Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1878, Page 4

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Mo« Favnxyx, Manager., PARIS, France~No. 16 Rug de 1s Grange-Datellere, ., Manrxm, Agent. N, Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand, L] AMUSEMENTS,. MeVicker’s Theatre. Madiron street, between Dearhorn and State. *'Qur Aldermen,” Afternoon and eveniog. 1looley’s Thent Tandolph street, hetween Cl Fneagement of Mad, Modjeaka, noon and evenfog, S and Lasalle. amilie.” After Tinverly's Theatre, Monroe street, corner of Dearborn. JoshTTart's Pane orsma of the Chlcago Fire. Afternoon and evenlog. Now Chiengo Theatre. Clark streel, oppostte Kherman House, ment of Mme, Rentz's Female Minatrels, Forty Thieves.” Afternoon and evenlog. Fngage- * Female i Callaenm, Clark street, opposite new City-Tinll, Engagement of . W, Thompson, **Tawcup.” Varlety eotertain- tmeat. BOCIETY MELTING! ST, DERNARD COMMANDERY, N0, 25, K. T.— Rtatcd Conciave thie (Wedneniay) evening. May 1. Buslnessuf_tunoreance to every inember of the Coms musndery. Workon the K. T. Oriter, ; 4.8, WHITE, E. C. D. A, CASUMAN LODRE, ~An Emergent Communi« cation will he lield I their hall, corner Weet Madison and foley s, Wednewday Morning. May 1, at N:30 X atienil the funcral of Iiro, . A, Crosby. Carriuges farniaied. fer order W M. G. A. DOUGLASS, Fecretary. WEDNESDAY, BMAY 1, 1878, Greonbacks at the Now York Stock Ex- ohiango yesterdny closed at 093 The viows of tho Exccutive Committce of the Citizons' Association rolative to local toxation and asscssment aro set forth in an address which wo print this worning. It will bo cbscrved that no favor whatever is manifested toward the proposition to in- ercaso the valnation of property for the sake of increasing the city'sdebt; tho plsn rec- ommended by the Committeo contemplates o general co-operation Ly taxpayers én tho «cffort to obtain u fair and uniform system of property valuation, and is worthy of serions consideration. Sntovi, tho murdorer of Nicnoras McCuz, has now beon handed over to the Grand Jury of tho Criminal Court, which will, of courso, promptly return an indictment for umrder, It would havo an excellent effect if thio trinl conld tako place at once, and the rentenco and execution take placo within thirty days from tho dato of the murder,— or at lenst within tho shortest period of timo allowablo by.tlo statutes. Somothing of the kind is.greatly .uecdod just now to dissipate the growing impression among the criminal classes that the taking of human life is not such a dangerous affair after Nothing moro rofroshingly cool and im- pudent hios Iatoly boen experienced on the floor of tho Iouso than tho lecturo on economy which Speaker RANDALL yesterday rend to tho Republicans. Ho was sharply called to nccount by a number of members whoso record on the question of rotronch- ment will bear comparison with that of Afr. Ranparn himself, not to mention the rank and filo of tho claim-pushing, subsidy-hogging crowd by whoso votes lie was made Speaker of tho Honse. It will bo quite snfMeient for him to attend to if Lo shall undertnke to look nfter his own side of the House in the mnatter of economy, and the Republicans will gladly welcomo any ald le can ronder thom in their resistance to tho subsidy and claim cormorants, Gon. Toprenzy, the vetoran of Sebastopol, lnan disngreeable habit of coriticlziug the military blundors of Grand Dukes vory much o4 though thoy wero nothing mare than com- mon folks, It will bo remombored that ho chnng@ tho whole plan of procednre upon “taking charge of tho oper- ations ogoinat Plevna, and in a few wocks had the plonsure of bagging Q4N Pasha und his entire anny. Tovre. nrx hes shown no moro consideration for the feclings of the Grand Duke Nicuoras at Coustantingple than hoe did at Plevaa. . The grim old englneer, after inepecting the pres- eut position of the Nussian forces, does not hesitato to declaro ths plan faulty or to promptly set abont remodying suvime of the mistakes of his predecessar, The Financo Committeo of the Senato and the Iouse Committee on Ways nnd Means are at loggerliends onthe subject of suspend. iog tho operation of the Sinking Fund for Abo reduction of the public debt, the former Having reported ngainst the resolution ' oljéred by Mr. Brox, of Kentucky, declaring /i Vit!to bo inexpediont to lovy taxos at this 4 timeto maintain the Sinking Fund; while tha louse Committeo, by a vote of B to 3, egreed to report favorably a similar resolu. tiou. There is o stroug elewment in both purties i Congress composed of members who contend that it is time to stop the Payment of the debt at & rate largely in txcess of that contomplated in the original pluy, sud who think the people are justly eutitled to & breathing-spell of & fuw yearw. 1, us now eeems ceortaln, the House adopts the resolution of the Ways and Means Cota- mittee, it will be vigorously supported in the Benate, and it defeated at alf it will probably be by a closa vot e — There i3 recoguized in Washinglon a gratifying possibility that Mr. Tioew msy bo afforded rather more of tho coveted lux- ury of Electorul investigation than he nt present counts on. The purposs of the Florida Lue-and-cry ia perfectly understood among a class uf Democrats who, while not desiring to interposo auy objections or ob- slacles to a complete exposure of auy fraud that msy be found to havo existed, are at the samo timo not averso to such an enlarge- ment of the scope of the proposed inquiry os should includo some mat. ters which Mr. ‘Tupix would rathe er not have canvassed. The Democrats are numerous in both Iouses of Congress who wonld be glad if the party and not Mr. TILDER got the benofit of whatever disgrace or odium might attach to the Ropublican party, and who would rather relish n turn of the investigation in tho direction of the Oregon infamy, and the attempted purchaso of Electors in Sonth COarolina, Florida, eud Louisiana. If the Republicans manage mattors skillfally thoy may be able by the ald of this element among tho Democrats to give the Florida business a bearing which Mr, Tizoex has not taken into ncconnt, In confirmation of the many recent re~ ports that the Russian Government intends in case of war with England to sond out o large floet of crnisers to proy upon Dritish commerce, comes the well-anthenticated nce count ogum arrival npon the coast of Maine of o vessel, tho Cimbris, carrying the Rus- sinn flag, and on board of which, beside hor complement of men and officers, thero aro G0O sailors, mostly shipped in Gormany. It may bo that tho object of this oxpedition ean bo explained by the com. mander of the vessel in such a way as to reliove the anxioty of British owners who have vessols engnged in the carrying-trade between tho United States and foreign ports. Tha fact that the vessel carrios so large a number of seamen as passengers is, however, suggestivo of the iden that it is comtemplated to it out other steamers which will be supplied with crews from these men who now figure a8 more pssongers on Loard the Cimbrin, thus at the outset avoiding all excitement which would be likely to spring from the opon or secrat enlistment of men in this country for suchservice. The officors of the vessel in question aro snid to be very re- ticent, yot the kmowlego of thoir having communicated with the Russian naval au- thorities at Bt. Petersburg immodiately on their arrival wonld tend to show that tho vessel'a orrand is one of considerable im- portanco. Itis at onco n mattor of surpriso and con. gratnlation that the Benato shonld hesitate about concurring in the Iouse amendment to tho Bankrupt Repeal bill, which is necessary before the bill can bo sent to the President. As tho amendment was verbal, and did not change the offect of the original Henato bill, it was naturally supposed that it would bo concurred in immediatoly by tho Sennto; in that caso tho® benmefits of a uniform Bankrupt nct would have been shut off immediatoly upon the President’s sign- ing the bill. It is evident, now, that tho Seuato is moro disposed to give the proposi- tion a doliberato consideration, and that many of its membors opposed to the present law think o total repeal Is not nocessary in order to correct the abuses that lave grown out of tho law as it atands, It may not bo that this change in sontiment will Lo strong enough to defeat concurrence in tho bill as it camo from the ITouso, but there is certainly more hops for such o result now then lias beon at any timo sinco tho bill was originally passed in the Senate. A roferonco to the Judiciary Committea ought to result in the reporting of a bill to lop off the exorbitant faes to offlcials and lawyers, and to provide more thorough pro- tection ngainat frauds, instead of n totnl repeal, which wouald simply bring about a large number of Stato lawa with contra- dictory and confusing provisions, It fs feasible to moke n National Bankrupt law that shall afford tho benefits withont the abusos of the presont law, and that is what should bo don COLLECTING THE 'CITY REVENUE. Indopendent of the immediats question of tho validity of the scrip Issucd by the city against the taxes for the year, thare is the standing, imperativo necossity for some per. manent arrangoment wheroby tho necessity for issning any such ecrip may be obviated. If tho courts shall detefmine that tho scrip of 1878 is illega!, then thoro must bo n sus. pension of the City Government. Is there no remedy,—no plan whereby tho City Gov. ernmont nay oxercise its functions and be maintained without tho issuo of any such psper? The apswer to this’ question can best bo understood by stating the existing troubles in tho matter, Tho fiscal year of the City Governmont is tho same as the ealender year, boginning Jan, 1 and ending Doo. 81. The appropria. tions for the year aro required to be mado at one timo, The mmount of tha tax levied must corrospond with the nmount of the appropriations. Tho valuation of tho prop- erty for taxation taxes placo afler May 1. ‘This valuation is not comploted by the State Toard until Ang. 20. Tho tax is lovied and extended on this valuation, aud becomes payable in Decombor, It will bo saen, there. fore, that bofore one dollar of tho tax whick is to*support the City Government for the yoar—from Jonuary to January—can possi- bly be paid, twelve months of the yoar has oxpired. Dut the payment of tax in De. cember is voluntary; tho most that the Town Collectors can do from December to March is to collect a portion of the personal tax, In March the books are Landed over to tho Collector, who from that timo until late in Jyne haa to ndvertise notices to delin- «ments, and oblain judgnient for unpaid taxes, which jucludes 05 per cont of all the taxca on the renl catate of the city, Judgment being obtained, the property is offered for salo, and in Beptomber or October the tuxes are paid. Bearing in mind thay the city ex. penditures begin Jan, 1, that thetaxes to pay these oxponditures do not become due until Decembor following, and are not collected until Septomberol tho sccond year, it will bo seen that there is an interval of twenty.one months between ths boginning of expondi. turcs and the roceipt of tho money with which to pny those cxpenditurcs. 1In other words, the city, though required by the Bupreme Court to doa strictly cash business, nover has any cash, and is alwayy cighteen to twonty montby behind in its paymonts, In the last seven years, tho citi zens bave had seven aund a half yoars' Goverumental bonefits, and bave only paid six years' taxes. What is the romedy for this? Tho expediont of issuing ocity notes or scrip to cover these expenses 18 now de. clared void, and it is added tbat, not baving the money, the city canuot incur any ex- ponse for any purposs, In yesterday’s ‘I'ninune was printed some suggestions which wo think if adopted by tho City Council might overcome and cor- rect sowe of the evils which now embarrass the city. Substantially, it wes suggested: (1) 'That undor the law it is within the power of the Mayor and City Council by or- dinanco to change the fiscal year; and that the Council should, in proper time, provide that the next flacul year should begin on July }1, 1878, to extend to June 80, 1879. The appropriations already made, and the toxes already levied, cover the period up to Dee. 