Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1878, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1878, The Tribawne, TERMB OF SUBSCRIPTION. TOSTAGE FREPAID. 812 the Repnblicans the right to includo in the invostigation certain alleged frands in Mis- sissippi, North Carolina, Alabama, and Oregon,—which is equally a daly to the peo- ple who suffered in consequonce of these frauds, and which may incidentally result to tillers, rec:ificrs, and certain officials, and the Governmont, once nssured of this, shonld tako steps tochangethe personnel of the Col- loctor's office; the first and most essontinl. thing to do in sach a caso would be to ro- move the head of the Departmont as a means A deprociated and fluctuating valwe, and it was argued that a rednction in the sam total of the notos ontstanding wonld hiave the effect of enhancing the value of tho remainder, Itias arguod that the deprecin. tion of valuo was because thors was n re. and yet immenso franda wore unenrthed in that department daring Secretary Baisrow's Administration, and great frauds aro baing discovered in another quarter of tho same dspartment now. In 1873-4 a great clamor was raised for tho reposl of the Moioties gnlp. Among these articlen of ngreomont tho Bonator will find the following: The snbordination of the intercata of parly to nr_n’clplu and to the good of the foople. mc: supremacy of tho civil authority 1o times of Bir, Cantznox roceived 70 votes,—two more ahly havo apccials purporting to come fr ‘Washington and several other places relating changed phraseology the same facts (gl peared In Ts TRINUNR of yesterday, Th: s no exenae for this aecond “scoop exe 2 sheor Inattentlon to business, tmbeciyty, |+ lazinoss, Tha explanation probably fs thgs gy BY MAIL—IN¥ ADVANC) tho advaniage of the Republican party. It [ for reaching the ubordinates. It is also | duhdanoy of cnrrency, and that the natural | act, and lond complaint was made against | than wore necessary for a cholco,—the the iy Edition, t‘,':fi;’"““fi:’,‘fi%{;“:;"“g 38 romains to be seon whether the Democrats, | maintained that tha progress of tho socret | and rensonable way to remody tho ovil was | ths books-and-pnpers-saizuire foature of it. Domoorals giving him 52 and the indopend- 2’1‘:3’:::‘%:::;:.!:5:’ l‘t :rln:xm:l:; :r that the % l;‘"r'flf"l' heen o §{’ D | in their consolentions devotion to duty, will | investigation was constantly rotarded by tho | to remove the causo. This, however, was Under tho prossurs of this clamor it was re- | ont Republicans giving him 13, It ho was | yjon, rong dires. ]i"f'w;;e’: ‘y_.(;s;m:y:;mfi bt gg consent to make the investigation thorough | interfarence of employes in tha Collector's} never done, and, though the act of 1875 pro- ponled. Dut no sooner was it repenled than | DOt 8 reformer, ha certainly succoeded most ————— and impartial. offico; it would be n pioce of folly, there- fore, to trnat tho seizure of the distillerics snd tho publio development of the cases to this samo set of officials. Dut we doubt wholher the. femoval of the Collector, and the dischrge of his principal sub- orlinatea which will bo protty surs to follow, will be sufficiont to secure protection from o renewal of tho frands hero or olse- where. Theso frauds on the rovemtio— whother they be by **liberal gauging,” or the removal of apirits clandostinely, or the reuso of atamps—ocannot be succesafally accomplished withont the assistance or con- nivance of officials, Tho only practical pro. tection under the present system {s that suggeated by the Chicago distillers, who have had all the experionco thoy want in this crooked business, and now desire protection against frauds elsewliere. Their suggastion is that thero shall bo frequont rotation among the Rovonue Agents, Gangers, and Store. kecpors,—sending thom suddenly and with. out warning from one distillery to another, and from ono district o another. Tho conutry is not so much concerned in the outcoms of the phrticular fmuds charged upon the Cincionati Ring (thongh it will be in tho intercat of public morals that thoy be fully exposed and punished) a8 in some defi- nite measures for tho repression of frauds everywhere, The Chicago whisky.men be. lieve that thero have been transactions at Omabn and Terre Haute similar to those discovered at Cincinnati, nnd thoy may be axpected to break out from time to timoat different places until a system of rotation shall bo adopted that will render it impossi. ble to form n Ring except it shall include pretty much oll the distillers, rectiflers, and rovenue-afficinls in tho country. That would be hard to accomplish. e INCREASE THE ARMY, The regular army shonld be increased to £0,000 mon. ‘Thera are a number of foolish porsons calling themselves Communists in oach of the large cities who aro bound to make (roubla if thoy are mot prevented. Thoy ave afraid of tho regular army, and that is the only force they are afraid of. Rioting stopped aeverywhore Inst July s soon a8 the rogulars camoe. Their broech. londers wero 8o much rospected that they did not need to fire a shod Whon two com- panies of rognlars marched through the streats of Chicago during the riots, 10,000 citizens linod tho way and choored them, That was on instrnotive speotacle. It was a publio confession that tho rogulars were the best moans of defense ngainst Communists, In timo of dangor men are apt to speak tho truth, Thelr instincts are uppermost. Dem. agogues ara obliged to take back sents, When the whole country callod on the army for protection last summer, it was be. causo Domocrats and Republicans had confidence in the ability of the army lo put down tho riots. Nobody then supposed that the Democratic House, in nine months' timo, would propose to re- duce the army. The peoplo demanded an incronse of tho army, so that evory part of the country could have protection. Tho danger Is greator now than it was then, as the Communists aro botter orginized and more numerons; oconscquently, the roason for fncraasing the army ia atrongar, An jncreaso of tho army wounld benefit the country by taking the prossure off tho labor market. The employment of 50,000 to 60,000 men by QGovernment lu times like theso would bo a publio blessing, It would cut the ground from under Communism by de. stroying the motive of tho idle mon who have gone into it for want of sometling bet- ter todo, If honost