Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY: MARCH 14, 1877, mors nactive. Wheat closed jo higher, at 91,28} for March-ond $1.24} for April. Corn closed }o higher, at 39}o for March and 43}c for May, Onts closed Jo lower, at 82}c for April and 340 for May. Rye was quiet, nddresting the clerks and heads of bureaux when ex-Secretary Onaxpuen teansferred the Department to him. Postmaster.General Kzy enuiiciated the principle oven more om- phatieally whon ha told the South Caroling ple of Iilinois out of 230,000 at least, and probably two or threo times as much in the ond, when all they desiro fa offered the State without money and without price, Benator Tominson Lias nlready dirocled tho attention @172 Tribware, TENMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ab 61@62}0. Darley closed 1@2¢ higher, at | ofice.sceker that it would take the | of the Legislatura to this offier, and it cannot B WA=, m'-r‘,',','ixu-.-;f;:‘m' FREPAID AT | rda 2: %m.-cu nmlylfl@mu for Aprll.8 n:)gs army and navy of the . United | bo rejected without giving ovidenco that i1y Edition, postpalds 1 year. $12.00 [ wers dnll and 10@26c lower, closing at | States to remove 8 colored Postmester of thero is & job in the proposed Normal Uni. Efifi‘g;nfavfisfi":’fi e 1% $4.50@5.25. Catlle were active and firm, l:nt %;nl«e, nglh:::dwlms& ndmlnlu:;nl:on of | versity. Banaiy haiton 250 | with sales at $2.76@6.76. Sheop ware { tho office thero had not been a word of com- = e %':}?’:’:".:,'.ffi",f&'{", P 25 1 firmer, quotod nt 83,60@5.50 for common to | plaiut, Tho President’s latter of acceptance, n},m t’%’;‘;’;wi :::vmmm Tarteof s year, per montfi,... +% | choice, Last Saturday evening there waa in | the Cincinnati platform, and tha inaugnral | poop 0t e 500t ainet to hiave n VERELY JOLION, VOUPAIY | store in this city 0,080,808 bn wheat, | nddrons will Lo tho guido of all thodepart- | o0 HF MRl R B BB BT e of b R i % | 7,218,804 bu_corn, 772,104 bu onts, 242,661 | monts in the disposition and mansgomont of et R e st "’P‘é-?k‘:,’:.mm. . bn rye, 881,314 Ln barley. One handred | the Government patronage. & 88, g cral, and ns immediate as practicable, To cortain members of tho Cnbinet has beon commitied the duty of proparing rules and regulations proliminary to puiting the ro- form in practice, Tho other 'policy which {the Presidont and his Cabinot intend to pro- mote i8 tho pormanent. establishment of peace in tho roconstructed Btates, under houest self-governments. Though the Presi- dent haa been in offico only a woek, and has liad his Cabinet but a fow days, there is no longer any doubt of the earnestness of tho President nnd of Lis determination to carry his policies into execntion, ‘fhere is n sirong connection betweon theso roforma, The opposition to both is from the sanie class, Tho pnst sdministration of the Givil Bervico and tho past policy to- waords the Southern Btates have beon jointly mnintained by tho same intoresta Bpectmen coples sent fre. Toprevent delay and mistakes, be sureand give Poit: Ofce address {n full, Includiag Blate and County, Ttemittances may bemiade cliher hy draft, express, Post-Uftice order, of In regiatered letters, at ourrisk, 7ERMS TO CITY BURSCRINERS. Dally, dexteered, Sunday excepied, 25 cents per weok. Dahly, dellvered, Sunday fncluded, 30 cents per week Address THE. TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cormer Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, Ul dollars in gold would buy $104.62} in groou- There §s this further hopo from tha pres. backs at the close, ent practical introduction of reform prin. ciples in the Civil Borvice: Within the course of a fow months the Sonators aud members of Congress who havo beon neons. {omed to dictate sppointments will find that tha system has been changod in spito of them, Thoy will accept the situation as far as Presl- dont Maves' four-years' term is con- corned, nud will Lo the more willing to ac- cede to some schome for making the prin. eiples of Civil-8ervico reform permanent by Iaw, becauso they will have no personal advantagos to gain by opposing it. There ia renson o expect, therolors, that, during tho presont Administration, Congress will con- sent to submit & conatitutional amendmont providing that the Chlef Exccutive’s term of offico shall be six years, and that the Prosi- dent shall bo fneligible for re-election. Such Gen, Tonatiery, who is now in Paris on business of pressing importance, explaing {ho object of his mission to ba the obtaiuing from tho Powers their formal sanction of the resolutions adopted by the Constantinople Conference, nnd so coolly jgnorad and repu- diated by the Tnrkish Governmont before the Conference dispersed. Russin tokos it npon herself to seo to it that tho commands of Europe, expressed in the resolutions, shall bo obeyed by the Porte, and to this end Gen, Tonatierr has been dispatched from 8t. Patersburg armed with a sharp atick and under instructions fo wuse it Ho declares that Rugsia will not insist npon any particular form of diplomatic instrumont in which the Powers shall make TAMUSEMEN MeVicker’a Thentres Madison street, between Dearborn sad State. **Lemons." Haverly’s Theatre. Raodolph street, between ~Ciark ~snd LaSalle. **Evangeline.” Afternvon aod eventag. Adelphi Thentre, Monrue iyeet, comer Deatborn, Varlety enters talpment. Afternoon sud cveniag. S SOCIETY MEETINGS. ATTENTION, BIlt KNIGUTSI=The members of | known their ultimatom with roference to tho | gn amendment will bo approved eagerly b and the samo awbition. They have f"%':m" .-\':?:lil"'::?“;"fifi;}%b%i;f""’r"fi"l‘.’%:fég"&:?x'k Turkish reforms, but does {nsist that what- | ¢ho people, and pmfldmf ‘Khm' w&ueysaoi beon the policy of a dynasty, nnd that dynasty has been set aaido—dethroned, The schome lins been to perpetunte tho power and consequence, and promote the ambitions hopes of conspicuous politicians, Thus Cabinets havo been made up of mom. bers, each representing the personal interest of some oxpeetant of the Presidency ; each of theso expectants claims and cxercises ox- clusive authority to mako removals and op- pointmonta within a particular district ; cach Benator and Represontative claims and ex- orcises a portion of this power, and tho Presidential authority is limited to carrying out the dictation of tho members of Con- gress, The result s that the Civil Borvicabas become largely incompotent and dishonest. To tho maintenance of this systom, power, especially in the Benate, is requisite, and to rotain this power it has been deemed neces- sary (o recognize, support, and maintain by forco n constituency in tho