Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1878, Page 4

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Mo Favprx, Mannger, No. 16 Rtne de in Grange-Datellcre, American Eschange, 440 Strand. i nt, Cal.~Palaco Hotel, "AMUSEMENTS. MeVieker'n Thentre. Madison strect, hetween Dearborn snd Fate, *'ACelebrated Uase,™ by tha Uglon Square Company. Tioolcy’s Thenatre. Randolph street, between Clark and LaSalle, Engigement of Sothern, **Our Amerlcan Coustn.” Afternoon and evening. Now Chiengo Theatre, Clark street, opposite Slicrman IHouse. Fogage- ment of Laverly's Miustrels. Afterncon and evenlog, Haverly’s Thentre, Monroe street, corner of Dearborn. Engagement of Frank Mayo. *‘Davy Crockett.,” Afternoon andeven- fog. Colisenm Novelty Theatre. . Clark street, opposite Court-Tlouse, Varlety per- lem\-ncg. ‘WEDNESDAY, MARCIL “27, 1878, Coin at the Now York Stock Exchangs yestorday closed at 1013, Tho vote by which the House yesterday nnde the Tariff bill & special order for April 4—137 to 114—does not argue well for the success of that measure. Many Democrats vated nye, out of respect to the Committeo on Ways and Means, who are not expected to support tho Lill when it comes boforo the House for final action. Ald, Wrute publishes a eard to the Repub- lican voters of tha Tenth Ward positively declining to be o candidate for re-election, Ilis request to be allowed to devoto his en- tire {ime to his private business is one which the Republicaus of the ward cannot well re- fuse to grant, sud it is to be hoped they will bo able to secure as their candidate some eapable citizen who will at lenst make good the loss occasioned by Ald. Wmirz's with. drawal, There is renson to beliovo that the last has Leen heard, for tho present at least, of the proposition to forbid the publishers of news- papers tho employmeunt of such facilities as might be found most expeditions nnd desirablo in delivering the news to renders ot o distance, Tho House Tost-Oftico Commitico bave dropped that clause from the bill rocently reported to the House, Iing discovored to their satis- fnction that any legislation which contem. plates the hampering of nows distribution iy extremely unpopular among both publishers aud readers, T —— The threo Republican Town Conventions held yestordoy ns & wholo nominated good men for tho offices to bo filled, 'There fs licre and thero a chance for finprovemont, of which the taxpayers will avail themselves nc- cording (o their light. Nobody is golug to vote for a Republican nomines for Assessor, Collector, or Bupervisor, merely because Le in a Republican; somo other recommenda- tion is requisite. It nearly always happens that the Republican nominges aro the best men, and this is true of nearly all of the can- didates for the town ofices thia year, Even the Democrats have made some good nom inntions, and between the two parties tho chinnces are excollont that our oflices will be worthily filled. ‘ — The Halifax nward was the subject of a speech by Seoator Brane yesterday in con- nection with n motion to refer to the Com. mitteo on Forelyn Affairs the correspond- ence recently submitted by the President. Br. Brarse's positionin a previous speech— that under tho treaty a unanimoua vote of the Commission was required to make tho award legally binding—bas been strongth- ened by the production of an oxtract from London Z'imev editorial of July 6, 1877, and also by the opinion expressed jn 1876 by the Cunadinn Ministerof Justice,both holding that the unaninious consent of the members way necessary to wake fts finding authoritativo, "This imporiant branch of tho controversy will receive careful attention now that the matter is in the hands of the Committee on Foreigu Affairy, B — The Common Council Building Committes aud the Mayor show A commendable degree of firmness in refusing to Lo elther coerced or cajoled into the folly of constructing a dome for the oity’s half of the Court.House and City-Hull. The County Hoard, perfectly advised that the Council did not intend to - indulgein the costly Juxury of a dome, weut ahead and commenced the construction, and now undertake to force the city to,follow out that plan. The Building Committee baa. decided not to have a dome under any cir- cumstances, though it consents to consider the feasibility of utilizing the expensive bo- gioning already made by the county, and of Larmouizing the interior arrangewment of the building by the construction of au octagonal rotunda, —— Yesterday's European advices furnish no sdditionul developients regarding the suarl iuto which tho Cabinets at Bt. Petersburg oaud London have become entangled. To Englaud's demand for a more defluite statement with referenco to the preliminary treaty, Russia obatinately reples that England heas full liberty of apprecistion and action. Meanwhile Gen. Ioxatierr is now laboring with the Austrian Cabiuet to prevent an Anglo-Aus. triag alliance, and report esys. that his mis- sion is not entirely confined to this under. toking; -that o mutual annexation scheme fn tho direction of the Turkish provinces has been proposed, and bhas found favor with the Austrian ,Government. All this time the Russian army, with its victori. ous prestige, is in the highest state of ef- ficisary, and ready to seize upon auy sdvan. tage which may offe in the cveg) of an open ropture with England, while the ponderous ironclnds of the British navy are ready at brief notice to knock hard at the Bosphorna, the gate of the Black Sca, Tho two nations are on the brink of war. Ono hasty or ill. eonsidered step is all that is nceded. r——— Mr. Saxuz J, Treoex must now stand trial befora a jnry of his peers on the issus whether he did or did not defrand the Gov. ernment of the United States by failing to pay the income tax required by law. It will be remembered that for three years Mr, TiLors ‘made no return, but allowed the United Btates Assossor to put in such fignres asho pleased. When tho suit was brought the defenso demurred to the complaint on the ground that the