Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 30, 1876, Page 4

! i " — " mud tho onthromemont of Anpun Hamm, and 42jo for September. Oats woro une changed, closing nt 81jc cash and 81fc for Soptember. Rye was §@1chighor, at 67@68¢. Barloy closed 14@2¢ higher, at 790 for Sop- tember and 700 asked for Oclober. Ilogs were fairly active, at @100 docline, closing wonk at $5.76@0.95 for common henavy to primo light. Oattlo were inactive, at 10@16i0 decline, with sales at $2.26@5.05. Sheop were scarce and higher, selling at 23.25@4.75. Last Baturday ovening thers was in store in this city 1,025,046 bu wheat, 1,060,042 bn corn, 104,661 bu oats, 109,888 bu rye, and 820,632 bu barley, 'Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $110.87} in grconbacks at the close, * e ——— In theso doys of Democratic protensionsto reform and parity of purposo, it is refrosh. ing to turn Dback the leaves of history and tond of the masterly schemes in this direc- tion which wore earried to fruition by for- mer Administrations in which Southern poli- ticians. had commandof the Ship of Btate, and Northorn donghfaces oceupied the fore- castle and did the menial labor and got all the kicks for the Constitution's sake. One item of reform is partioularly prominont during the Administrations of Porx, Prence, and Bucnmanan, It wos a decidedly rich mine for the workers therein. Thero” were in those omly days a few scalterod Indians in North Oavolina nnd Northorn Georgis. The philanthropio Reformer of that epoch, sympathizing with these lonely boings, conceived a plon to remove thom to the Far Wost, whoro they might have puror air, bettor hunting grounds, and enjoy larger opportunities for getting and losing acalps. This was a glorious project, but whore was TERMS OF SUNSCRIITION, PAYADLE IN ADVANCE-~POSTAGE PREPAID AT TING OPFICE. 8] ftlon, tpafd, 1ye {-’.&!0 A ear, per ol iaiied taany Hunday T dress four week 'fo i nd 1o Spectmen coples rent free, Yo provent delay and mistkes, be mreand give Post- Office nddress tn fall, including State and County, Ttemittances may be made cither by draft, cxpress, oat-Ofice order, or In vegiatered lotters, at our ritk, 7ERMS TO CITY SUDSCRIBERS, Dally, delivered, Bunday excopted, 25 centa per week. Dolly, deltvered, Sundny included, 30 cents per week THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, o Chilcago, 1L prisie e e TILDEN'S RECORD. 4 GREAT CAMPAION DOCUMRKT. record conclutdrely proves that he was— ;r-heA BECESSIONIST, AND OPPOSED 10 THE WAR FOI TIE MAINTENANCK OF THE UNION. 2, A BOROM FIIRND Cfi‘““Ag(zS:l;f‘}\(”BED" AND EMBER OF TIIR TAMMANY GANG. vy 'ORMER WIl0 REDUCED NO A NO CA"ALCOI}:‘&,;')“’UT?I‘?AF# MADE NOTHING NETTER THAN . :.DA CORRUPTER OF TIE HALLOT.-BOX, AND A LEADER IN FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS, AS CHARGED UTON HIM DY IORACE GREELEY, 8. AN 1S5UER OF BIINI'LABTERS TO LABOR- ING MEN IN THE TRON REQIONS OF MICHIGAR. 8. A MONSTROUS RAILROAD BIIARK, WHO AMASSED {ILLION DY DEVOURING WESTERN RAILROADS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE. This great Campalgn Document fills four pages of Trinuxxsize. A copy thercof shiould bo placed in the hands of every voter in the West. Hayes and Wheeler Clubs cverywhero should order **Tilden's Record" far distribution. €OST OF TILE RECORD. Tt will be acnt by mail or express, with charges patd, m tho following terma: s 100 copeas tho money to comse from? Buch quostions .‘%l:,r‘_‘?“dg;;‘;l never bothered tho great Roformor of those By the 1,0 days, The National Treasury was open to Scadorders tmmeditely for the South, and these great mon scorned to be behind their fellows in taking advantago of that fact. 'Thors ware but fow Indians to transport, and the cost per savago would be small, yet there was another transport to bo provided for, and and that was whare tho most costly part of the contract camo in. It was the porsonal transport, of the joyful sort, with which thoso Reformors beheld their profits aftor re- ceiving about three millions of dollars for the noble work of removing theso Indinns, or nbout $120 per head where tho actunal cost was not sbove $20. It is expeoted that theso noble-minded men or their heirs will jmmediately roturn the above difference to the Troasury in order that Mr. Tooen's chiances may not bo imperiled, — TILD: TILDEN. It is propor to keap in mind that nobody has madoa chargo of perjury against Mr, Treoey except Mr. Tinoex himself, in order that the * little onpleasantness " about the income-tax shall not be relegated to the category of * campnign lies,” The caso is in no sonse political ; it involves the private character of o man who secks tho highest oflico in tho gift of the people. It is not as it Alr. TrLoeN's incomo return for .é':'.ue for tho year 1862 was all that had beon found. In that event it would have been moraly spoculntivo whother Iie had or had not ro- celved during that yonr mora monoy than he returned ; and, with the probabilities ail leaning to o larger income, no one would have Loen able to say with cortainty or dof- initenens that ho had fnlsified Lis roturn. Thera was perhaps ouly one man who could spank positivaly about it, and that was Mr. Truoex himsclf, It must bo kept aloarly in mind that ho has spoken, nnd under onth, Hin two sworn statoments woro as follows: 0n Dec, 20, 1803, Mr.) In hls answer fo lhe Tilden suwore to a veturn, icompluint In the Cirenit unter oath, in which helUourt of tha United sald; States in the ault of the *+] horcby cortify that!St, ~Lonis, Alton & the folluwing is a truelZerre lfaute fallroad and falthtul statement of|Company against him- tho galns, protits, or fu-lecly' and ofhers, which come of Samuel d, Tli-lantwer was fled' recent- den, of tho City of Newly, Mr, Tilden ticors un~ York, and Cotnty of New|der oath as follows: York, Stato of New| “That for such mer- York, whether derivedivices tho defendunt from'any kind of prop-Tilden made % charigo SHyy rents, | Intorald,jof ten thousanit dollare dividends, ' malary, oriagainstsaldsecond-mort- from any profcssfon, [zage bondhiolders, and trade, vinployment, O tho xald charge was pald, vocatlon, or any othorbyor on bohalf of sald McVleker's Theatre, st o dadtion atreet, batsrcen Dearborn and State. T8 py." Havorly’s 'l‘;llecll‘n‘; e Ttandolph street, between Clark nnd Tasalle, Clitornia Minstrols, Afternoon aud Gveaiug, New Chicago Thentre, Clark street, between Lake and ltandoloh. Hooley's Miustrels. Afternoon and ovenlng, Adelphl Thentre. Monroe strect, corner Dearborn, Varlety perform- nee, S0CTI: HESPERIA LODGE, wlur Comuymication NGS. olph and I|A|(nu\ w aitend, and v Work un I[w"\‘hlfi\‘l‘ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1870, Greenbacks nt the Now York Gold Ex- change yesterday closod at ) Warmer Awur.