Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 3, 1877, Page 4

K ' a The Tribwe, RMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGE PREPAID. D5 Edition, une yea Fartaof ayear, pot month. iatled 1o Ay ariress fonr L 3 Literary and Jteliglons nday ~ Edltion Doafle Elcet.. Eatarday EdiUon, Trl-Weekly, ime year. Partsof ayenr, per month. WERRLY RDITI Qne copr, per Clntyof Temers o Club of teedi: Spectmen coples sen To preven: delay snd mistakes, be sure and give Fost- Office address tn fall, including State and Couoty. Bemitiances may be nwle efther by draft, eXpress, Post-Qillce order, or In reglsteted letters, At our risk. TERMS TO CITY S8UBSCRIDERS, Datly, delisered, Stunday exeepted, 25 conts per week, Datly, deltvered, Sunday Included, 30 cents per wook. Adiress THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madlson 8od Dearbor Adetphl Theatre. J Monroe street, comer ot Dearbors. **Uncls Tom's Cabin." Expoaition Bullding. Lake Shore, foot of Adams street. Thomas' Sam- mer-Night Concerta, Tiarnam’s Clrens. Lako Shiore, foot uf Washington street. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1877, CHIOAGO MARKET BUMMARY. The Chicago produce markets wera irregalar yewsterday, with o fair volumo of businces, Ricss pork closed 2iic per brl bigher, at §12.024@ 12,05 cash and $13.07%@13. 10 for August. Lard closed 24c per 100 1bs higher, nt $8,674% cash und §8.80 for August. Mcats were nnchanged, at 43{c per M for loose shoulders and Gic for do shart a1iba Lake freighta were frm, at 1Xc tor corn to Buffalo. Highwines wore less active, at $1.08 per gullon. Flour was quiet. Wheat 14454%c higher, nt $1.31X for July and & for Aognat. Corn closed 3c highor, at 47c for July amd 47%c for August. Oats closed steady, atiifc cashand 3idic for August. Ry war qulet, nt G2c cash and 60c for July. Barloy was nominal. Hogs wete quiet and 5¢ lowor, clos- Ingfirm. Sales at £4,00@4.00. Cattlo were dul) red, relling at $2.00@4.85 for poor to 4, Sheep were nominal,at 82.5024. 50, Que hundred dollars in gold would buy $105,57% in grecabicks ot the close. Greenbacks nt the New York Btock-Ex. chango yesterday closed nt 943, ———— The ofticinl Troasury statement shows that the decrense in the public debt durlng the month of June was $3,220,199. Sinco July 1, 1876, the reduction of interest ad a result of the funding operation bas baeon $1,048,625, Rteports which we print this morniog from frrmen: who have began hagvosting show in tho main au nnususlly fine yield and quality of winter wheat. From the spring wheat oud corn reglons the reporta are as'a rulo very eucouraging. g Gov. Currom yosterdny commenced to giva form nad effect to sowme of the expen- sive superfluities which the last Legislature saddled upon the Ilinois taxpayers. He appointed tho State Hoard of Health, mak- ing it connist of threo allopaths, one homoo- path, ono eclectio, and two sciontifie gentle- men of undeclared proclivities. In pccordance with the principle that the niTaira of the Government ghould be man- nged tho samoe as the affairs of privato busi- ncas-men are managed, workmen in the em. ploy of (Lo Governmont will be paid for the Iebor actunlly porformed; if Lon&a‘ouru onch day, the pay*will bo for ton hoffts; and, if cight lours onlyaro put in, then pay for eighit hours only shall ba allowed, ‘I'he wrath of Aronvs hns descended upon the people of Indinna, Sunday a terrible visitation whirled through tho contro of the Btate. senttering death and desolation, and last night a corkscrow struck thae little town ¢f Walkertown, 8t. Joseph County, one of tho northern tier of Bluo Joans' dominions, No details are afforded by tho dispatches furthier than that the storm wes terrifle, and that six peoplo wero Lilled, Tho Czar wanted to buy 30,000 horsea for the Russinii cavalry servico, and had made mrungemonts to purchaso them in Germany, Lut the Emjicror WiLL1aM can't seo s way clear to spering that mony animale, aud will dsstio n deerca proliibiting the cxportation of horacs frow (e Empire, It is sald that this precantion is taken whélly ou the ground of intanal cconomy, but it is not unlikely that tho powsibility that Germany moy have noed of ull Lur borses hus womathing to do with it, By a volo of 24 to G, tho Council last night placud on filo tho resolution of Ald, Trowmr- £k requenting tho Mayor to suspend Bupt, Ilexey. It might bo well, nevertheloss, for the Binyor und Mr. Hicxry to act on the ‘gt of tho resolution, for, however Lencictit an oftieer and bowover guiltless of the chinrgas against bim Mr, Hioxey may be, thy more digniied course s to sond him be. fore 8 jury us o privote citizen, and not cothed in or projduiced by the attributes of a L’olico SBuperintondont. il and Ince smugdling into the port of New York has reccived asudden check in the nrrest uud confession of one Tuosas Owsns, purser of the steamer England, His plan wis to secrote thosilk in cement barrels, cight pleges in each, and theso, with dona-fide barrels of comont, wero unloaded at Pier 44, whenes, through the connivance of the dock clorky, they wero spirited away to (le “dence.” ‘Tho valuo of stuff thus intro- duced withont the usnal customs formality istestimated at 120,000, Tho names of five mombers of the Board of Education, to fil the places of five whose teris have expired, wero last ovening sent to the Comon Council by Mayor Hearm. Of tho five, two are reappointments; athird, - Alr. Winriau Vocxe, isinevery way a most ex. celient selection; while as to tho reminining two, Messrs. 1. E. StoveaudJ, L. Denxis, we are unuble to utate that they aro especially fitted by character or ability to legislate for the public schools of Chieago. Perhops the Comuwittes to whom the nominations have been referred will succeed in - procuripg evi- deoce on this essential point. 