Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 10, 1877, Page 4

a4 The Trilbanne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL~—IN ADVANCE—FOSTAGH PREFAID AT TN OFPICR, AT of A yesT) Sintied o oy wdureon four weeid e Eatardar idii rl-Weekly, Tartaoln ’yrl‘;? WERKLY EDIT! in Omeonpr, e . (:ln‘m]‘[crfi' 2 Clubat tweniy, Tastage prepaf Specimen coples sent free. To provent delay and mistakes, be sureand give Poste Oftce addrees in full, Including Etato anid Connty. Temittances may be made either by ‘draft, oxpres, Fost-Oftice arder, ot In registered lettern at our risk, 7E(MS TO CITT SUBSCRIDERS, - Fafly, deltvered, Bunday excepted, 2% centa per week. Lally, deilvered, Sunday facluded, 00 cents per week: Acdrons THE TRIBUNR COMPANY, Corner Madiron and Dearborn-ats.. Chlcago, Il | Sm—— S —————— ' AMUSEMENTS: Tinverly's’ Thentre. Randolph street, between Clark snd LaSalle. Shaazement of the Almeo Opera-Bouffe Troupe. *'La Belle Poules” . ? MeVickep?s Theatre. E Madison street, between Dearborn and State. **Sweethearts and Wives” snd **Tom Cobb.™ - 2 Museum, ‘Monroe street, between State anid Dearborn. Vaudes ville and novelty. Engagemneot of Den ‘Thompson. **Joshua Whitcomb, " Adelphi Thentre, Monrue sireet, coruer Dearborn, Varlety performe e, INGS. DERY, NO. 1, RNIOATS TEM- . Bir Knightal “All inembers of this 'ry, enbipool oF not e ul‘!m-d, arv herehy i oruered 10 sorilexyous wt ATnory, 721 10 75 Monruorat.s thix (Thursday) aftrrnoon, At 4:45 o'clock prompt, 10 tend Ascenslon-Day service i Grace Church, SiF Hnlghtaof Forolgn Jirisdictlonts, preaent In the elty, are cuurteously lovited (o fotn “alth wr. By order ot the 3. 1t DUNLOY, fiecorder. © THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1877, CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, The Chlcago produce inarkels wero moderatively active ycelerdny, and generally stronger after carly wenkness, Moss pork: clesed 10c per bel higher, ot §15.00 for June and $13.15 for July. Lurd closed De per 100 loa higher, at $7.50 for Juneand €7.80 for July. Ments avera dull, at e yer 1b for looso shanlders, 7i4e fur do short ribe, antt ¢ for doshort clears. - 1lighwines were qulet, at $1,10 per gallon, Floor was qulet and steady. Wheat cloved 1l5c higher, ot $1.00 for May and $1.08 for June. Corn closed e higher, at 53%c for May and M%c for Juno. Qats closed 1Xo higher, at 44%c for Moy and 443fc for June. Tiye was casier, ai H8c. Darley was nominaily canlez, ot 50¢ for May, Hogs were dull and 10@ «15¢ lower, closing steady at $5.20@5.05. Cattle were active and atronger, with nales at $3.00( G.%5. Shezp wore firm and unchunged, One handred dollars In gold would buy 610700 fn groenbacka at the closs, T — Graonbacks nt tho Now York Stock Ex- chunge yestarday closed nt 913, - The Logislnture proposes to adjourn on .tho 24th inst. Thatis loug onongh ahead, All'the Lusiness of any hmportance to the peoplo can be finished up by that day; thorg i really not much moro to do in which 11 taxpoyers are interosted or will b8 benefited ne magoates nro said to be contomplating hostilitles inter s2 which will do fnconceivably, groator damage to their im- medinte interests than any of the past cam- poigos. Tho situstion summed up seems to Do that the rallrondkingasay, * War is inovi- table! "and the people complacently respond, . “Let it come!” O ——— 'The rosponsibllity for tho falling of the " roof of the New York Post-Ofico and the Joss ! of life incident thereto has been placed by the Coroner’s jury upon tho architect, A, I, Mowrerr., It is found that the conoroto plasterced on the roof was three times heavior than tho fronwork was intended and calen- lated to support,—a fact which the jury find to be dus to the Ignorance and incompotency of ‘Architect Murrerr, T —— An order lina boon fusued by the Seerotary of War for the discharge of 2,600 men from * tho United Slates nrmy botween now and tho 1st of July. This reduction will restore the army to it numencal strongth previous to the increase which waa authorized by Con- gress In copsequence of the mnecessities of . the campaiyn against the liostile Sioux. The nominal strength of the army will Lo re- duced to nbout 14,000, A fearful cxploslon of fire-lamp in a conl- mine ot Poltsville, Pa., yestorday resutted in tho killing of six men and the wounding { of an equal number. For soveral hours tho dead and the living were allke Imprisoned by @ wass of corl dislocated by the shock of the explosion, and barring the passage to tholr place of confinoment, Lut by brave and un-+ ; tirlog offort, in tho midst of great difficulties, all were rescaed, 3 T — A colloction of grasshopper and crop ro. ports which we print this morning furnishes o reliable statement of tho condition and prospects in tho various localities mentioned, In Iows, Kansas, Nebraskn, and Minnesotn the Lotching out of the grasahoppar ogyw Los been retarded by tho cold rains and heavy frots of the past two or three wecks, * " nd this fact, together with tha destructiva services of the parasito that preys upon the’ locusts in some localities, encourages tho famucrs to hope for at lemst o purtial ex. » emption from tho plague. Al accounts agree that the prospect for small grains was never botter than now. ‘The new policy fu reforonca to the pro. toction of inhabitants of that past of Toxas , near the Mexican border promises torevolu- i tinizo tho business of cattle-stealing. Ilere. toforv all the arrangoments scem to have Leen made with particular reference to the > convenlenco of the marauders, who quickly came to understand tho restrictions placed upon tho wmovements of the United States troops on Mexican soil, and adjust- ed their plous accordingly, Now, however, that theue reatrictions have been removed, and tle thievesare informed that they will bo : followed whercver they go and compelled to giva up their plunder, the Lusiness of cattle. stealing will bo sttended with some risks und difficultics. It was altogether too ensy before, s the border farmers and stock. Taisers learned to their, cost. The banuer of the Prophst is to be ralsed i by the Sultan, and tho falthtol of all Asis, * numbering countless millions, are to be sum. woned to the rescus of the Crescent in Eu. rope. Pilgrims starting for the tombat ; Mccea are to spread along their route the appeal . for help o carry oo the koly war sgainst Russia, the . ‘arch. ing and his sanction in the warfare ngainat the Russian infidels. It Is said that-the ‘Furkish Goveruwont has coptemplated this step over siuco the declaration, but has been cstrained by the advice and request ‘of En- . enemy of ILilamism, snd - the Sheik-ul. . Islam will bestow upon the Sultan his bless.’ gland from making tho conflict epecifioally one of religion and ocreed. It may be, however, that in sheer despern. tion at the certainty of defeat and dismemberment if compelled alone to encounter the superior might of Rusaia, tho Sultan has determined to tako advantage of the opportunily of nppealing to the furi- ous fanaticism of the Mussnlman population of the Enst to supply him with the men and munitiona with Which to defend the ctadel of the faith. 8uch n strnggle conld have but ono result—tha completa extormination of Turkish rule in Europe, and with it tho comploto eclevation of tho Cross above tho Crescent, A dispatch from a Turkish source, dated Tucadny lnst, nnnounces & battlo bovween the Russian troops and the army under Movzaran PAsua, between Fars and Erze- roum. Tho Turks are reported dofented with a loss of 14,000 men, and subso- quently to havo fallen back upon Erze- roum. Wnarm work has commenced along the Dannbo. Artillery duels yesterday took place belweon Kalafat and Widdin in tho west and Ibrail and Matohin in the east, Much damago is said to have resulted from the firing in the former cnse, and A¥iddin s reported to have been set on fire by the Turkish shells. Soveral ralds ncross the river have been made by both parties with varied rosults. Itis belioved that the Russian forco concontrated noar Ibrsil cou- templates an important movement, From the action of the Aldermanic caucus Inst evening it is ovidont that two of the Mayor's nominations—Mr. Boxrrzip for Corporation Counsel, and Mr. Corr for Oil Inspector—arae likely to bo rejected by the Common Council. 1t §a objected that bath these nppointments are of a personal character, and o disposition is shown to insist that in tho caso of the Corporation Connsel some man of unquestioned ability and atanding in the lognl profossion shall be selected for this re- sponsible position; while n great dea! of dissatisfnction has been cansed in the matter of tho Oil-Inspectorship by the removal of on excellent oflicor to make room for o rela. tive. The opposition to the two nomins. tions will probably prevent their confirma. tion, and necessitato the sending in of other and moro acceptable names. Dispatches from Peru report another vie- tory for tho. Russians between Kars and Erzeroum, resuliing in tho capturo of 14,000 Turks. The situation, ns well as it can be ade out in tho nnss of conflicting dis- vatches, ia about as follows: ‘Tho right wing of the armny is still on tho south shore of the Black Boa, in tho vicinity of Bnatoum. The centre, after defeating tho Turks noar Kars and forcing them back to the citade), have invested the place, The left wing, which recently captured the fortreas of Dayazid, and n portion of the ceatro, have advanced towards Erzeroum, and re undoubtedly tlo forces that have made the itcent onslaught upon -the ‘Turks. If this stfdug forcs co- oporating with the right wing overwhelms Lrzoromm, then Kars and Trebizond must fall of necessity, and the possession of Ar- menia falls into Ntussis’s bnnds, offectually severing the Turkish communications, County-Treasurer Huck lins a very whole. some and in every way corract appreciation of the $7,000 member of tho County Board, —the momber who is otherwiso known as County-Attorney, Mr. Huck fa under heavy bonds to adminster the affairs of his office lonostly and according to law ; the County- Attorney i8 ouly under bonds te furnish opiniops to suit the schemes of the Ring. . The ‘Tronsurer, 88 will bo seen, hns the heavior rosponsibility of tho two, and It is thereforo not surprising that he should pre- for to be guided by his privato logal advisers {nstend of tho shaky opinions of the County- Attornoy. Tho lattor held that tho Board bad the power to direct the payment of inter- cst on county orders; the Trossurer is ad- vised to tho contrary, and rofuses to sign any interest-boaring orders. Mr. Huok is mnster of tho situation, and the Ring can only sigh for the return of the good old days when the ‘Tressurer was a man after their own heart, 1t is 8 matter of goneral satisfaction that the necossary appropriation of $60,000 to completo the Copperas Creck dam bas at last been mndo by a concurroncs of both Houses of the Leglslature, and it nceds only the slg- naturo of tho Governor lo become o Juit uc- compli, This necessary fwprovemont was delnyed for two yoars by the sclfish section. alisn of the last Legislptare ; but, notwith. standing cortuin Loatility to it in the presout Logislature suggested by the same dog-in. the-mangor spirit (roprosented largely by the Mrmurr. family), the DLill finally passed the House by a vole of 91 to 88, 'Tho advantages® that will reanlt from tho complotion of this dam lhave already been awply explained in Tux Tain. une. Its construction will add seventy miles to the steamboat unvigation of the Tllinois River for nine months of tho year,— from March to December,~and furnish a chicap natural outlut for the productsof many of tho richest agricultural countles i the Btats, ‘Tho jncreased tolls on p.e canal, which will result directly from the praotical enlgrgement of ts resources, will probably bo sufticiont within the firut year after the construction of the dam to veimburso the Btata for tho eun which hina boen just ap. propriated for its completion. e a— Serlous religious complications hgve proba ably been arrested in Italy by the defeat in. tho Sonate of n measure that bad alresdy passed the Lower ffouss of the Italian Par. lisment Luown as tho *Clerleal Abuses bill" 1tis not improbable that this legisla- tion wus suggested by the secret machinn. tions of the clergy agalnst the Government by scekiug to undermine it by means of the religious Influence thoy atill exert over a large proportion of the Italian peopls, The bill proposed to moke it a misdeineanor, punishable with fine and imprisonmest, for any priest to disturb tho peace of families or clroulate any document ofeusive to the Goye. ernment. The language of the bill was about as general as thiy, aud it furnished & Iatitade of construction which would have enabled the Government ofticials to