discontent were taken out of Communistio organizations, the bnokbone of moat of thom would be broken. Itecruiting for tho army would do this immedintely, and nothing else would. The Domocrats in the Houso propose to fn- crenso the distress of laboring men by throw- ing a pumboer of soldiors out of employment, This is a bad kind of material to add to'tho idle population. Dischargod moldiers will give the idle population the fighting and in. telligent strongth thoy need. Congross ought to think better of this dangerous prop- osition, Fifty thousand soldlers is none toc many for o country liko the United Btates to main. ‘taln, Germany has on the ponce-footing 419,014; France has 480,703 ; Ltussia has 708,427; Austria hos 267,313; Italy bos 199,657; England hss 125,607, None of these countries, excopt Russla and England, have so large a territory to keep in order a3 tho United States. None of them Las 8o mixed s population, or so loose a Govern. ment, or eo loug a frontler requiring pro. toctlon, or so many forms of disorder to ropross. We have Ohinese in Oalifornia, Mexicans in Arvizona snd New Moxioo, In. diaus on the plains, negroos in the South, French Oanadians in New Eogland, Bpaniards in Florida, and Irishmen, Gormans, French- viding for the gradual rednotion of green. backs to $300,000,000 has been in oporation three yonrs, the prosent amount of green- backs ontstanding is abont $350,000,000, against $356,000,000, the amount ontstand. ing from 1867 to 1873, Tho appreciation of the groenbacks has bsen due to ofhor canses, nnd to the remonetization of silver {a due the oxtinclion of tho Isst margin of differ- ence botweon coin and paper. The graonbncks having attainod practical. 1y tho value of coin, and thers boing now al- most a cortainty that the Government will be able to maintain them in circulation at par with coin, the objection that thoy are deprecinted and their valuo fluctuating no longer exists, and the roason for thelr with. drawal no longer applies. Tho motive and purposo for nedacing the gresnbacks to three hundrod millions of dollars have no applica. tion to the presont condition of affairs; on tlia contrary, the Socretary of the Treasury might be authorized to issne greenbacks up to fult logal limit of four hundred millions of dollars, 8o long as the Treasury will be ale to malntala their value at par with coin, The proper limit for tho issue of greenbacks is that point at which they can be exchanged for coin. Under the liberal coinngo now suthorized, with gold and silver is. suing from the mints at the rte of eight millions of dollars per month, tho ability of the Treasury to main- tain the redeomability of the greenbacks in coln will grow stronger overy day. A purely motallio currency would have its inconven- jenco; but a papor ocurrency redecmabls in coin, and having the purchasing powor of coin, is of such groat importance that 1t Is indlsponsable, For every dollar of coin in the country, not necessarily in the Tronanry, there might ba a paper dollar issued ; and so long as the paper is redeemable in coin on demond, so long will the paper circulate in preference to the coln. As fast ns the gold and tho silver are coinsd thoy may bo de- posited in the Treasury, cxcept suoh com. paratively small proportion as may bo needed in business, and the conntry may boe * flood- od " with paper without any unhealthy nfla. tion or expansion, so long as the redoom. ability of the paper is maintained. ‘ Thera is, thereforo, no reason now existing for rotiring the groenbacks in whole or in part. They are practically at par with coln, and there can bo no valid objcotion to tho passage of tha Xouse bill. We know that thore is an objection which extonds to the issuo of any paper money of any kind by the Government, and, it it was a question of now boginning that policy, it would bs open to discussion; bLut the papor has boon issued, and is now outatanding, and wo do mnot think the country has progressed for cnough in tho matter of financial, commerclal, and productive recov- ory na to suggest the practicability or ad- visability of calling in all tho greonbnoks. ‘Whon the national debt shall have been all retunded at 4 per cont, or even less, whon thie mints shall have had timo to produce coln onough to moet all possible wants, then it will be in order to discuss the propri- oty of tho Govornment withdrawing its Jegal-tondor notes, and leaving to private capital, invostod in banls, the business of supplying the country with papor equiva- lonta of coin. o WEEKLY EDITION, FOSTPAID. 5 o0y, b i Bpecimen cof Give Post-Ufice address In fall, including Stateand Connty. Hemittances mayhe mada elther by draft, express Post-Office order, orin reglatered lettars, at our risk. TERMS TG CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Taily, Aciivered, Bunday excepted, 25 centa per week, Latly, delivered, Sunday includet. 20 centa per week, Addren THR TRIDUNE COMPANT, Corner Madleon and Dearborn-sts., Chicago. Iik ©Orders for the deliveryof Tug T xz a1 Evanston, Engiewood, and Iiyde Park leftIn the counting-reom Wilirecelye nromot attentton. the rascals of the importing fraternity re. sumed stoaling with now vigor, and with re. markable snccess. It is o question whether the clamor for repeal did not emanate solely from the thieves themselves. Indeed, the act of repesl (June 22, 1874) bears some marks of hnving been inspired by ** erooks,” as witnoss tho following section (10): ‘That In all actions, snlits, And proceedings in any conrt of the Umited Btates now ponding or here- after commenced or prosscanted to enforce or de- clare the forfcituro of any goods, wares, of mer- chandlee, or to recover l{n valng thereof, or any other sum nlleged to be forfelted by renson of any violation of the provislonn of the Custons Revenne laws, or any of such provisions, In which action, anlt, or proceeding an'Iastie or Isanes of fact shall have been Joined, it shail be tha dnty of the Conrt, on the triaf thereof, to anbnit to the Jury. as a dis* tinct and upfll’:llc[mpol"lnll, whether tAe alleged acla were done wlth an actnal tntention fo defrand the United States, and to require npon such propo- sitlon & speclal ‘finding by auch jury: or, If auch isenes ba tricd ny the Court withont & jury, It ahiall bo the duty of the Court to pass upon and de- gldp anch proporitian as & distinct snd scpurats ineaf focy