reconstruoted Btates for the carpet-bag adventurers who ropresent those Btates in the Benate, and for thoso who nominally nct ns Governors and other State officers. oth of thesa policies havo been zenlously maintained by that body of politicians who compose what is appro. priately styled the machine. A respectablo Republican who carefully disclaims any sympathy with machino pol- itics complains that, in the discussion of President Haxes' policies, unkind roferonces aro mado to the machine and its operators, and insista that it wna by the efforts of these samo mochino mon that the Republicans car- ried the clection; and he werningly intimates tbat any eriticism of the machine men may 80 augerthem that ot the approaching munics ipal election they may allow the Ropublic- an candidates to bo defeated. Wo notice this complaint bocause it 1s sald to reprosent the views of many Republicana, 1t should bo remembered that tho general closoness of tho last Presidontinl election, and capecially the closeness in such Ropub- lican Btates na Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, and California, was duo to the unsavory rocord made by the machine politiclans, who had redueed tho Oivil Bervico to n nest of cor- ruption; who had shared in tho Lriberica of Pacifie Mail; who bad plundered the Treas- ury with back-pay; and who kad filled the rovenuo offices with thioves, It waa tho dis- trust of thousands in all theso Btates thnt Prosident Iaxes would not havo the courage to put the mackino at deflance either to ro- form the Civil Bervice or break up the policy of running dishoneat State Governments by military force. Look at tho following reso- Intion adopted by the Illinols State Couven. tion when appoluting delogates to Cincin- natl; ‘That the policy of lenlency Ly the Ropubllcan party foward the people recently in rebellion against Federal authorily, having resulted fn deatls by violence of at least 5,000 Unlonlsts, white and black, since the commencoment of the present policy of reconstructlon; aleo In plgcing In power 1o the Lower House of Congress a Yolitical party dominated by ex-Confederates; snd, fnally, fn releguting back fnto the control of_ disloyal whites nearly overy State reconquerod to Pederal authori- 1y by tho Federal armics, It ls tho duty of the Exzcentlvo branch of the Government to estend espucial care uver the Unlonmen throughout all the South, sv that American citizoushlp shall be in name, at least, what it {4 not now fn fas a8 it {s In forelgn Jands and upon forelgn UHow doos tlus resolution, written, it is said, Ly aback-poy and Pacific-Mail man, and adopted with o yoll by the Republican Con- veution of Illinols, uow read in tho light of the declared policy of the President? How many thousand votes in thia State were with. held from IIarres and given to TiubeN be. causa of the belief that, no matter how strongly tho Prosident might feel disposed to act, the machine politicans, the office-byok- ey, tho back-pay aud Iacific-Mail mob would compel bim to carry out the doctrine of thia resolution? Ttwas the insufforable conduct of the machinists which reduced the Repub. lean majority on the popular vote for President {u Illinols to less than 8,000, and which gave TitpEN & mnjority It Chicago of over 4,900, It was the popu- lar contempt for the machine wanagers that reduced tho Republican mnjority in Wiscon- win to 6,000, when otherwise it would Lave been 20,000, It was only the personal knowledgo of Gov, Haves' purity and of courago and firmnoeas which rescued Ohlo Ly 7,000 from the grasp of TiLpex, Haves wag clocted upon fuith in his personal pledges given in Lis letter of acceptance and in spite of tho odium and disgracoe brought Tuneral of vur decedved frater. Bir fnlght Sinith, Sie Hulghia uf slater Cominanderiésts courteusly invited toaliead. By ordefy oy 1, saNnony, gm. Com. e SOMNHLAANBONK, FuCom: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1877, everis tobe done shall be dome quickly. Towarrere will pross for an ecarly roply, his Governmont being in a hurry to know whst useisto be madoof its gigantio military propa- rations,—whother its army is to move forward or demobilize. will be excluded by law from tho temptation which he has voluntarily put awny., The basis of & pormanent Civil Sorvico having been established, it will be an easy mattor to mnke such Iaws and such regulations as will insuro the purification and efficienoy of tho national systom in the future. + Greenbocks at the Now York Gold Ex- E———————— change yesterday closod at 953 Tho rosult of tho election yestorday in Now Hampshire was a complote victory for the Repablican ticket, Statc and Congros- sional,” The Republican candidates for Gov- ernor and Railrond Commissioner were clected by majorities not varying much either way from thoso of last yoar—about 3,000—with the probability of slight Ropub- lican gaing, In tho contest for tho three rents in Congress the Republican candidates aro all clected—tho provious delega- tion ccosisting of two Democrats and ono Ropublican. Tho chiof interest in New Hampshire ontsido of the State centered in tho rosult as to Congressmon, for upon it depondod the Democratic major- ity intho next House. By tho election of throo Republicans from New IHampshiro the Houso will contain 1456 Ropublicans and 148 Democrats—a Democratio majority of throe, whicl: may be still further roduced by illness and failure to attend at tho opoening of the session, not to montion the extremo proba- bility thnt the policy of Prosident Hares' Administration will scenre tho support of oup or more Bouthern Democratic membors. Tho reanlt in New Hampuhire is especinlly gratifying o8 o proof of tho fact that the inauguration of Presldent Harzs hias boen gonornlly accopted as a just and notiafactory terminntion of the Electoral complication, and that the now ora of pacifi- cation and roform is hoartily welcomed and approved by tho conntry at large, Pmmuu’-momag( THE CIVIL SERV- I The customnary wall is head from the Vati- enu i the Allocution delivered by tho Pope on Mouday. ‘Che Holy Father lamauta his mnbility, through the operation of the ccelo- sinstical lows of Italy, to prevent the spread of itnmorality nnd irreligion, and urgea upon the faithfal the duty of laboring to nduco {hair Governwents to come to the relief of the Holy Soe. ——— For the first time in many yoars tho Dam- ocrats in the United States Senato yesterdny' found themselves with n mujority, To be anr it was only n majority of two, and lasted only until the Republivan absentees put fn an appearance, But it was not nu uuspiclous woffent for ealling up tho