Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 2, 1872, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, -NOVEMBER 2, 1872 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. ADVANCE). .51 2.00 TERNME OF SUBSCRIPTION (PAYABLE I 2.00| Sunday. G.00 | Weekly, Parts of a year at the samo rato. To prevent delay and mistakes, bo sure and give Poot Office address in fall, including State and Conaty. Remittances mey bo made eithor by draft, express, Post Office order, or in registered lottors, at our risk. TERNS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dails, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents por weok. Dzily, delivored, Sunday included, 30 cents per week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, No. 15 South Camal-st., Chicago, IlL. TRIBUNE Branch Offico, No. 469 Wabash-av., in tho Bookstore of Messrs, Cobb, Andrews & Co., where 2dvertisements and subscriptions will bo received, and will receive the same attention as if loft at the Main Office. TEE TRIBUSE counting-room and business department wiil romata, for the preseat, at No. 15 Canol stroet. Ad- vertisoments should be handed in at that place, LIBERAL NOMINATIONS, NATIONAL. Por President: 'HORACE GREELEY, of New York. For Vice President : B, GRATZ BROWN, of Missouri, ELECTORAL. For Electors of President and Vice President: At Large—WILLIAM BROSS, of Chicago; JOHN D. CATOXN, of Ottawa; First District. THOMAB HOYNE; FRANKLIN PIERCE. STATE. For Governor : GUSTAVUS KOERNER, of St. Clair, For Lientenant Governor': JOHN CHABLES BLACK, of Champalgn, For Secretary of State: EDWARD RUM of Peoria, ‘For Auditor of Public Accounta: DANIEL O'HARA, of Cook. o For State Treasurer: * CHARLES B. LANPHIER, of Sangamon, For Attorney General JOHN V., EUSTACE, of Lee. For Clerks of the Supreme Court: thern D -R. A. D. NES, of Jefferson. ififim': Div.—DAVID A. BROWN, of Sangamon. Northern -ELI SMITH, of Cook. 5 COUNTY. CONGRESSIONAL. First District—LUCIUS B, OTIS. . Second District—CARTER H. HARRISON. Third District—JOHN V. [OYNE. 'STATH BOARD OF EQUALIZATION, Firet District—DANIEL C. SKELLY. Second District—THOMAS WILCE. Third District—CHARLES ENOBLESDORFF, e 1310, and 11)—Senator : irst District (Wards 1, 2, 10, and 11)—! : st N AN, haprestutatives ¢ 34 SWEET, OTTO MUTSCHLECHNER. Second District (Wards 3, 4, and 5, Hyde Park and Lake)—Senator: JAMES ‘VADSWD'BTH. Represents- 1 FRANK T, SHERMAN, EGBERT JAMIESON. ird District (Wards 6, 7, and §)—Senator : MILES EEHOE. Bepl‘nscnt}(\irm: CONSTANTINE EANN, HOSIAS M. HALPIN. :Fflm’(h District (Wards 9, 12, and 18)—Senator: WOODARD. Representatives: W. H. CONDOX, 8. S. GARDNER, Fifth District (Wards 14, 15, and 18)—Senator : DE~ C. EDDY. Representatives: HUGH Mc- , AUSTLY J. GIBBONS. Sixth District (Wards 16, 17, 19, and 20)—Senator: BENRY E, BAMILTOX. Representatives: W. C. Mo~ CLURE, OTTO PELTZER. Seventh District (County towns, except Lake and Xyde Park)—Senator: SIION P, BBOV‘F.\. Represen- titives : DANIEL BOOTH, THEODORE GUENTHER, ‘covaTX OFFICERS. Sate's Ahorney—TBDm§ J. TORNER, roner—RODNEY X, DAY, ggu?rgy Clerk—JEREMIAH J. CROWLEY, Circuit Clerk—GEORGE F. BLANKE. ‘Recorder—ST. C! SUTHERLAND. County Commissioners—N. K. FAIRBANE, MAR- TN THATCHER, J. W. HORTOX, A, D. WALDRON, NTEL C, SKELLY, ALEXANDER BENGLEY, M. R ROBINSON, THEODOLE KIAMEN ¢ CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S TRIBUNE. AGE—Washington News—Political Telegrams— Ems;oym of the New York Markets—Miscellancous Telo- hic News. SECOND PAGE-.South Carolina Letter: Negro Domins- tion and its Uses; The Past Aristocracy; Their Folly and Fall_How Rivers in Indis Change Their Courses—The Largest Beehire in the World—The Fashions: Icauguration of Autumn aund Winter Styles—Switchmen—Quadraple Ampatation—Gen- cral News Items—Personal—Double Homicide in Lonisisua. THIRD PAGE—Sentence Dayin the Criminal Couri— The Law Courts—Tho City in Brief—Csmpaign Notes—Tho Registry. FOURTH PAGE—Editorials’s Our Ushorsed Commu- nity; National Politics vs. Local Candldates; The Gorman Vote of Ilinols; The Question of Moral ‘Responsibility; All the Wosld Sick—Polftical. FIFTH PAGE—A Caso for tho Detoctives; Blood Spots and a Mystorious Hat. Found on the Lake Shore— The Temperanco Movement—Markots by Telegraph —Adrortisements. SIXTH PAGE—Monatary and Commercial—Aarine In- | telligence—Railroad Time-Table, SEVENTH PAGE—Spurgoon: A Visit to Tia Taberaa- cle; the Flock and the Shepherd—Anglo-American Intermarrisges—A Woman who Seemed a Thousand Yesrs Old—How to Drive Rats Away Without Pol. son—Small Adrertisements: Real Estate, For Sale, ‘Waats, To Rent, Bosrding, Lodging, Eto. EIGHTH PAGE—The Harse Distemper—Auction Adver- tisements. —— TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. "VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison streot, between saf: and Dearborn. Hiiss Magglo Mitchell, supported by Mr. L. R. Shewell. ‘‘Jane Esre.” ATKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash svenue, corner of Con- gress street. Appecrance of the nmew stock company Revivalof **The Ticket-of-Leave Maa,"” 'HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolphi street, be- tween Clark and LaSalle, Second week of Abbott-Ki- alfy Pantomime Combination. The *‘Three Hunch- backs.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, southof Madi- gon. Sccond week of Mrs. F. S. Chanfrau's engagement. * Christis Johastone.” AMYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroe street, botween State and Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton & Kcmble's Minstrol and Burlesque Troupe. NIXON'S AMPITHEATRE—Clinton street, betwoen Washington and Randolph. Second week of Mafitt and Bartholomew's Pantomime Tronpe. *‘The Two Fugl: tives.” GLOBY, THEATRE—Desplainos streot, between Madi- s0m and Washington. Vaudeville Entertainment. BURLINGTON HALL—Cornerof Stato and Sixteenth streets. McEvoy's New Hibernicon, and Irish Comedy ‘Company. The Chivage Tribume, Seturdsy Morning, November 2, 1873. Meyor Hall saye that the failuro of the jury in his csse to egree is the greatest disappointment he has Ymown in forty-six years. In a communication to the State Department, ¢he Prussiah Government denies that it has at- tempted to discourage emigration to this coun- 1ry. Twenty