Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1877, Page 4

: TIili CHICAGO RIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1877. i TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—~IN ADVASCE—TOTTAGE PREPAID AT TINIS OFFICE. ity nauton, poazpatd: 1 Parta of & year, ey mant 2intled to xny nddrem four rtay Edition: Liter T Enturiay el Feekir, vor(pald, 1 srtaof & ycar, per mont! WERKLY EDITIO! Ope copr, el Clrbof ten. Clubof tweniz... o Fostge prepati. Epccimen conles sent free. Toprevent delay and mistskes, he s and give Potte Of.e sidresa in futl, Incuding State and Countr, Tewmittances may ve mwde elther by draft, express, Tost-Ofuee onder, of In registered letters, atour risk. “ERMS TO CITY SUNACRINERS, Fally, Celtrered, Buniay excepted, 23 centa pee week, L1y, deilcered, Bunddy Incinded, 20 cent per week Addirs TNE TROVUNE COMPANT, _ Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, 1. TRIBUNE BUILDING DIRECTORY. Room, $ 2 Ocrupants. 1. CHARTER OAK LIFK (Insarsnce Dep'ls) 2. 70 RENT, N % GUSTIN & WALLACE. J. T.DALE. .~ 4. DUENER WATCIL-CASE MAN'FQ.CO. * . ROBDBINS & APPLETON. om0 RENT. oF 2 7. HESRY LUE! . © & WM. C. NOW, A.J. BROWN. W.TRODBIKS, 0. WRIGHT & TYIRELL. 10 CHARTEIR OAK LIFE (Losn Dep't.) 1148, FAIRCHILD & BLACKMAY. 1113, JAMES MOROAN. R. W, DRIDGE. J0. HEXRY E, BERLYE. W. D. COOPER. 1%, 3t D. HARD! 1819, D. K. PEA 4C0, 2t, TIUTCHINSON & LUFF. 21, O. L. BASKIN & LO. 2. ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 2. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. 34, MANAGING EDITOT. =5 ASSOCIATE EDITOIS. 1. C. EAR W. J. DANNEY & CO, FILLIAM DRSS, 1. F. NORCROSS. J. A McELDOWKET. . REDPATH LYCEUM BUREAU, IENCIAL EDITOR. W. DEXTER. 0, L. TIATCHER. A, .F. STEVENSON, 33, NIGUT EDITOR. 30, CITY EDITOIL Offices tn the Bulldiog to veat by We G DOW, Ttoom 8. — AMUSEMENTS. Haverly’s Thentre. Randotoh street, between Clark ~and Lasalle, Eagagement of Raters MeWado, **1¢Ip Vau Winkle.” Afiernoon and evening. New Chlcago Thentre. Ciark street, between Lake and ltandolph. Emerson's Mfnstrels, Afieravon and evenini, Musenm. Monroe street, between State and Dearborn. Vaade- villeand noveity, Aftcrnoon and evening. 4 s, MeVicker’s Thentre. Fys Madison street, between Deatborn aod Btate. ;)i Engagementof ¥, 8. Chanfran. **Kit™ Adeiphil Thentre, Monroe street, corner Destborn. *Jack and Jiit* md **The Two (rphans.” Aftcrnoon and eveniog. M. B0OCL! CIICAGO CHAPTER “iccond pecls] NO. 12 27, R, A. M. 134 Twen- gonvecatton this Wedneady ari on the Moyl Arch 3 Sompanions Lordially (bvited: 1iy or+ [T 'R NI, 8der WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1877 E——————————— S UHI10AGO MARKET BUMMARY, The Chicago produce markets wero lrregular yesterday, provislons neing dull and grain active, Mens pork closed 20c per brl higher, at $14.000 1" 14.10 for April and $14,1253@14.15 for May. ¢ lardclosed S@7%5c por 100 s higher, at $0.35 for %, ‘Aprit and $0.40@0. 424 for May. Meats were Hic per lb lower, at4c for loote ahoulders, 7Xo for do short riba, and 7%¢c for do shork clears. High- wines wera qulet, at $1.05 per galion, Flour was icas active, and unchanged, Wheat closed ¢ low- er, at$1. 343 for April nd $1.38%; for May. Corn closed }c lower, at 40Nc for Avril and 44¢ for blsy. Onta closéd %c higher, at 33i4c for Aprll and 37¢ for May. Itye was firmer, at UB4@7lc. Barley closcd ¢ ighor, at B3@d0c for roglar. Wogs wera quict and weak,al 5@10¢ decline, clos- ing at £5.10@5,50 for common to cholce. Cattloc were active and strong, sclling at $2.75@45.75, Sheop were In good demand; at $3.75@0.00 for common to cholco grades, Last Saturday evening thero was Instore in this cliy 3,100,245 bu wheat, 4,083,247 bu_corn, 745,002 bu oats, 180,302 bu \r rye, and 714,081 bu barley. Also afloat in harbor, U9, 305 bu wheat, 473,010 bu corn, and 78,470 bu rye. Ono hundred dotiors In gold would buy $105, - 25 in greenbacks at tho close, P " Greonbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- : cliaugo yesterdny closad at 84 o Thio Hquor-dentors of Now York State find themselves in a bad box very unexpectedly, vesult. It scoma that tho Board of Excise hina excoeded its powers in grauting lconses to retail denlers othor than tho keep. crs of hotels and taverns, and a de [%{ cision to this offect having beon ren. . dored by the Court of Appeals, " 5 fino was yesterday imposed upon A man . who hsd been selling under one of these * worthless licousos. ‘Tha tomporanco poople, | discovering their opportunity, are about to cominoncoe a goneral movomont agalost the ‘¢ retailens who have thus incurred the penalty of tho law by seling liquor withoit o liconse. ‘Tho Senate yesterdny refused to onder toa gecond reading Mr. Kenog's bill for tho clection of County Commissioners upon ono . genoral ticket and under the plan of cumu- lative voting. It had become entircly cloar hiat such o bill could not pass, and equally ' cvident that Mr, Kenor was convinoed of id that, and had satroduced thia bill to defeat all logislation looking to the relief of tho people of Cuck County from tho present " rottenness nnd nismanogement in tho County Board. Tho friends of the suffering taxpnyers In (o Sonate and Iouse show a disposition to do tho best that can Lo dono toward remedying the outragcous abuwsca 1. complained of, and they favor tho Rouixsox ", bill os the one most likely to pass, 'wo important bills wore passed yester- dny by tho Illinois Loglslatura—tho first, re. ducing tho salaries of the Railrond and Ware. *r . Liouss Commissioners from $3,500 to $1,500 per auuum, and the socond, amending the Quo Warranto act 80 as to subject stock-yard ** sorporations to Btate regulation in pil mat- i wmsof extortionate rates or unjust discrim. * - ination,—substantially placing thom upon the sawe bosis with raflrond compsnies in this " regard. Tho Militia Lill was lost forlack of * {ho requisito majority; Mr, Kenzie's bill fo provide for tho discatablishment of county nornal schools received its final quiotus; and tho bill to permit the application of as much as moy bo necessary of tho 3 per cent tax paid by forcign insurance cowmpanies for tho £ support of -insurcnce patrol orgauizations " was for the second time defeated by s decis- ', ive vote. ‘Turkey mig] 1l spare hersol? the trouble of sending su envoy extraordinary ‘to §t. Petersburg to megotiate on the sub- * ject of disarmament if, as the dispat:hes state, the Porte rcjects the protacol, persists * {n refusing to permit the Powers to interfere ¢ with the sduwinistration of the internal + affairs of tbe Ottoman Empire, and declines 10 accede ip Montenegro's terms of pesce. The Cza> bas given notice that a reply to tho question of sending on ambassader must be forthcoming by the 18th jnst., the day on ' which the armistice with Montenegro ez~ 7 and great dismay and oxcitomont sre the | cxaction levied in 1873 shall bo paid to thes Inst ponny. Tho nasesments mada on raile rond capital stock from 1874 to 187G, in clusive, may bo thns stated: 1873, Value of etack over property.. R4, Valne of etock orer property... 