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4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. APRIL 24, 1878 E Thye Teibance, TERMS8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVA atly Edition, one year,, '8r18 Of & yeAr. permon| Funday Edit Tiouble Sheet Esturdsy Edit 11-Weekly, one year. "arteof A YeAT, per mon! WEEKLY EDI e copy, per yesi Rt Specimen coples sent trei Give Port-Oflica sddress In fall, fucludiox Statesnd County. Remittances may be made elther by draft, express, Pon-Office order, ot in reglatered letters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITT BUBSCRINERS, Iafly, delivered, Bunday excented, 23 cents per week. b7 eltvered, Sundsy tncluded. 80 cents pee week. Addren THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Carner Madiion and Dearborn-ata., Chicago. il Ovdersfor the delivary of Tum TRIDUXE at Evanston, Englewood, and Hyda Park leltIn the counting-room wilireceive nrompt attention. - e TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. Tne CnicAGo TRIRTKE has eatablished branch offces forthe recelptof subacrintionsand advestisements a8 foltows: XY TORR~Room 29 Tribune Buliding. F. T. Mc- Fanowx, Manager, PARIS, France=. 1. ManLzn, Agent. LONDON, Epg.~—Americsn Exchange, 449 Strand, Rexny F. GiLvia, Agent, BAN FRANCISCO, Cal.~Palsce Ho'el, AMUSEMENTS, . 18 Rue do ls Graoge-Batettere, MeVicker’s Theatrs. Madison t, between Dearhorn e and Btate, *The Kalles.” Afteracon snd evenlng. tYooley’s Theatre. RNandolph street, between Clark and LaSalle. Enzsgement of Mad, Modjeska. **Camille.” After- noon and evenlog. Ilaverly’s Theatre, ‘Monroe street, corner of Dearborn. Engagement of the,Kate Claxton Combination. **‘The Two Orpbans,” Afternoon and evening. New Chicago Theatre. Clark street, opposita Sherman louse. ‘Tom's Cabin.” Afternoon snd evening, Y Collsoum, Clark atreet, opposite new City-Hall. Varlety per- tbrmunce. **TUnele SOCIETY MEETINGS. 6T, BERNARD COMMANDERT, NO. 83, K. T.— Fpecisl snu Ul"c IJ::: kw;flu!}l{;lo'}d:;tmnl. Apiil 24, Worx onkaeOngeat &, 7B SR watites i CHRICAGO CIIAPTER, No. 127, It A. M., 136 Twen: nd-st.—Spectal Convocatlon” inis (\vedneaday) e et tons omdiaite eited. by ¥ P KLTRMUTHY, Seeretars. BLANEY LODGE, NO, 271, A.. F. & A. M.—8tated Communicaifon ‘this (Wedderday) ceening. af 8 geiock. dall 70 Monroe st Viiting Lretiicen cors dimily shvited, GEOIGE GARDNER, W, M, JONN P, ARNETT. bec. WEDNESDAY, APRIL o4, 1878 Greonbacks at the New York Stock Ex- changa yosterdsy closed at 093. roconsidered its action concerning the mo- gun to take up and pass forthwith the euate bill for tho repeal of the Bankrupt Inw. Instead thereof the Committee will ask for the reference of tho bill, and will re. port some amondments modifying the abso. lute repeal provided for in the Senate bill. Tho announcement is again made by cable that semi-official invitations to a Europesn Congross have been sent to all the lending Powers, and have boen promptly accepted by all except England, which bases its disin- clination to concur with the Continental Governments upon the old protest againat’ tho oxclusive provisions of the San Stefano treaty. Elsewhere will be found tho reportof tho minority of the Pacific Railrond Committee on the substdy schema for the Texas Pacifio Railrond. Itisa strong and emphatio con. demnation of the demand of tho Tox Scorr lobby, and answors every argument put for- ward by them. The document should be carefully read by overy man who desires to Do correotly posted up in regard to the do- mands of tho rascally scheme, The subject of tazation and assessment ro- celved a very thorough oyerhauling yester. day at a meeting of the Citizens' Association, and the discussion brought out the views of o large number of gentlemen whose practical experionco and observation in tax mattcra have entitled them to be regarded as standard authorities. Themoeting was unable to agree upon avy definite plan for the valuation of property to be assessed, further than the ugreemont to furnish the Asscesors with counsel aud nssistance in their efforts to se. cure a fair aud uniform nssessment through. out the city and count; Later developments in the new Fall River defalcatiou serve ouly to iucreaso the extent | and onormity of the defaleation of Hatua. way, the Treasurer of the Border City aud Bugamors Mills, It would seem that Cuacx and Hatnaway, who were cousins, bave been- operating jointly in their fluancial enter- prises, though the heavier doss has been adinistered in the case of Iatuawar, whose embezzlements and forgeries, added to thoso of Cuace, foot up a total of about £1,600,000. Many of the mill operatives are shareholders in the corporations, and their fury yesterday at the full exposurs of Hatu. away's perfidy was such thet the scoundrel only escaped lynching by belug hustled into Jail. ‘The bill for the extension of the time for completing the Northern Pacific Rallroad wus yestorday pussed by the Benate, with numerous amondments embodying the ex- ections of the people of Oregon, but all of them, it is said, factory to the IRail- road Company, ‘The bill will pass the House witliout serious opposition, aud itis to be hoped that its friends will be sufticiently stroug to get along without the aid of the Texas Pacitio subsidy crowd, if, o5 hos been supposed, such aid con ooly be sscured in return for a like {favor when the Lox Scotr job comes up. The two weasures huve nothing in common, and should not be comnected in auy way. 'The Northern Pacific bill embodies no sub- sidy or guarnntee of bonds; it simply pro. Vides aguinst the forfciturs of the land.grant voled soveral yoars ago, and gives the boud- Lolders an extension of tims in which to bulld their road. Thera can be 1o reasonable pretext for opposition to the bill in the House, McLax, the member of the Florida Can. vassiog Bourd who failed to receive the ap- , pointmeut of Chief-Justice of New Mexico, and whose habits of futemperauce are said to be such &s to unfit him for suy position of trust or resplouibility, is reported to bave made & ‘‘vonfession” of the fraudalent wethods by which the Blate was counted for Hayes, Bome padding being requisite for McLin's confession, one Duaxmis, of Alachua County, has confessed bimself out of jail by disclosing tho frauds which he helped to perpstrate in connection with the returas from that county. Following so closely upon the introduction in Congress of the Brars memorial, the Dopisx Fixwn