members of our Committee of Seven- ty met last night, nominated Legislative and Aldermanic tickets, and issued an address in their support. “The grand mess meeting to-night, at the cor- ner of Madison and Market streets, will be ad- dresced by Governor JOHN M. PALMER, and the Hon, WILLIAM W. O'BRIEN. Efforts to arrest theflood of the Po have failed, end it has submerged Reggio, a town of 21,000 inhabitants, the birth-plice of Ariosto 2nd Correggio, and the seat of numerous con- vents, colleges, 8 museum of sntiquities, and a public library of 80,000 volumes. In our lawrecord of yesterdny the name of #fr. William Loeb was associsted as defendant in the eage of James Kernan vs. Willism H. Sis- gon, in which fraud was charged. Mr, Loeb's ponnection Witk the ¢awe is merdly fhsh of & trustee of certain property, and no allegation of fraud was made sgainst him in the bill- of com- plaint. We publish & letter from the attorney of the plaintiff which shows that Afr. Loeb's- honorable standing in the affair has not been called in question in any wa; Assistant Secretary Richardson says that rapid redemption of the three per cent certificates was the occasion of the recent issue of four millions of the greenback reserve. The Secretary, he states, will restore these greenbacks to the reserve fund agshn during the next fortnight. The collections of Chicago merchants in the country are improving. Currency is coming back to the city quite freely, and the pressuroon the part of merchants for bank accommodation is being relioved to some extent. But, in tho open market, money etill commands 13¢ per cent per month. The Chicago & Southwestern Railroad, it is stated in our commercial report from New York, has failed to pey the gold interest due onits gold bonds, and offers instead the currency in- terest guaranteed by the Rock Island, which tke bankers representing European bondholders refuse to receive. . Inthe trial of Mrs. Emily E. Lloyd for the murder of Ler daughter, the experts called upon to testify to the presence of poison in the stomach of the deceased gave conflicting evi- dence, as usual in such cases, end the jury, after twenty minutes’ deliberation, brought in a ver- dict of acquittal. The Committee in charge of the musical fes- tival to be heldin Cincinnati, next May, invite allthe choral societies of America to take part. Thomas has accepted the position of Director, and has sketched a choice programme, consist- ing of six performances and an open airconcert. ‘Valuable prizes will be offered for the competi- tion of male choral societies. The reports from the First Congressional Dis- trict continue to be promising. Judge Otis has made an excellent campaign, extending over all the towns in this and DuPsge County. If the Liberalsand Democrats inthe Third, Fourth, Bixth, and Seventh Wards do their duty on Tues- day, Judge Otis will be elected. The other parts of the district willnot fail him. The towns in this county will do their share of the work, if the voters in the city will go to the polls snd vote. Mr. Charles H. Reed has declared that if he could have the saloons closed on Sunday he could reduce crime 50 per cent. The way Mr. Reed reduces crime is as follpws: Since Jan. 1, 1872, 800 criminals have been indicted by the Grand Jury. These 300 criminals have been admitted to bail, and by not appearing have for- feited their bonds. These 300 criminals are in the city, and 298 of them could be arrested in'48 hours if Mr. Reed woald give the order, and not previously giva them notice to get out of the way. Mr. Reed hasnot prosecuted the bail-bond in any one of the cases. Tt is now just two yoars since the War Depart: ment established a signal station in Chicago, for observation of the meteorological conditions, and comparison with those of other places. The leading object of the service waa stated to be ¢ for the benefit of commerce,” and there is no doubt that, during the past two years, commerce and human life have both been benefited by the numerous storm-warnings given and heeded. Our marine interests look upon these reports as amost valuable aid; and their confidence in them increases with every fresh proof afforded of the fact that violent atmospheric movements (etorms) can be predicted several hours in ad- vance. Mr. Buffalo Miller hes, we understand, been haranguing the * Personel Liberty Leaguo " of Liquor Dealers for a week, to induce that body to indorse Mr. 8. K. Dow, candidate for State Benator, for whom Miller has made 21l manner of pledges. Mr. Miller ia actively af work smong the saloon-keepers supporting Mr. Dow, on the sround that he will vote fortlie repealof the Temperance law of 1872, and abolish the Sunday laws. The special advocates of Temperance and Sunday observance in the Twelith and Thir- teenth Wards are supporting Dow, as & better Temperance man than Woodard. Somebody is cheating. Liberal and Democratic veters must remem- ber that the politicel majerity in the Legislature of the Btate will depend upon the result in this county. A full turn-out of the vote will electa majority of Libersl Senators and Representa- tives from this county. The importance .of every vote is obvious. The majority of the voters of this city are Liberals and Democrats, and they can, if they choose, elect their Senators and Bepresentatives in nearly every city dis- trict. Even in the Seventh District, the indica- tiang are that the Liberals will elect two Repre- sentatives and possibly the Senator. The canvass in the Second Congressional Dis-~ trict has been an active one, that district con-~ taining more than two-thirds of the voters of the city. Mr. Harrison has been untiring in his efforts, and, it a full vote of the Liberal party be polled, will defeat Mr. Ward by a large msjor- ity. The district embraces Wards$, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, and, if voters will go to the polls, he will have 2 majority in at least five of these wards, Voters of the West Division, who re- member Mr. Ward's record in the Legislature, can judga:vhethar he is the man to send to Con- gress, where thera are applications for land and money subsidies reaching far into the millions. The Third Congressional District " includes Wards 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, the