Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 10, 1878, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. JULY 10, 1870, Tlye Teibane, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PRRPAID. Patiy Fdition, one year, 13.00 ‘arts of & per mont| 2. 2. 8- Banday Edlifo Fhect . Faturda b 5 Tel- Weekly, one yosr. #ar, ves Karta of A Jar. ner month WEPKLY EDITI One cony, ter ye J AR 5] Fpecimen coples went frea. Glve Pot-Gflce sddress in full, Inclading Btate snd County. Temittances may he made efther by drafl, express, Tost-Ofce arer, or In reglstered lctter, at our risk. TERMA TO CITY SURSCRINERS, Dafly, delivercd, Sundny excepted, 23 cents per week, Vally, deiivered, Sunday Incitidel, 30 cente ber weeks 0 THE THINUNE COMPA ‘orner Madisou snd Dearborn- for the detisery of Th Englewoo, and liyde Park left fn the counli will recelve promyt attentlon, TRIBUNE BRANCIT OFFICES. Tus Ciiicaun TRInrXe ias catablished hranch offices for tho rrcelpt of subscriptions and advertisements aa Tollows: NEW YONK~Itoom 20 7risune Dujld lng. F.T. Mo Fanpey, Mannger, TAMUSEMENTS, Ilaoley’s Theatre. Tandolh sircet, between Clark and Lafalle, Exgazement of tho Unfon Bquare Theatrs Compasy, gues." Afternoon ana evealng. New Chicago Theatre. Clark street, between Handolph snd Lake. satertatnment, Atterno Variety CLEVELAND LODGE, No. a12, Members are herely notifted to b st Deslay noraing, July 10, at 8 o'ciock shal o funeral of voriste brother, Hainuel Strauss. Care Fiages to resldenee, 540 Michigan.av., thence 10 eem- erery, Dark clotbing ahould be wora, - Vislting brethe T diaify (nvited on Cordaily In¥HeRy 1y 6oLM MCDONALD, W. M, 5. K. REED, Secreiary. 1. 0.T. N.~The members aof Ramah Lodge, No, 33, an bretd Ister lodies are Tnvited o aitend the Tunersl ubsequles of our late brother, 5 July 10, 1 f o'clock 8. m., &t the resldencs of the dae Seaaci, 540 iichizan-ay iy order of fo Fresldent. HENIY FRANK, becretary, CHICAGO CILAPTEN, N 127, R. A, g{;\\'flfilflq‘g \I\“nuumdxyngemnlnm July ok Work on 16 &y Derety o # "% r. Toney, m. P, Y:LODGE, XO. 271, A., F, & A. M,—Btated deation thii” ( uday) evebing, 8t ¥ v Jai) 78 Monrue Visitlng brethern ear- daally Invited, G 2 EDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1878, Greenbacks af tho Now York Stock Ez. chnnyo yesterdny closed at 99§, Houth Bido property-ownors refoice at the victory gained in tho fight against the gl valuntfous placed by the South.Town As. sessor. 'The Board of Roview yostorday an- nouucod a genoral reduction of 50 por cont upon tho property north of Twenty-second Btreot. In tho Frrz-JonN Ponzen reinvestigation at West Point yosterday, Gen. Loyosrrerr £ave an acoount of tho strongth and distrl- bution of his own and SroNewiLL JucKsoN's forces on tho occasion when Tonten failed to oboy the order of Gen. Porz to move his troops to the support of tho Iatter. It is expectod that the Confederate version of the atfair will throw gome new light upon the quostion of PonTen's culpability {n rofusing to obey Pory's order, At last & murdarer is heard of who i will Ing to talo tho xonsoquencos of his crime, aod who interposes no defense, ‘On the the 19th of June, in Bt. Louis, an old man named Frang Voss was attacked while at work and killed in cold blood by one Ropz- unven, Tho latter came into court yester- day and enterod a ploa of * guilty of murder in tho first dogree,” and to this ho sdlicred in spito of the admonition of the Court that such a ploa gave him no escapo from hang- fug eavo through the interposition of the Governor, Comparing his course with that of murderers fu genernl, it is impoasibles not to focl sowe wort of respeot for & mau who knows ho ought to bo hanged, and Kay§ 50, nnd is willing to waive all tochnlcalities aud Eavo the community the oxpense of proving & crime which was committed beyond all question. Itishardon the lawyers, butn practico to bo commended nevertheleas. r————es Tho Porren Committes havo on numerons occasions manifeated a strong disinclination to the udmission of any proof goiug to show violunce and intimidation in Louisiana, but Luave with great eagerness accepted testi- mony showing that vothing of the kind ox- isted. Tho inconsistoncy and partisan un- frirucss of the Dewmocratio majority of the Committes in this rogard are portinently pointed out by Secrotary Sazmuux fu his letter to Mr, Porres, in which the attention of the Comumnittee is callod to the fact that E. L. Wenzn was examined at length on the question of froud and intimidation in the Felicinnn parishes. Iow the Committce can decently dony Mr, Bnensan the right to ocoutrovert Weuen's testimony aud to offer proot that the ANpensox protest, which Mr, Buesaax stauds nccused of having secured through {mproper ufluences aud promises, ‘was o truthfal represontation of the work of the bLulldozery, is & question for the Demo- cruts to poudor on, * A dcolsion recently rendercd by the Attorney-Goneral and ratifiod by the Becre. tary of War affeots materially tho position in tho line of promotion of & large number of oftfcers of the regular army, and {r: thoir standing fu this regard. At the closs of the War of the Rebollion many volunteer ofticers wero appointod to poaitions in the * rogular army, and in order to do away with any inequality alaw was subsequently paased by Congreus providing that certain volunteer ofticens should have their rank and weniority of somwission the sawe as though they had boun continuously fu the regular service, Tho law was 50 construed in the Adjutant. Guueral’s oflice 85 to defeat its plain fnton. tion, and the voluntocr officers were placed iu tho line of promotion upon the theory that their commisaions bore the date of thg passage of the act. Tho decusion just made corrects thiv infustics, aud restores those oficcrs to the place on the registor which tbe law contemplated they shiould have. Sene—————— Yu vioy of the very farge mafority—22 to 11—Ly which the renowmination of Palice Bu. purintendent Hicksy wes rejected in the Cowmon Couucil, it would be eminently un- Wise, tnd, in fuct, somothung in the usture of an insult, for the Mayor to agsin send in *ho nunig of Mr, Hicxey. Nothing is to bo zuived by renowing a fight which {s certain to eud in defeat. Whst the people of Chi- cugo wunt Is & Polico Buperintendont, and