Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 24, 1877, Page 4

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E!}::z:v‘vrmkor Siiw, Ontes: English Opers Comnpany, **Priucesse de Treblzonde.™ fl'l!v':lle!yl T;@l(bl'q!v 4 Blat Madison street, letween earbarn _ an: e, Engagement of llas Mary ABderson, - Lady of Lyoas Adelphi Thentre. Monrae strect, corncy, Derborn, Rogagement of Georgo . Thompsos ‘acup. | CHICAGD COMMA! U3 Ry Kndghie, 3 full uniforni ne the Asylium, o sted-ain., on Weineeday mOFning nt 10160 8. M sharp, to attend the funeral‘of unr lato Sir Knight Goorge ”l‘l{‘:ln.l [s" fifiikllllnnf l(llktf l'.ammlnderlu arein- ed 10 Join wilh ds. ¥ opier o iy o Y SVGII, saNpoR, . C. JAS. E. MEGINY, Recordor. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1877, OHIOAGO MAREET SUMMARY, The Chicago produce markets wero gencrally Jess active yestorday, ond irrcgular, wheat aud flonr belng buoyant. Mcss pork closed Ge per brl higher, at 815.05@13.%0 for May and $16.80@ 15.83 for June, Lard closed a shade casler, ot $10.00@10.023 for May and §10.10Q.10,124; for June. Meata wero ushnde firmer, ot 53¢ per Jb {for Joore #houlders, fic for do short-ribs, and 8¥%c for do short clears. Highwines were qulet, at $1.074% ner gallon. Flour was in good demand and bigher. Wheat closed 5ie bigher, at $1.58 for May nnd $1.68%c for June, Corn closed ¥ge high- er, at 473ic for May und 48%c for Junc. Oats ' closed ¥c higher, at 38c for Mayand 38%e ‘for June. Itye closed 2¢ bigher, st 82¢, Darley was nominally stronger, st 70@78c for April. logs wete nctiva and strong, at 5c advance, closing at ttle were sctive and firm, with 2. .00. Sheep wero firm and un- chnnged, One hundred dodlara in gold would bay $107.25 1o greenbacks at the close. " Groonbacks at tho New York Gold Ex. change yestorday cloged at 034, g Promonitions of trouble in Crete are al- seady noticed, nnd it is almost certain that a first-class article of insurreotion in that island will add to the many demands upon Tarkey's nlready overtaxed army and bank- rupt treosury. In the rural regions the peasantry are roported to be rifo for a gen- eral rovolt, and the fuelingin the towns s scarcely mora loyal to Ottoman rale, e ‘Tho Common Council yosterday completad - the canvass of the votes cast for city oficors ot the recent municipal eloction, and formal. 1y declared the result in accordance with the ' faco of the returns, The officers clect are to be installed next Monday, The csse of Hizonern was disposed of for all time by tho passage of a resolution reciting his inel. igibility and doclaring him to bo not entitled o a seat in the Council. — Borvin, whoso conflict with- Turkey was not of a very satisfaotory character in its military operations or in its troaty of peace, Las been notified, according to & cablegram, thatsho must take part in the war against Russin. This is an unpleasant eoundition of affairs, for it was Russia which led Servia . wgainat Turkoey ; but it will now be Turkey that will push Bervia against Rtussia and place her botwoen two fires, It is just rotr. + bution for having a large amount of cow- . wrdico to s mmall amount of backbone, i It was very foroibly romarked by a Oabinet ofiicer that tho griavance of tho jmplacable politicians consists fu the fact that Preaident Havzs 18 dovoting his entire attention to the present Administrotion, without ouy reference to tho future. Maving snnounced his dotormination mot to sccept u socond fermn of tho Presidonoy, Lo is wholly concorned in nttonding to the best intercsts of the wholo country, leaving the futuro to tako care of itself. That is the kind of President especially needed at this tiwe, and thot is tho kind of President the peoplo will have cultivated a very decidod taste for by thotimo the campaign of 1880 rolls around, . S TEe—— ¢ Neither Houso of the Illinols Leglalature bad a quorum in attendance yesterdsy apon being called to order, For the first time since the closo of the Senatorial contest, the Bauato attondance was incroased to 8 quorum by moon, while in the Houso there were sixty-nine membors absent. or not voting, - Wwhen the voto was taken on the mo- i tionto postpone indefinitely the bill for the reassesswent of capital stock,~—an important measure, which called out the votesof all the members in Bpringfleld. Nearly ono-half the Houso Liad failed to putin an sppearance, baving not yet roturned from the trips to -~ thelr homes over Sundsy, which free passes * on the railroads have mado more sconomical than to remain and pay board in Bpringield. . Tho names of theso absentees appear in i our -report this morning, and the people ; of Cook County will be interestod in know- ing that the list includes the greater part of thelr rupresentatives. A call of tho House shonld bo had every day in both branches of the Legislature for the purpose of informing constituents who the members aro that habitoally neglect their duties, but never neglect to draw their per diem, S——— Judga H. M. Srorrorp is the Democratio cauncus nomines for United States Benator from Louisiana. The Demoocratio majority on joint ballot in tho Legislatura is nine, but it remains to be seen whether the party dis- cipline is strong enough to keop its members securo ngainst the blandishments of ‘Warmorn, with his pot of money made in bulling and bearing Louisiana bonds, Judge Brorronp is an ardent admirer of President Hares' Southern policy, and ane nounces his intention to support the Ad- ministration so long a8 it edheres to that policy, Such n Domocrat would be vastly preferable in the United States Senato to a Republican of the Kxrroaa-Wanuorn siripo, S— The war.clond at the East is slowly in- crasing in density, and but a fow days, or wecks at most, will elapse before tha actual mutterings of open confliot will be hoard. It is gonorally acknowledged that all hopes of successful intervention are dispelled, and that theopposing Powersare actively ongaged in preparations for the coming confliot, The Emperor of Tussis, now at Kischeneff, whero the plan of campaign will probably bo arranged, has roviowed two of his army corps. The tone of his remarks fo tho