Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1877, Page 4

'@Iw Tribane, TERMS OF SURBSCRIPTION, BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREFAID AT TINIS OFFICE. p . @un #3853 838 Oneeopy, per year. Clubof ten.,. Clubof tweit TPotage prepatd. Epecimen coples sent fres, ‘Topreveat delay and mistakes, be sure and give Poste Offce sddress in full, Including State and County, Ltemittances may he made efther by draft, oxpress, Post-0fice order, o In registered letters, st oor sk, TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dally, deltvcred, Sunday excented, 33 cents per week, Datly, delivered, Bunday Inclnded, 30 cents per week Aditress THE TRINUNE COMPANT, Corner Madiron and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, Il ————— e TRIBUNE BUILDING DIRECTORY, 5% Tioome, Occupants, 1, CRARTER OAK LIFE (Insurance Dep't) 2 TO RENT. 2, QUSTIN & WALLACE. J, T. DALE. 4. DUERER WATCII-CASE MAN'F'G CO. 5. ODDINS & APPLETON, C. TO RENT. 7. RENRY LURDKRR 8. WM. C. DOW, A.J, BROWN. W, ROBDINS, 9, WRIONT & TYRRELL, - 10 CHARTER OAK LIFE (Lon Dep't,) 8113, FAINCHILD & DLACKMAN, * 24-13. JAMRS MORGAN, R. W. 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OHIOAGO MARKET SUMMARY. The Chicago produce markets wero generally stronger yesterday, breadstuffs being oxcited and provisions tame. Mees pork closed 16@20c per brl higher, at $14.27% for Aprii snd $14,36 for May. Lard closed 10c per 100 Rs higher, at $0.45@0.47% for April snd $0.52)4 for May. were firmer, at 4%c for loovs shoulders, 7%¢ short ribs, and 7Xc for do short clears. Highwines wero firm, st $1.03 per galion. Flour was moro active and firmer, Wheat closed Xc higher, at §1.37% for April and S1.41% for May, Corn closed at 1%c higher, at42%¢ for Aoril and 45)c for May. Oata cl 3¢ batter, at G4ifc for April and 3743¢ for May, Ryo was higher, at 7033@73c. DBarley was firm, at Lo for Aprll or regular, Hogs were moderately activa and closed strung, ot $3,10@5.50 for poor to cholce, Cattle were actlve npd frm, sclling at $3.25@3. 75 for puor to ehaice. Bheep were unchanged, One hnndred dollars In gold would buy $105.75 in greenbacks al the close, chinngo yesterday closed at 943, In the distribution of calamitios Chicago hosnot been left wholly free. Alorrerris to como here and take charge of our Custom- Ilouso construction, An awful uncertainty yet surrounds the question of tho loss of life at the burning of the Southern Hotel,—an uncertainty whether the number of blackened corpses lying buried under the ruins will be 60, 100, or 200. The accounts forwarded Dy tolegraph this morn. ing oro hopetul in tono, and hold ont the blessod chance for hope that the loss of lifo Lina been over-atated, ot his residence in this city early yesterday morning, the profossion of medicine and surgory hina lost one of its most distinguished membens, and Chicago a groat physician and o valunblo citizen, An interesting marrativo of alifa full of laborin tho interest of sclonce and in Lohalf of suffering humanity s given in our columns clsewhora this morning. Senntors Davis and Oorzsny happened in ot the Legislature yestorday, and both made specohes, What Jndge Davis said was brief, to the point, nnd admirably eoxpressive of tho fact that Illinois will be ropresented in the United Btates Sonate ot least in part by broad statesmanship; what Mr, Oovrxspy camo very near saying, but stopped barely in timo to avoid gotting tangled, was not ox- actly of the same description, Bat it might have beon worso, ¥ Gov. Ovrrom has oxccuted an adroit flank movement in the matter of nominations for Touitentiary Commissionera whercby the opposition mafority in the Benate ia both Jguored and circunvented. Upon thestrongth of an opinfon by the Attorney-General that the Senato's confirmation of thess nomine. tions Is not an essontial requisite, the Gov. eruor has quietly appointed tho two Joneses oud Mr, Deraxey, his previous nominecs, and they will be the Peniteutiary Cowmmis. sloners, ¢ A prodigious tumble in Northwestern com. mon and preferred, and the sympathetio do- cline of stock in one way and another ger- nane to theso securities, oreated something of & pauio on the New York Stock Exchaige yesterday, It appoars, howover, that the priucipal domage was sustained by the class which is entitled to and will receive the least symputhy or consideration—the speculators; whilo legitimate investors escaped unhurt, It may easily bappon that such panics os these prove to bo blossings in disgulse. Assistant-Secretary Frescm heas prepared o report on the question of the Government's obligation in the matter of immuanlty from civil prosecution toward the Chicago dis. tillers known as ‘“the first batch,” who pleaded guilty under & promise of immuaity from criminal panishment, and, as they clsim, from civil actious also. 3Ir. Fazxci, to whom the duty of investigating this yuestion was nssigned by Becretary Smrn. N, reports that tho agrcement entered futo between the local counsel in Obicago aad the indicted ringsters did mot includo the pledge of rolesse from the cloims of the Government for civil indewnity, and in support of this view tho Ausistant-Bocrotary is understood to cite the tostimony of ex-Holicitor Wrrsox and ex-Bupervisor Matrnews, agd a hitherto nnpublished letter of Becretary Bnistow,— all coneunrring in support of the position that nothing in the agreement of Messrs. Banas, Dextem, Aver, and Boutzrux with *the first batoh " commita the Government to the granting of civil immunity, It will devolve upon Becretary Bneruan to determino the merits of the question ont of the conflicting ovidonce and opinion of tho varions parties, and upon that decision the whole subject rests, An examination of the sub-structare of the cnb, which is tho source of Ohicago's water. supply, took place yesterday under the supor- vision of Mayor Heats, City Engineer Cuzs- Brovat, the Finance Committes, Comptrols lor FanwrLy, and Gen. Boor 8wrrn, tho lat- tor being one of the Board of Engincers ap- pointed by the Governiment to examins tho foundations of the Chicago Custom. House. A thorough scrutiny of the submerged portion of tho erib by two professional divers