814196 1835, \aluc of stock over property... T (40, 222 3870, Voo of stock over property... 10,100,258 Wo havo in 1876 moro miles of mailrond thon wo hod in 1873, but the fictitions, in- substantinl valno which tha law of 1672 un- dertook to matorialize and tax as property has disappenred. Al that was tangiblo is hero to~lay; the intangiblo, Insubstantinl, and imaginary has doparted ; and the Tegis- Iatuce {8 made atheatro of eloquonco de- manding that the tax bo colleeted on tus #117,000,000 of property which does not ex- istand mevor did cxist except in the fmngl- nation, % ‘Tho debnte brings out much comprehen- slvawisdom. Ono gontlmnnn nsserta aunddo- | fles contradiction that beeanso n mnu can soll and assign necertificato of stock, there- fore tho certificato of stock is property in- dopendent of tho property reprosonted by the stock. It is a *frauchise,” and fran- chiges may under the Constitntion bo taxed. Tho severity of thelaw falls npon private corporations, Wwhero the forn of corporation is rosorted to ns & mere convonience for bookkeeplng, whereby partnors in bnsiness may increnso thoir intarest or sell out, and whero new partners may comein, and whero, in cose of the death of n partner, the busi- ness can go on without any dlasolution of partnership or change of the firm name, The corporate existenceis purely o bnsinoss convenience and gives no specinl or exclusive privileges, Instead of crediting a partner with a specified proportion,—ns 3.16 of the firm, and nanother with 1-16, and another 12-16, they simply divido the wholo into so mnny shares of $100 cach, and give to ench n cortificate of the number of sharos ho liolds. Tho gentlemen in the Leginlaturo arguo that it fivomen invest $100,000 in Lusiness ns & compnny, and issuo to them- selves o certificato that oach owns twenty terest of penca ean coma of tkis attemptto treat dircctly wilh a hostile Government which refuses to comply with all the condi- tions impoeed as essontial to tho oponing of the negotintions. Russia will not concedo an jota of tho tremendons advantage which diplomacy has securad ta hor, nnd Tarkes's haughty obatinacy makes war fnesitable. Allliops of & perceful adjnstmont scoms to Liave bean abandoned in Earope. R —————e £04,031,070 DO 195 At the stroko of 12 yosterdny noon the groat army of oceupntion, consisting of twenty man, filed ont of tho South Carolina Btate.1Touse, thus completing the programma of pacification and non-interforence, and leaving the people of that Blate freo to sottle their aMairs in thelr own way,—~snbjeot nlways to the stipuiation by Gov. Hasrrox hat neither violenco nor bloodshed shall re- ault. Mr, Cuamnzaramn's rolinquishmont of Lin claims upon the Gnbernatorial offico leaves the Democratio State Government in undisputed possession, and romoves all danger of a collision, Gov. Hauprox has pledged himself to bo what Gov. CraMnER- 1,415 never was,—tho Governor of tho whole Stato; hins pworn to know neither raco nor color in the administration of law nud justico; and, it ho keeps his word, the country at largs will havo reason to rojofce that the last Lut one of the thornsin the sido of the body politia has been successfully removed. —en A decision of interest aliko to insurers and insured was yesterday rondored by tho Min- nesota Suproms Court in a caso involving tho question of tha application of premism notes toward tho payment of annual pro- miums on life-Insurance policies, Tho Conrt in effect held that the giving and sceopting of notes for the cnsh part of premiums bins tho samo offect ns though the cash had been poid; tint the giving and accopting of o note for the payment of interest on a prior note ns woll ns for tho pnymont of the cnsh prominm constituted tho complete pnyment of tho promium for that | fhares of 81,000 onch in tho' com- year, ond renderod {lie company Hinble for pany, that, in addition to tho prop- the payment of the duo proportion of the osty, Innd, machinory, and mnterials policy. The decision means that when a life-insurance company, having jssued n ten- year mon-forfeitable policy, elects to take a premium note in liou of the cash preminm and tlie intorest on a prior note, tha company | will be held to its agroement with the policy- holder, oven though tho lattor should subse- quently fail either to give a now nole or pay interost or premium in cash. 1 The Legislaturo moy well fear the Qreoks bearing gifts, The County Bostd, shaking in its boots at the wrath of tho people, has passed o resolution **That tho Legislaturo now in session be nnd thoy are horeby re- quested o appoint a special committee, whoso daty it shall be to make a full investi- gation into tho various charges of malfens. anco snd corruption made against tho members of the Doard.” This ia a profier of a barren fig tree. Iunsmnch ns tho Legiala- tare, when it adjonrns, will not meot again for two years, by which timo tho terms of the prosont members of tho Board will have expired, tho jnvesatigation, of courso, will be impotent in rosult, If tho County Board wants to bo investigated, or s at all desirons to got attha opinion of the pooplo, lot ita members resign and thon present thom. solves for ro-clection, This would afford thio thost completo opportunity for a thorough investigation, If thoro are any honest mom- bors, thoy neod not fear it. If thors ars any dishonest ones, thoy would be found out. 