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

THE CHICAGO Thye Trilbanre, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. AT MAIL—IN ADVANUR—POSTAGE FREPAID. ally Editfon, one y "artnof nyear. per tetled to any ait Eundny ko Teontie gy 88 fONF Weck) Batusidny Faition, ‘Sm rekly, one yeas, soy T'artaof a vear, per i . g P WEEKLY EDIT] s 2. mE €OPY, T yeAT. .2 ol Ter Yo 13,4;1 Clubof twer 2 fpectmen col To provent delay and mistakes be surs and rive Post- Oftice wlidresa in full, including Stata and County. Itemitiances may be made ecither by draft, cxpress, Tort-Uffice arder, of In registered letters, L our riske TEILMS 7O CITT SUNSCRIBERA. | Datly, dellvered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. + Tally, delivered, Sunday included, 30 conta per weck, 1 Addrem THE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Clilcago, HiL Orders for the delivery of Tie TRIRUNE 8¢ Kvanston, Eaoglewnod, and Hyde Pack left i the counting:ruutn . Wil recelva prompt attention, ANMUSEMENTS, Little Red Riding-Ylood, At McVicker's Theatru (Madison strcet, between State and Dearborn) at 2:30 p. 6. Benent of (ke ahoeinan Hospital. Performance by 100 children, MeVicker's Thontro. Mzdlson strect. betwean State and Dearborn. Ene Eageinent of Kdwin Nouth. ** Richard 111" Meadamnes Don, I'rice, ctc. Measrs. Dooth, Wheelock, ete. Tloaley’s Theatre. . Randolph strees, between Clark and LaSalla. En- grcement of the Lingsnls. **Heart and Crown." Meadames Lingard, Varian, etc.; Mesars. Liogard, Hardie, etc. Aftarnoon and evening. Woend’s Muneum. Monroe strect, batween Dearborn and State, **Rob: inson Crusoe.™ Specialty Ollo. Afternoon sad evealng. Now Chleago Theatros Clark street, opposite Shermun Ifouse. Haverly's Minstrels. Mesrs. Thatcher, Ryman, Cushman, eic, Afternoon nnd evenlng. Adeiphl Theatre, Monroe etreet, corier of Dearbarn, gulres” Afternoon sad eyening. “*Molly Ma- Intor-State Exposition, Lake Shore, foot of Adams street. Exhiditton of Industry and Art. Day and evenlog. SUCIETY MEETINGS. NESPERIA LODOE, No, 411, A, F. and A. M. Reguiar Communication at Musonle Teinple, cor. Jian- Quiph and Haisted-ste., on this (Wedncelay) crening, it & THIRD DEGRKK, Visitiog brethren cor- dlaily fnvited. Tiy order’ CIIAB. F, FOERSTEIR, See, CHSEHRAT BRENAN, W, it OARDEN CITY LODGEK, No. 11, A. F. and A, M,— A Gegular Communieation will b hald Weidneadny eseifug, Oct. i, at Urlental Itall, Work on the M, Diegree,” Visltlug brethren are fraternalty invited. - F. HOLCOMD, W. L. L. WADSWORTIL fae. Sl ouR T e WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER i, 1877. OHICAGO MARKET BUMMARY. The Chicaso priduca markets were irregular yca- terday. Mees pork closediunseltled st §14, 57146 14,60 for October and $13, 00313 023 for Jann- ory. Tlard closed stronger, ot 84.50@8.85 for October and $4.37)% for January. Moats were flrer, at G for loose shoulders and Thc for do short ribs, Lake frelghts wore active, ot 44c for corn to Buffalo. Ilighwines wero rteady, st $L.US per gullon, Flonr was dull nud unchanged. Wheat closed steady, at 81, 103 for Septemver and $L.05% for October. Corn cloxer lyc lower, ut424@42%c for October, and 42%5c for November. Uata closed firm, at 28ke cash and ¥ 4c for November, Iiyo was atronger, nt Gie. Burley closed %@1c lower, at 60c for Octaber and #c for November, Ilogs were dull nud weak, ut 1020e decline, closiug at 35,200 660 tor common 1o cholee, Cattie were inactive and weak, with Hhinkted sules at §2,00@6.50 for fu- ferlor to cxtra, Sheop wure dull, ot $2,75% 4.50. Laet Suturday evening thero was in store in Chicnpa 1,000,000 bu whent, 1,372,212 bu corn, 470,241 bu oats, 113,01 bu rye, and 448,181 bu barley, Tota!, 3,500,273 bu, Leing an {ncreasa O 002,555 bu the past weok. Milwaukeo stocks mclude 612,675 bu wheat and 254,807 ba. ‘barley. ‘The total visible nupply at the close of last week fouted up B, 050,101 bu wheat and, 11,602,508 bu corn. Last month the recelpts of live stock at the Union Stock-Yarde, in this ¢ity; word 06,073 cat. tle, 212,538 hogw, and 21,080 sheep. The ship- ments for the sume perlod were 60,400 eattle, 87,172 hogs, ond 6,718 slicep, Thote was ine epectod Into storo (u this clty yosterday 515 cars wheut, 301 curs aad 22,300 bu coro, 88 cars and 0,000 bu oate, 24 care rye, and 100 cars barley, Total (1,178 cara), 485,000 bu, Ono hundred dol- lurs 1n gold would buy §103.00 1n Ercenbacks at theclose, ——— Greonbacks at the Now York Stock Ex- chaugo yesterday closed at 97}, ——— Anow Republican newspaper, the National Union, makes its first apposranco in Wash. ington to-dsy. Its support of the Adminis. tration will bo of tho most unresorved and squnre-toed sort, — A jury hos at last boou mpancled to try 1ho cases of tho persons indicted for defrand- ing Cook County, aud tho trial will now pro- ceed without further delny, 'The Stato’s-At- torney huy wot divulged the nature or atrongth of tho rods he has in picklo for the ringsters, and the dovelopments will there. fore be awaited with intercat. ‘Tho myrinda of minors in the Wilkesbarro anthracito region went to work yestorday, nccopting un advauco of 10 per coent on the prices which cuused them to strike so de. terminedly, and the only duty which now @ovolves upon the regular soldier is to koep tho herd of untiring inquirers which usually surrounds tho Gatling-gun frowm turning the crank of doom, aud secking tho bubble in. formation In the cannon's wouth, ns was done in Chicago. L8y The Ion, WasuounNe, ex-Minis ter to Franco, boing about to remove hiy placo of residenco from Galena to Chicago, tho forewmost citizens of the formér Place, dg- sirous of atlesting thelr approciation of n fellow-townsuun who bas reflocted 50 much uauor both upon the Hopublic and upon thuir municipality, have addressed bim, beg- ging the mention of o day on which thoy muy, by o public gathering irrespoctive of party politics, givo Lim an undoubted nark of the distinction in which they hold him. M. Wasnnunne hns raplied, gratefully ac- oapting the compliment so unanimously tendercd, — ‘Lho aunual roport of thy American Board f«f Comuirsioners of Foreign Misslons, now in susion in Trovidence, R. L,is a docu. ment of moro than usunl jutercst, ‘The ex- penditurcs of the past year excouded the iu- comwe about 17,000, The ‘totad dobt of il Board now mmonnts to $47,085, Notwithstuuding the unfavorable cir. cumstances under which the wission. wicd have labored, (ho caunss of