Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 30, 1872, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3V, i872. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. A8 OF SCBECRIPTION (PATABLE IN ADVAKCE). D, by anil....-812.00 | Suadas. 2,50 Do idp s tls 6.00] Weekly' 2,60 Parta of 2 sonr at the samo rate. 1o provent delay and mistakes, bo sare and givo Post Oftoe addresa in ful, fpelnding State and Cousty. TRemittances may be ‘made clther by dralt, express, Post 0 ce order, or Ip registored lettors, ab our risk. TERNS TO CITY SUDSCRINERS. Dats eelicerod, Suuday oxceptad. 3 ceats per wock. Eanday included, ceots per week. Datl, dellvered, S S IRIBUNE COMPAXY, e No. 15 Soath Canal-st., Chicago, Hl. nmUNE Branch Ofice, No. 469 Wabash-av., in the v of Afessrs. Cobb, Andrews & Co., whoro B ormonts znd subscriptions will bo received, and il rocetvo tho samo stientlon 25 if left 3t tho Main Office. 2 TRIBONE counting-room aud business dopartment w;fl romaiz, for the prescat, at No. 15 Canzlstrcet. Ad- vertisements shonld be Landed in at that place. LIBERAL NOMINATIONS. NATIONAL. Por President: HORACE GREELEY, of Now York. For Vice President : B. GRATZ BROWN, of Missourl, ELECTORAL. L For Electors of President and VSce_Prwde_nt: At Large~WILLIAM BROSS, of Chicago; JOHN D. CATON, of Ottawa; .THOMAS HOYNE; C. P. HOLDEN; "Boston. BAMUEL C. PARKS; .JOHN CUNNINGHAL; 'JOHN X, GWIN; _ .DANIEL K. GREEN; "JOHN HINCHCLIFFE; .BENJAMIN W. SHARD; PIERCE. STATE. For Governor: GUSTAVUS KOERNER, of St. Clair, For Licutenant Governor: JOHN CEARLES BLACK, of Champaign. For Secretary of State : EDWARD RU: For Auditor of Public Accounts: DANIEL O'HARY, of Cook. For State Treasurer: CHARLES H. LANPHIER, of Sangamon. For Attorney General : JOHN V. EUSTACE, of Lee, For Clerks of the Supreme Court: Southern Div.—RB. A. D. WILBANES, of Jefferson, Ceniral Div,—DAVID A. BROWN, of on, Northern ELI SMITH, of Cook. COUNTY. CONGRESSIONAL. First District—LUCIUS B. OTIS. Second District~CARTER H. HARRISON Third District—JOHN V. LEMOYNE. STATE BOALD OF EQUALIZATION. Firet District—DANIEL C. SEELLY. Secord District—THOMAS WILCE. Third District—CHARLES ENOBLESDORFF, LEGISLATIVE. First District (Wards 1, 2, 10, snd 11)—Senator : AMES SHEAHAN. Representatives : HENRY -3 w. BWEET, OTTO MUTSCHLECHNER. Second District (Wezds 3, 4, and 5, Hyde Park and Lake)—-Senator : JAMES WADSWORTH. ~ Ropresenta- tives s TRANK T, SHERMAN, EGBERT JAMIESON, Third District (Wards 6, 7, az enator : ‘BEHOE, fipm(:‘i'-;;‘i\‘cs: CONSTANTINE KANN, THOMAS 3. HALPIN. Fourth District (Wards 9,12, and 13)—Senator: WILLARD WOODALD. . ‘eprescntatives: W. H. NDOY, S. 5, GARDNER. O Districi (Warda 12, 16, and 18)—Senator: DE- YOTION C. EDDY. Dépresontatives: HUGH Ao LAUGHLIN, AUSTIN J. 3 Siaih Distfict (Varde I, 17, 19, &nd 20)Senator: HENRY E. BAMILTON. Representatives: W. C. Mo- CLURE, OTTO PELTZER. Seventh District (County towns, except Lske and Hyde Park)—Senstor: SIMON P, BROWN. Represen- fatives: DANIEL BOOTH, THEODORE GUENTHER, = COUNTY OFFICERS. State’s Attorney—THOMAS J, TURNER, Sherif —CHARLES EERN, Coroner—TODNEY N. DAY, ATAH Recorder—ST. Cl County Commigsioners—N, E. FATRBANE, MAR- TIN THATC] J. W, HORTON, A, D. WALDRON, DANIEL O, 'ALEXANDER BENGLEY, M. 8] Y, W. ROBINSON, THEODORE EIMMEN, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. EIRST PAGE—Washington Matters—Tone of the New York Markets—Political Nows by Telcgraph—Mis- ecllancous Advertisements. SECOND PAGE—Hotel Lifoin Washington: The Inns of Olden and Modern Times—Tho Immigrant Swin- dles: Arrangements Being Mado to Puts Stop ta the Evil—Communications: Woman Sufirage in Connecticut; Saturdsy Haif-Holidays; Procaution Ageinst Fires; The Polltical Canvass in Wisconsin ‘Sons of Temperance—Tho Local Campaign: Speech of Sidney Thomas, Esq., in the Fifth Ward on Sat- urday Evening—Miscellsneons News Items. THIRD PAGE—Weekly] Mortally Report—World's ‘Fair t London—Germans and the Sanday Question. _Too Much Merried: Ono of the Mcst Remarkabie Bigamy Ceses on Rocord—Tho Baptist Anniversazy at Clinton, Jowa~Tho Queen at Cratthio Kirk—A Princess' Jewcls—Marino Intelligenco—City Bust- poss Directory. SPURTE PAGE—Editorials: Cisil Service Reform; > Minority Representation; Senmator Trumbull; A §iz-Hour Law—Carrent News Items—Politcal. FIFTH PAGE—Resultof Captain Hickes's Trlal—Fra- terpal Warfaro—Tho City in Brief—The Horso Dis- easo—Markots by Telegraph—Liberal Appointments —Railrasd Time Tablo—Advertisements. SIXTH PAGE—Monotary and Commorclal. SEVENTH PAGE—Small Advertiscments: Real Estate, * For Sale, ToRent, Boarding, Lodging, Etc. EIGHTH PAGE—Our PublioSchools—The Law Courts— Auction Advertisemonts. ———— TO-DAY’S AMUSEMENTS. M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison streot, botween State and Dearborn. Miss Maggie Mitchell, supported Dy Mr. L. B. Showell. *‘Jane Eyre.” ATKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash aveane, corner of Con- gross strest. Appearance of the new stock company: Resival of *“Tho Tickot-of-Leave Man.* ‘HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph street, be- tween Clark and LaSalle. Svcond week of Abbott-Ki- zalfy Pantomime Combination. The *‘Throe Hunch- backs.™ ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, sonthof Madi- s0n. Second week of Mrs. F. S. Chanfrzu's engagement. Tennyson’s ‘‘Dora.” MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Moaroo street, botween State and Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton & Kemble's Minstrel snd Barlesque Troupe. NIXON'S AMPITHEATRE—Clinton strect, between ‘Waslington and Randolph. Secoud weck of Maffitt and Bartholomew's Pantomime Troupe. *‘Jackand Jill.” GLOBE THEATRE—Des;ilaines streot, betwooen Madi- gon and Washington. Vaudevillo Entertainment. BURLINGTON HALL—Cornerof Stato and Sixtecath streets. McEvoy's Now Hibernicon, and Irish Comody Compans. @he @hieane Tribune, Wednesday Morning, October 30, 1872. At the Straight-ont Democratic State Conven- tion, held at Richmond, five delegates were present. . Yesterday died the oldest bank President and oldest Meson in tho United States—the Honm Nathaniel Fullerton, of Yermont. —e TIn the trial of Captain M. C. Hickey before the Police Commissioners, tho prosecution have been nnsble to sustain their case owing to the ex- clusion of important testimony in accordance with a technical rale of the Board. w Tm—mee————————= The condition of the