Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1873, Page 4

TIT CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU ONDAY AUGUST 11, 1873, TERMS OF THE TRIBUN TERMS OF Mll!!fl'lll”l’;‘ml (PAYADLE IN Al\VANGgY-" ‘ e S U200 )| Bund 82, Fatkocdseiiezr: S 00| Wy 9350 18 of & yonr at tho ramo ratel provont dolos and mistakos, bo suro and give Past O co ndidress in full, ucluding Stato and County, Homlttances mny ho mado ofther by dratt, oxpross, Post Oteo mider, or in rogistorod lotters, at our risk, TENNA TQ CITY RUDSCRIVENH, Daly, dollverod, Sunday excopted, 2 conte por woolk, Dally, wollvered, Hunday fncludod, B0 conta por wook. Addeas TILIE TRIBUNIE COMPANY, Carnar Madtpon and Deatborn-nts,, Ohlcago, 111, stk diiin TO.DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, VIOK LTS THEATRI-Madison, botwoon Denr. Sars N0 S, RomnEs of v Font Yaimoon Bey b T EATIE-Deaplaines steoot, betwoon Mad. o Wikt 2 e e * OULRY'S THEA' Clark and LaSallo. ~Randolph stroot, botwoen "BUSINESS NOTICES, 3 INETIO INSROT POWDIR. A TURN P R R R AR insvcta, Lugs, aud eockronches givo up tho ghost, CWE 1 FIEQUENTLY HEARD MOTI1 RIS SAY fe ol ok o Fithont e AR BT lNd SYRUP, from tha birth of the child untll 1t had fin- inliod with tho teotliug sleko, on any considoration what- over, "JOR_FREOKLES AND MOTH PATOHES, ASK cone SR e T I Il Dt tation. ooty it hond-at-, Now¥orkc, Tor Pimplon or o Ha Biackheads, al Teahwors 0 Porry's Improvod Qom- eduno and Pimpls Roody—tha Groat Skin Modiolno, Vrepared only by I Porry, Darmatologist, 49 Bund st., Now York. @bg @bit’agn Tribune, Monday Morning, August 11, 1873. 'The wheat crop of the United States for 1873 Is expected by tho Agricultural Dopartment to roach 220,000,000 busbels, Illinofs will barvost 15 per cent loss corn than usual, Supt. Washbutu is declared, by the Committeo appointed by the Common Council to oxamino tho cliarges mndo against him by Milwaukeo merchants, to bave been guilty of no violation of Inw or of the.regulations of the police sorvico ot this city. Very fow lives wero fost in the invostment or defouso of Valoncia, Spain, which surrendered to the Government troops on Friday. All tho losgos in killed and wonnded on boih siden were not more than 800. Tho leaders of the in- surgeats oscaped tho night before the surrender to Cartagonn. i If the statomont be correct which comes from ‘Washington, that tho Wawassct, on her lnst fatal trip, earricd 160 parsongers, in violation of ber certifieato, which restricted her to fitty, the loss of lifo wmust bo largaly chargoable upon those who permitted ihis over- crowding. Itis furthor stated thnt there woro not on board life-saving applisnces enough for B0 many as fifty persons, Another ques Virginius which may damago hor status matori- ally. It iu said that sho is roally the proporty of & South American Kopullic, which bonght her two yoars ngo. Shiould this provo to bo truo, sho not only has forfeited all right to our pro- tection, Lut will bo soized by our cruisors whorever found, and condemned for Laving frandulontly clnimed sufa conduct out of Aupin. wall harhor on the ground that showas an Amor- ican voesol. — Tho Boston Jowrnal publishos a delinquont wclist of the wame kind which aonually brings down contumely upon the dovoled heads of Chi- eago from nggrioved.communitios which do not hinve 80 much property to tax and, consequontly, uot #o long a delinquent list. Wo notico the ‘Bonton lint for n differont purposs. The man- sor of publication i oue that should bo imitated. The namo of the owuer aud amount of tax is given; tho division s mado under the several wards; and tho proporty is located by strect and number, as well as by tho hioroglyplics of real eatato tarminology. The Qovornor-Genoral of tho Dominion of Caundn has put an estinguiher upon the pro- Ject to trausfor tho investigation of tho alloged biibery of the Ministry from n Parliamontary to 8 Royal Commission. 