account of the sacrifico of a purt of the pay by the officers, but in the great bulk of cases there will be no injustice in this, since the positions are mero sinsoures which have not been enrned by loug, notive service. After the close of the War, tho navy was not sub. mitted to the process uf compression applied to the army, bat a retired Jist was provided, exempting offlcers consigned to it from duty during peace, but paying them at the rate of two-thirds of the compensation attached to their respactive positions in actual service, ‘Chis retired List is not made up exclusively of mon grown old in tho sorvice or disabled by wounds, but is filled largely by those who ought to have been dropped from tho servica oither beeauso of thoir auperfluity, disability, or misconduct. The statemont is mado that, at the beginning of this year, thore ware 809 officers on this rotired list, of whom 179 had served leas than ton years, 60 less than five yoars, and some of (hem not a singla day afloat, Nearly all of them wera drawing two-thirds of the pny nttached to thoir rank without any servico baing reqnired of thom, If these gentlemen are dissntis- fled with a reduction of the navy appropria. tions, they ara at porfect liberty to retira from the rotired list, aud nobody will com. plain al seeing the money now paid to them for doing nothing covored bnck into the Treasury, It may be that some very worthy mon will suffer a reduction in pay whose services have roally entitled thom to all the Government lins been paying, but they and theilr friends must blame tho bad system which hay placed undeserving people upon the samo footing na themselves, The statement in rogard to the condition and officiency of the vessols equally warrants tho reduction in tha appropriativns for the navy which have been made. Tho appro- priations for past yenrs have been at a rato which ought to have maintained a navy that wounld have beon a credit to the conntry, but it i8 admitted by the best naval officors thnt this is not the case, It s said that outof o nominal forco of 120 vessols with 1,148 guns, only 17 unarmorad vessels with 167 inferior guns, and 12 monitors mounting 24 guns, are available for active war-service within the time necessary to collect them from their romoto stations, If this ig truo, it is time to cut down, if not nctually abandon, appropri- ations for the navy until thero shall be such o system of organization and managemont as will give the people tho worth of their money, Bolong as our navy can make no protonsions to eficiency, nothing moro shonld bo dono than to maintain a skeloton list of officers for education and drill, ns in the caso of the army, and await in o time of profound peace the result of the costly ex- periments which other nations, not so secure as ourselves, are constantly making. In commenting upon the stench nuisance in 'Tne Tnisune of yesterday, we were in error in speaking of charconl ns the purify- {ng medinm used in TurNER's process of de- odorizing and consuming the foul gases thnt come from the rendering process, It scems that gasoline or light earbon oil is the agent used, which forms a chemical eombination with tho noxions gases, and produces a new gaa freed from the impurities which ean be nsed either for illuminating or Loating pur- poses. This being the cass, the Health Com. missioner is fully warranted in serving a peromptory notico upon all tho rendoring entablishments that thoy will no longer be permitted to emit tho foul stinks into the nir, If thoy do not chooss to adopt tho 'unNEn process, which seems to commond itsolf for its simplicity, chenpness, and utility, then they can discover and adopt soma other, But tho fact that thero is at loast one proress which purifics and con- sumes the gasos leaves the rendering estab- lishments without any further excasa for their intolerable stench, THE LLLINOIS COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE It may not be known to many of our readers that we have, in this Stute, one of the most flourlshing and successful Schools of Architee- ture this slde of the Atlantfe. This school is one of the branches of the State University at Champaign. Architectural drawing nnd design- ing have been taught for some years