s s s sl 0 forfetture ahall de imposed,’ S ¥ Thieves could not have a much stronger wall of protection. Everybody knows that fntent is difficult to prove. No wondor that selzures have fallen away to next to nothing since June 22, 1874, If the saction of the act above quoted was not actually propared and smuggled into the bill by thisves to save thieves from punishment, it looks mightily like it. Mr. Bmenwan's bill proposes the ropeal of thia rididulous saction. Ought it not go a stop further and provide for tho ro- ennotment of the books.and-papers-selzure fonture of the act of 18637 Frauds on the customs rovenue are on.the verge of becom- ing the rulo rather than the exception, and tl;cy must bo stopped | admirably in clhealing n majority of both Tiouses into the belief that ko wna one, olse thoy never would have voted for him. And itis porhnps no slander on the Benator to #ny ihat, if the foresight of tho mombers of the Legislatura of 18756 had been as good as thoir hind-sight, he would nover have been olected at all | Last Monday's Tainunr contalned o Wash- ington special dated May 8 ncarly a column in length exposing the Cincinnatl Whisky Ring and the scyerat stops taken by the Government offl- cers {n uncarthing the frauds, and also relating tho circumatances which led to the demand upon WairzeL for his resignation of the Inter- nal Revenuo Collectorship. This apoclal was Lricfly discussed in the cditorial columans tho same morning, and attentlon was called to the revelations it contained and to the removal of the Clncionat! Collector on account of whisky frauds that bad occurred under his nose. The 1 gpeclal ** appeared conspieuously on the first page of Tim TRIDUNE, and was read by tens of thousands of persons on the same day,—Mon< day. ‘The Chilcago Times, which {s everlastingly cackling alout its * nows-cuterprise,’” had not & word In jts fssus of that day on the subject. It suffered a complate “acoop” It the “old man” Lad Ueen Mgpdeck " that dsy when the **scoop? occurred, some delinquents would have caught *fits," to state it mildly, The factotum in charge, how-~ ever, hustled around after reading the Cincln- natl whisky-exposurs newa in Tas TrinuNm, and Interviewed several people In this city, and sent telerraphic orders to AVashington to scrapa up something, With what tne reporters conld plck ap In thelr “Interviews,’” and what was re- mitted from Washington, it anything, the fac. totum, with theald of Tus Taibusa's spectal bofore bim, managed to patch out a dispateh for Tucaday's Times about the Cincinnatl whisky frauds almost identical fn statoments with what had appeared in Tir TRIDUNE tho previ- ous day. Inthe facoand eyos of this complete defeat, the Zimss factotum {s guilty of the ridiculous mendacity of publishing an eblovi- ating article which commences thusly: 2 The Mupirt establishment, which declines to mentlon Eplscopat scandala until'the exposaro is & day old, m| 0 expected to regard the workings of a new W, Iy]fing aa worthy of mention, - We turn from the 7¥mes apecials from Cincinnatl and Washington, covering tha Iatest lizhtning-stroko, 10 thosa of Tite TwBUXK from the sams places and on n similar anbjoct, aud note the contrast. ‘Then follows extracts of alleged dispatches from Washington and Cinclanat! in the Zimes of Tuesday, the 7th, which read very much as if thoy were maonufactured from Tuas Tin- uNn's speclals of the previous day. The read- orsof the two papers had alroady “noted the contrast¥ on Monday. Tits TRisuxs had the whisky-fraud nows, aud tho Zimes bhad a— blank, If tho former **declined to mention the Eplscopal scandals” untll they woro o day ©ld, the latter declined to mentlon the Clucin. natl whiaky scandals until they woro o day old, verlinps out of tenderuess for the flue fecllogs of tha whisky-thioves, If it wasnot that, will the Times rise and ex plani e ——— Where docs a newspaper item go, or, rather, where does 1t not go?! At Bayonue, N. J., tho other day, the porsecutors of a youug couple who wers about to bo marrled set a trap in the churely, from which, during the ceremony, were thrown up several hundred pink-tinted cards, on which wss printed a story, “ low Martha Won Him, veginning thus: *+ MAnTia," eald Mras. T—— to herlady boarder, 4 sho was about golng- forlh in tow" of & young man who worships the very sidewalc sho walks upon, **go to the braad-box and eat s good, big crust of hread before you go out.'" **Why, M T—-," replied the plushing giel, ‘I don't feel thio least blt hungry, -~ We have only fust had tea." 1 know it, but you will be hunzry bafors you come back; 'and whon JIXXTY taxes you intoa o taurant you'll eat ico-cream, and sponge-cake, aid ham sandwiches, and oysters enough to scare L\lmnmulllnlr‘l growth. . . . Of Courss, Jix wiil apend the money you will save him on oilliarde and things, but that makes no dilforonce, ‘When lie aska you to go in and have sume oystors, even if you are not lnmzr{. don't. Hay you do not approve of girla wasting the monsy of thoir future husbands on trifles, when it might be spplied towarls furniebing a bouse, ™ otc. ‘This was a Jocallzed adaptation of one of Tus ‘Trivuxn's comic {tems published maoy months ago. Alrer what wanderings dld it appear a thousaud miles away to set the good people of adJersoy vlllage by tho cars and plague the peaco of wedded lovers! The publication ot the * Episco; H scandal” soemd to have cxlmua(c«lia“,n&hlm priseand encrglos of the Times, It has pory ° “left!! right along on the qrc“m“d““:n whisky frauds. It walts unth Tre Tringey unenrths and publishes them, and then it cor, » lumberlng along the next day withg rch-:; made out of the ssme news. On information from Philadelphia, the Trensury Department Iately- seized nll:the; kid gloves in bond in New York Oliy for. sllegod undorvalnation. It ‘is-qnita noforl.’ onn that nenrly nll the kid “gloves §mported into the Unitad States tre undervalued from 20 to 40 per cent, Mr. Witumro, of the’ housa of Fierp, Lurrer & Co., of this city, is rapresented as having sald recently that: there fa not an honost importation of kid' gloveamade in this couniry,~—maaning, of course, an importation of any considerable extent, Mr. WrLuive is undonbtedly cor- rect. Everybody oxcept the customs officials of the port of New York Is familiar with this disgraceful fact tonch- ing the manner in which the customs servica is administered by Mr. - Qol. lector Antaun and Mr, Appralser Durones, of that port. ‘The kid gloves lately ecizod in New York bolong to the saveral agents of the largo foreign manufacturers. Upon the taking effect of the seizure these agents manifested great indignation, and demanded the release of the goods on the filing of suf- ficient bonds. This the officers of the port were willing to grant, but, napon the matter being referred to Secretary Siznuaw, that official pnt his foot down and said No! The addendum to this little difficulty of the *“agents” is Interesting to honast importers. The gloves, says tho New York Times, “are under examination in the Appraiser's office, and a number of New York erperts harva testiffed that the poods were {nvoiced up to their full evalue” Those persons who are familiar with the character of tho expert teslimony usually offered by New York importers in support of the verity of undervalued invoices will langh at this statemont of tho Times. It is the practica of the agent of o forelgn manu- facturer, when his consignments are seized, to call some of his brother agents to * swear thom out"; and it is the practice of New York customs officlals to accept such testi. mony as conclusive of their own [folly in neizing the goods. Collector ArtmUn and Appraiser DoTcren are merely showing, in tho pending glove cnse, how they can cir. cumvent a Secretary of the Lroasury. ———— The Zimes on Tucsday reproduced 1 fab. stance Tus Tnisuns's Monday Washingyy, apecisl about the exposurcs of the Clnclnnnl; whisky frauds, and'prints them on Wednesday j paralicl columns against Tuz Trinuxe's omhu slon to republish its Monday specials an Tuu‘ day. The Timesis certatnly a tunny paper, ——— Trz CricAGo TRINUNE has established branch offices ferthe recelptof subecrintionsand sdvertiements s followa: NEW YORK—Room 28 Tridune Dufiding. F. T. Ma- Fannxs, Mansger, PARIE, France~Yo, 18 Rao de Is Grange-Batellete. 1. Manvxn, Agent, LONDON, Eng.—American Exchaoge, 440 Strand, xxny F, Giznia, Agent. 6AN FRANCISCO. Cal.—Palsco Hotel. — AMUSEMENTS, Tho universsl regrot with which hag bee; recelved the announcoment that Carep Cuc: 1IN0 wasabout to run tor Congress In M, n!lnuhu. setts will be tompored and turned to nleuu,; by thereflaction that ho will probably run {n By, Bureas’s district. ¢ —— The Cunard Compavy fs hazing t - fitting of its now steamer, the Gni‘lln?:n::‘:‘: Japan, where the work can be done better m.’: cheaper, 1t Is sald, than In England. It wil now be in order for the English jolners to mob by Japaness Envoy. 2 MeVicker's Thentres Medfeon street, between Dearborn and Biate, A After Dark,” fTooley’s Thentro. Randniph street, between Clark and LaBalle. Emerson’s Minstrels, f The Washington Post dovotes an Dlastratey article to Congresslonal noses, but makes no mention of GLOVER'S, or of the noses of thy other members of the Smelling Committees, Poasibly, though, thete noses are out of jvint, ———— Now Chlcago Theatre. Ciark street, oppaslte Sherman Iouse. - Engage- mentof J, Z. Little. **Roving Jack." Tinverly’s Theatre, Monroa sireet, corner of Dearborn. Josh Ilart's Pane ‘Tho Democrata are crowling loualy over the(r Arama of the Chicago Fire. economy. Quite rights It they spent the ng. tional funds in paying the runnlog expenses of the Government, what would therc be left In tha Treaaury for the Bouthern ctalmants? e - Collsenm. Clark street, opposite new City-Tlall. Varlety one #ertatoment. o . AMeCormick Hall. North Clark street, corner Kinzle, Resdlngs by prof, J. E. Murdoch, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1878, Georam FRANOIS TRAIN declines ever o speak again in Boaton, whoss grateful citizeny will probably build him a movument besils which the Bunker Hill sbatt will louk like a holy in the ground. BENATOR OAMERON AGAIN, In briefly commenting the other day upon Bonator Caxenox's article in the current nnumbor of the North American Review, we spoke ndvisedly when we stated that * ¥ started in political life as o ¢ reformer,” and ended as a d:fonder of the spuils machine systom,—all in eightacn months.” A friend of the Benator inslsts that Mr. Camerox “was always a Ilopublican,—nevor a re- Jormer,"—nnd that we havo done him an in- justics, Tae Trmune much profers to do justics in all casos, espacially in critiosing the wards and aeations of its party frionds, and only rogrots that Inck of space provented us from doing entire justice to the ill- digested literary hodge-podge sproad out bo= fore the readers of the Reviewby Wisconsin's junior—or, to speak more correotly and his- torically, accidental—Senator. On the oc- caslon referred to, we only davoted spaca cnongh for o mild examination of M. Oaxezon's notions of Civil-Servica roform, and, remembering the poculiar oircam- stances of his election to tho United States Senato in place of Matr H. Oanrenten, we only oxpressed the surpriso and disappoint- mont felt by others at hia position, Perhapa it is not of record that Senator Oaxenox {8 & * reformer.” That gontloman cnn ocertainly dofy us to point ont anything in his briof Congrosslonal careor to prove that he aspires to that distinotion. And it weo aro pressed to furnish evidence that he ever fntimated his desiro for anything better than the spoils systom bofors his election, wo greatly fear that it cannot bo produced. For we now remembor that, being in Madi. son just aftor the Republican caucus had nominated Mr, Oanrexten for re-election to the Sonate, and after tho eighteon Ropub- licon membors of the Legislature had bolted and refused to support .the caucus nomines, Mr. Oaxenon expressed his wish that the good old way should bo adhored to, and that Mr. Oanrexten might be choson. So that, in calling the Senator o ** reformer,” we had in mind the circumstances uuder which his talonted predecessor was retired to private life, and to the opinions prevalont among both partles in Wisconsin at the time, - rather than to the indi- vidanl notions of a porson as little known {o the public as Mr. Camenon wos then. Aund whatever he may now say in derogation of reform in the Olvil Sorvice, he is in tho Benato to.day as the product of & desire for it, although nobody may feel dis. posed to quote him as a conspicuoud ex- ample of tha genuine artiole. Mr, OanpeN. Ten had offended the good sonse of his con- stituonts in various ways, and it was bacause of the demand for a reform, or a change for tho better, that ho was dufeated. - What the Ropublioan members of the Legislature wero aiming at who revolted agninat the nction of the cnucus, and refused to vote for Mr. Oanpzyten, was briefly and cogently sot forth at the timo In the following statement, which they issued to their constitusnts as justifieation for thoir courso : We are opposed to the election of Mavr H, CARTENTRR— 1, Decausn he apologized for sand defended the Credit-Mobiller swinalo. 