1o has announced in o speach thiat ho rocognizos the Partiament us tho roal Govornment of Caunda, and that o will bo govornad by that Parlismont in all lis doalingu with the Ministry and the people. If Parlinwon decide to havo an investigntion by a committe of its own mombors, hie will not interforo wilh it, and, should Parliainent vote & waut of confi~ douco'in Bir John A. Macdonaid ‘and bis col- teagues, tho Governor-Genoral will not hesitato * to appoint o now Ministry. Parliament is fo wieet ou the 18th of August, "The New York T'ribune of a vecent dato pub. lished u lotter fram Long Branch saying that o distinguished Westorn Sonator had been ox: eludod from ono of the taverus at that place for conduct intolorable in 2 Long Branch Lotel.w Tn itnissuo of Aug. 8tho same paper makos tho aifair tho subjeet of an editorial articlo, partly ou tiie offroutory of cortain persons who defeud tho satary-grab on moral grounds, in the cours of which it anya : Betwean tho sonsnal sot, . Vile ussoctutions uud ‘Apraved Labits, who no Jatel ret himaelf and parnmour deney of the United States are but two lives, au “me of them of frasleat tenure, : Nobody who las nof sot himself and paramon on exhibition ag aforosnid need fool himsell in jured by the Tribune's articlo. It s tho opinion of b sapieesed, thst the divoreo wnit Lrough ugiingt Drigham Young by Ann Eliza Wobb, oue of Lis plural * polygamist. The purposo of il snit muet Hherefora, havo boen somothing bosidos tho pro. tho lawyors of perfectly well obfalned. It ia predicted that the suring of a divorce, which Mis. Young No, 17 eannot be there will bo o compromige, and Bult Loko Jowrnal is of the opinion that Mr, know Young will come down haudsomeiy In order to prevent an oxpona of hia domostic aftaira, Many amun, not a polygamist, would do s much, The Farmera' Movement hos mado its way Gov, Buith, of that Htato, ro- contly mado a speech fo a largo crowd from tho into Georgia. stops of the Thoaimston Gourt-Houso, in which fi0 encouraged tho farmors in their new efforte to help themyelves, 1fo cited, au an Mustration of the grievanous they snffer, & caso in which 10,000 busliels of corn had beon bought in Towa thin sontion for 15 conty por bushel and sold in Ueorgin for 81,26 por bushol. As tho differonce wug charged to transportation and to tho middle- on, tho caso wae ouo likely 0 mako an impros- ion has arisen concorning the of Lrilllnt intellect hut u public exhibition in this eity aud at Long Branch—botween hitn and tho Preei. ollt the Herald and Uio Jouraat, of Salt Lko City, protty plainly 8, i uothing more nor lows than o blackmeiling oporation, 1t i very cor- taiu that no wuit for divorce can Vo outortalnod In tho United Btates Courty botweon n soven- teautl wife, tho other sixteon being alive, and slon npon his honrars. Qov. Binith Lelloves In tho Grangos, Mo took the two most promi- nont objeolions that aro urgod ngainst theso asrociations, and mado one answor tho othor. Onoof thom i that tho Grango s a sooret go- ‘loty; tho othor tnt it admits women. Gov. Bunith {8 of the opinfon that thoro In not much danger to bo approhouded from saoresy with this combination, e Tho now tide of immigration which has com- monced to this country from Russln promises Lo boono of unusual fmportance. Tho supply at brosont sooms to como from two roliglous Bources, Ono of thom s o colony mndo up of omigrants originally from Pruauia, Wurtomborg, and Bavarls, who lolt their homen and sobtled in Odoasa, go that thoy might onjoy groator rolig- fous privilegen. Although thoy formed a spocial govornmont, indopondont of Russian authority, oxeopt the paymont of n cortaln tax for tho land thoy oconpiod, the Russian Govornmont hag al- waya trontod thom with the utmost good-will, until lagt yoor, when it sought to enroll thom in tho army as Russlan subjocts, Thoy roulsted this attompt, and at Ingt obtained cousont to loavo tho country, ‘o firat installment of tho colony, 800 in number, has alroady roncliod hore, Their agonts have seleotod - Jands in Iowa, No- brasks, Minncsots, and Dakota, Tho lnrgost immigration, however, will come from tho Mou- uonitos, who nutbor about 20,000 Tho advance of this oct will reach hioro in Ootober, Thoy are excollont farmers, and will bring with them from 12,000,000 to $15,000,000 in gold, Tho Chicago produce markots woro modor- alely activo on Saturdny, in