Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1877, Page 4

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P. pATOLLO COMMANDERY. :—<pecial Conciave ai ou'Tuesday eveninz nexe, March 27, order of K. T. will be conferred. n; courteously fuvited. By order of the k. J. 4. DUNLUP, Recorder. VAN RENSSELAER GEAND LODGE OF PER- A. and A, Sccteh fite Masc Special Assembly on Thursday wielock - Work on the Tltind JOiN O ED. GOODALE, Grand BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS. CHICAGO LODGE XO. 4.—In accordarce with aresolutiva adopted. aad whiich will be stricty adi 10, 00 person Wil L¢ admitted to the soclal s Iess presenting a rezular printed ticket ssaurd by the Lodge, and Laving the pamie of the guest ser *ion i fnk thereon. E. L. BAIL ar, SUNDAY, MARCH 235, 1877 At the New York Gold Exchange Saturday greenbacks raled at 953@953. The Legislature has enacted, and the Gov- ernor has approved, the law amending the General Manicipal Incorporation set by mak- ing the term of the City Treasurer, Cii; At- toruey, and City Clerk two years, instead of one, as now. The Treasurer, however, is in- cligible for re-clection. This law takes effect immedintely, agd these officers, to be elected in Chicago next week, will hold office two years. For the first time in the history of the English University-races a dead heat has been decl=red. The'annual race between Ox- ford and Cambridge yesterday was the most exciting ever rowed on the Thames, and at the finish the Judge refused to decide in favor of either, and the heat was declared off. Dispatches indicate that had not the No. 1 of the Oxfords broken his oarlock that club had been victorious, but as the natter stands all “England is torn with the most remarkable boat-raca in the annals of the sport. The indications from the primaries are that AMayor Hestr will receive eighty-seven votes on the first bellot in the Convention to- Ihis will be thirteen more than are necessary to a nomination. It is not probable that any change will be made, as Tepublican delegates are not as susceptible to the influence of the ‘ barl” as are the spawnings of Democratic primaries. The nomination for Mayor may now be consid- ered as practically seitled, and it remains only for Republicans to work well to secure 1he clection. Up to last cvening the Louisiana Commis- non existed only in name. It is believed, however, that the Commission will be com- sleted and ready to start on its mission vithin a few deys. CHAMDERLAIY has ex- oressed a willingness to visit Washington at the President’s invitation, but Gen. Haxwrrox has not so far been heard from. It is prob- able that the rival Governors will both come 1o the Capital, and that the South Carolina question will be disposed of satisfactorily in a very short time thereafter. Friends of the Administration indulge in the hope that the President’s Southern policy will have borne < good fruit long beforo the meeting of the " extra session of Congress, and that the few irreconcilables who have counted upon the failure of the pacification scheme will thus ‘have the wind entirely taken ont of their sails, and be compelled to accept the inevi- table. As to Mr. CutoN Briags, whom the Democrats have renominated for City Treasurer, the only objection we have to urge is the deep-seated conviction on the part of prudent people that no man shonld DLe clected City Treasurer twice consecu- tively. The experience with City Treasurers s been such os to make it imperative as a rule of good politics that no man should be elected to that position a second time until he has settled up his accounts and turned over to » successor. This principle has taken so0 strong a hold that a law has re- cently passed the Legislature making Trens- urers ineligible for re-clection ; and, if that law is rot legally operative Tow, it ought to . be 5o mworally, and Mr. Brices should suc- cumb toit. For the rest, Mr. Bricas’ good standirg - and character in the community- secm only to be used by the bummers of the Democratic party to. help carry the disrep- utsble fellows who sre trying to be elected to the Common Council on the same ticket with him. ki The Chicago produce markets were less active in the aggregate Saturday, and steady. Mess pork closed 3¢ per brl lower, at £15.574@13.90 for April and $14.05@ 14.07% for Mpy. ILard closed 5¢ per 100 lbs Tower, at £9.573@9.40 for April and §9.47} @9.50 for May. Meats closed easier, at 5c for Joose shoulders, 73c for do short ribs, and 7jc for do short clears. Highwines were nominal, at $1.0@1.05 per gallon. Flour was quite active and stronger. Wheat closed 3¢ higher, at $1.26} for March and 1.26} for April. Corn closed unchanged, &t 394c for April and 42fc for Msy. Oats closed dull, at 82}c for April and 35c for May. Rye was ichigher, closing at G{@664c cash and 64c for April. Barley was firm, at 53¢ for March and 52c for April. Hogs were in fair demand and steedy, at $5.20@ 5.75 for common to choice. Cattle werse firm, at $3.25@35.85, and sheep quiet, at §$3.25 @3.50. One huudred dollars in gold would buy $104.87} in greenbacks at the close. Next Sunday is Easter. People who ob- serve Lent are pretty well outof the woods. It has been a good year to add to the num- ber of Lenten devotees. Times are hard, and it is just as well, when one can, to make & virtue of necessity, and lny aside the pomp and vanity of the world, at the command of Jother Church instead of Father Pocket- ] book. People have different ways