Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 24, 1872, Page 4

{HE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1872. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. To prevont delsy and mistakes, be sure and give Post Office sddress in fall, including Btate and County. ‘Remittences may bo made either by draft, express, Fost Office arder, or in registored lotiors, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Dails, dclivored, Sunday excepted, 25 centa per week. Dally, delivered, Sundsy included, 20 conts per wevk. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, No. 15 South Cansl-st., Chicago, Il TripTSE Branch Offce, No. 469 Wabash-sv., in the Bookstore of Measrs. Cobb, Andrews & Co., where Sdvertisements and subscriptions will be receised, and will Teceive the same attention as if left at tho Main Office. - THE TRIBUKE counting-room aod business department. #ill remain, for the preseat, at No. 16 Canalstreet. Ad- ld be handed in at that plac LIBERAL NOMINATIONS. NATIONAL. Por President: 'HORACE GREELEY, of New York, ‘For Vice President: B. GRATZ BROWN, of Missouri, ELECTORAL. For Electors of President and Vice President s At Targe—~WILLIAM BROSS, of Chicago; JOHN D. CATON, of Ottaws; .THOMAS HO: H ASPAR BUTZ; STEPEEN R, MOORE; MARTIN SHALLENBARGER; EORGE EDMUNDS, J2.; STEINWEDELL; Bixteenth Beventeen! Eighteenth, uneteenth STATE. For Governor : GUSTAVUS EOERNER, of 8. Clair. For Licutenant Governor : JOHN CHARLES BLACK, of Campaign, For Secretary of State: EDWARD B of Peoris, For Auditor of Public Accounta: DANIEL O'HARA, of Cook. ‘For State Tressurer CHABLES H. LANPEIER, of Ssngamon, For Attorney General : JOHN V. EUSTACE, of Lee. For Clerks of the Supreme Court: D. WILBANES, of Jefferson, COUNTY. CONGRESSIONAL, First District~LUCIUS B, OTIS. Second District—CARTER H, HARRISON, Third District—JOHN V. LEMOYNE. 'STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION, First District—DANIEL C, SKELLY. Secord District~THOMAS WILCE. “Third District—CHARLES 'ENOBLESDORFF. First District (Ww;!x?.n')., 10, snd 11)—Senator istrict (War 3 tor : JAMES W, SHEAHAN. keprnaenmuvu : HENRY SWEET, 0TTO MUTSCELECHENER. Second D!fitflct“ (Wards V.‘é, Affis“ggB% El_!:'%: Park A:e 4.2ke)—Senator : JAMES E“‘-“n ux'fl):_F%?sL\'K T&mm‘_’ N, Eg)ig’l‘ il 3ON. Third District , 7, an nator : S EEHOE. Bepresentatives : CONSTANTINE EAHN, THOMAS M. HALPIN. Fourth District (Wards 9, 12, snd 19)—Senator: W WOODARD. Representatives:™ H CONDOY, S. 8. GARDNER, ‘Fifth District (Wards 14, 15, snd 18)—Senator: FoTIoN ¢ FODY, Depsmsgreer BUCH LAUGHLIN, 3 NS. Sixth Dlst{'i!:t (Wards 16, 17, 19, and 20)—Senator: BENBY E. HAAILTON, Representatives: W. C. 2Mc- CLUEE, OTTO PELTZER, : ‘Seventh District (County fowns, except Lake and Hyde Park)—Seaators ——, Bepresentative: DAN- IEL BOOTH, COUNTY OFFICEES. State's Attorney—THOMAS J, TURNER, Sh 'HARLES EERN. Coroner—RODNEY N, DAY, County Clerk J. CROWLEY, Circuit Clers—GEORGE F. BLANKIE Recorder—' SUTHERLAND. DE- Mo- (St e e DANIELC. § ¥, ALEXANDER BENGLEY, M. cities, bavk-deposits have been greatly diminish- od within the last three weeks, and the sbility of the banks to belp the mercantile community has ‘been diminished in proportion. ‘Under cover of Federal anthority, UnitedStates Commissioner Davenport has undertaken to reg~ ulate the coming Btate election in New York, Yesterdsy, s citizen, who refused to sanawer the questions of one of his deputies, was arrested without warrant, and smerced in hesvy bail. Davenport is said to have announced his intention to reduce the vote of New York City to 120,000. e e By vote of .the Board of Trustees, yesterdsy, Rev. C. H. Fowler, of this city, has been called tothe Presidency of the Northwestern University, ‘made vecant by the recent resignation of Rev. E. 0. Haven, D. D. Theposition is one of great responsibility and trust, and the selection made will be widely spproved. Dr. Fowler was one of the earliest gradustes of the institution of which he is now made President. — A report has been going the rounds of the press to the effect that the Chicago & North- western Railway is about to be consolidated with the Chicago & Canada Southern and the Toledo, Wabash & Western, all of which are to be operated in conjunction with the Midland Rail- way of New York. The officers of the North- ‘western Railwsy, in this city, deny any Imowl- edge of such proposed coneolidation, The Illinois Stoats Zeilung comes very near overatepping the line which separates s traly loyal paper from a traiforous Copperhead sheet. In its issue of yesterdsy it urges its readers to vote tor no candidate for the Legislature, or for Alderman, who does not declare explicitly that if elected he will vote for the repeal of the ex- isting Temperance law and the Sunday law. “Yote only for those candidates,” it says, ¢ who return sn unequivocal satisfactory snswer, whether they be Republicans or Democrats.” In his speech on Tnesday evening Mr. Pendle- ton reached the full dignity of theoccasion when hesaid: “I do mot expect, if Greeley were elected, thet he would give us & partisan Dermo- cratic Administration, I should not respect him it he@id, It would mot be consistent with the gpirit of the movement which will carry himinto power. He has promised that he will restore peace and fraternal good feeling to all of our people. Hehas promised that he will give us sound Civil Bervice Reform, that he will intro- dunce honor and honesty into the administration of the Government, and I ssy, gentlemen and Democrats, it is folly for us to refuse to accept this because wa eannot get more.” ———ee—— Fifty cases of the horse-disease were discov- ered yesterdsy in the stables of the West Bide Horse Railway Company, on Wabash avenue. Only three cases have proved fatal. The disease in now raging through Canada and Western New York, and has now reached Boston and New York City, where, in one stable, one thou- sand yorses were disabled in twenty- four hours, and in sanother, two hundred in four honrs. Since Monday, seven thousand ‘bave been attacked. On the Third Avenue Rail- road, ¢wo thousand are affected. A great panic KELLY, . ROBINSON, THEODORE KINMMEN, CONT ENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE—News by Telegraph: Politica), Washing- o, New Yosk, aad Forelgn News—Miscellaneon® Telegrams—Adrertisements. SECOND