Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 16, 1877, Page 4

TERMS OF RUBSCRIPTION. TOSTAGE PRRPAID. - $12.00 100 TT MAIL—TN ADVANC) Pafly Edltion, one vear, FArieaf a year, ver montl Eundny Lditio Ler Tiontle Shieer . 2.50 Enturday baliion, iw oy Jrlweekir, ane yen 8.90 "arts of & \ear, per monih S0 WEEKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. One copy. per year, Club of fonur.. Erecimen copics sent tree. Give Post-Uhce addreas 1n fall, Incindiog State and Connty. Tiemittances maybe mado elther by draft. express, Post-Office order, or in registered tetters, at our risk. TERMS 7O CITY BUNSCRIDERS. Datly, delivered, Sunday excepted, 23 cents per week. La'ly, deltvered, Bunday tncluded. 20 cents per week. Address THR TRIBUNKE COMP. Corner Madfson and Dearborn-ata,. Chi Oréers for the dellvery of Tue TRIRUNE AL Kt Englewood, and liyde Park leftin the counting-roam Wil recelve prompt sttention. AMUSE. Ty MeFleker's Theatre. Madfson street, between Htate snd Dearborn, 4 All that Glitters Is NotGold” and *‘Boots &t the Bwan.” Handolph street, between Clark and LaSsile, Engagement of Fryer's Upera Troupe. **Robert the Devit.* New Chicngo Theatre: Clark street, opposite the Sherman flouse, Campe bell Comedy Combinatton. **The Virginisn, * Ilaverly’s Theatres Monroe mreet, corner of Desrborn, Engsgement of Bam Devere. *‘Jasper.” Coliseum Novelty Thentre. Clark street, between Randolph and Washington, Tlarry Wood's Female Minstrels. ~ Afternoon and even- fog. SOCIETY MEETINGS. HOME LODGE, No. 008, A, F. & A. M. —Requiar Frinday) evening at 144 Twenty fp’{’r’.’-r"‘n’-’fl'.;"wz':“&'fia fi};é{we Vition cordini TRl YOy . Z. NENNICK, Secy. S TAL F, No. 31, A, F. & A M.Tlail T LT S manimation his u'rm‘:gz o aL 7Y o'clock for business and work on TR Tegree Finttors Cordiaily ipxiled to' siena. 18y order of Master. FE. N. TLUD\LILE& FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1877, CHI\'AGO MARKET BUMMARY, The Chicage produce markets were firm yester- day, with more doing In provisions sud lees tn graln, Meas pork closed 10¢ per brl higher, at $12,45@ 1% 30 for the year and $12.45@12. 4714 for Jnnuary. Lard ciosed steady, at £8.00 per 100 1ba cash and $8,00@ 8.02Y4 for Jaunary, Meats were firmer, At he for boxed shoulders and t4c for do ehartrive, Lake fntghts were lossactive and fiemer, at4lic for corn to Buffalo. Whisky was quoted at. $1.00 per gallon, Flour was firm. Wheat closed A ehado caster, at §1.05 for November and £1,00t5 for December, Corn closed 4@ \c higher, at 4 canh and 44%c¢ for November, Oats closed L, @tic lower, at 25c cash and 244 @24%c for November. Ryu was steady, st Gic. Uarley closed qulet, at GOy cnsh and G0'jc for December, llogs svere active and 10¢ higher, closing at $4,40@4.75. Cattle were dull and lower, with sales principally at $2.50@4.40. Sheep sold at $2.3713@4.00, Stocks in Liverpool aj the close of last month in- cluded 374,304 qrs wheat, 23,102 brls and G4, 470 aks flour, and 120,165 ars corn. Inspccted Into store In this clty yesterday morming: 133 carn wheat, 243 cars and 1,700 bn corn, 32 cars an 5,000 bu onts, 11 cars rye, and 48 cars barloy, Total (457 cats), 188,000 bu. Onc hundred aole lars in gold would buy $102,021; In greenbacks at the close. Greenbacks ot the New York Exchanga yesterday closed at 97}, The Coroner's jury F. Cooupavan yesterday returned a verdict of self-destruction committed while suffor- ing from an attack of temporary insanity. Judge Moonk yeaterdny granted an injune- tion rostraining the commencement of snits by dopositors ngainst stockholders in the TFidelity, and o similar proceeding on behalf of tho State is peuding beforo Judgo Fan. WELL. 5 Bix Democrats voted with tho Republic. ana in tho Sonato yestorday on tho Army bill —Messrs, Bayarp, of Dolaware; Coar snd .\TA.xm(, of Texas; GanuanD, of Arkan- Lasan, of Mississippi ; nnd Raxvorris, of New Jersey, Not to be outdone by Chieago in the mat- ter of violent sousations, the people out in Nebraska, Westorn Iowa, and o portion of Dakots got up a small oarthquake yusterday, The affuir scoms to have beon successful jn the matter of shocks aud surprises, but of 10 magnitudo ns to damago. —— Reports are reeelved through Constantino- ple of Wlight Russian reverses in Armanin,— one near Kary and the othor in the vicinity of Erzeroum. A heavy snow has fallen in Asia Minor, but the Iussions are used to that sort of thicg at home, and know low to fight in all kinds of weather, Montox's successor in the United Btates Benato cnst his fimst vote yestorday, aud cast it as might be expectad of (he wan who made Do altompt to conceal his hatrod of the Hoys in Blue when thoy were fighting Mr. Voon. nees’ frionds in the South, Ife voted to ro- duce the army to 20,000 men, ——— There are rumors of a settlement betweon the contestants in the Vanpeasirr will case whereby Mry, Le Bau's claims aro to bo sat. isfied aud hor suit withdrawn, She evident- Jy made out a strougor case than the favorite son expected, aud he thereupon began to consider the subject of cowpromise with soma favor. : ’ S — Tho motion for the appointment of a Com. mitteo to investigate the Government elec. torat abuses practiced in connection with tho rocent clections was yesterday adopted in the Chamber of Deputies by a vate of 320 to 203. De Broutie made an important spoech, snnouucing that the Government would not submit to Ake proposed inquiry, oor would MaoMauoN organize a Ministry trom the Left. S —— Judge Kerrxy, of Ponnsylvanis, yesterday paid his respects to two Becretarics of the ‘I'reasury—Huoun McCurrocu and Jous Saes. a¥. The former he charged with the exhi. bition of ignorance and mendacity aliko dis. creditable to the country; and, referring to the chauge of views experienced by Alr, Suxsuay, be wade the excellent point that the rights and the prosperity of the people ihould stand upon a law vn the statute-books, 1ud ot be subject to the whims and caprices 3f any one man. — ‘Ihe Senate Commities on Appropristions Las done woll in emasculating the Army bill, os passed by the Houso, sud reportiug back the bill amended to theBenate, so as to make it conforua to the wishes of the people and tho requirements of the Constitution, The blll, os sinended, strikes cut the reduction of the army to 20,000 men, and the usurpa- tion