of keep- ing Len{. Comparatively few know why its observance is enforced by certain Churches, and those who do know trouble themselves very slightly in the matter. It's the fashion to do it, and so 'tis done. This suggests the query: Why cannot religion be made fash- ionable all the yearround? If it was only *“the go,” it would never suffer for lack of disciples. Yet, by n strange freak, that part of the life of Curist most melancholy and dismal—his forty days’ temptation—is se- lected as the pertod, par excellence, for fash- ionable devoteeism. Why not rather take the whole life of the Savior, covering, in its active ngencies, the average life of any man, and observe the whole of it? Thiswould take time, to be surc, butit would be time very well spent. MMr. Perey H. Swrra, having been one of the manipulators of Tipex’s ‘‘barl of money " at St. Louis and during the cam- paign, gained some experience which has served him a good tnrn in securing the Democratic nomination for Mayor. Pem- =y was beaten at the primaries, and Corviy was ahend. Cowviy supposed this assured him the victory; but Pen- Y knew a trick worth two of the old primary dodge. Ho didn’t pay any attention 1o the primary meetings; he didn't * see” any of the delegates the day after they were elected; he waited to *‘get in his work” just before the voting in the Convention yesterday, and then it was suddenly dis- covered that Peeny had tho majority. It is related of a shrewd old New Yorker who used to have occusion to ausk favors of the Legislature that he would never spend money to elect any candidate, because Le knew that he would have to by him any way after election. Prrry has had enough experience with Legislatures to know the value of this rule, while CoLvry is probably still puzzled to know how it is that, with all the men ho had elected to the Convention, he did not get a majority of the votes. Prob- ably Peeny could enlighten him if ho saw fit. The campaign will now have to be made against ““Peeny’s barl,” and it is said to bo a big ono and well-filled ; but his ex- perience in the end is not unlikely to prove what Hoxre's was in the Congressional fight. However, if we must zdd o Democratic Aayor elong with a lot of bummer Aldermen to our other inflictions, Penny is entitled to some consideration for bringing in his “barl” to beat the other man. Of two evils his election will be & good deal.more tolerable than CoLviv'’s would have been. A SUGGESTION TO TAXPAYERS. The Couaty and City Governments are pretty much the same thing as far as Chicago taxpayers are concerned. They pay all the taxes for the maintenance of the one and nearly all for the maintenance of the other. For two or three years the tax-eaters and bummers had possession of both branches of this dual contrivance for plundering the property-owners and business men, and Chicago paid dearly forit. It cost millions of dollars yearly, which were squandered and stolen by corrupt officekolders end in- triguing contractors. A year ago the tax- peyers and decent citizens took advantage of a general city clection to rid the munici- pal corporation of one set of bummers, and a Mayor and Common Council were elected by mesans-of the Republican votes and a fair proportion of the Democratic votes who have saved from two to three millions annually in the cost of running the city ma- chinery. Last fall, when there was a Presi- dentinl election, in which the Democratic candidate carried the county, the bummer nominees for County Commissioners slipped in under his wing, and the County Ring was strengthened instead of weakened by the result. So barefaced and intolerable has the county system of plunder become that the people have applied to the Legislature for relief, and there is a hope that the pres- ent Board may be legislated out of existence. The Common Council has the same powers in eity affairs that the County Commissioners have m county affairs; and the bummers, contractors, and office-brokers who used to thrive upcn the pap furnished by both insti- tutions, but who for the past year have been confined to county stealings, are now seek- ing to rench the City Treasury and grab from it os freely as from the County Treasury. They are doing it under the name of the Democratic party, and count upon success because of the large Democratic vote cost in the city for Mr. Tipex. Under this cover they have nominated u disreputable mob for Aldermen. In the whole list of Democratic candidates for the Council but few persons have been picked out who can be called gen- tlemen, or who can lay-claim to any confi- dence for their honesty or fair-denling. = All the others, there is reason to believe, will be reedy tools of the same bummer class which now lives upon the venality of the County Board. Among the Aldermanic nominations under cover of the Democratic party, bat really made by packing the primaries, are self-confessed thieves, notorious shysters, disrepatable saloon-keepers and ward-bum- mers, while the remainder are men of such obscure vocation, weak character, and ig- norant and low associations as to be plisble in the hands of the bummers. The success of the Democratic party in this local eam- paign will earry these bummers into the Council, and reinaugurate the riot and plun- der which were checked a year ago. Now, while these bummers are attempting to use the neme of the Democratic party to regoin their hold on the City Tressury, we submit to every taxpayer who voted for TrpEx last fall