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4 ‘THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. APRIL 1, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. t was a defunct termagant, possibly a to Seaate bill 51, and this bilt also contai Thye Tribune. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGE PREPAID AT g THIS OFFICE. Dafly Edition. pos.patd: 1 3 Ta5i of ayear, ner montl. Hiolied 10 any lddunflmur o ol Tojrevent delay 2nd mistakes. he sureand cive Poste ©f ccaddrese in full, Including State and Couaty. Remttances may be made elther by draft, express, Fest-Ulkce order. or In registered letters, at our risk. 7ERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. deltvered, Sundsy excerted, 25 ceats per week. L)y, deifvered, Sunday focluded, 30 cents per week Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANT, Coruer Madiron and Dearborn; T 643, A. F. and A. M.— Itéguiar Communica- at_ 7 o'clock p. m. All members are resent. Visiting brethren cordially invited. By order of JAMES KEATS, W. M. JOUN GINOCHIO, Secretary. RILWINNING LODGE XNo. SIL A.F. and A. M.— All memlers are herehy notliled 1o be presenton husl- Dessof fmportaice at Corlnthian Hall, 167 Eaat Kinzie- sL. o Thunday evening, Sibinst., being the st Tegular. commuufcation o April. Work on the E. A. Degree. Visttors courteousy Invited. GEOKGE D. EDDY, W. M. L. 5. CHARLETTE, Secretary. D. A. CASHMAX LODGE NO. 685. A. F. and A. M. —Regular Communication will be heid $n thefr hall, Soraen Welt Madiion and flobey st Tuesday evening, ‘ednesday cvening, Aprii 4. . - Work un the M. M. Degree. Bereby notitied 10_be Ainis. Workon E. A. and F. C. Degroes. " A tull at- endsuce of members and viSifors desired. Guvel sounds at 8 o'clock shar. H. G. THOMPSON, W. M. VAN RENSRELAER GRAND LODGE Of PER- FECTION, A. A., Scoltls} Misons, will hold a Special Aesemnbly ‘on Thursdsy evealng Dext, at 7:30 o'clock.” Work on the Fourceenth Degres. By order of JOHN ED. GOODALE, Grand Sccretary. APOLLO COMMANDERY. NO. 1. KNIGHTS TEM- PLAR—Npedial Conciave at Asylum. 7216 78 Monroe-6t., on’Tucsdey eveuing next. April 4. at § o'clock sharp. Stated Conclave at 80'clock. Order of K. T. will be con- femed. | Visiudag Sir Kalguus welcomed. * By onder of e k. C. J. R. DUNLOP, Recorder. GOLDEYX RULE LODGE X0. 726 A. F. and A. M.— TYadi further notice. the meetiags will be held In Piciades Hull, 220 West Twelfth-st, Legular Com- maunication on Tuesday erenlnE 3d inst. m. JOIN McFADYEN, sec. I, 76 LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, . 2, B2 A. 3L e, 2, NO. Moaroe-st._ _Special Convocation Aonday. Spril1. stz odock or work on M. £ 1 Degres, Yalkors condlally invited to meet with us. By onler of AL E, W.H. KELD, I1. P. E.N. TCCKER, Secretary. HOME LODGE, No. 508, A. F. and A. M.—Regular Communication at Hall. ‘147 Twenty-second-sts, on Fridar. Ayil6, at fioclock p. m. Work on M M, Degree. ~ Every member is requested to be present. Visiung brethren cordially fnvited, By order, of the Master, L. Z. HERRICK. Sec. ST. GEORGE'S BEXEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. Tiie annual meeting for the election of uflicers and pay- is Very fmportant that there sl aace. Uiy order of GEOKGE . GUOCL, Tres. CHICAGO COMMANDERY XO. 1e. E. T.—Atten- ton Sir Knights. You are hereby notified to be present 2t the reculur Conclave Monduy evening, April 2. There will be buslness of_fmporiance before. the Com- m thatevenlng. By order of b J. H. SANBORY, E. C. COMMANDERY NO. 1. EXIGHTS COMMANDERY OF THE SUN—Attentfon Sir Knighta. 'You are hereby ordered to adpearat the rendezvous fully armed and oauipped Tuuzeasy eventng, April 5, at7:30 o'clock &3arp. By onder of the Col.'Com. THOMAS J. TURNEE LODGE No. A. M.—~Will Work Thursiay eventas. Aprii 5. cl and Second Derrves. To aré_cordially time they will work10ar candidates. invited. Thls hey They meet st Frogmasons’ Hall, 72 East Monroc-st. BLAIELODGE NO. 393, A. F. snd A. M.—Regular ! fused to pay commissions to the broker who | ions of dollars. Against this policy of abol- had effected the sale. The broker sued for | ishing offices the whole bn{nmer porfnlnfion his commissions, and the Court decided that-| of Chicago is arrayed. This popn.]nuon de- when a broker hes effected a bargain and sale | mands a return to large expenditures, in- for a stipulated commission by a contract cteesed taxes, and more offices. It is arrayed which is mutually obligatory on the vendor | against Mr. Heath, and, under the lead of and vendee, ho is entitled fo his commission whether his employer choosesto comply. with.. or enforce the contract or not. This decision will be a blessing to Chicago real-estate wen,—when real estate revives. Tpon the arrival of the freight-steamer’ Victoria at Liverpool yesterday, an Asso- ciated Press reporter recognized in e solitary passenger the person of A. Oaxey HaLy, the missing ex-Mayor of New Yorl - The gen- _tlemian was shipped from Boston under the name of *Sutcrirre,” sufficient in its own romarice to stamp the man us Harz, and on his errival he was fully identified, not only by a man who knew him, but by theSteward's testimony upon his disposition to pun. His reason for his elopement bécomes apparent in late discoveries to the effect that the trinl of Tweep will develop certain opera- tions in which Mr. Harr shared largely- financially. He is now in London safely ensconced in a private boarding-house, and "closely watched. ‘There is probably no man in the commu- nity who is better qualified to address his fellow-citizens on the silver subject than Judge Vax H. Hicerss. He has made a special study of it, is hesrtily in favor of the restoration of the old silver dollar as a part of our currency, and mads an excellent speech on the matter Friday evening to a small audienco that gathered at an ApNER TavLor ‘‘mass” meeting in Farwell Hall. The