they want him ot once. ‘Pliery isa very gon. eral desire uwong the leading business mon ©Of the city, as well a5 among s lurge propor- tion of those who wers not formerly count. ed u3 tho fricnds of that gentlcman, that the name of Ervrr Wasunvsy bu cubwmitted to the Cowmwon Couacil for vonfirmation s Buperintondont of Polico, and thers is roa- #on to beliave that the Appointmoent wonld he promptly confirmed by a large vota. That it would give satisfaction to onr citizens in general hardly admits of & doubt. TaxTrrs- uxe is not informed whether Mr. Wasanuny would accept the place, trat believes that he would if it songht him in the mannor sug- gested. Yesterday's mesling at Saratogs of the VaxDERBILT railroad combination was the opening move in the scheme designed Lo ef- fect & permanent adjustment of freight rates betwoen Chicago and New York. The oon. forence of yesterday was mainly devoted to A consideration of the waning fnterests of Vanpenpira's three rival lines, the Lake Bhore, the Michignn Central, and tho Can- nda Bonthern, all of which have been fighting each othor as though they were not under the control of the great monopolist. ‘When this branch of the difficulty shall have been adjusted by a pooling srrangement—in which, it ia hinted, the Lako 8hore will be the chief sufferar—thon comes the negotintion of a pool with the Pennsylvanin and the Bal- timore & Obio Companies with a view lo peace and high rates. The recently-nogotisted Anglo-Turkish treaty, wheroby Groat Britain virtually takes upon itself to guarantco the Integrity of Turkey in Asin, is tho theme of general com- ment in England and on the Coniinent. There sooms, 50 far aa the dispatches would indicato, to be very little opposition man. ifosted on the part of any of the troaty Pow- ors. Even Russin, through her Chancellor, is roported as being matisfled with the ar- rangement,—the doclaration being made thet the Czar has no ambitiona to satisfy in the dircotion of Asia, and especially has no desire to iuterfore with British communica. tion with her Indian possessions vin Soutbern Armenia and the Eaphrates Valley, The dificulty which the Brit- ish Ministry will Lavo to encounter will be found st homes. Whether this policy of nolive intervention now inaugurated by Beacoxsrierp will bo accoptable to the En- glish poople, is a quostion that will be tested in an appeal to the country which tho British Chancellor himsolf will probably demand upon the adjournmeont of the Berlin Con- gress. It is more than likely that the Liberal party of England will seize upon the opportunity offered by this coup d'etat on tho part of the Government to make politicsl capital by representing this new aoquisition of power at the East as a vonture of doubt- fol expedioncy, and ono which will tend oventually to involve England in troubls, politically aud financially, Beaconsrrenphas carried triumphantly most of tha poiats con- tonded for by him in the Congress, and now by his last move commands the wonder if not the admiration of the Continental Gov- ernmenta; but his diplomatic achisvements bavo yot to bo passed upon st the hustings. THE OUSTOM-HOUSE THIEVES—S] MAN'S OPPORTURITY. Bomo weeks hnvoe passed sinco the mer- chants, sitting with the Customs Commis. sioners, concluded their labors, and the Gov- ernment officers entored upon the task of locating the responsibility for a continnance of syatomaticfrauds upon tho publie rovonues. m that day commercial circles have been a-tiptoe with cxpectation. 8o thorongh had been the investigation,—so plain wers the footprints of the offenders,—the finding of indiotments was regarded asa form requiring but a few days at most, so that it waa confl- dontly expected the bLegiuning of the new flscal yenr would witness such decisive aclion on the part of the Bocretary of the Tressury as would 6l the hearts of thieves with fear, and vindicate before all the world the claims of the Repub. lecsn party to be known as ‘“the party of reform,” The 1st of July hss come and gone, and uot a aign hes been given at Wasl- ington, Inquiry shows that the Commis- sloners havo Leen industrious; that they have roported indictments agninst tho activa ngents of the Ring; and that the natura of therr final roport will probably depond upon the manner in which tuelr prelimiuary roporta aro treated at tho Treasury Dopart- mant. Painful rumors about this vory mat- tor have alroady roached ns from tho East, and we foar the probablo defeat of tho ouds of justico, aud-the consequent trinmph of the Riug through neglect of prompt action at the Capital. Why should Bocrotary BnzraaN hesitate? He has at his back the Preaident and an overwholmning publio sentiment. Is it becauso he fears some political power, or because the Ring, through tho baleful inflaenco—the esprit de arps—of the Bureaus, Lina led him to doubt bis own ability to contend with intrenched rascality without first making covered ap- proachea? During the time the Commissioners have been ot work for honesty and good govern. ment, the members of the Ring have beon a4 actively engaged for knavery, They have manshaled their forcos,—local politicians, dishonest importers, agents of foreign manufacturers, Lrokers, middlomen, in. aldo agents,—statloned their sentinels, and sent out their gples. The shapes of the enomy haunting ofilolal chambers bave been Protenn. With such powars at work, night and day, is It & matter of wonder that thero are clouds in the ofilaial kky to obscure the sun P 1t is understood that the tactios resorted to by the man Jauss, when the Collector of this port charged down upon the ranks of the Now York rascals, are still being prace ticed, but in a stealthy manner, since Beo- retary Saznaax’s refusal to continue Brusi ou the Commission taught those concerned the necosmty of greater prudence. Jaumzs flits between Washington and New York, doubtless to tako counsel of the sus. peoted, for it s well known his visits have not been for tue purposs of ading the Commisslon, There is reason alzo fo suspect that Mr, Mugnuan's Chisf of the Becret Agents' Burean sywpathizes with Jaues, and tuat ho bas been usoful 4o the Riug in thwarting the Becrctary, ‘The rumors to thia effect are sufiiclently clrcum. stantisl to justify an inquiry in that direc- tion, e that