Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1878, Page 4

SR 21, CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1878 Tlhye Tribawe, TERMS OF SUBSCRII'TION, T MAIL—IN ADY. Pails Editien, ane rear "arts of & yedr. per mo bundsy Kaitio Double gheet.. Faturday E a1t il eekly, one yen uf & YeRr, per Ol ot eopy, peryes STAGE PRETAID. S WREKLY EDV inb of four... Epectmen coples sent Tree. cireron-otice address n fall Including Gtate and ounty. Temitiances may be made efther by draft, express, Toat-Oftice order, of in registered lettert, at our risk. TERMS TO CITT SUNSCRIDERS, Dally, dellvered, Sunday excepted, 23 cents per week, Tafly, delivered, Sundsy incluled, 30 cents pee week. Addren THE THIBUNE COMPANT, Corner Maditon and Diearborn-sta., Chicago, TlL. Orders for the delivery of Tis TatRUNE AL Ryanston. Englewood, and Hyde Park left In tia couuting-room Wilireceive prompt attention. e e—— TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. TnE Cnica6o TRINTKE has eatabiished branch ofiices forthe receiptof subscrivtions snd advertiiements 83 follows: 'NEW YORK—Room 20 Tribune Butiding. F.T. 3o~ FADDEN, Manager. PARIS, France—No. 10 Rtua de Is Grange-Dateliere. 0 Maner, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Eschange, 440 Sirand. Madleon strect, hetween Deas and Bate, ++ A Celebrated Cuse.™ by the Unlon Bquare Company, Afiernoon and eveniug. 1looles’s Theatre. Randolph street, _butween Ciark and LaSalle. Engagement of J. K. Emmet. *‘Frits." Aftornoon and evenlng. Now Chicago Theatre. Clark street, opposite Sherman llouse, Engage- ment of Ninon Duclos’ Burlesqua Troupe. **Little Bo- Peep.¥ Afternoon ond eventog. Hnver!: hentre. Monto street, corner of Dearbora. Engagement of Kiralty's Opers Douffe Troupe. **Trlp ta tho Moon.” Atteruoon and evenlig, Coliweum Novelty Theatre. Clark street. opposite Court-livuse. Varlety per- formance. e WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1878 Gold nnd silver coln at tho New York Stock Exchange yesterday closed nt 1013, The cable dispatches anunounce the oconr- ronce in Ireland yosterday of n tragedy which in ordinary times wonld produce n tremendous sensation throughout Great Dritain—being the brutal murder of the Earl of Lritnsx by o party of Irish tenants who wore under notico to quit or: account of arrearages for rent. The Earl and his clerk and driver wero oll shot and killed as they wero passing tho cottage of awidow who and beon recently evicted. The murdered aobleman was n Peor of Iroland nnd of tho “Jnited Kingdom, nund tho owner of large es- iates in Leitrim ond Derry Counties, chiefly ‘ohabited by Protestant Irish ‘Whatover may be cald of ** Our Oanten's” Jatent now fanglod Civil-Servico invontion a3 deseribed in the bill introduced by him, ho s ontitled to credit for his manly and vigorous stand in faver of wnon-partisan honesty in dealing with tho ecso of Doorkeeper ToLk, whoso derclictions hiavo just baen ventilated by Mr. Hanzwson'’s Committee, Ifo was fought at overy inch by Democrats who are equally guilty with tho Doorkeoper in violating tho law, in that the appointments in excoss of the legal number wero wade at their solicitation, Thoy undertook to laugh him down, end, failing in this, to howl him down, but did not succcod oither in stifling what he had to eny, or in proventing the question from coming beforo the Houss inn shapo in which action upon it can be forced. Town meotings in Chlcago have under- gone a remarkablo change since the timo when tho taxpayers stayed away and tho tax- caters and tho bummersattended to tho town finnnces, The gatherings yesterdny wore no- tablo for the presence of intelligent businesa men, and for the careful scrutiny given to all tho matters portainivg to tho tax lovy, town cxpenses, ote, In South Chicago it was found that no town tax wus necessary for 1878, aud nono was, thorefore, authorized. At the West ‘Town meeting thoaffairs of thoPark Board received a thorough overbauling, and tho demand of the taxpoyers for a reduction of oxpenditurcs, for tho retirement of or- pex, und for o continuance of tho economi. cal policy adopted by the four now Commis. sionors was vxpresved in n manuer not to bo misundersiood, Ho long as town meotings aro vequired to bo held, rospoctable people will fiud that it psys to bo on Laud and at. tend to them. The Europoan situntion continues eritical without threatening uny jmmedinte precipie tation of tho couflict that secmus inuvitablo, ‘Whatever elso Ruasin may do to avert war, it oppears scttled that she will not back squarely dowu. The gigantic prepara- tions going forward within the Ins. tian lines prove conclusively that the Czar is providing ogainst the worst that may happen. Hisdemand upon the Porto for the privilego of taking up positions commanding both tho Dardauelles and the Bosphorus shows o determination to act iu time, Tur- key may refuse to evacuate the points nomed for tho bonefit of the Nussian artillorists when the Grand Duke dosires to ju- stall bohind tho defenses along the waler-way to Coustantinople and the Dlack Bea ; in that event Ruusia will take them without permission, for the posscsslon of thexo posts, iu the oveut of hostilities with Englaud, is o neceasity which admits of no deniul. 'The consumwation of such o move- sent would Lo alinost certalu to bring ou the clash of army, oud avy day may wit- ness it. Tlings camo very near being called by their right nameas in the Bonate yosterday in connection with tho debate on the Pacifie Lailroud Sivking-Fund bill. Mr. Epuusps did not eay in 8o wany words that tho rail. rond lobby was employing bribery for the purpose of coutrolling votes in Congress, for Benatorial Jecorurn and privilego wonld . not pormit the use of lauguage so unequivo- cal ; but ke did gay that the lobbyistaliavo cn. Joyed thefreedow of thaBenate floor on which fo distributo roilroad passcs and to openly solicit and iufluenco votes in favor of rail- road intercuts, Judge Epmuxps said enough to lay the foundation for the sppointment of an Investigating Cowmmittee. What be knows sbout this subject the country would like to know ; and it would bo irmeresting to bave him specify some of the nowspapers in which he says he kuows editorials havo been purchused st fifty