Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 5, 1877, Page 8

8 The Glrilmm. T‘FHMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. the course of a flery sposch eriticizing tho moderate utterances of Jurrs Sntow,~— that ‘¢ Clericalism was an enemy," waa greot- od with prolonged applause bythe Left. President MaoMamoy is thonght to look with undne lehiency upon tho Ultramontane agi- tations, and tho action of the Chamber yes- terday was in the nature of a pointed ro- MY MAIL—IRK ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT ’ TIIIS OFPICE. iy EAULY d: 1 year. .. $12.00 arta of & year, pe i 1.0 | minder that measarea more sovere should bo Mailed to ‘H{ ddrean four weeks for. 100 Bunday Fditfon: Literary and Raily S taken, Y BBEEL Lo anioososgonnioe { X ) c———— s ., twel! 2.t0 . * I 2 Y T T T etk DORDATA, 1 JenFor o | "The recent map of tho theatro of war in aris of & year, per month.... W50 Europe and Asia, which wns printed in Tnz TRIDUNE, has won nniversal commendations for ita clearnesa and acouracy of detail. This morning wo printasecond mapof a atillmore comprohensive charnater, embracing not only Turkey in Europe and Asis, but the wholo of Europe, the northern shore of Afriea, and the westorn frontier of Asla, thus showing at a glanco the rolations and communications of tha belligerent provinces with the rost of Earope. Althongh covering s lnrger torri- tory than the firat map, all the principal points of military intorest in Turkey, on both sides of tho Black Soa, will be found, 80 that the progress of the respective armies may ba traced not only with rolation to the Turkish frontiems, but also to the rest of Europe. A portont of troublo in the futuro is visi- blo among the Sclaves and Roumanians be- longing to Austro-Hungary, Bervianagents, noder protext of addressing themselves to tho Servian Mahometans of Turkey, are at work to gain the support of thoir race in Austria for Rusaia's mission of deliverance. Theso offorts aro said so far to have pro- duced little effect on the Borvians of Hun- gary, 08 somo of them who went last year to join tho Borvian army were neglected in favor of the Russian volunteors, and made to rotorn homo ot their own expenso. Trnoes of the Roumanian movement are to be peon in Transylvanis, whore cmissaries from Bucharcst ara busy sowing seeds of discord betwoon the Magyars and Roumahi- ans, and 8o trying to weaken tho Govern- WREKLY EDITION, FOSTPAID. Qeg copr, per yea Cinhof ten. Cindof tw Postage pre, Epeclien coples sent free. Taprevent detay and mistaken, be rure end give Poste ©fice sdiress fn fall, including tats and Connty, Pemittances may be mado elther by draft, express, et Otfice orler, of fnregistered fetiers. atour risk, TENMS TO UITY SUBSCIIDERS, Py, delfeered, Sunday cxcepied, 25 cents per week. Pally, deltvered, Sunday Included, 30 cents per week Mddiress THE TRIDUNE COMP'ANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-ts.. Chil leago, Ll TAMUSEMENTS. Tlaverly’s Thentre, Randolph street, between Clark snd LaSslle, Rigagement of the Richings-Bernard Opers Troupe, Afternoon, **Martha® Evening, *'Marrisge of Figaro." MecVieker's Theatres Madison street, between Dearborn and State. Ragagement of Miss Mary Anderson. Afternoan, #Ingomar.” Evening, ** Evadne.” Mnsenm. Montoe strect, between Slato and Dearborn, - Vaude- ille and novelty, Kogagement of Den Thompeon. % Joshas Whiteamb."” Afternoon and syening. Adelphl Theatre. Moaros mreet, corner Dearborn. **Texss Jack fa theBlack Ilills.” Afternoon snd evenlng. New Chicago Theatre. Clark street, between Lake and Randolph. Rice's Sinssrels, Afternoon and evening. Prand’s Uall, + ¥ North Clark strect. Rosdings from Shakespearoby 4 Miermann Linds. ‘Bnec-Ball Park, ‘Twenty<tird and ftata strects. White Stockings va. vt dByracuso Blars st $:43 p. m. Py SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1877. mont of Pesth, : CHIOAGO MARKET SUMMARY, Tho necusations made againast tho Russian Government of having banishod largo num- ‘bers of Catholio pricsts to Siberia are pro- nounced greatly exaggerated by tho Bt. Potersburg corrcspondont of the Memorial Diplomatique. An inconsiderabla numbor of Polish pricsts have beon sent awsy, not to Siberis, but to somo Russiau villages. It was considered necessary to do this, becanso thoy refused obstinately to uso the laugnage of tho country in their services, and per- sistod in proaching in Polish, which the in- habitants of Lithuania do not know, In tho Lithuanian provinces invaded by the Poles since 1569, only. tho nobles speak Polish, and tho priests belong almost wholly to the noblo classes. The vernacular dialecta are Lithuanian, Samogitian, and Russian, The pricsts know these langusges but will not uso them, notwithstanding reiterated orders from the eccleaiastice! suthorities, The 'Chicago produce matkets were generslly Y E.mnutr yestarday, with falr sctivity. Mcas pork A oned 15@20c per brl higher, st §15.66 for ‘Jone:and $156.76 for July. Lard closed a shade Srmer, at $0.974 for June and $10.10 for July. =1 Meats woro steady, at Gie por Ib for looss .+ ehoulders, 75%i¢ for doahort ribs, and 7Xc for do L3 .short clenrs, Ilighwines were in falr demsnd, at .y $1.10pergallon. Plour was gulet and stronger. AVheat closed Oc higher, at $1.71 cash and $1.74 foc- June, Corn closcd 24 higher, at 85¢ for May @ 60%e for Juno. Onts closed 1%@3¢ higher, 1ot 46%c for May and 4Gc for June. Rye was istionger, at B7@88. Darley was nominal, at- IR76¢ for May. Tops were quict and a shade lower, closing casy, at $5.20@5.05. Cattlojwers « fair demand and steady, with eales at $3.00@: 66. Bheep wers firm. One bundred dollars n: gold woald by $100.875 in grecnbacks at tho Jelosc. QGroanbacks at the Yew York Stock Ex- r:hmgo closed at 934, ! A publio and formal apology and completo ! mupsration is to be required by tho United ‘Btntes Govarnmont of Mexico in consequonce ; of the imprisomment of the American Con- <, at Acapulco. There noed be no fear but rtheat tho demand will be complied with and & daclaration of war averted. * Anumber of bills wore passed in the Houso at Springfleld yesterday—among them Mr, Tavron's bill to extend the provisions of tho Registry law to town elootions in Cook County ; Mr. 3arrugws' bill making it = misdemennor punishablo with a posaible fine of 600 and imprisonment of one year for a man to desert and leavo his wifo Incdestitute elroumstances without good and sufficiont cause; Mr, Raxwxr's bill to properly pun- ish by fine and imprisonmont violations of trust by Btate officers charged with the oroction of public buildings or improvemont —tho bill, in short, that would have precise. 