Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 4, 1877, Page 4

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T.—Spectal OLLO COMMANDERY, Yo. 1, O A, 216 73 Mohroe-st., of Tuesday Cvenivg next, Nov. €. ut half-past7 o'clock prompt. It i tequested ibat fhe officers and as many members as wanmake it convenfent will be present and fully equip- Ped at the boor named. Stated Conclave same evesing aigodock. The Oxder of the Temple il be confer ‘ Sxitors always welcome, By order of the E. C. e ¥ " J. 1i. DUNLOP, Recorder. VAN RENSSELAER GRAND LODGE OF TERFEC- TION will hold a Regular Asiembiy oo Thursday even- ing pext. Warkon the ¥ Fifth Degrees. B3 order of OHX O'NEILL, T.".P. ED GOODALE, Grand Sec. 1Y No. 19. K. T.—ATTEN- Stated Conciave Monday even- tenidnnce reauested. VIsling ited. By orderof JNO. 1. SANBORY, E. C JAS. E. MEGINYN, Recorder. LAFATETTE CHAPTEE, No. 2 R A, Monroe-st.—Special Convocation Mon ! 30 0'clock, for work on I and M, K. Degreee. Vis! Ziratadiy fastted. By order of 1. RELD, . P E. N. TUCKER. Sce. ST. RERNARD_COMM Stated Conclave Wedu o'clock. Work on e K. W, ML J. 0. DICKERSOS, Recorder. . 35, K. T.— at 7:30 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, CHICAGO MARKET Y. The Chicazo produce markets were generally slow on Saturday, and breadstuffs were easicr, while provisions were steady. Mess pork closed Beper brl higher, at §12.70 for November and 212,623 for Janmary. Lard closed steady, at $8.021;@8.05 for the year and $8.10@8.12% for January. Meats were unchanced. at 53¢ for Joose shoulders and 7c for do short ribs. Lakeé freights were less active ana firm. at 3ic for corn to Buffalo. Whisky was 1c lower, cloeing st $1.06 per gallon. Flour was dull. Wheat closed Lclower, ot $1.05% cash and $1.04% for No- vember. Cornclosed ¥c lower, at 43c cash and 421@42%c for November, Oats closed ¥@!ic Jower, at 2i%c cash and 23%c for November. Rye was stesdy, at 54c. Barley closed 1c lower, 2t 58%ccash and 60Xc for December. Hozs were active and unsettled, at $1.50@5.15. Cattle were dull and casy. at S2.60@5.00. Sheep were quict, 8$3.00@4.75. The exports from New York last 2,350,610 bu ‘wheat, and 165,052 bu corn. Liverpool hasastock ©of 370,000 quarters wheat ana_ 230,000 quarters com. Received in this city during last week, 78,609 brls four, 699,412bu wheat, 964,064 bu corn, 388,025 bu oats, 55,663 bu rve, 249,511 b berly, 63,262 hogs, and 17,809 csitle. Inspected into store in this city yesterday: 273 cars wheat. 294 cars corn, G2 cars oats, 7 cars and 4,500 bu ¥y, and 08 cars barler. Total (734 cars), 202,- 000bu. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $102.624; in greenbacks at the close. 5 In New York on Saturdsy greenbacks ruled 8t 973, 4Count the money ” in the hands of the County Clerk will not be possible unless a new Clerk be elected, to whom Lms will have to pay over the money supposed to be in his hards. Remember Gace and Vox Horzzy, and then by your votes require that the County Clerk’s money shall be counted. Better count the money now than wait to bave a defaleation discovered hereafter. Daring to-day and a few hours to-morvow morning the remains of Semator MonTox will lie in state at the Court-House in In- dianapolis, to afford the people an oppor- tunity to testify their respect for the life and services of the illustrious dead. Extensive preparations for a grand funerzl have been completed, and a number of the more prom- inent men of the nation have signified their intention of attending the obsequies. A singular suit was commenced yesterday against Lrze. Tho complaint alleges that the Ninth Ward delegation to the Working- men’s Convention sold out to the Swiss for $35 per head and trousers, casting nine solid votes for him. Characteristically, he refused to psy the bill, and an action taken against him for the money will be tried before Justice FooTE to-morrow. Of course the plaintiffs will fail, for there is no law recognizing the sale of human fiesh even for political purposes, and the contract is nudum pactum, but the transaction shows up Lren in his true colors, both as to his means of sccuring votes and his integrity in keeping his promises to pay. " Br. Buceven, of the House, is holding his Committee on Banking and Carrency up to the light, and wondering what it was begun for. Yesterday he reported a Silver bill for publication, expecting its recommit- tal to his Committee, when, to his disgust, on motion of AMr A. H. SterreNs, the bill was referred to the Com- mittee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. This precedent reduces the functions of the Banking and Currency Committee to the clerical work of preparing measures for the contemplation of the Coinage Committee, work which, from its efforts so far, it is ‘manifestly better prepared for than the con. sideration ef any importaut bill likely to be- come & law. ] 15 having rathera hard time with the pettifoggers of the House, who, having stuck bhis bill for the repeal of the Resumption act into that self-adjusting steel-trap known as “the morning hour,” are laying all - kinds of parliament- ary stumblivg Dblocks in the way of possing the measure. Friends of the bill entertaia a hope or two that to. morrow they will develop enough sucug(:zlofo secure & suspension of the rules, and start the measure on its final Passage with all sails set and colorsnailed tothe mast. Dispatches indicate that these hopes are groundless, and that the bill is doomed to burial in thet un. fortunate pit known to its friends as literally the “mourning hour.” : It is when the aversge Grand Juror rises to the suppression of existing abuses that he looms up surrounded by the glories of liter. ary composition. The late body of good men and true, having finished the con- templation of divers larcenies, burg- laries, and other evils that men fly 1o in hours of passion and unrighteous in- ducement, soared to the consideration of logs as o nuisance. “* Having personally i vestigated complainis against Messrs. Hans, Broox, and Hess for carrying on a nuisance in the Town of Niles,” in lalling dis- essed hogs and selling them