Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TULSDAY, MARCIH 27, 1877, Oats closed rtoady, at 324c for April and 350 for May. Jiyo waa quiet, at 64}@67¢. Barley closed nominally firm, Ilogs were in moderato supply, but wera weak and 15c lower, closing Cattlo wero dull, at 15@20c decline, with sales at $2,20@5.30, Sheop wera inactive, quoted at $3.25@6.60. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $104.873 in greenbacks ot the olose. .@Ipé— Tribure, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, at 540 for March. NY MAl~1N ADVANCR—TOSTAGE TREPAID AT ——— " The considerntion of the bill to abolish the present Bonrd of County Commissioners has been made the special order for to-morrow morning {n the House nt Springfield. With the single exception of Mr, Kransgr, the en- tiro Cook Connty delegation is working for tha bill, and it is ovident, from the action of yestorday In forwarding it boyond its regular order, that the remainder of tho House is disposed fo graut tho - legislation Cook County so earnestly desires. the: messure will find in tho figures presented by Commisaionor Bexne at yesterday's meeting of the Board new and convincing arguments in favor of onabling the taxpayers of Cook County to rescuo the financinl affairs of tho county from the bankruptey threatened undor the mismanagement of the prosent Board. Epecinien coples sentfree. ‘To prevent delny and mistakes, bo snreand aive Post Qf.ccaddrers in fuil, Incloding State and County, Tirmitiances may bomade either by draft, express, Ton-Cfficc order, or inrealstered letters, at our risk, 7ERMS TO CITY SUDSCRIBERS, Dslly, deltecred, Bunday excepted, 23 cents per weok. Lishy, deitvered, Eunday Included, 30 cents per week TIE TRIDUNE COMPANT, Corner Madiron and Dearborn 1 TRIBUNE BUILDING DIRECTORY. ooms, Oceupants, 1. CNIARTER OAK LIFE (Insorsace Dep't.) WALLACE. J. T.DALE. NER WATCH-CASE MAN'FG €O, N'T. . LUEDKER & HUTCHING, WM. C, DOW, A.J. BROWN., W, ROBBINS, . WUIGHT & TYRRRLL. CHARTER OAK LIFE (Losn Dop't.) . FAIRCIILD & BLACRMAN. 5. JAMES MORGAN, R. W. BRIDGE. » HENRY K. BEELYE. W. D. CQOPFR. 17. M. D. JIARDIN. . I, K. PEARSONS & CO, HUTCHINSON & LUFF, . 0, L, BABKIN & CO. . ABSOCIATE EDITOR, . EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. . MANAGING EDITOR, . ASSOCIATE EDITORS, 1 The Ropublicans of the South Divislon yesterday made a most excollont nomination for Town Bupervisor in seleoting Mr. E. G. Muagow, of the well-known Iaw firm of Masox & MazTooxs. Rongrt Lincorn held the offica during the past year, and added greatly to its dignity and imporiance in the way he ox- ercisod its fanctions for the protection of the taxpayers. Ho fought the bummers with askill and pertinacity that showed ho was a “chip of tho old block.” for tribnte, bnt milliona for defonse, was the principle he went on. more reputation and won more oncomiums in bis yoar's fight with the tax-calors and ballot-box stuffers than did the whole Cook County delegation in Congross. The docent clnss of people want anothor first-class man to superintend town matters and stand be- tween them and tho ravenous beasts who secek to devonr their substances, and Mfr. Masox is just the man to take Liscory's Let there be no relaxation of rosist- ance to bummordom. Not one cont L 11, F, NORCROSS, I, A. McELDOWNEY. . REDPATI LYCEUM BUREAU. MMERCIAL EDITOR. 0. L. THATCHER. A F, STEVENBON. Mr. LivcowN mado Ofces fn the Dullding to rent by W. C DOW, Tinverly’s Thentre. ‘Tngagement of Chariolta Thompson. ** Miss Muiton.™ ‘Wood's Masoum, Monroe atreet, between Stato and Dearborn, Failing in their attempts to raiso a hueand ory on account of the prudence and modern- tion shown by the President In making haste slowly in the treatment of the Sonthern question, the Implacables are busily engoged in circulating rumors of dissensions in tho Cnbinot, Thoy have had it that Secretary Scronz would exchange his portfolio for tha Berlin mission; that Postmaster-General Ker was abont o resign; and that Secrotary McCnany ‘and Attorney-General Dxvexs iotonding to trnde places. quiry smong the Cabinet officers named cstablishes the utter falsity of these reports. Mr. Scronz s suited with tho Interior Do- partment, and bnas no intention whatever of leaving tho Cabinet: tho same is truo of Gon. Kzy, who is begiuning to fecl thor- oughly at home nmong his Ropublican coadjntors; whilo noither Mr. McOnragx nor Judge Devexs have any idea of swapping Departmonts. Tho utmost harmony and good will prevails throughout the Admin- Adelph) Theatre. . Monroe street, corner Dearborn. Varicty enter- cainment. MeViekera Thentras Mrdlroo strect, between Dearhorn d_State, Engogemncnt of Dlon Bouelcault, ** Tho Bhaughrau i+ Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex. ¢ - changa yesterday closed at 951 resolution providing for an amendment to 2%, tho Constitution of the Btalo under which womon shall ba empowered to vote at all ! clections. The Lower Houso of the Legis. lature, it is supposed, will defeat the project. —— The poworlessncss of the Turkish Gov. ernment is again illustrated by another series "y of rovolting outrages. . i y~in1nid in Bosnis, whero the Mussulman pop- ulation is being supplied with the most im- . proved arms for tho nlleged purpose of pro- viding for their owndofense, Therecipionts of these arms are ovidently untavorably dls- posed toward the European reform policy,” nud are delermined that their weapons shall 4+ nat become rusty from disuse. _forohunt in bands indiscriminately among { » their Christian noighbors, and the result is o song Yt of horrors in which the sufferors who moot with instant death at the hands of are tho most fortunate ‘This time the scene — Beorctary Suenuax has issued his ukese giving the officers and clerks in tha War De- partment, and others who would be such oflicors and clorks, to undorstand what aro the rules by which positions under his adminfs- tration aro to bo hedged about and gunrded. The Becrotary leaves it to bLe understood, firstly, that no greator nnmber of persons will be employed than is warranted by the nctunl domands of the service, that