whether it would not bo bet. ter for Inm to hove honest Aldermen and city officials who voted for Haves than a lot of scamps who claim that they voted for TmpeN. Wo can’t believe that the respecta- ble Democrats of Chicago, who have prop- erty interests av stake, will -allow them- selves to be deceived by the mere namo of their party in such manner as to lelp elect o scurvy and dangerous set of fellows to squander and steal the public moneys. It is merely a question for all taxpaying citizens, Democrats as well as Republicans, whether the city machinery for taxation shall be turned over to the same ring that now con- trols the county machinery. They are merely two links of the same sausage, made from the same do CHICAGO'S SOUTHERN CONNECTIONS. The St. Louis newspapers have been en- gaged of late in the effort to stir up the sleepy old people of Bourbon ancestry who sit down content with the “ natural advan- tages " of their geographical location, and watch Chicago tapping the Southerncountry with new railrond outlets. In view of this circumstance, it is with some compunctions that we direct attention to another important and through railroad connection between Chicago and the South, which will set Lh.a St. Lonis newspapers howling anew; but, if the Chicago railroads are enterprising enough to extend their connections and open up new territory to Chicago merchants, it is our duty to chronicle the news, St. Louis to the ‘con- trary notwithstanding. The latest Southern connection is made by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railrond securing permanent control of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Road by assuming the mortgage on the latter. This places the Missouri, Kansas & 'Texas Road and -its branches under the admirable management of the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy, which at once assures an improvement in the business of the former, and turns this business directly into Chi- cago. The line of the leased road was al- most through the centre of 1lissouri, and takes in Eastern and Southern Kansas, the Indian Territory, and -a large part of Texas. It will also give Chieago a direct connection with the Southern Pacific Railroad, which St. Louis has considered as peculiarly her own. Tho richness and future promise of the territory traversed makes this connection an important addition to the business pros- pects of this city. There 15 no doubt that the St. Louis alarm about Chicago’s laying hold of the Southern trade 1s: well-founded, and it is not to be wondered that the St. Louis newspapers ask their people what they are going to do with it. Chicago, by way of the Illinois Central and its new Southern route, has an air-line road leading to New Orleaus, passing through Eastern Missouri, and in a position to take the trade of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missis- sippi. But a few links remain to be completed to give the Chicago & Alton Road direct connection with Florida. Last senson Tlorida watermelons and other fruits were sold in the streets of Chicago that were sent direct by rail. It is only n question of time when‘the Chiengo & Charleston Road will be taken in hand by parttes who will complete the connections necessary to o direct route which will open the way to the Atlantic coast and traverse the Southeast. Cincinnati is making a per- sistent effort to secure this territory for itself through the road it is building across the mountains to get into Georgin; but St. Louis does not seem to realize that Chicago is reach- ing out pll around her, to the South, East, and West. Perhaps it is just as well; at all events, we shall endeavor to trest our new connections fairly, in the spirit of reconcili- ation, pacification, and mutual advantage. PROPOSED CITY GISLATORS. It is proposed by the ward bummers who call themselves Demotrats to place the leg- islative government of the City of Chicago for the ensuing year in the hands of the fol- lowing persons, and intrust them with the levying and disbursement of several millions of taxes: Fmest Wiaep—Oscir Frerp, the fat and ignorant livery-stable keeper. Secoxp Warp—W. J. Crmverx, doggery- Leeper. E Tamp Warp—RINSSELAER StonE, Col- vinite. Fovrre Winp—Isaso ELDRIGE, - cattle- dealer; fairish sork of man. Frrrn Wanp—Dave Douxy; Hibernian; coal-cart driver; aud knows cbout as much as his horse. Also, Par Leppy and Briwn Tracy; both brilliant material for city Al- dermen. Srxtet Wanp—Par H. Jovce ; Hiberninn; 2 Blue Island avenne rum-hole keeper; no qualifications except making men drunk on rot-gut. One Jnr Doorex proposes to run independent aguinst the * gin-slinger.” They are both sweet byes, and would be an honor to any conutry. Sevestn Warp—Huxk Hinprerm, o self- convicted swindler, who wented to squeal on his pals, and then absconded to the Queen's dominions to escape the Penitentiary. Ercarn Warp—Par C. Feener; Hiber- nian; late Constable; and who would be on the side of the taspayers about as mnch as a Communist. : Novrz Warp—S. D. Lovesoy; except that he is o Hiberman he is not known to have any qualifications for the office. TextR Warp—Jonx McMunNEY; grossly ignorant; can searcely read or write. ELEvENTH WarD—MALcoLat McDoxarp; has poor qualifications for Alderman. Tomreentn Wano—Hesgy R. WarerLz ; of little account. TFounteesTH WaRD—Ald. RyAN; neither good nor bad. Frrreeste Wanp—Al. Nmesen ; sometimes votes right. SrxreENTE WaARD—ALd. LzxGacEER; o Re- publican, aud a