Quo- Warranto bill, and the Cosxring interview in the World, the Florida confessions fit in very nicely as a part of tho general scheme which the crafty old citizen of Gramercy Park has had time to mature sines he with- drew from the publio gaze and began to de- vote his attention to hiv private affairs ex. cinsively. Something of the sort was about due, . The exhaustive debats which the Pacific Railroad Funding bill received at tho hands of the eminent lawyers of the Senate ought 1o satiafy both its frlends and enemios ; but it seems that the Housa Judiciary Commite tee hankera for a chance to be labored with by the railrond lobby, for the members thereof will oudeavor to pravent the passags of the bill when reached in ita regular order on the Spenker's table, and will undertaketo secure the control of the blll in their own Committee. No possible good can come of such & reference of the bill, but after the proceedings of the last two days it would be hazardous to predict what the arguments and influence of Jar Gourp's lobby may or may not accomplish. The disturbance between the Russians and Turks in the Baikan distriots of Bulgaria and Roumelia has assumed proportions which threaten to make the matter a serious ono. Fighting has been going on for several days between the Turkish residents on one side and the Russian garrisons and Bul. garians on the other, and at Jlast accounts tho Turks had proved more than s match for their encmles, The affairis in the nature of an insurrec. tion against the new administrative system brought into operation by the terms of tho Russian occupation of Bulgaris, the Turks refusing to submit to the domination of their hated conquerors. Russion reinforce- ments bave been dispatched to tho fnsur- rectionary districts, and vigorous mensurce will be taken to pu end to the uprisings. THE SENATE RESUMPTION BCHEME, Mr. Voonnuees has offored an amondmont to the bill reported in the Benate as asub. stitnte for the House bill repealing tha Re- sumption act. ‘As the bill now stands, it provides that greenbncks shall be received for duties, and that no more notes shall be retired on the 80 per cont basis after Oet, 1, 1878. Voon Amendment wouid make the bill provide that these two sections shall take effect immediately after the pas. snge of the nct, instead of postponing their oporation some five months, Vooruers is a very conspicuous ropre- sentative of that portion of the Demoeratic party which favors indefinito postponement of resnmption and an unlimited inflation of irredeemable psper currency. Dax Voor- HEes represents theso sentiments in the Sen- ato ns Tou EwiNo doos in the House, snd both aro understood to havo hopes that they may ride into a Presidential nomination, at the hands of the Communist party if not of the Democratic party, incase they continue to press these ylows to n Presidential issus. In this light it is ceriainly singular, if not suspicious, that Dna(Voonn.u.u should offer smendments to the proposed Resumption. Aid act, which appear to have the purpose of hurrying forward the accomplishment of resumption. If the Voorurrs amendments should be adopted and shounld prove to be as efticient in assisting resumption aa it Is ex- peoted they will, then practical resamption wounld be advauced sovoral months by the change. But is this tho honest intontion of Voonuees, who claims to be opposed to rosumption altogether? Does he not rather hopo that, if bo can bring about premature nction in the matter, it will help defeat the success of the effort to resume, and thal a fuilure will produce a reaction in favor'of his hobby of an uulimited depreciated cur. rency? If financial matters take the samo courso during the next fow months thut they have held during the last two or three years, greenbacks will unquestionably be at par with gold by Oct. 1, in genoral ac. ceptance, acd then to recoive them for dutles would clinoh tho fact' and tend to keep them there. Lawful resumption under the act would follow a fow months lator, and the Secretary of the Trens- ury would theu bo able to pay the interest o the public debt with the greonbacks con- vertible on demand in gold; coiu payments would be required only on the coupons held sbrosd (about one-fourth of the whole amount), aud greenbacks would serve equally well for a large part of those, as this interest duo nbrund is largely crodited on comimercial balances due in this country from foreign purchasers. But it looks as though Dax Yoonners intends by his proposed amend. moats to drain the Government of coin ns much as possible by stopping the coin pay- 1ment of duties, and keep aus large a volume of greonbacks outstanding as possible with which to threaten the Treasury when the date of resumption shall arrive, An amoudment offered to a bill by one who is avowedly inimical to the purpose of the bill is always regarded with suspiclon, oud there s no doubt that it will be more prudent to defer till Oct. 1 the proposed modifications of the present law. Nevertho less, we think thero would be little danger in acceding to Mr, Voonuers' demauds if thers were sufloient assurance that it would satlsfy bim aud the inflationists whom le reprosents. The inflationists in the House are in constant consultation with the infla. tionists of the Senate. If DaN Voonuzes, ‘Poxt Ewng, and their associntes in the infla- tion delusion will agree that they will offer no opposition to the passage of the Benate bill i Voomnexs' amendments be ac. cepted, and that the inflationists will make no further effort to prevent or retard re. sumption by future legislation until after the experiment shall have been fairly mado, then we believeit will be entirely safe toantici. pate the October date and make the proposed act operative immediately upon the passage of the bill, We fesr, however, that the political aspirations of MAlcasrs. Voormers sud Ewino will prevenj them from accept- jug &0 fair & settloment of the controversy; in that case, it will be wiser to let the case stand aa it is. THE RIVER AND HARBOR FRAUD, The House of Representatives on Monday, without debate, without permitting an amendment to be voted on, and by an arbi- trary exercise of power, passed the bill making an appropristion of over seven millions of dollurs under the name of im- proviog rivers aud harbers. ‘Ihere is no luuscy more geveral thag that monoey sppropriated from the I'reasury is so much gained—clear profit to the locality in which it isto be