Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1877, Page 4

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Engscement of Dion Houclcaull, **Tho Shaughraun.™ Aficrnoon and evening. WILLIAM B. WARNER LODGF. NO. 24, A, ¥, and A. M.—leguiar commulcation ‘thin” (Satarday) evening, at 8 u'clock aharp, 81 lisll, 72 (0 78 Monrog-st. Visitora'welcomed. By vraer of the W, M, * 4. it DUNLOP, Sec. * BATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1877, Greonbacks ot the’ Now York Gold Ex- change yesterdny closed at 95§, — Tho action of the First Ward Republican Ciub, in rccommending the re-clection of Ald. D. K. Peansoys, will meet with learty approval not nlone among tho residents of tho ward, but will be recoived with satis. {action throughout the entire city, Afr, Pransoxs has boen in the bost senso o ropre- sentative of the wenlth and business interests of his ward. o has boen a powor for econ- omy and good municipal management in the Common Council, and his services aro en. titled to recognition by both Republicans and Democrats, Tho Governor of New York nominnted Gon, Gronor B. MoCrenrax for Superin. tondent of Pablic Works, and the Republic- on Senate rojected it, refusing to confirm him. Ono reason therefor is that he resides in New Jersoy, and is not a citizon of the State, Another reason was that he was not competent for tho discharge of tho dutles, The Albany Erening Journal said of him : With all hls technical engiueering capacity, bo was a fallure st the head of thaarmy, e lacked the faculty of success, Agatu, his connection with thie dock department in Now York Is shown to have been disastrous, The mora his life was studled with o view to a just catimate of his quali. fieatlons for this position, the clearer becamo the conviction that Lo Is deficlent in tho attributes most needed. Becretary Scnunz wants to know some. thing about tho inside workings of the Into- rior Department ; indeed, ho wants to know n great deal which his predecessors were in the habit of taking on trust. In o letter addressed to the hemls of; bureaus ho re- «juests at nn carly day a report in writing na to tho dotails of their systems of organiza- tion and business—such as tho number and efficiency of their working forco; what chauges and reductions are desirable and practicable; obscrvations upon oxisting abuses, and suggestlons as to tho best reme. dics to ba applied. Theso are the things that a competent businoss man would fnquire nbout upon taking chargo of a mercantile or manufacturing cstablishmont, and it is a pe- “~liarity of the new Administration that sound business rules snd principles shall govern the conduct of the affairs of tho Gov. ormment. Itis o mournful and extraordinary fact that is now brought home to the large num- ber of oftice-expectants who havo had hopes of roward for thelr political sorvices in the direction of the foreign Consulates—the fact that there aro at present in tho entiro serv. ico but two vacancles, aud of these only one is desirable. Such n stato of things isa rovelation to the average offico.scoker, who finds it difficult to comprehend that thero should be & chango in the Administration without a general turning-out of tho jus and a putting-in of the outs, Aud the prospect shead is & gloomy one; that incxorable rule, *No removals except for cause,” holds out no cheering probability of vacancies to come, There will be an occasional decaptitation nmong the Consuls, but the procoss will bo limited to such os shall be ascertained {o be dishonest or uuworthy, and the general out- look is very discouraging. The Chicago produce markets were irrog. ular yesterday, with moderate activity, Bless pork closed 1t per brl lower, at $18.00 @18.05 for April aud #14.10@14.12} for May, Lard closed 2}o per 100 1bs lower, at $9.45@9.42§ for April and $9.62} for May, Mcats closed easier, at i for loose shoul- ders, Tjo for do short ribs, and 7Jo for do sbort clears. Highwines were 1c lower, at $1.04 per gallon. Flour was in good demand and stronger. Wheat closod §o higher, at $1.254 for March and $1.25} for April. Corn closed e higher, at 89jo for April and 42c for May. Oats closed dull, at 8240 for April and 850 forMsy, Rye was Jo higher, closing at 63}@6640 cash and 640 for April. Barley ‘was firm, at 630 for March and 6240 for April. Hoge wers active and about steady, 8t $5.25@5.65 for common to choice. Cattle were active and uunchanged, with sales at #2.30@5.05. Bheop were dull and ensy. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $104.75 in greenbacks at the close. Mr. Wasnnunyx hns made a formal request of tha President to bo recalled from his post as Ministor of the Fronch Rapublic, the ro- call to take effect at the pleasaro of tho Presidont,—immediately, or upon the ap- pointment and arrival jn Paris of his suc- cessor. Becrotary Evants, in roply, commu. nicates the President’s complinnco with the request, togother with the desire that Mr. ‘Wasnnusne shall remain in bis present posi- tion until his successor ahall have presented his letter of credence. Tho Prosident, through the Secretary of State, pays to Min- istor Wasununye ono of the highest compli- ments ever received by na foreign representa- tivo of ilie United States Government, racog- nizing in torms of nnusual praise the im- portance and value of the services rondered by him under circumstances especinlly em- Larrassing and diffienlt. There will be no differenco of opinion as to the eminont fit- ness and jnstice of this warm commenda- tion, | o—— Mr. J. J. Kearxey, one of the Cook Coun- ty members of the Legislature, has tho un- onvinble distinction of being the only man in the Cook County delegation who is oppos- ed to any and every scheme for gotting rid of tho present Ring Commissioners, Mr. Keanxey's constituents will bo anxious to have him explain his partisansbip of the prosont corrupt Board, 1t is not improbable that thoy include a large number of mechan. ics and laborers who would like to hava somo of tho employment which will bo. furnished by continning the construction of the Court. Houso; yot it is well understood that the people of Cook County will not vote $1,000,- 000ornny othor sum to be expended by Messrs. HoupeN & Co., the prosent firm which is ruuning our county affairs. Mr, Krannex may as woll keop this phase of the mattor in mind; it will likowiso do him no harm to romember that Atterney Rouxrnes, when ho came back from Springfield, boasted that ho had ** fixed things,” and Mr, Kzan- ~ex will prottysurely rest undor the suspicion of having beon ** fixed " it he continues to oppose overy measure for wiping out the Ring. — * Joux D. Lzx was yesterday oxccuted upon the scene of the Mountain Meadow massa. cro of 1857, aud with his life paid the pen- alty of his connection with that flendish atrocily. . Ila wna convicted mainly upon Mormon testimony, and the jury which brought inthe verdict of guilty conslated part- Iy of Mormons—{acts which indicnte clearly that Lex's conviction and execution wers in accordance with the desire and plans of Buionax Youna. Lee protested to the Inst his innocence of any participation in or responsibility for tke foarful butchery of emigrants at Mountain Meadow, and in his final declaration, mado with tho certainty of death staring him full in the face, reitorated the chargo that Lo Lod been aban. doned nnd botrayed by tho Mormon rulers ond made & scapogont for their onormitics, The statement printed this morning is the only authoritativo ono that Lias been made, all othora being the concoc- tions of newspaper correspondonts. Ler has told tha story of the crime for which ho clalms to have suffered unjustly, and what- ever the opinion of the world may bo con. corning the truth or falsity of his nssevera- tions of innocence, public sentiment will echo his dying demand that ho shall not be tho only ono to be punished. e —— THE PRESIDENT AND TEE IMPLACABLES. Already theroe is a goneral howl from the Implacibles of allsections because the Prosi- dent has not sottled the Southorn question, Tho President was inaugurated on the th of March ; his Cabinet was not confirmed or soveral days nafter, and was not organized until the 13th. e at ouco found himself occupied with some hundreds of cases of ex. pired commisslons of important public of.. ficos, and besot by warring and contonding supporters of applicants. e has had really loss than n weok in which to consider and tako any action. He has patiently heard the claims and demands of all factions in tho | disturbed Btates, and each faction is clamor. ous beeauso Lo has not determined the whole business in its favor, The caso of South Carolina may be considered aa practically do- tormined, and in o brief time will settle itsolf peacefully nnd amicably, In rogard to Louisiana, one faction demands tho in. stant recognition of Packanp and the armed dispersion of tho Nictiorrs Government, T'he othor faction demands the immediate with- drawal of the troops, who aro only preserv- ing the peaco, and lotting both Governmenis free to fight the battle out by force,—a bat. tlo which, once begun, will not end antil hundreds of lives slall bo lost aud the Stato reduced to anarchy, Tt is a remarkablo fact that both factions of tho Implacables prefer an armeol conflict to all other modes of settlement, The Re- publican Implacablos North and South howl for n bloody couflict in ordor to fire the Northern heart and thereby get up an oppo- sitlon to the President's civil policy and compel bim to fall back on the old plan of running Btate Governments by the means of gunboats and artillery. ‘The Democratic Tm. placablos want o conflict, and a bloody o they want to kill off somo more negroe: thoy want the establishment of military gov- ernments that they way have a grievance, nand defoat auy possible breaking up of the color line or dismemberment of the party at the Bouth. Both factionsof the Implacablea ~Democratic and Republican—are united against the President's polioy; are united ngainst peace at the South ; and are there- fore denouncing tho President forhis neglect in not acting promptly, Tho President is denounced for organizing & Commission to go to Louisiana, roport the actual condition of affairs, and whether it Lo nol practicable to withdraw tho troops with. out giving license to bloodshed, and to es. tablish ono civil Government there inatead of two, For twelve years the affairs in Lbnisiana have been in such confusion that even tho Republicans in Congross have not been able to agree either as to the truth or the remedy. Certainly it is not unrcason. able that the President shall tako a fow woeks to inquire, through & non.partisan Comtnis. sion of friends, as to the actual status of the opposing Governments, to cnable him to in- telligently undorstand how toact. 1f hecan reconcile the condition of things there with. out bloodshed, and securo to tho Htate one Government sble to maintain jtself with. out Federal aid, such an achievement is cer- tainly worth the delay of a fow weeks. The way to establish peace is not to give both factions freo license to murder and bull dozo each other. ‘The troops cannot bo withdrawn until somo guarantee is given that a civil war shall immodiately begin. Buch an act would instantly require the re- turn of troops. But, as we havo sald, a peaceful settloment is not what is wauted by et et T CHICAGO TRIBUNE i o SR . SATURDAY, MARGH 24, 1877—TWELVE PAGE the Implacables. They do not want any. thing of that kind, Penco at the South would destroy the whole political capital of tha extrome men of both parties at the North and at tho South. Penconat the South would rendor the exiremo politicians wholly nso- less; they would have nothing to howl about ; their vocation would be gone. The President, when ho acts, will act resolntely ; when he acts he will adhera to his action, be the consequonces what they may. Buthe will not act until he can do so intelligently, ond only act in the interest of peace and of o final nbandonment of * the use of troops to mansage State Governmenta, ‘WHAT DOES IT MEAN 1 The House of Representatives at Spring- field has passed what' is known as Mr, Cnooxen's bill. This bill has for ita object to enable connties, cities, towns, townships, school districts, and all other municipal cor- porations to fund, retire, and purchase their outstanding. Lbonds and other evidenoes of debt, and to provide for the registration of