ex. erclse as arbitrary o power over the Church as the Church formerly exercised over civil Goverument in the Papal domin. jons. It furnished the Pope the basis for an allocution which, for the first time in years, arrested the attention of Europeand attract- edthe sympatby of even>tho English Lib- erals, It was denounced even by Protestants and Freo-Thinkers as contravening Cavouu's motto of * A Free Church ina Free Btate," sud it throatened the danger of inaugurating & persocution of tho Catholic clergy after a fashion that prevailed in Protestant countries & couple of centuries ogo. 1ts failure to pass must consequently be regarded as fortunats, Bot ouly for the eredit of Liberalism in Italy, by citing thisfact. Xt saya: ‘tion of LHy VHICAGU TRIBUNE: THUKRSDAY, MAY 10, 1877, Journal contends that he cannot be divest- ed of his offlco by any subsequent procoedings, or by tha “fact that tho man who signed his credentinls thas since that timo 1etired from the oxerciso of Exccutive functions, Tho ease of Mr. Everts i4 different from that of Mr. Kztioas, A vacancy was created- by the rejection of Pivonnaok, and Eustis was chosen to fill that vacanoy by an unquestionably legal Legislataro, 3 From such Information ns wa havs on tho qnestion, pending the deoisionof the Senats, the division of the Sonatorships between Eustin (elocted for tho short torm) and Kst- 1000 (for the long) would appear to be an equitablo one. The parties cortainly would ‘bo moro oqually divided for each to haveone thon for ona to have both, The Democrats eaunot complain if they have one, and the Republicans aro entitled to one as & matter of equity. Buch a divislon ought to bo satis- factory on all sides, JndgeBrorronn's claim {0 the seat ia barren unless he can show that Kerrioaa was not legally elected, and the Bonate - cannot either oqnitably or legally rocognize it unloss it ean be shown there was @ vacancy mp to the time he was elected by the Niomorts Logislatare. Tho faot that Gov. Packanp, who signed Ksutooo's credontials, has re- tired from office, doos not affect Krrroaa's titlo, becnuse he withdrew voluntarily withe out coercion or assanlt, Alr. Ketroaa would not bo our first choico as n Senator, but, if he was clected by the Ropublicans of Louisi- sun undor the forms of law, he would prob- sbly make n fair if not an able Senator. His Gubernalorial niministration was bettor Lhnn that of Warmors, who preceded him, ond, like Cmampennai in South Carolinn, lie workod hard to advance the material in. torosts of the State. 1f he waslogally clect- ed, ha should have tho seat without reforenco to any subgequent proceedings. but ns probably nvarting scrions domestio troubles. It may bo that ita defeat was tho resnlt of 8 compromise, whereby the Pops ngreed to restrain his Bishops and priests in their hostility to the Government. the payment of each other. The employ- mont, however, of fifty.soven officors, at sal- nries ranging from $2,500 to $3,000 each a yen, is, to mon who do not look at publia officos as meraly established to furnish places, na great nn nbuso, as waa tho fifly-oight Ponsion Agencios, and tha nbuse shonld re- ceive the samo heroio trentment, Thae pri- vate corporation or business establishmant that wonld swell ita pay-rolls with officers in the propurtion of the number of Paymasters to tho numbor of tha rank and filoof the army would of conrss expoct in n brief time to be put into the hands of a Recoiver, and to be sold out to some more thrifty man. agers, S The whole tendency of the service of tho United Btatos, civil and military, is to creato places in which mon rendering no adequate sorvico can bo supported at the publie’ ox- ponso; to create a specinl, privileged, and, wo may add, n comparatively idle and unpro- ductive class, who aro to bo maintained withont labor on their part,—a class of gon- teel paupers, The Prosident, by hia efforts to break up this tendency and to rednco the civil service to ‘the number of persons nctunlly nooded to perform the duties, how- over strongly ho mny be indorsed by the counlry, will nnquestionably give great of- fonse to thoss who think the Picxanp and Ommpentary Governments ought to have been sustained at whataver cost of blood and treasure. ; REDUCTION OF OFFICES. There is no more dangerons error than that cultivated by party organizations, that it is the duty of Governmonts to expond publio money to support any portion of tho people, and that'tho proporty in tho distri- bution of the expanditures of this money is the properly of the party. Officos aro in no correct sonse a matter of patronage. A olvil pension list is opposed to the whole theory of our Government. All ofiices undor the United Btates exiat undor the assumption that thoy have dntiea to be performed, and that such duties pertain of neoessily to tho Governmentnl gervice, In otlier words, ench oficer is omployed to perform and is paid for the performance of cerlain dutics, which duties aro essential to tho administration of tho Govornment. It is the Iabor and the skill that nre sought anhd paid for, and it is immaterial who rendoer the sarvice. Dut the politica of the country do not so treat the expouditures of the Governmont. The men who have succeeded in getting place in tho Government have organized a'common sys- tem to porpotuate thomselves in power. They first constitute themselves ‘*‘the party,” and forthwith manipulate the om- ployment of public officora and the distribu- tion of tho public expenditures to support ond sustain the party. The gclection of o Ropresontative in Congress, or a Senator of the United States, s not merely o struggle a3 to who shall serve the country in these of- fces, but for tho power to soleot n number of personal supporters, to bLe supported from the Public Treasury, and, whilo thus maintained at public cost, to watch the per. sonal interests of the man in power, This is tho machine politics which hns corrupted the whole civil sorvice, destroyed responsi- bility, and given a bad eminence to mon who otherwiso would pass into obscurity, It is bocanse it has become a rocognized party principlo that the men in power have n property intorest in the distribution of public expenditures that our political strug- gles are so intonsified, and tho Nation ac- counts for the tenncity with which tho Democratio party adhere to its organization —— A CHEAP BENBATION. Bomo person of the