occasion was not especially appropriate, 8s the silver question is not in issue in the election for Mayor of Chicago. If it were, Moxzor HeaTn is just as much in sympathy with Judge,Hroamys on this point as AsNEr Tayrozris, and we suspect that the great mass of intelligent men agree with him. But, notwithstanding the inappropriateness of the occasion, we aro glad that Judge HicomNs improved it to give those present the benefit of his information and sterling ideas on sil- ver and its remonetization. As betwecn Asxer Tavron and Moxgoe HeaTm, we have no doubt Judge HicGINs wnn]d‘*. regard it his duty to vote for the latter, if he were a voter in Chicago, since he knows that a vote for TaxLor is simply a vote for Prany Sara, TO THE PEOPLE OF CHICAGO. We earnestly appeal to the citizens of Chi- cago of all parties and of all occupations, trades, and professions to give some thought to the election for Mayor and Aldermen which takes place next Taesday. We all know the peculiar circumstances under which the government, the revenue, and the iaxa- tion of this ¢ity exist. There are over two millions of taxes of former years uncollected, and a corresponding amount of city indebt- edness, bearing interest, which cannot be paid until these back taxes are collected. ‘We all know that snce 1873 the effects of the panic have rested heavily upon the busi- ness, the property, and the labor of the city. The value of the real estate of the city has depreciated, and most of it is unsalable. 303, Communication Monday eventng, April2, Work oa the se~ond Degree. Visiirs breihren cordfally ln- wited. By order of the W. C. W. O'DONNELL, Sec. EX CITY LOI 40 ANCIENT ORDER GARDEN DG OF UNITED WCIIKMEN meets Mondsy evenings in Qirmpta Lall. noriheast corer North Glark and Mich- SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1877 Rents and incomes have fallen off. The maans of living have declined, everythmg has shrunk and diminished except taxes. From November, 1873, to April, 1876, the City Gov- ernment was ariotousassembly. 1t put public interests at defiance. . It recognized no con- stituency other then the vast mob who lived CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY. The Chicago produce markets were moderately activeon Saturday. provisions, wheat, and corn, being casier. Mess pork closed 2ic per brl lower, at §13.82%@12.85 for April and $14.00 @1402% for May. lard closed unchanged, at £9.273% for April and $9.40 for May. Meats were steady, closing at.4 ¢ for loose shoulders, 7i4c for doshort ribs. an . T3c for short clears. Highwines were quict, at$L.05 per gatlon. Flour was quiet and ste:d;. Wheat closed ic lower, at SL.25% for Apriland 31,701 for May. Corn closed %c lower,at 3Skicfor April and 41Xc for May. Oats closed %@ 3%c higher, at 31c for April and 3tXc for May. Rye was firmer, at 85@67c. Barley closed firm, #t56c for April. Hogs were in light supply and 5@10¢ per 100 Ibs hicher, at §$5.2585.80. Cattle were quiet and steady, at $3.5035.75. Snecp were firm, at §3.50@0.00. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $105.00 in greenbacks atthe close. Greenbacks were quoted at 95} in New York on Saturday. The snspc;is o;er. A. Oagey Haryis in England. And Harnis “Q.EK." They call the *‘ reform” meeting at Farwell Hall, Fridsy night, a * CnoNmy” meeting, becguse it had to “‘organize itself.” Col. upon the City Treasury, and the crowd of jobbers, contractors, und dependents who howled for increased appropriations and in- crensed taxntion, with increased issmes of city scrip. In vain did the public appesl and protest. Economy and retrenchment were laughed ai; reduction of taxes was bur- lesqued; and day after day the appropriations were enlarged, increased taxes were levied, and publie credit was weakened. Atlastthere was an ewakening of public interest. Public indignation was excited. In addition to oper- ating the City Government in the interest of the mob, the mob by force seized the ballot- boxes. Inthe struggle wich this miscreant class there was a union of men and of parties. At the April election 50,000 voters, discarding all political desigrations, united aud elected to the City Council a class of men hitherto almost strangers in that body. At the same time they elected as temporary Mayor Mr. Tooxas Howwe. Subsequently, after a struggle with CoLvry, they completed the new City Government by the election in July last of Mr. HeaTa as Mayor. The new Mayor and City Couancil found themselves confronted with a vast system of Axn. was conspicuous for being absent. Pera, from which vibrates now and then & hope that peace for Europe is assured, is a suburb of Constantinople, on the north side of the “Golden Horn.” It has communica- tion with the city by a bridge of boats, is on 2 hill, is sbout two miles in length, and is ~wuers {he foreign Ambassadors reside. The population is chiefly Franke, The New York Nation is still disposed to give President Haxes a chance,—to take him at his best, as it were; in fret, to think well of him. This will gratify the President. ‘With the big Nation and the little Natwon on his side, he will simply stuff cotton into his cars, take 8 sedative, and let CrauBERrAIY aod Huerron talk till doomsdsy, if they want to. — . On!s of the unpleasant features of journsal- ism is to take back, on compulsion, an apology made by one paper for the hot- headod attacks of another. And yot Tue TemBUNE may feel constrained to recant its Tetraction of the Journals onslaught upon Ar. Anxer Tavior, unless that gentleman shall sbandon his habit of consorting with Penzy Syrrm, and return to the respectable fold that gave him political birth, — The Connecticat Legislature, appreciating the doubt anddanger involving life-insurance and the companies which sell it, has appoint- ed aspecial commission to investigate the condition of the companiesof that State. The