Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 19, 1877, Page 4

oo ' b W DTNk : o % I A IR e 3 ¥ i sennoced v i i 7 J 1, i . [ i i ¢ N { i} i g 3 4 { i 3 H o H § , foom v, | elomed % 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1877. whrm welcome besides await them in the Nicrorta House, and tia weakness of humnn nature is likely to hasten Paokanp'a collapse mora effectnally than the labors of the Com- mission Liave been able to do, Withina week the order for the removal of the troops from the State-ITouse is certain to be issned, leay- ing the contestants to gettlo it among them- -| selves, as Husrrrox and CuAMBEBLAIN settled | it in Bouth Carolina, ‘The mdden prodnetion by Hirorern of n pardon procired on the very last day of nn The Tribune, TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION. ~PNSTAGE PREFAID AT PPICR. aily Editlon, pos:; 153 Malled ta un( Aldrers four weel £unday kditlo terary and Iiell £hee }'lfllo! a year, per mont WEERLY EDITION BY MAIL—IN ADVANC! T Qnecapr. p Administration singularly sympathotic in the ERet (e cases of convieted whisky-thisves will not Fostrre prepatd, Fyecimen roples sent free, Tagrevent delay and mistakes, ba wure and give Posts GfTee adidress fn full, including Btate and Counte. Remitianees may bomade either by draft, express, Tuit-Ottice onler, or fn regiatered letters, at our risk, 7ERME TO CITY SURSCRINERS, Telly, delt ecred, Sunday excepted, 23 cents per week. dedly, dellsered, Bunday fncluded, 20 cents per week Addrers TUE TRIDLNE COMPANY, Lorner Madison and Deartmrn: Lave the desired effect, it the intention was to modify publie prejudice againat the sente ing of Hitonerit in the Common Council. The fact that Jio was able to receive Exocu- tive clemency carries with it no re. lease from the odinm which has result. ed from n long enreer of rascality both in and out of the Government service, nor docs it oporate to remove the disabilities which the law of Illinois fmposes upon n convicted felon. Morally and legally, Hiz. opeti's twelfthohour pandon is worth no more thau the paper it is written on asan aid to his restoration either to the good opinion of the pcopl‘o of Chicago or to the seat in the Common Council which he left vacant whon he fled to Canada to cscapo the conse- «quences of his crimes. . Chleago, il TRIBUN! HU]I:DIXU DIRECTORY. Jooms, Occupants, 1. CIIARTER OAK LIFE (Insurance Dep'ts) 2. TO RENT. q & WALLACE. J. T. DALE. WATCH-CASE MAN'F'G CO. 8, ROBBING & APPLETON, ' & TO RENT. - 7. 1K LUEBRER . BROWN. W. ROBBINS. 0N T & TYRRE Dep't) RIDOE. 0, WET 10 CIARTER OAK LI 11-13. FAIRCIILD & BLAG MORGAN. 1, W . 5| YE. W. D, COOI'ER. ‘Wo print thls morning, on the sixth page, tho first of a scries of letters Ly tho llon, Evuzun Wnienrt, of Mnssachusctts, on the Life-Insurance question, 3r, Wnianr was recently tho Tusurmnce Commissionor of Massachinsotts, and his reports while holding thiat position are among tho few official doé- uments from which any information ean bo got that people can understand, Mr, Wrniout is tho’ nuthor of thé Non-Forfeituro law of Massachusetts, which was the first, and re- wning 8o far the best, leginlation * to protoot the rights of policy-holders in tho reserves on their policies, There is no man in the country botter qualificd than Mr. Wnionr to spoak on the subject that is now of so high interest to so many thougands of persons, nnd his letters will be of great value {o the perploxed policy-holders, who, for the pro- Mttre teetion of their wives and children, are pay- . "““l"”—fi‘mm . ing one hundred millious of dollars a year to " and_Tataye, | Menwhom they do not know, under o system andoloh street, between Clark okeprment of Mrs, Oates” Engllsh Opera Company. | thoy do not understand. . & Co, & LUFF. & Co, Ofces In the Bullding ‘to rent by W. C. DOW, wh New Culenao Theatres 4 Clark l:.""l' Letween Lako and ltaudolph, Rice's Glrotle-Gerofla, Muneum, ‘Monrne stroct, hetween State and Dearborn, Vaude« ¥ille and soveity, A dispateh from ZLondon, which needs confinnation, states that Russin has made o formal declaration of war. Tho purported circular of Cloatsouaorr to tho Powers states concisely the position of Russin aud the grounds upon which she commences Los- tilities, 'The first fs & point of honor—tho Porta hnving peremptorily and defiantly ro- jected the protocol, domabilization by Rus. sla could only be logked upon s retreating through feor of 'Furkey. Tho sccond Is a point of responsibility. Turkey Lins rojected every overture of peace, and, in now urging forward o decision by arms, forcos tho war ond must take the responsibility, The third §s n point of fuct. In rejecting tho protocol, Turkey denied to the European Powers the right of urging internal reforms, or demanding guarantces for their control and execution, thus creating an entirely now state of things which sets nside the very Lasfs ‘of the Conferonco that wns lold at Constautinople under the oporation of tho Treaty of Parls, McVicker's Theatre, Madfson stroct, hetween i State, Ebiarement of F. 8¢ Chiantran, "y, " Adetunt Thestre, Monrue streer, corner Deerborn. **The Mbuntain Meadaw Massacre.” Varlely entertatntient, fen i ThuTeia, ¥ Werkun A, M. Drgrec, Visio: toaett with ndavboth ¥pecialand it ) W, M, ON, e .CHIOAGO MARKET SUMMARY, The Chicazo produce mnrketa were actlve and geucrully bighes, Mesn pork closedl 250 wper brl hizher, at $15.221@15. 45 for April ‘and; 515,10 315,35 for Mny. Lard closed 15¢ per 300 Iby higher, at 80,83 for April and $9,00Q0.05 for May. Meals wore steady, at fitic for loces shonl- derw, T3¢ do forshort-ribs, und %0 fordosbort clears, Mlghwines wers quict, ac 107 per gul- . Flourwns acve aud frm, WhHeat closed ic bigher, st $1.44% for Aprki and S1.45% for My, Com closed 1%c Wigher, at ATe ! for Apell 473 tor May. Oata clored 1o 1igher, ot for April and SKc for May, Rye wax steadior, QTise cashh, and 8@70¢ for May, Varloy tter, at 4o for "April. Hogw were , ata docline of Go I Hzht snd 106 3¢ In heavy grades, Cattle vore unchanged. with sales at §2. 