1y met tha caso of the State-Houss Commis- sioners if it bhad been a law; Mr. Mar. rrxws' bill relating to delinquent taxes; Mr. Sxxron's bill to discourage pettifoggoers and shystors in Chicago; and AMr, Wintrams' bill requiring proprietors of hotels to pro. vide & wire rope in each room for the escape of gucata in case of fire. Tho steamship City of Brussels, which smled from Now York with the Irish Pilgrims on board, is soveral days overdue at Liver- pool, and fears aro entertainod for tho safoty of the vessel and hor passengers. The Ger- hanic, which sailed from Now York on tho sameo day, reached Liverpool last Mondasy, while the City of Brussels has not beon Zweard from, TRassin will not make the least objectiop to tho annéxalion of Egypt by England, in the opinion-of tho Bt. Potersburg correspondent B of the Alemorial Diplomatiqus, TRussia will ‘. domand in oxchange only that England guarantee the croation of an independent "', Xkingdom out of Roumanis, and tho sdminis- ¢+ tration of their own affairs by thoss Turkish - provinoes in which tho Christiana have a largo majority of the population, France and Italy will find their compensations in the occupation of Tunis by tho former and of Tripoli by the latter. Thero seems to be a very genoral impres- sion abroad that thore are to bo numerous vacant Consulates very shortly, The result is a vory sorious disturbanca of tho labor market, occasioned by multitudes deserting their logitimate work and besjeging the Btato Dopartmont for appointments, Every time a dispatch is printed by inconsiderate nows- papers to the effoot that vacancies aro likely to occur, the yush commences, and overy ona who is supposed to hava influence is over- whelmed with personal applications, letters, and dispatches from the hungry horde. It may bo stated briefly for the consolation of this multitnde that thoy are on a wild.goose chase, Thero msy be from time to time occasional changes in the Consular ecrvice, but there 18 to be no gonoral vacating of places. The Imowledge of this may return » great many people to their occupations, and thus restors the cquilibrium of the labor markot, It frequently happens that vice la forced to pay its respects to virtuo, and express an admiration for worthiness to which it is not equal, Bomothing of this kind may be ro- marked fn the recont acknowledgments mado by the Chicago T%més of the justice andsuc- coss of Presidont Hares' Southern policy, and its odinissfon thet he Las, kept full feith with the publlo in tho promisea mado iu his lotter of acceptanco and in his insugural address. This comes from a journal which denounced Hayes as a villain, and endeavorod to excito revolution to keep him out of the position to which ho 'was eatitled under the laws of the country, We atill fear that the old cloven foot {4 hid- don under the Z¥mes’ new drous of political decency, and that it affeots a candor which it doca not really feel. It looks very much as though it was simply succumbing, much ogainat its will, to the force of popular opin. {on, and soeking to lugratiate itself only to enjoy now opportunities for the same unfair snd hostilo course it pursued prior to the inguguration aa soon as it can do so with impunity. Pralso from the ZT¥mes is always a suspicious circumstance, and, when it docs not reflect upon tho person praised (as it cannot in President Havzs' case), it is n warning that this partisanship, sooner or later, in some way or otlicr, is to be used to injure its object. Perhaps the Z'fmes is na- liguant enough to undenitand that ity praise is, as a rule, worse than its consure, 1 e e . 'i4 Tho tompormry occupancy of the Bpoaker's 1 chalrof the Tilinols Housoyesterdsy by Rep- rosentative Tromas, of Cook, was the means of calling forth another exhibition of black. guardism by tho Egyptian Bourbons, nnd a scone-of wtill more disgraceful disorder was only provented by tho weak surrender of Bpeakor‘Suaw to the domands of the ball- dozers. Reprosentative Tiosus, albelt o -colorod mag, ia vastly tho superior in culturo and intogrity to the rowdies who created the distarbanco because a ** nigger " was tem- porarily called to the Chair, and, having been placed:in tho position, he should have been Jprotectod from contumely., e — The demand for 4§ per cent bonds of tho United States has fallen off but . slightly in oonsoquence of the European war,—less than tho demand for any other secunties in the money wmarkets of tho Old World, It is also fruo that the variation in current quotations has been Jogs than in the caso of any other socuritics, United States bonds aro strictly “ gilt-adged " both abroad and at home; but ngmtifying foature of the case is - the fact that the 4§ por centa aro belog largely taken t by our own people, whils the G per centain ! thohands of European holdors aro called in ', and cancoled as fast as the sales of 4} per f1 conts furnish the funds, iy The President, finding that the exigencies A of the War Departmont are not so great as i+ had been expected, Lus wisely concluded not .t tocall the oxtrn sossion of Congross uatil ok October noxt, The country will rejolce at . thisdecision. The public want o political 1" west. Tholast few years have boen of moro ! then ordinary political excitement., The 4% Presidont has already restored peace and order and civil government to the hitherto distracted Btates of the South, and the poat- . poncmeut of the meeting of Congress until ' Iato fn the fall will leavo the tranguillity of . the country undisturbed. Tho whole people T are coutent with the way affairs ore man. 1 eged, and the country will Le all the better if Congressional debates be intermitted for a t eason, The T'imes has sowe comments upon what it styles the **increase of illegal city dobt.” This is simply malicious. Prior tothe ds- cislon of Judge MoArLisTsx it was tho cus. tom of the city to issuocertificates genorally. Binco that decislon the city has only jssued cortificates payablo out of the specifio rove. nue of the current yoar, For instance, the flscal year 1877 began Jan. 1, 1877. The revenuo fur this year will not be collectable until Decowbor next, ‘Lo moet this current indebtedness the city issucs certificates paya- ble out of