Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 25, 1872, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 235, 1872. - TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TERMS OF EW!L’B)’:‘X{{O (PA‘§ABLI: IN ADVAXCE). ‘ma S12.1 Sunda; 5 e Ay 6,00 | Weekly - 53:30 Parts of & year at the same rate. To prevent delay and mistakes, bo suro and give Post DEc2 address in full, including State and County. Temittances may bo mado cither by draft, oxpress, Post Dfiice order, or ia registered letters, at our risk. TERNG TO CITY SUBSCTIRERS. Daily, delivered, Suaday excepted, 25 conts per iveek. Daily, delivered, Sunday included, 20 cents per week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, No. 15 South Canal-st., Chicago, Ill. TrinTyT Branch Office, No. 469 Webash-av., {n the Bookstera of Mesers. Cobb, Androws & Co., whera zderticements and subscriptions will be received, and will roceive the eame attention as if left at the Main Office. TLE TRIBCNE counting-room and business department witl remaia, for the present, at No. 15 Canol street. Ad- vertisoments should be handed in at that place. LIBERAL NOMiNATIONS, NATIONAL, Por President : HORACE GREELEY, of New York, TFor Vice President: B. GRATZ BROWN, of Missouri. - ELECTORAL. For Electors of President znd Vice President: At Large—WILLIAM BROSS, of Chicago JOHN D. First District. CATON, of Ottaw: THOMAS BOYNL FRANKLIN PIERCE. STATE. For Governor: GUSTAVUS KOERNER, of St. Clair, For Licutenant Governor : JOEN CHARLES BLACK, of Champaign, For Secretary of State: EDWARD R of Peoria, For Auditor of Public Accounts: DANIEL O'HARA, of Cook. For State Tressurer: " H. LANPHIER, of Sangamor, For Attorney General : JOHN V. EUSTACE, of Lee, For Clerks of the Supreme Court: iv.—R. A. D. WILBANES, of Jefferson, DAVID A. BROWN, of Sangamon, —ELI SMITH, of Cook. COUNTY. CONGEESSIONAL. First Distriot—LUCITS B. OTIS. Second District—CARTER H, HARRISON, ‘Third District—JOHN V., LEMOYNE. STATE BOAZD OF EQUALIZATION, First District—DANIEL T, SEELLY. Second District—THOAMAS WILCE. ‘Third District—CHARLES ENOBLESDORFF. LEGISLATIVE. First District (Wards 1, 2, 10, and 11)—Senstor : JAMES W. SHEAHAN, Representatives : HENRY SWEET, OTTO MUTSCHLECHNER. Second District (Wards 3, 4, and 5, Hyde Park and Lake)—Senator: JAMES WADSWORTH. ~ Reprosenta- tives : FRANK T. SHERMAN, EGBERT JAMIESON. Third District (Wards 6, 7, and 8)—Senstor : MILES XELHOE. Representatives: CONSTANTINE EAHN, THOMAS M. HALP: Fourth District (Wards 9, 12, and 13)—Senstor: WILLARD WOODARD. Representatives: W. H. LONDOY, 8. 8. GARDNER, Fifth District (Wards 14, 15, and 18)—Senator : DE- “VOTION C. EDDY. Representatives: HUGH Mc- LAUGHLIN, AUSTIN J, GIBBONS. Sixth District (Wards 16, 17, 19, and 20)—Senstor: HENRY E. HAMILTON. Representatives: W. C. Mc- CLURE, OTTO PELTZER. 2 Seventh District (County towns, except Lake nn:l Hyde Park) tor: ——, Bepresentative: DAN~ JEL BOOTH. 5 % COUNT. OFFICEES. State’s Attorney—THORMAS J, TURNER, Sherif —CHARLES KERN, Coroner—RODNEY N, DAY, County Clerk—JEREMIAH J. CROWLEY, Cironit Clerk—GEORGE F. BLANKIE, Recorder—ST. CLAIR SGTHERLA] County Commissioners—N., E. I-‘AIKBAN‘&DHAB- TIN THATCHER, J. W. HORTON, A, C. W: )RON, DANIEL C, SEELLY, ALEXANDER BENGLEY, B[: . ROBINSON, THEODORE CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'SITRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE—Washington Telegrams: Currency Ex- ‘panders Visit Boutwell; the October Crop Report— Political News—The Tono of Wall Street—Farelgn ‘Telograms—Miscellaneous Telographic Items. $SECOND PAGE—~Arkansas Letter: History of the State Under the Union; Roster of Eventa {n the Bear State; Its Social Civilization. Public Biography— Tho Religious Press on Politics—Personal Items— The Nebraska Election: Serlous Charges Against the Republican Candidate for Governor—General News Items—Merle d*Aubigne—Government Finan- cisl Abuses: Exposureof Seerotary Boutwell's Re- cent Operations. THIRD PAGR: Preseatation st tho Board of Trade Rooms—The Law Courts—The Late Dr. Winor— Drowned in the River—Our Fire Department—Po- litical Announcoments—Narrow Escapo from Death —The Saloon Ecepers—A New Fire Reservoir—Lo- cal Notices—\Warks of the Late Secrotary Seward— Tho Bicotion in Philedelphia—Railroad Time Table —City Business Directory—Miscellaneons Adver- tisements. FOURTH PAGE~Editorials: The Solitary Jursman; The Arrest of Helnrich; Women at Harvard; Car- rent Nows Items—Political. FIFTH PAGE-Yho Temporance Movemont: Meetings in the North and South Divisions—The Churches; Laring the Corner-Stone of the Mariners' Temple— ‘Alumni Institate of the Theological Seminary; St. Jemes’ Church Benefit—Liberal Appointments—Ad- vertisements. BIXTH PAGE—Monetary and Commercial—Marine In- telligence. SEVENTH PAGE—Johuny Bartholomew's Dash—The ‘Bleek-Esed Camel—Roally Hard Times—Tho Abuso of Pharmacy—Small Adsertisements: Real Estate, For Sale, Wanted, To Rent, Boarding, Lodging, Etc. EIGHTH PAGE—The Horse Disesse: Few Chicago Horses As Yot Affected by It; Ravages of tho Discase on Eastern Citles—Misccllaneous Telo- grams—Alarriages and Deaths—Anction Adrertiso- ments. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. 'HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph street, be- 4ween Clark and LoSalle. Abbott-Kinalfy troupe. .+ ™ reo Hunchbacks.™ ACADEXMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, near Madi- pon. Mrs. F. S. Chanfrau. The French version of ¢ East Lynno.” ATKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue and Congress streot. Brs. Oates® Burlesque Troupe, **Fortunio." IYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroe street, between State aud Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton & Kemble's Minstrel and Burlesque Company. GLOBFE.THEATRE—Desplainos, between Madison and Washington streets. Variety Entertaiument; burlesque, ballet, minstrelsy. IOVICRER'S THEATRE—Maditon street, between State and Dezrborn. Revival of B. G. Howard's comed “* Saratoga.” 