those employed can expect no better pay than is allowed in the ordinary walke of life. Thirdly, the Leads of buresus must keop n their subordinates, and report from timo to timo ns to the needs nnd efficienoy of their various charges. Fourthly, ns regards the mnatter of extra clerk-hire, such ecxtrn forco must bo mens. ured strictly by the nccessities of tho case, and the tenure of such sppointmonta must bo denominated in the contract, proporly enforced, must improve the charac- tor of tho publio service, and cannot fail to stop many o leak in tho . National I'rossury. these roving nssassing of thoir victima. “ *The large voto which Mr, Wrioxr recolved on tho first ballot in yesterday's Con vention —boiug within three of tho number given to Br. Huaru—ought to bo gratifying to’ himself and his friends. Mr, lzaTn'’s ma- " jority was fairly won, and we have no doubt that Mr. Wsaur himseft and all bis real friends will now join in and help olect Mr. « Hearn with the same iuterest and energy " "thoy would have taken if Wniout had been Tho outaide crowd in tho futer- , o8t of the gnmblers who opposed Heatn, not * heeanso they liked Waianr any botter but to gratity o grudgo, will of courso work ngninst him now and go for Peany Barrrur; ; but wo spprehiend thelr opposition will bo of wmore servica to Hleatit than their support Now that the Republicans have renomi- nnted Mayor Hearn, with a list of Aldermen who, with possibly one or two excoptions, promise a strict adhoronce to the policy of decency aud retronchmont so conselentiously earried out under his Administration, the is- 5o of the city clootion, which oconrs one secek from to-day, s fairly beforo the people. It is procisoly the same that it was when Mayor Heatu was cloctod n year ago as the represontative of tho taxpayors. Tho bum. mors, and tax-cntors, and criminal clnssos have organized another strugglo for the offices, and have gained possession of tho Dewocratio party-namo and trade-mark under which to reach out for tho spoils, They oponly avow the purposo of roturning to the polioy of the Cowvrx regime in- which other people’s monoy shall bo freely spent and pat- ronnge generausly distributed. The nomina. tion of Mayor Heaty, on the other hand, is in itsolf a pledge that his re-clection willcon. tinue the good work of retrenchment and ro- form aud the restoration of the olty's crodit, Every taxpayor in Chioago, without regard to party, should keep this in mind asthe vitalissuo of tho eloction, Tho following is the lext of the Municipal bill which passed the Legislaturo last week with the cmergenoy clsuse, was signod by the Governor, aud is now a law of the Tho nolso and clamor of the Democratic Tmplacables, that the President has been in- sincero in his profossions, is now supple- ‘-mnnlml by o threat to publish what thoy de. clare to bhave beon a written contract en- . i tered into by Brawiey MarrmEws and © 1 Juanres Fosten committing the Presidont This threat is answered by Mr. MarTuews, who will himself to-day publish tho paper roforred to, and by its own terms refute tho story of any contract by them, cither for thomselves or tho President, .* Jaud that thoy cted with the knowledge of . ko President in the motter, who aro trying to forco the President into ¢, permitting or producing violence by hasty ! action in Loulsiann will have to try somo 4 )other expedient than threats, Whon tho * ' paperia published, the public will see how i “farshort it is of tho dooument which the Implacables represont to havo in their hands. A o certain nction, Buccess hos attonded the efforts of Presi- dont Hares to bring about an jnlerview in Wnshiugton between the Bouth Carolina ! slaimonts, and there is every reason to nn- ticipate that the conference will prove the ay to & satisfactory adjustment of the lifliculty. Ex-Gov, CraMpzaraly is now on i aisway to Washington, sod Gen. Hasrron " a4 written Lis noceptance of the President's ' uvitation to be prosout and take part 7 tho consideration of : ‘uost acceptabla plan for restoring harmony © ‘nd scif-governmont in Bouth Carolina. , v 3en. Haweron will arzive in Washington " ! Uhursday morning, and, as the President and the Cabinet aro already disposed to ac- i+ sede to his views regardivg the withdrawal ,* Ut the troops, provided a satisfactory guar- * “inteois given that the peaca will be pre- * yorved, there is an excellent . prospect that ho Bouth Cazalina complication will soon be Brcvion 1, Be 4t enacted, elc,, That Bee. 2 of At 401 an act of the Genoral Asscmbly of the Btate of Nlinols entitled ** Ao act to provide for the incorporation of citles and villages,” approved April 10, 1872, Ju forco July 3, 1872, be and the eroby smended 80 thab it skall read as 2, At the general clection held lu 1877, and blenially thereafter, s Mayor, o City Clerk, a City Attorney, and & City Treasurer shall be clected In each city, provided that no person shall be elected 1o the ofice of CUly Treasurer for two terma in This law i3 as operative now as it will be two yoars or ten years hence if still on the statute-books, aud we canuot avold the con. cluslon that it ronders Mr. Ouivrox Brioas ineligible for re-eleotion to the office of City Trensurer. It is apparent that the emer. genoy clause waa introduced. for tha express purpose of making the law applicabls to the charter elections this spring. Thero is nothing in the Constitution which pre. vents the Legislatare from msking present incumbents Ineligible for future , 'Tbe Chicago produce markets were ir- . vgular yesterday, provisions and wheat being wtive, und tho rest quiet. Mess pork closed +Wo per brl lower, at $13.42)@18.45 for _ipril and $18.55@13.57¢ for May. Josed 300 per 100 1bs lower, at $0.07§ for 4 ipril and §U.174@0.20 for May. % ! loked §@Jo por w lower, at 4]o for looso + hioulders, 7{o for do short ribs, and T7jo " or doshort clears. Highwines wero quiet, 4 $1.04@1.05 por gallon. Flour was less : 1 clive and strong. Wheat closed 130 higher, A4 $1.28 for March and $1.28} for April « Jorn closed Jo Ligher, at 890 for April and MMr. Bricas becn re-elected befors the pas- 