Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1878, Page 4

A THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE : FRIDAY., MARCII 25, 1878, him., e did so in conformity with the wish of the two Governmonts., Mr. Fisn, in an interviey recently printed in & New York paper, is not reported aa having made any mention of his two lettors earnestly urging Drrrosst to act, and from tho fact that copies of these lottera were not on file in the Stato melia that Constantinople is their natural prey. Every movement of England looking in the dimuuongt actnnl hostilities ia prob. ably 08 well known to the com- mandors of the Russian forces ns it in in 8t Petersburg, and tho menns for meotiog and counteracting such move- The Teibane, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, TY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGE PREPAID. atly Foition, one yeu 1500 Bindey “ailons” Lierar ".M) Dopartment, and were not submitied to the | menta are considerod and ncted upon by the e 2:00 | Bonate, it would appoear that the ox-Sccretary | Czar and his military advigers. Denny, in T-'-'ft‘a“;t' '&‘.’a:’}‘.‘d%nm. °,'§E,' had no intentfon of making publio this | his speech in the Iiouse of Lords sunounc- WEEKLY EDITION, one. ecn, per Club of fouf., Epecimen copics ent tree, . Give Post Ofiice sddress I fall faciuding Etste snd Connty. Ttemittances may bo made efther by drafl, express, Tost-Offce order, or In reglstered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Paliy, delivered, Eunday excented, 25 cents per week. Triy, deilyered, Eunday included, 20 conts per week. branch of the correspondence, fog his resignation, gives no sign as to the policy of the British Cabinet which has com- pelled him to sover his connection with the Ministry. Neithor dors Disparrt indicate in Lis romarks on the occasion to, what lengths the Government is disposed to pro- casd should the perversonoss of Russin make otuer warlike demonstratiéns necessary. Tho Smr—— e sinking-fand. A corrospondent writos from Bloomington to Tam Tamnvye: *“Will you, for the satis- faction of a Inrge numboer of tho readers of Tax Trinvxe, give your opinion which of the two counlries, England or Russia, hns dono snoro for the ndvancemont of civiliza. minatos in a wilderness. Dnt, if the Hus- TixaTON Compnny should fafl to fulfill the conditions and copstruct at lenst 115 miles 8 yonr, then Congross can forfeit thoe right of way and contider some other plan at the ond of tha very first yéar, aud ot the ond of overy succeeding yoar. * Tho cohintry cnn better afford to wait a yoar than to assume the risk of paying ont noarly $10),000,000 of inter- est, in such payments as would make it equivalent to §700,000,000 if invested iun Mr, Oaswery, has insulted tho intelligenco of his constituents in tellilng them outright that, whon thoy ask for an extension of timo on the Northern Pacific grant of land, thoy are demanding a favor of ‘ much greater magnitude " than Tox Boorr begs whon he tion than facl, The class of men who do that kind of business has been so fow, if auy, in the Council for the Inst two years, that the opportunities havo boen profitless. Bat we can all romember the timo when the Gity Council was composed of men of n difforent character, It hina not been forgot. ten whon the Alderman had a bank in which they did business; when any ono who wantod legislation iad to doposit the price ngreed upon in this Lank, subjeot to the order of the ngent of the Council ; when the ordinance wns passod (or defented), the monoy was paid over to tho coniracting Aldermen, Then thero was profit in being au Aldorman, and report fixod incomes from the offico at from 1,500 to 26,000 8 year, according to ability, An A adivon o T O Aa'm, | Uon aud Chiristianity; or, would thoto have | debata on the Quen's proclamation colling | asks tho peoply to guarantes bis | Alderman, for instance, would take o con. Orders for the dellyeryof Tne Taisunast Evanston, | Leen any United Btates of Ameriea hod tho | out the reserves will probably trow enough { bonds to tha, amount of nearly | tractto pnss a required ordinauce or ap- :x;fille"::fi!; ::’-l"lllpy‘du‘l;;:lmln the connting-room { Pilgrim Fathors come from Russia inatead of | light on the situation to ,show the actunl | $40,000,000, and risk the loss of more | propristion for $10,000. Bo munch of this England?" Ia reply to the first question, we soy ** England.” In roply to the sacond, wo anawer conditionally: If the Pilgrim Fathers Lad eomo from Russis, and if America had been a colony of Russin, and if Russia had oppressed and overtaxed the Colouists, and if the Coloniats had beon abla to whip Rus- sin, there wonld have been a Unitod States of America. At tho same lime, wo ore free to express our belief that it the Pilgrim Fathers had come from Russin, they wonld have hanged fower old womaon and wonld have allowed a man to kiss hia wife on Bunday. position of tho disputants, and indicate the’ TRIBUNE BRANCII OFFICES. probabilities of war or peaco, 2 T Cnicano TRINUXE has eetablished branch ofilces for the recelpt of subscrintiuns and sdvertiscments as follows: NEW TORK—Room 20 Tribune Bulldlog. F. T. M- Fapney, Mansger, PARIS, France—No, 10 tue de Ia Grange-Batelicre, . Maurer, Agent, Kng.~Americsn Exchange, 440 Strand. MR, CASWELL AND TEXAS PACIFIC. We print this morning a communication from Mr. L. B, Caswety, momber of Con- gress from Wisconsin, relative to an inter- view which our Washington correspondent had with thnt gontieman some ten days ngo. Mr. Oaswerw takes oxcoption to somoe com- ments made by Tas TriouNeon his relations with the Texas Paciflo Snbsidy bill, as they wero get forth in tho roport of that interview. Ho doos not set,up that ho was misropresont- ed in tho report, but only that he did not know the statements were to ba published. Admitting nll this, the circumstance certainly doea not change the naturo or foren of tho statoments ho mnde. Mr. Oxswers affects to Lo groatly grioved, and profosacs a convio- tion that he hias been unfairly trented.dn the inforences that wero drawn from the nfore. soid conversation; but wo suspoct, from the charactor of tho lotter ho now writos, that his chiof purpose has been to improvo the opportunity to got another plenfor tho Toxas Pacifio subsidy printed in Toz Tamuxe. Wo accommodate