Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 5, 1877, Page 4

a . THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, '877. Thye Tribane, TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Y MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID. 13.00 00 .30 i a0 138 00 pectmen rre. Give Fost-UMee address [n fall, Including State and County. Hemittances maybe madd elther by draft, exnress, Poet-Uffice order, or in registered fetters, at our riek. TERMS TO CITY BURSCRIBRNS. Datly, delivered, Bunday excented, 25 centa por week. Tatly, dellvered, Sunday fncluded, 50 centa per week, Addreas THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Comer Madison and Dearborm-s Ordess for ihe dellvervof Tire ToimrNEat Evanston, Englewood. and ilyde ark feftin the countiog-rouns wii recelve prompt attention. * et e e s nne year. vear, per monti.. WEERLY EDITION, POSTPAID. MeVicker’s Thentre. Madtron street, between Ftate and - Dearhorn. #PInk Domfnos,” Mesdames Don, Bloneall, Granam, ete.: Messrs. Wheelock, Learock, Vesrson, etc. 1toaley’s Theaire, Tandolph street, hetween Clark and LaSalle. The Evangeline Combination. *'Le Detit Corsalr, " Mes+ cathersby, Clancy, otc.; Messrs. Uocodwin, Tinverly Monroe streer, corner &ate Flsher, **Mazeppn, ‘s Thentre, Vearborn, Eogagement of Coliseum Novelty Theatre, Clark street, between Washington sud Raadoiph **Qur Workingmien." Newr Chifengo Theatres Ciark street, apposite the Sherman House. Engage- nent 0! Campbell Comedy Company. ** Aly Foollsh MONDAY, NOVEMBER & 1877 CHICAGO HARKET BUMMARY, The Chicawo produce markets wero generally #low on Satarday, and breadstuffa were easler, schile provielona were steady, Mess pork closcd Gic per brl higl nt 812,70 for November and $12,02% for January. Lard closcd stendy, at 28, H or the year and 83,1068, 124 for Jonu; Menta wore unchanged, at G%e for loose slionldcrs and T¢ for do shorl ribe. Lake frelzhia were less nctive and firm, at 3%e for corn to Nn Whisky was 1c lower, closing at £1.00 per gallon. ' Flour wsa dull, Wheat closed 140 lower, ut § 4 canly and $1.04% for No- yember. Corn¢ 130 lower, nt 43¢ cash and 4210G4%%c for November, Dats closed @4 lower, ot 24'¢c cash and he for Novemher. 2 c, Narley closcd 1c lower, ¢ for December. logs were . Cattle were Shioep were quiet, 0 cxports from New York Inat 050,610 hn ool hasastock L 000 quarters wheat and 110,000 auarters Heceived fo this city doring Jast week, SA1GC cault and o active and uneet!l brin i 4,004 b eorn, 88, ¢, 240,511 by barly, b3, Inspected 1nto stor 7:) carn wheat, 204 carw corn, U7 cars oats, 5 cars and 4,600 bu 408 curs Larles, Total (784 cars), 202, Onw hunared dollars it gold would Luy 2% In greenbacks at the close, In Now York on Hatardny grcn‘nbnckn ruled ot 974, Tho critical condition of the Turkish ecanse in Bulgarin aud Armenin has given o fresh impetus to the peace movement in Constanti- noplo, where, a fow months ngo, to even hint at penco negotiations was dnngerously unpopular, A changa in tho Ministry is said to be under cousider .tion, aud it s belfeved that n peace Cabinct will shiortly be formed by Saprz and Sayver Pashas, Thero is searcely a possibility thot the new Ministry would dare to offer any peace which Russin waould nt preseut secept, D Broovnte, Orleanist, President of the Cabinet Conucil and Ministor of Justice, wns yesterday defented in tho olection for Coun- cils.Goneral by Fovquer, Bonapartist. Ad- miral Roxciene Le Nouny was nlso boaten, . Tho organization of a now Cabivet, with < PouvEr-Quentier ny Prosident, Count Dg Voave, present Ambassador to Austria, n3 Minister of Foreign Affairs, and two Senators of the Itight, Mostcorrien and Drrsow, as memboré, in net down for Tueeday, by the Oflicial Journal—by what nuthority does not sppear. The Senate may be expected to transact very littlo business, legislative ar executive. until after the cloctions, Upon the result in the various States will, it is thought, largoly depend the course of the Ropublican eaucus Seuatorsin counvetion with suveralof the most important appointmonts, The theory seoms to bo that the President’s Civil-Servico policy 15 on tral before the conntry, nnd If the ver- dict t the polls Is ngaiust Llm it §s expocted Ahat his encmien in° the Souate witl oponly declare war against the Adwminlstration aud refuse t2 confies any nominations mads with particular refsrenco to that policy, At 2 o'clock yesterday worning the whole county from Montrenl nnd Ogdonsburg cast to tho Atantis shook for afew rece onds as though ihe cloud-compelling Jove had nodded, and now all the erockery smash. od aftor supper Satunday night by expoditious hired girls with “gontloman friends" outside thogntes id ruofully scored agalnst the fcono- clastjo carthquuko. In Lobanon,X, IL,tho bolls in tho steeples wero wrung, which * seldom " kind- of a dingdong was cortainly ovorlooked by Por when be compos. ol his sonorous lyric. The perturla- tion of the corth’s crust. seems to lave coursicd castwand, and to have caused no ma. terial damage, although the unthinking and slien inbabitants north of the §t, Lawronce River aro reported to have been muck alanm- od and distrossed. Bixty thousand poople yesterday viewed the remanius of Bonator Montox lylug in state in the Court-Iouse at Indiauapolis. Bo vast an attendance upon the funernl to-day is expetted that the residonts of the city aro preparing to assist in providing for the cows- fort of such of the visitors as are unable to obtain accommodutions at the hotels. Amoug thoss who had arrived yesterday wera ox-Bocrotary Bnisrow, Gen. Haxtax and wifs, Benator Davis and wifo, Becretary ‘Luovrsoy aud Judge Devess, the Benate aud House Committees, tho son of President ILaves bearing from his father & weautifal floral tributo to Ars, Mouroy, Gen. Trxes, Gov. Currom oud other 1linols State ofS- cers, Gen. AssoN Braoes aud Collector Witiux Husur Sairy; of Chicsgo, and many other noted peoplo. These sending regrots at their inability to bo present are acarcely less numerous or distingulshed. e vme— A complete list of the voting-places for to-morrow’s clection will be found clsewhero 1o this issue, It is of value, first, as neces- sary information, and, second, a3 a re. minder to every friend of honest govern- ment of his daty to