Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1877, Page 4

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Adetphil Thentre, Mongue yizent, corner Dearhorn, aod **The Two Urpl 5 u : 11, 7 10 74 Blonroe-st., foF business aud work. Visltors welcame, - iy order of tho W, M. J. it DUNLOP, Secretary. 7 SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1877 CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, " The Chicago produce markets wore gencrally i active yesterday,and firmer, 3Mcae pork closed 15¢ per brl higher, at 813,325 for Aprfl and $14.40 for May. Lard closed 7ijc per 100 1bs higher, at 20.47Y% for April and $0.52%@9.56 for May, Meats were fiemer, at 43(c for loose shoulders, 73jc fordo rhort ribe, and 7%c for do ehort clears. Ilighwines were drregularly stronger, ac $1,06Q 1.04 per gallon, Flour was moro active and firm, Wheat closed %c higher, at $1L.97 for April and 8 3 for May, Coru closed %@Xc higher, at for April ond 45%c¢ for May. Oatx cloved e higher, ot 30%ic for April and U7%ic for May. Ilye was firm, 8t T2@734c. Barloy closod strongor, at 5H733@58c for April, Hogw were nctiveand strong, with tho bulk of tho eales ot 83,15@5.40, Cattle were active and firm, eelling at 81, 60Q5. for cummon to cholee. Shocp wera frm, at $3.73@ 6.00. Ouo hundred dollars In gold would buy $105.87% Iu greenbacks at the close, . Greonbacks at the New York Gold Ex- chango yesterdny elosod at 944, —— Advices from the Straits of Mackinae stato tlnt tho ice is very rotten, and had begun to move yesterday aftetnoon. There is every prospect that the flcet of vessels waiting at . either end of tho Htrails will be able to pass '+ through within n day or two. . Yesterday Joun F. Tnaor resigned the Presidoncy of the Chicago, Rock Islund & Pacitio Ituilrond, on nocount of jll health and peenpiary embarrassmont. caused by speculating in stocks, In plain English, reckless stock-gumbling. Tho *‘bears™ got hold of Lim and pretty nearly hugged him to death. . The news from St. Lonls this morning offers very little additional data upon which to estimatn the numbor of unfortuuate peo- plo engulfed o the itnmento mass of dobris now piled on the site of the Southern Ho- tel. I'wo bodies were exhumed yesterday, " nnd o closer examination revenled the fact that the remaivs dug out Thureday and supposed to bo thoss of a baby were really thono of ndog. A number of reminisconces .~ ofthe night of Lorror, however, have beon * secured Ly the news-gatherera which vie in blood-freezing qualities with any huretofore reaped from the sickening disaster, ‘Tho cable advices nre intensely warlike in tone. A Council of Warls eaid to have been held at 85t. Petorsburg yesatorday, aud the de- cision reached that tho "Lurkish reply to the protocol is ln effect & complote rejection of the propositions of the Powors, and that . Russin will therefore decline ay uveless the i propossl to send a Turkish envoy to St Petorsbury to treat with Russia on tho sub. . Jject of demobilization. From other dis. ; Datches it appears that tho Porte has in. - creased its military forces along the Danube, 4 oud bes ondored its war vessels to orulse in tho Black Sen and tho Mediterranean, and that instructions to declare war have already . been forwardod to the Russian Charge d'Affuires at Constantinople, It iz quite likely that the European newsgatherers are a littls ubicad of time in some of thesa items of . information, but it will be only few days be- * . foro tho fucts overtake the rumors, The Loulsiana Commission has apparently . Teached the end of its labors under the . original instructions, and, it is generally ad- mitted, has mada little or no progress in the work {ntrusted to it. No blame can attach o the membors of that body for this unsat. * isfuctory outcome. The principal obatruc . tlonista are, of course, the rival Governors, . who will listen to no argument that bints of o wacrifice in any form. But thero are also .. the small-fry politicians who have thelr little something to guin or lose according as the fates favor their favorites, and these latter persons have sufficient influence with mem- bers of the two Legislatures to prevent any coalition ‘' in the interest of pesce and good government. The Commission has wads o bref report of their con- slusions to the President, and sdditional jn. structions have been forwarded to New Or. leans. Al indications, however, polut to an L i early conclusion of negotiations, Muchmore confidence in tho ultimato success of the President’a schemo is manifested at the Na- tional Capital than at Now Orleans, and it is predicted that upon the withdrawal of the Commission, and even before it has made its report, the Packanp Govornment, con- vinced of the hopelessness of the situation, and disheartened by the Presidont's refnsal to accord recognition, will fall to pieces of its own dend weight. In any event, tho with- drawal of the troops is almost certain to ro- sult in the downfall of Pacranp. Col. Mizzs has had a talk with the hostile Bioux nnd Cheyennes, who have been out in tho cold dnring tho entire winter, and who bave a hankering for n square meal and n wholo blanket. The Chiefsand head soldiers of these wandering bands had been some- what misinformed ag to the terms which will be fusisted upon by the Government, and were looking forward to a jolly senson of fonsting, to be followed by & fresh supply of ammunition, when they might resnme their predatory sporls nmong the widely-scattered settle. ments, But this {s not only not to bo, but Col. Mirzs hos informed them that they must give np their arms and ponies and forego their nsual summer recreation, Tho Colonel also thinks that now that these heretoforo tronblesoma pesis are within striking distance, they should be forced to return to tho agencies if they will not do so voluntarily, Fifteen hundred Indians ar- rived at the Spotted Tail Agency yesterday. Bocrotary Evants, during a briof sojourn in Noew York, was a close observer of the general drift of public sentimont relative to the present Administration and its polioy. Among the business men thero is universal satisfaction with the course pursued by Presi- dent Harxes, one important result especially meeting with their approval—that of putting an ond to political agitation throughout the oountry, The Democrats themselvea, who counted upon keeping slive for four years the ‘bitterness of the Electoral struggle, find their immense stock of opprobrium and abuse lying idle and useloss on their bands, and have beon forced to commend whero they expected to rovile, to speak woll of tho President whom they had meant o condemn unceasingly during his term of office. It is ounly that class of politicians who aro nothing when they are not agitators, and who thrive upon turmoil, that aro dis. contented; the people aro well satisfied with the restoration of quist and the banishment of politics. o —— .