Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 22, 1879, Page 4

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TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1879, Tho bids for supplying the pnssenger ole- wators to bo used in tho new Custom-House building in Chicago, which were opened yoatorday by the Supervising-Architeot in ‘Washington, vary in amounts from $10,500 Tausacr yesterday rocited the mannor of his oducation, and unfolded a story of broth- erly genorosity such as is rarely heard from the mouth of a reclpiont—from that source ‘whonco tho good deeds of frionds sre usually rookonod strictly net. ‘Tho gas question ts for the present sattlod in the Common Council by the passngo yes- terday of an order pnying $1.65 per 1,000 foot in tho Sonth and North Divisions, and 32 in tho Wost Division, up to Dec. 31, 1878. Tho iucoming Council will have the handling of the mattor for the current yenr. Jeanr, which closed its scssiong yesterday, tho questlon of cmigration was discussed in aupirit which showed how rendy aud cager the blacks sro to move out ins body when tho right time comes, The moyemont, ac- cording toono of tho speakers, ineans tho Joss to tho Southorn . States . of. thirty-five Reprosontatives in Congrosy, and, in conse- quence, tho loss of u Democratic majority. ‘The canvass by the Common Council of the returns of the vote cast at the recont olty'oléction is practically Gnishod, ond the now wombors will probably take their sents ‘next Monday night. Notice has beon given of a contest of tho right to a soat of Lorenz, tho Bocialit candidate for Alderman in the Fonrteonth Ward, who recoived a plnrality of tho votes cast, bnt who is anid not to bon eitizon of tho United Blates. . ‘Eho disgraceful oxhibitions that bave been of Jato carriod on in Chiongo nt n score or moro of saloons under {ho pretonse of pedes- trinn contosts are at Inst to bo suppressad by ‘the police, ‘The ordor han been issued by Bupt. Beaver, and as it is porfeotly prac. ticable to enforco it atrictly, thore ought to bo an ond of tho walking mania. ‘fho an- thor:ties can atone for their negligence in some mensure by preventing nny further dis- plays of the kind. ‘The Tonneasce moonshinors have con- cluded to accapt the clomoncy extended by -Attorncy-Goneral Divens, and mako no de- fonse to tho prosacutions, Seven hundrod violatore of tho Revenue Inwa mado their Appearance yestorday in tho United Statos Court at Nashville, but with the understand. jug that the dofoudants lave succumbed to the outhority of the Fedoral Government, and undertaken to respeot its laws hereafter, the onses will bo droppn Judge Moonz, of thu Superior Court, yas- terdsy listenod to a largo number of objec- tions from depositors who are opposed to tho confirmation of the recent wale of the Fidelity Bank property by tho Reccivor. Tho sums offered were so low as to excito genoral sur- prise, aud it is ovidently tho dusiro among dopositora thnt the property sball contifiuo in tho hands of the Recolyer rather than bo sold at a sacrifice. Tho sala was sot aside by the Court in deforence to tho wishes of tho depositors, Avory important decision was yesterday Yondored by tho United States in a cnso in- volving tho title to millions of sorea of rail- road lands, Secretary Scmunz had, in a pre- vious decision, ruled that railroad lands mortgnged, but not sold, within three yonra after tho cornplotion of tho ronds wore not within the meaning of the phrnse ‘or othorwixo disposed of,” and hence wore open to pro-ctnption by settlors, ‘The Supreme Court now holds tho coutrary, docresing , that tho titlo to these Inuda is in the railrond compantos. “Whe aumber of bills introduced at yestor- day's xcauion of the Natlonal House, and the uumber in altendance last evoning when tha Houso mot for debate on tho Lugislntivo Dill, furnishes n wide margin of controat, ‘hore wore 1,585 bills presented, and five mewbors in thelr seats at who ovoning session, Your of tho latter were thero to de- liver speeches, which will bo printed and mailed, with all the cuntomary notations of “ applauso,” “ laugltor,” ‘* eongation,” cte.; the Aifth man, who didn't doliver a spocch, wos probably there becauso “all the other places word’ whut up,” : —— Senator Barazn dropped into partisanship yesterday with an abandonment which proved that big recont professions of disap- proval of cocrcive and unusual methods wore sincora only uo long aa thoy seemed to offer a chance to secure him some credit fox’ exalted stateamapsbip, and that his claim to superior considoration on this nceount was aftor all bogna. No man knows Detter than Sonator Baxanv that the protenso of fear from tho intorforonco of Federal troopa at olections is a shallow fraud, and his labored efforts to show that tho libertioa of tho people are in such jeopardy as to justify tho present protracted debato and disquiotude serve only to lower him in tho estimation of thoso who had thought him above mero par- tisan- buncombo. Gen. Jony A. Dix, the grand ofd soldier ond patriot; Inst night broathed his Inst and peacefully expired at tho age of “81 yoata, after having. lain in atate of un. consciousnesa for three days. As Seo- retory of tho ‘Tronsury in President Buonaxan's Cabinot, . to which placo ho was appointed na the successorof Howrtt Conn, of Georgia, who seceded along with his State. Gen, Dix gave utteranco to that colebrated order which lator beenmo a watch- word among tho defeners of tho Unlon: “Tf any man attempts to haul down the Araer- fea flag, shoot him ontho spot.” Few men in Amorican political or military life havo held a largor number of oxalted posilions than those in which Joun A. Dix at various times rerved his State nnd his country, and fow have even filled four-scoro yenrs with n carcer of grenter honor and distinction, —————— Gen. Gounxo, tha now Govornor-Coneral of 8t. Potorsburg, has takon the