Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 9. 1877. ; The Taibre, - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGE TREPAID AT THIS OFFIC g o poatpail, | Farinct a Jéar, par biont WERRLY D! copy. per yen R L ied Clubot tweniy. Tustage prepatd. peclmen caples sent free: Toyrevent deay and mistakes, e snre and glve Poste ©ftce sdrer tn (i), Including Einte and Connty. Itemitiances may bo made clther by draft, axpress, Tut-Uttiee order, or fn regintered letters, at our sk, TENNS TO CITY BURSCHIDENS, Tafly, detieered, Sunday exeepted, 23 centa per weak, Lolly, deitvercd, Sunday (ncluded, 30 cants per week Adion THE TITBUNE COMPANT, Corner Madisan and Dearborn gddi "n"‘rly'l Thenatre, aodolph strect, betwren Clark mgngm"m of Hatert et ade Rt and _LaSaile, Vau Winkte," . New Chicngo Thentre. Ciark street, between Lako and Kaudviph, Emerson's Miustrele. % Muscim, Monroe street, betwoen Ytate aod Desrborn. Vaudes ¥llle aud nuvelty, MeVieker's Thratre. Madiron strect, b and State. Eugsgemnent of F, &, Ul it Jack aad Jm™ 1877, CHICAGO MARRET SUMMARY, Thie Chicago produce umrkets were genarally active and strimger, whth an hmproved demand for gratin for shipment, Mesw pork closel 20¢ per bel bigirer, at SI4.07!56A14.10 for April nnd $14,235 fur May, Lanl at 706ap10c per 109 My er, At 24060, 45 for cadh and 30,50 for May, Meats clused ge hotter, ut $%¢ for lonsg shoul ders, T20c tor do waort rim, and 73c for do short cleurs, Llighwines wero quict, at 81,03 pee galion, Flour wan I good sdemand and sironcer. Whent closed at BLAY for April and i closed e higher, AbNe for May. Uats at sutie for Apell, and e hettoe, it UIG@MHC, ie for April, e for Avril about 1o Wl Bu%,e for May. Burley clos Tioks were st Augustos Munvesnens, the eminent Eplicopalian clergyman and hymn- writer, died last ovening in St. Luke's Hos- pital, New York, aged 81 yenrs, Tho only dificulty in the way of Twerp's relense ia waid to by lus obatingcy in refusing to “squenl” on the members of the New York Legislature and other porsons of i prominence who reccived substantial favons nbout thy tiwe the Charter bills wore pend- ing. Ministor Wasupunse's rotivement to pri. vato lifo will not be without compensativg circumstances, A8 w private eitizen of the United States ho wills by sble to neeept the tender by the German Government o nmag. nitleent decorntion of o high German Ordor, which ho now wust decling ay the Ameriean representative in Franes, ‘The proffer is made a4 o recognition of - the ominent kerve i rondered by him to the Gevmnans iu Laris during the wur of 1370, and the decors. Hou itself is sald to ben splundid wtfair of jeweln gotten np atn vost of Ry, 0 Gaon, Garvir #4 an honorary member of tho Cubden Club, huving ruceived this dis- tinction iu 1568 out of complimunt for o speech ou (he carreucy guestion, and with- out auy reforenco to the tanf, Nuvertho- lens, tho fact of tho lonorary membership appears to hzve greatly disturbed tho Poun. sylvania protectionists in view of the von- negtion of Gon, (anrierp’s nnmo with tho Lepublican eandidature for the Bpenker- sbip. Even tha chanco of electing n Rupub. lican Speaker Ly tho votes of n few Ad. ministration Democrats i vot sufticlent to i cnligt the onthnsiasm of wome af the pig- ¢ Jron Congressmen of Pennsylvania when it 1 wohappons that u caudidute is suspucted of freestrado tendencics, The Brotherl:ood of Lacomntive Engincera hiedd & 1ueoting in Piiladelphin yesterdzy to take action concerning the wmsue raised Ly the Reading Railroad Compnny in refusing to cuploy engluoers connected with the Ocder. Delogutes®wern present frowm forty divisions in ollier cities, aud promises ware made to support the Rending engincers iu tho event of u strike, The Kailroad Com. pacy has offered to cstablish sud cwlow o Mutual Beuefit Association for such of its omployes ns leave the Brotherhood, but, ns this proposition. strikos at the very existenco of the Order, its accoptanco is o thing to be provented nt any sncriflco, It remalns to bo sicon whether tho engincars fusncdiately intercated fu the quostion will Jermit thomwelves to bo draggad into a strike for tho saku of presorving for a time the au. thority and power of the central orgauiza- tion, Travelers to tho Black Iills are no sonnor rolicved ef upprelionsions yegarding dupre- datlons by tho Lostlle Bioux (hun they are iu danger of being relioved of their portable et by **road agents.” Tho Indians uro quict onough just mow, but their wbsence from tho lue of tho crowded stage-conches hins only made room for lnuds of whita desperadoes bont upon robbery sud dlisagrecably indifferent whether they fucludo murder or not. Our correspondent at Doad. wood writes of the recent midnight attack upon the Choyeuno stago within two imiles of its dustination, the killing of the diiver, . und the nurrow escapu of the passengers from u similar fate, Evideutly the state of nociety in that country is not yet such as to’ +" oter many attractious outside of thosa which # have to bo dug up, whila the prospect of g being added to the underground deposits of the vicinity of Deadwocd is one which comes Lome to every adventurous gold-sceker, The operations of s mammoth Silk Ring in New York City are undergoing investign. tion with the result of establishing the ex- istencs of 8 combination of Custom-House officials and fmporters who have been suc. cessful in dodging tariff dutics on silk to the smount of from $10,000,000 to 15,000,000 syear.. Dy some means not yet fully devel- oped, this combinstion of conspirators bkave been gble to jmport and sell silké ot prices below the cost of manufacture . with the duty add- ed, so that @ houso like that of A, T. Brewant & Co., slthough operating its own factorics iu France, s unsble to import the goods of its own manufacturo and compete with the prevailing market rates, but sctyale 1y buye these identical fabrics, which bave been sold in Enrope and amnggled into New York., Just how thisconld be dono, A. T, 8. & Co, have bean unable to understand, and that {3 what the Treasury officers are engaged in trying to find ont. Two lettors which wo print thia morning, written by Mr. E. V, Sstarrer to the New York 'ribune, can be read with interest and proht by all who are concerned fin the ad- justment of tho race and color question in the Bonth. What with tho eight years of carpet-bag