Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 31, 1877, Page 4

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Varlety enter- BATURDAY, MARCH 81, 1877, UHIOAGO MARKET BUMMARY. Tho Chicago produce marketa were moderately actlve, nnd grain was firmer, except wheat, Mens pork cloeed 74@10c per brl lower, at $13.00@ 18.02t4 for April and $14.0214@14.03 for May. Lard closed caelor, at $0.70 for April and $0.42% for May, Meats wero sicady, closing at 4%c for loozo shoulders, 7i4¢ for do zhort ribs, and 73{c for short clears. Tlighwines were firmor, at $1.05 por gallon. Flour was quiet and steady. Wheat closed easicr, ot $1.201{@1.20% for March and $SLUL for May. Cornwas %c highor, closingat #8%¢ for Aprit and 42!4c for May. Oala were 4c bettor, closing at 31c for April aud 34!40 for May. Ttye was steady, st UA%@UGlc. Darloy was stronger, at 65@50c for Aprll. Hogs woro active and 10¢ higher, with the bulk of the sales at $5.16 @5.40. Cattlo were Ingood demand, at $3.26@ .75 for common to cholee. Shcep wera firm, at $3.50@5.75. Ono hundred dollazs in gold wonld buy $104.75 In greenbacks at the close. The Loutaiann Commissioners ars expectod to start for thoir destination to-morrow night or on Monday at tho farthest. The instrnc- tions under which thoy aro to act will bo given to the public in a day or two, Becretary EvArts lhna no respeot for the traditions of tho State Department. Ho bo- licves that tho consular and diplomatic serve ice is not neogssarily o refuge for needy and decayed politiciaus, and that in return for 1ho salarics paid to the Consuls the Govern- ment has o right to requiro the porformance of soma littlo labor in its interost. With theso idens governing the brain of the State Departmont thero is no tolling what hard. ships and sufferings the average Consul mny bo required to undorgo in nddition to draw- ing Lis salary, All signs 1ndicato that a molution of the South Carolina riddle is near at haud, and it is equnlly clear that Gen. Harrox is to be the future vccupant of tho State-House at Columbia, Gov. Cnaupeniamw hss com. monced the work of adjustment by suggest- ing plans of compromise, being aided there- to by the nlmost certnin knowledge that the President hos determined upon removing the military prop upon which ho (CrampenzaIx) hos dopended for the littlo nuthority he has wielded since the Novembor election, Ro- cent ndvices from tho South Carolina Btato Capital fully confirm former reports alleging the utter hopelessnoss of OuaMpraramt's cause. Wape Hasreron ia the lion of the hour at the National Capital, Iotol.runners are fighting over him, photographers aro vying with each other for the honor of coun. terfoiting his phiz, and politiclans, Jurge and small, hang upon his words and loock wistfully at him through the barroom door nud windows at Willard's. Yet, strange (o say, the correspondents nver that the General boars up well under all this homago, and even declines to accord his en- thusiastio admirers the privilege of testify- ing their devotion in a grand symposium at which tho fenst of remson and the flow of soul may have full scape for their woudrona development, In fact, the expectant Gav. ernor is 5aid to be o very plain.spoken 1an, who illustrates his points with homely phrases, and who turns up his nose at the uverage politician of the Washington school, Mr. A. M, Wniont is setting an admirable examplo to his frieuds and supporters in the contest for the nomination for Mayor., Ho is making a vigorous canvass for Mr, Hratn, and advocating Lis election in able and cfoctive speechies. Next to belng Mayor one's self ig the privilege and honor of doing good servico to help elect the best man in tho flold, and Mr. Watour is manly and can- did enough to come to the front and do this. Mis course in tho matter has called forth a graceful letter of thanks from Mayor Heatu, who is keenly alive to the value of tho indorsement and active support of his late competitor, The West Town Campaign Committee have also adopted o resolution thanking Mr. Watour for his efficient Lelp, ond from the general admiration and com. mendation his conduct in the capaign is exciting ho will discover that for the prescat at least it is better to be Wasamr than be Alayor. —— 1t is o fact, growing each dsy more appar- ent as the 8d of April draws noar, that the Democrats are weakening terribly in their part of the contest. 'I'ho attempt to enlist the co-operation of the Germans is a failnre 50 absclute and obvious that it is nos even AD'DA VR Tk HRESToR " aemong Lo Tob spectable taxpaying portion of the Democ racy. Closocobservers of the sitnation, notably Domocrats, have detected thess symptoms of collapse, and it is an open socret among them that Peany H. Byrra's election is sim- ply out of the guestion. The Republicnns aro in a position to jake the benefit of this condition of depression and demoralization, and by showing their full strongth at the polls to settle the question of good govern- ment in Chieago for years to come. There should bo no abatoment of interest or effort ; not a man shonld stay away from the polls who can possibly attend ‘and cast his vote, Tho moral efiect of 10,000 majority for Heatn next Tueaday will be worth straining avery nerve to rReoure. The prospect of n very large accession to tho ranks of the supporters of the Adminis- tration frow the Southern Democrats soems to have aroused the carpet-baggers to a sense of tho fact that they ara liable to be nowhere, politically spesking, unless they take mens- ures for melf-preservation. Naturally they turn to that recoptacla of all that ia dis- reputable and that nobody else wants—the Democratic party. Hero they nro certain of findiug a warm welcome, and no questions asked. Buch a coalition is Ly no mesns unlikely. In the gen- eral brenk-up of strict party lines that would follow the fusion of Sonthorn Demo- crats and Northorn Repnblicans in support of the policy of pacification nnd home-rule, the discontinuance pf Fedoral interference, and the recoguition of the right of local self.government, the carpot-bag Congress- men will probably land in the