Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1872, Page 4

0 DAILY TRIBUN FRIDAY, OCTOBER TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. ERMS OP SUBECRIPTION (SPA‘ABW ™ ADVAFU'E‘). " Daly, by mall.....S12 unday. o Pl opatt----S1G3| Wenly Parts of a year at the samo rate. Tarovent delay and mistakes, be sare and give Port Offet address tn fall, iacluding Stato and County. Romittances mey bo made eithor by draft, express, Post Ofice order, or fn regiatered lotters, at ourrisk. TEDME 7O CITY SUBSCRISERS. Dally, delivored, Sundsy excepted, 2 cents per meek- Datly: dclivered, Sunday included, 50 cents per weck- ‘Address ‘THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, No. 15 Sonth Canal-at., Chicago, IiL. v 4 he Tarse Branch Office, No. 469 Wabash-ar., ia ¢ Bosketore of Meests, Cobb, Andrews & Co., Whers B iormonts aud sabscriptions will bo received, and N rataive tho £ame atteation cs If loft 3t tho Main Offce. 75 TRIBONE countlng-room aod busiaess department el soaat, for the present, et No. 15 zna_stzeet, Ad- s shonld be handed In at that place. e CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE: FIRST PAGE—Political Nows by Telegrapb—Grand Ex. "odus from Alsaceand Lorrzine—Special New York Markets—Wasbington and European Newe—Roll- gious Gatherings at Jacksonville—Miscellaneous Telograms. EECOND PAGE-Utsh: Lifs fn Salt Lske—Cameron's Oonquest—Bount Shasta; Remlnitconces of Josquin Miller; River and Mountatn Scenery; Hand- some Indisn Women—Phases in tho Lifo of a French Agitator—Crime {n Oceanica—Goneral News Items. THIRD PAGE—Local News : Unrersalist Stato Con. wention; The Viaduct Question; ‘alcott vs. Eickey; Straw Bail and Omnibas Jebus: The Ladies' Tem- “perance Movement; The Law Oourts—Ontonagon Stiver. FOURTH PAGE-Editorlals : Minority Representatlon; The Vote of Ponnsslvania; The District of Co- - lumbla; New Way toPay Old Debts; The Licenze « Law; Current News Items—Political Notes. FIFTR PAGE-Local: Chblcago Ohristaln Unlon Speeh of Senator Morton last eventag—Tho Presi- « dentis! Contest : Address from the Liberal State Committeo of Pennsylvania. SIXTH PAGE—Financial and Commercial News—Ma« Tine Intelllgence—Rallroad Time Tablo. SEVENTH PAGE-Locsl Politics—The Chicago and Evanston Rallroand—Heasy Forgeries in Boston—~ Bible Revision—Miscellaneous Advertisements, Reel Estate,(Wents, To Rent, Boarding, &c. EIGHTH PAGE—Local : Architectural; Oity Brevittes; Amusements; Another Meatiog In Favor of Clas- 1c5 Saloons on Sunday. 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InEngland an agitation has begun seeking the abolition of flogging as & punichment for crime in Newgate, and perhaps other prisons, P A Judge Ingrahsm, of New York, has decided 4hat a watch belongs to that class of necessary articles which cannot be taken on execution for debt. —ees The President, in answer tos Committee, has #2id that he will not order troops to the South- ern States, slections there. or otherwise interfere: in the Tt is expected that Mr. Elliot, one of the pres- ent colored men representing South Carolina in Congress, will be elected to the United States Benate, in place of Senator Sawyer, the present Senator. A petition of colored Masons was presented o the Grand Lodge of the State of Ohio, asking recognition on terms of equelity, but, time not demands of its resders, both as to mechanical appliances and editorial force. It has become one of the permanent institutions of Chicago. 1Its success is nolonger doubtful, and is the re- sult of industry and an independent course in politics. The License law of England permits the Mag- istrate of any town to enforce tho closing of sll ealoons during certain houra of the night and day, andfo revoke the license of any publican who gells adulterated malt liguors. The London Daily News hes secured reports on the working of the law from more than 200 police etations. Itesys: * A decrease in drunkenness and quiet- er streets is the universal testimony. The tes- timony of the night police ia absolutely uniform. Inthe verylargest towns and inthe ruralvillages they equally report its success in producing noc- turnal order.” The Grand Jury of this county have ignored the indictments in eighty cases of prosecutions against saloon-keepers for violating the State law, which prohibits keeping tippling-houses openon Sunday. The Grand Jury heard the evidence, bat their action was based on the fact that this law was enacted in 1845, and has been a dead letter ever since, and that, under these cir- cumstances, they thought there should have been ample publio notice given to all persons en- gaged in the eale of liquors that the law was to be enforced. Besides the official proof of heavy corruptions in Philadelphis, we have the fact of the arrest of the Mayor and Postmaster of the City of Scran- ton for buying votes and bribing election officers to etuff ballot-boxes. Affidavits proving corrup- tion, in twenty distinct cages are filed. From Wilkesbarre, aleo, we learn that the Mayor of that city, the Collector and Asgessor of Inter- nal Revenue, and the candidate for Congress, are arrested on like charges. If the people of Pennsylvania can tamely sub- mit to such crimes sgainst the ballot, without eending a ecore or g0 of the actors to the Peni- tentiary, it will only prove that elections are s farce and a mockery. Burning corn for fuel in Towa! Well, why not? If adollar's worth of corn will make more heat thana dollar's worth of wood orcoal, it should be burned by allmeans, Itis a pity that the loco- motives on the railroads could not burn it too. 1If one-half the entire crop were burned, the re- mainder would, in all probability, sell for more than the whole will bring now. Investigations in England, extending over a & period of two or three hundred years, have shown, epproximate- 1y, that a deficit of one-tenth in the crop of cere- als raises the price three-tenths, a deficit of two-tenths raises it eight-tenths, and soonto & deficit of one-half, which raises the price to four and one-half times the average, A surplus acts upon prices in the opposite way. In the National Board of Trade, yesterdsy, Mr. Hazard, of Buffalo, claimed that it was