'NIXON'S—Clinton street, between Washington and Rendolph. Mafitt and Bartholomow Pantomime Troupe. HALSTED STREET OPERA HOUSE—Corner of Harrison street. McEvoy's Hibernicon, and Irish Come- dy Compans- The @hieage Tribumne, Friday Morning, October 2§, 1873. The Lyndon divorce case was virtually de- cided yesterday aguinst the plaintiff—that is, the divorco was refused—but an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court. In the trial of McWilliams, Chief of the Jersey City Police, for complicity in the robbery of the Jersey City Bank, one of the robbers testified that the Chief incited him to ihe deed, stating that there was $200,000 in it, and promising, for 20 per cent of the plunder, to let the thieves escape, if canght. Minister Bancroft telegraphs the Siete De- partment that Emperor William hes formally communicated to him his decision that the claims of the United Sfates with regard to the San Juan boundary are moro in accordance with the true interpretation of the treaty of 1846 than those of England. The Adrance calls upon “ good ;mn" to give such powerful moral support to Grant as shall i remove a1l show of excuse for his submitting of such low degree 2s Cameron, Morton, Chand- ler, and Butler.” Why not add Murphy, Casey, Dent, Leet, and Btocking? | The wheat crop, il New Englind, is up to the average ; in the Middlo States, has fallen 85 per cent; has rison, inthe Southern Btates, from Virginia to Tennessee, 50 per cent; and in Cali- fornia, 75 per cent. For tho country at large there has been an increase of 5 per cent, and an average yield of twelve or' thirteen bushels to the acre. Certain persons, calling themselves “ delega- tions” from 8t. Louis, Cincinnati, Dubuque, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh, urged Secretary Boutwell, yesterday, to increase the volume of the greenback currency. Secretary Boutwell, in reply, assumed that he had tho discrotion to is- sme the additional currency, and that ho ‘was wise engugh to know when it would become necessary. — The effect of the combination ‘among the oil- producers to restrict the production of oil is shown by the statement of the Titusville Herald, that the oil production for September shows a decresse, compared with the morth of August, of 2,258 barrels daily. The Courier, however, Bays the decrease is only 870. The daily produc- tion in August was 18,816 barrels. The total amount of stock was 877,739 barrels, a decrease in stock during the month of 52,721 barrels. The total shipments daring September were 590,375 barrels, a decrease of 73,893 barrels. There are some indications of an easier feel- ing in the Chicago money market. Country banks are not asking for as much accommoda- tion, and their doposits in the city are, in somo instances, increasing. But thereis stillmore good commercial paper offered in the street, at 134 and 2 per cent per month, than brokers can finda ready market for. Local bank, horse-railway, end other stocks are also frecly offered for eale yet; and the aversge decline in the value of such socurities, in consequence of forced sales, ‘hns been not far from 8 per cont in the last two weeks. Mayor Hell's trial is ot lust fairly under way. Yesterday was spent mainly in examining the few vouchers that escaped the Court House ihieves last year, aid the certificates of audit, for the purpose of identifying his signatures. The Meyor, who, whether welcoming Froude to America, or defending himself. against a charge of theft,is always an effective orator, disclosed, in what hesaid yesterday, two of his lines of defence. It was absurd to find eriminal intent in his hav- ing assigned his duties to his subordinate, and he doubted the genuineness of his ignatures in some cases. Nearly two thousand Germans met last night it the West Twelfth Street Turner Hall, and passed resolutions denouncing the Sunday clos~ ing law, 2nd calling on the Mayor to abandon the efforts to close the saloons until after the elec- tionof & new Council. Germsn newspapers were requested to ignore all nominees st the coming election who favored the enforcement of the law, and saloon- keepers were exhorted to remsin open mnext Sunday, a course which the Mannerchor has de- clared it will adopt. On the other side of the question, meettngs were held in Unity Church and Plymouth Church, at one of which the Re- publican ticket was denounced and the nomina~ tion of an Independent Temperanco ticket de- manded. There &re no cases of the horse disease in this city, unless those reported yesterday in the ‘Western avenue stables are of the same type as the Canadian dizease, which they closely resem- ble. A despatch from Jacob Dunn, of the York- ville stables, is published in another column. Mr. Dunn, who is widely known as an authority on horses and horse treatment, gives a careful diagnosis of the disease, with a statement of the most approved method of treatment. He says that, although the disease is tapidly spread- ing, it is not dangerous, and that the panic among horse-men is subsiding. The disease ‘’has appeared in Portland, andis raging through- out the New England States. In Brooklyn the ‘horse-cars cease running to-day; almost all the express companies, horse-cars, and omnibuses areat astop in New York. Broadway displays only one-fourth its usual traffic, and an interrup- tion of the transportation of the mails is feared. The crisis is believed to have passed in Buffalo ; few horses have died, and there has been no ces- sation of its canal business. We notice that our recent startling expose of the wrongs inflicted on newly-arrived immi- grants in this city is attracting much attention, and being copied far and wide by exchanges in the Eastern cities. The evil has gone ‘unmo- lested too long, and its proportions are not ex- aggerated. The publication will do good, and not harm, if it calls forth the remedy necessary. Baut, if nothing is dore to bring about the better system, the advertisement of the wrongs inflict- ed on these new-comers in our city will only carry forward the effects already manifested, of inducing them to give Chicago a wide berth, as twenty thousand of them did last year. ‘The German Society is an excellent organization, and can be aided into full and complete effectiveness. They can protect their countrymen, strangers to our soil, 2sno others can, but they must have help to doit. Let them bring forward a plan, snd then every citizen and every railrond company is interested in secing it fully realized. Chicago is the great natura} resting-place and point of departure for all now-comers secking homes in our great inte- rior. A few soulless harpies must not be al- lowed to defeat this possibility. The Springfield Republican has got wind of & highly moral enterpriss to reform the Republi- can party, to put an end to such scandals as the Leet & Stocking fraud, the Secor outrage, the Chorpenning nuisance, the carpet-bag villanies, personal government, cancus despotism, San Doringoism, etc., ete. This movement, if the Republican is correctly informed, is to be ini- tisted inside the party by