Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 12, 1872, Page 4

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KIXON'S AMPHITEEATRE—Clintonstreet, botween “Washington and Randolph. Roberts' Variaty and Min- stral Tronpe. Porformances afternoon snd evezing. LIBERAL APPOINTMENTS. ILLINOIS. ! The gentlemen named below will spesk at the times 2nd places desi; H i Saturday, Nov. 2, o ‘meetings, except Decstur, n Co., The above are all day ‘Tuesdsy, asy. Collinsville, ' Co,, Wednesdas, Oct. 3, ds¥, ‘Lebanon, St. Clair Co, Thufldag‘ofl. Ramsey, Fayelte Co,, Friday, Oct, 35, ‘Tnesday, Oct. 2. ' &0 roaods 22, H ‘Thursday, Oct. 2¢, ‘ Oct, K, GREEN} Py Ben onday, f‘.;-bmwm fl"x‘xlu'l e instiss, Oct. 16, Ten 0., O% SER AND JUDGE OTIS. GOVEBNOR 2 Du Page Co., Saturday, Oct. 12, 2 p. 1/ - NP TanS AND RICHARD 3 Marengo, Oct. 14, Crysial Lake, Oct, 15, Senator Trambull and General Farnsworth sd- @ressed & rousing Liberal meeting at Sycamore, DeEalb Connty, on Thursdsy. The Liberalaof “DeKslb are not a whit discouraged by the elec- ions in Pennsylvania and Indiana. They stand by their guns with unblenching coursge. e ——— The gbstract-book question seems to have caken & new turn. Our Springfield despatch suentions the incorporation of & company with a capifal of £800,000, m&mto me al 00kt ;pers, and maps -4 jes in gm;aéag;ty,snd to fornish sbstracts of the game, Some of the best known citizens off Chicsgo are mentioned among the corporators. —— Diany hearts will bs saddened by the death of Fanny Fern (Mrs. James Parton), which is az* nounced by telegraph this morning. Among he Iady-writers of the present day ehe held, if -not = high place, & respectable and & warm one in the hearts of thousends of resders. Herlif- #1e volume of ¢ Fern Leaves ” had an extraordi- sery sale in its day, as did also her later volume, «Ryth Hall” whose principal male character was sapposed to stand for her brothez, N. P. A¥illis, who sppesred, under the character of “Hyacinth, 58 & selfich and heartless dandy. Her Jater writings have sppeared in the New York Ledger, towhich she has been a regular con- - -gributor for some years. 4Vhen 50 meny men are ranning for ofice, it is # pleasing spectacle to gsee an office in pursait of a man; but to see two offices of dignity and jnfinence in rivel pursuit of onem=n is a reas- suring eight that would ba welcome oftener. Mr. Abrsm R. ZLawrencs, of New York, is one of the rxare men who aroin such demand. He wasnamed, the other 24y, as one of the mos? eligible candidates fora Supreme Court Judgeship, sud is now mt?a for the Mlsyoraity. Under his administration in she City Hall the citizens of New York world be gecnre from such scandals 23 that afforded yes- terdsy, by the stiemptof an Attorney General to obtain an indictment against a Mayor who sat undisinrbed the while. ‘e total vote of the City of Indianapolis was 48,744, the highest votes ever before given being 8,379 in 1868, 2nd 7,898 in 1870. The ratio of in- srabitants to voters being about £ix to one, this gggrogate vote calls for a population of 82,644, . slieress the census of 1870 gives Indisnapolis a i population of only 48,244, Supposing that the | Derulstionia now 60,000, nore than 20,000 more " inhsbitants are celled for than the ¢ity contains, snd we infer thai 4,000 mcre votes were pob ot ReR WER. aee @@ they come from? Whichside did they vote for? These are questions that ought fo be thoroughly probed. Republicanism itself is 3t an ead when such transactions can go unpunished. ‘What conld be more natural and touching than Prince Napoleon's wish fo spend his clos- ing days in Kis mative France? But Thiers, ' who was never very susceptible, ia not to be czught by any such sentimental chaff. He Enows full well that, if the Prince stays in the French Capital, he will betake himself to intrigua, §%th 21l the abandon of 2 Napo- leon, with 2 stesdy eye upon the supreme seat. The Bonapartes have = well-iried pro- gramme which has never yet failed. Beginning with an anostentatious seat in the National Ae- sembly, they glide up, throngh the varions grades of power, until they reach the highest elective position, which they then elect to make perms- nent. It was thus Napoleon passed from Deputy to President, and from President to Emperor,— neither of which places Prines Napoleon is like- 1y to be called to fill. It was no credit to the Engineer of the sleams er Dean Richmond and the State Inspectors, it seems, that the happy tourists who crowded that steamer on the occasion of its recent mishap on the Hudeon were not blown into fragments ar gcalded to death in the <thorough fashion with which people have been familiarized by such accidents 25 that of the Wesi- fleld. Although the boiler was known tobe worn and fragile, it had been tested only once within 5 year. No comfort nesd be taken by travellers in the sssurance that hereafter such boilers shall be inspected more fre- quently. Such things are-slways =aid after these deplorable murders, and never sttended to bafore they happen. Indeed. it is idle to ex- pect safety from official rontine inspec- tion, when enginaers, who know that their lives are certsin to be the forfeit of negligence Whether pessengers escape or not, sit calmly be- {fore bulging boilers or drive their locomotives over ricketty and rotten trestle-work. No inspec- tion can be more searching than the instinct of self-preservation, and, if that fails, we must submit to our periodic slaughters, and awsit the gradual growth of safeguards that science will give us. The Chicago produce markets were moderately active yesterdsy, with few important changes in prices. Mess pork was steady and more active, at £14.95@14.50 for regular, and essier for fu- ture delivery, closing at £12.75 seller March, Lard was nominally steady, at 824@S3{c for win- ter, and B¢ for summer rendered. RMeats were nominal at 63¢@6Xc for shonlders, and 104@ *0}ec for short ribs. Highwines mare active, d steady at 88%4c per gallon. Lake freights wore more active at 1c decline, at 16c for corn by sail to Buffalo. Flour was steedy, but less active. Wheet was in fair demand and averaged a shade higher, closing at $1.133% seller the month or cesh, snd SLIS eeller the sesr. Corn was moderately active, and steady, closiag at 333¢e for regular No. 2, and 31%c seller November. Oats were dull and easier, closing at 2137c for geller the month, and 23@23%c eeller November. Rye was quiet but firmer, closing with holders st 52. Berley