8ago of the law, orif the law did not go into effect until next July, he would bo eligible to a second term ; as it is, ho has had one term, and s law of tho State esplicitly aad posi- tively forbids his serving a second term. Even if he shoald receive a majority of the votes noxt Tnesday, we do not helieve he will ba the Treasurer, and we aro suro that his right to the office will Lo contested, It olected and fonnd not to bo eligible, the fact will necessitate n now and specinl cloo- tion to fill tho vacancy. But the samo ren- son which induced the Legislatnre to pass n Inw making Treasnrers incligible for re- cloction onght to induce the people of Chi- cngo to defont Mr. Briaos at tho polls. It is an office which no man should hold n sce- ond time until he shall havo turned aver the fund to a snccessor. Exporionce has tnught that this is the only way in which public moneys can o surely counted. of a lawful Legislature, and with it mnst be- gin the organization of a lnwinl Stato Clov- ernment. Tho outsiders who have been ealled in by both parties will probably be put out, and those really elected mmnt or- ganizo ns the State Legislature. Onco this is done, the Legisiaturo can canvass the ro- turns, declare who wore clected Govornor and Stalo officers, and this Government, thus conatituted, will bo recognized, and will not need any troops to protect it. Now, tho Democrata aro charging the Pros- ident with falschood, beeauso ho has not withdrawn the troops and given the parties licenso to begin cutting ench other's thronts, The President does not proposo to ostablish peace through the agency of a civil war which it would bo his duty to suppress,. Ho proposes to establish in Louisinua what ho promised in his lotter of nccoplance,— honeat, local self-government having tho confidence of tho people, and theroforo abla to protect the wholo people, onforce the 1aws, maintain order, and give to Louisiana what the Btate has not had sinco tho War—n Govornment nble to assert its authority, This reorganization of a State Government out of the discordant elomonts in Louisiana canuot Do done in a day or an hour; it roquires mothod, encrgy, and intelligent information, obtained by men who desire lo promota peace in preferenco to party ndvantoge. Tho Trosidont will not hesitate to earry out his programme, nor will he dolay in so doing; and long befora Congress meots therd will ho n Btate Governmont in Lonisinua as peace- fally innngurated and ns firmly established ng the Govornment in any other State of the Union. and it will also carry through tho best of the Republiean candidates for Aldermen, who, with the Aldermen holding over, will gnar. anteo n continuance of the economy of the past year. What n chiange would bring forth, no man enn foretell, COOR COUNTY COMMIBSIONERS, When the bill providing for the ofection of County Commissioners at one time and by goneral ticket was up yestorday in the Logis. Intare, Mr. Reanney opposed the bill, and domanded that some ono sbionld prosont somo chargo agninst tha Commissioners, and fald that no whispor or complaint had been nindo agninst thom. This was n very preity cool nssertion to make in the prosonce of his {wenty-saven nssociales from this county in the Legislatare. * Tho wholo record of tho Doard since 1873 1ias beon one of continued robbery, plundor, dishonesty, wastofulness, extravagance, and official crimo. Whothor tho Board be con- sidored ns a Leogislatura authorized to lovy taxes and approprinto money; aa a Logisin. tura to create offices and fix salarios; a8 n Doard to provido for the sick, the poor, sud . the insane; ns the - custodian ot tho public Treasury; as the body chargod with the sclection of ju. rora; as the auditor of billa; as tho awandor of contracts,—in any and in all of these functions the rocord of the County Bomd is tho same,—a record of shameleas dishonesty, of gross corruption, of fingrant contempt of law, justice, and propriety. As the Bonrd of Charitics of this county, it hns been tho patron, defender, and cham- plon of those who Lave robbed the poor, starved and plundered the helpless insane, and brutally opprossed nnd ngonizad the sick. Even among the aavages, those afflict- ed with insanity are treatod as under Gon's special care, and pnss unharmed and.un molested; but the County Commissionors, less human than the savages, have year after year seen them robbed of their clothing snd deprived of their food by contractors utterly mereiless and inhuman, Under tho pretoxt \of furnishing food, fuel, and clothing to tho poor, the Connty Commissionors have know- ingly consented to the robbery of tho public by paying $2 for every $1 of supplics fur- nished. Not only have the sick, the poor, sud tho insane beon robbed by tho quantity, but also i the quality, of the supplics paid for by the public. Grand Jury after Grand Jury have re- ported to tho publie tho scandalous and fraudulent abuses committed by the Board : but at last patienco was oxhausted, and a Inrgo number of members and ox-mombors wero indicted for o conspiracy to rob tho county, A large number of the indicted, including several of the presont members, thon resorted to the dodge of chango of venuo, These men, ropresenting a con- stituency of 450,000 peoplo, - deliborately made onth that they conld not have n fair trinl bocause the wholo people, including the oight Judgos, wera so projudiced against thom that twelve unbiased jurors could not bo found in this county. < No further cvidence of tho notorious cor- ruption, dishonesty, and general fraud which govern and control this Bonrd is noeded than the oaths of half-n-dozen of its mombers that it was impossiblo to find in all Cook County twelve mon who would not convict them if allowed to try their caso. Think of o Board of Commis- aloners, representing nud governing, lovying taxes, and cxpending tho money of a county of half o million of people, whose membera make onth that they dare not go to trinl for robbing tho county because thero is uot cuonugh men in the county who do not bo- ligvo them to bo guilty to make up a jury. Andtheso men, who thus