Chicago money marlkct is more favorable. Currency is coming in from the conntry pretty freely ; merchants who have bor- roved of the banks are paying up & little more promptly, and the banks are recovering from theirespanded condition. But money is very tight yet, and there is much good commercial paper in the open market. There are thirty horses sick in Chicago with 21l the symptoms of thehorse-disease. Ten Canadian horses bronght here the other dsy bave all fallen ill, end lave infected twenty others. Should inclement westher visit Chicago like that which has been prevailing at the East, the trouble will without doubt become general. In New York nearly two hundred deaths have oc- eurred. but thp disease seems to be on the de- cline, end the movement of freight has recom- menced. A similar improvement is visible in Tho disease has reached Columbus, Obio, on its westward way. Mayor Hall's counsel have agked the Comt to instruct the jury that no fraud or criminal per- version, or neglect of duty, or connection with any dishonest accounts, had been proven on his part, end that no conviction could be formed againsthim in the abeence of evilintent. On the other side, the prosecntion ask that the jury be charged that the Mayor is guilty for having wilfully neglected his duties as member of the Board of Audit. The Missouri Repdblican has changed its form from folio to & quarto, and brings out its first issue with sixteen pages. It is printed ona ‘Walter press,—the same which is now used by the London Times. The type impression made by this machine is not so distinct and readable as that of the Hoe press, but this defect is conn- terbalanced by the fact that it prints both sides of the sheet at once. The Republican, in its pew form, presentd & remarksbly fino ap- pearance, and its prosperity is attested by thirty- four columns of advertisements. Mr. J. Y. Scammon, of Milwaukee, criticizes Mayor Medill, of Chicago, very severely for the latter's failure to enforce the law against selling beer on Sundsy. Mr. Scammon also takes occa- sion to state, in connection with this criticism, that Tue TRIBUSE is the organ of Meyor Medill, whichis not true. The policy-holders of the Mutusl Security Insurance Company have been trying to enforce another law against Mr, Scammon with even poorer success than Mayor Medill has had in his offorts to en~ force the Sunday law. While Tre TRIBUNE i8 not Mayor Medill's organ, it thinks that that officer ought not to confine himself so closely to the execution of the Sunday law as to over- look the action which the ¢ity commenced against Mr. Scammon before the fire, to recover & largo sum of money duo to the Public School Fund, e————— A document of a political character, signed by Grant Republicans in New York City, and in- tended to aid the ticket in that city, hasbeen submitted to the Methodist Preachers’ Society, now in session there, with the request that the substance of it bo presented from their pulpits to their regular cangregations. The Society has taken the matter under consideration. A more bare-faced attempt to mix religion and politics, and turn the pulpit into o political stump, was never attempted before. There have been occasions when & single minister 10w and then has so far forgotten bis legitimate duties a8 to turn his sermons into partisan ‘harangues, but this is the first instance where the leading members of & political party heve publicly attempted to dragoon the ministers of & whole denomination into the support and open advocacy of their ticket from the pulpit. The recent elaborate expose in THE TRIUNE of the impositions practised mpon newly-ar- rived German and North of Europe immigrants in Chicago, by harpies who make it their sole business to prey upon these strangers, is bring- ing most beneficial results. The main facts a8 stated bave long been known tos few of our leading German and Scandinavian citizens, who have done all they conld, through a feeble and incomplete organization of their own, to be- friend and defend their countrymen, by thou- sands seeking new homes in the North- west. We pgive to-dsy a second article, showing the present tendency to a bet- ter and more thorough syslem for the protection of immigrants arriving in Chicago. It is s subject that has no small local impor- tance, for already the frauds and impositions practised by these professional vultures have turned many thousands away from Chicago, for whom this would be the natural point of depar- ture to new homes in this and adjoining States. Mr. Grant’s Commissioper and Chief Super- visor of Electionsin New York City,—the man Davenport,—now proposes to apply the Congres- gional Enforcement law to women who refuse to answer any questions that may be asked them in regard to the age, residence, and qualifications for voting of their husbands, fathers, brothers, and sweethearts, or other males in whom they are interested. Davenport probably intends to arrest all obdurate women, who shall refuse to catertain his minions =88 ke thinks _proper, on Saturday nights; to decline to =accept bail. for them; to retain them till Monday afternoon at lesst, and treat them in all respects as he did Mr. Hein- rich. Buch a course would scarcely be a more flagrant misinterpretation of the law than the acts of despotism which he has already com- mitted under cover of his official . commission. It would, indeed, be more of an outrage because committed upon women instezd of men; but thig will scarcely deter Davenport from the ex- ercise of his vulgar and despotic will. The Chicago produce markets yesterday were dull, and generally weak. Mess pork was quiet and easier at $14.00@14.25 for new; £12.624@ 12.75 for seller December, and $12.60 scller March. Lard was quiet and steady, at 75 cash, and 7%c seller December. Afeats were quiet and easier, at 5¢ for part-salted shoulders, 8@ 834c for do short ribs, snd BY@S¥c for do short clesr. Highwines were in good demand and steady, at 89c per gallon. Lako freights were active and steady, at 12¢ for corn to Buf- folo. Flour was moderately active, but weal. Wheat was less nctive, but averaged X@idc higher, closing firm at $1.073¢ cash or seller the month ; $1.065¢ eeller November, and $1.068{ sel- ler December. Corn was dull and easicr, closing firm at 30}{c cash, and 303¢c ecller November. Oats were dull and unchanged, at 204@5 13¢c seller the month, and 22¢ seller December. Rye 'was quied and