Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1872, Page 4

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE.—Election News. . SECODD PAGE-Ls Dame de Massablelle: Tho Great French Oatholic Pilgrimage to Lourdes; Fifty Thousand_Pilgrims on the Spot—The Fsrm snd Gerden—Cod Fisherles—Gonera) News Items~—Per- sonal. THIRD PAGE—~The Law Conrta~Tho Chicago Law In- stitate—Board of Health—Tho Baso Ball Champlon- ship—The Slare Trade~Women s Electors—The Scanmell Vendetta—Queen Victorls Thirty-four years Ago—City Business Directors. FOURTH PAGE—Editorials: After Election: Tho Business Men's View of Greeley; New Daties for Patriots~Political—\Washington Letter, FIFTH PAGE-The Horse Disease—Advertisements— Markets by Telegraph. SISTH PAGE—Monctary aud Commercial—Marine Tn- telligenco—Railroad Timo Table. SEVENTH PAGE—The London Season—A Round of Very 014 Jokes—Small Advertisements: Real Es- tate, For Sale, To Rent, Wants, Bosrding, etc. EIGHTH PAGE—Election Returns—Miscsllaneous Tel- egraphic New: TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, M'VICKER'S THEATRE-Madison strest, between State and Dearboro. Aiss Maggle Mitchall, supported by Mr. L. R, Shewell. ** Fanchon." AIKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue, coraer of Caa- gress street. G. L. Fox Paotomime Combisation. “* Bumpty Dampty. ™ BOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Raudolph street, be- tween Clark aud LaSalle. AThird week of Abbott-El- zlfy Pantomime Combinstion. *‘Humpty Dumpty,™ with new festares. ACADEMY OF MUSIO~Halsted street, southof Madl- son. The ** Black Orook.” MYERS' OPERA _HOUSE—Monroo street, between Stzto and Dearbors. Arlington, Cotton & Komble's Munstrel and Barlesque Troupe. NIXON'S AMPITHEATRE—Clinton strest, between Washington and Randolph. The Georgin Minstrels— Slave Troupe. GLOBE THEATRE~Desplaines strest, between Madi- #00 2ud Washington. Vandesille Entertatament. The @hicags Tribume. “Wednesdsy Morning, November 6, 1873. The Russian Government recalls the expedi- tion against Ehiva. Enough new Peers are to be appointed by the Prussian Government to overcome the majority in the Upper House, which defeated the Conntry Reform bill pressed by the Government at the last session. The Chicago money merket is gcantily sup- plied with loaneble funds yet, and it is appre- hended that the interruption of trade resulting fsom the horse-distemper will cause some in- crease in the demsnd for money to meet ma- taring lisbilities. e It appears that Mr. Colfex is, after all, a can-~ didate for the Senatorship in Indiens. He tells & correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial that he *will abide by the Republican nomina~ tion in cancus sesembled.” We judge that the csucus assembled will nominste Morton, Col- fax is the better end safer man of the two; but orton won the Legislature, and, according to ~arty usage, is entitled to the spoils. The returns from the State of Ilinois show thst the Republicans have carried the State for President, electing also their fall ticket of State officers, and a majority of both branches of the Legiclature. Such detailsas were roceived up to a lste hour this morning will be fonnd in sn- other column, The majority of 1868 will be somewhst reduced, more particularly, perhaps, con the vote for Governor and Lieutenant Gov- ernor. The election in this city, yesterday, passed oft in & very quiet snd orderly msnner. There was @0 rioting and no disorder, notwithstanding the excitementa in several wards over local officers. The Temperance men tad the Liberty League men, and the Grant men and Greeley men treat- ed each other in the most friendly manner. The vote will probably reach 40,000, which is sbout two-thirds of the vote of the city. The morning wes rainy, and during the whole dsy & cold, Taw wind prevailed, which rendered it very disagree- sble to remain long st the polls. —e The espect in the streets remained unchanged yesterday, throngh the wise caution of owners of horses afilicted or exposed, emounting fo & complete embargo on street travel, but the tokens are beginning to appear of the transient nature of ihevisitation. There are authentic reports of seversl cases of complete recovery of horses, the firat tobe attacked, the animals eat- ing heartily, and, in & few instances, doing 8 light dey's work without spperent distress. A Jittle farther patience and caution is2ll thatis needed to relieve our community from the em- barrassments and discomforts of the past few days. Sufficient returns were received last night to ghow thst the following States yesterday voted for Grant and Wilson: Maine 7, New Hampshire 5, Vermont 5, Massachusetts 13, Connecticut §, Rhode Teland 4, New York 85, New Jersey 9, ‘Pennsylvania 29, Ohio 22, Michigsn 11, Tows 11, Fanees 5, Wisconsin 10, Minnesota 5, Missiesippi 8, Sonth Carolina 7, Nebracks , Indiana 15, Illi- nois 21. Total, 231. The whole number of Electoral votes ie 366, of which 184 is & majority. It is probable toat eeseral of the other States from which no retnrns have been heard, have aleo voed for Grant and Wilson | Such returns from the several wards of the city 5 were completed by 2 o'clock this morning w1l be found in Tz Trisuse. The majority for Grant and Greeley, in the city, will reach 5,000, and probably more. The threo Repub- “Jican candidstes for Congress, J. B. Rice,J. D. ~¥ard, sod C. B. Farwell, have been elected. Tho vote for members of the General Assembly had not been counted, except in a emall pumber of precincts, and the tickets were very much seratched. The Republicans probsbly elect Sepators in iz of theseven dietrictsin the county, but it is imposeible totell who of the seversl candidates for Repreeentatives have ‘been chose) The confidence in the intelligence of the peo~ plo must huve been_considerably eheken among those who witnesged an incident of the election ia the Fifth Ward yesterday morning. A vell dressed, cleanly, and intelligent-looking man boldly took his ballot to exercise his inaliensble right of scratching. He made s show of his independence, & flourish of the pencil, and de- liberately erased the name of John B. Rice as the candidate for Congress, and substituted that of Charles B. Farwell. It is tho privilege of the fres =and intelligent voter to cast his ballot for Congress- man for some object of his especial admiration who heppens £o run in another district ; but the circumatance scercely justify the hope that the system of cumulative voting was very thor- onghly understood yesterday throughout the length 2nd breadth of Illinois. —————— The Chicaga produce