- The entire dolegation from Cook County in the House of Representatives, excepting only Mr, Keanney, seem to have united in support of the Hioxey bill, with Mr. Buira's amendments, for tho sbolishment of the Oounty Board after tho law shall have been approved by a vote of the peoplo at o special eloction to bo held in July. When the . bill, thus amended, was bronght to a vote yeater- day, it was lost by a tie,—i7to 47,—the Democrats voting .againat it on the plea that it wns n» measuro intonded to logislate Democrats out of ofiice. They wonld not consent to oven 8o poora substitute ns this for what the people of Cook County, Democrats ns well as Repub- licans, so earnestly demaud,—n snubstituts which the friends of the taxpnyers havo up- parently accepted as better than nothing. An attempt by the Domocrats to place the bill beyond the possibility of resurrection by the nsunl dodge of s motion to reconsider followed by & motion to table was frustratod by the correct docislon of the Speaker upon a point of order, and there is o bare chance that the Damocratio protector- nte over the rogues in the County Board may yeot bo brought to griel. BLAIRE ON TITLES TO OFFIOE, Now comes Scnator Braing, from far-down Maine, lioping that Pacxanp fecls that he (Braivg) belioves that he (Packanp) * holds by u title us valid as that which justly and lawfully seated Rurnenyonp B. Haxes in the Presidontial chair,” And Pacxinp says sub- stantially: *“ It Ilaves carried Louisana, so did I if Ilaves has & good title, so Lave I; it Haves should ‘possess ‘hls ofiicé, so should L” - Theso gontlemen remarkably mistako their own caso nnd thot of the Presdent. The question of who waa Presi- dent was determined, as had been overy other preceding election sinco Geonar Wasn. vato, by the joint action of tho two Houses of Congress, In that action of Congress all other branches of the Govern- mout and all the people of the United States bavencyuiesced, andtothe Prosidency of Gen, Ilaves have given univorsal support, was not declared Govornor by military order, Ho hos neoded no troops to protoct him in ofica or porsonally, and needs nons to put down insurrection or rovolt sgainst his au. He thority, ‘Thore has boen and is not now any dispute of his titlo nor claimant to his ofice, and no portion of tho people or branch of the Government {s in any way questioning his lawful and porfect right to Le President. That is the title by which Prosident Haves bolds his office, How is it with Pacxanp? Pacxarp claims to be Governor of Louislana. The title to that office does not depend upon who is Prosident, nor can the President decids tho logal question of title, who is Governor of Louisiana ia a question to be decided in the Siate of Louisiana, un. der tho laws theraof, ‘The question as to Military force is not a declslon of law, Armies are not Legislatures to make laws, nor courts to try cases, The business of a soldiery is to kill and destroy, The troops, when onlered, aro to kill sll who opposs them; destroy all that obstructs thelr path. ‘They decide no queations of law, nor titles to ofico or property. The Government which has exlsted in Loulsiana since 1865 has been a Government maintained by Foderal troops, whose business it was to kill all who opposed jt. Governmenta like It wore put in offico and kept in office by armed forco in other Southorn States, and the moment . tho troops were withdrawn the Governors ran awsy, and othér Govornments, accepted and supported by thepopular strongth,were erect- edin their places. Ono dsy in Lousians, a couple of years ago, the Federal troops Lappened to be absent or off guard, and Kriroaa's Governmont toppled over and upset, as nobody supposted it except some helpless, non-resistant blacks, and Kriroag, who is now in Washington blowingliken porpoise,—well, he ran off and hid Liraself in the vaults of the Government warchouse in New Orleans, aud vemained there until tho Federal troops could be got back there under orders to kil dll who should oppose the reinstatement of Kzirooa and his carpet~ bag Government, The President, long before his election, de- clared that civil Governments ought to exist in all tho Slates, South as well as North, and sinco then, in his insugural, Le declared that State Governments kept iu power by Fed- cral military force wero anomalous, aud that 3 "'HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL U4, 1877~TWELVE PAGES. hs shonld tolerate the employment of troops for that purpose no longer. Mr. PAcKARD demands more Federnl troops, The Presi- dent provoses to withdrw thosa that are in New Orleans to theirbarracks. Pacxarp in. gists that hia title to Governor is as good ns that of Hayes to bo President, bui the Prosident (who is not depending on military force to keep him in office, but the laws and the universal popular acquiescence) doss not undertake to decide that purely Statequestion. Heproposestolet the Legislature of Lonisianna, according to the Constitution of that Btate, meot and decide that question, without the coercion or interforence of Federnl troops, Thera is n claimant disputing Packarp's title to the office. A larga portion of the Legis- Inture repudiate Packarp, The police force of the State, & largo portion of the courts, the various local officers, recognize Nicu- ouis as Governor. The taxpayers, who necessarily constitute an important portion of the people who are governed, have never recognized Packanp. Thero has never besn any constitutional recognition of Paczanrp a8 Governor, There