most extraor- dinary precautions to frustrate any schemes which tho Nihilists may concoct looking to a continuancoof the murderous practices which have been in vogue for the past fow wooks, All tho gun-holdera in the cily havo been notified to make full and truo returns of tho stocks severally held by thom, and they aro moreover forbidden to sell to any person unless authorized so to do by specinl pormission from the authorities, Failuro to observe this regulation in- volyes tho confiscation of tho on- tiro stock of tho persons so offending. Private poraong possessing arms must notify tho Governor-Genoral of tho fact, who will decide upon the propristy of allowing them to retnin the samo. An army of spies is to be distributed throughout the city to prevent tho posting of placards aud scattoring of ex- plosives in tho streats, HOW THE EXODUS MAY BE STOPPED, Tho exodus of nugroes from tho South is assuming ench dimensions that the planters aro boginning to got seriously alarmed. Commencing in certain districts of Louisi- ana, whero bulldozing has beon practiced to on infamoits extent, it has spread os far enst ns South Carolina, whore, as cx-Cougressman Ssanzs saya, the negroos will live on ten- ponpy nails until they got money enough to buy railrond tickets. This new phaso of the lnbor-question haa led the Southern whites to adopt avery conceivable expedient to stop the exodus, In some places they attompt to atop thom from going by force and by ar- ranging to have stermbonts atop at othor thau tho rogntar Innding-places, Whon forco does not avail, thoy sack to searo the negroes by apreading roporta that small-pox, tho Ruasian plagne, aud other fatal epidemics havo broken out among those who havo al- ready gono, and nro swooping them off in great numbers, ‘Tho roports, however, have no effect in checking the migratory move- mont, showing that tho negrocs would rather face the plague ond awall-pox than ondura longer ‘the tender morcios of bulldozers and the sorvilo degradation which jy overy- where imposed upon them, Again thoy aro, informed by the snddonly golicitous Sonth- ern Lumanitsrinns that they cannot ondure tho rigora of the Northorn vlimate, and that they will certainly freezo to donth in winter; but thoy remombor that their frionds beforo tho War nsod to travel the underground rond to Canadn, whoso climnto is much inore sovero thon that of Kansai, aud that thoy have lived thero ever siuco without the slightost inconvenienco, In spite of all these expe- dienta to stop it, the exodus continnes, In Blississippi, tho movemont to stop tho exodus hag tuken a more general slaps, A call signed by tha Governor, tho Prosidont of the Vicksburg Cotton Exchango, tho Cashlor of tha Vicksburg Bnok, aud a largo number of prominent citizens, is published in tho Vicksburg JTerald, It contemplates a“ Mis- rissippi Valloy Labor Qonvention” to ho held in that city May 5, to devise menos to alloy the excitement among the negroos, and, in caso that jx impossible, to institute meas- ures for procuring other labor. ‘Tho Herald says of thix Convention : “hd people of this valley are confronted with a gtave queation in this one of labor, It allects every Interest, and it overshadows the credit and prospertty of the wholo valley. It ts criminal folly for ue to supinuly await the evil results that will surely come {f we do nothing to arrest them, Wo should meet, discuss calmly nnd fully what it I Dent for usta do, and then do it without furthor dolay.. We consider It wiso that thecolored veoplo aro asked to uke part in thia mocting. We need to know what the colored race thinks of tho exodus und Its causes, and we cun only find out this by,| conferring with than. Wo hope numbers of them will come, and wo aro confident a bettor under standing will be arrived at If they do,” ‘Phe peculiar fenture of this proposition is that it calls upon the negroes thomselyes to take part in the deliberations, ‘This is man- ifested still more forcibly in Louisiana, It will bo romemberod that Tensns Parikh was the souno of some of the mout infamous and horrible operations of tho bulldozers Inst fall, ‘The negroos wore not only porsecuted, aud intimidated, anddrivon from their homes to provont thom from voting the Republican tcket,—the parish having an overwhelming Republican majority,—but many of them wore slaughtered by arincd gangs of bull- dozers, who hunted thein down aa if thoy wero wild bonats, and not one of tho brutes has over been punished, ‘ho Repubdlican enndidate for Congress, the Rev, Anraony Vatnvax, was obliged to fleo for his life, and the Bourbon candidate, J, Lroxn Kino, was elected, ‘ho nogroos nate urally enough havo begun to leave this parish m largo numbers, and to stop the stampede the whites whiningly bog Painyax to retnrn and uge his influouce with his poo. ple to provont any more froin going, ‘heir appeal to the man whom they drove away i# accompanied by promises of protection, the rostoration of civil rights, aud the punish. mont of the rioters of last fall, ‘Tho conces- sions made in this appeal aro confessions of the infamous outrages thut wero alleged to havo been inflicted upon tho negroes. It is @ public acknowledginont that they were in- timidated, perseouted, stripped of their rights and shot down like doga for no other offense than presuming to express opinions which were not palatable to the white Demo. crate ond desiting to vote tho Republican tieket, 1f they were not willfully blind, if the white population of the Bouth was not detornined to keep the nogro in a servilo condition, they would” seo that this very ap- peal contains the remedy for the ex- odus, and that it is tho simplest thing in tha world to check it, Givo the nogro somo proporty rights in the soil which he cultivates ; pay Lim a fair, living compensation for hin labor; reduce the op- pressive ronte, tnxos, and olnrges, which cnt up every dollar