Christianity and civilization has made 1moro warked progress than for wany yeara, Fucts ond figures s to thostate of the work in tho soverul countries where the Obristian missionaries kavo toiled, show that notwith. standing tha provalence of war, pestilence, and fuwine, the fruits of their labor have boon such as to oucourage the Church to re. doule its efforts in behalf of the good cause, —— It is asserted, in explanation of the indict. et of the membors of the Loulsiana Ro. turniug Board, that tho prosocativn in no. wiso refleets upon tho title of Presldent Iiaves, aud iy not aimed at him. The charge sgainst the Bourd is that they altered the returus of Vernon Parish, to the extent of changing 650 votes, which, however, hud no clvot on tho rasult as finully daslared, ‘The explanation, oven admitting that it is the correct one, and is givon by aathority, does vonge, nnd, nnless it shall hereafter appear that tho alteration of the roturns was mnde with a corrupt and fraudnlent design, tho charge of bad faith on the part of the Dem. ocratic instigators of the eriminal prosceu. tion will still hold good. Brorrep Tatu and bis fellow-diplomats, having done the National Cnpital, aro nbout to rotura to their wigwams by way of New York Gity. Thero socms to have been a want of unanimity at the solemn Councils betwesn tho Government officers and the unkempt sons of tha forest which augurs unfavornbly for the peace of the plains, 'Tho high con- tracting partics appear to have beon equally confldent that thoir soveral wishes and in. clingtions must govern in the nll-important controversy concerning tho final disposition 10 bo mado of tho tribes in question. Tho noble Chiefs, in their now brogans and ulstors, ara certain that they will nevor be satisficd to livo in the Missouri-River coun. try, and the Presidont and Secrotary of the Interior aro oqually cortain that theso nborig- inal Princes must migrate to tho land of benns and bacon (none other than the Valley of tho majestic Missouri), which now awaits thair coming. ——— The absurd canards which have been sot affoat rocently concerning tho identity of Osuax Pashs, the ‘Tnrkish commander at Tlovns, one of which assorted thnt he wns the disgraced French Mnrshal Bazaisg, the other with equal directness colling him ono Cnavwrorp, a Kentucky adventurer, arc now sot at rost by the Turkish Minister to this country, who locates him boyond all possi- bility of quostion asn Turk, who first studied with his brother, Ilussewn Errexpy, a Con. stantinoplo Profossor, and thon ontered the military school. eleft it as o Liontonant, ontered the army in 1852, scrved in the Orimean war, and, at its conclusion, entored the Imperiol Guard ns & Captain. Bubse- quently e quelled a Crotan insurrection and was promoted tothe rank of Colonel. In tho Sorvian war last summor he was Chief of Btafl of the Fourth Army Corps, and for gallant sorvico at Zaitschar was raised to the rankof Marshal (Muchir), which he now lholds, Col. Bmarten's descent into the land of tho Greaser was nttonded by very fow start- ling incidents. 'The Colonol's trip was, in fact, barran of results, if the recapture of fow horses and mules ore left out of the occount. The groat mistake of the incursion appears to have been that the American commandant put faith in the word of an Tndisn trader, who arranged to condact tho Unitod Btates troops to the camp of tho thieving savages. This trader’s intorest lay in tho other direction, inasmuch as he had beon from time to timo tho purchaser of divers plunder, prineipally of the four-footed sort, and his occupation dopended upon tho dogree of loyalty which ho practiced toward tho roblers. Col. Bmarren, in his narrative of the rnid, says ho was under the espionnge during tho groater port of his foray of tho Mexican Army of Observation, consisting of o body of cavalry numboring about sixty men, and that this army confined its operations principally to observing the movements of the Yankees at nsafe distance. 'Bo far na tho Colonel's in- formation gocs, thero sppears to have been no ensunlties in the command, all having ar- rived safely and in good condition on the east sido of the river, T — HOW TO REFORM COUNTY GOVERNMENT, ‘T'ho spectacle of a number of tho official members and ox-membors of tho County Ring on trinl before tho Criminal Court for systematieally plundering the taxpayers, and tho dosperate persistenco with which Com- missioner HoLvzx advocates the cxponditure of a million dollar more on - tha Conrt-Housoe by retaining tho- schome of an ormamental dome, aro eircumstances which should koop alivo in tho publio mind tho nocessity of pu. rifying the County Board at tho appronching clection. This purposo can only be achieved by tho oloction of five now membars, all of whom shall guarantee good faith and fair dealing by their charncter and standing in tho community,—men, in one word, who would hnve more to loso in the eacrifico of their roputations than thoy could posaibly giln by joining the Ring for plun- der. 'The choice of a singlo mem- ber who is doubtfal may, and probably will, result in o prolongation of the Ring’s power, and a continuation of tho popular struggle of tho past two yeara against a band of publio thieves. Threo of tho prosent members who hold over may be trusted to unite with five honest men to break down the present combiuation, but not wore, so that a ainglo ono of the now members in. clined to dishonwsty wonld givo tho Ring the majority for anothor yoar. ‘The situs- tion Is cousequently ono of serious import, and lack of judgmont as well as ovil iutent may sacrifice the publio intercets, ‘Thero s no doubt the nsin rellance for reliof 1s upon tha local Ropublican organiza. tion, and this for many reasons, Experience Los shown that indopendont, mon-party wmnovements toay result in & combination of tax-caters o8 easily as tho regular party wovewents; and, when thig s the cuwse, tho evil s bhorder to oure, for the officeholders thus choson do not fool responsible to any political organi. zation, and there is no party chock upon them. ‘Iho adwirablo success attained under the nuspicos of the Ropublican party in de. foating and routing the Corvix bummors who had solzed the City Government kas also inspirod confidence that the county thieves can bo beut dofented und seatterod in the same manner. Aside from these cirenm. stances, it is evidont that overy other offort at organization for tho fall