las. ULeen no official or popular acquiescence, consent, or acceptance of him as Governor. He has been n mero clmmant relying upon Federal troops to kill thoso who deny his right to be Governor, and it is admitted that with the withdrawal of the troops to thelr barracks all respect for hia claim will vanish, and recognition of his official character will coass. And yet Pacxarp, and Braine for him, claim that his title as Governor of Loulsiana ia as good g that of Haves to the Presidency! If the President was opposed by o claim- ant who had possession of, and was recog- nized by, other depnrtments of the Govern- ment; if he kept his plnce in the White House behind fortifications, with troops to protect him and troops under orders to kill to execute hia directions ; if half or more of the 8tates repudiated his claim to the office ; if one-half of Congress distinctly recogniz- ed another person as Prosident; if that other porson was in Washington, practically administering the Government; and if Haree' claim to tho Presidency depended upon the mere defense and support of tho anny,—then Pacxarp and Braixe might oay that Pacxann's claim to be Governor was o good as Iaxes' to bo President, The President does mnot proposs to pars upon PAcxarp's legal title ns Governor. He proposes to withdraw soldiers from the State. Honse and lot the proper authorities in Lon. isiana determine the legal question. ‘That wes what he did in South Carolina, and, when the soldiers filed out of the Btate- Honse, tho CraxpenLAIN Government went out with them, confessing thatit had no lifo or authority, no popular support or strength, save that depending upon the physical forco of the United States troops. That is not oither a Republican or'an Ameérican Govern- mont. THE HISTORY OF THE PROTOCOL. As tho Inst stop in the efforts of tho European Powers to preserve peace, the history of the Protocol is of intorest. A corrospondent of the Politische Correspond. enz in Vien na, writing from St. Potersburg, has sent & detmled account of the history and character of thiz famous instrument up to the 20thof March, which tho London Tiimes accepts as authentic, and tho substance of his nccount may be briefly stated: It ap- pears that onthe 2d of March, Count Bomov- varorr lold heforo Lord Dmnuy the two alternatives which tho Russisn Government thought would solve the problem. The firat wna that the Guaranteeing Powers should atill consider the Treaty of Paris binding, notwitstanding thoe Porte's rejection of the rosolutions of tho Confereute, which were bused upon that treaty; tho socond, that the TRussian Government, in case of a total inactivity of the Powers, would consider the righta of Turkoy derived from that troaty ns oxtinct, The English Government decided to open negotintions with the Russian upon the first proposition, involving the maintenanco of the 'Treaty of Paris. The fol- lowing were tha starting pointa of the ne. gotiations: 1. That all tho Powers should co-operate to induca the Porte 1o accept in their original form the resolutiona passed by the Preliminary Conferenco, 2, That anun. dorstanding botween Russin and the Porte could only come under consideration if the Powers declared thoir readiness to take in common with Russia the stepsresulting from snother refusal of the Porte, Tho first point was considered thé most important, and to regulate it Lord Dznny proposed the draw- Ingup of an Intornational Protocol. Tho original draft as proposed by Eogland set forth tho necessity of the resolutions of tho Conference, and urged the allowance of n term of one year to ‘Turkey to carry ont the reforms, and intimatod that after the signing of the protocol both armies should be demobilized. This draft was pre- sented to Prince Gontscmaxory, and, after deliberation, the Xussian Com- mittee of Minlsters decided to strike out the proposed demobilization as an impracticable measure, one which could not be devised by & Protocol, but could only be sccomplished by the will of the respcctive sovereigns ; and the passage granting a term of one yoar to Turkey for carrying out roforms. In nddi. tion to this, they expressed the desire that tho Powers should precisely indicate the measures which thoy would eventually take against Turkey, After some delay, the En. glish Cabinet walved itatwo propositions, and then tho Nusalan Cabinet dropped its supplementary suggestion, and Gen, Ioda. Tiery was invited to London for the final wording of the Protocol, “On the 19th inst. the following draft was pro. posod from 8t Petorsburg: * The specifi- cation of the roforms and sdwminlstrative measures for Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bul. goria which have been recognized as neces- sary by the Preliminary Conference, and one portion of which has been already acoepted by the Porte aud preparod for execulion, while the othor has been rejectod—the stip- ulation ‘thet in case the Porte does not accopt the reforms enumerated in the Protocol or does not carry them iuto effect, the Powers will be at liberty to proceed against Turkey in the way of \nuuflnn." ‘This is the substance of the Protocol that was recently signed by all the Guaranteeing Powens, and wos presented toTurkey for signature, The dlspatches now state that on the 12th inst, the Turkish circular was delivered to the Russian Government, cate- gorically refusing tho demands of the Pow- ery, and putflog an e}d toall further dis- cussion, One remarkable feature of this history is tho discovery that the Protocol {s an Eu. glish and not & Russian instrument, as has beon supposed. ‘Turkey baving rejected the note proposed by England, and the de- cislons of the Conferenco proposed by En. gland, now deliberately kicks over the En. glish Protocol, sud in thy facq of this tho Loudon Z'imes of the 12th, in aleading editorial, sayu: A change bus come through the action of Russla, and by meana of the very docnment which was signed for the purpore of maintalning peace. .