asking too much to expect the State of New York to give up the revenues of the Erie Canal for the sake of a National appropriation to en- large it, becauso other States would be more benefited by the work than New York. A com- mittee made & report denouncing, generally, all the gambling practices in trade, on which the minority reported a substitnte denouncing gam- bling &nd cornering in grain, stocks, gold, &ec., a8 dishonest. In the discussion it was stated that extensive gambling is done in cotton, the daily nominal sales sometimes exceeding the whole stock of cotton in the country. The ma- jority report was adopted. The Committee on Relations with Canada reported in favor of me- morializing Congress to suthorize a Commission to preparo a treaty for reciprocal trade with Canada on o liberal basis, the scheme to involve the enlargement of the Canadian canals by the Dominion Government, ard their free naviga- tion by American vessels, No action was taken on the report. There is a Grand Jury gession in New York, and there aro mysterions hints thatan additional number of persons have been in- permitting its consideration, it waslaid onthe table, and the Grand Lodge adjourced sine die. Colonel Forney has sold hie paper, the Phila- Aelphia Press, to a combination of political capi- talists, of whom Simon Cameron is one. The price, which is not etated in figures, is eaid tobe = liberal one. TLoanable funds are still very ecarce in the ‘Chicago money market ; but & quist feeling pre- vails, and the belief is entertained that the mar™ Keting of cattle and hogs will soon produce & change for the bette: Attorney General Williams contradicts the statement that he is to leave the Cabinet; he proposes to remsin, and he esys that he with- drew from the candidacy for the Senate before the Legielature of Oregon thathe might remain in his preeent office. Saperintendent of Police Waehburn has with- drawn his order prohibiting newspaper reporters 4rom examining the arrest books at the Police Stations. The order was B0 upjustifiable that the Superintendent abandoned it after 24 hours' toneideration. e The extremely annoying interrzption of postal relations with France seems likely to be terminated by a new treaty, whereby the existing «cates of postage will be reduced one-half. The main parts of the new arrangement have been egreed upon by the two Governments, The Hon. James R. Doolittle will speak fo- -night (Friday) at Central Hall, corner of Twenty- -eccond street and Wabashavenue, at 7:30 o'clock, §n reply to the speech made Jast night by Sena~ tor Morton, of Indisna. Let every man who wants to hear the truth vindicated go to the mmeeting to-night. The Temperance Bureau had a meeting, last night, at Centenary Methodist Church, at shich Dr. N. S. Davis made a report of the vari- ous interviews withihe Mayor and Police Com- missioners. After a number of speeches, resolu- tions were adopted thanking the suthorities for what they had dono towards closing ealoons on Sundaza. A run upon ihe Freedman’s Savings Bank, in Washington, began on Mondsy and continued up to last night. Thebankaeserts its ability to meet 21l demands. The causo of the run is the sup- posed inability of the Diatrict Government to meet its obligations, and tho fact that contract- ors have borrowed large sums from the' bank upon the District’s paper. from the premises formerly occupied by TrE TRIBONE, on COanal street. It is now printed on » four-cylinder Hoe prese, aud i fully up {0 the dicted and will be arrested for complicity in the Ring frauds which were disclosed eighteen months ago. Considering the fact that Tweed Sweeney, Connolly, Hall, Garvey, and Ingersoll were indicted eight months ago, and have never been tried, it looks ridiculous to be now hunting up emaller fry. The indictments against Tweed, Sweeney, and Connolly have been held over the heads of those persons, with whet effect will be seen after the election. Who they will vote for seems to be a ‘more important question in New York, at this time, than whether they are guilty or not guilty. Tweed and his associates seem to know with whom they have to deal, and haveno concern as to the resultof the indictments. The mys- terions indictment of other persons laoks very 'much like a scheme of Jimmy O’Brien and the legal authorities to terrify others into & political alliance. It maybe assumed that Tvweed is al- ready virtually acquitted,—whatever trial he ‘may have to undergo will be a farce. The Chicago produce markets were most of them lower yesterdsy, and many were dull, there being a general feeling of distrust in prices, and 5 desire on the part of holders to realize. NMees pork was quiet and unchanged for cash lots, held at $14.50 ; but easier for future delivery, at £12.50 seller December or January. Lard was dull at 83@8b4e for winter, and73{@8c for sum- mer rendered. Meats were quiet and steady ab 6@6)¢c for shoulders, and 10@10%c for short ribs. Highwines were quiet and steady at 88¢ per gellon. Lake freights were active and fully 1chigher,at 17 for corn bysail to Buffalo. Flour was dull at unchanged prices. Wheat was active, and declined 1}dc, but closed firmer at $1.103 for cash, or seller November, and $1.1034 seller the year. Corn wasless active and declined 1o, but closed firmer at 31cfor! cash, end 81%c, seller November. Oats were dull and X{olower, closing at 21@213c, cash, and 22@ 2934, seller November. Rye wasquietand. 