formidablo namo of Jauzs K. Haarrron Wircox has been doliv- ering a lecture in Now York, in which ho pretonded to expose frauds in the United States Treasury in tho hondling of greon- bncks and bonds, which are so enormous that every Congressional Committeo that had investigated Trensury affaira had agroed to conceal them to save the nation from an un. precedented scandal, We beliove this is tha sama person who was hanging around Wash- ington last winter telling all sorts of fabu. loua storios to the Democratsabout thothefts -in the United Btates Treasury, to which the Democrats gave sufficlent ear to ordor an in- vestigation. Tho idea that anything could bo discovered in the administration of the Ropublicans so bLorrible thateoven the Domocrata. consented to suppress it in tho face of the DIrostdential campnign, and merely for tho sake of the uational honor, {8 too proposterous to be entertained by reasonable people; yet the New York Sun gives: Mr. Jauzs K, Hanzos Wircox all tho prominenco and considaration to which o gonuine reformer s entitlod. The modest conclasion renched by this gentlo. men ia thiat the Treasury notes, bonds, und fractionnl currency, which havo been over- issued or have not beon destroyed when re- turned for cancellation, amount to not less than #1,000,000,000, or Lalf as much again 88 the ontire national debt, Thare has probably been a certain smount of stealing and fraud in the Trensury De. partniont by subordinate officials; some of # has been discovered, and the United Btates Tronsuror has at times beon required to maoko good to the Government the lossos for widch he was responsible, But a moment's conslderation will show that it is impos. sible thoro could lave boen any groas and general fraud in tho issue of bonds and notes as this Trensury lunatio would have the country bolieve. The bonda are issucd iu series and numbered consaontively. The record shows just how many bonds are fssued in each serles, the coupon fnteroat pald there- on, and the number cancoled. Now a bond is worthless excopt for drawing interost nnd subsoquout redemption, DBonds that are stolen ond overissucd must oither boara number in oxcess of the limitation of oach sories or bo a duplicato of a genuine number inthe series. In eithor of these casos, the bogus charncter of the bond would bo im. modiately,discovered upon its presontation for -interest, or the presentation of the coupon, or whon it is called in for final payment. Bo, too, of the Treas- ury notes, which are similarly num. bered in sories, All this is over and above the check of the signatures to the bonds and notes which are made only by tho chief offlcers of tho Trensury. Now, if thers had been nny extenaive frauds inside of the Treasury Department by means of overis. sue, or by means of relssuing Londs and notes that had been yedeomed and should have been canceled, thoro would have beon amplo indication of the fact long before now In o system which has boen in ‘practical working for fiftoen years. ‘The fact Is, how- ovor, that the number of stolen bonds and notes dlacovured in the calling in of the old bonds and’ the rotirement of old curren- cy hod beon olmost insignificant. The the- ory that .thero aro $1,000,000,000 of these stolon bonds and notes over and sbove the $2,000,000,000 which are duly recorded s simply ridiculous, and palpably suggested in mero malice, THE MEXICAN BANDITTL The Adminiatration has done well in give ing the doprodations along tho Texas border the consideration that their extent demands, ond tho whole country will loarn with grati- fieation that it has boen practicnlly decided to adopt a more vigorous policy in tho tréat- ment of thoe bonditti who have been 1nvading the United Btates territory from the Moxican side of tho Rio Grando River. These depro- dations liave boen going on for yoars; tho inhabitants of 'Cexns, Now Moxico, and Low- or Oalifornia have been plundored Incessant- ly, and the United Blates Govamngont has expended millions of dollary in supporting troops along tho border, who hLave inoffcc- ttally endenvored to chock tho invasions and punish tho brigands, It has long been evi. dent that double the number of troops em- ployed will bo’ of no avall in protecting the property of the Americans so long as they refrain from following the marauders ncross the river into Mexlcan territory. Tho Mexican bandits are experionced scoun- drels, and know the country and the river B0 well that thoy ars always ablo to escape to Mexican territory, whero, nnder the polioy that has prevailed hereto- {ore, thoy aro safe from pursnit. Thoy thus The Republicans, too, make a mistake in undes- eathnating tho senac of wrong felt by the Demo- crats at the result of tho Presidential election, and its effect on thelr policy, It {e nat morely that they think Mr, TiLoEx was actuaily elected, and ought to have been counted inj the practice of rotation sndtho ‘‘apotle” thoory has been 20 long acted upon s a part of tho unweltten Jaw, 4hat the scnse of property in officas has been doveloped to an enormons oxtent. ‘The notion may be sald to bave reached that stage In which all oflices sre regarded a8 vestingin tho party, finmediately on.** captare, " under the forma of law, of tho,machine, the share of Individual members of course being deter- mined afterwands by an equitable divislon, in which, as {n tho Ruseian M, tho spolle ara allot- ted the members in different quantitics, deter- mined by the fatness of the soil, thelr necd of support, and tho ‘‘work' they can do. The counting-In of Mr. Haves s tnercfore looked upon by the great body of tho Democratic party not simply a8 a political wrong, but as a theft from fts rightful owners of & vast amount of Wrooerty, yielding an Income of about $100,000,000. This Property they sco they have on opportuaity of securing four years hence, and It fs on account of this chance, quito as much as Lecaaso of thelr do- testation of wrung In the nbstract, {hat they ovinca so stubborn o disposition to lold together uautil 1880, One hundred millions of dollara incomo represents o copital at 6 por cent of two thousand millions of dollars, equal fo tho wholo national debt, and onr politics are sub- stantially a struggle as to who shinll adminis- ter the estato, and who shall enjoy this in- come. Partics claim a property intorest in, and mon attach themselves to, partios with the hope of sharing in the