election {s almed at the possession of the offices ruthee with reforenco to what thoy will yield to the in. cumbents and thelr frienda than to the break. ingup of the Riug and tho saving of the public moneys. A fair confession of faith wus mode at the last meeting of the County Committeo of the Workivgmen's parsy, wheun oue of the members opposed the proj. ect of uffilistivg with the Groenbackers, Lecause, s ho said, “if the two partics united, the Workingmen would Lave to give somo of tho offices to the Greeuback- ers, and the Workingmen wanted the oftices themsolves.” There is no doubt that tho Greoubackers foel just this ‘way on their own account, and if eithor of these organizations afiilisto with another ond stronger party, it will bo becauso they havo abandonod tho hope of succoss as a wepurate Movement, and will consont to take hialf aloaf rather than no bread. ‘Fhere is overy reason to suspeet now that the Democrats aro proparsd to strike bandy wath the so-called Workinguen, nnd that they rather count upon this outcome of tho indopondent movament. It is known to a oertaiuty that Lagn iy nuking the eampaign not divert the proceedings of the charactor of political persocution prompted by re- rolely with referenco to his own renomine- tion, and it eannot bo donbted that any com- bination botwees tho Dewocrats and tho Workingmen will be on a basis of a division of the spoils, which will result In the sclee. tion of ns dangerous a sot of caudidates, ns n whole, as could bo presented at this time. The loeal Itepublican organization nlone scoms to be free up to this timo frdin the rele fish machinations of the office-scekoms, and it is the most promising nguncy for working ofit the reformation of county aifaira that in demanded by the people. But to keep it 5o, and make its ealling sure, it will be neces. sary for the taxpayers to take an exceptional interest in the preliminary armngements for the organization of tho Convention and the acloction of the candidates, The taxpnycrs shonld tako ns active a part in the primaries s thoy oxpect to take ou the day of elcction, Delogates should be chosen withont reference to the fnterests of any partioular eandidates, but rather with referenco to the rejoection of meon who are known to have been seheming for nominatious, and to tha seloction of can- didates from amang thoso who do not want tho ofices. To fllustrato tho necessity for this, wo maymention that the Democrats are pretty certain to nominato the strongest man in their party for the lending position, what- overtharost of their ticket maybe. Itis very gonerally conceded that Judge Wartace will bo thelr candidate for County Treaspror. Now, in order to mako him all the stronger and give weight to tho balaneo of their tickot, there is a Domoerntio scheme to sustain the efforts of tho wenkost nspirant for the Republican nomination to the samne position, and even to take part in the Ilo- publican primaries to help this gentleman to gotit. 'Fhis ono instance will slow the ab- soluto necossity that the taxpayers shall ex- ert thomselves beforo as well ns nfter the Convention, While the choico of the five Cominissioners is tho most important feature of the eleotion, it will bo influenced largoly by tho charactor of the rest of the ticket, and tho publie faith in tho mission of the lo- eal Republiean organization to reform tho abuses in county nffuirs is based upon the supposed willinguess and ability of that or- gauization to nominate en uncxcoptionable tickot throughout. Unless this ba done, the Republicans caunot gein the crodit of re- deeming tho county, as well as the city, from the bands of the official plunderors. . TAXATION OF DEBTS. ‘The subject of the power of a State to tax dobts due in another Stats toonoof hor citl- zens—which subject gained such special prominonceby Mr. D. A, Wxrrs' recent reviow of tho case of KinTranp, now pending in the Bupreme Court of tho United States—has boen discussed elaborately in this papor and by various correspondents. 'This question, s woll as the whole subjoct of taxation, can hardly be investigated too much, because, oven nmong persons well informed ou most’ subjocts, thore is a lamentable want of study on this mattor of taxation. A striking foct in the history of American taxation is furnished by the remark of an experiencod tax lawyor of this city. Ho said that, in the proparation of an argument on n caso involving tax questions, the attornoy may search tho law roports of all tho States oxcept Pennsylvania, and find docisions in nlmost overy voluma; tho reason why tho Ponnsylvanin reports furnish no aid in such an investigation ig, that tho systom of faxa- tion In that Stato differs from that of all tho other States, nud it works so ndmirably that thero isbut littlo, if any, litigation; tho taxes are cquitably adjusted, are paid, and that {s thoend of it. Hercin wa discovor tho trno causo of tho bad operation of the other systems of toxation. When any tax becomes uncqual,—is not uniform,—whon ono portion of tho properly cscapes taxation and another portion i3 taxed excessively, or is taxed soveral timnes, then the system falls into disveputs, and thero is n determinoed offort to defeat it. Wo havo in tho State of Illinois n systom of tax- ation which is practically most unfair, and which provokes tho most unwearied cfforts to dofent its operation. Its eostliness nlono should appeal to the publie intelligence, and be necopted as conclusive ovidenco of its rad- ical defects. Tho annual taxes imposed in this Stato for all purposcs—State, county, city, town, and for all other objects—is not much less, if any, than $30,000,000, Tax. payers can appreclate tho value of the sys- tom whon thoy understand that this inchides tho cost of collection, and that the cost of col- loction is between 19 and 20 por cont of tho rovenuo collected. Thus, if tho State wants $1,000,000 of rovonue, tho levy must be for £1,200,000 in order to produco that sum; it a county has to pay $100,000 of its dobt, tho tax to produce that revonuo must bo §120,000, or mnearly four ycars' intorest on the priuneipal; if a mu- nicipality owes $1,000,000, bearing 8 per cont interest, the (ax to produca the yoar's futerest must bo 96,000, making tho nunual interost oqual to 9 6-10 por cent. If thaaggrogata rovonua necded for all purposcs, goneral and loeal, in the Btate, wera $23,- 000,000, the lavy would have to be for §30,- 000,000 in order to pay