was moderately active, but wesk, closing at 641¢e for No. 2, and 50c¢ for No.3. The hog trade con- tinues active, with prices firm, at $4.40@5.00 for inferior to choice. In the cattle market there was activity and firmness, sales being Teadily effected at the advance noted earlier in the week. Sheep were firm at $3.50@5.25. There has been & period of gevera stringency in the money market of the whole country, which is now relaxing in some degree, and the question is 2sked in many quarters, What has become of all the money? Are ihere not 2s msny green- backs and National Bank notes as befors? Our currency is not gold. It cannot go out-of the country. Foreign nations do not take it away fromus. Why, then, should money be tighter at one time than at another? The plain answer is, that the amount of money available for busin ‘purposes is not messured merely by the amount of gold, ar greenbacks, or bank notes, or all com- bined, but chiefly by the amonnt of *“deposits”in the banks, which are fully three times greater than the amount of currency of every descrip- tion, These deposits consist of checks and drafts which represent the products of the coun- try, moving from place to place and from hand tohand in the general course of trads, Com- modities are exchanged for each other, and the checks and drafts which represent them are, equally with greenbacks 2nd bank notes, & part | of the money available for loans. Inlargecities these frequently constitute ten times more of theloanabla funds of the community than the notes or coin sctually in use. In eome of the ZLondon banks they constitute 97 per cent of the whole, Anything, therefore, which operates to diminish the amount of these checks and drafts—that ia, the aggregate amonunt of commercial transac- tions—serves, while it continues, {0 mske money tight. Bank deposits are, in fact, the ‘barometer of commerce. When they rise, trade is active snd money easy. When they fall ‘trade 18 diminished and money is tight. A correspondent, writing from Winooks, Illi- nois, inguires what is the present condition of suffrage in the Southern States. The right of voting at all elections is secnred to 2il men, ‘white and black, except in certain States, as in Arkansas, where, by State law, all persons sre disqualified who are disquelified from holding office under the Fourteenth Amendment of the “Copstitution. There is no restriction upon suf- {frege because of color in any State. The Forr- teenth Amendment disqualifies no man from voting; it excludes certain classes of men from ‘holding office, State or National. Thoungh Gon- gress has by law removed the restrictions upon thousands in relation to office-holding, the State 1aws, where they exist, continue to exclude such persons from voting. We bave, therefore, the remarksble fact of many men in certain States legally eligible to office, yet disquslified from voting, and, in other States, many who may vote, but are ineligible to office. The disfranchicement of & man as =an office- holder is & denial to the people of the right to elect him if they so de- gired. After the Cincinnati Convention, Con- gress passed a bill, which had previously been rejected several times, removing the disabilities of mauy under the Fourteenth Amendment, bat the act was mot_genersl. The exclusion of white voters was repealed in Missonriin 1871, and in Tennessee in 1670, by the action of thess States. The Republicen msjority in the Pennsyivania Tegislature, on joint ballot, is about tenty-four. The nominee of the Republican caucus will of course be elected to the United States Senate. 'Will Simon Cameron be his own successor: Here i8 a man whose long official caresr presents no single act of ststesmanship; who was the first men to dis the Senate by buying (in 1815) Dis election thereto; who bought the Legislatare sgain in 1857; who wae forced upon Lincoln as Hecretary of War, althorgh his reputation was even then g0 bad that the President asked: Yrhatwill the pecple think of ¢ Honest 014 Abe,’ if he gives such a man es Simon Cameron aplgee in his Cabinet;” who was dismissed in disgrace within 8 year; who was formslly cemsured by the Honse of Representatives when Secretary of War; who bought his third Senatorial elec- fion in 1667; and who i3 neither a #pesker, e writer, nor & thinker. His sole claimi’ to & re- election is. $hat he supports Grant. If this piti- #£nl pretext overveles this shocking record, Grant- ism in Pennsylvania hes indeed strangled Repub- { Jicanism. The Philsdeiphia Press, commenting on this result, eays: nmbiluppmlgkmm nOW :m% and t | oo “Onliaa States Semstor, armasd with Bew i B “ives to persscute and 'to punish. His 3 Sma. i Pp 16 Wpom evisy indeptnd- Sat spinit in the Siais, and e will suin quote the prestige and wield the patronage of the President to iTas the taapnien e oF Fenpanh e independent of vanis the Justica to bolieve st thelr against this reck- less man, however fruitless st the lite, election, has sprung from pure and honest motives. Butin despite of all that may be said or done, the Press to-dsy, 8s in other days, owes 3 higherallegiancethan the allegiance 1o men—sa allegiance to principle, to innata. convic- tions, proved by experience in the most tumultuons and frying decade in our histor The New York Evening Post. which supports Grantin a qualified manner, gives = fitting re- buke to Mr. Morton, in view of the election of Handricks as Governor of Indiara, which' it re- gards 28 a special work of the disapproval of the people of Indiane upon that Senator. . We believe that most right-thinking' people, even in the Republican perty, will agree with us that it is time Mr. Morton 'was relieved from duties of a public nature. We do not wish to do him injustice. We reapect his abilities snd his energy, and we do not believe that he is poreonally corrupt, however unscru- puloushe msy bein accomplishing his ends. But he, more than any other person, is respon- sible for that series of acts which bronght abont the disrnption of the Republican party,—for disrupted it is, in spite of the Bepublican successes in Pennsyl- vanis and Ohio, and the breach will grow wider instead of narrower from this time onward. We hold Mr. Morton more than any other Senatar- responsible for the removal of Charles Sumner from the position he had so long und creditably filled in the Senate,—an act which signified the subjugation of the Legislative Branch of the Government to the will of the Execative, and which