conts o lino by the raroad companivs, The peoplo have begun to more than suspect that the great railway corpora- tions Lvld o first-wortgege lien upon the votes of & largo nuwber of Scoators and Leprcscntatives in all matters affucting rail- rond interesta; what the people want to know noxt is, who they are, and what tho present figuro is for voto: e s THE CITY COUNCIL. The election yesterday wna a very quiot one, and the vote companatively a small one. Thero wero no general city officers to ba clected, and tho contests wero therefore of nlocal character, for Ward Aldermon nnd township officors. The candidates’ wero nominally Republican, Democratic, Nation- ol, and Socinlist. There wero also sovoral indopondent candidates for Aldormen, and in sovernl wards there was a union of No- tionals and Democrats, and this dotermined the clioico in two or three wards, In the Filth Ward, Mr. Tonxzn, Independont, waa elected ovor half & dozon competitors. In the Second Ward thero wero throe candi. dates, two Republicans and ona Democrat, and Sawpers, Democrat, being supported by the Nationals, waa clected by 57 ma- jority over Ald, Rosexpxno, In the Third Ward, Mr, O. B. Pnecrs, the Democratic nominee, was olocted by Republicans, who wero dissatisfied with their own enndidnte. In the Ninth Ward, alarge number of Ro-- publieans repudinted the party candidate nnd supported Mr, Lovasoy, an independent Democrat, but the Democrata of the ward supported Mr, SstyTa, the Republicon nem- ince, who was clocted by a large majority. In the Tenth Ward, Mr. Emzxen, Democrat, waa supported also by tha Nationalists, and waa elected. In the Eighth Ward, tho no- torious Frawg Lawren, supported by tho Democrats, Nationalists, and Socialists, wns re-olected. 1In the Eightoenth Ward, Joxas was olocted over Bnooxs by the criminal neglect of the respeotablo por- tion of the citizens to voto. It s n matter of profound regrot that Jomy Alc. Oarrney has beon clocted in the Seventeenth Ward, In tho Soventh Ward, whero two Aldormen wore elected, McNarry wos eloct- od for two years and Rionpax for one year. Tho eclection of Mr. Tvrer in the First Ward will ba gratitying to all frionds of good government. In tho Sixteonth Ward Mr, Werrsnen is elected by less than 20 majority over Konrm, Comnunist, whilo in the Fif- teonth Ward A. W, Warpo was re-olocted, ovor A. R. DPainsoxs, Socinlist, and Hrour, Democrat. In the Fourteonth Ward Mr, Staunen, Bocialist, was olected by over 00 majority. ’ 1t is not possible at this time to form dn opinfon na to the character of the now Coun- cil, So many of thoso olected yosterday aro new men, who have not hitherto participat- ed fn public affairs, thot it is unsafo to form any opinion, except perhaps to say that the conscrvativo and economical majority which hns ruled in the Council during tho lnst two yoara will bo reduced, ‘it not wholly over- come. 4 Tho membors of the now City Council, including thozo elacted yesterdsy and thoso holding over from last year, aro as followa: Wards, _Holding over. Mew membert, 1. b, WM. K. Tuley, ‘atrick Sanders, ), 18, Pheips, . ¥, Mailory. corge Turnor, . . Cullerton. the Btates lately in rebollion, it wonld merely | more study to tho question of Civil- e a drop in the great ocean of their oxpect- | Bervice reform than it ia said & cer- otions. They cars notling for gonernl leg- | tain ox-Senntor from Illinois gave to financo islation. To them tho Postal-Savings bill | and political economy, when he annonneed nnd the popnlar 4 per cent loan are of no himselt as thoroughly prepared to speak possible concorn, They want bountles, with anthority on those themos nfter two Iargo grants of moneys, paymont of claims, | weoks' reading, Onr observation of the expenditures for improvemonts of any kind, | present Congress scoms to justify the opin- nnd subsidies. A subsidy will cover suy | fon that it may do many foolish things, but doformity, moral or political. They will voto | it will scarcoly accept nud indorse Mr, Han- for legialation blotting out even the Inst ves- | n1son's proposition for an itinerant Appoint- tige of Blato Sovereignty, if the bill bo sugar- [ ment Board, and a relogation by law of the conted with o subsidy. Any man who will | real appointing powor of all tho Government offer to expend $100,000,000 in building rail- cmployes to the politiciana of tite Lower ronds 1n tho South ean command the yptes IHonse of Congreca. Civil-Bervico reform of most of those people to have tho money | is too broad a subject and too serious a mat- pnid to him out of tho Nntional Trensury. | ter to bo settled so ensily nnd summarily as For eightoon years the peoplo of the North | Mr. Hannisox proposes. have boen tazod to tho uttermost of their e means to pay for putting down tho Reboll- [ BERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST THE MINT- jon; thess Bonthern Congressmen demand DIRECTOR. additional taxation to mako good tho losses | Tho Bon Francisco correspondent of tho of thore who carried on that Robeltion. Cincinnati Commercial, in n communication Tho House of Reprosentaives is divided printed in that paper of Sunday Inst, makos botwoen two clusscs of mombers, A | Bome very gravo charges ngainst tho official clasa of mon, mainly from the North and integrity of Dr. LiNpeayay, the Director of TRepublicans, who acck the regular and logit- tho Mint., Thoe length of his communication mmoto legislation required by tho business of | and of the official lotters and documonta ac- tho conntry, and such changes as time and | companying it makes it impossible for us to exparience call for. Tho other, embracing publish them ontire, but wo may briefly nearly the wholo Bouth and o Iargo numbor | Atato the substance. from tho North, are men governed by the iden Thefirst sorious charge is thot of nopotism, that logitimata legislation tmeans the appro- which this correspondent avers lins ontailod printion of monoy from the Trensury, or, in useless expenso upon the Govornment for tion of money, the fasuo of mora bonds, Uu- bills fneurred by the Dircctor and bia reln- fortunatoly, tho numbor of mou who can por- tives oud friends in uunocessary traveling. ‘sundo themaolves to givo awny public money Inthis connection ho prints o schedulo of £nd public