cortain persons who have worn the yoke of Grantism through the present campaign reluctantly, but have worn it mevertheless, We sup- pose thers is some foundation for this romor. The names of the would-be re- formers are not divulged. They will, of courso, be withheld till after the election, for there is nothing so dangerous to a partisan just now as to have it understood that he thinks there is pot‘isibly somo room for improvement. The fashionsable thing to Bay is, that the country is ‘prosperous (as Morton ssures us it is), and that it is, all dwe to the wisdom of Grant, who, in his seclusion of Long Branch, profiting by the able counsels of a Murphy ora Corbin, devises those wonderfal schemes $o.the dictation or manipulation of politiciang vhich mako money plenty and cause com to bring & good price. But after election, if’ the Republican ia corractly informed, there is to bo anew crop of dissenters. Disputes are to arise 24 to facts, and as to the moral complexion there- of. Those who went to the Cincinnati Conven- tion are to have powerful assistance from quar- ters not generally suspected, and something is going to be done. This movement, or suspicion of & movement, furniehes 2n additional reason, inthe estimation of the Republican, why tho Liberals should prosecute the work of the cam- paign with renewed energy. e — The Chicago produce markots were less active yesterday, end most of them wero lower. Mess pork was stendy and quiet at $14.50 cash, $12.873¢ seller December, and $12.87X4@13.00 seller March. Lard was more active, but weslk, at TH@73{c for winter, and 75c for summer rendered; scller December quoted at 73 @TJc. Meats were quiet and steady at 6@6%c ‘for ehouldors, and 10@10}c for short ribs. Highwines were more ective, and advanced, 34c, closing at 83%4@89c per gallon. Lake freights werodoll and unchanged, at 15¢ for corn by sail to Buffalo. Flour was dull. Wheat was less active, and declined 134c, closing at $1.073¢ for seller the month, and $1.06 seller No- vember. ‘Corn was less sactive, and ${c lower, closing at 80c cash, and 30%c seller November. Oats were dull, and 3dc lower, closing at 20c for seller tho month, and 21c seller November. Ryo was in good demand, snd 3¢c higher, at 603¢@51le. Barley was active and steady, at 03¢ for No. 2, and 47@47%4c for No.S. There was more doingin the hog market to-day, but prices were again weak apd lower, the decline averag- ing fully 10c por1001bs. Sales were chiefly at $4.25@4.35. Cattle met with a fair inquiry, at about yesterday's prices. Sheep were dull and ‘wealk, at 25¢ per 100 1bs decline. — The movement recently iated for the sup- presgion of crime, by closing the places where intoxicating liquors are sold on Sunday, has ap- perently been perverted from its original and rightful purpose. It was begun on the supposi- tion that more liquor was consumed and more crime produced on Sundsy than on week-deys, because drinkers had moro leisure on that day than on any other. A spirit of opposition was manifested to it on the part of the German population when it came to be applied to lager-beer, they looking upon it as an invasion of their personal rights, and an attempt to enforce religions opinions, or at least, religious practices, upon them,—their pecnliar beverage being of & narcotic and not of an intoxicating tendency. This spirit of oppo- sition, or rather the boisterous manner in which it hes been manifested by a prominent demagogue, hes excited on the other hand o dis- ‘position to enforce the law against beer at all hazrads, whether it be an intoxicating drink or not. And g0 the case now stends. The contro- versy has taken the form of o public broil on the the question of observing the first day of the week in o particular manner, rath- er than on any matter relating to crime or intoxication. On this question, which onco produced riot and bloodshed in our streets, and which hes slumbered during the past seventoen or eighteen years, the opinions of different classes and nationalities are so posi- tive that the utmost caution will be required to avoid a repetition of the unhappy disturbances of the epring of 1855. Wo do not apprehend & renewal of those disturbances now, for we be- lieve that the public anthorities are able to keep the original purposes of the law and order movement in view, and to confine their atten- tions to intoxicating drinks and to the places ‘which produce crime and disorder. A curious political muddle has grown out of the contro~ versy, and, according to present appearances, more votes will be controlled one wsy or the other by prejudices engendered by the Sunday movement than by considerations of National politics. At all events, the politicians and can- didates are immensely bothered by it. THE SOLITARY JURYRLAN. There ig a univereal gentiment in Chicago, en- tirely rogardless of political attachments, that the vilest incident of the campaign has been found in the personsl atiacks of the Chicago Times upon Democrats of recognized standing, ability, and honesty. In severalsuccessive issues of that journal, the greater part of its editorial drivel hias been employed in calling such gentle- men as Cyrus H. McCormick, Murray F. Tuley, St. Clair Sutherland, Carter H. Harrison, and General 1. N. Stiles, “bummers,” “ geallawags,” and “dend-beats.” If it hes beon the purpose of this newspaper to competo with Brick Pomo- royin the manufacturo of cpithets, the result shows a miserable failure. If, however, the ob- ject has been to confirm its own repatation, al- ready pretty well established, for wanton disre- gard and intonse hatred for every man who has the temerity to be respectablo in a community whero it lives, the success seems to have surpassed all former efforts. Tho credibility end the influence of the Times can be well de- termined, if the reader will only stop to con- sider that evory one of these persons thus characterized as a “dead-beat,” a “bummer,” anda “scallawng™ is well kuown to all people as o respectable and nseful citizen, Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick has a national reputation for his work in promoting the inter- ests of agriculture by means of the reapers which he has manufectured in such large num- bers for many years past. The wealth which ho Lias acquired, while contributing to tho interests of Lo whole country, hes been devoted by him to the improvement and benefit of Chicago, and to the promotion of educationsl institutions here and elsewhere. When the greet fire came, there was no one lost more heavily than