'he process wonld very quickly soparate tho sheop from tho goats, Tho plon proposed by tho rosolution, however, is asimpudent o8 it 1s impotent. parchased with tho monoy paid in, there is anothor $100,000 of taxablo property repro- sented by tho cortificates of stock. No argu- ment or renson secms fo be able to rench the minds of tho statesmon who hold this dootrine, oven whon thoy admit that the snmo porsons, if notincorporated, would only bo taxable upon their actual property. It is claimed that the certificates of stock soll at o prominm, and are valuablo far beyond thelr nomiual value; but that is duo exclu- sively to tho skill, personnl character, and brains of those mannging the businces, and not to any intrinsio valuo of tho stock cortifi- cates, or to any superior quality of the tangible property cmployed. The news- papers of Chicago aro frequontly used to illustrato tho operations of thislaw. Tnr Tnrvuxe, becauso published by a company, s nssesscd on nll its property and ita capl. tal stock in addition, though the eapital stock isn moro reprenentation of tho interests of the soveral proprictors in the property of the Company. Tho Z'imes, not owned by s compnny, is taxed ouly on the value of its property, The Journal, a valuablo papor, is taxed only on ita nctual proporty, while tho littlo Post has chiarged up against it s largo sum of capital stock, We know the law has boen decided to bo constitational, but that does not make it just or politic. Itis o law having for its ircet purposo the exclusion ‘of capital and the proventlon of production. Thore may Do in hnlf the towna of this Stato men hav- jug small amounts of eapltal, no one having enough to engage in productive Industry. 1t ten or mora unita their means to purchnse land, erect buildings, buy machinery, em- ploy Iabor and obtain raw materials, and form a company, they become ot onco sub- Ject to doublo taxation. Under the assnmp- tion that cortificates of atock and debts duo by the company ara so much property in ad- Aition to what thay bavo purohased with their capital, thoy become taxable both on the shadow and tho substance, npon thoir property and on thofr title-deeds, on the property they havo bought and on tho votes thoy have given for that property. This kind of legislation is not encouraging to the investmont of monoy In any kind of produc- tivo industry, And yet there aro men in tho Legislnturo who think this kind of leg. ialotion {s tho perfection of wisdom, tho long-songht principlo of just tnxation, and the embodiment of the purest principles of equity. THES SILK-IMPORTING 8WINDLE. Thera inlittlo doubt that there have been glgantia frauds on tho Governmentin tho importationa of mouufactured silks, Ex- SHecrotary Bnistow had fully satisfled him- self of this fact beforo Lis retiroment from tho ‘Trensury, and, having sbout run the whisky deprodators to tho ground, ho was rondy to bogin work on the customs frauds whon lis term of servico was brought to o close by tho joalousles and enmities which his relontless rovenus proscentions had pro- voked, It is tho duty of Secrotary Bues. aan to take up the work of investigation and reform whers Mr, Bmatew was forced to lenve it, and produce, if nccesary, the samo revolution in tho customs service that his predecessor achioved, in interunl rove- nuo matters, If thero have been puy such feauds in tho Importation of silks as recent dovelopments - seem o fndicate with renson. ablo certafnty, thon thero have been similar frauds in other lines of imports, and in the sggrogata the Govornment 4 has been . TAXING CAPITAL STOCK, The Legislatura ia disturbed, and tho halls ring with cloquont donunciation. Tho spe. cial friends of the people are in arms dofend- ing the Commonwenlth agaluat waalth, cap- ital, and savings, 'The old controversy nbaut taxing capital stock aud intangiblo wealth is ngain oround, and tho multitndes of THinois aro called upon to rally ta the common de- fenso ngainst tho common onemy—~—Capital. Undor ‘tha Conatitution of Illinois thore aro no spocinl chartored privileges. Any mnn or number of men who can raise mon- ey enongh to pay tha fea of tha Becrotary of State can become incorporated by any name they pleass, to do any act or carry on any kind of busincss they may chooso, There- fore, & corporation having no privileges that ara not. equally open to any other corpors- tlon certainly possesses no franchise which hoa any speclal value, Yet our Legislature, in 1872, decided that all franchisea must be taxod, and in the Reyenue law of that year it waa 60 provided, Tho process of reaching n valuation was as follows1 Ascertaln the amount of the capital stock; add thereto any additional valuo it may bave; add thoroto tho total indobtednoss of the com- pany; and from the sggregate deduct the asseascd value of tho tangible property of tho company. Put into tho form of fignres, an nsscsament would be after the following fashion : Sum of eapital stack Sum of bonided debt, Othier Indebiednes Valuo of franchise . Asaesacd value of tangible property kY $4,000,000 A, 000, 0 B0, 000 88, 500,000 11,500, 000 blo value af {rauchiles over and VG tangible ProPerty. ... « «v..8% 000,000 Tho compay is thus taxed®on §8,600,000 of property, whils the nsscssod valuo of overything it owns and posscsses is but #3,600,000, In 1873 tho, asscssment for capital and franchise over and above the vuluo of tha tangible property of tho rail- | swindled out of millions of dollam roads in this Btate was about 861,000,000. | anoually which cannot be accurate. That is to say, the railroads were sed | Iy rockoned, While tho whisky men on 801,000,000 of *capital stock " in addi- tian to the value of all tho tangiblo property owned and possessed by thom. “Tho rail. roads resisted this form of taxation, and after soveral years of litigation the courts Linve sustained tha law, In the meantimo, ono-third, computing by mileags, of the ailronds of the Htato havo bocomo bank- qupt; the capital stock has boen awopt ot of oxistence, and the holders of the first- mortgage bonds have boen compolled to tako the roads, thereby blotting out all the other indebtedness. Tho State Doard of Equaliza- tion has, since 1873, been more moderate in thelr valuations; the *‘copital stock" hns exploded on their honds, and last year {the assessment was comparatively reasona- ble. The railroads have ssked that the ex- ceasive nsscasmenta mado in1873, ‘74, aud ‘76 bo sot aside, and that & new assessmont be made for those years, in which case the sov- era) companics propose to pay up all arrear- ages of taxes during sald years. 