PAGE—Arksnsas Letter: Annalsof the State ‘frtm Original Documents—Local Communications— The Horse-Diseage—A Whiskey Buit: Liquor De- stroyed to Prevent its Falling into the Hands of In- dians—Femalo Smugglers—Tho Bmith College for “Women—Personal~General News Items. THIRD PAGE—Our Mercantile Marine: The (rainand ZLumber Trade of Oblcago—The Ogden Ditch— Railroad Freights~Fifth Ward Alderman—Thioves' Resoris; Whera tha Light Fingered Most Do Congre. ‘gate—Presidert Lincoln smd Secretary Seward—Al- exsndro Dumas, Fils—Address from the New Jersoy ZLiberal Republican State Committee—A Gamo That Wouldn't Play—A Remarkable Sait—Disbolical Thieves—Ratlrosd Aocldents—Advertisements. FOURTH PAGE—Editorlals: The Secor Fraud; Small ‘Poxin 5t. Louls; The Oanadian Horse Disease—Our. rent News Items—Folitical. FIFTH PAGE-Northwestern University: Rev. Dr. Fowler Elocted President--The Law Oourts—Re- ligions Matters: Mission Sunday School Work In Chicago; Alumnl Institute of the Chicago Theo- logical Seminsry—Liberal Nominations—Railroad Time-Tablo—Adsertisomants. /SISTH PAGE-Monetary and Commorclal~Marine News., SEVENTH PAGE—Small Advertisements; Recl Estate, For Sale, Ta Rent, Boarding and Lodging, sto. EIGHTH PAGE~The Horse Disease in Chlcago— Amusemente~The Locsl ampatgn. —— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. MWICKER'S THEATRE—Madison streot, between State sod Dearporn. Rorvivalof B. G. Howard's co med ¢ Seratoga.™ ‘HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE-Randolph straat, bo- tween Olark and ZLaSalle, Abbott-Kiralfy troups. *4Tpree Hunchbacks.™ ACADEMY OF MUSIO—Halsted stract, near Madi- eon. Mra. F. 5. Obunfrau. The Freuch version of *‘East Iyore.” ATREN'S THEATRE—Wsbash avenue and“Congross ctrost. Mrs. Ostes' Burlesquo Tronpe, ** Prima Donus of - a Night.” aypRa- UPERA HOUSE-—Monroe street, botween State and Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton & Kemble's Minstrel and Burlesque Company. GLOBETHEATRE-Desplatnes, hetwoen Madison and Washington strests, Variety Entertatoment; buslesque, Tallet, minstrelsy, NIXON'S—Clinton street, betwoen Washington and “Randolph. Mafitt and Bartholomew Pantomime Troupe. HALSTED STREET OPERA HOUSE~Corner of Fsrrison street. McEvoy's Eibernicon, and Irish Come- dy Company. @he Ghicage Tribune. Thursdsy Morning, October 22, 1873. A lerge colony of Alsafians is to settle in Virginia. = There wasno ground, it is asserted, for the yecent panic with regard to the Freedmen's Ssv- jings Bank, in Washington, as it bas no less than four millions on deposit. Of the & 1 votes cast in Indians, at the 1ast election for Governor, the Straight-out Democrats polled 190, which is one-thirtieth of one per cent. ———— Orders for several hundred thousand tons of cosl for Indis, South Awmerics, and the West Indies, originslly given England, have been iransferred to Maryland, which is now shipping irect to those points. Emperor William has not yet affixed his signa- tare to bis award in the Sen Juan matter, which, 4t js seid, he has decided in favor of the claims of the United States. England, through her “Berlin Minister, Odo Russell, is secking to delay and thwert the judgment. “The stringency of money in Chicago, a8 well as thronghout the Northwest, continues, High freights £o the East lezye the producer slmost nothing for his Isbor with which to psy debts, In this, and also in mos othex Westorm prevails among the stables, although fow deaths hsve occurred. It has caused & farther advance in freights on the Erie Canal. To ee- cape the disease horees have been removed in Iarge numbers from the line of the canal, snd is feared that there will be difficulty in get- ting horse-power for towing the boata. The discoveries of frauds in the Pennsylvania election are g0 numerous that it seems impos- gible and slmost superfluons to count them. The presiding genius of thie gigentic iniquity wss Bimon Oameron, sbout Whom the House of Ropresentatives, April 30, 1862, under the lead of Elihu B, Washburne and Henry L. Dawes, and by & vote of 79 to 45, entered this minute upon its journal: ¢ Resolved, That Simon Cam- eron, late Secretary of War, by investing Alex- ander Cummings with control of large sums of the public money and suthority to purchase mil- itary supplies without restriction, without re- quiring from him any guarantee for the faithful performance of his duties, when the services of competent public officers svere available, and by involving the Government in & vast number of contracts with persons not legitimately engaged in thebusiness pertaining to the subject matter of such contracts, especially in the purchase of arms for fature delivery, has adopted a policy highly injurions to the public geryioe, and de~ serves the censure of the House,” During the yesra 1858 and 6 the pumber of persons who plesded guilty, end who were conv victed in the Recorder's Court, was 1,189. Of these convictions, five were for gaming. One hundred and fifty-seven were tried snd sac- quitted. During the same period three bundred snd forty-seven molle prosequis were entered. Of this last number one hundred and ome were entered after the bail in each had been for- feited,—the sggregate smount of which wes ' $68,850. Among the sureties on the bopds in this Isst list of cases were L. L. Bond, E. B. Taylor, Richard Clark, Wm, A. (Boliver) Read, Hugh Reed, Geo. Powell, Conrad Folz, A. Von Buren, Francis Warren. Among the nolle prosequis 23 were for burglary, 149 for larceny, 6 for rape, and 23 for receiving stolen goods. On the 20th of Decemaber, 1869, & resolution was passed by the Common Council calling for & report fromthe Clerk of the Re- corder’s Court of the number of forfeited recog- pizances during the years 1868 and '69, and the amounts collected by the State’s Attorney. Dur- ing thet period, and up to that date, judgments had been entered in seven cases. On the 81st of the same month the State’s Attoraey took judgment in forty-eight more. We fuinich thesa facts from the record with a view of af- fording an opportunity for explanation. — The Chicago produce markets were generally firmer and more active, yesterday, though the interruption to towage on the Erie Canal, due to the prevalence of the horse-disesse, tended to reduce the prices of grain. Mess porkwa8 firm, at $15.00 cash, and $12.75 seller December* Lerd was doll, at 