Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1877, Page 4

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WRIGHT & TYRRELL. 10 CUARTER OAK LIFE (Loan Dep't.) . FAIRCHILD & NLACKMAN, . JAMES MORGAN. 1t W. BRIDGE. L KN 8 . W. . COUTER. LML 15 HAL w U5 UREAU, EUITOR, L, CIIEIL A. F. STRVENSOH, Ofices ta the Dnilding to rent by W. C. DOW, © Auvem b, ¥ ) New Chlcago Thratre, - bl Ciark atreet, Letween fL.ake and Handolph, Emerson's I i M o Momon strent, hetaeon St Sl cud novetiy, Afteih Dearborn. 5 Vaudo- n uud LYening. MeVicker's Thoatre. Madicon sireet, between Deatborn aud State. *Lur Luye, " . inverly’s Thoeatre, Mtandolth trect, between Clark and LaSaite, Eugzgenat of tie Fith Avenuy Company. +° Lemis Qua™ Aticruous and evenig. ¢ 5 Adelpll Thentres Munree stree rer Dearbors, Afierhoon and A M. 134 Twen- sils " Wedneslay tho Lust wod M. Fo cord:sily inviled, By ore o, y APRIL 4, 1877. Greenbacks ot the New York Gold Ex. . chango yestorday closed at 953 * 2Tho convicted whisky-thief Hironrra ap- ' poars to have recaived a plurality of voles* ' for Aldermnau of the Hoventh Ward over Rionpay, his respectable Democratio oppo- nent, who could have been elected if he Lind : » recolved the votes cast for Garpyen, the Ro- - publican enndidate, who at mo time had o possible clhangs of auccess, HiLbnorn ‘alipped in betwoen the two, but it is to be lioped that tlio Common Conncil will refuse to admit him ns a membor of that body, —— Tho flat has' gone forth, and the State, Houso at Columbin will soon bo desorted by tho lttlo squad of soldiors whichinve stood giard, and lunched, and smoked within it portals for the past four months, Aarch- w dng orders will be given nud cxecuted on * tho 10th instant, after which tho reveille will !0 only be heard in the distant barracks, whero thore wiil bo nono to intimidate or ‘minko afraid, Neither Hanmeron's nor Crax- ' peaLAIN'S programme Lavo as yot beon ane mnounced, but tho fact that the former has gono Bouth and the Iatter North from Wash. iugton may be some indication nsto the rela- tive amount of confldence folt by the iival Governors, —_— "Tho recout decixion of tho Oanada Buprome .:Court in tho Charlovoix contested eloction , caso, uusenting o momber of Parlinmentbe- ,cwio of unduo political influence exarclsed \by tho Catlolic priesthood in securing his ‘clection, has called forth a pastoral protest ji by the Archbishop and the six Dishops ol Quebcs. They complain bitterly of '¥_this.rigid interpretation of tho law, and ;urge that fis effect s to doprive ithe Church of the sacred right of legitimata defonso, Itls a plon for the . ‘privilegy o€ ceclesinstical bulldozing,—for tho right of the Church to take o hand in . ‘political contests whenever it chiooses to cast Y. its atrength for or ngainst any candidate or *, measure. Tho Hupremme Court has decided that this is forbiddon Ly law, and tho ccle- ,+.+ ¢ slastical authoritics thervupon demand that . the law shall be amended. 'Thore is mats- rinlin the cnse for a bitter and prolonged controversy, Yesterday was a bad day for tho bummors 7+ and tax-eaters oll around, 'They fared no "+ botter fu their old-lime strongholds—the town meetings and town elections—thon they did fn the city clection, 'Ihey some. how realized that tha atmosphicre was unfa. vorable to the eonsitive organism of plug- uglies, repeaters, and ballot-box stuffers, aud thoy kopt in the background with com. mendable prudence. The town meet- ;- dogs in Bouth, West, and North .- Chicago were under the control of tho business men and taxpayers, and the pro. ceedings were conducted with as much docorum and deliberation as at n meeting of Bauk Directors. In the Bouth Town it was voted thot it was unnecesvary and inexpedi. ient to levy auy tax whatever for town ex. * pensod for 1877; and in the West and North ‘Towns the levied wers cut dowa to the low. ¢t possiblo point. This shows what the respectable element can do when it goes about It in earnest, L ¢ ' The story of Twezp's escape from Ludlow - Btreet Jail in December, 1875, has been fur. nished to Harper's Weekly, and is outlined in the dispatches this morning, The partic. ulars of the cscape, as furnished by Twzzp himself, wholly acquit his counsel, his fami. 1y, the jail oficial, or any person previously ;,+ connected with his operations of all kuowl- edgo of or complicity in the plot for his de- ‘liverance and flight. An claborale arrange- ment was- wade with & geug of - des- peradoes who bad studied o per- 'fection the sclence of assisting in the . 'escope of noted criminals, and who ecarried out their evgagoment with consum. mate skill and cowmplete success. The re. cspture of the *‘old man” seems to have ‘broked his spirit eutirely, In bhiy letter of ‘at the goneral November eloction, and not | Republican Btate for a good many yoars to * Jack sad JNL,* | Dec. 6, 1876, to Crarres O'Coxon, which is now published for the first time, he surren- ders unconditionally, and is ready to mnke all possible restitution and reparation, sur- rendering all the property now in his posses. sion, nud agreelng to detail the disposition lieretoforo made of his effocts. The Louisiana Commissonera, now on their way SBouth, nre expected to reach New Or- leans on Friday, and commenca work on Sat. urdy. Tho President’s instructions aro of a general nature, recommending the omploy- ment of argument and pérsunsion, and tho sounding ~ of public sentiment nffected by the present political controvorsy rather than the taking of formal tos. timony, of which tho recent contosts in that State have already furnished cart-loads now piled away in the State Department at Svashington. The President is quite con- fident that the labors of the Commission will bo crowned with spoedy success. The rapid development of nnew departure, noted by our corrdspondent at New Orlcans, is indi- cnlivo of a change of feeling in Louisiana extremely favorable to the Adwinistration, and tho effect of which will be to greatly simplify the solution. Tho rapid disintogra. tion which is now taking place in the Pacx. Arp Legislature will also ba an important factor in the result for which the conntry is fervently hoping. The Democratic Clerk of the Houso of Representatives