steady at 5014c for fresh receipts of No. 2. Batley was casior, at 62@6234o for No. 2, and 50c for No. 3. The hog market was firmer, owing to light receipts. Cattlo were in light request, at unchanged prices. Sheep re- main quiet and easy. The stocks of grain inthis city on last Saturday evening are reported as 747,268 bu wheat ; 2,751,852 bu eorn ; 519,726 bu oats; 179,770 bu rye; 360,466 bu barley. Tug TRIBUNE of Monday last published a list of tho pardons granted by tho Governor of the State upon the recommendation of Mr. Charles H. Reed, the Prosecuting Attorney of this Dis- trict, and candidate for re-election. The list in- cludes eighty-gix cases of Mr. Reed’s -recom- mendstions for perdon that wero granted, and twenty cases which Alr. Reed recommended for pardon that weronot granted. The ceses al- most exhausted the resources of the criminal calendar, from the gclling of lottery tickets to manslsughter, including forgery, larceny, rob- bery, burglary, rape, assenlt, arson, incest, riot, and receiving stolen zoods. Some of thess cases went to the Governor mendstion of Mr. Reed alone. In others, Mr. Reed’s efforts had the co- operation of men who are simply noted 2s “ prominent citizens” without giving their names. In still otber cases, tho names of Mr. Reed's co-laborers are given, and wo have been at the trouble to classify the following Jist as of interest to the public in the present popular effort to suppress crime in Chicago. The names of the three Republican candidates for Con- gress, from tho Cook County districts figre prominently as Mr. Reed’s co-adjutors in the work of releasivg convicted criminals. ir. C. B. Farwell has joined Mr. Reed in requesting pardons for two cases of burglary, one case of assanlt with intent to murder, and one case of upon the recom- rape. Mr. J.- D. Ward has asked par- dons for cases of forgery and Iarceny. Mr. J. B. Rice has enlisted himself in the cause of three burglars, Mr. N.B. Judd, ex-Congressman and present Collector, has so- licited pardon for men convicted of larceny, burglary, and assault with intent to murder. Mr. A, C. Hesing, who, dey before yesterdsy, withdrew from his memborship on the Citizens’ Committee of Twenty-five for the Enforcement of the Laws, has joined in petitions to pardon men sentenced for bribery, larceny, burglary, rape, and mapslaughtor. Mr. Henry Greene- baum, who instituted the movement forthe sup- presgsion of crime in Chicago, and who now wishes to withdraw from it, signed the petition for the pardon of Alderman Glade, convicted and sentenced for bribery,—2 petition in which he found ready.co-operation from twenty-cight Aldermen. - Mr. T. M. Bradley, the Republican candidate for Sheriff of Cook County, found occasion to ask the releaso of a man convicted of an assault with intent to commit marder. Mr. Bradley was joined in this application by Conrad Tolz, the jailor. 1fr. J. L. Beveridge, now Con- gressman, also candidate for Lieutenant Gov- ernor, and who is ronning for the latter office because ho expects to become Governor by Oglesby's election to the Senate, has requested the release of four thieves serving out their terms of punishment. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. Eighteen months ago, tho President appointed & Commission of seven persons, at the head of which was Mr. George William Curtis, to inves- tigate the Civil Service of the country, and report some measure for its reform. This-Commission held protracted sessions at Washington, and personally investigated severzl branches of the public servico. In November, 1871, thoy made a | report in which they declared that servica to be essentially vicious ; that it had been mainly per- verted from its lawful duties, and that it was then nothing but & machine used for party purposes. They reported thst the Presi- dent was by 'its operation doprived of the power of appointments, which power had ‘been usurped by Benators and Representatives in Congress; that the Federal patronago in the Btates was exercised by Senators and Repre- sentatives who employed it to securo their own re-election, to the great demoralization of the service, and destruction of its efficiency. They then added, as one of the results of this utter demoralization, that it was estimated by good judges that one-fourth'of tho whole revenue of the couniry waslost in the process of collec- tion. According to this, the loss of taxes actu- ally paid by the people annually exceeds $95,- 000,000. Wo hava published tho official record of the revenue collected in some sixty customs districts in the country, and the united salaries and allowances paid to the Collectors, Deputies, and clerks equalled 80 per cent of the rovenue received at all of theso ports. We are aware that Mr. Curtis issued, a few weeksago, asupple- mentary statement, to the effect that he meant in his report to describe a loss of revenue occur- ring in 1866-7, under Andrew Johuson, but the original report bears no such construction ; it i written in the present tense; and it makes no reference, directly or indirectly, to Johuson's Administration. “ We need refer {0 no more unblushing abuse of the Civil Service than the fact that in this city, within the last sixty dsys, there have been added to the pay-rolls of the Custom House numetous Irish Demoerats residing in the Eighteenth Ward,—men wholly unfit for the places, but whose appointments were made openly and con- fessedly tocompensato them for theirinfluence to getvotes for aparticlar candidate. Therevenuo of the Government collected in Chicago is thus sed to purchase Democratic votes for tho man who Las had them appointed. And yet it is re- garded & monstrous offence for Horace Greeley to receive Democratic votes that have not been purchaged. The history of the delivery to Leot and Stock- ing of the General Order business in New York, whereby these two persons were invested with the authority to exact $100,000 a year from the merchants of that city, is without parallel in the record of political corruption. So overwholming was the testimony of Ropublican merchants, that the President was compelled to issue an order to discontinueit; butinless than three months the job was restored to Leet, who is now travelling in Europe, while his deputies and partners are practising the extortion in New York City. When tho Committee of Congress went 1o Now York, the merchants of thet city declared, on oath, thatthe