as it may, it has been an open secrot in Treasury circles for a long time that there wore papers on file in the Detect. ive Bareau of the Treasury Department In. culpating Jorw B. Lyproxzs, Objef Deputy Uollector of Qustoms at New York, in the frauds,—in faot, showing that he has been aud is the chief of the ring of plunderers engaged in defrauding the Government of its revenues. It is understood thal tha ovi. denco is overwhelming, and would justify the immediate discharye of Lyproxes from tho pyblic servico, and his prosecution in the courts. Why was this not done under former Adwinistrations? Why bas it not been done by the present Aduministration? Bo important is thiv wen to the Ring, and so great is. his political power, that mno Secretary of the Treasury Las over had the coursge to bring to au end his offloinl term. The strangost part of those rumors is, that Chief Tinovs, well acquainted with thess various reports, withheld them from the present Commission, oven after Becrotary SBaxmman had ordered a thorough investigation. We give theso ramors ns they reach us from Washington, They have lost their importanca for the moment in the light of an ascertained foot that A roport show- ing the ocomplicity and responsibility of Lroxcker was made by the Commiseion about two weeks ago, and that tho Sacretary of the Treawmry not only hesitatas to dis. chnrga the head of tho Ring whose opora- tions deprivo the Govornment of millions of revenne aunually, andimpose unjuat re. satrictions upon the commerce of Boston, Thilndelphin, Chieago, Bt. Lonis, Cineinnati, and other citles, but refuses to lot the re- port Do scen until Lypkrcxxn Las boen tried in seoret! 'Ihero is no doubt of his re- sponsibilily; thers is no donbt that his romoval is tho step prerequisite to suc- cesstal reform, ond that if o is retsined * the lionorable purpose of Socretary Bueaman's Commissfon will .come to nanght. ' Indeed; i Lyproxes and tho acore or two of his agonts in the Custom- Ifouse, the Appraiser’s Office, and the Troas. ury Departmont at Washingtou aro not re- moved and thoir places filled with honest mon, it were DLetter the Bivans and Hixps Commission had nevor been nppointed. Failure now under an Administration pledged Leyond all others to Civil-Service reform s to render the New York Ring forever impreg- nable. We warn Secretary Snxamax that, if this iz allowed to be done, his repntation, high as it is, will suffer. Ho counot~no man, however powerful, can—afford to be the protector of corrupt officials, Much was oxpected from Sccrotary Snen- saN. The prompt manner in which he uu- dortook the investigation of the customs wrongs, ond the fullness of his instructions to the Commissloners, gave promise of very thorough work, Any attempt to compro- mise now, after all the charges have bean sustained, {3 to mako a fatal mistake. A good General doos not hesitate when tho encmy begin to yield, nor does ® good statosinn pause when radical monsures are nacessary to the preservation of national life. Let him not fmagine ft possible to work such a reform with the members and sgonts of the Ring in position. They must bo driven from place and pnnished, and men of a very differcut stamp from tho Lypecs- xas and Jaxesen called to nid the Becratary in tho administration of the finances of tho Government, It fs & good time to practice the rigid severity of the ancients in civil af- faira. Tho New York Custom-Houso Ring is our Lernman Lydra, to compass whoso do- atruction it is necossary to follow tho work of tho sword with flre. Power and justice united aro irresistible and command the ad- miratfon of men, Tho civil affaira of the United Btatea are in such critfeal situdtion as to require virtue of high order in our public men, nnd the of- fort on their part to bring back to adminia. tration of public aflairs the unchangoable standans of honesty and truth. That being done 1n public places, the masags will bo moved to virtue, Cut and burn all that is corruph without faltoring; otherwise the members of our so-called Raform Adminiu- tration will bo like tho poraons of the fable of Belides, who nro said to draw water in o buckot full of holes, and, as they labor in vain, are pitied of men. SHAM ECONOMY TO BECURE VOTES. ‘‘A sham to securo votes " is what Banator Winoox calls the Damocratic pretonss of ocouomy iu tho mansgewont of the national exponditures, and ho completoly domon. strates tho justice of this charasterization by his statement of tho comparative appropria- tions under Republican and Democratio susplees oxtonding over & term of yoars. Mr. ‘Winpox i the Cliairman of the Bonate Com. mittes on Approprintions, and his statemonts are fn every way trustworthy ; besides, they may bo readily verifiod by the aunual flusuce reporta, * The Forty-fourth Congress was practically in the hands of the Domocrats. ‘The Bonate ‘was Republican, it is trus, but the Demo- orats had swept the country in 1874, and they controlled the House by a majority of about eighty votes. 'Tho House is almost dictator in tha matter of appropriations, sluca all mensures voting away money must originate in that branch of Congress, In case of an overwhelmiug majority in the Touss, the Bonate is really powerless to materially Incronse or decreasa the appropri- ations, | The Domocrats, therefors, took cradit for the alloged reductions mado by that Cougress, aud during the Prosidential canvass of 1870 it was proclsimed, in every Dewmocratic nowspapar, by every Dimocratic stump-speaker, and ju" all the documenta sont out by Mr. Tieoey from hia ¢ Libarty Btreet Litorary Buroau,” that the Demo cratia party had the previous yonr mado a saving of 40,000,000, In o racent apecch at tho Ranpary banquet in New York, Mr, Hewirr boasted that there was *‘a olear saving” of §24,000,000 in the Forty.fourth Congress. ‘This was for two years, so that, divided by ono-half, tho mctual saviug, sccording to presont Domocratic statements, was $11,. 500,000 for the year preceding tho Presiden. tal eleotion, fustead of ©40,000,000, ss the Democrats then claiined. Dut of this $11,. 500,000, only & part wasa *clear saving.” Thiree items, amounting in the aggregate to 5,644,083, wero mero postponemeonts, and not a saving; one was for publio buitdings awaitingoonplotion, auother for Inud-surveya neceasary to be mado soonor a;h!cr. aud tho otherto pay judgments awarded by the Court of Qlaims. 