project has, in general, the hearty sup. port of most of - the corporations who invite, rather than avoid, the most thorough seru. tiny of their management. The resnlt of this excitement and thess inguiries will be to place life-insurance in a more healthfal condition than ever before. — In the relations between the owners of real estate and the agents who negotiate the sale thereof, the practice has been in this city to refuse payment of commissions if anything interfered to prevent the consummation of the contract after the agent had actually made the sale. A test case on this point has been brought before the Supreme Court of Indians, which has resulted in affirming the zight of the broker to his commissions. After the contract for the sale of a piece of property had been dnly signed, the seller re- £used to carry out bis part of it, and also re- expenditure, which had been the growth of years, but rendered especially costly by the three preceding yesrs of bummerism. The police had become a band of dead-beats and drunkards; the Fire Department was demor- alized; the Treasury was without money or credit; the pay-rolls wera long end heavy ; the appropriations were all on the old scale. Though late in the fiscal year, the Mayor and Council grappled with the difficulty. They begun the work of reform by abolish- ing offices; by reducing salaries and allow- ances; by reforming the character of the police force. They added greatly to the efficiency of that force by directing the thorough weeding out of all the drunken, idle loafers who had been pensioned on the city by the bummer Government which had just gone out. They suspended or abolished appropriations for expensive works. They brought the city expenditures down to the besis of an honest, effective, economical Government. They reduced the annual ez- penditures two millions of dollars,| and have done» much to extinguish the flolting debt. Have the people of Chicago, who, one year ago, so earnestly united to establish such & Government, got tired of it already? Have they wearied of the 40 per cent re- duction of taxes? Have thdy got o indiffer- eut to the personal and official character of the men who compose the City Government that they care nothing whether the Council is controlled by such men as ArprrcH, Pean- 503, and McCra, or by the notorious Hiz- DreTH and hisassociates? Has not that Goy. ernment been worth all the time and labor -it required to electit? Is it not worth an effort to prevent its overthrow? The candidates for Mayor at this time are political,—that is, they have been nominated by party conventions. But the Government during the last year has not been partisen. Mr. Hizatm has been a Republican all his life. Perhaps a maiority of the Council has been Republican, but it has not been g parti- san Government. It did not go out jnto the highways to find Republican bumrzers and office-seekers to be put in place of Demo. cratic office-seckers and bumiiers. The Aldermen did not pack the police with their personal followers. The Mayor aud Conn- cil, mgfad of creating new places to reward their party dependents, turned their atten- tion to abolishing offices and reducing sal- aries, and with other like measures iave re- duced the current sunual expenses two mill. | J_’l"xmzr Swsrriand J. H. Hnosern, seeks to ain possession of both branches of the City Governmant. ; ‘We appesl to the substantial, lnw-:ebx ing, taxpaying people of all parties in this city, if there ara not considerations of direct per- sonal and public interest which rise above all questions of mational politics. Mr. Syrre, if elected, must owe his election to those who demand an increase of offices and em- ployment by the city. His assooiate candi- dates all represent the bummer popaulation. Swrrn got o few more votes than Convry, but his associntes are precisely the same men who would have been selected by the Cowvix faction. What, then, is Suirm to do if elected? To satisfy thoss who elect him, and who will control the Council, he must return to the wastefulness, extravagance, and corruption 1in expenditures of the CoLviy Government, and, of course, to the old standerd of taxation, and to the old crowded and costly list of useless employes. Mr, Hears Las a long experience in the city affairs. He has been familiar with the whole history of our GCity Governmeut, and is qualified to act from personal knowlodgo 23 to what is needed nnd what is not needed. Mr. Syrrn has had no concern in the munici- pal affairs of Chicago. As a railroad officer, and as o political partisan, his sphere hes Deen in the manipulation of Legislatures and the promotion of mere partisan ends. Mr. Hearn is a laborious and attentive officer,— aman of detail and of energy. Mr. Syt is a man of weak physical health, wholly un- fitted for the ten hours of labor which Mr. Hestn performs daily in the office. The election of Hearsm will be a continu- ance for two years of the policy of retrench- ment, low expenditures, and low taxes be- gun last July. The election of SyrTa means achange. Andwhat does a change mean? It menus the restoration of the very bum- mer Government against which the whole city unitedly rose o year ago. Have the business men and taxpayers got tired of hon- est local government? If not, let them give their attention to its preservation. If they Liave tired of a respectable Council, and an efficient, honest Government, then they will let the election go by default, and let bum- merism once more reign supreme. HEATH AND HICKEY. L Mayor HeaTn's personal statement about the relations between him and Superintend- ent Hicney should be read by every voter who has listened to the prejudicial gossip which Mr. Hicrey’s personal enemies have set on foot. The statement is clear, straightfor- ward, and manly, and places both Heara and Hiceerin a creditable and honorable position. ‘When