bonds ns a gratnity is large encugh thirty-four paymonts mado from tho con- to pass any law that is pald for: Will the tingent fund within np‘uflod of about threo lobby pay enough? Tox Bcorr can af. | YoAT® smounting to $18,642, of which ho ford to pay ont ton millions of dollars to clnims not half o dozen wero nocessary, It obtaln tho subsidy he sceks, ond e expacts is olloged that in 1874 ho caused to be paid to havo that subsidy voted fo him boforo [ $1,001 to his brothor, A. B. LiNpERAAX, for Congress adjourns, The ring ropresented servico in fitting up a rofinery In u‘m Ban by Jax Goutp nnd tho fmudulent stock of Francisco Mint, tho latter professing to tho Tacifio rallrosds can afford to spond | be sn expert, when in reulity ho know twonty millions of dollars to dofoat tho bilt | Botking sbout Lis businoss, sud ~bis roported by Tronyax from tha Senato Judi- work had to bo all dono over aming clary Committeo and to pass tho Branter that ho pnid daring tho same timo §4,081 to Marrazwa bill. Thosowho read tho dobates | ©0¢ Roozns, another professed expert, for on theso bills will bo struck by tho conscion. | Work on tho refinery, whon Sen_Francisco tious regard for * vosted rights” shown by | W88 full of esperts who would have dono thosa who refuse to voto to make theso ronds | the samo work ab much lesa exponso ; that pay tho $00,000,000 of principal and interest at the timo he was investigaling clinrges thoy now owe to tho Government, and who | ogainst the Buperintendont of tho San Fran- favor tho practical roloaso of the companics clsco Mint, Lis son's exponscs, smounting to from oll payment, ns is proposed by the | OVeF $1,200, were poid out of the contingont Marraews bill. To put it in plain English, fund forservices which werp nover rondered; tho ono schema Is logal, just, honest, and and .tlmt in 1876 ovor $1,600 wero paid for nocessarg, whilo tho ather is fraudulent nnd | Rorvices not rendored to ono F. H. Gasea- ishonest, and means the relesso to Jax | AT who was sent to San Franclsco oaton- Govp and his associntos of what will ulti. | #ibly to take on inventory of tho fumiturs of mately amount to §160,000,600. Notwith- tho Mint, which of course conld have beon standing the confessed and notorious chame. | done by sny of the dint officinls, Tn ter of tho two bills, evon tho Sennto cannot | connection with Gassaway hangs o talo. Ho be induced to consider the Taumsax bill two | Wos tho privato sccrotary of Wit 8, days In succossion, much less to voto upon Hoxmisoton, tho Cashier of Jax Cooxe's and poss tho bill. The action of Congross Socond National B‘““k in Washington, and, on this bill iz & typo of its goneral ac- | GPOR Huxtivoton's demise, cawe into pos- tion. The Silvor bill was passod, but it nesalon of some of his papers which owad its muccess to the irrosistiblo domand | contained proofs of indiscrotions upon of tho people. Congress is indifforont to or tho part of Congressmen and othor publio Tofusos to oct on ony honest or legitimate | Persons who wero frionds of Lixpemaax, question; overy bill of that kind is post | At the solicitation of theso frlonds, Gasaa- ponod, delayed, or defontod, as if by common | WAY was sent s for away 89 possiblo from consont, and thoso mensures having for their | Washington, and tumed up in San Francisco object tho deplotion of the Troasury for sub- | UPOR the sbaurd Commission to inventory sidies aro pressed forward, and scemingly | the furnituro of the Mint. Accompanying only fail to pnss beeauso tho bids for votes the order from Lixpensu to the Superin. do not scom to havo rison to the markot | tendent of the Mint to roimburse Gassaway value, = for his services was the following mgmo- ‘Tho prosont Congress, theroforo, may bo randum of warning, whlcl.x is printed in the sald to have already survived its usofulness, | Commercial in the fac-ginilo of tho Dircctor's It is & more committeo for tho salo of gub- | chirography t i g . sidies. Tho soonor tho Appropriation bills | _Onr Inandelasen LA ‘!.“";“ ingetliog elear aro passed and Congress adjourns tho better hat you do or ::?r& W Impats. no ?mc;::::: it will bo for tho country, and tho botter for | el lg Mimn, sse verls, s Ma slons, thosa Congressmen who havo nccounts to | Iwould not pay hilm inndvance. Your courso {s sotto with thol conatituonts, No mubsidy | setr ol nflcie; Only e, tonchets doy trader or apologist will bo tolerated by any | will ald in serving some of our big fricnds into constitucney in the West any longor than {t | FR0t5 Hore this (SeR hans fome wey, tukncwn 1a possiblo to eloct his succossor. to closa oat the whols businces, —Burn, i T —— Thero aro still othar chargos no loss sorious “QUR CARTER" ON CIVIL BERVICE than the sbova. It is assertod that Dr. Lav. ‘What peculiar fitness BMr, Spoakor RaN- | penaaxis fondof presonts and contributions, pary discovered In Our Oanten” to war- | which he exaota from thoso under him upon rant Lis appuintmont as Chairmnan of the | protonses of povorty, Upon ono cecasion, Committee on tho Civil Bervico wo shall not | in 1874, while in Ban Francisco, ke deplored undortake to determino; but this appoint-'| nls poverty to such an extent that the officers ment bas afforded ¢* Our OARTER"” an oppor- | of the Mint mndo up a littlo pool of 81,000, tonity to introduco a Dill, and wuch an | which was banded to Mrs. Linpenuan. Tho opportunity he novor allows to pass unim- | Coinor of the Mint, who contributed §250 of proved. Alr, Iannisow's bill for tho im. | this amount, was aftorwards detocted in an provoment of tho Civil Borvice will command | ombezzlement of 12,000, and, it 1s allegod, some attontion from just two classes of | was naved from prosecution and tho Peniton- wmembers. Ono class consists of thoso who | tiary by Dr. Linpenuan, who interposed in will rocognize nn advantage in tho bill be. | his bohnlf and supprossed an inveatigation, canse it crontes n now buveau, now offices, | The samo correspondent also furnishes tho and now oxpenses; tho other class will | data of three purchases of Mint supplics oppose tho bill bocause of o fear that it moy | made by the Doctor, which have a ourious possibly load to some reform fn the Oivil [ look sbout them, Two of theso purchases Borvico; but, whatover tho