1t is a yratifying symptom that the Connty Bourd may some time'bo fully scared into, it they refuso to be educated up to, some degree of ducency, when they docline to do their own stealing, and turn the work aver tou willing middleman. In awarding the job for building the Court-Houss dome, tho Commissioners shrank from openly selecting Watkzs or SxxioN, fearful, perhaps, that the awount of their divido might some day go before au honest Grand Jury in tho shape of Btatu's evidence, 80 thoy turued it over to Architoct Eaaxy, who scems all of asudden to Lavo got uu good terms with the Ring, to be Iut out by the duy. Of course one of the $wo contractors will get it, axd, when be is ealled upon for information as to whom he paid for his contract, the official Ringsters will alide out unncathed, and have plenty of time to protect their tool. It is a pretty scheme, but the taxpayers will keep their oyo on it. ; e & Gen, McAnrtaon (with nothing to conceal) scoms to find a satisfactory explanation of how his personal end Post-Offica accounts snccecded In getting so badly mized almost beyond his reach. Upon evefy important question ho {s allat sea, and phlegmatically domands time to *hunt up” his answers whenever an interrogal striking the in. wardness of his affairs is propounded. The point now at issue is, Bhall the bondsmen be saved? And the examination is cowducted 80 na to show timt, as the Government onght to have known what MoArTaun was up to, his scourily cannot be held for his skull. duggery. E————— Gen. Mata, of Maxico, is in Washington, claiming rocognition as ¢ Envoy Extraordi- nary and Minister . Plenipotentiary ” of that revolution-ridden land to the United States, and asking permission to co-oporato with our Government fh the supprossion of troubles on tho border. Ho haa a latter from Draz— who, by the way, cheerfully alludes to a neighboring Republio,” popularly assumed to bo the United Btates of America—in- structing him that the Extradition Treaty of 1872 isin full foree and virtue, and admonish. ing him to subjoct himself to its provisions. There is some litlle doubt that Bocretary Evarrs will recoguize ther Haughty Greaser from the Halls of tho Montezumns. e —— Health-Commissioner De Worr, seizing upon a scosational cholera item in a half- scared twilight sheot, takes occasion to re- mark g:pon Chicngo 08 n sumnmer resort, That this is a healthfnl city is not ontirely attributable to the exortions of Health-Com. missioner Dx Worr, but it is nevertheloss & fact that our mortalily is less, in proportion to population, than we have any right to cx- pect from any preeantions takon by officials. That thero is any present danger of cholers is all humbug, bat it behooves evory citizoen *to look well to tho sanitary condition of him. self and his surroundings, and nssist tho natural salubrity of our climate and situs. tion in warding off oven tho possibility of n scourgo. ® ——— ‘Why, Ald. Davy should make himself ob- noxious to mauy of his brothren in the Council by trying to shut down on tho rail- rond pass system is not apparont. It scems necessary to inform him that some gontlo- mon soek the honor of representing s con- stituency mora for the porquisites, among which passes may be onumerated, than for sny good they can ever do to the electors who awarded thew the Aldermanic badgoe. Ald. Wmrr'and Ald. Lawzzr read Ald Dary n dosorved, though savore, lesson, when his resolution deprocating the use and abuse of Ppnsses was road last night, and he will do well, bofors drafting another recolution, to notico whose corna are in the way beforo he attempts to deprive honorable men of all tliat makos their offcos dear to thom. — Mr. Apaus, the Democratio Clork of the Forty-fourth Houso, has arranged tho roll of tho Pprty-fifth eo a8 to give o Democratic majority of eighteen. There nroseven scats contosted, and theso COlerk Apawms, in-the goodness of his hoart, has not given bodily to the Democrats, though he has rofused, in soveral casos, to recognize the Governor's cortificates hold by Republican contestants, while pt tho same time placing Democratio mombe:s upon tho roll whose title to their scata is basod upon cortificgios isausd to them by tho same Governors. I thoe Demoaratio majority of tho ,next Mouse, bo the samo cightoen or eight in oxcems of the Ropub- lican mombership, lave n spatk of fairness “about them, they will lose no thno in con. vinclng Clerk Apaxs that it is no part of his duties to manipulate the roll for partisan purposss, S———— Mayor Heata's proposition to meizo the unoiroumcised firocracker by the throat and smito him from off that portion of the faco of the earth represanted by Chicago will ba gratefully npplauded by all good ojtizens, Tt is nataral for the small dealer in tha in. flammablo commodity to kick, and it is not unnatural in tho small boy to aspiro by burning up the city, to a fame which will ontlive that of the pions fools who 'built it; but, contomporancously, it ia the duty of every officer to nip thess dealors and these ambitious youths in tlo unromantie bud; and tonch fhe undorwriting intercats, as well aa tho qalot-loving olomont of the population, that the spirit of patriotism ia still under the control of the authoritios, whosare able to prevent a chlamity ns doplorablo as it isal. most cortain, if the firowork and squib or. dinance is not faithfully onforcedg. — A PHEPOSTEROUS NOTION OF REFORM. Bome days ago 'Mux Tzmuwe, under the impresalon that Mr, Ham, the Appraisor of the Port of Chicago, was still the editor of tho Jnter-Ocean (and this hos been deniod only within two or threa days), made the following comunonte This **machine " malignant feels copecially sggtieved ot the Prestdent's order to Pederal olllca- boldars to quit the te-making ™ buslness, und ceaso packing volitical conventions and nominate {ng members of their cambluation for the various otficos—local and Btate, as well as Federal.. This prohibitive order excitos his vindictive feelinge 8nd iqokes the Southern pollcy seem pecaliarly odious, But he hasno compunctions to drawing $00 por wogk out of the Pederal Treasyry for dolng nothing. Tho sinecuro salary ta lifted yith great regularity and punctuality, whila apendiug his val- uable time in endeavors to undermine and break down tho Presidont, Ca The edlitor of the Staats-Zeitung inferred from this romarkthat Tae Tamung was mak. ingan effort to havo Mr. Hau removed, and theronpon proceeded to read Tus Taynuxe a lesson on Civil-3ervice Roform, which Mr, Hax, or somebody for him, insorted and in. dorged in tho Jnter-Ocean. The following extract will serve to illustrala Mr. Rasten's idea of Oivil-Bervice Reform : For what caz it be but & groes mlsanderstanding of the Presldent's parposo, when Tus TmiBuna pronounceasn eminently capable, yes, superior, ofti- caras [1ax fs unworthy of his ofico, because he entertalus aud expresses other vlows on clvil sorv- ice and party affairs thau docs the President? What Mr. Haves wishea s plain: To secure to office- holders perfect independeacs of political oplaion, 20 that thoy shall not regard themscives