misrmle and robbery preceding the ndministeation of Gov, CHAMDERLAIN, the unwillingness of the white population to engago in nanual labor, and the shiftless, unthrifty habits of the negroes, who do all tho work that is done, but scem to bo utterly nunequal to the knnck of gelting on in tho world, Sonth Carvling scems to havo reached o point whare something in the nature of n political and socinl enrthquake is needed to got thingy started again, THE COUNTY RING. Wedo not sce how the [ilinols Tepisln- tare can honestly or rensonably refnse to givo enr to the demand of the people of Covk Counly for a néw Board of Connty Commissioners after the meeting of the citi- zens that was held Saturday evening, the resolntions adopted thereat, and the simul. taneous developments regarding the mis. maungemont and corruption in the Board. Commissioner FITzoenALd was present at that moeting, aud told how he had been fighting the Ring for six months, but was nbout ready to give up in dospalr, He sags that the bad management of tho last year will eanso n defidioncy of $425,000 this yoar, and it will bo necersary to eluso up the Hos- pital aud Poor-Houze this summor, or bor- row mounecy to pay their expenses, Heo gives it as Dhis opinion that it will take five years of the moat oconomlical County Govornment to get back - where the conuty was throa years ngo, aud the ouly snfety to Lo songht is in a newdeal. This is tho eandid ekpression of a man who knowa whercof ho spesks, and who will bo legis- Iated ont of two yoars® longer term in case the Legislature shall pass the Cook County bill ; the clrenmstances of tho case lend Commis- sioner FrrzornaLn's words peculinr force, aud they onght to be given duo weight by every membur of the Illinois Legislature. Searcely o dny passes when some new evidonce §8 not developed of tho incompo- taey or rascality of the presont Ring ma- Jority fu the Bonrd, The latest is in respect to the Court-Houso foundations. Tho con. tract for this work was awarded to Hanys, in the faco of the fact that mora competont pensons oifered todo it at u lower price; and, aftor the job was done, Hanus came in with an enormous bill for extras, Yot now it is discovered that a part of theywork done by Hanus must ba torn up sud done all over, at an,expsuse of saveral thousnnd dollars to the county, beeauso. the founda- tion lboa been badly and insecuroly laid. Hamm was watched during the progress of tho work by o Couuty Bupurintendant, —somo iuvomnpetont person appointed by the Bourd il puid by the public,—and his salary, too, proves to have besn just so much nioro won- vy thrown nwny, ‘Uhis singlo instaucy shows what may bo expectod if the entire work of building the Court-flouse ba intrusted to theso fellows. They buve already extinusted B1,000,000 of honds, and will ask the coun- ty to jasug %2,000.44%) more for them to de. vour, after the fashion of the purchase of the Hospital lot; the County Bonrd paid $145,000 for that Int, and yot Mr. Joun Woounminaz, a woll known, responsibla attorney of this city, statod ut the Satunlay weoting that Mr. Dannwiy, who sold the ot to the connty, had told bim ' that he (Baupwin) lud racoived but 100,00 for it. At the sume vatio, of tho F2,000,000 to ba exponded on the Court-tHonse the Ring woudd absorb balf a miltiou, for which the public would get no conntderation. It s high time to stop this. ‘The people bovo a right to demand the privilege of electing n new Board, 'The Legislnturo has no right to refuso it, ‘I'he Connty Iting, evon now, wiil leave county affairs iu almost a8 bad n condition s the Conviy bummers lutt the city atfnirs a yenr apgo, If allowed to go on lougur, matters will be insucha shapo that recovery will bo Impossible. ‘The county bill, which has progressad in the Henate to u third rending, shonld Lo pnssed immediately, without delny for any purposo. THE CANADIAN BUDUET. Thio Faoglish are not altogother satisfiod with tho budget of the Canudian Dominton, nlthough they arn willing to sdmit the jnev- itable vonsidertions that grow out of the unfuvorable eircumstanees of North Ameri- can comuieres sincs tho panio of 1873, The Loudon 'imer 14 disposed lo attribute the compnrativo stagnation in Canada, aud the deflciency in lnst yoar's budget, to the Indus. trinl paralysin of the United States ou tha ouo hand, aud tho unsatisfactory commercind condition of Kuylund ou the other, which has lessenail the \lemaud for the products of thy Dowiuion, A leadiug article in the 7'mes of March 23 touches upon one of the prominent cnuces of the deficiency in the Ludget of last year, although it does uot yo to tha roat of ft. '~ After showiuy that, owing to tha #rowth in the commorce nud revenue of Cunada sinco tho foundation of the Domin. Jon, thera has beun u towptation to lanuch out into tho coustruction of grest public works, fome of which do not pauy their working exponses now they aro iu opera. tion, and after depreeativg tho effect of English opiuion to commit the Dominion ta the prosecntion of this policy, tho 7{mes strikea ot tho wildest undertaking the Caua- diouy havo'ever yet made, aud tho one which the Finsuce Minister in hiv budgot recog- ulzes ns Lis greatest difficulty amoug: tue burdens thrown upon him of providing for uurgmunerative public worky,—namelys the immediate union of the castern States of the Dumivion with British Columbia by railway, The Times sayss ‘Tho difficulties of constructing the e are cuare mous, almost insuperavte; the tratic upon §t, 10 it wera copleted, would not pay the mere cost uf carringe. while the malnteuance of the permanent way would be an souual burden; nnd I s morally certain that for some months of the year the Hce would be abeolutely clored. Yot the atsouguat pressure was put upon the ninion of Canada to pursue this wild uudertaking, and accosations of had falth were freely launched aginst the Parlls. mentof Canada becauve they refused tovanction the scheme, If tho Goverament of. Canada had been commisted (oIt even more deeply 1han suy cue ever pretended It was, ~nay, bad tho Cavadian Parliawent tteelf formal puzovedt, sud entered into a pledge witu the Goverument of British Co- lubla that the enterprise should be at onco under- taken und completed, —there would atiil have been n perfect yustification for tbe Government sud Par); 1aeat of (ke Dominion In cowsluy forward and con- fewsing that, upon reconsideration, they feit tbey could uut perform what bad becn promived. ‘The Zimesis ol opinlon that the fullest requirement of ihe strictest worality would ment of tho agreement, and by restoring that province as menrly as conld be, with compensation for what was wanting, to the atatus quo anle. 