Mr. Heate assumed the office of Mayor last summer, he encountered amost embarrassing and lamentable condition of things. Not only was the city plunged into debt, unlawfully contracted and represent- ing extravagant and corrupt expenditures, but the employes for the several departments had not been paid for months. It was use- lessto expect faithful and efficient service from men under these conditions, and yet the city’s credit was in such a condition that money could not be borrowéd, temporarily, in alawful way. to reliove the situation. It was necessary, first of all, to inaugurate prac- tically the work of retronchment to which the Mayor and Council were pledged. When this had been done, Mayor Heatm next di- rected his attention to the police matters. The preceding Administration had notorious- 1y encouraged the gamblers, bunko-steerers, confidence-men, and vicious classes, and a Kicense had prevailed which had permitted vice and crime to run riot, Hesrm deter- mined to make war on these people. He could not place his hand on any man who bad been tried in the position of Superin- tendent and proved equal to the undertaking. There was but one, and he was otherwise employed, and could not be secured. He knew Hicsey to be a thoroughly-trained policeman, who had served in all branches of the service, and who was competent, if he were well disposed, to make the fight. He snmmoned Hiciey, and asked him bluntly if he were so involved with the tinuation of the raids, which have been going on ever since, Mayor Hzarn kept his word, and sustained Hicker in doing what ha had ordered him to do, and refased to be decewved or terrified by the gamblers and thieves, and their attorneys and newspaper organs, into a breach of faith which would have resulted disastrously to the order and safety of the city. If Mayor Hearn had deserted Hicxey un- for such a course would have rendered it impossible for any Mayor or any Polico Superintendent in the future to make suc- cessful war upon the potent criminal classes of this city. Superintendent WAaSHBURN was sustained under a former Administration in the face of the same antagonism, and the result was beneficial to the good order of the community. Mayor Heatn points to the police records to establish his claim that the prosecation of the gam- blers and thieves has been impartial and suc- cessful, and that crime is suppressed to the extent that defective vagrant lmws and per- nicious judicial decisions will permit. In all this Hrczer hos been the principal agent, and Mayor Heara, as his principal, would have been cowardly and unjust had he deserted him when the gamblers and villains endeavored to break him down. com————— THE LAST CARD. On Friday night the supporters of Penry Saurr and his associntes in their desperation resolved to play their last, and we regret to sny most infamous, card. At a late hour on Friday night a committee with n carriage visited the house of Jaxe Remyt on the North Side, and aroused that individual from his bed and conveyed him to a meeting place on the South Side, where he remained sev- eral hours in conference with Democratic leaders. The purpose and object of that conference are notorious and self-evident. When he was Superintendent of Police, the gamblers, gambling-houses, . bunko-offices, and all the dens of infamy and all the per- petrators of infamy who had money, were under the special protection of the police. This man who officially was the patron of these people, hates Heirn, hates everybody and everything which is associated with public decency and honest government. It is a last struggle with these people, and nat- urally Remy was selected to organize the only untried schemo to elect Sarrm and de- feat Hearn. There will be no regisiry on Tuesday. hence repeating will be possible. Noman in all Chicago is so competent or, to. gratify Late or avarice, so willing to organize a sys- tem of repeating by paid and professional repeaters 08 JAKE Remr. Ho knows the men to employ ; knows the men who will do tho work, and who, from long experience, are able to furnish whatever number of votes ‘may be necessary to accomplish a desired result. The junction of Remsr, Trupe, Mo- Doxarp. Dave TrorsToX, Mixe Evans, and Ep Prmuwrs leaves no room to doubt that any organization they may make to repeat voting will equal many thousand votes. They can find 500 men who will undertake to vote from five to fifteen times on Tuesday, and each of these men will be an experienced operator who has done the same thing on many previous occasions; and the money to pay them will promptly be paid. ‘We appeal, therefore, to the business men, the honest workmen and taxpayers, the householders and law-sbiding citizens, who one year ago expressed their indignant pro- test against the whole dishonest and villain- ous means of placing government in the hands of the criminal classes, to show their determination to oppose this scheme now. Let Jaxe Remy, who owes his personal lib- erty to the gushing mercy of- a reckless Gov- ernment, know that the City of Chicago has had enough of him and of his corrupting agency in public affairs, and let his accom- plices and hirelings be arrested at the polls, and, if justice be possible, let them be prose- cated to the last extremity of the law. Such a scheme ag this concocted and planned on Fridny night is of the most infamous charac- ter. Every man engaged in it, from Jaxe Remy down to the professional who under- takes to carry out the crime, if detected in the act should be punished to the utmost rigor of the law. Let every man votingina precinet in which he is not a resident, or vot- gamblers or thieves by reason of previous transactions as to prevent his undertaking o vigorous and impartial prosecution of them. Hiczey replied that he was not, and ex- pressed himself as willing to go into the war,* staking his