Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 2, 1878, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: BATURDAY..‘ NOVEMBE Zhye Tribae, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BT MATL—IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGR TREPAID. yea -81;.88 er month! 250 &4y 250 on D 8 1.50 i o Fpecimen cop! 3 (itve Post-Untica sddresa In full, including State and County. Remittancea may be made efther by deaft, express, Tost-Ofiice order, or in reglstered letter, at our riak. TERMS TO CITY SURSCRIBRRS. Datiy, deliverrdd, unday excepted, 25 cents per week. Datly, delivered, Bunday fucindes, 30 ¢ents ver week. Addrem THE THINUNR COMPANY, Corner Madiron and Dearborn-ate., Ch! Orden for the delivery of Tur TRINTKR at Evanston, Fnelawood, and Hye Parg ieft (o the counting-room willrecelve prompt attention. Trx Cricaco TRINURE has estabilshed branch offfices for the recelpt of subscriptions sad adyertisements as Tollows: NEW YORK—Room 29 M{l Bullding. P.T.Mo- Favory, Manager, TARIS, France—No. 16 Roe de s Grange-Batellere. 0. Manres, Agent, LONDON, Eng.—American Krchinge, 449 Strand, t Madison street, between Dearborn Ragement of Mizs Katle Mayhew. ('8¢ Toon and eveniog. Hoeley’s Theatre. Randolph street, between Clark and LaSsile. Ene gazement of Salshury's Troubsdoors, **Home Again.” Afiernoon and evenlog. 4 Tiaverly’s Thentre, Dearborn street, corner of Monroe. Rugagement of Tat ltooney's New York Star Combination. Afterncon and evenlng, Acndemy of tusie, Tialsted street, between Madison and Monroe. Va- rlety, noveity, and speelalty performances. Afternoon »ad evening. Hamlin's Thesatre, Clark street.opposite the Court-fouse. **Piok Dom« lnoes.” Variety catertaloment. Afternoon aud evening. Wurstor" atre, Clark street, oppusite the Bherman Mouse. ** Glrofies Glrofla." Aftcrnoon and evening. McCaormick Hall, Clark strect, corner of Kinzle. ¥rof, Cromwell wiil Tnstrate ** Wonrlers of the World** at 2 o'clock p. mn., and In the eveniog ** A Tour in Europe." Expositlon RBullding. Lake-Front, foot of Adams sireet. Kntertainment for the Benedt of tho Mouse of the Good Shephord., ROCIETY MEETINGS, 8T, BERNARD COMMANDERY, NO. 83, K. T, Bpecial Conclave this Saturday evuning at 7:30 o'clock, Work in the K. T.orter, VIaiting >r Kmfh courieously invited. By order J. B. WIITE, k. aro . L BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1878. Greonbacka at the.New York Stock Ex. chango yostorday closed at 99§, The reduction of tho publio debt during tho month of Octobor was £1,708,402, Forty-nino littlo Injuns from Agencies in the West aro on their way to Hampton, Va., to romnin threo years in the Normal Agri- cultural School at that place, their expenses to bo borne by tho Government. Thirty- vight are boys, and the other elevon girls, e The Berlin Treaty having proved a total failure s a means of bringing about a per- manent adjustment of tho Eastern quastion, Raussia and Turkey will now undertake to inaoege tho business between themselves. ‘The former has replied to the overtures of the Porte by expressing a rendiness to re- opoen negotiations for a definito troaty, — Along tlo line of tho Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in the vicinity of Parkersburg, W. Va., diphtheria is prevailing to a frightful extent, producing o rate of mortality ap- proaching that of the yellow-fover in its ‘worst dogree of virulonce. Similar reports aro reccived from various parts of the coun. try, and it begins tolook as though diph. theria was the enomy most to be dreaded during the coming winter, S m—— Bonator Oaresny and Gon, Jonn A. Loaan spoke at Farwoll Hall last ovening to o largo mass-mooting, entertsining their hear- ers with exccllent speeches contrasting the inancial rocords of the Republican and Dom- ocratio parties in & manner which could not 1all to convince pooplo that the party which inventod and created the groonback should be intrusted with the fulfillment of that financiul system by mnking the greonback ** just as good as gold.” Honost~ 1money spocches like thoso fall upon appre. cintive ears in the West, whors the flat fool. iuliness Lins had its bricf day, and is giving ploca to n dosire for a currency of equal and unvarying valu 1t in now ropresented by one of the visit- ing Democratio statesmon that it was Prney Buiti—our own Ghicago Pxney—who wrote thoso historical and geographical cipher messages from Florids,—those abstract and mysterious references to Copenhagen, Chili, Bavaria, France, Moses, oic., etc. Thiu rev- clation is made by one Col Srryrems, who suys SarTir spent $60,000 of hid own money to elect Tupen; snd that he knows Barrn did this, bocauso Burri told bim so, Mr. Penxy Burra has been in Europe for six nonths, but is now on his wsy home, snd s00n will bo prepared to go before the Porren Committeo und tell all ko Xnows about Copenhagon, Constantinople, Moses, and ciphers, A little over n woek ago Iussia was in- Jormoed by England that the continued occu- pation of Turkey meets with her dis- approval, and an intimation was conveyed that unless the troops wero withdrawn, and in the ovent they should advauce boyond the line they have lately reoccapied, Euglund will feel compelled to * take pre. cautions,” Tho British note reached Bt Putersburg on the 24th of October, but there 18 no evidence that Ilussia was particolarly startlod by it, as preparations have since been actively going forward for putting the troops into winter quarters, and only & dsy or two ago it wes announced that the army of ocou. pution in Turkey was about 1o bo increased to 200,000 men, The sfidavit of ex-Ald. Surra, of the Tenth Ward, printed -this -morpipg, affords o pertisl ‘explauatiof of Tus Tamuvx's urgent and persistont hoatility to tho condi-.