case of the Louist- ana Sountorship, aud henve this watter wont over until to-day. BCH The Chicago T'imes, in its fasuo of Sunday last, had an appenl for *‘a school for tho confinement nnd reform of youthful vagrants and criminals of both sexes,” and, after pict. uring the degreo of crime and dissolutancss prevailing among news-boys, news-girls, ap- ple-girls, and boot-blncks, it says: It fs not merely & matter of Justice and mercy, ‘but it I one of economy, to caro for these classes st tho time when thoy araetanding on the threshold ot acriminal ife. As o mcro matter of dollars ond cents, it {s much better to handlo crime in ite infancy, 1t costa much less to cradicats evil from’ o child by proper reformatory processes than to sttempt to reform and control the child when it hu‘muhnd maturlty ond become & hardoned crim« {ual, There iano excoption to bo taken to this moralizing, and thero is no doubt of the im- perative noed of such a reformatory institn. tion; but how aro wo to obtaln it s long as the courts stand in tho way ? It is but a few yoars ngo that we bad such a school, oud o good ong, excollontly managed and ac. complishing & beneficont work, when it was summarily broken up and the city was com- polled to abandon it. Within its walls wore gathered waifs of overy description, young criminals who could nob be sont to tho Pen- itentlary or Bridewell, childron of dissclute parents, and strcet vagrants turned looso from their wrotched homes. They wero cleaned, clothed, and schooled, and taught to work in gardoning and mechanical trados, Thelr manners and their morals were looked nfter, They wero happy and contentod, and bade falr to grow wup wuseful mon ood women. §bat school was do- ing a pgreat nnd good work, and was fn tho vory primo of its usefulnecss when Judge McAvristen, by o declsion in a caue bofore him, struck it to its death with o tochnical objootion, Unloss thls doclslon "wag warranted by positive law, it was ono of tho inost unfortunato judgments over ren. dered by n Judgo inthe Stato of Ilinols. Evon if thero were law for it, it was nono tho lessa publio miafortune,—ono that opened oll tho tlood.gates of juvenile crime, Ilis doclslon was to the effect that no child conld bo fmprisoned in the Roform Bchioo! unloss it bad fit boen guilty of crime. The Stato has an institution of that kind,—a juvenlle penitentlary,—but this was not such a school. It was a houso of rofuge, a roformatory school, mot o place for the punish. mont of criminals, It was an institation whoso purpose {t was to tako those wauits of the gutters, theso homeless, abandoned childron, teach them morality, give them a chancs of learning some useful trade, inspira them with self-respect, aud thus koep them out of tho fails and poniten. tiaries, 1t wad dolng this work with won. derful success, and it had attained such & wide.spread reputation that committecs camo here from othor cities to witnoas its operations and study its mothods. The decision of Judge McAvriarkn, however, closed its doors, Tho clty had to abandon it and return the property to the county. There has not been suy school of the kind since that decision, and, oven if tho city were disposed to estab. lish o roforinatory school, it canuot do it whilo that decision stands, It i one of the most pressing needs of Chicago that theso Juvonile offenders should be reformed, but the law, os expounded by tho Court, stands intho way, Whon the docision was made, n4 the Times snys, * tha facilities of Qlicago for growing crime wero Iucrossed from 20 to 50 por cout.” From tho returns reccived wup to a late hour from the election in the Ninth District ot Georgin to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of e Minu to the Benate, it appears thot the contest was closa and the result somewhat doubtful, 'I'hero were threo candlidates—1inant P, Beuy, regular Demo- cratie, Evory Sreem, ITudepeudont Domo- cratic, nnd Ancurn, Repnblican, It isbarely poasiblo that tho Republican caudidate moy slip in between the two Democrats, but not probable. ‘The llinoi ¥ 1y adopted the resolutions for inventigntion of the charges agaiost tho South Purk Commission- ers, with smendments striking out the clauso suthorizing the emnployment of counsel to nid in tho investigation, and prolibiting the appointment ps mombers of the Committee of Investigation of uny of tha Senntors or Ropresentutives from Cook County, or any member of tho Legislature baving nuy in- torest financinlly or as n toxpayer in the South Park system, an Thers was naver an ers in the history of our (lovermmont whon the Prosident snd ontire Cnbinet were so perfectly in ncoord ubout any policy, or #o united, determined, and earncst in tho roalization of a declarod nmbition, us ara President Haves and all the members of his Cabinet in the purposo of practically roforming the Civil Servieo. Among all tho ;nen whom ko has selooted as Liis adviscrs and doparimental chiefs thero is not one who belongs to or sympathizes with tho machine, nnd all ave inclined to sacrifice personnl considerations, party claims, and clique influences to the end that the Govern- nient may roturn to its earlier practices, nnd asystomn be established whereby tonnre of oftice shiall be assured during good bohavior nnd competont discharge of duty. 'Tho President himsclf assumed at tho outsot a position which will enable him to resiat personally overy temptation to depart from this rule. In accopting the nomination ho declared explicitly that he would not bo a candidnte for ro-election. Ho long aa the power of appointment and removal iy lodged in the Presidont, this is the basis aund starting.point of Civil-Borvico reform, Dy ‘PocqueviLLe remarked ns much many years ago, beforo the abuso of our spoils systom had bocome so patont aa they are now. A Prosldont who has voluntarily excluded him. solf from an oxtension of power boyond his first term will Lo n party to sio intrigues sud tho tool of no rings or cliquos; an honorable Administration aud a pure Civil Service fur. nish him with an nmbition o oxalted that no othor can tempt him away from it in tho absonce of nun ¢ffort or opportunity to oxtend his own lerm: of power, In this wo Lovo the Vice-Prosldent’s assurance that ho will avoid overy intorferonce with the distribution of patronsge, and merely give his honest convictions ubout the fitness of mon for place when bis advico is nsked, Coming to the Cabinet, wo find it unaui- wmously inclined to observe all tho principles of a sclontifle and busiucss system of Civil Bervice, and, in the absonce of any law gov. erning tho subject, the Cabinet will sdopt rules