7%@7¥c for winter, and T¥@7%c for summer rendered. Meats were quict and steady, at 6@6kc for shomiders, and 10@10X{c for short ribs. High- wines were in good demsnd and firm, closing at 883¢e bid. Lake freights were quiet and steady, st Taesday's decline, 8t 15¢ for corn to Buffalo, Flour was dull and steady. Wheat was more active, and advanced 2@3c, closing easier, at $1.10 cash, and §1.075¢ seller November. Corn was in good demand, and was ¢ higher, closing at 803{c seller the month, and 813¢o ssller November. Oste were quiet snd tame, closing dull gt 21c seller the month, and gl%c seller November. Rro was quiet and &rm &y B054C Rarley vas ac- tive and strong, closing 8t 63¢ for No.2, and 473¢e for No. 8. The hog market was quiet and closed weak at 10c decline, 84.20@4.55 being the closing rates. In the cattle market there was no change, trade continuing dull at former prices. Bheep were more active, and firm. e THE SECOR FRAUD. fr. Trumbull, in his speech &t Cniro, dis- posed of Spesker Blaine's quasi defence of the investigation of the grest frand committed by the Navy Depertment in the Secor claim. ‘The facts relsting to that Secor case ought not to be forgotten. In the year 1862, the Messrs. Secor contracted to build three war vessels for the sum of $1,380,000. In their construction thers was some slterstion, for which the Secors asked $521,196 extra. They were paid in fall, botk the original price and the charge for extras, asmounting to $1,901,196. This wasin 1864, and the Secor accounts wers closed. In 1865, the Becors asked Congress for an. edditional allowance, which Congress refused. A resolu- tion was passed, however, directing & Bosrd of Naval Officers to inquire how much vessels of wir comiracted for in 1862,-'63 cost the contractors over and sbove the contract price and allowance. This Board, in 1866, made & report including a grest many cases, and among others reported in favor of paying the Secors $119,020. This report was rejected by Congress ; and in March, 1867, 8 law was passed, directing the Secretary to investigate the claims of all contractors for building vessels of war prior to 1864, and ascertain and report the addi- tional cost which was neceesarily incurred by rea- 80D of any changes in plans and delays occasion- od by the Government, which were not provided for in the original contract, deducting therefrom whatever sums had been paid the contractors over and sbove the contract price. The report under this investigation allowed the Secors 8115,- 699, Upon this report Congress, in July, 1868, appropristed the money to pey the Secors and othersthe sumsfound due them,—ndding thereto, # which shall bein full discharge of sll claims against the United States on account of said vessole.” The Becors were paid this money. There were forty contractors having claims of the same kind as the Secors, all of whom were paid in the same manner. After Mr. George W. Robeson became Secre- tary of the Navy, he, withont authority of law, sppointed & new Board to investigate the claim of Secor alone. He gave orders to open the original claim of the Secors, which had been closed in the Department for over five years, and which had sgain been closed by the act of Congress. The Board found that one Miles Greenwood, who had built & vessel of the same ind built by the Secors, had boen paid 293,000 more for extras than the Secors had received ; and the Secretary of the Navy at once, without sny anthority of law or sny sppropriation of money by Congress, drew his order on the Treasury for that sum, and paid it over to the Secors. The money to pay the Secors was taken from & fand appropriated by Congress to pay the curent expenses of the Navy Depart- ment. The fraud in this cese was, that the whole contract price and bill for extras was paid by -the Department in 1864, and the account closed, the Department having, by law, no farther con- trol over it ; that Congress subsequently voted an sdditional sum to forty contractors, inciud- ing the Secors; that the law appropriated the precise esum to be paid to each, and stipulating thet it was in fall of =all claims on acconnt of those veesels. The Navy Department, without further legislation, hednomore power to allow or pay the Secors any more money than had the Comptroller of the City of Chicago. That the Secretary, singling ont the Secora from the forty contrac- tors, not only opened their cage, but sllowed them 293,000, on the plen that Congress had given some other contractor more than it had the Becors. That the Secretary hsd no legal anthority to use money, appropriated by Con- gresa for one purpose, for another and very dif- ferent purpose, and could not legally pay any money without the direction of Congrees anda specific appropristion therefor. That Congress was in session whem he paid this money, and it was within his power to have asked the needed legislation and appropriation it he had chosen to do 80. That is the history of the Becor frand, which is Qestined to stand, for all time to come, s the firat precedent ot an entablished frand to which & member of the President’s Cabinet Was an ac- tive party, and of which he waa. fully cognizant. In no other age of the Republic, and under no other Administration, would the Cabinet officer, guilty of such an act, be retained an honr. For far less palpable, but perhapsin the aggregate greater, frauds, Mr. Lincoln dismissed Simon Cameron from the War Department without notice or even explsnatio? THE CANADIAN HOBSE-DISEASE, The alarmingly virulent disease, which is now raging among the horges inmany of the large cities of the country, is spresding with such rapidity that it has become a matter of the gravest importance, and one which ghould com- mand the immediate attention of sll ownera of ‘Thores, and especially of tha veterinary surgeons. Tts spread has become 80 rapid, that it may be tormed an epidemic, and its results are fatal in gnch a brief time, a8 to slmost paralyze the busi- ness of some cities, Itseems tohave originated in Toronto, whereit brokeout with such violence that, in sn incrodibly short epsce of time, tho hack, horse-cars, and sll drayage busi- ness were brought to an abrupt stand-still. The diseose seemed tomske no exceptions. The best-attended horaes in that city, such as those of the Fire Brigade, were seized with it; but as the rule