new bonds, ote., in the offico of the Slate Auditor. Tho object and purposs of this bill is n very proper one. It authorizes the munieipalities, upon the aflirinative vote of a mnjority of the volers, to issne new bonds at n rate of interest not exceeding 10 per cent, and having not oxcceding twenty yoars to run, and not to excecod in amount the present indebtedness, aud to exchange them for outstanding bonds alroady due, or to soll them and spply the proceeds to the purchase of such overdue bonds. All new bonds are to be registored in the office of the Stato Auditor, The Auditor is.to annually ascertain tho amount necessary to pay the intercst on such bonds, together with such sum of the principal as may bo required to bo paid annually, and the rato of tax neces. sary to produco the amount of revenue from tho valuation of the taxable property of each of such municipalities as will equal these ro- quired payments; which rate of tax is to bo extonded upon tho levy of taxes for that year as part of the fax lovied for State pur. poses, Tho revonue from this tax is to be paid over to the Stato Treasurer, and by him bo applied to the credit of the interest and principal of such bonds. All this is very clear and very proper in it~ golf; but in the fourth section there isan ob- sourity which is capablo of being conatrued 25 it now stonds to authorize an outrago which we had supposed wns crushed out by tho conrts some years age. We may bo mis- taken in the purpose of the provision, of which wo have scen no explanation, After providing for the Auditor's cartificate of tho rato of tax to be levied for the interest and principal of these bonds on the property of the sevoral municipalitios, the bill proceeds a8 follows : d And the sald per cent shall therenpon be deemed added to, and a part of the per cent which is or may be levied or provided by law for the purposes of State revenue, and shall be 20 treated by such clerk, offizer, or authority, In making such estl- maten and books for tha collectlon of Btate taxes, and the eald taxes shall be collected with the State taxes, and all laws relsting to the State revenna shall apply theecto, except as hereln otherwlse provided; and auch per cent shall bs deducted from the lecy of such county, cily, town, township, achool district, or other municipal corporation for the current or enaulng year, The oxact intention of that part of this provision which wo have put in italic is not clear, Proviously it was provided that the por cent or rato of tax is to bo ndded to and mado part of the per cont or rate of tax lavied for Btato revenue; but this provision to which wo have pointed directs that this por cent shall be doducted from the levy of such municipality for the current year, What docs this mean? Does it mean that whatover rato of tax may be lovied on the property within a munleipality for this special purposo there shall be doducted a corresponding or equivalent rate from the ordinary lovy made for State purposes? If this be the meaning of this provision, isit not an attempt to re-onaoct the grab law of 1869, and to tako from the Btate revenue the money to pay the local indebtedness, inter- est and principal? This act of 1869 was in operation several yoags, but the enormous grab made in 1873-'4 led to an appeal to the courts, aud to a decision which set aalde the law nud compelled the restoration of tax collocted under it. The bill of Mr, Onocxes may not have such an object in view, but, in the absence of any intelligent explanation, the bill should bo amended so ns to exclude any such jnterprotation or construction. This is mora nocessary, because the bill undertokes to declare that its provislons shall remain a contract on tho part of the Btato with tho holders of ‘these bonds, —— OLD POLITICIANS AND NEW POLITICS, Tha *““spoils" and the Southern question wero, aftor all, tho chief elemonts in Amor- ican politics when the lats Presidential cam. paign was made, Tho roason why Mr, Tr- pEN roceived 8o many Republican votes was, that he promisod vigorously reform in the clvil servica aud the pacifiention of the Bouth. The Northern Demoorats remained faithful to him because thoy did not believe in the Reform programme, but wanted the loaves and fishes; the Bouth united on him because of the fear of a continuation of the Grant policy of interference to sustain the carpet-baggers. The Republican votes he recoivod were in tho faith that he would do all ho promised. The dovelopments incident to the long conteat over the result demou. strated pretty fully that Mr. Tomoey was not the man to bo trusted for either of tho plodges, Now, Preaident Haves' first aot in the now Administration has been to attempt to tako both these elements, which proved s0 hazardops for the Republican party, out of the politics of the day. Of course this project is only fairly begun as yot, but ita vffects are oxemplified by some incidents noted by o Washinglon correspondent, who writes: **1 don't know which party I belong to," sald s Bouthern Democrat the othor day, **low do you like your Admiulatration? pskod an Eastern Re. publican of 8 Democratle Congreasman, A few daya 8g0 famous Republican orator was jo- qulnng of his friends how thoy rolished working a year to put thelr opponents i power, and at tho same time certaln Democrats were writing from ‘Tennessce that thelr party would go to plecesif Kzr went into the Cabiuet. **[can't make any calculations,” romarked lotely s distingulened ¢ who uscd to bave a reputation for predict- ing yhe futuru of politics, **When & Hopublican Presldent puts Democrate in tho post-ofces, and he will pay just ns much attestion to tle recommondations of Congressinen as to those of othor respectable citizens, thero is no tolling what toexpect. It'w & rovolution, and nothing less.'