ho can earn; protect him in tho enjoymont of his political righta; give him tho unrostrainod right of suifraga; trent him fairly nud humanely ; give him n chanco to live; necord to him tho priviloges which aro guaranteed (?) to him Ly tho couatitn- tional amendments, and not na negro would ovor leave the Bonth, Tho whites havo only themselves to blaino that they aro losing tho boue and sinow of thoir Inbor nnd that thoir flolda nro lying idlo, Until such timo tho exodua will continne, and Sigyt to continua, and the,North, which has championed tho ennso of the negro so long, ought now to atow its philonthropy by holping tho fugitives to establish thomseclyes in now homes, At presont thera ia nothing in the social or political tendoney of Southern opinion to indienté that that section is willing to extend ordinary juatico or oven ordinary humanity to tho nogro, ‘Ihat infamously treasonable and in- cendiary sheot, tho Okolonn States, saya: “Down with the dovil-born amondments! Whon tho revolution has run its oonrso, there will be novor a law nor a statute in tho lund that will conflict with Stnte-Rights, tho principle of secossion, or white supromacy.” When such an abhorront declaration as thia is indorsed by scores of tho radical papora in the Bouth, and is not evon condemned by the more consorvative, what hops is there for tho negro? What inducemont has ho to stay among his porsecutors? Woshall watch tho Vicksburg Convontion of May 6 with somo interest, to sco if it manifests any disposition to give the negro his rights, THE FIAT DISTRIBUTION, Tho reverend geutloman who represents tho Indianapolis District in Oongreas, Dr na Martyr by namo, has proposed a schomo of ‘vast mognitudo and wortorful enterprise, For a beginning ho proposes to issue $1,000,-_ c00, 600 of greenbacks, irredeomablo st any timo, to bo legal-tonder for oll purposes. ‘These notes aro to bo lonned by the Govorn- mont to internal improvement corporations, which corporations are to filo thoir bonds, payable fifty yenrs after date, benring no interest for flve years, and thereafter 3 per cont. This is, of conrse, only tho beginning; in fact, the bill is at preeent a moro skeleton, to be filled up by’ Congress, 60 as to'make a general omnibus of npproprintion, and to cover any enterprise which any corporation may bo willing to undertake, Quo thousand millions of dollars, howevor, is merely a nominal limit; {t can bo increasod indefinite- jy; and, as tho moncy will coat nothing but the expouso of printing, tho numbor of millions is of no particular concern, Among tho works it is proposed for which this flat monoy is to be lonned the following aro named in the original bill: James River & Kanawha Canat .. Atlantic & Grest Wentorn Canal, Florida Const Ca Fort Phillp Canal Poclfle Railroad, Rock Tetund & flenepin Can: Oswego Canales sroees Lextngton & Blg Sandy Rall Niagara Ship Canal... 14,000, 000 Total ere save vee . 14, 000,000 ‘This list, ns we havo said, is incompleto, Doth as to the companies to which the moncy is to bo lonned and os to the amounts re- quired by ench company. It will bo seon that it only includes two railways, whilo thero will bo companies willing to construct 60,000 iniles of railway, and for that purposo will requiro nt lenst fifteon hundred millions of dollars of fat.monoy. . Onco begun, tho domand for loans will be genoral. Why should they be confined to roads and cannls? Why should thero not be loans to gompanica to leveo tho Mississippi and all othor rivers? Why not to compnnios to make tho Ohio, the Tonneasao, Camberland, and all other rivors navigable at all times? Why, in fact, should not this monoy be applied to purchase all tho oxisting rnilronds, canals, aud telograph companies of the country? Fiat monoy costs nothing, and ite distribution in unlin- ited quontities for these purposes would mako it plentiful and vory cheap. It is unnecessary to discusa this proposi- tion serlously, It is significant, however, that in the faco of the present financial con- dition of tho country, with a supply of mousy wholly unprecedented, with a sur- plus of soveral hundred millions of dollars pouring into tho country annually, with new and enlarging markots opening for our products nnd our manufactures, with a pop- ular competition to lend money to the Gov- ornmout af + per cont in addition to the 560,000,000 alrondy loaned at that rate, that any sano man, or number of sive men, shall considor it necsksary to flood the country with a thousand millions of dollars of unre. deemmnble and of courso depreciated paper money. Suchaschemo is not madnoss ; it in {diotic,—utterly without ronson. Yot auch o schemo has its rdvocates in both branches of Congross, and has tho eupport of cheap demagogucs in various parts of the country. 5 ed THE MILITIA LAW AND THE COMMUNISTS, ‘Tho Socialist demonstration of Sunday was, first of all, impertinent. It was im- pertinent in thata crowd of foroigners, many of whom nro ignorant of the langungo of tho country, and boarlag mottoes {nscribed in foreign tongues, shonld undertake to dog: matically construe the American Constitu- tion; it was not leas impertinout in backing up this foreign construction of tho Constitu- tion by the menace of armed troops. ‘Tho procession was accompanied by a distribu. tion of hand-billa setting forth tho Socialist dictinu that the proposed Militis luw of this State is in conflict with the Constitution of tho United States; brecch-loading rifles and fixott bayonets wore designed us a notice that this dfctwm would bo onforced ti ef armis, ‘Yheso two circumstances takon togethor con. tain a menaco of despotlem far greater than any which the Socfolists claim they are re- sisting. The Booialist constrnotion of the Amorican Constitution o3 applted te the proposed Illi- uofy Militia Jaw is absurd in tho highest degree, “ho particular clauses in the pro- posod Jaw which they declare