the expenscs, Strangoe as It may socin, tho mass of tho intelligont pooplo of the State fall to uoe that the vital principle of the tax system of Ilhinols, tho principle which governstha Log- islaturo in tho ennctmont and maiutonance of this systom, {8 that it divides botween five and six millions of dollars nnnually among tho local officers, who, thus fod at the public coat, take possession and control of public affai:s, aud manage the politica as woll g the taxes of the publia. During the,War it was estimatod that the cost of rocruiting, clothing, arming, and sustaining a full regimont of troops aversged ouo million of dollams a year, It the Qeneral QGovernment was to quarter upon the Stats of ‘ Illinois five rogi- wments of soldiers, and requiro tho poople of this State to {ax themsclves &4 many mill. ions of dollars a yoar to support the troops, would not the *palo air be streaked ” from Cairo to Chicago with vehemont protests? But, undor tho pretext of collecting rovenue, the people of the Btate are tazed ovenn groster sum annuslly for the support of a brigada of officohiolders, whoao services to the publio might be renderod practically as uselesws ns would be those of the regulars, Ataxof from five to six wmillions of dollars snaually is tho prico paid by tho poople of ILilinols to maintain & system of taxation the tbeoretical parposo of which i totax invigiblo pemional property, which purposo is but scldom accomplished. ‘I'be case of Kintraxn iy bot an illustrs- tion of the re¢finements of the aborlive BY8- tem of taxation gonerally adopted in this and other States. KizTLAXD was a resident in Connscticut; ho sont $20,000 in monoy to Illinois, where it was loaned, ke taking & mortgags on real estato in Ohicago ns so- ourity. ‘The Connecticut suthoritics there. upon listed among his property taxable in QConnecticut the debt due him in Ilinois, 'The Supromo Court of Connscticat afirmed tho logality of that tax, and the cuaso hos boen Htates. This cnse raises the question being taxable, and whethor it is taxable wheruver the creditor rosidos. In this case tho debt is a lien on real cstate, which real cstate is taxed in Illinoia. We have under our Nlovenue haps o 1noro extraordinary which hns also recoived wanction, corporations is taxable like all other propor. 1y corporations nare also taxablo on their capital stock and franchises, and on thoir debts, Thus, if n corporation engaged in tho manufacture of glass have a capital stock of 50,000, and owo for borrowed money $20,- 000, and havo real property, machinery, nud mntorial worth $10,000, tho assessment for taxablo property may be thus mado out: Iteal and tangibl Al $ 30,000 %;nnllal stock 3 regulation, judieial Total property, ‘franchisc............$100,000 ‘Tho company would then be taxed dircetly on the value of ita real estato nnd of the tangiblo personal property; and it would nlgo bo taxed ou 840,000 as tha value of ils stock and dcbts in excors,of tho value of its other property., Now, if Kintrawp, instead of fnvesting his $20,000 in n mortgage on roal property in Chiengo, had lonned it to o corporation, we would have the system of taxation fully illustrated in the (1) full taxn- tion of all the nctual property of the corpo. ration ; (2) taxation on catimated additional value of the capital stock; (3) taxation on tho dobt due Kintraxp ; and (4) taxation in Connecticut of the snme debt The fact that the money investod in tho capital stock, n3 woll ns that Lorrowed, s ropresonted in the tangiblo property of the corporation, howover plain to the ordinary mind, will not avail under tho laws of Illinois ; nor will the fact that the borrowed money is invested in property located nnd taxed in Tlinois avail under tho laws of Connecticut. 'The theory of the Inw is, that aman who ean lond money, and the man who can borrow money, are eapitalists ; that, though the $20,000 involved in the transac- tion have been put in land and building and taxed, thoro aro £10,000 additional ** prop- erty ¥ somowhoro, Invisiblo, intangible, and shadowy though it mny bo, and so the tax- gatherers in tho two Btates demand taxes on $60,000 worth of ** property.” Whon o man pnys and {akes up his noto for 1,000, he, under the theory of the Illinois law, destroys &1,000 of taxable property.. Whan tho man in Illinois shall pay his nota 2 Kintzaxp he will annihilate $20,000 of ** proporty * taxn. ble in Connecticut! 'Tho destructive cffect on property of paying dobts is as fatal as that of fire or flood ! In commenting upon the Revenue law of this State wo aro not criticising ita adminis- tration; weo sre poiuting out merely the nbomiuations of the system. If auy man in the Legislatura wero to proposo to abolish that system, he wonld bo denounced as a vaudal, ns a man secking to destroy the mon- umonts of civilization,—the thousands of officea croctod ostensibly for the collection of taxes and supportod by a tax of 5,000,- 000 annually. Does not tho systom call fora rovoune forco in overy township and villago in tho State? If thuko officorn cost 5,000, 000 nnnually, dothey not distribute the tmon- oy among the peoplo? Ifow can political purtics Lo maiutained, and conventions Lokl and voters brought ont, unless thero bo local offices to distributa? And who can bo expocted to run thoe political inachine unlosa tho offices are profitable? In fact, the people of Iilinois niny bo thank- ful that for $5,000,000 annually thoy have their taxes collectod and their golitieal libor- tios protected! That is tho view which the ordiuary logislator takes of the Rovoune law, It distributos £5,000,000 annually among the local politicians, whohold the tax offices, and, to blind tho goneral public to the enormity of the business, they put into tho law tho most sonscless, unjust, and infanous pro- visions, for the purposoof catcling ‘¢ capi- tal " which provisious, aa & general thing, have no othor effect than to increaso tho in- terost which every borrower of monoy in Illinols has to pay. THE SBWELL IN POLITICS, Mr. Conxrixa has hurt tho country, His offenso is alnost boyond apology, Ho might be pardoned in his attack on tho President’s Southern policy, his slighting alluslons to Civil.