of jls owss which will be as biuding upon them os a law would be, Dowsrs, Beuvnz and Evants ore now engaged upon the preparation of such rules, 'I'he hope of refor, so long deferred and 6o ridiculously travesticd from time to time by both parties, 1s now likely to bo realized. ‘Thero is uo demagoglew in the reform of the Civil 8crvice cantomplated by President Haves and bis Cabinet. Tho best proof of this is thot the office-seckers, both ou party Ex.Secrotary MouniLy modostly preferred i thootlice of Collector of Custotns at Portland, . Me., to tho higher position that Fresident Haxzs, rocognizing hin groat ability nud i valuable public sorvicos, would gladly have + teudered him, The Portland Collectorship was his cholce, and the appointment, which was requested yesterdsy by Senntor Brarve nod Mr, Have, was promptly made, Mr. Monoity bas just recovered from a serious and protracted illness, snd will valuo the rost and relief from moro vxacting dutios that be will hereaftor enjoy and lins so amply earned. ———— e ‘ Senator Davip Davis, in taking formal i leave of his late nssociates on the Bench of the United States Suprome Court, wrote a pleasaut lotter Leariug testimony to the emi- | nout learning, nbility, und integrity that Lave alwoys characterized thelr judicial labors; . wd cloging with the quite un.Democratic { mssertion that in his judgment the Buprome Court **is now as wortliy of the contldence of the American people a8 it has over boen at sny period of its bhistory.” It becomes moro and more apparent that Judge Daviu is not the mau ho was taken for by tha Demo- v crada vf the Illinols Leglslature —— Be much has been sald about the inten. tionof Gol. R. G, IornsorLy to attack the new Adminlstration in his lecturo in Now York this ovening that it is of interost to kuaw the truth sbout the matter, From a + letter written by Col, Ixarnsown to a friend . iuNew York, under date of March 12, ha + refers to tho goneral expectation that hols " to place himself on vecord ns hoatilo {0 the Administrution, and digtiuctly states: *‘The fact is, I sm going to support it. Iam go- ingto givo Mr, Haxes tho best llft fnmy + power.” Every scat hss been sold for the locture, and nobody doubts that thoimmense sudicnce will get the worth of thelr money. ‘THE PROFOSED NORMAL SCHOOL. It is ovident that tho Illinols Benato will pass the bill appropriating 350,000 for estab. lishing au additionut Normol University for tho uorthern part of tho Btate, and it ia prob- ably underitood - that tho proposition will recoivo the sanction of ,the Houso, The whole proposition might be opposed on the ground that there are already State, county, oand city justitntions of this kind, and that the supply of compotent teachers is in oxcoss of the demand, But, whilo the Legislature The summary manner in which the Post. master-General disposed of the Columnbia + (8. 0.) post-ofiico seeker, who -fancied that ' the offico would be given to him without + question because the ofiico is mow beld by a negro, shows that Mr. Ker has very | and persoual grounds, have been told to | might not listen to this objection, there Is | on the party by the machiue politiclans, aud cleor idens os to the color.line, -If | 6tand back. General notico has been given | uno thing they cannol ignore without doing | thoir allies, the corruptionists sad corpet. + a colorcd mon is qualified to hold [ that there will be chouges in the Civil Serv. | the taxpayers of the Btato a gross | baggers in tho Bouthern Btates. It Is late, tha oflice, und has conducted ita affairs satls- factrily, he is not to be yun out of it on the colorline, or to bo removed becnuss tho color of his faco is black. 1If he is (o go out i ut sl it must be upon his demerits, It ¢ must bo shown that he s not qualified to « hold it,—tbat ho Is unfaithful or dishonest. : ‘Phe decision of the Postmaster.General, ! Lowever wmuch it may disgruntle the South i Caroliua office-secker, is emincntly proper. Let every man stand on his merits, Let } every supporter of the Adumlnlstration, ro- gandless of politics, have equal rights, ! whotlier he be whita or black ‘I'he Chicago produce markels were octive yosterday, sud averaged lower, especially on 4 provisions, which wera very weak early. Mess .+ pork closed 10¢ per brl higher, at $13.40 1+ for April and $13.60 for May, Iard closed 1 150 per 100 s bigher, at §9.12] for April and €9.20 for May. Meaty closed steady, at : 430 for loose shoulders, To for short-ribs, sud :» 7§ for shortclears. Highwines were un. Li. changed, st $1.04 per gallon. Flour wes ¥ ico, as organized st presont, cxcept as it be. cowmes wanifest that the good of the servico demands §t. 1f this wero & sham reform, the Admiuistration wonld begin by turning out all of Gen. Gnant's officebolders, und then, after substituting its own aruy of par- sonal retainers, announce that the new doo- triue would be spplied. Buch a courso would hove boen easy and micaningless. It would then be evident that the proposed re- form is a mere protense. Dut there is no intention mercly to declare the we. form after teking all personal advau- tage of the existing practice. On (he contrary, tho reform begins at once. Tho men now in office who have shown them- selves cfiicient, and who have not been iden. tiied with any of the disreputable cliquos, will be retained. Proper time will be taken sud investigation made so that the undesirn. ble men attached to the servicse moy be weedod out and thelr places tillod with more eficient or moro creditable persons. Alr, Bcuunz, as Becretary of tho Interior, ga forwal notice that this will be the policy in injustice and injury., 'Thé Cook Couuty Board of Comuwissloners have: - formally tendered to the Btate the grouuds and buildings of the Normal School located st Englewood, near Chicage. ‘The buildings and facilitios aro much superior to nuy which could Lo provided by au oxpenditure of $50,000. 