of the discase seems to be that the fatality is greatest smong horses not properly cared for, the Fire Commissioners ordered that these horses should be tsken back to their stables 8s goon as they had reached s fire, end remain there, blanketed, until it was necessary to bring the steamers back, In this manner many of them were saved. From Toronto, the disease spread with alarming rapidity to Montreal on the one side and Western New York on the other. FEach morning’s news announces its appearance in new places. From Niagara Falls, where it was very violent, leaving hardly a sound horse, it sproad to Rochester, soon causing an almost en- tiro suepension of business which was dependent upon horses, such. 25 horge- car travel and railrond freightsge. From Rocheater it spread west and south. It soon yeached Albany, and by vyeilroad and canal mediums was not longin reaching New York City and Boston, where it has but just commenced to manifest itself. Westward, it travelled to Buffalo, where it has raged with extreme viclence'for the past few days. The Commercial Adgertiser of the 21st says that nine out of ten horses in the city ave affected byit. Nearly all the livery stable-kespers in the city-bave closed their barns temporarily, so that it is & matter of difficalty to obtain horses for funerals, ~ and those wWhich have turned ont have been more or less diseased. The street railway and omnibus com- panies have ceased nsing their horses altogether, while the hackmien, cartmen, and expresemen sresll similarly afflioted. It is rather remark- ablo that, while horses; both in the public and private stables of the city, are suffering alike, the canal’ horses have not caught the diseass, and, according to the general testimony, it has not made its appear- ance at all among the horses or mules used for towing purposes. Having reached Buffalo, it is certain that it must alao reach Detroit and Chicago, notwithstanding the order of the Secré- tary of the Treasury, forbidding the importation of horses from Canada into Michigan. Thediscage has anticipated the order, and is already in the United States, advancing in all directions; and, while the official prohibition may serve to miti- gato ita ravages, there ia littlohope thet it can prevent its appearance here, snd that speedily. It may be well, therefore, for owners of horses in this city to understand the nature of the disease, the treatment of the horse under sickness, and the remedies which have thus far been used with success. According to the Toronto papers, the disease i8 s kind of catarrhal fever of an epizootic nature, the result of some atmospheric influence, as is ghown by the fact that it appears in various places at once, and attacks horses of all condi- tions, whether old or young, strong or weak. The best veterinary surgeons term it epizootic influenza. 'The premonitory symptoms are dulnees, s staring coat, and a watery discharge from the nose. Those are followed by & sore throat, slight swelling of the glends, loss of appetite, & severs hacking congh, with a dis- charge of brownish yellow matter from the nostrils, s quickened pulse and respiration, feebleness and yellowness of the eyes, and an unnatural coldness of the ears and legs. The respiratory organs are the principal parts affect- - ed, but the disease, being a blood ‘poison, any animsl which has had previous diseases affacting certain organg will be sure to show a derange- ment of these organs, when attacked by thein_ fluenza. Concerning the remedies, the London (C. W.) Free Press says: With medlcine given by advice of a surgeon, the fol- lowing treatment will, it {6 sald, hardly fail to offect & cure or prevent the progress of the disease, or the tak- ingofit, Thoborses qnite well or stightly affected should not be taken out in wot weather, and if they haveto ba 8o, should be warmly covered, Affected animals should bo kept in & well-ventilated stable and fed upon hot soft food easily digeated, such o4 linseed tea, oatmeal gruel, snd hofled oats or burley. The appetite of invalids should be tempted by carrots, ap- ples, or any other delicacy our sick quadruped friend is known to have a failing for. Inall stables s carbolic sinfectant shonld be Uborally used Ono of the Toronto papers adds the following suggestiona to the above : Although this disease must necessarily prove a great 1oss and annoyance to the community general- 1y, we do not think It is likely to be of a fatal char- acter when ordinary care snd rational ireatment aro adopted. In geveral instsnces tho attsck bss been severe, but geperally incressed by overwork, or eome other debilitating influence, A8 the disease will run s certain course, affocted ani- ‘mals should be carefully used, and allowed plenty of pure air, with s liberal dlet of nourishing and esafly- digested food. The atablea should be well aired daily and thoroughly ventilated ; and it is also advisable to uge disinfectants, s chloride of lime or carbolic scld, When ths throat {8 very gore, causing a dificulty in swallowing, a mild embrocation shonld bo spplied, 50d the feverallayed by mild febrifuge mediotne, Forewarned is forearmed. The veterinary surgeons and owners of horses in this city can- not be on their guard too promptly. Chicago is more dependent, npon horses to-dsy than any other city in the Union. The literally immense tide of street travel and the necessity for the use of large numbers of horges in our build- ing operations, in addition to the ordi- nary demand for cpurposes of personal plessure and convenience, are such that an interruption at the present time must neces- garily work very serious results. Those Who own horses, therefore, should take extra pre- cautions, by not overworking them, and giviog them the best of care and stabling, especially in damp dsys. **An ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure.” 