recoipts of this income. It is this corrupted notion of Gov- crnmental functions, purposes, and duties which solntensifios politics, and that last year brought the nation to the vorge of civil war, This system or the Government itself nnst bo overturned. Incidental to tho corrup- tho clvil service is its onor- mous enlargoment., The machine system 14 forever growing, 1Itia forever adding to tho plunder which it assigus to its* dopond- onts, A year ago Congress refused. to renew certain appropriations at Washington, and some 700 persons were dischorged., The publicsarvice did notneed them, Within the lnst two months over 400 others, and by the 1st of July somo hundreds more, will bo dis- missod. Thero was nothing for, them to do; thoy wore pensioners suppurted by the Treasury, and appointed at the order of politicians. The wholo drift of the evidence' now taking in Now York is to' the offect that tho service of the Custom- House {n that city s ineMclent and costly, and that ita liberal roduction will not only purify the service, but expedito the busincss avd make thoe forca maro efficient. Secrotary Bonunz solved a great amount of trouble concerning Pension Agents by abolishing forty of tho fifty-eight agoncies, and reduced the annua! expenditure 160,000, These are reforms which, though hardly.bVegun, are full of promise, * They ara in the bost of all dircotions, The best ' way to reform the morvice is to aholish so much of it as can be dispensed with. Thero i3 not n party ' convention in nll the land which could hnve been induced to od- vise tho dismissal of 1,200 loyal officials at Washington, yet that nnmbor has been dis- missed, and s many more may bo dismissed, and the public sorvico, inatead of bLeing crampod aud embarrassed, will Lo greatly benefited by the redugtion, ‘Tho fucroase of ofces is one of the most demoralizing of all policies. It dostroys n- dustry, An office is yoganded by mankind a8 an easy aud & lazy way of getting living, and the man who has onco bheld ous forover after abandons all effort to make a living by industry, It is corrupting. It inflates mon with a sense of their own importacce; so- cially, it inspires airs and assumptions of & costly as well o8 an absurd character. For each man who gets a place a huadred be- lives, only to renew their ralds as soon as thoy can disposo of their spoila and oxhaust tho money in dobauch. Tho Rio Grande border extends nearly 1,000 miles, 5o that it Is out of all question to supposo it can be effectively policed on the American side while the Moexican Govern- ment s eitlior favorable to the bandits or too woak to lend any assistanco to punish them. This {s, has been, and will probably continue {0 bo, the case. Thera is tho strongost pro. sumption that tho Mexicaus encournge this outlawry., It iscertain that the Moxican Government established all along the border o wido strip of land known as the * Frce Zono,” in which all jmports ore admit. ted freo of duty; tho single purpose of this (the Mexican oustom-housos boing establishod within that lino) was to onsblo smugglers to chost the United Statos Government of its revenucs by giving them a broad strip of freo terri- tory in which to receivo tho imports with. out rostraint, and from there run them over into United Btatos territory, To this busi. ness of smuggling, which i{s carrled on ox- tensively, has beon added brigandago, which tho Mexican Government not only tolerates by taking no ‘measures to suppreas it, but actuslly oncourages by permitting its citi. zens to purchasoe the stolen property,—thus .enlarging the outlawry, Under these cir- cumstances the raids lLave nssumed a sys. tematio and business-liko charactor, and it is high timo that tho United Btates should adopt more nggressivo measures for protect- ing tho rich grazing farms along tho bordor. - The policy which it is proposed to adopt, and which was repeatedly urged upod Presi. dont Grant in vain, Is to notify the Mexlcan Governmont that theseraldsmustbo stopped, and, If thoy are not immedintely susponded, to anthorize the United States troops to fol- low the bandits’ across tho river wherover they ara encountered, attack thom on Mexi- can terrilory, recover the property, and bring back such prisonors as thoy can take for il itary trial onthe American side, ' This polioy, vigorously pursued, will soon rid the country of the border bandits, It will not bo strictly in accordance with international law, but a Goverument ko weak or 80 corrupt as not to suppress outlawry can scarcoly objeot to hav- ing it supprossed by a neighboring people who are the chief sufferers. Indeed, tha Mezican Government ought to bo grateful for the riddance of a vost army of despera- does who furnish the matenal for most of the rovolutions in that unfortunats country ; but, whatever - the Mexican opinion of the polioy may be, the property rights of tho United States demond ita immediate adop- tion and energetio enforcoment, ' THE LOUISIANA SENATORY, A recont number of the Indianapolis Journal contains an articlo upon the question «of tho sdmission of Mr, KeLroaa tothe Senate of tho United 8tates, which will have to bo' decided in October next, which was evident- 1y inspired by Senator Montoy, or at least rafloots his views, 'Tho articlo assumes that the quostion of his sdmission rosts exclu- sively upou the facts cxisting at the timo of his ollegod election, and that these facla cannot be disturbed by any subssquent pro- coedings, If the Legislaturo which elcoted Xerroco was competent to do so, then the disorganization of that Logislature and the organization of a now one from its remnants cannot affect Mr, Kerroaa's title to his seat. Upon this basis, the Journal examines tho record in {he case, and finds that the Re. turning Board, in accordance with the stat- utes of the State, returned to the Becretary of Stato a list of the porsons elected to the General Assembly, In accordance with the same law, the Olork and Bocretary organized each House on the 31 day of last January, ‘Thousands of our readers aro paying hun. their lives for the bonefit of wives and chil- dren; and thousands more will take upon como applicants, aud continue to fall as ap. | The Senate, under tho law, con. | thomselvos from yoar to year the same ex plicants, and, whils such, become the polit. | sists of 86 members and the House | penss. There is no forethought more com- {eal