ss blind tollowers of thelr emiployer, ¢cho his wentiments, sud do his political work for hlm. They shall free- 1y, and without fesr of drawing upon thewselves the greatcet misfortune, dare to utter thelr opiu. lons ia speech and {n writlng, provided they only perform the dulles of thelr offico falthfully and puzctoally, Of thls permission ons of the sssoct- ate edltors of the Jnir-Ucean takes advan? tage, snd for so dolng ho la forthwith denvunced by Tus, Twwuns, Bowildercd, ono naturally suka: What, then, doos Mr. MxoiLt, who was himgelf & wember of the Civil-Bervice Reform Assuciation, really underutand by such reform? Did ho really wish to make uficlal duties tndependent of party politics, or was that oaly 8 mizerabls vretcnse? Did ho really deslro that oficelolders, if thoy were ouly faithful and capable, mizht entcetsin whatevcr political opinjous they wished, or ouly that Lhey should accord with Ats opluions? That would certainly Le s beautiful kind of independs €3ca) 1t svininds ono of the fresdow which the Tolish becgar cave to hiv son Tezin, **Trzia,™ rald be, ‘'here fa a gronchen; you may bny what- cver yon please with it, but I tell yon if you don't boy bread I'l] break avary bone In yoarbody.** Sa also T TRiBUNR accords to oficeholders the tight to think sa they Wish, but if they do not ihink that all that Mr. Havrs says, writes, or docs 1a excellent, let calamfity immediately fall upon them, Unless this article wns intended as & neat bit of sarcasm, or elss written under conditions analogons to thosa which have from time to time produced various inno- heront newspaper effusions, we should say Mr. Rasten's . principle of Civil Borvico ig | that Govornment officeholders shall not be permitted to spend the Government's time in running caucuses, organizing conven- mansging eampaigus, and cditing newspapers in favor tions, nominating candidates, of Civil-Bervico Reform, but that they may do all theso things in opposing Civil-Servico Reform. That is to say, Mr. Rasres desires Prosident Hayes to, pass for either an idiot or a hypoorite by eaying to the subordinates of the Administration: ‘'Seo ,hero, my boys, I am personally committed to Civil- and I am forced to issue an order forbidding officcholders Borvico Reform, who are paid by the whole peoplo to wasto the Government time and use the Government inflnenca in managing the poli- tica of the country; and you may construo this to mean that you shall not bluster around in favor of this principle, but that you may do overything in your power pub- dicly and privately to broak it down and de- feat it.” This would be the practical effect of the President’s ciroular to ofticcholders, if Lo romoved all those who should assume & conspleuons and active parinership of his Civil-Service policy, but ratainall those who should make themsalvos equally conspicuous and active in their antagonism to the Civil- Bervice policy. b If Mr. Rastzn was in carnost when he wrote this sentiment, he must admit in o Incid interval that he hns committed himself to n most proposterous proposition. It isan entirely original notionof reforming the Civil Servica, Ho cortainly did not loarn it in Gormany, whero ho was born, nor hear of it if ho passed through England on his way to this country. an administration of Government or busi- ness that declared a cortain policy, and then choso na its agents for carrying out that pol- ley a set of mon actively opposed to it and who would uso their ime to dofent it. We should soy ordinarily that suck conduot was evidonce of lunscy or deccitfulmess. It would be the same thinj asif a merchant should endage as his forcign buyer a mem- berof o competing firm, in the consclous- ness that his purchases wonld be made at such figures as would ennble tho compot- ing fim to lmdogoll him. Or very much the same a3 if Mr. Ras TER, controlling @ newspaper profess. edly devoted to the principle of Civil-Borv- ico Reform, should employ ooly such writers, and print only such ariicles as should de- nounce Civil-Servico Reform. Or, to make the reductio ad abmurdum still-clearer, it would resemble the caso of 8 man who swoars off drinking and theroafter confines himself to beer and whisky aa beverages. Certainly noone of theso things iz more ridiculous than it would be for Preaident Hares to an- nounce that his officeholdors shall not take active part in'politics, and then dismies thoso ‘who should enter conventions and ran nows- papors in favor of this principle but rotain those who manipulate caucuses, intimidate conventions, and spend their time in de- foating this principle. Mr, Rasten says that Mr. Ham i an’ * eminontly capable, yes, superior, officor.” This may, bo so, though woe were nover be- foro informed that he has any peouflar fit- nesa or special training for his place. Dut it is not true that ho is so exoccllent and dodira- ble nn officer if he opposes the Prosident's intention to roform the publioc service and eutablish a scloutifie, faithful working sys- tom of Government service. In®that case hie is ono of the very * machine ® men whom it Is the purpose of tho President to drive out of Governmont employ, If Mr, Ty thinks that, bocause ho is a United Btatos official, it s hia special calling to bum around ward moetings, to manipulate primaries, to run a newspaper, to nominate candidates, all with & view to defeating Civil-SBervico Re- form, hie is not the sort of publio officer that such roform roquires, The President’a cir- cular forbade all these things cithor jor or againat bla policy of improving the public sorvice and ridding it of political blowers and strikers ; it would ho absurd to onforce tho order only in tho case of those whoare for it nud loave it a dead lottor in the case of thoso who are againstit. All men who are sincere and intelligent fn thelr desire to amunnlpalg tha peoplo from the diotation of Fedoral of oldors (and wo have always iucluded Mr. Rasten among these until ho made his romarkablo npology for Hax ns a “‘machine " politician) undorstand perfectly iwoll that the Civil Boxvicacan 70¢ be re- formed through the agoncy of men who, as officeholders, omploy the Governmont's time and fnfluence to defoat such roform, Itwas never the iden of the Clvil-Sorvice Commis- slon, to which Mr. Risren refers, that the work of reforming the Civil Borvice should be intrusted into tho bands of * machine ” politicians, who would do all they could to provent such reform, Tha{ was