to bo un- constitutional ave thoso which prohibit tho organization and drill of armed bodies of inom other than the rogular militia of the Btate, and provide for punishment by fluo and Inprisonmont for any infraction of this prohibition, ‘To show that theso sections sre at variance with the Constitution of the United States, tho Soclaliuts olto the Second Amendment, which confers upon the people the right to bear arms, aud that part of the Fourteenth Amendmont which’ pro. vides that no State shol! make or on- forca ony. law. which .ehall abridge the privilogos or immunities of ocitizeua of the United States, ‘bo answer to this con- atilutional orlticism of the Illinois Militia bill is obvious enough, ‘The Supromé Court has hold that tho Fourteonth Amondinent to tho Constitution was adopted’ with spocial reforonco to tho race that had been in bond. ago, and it .would not apply in this case under any circumstances, But, 68 9 mattor of faot, no constitutional rights of citizenship nara abridged by the acctiona of tho Militin law which tho Socialists cite. ‘Tho language of the Second Amendment to the Conatitu- tion of tho United States is os follows: ‘aL trellereguiated militia being necessary to the sccurity of a free State, the right of the peo- plo to keep and bear arms sliall not bo infringed.” ‘Cho right thus guaranteed is by the vory language of the Constitution mado to apply to ‘a well-roguinted militia,” and it is thia which tho law ponding iti the Leg- falnture is designed to establish. For the Detter protoction of such militis and the bet. ter Recurity of tha Stato, the law proposes to exclndoe and prohibit tho organization of Independent bodies’ of armed men, who avo not only not a part of the State militin, but probably opposed to it. The State could not carry out the fall intention of tho Constita- tion if it did not taka the very position to whioh the Socialists object, It ia not likely, howover, that tho Sooinl- ists hoped to command any particwlor respect for their illogical and far-fetched conatruction of tha Constitution of tho United States aa applied to tho Illinois Milftin law. ‘Their purpose was probakly to maka a demonstra- tion of thoir strongth, They wanted tho peo- ple of Ohicngo to understand that thoy Inve abont 400 mon armed, equipped, nnd drilled, and twico ay many moro who are rendy to join in any fighting or rioting that may occur. But hero agnin thoy miscalculated the ef- fect of thelr demonstration, To tho extout that Sunday's procossion improssed upon tho people of Ohicago tho martial strength of the Communists, to thnt extent it hns in- creased tho populor demand for tho cnnct- ment of tho Militia law. ‘Iho stronger tho Communists are, the stronger, should bo tho arm of authority which thoy nra confessodly rondy to resist at any time when they think thoy ean ndvanco their cause, Had the Illi. nois Legislature been able to witness Sun- day's procession, take note of the mottoes that wore onrried, and study tho character of the mon uxder arms, there ia scarcely n doubt that the Militia law would pass both Houses almost unanimously. The longer the con- stitutional protection of “a well-rognlated militis ” Is doferrod in this State, tho moro formidable will the Communists becoma, TOBY’S WITCHORAFT. Tho oxporioncas of Tony Auten, of which some fAecount was given in onr locat columns lact week, are not nt the presont timo likely to result in anything more serious that a writ da lunatico inquirendo from the County Court and a possible vordict of insanity ; and yot his statements aro of proclacly tho kind upon which thousands of persons havo in former times boen convicted of witch- craft. ‘Yonr is o colored decorative artist in tho whitewashing Hue, and a few years ago was obliged to apend somo time in the Poniten- tiory. In his curious letter to Ald. Barranp he says: “During my confinomont the Stato of Minois introduced a man named Jounson with his family os o regulation to practice some witoheraft arts on the inmates of said institution, . . . Thoy still havo thoir witolicraft on mo, ond therefore F come to you to investigate and have mo released from this infernal powor of witchcraft,” Aud, in an interviow with onr roportor, he stated that ono night, as he lay in his coll, voloes camo to him naif in the samo apart- ment, tho stono walls scemed to disappear and ho beheld his porsecutors face to face; that thoy at ono tima made him chop off ono of his fingers, and that they whispered in his ear £0 that ho couldn't work, and had power to atop him from doing anything. Horo wo have witcheraft puroand simplo,— adiabolical porsccntion through the agency of » person presumed to bo in leaguo with Saran, whose idontity is established by tho apparition or spectra of that porson, who is tho witch; ond if this woro the yoar of grace 1679 we should no doubt have tha Jounsons arrested and examined for witch- marka, Tony would ewoar to the demonincal aflictions and to the apparitions, the Court would admit the “spectral testimony” just as did tho Salem Judges in Maasachnueatts and Sir Marrow Hare in Snffolk, and wo shonid have the Jolivt Mouad convorted into 6 Witch Hill, with o frultfot gallows at tho top. It is onrions to note tho froquoncy of this apponrance of spectres to tho afflicted ones, and in tho ancient timo it was no doubt reckoned a providontinl meaus of dotecting witehes, Mr. Stovantox, Lioutonant-Gov- ornor, and at tho head of tho Conrt for trying witches at Salem, is sald by HWorourmson to havo “takon up this uotion that, although tho Dovil might appoar in tho shapo of a guilty person, yet ho wonld never be por- mitted to assume tho shapo of an innocent person"; and theso apparitions were, in fact, next to open confession, taken by tho ‘Magistrates (though most of the oclorgy thonght otherwise) ss tho strongest pos- aiblo proof of guilt, ‘Soma of the most religious women who woro