markets were generally qniet yesterday, the Board of Trade rooms being clozed onacconnt of the election. Ness pork ‘was nominel at £15.00 for old; §18.75@14.00 for new cash; and £12.50 for do seller December. TLard was nominal at 75¢¢ per 1b cash or eeller December, and 7)@8c seller March. NMeats were quoted at 4%4@5c for shoulders ; 7ic for shors ibs, and 8¢ for short clesr, all part salted. Highwines were nominal at 893¢c per gallon. Teke freights were scarca and higher at 17¢ for wheat, snd 16c for corn, by ateam to Buffalo]} Flour wesinactive. Wheat was active but weak, declining 13{c, snd closing at L0} seller the month, and $L0G% seller December. Corn was dull, but steady; closing &t 32@32%c seller the month, and $1%0c seller December, Oats were nominal at 203/c scller the month, and 22%@2234c seller December. Rye was nominal at 5ic. Barley was nominal at 62c for Ro. 2, and 51@5134c for No. 9. The hog market 'was active and firm at s further advance of 10c per 100 1bs; sales making at $4.40@4.70. The cattle and sheep markets were dull =nd un- changed. The following were the amounts of grain in store in this city on Saturday last: 768,068 bu wheat, 1,568,538 bu corn, 766,213 bu oats, 166,597 bu rye, 39,245 ba barley. AFTER ELECTION. The election is over. A long, and tedions, and Iatterly drizzling campaign has come to its end. General Grant is re-elected. His luck appears to be not yet eshausted. He is President for four years fo come—s result which we did all in our power to provent, because we believod his public example ta be hurtful and demoralizing, and his Administration dangerous, by reason ot its habitual disregard of Isw. Nevertheless, ho i8 again chosen Chief Magistrate of the Ameri- can people. It would be futile now to discuss the sgencies which have accomplished this result. The October elections were oo heavy s back-load to be bornebys party not organized and welded together by long acquaintance among its individual members. Hence, General Grant’s majority is mnch larger than it would have been if all the Btates hsd voted on the 8th of October. Large 2sitis, it is an apparent rather than a reel majority, for the people have decided, not that they wanted him for President, but that they preferred him to his competitor. This is the real verdict of the election, and it placea the Republican psrty on far more slippery ground than it stood on four years ago to-day. The state of the conntry and of political par- ties now is subetantially this: 1. Blavery and inequality of political privileges founded upon color and servitude are effaced and obliterated. 2. The Democratic party, by adopting the Cin- cinnati platform, and nominating Greeley snd Brown, have ceased to maintain a eeparate na- tional existence. An effort will, perhaps, be made fo revive it under the old fisg and pasty name; but it will fail. 8. Geperal Grant baving been re-slected Pres~ ident for the term of four years, it is the duty of all good citizens to sccord to his Administra- tion candid consideration and impartial justice in the same measure that they demand these in return, The verdict of the American people is $ho decision of the last Conrt of Appeals until the time comes to mske & new sppeal. Mean- while, vituperation an the one hand and vindic- tiveness on theother will be equally out of place, and will assuredly cost more than thoy coma to. 4. Theissues which divided the Republican and Democratic parties in the past having ceased to exist, it is inevitable that a new division will take place, and thst to one side or the other of this new division will gravitate, sooner or later, all the elements of American society. 6. The Liberal Republican movement begun at Cincinnati in the month of Maylast em- bodies principles adapted to the present exigencies of the country, and which must pre- vail, either by the aid of the regular Republican organization or in spite of it. 6. These principles embrace s restoration of friendship between North and South; the deliv- erance of the latter from plunder and spoliation, go far a8 thesame are sustained and abetted by Federal patronsge; Civil Service Reform; Revenue Reform ; and % general correction and eradication of sbuses which bave crept into the administration of public affairs during along period of civil commotion. The six foregoing propositions will hardly be dieputed by anybody who voted for Greeley or for Grant, or who refrained from voting in the recent election, however widely they may differ 88 to methods. They are unassailable facts, upon which we take the stand we intend to maintain 28 a public journal. ‘We hold the principles set forth sbove, as sub- stantially recited in the Cincinnati platform, to be essential to good government, to the pros- perity of the country, and even to the perma~ nence of republican institutions. Wesehall, there- fore, give them our hearty support and advocacy, and shall sustain the men who fitly represent them, whatever party designation they may wesr, In giving our sdhesion fo fhe Cincin- nati plstform and nominese, we didsoas Rejub- licans nrotesting sagainst evil practices which sie had vainly endeavored to cure and oradicate within the party lines. That platform will be our politicsl guide hereafter. When the ani- mosities engendered by the recent political con- test hall have subsided, we apprehend that the people will prefer something more rational than dieputes about the war, and reconstruction, and negro suffrage, and other desd and decaying sues. At all events, they will have to laok eleewhere than to our columns for such antiguated and nseless matter. We ghall give an attentive and fair hearing to tbe Administration of General Graut, and | judge of it by its future rether than by its past acts. If the Administration itzelf, or any of its present adlerents, shall institute ssholesome reforms, ‘we eball cordially sustain them in such efforts. If they continue the self- ish and intolerant policy which has mainly char- scteriged them in the past, we shall favor them with & strenmous Opposition. There 2re some who believe that the Republican party is now capalle of reforming the abusea which have corrupted its organization. We shall ook with exceeding interest, and without prejudice, upon any attempt which may be made in this direction, and shall 2id it as far 28 pos- sible; for the public service is full of all manner of rottenness. We apprehend that the number of howlers for reform will be considera~ bly augmented before General Grant in sworn into office for his second term. We shallgive these recruits the best opportunity to distinguish themselves. And to the brave band who strug- gled for these reforms in the recent campaign we say, “Bo yo Dot weary in well Qoing." The ‘morsl courage which sustained you during that tempestuous struggle has not been thrownaway, and will not be withont its reward. Meanwhile, there are two things demanding the immediate attention of statesmen and com- mercial bodies. The West is stified for want of means to transport its producis. Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, all lave reached the verge of human endurance. They do not ask that the National Tressury be burdened with the cost of opening new channels of communication, but they see the great natural highway of the St. Lawrence offered to them, with enlarged canals, for the mere price of reciprocal fres trade with Canada. Why ehould not these two great boons be exchanged for each other, either of which is useful in itself? Something must be done fo relieve the existing pressure. Congress has been giving tho public lands to railway compa- nies, and these havo been stimalating immigra- tion and settlement with unnatural haste, until the products of the soil are in many places left torot in the fields,—so far hes agriculture out- run the means of eastward transportation. Again ; south of us, some twelvo millions of people, white and black, are in s chaotic and almost hopeless condition. The instinet of self-preservation, no less than Christian charity, shonld impel the people of the North to do something to ameliorate their condition. It is idle to expect reform from s maes of hrute ignorance, gnided by vice snd demagogism. Some extraneons force must be applied to superinduce it, and none appears g0 cheap and 50 well adapted to the end 2s the cxercise of the power of appointment to offices of bonor and trust under the United States. This power of sppointment should be exercised in such menner as to weed out the carpot-bag tribe and supplant them with men of character and local renown, to the manor bor, having the respect and confidence of the edu- cated classes. The appointment of General Longstreet wag in the right direction. Heis & type of true Southern character, snd, unless true Southern character is reinstated in its proper places in the machinery of South- era Government, it will Dreak down, and the whole fabric of civilized &0~ ciety there will attend the boisterous rmin. The North cannol afford to have anarchy at ita doors. Massachusetts cannot afford to have an apen bedlam in Soath Carolive. Illinois canuob afford to have Louisiana made the cage of every unclean and batefol bird. We are all bound, Grant men and Greeley men, 1o clear away this moral horse-disease ere it ravages our osm streets. THE BUSINESS MEN'S VIEW OF GREELEY. The firat thing that occurs to the reflecting mind, in reviewiug the recent campsign, is that the business men of the country took sn early dislike aud slmost an slarm st Mr. Greeley’s candidacy. Therewere some notahle exceptions to this rule, The threo or four wealthiest men in the country were his supporters, and & re- spectable body of merchants and bankers in every city could be counted smong his friends. But, with few exceptions, they wero against him. They feared that kis election would pro- duce hard times,—that he would do something with the currency,—that he would canse some procipitate action to be taken regarding specie payments. They feared a change. Things were well epcugh in & dollar-and-cent view, and your genuiue business man does not look deep into questions of reform unless the re- form programme tallies with the dollar-and- cent programme which he has in Lis mind's eye. In this case it did not. So the business clagses ]y down” on Br. Greeley ot the ontset,—lay down hard on him,—made little noisa sbout it, ‘but enid to each other, # Grant is bad “enough, but anything ia better for us than Greeley.” No rensons were given fortheir antipathy to Gree- ley—reasons are seldom given for & commercial scaro—there were no reasons. The hard times they dreaded have como without any Gree- ley in them. They might as well bave predicted horse-disesse or hog- cholera to come in with Greeley. Dab we are now stating facts, and it is an obvious fact that the business men of the country generally were slarmed at Greeley, and when, in the month of Tuly, his election seemed probable, and the Grant party got intoa resl panic, they proceeded to “ghell out” to provent it. About the middle of August, the money they contributed, in addition to the proceeds of as- sessments on office-holders, began to tell. Tt came in & steady stream. The Louisville Con- vention was one of its products. The Pennsyl- vanig election was another. Hartranft was neces- sary to Grant. Grant was necessary to ward off hard times snd specie payments. The logical sequence was compiete, from the business ‘men’s point of view, and 50 they kept on ghelling ont until the money market became so in- fernally tight that they could pay no more. ‘This did not heppen till about the October elec- tion, and after that time money was not needed, Many of them would like to have their funds back now to meet their more legitimate obligations. All this time the silent, heavy influence of the business man’s talk, his private correspondence, his example, Lis irepidation, went even farther than his money to counteract the Liberal move- ment. The healthy and high-toned cause promulgated at Cincinnati, and indoreed at Bal- timore, was mired in greenbacks before the 18t of September. The business man Baw the spectre of specie reeumption in Greeley, and said, “Take any ehape but that.” We have conversod with eminent bankers, dealers in for- eign exchenge, learned professors of the Gold Room and the Stock Board, in the endesvor fo get at the bottom of this dread of specie pay- ments, and we have found the argnment gener~ slly to be this: “If you resume specie pag- ments, foreigners will take all your gold away from you whenover they have a war, ot get in o pinch of any kind, and then you will have to suspend; you never can have hard times in this country on & greenback basis, because there will slways be a fixed smount of money in [tho coun- try which foreigners ¢annob take away from you. Dot you knov, we Liave never had burd times gince the greenbacks were iseued?” The fact that we arenow having hard iimes on a greenback basis, just a8 they are having hard times in Californis acd Canads and England on & gold basis, is an suswer to one branch of this argument. The answer to the other branch (viz., that foreigners would take away our gold and make us