pretty fair member; Demo- crats afraid to run one of their own men. SEVENTEENTE Wamp—Ex-Ald. Tox Cax- ~ox; a Democrat for this oceasion; a slip- pery eel; everything by turns and nothing long politically ; one daya Republican, next day a Greenbacker, the third a Democrat; no visible means of support, and no salary at- tached to the office; why does he want to be Aldermen ? Erenreexts Warp—Jayms H. B. Dary; Tespectable man, and would make o fair Al- derman, s 3 Thus it is seen that of the whole batch not more than three can be considered fit for the Aldermanship ; and most of those likely to De elecied are mere bummers and scalawags, and some of them disreputable wretches. This is the savory gang which Demoeratic cancuses have sclected torule and tax this city for the next twelve months. As self. Ppreservation is the first law of Nature, the self-interest, to say nothing of self-respect, of every taxpayer and decent citizen, irrespect- ive of party, will impel him 1o strive to de- feat nt lenst fourtcen of these tax-eating bummers. e The influence of the Surrvax trial in the Pemncmtic politics of this city seems to be important. Last fall, B O'Briex, one of Svrzvan's counsel at the first trial, dictated the Democratic nomination for State's-Attor- ney; yesterday, Wrrriaar J. Hryes, one of Svu_.rn.\-'s counsel at the second trial, was nominated for City-Attorney. This individ- ual was never heard of in Chicago, to our Inowledge, until he turned up as one of Svz.- 21vax's defenders ; now we learn that he has been here a year and s half, and was prevf- ously an “Arkansas Traveler.” He emi- grated to Arkansas from Heaven lkmows where, under the protection of the army, ond 8s long as the army remain- ed he was a carpet-bag politician on the Republican side. When the army left Arkansas, he left too, and now he turns up in Chicago as a carpet-bag politicien on “the Democratic side. All this is chiefly in- téresting as showing that the Democratic denunciation of the carpet-baggers in the South was stmply because they were on the opposite side, but that the Democrats are in favor of carpet-baggers on their side,— especially when they have done service in getting SuLrrvan off. We may as well re- mind them, however, that the nomines for State’s-Attorney dictated by Mr. SurLIvan's counsel last fall was defeated; and we fancy that the people this spring will conclude by the same reasoning ihat the defenss of Sur- LIvaN ought not to be a passport to an im- portant legal position. LIFE-INSURANCE IN NEW YORK. ‘We yesterdny presented some statements made before & committee of the New York Legislature concerning the expenditures of life-insurance companics. The figures show- ing the salaries of the principal officers, in- cluding ngents’ fees and commissions, are not comforting to the insured. "It will be readily understood how little interest the insured have in the business of life-insurance when the losses by death bear but a small percentage of the expenditures of the com- pany. The growing policy of life-insuranco is, to insure the largest possible number of persons at the highest rate,—this rate to be s0 high that, after an average payment of premiums for five or six years, the policies are abandoned, and all the payments be- come clear profit. The receipts of life-insurance companies ave: 1, from premiums; 2, from interest on invested profits; 3, rents for property taken under foreclosed mortgages; and 4, from forfeited policies. The expenses are salaries, fees, and commissions. Mr. Mornis FrasmumN, President of the New York Life, oue of those rated as among the best companies, testified that the follow- ing was the salary list of that Company dur- ing 1876 President esaesesesnns Yice-President and Actuary... Medical Examine Legal expenses Cleri:s and othe: Other fees... $230,528 Total salaries......eeeueeuaenn Mr. Fraykuy stated that in 187 there were 4,000 policies which lapsed. About 300 of these were by death, and 3,700 were forfeited by non-payment of premiums. The average of these policies was {or 13,000, and the average time for which premiums had been paid was six years. Here, then,is a statement of the character of the business done by one of the best of life-insurance companies. The new policies about equaled the number lapsed, and the average- life of those which lapsed was six years, and the number lapsed by death was300. The result of this system of business is, that, of the number of persons who take policies of life- insurance, 74 per cent die while insured, and 92§ per cont pay premiums six yeersand then abandon the policies. When it is understood at the avowed object of life-insurance is to pay to the survivors of the insured a certain sum of money at his death, the act- ual fact that less than eight persons out of every 100 insured ever raceive anything shows how far the real business of life-insur- ahce has departed ‘from the popular iden. In view of this remarkable disclosure, all the romance and poetry of life-insurance be- comes a very practical and mean realily. ‘The present practice is to send out agents to importune uninformed persons into taking policies. For this duty the importunate can- vassers are peid heavily out of the proceeds | of the work, the company feeling able to do 50, because, out of all the insured, 7} per cant only are a loss, and 92} per cent are profit. We repeat these figures that persons who have life-insurance may understand what a small figure the sums eventnally to