bosom of the Bourbons and Implacables. Snch is tho drift of events as at present indicated, and a very agrecablo prospect it fs. If thero is no way for thesa people to remain Republicans oxcopt to bo inside a cordon of bnyonets and gunboats, the sooner they becomo Domocrata the bettor for the country. Tho attendance and spirit of tho mass. meoting at Farwell Hall last ovening wero not such as to thrill tho bosom of tho Groen- back-Independent candidate with the hope of agenoral uprising of the commnnity in his bebalf. Ihero was & combination of dampnoss and coolnoss sbout .it that was renlly distressing. Even Mr. Leowanp Bwerr, with his fondness for making speech- ea onthe wrong side, was mot in nlhappy vein, while Judge Vax Hicama only suc- ceeded in warming np to the subject of Anxxn Tarvron's espacial fitness for bonting Hzatn by ontering upon a long-windod discussion of the currency question, It must bo confessod that ho struck firo when he ad- vocated o metallio currency in a meoting of .Greenbockers, Ald. MoAuter . was there with Lin little griovance against a Mayor who had tho temerity to differ with him, and n few other peopla wero thern whose combined strongth and influence at the polls might possibly succeod in elocting n Constable on the minority.represontation plan. It ia to bo fonred that the public in genernl are heart- lessly indifferent to Mr, Tarron's wrongs at the hinnds of the editor of the Journal, and that on the morning after clection peopla will aak each other, * Wito was Taxron, any- low?" Thero aro those who think there is no par- ticular necessity for any offort to re-clect Mnyor Heatn, Thewo persons should re- member that in November last thia eity gave TiLoeN 5,000 majority. At the same timo, it is truo, a popular Ropublican candidate on the local ticket, Mr. Misrs, had about 1,000 majority in the city, The difforence between the Tioex vote and that of the local Demo- cratio ticket was duo, largely, to Republicans who voted for TrLorx, but who voted for all the rest of the Republican candidates. Wo mention these figures to remind business men that it is unsafe to leavs anything to chance. Thero will bo no registry at the city cloction, There will ba over eighty candidatos for Constables,—the most notive eanvassers of oll candidates,—and the voto will beafull one, enlarged, perhaps, by liberal repoating, which Iarondered ensy because of the nbsence of any registry law. At this cleotion all the bummers and scalawagsof all partiesopposed to honeat and @economicnl government will support 8urrx and his associates, nud will leave nothing undone to seoure possesalon of the City Goverumont. It will requiro the votes and the personnl efforts of overy friend of honest government to secure the re-elootion of Mayor Hearnt and the present Council, and’ thoe restoration of Colvinism under 8srriand Hivonerm must be defoated on Tuesdsy. Laments after the election will be unavaliling, H 0 ELECT HEATH. There nre two things necemsary to insure the ro-election of Mayor Heatu and the prosent Oity Government which bas eut down expenditures g0 ns to save taxpayors over {wo milliona a year. Ona is to awaken the taxpoyera to tho realization of tho faot that the city is just ns much menaced with extravagance and corruption as it wos n year ago, whon thoy roscued it frim Colvinism ¢ tho ‘other iy to reorganize the Ballot-Box Guards of last spring, aud provent repeating and frauds by vigilance at the polls. The nogloot of either of thess essontials may ro. sult In a victory for the bummeors and tax. devourers, As to tho first point: Last spring the issue of scalawagism was apparent, becauso the city hnd suffered from it for two years and a half, aud Jrx McGrata's name was a symbol readily recognized, I'his year the name of Peuny H, Burri i counted upon to present n somblanco of respectability and conceal the bummerism that has put him for- ward, But the name of Pemay II, Baizu carrles uo more fdea of respectability and good intentions now than Hamver I, Cor- viv's did when he was olected, ConviN was 8 well-known business man, but he became the ngent of, and finally succumbed to, the spondthrifts and corruptionists, Swrm, as far a8 we know, {4 uot even in business, but is and has been for a year past a professionat politician, tralning with the worst political clasaes in Chicago, and sald by Domocrats to have certain infirmities that will render Lim an easy victim to the bummers, Even at the best, he has been reared in the ‘Tammany school of politics, and believes thorouglly in the Tammany system of lavish expenditures as a moans for holding a parti. san constituenoy together. ‘I'wxzn & Co, were adored in New York by the common herd while they were mortgsging the prop. erty by issues of bonds aud destroyiug the business of the city by oxcossivo taxation. Peagy I. Swra's personal and political no- tion about achieving and retaiviug popularity 1s the same that provailed in they hoyday of ‘l'smmanyism, and it conslsts of extravagant expenditure of the taxpayers' woney, ‘The mob of candidates for tho Council who are running on the same ticket with him, and the outside gang of coutructors and place- buaters, will encourage him in the spplics. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MARCH 381. 1877—-TWELVE PAGLES, o 1Aan Manfida tha Nily Govern- ment to these people, along with the Connty Covernment which they already control, and this commnnity will inevitably bo viotimized and plandered as New York City wns under the rulo of Tammany. It is this which busi- ness men and taxpayers must remember be. fora anything else. As totha second polnt: Thehonest vote of tho city may bo defented by ropenting snd frauds " if not protected by the utmost vigi- lance. There is nnfortunately no registra. tion at the spring clection, and the most active partisans of Prnry Barra are to bo found among that class of men who atuffed the ballot-boxes two years ago to carry the new charter and one yoar ngo to elect the Evans.Priruies-Grexson town ticket, Bue. coss in the past and greed for the futnre will encourage them to resort to their old prac- tices. Their efforla were defented in the city election last spring Ly the organization of the Ballol.Box Guards, who watched overy ward, and precinct, and ballot-box in the city. Itis only by menns of a similar organ. ization that the proposed frauds can bo de- feated this year. The advice wa should give to the general ward committees is to organ- izo sub-committees for every precinet, con. sisting of active, vigilant residents who will bo apt to know porsonally tho greatest numnber of votars in the precinet. Wo wonld also advise that the poll-lists of last fall in overy precinct bo copied. 