expeuded. THere are 292 Cougressional Districts in the country. This bill appropriates an aggregate sum which, if distributed equally, would give each distriot about $25,000. The bill, however, does not thus distribute the wmoney, because on a rude principle of equal aud exact justice that might be oconsidered somewhat fair. In this kind of legulation the real motive is to the B steal and pinnder; and hence, under cover of appropriating $25,000 for a proper nnd legitimate purpose, thers are $150,000 appropriated for illegitimnte and disgracsful purposes. That is tho character of all this kind of bills. A few years ago Gen. GRaxT, who bad no special compunctions of con. science on the subject of appropriations of pubiic money, declared that he could not give his sanction to a River and Harbor bill which was honest and repntable as compared with this bill, and he refased to approve it. Controlled in the matter by his stern remon- strance, the House reduced the aggregnte appropriation one.half, and voted a round sum to be exponded by the Becratary of War, with the approval of ths President, on proper and legitimate works. That action of the President ,saved several millions of dollars to the Treasury which would have beon wasted., The process of exponditures by the Gon. eral Government s a costly one. Under our peculise and unfortunate systom of revonue, the money collected into tho Treasury bears but s small proportion to the snm of taxes pnid by the people, Under the tarif the Troasury collects $126,000,000 revonue annually, but this is merely tho Government's share of not less than $600,000,000 of taxes paid by the public. 1t cost the people not less than $30,000,000 to get this £7,500,000 into the Treasury, and this appropriation in reality represents the 230,000,000 taxea pald by the country, Of tho 296 Congtessional Districts, about 100 receive, directly or indircotly, no share of the money to bo expouded. About scventy- five other districts receive indirecily a benefit as parts of States or sections to which work 18 genernlly beneficial ; nbout twenty-fivo or thirty districts receive small appropriations for purposes which of themselves are proper and legitimate, while nll the rest of the appropriations are gross frauds and abuses got up to keep members of Congress in their local candidacy, and necessary to secure votes enough to carry the whole combined scheme of plunder and dishonest expenditurs of publie money. In ninety-nino cases out of 100 of theso appropriatious for petty local expenditures, the people of the Congressional Districts in which the money is to be expended would by unanimous votes refuse to tax themsalves to raiso that sum of money for such pur. poses, and yet the representatives of those districts will vote to tax their. constituents five times tho amount of the appropriations, under the fraud and delusion that the monoy coming from the Treasury is all gain,—the generous gift of a paternal and benevolent Government. ‘We do not suppose that the mombers of Congress are so ignorant that they do not understand this matter; but we do think that they falsely assume tlat tho people are too ignorant to know how the masa of the producing population is plandered and robbed by this kind of legislation,. We think the comparatively few members who bad the courage to brave the howlings of the majority, and place on record n protest sgainst this bill, and agoinst the way in which it was passed, are cntitled to all honor for their indepeudence and for their fidelity to their duty. Though overwhelmed by the yolling mujority, they at least did their duty in drawing attention to the iniquitous bill, and the mora iniquitous mode of forcing it through the House. Wo trust tho President, who.ls foarloss and indepondent in the discharge of his duty, will at lenst do a3 much as Gon, Grant did, aud, 80 far 3 he can, arrest this onormity. Let the bill go back to Congress, and let there be n-pawer lodged somewhera to limit the expenditure of tho moacy to such ob. jeeta and purposcs as may havo some shadow of propricty and justice. SECRETARY SHERMAN'S VINDIOATION. Wo think the Congressionnl Committees will tire after a while of the effort to entrap Becrotaryp Suenman, There is little doubt that the Iuflation Committes of the House snmmoned bLim before them in the so-called conferences with the hope that their cross- questioning would break him down in his purpose to carry out the Resumption act, and that, by cornoring him, they would ns- sist in getting a bill through the Sonate ropealing tho Resumption act. Contrary to oll their cxpectations, it waa Secretary Snen- 3AN's clear statements and praction! sugges- tions during those interviewas which led to the introduction of the present Senate bill to assist in bringing about resumption under the exlsting act. And now Secretary Bues- 31AN hoe gained anotlior decided triumph over the Congressional iuflationists in tho matter of his contract for tho salo of $50,000,000 4} per cent bonds. First, the contract itselt waa & sol-back for the infation crowd; then they hoard that its provisions bad been misstated, that Secretary Suenman had wmeraky arranged for tho salo of $10,000,000 instead of $30,000,000, and that he bad made undue concesslons to the Syndicate in order tosecuro sven this much, o Ewinaon the part of the inflationists, and Groves on the part of the **Smelling Commitiee,” set nbout to expose Becretary Suenmax and de- waud an exhibition of the contract, The Becretary could scarcely bava aaked anything better, for the publication of the document shows that he not only accomplished all that he claimed, but that he securcd botter terms than could have beou reasouably expected, The contract enables Socretary Susnaan to accnmulate the £50,000,000 gold which he needs, aud before Jan. 1, 1870, the time when he desires to bave it. The Byndicate have taken $10,000,000 this month (April), and are required by the terms of the con- tract to take $5,000,000 every succeeding month for the next eight months, These bonds are sold for 1§ p.r cent promium avd the accrued interest nt the time wheu they oro actually withdrawn from the Trossury ; this was, on the day of the contract, equivalent to 102} in currency, orthe ruling market rato of the outstan@ing 4} per cent bouds. 