bummers of some -conspicuons machine | ©f 120 members, 19 members consti- | mendabls than ineuring one’s life for the man, devoting time, and health, sud life to help the party, ‘Tho Pension Agencies wore for o long tima arefuge for the impecunious relatives and Lenclmen of party leaders. That institu. tion has collapsed. Agother branch of the Government which §s perbaps as ovorgrown a1 abnuso ns the Pension Agoncies is the list of Army Poymasters, - We'luve an army limited by law to 25,0(0 enlisted men, but the forco {s 1nuck lass than this, The duty of & Paymaster is to «iraw from the Troasury a certain amount of money at stated periods and deliver to the officers and men their pay. The nwber of Paymasters now in tho serv- ico " toperform thiw arduous duty s fifty. seven,—just oncless ' than the number of Ponsion Agents before the latochauge, The puyments to the officers and men aro made, according to circumstances, at intervals. ‘The dutiea of the Payuinstera include, of counse, tuting a quornm of the former and G1 of tho lutter, At the time of the organiza. tion, a quorum of Lotk Houses took part in the proceedings. On tho 10th of January the two Houses met In joint convention to elect a United States Benator to succesd AMr, ‘West for the term of six years begiuning March 4, 1877.- Upon the calling of the roll there were 17 Benators and 60 Repre. sentatives present, bolug a majority of all the members of the Genoral Assembly, Ar, Kerwoos was nom‘nated, and recoived the unanimous vole, and was declared elected by the presiding officer of the Convention, ' The election, therefore, scems to have been con. ducted within the provisions of the laws of the Btate and the law of Congreas regulating the election of Semstors. The point for the Senate to docide, thorefore, is whether Mr, Kxriooa recaived ssongh legal votea in a 'lsnnlhodymduce?m. 1t ho did, then the benefit of those dependont upon it for sup- port. At the same time, it is unfortanately true that thevast majority of theinsured have taken their policies ignorantly, 'Thers Lavo boen two reasons for this. The insurance people have too often sought to make a mystory of their business; and besldes this, the meansof information have really not been accessible. The Hon, Erizux Watontissup- plying this want in the series of letters Tue Taisuse is printing, aud no reador who will follow them need hereafter Lo at any loss {0 understand his policy of ivsurance or the caloulations by which his psywments are to be ‘made. One point of supremo importance is becoming more clear as Mr. Wxaiour carries on his elucidation—it is tho right of the pal. ioy-holder to a surrender valuo for lapsod policies. This grows out of that share of the so-called reswerve which Mr. Waiamr designates the * gelfdnsurance fund.” In escapo with their stolen property and thelr |. .0 thel dreds of dollars vach & year for insurance on- b the letter which appears thia morning on our sixth page the analysis of the premium is continned, and Mr. Wriant's explanation is clear enough to bo comprehended Ly any in- telligent school-boy. ‘Tho loss of an account-book tontaining testi- mony casentinl to the convictlonof the Indicted County Commissioncrs attracts suspicion, It was lonned by Reep to Gen. R..W. Syt who says he roturned it after the prescnt Btate's Attorney eame into office,—that Is, he put it tn thosafe nt his ofiice In tho presence of some young man, whom he assumcd.to bea clerk of Mr. Mis, and yet a person whom he could not now recognize If hie should sco him, That tho book §s In a “*sale " condition, so far as the men whom it would hurt in evidence are concerned, s palpable. But thero hns been crookedness somewhere, and this burden of proof is certalnly upon 8stiTH, even accopting his own statements, He left @ Dbook loaned with much hesl- tancy on” lis promise of {ts prompt return “ laying around loose ” In a drawer of his desk until he had forgotten alt about it. ‘Then, dlscovering It by aceldent, he takes it to Mires! office and puts It in the safo, In presence of some one, who he was not certain represent ed Misrs, anil whom he didn't know, whoever be was, Ssirn did not give him the book, but merely called hisattention to the fact that ho had chucked it away. He took no receipt, and In general conducted the busincss ina very Jouse manner, consliering its importance. st fdniay Tho rumor enrrent about our streets and in the gemcnihniin oot f Tip Toiret itor 51 The Frato-llouge Toard, peovided st 3 n cash was pald a8 an inducement. — Springfeld Reghater, ‘The Jegister will confer a special favor by wvaming Tig TrnuNe's agent who meade tus wropusal. Is not the Jegister mistaken In say- fng that ho wanted tho $8,000 a1l in cashi! Did L not offer to take part in country produce and ‘the rest In store pay? We ask for information, By the way, what *‘action of the State-House Buard " was 4£ that *‘rumor about the strects’’ saldhe offered to ** support!*! The only “action® of the Btate-House Board for tho last cight months of which the public has any knowledge has beon to draw thelr salaries without doing or having angthing to do, Was it a continuation of that sort of “nction” which one of Tas TRIBUNE'S ngents proposcd to support, or was it_some other kind of actfon! DKl he ask tho $8,000 for coverlug up some rascality of the Board which bolind discovered,~If so, what was t! The Reglater must state the name of Tz TrisuNe's agent and what *‘actlon? of the Board it refers to, or stand the brand of ma- llelously inventing tho slanderous allegations. e ——— 011 ex-Gov. ALLEN thus expresscs himself {n a recent Interviow In regard to the Russo-Turk- ish waraod the sims of the former asto the British posscssions m'nm conversation begon with this all-absorbing ome. *“The Iitnselans,™ sald the Uogvernor, ende of 4 crusado [n Lehalf of the 3, ary carrying oul what hes am of that Yast Emplre slnca nys of Prrenthe Great. She wanis Constan- tero fs npecdy {nterference by ho will have 1t 1 have been and it is ovident that this war fought in' Turkey's Astatic posseasions, 1 Shio hua been steadily acquiring lereitory in the great nuknoven reglons In Asia, toward the Indles, Wwith the samo protext, Bhe could, If succossful in this war, make war on Kngland'a India colonles, because the Mohsmmodans do not tolorate the Christinna to auy great extent In Indin; and other sects pecnliar to that locality are