the con- struction which the proceding Administra. tion seemod to put upon Oivil-Borvica Re- form, How much headway did it make in tho diroction of this reform under that con~ struction? S THE OAS CONTBACTS. Tho long-mooted qdestion, of tha validity of the contract by the city with the West Bide Gas Company has boen determined by Judge Dauauoxp, and adversely to the Gas Company. The contract was dated in Octo. ber, 1869, aud to run for ten years, or until April, 1879, By this contract the city bound itsolt to pay the Weat Side Gas Company 83 por 1,000 feet of gas during the time of the contract. Afler the-election of a now City Council, ln'l!m, the cily tendered nnew arrangement with the two Gas Companios, After a long conslderation of the subjeot by the City Council, that body accepted an offer voluntarily made by thoe Sonth Side Company to- furnish the city with gas at 81.50 per 1,000 feet, to substitute fhroc-fest instead of five-feet burners, and to adopt Cor- BEaT’s vevised time-table for lighting the lamps, This arraugement has been working vory satisfactorily ever since. .‘The City Gouncil, however, failled to reach any ar. rougement with the West Bide Gas Company, A strong demand was made by s portion of the poople in that pert of the city to have oil lampa substituted for gas lights, and pro- posals for hightiog a portion of the atreets with oil were invited. The City Council by sesolytion gave notice that it would not pay the coptract price for gas, and, pending the genoral t, the Gas Company sp- plied to the United Btates Circuit Court for ax injunction to restrain the city from inter. ferenco with the Company in the execution Wo have never yet heard of of the contract, oto.. Ko substontial ques- tion submitied to the Court was the validity of tho contract, which the Company insisted should by oxecated.” After the argument, Judge DausatoNp muggested to the partios tho advisability of coming to an amicablo arrangement, One party had gas to sell, and the other wanted gna with which to light the streets, and they should girive to resch some satisfactory agrooment. The suggestion of the Court was not accopted by the Gas Company, and the city hasgone on using gas withont any price being fixed therefor, Now, Judge Dauu- MoxD has docided that the contract of 1869 was not binding because of the want of power on the part of the city to make a con. tract covering a period of ten years, and be- yond a timo for which the City Council could make an appropriation. This decision applies of course equally to bath gas corporations, It limits the author- ity of the ity to contracts for tho mupply of gas boyond the term for which it has mado an appropriotion. Theso appropriations ave, by law, limited to one year. The city, theto. fore, can only pay for gas to the extontof its nonnal Appropriation for that purpose, and the contract cqunot run beyond the cdverod by tho appropriation, This decision by the Court agrees with an opinion froquontly expressod during the last fAve years by many eminent members of the Bar. Tho reasoning of Judge DatnxoxD is {rresiate ible, and the judgment will in all proba. bility bo accepted as final, . This brings tho wholo matter back to where it was a year and more sgo. The prico of manufacturing gas has declined congidorably during the last three years. ,The West Bide Gas Company has all the means aid applinnces for manufacturing and for delivering gas, and can afford to furnish it at much less price than can a new company, The interest of tho city is also tho interest of the Gas Company. Supposa that had the Gas Company last year shown a disposition to make nby conocssion to tho popular domand, the Oity Council would have beon willing to have contracted for gus with that, Company at $2 per 1,000 feet; but the Company failed to make any definito proposition, ecoming to rely upon the OCourta t6 enforce the contrnct. Thers being, thorefors, in contomplation of law no contract, tho city is at liberty now to discontinue tho use of gaa furnished by tho West Bide Gompany, or to uso tho gas at such prico aa may bo agreed on by the Company ana the city. Considor. ing tho financial circumstances of ths city, and the undoubted factof the great compara. tive redaction in tho cost of manufacturing gns, the Gas Company should now cordially unite with the city suthorities in making a now and eatisfactory arrangoment as to the prico to bo paid by the city for gaa for light- ing the West Division, CINCINNATI'S SOUTHERN RAILROAD, Oincinnati hes a raflroad which has boon pald for bytaxation so far ns it has beon built, and which, in its presont condition, is a very costly white elephant. It may have 08 grand a future as its projootors predicted forit; but it must be completed before it can achieve that faturs, and just now there is no very good promiso of that, Tho project was certainly bold and enterprising, Bome years ago, Cincinnati, finding that ita busi® nesa was rother on the declino than on the incrense, resolved to make itself the grand trading point of the Bouth by building a railrosd across Kentucky, and a8 far as Ohat- tanooga, Tenn., whera it would connaect with a network of railroads reaching out in oll directions and compassing the richest portions of tho South. An estimate was made of tho cost of the rond, and com- potont engineors roported that'it could ba constructed for $10,000,000. OCincinuati boldly lssued tho bonds, and the construc. tion of tho road was begun in spots along the line, in order to complote it the moro quickly, ‘Meanwhile, it became a guestion whother & municipal corporation in the State of Ohio could mortgage itaclf to construct a railroad which wonld 'bo entirely within the boundaries of other States, and would only have a bare bridge connectlon with Ohib, But tho SBupremoe Court took o public-apirited view of the matter, rosalved to stand by Oin- ‘cinnati pluck, and sustained the constitution. ality of tho project. Then the $10,000,000 wero _ oxponded, but the roal was very far from being ocompleted. Whether tho fault was that of the engineers in making o false estimate or that of those who construoted the road, we do not know, Btill Oincinnati was not discouraged, and invested esomething like $0,000,000 mors, we bellave. This amount haa also been expended; the road isstill §n an uncomplotod condition, and all that can be utilized is & stretch of 160 miles running to Bomorset, Ky., with a branch to Lexing. ton