at the Rensselaer Polytechnle, Troy, N. Y., and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and some other Enstern institutions; and Professor- ships of Architecture have also been established in Columbia ond seyeral othera of the Enstern colleges, und lately in the Michigan Unlversity. But the school at Champalgn has been In auc cessful operation since 1871, Among its carller fustructors was Ilanoup M. Hansex, Esq, of this clty, o graduate of the Berlin College of Architects. J. W, Dowery, of the firm of CHAMBERLAIN & DOWELL, of this city, was one of its first wraduates, Prof. N. C. Ricken, the present Professor of Architecture, was also onc of its graduates, though ho nfterwards pursued n course of studfes [n the College of Architucts InBerlin to fit himself for the work of teach- mg. During the past vear the number of students fn the course was elghteen, including one young lady. Several wero from Chleago among them Cranexce II. Brickany, F, E. DBacuanp, aud Cuantes K. Banuarp, ‘This at- tendance Is more than half that of the cele- brated College of Architects of Berlin, fn Prus- sla, The course of Instruction extends through four years, and includes a thorough course in mathematics, physics, wmlytical ~ mechanles, strengthi of materlals, principles of construction In woed, Urick, and stone, arches, trusses, dones, towers, stair-bullding, the bistory and wsthetics of architecture, 1deay, styles, and deco- ration. Itincludes alsoan extended course of architectural drawing and designing fu ull thetr: forms and styles for public and private bulld- Ings, modeling in clay and plaster after cele- brated casts and from original designs, esti- mates, coutracts, aud specifications, principles and methods of heating and veutllation, land- seapes, and, Indeed, overy study cssential to the practical and superiutending architect. The course nlso embracea tho French, and, it the student chooses, the German, political cconomy, and other lberal studlcs, The schiool has largs wood-working shops, with full supply of wooed-working tools and ma- chinery with steam-power, and the studonts are required to take some termas of shop practice In manufacture of models of fraiucs, trusses, stalrs, and other constructlons. Among tha producta of the school now on exhibitlon In the Centennial at Philadelphia are two models of cireutar stalrcases, bwo largo capitals, designed, modeled in cluy, and finished in plaster of Parls, by students, and o large number of arawlugs and original designs of capltals, ornaments, and buildings, including plans, elovations, futerfors, perspective views, und details, the whole form- fnig une of the most notlccable cducational ex- hiblts in the great Exposition, Tho school has also a lbrary of rehitoctural books and publications in English, German, and French, which is claimed to bo equal to that ot Berliu. It possesscs ju the Art Gallery of the Unlyersity numerous casts of the most celo- brated atatues, bus reilefs, and architectural or- unaments In the world, Awonz the teachers ts n graduato and prize student of the Royal Fine Art 8choal of Louvain, fu Belglum, who gives Instruction in styles, ornamentation, desiguing, und modellug in ¢lay, The school {s alreudy reo- ognized as among the best on this coutinent, and its rapld growth gives promise of astitl more brilltant future, e ——— ‘The achual retrenchment effected by the late Congress over that of lust year fs between cleven and twelve millions fustead of thirty ss clalmed, The Increase of tho cavalry forcs by 2,000 men tofight the savages will cost 81,600,000, which reduves the previous economy of thirteen millions to eleven and o lall. The New Yorl Tribune, which leans to the Democrstic side of tho contest, speaking of tho retrenchment, rewmarks: There a greal many thonghtful voters In the co«nlay 0 will say, In Lhe tirat place, that it was not a difficult tusk, or ono that involved any frun discrlmination or any personal or party sacrite on the part of o Dentucrutic House to cut down U appropriations for & Ttopublican Adwidstrution. They had everything 1o galu by making » chesp repiitation ss ruforisers, wnd nothing to loss by leaviug the seversl Departmenws of Government ander the diendvantage of a lack of suficient means 1o carry on their Tmainean, ‘Flicre was gain for them at hoth ends of the transdction. 