{lmr, with cceasional rnin areas, is what may bo expocted hereabouts lo-day. ‘The 'decision of . the r eferce in the race between the yachts Frolic and Ina has boen protested by the sailing-master of the latter ou tha gronnd of unfairness in awarding tho wco to the Chicago ynch One Cnnadinn dispntches mention the thipment yesterdny of 90 fat cattle from Montreal fo Livorpool, nnd stato that 100 Chicago steers, the finest ever exported, wil 20 shipped by the next stenmer. 1 2 e e e Tho Powern hisve united in nnote for the mmediate cessation of hostilitios botween Furkey nnd Servis, and the matter lirs beon fuly 1nid Leforo the Grand Vizior. Russia's jood oflicos wera oxereised to sparo Scrvin dio lmmilintion of sueing for peaco to the Porto direet, and this requirement has been bandoned. —— At'n mooting of the Hydo Park Bonrd of Tiustecs yesterday the Special Committeo jppointed to consider the project of the Torty-third streot sewer roported recommond- ing that all proceeding in the courts be with- 4 lower, nt 92}c for Seplomber and Dijo for | sible to verify this statoment by tho books @I’c Gfl r 2x2. Octobor, Comn closed o lower, at 480 cash | of tho two Companles, It is ronlly not of nonrcs whatever, from sccond.mortgage hond- 1st day of January to'holders, on tho Tth of 3ist day of December,|October, 18625 . . . 180, bathdayaincluelve, {thut the defendaut Til. and subject to_an income den, for a part of his ser- tax under the Excise lawalvices aforesald, also of tho United States. made a charge of the like Incomo from sll sources, |surs of fen thousand dol- 7,118, lare on account of pro. drawn, and that the project bo indefinitely pestponed. This disposition of the subject will be a woleomo reliof to the large number of tax-paycrs who hevo stoutly opposed tho undertaking of so expensive an enterprise at this time, feaslonal services render- ted to the Arst-mortpage bondholders and the He. coivera, which wns Xflld o b{ the sald Ara- riah C. Floge, . . . and which payment ap- ars under date of Nov, A 1802, in o etatcment | snnoxed * to tho first ro. ort atorenald, as having been rocelpted for byd o eald Tilden, *an account of profeeslonnl wer- vices, '™ The Mlinois Staats-Zeitung, notwithstand- ing its leaning toward tho'l'tLoey party, con. fesses that tho explanntién of Mr. TiLpEn's private sccretary is”* thin,” and- that *‘no explanation at all would have been far bet- ter than such a one,” 1t points out, ns Tnx Tnipune hna already pointed out, lat tho Inw roquired a return of the entire income of tho year from all sources, angd provided ox- ceptions, such a8 taxes, losscs, ote. That Mr, T1eoey professed under oath to make n return of his gross income is proved by tho fact that ho mado deductions to the amount of nearly $7,000, Yot this gross income, as returned by him under onth, was less than $14,000, when lio subsequently swora that hio recoived 820,000 from n single client dur- iug that yoar, The Stuts-Zeitung is too in. tolligent to bo deceived by the nssertion that this sum of $20,000 had ronlly beon earnod in previous yoars ; the fact that it was ro- colved in 1802, a8 sworn to by Mr, Truoew, made it n part of his incomo for that year, though he had proviously sworn that his gross incomo for that year wae less than 814,000, The Staats-Zeitung is also con. strained to admit that probably very many porsons who had not made up their minds for whom they will voto will be detorred from voting for Tipex by this oxposure, though it thinks that those who had already espoused his cause will atand by him, not. withstanding ho has receutly aworn that ho sworo falscly in 1862 in ordor to swindle the Governmeut, And it also liag ga littlo faith in tho honeat porceptions of the Amerioan people that it thinks a majority of them may utill voto for bim for President. This s o sort of foreign opinion, not to say contempt, which we hopo the result will fully sct at naught, It wo abandon Mr, TiLoex as o witness egainat himsclf, the case will be found to grow in the amount of the swindlo, though the lack of principle and the ovidenco of perjury remain the same, 'hus the stato- ment {8 now made that, besides the §20,000 feo from the Terro Hauts & Alton Company, A, Tizoun likewiso rocoived in 1862 and 1863 tho sum of $50,000 in fees fromn the | Tho National Bporismen’s Association is in session in Chicago, 4 is also the Nntional Kounel Club—two organizations représont- iug in a creditable degree both tho brain and akill of the sportsmen of America. The pur- posca and aiws of the eraft in their uniting are sot forth in the very excellont and rendn- ble addross of- the Hon. .V, Lr Morsr, President of the National Sportsmon's Asso- cintion, which is given elsowhore in this issuo, A informal roport of the assessment in Cook County, roceived by the State Board of Equalization, shows a total valuation of $165,000,000, or about $10,000,000 less than in 1876, The rensscsstaent of tho banks in this county will add about $1,5600,000 to the psgessiment. What it will bo when tho Btate Bonrd gots thurugh with it no one can tell, QOuoe thiug, howevet, will do to bet on,—and hint ia, that tho nssossmont for Cook County will not be reduced Tho slele man of the East is abont sick onough to make room for a successor, and suother caso of sulcidal sclssors may bo ex - pected shortly, unless dolirium tremons ear- rics off tho broken-down dobauchee bofors it ‘becomes expediont to disposs of him othor- wiso, It is announced that a Cabinot Coun- «il, attended by oll the grand moguls con- . nocted with tho Porte, hns determined upon the disposition of tho present Bultan Mumap The chiangs is to be mnde soon, ——eere— At tho auction coal-sale in Now York yes. terduy thero was o largo attondance, and the bidding was quite spirited. Prices realized did not come up to expectations, the decling ranging from$1 to 82 por ton. Five hundroed thousand tons were disposed of, and it is in. timatod that othier largo lots will be sold in the samo wanner, Theso sales will probably hava little effect on the