will get up a roputation for ** Croninism,” if ho lsn't earoful, Itisre- ported that ho has placed the nama of Pat- TERSON, {he Democratic condidate for Con- gress in Colorado, on the rpll of the next House. The Republicans, it will be remem- bered, elected their candidnto for both the short and long terms at the election last October, and the only claim the Democratio candidato has for admission is that ho was voted forin November at the Presidontinl, eloction ; the Democratio Clerk of tho Ilouse says that there is somo law of Congross, under which Colorado should have elected the Congressman for the long term, what slio adopted the Constitution. Tho purpose {8 to swindlo the Republicans of Colorado out of o Congressman whom they clected, and on a technicality ng grossly un- fair o3 tho pretonsions of CmoNiy as an Eloctor from Oregon. If Congress indorses this steal, it will make Colorado a certain come, even if tho people are swindled in the vresent case. The campnign preceding the local eleotion in Cinciunati last Monday was conducted largely on o discussion of national issues, sluco it was tho former home of President Haxes, 'Che opponentsof his policy clalmed that the Republicans wero dissatiafied and thoe Domocrats disgusted becanse of his action in the Louisiana and South Caroling cases, nnd Dbecauss he called n Southern Demcerat aud o forcigner to his Cabinot ; and they bonsted that this popular disapproval of Lis course would be expressed nt the polls ot the very noxt opportunity. The Democrats earriod tho city last full, so that, if they had dono as much this year, it would have no reflection upon Haxxs and his polley. Tiut tho resnlt of this spring’s cloc. tion, on tho contrary, is that the Republic. ang Liave swept Lhe eutire city, eleoting their Council, Board of Education, Judges, and nll othor officors by 1asjorities ranging from 1,000 to 4,000 ; Moonz, the Republican can. didate for Mayor, recoived a majority of 1,600, From which, wo thivk, wo may fair. Iy couclude that there are not so many dis- gusted Domocrats and dissatisfled Republic. nns ns the opponents of President Layzs' policy claimed, and that pacification add Clvil-Service Roform aro rather popular in the President's own Stato ay well as elsc. ‘where., THE CITY ELECTION. At the hour when this morning’s papers ronch the people of Chicago the fact will al- mout have ceased to bo nows that the clec- tion yesterday resulted in a mognificent vie- tory for cconomy, honesty, and good govern- ment,—in other words, the election, by a majority of over 11,000 votes, of the entiro Republican city tickot, including the candi- dates for dlayor, Oity Tronsurer, Oity At- tornoy, and City Clerk. There waa that in tho Dright, cloor atmosphere of yestorday which scemed to give ossnrance of succoss, and when tho polls closed fu the ovening the only question was that of majorities, From tho roturns comploted up to the hour of writing, 1:30 2. 1., tho precise result cannot be stated, but it 1s definitely known that Mayor HeaTn will have the co-operation and support of & Common Council pledged to continue tho adnirable policy of its prodecessor, and that the clty {8 safo from the bummors and tax- enters for n torm of two years, , Tho dofoat of the Democratic candidato for Mayor is nbsolutely overwhelming. I was put forward na.a roprescntative Demo- erat ; the mauager of TiLpex's intorestsin tho Northwest, aud the dispenser of tho largo sums of money supplied from New York for this reglon, Alr, Sxita was nomi. uated as the strongest man in their party,— tho man whoso; cloction would olinch tho ma~ Jority given by Ohicogo lnst November for Tipex, and would pormanently. establish Chicago 84 a Democratio city, The figurea tell how Tmoxy wes fndorsed through 8anrw, and Low Chicogo has boen sccured for tho Democracy. To the Republicans of Clicago belongs the credit of placiug in nomination a ticket of romarkable strongth, Mayor Hzatn’s mag- nificont record was Lis most eloquent and offectiva advocate for re-election, and the fact that the thioves, bummers, sud gamblors were combined against him secured for him the support of the respectabllo portion of the community to » dogree that prob. ably no other candidate could have commanded at this time, For Tressurer, Mr, Linzinze was a caudidate of undoubted fitneas and integrity ; for Oity Attorney, Mr, Turans had alroady proved himself too valuable au officer to be apared; and the samo was truo of Alr, Burz, the nominee for City Clork. Added to the great strengih of the oity ticket were the excollent nominations for town‘ officers made by tho Republicans of South, Waeat, and North Chicago, aud, s a rule, the Republican candidates for Aldermen were vastly preferable to the Democratle nominees. The result isall the more grati. tying for the leason it teaches—frst, to the Republicans to presorve horeaftor the prestige they have gained by presenting their best men for the local ofices; and mecond, to the Democrats tlat they inust koep -bummerigm in the background bafore they can hopo to gain the contidence of the people of Chicago. The election weans for Chicago two years of coonotiical aud prudent municipal mansgement, the re- duction of expunditurcs and taxes, and the coutinued improvement of the city's fuan- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. APRIL 4, 1877, cial standing. It 13 this that was mccom- plished yesterday, and a grand day's work it was, I8 IT REPUDIATION 1 The suit of the bondholders sgainst cer- tain towns in Illinois to recover on certain bonds jssned by the towns in aid of the Otlawa, Ossgo & Fox River Valloy Rafiroad, recently decided by tho Bupremo Court of the United Btates, has elicited much disens- sion of tho enbject, nnd the decision is sharp- 1y eriticised ns sustaining, and thorefora en. couraging, repudistion. The Philaflelphin Ledger, in its financial columns, says: There has for some years past been little dispo- altlon at the commercial centres of the Notth to Invest in Westorn and Southern town securitios, and the catching at anch pless ne that noticed above for Justification of, repudiation will go far to drive such borrowing from all money markets, Thata party borrowing can find