breadstuffs, and atronger. Moss pork was quiet and 6@1lc por brl higher, and $16.75@15.80 cash, and $16.80@ 16.90 goller Soptombor. Lard was quiot nud firmer at 79{@73¢0 por Ib for wintor, and 7@ Thje for summer rendorod. Monts wore quich and firm, at 7%@80 for shouldors, 9@Y3¢o for short middles, aud 10@12}¢a for mseot picklod bams, Loke froights wero moro netivo, ana -stendy at Go for corn to Buffalo, Mighwines woro dull and unchanged, nt 912¢e por galion. TFlour was active and n shade highor, Whoat wag quiet and somewhat strongoer, Lut closed tamo at $120 cavh, $1.16% soller tho month, and'81.003¢ nellor Beptombor. Corn was mod- oratoly nctive, and 8¢ lower, closing at 8734a cash, and 872¢o soller Octobor. Oats wero dull and X lower, closing at 27)gc rollor the month, and 260 sellor Boptomber, Ryo was_quict and firm ot 9. Barloy was in good demand, and advanced 13e, closing at 90 for now No. 2, noller Soptombor. The hog markot was firm aud tairly nctive at $4.25@4.85. No chango was no- ticeablo in tho cattle and sheep markots, tho former ruling quiol at 22.00@6.10, and tho lattor at 32,50@4.75. The Republican newspapors in Towa aro soraly troubled with the platform adopted by tho State Convention, The documont is not only sub- Jected to a varioty of interprotations, but somo of the papers actually manglo tho toxt to make it conform to their motions of what it ouglt to bo. Bomo of theso chunges are notablo. Tho platform adopted by the Couvention was pub- Tishod tho noxt day in tho Dos Moinos Kegister, and tho firat rosolution bogan thus : That, proud 0a wa are of mioat ¢f the past record] of the Republiean party, oto, Which is roudered thua by the papers indi- eated @ That, proud as wa are of the Republican party,— Maquoketa Excelsior, ‘That, proud aa we aro of tli past record of tho Ro- publican yarty,—Jlics Moines Repister, ‘Tlat, proud a8 wo are of tho past rocord of the Re- publican party,.~Keokuk Gate City. ‘That, prond s we aro of most of tho past ‘record of tho Republican party,—Lurlington Uawkeye, [Oor- ract.) But thero ia another mutilation of tha plat- formy'in {he cato of the resolution, which roads: That the act of the majority of tho members of tho Into Congrees, in passing what 18 known na thie back- oy steal, by which they votod fnto thelr pockets thoueands of dollars which did not belong to them, as well us the act of thows who voted ugainst the same and yet received the money, fo most flsgrautly impraper sud {ufamous, sud should secure tho political condomua- tlon of all who were a purty to it. . Uhe Burlington Hawkeye, tho Maquokota K- celsior, and other papors suppross tho worda printod in itali The building of 1873 in the City of Chicago, t | though loss remarkablo than thatuf 1872, in o | nevertholoss extonsive. Tholots and parts of Dlocks in the burned datrict left unbnilt lnst year Linvo beon largely covorail this senson, and with ediflcos in keoping with thoso put up in 1872. At tho close of 1873, the area in the Soutl Divinion covored with costly buildings will bo far moro extonsive than hoforo the fire. But the work in 1878'is by no meana confined to tho - | routhorn sido of “the river. Al over tho North Division thore are oxtonsive. improve- - (monts in tho way of residonco buildings, a8 woll a8 business property. Tho samo repid extension of pormanent improvements, capecally in the way of dwelling-houses, s wit- nessod in all parts of tho West Diviion ; and for thoso dwelling-houses thoro ave ulways roady o | burchnsorsor tonguts. One reason for the im- meunso vxtonb of Luilding this sensou is in the clieapness of building Toatorial, At ono time in 'y | 1872, bricks cost s Ligh us $24 per thousand laid in tho wall, whilo this year they cost hardly d [ balf that mun. 8o cheap aro bricks at this timo that they ara largoly purchased and pitod upon vacant lots by prudent owners for futuro uso. Never lau thoro beon such o domand for bricka as within tho last two years ; but tho in. cressod production, which has now bocome n permanent industry, has beon oqual to the de- mand. Tnstond of boing an tmportor of bricks, Chicago can now mauufucturo and wupply