1t was cortainly an excellent sale for bonds ouly running fifteen years' and drawing 4} per cent, and it was on & par with tho ferms at which 4 per cent loug-tine bonds bad been sold previous to the time when the Eastern lies about the effect of the Bilver bill put & stop to the sale of 4 per cents. ‘The contract is also a duplicate in form aud langusge with the previous contract for the sale of 4} per cents, which proves that the scare about silver remouetization has been completely allayed by the logio of facts since the Silver bill was passed. There is no doubt that the money will be promptly forthcoming, and it is probablo that the entire §50,000,00) will be taken up within the next three or four months instead of eight mouths; for, whils the contract is su excollent one for the Gov. erament, the capital of the world can find no other investment at once s0 safe and profitable in the present time. Meanwhile the sale of 4 per cents through individual sub- scriptions is progressing much more rspidly thau is gencrally supposed. Nearly §2,000,000 of these long bonds have been sold within the Inst ton days, and, with the increased confidence which the recent Syndicate con- traot will create, it is probable that the salo of 4 per cents will averags $5,000,000 a month up to to noxt January. This wonld give some $40,000,000 mora of gold acenmu- Iation, or, added to the revenus from the Syndicate, including the preminm paid for 4} por cents, the Treasury wiil have a round $100,000,000 of gold ndded to its present stock, to bo used in part for the retirement of 6 per cents and in part to swell the coin accumaulation for resumption purposes. !TAXING INGOMES FROM SALARIES, In the matter of imposing taxes on in- comes, it is well to understand that a very large class of persons who receive fixed in. comes from salaries will bs exempt from toxation under the Income.Tax law, We print this morning in one of our Washington letters a transcript of the opinion of the Su- prems Court of the United States, in a case taken up from Mnssachusetts, whero the Court held that a judicial officer of a Btate conld not be taxed on an income derived from his official salaty, This decision ap- plicd directly only to tho salarics of jndicial officers, but jt in spirit and reason applied to all Btate officers olike, and it was so understood by the Revenus Department, and the collection of such taxes on incomos from salarles of Btato officers was theroafter dis- continued, The Court held that for the same reason which prohibited the BSiates from taxing the salaries of Fedoral officers the Federal Govornment s prohibited from faxing the salaries of the judioial officers of the Btates, and, by implication, the prohibition extonds to tazo- tion of the official income of any other State officer, or any officor appointed or elected under the Constitation or lawa of any State. ‘This decision will relonse from payment of any income tax on official salaries all execu. tive, judioial, and legislative officers of tho Btato Governmonts; all Bheriffs, Coroners, State's Attorneys; all County Treasurers, Tax-Collectors, Assessors; all Justicos of the Poace; all Mayors, Comptrollers, Attorneys, Treasurers, and all other officers of City Governments. This list, which in this Btate will count up about 2,600 persons, if extended to all the thirty-eight States of the Union, will createn numerous privileged clags,—an office- holding aristocracy, The man whois employed in a factory, workshop, warehouse, or in any private establishment or occupntion, will bave to pay a tax on his income—on his earnings; bat the man who can get employ- meont under any State, County, or City Gov- ernment will be exumpt. The whole official class, therefore, wiil enjoy an exemption de- nied to all other classes of society, Esii- mating the official fncowes in this Btate at an averago salary of 81,600 each, the total official income in tllinois of $10,000,000 will be exempt and pay no tax. This exemption, it will be seen, is of a character that does not depend on the law of Congress; it is in- cidental to and part of the system of onr two forms of government, each in the mat- ter of its own intogrity being independent of tho othor. THE DANGERS OF COMMUNISM. Ono of the most alarming public dangers which threatens the futare safoty of this Re- publio is Communism, Its growth during the past twenty-five years has boon so rapid that its disciples are found not only in the Inrgo cities, but in slmost every town aund village of the Union. The immunity which they have enjoyed at the hands of the au- thorities hiaa omboldened them to give pub- licity to their pernicious sentiments, and to openly bonst their hostility to society and thoir detormination, when the opportunity comes, to assall and overthrow the rights of property. On Friday last, Good Friday, o herd of these wretches hind another banquet in New York, headed by Citizen Meay, the murderer of the Archbishop of Paris and othor hoatages, and nmid oaths, blasphemy, and ubscenities drank to the ‘toast: ** Tho snnibilation of the priests and all other ras. cals, and the dostruction of the Church,” A fow yeara ago such a dosecration of a solemn religious anniversary by such a crew of for- oign wretches would have caused a thrill of mdigoation throughout the ontire conutry, ‘Thot it passes now almost unnoticed s ‘one of the proofs of the growing audacity of Communism. One of the worst and most dangerous forms of Communism in this country is not that development which manifests jtsslf in violence and incendiarism, for that can be put down by the strong handof thelaw, but in the plundor and misgovernment of cities. Tweed. ism was one of the most alarming phases of Communism. . It carrfed out the very essence of its doctrines in the spoliage of public property, Itafollowing was a foreign rabble who cared nothing for the principles of our Government and knew nothing of them, and Tammony Hall was the centre of jts operations. It seizod upon the offices, ab- sorbed the taxes, and, when they were not sufficient for its purposes, doubled them. 1t awelled the bonded indebtedness until the whole community staggered under tho load. It sold the bonds and invested the proceeds in publio works, constructed at five times their value, in order to give the leading Communists an opportunity to steal per. contages on contracts and to furnish work that wos unnecessary to the crowd whom they dominated, and who gave them their votes in return, thus euabling them to keep their offices and continue theiy system of public plunder. Twzen's grabof six millious was but one