8GGL6.75, Sheep werequlet, at $4,003 0,00, Ono hundred doliurs in vold would buy $100.874; In greenbacks at the close, N The nomination of Mr, | A Kissoxy of Towa, to tho Spanish mission, suceeeding Mr, Cuunting, who las resigned and is on lis way home, is n proper yocoguition of excel- lent public scrviee, and will bo fu every way creditable to tho nation Mr. Kassoy will reprosent, Flo will mako tho best Minister to Spain the United States hins had sinco Mr, Benunz served in that cupacity, Ife hns large experienco in public affnirs, hna boon n membbr of Congress four torns, avel has twice visitod Burope in an ofillal eapacity in connection with postal affairs, kaving former- 1y been Assistant Postninster-General, 'I'hbro is ono foaturo in tho relations between thin couutry aud Spain which has been neglectod by former Ministers, and to which Mr. Kas. soN 1u especially fitted to turn his attention, Wo refer to o modifleation by treaty of tho commercial intercourso botween quict and Greenbacles ot the Now York Cold Ex. chango yesterday closcll nt 93, Withiu the past two weeks over 2,000 In- digns hieve availed themsclves of Con. Croox’s plan of amnesty and disarmament at Red Cloud and Spotted Tnil Agencies, and now word iy received that Craxy Ilomar, with sbout 2,000 of his people, is coming in to liy down his orms aud the two nations, Mr. Kassow {s cutirely familiar with the gross injustice done to the United States by the discrimiuating duties levied Ly Bpaln upon Aworican exports to Cubp. e people of the United Statsy aro tho chief purchasors of Cuban products, aud, boing the nearest ucighbors and producing more cheaply than auy other country what Cuba iust buy abrond, jnternational comity aund mutual interest domand something liko reciprocity in trado betweon tho United ftates and Cuba. Bpain will reslst on ac. count of the cxtortionate yovenues foreed from Cuba from duties, but Mr, Kassox, supported by the Admimatration, will bo nblo to bring a strong pressure upon tho Spanish Government iu more wnys than one, ’ givo. up his ponies. Doin. Kxree and Eraspvo Enx with 600 more are expectod to-day, aud the Tudian country by the sur- render of those Lands is clenr of hostiles, with tho exception of Birrive Bury's party and a few stragglers who remained behind when their respective bands wout to tho Ageneies, It is pleasant to note that the Russian Grand Dukes Arexins and CoxsTanNtiNg called upen the President yestorday, and wore hiospitably entertained and recolved, aud that the call was promptly roturned. The iuterview was in every woy such a one’ns should bave been accorded to the repro- sentatives of u great Power which has nlways been friendly to us, aud with which we ure on terms of Lanmony, and strikiugly con. trasts with the shabby treatment of Avexs by ex-Prosidont GraNT on aformer oceasion, the Grand Duke being wade to suffer an official ulight, owing to the soclal discrepan. cies between Mry, Hamivron Fisn, wifo of tho Beergtary, on the one hand, and Mme, Oatscazy, wifo of tho Russian Awbassador, ou the other, —_— ALpANY, April 18.~Tho Assembly has passed o bllt amending the statate relating lo the cleetlon of President and Vics-Presldont, 1t provides for clecting Klectors-at-Largs on the Elato ticket and the remainder on the tickets in tho severa) Cone greasfonul Districts, —l'ress report. = It all the States could bo fnduced to enact Inws like the Eleotoral Lill which bas passed the Now York Assembly, it woulll grently~ simplify the Electoral quostion, and render the election of Presldent vastly fairer, This Now York plan js subatantially that proposed Ly Benator MorTox n the forui of o constl. tutional smendmont, Coungress cauuot com- pel the State Leglalatures to pass such a law, but thoy are at perfect liberty to do so of their pwn accord, ‘Ihe menning of the Now York bill is, that, at the next Prosiden. tial election, one Elector fa-to be elected in each Congreusional Distriot ot tho same timo und {u the same manuer as the member of Congresy, und two Electors aro to be olected on the Htato ticket tho same as State ofticers; 'The wmajority party in the State will thereby secure two Electoral votes, and the party iu tho iajority in cach Con. greasionul District will get one Elector, Had this Jaw been in force in New York and Jili. uols at the last Presidential eloction, TiLpey would have received ninetoon Elcctoral votes in New York and Haves sixteen. The former would Lavo recefved eight in Ilinols and the latter thirteen Electoral votes. A fow Btate Loglslatures sy be induced to follow this New York examplo ; but it is not likely that wmany will, us the party in control of the Legislaturs will expect to bo able to carry tho State, and therefore will desire to se- curo tho whola list of Eleotors to which the State is ontitled. Thbe Bpringfield Register undertakes to do- fend ity interferonce on partisan grounds to gave the Cook County Riug from being leg- islated out of office, and says that tho *in. terferonce” cowes from Cook County, which seeky to nbsorb the whole time of tho Legis- lature with this aud other local watters. A very pluusible explanation of tha con. tinued presenco of the Russion squadron in American waters s furnished in our Wash. ington disputches, as suggestod by naval ofticers in that city, Upon the breaking out of war with ‘Turkey it would be conveniout to have o fleet of fast-sailers, such ns those mnow lying off our coast, to keep an cyo out for ‘Furkish vessels lond. ed with munitions of war purchased of Auwerican munufucturers. Ouce on the high sess nnd outside of United Btates jurisdiction theno ships would full an easy proy to the Rusdion men-of-war, and it tmight casily hap- en, in the cvent of o rumpus with England, that cther commerco besides thut of Turkey would suffer from the erafty foresight which seut the Grand Dukes out crulsing with such an elaborate naval ontfit, Tho eituation iu New Orleans has not chunged for tho befter since the date of last advices. Tho formal rejection yester. dsy by tho Picxanp Legislaturo of the proposition for adjustment suggésted by tho Commissionhas tenninated the labors of the President’s representatives so far as relates to any plan of cowpromise or coucossion ihat can Lope to obtain the assent of the Pacxanp party. It is thought probable, however, that the temptation of a regular per diets which tha Nicuorrs Legislature is able 1o kold out will prove too strong to ba resiited by tho nesdy negrocs now