position and reputation on the result,—if the Mayor would stand by him. This is the main point in the whole con- troversy. Hicxer had lived through enough police experience to know that a war upon the quasi-criminal classos—including the gamblers, confidence-men, the proprietors of low dives, the disorderly houses of prostito- tion, the thieves at large, the vagrants, eto., —would be resisted by the shrewdest devices and the most desperate tactics. He knew the strength of these people, and their utterly unscrupulous methods, He knew that any man who shondd raid them, arrest them, drive them out of town, and prosecute them systematically, would be hunted in turn, charged with collusion and corruption, and broken down by trumped-up cases and false testimony, if not sustained by the Mayor. Of all this he warned Mayor Heats, and the latter pledged himself not to desert Hiokey so long as Hickey should satisfy him that the criminal and vicious classes were being diminished in Superintondent, Hickey predicted was quick- ly realized. When it bacame evident to the gamblers and thieves that a general war had been declared, and that Hicxey was deter- mined to carry it on without fear or favor, they organized their attack to break him down. They secured their attorneys and éven a newspaper organ, which hoped to be ing under an assumed name, be arrested at once, and let his case be given to the Grand Jury that meets next Wednesday. The in- tense hatred of the criminal class for Heatr offers no apology for this desperate attempt to corrupt the ballot-box. number and weakened in strength, What || rescued from in the sensation. Charges were pre- ferred; old scandals were raked up that long onte-dated Hrarm's Adminis- tration; new stories were started ; Hiceer during this investigation, but was not unmindfal of the fact that he had or. dered the policy which had brought on the resistance, and that he had Ppledged himself to stand by Hrcxey so long as the Iatter was faithfal to his daty. So Mayor Heatm and Corporation-Counsel AxTHoNT were Ppresent every day at the investigation, whers gamblers' attorneys were Prosecuting Hioxery, and where the testimony was furnisheq b): well-known tbisves,dischngeddetecfives, and oLh.er “‘crooked” characters, Mayor Heara satisfied himself, as dig the Corporation chnnse}, that HickeY's prosecution Was con- ceived in spite, pursmed for purposes of re- venge, and, if successful, wonld result in a nctqry_!or the. vicious classes, He, there- | fore, reinstated Hicxzy, and ordered a con- obscurity by sharing | and _finally the Council was induced to make | an investigation. The Mayor suspended | der these circumstances, hat would have B been a reason for refusing him a re-election, B CANADIAN ANNEXATION. The Toronto Globe has received a dispatch from London, which was printed in onr last issue, to the effect that Prof. GoLpwiN Syarm has written sn article in the Fort- nightly Review, a leading organ of English opinion, devoted to proving the desirability of a union of Canada with the United States, and setting forth the economical, political, commercial, and diplomatic advantages of such an annexation. Although the time is not yet ripe for such a union, the day is coming when the subject will be teken up and discussed very fully and freely. When our domestic matters are settled ; when the Southern question is so completely laid at rest that the South bears the same relation to the Union as the East and the West; when we have corrected those political methods which now lead us into danger at every Presidential elaction ; when we have reformed the evils of our Civil-Service sys- tem, and the administration of the Gov- ernment commends itself more favorably to our neighbors, then this movement fore- shadowed by Gowpwiy Swita will com- mence to take deep root in Canada. For some time past thers = has been no disposition on the part of the mother coun- try to prevent or oppose such a scheme. Since the close of the War the English have realized as they never did before the ability of the American Republic to improvise a vast army capablo of meeting the armies of any Power in Europe, not excepting Ger- | many or Russia, and appreciate how useless it would be for Great Britain to try and de- fend Canada in case of a rupture. It was this knowledge that formed the cogent argn- ment in settling the Alabama case. Canada is their valnerable point. The rest of their territory is isolated, and o surrounded by water as to be easily guarded by their fleets, which are vastly stronger than ours. They virtually admit that, while Canada holds her prescui relations, they are under bonds to keep the peace, and that while we are in a position to strike their territory at any time they must succumb to our de- mands. They cannot defend Canada, and all that the Canadians could do would be feeble and impotent against a giant Iiepublic with ten times their fighting power. Hither- to the Canadians themselves have declined any closer political alliance with . us for several good remsons. In the first place, they were always violent opponents of slavery, and they not only will- ingly but cordially made their country the terminus of the Underground Railway, and offered protection and hospitality to the fugi- tives that sought them in their flight from Southern task.masters ; in the second place, it could not be expected that they would not boe eager to unite themselves with a Republic 50 constantly excited and harassed, and in such frequent hazard of disruption, owing to the unsettled condition of questions growing out of the War. There is, however, no doubt of the fact that when our affairs have become permanently settled this union will be of benefit both to them and to us. The points mada by GoLowix Sarrr, es- pecially the assertion that the market of the Canadians is here, are undoubtedly true. The economical advantages would be immensa. 