be paid on their policies cut in the busjpess of the company. As the life of an insurance policy averages about six years only, the policy of the company is to get all the money possible out of the insured in that time; the short life of the policy redaces the loss by death of the insured to less than eight policies out of every hundred, while the six years' receipis of preminm {rom the other ninety-two policies are swept into the Treasury of the company. As the President of the New York Life stated, find- ing that the mortality of the insured at the South was greater than nt the North, becanse the proportion of policies not forfeited was greater, that Company has had agents in that section purchasing the policies for cash. The end of life-insurance, therefore, is not to en- courage insurance payable at death, but to encourage insurance to be terminated by for- feiture before the death of the Fsured. Nevertheless, premiums on life-insurance are estimnted uccording to the average rates of mortality; or perhaps of longevity, and such rate of insurance is exacted as would justify the payment of all policies at the death of the insured. The result 1s immense profits, which are largely distributed in sal- aries and fees, in costly buildings, in daring risks and speculations, with an ever- present temptation for fraud. Life-insur. ance, honestly and economically managed, carried on for the benefit and interest of the insured, could, we suppose, be carried on profitably for one-half the rates now exacted; and when life-insurance companies shall re- trench their expenditures and offer insurance at lower rates, giving to the insured the ben- efit of at Jenst 50 per cent of the presént expenditures, there will be a revolution in the present mode of doing business, and life- insuranco will cease to be, as it now is in many companies, & snare to get half a dozen annual premiums out of each of its cnstom- ers, and then forfeit the policies. — 1t is quite a coincidence that Moopy and Coox are attempting to evangelize Boston at the same time. One is a man of heart, with moderate educationand no pretense to logic; he denls in the Word, and hammers it i by mein strength ; the other is a preacher of greatlearning, extensive culture, a dialectician of rare avalytic power. He is also gifted with equal rhetorical ability. Moopy exhorts and rams Lome the texts which corroborate lus nssertions ; Coox proves by arguments which convince the reason and command the judgment that the doctrines taught by Moopx are worthy of all acceptation, and that to doubt is not only to bo dnmned, but to be demented. This treatment is Pprecisely adapted to the needs of a pretentions people like the Bostonians. - They would rather be damned than forsake o theory, unless their massive intellects were first captured by the stronger claims of a contradictory theory. Like the Atheninns, the Boston man is, in his way, ‘‘ very religious.” He .has been wor- shiping Gop after the style of the Grecians when Paur visited them, * without know- ing Bim.” ¢ Him, therefore, whom you worship ignorantly,” cries the Logician Coor, *I declare unto you." Moopy is at the same time making the air ring with his persistent reiteration of the Bible statement that there iz no other Name given under heaven among men . whereby sinners can be saved except that of Jesus of Nazareth. Between the two, the “Boston man,"” though ** splendidly proud,” is in o great strait. He is a person who likes tobe on the safe side, and has for a long time rested under the impression that the safest thing for the Lord was to be on the Boston man's side. Now it dawns upon him that he may have been mistaken; that perhaps the clay has not so much power over the potter as he had imagined; thata Gop even created out of the brightest and best brain of Boston may not be strong enough to overturn the CarisT of Moopy and the Jemovan of Coox. It is a wonder the Boston man did not think of this before, but it must be said in his defense that his vision has been quite circumscribed and provincial. He has labored under the de- lusion, common to the Chinese, that out of his own city there was little worth know- ing, or serving, or believing. It remained for a Chicago man to break the shell of this mental and moral constriction, and for the Rev. Coox to prove its essential imbecility. THE ENGLISH BLACK-BOOK. The English people, having finished the analysis and discussion of their Domesday- Book, are now at work upon their Black- Book, or register of habitnal criminals in England and Wales. It is a ponderous vol- ume, bound in black, and contains the names of 12,164 criminals, with all their aliases and the number of their convictions. Brmeer KinestRY, of the County of Sligo, Ireland, appears to be the champlon, as she has fifteen alinses in addition to the proper description, and las been convicted thirty- nine times, thus showing a degree of sinful industry which must pat ordinary criminals to the blush. This novel Rogues' Gallery is a complete register of habitual and profes- sional criminals for the use of the police authorities in enabling them to identify pris- oners, and it is printed and bound by prison- ers, only at the cost of ink and paper. Lon- don produces 1,503 habitual criminals. The places which produced more than 100 habit- ual criminals were London, Manchester (630), Liverpool (351), Birmingham (343), Leeds (210), Bristol (160), Sheffield (172), Preston (112). Among other curious statistics con- tained in it, it is stated that Ireland contrib- uted 1,082 prisoners to the jails of England and Wales, Scotland 158. Of the total num- ber of prisoners, 8,612 were males and 8,552 females, The percentage of married female prisoners was 59, and the single men were twice as numerous as the married men. ‘The London Zimes says: “The marks and measurements by which criminals are iden- tified present a dismal picture of their violent lives and senseless habits, their deformed frames and stunted growth. 