81, leaving tho present Conncil to make sppropristions only for the term between THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY MAY 1, 1878, Jan. 1 to June 30, 1879, (2) That this ap- propriation being for only half a yoar shoutd embraco only appropriations for the intorest on the city debt, the pay of school-tenchers, firemen, police, the Henlth Departmont, the working of the bridges, and such othor operating expensea as are indispensable, the whols mot necessarily exceeding $£1,500,000. (3) Tho naw fiscal yoar begin- ning on July 1, the City Council wonld cer- tity the amount to the County Clerk, and it wonld bo extended on the warrant in No. vember. (4) Tho tax thus levied for the ex- pense of tho Governmont for tho six months from January to Jaly, 1878, would be all col. lected by Beptembar, 1870, and thecity would lave the monoy and would have all its necounts closed up to the close of Jnne of that year. For tho year boginning July 1, 1879, to Juno 80, 1880, the whole tax for tho yoar would be all roceived into the Treasury within two months after the close of the fiscal yoar,—n saving of soven months in time, and obviating tho necessity of any serip outstanding during that long time, if indeed any wero issued at nll. Instead of having cight and o Lalf yonrs' expenditures to be paid with seven yoars' taxes, there would bo eight years' oxpenditares to be pnid with sovon yenrs' tnxes, the actunl appropriationa for six months of this timo being reduced one.half, In addi. tion to tho gain of half a year in the indebt. edness of tho city, tho colloction of taxes and the receipt of ravenus would begin so much nonrer the beginning of thb yenr's expondituroe, and would be closod up so closs upon the ending of tho year that there need be no necessity—even- if it were legal—to issune any scrip, or to borrow any money in any other way. Thischangeof system, orrather in tho time of levying taxes and colleating the revenue, requires no appesl to the Legislatare, and, of course, does not involve any change in the law governing other cities ; it is a matter onsy of accomplishment and entirely within thoe logislative control of the Council. This plan being- practicable, easy of accomplish- ment, and offering a porm-nont relief from the worst of the cxisting avils, it shonld be considered by the new Council, which doubt- lesa will have the courage to apply any remedy which has any promise of rolief. THE FUTURE OF THE PHONOGRAPH. Of all tho invontions of tho present cone tury, not one hns created such an interest or attracted such widesprond attention ns the Phonograph. Magnzines have teemed with articles upon the inventor and his in. vention, and the nowspapar press hns specu. lated upon its posaibilitics clear to Lho verge of tho wildest imaginings, The most inter- esting article, however, that has yet appear. £d is in the current numbor of tho North American Review, and it derives its interest largely from tho fact that it is written by Mr. EpisoN, the inventor bimself, and is thorofore an official statement of what he has accomplished, and of futuro probabilities aa they appear to him from the basis of his oxperiments, 'The articlo is such as might ‘o expected from tho pen of such a mon,— brief, coneise, and clear,—withont unnaces- sary flourish, and not transgressing limits of probability, and confined to o statement, firat, of actual rosults; and, second, of probable faturo realizations. ‘The notual results that ho hasaccomplished aro stated by Mr. Epison in substantially the following form: Io has diacovered thata vibrating disk ia capable of roceiving a com- plex motion that will represent the peculiar property of all the multifarious sound waves; that a record of them can be mado upon plastic material by indentation, and that thoy can bo rostored, producing upon {ho ear the snmo sensation ug if coming dirgct fromtho original sonrce,—indecd, Mr, Entsox claims that the articulation of some individ- uals hns boen greatly improved in the pas- sngo through the Phonograph; that this roc. ord can Lo removed and replaced upou a second apparatus without mutilation or loss, of effoctive power to vibrate the sebond plate; that it requires but ten seconds to ro- move the recording aheet, and that 1t can bo sent by mail at o slight cost for postage; thnt theso indontations posseas wonderful onduring power, and that therecord can bo multiplied indofinitely by electrotyping; and that an sudible reproduction may be hnd # by speaking at the instrument from a dis. tanco of from two to three feet in aloud tond" by tho use ** of a flaring tnbo or funnel to collect the sound-waves and tho construc. tion of an espocially delicate diaphragm and embossing point,” Tho most intercsting part of the article is dovoted to the applications of these propor- ties of tho Phonogeaph. The first of theso contemplates n revolution in lotter-writing. ‘I'to record-shoet being placed in the Phono- graph, the matter {s dictated and recordod. Tho sheet is then removed and sent by mail to tho correspondent, who places it upon his Phonograph and listous to the voice of tho one who has sont it. As Mr, EptsoN says: “Innsmuch as it gives the tone of voice of bin correspondont, it is identifled, As it may bo filed awny as othor lattors, aud at any subsequont time roproduced, it & @ perfect record. As two sheets of foil have been indented with the samo facility as a siugle shoet, the writer may thus keop a duplicats of his communication.” As the principat of a business houso or his partners now diotate the importaut busiuess communications to clerks, to bo written out, they are re. quired to do no more by the phono- graphio method, and do theroby dispenss with the clerk wnd malutoin perfect prioucy in thelr comipunications.” All kinds of dictation cun be readily eflocted by tho Phonogroph. It can talk to the compositor and record the wayings of witnesses, ccunsel, and Judge. It cau be used as an elocution. ary teacher, orms m primary teacher for children, It will reproduce musle with marvelous accuracy and power. As the original record can bo indefinitely multiplied, and as he estimates that 40,000 words can be placed