relative atrongth | included 18,111 pounds of fino coppor, of its sdvocates and opponents may be, they | which were bought in 1874 of Gxonoe will not togothor bo numerous onough to | B, Newtow, of Philadelpbia, a friond bring the bill to nvote. Tho Sonate will | of Livpemvan, ond not a metal iguoro the bill entirely, bocause OasTes has | dealor, ot o price considerably obovo the entirely ignored the Sonato in tho-bill, which | market rates, which would of necessity in- divides Govornment patronngo nwmong the | volve a profit to Nxwro, sices ho could not Congressional Districts, and confines tho | buy any choaper of tho dsslors than tho privilege of making recommondntions for | Governmont could, and nlso the very gravo office to tho membery of the House of Rep- | suspicion that o percontage of profit wont resontatives, Had Mr, IlinntsoN boen o | to tho Director himsolf, 1t is also charged member of tho Benato, this might have boen | {hat tho Director purchasod from his brother, dufferent, Gannerr Livpenaax, the ownerof the Sugar. Tho prineipal featuro of Mr. Tannisox’s | Lonf Coal Mo in Pennsylvanin, 500 tous of bill is'the creation of a Loard of five Com- | hand-plcked coal, which was shipped for wmisaioners at very haudiomo salarles, with | uso fu tho Ban Francisco and Ourson Mints, liberal ollowancos for clerks and traveling | At the timo of tho shipmont, Laxprnyay oxponses, This is to be asort of junketing | wroto to Laonaxcy, Superintendont of the Commission, which shall have generalpowers | San Fronclsco Mint, a lctter in which ho over the appointment of all employcs of the | gaya: * You will plenso carefully nota the Governmeut, except Postmastors drawing a | results of the trial of this coal, both in the salary of 83,000 and upwards, and such | melting.-room snd n respoct to its stonme other officers ns shall “under the law bo op- | producing power, 03 compared with the pointed by tho President. Tho now Dopart- | coul herctofore used, If the result shall ment of Civil Service, then, would excrcise | prove cutircly satistactory, auother shipmont supervision not morely over tho Govern. | will bo made.” Homwmo time lator, Lionanan ment clerks aud employes at Washington, but | wrote a roply, in which he squarcly sat down those employed in overy Collector’s offico, | upon the Diroctor's project of openiug up a ovory Pouslon-Agont’s oflico, ovary Tost-Of. | profitable trodo forhisbrother, In his lottor flos, uvery BubTreasury, overy Mint,audovery | Lo makes no complaint of the quality of tho other Government ostablishmoent through- | coal, but objects ta its uso npon tho ground of out the country. Wo should huagino that this | expense. He iuforms Lanpenuay that the chorgo would keep the Sve Commissioners | cosl laid down in Hon Francisco coat $21.09 tolerably busy in any conscientious effort to | per ton, while the same conl was selling io do their duty ; gentlowen should bo solected | that city ot the time ot $14.50 per ton deliv. who aro foud of traveling. ‘Thorecommond. { ored. 1le addss *“Tho Buu Francisco coal ation of mombers of Cougresy is scoredly | market i lisble to fluctuations, but there is protected, bowever, by the far-seeing CakTER, | o period in overy year when tho purchasor, aud all recommendations from neighbors aud | with ready monoy, can procura coal at a less | wetallic tone which the diso gives off by the uEll:l:l must pass through tho momber of tho | price than it would cost to purchase and | use of some sensitive materinl which will district whoro the applicant rosides, subject | ghip it from the East. It it could be o ar | exactly veproduco tho tone of voice talked to hig judorsemont. It is ouly whon the | yranged that Icould tsko ndvantage of afa- | irto tho iustrument. Oune application of showa such familiarity with the workings and records of the Mint in San Franeisco, and fortifies his charges with so many offlalal documents, 03 well as with tho actual correspondenco of Lixpentax, that thoy will earry great welght with them, nnd raiso woll- fonndod suspicions of ncpotism, favoritism, gift-taking, Crodib-Mobilier contracts, and componnding of villainies in high places, unless they aro disproved by ovidonco as strong nt lenst as that upon which thoy are based, Tho conspicuous manner in which thoy are printed in oncof the most impor- tant newspapers of tho country gives them a publicity that cannot be avoided. Dr. Lan. DeaxaN should bo given an opportanity to oxplain them bofora a Congressionnl investi- gnting committeo. it in tho mnchine, gots one of hia children to turn tho crovk, and straightway Mr, AMon. poox, Mr. Vaxprxnory, or Mrs, Darnry com- mences ronding the novel to the dalighted family, Again, tho sdmirors of Mr. Bzrcuzn by a similar procoss can have that gontloman pronch bis own sermons to them in their parlors with all the graces of his oratory, and Moopr and Saxxer can hold a rovival servico on o piete of copper five inches in diamoter, withont exposing one to tho dangor of bolng equeezed to death or having his pockots picked. Kentooe and Oasy can warblo their swoolost molodies to us at so much o plate, without the odious and ple- beinn necessity of standing in line for B reserved sont, or of boing horsssed by the quarrels of prime donne, while the prominent singors of the Old World, who never come hero, can grow familiar by tho samo pleasant procoss of turning a crank, Of course wo shall have to take the musio without accompani- ment, but, 0 accompnniments aro almost al- woya bad, their absonco will bo matter for congratulation, One of the most delightful applications of the phonograph will Lo its summary squolching of the chronfo bore, Every businoss mnn will keep a phonograph, {nto which tha boro will talk his errand, and the moerchant can grind it out at his leisnre or lot it alone, ne ho plonses, The peripa- totio and gnrrulous book-ngont onters with his customary flondish smile, and s at onca introducod to tho phonograph in some rotired corner, into whoso nnsympathotic cars ho pours his conventional haraugue. A fow trials will suppress tho most inveterate and persistont book-1gent that ovor trav- eled, for which tho gmtitade of o longsufforing world will bo due to Mr. Eptsoy, gmnpowder nnd sirych- nine having thus far