living from hand. to-mouth and casting gloomy glances toward the empty Tressury which shows no sigu of iwprovement, Comfortalle scats and & ‘Wo mnst remind the Register agoin that, it the Illinofs Legislaturs had left tho law for electing Cook County Commissioners as it stood originally, and na the Constitution in. tended it should bo, Cook County would not now have to appeal for legislative relief, Bat, after tinkering the Iaw in such a way s to ennblo the formation of o Ring in spite of tho peoplo, and so as fo pro- vent the people from protocting them- selves (having nmow the privilege of clecting only one-third of the Board every year), it is the dnty of the Legislature to right the matter, nnd it is in 'no senso_**interfer. ence” for Cook County to nsk relief. The only Chiengo lobby that the Springfield Reg- dster will be able to find in the Legslaturo is a lobby to prevont {ho pnssage of Ropinson's bill on the gronnd that the Cook County Ring is composed mainly of Domocrats, and shonld not, theroforo, bo legislated ont of existenco, 'This istho Register's real concern in the matter, along with some inscrutable animosily cherished by small conntry nows- papora ngainst Chicago. In this respect wo aro patisfied that theso mewspapers do mot represont oven thoir own limited constituen- oy, for the people throughout the State gon- erally understand that Chicago cannot be in- jured without injurionsly affecting the rest of theState, just as the head of a man can. not bo seriously battered without interfering with the usefulness of his body. ——— THE BTATE LEGISLATURE. The Legislature of Ilinois has been in session sineo the first week of January, aud confessedly is not prepared to sdjourn, Ono part of the members favor an adjournment on tho 1at of May, withi nn additional session woxt winter, while another portion favor an effort to legislato as far as possible and then ndjouen sine die on the 15th of May. In the one enso the session will Lo four months long, and to continue three months longer noxt winter; and in the other caso tho session will be 135 days long. The daily cost of o session is nbout $1,200, and on the 1st of May tho cost of the sosmon will bo nearly $150,000. Wo do not refer to the cost ox- copt with referenco {o the nmount of busf- ness dono. Thero have been some soven lundred bills introduced, which, considering tho limited jurisdiction of tho Legisla- turo, is onormous, Beven hundred general laws would, if onacted, remodol all tho laws on the existing statnte.book, The delny in legislation aud tho length of the sesslon are due, howover, mnot to the number of messures pending, but to the waste of ‘time caused by tho fro- quent adjournmoents and the time lost in windy specches, ‘Tho first wooks of the sossion were dovoted exclusively to the Ben- atorigl question. One-balf tho mombers de- voted thomselves to clect a particular man Benator, nnd rejecting all othors; while the other half labored to defest thu cancus nomineo. At the end of that campnign the mombers wero exhansted in beolth snd strengtl, ond, taking o furlough, went lome. It took sevoral weoks for tho Gener- nl Assombly to recover from tho demoraliza- tlon of tho Sonatorial campaign. A month was substantiolly lost In that business. Sinco then the acsslons have hardly averaged four days in tho week. 'The week's business practically broaks up at noon on Fridays, and is resnmed on Tuesday afternoons or Wednos- dny wornings. But fow bills of genoral in- terest have so far been matured, Each Ifouso has passed 8 number of bills, which remain unacted on in tho othor House. Thero seems to bo n goneral unwillingness to reach 1inal nction on anything. This is largoly duo totho strong dosiro of a Inrge numbor, if not o majority, of tho mombers to havo an ndjournad sosslon, at which thoy ean spend tha whola of next winter. Thd last Legisla- ture was tho most disorderly and disrepnta. Ule that ever mot in Illinois, but, with all its tronbles, it performed all its Dusiness and nidjourned sfne die, It subjected the State to no exponsa for an oxtra neusion, Lnt cloged up its Lusiness, moking but oune job ot it. ‘Tho peoplo of Tilinols, when they romoved tho limitation on the numbor of days in tho ‘bionnial sessions of the Legislature, did not contemplate such a thing ns aunual or sd- journed sossions of four or flve monthia long. On the contrary, the Constitution, by prohib- iting special legislation, took away from tha Logislature two-thirds of tho business which formerly ongrossed jts time. An extra ses- slon of the Legislature was only contemplat~ ed when in ‘caso of somo unforescen oxigonoy the Govornor should summon the Ganeral Assembly to meet for somo special purpose, In adjonrning over until next winter, the Legislaturo will violata the spirit of tho now Coustitution, which provides but for one session in every two yoars, Tho best thing the Legislature can do, therofore, ia to ‘meot hereafter mx days intho week, and devaoto themselves to the expedition of business! Drief wesslons in the ovening might bo employed in formal business, leav- ing declsive action for the day sceslons, The practical ndjournments from Friday to Tuesday should bo abandoned, and in o fow weoks all the fwportant legislation can bo scted upon, and the General Assembly be able to ndjourn sinedie at ou early doy in Moy, To compel members to givo attond- siico to business, there should be a declsive quietus put upon tho schemo of adjourning over unlil noxt wiuter. As long ‘as that schemo is floating, there will bo no attention glven to businesa at this sension. THE PENDIRG WAR, Events indicate beyond all question that war botweon Turkey and Niagin Is inevita- ble. If this war can be localized, thers is no doubt of ita result, . It will ba a question of very short timo how soon Rusala will dic- tate teviny of peace to the discomfited Turk- ish butchiers. But care it be localized and uarrowed down to the lssue of obtaiulng se- ourity for tha Christians in 'Turkey withont oxceeding its natural limits and clashing with the interests of the other Powers?. If this result cannot be obtained, then the fn. ture {5 dark, Austria {s in a dilemma which muy force Ler futo it, ‘It Austria does not go into the war, Russia may occupy all the