Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1879, Page 4

\ i Jye Tatbwne, TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—I¥ ADVANC ATAGE PREPAID, B12. Dail, ition, one ves: 0 Fares o Year, e 100 Bunasy .80 200 XDITION, FOSTPAID, 8 1.3 cuple Give Post-Office County. Remittances may be made efther by draft, express, Tost-Utice order, or i registered lotter, st our risk. TEIMS TO CITY SURSCRIBERS. Daliy, delivered, Funday excepted, 25cents per week. Datly, deltvered, Sunday Inclnded, 20 centa per weelkts Adurers THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madiron and Dearborn. Orders for tbe dellvery of Tir TRt Englewood, and Jiyde Parx teft o the countl ‘wiilrecetve promnt attention. e ——————— TIIBUNE BRANCII OFFICES. nt free. dreas [n full, faclading State and Tw® Cutcaao TRIRTXE has extablished branch offices for the recelpt of subscriptions and sdvertiseiments as follows: NKW YORR—Room 20 Tribuna Bulidlog. F.T.Ma: ApnEN, Maneger, FARIS, France-No. 10 Rne de Is Grange: Batellere, H.Maneen Agent. LONDON, Eog.-Ameriean Exchange, 448 Strand, Txwxy ¥, Girrin, Agent. BAN Fi CISCO. Cat.—Ty MeVicker's Theatre. Jadison street, oetween Dearborn and Rtste, | gagement of Miss Ada Cavendlol, **Jane Slure. Ko Taveriy’s Theatre, Dearborn_street, corner af Monroe, FEpgaeement af Uater’ Comic Upera Compsny, ‘‘Le Petit Duc," oaley’s Thoatre. Nandolph street, beiween Clark and LaSslle. gagement of the Criterlon Camedy Compar Tors." Fn- Our Academy af Musie, Talsted street, between Madison snd Monroe, Vae rety antertainment. Hamlin's Theatre, Clark streat, opposite the Court-llouse, Varfety cne tertalnment. s ITerahey Musle-Ialls adlson street, opposite MoVicker's Theatre. Bsla- ‘bregs the Wizard. Metropolltan Thentres Clark street, opposits Bherman Louse. Alxvander of Oermantown.” *Tias, the Trinity 3. E, Chnrch, Indians avenuc, nesr Twenty-fourth street. ‘Tenuesseeans. Hnzeltino’s Art Gallery. 165 Wabsa avenue. Jiraun's Autotypes. The Unlon Park Congregational Church, Concert by the Jadrigal Clul BOCIETY MEETINGS, Eibbes, for the purpue o1 Attening the fube ,'for ha purprao 53‘: H ate frater g\r ,Kulum Peter ql'l Sces will be lield &t Centenary Methodlst ©\iting S Kalstts Cotriconay Inviged to foln with Vi Kaights courteons! c e By Grer ot SOLRRAND U Wi ITH, B. Cr CHARLES B. WRIQWT, I tecorder, EXCELSIOR LODOE NO. 22, 1. 0. 0. F.~Atten- tion} Urotbers: You are herehy nolified to Appear at the Lodye-coom. cornor Clark and Washingion-ata., THuriday mormiig At U 0'ciock aharp, for the DIFpoEs of ‘atiending tho funaral of our Iate Tirother loter “Tavior. Cerriages froimn tha halito hislste residence, 177 Bouth Peoria-et., thenco to ltosehill, Brothers of atster Lodyos causteouly invited. THURBDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1879, A bill has beon introduced, nnd will proba- bly bocome a law, giving tho Sonate a voico in the appointmont of the Commissioners of the Joliet Penitentlary, who will accordingly come up for confirmation Leroeatter, Palaco-car AxGrLL is expected to rench his notive land in obout a weok. Landing at Philadelphia, he will be met by a roquisition by the Governor of Hlinols for hia surrender fnto tho custody of an ofticer charged with the duty of escorting him to thascene of hia former exploits, * The epoch of angelic politica acems to bave dawned at Columbus, where the Com- ‘mon Council has passed an ordinance forbid- ding candidates for city ofices from ** treat- Jug" the froe and thiraty citizen, and also prohibiting clectioncoring within two squares of tho polls! From this timo forth it is to be expeoted that the dosire of members of the Logislature to maintain a close surveillanco over State justitutions will be wmaterinlly diminished, thoe Sonate having passed n resolution pro- bibiting the allowance of traveling oxpenics to visiting Committoes. A vast amount of this sort of funketing can be dispensed with to ndvantago, and thpt seoms to bo tho aim and effoct of Bonntor UarLon’s resclution. The Common Council Committeo Lins suc. coodod {n demonatrating that tho stroots of tho city ueed not bo left in darkness even if the gas companies should not bo brought to terms, Proposala wore received yostorday nt figares which show that a very great maving can bo effected by tho disuso of coal-gus i a0 jlluminator, the only question belug whether tho substitutes will meet the roquire- monts and wishes of the people. Tho offers are roasonable, and it will ba gratifying to koow that tho kind of light offerud will fll the bill, and that the city is freed from the sxactions of tho gas monopolists, The pooplo along tho lino of the Nlinols & Michigan Canal appesr to bo suffering considerablo annoyaneco ou ucconnt of tho foul odors generated by tho drainaga of the Bouth Branch of the Chicoge River throngh the Oanal, and proposs to move unitedly in the effort to provide some way for escaping the uuplensant visitation which evory winter brings them, Joliet has appoiuted & Com. wittee, aud this Committeo will invite the attendance of delegations from otlier citics sod towns at a meeting to bo held for the purpose of conferring with tho Cbleago authorities regarding the adoption of wcas. ures for the correction of the grievance. Tha Misstasippd Rivor Tmprovemont bill as it possed tho Honuso yestorday is a partial victory for Capt. Cowney, since it coutains a recognition of the possibility that tho great ¥iver msy bo kept from overflow by some menns other than the cuormously-expensive Jevoo system, The Cowmisslon for whioh slie bill provides is to Lo appointed by tho Presidaut and confirmed by tho Benato, aud xill doubtless be solectod with referouco to » foir and thorough examiuation of all tho plans proposed, aud will not bu packed iu tue leveo interest, Tho vigor aud persever- suce shown by Capt. Cowory iu obtainiug a bearing for his plan of natural outlets may be dependud upon to bring the subject before tho Commission in & forcible manuer, o Brobarre lfl'fllfl];fllh)fl y—gl(ordny was auusually prolific of new testimony and new charges. Judge Bropagrz himself was sworn io his own defenss relativo (o the finst three charges—the Germavia, the suppressed judictment, snd the Lorrowing of wmoney in