1@134c Tower, at 503¢c. Barley was active at adecline of 14@1c, closing firmer at 63}¢c for No. 2, and 45¢ for No. 8. The hog market was again lower, the decline averaging 10c. The market closed weak 8t $4.30@4.60. The cattle trade was fairly active at unchanged prices. Sheep ruled more quiet and easier. The uses of brothers-in-law are many and verious. They can bo employed to blackmail New Orleans commerce and bribe Louisisna legislators; they can be door-keepers in the house of their lord, and support themselves by shrewd bargeins in offices; they can sneak 1ily into editors’ rooms and beat with & steall loaded eane an old man who has exposed their trickery ; or they can go abroad as Conguls and get repaid for a gories of disgraceful acts id Germany by. being appointed Ministers stance. In fact, 2 President with s good staf of brothers-in-law can have done with dexterity whatever he wishes. So can a Senator. In proof whereof, notice this fact: Three deys ago, the Associated Pressre- ported the arrest, in Philadelphis, of Dr. H. E. Muhlenberg, United States Collector of Inter- nel Revenue, for offering Reinhardt Reiner, Election Judge of the Eighth Ward of Lancas- ter, €200 to stuff the ballot-box for Hartranft. This ornament of our reformed Civil Bervice is the brother-in-law of .Simon Cameron. -Of course, if he manages to keep out of jail, he will keep his office. If he gets into jail, he will be pardoned out, and will then unite with Yerkes in certifying to the good character of £0me commpanion rogue. Beven of our city Aldermen have been indict- ed during the past year,and several of them convicted for corruption, notwithstanding they had all received the regular nominations of party caucuses. This recent experience ought to satisfy the voters of both parties that the mere nomination of a party convention is not satisfactory proof that a candidate ought to go into the Common Council rather than into the Penitentiary., Nor is the fact that a ward-bum- mer is in favor of suppressing the Rebellion and abolishing slavery to the end of the world, any proof that he will not steal the city's money if he gets a chance. . The interests of our city concerning National questions, and as affected by National Govern- ment, must be left to the guardianship of other men than our Common Council. ~ Our members of Congress and Senators are officially entrusted with the business of eaving the Union and abol- ishing slavery for us, and no incompetency on their part, if any exists, can be remedied by the zeal of our city Aldermen in questions of Na- tionel statesmanship. Why, then, will the peo- ple of Chicago allow these irrelevant National issues to interfere with the eelection of o City Council who have the trne intorests of the city at heart? They have done s0 heretofore. Partizan voters havo gone to the polls thinking of the negro question, and voted, on National grounds, for ecallawags of their own party, when, had they been thinking of the interests of Chicago tax-payers, they would have voted for better men. Let there be no Lesitation in this campuign in voting for capable and honest mea, for city officers, whatever may be their party. And let all ecallawags bo scratched with just as littlo hesitation. The law now requires that the names of the candidates shall Lo printed on the tickets in straight lines, with o prescribed space between the lines suffi- cient to allow the printed names to be scratch- ed and other names to be written between them. The old style of printing the names of candidates in intertwisted and meandering carves, so that erasure and interlineation was in- convenient, if not impossible, is now forbidden and abolished. The intent of the law is to give every voter the freest possible opportunity to erase the names of men who are personally objectionable ond substitute others. We hope that in our city election, voters will avail themselves to the fullest extent of this privi- lege. Let them vote for no man whom they o not know by personal knowledge or inquiry to be one who will hold his office without trad- ing on it or making it the means of illegitimate gaing. MINORITY REPRESENTATION. The people of Mlinois, in voting for Represen- tatives inthe Legislature atthe approaching election, will make their first experiment in Pro- portional Representation, or whatis known a8 Minority Representation on the cumulative plan. The only instance within our recollection in which any of onr American States had previons- 1y sought to secure Proportional Reprosentation for the minority party wasin the choice of In- spectors of Election in New York and some other States. This was generally accomplished by the limited vote, which differs from the cumu- lative vote as & modeof accomplishing the same result. Thus: Suppose, in & town of one thousand voters, it is desirable that the majority party, having, say, six hundred voters, ehall chooge only two of the Inspectors of Election, and that the minority party of four hundred voters shall have the other. By the limited vote eachvoter is permit- ted to vote for only two Inspectors. The six hundred vote for the two candidates of the ‘majority party, the four hundred for the one candidate of the minority party, and all three aro electod. By the cumulative, or free vote, s adopted in Illinois, each voter casts three votes, with the right to cast allthree for one candidate, or to divide them between two, giving 13¢ votes to each, or to cast one voto for each of three candidates. The espectation is that party interest will cause each party in & Representative district to nominate only the proportion of candidates which it is entitled to. 1If it has the clear majority in the district, but less than three-fourths of the voters, it will nominate two candidates. If it is clearly in tho minority it will nominate one. If the districtis close, both political parties moy properly nomi- nate two. Let us illustrate these three cases : First. Wheve o party has the clear majority. It it has more than tbree-fourthe of the voters of the district, it can spfely nominate all three Representa- tives and olect them. Thus, in the Ninth Dis- trict, consisting of Boone and Winnebago, there were polled in 1870 7,874 votes, of which the Republicans polled 6,617, and the Democrats 1,257, the Democratic vote being leas than one- fifth as large s the Republican. Here, if the Ropublicans should nominate only two candi- dates, supposing party strength to be un- changed, they would lose one member need- lessly, as the two would be elected by about 9,915 votes, (each person casting 134 votes) while the opposition candidate would also boe clected by 8,761 votes, (each one casting three votes), be- cause none had voted against him. If, however, the Republicans nominate three candidates and distribute their voto equally between them, 7. ., each Republican voting one vote for cach of the three candidates, then the Republicaus would elect all