Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 23, 1878, Page 4

§ £ r R T N e P e T b SR PN FEPRER Ry i i 3 i 1 ! i ' 3 H i H ! 1 1 4 Y SSE THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER -3, 1878. have beon made on the basts of actunl ex- penditures of provious years, with thoe in- tention of keeping oxpenses in tha future nt the nmonnt appropriated. This is merely in the natura of a flimsy promise, with no guatantee in tho past condnet of the Board that the promise will bo kopt. Dnt, suppose it be actually carried out, then the expendi. turon wiil still be in excess of the expendi- fures.of last yonr nnd the year before; and Tz Trinuse contends now, as it has always contended, that the expenditares of the last two years have beon grossly cox. travagant. Xt will not scquiesce in atill groator extravagance for the coming yoar merely in order to induce the peoplo to vote 8 mortgage on their proporty of $760,000 to carry on tho Court-House work, In other words, Mr, Bexxx and tho County Board tion to the press pending the arnval of Mr. Brown from New York. It is claimed for this house that it has sbown groat liberality and enterprise in its efforis to pravont the diversion to Ghicago of trade from the Bouth. west. Evidently the keeping of trade away from Chieago has been an up-hill job, The amount of the firm's liabilities in New York alons is something over $500,000 at an estimate bolioved fo be rather low than otherwise. The total lishilities are about 81,500,000, Spe——— Epsox has refused heretofore to explain to the reporters the modus opersudi of his new elsatrio light, but since he has securod his American patont and dispatched lis ngent to Europa ha is becoming more communijoa. tive. Last Balarday hetold & reporter in affront analained, the cantion displayed by people and paliticinne and thew nnwiilingnens to embark in the ventire aré a charactorisiie rignof thatimes. removal of a greater monnca to padlic safety than s furnished by a dozen lumber-yards, lacated a3 those aro ont the Santh Branch of the rivar. Owners of resfdonco proporty in that neighborhood promptly take advantage of any displacomont of the wooden struct- uren to improve tho general valua of all property by erecting brick buildings. Each now building of this permanent charncter diminishes the danger of any oxtennive con- flagration, and adds an indncement for the demolition of wooden resldoncos. Now York cannot fabricato a protext for raising the price of insurauce by any frrational as- sertions of dangor from the lumber.yards in Chicago, ont anty, The dnty on the kid glore {4 ad vatarem, The confliet, thercfors, nrose bstween tue fm: porters and the Gorornment a8 (0 what the real valoe of these gloves tvas Mr. HinzoN states the polnt eorractly. Tha agants of consigned gloves insist that thero is no way of ascartmning ths markst wnlue of any brand of forsign goods sold only in thia market exaopt by applying to the manufacturers, whose interest it is to choat the Govornment. Tha Goversment may show, for instance, that the foreign market price or value of akid glove no mt- tor than the '*Alexandor” is 62 francs per dozen—may show it by accounts of aotual sales by prico-lists, eto. ; still, the American sgonts of foreign manulacturors will insist that no case s made; that thers can bo no market valua for a partionlar brand of mer- cuandide that is not eotually mold in tho The Tuibnwe, TERMS OF SUNSCRIPTION. BY MAI~IN ADVANCE~TOSTAGE TREPAID. lufly Fditton, one yrar, 813.00 At of grat, ber mon niey FdNToRs Literary s § T Toureser s i Epectmen coples sent free. Give Post-Office eddress in full, incloding State and Connty. Ttemittances may be made either by draft. express, Tost-Otice order, of In reglatered leter. st onr FIAX, TERMS TO CITY BUBACRIBRRS, Dafly, delivered, Sunday excepled, 23 cents per week. Datly, delivered, Bonday Incloded, 30 cenin per week. Address THE THIBUNR CUMPANTY, Corner Madison and Dearbom-sta., Chicago, 111, A CONTRABT WORTH CONBIDERING, Tho exporionce of tho taxpayers in the City Government has tanght what may bo done by sanisting upon retranchment. Throe yenrs ago thera was A st of men in the Conn- cil who boldly maintained that tho City Gov. erument could not be supported for less than $5,000,000 a year, The press and the people contended that it conld bo supported for much less, and at Iast snccoeded in eleot- ing nn ontire now set of men who were will- ing to try the experiment, The appropriss tions for the genoral expenses of tho oity, oxcluding the intorest acconnt, wore reduoed about $1,700,000 & yenr! and this year tho Oity Government {s actually expending One copy. per yeu! ENGLAND'S DILEMMA, The Ameor of Afghanistan has sent back the taunting reply to the Viceroy of Indin that 3 b t | foroign markot. This elucidation of the Orders for the delivery of TUR TRIRUNE &t Evanatan, neral tarma all about it. Thero wers one | contond that it will bo necessary to expend 8 only 83 por cont of ihe amonn 2‘:;‘;"":“’;’;;::;5’““" et ta the counstng-rooms | BV TUC0 D) Yitle mocrots that he did | 1,139,165 from Sept. 1, 1875, to Sept, 1, | 1o o8 Do explanations to make, nad in tho | gppropristad, in ordor to keop the | subject shows the sdvautago of own- langusgo of the late Mr. Twxzp, naks, “What aro yon going o do nbout it?" It 18 cloar thatho would not the sacond time havo offered a serions aifront to England had he not been propared to take tho cousequonces, aud had ho not boen oncouraged by a mighty Power behind him, and by the prospect of assistanco from the powerful ** hill tribes™ who have hertofors boen suppoted to be friondly to tho English, and from the native Indian Princos whose loyalty to Lord Bra- coxsrizip's Empress of India has always Leen problematical. The maaterly policy of inactivity which has characterized the Vico- roy is croating alarm all over England. The fine weather, it is =ald, will Lroak up next month, and yeot the campaign has not fairly begun. To fight. tho flerdo Afghan moun. talneers in winter would be folly, &o that the renl activo operations of the war ean Lnrdly bo looked for belors spring. Bix months is o long timo to'give tho Ameer for prepara~ tion, Itis now nenrly throe months since tho Russian Envoy was received at Oabul and s friondly understanding was arrived at belweon tho Cear and tho Amoer. 