« o Ttussta may be ahle to make an unexpeeted defense of her hiaste: bat our Government at least dld not fntend tho Protocol to have the character of sn ul- thastum. . . . Tho Powers will have teason to complaln If, now that they have put thelr seals to the I'rotocol, Rueala shoulidl refuse to kmooth the way towania pence. She will bo expected ot Jeast to postpone any declstve actlon nntil the Powers shial) hava again appealed to the Porte, The English truckling to the Turkish buteliers, aud the desire of tho Government, aftor being kicked and cuffed by the Porte inall directions, to negotite still farther with it, and got down on its marrow.bones nud bog the Turk to ceaso ils persecutions of the Sclave, can now have little woight. In rojecting the Protocol, Turkey has not only defled England and Russia, but all Europe, and the Euglish jealousy of Russia will not be allowed to stand in the way of Turkish retribution. Tho Russian army is on the move towards tho Roumanian fron.fer, aud, by the signing of the Protocol, England must keep lLier hands off, as well as tho other Powers, unloss Russin should interfora with their special intorests. liko those of the 8t, Louis firo in casa of the destruotion of any one of our large hotels. The Council should withont delay provide tho Firo Department with a ladder that will reach to the top of tha highost building in the city. Fire-Maralal Desnzn reports that the longest Indder at Lis command is only eighty-thrco feet, and that it would not reach above the fourth-story of tho Grand Pacific lotel, nor above the fifth floor of many six-atory buildings; ho haa asked for a ladder 125 foet in longth, but it has been ro fused on the ground of economy, Thisis falso economy. Too much is risked in life and proporty by tha absenco of laddera that nre long onough to scale the highest of our buildings in time of necd. The Council should give this matter ita immediato ntten. tion, It might be well, also, to pass an or~ dinanco requiring the owners of hotels to provide one or mora exterior iron ladders (nc- cording to the sizo of the hotel), which ars now made in connootion with the sland. ing pipos, and which serve oqually a8 n means for the firemen to, attach their hoso at any floor and as an escape. Theso ladders shonld bo located at the ends of hallways, and s many as thirty or forty poople could descend on any ons of them without danger of ita breaking. .Marshal DBexnen hins, of his own motion, wo belleve, provided great sheets to spread out upon which people may jump from windows or oponinga; and, if necessary, thiy featuro should bo extended ns n part of ‘the fire. service, Had 8t. Louis been provided with largo nets, such naare spread out nnder acro- bats who perform perilons feats at a great height, many more lives might have becn saved, The Senato of Illinois has passed a bill which {s not creditablo legislation, and which is likely to becomae a most dangerous prece- dont. 'In 1861, at the outbreak of the Robell. ion, n man named Hean contraoted with the Stato to furnish certain equipments for the War, 'That was beforo the passnge by Con- gross of the Logal-Tender Jaw. Now Heap putsin a claim demanding $6,000 for the differenco in the value of the grosnbacks in whicli ho was paid and the valno of the gold, which was tlio only legal-tonder at the time whon the contraot was made, The Bupremne Court of the United Btates decided that the Legol-Tender nct covered nll existing con- traots, though dated long anterior to the War. Moroover, though the State of Illinois made all its purchases and contracts for equipping the Hlinols troops before 1802, whon it sottled with the Government, it was paid in greenbacks, Tho State got no pre- mium, and wo do not nndorstand that the contractors had any superior claim, Thore was not o contrmotor in the United Stales who did not loso money by tho substitution of paper: for gold as n logaltender; ond those who contracted in paper in 18623, and were pald in 1864, suffcred evon more heavily by the great deprociation of pdper which had taken placa in the meautime, This bill, we are sat- isfled, did not commend itself to the Senate; it wns onoe of thoss measurea'with which to trade votos, and as o result of such trading the bill was pasaed. The same consideration may forco tho bill through the House, The Lill hos noithor law nor equity to support it. Fifty thousand men in Illinois gave their arms, their legs, or thoir health, and as many moro their lives, to tho country, and it is rather unpatriotic and oxnoting for a con- tractor, who has lost in aspeculation becauso of tho deprecintion of gresnbacks, to come now in 1877 and domand that he bo paid the difference between gold and greanbacks, The Governor, however, owes a duty to the State and to himsolf, and if this bill i to bacome a law ho should, by the use of his veto power, compel the Logislaturo to take tho whole responsibility. e 'The bill' establishing Appellate Courts in. ferior to the Bupreme Court has passed one branch of the Legislature, Thure is to bo one Court of three Judges in ench of four districts. All appoals from the Circuit Courts whera the sum in contraversy is less than $500 are to be hoard and finally determined by theso Courts. The Courts are to have jurisdiction in all casea of law aund equity, oxcept, as provided in the Constitution, in criminal cases, or those [nvolving a franchiso or o frachold, or the validity of a statute ; in those excoptional cases thio appeals will go direct to tho Bupremo Court. The only objection to this bill ag it stands Is that the moximum sum involved to give tho Court jurisdiction {s $500. This ought to be in- creased to $2,500,—certainly not less than $1,000. If posaible, tho appeals from the Cironit Courts might woll bo restricted to cases whero the amount in controversy shall exceed - $500, Nevertholoss, those Courts will do much to roliove tho docketa of the Bupremo Court of n class of cases which ought never bo taken thore, BROTHER MOOLY IN BOSTON, A few days sinco we printed a letter from Dostou, written by an old-fashioned, evangellcal clergyman of the Mcthodist denomination, giving a brief but very pungent and huinorous description of Brother Moonr's campalga In that wicked city, There aro somo of the polnts fn tuls letter that descrve cditorlal attention, Wheu the peculiarity of Boston i consldered, 1t wos o bold thiug for 3ir, Mooby to go there at all. Not having ltved in Boston, but coming from