three, the voto received by either being greater than the aggregate Democratic vote. If, however, in such s district, the Republican voters go to voting without concer of action, it could possi- bly result that all the voters in the district might “plump" so many of their votes upon one can- didate s to result in the election of not only one but two Demoeratic Representatives from this very district. This, however, is a very ox- treme snd improbeble case, and would require that the votes should bo cash some- what a8 follows : The Republican voters, 6,617 in number, having three votes each, would cast in 21119,851 votes. If we suppose one of their candidates to be 8o popular, and the iwo others so unpopular, that 18,500 votes should bo te other notions—Denmark, for in- “plumped” on the popular mexn, while the others got 500 and 851 respectively, then the 1,257 op- position voters, casting 3,771 votes, might give two candidates 1,8853¢ votes each, which would elect them both over the two 'less popular Re- publican candidates. Tho only other district in which tke Republi- cang had more than three-fourths of the voters in 1870, and =re, therefore, entitled to the three Representatives, is the Thirteenth, consisting of DeKalb, Kerdall, and Grundy Counties. In these, tho aggregate Republican vote was 7,359, ngeinst 2,391 Democratic. In this district, though the Democrats vote three votes each for one candidate, he will be beaten, provided the Republicans vote one vote each, exactly, for each of their tbree candi- dates. In every other district of the State, how- ever, the minority party, whether it be the Re- publican or the Liberal, can elect its one Repre- sentative, provided each of its voters will ¢ plump "his whole three votea for one man. Thus, in the Eleventh District, consisting of Camoll and Whiteside Counties, there are 5,861 Republican voters, and 2,124 Democratic voters, without reference to recent changes. If the Republicans here undertake to elect three Representatives, they may fail even of electing two. To explain: The 5,861 Re- publicans cast 17,583 votes, while the 2,104 Democrats cast 6,372 votes. If the Republi- cans nominate three candidates, and every Ra- publican votes for each of them, they will get 5,861 votes each, while, if ihe Democrats “plump” their wholo vote on one candit date, he will get 6372 votes. This will elect tho Democratic candidate by alarger voto than thateast for either of the Republicans, snd will leave three Republican candidates having a tie vote, of whom only two can be admitted to seats. If, however, the Re- publicans vote unequally, and some one popular candidate draws off the great massof the vote, the Democratic vote, by being divided between the two candidates, might be mede to elect two, as in the instance previously given. Becond. Xf a party is clearly in the minority, the danger of losing any Representative atall, if it attempts to elect two, is apparent. In the TFiftieth District, for instance, the Democratic party had 4,227 votes in 1870, and the Ropubli- cans 2,803, Should the Republicans here at- tempt to clect two candidates, theycan cast for each of them 4,847 votes. The Demo- crats might insure the success of the Republicans by trying to clect three candidates. For, in that case, the latter would get only 4,227 votes each, and two Republican candidates and one Democratic would be elected. The Demo- crats, however, can oasily elect their two Repre- sentatives by voting for only two, for they will then givo them each 6,3403¢ votes. It will be seen that in all tho countics, and on the part of the voters on both sides, some consultation will be needed beforehand. Indeed, if it will not compel, it will render ex- ceedingly expediont, some consultation between the nominating Conventions of the two partios, as well as definite instructions from some Cen- trel County Committees to the voters of both parties, instructing them how to vote, €0 as not to throw away votes. Both those features, viz.: conferences between opposing parties, and instructions to voters, are mew in our politics, aad it is impossible to say how they will work. Ervidently the elec- tions of Representatives under the minority sys- tem arenot agood fieldin which to test the rolative strength of parties or to aim et partisan victories, for cither the minority or majority perty is lisble to bo tripped up, and loco whaé representation it is entitled to, by aiming to get more. Tho object of both parties should be to put in the field their most worthy men who ean be got to accept the place. Wo think the effect of this system will_very soon be to cause State Legislators to be elected with reference to their personal ca- pacity and their fitness for legielating on State questions, and less than heretofore with refer- ence to their views on National questions. The arguments in favor of the adoption of the plan were deemed overwhelming when it was under discussion. The people have adopted it, and wo hope that its trial as an experiment in self- government will be full, fair, and without im- patience or prejudice. THE VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA. o have waited patiently since the Pennsyl- vania election for the suthentic proofs, which we were gatisfied must soon come, that the chief portion, if not the whole, of the alleged majority for Hertranft in that State was the re- sult of frand and ballot-stuffing. Tae first of these proofs came yesterday, in n form not only suthentic, but official, and so deep and damn- ing in its force as an argument against the entire Hartranft party =as ought, at least, to silence their indecent boastings over their dastardly overthrow of the ballot in Pennsylvania. The following ato the beginnings of the proof that false counting and ballét-stuffing carried the State: To the Reform Association of Philadelphia: Gents: In the ofiicial count of votes for Gov- emnor, in the Fifteenth Ward, it is represented that the majority for Governor was 1,597, as fol- lows: For Hartranft, 4,490; for Buckelew, 2,893, Tho undersigned, Judges of Election, signed no suchroturn or paper. The true vote for Governor was a8 follows, they having signed the same: For Hariranft, 4,390; for Buckelew, 2,003; mejority, 1,397. By exposing tho above frand, you will obligo friends of Reform in the Fifteenth Ward, 2nd show how our Return Elec- tion Judges alter the returns to suit their own partisan way of fixing up clection returna. Respectfully yours, Joux PRITNER, Judge of First Division. 