Chicago market, ns the engngoments of copl-denlers here were- made months ago. It does not appear, how. over, whether thero wore or were not many Westorn buyers in attendance at the eale, TTTE————— ‘Tho Chicago produce markets were very frrogular yestorday, with fair aotivity, Mesy pork closed G0o per brl lower, at $16.62§ cush or Soptembor and $14.60 wellor the year. Lard closed 250 per 100 1hs lower, at 20,80 cash and €9.70 for Octolor. Meats wora tame, a4 Gjc for boxed shoulders, 8o for do short ribs, and Bjofor do short clears, TLako frolghts were qulet, at 2}e for corn to nl.l!h(o. Rall froights wore unchanged, | Pittsburg, Fort Wayuo & Chicago Railroad, Highwinos wera steady, aj ©1.09 per gollon. | oud §20,000 in fees from the Chicage & Flous wos gulot and fina. Wheat closed 23o | Alton Railrond. It may or may not bo pos- THIS CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST: 30, 1876, very much importanco. If Mr. TiuoeEn swore that his grosa income wns only $14,000 in 1862, whon ho knew that ho had recelved $20,000 in that year from a single company, ho would likewlso have sworn tho samo knowing that ho recelved $00,000, which would be the aggregate of his feos from the throo Companies as thoy are mow stated. But it is botter, perhaps, not to con- fuse tho rocord by bringing in other incomo, since it is simply solfovi- dent that his incomo mmust have avernged more than $15,000 & yoar during the entira torm of yenrs when the tax was imposed, if Lis fortune amounts now to several millions of dollara. DBut tho resl caso against Mr. Tiuoen is mode out by himself, bocause, in his answor to the Alton & Terre Haute euit, ho does not say that he had charged up $20,000 for services, in 1862, but that tho sum of 20,000 was paid to kim by that Compnny in that yenr, The charge is not indefinite or speculative. It is Mr, T~ DEN swearing in one case that he sworo falscly in the other, and tho only answer Lie enn make i to show that ho did not make ono or the other of the two afldavits, This ho hins go far failed to do. Others may have falsifted their incoms roturns, but wa think there are fow persons who have subsoquont~ ly admitted it undor onth, As to this, the Cincinunti Gazette statos tho caso fairly whon it saya: *Wo presume Troxx isnot tho only man in the country who sworo to false income returns, but he is the only man of tho class who is o candidate for President nf tho United Statos.” A MONSTER COMBINATIL' The combination of coal companies waich was dissolved a few days ago at an amgry moeting in New York has had a remarkable history. In 1872 thePhiladelphia & Reading Company obtained & now chartor as the Roading Conl & Iron Company, to own and work coal mines and lands in Ponnsylva. nin, The Company bought coal lands and intoresta in Schuylkill County, producing 2,700,000 tons of coal annually, paying therofor $60,000.000, Tho other coal inters osts in the county produced 8,242,000 tons yoarly, and to theso tho Company offered a combination, the ownors to receive n cor~ tain sum per ton for their conl. Tho offor was accopted, and the price atwhioh coal wns to Lo sold was to be fixed at monthly meetings of tho producers. Tho first fixing of prices wna in January, 1873, to which tho Lehigh Conl & Navigation Company, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Westorn Raslroad Company, and the Wilkesbarre Coal & Iron Compnny were partios. "The Pennsylvania Coal Company, Lohigh Valley Railrond Com- pany, and the Reading Company nnbsoqnlm*. 1y nuited. In Fobruary an advance in the price of conl was fixed, and 8o, from timo to time, the prices have been over sinee fixod, In January, 1875, the Companies established regulations for the trade. Each of tho six Companies was to bae allowed to deliver at the shipping points 10,000,000 of tons. 'The Companics were the following: Thero were thon in the combfiation tho Philadelphia & Reading, Lehigh Valley, Now Jersoy Central, Delaware & Hudson, Dolaware, Lackawnnna & Westorn, and Ponunsylvania Coal Com- pony. A Standing Committes was appoint. ed for the year, to moot monthly, In Fobruary, 1876, thore was anothor regu. lation adopted, and the prices fixed for the yenr. Mr, Asa Pacxer, President of tho Lohigh Valloy Rallroad, refused to join the combination, but agreed to carry out the wishesof the Companiea oporating in the Lehigh rogion. Bat in April it was discov. erod that tho Lohigh Valley operators had sent 100,000 tons of coal to market more than thejr proportion of the wholo produc- tion. Thisbrench of faith was patched up temporarily, but the bad faith was repeated, and, finally, ot tho August meating, the whole combination was dissolved. All the Companios sngaged in this fing wera coal mining as well as transportation companios, excopt tho Lohigh Valley Railroad Company and the Central Railway Company of New Jersoy, tho'latter owning the Lehigh & Sus- quehanna Railway. This was oxolusively a combinntion of the oporators of antbracite coal, This coal lies along the Valleys of ‘the Schuylkill, Lehigh, Lackawanna, and Wyoming Rivers. Theso railrond and canal companies have & monop- oly of the transportation, and algo of the coil lands and mines, which they eithor own, or ny lessces or othorwise control, Read- ing, Wilkesbarro, and Soranton are the cen. tres of these sqvoral regions, The popula- tion is denae, and are all directly orindirectly concerned in the production or transporta- tion of conl. By including the Lehigh Val- loy Nailwny Company aud the Central Naw Jergoy Railway Company, the combinnation ‘was able to dictate to the pound how much anthracito coal should be shipped from tho mines to market and how much each Company shonld ship, and the priceaat which it should besold. Thislengue wassuccessfully oporated until this spring, whon the Lehigh Valloy Railrond Company, being purely o trans- portation company, rofused to Le limited in tho amount of its business, and transported all the coal offered to it without rogard to the rogulations of tho league. The main purposes accomplished by the leaguo during its existonco was the prevention of competi- tion. No company was allowed to sell more than a proscribod amount of coal. It nlso accomplished o possibility of having o por- manenoy ir tho prica; the oqatrol of the amount to bo sold cnabled them to dicinte the prico at which it waa to bo sold. To sell coal nt that prico it was necessary to limit