struck a blow at the very Toot of repul- lican institutions. This transaction could not posaibly be indorsed by any self-respecting Sen- ator, for it implied that every Senator must egres with the President or lose his rank and dignity among his colleagues. It conld not be indorsed by any self-respecting person, for it was a blow at the manhood and conscience of an eminently manly and conscienticus Sens- tor. ® The Senator from Indiana is chiefly responsi~ ble for thet series of acts toward the Southern States whose injustice we verily be- lieve led to the Ku-Klux ountrages, and finally aroused sympathy in the North which had never before been felt for thoss who participated in the Rebellion. By dint of keap- ing those States out of the Union after they had complied with every condition that we had im- posed upon them, and every requirement that pradenca could saggest ; by aiding and abetting such characters ss Bullock, of Georgis, and Hold- en, of North Carolina; by worrying and harass- ing awhole people whose misforiunes had al- ready been equal to their crimos; he, as the leading epirit in all these unchristian enter- prises, paved the way for a revalt among a large number of the best and worthiest members of the Republican whose places are poorly supplied by the Bourbon recrnits who have voted the Republican ticket this time in order to spite Greeley. In point of political wisdom, the Morton policy | has been simply smicidal. No good has been achieved by deposing Sumner ; nothing but evil hes come of sidingthe carpet-baggers toac- quire mastery in the South. Yetit was probably from a mistaken calculstion of political chances that Morton pursued the desperate and indafen- gible course thet is identified with bhis name more than with that of any other publicman. We have reason to believe that General Grant did nof at first take kindly to the Morton policy of dealing with the Sonth, but was brought over to it by slow degrees. We think that General Grant reallyintended to insti- tute some kind of Civil Service Reform, but was persnaded out of it by the Senatorial cabal of which Morton is chief. If this master-spirit of evil counsels is laidlow, there will be rejoic- ing in many quarters, and even in the Republi- can ranks of Indians, where his despotism has been more feared than loved for many years. KO CAUSE FOR DISCOURAGEMENT. The resnlis of the October elections in Penn- sylvania and Olio should not be suffered to dis- courage the friends of the Liberal movement, or dampen their ardor in the great work of re- form. There is no reason why they should not continue to labor on just as zealonsly as if they had trinmphed. The Liberal party still has its wark to perform. It has espoused great prin~ ciples, which are essential to the prosperity and perpetuity of the Bepublic. The Republican party has sacrificed principles to the personal advancement of one man in payment for his military services. The Liberal party besesit~ self upon the necessity of reform. The Repub~ lican party centres upon General Grant, who bas centralized all its principles in himself, 2nd transformed Republicanism into Grant- ism. No one has questioned the excellence of the principles enunciated at Cincinnati, orthe mecessityof the reforms for which the Liberal party isstriving. If, then, these princi- pleswere correct yesterday, they are correct to- day. If thers was s necesaity for reform yester- sy, there is the same necessity to-day, and each succeeding dsy that necessity grows stronger. If General Grantshould bedefeated in Novem- ber, the Republican party will be rent asunder, ‘because it i based upon & man, not UPoD prin- ciples, and there is nothing to hold it together. ix Mr. Greeley be defeated in November, not one principle of the Liberal party is affected. The necessity for reform remsins as pressing asever. The Presidential election is only anincident of the great battle, and ita effect is no more serious upanthe partyin case of defeat than the failure of a reconnoisancs is upon the mbvements of 3 great army. Admii s disaster to the Libersl party in November. There is no reason why that party should be disheartened. Admit 2 defeat in every Statein the Union, and still there is no resson why its zeal should abate. It only puts off the inevitable and final triumph for a time. The Liberal party loses nothing in strength by a defeat; the Republican party geina nothing in strength by a victory. The ss- sault will weaken it as surely as it is made; and, when the next assault comes, it will be less pre- pared to receive it then it is now, both by rea- disesses which are slowly and surely ensrvating it. The Liberal party has youth and freshness on its side. The Republican party is slresdy showing the results of riotons living and the natural weakness of age. Its young rival Lias the years of vigor and strength beforeit. If it is true toitself; if it " has foith, hope, and courage; if it has the de- termination to fight on mndismsyed by partial defeats end temporary hindrances, ita triumph is assured, becanse its principles are true, and truth must sooner or later prevail. If those principles are not engrafted into the policy of son of its previous damsges, and the internsl | onr Government, it will be owing to the foct that their defenders are men of faint hearts and feeblowill. Butwhat theyfail to donow, others will do in the fotare. The revolution cannot be suppressed, nithough it may be hindered. If there are any in the Liberal party who are disposed to hesitate or grow despondent, we would remind them that reforms sre seldom, if ever, achieved mpon the first effort. Thoy removed. Reforms always gather strength glowly, How many years did it take to remove slavery? The Literal reform, however, has No other great political reform movement ever established itself 8o quickly and geined ad- herents so rapidly. There is mothing in the outlook, therefars, to discoursge any one. The | Liversl perty does nob depend mpon Mr. Greeley. Heis onlythe standard-bearer, and, i he fells in November, other handa trivmphs in November, the success will boall the anickly.” If ho is defeated, it is only an incident which has happeped in every reform movement. | Furifyips it is require long, patient, and defermined labor ! -before they are made successful. Batile sfter ! ‘battle must be fought before prejudices canbe ; been carried forvard with wonderfal celerity. | | to victory! ‘We say, therefore, to our friends everywhere, work