upon a singlo metal plate ten inches square, phonographic, self-reading books for the work room, or sick room, sold at very smoll cost ns compared with printed books, ere awong the sirong probabilities of the future, Ho promises the children for tho ensuing Christmas holidays dolls that will spoak, sing, cry, or laugh, and every species of animal or mechanical toy,—such as locomotives, etc., supplied with thair charasteristic sounds, ** 'The phonographio clock will tell you the hour of the day, call you to lunch, and send your lover home at 10, eto.” ‘There will be a conflict of opinion 88 to {ts value for the latter purpose. Tho stern ‘‘parient” will bo a prompt patron, snd the prospective mothor-in-law will re. joice nt a scientific contrivance that can do Ler work for her in her own suggestive tono of voice. ‘The fond lover will object to a sudden interruption of his passionate joye by & loud-mouthed clock, shrieking at bim in a tone of voice loud onough to bo heard all over the house, ‘“It's 10 o'clock ; go bome, Mr. Buown.” The young Indy who has objootions to her lover's carly roliring will distract the inner consciousness of the phonographic clock by setting it back. Even ns shrewd an inventor ns Mr. Episox may find this probability too difficult for him to nccomplish, 'The Inst,nnd in Mr. Ebr- sox's opinion tho most important, proba- bility of the fatare is a revolution in the present system of telegraphy by tho com- bination of the Phonograph and Telephone principles. o claims that by a very simplo davice one vibrating-disk mny be made to do duty for both the Telephone and Phono- graph, thus simultancously transmitting aud reconling tho mosange, and enabling the cor respondent to hear it while it is being recorded, Ia claims oven now that his ** Carbon Telephone” will already well-nigh effect the rocord on the Phonograph. In closing his article, Mr. Epison thus alludes to tho telegraph of the futuro: The telegraph company of the future—and that no distant ono-will be simply an organization bavingahugo ayetom of wiree, central and sob- central stations, managed by ekilled attendsots, whone sole dnty it will be to keep wires in proper repair, and give by switch or shunt arrangement rompt attention to anbscriber No. D21 In New &m’k when he signals he desires to have private communication with subscriber No. 1,001 in Boa- ton, for three minutea. The minor and totally ine conecquent detalls which seem to nrise an obatacles fntho eyegof the groove-telegraph man, wedded 1o exlsting_methods, will wholly disappear before gn:: femorécless Juggurnaat—*‘the nceds of That Mr. Eptsox may live to see nll the probnbilitios he has ontlined becomo renli. ties will bo tho vory goneral wish of the whole community, whoso needs he is so rapidly anticipating with his wonderful dis. coverios. A JUNE FRESHET IN APRIL. The heavy rains that fell in Wisconsin Inst week woro not confined to any one locality, but provailed over every section of the Stato. Buch a heavy froshet, falling just after spring seedivg had beon concluded, must have a very beneficial effact upon the young grain, and gives tho farmors atrong hopes of an abundant harvest. Dut tho wot woather has boen o godsend to another large class of thrifty citizens besides the agriculturists, The lumbermen have suffered severcly for the last threo yearsin consequenco of the dry sensons nnd tho failuro to got their logs to market. A large proportion of tho log- cut of 1876 and of 1877 has been waiting Wpon the rivers’ banks for just such a rise ns now floods all the streams, great and small, in Wisconsin, As lumbormen well know, pine logs rapidly deteriorato whon lying ex- posed {o tho viciasitudes of the woather, and another smmnmer’s waiting on land for floods that failled to come would have ruined a largo number of men. But tho racent drive has brought evorything down that has been * waiting and watching” for the windows of heaven to be oponed for so long a time, and the food necessary to supply the insatinblo maw of thousands of saw-mills, Tho lumbering interest has now becomo so great in Wisconsin, and 50 much businoss is involved in it, that peoplo outside have only on inadoquato idea of the importance and mognitudo of tho trade, All the principal rivers in tho Stato oxcept tho Rock penstrato into the famous pine region, and for hun- dreds of miles along theso larger atreams and thelr smaller tributaries the inhabitants of the towns, cities, and villages have their pe- cuniary interesta dircctly or remotely intor. woven with somo phhso of the lumbering busivess, Consequently, everybody is in high feather * when the logs come down,” and that trito phrase hna got to be an ndage of moro eignificance than most peoplo im. agine, It means employment for thousands of induastrious poor peuple whoso only means. of subsistonce is their daily bread; it menns the busyhum of mills that have becn idla for six months; it menns payment for suppliea furnishied and work 'done in the past; and it means a quiockening of tho eluggish puise of trado nnd an invigorating tonfe for local com- mercae. From all tho principal points on the Chip. pews, Black, 8t. Croix, Menomince, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Wolf, Fox, Oconto, Pesh- tigo, and thoir tributaries, tho information is to tho offcet that the prosent riseis abun. dant, and that millions and millions of logs are already securely fixed in the booms, or aro alrondy well on their way down-stream on o succossful drivo. Owing to tho absoncs of snow laat winter, tho crop of logs was light. cr than has beon cut in twenty yoars, and a genernl rise in all the streams was the only thing that could possibly keep dozons of en- terprising men out of bankruptey, It is also a very extraonlinary event to soe a Juno flood como in April, and this is & benofit of no slight importance to millmen and lom. bermen in protracting the scason fully n wonth and a half, and putting the oxtension of time at tho ond whers it will do the most good, The people of Wisconsin have reason to congratulate thewmselves upon the fino pros- poct ahead for a successful soason in the two principal purauits of her citizens, agriculturo and lumbering, both of which open tho spring campaign most auspicionsly, re—m— THE PALLACIES OF COMMUNISM. Wo have already sald that the very basis of Boclalism or Communism 18 to bo fonnd inthe phrase, ** Property is robbery.” The Amorican Socialists are making an effort to conceal this uitimate aim and purpose of their movement. Some of thom may honestly be- lieve that they do not intend to go so far na this, but the moro intelligent men among them know that thoir principles have no other possible outcome, and weroly atrive to doceive tho public,. 