2, Bocause ho voted for and accspted the back- p.{{ ateal, ana refused to refund the monvy. . Tiecauss he defended Senator CaLpWELL when m‘f"""’" practices 1n obiainiog his seat wers no+ rions. 4, Decanee ha defended tha Now York Central Railroad Company’s casa bofore the Internal Hove enus Departoient agalnet the intercsts of the peos plo and contrary to the law governiug mombers of % Mr. Ep1sox is bullding a sort of Great Eastern of o phonograph, haviog n displaccment equal 0 16,082.4 words. It {s bellevad to be Intended for Socretary Evants or A. I 8tarneys, ——— Qreonbacks at the New York Stock Ex- chango yostorday closed at 0D}, England's *'irreducible minimum" is what Count Scrouvarorr Yook with him to Bt. Pe. torsburg, Itis presumed that it occupled anly a small corner of his gripsack. The Stote Convention of Natlonals ot Philadelphin yesterdsy nominated a full ticket nnd adopted a platform, after & protrscted gession in which con- fusion, disorder, and ill-feoling wora the distinguishing characteristics, The ppeoches Wero of the Communist order, aud the Communist idea of equality, if not of fraternity, provailed to an embarrassing degree, ench delogate insisting upon the ¥ight to mako up n ticket to suit himsalf, Cltizen Jonx BwintoN, of the New York Sun, is a lending member of tho Commune, and wants the army reduced to 10,000 men, Very natural f Landlords this yoarare not quite so Herod- fan towards children 2sthey used to bawhen rents wero higlier and tenanta oaslor to bo got, } ' When tlic old cat is away tho mice will play, That 19 the reason the Timests getting *lefy every day sloce the *old man ™ satled. The information conveyed to Tre '[aIBUNE 1ast Monday of a requost for the resignation of Werrzer, Internal Revennue Collector at Cincinnatl, was the first official recognition of the whisky frauds in that city, though such frauds have been suspected for a yoar ond more. The Cincinnati distillers, recti. flers, and revenuo offlciala escaped prosccu- tion in the Brisrow rald, which broke up tha Rings at Ohieago, 8t. Louls, Milwankeo, Evansvillo, snd othor citics, It was genoral- ly charged among tho whisky-men at that timo that Clncinnatl had its Ring like other whisky-manufacturing centres, and the ‘ene. mies of Booretary Dnistow sought to make capital against him, and to gain some sym- pathy for themselves, by charging that he waa extonding immunity to Cinclonatr; bat tho Cinclnnati whisky-men thon claimed that they had boon largely instramental in brlng.} ing about the exposures and prosecutions at other points because they ocould not compete, whilo honostly paying their taxes, sgaiust tho thioves who poid no taxes. It is protty certain that there was no favoritlsm shown them, and that, it thoy had been engaged In frauds, thoy wero able to cover thom up 60 as to osoape for the time-being, But oscape from the geueral raid seoms to have misled the Ciucinnati whisky-people into a fatal confidonce in thelr own suporior shrowdnouss. For the past year the distillers at 8t. Louis, Chicago, Peoria, aud Milwaukoo hava from time totimo drawn attentlon to thoe fact that Oincinnati was solling whisky at prices at which the other places could not compete without stealing thefr corn or avoiding the tax. It was pointed out that the corn was even cheaper at Chicago than at Ciucinuati; that the product of whisky 1o the bushel was a little more, or at lenst quito as much; that the cattle fed at the distillorles ylelded as good prices; and that all the circumstances for making whisky were fully as favorable at Ohicago as ot Cincinnatl. In spite of all this, Cigoiunati went on undersclling Chi- cogo. Thero was only one reasousble ex. planation for this condition of things, viz.: that there must be on extenslve evaslon of taxes at Cinciunati, During all this tima tho Chicago dlstillers bave Leen indiguant that the Government would take no notice of their complaint, and the Oinclonati men, backed up by their newspapers, have protested their innocence and dewanded the fullest investigatiod. Even now the Cincinnati newspapeis come boldly to tho rescue ; they profess to bolieva that no *‘crookeducas” will be exposed, and polut to a vislt of a Bpecial Revenus Agent some months ago, who reported that every- thing was ‘‘stralght™ iu that district. 1t f Up to tho hour of golng to press, the army has not been reduced to ten thoussud (10,00)) men. I PERSONALS, Dr, Mary Wallier is rapidly recovering, Mr. French 8moot isa residentof Alox. andrla, Va, Jos Coburn, the pugillst, is laying brick In the prison at Auburn, N, Y, The New York paupers and the inmntes of the hoapltals got olcomargarine Instead of butter. Bierstadt gavo the Aontroal Art-Gallery s plcture of the Bacramento Valley, whichi is In bl best style, Mre. Moronco hns beon ro-clected Stats Librarfan of Misalssippl, and a woman prestdes over Tenncssco's Stato Libraty. A Fraok Moulton told a Washington reporter that ho had only had ona conGdontial friend in his 1ife to whom hotrusted everything, —hlaselt, Jim Bonnett's sister, Miss Joannetto Den. nctt, lathe latest anthor to whom rumor ascribes **Tho Tender Recollections of Ireme Moxllle cuddy, " Willlam I, Selkirk, onp of the heroes of tha recont ** Florlda fraud" fiasco, wns arreated one night Jast woek |n Now York for being drank and disorderly on Broadway, Yale's Professors are rich, Ex-President Woolsey s asseesed upon & property of §17, Prof, Dwigh! $061,200; Prof. Silllnan on 0003 and Prot. Hoppin on $34,781. Dr, Haley, in ndvoeating spelling reform, saya that 30, 000 duplicated consouanta appesr In overy copy of the London Ztmnes, exactly one-balf (15,000) of which are totally useloss. An Amerionn Quakeross, Mrs. Cowgill, now visiting in England, sang » Moody aud §sokey bymn in o Friends' meeting-house in London whore singing had not beon heatd for two cvotus ries, 3 Col. Valentine Baker Is to command s