sct of the House Democrats in order ing four full cavalry regiments to the Rio Graade frontier, and leaving it discrotionary with the President how many troopa shull bo bent thero. As this takes away the com- wand of the anny from the Democratic cau- ous aod places it where it belongs, under the Coustitution, and ss the President has intimnted that tho Texas fron shall bave all thie protection it needa, thers is nu reason why the vacillating Texes Democrats shonld not vole with the Republicans for the amended bill when it is returned to the House. Anthentic ablo nccounts of the moeting on Wednesday of the Senate Com- mittee on Commerce deny the reports cur. rent in Washington that Mr, Conzrixe se- cnred a victory for himself ns against tho President on tho snbject of the Now York nominations. The nearest appronch totruth which theso rnmors contain is the fact that the Committes decided that in cases of opposition to nominations it will send for papers and information,~—n practico by no menns new, and not implying bostility to the President. On the contrary, it is ase serted with confidence that Mr. CosxriNg will not be able to control a majority of his Committeo in his waron the Administration. A joint resolution was yesterday iniro. duced in the Senate by Mr. Eatow, of Con- necticut, looking to an amendment to the Constitution that shall provide a method for determiniug all quostions connected with the canvass of tho vote for Presidential Eloctors. Mr. Eatox's plan contemplates the appoint- ment by the Governor of each State, by and with the consent of the Seuate, of five persons, who shall hear and determine all cases of contested elections in referonce to Electors, and certify their decision to the proper officers of the State at least thirty days beforo the dato on which the Electors meeot and cast their voto; a transeript of the decision to be nlso forwarded the F'resi- dent of the United State Souate. And now the Journal is whining becanse it got ita nose tweaked ; but the Journal shonld learn not to obtrudo its proboscis into mattors of which it is ignorant and discussions to which it is no party, if it doesn't desire to be snubbed, Its sllusion to Tne TRibuNE's discussion of the Civil-Servico situation was excessively impertinent, and the impertinonce liad not even the excuse of contributing any information to the conlroversy, It secks to Justifyita moddling interferenco by the asser- tion that Tne TrinuNg is very mnad becauso the Journal will not join it in magnifying differences of opinion between the Prosident and some Senators.” This is ridieulons from every possible poiot of view. 'Tur Tninuse bhas not sought to magnify any dif- ferenco of opinion betweon the Pres. ident and the malcontonts, but merely looked the situation squarely in the face. But, whatover Tuz ‘Tnipuxe did or may do, itis absurd to suppose that it sought the assistanco or lumented the opposition of the Journal, 'Tur Triuse will probably never be redneed to so sorry a plight as to solicit the co-operation of a concern that can bring no streugth to any discussion, and which cannot pousibly damage anyinterest which 1t may oppose. We have no objection to the Journala feoblo platitudes in belalf of its corps of ofllceliolders, nor to tho display of its ignorance on any subject, in n general way; but the Journal may expect to bo ‘*shooed” off when it buzzes around Tux Trwuxe's affairs. THE PRESIDENT AND THE BILVER BILL. It does not seem to have struck the mono. metal lobbyists from New York and Phila- delphis, who are hounding the President to extort a promise from him in ndvance that ho will veto tho Silver bifl in case it passes Congreus, that their demand is indelicate, impertiuent, and insultiug, In what sort of attitudo would it place the President to have him proclaim in advance that he intended to voto o great ineastrs beforo Congress before it had pnssed that body, and while it was under discussion and amendntent? A Prosi- dent who would do such a thing would almost deserved to bo imponched, Woare snrprised that Mr, Haves pormitted himself to be nddressed by lobby delegations pro posing so fwpropor and Insulting an not. o whould Liavo ordered the doorkeeper to show them out to the street. If theso Lrokers and speculators find plens- ure or profit in their pilgrimago to Washing. ton, thoy have suflicient reason for under- taking it; but if the Fresident were foollsh onough, or weak enongh, to mistake thetr voico for the voico of the country, he would not bo ko casily excused, The Atlantie cities aro filled with specu. lators, stock-jobbers, and adventurers, who make it & part of their business to run down to Washington half-n-dozen timos during the session aud ““Lelp the Governmont out of tight places.” Theiv office nnd thelr au. thority are sclf-conutituted, but ure not the Iesa real and dignified in their oyes on that account® Tho fact that they have not heen clectod by the people to represont any=- body or anything does not atall militute, in their opinion, sgaivat their claims to be heard with special defercuce, Bat thoy are in the eye of the law, and ncconding to tho fundamental theory of our Govern. weont, no bejter than the ssme number of volens from the “back couuties.” ‘Ihoy represent nobody and nothing but them. selves, The Government Is intrusted not to them, but to s Presldent and Congress who ropresent tho wlolo country equally, and who are bound to consider the will of ono scotion as welghty ay that of another, Thin broker-lobby from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia 13 fast becoming a public nuisance, It has no partienlar business in Washington. It s not recoguized in the laws or Constitution as tho adviser of the President ortbo Beuate, It is a hindrance to the proper discharge of tho functions of Government, and is no more entitled to public sympathy or respect than any other Iobby organized to promote specisl interesta or advocate special measures. The origin aud growth of the Eastern city influence in Washington bave beon no secrets in the West for many yeans; und to thewm is due the temporary favor which the propoui. tion to remove the Capital cnjoyed in this section of the country. If there wero not reasons sgainst moving the Capital even more powerful thau this one in favor of do- ing so, there