on with undiminished courage; regardless .of October, regardless of November, regardless of men, regardless of everything but the success of the movement. If that successisnot reached this time, then it must be fought for again, and ot 8gain, until the final vick 5 TEE VOICE OF THE FEOPLE. s New York Herald observes, in a just aed timely manner, on the result of the October elections : 5 o ‘Tnere is, indeed, s Icsson in these elections and ‘in tho closencss of the strgrle all ovee the Union which shonid not be lost sight of, and which' cannot safely e disregarded by the winning party, The strength of {he opposition showa that there are mistakes to be corrected, errors tobe atomed for,and evils to be Temedied in the policy of the dominant party; that ihe country, if not just now prepared for a violent change, is Devertheless not too well satisfied with the present position of affairs, Out of 1,300,000 votes cast in the fonr North- ern October States, the aggregate majarities incloding all frauds, do not smount to 40,000 votes, or, 8ay, 3 per cent on the total vote. Bat, if we offset against these the 55,000 Liberal majority given on Oct. 2,in Georgis, we find that, while the verdict of the States is for Grant, the verdict of the people is for Greeley and the principles of Reconciliation aund Reform put forward by the Cincinnati and Baltimore Con- ventions. In October, including the Georgis majority and the town majorities in Connecticut, 20,000 more votes were counted for our policy than for that of Grant, Morton, and Cameron. Even in the Northern States, the elections show alarge actual progress of Liberal principles. In Penngsylvenia, the average majority of the Republican party for four years had been 10,000. The new colored vote i between 18,000 and 14,000, the total colored population by the last census being 65,000. Notwithstanding the re- sult, we believe that fally 30,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania broke away from party discipline gnd voted for Buckalew, in the belief that such course presented the only means of reformix; the most gigantic abuses which ever disgraced a State. In Ohio, we had to overcome an average ad- verse majority, 38 follows : Av: jority. 70 this S04 ealored voke Total AAVETSe MAJOTIF aneenanemaaanens Two-thirds of which has dissppeared in the canvass. At least 20,000 Bepublicans of Ohio have voted against Grant's policy, if we suppose that ol the Democrats voted. Whatever quota of Democrats failed to vote, 80 many additional Republicans, over the 20,000, must have voted the Liberal ticket to make the resnlt what it was, In Indiana, the Bourbon element, and & new negro vote of 5,000, were both overcome Party, legq o Hendricks, by the accession of Liberal Re- publican votes. Onr.Central Committee count- ed the latter at 8,000 within the week before the canvess. In all the Northern October States, therefore, the progress of opinion ia to- | ward the Liberal movement, and indorses it. The majorities are the reault of the new colored vote, the power of money, snd the Bourbon- ism that opposes Grant at heart, though its failure to vote counts in his favor. In discussing the effect of the elections, the New York Herald further says = ‘The popular eentirzent in the North demands s re- versalof the policy of oppression and revenge by which the Repoblicin Congress has endesvored to re- tain control of the votes of the Southern Statea, President Grant must not_mistake the verdict of the people. Although given in his favor, & is in despite of the offcmsive acts of his political vises. The Amerian nation has not set forgotten the great service he rendered tothe Union cause in the war, The people look upon him still as the hero who carried the Union armsto victory and- strack down into the dust the monster of rebellion. But they will demand of him in his next Presidentiai term equal freedomand self-goverament for tho Souts. ern and Northern States of the Republic; they will inalst that the white men of the South shall be restered 1o the same rights eajoyed by the white men of the North, The Federal A tion must 1o longer hold one section of .the country by the throat under the pretence of the political righta of, the negro race., Whites and blacks must be taught L thelr own will, and for thelr own good, to live together in pesce, and must learn that thelr inter- ests as citizens Gf = State are identical. Thus alons can real peace be and substantial safety be enjoed by men of all color alike. Strongly and justly as this advice wonld com- mend itself to a statesman, we fear that Presi- dent Grant, =nd more especially his intimate advisers, have not the qualities which wonld in- duce them to follow it. C8, ‘The sisterhood of woman-suffrage have at last plunged into politics pell-mell. Hitherto they have hovered upon the verge. They have here and there managed to get indorsed as silent partners in the Grant concern, have once ar twice edged in a resolution; and several times have got seats on platforms, bt have been com- pelled to remain mute,—a species of elow tor tore, where so much talking was going on, which must have been the very refinement of cruelty. The Ancient Mariner, with water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink, conld bardly have suffered more than these ambitions females, with talking, talking everywhere, and not a chance to talk. Now that the ice is broken, however, we may expect long- pent-up Vesuvius to smoke and blaze with renewed vigor. The eruption commenced in New York, a few evenings gince. The pythonesses, having been refused an opportunity to talk in the masculine meotings, got up one of their own, filled the hall, secured a posse of po- licemen to protect them, and then and there commenced the annihilation of Greeley. The speakers were the old campaigners of fifty sum- mers, covered with ecars received in the wars of i the Soroses, and blazing with wrath at the accu- mulsted wrongs which had been piled upon them by the Tyrant 3an, for whose indignitiss, cruel- ties, and oppressions the Sage of Chappagua was made the representative and scapegoat. There were Mre. Cady Stenton, whe appesred by proxy in the person of a lawyer with a red necktie and eye-glasses; Isabella Beecher Hooker; Lilly Devercsux Bluke; Rev. Olympis Brown; Maillda Joslyn Gege; and Su- san B. Anthony, the hero of numberless | fights, who went upon her knees to the bland philosopher of Chappagus, but counld not maka any