Custom House was filled.by ‘persons 80 incompetent, dishonest, and corrupt, that no respectable establishment in that city would employ them, nor tolerato one of them on their premises. Thoy disclosed the fact that the Custom House swarmed with men whose only business it was to attend nominating con- ventions at the order of the Collector, and were paid out of tho public revenues many hundred thousand dollars per annum for political work exclusively. When public opinion became foo strong to be longer resisted, Tom Murphy was forced out, and the President gavo him s letter indorsing his official carcer, and appointed Lis nest friend to tho place. : The man Casey, at New Orleens, keops on tho pay-rolls at tho Custoin House some soventy or cighty persons, resident in various parts of the Stats, whose sole business is to attend to politics, snd, though a Committee of Congress tnsnimously recommended his re- moval in May last, he is still retained in the office. In North Carolina the United States Marshal, Carrow, drew within sixty days before the August election, nominally to defray judiciel expenses, 65,000, and within one year, §220,000, or & sum equal to the whole cost of paying the Federal, JIndiciary, and Court expenses in six or eight Northern States. The pretence for which this money was talen from the Treasury was foo week; every thinking man in the country knows that it was used to defray political expenses and to elect the Caldwell State ticket. The Civil Servico Commission reported to the President that there could be no honest adminis-~ tration of tho publio business so long & the per- sons employed were lisble to have part of their salaries confiseated for - party purposes, in the way of assessments. This gross abuse the President ostentatiously ordered to be discontinued; yet, hardly had he issued his order to stop such aseessments, before the Campeign Committee at Washington, com- posed of Senators Harlan, Chandler, and others, levied & direct assessment upon every ofiice-liold- er and Government clerk in the United States, which, in some cases of Postmasters, exceeded the annual revenue of the office. In like man- per, Mr. Scammon’s Committee in this State, and the Republican Committees in all other States, levied assessments upon all office- Lolders within their jurisdiction. County Committees and City Committees have done the ssme thing, and thus, indirectly, vast sums of money, collected from the people in the shape of taxes to pay these public officers, are deducted from their psyand used to purchase votes, corrupt the ballot-box, and further degrade and deprave the public morals. The Civil Service system, thus constituted and thus administered, has become the Government. The corruption of the extremities has reached tothe centre. Weask the thoughtful, honest men of the country how long the Republic can be maintained on this plan? How much longer can we safely postpono reform? And what reason s there why the people should not at this time, at the polls, express thoir condemnation of this demoralizing and despotic system? MINORITY REPRESENTATION. Theroe seems to be still a great deal of confu- sion in the public mind regarding the system of voting for Representativesin the General As- sembly under the new Constitution. The man- ner of voting under the new law is this: Each and every citizen is entitled to three votes, which he mey distribute, according to his own inclinations, as follows : FOR REPRESENTATIVES IN THE FINST DISTRIOT. John Smith, James Brown, Henry Robinson, ‘The ballot made out in this form needs no fig- ures, but it shall be construed under the law that the elector desires to give Jobn Smith, James Brown, and Henry Robinson one vote each. In all other cases, it is necessary to place opposite the nemo of the candidate voted for the number of votes which-the elector intends to give him. Tn case the purpose is to divide the votes equally between two candidates, the formis: John Smith—13 votes James Brown—13 votes, Another form of voting is as follows : John Smith—% votes, James Brown—1 vote. Or,ifit be the intention to cumnulate the votes on a single candidate, the ballot shonld rend: Jobn Smith—3 votes. Tho purpose of this lawis that the minority of the people in each district zhall be repre- sented in the Legislature. Itis thought that its intelligent application will bo felt in a partisan and in & non-partisan way with equally geod effect. 1. In o partisan spplication, it is evident that the minority party will thus gecure a representa- tion in perhaps every district in the State. 'The majority party hes everywhere, except in & sin- gle district (the Ninth) recognized the inevita~ ble result of tho balloting under this system, and nominated but two candidates for the Legis~ Isture where three are to be elected. In this case the minority party must secure one Representative, no matter how small their vote may bo, or how many candidates they mayses fit to placo in the field. It is only in the rare case whera the majority party has threc- fourths of the popular vote that it can nominate throe candidates, and distribute votes impar- tinlly among them, without danger of losing their préportionnte representation. In such case, the minority party should nominate only one candidate ; and, thonghthe cumalation of sll three votes on this candidate would not be suffi- cient to elect him a8 against a three-fourths ‘popular vote evenly distributed npon the three other candidates, it would requira but a slight defection from the msjority party, or the cumu- lation of & few of the majorily votes upon one or two of their candidates, to give the minority candidate the necessary plurality over one of his three competitors to secure his election. 