Government was bound by the action of {ts Assessor, and could not recover a fax, in excoss of that aswossed and paid. This demurrer was yesterday over- ruled by Judge Braromronp, and the cnse will now go to a jury to determine the pro- ciso amount of BIr. Tmoex's fraud on the revenno, . % — Civil-Sorvice Roformer. In fact, the most conspicuons featuro of Mr. Howe's stump-speech was the lament over tha decline and fall of the * Machine” in politics. Bome of his propositions in this regard are very amusing. Ilo thinks, for in- stance, that every President must yield him. self up to some distinct influenco in the dis- position of Government patronage, and his own political education has led him to believe that the President must, of necessity, choose betweon one of threo agencies, which he enumeratos as follows: (1) Congressmen; (2) disappointed candidates for Congress; or (8) office-brokera who do a cash business. 1t is rather humiliating that Mr. Howz's long political exporience hna led him to the conviction that, under popular government, thero must e n resort to either officehold- ers, office-seckers, or bribery, for the admin. istration of the public servico. It may be, howaever, that Mr, Howz is wrong about this; nud that his conclusions are derivel rather from personal habits and associations than from a thorough and impartial analysis of popular gevernment. When Mr, Hows says that whether the Civil Service can bo improved by acting on the advice of those not in Congross must dopend upon whother the people send their best men to Congross or keep them at home, we hopo ho will not rogard it 0s personal if wo roply that the best men sometimes ntny at home. And when he says that any President who takes upon himself the sole responai. bility for all his nppointments need not pledge himsel? agninst a second term (mean. ing theraby to infer that no such President could bo re-elected by parties as now organ- izad), the answer is that it needed no ghost, come from a political grave, to tell us that ; Mr. Haves knew it befors he entered upon the office, but had tho courago to assume thé responsibility notwithstanding. The Civil Service will never be improved by a President who shirks such a responsibility for re-olection. It our theory in regard to Mr, Howr's possible ambition be correct, we foresce the possible renlization of a frightful calamity, If Mr. Howz Las voluntarily resigned his hopea of re-eloction s Senator from Wis. consin (by promoting discord in the Repub~ lican party of that Btate)in order to soar after & Presidential nomination, how drend- ful it will bo if the same discord shall widen out 80 as to defeat Mr, Hlowx's Preaidentinl nspirations! We fear that the vonerable politicinn.neglected to give this possible turn of affairs the coosideration to which itis entitled. to carry ont the Iaw.” It Mr., Boxp's bill in ‘Congress to s¢ll the Lako-Front and dovote the proceeds to the improvement of the Ilinols River may be intended for a practical joke. Wo hope, for tho credit of Lis reputation for intelligence, that he was in a humorous veia when ho drafted it and {ntruduced it in Congress, and that he is oven now laughing at the efloct his proposition has produced in some quar. ters. It is searcely conceivablo that MMr, Borp desires to fine Chicago for tho benefit of the country distriota; or that, if ho seri- ously entertained such an idea, he wonld ad- vance it in such a shape. His *“bill”is throe-quarters argument and one.quarter satire, The sonse of itis hidden,~like thres grains of wheat in o bushel of chaff. * Yon shall search all day e'er yon find it; and, when you find it, it is not worth the search.” All that Mr. Boxp has truly said in his bill is that the improvement of the ilinois River is & desirable work. Ho hns neither proved nor dircotly assorted that the Lake-Frout can honestly bo taken from tho City of Chicago and sold for the purposa of earrying on , this work. Ho does, indeed, misstate tho law, and arguo that the Lake-Front, not having been set apart for street-openings, still bo- lougs to the United States, entirely ignoring the BeavniEN claim ; but he argnes in such a vein of tho *‘ wonderfnl ndvautages” likely to nccrue from this scheme, and with such deop feeling of *‘the sower” the City of Chicago made for herself throngh the canal, that he must be interpreted ns spesking with deep ironical meaning, such explanations, and to recelve them in person orthrough one of his most trusted socrotaries, ey— ''HONEST, HONEST IAGO.’ literatare from another nation, tnlks o loudly and eo frequently about his honor, his courage, his firmness, and the general symmatry of his character, that we, having the same stock of traditions, nre ne. customed to allow his claims as modoest and just, Occasionally this preconceived opin- ion gots a shock from some pieca of sharp practice, like the proceedings leading to and ending {n the Halifax award; but our rooted belief in English fair-play makes us at such times almost doubt the evidences of our sonses, It cannot bo, wo declars, that honest Jomx Buwy has cheated us; that the ronst beef and ale of Old England have fed a monster of decelt. nud falsehood; that so fair.minded a nation is copable of playing with loaded dice aud marked cards, ** No, no,"” we oxclalm, *it is not true; it isa horrid dream; wo'll not believe it. Jomy Buwy i over faithfal, ever kind ; and thoss who question his nobility are wicked and ungratoful,” Novertheloss, it is trao, Jomy Buiwn was guilty of trenchory in the organization of the Court of Arbitration at Halifax, The correspondence recently furnished to the Sonate in regard to the appointment of Drrrosse, Delgian Minister, as umpiro, proves this beyond a peradventure. The inconsistency of tho conduct of the English Govornment throughout the nogotiations was remarkable, Starting with the sdmission that tho Belgian Minister, in consequenco of tho intimata rolations existing between England and Belgium, was the ome man speclally unfit to be umpire, Mr, TronxTox