| SUEKIFF dature of Giozox Wurrs, the small-bore upstart who uspirus to be elocted Stata Scn- ator from the First District. There are yot otber ressons, equally’’ convinoing, which wight and wey bo cited in addition t0 those wready given 10 the public,—reasons why the election of- the man Wurrs would disgrac the peopla of the dis trict. Ha is -exbilited in the affidavit of bis former colleague in the rolé of s juryy worker in behulf of Crxm Prmioiar aod other members of the thisviug County Ring, us uo sgent, associsto, uud 100l of thuso ras- cals, tsmpering with a juror to cheat the Ppnitentiary ont of its just dues. The as. ristant-ringstor Wuire has nobody but him- galf to blame for this disgracefal exposute; he invited it when he packed a convention and secared his nomination by crooked practices, Now all that remains [s for the volers to wipe him out at the polls, and it will be done, ] A significant itom of testimony bearing upon the gnestion whether the Government is or is not annually defrauded to tho extent of many millions by the dishonest practice of the sugar.refiners, s furnished in the an. nonncement that the New York Steam Sugar Rofinery fa abont to bo sold and quit the business, which has beon conduoted at a loss, and the aurplns entirely cxhausted. Other refinories have made immense profits during thia poriod of steady loss by the aid of ‘*seccret processes ™ with whioh the conductors of the losing concern wero not familiar. Bome fdea of what these I gecrat processes ” aro was convoyed in the testimony of Mr. Boorm, the Philadelphia rofiner, before the Congressional Committeo in New York a few wecks ago. They are evidently such that parties not using them, and who noither cheat the consumers nor the Government, oventually share the fato of tho New York refinery nbove referred to. It is decldedly refreshing in these days, when ministers of tho Gospel are running for office on tho Fial.monoy platform, to see how theseissues wereregarded Ly the Church. es of ninety-ono years ago. Intho **Iis- tory of tho Episcopal Church in Narragan- sott, Rhode Island,” published in 1847, we find the following record of proccelings in the year 1787: We arc ohliged to proceed to the publie censure il excommnnication of Davip Buows, of John- in the County of Providence, yeoman, s mem- r of thin Church, whose conduct in attewpting to scharge an honest uedl, due 1o JouN CLipFonb, in wepeclo, wtlh one-sixih pari of ils ralue, is the tm- mediste subject of onr antmadverslun, and has led to_this punlic vindication of onr Church discinline, The tulflling of agreements, volantarily euterea into, with honeaty aud good falth, is enjoined by the clearest principles af re nd the express commands of our mmost holy religion, and the obl putions arleing from those lawd ars anperior to, and Lot releasable by, any nunicipal statnte or in+ sutution whatever, A ‘U'e recurd further states that private ad- mouition had been tried without avail, Nevertheless n Committee was appointed to wait upon him ¢‘ and use their influenco to induce him to rovoka the tender of paper money to Mr.Crivronn,” and, unlossheshould comply and ackunowledge it in ns public a manner ns he had doclared the tondor, his excommunication from the Church should take effect withont farther action by the vostry. The **money " reforred to was part of the £100,000 in paper bills emitted in May, 1788, only one year before the trans- action abova noted. That **monoy * was de- clared by law to be *a good and lawful ten. der for {he complote payment and fioal discharge of all fines, forfeitures, judgments, and oxecntions that had be- come due, of overy kind and nature whatsoaver.” The Assembly enacted “thot any person who should refuso to take thesa bills of credit in oxchange for any article which he may have for salo, or make any difference in the prices between silver aud paper mongy,” or in any way attempt to deprecinte the said Dills, should for the first offonse pny a forfeit of one hundred pounds, and be rendered incapable of being elocted to any offico of honor, trust, or profit within the State. Notwithstanding all this, the * money" depreciated within a year to one-sixth part of its face,—because it knew no Redeemor; aud we find the Church expressing itself in tho strongest possible manner in regard to it, and ex. pelling from its membership & man who 4 stood upon his rights under the law.” KERNWILL NOT ACCEPT THE OFFICE U N- LESS THE RING COMMIESIONERS ARE ALS0 ELECTED. It is concodedon all sides among taxpsyers that the re-cloction of Ougany and Mutrox to the County Board will be a publie mis- fortune, na it will dofeat all hope or chauce for atopping the corruptions of the County Ring, oreffacting any retronchment of present profligato exponditures, or any reduction of the oppressive county taxes, Respectable Democrats feel the nccessily of defeating those two chiofs of the Court-House Ring na keenly as do any Republicana, Even tho Democratio organ, the Chicago Times, admits it, and in nearly every issna strongly exhorts Democrats to vote against and help defeat the ro-oloction of those Commissioners. Yesterdsy's ZT¥mea sald this editorially on the subjeot: 'The ringrters who have been backing Cuxa my and MrLLoy for the County Board have given up all bope of slecting the former, sud 8ro now ox. erting every elfort to return MutLoy, and thos de. feat Me, STEWART, whosa eturdy Scotch lutegrity the ringaters have reason tu dread, Tho Iling pro- gramme i» to defeat STEWAUT and Judro Woon by 7ulr meane or foul. This programme uught to be ‘known to every {axpayer and decent elector in the diatrict, and Whatever lawful and honorable means may bo requllic to rescus the count uholly Jrom the conlrol of the derourers' comdlnation by the election of 8rewant, Woon, and Cosunx vaght to bu employed with promptucss and energy. No honest man of any party will gaiusay o word of the above. The Conuty.Commis- sioner-Ring programme i3, 8s the Democratlc paper states, * to defeat Brewarr and Judgo Woop by fair means or foul,” and elect Mow. oy and P, J. O'Connxiy, and possibly Crzany, and theroby rotain their power to bleed and plander tho taxpayers. TFor sowe unaccountable roason the Times is making frantic efforts to ro-eloct that “bad egy,” Blierilf Kxan, notwithstanding the extravagant, wastoful, incomipetent, and disgreceful manner 1n which ho has for some time allowed his ofice to be conduoted. The Times woll knows that he has surren. derd the office to tho ward bummers and scalawagy, not oaly at present, but for the next term if he is re.elocted. Kxsn bas boon driven to come out openly and make publis proclamation of his cow- anlly and disgraceful surrender to the pot- bouse buminers, He has publicly sbdicated his lawful right of selecting Lis deputies, and