2. The hope for an improvement in oor Legis- Intive systom by the application of the minority plan of representation is still greater from & non-partisan point of view. Its proper use will enable an intelligent class of citizens,who regard the formation of the Btate Legislature as a work entirely distinct from National politics, to assert strength which would otherwige bo overcome. Thus, in districts whero the majority party has nominated only two candidates for tho Legis- Iature, the misority party has also nominated two candidates. The minority party will lose nothing by dividing its votes equally between its candidates, a8 ope of them must be elected in order to complete the quota of three Representatives from each district. In the event that one of the two candidates nominated by the majority party is notoriously unfit for Reprerentative, it is morally certain that a large number of voters be- longing will either cumulate all their votes upon the other and loss objectionablo candidate, or will give the Iatter a part of their votes, and transfer either one vote, or one and a half votes, or two votes, to one or both of the oppos- ing candidates. In thiscaso the two candidates of the minority party might be elegted, and the ‘majority party would be taught the wholesome lesson to nominate better candidates next time. Take, for instance, & district in which the Republican parly vote shomld be 2,500, and the Liberal party voto 2,200 : A strict party vote here wonld elect two Repub- lican Representatives and one Liboral Repre- sentative. But, suppose John Smith, onp of the Republican candidates, should be a notoricusly- corrupt man, and 800 Republican voters of the district should réfuse to vote for him, Supposo 150 of these 300 voters should cumulate all their three votes on James Brown, tho other Republi~ can candidato; 100 others should give James Brown half their votes, and the othor half to Henry Robinson, one of the two opposing esndi~ dates, and the remsining 50 of the 300 disaffected voters should give half their votes to James Brown, aud the other half to Jonathan Wilson, the second Liberal candidate. The result wonld be as follows, in case the Liberals had divided their votes evenly between their two candidates : James Brown, Rep.. 3,975 Henry Robinson, Li 3,450 Jonathan Wilson, Lib. 3,075 Jobn Smith, Rep. ., 3,300 The result wonld be the- election of the two Liberal candidates and only one of the Repub- Lican candidates, though the Republican party ghould cast & majority of 800 ballots for other candidates to whom the minority plan should not apply. Such a resuls would not be tho defeat of the will of the majority, but "simply the defeat of one of the party candidates whom & party convention had nominated without regard'to his qualifications. Buchan application of the plan of Minority Representation could not have any other effect than that of coercing all party con- ventions to choose their candidates with ‘refer- ence to their fitnesa for the positions assigned to them. It is probable that, in the present election, ‘most of the voters Will vote the ticket which they find prepared for them at the polls, giving one voto and & half to each candidate, but as time rolls on and they become familiarized with thonew system, and as old party ties' become loosened with the decay of old party issues, it is almost certain that the peopls will use the discretion which the minority system offers to them, to the great improvement of the character of our logislative bodies, BENATORE TRUMBULL. The Fvening Journal and other kindred politi- cal papers have recenily sought to make it ap- pear that Senator Trumball is & *demagogue.” The charge, of course, will have no effect upon his friends. At the same time, we doubt whether his bitterest opponents can listen fo such & charge without feeling all the while its utter absurdity. Senator Trumbull is the last man in the world upon whom such & charge can fasten, A demagogue is a man who caters to the sentiments of the mob, whether right or wrong, for his personal aggrandizement. As far as this definition applies to politics, Senator Trumbull’s record shows that he has not the ‘first element of the defingague in his composition. He has always in his political life done exactly the thing which the demagogue would not have dohs, under the same ocircumstances. The charge oftenest brought against him is, that he has kept himself aloof from the people; has not followed or truckled to the fluctuating phases of popular opinion, but has acted upon his own convictions of right and wrong, expediency and inexpe- diency. At the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson he voted to acquit, because he believed it to be right, even against the pressure of popu- ler opinion. It was the last thing & demagogue would havedone. In identifying himself with the Cincinnati movement, ho took exactly the oppo- ‘site course from that which s demsgogue would have taken. His course in thus declaring himself independent of - party despotism Tequired courage, integrity, and and steadfast adherence to convictions of right, qualities which are never required of the dema~ gogue. Ho held a high pogition in the Ropubli- can party, and was looked up to 25 one of the foremost exponents of real Republican princi~ ples. He could have had eny office in that party by remaining in it, and voting in cbedience to the Senate csucus. The demagogue would have clung -to it, right or wrong. When, in his judgment, it was wrong, ho left it, preferring to face obloqny and reproach rather than yield his convictions of the right. There is not one act of his public life in which his course is not ex- actly opposed to that which » demagogue would have taken. For the Euening Journal, thorefore, at this late day, to call him & demagogue, only shows, that its editors are as ignorant of the meaning of the word as they were of certain other words which they recontly employed in reference to the Sa- preme Court of Hlinois. The time ia’rapidly ap- proaching when Mr. Trumbull will receive the thanks oven of those who now malign him for the mauly and statesmanlike course he has sdopted in this erisis of American politics. A SIX-HOUR LAW, A Washington despatch states that Commis- sioner Loggett, of the Patent Office, has issued an order to the clerks in his Department, notify- ing them that six hours’ work, from 9a.m. to 8 p. m., will benceforth be expected from them. The custom of clarks, in all the Departments at ‘Washington, has been to start for work about 9 o'clock in the morning, take arecess forlunch before tho work has been fairly begun, and make propagations to be well out of the building before 3 o’clock in the afternoon, in order to plsy billisrds, or join in the daily prome- nade on Pennsylvania svenue. The gen- eral disposition that pervades the Govern- ment Departments is to do ss little wefk a8 possible in ag short o time as possible, and it is the only direction in which Washington energy has ever achieved any remarkable success. The influence of Department-clerk life, as ib has been regulated for very many