him, bowevor, becauso wo are persusded that his own lotter will fully justi- fy oll wo said sbout him bofore; it roveals the singular dovotion to the Tox Scorr schemo which wo suspected, withont furnish. ing nny satisfactory reasons thorefor, Tne Trioune said that *'Mr. Ciswern obliged to pay. AMUSEM. MeFlcker's Thentre. Madiron street, hetween Desrharn and State, 4+ A Celebrated Case,” Dy the Unlon Square Compans. Tho Democratic majority waas able yoster- day, by tho aid of a singlo Republioan vote, to incroase its numbors by unsesting Frerp nnd senting DeaN a8 the Representative of tho Third Massachusetts District, Gen. B, F, Burren was tho hoavy villain of this po. litical melodrnma, and he played the part through to tho end. Thore wore nine Dem. ocrats who woro conscientious onough and manly and decent enough to cast aside party and voto upon tho plain merita of the casa; thero woro doubtless many others who were cqually convinced of tho merits, but wore untroubled in the matter of consclence, Thers was really no quostion of fact involved,—the fact of Freup's baving recoived o mnjoridy of the votos cast beiug nowhers disputed; Burrxn nud the Democrats fonnd a pretext in the al. laged uncondtitutionality of the act provid- Iiooley’s Thentre, Randoiph ftreer, between Clark and LaSaile, Fogagement of Nothern. *‘David Garrick *aad **A Regular Fix." New Chicago Theatre. Clark street, opposite Sherman House. Engage- ment of Hiaveriy's Minstrels, Tinver!y’s Theatre, Monroe sireet, corner of Dearborn, Engagement of Frank Mayo. **Davy Crockett.” officers, Colmenmin Novelty Theatre, Clark street, opposite Court-Tlouse. Varfety pere formance. SOCIETY MEETINGS. PTRIL NO. 2, 1L A, M.=fall, 1 Convocation th's Friday eveus t. for work on the M. 1 and M. A tull attendance of the mem. ors condtally Invited to meet with Wo H, gKID, HL P LODQAE, No. 33, A, F. & A, M,—lall Hpecial’ Communieation 122 L IC At il Chminnication this (Erldar | ing for Bupervisors of Elections,—a law | scema to havo voted for tho Scorr subsidy as Temiers Fequested to not. coniiaily T, {\mx Vialtoes iy onter of the Saste: TUCKEL, Secrotury. pnsaed to pravent wholesale frauds in Demo- cratie strongholds, and for that reason vory distasteful to Domocrat o means for sccuring n favorable considera- tion of a proposition to extend the term of the land-grant to the Northern Pacific Com- pany,” and we added that, * practically, it wna o trade on his part, in which he gave too large a consideration for a concession that shonld bo made on its own merits,” Mr. Csswewy thinks this statement was un. warranted, but we arc willing to rest it upon Mr. Caswerr's own statemont which ho ro. produces in his lotter this morning. In fact, he virtually admits ognin that he has been iofluencod to favor the Toxas Pacific (Tox 8corr) schome by renson of his desire. to further tho Northern Pacifio extension whon hesays: ‘To be consistent, I could not deny to the Toxas & Pacific Company the aid which it asks, and at tho anmoe time favor o grant of mueh greater magnituds to tho Northern Pacific.” This is a viow of tho caso to which Mr. Osswest's constitnonts will scarcely bo willingto subseribe. ‘I'hoNorthern Pacific, as wo underatand it, is nsking morely for an oxtonsion of the term of & land-grant proviously made, bacause the prosocutfon of the building of tho road bas been interrupted by the: hard timea; but tho Toxas & Pacifie pooplo ask an actusl guarantes of interest on $38,760,000 bonds at & por cent for fifly yoars, or more than enough monoy to dofray tho.owtiro cost and equiprent of their road. Yot Mr. Oaswsnr, o Wisconsin man, pro- claims that the request for an oxtension of n land-grant is o gratuity of **a much greater magnitude” than Tox Bcorr’s appeal that the Governmont shall assumo tho risk of paying $96,875,000,—tho fifty years' interest which it {a nsked to gunrantos, In othor words, Mr. Casweny, whoso constituents hove o lively interest in the completion of tho Northern Pacific, holds that the Texas & Pacific ia entltled to n proforenco at the bands of Cougress in asking a Lond subsidy over the Northern Pacifle, which merely asks the oxtension of a grant of lands with which the Governmont had alrendy parted on con- dition that the Northern Pacific should be constructed, According to this later state- meont, the inforenco is warranted that Mr, Uaswery tokes a more lively interest in "Tox Beorr's entorprise than ho does in the North. orn Paclflo enterprise, All that Mr, Oaswern has to say about tho enormous valuo of the 18,000,000 acros of land which the Texas Paclfio propose to ro. leaso (and to which wo still think they have 10 batter title than has the Northorn I'acifia to the land-grant on which it naks an exten. slon) 1a sheor rubbish, If this'Toxas Pacific laud bad anythiny like the value which BMr, OCaswzLy ottorapts to give ¢, of courso tho ‘Tout Beorr Compnuy would simply proceed to realiza upon it, elthor by salo or mort. gagos, and construct thefr road on the pro- ceeds, without nskiug from Cougress a guar- anteo on bonds for more than the entiro cost of tho rond, As to the statement that Alr, Hunrivoron i8 making o desperate cffort to secure this grant, it is only necessary to say (1) that Mr. HuntinaTon and his associates have hold thomselves in readiness to Luild tho road fu cousideration of this land, with. out ssking any bond-subsidy, if "Tox Boorr ond his assoclates would not do so, nnd (2) that the Lillroported by tho minority of the Paciflc Railroad Committeo meroly gives the Hunrivurox Company the right of way for 600 miles without granting one acre of this or any other land, Mr. Oaswern says he would think Tuz Tarisung siucere in its profession of favoriug T Tuvited fo meet with e, COVENANT LODGFE, NO, A F & Epectal communieation thia (! i3y} evenin intiitan 4 . 