revoaled the gratifying fact that the action of the waves and fco Lias not in tho slightest degreo affected the stability or impaired the solidity of the foundation walls, but that, on tho contrary, everything i8 in perfect condition, with no evidences whatever of decay or impairmont that cannot be oasily made good s occasion requires. An elaborate report on the siate of the crib ‘will shortly be made by Gen. Burrn, and it will donbtless put an end to all misgivings as to Ohicago's water-supply. Mr, Swmrrm, the Representative from the Becond District in the Legislaturs, has cooked up a scheme intended to defeat the County Commissioners’ bill. He proposes that the bill abolishing the present Board and provid- ing for an annusl election shall bo eubmitted to a vote of the people at o special election 1o be held in June next, at which time they shall also vote upon the question whether the Commissioners shall bo elected on the ml- nority plan or not. Mr, Barrn says this bill will bo satisfactory to the Democracy. Wo do not understand that there is any differ- once of opinion in this county betweon Dem- ocrats and Republicans on this question. 'The question is ono of public robbery; on tho one sida is overy honest .Democrat and TRepablican, and on the other tho Commis- sioners and the dishonest plunderors. Tho Iatter have at their command the whole army of thieves and ballot-box stuff- ers, and can carry any special eclection which may be held in' this county, Alr, Sasr knows this, for ho has seen it done rapoatedly, The Dotocratic proporty-hold- ors of this city are robbed just ns are the Re- publicans, and every man who pays a dollar of taxes prays the Legislature to pass the bill that will Icgislata these men out of office, and which will onablo the peoplo to protect themselves. To submit such a bill to » popu- lar vote, and to havo the form of an election, with the 150 precincts, jndges, and clerks, is an absurdity which fow would have expected of Mr, Surra, unless his purpose is to pro. tect tho ofticial thioves. Lot us have dr Hicxey's bill, or Mr. Ronivsox’s bill, or any bill' that deals with this corrupt Board squarely, directly, nnd efiiclently. THE ST, LOUIS HORROR. Tha terrible detalls of the firo at §t. Louis on Wodnesday morning aro presented elso- where. Liko the lirookiyn Theatro calamity, the first reports wore not exaggerated; on the other hand, they failed to convoy any- thing like the full oxtout of this fearful dis. aster, The Sounthern Hotol was ono of the most olegant hostelries in that city,—na build. ing six storios in height, not so larga as our Palmer or Grand Pacifio, but larger than the Sharman or Tromont Houses. It was crowd- ed with guests and boarders on all ita floors, littlo dreaming of daoger, and ns unaware of any precoutions against’ danger apparently as tho proprietors themselves, The fire broko out in the dead of night, when the oc~ oupants woro nslecp, ‘There wnd no warning of danger, They woke to find the fire all about them, burning in the very heart of the liouse, Thoss below had time to escape. Most of those nbove must have perished cither by the horrible death of burning or by tho kinder Iate of smothering, aud some by their terrible loaps from windows, The fire, 80 far as can be sscertained, originated in the basemont storage-room, whence, by the convoniont olevator, acting as a flue, the flomes wero quickly sucked up to the fifth and sixth floors, and sproad with in- concelvable rapidity, cotting offtho wretched boardors and employes, who principally oc. cupied those floors, from nny cscape excopt the hazardous hopo of life in jumping from that great height to the pavements below, 1t is nlmost incomprehiensible that the watch« mon of the houso did not give an alarm soonor, Tho first notice the inmnates seom to have had was from the fire itsolf, and when the alarm was given to the Fire De. partment, it arrived upon the spot only to find the entire npper portion of the struc. tare in flames and tho whole building doom. od to destruction. In less than an honr's time tho roof had fallen fn, and the hotel was virtually in rulns,” ‘Tho losa of lifo nt this writing is placed at 120, but it will prob. ably exceed that, as there woro at least 200 servants and employes of the house who lodged upon the upper floor, and but fow if any of thom could bave escoped. With reganl to the commoncoment of the firo, It =mcems as if thero must be n very sorious responsibility, After it had shot up through the elovator, it is easy. to comprohend ita rapld spread, but it is not 50 easy to understand how it could have gained such hendway in the stornge.room ns to endanger the whole building, and render its destruction cortain beforo any warning was glven. Ag-to the solidity of its con- structlon we aro not informed, but the awful rapidity with which it was consunmed would fudicats ihat it was littlo elvo than a b tinder.box, ‘The firo was discovered at 1 8. 1., Bomo accounts saylng 1:43, At 2:15 tho ontiro roof was in flames. At 2:45 the roof and walls had fallen, and the building waus virtually dostroyed, In about an hours timo tho largest hotel fu 8t, Louls wasin ruing, Agaln, the accountsnako no montion of any precantions against fira in the way of extinguishers,, buckets, lose, stand-pipes, wmercurial indicators, or apy of the modern appliances which are now in use in large buildings, and that thero were no wall. 1adders is shown by the fact that the viclims either had to perish in the flames or hurl themselves out of tho windows, Withthis contingency apparent at a glance, -1t is o littlo remarkablo that the firemen and suthoritles did not fill the sidewalks aud street below the windows with materdal to break the fall of the unfortunstes. Hay, straw, wattreases, bedding, pillows, clothing, and other waterial of this description might have been procured in abundance ina very fow winutes and piled up to a sufficient heiglt to have saved many lives. By jump. iug upon these iuitoad 0! uvow the pave- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1577 ments, oven though limbs might have been broken, undonbtedly many more lives might have been saved. It Is evident