the revenuo of this year. Theso certificates Judge BMoArristes decided to bo legal. Last year lurge taxpayers advanced wouuy to the city, holdiog theso certificates The attempts of the Ultramontanists in Frauco to stir up o religious excitement in connection with the Pope's recent complaints of tho rigid censorship exercised by the Italian Government are regurded in Italy &a of uo particular consequence, or certainly &3 calling for no action on the part of Parlia- ment. InuFranco, however, the subject of the sgitations has assumed proivence in the de- bates in the Chawmber, and an order was possed yesterdsy calling upon the Govern- uient to uso tho lawful weany st its disposal o to suppress theso intrigues sgalnst the peaco of the pation aud its friendly rclations with Italy. A declaration by GaMasrra,—in until their taxes wera due, when thoy tarned in the certificates. The outstanding certifi- cates of 1876 and of 1877 arball within tho limita of tho rovenne of those years, aro all chargenblo against that rovenue, and will bo paid out of it. These are not illogal in any pense, nnd, ns the expenditures of 1877 will bo less thon those of preceding years, thoir smount will bo less. The outstanding certificatos againat the taxca of 1876 and of 1877 may bo considered as liquidated by the rovonue of those years, leaving as still due the old cortifieatos, con- stantly declining in amount, and all of which can be paid off from tho back taxes, The city has also been able by its policy to reduce tho outlay for iuterest on all these cortifi- catos from 8 or O per cent to G por cent. *No illegnl debt” has been ercated since Moy Iast, and consequontly hns not been * incroased."” . L | An important bill has just passed one bLmnchof the Legislatare and is now pend- ing in tho other, It is tho bill proposed by Mr. 8wmrrn, of this county, defining more clonrly the rolations botweon landlords aud tonants. At presont, whon a tenant refuses to pay rent and refuses to surrendor pos= sersion, tho proceedings are for the recovery of the promises by process ngainst forcible entry and dotainer. The caso is tried bofore & Juatice of the Peaco, with or withouta jury. defendant gives a nominal bond and tho ease is appealed, and thero it rests for & year or more, the tenant in posscssion and paying norent. Tho nbuses of this law aro many and grisvons. This Lill proposes a partial romedy by providing that whon, upon the test of thocasoin forcible entry anddotuiner, thero is a judgmont rondored for tho plaintiff, a writ of restitution shall issno in all cases, From this judgment an lio it bond filed within If the judgmont be for tho owner, tho appeal will the appeal is prayed and tho fiva days. Bat, pending the appeal, the writ of restitu- tion shall {ssue and bo oxcented if the plaintiff ghall within five doys give and filo o bond in a resonablo sum conditioned to pay all such damages and costs as may be award- od against him, if final judgmont is renderod for the defendant. Tho oporation of this law, should it be omacted, will be that, ‘whenever the landlord obtains judgment, lie ahall have restitution of the premises, and tho defendant's appeal, if ho take onc, shall be in the nature of a suit for damages for his disposseasion. It will cut off the prastice of holding possession of prumiscs under o nom- innl bail-bond, paying no ront during the whole . timo the appeal may be pending. That & remedy for the gross abuses under the present law is neodod is not questioned ; that this bill provides n protection agaiust somo of tho abuses practiced is equally ccr- tain ; but whether it will bo as cffective, or is 88 extended ag its authors oxpect it will bo, is n matter wo suppose to be dotermined by experience and the courts. THE BTATE-HOUSE ABUSES, As the true story of the' Senate Invosti- gation of the State-Houso scandal comes out piece by plece, tho showing becomes the worso for thoss who aro responsible for tho abuses, Commissioners, ing the entire sum of $8,600,000 authorized When the fact was ndmitted by the oftor drawing and oxpond- Ly tho Constitntion, that it would still ro- quire $700,000 mors to complete the building, thore was sufficiont ovidonce that thoro had boon at least gross mismanagemont, Going back over tha roportaof the Commisaloners nnd finding that they nlwnys solemnly as. sured the publio that the struoturo would be completed within tho preseribod amonnt, and this oven whon they rocolved tho last 800,000 for tho express purpose of finish. ing up, thero was a suspicion of somothing worse, ‘The roport of the Committeo to the Senate, rocommonding that the architect bo discharged and that the Board of Commis. sloners bo abolished, sufilciently conflrmed the thoory of mismanagement. But it ap. pears that tha roport did not embody sl the abuses which the Committeo ran down in their investigation, nor adoquately express' tho full indignation which the majority of the Committee felt at the betrayal of the public trust which thoy discovered. ‘Tho report was a sort of compromise,~tha minority friendly to the Comunissioners agroeing to join in the recommendation for the abolition of the Board if the majority would consent to let the Commissioners off with as little publio blame as possible, But an effort to covor up official culpability is rarely sucoessful, and not more 1o in thia in- stanco than usual, SBome idea of the enormity of tho Stato- Houso abuses may boe found in the report ‘which wau originally prepared by the major. ity of the Committee, and which has found its way to the public in spite of the effort to suppress it. It gives a nearer viow of the testimony on which the Committoo reached thoir conclusions, and shows how obvioun it must have been to the Commissionors them. sclves that thoy wero wasting the peopla's money. It appeans that two years ngo a Benate Committes investigated the work, and 8 taajorily then reported ngainst the systom of gingerbread omamentation which was costing so much money. A minority— Measrs. Jones and Bronson—sustained the Commissioners, and theso gentlemen now testity that they did so on the snworn stale- ments of the Commissioners and tho arohi. toct that they could and would finish the building inside of the estimates and the con. stitutional limit of $3,600,000. This was aftor the attontbn of tho Commissioners had been particularly directed to the noed. less expenditures thoy were making, so that thoy cannot reasonably