Belavie provinces north of the Halkaus and the whole line of coast down to Montenogro, which would bo a standing menace to Aus. tria. If, to provent this, she occupies Bos. nia and Merzegovina, thon her centro of gravity is changed. Tho Belavic clement will outuumber the Magyar as the dominsi- ing power, and the German part of Austria, losing the balance of power, musteventually drift into the German Empire. Can Rou. manfa, which i3 a powerful province of four aud o half millions of people, snd the other sualler Belavic provinces in whose behnlf the war is being waged, bo kept out? Italy and Franco have no cause to impel them into the war, and the former has played no part in the long aund tiresome game of diplomacy which has preludedtbie strife. Germany has 5o immediate interest {n the struggle, and, éven if Austria shoyld become involved, would still keep out of it, from Erench no« oessitiss, She has it in her powor, howerer, to chock Russia, if the latter should go too far. The most important of all gnestions is, ‘What will England do? So long na the war §a cunfined to tho Sclavia fssuo, thers is no ronson for her interference. In his Moscow #peach, and in subsequent communications’ with the English Government, the Czar gave his golemn assurances that Russia had vo de- signs apon Constantinople, nnd that her routo to Asin Iny not througl' the Turkish Capital, but through Egypt. Nations, how- ever, changs thelr minds ns well as individu. als, and promises made before a war are not created in any Btate that has not beon found {o be a nuisance, both on account of its delays, the uselessness of its decisions, and the incronsed costs of litigation. * now makes bold to say that ‘‘tha policy of thé Administration fs just, wise, and liberal, and conduclse to the best Intercsts of the wholo country.” The Press oceasionally goes off on o tangent, but, after a littlo sober reflection, it comes hack and braces up all right. The Press thought that 11aMrroN was going to kill all the blacks In Bouth Carolina; but it now seces that perfect peace prevails, and that frlendahip and kindly feeting aro being rapldly restored between the whites and blacks in that State, just as the Preafdent predicted would be the resuit of hls polley, TAXING ITOCK. Wa print a lettor from Senator WarTing on the subjoeot of taxing eapital stock., 'There ore two bills ponding in tho Legislatare. One of thess s to authorizo n roassessmont of tho capital stock of the varfonus mailways for tho taxes fortho ‘years 1873, '74, and 'f;, ————————— ofton kept nfter n war bresks ont. | theso new asessmonts to take place of the | pypiic apinton at Washitngton fs very pecnllar, If the Russions find their progress | old ones. Tho importance of this bill may | 1t is eapeclally subject to panics and luflations, bo judged from the fact that in 1873 the assessmient of the capilal atock of the rail- wny companies was $183,000,000 upon a tangible property of only $08,600,000, leav~ ing the companica to pay a tax on tho value of the tangible property and on £64,500,000 ndditional, reprosenting the difference bo- tweon the valuo of this property and the stipposed valuo of the cortificates of shares represonting the same property. ‘Tho assess~ mant of the same railroads in 1876 was only $44,000,000 for tangiblo property and $10,- 000,000 of doublo tnxation called capitaf® slock, Itis notorions that the majority of tha companies whoso capital stock was put down in 1873 at $133,000,000, or double that of the value of tho whole property, wore thon bankrupt, and that since then their capilal stock and indebtednoss have largely ceased to exist ; they have disappeared like swoke, ‘'Tho assessment for 1870 1a a con- fession of tlio injustice of tho nssessments for 1873, '74, and '75, Thero s, however, another bill which proposes to amond the Raovenue law by dropping the whole business of taxing capi- 1l atock—that is, of taxing the same prop® certy n sacond time under another namo; and wo do not understand how the State can avold doing this unloss it oxtend the rules for taxing eapitalstock to that of taxiugprivate property. 1fa privato corporation ownn farm and manago it so ably that it produces tho company n large profit, tho owners aroat prosent taxablo not only on tha value of tho land, as thelr neighbors are, but they are nlso taxsble on the value of tha eapital stock which ropresents tho land. A similar farm, equally profitable, bat owned by unin- corporated individuals, is only taxed upon tho land. Why this discrimination? The only banais or excuso for taxing the title to corporata proporty in the form of sharca of stock is that of supposed or nctual profit from tho investment, whioh is simply an in. come-tax on profits, Now, if incomo or profits are to bo taxed in the case of companios, how ecan thoy Lo nvoided In the case of individanls, and still have taxntion uniform? Inreaching nfter the intangible and oftentimes imaginary, Benator Wiurmve overlooks tho fact that Le is violating every principle of uniformity. Proporty can have but ono value for taxable purposes. When the Assessor values all the property of o corporation or individual, ko exhausts the fanctions of nssessment, . That nssessmont may bo amended, corrected, on- larged, or reduced; but the State cannot justly nsseas aud tax tho land and also the titte-doeds to tho samo land, It caunmot - duplicato assessments and taxativn by listing tho samo property under ‘two forma or names, It cannot nssoss aud tax a man's monsy in tho bank ‘nnd also tax tho bank-book showing K tho condition of his doposit-sccount. It cannot nssess and tax n man's hogs and sheep, and also nssoss and taz the receipt for tho money paid for thom; and it cannot nssess and {nx & horsa, and at the sama timo nsseas nnd tax oach of four ownors of tho nnimal on one-fourth of its value in addition to the assessment on tha horse. Tha substance and shadow can. not both be taxed,' If Mr, Wirrexo wants to tax incomes and profits, lot Lim so provide, and let it apply to overybody in the State alike, and not to the property of individuals only who'aro co-operating togothier under a corporato namo suthorized by the Btate. difficult, it is not very likely (that they would attempt to tako Constantinople ; bat if