'They mado themselves popalar by retrenchmont, and thefr opponents unpopular by depriving them of the meand of adminiatering the Governinent satiatac. torlly, It was their gamo, In fact, to cripplo the resources of the party bn power, How far they hava done thin In the usiness of retrenchment re- nainn ta be scen. Then. too, the fact will not bo lostsight of by the votors to’ whom Mr. HANDALI Appeals, that the Democratic party hins not anch & record na the advocate of economy that this enaam hould be accepted at once and without quentionas evldence of itn actnal spirit and purpose. There s Mr. RANDALL himself, who has been the leading epirit [n all Ehe retrenchment maanures, the mont teuculent refarmer of them all, who cortainiy [ not fortunate fn Lig own record on this pofnt. Vhat gentleinan was guite willing, when he and bls pirty had no reaponsibllity for leglsintion, notonly to pis by and aca the expoiisen of the (lovernment increaned by the notoriona_back-pay grab, but to yote for and actively promote the passage of tho bili and ‘ml in his own pocket lil sliare uf the pro- ceeds, When Mr, ItaxpaLL riees in Congroes and claumn credit as A reformor, votera who lave memotles will be veey iikely to louk behind his facts and Sigures for his motlven, Pl skt N 4 OBITUARY, 4TOR MEY. EDWARD P, SMITHe Tno death of the Rev. Epwarp P, dytrrm, ox- Unjted Btates Indlan Commlssioner, las already been noticed In Tne Trmune, 1o was born in Bouth Britain, Conn., in 1827, was educated at Dartmouth and Yale Colleges, and graduated from the Theologival Beminary at New Haven, For sume years he was scttled over the Congregational Church at Pepperell, Mass., and after the outbreak of the War be- caine an gctive member of the United States Christian Commissfon, . After the close of the War, e {dentifled himeolt with the American Misstonary Assoctation, and was appolnted its General IMeld Agent, and had cherge of its work In the Southern Btates until 1871, Ho then speut some time among the Red Lake Indians, aud was foratimo Indian Agent tn Min" nesota. In 1873 he wansappolnted United States Commisstoner of Indian Affalrs by President Grant, Saystho New York Times: *“Vurl- aus wise netions at the beginning of his admin- fstration commended him to the country and the Prestdent, among which was his letter to Indlan Agent MoNTEITH, Who lind charge of an Agency tn Idaho Territory., In that letter Mr. Satirnt showed the beral roligious sentiment ‘which characterized hia life by directing that the Catholics be allowed to hold religious rervices among the Indlans near the Agency, Tho privi- lege had been refused the pricsts, and this let- ter countermanded the order forbidding it." Charges of maladministration were made sgalnst him, but, after two investigations, he was acquitted, aud he remained in offlea until Becretary DELANO'S retirement. Upon his res- ignation he was clected President of the How- ard University, and soon after was urged to visft the Afriean misslon-fleld by the Ameriean Misslonary Assoclation. Ho salled for Africa laat sprivg, and died at Acera in July last, FERNAN CABALLELO. Creinia pE Anrnow, known in literature by tho nom de plume of FERNAN bB CABALLERO, dled recently. 8he was born near Geneva in Switzerland in 1797, recelved her education in Germany, and [n ler 10th year removed to Bpatn, where she has slnce lved. She has been the authur of several valunble contributions to Spanish literature, Mer first novel, “La Guviota,” appenred in 1849, and was followed by many other works, 8he was an ardent chon- plon of old 8panish enstoms, the Bourbon dy- nasty, and Roman Catholle authority, Her works were translated fnto German and pub- listied at Paderborn in seventeen volumes. OTIIER DEATIS. Among other deaths recently reported are those of WirLiAn LuNNox, Vice-Consul of the United States at Acapulco; “Aunt” Parst VAUGHAN, colored, who dled ek Amella Springs, Va., at tho extraordinary ags of 114 yearsy AvrexaNpER FREDO, the Polish Morizre, who was the founder of the Pollsh comedy: of 8ir Joun WiLniax Kayg, the Engllsh historian, who wrote the * Warin Afghunistan’’ and “The Sepoy War