'The na- ture of that understanding is apparont from what bas alroady transpired. Twice, in tho most tauntiog manner, the Amoocr has snubbed Eugland through her Viceroy. It it ia alrondy known thut tho Ameor hns re- ceived nssistanco for the campaign, and that asgistance can come from no other quartor then Russin, Wo bLave already scen in the war beon Bervia and Turkey how Russia can 0id the weaker power without contributing ovon a squad of soldiers or violating neu. trality regulations, If Sorvia could begin a campaign with improved rifles and Krupp cannon, and with Russlan engincers and officors, it will not be rewarkable to find Afghanistan possessing the samo ndvantages. Whon wo romombor.also that tho tribos bordoring upon Afghanistan have nlrendy cast In theit lot with Nubsia, and the subtlo and successful charaoter of Russian intrigue, it will bo still moro romirkablo if thonsands of Turcomans and tho savage warriors of the ** hiill tribes * aro nof found fighting for the Ameor when war begins in edrnest. ‘What is tho, gamo of Russis ? It is not poasible for the Ameor!to defeat England ultimatoly, Butitis ‘losfilblo for him, with tho ailont help of Ruipiy aud Porsis, to pro- long the war, and maka it" terribly expensive for England at timo Yhon sho is sirendy in the throcs of a anio apd Judin is bankrupt. Russla will not object o the war on this ac- count. Bus hers tho d,lp(bmt btops in. Sho has nlready moved the-.piecos on the board, 80 that Afghanistan and' Pogland stangd faco to faco rendy to fall 4fhbia ‘enoly othor, aud Russin hes the move,,aud that move will placo England in n ous ‘dilemma. Ita direotion 18 best exp] by tho following declaration which tho Pulé Aall Gazetts puts in the mouth of the ‘Russian diplomatist spenking to the English Governmont : Yon have to chooso bchisgn a really vory awk- not oxplain, but atill keops to himself; but an intelligent porson ean obtain a tolerably clear notion of the new {nvention from what he makes known about it. The. light glows from the point of & platinum wire, and the hest of the electricity iz so regulated snd controlled that it does not burn the wire, The enrrent is also divisible into any num- ber of lights, and the intensity of the light {s reduced, softened, and mellowed to suit the oye. Epron insists that he can produce the eleotric light choaper than coal gas can be fornished ; but road what he says about it in snother column, ing a kid-glove fastory in Franto; shows how all.embraciog was the *‘mor. cantile forethought” of the late MMr. StzwinT. By himself making the kid gloves required by his trade, ho was able toact in the double eapacity of consignor ond consigneo; and, above all, upon the theory that the market valne could only be fixedon the basis of actual sales, by declin- ing to mako any sales in Franco, ho reserved to himsolf the powsr to fix absolutely aud beyond raview the price upon which he was willng to pay duty to the Government! It ia in this way—leaving importers to fix the market valug of thoir own morchandise— that the rovenns las been robbed to the ox- tent of abont 25 to 40 por cent on all con- slgned goods, parlioularly silks and kid gloves. No wonder that New York retains the importing trade. It is not a question of oapital and entorprise, as Mr, Hmton dog- matically assorts, but of honesly, The hon- est importer at Boston, Philadelphis, or Ohi- oago who pays o duty on the real forolgn value of his merchandise is compelled to roliro sud give place to the rogues at New York who rob tho revenue to tho extont of 26 per cent of ita duoa. Lot us considor Mr, Hirron a moment in his role of a falsifier, In answer to the quostion, **Bayond the glove quostion what Is tobe said msto the goneral charge that Western importers cannot compote with Now York importera?” ho sayss = . made the subject. of a thorough In- timo_sgo, Mr. Lmtrem of ¥irtn, + ot Chicago, and a.gentioman from 7o, in Cincinnatt (I think it dMr. Linsy, of our house, In- blect. They found Hnlnlny to Itism, to_any Inoguality or favor] sde no report, It is mattor of groat publio notorioty that Mr. Lzrrar and hisassociate merchiants of tho West found such conclusive evidence of abuses and frauds in the customs revenuo service in Now York that they wero con- strained to believe its reform impossible without an nnendment of tho tanfl laws. They nccordingly stated the fact to the Socrotary of the Treasury, and submitted & bill making radienl ohanges'in the tariff on consignod goods,—silks and kid gloves, Thoy actually wont to Washington aud appeared the Becrotary boforo the Ways and Moans Committeo to urgo its passage. 8o groat were the frauds auod abuses, in the opinfon of Mr. Lerren and his sssociates, that they proposed the ro.onnctment’of the Moiotics law, repesled in 1874, And yet Mr. Hivron has the effrontery to declare, falsely, that thoy **fonnd nothing to report ogoinst as to any inequality or favoritism, and thorefore mude no vapott? t ‘Wa can conceivo of no other explanation of this than that Mr. HirtoN proposos litor. ally to throw down the glove to Mr. Lerren, Ho snys in cffect: Mr, Lerren, you daro not publicly dispute ma whon I say that you found no evidenco of customs abuies and froud in New York, If you do, Ishall ro- fuse to continuo saloy of Aloxandor kids to you, and, even at o valuation of 40 francs the dozen, you canuot compote with uain importations, and you know it. Mr., Lerren knows how to resent an insult, snd ho will Lo very likely to pick up Mr, Hir. Ton's kid glove. . In the courso of his long diatribe Ar, Histon said: ¢ 1 toll you the im 1879, in support of the various departmonts and institutions, because the sum of $1,017,- 742 waa expended from Sept. 1, 1877, to 8ept. 1, 1878, in the same reckless mannor. Toe Tripuve contends that, instend of spending ©1,000,000 thia last year, tho ex. penses should have boen kept down to $700,- 000, the -amonnt of appropriation, and like- wise, instead of appropriating $1,183,155 for the coming year and expending that amount, not more than $700,000 ghould have been appropriated, and the