-Bervico roformn, his coarso insiunations against Mr, Contis, and oven his defonso of that small creature, Prarr. These orrors will rectify themselves, ur be speodily cured by @ smart public remedy. Bat who can excuso tho Souatoy's basa desortion of Deport- ment? Tho best years of tho Bonator's lifo fiave been spout in teaching Doportment. Iie was at ouce an exomplar and an advocato of the cause, Wo learned to love himn, not for his ability 08 au orator, or his discrotion o4 0 statesmnn; not for his fine sonso of honor, or hia patriotism, or his modosty; not uven for tha boauty of Lis person and his celobrated torso; but, first and always, for bis gracoful mavners, self-possos. sion, his unuttorable aud owl-like appoar. once of wisdom, Ilore, we wore nc. customed to say, 18 a man whom politics cunnot taint; neither can the demagogues suppress him or cast him out of the councils of the nation. Combiniug s he docs the suave manner with tho brave heart, he will Lo o mateh for tho roughest antogonist, o will inako tho clean garmont ond the dally buth forces in politica, Publio sentiment fostered by him will encourage candidates for officu to wear, as ho docs, unexceptious. blu trousers, resplendent walstcoats, polntod collars, and white necktios; and the brutal mothods of the ward mectings with refer. cuca to clegant appare! will by digoontinued, In brief, tha swell in politics will be respect. ed aud applauded. # This fond expoctation was doomed to dis- appointment. The Beuator not only dosert- od Deportment at Rocheater, but maligned it. 'Theso wero the painful words: T'artles az0 not built up by Depostmeat, or by la- dies' magaziues, or by gusk, Tho Benator ecetns not to have beon con. scious that this avowal was a matter of per. sanal concorn. If parties canuot bo built up by Deportment and gush, how can men bo o built up? Aud if men cannot be so built up, how can Senator CoNxLING be built up? ‘'ho Inquiry has & fuscinating buat a horrible interest. It leads alinost directly to the con. ¢lusion that Sonater CoxxrLing, by his own coufeslon, is not built up. If not built up, ho can hove no existence; and, without an existenuco, ho could not have made an gss of bimself at Rochoster. But we all know he was there, sud did himsolf no particalar credit; hence, s oruel logiv forces us to con- cludo that ho traduced Deportment when ho sald it conld not build up wen and parties, But it is emall comfort to expose the fulla. cles of Scoator Conxrmva, He is notorious- ly a man who argues most vehemently when he is vanquished. Whatever may bo the merits of Doportment as & political expedient, Honator Conxriig has cast it off; it hos re- TRIBUNIE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1877. taken to the Supremo Court 6f the United whether n debt s property in tha souso of lavw por- Under our Iaw the properly of of ita friends. ther flluatration nor defonso in him, <1808 hina ceasod toadmiro himerelf. Fle hns proclaimed war npon tho rofffud shirt; he has kicked over the bath-tub, and banisied curling-tonga forovor from his drossing-ceso, Bug and baggnyga ho lina gone over to Iexay a hickory.shirt and one pair of overalis. Wa do mpot know when n public man hos been more suddenly or more complately converted. Thero ia acarcely an instanee in history of a similar desertion of a gront party by the successtul leader of it; and Benator Congrive unquestionably was the loador of the party of Deportment. o was acknowledged as such by all his contempora- ries, and until tho Rochester Convention was proud of his lendershup, The question of tho hour fs, What will bo- come of tha swell in politics? Will the party now dissolve into its constitnent cloments, or will the emorgenay call forth a ruan equal to supplying Sonator Consvnisa's place? For many rcesons wo hopo the party will preservo its organization. Its principlen are valuable, They tend to make politics comely to the oye and grateful to tho nostrils, 'They securo o decorum in pub. Yo meetings which no othor agency has pro- ducod. Thoy commend polities to the ladiea— God bless thew—and they open an ttractive profession for tho fashionablo yonth who are good for nothing elso, Tho swells in poli- tics ara tho botter for haing o, Senator CoxrLing, for instance, wns mora nceeplablo with bis affcctation of refinoment than ho is now, whon he proclaims himwolf a rongh- and-rendy enemy of Reform, Ile wna always o benutiful figure in tho Sonnte-Chinmbor; he will bo such no longer. Wo hopo his place may bo supplied by n leader ns fino in por- son, a8 noble in sontlnents, ns chivalrous in combat, and ns well endowed with com. mon-seuso as Honator Coverivg used to be. AN IRISH-AMERICAN SHINDY, There can be no cause of complaint in tho matter of activity or vivacity in the condnet of the Democratic eampnign in Obio, so far o3 the Cinciunati end of it is concorned. The Domocratie orgnns in that city are hav- ing o genuine Doonybrook Fair, with its cheerful accompauiments of rattling clubs and erncking skalls, and, as thero are three of these orgnns engaged not only in fighting Ropublicans, but in fighting cach other, any Lond that offers itsclf s o targot s morally cortain to get whacked, if not orncked. The situation is ot onco succulent, sardonic, and suggestive, Thero arv threo Demoeratic organs in Cincinnati grinding difforont tunes —tho Jrish Vindicator, the Irish Citizen, and the Knguirer. ‘The Vindicator aunounces it4 intention “to fight to the bitter ond corruption Aud . ring rule in tho Dewo- cratio party,” The Citizen is publishod **in tho intorosts of Irishinen and the Demo- cratic party." Tho Enguirer is published for tho purposo of pssailing Mr, Harstean and of drawing sustenance from the Demo- ceatic party. As the Domocratic can. didate for Governor was an orlginal Know-Nothing, who was in favor of putting mnomo but Amoricans on gunrd, thero is no possibility of his com- nauding tho ontiro Irish vote of Cincinnati, ‘Fhls, taken in conncction with the existonce of nrotton Democratio ring of bummers re- volving around the Enguirer, loft margin onough for a first-class row botweon the two Irish nowspapers, The Vindicator, whoso oditor has voted the Democratio tickot for thirty yoors, less fiva spent in n British dun. goon, when the Ring nominations were mado, at onco atruck out from the shoulder in the following vigorous mannor: . We bolong to the Domocratic party, but the Democratic party bae no afillation with tho rings that misrepresented us in the Columbus Convon. tion, and disgraced us at Pika's Opera-llouso, dic- tating the nomination 4t both plscen of men who Laveno claim on the people, no claim on the party, many of them with blackened records, and