'Tho voto laat fall at the Presidontial election %ns nlmost ox- haustive of the legal vote of the city, and there have been comparatively fow changes of residence within the last five months, ns the 1st of May hns not intervened. Copies of theso. poll-lista should be printed in each precinct, and overy person offering to voto whose namo 1s not found thdrein as a voter 1ast fall should to challenged and subjected to tho closest serntiny, This vigilance ex. tanded throughout the entiro city may pre- vent wholesale frauds and repeating, but nothing else can. It the people who directly and indirectly pny the taxes of the community, and those who nre intorested in tho business prosperity of Chicago, «lesire to assurs the continuance of the economy and retrenchment policy of the past yenr, thoy must pursue precisely the samo coursa in theso two respects which onabled thom to rescne the Gity Governmont from the tax.anters n year ago, : GRAIN INSPECTION. Tha offort -now. being mado to obtain a change in the law regnlating tho inspection of gramn jn this city Is boing very widely discussed in commorcial circles; and sur- prisingly wide differences of opinion are moet with in rogard to -it. Tho goneral expros. sion, however, is decidedly in favorof n xradical chango from presont conditions. The inspection of grain in Chicago is ono of the most important truats in the United States. About fifty million dollars’ worth of grain poss throngh this city each year, or nearly ona million dollars' worth per woek ; nnd the selling valuo of a groat proportion of all this proporty is dolermined for the owner by servants of tho Btate. Strange as it may secm, since 1873 there has not been at the head bf this dopartment n man who claimed to be a good jndge of the value of grain, ‘The Chief Inspector is confessedly unable to critically pass npon the acts of his subor- dinates, and, oven it ho should find fault, he is powerless to remove them. And tho men who own the property, and ought to have something to say nbout ita value, are powerless ns the Chief Inspector, however great may ba their knowledge. Itistrue that thoro s a right of nppeal on genoral prinei- plosto a triumvirate having their headquar. tors in Springfleld, 186 uiles from Chicngo, and a right of appeal in individnal cases to auother trio in this city, But the machinery of tho latter process is so expensive to tho ownors of tho proporty as to deter thom from appenling in many easos whero thoy foel thomselves wronged. Add to all this tho fact that the greater partof the prop- orty thus trented 1s ownod by the people of other States than Illinois, and the render may gain gome idea of the enormity perpe- trated under the name of Iaw and justice. The system i in direct and open conflict with two provisions of the Conatitution, 1t nasumes the right to tax the commercs of other States, and provents the injured par- tios from obtalning even partial justice with- out cost, ‘Phoro are, howevor, some parties who claim that the clange asked for would not be for the best Interest of the trade. They say that the nbandonment of the inspection by the Btate would be to place it in the hands of a body of men, the majority of whom are not interested in preserving the integrity of the grades and the purity of the system, ‘Thoy allege that if the Board of ‘Trade, with its noble army of scalpors, did uot rule it, tho receivers would be the gov- erning power, and that the receivers of grain would reduce standards of quality so that buyers would be detorred from purohnsing, It is probable that the latter chargo is based on s misapprehension of the situation. It dooes not socm deslrablo that the Board of Trado, aa a body, should control the inspec- tion ; whila it {4 only right and proper that the control should rest with parties inside the Doard, which is tho leading representa. tive of tho grain intercsts of the Northwest. The recoivers do not claim the right to bethe solo judges of quality; but it is not likely thot if thoy had the unreserved con. trol they would act 80 as to destroy the mar- kot for the property they had to sell. The dealers in dry goods and griceries are not apt to make such mistakes, orif they do the rewedy is supplied as soon as the error is discovered. 1t s sufo to say that they could scarcely make the thing worse than it now is,~things baving come o such n'pass that the same grade of barley in different houses Llias & range of 7 to 10 cents per bushel, The proposition Las been wmade, and it is favorably received Ly many of those who have Leard it, that the supervision of the in. spection shall be vested ina committes of fivo mombers of the Board of Trads, to be appointed by the Btato; this committeo to consist of one representative from cach of the five leading interests,—tha railroads, ‘warshouses, millers, recsivers, and shippers. A committes thus cowmposed might be ex. pected to govern without much partiality for either side, provided that good men were chosen. In whatever way it be accomplished, it ia highly desirable that the dealers in grain should return to strict business principles as woon a3 possible, Tho idea of an **elastic inspection,” of which #0 much has been said, is the veriest bosh. The idea of lowering the standard of a grade to keep pace with s poor crop s just as absurd as that of chang- ing the size of -the bushel-meoasure to socom- modate tho returns of quantity. Grades once ocstablished must bo strictly maintained if the world of buyers, abroad and at home, are to bave confidence