3 aaEs NasH, Judge of Second Division. W. J. Muzray, Judge of ‘Seventh Division. Avrrep Mureny, Judge of Twenty-second Divigion. One hundred votes in 2 single ward are teken from Buckalew and added to Hartranft, making 8 difference of two hundredin the countin the Tifteenth Ward. Our despatches also state that in il the wards at least two hundred votes were counted more than were polled ; while in the Nineteenth Ward fifteen hundred fraudulent votes were polled, in the Twontieth five bundred, ond in the Tenth, Fifth, Fourtl, Sixteenth, and Seventh, fivo hundred votes each. The total falso count and fraud- ulent vote in Philadelphia, accomplished afier the relurns passed out of the hands of the Elec- tion Judges, amountedto 15,000. ALl this was exclusive of e results of repeating and other {rauds by voters, of colonized votgrs from other States, of votes smreptitiously changed by the Election ofticers, and of all rimilar frauds in other parts of Penusylvania, especially in Pitte- ‘burgh, Harrisburg, sad ile other largs towne, in all which there were mystericus and system- atie “nstonnding gains for Hartrangt,” while the rural districts 23 uniformly gave gaing for Buckalew. Ttis not tholower class of ward bummers who are responsible for the wholesale villainy ex- posed by the above official certificate and the attendant proofs. Thisaffair has been engi- neered from headquarters,and the parties respon- eible for it are Cameron, Hartranft, and the oth- erleaders of the Grant party in Pennsylvania. It ison an exact moral level with tho concerted pardon of Yerkes and Marcer from the Peniten- tiary, in consideration that they should sign an unsworn statement thet Hartranft was not the thief which their sworn evidence had proved him tobe. Both oventswere preceded by hurried conferences by tho President blimself with Cameron, Geary, Hartranft, and other Grant leaders, and by a hasty journey of Camer- on to Washington, ostensibly, it was #aid, to de- mand United States troops in Philadelphis, to protect the heavy majority of Grant voters from being dragooned, overawed, and driven from the polls by tho Greeley minority! Conceding the facts shown by the above certi- ficate to be true, Ropublican institutions in Penneylvania hiave completely failed. The State is governed by crime,—not by laws or constitu- tions. The people of that State stand disfran- chiged, robbed of the power to choose their own officers, aud not now for the first time.- The ultimate 2nd sll-important issue which these fraudsin Pennsylvania bring before the so-called Republican party in the Northwest is whether the average of its voters are any more honest than the Pennsylvania ballot-stuffers. If they are not, they will merely ehrug their shoulders, and eay, a3 many of them do, “ Well, if we can carry Pennsylvanis that way, how are you going to beat us #”" p It is the chronic and unprecedented evil of our time that not only are high officials de- bauched and indifferent to any phase or degree of corruption, but large masses of the people aro equally destitute of any such sense of hon- esty and honor a8 renders them indignant at frauds which strike at the very existence of Re- publican institutions. These will sympathize with the public officer who makes money out of his office corruptly, or dispenses . his appoint~ ments for gifts, because they unblushingly 2dmit that they would do the same themselves were they in power. Perhaps the majority of the Republican voters of the Northwest, having approved so much, will approve, also, the frauds which have struck down the right of suffrage in Pennsylvania by & crime as far- reaching as the assassination of Lincoln by Booth. That killed the chosen represontative of" the sovereign people. This sssassinates Popu- lar Sovereignty itself. Thatwas the individual crime of one man. This is the organized crime of aset of men whose audacity as swindlers elevates them to tho places of statesmen, and they boldly ask the so-called Republican party throughout the country to approve it by sustain- ing its managers in power. The appeal, how- over, is to the whole people. If you approve the Pennsylvania iniquity, vote for Grant. If you do not, vote against him, A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS A question is now pecding in one of the French courts, the decision of which will be of vital interest to many thousands in this country, and will coms directly home to almost every one, who has to depend upon art to repair tho dam- ages which time inevitably causes in propria persona, This question is whether falso teeth and the other artificial accessories, which fend to preserve the divinity of tho human form, are linble to seizure for debt. The universality of the use of artificial aids to benuty heightens the importance of this decision. In tho fast sge in which we live, man as well as, woman gets ont of repair very rapidly, and necds almost constant patching and tinkering to make a presentable sppearance. Otherwise, the most of us would simply be more or less picturesque ruins, notwithstending the assertion of the anatomists that the human form renews itself every seven years. After s man passes thirty-five, some- times before, he begins to moulder and crumble, for the reason that in these thirty-five years he hes dome what ought to have taken seventy years to accomplish. Ho. has lived too fast, eaten too fast, drank too fast, walked too faat, worked too fast, played too little, slopt too lit- tle, snd rosted too lLittle. Gas light, acids, poisons, writing desks, high stools, coal stoves, carbonic acid, omnibnses, tight boots, and 6 o'clock dinners, followed faithfully and persistently for thirty-five years, make it inevitable that art must be called in to help na- ture along. As nearly all of us are in this con- dition, it becomes a question of prime impor- tance whether the