ullof whom deserve tho disgraccful defest {hat uwaits thon in October. Asa journalist, n Irish journalist, 8s one who hus beon somowhat identificd In the past with offorts Lo advance and uphold the Independenco of tho Irish rce, both in Ireland and America, wo tell our people plainly the bust service they can render the Democratic party In this campaign is {0 #i¢ yuletlyand squarely doun on the nominations made by the Democratic ringe. Theroupon tho C¥izen, which Is in tho Ting interests and bas swallowed tho nomi. nations, good, rotten, Kuow-Nothing, and all, _undortook tho job of whipping the Vindicator into the traces. It asaailod its oditor with all the virulencoof a virago, owptied slop- buckets over the hends uf all thoso who op- poso she Ring, aud kopt up a running five of personal sbuse. ‘The Vindiculor wos wmoro dignified nnd cool, aud, whou it struck, de. livered a blow that hiirt overy time, As the Vindicator wns rapidly gaining ground ogainst its slangwhavging opponent, the Enquirer thought tho time had vomo to take u hand in, lest tho Irish should desort the Ringen masse, It brundished tho party truncheous, flonr. iuhed the party whip, fussed and fumed, warned and threatoned, but all to no purpose, 1t bod hurdly comuenced its gymuastics Le. fore the Vindicator brought it to grief with tho following * stunncr” right betweon tho oyea: d ‘The organ of toe Democratic party threatons the ** kickers " tuat somc of thew muy be candidutea hurcatier, and In viow of (hat fact tiad better stop, 18 would be well If the Enguirer would taku its own sdvicy, Itclalme aw much jodependonce sw any 1040 10 the party when its moi are not nominuted, 1ts abusy of TILLEN & year ggo muat be fresh in the sswories of #1) its readers, until the thoely salva uf $50,000 curvd ite ayesight wnd corrected ita wicked partners. ‘the Kuquirer now rosrs as gontly asn sucking dove and nurses ts damaged optics, while the Uareite and Commarcial utand by sympathizing, the Olncinuati 7¥mes mean. while improving the opportunityt pin fuuny piclurea npon Mr, Hawstean's coal-tails while his attention is diverted towards his wicked contemporary, The interest of this fight is not alono con- fined to its cxemplification of the fate of those who intorfere with on Irish sarimmage. It goes further back thau this, aud raises grave suspicions and galling fears, If tho rock-rooted, moss-covered, sud stone-but- tressod organ of Democracy in the West Las looked into *the bar'l * and soiled its flugers with the shekels of the Usufruct, what value, boyond mere commercial value, iy there to Domocratio Itfors? I the great and good patnarch of Deniocracy, upon whoso shoul- dors Jefforson’s mantle Las been worn so gracefully, carries bis hands undor his coat- tails iu a bosoeching manner, while ho howls for Demnocratic Reformand denounces Repub- lican corruption, bow can we trust tho lesser lights and not feel that thoy shine at so much a twinkle? Tho Chicago ZVmes, the most blatant brawler for reform wost of Oincinnati, flopped over to TiLvex at the samo timo aud in the samo mauner as the Enquirer, 1M it cost $50,000 to fop the En- quirer over, would it cost any less to ‘flop the T¥mes? It reform costs $50,000 in Oin. cinnati, would it cost luss in Chlcago? The Tones would bo tho last party ln the world to cheapon tho market in this commodity, colved, perhaps, ita mortal blow in the houso Hancoforth it will find nei- Nan- Crax Deax, and his baggage consists only of Tt anythng, it would outbid the sordid Cin. cinnati hinckster. To make the enso atill stronger, Bosa TweeD snys he had *“to sea” tho Albany Argus when ho wished to earry out somo reforms. If two such Domocratic Neators as the Albany AAryus and Cincinonti Znquirer are opan to proposals, it under- minos our foith oven In such Democratio orgnns as tho CLiengo 7%¥mes, which nasumncas to itsolf the dircotion of reform and tho illustration of Lonesty in tho Northwest. Thus, oo after the other, do our illusions fado awny and perish. — Herr Vox Bussex, & mombor of the Gor. man Reichstag, hins contributed to the Nine- teenth Century on article which fs ottracting groat attoution, because it dofiues tho atti- tuds Germany would assumo In caso England should nequire or seok to scquiro possession of Egypt. 1le assumos that Germany has uo fnmedinto interest in the Danube or in Rus- sin’d acvess to tho Meditorranean ; that France and Italy will nover involve the risk of a Enropean war to opposo Russion prog- ress; aud that Austro.liungary is soting upon Qurman suggestions. Bo far ns Eu. gland is concerned, ho says: * Given your occupation of thé Isthmuys of Suez aud Low- or Egypt, which are portious of tha Turkish Empire, you could not object with much fore to such Russinn demnnds ns the annex- ation of Armouis or tho froedom of the Dar- danelles for her own war-sbipy as well ag those of other uations,” Of course it is to bo inferred from this that Germany would linye no objection to such an occupation, A still moro remnckable feature of this puper is the emphatic manner in which ho deolares Germuny to be' the friend of Russin, not only on account of the intimncy of the two sovereigns, but also for ** the forbenr- nuco Russia showed in thnt greal crisis-of 1864, 1866, and 1870, which established an immoneo army, nu aifective naval power, sud porliamentary institutions with universal suffrago—not allogether plonsant neighbors to Russin—nlouy the greator part of hor Eu. ropean frontier,” With regard to Tussian clauns of fudenmnity, be writes thoso signifi. cant words ; Sho wilt svou claim our assiatance in tho lm- mediate upening of the Lardanclles to her own toen-of-war and in the Jasting emancipation of the Slav, townrd srhom wo have no spechel reuson o feul that nutural bent of sympue thy which draws s snatinctively toward the Ureok. She wiil claim Armentn, and It ean be no obllgution of ours W provent ber from defrying the lmmenso cost of this war by the perwanent conquest of an_ Amatlc province, cven though it may place the approachus of o more sea within ber cany grasp. As regards these Iatter demands, we aro—i'rluce Biamanck lns freguontly pro- cisimed it, ond I boMuve bls asacrtion to Lo per- foctly candid—unfettered as to the degroe of con. curreuce or connivance which wo shuuld, Iu har mony with the other Kurcpean Puwers, give to them. UTAR DIVORJES, A nosing Granu Jury has been smelling the Court records of Salt Lake County, Utah, uud hos