on onth confess that tho guilt of the Board is notorious, ask that thoy be allowed to plundor and rob that county for an Indefinite period. These pco- Plo lovy taxes aud expend the money, and yot the members daro not bo triod for cor- ruption in office by a jury of thelr own con- stituents | Poar, simple-mindod Kzanvey never heard of any of this public complaint, when it has beon notorious that thero bos not been an honest building contract lot by tho Board for overal yoars ; and that no building contract hina beon let that does mnot includo a lnrgo margin to cover tho expenses of geiting the contract ! Tho constituents of theso Com- missioners, without difference of party, ask that the whole Board be swept out of ex- istonce, THE PRESIDENT AND THE IMPLACABLES, The Implncables are loud in their denunci- ation of the Presidont. Just at this time there aro two forces nctively nt work o do- siroy nll efforls on the part of tho President to enrry out his policy with regard to Lousi- ana and South Carolina, 'Thia policy is not ono newly announcod by the President. The President, na early s last July, announced to Topnblicans nad Democrats aliko tho conrse e should adopt townrds all tho disturbed Statos, nud in his innugural nddress ho ro- peatod his declarations. "After the clection, his more intimate personal friends—thoso who knew the man's character, and had no question that he would fearlessly carry ont whatever policy he had -maturely con- sidered aud approved—did’ not hesitate to pledge thoir convictions, oven without any knowledge on his part, that ho would nn- flinchingly perform whatever he had prom- jsed the people ho would 'do, It is mow nlloged that some of his {rionds, acting on the integrity of purpose and knowledge of his courage, went ko far 8 to givo assurance in writing that tho sonti- ments of his lelter of accoptance would bo adhered toby him, promptly and energotically. The Republicnn party which supported him, and thoe Democratio party which opposed him, were both fally advised, ever sinco last July, of tho Presidont’s jntontions to change the courso of tho' Governmont towards the Bouthorn States. This changoe of the Governmental policy— the abandonment of the military for purely civil State Governments—is opposed by two distinet irroconcilable and opposing factions. "I'he Democratio Implacables seo in tho paci- fication of the South the destruction of the “8olid Bouth" as o factor in Demooratio politics, the abolition of the color-line, and the dismomberment of that party, and the roorganization of politics in tho Houthorn Btates. Theso people do not want the South restored to peace. Thay want the South to bo ruled by bayonets, in order to uso the fact o4 political capital. On tho othor hand, there is n fraction of Ropablicans who insist that both South Carolina and Lounisiana can bo prosorvoed as Republican Btates, represented more or less by Ropublicans in ona or both Houses of Congress ond in tho Electoral College, if the President will only maintain Republican Btato Qovernments in thoso States by military ‘force. It isinsisted that tho colored people, who nre mostly Republicans, are entitled ta ¢ protection.” All this is trua in thoory, but practically it bas not been true. For eight yoars that polioy has been followed, Gov. ornmenta liavo been maintained by the army at times in Virginin, Tenncsso, North Caro- lina, Bonth Carolina, Georgin, Alabamn, Missis. sippi, Arkansns, Florida, Texns, and Louisinna, These Btate Governments wore protected by the Foderal army upon tho theory that they would protect tho colored people, but they did nothing of , the kind. Ono aftor another these military-protected Governinonts broke down, and the bloody scenes of viulenco against the blacks consed, ; The caso of Louisiana was n perplexing one, Wanmurn and Keiroae were pro- tected for oight yesrs by United States mili- tary forces; but murder, eruelty, and barbar~ ity in their mosat ntroclons forms were con. tinnous against the colored people during this wholo time, ‘The protection furnished by the United Btatos Government protected the carpet-bng officcholdors, but the pro- tected carpot-bag offlcehiolders never pro- tocted their constituentsa—tho colored Ite- publicans, who continned to suffer and Lleed, Tho protected carpet-boggers never onforcod tha laws; never arrested, tried, and punislied the assailauts of "the colored men, Thoy wero sinply fax-caters, aud returned 10 sorvice of the slightest valuo to tho por- goeutod, hornssed, and bnlldozed Dlack constituonts, Eight yenrs moro of snch Governmont will make Louisinna u pandemonijum or a desert, niled by worso than savoges, Gen, GuawT, who, a8 au iron-willed soldier, had no scru- ples ngainst tho uso of troops oven in eivil affairs, confessed thnt tho wholo business in Loulsiana hind been o grievous failure, if not o mistake,—one for which ho had been sorry; and which he should have dincontinued aud changed bad he remnined in offico, In South Carolina the main difficulty s, ‘Who 18 Governor? 'That Statehas proserved ita Btate Government. Tho courts are in cxistoneo, and all tho machinery in opera- tion, Thero is not much to Lo reconciled there, In Louisiana thoro are two claimant Gov. emors, two lists of Stato offlcery, two Legls. Inturos, two Bupreme Courts, two othier or- gonizations of courts, two bodies of local officers, and even two police organizations, ‘Thera ia no initial point; thers aro two offi- cera clalming every offlce, each clalming un. dur o disputed title, Gen. GranT, from No- vombaor to March, refused to recognize either Government, and directod that tho military thould confine itself to keeping tho peaco, and should not otberwise aid cither claimant. The Democrats claim that Prosi- dont Haves js under au obligation to rocall tho troops, and denounce kim fur not dolng soright of; on tho other hand, many Re. publicans demand that ho shall rocognize the Packarp Governtient aud send more troops and gunboats to protect it. ‘The President desires to eatablish poace botwoen the races, and ho is suore anxious to protect the half million of harnssed