'Oat of the thir- ty-four descriptions upon the first page, all except six prisoners are identified by scars, cuts, scrofula marks, by fingers being crook- etc.” It is stated that this is the first attempt of its kizd to furrish the police of any country with information abont habit- ual criminals which is so complete and readi- ly accessible. One can readily see that it is vastly superior to our system of a Rogues’ Gallery, and it may furnish a useful hint to American police suthorities. A work of this kind, with the photographs incorporated in it, “wonld be even a more complete directory than the English Black-Book. With the existing aversion of American printers and binders, however, to the inside of prisons, the economy of issue which characterizes the English book could not be secured. It would have to be printed ot public expense. It does not spesk very well for English printors that the whole edi- tion was set up, printed, and bound by the prisoners in one jail,—that of Brixton. THE MOUNTAIN-MEADOW MASSACRE RE- VENGED. About a year ago, THE Cmcaco TRIBUNE printed a circumstantial account of the hor- rible Mountain-Meadow massacre, fastening the responsibility upon the Danite, Jomy D. Lee. Certsin rival papers sneered at the narrative as sensational. The truth has now been vindicated by the apprehension, trial, conviction, and execution of the murderer ‘who was pointed out in these columns. Upon the scene of this bloody work, where for twenty years the bones of LEr's victims bave been vainly crving for vengeance, there is a rude monument,—a plain stone,—upon which is inscribed: ¢ Here 120 men, women, and children were masgacred in cold blood, early in September, 1857.. They were from Arkansas.” Thereis also a cross which bears the legend: “ ¢ Ven- geance. is mive. I will repay,’ saith the Lord.” That vengeance has come ; and with a certain dramatic fitness Jomy.D. Lee has been shot upon the very field where, twenty years ago, his infernal massacre was per- petrated. His victims are avenged; the law is vindicated. The confession of this man, which was printed in our last issue, is an adroit piece of special pleading, tending to show that, so far as he was concerned, he was an unwill- ing agent of the Church, acting under c pulsion, and that the sole responsibi rests upon the heads of the Church. With regard to the first plea, it falls to the ground under the cumulative weight of the evidence taken during the correct, and must have been inspired by a feeling of revenge on Lee's part against his Mormon brethren, who had quietly allowed the odium of this massacre to fall upon him, and when the crisis came were both un. willing and unable to do anything for his relief, nnd careless of his fate. His con- fession implicates them with the utmost circumstantiality. It appears that the first suggestion that Indians -might be employed in the massacre of this party of emigrants was made to Ler by GEonce A. Saurs, then First Counselor of the Church, and * the right-hand man ” of Briamax Youxe, who would hordly have made such a suggestion without the knowledge that the head of the Church would. approve it. Later, the Mor- mon President, Isaac C. Hatenr, and Lex organized the Indians and laid ont the plan of attack, and Lee says “I did 28I was ordered.” There was skirmishing for several days with the emigrants, during which seven of them were killed and many wounded. - Then & council meeting of the Presidents, Bishops, and other church offi- cers, and members of the High Council, Societies, High Priests, etc., was called. They had a senson of preyer as to what should be done, and the resnlt was a plon to draw tho emigrants out from their defenses by a flag of truce, and then fall upon them and massacre them. The treacherous, bloody work was carried out to the very letter. ed, or the sinister mouth drawn down, trisl. The second charge is undoubtedly [ Their bodies were devoured by the wolves, and their bones lay bleaching upen Mountain Meadow until 8 long time after- wards théy were carefully collected and buried by United States military o_ficers. Two weeks afterwards Lee reported in per- son to Bricaax Youna, who, after making it the subject of prayer over night, the next morning told Les that the Lord had assured him it was all right. He cautioned Lex not to mention it, and rewarded him by treating him with the friendship of a father and seal- ing many wives unto him. The reward was a lavish one, for he leaves behind him eight- een wives and sixty-four children to mourn his loss with such fractional degrees of sor- row as they are able to muster until they are sealed to some other Mormon brother. A Mormon lndy writing of Lez in the New York Graphic says : 2 His wives were his slaves absolntely, body and soul. They say, he had lands, and amill, and kept a boarding-house. His wives worked inthe kitchen, in the ficlds, in the dairy, and were his servants in his boarding-house. Such is the Mor- mon social