ended by declaring virtually that no other man would bo accoptable. Equally remark- able was the dopartare from the first posi- tion that no Foreign Minister at Washington would be approved by Great Dritain. This mennt, aa afterwards appoared, thatmo For- eign Minister at Washington ercept Derrossy would be npproved. It was not claimed that ooy of tho other Ministers sug- gested was opon to the suspleion of im- partinlity, and it was admitted that Dgr. rossx was opon to that suspicion, yet the British Governmont would lave him, and him ooly. In the whole history of diplo- e ———— H. B, JAMES' AUDACITY. Mr. I B. Janes, Chief of the Customs Diviston of the ‘Treasury Department, has made a lengthy report to Sccrotary Snensan on the Konx case, and the charges proferred against the New York Custom-House man- agement by tho importers and press of the West. The report appeared in our Washing- ton dispatches of Monday, It was intended more for the public than for the Secrotary, and wa have given it to the publie, Itisa mixture of nudacity, sophistry, demngogy, and misreprosentation, Note the following passago: “*Some of the heaviest New York importers bavo censed importing certain lines of goods becauso thoy can buy them cheaper in New York from the ngents of the manu- Incturors than they can import thom thom. selves, 8o that it is no wonder that the Waost- ern merchanta are placed in the same posi. tion,” 'This is a singularly cool plece of sudncity on the part of a Tressury Do. POLITICAL AMBITION AND IT8 DANGERS, Senator Hows, of Wisconsin, was ndver-- tised for n political speech on Monday, drow the crowd which usually responds to such an announcetment, and delivered himsclf of the criticlsms on Prosident Hares' polioy which ho has boon so anxious to make ever sinco the President nominated Gen. Hainraw for the Bupremo Court instesd of Senator I'1ato~ iy O, Howz, who was an applicant for the place. Mr. Howe evidently foresaw that his dissntisfaction would be very generslly at- tributed to this personal disappointment, and therefore sought to oxplsin the delsy of his declaration of opposition to the President, But peoplo are so uncharitable nowndnys that thoy will prefer, as a rule, to nccopt the more obvious explanation of spite and chagrin, espocinlly as Mr. Howe did not meke it at all clear why nll that scoms soout- rageous to him now did not prevent him from keeping up an intimacy with tho White- House until after Gen, HanuaN's nowmination | partment offieial. Mr. Jaues, Chief | macy thera never was a moro shamelesa made it apparent that he would have to wait | of the Customs Division, admits, | confesslon of o desire for partiality nnd in. for a place on the Bupremo Bench, and ‘publishes tho fact to tho | justico. Tho British Government, it is to be Bat wo fear that Senator Howz's spite got the better of his discretign. Though disappolnted in his offort to reach the Bupreme Bench, he has not censed to ba an oftlce-secker, It has hdon generally supposed that he is n candidate for re-election to tho United Btates Henate. The next Legislaturs to be choson in Wisconsin will olect n auo- cessor to Mr, Howy, whosa term expires Maroch 8, 1870, and we fear that Mr, Howz will not be his own successor ntter his late speecl, Marr Oameentzn, who has lind somo personal exporience in these matters, and in this same Btate of Wisconsln, sosma to have described the sitnation pretty ac- curately by recalling Ionace Greeney's aphorism that ‘*‘thero are Republicaus enough for ono party, but not enough for two.” This etatement applics with particu- lar force to Wisconsin of Into years, Mr, Caurenten found it to be so, even when his differences with a portion of the party were only of a personal nature. Mr. Howe will be pretty sure to discover it after doliberate~ ly offending all tha% portion of the Wiscon. sin Republicans who, whether approving the President’sa policy or not, are in favor of a united and hormonious party as.opposed to the Democrats, But perhaps Mr, Hows is looking bhigher. Terhiaps ho is willing to country—what ? That tho affaims of tho division of which Lo is in charge are so loosely ndministored that honest importers ot the chief port of the conntry aro com- pelled to suspend importations! Why? Bocause cortain scoundrelly foreigners are allowed to entor and clear thelr wares at less than their foreign market value ! * 8o it is no wonder,” says this impudent Treasury officlal, *‘that tho Western merchants aro placed in tho samo position.” ¢ Do Chicago finporters expect botter treatment than ‘some of tho hoaviest importors of New York'?" querlos Mr, Jaxes, . “They have boen driven ont of the foroign markots by diskonest im. portors who swear to false invoices,” says Mr, Jawes, **and the Chiengo importers who liave boen driven out of tho foreign markots by the samo rogues must mako the heat of tho aituation.” If this is notaudaci- ty almost unparalieled, we confess to inabil- ity to comprebiend the meaning of the word, Mr, Jauzs i3 placed at the head of the Cus- toms Division of the Tronsury Department to soe that tho revonue Is colleoted at all the poris of entry of the country. But he coolly tells tho Secretary of the Tronsmy, his chiof, that Lonest men aro driven out of the jm. porting business by roguea at the principal port,~Now York,—and ho does not so obsorved, was not content with tho expres- sion of o preferonce. They carried that preference out into deed by chicanory, delay- ing the appolntment on one pretext and another, nntil they threw it into the handa of the Austrian Minister at London, who was certainly ns linble fo the charge of bulng undor British influence as the Ministors at ‘Washington were of being under American influonce, Ifo carned tho reputation of boing so influenced by promptly appointing the man of all othors who was known to be acceptable to Great Dritaln, and who was so acceptable bocause ho was o native of a country virtuslly under a British protector. ate, and bound to Great Britain by all the ties of