towns of Par- rington, Cicero, Elk Grove, Evanston, Hanover, Jefferson, Lake View, Loydeu, Maine, New Trier, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Proviso, Bchaumburg, and Wheeling, and Lake County. The candidates are Mr. C. B. Farwell and Mr, J. V. LeMoyne. Despite the formidable major- ities of preceding electione, Mr. LeMoyne has made a most vigorous canvass. The lavish use of money by the Grant candidate has succeeded in diverting some votes from the Liberal can- didate to himself, but they have been purchased at aheavycost. Mr. LeMoyne has, by the mers force of contrast, made more votes than his opponent bas by purchase. It isnow probable that he will carry each of the five city wards by & handsome majority. In the county there has been quite a revolution. There is a promise that the hitherto large ma- jorities in the towns will be &o reduced if not re- versed, that there will be a large surplus left to mee} Lake County. So seriously is Farwell im- pressed with the danger that he has opened headquarters at the Clarendon House, where any person desirous to sell his vote, or to con- Tpek {ox_the delivery of yoics, can find acus- tome In the corruption of the Eighteenth Ward is Mr. Farwell's strongest hope; any Democrat residing there can have anything he wants if he will vote for Farwell. Mr. LeMoyne has made a brave fight against odds, and de- gerves the vote of every man who wants to be represonted in Congress by an honorable, digni- fied, and competent gentlema The Staais-Zeitung of yesterday asks the fol- lowing questions of its readers with reference to the candidates for the office of State's Attor- ney: ‘“Who is in doubt as {o whom he will have for State’s Attorney? Shall it be the friend of the Germans, the present energetic official who has brought more criminals to punishment than any State’s Attorney before him, the Free-Think- ing Charles H. Reed, or the bitter Temperance scallawag (mucker) Turner,who, asState’s Attor- noy, will turn everything in the direction of enforcing the 'Sundey and the Tem- perance laws?” This extract gives the relative positions of Mr. Reed snd Mr. Turner, o8 they are presentod to the Germans by Mr. Hesing,—Mr. Reed as a Free-Thinker and & non- enforcer of the law against Sunday liquor-gell- ing, and Mr. Turner as an advocate of Temper- ance and of the enforcement of the Sunday law. It becomes an interesting question now to those who are not Germans, to know whether Mr. Reed is & Free-Thinker in his Biblical pursuits, and an advocate of the violation of law in his duties of preserving law and order. It would also be interesting to those who are not Germans to know if Mr. Reed authorized the Staats-Zei- tung to place him in this position. The Chicago produce markets were gener- ally active and strong, yesterday, except pro- visions. Mess pork was dull and easier, at 816.00 for old, $14.00 for new, and $12.50@12.62%4 scller December. ‘Lard was quiet and steady, at Toc for cash, and 73@7%c seller Decem- ber, or seller January. Meats were quiet at 47@5c for part salted shoulders; 734c for ditto short ribe; and 8%c short clear. Highwines were active and steady, at 89c per gallon, Leke freights were active and steady, at 13c for corn, and 14c for wheat, by sail to Buffalo. Flour was more. active and steady. Wheat was active, but B8{c lower, closing firmer at $1.08 for seller the month, and $1.08% seller December. Corn was active, and nd- vanced 1340, closing firm at 823¢e seller the month, and 3235%@82%{c, seller December. Oats were active and }@3¢c higher, but closed weak at 203¢c seller tho month, and 22)c soller De- cembor. Ryewasmore activeand 3qc higher, at 513¢e. Barley was activo and. firmer, closing at 63@6334c for No. 2, and 49@50c for No. . The hog market was active but weak, closing 10@15¢ lower than yesterdsy. There was a moderato amount of trading in the cattle and sheep mar~ kets at unchanged prices. — e OUR UNHORSED COMMUNITY, Chicago has the opportunity, enforced by a gravo necessity, to profit by the experience of other cities, and meot the firat suggestion of the horse-epidemic as it should be met. The ani- mals attacked must be instantly released from work, carefully nursed, and judicionsly, not heroically, treated. All experience shows the visitation thus received will be only temporary, but every attempt to tax the suffering horae will come back in loss to the owner. * It is bad. 1t will be & serious disaster to many industrial enterprises, made worse by the waning season, ‘but it cannot be avoided, evenif for a brief period our streeta wear a deserted aspect. And it will be wise to face the calamity as ageneral one. Our advices abundantly prove that it is useless to send the horses away to the country, where the disease may find them re- ‘mote from skilful veterinary officcs, Our New York and New England exchanges show that the farm districts have suffered with the city, with the benefits of treatment largely in favor ot the latter. We have intelligence received by vet- the malady in various near and remote sections of Northern Hlinois. The only thing to be done is care for the dumb beasts affected, and an sbundance of patience, expedients, and hard work for their masters. In this city, street travel yesterdsy was largely cut off, and a light drizzle of rain in the after~ noon stampeded most of the remainder. It was remarked on all sides how wide-spread & concern for the well-being of the steeds has been sud- denly awakened. The busiest men had time to blanket standing animals, and the spectaclo hag itg culmination in the exhibition of a Jehu who leaped from his buggy on State street to rub the throat of his coughing horse with linimont. Teamsters drew lighter loads. The nyenue equipages had general rest. Theraceof the omnibus on several lines seemed to have been run. The expectancy must be looked in the face, of still fewer street-cars to-day, not because the horses are seriously sick, but because the companies have determined they shall not be- come g0, if & sonsible respito in time can pre- vent it. With the necessary hauling of mails, express, and hotel vehicles, the question be- comes more serious, but isin careful and expe- rienced hands. Our community is essentially unhorsed. Not that, like Richard, they noed