is no doubt but that the Propo- sition would have been accepted and adopted by the West before this. We have seen one Tresident sfter another, and one Congress aftor another, phsa uuder the shadow of the Eastern influeuce. Through their *““eminent. ly respectable citizens,” their syndicates, their railroad ofticos, their newspapers, aud the gilt-cdged cdteries of Faneuil Hall and Cooper Institute, they have shaped more than one important plece of legislation, and Lavae takon credit to themselves for doing so. Meanwhile the West aud the South, which contain interests vastly wore important and contribute in vastly greater degroe to the support of the Goveroment, have been neg- lected and unheard, except in the halls of Congress. This fact in itself makes the halls of Corgress the proper place to arrive at the opinions of the people, and gives ta tho votes of 1hut body an authority and dig- nity which ought not to be affucted by the Lradl CEICAGO WMABUNIT freaera €, NOVILNIBLG 10, 104/ whinings of oll the money-changers in Christendom. It is not for any Now York delegation to promonnco a deliberate voto of Congress *idiotic,” and urgn the Presi- dent to velo it on that simplo ground. Much mors appropriate would be a vote of Congress overriding any veto obtained on such representations, The questions that concern tho President and Senale now are: (1) What o the people demand ? and (2) Shall that domand be re- rpected? The way to nscertain the desiren of the peoplo is through the votes of the pop- ular branch of Congress, The Braxp Silver Lill passed in that branch by a voto that was simply overwhelming. Tho exhibition of strength made in that vole nstonished the friends as woll as tho encmies of the bill. The mon who voted for the bill were chosen specially to express the wishes of the people on this particular messure. If thers hns been any chango in popular sentimént sinco the Congress was elected, everybody will admit it Las all been in favor of the bill Four-fifths, if not ninc-tenths, of the voters of this conntry would plump their ballots for the Silver bill if it wore submitted to the peaple to.morrow.. The quostion remaining for the President to decide is, whether he wiil respect this oxprossion of the popular will or give tho preferenco to an unorganized and unauthorized company of citizons from ‘Wall and Brond streets, Tho question is one of the gravest import, on which the pros- perity of the conntry and the success of the Administration may depend. It will not do for the President and his counstitutional ad- visers in such a case to mistake tho screeds of narrow and subsidized nowspapers in Bos. ton, New York, and Philsdelphia for a freo and intelligent statement of tho popular de- mands, or to suppose that the Eastern in- fluence can justify him or itself before the people of the West when the time for clec- tion returns, THE WAR ON WESTERN INTERESTS, The New York Zimes Lias inangurated a warfare agninst the West and Western in- terests, 'This fact has long boon apparent from the tenor of its articles in support of an exclusivo gold currency, but it has been more recontly virtually confessed by the Times in on srticle addressed to Eastern capitalists. The avowed purpose of the articlo in ques- tion is to discourago the practice of sonding monoy to the West for investment in mort- gnges on city proporty and farma; the most preposterous statemonts are made and the most malicions libels invented in order to carry out tho design. The attack is aimed primarily at Chicngo as the acknowledged cnpital of the West, and is thon extended to the general system of farm mortgages. As to Chiengo, the recltless statement is made that foreclosure sales frequently ** yield not more than a fourth or a fifth of the amonnt due by the mortgage,”and it is charged that “the confiding investor is the victim of an overvalustion that would bo all but impossible without a cortain degree of collu. sion between tho ngout acting for the mort. gagee and the lawyer or agent acting for the wmortgagor.” In other words, it is charged that the investment agents in Chicago lave been engaged in a conspiracy to swindle Eaatern capitalists by o false represontation of vluea, Some of thonewspaporsof thorival cities, without peroeiving the roal nim of the attack, have given circulation to these libels on Chicago. But that was a mero incident of the general design to frighten Eastern copitalists from all investmonts in Western mortgages. ** Tho Western citios gencrally” aro credited with ‘ the odium of obtaiuing by woy of mortgnge moro than the mortgaged property ought really to bo valued at.” Itis also charged that the same swindling opora- tions Liave boon carried on ‘in negotiating form mortgages, and tho Eastern capitalist is advised to send no moro money Westward for investment in farm mortgages, oxcopt through channels strong enough to convoy it back when wanted.” The blow is almed at the entire West, and the special attack is mada on Chicago only becausa Chiengo s the most conspicuous representative of Westorn intor. esta, : As to tho nssortions nbout Chieago, we do- mand a citation of specifio Instances where salea undor foreclosure have not ylolded moro thon one-fourth or one-ffth of the amount loaned on tho property. If thero have beon any such, which wo sball continuo to doubt till enough cases aro pointed out to warrant thoe genoral statemont, we venture the asser. tion that thore has rather been collusion and fraud in tho selliug than in the negotlation of the loang. Thers may be casca whero the sales have beon made intentionally obscure, in ordor that the property might bo bought in at a low price by the owner of the mort- gago with the purpose of holding a judgment over the mortgagor for tho difference, or by tho agent of tho iusurauce company or cap- italist for himself, with the purpose of swin. dliog both mortgogor aud mortgages. DBut that sales ot tho rato of one-fourth or one- fifth of the face of tho mortgage bhave been s0 general 8 to warrant charging the prac. tice of over-valuation upon Chicago agents, is simply untrue; and such an ossertion could only have beon made with malicious intent.. There hns been a shrivkage n the value of Chicago iraproved property since the panio of from one-third (o one-half, and it reprcecnts