ncousod,” says Horcutnson, “when they saw the np- poaranco of distress and torturs in tho girls, and honrd their solumn declarations that thoy saw tha shapes or spectres of tho ac- cused affifcting them, peraunded thomselves thoy were witches,” And ogain, apeaking of the afllicted children in tho house of Me, | Pannis; “ Thoy acied out upon the Indian woman as appearing to them, pluching, pricking, and tormenting them, nud fell futo fits,” j But Tony has good company in his bodily afitiotions, aven to the extent of cutting off his flugor, Judgo Sxwatn, whose diary has beon recantly published, says, undor date of April 11, 1602: ‘* Went to Balem, whoro, in tho meoting-honse, the persona accused of witchcraft were examined; was a very great assembly; ‘twas awful to seo how tho af. Mloted persons wore agitated.” In Dranz’s Annals of Witchorast, spenking of “Bundry Apparitions of Suton unto, and Assaults at sundry Times and Places upon, the Porson of Many, wife of Antonio Hortapo, dwell. ing near tho Salmon Falls,” it {a anid that “Saran bogan bis gamo in tho month of June, 1682, by a visit to the door of AN. tonto’a house, and hooting out the question to his wife, ‘What do yon hore?" About an hour later, as Mauy was standing in the door, Bho received a pelt on hor cyo that sottled ler head near to thg door-post." Perhaps tlie most satisfactory witch-trial of which we have any account’ was that of Manaaner Matson boforo Winuiam Penn, in 1604, Sho was found “Guilty of havelog the common Famo of a Witch, but not Guil- ty in Mauner and Form ox eho atands in. dicted.” It is rolated that Judgo Pann asked the deoused whether if waa true that sho was awitch, and whether, oa alleged, she had rid through the alr on a broomstick; and, -on her reply in the affirmalive, the Judge said sho was at perfect liborty to, ride a broom. stick, for he knew no law against it, and die- charged hor, Hut it may be that Tosx's witches deservo the wator-teat that was applicd to Graon Surawoon, ef Prinveas Anno County, Va, in 1706. Tho ovder of Court wass Tho Shorift to tnko all auch convoniont assistance of bonta and mon ad shall bo by him thonght fitt, to moot at Jone Ianren's Plantacon, in order to take yo enid Gnaor forthwith, and put her into the wator above man’s depth, and try her how sho swims thorein.” Tho humanity of the Court may ba inferred from its “ ordering the Sheriff not to oxpose her to the rain, asuho might tnke cold, yo wenth- er boing vory rainy and bad.” Gnicn was enst into tho water, but not drowned; and the place, which fa an inlot In Lynnhavon Bay, is known to this day na Witeh Duet, Tony is not without cuntemporary fellow. auffcrers elthor, for no longer ago than Inst February sundry porsons in Vratatavo, in tho Government of Novogorod, Russia, wero bowitchod, a3 thoy. thought, by ono Aanarr- wa Iaonatteva, and nflicted with epilepsy. On tho 26th of that month a young girl, while in na fit, mentioned Aanarena's nome (uecing hor spectre, it may be), ani forth. with the poople assomblod around hor lint, and, affer fastening the doors nud windows, sot it on froand burnod the wretched woman to death, whilo they sang hymns to the Savior who bad delivered thom from Satan, It Tony wants Kiug Jaates’ oxcollunt stat- ute for burning witches revived, so at to Dring the Jonson family to stako, he cau probably get Roprossntative Banny, of this county, to introduco 9 bill for tho purposo at Springfield, provided only that it shall bo general in its application so as to include all tho witches in the State, a game atone ss much as ho can, In puratance of some priynte agreement. The Governor bas juat announced his approval of the ramoyal of Nicnoss, in advance of action on the othor two names, although all stand on proclsely the rama footing, Mors wonderful than all, the Mayor has appointed to ba Mr. Nrowowa! ayccessor Mr, Cianings PF, MaccraN, & comparatively un- known and {neompetent man, who has been for yoara tho law-clerk, private secretary, and fac~ totum of Mr, Tinpan, ‘Tho J/erald reports there facts, nnd says, with (concealed Uscust: It the Polico Department {ato bo made the sub- sorvient toot of a Vomocratic faction the peo- ple will bo incensed and disgusted at tho false pretenan of reform which hos been flaunted be- fore their eyes." —— es The Guexper sisters moko A delicate ac- Inowledgment of thelr indobtedneas to Mr. Winrenaw Rein, of the New York Tribune, whlch, in view of oll the misrepresentatlons that unfortunate gentleman has been subjected to, aeems irell worth prlating. Thetr card is as follows: Certain misstatements having gone before the public in rogard to tho dtesipation of our respect~ ive catates, wo dealro to state in this pablic way that within the past year the income derived from thom his donbled, and thts proviows to the pay- ment of about 370,000, of which nearly $4,000 wan outlawed, The provions Iinpravement in the {ncome from our property waa chielly duo to the advice and good manayement of one who hotds a near position to ws both, and who, greatly to onr sorrow, has boon unjustly accused of squandering what he haa fostcrod and preserved. doa Gueeunr Baurtit, og GAMIRELE CORERLDE, Coloman Mouse, Now York, April 18, 1870, ped ae aa ‘The publishors of the *Encyclopxdia Britan- nica” have at Inst hit on a scheme that must put the plrates to utter rout. On the title-page ot the moth volumno the following notice ts conspicuously printed: “The copyright in the United States of tho articles ‘Fire,’ ‘Florida,’ “Bansasiy FRANKLIN,’ and ‘Fur,’ ts the prop- erty of Lirriz, Browx & Co., of Boston.” The publishers who have undertaken to furnish subseribers with tho completa (re- print) edition of reduced rates must respect this notice, On the ono hand they dare not print the articles menttonod, and on tha other they will break their guarantees to subscribers i€ they omit any yaluable contents of the orginal