impression upor his flinty heart. It was & ‘meeting at which no one conld speak but women, and they had it sll their own wey, and they were all for Grant. The only speaker who did not denounce Greeley as the sum total of all human villanies was Miss Antliony, who evidently had been somewhat prepossessed in his favor after her interview with him, but not suficiently to slienate her from her support of Grant. The appearance of these women in the field of politics marks s new ers, or, as oneof the speakers, with metaphorical eloquence, re- marked, ““The ancient clock of time, from its belfry in the sky, strikes another hour.” In casting © the political horoscope, tha down-trodden ‘woman must hereafter be taken into account. The rustle of her trail will be hesrd in the cau- cus. The elate that does nof hold the fine, fe- male running-hand will be cracked. The stump will not be climbed by man alone. Lovely ‘woman, long down-trodden, rises to the surface of the political puddle, strong in resolgtions, long in talk, elegant upon the platform, and im- prassive in procession. We congratulate the sisterhood that at last they have obtained this much of privilege, that they can resolve, :ud caucas; and epezk, organize meetings, proclaim vievs, march iu processions, hurrah for some- tody, and do what they like. We hope they will not rest content with this. March on, march.on Thers is & great work to be dome. We congratulate them that they have got into the Republican party. The main argoment they have given us for yeers why they should have political rightsis, that st take up the standerd and beariton. Ifbp | they would elevate end purify politics. With | that peculiar intuition which ia chsTacteristic of “dman only, they have hit just the right spat for their Iabor. 1f anything needs elevating and hope, for the sake of political decency, that they will get new brooms, and mops, and soap, and go st it forthwith. ' We shall await, with some curiosity, this purifying process, and we besper for them s fair show. . THE FRENCE REPUBLIC, The French Assembly, which, like some of the carpet-bag Legislatures of the Bouthern States, has perpetuated its own existence, and refuses to dissolve that there may be & new election, whenever it takes a recess appoints a Perma~ nent Commission of itsown members to sctans check on the President. Practically, this Com- ‘mittee isthe Assembly. It is a restraintupon the President. It sits daily, and Mr. Thiers ap- pears before it, and is governed by its decisions. ‘Within the last few weeks, Gambetta has been making speeches in various parts of France, ard, though it is difficult to understand what Gam- betta proposes, it is clear that he is not eatisfied with the present condition of affairs. On the other hand, the Monarchists hsve been busy forming public opinion, and President Thiers, who has declared his pur- pose to take no active part for either a Mon- archy or & Republic, is by no means in & com- fortable poeition. . A erisis is evidently ap- proaching in France, and the cable news is to the effect thata coup defat was expected on ‘Wednesday last. " A significant fact is, that on Wednesday, 3. ‘Thiers, in a speech before the Permanent Com- mittee, made a positive declaration of his pref- erence for a Republican Government, and this declaration was greeted “with laughterby the Monarchists.” There are three parties in France,—the Republicans, who include all those opposed to Bonapartism or Monarchy in any form; the Monarchists, who include the sup- porters of the elder and younger branches of the Bourbon family, or, as they are called, the Or- leanists and Legitimists; and the Bonopartists, thelatter including all those who favor theresto- ration of the Empire, either under Lonis Napo- leon or Prince Napoleon. These two represen~ tatives of the Bonaparte family are both excluded the territory of France. Louis Napo- leon has, it is understood, meny friends in the army and among the moneyed classes, who look to his restoration as securing s strong Govern- ment, affording protection to trade and com-. merce, and to life and property. The Monarch- ists, who, in the persons of the sons and grand- sons of Louis Philippe, are represented largely in the National Assembly, are, also, strongly supported by the middle class, by the Church, and by the people of the agricultural districts. To the peasantry, a Republic is something beyond their comprehension ; they only know that, i past times, the Bepublic has been the occasion of dreadful disorders, ending in despotism. The Republicans are, perheps, the most numerous body, though they are by no means united. In- cluded in them are the members of the Intere national Society, who are largely in the ascen- dentin all the large cities. Republicanism in France is, in the judgment of many, insepara-. ble from the rule of the Commaunists, who, in turn, are controlled by the lowest classes of | society. < Amid all these conflicting and irreconcilable factions, the Government of Thiers exists by sufferance. It is tolerated rather than support- ed. -Each faction is at' work preparing fora revolution which will place it in power, and it is probable that, in the end, the army masy, under some popular lender, declare ita preference, and by force instal s King ar erect a Republic. For the present, revolationis improbable, and must remain so until the Germans have retired,— until the last dollar of the German indemnity hes been paid. And even then France wants tranguillity so much that she must, if she has any reason left, refrain from revolution fora long time tocome. STARS AND SICKNESS. A physician resident in Mexico, Dr. M. S. Enapp, hes put forth a carions theory of the in- fluence of the planets upon disease. The power- ful effect of the sun’s light and heat upon all- lifeis, of course, s truism. Dr. Knapp main- tains that its attractive’ force, when reinforced by the attraction of the larger planets, is almost equally powerful. Changes in that at- tractive force would then produce changes, good orbzd, in the conditions of life. The same re-' sult is reached in a different way. Health de- pends, in grest part, upon the gravity of the.