and persecuted blacks thon to maintain o few hundred carpet-baggers in offico, who have no power to maintain themselves theroln for a aingle day, Inja short time the State of South Carolina peacelully, and with the consent aud acqui- escenco of all parties and the State Govern- wment, without the prosence of Federal troops, will perform its duties with no moro trouble than does tho Governmentof 1li- nols. In Louisiana the case is different and more dificult. Nothing iz sgreed to; every- thing I8 contested. It is clear, however, that any measure to bring order ont of con- fusion must begin, not with the Qoveruor, but with tho Legislature, Govornors and, State officers are declared elected by the Leg- ixlature, which Is the oxclusive wuthority in such case. . Thera aro two bodies claiming to be the Legislature. Each of theso has a number of members whose clection is con. ceded on all hands, They form the nuclous THE CITY TICRET—A BEVIEW. The importanco of this eclection may bo best {llustrated by going back n fow yoars. Corvix nnd his gaug hiad beon in power two years, and their tonnre of offico waa oxtend. ed by the frandulont adoption of o new charter. Daring their torm the city expenses wero incrensed to such oxtent that their Inst approprintions for ninemonths were at tho rate of over six and a half millions of dollara nyear; tho taxes were uncollected; though nll the departments were swarming with idle barnacles ;. tho gamblers, thieves, and confl- dence mon had the run of the city; money had been borrowed in reckloss amounts with- ont anthority of law, and the city's credit ,waa such that not & dollar mora could be roised on any terms. At this point of fiscal collapse thero . wns n popular revolt. Tho decent citizens and taxpayers roso by common consent, and olacted Mr, Istonas Hoxxe Mayor, with a Council composed mostly of reputable and responsible men, Mr. Hoxne accepted the trust and ontored upon the work of reform and rotronchment in good faith, But CorviN, who had lheld six months over his torm, was not yot wille ing to lot go, desperately contested Mr. Hoyxne's title, and sncceeded in having him ejocted from the offico on a logal tachnical. ity. The pooplo rallicd ngain and clected Mr. Monnoz Heatn, o gentluman who had enjoyed o large experienco in municipal nffoirs, and was known to the community ns aman of character, industry, and exacutivo ability, Then CovviN, having goue to the, endof his tether, gave up the struggle, nnd tho work of ‘reform was begun in good carnest by Hearst and the Reform Council. Let us renll somo of the accomplishmonts of Mr, Heatn's Administration, with tho efficient aid of a compotent Comptroller and the cordial co-oparation of tho Council. The ‘barnaclos were scraped off. A orowd of men drawing salaries with groat punctuality as water police, sidowalk iunpectors,” clesks, comiissioners, building and henlth lospect ors, ete., but doing tho city no actual sorv- Jco, wero stricken from the pay.rolls, Publi improvements which were not actunlly noc- osaary woro susponded. Tho personnel of the various departmonts was rednced largely, ond tho malaries et down to meot tho oxi- genclos of the crisis, Tho polico forco was raduced by tho dischargo of sixty-threo men ‘whose services could bo disponscd with, and the monthly pay-roll wns eut down from 44,600 to %25,600, Tho pay of the TFiro Department two years ago wns $400,000 per annum, and this year tho ontire appro- priation, with an increaso of enginea and strength, is $351,000. The genersl snlary list of city officinls has beon reduced within the samo timo from §112,000 to $7:3,000, to correspond with the hard times. The ex. ponditnroe for lighting tho streets, which had ‘bocome ouo of tho most oxtravagaut expendi- tures of tho City Government, has been nctually reducod 335,000 per anpum, or 1moro than half, notwithstanding the fallure to ngree with the West Side Company npon alower rato. The gas-bills for tho North and Bouth Divisions aro ouly about one-third what they were, and oven at the old prico tho new burncrs and time-table havo reduced tho West Sido bills nearly oncihnlf, Attho snme time, the colloction of taxos las beon moro vigilant and succossful, the wator- ronta and licenses are all collooted, the float- ing-debt is belng stoadily . oxtinguisbied, aud all the moncy necessary for current oxpenses In anticipation of tho tax-colloctions can be obtained withont dificulty. Thero has been on actual saving at the rate of moro than two milliona n year, - For all this Mayor HeaTand the present Common Couucil. are entitled to the credit, Tt would boatonco unfalr and unwise to moke & changd now, when the new polioy is only Just under headway, and it is positively dan. gerons in viow of the notorious fact that the opponeuts of Mr, Hzatut are controlled by a clnes of peoplo dotormined if possible lo re- store tho old ordor of things, ‘Tho moat notive opposition to him comes from the gamblers and their associntes, under tho lend of such men as Tavnz aud Mixs MoDoNarp, becausa Mayor Hearn would not romove Bupt. Iicxey at their dictation, 'Thoy tried to beat him &b the primaries, and they will undoubtedly da their utmost to beat him at tho polls. Dut can the people of Chicago sfford to remove him to pleaso gamblers and their attorneys, and by so doing jeopardizo tho prospority of the city, and risk s return to the scandslous, extravogant, and vicious system which, in the Adwinistration pro- vious o Mr, Heaza's election, cost over two nillions every year to the taxpayors in ex- cess of what thoy now psy? 