0f coursa there is on ontbreak of {ndigna- tion. It soems to bo forgotton that it was the extrome severity of the exaction in 1873 which forced the compauies to rosist pny- ment of the tax; it seoms to ba forgotten also that the ‘“capital stock* which in 1873 was valued o coormously has vauishod into wore plundering the Governmont in the West, tho importers wero plundering it in the Enst; ond, as Bt Louls and Chicago snffered tho disgraco of boing the centre of tho Whisky-Ring, New York has boou tho baso of oporations for tho oustoma-thioves, and righteoug Boston may contributo her duo proportion to the awindling. 1 the statoment botrue that firms who hove thofr own factorios in Europe hava Loen able to purchaso in Now York eilks of thoir own ‘manufacturo at lower rates than they thom- gclves could import thom and pay the full duty thereon, there conld bd 1o moro strik- ing jnatonce of the temerity and recklessuess of the customs-ring thieves, It was pre- cisely on s por with seliing whisky below the tax, leaving notbing for the cost of man- facture, which waa done in some cases before the rald on the Ring. It uny not be that some of the importers, jobbers, and mer- chanta dealing fn silks in New York and elsowhere ave so deeply involved in the de. frauding of tho customs revenuo as wero tho manufacturers and wholesalo doalers in whis- ky in the robbing of the internal revenuo, but they have undoubtedly bought snd sold goods which they knew muat be imported on fraudulent invoices snd undervaluations when thoy paidleas for them thun {t would cost mannfacture, Somo of them may havo di- rectly connived ot the frands, aud the others will justify thoirdenting in contraband goods by tho necessities of trada; strict moralists will pot nccept this as an excuse, but it will poss in most commercinl circlea under tho plea that * thoy nli did it.” The smuggling Tins been carriod on moatly by means of falsi-, fled jnvolces, the valuntions being placed from B0 to 40 per cont below the actual cost at tho place of mannfacturo; aa the duty ia ad valorem, tho Government has Deen do. trauded in proportion o the undervaluation. In somo ¢nses wo have no dombt tho igno. ranco and caroleasness of the Cnstom-Touso employes have enabled thin undervaluation to b practiced without official connivance, while in others tho ofiicials hava Loen partien to the frands nnd sharers in the dishonest grofits. Nothing but the most sweeping in. vestigation will rovenl tho relativo dogreo of gilt and incompetonce which have brought about tho present condition, nnd, as the Gaovernment {s equally n sufferer in both cnsos, It will bo n good rulo to mnka a clean mweep of nll through whoso handa the smug- Eled goods hinve hind to pnsa, In this connection waoenll attontion to the dispateh from A, T. Brewant & Co., of New York, rapolling the intimation that thathonse hasin any way connived ot these frauds by purchnsing tholr own goods in Naw York at less than they conld import them direct from their own mills. Wo have no donbt that all the respeatable importing houaes and manufacturers wonld lika to havo this fraud- ulent importation broken up. It ia dis. honest, and it Js injurions to honest and legitimate trade, P ] THE BOUTH PARE INVESTIGATION, While wo have as much reason us over to belfevo that tho investigation into tho mau- ngement of tho South Park was instigatod in tho interest of the Dunnrvy-Coremoun Tinlf-million grab,'the investigators have run across o load which was not anticipated, and wijch may make their work useful to the community, Wo refor b the Omauxcer Bow- £ oh~cks which havo not Leon accounted for. It hasbocomo ovident that Mr. Dow- £x's accounts ns an officer of tho Bonrd hava not beon sottled, and itlooks very much ns though he had drawn moneys belonging {o the Park fuuds, which wero deposited in New York, and used thom as his own, To what oxtent this hns boen done cannot bo stated till the investigation shall have pro. gressed further and the ncconnts thoronghly audited, but it is rumored that from $40,000 to $60,000 havo beon misappropriated in this way by tho President of the Doard. Mr, Bowey. is sald to bo bankrupt, and in that csso ho i o defanler to the nmonnt that ho has taken for his por- sonal nso, and thore is little hope for its re- covery. It ia possiblo that hisaccounts may be mado good, but the ontlook is not flattering. This ravelation is undonbtedly o serious ro- flectlon upon the whole Board. If thare has been nny such defaloation ny would now ap- pear, it must bavqoxtended over a conslder- able spaco of time, aud the other mem. bers of tho Board during the time when tho monoy was being takon from tho Park fund for privata nso are blumewqrthy for not having dotectod or stopped {t. It wika their duty to sea that tho trusc was properly ad- ministored. A defaleation of this kind ralses tho presumption of carclossnons and naglect in the anditing of tha saconnts, for which all membors of the Board areJn part respon. sible. 'Thera nra other raflections upon the Board in the rovolation that mombors draw- {ng salaries, liko Bowxxn and ConNELL, had failed to pay tho tazes on lands thoy owned in the noighborliood of tho ‘Park; in othor words, thoy performod all their functions as tax-cators but nono ns taxpayers. As to tho original protenso for tho inves- tigation, nothing has transpired that can bo roganded In the naturo of proof, nnd thore romaln morely the insinuations and innuon. docs on which the investigation was origin- ally basod, Mosars, Dunsevy and Corxnoun wantod to compel the prosont Board to pay them for cighty nores of submorgod swomp- laud a half-million dollars, and the Board vigorously resisted. Then there was a movo- ment fqr legislativo investigation to show that tho Board had olroady pold excessivo prices for land In which somo of its membera liad a personal intorest,—tho prospeot belng that such o threatened showing would frighten the mombers into & lurmnderv to D. & 0., orlead to o removal of the pres. ot Board and the substitution of other Com- misaloners who would be favorable to tho Dosrevy-Covrisoun half-million swamp-land grab, Bo far, this part of the schemo has failed, 'Thore is not much question that ex. orbitant prices have been pald for somo ploces of prpperty, but this was inevitnblo from the natura of the icgislation crenting the Houth Parks, The poopls of tho West Division were much more fully protocted in this reapoot. The West Park Commission was limited by law to the oxpenditura of $1,260,000 for park lands, nud an [nmense tract of land was taken from Clcoro and added to the city limits within which to locate the three parks, 1t was not possiblo under thewe circum- stances for the land.sharks tQ get upa cor- ner. 