theni to distant poiuts cheaper thau they ean bo mude at placoa which have hithierto, in part, suppliod tho city, b During tho rocont oloction in Koutucky, thore woro novoral riols botweon negroea and whitos, one of which, ut Nicholasvillo, throntoned at ono timo to ba vory serious. In thin district, Col, Willinm Brown was tho TRepublican candidato for tho Logiuluture, and Col, Milos tho Domoeratie, Tho voling plueo was located by tho County Tudgo in the vory heart of tho nogro quartors, for tho purpasc, an is allegad, of detorring whit mou from going nmong o many nogroos. The Demacrats, howover, raled to the support of thelr candidate, and wore earrying the day for him, whon (Lo negroes gathiered togothor in a body and drovo them from tho polls, Nat conlont with thin, they armod thomsnlves and sot ont for a raid upon tho town, The eltizons, howaver, banded togathor ta roalut them, when thonogroes, deom- Ing digorotion tho bottor part of valor, rotirad, ‘Tho rosult of tho dny was tho oloction of Lho Tepublicun candidate, but his weat will he contestod. ho foollng of the whita poo- plo in the distriet is so bitter that they havo commencod an organization for tho hnpor- tation of white lobor, In San Autoulo, Toxss, for wovoral days past, thoro hna Dboon m intonso oxoltoment growing out of ‘a differont causo. A nogro bolonging to tho colorod company stationod thore, hay- Ing writton an fusulling lottor to n young Jady of tho town, hor fathor mot him and ochas- tlaed Mm. Tho colorod company at once took tho part of tho nogro, and threatened tho town, Their officora wero unnble to control them, and sont word to tho polico to that offact. Tho oltl- zona turned out {n force and armod thomsolves for proteotion. Gon. Augur promptly came on the ground with othor United Btates ofiicors, ond managod eventunlly to quell tho disturh- anco and got tho colored compauy ont of town, although they threatoned to roturn and havo vongeauoo. Intho officlal report of R. B. Maroy, W. M. Dunn, and Joln E. Bmith, on tho Fort Bnelling transaction, we find an important stipulation so for as thoy aro individuelly concorned. Thoy Bay ¢ ““Tho undorsigned hinve not concolyed that any Invostigation into tho logality of tho transsc- tion botwoon Mr. Stecle and the Commissioners who negotiated tho salo on tho part of the Gov- ornmont, camo within the scope of thoir inatruc- tions."” They thon allude to tho report of tho Committes of the Houso of Roprosontativos, quoting that portion of it which deolares that the salo of tho fort, and 80 much of the land at- tached to it aswas nocossary for military pur- poses, was without nuthority of law, Thoy make no roforonco, howover, to that por- tion of tho roport which doclares tho on- tiro transaction vold for framd. It Booms, theroforo, that the Board who officinted in tho Inst transnction took enro to put up the bors bo- hind thom by directing tho Sccrotary’s attontion to the House Committea's roport, and washing their hands of ovorylhing connooted with tho ‘*logality of thio transaction,” meaning theroby tho traueaction botweon Floyd and Steolo, It apponrs to us that & Board of oflicors roally intont upon serving tho Government and making an ‘“equitable sottloment,” would have not merely made a distant nilugion to the roport of tho Congressional Committee, but would heve incorporated the conclusions of that Committeo in their own report. Thoy scom to have mado just omough reforonce to it to aave their own bacon,' throwing upon tho Secratury of War tho rosponsibility of deciding upon tho “ logality of the transaction.” But tho Socrotary, whon it comes, his turn, makes not tho faintest ullusion to tho logality of tho sale, Ho moroly saya: Horo is tho roport of tho Bonrd, in accordanco with which I have selocted and rosorved 1,621 neres, and conveyed the ro- maining 6,394 acrea to Bteole. Tho only monoy paid by Stoele for this proporty was £80,000. Tho price paid for it was, theroforo, $169 por acre. The Board, in their roport, say it wwas worth 820 per acro, The half of it which Bteole Lins sinco sold brought 262 por acro. —— CONSUMPIION OF FOOD IN THE UNITED @ . BTATES, Betwaon