the Lands of Assiguces. His testimony, condensed into bricf space, was that tho sale of b Staats-Zeitung stock was coufinned us Leiog in iy judguent the best that could be THE mnde, and he had no knowledya of any plan to givo Mr, Jizarng the benefik of alow bid; that he made no effort to anppress tha Hin. nanp indiolment, and would have received it if it had Leen returned into Court; and that the funds borrowed from different Assignees in Bankruptey conld not legally be held to Lo funds in the registry of the Court. Tho Cipher Snbs got fairly to work in Now York yesterdny, pnd made marked progress in tho investigation designed to prova that a conapiracy was on foot to buy tho office of Presidont of the Unitad States, but that Sasuzn J, Tiuoey, the man who wng to furnish the money to buy it, was porfectly uncomscions of the exist. enca of tho plot. The exomination of Surrm Wrep confirms the theory advanced in our Washington dispatchas a few days ogo,—that the nephew is to be made the scapegoat on whosa back the uncle may ride out of this scrape, The offer was mado of the Electoral vota of South Carolina for £60,000 to 80,000 cash in haund, and YerroN the penniless, who had not the wherewith to havo raisod 80,000 cents, nc. capted the proposition unknown to Mr. Tir- pEN, whose agent ho was, and at whoso house the ciphor dispatohos wero recoivod. The innocent old geotlaman must shindder every timo ho thinks df the narrow escapo hie had from getting the Presidency as tho rosuit of thess mecrot bargainings, ond how near ho cama to haviug his name passed down in history ns’aynonymous with Fraud. As tho cato now stands, or s the Sub-Committeo are in a fair way to muke it out, Mr. T1Lowx goos on the record as a pur- LIind old dotard swithont wit enough to dis. cover what was tnking placs under hia very nose, It begins to look ns if the Domocracy maden mistako in not nominnting Perrox, THE ' DOUGHFACE BRIGADE. - Tha Northern doughiface is always per- fectly nt home on tho subject of imiperial- fam, Ho is tender on -the subjeot of Rebel claims; ho knows in his innermost heart that his constituents, whether Republican or Democratie, do not propose to bo taxed a cant to pay Robel claims, whethor for lost property or lost *“niggora.” He does not dara to say so, however, m the presence of tho Drigadiers. Accordingly, when Gen. Braaa told the South frankly thnt the North would naver, nover consent to spoliation for the boneflt of live ox-Robels, or the heirs of ox-Raobels dead, Mr. Cox and tho wholo crowd of doughfaces skulked into tho oloak- rooms, hiding themselves away from tho impending wrath of the Brigndiers. Dut on Tuaesday lust, when the proposition to reduce the army came up, the doughfaces, swelling with sentimients uf ecconomy, patriotisn, snd righteous 1ndignation, rushed to tho front, burning to reseue tho country from the menace of fmperinlism! When tho Driga- diers propose to cut down the army, with a view to its enlargement under hoped-for Demooratic administration, in order to mnke room for ex-Ilobel officors,—when this is proposed tho Brigadicrs know that thoy can rely upon the doughfnce to fight their baottles. Thoy drop peacefolly into their cliaira and liston, with a swmila of mingled satiafaction and contompt, to de- scriptiona of the horrors of imponding impe. rialism from tho lips of little Sunset Cox, of Now York, and of 'Fownsueyp and Ifanzisox, of Illinois. Then the bloody-mminded little gentleman from Now York duplets the pain- ful nature of his feclings when, standing in tho Capitol s a reprosentative of the people two years ngo, the despot Gnast huddled tho nrmy into tho arseunl and orderod its guns to ho traiued on his sacred person. Far bo it from us to insinuate that the va'iant 8hoo-Fly Cox wns awed by this menace. O mo! Ho bared his breast to tho storm of threatoued battle, and defled the new Cxzsan. But, nlas! thero was not enough olay to fashion many Coxes. In his own Inogunge: *‘Cimid citizens, monoy-lords, and bondholders,—mon who aro constitu. tionally afraid of rovolution, nad who would rathor submit to fraud and wrong than resort to violence or ravolution, ~when that menace came from tho Chicef Exccative, and when all arraugements had been mado (as thoy wero belng mado now for 1880), had boon frightencd, and that fright Liad been tho procreato cause of the Eloctoral Commlssion, This mennce bind wndo some mombers of the House (forgetting their manhood and all that iu doar to Amer. fean cltizonship) succumb to a power that wad morely physical, not moral." Mark you, the gentloman from New York was proof ngainst nll exhibitions of powoer, whether moral or physical, but tho * mounay- lords nnd bLondholders,” his constituents, sitting in their easy clisirs in counting-lionsos aud bank-parlors in the metropolis, trembled witl fright when tho despot Graxt ordered & sharpshootor in tho arsonal to lovel his placo at thelr bravo littlo Representative ! “Tho patriot Cox is not nfraid of five hundrad thousand soldiers, Nothe. But tho “moucy- lords aud bondholders " aro afraid of twenty thousand soldiers, ‘There 1s a limit, how. over, to tho fear of the *‘money-londs oaud bondholders.” Mr. Cox knows wheroof ho speaks. Tlo has analyzod this subject of the money-lords’ fear, and he knows whoro it bogine aud ends, Ife kuows that, whila tho money-lord i3 afrald of 20,000 soldiors, ho 1s not atraid of 17,500 soldivra, Heneo ho movod that the aymy bo eut down t0 17,500 mon, And whou he hod ninde this motion ho st down swuating vieariously in behalf of his constituguty, the “‘mmouey- lords and bondholders,” Thon up roso Mr, ‘Fowssuenn, of Illinols, and denouncod ag * frivnds of imperialivm thoso Itepublicans who applunded tho sonti. wment of Mr, dMius, of ‘Puxas, thot “A Governmont is an institutiou to protoct ler peopls, and cannot fail to do it without being guilty of dishonor,” Bald Mr, Towssuzxp ; *Notwithstanding there was an army of 26,000, Custen had boon compelled to face nearly 2,000 red dovils with 300 wen.” “Where," asked the Illiuois statesmau, ¢ was tho balance of the srmy?" And ho answered his own question triuwmphantly: “1Inthe Southern Btates building up fupe- riolisun” Aud, waxing wann, the patriotio