plead even an igno. rauce of their duty as an oxouse; thoy assum. ed tho responaibility. The fact is that tho architect was permit- ted to do just what he pleasel, no wmatter at what coat, ‘What motive juduced the Com- miasioners to givo him this free rein, at the expenso of tho public treasury and to their own subsequont dlsgrace, is as yet a mystery. The vesult was, bowever, that exorbitant pricas werv paid for inferfor work all the time. Tho Committee .really ascertained from the testimony before it, given by com- petont bullders and experts, that the mar. quetry floors, Lesides being unsightly, have beon so imperfectly constructed: that they will bave to be renewed at onco at an additionsl cost equal to tho wholo original cost; that the scagliola (some faucy name for a cheap imitation of marble) will Lave to be replaced by genu- ino warble witlin a few years; that, within five yearw, most of tho woodwork and omamentation will have to be reuewed ; that the Portland cewent usod in large quantities is already cracking and breaking; that the grand cotrance {3 * worthless,” and the grand stairway now propped up to keep it from falliug. A single jtem of thiy sham work—tho ontrance—cost $120,000. Aore thousands wero wasted in guudy gew-gaws and loud frescolog, aud much of ths work- waughip is so wanifestly defoctive that the Committea noeded no tostimony as to its worthless chatactor, but saw the swindlo at & glance. All this is bad enongh, but it is not the worat, Tho Committeo further discovored circumstances that look still more like job- bery. They nscortained that, in ona case, tho nephew of the active architoct was paid three or four times more for @ certain job in the choap marble-imitation work than it was worth, and that a largo part of the material was wasted nnd stolen. They nlso nscer- tained that oneof the Commissioners had been drawing ront for a building on tho Btato-Houso gronnds at the rato of 325 to $30 o month which ho Lad nover reported, ond that a local politician was paid $125 n moath ns Superintendent whon thera wera only thrco or four men nt work, A still moro serions phaso of the matter is that the Commissioners have put responsibility on tho Stato for damages by their mismanage. meont, the extent of which cannot oven bo estimated. This extortion is too serious n matter to bo condoned or excused in tho slightost degree. Not only should tho Board of Commissioners Lo abolished, but it should bo openly on the ground of malfensanco, Theso men have been drawing salaries for yoars (over 3147, 000 in all for Comimissioners, secretary, architact, oto.), nnder the protonse of sorving tha State, instead of which they havo per- mitled tho Stato to bo plundered to the amonnt of probably not less than a million of dollars, including the work that must bo dono over ; it is proper that they should be punishied at least Ly fixing upon them all the publio disgrace that nttaches to their negligonce, Cocunaxe, tha architect, is at Springfield, wa aro told, laboring with mem- bers for his rotention, on the ground that his partner, Prqrexano (now dond), was to blame for prat sbuses. ‘Chisin bocause there will be o good many thousand dollars moro in nrehitecta’ foes, if the work ever goes on, Cocnnane’s domand s a pieco of unmitigated jmportinence. Ho was the head of the flrm, and probably in every way cog- nizant of, if not nctuslly suggesting, the courso that was pursuod. Public justice and publio welfare demaud that the wholo sat be kicked out without ceremony, and they ought to bo thankful if thoy got off 8o easily.” THE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF THE WAR. The London 7'fmes, commenting upon tha opening of hostilitics, Aays: **Once more wo bohold the strange phonomonon of a re- ligious war, which is likely to bo ns fanatical and rolontless na any recorded in history. It will also have tho characteristio that tho Mahometan stands moro on a lovel with his rdversary than has ever been known in Iater ages”. The etatoment of the 2'imes is worthy of somo cousideration, the moro especially 03 .nearly overy ono has come to look at this war as a political one, It is, on tho othier hand, tho ounly war that may be called roligious since the last Russian war in ‘Turkey. 'That warcommonced nsa religious one, but its character was changed when Tuarkey's alljps entered upon the scene, TRussin commenced tho war for religious rea- sons; England and France fought Russia for political reasons. In all tho controversies that have charscterized the Russo-Turkish complication since' the outbroak of the Horzegovina rovolt a year ‘mgo, tho roligious question hos boon uppormost. Of coursc fihero has been mixed with it a motive of ambition, but the doc- laration of war disavows it. Nowhero in the nanifesto does itappear; on’the other hand, Russia clearly and sucoinotly doclares the object of the war to bo the amelioration of tho condition of tho Sclavio Chriatinns, The Conference of the Powers at Constantinoplo hinged upon it. It characterized the proto- col. Tho ulthnattim of tho Powera {o the Porte mndo no demand of the Turka that they should cedaterritory or give up political control. 'Thoy only asked that the Christian subjects of the Porte should bo protected in their religious rights and moral privileges; that they should not bo roblod, plundered, overtaxed, tortured, murdored, and troated with that infamy sod cruelty that character- ized the Dark Ages, 1t is to all intents and purposes n struggle of tho fanaticlam of the Greok Church with the fonaticiam of tho Mussulman, A war of this kind must of nccessity be cruel and relentless one, characterized by ex- tremes on each side, Tho religions motive is the most powerful of human emotlons that can actuste a nation, and it is especial- 1y powerful in such a nation ns Russia, where education is not general, and where there is no division of religious thought., In this country, for instance, thors could not be such o war, owing to the spread of goneral intelli- gence and the multitude of other subjects to occupy attontion. Tu Ttussis, however, the. nbsorblng idea iy not domocraocy, republic. {sm, speculative philosophy, or education, but religions dogmns, The priest furnishes the kmowledge. The people, tho press, aud tho Government aro swayed by this powor- ful force, Tho Russian Emperor did not want to go into the war, IHo was willing to. accopt the smallost terms of relig- jous