go to the polls and vote. This duty no man can gafely ueglect. A big vote meany the election of the anti-Riug candidates and the yescue of the County Government frow tho clutchies of the devil- fish tribe; n light vote menns precisoly the rovorac, and all the cost and ealamity implied thereby. There ia reason to believe that a large number of respectable Democrata aro ro disgnsted ot the combination of Lien, Lrxcn, and Tronstox that they will either voto for the greater portion of tho Repub- lican nominees or else not voto at all. This ia a stnte of things that Republicans shonld not fail to tako ndvantage of. By turning ont in full strength they con bury the tax- cating, ballot-box-sinfing crowd so deop that they will not bo leard of again for several years, Beeretary Scrurz came into offico strongly impressed with the iden that tho Indian Bnroan would bear watching, and, nacting . Le lost from amoug all the men who are will. upon this belief, he haa quietly pursued his investigations, until at last his patience has been rewarded by the discovery of an extene pivo system of frands in the direction that Trof, Mansn pointed ont, Viz. : in the weigh- ivg of cattle. In ordor to make it casior for the Government Inspector to keep his eyes shnt, the beef-contractors fixed up an or- rangement whereby the offlcial could only sco the weight indicated on the scale-beam, tho cattle weighed being hidden from his view by a close bonrd fence, so that the same lot could be weighed twice withont his being compelled to know it. The plan seems to have woiked well, and eeveral millions of pounds of beof on the hoof were paid for by tho Government in excess of the amoint devoured by the Indians for whose benefit tho cattla purchiases were supposed to havo been made. Among other matters to be voted on at to- morrow’s election is the appropriation of 2532,000 to complote tho froscoing, orma- mentation, and fancy work on tho Spring. field State-Hlouse, If thero bo a majority of votes agninst it throughout the State the ap- propriation fails, notwithstanding the silly theory of tho Bpringiield Ring that the money must be collected neverthelehs, A vote in favor of the appropriation will commit the expenditure of another lalf-million dollars into the hands of the ssmo Connnissioncrs and the same Coustruetion Ring that have already sguandered so many millions and exceeded tho constitatiousl limit of -cost, The people are pot in such & hurry to have the gewgaws, gimerncks, and ginger. brend ornamentation of the State-Houso eluborated bnt that . they can wait until the present Construction Ring shall give way to successors who shall offer some promise that the money will be honestly and Jndiciously exspended. Thera was an open pledgo that the Jaxe Doxx Commission wounld retiro when the Logislature agreed to submit the appropriation; o8 the Commis. sioners havo refused to comply with this un. deratanding, it is ovident that they hankor after naw opportunities to squander the pube lic money on wonseloss faucy work, and pet theories, aud favorite contractors, ‘Tho times are searcely so prosperous ns to render the farmera and hard.working mechanics throughout tho- State anxious to vote away money by the half-million of doliars on su- perflnous ornnmentation, It will bo time enough to vote suflicient money to flnish up what rownins to bo dono when Jaxe Busy and his associates shall stop down and out. —————— THE ELECTION TO-MORROW. 1t will be a serious mistake for any citizgn of Chicngo to underestimate the importanc of to-morrow's clection. It involves th maintenance or downfall of the County Ring, whose plundering of the people hins Leen oX- posed by the newspapers, by investigations, by indictments aud publie trials during the past two or throe yenrs, It involves the sav- ing or loss of half a million o year of taxes. It involves the voting or the withholding of Lalf o million of conuty honds, which the Ring desire to {suo s nn oxtra fund for plun. der in addition to the henvy tax-lovy. It in. volves the sunction or refusal of the Teglsla. tive appropriation of another half a million of State funds, to bo turned over to JAREBusn's State-Tiouse Construction Ring in Spring. field. It involves tho roscuo of tho County Clerk’s office from a willing tool of tho County Ring, who makes that office cost the people of Cook County 3112,000, thongh it ought to be, and ecsn be made to be, self-sustninlng on Lalf that money. It involves tho solection of a man for Counly "Treasnrer who will prove ths game thorn in the side of the Iting that Tronsurer Huck has been, It involves the proper administration of dead men's es- tates, through the Probate Court, and affocts thoe character of all the courts, and detormines largely whether justice ean bo meted out to eriminals in Cook County. Cer. talnly these maiters aggregate o sufficient fmportance to .demand au getive, personal concern from overy citizon in Ohicago who has property-interests, business property, or tha general welfare of tho community at hoart, Fvery voler in Chlcago who isin favor of the sanio reforns in County Government that was nccomplished cightoen montha ago in the City Govorument, bul remnins away from the polis to-morrow, will in effect cast a vote ngainat - Reform, aud becoins pervoually re- spousible if the Ring uball acquire a new leaso of power. Lazn and Davs Tuonntoy, who are runuing the anti-Reforn ticket with the aid of Tox Lyxcu's money, bave made their arrangements to draw out the enlire strength of the bunmmer, dead-beat, barnacle, nnd Ring clemonts. Nota single vote will ing to vote for the Lryon-Lien ticket, Their efforts will bo concentrated within the city limits for two roasons, First, thoy know the necessity of enrrying the oity by o very large wisfority in order to overcomo the Rtepub- lican minjority the county districts will givo; secondly, they know that, by carrying the aity by suy mafority whotever, thoy will eleot four out of the five Commsioners, at least one nud perhaps two of whom they connt upon 88 ready to joln the Ring, and thus assure it a continuanco of power and plunder. It is this circumstance whicls fmposes a peculiar responsibility upon all Chicago voters whose intervsts or sym. pathies are antagonistio to the Ring; and the vote of