for eating purposes, the jury *“do respectfully recom- mend and ask that immediate steps be taken to stop said nuisance, and that said. hogs be enjoined from being slaughtered and pub upon the market.” It is questionable if the parties in interest will inter- poss any defense to the application for an injunction, for .whatever - other qualifications in the way of obstinate disregard for the prejudices of civilization the hog may boast, he will scarcely dare obstruct o Court process which solemnly obligates him to existence in this sphere, rather than hurry to apother from whose bourne no well-regulated hog has returned up to the time we go to press. *Frisco is threatened with a revolution which, unless promptly suppressed, bids fair to involve the services of a vigilance committee. A mob of self-styled ‘“work- ingmen " have organized, and, through meet- ings in the public places of the city, have fulminated gory prophecies of the fate, not only of the Chinese element, but of a number of prominent citizens who are supposed to entertain feelings of enmity to- wards the ¢ workingmen.” The aid of the authorities has been invoked, and the effete press of the city is clamoring for the inter- position of the law’s strong arm. What the culininatlon will be is not indicated, but the city officers nppear to be paralyzed, and it is not impossible that the citizens will have to tako o hand in the business. When the polls close next Tuesday night there will probably be not less than 5,000 Republican taxpayers in this city who will Dave neglected to vote. Each ono of these men complains of the weight of his taxes. If half of those careless, derelict absentees would vote there would be not the slightest danger of the defent of the four excellent candidates for County Commissioners, who, if elected, will save this county half & million 8 year which otherwise will be stolen and squandered by the County-Ring thieves. It is perfectly astonishing that the taxpayers do not turn out to the last vote to protect their own interests. If the four Reform Commissioners are elected nest Tuesday, no thanks will be due the slinks who were too apathetic, inert, and lazy to vote. Vote for the §331,000 State-THouse appropria- tion, and against the $300, 000 county bonds, nest Tuesday.—Etening Journal. The safer course is to vote against both. There is no particular hurry or necessity for finishing the ornamental and fresco work on the State-House. It can be postponed until Jaxe Buxx’s Board of Extrava- gance and Mismansgement, who have al- ready squandered a million of dollars on the work, shall tender their resignations, and step down and out. The Legislature last winter would have abolished the office to get rid of those barnacles, had it not been that their whitewashers on the floor prom- ised the gang would resign on or before the st of July, 1877, which they have not done. They are holding on for the purpose of hendling the little half million extra. The best thing the people can do is to vote against the tax, and keep the cash in their own pockets until that squandering Board are forced to resign and get out of the way. They will save money by so doing. 1t is appointed unto all men once to die, and the property which each leaves behind him must be administered upon by the Pro- bate Court. The people of this great county have been very fortunate for many years in having competent, well-qualified, honest, and honorable Judges for that Court. *Judge Warrace, Democrat, declined to be a candi- date, although he could have been easily re- elected. e Republicans nominated the Hon. J. C. ENICEERBOCKES, one of the best- qualified and most experienced lawyers at the Chicago Bar, as Judge WALLACE's succes- sor, ond the Democratic Comvention, by some strange oversight or singular blunder, nominated J. CHarLes Harves, a Justice of the Peace,—a man utterly unqualified for the office, who knows nothing at all about Probate business, or the laws touching the settlement of dead men's estates, and the caring for the interests of their widows and orphans. The Democratic' Convention had no moral right to nominate an unfit person for that office, and the only Wway now left to correct the error or blunder is to vote for Kxrckerpocker for Probate Judge, leaving * CHawLes” severely alone. to run his Justice of the Peace shop. He don’t know any too much law for a proper dis- charge of its duties. THE COUNIY ELECTIO! On Tauesday the people of this city and county will have the opportunity of choosing between an Lonest and a dishonest County Government, and every citizen should vote, feeling that by his vote he is making that choica. It is no mere choice between candi- dates of one party or the other; it is not a mere choice between men, as to which shall hiave the emoluments of office; butit is a choice between a continuruce of the con- fessedly dishonest Government which has ‘been plundering the public tor several years and n complewe and radical change. In all matters thus affecting public interests mere party considerations are of little concern, because the mass of men of sll parties hold official integrity and an honest administra- tion of governinent above all other political questions. Whenever public safety de- mands a sacrifice of mere party feelings, the people of this city have rarely failed to unite for the common defense. The peril and the common danger should now unite the friends of honesty and fidelity in office, and we have no doubt but they will so unite. It is hardly necessary to call the attention of the people of this city to the condition of the county finances. Certain specific facts are not only established, but admitted. 1. The taxation for county purposes is at the extreme point permitted by the Consti- tution, and yet there is a deficiency of half a million dollars between the revenue and the expenditures ; thereis another deficiency of several hundred thousand dollars of un- collected taxes ; making a totalof over $500,- 000 expended beyond the revenue. 