guarnntees; but when the Porto refused to allow of any ontside interference in {ta internal affairs, then the roligious ympathies of the Rus. slan peoplo with their oppressed brethren jmpelled the Government to declare war, ‘The Turks themsulves, also, are actuatod by the religious idoa, s thoy have beon inevery war they have waged since they ontered aud eatablished thoir Asfatio camp in Eorope. Every motive aud action contres in the fanatiolsm of the Afahometan . theocracy. Thoy brought with them iuto Europoe a re. ligious fanaticlsm eharacterized by savagery, brutal tyranny, and tho lowest and most dis- gusting vices of lifo, and thoy have preserved tlheso qualities in all tholr horrille monstros. ity to this day, When wo spoak, therefore, of o war betwuen tha Cross and the Orescent, it means a religious crusade, n collision of religious idens, in which oven political re- sults will bo fought for in the name of re- ligion. Bo far s the war is localized ns bstween Russia and Turkoy, and confined to its re- ligious aspocts, there is no doubt as to tho rosult. A Lalf million of mon canuot defeat million and a half of men equally well it not much bettor armed and equipped, espe- cially when tho latter have tho advantage of all the appliances of modern civilization and the former havo none of them, being enewmics of civilization and fucapable of making prog- reas. All Protestant Europe is in sympathy with Rassla from the religious point of view. ‘The Catholic Ultramontancs are not. Rome has no sympatly with the Grand Patriarch. or sympathy is with the Turk, because the Tussians have been sovoro in their trestment of her. ‘The Jows have no sympatby with tho Russians, for the Bclave has ot been so good a friend to them as the Turk; on the other hand, it has obused themnn worée than tho Catholics. ‘Fhe danger of Russis, there- fose, lics in the pousibility of her departing THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1877—~TWELVE PAGES. from the roligions charactor of the struggle. Bo long ns sho confines herself to that, no Power in Europe will interfero. If, how- .ever, Rusaia prevnila and orushes Mahomot- auism, sho may bo tempted to hold posses- sion of tha territory, and in her desire for political power and aggrandizoment extend bor limita by conqueat. When thia happens, when tho political overshiadows tho religions, then thero is danger cf English interforonce, becanso, while England sympathizes with tho religious Interests of Ruasis, sho at tho samo timo syinpathizes with the political interests of Turkey. AN OPEN BCHEME UF REPUDIATION. Tho passage by the Logixlatara of the bill providing for tho collaction of the unpaid taxes of 1878 and 1874 has excited anow the wrath of the Chicago Z'imes, which de- nounces tho Iaw aud the purposo of the law a3 something imfamous, 'The facts aro fow and very plamt: Daring cortain years the city tazes wero lovied under n special law of the Legislature, Throo-fourths of the prop- orty-owners of tha city paid their faxes; the ownors of onc-fourth of the property combined, employed counsel, and unitedly rosistod the payment of tho taxes. The Courta decided that the lovy should havo been mado under tho genoral law and not under tho spocial one. Ia the meantime the appropriations represenfed by these un- pnid taxes were expunded, the cily jusuing cortifiecntos of indebteduess, and thus had n floating deht payablo ont of tho nncollocted rovenue. Under this dobt the city staggored for soveral years, Tho owners of ouc-fourth of tho taxable property of {ho city thus eseaped taxation, nggregating during hio Bovernl years over two miillions of dollars, Tho qnostion was: 1. Shall this dubt be ro- pudiated? 2, Sholl the property-owners who have alroady paid their tax now in ad- dition tax thumselves to pay the taxes on the proporly of olhiers? or, 8, Blall the tax Lo ro-levied and collocted from the property which owes it? _From the first to the prosent timo the Ghlcago Times has insisted that tho dobt bo ropudiated, that it Lo declared void, and thut no tax of nny kind be lovied to pay it. It hos denounced all tho attempts to securo legislation for the collection of these back taxes; it has urged that oyery possiblo moans be taken to defoat tho execution of tho lnw, and has appenled to the lowest and basost instincts and motives, to do what? To compel the clty to repudiate the dobts it incurred in good faith, and under the full assurouce (s did all other citioain tho Biate) that the law on tho statate-book was sufi- ciont to warrant the proceedings, Hero is a case of one-fourth of the proper- ty of tha city avoiding taxes, while tho taxes Liave boen paid by tho other three-fourths, and overy effort to mako the dolinquent pay their sharo is mot by a demand that tho debt Lo ropudisted. For sovoral years that meas. ure has been porsistontly urged by the Chi- cago imes, to the disgrace of that paper, and it possible to the injury of tho city. Thero is not a redeoming foaturo in tho his. tory of this whole opposition to the colloe- tion of those taxoa ; there is not and never waa o protenso that tho appropriations made by the Conncil were not for legal purposes, and fully within tho power of tho Council § there {s not a protense that tho expenditures authorized by the appropriations were not mado, or that tho cortificates wore not is- sucd in anticipation of the rovenua; thero is not o protenso that the city kad not the logal authority to have a tax levied upon all the property to produco the revenue to woot tho exponditures, There woro two ncts on the statute-book indicating o courso of pro- coeding by which tlho tax could bo lovied. Tho city chooso one of these laws whon, the Court sald,it ought to hinve selected tho other. At nostago of the prococdings was it evor whispored that tho tax was unjust, that ftwas discriminatory, or that it was levied for an illegal or improper purpose, ‘Tho groat bulk of the people paid thu tax like konest monj the others combined to escape taxation and compul others to pay thoir taxes. Thoy mada upapurao to hiro men defeat tha collection of the ravonue. These people Liava batwoen two and three millions of dollara of the city rov- onue which they refuso. to pny over, and which thoy demoud shall be ropudiated, and tho editor of the Chicago 2'‘mes londs hls papoer to theadvocaoy of this ropudiation inthe intorest of tho monwho bave *¢ dead-beatod " the city out of paying the intevest on its bonds, The law jnat passed by the Leglislature provides the machinery under which the taxes of 1878 and 1874 may be ro-lovied ; under which all taxes paid in theso yoars way be crodited on the now’levy, leaving thosa who escaped during thoes years—the persons who owo the city over $2,000,000 of revenno—to be of record willh the unpaid tax o oliarge on thelr property. 