exponditures shonld be kept down to that figure. In ihe latter caso there would.be over §400,008 of the prosent tax-levy to apply to the Court.Honso, and there would then beno exouse for ask- ing the issue of bonds to any amount, Tum TRinuNE Also contends that, 1f tho 1ssno of bonda bo refused, sufficient money will Le saved ont of the general appropriations to go on with the Court-House work. Propor comparisona justify Tus TarmuNs's positlon and condemn that of tho Board, as represented by Mr, Bsxne. In the year 1873 tho actual expenditures for the maintennuce of tho connty institutions wero $3569,000; in 1874, the sum was $576,000. It is proposed to expend this yoar mora than donble what was exponded in cither of thoso yoars. Now noto the difference. In 1874 the ossessed valuo of the property of Cook County was £318,822,673; this yoarit is §164,757,430. That is to say, the tazablo value of the prop- orty on which to pay taxes has docroased GO por cont, while the oxactions upon the tax- payers have been increased 100 por cont! They have now only half a8 much taxable value to pay with as they had in 1874, and thoy are asked to pay double what they then paid for the same purposs] The difforence is, that in 1873 the Connty Board was controlled by men like Hrroncocx, Hanrson, Croton, and othors who favorod economy instend of extravagance, Dut the contrast is. rendered all tho more striking by two other faots, viz.: The purchasing power of monoy has in- crensed 83 per cent, and the prices of every- thing purchased and all wages paid have de- creased ot least 33 per cent. Novertholess the Board insiats that it {6 neccessary to ex- pond twico as much in dear money now as of cheap money in 1878 or 1874; and on this plan alone bases its demand for the issne of bonds, Tas Tnmuxe disputes this out- rageons claim as proposterous, nnd honce op- poses the issue of mortgage bonds ns utlerly unncocssary and wicked, neton]l cxponditures within the actunl collection of faxes, Thus, while a apirit of economy in the City Government was nble to rotrench to the extont of $1,700,000 & yoar in goneral expenses, tho spirit that con- trols tho County Board Insists upon spend- ing double what was spont for the mainto. nance of county institutions four yenrs ago, and all this in niter contempt and disrogard of the shrinkage in valucs of property, the shrinkago in wages, and the shrinksgo in the ability of the people to pay, This Is the course which My, Benne approvesnan monns for urging the peoplo to vote Londs In addi- tion to an extortionate tax-lovy. The con- ourronca of the whole Board in this condl- tion of things teaclies tho people that thoy must again appeal to the Logislaturo for tha privilego of elecling an entire new Board ag the only means for securing tho same substi- tutfon of retrenchment for ecconomy in county nffaira that was secured in the Oity Council by the vory same process, In the meantime, Mr. Sexxu's argument will not persuado any intelligont laxpayor to vota for the proposed issuc of mortgnge bonds, Because tho expenditures of the County Board wore unreasonnbly extrav- agant and oxcessive lnst yoar and the yoor before is no reason why thoy should be still more extravagant this abd noext yeor. The faot remains that the tax-levy yields, over and above the county-debt interest socount, the sum of £1,188,155, and that, while this entire sum .has been sot asido for genoral exponsed, it is corlain that at least 300,000 could be saved out of it for work on the Court-tlouse. Whilo this is true, the people will not mortgage their property for the Qourt-Houso, but will insist upon such re- tronchment in tho general expenscs as all the circumstances demand, in which case tho work on tha Court-Honso can bo contin- ued without solling one mortgago bond, —eeee TRIBUNE BRANCI OFFICES. Trx Cnica00 TRIAUNR bas estabilshed branch offiees for the recelpt of subscriptions and sdvertisomenta a4 follows: + NRW YORK~Toom 20 Tytbuns Rulldlag. F.T.Mo* Fanpes, Mansger. PARIS, France—No. 18 Rug de Ia Qrange-Batellero. 3t Maurka, Agent. LONDON, Eng.~American Exchange, 449 Btraad, Uxxey F. GiLLig, Agent. BAN FRANCISCO. Cal.—Palsce Hotel e — AMUSEMENTS. ‘MoVicker's Thentre. Wadfron street, between Dearborn and Ftate, En- gagement of Miss Katfe Maynew, **3CLin." After- tioun and evening. Tt is stated with great positivencss and partioularity that a Mr. 8. O. Saussnusy, a Now York mechanio, Lhas finally solved the tough problom of the utilization of potrole- um for generating steam power, smelting iron, making glass, and other things of the highost utility, Elsewlioro we publish a full statoment, or account, of tho alloged inven- tion. If it prove true, or half true, it will revolutioniza steam power, ocoan navign- tion, iron making, snd many other things. Hundreds of ingenlons men have been try- ing for fifteen yoars paat—over since petrole- um beeame cheap and plentiful—to utilize it for generating steam, smelting iron, and slmilar purposes, and none Love fully suc. ceeddd. Thore was slways somé defoct or litch that defeated the inventors; bmt it ; may bo true that this New York mechanic has overcoma the apparently insurmountable obstaclo and discovered how to uso it. If ho Lias not, somebody elso will one of thess days. Hloniey’s Th . Randolph streer, between Clark and LaRalle, Xaoe gagement of Ttobson and Crane. **Our Bachelors.” Ate ternoon and evening. Tlaverly’s Thentre, Dearborn street, cornerof 3lonroe, Fogagement of Nlaveriy's Minstrele. Afternoon and eveoing, Academy of Musies Tialsted street, between Madlson and Monroe, Va. rlety, novelty, and specinity perfonnayces. Afternoon ead eveulog. Tamlin's Theatre, hy Clark streat, opposite the Court-ijouss. Engagement ©f tho Delehsnty & éngler Cowmbination. Variely cotertalnment, Aftcrnoon and evening. MecCormick Hall. Clarx street, corner of Kinzle, Prof, Cromwell wi fllustrate ** Qerm SOCIETY MEETINGS. DLANEY LODGE, NO- 271, Asy Fy & A. M.