of- ficors and raen is very signficant, and can loave no doubt, if any before oxisted, that Russia bas counted the cost and accepted the responsibility. Gontsomasorr's note to the Powers, which is really a declaration of war, has already been received in Paris, and will goon be made public Tho feeling among the TRussian people is represented 'as belng enthusias. tio for war. In Montenegro, where 8 quasi peace has existed for several monthas, tho armies of tho reigning Prince are mov- ing forward to meot the Turkish invaders, and & renewal of the mtrugglo which was waged with varying success last autumn is inevitable, It it fs true that Architect Murrerr s re. tained in somo sort of an officlal position in ‘Washington for which no appropriation is mado, and that he s paid a largo salary out of the funds sppropriated for the construc- tion of the Chioago Custom-House as nom. inal Suporintendent of that building, then tho Chicago people have some right to do- mand of Socretary Baxnuman that he be dis- missed. The people here have every confi. dunce in Architect Bunrive, who is the sot- unl SBuperintendent on the epot, and are do- cidedly opposed to having $4,000 a year paid out of the Chicago appropriation to support Mr. Muzrerr while dawdling about Wash. ington, and to enable him to carry out some of the dotails of his plan, which has already cost tho Government too much, For the rest, wo know of no good rgason why Mr, Mrierr should be ratained in_any offlcial position. If he was entitled to any *vin. dication” for being dropped by Bacretary Bastow for his oxtravagance, he got enough from ox-President GmANT after Brusrow re. tired, and if ho has beon abused by anybody, ho is sufficiently expert in tho use of abusive langunge to rotaliate. Itis generally believed by those familiar with his connection with the Government architectural department that ho was one of a class of officials whom ex-Bocretary Brisrow dropped for the good of the servico, and whose definite ratiromont was confldently anticipated with ths close of Presidont Gnast's term. If, however, ho has done anything to gain Seoretary Suez- Max's particalar, admirstion or contidencs, wo would suggest that Lio be assigned to tho Buperintendency of the Cincinnati Custom- House, and pald out of the Cincinnati ap- propristion. In one way and another, Chi. cago has borne ita full share of Murrrrr, and ought not to be asked to carry him any longer. The information given Ly Canal Commis. sloner Boaminp in regard {o the effects of the recont freshet has a very serious concern for Chicago people. It geems that the freshot has started tho Desplaines River ot such a rato through the Ogden Ditch that the water from the South Branch is shut off en. tirely, and the locks are powerless to pro. duce o current from the latter, For a few days the freshet cansed the South Branch to empty into the mnin part of the Ohicago River at a rate which washed it out pretty thorouglly into the lake ; but now the water of the river is almost stagnant, ranning neithor ono way mor tho other, while the sewers aro emptying Into it more than the ondinary amount of filth and corruption, When wo aro told that it will be sizty days before a current can be atarted through the Bouth Branch, the information conveys a serious monnce to the comfort and health of this community, Ohicago invested abont threo aud @ balf millions, first and last, in deepbning tho canal with tho single purpose of changing the curront of tho river and hav. ing it washed out by the watars of the lake, It 18 outrageous that this should be defeated by permitting the Desplaines to swell the canal through a private ditch to such an ox- tont aa to cut off the draft of water from the South Branch. 1t is due to the city that the Ogdon Ditch bo dammed at once; atem- porary dam may be oonstructod at a cost of & few hundred dollars, which will sorvo till a pormaucnt structure can be pro- vided. As we nuderstand the case, the own. ors of the propejty gave thelr consent that such’ w dam should be constructed, andan appropriation was made for that purposs, ‘Wo see no reasonable oxcuse fornot complot. ing the work. 'Fhero is no injustice in con. fining the Desplaines to its own chanuel, while serlous injury may result from a con- tiuned suspension of current iu the Ohicago River. The County Board yesterdsy committed ons of the greatest outrages that it bas ever yot attempted by any open proceeding. To understand tho cnormity, the facts wmay ba briefly atated. Hexny Harus entered into & contract to build the foundations of the Court-Hlouse for 881,000, The contract provided that the architect should be the ex. clusive judge of the work, and, in case of auy changes in the plan, the architect was to be tho final arbiter of what should bo paid for the extrs work. Bubscquently the County Board ordered some changes in the plan, For this extra work MHaimms demanded $69,000 in addition to Lis regular contract prico. The architect refused to cortify the bill. 'Tho matter has been banging in the Board for many months, and every possible means have been resorted to, to compel the architect to give way and let the bill be paid, and ho hias resolutely refused. Hazus' bill waa as follows: ¢ Original conlract Extra work. ‘Total. "Tho architect corrs 84,000 3 85:500 certifled to the original THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1877. contract price, and allowed Hanius $27,000 for additional work under the changes, mak- Ing a total of $111,000. After fruitless ef- forta to browbeat the architeot into giving the certificate on which slone the bill ean be legally paid, the Board yosterday voted, nfter 8 prolonged struggle, to pay Hanxs $189,000, or $55,000 for extra work, instead of $27,000 certified by the architect. A more barefaced fraud and robhery was never perpetrated by any legislative body, no matter how shame. less and corrupt it may bo. The payment of such s sum is 80 notoriously illegal that Treasurer Hucx, or in his absence Mr, Brrs, will of necessity refuss to {sene any certifi- cato therefor, To doso would bea clear violation of the contract which makos the architect's