law can step in, and, taking away the aids to besuty and applisaces of art, leave us a cheerless lot of human ruins, nataral fractions instead of artistic integers. Then, again, as every man imbibes from the maternal fount, the irresistible desire to get into debt, and gradually, as that passion becomes a habit, gets into debt with the most parfect ease, and with & Micawberish indifference as to the time and manner of satisfying his little obligations, the prospect for art becomes still moro disconraging, if this decision allows the creditor to take a man’s teeth out of his mouth. If the ruthless croditor can take the teeth, what is to hinder him from taking the_ wig, the glass-eye, the rubber-nose, the cork- leg, the wooden-arm, the tin ear, even coat, hat, vest, pants, and boots, and turning & man out, with 1o other clothing then a pair of eye-glasses and a tooth-pick, to prove the truthof Plato’s famous definition of man. Micawber; Manta- lini, and Skimpole were constantly in debt. Every man who met thoge fascinating creatures carried their I O U’s in his pocket, and there is no record to show that their voluminous prom- ises to pay ever involved them in any more .| serious trouble than the lime they occupied in writing them, or that they suffered therefrom in the elegance of their personal appearance by the lossof anyof thosolittle objects of art with which they were accustomed to repair the ravages of time. The application of such a prin- ciple, however, as the creditor in the tooth-snit secks to establish, wonld fill our streets with collapsed jaws, bald-hoads, one-eyed, onc-legged, and one-armed cripples, not to mention the wbsence of raiment,—ruins of men who now stand credited with the symmetrical graces of Apollo and the béauty of Adonis, end whose real conditions are known ouly to their valets, if they have any, and to their looking-glasses, if they have not. It n man’s hair, teeth, and eyes aro not szered, what is ‘sacred? Humanity, not %o speak of the universal love for the beautiful, re< volts against the remorseless creditor who would carry his greed so far a8 to leave & man’s Lead asbare o8 o tiled floor, invest him with & sightless orb instead of the swe-inspiring ox- pression of & glass-eye, and compel him to feed on spoon victusals, who has been accustomed to feed on roast beef and boiled turkey, simply be- cauae the viclim owes him & certain number of doliars and cents, which ho might have lostif he badn't lent. If the Parisian court shell decida that man can thus be stripped of his necessary falsities and artistic acceszories with®impunity, we gee no resson that will except womsan from the operations of the same decision. If glass-eves, toupeds, and false teeth are legitimate objects of seizure, by what process of law can switchaos, chignons, paniers, and the multitudinous forms of female adornment escape? Ruined men and wrecked women would go side by side in such questionable shapes that their most intimate friends wonld not be able to recognize them. When Thackersy drew, with bis satiricel pencil, tho picture of Louis XI. divested of . his royal purple and kingly” adornments, with sach advan- tages and accessories only 23 Nature had sup- plied him with, the whole world laughed at the man whose dignity -and character depended so largely upon the adventitions sids of act. - And yet Lonis XI. was but the type of what we are all coming 'to, if ‘creditors can take ns by the jaw and tell ns to hand over our teeth. They might 28 well go the whole figure, like Shylock, and demand the pound of flesh. We do not be- lieve, however, that such an outrage will be tolerated without protest. We are inclined to the opinion thet every man will set his mouth like flint against it, and dispute the right of possession with such Vandals, tooth and nail. ——— THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Pablic attention has been so absorbed by the elections in the three great States last week and fiy their colossal frauds, that the election and the frands, to which the little District of Columbis proudly lays claim, have been al- most overlooked. At the recent election, the District was to choose s delegate to Congress, besides s Territorial House of Delegates. And an attempt wes made by the better cless of Re- publicans to bresk the power of the Ring in the Board of Public Works, whith rules the District, by the election of an independ- ent éandidate. But here, 88 in Pennsylvania and Sonth Carolins, the Ring triumphed, end spparently by the same means. Tho threedaily, four Sundsy, and other newspspers in the Dis- trict are, with one exception, held silent a8 to its operations, by.the distribution among them of 100,000 annually for' advertising. The Board employs the votes of eight thousand workmen, and has absolute control of the negroes of the District, not a few of whom are believed to have assisted in the recent extensive railrozd build- ing in Pennsylvania. This Board of Public Works, which thus ma- nipulates the clections, is itself sbove the power of those with whom it thus interferes. Each of its five members is appointed by the President, 83 ave also the Governor, Secretary, and other members of the'Superior branch of the Terrifo~ rial Government. In the hands of these men is placed arbitrary power over-the public improve- ments of the city, and to make special assess- ments for special operations, which they alone control, to draw money from the Treasury upon their own warrants, to audit their own accounts) and pay their own bills. They are neither accountablo to, mor dependent mpon, the people, whosoe interests, comfort, and prop- erty they have in trust. Such irresponsible power conld not be safely trusted to the most saintly men, and the consequences have been what might be expected. Improvements, so-called, of the most extreve~ gant character have been undertsken, the public strests have been uptorn for miles, and expen- ditures of millions of dollars incurred. Whole squares ere rendered impassable at the same time, a3 visitors to Washington found last win- ter to their annoyance. To carry out this work & loan’ wes authorized by Congress of $4,000,000. This, by means of groes