'There is another suggestion which might have been mado by tho T'imes, and which goes nearer to tha real exigencies of tho situation,—namely : that British Co- lambin is too small to justify the Canndinns in involving themselves in a lnndred or two hundrod millions more of extra indebt. ednesy by building & milrond to keep that provinee in the Dominion. It would bo far less inconsistent for the United Btates to spend o like amonnt in railroad building to keep onr own Columbia in the Union. British Columbin, lying north of the bleak nnd inhospitable Intitude of Lakoe Superior, hias n population of not over 20,000 or 30,000 people, soma of whom have beon attempting to dabble in gold at nloss of two dollars to one inveated. It lins tho most inferior agricnit- ural resources, and its productive capabil- ities in general aro poorer than anything wo havae on that coast until we veach Alsska, For the Canadians to burden themselves with the construction of two or three thousand miles of railroad through this bleak region, ncross the American Continent north of Lake Superior, to accommodato n scanty handful of peoplo who have no trade or commerce to spenk of, is the wildest of ab- surdities,—especially so in consideration of the fact that the powerful and wealthy United States cannot fuish its road from Lake Suporior to Puget Sound, in tha vast empire of Oregon. If the Uniled Btates cannot construct & rond on o better route, terminating in n productive country of great vnlue, reaching n thousand miles of const- lino, with n Linndred-fold stronger rensons for its coustruction than the Canadinus have, why shonld they involvoe themselves in such o 'wild, impossible undertaking, simply to gratify the peopla of British, Columbia ? It the handful of people in that province want accommodation for their fow cart-londs of produce, thoy can find it on our own rond, and it Is probobly this general view of the situntion {hnt makes English capitalists so unwilling to lend money for this silly proj- ect, when they have already invested so much in pubife jmprovements that do not pay even their working expenses. With regard to somoe method of reorganiz ing tho receipts of the Dominion, the Times suggests direct taxation in each province, At presant, four-ffths of tho revenuo of Canada’ aro raised by the receipta of customs And oxclue, nud, of tho remaining fifth, n very sunll proportion comes in from what can Le properly classed as taxes. It suggesta as follows : At somo day—not, perhaps, vory ncar at hand— the Provinclal organization may be used to impose and cotlect a direct tax, a cortain proportion of tho proceeds of which shonld be retained for Provincial neceeitics, nnd the rest tranemitted to the Domin- fon Treasury. Whenever sncha plan Is reallzed, the beneficlal effect of the liberation of trade It will maka possible, through o removsl of customs duties, will bo Immediately felt, and a greatad- vance will bo made fn the progress of Free Trade un tho American Contlnent, Our Canadian fcllow- subjects should bo cmulous of the huuor uf belug e ptoncers in this wovement, THE POLITICAL ISSUE OF THE FUTURE, ‘T'ho prospect for the climination of the Soutlera color-lina question from politics is already -wo cloarly ddefined that peopla oro beguning to confocture as to what insuia will sorve after that for n division into partien. In ous form or auother the differ- ences botween the North and South have vonstituted the dividing.lino ever since the formntion of the Ropublican party, . Before thé War tho lisno was the continement of slavery withiu certain boundaries ; the War omuneipated the slaves, und, since’ the War, tho insue hos boon the reconstrnction of the Robol States aud the nssuranco to tho blooke of the political rights which naturally fol- lowed thofr necession to a freo and equal con- dition befora the law. The comploto pacifl- cation of tho Btates that rebulled, and the control of their Uovernmenta by the people of the South without military interference on tho purt of the Ueneral (iovern. wont, necessarily lmplies a guarantee of the frauchisa. to tho blacks, becauss tho black vote will then be an important in. toger which politleal parties, whatover tholr poiut of divergence may bo, will endeavor to soouro and protect to that snd. With the renlization of Presidont Havrs' hiopes and intoutions, then, the * bloody shirt " will no longer bo n atock in trade for political par. ties, and the African'u placo in politics will bo n# wooure wi that of the European classes ju the North, What is likely, thon, to form the consplen.’ ous political fusne, ou which men will divide both fu the South .nnd tho'North without roforenco to the moctionnl or ruca issues of tho past? We think it will naturally be the comprehensive und absorbing gnostion of I'axntion, which includes the sdministration of the (icuoral, Btato, and Municipal Gove crumonts, aud divides mankind in a popular governweat juto taxpayers nud tnx.eaters, ‘I'his jusne embraces iu dotail difurences sa to bow niuch woney shall be uxpended in tho o way of public Muprovoments and on the publis sorvice, the . limitatlon of the debtcontracting power, the ways awml meaus of rising the revouue, the principles of revenuo reform and high taritl as upplied to the production of revenuo, the vollection us wull ay the assessment of taxes, sud the sdunnlateation of the publis uoneys: It ls au lssue on which what may bu called the solfsupporting. classos will be nlways practically in accord, whether thoy live north or wouth of Masox aud Dison's line, aud whether it comes up fu o uational or local shape; and they way/lways expect to oncounter the auisgonisus of the taxe dovourerspincluding all those who cannot make a liviog outside of office-holding, the coutreactors and subsidy-hunters, the dema. gogues who persuade ignoraut people that lavish public extravagance will redound to thelr bouetit, and generally the fspecunious and irrespousible classos who have no prop- erty representing surplus earniugs, nud who are judifercnt to the amount of taxes im- posed and the manner ju which they are assossed nnd collected. On the one side will be ranged thoie who have proporty to be saved or devoured, and who can save more under ecomomlcal govern. ment than they desiro or hope to devour under estravagant government, and this class, as wmen cf inflience ond employers, will always be able to control a large propor. tion of those who have no tangible property, but whom excessive taxation wilt affect fu. Juriously to fha extent that it cripplos busi. ness oud contracts the opportunity aud poy for the working class, ‘On the other sido will bo ravged o largé class of professional office-seekernand jobbers, including frequent. 