197 Fast Kl o Work 03 thie 3. M, Degree, lag brethren sre cors dlally invited, Bynrdcr" W. WOLSELEY, W. M. WM. KERR, Secretary. £ FIIDAY, MARCIH 29, tionnls, A er —_—— o Mr, J. B. Kvonr, Secrofary of the Frank. lin Institute of Philadolphis, having beon allowed by tho Kexieyr-Motor man to examine tho trao inwardness of the alleged marvelous discovery which was to displaco the Nowtoninn Inws of gravitation and the later theories of the persistence nnd correle- tion of forcea hns, aftor several months of pationt scrutiny, formod a symmetrical and well-bolanced bolief that Mr. Kerrey lson ingenious mountebank, Rifted with a clever knowledgo of tho dosire of the common hu- mau critter to ba lifted into tho infinite nod to belp lift. Kuxrey's gauges have all been doctored to succumb to pressure to the oxtont of an juch and to mark an oll. His immenso masses of iron have boon assanlted by no power which would Lave monaced tho integrity of a tin pan, and have morv- ed only to aid the mazo of pipes, colls, cocks, and valves in covering the'mis- ernblo fraud and gulling tho gaping public. The vapor from the machine proves by ansl. yals to be common air, and Mr, Kxiont says soveral spheres containing compreased air aro secrated with which tho charlatan operates on his gauges of ensy vir-, tuo, and that no other forco has been amn-, ployed. Mr, Kervey slould spend the rost of his life in o reformatory, but he will probably amass riches in a sideshow, 1878, Greenbacks at the New York Stock Ex. chauge yestorday closed at 983 in gold and silver coin, of tho mnext' The income-tux proposition is not likely ta come befara tho prosent sessfon of Con- gress, for tho reason that the Ways and Mcans Committeo at iho ontset aro not favorably dispoeed toward such n mensuro, the mnjority of that body being of opinfon that the re-cnactment of the law is inex- pedient at the present timo, selves. Tho cxplanation contained in the lettors to and from Secretary Snenyan and Ropre- sentative Troursox, of Penusylvania, rela- tivo to tho appointmont of Judge Sco. ristp na Rogister of tho Tremsury, may fairly cover tho caso of the Wisconsin delegation. Thero seems to have heen con- sidernblo doubt in the miuds of tho Prost. dont and Becrotary SnenMan s to whother Judge BcorseLp would accopt the appoint- mont, aud for that rosson the fact of tho tander to him was not made known, ———— irrodesmable, Tho South has boon clamoring for home mle, and boasting of tho glorlous results that would ensue from it. In Misslssippt they have home rule und Democratic suprom- acy. What are tho results? The Governor bing avnounced his inability to onforca the Iaws and protect citizens from murder and outrage. Tho membersof the recont Legis- laturo voted themsclves S810.60 por diem, took-their py for the whole session, and so wauy of thom went home that thero was not n quorum left, and thoso who remained bo- hind wont on passing approprintion bills as if o quornm wera in attendanco. Iome rulo fn Missisalppl evidently mosns mob Tule. A good many Ropublicans in the Fourth ‘Ward soem to be somowhat dissatisfied with 2r. Marrony, the Ropublican candidate for Aldermon, just as some of the Ropublicans of thoe Third Ward are dissatiafled with their man, Inboth cases the nominations were the result of indifference on tho part of the property-owners and taxpayers, Though the Ttopublican vots in the Fourth Ward Is up- words of 2,000, thoro were only about 200 votes cast at tho primary, as wo are in. formod, ond it is not unlikely that many of thoso wero cast by Democrata, Fortunatoly, thoro is yot timo for the Republicans of the Fourth Ward who are ot salisfled to secure a better man, if thoy desira o do mo, If theso persous iusist upon 3r. - Alirrony's unfitness, then tho bost thing to do 1s to run and olect Alr. Srewant, who has roprosentod that warl so creditably fu the Goun- cil during tho past yoar. If it be said that Mr. Srtzwant declined to be a candidato, the auswer is, that that fact ja an additional renson for electing bhim, We have no doubt he will servo, if elocted, and, it ho serves, tho ward will bo sura of having 8 reprogoutstive whom all the puoplo can trust implicitly, If the more prominent and substantial residenta of tho ward take hold of this matter ot onco, they can save tho ward from the rivk of Lelng ropresented by on unfit wan or o Democrat who is not con- considered nuy moro desirable, ‘Tho Third and Fourth Wards Include some of the very best residence portions of tho city, and have immonso Ropublican waforities, and 1f they allow incompatent or objectionable men to ha elected to the Council, then nothing can Le expected from tho othior wards, and wo way os well resign oursolves to turulng over tho City Legislature to the bummer influ. ence, T —— ‘The Chicago produce marketa wero oxcited yesterdny by ronowed apprehonslous of more war in Europo. A further decliue in consoly ond rentes, with a strong wheat market In Liverpool, caused a materlal advanco in wheat liero at the opening, and other coranla sympathized with tho upward movoment to o smaller extont, The excitement diod awny only to bo renawed with groater force in the afternoon. Very many operators in produce now consider war as inovitable, but lave hitherto been slow to nct, ns tho situation hus been open to o sattlemont either way at any moment. It may bo well for the more nervous to remomber that wo bavo had very little real nows for soveral days past, tho telegrams being chiefly expreaslonsof cpinion by wen the valita of whoso inferences can only bo determined by tho ovent, —_— The Board of Education Inst evening do- cided that, in" its opinion, tho interosts of cducation in Chicago will be better snb. served by shortenlng tho school year €0 84 to reduce expenses within the amount which ean be obtained for aclionl purposes than Ly disponsing for the time with tho oruamental Inxuries in tho course of iunstruction,—music, German, and draw. ing. It declded (o reduce tho salaries of obtain, ‘The dotermiuation of tho British Govern- ment to call out its military roserves, ns nnnounced fn this morning's dispatches, all the tenchers by cutting off ono | N8y or mey not be sufficlant, significance to | a speedy construction of a raflrond along the week's poy, Instead of applying | furnish grounds fof tho prediotion that war | 82d parallel if it could indicate a plan which the reduction ta the higher salnrles | botweon England and Russia s unavoidable. | slikely to sttain thnt xesult. Tz Tamuxe | handsoma income, The British Government alrondy as & foaturoof its diplomaoy hna socured en ex. traordinary vote of credit ai the hands of Parllamont, and this latter move may be but a past of the scleme to secure by indi- vect threats what it would be fmpossible to attain by the ordinary mode of argumont between two great nations. 