'There wers other items of the same character, either ropudiating national obligations or poutponing necessary public works; but, counting only {hese thros, the claim of roduction in the sppropriations of 187G is cut dowu from $40,000,000 to $0,000,- 000. But the Republicans had beon stoadily reducing expenditures from the yoar 1868, when they amounted to aboat §$230,000,000, down to 1875, the yoar preceding the Democratis control of tho Ilouss, whon they amounted to only 811,857,813, Thiy steady reduction under Republican managoment shows sn aversge annual saving of over §9,000,000, ax against which the Demoaratic saving of the Forty-fourth Congress was only §4,000,000 a year, or $3,000,000 leas thay the ltepublican average. These are the facts as they have come out through ths do. ficiuncies subssquently approprated, and yet the Demoorats undoubtedly secured Lun- dreds and thousands of votos in the last Presidential election by tho -false pretunse that thoy wore saving $40,000,000 & yosr for the poople ! The Democrats found their lies about economy {0 be o cffuctive two yeans ago that they are making an effort to keep them up for party uso this coming fall. They will not be so successful in this later efort, for two reasons, viz.: (1) The falaity of thoir pretensos in behalf of the Forty-fourth Con. gross has been cowpletely exposed; and (3) 1he ‘appropriations just mads by the Forty- fifth Congross, so far from making even & deceptive show of rednction, amonnt to nearly $29,000,000 more than those of the preceding year. In spite of this, Mr. ATxixs, the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committes, is going around claiming the result asagrand Democratic ‘*trlumph_for retrenchment.” In order to figure out the triumph in the face of the fact thnt the appropriations sbow an actnal in. creasmof nearly $20,000,000, Mr. ATxins bo- gins by eaying that $15,000,000 of the lnst appropriations wera voted to make good the deficigncies left by the preceding Congress. Bt it was by reasonof these very doficiencies that the previous Congress (Demooratic) also clnimed o ** trinioph for rotronchment.” The item is thny made to do double service, though represonting no saving in elther caso, Neither of tha two Domoorntio Congresses will asume the responsibility, but the £15,000,000 have been expendoed all the same. Is this rofrenchment? The balanco of this year's cxcoss is charged npon the Henate, bacause that body fs Republican. This pre- toxt would not excusa the Deinacrats, even if it wore basad on truth, since thoy conirol the Honee nnd must sharg the responsibility. But the fact is that the Sennte ndditions amounted to conaiderably less than the §16,- 000,000 83 alleged; thoy wers momothing over $13,000,000, and consisted of sppro- pristions necessary to save tho honor of the Governmont, and prevent enormous defi. clency itoms for the next Congross. Ona item nlone amounted to $5,60,000,—~the Halifax award,—nnd the others wers as necessary as any other fentures of the biil, ‘The true way to detormine the relativa party claim to retrenchient is by aversging yearly deflcloncies and appropriations. Under this rulo, the Domocratio appropriations during two yenrs show o saving of 3,000,000 les per yoar than the aversge Topnb- lican appropriations during six years proced. ing. If we compare the last year of the Democratio appropriations (1878.'0) with the Inst year for which the Republicans appro- priated (1875), it is found that the Domo- crats have provided for an oxpenditure of $172,069,580, while it cost the Republicans for their Inst year only $164,867,813. ‘That iu to say, the Dewmoorats are now spending “over $8,000,000 more & yenr than tho Repub- licans wara spending at the timo the control of the Housa was taken from thom, Itis now evident that the Democrats en- deavored to carry the Prosidontial election by claims to rotrenchment whioh was naver mnde, Is not this, in fnct, as frandulent as the stufling of ballot.boxes nnd the bull. dozing of nogroos ? THE MONTREAL MUS8, The activa proparations now boing made by the Irish population of Montreal for s riot on the 12th have a ludicrous and a ser. ous side, That nny considerablo number of mon, Inying claims to common senso, should want to walk on ono of the hottost dnys of the yonr in ono of the hottest cities of Amer. ica, urray themnelves in finorios and tramp all day,long under the brolling sun, with no special object 1 viow excopt $o got over as much gronnd as possible, and with no motive for doing it except the uninteresting hiator- ical fact that a battls was fought two hun. dred years ago on the snmo day of tho year, soams to an ontsider simply incomprehensi- ble. It this, however, scerus incomprelion- sible, what are wa to think of tho action of another large part of the population of Mon. trenl who nroso oppesed to the peripatetio inclinations of tho walkers that they aro bound to go to fighting with' guus, platols, cluby, bricks, snd bladgevns to prevent them from walking, havirg no other motive fhian this samo battle of -two contnries ago ? It anythidg wers Incking to ostablish tho un. linited capacity of peopls ‘for idiooy or the imporative domand for the long.threatened isit of the fool-killer, the tuation in Mon« treal supplies It, There ia’no law, howevar, that fdrbids a man making a fool of himself, The Orangemen of Montreal have a coustitu- tional right to play the part of idiots, and the Ribbonmen have exnotlly the samo right, and both classes will probably exerolso that right to its fullest extent, though soma of thoin mny pay for it with thelr own lives, and many will carry avonnd batterod hoads for aJoug timo ns proofs that the fools are not all dend. Assuming, bowover, the idiacy of the wholo proescding, one polnt lu cloar, The Oraugemen bave a conatitutional riglt to walk on a hot day, if (hey %o dosire. They have aright to commaonco ot sunrise snd walk until midnight. Thoy have the right to walk one day, twodays, a week, or s month, "Thoy Love u right to walk and to keop walk. ing autil every idiot of the wholo lot can wulk no further, 'Their opponcuts bave no right to atop them from trumping %o long a8 their