1y men of means aud influenco, who hope to n:ake wore out of a prodigal system of public expenditure (hau thoy will pay in taxation, the ignorant peopls whoai they can deceive, and the reckless classes who think they have notbiug to lose and everything to gain by sau bave been satisfied by indewnifying British | ers of extravagancs. ! Calumbia sgains: any loss from nonJulfill, ‘The division of mon into parties will ops rato, both North and South, in tho first in. stanco in the local governments, In the Northorn cities the people are alroady begine ning to understand that the great danger ahend is an accumulation of delt and tho simuliancons growih of taxation for the support of the machinery of clitics, towns, counties, nud States. Thoy sce that their property is being practically mortgaged to support tha tax-devourers, and are beglu- ning to organize againat them. Tho Chicago election lnst Tuosday was n good illustration of tho disposition on the part of the solf- supporting claases to resist further encronche monts on thelr aubstance, Other citfes in tho North, which ara in n worsoe flunucial condition than Chicago, will soon be forced to the samo rort of resistanca; tho law of self-presorvation will assort itselt if their own intelligonce and pradence do not impel thom (o it, 8o Htates will imitate the oxamplo of Illinofs, limit the amount of indobtedness that public corporations may contract in proportion to tho valuation of taxable property, prohibit tho issue of bonds for public improvements to be approved by popular voto, and otherwise provido chocks upon $ho grood of the tax-davourers, In tho South, very much tho smhe procoss will nec- esaarily bo ndopted. If tho carpet-bag poti- ticians are forced to give way, n olass of native politicians will como to the front with the ambition and purpose of acquiring for tliomselves the samo opportunities for public plandoer which tho carpet-baggers en- joyed and which originally induced them to become itinerant politicians, The rapacity of this clnss of politicinus will be resisted at tho South by the men who havo still some property to ‘save, by those who are willing to work and ncquire proporty of their own, and by all who foresoe that their own future depends upon tho rostoration of bLusinesa proporty and tho development of the material resources of their country. As to the blacks, somo of thom will sida with the tax- devourars to get their share, and othors will be betrnyed nnd deceived by the doma-. gogues; but there will be large numbers, on tho other hand, who will bo influenced by their employers, who will .have prop erty of theic own to protect, -and who will be inteiligent enough to understand that their own intorests demand economy and oflicioncy in the public servico, Hore {s a common ground on which the taxpayers and self-supporting classes can moet the tax-devourers and impecunious classos of both North and South. Their organization in local communities snd for local purposes will graduallyload to a broader isane. MMarmony of purpose will nnturally suggest commuuity of action, and the mutaal oncouragemont for local advantnges will pro« note such interchango of thought ns to make o combination ensy for national purposes. ‘Tho aggregate of local organizations will form a national party. This issue will not require any now party namos, Tho mass of the intel. ligent, taxpaying voters of the North already belong to tho Republican party; the people of the South who will bo on the sido of econ- omy will not hesitate to make a common causo with the Republican party, with tho color- raco questions out of the way, Tho dis- integration that will necessarily occur to soma extent will be gradual, aod will not de- ‘maud any new party movemont, The tax- payers will gravitato toward a common cen. tro, nud so will tho tax-dovonrers, Tho {usue mny be fought out as well nnder the names of Republican and Democratio partios as any other, THE WEST-SIDE PARK MANAGEMENT, The management of the West8ido parks intrusted by Inw to n Board of seven Coni wmissioners. Recontly thero has boen renson to suspect that n majority of the Board have not in all cases acted in tho intorests of tho people, and it ju certain that there are at least two members who are disqualified undor tho law from serving longer. This {8 nota casa for Legislativo investigation, but for Xx. ecutive intorforence, Wo understand that tho circimstances have boon submitted to Gov. Curron, and we have no doubt ho will seo his way clear to tho removal of Messrs, Mitranp and llorpes at least, snd the ap- pointment to their places of gentlemen of Inege property-interosts in the West Division, of personal fitnuss, and who are apt to manage the trust for the exclusive benefit of the pub- lie. The Constitution clenrly authorizes the Governor to romove any oficer sppointed by the State Executive **in case of incompe. tency, neglect of duty, or malfensance in oftice,” or Lo may declara tho offico vacaut and proceed to fill it by sppointment. Now, tho act of the Legislature creating the Chi- cago parks aud the presont Voards requires that the Commisslonors shall Lo * resident frecholders,” It is alleged thattwo of the presont wembers of the Board—MiLranp aud Houpex—are bankrupts, and do not own any real property In feo simple; inethat caso, they are not * resident freeholders,” and aro incompetont undor the law tosorve in their present positions. It is the duty of the Govermor, under this state of faots, to reniove theso geutle- men, or declara their offices vacant, so Lo may appoint snitablo porsous of the proper qualifications before tho Legislature ad- journs, in order that the new Commlssioners may bo confirmed by the Benate and enter upon the discharge of their duties. There Is no occasion to wait for nn fnvestigation 1o do this, as thix delay might easily extend beyond tho present scssion of the Legisla- tura the incompetency of any of the Com- missionors demands their prompt removal, withiout any regard to tho mauner in which they wmny have discharged their daties. Judge LawgeNoE, one of the oldest jurists in the Btato, construes the law to wean (his, and, in the course of an opinion, which has Leen submitted to the Governor, he saya: 1t was undoubtedly anticlpated by the Legislatare thatthe Hosrd would huvethecuntrolof conslderable wumie of money, snd lo order to socure Ita proper application they enacied that persons who wern 1o control (§ should not valy Lo voters and residouts, but 3180 the ownere of frechold property. Noneof 1liese conditlous of memberahip of (he Board can be dlaregarded. 