suspend again), is that that would merely put us back where we are now. BSus- pension cannat: be & good thing and s bad thing af the same time. If it isa good thing, then the mere fact that foreigners would take away our gold and maka s suspend agein is no argument against apecie resumption, for it would merely 1and us in that delightful haven from whicn, ac~ cording to this argument, wo ought mever to huve emerged. Nevertheless, the business men associated Greeley with specie, and specie with hard times ; and contributed a good deal of their money, and still more of their influence, to defeat him. We esteem this factor of opposition to Greeley in the recent campaign, on the whole, the most important one in it,—at least equal to the solid negro vote which was cast against him, and, perhaps, stronger even than that. NEW DUTIES FOR PATRIOTS. The olection is over. The great agony of the last six montha has culminated in the triumphant election of one set of capdidates and the iri- umphant defest of the other, and the world still revolves on its axis. Thers is s cheerful degres of consolation in the fact that the country still survives and is safe. and that there is not another general election for four years. The prairie-fires 'which have been blazing so furiously can now e extinguished. The watchmen on the Walls of Liberty can put out their beacons and come down and look after their horses. There is no Tonger any necessity for keeping the eagle screaming.. He ean now be left at liberty to steal chickens from barp-yards, and carry them away to his mountein eyrie to feed the youthful birds of freedom. Thoso patriotic sons of liberty who have tramped through the mud, and yelled them- selves hoarse since last July, can now apply their Iegs and Iungs fo beter purpose. Demosthenes and Cicero have no further occasion to tell tho threadbare story of the War of the Rebellion or cut up patriotic antics on the rural stamp, The six-and-thirty red, white and blue young ladies can now return to their milking and but- ter-making with the proud consciousness that they have helped to save their country. Smith, ‘who is elected, it i8 to be hoped will not steal anything moro than he csn help, and Brown, who is defeated, can console himself with the fact that, if he were elected, he would probably o demoralized and go to the bad. Let those whoa are out reflect that at lesst they are not ex- poged to the temptations of those who arein; that they can be good men and faithfnl citizens and take care of their families and horses in the good old Christian way. They cannot be too thankfal that they are not to be burdened with the cares of State just now, when the Epihippic demands aman's whole mind, not to mention the cholera, which is due next May-day, contem- ‘porary with May-flowers and song-birds, Ofiice- bolding is poor busincss at the best, and dread- fally wearing on the conscienca, As the election is over and the world still MOves on ita axis, it ia evident that the duties of the world are still incumbent on us. They have ‘been neglected toolong. Patriotism is undoubt~ edly a nice thing, and the safety of the country ought always to be looked after, and every one ought to hurrah for somebody. But it is posgi~ ble to have too much of a good thing, and, if we keep at this particular thing all winter, wo shall get the colored man and brother o everlastingly eafe, and the War of the Rebellion 8o completely suppressed, that when wo need them in 1876 we can't get 8o much ag the shadowof 4 black ghost or s rusty old Arkansas tooth-pick with which to sppeal to the sons of freedom once more o rige in their might and eave their beloved coun- try from the ruin which slways impends when- ever we hava to elect a President or s Constable. There are certain claims of s spiritual natare from which no man is fres, which have suffered during this patriotic interregnum. The attend- ance at church has been of & desultory nature Pew-rents have run in arrears, and thereby tha minister at one end of the cburch, and the masi- cal artists at the other, hava suffered somewhat in their salaries. There has not been that fixed attention which is due to the minister, nor that radical improvement of the various means of grace, which might have obtained if the safoty of tho country had not been made paramonnt to tho safoty of the sonl. ‘Thero is much, there- fore, to be donein this direction. Those who are elected will need more than the nsual fervor of prayer to keep them from temptation, snd those who are not elected need more than ever to cultivate the Christian graces, and to express their devout thankfulness that by the inscrnta- ble decrees of Providence they are not exposed to & temptation which might have induced them to forget all their emrly teachings. Thera are claims of s social nature which will need sttention, now tbat the ward meetings no longer demand the absence of the head of the family from the roof-tree which shelters spouse and olive branches. The great army of the defeated will find sweet consolation and heal- ing balm in settling mp the bills of the butcher and baker and candlestick-maker, which have largely accumulated; in restraining tha children who have run wild; in bestowing and receiving thoge little home comforts which do so much to soften the asperities of the rude world ; and in repairing the various rents and breaches which the household gods have received for waut of that daily care which it is the duty of a husband and father to bestow upon them. ‘The hueband and father himself also needs repsirs which only the wife and the mother can meke. He has taken cold, of course. Hehas drunk foo much beer. His raiment has become dilapidated, and he is altogether seedy, soggy, aud sad. He is 2 domestic wreck which needs to go home for repairs. And while there is a necessity for the gons of freedom to look after their churches and their homses, it is equally im- portant that they should look after their stables. That noble animal and dear friend of man, the horse, has also suffered in this epidemic of patriotism. While Bluffking bas been trying to elect himself Alderman, the Epibippic, Hippohinorhes, Ferrohippozymosis, Epizootic, Febrequobronchistis, and Lo Ca- tarrhe Chevalin have been coursing the air, swifter than Faust's witches, and have seized his borse, and Blufiking’ dear friend is now cough- ing &nd sneezing in Lis stall, with drooping ears, lack-lustre eyes, and cold legs. Now, let ‘Bluffkins forget Lis defeat, and, laying in lavish supplies of hot mashes, turpentine, and arnics, apply himself to the Christian task of