he, nor has there been any one more prompt to co-operato in the work of the re-catablishment of what was destroyed. Ho gives per- manent employment to hundreds of laborers and mechanics in his factories and in the work of rebuilding, and is, in every rospect, & good and usoful citizen. Ieis not au ofiice-holder, nor the candidate for any ofiice; nor are we aware that he has any political aspirations, In every political connection which he has had, he has done ten times more for others than others could possibly do for him, Yet this is the man whom the Times newspaper of yesterday morn-~ ing speaks of 8 ““Bosa” McCormick, in connec- tion with “scallawags,” ‘dead-beats,” and ¢ bummers.” Theso epithets are not less reckless and dis- graceful as applied to the other gentlemer men- tioned. Mr. Carter B. Harrison msy, without prejudice to other good menm, be eaid to be, upon his own merits, the most popular citizen in the West Division. He is 2 man of large means, honestly acquired,who has nsed his wealth in o manner to command the respect and confidence of the poor people of his neighborhood. 1t is said that, in selling & num- ber of lots at a time when it Was almost impos- sibla to secure abstrects of title, he was not asked forany other ovidence of good title than his word. It may bo added that the Times heartily snpported Mr. Harrison for the office of County Commissioner, which he now holds, insisting that he should nccept it as a duty to his fellow- citizens. The same is trme of that journal's trentmont of Messrs Stiles and Tuley, when they were candidates for the positions which they are now filling,—gentlemen who are now called names merely from personal spite and discom- fiture. Mr. St. Clair Sutherland presided over the Democratic Ceniral Committee of this county for meveral years, . and did much {o combat and restrain the low instincts which obtrude themselves upon all conventions and caucuses in a greater or less de- gree. Helns given his time, without hope of reward, to efforts to purify and elevate politics, while the newspaper which abuses him has de- voted itself to the purpose of bringing all can- didates to its own level. Mr. Sutherlandis a candidate for office for the first time during his residence in Chicago, in opposition to his own ‘wishes, 2nd only in accordance with the emphatic request of the Liberal Committee, who insisted that he should take the place. It is significant that the Times' list of “bum- mers,” “geallawags,” and ‘“‘dead-bents” does not include the neme of a single person who is mnot =&t once a gentleman and a good citizen, The fact serves to show the pre- cise value of an estimate of decency coming from that source. It also illustrates the ex- tremity to which the newspaper has come in its failure to command the adherence of snybods, ‘belonging to eny party, during the prosent po- litical cempaign. The situation would not be more aptly defined than it was in the comparison which Mr. McCormick made in his speech of last Tuesday evening, likening the Times to the gingle juryman who so violently denounced the other eleven men for their stupidity in differing from him. THE ARREST OF HEINRICH. The moet flagrant outrages that have yot been attempted by the authorities of the Federal Gov- crnment, nnder cover of the law known ag the Enforcoment act, have oceurred in New York City within tho past week. The firet instance was the arrest, on Saturdsy, of a reputable Ger- ‘man citizen named Heinrich, at tho instigation -of United States Commissioner Davenport, who exerciges fhe dual office of Prosecutor (as Chief of the Supervisors of Election), and of Judgo, by virtue of his commission from the United States Government. Mr. Heinrich had distin- guished bimself in his ward, and among his countrymen, a8 a champion of the Liberal move- ment. This led to the visit of & Supervisor— appointed under the Enforcement act—who questioned Mr. Heinrich .88 to the length of his zesidence in the country and his quelifications ns & voter. A series of impe:ztinent inquiries culminated in the Supervisor's demand to know Mr. Hein- rich's age. Mr. Heinrich resented this piece of impertinence, and was prompted to eject tho Supervisor by force, the latter refusing to leave the premises voluntarily. Thereupon Mr. Hein-~ zich was sorosted, and dragged befors United States Coinmissioner Davenport, who impro- vised & courtin his room st & hotel, ordered Mr. Heinzich to jail for resisting one of his officers, amd refased to accopt bail, though ten times the nequisite amount of surcty was prof- fered. As this was Saturdsy afternoon, Mr. Heinrich lay in prison until Monday, and even then it was.only after a habeas corpus had been applied for that Davenport consented to take bail for tho prisonor’s sppearance. In spite of the, universal condemnation which this bhigh-handed proceeding elicited from the press, the telegraph of yes- torday brought the information that Com- missioner Davenport had canged the arrest of nnother citizen, Mr. Ches. Hussey, upon simikiir grounds. Mr. Hussey had refused to anawer the questions of one John Heenan, & special Deputy Marshal, and had also attempted to eject hirn from his premises after Hecnan hod refused to leave. When brought before Davenport, Mr. Hussey said that ho had read in one of the ‘morning papers that citizens were not obliged to answer guestions put to them by theso special officers of election, whereat one of the politicians present exclaimed that the editor of that paper must bo arrested too. The law under which these outrages were per- petrated is a piece of patch-work, which the last Congress virtually destroyed in the effort at mending it. It consistsof three parts, the first of which was approved May 81, 1870, and provides gonerally for the protection of all voters without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It defines tlie duties off District Attorneys, Marshals, Depu- ty Marshals, and United States Commiesioners in onforcing the law, provides for the prosecu- tion of offenders in ‘the United States Conrts, prescribes the pensliies, and was intended to protect tho nogro race in the exercise of their now privilge of suffrage. The second part of the law, an ect approved Fob. 28, 1871, gavoit a special application to cities having a population of moro than 20,000 inhabitants, and was partic- ularly intended for NewYork Cily. This act pro- vided for the appointment of two Sapervisors of Election at each poll, and for keoping the Cir- cuit Court of tho United States open to hear any coses