enough in the market to pat- ronize it, and the world of sellers oqual con. fidence in sonding their grain heze to be sold. If the wheat crop of the present year should only contain 1 per cent of grain equal to onr present No, 2 grale, the 09 per cont should he passed into store as No. 3 and rejected. The speculators can then turn their attontion to No, 8, if they find thers is ‘‘not enough No. 2 to go round ;" and the merchant in, Liverpool who buys No. 2 this spring, and is satisfied with it, can mend his ordera hers mnext spring in the fall confidence that he will have the same quality as before, and not an inferior article. To this end we ought to have a Chief Ingpector who knowa his business and has fnll control of his subordinates to make them maintain a uniform quality of grade at the different warchouses, The Inspector-in- Chief should be Leld responsible for the ncta of his department, and beyond that the less interferencs the better for all engnged in actaally handling the property. OUR ‘' HOME" DEPARTMENT, Taz Taung can heartily join its readers in mnutual congratulations upon the manner in which the Iladies not only keep up, bnt from week to week improve, their Home De- partment, as is shown by our columns this morning. The lottors pro written in excel- lent style. They cover a range of topica so wido as to includa almost everything that is of interest in the home,—its hyglene, econo. my, cookery, literature, ornnments, wenring apparel, amnsements, nnd in ganeral sll its duties as well as its pleasures,—all that goos to make homoe attractive and pleasant. They exhibit an ability, good sonse, and discrim- ination which have made their contributions not alone interesting, but extromely useful, Our paper to-day will go into 40,000 families, and this constituency is greatly in creased by pnpers which are lent and sont away to friends, It will not bo rond by the crowd abont town which looks for daily papers of the Day's Doinga stamp, which delights itself in reading of crimes, lascivious narratives, and insipid trash, It goos to 40,000 firesides all over the North- west, and delights 40,000 homes. It will ba read by the moral, intolligent, and hard- working people, and will enable them to make their homos still mors enjoyablo to themselves and thoir children. It is a mat- tor of gratification to the editors of Tnz Trmuxe to seo the able mauner in which the lady contributors have kept up and oconducted their department, No other paper in tho United Btates has asnch o vast corps of grave, serious, gay, witty, sparkling, and learned correspondenta. It shows that thero is n large degroo of ability in our Westorn homos, nnd the results provae thatour contributors aro not only enter. taining vach other and tho vast rank and file of the busy home.workers, but also the loadérs of the poople who sot the stylea and who aro the centrea of inflnenco around whom the socinl world revolves. Bo longns tho ladies keep up this departmont of ‘I'nk ‘Trinuxs 6o handsomely, skillfully, and use- fully, they ara welcome to ita brond poges. ‘WENDELL PHILLIPS' PHILIPPICS, ‘Wo lave maintained all along that the Implacables both North and South stand on common ground so far as the policy of paci- fication is concerned. It is another instance in which oxtromes meet. Bouth of Aasox and Drxox's lina the irreconcilables aro at- tempting to inflamo the old passions of tho people by ropresenting the cautions delay tho Prosidont haa takon as an abandonment of tho policy of reconcilintion and a breach of faith. At the North, Wexprrr, Pminirs appears with the old flaming torch, ns the spostlo of the roligion of hate, and attempts to gond the radicals to the obstruction and embarrassmont of tho Adwinistration. is spoech deliverod in Philndelphia a fow daya sinco, which has attractod the enmo sort of attention that cloquent vituperation wsually secnres, was a volums of denunaiation with. out any attempt at argument or a cousidoration of the facts, 1Mo do- nounced President Ilavzs and his en- tiro' Cabinet in much the samo fashion aa ho denounced Lovcorxn and his Cabinet six- teon yoars ago, LincoLy and thoso asso- clated with him wore called *! slave-hounds " thon, and PmiLuies now applies the same term to Iayes nnd Lis associatos, though thore are no longer any slaves n the land. Haxzs, ho says, has surrondered in Washing- ton Lnlf what Gnaxr gainod at Appomattox. Evanta o calla a ‘““trimmer” and a 4 Joseph Surface™! Spemuy, he charges, enterod Congress poor and leaves it rich, insinuating dishonest practices, Sonunz ho calls o “Bwiss soldier, nlways to lot." Attorney-General Devexs is a ¢ slave-hound, who has no right to obtrude himsclf on the disgust of mankind,” Judge Key represonts “Tioen and Becession.” And so on. These are fairsamplea of the wholo dintribe, dellvered, as Mr. Puintirs let out in the course of rewnrks, generally because war s not to be made on the Bouth, and particu. larly becauso Mr, Braive was not called to the Cabinet, nor Braixe's supposed idea represcnted dominantly in ita constitution, Of conrse, Wenprrn Purirnres would not be WexpzLr Puuuies if he wero not slan. derons and vituperative, He is alwnys vitrlolio, aud it Is expected of him. At the same time, he prosents, na the Doston Globs says, * the sad spoctacle of a man who was fitted for o special work, and retains all his vigor aud vitality when that work is done.” It is nuother way of saying that Wxwprrn Puruies has outlived his time, which is the mora unfortunate because ke is only dis. tinguished as a relentloss, abusive, and elo. quent hater. Ho hates the crushed South because it once practiced nnd fonght for slavery, and he is not willing to forgive or forgot, Yet slavery has passed away, and the new generation now growing up scarcely recollects its existence. People might as well insist upon fighting over the battles in the War of the Roses, re-snacting the strugglos of the QGuelphs and Ghib. belines, perpetuating the flerce animosity of the Roundheads and Oavaliers, or expect. ing a collision between the Ribbonmen and Orangemen every time they met, as maintain the old enimosity