1t would save the enormous expense of main- taining Custom-Housesall along the border to prevent smuggling. It would cheapen every- thing on bothsides, Instead of beinga menace to England, it would increase the friends of England by incorporating with the Americans who are not hostile to the English thousands of Canadians who have the warmest friend- ship for them and are attached to them by ties of blood and religion. As amatter of fact Canada is. already partially annexed to this country. Every year she has more and more followed American systems, methods, and idess. Her commercial, railroad, and canal Fystems are devised with reference to our trade. DMontreal is substantially an out- let of American commerce. She is graduatly assimilating everything to our standard ; and just so long as this process goes on sheis being gradunlly absorbed and in substance is onnexing herself to us. She is already three-fourths the way into the Republic. Just 80 soon as we perfect our system so that they will feel it for their interest to come in, the slender ligament connecting them with England will be severed. The movement will progress in a natural way. Except in case of a war with England there is no dispesition upon the part of the Amer- icans to seize Canada or to annex her against her will. 'The natural current of events will bring Canada into the United States, Noth- ing can hinder it The condition of tke bills for the collectign of back city taxes now before the General f Assembly is as follows: ' Senate bills 51 (AxtRONY'S) and 21 (Apaus’) have both passed the Senate, and the former ia in the bands of the House Revenus Corawitiee. Senate bill 21 will, in all probability, be re. ferred by the House to the same Committee. House bill 429 (ANTEONY'S) stands for a third reading in the House. The only difference between House bill 429 and Senate bill 51 is that in the former bill the section in the bill as introduced re- quiring evidence of the payment of all back taxes to be produced before any conveyance @ of the land can be recorded is stricken out, and Sec. 6 of the bill is amended so® that a separate application fon judgment for the back taxes can be B made. The lalter amendment was not made ized Comanche from the happy hunting- It is pleasing, anyway, to sce a spint the scrateh fn such a lively maoner, afte) iy ty-vinc years of mapping. This cvldenged disposition to scratch, coming to Mlr. Stopgt a direct revelation from the other world, be a great comfort to bim, Tp o T renders it possible that this gentle eXereigg. constitate a beatitude of the futare. Soggy L that great philosopher, reckoned it amm;': cardinal joys of thepresent life. Indeed, ing for fun or else for fizht has been a stand-by of the race, andit is plmanu,m that there is an intimation from the spirit. thatitisto bein perpetuum. These si from Mr. Storer‘s article are interestinpy, useful. It isa source of regret that he, E not more “boldly announce himself ag ab B liever. Then, after a while—may it yetbes [ tant—we shall have the Times, with (o 3 Keexayand A.S. TRODE “acting” oliun, 1 and W. F. Storer, editor-fu-chief, ma 3 daily in its columns ‘as he sits and lucug side by site with Prof. JONE3, of the i “Philosophical, in the *Sweet bye and by "+ —————— the section relating tothe recordiag of deeds. Senate bill 51 can, however, if the House so desircs, be nmended in the House so 8s to be jdentical with House bill 429,—both Ax- TroNY bills. Senate bill 21 (Apaws’) con- tains only eight sections, and so far as re- Intes to the certifying the taxes to the County Clerk, their exionsion by him, and their col- lection, is substantially the same as the other bills. It differs mainly from the other bills in the fact that it is shorter and contains fower exceptional provisions, the theory of the bill being simply to provide machinery for getting the delinquent-taxes claims into the hands of the County Clerk and authorize their extension by him, and then leave the General Revenue law govern subsequent proceedings for getting the money into the Treasury. . Mr. LeoNarp SWETT, a resident of Hyde Perk, we beliove, and friend and attorney for Mr. Ap~er TavroR, appeared at a mest- ing in tho interest of the latter’s candidature for Mayor, and mode a speech which was presumably intended to help him. After reading the reports of this speech we conclude that Mr. SwerT strayed by some curious accident into the wrong hall, as his speech was certainly as strong a plea for the re-elaction of Mayor Heats as Mr. Swerr could well have made. He recounted some of the abuses of the Admin- istration preceding Mayor Hearm's. He Every man is supposed tohavea Wotlwy reason for his actions. AbNER Tirsom fesses to be o candidate for Mayor. Afterpy had issued his bulletin announcing that bewy the “best man for the office of Maor,” 2T UNE reporter callod unon him and asked why by had turned so sudden a floo, and why he by taken such a step: " iy for this - oSl o (L T, that 1 was venal and a partiean fn'my action, ug had so proven myself in my actlon towards M. WiLsox. ~Simply a8 to the facts of the case: 13 2 Republican. and shall always be onc T hope, B told how the gas-bills had run up from | Mr. \\'us::x‘ 2y nz‘{ae editor nlr:mpaper. bas no rigy; &z s = H - to sttempt to rend me oat o e party, $25.000 in 1800 to $300.000 & year in 1870, | 1,555 for me. * Whon Tutier wordy In coslt or twenty times the smount, while the popu- | tion or work for mv candidate, I want bysones gy Whatg be shelved after my candidate is beaten. may have said, T said_politically, not as reflecting upon Mr. WiLsox, and I never had a desire toge £o. Tcan zive 20 take, and am always friendy after the politica! flfht is over. 1 guve my mons frecly to the Repnblican canse ast fall, and aoie] for no ofice, and want no oflce now. I wantto show these gentiemen who want to t me Rc{:nbllwnism that I can be independent, anj am pot tied down to stand unmerited assanita, 1 am somewha sensitive on that point, and, b Witso done as | requested. 