'Theso peo- plo know that thoir property was logully chargeable with taxes in thoso years ; thoy, know they Liave nover paid thess taxes; thoy know tlat such taxes are duo to the city, ‘What is thelr duty but to pay thoso taxes? Eltlier thoue who owe the taxes will lisve to pay thom, or tho taxos will Lave to bo col- locted of those who Lavo already paid thelr own taxes, Does the editor of tho Chicago T¥mes waut to poy teu or fifteon thonsand dollars extra tax to pay the back taxes of some tax-fighter? This o must do unless Lie con have the whole debt repudiated, or tho tax colloctod from thinss who owa it —eeee FRANCE AND GERMANY, Discuasing the velations that exist between Gormany and France, tho Loudon Z'imes Liolds to tho view that there is uo immediato danger of any rupture bLetween them, and tlat pacific intentious actuato both nations at presont. A glauco at tho position and the strength of the two nations will show that they have less reason for wmutual dread, and loss templation to attack each other, than they have bad for a loug time. ‘The French kuow that they are uuable to win back Alsace and Lorraiue, or push (heir frontivr back to the Rhine, unleas they havo allics. Bingle-handed and alone, thoy are woll awaro thoy canuot beat united Germeny; they freely admit it, and have mot triod to oconceal it. Germany ocontains o population of 42,000,000, while France contsing only 80,000,000, sud, even if the lost provinces fought on the side of France, she would atill be oversized by Ger- many several millions. While the French have wmade fmmense efforts to reorganize their army and prepare their dafonses, there {s still the work of years to do before they could hope to cope single-handed against the Teutonlo legions in anything except a purcly defensive war. The Times insists that France {s in no mood for oggression ; that— France whil not seck to lnvade Germany, for tho slmple reason that she casnot. Btrooger for de- fonuo than sha was in 1670, she 1s munch weaker for oggression, The way across the Rhiuo fe barred by tho greal furtreascs which wers wrested from bar bauds, and thelr guos commsnd the lines of raliway which lead to the fruntivr. To beslege Mqts aod sucet tho lmmonse army of Germany In the fleld, would require either the genlus of & Na- rouzox, or & far larger forco than that which France har been able to orgenize, No French Minieter in his asenses would pro- pose 8 march towards the Rhine In any circnmstances on which It la sworth while to speculate. 1f France has her vislons of rotallstion, they must b a1 vagua a4 her old dreams. of ravenging Watcrloo. Even thio wildcst of her partinane o not aay a word In favor of rlsking are other war, and all lier fuctions, in {rath, join in declaring that her supremo want ls pescof 8ho neede peaceto glva the Tjepnblica fai trsl, and to foll the pariisans of dynasticambitlon. Bhe needs peace to executs many schemen of domentic roform which conld not bo achleved iy & inilitary Government Jiko the Empire, She needs peace to maka the most of her agricultural resonrces and tho commerclal capacities uf her people. In the Chamber of Deputies no liearing wonld be given to any one who shonld even hint that theso wero net tho saprome neceasities of the baur, are they feit, Indecd, that thronghout the negotla. Ho keenly tiona respecting the Eastorn question tho French have been pre-eminently the partixans of peace at any price. They enuld scarcely Intcrest themselves in the misrule of Turkoy. % On the othier hand, if Germany, under the influenco of the military class, should force s rupturo with France, and fasten o wrong- ful quarrel upon hor, the result of invasion would not be a sories of triumphs such as tho campaign of 1870, The French, while not ready or ablo Lo wago an oppr.ssive war, could inake a tremendous rosistance to o new German invasion, supposo that Francoe is reduced to tho level If the German Geverals of o second-rate Power, thoy aro most singu- larly doceiving thomsolvos. Franco ia far sironger than she was under the Empire, The nemy of “I'rance, says the 7Vmes— T no longer the loose and ineficlent macline wihich was shattered to plecea at Gravelotte and Sedan. 1t does not suffer from a Court which was forced tolook at the political fidelity of its Uencre als more than ot thele professional power, The Miulster of War and the Generals of Division sct on caample of zeal and hard work. The bonds of discipline have been drawn tighter. The oficers are cspected to atudy ~ thelr dullen fntead _of wasting their time cifer when oft parade. Vast sums lave been apent on the cquipment of the troops. ‘The wholo method of organization hos been ro- vised by the light of the Ggrman system, and such parta of that aystom a4 are ‘muitable to France have been copled, The process of mobllization would be s wuch quicker In the event of war that a de- clmye battle micht, it le belleved, bo lost or won 11 Icws than the tine needed soven years ago to put o half-equipped army near the frontler. These changes would give France grester defensive power than shic had {n 1870, cven if we make allownnco for tho loms of Strasburg and Mete. Two years 80, un the occanton of the **scare,* the German anny migat, perhaps, have marched to Paris with littlo diticulty; but the timo for a military promo- nade has pasved. France, it s aald, could not put 500,00¢ men In tho flold, and at least the two large Invading armles wonld find the way to the Capital barrod by & forco larger than its own. France would also have moral advantages which she lacked In 1870, for, 1f sttacked, she wonld fight with tho consclonsuess that her cause was just, Nor would she be distracted by a Court which sometlines made the interosts of the nation mub- sueylent to thoso of the dynusty, If she wero to bo beaten at all, tuerefore, It would only be aftern fur more sovere steuggle than that which was alg- nalized by the tremeudaus dlsasters of Sodan and Mete, All tlicse considerations must have beon carofully weighed at Uerlin, and on one aide they take up o atroug