18 16 uleo clear that when 3 mbue Ler of thits Buard ceascd tu possess the qualificas tuna for membership ruquired by law, sud dossnot sesign biv position, a case has arisen when the Gay. croormay property rewove blm, snd sppoiut one ane niher person noescastng the requisite qualidications, 'T'he term **incompetency,’ as used iu the scction of the Constitution sLove refeered L0, caunut mean wierely meutal, ur mural, ur physical incompetency to perform the dutics of 1he ottice, Lut must also | mean the abaence of those quslifications, whatever they may be, which the statute bus preecrived asa condllon for onigioally xccepling, and, Ly Jwpll- cstion, boldiug tbe oftice, L thiuk, therefore, in such 3 case as that above namea, 1be Uovecnorinay remove & member of thy Board and sppuint su- other ju bis place. It is uot possible, we think, to put any other construction ou tho constitutional pro. vision, snd, ju this case, the power to re. wove becomes n duty to be prowmptly dis- charged, if it bo a fact that any wembers of the preséut Board have ceased to be ** resl- dent frcebolders™ in tho ‘fown of West Chicogo, The trust miauaged by the West Park Commissioners smouuts to severul millions of dollarg, and several hundred thousand dollars are raised sunually frowm the taxpnyers of tho West Division to bo cur- rently cxpended for the maintonanco and improvement of tha parks. Theso taxpnyers ara ontitled to tho fall protection of the law, which includes {ho provision that the Com. missionora shall be euitadls persons, aud also resident freeholders,—that i, persons who alinll themselves bo interested na taxpnyera in the honost and cconomieal administration of the trust, Gov. Currox should give heed v this rensonable and proper demand. TEMPERANCE IN ENGLAND. Some time sinco wo called nttention toa new temporance crusado jn England, intend- od {o mako some hondway ngainst the rapld- Iy-inorensing vice of intoxication in English towns, by tho adaptation of the Gothenburg system, under the operation of which tho Town Councils would bo permitted to purchass the existing interests in the liquor teaffic and then carry on the business thom. selves, Dy this systom, which provails in Swedon, with good rosults in some places and bad in others, it was contended that the town authorities would regnlate the traflic so m to reduce intoxication,—the problan being to permit drinking but'to prevent drunkenness. Tho agitation has recently takon tho formof a resolution in Parliament, ‘whioh, however, has mot with heavy defeat. The advocates of the resolution, however, so far from being discouraged, aro proparing for a fresh onslaught, and it is not impossible that the Gothenburg eystem will turn up quite as repularly in Parliament ns tie female-fron- chiso billa do. e Tho bill was originally drawn up with rof. ercnco to Birmingham, where drunkenness. prevails to nn alarming extent, but as the nuthor oould hardly coniine the operations of the bll to one town, it was extended to the Town Qouncils of all boroughs included fn tho Municipal Council act. ‘Ihe expense of purchasing the liquor intorests of Dirming- ham would Lavo beon immonas, and it was probably this consideration that led to the defent of the mensuro, the opponents con- tonding that the city would have to start in with an investment that would involvo mu. nioipal bankruptcey, althongh it was proposed to isano bonds and to help pay the interest on them by erccting large contral halls, where bread, sonp, cheese, nle, and wino could bo furnished at nearly tho cost, and tho profits, if any, devoted to tho debt. Tha purpose of the measurowas s good one without roforenco to tho practicability of the Gothen- burg systom, Its nim wns to diminish drunkenness, to placa the whole liquor-trafiic undar police control, to stop the sale of lig- uor to women and cbildren, and to root out nnd suppresa tho hell-holos where thioves, desperadocs, and criminals of all sorta congregato. Perhaps fo no cily in the world is & measure of this kind needed more, Birmingham has -a population of 800,000 poople, aud thero ar 1,500, or one in abont every forty families, sngaged fn liguor. solling,. There nro threo times o3 many liquor-shops as there are food and grocery shops, aud the money that finds its way into them {s more than is paid out for food, and clothes, and medicines. In mansging this vast busiucss nn onormous number of people are amployed, and the constituency of the business is increased by the constant temptation which meota ono at overy turn, Women and children throng these saloons as openly ns mon, sud drink as froely, and the drunkenness of Birmlngham has becomo proverbial all ovor England, and almost as woll known throughout the world as its iroh.. ware, ‘Tho success of the Gothenburg system in Bwedon was rolled upon to meat tho casa in Birmingham, and undoubtedly wonld do so wero it not for the immonso investment ro. quired beforo tha ‘fown Council could on- gago in tho business, the possible avennes of municipal: carruption it might open up, and tho fears of some who favor the propoai- tion that it might iuvolve not only a soctal usurpation, but nn absolute moral crime, ‘The moasure, however, {s in ita infanoy as yot. Tho agitation Las only commenced,, and, ns the advocates of the Gothenburg systom comprige somo of the ablest men in Parliament, thoy may yet devise some mosns whereby thelr thvories can be reduced to practico. It is only part of tho great