| atmosphero breathed. On = mountain-top, res- pirstion becomes difficult, the hesd begina’ to swim, the limbs lose their strength. A great_ preasure of air produces much the same resulis. Therefore, sgain, anything that affects the grav- ity of the atmosphere affects life. The attract- ive force of the planetdoes this. The comnse- quence ia clear. If this theory be true, we should find that the greatest sickness occurs at . the periods of greatest disturbance of the air, that is, when the planetary attraction is grest- est. Phis happens when the planets are nesrest the sun. Their forces of gravitation are then com- bined ; a sudden change takes plice in one of the most essential conditions of life ; and animals and plants die. The supposition explains the Dlights in vegetation that usuelly precede snd .accompany epidemics. Some curious statistics ‘are submitted, in an attempt to show that the facts of the past verify the new theory. Jupiter i8 nearest the sun, that is, reaches his peri- helion about every twelfth year. His late dates have boen 1868, 1856, 1815, 1833, 1821, 1809, 1797, and 1785. Every one of these has been a cholera- vear for Indiz, andatimo of peatilence thronghout the world. It is &lso claimed that every twelfth year, as far back as 1572, hasbeen fruitfol in epidemic sickness. Saturn revolves in a little losa than 293¢ years. He passed his perihelion in1856, 1896, 1797, 1767, etc. His distarbing in- fluence, although less than that of Jupiter, must greatly strengthen the Intter, whenever their perihelia coincide. Every59years this happens. It happened in 1856 and in1797. In the former, the yellow fever did its deadliest work st New Orlesns. In 1845, at the time of Jupiter's peri- helion, the Irish ship-fever began iis ravages. It wassucceeded by the cholers, which culminated in1856. Going back to 1797, we find that the yellow fever then visited every ses-port of the United States, while the cholera raged in Hin- Qostan, and sickness'was provalent everywhere. By such statistics, Dr. Enspp essays to proye his theory. He comes near enough doing so to make us wish that he- had suffered us to keep the bliss of ignorance instesd of revealing the fact that Jupiter will reach his next perihelion in 1880; that Jupiter and Saturn will meet in 1881; that Uranus and Neptune will have coincident perihelia in 1832; and that the next perihelian passage of Saturn will bein 1835. The prospect for continual change in our fickle atmosphere and consequent continual disease is certainly fair,—if (a very important if) the the- ory is true. . There has seemed to be small dan- gerof the days of star-worship coming back again. Bui every religion is, according to Lecky, foanded on fear. If we must perforce be afraid of the planets’ perihelia, we at least lay the foundation of the long-forgotien faith. i investigations wionld prevent steamboat ac- cidants, the travelling pyblic might congrstulate itself that hereafier it might journey with per- fect immunity from being blown up, burned np, or drowned. There liave now been, within & few “days, investigations made by the Government of the Qisasters to the Metis, the Bienville, and the Desn Richmond. none of which, however, have developed any facts which ‘were not’ already Lnown to the public. The generai presumption in cases of investigation by the Government, under the provisions' of the Steamboat 1w, is, that it has been instituted with the view of punishing some one for negligence, and protecting the travelling _public by enforcing penalties for violation ploded beeause there was not enough Water in it, orthat & certain steamer took fire because the Captain was too negligent or too ignorant to extingnish it, and here the investigation ends, which is just as consistent as it would be to close & murder investigation with the finding of the Coroner’s jury. The public care nothing for the cause of the calamity. That does not compensate for the loss of life, or give any guarantee for future safety. The Government investigation may ar msy not prevent disesters. That is an open question ; but, at least, in establishing a canse it should locate and define the circumstances which operated to produce that cause, andshould punish the parties who are guilty. In every one of the three investigations above nsmed, the only object which appears is a defence of the Steamboat Inspectors. As long as Government investigations are conducted with this end in view, they are of no practical use. They shounld be instituted for some definite purpose, or they might a8 well be discontinued entirely. In Harper’s Monthly Magazine, for October, is an article entitled *Recollections of An.Old Stager.” This article is the third in the series, and purports to give notices of conspicaous pub- lic men, &nd of events in the public history of timea gone by. Among others mentioned is Senator George Evans, of Maine. The paper 88Y8 : 5 . l’;am during the famous debate took 188, * * Twenty-eighth Congress that the Bxé\::‘:.inmamm mmenflnur was n of the ‘Protectiontsts, and George Mebasia wae oy ‘principal advocate of Fres e, They were among the very ablest men in Congress, and the Senste was_crowded for days with eager listeners during the whole debate, After describing Mr. Evang’ grest ability and §“invincible logic,” the writer continues: He understood all the details of the tarifl questic 2nd no man excelled him in nting the steond points of his case. He was really the author of the tariff of 1846, and he told me that one ot the chief dif- ficultfea thathe had to encounter while maturing it ‘was in the mind of the Chairman of the m“b%l‘f House with the structure " Finance Committee &and operations of This ia supplemented by another statement that Benator W. C. Rives, of Virginia, told the writer that he hed “been converted from s Free- Trader to & Tariff man by the arguments of Ar. Evans.” All this would be interesting except for a few inaccuracies. That Mr. Evans wasa Whig, an able man, and a Protectionist, is true. But the tariff of 1846 was not a Protectionist tariff; it was o Free-Trade measure, supported by the Democrats, and opposed with great vehemence by Mr. Evans. He counld not have been the author of that tariff, and of course had nothing to do with educating the Committes of Ways and Means of the House on that bill. It i8 also to be remarked that Mr. Rives was not a Senator at that time. His term expired in -tained at the heed of affairs, because the stuffed ‘average lecture, cultured Chicago may heze such of law. While this i3 & reesonable presumption, itis nota safe inference. The investigations establish a cause, perhaps, bet never & conse- quence. After long and tedions -testimony, the thy Republican parts, gnd we. | Inveetigation iRCOTOrs thab & ceTthin hoiler ex- March, 1845, and he appeared no more in the Senate, and he was, therefore, not converted to Protectionism by hearing Mr. Evans advocating the tariff of 1846. 