guarantee for peace. Nelther Prince Disuanck nor Count MOLTKE, we may safcly assume, would huzard a trial of strength with Franco on hor own ground, except at thecall of sonie overwhelming necessity, 1f meuaces against Franco are somewhat whispered in Berlin, we moy safely set them down to the jguorant and lero- sponsible zeal of military coteries. So far, tho Proepect 14 reassuring. ‘The Journalis distressed, ns well It may be, ot the apitetul attitudo of the Des Molnes Seag- fater toward tho President. It fears that the spirlt of * faction? it manifcsts, aud the dlspo- sltlon to sct up false Issues and to make mis- Jeading statements, which have been so frequent In its columng, muy by damaglvg to the in- terests of Republicaslsm in Iowa. For some timo T TRIDUNE has been kindly but frmly calling the attontion of thu Register to its mls- chiovous course, while the Journal has hicld its peuce. We are glad it 1s aroused to a senso of Its duty. The Btate Republlean Conveution soon mecta in Towa, and the coursc of the Kegls- ter and o few other papers will, {n so far as they have any fnfluence, tend to dlstract its de- lberations, divide ita coupells, and . dlsturb it Larmony. Wu -thank tRe Journal for lende, ing w hand eveu at this late day. The obduracy of our’' Des Molnos contem- porary required at flrst herole treatment. ‘Tne Tripuxe Las cut tho proud flesh out of the Reglster, nud cauterized Itsmartly., Wuo think it mlint heal up all right without a poultice; but a mild one, Hke that vffered by the Journal, can do no harm (f It does no good. As an cmolllent, there Is no better known to the journalistic maleris wedica. It I8 Letter than bran, cr bread and milk, or carrots. 1t sootlies a good deal, and draws but little, Let the Reglater try It. Put it whera it will do the most good, no matter whers that may happen to be. We shall nutlee the paticut with Interest after tho Journal poultice f4 In position, e . ‘The Clnclunati Enqulver haviug a made o most ferocluus and atroclous assault upon the editor uf tho Commerelal, charglog among other vile thimgs that Mr, HansteaD had defrauded tho witlow of thoe former proprietor, that lady and alsu the attorney of the Porren cstate have publishied the following cards pronouncine the aceusation false, and certilying to Mr. flat- ATEAD'S honorable and upright dealings towards them, viz.: My atteution bas been called on several occa- slona to the puviications nady In the Cluclnnati Hugulrer w tha effect that Alr. HaLstrab had dus frauded inysolt nnd eluldren b the purchase of 8 portion of the Cincinuatl Commercial, and ale durlug the thue that Mre, Poxznoy and | have boen uasocisted in the buslness. | hereby declure the accusation fulvo, Mr, IIALSTRAL haviiyg ulways be. huved o an nonorable manner taward ue, 1 will further adda that before the death of wy husband Ly advieed me to piace confidence i Mr. lat. wtEan, which trnst hus never boen betrayed, [ Lope this rtatement will suthee to currect uil wrong fmpreesddons., By, M, D, Yorreu, AY 1, 1877, - 1 cuncur in the above statement. i, J. A, Poxxror. Tlaving been connsel for 3Mr, M. D, Porren's fumily Ju the settiement of ble estate, ong being sequented by Mre, Porvei 1o add our viows of the uatter referrad (0 in Licr cand of thiv date, wo state that Mr, llaisteaw’s conduct in the purchaso of Mre, Porrew's {utercet in the Cincinnat: Come uercial, aml In_hle vubsequont srrsugement snd dealings with Mes. Potrzit und Are, FoMkHoy, coucerning thelr Interest fn tuat establishwont, hss been uniforinly just and nnnix‘u e, uree Kixa, Mav 1, 1877, 8. J. Tuoursox, e et— 1t Is well known tlat little towns on tho line of the Chicogy & Altun Husd, aud luss than o hune dred wiles from Bt Louls, do not Luy s bundred dollars’ worth of goods fu our market, Lut send to Chicago for everytliug thoy need, Nor can wo Llause them, —Globe- Deanocral, Nelther do we blame then, Tho thing is all right. ‘They ure the vitizens of a free country, and it would bewroug to consurs them for using thelr liberty lu a lawful way, The Chca- gu & Alton Road fitly represcuts the pathways of huwan life. Qo over it oue way and it lands the shudderiug pllgrim in Tophet. Puss over 1t the other way and the delighted tourlst tinds bimself fnau carthly Paradise. As far asthe East {a from the West, so far i tho distance bo- tween tho termint of that road {n all thatis desirable sod of good report. Those who go out from Chicago to persuade men to come this way are mot traveling men simply, but true missfonarics; the few sooty gorilias who try to entice the unwary to go the other way dare not pull off their boots or take off their hata. 1t they did, the cloven foot and horns would show at onco what manner of creatures they were of. Even as it ls, their breath, halt sulphur and haif whisky, bewrsycth them, **Blame' men for not golug to Bt. Louis! We should say not! —————— The papers which notice the departure of Col. Kxeyax to Europs dwell foadly ou his redolent reputation for mendacity, aud prophesy that his correspondence will add wuch to the stand- Ing of the Timss as the champlon Har fu the pewspaper busioess. We are nut quitc sure of this. Kxexax will go stralglt to Turkey. The Turka will lle to him, of courso; they alwars do. Kurxax, belleving the story to be true, will twlat it aroumd, thinking to get s Tic out of It, and tho result may be, once In a while, the ex- nct facts in the ease. Of course this will lnyolve hia discharge it the *old man' detects hun, but he may avold discovery for some time. ——— A little pleasantry in this paper concerning country ‘cditors hias been received by most of them in the samo playful spirit which tusplend t. The Bpringileld Raylster 1s the only ruray Journal that fires up about the matter, It fy slsts that cditors who ride through the cons try in droves on Preas-Association bums ara ol comprehended n the Vagrant act. We suppo. the feeglater 1a right. They aro mot Includ, but the res! question s, Should they bei This 18 an open question, and we | 1t for tho als. cuasion of those who are inte e . ‘The Times is worrled because Tax Tniooxa asked *What will the Democracy dol” Thy question now most Important to Stonayle, #What will the Zimes do1® Under the bened- cent operation of the 1IAxzs policy it s les with nothing to represent. Tho Democrate suppott HAYea; the Repubtlcans support him. The Thnes represents nothing politieslly, 0f coursa the ** old man '* may