between the North and Bouth that grew out of slavery, ‘This world ‘would beasorry abiding-place if all the bitter struggles of history were perpetuated and handed down generation after generation, and traditional auntsgonism wore the oc- casion of new wars. But Wenpxuy PafLivs will never get through with history and Bghting the Bouth,—though he ought for the samo resson to hatée and fight those North- ern Btates where slavery formerly existed,— nor tire of denouncing the men who look forward to peace and good.will. There i no chance for argument with Puirues, bocause he deals in mothing but malico and hate. It is useless to tell him that the prospority of the Cotton States and the whole country domands local Govern. ment that assures peace. Itisidle to remind him that the army and navy of the United Btates have beon employed ten years in vain to guarantes the negroes cither per- sonal protection or political rights under the oarpet-bsg Governments. It is a waste of time to polnt ¢nt thatthe carpet-bag Govern-. ments which have boen sustained by the bayonet and gunboat have never devoloped the inherent strength to protect either themselves or thoir constituents. It ia of no avail to reeall how ofton and how much the Constitntion has beon atrained to sustain the itinerant politicians who havae deceived the nogroea and plundered the whites of the Sonth. PrinLies cares nothing for Consti. tution, nor laws, nor facta; he only hates,— hates in the pnat, the present, and thefuture, hatoes by nature and by habit, hates historic- ally and irrationnlly, and hates thoso who will not hate with him. Now that it has become impotent rage, ke is rather to be pitied than admired, THE GERMAN MILITARY POWER. An interesting movement of a military charncter, looking to future emergencies, ia nowgoingon in Germany, and has commenced toattract thonttention of the other Enropean Powers. The military authorities want moro troops, and propose to add 450,000 men to the 1,200,000 now subject to call, by adding a fourth battalion to each regiment, which wonld give an inatallment of about 630,000 men each year with the colors, and 1,030,000 men subject to eall. In defensa of this ex- trnordinary demand, the military authorities contond that they have two enemles in Europe,—France on the west, which is rap- idly recuperating from its losses in tho Franco-German campaign, and is panting for rovengo, and the vast Russian Empire on the east. The alliance between Germany and Russia they look upon ns only concorning tho Enstern queation. Meanwhile Denmark has had no special friendship for Germany slnco the days of Bchleswig-Holstein, and Austria is by no means in nctive sympa- thy with her, although not inimical, 'They are afraid, therefore, that in an emergency they have not men enough to cope with France and Russin combined against them, Although afrald of neither ringly, thoy are afrald of a Franco-Russian alllanco, and fear that they will not be able to have a war with ono nt a time, but that when war comes thoy will bo assanlted by both, and most likely at n time when Germany is unprepared, The movoment, however, meots .with tho most violent opposition npon the part of the people. Thoy are nlready burdenod down to the earth with the dopression of financo ond industry, ond are struggling with o ponio na sweeping and disastrons ns our own was. They aro wearied out with the overpres- suro of military oxactions. Germanyis alrendy o vest military camp in time of peaco. There §s hardly such o thing ns home-lifo in & country whore home-lifo is ns highly prized o8 in our own. ‘Thoy bring forward the seri- ons objection that this conatant military training, drilling, and campaigning In n time of poace is injuring Germany, just ns an sthleto may be trainod to such n point as to absolutoly wenken him. The strongest argu. mon which is made, however, ngainst this in- crenso of the army, is the declaration that Germany nlways has o pieco on the bonrd that can check Russin and France, and that ia Poland. Tho lion's sharo of that unfortn. nate country is held by Russia, and the Poles bato the Iussinns with an undying hatred. Anstrin has but o small slice, Thoso of the Poles under German rule are Ultramontanes, and aro not thoroughly logal to Germany, oither politically or roligiously, The first and last hopo of the Polos {a to-day what it hias been sinco the partition, that they may some day be a nation again. 1If, therefore, the Gormans oro ever pressed to tho wall, if Rus- ain and France join hands against thom, thoy oro always [n a position to declare the recon. struction of the Polish Kingdom with a Gor- man Catholic Prince of the Homexzorreax family for King, That family atill has abun. dant and excellent material loft in it for the manufacture of Kings. NarorroN might lave saved his throne hod he beon far-sight- od enough to have done this, The Germans liavo it in their power to reconstruct 15,000,- 000 of dendly enomios of Russia at any time, ond making them active sllies, by simply proclaiming Polish independence and ceding back the territory taken from them by Frep- xnox the Great. If they will make this sacrifice, the Germans do not need to in. cronse thoir army, They always have this oxtra arrow in thelr quiver, nnd it is wiser to use it than to exhaust the people with this constant military drafn, which tends to par- alyzo industry and to ronder them discon- tonted with their own Government. wct seckera for Consulshipa lift up their volces injoy! There 1s one more vacaucy In our Con- sular sorvice—that at Acapuleo, Moxico, Its last occupant was scot to prison by order of Mexlican (General JIMINEZ for protesting against tho ill-treatment of an Amerlean cltizon, This will be just the place for those famished nse pirants for oflice who have been carrying the flag through huurs of wpceches; who have worn it; slept in ita folds; tented thelr cloquonco under and shot it above the azurefleld aud luved stripes; for a Qeneral, a (overnor, a Coluncl, n Captaln, a Corporal, u private; or, lower down, & Dupter FisLp, wind-fluted to the marrow in the watching of the Benate flag