* Nearly every person who takes an interest in public affairs must have remagked some. thing of the same confusion among people whom he has met,—s confusion arising from 8 consciousness that two pernicious eloments in politics aro likely to be disposed of alto- gether. The satiafaction at this prospect msy be fousd both in the Republican and Democratio party “among the non-office- socking and non-officeholding olasses, among all the wen, {rrespective of parly, who desire a relief from the strain of bitter partisan strite. The dissatisfaction thereat is enter- tained exclusively by thoss who expect to thrive on the maintenance of strong party fecling, and who beliova that tho spoils ays- tom and continued disturbance at the South aro most likely to sustain it. tho Now York Life, the Knickerbocker, the World Mutual Life, and the Metropolitan Lifo. No nttention having beon paid by thom to the requeat for information, their It President Havzs puccecds in wiping | ropresentatives were summoned to Albany thess two cloments out of politics, thers will be a large number of professional politicians on both sidos who will have to seok some other modo of subsistonce. The work of reforming the practices of our oivil servico for personal oxamination before the Assembly Committeo on Insurance, We give the re. sulta of the first day's investigation in an- other column. ' It will be moro than inter. esting to Western policy-holders who have is alrendy under fall hendway, Every mem. | drawn romantic ideas from the sweet dis- ber of the Cabinet is fully committed to it and in hearty sympathy with it. If {t takes a sufiiciently strong hold during President Hares' Administration, as it is likely to do, tho fliorceness of n struggle for the offices will give way to more dignified and worthy issues for s division of the people, and the blowers and strikers for the professional poli- cians will be considerably reduced in num. ber, sines they will have no assurance of reward in caso their efforta be sncoessfnl, Moanwhila the Senators, members of Con- gress, heads of Depariments, and influential coursings of life-insurance agonts about the almple, unaffected philanthropy of cvery one in the business, One of the companies finds three Prosidential officers necessary.to do ita presiding. 'The United States Govern. ment can afford but two. The testimony of the President of another company showed that his compensation had averaged $20,217 for cightaon yoars, and that for some years it had beon #57,600,—nearly as much as the combined pay of the President of tho United States and the Chief-Justico of the Supreme Court. Tho Assembly Committeo has not men in the party will then turn their atton. | yot finishod its work. There aro several tion to nffairs of State instead of occupying | companies yet to be examined. Wo shall their entire tims as mere office-brokers. ‘When service in Congress and other public capacity shall take on this shnpe, men of moro ability nud character will be willing to participate in it, and more brains will be en. gaged 1n working out the problems of pub- lic finance and scif-government than have await disclosures with groat interest. 1If the powers of the Committee go o far, let them examine other expenditures. For in- stance, if it has cost theso componies—that is, if it has cost their polioy-holders—theso immenso suma to maintain their ataff of goniol and gentlomanly officials, what hasit been brought to bear on thoss subjects for | cost th policy-holders to ercct the clogant many years past, The peaceful solution of the: Bonthern complication, which wo are convincod Prosi- dent Hares will bring about aa soon ns it can be done with fairness to the honest mon on both sides, will also weed out a number of politiciana on both sides who are un- versod in any other phaso of polities. Thoro ate men at tho North pnssing for statesmen whose only protensions tosuch o titlo consist in stercotyped utterances on Southern affairs,—oither flaunting the ‘‘bloody ghirt” or delivering jeremiads over the condition of an abused people. Thero are men at the Bouth now holding office both a8 Republicans and Democrata who would nevor attain the distinction or emoluments if thero weroe fair and poacoful clections, with whites and blacks on both sides, divided among themselves, not on a sectional or race issue, but as to tho policy wh'ch should gov- orn local administration. All these people must stand sside, and their stock in trade will have gono when a systomatic civil serv- ice, - tonuro of office during good behavior, and goneral pacification shall have been fair. 1y achioved. ¥ DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS, ‘Weo confess to n disappointment'at the results of the Domocratic nominations for Aldermen. Wo hod hoped that the party generally would have beon influcnced by the suocess of tho Common Council elected a yoar ngo, in bringing order out of disorder, ond reducing the annual oxpenditures and taxes 32,000,000, and havoe contributed somo. thing to give permanency to this reform. Instead of this, n largo proportion of that party have loft the nominationsof candidates for Aldormen almost exalusively to the mob, —the men whose principal aim is to lhave the pablic cxponditures mado as largs as possible, the number of oflicers and the amount of salarics incroased to the higheat pointa. These people pay no taxes, and therofore exporience no hardship, and prac- tically indorse the demand of the Commun- Iata, that those who have by thrift, industry, and economy acquirad property shall main. tain and support those who havo neither thrift nor economy, and therefors no prop- erty. The saloons, the brothels, the gam. blers, and the pimps of all degrees, ars dis- gusted with the present atylo of City Gov- ernment. They want liberal men,—that is, men who will distribute with liberal hand the - money of other people. ‘They want not only a return to tho buildings in which those gontlemen occupy themselves with the generous task of look- ing after the futare welfare of widows and orphans ? A biil of very important character has boen introduced {n tho English Parllament baving for its purpose’ the confederation of the Bouth African colonies, the Cape Colony, the Trans- voal, and Natal. Tho bil) provides for a com- pleto Governiment of the confedoration, and also Ieaves It optional for the Dutch Republic to join tho unlon, in which case their inhabitants are to becomo naturalized Britlsh subjects. Although the colonists themselves aro very suspiclous of the bitl, thers scems to bo & goneral improssion that it will becomm a law, and the