'PROSPECTS OF PEACE IN EUROPE, 4 The Berlin correspondent of the Nation, who seems to have good sources of information, be- lieves that the recent meeting of the three Em- porors of Germany, Russis, and Austria had the sole object of securing to Europe & long term of peace. The conclusion is more reasonable than that at which tho French and English journal- ists arrived, after having failed to findin the conference anything directlythreatening to their own interests. The latter profess the belief that the meeting had no political significance whatever; but it is highly probable that, if this had been the case, there would not have been so much care exercised over the German and Ruseian press to suppress all accounts of the interviews. The construction of & peme—cnntai'anca, in. formal in jts nature, but as binding, perhaps, 88 it it bad amore dofinite shape, ia certsinly & gratifying interpretation of the Emperors’ meeting. First comes Germany, who, in the person of Emperor Willism, is in the most fa~ vorable condition for suggesting and promoting 2 plan for s more lasting peace than Europe can ordinarily contemplate. Satisfied with its con- quests, united in its possessions, concentrated in its territory, and assured of prosperity in the power of its Government and the patriotiam of its people, Germany can have no desire far wor and nothing to gain by it. The nationalization of the provinces of Alsace and Lorreine, 8o long in dispute, has gratified a cherigshed ambition, and contrib. uted largely to the revenues andresources of the nation, In an international effort to sssure & European peacs, therefore, the Empire of Gor- many would naturslly take the firat step. The Empire of Austrin could scarcely refuse its co- operation in euch a movement, whep its more powerfal neighbor suggested it, even if it werg g0 disposed. The lesson of Sadowa is not so old a8 to have been forgotten. Since the time of Sadows, too, the German Empire has assumed s position and a strength in inverse proportion to the decline of Francis Joseph's power. The Hungarian eloment in the Austrisn Government hes stendily developed as it has abandoned the idea of & separate Government and conformed to constitutional rule, This element naturally sides with the German Empire in every effort to maintain a general peace, 80 long aa it can shape the Government of the Austrian Empire to its own best interests. There are equally good reasons why Russia should willingly quite in the peage project, It bas na fesrof German en- croschments upon its own territory. The ten- dency of Prussian sequisition has heen in the ofher direction. Russia canpot yegard this with enything like envy or suspicion. 1¢ she can re- tain the complete and undisputed soversignty of a1l the Russias, she will have torritory enough and people enough tobe entirely indifferent to the growth of other nations. p Tt is undoubtedly true that the personal feel- inge of monarchs enters largely into their actions determining the relations of their Gov- ernments. In this respect, the story is told that the present Emperor of Russia celebrated the German victory at Sedan in the most hilarions fashion,—bresking the glsss from which he drank his congratulations, ordering his com- panions to do likewise, ana then causing the entire mass of broken Bohemian ware to be moulded into one large goblet, Which is appro- priately msrked ‘‘Sedan.” The Russisn Emperor is also said to be possessed of a great respect for his succassful uncle of Germany, heightened by the latter's victory over & nation for which he hes hsd little sympathy gince & French jury merely con- demned his would-be sssassin in the “Bois de Boulogne to nothing more than pensl servitude for life. Emperors are 88 susceptible to peraonal likes and dislikes as other ‘people. 1t the three most potent ones in Christendom are, for any reason, now turned in the direction of peace, not only their own subjects but the whole world has cause for rejoioing. SMALL-POX IN S8T. LOUIS. St. Louis has got something in which she will £ind no other city desirous to compete with her, snd that is the small-pox. The Xissouri Demo- crat of. the 22d contains a detailed statement of its ravages, which shows that this disease hes sssnmed painful proportions. The records of the Boprd of Heslth show that it began tobe slarming ebout the first of September, and has gteadily inoreased from that date. The trans- cript shows the following increase during the past six weeks, principally in the Eighth and ‘Ninth Wards : Week ending Total..usenrs o This shows an average increase of slittle over 105 per week., Last week, 201 cases were re- ported, showing a daily increase until Sandsy, when there was & slight falling off. The average mortality has been about 47 per week, or sbout 80 per cent of the cases reported. The Democrat states that the district in which the disease is worst is bounded by Broadway, Twelfth street, Washington avenue, and Ferry street, where there are numerons flthy hovels and over- orowded temements, and where the people are thrown together without a chance for fresh air or sunlight. In connection with the statement, we regretto see the following unnecessary fling at Chicago in the Democrat: v Dr. O'Brien gave very sensible rensons for the posi- tion he asenmed, but finally gave way before the re- ‘porter’s perslstency, snd reluctantly sssumed the ro- sponsibility of dlsclosing the books. He spoke of the Jealous eyes with which Chicsgoand s place called Cincinnats regard he progress Bt. Louis had made, and thought that the publication of auy disaster to our city wonld convalse those resorts with delight, This 18 very probable, but it will also have the effect, bene- fietal o 8¢, Louis, of keeping Chicagoans and Ofncin- natians outof this city, s relief almost commensurate with the sorrow that the prevalent trouble is sowing in onrmidst, As for Cbicago, maybe that virtuous city will remember tho degree of warmth to which she was on one occasion subjected, the piteous wails she Taised for assistsnce, and the promptness -with which §t. Lonis apswered. ) The inference which the Democral draws,— and aspecially the mapner in which it is drawn, —that because St. Louls is afflicted with the small-pox, therefore Chicago is rejoicing, is un- worthy of that paper, and we are loth to believe ia ghared by the people of that city in general. Chicago has been heavily afflicted with fire and with the same scourge which is now ravaging St. Yonis. They have taught her no other lessons than to bear evils patiently, to straggle through them with such energy and conrage 83 she can, and to sympathize with those similarly afflicted. The sentiment we have quoted, whether it be the Democrat’s or Dr. O'Brien's, deserves a se- vere rebuke for its gratuitous fling at Chicago, apd the smeverest rebuke we can