gratitudo and welf-intercst. Having pocked the Commission, the next stop was to protect it from the possibla con. tamination of a fair and wunprejudiced neighborhood, With this object in view, Halifax waa chosen os the place for tho sitting of tho Commission. Halifax, of all places, was the one that should not have beon chosen. It had been from the atart the centre and hot-bed of all the agitation on the question to bo sdjudicated by the Commission, No city in tha United States and no body of people had the same interest in the decision as the City of Halifax and forogo & now term as Senator in order to [ much a4 hint ot a remody, e | the people of Nova Scotig; for tho benofit branch out as n Presidontin! caudidate, In [ doos not merely ndwmit that the rov. | derived from the fisheries concession had that case, bo aud Mr. Conmuive and My, | enue s robbed ot New York; ho | nowhers in this country been considered fin. Branve will havae lively timoa iu troading on | boldly nsserts the fact; oand in | portant.” But Halifax wos choson because it one another’s toes in the scramble for a lead- ership of the Implacablos ‘There was nothing new in Mr, Howz's po- litical stump-speech. It was a restatement of the stale and hackneyed points of the Machine oppoaltion, fu which acouracy and good taste were frequently sacrificed to the epice of political aud personal satire, Of course we.are not going to explain all over again how AMr, Hayes can rightfully be Pres. ident with tho aid of the Loulsiana voto and Mr, Nicuorra lawful Governor of that State, except.just to remind people who are trou. bled by this old complication that the Lonisiaua Returning Board awarded the Electoral voto to Javzs, as it had the right to do, and that the Legislature counted Nicnorrs in as Governor, as it also had the legal right to do, Woe have no desire to justify the prosecution of the Returning Board sim. ply because Mr. Howz condomns it, nor to approve of WiiTraxza's sitting on the Bench 1o sentence Anvensox while Wirrraxzs hiu. self was perhaps enjoying unwarranted im- wunity as a Governiuent defaulter,—since we do not believe either of these things jus. tifiable. But wo are uot prepared to ndmit that President Haves isa * ¥raud” (with o large ““F"), or that his Adminis¥ration is a failure because of theso circumstances. We only recognize thal Mr. Howz Las joined those who are dotermined to make war on & way toleave upon the publio mind the im- prossion that, iu hia (Mr. Jaxes') opinion, there I8 no help for it. The fact is, that this robbing of the revenue at the port of New York has long been a matter of public notoriety; but this is the first time that the foot lins been offiolally stated by a high Tronsury official in a communication to his chief, which is straightwny offered to the press of the country, ‘We bog to call particular attention to the followiug sentence in James' report touch- iug tho Kony caso: *‘ Undeydate of Jan, 51, 1878, I addressed a letter to the Collector at Chicagodnatructing Alm generally as to the rate on these goods (burlaps),” ete. Now it eo happens that this letter of Jan. 81 was not & general lettor of instructions, as Mr, Jaams states, but the identical * conditional” decis. fon which oconstitutes the real and only griovance of the Koux ocnse, It follows that Mr. Jaues' report on the Konx case to hiv chief is false in the most important particu. lar, When it is considered that all Mr, Suzemax’s information on tho oustoms branch of the Department business must nocessarily come throngh Xr. James, it is perbaps uo wonder that the Becretary’s at. tompted reforms make but little progress, Mr, Jaurs undertakes to state what the ‘West expected of Mr. Suznuay on his acces- slon to the portfolio of the Treasury, He wos known to ba warmly interested in the procuring of exorbitant damnges. Like a weoak uister asking a verdiet for Lreach of promise of marriago, Halifax estimsted the damage to her feclings far higher than any. body elss. The cltizens succeaded, it ap- pears, in commuaicating a good share of their convictions to Mr. Drrrosse. They dined and wined him at every opportunity; and Lo, being tolerably ignorant of the merits of the case, may have taken it for granted that all tho world thought about {t as the people of Halifax did. The . award of a lump sum of $5,600,000 for the privilege of flshing twolve years in Canadian waters was the result of British artifice in seouring the appolatment of Drryosse as umpire and Halifax the place. This award was made, too, in spite of the conclusive ar. guments of American counsel, showing that the United Stateaannually gave Oanada more than sho received from hor under the treaty, Nearly everybody who has approached the consideration of the subject since the award was made has admitted that it was, tosay the least, very exorbitaut. The fact thatit wasso palpably unjust is a sufficient reflection cither upon the integrity or the intelligence of Dr. Dxrrosss ; and, in any event, shows that he was not fit, as the United States Gov. ernmont claimed he was not, fo act as um. pire. President Hives, whatover ho may or may |leaves it to be inferred that' he Whether the United Blates is in homor not do; that this indisoriminate Lostility is | (Jamzs) believes that the West ex- | bound to pay the award or not is a question not prompted by motives worthy of respect, | pected Mr, Suzmman to discriminate | that requires time for consideration. But and that Mr, Howx hes now voluntarily as. sumed a largo share of responsibility for the deliberate effort to disorganize and demoral. ize the Republican ranks, The two persons in the Cabinet who are most objectionable to Mr. Hows ave Messrs. Kux aud Bcaunz. Of thess two, Mr, Scavaz is much moro oficnsive to him than Mr. Kxy. The . reason for this is manifest. Mr, Howz objects to Mr. Kxy simply becauss Afr. Kyy is a Democrst; but Ar. Howz absolutely in favor of iaterior porls, and pro- ceods to declare gravely that these ex- pectations have not been realized. Thisisa