every such. citizen of Chicago that shall be voluntarily withheld to-morrow will bo equivalont to a voto for Ring Govern. went, ‘Fhe reputable and responsibio citizons who vote with the Demucratia party in na. tional 1ssues havo an equal concern with the sano closs of Republicau voters in rouling thh Lmn and Dave Tdonnton gang, who have seized tho local Democratio orgaviza- non for the benofit of the Ring and rufian clements. “fho respectable Democrats join- ed the Repablicans in puttiug the samo gaug to rout eighteen months 6g9, whon they had possessed themselves of the namo and or. #onization of the Democrats to pluuder the aty, The reault of that co-oporation was to drivo the plunderers out of city politics ‘and save s round million of dollars a year, and property-owning and tax-psying Demo- cruts have shared the bencfits' that have resmlted. There is jnst as much in- ducément for tho respectable Democrala to nct with the Repnblicans now that thero was thon, There is no party issue and no party advantage at stake. The election of the en- tire Republican ticket will still leave a Dein- ocratic majority in the County Board, whilo it will rescuoc tho Democratio organization from the hands of the Iting, and enable it in the fnture to appeal to the people with a claim upon respeotability nnd good faith, Finally, while the Ring can unquestiona- bly bo defeated in both city and county by the solid vote of all the citizens who are op- posed to it, the rights of the majority can only bo protected ngninst frauds upon the ballot-box by the utmost vigilance, It is known that the old ballot-box-stuffing gang, formerly employed in city and town elec- tions, aro all on the side of the Ring in this eampnign, and §¢ is suapected that despern. tion on the part of pome of the Ring candi- dates will induco them to resort to every possiblo frand to carry the day. ‘The ballot- Dozes mnst bo watched from the time they leave the Clerk's offiee, at tha polls, and nfter thoy shall be returned to the Clerk's oftice. They must not be lost sight of one moment till the entire vote shall have been counted. A WORSTED “GAME-COCK.” Tox I'wiNg, a8 he is familinrly called in Obio, has furnished nnother instance of how often vaulting ambition o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side. Tox Ewixa is the son of the onco celebrated Tost Twrsa, the great Olio Whig, the friond and con. temporary of Crar, Wensten, Dermies, Con- wi¥, Fvavs, and the other Whig statesmen who flourished from 1836 to 1852, 1le wns Becretary of the Treasury in 1841, but indig- nantly resigned when Joms TyLen apostatiz- ed. 8o long as thero was another man in tho country claiming to bo a Whig, old ** Salt~ Toilor " remained n Whig, and then lie retired from politics in disgust, Tho son isaman of mnch greater protousions than the father. The old gentleman was ono of the ablest men of his doy, an orator, and a man of intel- lectual superiority. Ewme junior is not that kind of niran, Ho is smbitious, and thinks himself n vast improvemont on his fnmous ancestor, but is troubled by » want of appreeiation onthe part of the general public, Mr, Ewixa hias been Iaboring industriously in Ohio for the Democratic party for some yonrs. Ho hins napired to high honors. Ho was willing to bo Governor, United States Sonator, Vico-President, or even metnber of the House, and the Democracy wns warned ovor and over that all that was wanted to reform things was to ‘“lot young Tox have n chanee.” In 1876 Ewina was olected to the Ilouss of Representatives. DBefore that eveut, however, ha had become, in addition to being n Domocrat, one of the wildest Greenbackers, 1le wasforabolishing interest on the public debt Ly pnying foreigners non-interest-bearing greenbncks ; he was for abolishing - the National Banks and baving but one form of logal monoy,—groenbacks, not to be redeomed, but to bo of thomselves final payment. To these **principles” he added that of *a friend to tho workingman,” ‘When a candidato for Oongress, he wns ac. enstomed to say to the people that in ton days after he took his scat in Congress ho would have the Resumption bill ropealed 8pa the Nationnt Banks abolished. Mr, Ewixo, who is probably tho imost striking personal illustration of tho cheapon. g effects of inflation, certainly did not know the Iouse of Representatives, Mohad not read profitably the fato of othors who linstened to exhibit their arrogance nnd con- ceit, and were incontinently snubbed and tanght their own insignifleanco. Mr. Ewiva cottoned to Ravpaty, and was put on the Committee on Bauking and Currency. The first day tho 1ouse met for business, Ewiva indnced the Committeo to let him report n Lill to ropoal the Nesumption law, and in thia bill he included o repeal of the General Banking law. With all the confidenco, assuranco, and insolenco that ho would nssumo if he wero nddressing au Inflation Club in Columbus, Mr, EwiNa presented himself natho loadzr of the Housoon tho most important question of the day. Ho was arrogant, Ifo ruported the bill, and demanded that tho Touse pass it instautly, Uis ignorancoe of parliamontary law led him into blunders. Throo-fourths of the Democrats favored tho billand one-fourth of the Republicans, but TEwina's insolonce, his airy consclousness of solf-importauce, nnd the haughty manner in which ho impressed on the House that ho was “Ewino of Ohio," were too much for tho Tlouse to bear. Inabout five minutes Mr, Ewxxa's bill, on which hio had refused to per- wit dobate, to which ha would allow no amendments to be made, and which ko had promised his constituents he would have passed right off, waa hopelessly buried in the fathomless pit of the * morning hour.” The next dsy the **gallant™ Tox entored tho 1louse somewhat tamed. Ilo hind as much dingust for tho Ifouse as the Ifouso had for lim, The House had refused to recognize him as & leador, and had laughed at Lix blunders, and had troated his insolonco with contempt. The Houso refused to take his bill out of the morning hour; and thon, with Lis spurs taken off and his comb some. what dawaged, ho asked! permission to with- draw his bill, and take in plice of it ono pre- pared by n Ropnblican from Illinois! Tho Housoe lot him do thiy, sud then told Mr, Ewina that the wholo subjoct might romaln