in Indlu”; of Hexny Lowrnnr, Entl of Lonsdale, n Conservative member of tho Touse of Commons; and of Hesny 8, Ran- DALY, LL.D., well known as o writer upon edu- cational and agricuitural toples, who was at one time associate editor of Moore's Iural New- Yorker, aud was tho author of a “Life of Jeffer son." ———————— The great. success which attended the recent torchlight processton of the South 8ide Repub- liean clubs, und the enthusiasm which prevailed, not only among the members of the varfous or- gunizations but also umong the thousands of spectators who guthered along the line of march, apeak well for the efliclency and practi- cal service of the clubs, and ndicate that they will do a great work in the culmination of the campalgn. This demonstration s all the more remurkable beeause {t was somewhat hastily fin- wprovised for a speclal purpose, rather than for the general campaign service, and shows what a tremendous effect night be made by the con- certed actlon of all the clubs in the city, It would not only be an imposing popular demon- stration, but it woutd also have a stirrlng popular cffect, it the Sonth BSide clubs wrould mnss together and march over to the North Side, taking in the clubs of that Divislon. - The united forc might then invade tho West Sldo and collect its clubs, and the grand proces- slun move to some central locality jn the Svuth Division to llaton to brief speeches and have a good time generally, Such n proccsslon s this, marching over these routes, would commaund the attentlon of the whole city, aud have o most excellent effect in convinelng the lukewarm of tho enthusiasmn which pervadesthe Republicans, and In carrying cousternution Into the camp of the Democrats, who have not yet rallled en- thusizam suflicient to light a torch orsing o song fur their slippery candiilate. The oppor- tunity should be itnproved fmmediately, By oll means let us bave such 8 monster torchlight processiou that no Democrat will show bis head ufter it. e el e Col, Mosay was a soldler during the War,— Tutsung, Col. Mosky was a bushwhacker, a horse-thief, und an asessain during the War, and hus been s dilapidated dunghill and a fricud of GuaNT ever since, —Chicago Thnes, The reason for this rather extraordinsry dls- play of Chleago Times billingsgate lics in the fact that Col. Mosur supports IIaves and Wugzrres. During the War of the Rebelllon, when Mosuy was doing his hest to overthrow the Government, the admiration of the Times for him as a hero, a patriot, and a soldier was so intonse thut it did all it could to help hitn, Cal. Mosny was not 4 bushwhacker and a horse- thlef then. But that was when Mosny was a patriot of the Chicago Times order, T d 2 The detafls of tho exccutlon of BoN-Z1AN, th band(t Chief, and two of his followers, areinter- eatiog, Tho night before the death, groups of Moors aud Arab women congregated around the scaffold and chanted farewell dirges until daybreak. The Chief was gulllotiued first and dled game, while the two followers were com- pletely prostrated by grief. In the crowd were the relatives of the executed men, and st the close they carried off the.bodies on pack mules; and, svwing the heads to the bodles with thread, wrapped them In white cotton shirouds, and car- rled them to the grave with the wildest demon- strations of grief. ————— The Coroner’s investigation futo tho death of Mr, Bravo is couvulsing all England, He was the busband of & young and bandsome woman, who fa suspected of killing her Arst husband, sud who, after her marriage with Bravo, fell in love with one Dr, GuiLy, The evidence fudi. cates that DBravo was polsoncd by antimony turnished by GuiLy and administered by Mrs, Bravo. The counsel for the defense, several In uumber, cost the defendants an sggregute of 4975, or 81,876 perday, Thls fact alone makes it diticult to determine when the case will close, ———— WiLLian Fisu, executed at Liverpool lately for murder, was detected In bis crlmo by s dog, Fuau was a barber, aud having enticed u 7-year- old girl from the strect he cut ber thruut with a razor and mashed her brafing out with a cJub, A portlon of the body was found {u a tleld, and & dog,. & blovdlound, wrossed with polater bluod, was tuken to the spot and set lovse. Traveliug to Fian's home ho ruslied fo, chimney, and, upon oxamination, the fiye rdl veloped the reat of the rematne, Fray wan 3 rested and confessed, and the fourdegyey ‘1'. tective went back to his delly avoeations i out reward for his praise, v th: —————— The Cincinnatt Enquirer (s Retting alon, nleely In crow-eating, It not anly lw-l?u'::’ duily ratfon, but actually pretends that It Hik . th bird for steady diet. Not long ago, vt June 8, 1876, tho Knquirer expreased th toes. |||¥llmne|t opinfons of BAX TiLDRN: g hera are A few facts concerning Mr, T, srlilch we t; 1 Werter fi.’