'Che resignation of Earl Drasy judicates, at tho same time, that the Dritish Ministry have dater- mined to adopt o more positive policy than lhas heen heretofore followed, Lut to what extentit will allow itsclf to be carrled in its attempt to thwart what it 15 plensed to call Russinn aggrandizement romainy to be seou. Tho answer will certalnly como’ bes fore many days, as it will be impossible to coucasl from the world, after what has re- contly transpired in the Euglisk Cabinet, and the various asignificant orders issued to tho arwy and navy, what the British Gov- ernment means to do about it. Meanwhile it 1s uot to bo supposed that Russia is an {dle or inattentive spectator. The firat breath of wor will be the sigual for the Eoglish fleet to move in the direc- tion of the Black Bes, a5 well as & direct notification to the Russians in Bou- nnd dispensing with employes and officlals who could b spared without serious detrl. ment to tho school system; to deprive the groater nnmber of the beaeBt of primary fu- struction in order that the lesser numbor tnay not be disturbed in the enjoyment of the extra cdvantages which have been pro. vided in fush time —— Much of the opprobriaw that has rested upon AMlr. Drvrossy on account of the Hall. fax fishery award should be shifted to tho shoulders of the Hon, Hamirox Fusn, Sec- rotary of Htate in tho Adwinistration of President Gnant, sccording to the unofiicial correspondence made publio slice the ofcial correspondence was sent to the Senate, It appeans that, ufter baving once refused to mccept the Belginu Minister for the very excollent reason that bo ropresented & country under the protection of Great Dritain, Becretary Fran was subsequently induced to change Lis mind, and to person. ally request DrLyossk to servo as arbitrator in the Fishery Commission. This also ex. plaing why the Austrian Minister at London, though aware that the United Btates had objected to Deryossy, ‘subsequently selectcd will not objoct to any plan which docs not fuvolvo o rald on the Public Trensury, or & Government guarputeo for tho payment of moneys which, in the end, amounts to the same thivg, s cxperfence has proved., It the Toxt Beorr Company had simply ssked that the land.grant Lo not forfeited on no- count of the failure thus far to build tho road as rapidly as it had agreed to build, and had supplemented this request with some guarauteo of good faith that it would prose. cute the work energetically in tho future, Tz Teisusz would not have opposed the proposition. This is virtually the position which the Northern Pacifio occupies, and hence Tux Teinune approves the proposed extension, Now Tux Tursuxz is in favor of lettiog the IluNTNoToN Company build the 824 parallel railroad under tho bill roported Ly the minority of the Railroad Committee, because it asks neither monoy, bonds, guar. antce, nor land-subsidy. That this ie o *plan which is likely to attain the result” is sufi. clently guaranteed by the 700 mwiles and more which the HosTivotoy Company havo already built, snd by the business advauntage which that Company will enjoy iu securing a through Eastern connection for a rood that now ter. Public Works, Appoluting a bri Yotlag fo Aldorman, | cers, dolog their duty. thaa twice as much in interest, which, judg- ing from past oxperionce in the mntter of Government guarnntoe, the people wonld be 8uch n statement is not cal- cnlated to furthor the meritorioua petition of the Northern Pacific, nor make friends for Mr, OaswrLy at homa, THE " NATIONALS." The *Natlonal pariy,” which is a conden- salion into ono organization of the parties hithorto styling thomaelvea the Greenback- ers, nnd the Workingmen, and the Socialists, and other political factions, wes formed nt Toledo some monih or moro ago, and the first State Convention of the new party was hold in Illinois at Springfleld on Wednesdny Inst. The now party was cnlled togother in this Stato at this early date, to forestall the Conventions of the Democratic and Repnb- lican parties in the nominations of Btate The Convontion adopted the Tole- do platform, aud nominated Gon, Bates for Stato Treasuror and Mr,/ Hary for Buperin- tondent of Public Inatruction, has twico been olected State Troasurer by the Topublicans, and doubtless expects to be nadopted by that party when it shall hold its Convention. bas beon long known ns & conspicuous Ro- publican in this Btate, and doubtless is as much o Reopublicsn now as ho over was. This nomination peremptorily olcses the door ngainst any alliance between the Demo- crata and tho Nationals, It is not at all likely that tho Republicans will adopt oither tho platform or the candidatos of the Na- 8o thero will be this fall o contest botwoon tho throa parties, ench with o dis- tinct ticket of ita own. that the Nationala will also havo their own candidates for Congress and for tho Legis- Inturs, giving o promiso of considernblo uncortainty as to the political complexion Goneral Assombly, In several dfatricts the Nationals may, if united, oloct two Ropresentatives, and in many othor districts can cortainly olect oue. The Demo- cratic State Con'vention will meet in April, podl thoy will probably bo driven to the ex- podient of nominating Democrata who are bottor Nationals than the Nationnls thems The platform of tho party is of course for an inflation of tho legal-tondor papor money of tho country, and tho adoptionof *an American monotary system,” in which an nud of course depreociated, paper monoy shiatl bo tho conspicuous foat- ure, This platform is not one which the Ropublican party of this State or of the country can indorse or adopt; and, in fact, tho platform itsolf recites that it is Intonded to bo of such n character that it must bo re- jocted by all other parties, Tha Convention itsolf was not an impos- ingone. Itlacked numbers, and espeoially it lacked men of ability and character, though it was largely attended by tho well. known writera and orators of tho old Greon. back party who liave engaged in this agita tion for years. There aro nearly eight montha yet to intorvone before the slaction, and in that time it may bo reasonably hoped the curroncy quostion will have sottled itself Ly tho plentiful coinnge of silver and tho complete overtlrow of the gold corner. WHY MEN WANT T0O BE ALDERMEN, It hos beon o wonder, aud is