'Phoro waa but a cortain amount of monoy to spend, nad tho question waa sl ply whore tho largest amount of desirable landt could bo btalned for it 1If tho land~ ownert {n one soction were unrensonable, the Commissioners could purchasa in anoth- or locality. Instoad of thero being a cornor on the land, n competition to sell was oxoit- e by this arrangoment. But in the case of tho Houth Parks, the boundarics wero fixed in tho Pork ,nct, and no limit put upon tho amount to be expended. The property had to bo bargmned for with owners who knew the Noard was compelled to Lave it, orit was necosanry to reeort to condomnatlon proceed. ings ngainst hard swoaring and packed jurics, wulch proved to bo oven more expensive, Under such circumstancor, it was scarcely possiblo to prevent extortion in some cases, Dat the investigation will have nccom. plished n good work, thongh not intended, i it shell show up on the part of the Presi. dent of the Doard or any other Oommis- uioners any breach of their trust, and fix the responsibility which attaches to the Board 2a » wholo for permitting any defalcation or ather abuses, -Iho publioc demand thst the investigation shall be pushed in this direc- tion and with this purpose. The Duxrxvr. Couestous schems will now: cut but.a small figure in the investigation, snd, no matter what tho result may be, it nced not oventuate in puttiog - money in the pockets of now schemers because former schemors have b:cn successful. Iu the long list of carpet-bag Governors in the Southern Btates, Mr, Cuamsraraix, of Routh Carolins, was the ablest and the best. Ho, from the boginning to the end of his service, did all that he ocould to serve the Stote Lonestly and fairly. Yot be falled. ‘The President haviog withdrawn the troops from the Btate-House at Columbis, Gov. tho peoplo of tho State n frank confession of fun inability to longer keep up the claim to govern tha Stato. Tle mays: By tho recent declaion and actfon of the Prosi- dent of the United Statos, 1 find myscll unable longer to malntaln my afMcial rights with prospect of final snecess, and I hereby annonnco to yonu that 1T am nnwilling to prolung a strugzle which can only bring farther snflering npon those who engago init. Annonncing this cancluelan, it ts my daty 10 say for yon that tha Repnblicans ot South Cara- iina entered npon thelr recent politieal stenzgle for malntenance of thelr political and elvil righte, con- stituting beyond question o large majority of the farefal voters of tha State. Yan allied yourselves withthat palitical party whosa controt and Inaples tog principle has hitherto been civil and palitical freedom of nll men nnder the Constitation and Jaws of onr country, By herbic oftorts and sacrifices, which the jnst verdict of history will rescue from the cowanlly acorn now cast upon them by political. placomen and teaders, yon recarod ths Eiectoral vote of South Catolins for 11avrs and WuRELER In accomplishing this roanlt you became tho victims of overy formof persecution and Injury. From antnentlc evidence it In shown that no less than 100 of your number wote mnrdered becanse thoy were faithtal to thelr principles and exerelred rights rolemnly guarantoed to them by tho matlon, you were denled omployment, delven from your homes, , robbed of the earnings of years of honest Industry, funted for your lives like wild boasts, your families ontraged and scattered, for no offense except your peacetal and fiem determination to oxcrclse yonr political rights. This, from tho most sucoosafnl of theso Btato Govornors, is a painful acknowledg- ment of thele utter fallure and inability to perform the principal dnty davolving on them, which was to protect the unfortn. nato negroes in their lives, families, and proporty. 'The Govornor tells the story of Iast yoar, whon the Btate was largoly ocen. pled with troops, The only offico which tho troops scem to have performed in any of theno States was the personal protection of tha officors of the State and such moral pro- tection as might follow. But tho negroca have never been protested in nny of the States whera troops have been considered nocessary to protoct the Govornments. This s at the ond of twolve yoarsof peaco. In il tho other States from which during Gen. Graxr's torm tho troops woro withdrawn, ponca and compnrative poraonnl wafety has prevailed;and Gov, Omaunentarx frankly nc- Jlnowledgos that in the absonce of national troops ho conld not protect his own official axistence, and with the troops could not far. nish any. more protaction to the colored pao- plo thau ho hins beon able to do in the past. Undor those circumstances he has adopted the wiser and more patriotic course of with. drawing from furthor qontest which could hava no peaceln! or boneficial rosult. THE INDICTMENT AGAINST TURKEY. Now that the penalty of eutragad law and humanity is about to be inflicted upon Tur- koy, it 18 woll to know the naturo of tha in- dictment. In other words, what is the charge against the 'Tarkish Empire, atripped of ol the diplomatic rubbish in which it has beon cnveloped, and froed from tho Eastorn quostion and all other questions with which it hna boon complicated ? Tha chargo, stated in the fowest and sim- plest: words, is that tho Turkish Govern. mont {8 the {ncarnate curse of the exiatonca of the Sclaves, Noman has atated the in. dletment mora cogently and completely thon Mr. GLADsTONE, Or brought tho charges home to the door of the Turk moroe irrefutably. His socond pamphlet, which hna recently ap- peated, omphasizes and brings to closer and more crushing concluaions tho charges of the first, and n glance at its contents will onable tho roader to nppreciats . the rolations of the wrotched Sclaves to their Tuckish butchers, Mr, GuapsTons shows beyond all question that the Bulgarian massacres wero porpatrat- od with tho consont of tho Portoj that they hinve never been regrotted by tho Porto; but that, on tho other hand, thoy have been re- gardod as the rosult of a meritorious policy. 