plece of gratultous impertinence on the part of aself-constituted censor of the laws and pretended interproter of the views of mill. ious of people. Perhaps Mr. Jaues will be good enough to state on what authority he insinuates that the West oxpects apything wore of Mr, Suxaxay than the faithful per- formance of his duty, Where ia his®evi. there need beno hesitation at all in sayihg that the affair covers tho British Government with dishonor, .The thundering of the Lon. don Times will not avail to conceal the truth, ‘That great organ of opinion may feel justi. fied in denouucing Mr. Brame's position, and declaring ghat a refusal to pay the award would ‘‘stamp American polioy with the double discredit of meanness and trickiness.” It would be more surely justified in saying thet British polioy bas already been so abhors Mr. Scrionz becanso Mr, Bcnunz is a | dence? Mr. James talks like a demagogue, whon, after grandiloquontly allnding to the attitude of tho Presidant and Bceretary, ho saya loftily : ** I have nctod npon tho same plan, and, in the administration of business, have tried to know neithor Enst, Wost, North, or Bouth, fres trade nor protection, but have used my boest ondeavors simply is ro- froshingly ocool to hear this ‘**clork” declars his purposs **simply to carry out tho Jaw,” as if the resolntion wore evidence of an cspecial virtns! What o condescen. sion it is on the part of Mr. Jaes to abandon his particular views on the subject of the tariff, and to simply carry ont the law, in viow of the fact of the purposo of the I’resi- dent and the Secretary (which purpose Mr. Jauzs declares) “‘to act for the whole coun. try'l Fioally, Mr. Jaues declaros that he *‘ bolds himsolf in roadiness at all times to {fully explain " to the Sacrotary ‘any mattors that pnss through hisdivision,” This is wisa in Mr, Jamzs, and until he is relieved from dnty it will be to the advantage, wa think, of the public service for Mr. Buenuax to require It is tho fashion to spesk of English falr- play as if it conld not bo denied. Thisis a consequonce of borrowing our languago nnd Joux BuLu verdict than to secure it by corruption. As suffered far more from the sharp practice of United Btatos. If we refuss to pay finally, treaty roquired an uuanimous deoision ; wherens, Great Dritain, paid or nnpaid, can- tration " at its source and fountain-hond, 18th inst., a committee, conaisting of the teo haa prepared tho following declaration, which ia belug handed to the ministers for their signatures: Bince wa bellere one day of rest insaven tobe the privilere and necessity of all onr fellow-men, of neceeslty of Loth odr physical and roligions natures: therefore, In orderto ald, so faras s our power, in sccuring this boon to others, and alsoan an axgrculnn of onrdesita thatthe mem- bern of anr churches ahould not encourago the iasue of tne Snnuday newspapers, we pledgo onrselves not 10 Ineert In thone papos. the advertisemente of ooy Bunasy services. With all respeot totho Prosbyterian clergy, wo submit that thoy are ralsing a tempest in 8 feapot, and, without questioning their honesty, we may add that they grossly mis. reprosent the facts in the case, through that ignoranco of worldly matters that so often charaoterizes the gentlemen of the cloth. Thoy commence their platform with the declaration that they believe In one day of rest ont of sovon, and consequently they should not encourago the issme of Sunday papers. Next to gotting a camel through the eye of a needlo, tho most dificalt thing in the world is to get the idea through a minia. tor's head that & Bunday paper doea mot in- volve Sundsy work. there woro n thousand Presbyterian churches in Chleago doslrous of announcing their services in tho Bunday issue of Tz Tninune, it would not involve any Sunday work on the part of Tue Tawune employes, provided the notices wera farnished at the proper timo during the week; 50 no one's prerogatives of rest on tha 8nbbatl are interferad with by the announce. ments of Presbyterian sorvices, We com- mend this fact, thoreforo, to the signers of the declaration, as it may relieve thoir minds, though they may mnot comprehend the diflonlt problem that o Bunday paper does not necessarily involve Sundsy work. To another expression of the declaration we mako serious objeotion, The Committce say : *Wo pledge oursclves not to insert in those papers the advortisemonts of our Bunday services,” This conveys a wrong impression to tho outside world, Spenking for ourselves alone, it mnkes it sppear a3 it Tun Trmune hod been deriving rovonuo from these announcements, The roverse is the case. Thoy are not advortise- monts, and have never yiclded a cent, Tax Trwone surronders two or throo of its colamns evory Sunday morning to these an- nouncements of services without monoy and without price, and in many casos without so much as » thauk you. They are printed because Tz Tainune is disposed to aid the ohurches, and believes it ia conferring a favor upon them, and also because they are a mat. ter of nows to a large class of ita readors. In gther cities it is the custom to charge for those notlces ns rogular advertisomonts, Tuz T'ninuxz, howover, has navor imposed a tax of this kind upon the churches. Perhops this was n mistaken policy. ‘The declaration of the Presbyterian clorgy- men ia one which of courso they bave the right to mako, and upon this score we find no fault with it ; but if they hod given the matter moro thought they would not have acted so liastily, In a great city like Chica- go thero are numerous young men, not be- longing to any specinl church, who refer to those announcements to seloot a place of worship to attend on the Sabbath. “The number of strangers in the hotels on Bun. doys runs up into the thousands, and’to them Tam Tnwuxe {s n direct- ory, which gives them the location of tho churches, tho names of the postors, and the themes to bo discussed, 40 that they have no difiiculty in attending church, The omission of the Presbyterian snnouncoments will bo a hiardship to