tem- porance movement whioh is spreading all over England, Ireland, and Scotland. OBITUARY. CAPT. PREDENICK LANNBUSH, Capt. Fnepzmink Launnuvsu, s well-known citizen of New York, died (n that city on the 8d inst., at the extrens sgo of 111, hoving been born {n Eogland March Y, 1760, “The New York Tribune soys of Wl 1le was n born subject of Englind, and he Hved in tho ruigns of Geonus 31T, roiek 1V, , Witne 343 IV., and Vieroria, Ky father was & an, and thie 1ife o the won feil tu the reigne of Pakn, the Great, uf Fuevxnwx Wi 4 rutcx Wittiax 111, of 1uxn: aud of the Emperor, 1e per in the ¥rench nd he mlfm have looked upun Lou nevacd tho decapitation of Lovis XVL, been ualuted perhaps 1o Wi aorrow with Koukes g, Danzoy, und Mauar, cartled ulspatches tha (roat NavorLEox, sesiated at the retien of Louis XVIIL, and rvuumlly encountered Louts, Futnivre and the Third Navoixox, As n soldier, he had werved under the Duke ov Yonk, Jenows Voxaranrs, und the Duxx or WELLINGTOX, JEAN DAPTISTE MADOU, The cable has already brought the news of the death of the renowned Belgian painter, Jran Barristo Mapou. Ho was born at Bruescls {u 1705, and pursued his studies under CrrusTIN Fnaxcoiy, cultivating, like his muster, the study of geare, Amonyg his priucipal victures are “The Strolling Ylayers,” **The Jewel-Mer- chaut,” *The Postscnipt,” 4 Pages at the Farm,” *“A Row About Nothing, “The Admirlng Peasants," *The Feast of Trouble,” %A Feto b the Castle,” e was a member of 1he Bolgian Royal Academy, an sssocisto of the Auntwerp Academy, and Professor at the Koysl Art- 8ebool of Brusscls, ODITUARY NOTRS. 1 Among other deatls of prominent persons ‘which have occurred recently ure those of the Hon, Cunistoruxs 3oRroaN, of Auburn, N. Y., who served two terms as Sccretury of State, and vopreseated New York two terms {u Congress; of Mousiguor GumriN, Blshop of Laugres, Franco; of Ludy ANx= 8corr, the daugliter-in- law of Sir WaLTEn BcotT; of Dv. Jeugsian 8, Putwan, oue of the oldest aud best-known practitioners In Malno; of IgsTen Joussow, a colored woman who died fu Baltimors recently, at the extreme age of 107; and of tien. ApnisoN Farnswoat, who served with dlatinction lu the Mexican War and tho War of the Rebelllon, ‘The New York Zimes, the great Radical Ree publican of the Eastern States, perceives, just a8 Tug Caicaco TRIsuNE dous, that sheee Iy aclass of mischlcl-maklng finplacable Repub. licaus, ond a similarclass of foiplacable Bour- Lon Demorruts, who arv opposed 1o the obliter- ation of color-ling politles fu the South, aud are dolug all they daie do to impede, thwart, uud defeat the Preslaent’s Southern policy of reconcillation and peaco between il races of white und colored people. 1t Lita those peatife crous nalls squarely on the head, as follows: ‘Thy extremists who, In the nsme of the ltepub. licau party, dencuuced lo sdvance suy coucessl which the Adwiulstration may wake with tho vie of scithiug coutrovested quystions 1n Lonlelana sod | Bouth Carvbad, arv not vde whit beiter than the violent wen vu the other a1de, who bave dwiounced compromise us trviwa (o the Lemocrulic party, Bolh classcs are uutaauces uf whow the couutry would gladly be nd. diniscr wotives underlio wuch of the zeal which bothy ulfect. Tlie purvose of the Dewocrutic vbstzuclives Iy very ‘fbey would wuch prefur u tontiousne present strife, which servew to keep their party in- 1act In the Boutberu Statew, and furnishos a rally. Jug ery for It turoughioul the country, Au sriange. ment tuat brings sectious) recouchlistlon aod peace will be 8 suiv uragvineat 1o tie Deiaocracy everywhere, The poaition of tha implacable Radl- cals 1 eveontlally similar, ltemovo tho Seuthern neatlon from the arena of ‘-nruun eonfllct, and & gull of noln; gflll"cllnl will at once lose Iho stocks n-teade which has prosed so Rrfldhhln thoee many yearr. Lol blacks #nd whites be induced to enltivate friendly relations, and be galded in their party afiilintions by other considerations Wi that of cotur, and the demagognes who have thriven upon thelr antayoniam will have to seek uiore repntable methods of earning n livellhood. The politiclaus of larzer calibre who have found flerce donunciativns of the South an effective substitute for arzument will repino st tha change which cum-. ela them to acek other menns of intinoncing pub- ic oplulon, . ——— e ‘The manta for Polar oxplorntion secma to Lo on the Increase. Notwithstanding Capt. NArms' recent declaration of the timpossibility of reach- ing the Pole, ho has already been appolnted to command an oxpedition via tho east coast of Ureenland. The Dutch are about to try another expedition beyond Norway, Spitzhergen, and Behriug's Btralt, Sweden has planned an expe- ditlon by the same route, in 1878, A Uerinan cxpedition {s tostart Dy way of the Siberfan tiver Ob, and Russia also has an expadition under way. And alter ail these expeditions have departed and fafled, lke thelr numerous predecessors, aul every cxpeditfon bas lelt muro or less of its members smong the clernal fcobergs, there will probably be others to pur- suo tha frultless crrand. The Kingdom of Cathay, tho phillosopher's stone, the fountain ot youth, all flud, tholr counterpart in the North Fale. e “The new Loulsiana Commission looks very much like a jury packed to conviet."'—Spring- JSield Repnblican, It will hava to Pack'urd to convict Nicnor.Ls, e e— PERSONAL, Miss Aona Dickinson has falled utterly fn New York ae an actress, 'The riva] base-ball clubs of New Orleans are the Custor Bustors and the Buster Custers. Lots of Broad-stroet brokers are, financially, orphans to-day, They've got 10 Pa ua' Ma,—New York Commercial Adcertiser, Jack Niles, a celabrity in New York gambling circles, died in that clly lust wock In wretched pov- erty, e was one of the most recklesa suen uf s day, The New York Sun thinks the lady Oakey Hsli ls Alving with In Londun 13 Miss Blanctie Grey, protege of ltoso Eyhinge, sud & woman whom Ilsll wnce befrlended. Joshua Gordon Belnckle, o Plladelphia lawyer, has ahandoned s bome and o lucrative Lusincss, togetrid of the persecutions of o young Freuch gle] whom b pretended to marry. Clarles Dradlaugh and Anule Desant, the well- known ludy lecturer, bave been uprested in Lon- dun fur publiehing aud sullitg”the ** Frulta of Philusuply,* wiich 18 plonvunced a disteputablo Look. The oflicers nf the Soclety for the Preventlon of Cruelty to Chlidren found a 4-year-old Loy who was utder tramning as Infant phenomenon ton clrcos, 1lis body was livid with Lrulses, and hie whole system prostrated. = A French policewan arccsted thres prisonery, end, not having suy handcufls to secure them, ho Junt cut off thelr suspender Luttons. Thelr Lands were occupled in holding thulr trowsers on, and Liumarched them off to jull, The Mobile Zegister atopa to the froul, sod with prodigions solemnity tells all about & 200-pound frog fuund ou the wharl at the fuot of Governmeut streot. 