reg- fmontof Gootkha Infantry st Malta, The tloor- khas are al) bow-legged, short and stout, but thoy are very wuscular, and courageous to foolbardi ness, Represontative Hendrick B, Wright will godown to posterity as tho only Membor of Con- gress that over deliverod an oftion to & louss of Ropresentatives conslsting of one membor—ihe Hpeaker. Quoen Barguerite of Italy is a devout Cathollc, and on the Thuraday of Holy Week weat on foat, plalnly dressed fn mourniug, snd accum- vanfed only by a single maid, to soven Lowsa churches. Edwin Bootls has refused {o play st Wask- {ngton sluce Lincolu's murder by his brather, Jobn Wilkes; honce Capitollau folk desirous of seolng the great actor bave to go to Balimors whenever he bas an engagowment there. A Louisvillain has tho dueling-plstols with with which Bugr killed Alezander liamiltou. They have been used 1o eloven duels, snd were pur chased by the pessnt awner's unclo from Burf, to Batweon the Fonlans and the Communlsts Bt. Louls is just now unusually well sup- plied with sensational materials,. The Irish- wmen aro keoping thoir own counsels this timo, though they nre mot nawilling that tho impression should go abroad that they aro secrotly making preparations for a formidablo movement against -England in tho ovent of o war with Ruasia. 8o with tho Communists,—they would like nothing botter than to have it understood that their numbers aro logion, their organization por- foct, nnd their intentiona threatoning to the peace and safety of the country, —— The porliamontary etiquette which per- mits mombers of the Ways and Means Com. anitteo to deliver speeches npon any mensuro reported by that Committeo asslsted to save the Tariff bill from immediate defeat yostor- day, The enemies of tho bjll were on' the nlert to sirangle it outright by striking out the ouncting clause, nud when this at- tompt failed through the rulings of Speaker RawNpary, another expedient was promptly resorted to—that of limiting de. bate aud forcing immediate action on the bill. ‘The membars of the Committee will ba allowed to deliver their carefully.pre. pared wpeeches, and then, as now appoars cerloin, thelr pot mensore will be jgoo- wiviously voted down, RE-ENACTMENT OF THE MOIETIES LAW, Becrotory Buesman sees the nocessity of rostoring to tho customs codo the molsties featuro enacted March 2, 1709, which was repoaled by tho act of Juno 22, 1874, To this end he has sont to the House of Repre. sontatives the draft of o bill. Tho bill pro. vides that, in casosof fraud, the informer, {/ not & United States ofiicer, shall roceive one- third of the grosa proceads of such dutles withheld, or finos, ponalties, or forfeltures incurrod. It also provides that whonever any customs officar shall dotect or selze goodls, oto., in tho nct of boing smuggled, or which havo boon smuggled, or who shall do- tect n fraud by undorvaluation or other fraudulent devico, such officer shall recelve one-fourth of the gross proceeds resulting from such sefzuro, or which may bo recov- cred on sccount of such fraud, Dut this Iattor provision 1 rostricted in its application to the class of customs officers whose annual salary fs $4,000 or losa, Another dispatoh places the limit at $3,000. Boc. 91 of tho sct of 1700 is na follows : ‘That alt fines, penalit snd forfeitures ! ro- cavored by viriue of thissct (and not otherwise npprnnrlllufluhlll. afterdeducting alj praper coata and cuarges, be disposcd of as followe: One molot; shall be for the uaa of the United Btates, and be pal into tho Treasury thereof by the Collecior recaly- ing tho samoj; the other molaty shall be divided be. tween and paid fn squal proportions to the Col- Iector and Naval Ofilcer of tho district snd Survgyor of the Port, . . . provided, neverilicloss, that inail cascs where ‘such ponalties, fincs, aud for- felturcs shall be recovered in purauance ol Infor- matlon given (o auch Cullector by any purson other than the Naval Officer or Burveyor of the district, the one-balt of such molety ahall bo glven to such {nformer, and the remainder thercaf shall bo dis- goled of "between thio Collector, Navat Utticer, and urreyor, It will bo obaerved that thero is a radical difference botwoon the bill of Becretary Buzz. e e— A number of Chicago artists age roprossnted at the cxuibition of the Indiana Art Association {0 Ind{aunpolis, including Messrs. F. R, Granx, A. F, Brooxs, J, . Dnunt, and L. C. Eanve. Alr, Stanuey Watcus, the well-known col- lector of brle-a-brac and ceramic wares, has also an admirable exhibit of pottery and porcelaln on vlew, drawn principally from bis rooms in this city, and arrauged fo tho eame way as his colicction at sho Chioszo Exposition last year. Mr, Watens will deliver two lectures on his {avorita subject to the people of Indianapolis next week. It 14 10 be hopea that they will have the samg measurs of aporeclation fu that city which they recelved here. This s the first formal fntroduction of the people of [ndlanapo- 1is to tho instructive and dellghtfal study which Mr. WATERS has falthfully pursued for magy years. If thoy got half the benefit from his viaie whicn the peaple of Chicago bave derived from his resldeuco here, thoy will have reason to bo thankful. B T —— The New York Sun, having published some 4 Positive Facts' aboot Cardinal Manming, is mildly rebuked by the Brooklyn Eapgle, which polints out (1) that Cardinal MANNING never married & Miss WiLbaRroros; (3) that his wife's death did not lead him {nto the (‘stholic Church, for it was not tlil many years alter that he weut over; (8) that the Cardinal was not getting preferment o **galloping atrides ™ A declsion renderod yesterdsy at Omaha Ly Judge Dunpy, of the United States Dis- trict Court, donios the right of the Kansss and Donver Pacifio Railrosds to compel the Union Pacifio to concede a mileage pro-rate on all business delivered by them to the late terrond. It is held that the Unlon Pacifio hos tho right to imposs an extra clargs on freight carried west of the junctlon of theso branches, upon the ground that the cost of construction botween Oheyenne and Ogden wad largely in cxcess of tho cost of any of tho lines east of Choyenue, such rate 1o bo regulated in proportion to theincreased cost of comstruction and operation. This ducision {a a victory for the Union Paclflo, und will be of service to the opponents of the Pro-Rata bill now pending in