suving his dear friend, and in that humane deed he msy find consolation in the fact that he could not save his country, and had to leavo that patriotic feat to Tompkins. It none of these occupations suggest the requisite consolations for the Iate defeated, there are other end important dnties to.which & good citizen and patriot may apply himself and find & remedy for his boken. spisit. Lep him learn to drive oxen. Let him harnesshimself to a wagon, and in hauling freiglst for a day or two find out how it is himselt, and thereby learn to be merciful to kis beast. Let him read phi- losophy—Tom Jores on the Eternal Fitness of Things, or Cicero De Senectute, Lethim clean up his honse and store and get everything in readiness to ward off the cholera, which may be expected bright and early next spring. Let him go to bod at 9 o'clock and get up at5; aston- ish some poor, sick neighbor with a little douceyr ; astonish his wife with a new silk gown ; astonish his children by bringing them s pocketfull of candy, and astonish him- self by eschewing saloons and saying his prayers nights. He can do all these things, be s happy msen and & patriot, and still keep his eye on ‘Tompkins, and snap him up the moment hs steals his first dollar. Lifo is too short to spend mauch of it in mourning. There are deeper sor- rows than a political defeat. Let him console himeelf, therefore, that it is not impossible Tomplkins may get into jail before his termis out, and, if he doesn't effect that happy lodg- ment, ho will be good for nothing hereafter, ex- capt to run for office and will soon go to seed, while Bluffkins may yet die a proper msn, mourned by his distressed family and sympa- thizing neighbo THE NEEDLE. A Synopsis of a Magnetic Survey of the Plains by Dr. T, C. Hilgardes= Pointings of the Compass in Colora« do, Kansas, and Missouri. From the Denter News, Oct. 19, ‘We are privileged this morning to give the ancal substance of the results obtained by . T. C. Hilgard, formerly of 8t. Lonis, who is conducting the Bache magnetic survey of the States and Territories. This important survey i8 carried on under the joint trusteeship of the Smithsonian Tnstitution, the United States Coast Survey, snd Professor L. Agassiz, on the scanty roceeds of the legacy of Professor Bachs, the Bnts Buperintendent of the United States Coast urvey. FProceeding _ from _Golconds, on the Ohio River, in Southern Ilinois, in October, 1871, the am'vsg was carried through the northern line of the Obio States, by Vincennes, Indianspolis, Richmond, Indians, Columbus, Ohio, to near the “neutral line,” or the line which embraces all the points where the pointing is due north. It ought fo be at once understood that in all Tocalities east of that line (which at present Emsafl through Eastern Obio and North Caro- ling), the pointing of the compsss-needle is westward, apd west of that line enstward, The neutral ling hes been steadily travelling, from Annapolis, in 1801, to Raleigh, N. C., in 1880, and is at present moving west- ward at an increased rate. The exploration in the winter of 1870 to '71, of the Missiseippi Valley, through New Albsny, near Lonmisville; Edgefield, near Nashville, Tenn,; Memphis, Corinth, and Oxford, Miss.; Grenads, Miss.; Jackson, Miss, ; Vicksburg, Nat- chez, Baton Rnuge, New Orleans, the Plaquemine Plantations, snd the mouths of the Mississi) i River (Southwest Pass snd Pass a L'Outre), established the important fact that the variation —enst—was about one-half of a degree less than had been l.ntici%,ntad from the scanty data of & few prévious observations, exact astromomical &nd magnotic observations having only been car- ried out slong the Atlsutic, pulf, and Pacific coast, s incident to the operations proper of the United Btates coast survey, as such, Professor e, the late Superintendent, baving personally engaged in & geries of inland mag- Detic observations, it was judged advisablo to continue this system on the proceeds of his lega~ cy for the prosecution of scientific observations in general, on an extended scale. It is & fact worthy of notice, that in the axis of tho Mississippi Valley the linea of equal variation—east—or ¢ isogonic lines,” run pearly north and south; so that New Orleans and the City of St. Louis, Missouri, have about the same pointing—seven de- grees east. On the PaciSc ahoro, on the con- frary, and inland, the lines of equal pointing run mearly east and toest; wheress the entire area of the interveniug tract, inclusive of Alissouri, Kansas, and Colorado, remained essentially un- explored. o funds heving been deficient, Dr. Hil- gard pushiod the survey thus far on pri means ; but was aided by the liberality the 8t. TLouis & Kausas, the Kaneas Pacific and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Compa-~ nies,—from St. Louis to Herman, Mo. ; Sedal Kangas City, Salina, Ellis, Wallace, Denver. auc Pueblo, with s view of carrying the samo to Hughes, Boulder, sud Cheyenne, efe. At the former places, a8 well ss ‘at Dubugue, Iows, Wenons, Macon, and Higbland, II.; and af Cairo, Il ; corresponding observations were taken, ond at most places a meridian or frue noon tine was determined within the limits of the instrumental accuracy. In order to make the following dsta, for which ‘we are indebted to Dr. HilEurd, Pmticflly avail- sblo, due regard-must be had of the frend of the 1isogonic lines; by which, for exemple, San Diego on'the Pacific Goast is_brought to' about the same line as Wallace, Colorado; and Pueblo about threo-fourths of & degree east (in point- ing) of Denver. The dip, or inclina- tion of the meedle, or rather, of the magnetic force when free to ach, is likewise subjoined ; ninety degrees meaning the vertical. The inating vortex of the mag- netic current, or, the so-called magnetic pole, 18 at present assumed in Boothia Felix, on the Polar Circle. It will thus be understood that while the neutral line_was once at Cleveland, Obio, the pointing at Boston was eleven degrees west, and at Victoris, Vanconver's Island, abont twen:i-three degrees east ! Tn the following tablo the variation given im- ylifl.s the mean variation of the whols twenty~ four hours that very uniformly takes places at about 6 o’clock p. m. The range of daily varia~ tion, it is well known, between 7 o'clock in the ‘morning and the hottest part of the afternoon, in the West, nsually amounts to_from fen eighteen minules of angle. Keeping all theso facts in mind, the following table of results will e found generally ugeful to surveyors and trav- ellers, especially in the plains : Places, Varation East, 6 min..67 deg. 62 min. 