that tho rosponsibility for this awful calamity docs not rest nlone with an overraling Providence, but that there was human neglect, want of prompiness, want of life-saving appliances, and other deficiencies that should not have oxisted ina great hotel housing so many people. The calamity has a lesson of warn- ing to our own hotel proprietors and mana- gers. Any one of our hotels is just as liable to take fire as the Southern Hotel. Are they 80 conatructed as to resist fira? Are they provided with sppliances to ald the sscape of guests? Is thero suffioient discipline among the employes ? Is the Fire Department suffi- clently provided with Indders nnd firc-cacapes to ronch the top storiesof our hotels? There is no better time to answer these questions than tho present, If there are such defects 08 existed in the Bouthern Hotel, thero is no bettor time than now to remedy them. AN IMPOSSIBLE PROFPOSITION. There is nclass of men in the religious world who are quite unconscious of the fact, spparent onough to the community atlarge, that they have outlived their proper age by & genoration or even by a century. The world, in the progress of the race, has advanced be- yond their idoas, and can no more return to them than a man can go back to his cradle. Bat these good men, intent upon A given project, which is the securing of somo frag- ment of tha wreok of old, outworn institu. tions, comsider the world's advanco o de- generncy, and make a fussy ado and pother over the evil timos upon which they havo fallen. If ome goes to Beotland, he finds evon now representatives of the ancient Cov- onanters, who bawail the changea which have taken place since tho days wheh the Scotch monarch, nobility, and peopla were sworn upon the Bible to uphold true.blno Presby- terianism. Pass into England, aud n host of respectable clergymen will assure you that the Establishmoent is the necessary bulwark against' Romanism and Infidelity, and that those who seek its overthrow, whother they know it or not, are tho cnemics of Chris- tianity. We have a similar set of ressoners and alarmists in this conntry ; and they have just beon holding & Convention in this city which they called a * National Reform Con- vention,” The object was to insist upon re- taining the compulsory roading of the Bible in the public schools, which all classes of roliglonists are aliko taxed to support; to onforce ‘ Babbath laws " as religions cnsot. ments; and to socure an amendment of the Constitution of the United Statea which shall distinctly make Christianity the recog- nized legal roligion of the land, and certain of ita supposed Institutions enforcable by law, Those in attendanca were persons of respact- ability end genera! intelligence, including sevoral ministers ominont for plety and zesl, The difficulty is, that theso painstfking gontlemen do not soe that their proposal is a5 hopoless of succesa as would be a sugges- tion tozemove tho seat of Government to Alnsks, The American pooplo have no idea, at the beginning of tho second century of tho Constitution, of making a fundamental chango for the worse, ‘Tho Constitution now rests upon a firm secular basis, adopted not in any contempt of religion whatsoover, but a5 wisely leaving religious matters to ench citizon's consclentious convictions, while oqually protecting oll in their civil in. tercsts, Here are men differing wide- ly o3 to thewr theology, but agroe- ing in their ides of eivil government 048 common nocesalty, What abaurdity it ia that they cannot properly, or withont im- ploty, organiza civilly, unless thoy put into tho National Constitution somathing about the rellgious points on which they are dis- agroed !. Suroly it is sufficiont that funda. mental moralsare acknowledged as nocossary to civil socioty, and as included in all theol- ogies, nnd that equal protection s insured to the various religlous sects. Flaving given happy shelter for a century to men of every theological bolief under their Constitution, the American people will never adopt an amondment which will make it ovor to a par- ticular religion, and will rander it impossible for thousands of intelligent, industrious, taxpoying, and law-abiding citizens to take oath in its support. Ravolutions do not work baokward on such points. Al the ten. dencies of tho times aro to the contrary ; and it would bo strange, indoed, justas Europe is preparing to burst tho fetters of Church and State, were America to tako antep (o ward occloslastioizing its Constitution in tha intorest of n part of its people. Tho managers of this two days’ Convention Just closed may seo evidence of tho imprac. ticablo uature of their proposal in the slim attendance upon its sessions. Nobody but thowmselves foels any doop nterest if the ob- jeet. It is sufilclently casy to oblaln signa. tures to a call for’ such a gathering, worded plously and pleading frantically for rotaining thie Bible in the public schools, Indeod, not a fow ministers and prominent taymen dis. liko to decline to sign, for foar they will be misrepresonted by the iguorantly zealous or by tho plously unscrupulous ss being ene. wles of tho Biblo, or as being loagued with tho Romanista and infldels.. But they do not care to ttend or indorse what s said. The proposition to make & roligious nmendment to the Conatitution moots with opposition fromn the majority of Ohristian poople, . First of ull, thoy sco that the project is hopeless, and they do not care to waste Lreath and offort on an fmpracticable schemno, Next, thoy find no special evils which are duo to tho presont relation of the! Coustitution to the subjoct of religion. The country has prospered and all the churchos have enjoyed unmolostod liborty, belng constrained in tholr public prayers weekly to thank Goo that in this laud thero s *‘none to molest or to imake afraid.” 