such of theso classes as desiro to attend Presbyterian churchea, It will be no hardship to Tux ‘Tramune. This article is written not to so- lieit the announcements, but to correct wrong impressions and gross misstatements, If the Presbyterian clergymen con got along without the Bunday issue of Trae Tnmune, ‘Tur Tainune can get along without them. ‘The amount of religlous reading in the Sun. day and Monday issuea of Tux Trinuxz will not be diminished. At the same time, re-. membering past favors, they should have taken their leave a little more decorously, —— THE ALDERMANIO ELECTION, ‘We present to-day a list of the nominations mado by the saveral parties and the names of anch pernons as have consented to bocome candidates independent of nominations for the ofilce of Aldermon. . We regret to may that the list is not as a whole as commenda- ble as it ought to be, and that there are sev- eral wards in which there is no porson yot named as a oaudidate who ounght to bo elected. The list is as follows: Wards, Rep. 1. O, Bandd.. W, Korth, Erickson. Independeuts—gecond, J. Rosenborg; Blsth, K, Culierton; Nanth, 1. J. l:onful‘,’l‘w b, J. L. Campbell; Fourteenth, W, Dicsing; nteonth, Jobu McCaflzey, S'wo porsons are 10 be elucted in tho Hovouth Ward. Iu this list Mesars. A. G. Tanoor, J, T. Rawwrion, J, Bavnoastey, and A, W, Warno aro reputable, experienced, and first-class citizens, who are Republican membeny of the present Council. 'The only man 1n the Dem- ocratio list who is a member of the present Councll is Lawwzs, of the Eighth Ward,—a most useless member, In the Lst of Indepsndents is Ald. J. Roaewexuo, of the Becond Ward, one of the ablest and best members of the present Council, and who ooght certainly o be re. elocted ; his dafeat will bo a serious loss to the city, and the people of that ward with. out'any party division ought to elect him if possible. g In the First Waid, AMr, AL ¥, Tursx bas slamped by the netion of 1ts nccredited rep- roscutatives, Weo put it to the ponplo fairly whother it is moro an evidenco. of trickery nnd monnness to refuse to acknowledge a for ** the principleof arbitration,” that has Grent Britain than from the delay of the it will be on the striot logal gronnd that the not escapo tho condomnation which belongs to her for polluting the ** prineiple of arbi. me—————— PRESBYTERIAN ggm‘m AND BUNDAY 'ERS, ' At the regular weokly meeting of the Pres- byterian minsters of this city, hold on the Rov. J. Annorr Frexon, the Rov. Dr. ATrun Mireneny, and the Rev. W. C. Youna, was sppointed to draw up a resolution that shonld oxpross tho sentimont of thd olorgy with referonce to the annonncements of serv- ives in tho SBunday papors. That Commit- and experionced Inwyor. the Firat Ward ought to rejoics at the op+ man for the office. Esxcopt these named, politica. mote seifish ends or corruptly. Democratio sonally reputable man. number of tho voters of that ward can unito upon some well-kuown citizon of ox- perienco, ability, and intogrity, and elect him. In tho Twelfth Ward it is only neces- sary to say that Ald, Rawrezonm finds Re- publican opposition in the porson of a some- what notorious ox-Alderman Casrperr. The city hes occasion to regrot the retirement from the Council of Messra, McAurey, Tuosrsoy, 8rewanr, and Kinx, and will be exceedingly fortunate if other gontlemen equally intelligont, respoctable, and patriotio may be elected to succeed thom. Upon tho wiole, wa cannot say the out- look is at all encouraging; and the responsi- bility for tho character of the Council next yoar munt rest on thoso who, deeply inter- ested, havo failed to secure the proper men as candidates, and who on Tuesday next will neglect even to interest themaolves in the In avory ward tho *Bociallstsf'—which organization includes all the lendera of the Communists—have their election of proper mon. candldnte for Aldorman. Those poople, na well ns tho bummor and dishonest olassos, are keonly alive to the fact that thero is n chanco to soizo the Oity Government and use its powers of taxation and of expondi. ture; thoy willbo out in forco, and will poll every vote they can control, poyers, and frionds of law and order and honest, economical governmont, abandon tho election, then the responsibility for future bad governmont must reat whero it belongs —on those who invite and encournge it by their indifferenco. THE JABLOCHEKOFF ELECTRIC LIGHT, About a yesr ago Tue TatnoNe oalled ate tention to an invention by o Russian engi- neer named Jinvoomxorr which promised, sooner or lator, to bring the eleotrie light within the cost and convenionce of general uss as » substitntion for gas, This opinion was based upon experiments made in Parls, Bhortly after it was reported that theso new * electric candlos ” had beon tried in the London docks, and had proved a failure, It now nppenrs that the adverse verdiot in London waa procured by tho opposition which the gas companies chose to make to its introduction. 8o far from being a roal fallure, its success was cstablished to the do. gree that Mr. Janroonxorr was able to sc- oure enough capital to bwld Inrge works in Parls, and from that time on has extonded its uso in large publio placcs, and has ma- terinlly improved its adaptability to all uses now sorved by gas. It is already in stendy use in such large placas of resort as the immonse the Hall Marengo. The Figare newapaper eracted two of these candles in front of its offico some time ago. It i tho light which bas onabled the construotors of tho Hotel Oontinental to work by night as well as day; and, quite recently, ‘electrio burners wern attached to the front of the Grand Opera. Houso, which are said to have mado all the streots for hundrods of yards nround as light 08 day, It was this publio exhibit of its working that has attracted renewed atten- Hon to tho invention, and brought out n let~ ter on the subjact from Mr, Epwano Kiva, tho Paria correspondent of the Boaton Jour- nal. There s nothing especially new about electric light, which has boon used for