to ery, “My kingdom for & horse.” Tho call is rather for blankets and embrocations, and the vocation of the immortal Weston has a multitude of enforced disciples. WATIONAL POLITICS VS. LOCAL CANDI- DATES. NMr. Henry Greenebaum appeared before a meoting of Temperance men, on Thureday even- ing, to explain to them why he proposed to with- draw from the popular movement for the sup- pression of crime in Chicago. The fact that a prominent German and Jewish banker should frequent a Presbyterian church to say to a num- ber of Protestant clergymen that he intended to abandon the effort to suppress crime in Chicago, because the German and French Christians spend half of their Sundays in recrea- tion enlivened with beer and wine presents a new complication for the Mayor and police to stumble over. The general drift of Mr. Greenebaum’s speech was unexceptionzble. . His observations on the election of & State's Attorney seem, however, to be open to criticism. In connection with the subject of suppressing crime, Mr. Greenebaum thought proper to apol- ogize for having signed a petition for the pardon of aman convicted of the crime of bribery. He also eaid that he was glad of the exposure of Mr. Reed's recommendations for pardon, but immediately added that he ‘“would vote for him, since he was the best man,” by which e supposo he meant that he wes & better man than Mr. Tarner. As Mr. Turner has never recommended-the pardon of one hundred and six criminals, has filled many high and honora- ‘ble positions, both civil and military, we ere at a loss to understand upon what grounds Mr+ Greenebaum publicly reproves Mr. Reed, and then declares his intention {0 yoto for bim, Mr{ terinary surgeons in this city of the spread ot Greenebaum hasinaugurateda movement for the suppression of erime. He has claimed that the supersedeas of the Supreme Court has been an ob- stacle inthe way of speedy punishment of crimi- nals, and he must be aware that the Prosecuting Attorney is solely responsible for the granting of & supersedeas in every case of plain guilt. He has read the list of the Prosecuting Attorney’s applications for pardon, also a Iong list of nolle prosequis which the Prosecuting Attorney has issued, and the record of a long list forfeited bail-bonds that have never been collected. When Mr. Greenebaum says that he is glad that these exposures have been made, he must mean that he does not believe the present incumbent of the office of Prosecuting Attorney to be & fit man for the place. In adding immediately that he shall, naverthalc_ss, vote for Mr. Reed, he certainlyren- ders no service to the cause of law and order in Chicago. 1t ig true that Mr. Greenebaum does not stand alone among the prominent citizens of Chicago in this inconsistent position, thongh few others would have had the franlmess to proclaim the fact. It seems to be morally impossible for & certain class of citizens, though possessing su- perior intelligence, to separate National politics {rom the questions of local government. If Mr. Greenebaum is heartily enlisted in the cause of suppressing crime in Chicago, and believes, as ho seems to, that the present Prosetuting At~ torney is not an efficient person for that office, it would certainly be difficult for him to main- tain logicelly and intelligently that Mr. Reed shonld be re-elected unless he can show good reasons for believing that his competitor would be even less efficient, which he has not attempted to do. If some other gentle- men, of equal position and influence with Mr. Groenebsum, belisve that the composition of the Grant ticket for county officers, Aldermen, and members of the Legislature, containg many bad names and still propose to vote for these tickets because they ‘were nominated by their party convention,—and there are many of theso gentlemen in Chicago,— they convict themselves of the charge of bad citizenship. The election of next Tuesday pre- sents an emergency for the exercise of & greater independence than the class of citizens of ‘whom Mr. Greenebaum isa conspicuous exam- ple have been accustomed to maintain, There are Aldermen, County Commissioners, members of the Legislature, and local executive officiala to be elected, who can have nothing to do with the machinery of National politics legitimately, and it is the duty of every good citizen to vote for men for these offices only after personally satisfying themselves of the compotence and moral fitness of their candidates. ‘FHE QUESTION OF MORAL RESPONSIBILITY The Rev. Dr. Kittredge, in his well-meaning war against liquor-selling, has allowed his zeal to outrun his discretion, and, as always happens in such cases, has overshot the mark he intended tohit. At the temperancemeeting on Thursday evening, the Reverend Doctor made & ferw re- marks, in which he favored the hanging of the murderer and of hanging beside him the man who gold the liquor which made him drunk. In his first proposition, the Doctor is eminently sound and sensible, and nine-tenths of the peo- plo’in this city will agree with him, and appland the sentiment. If he had stopped there, his ar- gument would have had logic and force, aa well 88 sense, but he jumps to another con- clusion, which is not only a very re- markable proposition with regard to the fixing of moral responsibility, but also has the effect to weaken his whole train of. argument,, Dr. Kittredge would hang not only the mur- derer, but also the man who sold him the liquor. Does he stop to think, if his proposition were adopted, what the legitimate results would be, and what an enormous and ghastly crop the gallows-tree would bear in this and every other community? If the man who sold the lignor is to be hanged, must notthe man who made the liquor be hanged also? He is more guilty than the man who gold it, for, if he hadn’t made it, the liquor-dealer would not have had it for gale. Then; if the men who make and sell the liquor are to be hanged, mustnot the man who built the distillery and set up the machinery, without which the manufacturer conld not have made it mor the saloon-keeper sold it, be hanged slso ? While Dr. Kittredge is erecting ‘his gallows-trees for the seloon-keeper, the dis- tiller, the machinist, and the carpenter, he ghould also remember to put up one for the cooper ~Who made the whiskey-barrals, and another for the toamster who carried them to the saloon. But these are not the only victims who must figure in Dr. Kittredge's Black List. The United States Gov- ernment is an active partner in this whiskey ‘business, and, out of the 89 cents of cost on each gallon, puts 60 cents into its Tressury. It, therefore, derives a handsome profit on every gallon manufactured, but it couldn’t have done this unless Congress had enabled it to, by voting the tax. With regard to whiskey, there- fore, if Dr. Kittredge's idea should ever be em- bodied in a law, it must involve the hanging in each murder case of the murderer, the saloon- keepers, the manufacturers, the machinists, the carpenters and contractors, the coopers and teamsters, the National Government, or at lenst that part of it concerned in the Whiskey Depart- ment, and a mejority of Congressmen. After 8 few murders had taken place, it will be perceived that & handsome share of the population would be disposed of. Those who remained would inevitably meet, sooner or Iater, the same doom, from the unfor- tunate fact that Dr. Kittredge’s proposition is not only applicable to the case of whiskey, but to everything else which is calculated to pro- duce death. A pistol kills more quickly than whiskey, and is generally designed for that pur- pose, while whiskey is not. Let us suppose one man murders another by shooting him. Then the murderer, the man who sold the pis- tol, and the men who made it and the cariridge are all equally guilty, and must swing. This would rapidly decimate the gun and pistol dealers, the turners, brass-finishers, steel, and ivory-workers, and the lead and powder manu- facturers. There are other poisons besides whiskey which kill, —morphine, arsenic, strychnine, laudanum, &o. ‘They are all more immediately fatal than whiskey, and they not only may be the cause of ‘murder, but of suicide also, and by their salo, therefore, the life of every person is aoubly im- perilled—first, at the Lands of his enemy; sec- ond, at the hands of himself, Dr. Kittredge's proposition, therefore, would fill his row of gib- bets with druggists, chemists, and physicians. In fine, the legitimate result of any such ides 28 Dr. Kittredge desires to seo put into prastice would bo to hang the larger part of our popula- tion, in which event, in all probability, the re- mainder would hang themselves out of mere loneromenesn, With the exception of tho gxcel- lent Doctor, who could then have all the world to himself, and manage it in accordance with his novel ideas of justice. Tt seems to be the misfortune of many clergy- men, whose sincerity of purpose cannot be doubted, that they err in one of two Ways Te- specting great public questions which do not come immediately within the province of their special duties, They are apt either to steer clear altogether of these questions, and thus exert no influence at all upon them, or they take hold of them in such arash and intemperate way that they do more harm than goed to the cause they are advocating. Thoy must approach worldly questions in & worldly way, as they approach spiritusl questions in s spiritnal way. They must have s practical knowledge of these ques- tions, and & practical knowledge of men, their habits and modes of life, their early education, and the laws which govern them in relation to the society in which they move and the society which is above them—in some of which essen- tials we fear that Dr. Kittredge is deficient. ALL THE WORLD SICK. All calamities seem to run in cycles. They group themselves in systematic order, and recur at stated intervals of time as regularly as the planets in their orbits. One year is & year of hurricanes. Another is a year of earthquakes. Another is & year of great crimes, Last year was a year of disastrous conflagrations. All evils, miseries, curses, and calamities, physical, social, or moral, seem to combine themselves to~ getherin the revolutions of time as perfectly and symmetrically as the bits of glass in a ka- Ieidoscope. The most curious feature of this grouping is, that it is confined to the bad thinga. The good things of earth seem to be diametri- cally opposed to each other, and to have no affin- ity for combination. They not only fail to come st regular intervals, buf, when they do come, they come alone, as if they had stumbled upon the possessor - by blind chance. There i8 no element of chance, however, in the visitations of the mise- ries. There isa masterly method in their combi- nation, and a mathematical exactness in the cal~ culation of their direful orbits. Having run through a complete programme of fires, floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes, and an equally com- plete series of criminal convulsion during the past four or five years, the world now seems to be coming down with ailments of various de- scriptions, and both its two-legged and four-leg- god population are sending for the doctor with cheerful unanimity, if not with pions resigna- tion. Persia andIndia are sick abed with the cholers, and are rapidly spreading their horrible complaint all over Europe. The latest cable despatches report it as firmly seated in Russia, Prussis, and Hungary. In Gumbinnen, a town of Eastern Prussis, near Konigsberg, it has broken out with violence, and several fatal cases are reported. At Buds, Hungary, it is making serious ravages, and, from the location .of that ancient cityof tho Danubo, it must seriously threaten Pesth and Vienns, the former of which i8 directly opposite and the latter only 130 miles away. Meanwhile, tho dresdful scourge has sent out scouts to prepare the way for the ad- vance of the main body, and one of these scouts has appeared suddenly at Wexford, Ireland, cov- ering Dublin on the one hand and the ocean on the other, and as Wexford does a large shipping business, it is not impossible that some of the choleraic avant-courriers may take passage via Daublin and Liverpool for our shores, and make their appearance hero in the early spring. At Stonington, Conn., there is vessel-load of yellow fever, freshly bronght from San Domingo, and blown into that quaint old port in stress of weather. A glipin the quarantine regulations may effect s landing for. Yellow Jack, and there is no