'Wo took up the state. ment of the follow A, R. Pansons tho other day, and followed it out to its logical con. cluslon ; the same conclusion may be reached from any other statement of Communistic principles as conceived in this country. The Indianapolis Zimes, announcing itself a8 *‘tho officlal and only workingman's mission to be ** the emancipation of labor,” publishes the platform of the ** Bocialistio Labor Party,” of which the following is the most significant plank : ‘Wa demand that the resources of life—the mesns of production, pablic trausportation and communi. catlon, land, wachinery, sallroads, tolegraph M canals, etc., become, ss fast as practicable, :h -ommon property of the whuls 1o through subatitute fo its stead uvernmont, (o abolish tho wi co-opera with a just distribution of iis rewards. ‘This statement of Bocialistio aims leads up to precisely the same point a3 Pansons’ exposi- tlon of Commuuism, Thero are but two ways in which all property can be turned over to the Government in trust for the com. chase, the other by confiscation. We scarcely think that the genulne Com. maunists contemplate the actual purchsse of all the Jandy, all the implements of prodauc. tion, all the machinery of manufacture, aud all the means of transportation and com. munication in the United States ; but, if they mean this, let us seo what it comes to. Al the property in the Union has a value of be- tween forty and fifty billions, and & Gov- ernment purghase thersof could only bo sccomplished by the issue of bonds to that amount in exchange for the property taken. newspaper in indiana,” and proclaiming its, mon benefit of all citizens. One is by pur. e It ia simply out of the question to supposa that any sach debt (twonty timos that of the present national debt) could ever Lo paid, go that the bonds issued wonld only hinave a value in proportion to tho amount of intercat thoy would bear. Tho security— the good faith of a Communistioc Govern. mont—wanld not ba of the best, and tha annual interest for which the Govornment would becomo pledged wonld amomnt to over £3,000,000,000, or nenrly donble as much avery yenr as tho entire national debt, If pay- ment of interest were continued, this trans. action wonld nmonnt to the payment of fall rent for tho whole of the properly. But that is all which property of any kind brings in now,—ront und interest being terms of the samo purport. Thero would then bo a Gov. ernment gvarantee of rent or intevest, which, it good, would be a boon to all owners of property in timoesliko these, But, in this case, how wounld the fm. pecnnious laboring class ba nuy botter off than they are now? 'Tho wages- system, ' which they coll slavery, would ‘e abandoned, it is true, but their earnings would have to dischargo the annual in- terest or rent before any division of procoeds conld take place. As it is now, the owners of property tako tho risk of rent or interest. Some yenrs tho property may pay well, other yoars badly, other years not at oll, and still other years there may bo nloss; but, in the meantimo, wages go on for serv- jces rendored. But, when the Government holda the property in trust and has guaranteod tho paymont of intorest or rent, thon tho properiy-owner becomes the pre. ferred croditor instead of tho Iaborer ne now. Then, in case of loss, it must fall npon the laborers in common with tho prosent prop- erty-ownors, for there can be no division nntil after the interest or rent shall be paid. Tho exchange, in this case, will scarcely bo an improvement on tho wnges-syatom. Buppose, however, tho Soclalistic demand moong, not the purchnse or rontal of all property by the Government, but its confis- cation from the owners. This s tho most probable theory, for, ovenif a Communistic (Government should start out with a protonse of purchase, the accumulation of an unprece- donted ond incomprehensiblo dobt, usterly beyond all possizility of payment, would rosultin repudintion, Indeed, tho principles of Communism—everything in common— do not admit of the theory of purchase or rontal. Then it becomes, first, a quostion of power. ‘Ihe prosent owners of properly are not going to yicld to universal conflsca. tion without n bloody struggle. The Commu- nists must - grow strong enough to acquire this property by conquost. With 6,000,000 of men in this country who own farms, o houses in cities, or other property, who com. prehond the best brains, energy, and moral courago of the community, and who lave rolatives and dependents with equal interest in mnintaining property-rights,~—1t is not at all likely that the dreamors, faunties, knaves, and thieves will bo nblo to provail, But, if we admit that tho Bocinlista shall eventually arrive at a practical attempt at common property and equal distribution of the products, what will thon be the result ? The wagos-system having beon abolished, nlong with tho abandonment of all the pres- ent incontives to industry and frugality, it will devolve upon the Government to com- pel all men to work aliko, and to act as tho middloman for the production, trans- portation, barter or sale, and final distribu- tion of proceeds. To do all this will require whole armies of officoholdors numbering millions of inen. One groat army, largoer than tho combined military forces of Europe, will be noedod to restrain tho ovil and solfish passions of men in such a condition, to whip in those who shirk their share of the common labor, to shoot down those who seck to tako an advantago of their neighbors by fdleness or chicanery, and to imprison and tortura those who dare to save anything for thomsolvea out of tho universal cheos. Will such a state of things bo any fmprove- ment upon the presont wages-systom ? There will bo an enormous privileged class acting a8 Government ngents to run tho railroads, stcambonts, and telographs ; another vaat priv- ileged class to act na bosscs and overscors with lash in hond; still another to act as middlemen, and do what the merchants, grocers, butchers, and saloon-koopers now do. All tho reat of the community will be the slaves of this now aristocracy, sot up for the express purpose of ovarturning e system under which property ia protacted by tho very orgonization of sacioty, and wages guaranteed in preferonce to rent or intercst. Oommunism i8 a crazy droam that has been indulged in some form or other in all nges, but it has never been anything but a chimera. 