Ilinofuan who trewbles for hus coualry wound up with this fine figuro: * When Cvsten had been cowpelled to fuco tho Indiaus with throo hundred men, thers Lad Levu Brigadier-Generals commauding in Loulsiana aud holding bayonets at tho throaty of tho people of that Htate.” But it rewained for our Oanten to plungo tho House into a cave of gloom. e bu- wauiled tho fact tbat the army bad killed his vogle; that it-hod defeated Treowy; that it bad traived its guns on little Cox, of New York, aud intimidated the money-lords and boudbolders. Ho said he bad told the peopls %0 two yeans ogo, and bueen ropeating the utory ever siuco, but that it secwod to have uo offect upon them last fall. Thou he got wuddled, and insinusted that the preseat Exccative is followiug in the footstops vf his irou predecessor, But, boing laugbed at, bis Uirain cleaved, an ho pererated as grandly as if the nangled remning of his dend oagls had not luin bleeding ot his feet, in the following tearful apotheos’s to the rising spectro of im- perialisms “*QGoaxr §s being carried abont from conutry to country on a United Btates 1rigato, learuing the ways of Kings, that he may como back with an army behind him to govern the people of tha United Staten.” Thare wns ona slrange omission in the de- Late, The fact did not seam to accnr to tho mind of either Cox, Townsrexn, or Hlannt. 80N thnt, upon the only occasivn when the Republio was over throf¥ened from within with disruption and subversion, tha nrmy resisted tho movement with all s might In 1860 tho predecessors of the Southern Brigadiers controlled tho Government and commanded the army. ‘They did their utmmost to corrupt aud debauch it, but they utterly failed. 'Tho oficers who traitorized failod to communleata the stain of their violated oaths to theranks, Thoy left, de- graded by tho honest scorn of the humble men they had comimanded. Not one private soldier in the wholo line of the army deserted his post in the hour of his country's dangor. All this loud talk of imperialism is wretohed twaddle. If thers ara jmporialiats In this country, they are the Brigadiera who chuckle in thoir slesves while doughfacss weck to tioklo thoir disloyal fancy by Lerating the army. THE CANAL AND THE LAKE-FRONT. A few weeks ogo, when (he Canal Com- missioners in their zeal obtained from Law- nexCE, Caurnrry & LAWRRNCE 0 suggestion in the rhape of a legal opinion that tho Btato of Illinols should direct asuft ogatnst the City of Clicago for the recovery of g0 much of tractional Sec. 15 a8 lies betwoen Mich. igon avonue and tha loke, Tnx Tnnosz pro- dicted that this votion would result in the defent of all further appropriations by the Logislature for the continuation of the im. provenient of tho canal aud of the Illinole River, Our prediations are in n fair way to Lo veritied, With the same fatality which will induce men to sbandon work, aud look dny after day to be made rich by drawing a prize in the lottory, the professed friends of the canal have grasped at the dulusive suggestion of recovering the Lake-Frout, estimated wildly as worth soveral millious of dollars; that the Htato shall sell it, and with the proceeds com- plete the cannl. Possessed of such a mino of wenlth, of conrse no further calls npon the Stato Treasury will be needed, and, thore-* fore, no further appropriations will be mado by the Logislature, and, therefore, before Pothaps another meoting of the Legislature, the canal will be filled up, and practically abandoned. Iero aro somo of tho extrav- agant resolutions which the eredulous peopla ot tho Peorin meoting adopted: ** Wisnzas, The Genersl Government did, by act of Congress of Marcn ¢, 1827, donato to the State large tracts of land for the purpose of aidiug Bafa Hrate In opening & canal and oniting the waters of Lako Michigan with those of the Iilinols River, sald lands to be subject to the dlaposal of the Leg- islature of sald State for the purposcs aforesald, and no othier; and **Wanznras, A portion of eaid Jands eodonated, commonly known as tho Lake-Front, sltuated in tho City of Chicago, has been unlawfully ceded 1o enld city for the wses of a public park, as cx- pressed: and *‘Wouneas, Portions of ssid Lake-Front have been llcgally, clandestinely, and without any fust compensation or recumpensc to said Btate, appro- priated aud taken possession of by certain railroad companies aud privato speculalors; and **Wuengas, The City of Chicago Las granted to varlous private corporations and fodividuals time lesaes for Jarge portions of said property, rocelv- ine therefur stipulated sums of money as rental; and * Wuznzas, Bald occapancy of said Jand by the City of Chicago or mny railroad or sny private corporation or compeny ls diversion of the trost imposed 1n eaid State by the United States under the act of March 2, 1827; and ** Wuenzas, Snid cesslon tothe City of Chicago of sald tract of tand for park or other purposes in n direct snd flagrant vioiatlan of the contract en- tered fnto between the United States and the Stato of Iilinols at the timo sxld large tracts of land waro donated to sald State for the purposo of bullding the Itlinols & Michigan Caual; be it, therofore, **Resolred, ‘That we roquest the General As- sembly of this Btats to enact auch laws ns will enahle the State 1o re-establish its titlo to eald tract of land commonly known as the Lake-Front, and to dispuse of the samo under the forms of the orlginal trust, os fn good falsh it is Lound to do." Excopt the statemeunt that a portion of tho land now iucluded in tho Lake-Front was in. oluded in the survey of tho lands coded to the State in 1827 by tho Goneral Govorn. ment, the recitals mado in the Peoria resolu- tiona nro mainly or substantielly creatlons of tho {magination, © Even members of the Legislaturo have permitted their zenl to run awny with thoir intelligence and sobriety, aud thoy are sotually framing bills to scll tho Lnke.Front, and out of the proceods to not ouly enlarge tho canal, but to build a braanch through Bureau County ; in faot, the Luko-Front discovery is regardod ns n Lkind of bonanza, whose golden products are in. exhanstiBlo, ‘tho City of Chicago has never recoived o dollar of rout from tho Lnko-Front; when tho Cunal Cownmlsslonors