edition. It will be interesting to ob- serve whether the projectors of the plrated cdi- Ia addition to tho numerous indications alrondy cited in Tar ‘Inmune of a decided chango of public opinion in England con- cerning the usa of silver, wo find now cvi- douce in a paper printed in the Confzm- porary Review by Me. Wiittanson, of tho prominent Liverpool firm of Tanroun, Wainuranson & Co., in which he supplements tho position alrondy taken by tho Liverpool Ohambor of Commerco, Mr, Wintatanson lnya speolal stress upon tho fact that tho effective metallic capital of the world bos beon reduced from abont $7,000,000,000 to abont $3,000,000,000 by a sorics of National nots, boginning with tho English damonotiz- tion of silver in 1816 and onding with tho compulsory suspension of the froo coiuago of silver in France, Mr. Wieutamson ad- mits that overproduction sud oxpan- sion of oredit produced the pnruic of 1873, and that compotition sinco than has narrowed down tho markot for British products ; butit is tho startling re- duction in tho world’s medium of exchange which accounts for tho long-continued do- prossion in tho trado aud reduction in prices, If tho oxpansion of tho money sources that followed the discovorios of gold in Australia and California led to improved pricos aud the extension of commaoreo, cortninly an enormons raduction in the monoy-stock of the world must be followed by precisely op- posite results; tho former proposition is not dented, aud tho latter must be admitted by parity of reasoning. Mr, Winttaswon states the enso as follows **We have in this, our into national oxperionce, a direct contradiction to the theories of some polit- cal economists, who assort that, afterall, interna- tional commerco 15 only barter, and that monoy has little or nothing todo with its extont or yol- umo, ‘The very small measure of truth nnderlying this assortlon bas Jed many intelligent minds netray, It Js décauge the targely increased supply of money had guaranteed to men and natlons the payment of Iarge international balances that tho volume of the world's trade prior to 1874 had augmented with such marvclous rapidity, And now It {sin great meaauro becaneo the world hes of Into greatly restricted and dimtulehod the capacity of its moncy reservolr that distreas and calamity augment and Intensify around us," Of courao this reasoning leads up to tho conclusion that tho true remedy for the evils resulting from tho reduction in the moncy-supply of the world is aa interns tional agreoment betwoen England, Franco, the Latin States, and the United States for the monotization of silver. Ho donios that English opinion is obstinately opposed to a change from tho single to the double stand- ard, and many recont events cortaloly indt- ento that there has beon a good donl of mis- roprosentation on this score, -Indeod, he as- sorts that tho Dritish Government would not have instructed its dolegates to the Paris Conference not to take part in any vote involving tho wnintenanco of 4 singlo gold standard, if it had not been that the English press had misroprosonted tho sentiment of tha people, Itissafoto say that, if this conferonce wore to occnr again to-day, tho English Govorument would not bind ils rep. resontatives to exclude the consliioration of all other mouotary systems exoopt tho Er- glish. Indvod, tho ludication is now strong that England will bo the firat to move in a now effort to secure an international agroe- mont for a donble standard. If tho present National Administration when it entered office had any ono policy of the Ropublican platform -mors conspicuously under its chargo than saother, that policy was Civil-Sorvico roform, Tho principal ond sought by Civil-Service roform was to securo honest and compatout men for tho public sorvice, and, by rendoring them securo In tholr tonuro, inducing those officers to attond to their official business, instond of dabbling in questionable jobs and oporntions which, requiring the florco exorolso of thoir mental ability and straining thoir moral convictions, wonkoned tholr servicos to the Government, We do not proposo to disonss tho Civil- Bervico reform quoation in its dotaily, nor attempt to point out the limits which such roform placea upon tho unofficial proceed. ings of public offloers; nor do wo unddr. take to Iny down any such rulo on the subject os night suggest iteol€ to an ordinary man who supposes that of- ficial intogrity implics nlso personal integrity on the part of tho mon holding oftice, Wo venture to suggest, however, that to the majority of porsons the spectacle of a high publlo funetionary of tho National Government atonding day after day in tho lobby of tho Stato Loglalature button-holing mombora to voto for a bill of bis own inven. tion, whioh bill ho ia ready to suppress for n covshloration, is not creditable to the Civil Sorvico or to the Logislature which tolerates tho nuisance, ‘Tho tima spent in promoting snoh legislation and in practicing such durosa to obtain money belongs to tho Govarn- ment, and ita waste, including the mauuer nd purpose in which jt in wasted, is a vio- lation of tho spirit, it not of tho letter, of the Civil-Servico reform regulations, ; ee | Referring to certain charges of corruption made scutnst the prosout Legislature of Illinols, tho New York Sun enya: ‘These are graya allegations, aud it is not Ukoly that the people of Iinois will be satlstled that they are false by auy attempt to browbeat and jutiinidate the welters who miako them,” No; the veople of Iunols are already satisfed that the charges are true. ——— ma, ‘There no longer seems tobe any doubt that Mayor Cooray, of Now York, is playing tuto tho hands of Ti.D8n tu the Police Commissioner matter, And Goy, Ropinson {6 helplyg tho ton will find apy way oround this dificulty. a soluble mysterics, Se ‘The Cnosnr concerned In the Tatsragn triol, it a pleasaut to be able to