developed some startting facts lu the divoree busiuess, which it reports with recom- mendations. Jts members discovered that Irom Beptember, 1876, to September, 1877, 800 divurces Lad been granted, lu ut least 80 per cent whereol both porties were non-residents. The stylo adopted is encournging for its sine plicity. Where hustaud or wife hus become tired of the matrimanial bonds, an willdavit is filed setting forth that the puarty ls consumed by a desire Lo realde in Utuh, but Ia prevented solely by luck of funds. This s esteemed sul- flefent to effect o residence to all futents and purposes, uud the Probate Court steafghtwny wssumes Jurlsdiction, and ctters upon o solean wonsideration of the favts. Upon the Biing of the complaint a summons (s fasucd dirceted to the **Jast known resi- dence™ of the defendant, returnable in from twelve to sixteon days. In sowe vases thls kuown restdence s delinitely given as ot sen,’ or ' fu France," or ** Australia,” or “not kuown," but tho summons ls Issued all the satne, and then business commences. The jury roports that, out of 100 cases, decrees in thirteen were granted In Utah the smino day that the complaint was sworn to in Chicagoor New York, aud thut in only one casu was the granting post poned a montl, ‘The applications enme from all over the country, und embrace Boston, Chi- cago, aud Ban Fraucisco, wnd woy atatlons, Much of the fault of this hideons system s aottributed by the jury to the fact that the Probats Judge, onu E, Ssuru, s chief practitioner in his own court, and that nearly all the docunteuts aro {n his landwriting, snd that bis style of maunging bis lusiness {3 calculated Lo corrupt public morats und offund polite taste. . ‘Tho report is not exhaustive, but it aives o falr fusight futo the Utah wethod, und it is to Le hoped witl Induce somo uction on the purt of Congress to put an cud to the ** lberal divorco ™ of Utah. DISTANCE OP THE BUN, It Is announeed that the tolescople observa- tiuns of the Just transit of Veuus, in 1874, mule Ly British parties in Egypt, Honolulu, New Zea lund, Rodriguez, und Kerguelen, have been re- dueed, with o result of 8,76 wevonds of are for the solar parallax, This gives ubout 43,500,000 miles for the mean distuncy of the carth from the sun. The probublu error is stated to be 0.013 scconus, which Is ubout 140,000 iles; s that, in round numbers, the Uritish obacryy. tious, 80 far as rodiiced, give the distance ns somewhora between 93,150,000 und 3,450,000 inilca. The only other rosult thus far published 1s a tentative ooy mnde by M. Pumeux, of the French observations, giving some 2,050,000 lles. Thoss of the Americun observers, now Letug reduced ot Washjugton, ure ‘ot yet Oue fslied, aud outsiders can only guess as to what the result will be. An Inquiry addressed there ubout u week ngo has not yet becu answered. At prescut jt does not seem probable that a collation of all the obacrvations mude by the odtrouomers of different countrles will give s result that cun be depended upon to within much less thuu 500,000 ntles; and if this should be 8o, thea the time and money spent upon the ‘work will have been coraparutively wasted. ‘The Cork corre: telegraphs: “The strike of milesmenon the @Great Southern & Weatcrn Railway is likely to extend to branchesat thls end of the ling among the workers onthe Fermoy, tho Youghal, and the Tralce lines. The malcontents distributs them- sclves over the brunches and try to induce thelr fellow-workmen to juln them. No violence has been used, but the moen seem determined to carry out thelr desigas.”’ Now au opportunity is presouted for the United States 1o be mag- nanfmous sud put a few of thoss Irish roads uader the protection of a Federal-Court Re- ceiver. ————— By somo mlitake, an honest man has found bls way into the New York Police Commlsston, Wheu the detectives recently met to take measures for tho securing of legislation favor- able to thelr pension demands, Commissioner ERmARDT notificd them that the fucresss of crime in thelr ity was sutlivient to absorball thelr spare attention, and that auy further mod- dliog in politics would result fu thelr discharge. Whercat the whole Kaug weot to work on & new theory of the Navuax wmurder. —————— 014 Blue-Jeans WiLLiaus has wipod his nose and tucked Ly bis shirt preparatory toa startour through Ohfo during the cmnpalgn. He will sucure transportation on his ownorder, “ Pleaso pass this cattle,” —— Our correspondent at Rockford a fow days 840 acut us some cowments upon the effect of repealing the Necuse law in that clty, and an ditorial paragraph called attention 1o the leg- ter. The statement made In the former was stronger, or appearcd to bo stronger, than the facts warranted, 8o far a8 thoy represented that Rockford had become a city In which drunkep. ness Lad become so marked ns totmpalr the credit of the population. Without Ascnesing the wisdom of tho repeal of the llcense aystom, it 18 but (ue to say that Rockford preserves hcl’ well-catablished reputation of belng ono of tiy most orderly and law-abldlng citivs tn litnok and In tho country, 4 e g — Cassius M. CrAr has established o preco- dent that will prove Invaluable to gentlemen who feel constrained to shoot an oceasional darkey. On the fnquest on Prnny Witrre, kilied by Cray, the Iattar was the only witnes, vresented, and his frank and ingenuous method of testifsing constratned the Jury to find tha from s cvideuce he was justifled in his nctton and should bo upbel. Spesking of this kil ing, what i3 the rewton that all informatton concerning it has been rigldly suppressedi e — With remarkable perspicacity the New Yorlg Hun finds In Lleut, BULLIS mareh into Mexico after a few Indlans {ndicatlons that Prestaont Hares never was elected, ond that the dhscoy- oryof the martinl satellite Is but an effort 1 distract atteutlon from tha Indicted Loutslany Returning-Boarders. And yet all this coul be changed by giving DANA $20,000 appolntment, shaslifesyitots e bl McCrrrLan is already calllvg for refnforce. ments to his constituoncy, and protesting that Tie will do all ho can with the foree he has, unly it will be Impossible for Lim to moveonto ‘Trenton until his army of supporters {a altnost doubled. He has been mapping out his parale Icls, and has gotten ne faras Weehawken, with a prospect of reaching fToboken {n a year or two, ppsinals e g Srotrep TaiL says his people want spring overcoats, short-horned cnttle, plug hats, and &40 