they sweop eversthing before them, tho temptation to reizo the city and die- tato a peaco from the palaco of the Sultan would be irresistible, It is only some grave orisis lka this that can provoke Englend. Tho Englisk peopla have not that sympathy for the Turk they had twenty yoars ngo. His inhuman barbaritica and atrocities, not to speak of his dishonesty toward his creditors, have produced such a revulsion of feeling and such a growth of antipathy against him that England will take no part excopt under s tondition of things that affects her own interests in tlfe East. It is significant that tho Government has sent Mr. Lavanp to Constantinople, who is more familiar with the East thau any othor Englishman, to watch theprogress ‘vf evonta and givo tho signal of alann, o) Russla goes into this war better preparsd than showns in the Crimean days. Her army {8 stronger, better organized, and bet- tor armed. Blo can now transport her troops and supplies by railronds, instond of convey- ing them in wagons a thousand miles, a3 sho did then. This time she has the sentiment of tho wholo civilized world in her favor. ‘I'ho massacres and atrocities of tho Turks aro ns familiar as housohold words, thoworld over, 'The English press Laa printed the do- {nils for a year past, and tho Llussian press hias copled thom; and the chargos have ‘Doen urged with 0 much forco that almost overy TPower in Europo has taken cognizance of them and called tho attention of the Porte to them, The Turk isdamned in tho estima- tion of nll clvilized mavkind, not only for his cruelty and barbarity, but for his deter- smirfod opposition to Western civilization in all its phases. The animus to rid Europe of his presonce has nover bocn so strong bo. fore. Boclety thero lives between alternate hopes and fears. Tho removnl of the seat of Government was fora long time s terrible scare. The War was, on tho contrary, & prodigious blessing, It created uffices, and Induced vast cxpenditures of money. Any measure of economy or rediics tion of cxpenditures is regarded as a public calamity, A yearago, the printiug of fraction. al currency, which bad grown so costly that it rTequired BU cents to puy for iaeuing every dullar of the notes,® was abolished, and Washiugton was disturbed from its circumference o its centre, hecause no leas than 600 persons were thus removed from employment. Now there arc sume 600 mere to be dischared, and, as it all the horrors bf unmitigated despotism were to be visited upon Washington City sacioty, the proposition is tnade to reduco the army to 5,000 men. ‘The cap of sorrows is nearly flowing over. What!reduce the army? Is Washington soclety 1o be left unprotected and deprived of its brightest ornamentsi If tho army, then the wavy and also the marine corps, will be abole 1shed! Are mot those organizations especially provided by nature and by the wisdom of & pa- ternnl Government to furnish husbands for Washington soclety aud elegantly accoutred gentlemen to lead the Germen and beat the ket~ fle-drums? Even our corrcapondent at Wash. ington, yiclding to the solomnity of tho sur- rounding influcnces, holds up his handa and ralsea his valce {a horrar at the idea of disband-. ing the armny and the mariue corps, Noverthe- Tess, when the Governmont shall have put an end to tho pollcy of upliolding two Governiments fn each Btato by the use of troops, and when the Indians shall have been unhorsed and dls- armed, the reductlon of the army to the morcst skeleton, and the saving of £20,000,000 to $25,- 000,000 a year, will not only beawise but a most popular measure, oven if 1t bring tears to suclety at the Natlonal Capital. e ———— Adricea from Sptlngfield indfeata that tha lohby influence 1s too atrong neainat tho bill for county reform, now pending i cach 1iauso. It s thonght any gobd moasure might pase: tho enste, Lut § tho ling ls steang cnongh to steangls it in the Tiquac.— Chieago Journal, Country members of the Legistature have been fn the hablt of sneeringly asking Chleago members, Why don't your peoplereform the Board by electing now membersi- If tho Ring {s ,strong cnough to control the House of Ropresentatives, they answer thelrownquestion, But the people of Cook County would reform that Ring out of oftico mighty quick if they wero allowedtodo it. As the law atands, the terms of only onsthird of the members of tho Boned ex- pire each year, and, I five well-lntentloned members aro clected this . fall, thers will remain ten hold-over members. What can tho five do sgolnst ten? At tho cud of another year all or part of the new batch will be let Into tho “steals’ of the others, and, after having once gotatastoof mutton, they will go un killlng sheep as badly as the older dogs. The corrunt, raacally Ring cannever bo broken uporreformed by degrees.” Glve tho peoplo a chancs to clect a now Board this fall, and if thoy fall to clect honest men aud reform their County Gov- ernnient, tho fault will b thelrs, and not that of members of the Leglalature. If a majority of thio country members are under the influence and control of Catskin-Muft Keansex and CoLvix's cx-Marshal, GoopsLy, lot them be put on the record, whereby thelr coustituents will have a chanco to find out thewhy and the whero- foro the people of Cook County were depnved of the pawer of reformiog tho Board aud saving amitllon g year of taxes. rm——— FRACTIOUS DONKEYISM, TReferring to the assortion made by Tar Trmung, that the Democratio party will saddlo itself with responsibility for the County Ring if the bill for the rcorganiza- tion of tho Board bo defeated by tho Demo- cratic members of tho Legislature, a long- eared attache of tho Limes romarks : Tho Democratic party is asked whether he, ahe, or it can nfferd to *‘saddle itsc)." Awaddlejsn cuntrivance for the back of a horse. Is the Demo- cratia party a apecimenof the specien of quadrupeds of tho genus ¢quus, commonly called o horse? If 80, tho philosopher's conundriin would be the same in these words: **Wo ask the Democratic horso ‘whether hocan afford to saddlio himself with the rosponaibllity, * cte, “ It {s ungroctous in this long-eared sndivid- unl to ignore his own race. Asses aro sad- dled as well as horses, and if the Democratio party is to be treated nsn quadruped, thero aro