'Thls isthe real question of tho city campaign, With Mr, Heatu is associated Mr, O, 1. Lagnangz, of the well-known business firm of Lareinxx & Nozts, es a candidato for City Treasurer; he s a gentleman who has the coufidenco of the community, and will make an efficient Treasurer., Mr. ‘foTusiy, the presont sble snd successful City Attorney, and Mr. Burz, the presont eficient City Clerk, both of whom have proved good snd faithful officery, have alo beon nominated on the same ticket. The clection of 3fr. Hesrn will jusure tho retention of tho present excellent Corporation Counscl, his sble assistant, and thé* Comptroller, who have rendered such good servico in tho sug- gestion and application of the retrenchinent 0f oxpenses and enforcement of the laws, OAKEY HALL AND TAMMANY HALL. The friends of Oakex Hary have beon fortilo in conjuring up motives for his sudden disappearance from New York, At fimst it was supposed that he had boen spirited awny by the Sweeny-Twrexp gong, who feared that his rovelations In tho forthcoming demonstrations might be damaging to thom, Thon it was nrgucd that he bad been waylald and murdered, but the publio found no Oaxey Havy, lying stiff and stark under o hedge, or floating with his foultless mustache upturned to the glimpses of the moon, Then came others with the story that hie was insane ; that ever sinco his brief and inglorl- ous stago carcer he had boon a differont man; that ho had boen seen wondering about, # remoto, nlone, unfriended, solitary, slow "; that ho had manifested various eccentricities showing an aborration of intellect; and that being in such a condition it was very natural {for him to clamber up tothe glddy heights of thenew bridge and hurl himself headlong down intn the black depths of tho swift. flowiug river, or end life's mystery in any other suro and eatislactory manner. A dis. pateh was recolved onme day that he was catohing tront on Long Island. The next doy thero was a rumor that he had been suddenly summoned to London by Mr, Jaurs Gonpon Bexnerr, but J, G. B,, upon fn- quiry, denfed it. Jle waa seon by a hundred diferent, peopla ln a hundred dAlffer- ent shapes and in a bundred different places on the samo day, The guesses woro sbrewd, but oll of thom were wrong. It now appoars that the coming of Bwzexy was tho signal for the going of Hars. The feminive phase of the exit amounts to nothing more probably than that he was fearful of being loncsome oa the trip. She was not the primsry couse, The clouds are gather- ing thickly, Tho storm so long brewing is rondy to burst, and Oaxxy Havx, not bofog ready to broast it, runs sway frowm it. Twexn lias consented, upon condition of being re- loased from prison, to disgorge lis plundor. Swzeny has also sgreod to restore all he can, Woopwasn and InoxasoLs have agreed to furnish importance evidence, which Twrzn will confirm with documentary evidence in tho shape of cancelod checks that will load to numerous suits for the recovery of stolen city property. Oaxxy Hawy, not bolng a thrifty man, has spent Lis share of tho “gwag," and cannot, theretoro, make resti- tution of anything to mitigate the character of his operations, aud he could not hope to rebut the proofs already in the hands of Twxxo and Bwxrxy, His only rocourse, therofors, was to atay nnd bo punished or to run awnay. And ho ran sway., The proofs in possession of thoss of tho gang who aro nbont to turn Btate's ovidenco show that Oaxzy Iary was paid his percentago of the Apoils, that ho was largely interestod in city contraots, that ho wasnwaro of the feaudnlent character of warrants bolore he signed them, and that ho aliways demanded cash in ad- vanco bofors he would sign one, an exposuro ns this, it does not need nny further inquisition to discover tho motive of Oaxry Harr's flight. Bo long as Tweep was litigating, and Coxxorvy, Bweeny, and oth. ers of tho gang wore in foreign parts, o waa safe; but the return of the distingnishod thieves compellod him to stay not upon the order of his going, bat go at once. Tho flight of Oaxrr Harn, however, is but an incidont in the denouomont. public in general will be moro likely to con. gratulate the City of New. York upon tho calmination of the scoundrelism and cor. ruption of Tammany Hall Democracy than to concern ilself nbout Oaxer Haru's do- partaro, After years of procrastination, after the most determined litigation conducted Ly the most cunning and unserupulons lawyers of New York, after keoping tholr plunder and rioling with it in forelgn parts, the officinl thioves have dooided it to ba bettor to roturn what amount of plunder is loft in order to escapo tha consequences of their rascality, and to inform upon tho other hold- ers of tho stolon property. bo considored whother the lawyors, like Daviv Duprer Freup and others who de. fended thom aund kept the city from its prop- arty all theso yonrs, should not bo compelled to make restitution also. thoir feen from the thioves, they know that overy dollar paid thom was stolen from tho Whon n thiof turns stolen property a third person, that person cannot keep it from its rightfal owner. tho fletion of Inw it may scom that the monoy wns honestly obtained. By the un- writton law of morality, these lognl roceivers ore ns bad a8 tho thieves, and ought to be made to give up their plunder also. city will not got its own until such a restitu. tion is made. If tho Tammany Ring of political sconndrela could only be as offectunlly smnshod as thoe official thieves have beon, thero might be somo hope for tho future of New York Cily. chinory of politios by which tho volo of a wholo State can be stolen is of the same charactor oa that by which the gang of Ring sconndrols stolo millions from tho Oity ‘Troasury, and in a moral point of viow tho ono oporntion is just as eriminal ns tho othor, nlthough the despair of the situation is thnt tho one operation can bo punished Justico has at Inst over- takon the thioves who stole the monoy; it remaing to be scen whother thore izsuflicient morality and honesty loft in Now York to crush tho thieves who steal the vots of tho poople of that city and State at every eloc- enthualastic, but nobody has known how to rouse them. It takes protoplaem, hioplasm, and all that sort of thing, to awaken them, Let Western miniaters of oratorical ambition, who contemplate visiting the modern Athene, make anote of this, (vethe Iubltes no ordl- nary humor, approach them with no common arguments, but put it to them thus : ** Trug marphologleal units, without coll-wall or prl- mordial utriele, but endowed with bloplasmic entity and protoplasmle longovity, - filled with thoglowing possibilitics of