better traveller when he once. gets his foot on terra firma. ‘With the ravages of small-pox the country is already famliar. It has had its own way inal- most every large city of tho North, and when last heard from wasin St. Louis. An Eng- lish writer, Captain Butler, a Fellow of the TRoyal Geographical Society, has just published anarative of his travels and adventaresin British America, in which he states that the raveges of the small-pox among the Indians of the Baskatchewan, during the past year, have been terrible. Hesays: “Thetribes are fast vanishing before its rayages, British observers who have seldom passed severs com- ments on the fato of ¢the poor Indian’ in the TUnited States, are themselves beginning to look with complacency on the ‘entire dissppearance of the Indians in British Americaas a ‘solution® of the troublesome questions which make their existence such an embarrassment.” As a proof that all the world is sick, what man is there among us who can step forth, Iay his hand upon his heart, and affirm that he hasn't got a cold, or & cough, or a catarrh; that he isn’t wearing a comprees at night on his chest, or & plaster by doy upon his back; that his laundry-bill isn't 50 per cent larger than nsual, simply in the item of handkerchiefs; that, in fact, Lo isn’t in the con- dition of Heine’s divinity, who implored the fisher-girl to make hima cup of tea and rum for he had the ““divinest of catarrhs, and a congh that might last him forover?” It is & pleasant time for doctors, druggists, and old nurses, and . mint and penny- royal, rosemary, hops, and senng, and other good old herbs of grace, are the only floral tributes ‘which snuffing, hacking man can conseientiously pay to the waning year. At the present rate of bifurcated epizootio progress, December will ex-~ pire between & sneeze and a bark, if men do not expire before December comes. But man is not alone in his misery. That pa~ tient, uncomplaining, badly-used drudge, who ministers to his pleasure and does the larger share of his work, is practically sympathizing with him, and bearing bis miseries side by side with him. In most of the large cities the streets are either destitute of horses eltogether, or they are filled with wretched, tottering beasts, dragging overloads, and perhaps falling dead in their harness. The great marts of trade and commerce are supernaturally silent. The docks are groaning under mountains of freight which cannot be moved. The markets are filled with decaying meats, and vegetables, and fish, which the marketmen cannot deliver to their customers, Warehouses are gorged with goods, and vessels are unable to discharge their car- goes, Btreet-cars, omnibuses, and public car- ringes of all kinds have had to suspend, and men of all conditions sre on the same pedestrian level. Living men geb with difficulty to living homes, and dead men find 8s much difficulty in gotting to their long homes, and all this time the stables are filled with sick horses in varions stages of their dreadful malady. The disease has commenced to appearin our own city, and it is useless to disguise the fact that, before the weel i8 over, under the influence of the present damp and unwholesome weather, wo shall be as badly off 23 the Esstern cities. Tho only gloam of brightness which has sppeared in this epizootic darkness is the fact that the oxen have escaped the malarious influences of the atmosphere, and in most places they have been impressed into service to do the small tithe of work they can; in their slow, heavy, and unwilling way. But even this small hope seems to be badly grounded, as the Treas~ ury Department has just issued a circular to the Collectors at the various ports, instructing them to be on the lookout to prevent the importation of neat cattle or hides from countries where the boof-and-mouth disease is prevalent, the Depart ment having received information that this disesse has again broken out in the Argentine Republic. With the cholera in Europe, the emall-pox, and yellow fever, and a universal in- fluenza in this country, with the horse-disease in every stable and = cattle-complaint looming up on the miasmatic horizon, it is within bound to say that all the world is sick and wants the doctor. Even the wild deer on the frontier, according to tho testimony of hunt- ers, is afflicted with & 4errible epidemic, resem- bling the horse-disease, and large numbers of dead and dying deer arefound in the woods, which i8 & bad look-out for venison-catlets and jelly this Winter. Under the circumstances, we do not see that we can offer any other advice, additional to what the physicians of bipeds and quadrupeds administer, except to recognize the situation as part and parcel of the eternal fitness of things, take as good care as you can of your own and your horse’s nose, and trust to.the con- solation of philosophy to compensate for the im- positions of fatality. THE GERMAN VOTE OF ILLINOIS. ‘The importance of the influence and power which the German citizens of this country exer- cigo in our politics has never been felt more no- tably than in the present campaign, and nowkere more sensibly than in the State of Illinois. It . is conceded that the direction which the German vote of this State shall take next Tuesday will Iargely determine the result. It is, therefore, agorce of gratification to find the bulk of the German population in this State and Missouri siding with the Liberal csuse. Among a people 80 prone 8s the Germans to follow their -own convictions quietly and unostentatiously, it is always difficult to foretell with certainty what they intend to do. But, from the very beginning of the Liberal movement, there have been many bonds of sym- pathy betweer it and the Germans. Progress and Reform finds & prompt response from a people who are largely incited to emigration from their native land by the absence and re- pression of all progress and all reform in their own Governments. The fact that. the German- Americans are an active, energetic, and frugal people, serves to explain why, though slow to change, they should have hastened in such large numbers to join 8 movement in favor of pure government, with motives and principles akin to their ideas of justice. Among no class of citizens horetofore belong- ing