about the difference betweon the cost of building now and the cost subsequent to the fire of 1871, with a corresponding depreciation in the valuo of real estato, Part of this shrink- age is roprosented by the increased purchas- ing power of monoy. The greenback dollar, now worth 97 cents in gold, was worth only {rom 80 to 88 cents during the period Letween the fire of 1871 and the panio of 1878, when Chicago was maioly rebuilt; and this differ. ence will account for a shrinkage of from 10 to 17 per cent in the valuo of property. But there has also been a further shrinkage on the gold basiy, owing to the general panio throughout the world which has given gold a groater relative value, whils other com- modities have fallen in prce in proportion to the increased purchasing power of gold money, In addilion to these causes must be counted the necessities of rebuilding after the fire of 1871, which made labor aud inaterisl relatively bigher in Chicago than elsowhere, though we have now fallen back ou the basis of pricea common throughout tho country. But this exceptional shrinksge in tho case of Chicago has been offset to soma exteut Ly the conatant enlargement of Chicago's business, %o that, as a matter of fact, the whrinkago in the value of Chicago property has not been so large as thatof Now York property. The difference is that Chicago was burned down six years ago, and New York was not; the owners of Chicsgo property had to borrow mouey with which to rebuild, an ordeal which New York es. capod. Had the main business portion and a large part of the resideuce portion of New York—ssy from the Baltery to the Park— been destroyed in a day, as was the case in Chicago, it may be doubled whether New York would be na well prepared na Chiengn i to meot the liabilities incurred for robuilding, for the reason that the business of New York has bLeen on tha deeline, while that of Chicago hns boon gaining constantly. Wa are sure that, changing places, tho Chicago peoplo would not hasten to malign New York with the purpose of benefiting by ita misfortunc, Dut the fact is that, where ono man in Chi- eago hias gone down nader the pousual suc- cession of minforjunes, ton men havo kept their heads above water, have reduced their mortgages whera they have not paid in full, and have renewed their loans nt a lower rate of ioterest to tho satisfaction of tho eapi- talist. The farmers of the West have suffered in common with the rest of mankind {rom tho general shrinkage, thongh the present season of abnodant crops and active demand prom. isos to place them on a better footing than other classes of the American people. 1f there have been swindles in the sale and gunrantee of farm mortgages, wo fancy that they bave been perpotrated mainly by agents snd companies at the Fast, but wo cannot concelvo that the practice, even under theso ciroumstances, haa been so common as to cnll for a goneral warning to capitalista not to soek invostments in Wostorn frrm mort- gnges. It is an important featuro of this controversy to recall the fact that the Now York Zimes, as tho specinl organ of the Shylocks of tha East, {s employing all ita influence to impair instead of improvethe condition of the Western farmers, By its efforts to forco resumption on a gold basis alone, it is secking to perpstuato the presont abnormal shrinkago of values; and, in order to compel Western borrowers to pay more than they over contracted or expeclod 1o pay (by forcing a gold payment when the borrowers received greenbacks and only nagreed to pay in goll and silver in caso of re- sumption), it is willing to griud the life out of Westorn communities, and deprive the Western farmers of the opportunity for re- cuperation afforded by this yenr's erop, and the European demand therefor. There must still bo a good deal of confidence at the East in the valuo of Western property, or the Z'imes would not advocate o fiscal system which is pretty sure to wrench this proporty from tho hands of its present owners and transfer it to tho Eastern capitalists who have advanced moneyon it. Oris this war on Woentern interests undertaken by the Times in revenge for the opposition which the scheme of the Shylocks has recolved from ‘Woestern men ? and to prevent their payment he has Inbored in his own ignorant, Llundering way inces. santly. Ho hns demanded and begged the peopls to pay no taxew, and, ns an example, his principal editor plnced his house in n atate of sicgo and for several days kept the tax-collectorn at bay., ‘This was precept en. forced by example, Tho Inwtul, outatanding obligations of this city hnve beendenounced at times to bo frand- ulent and disbionest, nad the most vohement protestations made that they would never bo pald; the publio horo and clsawhero was ean- tioned not to lend mouney on or to handle the city warrants, as they wero illegal, frand- ulent, void; and that not a dollar of tax wonld ever bo paid to take np any such paper. Notwithstanding this peraistent and long- continned war upon the city eredit, and of this effort to break np the Government and reduca Chiengo to the condition of a lnwless, unorganized community, the city credit hns survived; the old nccumnlations cansed by non-payment of {ax are nonrly paid off; and now we hava the Bupreme Court of the State specifieally defining the revenuo warranta of this city to bo constitutional and legal. All this {s gall nud wormwood to the Wells stroet ropudiator, THE CITY REVENUE WARRANTS, Tre. Trioung has shown that the recent decision of thoSnpreme Court of Tlinois in the caso of tho City of Springfield has in a special manner aflirmed the proceedings of the City Governmont of Chicago in the matter of meoting its current expenditures Ly orders upon the Treasury, paynable out of tho accru- ing taxes. Tho Chicago 7'imes is therenpon disgusted. Its frantio appeals to the public not to pay any taxes ; ils acandalons asser. tions that these taxes wora to pay an illegal debt; its mondacionaattempta to break down tho city credit, and suspond all branches of the City Governmont ; Lo closo the schools, disperso the police, disband the Fire De- partment, cut off the water supply and the gns, swing the bridgoes open, close the tun- nels, and give over tho oty to the control of the thioves, cut-throats, and burglars, aro notorions. All