'They are not only located in the northern part of the State, but within easy, quick, snd cheap access from the most popu. lous counties of the northern district. Tho Village of Englewood is a quiet and pretty place, and all tho surroundings are attractive ond desirable. If the disposition is to estab- sl a Normal Bchool for the advantage of the northern district, and not to furnish vomo pagticular locality with a State institution for which it s lobbying, . the Leglslature will accept this offor, ‘This will save tho original expenditure of §50,000, and 08 much more as will bo necessary to con- struct new buildiogs, and it will oply be uecasdary to appropriste the funds for the current expenses of the institution. The Legialaturo has uo right to swindle the peo- entirely too late, to say that the mnachine mon, if displeased, may pormit the Ropub- lican party to bo defeated at the city elec- tion ; thoy were powerless, last fall, when shrieking for more troops to protect tho Houth, to prevent the City of Chicago giving Treoes 4,000 majority, ‘I'he Republican party of the United States sre indcbted for tho clection of Hayes to Haxes himself. Catting loose from all such disreputablo policies ns that proposed by tls resolution of the Illiuois Republican Con. vention, ho promised tho country that it elected be would use his efforts as Ex. ‘ccutivo to put an end to tho anoma. lous condition of affairs in tho South, and yestoro * to these people boncst local self-governnient, thersby ssouring peace, protection, end all rights and libertics 1o the people of all ranks aud classes, It was due to the fact that the peoplo of Obio, bis neighbors, koew the man, and had confi- denco iu hig jntentions, that the vote of that Btato was yocured to the party in October, despito thu ebomination and distrust in which the machino politicians and the mili- tary governmont features wero held by the mnss of the people of thnt Stats. The plat- form on which he was eleoted, and for which the people votod, was that laid down iu his lotter of accoptance, and the country will re. Jolco that on the very threshold of the Preai- dency he has declared that the policies of the past are to prevail no more, and that civil governments aro to tako the place of military ruls, and that honesty and compe- tency in office will supersedo the nomination and dictation of the machine, Bince the abolition of alavery there hns been no Gov- croment not g0 full of bonofit to the nation 03 the destruction of the machine aud the disparsion of its operators, — e HEATH AND HICREY, It is an open question whather the present captious opposition to Mayor Iearm, and tho nssaults which are made upon him over the shoulders of Superintendont Il1creY, aro not carried too far evon for ward partisans. There may be different opinions s to tho Superintondent's capabilities for his office. Thero may bo othera just as well qualified for the placa ; but there can be no denial of tho factthat ho has worked hond, done well, and served the cily faithfully during iho pnst year. We doubt not that upon refloe- tlon every honorablaman in this city will de- cide that it waa woll io was not removed from his place upon the npplication and testimony of tuch men as Taupe and McDoNarp. Against such dublous testimony stands his rocord of hard, faithful, and earnest work for tho city, ond Lis experionce and capability for office. No ono hos intimated that he is dighonest, or that he is untrue to the public interests. Tho continual assaults npon him aro manifestly unfair, and the hesaults upon Mayor Heatu for retaining in oftice a man who has done his duty are just as uncharit- able and uoreasonable, Other men sy have qualifications for the offices, both of Mayor and of Polico Buperintendent. If wo are to havo opposition to theso gentlomen, let it Lo bnsed upon the izsue of qualifica- tion. Thero is mot n citizen' of Chicago who can offor s valid objection to Mayor Hzarm upon the score of capability for the offica or of faithful performance of its du. tles. Tho charges nlleged against the pres- ent municipal administration are altogethior too small and inadequato to make o serious issue. Thoir only effect will bo to produco a repction in tho public mind, and thet wes olvendy commonced. Mayor Heatn hos proved himsclf to be an energetic, honest, capablo man, and has already proved to be one of tho best, if not the best, Mayor Chi- cago lios had for a quarter of a century. Lot his opponents bring forward a single fact that will controvert his hanesty or copu~ bility, or hold their peno — A BAGING TOUTH. The imprisonment and subsequent relense of the contumacious Mr. Tootn, Rector of 8t. Jamea', Hatcham, England, have croated a wide-spread excitement throughout that country, and have farnished also n new weapon to the oppononts of the Church Es- tablishment. Thero aro probably thoso in England .and elsowbers who regard Mr. Toorn's incarceration ns o specles of martyr- dom, and others who look upon it na a gross innovation of personal rights, At thia dis- tance from Mr, Toorn's prison and Bt. Jame's, Hatcham, the affair oppoars rather comical than otherwiso, and churoh-members in this country will bo disposod to’ envy the late parishioners of Mr. Toorn, who can rely upon tho law to atep in roliove them of hot- erodox ministrations. If a Baptist congro- gotion in this city, for instauce, should bo afflicted with o clergyman bolleving in Uni- vorgolist doctrines, and .that clergyman should preach ‘that thero wero mnoither dovil nor hell, and continue to preach it, notwithstanding the romonstrances of his flock, they would most undoubtedly bo delighted to have a policaman stop in somo Sundsy morning and take their minis- ter to the atation-house, consign him to the uttormoat darkness, or do anything clse that wonld keep him out of their pulpit. This was substantially the cass with the English Roctor, Ho was a Toora that would not be extmctod. His parishioners wore Low- Church. Ho was a Rituallst of the oxtrome sort, He not only prenched offonsive doc- trines, but he made the prescribed ritual offensivo with certain forms, rites, proces- sions, and gounflections borrowed from tho Ureok and Roman Oburchos, His parishion. ors protested, but he paid no attontion lo their protesta, Thoy appealed to their Dishop to protect them, and the Bishop in. hibited hun from preaching ‘in the diocese for three mouths, He paid no attention to the demand of his superior, The Bishop sont snother clergyman to till his place, but ho would not allow tho atranger to officiate. By this tima the Rev, Toorn had renchod that point where, if the law did not step in and remove him from $t. James', Hatcham, his parishioners would oject him from the pulpit, of et armis, 'The law did step in, and, under authority of the amonded act of Parlfament covering such onses, the llev. 