1t cannot bo thought out intelligentlyor log- ically without leading to confusion, dismay, oppression, injustice, and follure, Tho vory men who think they would bo tho chief beu. eficlarios under a system which should rec- oguize no property rights would in fact be thio greatest sufforers in the end, for they would lose the protection and guarantee of the present association of capital and labor, which always profers wages for scrvices over interest on capital or rent on property, MOVING DAY, It Oanten Haunmson's eaglo wore taking o flight over the continent to-lay, looking down upon Clicago he would behold a strange and moving spectacle. Ilo would 80c the streets filled with drays, trucks, and oxpress-wagons, piled up with honschold furniture, golng from houso to Louso, and distractod men, and bedraggled women, and jubilant children seckiug new homes. The mauia for Mayday moving, which is peculiar to the American people, {8 ono of those mysteries which has never yet becn satis. factonly nccountod for. 'Wild gecse change their quarters annually for satisfactory rea- sons connected with the perpetuation of their kind, but this important patural rea- son is not applicabls to the case in question, Nomadio tribes wender from point to point, but thoy are peripatetic for satisfactory causes, ‘They have no taxes to pay. Having eaten up the substance of one place, they aro obliged to move ou. They do not put money {u savings baoks, do not have to go to churches, have nolcotes to meet,—in point of fact, have no tics to biud them to one wpot of ground more than to another. Con. ssquently they are happiest when in motion, ‘This reason caunot apply to our people who are living in the stroets to.day. The peripa- tic house-hunter may assume an air of choeerfulness as horides on the top of his hoj 1d goods to his new home, but in- wirdly he 18 full of cursing. The best Christian in Ohloago is » monster of doprav. ity on Maydsy. . ‘The mama for moving is all the more re- marksble when the penalties which it 1n. volves are considered. No man likes to havo the innermost secrets of his house laid baro to the public gaze, aud however much ho may strive to get all the handsome furniture on tho outside of the load, his pride is.sys- tematically disregarded by the teamster and hold. his corps of lifters, who contrive to arrange the load in such n mannor as to produco foelings of contempt and scorn npon the part of tho public, DBnowx, for instance, has had the reputation of living in an elegantly- furnished house, cquipped nfler the latest fashions in farniture, pictures, plates, haug- ings, and ganeral bric.n.brac, but when Brows's Inxarions surroundings make their sppenranca on publie oxhibition, and a huge trnck moves in o atately manner down Wa- bash avenuo with Irows's portrait in front, surmounted by a cépper Loiler and flanked by rusty stove-pipes, with a dirly straw. minltress on the top of the lond, whereon rides the frowsy servant like the Goddess of Liberty on a circus-car, and an_unmentions- Lle sample of cornmics hanging to tho tail- board, the eritieal public, and especially the women of the neighborhood into which Brows moves, and who take an inventory of the furniture, are very apt to ret him down ns a fraud, aud to regard poorMra, Browx ns not oceupying that. ex:lled social status nasigned her by conimon rumor. 8he thero- fora goes into tha noighborlicod under o clond which is never thoroughly dissipated. Hor furniture is decricd, her husband is underrated, and sho herself is unanimously nasignod a position where it {s unnecessary to put on airs. As for tha little Drowxs, the small but warlike Loys of tha nelghborhood take thewr physical measure the very first day DLy processes known to the emall boy that nvolve n rush of blood to the nose and dis- colorations nnder the oyo. Dircomforts of this sort are not the only ponnlties. No woman who has to move will ndmit that she dialikes moving. With that patienco which is a characteriatic of the sox, they assumo the burden withont complaint, g0 far a8 outer appearances aro concerned, but they do not liko it for all that, and that they do not like it is shown by the extraor- dinary efforts of Mrs, ‘A golng out of ono honso tomake it comfortable for Mrs. B who Is coming into it, and, ns Mrs, B lins nlso mnde the house comfortable for Mrs. O, and so on, of course oach individual female gots oven with somo other femnle, and thus revenge for tho nocessity of moving, imposed upon them by the sterner scx, s evenly menttored amongst all tho gontler beings, and thonee reflected with renewed intensity upon the originators of thawr troubles, Itis astonishing how much solace n fow broken window panes, littlo piles of rust and soot, sinnll obstacles neeidontally lodged In wasta- pipes, leaking faucots, door-koys carried off, n brick across a flac, and n miscollancous collection of old hats, rubbers, fruit-cans, broken crockery, baor-bottles, and other domestioc bijouterio and bric.n-brao scattorad fout tho honse and yard can Lring to the doparting tonant, The plcture of man made o littlo lower thaff the angels wrostling with a stove-pipo or drawling earpet-tacks, or of lovely womnn with a towel about her‘brow and o broom in her hinnd raising clouds of dust, is not o plensant sight to contemplato, but it ia ono of those realitios, thoso pro-Raphaslite