cortificate essontial both ns to amonnt and as to the character of tho work, The Commissionera evidently have reccived ssgurances from Mr, Goooxir at Springfleld that tho Logislature has baen fixed, or they would not have ventured at this time to pass such an unblushing fraud as this on the al- ready plunderod Treasury, THE NEGRO OUT OF POLITICS, For tho first timo for a third of a century, it may be considercd that the black popula- tion of tho United States have cessed to be tho overwhelming and engrossing subject of Amorican politics. Even from the daya of the Revolation the question of alavery had been o disturbing one, It was a perplexing one in the Convention that framed the Con- stitation, It slumbered until 1820, when it was aroused over the question of admitting Missouri, That sgitation was temporarily quisted, to be resumed at & later poriod with tenfold intensity, In 1844 the Democratio party challenged the anti-slavery sentimont of the age and of the country by sotting aside Mr, Vax Bunexas thelr candidate, and, with Mr, Porx, making tho munexation of Texas ita issuo for tho eloction of that year, Texas was admitted as & slavo Stato, with the promise that two other slave Btates might be carved ont of it. The Mexican war, and the “extension of the area of free- dom," by acquiring new tarritory to boin tarn made into slave States, followed. Then came the Witator Proviso, and the country was torn from one ond to the other by the question of slavery and it expanaion or con- traction. From the date of the nomination of Porx, in 1844, tn the present time, the nogroes, in their condition as slaves or as freedmen, have influenced nnd controlled the politica and all the logislation of the country. Under the attempt to bo both for and against slavoery, the Whig party dissolv- ed, and the Democratio party, after trying for a while to keep up an anti-slavery wing in some of the Northern Btates, finally becamo the avowed and doclared champion and defender of tho institution of slavery, In 1850, under the powerful influence of Mr. Crax, aided by the succession of Mr. Fruiuon in place of Gen, TaxroR, the antl- slavery scntiment of the country wasover- wholmed by the paseage of the not giving Texas $10,000,000 for adopting her present boundaries, by passing the Fugitive-Slave law, nod by the passago of tho acts establish- ing the Territorica of Utsh and Now Mexico withont the Wiaoer Proviso. The prico given for theso was the admission of Call. fornia as a freo Stato, This schemo of meas- urea was intended to bo a finality of the slavery agitation; but, in 1854, the passago of the Kansas-Nobraska aot, repenling tha Mig. sourl compromiso line of 1820, revived the slavery agitation, not to be silencod ngain during the lives of noy of thoso then taking part in tho Govornment. Far tho first timo, anti-slavery agitation assumed an extont that redeemed it - from fanaticism. All the Churches, excopt tho Episcopal and Roman Catholio, Lopelessly divided, Instead of be- mg a reproach and a disgrace, the torm Abo- litionist loat ita torrors, aad, under tho gen- eral nama of Republicaniam, the anti-alavery sentiment of the country bocame consoll- dated. In tho Prosidential election of 1856 the Republican party mada the test, thy ‘* Bolid Bouth," of course, voting against it. ‘Then came tho Lecompton fraud, the divis- fon of the Democratio pnrty, the election of LiNcows, the War, the abolition of slavery, the - work of reconstruction, the onfranchisement of the freedmen, and the subsequent strugglo of the colored people o bo recognized as citizeus, and pro. teated in their lives, and persons,, and proporty. All these events follow in the rogular progression of tho slavery question, During thoso thirty and more years the col- ored race, as slavcs and as freedmen, have Leen the absorbing topio of Americau politics, During that time no election has taken place that was not influonced and . controlled by considerations besring on that subject. It is remarkable how atrong was the national ob- jection to any interforence with slavery, As lato a3 1854 the Democrats had control of four of the Now England Btates and of nearly all thoNorthern States. Public senti- ment had even survived the enactment of the Fugitive-Slave law, At the time of the enactment of tho Nebraska.Kansaa act, in 1854, thero were less than half.a-dozen anti- slavery men in the Sonate. Tlat act, how- over, secmed to bo recognized by the nation asan sct of direct aggresslon on the part of slavery, and aa a bold attempt to seize abso~ lute control of the Government, The Dem. ocratio party, as well in Maine and Vermnont 24 in Virginia and Loulsians, boldly sssumed responslbility for the policy, Politics, sinco the closs of the War, Liave Leen ocoupled mainly by the African, and with fully as much popular’ excitoment as during the period ho was enslaved. The omancipation of the negroes was soon dis. covered to be incomplato without his political eufrauchisement. This was a new trouble} the prejudices and antipathies of centuries could not be overcome in a day, and since the sdoption of the Fifteenth Amendment tho political struggle has beon to secure for the negro the free and undisturbed privilego of the ballot. This struggle has been a loog and not a bloodless one, It has been liter- ally n new struggle for the freedom of the black race. And now, in 1877, tho long controversy over the black mau seems to have rcached & finality, Tho vegro bas been emancipated. e liss been mado a citizen, and tho ballot placed in his hands, By the arrangement fn Loulsiana the last obstacle to Lis free enjoy. ment of political liberty lias beon removed, and o the land pesco’ prevalls be- tween (he whites and the blacks, and in all the States thers are now local Governments having the ability and the disposition not ouly to proteot the col- ored people from violence and oppression, but doeply interested in elovating and im- proving the moral and educational as well as industrial condition of the long-degraded and distressod nogro population. The material interests of both races are bound up together and are insoparable ; the recovery