admin- ister i8 to assure the people, and es- pecially the merchsnts of 8t. Louis, that Chica- go entertains no feelings of jeslousy towards them, and hopes that their city may now be re- lieved from ite affliction, and. trade resume its usual proportions. We shall neither forget the generous conduct of St. Louis at the time of the Great Fire, nor be unmindful of the ordinary promptings of humanity. A ghrewd Frenchman, M. Linton by name, has discovered & plan of utilizing electricity which will commend itself to all owners of frisky horses, addicted to running away. The applica~ tion of the eleciricityis in thehandsof the driver, and he can at once give his fractious ani- mals s charge of it sufficient not only to surprise them, but to ehock them and bring them ta & dead halt. Where the driver would go to, after this sudden halt, or whet sort of a tangential arc he wonld desoribe, is not statod, andis, per- haps, Immaterial, 23 long 2s the horses are stopped. This navel form of electrioal spplication is ppecially valuable in the snggestions il offers. For instance, a man comes home at night tired out with the day's business, and finds his wife cross and petulant and disposed to lecture him after the manner of Mrs, Caudle. He immediately applies the electrical current and reduces her to pilence. Or & man ocomes bome from the lodge, in the small hours, the worge for lig- wor; and is disposed to be quarrelsome or silly ; the wife instantly applies & charge of electricity to him, silences him for the remainder of the night, turns over and goes to sleep again, Dr. Holmes, in his *Post at the Bresk{ast Table,” silences the boarders when they grow garrulous, with a pellet fram ¢ that boy's " pop-gun. Eleo- tricity, however, would be much more effactive. A long-winded spesker at & politioal or tem- perance or prayer meating could be choked off at any instant and placed hors de combat for the rest of the evening. It womld be worth cart- loads of gavels to a presiding officer. In an oxa cited debate, where & dozen men are an their feet st & time, he could silenocs the whole of them in the most chocking manner. The uses of electricity in this way might be multiplied ad infinjturs, Gilmors long ago dis- cavered how much musical noise could be msde with eannons and bells, fired with electricity ; ‘but a greater than Gilmore has arigen in thie in-’ genious Frenchman, who has tsught the world how to apply the pouliice of silence to the blowa | of sound, Anyone wha will tend tg reduce the samount of noisein {he world deserves praisd and encourggement, and as such, M. Linton is & public benefactor, and deserves to hsve hig name handed down to posterity. side by slde with that of Franklin. According tq the statoment of some Commun- iat prisoners ot Port Louis, in a lefter tothe Paris Corsaire, the Thiers Government hag hit upon & cheap substitute for the rather eXpensive transportation of condemned Communists to distant pestilential oolonies. A first~class pesti- lential qolony has been established in the hospi- tal of 8t. Louis. Three of the prisoners have al- ready died from want of ¢are. Tent-canvadis thie ecanomical bed-linen in use iz that institntion. Their bill of fare consista of dry vegetables, and, when this unwholesome diet hed had the effect, the inmates are removed to the sick ward, where they are finished off with pilla of aloes and bismuth, which have the two-fold ef- fect Gf being desdly and cheap. No attention is paid by the Minister of the Interior to the com- plaints addressed to him. President Thiers, for one who professes & Republican faith, shows very unsatisfactory Republican works in the shooting at the Satory, the exile of invalids to fever-nests like New Calabris, the conversion of ‘hospitals into pest-houses, and the expulsion of probable rivals like Prince Napoleon. 9 racent work on minority representation, ., written by Mr. Salem Dutcher, groups- together-. many valuable facts. It shows, by & series of statiu_tics, that, under the present system, twoy men in every five are practically disfranchised. .4 That is, their votes effect nothing. *Fifty-eights- (58) Dper cent of the votars securo all the repre~ sentation, and forty-eight (48) per cont havia none.” Toprove this, Mr. Dutcher gives sew- eral tables, which we combine into the follow- - ing: CONGRESS. ‘VOTES, MEMBERSHIP, Bep. " Dem. - Proportional.” detiat, XL 2179645 1895998 107 84 1. % ping 177,245 2,899,168 121 115 1?3 g XLII. 786,547 2,726,500 123 119 138 106 Mr. Datcher publishes, also, the following cal- culation of the number of votes needed o elect Bepresentatives: i Coxnomesa. idlica: " m’.’i‘z,aso"‘ Dnmc;glh’e. These figures suggest a possible inodification of the plan for securing minority representation by allowing every Representativeto ¢ast as many votes 8s were cast for him. This would still Jeave many voters unrepresented. Its chief value would be to give large eonstitmencies their proper weight. Suppose, however, that this modification of it should be tried : . After every election of a Legislatare, divide the aggregate number of votes cast by each party by the num- ber of Representatives elected, and let the quo- tient be the number of votes which each Repre- gentative is entitled to cast. This would make overy vote in the State tell, and would, appa~ rently, be absolutely fair. A correspondent of the London Morning Post hag discovered a new remedy for sea-sicknees. He asys that, “ though peculiarly susceptible to the morbid infinence of a tossing boat,” he es- capes sickness by ‘curtseying gently so as 0 time his movements to meet and oppose the mo- tion of the vessel” To accomplish this it is only necessary *‘to bend the kmees, but not so 88 to attract attention, or make one'’s self con- spicacns.” There is something gratesquely ‘humorous in this correspondent’s remedy. The andante movements ' of & cabm full of pasaengers in 8 long “swell, the allegretios in ‘ordinary swells, the prestissimos in a storm, and the Wagnerish mixture of tempos in s chop ses, would combine to make up & dance movement more picturesque and excruciating than all the Strausses com- bined could invent. We do not wish, however, to prejudice the remedy, which was evidently borrowed from the plan which an intoxicated man adopts to prevent the sidewalk from hit~ ting him when it comes up. It can scarcely