1t |s ‘surmleed that tho frog was sabee- quently rau over by & ratiruad train, A Nebrasks man changed his name and made love to & Detrolt gizl. When he got tired sud cone cluded to return to the bosom of his family he had anobltusry pnblished. Dut somehow the Detroit gir) learncd the facts, and she le on er way to Ne- Lrusks, snd out there they don't think of grasshop- pers now. " : Kngland hasa charactor who preaches womgn's rights after the manmor’of the Srith slsters, of Glastonbury, Conn. Her nama s Miss Rose Hall, of Middlesex, who hae sliowed hor goods to bo distrained for Quoen's taxes, as a practical protest against the oxcluslon of women houscholdors from the Parliamentary franchise, Twelve silver forks were seized and put up at auction, A man named Eagrey woa tried recently at the Kildare (Ireland) Assizes for the murder of & nun, Ho went to a convent 1o sce abont some beads, and the Mother Buperlor fed him. Hewas left fora moment, when a scroam was Leard, sud, when they found him, ho was holding & dead nuu by the throat, v was scquitted ou the ground of jnsane ity. The editors of the Kansas Clty TWnes and the 5t. Joo Jierald arc arguiug through thele papers the ierits of the Swayza murder, Tho TVmes man calls the Jlerald ma nunhappy wreck, s poor 8 wmaniac, and an unwan- nered sot," and asye that he doos nut propuse to go out of his way to discipline Lls coutemporary, but ke will llck bim if hesees him, Farewell, Tupper, bard and brother, Wa shall never sou thea more, TH1) our wplrils grect each other, Gathered on the sbining shore, Dut though Fata has Lhue beroft us, Plunged us into deep distress, * ind Ioltand still ‘are Jeft us, all make our surrow lees, —XNew York Sun. ‘The New York World le engaged in an Intercat. ing contruversy with Madame Blsvatsky concern- ing Orlental philosupby and religlon, The junrnal drawe on all the cyclopedisg, and the lady uses storen of undigesicd scrapa of Orlental knuwledge, The chivf point at jasue appears tw be whethern fakir wears breechies or not, thu 1Worid stoutly maintaiuing that he dues, while thy lady confle dently wseerts that those sho has ssca did not.— Nashoille Awertcan, Mrs, E. R, Alden, of Cinelonatl, has viows as to tho tesching of children, At the Sunday- Sehool Congress alie wa ed a number of yued- tions, aud smong thom, Slow cana child be Im- with a seuse of soleionity In prayer? Cane not say. What abous alivwing children somo of thelr week-day amusemenls vu Habbath? The children must be am i 0 belter provide them with some sort of plaything tor Sunday, a litle better than ordlvary days, * Dore has been working in sacret for many monthe fna it anctuary construcied meide his stadio, and hias at length revesled to hin astoulvbed frlends a charming group of seulptare, I Tepresenty Love, mortsl love, lyling iu the bosnm of oue of the Fates, who cuts thic life-thread of thuse whom the boy has tonched with nte |~ work of singulstly poetic beauty, tho two Ngures srrsnged with fn- finlle art, the thin Ieatures und siulster hands of -the old wowan In strenge contrast with thoe faco af young Love, fuscinating, ssductive, yet not withe out s wulrd sud futal lovk. A correspondent of the Lundoa World is respons slble for tho fullowings **Close upon the Mattl acandal comen e neva uf o unhappy matring- nlal arrangeinents of Mine, 13 de Mareka. This gifted Iady's husband, M. Stesublila, amused bime rell during the houcymoon, sccordlog to Austrae lian wilvices, by rutbleesly sluugltering the two small terrleryof tha sungatreas, hor Lbrae canarys birds, a porrot, & moukey, sud flve cale of 1ure trecd, which whe had scyuiced with diflculty aod way maintalulng st wotolt espeuve. Ihavethe more sympathy fue Muie, nu de Mureka Juas- mnch na this 18 the serentl Wno sbe hiss valuly ese mayed toobtuln & sultable partuer fur lfe.* e "1 WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY,"” Spectal Dizpate to The Tridune. New Youx, April 8.—Dr. Willlam Augustus Mublenberg died to-ulgt, aged 81 Ilo was widely kuown for Lis benevoleave, and as a prominent clergyman of the Eplicopal Church, 8t. Luke's Hospital was fouuded tlrough bis cfforts, sud be llved In the bulld- jog, actiog as vector of the chapel ate tached theretu, aud devoting Lis timo to tlio patients, He also plauned the largo chasity at 8t. Johusland, Long Island, which fucluded a bome for crippled sud destitute cblldren, anotber for ol B ple of botls sexes, aud uther departuients. Dr, Mublenberg was the sutbor of wnany well-known hywus, ginong than: I ‘woulduot live slway, " b+ Shout the giad tidlogs,' S Exultiogly shig,™ und * Like ku‘h'l wear dove” He publish a voluws of * Church Puoetry.” auother * Music of the Charch,” aud the *Peol l::;s ll;:\n‘llrr."" o . 4 Assoctited Press. New Yoss, A‘[‘l(’x‘l’ D=1 u"s Hev, Dr. Willlam Auzustus Mublenbery died ju 8t. Luke's Hos- itul to-nignt, His death bus been expected or weverul days pust, uud bo was surrounded by relativos sud frie '+ in bis lust wowents. 1 wus uncousclous elne s Friday. e at—— e _ B INDIAN AFFAIRS, Bax Faaucisco, April 8.—A Tucsou dispatch sayp that Tndion-Agent Clum has demasuded an lovestigation of what he declares false churges by Geu. Kautz. FOREIGN. Intense Anxiety Regarding the Porte’s Action on the Protocol. . Englnmi Using Ilor:St}o'figest Ar- gument with Turkey - + for Peaco. Beliof in Berlin that Russia Wfll Eventually Procipitate U Wan L Interesting Details Concern. ing the Members of the Turkish Parlia- ment. Present . Miserable Condition of the Troops Composing the Turkish Army. Just What the Gritty Little Province of Montenogro Demands. : A Comparison of the Armies of Gebrmn, and France. . TOE EAST. SPECIAL COUNCIL SATURDATY. CONSTAXTINOFLE, Aptil T—Esening.