must be mutual, and, with peace established, & com. mon interest must hereafier more closely bind them together, The colored men bave nothing more to ssk ; there is nothingwhich national pohtice ean give them as A class. They are Inirly started and established in the race of lifs, They are as free and socure in their frocdom a3 nll other men, and, like all other men, must The color-line in politics having been obliternted, the colored race, politically, is henceforth mergod in and lost tako theie chancos. in the goneral mass of tho people. Dauring the thirty-three yesrs covered by the negro in politics more than one-haif the pres. ent voting population of the countryhave be- come participants in politics. To those there have been no politicsin which the Africanhas not been directly or indireotly the bone of contention. The negro has overshadowed all other questions. The well-established and understood lawa and principles of political economy have passed out of sight, and men lave voted year aftor year as they folt in. clined on the negro question, Financial and revenue questions have been forgoiten and ignored, and the land has been filled with the strife a3 to what should be done with or become of the negro, One of the evils of thia long and engrossing topie, of this strug- gle over a numerous but helpless and singu. larly undemonstrative race, *has been the rank growth of' a scondalons systom of politics, under which & few men have grasped power and place, and assumed dictatorial control over popular eloctions, Instend of tho conatitutional ad- ministration of Government, therehas grown into power & systom of political machinery whereby & few men in Congress havo grasped control of the Civil Bervice, and moade it as ineficient aa it is ocorrupt and needlessly costly. With the retirement of the negro from politics, there will be time and opportunity to break up and romove this and other abuses which have fastened themsovés upon the administration of the Government, Em— MEMBERS' RAILWAY PASSES. Bonator Jostry has introduced a bill in the Senate which prohibits the acceptance of & freo railroad pasa by members of the Gen- eral Assombly- during their torm of office. This certalnly is o reform in the right direc. tion for moro rensons than oms, and it will assuredly meet the approval of the people. We trust the Senator will follow the matter up until it bocomes a law, or find out the resson why it cannot become alaw, Had such o law beon in force at the commence. mont of the session, tho labor of tho session would now bo ended. The fwo or three days of absenteelsm each woek, nt an oxponso of two or three thousand dollars per day, would have boon saved fo tho taxpayeru. Legislators wonld, to the eoxtent of their manhood, feel more independ- ont. As well - might a legislator at the opening of the session ro. coivo a check from the railroad company for two hundred and fifty or thres hundred dollars as o pass to be nsed overy threo days since last Now Year’s. It ali comes back on tho people in the end, for theso passcs are charged to exponse account by the railroads, sud aro added to the tariff for cmrying pas- songors and freight. Here is the Leglalature impationt to ad- journ and go home, with the important usj. nesa of the sesaion scarcoly touched, and not ono bill yet onactod of general impartance. The sesslons have only averaged throe and a half dnys por weck, but the members havo charged for. soven. Tho chronic shirks have pocketed thelr soven days' pay without having been prosent ot the rollcall once in a fortnight, They have violated thoir acontraot with their constitnents in absenting themselves from tho Chamber to which they were electod. ‘Thoy hiave remained away to attend to their own privato business, and charged the State for services never performed. This fa down. right dishonesty. If they stay away from their seats, they have no right to charge the poople for the absent time. When the ses- slon ends, wo propose to publish a list of the daya each member was presont in discharge of his duty and absent therefrom, together with tho number of days' service he charged the taxpayers. It will be interesting reading for their constiluents, S————— QUTRAQES IN YREIOHTS, Without any reference whatever to the reasonablencss or unroasonableness of the present freight rates {o tho East, thero is one privilege assumed by the railroads which lsal- together unjustifiable, and works groes in- jury to all thelr customers, Wo mean the frequont and arbitrary change of rates sgroed upon, Every fow days tho announcement is mado that the officers of tho Eastern roads havo put their heads together and determin. ed upon raising or reducing rates from 5 to 10 per cent,—now for graln, now for cattle, and so on.. It would be dificult to estimate tho damage doue to producers and Western dealers by this practico. A man who par- chases wheat at §1,50, which he expeots to forward to New York at the prevailing rate of, sny, 25 cents per hundred, wmsy go to bod to-night with a certainty of a fair profit only to wake up to-morrow morning to find that the froightis advanced 10 centy, and not only hia profit wiped out, but & severe loss on. countered. The same experienca is made in flour, corn, cattle, hogs, moats, and eve product and manufaotured article of the West which goos East or to Europo for consump. tion. No factor is wo important as freight. charges in determining tho valne of a com- modity at the point of production or ship. ment, ond in oxercising tho privilege of changlng at will the railroad officials retain & speculative power which is constanlly a source of uncertainty and danger, This a festure of the railroad Lusiness to rogulate which the State should avail them. selves promptly of the principle of the Su. preme Court's Granger decislon, It {s almost criminal for a fow men who are in contral of the railroads to deprive merchants and dealers of their legitimate profits, and deceive tho farmers and mannfacturers of tho Woest by sudden and unnecossary chiangos in the freight-tariff. Buch chauges ouglt to be prevented by law from occurring more than twice » year. A sunmer