1{e proves thatthe Turkish Govornmont knew of tho Bulgarian mnssaores, which hiad been snd still wero going om, ns ently os tho 14th of last Juno, two wooks before tho matter was brought to the notlce of tho English House of Commons, and knew that the regular os woll as frregular troops wero concerned in them, Notwithstanding this Xnowledge, troops of Dashi-Bazouks wore deliberatoly lovied agaln after that dato, and salate ns Hoptomber the Grand Vizier had tho audacity to assure the English Ambas. sador that ¢ nothing necessitated tho Gov- ernment sonding troops in the direction of Philippopolis,” On the 20th of Septomber the Grand Vizier's falschood waa apparent, and ho sought to cover it up with another, by informing the Ambaseador that a cone siderable number of troops had beon sont to the district In question to put down the law- lessncss of tho irrogulars. Not one of these troops over went thore. On the 20th of the samo month, Mr, Banmvo wrote: 4 No troops bave been sent from Constanti- nople; the 5,000 men who loft last weck, and some of whom were said to be destined to on this town, went on to the sent of war” All this showa that the Porte knew of the Bulgarion massacros before the English, and did nothing to prevent them; that it sont mock Commissioners of Investigation, and thet they came back without making any propor examination; that whon it re- celved urgent calla for troops to quoll tho lawlessness it paid no roganl to them; that when it was finally compelled to beod theso requests, {t professed to send troops to Bul. garia and sont them elsowhero, 3r, Guap- wtone goea still furthor. Ie shows thot when the Porte was pressed to punish tho amthors of those massacres, it screened thom by overy moans in its power, and, so far ns fa known, has uot oxecuted ane of the principals, while some of thom have boen rewarded with high dis. tinctions, It has hanged and punished hun. dreds of Bulgarions for partiopating ina yebellion 8o feebls that It was crushed by a handful of men almost in gdoy, It hes hanged six men and soverely punished twen- ty-one others for the murder of two Consuls at Balonica, but 1t has puuished no one for the murder of 15,000 Bulgarisuns, for the ravishing of Lundrods of women, for the selling of hnndreds into slavery, and for the plundering of thoussnds of homes. On the othier hand, it had full knowledgo of what was golug on, npproved of it, rawarded the authors of it, and hos ever since shiclded them from the wrath of Europs, As the London JSpectator _says, in xpviewing Mr, Grapatosz’s pamphiot: * Here wos an insurrection provoked by centurics of the worst oppression, and so foeble in its char. acter that it would not nave endangered the stability of a Bwiss Cantonj yet it is not merely drowned in blood, explated by the 1urder of a large population, but revenged with every horror which humaa cracliy ond lust could devise 3 and none the lessthe otti- tude assumed towards theso wholesale iniqul- ties by the Government which Europo in- vited into her confrsternity in 1850, 1s one of serious approval and conscious prid, not to ssy patriotio trlumph.” Mr. Grapstons sums up the situation and the remedy in the following forcible manner: 11 the cbild can laugh, 4f the malden can breathe fathor tl the fiold In peace, it fa when, and fo long fiw, the agenta of this Government aro not in vlews and it only proves (hat tyrannons Power has not yet fonnd the alehemy by which it can eanvert haman Nife into one hnzs mass of misery, nniform and unredeemed. What clsilization longa for, what polley, noless than humanity, rouites, I8 thad united Enrope, sconted, aswe have seen, in itn highest, lta united diplomacy, Aball pasn sentenes In Ita might npon a Government which nnites the vicesof the conqueror and tho slave, and which Is lost sltka to truth, to mercy, and to shame, Russin nsked Europo to unito in passing thia rontenco when sho fssued her Protocol. The Continontal Powera lost no time in sign- ing it. Englond, ns Mr. GuLADSTONE snyd, hommed and hawed, but nt Inst signedin a hnlf-heartod way, While it will pass by on tho other sido, like the Levite, without lift- {ng ita hand to allovinta the condition of the bleeding, suffering Sclave, it can at lenat, by the signing of the Protocol, not interfere with the Bamaritan who stands on the fron. tier of Turkey ready to move for hia help. ‘Iho punishiment rests in Rnasla's hands, and, w0 long ns she conflues hersolf atriotly to that punisluncnt, Turkoy has isolated hornelf from any possibility of intervention. That punishment wilt bo complete, and Dulgaria will be avenged. It now seems that Tus Trunuxs: edltor 1 respon- #lblu for the oppusition to the ltoniNsux bill, Let- tersare In posssealon of Me. Kenos and ofhiors, In walch Mr. pir.L, uries the adoption of the minor- ity monstrosity In the election f tho County Com- nmissloners, unntindfal o1 the fact that the Conati- tntinn provents ita spplication Ny making two dine telcts, with ten to Ue elected In the aity and fivo tnlnn \he county vtsude,—Journal's Springfleld 4 The writer of the above {aan ass with o su- perfluous length of exrs. If tho Constitution makes two dletricts of Covk County, how hap- pens it that the first Bourd clected under tho now Consiflution wero—all @fteen—on one ticket, and the whole county treated nsone distrlet? At the second clection, flve members of tho Board were clected on ono ticket by the whole county acting as one district, If It has Just been ddiacovered that the Constitution lunkes two districts of this county, why docs Toninson's present bill divide it nto stz dis- tricts? Romnson's original bill made one dis. trict of the county, although It restricted the residence of the members of tho Board to sub- divisions of tho county. The languago of the Cunstitution is as follows: Ant, 10, 8rc. 7.—Tho connty affaira of Cook county shall bo nianaged by a isoard of Cominis- sionera of iftcen_poreuns, ten of whom shall bo oleeter from the City of Chicago anl five frum the fuwns outmde uf sakd city, in such manner as may b provided by law, ‘This makes it obligatory mercly that the resi- denco of ten shull be In the city and five in the outside towns; bLut they may all bo clceted on a vomuton tickel, Just as was done wnen the Hoard was Orst clected. As to tho letiersto Mr. Kenog and others,” In regard to tho adop- tlon of the minority pritciple, they vontaln pre- clsely the sune suggestion us was mado In editorlals In Tue Trivune, and they wera offcred as a ineaus of overcom- ing partisan resistance of Democrats who ralesd tho objection to the original RopixsoN biil that the Republicans, §f they carrled the county, couldelcet the wholo ifteen Commigsloners, just as they may clect the whole ten ity members under the llscker bill, which Ronixsox has edopted in lieu of his own, {€ they carry thia city next fall, Tz TRiBuNE's suggestion of the minority plan was made solely to mecet tho partisan objcction tothe grab-all plan which the Demojrats bad raised, and which, it was fearcd, would dofcat tho bill in the fcnate. 