1t is just possible that the writer intended to refer to the debate on the tariff of 1842, which ‘was & Whigand s Protective tariff, and was advo- cated by Mr. Evans. But here, too, the facts do not gustain the story in Harper. The tariff of 1843 was pessed Aug. 30, 1842, 1Mr. McDufie made his first appearance in the Senate late in December, 1842, some months after the tariff of 1842 had become a law, and, therefore, took no part in the debate on that bill. The sadly-impracticable philanthropists who have hitherto founded and manszged the Me- chanics’ and Artisans’ Clubs of England, have hampered them with an array of rules fit only for children of very small growth. The nutritious glass of beer and the soothing pipe have been forbidden, and no gamemore exciting than chess or checkers has been allowed. The result has beén an air-of shabby-gentility which has re< pelled evervbody. The mecherics and srtisans have preferred the neighbaring ale-house, where no officious patron or patroness intermeddles with their enjoyment. How far that intermed- ling mey go is shown by the rules we have mentioned, and by the fact that 3 devout patroness has occasionally thrust tracta mpon the members of “her club,"—nay, has rushed in upon them, with a clergyman in leading- strings; hustled checkers, chess, aud maga- zines into the cormer; sharply reproved the. wretch whom she caughtsmokinga sarreptitions pipe up the chimney,and turned the (somewhat)- gocial gathering into an spparently endless prayer-meeting. The Earl of Carnevonis lec- turing against these abuses of the original idea | of such clubs, He very sensibly says that their ‘members should be asfree as those of any other” clob. Let them drink, smoke, pley cards, bill- iards, do what they will. This advice will be received with holy horror by those people who think that only rich men enjoy ‘themselves 28 they wish without going to'the bad ; but it is, nevertheless, advice that should be followed, if ever we get civilized enough to establish cluba for our workingmen, or, more wisely, urge them on to establish them for themselves. The Gladstone Administration seems deter- mined tolimit the liberty of the press. Its solemn “ warning” to some Irish papers has been followed by the refusal of the Postmaster General to zllow. Bradleugh’s Journal to be “registered for transmission abrosd.” This amounnts merely to & refusal togiveit thead- vantage of the lowest postal retes. Ifithad not ‘been for the Government’s petty persecutions of this man Bradlaogh, he would be unknown outside of England. As it is, his name is proba- bly ag familiar to the average American as that of Gladstone. Itisbut a short time since Mr. Scudamore, Mansger of the Government Tele- graphs; forbade the transmission of some tele- that seemed to him objectionable. This incident shounld give food for thought to those ‘who wish to give our Government the supervis- ionof the telegraph. Imagine Creswell (re- ballot-boxes of Philadelphia have #indorsed™ him) deciding what messages should ke sent. ‘When somebody telegraphed: **Send affidevits to prove Creswell's complicity in that straw-bid Job,” or: “Send wordto Dawes. Creswellistry-~ ing to pey the Chorpenning Claim,” the forms would be dropped into the waste-paper basket, and the attempt to check the fraud would be checkmated. Mr. James T. dshas established s course of free lectures to the women of Boston. They are to be delivered at the Institute of Technolo- gy- The opening one was given thera last Sat- urday by Mrs. Eduab D. Cheney. The hall, which will seat 850 persons, held overa thou- sand, and 2s many moré were turned awey. The whole audience was made up, withs single exception, of women. Enthusinstic paragraph- erscall it the finest assembly ever gathered in a lecture-room. Mrs. Cheney's discourse was on the relation of women to English and American literature. She ascribed the literary devel- | opment of New England in great part,— and rightly, probably,—to the impulse given to the education of her women, 40 yvears ag0, by Mrs. Child, Margaret Fuller, and Emer- son. The other lectures for October will be by E. B. Whipple, on English-Novelists ; by Joan ‘Weiss, on the Humor of Shakspeare; and by Dr. Holmes, on English Versification. We hope that, next year, while the'average man 'and Lis wife are laughing over the peculiaritiea of the a course as this. A storyis related of o French Countess who re- cently died. that at different times in Ler life she was placed in very sorrowful circumstances. On one oceasion her condition became so gloomy, and her friends 80 few, that she determized to com- mit suicide. Having heard that those who threw themselves from kg bridges ifito the Seifie wera likely to be rescued, she chose & spot.where she was not likely to be interrupted; and where 'the water gradually deepened, and selected 2 very Iy became awars of the lndicrouss ness of her situstion, burst out laughing, and went back toland again with ng worse result than wet hose and skirts. There ig no doubt that if the lunatics who commit suis cide could only realize the ridiculons atfitude iw which they place themselves, the sorry figure they cut in the papers, and that the world has nd sympathy with their sensational performancss, there would be fewer suicides. It isthe wors§ use to which a sensible person can devote hims self, and it only needs a sober second thought td gee that the situation is not at =il pathetic, baty on the other hand, very ridicnlous. During the great fair of Nishni-Novgorod, in Bussis, last month, thieves raised the cry of ¢fira” in the densely-crowded theatre. The panic-stricken people rushed to the doors, tramp- Ting each other nnder foot, and yielding & rich harvest to the crafty rogues. The Governor of the town shouted from the gtage that there waa no fire whatever, but the crush went on. Then he had the orchestra strike up s piece of music. The clamor was hushed forthiwith. The scare@ spectators plucked up courage; the fugitives came back; the wounded were carried away; .and the ploy went on as if nothe ing had happened. I may have besn thig instance of the power of musle which has caused ML Jules Simon, in behslf of M. Thiers, toengage M. Ambroise Thomas to collect & number of solos, duets,” and concerted pieces from the works of