—An ex- traordinary council of Ministers was bheld to- day. Transmission of the decdalon arrived ot Lins not yet been allowed. g AGAIN YEYTERDAY, ConstaNTiNOPLE, April 8—Mornlog.—~Tha Cabinet ineets agaln to-dsy, when - detlnite reso- lutions will be adopted regnrding the - protocol questions of disarmament’ and mogotlations with Monteuegro, and they ‘will be communl. cated to Charges d’Affalres to-morrow. Bome uncasiness prevalls as Lo the result of thede Uberatfons, g ‘EA’ AND TIE CZAR OUT. The Standard's Berlin currespondent says that notwithstandiug a statemont to the contrary, fo- telligence that the Czar will not go to Ema this snminer, a5 has Leen his custom, s reganled as cvidonce of the outbresk of the Russu-Turkish war in a fow weeks, Shomld the Porto comply with the protoco), Ruesly will flud uew ineans to mako war {nevitable, o TR NLACK SRA. ‘felegrams from Qdessa’ received in Vienns seport that hurried preparations are making In all ports of the Black Sea to mect the appre- Irended attack of the Turkish lron-clad fcet. . TAKE WiTHBALT. Lownon, April 3.—~The Berlin correspondent of the Times munounces that; in compliance with the request of the Czar, ‘urkey has conscuted to be the iirst to disarm, EVERYBODY STILL ON TIE ANXIOUS SRAT. Loxpon, Apeil 8.—The Times' dispatch from Vienna says: ** As {s always the cuse on the eva of great declsions, rumors bre circulaling {n dl- rect opposition to each other, They merely Ine dicate that the declsion {a still pending, - Every. thiug, however, tends to hasten it. There bas beon no lack of advice from England, who now takes tho lead in megotiations with Turkey, Not s day has passcd ainco the protocol was signod that the British Represcntative haa not conferred with the Turkish ministers, nor bave thesc conferences been without result, for the righd, uncompromising attitude which the Porte wisInclined to assume at first towardr the protocol, regarding is s insulting and unfl. for discussion, has to a certulu extent given wa, to better counsels. It would now scem tha the danger of absulute refusal s Tuorc or lest obviated, und that Turkey is fnclined not, in- deed, to accept, bint to : " NEGOTIATE AUOUT NVENTUAL ACCRPTANOR Asa tiret preliminary, howaever, the withdrawal of the Russlaun declaration is demanded, which 1s consldered an fusult by Turkey. The point about peace with Montcnegro should,:fu the view of tho Porle, also diasjfpear, As for- disarmament, Turkey proposes to havo regular diplowmatic Intorcourse ro- newed, when direct negotlations might %0 on through Ambassadors by telegraph. Asto the Russtan declaration there, is not much probability that Ruasia will withdraw it, for sbe is bound toftin tho face of Europe. Evenlif ‘Turkey Is made to soe this, it Is almost certaln she wili not sond a specinl envoy to 8t. Pete burg, 28 such mission {s luoked upon in Ci stantinople as a demand by Russfa that Turkey should sue for peave at 8t. Petersburg,” PREMATURE. ‘The Times, in its leader,) cousiders that fts speclad announcement from Berlin that Turkey nas agrecd to disurm first may bo-premature, tho precise character of the decisiun belug yob unkoown, 2 30 COMPROMISE, The Vienna corruspondent of . the Daily News declarca that tho tomper of the Turkish Parlis weut reganling tho protocol will hot admit of any attempt at & comprumise, 'kaulxg"l PABLIAMENT. INspalc (0 Lowdun Tiines. urcls 2.4 letter {rom Constanth nople {u the Kremden Blatt glves some rathet interestivg detslls about tho wwnbers of the ‘Lurkish Parliament. According to this account, they complain of befug nisde littde of In toe Caplital. Whenever u passeugor steamer arrived u port or wrallway traluis due, the Urand Vizier sede une of Lis Hucrotaries to the landug-stage or ty the statlon to fuquire whetber thers soy Members of Parllament - smuug tho urrivaly snd if thers arv sny, whure thuy twwe from, what their nawes are, sud whero thef . mean to tako up thelr yuarters. Jn most of the cases this Is Ly nO ineuns a,superiluoul courtesy, fur many of thode who «oie up fruid the more distaut Proviuces would be quite be wildered aud furloru in th Cupital, and, 1o themselves, fu apite of the susplcion fnnste in the Orteutal, would fall futu the Lunds of the numcrous shurpers and adyenturers of sl ua= tlony snd creeds with which Cuustsutinuplty wmure almost than suy othor Capital, sbounds Tos members do not shuw themeelyes for senslilo to this stteation bestowed then. They, as s rule, haston ss sl us vpossible after thelr arrival *to present themselves to the Graud Vizicr and to 1be Mlulstera,~80 thy tormer, accordiug to the cor respondent’s scvount, 0 person, and to tbe latter by sevdlug tbeir vards, 'But, witbout exception, they «o persoually to pay their "c’l. spects to ths Preaidont uf the Chatnuey, Ab elik Eifeudt, i lis Tusculsuyw, In Hisan and vk his advice about tuc furinalitics tute Rone throuw, the preseutution uf- thelr credens tals, the choley of thelr veats In the ball of the Dar-g-Fiuuy, or *University, wbich b been preparcd ~ for the sittlugs of tLe Chawber, ~ After thelr viait to the Presideots the members, as & rule, go to the House fu_order to Lave a look at the loculitles ond to choose thelr souts, markiug thawm, sited fashion usual in Cuotineutal Parllamentt with thelr visitng-cards. Sowe of the wce bers, os the correspondent very coreectly "‘“ Juuzks, do bt sse to kngw the - lnstitutios Visiting-cards, for ou wavy of the scsts plec of paper are pasted up, ou which the nemes ...mfi:n are inscribed. Bowetimes not oD $hy name uf the mewber Liwself, but likewie those of Lis fathier und grandiathor are loacrib with the wish that God'way give thew loug W‘; There belnz nu fwinlly nawes, except with ww,l of the scivts ol the uld arfstocratic stock, thhl;. & uecessary precaution to Qlstiugulsh aoivog ¥ uvumber uf Mabwouds, Abwods, ete. . e Au regords thy groupiug of the wembers, correspoudent bears that there will Lo umg:l them o Miubsterial party oud an Oppusitios: As, bowever, iu the ut n{muxuum«ul; wuen the Minlsters thewsclves, nwruuln Sultan, ackuowledge that the Uuverument .iul Aduilalstratiou have beea, indecd, bad, aud ¢ i they wust be, thurctore, reforwed from 40D bottow, be thiuks, aud uo doubt zightly, 3 tue Opposition will fn tho first [n-lan‘p‘ coufios iteclf 1o lusistivg tbat th prol - fsed rofurme should bu carred ulu‘ ‘Ir fect specdly sad cowpletely, while tho Mio tarialists will be for leaviug the waties ia ViRNN,