13 deg. 26 min. .67 deg. 32 min, 14 deg. 53 min..67 deg. 40 min. 13 deg, 59 min. .66 deg. 27 min. In iho latter chse, the influence of the de- crease in lalitude becomes very marked, owing to the trend of isogonic llnes. The lstitnde of Pueblo was determined at sbout 38 deg., ¥ min.; thet of Dauver ok 39 dog, 44 min] thes determinations, however, leaving & alight margin of possible error of about one-half to one minute of angle. As it is desirable to correct the maguetic maps a8 st prosent in use, & similay survey onght to bo at once instittuted along the Union Pacific route, in order to fully bar- ‘monize the magnotic systems of the Pacific, the Mississippi, the Atlantic Cosst, &nd Canads, in Which latter soction the British Goverament is carrying on & similar survey, as it bus beretofore Deen conducted, by Captain Sabine, all elong the accessiblo cossts of the plobe. Almost until nov, the magneticaurvey of the interior romains » private entarprise of the boads of tho lesding governmental and legated scientific institutiona of tlie country. 25 i T Strong Langunage. ‘When M. Veuillot heard that Garibaldi didn’s die after Mentans, he said: “ We have always said that God would not allow this man to die on the field of battle. He will expire in s sick chamber, surrounded ‘by pills and potions, biasphering and dictating fRiotic despatches.” A week ortwo ago Garibnldi said of M. Thiers that ho looked “with Iiity and horror on that blood-bespotted chameleon, shooting Commun~ ists ap Satory and bombarding the ocean at Trou~ ville.” Now a Catholic organ, the Crusader, has come out with an attack on Victor Emsnuel, in hich the vigor of Veuilloj and thio playfal fancy of Goribaldl are combined. His Msjesty,” says the Crusader, ‘‘was Jooking even more re- pulsgvel{ug)y thon wsual, his head nearly disap- earing between his shoulders in consequence of 8 l»ncrel:flmgh bulk, and his_complexion, always dark, having becomo nearly black. His neck is now 80 elort from obesity that his enormous mustaches rest on each shonlder, and 2 perpetual scowl clouds his face. The excommunication is written there in capitalletters, and ha seems, sad probably is, the most miserable, as he certainly is one of the worst, of men.” e e o Yesterdny the body of & man was found_lying noas th track, bou, bwo iies sast. of . Gren: field, Ind. Ho was ticketed from New York to Bt. Louis, and had the conductor’s check of the night express in his hat. It is supposed that he hied been on tha platform leaning out, When he was struck by & cattle guard. By papers found on his person he appeated to bo A. G. G. Cragker. of Naw Lgn&m Conn WASHINGTON. The Refashioned City ---Im- provements and Art. American Public Statuary---List of Portrait-Statues in the Couniry, Art and City Gossip. From Qur Oton Correspondent. WASINGTOY, Oct. 31, 1872, _ The appearance of this Capital City at present 18 in romarkable contrast to the ‘Washington of other days. Abont eight millions of dollara are #aid to have been spent here in the past eighteen months. Of this nearly four millions have been obtained from the sale of bonds; two millions from tax-certificates; and the rest is owing to contractors, brick-makers, and others, It is #aid fo be the intention of the District rulers to sak Congress for about five millions of dollars in indorsement, or money, or in pay of assessments upon the Federsl reservations, or something. Thisamount is snid to be essentisl to “finish” the District; that is, to complete fhe enormous ex~ tent of improvements so ubiquitonsly begun. TEE TAPROVEMENTS. These changes in the eld city are of wide and unique description. They extend from the Eaat- ern Branch to the limits of Georgetown. Three new bridges have been thrown across Rock Creek, and the hills shoved off 8o es to make that su- burb of the city a virtual part of the Capital. A turnpike-road has beon graded northward to and beyond tha District boundary, and the gas-pipes carried to the country. Of wooden and concrete pavements, sach as do not exisb anywhera else in the East, there are probebly from twelve to twenty miles Jnid down; and the new gradings are, in meny «cages, of s costly and radical char- acter. The ‘fiber Creek has been cnlverted to the length of three-quarters of a mile, at heavy expense, and_filled in from its o}d mouth to the heart of the town, so as to obliterate it from the vision. The declivities of Capitol Hill have been cut sway to the extent of entire acres, and the puddles on the North Bide filled with the rubbish. From the Navy- Yard to Georgetown Heights, there is an an- braken drive on asphaltum and wooden blocks, three miles in length. The wide avenues have been reduced in a novel way, by sdvancing the curbs, paving a stxip of the sidewalk, and sodd- ing next the houses; while the sodding is also inclosed with iron posts and bars, the posts car- vedlike s guifiin’s head, snd running slong in lines of the same for miles. A costly water~ imain, with branching arteries, connecting the great sixteen-mile aqueduct with the city, is nearly finished ; end this alone probably cast two millions. The sewerage of the city hes been extended and conformed to the new grades. By filling the Tiber, the part of the city long called the Island becomes an integral portion of the Capital, and is relieved from overtiow and malaria. All thishas been done,—the work ina year of what hasbeen mooted for fifty. Much of it has been done wil~ fully, confidently, and with & wholessle baste, 88 if Baroa Haussmann bad ordered it. But the effect is:marked wupon theheslth of the people snd the improved landscape. And probably eight millions of dollars will not cover the new investments and improvements made in the town, contemporapeously, ,by private -capital. The Beltimore & Potomac, Railroad hias expend- ed within the city limits, in the new depot, the long tunnel, the new Potomac bridge, and the ‘Eastern Branch bridge, sbove two millions; the Baltimore & ~ Ohio Railroad will bave oxpended Dy the spring sbout five millions upon the Point of Rocks Pailroad. Where the olél Tiber nsed to yan pu- treacently across Penusylvania avenue, Dew rows of brick honees stand. Two great market- houses have replaced the old and dismal bar- racks. Half-e-dozen new public schoolhouses, of the most elegant character, adorn the differ- ent wards. Above 1,000 houses Lave been built during the year. The great axis of the city, for socisty and promenade, is_changing from Penn- sylvania avenue to K street. 