'Poors suddenly found himself an inmate of Horsemonger-Laue Jail upon the charge of contempt, Bleanwhilo a new clergyman en- tered into possession of Bt. James', Hatch- am, snd the oceremonial of worship was ro- duced to the simplicity required by law. This having been done, his lato panshion- ory, boing no longer aggrioved, made & for- mal application that the contumacious “Coorn should be released. ‘The application was grautod, and Mr. Tooru is free sgsin, but 1nust poy the costs of the proceduro which wad nocessqry to oust him, If he refuses to do this, thou the parishioners can have their claim liquidated by a claun upon his goods and effects, and Mr. ‘Toorsr, now without & pulpit, may also find bimself without per- sonal property to speak of, Tho London Times, in discussing tho case, socks to offsot any consequont damnge or prejudice sgainst the Establishment by as- suring the friends of Mr, Toorn that he was not punisted for holding any particular opinjons, but for the violation of practices; thot he was appointed to tho charge of 8 building provided by the public for o defi- nite purpose, and it was not allowable for bim to vary or alter the purposcs of Lls ap- poiutment. It draws tho distinction thus: His spiritasl gifts, whatever they may be, canuot be touched by a court of lay, as Shey wero uot glven by 8 court of Jaw, and he can carry them with him into any splioce of activity to which he moy betake himsall, As loog, however, as bo continusd or way wnnn‘; 10 have charge of & par- ticalar public bullding for particular public pur- poses ho must obscrve these purposes; and if thers lssoy dispute about ihe purpuacs o which the baildiog waa dedicated sud be was appoluted, the question 13 0no of histories) and legul fnqulry for the considerstion of a court of law, The suprewe adaptability of English law which can furnish redsess for suy grievance, real or imaginary, is somothing rowsarkable. In this country, Church snd Ktate are abwo- lutely divorced. 1f Mr. Tootu bad boen an American, snd possessed tho samo dogres of obstinacy which characterizes bim =4 ou Englishman, we de not concuivo there would Lo any bar to his ministrations excopt such as might grow out of the pugnacity of hin flock. Of courso, this is one of the blessings of this great and glorious country, and ought'to bo nppreciated. One can hanly imagino the disastrons eflccts that might ensuo, for instance, if thore were a statuto that would allow such a ravenons and conscioncolesa lawyor &9 Davip Duprey F1erp to have froo course and be glorified among pulpita. At the samo time, would it not have been pomewhat of n luzury if the 1ate Bishop Wrurznouse and Prof. Parron could havo seizod upon Bishop Cnmxexr and Prof, Bwina and jailed them for contompt, and thus saved tho oxpensc, and annoyance, and drondlully dreary character of the re- apeotive heresy trials? It might have beon o Jittle mevere upon these #wo excellent clergymon, who ara now accompliching such a beneficent work ontsido of their old pastarage, but in such case it would have saved a gront deal of time and unnecessary trouble as the two cases have eventuated. OBITUARY, JONANN'JACOBT. The cable nday or two sluce reported the death of the eminent German politiclan, Dr. Jonaxx Jacosy. lIe was born at Konigaberg, May 1, 1805, took his medical diploma at Berlin, and in 1830 settled down In his native place for the practice of s profession, For about ten years hie was concertied in local polities, and {n 1841, nfter the nccesslon of FuEDERICK WiLle 1a3t IV, nttracted the attention by tho the pub- llcation of a Radieal pamphlet, on account of which he was tried for high treason. After his nequittal he fssued more pamphlets and was agaln arrested and acquitted, In 1848 he was elected both to the Lower House of the Prusslan Natlonal Assembly und to the German Parlla- ment at Frankfort-on-the-Main, As o member of the Assembly he supported the popular cause, and was the Dcputy who had the boldness to tell the King, when he retused to listen to a report on the stato of the country: “Thjs is the misfortune of Kings; they are not willlng to hear the truth.”. Subscquently he went with Dr, Lomws to Stuttgart and organized n Do Mberative Assembly, Ilcwas agalu arrested ond tried for high treason, and agaln was acquitted, From 1850 to 1863 he waa in private life, prac- tleing his profession at Konigsberg, Tn the Int- ter year he wus a member of the Lower House of the Prussiau Legislature, where lic stronuous- 1y opposed Bissanouk’s policy. The last prom- fuent uct of hisJife was to strenuously oppose the anuexation of Alsacoand Lorraine, for which ho wus arrested without warrunt oud - fm- prisoncd thre weeks, OBITUARY NOTES. - Among other deaths which oceurred last week are thoseof the French Baron ZaNaracoxs, who was counsclor to the Court of Louis Prwiry fu 1841, und in 1833 was counselor of tho A peal Courts of Dr. Tromas A, Bravy, ong of the most estcemed physaiclans of Brooklyn and amemberof the Health Board; and of Clianues Bunxououne, the sctor, who was kitied by a rail- road acefdent on Jast Wednesdoy night. —— Benator J. T. MoRaAN Introduced the follow- ing preamble and resalutlons in theBtate Sennto yesterdsy In regard to ths SBULLIVAN murder matter: WuEnEAS, ALXXANDER SULLIVAN, the murderer of Fuanws Hanvono, has been set fres withont By punlshinent belog Indicted on hiu and Witkias, Bucti fafluro Lo punish high crimes hasa l.cni«‘xencyw crime, and to render 1ifo lnse- n cu Wiknzas, Tho most sacred and dearcat right guoranteed 1o a people |4 the eight to livo; an Wurneas, 1tia the firs Idlll{ of the lawgiving power to niake the enjoyment of this porfoctly ss- cure; therefore Hesolced, 1y the SBepate, the House of Tepre- sontatives concarring hereln. that a commitice of soven, three o the part of the Senste aud four on -tho part of tho iloune, bo sppointad, aad that aucli ted an Comunitteo be instruct empowored to thor oughly and carefull; Inquire Into all the methode and mcuns uscd in the conduct of the trinls of wald Burtivax, and especially nv to the tmethod of solecte ing the jurys and alwo (o inquire Into the law bear« ing upon the caso, as given by tho Court In the in. atructions to the jury, and in'the rulings in regard 10 tho adwmission of ‘evidence, 1o the ond that sald Cammittce may be able to suggest such amend- monts to the criminal code of tis Stato as shall f erl hat sald Commite y empoworod to sond -for.porsons and to cxamina witnesses under oath, (3 1] acte nocessary to carry out tho pirlt of thfa resoluttons and that, thoy report ta this Qeneral Asscmbly at the earllest possiblo day. If on Investigation of this remarkable trialis to bo made with the view to amending the crim- {nal law, there 1a one Important point not em- braced fn the resolution, snd that Is, the right of a murderer to select the Judge who shall try him. Inthe casein question tho prisoner re fused to bo tried before any but one particular Judge. Hosingled ont soven Judges, aud re- Jected them all, leaving but onc unchallenged. By this means the favorite Judge was aecured, and the prisoner’s prospects of acquittal were not injured by the neat operation. Itroyld be useless for the proposed Committee of Iuvest!