.hag:.‘;‘.ihfl'.’." r‘;"l:{na‘f’#fd’f“‘ ‘i‘“’,.'”".‘"‘ i e, & politien e pinhefer and v seily i onrlen & abin.cand prominently named on'the Dy, The samo Journal remarked further | to Mr. TuDEN: il 1f eleated ho would take to tho Wi WoraL met of DoIIHCRL Jobore an (ssme CuEe he In Washington, and that In saylng n good dest. could not bat be that & man edugaten. i ooyt in hypocrisy, and in 1nlqu|‘lxy. and nominateq jy corruption and shameless effrontary, oven thou, fi hie milllon could efect, bl watli"givo iy iys moacg Tupl miniatration the cuumrnuum: e —— The pasango of the planct Venus past g Lawmbda Gemluorum, Friday mumll.‘ug, wt‘,’,-;: watchied from the Dearborn Observatory, Thgy astrouomers were on hand, and made prelinl. nary observations up to nearly 8 o'clock, Wwhen tho skics clouded up so much that it was {tnpog. sible to make the desired mensures, Whoree upon tho would-be adders to the stock of hu. man knowledge in regard to the distance of the earth from the smun reluctantly wended thely ‘weary way homeward, ——— Strenuous cfforts of the English and German iron frms, says the Springfleld Kepudlican, to supply the rolling-stock of Drazilian rallwayy Dave fatled to got this trade away frum Amnerl. ean manufacturers. The Amerlean guods arg proforred for thele quality, after a trind of th European, and the exportation of our locome. tives and cars has revived, one brig carrying oug parts of twelve common-gauge and two narrow. guuge locomotives and @ balf-dozen cars, thy othier day, to be assembled on arriyel, e — PERSONAL. Disracll, In one of hisnovels, called a peerage *a refuge for incompatency, or & atep towards thy grave," 1t la now eald thot Thackeray withdresy from the staft of Punch rather than agree to assanlts upon Napoleon Il The New York 1orld thinks fashionalle ladies should he grateful to King Canuto, for It washa ‘who originally ordered the tide back. Tho Municlpal Councilof Parls propose to changs the name of the Rue Meslay, fu which George Sand was born, to the Rue George Sund, 3r, Thomns Whifln, the comedian, wlll de. part for New York thls woek. Ho leavoa many friends and admirers behind him in Chicago, Senator Blaine sufiered no 111 effects from his ex- ertions In lils late political speccls, and his fricnds are confldent he will bo able to take an active pat In the canvnas, Gen, Shoridan and staff, Gen. A. C. Ducat and stafl, and Gen, John A, Logan have been invited to witnesx the represcntatlondof ** Andersonvllle™ at Wood's Muecum this week, . Don Carlos has been much ndmired at Newport, where ho §s known us the *‘least airy™ manin the noighborhool, and, though not every inch & King, every inch a gontleman. A company of strolling actors is playing [n the Tlack Hills. The blovd-and-thundor drams, iti presumed, linds Jittle cncourngement thero, and the noble red man Is at a discount. Inthe sbsence of Mrs, Swisshielm, we scarcely know what to think of tho defeat of tho White Stockinga by the Brown Stockings In St. Louls la week, An carly European moll will enlighten or, Saturday moming i thetle diupatch to is Iaw-partuer at New Albaay, inwhich hesald: **When the news of my death comen to you at home, boar It bravely and resigne edly, for Iwill." Tho Hon. Erastus Wells, of Missourd, is reported ns having sald: **Mr, Eads ia the ublest man we have. but tho most sanguine. His bridge cont twelve millions onan estimate of three, but e ha begun his jetties on too little capital.