~Stated Cominunication tits (Wedneaday} evening. st 8 ociock. all 78 Nourveest, Visiling brow dially tvited. GKOIUE UARDNEIt, eore M, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1878. The County Commissioners take the ground that tho present rate of expsnditures cannot bo reduced, and expect to make tho taxpayors bolieve it. e hoard similar talk some time ago concerning city expenses. The Council Ring swore until they were black and blae in the face that no farther retrenchment in city exponditures was pos- sible. But the poople were not convinaed, and concluded to try the oxpeniment of olocting a reform Board of Aldermen, and sca whother they could not manage to carry on the City Government on less money. Ie- bold the result, A reduction of expenditurcs of mearly two millions of dollars a year! Turn over tho county affalrs to last year's Bonard of Aldermen and they will conduct the County Government better than it is admin- fatored now for half a million a year less money than the Ring is spending. This would leave an abandant sarplus to go on with building the Coart-House without issu- ing o singlo mortgage bond upon tho property of the taxpayers. Thore ia no doubt about it. The thing to do Is to reform the personnel of tho present Board of tax-dovourors, and then less taxes will be needed to carry on county affalrs, Greenbacks at tho Now York 8tock Ex- changy yestorday closed at 9 A now iron steamer bnilt for the Russian QGovernment was launched at Thiladolphis yesterdny with imposing religious ceremo- nics. The vessol is intended as 8 fast cruiser among the merchant ships of the enemy in timo of war, 5 The New Orleans Peabody Subsistence Assaciation, which has cared for the desti. tute while the Howards supplicd medicino, medical sttendanco, and nurscs, now makos the official snnouncement that no further contributions aro neceded, accompanying this geatifying statomont with o thankful recog- nition of the magnificent genorosity of the people of tho North. JUDGE HILTON MISREPRESENTS AND FALS] On Monday Inst wo reprinted from tha Cinctunatl Enguireran intorviow with Judge Hirrox, the chiof ropresontative of tho A. ‘', STrwanT ostato, on the aubject of the kid- glove controversy. Mr., Hiutox is os dog- matio and orncular in discussing a morcantile question nshoconld have boonhad ho founded tha house of A.'T. Brzwini'& Co. Honow nssaults everybody connected with tho cus- toms rovenue sorvica who haa tho temerity todo his duly, Beorotary Buzmax la do. nounced ns 8 ** political trickster who knows nothing about Onstom-Houso affairs nor im- portations”;_ Collgotor .:Alznerrr is charace ory llttls mind or and na having deo- olded the kid-glove cases ‘‘in accordance with Suenuan’s well-known cunning and tricky character”; the Philadelphia glove- importer, Mr. Rei, upon whoso testimony Mr, Hirzon's house was convicted of * smug- gling," as he callsit, is roferrod to contemptu- ously, and the Treasury agonts are generally denounced. Mr, Hrrox condesconds (?) to spenk courtoously of tho Presldent. Ifo potronizes Mr, Harxa and Mra, Havss. In answer to the question, - *Do you confound Prosident Haves with any of theso schemos of Jony Suenyax ? ho snyay Notablit, T think Me. ilaves § well-meaning man, and his wife AN INSURANCE SCARE. Now York has just had another spasm con. corning fire insuranco in Obicago, Thia time it Is produced by the Inte fire on Canalport avonno, nt which a furnituro factory was de- stroyed, That old factory was, o far as it was a fire-trap, 8 publio nuisance, and the public interest has beon bencfited by its do- struction, Undor the law, no wooden build- ivg can take its place, and Insnrance com. panies sbould rojoica that it hns been re- moved. The building was a wooden shell 100x100 foat, and contalned some furniture natock, but the Firo Dopartment Lkad no difi. culty in confining tho fire to tho promixes in which it originated. Tho New York Mad, at the instigation probably of some insuranco man, calls atten. tion to this as o warning of tho possible rap. otition in Chicago of the flre of 1871, It The Indianapolis & St. Louls Rsilroad Company has paid no taxes to Coles County, through which it ruus, for five years. The Company owes about $96,000. Attorney- Gonornl Epaary, gotling tired of dilly-lally- ing with Bavizss Hawwa, the Company'a attornoy, yesterdsy began suit on judgment bond. Not beingin tho bands of a Ieceiver, tho Company will eithor have to pay up or quit, SENNE'S LAME DEFENSE OF THE COUNTY RING. The County Board soema to be practically unanimous in the offort to coorce the people of Cuok County to mortgage their property to the extont of $750,000 more than 1t is now mortgaged, on the pretouse of necessity to continue the work on tho Court-House. 'Tho Connty Board is & voradious, tax-devouring body; there are s fow of tho members who would not, porhaps, ssnction what thoy know ward war on your Indlan fréntler, and certaln con- cesslons domanded by the Ivoice of humanity snd the wishos of tho Czat In Ehropean Turkey, You , that yéur diticalty with A ghanistan is s matter very uuch out of your cone trol, and very much in other peoyle's. The cone ditionn of wirfare are chinnged with a chauge ot weapons; this wo found eut at Plovn yun ‘will dau out, pernaps, in Afghoniatan. merce hos reached tho citles of A, stan, and will place plenty of arms of precision there—we solves bave moro ‘than wo know what to do d, moreover, thero re LAKERS of olhor besides the Euglist! In the noxt place, Tho Louisiana Democratio State Commit- tcois ss poor in purse as it is in principle, 1t nppenls most bescechingly to Banxuvar and the National Commities for immonoy, Two goutlemon named AnpeasoN and Wries, somowhat known to fame, are candidates for ofllco against Domocratio nominees; ond the Committeo complains that, unless money is speedily romittod, tho Demoeracy will bLa orrect and . ady, an riing business will reat in 1l . told him that his Beorotary of i i e, T 0 opemscracy il 59 | o o n dishonest ‘oxponditure, but thero is | dusribes tho disirot fn tho noighborkood of -:n‘.'.‘:?f.‘:?u’l.:.‘f“'t‘u’é‘“{x'.‘:fiz |§ffl“‘fl‘k§’.l.!‘,‘,;“‘:l€.,?} Bt iz Waworey Gicch wileh bt b | e Yok ot e Waalatn merchaitars gl % dis- Lo not aunpose that.we coul news to co. patehes, not one who desires to protest againat the | this firo as ono in which are located the graat n’.