legal support 1n thue tak- Ing advantage of ita own wrong—recelving the pro- ceeas of fraudulent bonds—is‘little better than awindling. h Wa also publish a letter from Ottawn, in this Btate, which substantially charges re- pudiation. But is this charge well founded ? Do tho facts warrant such an accnsation? In 1857 there appeared, after tho close of the session of the Iilinols Leglslaturs, o volume containing somo 1,600 printed pages of spo- ciallaws, mainly sots incorporating private companies. This was in addition to anothor * volume of publio lawa. The sessfon of the Legialature hod lasted forty.two days, in- cluding some ton dhys lost in organization and adjournments. The Constitution of tho Btato required threo readings of overy bill in each Houso; and no bill conld bo lawfully enncted which did not upon its final passage receive » majority of all the moembers-olect of each House, that fact to be evidenced by tho yeas aad nays of the members voting record- ed on the journal of cach House. It was therofore & physical impossibility that all these laws printed in thoso volumes could have been passed sccording to the formns ro- quired by the Constitution. It is notorions that they were not. Tho journsl clorks wero necossarily employed for many wecks ofter tho sesalon writing up the rec- ord, 80 as to provide the logal ovi- donce of the pnssage of bills which had mever been read, voted onm, ‘or passed by tho Leglslature, though presented to and signed by tho Governor. Among tho Dbills which were printed in this most extrnor- dinary volume of ‘‘lawa” was one author. izing eloctions to bo'held on the fsauo of vot- ing subscriptions to the capital stock of pro- jected rallway companies. The particular ond sought by the passage of the act ot that time scems to have been temporarily aban. doned or postponed, for nothing wss done under the law until somo years had elapsed. Then the law was brought to light; special clections were called, and, in tho usnal man- nor in which all elections of that character, whoro the voting sway of other people's monoy is concerned, the subscriptions wera all carried. In dne time the bonds of tho towns and counties were issucd and deliver- od. Tho bonds were duly registered in the Auditor’s office, and the interest thorcon was pald out of the State revenuo,~stolen under the grab Jaw of 1860, Thatlaw having since been vet nslde, and special taxes having be. come nocessary to pay the interest, the bur. den of the bonda became oppressive. In the meantime, the construction com- pany had been busy, and had obtained pri- vate subscriptions to the capital stock; the Company never had any cash capital bosides theso munioipal bonda and private subscrip- tions of farmers, AM the rest of its mesus wera derivod from tho sale of its own bonds, An investigation—by what suggested wo do not know—led to the dlscovery that the so-called act of 1857, anthorizing towns and countles to hold oloctions and voto subscrips tions to railroad stocks, had nover been en- oeted by the Legulature, Thoro was & record that o bill with such a titlo had passed ono Ilouse, and Lnd been received in the other, but thera tho record ended. The fact thut it was passod and had obtained the constitutional number of votes, with the names of those voting for it, nowhero ap- poared on tho record. ‘The SBuprome Court of the Btate, upon a euit involving the validity of n tax to pay futorest on the bonds, decided that the so-called law had nover been ensaoted, was never a law of the State, and all the proceedings under the act were vold, The Bupreme Oourt of the United States has adopted the construction of tho Stato Coun. stitution by tho State Court, and has in like manner lold that the bonds, having been 1ssued without authority of law, were void, The municipalities, therefore, have atopped paymont of interest, and treat the bonds as no longer a debt. i Is this ropudintion in anylega! or moral sense? 'The so-called act of 1857 waa clearly & fraud,—notmore so thanothars, perhaps,— but, unforfunately for those who perpetrated it, falled to receive the constitutional for. malities which wore cssontial to give it aven the form of legality, Bupposo that so-called law had direoctly votod to the Railroad Com. pany one acre out of every five of tho land in the several towns through which thoe road ‘was construoted, and that tho Company had sold the land in New York, and {t shonld then be discovered that no such law had passed, and the oourts should decido that the conveyances were vold, would it bo repudia. tion for the original owners of the land to vefuse to surrender tholr farmws to the “in. nooent purchasers”? Praotically, tho caso in issuo was the same, The offlcers of a bank or railrond company aro authorized to sign and lssue certificates of capital stook. It thesa officers issue atock illogally or fraudulontly, and in excess of,thelr authorl. ty, is it repudiation for the Company to refuss to recoguize the bogus stock? Tho officers of these municipalitiea never had any authority to ssue or deliver these bonds, In the absence of any law direotly authorizing thom to issue such bonds, they wero prohibited from doing so. Can Courts legislate? Can the Courts in 1877 go back and supply the omissions of the Logislature in not enacting a law in 1857 toauthorize the issue of theso bonds? Can the Courts as. sume that, beoauso these bonds were lssued in 1869, thero was & law somewhero which authorized the proceeding? , ‘We have no sympathy with those municipal corporations which deliberately,under the act of 16809, voted away some fifteen millions of their bonds to rallroads, and now, becayse of the soverity of the tax, refuse to pay interest or princlpal. But we insist that when o bogus law was fraudulently pat on the stat. ute-book, and under its supposed authority bonds were obtained from them, and ou the discovery of the fraud practicod they appeal %0 and obtain protoction from the Courts, tho case is a different one. The loss to the holders of the bonds is ‘s serious one. They bave been induced, by the low prico askedfor the bonds end the high rate of interest offered, to venture their woney. ‘There i always in the market forged commercial