which the Clucinnati people do not want used bocausa it would be in tho intorest of a competing road. : THero is still required an expenditure of about $4,000,000 to complote the road, as wo understand it. The distance is not long, only s fow hundred miles, but the road traverscs a succossion of hills and streams that require constant tnnneling and bridging, and hence perhaps the exceptionally large cost of construction, Thepeople of Oincinnati ars now paying annually over o miliion dollars in taxes for intercat on the railroad bonds already issued, and the taxpayers are in no Lumor to ircrease the burden. That part of the road already constrioted hias been leased to a company tooperate it, but so far some misunderstanding has preventsd the carry. ing out of the contract, Bo theroad has never brought in one dollar to half pay the interest on ity bonds, and it “ts doubtful whether running it as & mere local rosd into Kentucky will yield any profit, The Cincin. natians have been fondly hoplug that some company of capitalists would offer te com. plote tha road on reasonable terms with the city; but times are hard, railroad building about the least attractive of investments, and the philanthropio capitalists have so far been txondlnglz backward fn coming forward, AV® this particular juncture, the Cinelnnall Béuthern Kailroad nay bo cited as » fearful wattitg sgainst the wotgaging of municipal ctpontions for schetnes of o private nature, 4d & numbor of the private capitalists v that éity under. taken the venture, ib ib Probable thatthe road would have beon enmbhhd, sdme yay or other, before now. The tinie may come, indeed, when the road will bave a value to the business of tho city fully cqiil to the anticipation of those who favoted lts cod: struction; but in the meanle, Clitinnati willhavopaid outininterestand p2easlvé prot- its dn construction almost as mt| miould have sufficed for private capitallits tld theroad, If ever comploted, this Hdlithern milroad will give Ofnocinnati & 06t airline, and entirely indepéndent cfnoction 'with a great railroad centre of the Bouth, and anable it to reach out into Kentucky, North Carolius, Tennosses, Goorgis, sud Florida on ARARY WALLUAUY BACLUULILYG L ULAJAIA Ry o v, ACHd. ¥ v ' the one mde, and Alsbama, Missirmippi, Lonisiana, and Texas on the other. This di- roct railrond connection will cortainly carry with it enormous ndvantages in selling tothe Bouth the manufactured gooda which the Bouthern people bny, and help build up the pork-packing industry which Cincinnati of Inte years has resigmed into the hands of Chicago, The purpose is also to buy the Squthern cotton in exchange, and start man- ufacturing establishments on the Ohio River, and thus mako the Bouthern connection doubly valuable. The schemo is certainly attractive, and if Chicago had foolishly com- mitted itself as far as Cincinnati has, the road would not remain usicomploted very long. . ADDITIONAL REW LAWS. We published yesterday the list of the more important scta€of the Logislature which went into effect on July 1 as laws. ‘We might have included the law providing for the appointment of an ‘officer at the “Btock-Yards, and another at East 8t Louls, to enforce the Inws sgainst cruelty to ani- mals, and to compel the proper feeding and treatment of cattlo. If this law be intended for anything moro than to create two sine- cures, then the money-will be well spent. It will require, however, energy and cour- age on the part of these officers to suocoss- fully provont tho most cruel treatment of these dumb animnls, Another law was that defining the statns of paupers. Heroafter no inmato of an alms- honso or other pauper is to be deomod as mequiring o residence in any election or voting precinot because of his being an inmate of such almshonso or othar charitablo institation, This will bresk up the repro- hensiblo ioa of voting paupors at public eloctions” by tho Wardens of thosoe institu- tions. Tho law applies all 6ver the Btate. An amendment to the dram-shop law, by the substitution of the word “or” for “and,” is calculated to render that Iaw oporative. Tho law made tho penalty fine and imprison- ment, The law hergafter will read fine or imprisonment, or both, 'The penalty being oxcessivounder thoe old Iaw, convictions were fow ; but now it is expected that the convic- tions will bo frequent and certain, . Horoaftor the Assessors and Deputy.Assos- sors throughout the Btate aro to require cach person to report the number of acros of land ho had tho preceding year in wheat, corn, rye, onts, barley, buckwheat, castor boans, benns, pess, potatoes, turnips, and other root crops, and tho number of bushels of each produced; tho number of acres of tim- othy and cloves, and the numbor of tons of liny and bushels of seed produced; tho num- ber of acres in cotton and flax; and the bushels of seod and pounds of lint and fiber, and the number of acres in tobacoo and tho number of pounds produced. An ontirely now list of articlos to be ox- ompt from exocution, attachthent, and die- tress for rent has beon onaoted, -Tho list of exemptions now embraces: 1, Nocossary ‘wearing apparel, Bibles, school books, snd Jamily pictures of every person; 2. 8100 worth ‘of other property to be seleoted by tho debtor, and, in addition where tha debtor is tho head of o family and resides with the same, 8800 worth of other property, This i3 n material reduction of the oxempted property. Sewing-machines, tools and im. ploments of trade, material necossary for any trade, library of professional persons, food, fuol, cow and swine, nedessary bed. and bedding, etc., are no longer exempt excopt to the oxtont they may bo included in tho ‘*‘other proporty" to tho value of $100 or 8300. 