system. When he wanted another servant he took another wife; fora wife is a cheap- er servant to a Mormon than a hired one. Where 2 Mormon Saint bas profitable work for five, ten, or twenty or more wives, he gets them; and of the flock only oneor two sre permitted to play the mitress of the house or the lady. Dbe the mistress, but the youngest or latest addition to the flock is generally the lady. This LEE was nota hard task-master, but e was a fool, anda fanatic 1n the service of his prophet, a Danite. or destroying angel, a short, thick-sct, buman bull- dog, and yet mot by natare a vicious bull- dog. He was rich, but his wives and children, Mormon fashion, knew nothing but obedence, drudgery, coarse farc, and homespun clothing. Unguestionably, his was the lion's shace of the rich plunder of the murdered band of emigrants in the Mountain Meadows, and, no dount, plunder was one of the impelling motives to the massacre. The above extract undoubtedly character- izes JomN D. Lee in his true light as the fanatical instrument in the hands of his supertors;, with a disposition that did not hesitate to carry out their demands. Butis he the only guilty one? In his supplement to the confession he says: This statcment I have made for publication after my death, and have agreed with a friend to have the same, with many facts pertaining to other mat- ters connected with the crimes of the Mormon people under the leadership of the priesthood from the period before the batchery of Nauvoo to the present time, published for the benefit of my fam- ily, and that tne world may know the black deeds that have marked the way of the Sainta from the organization of the Churchof Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Suints to the period when & weak and 100 pliable tool lays down his pen to face the exe- cutioners’ guns for decds of which he is not more guilty than others who to-day are wearing the gar- ments of the priesthood and living upon the tithing of a deludad and priest-ridden people. If this supplementary statement be true, it is to be hoped that the other guilty parties may be speedily brought to justice. It is not fair that one man alone should suffer when others are equally guilty. It is due to the victims of Mormon treachery and cruelty that the record of that dreadful day be sifted to the bottorn It will be a matter of national interest that’ Mr. WiLLIAM PAGE, the celebrated New York artist, who has recently given the publica new SHARSPEARE, i3 about to zive it a new GEORGE WASIINGTON ulso. It will be remembered that Houpox, the French sculptor, was the only artlst who cver 1nade a cast of WasmiNGTON from Life. The bust was sent to Mouat Vernon, where it remained in obscurity until 1850, when two replicas of it were made. The original was Tne oldest may | 1574, and was reproduced a few weeks g0 af Mr. PowEr’s foundry. From the mask thyg obtained Mr. PAGE will paint his portrait. 7Ths New York Evening Post says: ** Mr. PaGE, why : has already begun to paint from it, says that it is the first portrait of WASHINGTON that eye seemed to him adequatc to satisty the rationy requiremenis of those persons who want to expressed the character and force which ‘history i attributes to our great national hero.” ——— ‘The Democrats are never tired of denoundj carpet-baggers, and yet they nominated a fu)l. blooded one for City Attorney yesterday. The individual, W. J. Hyses, whom they put nomination came to this city about a year 30, Heisan Arkansas traveler. He wasa carpet. bagger there, and foisted himself upon the pe. groes as a Republican candidate for Congress iy the Third District. He ran against a Democrag named W. W. WirsHire. The state of the poll was: - | Winsmme (Dem.)..ee eeeecre.. ] 11,73 Hyxzs (Rep. carpet-bagger)j. 3% Carpet-bagger beaten......co.eveuneenn.. 5,403 ‘When he carpet-bagzed to Chicazo from Ar. i kansas, he looked about to see which side hadths most butter for his bread, and finally concluded to turn his coat and join the Democratic party, Yesteréay be foisted himself upon their ticket for City Attorney,—a pretty brassy verformance, and which requires the cheek of an army mule to equal. | The decent and self-respecting Democrats of the Seventh Ward can escape the deep disgrace . of the whisky-thief for Alderman by uniting : with the Republicans on some honest man. Let | the decent men unite together, aod they can lay out the candidate of the roughs, pimps, gam- blers, and scalawags, who have pooled their efforts to send a thief and a loafer to the Coun- cil. If CoLviN had been nominated for Mayor by the Democratic Convention there would have been a grand bolt of pretty much all the decent Democrats in thé city over to the Republican candidate to defeat him and the bummer cle- ment of the party. But the bummers and roughs will have to swallow PErrY H. Syrrm; they can’t help themselves. ———— If PerrY had distributed from his bar'l the night before the Convention, as the byes want- edhim to do, old CorLviN would have scooped him yesterday for the Mayoralty nomination; but he did not become a Greenbacker until the Convention was ready for work, and then he in- fiated freely to ‘“move the craps.” —— Mr. C.R. LARRABEE, of the old and well-known firm of LARRABEE & NORTH, hardware merchants, will be presented to the Republicaa Convention for City Treasurer by his North Side friends. He is the right man for the right place, and the Convention can’t do better than nominate him, if what scores of his friends have told is true. ———— The Hon. E. B. WASHBURNE willarrive in this city by the morning train from the East, and will'stay with the Hon. J. R. JONES, on Ashland avenue, during his brief visit in the city; that is to say, he will “put up at the JoNES mouse, which will be open to his friends.” gl e Perry H.S. was SaM TLpEN'S Western fis- cal agent at the St. Louis Convention. He man- aged the job therc very neatly on ‘Tox Hex- DRICKS. The experience then acquired was not lost on himself yesterday. 