yet a wous dor, why B0 many mon without the qualifica. tions of education or experienco, and with. ont tho least knowledge of government, and eapoclally of city affairs, should scok the thankless and laborious offico of Alderman, "Thus, too, with o knowledgo that thero is no compensation, that thers is no patronnge; that to attand tho meetings of the Conncil and of the Committees will tako considerable timo; that moncy hissto Lo spent for eloe- tions, and that to perform oue's duty faith. fully {s to incur the personal dislike if not enmity of hundrodsof constituents. Among tho hundreds of men who ssek nominations ond elections as Aldermen, the mafority are persons who havo no legitimato business ; are out of employmont, have no iucomes, and depondent on their earnings for the currcut oxpenses of living, who caunoct alford to give to tha city thelr time and their labor for the empty and queationable distinetion of being on Aldernmau., Nevertheless, four. ifths of the whole number of pursous who soek tho offico are o! tho olass wo have pamed. So oxtroordinary is this circum. stance that it almost mentally snggests that there iy, aftor all, unknown to tho law and unknown ta tho genoral public, a compensa- tion and as fucome which an Aldorman, it 80 disposed, may obtain that affords a better living than such & person can ordinarily In this circlo of Aldornaunic aspirants there i3 an jmprossion that o man who will qualify bhimself for his business, sud vigilantly im. prove his opportunitios, may, in the course of atwo yoars' torw, vecelve, directly or in. direotly, gratuities which ‘will average n common rumor s understood to exist is after tho following scale: 1laving & man put on 1he police...uvve Havinz a wan pat on Fire Dupariment, Tlaviug u_waa employed by lioard a(” Keeplng a volicewan, 'x'.?mi other from removal..., Yoting for an ordinanc . ‘Voling agalnst an vrdlusnce atrect loiprovem Average from use compsule This is 8 moro skeleton of the opportuni. ties which are supposed to be open lo every It only requires an ingenious leader to deviss logislation which will bring the psymosters to time. To tho Alderman it s immaterial what the legislation is; ho will voto for or sgainst as he is paid. Evory now sud then thers iv o stir about reforming the palice, or the firemon, or other city ofi. Then thero are numervus sod in. genious efforts 16 incorporate a dozen or mora gas companies. ‘The notices for some- body to pay are ouly limited by the versatil. ity of the gentlemen in the Council who live by what they can pick up for doing or not ‘This notion thot there is money in the offico of Aldcrman rests rather upon tradi. anwns noeded he divided to gt enongh votes, and tho remainder ho kept for him. aelf, These were the glorious days of Al dermanic profit and power, On ono ooca- sion, it fs said, one of these Alderman re- signed in order to accept an office to which ho lind beon appointed by the Mayor ; but his old nssociates had no friendship in busi- ness, and he was required to pay $2,600 be- foro hho conld get tho Conneil to confirm his nomination, We rovive theso matters of Aldermanio history in order thnt votors may underatand the ;-nsh for tho office by a class of man wholly unfit for tho place. We vovive it, also, that we mny romind voters that there is just now s determined effort to recapture the City Conneil, and onco more make it profitable to tho incumbonts, Bhall we hinve n City Council composed of men holding the offica for whot they can mnke of it; of men who proposo to sell legislation for the high- eat prico, and install dishonesty and corrup- tion as part of municipnl governmont? Tho opportunity to deliver tho city over to such o Conncil is now nffordoed Ly the list of can- didates nominated by the Democrats and partly by the Repnblicans. I, howevor, the votera of the city do not desire a Council of that dograded character, they may at the polls on Tuesdsynoxt eo discriminato Le- twaen the candidatos that a suflicient num. bes of roputablo men moay bo clectdd to leave the corruptionists in o minority. To do this will requira the united votes of ovary tax- payer and business.mnn in the oity. Gen. Bates Gon, Barzs 8t, Louls has once more Loldly onterod into compotition with tho Arabian Nights and Daron Mouxnouauvses's claborato chroni- cles by {ssuing tho soventh cnnual Directory of tho population of that and other places, as will be seen by tho following announce- mont taken from the Globe-Democrat: From the ndvanco sheots of Goutn's St Louls Directory for 1878, which whi be lssued ip a da or two, much that will prove of Iutercst ia gleancd, The work, which Is onc of magnitude as all will understand, was begun Jan. 1, and required the services of ‘sixty canvassors and about ffty com- vilers and compositors. This s the soveath vol- ine, and each year's work 1s an improvemant upon {ta prodecessor, new sources of Inforniation heing onenied up nnd now focts being arrived at and ro- corded that will prove of value to the atatisticlan, ‘The significant foaturo of this announce.’ s mont ia tho statoment that each year's work is an improvement upon it predecessor, now sources of information boing opened up. The only source of information in other citics is to count tho people. In 8t, Louis, howaver, they havo had other sources in past years, and now lave discovored still more which are understood to bo the graveyards, ¢ Burke's Poorage," the delinquont-tax lists of Toledo, the old Kansas City directorics, the mowspaper subscription lists, and the candidates for the Common Council in Chi- cago. With such prolifio sources of informa- tion st hand, we aro at o losa to understand tho modesty of 8t. Louls, and the nstound- ing fact that aixty canvassors and fitty com- pilers could only count 603,685, whoen by o litle more industry or by omploying ono hundred and twenty canvas- sers and vne hundred compilers they could have connted 1,007,870 in the same porlod of time, Tho gravoyardsof Bt Louls thom. salvas are populots cnough to have ylolded the result upon the well-known priaciples of dead rockoning. If the compllers had only walted a week or two, the naturnl inarense of population would Lave yiolded them at Jonst 023,984, which could hiave boon swelled to0 1,247,908 by the arithmetical process thoy wgo {n catimating Clearing-Honge