papor, over-ssues of stock, cpunterfoited bonds,—oven of national bonds,—and bonds issued without authority of law. Thoso are sold on such torma as to find purchnsers who, blinded by the sup- posed advantages of the bargain, fail to in. vestigate what they are bnying. These il- legal bonds are of this class, and we do not underataud why the purchaser has not the same logal remedy againrt the sellor of an illegal Lond that he wotild have against the seller of n connterfeit bond. While the sell- er of a bond docs not gunranteo the payment of the Lond, he does of necessity gnarantes that it is what it puvports to bo and is logal, and is not forged, counterfeited, stolen, or otherwiso frandalent, Bupposo soma of theso innocent purchasers of these bonds, ‘which never had any legal validity, iry how far the porsons of whom thoy bought them nra respongible for the sala of the frandulent paper. . REGULATIRG PRIMARY ELROTIONS. Itis o well-known fnct that the business men and responsiblo voters in largo cities cannot be parsunded to put in an appearance | ot tho primnry meetings, which really nomi. nato tho caundidates for office and praotically limit tho choice of the people. No amount of nrgument or pressure can induce proper- ty-owners and good citizens to give the same attention to tho primariesas to the eloctions ; they contont themselves with grumbling at tha povarty of relection after tho candidates aro allin the fleld. The result of this habit 18 that the nominations made by all politioal parties aro apt to bo controlled by'the bum. mer element, and a sbrowd politician can usually manage his own or a friend’s success by manipulating the primaries. In order to correct to some extent the abusea of tho primary meotings, Mr. Kxmox has introdnced a bill into the State Sonate per- mitting citiea of more than 100,000 inhabit. ants to hold primary meetings for the choice of candidatea snd conventions under some such legal restraint as is exerclsed over the voting-places on election-day. The princl. ples of this bill originated in California, where a similar law Lns been found to operate benefloinlly ; Mr, Banzr, a member of tho Ohlo Legislature, secared tho paasage of a law to the same offect in that Btate, whero it also works well, and we believe it hos also been adopted in Indinna, Mr. Kenox's bill authorizes any voluntary political association to issuo a call through its committao for the electionof delegates to a convention, or s managing committeo, or for tho nomination of candidates for public office; to declaro tho qualifications of the voters, so long ns they be legal voters in the ward, procinet, or election district; and to namo three judges to pre- side over the primary meeting thus called. Publication of such call is required. The Jjudges appointed must be sworn to faithful- 1y and correetly conduct such olection, pro- vont fraud, and canvagy all the votes; they aro alro nuthorized to appoint two clerks, who shall likewise he sworn, and any viala- tion of duty on the part of either judges or clorks is mado punishable by fine and impris- onment. The judges are requirsd to ontor- taiu aud dotermine objections to any vote offored, whother on tho ground that the per- son offering it is not a legal voter in tho pre. cinct, or that ho is not entitled to voto undor tho torms of the call, That is.to say, if the call is made by the Republican party, ond the condition {s made that no one shall voto ot the primaries who did not voto the Republican tickot at the last proceding elac. tion, all others may be excluded. When ob. jection is made, the challenged voter must swenr his vote in as at a rogular election, and o fraudulent votor under theso conditions is subjected to tho same punishment as a cor- rupt judge or clork,—fine and imprison. ment, Ropoating at the primaries, or voting moro than onco at the same or differont polls, is a}so punishod, though not to the same ox- tent. It is nlso mado a misdemeanor, pun- {shable with fino and imprisonment, to offer monoy, orany fee or roward, to any elector for tho purpose of influcncing his vota at the pri- maries. Inonoword, the intontion is to maks tho primary elections conform as nearly ns poasible to tho. regular elections, with the excoption that thoy shall be hold subject to such conditions aseach party shall determing for itself, and that no oxpenso shall bo in- curred to tho county or Btate (city, or vil. lage, or town should Lo added)on nocount of sch eloctions. ‘Wa shill be glad to seo this bill become & law, 1t docs not compel any political party to nct undor it, but enobles every party to avall itaclf of legal protection against the ordinary primary abuses, Its operation would give tho primary elections moro dig- nity and importance than they now have, and to that extent would draw out & botter closs of voters, It would also prevent an organized gang of bummers from dictating tho nominations of both parties, as they frequently do in the case of Aldermon and Conatables, MUNICIPAL RETRENUHMENT, Chicago cartainly enjoys the distinction of belng thoe only. city in the country which has adopted o general systom of retrenchment in publio expenditures commonsurate with tho shrinkage in prices and tho exigencies of the hard times, Thero is probably no nndertak- ing besst with so many dificulties and re. sisted so obstinately as an offort to reduce tho number of places and cut down the salarioa pald for the maintenance of municl- pal government, The truth of this hns boon strikingly illustrated within the last three or four yoars., Almoat overy man Lins been confronted in his private business with tho absolute nocessity of reducing bhis ex- ponsas, Manufacturers, merchants, and all employers havo beou constrained to contract thoir working force and to pay lower enlaries. At'tho same time tho purchasing power of our monsy hos boen inoressed and there has boen o gomersl shrinkege in values. The samo oonditions which have af. fected private business ought to Lave as- serted themselves in publio affairs, There haa never been & time when tho burden of tazes was Bo sorely felt by those who have to bear thom. Roal estate, which sustalns 80 largo a share of this burden, has declined in value more than