steal. His Ring grabbed twenty milllons, That was not all of it, Commu. nism Losstolen millions upon millions, repreo- souted in a debt of one hundred and forty willions which Now York City cau never pay, From New York, this phase. of Commiunism Lins spread to other cities. Chicago has been no exception to therule. Weare cursed with it in our County Government, Wa have the same riugs, the same corrupt system of job- beries, the «nme froudulent contracts, the sawe stealing and plundering, the same grab- bing of oftices at the bands of Communistic bummers. It has oblained so firm a grip, and has so spread and strengthened itself that the Governmont of cities and towna has already Lecome one of the most vital as well 23 oue of the most complicated questions for future solution. Its oclutch upon the tax. payers can hardly be loosened excopt by a great popular revolution, It will be surprising i Communism is sat- isfied with publio stealing. ‘There are other elements of danger iu it that only wmeed the opportunity to come to the surface sud manifest themselves in violence, sedition, inosndiarism, and mob rule. The rallroad labor riots of lsst summer are an illustration. The uprising st fint pretended to bo a poaceful one, and was made upon a question’ of wsges. Communism seized the strike and controlled it for its own purposes of incendiarism, murdser; snd plunder. The slaughter at Pittsburg, the violeuce i Chi- cago, Lonisville, Bt. Louis, Baltimors, In- dianapolis, Fort Wayne, nnd other cities, the millions of dollars’ worth of property destroyed in all parts of the country, the stoppags of transportation and the embargo 1aid upon comnerce,wers not the work of dis- contented workmen 8o much as of kcheming Communiats, who saw In this genoral strike an opportunity (o desl a blow at property and soclety. The recent outbreak of Kearneyism in Califos- nia was an effort in the. same di- rection, and it might have succeeded had it not been for the prompt and fearless denun- ciation of thess sconndrels by the Catholic Atchbishop of San Francisco, The ontrage- ous massacro of negroesat Coal Creek, which was aided and abetted by the demegogical ond Commune.sympathizing Governor of Indiana, was another manifestation of its dovillsh spirit. The recent action taken by the non-English-speaking Communista of this city in enrolling themselves inlo compa. nios and arming themselves with guns, with the hope of inducing discontented Iaboring mon to join them in some sudden uprising, has tha same objoct in view. If laboring men are wise, they will pay no heed 1o theso firebrands. Their intention isnot {o attack business men, who have made no nssault npon them, but the police and the militia who put them down Iast snmmor, and who will put them down sgain when the time comes. Workingmen shonld remember that it was n similar rising agajnst the Government of France that led to the shooting of 20,000 Communists and the exile of thousands more. 1If they shoot, they will be shot at. If they draw blood, their blood will be drawn, In the end the law will bo vindicated, and the Government will pre. vail, though it cost the lives of the whole worthleas hord, The next time that the law deals with them, it will act mors promptly ond vigorously than it did last summer, If necessary, Communism will be put down in American cities as it was in Paris. It none the lessbohooves the authorities to be on thealert, A prompt and thorough supprossion of Com- munism in its firat violont manifestations will domuch to ward off an alarming futuredanger. To suppress Communism in ita forma of cor~ rupt City and County Government is a ques- tion which will take a longer time to solve, but it never will be solved until the honest, law-nbiding citizens rise en masse and pre- sent a golid front against it at the ballot-box. The Omaha Hepullican, commenting upon the confeasion of Mrs. Tit.Tox—which as Journalists we felt compelled to publish--says: *' How aslient and ralaclous it is may be judgod from the fact tnat ‘Thursaay’s Critcaco TRIRUNK republishes 1t, giv- ing the Inter-Ocran credit,—n thing it was never known to do beforo. "~ Infer-Ocean, . As the nbove Is but ono of scveral references to the matter In the same paper, a word of ex- planation may not be wut of place. The Z.-0. has been in the habit of buasting of 1ts * purity and refinoment’” and “high moral tone.” These pretcnslons arc so prepostervusly false, that we concluded once for all to let our read- crs sco & apccimen of its high-toned news by copying in our smallest reading type, but duly credited, one of its Brookiyn speclals retailing at third hand an alleged confes. aon of Mrs, TiLTOX upon BEECuER to some female friend, who told it to her hus. band, who told ¢t to the I.0. reporter who was sont by the editor to hunt him up and worm {t out of him and telegraph It in extenso, It was printed In that paper fn its bigzest type, double-eaded, under glariog, stariog display- heads of the utmost suggestiveness, and occu- pled » large part of ita lttle page. 1t was the worst dispatch obtained by any Chicago paper without exceptlon, and It cost that concern con slderable money and search to procure It. Tux ‘TRIBUNE probably did wrong in copying it, and owes an apology to its readers for so doing; but the temptation to expose an obscene hypocrite is the only excuse that can bo offered. But we have ouly related half tho case. After the publication of that grossly-indecent articlo and otliers of simllar character in the /i-0., a clergy- man of this city, described by a contemporary as *a very small-braincd bigot, whoso want of mind aod longing for notorloty are both well known,” rushod into tho sanctum of the I.-0, with a cerd of “'thanks **on behalf of himsell and thousands of others,” as he eald. For dolng what? tha rcader may well ask. * For the small space given In your coluwns during tho past few daya concerning Mr. Bexoitsn and the Bishop of Michigan, makiog yours tho ouly salc journal for our famblics, and you desorve the thanks of all pure-minded men and women in Chicago,"’—anrl more rot of the same sort. It sccma that this purc-minded priest had been reading all the newspaper accounts of tho fore nications and adulteries of the two cxalted inlste nd the only thing he eaw to con- demn was the comparative length of the re- vorts aud the amplitude of detall, and yet it was [n the concern Lhat he *' thanked " in his card that he found the longest, most detatled, nastiest, and blusblul narration of the * great transgression ™; and for publishing that report, which * knocked the spots” oft all the other papers (or Indecent, salacious particulars, the editor of the /Z.