where it was for somo weeks to come, Aud that ia tho end of Ewixa's lendorship! For {forty-eight hours ho led himself, and then was deposed. Hia fring constitnents in Ohio sre grieved unto mortification at the short carver of 'Tou Rwma, tho *‘game- cock” of Ohio, and expectant Senator, and possible President, Everybody in tho Houso, Domocrats #s well as Rtepublicans, laugh at the man who for two days played dictator, and wps then remanded to obscurity, amid the derisive laughter of the whole country. [ R — Laes's strongest bold is tho ¢ perfection to which ho has brought the adininistrution ot his oftice.” One of his functions is to make up tho record in tax-cases; and upon the wauner in which it is done may be quoted a portion of the declslon of Sapreme-Judga Warxen in the suit of ‘Tuatcues ts. The People, reported in the 79¢h Illinols Reports, page GOG; ‘We find, in this and other tax-csacs, the records sre most bunglingly made. Thoy are out of all slape for 8linz, and are extremely inconvenlent to hauttle or refer to, and are greatly lsrgerthan fale- nzss Lo tho htigunts warrants. It is s matter of rprise that any Clerk should be willing to permit suct uushapely thinke o go from bis ofice. In piviug the Mot of lands suzsinst which the taxes being conteated are levied, It is wholly unneces- sary to give auy other tructs not lovolved la the spyesl or writ of errur. It le 3 maolfest wrong to litigants to lucgmber the record with loog lists of lsnds not io divputo and haviog no connection with the wmatier In htigation, I¢ unjustly fncreascs the costs, unnccossarily incutnbers the record, sud is wiully uscless. If attoroeys bring- 1vg wuch cases tu this Court fall 10 bave thils wrong coreected, we shall bu under the necessity of tax- ing the costs thus uselessly made to thelr cllcnts. It would zequire the exorclav of but alightakill and bat little effort to present snch records In the usual form, and to arold the slovenly appearance, and render the records easy to be handled aod con- venlent 1o be filed, A more seathing rebuke can scarcely be imngined ; and attorneys and litigants, with tho threatened taxation of costs staring them in tho face, will not take the ehanco of par- potuntion of this bungling method of buai- ness by voting for Lien's re-oloction. LOOK OUT FOR THE BALLOT-BOXES, The campnign hns progressed sufficiontly to indicate boyond all question that if tho Ilepubliean voters of this eily turn out on Tuesday the Republican eandidates in Chi. cago and Cook County will be elected by n large majority, Thers is, howaver, nn alarming danger sbend, and, if tho proper precautions aro not taken, it will result in overriding this Republican majority and placing the candidates on the bummer ticket in office. Thero is a conspircy on the part of the Lirn gang to defent tho will of the mnjority of tho peoplo by the same infamous menns that weroomployed at the Charter and South. Town clections, whon false roturns were made and the hnllot-boxes wero stuffed with hata foll of votes. Thoy know that thero is no hope for them in an honest vote, and that they ean never retain the offices except by n wholesnlo sinfling of the ballot-boxes, and thoy nre dolermined to resorfto this desperato and infamous crime rather than bo defented. This dauger can be averted only by the most watchful vigilanco, the most porsist- ent serutiny of the votes, and tho institu. tion of such mensures ns will guard the purity of the ballot-box and prevent altera- tion of the returns, 'To’ this end the Com- mitteo nt hendquarters shonld carefully and explicitly explnin the Inw, and. every detail of their duties, to the Republican judges, s0 that they may make no mistake them. selvos, or nllow the Demoeratio judges to take ndvantage of any technicalitios, It is of tho utmost importance that the judges should bo on bhand promptly at the opening of the polls, or their places will bo filled by others choson from the Lummers., They should then serutinize overy voto, from 'the first one that s cnst to tho Iast ome, and seo that they aro pnt in the box, and not destroyed. At dinner-timo tho boxes must pot e loft unwatched. If thoy nre leftin the hands of tho bummers at that timo, thoy will bo stuffed. The votes must be connted nand declared as soon na the polls are closod. ‘Thero must bo no sdjournment of tho connt to n more convenient time. The Republican jndges muat wateh tho boxes every instant from tho time the polls open until tho declara- tion of the vote jsmade. Tho cnemy will be on theplert forsmoment when the Republicaus. relax thetr vigilance, and will seize that time to acconplish their infamous pnrposos. The law declores that tho vote shall bo counted aud doclared * immediately upon closing tho polls.” Ttisof Tho ntmost importance that tho Tepubliean judgesshould obtain and preservo o duplicate of the roturns, or, if that can- not be done, that they should jot down the returns o4 thoy are declared, nnd keop them s ovidence to be used in caso by any possi- bility tho ballot-Loxes aro tampered with aftor the votes are counted. This ianll the moreinportant becauso the bummers in some instancos have thrust in judges in Repub- lican wards whio live in Domocratic wards whoro their sorvices aro not 8o much needod. ‘Wo are crodibly informed that there aro two Domocratic judges in tho Third Ward, ono of whom lives on Mitwankee avenne and tho other in Bridgsport, and that one of the twoisnclork of Likn's, Thoso men must bo watched. Thoy ore not assigned to dnty outsiile of their own wards for any honest pHrposo. ‘These precantions ara all tho moro impera. tivo becauso there ia no reglsteation, and it is owing to the abseuco of this check on dis- honust voting that the bummers aro encour. nged to believe thoy can successfnlly earry ont their conspiracy ngainst the ballot-box, 'I'hey have no hope of obtaining o majority of the votes deposited in the boxes, but they do expect nud intend to tampor with the boxes by thoe processos of the disreputable Bouth-Town gang. It only requiros two pre. cautions to defont: them: TFimet, that overy Ropublican shall vote, rain or shine, business or no business, and that he shall sea that all of his employos have an op: portunity to voto; and second, that the Re- publican judges watch the boxes from