production, ond, ag cither one of the four districts could produco s much cosl ns the aunual sales of the combination, wo have an oxplauation of the reason why the mines are only worked ot 'intervals, throwing tho miners out of employment more than half the time, and compelling thom {n & mensure to accopt the wages of- fored thom by the companios. ‘The anthrn. cite conl companics have not boen able to make any seriona oxtortion on the public in tho way of prices. There is a point to which tho prices of anthracite coal may bo pushed, but, when prices aro oarried boyond that, the consumption declines, and other coals entor into competition. To this, and not to any unwillinguoss or moral compune- tions on tho part of the companios, is due the forbearance of the monopoly, The fact, howovor, remains that the anthracita regions | of Ponnsylvania are capable pf producing sending to markot annnally at least thres es the amount of coal that iasold. This would, of courss, matorinlly reduco the price of conl to consumers; but, as tho coal-beds and all the moaus of transportation from the mines are mainly owned and controlled by the same corporations, the amount of coal produced and transported is Limited by agroement that there shall bo no competition in prices, aud the price to consumers is fizsd arbitrarily on the first dsy of each mouth, Now tho combination is broken by the withdrawal of tho lwo tranaportation come ponies which do not own or operate conl minea or lands. All through the mining rogions, howevor, there aro individuals who own conl landa who nro unnble to operate thom with profit becanse theyhnve to depond on the larga corporations for the meaus of transportation, This is cspeoially tho case in the Lohigh Valloy.rogion. ‘I'o these tho independent stand taken by tho two trans. portation compnnios will be a great ad- vantage. But tho power and tho wealth of the lengno are immense, and, thongh the combination of 1872 has boon broken, tho common intorests of tho monopolists will possibly foree n rounion of all the various companics and the re-sstablishment of the loague on a new foundation. THE CONFEDERATE HOPE. The Washington correspondent of tho Cincinnati Gazetle, discussing the subject of Southern war.claims, which had to be post. poned until aftor the elaction, statos that the ronson the House refused the annunl appro- printion of $6,000 to continne the examina~ tion and clnssification of the Rebel archives waa that theso papers contain conclusive evi. donce which has proved fatal o claims for millions of dollars, and will be fatal to other millions not yot acted on. Tho Touse tables, however, aro covered with petitions for compensations for war damnges by Southorn people. Thore is ona bill pending intendod to make n * goneral law,” which proposes to authorize tho Sceretary of War to ‘“allow roasonnble compensation to all eitizens of tho United Btates for tho use and ocoupation of their proporty by the United Btates during the late War.” Undor this bill the whole Bouth might claim rontal for ocen- pation by our armnies. The following fs fairly put as probabilitics nnder such a law: Under such a blil, and such 8 bill Is possible with aDemocratlc Congress, how long would it be be. fore atuch accounts as the following would Lo filed for settloment? GRsCyiisa Beoles, T Jomx Swrn, Uso of plantation for hattle of Chickamaugs, tWo days, &t $23,000 Per dayossvceecrersrssnnss 8! or this? The United States, For nuse and_deaty Dr, 50,000 7o Citizena Af {jeorgla, Dr. marcl to the ae $20,000, 000 Put in this sh benrd, and yet there were l‘wuuu propositions submutted openly, In the shape of bills by Southern Demo- crats, which, {f cnacted into lawe, would insnre the payment of precisely such accounts as these, Now, all that is needed ia tho election of a Democratio President, and tho appointment of a Democratic Becrotary of War,—a man from the Bouth, for instance,—and then a law authorizing the Beorotary to settle all those Bouthern claims wpon principles of equity and juL(ce. Thera cannot bo a Dom- ocratio House, nor a Domocratio Benate, without a Confederate majority in the party in each House. Of courso there must be Confedorate ropresontablves in the Oabinet. Boveral of the membors of Jere Davis' Cab- inet aro still living; two of thom, the At- torney General and Tostmnstor Gonoral, are now members of the Houso of Ropresonta- tives. Evory man at the South who owned 1and that wns * ocenpied or crossed by Union troops lins & claim for damages; every man whose property was occupied, or taken, or dostroyed by Confederates hasa claim for compensation on the ground that the United States ought to have protected him. There is no ond to tho varioty of claims, The aggregate of those claims waiting the clection of & Domocratic Prosident and Congross, and the appointment of a Demo- cratio Onbinot, will not fall short of $2,000,- 000,000, 'This is one of the great objects of the campnign ; it is the material end songht by the Confedernte Domocrats at the South, ‘who caro nothing for Tiunex porsonally, but would vots for any other Domoerat just ns rondily, ‘Thoy know that they will rule the Domocratio party, and that if Trmoen bo clected he must get two-thirds of his oloo- toral votos from them ; and thnt thoy will in liks mnnner have two-thirds of tho Demo- cratio Sonators and a majority of the Demo- cratio Houso, In fact, s Ben Hiru said, thoy bavo como back to stay, and during thoir atay fntond to control all branches of the Government and rolmburse their peoplo for the matorial Josscs of the War, But ara tho people of the 'United States prepared to pny the Southern claims for war damages? Are they propared to pny the Bouthern peoplo the expenses of the war on their part? Aro thoy prepared to assume a new dobt as groat ns our presont dgbt? Al those questiona ave to be answerod at the polls, It doponds entiroly whether the pao- plo elsct Haxzaor Trunen, I Troey, thon the ex-Confederates will be in power; will havo control of both branches of Congross, and control over the Troasury. These poo. pls kavo waited through eloven yoars of pov- orty; thoy have envied tho comparative wealth and prospority of the North; they have asked for a share of the national bounty in the shape of paymont for all their losses during tho War, and here, in Trpen's election, is the ronlization of their hopes,and their rostoration ns the superior race to the