2, The County Government ask now a popular vote to nuthorize them toissue bonds to the sum of $500,000, nominally to expend on the Court-House, but really to pay the contractors on that building for work al- ready done, snd to pay of the Harys, Warzee, and SexTox claims for extras. Not one doliar of the half million, if voted, will be available for new work,—it will be used to pey debts already contracted. 3. The revelations in the various trials and Grand Jury investigations show that the Board of County Commissioners have for years been in_corrupt alliances with outside parties, whereby the County Treasury has becn robbed, and the poor, the insane, and the gu.-k have been deprived of the food, clothing, and medicine paid for by the public for their uses. So notorious were theso f{xc’a that not one of the present Commis- sioners has been nominated for re-election,— 1o party darng to indorse any one of them. * 4 The hold-overs in the Board who are membersof the Ringnumberseven,—oneshort of a majority of the Board. To reform that body will require the election of five Com- missioners who can neither be seduced nor coerced into corrupt legislation. 5. The County Board has control of the administration of justice; it selects grand and petit jurors. It hascontrol of elections, because it appoints the election judges and clerks, and the County Clerk has the cse- vassing of the votes. Itcontrols the finances of the county, because it levies taxes and ex- pends the public'money; it appoints officers, and fives all the salariss ; it makes contracts, audits the bills, and votes tho money. There are two tickets before the people for Commissioners. One is called Republican and the other Democratic. Four of these Commissioners are to be clected by the voters in the city. The candidates aro: Republicen. * Democretic. BrruiNe, DoNPHY, SporrorD, ST0TZ, Mevenr, CASFELMAN, Doksk. TUREMAN. Even if the four Republicans be clected, there will still be a Democratic majority in the Board. Without questioning the person- ol charncter of the four Democrats, wo wish to point out that, if they be elected, they will naturally afiiliate with their political as- sociates; they cannot act asan independ- ent party in a body where they will be in a minority ; and before three months some, if not all, of them will be found acting with their party nssociates, and with the contractors, all of whom belong to the same party. All considerations of safety do- mand that new men, having no party affilistions with those who compose the Ring, be elected to the Board. No greater check can bo put on a majority than that of o strong minority. Mr. BunLiNG, the well- known architect, and Mr. Seorrorp, and their associates, with the few members of the present Board who are not involved in theso disreputable practices, will not only vote to proteét the public interests, but. will have the ability to expose every schemo and job which may be devised. We trust that, how- ever men may differ as to the candidatés on the general ticker, there will be a hearty union of all taxpayérs to elect Mr. BurLiNe and his associates, not because they are Revublicans, but because their election will farnich the best guarantee that the present corrupt organization will be broken up and a new order of affairs established. For three years there has becn an almost perpetual scandal growing out of the dis- honest proceedings of tho County Board. Law-suits, injunctions, indictments, trials ; bribery, fraud; contracts and extras; enor- mous salaries, doubling and.trebling the numberof officers; excessive taxation and de- ficiencies in the revenue; a large floating debt, and public credit reduced to the lowest point. A necessity for reform must be evi- dent to every citizen, and there can be no such reform without the introduction of a new class of men into the membership of the Board. This necessity for change of men exists equally in the case of the County Clerk. That office is the fortress of ‘the corruption- ists. There sitsthe boss of the situation, with his 225 clerks and deputies, prid from the County Tressury. To re-elect Lien is to give the whole Ring anew lease of official life. THE PROBATE COURT. Before the nommations for county officers were made on either side, Tue TrIBUNE pointed out the peculiar and delicate respon- sibilities attached to the position of Probate Judge, and urged both parties to select not merely able lawyers, but men whose practice, experience, and personal habits should fit them to the arduous duties of the position. One of the two parties has violated the pro- pricties most flagrantly by nominating Justice-of-the-Pence HATYES, who lacks overy essential qualification for the trust. Alr. Harves’ nomination by the Democrats was the result of curious political intriguing, and it was made with the design of securing cer- tain political advantages in utter disregard of the exncting and sacred responsibilities at- tached to the Probate Court. He was first named by the Industrials, and then accepted by the Democrats, who were willing to carry any and all of the Industrial nominations that should not interfere with the plans of the Ring, thus hoping to make sure of the Industrial vote. Lren's handiwork can be clearly traced in the selection of Harses. Lien and his strikers ran both the Industrinl and the Democratic Conventions. Dave TmorsToN was to run LiEn's campaign, and Ep Pz~ L1ps and Jor GLEssoN are among Lien's em- ployes, paid by the county. Now, Dave TronyTox, Ep PmrrLirs, and Jor GLEASON were the most conspicuous figures and tho most persistent barnncles in the town frauds which the people bad so-much difficulty in puttingdown. 