taril and a winter toriff are all that the railroads can fairly de. maud for thelr protection. Yet there Lave been half & dozen changes in tho tariff this spring. We can conceive of no other pur- pose in all this than to enmablo either ofiicers of the railroads, or certain rings in which they are interested, to operate on the streugth of early information as to what changes will be made. It enables them to uell short when freights are to be raised, and buy for shipment whon freights are to ba re- duced, with o certaluty of profit. It may bo difficult to persusde the Leg- {slatures of the Eastern States to take ad. vantage of the new decision which recog- nizes tho right of the Btates to regulute rail- road charges, since it is likely that the rallvoad futorests can exercise wore influcnea in the East then the Wostern public, 'The moxt best thing to bo done is for the Boards of Trade to sgitate and manufacture public seatiment that, soones or later, will cumpel .Young man, tho railroads {o change thair policy, den and arbiirary changes in the tariff. ——— There was ;Irely—dl:;nulvn yeaterday morn. ing In tho Btate Sensto on the bill making an sppropriation of $32,000 for the support of the so-called Reform School at Pontfac. Thers are about 100 boys at this juvenilo State's Prison, ana by gross mismanagement and proflizate waste of the publie money the concern costs the taxpayersa dollar a day for eachlad! Benator Ronixson, of Cook County, made & fow re- marks on the* Imbecllity or corruption of the mansgement, from which we make an extract. 8Buld the Benator: The Aspmpvllllm anked for wonld give nearly $1 per day,—enough to keep them at a moderate hotel; and pay the school tuition,—yet hey were dleted on black brend and cold water, with an acea- slonal dish of stewed prunes, costing only a Jittle ovor eight cents ;md-F ‘T'ha conrts had declared this to 8 juvenile Penitentiary, and not a He- form School, and sinca such & deeirlon Cook Coun- ty has not sent any of its fuvenile cruninals inere, but sent them at once iothe Bridewell, 1t was nothing but & tralning-achool for crime—a disgrace 1a civillzation, & scab on tho State: and if all were Iiberated, and a torch was lrnll!d ta the huilding, it would be a godsend to ail concorned, To thin of ita costing 332,000 per annum to kecp 100 able. bodied boys on a splendlid farm of 240 acres, and then compel them to work elght honrs per day, showed something rotten lu the management, when any farmer could take the farm and the boys and make money, free of expense (o tho State, Senator McCrLELLAN lhon{m ouch grave charges worthy of llemch'm‘lnvu lgation, and therefore suggeated thet the bill be referred to the Committes on State }l'mn) and Reformatory Institutions, which wae lone, —————— A few of the honorable legislators stay at Bpriogfleld continuously and slt every day the House Is fo sesalon, and charge fora week's work, which {s right. Others arrive on Tucsday and scamper away on Friday, after voting to ad- joun, and charge for n week’s work. Others spend about three days cach alternate week and charge for full time, which s clearly dis- bonest. A fourth class scarcely appear in their seats once |n & month, and 11ft pay for the whole time of thelr absence without a qualm of con- science. They think they ara playlng o smart trick on thelr constituents, bul their conduct is dishonest and rascally. It Is thils shirking of duty which has caused so worthless a sessfon hus far. Fully one-thinl of the members have not carned thelr salt; but they have gobbled full psy, which proves them to be dishonest scamps. ‘The time has come to talkc pointedly about these members. If they supposs their names will bo concealed from the public, they are very much mistaken, ——— A new cvangel appeared in New York Satur- day., He collected an audience, Informed them of thelr sinful state, and began preaching, As the attention flagged, he drew outn pocket- book full of currcucy and offered them ten dollara apleco to still llsten. Ho went on grudually ralsing his bid, until about midnight the figure ran up to $1,000 per hearer and no takers, Then they bound tho prescher and shut him upin the ‘Tombs as & manjac. Why ‘was tho man fnsane! He was mercly illustrat- lug in o practicas way what all the teachers In Clristendom profess, that no expenditure can be considered profligate which may result in saving a singlo woul, Probably the poor fellow thought that if he could hold his audience thl morning some of them might be converted, and yet for adopting the most effectual means of keeping then togother o was set upon, bound, and voted a case for'tho lumatle asylum., Beloved, these things ought not to be, — Tux Trinoxa's usually corrcct and relfablo insurance correspondent at New York, ' Newmo, appears to have been at fault {n his lotter print- ed In our lasue of yesterdsy reganding the standiog of the French corporatlon, La Calsse Generale des Agricoles,” with the Insurance Department of New York, Tho Company has fully complled with tho requircments of the Btate law, and, us will be acen by tho dispatch which we priut this morning, I3 in exccllent shapa to contiuue busincss, — The most important work tne General Assem- bly has done lately s to prevent the people of Cook County from saving a million a year of expeoses [n thelr local Government, 1t scems more {mportant to them that Goobzrr and AMxnzitr should earn thelr lobby toney’ than that balf o million of Illinols citizens should be perwitted to save a milllon & year of local taxes which the Commissioner-Ring thicves ure now wasting snd stealing, e e . In the opening war between stassis and Turkey, e enllat an the Russlan stde, ~Des Holnes (fa.