had staked off overy fool of ground ia fractional Soc., 156 that way capable of buing called o lot, the rest of tho section was uuder water, and for thirty or forty yoars the city hes boen 81+ lug up,~renculng from Lako Michigan the luud now known as the Tinke-Front, If the land was put on the warkot to.morrow it would ot sell for much moro {lan the fill ivg put thera by the city would cost, ‘I'io title of the City of Chicago to that Inud—from Madison stroet to Park row—is ax clear, continuous, ample, dircet, and come ploto ns ia the title of Sonator Whiting 1o hiw furmy, or that of auy private clifzen of Peorm to the howestead in which ho rovides, It thero be, In uny form or shope, the shadow of a cloud on Lhe title of the city to this land, it can only arise ju faver of the United States ; and ovou in that case the only poasible claiin tkat the United States could assort would bo that a small frection (and a vory small fraction) of Isud not covered by water in 1827 aud ceded to the Biate for cannl purposcs Las been misapplied by the 8tate, aud now reverts to the United Htotes after fifty yoars' continuous oucupancy by the grantos. It i, Lowover, capable of legal demonstra- tion that thero has been no wisspplieation of the land, Whatis now the Lake.Front (8ec. 15) was then practically oll under water, aud the Canal Comumissionors asked and obtained higher prices for tho western lots because this frout would always givo an open view to tho lake, ard could uover be built upon. After tho sale of these lots by tho Btate, the purchasers had to subscriba mouney to build protections to proveut the luko washing away not only what is now the Lake-Front, but nlso the strect west of it. ‘I'be * park ™ has been fu fact laud recovered from tha lake, and which was not sold by the Commissioners because then submerged by the lake. * Al tho nssumptions of fact leading up to the logal opinion that the Caual Commissions ers * codod ” any laud illegally to the city are wholly grstuitous, and of course the wecitals by tho good people of Peoria and of CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, other couuties thet thero iv an imneuse properiy in the City of (hieagn bel ng to thn Canal Fand are all eqaally fallaclons, and tho only effect of sueh extravazint reso. Iutions is ta suspend or defeat all furthor approprintions by the Logislature for the cannl. The City of Chicago is even more dooply intorasted in tha complotion of the cannl on the most libotal sealo than are tha river coun- ties, and it s with regrot that the peoplo of this city have witnosaed how tho people of Peorin havo pormitted themsalves to bo do- ccivod by n protonse that nny form of litiga- tion can obtain ono dollar for the caml out of tho Lake.Frout property. Thera is not the remoteat logal doubt adto the title of the city ns ogainst tho Stats, and all claiming intorest undor the Siate, The Canat Com- inisnioners who havo anggested or invented this pretense of a claim are trifling with tho publie, imposing upon the publie credality, and with, we fear, the fatal effcct of giving the Tegislnturo a planaiblo protoxt for refus- ing any further npproprintions out of the Tublic Tronsury, Weo snggest, therefore, 54 those wlhio ro onruestly desira the com. pletion of tho canal will not permit them- selves to bo anw.furthor divertad by specions smggoestions of the onemics of the eanal, but will presa diroctly for such leglatation as will preserve tho canal from deeny and fromn de- struotion by ita railvoad rivals. SCHEME TO MAKE A POLITICAL MACHINE OF THE BTATE GUARDS Severnl bills for the ereation of A new mil. itary codo lava been preseuted ab the pres. ent sossion of,our State Legislature. The presont military code, though defect- ive in many respects, has proved a groat fm. provemont upon any the State hasheretoforo hind, but experiouco has domonstrated that it ia defeotive in its pawer to enforce the disei- pline necossary to the highest eficiancy, and to provide for the ndequate funds for armo- rios, arsonals, equipinents, oncampments, targol-practice, nnd pay of tho troops when ordered out on police duty, 'The presont eoda was the work of the pres- ont Gonernl commanding and his staff, and was shorn of many of its best features in ite pnagngo. It has done wouders, however, in organlzing and mustering a forco that isnow a crodit to the 8tate, and in encoursging young men to enlist in the State service, The sorious disturbances, intorforonce with trade and commorce, and mob-rule of 1877, demonstrated olearly to all law-abiding and right-thinking people the absolute neccssity of thorough military organization In sil tho Siates, particularly those Laviug great com- mercial and manufncturing contres ond ox- tonsivo rallroad and mining intercats, The lato law of Congress that United States troopa shall not bo used ns n posse comitatus ronders the propor and thorough organization of State troops still more imperative, Wo linvo seon but one of tho bills intro- duced, It s sald to be o military codo pre- pared by a military committac. It drops or leaves ont any provision for the prosent Mnjor-Genoral commanding nnd his staff, aud contres the whole mlitary anthorlty and command, next 1o tho Governor and Uomtnander-in-Ohief, in the Adjutant-Gen- eral, who is made a Major-General with o salary of $3,000 por aunum,a clork with 1,000 per aunum, aid an OnlnanceBergeant with §000 per annum (a good thing for ono fomily). Tho DLill in otlier vespecta is mnch the aame ns the existing code, and Iacks tho propor powors for tho enforcoment of dls- oipline, gl Under this code the Adjutant-Goneral, an officer appointed by each Goveruor, would virtually be Commander-in-Chief of the Na- tional Guard, instead of the rank of Colonel, and inferior to tho Gonerals commanding brigades, ns ho should be. The kind of Major-General lis wonld make would dopond upon luck, or he might not he n soldier at all, and ontiroly iguorant of military affairs, 1t is natural to suppose that he would re- celvo his appointment for the servico hio had dono, or would do, politically or otharwise, for tha Governor or the party in power, and tho promotlon opon to Major-Goneral by overy soldier would bo destroyod. For