a few purposcs for somo years, Bat the Russian's invention is a first decided step toward re. moving certain objections to its general use which were thought to be {nsuper. able. In every previous menus for using the light §t has been neccasary to have a .sopnrate machine for producing each soparate illumination. JanLoonzorr's invention, on the contrary, provides for the divieibility of the current and light, so that o large num- ber of candles may bo supplied with one magneto-eleotric maohine, just as varlous gas-jots can bo supplled throughout a honse {from one ges-mackine. The light itself is furnished by what is called a candle, which conslsts of two strips of carbon (coal) iso- lated by a cortain composition, which heats, melta, and volatizes in exaot proportion to the combustion of the carbon, and thus Pry- scrves the neceasary fsolation at an evenness which furnishes a steady light, MMr. Kino says the price of one of thess candles, burn. ing an hour and a lalf, and giving a light fully equal to 130 gas-jets, is only fifteen cents; this is the cost, of course, after pro. viding the necessary machinery, which re. quires the supply of force to the dynsmo- electrio generator equal to one-horse power for every distinct group of lights. There I no comparison, of course, be- tween the illumination furnished by these clectric candles and the ordinary gas. 1t is said that the light produced by any number of gas-Jets looks yellow and muddy in the white glare froms the eleotric candle, ‘The introduction of these lights at the Grand Opera is not an experiment or for exhibition, but a permanent investment, and Mr, Kmia says that tho city suthorities propose to ex. tend the electrio lighta into all parts of the city as rapidly aa they can. Thelr general use for street-lighting will make night as light as day, and increase the business pos- sibilities, pleasures, comfort, and safoty of city life boyond all estimate. It is said that, even st the present stage of the invention, the cost of the electric lightis so low that o9 nsed in thie same proportions, though it canuot furnsh anything like the same {llumination, would cost four times as much, It is said that all sizes of candlescan be made, and that thoy can be placed in every - consonted to serve if clected. Ife inan able 1o waa for many years Corporntion Counsel, 18 thoroughly in. formed nato all city nffairs, and would of necensity excrcisa a controlling inflnence, and for good, in the Connoil. The voters of portunity of securing the services of such & the candidates fro mostly now men in city politics, of whose qualifications and fitnesa tho votors of the soveral warda enn beat determine. Wo oan only repont the advico 8o often given, that whore any candidate, no matter by whom nominated, enjoya public confidanss in his intogrity, and in his fitness to a groater de- groa than the opposing oandidates, L onght to bo clected, withont roference to his national In every ward whera thero is not among the candidates an man who ought to bo elected, or who in qualified, or whore thero is o man who lacks the confidence of his noiglhibors, it is tho duty of the voters to find soma other candidate snd elect him, Bettor amash all parly nominations than to elact n mau who will use his office to pro- Thus in the Ninth Ward O, 0. P, Houpey, whose record ns an Alderman, as County Com- missioner, aud as Park Oommissionor 1s so fresh in the minds of tho people, is the canddate, 'The Nepublican candidate is Jorry M. Barrm, a young and wholly inexporienced, thongh perhaps per- One or the other of theso will bo elected, unless n sufMcient I th o other claaa of citizons, the property-holders, tax- “ Louvro " stors and conceivable position, so that the Tight ma, be handled as rondily as gns ebnudeliers nI jets. Thore is a conviction in Paria thint thy eleotrio candlo will soon coma- fnto gonera nse thora; in that onse, the crossing of t)q Atlantic and its nse in American citles wijp be a matter of coprse. The so-called Leoxann .l-l;lcnlew with & Now York reporter, with its marvelons atate. ments, has done sorvice all ovor the cotntry, Respectable papers, however, have l.'cm:r:«ll; discreditad tho whole story, and the Baltimors Anyeriean thus dlsposcs of tha canard; In yeaterday's American we publizhe ported to be & conversating between i (Y LEONARD SWRTT, Of Chicago, and a cittxen of Ny York concarning tho businicss prospects of | Srat-named city, in which Mr. Siwers 1y pepih® sented ns taking a very dolefal viow of the condj. tion of afajra. Thia_reported interview first o peared In fhe New York Atar mbont twe welly 1g0, nd since then it has boen canied Info mossap tho Kaatorn mewspapers, allhiaugh it waw proc nounced a canard by TIE CHICANO Trinusr som aftee ita publication. A gentloman from Chicsms who 18 woll nequainted with Me, Sw2TT asnres gy that the pretended **Interview' fa a baas fabrses: thon, and that there ia no trath whatever in 1ny statamonts attriboted to him, Taking all thign: into conalderation, busi 48 in Chicago in in’, ratinfactory conditlon. Tiesl entate has suqine] in tho d alon, 9 el i T A erhre g b i of Eveey this correctlon, for Baltimore aud Chicago hyey Intimate commorcial relations, and whatever allecty tha prosperity of ono city 18 felt in the other, ——— Count ANpRAssY, Inaspeech tothe Hunzarian delegatlon recently, fot fall an expression which almost cquals one of BisMAROK'S characteristly mola, In connection with mobflization of the army, lie sald, somo declared that 1t was noyw to late forit; but his view was that It wsa too early, Count ANDRASSY has been creiteg with an extraordinary keen-sightedness in pyjj. tics, and tnls remaork would indicate his belier fn s comlnk grand struggle; but, even sincy this speech was dollvered, two weeks ago, thers have becn develonments showing that Austriaty momentary leahing towards’ an alllance wigy England has been correctod, and that the thres Emperors have again arrived at a good under- standing, Who, then, will begin the .coming grand