Chicago, he hiad to be carcfully examnined, as Mr, Acassiz would havo examined a now fish, Tt will boremembered that even the de- lightful Essirory was not accepted becauso sho did uot belong to Boston. Mr, Moony is a bold man, however, and he went and stralghtway found bimsclt in the midst of a swarm of athelsts, phillosophors, transcendentalists, poets, critics, milnlsters, portly bank presidents and salt merchauts, thin young girls with blue stockings and eyo-glasses, Unltarlan microscop- ists aud Nothlngarlan magnifiers, all criticlzing, analyzing, ncasurivg, sifting, comparing, and cven torturing this luckless iy who had flown stralght into tho web of Boston soclety, 10 the endangering of {ts strands. On the oue side, the east wind, fragrant with the odor of hallbut, muscle, clam, jclly-fisk, and seawced, pelted him; while from tho other came an cqually strong theological east wind that prickled him all over with ita stings of doubt sad concelt. Not all the winds from all the quarters of the globe, not all the evll spirits combined, can scare Brother Moopy. Asssult upon him makes bt mad. 1o rid himself very but how could aman who lives upon Beacon street, does business In Winter street, lunches at PARKER'S, gocs to hear Munnar, reads the Advertiser, knows Esurnson and Wriss, eats codfish Saturdays and Leans Sundays, knows that a dandcllon s a Leonlodon Tararacum, and Tins o brass knocker on hia door, be o faflure? Even with all thesc tremendous advantages, Mr. Moouy declaredt that this Boston man was o falluro, Tho blow was lit so straight from the shoutder that the Boston men began to listen. Thoy came to the meetings and gravely heark- enctl. Then they brought thicir opera-glasses to study this bold buccaneer who had sailed Into thelr waters so defiantly. At last they venturced near him and began to pepper him with amall- shot, which rolled off Brother Moopy's hide s they would off an clephant. Nothing can hurt Brotlier Mooby Lut cannon bnlls, bombsheils, and dynamite. The Unitarlans began to affirm that man was not such n fallure in Boston as Brother Moony thought. Tho Rev. Munray pited up weak and tender piatitudes and cov- cred Difin with them, which he shook oft ns easily 08 a dog shakes the water from bis hide. The Rev. Coox shot at him with his bloplasm, and, when its smoke cleared away, looked for the an- nibilation of the grent Evaugellst, but, as Brothor Moopy doesn't know o bloplasm from a mnstard-plaster, and cared no more for it than for the grasshiovper on Fancall fall, he eacapod unhurt, and kept on with his announce- ment that the Boston man was a fallure. By continually hammeriug away at this ereat moral truth, at last they actually began to beliera they wers failures, just as people have nctually argued themselves futo the bellef that they are pusscseed of demons. When ho had make this lodgment, he next got them into the nquiry rooms and commenced converting them before they knew anything about it, He was ready for any cmergency, oven for tha loquactous iady from Dorchester who waa willlng to be convert- ed if sho could be saved in timo to cateh the 10:80 train. Before that time ho had saved her and prayed for the whole family. Bo the good brothier kept on until at last he beeatne a tre- mendous puwer, and he has now no trouble in reaplug his harvest. And the people of Boston go about tho streets studying the problem of ihelr fallure, and wondering how a tman full of east wind, beans, and bloplasm can be such a sluner, THE COUNTY, RING, Thera has been no tima within the mem. ory of tho oldest inhabitant of Illinois when some newspaper in Springfield was not found ready to espouse the cnuse of nny ring inter- est that might requiro nssistance, As if for the mere purpose of maintaining this reputa- tion, the Springficld Register comes to the rescne of the Ring which controls the Cook County Board of Commirsioners. It may be thiat becausn this Ring happens to be com- posed mostly of Democrats the Register foels bound to stand by it for party reasons, or it way bo that it is prompted to support it ns a Ring simply from forco of habit.. At all events, it rays: Tur Cimcaco Tminuxe londly calls upon the Legislature to pass n law providing for a new elec tlon of tuuk County Commlivsioners, The Legisla. ture should pass nosuch law, The movement in favor of it was inaugurated by tho Custom-House gangof Chicago, and that single fact is enough to damn it In the opinlon of all honcat people. Tha State-Hoase at Springfield s not the place to reme edy the evila which afiict Cook County, whose peo- plercem to nced & wholesoma lesson {n tho doce trine that self-povernment s n duty aswellnsa right. Every time tho Republican ring of Chicago or of the county s defeated at the polls, there comes anappeal for & new law which alall reverss the verdict of the people, 1t Is high time this nonscnso was stopped. The State of Illinola docsn't owe Chicago anything, so’ far as heard from, and can't afford to pay the expenscs of leglalation for the special benefit of Cook County. Oue answor to this malicious statoment is that, whon Cook County asks for relief from locnl plunderers which it is within the province of tho Legislaturo to graut, it is in no sonsa the businessof n Bpringfleld jonrnal to iuterforo in the matter, aud its motives in dofug so aro opon to suspiolon. Another is that nobody has ever heard of any ** Custom- House " Ning in this city, nnd the Custom- Houso pooplo have hnd nothing whatever to do with the movement for abolishing the County Board; the bill was introduced by n Domocratio Sonntor from Cook. A third answer {s that theRepublicana hava not been in tho habit of appenling to the Legislaturo whenover they have been defented in this connty; on the contrary, this is A movement on the part of the entiro tazpaying com- munity, both Domocrats and Republicans, to rid the connty of a lot of tax-cating bum- mers, some of whom are under indictment for robbing the public, and who are so odious to the pooplo of their county that thoy daro not stand their trial in the local courts, If tho Legislature had left tho original law for olecting County Commissioners na it was, Cook Connty would not bo obliged to apply