returns, Much 08 wo inay admire the stern detormina. tion of the Bt. Louis Dircotory man to lurn the corner of half a million, we are reluctant. Iy lod to the conclusion ihat his work {a o falluro, considorlag tho timo, the *now sources of information,” and the number o countars ho had. e even admits as much when he says, *This s not much of an in- croaso, but it 80 good deal bettor than a falling oft.” Just walt until the Chicago Directory comes out, amcm——— The bill which Loy just passed the Na- tiona! Houso of Ropresontativoy to prevent tho introduction of contnglous or lnfectious discases into the country seems to be a com- prehensiva aud effective measure. It gives # new omploymeont to the Diplomatio or Consular ropresentativeq abroad in requiring from them woekly saultary reports ns to the places whers thoy reside, and also jmmo- dinte notification whenover a vessol destined for the United Btates shall leavo an infoctod port, ot carry frcight or passengers which como from a dlstrict infocted with cholora or yellow fever. Theso reports arv cow- municated dirvctly to tho Unitod States sanitary agents, and also to the Btate or munieipal ofifears at .tho port to which the vessel ig dostined. Tho terms of the bill ore all that could bo desired, aud it will ouly depend upon tho strict en- fqrcemont whether the danger of a cholera v?dudnn this comiug season shall be less. ened or not. Tho phenomenal mildness of thie past winter has created a goneral appre- hension, supported, to soms extent, by the medical profesaion, that the conditions of the approachiug sumwmer will ba peculiarly favorable to the spread and fatality of any opidemnic, oud thore never was o time whon incrensed sanitary precaution would be of moro s:xvice to the country than at present. 1t s to be hoped, thereforo, that the bill will become a law, and that the Administration will exert itself capecially to soo that oll the officials concerncd do their duty in the promises regulasly and thoroughly. e e The chances are Tha torif which by $ 50 o &0 % 0to 200 Mr. Hux, of Georgis, thongh not actually ouo of the ** Confederate Brigadiers * (bav- ing preforred to serve in the civil servico as an associate of Jury Davis), belongs to that class of recoustructed statesmon who are in favor of *the old fiag and ansppropriation.” It is surprisiag, after the masterly espouition made by Senator Davio Davis of the law bearing on tho relations between the United Btates Governmont and the subsldized Pa- cifio rallroads, that Mr. Hiiy should de- clare the bill reported fors Sinking Fuud by the Judiciary Committee to be *‘ uncon- stitutional.” Bo ridiculous an assortion, not only iu the face of tho suprewe suthority which Congress may exest, butalsoin do- .tha———np, we don't; its publisher can lcarn his office. We are quite willing that My, Hatxs should plncate one of the candidates for the Toledv Post-Ofice with the Alaska Custom. House. apite of tho distinot reservation in all former billa of tho right to ndd to, nlter, or amond the rubsidy nots, can only be acconnted for on the theory tint Mr. Hirt. has detormined to cliampion oll suvsidies,—pnst, prosent, and futuro,—as n 1noans ' for socur- ing n favorabla consideration of the particularsubsidies which theSouth demands, in ordor to make up for lost timo while it wns engaged in rebellion. As faras the sub- sidized Paclfio railronds are concerned, the sltuation {s slmply this: They owe the Gov- ornment nearly #30,000,000 of interest paid out on thelr nccount, which is incroasing from yoar to year, and will owe $64,000,000 of principal in 1898; they arc earning large amonnts of mondy and paying dividends on slock that does not represent the investment of adollar, but rofuse to provide for the liquidation of their indebtednoss to the Gov- ernment, Mr, Trnumux's bill, roported by the Judicinry Committeo and sustained by the nblest lawyers in tha country who are not in the pay of the Pacifio railronds, pro- wides an annual payment by these Compa- nies of 25 per cont of their net earningh, at the outside, to constituta a Binking Fund for tho lignidation of the debt to the Govern- ment, and fuily protects all other croditors. And yot tho Geogin Sonator says such a bill 1a unconstitutional ! . —————— PERSONALS, Mr. Garfleld hins entored npon th tlon of & new farm at Menlor, D? P Rsuphs Thomas Oarlyle’s health {s sv poor { is only able to wotk on the Iwn-han: nym:..“ b Col. Georgo B, Carkhill, of Whashington, 1s writing a history of tne assaseination of Llnenln.. Bardou's " Bourgeols de Dont Aroy” g even & grealer succoss than was hig ** Dora, " Judged by the receipts of the Vanderiilo, which for the firat ten reprosentationy, wers 811,433, o ngalnst $10,513 for ' Dora," ¥ A wonlthy bLnuker of Bouvasn, Spain named Roger, while retarning from & bais 4 fou nighte ago, was pounced upon by bandits and car. vled off Lo beheld to ransom, whilo within o hun. dred yarda of the town ate. Tt was Jobn Russell Young who wrote hg Iierald's ssticles on ** Cesarism " some years ago, Now he ia traveling with Grant in the Orlent, ang wrlting him up with—sothe qoidnanca aver—n yigw to bielping him to run for & third term In 1889, The Princsss Charlotte’s tronssenn fa galq 10 have been *‘adisgrace to artlstic mlllinery," And b a grandchlld of the Emperor of Gormmny, and the Queen of England, 1001 ilestan weavers hiave beest hanged for leas in the good old times, Col. Loroy Woods, Calleotor of Custom; of Alasks, who was drownedin & schooner pro- ceeding to Sltka, was martied st Icbmond, Ind. at New Year's, and & moath later ct out for hi distant northern post, to which hls bride was to follow him In August. h Hugo's **Histoire d'un Orimo™ is to b accompanied by a supplement containing faot. noles, suthorities, ete, Tho poem *‘Le Pape,' which he wrote some years ago, to be published whenever Plo Nono should dle, will appear on the Oth of Aptll. The srtistic sensation of Paris is nn nrtist nsmed Andre Gauthler, who draws nightly large sudlences to fes Lim palnt o landscape fa ive mig. utes, a pactrait 1o alx, and two diferent pletures #imultancously, ono with cach hand. for he ts am. oldexter after a manner to delight Charles Reade's heart. Edoson's phonograph has beon on oxbibi. tlon among the scfentists of Parls. When the ln. strument was placed an the table, and