- gatfon to inquire lnto the rulings and Instruc- tious of the Court to the jury A nothlng is to be donc to amend the law in regard to the priv- flege the prlsoncr has of sclecting the Judge that shal) try him. A murder trial has becomo almost o force against on {nfluential criminal do- fended by able and highly-feed attorneys under the extraordinary privileges the law confors on the prisoner of choosing & Judge and excludiog {utelligence from the jury. - an d do e —— Parson Browxtow, an lnplacable radical Tepubllcan, seems satistied with President 11avns' Southern policy, us fur as the sunie has becn doveloped, Il suys tu his Knoxville Whig: hat President flave will baven woll-defined Bouthwen polley, wo vreunie ls wow doubicd by 0o aue, The pollcy that, fu the fudgment of the Presidont sud ble constitutioual udvisers, iv best calculated 10 devolop tha maturiul rusonsces of the Bouth aud o revtare good feuling ang contldence among the people will be adopted. It 18 n ques- tiow full of complication, und it will be itle sliort of » wiracle i, fu careylig it vut,seriuns b should be volded,” W trust uud bolleve o 10 0 wh desizes Lo kew the Bouthern Blaten ros maln (u & state of turnoll snd steife, sych ay that o which ey iave bassed 1 L years. W knuw {bal the Southers people ure to Iauto in this matter, but Af the President, by pur- suing o conclliatory polley, can restyre contidence aud make the people of the South feel tbat this Govorment §s their Governuent, snd that they are equally Interested with the pouple of the North, ety and Weat . 1ta” prawcevation, ho i Juve accomplished o great deal, and will avacrve the tbanks of wll putriotlc peaple. While this fs President Fiaves' yurpose, aud while he houestly endeavurs to carry 16 vut, the country will withs hold ta critlcius, eveu If the demtls of the policy shonld not cou universal spproval, The policy should buve s fair trial, utledst, et ——— The Concord Patriot, the teadiog Democratie Qaily newspaperof New Humpslilre, hus & teuder in which Prestdent Hayse' inuugural address b thoroughly indorsed witbout u dlasentiug word. 1t sayss Tliu sddress will moet the approval of men of sll partied Who care more fur country thay they do for ely. Wa bave no doubs that Prealdeat Havis 16 Fonest und wincero In the ywlicy which ba buy cne uncfated, and If ho fs sustalued by the people he peaze and prosperity 10 the native and pu»lx the South. There -nuufluf u the pulley, as Indicated by tho Prosidont in his n:u‘\mfl, that any bonest Demiocrat or bonest Hepublican cau Sud uny fault with, and ali we cas eay is, we b and triist b will bo sustalved {n bls ‘eifort to tu 1he bation peace and quict and & h-pry solution of all Lawucs growlug uut of our late Civll War, e t— = A Washlogton dlsputeh to the Clucinopatl Commerclal relates the following: i A while ago | was speaking with au {otimate as. sociats of E'fu-‘-. ud meutiviied 1o blus the 'm % inat the sclection vl ¥ was alzeady bear! T Be it 1 od bl . boped ilotay had the ruiness “i':.'"fl“"fl“ B, doubt o lus) b arcl bt vt the pulley ol cldcatioy, no watter it tho cuaras of Biiaxs ‘and those w50 fullow Tuis gentleman replied with peculiar ¢ Gioe yoursell wo concern ubout that. Mayes will tnazch right along fu the path be has marked out, and thy people will sustalis bim. But thore will bo soue bowllug.™ If 1 was st Hberty 10 mention tho nawe of the geutlvmau who spoke thud, you would sdwit that be bs 1n & positlon to kuow what bio {s talking about. e —or. The London Zime of the 14t of March apeus a lcader on the Awerican Presidential struggle iu Cougress as follows: Thu I"IIKYII of ml’uu at Washingtun bas been prolonged wlwoss beyond the endutance of the civillzed world, which nevertheless views with deop dulurest the development of the druma. ¥or pesrly fous wonths our siteativn bas bown Leld upou the strulcl, barassed by susurlses, perpleaed with moltiplied techoieallties, confased throng of arguments, apologies, accunations, criticlsme, Ve are at last near the close of tnls period of protracted ipenwe, - Betore noon on Snnday next the Presient of the Senate, sctin, under the provisions of tho Iaw puss.l a montl Ko by Congress, munt declare whetlier Mr. Taves of Mr. TILUKN hon received s mnjority of the votes now being counted. If the declaration .be not wado, neither the Jepublican nor the Democratic candidate can be Inaognrated lawfuily on the fol. lowing Monday, g e — The London Times' special_ correapondent, writiog from Washington, Féb, 8, sbout the Flectoral Commission, Indulges in some Jocu. 1ar comparisons and speenlations concerning the probable decision of the casc, Among vther things ho says: The Tonw and short of tha maiter Is, that tha Electoral Commission, ealled on o ‘appoint the Trexident, fairly and honestly elected b vole of the Amerlcan people, finds Iteelf much in the ombarrassing position of the eminent morallst, who, being suminoned to & French village to crown o rosiere {a pretty country girl crowned with s wreath of royes Lo reward her virtne], found. to his atupefaction and rightcous wrath, ‘that tho can- didute presented to him was not all that 8 rosiers, or any other young girl, should be. On bis indle- nantly demauding an explanation, be wxs informied, {itn profunc, apviogles, tiat the prize, ilke the Prestdoncy, had tu be glven to sore une, and that tie other young Iadiés of tho ‘villago were oven mote unlike what & roglere should be, The cmi» nent moralist accepted tho situntion like 8 philoso. pher, and crowned the candidate presented to Mm, he mural of tho atury is a0’ obvions thut fam apared Its application. Z et Evon the New Orleans Democrat—professional ‘bulldozer—is conatratned to speak well of Preaks |, dent HaYS Inaugural, Tt snys: It Mr, Ifaves e llncull[v, ond fiemness te Inaugurate and pursue, o its tall resnits, this pole icy, ho will cover hiis Administration withs glory nu dazzling that bin contemporaties ua well e pos- terity will turn from the stain upon lis title to conteplate lha‘Frulnml beaelclal work sccome plistied by bls Adilnistratlon. A Washington item states that Sison Canm. ERON was asked, after the executive session of the Scnote adjourncd on Saturday, why there was not n more determnined opposition made toScnunz and Evanrs. He replied: * What fu hell could we do nbout §t1 " —— PERSONAL. Miss Anna Dickinsgn Lought npwards of 300 ‘books, relatlve to Anze Doieyn, when she was writing her dzama on that sobject, Katc Fleld's new comedy, entitled ** Extremes MMeet," In which the suthor Is cast for the princle pal role, will be produced to-night at the St James Theatre, London. Tho lato Gen, Changarnler had a pécullsr Lorror of tobacco. He pursued his gucsta who would amoke {romn ono roum to tho other, and wus accus- tomod to lecture them all on ¢! iquitles of the habit, Dlshop Haven lins left Africs and s n Southern Spalu, e hna had two severo chills, but has kept down the fover. Fearing the cold of the North, ho will linger in Spaln o few days, getting home early {n April. - The rural newspapers of Ohio marvel at the entorprise of -the Cincinnat! Enguirer, which pays Danu Pistt and Gearge Alfred Townwend $10 per column tor cutting up each ather {n able aud effu. sive lettors, “Speaklingof the utllity of studylng Greck at col- lege, n gentlemag reforred to the recont article In the Atlantic, wiRh contended that no graduste could translato an ordinary Ureek author at sight. 