years, is alike detrimental to the public service and to the men and women who are unfortunate enough to enter upon it. The primary causo of the abuses thatprevail is tobe found in the diffusion of public patronago accorded tp the requirements of the politicians. An undue incresse in the number of clerks employed has had tiwvo resulta : 1, to reduce ‘the hours of work; snd 2, to reduce the pay of the clerks. Inreducing the hours of work, the effect has been to atiract tho most idle and worthless em- ployes, and to give the worl that inferior char- acter which pertains to every result of- slothful application, The effect of the goneral redugtion in pay, which has been necessary in order to ex- tend the appropristions among a larger number of persons than are required, has been to render the Departments places of refnge foy incompe- tent and broken-down people, who regard thoir position in life ag very similar to that of ‘the in- mates of & county poor-house, The influence of Washington clerk-life can be sensibly discov- ered in tho funereal aspect of that city atall times, except in the most exciting periods of Congrepsiong] sessions. ‘There is chundant provision in the statutes of the Unjted States for the remedy of tho sbuses thet have crept into nearly all of the Govern- ment Departments, Section 6 of the Provi- sions Applying to all of the Executive Departs ments” prescribes that gll the Bureaus and offices shall be open for the transaction of the public bneiness at least eight hours in esch and every duy, from Oct. 1to April 1, and st least ten hours every dey from April 1 to Oct.1, Sundays and holidsys excepted. Tho order of Commissioner Leggett, demanding only six hours’ work, and complaining thist even $his amount of timo is not now davoted to the office, ghows just how much regard the hesds of De- partments have for the laws of the eountry, The head of oach Department is suthorized by enother section of the statutes to prescribe such regulations, mot inconsistent with law, s8 be may deem necessary and propor for the govern- ment of his Department. As the hesds of De- partments are sbout the best-paid men in ihe Government service, in proportion to their du- ties and responsibilities,—each receiving a salary of $8,000 a year,—they should. be held responsi- ble for the open disregard for the statutes, and the consequent incompetency and imbecility that provail in nearly all the Bureaus. Probably tho clerks think, however, that they give as much time to their duties as their chiefs. There is not much hope of reform to be found in the order promulgated by Commis- sioner Leggott, of the Patent Office. The fact that his order provides a less number of office- hours then the statutes r2quire, and the circam- stance that Mr. Commissionar Leggett him- self has been indulging in absence from hia post. for weeks at a time during the past sum- mer, will scarcely contribute to the work of reformation. When the lawa of the country, and General Grant's tremendous personal ef- forts in the cause of Civil Service Beform fail, [ it ia"hardly to be expected that clerks shonld conform to & new and strict regime immedistely before a Presidential election, in which they perform the most valusble service of their four years' term,—going home to vose the Administra- tion ticket. Tho literary men and savans of France are generally blessed with long lives, but thereis & generation of the best representative men of both classes who are approaching an age when death must be expected at any time. Two of these—Theophile Gautier in litorature, and James Babinet in science—have died in Paris within the past week. Theophile Gantier was one of the most brilliant feuillefonistes of the Parigian press. Born in the Department of the Upper Pyrenees, he began life, ss Thackeray did, by devoting himself to drawing aad paint- ing. He soon obandomed this pursmit to enter upon the fleld of literature, in which he was probsbly encouraged by Gerard do Nerval, the original and accom- plished poet, with whom he was upon terms of great intimacy from childhood. Gautier’s habits and inclinations did not lead him into any of the philosophical moods of his time, but he found his most congenial occupation in a closer con- nection with art. He formed a connection with Emile de Girardin in 1856, and supplied La Presse with criticisms on art and the drama for twenty years. His writings were remarksble for wit, satire, and & peculiar recklessness ad- mirably suited to the taste of the Parisians. He was exceedingly versatile. He has written several novels, and =& mass of short stories that are more remarksble for their entertsining - vivacity than for moral tendencies. BSeverel ballets, among which are * Giselle” and * Gemms,” that were formerly known to this country throagh feeble imitations, were the productions of his inven- tion. The titles of suchpoems as ‘‘ La Comedie de la Mort™ and “ Une Larme du Diable” will give some indication of his habits of thought. He was an open and bold advocate of the Pagan school of religion and morals. His frequent excursions into the sonth of France, Jtaly, and Spaie sfforded him the material for several books of the most. sprightly and picturesque character. He leaves behind bim a drughter who has an ambition to follow in her father’s literary footsteps, but who is developing & more serious turn of thought. She is seid to revelin the mysteries of the Chineseand Arsbic languages. M. Babinet, the deceased savant, was & much older man than Theophile Gautier, and was born in1794. The earlier part of his life was spent in struggles sgainst poverty, which, on more thsn one oceasion, tempted him to sbandon the ambition of the savant. Subsequent recog- nition ensbled him to contribute largely to the scientific researches and improvements of his time, for all of which he reccived the usual re- ward of the Cross of the Legion of Honor. In the official figures, just published, of the trade of England lest year, there is u significant commentary on her fiscal legialation. That country had, in 1871, s total of imports snd ex- ports amounting to more then three thousand ‘millions of dollars (£612,405,869), an increase of more than three hundred millions of dollars over those of the preceding year, and of four hundred millions over the commerce of 1869. These figures ought to inclade the ebband flow of gold, 28 truly a commodity as corn or cotton, and her commerce