years under the command and nd. ministration of the present General com- manding, with at first no code at all, and since tho passago of the present o very de- fective one, and with little or no apprecia- tion of the troops by the peoplo boforo the trouble of 1877, tho Natlonnl QGuard lns grown from o very' small force for such a groat Stato, into a well- digeiplined, thoroughly-organized littlo army of about soven or eight thousand men, and this, 80 far, with lttle or no assistance othor than arws from the State, No political usca havo ever beon permitted to be made of the troops. Nona of tho bickerings or ill-fecling somolimes oharnoterizing rival military or. ganizationn of this kind have boen known in the battalions of Illinois. Thoy bave, under vory adverso oircumstances, gone on and prospered in the hope of ultimate recognition anud State nssintauce, and are a unit to-day in tholr patriotism, enthusiasm, soldierly feol. ing, aud carnest desire to do thelr wholo duty; and under such circumstances it is not surprising that attompts should be mado to uno tho Guard for the purpose of personal profit and agprandizoment. A fow yenrs ngo tho Major.Generalship might have gone a-bogging. ¥ Wo leamn that it fs claimed in support of this chango m the military command that the prosont Major-General has buon extrava- gont in his administration of wilitary affuirs and movements during 1877; that the cxpe- dition to Braidwood was unnecessary in its strength and cxpenso (this is a plausiblo ar. gument); that ke is positive, arbitrary, und ultra in bis military views aud couduct, and bis opinfons of what ho decms right or wrong, military or unmilitary; but this is 1o reason, if true, why n competent aud able commandor should not staud between (he powers at 8pringiield and the administration among the troops of purely military affufrs. It Gou. Ducaw Is not the proper ofticer, and Las committed auy fuult, it is duo the people, the froops, und Liwself that his military conduct should bo juvestigated Lefore a prop- er military tribuual capable of passing intele ligontly and jupartindly ou his couduct ss 5 commandivg ofticwr, 'Lhis muy dovelop that Lie bos acted strictly under orders, and that Lo hus been in wll respects a good officer, His record, his nge, the Goveruors who have appointed Lim, and the good men aud Generaly who valued and trusted Lim as o sollfer in very high military positions during the War of the Lebollion, are reasons enough, to say nothiug of the fair pluy duc every man, that ho should not bo thrust from 8 positiou that the wmasses of the people will believe ho fillod well wilbout the fullest hearing, particularly when he bas nover re- celved a dollar for Lis services and expeusas, sud tho object to bo grined looks upon its face as uvbuoxious, uusafe, saud uunmilitary. We protest against such treatmont of any man or officer of the Natlonal Quard, aud predict that such a course would ond in tho FEBRUARY 6, 1879—-TWELVE PAGER ruig and domoralization of o syatemn well begin, amd, nuder judicions management, progressing most favorably. ‘Thix whole sabject is jnst as fmportant to Tinois ns is the United Siates Army bill to the whole eountry, and moraso, It de- mands tha serfous “thought and prompt action of all good citizons nud their repro- senlatives at SpringfReld. All parly and po- litieal issues should bo buried in the con. sideration and investigation of this grave and important aubjoct of onr Btate police, 'Thero must bo no {rifling with it, nnd this tho poople and the soldiers expoet and do- mand, Should this action &f tho Adjutant.General, who in the author of this bliil, rosult in not adopting n much-necded military code, it is well that it'ba olenrly undorstood whers the blamo belongs, and that the reaponsibility rest squarely upon the proper shoulders, [ THE COUNTRY DEMANDS REFORM. ““Fhough tho mills of the gods grind slowly, yot they grind exceeding smnall.” Wo congratulate the country upon the vie- tory nchioved by the Administration on Mouday lnst ovar tha New York ring of cor- rupt importers. We hava had ocension to criticiso soverely the methods adopted to bring about this result by tho Administra. tiou, TFor twolve months ‘Tne Trisune has labored arduously to compel n radicel rao- formn of the New York Custom-Houso man. ngement, That it was inofficlent nnd cor- rupt in all ite departments nndor the man. agemont of Gen, Antnur, Tae Trrsuse has abuudantly demonstrated. That wo radical reform coulitbo hoped for under his admin. fstrnlion was conclusively shown, That {ho corrupt ring of ngents of foreign manufnot. urors supportod Gen. Antnous's adminis. tration because of its inofficionoy and the corruption of his subordinates beenme, through Tie Tninune's disclosures, so ap- parent ns to defy succossful contradiction, Tur. Tawuse implored Secrotary Brneraay to accept this view of the caso and to make a clonn breast of it in his contest with tho ring and its reprosontative, dr, Congriva. But our entreatios woro vain, Mr. Suen- AN chose to palter in a double 8onge with the mon ogainst whom ho was contonding, Ho placed himself in a falso position by attempting lo socure the retire. amentof Gen, Artuur by amicable means, when he ought to bave dealt with him rig- orously ns an offendor againat the integrity and efticlonoy of tho customa servico, That his provious relations with Gen. Anrnon waro compromised by his own nnd the in. discrotions of mombers of the Admiuiatra- tion in secking appointments for friends in tha New York Custom.House, s now appa- ront. It is doubtless owing to this fact that listongne was palsied in regard to Gon. Arntiun's many delingaencies. 