great masters, for the nse of the people. M. Simon hopes in this way to dis- place the valgar, sometimea blood-thirsty, dite ties now sung in the Parisian music-balls, and 1o refine the persons who frequent such places. If musis soothes the savage Reds; it will win q victory indeed. In 1846, Mr. Darwin held the position of naturalist in a scientific expedition sent by the British Government to Sonth America. Hia first work of importance was a history of Hia observations on that trip. He stated im it his - belief that. the whole South American Continent was slowly rising. Tais wes sneered at then; but, like some other statements by br. Darwin, the lapse of time is proving its truth. The apparent sinking of the Andes is really the rising of the table-land around . them. Again, the group of smsl} islands known a8 Fornando Noronha, 194 miles east of Cape San Roque, in Brazil, shows aigna of 2 steady upheaval. It is connected with the mainland by a long ledge of rock, which, itis predicted, will some day afford & Secure passage from the islonds to the cape. By going away from home to get the news, w8 learn from an English periodical that Professor Lapham, of the United States Telegraph Ser~ vice, has published & report on the forest-firos of last year. He believes that all onr prairiea were originally wooded, and that they hava been cleared ° wholly by’ fire, which, he says, destroys eversthing on and in them ax= copt the roots of the buffalo-grass. Since this is 80, it follows that the land is perfectly welk adapted for timber.growth. If tresa are plant~ ed and protected, they will flourish. Ve msy 8dd that the Kansos Pacific Railroad Company has élevated this theary to practice by setting out thousands of saplings along ita line, where they bave thriven well. The same theory haa also been presented by Judge Caton end cther American writers. Mr. Malem, of Scarborough, England, ownsa peinting which is said to represent the wedding of Shakspesre. The marrisge ceremony id going onin an inner room,seen throagh am. opendeor. Intheféreground areanoldmanand woman, sapposed by Mr. Malam t0 be thepa~ rents of Anne Hatheway, weighing out gold and silvor, presumebly for Ler dowry, elthough tru= dition tells us that this wasof little velne. These two figures are believed to be pore traits, but the marriagb group seems fo bave been afterwards added to the origina picture. Experts are to decide this question. In the upper left-hand colamn is_the following o ETrmgeor Atme Haibavy itk ot Ehaka spere, . B, POLITICAL. Governor C. C. Washburn is making spéechea for Grant, in Wisconsin, snd esonot, therefore, say anything abont the Credit Mobiliar, whick he arraigned, while in Congress, for plundering the Public Treasury. —An exchange says : B SR S5 s smeek i ‘Which is & way of saying that the Grant party ought to fork over 350,001, But they won't. —Four or five wamen are on the stump, en= eavoring to 2id the present powerfal and oor rupt Administration. ~ Is the coming femals pole itician to be a kleptomaniac ? g - —There sre two editors running for Congrosa in Virginia: James B. Sener, of the Fredere . icksburg Zedger, in the First Districs, sad Colonel Edward Daniels, of the Richmond Rag Journal, in the Eighth. Colonel Daniels wm formerly of the First Wisconsin Cavalry. —The vote of the Disirict 02 Columbis, oz Tuesday, compared with the election of Dalegate in April, 1871, is ag follows: “ October, 1972, Re 12,804 19919| Total............26, . 5,635|Republican majority: 4,092 —Alilo Goodrich is the Libaral candidste for re-election to Congress in the Tweniy-seventia District of New York. —The vote of Lafayette, Ind., was: For ‘Hendricks, 2,100; Browne, 1,809. —They say that the negro repeaters sent ta Philadelphia to vote were dressed in clothing from the United States Arsenal. This is a spe~ cies of Ah-Sin-ality, worthy of s heathen Chinee. —Heilman, avery wealthy man of Evans- ville, was understood to be willing to spend 9100,000 for 8 seat in Congress. His- negotis tion wos with the Grant psrty, endhe comes within 128 votesin a district that gave 2,500 Democratic msajority two years ago. A little more money, and the managers will pull Afr. Heilman thr’on%!;by contessing A Wiblioia - gnt. Welkh Hg) am u;nucvn‘;spnnfl with the on. iam Dodge, of New York, concerning the cost. S = —The Philadelphia Press of the 8th, gaid: Allen Rutherford, a Cameronian, fa in the city. Watch him! He was concerned in election-frauds i North Carolina, —The Cincinnati Commercial gays : Colonel Forney is bysterical. The election of Harte zanct ko aseribes to the glory of Grent. Tho fact Forney bas played the fool copletely, HoknewGi ‘was not fix for the Presidency, and that he ought 1o op~ pose him ; but he wasted histime in attempting an fm~ possille discrimination between Hartranft Graut. “The only way to.smash the Camercn Bing was to bezt Grant, 3nd Forney knew that; hut, pret to be gainat Hartranft and far @rant, be bas bean {g@e g‘hwn;:uw York xndznflln Francisco nwg:hl iden e was {napecting railroads, w Sm.u;h sa;g wig-wag! s % —The Springfield {Mass. ubliean says the Conuecticat town elections? ;?l{’nr 29 theyi‘igni- g anything, confirm the gemeral espectationm at the State will go for Gracley in Novembar. —An O'Conor Fleclorai ticket is to- ba Jaunched on the tempestuons sea of polities i Vermont. g - —It i3 remarkable thet +”.; Grant orgens hava not yet begna to abuse Mr. A. T. Stewart for o] gosing M Bontwell's policy. A whols weak ‘hag passed, ond yet theyare eidenz. The Naw York Tribune says : “If Grant bado’t crughed the Rebellion, freed the slaves, sod paid the pobire debt out of his cwn poskat, © we should like to fdow where Mr. Stowartand dis wealth would baye.been? A ter who = dovelop that subject deserves snmmsary removal.” —Thg TFoledo and Sandagky District in Ohio ‘werg for a time doubtfu], but both heve elected Grantmen. Tho Toledo District gives Sherwood 1,213 majority, ang the Sandusky District gives Foster Ti8. N —The Tincinpati Commercial says : T of the most taleted youug men in Ohio, ap gugfiu ‘politics, but warm persoual triends,—Milton Sayler, of Cineaiuatt and Lewis B. Gufickaly of Day — i g st _;x:'apptfied T politics, Dot e moes et the bk dark night. She went down'to the brink and commenced wading in, Wher she sudden- ged to diferent’ political orgunizetiona, f doubt whether they would L abie ety clearly to doy im0 8 broad Qistnction {a thelz TIewa. 42 EURHS = IS TIOFL o7 FURC polie,