‘fi{ ‘ar i 700 ,n"‘::"’ A 03 ouf P Ul soum o for thiose in Kurope as well as wa do. 1t certalnly — Bponker Ranpart fs in more ways than ono having a bard time in his canvasa for ro- clection. An element of violant opposition has developod itself in the Democracy of Lis district, and last evening, while ho wag ad. dressivg o publlc meeting, a large stone was thrown at him by some cowardly ruffian jn tho crowd, and he narrowly escaped serious fujury. A campaign conducted on this plan i3 likely to do him wore good thau Lurt, pro- raising of any given sum in bulk, whother by tax.levy or by issue of bonds, Even Mr, S8exve, whom nobody has suspected of im- plication in any of the dishonest *“extra"” transactions of tho Ring, is willing to bo used as an agent to nssist in procuring money from taxpayers, which tho Ring will manipa. late and squander. Tho instinot of the tax- cater, oven when he is porsonally lonest, nlmost invariably asseris itself when the time comes around for making appro- As Mr, Hicrox is silent on tho subject, it in 10 bo prosumod that the Prosident did not havo the parse-proud individual efected from his office for grosuly defaming hia ohiof ad. viser, Wo sny *defaming,” and we mean that the man who profors to the President of the United Btates, as sgainat o member of hLis Onbinet, a charge of misconduot in vague terms, without specifying the nature of the ollogod misconduct, and without offoring evidence in support of the chargo, deserves lumber-yards, planing.mills, and furniture and box factories; and says that the rosi. dences aro mainly woodeh, and that under- writors alwaye view it with ‘*borror.” The Mail greatly oxaggorntes and misatates the foota. Binvo the firo of 1871, and since the fire ordinances, thors has boen no woodon building, whethor for rosidonce or factory, erccted in this city. Buch residences and slores as have bocn bullt in the lumber dis- trict have been constructed of brick or stane, iswo portion of tho Goverumental providence to destroy the sagucity of the American morchunt. ‘Whereupon the intorviewer responded in- torrogatively: #I thought I had been read- ing considorable about Now York losing its trado ?* To which My, Hivtox replied rather tostily : Oh, that reforred only to the ort of graln, wmeat, ete, Of courae, nu: facilities were deticlont for some time, and 180Cial aout & good dual of stulf away, as they contiuua to do, l'lm ~bas notbini to do with tho fuporsiug trade, 'This sdinission in regard to the cxport selves why, undercerisin circgmatunces, we should reatrain thom voluntanly. Further, wa have our own Central Aalan conguests to secaro; and if your troups march to ons city and occupy It, we may ind vursell ohilged, tor our own saletly, 1o advance and occupy othors, which I need ot namo. You canuot afford vue signal defuat, either ut the outsut ur i the middle of the campalgn; Lecauso -auy such disaster might have the resuit of insur- sectionary troubles in ludla itself, Now considor all there things{ vouder not unly what I have sald but what I have loft unsaid; sid nek yoursclves wi It 1s worth your while tv sun all thess i to Incne ihesa great costs, whilo your homne revenuo ta ruuniug down and the fndlan “Freasury is exhousted, for the make of combating a lylios 24 to Houmelia, Bulgaria, ourindewnity, | to be treated without respoot. trade in grain and meats gives away Ar. vided he tions, usscssing taxes, or issui d all tho factorics have been built with | &na your tark foul Al i P L3 Sl d bo can contintio to dodgo the rocks, ,p";! "It e “fi' instingt that hng ::eclnl roforenco to svoidlug fires, and os o Tantirs Somatatructd. st what &Y | But what kind of o oaso doos Mr, Hitoy | TrtzoN's entlre caso, and loaves him exposod Tho encape of n notorious thlef from the betrayed Mr. Szanx into the lnme defense of make when pub upon the dofouslve? The promiso your, Wo can piomiley o thaL yuu may a pocially any oxtensive conflagrations, Thae [ linmise yuur fears of unofiici il talk of ni- s a defender of frauds upon the revenue. County Jail yostordsy, whothier as the | tho proposition to lssue $760,000 bonds; | plavingmills, furniturs nd box fao. | Uaiice With ths Auicor Wil citas; he will e left | oxplanation of bia bitterness is found in tho | Five years ago noarly this entiro businoss result of carelossnoss or collusion, was an | aud this defense, simply becsuse it comes | tories built of lsle years are mnot, e L UhoTust Homent, ancean wi eny | following paragraph: paid a royalty to Now York City for the use appity. In other words, Russia soys to England Give us tho concestions we havo demanded in European 'Turkoy and the Ameer shall comply with all your demands; vefose them, ond this war shall go on until It exhausts you. That this threat {s no empty one is shown nlready by tho consternation with which the Eoglish rogard the probability that England, not India, will have to psy the expensos of tho war, AStho oulset it was orgued that 88 tho Afghan war was precipl- tated by Indisn policy, aud as it would be waged to provent au Indlan danger, there. foro it must bo pald for out of the Indian Treasury, XRccont examinations of the In- dian Trensury, however, have shown that it is pot only empty put that 4he bottom has been knocked out of it. Tlose acquainted with Indian finances romind the Government that the people of India are taxed to death already, and that their country is in a state of abject misery. To make India pay the expenso of the Afghan war must rouder in. creased taxation pecessary, The prosent crushicg systom of taxes hos produced dis- content and ill-will; to increase it now would be to run the risk of alicoating the whole Indian peoplo ‘from English rule, it not of raising & rebelllon [n'the interests of tho Afghans with whom they sympathize, It ie & daygorous game, tho Fuglish ure play. iog ou one Afghan . froutier whilo they are shuken with tinaucial pasie at home and while Rusua waity -and. walches upon tho from one jof the ‘“honest” mombers of the Doard, has boon ordered printed at publio cxpense in varfous langueges as a campaign document,—a proceeding, by tho way, for which thoro {5 no warrant or appropriation. Wao think BMr, SBexnk's position may bo #tated correctly as follows: The Board this yoar has exhausted tho entire tax.lovy in