'Wo are not dirposed at presont to discuss this aspect of tho caso, It is suflolent to know thnt, when Mr. Burnyay renlized that Lis vacillating courso bad brought him faco to face with nlmost sure dofeat, ho sssumed the nggres. sive. ‘When ho saw plaiuly that the good of tho servico was menaced by the probable re- turn to offico of Gon. AnTuur, he promptly rotraced his steps and prepared to launch all his thunderbolts, He is now rewarded by a consciousness that tho slraightforward courso proved fo bo the right course, and the only courso that could bave possibly ro- sulted 1n victory. Notwithstanding it is painfully apparent that bub few Sonators flually voted accord- ing to their convictions of right on tho merita of tho onse, still it is plain that enough Henntors did go vote to turn the scalo in favor of justico. Abovo the loud clamor of n personnl and political wrangle the still, umall voico of ronson has nade itself heard, domanding tho scttlement of a great public question nccording to tho interosts of an honest publio policy., Cireat pralse is dus to Henator Ocrrsny and other Western Ropub- lican Senators who ovidently yoted for con- firmation strictly on tho morits; also to Ben. ator Bayanp, who gave good reason for his voto, and doubtless ncted in obedience totho dictntos of duty, It s oqually clear thut Sonator Voonneza nnd Democrats of his charactor and calibre acted and voted solely with a view to partisan edvantages, and con- sequently without auy senso of responsibil- ity to tho countrly, That a subject of such vital importance should have been disposed of by tho highest doeliberative body in the land almost cxelu- sivoly upon considorations entirely foroign to tho merits of tha case, is to be daeply re- gratted. It is bumiliating to reflect that barely a dozon out of three-scoro Sonators hiad the wanlincss to say squarely, by their votos, whether tho Presidont was or was not Justified in his removalof Gen. Antnun on tho alloged ground of & purpose to purify nud elovate thoe publio sorvico. We trust that Gon, Meznrrr and Maj, Bzt will not regard tho victory achioved in their bohalf o4 either a personal or political trinmph, It is clonrly nothing of tho sort, They owo thoir confirmation chiefly to tho fact that tho balance of powor in the Benate happencd fortuuntely to Lo in the bhauds of a fow Senators who, under their onths, dared not assumo tho rosponsibility of reinstating thoir prodecessors. Gan, Menurrr and Jaj. Bunt bave been counfirmed because It fs believed that they represonted the Adminis. tration in its firm dotermination to promoto a radical reform in an fuatitution which has Leon so tampered with and shused that ftis a stouch 1n the noatrils of the people, 'Ttie new {ncumbents hava not been assured permanonoy in placo in order morely that thoy way onjoy lurge cwoluments. It is to bo presuacd that the ofllials now in charge of all branches of tho New York Custom. louso aro fu porfuct accord iu the desire to rendor tho servico in tho highest degroe efficiont, Not only this, bnt they are also presumed to ba in perfect accord with tho Presldont and Becretaryof tho Treasury, ‘The country does ot donbt the practivablli f couducting the affairs of the - New York Custon-Tlouso [ lionestly and 08 efficiontly ns thosa of auy other Cuie tom-Tlouse in the United States, or as thosa of any private mercantile concern, The country accordingly expocts of the now in. cumbents roformu of the most comprehon. sivo and sweepiug character, It was Gen. Mreuuirr who effected o compromise unfa. vorable to tho Government with the kid- glove ring. It ‘was Le who induced Col, Kerveuvy, General Appralscr, to recede from his conclusion that the foreign value of tirst. «quality kid gloves is 52 fraucs per dozen and consont to return thewm at 49 francs, Later evidenos shows conclusively that his origi- nal judgment was corvect, and it is un- nouuced that ho Liag in o now case reafiirmed it. His decision goes to Gen. Memairr for confirination or rojection. The country ex. pects Gen, Meamirr to sustain Col. Kitcu. us, aud it will not be satisficd with auy othier uction on bis part. It is & notorious fact that, notwitbstanding Gen, MxuwirT hos been in offico six mionths, the silk-hwportstion business of the whols conntry s in tho hinnds of a corrupt ring in Now York Oity, and, so far as tho public kuows, no step has been dnken to cor- reet the evil of yroas undervaluntion frands in this line of goods. Experienco in kid gloves has demonstrated tho entiro fonsl- ility of obtalning roliable informatlon on tho subject of the forclgn mnrkot valno of pleve silks and milk ribbons, In thosa lines of goods the whols fraternity of morchanta are barred from tho forslgn mar- kets Ly the ring of scoundrels who secnra ontiro control of the {rade by robling the Government of nshare of ils revenue through undervaluation at tho port of Now York, Tho country expects that Gen, Mznntrr and bis assoclates and the Transury Department will combine to ernsh out absolutely and for- ever this gross abuse, and it will not be entisfied to wait long for the innuguration of vigorous measuros looking to that end. Gen. Mennirr's bed will not beone of roses until some radical reforms aro well on the way to succossful accomplishiment. — THE TRIAL BY JURY, The fifth sootion of the second artiole of the Constitution of this State provides: '*The right of trial by jury, aaheretofors on- Joyed, shail romaln Inviolate; but the irial of eivil enses before Justices of the Peacs bya jary of less than twalvo men may he authorlzed by law. ' Under this provision of the Conatitntion, tho existing rulo i3 that s civil or oriminal cnso (excopt Loforo Justices of the Pence) sball bo trled by n jury of twelve porsons, and that tho verdict must ba the unanimous finding of tho twelve. Mr. Coruixs, n member of the Legislature from this county, has proposed to incor- porato into tha Constitation tha practice of Laving vordicts in oivil cases determinod by tho concurrenco of threo-fonrtha of the mom- bers of tho jury. Thiswill leavo the number of mon on & jury at twelvo, as now. To adopt the mnjotity plan necossitatos the amendmont of the Constitution, nud tho fact that tho prosent Inw is so inflexible that it requires this long and diffienlt prooceding should suggest that, in nmending the Con- stitution in this particular, the law shonld De left open to such rendy amendment lere- oftor ns time and experience ay suggest. Mr. Corrixsg' scliemo is as follows : ** Resolred, etc., That thero ahall be snbmitted 1o the voters of this Stato at tho next election of members of the Genoral Asscmbly u proposition to 20 nmond the fifth section of the second asticle of the Constitntion of this State that tho same sball read ns followa: ** *The right of