tarned over that function to the corrupt rapacallions to whow he has publicly surren- derod. He so declared in his spoech last Moudsy evening at West Twelfth Street Turner-1xll, at a-moeting beld for the pur- pose of placating members of kis party who ‘were oppoaing him, At the same meeting and in the same speech ho made this extraordinary and sick- eving statement: And now, my friends, T do not want yon to elect mo slune: I weut tho eutite Dentocratic tickel gleated, 'Y"fll'fimc\:\x'“'l'kl BESEECIL YOU TU LECE Y NDIDATES FOR COUNTY CUMMISSIONER, I DO NOT WANT 70 BE SUEKIFF [F [ CANNOT HAVE A DEMOCRAT. ot L R on b WOt HAVING L CLEARY COUNTY BOARD, Fe THE OFFICE " W ask respestabile Damocrats to gusid over several times until they imbibe the full pur. port snd force of this astouishing langusge uttered in°West A'welfth Btreet ‘Turner-Hall, Wo ebpecially invite the editor of the Chica- g0 Timea to put on his spectacles snd read it, and to poudar over the serious question whether he can support the author of this language any longer! Mr. Stoey yestarday warnod bis readura o =y 1878—-TWELVI} PAGES, in solomn language that tho ringsters wero desporately bent on defanting the taxpayers’ candidates for Commissioners, and of olect. ing their confoderates baok into the Boarnd, by fair menns or foul. Ho enllod on every decont elector in the oity to use all lawful nud honornble means to rescue tho county from tha control of this tax-devouring and plundering combination. And, while ha Is issuing thoso exhortations, his pef candidats and protego, Cmanury Keny, is going up nnd down the town making speachos at ward meetings ‘‘besoceching ™ his hearors to eleat Creany, and Movroy, and the other ringsters tothe Board. Hedeclares that ** he don't want to ba clected " unlesa thosa tax-devouring, public.money-squandering ringstors aro sgain mnde Commissioners! Ile openly avows that the office would not bo worth Liaving if honest Commissioners aro elected. The $2.45 per weok for boarding prisoners will be cut down, exorbitant ralaries will be roduced, tha deputies for whom thero is nothing to do will be discharged. 'The tax- devouring extravgance in his offics will be stopped ; the shameful practices and potly blackmail systom will bo erndiented, and the 8horiff's office will ba fumigated, reformed, and conducted according to law. Crantzy Keny boldly proclaims that he don't want to bo re-elected it the reform Commissioners are to be elected, aud he implores and beseeches the bummers, cor- ruptionists, thiaves, and parasites of tho city to rally round him with all their might, and carry him back into tho offlee by fair means or foul, 8o that rasonldom may con- tinue its vampire carnival upon the sub- sistence of the bleoding taxpayers. And this mnn's organ e bawling itself hoarse in vilifying all Irlshmen who refuse to eupport him, and in shouting the virtues of its pet for re.alection, who ia in open and confesacd conspiracy with tho thieves in the Board and the thieves who are its coparce- ners. Voters! aro you prepared to re-oleot Cuareter Keny on the torms he laid down at his West Twolfth street meeting? KERN'S ATTEMPT TO BLUFF. Taz Tniouns has for yoenrs advooated the policy of mnking n change in all tha elective otfices whero there ara large receipts and ex- ponditures of public money at the closa of every term. ‘The public have no other pro- tection ngainst fraud, or dofaleation, or om- bezzlement. If such an officer be re-olected, Lo settles his accounts with himself, and if there be anything wrong in the office ho car- ries tho defalcation over, and there can be no discovery until he goos ont of offica, 8hould such offlcial soitlements preceds or follow a defalcation? How long must the people elect a Treasurer, Colloctor, Clork, or Sheriff, and postpone a setlloment of hia books, -or know anything concerning them? A Treasurer may be half a million of dollars behind in his cash, and so loug as ho can get re-slected he onn hide the short- sge. Ho must be put out of offica before the true inwardness of the Treasury can be known. For this reason, so obvions to all, Tmx Trmone hins advocated a change in the oftice of Sloriff, not that it has any knowledge tuat Kznn's business is out of order, because on that point all knowledge is of necessity confined to Kenn himself. Wa have advised ths wisdom of the change at the closaof this torm, just as two years hence we will ndvise s changa in the office 1f Tlopraax be elected, ‘Wa inalst that publio safety demands that, in all those offices in which there arelarge sums of money handlod, thore shall bo prompt set- tlements, o balance struck, and the money paid over at the closs of each term, Mr. Kenx hag songht to break tho forco of this rensoning by offering to tho editor of this pnper tho privilego of examining his accounts botween now and the election. Of course this is puro nonsense, Evon if thers wera a shortago in the offico, tho Looks would not show it. Oune of the peonliaritios of bookkeeping is that they can show any result the bookkeoper may bo intorosted in produeing, ‘Thoro was never auything in tho books of the City Troasuror to show that anything was wrong; thoso books were examiuned just before the election, and were pronounced to Le all right. A changoe of Troasurcrs, howover, rovealed n difforont stato of things. Lot Mr. Kenx hand his books over to the proper officer, when ho retires from office, and make his setilemont thon. As thero can be no satisfactory sot- tlement until he retires from ofilco, we pro- pose that the peoplo rotire him and have a settlement. His presont offer is what his gambling frionds call * blufl,” but, if the peoplo aro truo to thelr own Interest in this and in all like cascs, they will not bebluffed, but will insist on counting the moncy and sottling the accounts, READY FOR RESUMPTION. 8ecrotary SuzmiuN's lutter on the condi. tion of the United Siates ‘Trensury, which has just been published, sgain Linpresses upon the American people, not merely that tho Government is fully propared to resume on tho 1st of next January under the con- ditions of the law, but that sonnd finaucial .polioy and good common sense alike domand resumption at the date fixed. 