-0. {s publicly ** thanked in “ the name of pure-minded men snd women 1 aud the adulterous recital is attested to be **safo reading for our famlilles™!! From such testimonials and cause of thanks his congre- gatlon may well exclaim, Good Lord deliver us! —— ‘The retiroment of the great French actor, Bressant, from the stage of the Comedle- Francalee, where bo has been & soclfaire for twenty-three years, make a fow notes as to the principles on which that world-famous company 1s conducted. ‘the actors are divided intu two classcs, the pensionnaires, who recelve fixed sal- artes, nud the soclstalres, or shareholders, A socletaire recelves an annual salary of $2,400, plus tu some cases an allowsnca from the funds controlled by the Uovernmeot, but never ex- ceeding $1,200. e, or she, Las also & share in the profits of the year,—if thers should be profits. In 1677 the dividend was $4,000a Lead ; ‘per contra, onc night in 1831 “Tartuffla® and * Lo Legs " were played to s $13.60 house, and jo 1833 the compsny was $120,000 In debt. Only hall of the dividend goes to the actor, however; the remainder Is Invested for him or her, to be drawn out at retirement; the intercst on this accumulation belongs to the compauy, and coustitutcs the Penslon Fuud, A socletaire (s further eu- titled to firing, to a beneft when he leaves the stage, and to an sunual pensfon thereafter of $1,000, there being an addition to this pension of $10 a yesr for overy year above tweoty that boremnaing on the stage, Alter having beca ten years & socletairs ho comes up for re-election for another decade, or, If ho bas not avswered the expectation of iis comrades, they bave the right of sheiviog bim with a penslon. Brzs- BANT, 8 mau of 63, who bad been twentv-three years on the stage of this theatro, found him« sell with $17,000 in the Bociety's fund, his benefit yielded $6,000, and ho has an annual penslon for iife of $1,120. Capitalizing this at & per cent, this gives & fortunc of $40,000 odd after forty odd years on the stage, to which abould be added any saviogs that he toay bave made durivg the iwenty-tbree years when hls average jucome was $3,730 & year. Not ouly {s 8n {ncome of this sort very small when compared with that of a atar in opera like Parrsor Caroul, but it Is small when com- pared wish that of an Americsu actor of high ¢lass or pretensions. The * taleut” ot s varlely actress ora negro wlostrel ls probably better rewarded bere than that of a Garreor or s REaNizR is (o France, though at the end tho French actor finds Limsclt provided for o his old age In modest comfort, A tiner example of firstclass Bourboglsm ig seldom t0 be found than thaf which is just now "‘filfi to the nakod eye in the neighboring city of Milwaukee. At the recout muoiipal elec: tlon there, the Democratic city olficers wera electeld hyonly a very Inalgnificant majority, considenng the reputation of Milwaukee as & banner Bourbon city,—ihe canaldate for Mayor recelving less than 300 majority, ana the others onty a few hundred more, and this tight squeeze was supolemented by nearly a tie In the Com- mon Councll, both parties claiming a majority In that body. Under such circumstances it was thought that the hew Mayor wonld sce the handwriting on the wall, and use his new oppor- tunities with such discretion as would redound to his own credit and to tho benefit of his party in the future. " But hia Ideas of Civil- Berylce reform were pretty well #llus- trated on Monday when he sent to the Common Council for confirmation the names of the gentlemen whom he wished to have appointed as City Engloeer, Chief of Po- Hus, Health Commissioner, Chief Encincer of the Fire Department, and Member of the Board of Public Works, These offices have all been filled by ablo and experienced men—notably so were the offices of Chief of Police, City En- rineer, and Chief of thie Fire Department, and it {s nothing to the discredit of the new nom- inees to say that not one of them is as compe- tent a8 his predecessor. Mayor BLACK, who has amassed a targo fortune in the wholesalo lquor trado, hias not conducted his own private busls ness {n the same way that he has started out to manage the alfalrs of the city, and the sconer be turns from the dictation of the ringsters and ward pdliticiana to consider the intercats of the taxpayers, the better f¢ will be for his reputa- tion. Not onecol the new appointments was confirmed, but all were put over for one week; smeanwhile business isentirely suspended among politicians, and the war between the contending factions wages with unabated fury. ‘Tho new Mayor reealls to mind a certain classical al- Jusion to tho uneasiness of a head that wears a crown, and sometimes, when sitUng on Lho rag- ged edge, listoning to the conflicting advice of party friends, bo cven wishes that he were dead. ——— A correspondent sked us to exnlain how it has conie avout tha 2 fallen ro fast and so far in the teetl of tho Sliver Our explanation s very simple: The Bilver bill, ns Con, tabliahed it, fs not yet lnlld enacted, the lionse. it passcd the Senate, It passed the Presidont by Jumping over his pen, but it did not the Becretary of the Troasury, Mr. Burnsax haa takon tho Hilver law and buttoned 1t up In his pocket, under a broad button of gold. e Is coin- ingthe big white dollar as fast se the mintacan tarn it ont. In doing 30 he obeys Congress to the Jetter. But he will not silow ‘a single dollar to Jeave the Treasury except In oxchanga for gold, or at gold valuo [n silver buliion. Tl interpeetafion of the Iaw has drawn the faugs of the silverser- pent.