3 A law simplifying tho town election buai- noss was also passed. It providos that the torritory embraced within any city may bo organizod as a town. In such cases all town officers shall bo elocted at the annual charter eloction of such city, and all the powors and duties of town oflicors shall bo exercisod by the City Council. The Oity Council may consolidato tho offices of City and Town Olerk, and all vacadoies in any of the town ' officos shall be filled by the City - Couneil. Under this law, it we understand it corrootly, the torri- tory of the whole OCity of Ohicsgo may heroafter bo consolidated into one town, instead of throe as at present, and have but ono sot of township officers. This reorgan- ization is to bo.made by the County Board when requested by tha City Council, The consolidation of tho township and city eloc- tious, aud placing the whole managemont and control of, such elootions in the hands of tho Oity Council, hoa already saved tho city ono disgraceful clection, and enabled the publio to stamp out the bummerlsm and fraud which have' hithorto marked all town cloctions within citfos. This law allow- ing citica lying within ono or more towns or parts of towns to bo organizod s towns, separate from all other towns, applies to all tho other citlea in tho Btato having & popu. lation of 8,000 or y 3 ‘The London 7Vmes haa recently discovered o fresh sonrce of Rarm in the fact that the Aloacow spocch of the Ozar never alluded to Asig, ond that she was omitted in the pro- ooodings of the Conforonce, in the wording of the protocol, and in the declaration of war. Ituadly states that tho promise of the Ozar is that his armies will recross the Pruth when tho Christlans have been relessod from Tarkish tyranny, but it does mot bind bhim to withiraw one man from the newly-scquired territory In Asla. ‘The' worst of this lament, 8o far as England is conoerned, is that it contains so much truth, There is no doubt that Russia will keop nll she takes in Asla, because there is no one to stop her from doing it. Without the viola- tion of any pledge, beforo this war is over, she will gecure the greater portion of the shores of the Black Hea, the quadrilaternl of ‘Frobizond, Erzeroum, Kars, and Batoum, and will hold the keys to the Euplirates aud Tigris Valloys. - Bhe will have Batoum, the only good port left to the Turks on the Black Sea, and Trobizond, which commands the direcs Perslan road. The 7'imes sorrow- fully says: *It lu very evident that from the first Asis Las been the point aimed at by Rusaia, snd that the movements on the Pruth were meant to ocoupy the attention of Turkey and to Juduce her to msss her main army on the Danube for the defensa of Con- stantinople, whereas all last yeor the Czar has been organizing three columus for the oconquest of this distriot.” Bendtor Jony C. Haixxs hps bibtifed the othér. members of" his 8 mittee to EgL hil at (ke Grand ; ql‘z o this city v, 8 10 s;m:x iy AL, st The “omiltted 1 10 flud out what Late fu part pasment bLds been done to- mouncy was of the canal eh. warls bullding th expenses, L0 tirst temporgHiy tised for cii make good YeBcjoritles caused By tax-ighting. The m»nh':‘eh 476 pald about $160,000 tuto tho different Iithds for which the State bullding fund money %{e But the Comptroller, 1t o othin, Sity-Hi Tulld inoaey gived bé secus, th this collected City-Hall moncy and paid Balu ou s ondinary expousce 0 City-Hall bullding | of the city, In order to avold making temporary loans {n anticipation of this year's taxes. he questlon Is, Where does he get his authority for so dolngt Angd If this practico is legal and proper, how and when i the City-Hall to be built? The Leglslative Committes will prob- ably examine those polnts, S - The Bprinafiel] Journal makes an announce- ment and cxpresses an oplnfon. It annoynces that its aditor has recelved his Post-Office com- misslon, and that “when Le assumes the re- sponsibilities of the office he will do so without ony obligation or pledge resting upon him to any human belng here or elsewhere,” ete.; and 1t expresses the opinion that CrarLEY Haxt bas a perfect right to hold tho $3,000 Appratser sin- ccurc and devote his personal time to dpposing the reform measnres of the Aduinistration and to breaking aown IIAyes' Administration, He aleo clafms that the President has a spectul fondncss and admiration for implacable encmics, and regards those who indorse his reform poll- cles ns “sycopbantic enlogiste and flatterers.” We wonld confident!alf advise the Springflcld cditorial Postmaster not to act too brashly on this theory, nor imitate the Chicago Appralser too closely In making war on the Administra- tion, as the President might not after all prove to be a non-resontlng Quaker. e —— N There 1s but little doubt that the remarkable platform lald down by one J. W. Danien will securo for that gentleman the Democratic nomi- natlon for Governor of -Virginia, His “posi- tlon! Is on the grand opoortunity lost by a mis- Ided * North " at the close of tho War, when onznT E. Lzs and Josgrm E, Jonnston were out of a Job, and. the former eligible to the of- fico of Minister to England and the latter to a seat {n the Cablnet. The fallurs to make these appointments has filled this Daxisn with a longing for the Gubcrnatarial chair of bis State, ‘for itIn nottoo latoto mend,” ho cxplains, though he' neglects to suggest owactly the method by which Mr, Lzg is uow to bo {nduced 1o accept tho appointment as Mr. PIsRREPONT'S sticcessor, or how he propases to alter the mis- fortunes of Mr. Jounsron, v ——— Taking advantage of certain sectlions of the customs regulations, Russian vesscl-owners aro transferring such property to American citizens. ‘The scctlons provide that any vessel wholly owned by a citizen of the United States, though rehased of pelligerents in a war to which our overnment 1s not a party, Is entitled to the protection of the United Btates flag and authorities. Five or six transfers have been made, and the vesscls run.rcgularly under the American flag, Il It is no longer a questionof color but of shade in South Carolina. The pure biacks com- plain that discrimination in favor of mulattocs *§s shown In tho distributlon of oflicers, and have appolnted a sort of guo warranto deputation to Inquite into the claims of their lighter brethren. I this feeling should extend to tha white race, other reasons than a long tenurs’ of oftice might bo pleaded in a caudidatura for the United States Benatorship. 