touchos of naturo that make the world kin and reduce us oil to one common lovel, It niny be that this ia the real essonce of tho mystery of moving-day,—to strip off our bor- rowed plumes, and artificial gloss, and supor- flnous trappings, aud oxhibit us each to the other in propria persona,—for certain it is that tho moment a man’s penates are hud. dled upon a truck, wrong side up, and the domostic caravan commencos moving, that man ceases to bo an objeot of public admira. tion, and iz no belter or higher than any othor man, His idontity is lost in a multi- tnde of vulgar details, and he never quite recovers from tho disastrous offeots of tho publio exhibition of tho secrots of Lis house: were known in the pol ca o as the “Forty Thieves,” or as * nm:r::: g‘; the Balance,” and the popular feeling way (" pronounced agalnst him to admit of any "";o promise. The effort to count Mminbv g Dem, . cratie “Retuening Board " upon frauduieny yb turns was much more popular with that nane. then than it has sinca proved to be in Loujsia, y nlthouzh GEorae B. 8uitn, who went to Ng:; sec an honcat count,’ was then Attotney.Gep, eral of Wisconsin and ona of the Board of c.," vasscrs! ‘The case of Basurono vs, u.n,n; a4 one of the moat Important ever gy by ‘n State Bupreme Court, by reason of the principles involved, which relateq more especlally to the rights of the co-orql. nate Lranchea of the State (overnmens, Thy late Chlel-Justico WiiToN way then upon the Bupreme Bench of the State, and Matr H. CArpNTAR, late United States Sep,. tor, and tho Ilon, E. G. Rrax, the uresent Chict-Fustice, appeared of counsel. The ey, fon of theCourt was, atter 2 most extraury trinl, that Banstow should step down an, which he did with as little graco as possiyy, and Basnronn succeeded 1o the Exeoutjyy ofllce. 1t the veoplo wno had voted againg BansTow on account of his corrupt and dishon. st practices soon found that they had gaineg very little by the chanze. During the famoy, controversy over the disposition of the Congres. slonal Land-Grant of 1850, Basnronn recelye) n hunts of £50,000 from ' the President of the successful company for signing the bill, ang o Inrge number of members of hoth branches of the Legisiature of the two papje were “propitiated” In the same signiy. cant manner,—~the sums received varyiny fn omount accordiny to the value plm;l upon the fnfluence of the recipient In disposing of the grant, This infamous proceeding hag already Leen crystallized into the history of the corrupt practices that have disgraced some of the American States, although the people of Wisconsin have placed the stamp of their disap. probation upon 1t by vstracising every promi. nent actor In tho disreputable usiness, from the Governor down to tho now-forgotten mem. ber from the backwoods district. Basurorp teft the State in disgrace, but he haa still some frionds (n Wisconsin who aro charitable enough to believa that ho was not & corrupt man, and that what he received was simply what Braoy Kisounx declared {t was—'*a pecunfary com- pliment® given to him afYer tho performance of an official duty, and not a briba bestowed be. forchand to influcnce bis action. But whateer view tho impartial historlan may take of Corky Basironp asa public man—and that Is theonly plinscof hischaracter with which these hastylines have to deal—it is quite certaln that it will bea long tlme before tho people of Wisconaln, whom ha served as the first Republican Governor, will contribute funds to hulld a monument to per- petuate his niemory. inary d o, e —— Jonx F. Mixzs, late editor of the Utica Ra publican, has written o communleation to the New York Wortd two columns long, In which Lie explains tho circumstances under which he obtained Benator CONKLING'S views for publt. cation, When he went to Utlea, ho says, it was understood that ho was to edit a Republiean newspaper in accordance with the principles of LincowN and GraNT. The paper was to be the organ of Benator CONKLING, but not in au of- fensive manner. Ilc soon discovered, howerer, that howas cxpected specially to fight Erus 11, Ronents, the avowed and successful enemy of Benator CoNKLING in Utica; and for refus- ing to fall in heartily with this programme he was afterwards removed, The conversations with Senator CoNKLInG {n regard to the Preaf- dent and certaln memucrs of tho Senate took place at varfous times and places, but mever s alleged at the Scnotor’s own dinner-table aod never with an fnjunction of sccrecy, Tho suh stance of them was used fu editorlal articiessod paragraphs published tn tho Kepublican. Mr, Mings reiterates distinctly his former state mcnts of the relations of CONKLING to thePres ident, reporting the former as having sd “ilayes s not mercly weak, but corruptas well.” Other polnts mado by Senator CoNgLiNg, such as crittclsm of Mrs. HAYRs for going with her husband to agricultural falrs, aod [osinus tions against 8TAWART L, WOODFORD a8 a pos sibly dangerous competitor for the Senate, Ar. Mixxs bad hitherto forvorne to speak of. -Ho had also touched lightly on the Scuator's declared preference for Mr, Tiupex a8 Prestdent. Ho wnow fecla ot liberty to mention these facts explicitly, acd partica- Jarly to remove all doubt as to the Semtor's fondncss for Mr. TiLpEN. This Lo does with great circumstantiality. On the whole, Mr. MiNEs' oxplanation must bo considered satls- factory. 