—Zoaton Ilerald, The Herald’s cxplanation of its correspond- ent’s question greatly nceds oxplanation, for it is a8 clear as mud. 1t {s about such an cxplana- tion as the “‘end-man" of s negro minstrel shiow would balikely to give. We might ask this spiteful gold-bug concern, What clse would it have the Sccrotary pay out sllver dollars for ** ex- ceptin excliange for siiver bullion at gold value!'1 What * fangs of tho sllver serpent' docs it draw to pay nut four mjlllun- per mooth of sliver dollars at gold value in purchase of silver builion at {ts markot value! He must have the bullfon before he can colnit. Ho can't get it withioud buying it. e must dither buy it with gold or ailver dollars, and, as tho lattor are legally worth as much as the former, why should he not detasnd os much In silver butlion for them? He can buy all the silver bulllon hie wants on thoso terma. \hat did the Her- ald supposc tho 8ecretary Intended to do with the **big white dollars which the mints are turning out as fast as they caul Eat thomi Give them away! Throw them in the Potomac? Did it want blin to hoard themi? [n that case be would have to pay out nearly four miillons a moonth of gold to buy silver bullton, while the silvor would be uncmnployed in the Treasury. Putting tho ellver dollars iuto circulation in purchaso of bullion for colnage does not strike uans drawlog tecth from the silver men very painfully. ‘The Hon. Cuanues G, WiLLtAxs, member of Congress fromn the Janceville (Wis,) District, is out in a letter to the Mllwaukee Sentind, in which he cudeavors to cxplaln his relatlons with Mr. HaYes. Perbaps the average Republican in Mr. WitLiaxs' district will ind all the ex- planation he desires, touching the prescot political status of bis Reprosvntative, in the fact that Mr. WiLLiaMa openly proclahns bls in- dorsement of Benator Hows’s recent bitter ohllipplc ngatust the policy of tho present Ad- minlstration. As a very Jarge proportion of the constituenta of Mr. WiLLIAMS, including al) the Republican ucwspapers fu hia district, are de- cldediy In fayor of Hayzs and against Hows, 1t {5 & question whether he (WILLIAMS) has not allled himsolf to the wrong party ln tho pres- cnt controversy. It is also o question—though perhaps only oneof tasto—whether Mr, W. ought not to have comimeuced his personal explang- tions In regard to bis course at Washlogton fns the columns of the Janesville Gazette, the only Rupublican dally papor published In his district, wuose oditor daily zoes for Boeuator Howx's scalp, Possibly be did not do it for fear of translerring the sttention that is now belng paid to Hows by the Irate Badzers to his own cuse, and drawing dewn upon his own devoted, curly bead thé Indigoant storn of disapproval that Is now violently beating upon the Sonato- rial domicil, Iun the mesantime, the thoughts of the people of that sturdy Republican dlstricy are belng turned towatds the Hon. Joux B. Casat- DAY, of Janesville, us the successor of the pres- ent Represeutativo, He fs a gentleman of un- biemished reputation, a fine lawyer, a pleasing and forcible speaker, and has served one sesslon 8 Sovaker of the Wisconsin Asscmbly to great acceptance, —————— The farmers in many countles In Wisconsin that are speclally adapted to grazing are turning thelr attentlon almost exclusively to tho manu- facture of butter mud chcose. Much of the Jand In that State that was originally covered with hard-wood timber is found to be s most excellent soil for grass, and the products of the dalry are proving to be safer and more profitable thau graln-ralslng and its attendant hard work, Bume of the counties have almost entircly dis- carded wheat as tho principsl crop, aud the cow has taken the place of the vlow. Sheboygau County s & notabl® eyample of this sort, Last year there are over aixty cheese factorics {n the county, which is composed of only sixteen townsnips, and the smount of cheess and butter sold during the season aggregated over $1,000,000. It is needlcss to say that thess peo- plo are getting rich rapidly, and that they have adopted & pursuit that wiil keep thieir farms Io better order than grain-growlng, while tho bard labor necessary to carry them on must be per- ceptibly less, Jefferson aud Kenosha Countles stand next highest vn tho {ist to Bheboygan as checse-producing countics, although the latter has given a good deal of atteation to the breed- ing of blooded stock aud fne-wooled sheep, ‘Ibe farmers of other scctions are prepuring to follow tuc exsmple of their enterprising ucigh- bors, and it will not be long before Wisconaln will bo as noted for good chouse and butter as ahe has long been for the fine quality of her wheat, t passed —_—— Aftera paragraph has been afloat for a couple of weeks or a0, the very editor ihat startea it be had not known his {tem. Frinstance, Tnr TriBux® told the other day how Miss do KoturcuiLp's last signuature as Missdo Rorms- cniLp was appended to a £200,000 check, s presont to bier husbana. The next paper ralsed it to £300,000, another got' it the round mille fon, and now comes & fourth with the story that Miss de Hotuscuinp pald £800,000 of Lord Rosssaar’sdebts before marrylog him." Work, 0, our parsgraph; work! e et— & The Cleveland Herald® croaked agalost the Bilver bill, and prophesicd that, 1f 1t passed, resumption would be kuocked on the head, the creditof the country ruined, sll ssle of refunding bouds permaunently stupped, and the Ola Harry would be to pay generally. It now says: v wo made: ekt s el Prsbect St 2a3 was only & Larmloss suastituls sathorizin, ho Becretaty to coin 8 fow **clipped Joilars"™ an em u’ in the Treasury, wodoa' see tbe peitinency of Tus Taisuxs's romarks. But the jeremlads continued sgalnst the Bcuato ALLuoN bll, aud the same evlis 'Weio predicted. The * harmless substitute ! for a colnage of $48,000,000 & year, which 0. ceeds the present capacity of the mints, and will requirs rolnforcement by the New Orlean Mint, Wo don't call that a “few clipped dol. Jars"; and it I8 not true that the Becretary | cither authorized or Intends to fock them u' In the Treasurs. Ho has publlcly announceq his purpose to Issue them in the purchase of silver hullion’ for coinage; and, when they o turn to the Treasury in payment of tari dutfes, ho will refssus them fn redemption of gm..: backs, We don't ses the necessity of the sz, atd's falschoods. r—— Our New York nameanke hitterly attacks tny system under which spring-bottom Pants, striped socks, and overcoats with velvet cofjary are lesued to the Indiansof Fort 8i1l. Becrotar Bonurz should have known better than m,i to invads the private domain of Jar Gouryy young maa; It were almoat betterithat he pyy Iaid an Uzziah hand on the Union Pacific Ry, road. Btriped socks, overcoats with velye, collars, and spring-bottom white-woolen pants are JAXR Rein’s private and privileged pasture, ———————— Drovide 'fhe 8t. Louls Globe- Democrat ea; Collector 8iTi, of Chicago, 10 use phrase, *Vwil] et himeeit kot 1% Yene f he doean't stop trylng to protoct the interents of Western importers,, s latest effors Js g i shae of & petition for & law o permit direey (00 porta from Kuropean Lo Weatern cition withsy any delay or chatges in New York. The law g, this sndlect now fs 50’ constrned 4n o rive st New York Custom-House some aort of control orr allimparts. Coples of the petition have been seng to the varioua citles of the Weat, and will ‘qoy Ny 5% Lot A Chleass abould e pom e why b uis and Chicago shou! col Py teibuto to New York upelied fo = Fag 2 When the Z.