to, and acting with, the Republican party, has the defection in favor of the Liberal move- ‘ment been so large as among the Germans. The identification of Senator Schurz with the Re- form party, a5 one of its originators and lead- ers, and the confidence and respect which he commands among his countrymen, have com- bined to attract the Germans everywhere. In this State, particularly, the readiness with which the most influential German citizens joined Mr. Schurz, along with the growifig idea that Liberalism is largely » German movement, has secured - the support of o greater proportion of the Germans than any other political change the country his ever scen. With the cessation of the war, and the emancipation of the slaves, the natural bouds between the Germans and the. Republican party were gevered. Their allegiance might easily have been retained by & continued effort at good government, and by honesty in the ad- ministration of public sffairs. But it was un- natural to expect any German sympathy with the spirit of despotism and intolerance which was developed everywhere by the Republican party. ‘Whether this took the shape of a vindictive Na- tional policy toward the South, or by deposing and putting down every man who lifted up his voice against notorious sbuses, it was equally opposed to the charscter and sentiments of the German people.” They have found it dif- ficult to understand why white people should be proscribed and disfranchised when they them- selves fought for the enfranchisement of the blacks. They have not been able to comprehend ‘| why Schurz, and Sumner, and Trombull should be honnded es traitors because they insisted npon necessary investigations and indispensable re- forms. The German vote of Ilinois, it is esti~ mated, will reach 60,000. This vote, or evena fair proportion of it, can elect Mr. Koerner, and give the vote of the State to Horace Greeley next Tuesday, and will do 8o, if the other sup- porters of the Liberal cause stand by their guna with equal courage. In the proclamation of President Grant, re newing the discriminetion against French ves- sels, and in the consequent detention at Havre- of scores of ships that shonld sail for New York, Fronchmen may seo some of the results, that will b multiplied, if they persist in their retro- grade commercial policy. International com- merce knows two systems of duties,—the dis- criminating, or differential, and the reciprocal, Under the reciprocal arrengement, motions ad- mit each other’s vessels on ogual terms; but under the differential system there is no such mutual equalization, and & higher duty is imposed, say, by France, on goods imported in American vessels, than on those imported in French bottoms, The discrimina~ tion is in favor of the domestic ship-owners; the purpose is to divert into their hands as ‘much a8 possible of the commerce of the coun- try. When the United States beganits exist- ence, the differential system was in vogue throughout the world. By the act of Congress, of May 21, 1828, the President was suthorized, whenever any foreign nation abandoned the dis- crimination against American vessels, to revoke any similar duties enforced by us against its ships. We have reciprocal relations under this act with every commercial nation of importance, except Portugel and Spain. France with- held reciprocal concessions until 1867, and then stipulated that the agreement could be terminated at will. The Government, since the Franco-Prussien war, his been of a Protoetion- istcomplexion, and would gladly revoke all of the liberal commercial treaties negotiated by Nepo- Jeon. This they cannot do, as they are bound by the Franco-Amstrian treaty until 1876, and till then must treat all nations equally. Bat ia to the French Tressury. If they refused, and sbandoned the business, 50 much would ba gained to French shippers. They forgot that what they gained at one end of the string they lost at the, other. — g _The month has now clapsed during which the oil-produicers of Peu:sylvania agreed to shut down tlreir wells. Pumping has been resumed under a system which, if it could succeed, would become a most oppressive monopoly, and would " force erude cilmpto 25 abarrel. Under tha titlo of the Petrolenm Producers’ Agency; an association has been formed, establishing am immense bank, or sagency, through wkich all oil shall bo bought and sold, which shall maintain the price at the figure just given, and which shall control the production of oil by prohibiting the sinking of new wells, acd restricting the production of those in operation. * Another object of the Agencyis to enter into combination with the railroads, in order to fix rates of freight, and create a monopoly of transe portation, with the purpose of still further com~ thanding the market. Combinations of this sort * bave been attempted in nearly every department of industry, from time immemorial, but none has ever yet achieved a permanent success. Human nature and inanimate nature are opposed to them, and they fail, inevitably. A novel strike i8 now threatened in England, and one which will present some new questions in the science of labor. The English actors and actresses are combining for & strike, a special, point of grievance being that they maybe called upon “todo duty one week at one theatre, another week at another, to the exclusion of other actors who wonld under the old system have to be engaged.” It is difficult to see, howa ever, how they can strike with any profitta themselves, as they are engaged upon seasom contracts, in breaking which they render them-. selves liable for damages. Should the strika. Teally take place, notwithstanding this fact of damages, it is sad to contemplate that the British play-going public may have to depend upon amateurs for their amusement. —_— The Trustees of the public institutions of this State find that the levy of 1872 will not per~ ‘mit appropriations sufficient for the needs of the Btate charities for the next two years, and have resolved to ask for an adequate allowanceto e paid out of the revenues of 1872 and 1873, At ieast two and a quarter millions will bewanied,— more than twica as much es the present lery will afford them. The State Penitentiary, vhich is selt-supporting, is the only institution tiat