English papers aro already discussing the most advantageous locality for the seat of Government, sonie of them favoring Cape Town and others Ultenhage, near Port Elizaboti. The Pall Mall Iudget says: * Tho most formid- ablo opposition to the bill, however, is° ltkely to arlse on tho provisions relating to tho Privy Councll,—which do not acknowledge, it 1s sald, the principie of responsible governmant,—and to the constitution of the Legislative Council by the nomiuations of the Governor-Gencral, She oxlsting Leglelative Councll of the Cape Cotony 1s founded upon popular election; and althotgh the colonlsts {n 1871 were by no meaus enger to accept ‘responsible government,’ belloving it to bu Introduced as an excuse for the withdraw- al of mllitary support by the Liberal Minlstry at home, thoy are now vory impatient of attacks upon it.” Itisof interest in this conneetion, also, that thers {s a project for the vonfedora- tion of the Austratian colonles, although in the latter fnstance tho movement originated with the colonlsts themsclves and not. with the oy Government, asin the case of the South African colonles. ———— The investizations into the management.of tho lMfe-fusurauce companies are bringing to light somo Intoresting rovelations, showlng what becomes of the moucy of the policy-holdeérs. Tako the case of tho Equitable Life; the follow- ing pay-roll was disclosed to thoastonished gazo of the publlc: tor... Cashler. Supt. Hond and Mortgage Department., Bevenleen bookkeepers. Twenty-five clerka, OFDOY. yeevo + Medical examinations. . . 47,000 Cashlers.... .. + 90,000 The President of the gorgeous concern, Mr. H. B. HrpE, began his work In 1850 on a salary of $1,000. In 1303 ho got §5,000; In 1864, with hia porquisites, ho slinned the public out of ' $31,100; and thorealter it sunually Increased unti! tn 1874 it reached tho glorious aggregate of expenditures and taxation of the past, but o' $57,600, which was malutalned uatil 1875, whon regulor annualincrease, to meot the incrensed demands of thosowho insist upon being sup- ported at the publio expense, th The nominations made by the Damocratic party for Aldermon are, with fow exceptions, the most discreditable. Considering that the City Government is roally nothing more than the management of a businesa corpora- tlon, the candidaoy of theso men Is, in itself, an insult to popular intelligence, It is a disgrace to the people of the wards in which these men wore nomiuated, a disgrace to the party which nominated them, and a dishon. or to the city in which they can bo elected. The general turn-out in all the warda to nominate thess men for the office of Alder- men indlcates how strong the purpose to reverse the ‘character of the Olty Council, and to grasp the control of the tax leviea and of the appropriations and exponditures, Citizens who are apathotic at all times in olection matters oansee in these elections the calamity which is threatened by tho pos- &ible cloction of these men, Without going into detall, we invite es. pecial attention to the nomination of the man Hiwonzm in the Bovonth Ward, That ward s largely Domocratic, and whero ordi- narily a Democratic nomination is equivalent to ax election. Wo will not beliove that the respoctable, law-abiding, honcst Democrats of that ward desire to borepresented by such a man as Hizonern, Thero are unquestion- ably several Democsats in the ward who are both ocapable and honest, and who wounld make oreditable Aldermen, At tho caucus Mr, J, H. Rionban received nearly 500 Democratio votes against Hironern, e is represented as a man of property, intelli- gence, and of a respectable character. Tho friends of decency, of order, and of honest govornment, of all parties, should unite sgainst IiLomzre as o common foe. They should units either mpon Riorpan or some other Democrat of - fair charncter, and if possible vindicate the ward, and the city, and popular intolligence by de- feating this man Muonerm, While Hir- pretH is conspicuously objectionable, there are other candidates who, less notorious, are oqually unfit to be eleoted, and agoinst whom the intelligence and tha decenoy of all parties shonld protest, and by united nction, without division of parties, defeat. ' It should be rememborod that the Aldermen.elected this year will serve two years, and hence the men elected ten days hence wWill hold over uext year, when the same mob of Commun- ists and tax-eaters will renew their efforts to got possession of the Common Council. © We warn the public, therefore, that, with so much at stake, it will be inviting a public calamity tolet thesa mon be elected to the City Council. Publio interests and public safety demand that mere party considera. tions shall in no caso be allowed to govern in the choice of Aldermen, e —— Bome of the New York life-insurance com- panlcs, for ono roason or snother, failed to reply to a request from the New York Legis- lature for information about the pay and per- quisites of their officers. Among them were the Now York Mutual Life, the Equitablo, the Company, owing him at that time nearly $64,000, changed his income to the small and beggarly pittance of $37,000 per annum, which ho is now and hias been recelving since that time. But he wrung himaclf in as the * Agent * of the Mutual Life, for which . he recolved tho annual douceur of $20,000, making his salary $37,000, In this way Ivpa took the hide and tallow out of the pollcy-holders, ~ e The Bpringficld Kepublican sdvocates Wan- MoTi’s plau of compromise In Louistana in & way that {s childliko ana bland, It says that under this plan a Legislature’ would be orgen- ized Democratic in theBeuato and antl-PAckann in tho House; then this Leglelaturo will can- vass the vote for Governor, *thus giving NiciuoLvs a perfect legal title.”” #0f course,' Mr. BowLzs smilingly adds, * this would wipe out Kz1rooa's election to the Benate, and moderate mon could be chosen to il the vacane cles, Al to bo done undor tho supervision of & Commission,—say Vice-Presidont Wuzsrxn, Cuanuxs ‘Fosten, Brantey™ MaTrumws, and two or threo Democrats.”” The” fun of all this 1s fn the remagk, “All to be done under tho supervision of n Cominsslon'l. ‘Tnat would be a good deal like