1t ls important, not for its bearlogs on his private aftairs, but for ita proof of Mr. CoNELING'S apostacy. o has clearly gons over to the Democrats {n spirit, and only wants agood chance to joln them opeuly. Havioz been trained In the famous New York school of politics, and suspecting that the next Legisla- ture of that Btate will have a Democratic ma- Jority, be is proparing to nsk a ro-clection to the Sonato as a Democrat. The peoplo wil do well o bear these things fumind, aud sce how atriet 1y tne prediction will be verifed. J ————e——— . PERSONALS. Parson Newman, who is now pastor of the Soventh Avenus Church, New York, s drswisg immenso sudlences. Max Marotzok is writing the musicof s new opera, *'Sloepy Hollow," the words of which will be furnished by Gayler. Jonquin Miller has sailed for Europe in scarchof recrention and health, §tisnot Hkely that he will roturn to this country, One of Mr. Moody's converis, 8 H'Mb amith, {s- laboring among the people af Katal whero he hiss brought abaut some 300 conversiont 1 the income-tax passos,” says Br. Jor- dan L, Mott, tho great New York iron-foundery +4it will mhke a nstion of snoake and perjorsth sud heli will heve to be enlarged.” A ligh dignitary in the Vatican pocketed $3,000 left by Pius IX, ta be distributed lmfl:l certaln subordinates, Upon learning the factt, l:‘ was Indignantly dismissed from Lis ofice by the present Pontlf, B Chang-Yu-Hsing, s gentleman of 3% ¥ : moves la the Lighest soclety of China, bas srrive at Marscilles, en route for the Paris Exp«ll\n:: 1le s cight feet four Inches bigh, and I8 matrle Lis wife belng a lean little Kngllshwomau. A London Alderman took s §50,000 lunch the other day, 1le had {ntended to buy so eslat but took & Leatly lunch, fell sstecp, wad 100 04 for the auction, and bad to pay the bidder who sccured fuu property £10,000 for bis bargalo: Alter & three months’ honeymuon, 1‘:’ Do 1a Gouche ran away with tho Earl of Muyo,2 d 0219, ller husband got & divorce and 1o about i remarry; her lover went wad aud was luckm.uv an asylum; her family ropudiated ber oponlyi alic {9 starving. The Western Unlon Telegraph Coml’;:'i pays Its Directors a vold plece st every me! ‘Tlcre are twenty-nine Directars, who "““Lm avlece, muking $200 for each meeting. Kno o persons ate on the Executive Committee, w| s $5 at cach weekly meeting, or §55; then ibe e wittes on Kxpenditures meets daily, snd u;_w‘ wombers, A Twowmbley, Morgsn, s0d S0apiccon always la gold. bty ‘fhe Emperor of Germany i3 & i} A buater, and keeps an sccurate record of ml‘.‘tlu that has the bunor of falling before his RoYSL 0 4 Since he bogau husting, in 1810, be b3S Fo 6,000 animals of all sorts,—birds not iac! ’ however,—{rom tha surocks down to tho hu;}“m this Jist may aleo bu added the Emperors “'umnll aud Austrls, tho sovereigos of the lessel FeU/ States, aud the wmajor portion of the fareog tile Jeft hand, which be shot 0@ i W - Gov. Briggy, of Massachusetts, for :‘:w' years before bis death mover woio 8 shlrt Ch g ot oven at receptions, ilo bad s nelghbof W05 be liked exceedingly, and who was on the -’ 491 become & contrmed druukard, With this - Goveruor remonstrated warmly, votil 8t Matencr snswered: **T1 will nl:":r“ i f you will pever agala wear a collar. :u’-: the onnm:f.‘ Each kept bls word m"-“" was saved, sod the Guvergor paid mo A% g attetion Lo the sometimes aharp criticlant Lla spparent carciesancas in bis dress. The Ways and Mcons Committes of the Houso of Itepresontativea hns decided to re- port a joint resolution directing the suspen- sion until 1885—or for sovon years—of the purchaso of nationnl bonds for the Binking Fund, This rosolution s most wise, just, and timely. Tho act of 1802 provided that the Government should retire annually a sum of the public debt equal to 1 per contof that debt. This provision of law was not exe. cuted until 1869, and since then there havo been purchased for tho Sinking Fund bonds oxceeding the legal requirement to the smount of $241,489,168. This docs not in. clude somo 137,000,000 of tho ‘debt pur. chased by Becrotary Bourwezrn and canceled, The annual purchaso of the dobt required by the Binking Puand is now something in oxcess of 20,000,000, but the interest on tho bonds so purchased does not cense, The wholo sum of dobt purchased for the Sink. ing Fund continues to bear interost, which intorest is omployed to purchass other debt. The total snnnal purchase of bonds for the Binking Fund is now nearly $35,000,- 000. The present genoratlon who havo furnished the monoy to purchnse thess sov- era! hundred millions of the public debt have not hud any relief from the tax for in- torest. When a man pays the principal of a dobt, he ought to bo exompt thoreafter from poying interest thoreon; but the country is still taxed to pay interest on all the debt, the principal of which has beon paid. Thero can ba 1o moral or legal objection to the suspension of furjher purchases for the Sink. ing Fund, becauso therois no creditor de- manding it, and the Govornment is already in oxcess of the requircinents of the law to nearly two hundred and fifty millions of dollars. 'The question for mombers of Con. gress to ask themselves {a, whotlor the $100,000,000 to 200,000,000, which will bo paid 1nto the Sinking Fund during the next cight yoars, will not be of wmore boneflt to tho country if loft in tho honds of the people than if paid iato the Treasury to poy bonds which are not due, and which bonds when pald will still contiuue to bear inter- eat. There ought not to bo the lenst ob. jection to passing this resolution without delay, The death of Covzs Basnrouo, which took place in Arizona vn the 23th fust., Is au cvent that recalls many importaut and exciting ifncl- deuts In the history of Wisconsin, Basurorp was elected Governor.of Wiscousln In 1856, befug the first Republican ever elevated to the Execus tive uftice Iuthat State, but the certiticato of clec- tion was glven to his Democratic oppovent, the late WiLLiasx A, Banstow, The countlng In of Baustow on ‘‘supplewmental returng,” manu- factured expressly for the purpose ln Bridge Creck and otber out-ol-the-way precincts, caused intense excitoment and fudignation «ll over Wisconsin, aud, the evidences of tha fraud becoming 80 spparent, & guo warranto pro- cecdiog was wstituted fu the Supremo Court for the purpose of ousting Bansrow and seating Basuronv, The cuse was so peculiar sad fm- portans that it created great interest among all clusses of citizeus, especially wwoug the legal fraternlty, and, as Baksrow was already in of- tice and in command of tho Btate jruops, it looked at one time os {f civil war was immd- nent. Barstow’'s tern asGovernor had becoms wepecially obboxious to the peoplo of the Btate, sud it was during bis Admiulstratfon that the defalcation of E. H. Janwssy, Biato Treasurer, occurred, which showed u loss of $35,000 to the tazpayers. The Goveruor sud bis sssoclatcs Orleaus last fall, at Mr, TiLnes's Tequest, vy "