} eglater, Ureat heavens! what an ally for Russla! hat would Russlado §f you should die? And B. ¥, AuLent Aud your countryl Think of them all befors you go for Turkey, the **sick man'! of Europe. If you waot to fight, enlist agminst your friends by fofuinga church, —— ““The Sonthern Hotel was i every reapect as safeagainst fire as any botel futho city,” says the 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Then overy trav- eler sojourning In that city of publle firc-trups ought to have with him or, her, as bugpage, 2 fireproof safs fn which to slcep, 1t is not every person who can successfully tumble tu earth from 2fth and sixth story windows. ——— It {s sald to be a fuvorits klea with Mr, Sronxy to arm the Bashi-Bazouks with pneumatic tubes, Tho *'old man” thluks for o Hre-dn-the-rear,— 8 good ways ju the rear,—thoy must cumnmend themaclves to every futelligent Mussulman, Curporal KzzNan will drlil the Haxouks fu the use of the weapon, furnlsbing both ustruction and wnmuultion, ¢ ——— The Kingot Abyssivla has flnally relcased Mr. MitcuLy, an American geograplicr, "He was found Lovering suspklously near the head waters of the Nile, and the Kiog prubably thought he Intended to jayhawk the entiro stream and bring it bome with Lim. Thé repu- tation of the American people seems to keep always a littlo aliead of the, 4 ——————— Mr. BLaikz being called upon Sunday night for his oplnlon as to the fading away In Loulsi- aus, considerately announced, * I baye nothing tosay about [t." Mr. BLAINE s learning that “silenco is golden.” and that the Republican party does not Jump as Mr, Buaing junips, —————— The Philadelphia Press expresses tho convic- tlon that the South must have a uew deal, Which will put bier commerce ou s footing with that of other scctions, aud Insiuuates that & Bouthern Pacitic Road would bo about tho falr thiog. What bas the Zress been scein' —— It was Marshalltown, and not Des Moines, where that fraction of Buionax Youno's wila named Awx Etiza waa bilked out of her lee- ture-fee. It was geuerally thought that Des Mofues was the place, probably becauss the Heglater ta published there. i Time was when & 1an {n tns stocks was dls- graced. Wanmotu went meck-decp Into tho Loulsiana stocks, made & fortune by rascality, and retires conqueror of his Stato aud hey two Governors. That is the kind of man who has oppressed the South, ————— ‘The Springtield Journal thinks Tum TRIDUNE feels * Blue ' once in a while. After Josing that Post-Otfice, one would think the Jourmal crowd would feel green all the time. f ———————— The late Democratic candidate for Governor of Rhode Island gave a fricod a few dollars to pay curtain polltaxcs. The recipient *nyste- rmmu/d.l.nvpemd.“ ‘The would-be Governor The mubjoct atould bo thoroughly canvassed at tho next Natlonal Convention of the Boards of Trade, and a movement should be started to favor such railroad or railroads as will agroe in every case to give at least thirty daya’ publio notice before sither ralsing or reducing freights, This plan wonid enablo producers, manufacturers, dealers, and ship- pers to govern their purchases and sales ac- cording {o the change in freight announced ; and (he railrosd mon can haveno objection to such rule, unless theyara engaged in speanlating on their present system of and- caught, ——— The New England shoe-and-leather men will advance prices at once on account of an antll- footed, and that Turkey is the most slip-shod country in the world. ———— 1f Crantes Francis ADAMS reads the critl clsms which are passed upon his letter to Mr, under bonds to keep the peacc—at least towards his reputation as a statesman, —— A humorous papef calied the Other Worid has been started in Parfa, It professes Lo be edited by the devll, which may account for fts possess- Ing a good desl of dead wit, presumably frum dead humorists. ————— The Inter-Ocean 18 sad at the loss of PACRARD, but Is not near so disconsolate us it would have been If it had lost the printing of the tax-list, ‘Then {t would havo despaired of the couutry, sure enough. } ‘The Turkish Parllament may bave to consider- the proposed visit of Kzexan, of the Times, The princlpal members prefer that the proprie torhimsclf should nake the vislt, as It would Le safer.” f GEORGE Francis TRAIN is backiog the strik- 1ng engineers and firemen of the Philadelphia & Reading Rallroad. The strikers will Gnd that hefs awild train and unmanageable, f ‘I'he statement that Yale College s tho pos- sessor of the only pterodactyl in the world is consldered by cach of the citizens of 8t. Louls to be a personal Insult. * A correspondent fa clamorous for strect-clean- Ing. Walt till a few more warm days bring out the womenin full dress. Then the eidewalks will be well swept. é The Bnston Globe wants to know * What fs Wanxorn's gamel"” From the turn affalrs hasve taken in Louislana, we should say it was quall. f Our best orators hava fnvariably cultivated the I,}gr!‘:;lor uring the deeper chest-tunes, —New York une, Stump-speakers, cultivate the ballot-box habit, What will be TiLbEN's usufruct on those Tweep documents In yellow envelopes, isa questlon for political cconomlists, | l It Is not very lively In St. Louls, Creditors tricd tosell tho Zimes of that place Saturday, and could not. f The exact length of tho carpot-bog rule in Loulsiana proves to havo been o White Lesgue. The Pope fs declared tobe a wit. This will excuse many of his bulls. f HzrunoLp Is vindicated, The Russlans bave taken Buchu-rest. PERSONAL. Gail Hamilton is writing flerca nntf.Bris- tow articles for the Now York Zridune. Make no mistake! QGall {s uot dead; sho has only been sleeplng for several months. An nnsuccesstul offort was made to sooure tho Rev. Joseph Cook, of Doston, for a courso of lectares in Cincinnatf, Chicago promlses to have o larger success, or, falling that, to manufacturo & home article that will aurpass the originals Tho Springfleld Republican was caught diagracefully napping the other moruing when it printed a leader on **The Loulslana Failure and Its Resnlt " In the fssue with diapatchos an- nouncing the complete eatablishment of Nicholls, Tho Atlantis Monthly for May shows tho tesults of Editor Howells' fallure o procurs the Bwiss misslon, Tho old reliable magazine has broken out with wood-cuts, lika a Tespectable colored cltizen with the small-pox. .We had bardly aupposed that the dlsappointment of the editor would lead to excesses of this description, Maj. Reno has presented to the President evidonca prejudicial to the reputatlon of the wom- an upon whose testimony the court-martial ren- dered fta verdict, **Mow