4 At 20 yearsof age the will rules, says a wise man; at 30, the inteilect; at 40, the judmment; at 50, experience; at 60, caution and suspicion; and after that the tendency is to folly. * A railroad man who has gone through Lezisla- tures is not likely to have an express agent set up a convention of ward-bummers upon him without his knowing of it. f A good maxim: “Do not belong wholly to vourself mor wholly to other people.” And this: * Know how to do good to people a little at a time and often.” ——— As a financier, PERRY knows just when to “expand ™ and produce an easy money market. —————— PERRY got in his work very neatly yestérday. # PERSONAL. Democrats are now abusing Hayesbecanse he has no daughter for an Englishman to marry. Has Peter B. Sweeny's recent return to New York any connection with Onkey Hall's absence? President Hayes has a large band, plump and firm in flesh aud grasp. He lingers over a shake, and recolls from a fish-like palm. The friends of good government in China will be leased to learn that, during the absencé of Ting- Jib-Chang in Formosa, the Fan-t'al will act as Fu- valat Foochow. e London Spectator calls President Hayes' in- angural *‘a potitical sermon, an edition of the Beatitudes written down to the comprehension of flerce political partisans. ™ The movement to procure a suitable tablet or monument to mark the grave of the Jate OwenMar- Jowe, the well known actor, at Forest Hills Cem- etery, Boston, has taken deflnite shape. Civilization Is developing rapldly at Deadwood. During the performance of the can-can, the audi- ence arose in virtwous indignation, and yelled, **Give us some singm’' or we'll clean out the place. We want somethin’ elevatin®.” Two eminent connsel, named Hamp Turner and Bob Patten, were trying a case in a Mississippl court recently, when they became involved ina row. Pistols were introduced as exhibits, and Turner’s bullet induced Patten to take a change of venue to a better world. The Coroner’s jury ac- quitted Turner. Mrs. Pike, the wifc of the Chicago murderer, states in her dime-novel confession that Jones, the Spiritualist, kissed her 200 timesin one day. On Tuesday there wae s wrangle in & Brooklyn court between a lawyer and a witness in a divorce suit as to the precise number of kisses—whether twelve or twenty—thrown to the lady defendant on a certain occasion. Cleopatra’s maxim, **Beggarly is the love that ean be reckoned, ™ seems to have lost its force.—New York Tribune. Charlottesville (Va. ) rejoices in a lively Retarn- ing Board: **Mr. Bachelor (or Bachelder), de- ceased, for many years a resident of Charlostes- ville, marriea a lady 13 years of agz. Their first child, a daughter, when 13 years old, married Mr. Mtinor Hoachens, and we had the exquisite pleas- ure of actingz as one of the groomsmen and in par- | ticipating in the festivities of the occasion. Mrs. Houchens presented her husband an heir to his fortune in due time,—consequently Mrs. Bachelor Wad a grandmother at 28 years of age." A correspondent of the New York Zridunerelates the following anecdote of the Into Minister to En- gland: **During his residence in England Gen. Schenck received many attentions from the nobil- ity, and possibly he did more to corrupt them than [ cven the law of primogenitare has done. On one occasion he was visiting Lord —, where, mot con- tent with apending the niglt over the green cloth, he introduced his favorite game in the morning, aud vne day led the whole company, a large one, from the drawing-room to the card-room, he being at the head with a poker over his shoulder, seying. ‘dn hoc signo rinces.' Jobn Bult and lndy are nothing if not devoat, and you can fmagine the #hudder of holy horror which passed through that company. The host's explanation was: *Ah; he's only the American Minister, you know.'" The New York Timee says of the hero of the mys- terfous disappearance: **In social tife Mr. Oakey Hall way one of the most affable and entertaining of men. His storc of information was large, and he prided himself on an accumnulation of odd and cari- ousfacts. 1lis after-dinner conversation was never dull, and though he sometimes carries 2 propensity for punning too far for the comfort of his compan- ivns, the bright stream of talk which he set in mo- tion was always a welcome addition to any con- vivial occasion. Hiis wit and homor were nnfail- ing. Oncconhis feet after dinner, he flowed on with pun, quip, and joke until the company won- dered if there was noend to his fand of - humor. Few men have cver surpassed him in readincss, though some of his conceits may have been labored, andzome of his jokes too Intricate for keen appi clation. It was his ambition to be considercd a lit- teratear, rather than a lawyer or politician. He aflected the soclety of journalists and Iiterary men more than any other. And he professcd, and seemed to have, absolate familiarity with the per- sonnel of the editorial corps of every newspaper and msgazine in the metropolis, ™