'Then, again, they are suspicious of the principla {ovolved in- the fuiplication that it is part of the funotion of civil gov- ernment to judge betweon religions, aud to give logal indorsoment to' one faith rather than another, If it hed the righ¢ to put Christianity rother than Judsism or Ration. allsm into the Oonstitution, why, ot the dictate of the requisite majority, may it not iusert Protestantiam rather than Romanism, or Romanisia rather than Protostantism? It i safor to avoid the dangerous principle than to begin to act upen it. We bave no doubt that, after a froe and full discusslon, it the proposition were left to be decided at the polls by the so-called “ evangelical " Christions alome, it would Le buned out o? sight beneath an adverse ma. Jjonty.. Sensible men are not going to open auch & door into strife sand confusion and bad focling. One reason why no more ex- citement exists over the mattor is, that fow Layo any fuith that the movement will make the least hesdway; and they are amused rather than slarmed when the zealots gather iu & convention onco a year, make their storcotyped spoechos, and poss their sound. ing resolutions. Were there any danger that the object would seouro favorable attention in Congress, and bo submitted for consideration tothe Btatos, there wonld be witnessed an up- rising of intelligant ministers and laymen, of thoughtfnl civilians and statesmon, to de. nounco the scheme, which would bo an in. structive sight to Enrope and a lesson to amall agitators for all time to come. Tho tronble ia that those agitators are now in a logical difficulty, Tho very man who ob- tained tho signatures to tho call for this misnamed *Reform Convention™ admitted, while on hia ronnds, that, witih the Constitu. tion as it is, the argument of thoss who .wonld omit religious excrcises in the public schools was impragnablo. As neither the National nor the Btato Constitution reccg- nizes Christianily as tho only legal religion, thero is nothing bnt former custom to plesd in bohalf of compulsory publio rendings, and that {s found to be a less and losa eatisfac- tory nrgument in the fnce of the equal rights of all citizens In the publio schools, irre- spective of thelr religious opinions. . And so this offort, anre to ba abortive, is made to se- curo & religions nmendment to the funda. mental law of tho nation, Tho proposition itaelf is for its authors 4 fatal admission. THE VAGRART ACTS, There are two little Lills before the Ilinois Logislature concerning tho disposition of vagabonds which should be passed before thero is any talk of adjournment. One, in- troduced by Messrs, Crooxen and Easroy, is for the banefit of the citics mainly, and bas advanced ns far o8 the third reading in the Houso. Tha other applies the terms of this bill to the tramps that are infesting the rural districts, DBoth are of the greatest impor- tance to tho peaco and welfaro of the State. The bill introduced by Mossre. OrooxEen and Eastox ig o sort of professional criminals' sact,” and includes all persons who are known to be thieves, Lurglars, or pickpockets, cither by thoir own confession or otherwise, or by having been convicted of any crime punishable by imprisonment in the Btate Prison or Houso of Correction. The bill provides that when such persons aro found without Iawful means of gup- port and prowling about cities, they may bo prosecnted summarily, arrested, and brought beforo tho nearest Justico of tho Peaco or Police Justice, nnd tried within thirty-six hours after the arrest. If found guilty na a vagrant, the person may be com- mitted to jail or the bridowell for a term of not less than ton days nor more than six months, or fined not more than $100, and, in default of tha poyment thorcof, sentonced to imprisonment. It is also required that tho Justice shall make a full record of each of these cases, and a mittimua which shall bo authority for the officers to conflno the prisoner for tho term of his sontonce, This law cuts off tho delays incident to changing of vonue from one Justice to anotherand oppenls on straw bail, Under it, it is be. lieved tant the police-officers will bo able to run the well-known thioves and confidence men out of the city or keop them locked up, whilo, ns tho law now stands, the criminals walk tho streets boldly and laugh at the polico so long ns they do mnot actu. ally catch the thieves in pockot-picking or house-breaking. The proposed Iaw is almost casential to the publio safoty of Chi- eago, and will, wo have no doubt, prove of gront Lenefit to tho other cities in tho Btate. Mr. Deuznr’s law s intended to reach the trampn who will set out on thelr marauding tour with falr wenther and good walking, and plunder the farmn.houses ns they go along. It roaches all persons * wandering abruad and begging,” those who are not able to givo a good nccount of themselves and having no lawful meany of support, and provides that complalnts may bo wade befors Justices of the Pence, warrants issucd for nrrest, and the tramps, upon conviction, committed to the work-houso in very much tho same way ns in tho proposed Vagrant not. It was by means of alawof this kind and its strict enforcemont that some of the New England States wero oblo te induce s Inrgo army of tramps **to go Weat"; per- haps in the eame manner they may be in. duced to carry the advice further aud still go West. Doth theso laws should be hurried up, 80 thero may be no danger of their fail- ing for lack of time. THE NEW OIVIL-SERVICE RULES, Tho Presidont has stated his purposa to make a roform of the Civil Bervice a leading mensuro of his Administration, IHe has be- gun tho practiesl executlon of this policy by arresting tho usnal wholesalo removal of por- sona in offico nnd the appointment of thoir succossors on {ho nomination of Benators and Ropresontatives in Congress, Mr, Tiz- nex, inhis lottor accopting the nomination, suggoated that, if eleoted, ho would reform tho servico by romoving all the incumbents, ond, aftor filling the vacancies, the newly. appointod ofticors could bo gradually woeded out and eventually an honest aud competent forco could bo obtained! Gen, Havis, how- over, had a different plan, He propowed to put asido the system by which appointments have beon made during tho Inst forty.oight years, and to practice n thorongh woading out of the forconow in oftico, discontinuing all unnecesssry offices, dismissing the in. compotout and dishoncst, and filling their places with inen known before sppointment to bo compatont for the duties thoy