agamogencals, clad in nucleated shell, aguregated by the eternsl afin. 1ty ot morphotogical units, sanctifiod by fission and gemration,gloritied by molecular attractton, and born in Boston, shall alone Inherit life ever. lasting.” Buch a seutonco s that will clesn the buttona off a Beacon-strect burghor's vest quicker than lightning. It will knock his akep- ticlsm'into Minders in a minuto, and cause him 1o bellcw for salvation as the’ ox loweth for ita e — e ‘Warten Bagrnor, whose death yestorday ls announced by the cable, was ono of tha strongest. and clearest of Engiish popular writcrs on po- littcal and cconomle subjects. e did not be- long to the firat rank, but was ons ol those in« dispensablo middlemnen that interprot to the peoplo the discoverics of greater. minds, Iis chlef work has been done as edltor of the Lon- don Economilst, which his talonta and Industry have malntalned In its position of the leading flnanctal jouranl of Great Britaln, and probably of thoworld. Mr. BAcBnior was b5l ycars old, havinz beep born Feb, 8, 1820, at Langport, in Bomersotahire County, England. at University College, London, and was Master of Artsof the London Univorsity, Ifo was tho author of several well-known works, “The English Constitution, * Physics and Pol- “Lombard Btreot.” It should now Rives for goucral use the best oxplanation of the mysterics ot banking and finance. Mr. Bagsuor gave somo valuabla teatimony before the Parlismnentary Commlssion that recenbly cxamined tho allver question, and’ tho latest wvroductionsof his pen, wa bellove, asido from the Economlst, were some ablo papers' in the Zort- nightly, reviowlng *The Postulates of Polltical Economy,” und examining anew tho principles and theorles of that sciencein the light of mod- crn rescarchics fn history ‘When they took by tho comparative e e—— Tho 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat, speaking of the influences which should determine appointments to office, says of tho Congressman: * Wo must confcas wo should like to sco him properly recog- nized, even though it offend the gushing school of scntimentalists in polities.” There s no doubt that the acquaintanco of a member of Congress- in his™ distrlct renders roasonably Impartial, selecting porsons for Thus far no onc objects. 1t Is when the Representatives wish to rise from odvisers to dictators that they become a nul sance. It Is one thing to recommond or oven urga a man for office; it Is a very different thing to claim o lot of appointwents as personal prop- crty, and to inalst upon allotting them to per sofial henchmen. ‘This waa the old system, and % wao must confoss " that lta abolition Isanv tional benefaction,, appolntive offices. and the othor not. e —— The nnnual report rocently made to the Sta- tistical Departinent of tho English Board of ‘Tradlo shows that the yeor 1873, lko 1875, wos marked by a decreaso of enlgration and an fn- creass of immigration, The total number of owlgrants from Groat Britain was 183,222, and tho total number of fmmigrants 01,617, so that the reduction of tho population of tho country ‘from this causc waz but 46,575, The numhers ol cimigrants, distinguished by natlonalitios, were as follows: English, 73,0005 Scotch, 10,0003 Trish, 20,000; all others, 23,500, The emigrantsto Australla numborod 32,190, The United States during the year sent back inore people to Great Britaln than it drew from it, there being 54,554 emigrants and 54,007 immigrants, the causo of the change, of course, bLelng the unprosperous condition of industry in this country. ——— The Rev. Pumpr Hanivonrp, who was re- cently dismisscd from the Joracy City Church, -has bumped hersclf Into onother, and befora shio bogan her munistrations had her head care- fully examlued lefore the congregation by a phrenologist to satisfy her flock that sho was quallfed to expound tho Gospel ta them. After the phronofogist hnd givon her a firat-clasa chart, s young man eulivencd tho audicica by slngng some comic songs which put the brothers and ‘slsters in admirable humor. | Tho Rov. Piiens may bo a good clergywomam, but {t 1a n sovel woy of getting fnto o pulplt. If Praneis to sct tho fashlon, hereafter the clergy will bo called by the pulpit bump instead of by tho Lord, and thoologlcal students will need the phrenological certificats {n addition to the uni- versity diplowa and the laying on of hands. ——— panics do not make somo cifort to defend thom- sclves against tho attacks made upon them. Thero are two rcasons for this: First, thoy can- nat, for the damaging statements are gathered from rellablo sources, and are unansworablo; sceond and worst, tho systom on which theso compnnlcs do business leaves them, after thoy acqulre age and large business, in o positlon to play oxceliently woll the game *Ieads I win, talla you Joso. Through tho skill of their originators the ignorance of legislators or tholr knavishness, theso allowed to se- cure vast sums in cxcess of tho cost of in- sitrance upon forfeitable pollcies! In the larger companles this deposit of ovorplus nzgregates It was taken on n systom of equalizing premninms, so that, by paying for mora thau the cost of inauranco at tho-start, tho game premium might safcly bo accopted In Inter years, when tho risk Increased, Neacly all the asscts of tho companies are mado up of this overplus,and In cases whero the policy-holdor for- feits what he haa paid tn, when he discontioues paying any mora, it 18 plaju that the companics are the gainors, It 18 as if a bank took deposits o bu forfeited whenever the customer stopped muoking moro dopositsal 'To new compaules, therefore, which have littlo surplus, these cxpo- surcsaro really damaging; tho shrewd mana- agersof tho old and fat oncs ratlier Itke it. Thoy aro thus enabled to steal margins all tho time, and profit as much by lack of confidenco now ns they did by overweening confidence Ts thers no way to make theso speculators upon the bietter lnstincts of human nature disgorrel Must this fund, Intended to bo for the protection of widows and orphaus, be confiscated, whilo thoss who furnfehed it are robbedi Bhall