1 would not allow name 10 20 before the pudlic 23 a candidate. T orly ask fair treatment and justice—no more." This is the most puerile reason ever givenfor being a candidate for the purpose of defeating bis own party. It is a_perfectly ridiculm reason, and will make Mr. TATLOR a puble laughing-stock of the city. At the very atmag he will get but a begearly handfal of vote, The number of Republicans who intend ty throw away their votes on TATLOR, and therely -help Pezur il Syura, will sorprise him b their smaliness rather than thefr multituge He wiil achieve neither office nor honor by thy ridiculous course he is pursuing. ————— lation had increased only four-fold during the same period. He gave other instances of the corruption that had brought taxes up to $6,000,000 & year under CoLvx, and then dwelt on the fact that the present Adminis- tration has rednced them by $2,000,000 yearly. IE thero conld be any better reason than this for re-clecting the present Admin- istration, which Mr. Swerr helped bring into power, we cannot think of it. Devclopments seem to show that WeNDELL ParLures was somewhat unscrupulous, as well as relentless, in his Philadelphia denun- ciation of President Haves and his Cabinet. He denounced Gen. DEvexs as a *slave- hound,” because the latter was United States Mershal in Boston at a time when it became necessary for him to arrest the slave Taomas Snus ander the Fugitive-Slave Iaw. But Gen. Devess, having done his daty as an officer, subsequently showed his humanity by put- ting his hand in his pocket and buying this same slave s0 as to give him his freedom. ‘This fact must have been known to PrrLLrps, and the inference is that he maliciously sup- pressed it for the purposes of his speech. It may not be ont of the way at the same time to recall the fact that both President Haves and Attorney-General DEvENs were in the front of the fight during all the War for the emancipstion of the slaves, while WexpeLL Prrrures kept well in the rear, drawing his Readers of Tae TRIBUNE no doubt felt peed iar sensations as they perused a speclal dip patch yesterday from Columbus, 0., concem ing a skeleton-factory rear that city, coeratd by one SNYDER, under the name and atyle ofs hennery. The factory is running at the rate of from 150 to 200 skeletons per annum, and the supply of material is obtained partly from meds cal schools and doctors’ offices, and partiy froa the general market. The thing about S¥rpERS factorv which will make the “gorge” of thg Columbus p=ople ris¢ is the fact that the hen nery flourished on the tid-bits supplicd from the boiled-off mortality of the skelcton-factoryl I3 pay, it is said, for his speeche: Many a Columbus gourmand bas larded his b sides with SNYDER's chickens, and the Easter § It may be useful for Christians to remem- | eggs of that locality wili have more than a com- g ber, upon Easter Sunday, that the first per- | mon resurrectionary significfmm Yet what of i son to whom the Savior. appeared after His [ it AL"! (D"’ HoLaxp b“:“"“;“"y putsits f resurrection was Bary MiGpALESE. She 1; ::fi{hfl?,?;:.{ :?,d)’g;,:_a o i first heard His voice after He lind broken the And that a rose may breathe its breath : Some living thing must die. : fetters of death, and she firstcalled Him “ Master,” as He stood before her the victor over man's last enemy. This woman had been frail. She had been one of those now classed as spiritnal * irreconcilables.” Let those who, calling themselves Christians,} now go by on the other side of these, remem- ber that the first witness and confidant of their resurrected Lord was a penitent *“ Mag- dalen.” ““What Gop hath cleansed call not thou common nor unclean. LAST FALUS CITY VOTE The following table of the election in Chica- 2o last fall shows the rciative strength of parties by two tests. The first is the vote cast for President; the second that cast for State’s- Attorney. The vote for al} of the county ticket except for Sherif ran pretty nearly alike, differ- ingalittle in some wards, but agzregating nearly the same footings. A great number of Repub- licans voted for TILDEN because they thought e would be a better reformer and correct more abuses and evils in the administration of the Government than HAYE3; but nearly all of these Republicans voted for the Republican county ticket except for Sherifl, and a zood maay of them supported the Republican State ticket, members of Congress, cte.: but they persisted in going for **TILDEN and Reform.’” The extent of this scratching of Havesand sub- stitution of the ** Usufruct” is shown by an jn- spection of the table. The Republicans of all classes and shades of opinion preferred LoTHER | MiLvs for State’s-Attorney to JAMIESON, except those who holted clear over to the Democratic varty and voted thelr whole ticket. There were several hundred in the city who did that; but, on the other hand, there were some Demo- crats who voted for MiLts. The moral of all this ig, tbat Chicago is Republican by a small majority if there is a full turn out on . both sides; but the mreat danger is apathy and in- difference smong. Republicans. Study the table: S§YDER has merely utilized this poetic - thougit; but his labors, it appears, are notap- 1. preciated, for his neighbors propose to rua him and his skelcton-factory, with hennery attach- ° ment, out of the country. Gen. CoMLy, of ths - Ohio State Journal, will now have a fresh fllns- tration. Instead of saying that a citizen of Co- ¢ lumbue cannot sing *“*any more tban a capal- boat,” he can put it thus: “ He is as unmusical as a man with oneof SNYDER's hens in hiy stomach.” o There a8 a report in political cizcles yester- day in regard