corininly more points of resomblance bo- twean it and au ass than between it and a horse. If wo should teke tho long-cared Democrat who wrote tho above paragraph ns o fadr specimon of his kind, tho likeness be- tweon the Domocratio party and a combina- tion of nsscs could not” bo successfully dis- puted. As n rule, an ass dislikes being snd. dled much more than a horse, nnd thia only benrs out tho grentor rosemblance, Tho other points of likeness ave too obvious to require mention ; besides, the comparison would bo odious {o tho ass, ‘What the Demoeratio ass is really driving, at in this caso is to avold Loing saddled and girted with tha Cook County Ring; and, be- ing an ass, it pleads an nbseuco of soul and o consequont irresponsibility for anything. But the fact {s that oven osses ave hald to a certain responsibility when they kick and make themsolves othorwise disagreeable; no community will tolerate a collection of them running over, and destroying, and devouring property ng they go. In the sense that the Democratic party is a voluntary nssociation of porsons for po- litieal ends, aud assuming that all indvidnal ‘Pemocrats do not belong {o the gonus nsinus, it moy olso bo held accountable, This is sufficlently recognized by the fact that alrendy in somo States thero are laws for reg- ulating the primary mectings of voluntary political assaciatious; such a law is pro- posed in this State. And as no voluntary association outslde of the Church exerciscs so strong n dominion over its members a8 o po. litical party, the responsibility of such pnnsso- ciation ought to be proportionately strict. To Jllustrate by the caso in hand: It fsadmitted that the majority of the Cook County Ring belong to the voluntary association known as the Democratio party, and that they were placed in thelr prosent trust Ly the votes of othor wombers of the same voluntary adso- ciation, ‘This association—the Democratio party—is furthor represented by a nux{llmr of members in the Illinols Loglslature, forming a majority in one House, Now, if the legls. lative mombers of the Democratio nasaciation uphold tho county members in plundering the peoplo, wo fancy the people who want to save their proporty will be inclined to lold the entiro awoclation responsiblo, and will maoke a desperate effort to take,the offices {rom {ts control and administration, If the irrcaponsible axinus of the Times can't see this, it is becauso he doean’t want to sco it; and he furnishes » strong argument in favor of party respousibility Ly attewpting on be- hinlt of his party to evade the censuro which will attach to it in case the County Hoard Le not rcorganizod. —————— ‘Tho fatermediate Appellate Court Lill'having Jurisdiction only to the amount of $500, aud having flonl Jurisdiction In nothing, has possed tho Jlouse, and 13 now before the Scuate, As it stauds, the bill will be a nuisance, n mere ob- struction in tho way of justice, a contrivance to fncreasc fecs and costs, and to present delays fn determining caugos. All cases involving more than 8500 taken to this Court, after lodging there a year, and then undergolng & uscless trial, may be sppenled to the Supremo Court. In what way Is that golng torcliove the Supremeo Court or expedite sults? What did the con- trivers of this schemo mcan? Is it moro fecs, ana coats, and delay they aro atter] e — The managers of the Illinols Penitentlary have been conducting that {natitution in & way to make (¢ self-sustalning with a vengeance. ‘The Governor has laid before the Benate tho ro- port of the Committeo appofnted by bim to In- vestigate its financial condition, They report an {ndebteducss of tho institution of 8110,734. Atthecend of two years It is estimoted that another 8100,000 will b sunk. It will Yo moro than that {€ matters arc uot batter managed, Reform is necessary, as 8aM TILDBEN would say, Tho Western Catholic is a vory indiscreot Olurch organ. It goes out of its way, for {gstanco, to remind Tue Tnisuxe that “tho tomporal power and soverelgn rights of the Popo were Gop-given, and in wrosting from the Holy Father his Gon-given rights, Exaxn- ves becamo o sacriloglous usurper,” The 2z6nl of thin usertion is rather mora to bo ad. wired than its historical accurncy. Tho tom. poral possession and power of the Papacy scem to bave beqp in some degreo an out- growth of it epiritusl supremacy, but they never nssumed any imporianco )l Prri, whose nssistanco was invoked by Popo Sreenen 1IL, defented the King of Lom- bardy, ond obliged him to give up certain cities to the Popo. It was only from this time that tho Popes assumed to be temporal sovereigus, but it was stiil later (about the year 774) before their nom. iunl authority was confirmed. It wasin that year that Cuansesraank completed tho con. quest and extjuction of tho Lombard mon- archy, and guorantacd to tho Popo the tom- poral soverciguty over a small portion of Italy, Even then Cumanteaaonz, whom the Pope crowned * Emporor of the flomaus,” exerclsed an imperial authority over tho whols of Italy, including the Pope's domin- ions, and CRANLEAAGNE'S successors for many conturies nominally retained this function of suzerain, History shows that it was not till the reign of -InnocexT IIL that tho Papal dominions were actually indopendent, If ‘there is anything in this brief outline which shows that ¢ tho temporal power and soverelgn rights of the Tope wero Gop. given,” then the Watern Catholio is right; otherwise not. To sn unprejudiced réader of history, it looks more as though Perin and CuanzesaoNe had given tho *“tempornl powet and soverelgn rights," iustead of Gop, and that the prerogative was conquered in very much tho same manner as the other temporal power of -that period. Tho fact is that the Savior himaelf made tho distinctidn between eplritual and temporal power very clear when e sot the example of rendoring unto Oxsan those things which are Czsan's, and unto the Lord those things which are tho Lord's, He could not very niuch wore plaiuly have told the Popes aud Bishops to re- sign the political power to the civic rulers and to devote ‘thelr timo and atten- tion to spiritual authority, - Somowhat Iater, tho Popes grew mmbitious for temporal as well aa spiritual pawer, and there woro great wasriors and wighty