failed to have any offect upon this class of undesirablo fnovita- bilittes. Tho phonograph will also bo a sourco of comfort and consolation to long- sufforing wivos whoso husbands aro in the habit of staying out late at night and ve- tarning in tho small hours to wrestlo with the key-holo, and oventally go to bod with thelr boots on. To got ovon with theso wrotches, tho poor woman has to sit up and woit thoir &ming in ordor to more effoctu. ally froo,hier miud, IHaving Lor phono- graph, sho can speak a vigorous laature into it, and, fixing tho clock-work so that it will go off at tho timo sho knows ho will return, she can composo horsolf to sleop, confident that Ler ropresontative will do har work with tho nocessary vigor nnd omphaals, and that the victim will have to enduro it. Ho may roise tho window and pitcl the phonograph into tho stroot, but the machine will nane tho less havo its say out, and in this caso will havo thie immodinte neighbors for liston. ors. For tho curtainecturo business tho phonograph will bo of great advantage, 0s it con bo set to go of at any specificd timo, like on nlarm-olock. A wofnan specinlly giftod in invective and ear- cosm, and having a good flow of spesch, could do n thriving business by supplying plates to thosoe of her wex less gifted in tho seienco of combing down recroant spouscs and reducing them to a stato of pliability and won't-do-so-any-more. Many family jars might bo ploasantly adjusted by tho phonograph. Tbo husband and wife could scold it out into their instrumonts, and leave them on tho buresu for tho housemnid to tako out into the back.yord, whore thoy conld sputter at oach othor without doing any barm, Right at this point, however, thero is o startling posaibility. Mr. Enisox's scrophono is only a colossal talophono that convoys sound for ton milex Tho alarming copnbilitios of such an instrument are appar. ont whon the render contomplates an imato woman, whose husband is out later than ho ought to be, In posscsalon of & voica ton milos long and 03 big 2 @ small clap of thundor. Tho clock strikes twelvo, one, two; the wholo city 18 wrapped in silonce, when suddenly o voloe cries through the startled aoir, awakoning overy ome from sleop, *‘Jomx Hrxnx Joxws, you como homo right off, or you'll catch it.” Buch developmonts of domestis discipline are among the alarming posaibilitios of Mr, Epr- son's invontions, Novertheless, wo aro ine clined to regard bim ns one of the wondors of the world. While Huxizx, Trparz, Spxxoen, and the othor theorists talk and speculate, ho quivtly produces accomplished facts, ond, with his marvolous inventions, iy pushing the wholo world shead in its march to tho highest civilization, making lifo more enjoyable, and proving tho declaration of’ that old fogy, Bovoxox, that thero ls noth- ing now under tho sun, to bo arrant non- sons0, off Portsmouth, a drawn battle. Tho larcest ship in the English armament was the Mary Rose, a vesscl of 600 tons, and carrying sixty guns, which 8ir Enwarp Howanp had declareq o be **the flower of all ships that ever railed.h 8he was wanned Ly Ble Gxonor Cancw and o crew of 4U0 ten, moatly gentlemen, Her ports were open for actfon, aud her guns ran out ang looscly secured, wheu, as stie heeled over to o sudden squall, the guos Lroka lvose, and shg capsized and sank almest Instantly, 1 full sight of the fghting squadron, I August, 1782, the Royal Ueorge, a 100-gun ship, was lald slightly on her side at Spithiead, to ens able tho carpenters to get nt aleak near hep keel. About 10 o’clock a sudden pufl of wind from the northwest throw the vesicl over, Liep ports flted, and in threo minutes she wong down, swallowing up fn the vast voriex sie causedd & rmall victualing ship that lay beside lier. About 300 men were saved, but, as her ful] - complement of 000 mea was oo board and the vessel was crowded withh thefr friends and the persons usually found on a ship-of-war un ths eveof departure for o forelgn station, v iy probable that ncarlya thousand souls were lost, And uow, after a lapse of ninety-six yoars, ¢ third ship, the Eurydice, has gone down with all on board but two in the same fatal waters, aud almost st the samo Iatal spot. ——————— THE POPULAR BONDS. Beoretary Snenuay, in his Iatest Interview with tho Houso Banking and Currency Com- mittee, again drow nttention to tho impor- tant aid to reaumption that may bo attained throngh nn authorized issuo of popular bonds, On this account, nnd for other rea- sons, o 4 por cent bond, running ffty years, and issued in denominations as small as $25, ia n national nocessity., Tho Beuate - passod a bill nuthorizing such an fssue, nnd it was turnod over to tho Ways and Means Com- mitteo n fortnight ago, bnt nothing has sinco boen heard of it. Tho bill is so sim- plo, nud the public demand for such & mens- uro {8 8o obvions, that the deloy in reporting and passing it in the ITouse ir altogethor,un- ncconntable, Tho salo of 4 per conts in large amounts, through the agency of syndi- cates, camo to s standstill many months ago. Tfhe Becrotary of tho Trensury has done all in his powor/under the prosont refunding act, to bring theso Londs dircetly within reach of tho people, but tho restriotions of tho law havo practically ronderod the effort abortive. Ho oxprosses tho utmost confldence, however, in his ability to disposo of small bondsat4 per contin curronoy to almost any oxtont, and tho proceods from such salo would be used in' part to accumu- Inte coln for resumption purposes, nnd in part to rotire 6 por cont matured bonds and reduce tho Governmont's interost account, Tho prompt passngo of tho Bonmato bill would also afford the poople of the country n safo investmout for thelr surplus carnings. Tho donomination of tho bonds would bo small onough to come within the reach of every person who has saved §25, and n direct subscription in curroncy will so sim- plify tho transaction that tha advantagos of tho investmont will be readily comprehonded Ly oll; and it will bo practicable and casy at all times and places. ‘We binve hoard that tho Enstorn savings banks ore interesting themselves to difeat tho proposed legislation to establish a na- tional savings system, and wo should not be surprised if tho samo influonce bad been di- rected ngainst tho passage of tho Popular- Bond act. 