these $50,000-a-year Presidonts of life-Insuranco corporations .and thelr co-con-, eplrators bo. permitted to profit both by the voyago and by the wreck] Thls 1s a'question which desorves tho serlous consideration of the Leristatures of tho suvoral States. mand tho attention of the natlonal lawgivers. ‘This country caunot afford to have the bettor sentiments of human nature, the tics of family affection, and the sacrifices made on the altar of domestlc Tove mocked by & sct of rascals, and made of nono cffect by thelr piratical deproda- miilfons of dollars, Tho 8t. Louls Republican has a queer idea of It urges that whon Congress mects, the Democrats should rofuss to vote o cent of money for thy support of the army unti the soldiers are removed from thu South, the army tropa to pleces for lack of money,'” says this specimen of Spitz-dog journalism, “1pt 1t drop,"" and upon the President will reat the “responsibility.” It 18 not very clear, in fact uot clearat all, how tho Presldont would have anything to do with such a result of Domo- cratic spite. Btill less when that journal con- tinues that “the Democratic Houss has tho Administration by ths throat,” threats of the Republican ars tho legitimaty re- sults of that position. 80110 yoars 0gO, —————— Paris {a excited over a new bill Just Introduced In tho Assembly by M. HzrowLp for nbollshing thaduel, Tho blll comprives a ponalty by ho- prisonment, flucs, dlsfranchisement, and inoll- gibllley. Any ono wio can discover a mothod of suppressing this rolic of barbarlsm whl bo cn- titled to tho gratitude of humanity, but meas- urea cqually a8 stringent as M, JlxgoLn's have more than once been adopted, but still the duel flourishus, Bo longas thors aro fdlots bent upon shooting cach otlier for offensca to thelr peeu- llarly idiotic notions of honar, ft will prove as diNleult to stop them by any process of law as it is to leglalate that o man shall not drink when —_— Tho foimitable Tox ConwiN could, in his day, okip jokes which would convulse a Western man Into & Boston audlence, and not provoke s smile. Mo used to got very much provoked The troublu was that he didn’t have tho precise straw with which to ticklo the ribs of that peeuliar poople, It has come nbw In the person of the Rov, Joseri Cook; one of whose sermona appoared {u Tus Trisuss yesterday, Imagine u vast mudivnco of smooth-shaved burghers, with bald lLicads, spectacles on thelr noses, and hereditary gravity on their faces, slttlng before a preachier and golnwoff in ** great spplanss” aver such & paragraph as thi. ructurcless bioplasin an : andwa are ta adhero, in epit los, 10 tho Arfudne clow that every 1 causs |8 to bo interptoted by its eflects, and that St changen mudt haws adequa § Now this is what tho Boston men call ¢ fun.” Such s statement brings dowu tho house. Azaln tho sacred orator put it thus: * Throughout the whole serles of living belngs, wo tind aza- mogencsis, or non-sexual goucration,” 1ie ap- plied this fact of sclence to tho theologleal doe- trine of tho mirnculous conceptlon, and the su~ dlenco waa stirred with s * profound scnsation.” A quotation from HuxLEY stating that * a mass of living protoplasin {s simply a molecular machine of great complexity " produced #gensation,’ and the added observation that, it Hekyany Lorzs were 1lving, he would tear tho Huxleyan statement to atoms, brought out “ What sight have I to know anything about physfolozical sud micro- scopleal research?? crics the Kev. Cook, and bofs answered by * laughter.” I regurd Hag- MANN LoTzBasthollving, and iBusEuTSpENCES thesetting, star Ja philosophy,” reiarks Coox, and “geeat applause® succceds. ¢ Ekasto sum- makol pantes! ™ shouty Cook, and the Boston men shut up lko jack-kulves, convulsed with emotion. * Gencration by sslon and gemmation are not confiued to the slmplest form of life,"” *be lusinuatcs, and cach sun of & Puritan tucks bis thumb into tho walst of his neighbor and all “The protoplasm or Sar codo theory thst albumivous material s the active substratum of all vital phenomens,” acrenely remuarks Brother Cook, *‘is sound to thacore.” **Ara you shy about- accepting itl"” bearchly asks, and forthwlith soventeen of the solid men of Boston bave to be carried out in spoplectic shivers where the fresh air will sevive them, The fact fs that theso people bave alwoys been like other men, mirthful aud e —— Peruy I[ 8mitit {8 not cxactly a Faltaf in pliysical contour, but, gouorully speaking, his recruits for the campalgn, his Aldcrmanie fol- lowing especlally, are Falstallan to a degreo. They are tho worst lot of ragamufling ever brought {nto line slnce the clty waalncorporated. Ssuiia may well say of them as * Poor Jack " sald of his mutley mob of warrlors, ** Noeye hath ever scen such scarccrows; tha villsing march wide Lotwizt the logs, as it they had gyves on; for, indecd, I had of them out of prison. Therc's but & sbirt and a half ln all my company, sud .the half-shirt ls two napkins tacked togother and thrown over the shoulders liko a herald's coat without — e— e A great deal of sympathy was wasted on HaN- seN, the New York tramp, who wauted to bs good it the world would let him try; and who was proven to be & tramp with a vast amount of deccitful sentiment. IZ be had been a poor €1+ ow trying to avold distoucsty, he would have bad morecold shoulders for sympathetic food than ne vould have digested had be lived a cou- tury. It scems aa if poople poasscsscd & morbid funcy to belp rascals rather than the deserving, and to weep with tho wicked rather than tho ————— to rob the Cheyenne and Black Hitllscoach Sunday night, and the killing of the driver, indicate that Dcadwoad Is wot to be reachied V' by easy stages,” as advertlscd, and that it Is ncarer than was supposed. At least tho robbers “got the deadwood’ ou that delver while some dlstanco from his destiaation. ——— “great applause! Vo oft ¥ together. We bave been Informed that we bave dono Injustice to Mr. Davip Duny, who s & candl- dste for Alderman fo the Fifth Ward, lo the Hirst place, he did not scek the nowluation, and b does nos live by politica. e ia & hard-works