podostrionism is *peacoful, aud upon this occasion the Orangemen promise to carry no arms nnd to play no party tunos, 1f, theroforo, the second lot of idlots attompt to interfors with tha first lot of fools, for the purposo of stopping their lunatio leg. work, it is to be Lioped that the military au. thorities will crush out any riotous domon. strations immediately, and see to it that the Orangomen tramp ns long as they desire, 1f thero {8 no law ogalnst walking, then cer- tainly the Catholic Irish have no more right to interforo with the Orangemen than tho Orangiomen havo to interfere with the walk. ing through the mud in March by the Cath. olics in Lonor of tholr patron safnt who wrought such romarkable results among the frog and snake haunted bogs of Ireland. Assuming tho idiooy of both partles ; as- sunming that the Orange Insh have tho right to walk and that the Ribbon Irisk have no right to disturb them, it cannot be denied that both parlica are public nuisances, and that thoy are s0 regsrded by Amoricans in geueral, Nothing can be more monatrous or abhorront, nothing more in conflict with the spirit of tho age and the progress of tho Now World, than this trausplanting of a mis. erablo Puropean «quarrel two conturies old, and its annual renewal in a0 Aworican city, Bomewethod sliould be devised tomake theso miserable faustics and superstitious bigots understand that the American people have nosympathy with this annual resurrection of the bones of those who foll at the butile of the Boyae,. n0 sympsthy with the wretched conflit over an. tlyuated dogmas, They feel toward both sldes n3 Mercutio felt towards Montagus nud Cupulet,—* A plague o' both your houses," 1t is 8 gross public outrage that thosa fanate Jes should bring thelr quamrsl from a foreigan land to Canads, which is a free country, fight over it, keep the whole country disturbed, and endanger the publio pesce overy year, It elther tho Protestant or the Irish Catho. lics thiok that Americans have any sympathy with them, thoy are mistaken. Amerioans have about the same lntersst in their con. flicts that they wonld have {u a contest bo- tween two rendering tanks, to sce which could mako the worst stink, If any disturb- auce is attewped in Moutreal on'Friday, it should bo crushed out instantly, and the guilty partios shonld beseveroly punished, and then, pending anather retnrn of tha day, the authoritics unght to adopt some rostrictive measnres which herenfter will make any col- lision impossiblo, and thus relleve the eoun. try from onoe of the worat of public nulsaucea and the mont causeless and ssnseless of par. tisan religions animosttioes. THE STATE-HOUSE FRAUD AGAIN. Tu May, 1877, the Logialature of the State of Iliinois mado an appropriation of $881,- 712.18 to complete the Btate-House. The Commissioners of the State-Hlouse having violated their official oaths, their duty to the Btate, and the confidence reposed in them, by expending the money appropriated by the Constitution wastefully, and with acondalons disregard of Inw oxhiansted the sum limited by the Conatitution for the complotion of the Btate-Houso, leaving a dcfloiency of zome 800,000 required to finish the building,— having exbausted all the money anthorized by the Gonstitution, and loaving the State In debt and tho building incomplete, the Icgislaturo had no power to approprinte auy moro monoy for the Btats.louse unless the approprintion was submitted ton vote of the people, and approved by them, 8o the last Logislaturo, with all the facts beforo thom, wns weak enough to whitewash by disgraceful apologies tho Commissioners, instend of impeaching them and tho Governor was weak enough to con- tinue the Commissioners in office, instead of dismissing thom, and the Commlssioners were weak enough to attompt to brazen out the affair and bulldoza the Stato into voting ndditional money to be expended by thom. Bo the Commissioners salary-grabbed for one year after thoy had stopped work on the building. The Logislature, sdopting the bulldozing policy, made the sppropriation, sad submitted it to o vote of the peo- ple, and the peopls, ot the election in November last, rajected the appropria- tion by the enormous voto of 308,080 against tho appropristion, to 80,203 for the job. It is duo to truth to sy that a Iarge part of this adverse voto was intended as o direct robuke to tho insolence of the-Oommission- ors in rotaining office and asking o be in- trosted with the expenditure of moro monoy, ond as & robuke to the Govornor for not dismissing and to the Logislature for not impeaching the Commissioners. The popular judgmont upon the conduct of all concerned was oloarly expressed in the pop- ular voto by which the appropriation was re- jected. 1t is now anuounced that the Govarnor in. tends by proclamation to submit the appro- priation to another vote of the poople at tho November election. The law of the Legislaturo contained tho following: Tn case that a majority of all the %atces voting at suich olection do ot vota In favor of the appro- priation, tho same queation -may agaln bo subinit- ed Lo the loeal Yoters at any aubscquent general clection, on the praclamation of the Uovornor, the notice to be given and zesult obtained in the same manner as fiereintaforo provided. As a partinl congession to public opinion, onc of the Stats-Ifouse Commissfoners has rosigned. Tho other two, howover, ara not of the resigning kind, partionlarly as thefr salaries will bo resumod the momont the ap. propristion shall bo approved. Thers was o time when the resignation or the conviction of the Commissionors might have saved the appropriation, but the Legislature aa weil ns the Exccutive support and counteusnce given to the Commissioners has con. vinced the people that, even if the Comumissfoners should now resfgn, they would be resppointed again the moment tho money was voted. It is safo to may that the poople of linois will novar voto a dollar for the Btate-Houso to- be expended or con. trolled by the Commissioners who proved so faithless'to their trust, and, if Gov. Cunrox shalf submit that appropriation to the people agaln, it will bo rojected by even o groater adverse voto than that of November last, There must be a now doal at Springfleld, and the old Btate-Houso gang must be displaced by men who