the timo that tho first yoto ig cast until the dec- laration is made, and keop a duplicate of the veturns, Othorwise, the bummors will eloct thoir candidates, notwithstanding o Repub- licon majority. The law gays: ¢ Aftor the opening of tho polls no adjonrnment shall by hud, nor shinll any recess bo taken, until all the votes cast at such election ahall have boon counted aud the result publicly an- nounced.” During this time the boxes must never ba out of sight of the Republican judges, This done, victory is nssured. THE QUARREL OVER BUMNER'S GRAYE. The Ban Domingo affair was ono of the questions that was supposed to be sottled, but it kas boon dragged out of its obscurity within a fow waeks for the purpose of flxing its procise ploce in history, 'The persons actively engaged in tho debate, up to this time, aro Gon, Gnant, ex-SBocretary Fum, Col, J, W, Fonxey, WespeLt Puinvies, Bex: Prorey Poong, aud E. L, Pyerce. Thisds o Rroat array of counsel for o swall a caso, Gen, Goaxt and Mr. Fusa contend that Mr, SBuunxn veglocted his duties as Chalrman of the Benato Committeo on Forelgn Relations, Mr, Fsu adds that Mr, Susxes's affoctions wero nlienated from the Administration in consequence of its failure to make him Mm. ister to England and to confirm certain other nominations suggested by him, « Gaanw, Vs, aud Fomyy concur in saylng that Buuxen ot oue time agreed (o support the Ban Domingo Treoty, and afterwards recon- sidered his intention. Piiuies says that fuaven wes mivundorstood snd mis. represented by the Adminlstration, and thut Qen. Guaxr was drank &t a cortain memorable interview held on the subject. Bzy: Pxarey Poore gives old and comfort to the friends of Sumnzs, lolding that in thae conversation referred to tho Bonator waa refurring to Bancoog’s un. authorized use of the Becret Bervice Fund, not to the acquisition of the islaud. Mr, E. L. Pience, whois tho litorary executor of Mr. Susmyes, stands in the position of a friond to the truth, but is responsible for somo of the disousslon by having consented to the publication of aspeech never deliv- ered by tho Senator, jn which grave impu- tations are made sgainst Bocretary Fism. It is unfortunate on many accounts that this quarrel was not, fought out during the lifetime of Benator Suvunes. He knew how to give hard blows and to tako them; and ke was sufficiently acquainted with the laws of evidence to understand what knowledge would be of most worth to the publio in an from the porition of Acting or Baparvising Archl- tect of the new State-Housa, ‘The additionnl ground has not yet been secured. "The State-Tlonse Commissioners and thoir worthy Becretary have not yot boon alolished, nor have they rosigned. The Supervising Architect has not yetbeen removed. Until theso very proper things are done, wo do not think the people of this Btato will be in any grent haste to vote mnother half. million dollars to finish the gilding and fres- coing on the now State-Fouse. This was the only Commitice of the lnst General Assembly that oxamined witnessos and thorougbly investigated matters ocon- neeted with the now Btate-House, Being personal {riends of thoso officers, thoy use mild language in relation to the Commission. ers and architeot ; but tho plain English of it is, that thoy are not persons in whoso hands any more of the people’s money can safely be trusted. Tho testimony of sworn witnessos submitted with tho roport is upon many poiuts more emphatie than tho roport itself. 'fho moro this now Btate-House aflair s ex. swmiued, the worse it appears. inquiry aftor the trath, There would at lenst have been an equal chance, if tho Senn. tor wera alive to protect his own repntation, that the righta of history wonld havo been vindicated and the Administration have béon consured ns it deserved. For wlatover mny hofo beon tho merits of Mr Bouwen's condict in other rospects, thero will be mo question now that ho was right in the Ban Domingo affair and the Administration wrong. 8o far as ha was instrumental in defenting that wild onterprise, the country owes him a largo debt of gratitude, 'This, nfter all, {s the mnin point to be considered in the dis- cussfon which has recontly sprung up, but it is tha one which has uniformly been ignored by the represontatives of the late Adminis. tration. Kuowing na we do that tho Benator's conduct in the S8an Domingo affair wns wise and patriotic, itis casier to beliove thnt he was nctuntedin it by good motives than to suppose that narrow and personal rensons controlled him, Tho former sup- position is more in harmony with his char- ncter and with his whole publio life than the latter one is. Secrotary Fism himsclf is compoelled to admit as much wlen he snys that he had too muchrespaect for Mr, Bumxen to offer him tho English Mission ns a bribo; at tho same timo Le did not scom to have too mtich respect for him to entertain the iden that his hostility was excited in somo dogree by the refusal of President Gnast to give an appointment to ex-Gov. AsnrLEY. Juatico to Mr. Fisu may require that ho should be heard on his own bohalf, and he seoms roady enongh to speak. Ie has writ- ten twica on the subject, tho Inst time to the Boston Transript. e ondeavors now to verify his chnrgo that Mr. Suvivzr neglected his duties, by specifying nina tronties which liad rested in the Foreign Relntions Commit- teo of tho Bonate from fitteon montba to twenty-four daya; eight of those trenties wore approved within threo months after the appointment of his successor, Mr, Fisaut also contradicts the statement of WexnpELL Prinr- Lirs that GuanT was drank at the timo of his interview with Buaven; audin regard to the British Misslon offors the following explana. tion : Ecalled, a8 I was In the frequent habit of doing, 1ateone evening at Alr. Buxsew's house, and found him much depressed and fn tears, I valnly en- deavored to rally him, and after his allualon to cerialn tranbles, which I need not indicate, con- trasting his own relations in thoso reqards with, as he sald, more happy ones, and espresning the wish that soma morning he might be found dead in hls bed, Turged his leaving Wnshington to find rellef from what for somo timeT had scen was becoming a morbid and disturbed condltlon of mind snd of temper, Isnggested hils golng to Europe. Ile