Congress, which undertakes to accomplish by leglala tion what Judge Duxoy decides cannot be secured through the courts, ————— + AN ho act of 1709, in this, that where- fu tho Anglican Churcly, having only succeeded | whom ho paid $500 for them. Awor Murrrsoy spesks of the * puny | may mollity the Chicago complainauts some- | non, Ttalians, Bohemians, and Polos in tha | oy ol g y Gongans E i Col ¢ Customs, Naval Off 3 t for him 18t t to hs fathor-in-law’s benciice, of which th Mrs, portrait of herselt selt-contradictions, Inconsistenoles, aud ii- | what, and impair the self-cunfidence of the | North, The Government is bound to keep ;m,l;?"w"u:d“ that act, ,,m"e;o:. ;;:: wioralieg o ialoomaqeniny 110 vote tedlrorce | 00 0 was i the family, und been mado an Hagas had seh 4 pIrAEnE to tho Philadelpbis Eindergarton, whichshe vlsited rocently, with this imacription:. *‘May 1 anky through you, the privilego of saying guod motn- i b, (Y ll:’unu ho opposod tho repeal of the frank. lngprlvtlnco. “, Brcavsw um 18 orrosgn To Civir-8xnvios logical absurdities of E, 8, WiLriaus' queer opinion for Hzatu & Co's illegal debt shin- plastors.” Why does Hanoy Anpry blink the Clucinnati witisky.-men, to learn that the all races in harmony, to protect thoso that Government Las boen ongaged in its own el Archdeacon; and (4) that, so fur from belng an cannot protect thamsclves, and to help the d, . of the waletian acovapsc Buller thio.peo ascetlc, Cardinal MANNING eats meat on fast~ posed measuro nono but subordignte oMeers . woy In the iuvestigation of Oinclouatl | ofliers in keeping the peace. A folr-sized nEronx! 5 days, and lives gencrously always, by medical | tng to our i ends of the Kindergsrten? Luc¥ point that the judicial opinfon afirming the | 8fairs, while professing not to believe in army is the beft ,f,.,, ',g seoure thesa ends. ;’:;g:;‘:;:;‘:":m,g;: ?;::;;fit‘;;&;‘:g‘ ,,.‘:(,l%ffw‘l','zo.fl'.'.f'.,’,n:;:,ho'“:'“,':f. ,’:f{’,’,';‘,"f,‘n‘f dircction and ecclestastical dispensation. **The | W, Harzs. Iegality and constitutionality of the city cer~ tificates s tho joint opinion of Judges Mo- ALuister, Rooens, Boors, and WiLLiams? What i3 the renson that Axp¥ goes around McAvLuisten to got & shot at WiLLuaa? Are tho legal oplnions of Judges MoArLisTez, Booru, and Rocess nothing but *¢ puny self-contradictions, inconsistencies, end il logical absurdities”? Does nobody except Axor MarTeson know anything about law polnts and interpretations of the Constitu~ tion? Why not submit all doubtful or difi- cult questions to this new X-poander of the Htate Constitution, who is endowed wi‘h logel infallibility? A new Daxier, Wessrxn bias arisen among us. the charges. 'The statement is made that the visit and report of & Bpecial Agont some months ago, which was ordered in a publie manner and after sufficlont notice to enable tho distillers o got their houses in order, was planned simply to deceive the guilty, and that, as & oatter of fact, secret ogents have boen at work for many wmonths, and collected evidence of frauds which it is now too late to remove, It is said that the Treasury Dopartment at Washington is satisfied that the Oincinnati frauds amount to a million aud a quarter of dollars, and that it has the most mipute in- formation as to the means employed to com- mit thom, It is ridiculous, under these oir- oumstances, for the Oincinnsti newspapers to aunounce that the removal of Collestor ‘Weirzen really shows that there have been no frauds, since such rewoval would be & warning to the crooked distillers, refluers, and officials, and enable them to conoeal their frauds. This statement might have sowe forge if the Government were just starting oat in the fuvestigation; as we understand the eitustion, tho Government is already in posscssion of the facts, and is now shaping matters Lo put a stop to the frauds. ‘Fliere s no evidence, as far as we know, ‘which getually juvalves Collector Wrirzew in the frauds. BSuch personal complicity would not be necessary to warrant a request for his resignation. The frauds bave been of ana- turo to require coliusion botween the dis Sun's mean dlstance,” s Mr. PROCTOR, about 03,840,000 mlle: We should judwe so, if its * Positive Facts” are all like that just passed under revicw, Parson Newmsn has begun 8 mnna'nl sermons At his churchon Seventhavenur, New York, on the seven great religlons of the world, vi. : Blntolsm, Buddniwm, Confuclsnism, Tenlsm, Bratimiolam, Mohammiodsalsm, and Chrlatisoiys compared and contrasted. ‘Whon Tenoyson wrole his firsé poom for tho Nineteenth Century, the line Thus far bava we advansed witboubacbock was left out, lest It sbould sesm (0 sliude 3 tbe tardy psyment of contribators. The Laureatd g0t & check for §1,500 for bia last ballad—thus f87 bave they advanced. Lond Beaconsfield's butlor was recently summoned ta do jury duty In London, bat was 253 cused sitendance becausa bls home dutles wers 1:0 “importsnt to be trenched upon by those of lb ; citizon. **An officlal of such digaity,” wroie B Lordship's Beerotary to tha Assistant Judge, 4 indlapensable in the hight of the scason, 0! pray you bave hitn sxcused.” A Dauriog the lsst month before the flddl;B_ the King of Bpaln bad & telepbonic lins put SR twoen his palace and that of bis futere bride; d“:r ing the 1ast month aince thelr weddiog, wmln'vlv“ e begica *-Alf, Iwant tosp—" pe says: b sleepy, my dear; good night.” The telephond P 1s rusting, a: spiders 6 bulle tholr we scross the moutbplece. Buch Ls life. Mrs. Aunio Bosant’s husband, the Tiev. Frank Besant, (rom whom soparsted u:m‘: yeara 0go, i sulng to obialn castody of their ;:: gir), aged 8, who, o purausnce of the deo suparation, lives with ber mother. T Jeges that her preseat guardian is not & ki proper peraon to bave custody of the chik Ih specific charges belnz thst Mrs. Hesaut “.l e athelst, bolds (o the oplnlons of Malthus, #0d doch Dot preveat her davghier from *aseiog 150 458 Iscturer, Chazley Dredlavgh" Qur form of Governmont encourages frec. dorg among the people, and needs to have the means to pravent abuses of that fresdom, Our frontier must be protected sgalnst smug. gling from Canada and Moxico, aud our forts ou tha seaboard must have garrisons to cea that they do not fall iuto ruins, Finally, therearcoffenses against the Rovenuo laws in the Bouth, Indinn wars, and Mexican ralds which need attention, They ought to be scared