are to perform, Gov. Hayes, however, whon in July lnst he wrote Lis lotter of accoptance, oud in Murch lust when he rend s innugural address, know that the cause of tho cxisting dishionedty and incompotency of the Civil Bervico was dus to tho manner in which sppointments wero made; and that there could be no hope for reform until that manner of appolutwent was wholly Lroken up and a new system fu- troduced. Just now there is a shout of ex- ultation from certain men who are in offlce, aud who, knowing tho corrupt maun. ner of their appointment, claim that the President is entitled to national gratitude be. cause he will not disturb the faitbful who are in the enfoymont of their pensions from the Public Treasury, ‘Thesy menare, in their zoolous admiration of the Prosident, insti. tuting comparisons between this proceeding on his part ond that existing in England, and partially proposed in this country, of baviog men oxamined as to thelr fitness for holding their offices. The objocfing is made that to fix a certain educational staudard as a requisite for appolotment to office is to creato an - aristocracy which will exclude the sons of toil fromany share in the honors or patfonage of tho Government. [ ‘This {s very absurd, and at the same time willfully misunderstands tho policy warked ont by President Haves. The Civil Bervico is demornlized from top to toe. For many years the Presidont has boen practically de- privedot his authority tomake sppointments, ‘I'hat power has boen usurped by mombers of Congress, and especially by Sonators. Re- movals are demanded and appointments re- quired by Senators as a matter of right. ‘I'hese Benators make sppointments to pro. mote their personal ends. ‘They are candi- datos for re.election, and to promote that elaction thoy parcel out tho Marshals, Col loctors, Postmnsters, Appraisers, Gaugers, and potty clerka among those who will pack cancuses, bulldoza conventions, and gener- ally do all manner of work to have their em- ployer elected. The main duty of all Foderal officers is to have tho Sonator or Rapressnta- tivo in Congroas to whom they owe their places ro-clocted, 'resorting to whatover mosns may .ba necessary to accom- plish that end. The President and all conaidorations’ of public service are ignored, and . appointments are made ex- clusively to purchase caucna aid in tho per. sonal service of the member of Congress. It has not been a yoar ainco the President and Becrotary of tho Treasury made an ap- pointmont of an officer in this State, and wera compelled to withdraw it, the Senator notifying the Prosident thal no person not selected by the Banator would bo confirmed by the Senate. 'The Senators, combining to defend their prerogativo, put the President at deflance in o matter where by the Con- siitution ho {a given exclusively the appoint. ing power. Evon cases havo ocourred .whers peraons dismissed by the Government have, through Sonatorial dictation, Leen thrust back into office in tho lnst Loum of an ex- piring Administration, that thoy may claim protection under the Tonure.of-Offica act. The - President, however, proposes. to reach nll this c¢lass, He has begun in the Now York Custom.House, and discovered that n long list of heavily-paid officials ara merely penaionors on tlko Governmont, Instead of performing dutles ot the Custom-House, they are practicing attornoys, merchants, brokers, oditors of bankrupt newspapers, besidea being political strikers’; all thoso the Prosident will have dismissed, and if, aa is likely, the offices are useless, the offices will bo abolished. It is doveloped also that so utterly rotten is the servicesin that Custom-House that smuggling has be- come an establishied trade, and the millions of public revenuo atolon and divided among the officials largely oxceed the robbories of the Whisky-King in its most golden days, The result will probably be the reduction of the number of officors one-third; tho dis- missal of mosttof the other officers; the breaking up of the amuggling business, and. an honest collection of the ravenus., It due course of time the aervice in oll parts of tho conatry will be purified, and the relica of the Sonatorial system of appointment of polit- jeal bummors will bo cast out of the service they have corrupted and disgraced. The Presidont has by no means given to mon in offica a pardon and amnesty for the past ; Lo will in due time overhaul the whole serv- ice, and where he finds men in offico holding place hecauss of past personal servica to somo partisan chief, or who, having becomo bankrupt trying to run some bankrupt per- sonal organ, has been pensioned on tho pub. lie, it is hikely tho new Civil-Sorvice rules will lead to some vacancies. It ia n eafo estimato that if the Civil Bervico wero emptiod of the incompotonts and the dishonest, and of those appointed £8 porsonal sorvitors of Benators and Repro- sontatives in Cougross, the publlo service conld be botter and far more officiently per formed with ono-third less of officers and at proportionally lesa cost. When tho President takes up the matter of oppointments to fill vacancies, and when Congressional cortificates are no longer ac- cepted as flnal, it Is probable that the new rules will require that the npplicants can read and writo ; that thoy can spell correotly and write intelligibly ; thnt they have a suf- ficlent knowledge of arithmatic and perhaps of geography ; that they .know how many months there are in s year and doys in a week ; that {f thoy are to appralse silk and woolen, that they aro ablo to know silk and woolon when they sco and handlo thom ; and that thoy know and can do all this without having a doputy to know and do it for them, Ignorance, want of education, and jncom. petency in the publio service are not to bo tolerated becansa tho President has said that lie will not make removals ot the request of Congressmen, nor until he s ready to im. prove the whole system by a general exclu. sion of all that is ovil, and the establishment of o now plan of appointment, e People who think the Indians are a down- trodden people should bave seen the Widow Pxa-wan-Asu-xuM step Into the United States Court in this city