presented difiicultles much na his envagement In the cditing of hiaspeechics, the cost, cte., when I in- cautiously asked him Jf e would ** llke to be Alin- fster to England.” lio slowly sald, *‘No; I wonld notllke to Intorfere with Moruar, who ls my fefenid.” This anewer rolleved me from an utarm Into which a pauso and apparcnt delibera. tlon on his part had thrown me, and had presented the realization of the incaution into which 1 had fallen. I instantlyavalled myscif of his reply, aay- ing, ‘*You ore rieht. You should o without any official cares or dutles,” ¢ The intimation is, in a subsequent part of Mr, Fisu's lotter, that Mr. Susyen after- wards interproted this conversation as in- cluding the direct offor of a bribe, though nt tho time bo did not resent it. The raking-over of this old feud is to be regrotted ns much for the sako of Mr, Fisn and Gen, Guanr as for that of Mr, Bussen, Their fame is moro likely to suffer, oven though thoy can spenk to tho case and he caunot, than his js. The country is not now disposed to view tho life of Mr, Sumxen by scctions,~to romember 8an Domiugo to tha exclusion of PreatoN Brooxs, or to forget tho glorious services of the dofender of Civil Rights in the uncertain specches of a waver- ing party man, On the othor hand, ox-Soc- retary Fianr and Gen. Graxt, when thoy ask to be judged by their S8an Domingo negotin. tions, will bo likely to get more judgment than they bargained for. There will be ree- ollections of mortifying exhibitions of igno- rance, of compacts with irresponsiblo chief- tains, of unnuthorized diversions of Becret- Bervice money, and, above nll, of Bancoos, whose subsequent careor was nol of a nature to inspiro confidence in nny schemo engi- neered by b The Now Orlenns Zimes says: Tho Bonthern Pacific Road will be constructed with or sithout the help of Cupgress,—whether Mr, Beorr,succeeds or falis; and Its conetruction will open all Texad to us, and turn a mighty vol- nme of trada this way. But thore 16 no hopo of an eflicient sysicin of levees without the ald of the Federal Government, The Federsl Governmont is not going to lovy taxes on all the rest of the Nation to build lovees aud reclaim wot land for the ment is not going into any snch business. ‘The only thing Congress will consent to do is to nppropriate n small sum of money to open new uvutlets for the high water of tho YLower Mississippi to escape into the Gulf. There will be no quarter of a million of taxes approprinted to close the Bonnet Carre cre- vasse. That broak in the lovee has lowered the Mississippi more than three feet in high swater from New Orloana to Natchoz, and fully two feot to Vicksburg. That rollef to the flood did not cost a cent, and it has afforded more protection to the plantationa along the river for 200 miles than would the expendit- ure of millions of dollars in bLuilding lovecs, which the first high flood would be sure to break, TEE BALLOT-BOX GUARDA, The Republican Reform ticket will be clected to-moarrow beyond all doubt, If ballot-box stufling aud falso courtlnz can bo cffectually wuarded agalnst, Thero Is thereal dsnger of the situation. The Ring have read the signs, and know they are whipped on a falr vote aud as honest count, Unfortu- nately for the honest citizens, the Rinesters hava control of the hallot-boxes, and the returns have to be made to the desperato adventurer Lien, ss County Clerk. Next to gptting out the full Reform vote, the most fmportant thing s to watch the ballot- ‘boxes from the moment tho polls upen until they close, and from then until tho votes arc counted, tho result proctaimed, the poll-books signed, and the boxes sealed up nnd delivered, The Republican. “Ballot-Box Guards® have work todo, The Campaign Committee know the wards in which the stufling and chenting will be attempted, Are they making carcful and systematic cfforts to prevent this contem- plated villainy? Nothing less than the sharpest vigliancewill stopit. The Campaign Committeo eannot glve too much attentlon to this branch of their dutes. Thy chlef danger of defeat lics fn that directfon. It Is not o great whlle ago that 4,000 stuffed tickets were returned os voted by the South-Town gang; and tbe same villalna are now In tho active cmployment of the Ringsters, Some of them ars clerks in Lizn's offico, and others are mombers of the Ring's Campalgn Committee. Tho ballot-box stufllng that was danc at the adoption of the new Charter cannot yot be for- gotten, The swindling perpetrated at that time in the First, Sccond, dixth, Seventh, and Eigbth Wards waa something [fear- ful to contemplate. - It could never have hap- penod 1f the opponents of the schemo had been watchful and vigilant ; but they sleot while the encmy sown tarce In tholr wheat, Tares will be sowed to-morrow if the Campalgn Commit- tee do not keep thefr oyes open, for the Ring- stera aro perfeetly desperato. e ——— They aro having at Rutgers College, N, J., tho same sort of a time thut the parrot enjoyed with the monkey. The students have hitherto amused themsclves with attonding lectures ormed with shot-guns, tearing up sidewalks to make bonfires with, and culivening the reading of praycrs with songs and dances, untll the Faculty, becomnine awearled, determnined to ox- pel a few of them, Thoy did so, sud among the victims sclected was the champlon sthleto of the college, n young man who may have apelled “cat®® with a**k" and two *t's," but who measured ever so many inches round the arm, could run & hundrod yards in ever so few scconds, and put up adumb-hell as big a5 o flour-barrel, and posscased many other intel- lectual gifts calculated to make him an orpa- ment to the coliege. To say’ that this LEGISLATIVE REFORT ON THE NEW STATE-HOUSE. In February last a special committee of five was appointed by the Illinola Scnate to examino and report upon the new State- House, This Committeo consisted of Ben- ators Jove3, Warrina, RaNy, McCreuraw, and Faantz. ' In a unanimous report they Bay: £ I{t the very outset your Committes was con- fronted with 8 problom which s aifiicult to solve, After giving a history of the appoiutment of the Board of Btate.House Commissioners, tho report continues ; Reposing the utmoat confidenco in the Board of Stato-Tlouse Commisslonersand the architect wark. | blow has smitten the young men of ing undor it direction, the reproscntatives of the | Rutwers with dismay, would be to poople have all along providod them withevery [ vut ft mildly. They slways knew dollar of money they asked for, ‘Thue In 1807 the General Ansembly appropriated $450,000; 10 186D, $050,0005in 1871, S, 000; n 1873, 81,000,000; aud in 1875, 3800,000—or & grand tota) of %, 500,000, . 