3Mr. JANEs, as a Justico of the Pence, was n member of the Town Board, and his sympathies thronghout seemed to be with the bummer crowd ; he voted in such o way as to embarrass the Reformers as much as possible. It is notstrange that this bummer crowd should improvo their first opportunity to reward Justice HAINES, but it is scandalous that the most important ju- dicial position to be filled should be sacrificed to this political intriguing. Leaving out of account aliogether Mr. Harxes' vicious politieal associations in the past, his own calibre and career unfit him for the position he seeks. The Probate Judge is ez officio the guardian of the orphans, the protector of the widows' rights, and the administrator of estates. There are proba- bly 100,000 families in Cook County, and of these not less than 1,000 are compelled an- nually to submit their affairs to the arbitra- ment of the Probate Court. The settlement of estates is one of the most involved and difficult branches of the law. The Judge bas very broad discriminating powers, and his duties require him to be a man of the most irreproachable integrity, of quick apprebension, of ready and proper sympa- thy, of great patience and industry, and thorough familiarity —with the law and precedents governing testament- ary cases. Mr. Huves' preparation for the duties of Probate Judge have been of the worst possible description. He had scarcely been admitted to the Bar before he was ap- pointed & Justice of the Peace through the influence of his family and friends; he has had very little practice at the Bar of any kind, and probably none whatever in Pro- bate business. As Justice of the Peace his dealings have been mainly with little person- al quarrels, Inwsnits involving less than $200 in the issue, replevin cases, bummer con- stables, shyster attorneys, professional bail- ers and bondsmen, and packed juries. Such is the average business of the Justice's Court. I cannot fail to contract a man’s intellectual force, dull and harden his sympathies, and stunt his growth in every direction. En- grossed with a succession of petty details, he soon relapses into a passive state of indiffer- ence, with no bigher ambition than to give judgment where he is surest of collecting his costs. 'To takea man from such surround- ings, without previons preparation for any- thing better, and intrust him with the final administration of all the estates in Cook County that come into court, constitute him the guardian of orphans, snd place him in charge of the most sacred family interests, will be to run n risk that may result most disastrously to the cause of justice and the peace of mind of the community. There is no doubt that a dreadful blunder has been comfaitted in nominating Justice- of-the-Peace Haryes for Probate Judge. For- tunately, it has not yet gone beyond the possibility of o remedy. The other candi- date for Probate Judge, Mr. J. C. KxicRER- BOCKER, is as conspicuously suited to the position as Mr. Hamves is unfit. Mr. Ewsickeppocker has had o long and large law practice, of which Probate business has for many years been his spe- cinlty. There is probably no single lawyer in Cook County who has had so estensive an experience in this branch of his profession, which has become the congenial practice of Mr. Knicerpocker’s life. He isa man of excellent charncter, great energy, strong physical constitution, and of & proper ags and standing. We have no doubt that, if elected and life be spared to him, he will be continued in the position for many years and as long as he will consent to hold it ; for 1t is the approved practice in all communi- ties to muke no change in Probate Judges when they are competent. Judge WarLnace could probably have retained the posi- tion without political contest had he beon willing to do so, and Mr. KNicrER- BockER is perhaps the only lawyer in Cook County qualified to step into the place and go on with the business of the Court at once as smoothly and sstisfactorily as if Judge Warrace still presided over it. The election of Justice-of-the-Peace HArNEs, on the other hand, would unquestionably oceasion serious delny and crente great confusion for along _time, with the prospect that he would never acquire the knowledge and fitness necessary to an equitable, economical, and satisfactory administration of estates. : IMPURE MILK. Tho Medical Inspector of the South Di- vision has submitted to the Commissioner of Healt!s a report upon the purity of the milk supply of this city which should at once en- gago the attention of -the munieipal authori- ties. The report, which was printed in our Inst issue, sets forth the results of detailed investigations of several samples of milk from several stores, hotels, and other sources of supply, as compared with pure milk. ¢ Tt is shown,” says the report, * that of all the product sold as milk, 23 per cent, or nearly one-fourth, is added water; second, that the milk has been deprived of 46.7 per cent, or nearly one-half of its cream; third, that only 20 per cent, or one-fifth, of the supply is genuine milk.” This cvidently refers to the avernge supply. The Medical Tnspector might have gone still farther in his lacteal investigations, and he would have found milk so villainously adulterated— drawn from cows that never see an open field of grass through the summer—as to be almost directly poisonons. The shameful fraud practiced in the milk supply of Chicago is not a new one. It has come up periodically for the last twenty years, and it has been proved over and over ognin that sdulterations of all sorts are openly practiced, and yet nothing is done to remedy the evil. The practice of supplying impure milk is notonly a fraud, but a serious crime. It would bo a matter of compara- tively light consequence if tho consumer were simply swindled by being compelled®to pay for cream he never gots, and to pay the milk-dealer more for water than he has to pay to the Board of Public Works. There is a graver sido to this infamous busi- ness. The milkman who deals out this spurious stuff is practically guilty of infanti- cide. As the report says, it is only the physician in daily communion with disense who can appreciate the fact of the terrible rate of death among infants who depend for their sustenance upon this impoverished and adulterated milk. The Medical and Milk Inspectors have dono their duty in calling the attention of the authorities to these in- famous practices. It now remains for the authorities not to take this report, senti- mentalize over it, and tuck it away ina pigeon-hole, but to follow up these crooked and swill milkmen, arrest and punish them with the severest penalties of the