out of existence. Nothing will scara them and the Communists so efectually as an fucreaso of tho army. This & why weo say again, Increase tho army to 50,000 men, U, Becauss a large majority of tho members of this Legislaturo was elected to vote against him, bonefits of 4 Collectors from the bonefla of tha proposed | thi Leglelature iad slected (3 voto asuimt bl | sot is not apparent, Indeed, as Oallectors must direct the makiug of all esizaces, it would ssem to be®wise to allot to them a share of the premium offerad for the detec. t1on of frauds, Wo shall take oceasion bere. aftor to dlsouss this feature of the bill more at length, Mr. Suzasax's bill does not proposs the ro-ensotmment of the law of March 8§, 1803 (repealed in 1874), suthorizing the seizure of books and papers. Soc. 7 of that law was 28 follows * Wi {t ghall bo made toappear by aMdavit e L e Bheics Thdge of Soy die: trict_ withiu the United biatos tha the revenue has been at any e mitted, or attempted by any person or pereo: tercated or ip any way enguged ia the | e tation or entry of werchandise at any port within thu Unitea Sta! said Judge shall forthwith lssuc his warrant, directed to tua Collector ol the port at which the morcbanaiso in respect to which said alicged (rauds have beon committed or aitempied | bas been jmported or outercd, directing sald ol cer, or Lis duly suthorized agents or asslstanty, 10 coter any place oF ufomisce where any fuvoices, pooks, or papcra relating to sucn werchsudiso or fraud aro doposited, and to take vr carry the same away L0 by tnspected; and any invoices. books, or papers so roceived of tal sl be reuslned vy the oflcer receiviog the same, for the use of tle VUunited Statce, so long the retentlon thersof may ba necessary, subjoct to the controlazd direc- 108 of the Bulicitor of the Treasury. ‘I'his law was for less stringont than exist- ing laws governing the collectiou of the in. ternal tax on distilled spirits. The Govern. ment is compelled, in order to secure the paywent of its revenus, practicslly to run all distillories and rectifying establishments, prtronage of the (lovernment that ho has made Lm\ is nfm making to re-elect himself to the Uul’l‘ed Siates Bonate. It waa this serfous indictment, every count of which strongly demanded reform, that sent Mr, Cauznox's predecessor back to his law-office, pnd fnduced a portion ofJthe Re- publican party of Wisconsin, aided by the Demoeratio minority, to send a man to the Benate who would not suneer at the OCivil- Service Commuesion ag **a body of achool- masters sitting in Washington,"—to use the narcastic lauguage of Marr OaseextER. Nor {s thisall. Mr. OserzNTss bad 63 votes in the Joint Convention of the two Houses, but lacked 6 of an election, 68 being neces- sary for that purposs, Gen, Bzaao, the Domocratio candidate, had G2, and the Re. paublican bolters polled 18 votes, which wera sometimes oaat for Judge Corx, but often soattered promisoucnsly upon soveral candi- dates. ‘The dsad-look oould only be broken by aunion of the Democrats and bolters, or by & nuumber of the laiter going over to the support of Oaxzrrx- 7en. The former was finally agreed upon, and the Demoorats promised to support Camzaox, provided ho would oconsent to a certain platform. Thu was sent by tele- graph to Oamxsox snd bis assent obtained. ‘The basis of ngreement was quite as clamor- ous for reform as the pronunciamento of the ‘bolters, snd Oamxzod swallowed it all at one e t— ‘The Times of Tuesday published the *feellog in Cincinnat!" over the whisky-{raud revela- tlons which had appeared in ‘Tuxz TRIBUNK ot Monday. Oncscntencs of the dispatch read: “This morning came & ringing statement from Washington that = gigantic Whisky Ring bas been in exlatence for some time bere In Clncin. natl, Includiog five or six distillers, who were not content with the liberal gauge alone,” ete, Thls *rioglog " plece of news thst broke futo Purkopolls and sstonished the honcat (1) burgh- ers was the same as that which was published in Trs TRIBUNE ot Mogday morning, but of which the Chlcago Zimes had uot & word, snd for the ack of thie nowe it hins substituted boasting of fts euterprise! It fs bound to ‘*cheeck tho thing through. e ———— . Col. InaxrSOLL does not labor jnvain. Ho lectured to a school of young ladies ob **Ing- delity,” and tho girls adopted s resolution ot tbaoks for strengthcuing thelr faith, for they bad como to thoconclusion that, if his argu- ments were the most powerful that could be broughit agalust the Christlun relizion, the Christian religion was by 0o muans lu imwlioent daoger of belog overturned. THE REDUCTION OF OREENBACKS. The Bouate was at firat disposed to post- pone, il not defeat, action on the ITouse bilt ropealing all laws for the reduction of the amount of groonbacks in oi~culation, This avoked such a decided vote that the oppo- nents of the'bill yielded, and it was zeferrod to a comuittee, and will probably be reported. Co. Whatever objections may bave existed to the reduction of the amouut of the green. Lacks, they have been overcome by the apprecistion in value of the notes. Tho objectiou to the greenbacks a4 a logal-tender ‘was that they had a legal value distinot from their actual value; that, while called **dol- lars,” they represented values of fractional purts of dollars, ang these values changed, rising or falliug, dsy after duy. They had At yestordsy's meeting of the Demoocratio Congressional Caucus Committes the Elect. oral fuvestigation was discussed, and, al- though extra efforts wore made to keep the proceedings secret, the dispatches give what is probobly a fair and sccurale sccount of the action taken. It seems settled thata Tesolution is to be at once introduced in the Houso looking to an investigation by the Ju- diclary Commuttee of the frauds slleged to have been perpetrsted by the Ropublicans in ¥lorida and Lonisiana. This, the Democrats ¢lpi, isu duty which the Democratic party owes to the people of the United Btates, and iu the performance of wuich it is calculated the Democrutic party will resp much benefit. “Lhiey caunot, upon the same theory, deny e e— Yesterday morcing the Timss bad not s word ‘of additioual news from Washingtou concern- fog the exposure of the Cincinnati Whisky Riog, walle Tux TE1UNE bad another startifug chapter of developmcnts about thoss frauds on the revenue. This wyrolng the 2imes will prob-