uplece. Asn matter of courae, the Uovern- ment hesitates, amd the reault will be thay tho bold TA1L will sten) halt o infillon fn stock, sey- eral milllon In settlers' scalps, and cost the ‘Treasury a few milllon more to put hin down agaln. e —— Rep Croun ropresenis' that army officers took isliorses and destroyed his cropsto the cx. tent of $10,000, halt of which e wants In notiey und half in **othor things.” It amongz “uther things' may bo cnumerated rope, we suggest that the Iatter balf bo paid first, 1t will bave s dircet bearing upon saving tho frst halt, e —g———— What las become of Wanwick utcnnxg, who whitom made and unnade oMelals fn Mis sourd, thowsth contonting himself with the meck and lowly pusition of Btate Representativel Iy ‘was he who elected Bouy, and s natural hatred for AnustiONG sugpests that he lias lost Lis Brip, or has jumped the town, ————r— Another objection to the aopointment of DavE ARMSTRONG a8 successor to Bouy fu the United States Senate fs, that hodoes nut know any more than Booy did. e — Great trouble Is axperienced by Missour! Deme ocrats In teaching Col, Jossrn Boay that the uflice of United States Bouator 15 not un heredi- tary possession. PERSONAL. Sardou fs to bo recoived ns & momber of tho French Acadesay un the 16th of November, J. W, DoForeat is lving, at Now Havon, He ia a0l 10 entortxin the opinfon that hls novels ure not appreciated, Thomns Beumbler Owden, Eaq., I R, G, 8., Aldorman for the Ward of Dishopsgate, ling ‘been elected Lund Mayor of London, ‘I'ne Boston Zlarald Lots heavily on Kaue dall for Speaker, nud soomns o think he fs abost the right wan for tho place, It Uellovos bets wounilt on tho sabaidy quostion. ‘I'hio reoponing of tho pult of Anneko Jany wguinet Trinity Charch for property worth 850, UUY, 000 or $80,000,000 1¢ 8 linportant event st Albauy, It prowmlscs rich plckings for the lawyers, Joseph Cook is to apoak i “tho’ Simpson Mothodim Church, {n Brookiyn, next Thursday, A Sunduy paper ways: ** 1t may save some fruitless Inquirics to say now that the tickets are all taken, Mr, Cook lins made appolntments for all tho lece turtng bo can do for sevoral months, * Anothor couple of poor-paople are going tobe led to the altar of matnmony, Baron Ed. mond Rothschild, of Purls, {a to be married to Mlle, Adelo Rothectuld, of tha Frankfort branch of the family. They whl havo to start fu housge keeping with the paltry capital of $100, 000,000, The foulest iusult to which the memory of Thiers was subjected s to bo found in a curd sent to the widow by the Murquls dus Ioyw, onu uf his antagoulats In the Chamber, whereon was written, just beneath tho imprint of tho sender's name: **At Iaatti"—tho punctaation having wlt tha effect of a sigh of rolief. Leon Frankel, the President of the Soclal. I8t Cougrons at Ghont, dld not make his appear- snce one ine moruing, and the members wero fn- formud that he had been conductud by the Belglan police to the fruntier, and sent stralght buck to Austrla. 3le wos 8 member of the Commune, and this fact bad been published In tho Lelgian papers. Mr, Dana says: *‘In tho Sun ostablish. ment provislon le made for giving every cmploye ony doy's rest in seven, and we find that tha prace tice works advantagevusly, But we duv not, thure. fore, contuud for the ovservauce by Clrintione of tho Jowish Bavbath, nor share in the seutimunt which shuts up placea of recrcation in this city on Sunday. " A Maina newspaper, in rockoning up the dlstioguished natives of that State, finds omong thown ** Longtellow, the poet; l'syne, the best Anmerican music composer; Mies Cary, tbe bost Amerlcun wingor; Eastman Johnson, the best Auerican palnter, snd Stmmony, the best Amer. lean sculptor. It omitted mention of Blalug, the best Americun torgiversator, Owing to the detwrmination of Mr, Maple. won, the improssario of hor Majesty's Opera-ilouse I Londou, to refuss the exhurbitant salas manded by Mme, Nilsson and her fellow-artl thy Intter bave combined fofcow and decided to conduct & scason of psre fur ing could be betlor calculats Meraki, **tobring them W nsense of justice of Mr, Mapleson's position. 1L will bave the uffech we funcy, of ovenluy thelr eyca to the responn- Lilitios of managers and brinking them o the cone viction that practical businsss expurience s worth something, M. Phillips Brooks suggests that divinity studontsshould dosomething to juatity their name. ‘The bertluence of thls hint ls attested by bis own experieace. The first place (0 which he was taken 8t the sculinary was she prayer-moeting, whore the devodlucss and fervor with which his comrades ex- hurtcd une auother left Wim bewildervd and asbamed, But when he met sowme of thess men naxt day ata Greok recltstion, be found thsl B would be littla o eay of thedevoutest that they bad Dot learned thele bessous. Thelr whole way show- ed tLat they naver Journod thele lessons; that they Liad not got hold of the drst peluciples of bawd, falthful, conscientious stady, 7The devotion did nout touch the work which then and thore was tha wuly work to do; bug, instead, there seemed Lo bo 10 vogue & a0zt Of amateur, premature presching, & fuabla twillglit of the coming minlstry. The Soclety of Decorative Art iu New York is beginalng Lo do geod work. Ita object la to af- ford a warkut-pluce or salesroom for work of an artistic nature, such oa peluling, sculpture, deco- ratlve needlework, etc., of 8 high order of worit, Thore 1s notbing of a8 cusritable nature sbout the soclety, sltbough its object iss bLomevoleut cos. Inariistic work will Dot be sccepled because the astist 1s poor; for 1t ds lutended ILat the goods shall sell eutirely upon thelr merits, and people who buy sl Lhese sslearooms may be certsin of gottlug thelr money's worth. Bvery azticle offcred 1 passod upon by & socrul committes (this secresy 18 to avold jealousies and prejudices), snd marked with & tickel of spproval, besring the seal of the soclety. Contributivas are solicited from all over the couatry, snd none need fevl suy aslicacy sluud wfleriug srticlea for sads, a9 their uames will not e koown ut sll, aod thoy will be desigusted byd I&umaul the -a:lely:.:: :0“:; 00 L st l:llu‘zl und ve Joaned handsowe bits of furniture, such sons 83 uld cablucts aud antique chairs, snd the soums willlook veryaitracuve whia complete. Tbey will nut be opened to the public before tue Lsi o Oclober, The lidies datereated fu thie society se wui knows aud most blghly reapected o sha