by night; for some man whom greasers cannot terrlfy or an adooe Jall contaln. We make theso suggestions on tha presumption that the present incumbent, MMr. Joux A, Surren, will conclude he has had cnough of the flag for the small salary of §2,000 and Mexican miseries Included; or that, belng out of ofice, by Juixez, the President may have some enemy to punish. Anyhow, there s the office, and the Consul has been removed, and oflice-seckers may run for it T A Republlean Club meeting in the Fourth Ward adopted the following: Wixnzas, The Fourth Ward of \bo City of Chl. nfln the banner ward of Rephblicanism, and w| Il give Mayor llxatu & clesr majority of 2,000 votes. It the Fourth Ward rolls up that majority for Mayor IizaTi, he will bo elected beyond ques- tlon. Cantheydo it It Is pretty big talk. ‘The Fourth is & big ward, and has given some tall Republican imajorities wnen the *boys" have all pulied together; but 2,000 majority lsthe Democratic strength of the bloody Filth Ward. Laat fall I1ayxs only had 857 mujority, although Misrs and wost of the county tleket rocelved 1,400 and upwards. We aro wiltiug to compro- mise on that fiure, and will throw up our hat pretty bigh it thoy reallzo it} 1,400 majority for the Fourth 18 & falr “stont,"” and if they roll it the ticket will be out of the wood. —————— We submit to the Republicans of the Elght- ecnth Ward that Asnzi BCRANTON, who ls the Hepublican candidate for Alderman, s fully as &oud & man for that oflice as his Democratlo opponent, Mr, DALY; and mavy good judges of wen think him decldedly the safer snd hetter man of the two for the interest of the tax- payers. But somehow DALy's friends have mauaged to get bim on the Citlzens’ Unfon ticket, We do not understand that the lto- publican memmbers of the “Unlon® are bound 0 voto for a political opponent who is mot as good, and certainly oo better, than the candi- date of their own polltical falth. Everybody says that Mr, ScRANTON would make & most excellent and faithful Alderman; but ho cavnot be clected by Republicaus votlng for his Demo- cratis opponent. It 13 stated that & Mra. Caprs, of Mt. Pulaski, in this Statc, belped the singer, Miss AsBoTT, to her first start, when her husband had ta scll corm at niue cents & bushel to ralse the money. Migs ABBOTT cang at Bpringeld the other night, and Mt, Pnlaski waa represented bya delegation which camae I on a apecial train. Mrs, Carrs, of course, was ono of the crowd. She called on Miss AnnotT, but the latter would not *sec- knowledge the corn.” This, In the oplnion of Mt. Pulaskl, Garrs the climax of Ingratitude. A pinger ralsed on corn, at nino cents & bushel, is indeed & miracle, and Mes, Carrs will have the sympathy of the public it the above atory I8 trud, We presume she s now of ‘the opinion that Miss AnpoTr “doesn't amount to shucks ' any way. , e ——— The Beventh fs one of the verystrongeat Dem- ocratie wards in the city. Last fall It voted, on county ticket, 2,843 Democratlc, to 1,803 Re- publican; and it Is on account of this enormous preponderence of party strength that a self- convicted whisky thief expects to bo elected to the Council from which ho was expelied for his crimes, The brazen impudence and hardihiood of thia man beats everything ever befors known in our local politics. When he was in the Coun- cit (before ho ran off to Canada to escapa the Penitentlary), he was the leader of tha corrupt and infamous ring that ruled that body and blackmaled everything that had money tn it I he is returaed to the Councll, be will azaln ba theleader of overy corruptly-inclined Alder. man. ———m— The Republican nomince for Assessor of the the North Division Is Mr. Crianves W, Pronst, of the Bixtcenth Ward, a frecholder and a tax- payer. Ile Is represented to us to be well qual- 1fed for the office, a8 A man of good judgment, and honest. Mo is with the houss of Frank Brothers, importers aud jobbers of notlons and furnishing goods, Monroe strect and Fifth ave- nue. Those acqualnted with lim speak well of him, and say hels entitled to confidence and support. I'he Democrats, webolieve, have made no nomination. The Citizens’ Unlon are running another man, and out of the four town candi- dates are sald to be running threc Democrats, which I8 riding o free horso rather too hard, It would equalize matters if they would blaco Troost's vame on thelr ticket, * — ‘The Repnblican reformer, A. C. Mraina, and Connty-Clerk HxnxMaxx Lies are engaged in an exciting controversy.—7imes. As Hestna has not sald a wordto Lizn, It i dlt- ficult to percelve where the “oxciting controvers 8y comes {n, Lirnhas made a ferocious personal attack on Hesixa without cause or provoeations but the reason therefor s quite plain and ob- vious, Ile secks to got up n side-issue and di- wvert the public attention from the real one, and, under the dust he thus kicks up, run in 8suri & Co. This Is an old trick of cunning and des- perate politiclans; but in this case it will not succced. Lixn {s smart and foxy; but his little gamo of flinging rotten cabbage and dead cats at HesiNg will not cloct Perny L, 8suru, —————— Bexsasin Nores, President of the Natfonal Capital Life-Insurance Company, has been, and at the Jast account was still, in custody for not transferring & few hundred thotisand dollars’ ‘worthof property belonging to o hal{-swallowea company. This is bad for Norzs, to whom Jersey Justico has como like o stroke of light~ ning; it is bad for Jersey to thus make a nolse by kocping a Nores out of the world; and it {s bad for his Insurance Company, as suppressed Norzsofton causes an cxplosion; and it an- Nores everybody to have Noves nofsed abroad as o Nores awalting the * crack of doom " in a Jerscy court. —— Bt. Louishas an insuranco corpse in the shapo of the Columbia Lifo Company, which it Is trylng to bury In the courts, but which lawyers galvan- Ize perlodicaily to convince the people that that city has been in style. Tho old thing bhas been wrapped up in fnjunctions until it was lkoa mummy, and policy-holders kept paving premi- ums, notwithstanding an order of the Conrt to the contrary, making the *‘corpse altogether