be that the distribution of fanda by the Administration party in Pennsyl- vania and Indians, just prios to the late elec- tions, could have any influencs on the stringent state of the money market. Itistrue that these fonds would naturally find their way among & non-commercial, though extremely mercantile class of people ; bat even with this fact, and the additional circumstance that the amount was very large, it must atil} be remembered that the money came from the politicians and their gove ernment connections, and we cannot conceive ‘how the distribution conld influence commercigl . interests one way or the other. We make this explanation for the benefit af those who think that the election of Greeley would tend to make money tight, i — The Theological Beminary at Auburn, N. Y., has made an_important movement in favor of Muscalar Christianity by establishing & bowle ing-alley in connection with' the institution. Sach sensible aids to the spread of religion are of such rare occurrence ss to_deserve notice. ‘We are entirely safe in the prediction that the graduostes from Auburn will soon command bigher salaries than any of their legs fortunate and more flaccld fellows, who graduste with large heads and soft mnuscles, and who never can get themselves into condition for & free fight with Satan. Thesize of the bicepa has more to do with the inculeation of religions precepts than Theological Semivaries, ag & rule, are willing to admit. There will be 2 very geperal feeling of reliof that Mr. Sergesnt Bates, who proposes to carry the American flag from some place in Scotlend to Gnildhall, London, hasssiled from New York, and is now on his way thither to carry out hig plan. It is sincerely to behoped that if the hard-headed Scotchmen clap him into an insane asylum no one in this country will be absurd enough to interfere and correct that very naturat | proceeding. The despairing remark of Macbeth, “ Time waa that when the brains were out thq ‘man would die,” will derive new force from Ser~ gesnt Bates’ Scottish journey. —_— Eight carpat-baggers and one native form tha Custom House force at Pensacols, Fla. Theim« portaare $6,543; the revenue therean may be 82,500, and the sggregate salary of the nine 18 $12,480. These unbissed officials are lost in sdmiration of the economy of the present Ad- ministration, and can find no words to express thelr disgust with the *profligate Johnaon," under whoth but $4,674.38 was allotted to the purchase of voters in Pensacola. —_——— POLITIOAL, The political eltuation in New York City, and the boast that, with, Tweed’s purchased influence for the Administration, Grant will earry the city, makeg it worth whife to recsll thevote in recent alections : 1868, President.... .. Democratic, Republican. Total. 103,316 47,738 156,054 1889. Secretary of State... 79,476 36,897 116,878 1870. Governor. . 83,688 34,391 121,059 1670, Becrotary of Btate... 63,328 6413 18T —The candidates for Congress in New York are as follows : - * Liberal. Repudlican. . AT LARGE. Samu1 S, Cox. ‘Tyman Tremaln, s pIsTaICTS. i 1. James W, Covert. ‘Heory 7. Scudder, 3 Joun G. Schumaker. A T.Perry. 2: Witlam W. Goodrich, Bfowart L. Woodford, st Phillip 8. Crooke. & Wlwa T Roberts, — — james Bro = g b ilatisions Conrad Geib, & John D, Lawson, 5. Michacl Connolly. David B, Mellisk. 10° Fernsndo Wood. Willism A. Darlisg, 1% Clarkson N, Potter, Ethan Flagg. B Claiea s, Horton, Charlea 8t Joha, 15, John O, Whitehouse, John H. Ketchumn, avid 2. Dewitt. obn Maxwell. 3 d 25, William T Graves. Clinton L. MacDougall, 26. Willism M, White, William Tt 21, Milo Goodrich. o TA‘C. Pl&g: e 3 . Burrows, g?, B‘%flflimuv?l.w?nthwnflh ?e:i?e’ng:cé;x:lf’;n!. 52 Charles D. Murrey, Walter T Bessions. —The tour distinguished legal gentlemen wha have volunteered to deliver New York from the g]ngua of dishonest Legislators, are “catching it" inlively, fashion from the New ¥ork papera. —In the one hundred Greeley Clubs of New York City, there are 9,346 men who voted for Grant in 1868. - A still larger proportion of changes is known to have occurred in the inte- rior of the State, and Senator Fenton says that Greeley will carry it by & majority. not lesa than Wisconsin givea the hing Vaat ex-Governor Fairchild has been appointed +Consul to Liverpool to get him out of Howe's way in the Senatorial contest. —An Indiana correspondent 88ys : - Bincs the election of a Grant Legislature, Colfax has i concluded to take the stump, and it is gsid for the pur~ . poso of going into the Aght against Morton for the Benste, " It{s known that 8 number of the membera + elect are pledged to Colfax ; and if he can secure seven *votes, ho will bo elected. But at .present bo prefers iudmfi"‘mn&m against Morton “jnside the argani- " _Another aspirant for the Indiana Senatorshipis % Dick Thompson, of Terre Hante. . ® —ThD; Louisville Courier-Journal says : The official majority {or Mr. Hendricks was 1,145, I¥ tho tmparted Reatucky negross ad voen Kot out of :;i’;?'a;‘ngg’g;g'"gm 11,045, If the $500,000 ot been spent 31 party, it would have l‘)‘efln 80,000, e —The Indianapolis Journal gives an obscure place to a correspondent, who reminds the par- ty in power that Will Cumback is deserving of something. ~—Mosby, the Virginis cavalryman, i stump-~ ing for the election to Congress, in the Alexan- dria (Va.) District, of Daniels, the Wisconsin cavalryman. —Hugh Hastings, of the New York Commer cial Advertiser (Grant), rather goes back on General Frank Barlow, in his Erie retainer busi- ness, a8 witness the following : ‘The fact is, if any other man than General Barlow had used this money in the way it usol, onld. bo denounced by tue Posh Tmss, Nat "ina tho elect, a5 rank bribery. It is not prstended that the men’ who received the momey rendered service in goun'.;: CJM :adr il:rv_lufl rendered before Legise latire Cammitess, an gislators generally, and for —QGeneral ‘Nathan Kimball, D. C. Bri and W. K. Edwards are allin the fleld for the Speakership of the Wisconsin Legislature, ~—The Cincinnati Commercial says: ‘The venershle father of the President, who msy speak by authority, recently stated that his son would not allow any subordinate civil officer to hold his plsca o e " cluds that the bresident Is Iooking rwnad (o thord term, or to an smendment of the Constitution by which the Exccutive, like the Judiciary, shall ba