'ireo new street milwnga have been instituted, and one of them extends to the Marylsnd line. TDNGRATION. While these municipel improvements have been made, the Federal Treasury has cut new streets through the White House grounds; and the new State Department, which will cost 17,000,000, hes risen to the second granite story at the eouth portico. The two squares on the wgeo{ Capitol Hill, sdjacent to the Capitol, Lave been condemned, sud the money appro- priated to satisfy the property-holders. Deter- mined efforts will be made at the next Congress to build s now White Housoon the north side of Lafayette Square, to rebuild the old east fa- cade of the Tressury, snd to advance the east centre of the Capitol building. The road to Occoquan and_ Frederickeburg is not yet open, but the Committee of Observation of the great expatristed body of French Alsa- tians hes already looked with favorablo eyes upon the lands between the Bull Bun Moun- tains and Mount Vernon, ‘The black population here is an element of wealmess and strength ; it is relatively larger than any Northern city, votes “with the progress- ive or money-spending Government ; and seizes upon some of the best streets, with the desper~ ate resolution to hold on 2nd rise upon the ap- ‘preciation of real estate. ART-GIFTS TO WASHINGION. The presents to tho peofila of the city from 'W. W, Corcoran, the wealthiest Wnsb.ingconinn‘ exceed 3,000,000. They are vested in a Widows' Asylum and an Art-Gallery, munificently en- dowed with valuable real estate. The Widows’ Home is already inhabited ; the Art-Gallery will e thrown open this winter, and Mr. Corcoran's rivate collection added to the new purchases. t comprises statuary by Hiram Powers, Galt, and Larkin Meade, snd land scopes of tho Potomac, Hudson, and White Mountaing. Mr. Corcoran's. privafe callection is exceeded by that of J. C. McGuire, arich citizen of Washington, who_ possesses, smonget many things, Ward's “Indisn Hunt- er;” buats and statuettes by Ball and Rbine- hert; a bead of Washington, from life, by Eck- stein'; and s bust of Madison by Cerachi, of the date of 1792, McGuire's pictures comprise sev- eral hundred original drawings, covering fift years of American design; oil portraits_ by El- liott (threa), Stearns, and Thornton; and land- scapes of the largest class by Cole, Duran Moran, Huntington, Lang, Paal Weber, an Tindishecker; thoe latter supplies a_portrait dsncing-group of seventeen Indians, life-size. G. W. Riggs, of Washington, has an_ecxpensive allery, by Beard, E. Johnson, Kellogg, Leutze, %ilbext, Stuart, snd others. Franklin Philp has 2 rich collection of large English waber-colors. OUR NINE EQUESTRIAN STATUES. A fow duys ago, a New York newspe.per, under the head of “Tho Sixth Equesirian Statue,” an- nounced thst the mouated fignre of General ZLyon was ready for St. Louis. The enumeration Wos imperfect ; the following is the number of colossal equestrian statues in the United States: B Brown's Washington— Union Squaro, Now York, inangurated 15565 paid for by mex- chants in subscriptions of 3100 each. Clark Millg' Jackson—Lafayette Square, Washington City; cost 592,007 inaugurated 1 Tl same daplicated~Jackson Square, New Orleana; cost $85,000. Clark Minlg' Washington—¢ The Circle,” Wash- ington City; cost 3 00; dedicated 1860. Fliomes Crawford’s Washington—Richmond, Va. ‘Thomas Ball's Washington—Public Garden, Boston; cost 920,000, inciuding pedestal; un- Yeiled 1509, A H. K. Brown's Winfield Scott *Circle,” Four- teenth street, Washington (now temporarily standing in Spring Garden street, Philadoiphia); cost, $50,000. } ‘Baillie's U. S. Grani—For the south portico of tho Tregeury Building, Washington; cast in pieces; to be placed in position next autnmn. Statuo of Nathaniel Lyon—Tu §t. Louis, The above comprise all the statues uf their class in the country. OUR PORTRAIT-STATUARY. . Of portrait-statuary, New Yoric has Franklia, Vanderbilt, Shakspeare, Morse, Walter Scott, Lincoln, Peter Stuyvessnt, Dr. BetLuue, and into & ‘Brooklyn has Lincoln and Robert Fulton. Bostor has statues of Franklin, Eserott, Hor- aco Mann, Webster, John A. 'Andrew,’Otis Beethoven, Justice Story, Hamilion, Coloue Show, Cholte, Winthror, dosiah Quacy, Edwin t, Bowditch, John Adsms. o U han Totfocans, Malsos, Max. | Shall, Mason, Patrick Henry, Colonel Washinge ton and Hondon's Washingtor™ New Orleans has Henry Clay. $ Baton Rouge had Washington. ’ St. Lonis Thomas H. Banton, by Bfisg Hosmer. Cleveland hes Oliver H, Perry. o ‘Philadelphis hes Penn, Franklin, Washington, and Lincoln. 3 Newport—atthew Perry. * West Point—General Sedgwick. 7 4 Hadrtford—Bishomewne , Tarael Putnar (or~ ered). i Montpelier, Vt.—Ethan Aflan. Milford, Pa.—Nspoleon, by Launt Thompsons Cambridge, Md.—Governor Hicks. Baltimore—Washington, McDonough. Washington, D. C.—Winfield Scott, by Launt Thompson ; Roger Sherman snd Jonathan Trumbull, by Ives ; General Greene, by Brown ; Rogor Williams, by Simmons; Lincoln, by Vinnie Resm and Flannery; Groenhough'® Washington and Columbus; Stone’s Hamilton and Hancock ; Powers' Jefferson and in 5 a green Jefferson in_the White House grounds ; General Rawlins ordered, aud Fairagut sppras priated for. Lexington, Va.—Robart E. Lee, orderod. Louisville, Ky.—Henry Clay, There are revolutionsry monuments at Bhnker Hill, Baltimore, Washington, and_Groton ; sud & dozen or s score of shafts, obelisks, ete., on Dattle-fields. Monuments to the second war with England are st Nashville, Annapolis, sud Baltimore. Rebellion monuments stand at Rox~ bary, Providence (ordered). Detroit, Springfield, TiL, Glen's Fall, Gettysburg, Autietam (Order- ed), and many other places. A Mexican war-monument is in New York city (General Worth). COST AND TASTE OF -PUBLIC ART. 2 The cost of the public statuary of the United Statea hag been newrly one million and & half of dollars. Randolph Kogers alone has received above 2200,000, and it is stated that Le has msde 105 copies of 5 mesningless statue of a fictitious porsonsge in o medioars novel, “Nydia.” e peoplea who own this statnue gener ally call it the Blind Girl of Pompey-I, ferocious accent on the I Some art-patron, Towever, meaning to be literally accnrate, let oif the T double-barrelled, and climb terraces in pro= nounciation, as follows: Pompey-eye-cyel How can sha be blind with 50 many oyes ? 