anything else, and earns 3 a rule scarcely moro than one-half in rents whot it earned previous to the panfe. Yet, in tho face of all this, we know of no city but Obicago where the pruning-knife has been vigorously applied to publio ex. penditures, ‘Thio failure to reduce municipal expenses in other cities has uot boen bocause thess oxpenses wero already aa low as they could be with duo conalderation for the public welfare, There had boen the same scalo of extravagance in all the large cities that pre- valled in Ohicago; in many of them the conditions were even worse than hore. The overwholming debt of New York City—over $140,000,000—o0ught to have startled the people into an sppreciation of the neceasity for retrenchment. Philsdelphia is almost a3 badly off, perbaps sltogether as badly, as compared with the values of property and the resources of the city, Bostos, with a largo dobt and excesaive taxation, cut down a little, but not in proportion to the necessi- ties of the caso. Brooklyn, Buffalo, Cleve- land, sod citics of that class, have kept' on spending monoy froely. Cincinnati hna dobt, we beliovo, of almost 24,000,000, in- cluding her proportion of tho rai'rond dabt, but keeps gniotly and placidly on in the old way. 8t Louls, whoro tho tax.eaters have full swing, docs not lovy sufliciont taxes to pay current expenditures, but adds tha de- ficioney to her pormanont debt avery year,— a policy that iseven worio than ralsing money to pay aa yougo., And there is no city of large sixe nnd importance in the United Btates, to our knowledge, that con point to the faot tho taxes for this year are only twd-thirdsns much na for last yaar, oxcept tho City of Obicago, Tho curront expenses of Chicago have Leen reduced from the rate of §0,000,000 a yoar to that of $4,000,000 o yenr, and tho reduction has beon nchieved in tho businesss.like way of abolishing super- fluous officos, clearing out the sinecuras, putting mors work on those who ara re. tained, paylng smaller snlaries, fusisting upon the reduction in tho prico of gos and other supplies, and stopping public works, the progroas or completion of which is not absolutely dérnanded by the public welfare. Porbaps this result would not have been sccomplished in Ohieago had it not been for the circumstance that the City Governmont was driven to tle wall, and that, under the coutrol of the tfax-wating bummers, taxes could not bo collectod aud no moro money could be borrowed. The constitutional limitation of the eity debt prevent- ed the issmo of bonds. Bome £3,000,- 000 had beon borrowed ‘‘temporari- ly," but in an unlawfal maunner, which the courts oxposed when it . was brought to their attention. At this polnt the oredit of the city failed. Noither tho 'capitalists abroad nor the capitalista ot home would ad- ¥onco money; the taxpayers resisted pay- ‘mont in the courts or simply refused to psy. This brought the people to their sonses, They rallied to recuro an honaest and afficlent Oity Government ¢) stralghten natlers out.. They induced zome of tho most responsible citizens to take placos in the Common Coun. cil. The men thoy eleoted kopt fnith; thoy sot about to save tho taxpayers $2,000,000 o yoar, Then, aud not till then, did tho oap- itnlists come forward to relieve the immedi- ato neccssitics. Tho other largo cities will not escapo wholesale.plunder until they shall go through something of the same experie ence. Tho irrosponsiblo classes, with little or no proparty, and controlled by the schom- ing office-hunters, and contractors, and tax- eaters, aro too numerous in all large cities to %lmit of corrocting these municipal ovils at' the ballot-box “with. out. somo spacial ‘aid, It is only when the business men take hold of affairsin business way that tho bummers can bo brought to termns. Whan tho taxpayers ro. fuso to contributo monoy to be squandored, and monoy-lendoers rofuse to advanco funds toa reckless and badly-managed City Govern- wont, a8 they would to a reckloss businass corporation, that the ocenpation of the tax- oater is gono. The tax-enting gang tnkos oot in overy largo city as tenaciously as o bickory tros, and can only be dislodged by n procoss that digs all around it and under- mines it. Even now that tho responsible citizens of Chicago have driven off tho do- ‘vourers, the latter will ronow tho struggle evory year when half tho Aldermen are clocted, and the smallest opportunity will ba improved to recommence operations on the old scale. That the people have put them down, and succooded in keoping them protty woll down over n socond election, is o triumph which other cities may woll envy and should seck to omulato, e ‘Wo printod yosterday the protest of Gov. Cnampeerany to the President against the ordor for the romoval of the troops from tho Btato-Houso at Columbia, South Oarolina. The protest lacks strongth in one or moro important points. To usiste that without Federal troops he will be unablo to maintain bis authority in the Btate, will bo unablo to execute the laws, or perform tho dutics of the Executivo; but ho omits to say that while Governor, smrounded by Foderal troops, he was equally unable to cxurcise any suthority, was equally unabloe to protect the unfortunate colored peoplo against massacre and outrage, aud equally uuable to punish any person violating the law in any respect, Ho fails to oxplain how morely protecting tho State-House will onable him in the future to exerclso tho loast authority any more thanin the past. Ho does not feel warranted fn giving the President any assur- ance that if tho troopa be left in the Btate- Houso he will be able to collect tho revenue, protect the people ngalnst violence, or do any othor act rs Exccutive othor than occupy the Governor's room in the State-House, The Prosident, taking the broad view of the queation from his place aa Prosident of the United States, in lis lettor to the Becretary of War, thus effectunlly disposes of the ‘whole matter: 1n my oplniop, there does not now cxist In that State such domestlc violence o 1 contemplated by the Constitation as ground upon which the military vower of the Natlonal Government may bo lu- voked for the dufense of & State, There are, it is true, grave and serlous dlsputes