at least Linve not shown then- sclvey to be nuflt for tho trust, A BOUTHERN DEMOORATIO HOWL. Elgowhoro in thiy issus of Tag I'nuse will bo found a firat.class howl from the Vicksburg Zferald, a leading Demooratio nowapapor in the South, in which the Nothern Deinocrats of the lnst Congress are indicted for not dolng thoir duty in voting tho necossary appropriations for that much. neglooted section of our country. The lan. guago of the article {s emphatio and savero, and the lsh is applied to the oriuging baoks of the Northern Democrats with a vigor and rolish that reminds one of the good old days of Pro-Binvery rule, when the Bouthern gon. tlemen lorded it over their dough-taca allics, Tho rofrain of the Jferakl’s lamont is Lut the echo of what all tho Bouthorn newspapers of all parties have boen growling about since the adjournment of Congross, aud the sub. jeot of * justica to the Bouth” will no doubt enter largely into the political discussions this fall in the mnewspa- pers and on the stump, It fs not our intention or province to meddle in any little fawnily troublos between Bouthern and North. ern Domoorats, but we must be allowed to express the beliof that the Northern wing of that party would be fufluitely worse off than it now isif it hod yielded to the inssve clamor for money to be expended for the purposcs named by the Herald, Fifty mill. fous of a Government bonus to Tox Scorr's Bouthern Paoific Railroad, and a bundred millions moro as an initial appropriation to construct srtificlal banke to confine the tru. ant waters of the Misalssippi Rlver, would be an exponditure of the people’s 1noney that would find little justification in the North, whove most of the mouoy ia earned, 'The Vicksburg Jlerald may ss well under. stand that any Northern Democrat would find #Jordan a hard rond lotravel ” aftervoting for such sppropriations aa those, and, when he camo to ask fora re-slection, he would find bhimself haudicapped by his vote to a dogres that would i{nsurc hisdefoat. Inthiscaso tho Northern Domocratio ase is nat found stary- {ug between two bundies of hay, each within easy reach, but, rather, he is sure to dis of colio it Lo tests the quality of elther, The fiue veinof sarcasm that the Herald fojocts Into 1ts article about its * Northern Democratio frionds” (?) will be refreshing veading to some of them, and especlally that portion of the Jlerald's screed that predicts the dofeat of the mext Domocratio candidate for tho Presideucy upon this all-éngrossing fesue. Northorn Damocrats are sasured that the only way to soours a ** Holid South” in 1880 iy by giving thew sold mouvy, and enough of it, out of tha pockats of Northern \npl:m‘ . ‘The Blate of Wisconsin has a very worthy chazity for the education of deaf and dumb children ; it js in Delavas, and the buildings and grounds are bandsope and conunodious. The State has expouded $120,009 for build- ings, aund the annual expenditure for board ang tuitiou of the pupils is sbout $35,000. The offivial catalogue inforins the public that the ‘“‘corps of instruction™ included omw “LL.D." aud two “M, A."; thres males who are not Doctors, and flve females, A changa in the teachers n year or more ago led to somo stories of impropricty, whiol, aftor groat difloully, have boen investigated after o fashion, and the parties implicated liave all beon calolmined. Despits the solemn and swoeping denials made by the parties implicated, the Investigators find that the Principal was in the habit of kissing tho teachers and also the larger female pupils, ‘‘not meaning any harm.” The invostigators think thore was more or less * indiscreot familiarity.” Thore was also ovidence of scandalous inde- cency by nanother officer with grown.up pupils, which the Board considers was “wrong” on the part of the officer. We do not refer to this business with any intention to discusa the facts further than to call at tention to tha circumstanco that official in- voatigations fn all easos of this kind invaria- bly end in whitewashing tho offenders. Why the Btate Board of Charities should, upon tho facts which thoy report, undortake to acreen, paliiate, and defend conduct on the port of officers of the institute toward the girls sent by their paronts to o Btate institu- tion under an fmplied nssurance that thoy would bo protooted hnd not debauched, is ono of the unexplained wonders, Indiscriminato kissing among the toachers and pupils of both sexcs is confessed, and yet the Btate Board had not the moral courage to recom- mend the dlsmissal of every one gullty or responsible for this indecorous governmant of a Btate charity, The unfortunate in- dividunl who furnishod the Information ‘which forced this inveatigation, and the out- ragod, abused, and insulted girls who testi- fled to the misoonduot of the officers, are, Lowever, mada tho subjeot of vigorous de- nunciation. That is tho outcome of oll theso official investigations; nobody is ever guilty of anything, oxcept the witnesses whose testimony eatablishes tho facts. The scquittal in this ease, we suppone, is das to » dosire not to * injuro the school,” when the toloration of vice and of notorious indiscre- tion should be more fatal in its effoots upon {he public mind, Sem—e—— ‘We print this morning two letters on the subjoct of the legality ot coin contracts, or of the legdl powor of persons to make con. tracts poyable in coin, graenbacks being at the time legal-tonder. Both writers aro Iawyers, and, ns s natural, take entirely different views of the law govarning such a case, Ona. correspondent at Forost, in this State, denics the jurisdiction of the couwrts of law to enforca such contraots, oxcept in the way of nasensing damngos for tho failure of the debtor to perform. Ho denies that a conrt of law can officially know any distinction botween * dollars.” Our other correspond- ent writes from Davenport, Is., and he maintaing the full legality of theso contracts, and citos varions authoritios. ITa the case of Nesiroy va. Wrisox, 12 Warracz, 087, the Buprome Court of the Unitod Bintes affirms the validity of such contracts in unmistaka- blo language. Tho sylabus of that case rends: ‘When & note is for dollars, payable by {ta terms in speclo, the torms **in apecio " are meroly de- acriplive of the kind of doliar (n which the