the other day, aud in genuine guttoral ask justice. The *vidder" was the wife of the late lamented Mr. Asir-kuit, of the Pottawotainie Nation. Newas aMsjor-General, or something of the kind, Ho was the father of Pasi1ao, and he of At¥-was-su aud QUA-KU. Bo there 1a conslderable left of Gen. Asu-gus, and it comen into court for the purpose of auste fug Tox Hovxx,Jonx C. Haixzs, C, T. Bowey, and others from cortaln property alleged to be- longto Widow Pra-wa,etc.,and herroyal house. Oue should bave scen tho widow as she drew near Judge DRuaMoND, dressed fu the hablla- wents sulted to Lor rank, viz.; an aged horse- blanket, o pale of buffalo-legiins, tanned with the skin on; moccasing made from deer-skin and laced with the sinows of the same animal; ualr ornswented with o row of sllver colns, taperivg from a dollar to a threccent plece, and besutifully larded with the ol of the bear. Her fine callo dress was cut decolldts at both ends, aud her cars wero adorued and extended by heavy cle- clets of eflver. Thus stood the Widow Pxa- WAN-ASI-RUM, @ pecr, and uot avassal., Erect 13 o plne fu tho forust, her oye flashiug fire, her milen dignificd and finm, her attitudo as defiant us that of Cuanuey WiLsox when declining to apolugize to An Taxron. Crouching, as it were, fn Ler prescnce, stuod the white trash who owned o jolnt Interest in her clalm to a portlon of the land of her fatbiers, 8hu towered above them Jko a cedar upon Lebanon, orlikea triton smong winnows. Cousidered asu widow, sho way 4 success; lu regard to recovering the frace tion of the hunting-ground of her fathers at present fncorporated In a portion of Bouth Chleago, her chauces aro before the Court. But 10 stter how that may ve, the city will not soon forget the visit of Mrs, Pxa-wan, ete. ‘Tho aroma of hier presence will not depart nearly 50 8000 28 shio has doneg nor the vision of her rare lcuuty, tollet, and- graces lightly full from the wncwmory of the Court or the corpora. tlon, Iler presence sud cordial veception wil} at least convince the remotest of the nobls race ot aborigines that there Is yct one city whers their duughters may appear and ask for thelr rights, This 14 a concession not to bo lightly ro- garded, whether they get thews or not. ———— . The people of Boston, notwithstanding their shabby treatment of Esutpove, are uot slow in cncouraging thelr honie taleat, and are already commenciug to show thelr fntereat In tho forth- cowing fourth tricnnfal festival of the Handel and Haydn Boclety In o manner that will mect with the spproval even of WiLLiax Liorn Gaurison. It will bo s notable fostival, com- menciug on the 16th of May and closing on the 20th, Tho acherp of the programmes lncludes Nicorav's ¢ Fest Overture and Chorus,” Hav- Dx's “Bpring" frowm the ‘Seasons,” Mane DELasOuN's Ninety-8{th Pualm, MancEiia's Eighteeuth Psalm, Parker’s * Redewption Hywy," sclections from Bacu's *Christinas Oratorio,” HiLLun's “Bong of Victory,” Lan- DEL'S oratorioa of “8amson'’ and “lsrsel In Egypt,” and 8a1rSaxNs' Christmas cautats, “NooL" In the production vf thess great works the Soclety will turn out about 600 volces, and & very Jarge orchestrs, with CARL Zzrranx for lender and Mr. Lang for organ- {st. The sololsts arc CLARA Lourss Kri.ro000, Axmix Loursa Cary, Emsa C. Trunsny, Ma- TuiLpr Priuniees, Cuarnes R, Apaus, Jodx F. Wixcn, Wittuan J. Wixcr, and M. W, Wmnitnsy. Boston concert-goers are to be envl:d. W e e PACKARD eats, drinks, and slecps in his State- flouse, formerly the Bt. Louis Hotel. e went to New Orleans in 1862, and has a family vault in the cemetery already ' venerabio fu ita ap- pearance, where children, native to Loutslans, are burled, He {s not an unpopular carpet- bagger, and {s sald to hava the personal respect of oven his political opponents. And yot it will hardly do to keep the country in hot water to save him the trouble of changing the place whera he cats, drinks, and sleeps. The negro will hardly be benefited by his remalning ot the 8t. Louls Ilote, unless ho can command s force of cnourh atrength to tako carc of them and himaelf too, ———— InsufMclent appropriations have left the conn- try without armament for fts sea-const defenses, without small arms enough to equip 50,000 men, and without means to prosecuto experiments in the Ordnance Department. The Injurfous par simony of a Democratic Congress proves to be a blow at our resources for protection which no other nation in the world could quietly endure, In attemptiog to cut the claws of a Republican Adninlatration, the Opposition has amputated {ts tingors of war and paralyzad the arm of self- defenso. — The next thing will be a chargo by the 8pring- field Journal that Tne Trinune helped the Methodist local preacher who 8o easily *‘scooped " Col. PriLLirs out of the Post-Oflice inthat city, It must make the “gorge" of the ! Colonel” riso to be bonneed by a mere retired soldler in the army of the Lord, Tax Tripung can bear considerable scolding from the Journal when it refiects that its proprictor is atill smarting under the igneminy of that de- feat, Itisbad to bo beaten; ftis worso to be laughed ot about it. f Mr. Hesing demanded and procured the in- sertion in the Jnter-Ocean of a letter proving its editorial assertions In referenca to him to be mendaclous, and the managers throw in a long and highly-seasoned editorial retraction and en- cornfum on their own account, The Z.