diffcrent," remarks the Boston Journal, **from that Massacbusetts statos- man who herofcally endured calumny rather than vindicats himeolf by telling the truth abous .one whom he had loved *nol wisely, but too woll," Thero {a tho usnal dissatisfaction with the hanging of plctures inthe New York Acadenty of Deaign this yoar, Afes Clinton.bas eent two plet- ures, both of which, the Post eays, might ae well bava been returned oa put where they are. One of bem fea crayon portrait of Dr., Juhn Hall, ob- talned from casnal obaervations, 1t is supposed to posscas unuwual value, inssmuch os De, Hallat present daclines ta sit to any artlst, The last number of Harper's Bazar has an exhilarating cartoon representing a fond wite atandiog by the bedslde of her dylng husband, 8ho.remarks to the Doctor: **Yes, ho's been a- Uogerin® and a-hiogerin', tll now the ofMce whero he had hils 1ife tnsured bas busted." This is equal to the observation of the motal philosopher, that he mover attempted to buck againsta lfe-Insur: ance company, becauso & man always had to dia to win the game, At the wedding of Madamo Charles Hugo and M, Lockeoy In Paris recently, Oambetta nad Loule Blanc wers consplcuous guests, On the same occasion Victor Hugo maoe famous Cab 1004 by acolloquy he held with the driver. Tho cuschman refused the ordinary fare, ssying that the honor uf baving driven Victor 1lugo was sufti- clent for him, The poet forced the francs upon thie tan, telling him (o subscribo to the fund for the Lyvns workmen; + Nolicniinh Cleaveland, who died lately in Boston, wae a representative of the old Puritan stock, teacing hia descent on both sides way back §uto the regluns of blus-blood and witcheratt, His grandfather was the Rtev, John Cleaveland, who was expelled from Yals College In 1744 becauss he eapoused the cause of the exliorter Whitfeld, The chief work of Nehemlah Cleavelsnd was a ** Hlg. tory of Bowdoln College," which {s now about ready for publicatlion, Most of tho newspapers oatside of Chica- go are experlencing a decrease In circulation. Tha New York Sun confesses to nearly 0,000 falling Off within & year, and the Jerald hos been in pro- portion as heavy asnfleror, The religlous weeklivs, which always depended upon the insinosting €lirumo rather than upon merit for support, have Leen still more directly affectoud by the burd Umes. The CAristian Witness scknowledges that its clrcu- lation bas gone down one-third, or from 03,000 to 60,000, slnce January, Chatham atreet, in Now York, has ceased to exist, for tho samo reason that Edlna place, Duf- falo street, and Wells sireet of Chicago, wore changed, respectivoly, into Third, Fourth, snd Fifth avenucs, uamely, because of the disreputable assoclations conuectud with thelr carly history, ereafter New Yorkers will bo taught to apeak uf Chatham strect as Park Kow; but, as the Heraid says: ‘*Becr will continue o be sold thero; the Orlginat Jacobs will continue 1o el dismond plos ata dollar each, and the Original, Origlual Jacots will sell them for halt & dollsr,* Dr. Jowatt, Hoad-Master of Baliol Colloge, Oxford, racenlly had Mr. and Mrs. Lewos (George Eliot) 10 visit bim, When be was about to preach on Sunday, and found sll the seats in the chapel occupled, bo calmly inducted his guostyinto the large, high-backed chairs on sacl side of the com- munlon-table uausily reserved for Bishops. The guests sat throogh the scrvice and the sermon, fronting th ed congregation, and hardly able to conceal il #n40 of the novelty of thositua- tloo. Mr. and M. Lewes havenat occupled 80 orthodox s position before for many yesrs. 3Mr, W. H. Kemble, who wilt be recoguized sverywhero as the fatber of the doctrine of **Ad- dition, Divialon, and Silence,” had tha jmpus dence to send tho following dispatchi: PustapxLruta. Po.. April 0. | Bag.. New Orieans, Ld.: ‘The Cowmlsals Breat chedit for Lelf gucci (o 87d’s men 1o lve Nicholis s minjority. u o8 your Commlsslon he wuuld iave sccomplisied it {n . But we must bavy stefori, H. KeuaLx, Mr, Kemble ought Lo bave been more modest. He should have urged & trial of ** Addition, Divisivn, sud Silence," with which system Le has eclipaed tha boldest efforta of Tweed, took a fine-tooth comb and raked the jstand un- t be found bim. Then he crushed him with a fine display of Democratic Indignation, presume ably because the fellow was a Democrat ang was pated demand for the armies §n Europe. They forget that the Czar's campalgn will be Bear- TiLDEN, ho must wish that he had been put 'STATE AFFAIRS. No Quorum In Either House of the Legislature Yesterday Morning. Someo 'Unlmportnnc . Business Transacted in the Lower House. A Vote on the Game Bill Shows the Absence of Sixty-Nine Mom. bers, Attempt to Pile Thistle Cemmissloners on Top of Our Township orgnnlznuon, Tho Afternoon Sassion of the Benate Ocone plod with the Gederal Revenno Bill, Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. Semixoriee, 1L, April 23,—There was no quorum present on the opentng of tho Housa thls morning, But Bpeaker Shaw, who {s azafu out, but shows traces of bls lato ilincss, dis pensed with the roll-call, and Beuate bills on second reading wero taken up. COPPERAS OREEX, ’ The flest of these was the Copperas Creck Dam bill, which, as It passed the Benate, appro- priates $51,453.13 for the completion of the dam. The bill was read asecond time and ro- ferred to the Committca on Appropriations. ' HENRY IEAD'S Gnan, The bill appropriatiug $5,063.07 for payment of the claim of Henry Head for tho difference between gold and Treasury warrants, In which be was pald for furnishing cavalry equipments furnished -the State In 1861, was taken up, but was stopped on s way to the Committee on Appropristions by thereminder of Speaker Shaw that it had already been made the special order for to-morrow (Tucaday), - RUNOOL HOKDS. The Benate LI requirlng’ the reglstry of schiool bonds with the School Treasurer of the township was ordered to s third reading. As it 1s, there s no registry of these bonds, THR STATR-HOUSE, . The bill providing .or the submission to thi people of an_appropriation of $300,000 for the completion of the new State-Hlouse was