1If those peo- ple who are demanding ‘‘more money"” could only be made to understand the sitna. tion, they would favor resumption equally with thoss who desira it on the ground that & coiu basls is the ouly normal and Lealthy condition of finance. : Mr. Buzusax shows that there s a coin balanoe in the Treasury of $232,659,640, or more than two-thirds of the outstanding Government notes, As a mattor of fact, though Bocretary Buxnuan doos not ssy eo, this entive fund may bd rogarded as serving the purposes of resumption, inasmuch as it reveals the sirongih of the Treasury, the popular confidenca reposed in it, and the un- likelihood of any rush for the coin on the part of the people ; for so much of this sum as I8 hold pgalost certificates or othier current liabilities might be withdrawn now if the owners or claimants desired it, But after deducting from this amount all the claims against it in the shape of gold and silver oer- ogain reduce their own ssne below par. Qar- tainly not the morchiants, bocauro resnmption will place the paper enrrency of tho conntry on a uniform and relinble basis, so thnt they can buy and sell withont taking tho risk in & possible appreciation or depreciation of the monoy in which they make their exohanges. Certainly not the people as a mass, for tha greenbacks will remain logal-tender, and the bonk-notes will continne to serve practically the samo end, while all tho notes in their possorsion will bo worth 100 centa in the dollar all the time, nnd purchaso at that rate, The working nnd salariod classos will not striva to debnso the onreency in which they will continne to receive their pay. Thoso who have labored under the erroneons impression that resumption cannot be accomplished unless the Gov. ornment shall have in its vaults a dollar in coln for avery” dollar of ita outstanding notes have not stopped to considor what a tremendous cffort would e necossary to defent resumplion under exist. ing conditions, even 1if there wero any dispo- sition to do it. What gigantio combination can be formed in this country that can gnther togethor over ono-third of all the greonbacks in existonce to present at the Bub-Trensury in New York for redemption? ‘What bauker, monoy-londer, or merchant is going to enter into such & combination, and withdraw Lis monoy from active use in order to effect an oxchange into coin, stand a loss in the cost of {ransportation, and in the end find on his hands a kind, of monoy of no greater value in the way of exchange than that which he lad bLofore? A little common sense and Dusiness experience ought to be brought to bear on this subject. Tho classca who have the money aro not going to subject them- solves to inconvonionce, annoyance, and positivo loss in order to debnso the currency. Thero will be no spacnlation in gold when resumption shnll bo definitoly declared, and no sot of men 'will combino to make a loss in order to get gold, which will be worth no more to them than greonbacks, Thore is but one class of people who will bo interested in debasing the currency,— thosa who owo debta on mortgaged property, —snd this class will, as a rulo, have no groenbacks to present at the Tronsury for rodemption. But even this class will learn, soon after the announcemont of rosumption, that thero iamoro hope for them ou a resumption basis than in a precarious roturn to on irvedeewmable currency. Iie- sumption will secure a lnrge expansion of tho currency. Gold, sllver, greenbacks, and National-Bank notes will circulate side by side. Nobody will hoard coin nny longor. Thero will bo no prémium upon it and no special use for it, ; Tt will find its way into banks where it will gerve na reserves, relense corresponding amounts of legal-tender, and make the bnnks more liberal in their dis- counts. The voluma of the active curroncy of the country ,will bo incrensed to the amount of the coln now hidden away, and thereafter by the dnnunl yield of the mines. Is it not ridiculous for men who clamor for ** more money ” to' oppose this enslest and most natural way Lo obtain the incrense ? KERN'S OFINION OF KERN, The RopublicanExecutivo Committeo has brought o grave ‘and stariling indictment ngainst Sheriff Keny; ond has framed it npon the testimony of & witness whow he cannot controvert without (convicting himself of fnlsehood. The Cbthmitteo Lavo not made their charges upon. popular rumors, or nows- paper statoments, or the allegations of hoat. ed partisans, but upen the public statoment of Bheriff Kenn himpolf, e is convicted ,out of his own mouth, and upon his own showing mknowlndqq- purposes so infamous and clearly corrupt as to deserve an indict. mont that shall carry with it some moro direct punishment {han popular {ndignation. In his speech of Oot. £8 to the Democratio voters of tha Eightl Ward he mado an abject apology to the bummers for not carrying out the promises he hadtmado when firat elected to tho Bhnevalty, Th that campaign he had promisod ofices to 'hundreds of loafers and scalawags 1f thoy weourcd his election. They did securo it for him, but only a few of thoir numbor were rowarded with office. At that time ha exercised Eome personal suporvision over the appointments, and managed to secure’ tho servicos of some men who were honest and offlolent, It gave mortal offonso to the bummers, but they waited their time, and that time bas como, To socure thoir services for the socond cam. paign he has been-compelled to publicly promisoe to place the whola patronagas of his office in their hands,—the most Lportant office in Cook County, 5 'This {a the first publio confession of the Tommany Hall policy that has ever beon wade by an officeholdor in Oook County, How do the people of the city and county like the proapoct? ‘It is useles to question bis authority, to ssk by what right be deliv. era over his offlce to bummaers, or to poiot to tho statutes that forbid it. He has prom. isod publicly, not privately, to do it. e Lins agreed to lot political tricksters run his offico and to fill bhis appolntments with tho riffrafl of the saloon and the gutter. How do tho taxpayers like the prospect? Will they vote for a wman who ‘openly nvows ho will exercise mo supervision over tho em. ployes of his office and makoe no tost either of efficlency or honesty ? ‘Tho taxpayers of Gook County are con. fronted with another danger wore