'Tho renson of this opposition ia obvious enough. It is illustrated by tho ro- cent failure of the New York sixpenny con- corn, The insocurity of the privato savinges. bank systom is becoming as npparont in tho Tast 6a it hos beon for somo time in the West, and theso banks aro trying to savo themsolves' from oxposure by defesting a Governmont guarantoo for the safo-keoping of deposits, When tho savings-bank faflurea in the West were occuiring, information was volunteered from Now York and the Now England Btotes that nothing of the kind could happen in that section of tho country, bocnuse protection was absoluto under tho laws. Since thon, the rotton concerns in New York and Now Jersoy bave bogun to goto ploces, and Massachusotts has pussed o stay- low to prop up similar institutions in that, Stato, Of course, an officient postal-savings system wonld roccivo the goneral patronsgo which on nbsonco of national protoction now forces into the private banks, and this would lead to the winding up of all the concorns that are now tottering on the verge of bankruptoy. To avoid this result, the Eastorn savinga banks aro making a desporato fight to dofeat every postal-snvings schemo that has been proposod, and we presumo that they aro antagonizing the popular bonds fortho same reason, In othor words, Con. gress s asked to rofuse tho people the facilities they domand, and at tho samo timo neglect tho interests of resumption and stand in tho way of reducing the snnual intorest on the publio dobt, in order to onable the privato savings banks in the East to swindlo tho working classes out of their bard-carned sovings s thoso of the West havo already done to so large an oxtent, No good ronson can bo assigned for any further delay in roporting and passing through the House tho Sonato bill, author. izing ‘tho issuo of the 4 por cont popular bonds, whick Sccrotary Boxnaix says ho can sell rapidly and without nny troublo or cx- penso. Tho conourronco of tho Houso is all that {s needed to make this bill alaw, It will afford & large mensuro of reliof to the Qovernmont oud the country at Jargo, with. out interfering in any way with any of the propositions now before the House for the eatablishment of o postal-savings system. After the passagoe of the Popular-Loan bill, tho Houso will receive more indulgonce from tho country for any delay thers may be in supplementing it with a national-savinge wystom offering wider fucilities for the safo- keeping of surplus carniugs, The Jacksonville Journa! announces aa g candidate befuro the fortheoming State Hepup. lican Conventlon tha name ot Prof. IlrxnyL, BorTwoob, of the Princeton High School, tor State Buverlotendent of Puabile Instru ction, The Journal says: Beveral axcellent men bave boen spokon of ag eaudidates for the vllice of Btate Superintendent of TublicInstruction, Lut, to our thinking. noother by nutarul tastes and practlcal testning, o wu’l qualiied for the posliion ua Prof. liexnr L, utwoun, of Priuceton. T is, ond has been for yeats, the Principal of tbe Princoton High School, which ranks second to noue in the Stats, Untrer. sally popular with public school teachers, be like. wise, on account of hua broad views of cdueation, cnjoys the confidence of all friends of lbors) learning. On no one else would the mantle of g DY, Barhuan foll more fitly ond rest moro grace ally. ———— Bpeakiog,of the Baxxia Army blll, a Fort Lyon correspondent of tho Donver Lribung says: |2 Lyon is considerably exercisod ovor Dax. uia's Army bill now peading fa Congrens, and it is no wonder that many ot the army feal slightly ndianant ot ths Congresatonsl tiukering with help vocatfon, Lawing, belng 8 Congressman, msy think himeelf iuvulnerable, like Tloxen's horo, Acutsrrs, —but [ sunnleo, judging from the i, that when'he was immersed in the watora of per fection hio was held Uy that partof his permon where taobody ends and Lte logs begin. aud thushis largest portion ramained out. =~ Atloast in lisam. bitlon to serve his political desires he showed imself to by s idlot, uttorly without knowledva 8 10 the wants uf o frontier, as alsoof the value of tha services uf those who have endared the hard- ships fucident to the protection vf the Western settlomente, and wos bu to the Democratlc Ionss if it ahall pass this bill. e ———— Tho Itallan newspapcrs have not failed to dis. cuss the degree of interest which Italy has in the solution of the Eastern question. The Glornale dells Colonde, of Rome, recontly printed alongarticle showing that, in the event of the breaking up of the Ottoman Emplre, it would be the policy of Italy to at once take posscsion of Tanls. In good weather, it says, from tlo southern extremity of Italy may bo eeen tnat Afriean land on which the gonius of Rome has left so many finperishable traces,—~Carthage, now Tunis. From tho samo article wo leam that ft 1s proposed to bulld o raliway which shall Place the portof tho suclent Jugarthize Kingdom b direct communication with the beart of Afriea. e —— ‘Tha differenco between English and Americen Justico reccives an apt {llustration fn the latest London papers at hand, Two men wero on t6e 15th of March sentenced to penal servitude for seven y ears for stealing snow-grops and bulbs from the garden of o Woolwich mazistrate, This Is czactly balf the term {mposcd upons sclfconfessed murderer by & jury of humane Waukegran citizens ot the closc of o careful trial last 8at urday. L I i 14. Michnel Ryan, 18, Frauk Nies ——— Tho Chinese question Is troubling the Aus- trollans. 