the sppoiotment of a Commis- slonto *“supervise™ the operations of a man who {s bottingon a * sure thing,” in order to convince the Joser that eversthing was done *on the square,” WAaRMOTU'S plan, &3 the Repubd. liean says, 1s & * sure thing " for NicroLts, Then why trouble WussLar, Marrizws, Fos- TR, and twoor threa Democrats to supervise 1t Tt will run itselt. Wanmori never invent~ ed & plan that wouldn't. ——— The Bt. Louls Republican says that President Haras ““scems to have shut his eyes to the fact that between the people of Loufsiana and Bouth Carolins and the carpet-baggers there is irrecon- cilable animosity, aud that a spark thrown fato this magazine may produce au explosion.” On tho contrary, it Jooks vory much as though the President!al eyes were quitc open to this fact. And since ho proposes to be & President of the whole people, and not merely of * the people of the Boutn recognized by the Republicans, he will probably arrange the msgazine that the sparks will not explods it to anyalarming ex- tent. Perhaps the Jtepublican can explain how to compromise an “irrecoucilable animosity " Uetter than by keeping the irreconcllables from cutiing cach other's throats. It the condition of things at the Bouth is as described, It will be & simplo necesaity to keap troops in the South, vossibly to prevent tho “malmosity " of the car- pot-bagger from working fujury to “the peo- ple"s possibly the yreverse.. It {s sad to bo In- formed by tho Republican that hegira of Northern meu from the South is the only com- promise *tho people ' will acvept. —————— Gutcaao, Mareh o1 o 1'pas vers mach surprieed to scu that your morning fssue of ihls day adw- catea for the position of Treasurer o porson who, it the management of his own buatness is lu{ eris terion, s noturiously unfit for the posltion. il e voto the lll‘llfihl ticket, but am free Lo ssy could not swallow such a nominstion, * Maxuracromen, ‘We have recelvpd several protests, some vor- bal and sowme fn writlog, of tenor like the above. ‘We are not awarc that the gontlemaa himself desires to bo a candidate; some of his friends have warmly recommended bim for the oilice, and the commendation n tbe item was made upun thelr representation. e — e The Springfeld (Masa.) fiepubllcan calls atton- tlon to the probability that the next Pope may be an Eoglishman,—the first since Nicuoris Boeaxsrnag, in the feudal ages. The person thus sJluded to 18 Monsignor Howanp, who has just boen made a Cazdinal. Heli s member of an old Cathollc famlly, at the head of which is the Duke of Norfulk, the premier Duke of the Euoglish Peerage. 1o has livod In Rome for & long time, being Vicar of 8t. Peter’s, and s in much personal favor with the prosent Pope. Ha 18 48 years of age, and a man of high character and very ripe scholarship. The particular rea- son which hes led tothe supposition that his wiil be the succeasor §s & very gancral hellet that his candldacy would afford a mors Jikely opportu- nity for agreoment than that of any Italian, It this supposition has any basls, it is diMeult to #ee why the candidacy should not tall upon Car- dinal Matwing, the other English representa- tive In tho 8acred College, who stands equally high with Monslgnor HowARD in character and scholarship, and is s man of much more fo and energy, - 5 — A very largo number of Fourth Ward Repub- lleans aro disposed to resent the action of the Thuraday evening meeting which made up the delegato ticket tobo voled for todday. They claim that through the *sculduggory ! of Bivt, Hanerr, TRUDE, Mixs McDoNALD, GARRITY, Monrnria MARTIN, and other eminent roformers they were cheated out of thelr cholee of delo- gates; and, while they do not hold the gentle- men sclectod as delcgales responaible for the conduct of Hanrrmr and his gang, they will show at the pollsto-day that * bulldozing ** can- not be successfully carried on in the Fourth Ward, An antl-Haupen ticket, composed of the following named gentlemen, will bo pre- scuted at the Republican primary election of the Fourth this afternoon: R, B. Nicaby, David Vaughan, W, E._Frost, Henry Riei P.'P, Mutthewns, 8ldney Emith, D. V. Purrington, D, Ii. Brayton, 1L A. Anderaon, Loander Stonc, Jamea L. Migh A. D. Titsworth, ames Lo 80 getanarat, ; ———— Secrctary BnEnMAw has ordered 'that Dr. Many WALKER shall be walked out of the Treasury bullding. As she scuds under bare poles, he probably thinks sho belongs to the Navy Dcpartment. The Dostor, howover, differs, ana had to be put out forclbly & day or two since. In the meles she threatened to shoot, and the doorikeeper, having & reanrd for his own person, so handled her arms that she took n shoot Into tho strect. Bho threatens to make it hot for SERRMAN by firing tho heart of the women of the country to resent the outrage upun her personal lberty, Bhio will fail in this, Women are unalterably hostile to any of thelr 80x who peralst {n a vostumo which renders the concealment of large feet and corpulent ankles an Impossibility. ————— . It scems n pity to keep Mrs. P1xs shut up in Jadl, just because her maln witness is “not here.”” Why sho Is kept thers anyway, it is difffcult to understand, Her story was a little “fishy," and her life appears to have bieena trifte “acaly,” and she got a good many people by the “gills,” but {t must bo remembored that her name is “Pikx.' There was no proof whatever that she knew anything about the murder of Jones. Law {s law, and cven a lunatic has a right to get the benefit of it Lot Mrs. P1xx go hunt for hor witness. — From the high standpoint of an {ndopendent ob- server, having no interest but the nution's interest, Dbiased by no uukind or partisan lulll\"‘llnll\ll the Adminlstration, and dlsposcd to critioise Ius con- duct only in a spirit of absolute fairacss, the Ttmes, otc. The cdltorial from which the above cholce passage fa culled was evidently written by ‘Toupe, It Is just tho way he talks in court, when, to use his facetlous and ingennous way of putting it, ho * fects that calm confldence which alirays insplres a lawyer when ho knows that at least scven men In the jury bofors him haye his client's monoy in thelr pockats.’ ————— Dr. Rapaaxe, the well-known fortune-teller of Chicago before the fire, bas just committed suleide fn Cinclnpat!, He killed hinself bo- causs his wife left all her property, soms $250,000, to her childron, and them, of coursc, the poor sstrologer hind no fortuna to tell. Hla occupation was gone. e Hterally died of mis- fortune. [t must be admiited that he choso a good placo in which to terminate his career. All the surroundings In the Pork Clty are favor- ablo to great composure of mind and strength of purpose when auicldo Is {n contemplation, ——— 80 O BuLy has come agatn, OLx, is it to boa *farewoll to America® this time? *Thou art 80 far and yot 50 near” that the phrenol- oglist’s diagnosls of your bumps scoma to be fn- disputable, Ha calls the secret of your success ‘““welrdness.” It certalnly lsn't tiredness. You must “bang up de fiddle and de bow’ one of these days, of course, but tho public wilt never bid you good-by, *admission one dollar,”” again untll your right hand forgets its cunning, and the rest of you, too, for that matter. R e P, HiLoreTn's fellows rather overd!d the stuft- fog business in tho Fifth Precinct of the Bev- enth Ward. Thoy counted out 433 votes for the ‘*Lonest Gauger™ and 50 for Jonn Rionpax, the decent men's candidate. No friend of RiorDAN was allowed inside wherothe counting was done. The bellof outside Is, that Rionpax had amajority of the bona fide Democratic votos bolonging to the procinct. But loafers and tramps by tho scoro and hundreds from other wards were imported, and the chaps fn chargo of the polls managed the rest of the cheating. —— When two dogs out over a bone with a heap of meat on It, a third dog (s apt to snatch it. The I.-0. has had the slnccure tax-list two years,—paying * Buffalo" $10,000 per ycar for it,—so sald. Tho £.J had it last year. They are both fighting for it this yoar, andthechancea aro that Huox will adopt the policy of *con- clliatlon and compromiss " by giving it to the Poit. This would please everybody cxcept the numerous creditors of the bankrupt, who are walting impatiently for the first installment. ——————— Yerhaps the best * Bouthern Commission * would be to hunt up Bergt, BaT2s and sond him through the bulldozed parishes of Loulslana with the “old flag.” Ho might go one way, Et1 PEREINS apother, and Private Dirzxrya third, Then * compromiss® on this basta; If either returned to Now Orleans alive, then let Pacxanp be Governor; if the heads of all were sent in promptly, then let Nicnowtsbe Gov- ernor, ——— HeNRY WATTERS0N Was rocelved on his re- turn to Loulsville by a general tusn-out of dls- tinguished citlzens. In the course of the ova~ tlon'he made the speech ho promised to deliver when In Congress, He told his people all about the sltuation, and now everything in Kentucky in ¢ a8 quiet as & nurscry,”—a kind ot * bub- bling still ** poculiar to the Bluo Grais Country, which generally euds in high w(b)ines, i The Seventh Ward can bo saved from the shame and dlsgraco of belng represented by a selfconfessed revcnuo robber, The fellow's nomiunation was & fraud; It was secured by im- porting bundreds of loafers and tramps from other wards. Tho scum of half-a-dozen wards were dumped into theSevonth, Let the Repub-~ licaus and decent Democrats unite on a candl- date, and they can eloct their man and squelch the absconder. e —— The Greonbackers have uominated ABNxx Tarxron for Mayor. Elect him, snd the city will bo able to run its various departments ‘without taxation, by the fssuc of scrip to be nade a legal-tender for all claims sgalnst the «ity, redecmable, at the pleasure of the corpors- tlon, in other scrip of ilke tenor, interchauge- ablo for a municipal bond bearing intercst at .85 per ccnt, payable in scrip. 'Rah for Asl e ——— ¢ Hamburg Massacre ™ BuTLER has been all the way from Bouth Carolina to Washing- ton, In order to instruct the Administration 8 to its duty, and has gone homo disgusted. The first duty of ths Administration, wbon be comes again, will be to arrest aod try him for murder, That Is a civil right from which he has been too long debarred. e ———— The Republicans of the Third Ward have sgreed upon Judge Evosxs Caxzy for Alder- man to take tho scat held by Congressman Avprics. He will make su cxcellent Alder | and man, and onght to be clected by st least 800 mg, Jority aver BTox®, who went back on tte people of the ward in the struggle to get rid of * Col. vinism," which fact is not vet forgotten, e ——— The Republican Club of the Eighteenth Waeq at thelr last meeting recommended Mr. Anngn R. Bomanton for Alderman to the support of the primaries this afternoon, He 18 an old reg). dent and property-owner, member of the wel). known firm of PURINGTON & BORARTON. Haly & very worthy and estimable citizan, and, if he consents to serve, can eastly be elected, e — FrEpsriox J. GRoss was * apotted " when it was settled that some one was stealing fet. ters from tho Post-Office, because on a salary of 8000 & year ho and his wile were living like nobs at the Palmer House. Had he possessed the ability of some younz men who board at firs. class houses he might have evaded suapicion by never paying his bos —————— Gen. McCuutuan could not be confirmed by the New York Benato for Superintendent of Pablle Works. Thers was s fear that, with McCLELLAN in charge, the canals would not b opened bofors October. Ho was slways tog elow and always Loo late; and then his con. nection with -that moth-oxterminator transae. tlon bas never been satisfactorily explalnod. — MATT CARPENTBR'S monkey, who turns his “organ,” alleged to bo a newspaper, In Milwau- kee, {s making faces at the editor of Tuz Trip. ung. The countenanco of the *‘amoosing™ lit. tlo creature, however, is 80 shaded by his car. flaps that much of the humor of his grimaces es. capea observation. ——— The 7.-0.,88 8 “rag" organ, ought to recelys more favor from the paper companles. They persist In suing it for past-due paper, both printing and promlssory. Maybe they think the cffort of . the £.