theso things it has ndvocated over and over again, and feels eminently dis- gusted whencver the Courtarefuse to compel the Govornmont to disband. In tho recent caso befors the Su. premo Conrt o great variety of facts and circumstances existed arlsing uader the peculiar provisions of the chnrtor of the City of Springfield. The Government of that city hed, from the record, glaringly violated not only tha city charter in many particulars, but also tho constitntional provision against cro- ating debts, All thic had o relation to any- thing in the management of the Chieago finances, Thero is not a word of tho docres of injunction sgainst the City of Bpringfield which has tho least application to anything done or to bo done in Chicago, The Court construes the Constitution as conclusive ngainst tho action taken by the City of Springfield. It then proceeds to stato what the City Government might lawfully do, and with, a8 tho grammarian of the Times would #ny,* precision exactly,” this judicial declarn- tion of what would be lawful is exactly what tho City Government of Chicago hns done, is dolng, And will continne to do, in tho promises. Wao again quote all that the Court had to eay which Las any application to Chieago mattors: Appcliant contends that when labilities aro created ond appropriations are made, which are within the limit of the rovenuu accruing to meet them, they are not devta within the meaning of the prohibition of the Conatitution, and that tempo- rucy luans aro not, when witnin the limits of the revenuo, expected to bo renlized. ‘Thefiest branch of this position has support in Grant va, The City of Davenport ctal., 80 Towa, 306; People va. Pa« checo, 7 Cak, 1967 Koppekus vs, State Capito] Commlssloners, 16 1d,, 253; Tho State ve, Mc- Auley, 10 Id., 455: The Stato va, Medburry ctal., 7 Ohlo 8t., 522; and State va, Mayor, 21 La, An,, 238, » . . These casos maintsln the doctrine that revennes may be avpropg/ated in snticipation of their receipt as effectually as when actually in the Treasury; that the appropriations of moneys when received meot the services as thoy ate ren. dered, thuadiecharging the liabllitics aa they ar| or rather anticlputing and proventing tholr exis ence, In this view wa are only prepared to yield wur assent to tho rulu rocognized by theauthorities refersed to, with this qualification: (1) The tax sppropriated miust, at the time, be actually levied, 12) By thelogal effect of the conteact between tho corporation and the Indlvidual, made at the 1ime of the appropristion, an fesuing and accepting of 8 warrant or order on the Tressury for Its payment when collected must operate to prevent any )ia. Wility to accrue on the contract agalust the corpo- ratton, lers it will bo seen thatithe Bnprome Court ndopts sud confirms the rule that rovenues may be appropriated in anticipation of thoir rocelpt as effectuslly ns when actunlly in the Treasury ; thatthe appropria. tions of moneys when recelved meet the sorvices a3 they are rendered, thua discharg. iug tho liabilitics as they nriso, or rther an. ticipating and preventing thelr existonce, The Coust, in view of the provisions of the Btato Constitution, while adopting this rulo, added toit: (1) That the tax approprinted anust be actually levied. (2) That the. ac- coptanco of the warrant or order on the Treasury for its payment when colleoted must operalo to prevent any liability agalnst the city on theorder. In other words, the acceptance of the order on the Treasurer is to be considered, so far axtho corporation is conoorned, an actual payment, Should the City Trensurcr fail to pay when the tax is collected, the remedy of the holder of the warrant is to have a maudamus compelling him to do so, which is & much shorter and moro certain remedy than a suit against the city, and judgment thereon. Now wo havo the exact definition of what the city may lawfully do, The tax must be lovied; the appropriation must be made; then orders on the accruing tax may be fs. suéd,—the scceptauce of such orders reliev, ing the corporation of further liability ; and the Lolder of tho order having the summary process of mandamus to compel the Treas- urer to pay tho order as soon as the tax is collected. Had the Court intended to make a rule to legalize the proceedings in Chicago, it could not have done so more comprehen. sively, The taxes are levied and the appro- pristions are made; tha orders are issued payable out of the specific lax levied; when the tax {u collected, the orderis paid on de- mand by the ‘Freasurer; should the Treas- urer refuse to pay, the nearest Court would compel him to do 60, All these warrants on tha ‘Trossury are accepted by the - holder to be paid out of the tax levied for that purpose when collected. Could the Court, upon & direct question, have more clearly stated the legality of all tha Ohicago orders or warrants on the Treasury? For the information of thoss who are notfa. miliar with the way in which the Comp- troller fasues these warrants, it should bé said that the warrant when issued is final; it is not taken up and renewed ; once issued, it romains an order on the Treasury, and is paid the moment the tax is collected. = We think this disposes of the malicious canard of the T'imes, that the Supreme Court had declared the revenue orders issued by the Goveruwent of Chicago to be illegal. The efticacy of this mausgemont of the city's AN ENBAGED DESTRUCTIVE. The oditor of the Chicago 7imea persists in denouncing the legality of tho T'reasury orders issued by the Government of Chicn- go. He persists in distorting tho plain and unmistakablo language of the Bupreme Court in order to gratify Lis malicious nature. Bupreme Court decision& are not to bo intorproted in the longunge of tho slams, in the vocabulary of the pot-louse, or the elang of fonl-mouthed blackguards; hence, the editor of the Zimes is nover able to pro. sont a judicial decision in terms which aro intelligible, or in phrases with which re. spectablo persons are familine, Therois a wido diffe;ence belweon the langunge and the tono of the decisions of a Court aud tho decision of a rcfereo at a dog.fight; but to the editor of the Z'imes they soem all tho same, Not comprehonding the dignified Inngunage of Chief-Justice BonovrrzLp, of the Supremo Court, the T'imes declnres that