to what JARE Remy s dofng for § the PERRY SyiTH ticket. "A reputable gentle- man (whose name he desires not to bave men- tioned at present) says that JARE Regx’sson, s young man of 25 or thercabouts, told him yes- terday that o hack containing two of Pzrars varticular fricnds—one of them his Fidw Achates—visited bis father’s house about 11p. m. Friday, and roated up JAEE Reny, whowas . inbed at the time of the noctmrnal visitation, JARE went off with them in the hack td}some Democratic headquarters down town, and did not return home until a very late hour of the night. Why was JAkz Remr waated at the Democratic headquarters at that time of night? ‘What scheme was being hatched? Why are the Democratic leaders so thick and confideatial with JARE Ren in their dosperate attompt to beat HEATH and elect Peary Syirn? Therols 10 law to prevent people gucssing the nature of this mysterious midaight conclave. Eversbody has not forgotten how the prusent Chicago charter was carried, nor how the decent voters were counted out last spring in the South D vision. — : ‘What do the Democrats of the Scventh Ward mean by running a scamp for the City Conncllt Do they deliberately desire such & fellow to represent them? Are they in sympathy with criminals? 1s a majority of the ward composed of dishoncst voters! If the honest and decent men of the ward constitute a majority they Ward. Hayes. !flldm-' arte, "4 | should unite, Irrespective of party lines, and —_— ———— | elect ‘2 roputalle citizen to represent them. Laoo, i‘-’TfiE 1324 | The runniog of two candidates by the honest 11200, 1,048! 1707 | and decent men will. In ali human probabillty, 60, 27181 1,286 | result in the election of & man who will disgrace L1601 3085 scom | 1184 =139 | the ward, and justly cause the finger of 1, 3631 2! 2nd contempt to be polnted at it. nowl 337 o7, of Caoker 39| 3,167 [ Mr. ReArxey, of Cook, felt called upon to sa- 1,084 11319 | ewer the criticlsm in TE Cittcand Taintas of 765 2,305| 901 | terday, and pronounced the article {alae and the 3,228 893 | writera har.~ Mr. KEARNEY contmued his donoa- 1,090 1,197 | c:ation ot the reporter of Tz TnisuNE, charscter- 1,924 2,174 | fzing the acticles as basely faise and reprehensible 23431 L713 | to the last degreo. Tie members gathosed about 1, i { §§ ell:‘“la:;nuz;; :;:d l::‘tlc:;ux attentively to his caus- L .7 er 2 | 20080 1081 | Louis Gloe- Democrar. > O TUF TRIBSTHE Total........| 28,518| 53,489, o133, 30,405 We understand that KzArNEr’s denunclation Wasa repetition of the specches delivered In the old Board of Su; ervisors by those who expelled him from that body for bribery and corruption- Some of thsoe speechus were ¢ caustls,” and EEARNEY remembered them well. Majority for Tilden, 4,971, Majority for 3ills, Republican, 933, fatelee st Anarticle from the pen of -Mr. StorEY in yesterday’s Times is worthy of attention. Itis written in commemoration of the twenty-ninth anniversary of the first “rap” from the Bpirit world, made &t Rochester, N. Y. Probably it is only in part the work of Mr. STOREY'S unalded genius. The balance is made up by journalists in the spirit world, who helped the * old man out. Hesays “The leaven is working in every part of the habitable globe.”” It leavened.the “lump™ on the back of Prof. Joxes' head, atall eveats, which would give color to the statement that the “‘most actlve 'centres” of the working of the leaven “are Boston and Chicago.” [t 1s not everybody who can be a Spiritualist now and save his sclf-respect,” mourns the editor of the Times, He might bave added that i re. | quired a “biger man™ than himself to be a Spiritualist and sa7e the respect of anybody ex- cept himsclf, *Is It best for believers to buldly | announce thé fact?” he asks, and replies, “Far from it. It is parely a matter c; | Individual consclence. As such—in a fow fo- ¢ stances—it entails more martyrdom to repress than to announce the fact. This Pposition ap- plies with force to the case of several ministers. The fact of the matter Is, nowadays, when yol; ecratch the back of a liberal minfster you are very near the cuticle of a Spiritualist.» The la%t ecntence in this quotation Wwas plainly {n- spired. Mr. STOREY is too fastidious ever to bave penned it, unless drazooned into it by I Ay aaplags ot e ea, uatichs some higher power. Some 8pirit forced him tnto 188 drawbacks. — 1, perhaps that of a desperate Scotchman of the | Dr. Marr Warsen way/wroth Fridsy becauss era when scratching-posts were crected InScotia | she - Y Was prevented trgm calling upon Gove :—e g;bl:;l :;E:uiil 1t was some spirit, at all | HAMPTOR. Nevar befdre Mirr ?J‘fib ozoher ware 3 W all dbout scratching, Maybe | paint Ud we realize” wby a man-of-war Wab R ) A “Down with polyzamy » is the cry of alarge number of newspapers, and.of the public iz general. Thatis just what the Mormons 833 They want it put down In every State but Utsh; there it is put down, and is likely to stay put- The quickest way to extirpate the crime 1510 Induce women not to embark fn the sealing” business, or to have a-husband with more than one wife. Women are to blame for this cond tion ot affairs; and we suggest that that sex make polyzamy a subject of reform of prior Importance to suffrage and Sorosis. Cut off the Mormon suppiies of wives. —————— ** Bos Americanus " is the title which Punch glves toa cartoon in thelatest fssue received I3 this country. It is ot & plcture of Boss TWESD, 25 many might suppbse from its title, but 8 very clever picture. of the way fa which Amerk can beef, by importation, assanlts the pocket of JonxN BuLL. Itis something the Englishmss eacx;' understand, because it appeals to his stom- a —————— Grand Duke Arexis/is a great admirer of Henvz's opera of “La Belle Poule.” Whats Dpity that he came late to witness the per- formances of JouN Morrissey's pool, oneof e e e T e T3 PP Y S K S P T W S B T