-0, ssscrts that “Tag Thnibusg steals foreign dispatchos from its first-editfon, or any other edition, It lics. Once befors {¢ n;,. quilty of makingthe same false charge, ang was notifled then that It lied, As to foreign dis. patches *that have appeared fn the New York papers, TunTainuxNa has as much right to copy and print them, if It secs fit, as the 1.-0, has to print tho news 1t tranafers to ita columns from the afternoon papers of Chicago, 4 The President of the American Philologics Boclety wants a phonograph to preserve the s cents of*the Onondagas and Tuscaroras, why are dylng out. Ono’ old man speaks the fag. guago fucntly and correctly, and the Prestden 18 atrald he will le. The phonograoh will pre. &crve the exact pronunciation, Alas, that My, Ep1s0n had not lived sooncer, for then we mighy have had taken a phonographle * squceze® of an Old-Linc Whig. e Tho New England Antiquarian Soclety pro- poscs examiniog *'Gall Hamilton's” mouth with 1 view to teating the truth of a theory rétently advanced acd strongly supported— namely, the identity of that ominent apinster with Hannan Dustan. Wo do not think onr. sclves that thero Is much in it: {ts originator waa probably misled by the penchant of boty of theso historic womon of New England for scalps. ——— ‘Tha Loulsville C.~J. exhorts the Democratle party to moro unity and harmony, and warns them that, **In any eveat, wo shall have a hand fight fn 1830, The fight this coming fall will be both hard and doubtful. It cannot be won st all If wo squabble umong ourselves. We must look to Democratlc unity, not to Republlean dlyislons.” o | An English scientist has written an interest. ing paper of inquiry into the reason why there are fewer deaths fn February than {n any other month of the ycar, We will toll him why—be. cause tho month is shorter than sy other month in tho year. f A person of fleld sports a lover Onco fired off lils gun at a plover; 1iat he lodged the whole chargo— ‘T'was excessively large— 1In bis dog—which was very like Grovxs, { Tho geographles of tho futuro—and preseat— will declare that the princlpal crops of the South aro rice, sugar, statesmen, tobacco, cote ton, and clalms. } The Republicans of Iowa, to judec from our comle contemporary, the Burlington Hawkey, think of adopting the CoNzLING intcrview ass platform. 4 Gen. McCLELLAX {ssald to have alwaysbeens lover of ccratnics,which accounts for the way bo ussd to go potteryinyg around duriog war-times, PERSONALS, Don Carlos has got back his collar of the Golden Fleeco which was stolen from him at Milan, —all bat slx veilltapts valucd st $12,000. Mistah Conkling, in the estimat.on of the Philadelphia Press, 18 **a garrolous, reckless, imprudent, and unexampled politicat mental fool." Mrs, Caroline Bheehey, of Staten Island, refused to také an vath on Good Friday, through conaciontions scruplos, hence tho weman who bad stolen Mrs, Sheehey's clothas was discharged. The Duke of Manchester, relonting to. wards hia daughter-in-law, Lady Mandevlile, has Just given her a huneo In London and an equipsze, and the Prince of Wales docoratos the drawlog: room for bier, Khe {a s Yankoe girl. George W. Blunt; the * anciont mariner” of New York, who died last week, nsed to ny that, though during his Jife he had been subject to many..exposures, —small-pox, ship-fever, chol- era, yellow-fever, and Democracy, ~he nevet tock eithor, Whenever Father Backs, the present hesd of thio Order of the Jeaviis, dies, worn ouswithhls Jaborsand years, 83,—hls successorwil, in all likelibood, ba the ratber more moderate Fathet Valeriano Cardello, Provinclal of the Frovinco ol Rome. Victor Hugo, who, it he does gush about children §o bis poema, is really fond of the ttls ones, hias been entertainiog tho two Hittls gurle that play atthe Purte Salut-Martin, fn *Les Misers: los,” the parts of Cosalts and Le L4l Gerrot sending Miles. Daubray and Courbgls home with & generous gift of buoks and bunvons, A member of the Parisian Boolete d'Au. toosle Mutuelie,—Louls Asseline,—one of the ¢d- {toreof the Rappel, is dead, and will be vpoued la ence of the otlier meimbers of tho Clud, fa sccordance with il les, utas! Autopey ™ 1t rather & queer name; supposs there had ualy bees two members In the Club? ‘When AMr, Greeloy onoe upon A time wat Jectugion lny Iudlans, fn the palmy dsrs of Etate banks, the committeo of one lowu pald ““(' —fnevitably—~in notes of the Jocal fustitation. e looked st them, ana them sald, **Could mot 1‘:: give e, instcad of this atuff, & well-oxecut counterfelt on some Ksstern bank?" Thero disd last week at New York ship- ping morchant, Alfrod Q. Ben: who, 18 1847-'50, sent ot & flest Of oighty e possesslon of th Lobos Islands in the name of 8 American Government, and work thalr depod of guano, The Peravian Goverpment, howerth claimed the {slands as under mjurl-d.lul T8 treated the Auericans as favaders, ‘The e yel tion was broken up, snd Mr. Benson was foancis y crippled by bis losses. e "the Oonstitutionalists of the h’anc_ Senatesrein s funny way. Thore are o the ::l freshment-room two grates, ope of which fr > time immemorisl has been affected by the tiauch s, Now, nh:n-tan‘- stitutionalist and presames to -wl‘”‘l. the Conservativi re-place, his §ndignsnt .m: of old-time form an impenetrable Fing w:" bld bl go where he belongs, whllo‘; " ndors near tns Liberal grato tho Libersis . nd blandly urze himto stepup and war | O bimsalf, and reserve the coslest corner for him- ‘Phe Cabans were, doubtloss, much ime resscd by the sight of thoss *‘vislting staiel gnn." Bcn’lfiuu Kirkwood and Hamlin. llomkh‘f;:' huge patm-leaf fans; Mr. Hamlin wore no nec @ e bad on sn suclent baltered stove-pipe bat, % swallow-tall coat, somewbst doiled o nwl: :N slightly glazed,, by Jong wear, around the bac! e wrists; & dark gray walstcoat, trousers of the ¢ - matenal, aud &ood, substaatial, beavy l“°‘ 7l Beostor Kirkwood wors s dark walaicost n“ srousers and & loosely-8iting black Alpacs blou: r; His cafls and collar wers zemoved for comIv sake.

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