ap- \propriations for genernl expenses, bocanse tho axp-'rlar\u of the past two years has boon that the actual expenditures, regardless of "the sppropsintions, Lave run-up nearly to the figures that have been cstimated for the coming yoar, For this'procoeding Mr. Bzxne clalws exirsordinary merit, and thinks Tux Twuns Las done the Hoard an in. Jjustice by compariug the sppropriations of this yoar with the appropriations of the two preceding years, instead of comparing this years appropriations with the actual squanderiugs of the two preceding years, Purhsps Mr, Bewne would have been right about this if Tux Teinunx had evor justified the illogal excess of expondilures over the appropristions during the two preceding yoars; but Mr, Bxnvx will not be able to find that Tox Tamuws ever indorsed these uulawful excesses. On the contrary, it has alwoys coudemned them, Tum ‘Iriuas could not falrly have compared the expendi. turcs of the last two years with the expendi. tures of the coming year, becanso it does not kuow what these expenditures will be, bat ouly what the sppropriations we.- ‘For 1676-'77 the appropriations were $GG7,480, as of old, large woodon atructares four or more storles high, Thoy aro all of brick, aud mainly of low elovation, and, in case of flrg, can be drowned out by tho wator from tho fire-plug or from tho fire-apparatus, Every precaution has boen taken to avold firo from without, and, in caso of fire from ‘within, to onable tho Firo Dopartment to keep the firo confined (o the promises, An ontirely uew and completo Wwator-works establishmont las been constructed within closo proimity ta the diatriot, furnishing, in caso of fire, s groator sapply of water and with greator forca than supplied tho whole city jn 1871, Nor are the lumber-yards the source of any danger, ‘Tholuwber trade of this city bas always Levn of great wagoitude, but no fire of any con. sequence cver originfted in lumber-yards, nor has any firo in such yards obtained any destructive foroe becauso in a lumber-yard, It is difficult to originate a firo in a Jumber- yard, and, onco begun, it does not spread rapidly. A lumber-pile ia almost a solid mass, and does not sproad the flamos ns do hollow buildings. With - ordinary care and vigilancs, a lumber.yard {s not any more hazardous than a coal-yard ; while hul. low wooden buildiugs, especially it over two atorfes high, are the . most efficacious of all combustibles in spresding & confisgration, Io sddition’ to the water-power recently -sreoted near the lumber districk: Is the river, ‘and also the numerous alips penetrating the lumber-yards at frequont intervals, giving o In the hustory of tho honse of A, T, Stewanr & Ca. |t haanavar oeen Gnvdune cent, Wodo bot now propose to lake the pusition that we are smuyylors. Ve proposs to make this a quesilon of the day ax tu whethar » sabservient Colloctor, acting under the ambitious canning of & Secrotary of the Trena- ary, sliall put ua fu the position of having smug- glod uoF wooUs. ‘Ihis, howover, is the position in which “Mr: Hivrow is placed, and ho scoks to wrig- glo out of it. Ho gives a history of the kid- glove brainess of the honso of A. T, Stew- anr & Co. Mo saye that, in 1853, Mr. Brew. aut, “with lus worcsutilo forethoughe,” wout to Fronco and * picked ont the best wanufacturer there, and advauced him monoy to build a new faolory, and employ many 1nore hands, 50 that Mr. Stewazr codld rely upou o fixed quantity of first.class goods.” The nama of this bappy Fronchman to whom HrewanT adeanced mouey was Fortiv, The gloves made by Fonrmi & Co, ara called the ‘* Alexander " glove. *They might havo been ealled the Btewart glovs," says Mr, Hivron, *“but it was foally thouglit better to give them My, Stzwarr's first name.” 12 Mr, Huzron had folt at liberty to tell tha wholo truth, he would have waid that the houso of A, T. Stzwant & Ot Is the chiof owner of Fostin's foctory, Mr, 1lsLzou goes on to show that none of tha kid gloves mado for the American market arv over'put upon the Fronch or other foreign markets, because tho hands of American women ara 4o peouliar that the gloves made for any other market would not fit them, and tice versa. 1lo does not explain: how it hap- pens ‘that every female foreign tourist re of capilal. To<lay it iu tranucted almost evont calculated to confirm. the gencral im. yrossion thatn changoe in the mlnfli*lntrlllou of the Bhoriff's offloa is greatly to’ba de- sired, Itis notcasy to understand how so well known a prisoner as Connivomaw, the bold and audacious dismond.robber, could hava oluded -tho vigilance of the fafl officlaly] aod the awkward aspect of the affalr {s not jmproved by the fact that,an attempt was ade-to, provent the cktope frum boing koown, -‘ with Western capital. Thoro are ‘at least ten million dollars employed in Chicago alone in the different brauches of meat cx. portation, aud it s Chicago capital, and pays_ no interest to anybody but its owners, This fact alono demonstrates tlat,in the lan. guage of 3Ir, Hirrow, *“ Western merchants have eapital enough 1o stop over {our] New York merchiants’ heads and look out for thuso in Luropo as well as [we] Now York mer- chants do.” All Western {mporiors ask is that Now York importors shall bu competisd to pay tho samo rates of customs quties that they do, and thoy undertake to import direct all the forelgn goods consumed wast of the Rocky Mountaius, And the Secretary of the Treasury, who will sec that the rovenus laws are equally onforced at ull ports, nced uot fear to bo called a tricky politician by the bully Hutox, < T Tho gus companles are Leginning to dlscuss the subject of eleetric lght, and the possibtiity of Mr. Episox destroying the valueof gas stock with bils new luvention. A$ a1ecentmeet- {ng of gas manutacturers, bir, Neat, of Boston, thought that if the fondest aud wildest aspira- tions of Mr. Evisox aud uthers sve realizod, the gas companlestoald stil save themscives from *galng up” by becomlng manulacturers of the wlectric Jight ss well as of gus. Inventors woald be most lkely to treat with them, and it some way were invonted by which tie supply of elee- tricity could be measured, they might stil) dos According to late afvicos, the British