3 —r—— The ChlcagoTnter. Ocean’s editor-in-chlef holds 8 Federsl offico worth 83,000 o year, to which ho waos appolnted by Mr, llavxs, and inretom tho " Inter-Ocean is wholly dovoted to warring agalnst ho Administration, sud ealling for military G ernments for the Southern States. Journal, But then it (s necessary for an Infer-Ocean editor to have somo position outside, to enable him Yo secure = llving. New York ale and beer browcrs are on the rampage. For ycars o system of barrel-theft has been carricd on in that city and tho barrcls shipped to other browerles in Connecticut which, it s sald, never purchass such articles, excopt from coopers supoiled by, the thieves, Tho loss for tho last three years {s reportce at $250,000, with little prospect of a reduction. et Mrs, Dr. MARY WALEER writes a letter deny- Ing that sho s to be married to a prominent gentleman on the 4th, and recalllug all the In- vitatipns sent out in ler pamne. Bho says tho whole thioz Js s hoax, Lut the sudden disap- pearance of the prom, gent. leads ono to botleve that tho Doctor has tried to rope In soms fellow wYo got out in time. e — . Downjin Bt. Charles Parish La., the colored laborers refuse to work for Buperintendents ‘who carry umbrellas to protect them from the sun. It rominds thon®of tho overscors of slave times, and thoy estcem it s badge of unwar- rantable. nuthori®y, aund the Suporintendonts have had to “shoot? this implement of com- fort. ———— Nxw Yonx, July 2.~Indirect cable dispatches say that the Roumanisn forces are preparing to croas tho Danube near Kalafat. . ‘Weo hnd not before heard that eablo dispatches could be sent by * Indirection.” The old way' was to send them dircet, but the now method is probably faster or leas wrearlyg on the wires, — ‘Wanniyorox, D. C.. Jaly 1.—Tho President has appoiuted CLank Waggoxkn Collector of Internal Hevenue for the Tenth District of Ohlo. Thisis an cxcollent appolntment. Mr. Waa- GQONER {8 an honest and capable man, and en- Joys the confidence and respect of the commun}- ty in which he resldes, e Miss ADA C. Bwxxt, the *consolidated” Ponsion Agent for Iilinols, has presented her balf-milllon official bond to Judgo Bropanrrr, bad it upproved, and has mailed it to Washing- ton. ——— \PERSONAL, ‘The Rev. Robert Laird Colllor will act as Chaplain at the ©oston Muslc Hall servico on the Fousth of July, Mulligan ia going to Ireland for health and pleaaure, but he will be back in time to snswer any questions Congross may desiro ta put concerning Mr, Blaine, * Mr, David A, Wolls has written for the Clucionatl Commercial an article with tho sug. gestlve tile of *‘Tho Dollar of the Fathorsvs. the Dollar of the Son L4 It is not half so oxpeusive to rovictusl Nicsic as it Ie to feed the Doaton Aldermen for ono year, Twenty-five thousand dollars were appro- priated for thu Intter purpose last year. Mr., Smalloy has discovered that Gon, Grant wae born & spcechmaker, and thwarted of his caroer Ly military noccasity, Thie s a calam. ity of the Wur berctofore not appreciated in this conntry, The late Prof. Gilleaple, of Union Collego, had two degrees of LL.1. thrust upon upon his back, and thereaficr inalsted thathodegreoshould bu ralsed to the second power, and become L. 4 D.2. . The silence of the Hoar Brothers at this intcrecting juncture ls, remarks the Rocky Mouut- ain News, ominous. Not at all. The Hoar Brothers would be heard from {f they had any complalnts to make. ‘The Athenzum says that Mr, Darwin will contribate to the July number of Mind & **Blo- graphical Sketch of a2 2afant," being tha record of @ serics of careful obssrvatious on ke early montsi deovelopmant of one of ons., An envious German writes to the New York Sua that Carl Schurs is not & graduste of Boou, as stated by Attoroey-Geuera) Devens. s was & student of philpsopby of two vesrs' standing only wpen he way yroscribed for political reasons. Bir Stafford Northcote refusad to speak at one of Yo banquets given to Gen. Grant because, in the prescat condition of forelgu politics, ha did not coustder It prudent for o revponsible Ministes of the Crown to rum the risk of getting upon ble 5u. L Mr. John 8. C. Abbott received from Na- poleon 111. 8 gold medal of soms s)ight pecuniary value In secoguition of Lis services as the blographer of Nspolieon Honaparte, but he recelved no other +*testimenlal,™ current reposts to the contrary notwithstanding. ‘When the Queen of Holland was dying she uitered & prophecy with respect to the fature of her country. €hesald: ** You will never sce snother Queen of Holland, ands Republic will not take my place. 1foresee dlsastrous calamities for France. " Bho belioved that thuce would bo @ fresh war be- tween Frauco and Uermany, la which the former wonld be beaten and the latter occnpy Holland. ‘This wonld be a bad affair for Delglam; ft s not wonderfnl that King Leopold 1s antious and’ls strengthening his fortifications, " Mr. Winter, dramatic critia of tho New York Z'ridune, now- in London, says that Mr. Irvingis **snnctor of undenlable talent, bntso deformed hy mannerisma that hia abilitics ate sadly obscared,' Mr. Winteria o pinfon, however, 18 only valuable where he {s not known, Presidont Hayos delivored his Commence- ment oratlon at Kenyon College in *‘s box-cost with side pockets™ becanse he was too poor to ‘buy & frock coat, and independent enongh to do without ono, The Commencement season jnst finishing probably did not develdp many young men like him, Tho Baltimora Amerscan cannot onll to mind 8 mora discrect travellng party than the one which accompanied tho President to New England, All the members of It knew how to mako a speech withont saying tro much, which Is, after all, tho real secret of euccesaful speechmaking, asit s of successfal whiting, Prof, Lowell told the Harvard Sonfors at the broakfast bo gavo them that he was snspendod Ly the Facully justbeforo his own class-day it 1838, and waa not allowed to joln in the festivities of that Ile was rasticated at Concord, and hin class-day poem was printed for clrenlatlon, #inca he was forbidden to deliver it. : Crolzette, once tha favorite actress of the Comedlie Francalee, has mada & Iamontabla faflare since her return to the boards in tho part of Caro- Hlne, the principal femalo rolo In the now play, **The Marquis do Villemer," Sha lost her beauty to a great extont dnring her recent filnoss, growing thick and clumsy, while her faca wears & haggard expresslon quite now to her, In rogard to Collector Tutton, who was appointed by Prestdent Grant for Lis services on behalf of the Whisky Ring ngainst Bristow, the Philadelphia T¥mes saya: **To assume that Tntton can remain In the chief Fedoml offica of the second city of tho Unlon, Is to assume that President Mayes nnd his Cabinet mesn to méck this com- munity by honoring one whq climbed Jnto position na tha prico of ofclal perfidy, " . Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson's speoch at the dinner givon to President Haycs m Doston was as follown: ** Mr. Mayor, I havs Lo return my sincers acknowledgments for your fnvitation to attend your most welcome entertalnment, and I wish I could cxpréss iIn fitling tcrms my thanks. BatT waaalways abad spenker, and am more sgin my oldage. The President, I am sure, will forgive mo for endeavoring to slt down. " Mr, Barry Sollivan, the English nctor, has Intely had a curlous operation performed uoon his oye. Ho wasaccldentally struck by o sword In that sensitive organ some months ago, whila play- Ing Richard 111, Tho eyo has nover since come pletely healed, and the physiclan concluded that some foroign substance must havo lodged In tho cycball, The necessary dperntion was performed, and on eyelash was removed, which had beon thrust In at the polnt of the sword. Mr. Sallivan 10 noyy rocovered. A Miss Mary Carponter, the philanthropist, recently deceascd, whoso life was o marvel of un- sclish devotion aud Industry, was a elater of Dr.' W. B. Carpeator, the ominent asclentlst, and of the late Dr. Philip P. Carpenter, of Montreal, distingulshed for his rescarches in nataral history. It was overywsy a remarkablo famlly, Mlsa Core ‘penter horself waso Unitarian, and regarded by many of those to whom sho applied for assistance 82 without the pale of Christianity, and’therefos hardly desorving of countensnco. i A number of American women wroto to Charlos Reade, thanking him for his dofenso of tho woman doctors fn Edinburzin his new novel. In reply, he ncknowledges the couricsy of the let- ter, and roturns thanks for the enconragement it has given him. The American womon who scek to beconte doctors have nat, Mr, Beade ways, obsta~ cles of so severe a nature to contend with as thele English sistors mve. Tho American women have n higher dogree of fortitnde, and thelr nation fs too brave, chivalrons, and just to porelst In siding with the strong agsinat the wesk. Mr, Reado wislies he wero twenty years younger and in bettor health, 8o that ho might become the champion of & cause the success of which he has so closely at heart, Yalo was unfortunato this yenr, It lost o ball-match and the bost-race, and had to suf- fer the mortification of seelng tho Prealdent and Cablnet pass by its doors on thelr way to Harvara. Some of tho blame for this last calamity ought to attach, tho Yalo men think, to Mr, Secretary Rv- arts, who was a graduato of Yale, snd whose class thisyear colobrated Its nnniversary; yet he not only atlowed the President togo over ta tho ene- my, but actually wont with him for a time, return. ing to New Haven afterwards, Whila on the snb. Ject of college afllalrs, it may be well to notice that the victory of Harvard st Springfield will probably rosult fn the transfer of the race-courso for the futare to New London, Conn., the winning crew being decidedly In favor of the change. One more tem: Tho speaking at Yale this yoar was safd to ba remarkably wooden snd pertunctory, and the fact {s attribated to the dissolution of the two debaiing socleties, tho Livonian and the Broihers, Tho orations were for thu most part wall written, bub badly dellvered. e SPRINGFIELD ‘The Enormous Addition to the Tax-Eating Industry of the State Concocted by the Last Leglslature—Its Initiation Yesterday. Bpectal Dispateh to The Tridune, SeamnaviaLn, 11l July 2.~—Gov. Cullom to-day reappointed Gen. H, Hilliard, of Chicago, Adjue tant-Conoral of ghe ptate, Under the laws taking effect yesterday, he also appointed the State Loard of Mealth, as follows: Dr, John H. Rauch, allopath; Dr.- Reuben Lud- Iam, Chlcsgo, homeopath; Dr, David Brinco, Jacksonville, allopath; Prof, Jobn M. Gregory, Champalgn; Prof, Newton Dateman, Kuox Coune ty: Dr. A. L. Clatk, Elgin, ecloctic; and Dr. o~ mace Wardner, Cairo, allopath. This gives the allopatha three members, the homeopaths ons, the «eclectica one, and two scientists. ‘The Commissloners to locate the Esstern Insane Asylum are John II. Addams, Stophenson Connty; John Thomay, Bt. Clalr; Willlam A. McDonugell, McHenry; Dr, Joseph Robhins, Quincy; A. P, Bartlett, Peoria; Myron C. Dudley, DuPage; and Dr. Willlam Gerrard, Lawrenco County, Under tho law for tho pravention of cruolty to animale, John McDonald waa appointed Btate Agent at tha Chicago fitock-Yards, and the Hon, Lnfi" M. Halney, of Madlson, st the Baat Bt rd of Trustecs of the Illinols Historica) ry snd Natural'Hustory Museum, composed of the Governor, Bocretary f State, and Supgr- intendent of Pablic Instruction, met fo-day and organlsed, choosiug Gov. Cullom Presldent, It, P, Johnston 'Becrotary, sud Prof. A. H. Wourthon, of Warsaw, aa Curator, The Board will mect nionth- Iy, and ft ls proposed 10 arranga tho State Museomy st once. ‘The Township of Wade, ln%rcwnty to-day segistered $2:4, 300 of refunding bonds iu the Stata Audifor's ottica, Tho Socrotary nr.&h. Btata Board of Agriculture 1s remitting deferrfl premiums of the State Fair | laat year, amounting to $5,5600. Worl gun on the cxtension of the Insane Noapital at _Jacksonvillo, and on tho addition to the Ueaf and Dumb Asyluin, ‘Tho new Feeble-Minded MIhm at Lincoln wil be ready for the recoptivn of puplls snd paticnts very shostly, o ——— GENEVA LAKE, 2 Bpectal Dispatch to Thg Tridune, Gaweva Laxs, Wis., July 2,—~The following were the arrivale st tho Whiting House, Genova Lake, Wis., Monday, July 2: From Ch Qen. I. N, Stlles, A, Ryderand wifo, Miss Gerty Ryder, Mlsa Anas Underwood, Miss Lucy Stiles, Mr, and Mre. Ucen. SBturges, Turner Rumsey, Robert McAvoy, Maywood—J. W. Grosback. Harvard—¥. Wisner. Kilbourne City—J, P, Pere kins. llockford—John M. Gray, Josle French, Evauston—Bmma Bradley, Louls Bradley, Lizzie Froat, Bells lieed, Ed F. Bperry, Ed €. L. 'Prattand wife, B. Paglaen. Milw Abbott and wife. Pecatonica—Ars. B. E. Fleming, wife, ault bu], J.Crummer, Maseen, Misa.—Alice Sim ohn Miss. Del —M e e ———— . UNLUCKY DOCTORS. Special Dlpateh to The Tribune. Broowsoron, Il., July 2.—To-dsy, in the Mo Lesa Circuit Court, 8 jury gavo a verdict in a very importaot malpractice case. Two ycars ago, In throwing rails from 8 wagon, Casafbs M. Niccolls, of Emplre Townshlp, & wealthy dealer in fne atock, fnjured his left hand, which immedistely becamo inflamed. Drs. Littla and Fisher, old practitionws, of Leroy, were summoned, and, de- spite thelr attention, mortifcation set it, causing amputation. Dissection showed that the cause of mortideation was a largs stiver of wood that, bav~ ing been driven foto the straciore of the haud, gs- caped detoction, and produced gangrone. “Nic- colle brought sult sgaloat the doclars, and to-day ® vordict waa refiderad for §2,000. Motloa was eatercd 108 & sow trial