as to the rights of certain clalmants to the Chicf Executive ofiice of that State; but these are to Lo settlod and deters mined, not by the Executive of the United Statos, bat by auch orderly and peacoable methods as may be provided by the Constitution and law of that State, I feol atsured no resort to violence is cone templated in that quarter, but that, on the con- trary, the disputes In question are to be setticd wolely by such pesceful remodies ae tho Conatita- tlon and laws of the Btate provide, Undcr these clrcumntances snd in this confdence, 1 now deem 1t proper to tako action in accordance with the princinies aunounced when I entered apon the datfes of the Prealdency, . T —— The funniest elaction return recolved yes- terday was the following ¢ Ravers, Miss,, Aprll 3,—The fercest lection aver beld hure has § d, ‘Tho Independent Ureenback party on on e Op- posing the combined Democratic and Itepublican partics, snd resultingina victory for the Groen- backezs by & majority of overtwo to one. ‘The black and white color-line seems to have boen effaced and the new color.line— green vs. gold—adopted, and green, accord- ing to this veracious telegraw, swept the feld. Wo await particulars with lively curioaity. - . 4 A terrible tale of the sea™ comes via Bos- ton. The brig Rosnoke, of Kingston, Jamalca, with a crew of nine and three passongers, foundered at sea March 19, One of the crew, plcked up by tho schooper Annis Todd, tells the fate of the rest. After drifting for some days, two of the passengers, Mr., and Mrs. DaL- LETT, * shook hands with the Captain and mate, bid all hands good-by, and sald they hoped they would meet in Heaven. Mr, DALLRTT then took his wife’s waterproof and wrapped It around ber head. ‘Thoy embraced oue unother and drowned themselves, and were locked fast wheo the sca drifted them off. The Spaukh geatleman (the other passeoger) then sald his prayers, wrapped a quilt around bis head, and drowued bimaelf.,” Afterwards the boat parted and the crew were separated. On the portion ofthe wreck to which tha saved man clung were two others, who, after & time, crazed with thirst, drowned themselves. The power of human wpature to face tho Incvitable s somethinz Incxplicable. The instinct of life Is strongor than anything except the power of death, yet here, while chance remained, for one nt Jeast has been rescued, Mr. and Mra, DatLETT, after courteously per- forming the usual formalities of leave-taking, undertook of thelr own motlon the final act of carth, There ls somethine strangely signlficant in the wrapplog of the waterproof about the fead of the wife. 8he preferred the leap in the dork, et it bo taken, butlet the man, eyes open, face the terrible responsibility, while the woman clings faithfal yeot shuddering. 8o they drifted away, *locked In esch other's arms.)? United ‘in lifo; In death not divided. The Bpanfard—poor fecllow, strange compound, fe- cording to the type of Lis race, of manly cour- oge and womauly impulse—covers bis fage als, eays bis prayoers, and follows them, When tho scagives upits dead; when tho story of tlose who rest thereln shall be told at the Great Awakening, there will hea revelation of the spirit that is In man, unparalicled by nany record of wartyr orstoryaol exile, The very warring of the vast waves, heaten by the scepire of the Storm King, and refusing in thelr wild rebellion to acknuwledge hitn, stirs dqubtless in the souls of those who then look fnto eter- nity n corresponding energy and fitting valor., ‘Thebrava words of that hardy voyager, GiLoeny, brother-in-law of WarnTer RaLzian, when ho shouted from his vessel a8 she was golog under to thusc who stood on the deck of her consort, * Never mind, boys, we aro a8 near to heaven on tho sca 88 on the shore,” will nover dle. They rose clear above tho shriek of theleath- augel, and robbed him of bis victory at the very mowent of his'exultation, x it Gourp, of St. Louts, hus got out a directorpof that city, containlug sixty-nine tnore pages than that of last year. Th D, 83y Taking the Informatton furnished Jast year ae a gulde, and adopting the same rules a8 in_ provious Jsate, will show that we have lo-day In tho City of t. Louls a total popuintion of 501,489, The Chi- cago directories for the past three years give the followiug summary of figures: ames, Inhabitants, D14 501,713 13 BUL415 51,343 530,573 1001 I hicago. in Augast, 1870, mado a clos: canvasa as a basis for the organtzation of the ¥chools of Chicago, and reported the num- Ler of inhabitants at 447,000, showing n difference hetween (ke obicial count and the report of the directory folks of nearly 00,000, The presont pope ulation s put down at 460,000, ond It In clalmed that 148 motleat entininte—1" fof 8 Chicago man to mnake, " If the authoritics of t. Louis wil make s close canvass of their population they will also discover a differcuco Letween the nctual num- bers and the guesses based on the directory of 00,000 or more. The sctual population of 8t. Louls {s, perhiaps, 400,000, although their vote cast ot the laat Preaidential election, which was tho biggest they ever polled, does not indicate n clty of morc than 850,000 lnhinbitants. The £01,480-guess-worlc of the dircctory man js o de- fuslon, aud In fact boal. e c— The Nashvillo American, a journal wlclding a large fnfluence in Central Tennessce, rcfuscs to Ro Into mourning over the defeat of TiILDEN, and 1t refuses to denounce ITayes, but is dis- posed to accept the situation cheerfully, and Tiopes for goodl things under thepromntsed policy of conciliation and good will. The Amerfcan nd- dresses that ciass of implacable Southern papers who take counsel of thelr passions, suspicions, aud hates, aud who * would allow the fntcrests of the country to go at loose ends for four years just to fill ths car of Heaven with roaring, and clamor, and unavalling and protest dirceted at the past and not tho future,’ and rebukes them in tha following languaca: * Becauss Mr. Tin- DEN, the truly anointed, i not on hand fnvrop., er place, thoy would have the burning South, already hatt blasted, done brown before she would receive assistanco from any other, These writers on politics mistake the duty of the citf- zonto a