trial by jury, as heretofore en- Joyed, shall remain fnviolate (but the General As- scinbly may provide that tho concurrence of not less than threo-fourths of the jurors, in a verdict in civil cares, shall be a snfliclent agreement, snd thelr finding shall bo the vervice of the Jury)s and may also nnthorize the trial of civil cases bafora Ju 8 of tho Peace by a Jury of lces than twelve men,* Now, while we spprova the principle of majority verdicts ns vroposed by Mr, Cor- LNy, we suggest that, o enlsrgo his schome, o that it may ba stated as follows: **Thoright of trlal by jury In all prosecutions for crimu ahali, as heretoforo, be fnviolate: vut, In trinls of civil cases, tho number of persons to con- stitnte a Jury, and the numbor whose concarrence aball be necessary to a verdict, shall be regulated by law of the Leglslature, 1t put in this form, the whole subject will Lo ot all times in the control of the Logisla. turo; tho number of perons on a jury may be reduced to nine, or six, or five; and the neccssary proportion coneurring {n a verdict’ may bo fixed at three-fourths, two-thirds, or & majority, as may be deomed ndvisable, or as may bo suggoested by experience, Una- nimity in juries iz n serious source of corrup- tion, Tho purchase or the ocorrnption of ono juror i all that is now noeded to defoat a vordict and to dofeat justice, and, whatever roason thore may be, or may have been in the past, for unnuimous verdicts, certainly docs not exist nt this tina in civil cases, —— Quite o number of things have been brought to lidht in the course of the BLODOGETT {uvesti- gation that are uot included in the charges vRalust the Judge. The smount that somo As- slgnees gobble in the settlement of bankrupt fusurance companies lind a Inminous ray thrown on it by the reluctant testitmony of WiLLias Vocks. Tho totsl smount he collected and pufd over to the policy-holders was about alc per cent of the clatme. The aggregnte was $30,009, wa belleve. For this service he chanced and pocketed the enormous sum of scventeen thousand doilars, ns ha confesses on oath. Tho $5,000 recelved from GresNEpavUs on the secrot sale of 1lgsiNg's 817,000 of Staats-Ze'tuny stock waa coolly fobbed by Vocke blmself,—not a dollar of It woluy to the Uesmania volley-hold- ers. Col, Cooren belleved that his had *struck ofl,” and bored {nto littlo Voo in this fashion Mr. Goroy—I do not sco what possible rolu- yaucy thut has 10 the inveatigation against Judge BLowaRTT, 3 Col, Couren--I am fdrced, then, to make this ex. planution. At the creditora’ meoting, Mir, Vack avked for and was aliowod 81,600 G addition to the sums which bo had received us Anslznco. Tha uvther day, on the examination, be fertidea that ho was paid’ for thess notes wud stock of leslng, 85,000, by getting a credit ne an fudividusl dos oaitor I the German National Dank, That would have becn ot the 20Lh, 21at, or 244 of Avrll, Now, on the iid o 24th of Abril nie drawsagalnst his uc: count av Asuliuen fu the Notlonal Hauk of 1ot » not $1.500 auditlonal for services, but 85,000 in ona chiock, which possvd fo his efcdit in the der- man National ank, and o adultion he draws for §2, 00 mure, Nuy, thuso checks wore both conn- teraigned by the legister io Bankraptcy; and, #s s accounts show, wake, In addition 1o 8,500 which Le lind received as A, and wus alluwed Ly the ] more, 1 ug over 314,500, Now, tuat la the way this imaf presented 1o mu by thy statewents 0 frou thoe reconds of tho court, P call nbove u duzeu W.tioawvs toshow tnet o je mistaken. 1 wae not atlowea $1,500 at that weoting, but $7,500, aud thie §3,000' cuec Wia o patt of the alluwsnco of ince funnd the otber check of d 1 had drawn ou the Mechanlcs’ He was asked the questions *With il §7,800 of the defunct Uermanla Campany, how much in all did you receive as Ae- " ikn—1 velteve 1 rocelvad—1 will beas exact a8 1 pou-ibly cun—suy $14, 000 or 17,000, 1t Col. Covrer milssed BLopuert fu the hunt through the Germaita Jvsursucs Cowpany af- fairs, hie Lit Vocks,—not very large game to bo sure; somethiug ko gofug u-gunulug for 'pog- sum sud ouly shooting a grouud-squlrsel, but stil] ho shot sometblug, even tboush 1t was ouly o chipmunk, . Capt. DaLy, of the Cuast Survey, the suthor of the recent reports concerning Prol. Nonvx- axioLD and the Veua, has wrlttow to the New York 2%t protesting In the strungess manucr sgalust the seusational use Lhat has beco tnade of the joformation furnlshied by b, Ho hasno doubt that Prof. NoroxxskioLd will get througn the winter safely, even It hie suould luse bisship, It will be easy fur the crew to coustruct abuu- daut shelter, since they aro uear lund, Auold sea-Captaiu, familiar with Arctl: navigation, says that the Vega will bo beard I1rom wot later than Auguat, 1579, ———— . Esteemed corrcspondents will please tako no- tice that all the coples of **The Besutiful Snow veeded to satisfy the demauds of tbis olica for a few years are now on band. The nuxt tbiug Ls tor somie esterprising publisber 1o catch at the {dea thrown oul by u¥as u fres gilt to the coinwunity aml issue an ilustrated edition of ““lhe Beautiful Suow,” with' blographleal siketchs of oll the perions who ssy they wrute it There's woney lu the idea. N. B—We csnoot undertake to return coples of “‘ihe Beautiful Buow? furwarded for private perusal, il piobinties The full lige fu * Hawlet * which Mr. [uvinag has whipsawed with bis ‘conjectural eweoda- thou " is: ‘Flio cut will maw and dog will havo lts day. For bday," Mr. [RVING sugiests * bey.” The New Vark Paste fu view ol previcas comment 1 an this change, remarks (it 1t 4y o practice to titroducs changes of gy it out authonity, bt thinks the eon Pl ter earrled out by Inving's wur’d 'tll:):ln: I speARa’s. But s it pootr oy B, y or ba thiat the dog will have his by 3LH0S Lo ey should say *“the cat wij ““the horse wiil have his will nave her cackle,"—woy strike Mr. Invino asn no-flm’l‘den;:n’m i Ingbut the baldest necessitiea of m Soke induce SHARSPRARR tosay “ihp uo!m fal his bay," instead of * the dog will h: " a8 *‘the dog will have hls day 1s buli Wb fal and metrical, provess, Doy | lave hor ey 0 Whinny,” op “Hhg py The Ctuyl‘:‘ Eifzahoth, N, pavment of its bonds and int, of £35000 Saturday, Tt wag fir:;t:«;:h‘:‘m : paved, lighted, and sewerea on the ;""H”’ stvo plans, and with streets for mon(:o"m‘ Who never came, It was aid to be D beautiful city between Philadeiphiy or ™ York, and even tn bankruptey and deea, e tinues to bo beautitul, One comcv(uqnm failure was the closing up of the Baviny i which hold city bonds o the amoupy o stk and was beavily {n debt. Tie defgult of cilu‘ylwnl 8 good excuse for the bank, nu,d:: ‘:’:s { oac ty 1s $3,823,805.10, and the Populithy Bome newspapcr-editors affeot Mr. OnnisTiaxoy's deliberate nulc!;e':(t‘:m" is golng abroad for his health, But, it ;m capable of lying puint-blask on such a mh}! 