mill. tary authorities, altfiough confident of their abitity to mako quick work of the Amoer of Cabul and bhis hoathen subjeots, ara yot besitating to prish the war into Afghanistan at ho presentitime, principally on nccount of the prevalenca ot a vory troublesome fever which haunts those regions during the groster part of the year, and which is very prevalent and fatal, moro cspeclally 1o un- scclimated porsona just at the present time, Tt is therefore probablo that his savage Ex. collency the Ameer will continue to bite his thumb at the haughty Briton, and that the latter will be forced to chafe in his rage on the inhospitable border, e —— In the face of the overshadowing fraud in whioh Mr, Samuxy J, TiLoxx is proven and scknawledgod, even by his one-time Demo. cratio disciples, to have been particeps crim- tnis, the Ulode.Democrat of 8t Louis Las the hardihood to announce that the Demo- cratio candidato for the Preaidency in 1876 . G . ood business, manutscturiog at a cost of o) bas roally provailed wupom & belle | but the expenditures were swollen to €000, | supply of water available for prompt "2‘" ‘(;;? “"u‘h‘:" “’"“’“ but everything 0 | grng with sooros of dozons of kid gloves | five-cents, Voylue 45 ceatd royaity o the 4 of that city fo ualte har fortunes | 000. For 187778 tho sppropristions weve [use on the spot, and’ fn jnox. | @UP. ‘Thoso elroumstaucas may account for : bought in Frauce, DBut lob that pasa. M. HiwroX procceds to show that the Alexander glove is offercd nowhero but iu Americs, and then uays: “Now, you see, that tha only standard prico of thoss gloves is that which will griso frowy adding fo tha net price & fuir percentsga of profit to the mauufacturer,” To the question, “ Do yoy mesn to ssy that there it uo weaus of determiuiug what thoso goods are worth in Paris?” Mr. HiLtos re. plies: L d chiargd 1 to ghs 3 the slowness of England in moving to the Valopy sud CulreaR L 10 jt conmulhers, attack, The Russiau papers are quick to ob- sorve the embarrassment of Eugland. The 8t. Petorsburg Golos, the organ of Rusalan pentimont, says; < Englaod evidently aims at occopying a f i o 15 484 bile lo Fidhten {ho- RBicsr Into cons cosalons, Hu I8 uyually obviouss that duEUE s cawpalyn, be b uot Like- d by wmere dewopstrations, The Amcet may count upon the frisndly neutealily of botn Tuseia and Peruia, 4 well a4 ujion L vyiops- thics aud possible co-operation of the Judian sewi- $700,000, but tho taxes dsvoured were $1,017,742. Thisyear the sppropriations are §1,133,155, but what tho actual expendi. turcs will ba no mortal men outside of the Riug cun foretell. Folloying the same yatio of iucresse in tax-cefing over sppropris. tions, the inference wguld be warranted thab tho Board will spe 1,600,000 the caming with the ancient wariner who, though emi. nently succossful as a wrecker of railroads, Lus not vocently, at lesst, mado his mark as a luader in wmatters politigal. It may sll be ® joke on the part of the 8t, Louls paper, but in thess times of uncertainty, political aud otherwise, the press should always con. #idur LLo public nerve, and speak csutiously, ——lemee SE————— }’uv details are given in the dispatches $Lis morning regarding the fallure yesterday hsustible quantity. Yo fact, the lumber district has loog -since practically ceased 10 be an object of serlons davger to the city, The annual waps priuted in this city sLow- ing the progress of buildings of brick sud stone oxhibit the rapid obange which is go- pg on, even in the dreaded lumber district. ,An sdherence on the part of the City Coun- &il to the policy of excluding wooden build. juge will in due time give, in the sbupe of ————— 1t Waps HaNpT0N can't coutrol the members of lls own party in South Carchus; and cntorco the laws, les him, as Goveroor of tho State, ap- peal to President EHaves for sasistance. The army s ot 50 small but that 8 reglment or two can ba spared to dght sho Red "Shirts. Nobody ‘who kuows Waps Haueron will say that be is wscoward; bus he is proviug false to his wost solema pledges to sce falr play, o i Tho two T's—TwxED and TiLDEN—sre likely yoar, DBut Mr. Sxuws bontends that, while in provious years expondituros excooded appro- | brick walls, s reslstance (o the extemsion of | iudependent Frincea With theve puinia iu bie | Thatleit. The maonfectosers not ouly of our [ TH0 two Tla—rtw of Lovp, Browx & Co., the largest whole-.| priations by several buudred thousand dol. | fires which this city has never knowu in its fl}?&‘n,'&'."?.)’:"ml 'u?l(‘u'nxflr:l?'p:u:: “"lu;: H rkd “‘.",fu"a'l’ ;:: tg\r'e‘:‘v:m::fl:fim w::x pul‘::l:al :;L::np:‘ w:nyu-::rou:lv'z: ttr::‘:rfir::‘i'!:: sule dry-goods firm in 8t. Louis, the senlor | lary, this will not be the case during the past history. 'Theremoval by fire of the old Lntal hress ovldently eudeavore $0 bereuade ite wooden factory on Cuuslposs wVenue wia the Tuattia (048 bhe AfZusu war would Lo 8 Licru docel weober buing unwilling to give avy iuforwmas- it Ullporish tate | MW IBsLLdiLE surface in this country, Twikxv stuuds o fair cLaue o be osdpaled by posternity as the coming yeur, but that the appropristivus tae exclusively diroct by Westorn morchonts | smaller rascal: of [the ‘tho. Fa.was born, gny bred, and "broueht up a rozue, and can piagg hia carly environment 1 bar nicainst uayoeg asperatons upon bis bame. But not s wyy, crafty Baw. e belonga o that infamop, crowd of sinners who kntw their duty bur giq ft not. Twazp's wrong-doing was inspired by fenorance, TILDEN'S by Inherent cussednogs alded by consummate knowledge, Tween mfi endeavor to ciichre the Devil out of hig ready money: Tilden will try and desooll him of hiy sulphurous empiro. , - 4 A In his admirable spoech at Philadeiphty the other evening, Benator CONZLING turncd the lesson of tho Glaszow Bank failure to good g¢. count by way &f fittistration. He sal: Those who havd jnst been ral i tapee® hoBard Inmt be Tafias o e colotest Qlasgow for 860, 000, 000—would be eias, indeed, rltish consols had been deposite A x ad beon deposited, for securi clrenistion—{checra)—that crculation Which tne othar day, fn the twinkle of n eye, Turied 1 ashes In ‘her ha and 1 aaw In {ha 7elearquy Jestarday that an amesaiiont, as I