exaggeration of the value of the property which secured the loan, was sold in Europe at 94 cents on the dollar. The temper in which these gen- tlemen sway their antocratic power is evidenced by the answers they gave when before the In- vestigating Committee lost winter. When asked why work was begun on so many streeta &t the beginning of winter, which would necessarily in- terrupt them, the Vice President of the Board replied that it was because “‘certain people had fought (us) them ever since the new Govern- ment was organized.” For other irregular acts 10 other explanation could be elicited from the members of the Board than that they were done ‘under © the law of necessity.” This law is broad enough surely for the District of Columbia or any other despotism. We hear a great deal about the pains of Liv- ing, but the pleasures of dying do not seem suficient to attract many persons. Professor Tyndsll has shown, by & somewhat elaborate calenlation, that death by lightning is absolutely painless. Yet the sncient matron, racked by Theumatism and professedly aweary of this world of woe, still seeks, during & thunder- storm, the feather-bed or the coal-cellar, as of yore, Mr. Junius Henri Browne has apparently taken & hint from Tyndall's cesay, and now ai- tempts to prove that death in every form is a mere form, and quite a pleasant one. He paints a poisomed person &s a really enviable being, while e drowning man would be, according to Mr. Browne, ex- tremely foolish to grasp at either straws or more substantial helps. The trouble is, in thesae cases, that injudicious friends persistin trying to Testore the victims to life. X dose of arsenic may be soothing (although we prefer not to take any in ours), but the resulting dose of stomach pump cannot be represented, with any regard for truth, 8s at all pleassnt. So, although persons taken insensible from the water and revived picture their early sensatioas as dreams of bliss, they agreo that getting back to life is exceedingly painful. Mr. Browne says that a fall from a great height causes & peinless death; that a soldier struck by bullet or shell # never knows what killed him;” end that even death at the stake is o matter of little consequence. If this essay should gain general eredence, the list of suicides cught to show s marked increase. Who would die in hisbed after s long, agonizing sickness, when he could take a pleasure trip to the next world 2 One of the wonders of the wonderful West s been the ship stranded in the Colorade desert. As the level of this sand-plain is below that of the sea, ithes been conjectured thata passage formerly cxisted from tho Pacific toa great lake, and thab this vessel floated in and sunk. But who could have bailtit? The lake must have dried up long beforetho “missing 1ink” of the Darwinian theory was born from his monkey-mother in Africg. S0 conjecture has been Laflled. The ship was surely there. Its situation in the-centre of an impassable morass, tenmiles across, prevented any mear approach, .but a good spy-glass made it ensy to boseen. Tho explanetion of the mystery bes justbeen given. 'In 1861, one Horace Clark de- | cided to establish & ferry across the Colorado, He built a boat, put it on 8 wagon, and started for the river. A dry sesson had made the ‘morags apparently passable, He pmyheq across it and barely got through himself, leaving his mules and wagon somewhere beneath the sur- face, and his boat Testing on top of them. The Indians soon discovered the stranded ship. The story was told to the whites. A scientific expe- dition plunged into ths desort and gazed at the rotting wreck, across five miles ofmud. 1t has Deen a ten-year marvel,—to tho intense _delight, doubtless, of Clark, whko las been living in Soutkern Culifornia ever since, and has but jusé told Lis secret, The list of Helmbold’s creditors contains the names of 236 newspapers, published from the Isthmus of Paname to Newfoundland, and from: the Atlantic to the Pacific. The great druggist seems to have betowed his favors impartially. ‘The Day's Doirgs is done outof a neat little sum, and the San Francisco Hebrew Cb- server and the New York Obsercer will never observe, we fear, the payment of their bill. Should Ar. Helmbold settlo his linbilities, he will present the New York Torld with $2,810.45; the Herald with ° $4,900.70; the Sun with 37,093.52; and the _Tribune, with $7,512.95. On nis westward way, he will draw checks in favor of the Cincinnstt press for sums ranging from £33.33 for tha Is- raelite to $2,473.20 for the Commercial. A heavy dratt on his purse will be made in Chicage. He owes the Union $175; the Journal, £583.33; the Times, $1,864.41; and Tur TRIMUNE, $8,518. Adfter all these creditors are appeased, he wilk still have 265 advertising’ bills to mee#, inclnd- ing one of 8. M. Pettingill & Co., for 311,479, POLITICAT. . Wes: Virginia elects Congressmen Oct. 24 —One of the issues of the Tennessee canvasa is to break up the Convention system, and re- turn to the old plan of independent candidacy. —The official vote of the Indianapolis district fox Congress, compared with 1868, isas follows s 1 1872, Coburn, Rep........15,115 = Coburn, Rep... EKeightley, Dem. . ...14,683 | McNutf, Liberal. —Henry Wilson made last night, at Boston his ninety-ninth speech in the canvass for tha Vice Presidency. * —Congressman Henry D. Foater, the ancjent antagonust of John Covode, is beaten for re-al tion by 639 majority. - —The Pennsylvania Constitutionsl Convern. tion will meet in Harrisburg on the 12th of No- Y;xinher, and will probably adjourn to Philadal- phia. —3ilas Woodson, the Liberal candidste for Governor of Missonri, Las resumed his canvass, although still weak from recent severe illness. —Scnator Schurz has appointments nest week, in Missouri, at Boonville, Sedalis, Lexingtom, Kanses City, St. Joseph, and Macon City. —Among the gentlemen most actively on tha stump for Greeley, in New York, are: Amasa J. Parker, Charles B. Sedgwick, William E. Rob- inson, Emory B. Pottle, James 8. Thayer, Gen- eral H. A. Barnum, Judge Harlow L. Comstock, William B. Ruggles, Judge E. D. Calver, E. O. Perrin, John A. Griswold, John G. Saze, William A. Beach, and Erastus Brooks, besides Francia Kernan, Chauncy M. Depew, Sam. 8. Cox, and others who are candidates. Horatio Beymonr ia announced for speeches at Lowville, the 21st, and Cooperstown, the 23d. 5 —The Springfield Republican says: The Liberals are certainly beginning to revive from Pennsylvania just as they did aftér the first offects of the Maine purchase of votes wers off. They akow pluck and vitality, the conscionsness of & good catse, 2and the conviction of & strength not yet developed. —The great mojorities obtained forthe Grant ticket in Lawrence, Gallia, Scioto, and other counties bordering on the Obio River, are sig- nificant. They were contiguons to the Statea from which negroes conld be, and were, doubt- less, run overin large numbers and colonized. for voting purposes. Hamilton County was, sounded, but we 1ero on the alert hers, and pro~ vented 1t to an)"greai extent.