of slleged violation of the Registra- tion laws that might be brought before it. The law also provides that United States Morshals shall have the power toappoint special Deputies, and fixes penalties for resistance to these Dapu- ties or to Supervisors in the discharge of their duties,—these duties being to challenge the right of registration or voting, and to see that every- thing in regard to the election is conducted fairly. This amendment spplies to elec!ions in all Corigressional Districts, and it is as valid in New York and Chicago as it is in Charleston and Richmond. But, as the law throughout bears upon the duties of the Supervisors and Deputies at the polls, it does not seem, so far, to warrant the invasion of & citizen’s house and home for the purpose of gratifying curiosity or intimidat- ing voters. If such a construction wero possi- ble under the second act, the third act, passed on the last day of the last session of Congress, demolishes 15 completely. This third part of the Enforcement law extends the juriediction to the country istricta, but fails to provide for the ap- pointment of special Deputy Marshals ; it pre- seribes the duties of Sapervisors in such man- ner.as to render the conduct of Davenport and his assistants amenable to legal punish- ment. *And provided farther,” saya fhis nct, “{hat the Supervisora herein provided for shall have no power to mako arrosts, or to perform other duties than to be in the immediate presence of the officers holding the election, and to all their procoedings, including the counting of the yotes and the making of & réturn thereof.” This act, passed in the shape of.an 2mendment to the preceding scts, divests the law of any semblance of authority it might otherwise con- vey for the infamous infringement upon per- sonal rights and liberty, of which United States Commissioner Davenport, of New Yorlk, has been guilty. It was predicted, at the time of the passage of the first Enforcement act, that the day would come when its epirit, claiming tobe in the inter- est of an ignorant race of men, should be trans- planted from the South to the North, and trans- formed from an instrument of justice to one of oppression. That day has, apparehtly, come. ‘WOMEN AT HARVARD, The recent action of the Overseers of Harvard College, by which annusl examinations of women will be held hereafter, 28 is now done at the University of Cambridge, in Englend, is a long step forwerd in the attainment of ‘Woman's Rights, and a step in the right direc- tion. It will accomplish more of practieal ben- efit to women than yeurs of stump-speaking, criminationand recrimination, and the political twaddle of mele and fomale demagogues have been able to effect. While, if we understand the matter rightly, this action does not admit women to study in the University, side by side with the malo students, it amounts to the same in the end, since, if they are competent to pass the examinations, they will go out into the world armed with the diplomas of this vener- able seat of learning, and indorsed by it as competent to teach or follow other profes- sional pursuits, in the same manmer as the regularly graduated students. For all prac- tical purposes, they stand upon the same level with them. They have secured the same. privi- lege, only in a different way. Suchearesult as this has a direct practical influence upon the condition of woman, and will jelevate her to a position where sho may attain still higher hon- ors, and help to lift the sex from that low plane where her advocates insiat that she is per~ sistently kept by the tyrannic disposition of ‘man. There is no bar to this result except her own inefficiency. The new scheme which the Overscers of Har- vard have adopted, at the suggestion of the Cor- ‘poration, is substantially the same &s that Which has been adopted by the English University of Cambridge after a three years’ trial. There are two classes of candidates for these annunl examinations,—those under 18 and those above that age. Those who pass the examination ina thoroughly eatisfactory man- | ner will be awarded certificates of honor, and those who pss in & creditable way will bo awarded certificates of credit. These certifi- cates are tantamount to the diploma which the male student receives upon graduation, and they bear witness to the fact that the possessor is qualified to fill the post of teacher or such other position as the new educational standard qualifies her to fill. The first examination is to be held next Jauno, and before that time the Overseers will publish a schednle setting forth the objects to be taken up, the books necessary for consultation, the de- gree of proficiency required to pass, and that which is essential to passing with hon- or. An aasociation of Boston ladies has agreed to bear the incidental expenses after the manner in which the English experiment has been carried out. The result of this now concession te the de- mand for educational privileges' of the higher sort for woman, will be looked for with lively interest. Every unprejudiced person will be- speak success for it. The necessarily severe examinations which the candidates for diplomas will have to endure must inevitably elevate the standard of female education, and improve the character of the schools and seminaries which are devoted exclusively to young ladies. Those institutions furnish at best but & superficial eduoation, 2 smattering of the langusges and sciences, and the secomplish-" ments of the beaw monde, which sre only calenlated to fit alady to occupy acertain conven- tional position in fashionable life, but one of no practical value, and do not contribute to elevate her, educationally, or give her any well-defined standard of scholarly attainment. Indeed, thers aro very few young ladies who bring away from their bonrding-school or seminary experiences more than the ahility to use the most common Freach and German phreses, the faculty of playing the piano badly, snd the usual modicum of style in drawing-room sppesrances, and general good-society etiquette. The Harvard scheme will tend to correct this superficial idea of education, and, by establishing severer testa of scholarship, will grant to woman not only the same privilege which the nisle student enjoys, buton opportuuity to qualify herself for the highestand noblest pursuits. This result, as wo stated at the outset, is an important step in the atteinment of the rights of woman, in that it is qualifying her to exercise those rights, and if the new scheme shall accomplish