rememier, of our times the amonnt of the shiares huld by the rer spective stockhaldars had already been niade uop them. Taay in the hearing of afl, that andec ooy national banking system, tho fallure of the Bank . of Glasgow could not have occurrod, ani 1 do ey tofer, to our provielons for the securlly of the'cl: calation alone, bus to sl the provialons o Natfonal Benking law, L ——— Ouly fifty miles from Washlgton, the othe day, 8 Republican ecting was held at whicy United States Marshal RaMsDELL made apeech. RamspxrL indulged in somo humorony remarka roganding the Democratic party, and 5 colored man namod TROTTER shouted wity laughter, Wittiam Ransw, Cliairman of thy Democratic County. Committes, was Frescnt, and ordercd TROTTER to suppress his laughter, Trorran declined to do it. Rroess drew hiy revolver and shot him through the heart, ang the chivalry of . Virginia applauded the act as 5 very proper rcbuke of lis ivsolence. Repsy has not yet been arvested. — . The Dabuque fera’d rofuses to joln inthe tdiocy of the Chicazo Témes, which claims thay the vlection of Congressmea in Iowa fu October wasvoid. It eavs that, no matter what the technfealty may be, justice and folrness would ba against a sccond election, and even if tempo- tary advantage were galued, which would be doubtful, the unitimste results would be had, The Colorado election, it significantly adds, 1sa suffictent lesson in that respect. The Times ty dovotlog all its cnergies to provo that it iabest for tbe Democracy of Iows to hold another electton In November. —————— ‘The Secretary of the Fiat Central Committes addresses an insolent note to Tus TRIDUNE de- nylog the “surmlso” that Gon, BaTes would bein Chicago on Friday, at the time of the Democratic conference, with a view to an ar rangement to withdraw from the canvass o bes half, of the Democratic candidate for State Troasurer, It fs very certaln the sald “sur mise” was currently talked on tho street on Monday, but Trm TRIBUNE expressed no oplne fon as to its probable truth. ————— It is curfons that Titoen's ncarcst and best fricnds shonld have so compromised him. Not to montion the visiting statesmen, thero was Uroroa W, 8k, to whom cipher dispatches weru sent, who hias beon TiLDEN'S confidentisl clork for many years, and Col. W. T. Perox, Lis nuphow, resides with TiLpgx and hes his oflice with Sly By down-town. These men are Mz, TiLDAN'S agents, not his enemies. et ‘When tho Electoral Commission declared Mr, Tares clected aod entitled to_tho ofMiceof President of tho United Btates, Mr. Citantzs Futotp Apans came forth from his retisement ond endeavored to X the brand of fraud upon tho Presldent.. But when asked the other day what he thouzht about the cipher alapatclcs, horeplied that he was “imercly & privatociil zen' and hadn't & word to say. { Hinnr HivensEAT tonds next and ‘says he dldn't know anything about tho clplier die patches. Large numbers wore sent to his oflice #na called for by other parties, but ho knew nothing of thelr contents. Of course not. Hut- ter wouldn't melt in the mouth of any oue b+ longing to the Gramercy Park gang. ——e——— 8Ax Canr is makinz fat-money specches ln Pennsylvania for $40 per hour. He got §100 for his speech at Meadville, and $40 for his spcech at Concaut of one hour {n duration. Timesare hard and busincss dnlly but $10 per hour fur ) work’ ds BaM puts In Is —————— . A. B, Hawrrr, another of TILDER'S orizinal friends and suppgrters, has just been defeated for tne Copgressional nomination. Tho man PorTes, uominated in his atead, {s known tu b a vivlent opponent of TiLDER'S, Bauur Is getting slaughtered in tho house of his ows friends, ——— Benator MoDoNALD, of Indisns, says that Dr, Dz La Matrr, the Qreenback Congress: wan-clect, will vote with the Democrats ou all cesentisl questions, The Rrpublican Greene backors who votod for Da La Marra sold themselves cheap. i R It 1s reported that tho stockholders of the New York Sun have held a moctdug and in- formed Mr, DANA that ho must stop hls ever- lasting howl of “frsud,” or abdicate. They Imve heand all they can stand ot that sortof noasense. | A Groenback ldiot by the namo of CooX,— .# Jodge ' Coox.—out fu Towa, felt so govd - after his eloction that he burned his old coat at s glorification mouting In his own town lut week, bueause Lo lisd on2e worn it as & Lepad- Mean, This is tha whole story of the Democratis gerrymauder {n Olfo: Niso Republican Con- greasmnen recclved 80,701 majosity; eleven Democratie Congressmen recelvod 19,730 ma- ‘Jority, Net gain by Democratic rascality, 11011 | ———— * Qur Beandalous Politics ” s the title of 8 popular Incture by Ja)zs Parton. Dut Janss 1md not then heard of tha cipher dispatcies when he wrote that lecture. Ila will probably 2dd o now chapter for this winter’s wses | Two of the inost conspletons Democrats 1o tho United Ststes to-day—Banoes J. TILDEY ‘aud Jurransox Davie—are aliko fu une respoct —nefther of them have any childron. Blessings olten come to us in disguisc, | Tt bs pald thet “Gentieman Gronos 1T, Prx- DLETON now vlews hiusclf fn the glass M8 probable candidate for the Prestdency fn 150« (xoRam wuuld make s handsome race, Uf Bott- ing moro. Amerlcan beer took the first prize at ibe Tarls Exposition, but na brewer roturns a8 8 chevalles. 'The swardlog committee was probs: by served with snits foatead of schooners. Qummery Buaa thinks TiLpey imissed I8 18 noticing thy cipherdispatch busincss st sl Bu does everybody eles, cousidering bis lsme aud impotsos conclusion. ¥ | | . Dogocrats in Washington say thad TILDEY i dead and that tuey are glad of st But sfif 1ifo's ttiR] fover bo ducsn’taisep well Toe uld sioner Las byd droains,- e Trof. Nawnshuy discovers that the New Jer- soy and Loug Ixlaud couts are graditally siok: {5, sluking at tho rate of a few fuclied 8 oo tury," 5 4 Th New Orleaus Deocral usce » golumn 0f 148 valuablo spacs to show that au - Raxvitk sbould oot ba elocted Spuskur uf the est Hlowe: et — In Callfornta the ‘Chlvess servant Is usefal because ba wears soft-bottowed shiocs 15 8 ood wituesa in divorce court. | — e Doxw BiaTr adviscs TALMAGK, “ the prepod terous puipit round-dancer and ajuuip-oratvr v tue Loty," 1o reid Urawercy Pask 8 American