answer, *‘The Tima represents Itsell,"—but that fs cxactly nothing, et 8ad news for Congressmen! The cxtra ses sion will not bo called for the preaent,—at least not until Oct. 15. Can they hold in thelr speechies nnd their wrath until that timel The anti-Administration men will hop around, now, like drops of water on a hot griddle. The Prests dent really means reform, however, and doss not want to bo bothered Ly missionarics from tho opposition while ha is cffecting It. et r— With a flerce hunger for scnaational matter, the New York papers want Tw=zD put on the stand nnd his trunkful of vouchers opened. Panpona’s box would be nothing it this were done, for It secms sure that TWEED can slinke & ty full of rascals and turn out mqre sofled repulations than were ever dreamed of. Byall means let Twezp vindicate Senator Woobin, ——— ‘The Denver Tribuns says that this paper ro- Jofces that the negro s *‘out of polities,” and ailds that we bave done ns much na anybody to “kick him out.”” In the first place, by **out of politics,”” we mean out of carpet-bag polltics. Wo dld not kick him vut of politics, but we kicked the carpet-bag until it opened and let him out of it and Into polities. ———— Northorn Democrats aro on thelr faces before Bouthern Democrats, The two Democracics— South and North—are liko tho Slamese Trwing, distinct persons; yet If oncdles the other has got to glve up the ghost. That Is what scuds Sax. MY Coxand therest down Southwith stimu. lants and broths and things. —— If.4he Russtans can’t take Kars,let them send for Col. INorn3orL. Ho captureda locomotive the other day from the Danvllle Road, and now keeps ftin his stablo at Peorls, except when ha tukes littlo drives Into the country, —————— The 7.-0. announces that it has looked {n vain among a lot of pictures of humorists in an llus- trated paper for the face of Tux Tninune's “ funny man.” Ila pletuce, lke tha -0, ls not taken, ———t— The “01d Whig " hasn’t *riz" very high yet, but high eoough to frighten the Doniocratie Aacbeths who murdered him. Whether the Bangtio will **down " at thelr bidding, remalas to be scon. § Tho little newspapers in Jowa that have been beguiled Into following the Des Moluca Jegister are all right at last—In fact, they bave ** patent Insides.” The silliness of tholr outaldes is also patent. Ono important point has been overlooked, It helps Rusata, The Turk is o fatallst through and through, aod so wheuever ho is hit at all, hie Is fatally wounded. # | ‘The Government wants 120,000 pounds of soap for4he Indfand. This must be hard soap. Any Indian Agont can manulacture soft soap to sult the domand. | Even thelr cnemies admit that the Turks are o very sedato and gravy kind of peopls, Prob- ably whon well basted they will bo even more 80, # ‘Two things the Z¥mes sedulously Inculeatea— never to pay & tax when |11 can be avolded, or tell tho truth except with a fraudulent fntent, In tackling Turkoy, tho tallow-cating Ruastans are disgusted tofind they will Lavo to lot the Grecey part of It alone. PERSONAL. Tresident Hayos has promised to visit New York scon, nnd a publiareception will be tendared Llm in the Chamber of Commerco on the 15th fnet, The London Athenaum in alate dramstio article refers to Edwin Dooth's engagemeot ia England in 1801, and speaks of him as **tba) rather tumid tragedian, " A Japanese student who has an article in the current number of the NorfA American Re- vlow on our political fastitutionw, judges that of lllre:‘unlrlul ho hue seen America s the most backe wa Thoe Princo of Wales has accepted an in« vitation to act {n thoeapacity of Presidont at a grest dinuer of the publicans, to be given at Wiilia' tooms sume tima this month. Thetempsrance peoply res gard this as **a monstrous scandal. " Miss Alcott, sister of tho author of **Littlo Women," and Mr, Healy, of Chicago, have plcturcs in tha Farls Salon of this yoar, Tho sube Ject of the latter ambetta, Mr Healy hibits a beautiful portaitof o child—his own dsughter. Parvon’ Brownlow usod to boast thathe hiad never playcd & card, or used tobacco, o tak »drum of liquor, or gone to a theatro, or Wit nessed o horso-race, il singularly does not say that ho nover used profano lsnguage, thongh a# much might be expected of bln, boing a parson. Gov. Colquitt, of Qeorgis, nsed to preach to tha colored peoplo of Goargis, snd he etll 8nds time to deliver an occasional sermon to them. I fa sald the peoplo there profer the Governor's sermons to bulldozing, {gough thoy still feel thal intimldstion Is oxvrcived when e sxpounds the doctifng of hell-Aro without the modifed oath. Joshua Sears, the young man reported to bo so ouormously wealthy, has lately been obliged togive o mortgage for $:300,000 on his Tremoote ouse property In Boston, The trustoce of tba outgje purchased this property ln 1834 for $200,° 000, The mortyguge 1a placed st u valuation of $500,000 on the whole property. Mpye. Cobdon, widow of tho late ominent statésman, Los left & numbor of valusble doco- ments belonglng to her husband, Incluaing the dlary of bls Isat visit to tho United Btates, which took place about two years before the beginulog of the Civil War, Tlis toar embracod & visit to Ws Ington snd the Bauth at & perlod when the sgits: tlon onthe slavery quedtion was culminating, the resulta of bls obsorvations will doubless be cxcesdingly futereating. Wheu au allusion to ‘¢ guarantoes " wad | made in the pi coof the Turkish Aubasssdod at Parls, he tol rFy: ** A Jew at Rutschuk wes bargalning with a poulterer for a pair of fowle Atlast hosatd, Well, Iwill take them at yoot price, only I have not ty money with me.” ** OB r, ‘*therols an endto it then, " sald the **Notstasll, T n is struck. I wlll oulf takeone of youar fowls, snd will lesve yoa tb8 otlier as guarautee, Mr, George H. Butler, the nephew of B.F. Dutler, bas boen appolnted & Spectal Ageat of (b0 Post-Ofice Depastment {n the Blsck Hilla, Tbers 1s conslderable dlssstisfaction with thls 8P, ient 8mong the Lest newspapers. Butler's cod duct wheu Consul at Calro, Egypt, was of the most scandalous description, sad slnce his recall from that post he bias been knowa rather for bls dissipsl: ©d babits aud shacicless life than for sy scquslsls ance with business afslrs, It 1o unders! l»: s wite, loeo Eytinge, tho actress, has separats from tam. The best uae that can be made of s8ck men as Butler Ia to soud them to the Blazk Hilis but not much can be expectcd of bl ln his capacity.