this much, if it can abolish the present pernicious system of female education and raise its standard, it will ‘e & matter for general congratulation. The cable has brought the announcement of the death of John Henry Merle d’Aubigne, the famous Swiss historiau and theologian, whose Dame is almost as familiar in this country as in Europe. He wasborn at the village of Esux Vines, in the Canton of Geneva, Bwitzerland, Aug. 16, 1794, and was therofore 78 yenrs of ago at the time of his death. His early yeers were devoted to the study of theology, under the tuition and lectures of the learned Neander. In 1817, he was ordained a minister and sottled in Hamburg, as the pastor of the French Calvinist Church, in that city. In 1823, he removed to Brussels, where for saven years e officiated as the pastor of the leading Protes- tant church, and whore he became the Court proacher and personal friend of the late King of | Holland, who was at that time King of the United Notherlands. Upon theseparation ofBelginmfrom the crown of the House of Orange, he roturned to Switzerland and accepted the Chair of Eccle- pinstical History in & college founded by the Evangelical Society of Geneva. This position gave him an opportunity of prosecuting the groat work of his lifo, and, in 1835, he gave to the public the first volume of his History of the Reformation in the Bixteonth Century.” The work met with an ostonishing success, almost immediately, throughout all Protestant Chuistendom, attracted not only the warmest ad-~ miration from Protestants, but also & contro- versial attention, which made his name famous the world over, and wWas soon tranlated into nearly all the European langueges. He has re- mained in Geneva since 1835, constantly grow- ing in fame as he increased in yemrs, and his home has been the favorite resort of the travelling clergymen of all Protestant de- nominations. Dr. d'Aubigne wes o man of un- flagging industry, and has left numorons other works to the world, among them, * The Protec- tor; or, the English Republic in the Days of Cromwell;” ‘Three Centuries of Scottish Struggle; or, Two Kingdoms and Two Kings;” “The Character of the Reformer and the Refor- ‘mation of Geneva;” ‘ History of the European Reformiation in the Tim of Calvin; “Germsny, Scotland, and England; or, the Recollections of & Bwiss Miniater ;" together with an almost end- less colléctiion of -sermons, addresses, ‘and specinl essays printed in the Archives du Christianisme.” A The Philadelphis Telegraph has read a very plain but forcible lesson to the people of that city, on tho sbsurdity of brag, and in the read- ing tells them some very plein traths, It dis- closes the fact that, outside of Pennsylvania Philadelphia is only & name, while New York is 8 reality ; that, in very many instances, buyers can get Philadelphia-made goods chesper in New York than %t headquarters ; and that the boaats that are constantly mede about the num- ber of houses Luilt in that city are on & par with those of librarian who should brag of the ex- tent of & collection made up for the most part of pamphlets of no value. In the course of its ser- mon, the Telegraph pays Chicago tho following handsome compliment : Leaving Now York out of the question, this city is far ‘Dbohind Chicago in business onte; and something beside vain boasting about the amount of ground we cover, and the number of houses we build, will be necessary bofore Philadelphia canbo placed in com- parison with tho great lake city. The Philadelphia hionses hava been-for the most part small structures, often consisting of only four rooms, and _costing from £2,000to $4,000, whilo thoso of Chicago have been large and olgant structures of great or- chitectural pretensions, which cost many thousands of dollars ~ each, and which will bo permanent attractions to the city. The rebuilding of Chicagois omo of tho marvels of the nineteenth century, especlally when the extent and elégant char- acter of the new edifices aro taken into consideration; and, in view of what Chicago has done within the list yoar, we shudder to think of what the situstion of Philidelphia would be to-dsy, had it been the victim of the fire-fiend & year ago. Tt is not probable that the Philadelphians will relish either the unpalatable truths about their city or the handsome compliments for Chicago, which the Telegraph prints in its comparison be- tween the two cities; nevertheless, we are con- strained to admit that that journal has discern- ment and discrimination in no ordinary degree. —_— Like the Frenchman who monrned the loss of the Column Vendome because it took away & convenient place for committing suicide, 8o Mrs. Laura Fair laments the invention of the stom- ach-pump which was brought into requisition to foil the admirable purpose of her mother in put- ting an end to her existence, after this existence had been made wretched by the loss of her law- suit agninst her daughter. There is nothing more charming in naturo than filial affection, and & more highly-wrought instance of it than the Laura Fair family gave a few days 8go seldom occurs. The act must be taken as a whole to bo properly appreciated. First, Mrs. Fair could not, with the instincts of & true daughter, burden her mother with the trust of $8,000 on her account. So she proceeded into court and wrenched it from the faithful old lady, ‘who was willing to make a maternal sacrifice and keep it. Then, when the mother sought the ob- livion generally to befound in & dose of lauda- num and chloroform, and when 'a ruthless and unfeeling doctor rushed in with his stomach-pump to undo what had been so fairly done, none was earlier or mors eager to commis- serate the bereaved old lady upon restoration to life than was her dutiful and affectionste daugh- ter, Mra, Laura Fair. “Why didn't you take enough of the stuff to finish you, and make one jobof it?" was the familiar colloguial way in which Mrg, Fair opened the conversation. It wss one of those scenes of family endearment which the rude, cold world will scarcely know how to appreciate. s There was room for all the improvement pos- sible in the condition of the Belgian working- men, who have recently struck so generally and succeeafully. Most of the lzborers of that country are miserably poor. . A report recently ‘made to the British Foreign Office declares that there are20,000 svorkingmen’s households in Bel- giumabsolutely unable to mest their very humble expenses. Their diet is limited to the barest necessaries of life, and few of them ever ses meat, beer, or