say, fs not Dr. How- arp Crosuy, but another man of the gama Towarp Crosny is a @amous Greckt echolar, Chancellor ot the New York Unlversity, a promoter of the Moderate Drink ers’ movement, an ex-Moderator of the Ganoral Assembly, and a gentleman of unblemished uame, Dr. reputation, oe In the sale of the AnNoLD Ilbrary at New York, Jay Gounp’s “History of Delawaro County and Border Wars of New York” was put up, says the report, amid considerable merriment, and sold for $9." The auctioneer announced this as Gout's frst and only ap- pearance ag an author. . a ‘Tho doath of Mrs. Rousby will be arcticf at Teast to Herr BanpstanN, who bas nevor fully rocovered from her charges of !mproper conduct on his part; and the lady added nothing to her own reputation by the proceeding, Sho was, indecd, a disappointed and brokca-down woman whon sho dicd, Senator Eaton used to howl with rago when- ever he spoke of Grant's scandalous nepotism, but the Senator's son now holds # good. fat of- fice, and his second appolntment was 2 Demo- cratic politician of Now Haven who bad beoa Alegraced by his own party at home, ea Judgo Davis will, !t is sald, offer a compro- mise, in his intended speech on the-Army bill, which he bolloves will be acceptable to both par- tles. ‘The Judgo ts a very agreeable man, but it is doubtful it bo can smooth over matters quite to Lhis oxtont. Young MWasiiton Fist offered tho resolution in the New York Assombly Jooking to a pubite reception of Gen. Guant. Tho Fisa.fanilly is unanimous on this question, ee “No quorum, no pay.” might work a mar- yelous cure in the habite of this Legislature, ——— PERSONALS, New proverb; ‘Too many riders spoil tha bilh, A oolebrated nso: ukase, Tho conchmen must go, Anothor has marriod a New York hotrese, It took Rowell six days to win the matok, It took Parole three minutes, Mr, O'Leary, in his noxt walk, muat ride Parolo and got back tha belt. ‘The Russian boar howls worse then o Democratic orator or John A. Logan. Watolhiword of tho negroes; Hoo for tht ‘Went, und lot the South hoe for itself! Parolo should bo olectod President of Mr. O'Leary's proposed school for runners. ‘The Nihilists aro to bo annjbilated—vory much as the Zulus are to bo oxterminated, ‘Tho Buffalo Lxpress wonders if it wasn't **Birdlo Boll who killed old Mr, Nathan, Tho English trotting mom to Mr. Lorlllard —Go to the deaco, ana **go-ae you please.” England must aston uknso and excento every man in South Africa anapected of Zuluism, man's, how he imightboom, But, fortunatoly, it Jen’t, An oxchange aaya that Joo Hawley would make a good President, He would, tadeed—or a tile team. soimnch as he was. Io's trying to wipo out his own rocord, Horr Kr tho wealthlea! pioco-makors, An oxchango looks back to the good old days when base-ball was not ** four parts scionce to ono part fun." Sho New York Star claims that Mr, Til. den'e barrel {ant only larger than John Sherman's, but has more bung-holcs, z It la a war of extermination betweon Rollvia and Chill. Ina recent encocement, wa are told, one Lrigadier-General lost his hat, The Khedive of Egypt has held up his Anger so much, insteaa of paying tor the drinks on {he spot, that he cun’s straighten out nis arm, ltis reported that Eli Porkios has given $500 to tho omlgrating negroca. Wo truet the re- port duca not come fron Mr, Porklns himself, Joaquin Miller's daughter is not a ballet. dancer at present, thongh she went on tho stage in that capacity, parts, ‘ One of tho haunts of vico In New York, wo take lt, ls Washington Nathan, and wo do not belicve that he hus over been visited by Mr, Tal- mage, ‘Che monument to Mj, Andro is going for. ward. Hs gallows would have boon sn appropriate moaument, but, unfortunately, st was thoughtless> ly taken down, ¢ ‘Tho Bulgarian authoritios will appropriate- ly celebrate Jund 9, thé anniversery of. tho death of MacCahan, {he famous war correspondent, who was the iret to call attention to the abuses af Dale garia by tho Turks, f ithe cannon-maker, is ona of ‘men inGermsny, Blessed are the Henny 81, Patrick ‘Tupor, the equestri- on who hag undertaken to ride from New York tothe extremity of Patagonia, hins, after two months of ensy travellug, reached Eastern ‘Tenneasce, and hopes to accomplish the remaln- der of his task in about twenty-two months more. IHa object ts sat tobe to cement the bonds of trade between North and Soutn Amer- fea, though why he is pressingly called to open negotiations to this ond, and how. bis long horseback rido asalats in the enterprise, ara ins Tho Ozar's recent I¢ tho pnblis barrel were only John, Stor. Blackburn is not wiping out war moasures sho le vow taking spesking™ GEN. DIX. = The Famous Old Patriot at Hauls Down His Colors, __ Donth’s Ensign Run Up at Unie Past 10 O'Clock Last Night. , Last Nature of His I count of Hi eee = Hours, —_——__. An Outline of Ono of the Most £y, tended of Amerfean : Blographies. Spretat’ Dievateh to The Tribune. New Yous, April 2i.—(en, John A, Dlx died at 11:35 to-nlzht, after lying In a profount nearly unbroken cons for seventy-tro ‘ane ‘The tneideuts of bia Wness were long ‘a painful attack of Initamtnatton of 1 = convaleseence alter four weeks of suf fy oan the neeident a week Saturday thit brought oy the fatat reine Last irilay morning Gen, Dix war nl cong! that his ond was near at hand, and can Jeave of the few Intimate frlends who called thatday, among them Bishop Lotte Rev. Dr Swope, Henlso ~ sae DICTATED A URIEE GOOD-NY Mrssiop and blessing to bis absent daughter, Mn Walsh, now residing in Japan, te then passed an hour or more fn conversation with his wile, his son, the Reve J. Morgan Dig, of Trinlty, and his daughter, Mra, lake, who tay constantly attended iiin, Ie yveastonatiy lost, cousclousness, and nt length relapsud into 4 state of coma, from which he did not ones re cover until the moment of his death, ‘the tow physicians in attendance who