would then be £684,316,857. Trade is profitable, Government revenues show o surplus large enongh to pay the Geneva award, English manufacturers arc driven to the very verge of the fuel suppply, and workmen, even down to the long-suffering farm laborers, are demanding and obtaining from prosperous employers higher wages and shorter hours. These results, viewed in connection with British financial policy, bear a lesson to American legis- lators. Fair reasoning may forbid the claim that this growth is the result solely of free trade; but one thing is true, beyond doubt, and that is, “British” free trade does not lower wages, destroy manufactures, lessen industry, ‘bankrupt the revenues, and smother domestic labor beneath the pauper lsbor of Belgium, France, Italy, Saxony, aud Russis, by which England is swrrounded. . i e o The world has heard a great deal of late about the pre-Raphaelistic in art, a echool, of which Rosetti, Millais, Holman, Hunt, 2nd Bum Jones aro the leeding representatives, but the London correspondent of the Cincinnati Com- ‘mercial has had the rare pleasnre of attending & pre-Ruphaelistic wedding,—the occasion being the marrisge of o daughter of one of the artists ‘mentioned above to an eminent German scholar. The peculiar features of this occasion was the conventional costume adopted by the ladies, and 28 this may be of interest to those ladies who are not pre-Rephaelistic, we condense its description. The ekirt of the dress begins just beneath the bosom, the material being of old. white or cream-colored silk, trimmed with real lace, sleeves short and puffed, and cor- sage open and pointed. The skirt clings to the figure, disclosing its shape, after the manner of the antique Greek draperies,, No jewelry is svorp by the pre-Raphaelite ladies, but only & red or whitg flower, according to complexion, The general pffeat must have been the same asif & party of qur great-great-grandmothers had stepped out of their canvases for that evening. As compared with the customary gaudy, and gometimes vulgar, toileta of society af present, the description is a refreshing one, and induces . the wish that pre-Raphaelistic principles could be gencrally adopted. POLITICAL. The vote of Nebrogka, -except returns from distant and unimportant conntigs, is as fellows for the two principal names on the tigkets ; 17,081 t, L 10,3280 Tha total vote (for Congross) ib 27,461, against 19,774 in 1870, and this total will be inoreased a few hundreds when tho retuyns are all in. —Pomeroy hasinvested $1,000 in hotel-accom- modations at Topeka for the winter, and haa to this extent established a * corner ” againat all other Senatorial aspirants. —The Hon. Bzmuel J. Randsll; in sccordance with & resolution of thg Liberal-Democratic Stato Committee of Pennsylypnia, has desig- nated tho genilemen throughout the State who shall hove special charge of the investigation of election frauds and tho prosecntion of offenders. The Pittsburgh Post says s They have plenty of matarial to work upon snd an cpergetic Clisirman (Vaux), and, if they cannot #me- ¢eed in ousting those who liave received certificates of glection, they ‘can at least demonsirate to the world that the'so-calleq “glorious triumph » is a fraud, and that it was sccompiished by money stolen from the people of this Stateand of the United States. -There are five tickets in New Orleans for ¢ity officors, and every attempt to ponsolidate brings out g new ticket, T - —Congressman H, W, §locum, in apswer to 8 question put by the Georgis Liberal Committee, concerning the Congress{onalbaliot, telegraphed: “The 1aw requires separate tickets, not separate ballot-hoxes.” We quote his answer only to sdd that Congressmap Slocan ought to kmow better. The law requires thst votes for Congressmen shall be by ballot, either peparato or not as Jocal regulations may direct. . ~Governor Powers thinks Gragb will carry Mississippi by $40,000; the dollar muk being used by the organ of His Excellency. Well, perhaps $10,000 ia sbout the gize of it. - —General William Gurney, a New Jersey vol- unteer who early took commission at the head of colored troops, is besten 14,498 votes for Con- gress by a colored man, in the Charleston (8. C.) District. The Generalis thoroughly loyal, bt thought the district should have a white Repre~ sentative, g B —Edwin F. Gary, who has been turned out of office as State Auditor of South Carolins, gives some unpalatable evidence concerning . the pass frauds and fature designs of the thieves in power. gy 3 —It has come to this: that Pomeroy, Tom Osborn, Tom Carney, Tom Fenlon, and other Kansas politicians, send to Arkansas a certifi- cate of the good character of Powell Clayion. Do they want Clayton’s certificate in return ? —As a slight straw in the Tonnessee triangla for Comgress-at-Large, the Nashville Banner 68302 . of take Grand Foiral Cott, compossd of persons Badliog Foopay ‘most evary portion of Middlo Tennessee. It stood Tor Johaagos 1 for Cheatham, 5ad 8 (or Maynnede o —A New Orleans man files caveat for the fol~ lowing : ¢ Straight-Outers” is a philological error ; it should be ** Stray-Touters.” = ~—We lose a Congressman in Pennsylvanis because two candidetes insisted upon dividing & vote which would have elected one of them by 1,270 majority. —Congreseman Bigby (Republican), of Georgis, don’t think it woith while fo run for re-election, and, after his term is out, he is goirig to Savan nah to practice law. s . —Our advices from Florids are, that thera will be from 3,000 to 5,000 msjority for Greeley. The people at this election, and not the Legis~ Iature, s heretofore, vote for President. —Ithas been found impossible to fll upa ticket for 0’Conor Electors in Misaissippi. ———— ABSCONDING BANK-TELLER. Hiis Letter of Explanation—¥e Pres tends to Have Committed Suicide. ‘Richmond, Va. (Oct, 25), Correspondence of the New T York Herald. Financial and commercisl circles are violently agitated here to-day, and, indeed, the entire com- munity has been excited, over'the mysteriona disappearance of William R. Teller, tha paying teller of the Virginia Stete Bank, under circum- stances both poinful and startling. Upon the arrival of Mr. John M. Goddin, the Cashier at the bank this morning, instend of finding the paying teller at his post of duty he was handed the keys to the vault, together witha note, of which the following i8 an extract, private mat- ters and names being left out : y . RICHMOND, Va., O By, . B, Goddin, Cashizre -t/ O 4 1572 ‘When you read this letter I shall be dead, I cannot live and face the world with the terribla black stain upon me. I care less for mygelf than for those Who Ioveme, The checks in my drawer represents the de- ficit in my cash, and were cashed by me for—, Ha will tell you that X never received or Wea farnished ons cent for the use of the money, He first ovarcheckad and made his sccount good by checkson the Merchants” Natiopal Bank, They were returned from time to time, and T was weak enough to be persuaded hs would yot make them good. My life insurance and his estate will more than pay this, His real estate specula~ tion was entered to repsy me, but he has failed to sell as yet, Had ¥ remained alive I shou!d have mado all things right by November ], To you, John, I must say that] am loth to leave this world without ‘arrang~ ingmy affaira better; butif you have any charity or fecling try and regard me not as a thi ty. but aw: Crringmin, T g5 mot wah 1o bo bursh but maibe hope my body will never be recovered ; and now let me say the last X shall ever write. Before I have never wronged or rather defrauded the t of one dollar for my own usc and benefit. The “short™ is the debt of others, from whom I never received ons dime. This you can easily prove, May God forgive ‘me, for 1 know you never can. _Yours, &c., WiLLax R, TELLZR, Almost with the epeed of electricity the mews spread over the city, and the first impulse of the bank officers, smong whom Mr. Teller was & great favorite, was, if ifoes.ibla, to_prevent his self-deatruction, or, that had been accom- lished, to discover his body. Simultancously, owever, with the announcement; of hia defalca- tion came'tho report that Mr. Teller had beon seen takin, Lfifix! train 8¢ the Petersburg depot oing South this morning at helf-paat 5 o'clock. '%‘b.ls' _fact beoing established the public :gpehto for maws concerning the smount of © defalcation and its accompanying details became sharpened, but_the officers of the bank were reticent, and no -information of anthentio character could be gained. The most sonsa~ tional rumors were atloat, and, for a time, & run upon the bank was though its solvency is unquestionable. It transpired that the pay- ing teller had issued a large number of certified checks for which there were no funds inthe and, by advice of counsel, the bank re- fused to pay any more of its checks of this char- acter until the sccounts and books of the’ab- sconding teller were examined. An investiga- tion was at once instituted by the Directors of the bank, and it was found that fonds to the =amonnt of 910,000 were missing, and & e number of checks were still ontstanding snd paid at other banks. The defaloations began abont the 5th of the present month, and, a8 Mr. Teller states in his Jetter, the money was all paid to one of bis friends,who 'was speculating largely inreal estate, and who, had he been successful, would bave realized a handsome fortune. Nothing has been heard of Teller since ha was seen going South this morn« inF, though the police have been energetically telegraphing in every direction sllday. Heisa young man of respectable family, good connec- tions, snd excellent standing in Society, snd in his misfortune has the sympathy of & great por- tion of the community. Some parties estimata the defalcation at 230,000 and over that, but I think this is an exaggeration. BUFFALO. Protest ot the Board of Trade against the Proposed Bridging of the De= troit River by the Canada Southern Railway. # Burraro, N. Y., Oct. 29~The Board of Trade of this city, on a motion to xeconsider the reso- lutions passed a few days since mgxrdi:f the bridging of the Detroit River, reafirmed the same, with the following addition: Reaolved, That the bridgingof the chanvelof the Detroit River west of Stony Point is objectionable onl; oo part of the system for bridging the mais chaanel between Stony Island and Canads. fiThe Boxrd also adopted the following resolu- on 2 Resolved, That the action of this Board has slwsys béen in favor of Free Trade and freo commerce be- tween the States, and in_favor of all facilities for oux inland commerde suchas bridges and tunnels, when e olon wad thas ho S dty of ok pertics jon 3 a0 o first. dui o {ntereated isto examing and find whether a tunnal ia an practicable, and when it is practicable the river ahould o tunnelled as mountains are, and when not practics Blo bridges should be permitfed, and are only justifia able on the gronnd of & great public necessity to facile itate our inland commerce, Upon no other ground do we beliove that our great national channel ways for iz land commerce, Row greater than our Foreign Come ‘marce, should ever mi‘é‘uw A Jewelry Palace. Giles, Bro. & Co, wererapldly putting things in crder in their beautiful new store, Nos. 266 and 268 Wabash avenue, last evening, and everything will be in perfect shspe to-dsy. Building their store for themselves they nave made it s gem, and its fitting throughout There than Festores the mArvels of their prezlies do= stroyed at the time of the fire, [l N Furnaces. 5 Those who use them and would consult the comfort, health, and expense of their families for the next fiva months, will find it to their sdvantage to call st No. 2143¢ East Madison street and seo the Automatic Hest Governor, which can be attached to any furnace, snd will open And shut the fire draft, 5088 to slways insure &n cven heat, and save fully one-fourth thacoal, e : Farm Superintendent Wanted. " * A person well scquainted with stock growing busie negs, and with tho management of labarers ihereon, with & wife without children, will hear of 8 first-clsss situption by addressing Saruel D, Ward, No. 49 Ls~ Balle street, Chicago, No objection to.daughter or fe- ‘male members of the family if old enough to assist in nousework, Good references wanted, = To the Highest Bidder. We are requested to state that tho sale of tho Iot =t the corner of Lake and Franklin streets, advertisedin these columna to take place to-morrow bl il o made wikhoe resrve 10 s e b i —————— . The Baratoga Geyser Water. Buck & Bayner draw trus Geyser at the “ Spa.” —_—— A fearful gale prevailed in Jacksonville last evening, and a8 no rain had fallen for weeks, the dyst was lifted'in great clouds, nd of - such density as to_literally darken the heavens, and T e M .~ Nof comparable of the Bas ever been wismmsd hero.