1n New South Wales and Queensland potitions have been circulated prayine that the Celestials b excjuded from tho gold-felds ‘What is left for the Ileathen Chineo but extioc tioni Aud from all sccounts ho sccmstobe ' rapldly reaching that goal by starvation utbomoe as well as by persccution abroad. e et——— From o report recontly printed in tho London Times, it appears that tho Postal Savings Banks, .under directlon of the British Governtuont, pro- duced a profit lnst year of £143,810, or about $728,000, over tho Interest allowed and tho exe penses of carrylog ou tho oftlocs. e PERSONALS. The oolloction of paintings bolonging to Miflton 8. Latham, of San Francisco, was soldat auction In New York laat Thuraday, roallzing 168 large amount of $100, 050, W. B, 0'Donoghug, one of the leaders o the Riel insurrection fn Manitoba, and Becrotary of the Treasury of tho Provinclal Government e+ tablished by Itle), died Mondsy in 8t Paul la peedy circumstances. The Hon. Mr. Frank Lawley, brother of Lord Wonlock, and a writer on the London Tele- graph, has buen summoned homo by cable from & yuit to this country, in order that ho may go 84 & correspoudent with the Diitish army to Tarkes. Mr, Willlam Baird, o Ohicago artist, is & stadent in the Latin Quarter of Parls. He badre contly returned to that city from Loudon, Ui 1itulo bita of studies from the Life of beast and fol now command large pricos. American dames will have anothor oppor tunity to go daft ovor a Royal Princo, thls time belr to & crown, and that an Imporial ono, Pil Rudolpb, the Princo Imporial of Austels, s, afierd sojourn in Prague, to make s voyago 0 the New World, 1 will visit the United States and Brasth returning round the Csps of Good Lope through the Buox Cansl. 1o bas shown himsel 3 Lis Engiish tour to bo & singulsrly amisble, 8 complished, and anobblsh youth, Mr, Gladstone's latest lotter (up to the de- parture of tho last English mall) was writien ia saewer 10 an inquiry concerning the State pens!ons to which Cabinet Minlsters aro ontitlod, e ssidt +1have no pension, and I am sorry to fnd 1bsh potwlthstanding published contradictions, this 835 truth® (vis., tbat Mr. Qladstous fa la recelot a penslon) **1s constantly renewed, I shallbe obliced by your sending on your own pebalf 12 somo journal an lntimation that you pave Tecelv this, from me, and that 1 reslly mus sskto b excused for the future from writingon o matie? which is more properly settled by reference w public and Parlismentary documents.” Tho lavontory of the estate of Jerr? Tullls, the decessed Ciuciunati misor, shovd Ahat that strange individus! had 8 lfe-loog for the sccumulation of lsnd. Probably 50 4% 1n thess lator years of the Republio has patbe his uwn offorts suct ouormous terT “ torlat vossesslons. Tho Claclonatl Comnerct publisies u table, occupying 8 cvlumn of nnlt: giviug the nuwber of scros by counties, Y“‘M tbls tabular etatoment it appears that Tullis st By tUme ot his destl owned tracts of land 1o nlnfl:" States, varyiog in estent from 1,000 acres lni_; Hampabire to 080,000 acres fn Keptocky Jn T nesses bls posscsslons sggreyated 634, 400 umh' Tows, 515,000 acres; fo Texss, 254, 000. & valualion of thesa lsuds 1s swall, the averssy :;' acro in Oblo belog $50, fn Towa, Iiinols, and i diana, $10; in Mionesota, Wiscunsla, m:nls:l Nebrasks, Kentucky, Teuncsssw, Vlrzlnll-n = Toxas, 50 conte. It Is easy to ety :xznly fure, that bis purcbases genorally embraced 004 unsltled snd undestrabls dhtrcth T «except for purposcs of spoculation could B¢ TOWN OFFICERS. Tho officors electod in tho South Town yos. torday wora Col. IL W. Jacksoy, SBupervisor; ¥xos Avens, Collector; W. H. Rice, Assos- sor; Onanves L. Brontcx, Town Olerk,—all Ropublicans oxcept Ricx, Democrat and No- ticual. Intho West Town tho persons olected woro ‘I, T. Gunxer, Bupervisor; Tuosas DBreNaN, Assessor; CnnisTian Csurrau, Collootor; and A. B. Crauvppicx, Clork,—all Democrats. In the North Town tho persons olected wero Patnick Lorrus, Supervisor; Micuarn Pernux, Assessor; J. F. Mirses, Collector ; W, I, O'Brey, Clerk. Of theso Mirrunand TPxruie are Republicans and the others Dem- ocratd, DEMORALIZATION OF CONGRESS. Thera does not scem to Lo much prospect of nny legislation by the preseut Congress, except such Lills as have inonoy in thom, and whieli offer to the lobby and the voual in Con- gress o liberal division of cash for their sup- port. ‘The Tariff bill proposcs generally o slight reduction of the bounties and gratul. ties vxucted from the poople for certain priv. fleged classes, and tho bill will nover reach a voto, bocsuse it does intervene, however slightly, to reduce tho;robbery and plunder of the people, The only legislation which lins ony roal or pouitive support in the House nre Lills to pay *‘ clufins,” and especially war clalms, and to pension peoplo for imagiuary survices In imaginary wars, and bills to lend tho Government credit or bonds to bank- rupt rilway oud construction companics, or for gigautic echemoa of internal improvements, which, once begun, must soon Lo sbandoned or in & briof time bankrupt tho Governent, Tho country has but ro- cently emerged from a long and oxhausting war, costing, besides the lives and the wounds of tho soldiers, nearly six thousand willions of dollars, 'Tho mabmed and dis- obled soldiers, and the widowed and or- phaned ropresontatives of tho killed whose lives woro sacriticed that the national life might be proserved, uro etill appoaling, nfter thirteen years' peace, for the littlo pensions promised by the law. Ouo hundred thous sand of thess unfortunates lhave not yet Liad their applicatious Leard or examined; but Congress i8 bravely sud resolutely pressivg o vote to pay §75,000,000 o year to the soldicrs of tho Mexican War and to supposed wars with the Iudions during the last half century, It is not a biil to yoy ponsions to wounded or disabled persous, but to vote o life-loug pension to every man wha colisted or ine directly scrved ton days oy s teamster, cook, or inany othor way whutever duriug such wars. ‘Tho raost of theso people live in the Ttebel States, and, havisg uo pousious yet ns Confederato soldiors, this schemo is to dis- tributo amouy thew this woucy suyhow. There is anotherwodost clalia of $70,000,000 10 refund tho tax paid on cotton, which tax was collected of European cousumors, uud s———— The Mon. R. E. GoopsLt tclegraphs from Washiugton to s fricnd lo this city, asking, 4 What's belng dona about the Mint at Chicago Committees from other pluces here. Hurry up. At tho moetlng held last Thursday even- ing at the Urand Pacific Hotel, WitL1au Bross, E. W. BLatcuronp, Gzonros Scuxzivxy, and J. Y. BcaMumoN were appointed to prepare o metmorial to Congreas ou tho subject, which is to bo presented qn Thursdey evening of thls week ot an adjourncd meeting to be beld ut the samo place. 