toolively," na an observer facetiously rematked. ‘Wo bellove this Company swallowed one or more of its kind, which may account for the kickative- ness of the concern, It waa up day before yes~ terday for a softening of the Injunctlon, e ———— Beforo the Fourth Ward Republican Club “whereas " too decidedly sbout the **injustice of a Trinuws article™ referring to Mr, WiLLIAM H. Harren, and beforo committing themeelves too deeply in wbitewashing sald IHAnren ns * nctive, able, and honorable,” and “entitled to thelr fricndship, respect, and estcem, It would be proper, perhaps, to fnquire of him whether he has * honorably " turned over tho $20,000 of graln-Inspection money which he collected. Wa merely throw this out by way of suggestion. — e T—— Between thoso of its citizens who steal quiet- ly awdy from Now York Clty, and thoso who manago to dio four or flve tines by telegraph, nearly every prominent New Yorker has tho plensure of reading his own obltuary, As a rule, the result i gratifylog to the persons futer- eatedy and also demonstrative of the capacity of death to lla in ambush, or at lenat to got othor peaple to “le* while it remains {n ambush. — Mr, J, . EsTiLy, of the Savannah (Ga.) News, has published a very intcrosting report of the Boardof Healthof that city forthe vear 1876, with appendix and mortuary record of the epldemic that ravaged Savannah. It cootalns the evl- dence taken in the fuvestigation of the yellow lever, and will be fouud to be a rare accession to medleat libraries. Coplea can bo had by nall on application to the author, ——— Between protocol and demohilizatlon the dip- lomats of Europe are forved to splitting fine hairs. The dispatches this morning indicate, nccording to o Vienna paper, that 1f demobiiza- tion bo separated from tho protocol, England and Russia might sgree on the remalning re- quirements, and Turkey be forced by moral pressure to disarmament, This, however, is only newspapor gucsswork. No mao In the Mayor's office of Chicago has ever worked harder or moro falthfully and do- votedly to servo tne people than has Mowrox Hzamit. No Mayor has ever better deserved n re-clection than Heatit. And 1f wo wero one year further removed from thoheat and ani- musities of the late Presldential struggle, he would be elected by more than 10,000 msjority, e ee— 'The New York Herald fell into a queer blun- der the other day, In commentiog editorially on Briciax Youna's order for the massacro of emigrants, fouwd among the paners of the late Judge Trzus, it considers It ns applylng to the Mountaiu Mcadows atrovity, though its date showed it to have been fssued over scven months later. ——— The Globs-Democrat attempts to snswer the conundrum * Why we are for Hupsox' for Mayor of 8t, Louls. It says it {s becauso * ho 13 the peer of any man who eyer held the office tn &t, Louls” That's about the thinnest rea- son for supporting o wman that could well be finsgioed. A p il botter be a vassal h and done with it, When the now Postmaster-General ‘ts sur- rounded by the horde of Washiugton house- agents offerlng thele establishments for lease, 1t Is sald hio smiling)y remarks that ho has nine children, This gives him the Ky to the situs- tlon, and several littlo Krrs joto the bargain. ‘The applicants retire in disorder. —— An exchango rcmarks thas * the only jokes women liko to read are those which reflect ridi- cule on the meu." Tt adds that thoy like to read marriago notices. This would follow from the fArst statement, for few jokes reficct more ridi- cule on the men than—matrimony, ———— The less editorial space the Times devotces to apologizing for the visible fnfirmitles of its can- didato the more votes bo wiil recelve, Some of bils Irlends ought to caution tho editor asto the effeet, and request him to stop it e ee—— ‘The Colorado bug is moving East, which will probably cause maoy of the ** big bugs ™ {a that scction of country to *go West."” e — ‘The Globe-Democrat reads a lecturs to the army on its *‘morale.” It says “ Thero {s not » slngle point in which one of our artillery ahead of the arllllery offcer of twelve years ngo.” Yee, therefs. If haing married man, he must be a zood ways ahead {n *elght-pounders,” elther male or fomale, ————— The TVmes objects to the Municipal Reform Club because it appliea to candidates *ypq sugar-tongs test.”” The candidates don't like the Times because It applics to them the “sugar' test, "The Now York Tribune begins an editorial thus: ** In behalf of genuino Independents, wa have a few suggestions.” 'Tho most truthfy] suggestion would be that there are no * geny. ine Independents.” | 0 It the City Hall wero the Washingtontan Tome, Tna Tatnuxs would feel'it to be aduty to support the Democratic munlcipal ticket, re. gardless of party afiiliations. 4 Calling one of the perfodical floods of New Englana *a dam disaster " s simply tompting Providence. The sons of the Puntans should think on these things. } The Times calls thoss of the Democratic my. nicipnl nominces who pay nothing for Its sup- port * Devourers"; the balance arc the do. voured.” % People who aro thirsty—~for news, will e light to read what the Governor of South Caro. na sald to the other Governor of South Caro. lina, { The HeAt reformer to one of 8auTn's cor. rgptlo'nlsu: “Thy monoy PERRY-sh with thee.” - | WENDELL Pruieears Is not an “ 8-t0-7" man, Ho s 2 **7-by-0 ** man. L 4 TRussia ought to foar war because it han its steppes in Tartary. PERSONAL. Becretary Scharz transacts his business in threg different Ianguages. Mone for & scason blew her nose and hooted, And Freedonn slitfeked as Mary Walker scoated. —Graphle, At the fnnoral of Mies Barah Toohey, at Alton, the pall-bearers were youny ladies dressed In white and woaring crepe sashea, Mr. Eastman Johnson's Academy pletnro this spring s ealled **The Tramps," and presents o rural scone adorned by thoso unpleasant persane ages, A cock-fight at the New York Hippodrome was broken np Tucnday night by Henry Bergh's ofcars, ‘When they took the birds from tho pit they turned out to be dummies, working on wlires, During the iwenty-two years of his relgn (he Tussian Czar