law, and if thero are mo laws capable of reaching them, then make some that will. It is time this infamous business was stopped. THE FRONT-DOOR IMBROGLIO. The United States of North America is severely agitated to-day whether the front door of the Chicago Post-Office shall be on the east side or the west sido of the mew building. The President, the Cabinet, both Houses of Congress, aud all the political hangers-on find that front door taking prece- dence of all other questions. Architects are wrangling over it. Delegations of all sorts, to and from Chicago, with front doors in their carpet-bags, are swelling the passenger traflic of the trunk roads. Lawgyers, ministers, doc- tors, bankers, and merchants are discussing the front door. MULLETT is studying a plan for putting a mansard roof on it. The news- paper press of the country is discussing the front door with about as much idea of its proposed situation as thoy have of the loca- tion of the King of Dahomey’s front door. The telegraph dispatches gronn under the burden of front doors. Chicago is all torn up on the subject of that front door. Jonx Draxe, at the head of the Grand Pacific forces, wants & west front door. PoTTER ParLMER, at the head of the Palmer House forces, wants an east front door. Tho Tre- meont House waunts a north front door, and the Transit House, at the Stock- Yards, wants & south front door, and the people who live diagonally between the cardinal points want front doors on the corners, while Mr. Hoxorr's Mer- cury would probably prefer to have it on the roof, and put the skylights in the base- ment. The West Side wants it on Clark street, half the North i Adams street, half the South Side wants it on Jackson street, the other half of the South Side wants it on Dearborn street, the other half of the North Side wants it on Clark street, the Man at the Crib wants it on the northeast-by-north corner of Adams and Dearborn, and the employés at the shot- tower and Wanp's rolling-mills prefer to have it on the southeast-by-south corner of Clark and Adams streets. Upon this great question,—whether the front door shall be a back door, or the back door a front door, or the side door a back door, or the back door a side doorand front door combined,—the peo- ple of Chicago hiave taken issue with all the vim that charscterized the Brobdignagians whom Gururver found fighting: each other to the denth because they could not agree which end of an egg should be eaten from. The Big-Enders and Little-Enders of that im- mortal struggle find their counterparts in the Front-Doorites and Back-Daorites of the pres- ent contest. Tre Cmicaco Trinuse is disposed to view this struggle from o high philosophical plane. It recognizes the fack that if the front door be on Dearborn street the morn ing slumbers of the Pacific Hotel guests will be disturbed by the clangor of the mail- wagon, tho gentle voice of the festive Gov- ernment mule, and the shouts of the lusty clerks. It recognizes the fact that if the front door be located on Clark street and the back door does not give access to the court- rooms, the jaded attorneys east of Denrborn street may have to traverse abont a block and a half gotting in and out of the build- ing. Itisinclined to regard the sufferings of the side-streeters, in case the front door on Clark street becomes a back door on Dearborn, or tice verss, with tender sympa- thy. On general principles, there is no rea- son why Clark street should be more ‘high- toned than Dearborn street, or why either stroet should be moro gilt-edged than a side street, if the sido street behaves itself and is happy. The side streets as & rule are more moral than the others. Thoy have fewer pawnbrokers, whiskytshops, variety- shows, gutter.rats, and junk-shops. The gildod youth do not brawl on the side streets nor make night hideous on any enst and west avenue. The side streets bear the same ro- Intion to the other streets that a gentleman of the old school in stand-up collar, ruffles, and brass buttons, who travels the same ruts everyday sund observes the same punctilio with his bootblack as with his bank part- ners, does to the boisterous youth who is Joud in his deportment on all occasions and disturbs the metropolis with his glitter, slang, and barbarous yawp.. Viewing the subject from this high philosophical stand- point, the unprejudiced observer can bardly arrive ot any other conclusion than this: The Government building will be a public building. It will be devoted to the whole public,—to all the people who write and re- ceive letters, to the people who pay taxes, to those who import goods, to those who sail the lakes, to some who must litigate, and to others who will have to goto the Penitentiary. Being for the benefit of the whole public, certainly the whole public should have a front door. This might be accomplished by a front door on each of the four sides. 'This would be thor- oughly impartial, for then every front door would be a back door, and every back door would be a front door, and the cellar doors might be thrown in gratuitously. This, however, is snid to be impracticable, because the plans will not adwmit of it. The mext best thing would be to compromise between the two high-toned streets and place the door onthe quieter and more conservative side street, but here again the plans of the build- ing stand in the way, which forces us to the reluctant conclusion that & man who can- not draw the plans of a great public building with more than one front door is a Murterr. Meanwhile, the war goes on snd must be settled. The people can- notstand this pressure much longer. It is disturbing families, disorganizing parties, disintegrating society, and_disgruntling dis- positions. If itis really impossible to make both doors front doors, or both doors back doors, and there can be no side doors, front or back, the Pacific Hotel might throw dice with the Palmer House, best threo in five, to see if the Pacific’s front door shall be the Palmer's back door, or zice zersa. If the re- spective combatants will not agree to this, then let the matter be referred to a Front- Door