'Tns TRIDUNT aceepts tho Ilscknr bill if nothing bLetter can bo passcd, but it is far Inferior fn value to the taxvaycrs to the original Ropixsox-general-tcket-hill, with or without the minority principlo at- tached thercto, The corrupt and swindling Ring, which {s robbing the peoplo and misnfane aging public busiucss, was not formed untll after the outslde towus were detachud from the city. The wholu acoundrelism of the present Board dates from, and was vauscd by, such sep- arution. It would have beon worth millions to the county it the orlglngl taw hiad been lot atone. If tho taxpayers of the clty and country towns had continued united, the rascals In the Board could not have been clected. ————— AxNA DickiNsox fs moking a good fight with her crities in New York Clty, with the odds ap- parently anainst her, St spoke Mouday night at tho Eaglo Theatre in vindieation of herself, her ploys, and her acting, 8he dwelt on her hard study and conaclentlous preparation, Bhe also clalined that her crities falsifled when thoy sald that the New York verdlct was unanimous agalnst her. Mlss DickiNsox Ia plucky, but not tucky, of lato years, She was spolled by tou early and sweeping succcss, at o time when the appearancd of women—eapecially of young, striking, and eloquent women—nupon the ros- trum wes @ novelty, Now that uttraction has passed, and women must take thelr chances with the men, It is of no usc to ficht destiny, or to attempt to leap at a bound to tho front rank lo’ a difilenlt professfon, or to fret and arguo be- causc It cannot be done. Miss DICKINSON ap- peared {n tho role of an actress too lato In lifo. 8hio added ta her dlsabllities the gancelt that she entered tho histrionic arcna 0a a tescher and reformer Jnstead of o lcarner. - Bho fails to makoe people ceo the matter quite as she views 1t hersclf. Her “grit,” however, is worthy of commendation. * ———e—— s The Detrolt ot llcs about Tis TRIBUNE In stating that it represented the Journallsts of Chicago as * playlgg it on Brother Mooby, The UesMolues Leglater lles also lu saserting that this paper cneouraged the* Richmond Enguirer to hope that Presitent [{aves would,” in time, do what the Euguirer insisted thut ho ought todo. It Is proper, aa theso aro the first affenacs of the abovepapers in the way specified, to be indulgent. Strong language may hecome necessary after awhile. For the prescnt, it s enough to call attention mildly bub Rrmly to the facts as above act forth. i By o closo vole—50 ta 53—a bill limiting the rate of interest to 8 per cont was dofeated (n the House at Bpringticld, Monday. This foct shows there wiil bu himportant and pressing toples for publie thought and discussion after the Southern question is out of the way, It proves that there arc at least fifty-thrae men In the Lower flouso of the Logialature who ought ta be 1 cted ot once in the rudiments of monctary sclence, It s for thelr immediate “ntercst * ta securo this fostruction, sud at a rate far exceeding 8 per cent per anoum. e ee— Gen. Gnant told the Galena peoplo thst he anjoyed making * perfodical visits” to that vurgh. Ho sald nothing concerning his emo- tlons at the * perlodical™ departures, nor to what cxtent the chianve to make one of these gave zest 1o the “periodical visit.” For its slzc, Qulens has certainly been conspleuous as the * polnt of departure ™ for & large number of very successful men, that * point,” too, belng the Initial one of thelr good fortune, e m—— At the regular Mothodlst preachers’ mecting 10 this city the Rov. Youxma sald: ¢ Methodlst minjytors are not the beat evangeliats or tho best pastors in the world, but they aro the best cornpromise between thetwo.” Whilo it is pain- ful to have cither evangellsts or pastors * com- promised," if it must bo done, twere well to have 1% well done, and the public will he glad to know that the Methodlst Lrethren can do it ncatly and with dispateb. 2 et—— Thero is not much chance of reform in Civil Servico sa long as the New York Custom-House cnables smugglers to steal $20,000,000 in dutics on forelgn fabrics and manufactures, Thiscomes of discrimination agatust Chicago. L ————- One would supposo that, since it has become necessary for the tarpayers of Cook County to furaish funds to sestle the past-duc paper of the Tider-Ocean at s certaln bank i this city, the nomiual managers of that concern would keep alittle quict about Hrai¥a or Bowss. The upon the dark colur of the kettle. Partlenlarg In the abuve matter ean be given it called for, ‘_4__—____—_______________________________——————————————_——‘——“ é“ @ i pires, well knowing that nothing in tho in- | thin air, (nd the Gemand is mnde that the | them to fmport similar goods of thalr own | Crasmrazarx rotired with them, andirsned to | frecly, It thomathier can tend the honae, and 1ho | pot should not indnlgo in tod much criticlsm ¢ Thye Tribuwe, #1We o not leaitate to sav that, If Mr. {gs. 1xa won tho Heamt victory, It wans dearly won, Pretty good for the * Walk-up-Dristow™ qr. an. The Z-0. Is as sirtuous as n woll in sheep's clothing. And yet tho Sherl found nothing but honea nround tho alleged .shicep iwhen hg took the oxecntlon In favor of FAWCErT apg tried to discover a lamb or tivo to put I the ez. commerclal editor's bosom. The price of conl 1 to bo 1 10 cents per ton from and after Juno 1. This ahows how much some men will do for thelr country. Fue. nace Nres will be moro expenslve next rummer than they were Inat winter. The people mus, ot mind, but take thelr rovenge In hoping that thele coal dealers will find, atter death, that thero fs cheaper fucl than that they used to sell on earth. e — e Soma nawepapers aro humorously tryinz to prove that the birth of a son by his wife, who was his step<tanghter; makea Janes Pantoy father of himsell, 'This woulil make “ahouse dislded against itselfy” and it cannot stand, Btitl, the author himself must ho In some dounbt. a8 to the genealogy, tho parentage being Pang- o ono slde and PArT-0N the other. e — e Qov. TiLpex's horscs .ran away with him Monday. hey would have run away with him It lie not Jumped from the earrloge. Tho frequency of these nccldents to the Governor make ft ndvisable that ho chiange his kind ‘of steods. Mr, Hrwire could spare him o span from thoso ‘‘soven mulcs” he bought in Indiana. e et—— While tho £:+0., alies tho . 