Government of the country, THE CITY AND THE OA? COMYANTES. ‘We prosumo that the propositivs niuada by tho South Bido Gns Compnny ta lignt the streot-lnmps up to April 1 next, burning 8 foot of gns por hour, at the rato of §21 per yoar for avery lamp, is based upon the price of $1.650 per 1,000 feat, for which it nlso offors to furnish the gas in the public build- ings. 1f thisis so, the offer should bo nc- copted, as it conforms to the torms agrood upon by the Gas Committeo ag fair and equitable, It {s not necessary to make any point nbout the protonded reservation of au® rights undor the contract, except as walved for the time included in this proposi. tion, becauseit is evident that Ar, WaTuiNs and bis Company have concluded that thoy cpnnot enforce the torms of their outra- geous contract, or thoy would not vol- untarily resign $1 for overy 1,000 foot to bo consumed Nor is it. worth whila to waste debate on the claim that this proposition covers the bare cost of manu- facturing gas, sinco wo have sn nbiding faith that the owners of tho Gas Company will not furnish the ofty with jlluminating waterial at o flnancial sacrifice to them- selves. 'Tho proposition is mndo to extend to April noxt, about the time half of the Council will again be elected, and its con- tinuance boyond that time, or a return to the old order of things, will depend upon the peoplo thomsclves. If thoy oloct as honest mnd brave a kot of men to the Conan- cil, they will be protected in thoir righta ; if they eloct a sot of dishonest ecalawags, such as ogatrolled the Council proceedings for two years and a half, the scrows will be put on again, and there will be no way to avold renowed extortion, Bo far s Mr, Brurmias and the Weat Bide Gas Company are concerned, the Council should not hesitate to wmotify these people peremptorily that the burners must be changud to B feot, and the price reduced to §1.50 por 1,000, or the samo terms accept- ej as by the Houth Bide Company, It Mr. Dirtavas does not immediatoly nocedo to those torms, then lot the gns in the West Division ba turned off and tho oil-lamps adopted, Mr, Binurves' Company enn woll afford to farnish the gos as cheaply ns tho atlior Company ; indeed, the lossos suffered Dby tho latter in tho firo of 1871, and the loss of private consumption in the entire North Division for a long time, made some inronds on the profita of the Ohicngo Gra-Light and Coke Company which the Ganaison-BrLLixas Compnany wore spnred. The extortion on tha part of the West Bide Company has no ex- ouso whatever. Mr, Brrrinasis too greedy. If ho will not aot as fairly as common sonse oughtto prompt him to act, then lot him and thoso b ropresonta enffer the penalty of thefolly. It is by no means cortain that tho proposed oil.lamp would not furnish a botter light as well as & cheapor light, and it wiil bo just as well to try it in one part of the city. In the meantime, the private con- sumors in the Wost Division will unquestion- ably do their share in punishing the Brurixes Company by rofusing to uso its gns wherever it ia at nll praoticablo to subatitute private gas-works or to burn oil or gnsoline, Thoro i3 no longer any quostion ss to tho power of tho city to protect itself na against Mr, Birtavas or any other monopoly in the matter of furnishing gna for the streots,—the contracts to thé contrary notwithatanding. The rensoning of Corporation-Counsol ANTHONY isgo clonr, tha principle is so ovident, and the precodent so strong, that the Oourts will unquestionably liold that the power of tho city over lighting the publio stroets could not bo bartered off for a torm of yenrs, and that no mngle Conncil conld bind its successors by a cast-iron contract which wonld deprive the people of salf-protection in their corpo- rato capacity, How the gas contracts have baan abused was abundantly shown by Mr, 8werr in his argument before the Committeo on behalf of the Company that proposes to light tho streots with oil. The gas billa have doubled sinco the fire, incrensed three-fold since tho contracts have Leen in opors- tion, four.fold in tha last ten years, twelve-fold in tho last twelve years, and twenty-two-fold in the last six- teen yoars, Tho ratio of incrense in the ooat of lighting tho streots is four times as much as the ratio of increass in population. The public expenditure for gas nmonnts, at tho presont rato of cost and consumption, to about $700,000 per annum, when it ought not to oxceed $250,000 per annum. Tho cont of lighing tho strests with oil will not bo more than $175,000 per annum; indeed, rospongible partles offer to doit for that sum. Thero may be an advantagoe in gns gvor the gasoline furnished by the oil-lamp, but that cannot bo positively stated until it is tried. 'I'ho trial should and cortainly will be made unless fair terms con be mado with the Gas Companiss. e—— THE END OF THE SERVIAN WAR, . 'The Turko-Bervian war is virtually at an end, and ull that remains to bo done is the agreoment upon terms of ponce botwoen Prince My and the Sublime Porte. The world, which sympathized with the Servinns, oxcept tho Toriea of England, who are apol.. ogiats for the Turkish butchers, will bo dis- appointed at tho result. It had expeocted at loast that the Borvians would be ablo to hold their ground with sufficient stubbornness to secure a recoguition of the reforma thoy do- manded, even if their claim for territorial acquisition was not met. Tho war has barely lastod two months, and yot in that time the 8ervian army corps, both in Bosnin and in tho sonthenstarn frontier, have met with al- most constant disaster, and havo been drivon back with heavy loss almost to the walls of Bolgrade, Their allies, the Montenegrins, have fared botter. Thoy have shown them. solves to be brave, hardy, and des. perate in battle, and possessod of magnificent fighting qualitics, Thoy have dofeated the Turks on sovoral occasions, and the recent crushing disaster to Muxmran Pasza’ at Urbitza, if it had been followed up with oquivalont Servian successes, would havo gone far towards onding the war, But tho Montenegrins, brave as they are in bat. tle, have nover once shown thomsolvea capa- blo of following up their advantages. After dostroying ninoteen of Muxntan Pasma's battalions, they allowed him to escape in a crippled condition, take a new position, and hold it until reinforcomonts arrived without moking any effort to atrike & second blow. Had