cquatly Intoler. inglaid must interfore to preservo her torrie . It will end in a general couflagration of Europe. Thanks to our happy policy of non-ln« torference, the Unltod States will proft by theae sad misfortunes. With judiclious legislation tho commerce of Amerlca ought to cover theseas ogafn, 03 fn thoso bloescd days befora tho Waz," et Bax BunaEr Cox, alias 8hoo-Fly, is a candl- dato for Bpeaker of the next House, and 20 s ‘Saxt RAXDALL, of Penusylvanta, tho high-tariff, ‘Texas Pacifle Rallroad subsldy Democrat. Lit- tle 83 Cox hates BAst 4ANDALL, Helias jnat returned from a circuitous peregrination through the South, pressing his *¢ claims " on Bourbon members of Congress, At Clncinnatl, on his return, he was lnterviewed, aud lnlgcd thusly: ter~\What will Gov, Titbax do? o —You will hava o weike fo Col, Pavrox. Te a agaln in the ficld to organizo the now Iouse —writing letters to members for Mr. RANDALL. ‘Why ho does it you may guess—-I cannot, It wad not Mr. RAxDalL's rulings which put TiLDEN fal “Chey helped in H{ATxs, What tbe davll Col. PxL. 7oN means, unless he I8 preparing for tho next Presidential canpaign, 1 don’t oF. can't surm; 1 wish Goy. TsLoeN would call halt un biw, members had lftic help on the count—little ads ‘which yas oppurtune in our emergency—fron quacter. 1f 1t {s ot presumption to distate the organization of the louso, thon what is ft? pelteauies Mnsnlidibnd The Jowa Stals Reglater, now commonly known 24 the Des Moines Consplrator, froa {tadesperate attempt to break down the President and divide the Republican purty, In snswering o recont article In ‘Tug Criicaco TRIBUNE upon tho fall- ure of tho consplracy, says: ‘We do not believe the: single State oficer In Jowa supporting the policy, We know, from our own knowledgu, that & mafority of them are doe clddly op oved to It, and " that they are antapoken ¢ opinton In rogand to 8. OF the Iowa Con- ressmen weveral of Lhiom wao know are opposed to FECARa 0 18 saf to say that both our Senstora have the gravest of mpprelionsions iu rezard to it, and great distrust of i, Vil the TIowa Conspirator name & single Cons gressman from that State who Is fighting the President’s policy; or a single Btate officer or pruminent politicisn, except thoss who belong to thy Jfiegister's gang, who are laclined to break with Mr. Harzs or bis policy? If{t cannot or will not do this, then lct It stop fts quibbliog, e e S10NARA, ‘' n Japancss traveler,”” who ad- vises, In the North dmerican Revlew, the gbcll- tlon of the Constitution of the United States, remarks, lua merelless sarcasm, that 1€ Mr, TILLEN Were 8 Japaneso, it would be required of him to conmmit seppukks, or self-disputch, in view of his conduct and vl the abuse to which Llic bias been subjected. 8108pha might as well understand, now gnd forever, that any such lit- tls hints as this to Mr, TiLLN will Dot produce tho desired results. Mr. TiLpRN loves his bow- elstoo well to disport them fu the Japauesa mauner, even I it would not spoll him for the Presldentlal race in 1840, The editor of the Glube-Democrat took 8 para~ graph from: MACAULAY without credit, In worke fng up a FiLLey-plck against the 8t. Lows Poste wmaster, He excuses himscll by saying that whien MACAULAY used the laugusgo be was gun- ning for bears, whilo the Giobe man was shooting at skunks ,aud hated to disgrace Macauray by putting his brand on'the communication. But Low will the editor of tho Globe-Democrat excuso himself for inaugurating this fratricidal strife and squaudering so much of his own amuual tlon upon It1 Ishe beyond the possibility of self-dlsgracet i ———— For the sake of tho rcputation of Clicago Journalism the Post sbould not have pricked a bladder of windy pretenso in this fashior All we Liave to say is tbls, and vur Jangi l.“{nu ¥ acged caols dlapatch b the 7 morniny s genuing, the long-sought Jours istic Aes has been found, and the Paragraphers' Assuciation orgsuized 1o bunt for him sy a3 well diabond. The dispatch ls nothing but 8 very wesk aditorial on the war auuuon.—nwm like thoes which uppeur daily in tha columns of the 1,0, coating nothing but the e3pense of typa setting. e —— The ceasus of ). ives tho number of males In Utah as 44,121 a0d tho number of femaled as 42, - 085, It is evldent enough from thes tigures that the majority of tue Murwon mieu cannot Lave s plurality of wives, Even with ons wife apiece, there are not women eungugh o Ko round. —New York Utrald, ‘That s what makes the Mormons fightlug mad. The fellows Who haveu't a plurality of wives want thelr sorgbum of matrimony on thelr pancakes of life, Mormonlsm cannot dly out as long as thess wants are unsupplied. mididihink o i The Corporation Counsel should bo a first- class lawyer, sound, able, and experlenced, Has tha Mayor sppainted guch o man to take Mr. AxTUONY'S placel The Aldermen, so for as they hsvs allowed themsclves to express sn opiuton, think that he has not filed the bill. REDFILD, correspondent of‘the Clucionatl Commarclul, says thas the Republican party in South Carolins 15 dcad. The party has & ma- Jority iu pue Benato of that State, and Js just Dow showing Itself to be a very lively corpse. It is Quits” remarkable, also, that its vitality sooms to be extended In slding cortafn Just. " ditch Bourbons to defeat what appear to be the pacific purposcs of Gov. Hamprox. — ‘The Davenport Gazefte thinks that Trs Tra. TNR hns overrated tho power of the “Des Molnes Rleglater nnd the Mttle concern at Oska. loosa fin their frantic efforts to bulldoze the Republicana of Iowa tnto anattitude of antagon- ism to the Administration of President Hayxs, .The Gazetteregards them In the light of a couple of peas {n o bladder rattling about, making & nofse but amounting to nothing, | ——— Bomo of their late Jexisiation ought to render 1t more pleasant for the 8tats Q0LONS to stay at Npringfiold than to face thelr constitucnts, Abscnteelsm may be very much checked oo this account. The action of the Seante, prolonging the sinecures of tho State-lHouse Commission. ors whio hiayo plainlshown thelr services to bs worthless, was disroputuble. Tle gocs on our bna'ness, not in bellf of any steamaliip 1ino, and he is pald by the 2nlersOccan B Ot by 1o Government. — /afer- Detdin. 