doeg. not ask for an extrs appropriation. —_— POLITICAL. The Hon. E. M. Haines, of Waulegan, hag ‘withdrawn as a Liberal candidate forche Legise Iature, in order that Richard Bishoy, of Alee Henry, may have the full vote. g —The attempts of the Chicago Zimes to got- up O'Conor tickets for the Illinois Zegislatare have been sickly failures. The follcving, from: the Twentieth District, is & sample response: 1 seo by the Chicago Times that Tam placedin nomie nation for the State S:nate,—a favor for which T sz very gratefal ; yet I must decline being a candidste under any circumstavces, £s T have already pledged. my support to W, E. Cook, and never falter from my ‘Promise or principles. - Louis J. EGBERT. —Alagie, of the Canton Register, who wanted to run for the Legislature, and could not con-: ‘vince the managers that it would be eafe to put. two names on the ticket, now advises Republi~' cans to give half their support to an O'Conom candidate. —Hildrup, of Belvidere, forgiving Hurlbat, and yet mindful that the sezson for “killing- vermin” is not yet safely passed, has secured a- pledge of his essociates on the ticket that “each, Republican voter cast his votes evenly.” —Dr. 0. M. Long, our Consul to Parama, has: come home to Jacksonville, Ill., to vote for & second texm. i —Even in Georgia it is impossible to keep tha O'Conor ticket supplied with names. —Moudy, of the Richview (Ill.) Democrat, hoists the Liberal nominations for the Legicla~ ture, ““becauze,” he saye, *we devontly wish, that Lyman Trumbull may be re-elected to tha TUnited States Senate.” 5 —The Springfield Register; in & complimentae 1y notice of the campaign-work of the Hon. Fde ‘ward Rummel, Secretary of State, saya: Mr. Bummel is well satisfied with the politics] outa look, His extended camraign, embracing counties north and south, east and west, has given him unusual opportunities for the exerclss of a sound judgment, founded upon personal observation. He regards tha estimate of 45,000 German voters in this State as toa low. It ishis belief that there are between 60,000 snd 70,000“%&1:_.\&“ &nlle)n in Tllinois, some of whom alway® afliliated wi ocratio 2 5 D are solidly Liber:L = RS N eI —The 8t. Louis Republican says: . Acanvaes of soventy-eight counties of this State; ‘With estimates upon the remaining counties, gives m majority for Greeley in Missouri of 38,635; and we really the majority will exceed this Egurc, ‘There will bo but little difference, one way oF another, as to Woodson's vote for Governor. e count twentys gent countles for Grant and eiggety—eitx{g‘l:firtdey_ iving the Republicans eve Aacnsbly trom B Touls, thare would still ba, -Gfi::.‘ cratic majority in the Lower House of over thirty, * —*“It i8 evident that Longstreet retains all hig old rebel sentiments,” said the Cincinnati Gae zelle two weeks ago. ~ * General Longstree’s ace tion in g;acc!l:lringsfmfnut shows & nobility of eart w] few Southern men possess, - New York Times. Rira —The Liberals of Philadelphia have decids tokeep an ontside tally of votes, on electioy dsy, so that cheating in the count may be tig more readily detected. The Vote of Georgis, Oct. 2, for Governor, hag been officially declared, and we compare it Wity the last preceding regular election of Governor, as follows: ¢ Gordon, Do %6,356|Smith, Pt Bullock, Bep. 83,527| Walkel, Rep, ";'i’;fi: 159,883 Total, Ry 17| Lib. maj .X%fifi ¢ Bullock in Georgia.” —The Springfield Republican says agents of Mr. Dawes are around with their pocket-books. to ““work np the game” in Western Massachu~ setts, and adds: ““Mr. Dawes seems dotermined to come out of this canvass with & tarnished reputation.” —A writer in the Philadelphia Press speaks of the Cameron Legislature-elect as ** the hords of miscreants who will collect at Harrisburg inv January.” . —The Woman's Homestead and Labor Re= form perty in Massachusetts has nominsted Oren S. Wheeler, of Milford, for Governor, hnd an Electoral ticket under the banner of Fremiont and Whittier. i —John MeCool declines the nomination of the “ National Democracy” for Mogor of New Yclrl and will support Abraham R. Lawrence, Tammany and Liberal Republican candidate. ~—The St. Lonis Republican ssys of the profe pect in Missonri : p- W shall probabl; trict 1n the State, except pechaps the First, and many ¢laim even that, oo, Bland 18 now certain ; 50 18 Crite tenden ; s0is Mansur, Theso were at first considered the most doubtful. Our State can from Wooda fon down, have done splendid wark, and everything ia . . o —Cameron has his Organ announce thatha willnot start s paper in Philndelphia; being overwhelmed with offers called out by the allure ing promise of 3200,000 to spend. —The Ilastyear's vote of Californis, appors tioned emong the Congressional Districts, gives. ‘majorities as follows: First, 3,018 Republican ; Second, 2,634 Republican; Third, 1,19 Bepube lican ; Fourth, 1,372 Democratic. —The loyal gentlemen who reconstructed Alae bama had the happy thought of putting in tha statnite-bools 1 1uw meking it ponal fince ta Pprotty much killed Republicanism the case of the United Btates, they have taken « challenge a registered voter. As nothingis eagiex. advantage of their power to end the agreement without notice, and have reimposed differential duties on eargoes imported into France in Amer- ican bottoms. The President, as bound by the ach of 1823, has thereupon renewed the discrimi- nating duties levied on cargoes imported into American ports in French vessels. There the case stands. The French, who have much to learn in commercial common sense, saw only two contingencies. If American shippers paid the differential duties, a9 much would be gained than to register citizens of color indefinitely, Gen= eral Grant's managers have been freely indulgs ing in_the illusions of hope. Fancy their feel~ ings at discovering that all the Liberal commite tee-men and canvassers have been industrionsig reading up the Supplemental Enforcement ach. These Little poisoned chalices do have a queer wag of coming aronnd home sometimes. —The Congressional outlook, £o_far as Kens tucky is concerned, could hardly be more ene couraging. In only twa of the districts, in fact, is there anything approaching a serious contesty ~LouisviRe Gourier-Journals Congressional Dise "~ —