thoy followed up their advantages and effactod a junotion with thoir allies in Bosnia, even thon they might have changed tho gen- oral result. . ‘What is to bo the outcomo of the strug- glo? Will the Christians bo remanded to tho persscutions and brutalitics of tho re- morsefess Turks, who will govern thom more forooiously than over, in revenge for their losses in war? MWill the recognition of Turkish domination, upheld by mnssacre, give Europo the repmso which the Great Powers profess to want? Evidontly not, The rcstoration of tho ante.bellum status | must plunge everything into chaos again. The Turks and tho Christisns cannot live as ono community in peace. Tho Christians have brought their demand for the primary rights of humanity and socloty before the world so prominently that it must be recognized. It is gratifying to soo that the English peoplo are boginning to take this view of the situa. tion, and to recognizo tho fact that there is something higher and mnobler than thoir gelfish, miscrable apprehensions about their Eastern policy. 'The YLon. don Times ovidontly sponks with authority whon it says: * Turkish misrule monns wenkness, reomrring rebellion, and foreign war; it carries with it s monace to the whole of Europe. This country will ba roady to join the other Biates in devising such roforms as will proteot the Christian part of Turkey's population, without rogard- ing the convoniences of the Porte.” In viow of Ler responsibility for the wrougs of tho Christians, she cannot do loss than this, In view of the fact that sho might have pre- vonted tho war, that she might have stopped the horrible maassacre of women and chil. dron nnd tho wanton destruction of peace. fulgvillages in Bulgaria, and that her Gov. rament, ropresented by Disnazty, troated the report of these Lorrors with levity and even with jooularity, tho least that Eugland onn now do in tho way of reparation is to join with othor civilized nations in scouring the Ohrisllans fn thelr rights. This will be but simple justice to Borvin and the whole Sclavie pop- ulation of the Turkish provinces, It is too late now to talk of reprossing this groat na- tionility aud subjecting it anow to Turkish servitude, with all the horrors that torm im. plies, for the sake of magnifying the sonti. mental and selfish policy of England on the Eastorn question, The punishment of Turkey will come in due timo. Buch horrors and brutalitics in the history of the world have always boon followed by swift and terrible retribution, Furkoy has,conquered the Bervians, but in the mowont of Ler viotery sha finds herselt bankrapted ; governed by a phyaical, men- tal, and mornl wrock; her eapital filled with conspirncics and plots; Creto, 'Thessaly, and Mncodonia rising in arms against her; Grooco throatoning war ; loumanin de- manding fresh guarantees which she cannot givo; the tributos of Egypt, Morocco, nnd Tunisunpaid; the most fruitfal regions, from ‘which she has been scoustomed to replenish her coffers, turned into a desort by hor own vondalism; Russin dissatisfled with her courso; and ovon hor staunchest ally, En. gland, throatoning to dosort her, The ond is not yot, and will not bo until the Turkish butcher is driven from Europo. THE DECADENCE OF THE ENGLISH ARMY, Tho English Governmont has an elophant on {ts hands which is driving Ministers, poli- tictans, and tax-pnyers to the verge of despair, The elephantis its nrmy, and what to do with it 80 a8 to incronse ita officionoy withont bank. rupting the National Tronsury ia tho enigma which is just now puzzling the English peo- ple. The Saturday Review olaims that if the country wora ucmpn!lcd to oconpy Egypt it would {ind difficulty in procuring the requisite number of troops to form the nuolous of a garrigon. The Malay Poninsula i loft in an- archy becauso of tha want of throa rogimonts, and Onnada *is withont tho minute army round which the great militia force could be diligently trained,” and it ** Australia fed- orated hersclt wo could seavcely furnish a guard of honor for tho new Vicoroy.” Not- withstanding that the army is insuffi- clent for the mnoods of tho coun- try, the oxponses. continue to grow. The Pprosent despair of the situation grows out of the workings of the systom of promotion.. The old purchasing system had boen an oye- sore {o the English people for a contury, and GrapsToNE got rid of it by adopting promo- tion ; but the right of controlling the army had to bo veptrchnsed, that is, officors had to bo compensated for what they paid for ‘their cdmmisaions, and this had nlrendy cost the Government $60,000,000, and not added a man to the fighting strength of tho army, Evon aftor this oxpenditure, the flow of pro- motion, which it was supposed wonld rapidly onsue, has not taken place. Undertho pur. chaso system, officers of tho line bocame Licutonants aftor throo years, Captalas after nino yoars, Majors aftor ninotoen yonrs, and Lioutenant-Colonels aftor twonty-threo years anda half of servica; while under gromotion, thoy will becomo Oaptains after sixtoen yoard, Majors after twonty.nino yoars, and Lientenant-Colonols aftor thirly-threo yonrs. To obviate tho difficulty and insure the flow of promotion, tha Royal Commission, which is composed of oxperts, seriously proposesto recommend compulsory rotirements, and of- for ‘financial tomptations for early ratire. ments. The cost of the improvement which they contemplata is eatimated at £19,900,000, or almost $100,000,000, in addition to the $50,000,000 nlready expendod in componsaf~ ing commissioned officera, Tho English hava hed to pay a good round sum for the pleasure of ontertaining the rap- resentative Capt. Jr¥gs of the Horso Marinos, who foeds his horse on pork and beans, and always lives boyond his means, because hae is » Onpiain in the army, Bnt the Caph Jivsxes and their exponsive compensations aronot tho only trouble with tho English army. It 18 no better, 1o’ larger, no moro effoctive, than it was half @ century ago. England bhas squads of soldiers scattered: horo, thors, and evory- whore, but in the ghodern.military senso of the term she has no army atall. 