the iusue of a rovenuc-warrnnt by the City Gov- ernment has been decided to bo a * foul; and that porsons having money at stake in the way of taxes should not pay them over, Leocauso tho Court Lias declared that bots on tho fight aro **ofl.” Tho oditor of the Z'imes’ porversion of the docision of the Bupremo Court is to the offect that the city must collect tho taxes of cach yoar defors it can maoke any expendi. ture for that year; and this in tho face of tho fact that the law prohibits the collection of the taxes of any flscal yenr nntil nine months after that year bas expired. Beforo the firo the city taxes were levied 1n June, a portion of the porsonal tax was colleoted in Decomber following, and all the real- estato tnxes woro collosted in BMarch. Under that arrangement all the city taxes were colleeted within the flscal year. But the State Legislature has changed the laws, The fiscal yenr begins now in January and expiros Deo, 381. The taxes for that year are not collected until September and November, or nine months after the explration of the flscal year. The madman or fdiot of the Zimes insists that the tax shall bo collected beforo any current oxponso shall be incurred, sud pronounces ooy ex- ponditure before the collection of the lax to be illegal and fraudulent. The Supreme Court hos now, however, settled this ques- tion, that the city may issue its orders aganst tho acern’og tax, and pay out these orders 83 80 much cash, The Zimes bulldozer nev- ertholess raves as usual, nud iguornntly per- sists thnt tho Court Los ordered the City Government to suspend, and lot Broney's voluntary system go into operation. ‘Tho editor of tho Times ks o pet theory which he hns for years been trying to have put in operation in this city, Il wanta to bave all Municipal Govornment abolished, Ho hos argued over and over that there should be no city police, and that any person who wanted protection for person or proper- ty should hire his own protectors. He has advocated the disbandment of the Fire Dopart- ment, and loaving thut service open to pri- vate employment, He has argned also for the disbandment of the publio schools, claiming thet thossa who wauted schools shiould lure their own teachers and pay di. rectly for teaching their own children. Io has protested against any expenditure for waler, the' supply of which should be thrown open to private enterprise,—families to be supplied from carla hauling water from thie lake and peddling it out at so much per pailful. Ho has protested against any more taxes for sewers, or gas, or for re- pairing streets or cleaning them; ho has seen o justification for taxation for bridges or tuunels, claiming, of course, that private ferries would Lo cheaper, and would estab. lish & now induatry. Having dispensed with all the various brauches of the City Goveru. ment, there would no longer bo any need of a Mayor or Common Council, policomon, firemeu, school-teachers, etc., and Ohicago would ba then taken care of and governed upon the voluntary principle ; there would be uo taxes, no government, aud no anythivg. Every man would be his own policcman, fireman, school-teacher ; every one would lay his own . sawers, hsul his own water, clean bis own street or not, and generally each citizen would be a government unto bingelf. This, imperfectly stated, has been the end wought by the editor of the T'imes for several years, To attain such » state of affalrs and break up the Oity Government it is necessury, of course. to arrest the pavment of taxes, revenus i3 shown in the fact that all the warrants or orders issued during 1876 ngainst the rovonues of that yoar have hoen pald, except in snch cases whero they have not beon prosonted for payment,—the monoy being in the City Trensury waiting to be called for. Never was there such acenracy and promptness in tho dischargo of the city’s expendilures as prevail under Comptroller Farwrzrr's oarefnl and sdmirable mannge- ment. — BOME ASPECTS OF THE FIRE There are two or throo nspects of tho fire on Wednendny evoning in Frewp, Lerren & Co.'s establisthment that deserve attention, the most important of which concorns tho construction of the building. The first con. sidoration in a huge building of this class, designed to hold many hundreds of thou. snnd dollars’ worth of inflammnble matorial, and from its very wize and height liable to exposo adjncont buildings to danger in case of fire, slicld be safoty, aud moro beauty of ormamentation should not be consulted ex- cept 8o far ns it does not conflict with this condition. The unanimous testimony of those compotent to decide is to the effect that this condition was not carriedont. Tha original design of the bnilding contemplated a Mansard roof, containing two stories, but after the building was alrendy in process of construction the firm would not consent to Tort aa dovout, fadeed, 4 hin fa F WiLLiAx M1, And that nolr-dy'h*ll;v'f'v’nn;::”m i 2ea5on and out of seahom. (o prmciors - ot UL Anart ffom that, German (s glther of the phyalcal nrof the metaphysica; gt/ % tlom, woulil be conwiderably Martled g themiere it of lfon aa 8 colleauc. Tmagine him rxhibiel. flerce personal hostility to his Maker which Mineniabes him i n elecle o moiiative e sts or tran«cendentalists, and, ha e ¢ under, or peradventara ver, thy "E A0t hik Teay Derlin, uttering gants of Feoris Cuamen and the reat, Enrape In protanly ing estonished at anything we can do 1n the wa; diplomcy, bat Col. Lxuznaas would nfegnil ol Pt the (iérmaa_philosophern an 1o ame medly moveltics In tho way of mueculstive thougng, */" ——— The barvest in Montenegro 1y over, hardy mountaincers, who were catjed Iex;m: 1’:! thelr Princo to labor In tho fleld, hav moy their grain very much as they mow Turks, and @athered it into thele barne, and now they 'h"( buckled on thelr armor again anq are nmfl thelr old-timo enemy. On Tucsday Jast mer captured the Turkish fort at Burturmans, .ni on Wednesday four block-houses near 5(\'1|lr(' and meanwhile they aro making it verr Tive), for Bpuz with thelr bombardment. As lnn’ bave nothing to do until the apring lnwlnz’- time oxcept to attend to the Turks, tho winter scason mround Montenegro will probably py very brilliant, Mr. H, V. Borsrox, the Washington tore respondent of the Clncinnut! Gasette, hng been good enough to recall the