men who conquored it for them. Dut it waa always subject to dis- pute, and a fruitful source of dissension, as the Bavior apprehendad it would ba; and, 80 far from being o * sacrilegiong usurper” in *wresting from the !la}y Fathor, bis Gon- given nghts,” Yicron Extanves bda meroly roturned the Chburch to the original order of things, aud placed the Popes fust where they were during the first soven Lundred years of thoir history:, i 1t the peoplo of Cook County wera permitted by the prescut Leglsinture to clect s vew Boand of County Commissioners this fall, they could save next year one million of dollars of county taxes. Thatls tho amount now belng stolen and wasted in o year by the Ring, But the ro- port comes up from Bpringhield that Kxanney and QoopsLy are running the House i behalt of the Ring, and that no redief bill will bo per- mitted to pass that body, Tho puople reccive this fuformation with blank astonlshwent, . ———— ‘TheLeglslatare Is incubating a bill for a Com- misslon to juvestigate bog cholera with a thou- sand-dollar appropristion. One would think nono except Grangers would havker for places on this Comuilsslon; but, us a matter of fact, théy are sought for with avidity by dty men, 1t s suggested that it Lo composed entirely of # squealers ¥ taken equally from the tirst und sccond bateh. This arrangewent, it Is thought, will be'satlsfactory to thosu thut areto by in- vestigated, ———— If the Now York papers are uotcareful, thoy will torment ANNA DICKINSOX untll they drive her to distraction, -and then whut will people say of them 7 The fight of a woman with tho newspapers fsa deal more onc-slded than Stho fight of a man with a railroad.” Common decency should cause the Bohemians of Gotham tolet-unon ANNa. There are far more ene nobliug occupatlions than walloping a womun,— capeclully after she cries “quits.” et It {s stated that some two thousand of the skeletons of Louisiana negroes that bave been “protected” by the Packanp plan witl be for- warded to Washington for the purpose of {lius- trating to Congress tho efficiency of that syss tem of redeeming tho pledges made by the nation W the freedmen. If thescare not sul- fiefent, several hundred can be obtalned In 8outh Carolina, enough to demonstrato its power as a ‘‘protection which protects—anatomical musouas! In the interview published yesterdgy with soveral lawyers on tho subject of the bill creating Appellate Courts, the reader will have noticed the caro with which the job iu the bill was not mentioned, Mr, W. H. Kivo, how- ever, had not only discoveraed the little trick, ‘but was candid enough to denounco it as it deserved. 'The passage of the bill as it now stands will certainly be a fraud, It will be alaw to defeat and to delay justice; a law to increase the cost of litigation, sud to increnso tho fees of counsel. It will be & law to oncourago appeals to the Bupreme Qourt by offering increased delays iu baving the appeals beard. It fa o bill to compel all appeals and writs of error in ordinary cases, whero the sum In contyoversy is $500 and more, to be taken first to the Appellate Court, to hang suspended there for o year, snd then, after that Court has heard and decidad them:, another appeal will lie to tha Buprems Court. Does the Legislatura ca- sume that the peoplo of Ilinois want such a barefaced frsud os that practiced on them under the preteuso of reform aud the has- tening of justice ? Az we said yesterday, no istermediate court of appeal has over been —— e Much aud descrved ado is made over the newspaper man who rescucd oight servant-girls from the Southero Hotel. The fact 1s that he was w Chicazo reporfer, and bad not been In Bt. Louls long cnough to get used to the ways of ber citlzens with survant-girls. e —— e + 4 What Made Jiim Do It?" 1s the suoject of a lecture by o distinguished gentlowan who forguts that Torsy answered thu question some years slace In the articss reply tos similar query: - “Bpecs coz D'se so wickid.» el b bk snge WaRNoTI now appears in tho front ranks of frrecuncliables on the PacxamD side of the Louisiana queation. He will not doto rely on, Lowever. His kiss 13 golerably certaln tobe followed by a betrayal. Ho carries the “bag? in the Pelican seconciliation bysiness, and has A couple of weeks ago ForNax's Pras way raviog wad st Hawerow, and surieked out, #Shall the traitor Hampron dictate to the patriot Haxzsl" But 1t bas sccu Mzht, aud ' not failed to bo Impressed with the worldly wis. dom of J. Iscantor. Indeed, that {a about the only Biblical character that WARMOTI scems to know anytling about. - t— The New York Tribune can be mighty mean when It tries, It Insults Duntey FiaLp, and Bumlln Cox, and *Citow-Cliow " Braixeen, and "Janes Braiws, aud Wespeny Priiies, and—aud all the rest of the scald-heads, by de- claring there aro no party leaders. Noj bug there nre men (it Is not uocessary to name them) wrho try to be party drivers. Internnl Tevenue Collector 8uack, of Toston, apnarently focls his teuurs of oftica to be frail, 1lis paper, tho Commionuealth, says it **trembloy for the necarity of Government fn all the dicor. dered States," g The Chicazo Aporafser seems to have the same kind of feelings, for he, too, trembles for the sccurlty of the carpet-baggers. A Milwanikee miulster last Bunday took for hls text: * Flo that hath an car, let him heae At onee the rest of thie audicnce retired, leaving the edltor of the Séntinel and his auricular ap. pendages to organize Info a congregation, That work was soon done, and the discourss pro- ceefed. = E ————— The Russfan Ambassador to London will Bonouvarore diplomatle cases and toke a leava of abseuce If negotiations are suspended. His wife will go with him, thus producing a double. shaflle-off Hlable to produce grave cumplications, —even worse than a Loulila adroon ball, e — e A Boston man, G. R. Cnampxny, has been honored by the Cear with a decoration of the Onderof 8t. Branistavs for improvement in dies and gun-work, PiRr must not be dlsconrnged by this. s decoration will come some thne. ————cg— e A Japanese Commission I8 in tho blue-grass country of Kontucky ostenalbly tobuy thorough- bred stock. Fromn thelr quict movements, however, 1t looks o Iittle as though they were ona “athl" hunt, - ———— The “era of good feoling ¥ has reached the suburh of Byanston. For the first time In fts hilstory, there was uo opposition to the regular nominces for village officers ut the lato cleo tion. ! Ald. Gzoros WmiTe, of the Tenth Ward, g taking a remarkable interest In the seclf-con~ fessed thict, aud exbibits much muxiety to have lim seated ouce more in the Council. Why sot f ‘Tho question for the City Connefl to decidels’ whether they will allow o sclf-confessed, Lalf- pardoned whisky-thief to Lold a seat fu that body. 4 If this country cannot have a war with the Russfan Beary it can at lesst haves civil war Bruln in Loulslana, and that's some comfort. # l Tho largest clephant this country ever had arrived from Europo last Saturday. It beats Loutslana, e | Growlers are Yuman tclephones, Lho echocs of each other, PERSONAL. * Lawn parties have taken tho place of sheet mas- | querades. Tents have dropped pretty flat.