4 he s not fit to be a Senator. Zacy Ciaxoy would ot do that. We do nat, belerfb ever, that Mr, CHRISTIAXOY fs Iylnz, Thoyer, 18, he 18 g0 fearlul of being mnunuemm::’f he Is now scrlously considering the propy, ¢ remslng the I}’am;lnn misston ang mfln,’ : the 8enate, though he will endange; by dolng n’:. A7Ber b ey .y defaulted gy e r— The yenerable HANMInAL Iamrin evidety wants to have none but Stalwarts made cmy lain in the nuvy. 5118 oow bill on the ey, provides that futuro Chaplalns shail be %310 3 years of age, bave degrees of Bachelorg of Arts or Bacliclors of Dlvinity, provs ay a perlonce of one year in practieal charch myg. agemeont, and present certificates of charaetyy from flve clerzyinon of his own denominatica, We judgzo from this that other good med bany been going wroug o the navy, —— The elcvated rallways in New York bur, cnused a tumble In stage fares, and are tnorigy tho retail Lusiness rapldly from Brozdwas g5 Bixth avenue. It would be odd to havean ey, vated rullway in HBroaaway, but such seemiyy be the probable fate of that thorougbfare; an] tlie property-owners there, unlike thoseop. Suty avenue, who reslated the ruliway s longay they could, will clamor for it. ————— Gen. BUERMAN'S Vislt to Allanta fs sag to have becn another telumph In its way, He ay ured the city thia timo with &is geota) «mile, hts courteous mdoncrs, and his troe nobleons of spirit. To avold misunderstaudings, we il add he Is not a candldate. % e o CunisTiNg NILSBOXN has been bereaved of ber adopted mother, aud is plunged n deep griet i consequence. ‘The post of mother by aduption has seldom been 8o ably fltled as by the latejo- cumbeat {n this place. — — Dean BTAnLEY says Boston reminded Lim of Geneva: it was ¢0 deathily quiet, und 1be peopis looked 50 sour and Preabyterlan-ilke, snd alt the best sample-rooms bad thelr frout-doons o3 the alleyways. o e— . Mr. ITALOTRAD thinks JonN Burmuay lss biger man “u old (RaNT. B i PERSONALS. Tho Chinese must come—in squads of fiftecn, “A little less grapo,” Mr. Bragg, my tha Solid Bouth. Pope Leo has sold his navy, He can cone trol his *‘uoa " without it. Jay Gould is short on Unlon Paoific, bub howill grin and ** bear " it. A Now Jersoy man, aged 25, Las mamisd his step-grandmother, aged G0, A larga portrait of Macaulay is to boplaced in the hall of the London Reform Club, The Iate Princess Alleo of Hesso was burled wrapped in the folds of an Eoglish fisg. ‘The ciphor hunt must proceed vory esd« tlously, It might otherwise scare the cipers. We know now what the “§" ju Wilbelnj fu for, 11e uses it for & shoo-horn to put bis batex with, 'The army must Lo incressed in onlerto keep tho Reno fuvestigation supplied with wits nesses, Ex-President MacMahon has not yet de- cided whother he sball lccture or becomes Ppedestrian, Unclo Dick Blshop may bo induced tor {or a sccond term If he can sccuro tho voies of his credltors, In soveral ossos the Mist of drunks sincd Now-Year's complutely Olle tha naw leat tursed aver on Lhat day. Mr. Tilden declares that ho cannot oo done a fraud; but perhaps this self-condems tlon Is too severe. Tho lot of a Chinaman is cartaloly aha! ooe, He s cliher obliged to go where Lo ln'i wantad, or to stay ot hume. Fenuk Moulton recently spoke at a chureh festival, Mr. Heucher, we ellovo, would b been a botter man in ks place. 3k Mite makes right. Gon, Mite bas visied the Prestdont ana donfed that he ever suld that ¥t Mayes wad fravautvndly electad, Joo Jeflerson is wpouding thy winter I8 Loutslana, I Lonlalanat Is Mr. Jeffenonbr lugto becomo a champlon llar? Fanuy Davenport Lias uot boen masried {22 sovoral days; but we bullove, neverthelesh b she {4 a female woman 1u diagalse, » Daniel Pratt fu tho only groat Amen’;‘”{ traveler left us sluce the death of Dayard Tosi but. unfortunately, Dantel fs In Jail. Tias David Davis sulssed anything? Al andor 11, Stepnens has beon getting fat; 30486 walghs ten Quuces more than he usvd 0. Btauloy is tho hiero of many affairs of 9 d now we hoar of another, Tulv 856 © 1416 moroly the hesrs of Afeles. Gon. Bhieruan is sowmotinos known sy 0k ‘Tecamp," snd an exchanuge benco asks wny‘:!vh' Bherman sboald uot be called *~ Ol Hesuwp Mr. Vanderbilt iu ut proscut the l‘ld}': man in the country, bat walt untll his water-p froeze up aud be ls obliged to send fur 8 piuwbe The tramps of the country are s0 Mfl corting oat thelr callod bonda for redemplios ‘lul thoy don’t Bave fie t0 take uny Jubs of shore suow, . Prof. W, Q. Buminer, of Yala Collegs: ¥ expucied ta begln voon & sericy of six leciuret Martford, Coun., on subjects conuccted With P litlcal yconomy. il Old Mz, ‘Lilden protests very strendet l{ that be lv ingocent, but Mr. Potter, it bl h:w_ tion o proceed with the Juvcstigation 1esBs thing, doeen's believe him, i Hosnati, tho tenor, says that Max vaik;’ o 1a tied 10 Miss Kellosy's sprou-strings. WeS¥0, tafok the goodly proporiions of that 183 5 would be sufiicieut for one pair of lwun-nm."uu T'he cork-leg trade, which deponds “‘fn‘. on the fudiseriminately-throwu-away 07 ot beel, will bo gratitied to lewrn that Florldy year, will export 500,000,000 oranyges. Fr It gppeans evident, ufter s glanc? ':"m dolngs of the Potter Committee, that the 'u,"f,; . 8ffalrs of the countey should pot be lutrdsicl o) man whose Intellcct bas been eusrvaicd U utticent patr of side-whiskers. ot Sodom sud Goworray ars to ba rc.:n yr) we luara from & forelgu paper. This 302630 A0 10 Uea move 1 tho rlzbt direction. We b5, ecn abla 10 acu Wy they should bave Beel oy stroved wiile St Lowe and Cuicluusit ¥ lowed 10 20 1u thetr wickedusss.