for relief, It was by dividing the connty outside of Chicago into small, districts, each roturning & Commissfoner, that the peoplo, who could chooso only five Commissioners annually, wero debarred from the protection which the original law gave them. What is askod now in tho privilego of ridding the connty of tho bummers forced upon the peo- plo by tho patohed-up law, and a roturn as nearly as possible”to the constitutional inten- tion in rogard to the Cook County Govern. ment, Ininterforing to dofeat this projoct, the Springfleld Register ia going considerably outside of its domaln to gratify its natural sympnthy with a Ring, and its utterances will probably bo so regarded by the ma~ Jority of the Legislature, e HOTEL FIRES, It might have beon expocted that tho St Louls fire wonld suggest legislation regard- ing the construction and management of Lotols, just os the Brooklyn fire suggestoed it in the caso of theatres. The first step in this diroction was token in the Illinols Logla. lature, whero tho following bill was intro. duced on Thursday : i 8ec, 1. e It enacted, efe,, ‘That the owners and proprictora of hotels of two storics o helght and upward, In this State, alall keep rope-ladders, mado of good material, In cach and every sleep- ing-room in thelr houses abova the ground foors, of sufiiclent length, when one end s sccurely faatened to the floor or walls, to rench the ground wlen tbe other end ls thrown out of the window, and of sufticlent strengtn to allow all occupants of such room to safely escapo npon it and reach the ground In cavo of fire in such hotel, Sec, 2. Any hotel, boarding, or lodging-honse proprictor or owner who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act shall be Mable to pay a fine not excecding 350 for each and every room unprovided with such rope-ladder, and 11 casa of luss of life on sccount of such meglect and rofusal to provide such ladder or fize escape, then such owner and proprietor shall be decmed gullty of manslaughter, and be punlshed as now provided for such olfcnso by law. Wa hdve no doubt that the intentions were of tho best that prompied the framing of this bill, but wo have no confldenca that its requirements would bo of any material serv. ice in saving lifo in case of hotel fires. The vope-ladders in sleoping-rooms would be very much lko life-preservers on steamers,— gonerally in the wrong place, rendered inac. cessiblo in order to got thom out of the way, goawed by rats and mico and rotton with sge and neglect, and finally forgotton by the occupants of tho rooms in the dark night, the suffocaling smoke, and genoral panio of sucha firo 08 tho burning of the Bouthern Hotel., If the Legislature take any steps in this matter, it may render more efticlent servico to the publio by the passsge of a law roquiring all hotels to make their elevator- passages practically fire-proof. It is these wide, square spaces, extending from the —————— President AYEs Zave a good-nacured reply to CuaupertaN‘'s fll-natured lotter. Ho sald that the missive wasvery like what he woutd have written had hio been In CHAMDERLAIN'S place. He did uot blame hin much for feeling sore and saying urly things us he stepped downs and out. Butwhydid he step downi The Presl- dent liail nov recognlzed 1AMrTON a8 Governor. He merely ordered the Fedoralsoldlers tomarch out of tho State-House buek to thelr quarters In tho same clty. [lasteTon mnnde wo asanult on Cuasopreaiy, On the contrary, he gave his written pledgo to tho President beforo he left Washington that no force shuuld be used by bim in his contest with CHAMBERLAIN for tha office. e promised thatthere should be peace and quiet, and that no one should be molested, no matter what might oe his color or politics. But CiraMuznnaN never put him to the test. As soun as thy platoon of soldlers filed vut of the State-tlouse, he packed his carpet-bag and procecded to his hotel, abandoning his claim to tho ufllee without a struggle In thoe courtsor out of them. ' The Preatdent fs certainly not to blune for CrasnExrain'a course, and thoso who try to hold lilm responsible are implacable fault-finders, aud thelr anartiug is of very littlo account. % 3 ———ar— The downfall of Tnexon W. PARK fu New York justitics the old saw—*Easy comes, casy Roes,”” Tank nade his money by the question- ablo transaction ot selllng o worthless silver minc to Engliali capltaliate, with the alleged as- alstance of bogus analysls and the name and co- operation of a gentleman who was then serving as United States Minlster to England, It was entircly in keeplug with the fitness of things that money so0 abtalned shoull have been .squeczed from PARK by Jay Gouwp and his ‘hgents In o Wall street stocl: operation, As Pank lad docelved others not so shrewd ns himselt, so he was circumvented by ehrewder meu, and was totally wrecked on Panama. It will net be strange (€ Parg’s English. victims hear of his downfall with o scnse of gratifica. tion, us 1t Ls not likely that they would cver have been able to got any of thelr moncy back from him. As to the gentleman who was for- merly Minister to England and who permitted PAnk to uso him as a decoy, his punfshment hiss been oven more severe,~for he lost reputation, while Pans has oniy lost money. e C————s : It looks very muchi as though the lobby sent to Bpringflcld by the scalawag County Cum- missloncre were more Influcutial than the Com- mittee who are there representing citizeus and taxpayers, The blame, huwever, does not rest upon the country memb2rs ol the Legislature, Tha trouble Is that certaln Cook County mer- bers arc selling out thelr constituents. The scum of Chicago s fully as uumerously repre- sented at Sprinefleld as the decent element in our population, and some represontutives who are not personally dishonest scem to be cqually obstructivo with thoss who are. It {3 no doubt more hionest ta bs a fool than a knave, but the publlc may suffer as much by the one s the othier, Actuul knavishness, however, will bo at the bottom of a successful effort to keep the rotten Baard of County Cummissloners in power, and tho Coole County men engaged di- rectly or ndircctly fu that uefarfous conspiracy will be exposed and punished, There is u thne when furbearunce, even in this city, censcs to be clther reganded 03 avirtue or practiced through clironic Jazind : e ee— 70 the Editor o The Tridune. Cuica0o, April 12.