has falled to indorsc a single sentence to capltal punlshment. From 185656 to 100 22 sentences were submitted to him and sot aside. The Captainof the Rualand has exoncrated her vilot. and the pilot of the Jlusland haa ezoncrated her Captain, and thoy hold each othet's oxample up reproach{ully to the people who suffered by the srrecle, **Mlss Grandy” folleves the public mind by ‘writing that, though the President does not wear gloves at his receptions, he holds a pair of fresh whito kid gloves in Lls left hand, whilo he shakes hands with his right, Thu report that Oakey Hall had gone to England to form n partnership with Judah P. Benjamin s denled by tho latter by felegraph. Tho Englishe Taw docs not contemplate an assoclation or part- nership of barrinters, Later advices from Africa Indicate that Miss Alica ‘Wren was killed by savages, and not strangled by Mlle. Cora, sa atfirst reportcd, It lx now feared that the whole Cora troupo have been murdered,as nothing has been hieard from them, Washington has daveloped a later editlon of Dr, Mary Walker. She dresses in brown, and her face 1s descrlbed as gentloand womanly, though it wears sort of dazed ecxpression aa If aho were half sur- prised and amazed at her own folly. Luck, New Yorz's last humorous venture, comes full of excellent cartoons, langhable caricaturee, and doubtful jokes. If tho management would ralao the literary end to the atandard assumed by the artlsts, Puck would have no rival, Mra. Georgo C. Woolper, of Baltimore, stated to her family that sho had a premonition of death. 8he vinited hier dangitors In thelr rooms and then retired to horown. At lier solicitation a priest was seat for, but befora his arrlval she explred. Thowlfo of a Chiness Ambassador to London took tea, tho othar day, with the Hon, Mrs, Thome a8 Bruce, sister-in-law to tho late Lord Elgin, All the males | house wero packed away out of slzht, becauae a Chinono lady of rank cannot en- dura thoe presence of any male creatura except her hushand, Frank J. Faulkner, of Drooklyn, fell into the bad habit of writing lave-lettera to Mrs, T, Jeffer- son Stevens, who contracted tho equally unfortue nate habit of leasing them around loose, T, Jeff, himsclf got hold of one of them, and a sult for dis vorce fs now ponding, The Duke of Wellington was onco told that Ihe late George Janes, R, A, looked 8o niuch Jika bim us to bo often stopped In the street In mistake for Bim. **Indeed, was the Iron Duke's grim an- swer, *‘that Is odd; I have never beon stopped in tho street for Mr. Jones." Twelve minlstering angels graduated from the ‘Woman's Medical Colloge of Now York last Tues- day, and recelved license to try their scionce on suffering humanity, One was a descendant of John Elfut, the: Apostic to the Indians, and the frat translator of the Bible Into tholr Ianguage. Henn Vignaud, in the Nepudliq.ie Francalss of March 11, states that Mr, Wasbburno proposcs to dellver in this country a sorles of lectures on the French Revolution, making use of docowents which he has dlscoversd in tho French natlonst archives, and which have never boen published. Andrew Champion, a_Ponnsylvania mechanie, 'was thrown out of employment a few days after his marrlage to Miss Annle Willlams, Ilis wife and mother-In.law taunted hin Lo desperation, Secure Ingarovalver and a fow drinks, he went tohls home, shot his wife through the body and himsei! through the head, The American Soclatist evolvos tho foltowing viewa upon the success of Neachor's Weatern trip: *“What {s the meaning of this almost national ova- tion? Is It not a elgn of enlarged liberality in the publicinind toward *truc inwardness® in love nate tera? It is hardly poasiblo that anybody belleves in Boach entire Innocence of heart trespass. Arenot the people condonlng the encroachments of rolizicus Jove on imalrimonial territory? Is thero not a squint taward church familism?—which 18 one promlsing form of Soclaliam," Tt comes from Vermont, and is to the effect that a gentlemnan of that State, baving become fatigued wllle rabbit-hunting, fell over and fajnled, diis faithful spanlel volled himself In the snow snd then shook it In his master's face, ropeating the operatiun until the man had revived, Thore s 0o doubt that had the wan falled to cowe to just when be did, the *falthfol spsniel® would have taken sonio feathers from his pocketand buraed thew under the prostrato man's nos Montreal is convalsed by & tersible scandal. A Dr, W, H. Mondelet, son of Judge Mondelet, has been arreated and indicted at the Assizes forsb- ducting a young gir) of 12 years of age, a nlace of James Worthington, the eminent contractor, and 8 cousin of the Doctor's wife, at whose house sho was visiting, Ho touk the girl away from the clty, ostensibly for a short drive, Lut did not brisg hoe back till next miorning, having kept herats country hotel slf night. The accused lsa youe§ physician in good practic familles, 8nd hiss been married only Felix Adolphe, & ¥rench barber, cut his throst after writing the following death song: **1 loved, To-day I doubt, despsir been killed; lot my Lody only Huerty thab God has given to man, snd that soclety cannot do* prive bim of, viz., that of destroylng himselt. ¥ was born with & taste for literature, and my A~ rents made mo aLarber, | was imarried toa od and handsome woman, but jealous fate deprived me of ber. Accursod be man, accursed be the earth. I doliver my boly to the worms, BY batred to the Infornsl spleits, aod expire!” ‘Tho Prince of Wales s moro sensible than somé of his future aubjects, ile wont into Gloucestes~ shiro the other day to huot, aud, at the request of Lord Bhaunon, sgreed to joln a met be hanl; of & cortaln parvenu, Mr. Powell, M. P, provide thero should be **no fuse.” Mr, Puwell.howuur.. would bave s **fuss.” Mr. Powell bullt & l"“ marguse, ordered "l;u el:ld"l:ar chr:‘mpl’l::fl::‘. band, and all sorts ol i e Erlace ey, But irmiy, de: ke clined 10 enter the marguce, the multitu ks Juto it snd got drunk, and the altera bs dx:’ in ::u -K-l:mx::l vode np o mz.n realdence 1o of tha villago vicar, sud went (. sud bad tea sud toast with the fanuly.