1t is to bo doubted whether wa have produced, in all the ort of the lete war, more than ous good fizure, and thet probably is Ward's Soldier of the Seventh Regiment. For an extraordiairy performance in this direction, the Rogers mouu= ‘ment at Detroit, msy bo_instanzed. It is domai neted by o figre called “ Michigan,” in which there is an attemy% to represent the lumber~ Tesources of the State, in association with the woodlsud garb of this truly aronsed woman, She appears with a short drawn sword aad shield, and that fervid countenance which might make it seem that she was bestinga_ dinner- gong with a carving knife, on the amival of & frain at s meal tation on the Michizau Gentral Railroad. The boys gall it *The Infariated She-Biddy; or, The Bffed Eagle's Revenge.” 3 J. Q. WARD. * ‘We have three good sculptors for public work i Ward, Brown, and Launt Thompson. Tha firat of these has’ never failed o meat occzsion, and he is 3 troe artist, in the old matter-of-fact sense of the armorer and tho sculptor in ane, A graceful mind, and reflection and chearfule ness niwsys near at hand, work out the less znd the larger purpoges @1 Ward. He comes from the West, and is s nazive of Urbana, Ohio ; a reddish-bearded, skirmishing, boyish man, Whom old Michel Angelo mizLt have loved 3 an gpprentice. He is now in Edrope, wishing to see some antique work to give him confidence in finishing the Putnam statue. During the war, he was employed to design presentation sword-handles and rich pistol-hilts for the Ames Company,— kind of work which has a rich, old fendal smack sboutit, and attests versatility. He is a superb modeller of reliefs, groups, and vases ; snd his portrait-busts are serene, ciean men’s faces, with none of Powers’ flower-gar~ Qening about the rims of them. He bas never abteiced, aud I think never solcited, any Na- tional work, being sturdily, steadily engaged, snd no courtier; but, 23 the ablest manin sculpture of a public character that we havo had, it is merely a_reflection upon politics and_gov= ernment that there is nothing of his handicraft st Wadhington. ‘He bas produced & great work in ezch of the types of man upon our continent: the Ind.an lunter, the Freedman, and Shakspeere. There is no Btatue in Washington City of the exprea- siveness of his Gtatuo of Commedore Perry at Newport; and we have no such quuintly elegant ‘monumental design as his memorial, in the Bos- fon Public Gasdad, of the frst application of Ether. The Shakepeure in Centra: Park is the best testimonial plastic art has yet made to the poct. His group for a life-insurance compeny in New York is known to all the country by the ‘manifold reproductions of it in advertising prints. This should be the men to make for St. Lonis o Chicego 3 statue of LaSalle. THE ENGLISHMAN'S A[ERICAN. Mr. Story bus been praiced by the lond Boston yawp, grestly assisted by the ing school in London, Hismind snd studies, Loyerer, taie direction of their owu, end not in the line of the humon hero. It is, besides, to be questioned, whether the Boston and the British Fawp put together make critorion 1o seulpture, aud whether the Americans have not a clearet appreciation of humsn groce and expression than a nation that is without one_cosmopelitan name ih this department of art. Lendon statn- ary is o source of never-ending amusement to Punch and the reviews. There is one _siatue, natably about a century and a half old, in Scho Square, the subject of which is hopelessly ura Imown, and iy supposed to be Charles L., Jamea I., and'the Duke of Monmouth, st the eame tilme. John Bucon offered to * build 21l the Par- liamentary monuments a¢ & certain percentage below tbe Parliamentary price;™ and it 1as hardly yet got tobe a_joke in England. Ez- cepting in the art of pictorial design, and in the school of water-color painting, the English 2re without rank in Europe. It took Mr. Ruskin's whole life, and cost him his wife in the bargain, to explan Mr. Tamers superiority. Modern English architecture, 2s “well, is of a morose, Hussian heaviness, seeking to hide it interesting quality in its vest extent; and we hava done wiscly in this country toadopb Continental forms. Mr. Story has made two public fiures for Boston, and one of them, Ed- ward Everett, is throwing his shoulder out of joint 38 badly as the rest. Tho statue of Winsoll Seoth, & 6 state of Winfield Scott, by H. K. Bro ~Irving Ward's preceptor,—is Sotable for i3 superb modelling, pose, and slers expression of the Lorse. This will be & fine ocnament to ‘Washington City, and. of course, it is to be pt in & place full of trees, whers 1t Taust.be dis- covered. The statue of Grant bas been given to one Baillie, & Philadelphian, to do. 1f it were possible to get together for Chicago plaster casts of the pablic statuary of the coun- try, that alose would make a very interestin and Jarge collection. Mrs. Crawford presents to the Central Park a full set 0f the casts of her husband’s designs, and they constitute one of the most attractive features of that city. ART ITEMS. The first man who ever modelled with any hopularity in America was John Dixey, of Dub- who carved the figures of Justice on the New York City Hall. William Rush, at an earl dey, cut a Washington for Independence Haulf Philadelphis, and some figures for churchea. During 3lonroe's Administration, one John Eruzea mado coveral busts; ons ot "slicl, Joha 2y, Was purchase ongress for th eme c«?xz cgfm:er. v Dotiress oy the Sup ‘onsiderable statuary has been lost by fire, sud flood, aud moving decident, Opapyas Washe ington perished in the fire at Relaigh; Brown lost by repudiation, and subsequent’ fre, & group of thirteen figures for the Soath Carofina Stato House; by shipwreck, .rglelxs ot 1m original statue of Cley, Roers his John 4 and Powers his Callioun, : Gazg. — POLITICAL. The full votdof South Caroling, Oct. 16, for Governor, is amounced, and we compare the {otals with the gubernatorial election in 1870, 23 follows : 1870, 4 1872 85,071 Moses, reg. Rep.... 71,383 Scott, Rep.. Carpenter, 61,537|Tomlinson, bolter.. 26,418 Total.....vee - 36,008 Total euenn. 107,854 —Susan B. Anthony and eightother femalza voted at Rochester, N. ¥. They voted early. —Sarah Huntington was deniel the right of suffrage, at Norwalk, Ct, the Court having dee cided saversely to ber suit sgainst the Registers to allow her namie to be placed on the ists 28 an elector, and declered unlavful tie action of the Selectmen who had previonslyadmitted her tothe franchise. > —The election in Texascontinsesthrough fous days, closing on Friday. Al the voters ore Te- quired to voteatthe comaty-seats, Laving pres viously registered there The regittration at Houston -was: 3,003 fe the city, and 1,163 for the county. —In the Frankfot (Ky.) District, tie Grant managers encouragd Stephen F. J. Trabus (Bourbon) to ocewy the field againstBeck, ag candidate for Conjress, and, at the lastmoment, put William C. Godloe on their tickats to rec saive the reamlsy pary Fet