de faclo Government, They should pray continually for an fucreasc of faith, which alittlo calmer conslderation of* thae eutire sub- Ject will givo, It that be possible.! —— The Indlanapolls Journal (MonTon's homo or- gan) replies to tho apostla of hate and malice,~ WespaLL PriLLivs,~from which we make an extract. It saya: Iiis recent apeoch in Philadelphia s more bitter and treational than usual, 1is opialona are as wild ud over, snd his rhoetorlc le wilder. Ho gots more vxtravazant oa ho gots oldor, and by the time he ia o hundred his style will bo oa frantic as Voouunxza' used to be. The pith of Itall le, that Harxzs s n traitor to lberty, and his supporters purchaved scoundrels or ‘contomptible weaklings, becunso after twelvo years of faliure to establish ordor and f::urlu for nefim tights in the Houth Ly coercive eglvlation and military enforcaments, they nee dlsposcd to try conclilatfon and the effacement of the color-line by Interosting a party for the color- od voter as well o4 aguinst bim, and make their in- tercat In hils help bis security, He has no othor now, and whou he has not that he Lns nothing, for o standing ariy of 100,000 men and tho code of Draco could not forcibly supprees the violenco that ho 1s lnh{eflcd. Mo whin a whele race fu turncd oualuat him, Negro Hrolmlon by furco {4 & duty when uotbing clse will do. Milltary execution af clvil procous fs ver{ costly, not always certain, und eoxceedingly lreitating, and If another schome of government can ba applied it hos & strong argu- micut for tho experiment in the fallure of the past one, —— Brionas Youna's traveling rib, ANy Eriza, has sucd a Lecture Committco at Des Molnes, A Lecture Bureau ngreea that she should speak In that town for nothing, if sho did not draw alarger crowd than any other competitor, ex- cept Tironora TiLTon; if she Wid, she was to have ono hundred dollars, Bhohad an Immense audlenre, but the local committes clalmed it was not equal to that of a quintette club that had performed there, and refused to pay hara cent, although nettlng 8800 from her audfonce. AnN Eviza ought to get her money, It Is hard cnough to bo the nineteenth wife of an old sin- ner like Briouas, without belng quiatotted out of monoy houestly earned. To bo a lost Plo-fad of that famnily coustcllation, and also at the bar of the Des Moiucs Court, would throw dls« credit upon the entlre star business, e ee— A woman employed by a large dry-goods Arm in this city stole $110 from her fellow female clerks, spent $30 for baby clotlies, and then weut to the Foundlinge' Ilome and begzed o baby to fix up. No wonder she Is voted to be slightly fnsane. A jury of bier sex wouldn't sit o the case two minutes, Bho would be sont to the Eigin Asylum, if for no other reason, to makoe a terrible example against guch Inordivate fonduess for fulants. It Is a pity that the woman’s {usanity, barring the kleptomants por- tlon of it, could ot become fufectious among tbo native-born women of the country, Ifit wure catchlog, it would be justifiable to scnd ber through tho Northwest at public expense, Yearing the old flag fu one hand and a full sup- Pply of baby-clotlics in the othes, £ ————— The New York Graphle scems to think there is something in the rumor that s nuaber of conservative Democrats cntered intoa written engagement with FauNanvo Woop to resist the tllibusters who wero trylng to break up the Electoral Arbitration Commissfon, It says: FEunaxn0 Woon is sald to have In his possession an lf‘tumanl In writing ocrats, who pledyed the: Another copy of “this ayr Philudeiphia mombor of the House, froin whom IxomrsoLL secelved this Information. Fruxaxuo Woou was the uriginatorof the agreement, and through bla lulluence the siguatures wero obtalned, He never wanted TiLveX 10 ve President. ‘The New York Luul coupies thiv stury with the ptate- ment Col, I¥oxwsoLl made in Lis New York spoecha few days axo. to tae effect that had tho election gune to’ Touse, Havxs, not TiLokN, would have been elected, and calls upon Mr. Woon for an explanation. e eeet— Tho President has appolnted ex-Senator Cra- o, of New Hawpsbire, ex-Represcotative Co- BURN, of Indians, and cx-Gov, Bruamys, of Florids, to tuke charge of the Arkansas Hot- Bpriugs property, and maks satlslactory ar~ mngements with tho squatters thereon. This wlll terwmloate a quarter of a century of ltiga- tion and quarrellng over tha Hot Bpriugs prop- erty. e ——— Public opinion and expressed scotiments in New York have boen s0 strong as to compet Parer B, SwrENY to express hls hopes yester- day in & card to the newspapers that he would be permitted to sttend to the requirements of the suits sealust him without havioz to sufler assaults from the press which he cobld pot re- pel. He states that he did not flea the country; that his proposed Journév was well known; that he la ready for tria), and has returned volunta- rily to meet the accusatious ngalust him, It certainly does not scem right to pound the man when he cannot defend- himself, and the New York newspapers oucht to be ssbamed of them- sclves for abusing Twocop and ‘his frieuds, Swaant ought to have a falr show. That fs what TwEzD has In Ludlow Strect Jall, T g7 The 8t. Louls Republlcan déstryes the credit for an April fool hoax In the sstrobomical line, which occupies nearly two columns, £t gives an Imagioative report of an Imaginary Jecture Ly an {maginary Doctor, in regard to cortain dis. coveries he has (1) made inthe moon. Ho is roported to have secn tho Inhabitants of our nearest neighbor, and to ba about to leave for Chicago, “where he will remaln several weeks {nspecting the mnoner of handiing the great telescope,'* ete. Ol courss, the Imoginary scl- entist will besure of an Imaginary welcome; but It {s a pity he did not arrive Lere last Bun. day, The Joke fs guod envughto bave orig- inated {n this city. Minister WWasusunx: ported a3 @ candldate for political honors, 0 litye n!lmlona for Benntor Qarany's seal, — 7oledo Dlude, - ¥ 1t will be unfortunaté for the Blade if its re- mark about Waszpunym gets to the eyesof the Bpringfield (1L.) Journal, which will there. after accuse the Jladé of nominating Wasn- Boun® for everything, and running him for some office continually, and