-0. still lusists, however, that Mr. H xsino should take a back seat and not lead the party, This%only shows a friondlydesire to lave Llin for company, Instead of belng forced to gaze at him from s dlstant rear elevatlon. . ————— ‘There will ba one good thing about theinstal- latlon of ITaxrroxand NicnoLrs. It willapread the sympathy for colored Republicans a little more evenly. One would think just now that there were no freodmen worthy of the slightest sattention® except In Lontsiana and Soutli Caro- tina, Arc tho otliers a0 happy that they msy safely be forgotten? Oris the wronged negro only prom{uent in the political mind when bo ls useful to point an argument addressed to the passions? | The Boston Globe is bound o see Pmatr play yet fn the Vermont murder case, For a truly gooa nowspaper, however, it s & triflc Paain- isalcal nbout its part jn the matter. In com- mon Prain-ness, it should credit Providence with n portlon of tha wouderful Interventton in the al-Pnair, Puite does it, if tha Globe docsn't, ) * The question whether the negro hield up the carpet-bagger or tho latter the negro, will soon bo deflnitely settled, and it Is o very lmportant queation. Pernaps, in trylng to carry moro than his own welght, tho colored man has been over- taxing bimself. g, ———— ‘Warin Europe s considercd Inevitable, An increase of sulcldes may then be loaked for fn this country In conscquence of the fallure of the victims to pronounce the names of Russian and Turkish towns brought {nto notoriety. e — The scalawags in the Board of County Com- missfoners are asking to be Investigatnd, Peo- vle soldom Investigate a polccat. I¢is a waste of thne, Besldos, thero {8 no fun in it It puts even the fnvestizators in bad odor, e —— Good Now Yorkers aro moviug for municipal reform, That {s to say, thelr beat men are talk- ing about it. Meanwhile tho rascals In power fortify; and Intronched rogues, as Chicago knows, are hard to dislodge by talk, —— Tt fa softly hinted tuat W, D, Howsrs, editor of tho Atlantie, is to be made Charge d’A faires at Berne, Bwitzerland, That is o diplomatio bourne from which few oftlceholders would ba glod to return. | Eatz OrAxrox's continued escapes from fires are wonderful. 8he will be fortunate tadeod It her luck follows her into the other world, “Lord, to whom shall we go!” {3 just now tho perplexing Biblieal conundrum In the minds ol infuriated carpet-bag Congrossmen. * | " Even the Southern Bourbon papers are slowly getting thelr cves open. They now see through s glass darkly,—at least Hayzs'y. 4 New York still keeps Twxep in Ludlow Btreet Jull. The only way ho can get out is, speaking slangily, to “shell out.” | CraunerLAIN and PackanD are voluminous letter-writers. Let us hope sufiiclently so to welte thelr own wrongs. Bicllfan brigands carry stem-windiog watches, Necessarily, It they ran-some, | | Ueroal enemles of rapld transit—Cornas e — PNEUMATICS. The Zimes* pncumatio tubes appear to be fire- proof. * A paper may be y on y}.\oumllu and fear. fully slack vn nows matter, ‘The Ouly thing of any Iuterest yet developed by the pnenmatic tubes way the labored description thereof. A clitizen of Bpringfeld who camo up last night #ays the train passed the ZYmes® account of the 8t Louia fire at Bloomingtan, ‘Tho achema of the Chicago 7¥mes ln smploying poenmalic tubes seems to work. That paper so- cured throe }incs about the 81, Louls tire. ‘The top story of the Southera Hotel wasn't half s0 hot as Yop Storey when he saw how the pacumatic tubes had edited tho telegraph. The 7Vmes ls & Btorey papor. It readers have nointereat In matters of news llko the decision of the Electoral Commisslon and the 8t Louls fire, ‘The flood in the canal drowned out the pnenmat- fc tubes on Tuesday night; when the tubes are pumpedout,tho Zunss will hear from the 8t. Louls ‘To work pneumatic tube pruperly, It must be closed, There belng no draught, & fire 13 extin- guished completely, or it only reaches the offico in the shapa of » smoldesing thres-line wad, Perhsps the TWriss would do botter to construct afew whlspering galleries. This pneuwmatic-tube business seais to do well wnough 1f suticient time {: llllawul snd the evenlog papers come oul regu~ el The paeumatic tube constructed st aach an im- menso coat between 5t Louls and the Chicago Tumes oltice gat choked on Tussdsy uixut, sud the news of the buzning of the Bouthern Hotal §s stuck ! here onthercad. Itwill come slong next At the timo of the counting of the vote by the Electoral Commlisslon, the Chicago PVmes did not bave pneumatic tubes. Now it has poeamatic lubes leading ot only to Bt. Louls, but 1o Liver- pool, Austrulls, and Chins, through which its dis- patches are shot {nto the editorial rvoms! This belog the case, bow was it that wothing was shot intoits oditorial rooms about the dresdful Bt Louts calamity? Was the 8. Loals tubo choked np somewhers on the bridge? Instead of diaplay. ing so much enterpties 1 Ahocting dlspatches, ‘wanld It not be good policy for the Times ta come. mence shooting its Incompetent employes, whnow :tmuu{ skill seems to be confined o blondep usses ¢ e— Storey 18 having his pneumatic tuba searched tg find tho crack through- which tho Times* special abont the burning of the Bauthern Hotel eacaped, Jle declarca that after spending $100.000 to gey wind through that tube it la a bloody shawnethat e can get no nuwe through it He adds that it winy was all he wanted, he might have ‘enved hig money, feeling fally cobmpetent to farnlsh the srticle himself, elther fn peraon or by proxy, The poeumatic tube of the T¥mésoughttobes good fire-condnctor, Yot It failed to earry thy tidings of the burning of the Bouthern Hotel at By, Lauls, beyond s mere two-line announcement, which might have renched Mr. Storey in the or. dinary way, Tre Trnuxe had a full spscial on thesubject, The 7¥mes han been badly scooped on moat Important matters, as, for Instance, tno fina) declaration of President Hayes' election; but that wag before It necared its wind-works, The publig hoped that, having had long experience fn han. diing such works, Storey wounld . make & saccess of bis pnenmatic tube. A a tabo it soems to do very well, It wonld carey newa {f it was put intony, But to find It requires enterprisc, and here ls wherg the tronble seemns to be. osaibly thls might by remedied if the Z¥mes would Import & fow ** wind. augers * from Colorado and set them to boring fop items {n place of the worthless correspondents and aMce employes who aré now wasling the ‘‘o)d man's" substance, and when ho asks for bread giving him s atone ora **stif,” Tima, early morning? (W. F. Btorey, st kepy of telexraph instrament at his residenc, to nighy editar,) . Sraner—\What's |n the wind? Niour Eviton—~The pnsumaticaara not loguent, B,—~Does the breeze froshen 1n the tabe? N, E.—No, my llege; th'e wind is lightand qoar. tering from the 8, 8, W, . 8,—Methinks I see & storm brewing in that quare 'Tis true the wind blows a gale through Ahie tabe as If something was up, 8.