voclferated, 44Tha Phonograph prescnta its compliments to the Academy of Belances," there was a roar of langh. tor from the audlence, whick could with dimicalty be persunded that the sound did not proceea from some concenlad ventriloguist, . Tho Montreal True Witness, tho leading Catbollc paper of Canada, repndiates O'Donovan. Rossa and all his works, and saye that tho Irish. men of Canada shonld no more bo beld responslhla for his words or acts than tne Protestantsare for the wonls or acts of*the professional agitator, Chiniquy. It belleves that his skirmishing-fund project bus very fow sympathizers in Canada. Buch is fame. A rich Belgian philanthro. plet gave the Qovernment $100,000 a few days g0 £o help to cducata the orphans of people killed in ralirosd mecidents, and tho Jadependance tuige praisce his generosity, tells how the King honored him by giving lim o apecial audienco, gives the name of the oficial by whom he was presented,— and doesn't say who the generous donor wasat all. Barah Bernhardt goes out every morning fora lungrido in the Bols; goes to work on her sculpture 8t noon,—sho has four busts, and her grand group, **edoa,™ on hand at present; be- gine painting at 2, her present subject belng $'Trlboulet Weeping Over the Codln of his Daugh- ter"; does ber acting, and fiads time bosldes to study sew parts, keep up her correspondence, write her Memolrs, enf, snd slesp. Mr, Kimball, the groat church-debt rafser, clearcd off the Incumbrance on a Presbytertan So- clety at Rondout, N, Y., on Sunday last. In the midat of the service a prominent physician of the town left hls seat and walked out. At the door he was found very angry, because, as he said, **Thers are mon in there subscribing sums of from $50 to $200 who have owed mi all bills for years, and have pleaded paverty whenevor 1 have tried to col- lect them, It's too bad, Sardou will not lave tho oration on Autran, whom ho succeeded fn tho Academy, ready for delivery before theend of May, Charles Blane will culogize the new Jmmortal. The bliad Gud- dess of Chance brings about some odd happenings in the Acadomy. Thus, Alexandre Dumae had to deliver an oratlon on ' Vittoo™ ‘Inat year, when awarding the Moathyon prizes,and Emile Ollfsler, who went Into the war of 1870 with a light hesrt, wili have to eulogize Thicty, who got the country out of the cons equences of that act, Edmond About plcked up the new Fronch tenor, Selller, 1n the back shop of a wine-dealer, e was fnightfully nervous at his debut, and fors while It was_thought that ho would bave to leave tho stage, It ls rather curlous that su wany of the tenors should hiave been dlscovered by'accldent. Queymard was a plowboy, Poultier was a cooper's sporontice, Faore a bamoon-player in a country church, Villaret s brewer's boy, Renard a black. amitl, Morero & ship-painter, Verguet a butcher, Dulaurens a soldicr, and Gatihard a shoemaker. A woman has invaded the eacred precincts of & Parla club; nay, has eet hor nicely-botilned Jittle foot within the play-room; nay, more, as played & gamo of platct with a momber of the club, o circumatance which (s duly rocorded In the pa- pers, This s tho first time & woman bascver played in a Paris club. The clab was tho Imperlal, The gamo was plquet, The day was the Gtbof March, 1878, The member was the Daron de eckeren, He won. The lady's name s mot given, but she was of tho mellleur monde, one of the few fuvited to sac tho receptidn of the Spsalih students. . Prot, F, V. Cartier, tho champion waltzer (best record, thirteen hours), ls 32 years old snd weighs 130 pounds, Inhis thirteen bours' waltz, taking 320 steps & minuto snd estimating his atep st twopty-two inches, he fizures out that be travels something over elghty-three iniles; bo drinks while accomplishing ihls distance thees sence of elght pounds of beof and s pint of brandy. o doos mot Mift bis feet moru than four Inched fzom the greuud, exceptduring his spurts ofspeeds with which bie rosts'hlmuelf, 1o banue'aud st trouble him, be says, mora than bis fact, —the sril- trary position lo which they sro held caualnz® congeatlon of the blood. The Petit Lyonnais, o peuny joutnal pub- 1ehed a¢ Lyons, Frs: with a dally circulationof 130,000 coples, has M. Monler, the groat Tiadizal polltictan. - funnily enough, through a customer's complaint. The infu stomer wrote 10 him denounclug kle chacol frand, because after boiuz keod somo time it turned white. Nextmorning Menler had It advertlsod in all the Parts paperst '‘Duy Menler's chocolate—tlie only chocolate which tarns white with age! Beo that you get no other! Keep o cako and test it! Tho enly concluslve tcab of excullence!” and so on, and Lo was 8008 woalthy, Ll Napoleon's brother.in-law, tho Archdaks Fraucia Charies, father of the present Emperor of Austria, was the author of the wickedeut crlticisd ever passed. Leopold da Meyer, tho planiet, hsd played befora his lmperial Highncss a vory h:ui; fant, but apparently very exbaustiug pleces for o Its conclusion the artist's bmwx:,n v;::l:.d e dropa of peraplration me big s ey B luv?hunl ‘Thalber, sald the Arcbkuke fo I.F: planies, who bawed, **and § bave hesrd Lisst, = bers the artist blnsked and baw-.: r:;nr‘; dug::: i 9 st sy that meitber of thew, S I S tasan sub-callar, —**neitber much as you do." An affecting story comes from Llwmm?- Maas. A son of o wealtly and respectablo hm:‘{ by tho name of Richsrds, whilo & studeot io P i zacently, fell in love with ond marsied & Yu:w girl. ‘The news of this allianco fiuwedistely b 3 trated bis fomily with grles, for the young leml;" was—alas! that it must be sald—a millioer. 45 charactor otherwlse appesrs to have been nn‘:w coptionable. 