startling than this, In the same speoch to which we Lava referred, Sheriff Kxnx not ouly prom. ised to lut the bummers moke all his appoint- ments, but he warned them that they must slect the whole Democratic ticket, and that ke did not wwant to be Sher{tf unless ke could have a Democratioc County Board with i, His fivst proposition ia to let the bummers run the office; his sccond is, that he does not want tho office if it cannot be run for purposes of corruption, Putting tho two together, it is an agreement that the Bhents office shall be run for plunder, sad that tho plunder shall be divided botween himsel and the bummers. He must have a Demo- tificates, igtervst due aud uopaid, called | cratio Board in order that tho exponses of bonds, ete., there remains the sum of $134,- 281,805 actually available for rcsumption purposes. This amounts to nearly 40 per cent of tho outstanding greenbacks, and the balance on Jan. 1 next, for which there will Lo no other use than that cf redecming Gov- erument notes offered for redemption, will bo fully 40 per cout, Behind all thislics the power of the Government to sell bonds for coin at the lowest rate of interes} ever known in this countyy, %o that, if such s thing as s rush on the Treasury for coin can be cous coived under the circumstances, the Becretary of tha Treasury has ampla means at his com-~ mand o protect his reserve. . Who will be intercsted in making an effort to defeat resumption when it shall be an- nounced next January ? Cartainly not the banks, for their notes will still be redeemable in the Government notes, aud they will ot by so shortsighted s o cowbine to the county may be increased; that taxation may be increased by the issue of bonds for corrupt purposes; that the illegal revenues of his office may be swollen; and that he may have Commussioners who will vote him three times the wctyal cost of feeding his prisoners, whero the statates only allow the cost; and, a4 the veward for all this, he will give away the offices to scalawags, aud will divide profila with County Cowmissioners, bummers, and the rabble of conventious! There is no other meaning that can be attached to this bold declaration. It admits of no other signifi. cance than that ho ust have & plandering County Baard to make his office worth taking. As the repost of the Oommitteo says; “If it means anything, it means this: that undera Repaublican County Board the Sheriff’s office will be deprived of its illegal emoluments; that u Bopublican Cuunty Board will Jook nftor the interests of the people, whilo o Domocratio County Board is expeotad to rob the taxpayors Lo Aill the pockets of s Demo- cratio Bheriff,” Has there ever Lesn anything known in the history of the politics of this county more infamous than this open bargsin and aale in a publio maoting? Corrupt polf. ticians nsually keep thoir trades and agree- ments below tho surface, but this man Kenx haw the brazen assurance lo contract with bummers in public, and to ask them to elect men to office who will continue the profligata expense that has characterized the county administration and the Sheriffs oftico, and ngrees to divide the plander with them. 1fo goes still further, and asks the taxpnyers to ratify this infamous contract! Ho nska them o stand and be robbed! Whersin does he differ from tha thief or garroter, except that he proposes to plunder in the namo of the county, and that the late tor plunders on his own account, and gats punished because ho takes so little P Nover before has a politician in this conn. ty been driven to auch nn extremity ns to appear on a publio platform and brazenly flannt bis corrupt purposes. It is doubtful whother o similar spectacle has ever been soen anywhers, And yet thia man Kznx claims to bo honeat! He challenges investi- gation! Ho writes earda to the public, offer- ing to throw open his books for examination by a committeo to be appointed by the news- papers, as if his oocounts could bo investi- goted in the few houra loft before eleation ; 08 it Lrzn had not once issucd the same silly challengo ; as if any ono would be daceived by o bluff of this kind! There {s but one way to examine his acoounts, and that is to elect Horvaax his succossor, and then there will bo timie enough to investigate Krxan. Tho only safety is in the one-term prinoiple, es- pecially in the caso of a mau who openly boaats his corrupt purposes. ‘Whan the taxpayers of Cook County go to the ballot.-box next Tuesday morning, let them romember Kxny's prontise to the bum- mera that they shall run his oftice, and his oxclamation s 4 I do not 1eant to bs Sheriff {f I cannot have a Democratio County Board with it.” A SUDDEN CONVERSION, ‘The Chicago Zimes Lias seen a groat light, —a light that looks vory much like a sun- burst, Mr. WiLsun F. 8torEr has had o rovelation upon the Irish quostion, Itis lard to tell whother this revelation was brought to lim by aspook ora baunshee; by terrorism or by greenbacks; by moral porsuasion or by Kean's piteous appeals to him to let up on the Irish,—but ha hns nono tha less seen n groat light. Mr. Stonex has called off his dogs from their attack on the Irish. Ha has dropped Lis headlines of Ku-Klux, and his epithots of thugs, cutthroats, murderors, and Mollie Maguires, Buddenly, all over its editorinl page and all ovor its naws columns, we aro informed that the Irish, 1nstead of being the posts of socioty, tho outcasts of the slums, and thieves nud Incendiaries monnacing the city, are a noble raco of poople, ostimable citizens, virtuous, sober, law-nbiding, and patriotio. Through column after column his admira- tion of the Irish slops over untll it grows sickening. The confirmed Irish-hater in twenty-four hours’ time has becomo a warm nnd loving friend of the whole race. Mo oulogizos those who will vote for Keny, and lio griovas over those Irish Kuow-Nothings, Protestants, and rocreants who will voto for Horrxan, Bat, 08 a race, there is nothing that can compare with it, now thinks Wirnun F. 8roner. The whole game evidently is changed. Thoro has boen a littls too much of the Ku- Kluz, thug, and cutthroat business. The Irish did not rolish it and were hitting back, and Keay saw his chances gotting beautifully less doy by day, Whatover Kxux soes, the Organ seos, The mischief