sugar on their tables. What are considered good wages may be learned from the fact, stated as a gratifsing one, that there are over two hundred thousand workmen who recoive as much as seventy-five cents a ‘day. Itis not surprising that with such wages, and the ill-furnished hovels and slatternly wives, which are an inevitable result, these men should betake themselves to drinking with such vigor that Belgiom has a public-house for every fifty inhabitants. Discontent with their lot has in- creased, notwithstanding their participation in the recent rise in wages of 25 to S0 per cent, which has occurred throughout the industrial world within the last few yeers. At Antwerm Brussels, Ghent, and other cities, the journey- men masons, tailors, shipvrights, and others have been in fall revolt, and havo usually car- ried the dsy. Backed by the. power of the In- ternationals, they have demanded and obtained, in many instances, not only more wages, but the dismissal of apprentices. Prussia has abandoned her former practice of pardoning ‘her worst criminals on condition of their emigration to the United States, but it is continued by some of the petty German States. The Mecklenburg News says : Johannes Dreyfuss, the incendiary and murderer of Torgelow, who in 185 was scntenced to imprisonment for life, snd whom his Royal Highmess the Grand Dulko pardoned, in Jue last, on his promise of forth- with émigrating to North America and never more re- turning to this country, has written to his family from Chicago that he bas safely arrived in that city, and that he intends to settle there, We are favored in the same way by the Principality of Reuss, as appears from the Gera Advertiser: Yesterday guite o conconrse of peoplo assembled in the market space to witness the disgusting spectaclo of the transportation of two heavily-ironed criminals through this place, " They were the barber Sonnewend, who two years ago poisoned his wife, and attempted to murder his babo, because he wanted fo marry an- other woman, and Who, in consequence, was sentenced to death, but, through the clemency of the Prince, had Dis punishment commuted to penal servitude for life; and o farm-laborer, Peter Bender, convicied in 1861 of nine casos of highway robbery, and sentenced to penal tude for life, The two criminals had_petitioned for their release, and inasmuch a8 their relatives had promised to furhieh the necessary means for ssndin them to the United States, and o thoy have manifest unmistakablo symptoms of repentance and contrition, the Minister of Justice has granted their petition, " We commend this plan to Pennsylvania politi- cigng. Let them hereafter pardon their convicts only on condition that, after their affidavits are ‘made, they shall emigrate to some small princi- pality or duchy of Germany. —_—— For sixteen years, one fragile but resolute woman, Miss Cunninghem, has given her rare energics, assisted by other noble women, to the tasl of preserving the homeof Washingtonas a Nationel shrine. When Mount Vernon was of- fered for salo by the nephew of Washington, she | read the ndvertiscment, end, though prostrated at the time by spinal disease, her indignation stimulated her tomake ernest individual and public appeals to her countrymen to save this Dallowed spot from the desecration of sale. Among the noble responses was that of Edward Everett, whoraised 380,000 by his public lecturess and by such means the work was accomplished. Daring the war, Miss Cunningham took up her residence at Mount Vernon, where she still re- sides, to oversee tho repairs and improvements necessary to maintain the estate. Her services have been rendered yithout any compensation ; sud that her sdministration has been rigidly economical is shown by the fact that all the ex- penses, including hospitalities to distinguished | strangers, have boen restricted, as is shown by tho report presented to the last annual meeting of tho Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association, tc 2858.56 o year. - — : In twenty-five years, according to & report made to the Nationnl Agricultural Society at St. Louis, nll the valuable sccessible timber lands in the United States will have been despoiled. In the recent meeting of the Nationsl Board of Trade, a delegate stated that, at the presentrate of destruction, Michigan will be bare of forests in seventeon years. The waste of woodis one of the least evils of this destruction. Most serions - climatic changes will follow if the experiences of other countries is & guide. The theory of Humboldt, that forests] and heavy vegotation prevent tho earth from radiating its Palestine, in ancient days, was well-wooded and well-watered. Its hillsides are now stripped of their trees, and its brooks are dry, except daring the rainy seagon. The sterility of Spain and the famines of Parsia are believed to bo largely due to this cause. S Ore of the Maine Customs Districts is callea Machiss. Although its commerce has steadiiy decreased since 1857, the expenses of asgessing and collecting duties in it havo increased with equal regulerity. In 1857, the imports wera 94,760 ; in 1870, they had fallen to $8,252, bui the Custom Houso expenses had risen from $2,606, in 1857, to ©6,391 in 1870. These ex- penses consist of salaries paid to n Collector, who finds the bnsiness of the port so overwhelming that he is supported by three Deputies and three Tnspectors, all of whom stand by the party. AMUSEMENTS. THE VARIAN CONCERT, which was announced for last evening, was a concer’ which did not come off. It was to have been given at Central Hall, on Twenty-second street, but at the hour announced, although two or throe people gathered at the door, the door was locked, the box-office closed, and the hall dark. The agent put in an appearance about a week ago, got-out his posters, did his advertis- ing, and then left tho city. It is to be presum- ed that the mesgro sale at the bos-office, Which amounted to o helf-price ticket for the matinee, did not seem sufficiontly alluring for Madame YVarian, Signor Bartolini, the Polish pianist,and the Hungarian violinist to waste theiy sweetness on the desert air. As they did not sppear last ovening, the grand concerts announced for Saturdey afterncon and evening msy also be considered off. The audience of three which assemqled on the sidowzlk, last evening, went away in rather mournful spirits. The audience of one which was to have been present to-mor- row afiernoon can undoubtedly get its money back by agglymg to the parties of whom it pur- chased. We have made this statement princi- pally for the benefit of anxious creditors. BENEFIT CONCERT. A beneft concert will be given, this evening, ot the Leavitt Street Congregotional Church, to Mr. W. C. Coffin, the orgavist, in which several well-known singors of the city will take part. The programme, as will be scen, is an admirabla one: ¢ PART FIRST. Fantasia Piano—* Irish Diamonds™....... ‘Willie Pape Miss L. Blekeslee, Quartette (Male)—“ What Beamaso Bright 2™, ,.