fact that P bave euch a huge tinderbox piled | fr,rxa 1s in no wisc responsibla lnrtrhc:mfi up over thoir stock, and the plan | hemocratie South. The South was an solid 4 waa reluctantly abandoned by the nr- chitect. A wooden floor was then laid upon the top joists, covered nbove with n roof, tho under side being of wood and un- protocted, and the exterior sheathed with galvanized-iron. This roof at its groatest height was five foot from the floor, thenco sloping down to nothing. The building still had s tindor-box above it, only it was not as largo aa originally designed. It was noverthelesa a suficient and convenient area for the origin and progress of fire, as was shown in 1873, when o fire broke out in it. It was a Jong timo before tho locality of tho firo could be found, and it was still longer boforo the firemen could got at §t, which waa only accomplished by knocking away the plasteriug from beneath and boring holea through the roof above.. In this way the firo wos ultimately extinguishod, although the wholo building might have been destroy- ed had not Marshal Braver known the con. struction of theroof. When the building was repaired, tho roof was construct. it 18 to-day when the President took ofllce, ex. cept for the States of Loulsiana and South Caro- Hoo. In each of thesa tho Democrats werg masters of the situation, by the act of Gep, GRANT, befors HAres was {naugurated, Add to this tho fact that the Democrats In the House had refused to vote aporopriations for the army, and it fs cvident enough that the President had no.cholco In the matter, Jp was not a palicy, but & necessity, which procurel the solid South. —— An advanced London journal editorfalizes upon the personal babits of the Western plg: There wonld eeem to be no causa for ansiety fn American pork-eating circies, for the Apontancons mortality of hogs in some of the Western Mates 18 eald to bo appailing, The total loss fs equal 1y one-third of the anim of the exports of pork prods ucts last year. Of the discasen pecuilar 1o swing the most fatal Is hog-cholora, for which nog eedy and certain romedy han yet' been Aiacorerene S mighit bo s wll to try tha elfects of lurkish batie and goneral cleanliness. Pernaps somo day ate tempts will be made to elevate the pig from ite preaent somowhat degraded condition. gt tuken for granted that ige must necesearily be dirly whercas, il the trath were known, it would possys bly be found that they would be'nono the worss hrd T Ilnllu attentlon to cleaniiness and moderatiun n diot, 7 ———— ed just @8 befors, and the firo Thus docs the New York Tridune hold a few broko ont in tho same place. Thero | New Jerscy lunatics accountable for telr 'S tions: It fa & curious fact that a State wit| - New Jersay han shonld contuin 5,000 citizens de. luded sulliciently by demavogues to vote 1 favor of inflation. ' Yet thia {s what bappencd ast Tues. day. Gen, McCLELLAN would bave squicezed 1n by a very amail maj i et drawn away 5,000 votes from the Republicans, for from that party they nearly all came. Thers never were in auy Nlate s chenocr or feebler ses of demagogucs than those who have broken ont in Now Joiney, and that they snould hava fonnd o, 000 people wililng to follow them i muat astonishlug. —— Arrangements have been perfected for the ls. sucof auew paper in New York to bo ‘alled the Natlonal Fireman's Journal, and to be de- voted to tha intereat of flremen all over the country. It {s fu tho able hands of Mesars, Evenerr, THossos & Co:, gentlemen of prace tical experienco in journalism and fire matters, Mr. Cuirronn Tnousox, brother to the lamented Doesticks, was for many years cditor of tnoNew York Jall, aud his connection with the new venture commends it to those whom it is intended to beneflt. o A — There {s o large and respeetable number of adherents to the thoory of rightcousncas sub. mitted in tho law of ** An oyo for an eyonnda tooth for a tooth,! hut oven they ‘willtondemn tho Democratic leglatation \bat demanded 5,000 tralned soldlers for 800 raw recrults, Oue of tho strongest points made against the Socretary of War was that ho had {ncreased the armny by thio unauttiorized enllatment of 300 mon, aud on this alono they based that grand display of pa- triotlsm which Las resulted in the army re- ductlon, was ogain the same difficulty in finding it, oven more trouble in getting at it, and this time the firo worked the destruc- tion of tho establishment. In tho recon. struction of the building, it should be made not only ss abeolutely firo-proof na possible in tho interior arrangements of tho floors, but this roof should be made of metal, and, if a space must be left between the robf and top floor, that apace sliould contain no wood- work, and should be accessible. Tho roof and the demi-story below, howaver, wero not the oply vulnerable points. The whole inte- rior was of wood, with tho oxception of the columns that supported the various floors, and the large rotunda in the-centre and the two elavator ways on tho south side of the building not only furnished fluca for dratt, but convenlont outlets for tho blazing mate- rial to drop from story to story. The conduct of the Firs Department Is deserving of the highost praise. They ware not cnlled to the fire until it had gained furious Loadway, and evon then much time was lost in finding its exact locality and galning sccess tothe building. The very hoight of the building, reaching ninety-one feet to the cornice, was & sorious obstablo in their way. Thero were no ladders of suf- clent length to reach the top story, and, al- though some, of the streams entered the fifth-story windows, they were not of suffl. cient force at that height to be effective. There was plenty of wator from the mains, aud tho steamers were runat their highest prossure. In fact, all that human skill could do to eave the building was done, and somo brave fellows gave up thoir lives in the effort, but it wasof no avail. Notwithstand- ing this, the Department fs entitled to the bighest credit for its work, as woll as the police and insurance patrol for the aystem- otio way in which 8o many goods were savod from destruction, by fire as well ns depreda- tiona of thieves. It 18 fortunato for the businesa intorosts of tho city that the firm of Fixuo, Lriren & Co. has resources sufticient to meot the loss, and that, while thoy will suffer principally from the interruption of business, they will soon bo prepared to resume again in new and commodious quarters, The losses are spread over 184 insurance companies, avernging a little over $5,000 to euch, tho largest amount in any one company being but $10,000, Tho flrm has already secured new quarters, which thoy will ocoupy until their old building is reudy agnin, and early yesterday morning commenced moving into it,—asigual instanco of the enterprise and energy of thiu great ‘Westorn houso, —— ancy now exiata In the offico of Conegl-Gen- Berlin, the last incunbont, Mr, HENMAN Ruriexany, baviug restiued and returncd to the United Buates. 