—Cincinnati Enx quirer. = —A VWashington letter says one effex¥, of Grzot's re-election will be to make the pagiy that supports his Administration more solidified and imperious, and more exczcting than ever. The writer proceed Sofsr from pledging himsclf inhis inavgural to. Tetire at the close of his second term, e will te silent on that subject, leaving it to his friends to manage that matter, as they do, for their own benefit, -1f m second term for General Grant is desirable to them, s third term will be still more so. —Thke supporters of the Administration in Florida heve fallen to quarreling over the spoils of patrcnsge, and there is a high old row at Jacksonville. y —Ex-Governcr Ishem G. Harris has token the stump in East Tennessee, against his old ene- my, Andy Johnson. X — Hartranft, in 2 speech since the election, gent his personal compliments to Forney, Cur~ tin, Billingfclt, Moorhead, ‘and others, 'in these words: A few men, who assumed to be leadcrs, deserted to the enemy in the heat of the battle, but no one fol- Iowed them, and their going has given us peace ao@ harmony. One of them now pretends to be for Grees ley, another pretends to be for Graut, and anotber pre= tends that he don’t know whether he is'for Grant ot Greeley. But one thingis sure; these men step) outside of the Republican party in order to defest it, and, 50 far as I am concerned, they shall siay out, or, if they repent, they must go o the rear,scd Dot ns~ Bsume o try to be leaders, —Josiah Turner, Jr., whose Sentinel printing office at Raleigh was blown up the other morn~ ing, is very unpopular with General Grant's par~ ty in North Carolina. A correspondent writes = 'He has done more in the last three years.to exposa the villalnies of carpet-baggers and~Administration ihieves than all the other papers put logother, Hobaa been unrelenting, and is hated by the heartily, They fried totake hislife by shooting af i Eight of them attacked him in the Tis life was eaved only by bis ool bravery, ho being armed with two pistols, which ha drew. 'They have twice shot at his wife. * His press was broken only £wo or three months 8g0 by & carpete bagger at night, and cost $400 for repairs. —The greed for Plunder in the Grant party does not alone imperil the Natiopsl Treasury. It is co-extensive with the possession of Power. The Springfield Republican eays : Although the population of ham County, it Now Hampshire, of which Portsmonth znd Exater aro tho chief towns, has not increased much since 1830, and has actually diminished since 1860, the comnty taxin the lost 42 years has shown a prodigions tn~ crease. In 1830, thie second year of Jackson's Admine istration, the tax was but $4,000; this year it is $30,000, or 20 times s great. In 1840, it was 10,000 in 1850, $16,667; in 1855, when the Republicans fook session of the State, about §20,000, In 1850, 35,0003 under Republican rule’ for ten years, it Tun Up to 369,500 in 1870, and now it is $80,000. This does not caver any War expenses, but s the sdvance in. ‘prices, end the reckless expenditure of the Republican County Ring, And yet the New Hampshire tax-psyera are called upon to shudder at the thought of this Re~ ‘publican Ring losing its power. —The Memphis dvalanche ssysthe Hunter ticket in Arkensas wasa fraud, concocted by Clayton to deceive and divide the Opposition forces, under the pretence that Governor Hadley had sepesated from him; and the Avalancha adds: The Arkansas Gra! gnagers are noted for shrewd- ness, and the Conservetive managers for the sbsence of that shining political virtue. —TThe Norfolk Virginian says: Whether Bfr. Grezley is elected or not, it is plain that the canvass has made the people beyond the Potomac think over the troubles and distresses to which we bava been eubjected. The New York Heather-Cock, com~ ‘monly kmown 23 the Herald,cries out in advance for fair trestment toward the wLite people of tho South, 2nd tho Greeley campaign has pitained this result at Jeast, —The Houston Union, Grant’s paid orgaa in Texns, insists that the Mexican Protectorate will come speedily after Grant is re-elected. —The Rev. D. S. Starr, of Whitehs!l, who waa nominaied a8 the Bourban candidate for Lieu- tenant Governor of Illinois, ‘¢ resgectfully de- clines the honor.” —Senator Allison, of Towa, disappointed a Des Moines sudience, last_Wednesday csvren.m%:i by not coming to time. The Senator has hod little heart in the canvass for Grant's re-election. —Thero is no faltering in New Jersey. The TLiberal press of that State stands squarely up to the fight, and shows no sign of doubt er fear. ¢ —The New York Times, in the campaign now happily almost over, Las earned for itself a reputation for infamy cnly surpaesed by that of the men in Pennsylvania whom, in its slavish subserviency, it has lauded to the skies. It is tue Dalgotty of the American pross, and, as such, its paid-for slanders can bo passed by, but its brutality, its ignorance, and lack of patriot ism, honor, and decency, constitute it a mean critic of even the most ordinary of Americans.— Forney's Press, —The case of Dr. James Presiley, of Pitts. burgh, Pa., whose f_)g)e'.\l to Lo restored to mem- bership in the United Presbyterien Church bas excited 80 much interest. will doubtless be set~ :lig% in the meeting of the Synod, now in ses- _ f