'The anguishied parents bestenc s Purls snd tore thoir son away from bis bride, > he left thewm at Geneva and ran back t her. ’n':". tbey trisd & new plan. The young couple w e spvarently pardonsd, and izvited ta come ovnlrm. America and live 8t home, Thls scheme wmMl i admirably, for the mothes-lu-1aw 8gon manaZE ber eatrange ber dear child from the forstgaer, & A bill passed Congress Lo or threo years ago placing on the peosion rolls all those living who bad served as militla, or scamen, or teamsters, for Binety days or upwards, fn the War of 1912-'15, und also the surviving widows of de- ceased persons who had so served. Tlhe claim- agents who lobbled the Litl through Congress vociferously proclaimed that Its passace would wot add mora than 5,000 to 7,000 names to the pension list, and consequently the expense to the taxpayers would not much exceed half o million o year. But It {s a remarkable fact that the clatm-agents have dlscovored 28,548 of these “yoterans,” and fastened them upon the tax- ridden public at an sunual cxpense of between two and three millions. The samo class of Lorers Into the Treasury have just succeeded la petting the demagogues In Congressto passabill amending the formeractand ennferring penslons on all the “veterans” who served fu any ca- pacity during that war for the space of fowrteen days or more, or to thelr surviving widows, ‘These claim-agents liavo dinned In the cars of Congressmen that there canuot be more thana few dozen or acores of such ‘‘old veteran sol- diers” now living, but tho probabilitics are that thousands of additional names, femalo and male, will bo put on the peosion rolls as the rosult of this supplémental bill, as many of thoso four- teen-day **vetersua' haye ‘second-marriage widows still living, Home guards wero organ- ized all oround tha frontiersto protect them- sclves from apprebiended ralds of British and In- fian predatory parties. Many thousands of such homo guards turned out for & fortnight or 2 month to watch for possible attacks. Bome of thoss fourtcen-day ‘*veteran: may havo got @ pop at the redeoats or redsking, but the bulk of them saw nelther, ond that was the full extent of tholr *old soldiering,” for which they or thelr widows ary now placed on the pension 1ists to add to the burdens of a tax-caton com- munity. A majorityof those persons still living who served as militin In the 181315 quarrel with Eugland are in vastly better pecuniary clrcume stances than the peoplo whoso bard earnings in these hiard times have becu transferred to the Wyeterans.”” DBut what care the {rampant demagogues in Cougress for tho patient, cattle- 1tke taxpayers, who nover “ kick ' or * hook," and stand and submit to bo thus bled? ——————— * o glad to hear that Mistab Coxxrixa Is go- 1ug to touch off & speech dirccted againat tho Presldent In tho course of & few days. Wodo not think, however, that Mistah CoxxzLiwg's advance agent bills the great attraction of the Senatorial clrcus to such sdvantage as he might. Let him learn from the genius whols advertising that inanew story by a popular artist will shorily begin ln o popular weekly, our advertising ratcs by applylng at the bust ness office. Hays the announcement: **The Hunky Boy with the Calico Eye,’ better kiown a8 * The Sarpiut of Siskyon County,’ Is Coming} Behold a Glaot 8ix Feot Two 1n Helght, with Muscles Like 8 Drize-Fighter and Fista Like Small Horns!! "In Each Enormous Taw, with Arms Outstretched, Ie Holds a Heathon Chines by tho Slack of His Roowy Panta- joons!it”. That is the sort of thing to at- tract attentlon, and If it pays to do it for a slushy story in a family paper, why shoulda't 1t poy where the attraction s 93 enormous as it is in Mistoh Conkring's casel If AMistah CoNKLING'S agent would only put up a fow thousand four-sheet posters in aix colors, representing Mistah CoNxrLiNg In hls war palut, with tomahawk as big 23 a meat-ax, we fancy that Mistah CoNkLiNG would draw crowded galleries during the entlro duration of Lis cogazennt. ——— Mr. GarriELD has bought a mew farm fn Ohfo. We blasten to assure the Irrcconcilable Democratic press that the public thirats to hear where Mr, GanviztD got the money. There havo been severul darlng bighway robberles in New York of late. The new silver dollar has been countorfeited. Bomebody upset sn old woman's apple-cart at Cleveland last week and stola her loose chunge. Tho demon of dishan. csty stalks triumphant tbrough our midst. Terhaps it may bo found that Mr, GARFIZLD'S title to that farm is vitlated by Fraud. Wo micrety throw out o few hints, Reduce the farm- er to ten thousand acreal ——— A Doston poet hos thus aweetly described s somewhat {deallzod Western scene: The cows of the wilderness low, e et abialus Sumoaiy fow TSeRaiY bressod by the auds of the damaes, Phis s very bosutiful, The sdmlrers of the bard should make a pligrimage to his home and pelt him with superanuuated exgs. But it fan't to Incite thew to rugo that we print his verse; 1t fs only to bo enabied to remark that— Tho calves of the Treasury go For the sume uader dilloront names Jus uuiritive founts will abundantly fow When they put through tho Southern war clafms, - ——— OurNew York uamesake speaks of Benator flowe as a ** distinzulstied Republican leader.” And yet it veemns tous only yesterday that the New York Z'ribune, by way of Hllustratiog Mr, Hows's intellectual grasp, remarked that it ho had beou on buard of the ark he would proba- bly have come on deck on the thirty-niath day of the big raln gud sald, *0, ho! Raiu, ch! Good for the faruiers—mako the crops grow." e — It is understood that Messrs, W, 8. WiLKER and Cuanrgy W. Noatuue, formerly of the Times, and latierly proprietors of the Chicago Advertistng Bureau, will bo given the editorlal and busiuess munagement of the Ewalng Post. Buch au arrangement would be likely 1o be promBiog one for evenlng jouroallsm in the West, aud of specially good results to the stockholders of the Post, e —— Though the Republican majority fn New Hamopshire was consideradbly reduced-at the rocent clection the thres Congressional Districts ail went Reptiblican, The First is uow repre- sented by s Demoerat. It is the closo district of the State, tho others belng pretty safe, and weshall {n all probability galn it back mext elfu«on. Why ahould the New York Tribune pralse Mr, Tows's anti-Iiaves specchi Mr. Hows ls not on the Committes on Rallroads. e ———— “The Bophomores and Freshmen may be said ls is there 18 & sult for & divorce. All b to bolong to tho * dangerous classcs.” Mayn't :muy'wm e e venaie. B uu‘ul;,x thetic being thelr deacription of the soreo! f:. fathor snd mother over thelr erriug boys :xmn‘ thelz happlucss at recovering him from the d\v :, of bis miserable young w! whosa only o\;n consiated in 8 passionste love aud devoiion 302 basbend, they! Thero s only ons vessel & yosr between Alsaka and the outer world, sud ou ber last voyage she capsized and drowned the Collector of Customs, who was golug to take cbarge of