~"The authorship of the well. known hymn, **IWould Not Live Alway,* cording to the testimony of thu Hev, Drs, Ros- wELL D, ireucock, %acuany Enby, and Piiue Keuarr, of New York City, M credited to tho Nev, Wittiax A, Muniesnend, whio weote It in 28, 12 Biehop Henen wrote if, lct his friends famish same other evidence thun thatsof mere ** bolict, ™ before thoy ullnml\l ta deprive Dr, Muniexseuo of the authorabip thereof. Joux Fonsitus, Wemay add to Mr. FonsrTue's statement tho followlug extract from ‘the Loston Glube, which 18 pertinent to the subjeet; At one thou the authership of tha hymn s+ Would Nut Live Alway * was called fn fuostion, betni clatied by s man oamed Waip, - e, Mo LENuEna did not think it necessary or becowl; sny anythlng to establish i+ clain, Ingz the Importunities of his friends with,” *¢1f you think | awm capablu of letting the work of anottor R:" fOr 80 lauly years &» Uiy oW, Yoi would not wure of auvthing | might vay,** 1o was vnce ln- duced, howover, to filu 4 full account of the poem, which was originally publlehied In the Epiacopal Recorder, In Fhiludelnhia, in 1824, aud shortened aud revisea for the hyuin-bouk in 15 ''he Doc- tor onca v *1am sorry 1 uver had anything o do with 1t, It oy given e m great deal of trouble during tho n t A1ty years. LPeoplo ure ale ways wanting tho history of it and suthority for fts gn:‘n;lnm:cu. and It has Leen & burden,—a great urdon, ——— Tols Is how It stands; Nicmours and bis party will concede nothiug; PACKARD and his party will voncede everythiog which does not intertery with thelr holding on. Each party ls willing the President should decldo who the lawlul Governor is, provided ho will slde with thelr man, The President falls to seo how thess fundamental conditions can be aptly termed a comprowlse, and 80 new lostructions ®oto the Conumtssion. How would it do to bottom to the top of hotels, and € 15 crowd of tor tors by deliver- | Scttlo In this way: NicnoLrs is minus already conncoting with every floor, that sct ;l:gm:l’bxg:d‘:ldc which went. ec‘:uhlnz’ mengu about ouc-hall of bis corporoaity lopped of ia as flues to dmw in the fire | them, and seut them off hopping In every dirco- | 100 “* Wah"; now let Packaub bo liabed down 1o match, and let them refgn jolntly, or elss let Packanp stopdown sud out, NicuoLLs would sgreo to this; but would Packanpi Aud yetho might Ly this tritling sucrifics do much to pro- tect the colored men who bave beeu so fear- fully bulldozed and amputated to keep bim in oftice. ————— ‘The Cincinnatt Gazetle, In discussing the re- cent Bt. Louls culamity, wakes the following excellent suggestion: & sy of the best pnmhjuwlnny belldings are the frou stalrcasvs fustvned to the outside of s0 wnauy hotelsand larze tenement houses In New York, Whey runfrois the tup of tha building to e sccond story, Lelng direcily sccessible from cach slory tbat ihey ples. 'Whoy lerminate ucar onouzh to the sround 1o ba whibin the reach of ahortladders,and yet acy so high t 1at burglare can- not readlly ges upon them. Had the Southeru Ho- tel boen provided with such spparstus, many loss wherever it starts and carry it up with arush that cannot be checked. As a rule, these passagos aro lined with framework, and com- nunicate the flames almost instantaneously to every floor in the house, A law with wovero penaltics miglt bo adopted to advan. tage, compelling the owners of hotels to wall up theso elevator-ways with stone or fire-brick, and protect the doors opening on tho different floors with metallic facings. As thoy are nothing but great flues in case of firo, they should be constructed as nearly as possible liko chimnoys, in order that thoy may be as harmless. Chicago may do something for itself as a protection ngainst the experience of horrors tion, and absolutely mute with horror. Ho falrly hit the bull's-eye of Boston concelt and crucked tho target all over. If there is one thing more than another that a Bostonlan is sure of, it Is that,- having been born fa Hoston, §t s mot mneccssary for him to be born sgaln, sud that a tweoty- one years® residenco ia sight of tbe Frog Foud, the Busic-Hall, tho Natural History rooms, or Mre, 8Ar0ENT'S, incapacitates Lim from belog a sloner. It was this Mttle pet theory that Broth- cr Mooy sbivered at the firat shot, 8ince the mnassacre on Stato street or the haoging-out of the lantern, nothing has caused so much con- sternation a8 by declaration that wan even fn Boston {s u faflure. Boston was ready to admlt that mau o New York, Chicago, Loodon, or tong Kong, was s fallure, & dreadful fallure; lives wonld have been loat, The Iadders need not be nnsightly, as they ¢onld eastly be made in fancy [osterna that would add to, rather than dirtntah, he architectural effect of the structure to which they are attached, But beanty ia a secondary con- alderation when the lves of hundreds are at'stake. Tho outslile staircase is without doubt thy most practical and effective method of saving 1ife fn case of fire that can be devised. Had the Bouthern Ilotel such stales, hardly a life would have heen lost. e #A little bottle of coal-ofl ready for the match,” {s tho armament which ex-Gov. Kzi. 1000 says fs {n tne hands of *every colored scrvant*’ in Loulsiana, Ho Intimatca that with this weapon they aro Invincible by any forco their enemics can Lring egainst them. This authoritative statoment will be a relief to those who thought that the withdrawal of a Corporal’s guard of United States troops from:Packann might leave the frecdmon powerless fn the liands of their tormenters. If they conld sus. tain themeelves and PACKARD by this eflective arm, they cerialnly ought to be abla to sus. tain thewsclves without PACKARD, — ——— A Chicago youth cloping with a Chicago girl was brought to a halt by telegraph in Nebieaska the other day. The young man, a dispatch states, was “Induced to return liome anl bo forziven,” Whether the girl relused to be *induced’’ {s not stated. Buch a concession on thie port of the young man, when hio had ouly “carried off agold watch and chaln, dinmond and