read, but was intercepted on the way to & third reads ing by Mr. Cronkrite, who moved its refcrence to the Cowrmittece an Appropriations, which was ordercd. And, on objection of Mr. Wentworty, the reading had wes not allowed to pass as sece ond reading of the bill, which, therefore, when reported back from the Commitice, will come upon second reading, and thon be open to smendment. MORE COURTS AND COSTS, Judge Wallace's bill providing for tho estab- Maliment of Probate Courts in countles having more than 100,000 lmpuhuou was taken up. r. Davis moved a relerence of the bill to the Judiclary Uominittee. He beliéved in its pres- cnt form the bill was unconstitutional, “The division made by the Constitation was between countles of lcss and thyse of aver 60,000 popu- latlon, For those above 5,000 population Probate Courts might be establlshed. - Bec. 29, Art. 0, of the Constitution provided for a uniform judiclal system, The bill was 1o tho nature of special legislation, and therefore unconstitutlonal,” The mutlon to refer was lost and the bill'ordered to & third reading, ¢ A 80 FOR THE LEQAL NEWA.! ‘Thie Benate Lill providing for the publication of notlca ot the adjournment of tho Uirenlt and Superor Courts of Cook County, aud certain otier legal notices, was so amended ns to authore iz0 such publication to be made in the Legal News and ordered to a third reading, STILL MORE COURTS, 3 The bl amending the act providing for City Courts was ordered to a third readiug. It pro- vides that, upon the adoption’-by a two-thirds yote of the ordinance provlding therefor, City Courts consisting of not tmoro than five Judges shiall be cstablfabied In citles baving more than 8,000 Inhabitants. The jurisdiction in clvil casea not {ovolving over 81, shall boe. concurrent with the Circuit Couxt, Tho . jurisdiction fu criminal cases extend to all crimes and misde. mcanors except treason and murder. THE RAILROAD MEN DIB IARD, Mr. Irving made & motion for the reconsider- ation of tho vote by which- the Illinols Central Rallroad’s forcible entry and detainer.bill was Tost. This bill made foréible entry and detainer a criminal offense, and was almcd at squatters upon the Comgmln‘ lands, The motlon was Joat, and thé bill killed beyond possibility of resurrection. . : TR CANADA TITISTLE BILL > was decapitated, the cnactiug clause belng stricken out. It provided for tho {ufiictlon u on the people of a mnufsance not less than the Canada thistles, Thls nuisance was that It pro~ vided for and made Imperative In every town- ship and election )fredm:l. fnclulliog -{:muuw election precincts in citles, of a Commissiongr of Canada Thistles. The only dutles prescribed for that arm £vf offlcials wera that they should take ‘un gsth of office and draw $3 per day ralary, SJECIAL LROISLATION AOAINST CRIVAGO BRTS- : TESS, - The blll to prohibit rfi;.-runl not regularly licensed attorneys appearing as lawycrs before Just.ces and Poflce Magistrates was so amendod as to upply only to the Clty of Chicago, and was ordered tua third reading, It tmposesa fios of from $5 to $30, or imprisonment not exceeding tweoty days. TURKE-CARD MONTE. The blll giving to rallroad conductors upon thelr trufns tho powers of pollcemen was or- dered to s third reading, with -trifling amend- ments, which will send it back to the Senate. Thy olfl also empowers conductors to l(ofc‘ull . train anywhers to put off monte-players; ef i TUB GAMB BILL was amended 80 a8 10 except water-fowl from its_proyisions, sud In winor detals, and was ordered to a third mld.ln:;. The bl provoked cousiderable debate, the featuro of which was the following colloquy between Messrs, Rowett aud Fosbender: . Mr, Rowett {Irhlng 0 speak upon the bill)— Mr. Speaker, I hopa— Mr, Fosbender—WINL the gentleman perints me to ask o questioni s Mr, llowcu—Ccrln!n} ,. 5 Mr., -Fosbender—Welf, how are yout It'sso long since we Lave seen you we wait to know. hFr. Rowett—1've been well aud sober for four weeke, . The Chalrman of the Park Investigation Com- flml: hfll been ahsent fuvestigatiug for thas eugth of tlme, Hfivuq\mllly the voto by which the smend- menta were adopted was reconsidered, and they wero lost. ‘The bill was flually ordercd ton third reading. The blll provides that ¢ ghall be unlawful to kill, trap, net, or ensnare prairis chickens or’ woodcoc] tween the 15th day of January and the 1st day of Seplember In each year: ‘or any decr, fawn, wild turkey, ruilled grouse, partridge, or pheasant between the lat day of hbrunry and the Jst dni of October; or any quall between the lst day.of February and the 1st_ day of Noveube wild 'f’"' duck, snipe, brani ‘water-fowl lmwun the 15t day of AMay and the 15th day of August in cach and every year; pro- vided, that it shall be unlawful for” any person ar persons to net any quall at aoy time afier the act shall take effect { and provided, further, that it shall be unlawful for non-realdents of this Btats- to kil}, enanare, net, or trap any deer fawn, wild turkey, prairie henor chicken, rutiled rouse, quull, woodcock, wild geese, wild duck, finm. or auy suipe, In auy cuum{ of this Btate, ut any thwe forthe purpose of actling, or markets lug, or rewovliye the samie outslde of this Btate. q‘hue bills all come from the Scaate, which they have heretofore passed. & REASYZHIMENT OF CAPITAL $TOCK, louse bill 413, which fa ldentical with Seoate bill 114, and provides for the reassessment of the capltal stock of the fcorporated conpenies ¥; or any ‘or other for 1673, 1874, aud 1875, cawnc up un second read- lug, 1“. Albdfilht denounced itas a fraud, snd moved it be ludeBuitely postponed. The voto stogd s Albrighi Tealat,* Becrlut, Alhla‘n," Juck, v heridan, Black, Juies, Stowsll, Hoyd, day, ice, Byars, Leeper, 'rmn“:{y. ‘snuon, Lot Truesdel, Collier, Mclreery, Yandevester, Connelly, Muore, Waskbur, Croukrite, Oakwodd, Watkios, Engliab, Hamaoy, Wells, u.fl. Rauuey, w‘m"u“h\l lerrus lubiso 0] o Hickey, Towett, Wrigut, —42. ~ NAYS. Herriogton, Hobiuson (Efs Hopkias, HSughswm), . Hurd, Roes, b, lnA-(, Rourke, Boydatoo, Lindiey; Boerman, Brownlng, Mckiulay, Taggart, Buckmasier, Monobaa, ;nuuu' udios oneybam, ir Busey,™' ilon'lu, Wails