1n 1870 tne bnilding had progressed so far, and favorable contracts for ita completion had heen let, which enabled the Commissioners to authorita- tively avsure tho mombers of the Constitutional Conventlon, then In lon, that the asm of $3,500,000 would prove amply suiliclent to com- pleto tho bullding and fumish it, s alao to fuish the grounds ronnd aboul it ‘That sum of §:), 500,000 has hecn exvended, and to-day your Committea Ande the building oniy par- tially completed, many departments ol the State Uovernment unfinished, and thegrounds unfenced, This, then, !stho probluma your Committee has sought to solve For the Iast . six yearw the MNoard of Fialo-louse Commissionors and the wrincipal and acting architects have repestedly us- sured tho Guvernor, and through bim proclelmed 10 the peo that ¢ for §3, 500,000 we expect to complele tha ontire structure by the 1st day of January, 1877, Why theso responsiole porsons havu failed in the fulifiment of thelr oft-repeated pledge, is asubject of grave concern, The . ouly solution of {his problem the Committee could give is as follows : ‘The larger portion uf the expense of the bullding aver the estlmates hav been causcd, in the oplnlon of your Committeo, by the excessive and eladurato oruamentstion and by the many chanyes from the orlginal plans. In oroamentation, tho Suprome Court-room may be cited as an justance of excos:" sive decoration, —a room upon which & large sum of money has boen worse than us 1y expended. ‘The chauce of plans for the dome bas inyolved sn- other additional heavy expense of $205,384.67, The Committee also found that in many cascs materials of such inferior quality. had beon used aud the work so poorly douo that it will soon bave to be replaced by something better and more substantial. The report closes with the following recommendatiors : 1. Aspeedy ensctment of & law L0 secure the ad- Qitfonal ground south of {bo Capltol according to tho booa given by certaln cltizons of Springleld, s [n the opinlon of your Commitiee the psople of the State will not vote any mure mooey towards the new State-House unless the sald ground is pro- cared froe of cost to the Slate. 2. ‘That the oftice of State-House Commissloners and Secretary to tho Board ot State-louse Cow- wisefoners be abollsbed, in accordance with the provistons of Beuste BIl 307 now under considera- tion by she Seuate, sfter the same is properly smended. 3, Tbat Joux C, Cocmuaxx be forthwith romoved that the Presidont was a good dual’of an idlot, but they never fancled that be would pusb his Idlocy to the length of Inying an lmplous hand upon the champion athlets of the college. It has alrcady been deelared that if the facuity persists in its course, the vollege crow will lose fts race with Priuceton, and the cravest fears appear to be entertained by the students that, unless the Facully s brought to ite scnses p. . q., the college will siuk into nothing botter than & mere fustitution of learning, e e— — Up at the New York Democratic Btato Con- vention a few wecks s2o, when a bould Brook- Iyn Dimmycrat named Bou Funer got up to spealk, somo uther statesman yelled ' Put bhimy out," and Mr. Funxy furlously yelled back that he dared any man {n that hall to put him out. Lo filed {n evidenco a hand as big as a Cincinoat! bam, and no one tendercd for the contract. The other day another bould Brooklyn Dimmycrat uamed DunNg, originally a prize-fighter and plug-ugly, took hold of Mr, Funay and shook bim tiil bis fulse tceth fell ous. Thuswe seo that even Ditnmycratic statesmen who bave been prize-fighters zod plug-uglics bave thelr uss {n the economy of Nature, e ——— ‘The New York Sun (Iud, Autl-Rep.) reviews the elections to-morrow with the sapiency of men and owls, and comes to the conclusion that s gvery citizen, of whateyer party, and whatever ticket Le muy propose to vote, should strike off the name of every lucompetent, unft, or cor~ rups candidate, whether ho be runniog for Jegis- 1ative, exccutive, or judicial oflice,” ‘The Sun, however, omits to give nuy information as to what candidates are fncompeteat, unét, or cor- rupt, and thus its advice }s made to resemblo closely thatof thi lamented * AnTeMUS WARD," who exhorted his feller-citizons to buckle on thelr armor, rush to the polls, and vote as they darn pleézed. e ————— ‘The 8t. Louls Zepulbdican tells us, in its lssue of Just Wednesday, that the planet Uranus rises at forty minutes pust inidoight, and * msy be found with good opern-glasscs on a clear vven. iog." In this respect, as iu inavy others, 8t. Louls s far aicad of Chicago, In this benighted city weo caunot sco & stas or plauet unless it be sbove vur horizon. Mistah CoxxLNG {4 to bo congratulatod upon the exquisite political stratewy i accordance . with which the Republicans la the most impor- tant Beoatoria) District ob New York City will to-morrow be competied (Wote for the swatlow- Blate of Louisiaua. Tho Goneral Governs tafled Democrat Benrir, or the short-halrey Democrat Monrisaey., It ia always some conso. latlon to reflect that neither of them wil vote for Mistah Cosgtana for Senator in 1870, iy that doea not qo far to console ua for the re floctlon that by promoting nn antl-Tammany bolt the sawmno great strategist bas managed u bring out 8,000 or 10,000 additlonal votes for 1l Temmany-Canal Ring State ticket. e — There must be some excellent reason when n Supreme-Conrt Judge will turn from the mer. its of o caso to acathe a publle officer, In hig denunciation of Lixn's style of mnking up thy record In tho tax-cgses, Judge WALKRR charnc. terizes the whole buslncss s “bungling ang “alovenly,” and threatons litigants with thy costs if the matter fs not straizhtencd, Tus tazpayers will arrange the matter to the satis. faction of the Judge to-morrow, ———— The completion of the gllding, molding, frescolng, and other gimerack and ornamental work on the State-Ilouse, can bo