must bo undone, nnd the Organ has taken thé contraot to fetch the Irish round all right sgain by giving them afly in solid chunks, by pouring soft soap down thelr backs, aud by the free use of blarney. It will keep up this operation until the Irish votes are secured in the boxes on Tuocsday morning, and then lot the Irish look out for thomselvos., The light which Mr. Wroos F. Sroaxy lias seon is a very bright light, bat it will last only a few days. Baturdsy, Bunday, Mon- day, and Tuosdny the Irishman will be an estimable citizen and an arnamont of socisty, but on Wednesday next he will be a thug, a Ku-Klux, a Mollic Maguiro, a cutthroat, and & murdorer, because ths Organand Mr. Kxux, ita grindor, will have no further use for him, Doces Mr, Witnun ¥. Sronzr think that tho Trish cannot see throngh his little game? In addition to the other villainies with which ho has bson cbarging thom, does he think thoy are credulous fools who willswallow the stull he is now giving them? Thelr remem- brance of the indignities ho hasheaped upon them will last longer than his sudden con- version, TOO LATE! The Couaty Board, under the direction of “Reformer"” Frreazrawp, {s just now mak- {og a pretense of economy by reporting in favor of a reduction in the number of Deputy Bheriffa and their salaries, and rocomnond. ing retrenchment in the Stato's Attorney's oftica and othor Departments. All of which rocalls the old couplet ¢ When the devil was slck, the devils monk would When ltl devll got well, devil a monk was het The ruling eloment of the County Joard has probably beguu to sniff dgnger of dafeat aliead. Heuos this sudden conversion to the ways of economy aud virtus, DBut it is a doath-bod ropentance; if the patient get well ho will probably relopse into his acous- tomed wickedvess. A Doard that deliberate- ly votos away the entire tax-lovy in goneral sppropriations, proposes to expend about $1,800,000 this next year over and above the intorest account, and lays out this programme faor the purpose of bull- doziug the peoplo of Chicago inta voting them $750,000 more in the shaps of bonds for work on the Court-Honss,—auch a clique s this will scarcely gain ovedit for sconomy by rocommending & small line of rotrench- mant 88 the eleventh hour. It is too late! The people will have no confldenca in any promises made on the eve of election, It it were i their power, they would demand an eutire chango in the personne of thiy County Board; #aitis only in their power toelect five memberu this fall, they have put forward on the Ropublican ticket five wmen whom they can trust to accomplish more reform than the present Ring even promises. The Hing sre running Crzany and Murroy for re-slection, and here Is what Kz, the Demooratic candidete for ve- election to the Bherits office, is re) 8s saying at a mocting of the falthful last Monday evening: And now, my friends, I do not want you (0 elect me alone; 1 want the entite D o ticket d. above all, I beseach you 10 slect your tes for Cosuty Commlssioner. 1 do mot Weul te Lo Shend I8} cpuuvh Lave & Dewecrajic Connty Roard with it The offics would not_ho worth hiaving {f CLeany, and Muttot, and tht other {)umncmllc candidates wero not senl into the .01 oard, This gives a botter indication of the real purposa of tho Ring, in case it can prolong ita hold, than nny professad iutention to re. duoa expenses. No pratense of ratronch. ment coming from the gang' now in control £ county affairs will receivo any confidence from tho public. The only hope of reform is in a chang 8inco the Supreme Court of Wisconsla has decided that corporeal punishment of any kind administercd by n achool-teacher In a public or private school {s sufliclent ground for an action for assault, and can be maintained as such, teachers there and clsewhere are fnventing other methods of upholding the discipline of the schuols without making themsclves Mable to the law. Aniong the very latest Inventious (cavoat filed and patent applied for) that we have seen described is ono discovered by & Mre. GARLARD, that knocks the old hickory jacket- duster and pal-blistering fernle higher than a kite. Mrs. GARLAND toaches In Galveston, Tex., and has takon up the {nternal process of reform. Last week she ealled up a naughty Ittie girl bearing the nistorle name of MoLLix Anams, aged 8 years, nnd made hor swallow s dose of caator ofl as a punisnment. Neither Motris mor her parents relished the application of that kind of lubricator to the running-gear of MoLLir's internal mechanism, aud there {s just now considerable agitatlon over the event in Galveston, especlally that por- tion of it that constitutes the Schiool Boord. Tho right to nse ofl instead of the birchasa means of discipling In the public schuols s be- {ng veliemently argued, e —— From the report of the Hop. J. A. Bentrer, Commissioner of Pensious, it appears that the number of new claims for the year ending June 80, filed durlog the vear, was 67,000, Of these, 18,812 were original clsims for Invaild pensions, belog more than double the number of the same class filed in either of the four years 1871 to 1874; 18,240 were for tho war of 1812 service, under the act of March 9, 1878; about onc-sixth of thesa were in behall ot survivors; the bal- ance were widows® claims. The aggregate sav- iog In tho Bureau for the year, {n reduced poy- monts of salarics of all descriptions and roduc- tlon fn the number of agencies, was $482,173. Adding $180,030 for 1877, the eguregate saving for two years In these items ulone has been $002,222. Commlssioner BENTLEY reports that since the consolluation the pensions have been pald moro promptly thau before, and the vay sorvice has ndvanced to a bigh degree of cffi cleney. It looks ns if there waos practlcal re- form tn this Department. e —— Groroe WmiTg is spending rather too much of his preclous time {n boasting of hils popular- ity us a Senatorial candidato i bis own ward. 11 he Is so popular when running for Bonator, he has o singular way of shuwing It at the polls. When he ran the last time for Scoator tho Teuth Ward voted as follows: Qeorgo k. White John €. Haines Deaten in his own ward..ee.soe At the same election tho voto Congressman was as foliowa: J. D, Ward (Rep.) Carter llarnavn oo <173 in the ward for Democratic mAJOrILY .everesrernsoneernnes The Democratic majority was shus jcss than twenty, while Wurrs, the * regular nominee," was beaten fu his own ward wearly 200. Truly hohas remarkable popularlty where he s best known. > ———— The 0ld and wealthy Creole clement fn Loulsi- a0, and- espoctally fn New Orlcans, bas organ- fzed to form a sort of Know-Nothing party by expelling ali forelgners and carpet-bageers from office, and filllng them all, both State aud Natlooal, with native-bora Loulsianians. The party comprises buth Democrats and Repub- licang, and both white and co)oredl men who are dlssatisfled with the men selectéd nod nonf- nated by the old parties, the dominating ele- ment being the Creole population of the Clty of New Orleaus. The movement s soclal in its character as well as politieal, but those at tho bottom of It do not fotend to ndopt any of tho bulldozing methods of persecution aod intimis dation to carry out thelr plans, but to rely upon moral suasiop, ————— Here are tho exact words of CianLxy Kurx in his speech Monday night last at the Turner- Hall mecting In the Elghth Ward to o great Democratie meeting; Aud now, my friends, I donot want yon o clect mo nlone; I want tha entire Demiocratlc ticket elected, nd? aboye all, I beaeech you to eleet your condidates for County Commlssionce. I o nob 1want §0 be Sherff if I cannut have A Democratic Connty Roard withit, 7The ofics would nol be worth having it Clesry and Mulloyand the other Domocratle candidates wors not sent into the County Board. . Apy Democratle taxpayer who votcs for Ksny's ro-election to tho Bheriffalty In the face of this declaration deserves to have his vroperty conflacated by the tax-devouring thievoa, et — Novody knows oxactly how high Qinpunor's kite ascended, but it is certain that §t went up far enough to becomo traditional. There is o baby In Parls that ought to becalled GiLpEnoy, in honor of thoe clrcumstauces attouding its birth, As a balloon was mounting to the clouds W0 wecks ago, a young woman in the car was taken {1l A doctor from Tarbes, who happencd tobaln the car, saw her safely delivered of o boy before tho balluou reached the ground,when a cab touk the mother and child to a hotel The husband, sob of one of the leading Man- chester manufacturers, presented the docter with $100 for bis services. —— When the Zimes Is not brawling for Kray it is shouting for “more bouds" for the Com- missloner Ring to squander, Tt demands that an- other mortgage of three-quarters of & million be voted uoon the property of the people, so that extravagance inay not be interfored with or tax-devouripg be checked, Give the thioves untimited bonds. Let them baven good time. They need something fresh to *divide.” How canmore Court-llouss *extras” bo given to the Iing unless more bouds wro voted by the peovlet e —— 1t {s sald that Mr. Spcaker RANDALL {s not s0 certain of are-clection as he micht bo, and ne acknowledges that be has a very hard fight on his hands, §iis double-dealiug In regord to the appofutment of Committes, and bls own cou- duct touching the tariff and the Tuxas Pacific Ratlroad, bave opened the aves of tho people, and the fndependent vote will go to his oppo- veut. Mels in hot water, but s working with »l his might. e e — The Greenbackers in Wisconsin lte like every- thing. One of thelr latest for campalgn pur- poses {s that Mr, Hazzrron, Republican candt- date for Congress in the Third District, msde sn effort to buy up oue of the ‘inflation, flat edis- oreInbis district. Anotber is that the Ifun, Isaa0 StPuENsow, & prominest lumberman aud Republican politilan at Oconto, is opposing the election of Gove Yousp. Of courps thery 1s not & particle of truth in elther report. e — Ex-Gov. Hunprioks, of Indlans, is makiug specclies in the Tweutleth Fennsylvinls Con- grosslonal District, whero ¢3-Gov. CuktiN s sunniog fur Congress. CURTIN was the War Governor of the Kejstone Btate, but is now ruoning oo the Oreenback ticket. The two ex- Governors aro evideutly nearer together u gon- timent now than they were {n the days of the Hubellion. They e sbaking hands acruss e bloody chasm, as it were. The CorTuiLL-CuANER libel suit, that Shas beco on tral bafors the Mitwsukee Couuty Court for some days, bas just terminated, and 1 sowmowhat siguificunt in fts results. It sp- peared on the trial that CorTRiLL, whils wak- {ug 8 Dewocratic speceh, bad sttempted to ad- vaucs Bourbou principles by iuciting the relr- lous prefuaices of bis sudience. ‘Thecomments ol tbe Luning Watvnsa, of which Mr., Coamsy Is editor, were the occaslon for the sult, which resulted ir a verdict for the plaint'ft of six cents, wWhich earrice with It aixcents costs, mak. fug a sum total of 12eents. “Fhis nmonnt the defendant whil have to pay. The wlalutift i then have Lo pay tho defendant his costs of the trisl, as in libel canes under the statuto of Wise consin the plaintiff recovers no more costs than the damages, unless he seeures more than ), and, In case the suim Is less, he fs lahle to lh; defendant for the costs of the trial, Algo. gather, 1t wlil not be & very profitably suft tor Me. CoTTRiLL. e ‘Tho Times has yelled itself hoarse for Kzny, who declares that * he don't want to be Bherl unless Pat Creany, Mixz Mrivor, P, O'DoNNELL, and the other Democratle caral- dates for Cominissioners are sent to the County Doard ™! e savs “the office would not 1o worth having " unless they are put tnthe Hoard} Taxpagers, do you want KenN re-clected on thaso Lerinsy ———— ' Adirondack’ MuRRAY will be carefnl how he banga the Bible with his right hand for a fewy Sundays to come. Last week hie was out lioot. ing ducks, and, by the accidental discharge of his gun, away went threo fingors of his right hand. He grasped the wounded hand with the other and walked over a milo to a house,swhence e was conveyed to his own home. and medien| ald called. ——— Mr. Titostas and his right bower, daconsony, have already discovercd thelr first Westory musical prodigy fn the person of a boy 13 years old, who rivals OL2 BuLL, or will in the course of time, with the ylolin. The little fellow yave them a touch of his quality, and both gentie. mon declared that he would be a great artist, ——————— The adidress of the Republican State Com. mittee of Oblo las = closing sentence which contains