8he has madono advance in military organization, drill, or discipline, nnd has taken no advan. tage of the immenso atrides that have been made in military sclence. The French, Gor- mans, and Russians, however, have kept up with the growth of tho modern military sys- tem, have adopted all the modorn improve- ments, and havokopt their armics on a war footing. Any one of thess Powers could overrun tho United Kingdom, if they could onco land thoir troops, with a comparatively small forco and without any serious opposi- tion. , England has coosed to be a military power, and, to judge from the recont numor. oun digastors to her fleot, sho will soon cesse to bo & naval power, both a3 concerns ship- building and ship-management. France, Russia, Germany, and Austria aro the real war-powers of Enrope. England has sunk out of sight, 8o far as military influcnce iz concorned. . ——— ~ ‘Tho last report of the Inspector of Relorma- tory and Industrial 8chools In Great Britain develops one verv curlous result. In England, during 18723-'8-'4, the number of Protestant glrls discharged from the rcformatory schools was 519, of whom 78 per cent were dolng well, while of 120 Cathiolic girls, 80 per cent were doing well. From the industrial schools, 70 per cent of tho Protestant girls wero dolifs well and 80 per centof the Catholic. Similar compari- sons having been Instituted with regard to the boys, different results ave reached. There wero discharged fn tho above three years from tho English reformatory schools 2,458 Protestant and 675 Catholic boys. Beventy-five per cent of the Protestant boys were dofng well and but 3 percent of tho Catholicboys. Similar results wore found in Scotland, As botween Protestant an® Roman Catholic children in Great Britain, therefore, we ara to understand that Catholle glrls are better behaved than Protestant, but Protestant boys are better bebaved than Cathe alle. g ———— Tho total shipments (cxports) of wheat and corn from Now York for tho week ending Aug. 20 wore 448,514 bushels. Total shipments (ex- ports) from the leading Atlantic scaboard clties 1ast weck—wheat and corn—1,651,578 bushols, Total shipments—wheat and corn—from Chi- cago for week endlng Baturday, Aug. 26, 1,805,131 bushels, Chicago shipped in excess of Now York 1,440,007 bushels, being four times greater thon New York, and 848,548 bushels more than was shipped {n tho same number of doys by the leading Esstern seaboard cltles combined, Thia fa compifed from actual fig. ures, and cortafuly gives eyldence of Chicago belng the greatest grain-shipping point, or port, n this or perhaps any other country. This showing 15 no now thing—no chance shot. ——————— An important Republican rally is to bo held ot La Grange, Ind., on Saturday, Scpt, 0, Ihe speakers will be Bonator MonrTon, Col. R.8. RonxrtsoN, Republican candldate for Liou- tenant-Governor, and tho Hon, J. I Bakag, member of Congress, The meeting 18 to bo held on the camp-ground near La Grange, and will be what 1s known iu the rural reglons as ‘s basket or plenie-meeting” Al aro cordially fn- vited to attend. It fs hoped that some Michi. gan Republicans will avul). themselves of the convenlent transportatfon furnished by the Grand Raplds & Indiana Rallrond, on the line of which La Gravge is eltuated, to go over and belp thelr Indlana brethron, ———— The Bostonians have not yot fully succcoded In thelr offorts to save the Old Bouth Church, Lut are stiil hopeful that the old landinark will bo rescucd, On Monday last a large mecting was Leld on State street among the bankers and brokers, which rceuited fn several eloquent speeches, but no money. The clock, however, Las boen restored, which is taken a3 un omen that the stecplo s to stand. If the steoplo stands, of courss the church wwust. What ground the church shall stand upon, howover, 1s tho sbaorbing question which will hava to be softled by patriotle antiquarians of ofl citing than Boaton. % —t— * PERBONAL Tho tronble with Mr. . O.INewell (Orphess Reorr) I8 & paralyais of tho nervea gnvn:n!;pl 'azg tion. 1o ls convinced that his only hops of ra. covery lles in coolor weather, A Dritlsh correspondont of tha Pres Jlanner, a Pittaburg paper, pitches into ME.VIX";TI‘I’; Thillips, the singlng pligrim, calling him a *¢ pogj, patetic Prapagandlst of Popular Paslmody, ™ The police authoritles of London havo offered s roward of £260 for tho approhenslon of tha mur. dorer of Mr, Bravo, notwitistanding the virtnal ostablishment of tho fact that the death was scit. infictod, The moat accomplished swimmer at Firo Talang thia scason is a Mliss Itease, who can stay under the surface and hide away na If she wero loat, \yg learn from the Home Journal that she fs 4 iy cynosuro of all oycs, Thomas Ilnssett, one of the cscaped Fontan prig. aners, now in Fall River, soys that he once hefore tried to escape, and, though his original imprison. ment was for lifo, the Avstrallan Judgoe sentenced blm to three years addittonal, Madamo do Dalzac, widow of the novollat, hag Juet finlshed hor new hotel, which stands on he ito of the littlo Church of 8t. Nicholas in Paris, She hoa retained thu cholr of the church, ang tranaformed it into drawing-room, 1t Gov. Tilden has been guilty of perjury, we preaumo it 18 a foregonc conclusion that he will be summoned by ono sidé or the other to testify fn tho Moulton-Beocher Mbel-sult. ‘Tho most fnfin. entfal porjurers in the country ars to bo brought into requiaition In thia case, Tiichard Banncr Oakloy, tho London swindler, who obtained lurgo deposits from a numler of ignorant persons on promlising to pay 18 por cent intorest, lin been sentencod to five yeats' pousl acrvitude, Many of his victims still beliove in him, particularly ano old lady who thinks him s very $ll-usod man, Among tho paasengers om tho Britannie, which arrived in Now York Isst Bnturday evening, wero . Mr. Leonard Jerome, his sonein-law, snd hig daughter. Miiss Jerome, It will bo remembered, married Lord Randolph Churchill, second son of the Duke of Marlborough, and 8 promising mem. ber of the Houso of Commons, Priuca Milan, of Servia, {a doscribed by a Lon. don Times correapondent os not clover man, but decldedly Intelligent, It is n question whether his. propenaities are wari{ke, though his proclamation at the beginning of the war was fery. He Lias not taken part lu, or evod witnesscd, any engagoment batween his troops and the Tarka; ‘The Natlon scoms to have s menn opinton ot Jekyll, tho English humorist recently unearthed, and, to fortify itself, quotes the following wittl. cism, which we think vory good: '*An Irish bar- rister just arrived from England had a bad habit of putting out his tongue, *Iauppose,’ sald Jekyl, *that he s trying to catch tho