safely post. poned for awbite. There 'is no burry t the case. Lot JAKE Buxy and his Board wait fop the moncy, 1t they want to speeulate, let them do it with their own funds. When the orna. mental work ‘of the State-Hoiso is completed, lat it Lo by o new Board, . e —— JaRa Buny and his Soard peremptorily refusy to resign, as they had promiscd to do, Let thy people refuse to vole the $532,000 of extr taxey for finlshing the frescolng of the State-House, They hod shundance of money to complety thy structure, but managed to squander nearly miilion of it, and now are bawling ot the people to vote more for them to waste. Not a dollart The four North Side wards laat fall ali gave largre majorities for TiLvEN over ITAYes, The total vote waa: For TiLDRN, 7,525; Huves, 65,0083 majorlty for TiLDeN, 3,510, To-morrow those four wards will wipe out this majority, and give McCn#a and the whole Reform tloket not far from 500 majority, if there is fair play in the voting and counting. e We have just ono request to make of business. men who nesrlect to-morrow to go and vote the Reform ticket: and that is, not to open their heads for one year about high county taxes, The man who won't take the troubls to gote the polls to lower his taxes has no business to grumble beeauso they aro bigh, s not that sof - m— " O'DoNovaN Rossa has collccted 841,724, with which he Intends to tio torpedoes to the Britlsh lion's tell, put strychnine In his beer, aud ultro- glycering under his den. 'The business of oper- ating o skirmishing fund appears to be less {formal and more lucrat!va than that of conduct- ing o savings bank or a lfe-assuranco company, —————— The attentlon of the Workingmen {8 solicited to the methoit employed by Lisn in sccuring the nowination of thelr party, Havingbought thetr delegates, ho temporarfly deprived the Work. ingmen of o freo and falr cxpression of thelr vicws; but tuat expreasion will find its way through the medium of the polls to-morrow. gt daia It is sttll @ puzzle to the best-informed read- errof the newspapers of England and Amerlea whether It Is the authors of tbe funuy things In Lunch that write tho obftuary pootry for the Philadelphin Lalger, or the authors of the obit- uary poetry In the Zedyer that throw off the comic things for Z’unch. We think so too, e e i Jaxn s threatening to sue everybody for libel who doesn't praise his mauagement of the County Clerk's otfice. Perhaps he will also suo Judge Warken, of the Bupreme Court, for hls senthing denunciation of the bungling, blunders ing, shiocking manner {n which Lign makes up records of tax-cases. it As tho Reglistry law Is not in force at this clee tlon, the voting will bedono very rapidly. Henco there will be very little ‘delay ot ouy of the polle; and busiuess-men who nre ina hurry need spend buta fow minutes in gotting in thelr tlckota, ——ee About forty-clght bours from now seversl hundred oxchanges that have been making con- fident predictions about how the clectlons to- morrow would go, will bo calling upon the rocks and mountalus to fall upon them and bidg them, ———— 5 Doston s sald to rejoice in the possession cf an esthetic culture, and any one who has cver had the misfortuno of attending a Boston meet- inyg knows that it {s anwmsthetic culturoin dead carncat, Chlorofortn Is nothing to it. ———— . Linn's refusal to pay his delezate-bille is & confession that defeat is upon bhim, By the way, bave his clerks succeeded yet in getting ang account of the 3,000 they contributed for campalgu purposes? | And the Lord sald uuto S8amuer, whoso nsmo nlso was Cox, “Where art thou, Bamueul And 8aMUpL anawered aud sald, * Iere, Lond, on the Committes on the Library, cuss it.” } Large rewards ought to be offercd for the de- teetion of repeaters and ballot-box stuflers. Enough should beoffered to tempt confederates to “squeal * on tho uthel raseals, — 121t {s worth 835 to & ward-bummer to vots for Lizn in o couventlon, how much more 13 It worth to honest men to keep him out of offics! ———t—— -, Joux Kxrry is like Forxzr—~ho has {wo newspapens—both dully,” the New York Ezpred and Star. They are also both weakly. e g—— = ‘The Ringsters are praylug for raln to-morrow, But, no matter 1f it rains pitchforks, the Re- formers must turn out and vote. ‘There is oue thing to be sald of Tost Lyscm: Whoen be bought an enemy or sold a friend, tho cash nlways chiuged hands, The country printer's bll—They All *Do" It | PERSONAL, Jefferson Pavis and wifo aro visiting thelr son-in-law in Memphls, Nearly all the new Congressmen from South wero {n the Confederats army. o The report that ex-Mayor Onkey Hallls In New York aeoms to bono longezin ncod of veril- fication. 8. 8, Qox is to give the semi-contenniol orstlon on the Aftieth anniversary of the founding of the Delta P’hl Bocluty, The Rev, James Frooman Clarke has bo- guu a serics of sermons on ** Christian Belf-Cale ture, or Integral Education.” Mr. Longfollow considers Thackeray the master of English prose, and.** Esmond" the besh written work of fiction in the languagoe. * Mr, James Brown, the former head of tho great banking-house of Drown Brothers & Co.y died in New York recently. Ho retired from the firm twenly years ago, o A Bt. Louis bank-cashier and a physicisn hiad & bloody eht in the holteat room of a Turklsh batheestedlishment recently, The door wae so hot {bat 1t waa impossible to touch foos to 1t withoat burulog, ‘The San Francisco Chronicle says: ** George Willlam Curtls, editor of Harper's Weekly, belog offerod by Presldeat Hayes the position of Minleter to England, declined, bocause be profers hia place as editor.” "Ihere has been & row at Rutgers College, and theoe young men have beea susponded ig con- sequence, among them tho stroke of the callegs crew, upon whom the affections of all the unders giadustes ware anchored, When Dom Pedro reached Rio ha scowlod at the claborate snd expensive decorstions, 1o fused to listen to the lengtay addresses of the ad< thor’ties, and rushed to tho Imperis! chapel with- wut speaking to any oue. Mr. Frederick Douglass appeared beforo & colored sudlence in Baltimore on Mondsy night 10 lecture 0n ** William the Bilent.” After ho had Leon talking nearly two hours, he announced thsd he was **half Jdone bis lecture, and bad Qot coiss to William the Stlent yet.”