note fs payable, thera holng wore Lhan one kind of dolixes current recognized by law, aud mean that the designated nuinbor of dullars snall be palu in so many xold or silver dollars of the coinage of tho United States, This decislon in 12 ‘Warraox was in 1871, and has not beon disturbed by the Court, It wasni the snme torm at which the Court gava its decision in the legal-tondor cases. ——r— 1o 8 itof economy, the Misslon to the Unfted | Btates of Colombln, Bonth America, was abol- luhed two sears ago, and Wittiam L. Scruaas, of Georgia (whuocver ho was), was leristated out, Tho present Congress at its late session re- atored tho Minlstership and voted & salary. The President filled the vacancy by svpomting Eux- x87 Dicuyax, of Wisconsiy, forwerly a Licutens snt In thenavy. Mr, Dicumay, In addition to strong recommendations trom Benaior Hows and other Republicau M. C.'s from that Btate, was afso urged by Apraw Hewnrand ALex- AxpeR I, Brevoess, Denocrats, Mr, Dicu- 214N {8 8 young man of considorsble practical kunowledge of mercantilc and manufacturing husiness, and possesses a fluo educatlou, spesks the Bpantsh tongue, and when Iu the navy be- came quite fawilar with Culomblan coasts, ports, ana trade. JIlo 18 full of faith that the present ' commerce with the Colombian Htatea can begreatly Increased by prover efforty, and he fntonds to leavo no stong unturned to that end fo suything that will be vroper for hin todo. Hahas beon vislting his friends fu Wisconsin befors leaving for his new post; he starts to-night for Washington to receive his {n- structions. A dlspaten from Washington In vesterday's TRIBUNE reporting rumors in elr- culatton there to his discredit are flatly contra- dicted by his friends in tufs city, 1t s not true that bls wife either appliod for or obtained a divarce trown hlus, aud bie 1s & Republican, aud not a Dewnocrat, s alleged. Nono of the de- re true. e e— Indlsna politics sro getting hotter than biue blazes uiready. Tha appearance of Dan Voornzss amoug his old blue-jean conativucacy has scomed to stir them all up with a long pole, and they can't walt uatll barvest is over, The Indlanapolls Sentind wan is dotermined to do hits duty as & talthful scotinel ou the watch-tow- ctn of liberty, f the weather (s hot, and bo is ro- solved to carn his moncy by the sweat of his pen. Ouly yestorday, with the thermowmeter at 108 degrees in tho shade, he declured that *There was nuver a time inthe history of the country when the problems to be solved were of a mors important, of & more stubborn, or of a more vital character, Taey undeclla the peace, the prosperity, and the progress of the country, The fssues will bo clearly deflned. The lines will bo drawn with the vividness of lightning; the strugxle will bo flerce,” It cer- tainly docs look now a4 if there was going to bo trouble un tho onee peacelul bauks of tho Wa- bash, sud we advise all nou-combatants to fol-* low tho advice of tha darkeyand “take to de woods.! The truth of history wiil never be vindicated in regard to the suthorship of the celebrated Bugxsaw letter, except through the labors of the famous BuriEn-Porrek Committee, and wa shall vever know for certaln who struck Mr. WiLLiau PaTTERSON, unless it comes to light through tho same reliable chaunel, For & hun- dred years the Amarican people have askod tha Question, “Did Geonom WASBINOTON ever awcar? and pow comes Gxopox WasiinoTox Pamxs Custis, who asserts shat Gon. CitaRLEs 8cory, of Virgia, was s very profane man, snd & friend, after the war, anxious to correct his bad habit, ssked bim ff * the admired Waisu- meTon " ever aware. * Yes ouce,” auawered Beorr, after s mowent's reflection; “ it was st Moumoutt, and on a day that would have mads any man swear, Yes, 8ir, ho swore ou that day il the loaves shook on tho tres, charmivgly, delizhtfully, Never have [ enjuyed such swgar- {ug belore. Blis, ou that ever-momorabls dsy he srore like an sngel trom Heaveu,” ————— . ‘The IndJanapolis Sentined uow universally and unaufmousty edmits thot *‘Tue Indlun waer, uow uuder way, sud which pruwlses to be un- ususliy disastrous, is the outgrowth directly of Radical scouudrelism.” Certainly, And the corrupt foreigu palley of tho present Adwis- istration has wduced tbe yellow fever sud Asatlc cholera to visit this couulsy during the sumamer months, ——— We don't want to quarrel with the clergy, nor to defawe the desd, or wuch less to say s word {n paltiation of the criwe or lu e3tenus. tionof the guilt of the brnte Sravess; but then the impartial public will not shut Its cyca to the fact that there was undoubtedly guilt on both sldes of this terrible affalr,and thatthe moral to bo drawn and enforced ftdm the trag- edy ought to bo applied with fmpartial meas- urement to both sides of ths house, While adultery fs not punished by law with death, it 18 & crime that requires tha consent of both partics to commit, and the killing of one ot them by an outraged relative, mad or crazy, doces not condona the fault of the other bartner in the “great transgresslon.” If some of the clergymen who presched last S8undsy upon the Bravens murder had made an application that would have quickened the consclences of many & married woman to a roalizing scnse of the danger aud enormity of certaln unlawfu! prace tices, It would Liava been wholesome aod timaly | warniog, e t— Benator WiTnzns, of Virginia, has recently been In Now York City, andofcourseinterviewod by the inevitablereporter. When asked whohad the pals In the Democratic nomination for the Preaidency, he answered: ¢ TRonMAN, st !, i ‘THORMAN I8 & strong man, sir! Ileisa native of our Btate, sir! and will bo supported by both vpartfes, sfr! He wili run well on both sides, sir! Mr. SIxrDRICKS, too, sir| was born in our Btate, sir! and {f he is nominated, sir! will stand agood chance, sir!” Being rsked about the Re- publfcan candidate, he sald it would undoubteds 1y be GrANT, and added: “Ile Is the strongest man I thie Republican ranks to-day, sirl and X havo no doubt but that he went abroad on pur. pose. He will be sent after when wanted, aod will makes formidable candidats to run agsinet.” —_— Geon. BRRRMAN s 88 mad as & man cau well be over tha Army bill. In a recent interview he awore like a sallor, and used more Beript- ural formulas than we