-0. to keep up the price of “rags ¥ hucts thelr bustoess. . f ‘Why do wo not sco the following In the Times nowadays: “Four years of Havzs is four years of Grantism." It used to appear as regularly 28 a standlng ¢ ud." f Busan B. AxTHONY{s once mors among us, and all the young gallants are on the qui vive ag usual, Fle, Busan! . | ‘The CAMERONS, having no farther use for the Pennsylvania Legislature, prorogued it yester- day “sing die” # PERSONAL. Field Marshal Tialatead calls District Marahal Donglass **a whirligig of time." - A Ban Franclsco reporter named Odglers has aued afellow-townsman who thrashed him, Yor $10, 000, Filty years ago M, Thiers wroto **The Pyranees ana Sonth of France," which haa just been repab. llshed for privata circalation, . It1s sald that Julla Ward Howe's daughtor Mauds is engaged with a man named Lynn In renising her mother's poems {or publication. - 1t is sald that tho hard knocke sustained by the Marchloness of Lorne, In her contact with an un. teoling world, have converted her to Spiritantism, The death of Abner Huntley, who azpired, at the age of 100 yoars, in Now York lately, throws upon the charitable world a paling orphian boy of 81, *! Tho walters In one of the New York hotel: notallowed to wear whiskers In any form,"—Cin, Cord. Buch rales here sult better if extended to tho butter. Misa Frances E. Willard is devoting her enérgles in Boston exclualvely to Indies. Lady ushers guard tho dooss, when sho holds forth, and not even that innocuous male, the oston rcporter is euftered to approach. e * Mr. Beechor approves the Cabinet. Hessys that Mr. Evarts i a delightful talker, but talks too much about himself. This 1 not qnite kind, con- sidering that he once talked about Deecher the largor part of a fortnight. "—XNew York 2rening Telegram. For this are we Presldents. An exchangs says: **The tomb of Andrew Johnson {s unmarked ané unhonored. A little woaden shed covars the geare of the Prealdent and his wife, who lles buried st his side, ~which side 1s a question, for nelther grave bears & eingle mark, " Upon the exsmination of Mr. Ford, In the bank. ruptey proceedings sgalnst the New York pub! ing house of J, B, Ford & Co., that gentloman te: tited that Boecher's sermons were only worth t! motal they wero cast {n, and the **Life of Chriat,” ‘which cost, including the plates and contract with tha author, $27,000, was carried at 83,000, The doctors of Ghent are on & strike, They have formod & soclety and propose publishing the names of all patlents who fall to **represent " for fees, and each doctor pledges himself not to visit any person 8o published. A blll has been intro- daced In the Ghent Common Conncil to abollsh the Board of lealth a4 an unneceasary experve, ‘Anolfies conaln of Mr. Emerson remarks In the Doaton Transcript; *'The strident overture In Wagner's ¢ Flylng Dutchman® burst upon na (ke an lnvicorating northwest breexe after the languid alrs of Itallan opera, and ita deep truth of purs pootry and passion made the superficial sensation- allam of Verd| scom, say, like Miss Braddon after Goorge Eliot." Mary Bheridan, of Bayonne, K. J., became en- raged bocause her llitle boy of 3 years uppetscan of beer by accident. She fastened bim to & pule Iy-line ata height of alout twenty feet from the ground, hanled him out about six feet from the houae, and left him there while she went for mora beer. The child was In convalsions when rescued by ber neighbors, The barvesuu, of editors appears to be attonded with dificalties this scason.’ A Californis joar- maliat thrashed & bloodthirsty sssallant, and now John Hathawsy, of tho Versatiles (0.) Indepeadent, husscared off & gory-minded livery-stabla keeper by nccepting the latter's challenge to carnage, Willlams slandored a youhg lady, snd Hathawsy ‘*wrote hlin up." ¢4The bold Willlama fesned & mantfesto comprehending combat, and Hathawsy replied, ‘*Lol hers am 1," whereapon the chal- longer left to plck oat the ground, and in atlll en- gaged in that enterpriso, A XMrs, Wallaco, of Phlladelph! rrangiog & programmie in the luterosts of Earopean war core respondents out 0fa Job, She proposes takings party of young ladies through London, Aniwerp, Drus- sels, Cologne, the Rhine, leldelborg, Daden, Btras- burg, Bale, Lucern¢, Bruning Pass, Drienz, Gelas- bach Falls, Interlacken, Berne, 8t. Gothard Pass, ‘Turin, Genova, Plsa, Rome, Florence, Venica, Milan,’ Mont Cenls, snd Patls, The trip will closa in Sep- tomber, but we may hope o hear of tatrible battles, sttendant with large diminutions of tho force, from any pointand A special to the Clucinnati Gaselfe from Lancas- ter (O.) says: * K plcked up on hls farm, two miles oast of Reynoldsburg,a couple of days since, a tooth welghing quarter pounds, supposed 1o be the tooth of & mas- todon, It had been washed oat of a marsh on the fanm by asmall siream of water ruoning through * it. The sl supposition 18 that the greater pore ton Is yet {n the marsh, anditls under more favorable conditions, to make & thorough search for the remalns of the buge monster of antiquity, The tooth in questlon 18 evidently a grinder, and moasures fve by elght inch The New York ¥orid sppears to tske consider- able Interest In the Pike-Jones murder: **Notbe luz moro pitiable and disgusting has een throst before the public for & long time 'past than ihe *confesalon’ of Mrs, Pike, the loose-girdled wife of & looss-minded Spirituallat, who the otherdsy murdered auother person of the same kiduey with himself, The woman had not even the commos womanliness ta pretend that sho was Jed intosia by pasaton, but made up & long aud twaddling story of overpowerlug ‘maguotlam’ and other rubbled of the same sort, 10 excuse herself In the eyou of ber husband. Thosffalr In its maln featurcs fe- calls tbe odious sssssalnation of Mr. Key in Wash- ington, neatly twenty yearsago; but tho actorsls thls more recent case, all of them beloaged tothe alopplest school of Tilton, ‘Tte man Piko ls plsin 1y a murderer if over thers was one, snd, sinca the man be slew was one of his own type snd clssh tho matter might bosald to have been well wousd up If there wers any probabllity ¢hat Pike would bo banged and the woman be sont to plcking cskum in some healthy Bridewol Crazy Preak. Jew York Sun, MarcA 31, Mrs. Mary Blieridan, of Bayonne, while intexk cated, fastcoed her B8-ycar-old child to 8 -mndiwr{ pulleyecord, and _left it dangling twenty feck above the ground. Nelghbors, st um«}muma’n n-fin.bm {0to the rvas® Tyle: '