English accent,' The Now &ork Sun.givea dally evidonce of ade- sira to engago all the mock-humarists in tha conn- try. It haa;lately secared a *‘Monsleur X," whom wo suspect to boEll Perkins or Joroph How- ard, Jr., in dlsgula® ‘Tho wit of Monslcur X conalsts simply in breaking up hia articles into a large number of amall paragraphe, Tho Sun cru. Tolly places him In tha position of a butt,and laughy ot him more than with him. The Tenth Congresalonal Diatrict of Massachus setts containg a good supply of Beelycs. Desldes tho President of Amherst College, who has been Congressman, and the Rov. Dr. S8amuel T. Scclye, ‘who {s Ifkely to bo Congressman, thers is L, Clark Bealye, the President of Bmith Female College at Northampton, who has thus far manifested no political aspirations. It Is evident enough that the Beelye brothers are holding as influontial a po. sitfon In Western Massachusetts as tho Huar ‘brothers do in tho eastern partof tho State. The Museum Johanneum, lately opened at Dres- den, contalnss colloction of china numbering 30,- 000 pleces, sald to be tho finest of Its kind in Europe, Some of the pleces from China date from before tho beginning of our ora. It fsvery curious to obsorve the gradual devolopment of the Dresden, or, more correctly, Molssen, china, be. glaning with a closo Imltation of Chinecso patterns, and at last reaching ita highest perfection in the little Wattean figurcs, snd highly ornamonted flower-pleces which still form the staple articlo ol the Royal manufactory at Melssen, Miss Angelino Poolloggl, chict soprano-singer of the Roman Catholic Church of 8t. Columbls, In Weat Twenty-ifth atrect, New York, committed suicldo early Sanday morning by swallowing oil of bitter almonds. After taking the polson, ahe told ler mother what she had donc, whiapered the reason of her sufclde, and almost Immediatoly ox- mired. Madamo Poologgl, who fs o French Indy, rofused to toll what hor danghter had revealed, but aa a Coroner'sinquest Is to bo held, and a post- mortem examination wiil probably be ordered, the sad truth will probably bo told. The Rov. Dr, Talmage, in a recont acrmon, told a horriblo story of a ship that once satled from Bos- ton with three misslonaries and 24,000 galibneof ram. The New York Z¥mes ia ynablo to dlscern whero the horror comes fn, not belng.dnformed whether there was too much rum for the misslon. arles or too much misajonaries for the rum. Wo Thope Dr. Talmaga will supply the missing Jink by stating in some fatura dlsconrso how much rum and how much misslonaries the ship contained on arriving at her destination. No valuablo gencruls {zationa can be derived from the present date, M, Charles Calvort ias donbtless learncd by this time that abuaive newspaper attacks generally ro- turn toplaguo the inventor. His assault upon the New York MHerald critic, however just In its main positions, wns couched in the most insuiting lenguege. It naturally provoked a reply in kind, which proved that Mr. Calvert hed not clther ot homo or abroad tha reputation of a scholar which holsld claim to, 8ince {hen somo of Mr. Calvert'a friends have came o his rescue,—TNrongon Ioward among others, —and have given him a character for catimable qualities of head and heart which ho staod sadly ln need of, ‘The Roy. Phillips Brooks' nnequal contest with & photographer excites tlic mirth of unintereated lookers-on. As notlced in this colurn wome doys ago, the parson objects to the public sale of his photographs, and offers to buy all ke can fud, Daot thero Is one photographer equal to tho emer- goncy, Hosells out onca & week to Mr, Brooks, and linmediately propares s fresh batch of picturcs. It Is ovident that In tho long run tho clergymsa must bo dofeated, unless, fndecd, ho sl accept the suggestion of the Now York WWorld, and ict his heard grow It he has non, or shave it he isal- ready endowed with ane, Mme, Julos Janin, widow of the celebrated crite ic, diod of a cancer in the breats at hier resldenco in Pasey recently, 8ho made the acqualntanco af hor hushand in a slngular mannor, Belug out ono evoning on tho strecta of Parls under tho protection of hor mald, sho waa accostod by Janin, who had been dining frecly, e annoyed hdr to such a do- gree that sha was obliged to threaten a call on tho police. Bomomonths afterwards, nt a soires dan- sante, hio was auddonly confronted with tho wouian hohad so rudely treated, Eacape was.impossible. 1je was introduced. She cut bim up with atioging sarcasms, but ho admired her morg for them, and in tho coursc of a your, tho acquaintanco having viponcd, kg taemally proposed for ber hand. Bho consented Yo bécome hiv wife, stipulating only that he should {n the future nevoer accost young ladles accompanled by tholr mald. This fs tho protty story told by Lucy Hooper, snd reading ‘u ous is aingularly Impressed with Mmo, Janin'd want of good sense, since she docs not secm to ‘hava objccted to her hasband's holding conversas tlons with aay but respectable women. TOTRL ARRIVALS. s and Paclfic—Milo 8mith, Clinton, Ia.: Te Peoiond st e Coutie) f"i; 1aniba); C. E. Burlington; 1 W.fill bard, Indianapos MUs; B, Magollin, Hurodsburg, Ky.; B, W, Luwls, Jr), . Meiisiock, and A, O. Blrd, ST, Louist Capt. Scoble, Bcotlund; Menry Starke, Nuw York; A, L. Patrick, J. llor, and Dr. V. i, Coffman, mahs; A. James aud D, Pray, Tasmania; J.8tore Ting Morton, Nebrankai W, W, McUrow, Ottumwa, In.; John Allen and Hitain Barney, Now YOIk ... Z'remont House—Kinzle Jordan, ~Ottaws, 1153 Gen, J. M, Loavonworth, U, 8. A. 3 1, T. Lang, Bostons tho ilon. A, Soimes, Burlington: 3. Ko Buchanan, q‘;flncy- the llon, J. sg{v. Jtush- ville, 1113 G, T Beal, 8t Loule; C. "W Now' York; den. W. P, ifanford, Caex . oo Sherman Jlouss—Jobu It. Grist, cuvulnn'. Col, "John Z. Miller, Texas; Thomns Blakeler, Phifadelphla J. G, Pangborn, Kans Joo Murphy, New York; George W BOUE Dol o Saian.... arinar 4outs By i bieiizatt; i Daws, Tates, Chactanatls 0. ate 3,0 .x‘da&.a‘n.n Detrolt A, c 5o, A A .i,’;’uluur ln’::uo—-nr. J. vansvillos Wion hi, Venozuala; C. Londuu, Eog, 3 4. Zobel do % Thilippine Frinds; ©, ’l'huumnUndnvr.’gu)plnd‘. W. W N,, an_ Francisco; 1. H. Anuable, Yot 8co Kih; Jauwes Gonflo, Scotlond; B.' 0. Johinaogs Yoorta; A. O. 8. Bulih, Washbigion; Joshua . , Parls, 11,3 J ot e bany: Charlcs g Bllh‘“‘l' Alul:ltll?:.lll‘n-.} Miecro8 0, fud D. 8 2 Hpeed, Loutsvillo: E. L. Daylson, bpri d 1Ky 3 LU0 Willobiat, e B £