— Ara there any paisages bealdes wind? N. E.~None. my llege. 8,—1lave many passages have been made? N, BE.~Forty-nine, my llege, 8.—Does that remind you of s Jttle story by A, Lincoln? : N, E.~It dgth, my liege. x B.—Look sharp for the fiftioth dlachargs, {Bings:) . » © Tell me, yo wiaged winde, Jhat thrdughmy tubs. 40 7o ar, Ja there no litiig o) awect and quls Whenca naws willcomis ones torer o N, E,~There hasalittle two linos fe all, B.—~What salth It? N, E.—0Oh, aflrofa the Southera Ilotel, 8,—Pshaw! Let's to bed agsin; that's nothing! Wore ita murderor arion, or a rape or Incest, it might Interest my readers; fires only Intareet (n. auranco com panies. Good night, 5 ——— PERSONAL, paper comae through; - A CHINEER NEMRDY. Yim Ah Tung laved Any Bin, Dat oot with pare devotion; louted him in motion. Quoth Yim Ah Tung, *‘I'Il alay the glrl, Nor cut, nor shoot, nor mangle ber, But wind her queue about her neck, And then and thiere I'll strangle her,” ‘The act ho sulted to the word; e slew her as hie wooed hor, Says Yim Ah Tung, **Mies 8in was alck, And I have only quoued her.* Germany Is rolaterlng in Amerlcan bivalves, Gall Hamilton's now book Is called *'First Love Ia Best, " and will be out next month. Miss Lizeie Ihling, Prof, Wise's nicee, says she s yoing to adopt ballooning as a profossion, Are rah, you'ro not! : Tho Memphls cove who sent Beach over the river hasbeen bailed out. Some chap ¥ad the #and to shoil out $25,000, The editor of tho New York Sun having referred bitterly to his experlence Is now using bis power. ful paper to broak uy the game of poker, A wild bull took posseesion of San Francisco the other day, and during his run tossed a dozen people and horsos in the alr, e rocelved Sty shots boe fore he died. Qeorgs Wood, sn Englieh philanthropist, was racently found dead fn his bath, at his houssin London, is throatcut from osrta ar. The Cor oner's jury found & verdict of desth by ruiclde, but there is now o apiclon of murder, . oubly In trouble, Ile de. with o giel, and the witels chasing bim, Then he deserted the girl, and sba fachasing him. Tho chasers have joimed Inthe purenlt, and Lie foars the worst if they catch him. A San Pranclsco Chinaman, about to be tried for murder, was instructad by his counsel ta prove aa altbl, Jiis witnosses swore him stralght throosh, each Oxing upon a different locality, to prove that he could pot posaibly bave boen at the scene of the ‘bomicide, Jog Joferon (** Rip") hos painted a plcture for the Prench Academy entitled ‘*Forest sod Btream,” represcnting & dim woodland scens with large trees and a quidt brook. Tha work ls unaf- fected, nstural, and truthtul, sod the rosult Lt pleasing fu the extreme.. It 15 sllonca on canvasy, aud the effect npon the heart Is & sonso of pansive ness and quietnde, 4 A woman np In Dubugue who réad the Chicaze 7Times and belfoved that Grant was golng to eatabs Ush s milltary despotism on tho ruins of the Re pubdlic, was bound to keep up with the tiwmes, and named her baby the Princess Editha Bala Soleds Gwendolen Eberta Monto Romadls de Strowles. The child's father, Mr, Strowley, gots $2 a dayla the sesson, working in the pork-house, —aut e Attho wedding of Theodos Ar, Ceell Clay, tho bride wi traveling robo of cashmore and velvat of the uow est doalsm and col ith bat to mstch, and ber, slaters, who were the brideswmaldy, were ologantly drossed In dark navy blus velvet and cashuers with adornments of the same color, Tha Earl of Dudley, who honorod the coremony with hls pres ence, was among the firet to congratulate tbe brido and bridegroom e thelr sdjournment to tbe vestry-room, where for the last time the vivaclvas sud vorastlle littlo sctress wrote the name by which the world has known her. Rosina Vokes o 0 lived a3 man and wifo pear Aldenvllle, Wayne County, Pa., callisg themselves Mr, and Mrs, Joeoph Jersel Lobdoll, 1t has been recently discoversd that both are womes, and that who protefided to beJoseph Israc] wat ataried West 1o Bhe failed, sad after 8 varjoty of misforfunce was scnt to the poor-housé, whera she fell lu with Luey Ann Slater, who turaed out to be the daughter of Lucy Ann Lobdoll, **1b8 female hunter of Long Bddy, " rated womas fu the Delaware Valley forty ye: 0, The v atruck up o strong friendshi) '] 7 made thelf escape from the poor-house, and ¢ boen wad dering ever since, pretendlng to be the avagelles! cxponents ew dispensation, and living s reck* less, hand-to-mouth life. . The Whitehall Replew, an English psper which pays particular attention to Dublin soclety, $08° {alns a corlous correeponaence from the Insh Cap ftal about m great balf given by s M, Roo lu b8 Exbibition Buildlng, at which the Doke of Cor nauglt wes the lion. The correspondent sayé 41t was fotimated to Mrs, Ros by Sir Berssrd Barke that, 88 It was very unususl for a Prince 10 &0 to 8 commoner's ball, bis Toyal Highnessboped the dance would baaswmall one.” ‘The Iufervocel obyious. **Mrs. Roo then set Lo work to coss® termand about half of har invitations, sendisf tckels to the spactatore’ gatlery instead! Tberedd n0 end of & *row® In Tvusequenze, The whole thing s very founy, aud Hliustrates Dublin socict? well. Mr, Ros, 1 s juformed, fs ‘the leadlsd man io Dublin now, belog the richest.’” Atthe mesting to sccure municipal reform held 1o New York last Saturdsy, Me, Docman B. Estod cited the case of frivad of bl wha pald $15.008 per year In tazes upon ap-town lots which be coals notucl), Thessmemsn bad been compelicd ¥ 110¥e 0ut Of hls large bouse on Fifth svenue, W rented for Mitle more than snough to pay tbe un: sad repairs, and W tako bis family fnto nartv! quarters in an spartinent-house, where thoy wert ‘wearlag out their old clothes to ensblo them to 1¢ Mgve sn old cook and coschman of the nmb;lz O’DI'IIMB thelr furniture and beds, Thelr for! walter, who was a littlo of & politiclss, bsd Et 8 clty clerkship, oraplace on the poilce—it dld;- mattar which—et an sdvance of from $300 to ¥ Per yoar ovor hls former salary, and thelr wnb;: womsn, who knew an Alderwan, bad '*I"M 1ike advance of wages in 8 cliy ofiow whare worked fower bours. ttired fn & #id