Commission, organized without regard to race, sex, color, or previous condition of servitude, whose decision shall be final on every one except the Government maules, who will be certain to go to the front door any way, if it is songht to get them to the back door. Let us have peace. THE PROPOSED ISSUE OF BONDS, The citizens of Cook County will be called upon to vote next Tuesday either for or ogainst the issue of $700,000 of county bonds, to be devoted to the construction of the Court-House. - If it were certain that all five of the Republican Reform candidates for the County Board will be elected (where- by the Ring would be broken) it would be advisable to vote for the issue, as an honest Board would reduce the tax-levy for 1877 in that proportion, and expend the amonnt renlized from the bonds economically and fairly. Unfortunately, such a result cannot confidently be predicted. The Republicans may elect the general county ticket by a majority of several thousand, and yet lose four of the Commission- ers by failing to secure a majority in the eighteen wards of the city, the vote of which determines the election of four of the five Commissioners. If the Democrats have o majority in the aggregate vote of the city of only a dozen, their four city candidates for the County Board would be elected, and there is now no doubt that such a result would give the County Ring o new lense of life, as it ouly requires one new member to maintain its majority in the Board. Every taxpayer who is convinced that the Repub- licans will earry the city as well as the coun- ty will be justified in voting for the issue, but every one who entertains the slightest doubt about this should vote against 1t, for, in the event of the city being carried by Lien’s bummers, there is no reasonable ques- tion but the $500,000 will be squandered and stolen. No special injury, inconvenience, or delay in the building of the Court-House will be occasioned by refusing to sanction the issue of bonds for that purpose. The county tax- levy for 1876 was 1,601,600, and ont of this there was an appropriation of $425,000 on account of the Court-Honse construction, which has not yet b:en entirely exhausted. On this year's valuation, the 75 cents limita- tion of tax, along with the extra tax that may be levied for payment of interest on old debt, will yield a levy ‘of $1,500,000; and this, even if the carrent expenses be maintained at the same enormous rate as during the last two years, would afford from $200,000 to $330,000 for the Court-House. In addition to this amount, there will be o large contribu- tion from back taxes, which will begin to come in next summer. It is expected that all the back taxes that are collectable at all will be placed in process of collection next summer, and be paid into the Trensnry within the year. If all five of the Republican Reform Commissioners be elected, they will proceed at once to a notable reduction of current expenses in the County Clerk’s office and the various departments, and it will probably be possible for them to set aside $500,000 for the Court-House construction and still keep down the tax-levy below the coustitutional limit. But if the Ring be granted an extension of power, either by the electivn of the four Democratic candidates in the city or Tox Hogax from the country, the taxpayers may expect that the full amount of taxes allowed by law will be exacted from them, and a vote of the $500,000 would not fund over to plunder. These are the conditions surrounding the proposed issue. As we have said, an assur- ance of Reform government would suggest the voting of the bonds, because they would then serve to reduce ; taxation but the dan- ger that the Democrats may elect a part of their ticket in the city should caution doubt- ful voters to oppose the issue, as it would not reduce taxation under Ring government, but only pile up the materinl for official robbery. _Under these circumstances, every citizen who has any reason to suspect that the city will not go Republican by a majority large enough to carry through all of the Commis- sioners will find it more prudent to vote aeninst the bond issue, in order that the County Board shall be limited at least to the iawinl texlevy. e “THE NATIONAL GAME" & FRAUD. Base-ball was once a respectable, if nota highly-intellectual, form of amusement. Since it has passed into the keeping of pro- fessional players, it hus been steadily losing character. It was in its balmy days & game for boys. 'Those were the hilarious times in which it was .customary to choose sides, first choice being secured by measuring the length of o stick, fist over fist, or by the less- imaginative process of tossing up a coin. The soft ball was in vogue, and the practice of “ socking it to 'em ” was a wonderful in- centive to activity on the part both of throw- ers and runners. The character of the game began to decay with the introduction of the hard ball. This was mnot At for the purposes of tender youth. It made the hands smart, and stained the ingenuons cheek of childhood with tears and idle smears, born from whacks on sensitive parts of the body. The noble art of “gock- ing it to 'em,” which, we hold, constituted the essence of the original and innocent game, was sbandoned as soon as the hard Dbnll came into fashion. For it was custo- mary to have the socker and sockee change places at stated intervals during the game; and, whenever the hard ball was used, it was noticed that all the youth were ambi- tious to serve in the former capacity and none in the latter. The epoch also was marked by the growth of the number of spectators. The harder the ball became, the more frequent were the secessions from the players to the on-lookers, until the latter far exceeded 1 strength and intelligence the active purticipants. This tendency resulted in handing the game over to hired men, who, for a certain stipulated sum per annum agreed to bruise their bodies for the delight of all who might choose to pay for the priv- ilege. "This strictly-philosophical account of the origin of the professional game, which has been suggested by admiration of