'T'he President of tho Chicage University happlly replied: **Whatof Itr Whu canread Shakspearo nteigher’ Walt Whitman's hair {8 white, and he walke with astick ke an infrm old man, yot he Is bat 58, whichis 8 number of years that many men can carey off Janntily. e s stopplng In New York with a first, socond, or third counin of Gov, Hayes, and has some longinge for on office that will aboat it his dimenaions. A member of the Masic Committes of the Broad- way Taboroacle Church writes to the Evening Post in denlal of tho commion statoment that Miss Thuraby Is recelying $3,000 annually for hier sorv- fces In their cholr. The Broadway Tabernacle, the corrcspondent says, has nover set 80 bad an cxample a8 the paylng of $3,000 to any singer would be, . Fannle Lear has sent to o number of hor achool. frlends In thls country, who know her when sho was npure and Innocent gir), photographs of her- self bLearing the Inscrivtion: ‘‘Faunle Lear, Grando Duchease, par la main gauche.' Tho cres. ture seems to glory In hor shame, and, aa it {s the only accomplishment sho has, perhaps thefe fs no reason why whe shouldn't., . Col, Robort Ingersoll's lecture 1o New York to- night {a Jooked forward to with great intercat, as it is expected to contain a clear and positive defini. tlon of his attitude with rogard te the now Admin. istratlon, It 1s ramored that he will eriticlse the courso of Prealdont I1ayes, but there 11 no suthorlty for any statement of thekind, What he knows and thinks can bo told much better to-morrow morn- ing than at presont. The Ciuclunatl Eaguirer objects to Stanley Matthows becauso, although not exactly a brother n+law, ho Is **closuly sllled to Mr, Hayes.'" The Smplieation 1a that v, 1ayos s Yory wrong in hav- iug any ono closely allicd to lilm. 1¢ he were the stamp of statesmen the Anquirer waats he woold shut himsolf up in o dungeon and hold communi- cation with the Leads of Departments thruugh spaaking-tubes, leat hie might poraibly make u per- sonal trlend awong them. Iarriet Martineau's blography shows that sho had the highest voneration for Carlyle. **1f Tam warrauted In belloving,* she wrote, **that the socioty I wm bldding furwell to lsa vast improve- went upon that which I was born into, I am con- fident thst the blewsea chauge fu attributable to Carlyle more than to any singlé Influence besldes, + « + What Wordeworth died for pootry, in bringing us out of & conventional Idea and inethod to utrue wad wlmple ooy, Larlyle has dune for more ality.” ¥ Tho 21at of the coming May will be the attleth annlvorsary of the Eplscopato of Fius IX., and the 17th of Juue followlng will ba the begioning of the thirty-Srst year of his Pontificate, The Istter ovout lv onoas yet unheard of in the annalsof Catlioliclsm, Plus the Ninth ** haa seen tho days uf Poter * as Bishop of Rome, In spite of thoold asylng, and, lu the present Ponti's cuse, mistuken, . prophecy, ** Non videbls annos Petri.” Plus tho Ninth has oot only been & Jshop longer than 8t. Petor, but bas surpassed hia years of Eplscopate. The hard timeaars pocullarly hard for the mag- tors, Those now write who never wrote ud those who always wrols now write tho ke mapusceipth aro plling up inan up- way, and the number offercd this yearls duuble what It was two yeard ago. Piteous lettera accompany wany of thoe imanuscripts, generatly tho poorest; nut oue in Iwenty ls acceptablo, Atthe Iistpur establislinont wmenuscnipta for tho threo periadicale cowe In st the ralu of 6,000 or 6,000 yoarly, dcribner's Monthly rocatved 8,200 in 1570 The Duke of Argyll's late speech on tho Eastern, question moves the correspondent of the New York T¥ines to ways **The Duke of Argyll fa not 8 pupular wikn with his party or with the’ country. e Is shiort Ju stature sud pumpous in macner, ilo hus 8 lig bead, and he wears ble balr loug, Me wiruts ke 8 bantsm cock—as if hie titles were not cuopeh to support bis digoity. But be has & facllity of wpecch, lle ia even elogavnt.. Hecan talk well upou noarly every subfect, 1iis political priaciples are Liveral. 11 e wero not a Duke, be would be # Communst, but be 1s boud to psy soine respect 1o his order wnd his belongings.” -~ Tramps havy taken possession of 8t. Loyls, The Globe- Democrat sayd that ibe Mayor fa required by bis officiel duty to cncourage vagrancy, and the cliizens cheertully and Bimosl unaniwously take such atepa sy oro et calculated Lo fncreass tho number of trampd and pzevent them from altempt- fug to gary su booest livellhood. The experieucs of the polica umicerw Is, that, whils ane-half of the bouscholders on thele respective beats are com~ plainlog uf the trampa, tho othor balt sru fosdiug thew. The true way of Jooking at tho tramp, saye the vame suthority, 19 to regard hini sy 8 creature who wil) ut work, snd tho true Interess of sociely 18 10 bring overy compulsion oa bl to force blm ta work. < Y 5 A funuy report on the subject of text-books was made by a commities of the lourd of Education 1o 8t. J.oms recently. The question was whether tuerc should be a geocral change of bovks. The Commitieo advised ju favor of & chasgo. Une of the ressons urged was that ‘tbe bistory, the reader, sud the geograpby are read at home by the elder members uf the family, sud aro 8 coustant source of lustruction sud culture in the communl- 17, ‘The fsmily circly fu which the taxt-books begulle the loncly winter evenlugs must be, ln- deed, an faspiring group. Alwost se queer 2B argument Is the one that the teacher louge fors new lext-bock merely for the sake of change, It for nothing toore; wo suspect the bouk-agent longe for pew texi-books **for the sakeof chunge™ evcu ware srdently tiay the teachors doy