— Messta. Cleveland, Colson, Stiles, and Coffin. Solo—* The Flower Girl " (Ariv). + AMrs, C, D. Carrington. Duet—* Gently Sighs the Breeze . -.....Glover Mrs, F. H. Hardenbergh and Miss Annie Rockwell, Solo—* Yes, Let Me Like a Soldier Die ” (from the opera * Maritana ™). Wallsca M. V. G. Cof Trio (ladies’ voices)— On the Ocean”. Concona M. C. D. Carzinglon, Mes. C. 4. Grow, und 3iss Ane nie kv TART SEC Duet (:)z;‘osur ‘Hands)—** I Bacio SoDg......n o Duet—* What Mounts ,” (IAlasnader) Mrs. C, D. Carrington, and Afr. W. Song—* Ye Merry Birds " Dirs. E. H. Hardenbergh. Quartet—*There’s One that I Love Dearly 7. .. Eucken MMrs, E. H. Hardenbergh, Mre, C. A. Grow, Mr. S, Cleveland, and Ar. W. C. Coffin. Song—* Good Night, Farewell 7. . DMiss Annie Rockw Quartet (Male)—* The Ruined Chapel ™. ., Messrs. Claveland, Colson, Stiles, and THE DARNABEE TROUPE. The Barnabee Concert Troupe, which needs no introduction to the reader, will give two concerts in the Union Park Cobgregational Church on AMonday, Oct. 23, and the following Thursdsy. Mrs. N. H. Smith, soprano; Miss H. R. Clark, contralto; Mr. Fesaenden, fenor; Mr. Barnabee, basso; and Mr. Arbuckle, cornet, will sppear. LV POLITICATL. The official vote of Indiena, for Governor, compares with the preceding election as follows ¢ 1872, Lib.. 1863. Hendricks, Dem....170,614/Hendricks, Baker, Bep.... 71,575| Brovwne, Rep. Rep, ma; ... 961 Liberalmsj.... 1148 Total vote. 342,189| Total vote. The total in 1872 includes 182 Bourbon votes. -—There was an election in Baltimore, Wednes- day, for members of the First Branch of the City Council, and the Liberal-Democratic candi- dates were elccted in seventeen of the twenty wards. The vote was small. —The Maryland Republicans support three Bourbon Democrats for Congress, for the Easte ern Shore and Baltimore Districts. —Returns nearly complete make the Republi- can majority in Nebraska, on Congressman 7,000, snd on Governor 6,000. The new Legis- lature will have but two Liberals in the Senzte and ten in the House. —The registration-books™at St. Louis close on 98,246 names, and the country precincts will sdd sbout 5,000. This is finel,—there being no ““gwearing-in” votes on election-day. —The returns-of the Georgia election, Oct. 2, still incomplete st lest accounts, give Governor Smith 57,361, which the eight remaining coun- ties will increase. The vota indicates that the entire delegation of nine Congressmen will be elected by the Liberal-Democrats in November. —George A. Gray, of Linn County, has been eral Electoral ticket in Towa. —Judge Jackeon Temple, of San Francisco, en influential Democrat. has held aloof from politics this year, but forbids the use of his name on the O’Conor Electoral ticket. —The Municipal Reform Association of Phila- delphia feel confident that they will obliterate the 15,000 Hartranft majority, and oust all the Ring candidates for city and county offices who claim election by virtue of it. In every ward whose returns are scrutinized, they find altera~ tions of figures and transfers of votes from the Buckalew to the Hartranft side, by the 100, 200, 300, or 400, and, in one case, 1,000 votes. The election officers acted under instructions that are now understood by the uniformity of the fraud, and the work of deteclion will be the more easy. It was not until Hartranft was Lknown to have enough, and, as it has proved, too much majority, tliat the word went forth to stop. The ‘“stop” was at 15,000. It might eg easily have been 25,000, and, at 9 o’clack on elec- tion evening, it was intended to be 22,000. —D. R. Carr, the third Grant candidate for Congress nominated in the Bowlinggreen (Ky.) District, lias withdrawn, and the faithful adhe- rents to Grant’must understand, by this time, that all their votes have been scld to Golladay, the Bourbon and cadet-selling candidate. beat, and that the resultant lower temperature of wooded districts condenses the moisture of the airinto rain, i ‘verified by observation. —DeWitt C. Littlejohn, of Oswego, 15 & Lib~ eral candidate for the New York Legislature. ~—The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention will be one of the ablest bodies ever convened in the country for the revision of constitutional law. Itisproposed that one of the delegatea- at-large of the Democracy resign, to make room for the appointment of Mr. Buckalew. The Re- publicans have & majority of five. —The Rochester (N.Y.) Union saya: The most extraordinary act ever passed by sny Leglslature is the act of list winter submitting to the peoplo the quetion whether a debt of the Stato hall Dot be created mainly to pay for over-appropriations Dy the last and previous Legislatures. It was doubte less supposed by those who controlled the last rattan Legislature that the people might be cheated into an approval of this act under the excitement of a Prest- dential election, but they are likely to come to grief. —The Indianapolis Post Ofice Isys its hand upon its heart, and declares that Mr. Morton's committees had to rake and ecrape to get to- gother money onough to meet their legil te expenses. Also, that they ‘' peremptorily re- fused to apply money for pelitical experiments or to nses of doubtful propriety, on the ground that their resources required husbanding.” —Owisg to = misapprebension of theiaw, 600 Indians in North Carolins were not allowed to vote at the Angust clection. They would have voted, to s man, the Conservative ticket, and would have reduced Celdwell's illegal majority of 2,000 to 1,400, Bonds. - It should be borne in mind that there aré no bonds in the market moro desirable than the first mortgage bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad. They besr 7810 gold interest, payablo semi-annually, are issned in denominations of $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000, or $10,000, either cotipon or registered, ‘snd can- be'had ot par snd interest. Their security 3 undoubted, Pampliets and full informstion furnished on applicse tion, LUNT, PRESTON & KEAN, General Agents, . - substituted for the Rev. I. K. Fuller, on the Lib-