the methods of Harray and Lecky, prepares the way for a trial of the whole institution as it at present exists. The national game, so- called, is now intrusted to o namber of ath- letic young men, who exhibit it for a liveli- hood. They make o business of it. Unless there is something ennobling in the pastime, no person can make a business of it without surrendering something of his dignity and self-respect. There is nothing ennobling in it. Theact of hitting a ball and caiching it —or, far worse, of not hitting it and not catching it—is not calculated to develop the intellectual or moral neture. Itisa proposi- tion capable of easy demonstration that the _men who engage in base-ball fora living tend “towards a low plane of morality. There are good and honorable men among them, every- body knows; but the majority of them' are not so. The majority of them would rather travel a crooked road than a straight one when both are open to them. The majority . of them have low associates, bad habits, and a contempt for the ordinary sentiments of honor. They regard the outside people who support them in comparative idleness and luxury s geeso to be plucked, and them- selves as foreordained of Providence to do the plucking. The revelations of fraud in the game which Dave just been made at Louisville and St. Louis only confirm suspicions which have been entertnined for a long time past by nearly all patrons of the game. The facts are worse than was commonly supposed. Nobody believed that such clubs as those of St. Louis and Louisville were managed by a Chicago gambler, or that the Chicago Club contained players who were dishonest. But there has been a wide-spread feeling that the national game was unaccountably mysterious in its -operations; that clubs didn’t win or lose when they ought to; and that certain players were always doing unexpected things, to the great profit of some person or persons unknown. In some instances before players had been convicted of selling games, and it was fair to presume that other players not detected or convicted had been guilty of similar practices. The confessions of two . players at Louisville prove that this is the case; that unquestionably the strongest club in the country sold itself out for a small sum in money and gave the championship to Boston. One of the players thus convicted on his own confession was esteemed as honest & man gs any in the pro- fession. If he canmot be trasted, hardly any other player can be. It was shown be- sides that two other players in the same club were corrupt ; and a St. Lonis newspaper, with great show of reason, brings a similar accusation against members of the St. Louis and the Chicago Clubs. The latter, if it sold out at all, must have been more Industrious about it than auy other orgamization in the country, for in one season it jumped from the top to the bottom of the list. L1es’s strongest hold is the ** perfection to which he has brought the administration of his office.” One of his functions is to make up the record in tax cases, and upon the manner in which it is done may be quoted a portion of the decision of Supreme-Judge ‘WALERER in the suit of TaaTcEER 7s. The People, reported in the 79th Ilinois Re- ports, page 606 : - We find inthis and other tax cases the records are most bunglingly made. They are out of all sbape for filing, and are extremely inconvenient to handle or refer to, and are greatly larger than fair- ncsa to the litigants warrants. Iti matter of surorise that any Clerk ehonld be willing to permit such unshapely tnings to go from his office. In zwing the list of lunds azainst which the taxes being contested are levied, it is wholly unneces- nary to give any other tracts not involved in the appeal or writ of error. Its a manifest wrong to litigants to incumber the record with long lists of iznds not in dispute and having no connection with the matter in litization. It nnjustly increnses the costs, unnecesssrly incumbers the record, and is wholly useless. If attorneys bring- ing such cases to this Court fail to nave tnis wrong corrected, we shall be under the necessity of tax- ing the costs thus ueelessly made to their clients. It would require the exercise of but slight skill and but little efort ty_present such records in the usual form, and to avoud the elovenly appearance, and render the records easy to be handied and con- venient to be filed. A more scathing rebuke can scarcely be imagined, and attorneys and litigants, with the threatened taxation of costs staring them in the face, will not take the chance of per- petuation of this bungling method o bus. ness by voting for Luen's re-election, - . There s something Wronz—rotten g g, word—in the management of the County c;mf office. Lien entered upon the office pror ,l ing retrenchment and economy. He rag lzn:: first year for less than $45,000, 20d offerss make a contract with the County comm'o sioners to operate It for $15,000 during the. mainder of his term. But Jonx Rouxteey g Jected, giviog some reason therefor, by the real one was, that it would Dut stop to mys the office an asylom for the Ring’s henchy, ballot-box stuffers, and dead-beats. Sinee the Lien has run the office to suit the Ring's o his own interests. Hereis what his foyy bas cost the taxpagers: i Pay-rolls of County Clerk's offl 1672, (before the Lieb-Thornton st pime) ....... The same in 1875, nnder Lic B The same in 1876, under Licl D The cost this year, 1877.... el Re-clect this man Lies and the Connt.rgr:‘: oftice will cost the taxpavers more thag 1 hundred thousand dollars before the end of 1:: second term. A change is highlynecenuqh that office. — Two Democratic statesmen, one of ‘who runs a rum-shop, while the other was ronnm; with the voucher burglacy under Trvezp, o1 intoan argumentin New York last wué,:n: each “other up, precipitated each other thropg), plate-glass wizduws, tried to shoot each other, ond raised a crowd, and nezt dag were gi. charzed by the Police Magistrate because therg was no evidence against thew. Justice Mopgay (who we arcglad to say is a Republican) 2ave Capt. WILLIAMS (Who We are sorry to sar fsq