supposcd hawas capsbla of quoting, When ssked how tho Bill affegted geaeral officers, hie replied: hy tly, For instance, Gen, A at Cleato 18 mof aflowod & herie lonel or & Major on tho west bank of pol River In allowed two horses. T over atarvos the old black horse that ‘BEERIDAN rods at Winchester, which wes aliva st Jast ac- counts. The otd fellow will have to be shot, for the Government will not feed him. And then he thanked Gop that all his old battle-horses wero dead, so that he shoald not have '‘to apologize to them for the meanness ot Congress.” & £ ———— It Bronex should suddenly return home some fino morning and find the Zimes on the top of the fence, as it were, with DERNETT on ouc side aud MaTTES0X On the other, reading some of ‘WILKIR'S letters burlesquing the old man, and Hapex K. 8uirnt recitiog s foancial article Into the car of PATTERSON about the Dearborn street declslon, concernlog which it is clearly the opfolon of the newspaper that on editor who ©oes to Eurono without leaving his journal in competent hands is an old foo—is an old zen- tleman who ought to have his property placed in the hands of a Recelyer beforo the boys gos away with {t— ————— The Bupreme Court of Arkansas has just de- livered an opinfon by which $3,000,000 worth of lhier Btate bonds, known as ¢ levee bonds," are declared to bo unconstitutlonsl and vold ‘Whereupou thaLittle Ruck Gazette * congratus lates the people of Arkansas upon this decls- fou, which lifts s burden of nesrly 83,000,000 from thelr shoulders.” It §s nico to have a big burden Jifted from onu's shoulders this Lot weattier, but thon Low do the fullows foel who awa the bonds? ——————— Tt is too bad for tho reporters this dry, kot weather, bt there 8 to be Do dufl bedween AcxLrN and Rosszr, ACKLEN is satisfled, now that Rossxe puts him In mind of it, that tha Genoral did not kick hifm out of the room, and as for Mrs. Ooprary, if that s her name, dldn't AckLEN ask Ler to have blm both belure and alter ho trled—wq mean before and after the trouble, and sho sald sho wouldn't, sud dida’t, and couldn’tt ———a— ‘The Tuter-O. says that “ Little DooLrrrLy wiil b the Democratic candidate for Cougress on the South Blde.” 1t hails the prospoctive aomination with ** eathusiasm,” gud declares that 1t ** can almost claiin to have wade Little DoortTrie” Bo thatis what fs the matter with Mr. Doouirree, Is it] Blood will tell, and that law of heredity ts sure to ralse tha old seratel In nomo (amilies, ———— 8inco TrunuAx has got tue lcad in Oblo, Kog- Horn Arrex and dentleman Geosas If. Pex- DLETON begin to see the significance of Tnun- Max's rved pocket-handkerchief that Lo lLas flourished In the Benate for nins yeare, Itis & signnl of daoger, aud warns everybody'to keep off the track, When Tuorsax blows his noss and brandishes that red * paudapuer, luok out for Joun (. TuomraoxN. e t— Tn viaw of the fact that there were filteen cnscs of sunatroke fn New York on the 5th fust., o company of cuterprising Western cupitalists aro negutiating to take s nrairio cyclone to New York to sell by the plece, Baxnux hadn't thought of It o Everybody » bt Linx BurLes would ke to be Uovernor of Mussachusctts, but what the peoplo of that :Commonweatth would like ls quito a differe; g, 1f the Geucral trlos it ou ho will be a¥'to find out. B e o — PERSONALS, Gen, Noyes is to remain in Ciocinnatl five dayw; he then goes to New Encland for a week or 20, refurns to New York for s few d pends & day or two in Philadolphia, and ea: Kurape on the 27th n the same steamer which brougut him over the acean to the Fotter Committcs, Alnu for the poor women who went to the Woman's Hotel! The @ity of them who wera al« lowed 1o stay a. $7 8 wecic have rocoived notice Lo Jeave ssaoun s toey can, unless thay care Lo pey 838 day, and of these Bisy Judge Hilton savs that fiftcen nover had any right to bointhe hotolat all, not belug iu any sense of the word working- women, 3 The Conuecticutess are well kuown to be an fngenious and sconomies] people. Unfinlehed houscs are by Iaw exompt from taxation,—a olre cumatance of which » realdent of Cos Cob bas avatled himeelf 1o leave up the scaflolding round hits house and a window onfinlshed, In this cou- ditlou be bas occupied 1f for yanrs, defying the batited tax-collector, Mies Alica Harrison, whose spirited soting and fice sluging as Gubrll in ** Kvangeline™ at the Musoum have made hor & general favorite, will star nest season, under Mr. E. E. Itlce's manage- wont,in **The Locust,” anadapistion by Mr. Frod Wililaws of the Parla sucoess, **Ls Cigale," snd 8 new play by Mr. B, E. Woolf entitled **Ban- gles.” Mr. Hice (o engaging & firsi-class company 1o aupport Miss Harrison,~Moston Herald, Beoretary Sherman s not seriously alarmed by Waber's compliation of falschoods, 1le says the story sbout buroing his letter was coucocted Wwithio teu dsye,and thinks thst nobody scqualnted with the darkness of Loulelana politics wili belisve Weber burned such & document if he had had it. Tle repeats bie denlsl that bo ever wrote siucha lotter, and dectares thag, i1 ha had the most dixtant recollection of writlag it, be would acknowledgo 1t prowutly, for there is much i 1t be would have 5aid bad bhe besn writing at that time, . The English railway "corporations . are broaght to book whenever o passengor takes his griavauce into court, A solicltor bought & ticket 8t Paddington fur Ludiow ua the day befors Whit- Sundsy. Whes be reached Shrewsbury, the truin Lelog seveuty-dve minutes late, ho fonad that tho evenfog frain for hiv destination had alresdy started, He requested the oficials to rom him & special, but thoy declined, and * tgld ‘Lim be most walt for s train at 4:15 the noxt imorntaq. The passenger thereupon posted to Ludiow, incyzriog 80eXbenso of over §10, for wisich be proceeded 1 sue tbe Cowvany ia the Meruford County Cuurle The Company pleaded that the train war delayed becauso 1t was bolidsy tme, and that It wasatated oa thelr time-tables thag thoy woald not oe reapon- slble for the due arrtval ur depsriure of soy trulus. The JudZe gavea verdist for the plalnti with coste, yud refused to graut s caso fura superior court. leaveu basten the doy when it will be €34y And 08 cheas to proswcute 8 rallway corpois: tion tu tho United titsles ua it Bow 48 10 Koglandt P