1t there be sich an individual as is above re. ferred to (which Is very doubtful), and if he gets 1is pay from tho Fater-Ocean (which 1s more than doubtfat), he fs a much Iuckier man tban Mr, Fawcerr, —— A correspondent Inquires how many daily newspapers In the English language are pub- lished in Chleago. Thera are only four, or, to be accorate, four and & Lalf, to-wit: TRiounx (1), Times (2), Journal (8), Post (4), and the TnterOcean (43), the Intter belng merely an une complimentary allusion to journallsm. s ‘The commutation of tho puniabinent of Maj, RExo Lo suspension of pdy and rank for two years was about the falr thing. Tiis somewhat Irregular line of approaches to Mra, BeLL was very unmilitary, and not according to Vausax, but, s be was holat by his own petard, It Is well enough to let him off easlly, 7 —— ! Tho Rus! are now advancing on Aut-ob, with Kora-Kilisco and Alack-Kirt on their right. No truly civilized peoplo will war upon women. 8o faras Alack-Kirt Is concerncd, he 18 no doubt a fichting man, and can give blows 03 well as take them, but to advaunce on Ant-ob and Kora-Kilisce Is cowardly. f ‘The Jon and tha lamb of the Des Mofnes Reg- dster have laid down together, and this time the llon {8 Inslde the lamb, Whether tho lamb will be able to keep tho lion on its stomach 1emalns to ba seen, If o, thiors will bo spring Jamb and green peace in Des Molnes. I Tho Graphic has porformed a good work by giviog the portraits of the fiftecs members of the Paragraphers’ Gulld who united In order to extirpate the Journalistic Ass. Peoplo will knn”w the nntmal now when they see him. 4 e i 0% . Tho cousolidating of the Illinols Pension Agencies at Springfield inatead of Chivago, Is sbout s smart as ft would botosct the earth rotaling around a Sangamon County pumpkin instead of the sun. f A Jondon correspondent announces that ** numerous sbifts are belng employed at the Pimlica army clathing factory.” Thus eatly ore tho debaslog tendoncies of war becoming man!fest, 8t, Lools has modestly refratned from men- tloning nore than a thousand times that it has the uleess kind of firc-escapes—tho hotel elevas tonl. Bythem the fire escapes at once to the roof, * f Briomax Youno cnvies his brother Sultan, ond wants to doa 1ittle blood-letting on hisown mccount, It he docsn't bebave, he will have to be Anx ELiz'd by the finger nails of No. 10, | Will CAr10% ssk for an investigation by the Leglalaturo into his officlal conduct while Indisn Agent o fov years dinco! There would be & chiancy for rizhness,~CaLLONS Of it. 4 4 An Easters. paper says decolletle means ** necks to nothlng." This{s mean. Thero {8 less walst o!hmuduty fandress cut that way than sny other, The British Qovernment {s reported to be sending ten slzty-four-pounder guns and o reg- {mout to Queb:e. What for? PERSONAL. The Iast wlume of sthe “No Name" serios of novels asupposed to bs by Jullan Haw- thorne, and it adis nothing to his reputation, Oakoy Hall nay be returned to this coun- try se a lunatle, Lie 8t. Louls Glode thinks, if the fact be establisted that he refuséa to resd the American newspipers, snd takes in the Londen dallios from prefirence. Gon. Hurlbit authoritatively ocontradicts the roport that Jen, Logan ls golng to joln the Ruwian army,~which nobody ever serioualy ca- tertalned, Uen,Logan is about to Jeave for Col- orsdo to spend thh summer, " Mise FrancesE. Willard, of Chicago, apoke 1o 8n nudlence 015,500 In the Boston Tabornacle Bunday from tie text **What Think Ye of Christr'* 1t {s bilieved that this fs one of Lho largest meetings ver addressed by s woman, Ex-Queen Isthella’s opposition to the mar- tiage of hier son vith the woman of his cholce Is thoroughly charcteristic, and yet one might sup-, pose that, with ler wedded experience, she would entertain difforeat views of Royat privileges la re- apoct to marriaw, Sallie Ward Iunt'a stop-son, who was cub off In his father) will with & cent, {s making large preparations fola contest in the conrts. 1t will be remembered thit this vivaclous young gontlemas attempted to 1ill bls father shortly after the mar- riage of the 14t0r with Mrs, Hunt, The GrandDuke Alexis lingors in New- ‘York harbor, itlesald, not because he hopes to make any capiires, but becauss he has himself been captured The young lady has the Grand Duke's card atick In the edrs of her drawing-room wirror, and, wien asked the question, aboe blushes and geatly reples, **Don't aak met" ‘The Rev, M. G. Bavage, formerly of Chicago, @ed vohemently against Mr, Moody during urevival meetings In Doston, and the resuit bl bis was tho only Unitsrian Soclety In whish the inluence of the revival was scrioualy folt. A very prominent and well-known mers chant, 8 member of Savago's church, o the suclal sense, the most important convert made by Moodr, Kaightly Jim Keene was a great operator fu Ben Franclsco, but in New York he was only 8 minaow awmong tha whales, They ook bim in witlout toowing {t. Every stock he bought forsa advance declined, and what he attempted to besr ¢} frm, There was s lmit to Jim's plle, , If In bad not stopped when ho did, be would #00n haveresched it; he has now more experience than everystore. Gen. & Cesnols, the discoverer of tho Cypriote tvasures, arrlvod In New York City on Salurday wit hls wife and two dsughters, Lo Jed 8 stlring ife of adventuro before he turmed archrologlsl baving fought in tho war of the Ttslian indose: ia the Crimes, and lnthe Ttebellion, nthe lattar he distingulshed bimeelf 1o many enggements, and was confined for many months 1n Liby Prison. At the close of the War he was appolited Consu) st Cyprus, where he ha galned his reptation s an sxplorer. George Fancis Train had another carnival foNow YorkSundsy night. His lecture was i anyibing the 20st delighilully-sbaurd ho ever de- Nvered. It iuludod an atiack upon Mars Twaln, who, the spesersald, had stolen hisname and ltved ot his reptation ss s wit. Qeorge Fraocls clama that }m-d the play of the l1ded | | from fakite by coming forward fn view of b nce 4 & critical pointand spplauding. ‘The orstor satpmpted, later on, to illustrate $he condition of cwmerce fo New York City, snd brought out forthe parposcs of Ulastration a bsg of rossted pesnts. e bad mot procecded fof when nature asyried ftaclt in the sudlence, sad 3 cry stoes for ddiatelbution of Lhe frait. . The spesker generouly complied with the unclril re quests, peannte fere showered through tho bouse, and George ¥rants Traln, he groatest man of 1218 orany ulber 8%, was soon wpeahluy tu empty ¢ appotite for good thisgs bad could do uo more.