~Grophle. Trotty flats in Chicago aro highor than over, At s grand drunk by a party of Davarians at Achdorf, tha other day, ona man deank eighteen gallons uf beer. " Rome has preservel rigid sllence, notwithatand- ing Rusala has been kicking Torkey right under the Pope's nose. . ¥ Laura D, Falr's asaots wero, stock valued at 8650, and she sighs, **Ophir tho tima when thoy wero pledged for $7, 000" . -1t was only by & ueratch that tho celebrated Iows politician escapod a mlsnomer. Suppose he had been named Ienry Day Clean! ‘Whon the boss Prof. of a colobrated Esstern seminary seked Mise 0. Marrleon if the Vienna comet tvas in aight, she replicd, **1t Vas-sar," +4Call off the Throopd,” yells Mr. Edward P, Price, of New York, just becanse 8 young fellow horsewhipped him In & wireot-car, The assailant xan oditor on the Eleprees, It 19 sald that Bimon Cameron 1s going to Burope, andovery wompn with a wart under her ear 18 bumplugeround to fnd out on what boat. The lttle widow saya her **udroam of Jovo ls all aver.” Mt, Tittlebat Timonse's {doa of a careisgo is onte done by an Invention of Mr, Winans, & wealthy Baltimore gentlaman. Tisis a closs conveyanco ‘with solid glsss roof and glasa windoygs all around, The Jackrabbit of the Milwaukco Sentined lure- covering from & day off, based on the, following paragraph from the Picayune; **Qen, Bscobedo, of Mexico, ls remarkable for the length of Lis two ; ears, They aro fteon inches long.” A flery Bonthern-1-0-u-cer, describing himaelf as T. A. Alston, has completely disrupted tho Preal- dent’s Bouthorn policy. 1o mado application for the United States Marshalship of Qeorxis, and lald before Me. llayes the papors prevared Sor Ar. Tilden, without vraning the name of the latter. After the firat shudder of horror St. Louls will fecl some degroe of pride in having accomplished something which Chicago with all its bigdres could not attaln.—Rochester Danocrat, Which probably means the iImmortalization of o Fire SBuperintend- ent whoae name ls (and whoso functions appesr to bethose uf) Bexton. One of the disadvantages of abbreviating impore tant news when sonding It by telegraph 1eshown {1 the Now York Herall's Putls letter by cable, {n which the fashlon correspondent says: °*The sallor's collar b4 now worn 'by tho ladies as luw 89 themiddlu of the back.". Doos ho mean the top of the collurt—Glods-Democral, Of course e does, Tho ottom is wtill farther down, . Tho New York Commercial Advertiser snys mors than one hundred handsome Americaa girls broke tbrough the Ica last winter, wore’ reacucd, and ruueriod (helr rescucrs. . Yeos, and we kuow one Amcrican girl, good a4 gold and homely enough to scarc rata, who bas broken through the fco every winter since 1844, aud hos had to scramble out by hersclf every time, and s the confirmedeat kind of an old nald yet.—2awkeye. Owon Fawcelt, tha comedian, wlo s now with Daly's Filth Avenuo Company (No. 1), latel played The Major, in Daly'sverslon of ¢! Lemo) a4 Woonsocket, i 3. After the performauce 8 srdent temperance Jaan called tosee himat the hotel and entreated him to sign tho pledue, saying. 4+You played your past ta porfection until you got drunk, and then you madea confounded faol of yoursell." The report is now that Mr, &, bas since signed the pledgo, TVrincd Demidoft did pot particularly approve of the dress mln.lrvmmu of tho Loudon thestres. While staying “in that city bo took abox al ihe opera for ihe season; but, although he paids hizh price, be scldom made use of It. One nigut, bow ever, he dropped In, but was refuscd adumlittance on the ground that he was notIn propor evenlsf dress. The next day he sent bls valet to the suan® sger with a Jare trunk contsluing soveral sults of clothes, and asked him to bu good envugh to select one |n which the Frince wonld be ableto obuin sdmigtance to the theatee, Lvening dress or noby hls Highness was nover fefused admiittancy again. A repotter for the New Orleans Timas has turued Blwaelf loose to pasture on a murder, which be opens thus: **Last evening, Just as twilight was merging lato night, and naught disturbed the trao~ quillity of the acune savo thelowing of tho biad sud tho dull, unceasing murmur of the waves, gently lapped the Jake shore sbout ‘s qui a mele south of the New Lake Eadcsi threp pistol-shots fn quick sulcession ra upon the s The **lowing of the hilnd' prod- #bly refers to the whoops of the feported, whoes *irau-quill-ity* was manifestly disturbed bY vomethiug *'gently lapped”. conslderably nearef Hawkips' than the Igke shore, Thomas Ewlng lesrned the Spanish langusge I8 sixweeks, He badan fmporisny veal estate cas® 1a8t. Louls, and nearly al the old recordy relatind to it were wrilte Jn Spaulab; so the clover lawyer sat down to acquire ft. At the cnd of tbe time wmenjloned he went to court with the suclent Spsn~ 1ah recorids and gained bis cass, 1o hiad g curlous 1y deep revorencs for Webster, s deen that be could pot speak of him without emotion. 1o bl youth he way renowned for his wthletic powers- Hewould place threa empty hogeheuds side b; side, soy old Lancastor goesips, sod lcap out -; one hogehead fnto she other, clesring the wno: without 8 scratch. Anather feat of bis was e ingover & tape-line held by two wen mxfe . elght st the extremo height of thelr bands. On of his pecullsrities was his extravsdinasy ¢a) or poctical quotstion. ’