** Mr. Drownfng, in his now valume of poems, has allowed himself to talk back to hld celtics, and has conscquently lost casto still further, His digmity shonld e vory precious to him, for ft 1s the one quality of hin art which 1a genorally understood. F. C. Withers, the architoct solected to conatruct the rercdos which 18 to be crected in Trinity Clurch as o memorial to the late Willlam B, Astor, salled for Europo Saturday in the steamer Spsin for the purpese of making studics of celebrated altars and altar-pieces, i Llout. Biurd, of the French navy, has originated the idoa of bulldinga vessel expresuly desiyoedts accommodate young men who wlsh to come pleto thelr cducation by making the tourof the world. Arrangoments will be made for fifty pas- sengers, and the cost of tho trip is to be 20,000 fruncs eash. Gen. B, F, Butler says that he kecpsa yacht principally for the purpose of showling that there hasbeen nojmprovement in navelurchitecture asap: plled to salling-vesasls durlng tho paat twenty-five years, Mo thinkssome of the newer yachts liitle better than solling machines mado for certaln con- ditions of wind and water, and only for these con uitions. I'rof. Huxley, the English sclontiat, has recently ‘been vielting T, M, Stoughton and the blrd-track quarries in Franklin County, Mass., with Prof. ‘Marsh, of New Haven, Tho surface of the won- dertul slab just uncoverod meweurcd” 118 aquare feet, and contalnw olght large tracks golng In one direction, and nins nearly as largo golug In the op posite. It will probably be shipped to Now Hayven the laet of thia woek, Oneof tho New York critics at Bayreuth sends by cable the following carlous judgment: **Sume actsare woarisome, but it {s admitted that the Nibelungen will be o modol to future generations nsawork of the highest dramatic mnd musical character.” On which the Cinclnnatl Cojmercial ubserves: **The correspondent forgets that while Wagner writes the musio of the fature, ho der ‘mands the approciation of the presont,’™ Fannls Komblo glves a remintacence of Sir Walter Sceolt in the September Atlantie, from which [t ap: pears that he wrote tho inbinltably-humoroul opening chaytera of *'Tho Antlquary™ while I was suffering from & griovons tuothache, Blt Adan Pergusuon was In the roum at the time, and the novaliat, with one hand i d to his cheek and writing with the other, r08d the table sheet after ahest to hia frlend, saying, **Now, Adam, d'ye thipk that will do? Macaulay's opinion of the post Byron la glven it Trovelyan's Life, and 18 worth quoting even at thit latedny: **The worst thing that I know aboud Lord Byron is tho very unfavorable lmpression which he made on men who cortainly werc not lne clined to judge him harshly, and who, so faras ! Xnow, were nover personally [ll-used by him. Sharp and Itogers Loth wpeak of him as an un pleasant, aftected, aplenctlc person, Ihave heard hundreds and thouvands of people who never eaw bim rant sbout bim; but I never heard a wingle ospression of fondneas for him fail from the lips of any of those who knew him well," | NOTEL ARNIVALS, Tremont ITouss—Cspt. H. D. Gould and H. R QGrabam, London, Eng.; Col. O, W. Ellis, Lafay eite, Ind.; C. A, Humerson, New York; Prof. Gunolng, Boston; Emi} de Planque, Now Yorki T. J._ Nottingham, Norfolk, Va.; Samue] Hayed and Palmu_ O'Nelll, Fort McLeod..,.SAernian loute=C. J. L. Meyer, Pond du Lac; J, K. lam- w 3 Horkate Ollovas; P, B Clhiste, Pitiabar i o Lo NI ur, Oregon; T, Q. Val, C'unconf 1 JeArn Brrets Lave Buperlors I W Toldy 8 Cal. { R._Johneon, Dalfimore. ... Grnt 1A 3 Blnl%&m Elxou'nuy. [ A Varker, lows; Senator W, B, Alitson,' Towa; the ifon. J, W. Lusk, M, O, Ruadl)nui, Wis. 3 D R, Locke (Putrolium V. '}lum) Now Yoric: Juize i avenpor! Thomas . M Heeq Tiag,. London, Eow ' Edwanl Tia | fun aha Armold Prisstmiar. Dradford, EDk.i \kon, Norwich, Conn. ; J. N, 1f, Patricks Oiahas John B, Baker: Ban Francisc Qurd- e e b & e B the llon. 3. A. Cr e i Tirayly, Rock laland: ‘‘lomas Fletcher, Ottaws. Y charies - Wilitamy, —lted B M Thumson, kuw; E. W. W. Ruggles, and 0. 0, Whitaker, Thoas Atkinson, Hoaton; 8,8, Le Palmer House—Msyor Brod! 85 Gaylord. Cinclunatls 8. W. "Elllott, 51, Robert Munson, Waterloo: W. C. Cooke, Geul I, Alcock, Enzlundi Wilitam Lawrence, W. M. Sweney, Enpgland; Count W. Arnfw Lady Arnlm, Berlin, Germuny: Slinon ug-xg- Paris; Gen. 'Gadolin, Rusla; Dr, Guido Gold= schmidt, Auatris Graut, India; J, 1L Wik ingtoz, Hen Frauclco , Jowdi