elected or sppainted for Lfe, or during good be ‘havior? —Au incident is mentioned showing how the gangs of repeaters in the late so-called *elec~ fion" in Piiladelphia wers protected in, their infamous work. Early on election day it was noticed that dranken, swearing fellows, ronghly clad and lnukms like_house-breakers, came up to the polls, ed the names of eminent clergymen on the ngmtry and voted accordingly, the police and the Republican Committee testi- fying to their identity and residence. ~They all. voted for Hartranft and ihe State Prison ticket: in full. A tremendous scandal was stirred up.. Then amelons. sonplRaes ok thb feowing 61 ert m; 0 ollawin, were made hefore Ihbplmhorifiesz & Twa clergymen, the Rev. Drs, B. hnmalnnnppem'ed before the cggxgx%’ui'f:unifi charged that they had been refused voting, cn tbe ground that other persona had voted on their names | THE CITY IN BRIEF. Personal. The Board of Managers of the PHiladelphia Housa of Foflecfiun, consisting of Samuel Wil- lq{;,nw;llh;m hfi- Duf, J. Fry, Edwrrd Palmer, snd M. L. Johnsan, reached this cj terd: and afterwards were ntroducsd by & flyifi lodill, In the afternoon, in company with the Council Commitise oo Bridewel, and the Board of Bridowell Commissioners, they visited the Pridewell, and wers mads acquainted with its workings. Theg were pleased at what wes shown them, and will doubtlesa profit by the e: perience of Snperintendent Felton. - tlemen left in the evening for Da[::nit. RS Everythin, z. Dr. Turnbull, of London, is at the Gardnt ouse. _The reading-room of the Young Men’s Ckis- i Assorlation 15 bogh Sbas o Saacs 4 10 a. m. until 7:45 p. m. aTe welcome. The opening party of the young folks o'Mars + ray Chapel occurs td-morrow evening in fen:ral Hall, corner of Wabash avenue and weity~ second street, ‘The ladies of the Eighth Presbyterin Chwch will give one of fihe;r‘hpa ular yn;esm SUpPrs this uvam.n\% in the ch parlors corne of. Robey and Weshington streets. The New York Sun tells the story of the ele-- ment and marrisge in Jersey City of Mr. hn: Hmfi & cletk in a Chicago raflway office,2d: Mrs. Etts Griffith, a Boston widow. An entertainment consisting of songs by b fessor 8, L. Coe, George C. Stebbins snd oths,. 15 ot tho Tvony BRE Siee ot B g at the enty-fiftl et it Church, just west of Wentworth avenve. o _Time was when Chicago had to send tom East for nearly eve: ing, but now we d gggtzl; orderin uhfitmxmtnm from thia e. oy com) our ufacturers tardy in pling orders, - 2 A woman's raeeting, to be addressed by M . B. Chisndler, of Boston, wil be held 2t house of 3rs. Willard, No. 167 Throop streeta Friday afternoon, at half-past 2 o’clusx. . A very silly wager on the election has ‘made by two insurance men, 23 we are inf If Greeley is_elected, Stewart Marks is to ¥ George H. Bruce around Union Park o#i8 backy - whils, if Grant is elacted, Bracet® gz:;g‘;‘a:fi Marks sround thaa;:& in : 351- The special Committae of the Commonta «il to examine and_report npon the “bosy fhod of preserving wood, held a meeting in tCity gLuxk’s uflcpmiygsterday afternoon, ourg re occupied in examining specimenf Pro~ served We but no conclusi was e T st . ChasIoL 8 0 The Journal, with characteristic stagy, 2n- nounced. that the - ceremonies of lsy’ the corner-stone of the monument in Ces! Park - would mme yesterday, thereby resding and gerls inconveniencing a largumber Eo Ll at the appol rondezv roere stone will beplgxfl next Wedne:d‘fi. Hernes At half-past 2 o’clock yesterday aftoon the. frame barn at the rear of No. 148 Elhvenue, owned by Mrs, Newberry, and occupi by H Fsmling, took fire, and was dmngegfim ex- Yent of 8800; P insured. - T famea. communicated to the double house, N¢771 and. 78 Oob.t:ge Grove avenue, owned byr. News: berty, to the barn, carriage shopd other: outhonses of E. E. H. Miller, No. 156 lis ave~ nue. The latter were totally destroyeinyolva ing aloss of $4,000; no ingurance. L Naw ben-{a house was injured asont $100 vih; in~ Bure: The police must be sent to the+ s building, Wa notice that Mercns hooriag all the birds off, and looks 28 if J iny ;ded to ump dovm himself. ‘We invita dm ¢y do it ong John, it is said, has purchas? 0 &0 e to introduce & new_variety 02 boan wa the B e ok B reached up an the biNde_ dovi hi i y Q - bor ptaeet block. ©or handsoest Dear- The season-ticket-Folders of thater Course 870 to Do freated %o & Bne fres sush by the liberal managers on noxt Sunday:nd Monday evenings, As Adelside Philllps hiabeen come pelled fo remain East a fow monthsonger than she intended, they have decided to 1l her dates with extra entertainments, to whichhe season= ticket-holders will be admitted free, ad to this ‘\2’1&5 thg; Amdnceq E‘Eward Egglesta to_coma 1 appear in their Course. hillips troupe will appear in November. o The slarm from Box 314, at 20 minuts past 3 o'clock yesterdsy afternoon, was caused by the breaking out of fire in a barn at_the rea: of No. 92 West Madison street, owned by G. M. Pull- msn, and used by Ulick Burke. ~The bam and Mr. Burke's forniture store adjoining were damaged to the extent of 3100, snd the .oss om furniture amounted to about $200; fally in- sured in the Etna, of Hartford. Cause of fire unknown, Two Jonth Branch Station officers observed two men standing near St. Bridget's Ch Archer avenue, yesterdsy morning, about - o'clock, but when the policemen approached one- of them ran away. e wag given, without. B“mmm? result. When the officers returned, they fonnd the other man lying on the sidewalk,. and_bleeding profusely from s wound in his: head. He gave his name as Frod Murick, and. fili;.\med’ Lgnbhuthhnd been :&nfi and robbed of waich by the man who disappeare Murick resides at No. 1030 South Hllate%l’aheedt‘. At a meeting of Unity Church, last evening, it. was voted to prezent, on Snndell.‘y'nflemm ng'xt, at 4 p. m., a special service, the letters from nu- merous prominent parties in this country and’ Europe, containing expressions of sympathy and * generous nnsought contributions in aid of Unity In her calamity of last year. So remarkable are. ;na::eysaftflzes_g, both;:!r.heir c&nmter, and the nes of writers and donors, that many others besides Robert Collyer's flock will b g!id o re- view this page of their' and our own past, thus fittingly seoured. Uity has now nnPymcenflr & place of rssembly Worthy of such o gatherings P P .