predicted bi apeedy death on Friday night, were Astonished at the tenacity with which he clung to life, ALL LAST NIGHT ho was reported vistbly aluking, and to-night by extraordinary reserve of vitaltty gave out, (ten, Dix's old friend, Charles O'Conor, called early thia morning, and was admitted to his bedite, Thurlow Weed, Judge Peavody, Cant. McGlao, =a Mfe-long frlend,—aud many members of the Union Club, called and left can ofcondolence. During the day tha condition of the dylng man underwent no perceptible alters tion, until about 4 o'clock, when lis falling rey piration sensibly gaye way, anc the death amy crept gradually over his featuros. At 11:3) Ds, Gilbert UASTILY SUMMONED THE MEMUERS of the family, and they hot scarcely arrives +] when the bourt of the old inan ceased to best, Gen, Dix leaves 0 largo fortune, but so a Nant und reserved was he that only the genenf particulars of it ara known to his only eon, Dr, Morgau Dix, ho disposition of tifa real estas and other property will not bu kuown to hisom family until the wit fs offered for probate. 4 REMARKADLI UIsroRy, Ne was the gon of Licut.-Cul. Timothy Dis, of tha’ Revolutionary army, and was bora (1 Boscawon, N. H., July 24, 1799. ‘True to bis Revolutionary auteccdents he entered the army when a incre lad, servlug in the war of 1312-15, first as on Ensign, wud afterward as Adjutant of a‘battalion, Later he was Alte to Gen Brown, Commander-n-Chief of the Army, Iu 18%, having resigned hls rant in the army, ho acttled In Cooperstown, N. Y., 06 a lawyer, ant soon enterod politics, expousing the priueples of tho Democratle party. In 1830 he was isda Adjutant-General of the State, sud. in 183) 3 chosen Sucretary of State. He becnna amen ber of thy General Assembly te 1833, and la 1815 was elected United States Sonator tof! tho unexpired termof Sitas Wright, sersizg In that capacity four years. Daring. ttt time lio bere a part in the discusses on the annoxation of Toxag, the Mexican Ws, tho Oregon dispute, and the queallon of slavery in the Territories, espousing the views ot the Free-Soll Democrats, whose unsuccesstul call date for Governor bo was in 1918 Ito was Chalrman of the Senate Committeo on Com meree, and a leading mombor of thut on Military Affairs, and was the author of the act defining tho duties and reducing the salaries of customs oficors in the largo ports. . WIg SUCCESSOR IN THY SENATO was tiV. H. Seward, tho divistons tu the Demo cratle party In New York rendering bis re-clec tiun an impossibility. Bulng an active sup porter of Gon. Franklin Pierce for the Pret dedey, ho was at firat selected by that gentle man for his Beerotary of State, but difilculties arising, Gen. Dix declined in favor of Gor Murcy. In 1853 ho aveopted, temporarily, tbe post of Assistant Treasurer of tho Unllet States, at Now York City, He was Postmaster of Now York City in 1850, qnd in December, 1960, was nppoluted by President Buchansa Secretary of the Trensury, In placo of lowell Cobb, serving in that capacity till the incomlng of Mr, Lincoln's Administration, Lt wasdurivy his Secretaryship thut he gave ‘TMAT PITHY COMMAND which attracted untvereal attention, sont od electric thrill through the hearts of loyal me everywhere, and became a watchword for the next four years of elyil war, If any man a tempts to haul down. the American fing, shot im on the epot.? ‘The ovcaslon wus. an onlet sent to W. Nempkill Junes, a Special Treauy Ayent, sent to New Orloans to take commend of rovenuc cutter which the commander, Cat Breshwoud, propuacd to surrender to the Rebels, aud lad refused to surrender te Jones. ‘Ihe famous urder 1s as follows: Thaanuuy Davanrarnt, Jan, 20, 18. Henphall Jouraz Volt Livnt, Caldwoll to acre, aut, Brushwood, assume commund af thocuttet, and obuy the order thraugn you, Jf Capt, Sees! woou, After arrest, Tnnderdakes, to fnterferd ei thu conunaud of the cutter, tull Lieut, Caldwell 10 conuldar bli as 8 mutincor und treat hla accor ly. If any ong attempts to haul dows te Amel 1ean fag, shoot bitin on the «pot, Jou A. Dix, Secretary of tho Treasury. Immediately on the inception of elvil war Gea Dix took strong und decided grounda tn favor ot the Government and the Unlon, and hasevtt since been a strong Republican iu politics, He appolnted S BAJON-UMNERAL OF TIM NOW YORK NATIONAL QUARDS in the opening of tho War, und waa conimi{sstot od Major-Generat of the United States Voluae teers May 18, 180, subsequently recelving same rauk fu the = regalar army. 1803 he bad charge of the Deparinest of Marylaug, nnd during the fearful pally dratt riots tt New York in 1803 io was {a com mand there, uid quelled them, After the close of the War ho was sunt to Purls as American Minister tn 1860, In 1973 he was elected Gut ernor of New York, belne defeated for reel Uon fa 1874 by Satiuet J, Tilden. SINCE THEN Gen, Dix has lived in retlroment, enjortor {be fruits of along und well spent life, ependlnt much tlio in Mterary works, to which he he always devoted a large portion uf bis ee time among bls moro prominent wor boing “Resources of the = City ie Now York,’? in 1897; A Winter [0 . nelra,” 1851; “A Summer in Spain and bas ence,” in 1555, while two excellent trauslatier of * Dies [rw are more recent amt within _ memory of all critics, For suverat years Gre Dis has had charge of the duances of Tru! +f Chureh, New York City, of which hie 408 1° Rector, “Few men bays lyed so lone to mi Ifo to so good a purposs. ‘Those who Linn bust revered hin most. His career las ie) full of houors as tt: was fuli of patriotlaut Fr the news of bis death will causo every AD canto pouso und do homuge to his charact —— MORTUARY. Svectat Dispatch to The Tridunt. of tht Rivon, Wis, April 21.—The Sonera tier Hon. Willlam Starr, which occurred thes noou, Was attended by cducational wel Yarious parta of tho State. For soven yan had been President of the Board of N°! ‘ Bebool Keyoatsy he btadder,