Republican) a sound lecture, and said signig. cantly that the Captain and his policemen wirs afraid of the Tammany politicians. - When Ney York Republicans come to supporting a gambler and prize-fighter for the Scnate, and- are Tay. many’s absequicus servants in the police forcs, fs it surpnising that the party cause awakens little enthusiasm among its respectable mep. bers? —— If Vox HOLLEN had not been re-clected i Collector, but had settled up his business mhz end of his first term, he would not have endeg in being an_absconding thief and defanlter for $148,000, which the city has lost. The safe rlg is for all officers who bandle public money t¢ settle up at the end of one term. Theg shoui¢ count over the money to their suceessors, ‘This rule the Republicans have adopted; and )y, Lovuis Huck, one of the best Treasurers thie courty nas ever bad. is not a candidate for o election, but will count over his money to whe- ever the people may elect as his snecessor. Tre voters must [nsist on HERMANS L1z doing the same thing. He has beld the office for four years, and it is now hizh time for him to seuly up and deliver his books. There is cootber xay of having a satisfactory investigation of his offe cial accounts. Let his money be * counted.” —— Miss IsapeL ARIEL, of Jersey City, 2 younz woman of 20. bas sued R—CH—D Ga—st Wa—Tz for tbe support of the b—by whose pa she asserts he is. We haven't scen the pleadings, but presume that the great philolo- gist allezes that she is an homunculs, a hetero- gene, & driveling criticastrix, and a nephotome, and denies that he is the b—by’s pa—that isty say, the paternal progenitor of the infantile adolescent. O, R—cH—p GR—ST, R—Ci~D GR—NT, hasall your nice preciseness come to this, that you should fall into the snare of a Jersey woman who probably calls *‘cow” *“kazouw,” says “It's me!” uses ‘“‘commence” for “te gin,” and speaks Englishof a very Everyday description? We fear that that tricksy spirit, that delicate Arrei, will raisea * Tempest” for “BHARSPEARE'S Scholar.” ——————— Bayxy Cox is said to have been asmad as 3 wet hen—a Bantam hen, of course,—at the way Soeaker RANDALL took him betseen his fioger and thumb, lifted him out of the Committee on Banking and Currcncy and the Committee o Rales, and dropped him gently into the dusky obscurity of the Committee on the Librars. Sasnry is said to have remarked parenthetically, *TWho is there to listen to the words of Saxxr? Not one. My name rugs in the list of no livig committee. At grand old sunset the braves will come forth from the wigwam of Tammaoy with whoops and dancing, and they will see that Sa3MMT is not amone them, and they will say, ¢ Where is SAM31Y?’ And you will tell them, *Heis buricd in the Congressional Library,’ and there will be 2 sound like the falling of a mighty mushroom in the woods.” —————— Mr. Arrex C. Beach, who heads the Demo- cratic State ticket in New York, is in tronble for charging the State for 366 miles travelat 30 cents a mile whencver he crossed the street in Alhany from the Lieutentant-Governor's office to the office of the Canal Board. True, Repub- licans bave dope the same thing, but such Re- publicans are not on the State ticket. Mr. Beaca evideatly thinks that time is money, for he charges mine days’ per diem for a space of four days, during which he traveled—that is to say, did not travel—993 miles. It is likely that this will prove destructive mileaze for Mr. Beacm ————— Last Wednesday was a good day for mistakes with our New York contemporaries. The Zime led off in the morning by girding at Mr. Jous VELSH as the author of long letters on the Indian question, when in fact his brother Wit 1a5¢ {5 the letter-writer, and in the eveniog tbe Post went it_one better by alinding ina head- line to the Democratic nominee for Secretary of State as WiLL1ax A. Beacu, it being Avtes C. Mr. WitLiax A. Beacn was indeed engaged i the BEECHER trial, but he never stole coustruc- tive mileage from the State Treasury. ———— The completion of the gilding, moldines, frescoing, and other gimerack and ornamental work on the State-House, can be gafely pust- poned for awhile. There is mo hurry iw'the case. Let JARE BUNN and his Board wait for the money. If they want to speculate, let them do it with their own funds. When the oroa mental work of the State-House is completed; let it be by a new Board. —_—— The agreeable way in which B. . W, of Tn- diana, began disposing of Mr. MoRTON’S polit- ical effects. while Mr. Mortox was alire, and Senator RANSOM pre-empted his chair in the Senate, reminds one very sironzly of the coo siderate acquaintance who called on 8 sick friend, and, trying oo the paticot's boots, saids “Well, if the worst comes to- the worst, I'l take th e ———— JAxE Boxx and his Board peremptorily refas® to resign, as they had promised to do. Let th® people refuse to vote the $531,000 of extra taxes for finishing the frescoing of the State-House- ‘They had abundance of money to complete the structure, but managed to squander nearly 3 million of it and now are bawliog at the people to vote more for them to waste. Notadollstt e iy ‘Why is Mr. Tox LYNcCH so significantly silest under the charge that he turned State’s € dence to save bis own bacon? I it because bS confession would turn cvers Irishman on (¢ earth against him, or because his denial ‘bring the proofs to bear? ———— The $531,000 which the State-House Commi® sfoners demand to complete their frescoing 30= gilding is not in the form of bonds to be in the future, but cash to be raised by etra 135 ation at the mext levy. Are not taxesaboub heary enough now? ————— As Trishmen “are in the habit of drinking t00 mauch whisky and getting drunk,” and 3 on that account Mr. Lyxcm will not employ the® in his distillery, the inquiry becomes pertinesty whom would he employ if ne bad any chance election to the County Treasurcrship? L “Giveusarest!" yells Mr. Lrsca, forze ting how near he came to it when the Gove® ment was alter the **crooks.” e 2 Let those who grumble and complain of theif tazes attend the polls on Tuesday and vote 58 Reform ticket, the election of which will s7 \