the whole ereed of succossful Repub- Neanism for the future, whether in Ohio or clsewhere: “Upon the issue of sound currency youure Invincible.” Pass the word duwn gl column sud close up for victory. ———— It fs m zood thing for TILDEN and his asso- clates lu the clpher business that tha Porren Committee {5 not {n session. A littlo time to 11z up things, concact a theory, prepare a line of defense, and let the witnesses compare notes so u8 to maKa a consistent and plausible falschoeod, 1s a good thing, ———— While tho blatherskite KeanNzr declares that the Chinesomust * go,’* Mr. ARSTOWE Is 8 Chlugse tea-dealer In Boston who fn the past thir. ty years has mado o fortune and cducated two charming daughtors so well that they would do credit to any civitlzation, ——— . Ifall that Geonom WinTs needs to be elected is the “regular nominatfon,” why aid he run 1,400 votes behind Lis ticket for Senator the other ttmo when ho was the regular nomince, and thero was o third candfdate in tho feld} —— CoARLEY KERN “ bescoctica " the Democrats to re-clect CLEARY ang MULLOY, as “the 8her. 4T's office will not be worth having ** If they are defonted, and, in caso of thelr dofeat, ho says ko don’t want to be elocted! ——————— CnareLsY KRN s a roformer with a ven- weance, Unless ho hias CLEARY and MorLor tiie Board to fix lls dicting, salaries, aud per- quisites, he won't take the office agaln, he gols cmnly Jdeclares. HYDROPATHY, It Ja Thought by Vanderbilt that the Lard Times Muy Ilo Greatly Ameliornted by a ‘Thorough Irrigation of Wostern Unlon Telegraph. Speciat Diapateh to The Tyidune. Nzw Yonk, Nov. 1.—The facts about the Western Unfon Company’s proposed extension of capital, which formed the basls of stock fluctuations yesterday, are thus authoritatively glven to o ZTime rcporter by Mr. Russell Bage. - He says Williamm . Vanderblit, D, [0, ‘Mills, 'E;' D, Morgan, James R. Keens (day Gould's representative), Augustus Schell, and o largo number of stockholders of Western Unlon havo signed a petition requosting Prosl dent Greon to call a meeting of tho stockhold- ers to discuss the advisability of capitalizing tho surplus of the Company, amountlng to $17,- 000,000, and dividing it among tho presont stock- holders pro rata. ‘fho petition will be presented to-morrow. Under tha by-laws, thirty days' notics of such a mecting is required, and It s neceasary that at least one-third of the out- standing stock should unita |n the call. It tho projectors aro in carnest, there is no doubt the capltalization will be carried. The first six gentlomen named own or “control between them 810,000,000 of the $33.000,000 of stock outatanding. Mr. Vanderbilt nlone con- trols luea: { §8,000,000, My, Milla ta tho nest largest stockliokder, though Mr, Morgan con- trols morce thau he does. Presldent (rcen acknowledged that such a vproject was on foot, and expresscd himself as of opinion it would be carrled out hefore Jan. 1. ‘The uthor gentlemen named rofused to tulk, Of the $17,000,000 llll")hll. haif is represcoted by newly-bullt or purchased lines, aud by tho vow bullding of the Company on Hroadway; the other half h&zvur 80,000,000 of its own stock, ovor 7,000 of ateck of tho Atlantie & Pacllle Telegraph Company, and by over a mililon edch of the stocks of the Gald and stock and the International Ocean Telegrapl Companles, oll dividend-paylog, It s believed the Company wlll Do able to pay a t-percent dividend on 850,000,000 of capital, It was on rumors of thls deal that the stk was recently forced up from 88 to lud Prominent beats in the market call attention to the fact that tue Tammsny candidate for Mayor, who is s Director and also member of the Executivo Committcoot the Weatora Unlou, resident of the Lake 8hora Railroad Com- pany when a similar movement took place fn its stovk. Under a pretensu of Jarge surplus carn- fues, the stock was watered, havine previously besn driven up to 120 inthe market, It was ll«ll)lL'(NOllH( ascertained that the real earnines waere nut only not sutliciout to pay a dividend on the watered stock, but had not justified the dindend paid for y ou the origiual capital ‘The cousequengce waa that the stock tumbled so :lm‘ to-day 04 1s considorcd @ very high price or it i i THE ANN ARBOR RIOT. Buecinl Dispalch (o The Tribuns Axy Arpok, Mich., Nov, 1.—The riot last night 1s tho only thing talked of by the studeuts today. No disposition is mapifested on the part of the citisens Lo procure the arrcat of the purticipants. I they go no further no action will be commenced acainst them. A general mevting of studonts of sl departmicnts was held ou tbe cawnpus this sftcrovon. Commit- tues were appolnted to walt on Mre, Navalje, mistress of the house assaulted, and jnform her that ahe sud hor family muss leave Anu Arbor atonce, A disposition was manlfested Lo pull the Louse to-nlght unleas sha had left. Urof. Yalmer, of tho Medlcal Depurtment, came out sud uddressed the boys, Ml cud suled moderation, ana” advised the o do nwothing further Lt} Monday. by that time all the women would "“".'"‘H g:n leit town, and no furthcr ttouble woult experionced, This adyice prevailed, but, 0 jusure the safety of the house Lo-night, 8 Jurks force of exira police have beon put on. Au- other attemnpt on tho part of the studeuts siml- Jar to that of last night will meet with deter- iniued reatatance ou the part of the ollicers. prataiasiucra sadaiolohisl YOUNG INDIANS Sectal Digich te Tha Tribune, 8i0ux City, Ia., Nov. L—Furty-bine lodias youtbs frow sgencies above arrived bere u:u-y eu route to Hampton, Va,, in_charge uf Capte Pratt, Governwent Agent. They aro to b placed fu the Norwal Agriculjursl School at Hawptos, ta remalu three years, ull oxpouscs 10 be borue Uy the Government. ‘Theruars th H eiglt boys and sleven girls, Cupl. Pruit sa) everythiog Ls yuict s the agencles above. ———————— ABOUT TO RETIRE. Naw Yous, Nov, 1.—The stockholders of “l: New York Bteam Sugar Refinery buva decde: to retire from busiuess, and sell thie refucry Dee. 10. Benjgmin . B, Sherwan, the ‘Mmi President of the Company, says the refiuery hlu been run uatll ali its |“u:rlun was cxbausiel, when, tlndlug it was a ug ecuterorise, “n otbers, by some ae ocess, Wera LAKIG mouey, It was deced advisable to guit bustuesd wud aell oug the projerty. :