7\ 0, is fna vir tuous mood against the Staats-Zeltung nnd Mxs- 100, it might 1ot bo amiss € it would denouncs the bribe of $1,200 3t pold to certain Aldermen for fts clectlon as city printer, and while thus employed it might also explain’ tho $8,000 Lriba for the county delinquent-tax Mat. e ee—— “Intestinnl confiiet s what the Journal cails tho Bouth Carolina troublo just onded, It Is g good thing it ended just as the * Old Rellable found out what was the matter. It would have been the death of Bonth Carolina {f the difli culty had run on into warm weather. e ——— ‘The New York Jerald P, I. mon recommends Iis friend, the mule, as ono which ¢ strikes out in lifc both ways at once,” Ho ought to have tcen placed on the Louislana Commlssion for the sake of evennesa. Ao Cnazr-Honse'ssurrender leaves only 8rrTing- Butt, BiLn SrriNcen, and Davip Duptey Fieup omong tho hostiles. Crazr-Honrse eaw the inevitable quicker than the rest of them, ——m—— Tbe pardon by the Presldent of the notorlous counterfciter, ANAPOLEON B, LATTA, confined in tho Wiscoustn Penitentiary, Is bad clemency, It - gives Latra-tude to erlme once more. e p—— e #Can a natfon sin?" This conundrum was discusacd before the Presbytery of Chleago last nizht by Prof, BLaxcianp. 7 tae8, it can; 8to 7, ftcan’t, e ———— The unpleasantly-tioncst men arc gotting back into oftico in many cases. They are, really, our distinguishicd straugers. —e——— a The whisky crouks have not the ability now todo what they did two years—to keep stilly lieisly or otherwisc. e 4 What shall wo do with our barlors?" asks the Boston Globe. Let o littlo son shino fn them. Gen. OnaNT can now beat Gen. ScnExcs, for wherever hie gocs hio *takes all the honora" PERSONAL, There are 700,000 bar-malls In Great Tiritaln With old men it fs not e0 much women and ibe ‘ballot as womien ond the baljet, Mark Twain aud Brot larte bava nished a play called tho ** Hfoathen Chinoa." Mr, Soymonr, tho character-actor nt MeVickor's, sosered ils connactlon with that theatro yosterday. Catfotta, thaidow of Emporor Mazimilian of Mexico, In in Brussols, violently ineano and dylng by inches. 2 Dr. C. A, Jordan, & Mcmphls dentlst, went to an ociliat to have an oya oporatod on, and dled un- derchloroform, . T Misa Apna Dickinson has nnnonnced her Infen- tlon of criticising her critica horeattor avthe closo of her performznces, You may find everythingin a Chicago paper, nne Jesa you look for ft.—New York flerald, And nothing In o New York paper under any clrcame stances, . About the oldest Ntlle gnmo of ‘‘draw' we know of was played when Joshua razod Jericho, And tho fellows of the city wishod they hada't stayed in. —Iawkeys, It 10 sald that tho follow arrested in Arkqusas for old man Bender s an es-member of the Wle- consln Leglalature, Porbaps his habits were so- sponsible for the mistake, Miss Clara Taylar, of Brooklyn, gotuna siile- walk fiietation with Walter Wade, eloped with him 10 Philadelphls, and married hin. Bhe ls worlh $100,000 twher own right. 1t [« ovident that Mr, James Gordon Dennett con- templates a protracted stay in Parls. Ho hav urdered over his horses, carringed, and yacht, and *has made arrangoments to couduct tho Jerald by cipher dispatehes, A Washlngton dispatch to the New York Sun says that Dotoctivo Perkins of the Secret Servico %ias been undor the ordera of Stmon Camwron for »ix treoks hunting up ovidenca sgainst the Wilow Olivar with a viow to breaking hor dowa, Tho Berlin Muscum's lost Vandyck haa boen re- covored. A saddler returned tho picture stating that he had purchased It for sovontocn ond a hsit groachen (113 centa), The anthorities will glvo Bim the promlscd roward when thoy ura cons vinced of the truth of hia atatoment. Thus dace an oxchange grow sympathetic and condalo with the famous songuiress: Patti-Caux, Pattl-Caux; baker's man, Gilve us a vordict as quick s you cang Ttoll it and rol) ft, Ant mark it with P, My deed of scparation from tLe Marquls do G, Poligu-ONicer Blell, o8 the New York forco, js o ohenomonan. Instead of roating around the lapd and clubblag poople to death, he apcnds his time In rescuing drowning citfzens, Last week ho Commisslanors presented bim with a tostimonlol 1o Its bravory, and during the spceches It was sald he ad saved thirteen llves, A Byracuno undertakeradyances the novel sheory that the steady decrese In deaths which has been for xowe thme nuticed throughout the country i duo ta the hard ttmes, Thero {a more furcsin this than st first sppears, sinco peoplo aro now compellcd by force of circumstances to Indulge n fewer Inzurics aud live upon rational dlet. Lena Werner, o Bt, Pan) gir), becoming invalved In financla} cmbarrassments, loft that clty sud walked to Silwaukee, Sho was twolve days and nigits on tho road, and slept ip the flelds and by the railroad track, ller foud was limited to crackert, and, on hor arzival at Alllwaukeo, hor clothiug and shoes woro in shreds and sho was nearly crazy with bunger. . A Milwoukea man, sged 20, and named Geargo 2. Phillips, suflered soverely from some pussliog ailment, which nobody spparently could under- stand or cure. A lady pbysician was called in, and gave bim sn ewmctic, when up came & dead snake cighteen Inches long. This lavouched for bys Milwaukeesn whore espsrlenco with snakes eo® titles him to some consideration. 1 1874, Richoles Marahal), of Oysics Bay, Los§ Teland, saw Donsldson's balloon passing over bie farm. | $8e insisted that it was the devil, and from {hat bour his resson baw nevor returned, Twico ho trled to commlit wuicide and foiled, snd llullf_ o hung himsclf and was found atter twolye Loure suspension. 1iis will {s beforo the Busrogate now, and is contested on tho ground of the testatord fosanity, Tn the spring tho gentle sero- Naders tinkle thelr gultars, And the violins make merry Musc underneath the stars; Then, nest day, the geatlo acre- Naders not 20 jolly sro— For a fellow can't be mesry Playing on tho soft catersh! —Lebanon Heratd,