1t 1s hoped that a farge number of baokers mnd business men will bo present to dlscuss thls lwportant sub- joct, ond, if thought best, to send a delegation to Washington to urge the matier persouslly upon tho Committees and peruons having lu chargo the location of the mew Mint. Thero ought to bo aa unanlmous oplnlon fu favor of Chicago. In the meantime, the poopls of Chicsgo are justly asking, What are our three Represeutstives o Wasbington dofog about this new Mint! Why must they walt for tho action of the people hicry, when It is thelr speclal duty to atteud to that and all the other similar bual- ness of the lty! Our Benators also might do sometling effective for us. Why not! Lot them keep tho matter n abeyauce, if notbing mores, till thoy get the memorial from the meet~ ing on ‘Thursday evoning. e —— A communication sined “M. V. A" pub- Jsted in ouc of the 8t. Louts papers aud re- printed jn Tux TRIBUNE yestendsy, celebrated, while it professcd to regret, tho commeral do- cay of Chicago, Ws cxposed vory brietly yes- terdoy the fallacy of fts arguwmcnts, showing that its hpures were wrong aud thu iuferonces frow thewmn abaurd. [t 1s ouly nucessary, in or- der to make the exposure complsts, to explain tue authorsblp of the letter, which perbups will cxplain alsu’the value of the statuments of “ AL, V. A “M.V.AM we are informed, s Dr. M. V. ALLEX, formerly o physiclan of Peoris, now a resident of St. Louls and Chiengo alter~ nately. Ho has never been s merchant in tbls city; ls not now, and uever haa beou. 8 proversy- e MH. EDISON'S INVENTIONRS, Thero can be no doubt that Mr. Eprsox, tho inventor of tho phonograph, is oue of the most vemarkoble men of the presont contury. 1lis improvements in telegraphio opparatus aud in tho working of the tele phone scem almost to hava oxhausted the pousibilitios of clectricity, In liko manner, the dlscovery of the phonograph and tha ap- plication of its principles in the aeroplione, by which the volumo of sound is so amplifiod and intonsificd 04 to be made sudible at a distanco of several miles, seem to have strotched the lows of sound to their utmost Himit. At presont, the phonogrsph seems to be the most practical of all his discoverios, since it can Lo easfly applied to common uscs, and can be mode so chicap and portable that overy family con afford to have ono. Mr, Enpisox I already at work to romedy the saciubors fnll to mako avy recommondations | vorable market for purchasing and prosura a | this quality will revolutionize the whole | owner,aud has noother intcrcstahere than those | hyyg been prodtable. It 18 nut property that @8 not ono dollar of it paid by tho producers. | (Just Lhink of o member of Cougress falling | large supply when tho rates were ot their low. | world of litoratare. Mr. Epsox says | Of »trausient gucat. llis daughtor is marriod | gver matorially savanco in valoe with tbo gwlfl‘:“ 8o evideut s this, that tho bill proposes to | to recommend anybody for offic) that tho | est, it would Le oo jmportant measuro of | that wupon o dlio of copper or to Mr. GOULD, the Kenius who mavulsctures | thocountrs. till, as each acre is wortd & pay the money to the State Governmunts, which State Governinouts werw then iu open robellion. The wholo cotton tax paid was vot equal to one-fourth of the iucome tax leviod and collected exclusively from tho people of tho North. The Southern members of Cougress bave control of the House of Represcutatives. Thoy are tho representatives of an fmpecu- nious people clamoring for gratuities. If Congress were to vote to-morrow a donation of §500,000,000 to be divided cqually among the directories of Bt. Louts; and no doubt the lctter referrod to was addressed to UouLp. Waea Mr, Goutd or his father-lu-law uuder- takes to write bistory for Chicago, it 1s natural that there should be some prejudice shown and 8ot cunfusion of fucts. ¢ 1o thing, however little, the onormous extent 0f property brings ite total value 3p 10 "‘m’nm and s holf miltions of dollars. It 1s 8 ‘T'd" Hiustration of how for 8 person may be carrl n.‘ o » manis. The traditional miser i3 pictire . boarding up bis money i bage. and Badiof chics pleasure ia glosting over tho shiviug lhu pleces; Tullis boarded wp acres, én mm‘ wrotched lodgings derived groat satiatuction o teading over and over the deods to tbo Y3 The tracts sud traciug them out vo the mad wmeluncholy romance of bis lifo fuds 8 Steings0dtsl fu the strugele of ble belre fur tho lmmumfl i sceslons which will doubtiess bo dleulpal Iegal fuea bufory tho contest s settled Commission |3 "permnitted to welvot from | economy and make @ grent saving to the | tin foll, not over ten -inches in otliors, ‘Thero are some vaguo stipulations | Goverument," and concludes by uoylng that | dismeter, the entize contonts of an ordinary inregard to oxawinations, probationary ap- | Lo Lias Lad offera of, Lehigh lump, baud | novel can be recorded, and that.theso plates polntuwents, rules for promotion, ete., but | picked, tho yoar round, st $10 por tou in | can be sold cheapor than the books. Now, Mr. Hanuisox was oviduntly of tho opinion | currency. As it is probable Lagsanar did | suppose that o publisher employs uo of the thut, ofter creating o now dopartiiont, pro- | not kuow ho was spoiling a fawmily arrango- | moat famous elocutionists of the age to talk viding for now vxpenses, aud protecting tho | went, his testimoony {s all the more siguifl- | oue of Dicxxys' best novels upon a phono- rights of mewbers of Congress to recom- | caut. graph plate. By the stereotype procoss mend, bo bud sccomplished the nain pur- { As to the relisbility of the ocorrespondent | thoso plates aro reproduced as fast as wanted, poses of Civil-Service reforna. of the Commercial we know nothing, but it | and much cheaper than books can be sold. We fear that owr inember from the | is to be said on his side that he makos his | Tho purchascr buys one of theso plates for & West Division has not given much | charges with such clearnoss and direotuess, ) morv song, takos it Lomo of an evening, puts —————— It is rather a curious colncidence that there should have bevn tlree fawous sccldents to sbips-of-war I tho jghtish uvavy through cap- slziug, aod that thest three sccidents should all have taken placy almost on the samy spot,—be- tween Portsmouth sud tho tste of Wight. lu July, 154, the Euglish aud Frouch iects fought,