stragglo? —————— Hero Is an opportunity for another quotation of the sublimo scntiment about the whirligig of time, etc. The London newspapers publish ae counts of a complimentary banguet ives by the Duko ot BUTHERLAND to Baner Paaha, among tho guests belne bis Excellency Musun. us Pasha, tho Turkish Ambassador; Fleid. Marshal Lord StrATHNAIRN, G. C. B, Lont HowvonTox, Lord EsLincton, Gen, 8ir Arex- AxpER Honrsroun, G. C. B., Gen. 8ir Cianizs Evvrice, K.C.B., and a host of other celebritics, Yot it was only twoshort years ago that the thon Col. VALENTIN® BARER was convicted by an English court and sentenced to an English vrison for an {ndecent assault upon a highly-ro- apectable young lady in & railway-carriage. —— Mr. Douar.as GALTOX, in & papor read befors tho EnglishInstitution of Civil Englneers, Tucse day, March 5, sald that the striking fact gather. ed from the Exhibition rallway-cars at Philadel- phia was that, whilo the comfors of rallway traveling had been practically statlonary in Eu- rope for tho last twenty-fivo years, it had rap. 1dly developed in the United Btates within niuch fewer years to nstandard above the Euro. peao. This may be regarded as an officlal con firmation of tho testimony of American travel. ra abroad, and should theretore cominend ftaelt to the conslderation of tho heretofore stupldly- conscrvative English rallway companies e — The uppermost idea in the mindsor thy Southern Drigadicrs in Congress fust nowis to pass bills to pay Confederata claims, and to penslon on the taxpayers 70,000 persons who are called *Mexican veterans® and “Indfua- fichters,”” because it happens that mora than threcsquarters of thoso persons live in thoSouth and were Rebels, and more than three-quarters of tho seven millions a year to pay them must come out of the pockets of Northern taxpayers. Northern demagorues and doughfaces {n Cone wrees are expocted to furnish the requisite number of votes to'psss the bill, ——e— Tho questlonablo success of Prof, Ticzasa weather prophet scems to bave awaleneda propbetie furor fo 8t. Louls. The editors of that city appear to beliovo themsclves charged with tho mission to preach the destruction of Chlcago, and set. themsolves down to a regular slege of the place as Jovan did before Nincvel. They may perhaps find, like Josau, that a great city does not necessarlly perish in order to preserve tho roputation of a prophet; and thelr celebrated jetty schome may yot prove to bo 83 uusatisfactory ns was JoNan's gourd. gl et lia i To (he Edulor of Ths Tridune, Racing, Wis,, March 23.~W1ill you pleass In- form me through the columns of Tik Tar-\W rekLr ‘TrinuNx who was General-in-Chlof of the Uniun Army from March, 1802, to July, 18021 Tho dAmerican Cyclovedia, v, 773, Vol, 10, saysthat McCruLLAX had been relieved in March, 1863, and sawme suthorily save, r. 403, Vol. 8, Uatreck was appointed July, 1802, # EADER, From March11 to July 23, of the year 1303, there was no General-in-Chiof, operations i the East and West boing carried on indupendently by s1cCLELLAN nud LALLEOK, —— How strong tho ruling passion Ia fn death was shown by the recent action of tho South Cars olina Legislaturs In tabling a resolution pro- hibiting State officlals from receiving rallroad passcs. —_————— PERSONALS. The Rav. John Jaspor, a colored proncher of Richmond, Va., Is reviving that old scandsl about the aun moving around the earth, instead of the earth around the sun, and s making numerous convorts, Ohatterton, the rotiring manager of Drury Lane Theatre, boasts that ho has kept the natlonst houwe open longer than any manager alnce Garrick, aud no artist has ever left his troasury without belng paid. 2 Fow newapaper readers can have forgotten the great diamond wedalng which created such & sensatlon lo New York years ago. Tao bridu of 1hat occasion is now a widow, (iving on her ime mense sugar eatatein Cuba. | Caasagnac, tho noted duelist, and editor of Le Pays, has vefused moro challenges than ho has sccepted. The man whom he fears most to meet s M, Clomencesu, & deputy from Parls, sud s Joft- handed swordsman. The Cassagnacs are Creoles from Gundaloupe, which, perhaps, sccounts for Paul being suct & Creole man. ‘When Messry, Bunster and Thompson, two members from British Columbla, Introduced & buncamoe resolution iolo the Dominion Commons rocently to prevent men with hair more than ve and & half fnches long from worklng on the Csuada Puacldc Ralirosd, Mr, Mackenzle, tho Premicr, pointed out that bath of the honarsble gentlewen bad bLair more than Sve and a. ball inches In length, Thus ho had thewn where the hair was short—or, ratber, long. The Prince of Wales visited the office of the Parls Xigaro on the Gth, going thero frum the theatre at 11:30, and romaloing till 2:20 8. me ‘The editors received him fu full dress, showed hic over the ballding and inta the press-room, which waa Jit by su elactric light sod huog with fagh struck off s apocial paper for him, with an Jascrip- tlononitin English, gave blms copy of the i scription on & vellum scrol) that the clever palate Detalilo snd de Neurille, blocked—wo mead skotchod—a border while ho was walting, af maoged s mico bui naughbty llttle concert fur bim with Judic and Theo s stars, and opoued a little ‘bar in the managing editor's roow, whero thero was chawpaguno on Ice, . Capt. Burnaby, the Englishman who 8c- companled the Rusalan army through Khiva, and afterwards wrote s book vilfying hls enter- taluers and comrages, speat 8 largo portion of toe Daat year with the Turkish srmy, The Russlan suthorities offercd & reward for his head, bub Burnsby had p fast horse, and could ran awsy 84 fast as auybody, During the Tarkish rcirest be amosed himself by leaviog uotes scribbled on the walls of the houses in which ke restod. These Botea werw written in Russian, and gave advico 34 10 the places in the villages and towns where the best wino wasto be found. The commander of the pursulng army, to whom the notvs were 8d- dr¢asod, would bave squeiched Burnaby's bumer Af he bad caught him,