of kiiling him off several times every year. Lo VIS e ei—— . The new Qovernor of Towa Is'not able to sleep on account of the lsarcls of ex-Goy, Beverivox. He is trying to geb even, and made flne progress the other day by pardoning ® mau, sentenced to three years in the penitens tlary for rape, after fifty days of confinement. e — A mock elcetfon was held at the Elgin Insane Asylum yesterday *for the amusement of the Iunatles.” Whether the bar'l attachment and all the ather modern improvements were added, fs not stated. It would no doubt hinve mede the thing more amusiog—to luvatics, ———————— They are determined to have a penitentiary in tho south part of the State. The veudetta sys- temn ot Willlamson Cdunty anewered the pur- pose for soma tfine, but the people feel that, after all, the old-fashioned trial by’ jury, with penltentlary attachment, {s tho best. et Peany H, Suitx was Bayu TILDEN'S right hand man lu Chicago,~a sort of ELissa to the “Usufruct.” To clect Pxarr would be s re- indorsement of TILDEN; so the peoplo under- stood it. Bec the returns for particulars as to how much be was indorsed. P et Tho 8t, Louls Republican remarks hilarionsly, in conncction with a trumpet call to the voters of that munlcipality, * The eyes of the country are turned to 8t Louls.” If this fa true, Itis certalnly novel; goncrally tho “other side” fs turned to 8t. Louls. 2 . e ——— . ‘What a relief it will be to thecountry to know that tho Recelver' of tho Juter:Oceass Las left Washington without having secured an appor- tloument of thorest of the Federal oftices in Chileago among the eniployes of that concernt —— A reunion, the fourth annual ofio of those who wera prisouers at “Andersonville, is to Le held at Iartford (Coun.) tho 10th inst:' "It uplritsrovisit earth, the Federal dead of Ander- sonvyillo will bo there, too, | Ex-Prestdont Gnant is golog to relax In Ger- many. Let BisyArck come to the United Btates. A falr exchianga is uo robbery. i ‘The water In all the Wostern streumals at full banks, It any ono doubts it, there s nothiog to prevent his golng to'sea. | ‘The Tildenites did the best they could for PenRY, but they could not fetch it. | ‘The Grecnbackers say that it their redecmer liveth, nis nawe Is not As TATLOR. | The peoplo sut down on Parnr yesterday, i PERSONAL. The onnual drunk of the Indlana editors oconra ot Columbus In May, . o White velvot drosses give ‘roundness to the fg ure,—Heral, And flainess to the purse, The eyes of the countty are turned to 8t Louls. —=8t. Louls Republican, And microscqpes have risen proportionately, ' : 5 Cappolint has written an opora and called 1t **The Trbunc," Mr. Storey writes a farce and calla it **The Tl At the Westborough (Mate.) Reform School two Loys lave been killed by flogging, and the rest of the inmates escaped death through tho physlcal fatigue of tho officers of the Institution, Austin Bheldon, the **hermit of Lohman," who in the mountains of Pennsyl. yours, was found frozen to , balf burled In tho snow, It turms ont that the yellow-halred oTicer ad. mired for his bravery by the Indiaus, and en of by Red Horse, was mot Custer, but Capt. Thomas 11, Frouch, of the Saventh Cavalry. A faon; ry comea from Rome to the effect that Magr, Nardle' death was superinduced by the ig- norance of his physicians. Infammstion of the bowels was treated with quinlae, orsnge-flower water, and mustard foot-baths, . Commodura Vanderbilt's widow has atarted on & Southern tour with her mother, her sister-in-law, and Dr, Linaley, the Iate Commodore’s pbysicisz. The widow has received her legacy, snd has pre- sented the Doctor with $40,000, Old *‘Blue-Jeans™ Wiillams ‘wante Jooking sftor, e has only just warmed tho Gubernatorial chalr of Indlana, and ‘we find this **ad" In the Indisnapolls Sentinel of the2d: ** Personsl—Lady carrespondent wanted, Address GOV, this office. " Drentano, the New York books: the first clew to HMall's sscape by re that the ex-Mayor kad bought acopy of Bradshaw's Gulde to Great Britatn, sags, the book pever sold 80 well before, and that be nevor did somuch buels ness, - Cons(derable fesling s manitested In Parls by the fallure of the American Government to provide oficlally for the repressntation of the United States at the Unlversal Exposition of 1878, many alsg Ignores tha show, sud the French are decply cbagrined, g 'The Now York ¥¥orid suggests the following for- muls for correctness {w the Religio- Philosophical Jou conducted by tho wplrigof the late s, 8, Jout **Owing to & provoking peychical ezror,” or **Through the Inadvertence of @ writer la the Sumwer-Lagd " L A Parls dispatch ways: * **M, De Goncourt's Intest noval, *La Fille Elise,® g out, Tt is almaply the minute history of & prostitute aa repulsively teallstic sa Hogarth's ‘plcturas of the *Harlot's Progress.’ A critlc reviewlng the work was com pelled to Liead hlsnollco, *Virtuous Women Are Requested Not to Bgad,'". Detrolt is catablishing a reputation for musleal appreciation, Last week Ole Bull tronpe wad adveriised, and scarcely s sest waseold, A few days afterwards Madame Esslpof® arrived, and $3¢ worth of tickets were sold. “Doth troup without giving any performance, and ths Dy era ore grimly swalting Miss Emma Abbott. Mr, J, E. Wooten, Genersl Mansger of the Phile sdelphia & Reading Rutlroad, nas {asued s clrcular 10 the engineers of that road, in which he states thatall who are members of the Drotherhood of Locomotive Enginears must slther withdraw from 1$or quit the servico of the Company. He pro- posos 0 sstablish & lfe and accident insursoce fund, out of which all epgineers, upon payment of a monthly sum, less than p sy i recclve, in case of accldent or death, greatsr bene Ats than tuose berotofore derived from the Broth- erhood of Locomotive Engiaeers. i Astupld sditor whn uotices the fashions | not 10 know that ia the pi totyle of wearing the bonaet, It 14 farther way from tho lady's 1 it ds feom bozfeet. Why, woman wears her hat away aft, like a make-sblft ruddor; o foshiopabls woman builds s kindof s platform out of her back bairand hangs the bon- ueton the rear ead of it, and a real stylish, model lired girl cazrivs & polé over ber shoulder with the Ly slung 1 ths ead of it.~Hurlinaton Kaulewt.