locket from his father's jewelry store,” to say uothing of the girl, 18 worthy of honorable mention, ———— ‘The Bangor Waig fa dumbfounded at the dovellke coolngs of Republican papera which, prior to the election, wero quite sunguinary in their views. No doubt, had the editor of the Whig lived at tho time, he would have beeneven niore astonished at the converslon of Baur ot Tarsus futo Paur the Apostlo to the Gentiles, Yet these things will happen cven in the best. regulated families. ——— ‘Why doesn't Senator DLAINE go South! The people there wish to see lim very much. 1o certalnly does a great deal of talking for a rivan who has never been south of the Potomae, cither as o warrlor or a misslonary, Yot it must be conceded that few men can handla a subject at armn’s Jength with more vigor than tho gentle- man froin Malue. Maybe he is afrald it would haudlo hisn i€ he cama nearer thanarm's length, The * howling-dersish * portion of the Repub- 1lcan party is not very successful In its appear- ances before the public. If it would “hirc a hull,” churge an admishion fee, aud call its per- formance tragedy, tho thing might work citber asaplay or a farce. But when it s attempted 10 bopalmed off for statesmanship, the audienco diperses beforo it collects. e —— A bill has passed the Senate permitting the Acricultural Upiversity to grant diplomas, ‘Ihis blil simply puls the Gravgor boya und students of other colleges on the same diplo- matle fvoting, . This should have been done be- fore, A boy who digs routs Is as least as worthy of a dipluma as one who * plays roots.” et —— e We understand the Ilincts Stafe Reglster (Springfield) uewspaper and jub-printlog eatab- lishment, together with §ts Assoclated Fress franchiso and good-will, {a offered for sale at o bargain, The Leviater Is oue of the Lest printe ing-uflices in the State outsido Chlcago, and Is well located at the Capital of the State. gl el ity The Bt. Louls papcrs, in view of the late fire, ndvocate the abandonment of elovators In ho- tcls, and falling back on the system, dear to every SBouthern gentleman, of o “nigger™ tug- ging ot cach arm and another pushing behing, 08 the safest and pleasantest way of zettlng up to bed. ‘The President yesterday was overwlhelmed with telegrams from all parts ol the country approving his course and urging him to stand rtn in aplte of the *fire-fu-the-rear” Thislsa very practical mode of lighteulnyg his fecling of responsibility; its effect must be clectrical. Rt vl Sy ——— 1t Russia sod Turkey donot fight before long, the Doard of Trado men will,- and- that, too, with ‘the full consent of the Great Pow-wow- ers, to whom the scalpers are forced to refer such matters before going on tho war-path., e —— Berxerr's horses and dops havo been ship- ped, and he has apparently coucluded to mako himecl? Lappy In Parls regardless of the Max-n chance, He will run tho Zerald by vipher dis- patches; it Is not likely that the cditotial corps will algh for him to any alarming extent. e “The Council secm to regard HiLoneTicas & many-heeded hydra, who will gobble thew some fine morning.¥—Journal. This fixure la neat. But what tho public want to know fe, which head of the bydra Is tho one that gobbles? e —— People nsk: *Why tho Louisiana investi- gators aru called ‘tho Pelican Commission?" Probably becausc thoy are trylng to carry water in thelr under Jawgas well as on both shoulders, | Ben Tooxns docs not think thero Is any in- conslstency it Southern Dewmocrats accepting offics under Presldent Haves. This is quite genlal for *Bon," | ‘The Custom-Houso Ring in New York set up as a defense that they simply undertook to over-sca what tho officers of the customs over- looked. . “The Leglslaturc of Michigsn has passed a law making & bushcl of apples. welgh fifty pounds,”—Editorial leader in Journal of yester- dai Stonzr's sollloquy on seeing the * scoop ™t Oh! tu-be nothing, nothing. Only to lle. PERSONAL. | } | Gold earringein the ahape of slendor ladders with alx steps are tho latest novelty la Jewelry, Some littla consolation comes In the reflection that saveral M3S, plays of the moderu stamp per- ished in the i, Loois fre. Millats, tho artist,commenced his career on$1.25 . er week ‘‘and found.,' Lately he received 10,000 for palating & portrait, [ ¥rom tho way In which Kate Clazton describes her pitching around (o get out of (Le Bouthers, her escape might be called atair-breadth. At Rome a society for thodefenee of family prin- clplos has Just awarded the civil crown to s lsdy uamned Mme, Bouilott, who has givea birth to ber thirty-sizth child, - Burdette, the Burlington Hawkeys humorist, have {ng baon made tho father of an elght.pound he- paragraph, calls upon President Ilayes to ssud out & Commluion to name It. ‘Tha Arcadian vays of Anna Dickinson: ‘¢Anns Bas the brains, bot her Leauly is of the Boston type,—that wonderful city whers tha girls live oo Grook roots and baked besus,” Indupendent Journalism weems to confue ftself to haughty independence of news, The Cincine nati Commercial was scooped as badly op the bt Loals Gre as was the Chicago Thnes, The London Qenersl Omnibus Compsay has offcred u prize of §1,000 (or & scheme to prevest conductors from **knocking down,” XArchangé— Put op ladles, and send us the money, The St. Loale Globe- Demqerat crows snd shakes its rattle-box becausa tho St, Louls baby show Las 100 Infants. ANl of which le & delicate complic ment 10 the fasciuations of Chicsgo travellag wen. Miss Kste Claxton eacapod - from the Drookira Gre In gausy apparel, and from the Southera s lightaitire, snd the groond of ber husband's suit for s divorco {s ssia to involve slmilar misfortuss of dross, & Chicago bas glrl, about 14 years old, who bas wade money anvugh selling papers Lo furalsd a comfortable boma and huy a plsvu. Her name {8 Nettle, sud sho can yell louder sud Sght longer Vhaz uny newsboy in towa, Mlss Kate Clastonmsy be justly regarded with suspiclon by fnsurance compaples. ke was plsy- 1ug Loulss when the Brooklyn fire flashed out; at 8 Wasbiugton theatra when & cey of firo was ralisd, resultiog in 8 paslc: a4 Newark, when the theatrd buroed under her feet; and Bnally she solls dowas atalrs through the fames of the Southern.