1t 1a understood that the Prestdent will uppolnt in his place Nr. Dexsasin ¥. Prix- o170, furmerly Consul-Uoneral to Houmanis .~ ‘Iih‘lhw{nu Special to New York lleraid, 13tA nat. The jtem of nows is literally correct, with the following slight exceptious: (1) No vacancy now cxists in that oflice. (2) The * last " (n- cumbent, Mr. HEXRMAN KuB1aMANN, bas not re- sigued, and has uo intentlonto. (3) Mr. Knris- uanx ia in Chicago, ageumpanled by his wifo, on. & leave of absence, visiting his old fricnds; he bas oot been here beforo for several years, and had earned his leave by faithful services, (4) It 1s oot * underatood " by the President,at least, that he will sppolut Mr, PRiXOTTO tu the Bers Iin Consul-Generalship, * (5) Mr. Kumisuany, after making his visit hero and paying his re- apects (0 the President and Secrotary of Btate, intends returning to bis post in Berlin, With these fow exceptions, the Herald statement i correct. ———— Bince the recent Iynching at Columbla, INl., the 8t. Louls press has howled mournfully for asuppreselon of such violentscenes In s slster Btate. This I8 a pleasant reminder tha, of the exccutlons {n Missourl for the lust twenty years, ninc-tenths biave been under the personal supervision of Judge Lynon. —— Notwithstanding Colorada’s neglect to recog- nizo womau, the suffragiste still hopoe and ara now turning their eyes toward Californis, where Editress BeLLe LyNow has been norse- whipped twice. They claim that this {sastep in the right diroction. ————— Thero 8 a great contest In Connectleat over tho Speakership of tho House of State Repre- sentatives, P. T, Bauxox i the * woully horse.” — PERSONAL. 4 The Jericho Road, " by John Hanbberton, 1s publishing in serial form in an Australian paper. A. O. Buoll writes to the Now Orlenns Damocrat that Blaine {s gradually breaking down, and has never rocovered from the offocts of tho Cinclnoat! Convention. Miss Mary Anderson’s debut as Pauling in New York Monday night was eminently success- ful. Nonow candidate for public favor was ever before treated with such general favor by tho press. Miss Charlotte M, Clark, thoe lecturer who fsknown under tho nom de plume of **Chalk Level,” fsnow fo this city and staylog st 1070 ‘Wabash avenue, She {s ongaged to lecture before & Laptist society, Louis A, Godey gracofully takes leave of the roaders of Godey's Lady's Dook in the lut number of (he magszine, Ho bas been connectod with it since its estabilshment, forty-seven years sgo. It was once a leading literary magazine, The Indian Orchard (Mass.) Congregn. tions] Church Boclety bave determined to atand steadfastly by the pastor of their chalco, the ltov. J. ¥. Merriam, whom last Wedncaday a Congreus- tiopal Council refused to {natall on account of his fojoction of the doctrine of sternsl punisbmcol. 1iis parishionors held & larve meciing last Thurs- day evening and voted unanimously to ssk him W remaln, Noarly a scors of nephews and nieces of the lste Mrs. Caroline Merrill, who bequestbed property valued akover $300,000 to Cardinal Closkey, sre proparing to contest tho will. The case promises Lo be one of extraordinary intercst, ———em———— ‘Why should the Bt. Louls Repudlican thus torturo Mr. ConkLing! Doesn's the Republican kuow that as soon as anything from Conkring geta lnto priot, be never sald it} Senator CoXxLix0 1a reported Lo bave sald of Mr, i} *14 In tne Jeueral record of usurpers tha ugh sustained, they do their fuvors to the other aldae.,” Is Mr. Ilnu‘l then, & usuroer? Beuator Coxxiine nnfim to hay fact mine wooths esrlicr, *tusurper” fo uflice, sud it is 8 little late ia toe day tu deovunce the usurpaticn. Thnere wi moment {n the protracled dispute over the Fresle denuial election whea s speccn from the New York Senator In vpposition (o Mr. Haves' clabin would bave efeciuatly barred bim' from the Vresidency, But the New York Beoalur refused to wake (ho mu::nnd now, perbaps, he wishcs ba bad o deny that had ever ombraced the Roman Cuttos lic faith. Mr. Schurz’s two daughters are not speci- mens of buxom Teutonlo beauty, but very fragile and refined, with complexions of transparent puri- 1y, fno rogular features, and fair halr. Agatha, the eldest, takes care of the boy ber mother luft, sud tadovoled tothe beautiful cluld, now runoing about the house and talking in baby phruse, Tho other young daughter, Puss, bas chargo of little Carl, 80 aclive boy of 8 07 10, wnd the father is 8¢ devoted to the two girle in public and private 88 any loverconld be. At a Lotos-Clab dinner in New York Batur- dsy might, Mr, B. L. Farjeon, ibe English novel Mitle speect. 1o rafsed the ques- et (he Ametican peopls wereine clined to allow their litesary men falr plsy, Mo sald: **Born among you. working among you, are 1sborers in the clds of litcratare, painting, sculpe ture, sud dramatic art, wbose work 18 great 1o the best scose of the word, aud wbo would give Lo the countrics of the Old World lessuns which would do them DO bsrm to learm. If thuir mumbers 80 smull you are principally to blamo, for it strikcs e tbat you do not suliclently appreciate them; thst you plsce thelr work st 100 low an catinuate. e —— e Brooklyn's Plymouth Church s at liberty to consider her pastor's policy Indorscd. At the fire ln 8t. Louls & museum was Whreatoned, and the whole population turued vut 1o save a * wax Geger of Bxxcung, e ——— Inthe absence of any inberent ovidencs to the coutrary, we shall cousider the following, frém the New York World, & full indorsement ot Col. 1xgmasoLL's approaching sppolntment: Ta the abeence of suy hypotheais which ia atonce credlblo sad creditacle D{ Lo sumwred lntoation