the prisoner in his cell, condemnod to brond aud water, and the millionairs, whost tablo i londed with tho bost and choicost, thore is o wido differonce in the quantity of food con- sumod. The quantity of different arlicles used in tho fawilics of laborers in Massachusotts was Yocontly stated, but this was by mo means a minimum or a mazimum. Tho avorage wages of thoso laborors wau $2.12 por day. Tho wlholo sum paid yosrly to 2,063,906 hands in manufacturing ostablishments, aceording to the consus -of 1870, was &776,584,343, or, at 300 working dnys in & year, just $1.25 daily to ench POrsou. A vory ‘laige prupurtlui of the Jabor- ory, (herofore, rccoive lower wagos than thoso whoso consumption of food has been stated, and must live still more economi- eally. And yot, in this country, not many fami- lies aro reduced to the baro minimum of food necossary to upport life. Thus,” even among tliose who live upon slender incomes, thero is & wide range of differonco in the qusutity of food consumed. By way of Hlustration, - comparo & fow itoms in the quantity of food consumed by two familios in Mnssnohusotts, both American Iaborers, both cousisting of a young couple and threo children all under 7 years, but one family doponding upon earnings of $£2.60 por day, aund the other $1.25 por day, and ouo ox- pouding $772, and tho othior £342.60, yeorly : Taunds buf Touudn lar. Gallons ilk. [ 0200 cgga. . [ Bushols pofatoos. 7 Tounds Leef, freal. 27 Tounds hoof, cured, a TPounda veal, .., 10 60 Tounds ralt pork, 90 Tonuds bam, .., 16 In ench caso, five persons of about tho snme ago were supported, but the differonco in circumatances is plainly soou in tho quantity a8 woll an the kind of food consumed. Yot £1,25 per dny is tho averago of wagos paid to all per- #ong employed in manufacturing establishments; 8 vory large proportion must therefore rocoive ovon lasy, aud live atill more cconomically. On tho other baud, $2.60 por, day is less than tho ordinary wages paid to some classos of laborers, Whioso consimption may thereforo bo prosumod to Lo still more liboral than that of the fanily instanced, Obsorving how very wido + differouco oxists fu tho quantity of food consumed bolwoon jorsons all of whom live by thelr dally labor, and upon wages neither below tho averago nor nour the maximum, It is oasy to seo how surely & chungo iu tho quantity of food cousumed in & community will reanlt fvom a. riso or fall in tle prico of food, wagen vowalning the samo, or from & rixe or fall in waged, cost of food re~ muining tho wamo. For tho grent majorlly of the community, there Iy alwnys room for grouter economy without ronching the baro minimum necosary to support life, nnd such oconomy iy tho readiont resourco whon pricoa riso of wagos fall. Aluo, for tho grent mujority tnora Ia ofton matorial improvemont in tho quantity as woll ag the quality of food tonsumed, and to such an improvoment the universal dosiro prowpls whevever prices fall or wagea riso, Moroover, among familles in modorate cireumatancos, thioro i abways n considorublo quantity of food oxponded in satiafying the dosiro for varlety of kind or of proparation, and, b this exponditure, which contributes to comfort and ofton to hoalth, aud yet is not always absolutoly noces- Aoy to (lio aupport of lifo, thero In room for very groat reduction whon o change of cliroum- stancos prompty economy, or for almost unline ited incrense, whon improvoment of ciroum- slaucos warrauts & moro liberst gratifloation of tho appotite, Heuco, it iy an Indisputablo fact that tho antity of food consumod In difforont coun- trios, orin the samo couniry at difforont timos, varlen with obnngo In | the. condition of tho laboring clnsnos, which form tho largo majority of tho populntion. Of a fow articles, tho quan- tity consumod In this conntry in difforent years hins heon so far ascortained that striking illus. trations of this truth aro prosonted. Thus, in 1837, the yoar of panio and prostration, tho quantity of sugar usod wos loss by ovor 2 Ibg, than it had boon in .tho preceding yoar, and tho quantity of coffco less by ovor 1 b, then it bnd boon fin. 1895, In 1840 and 1848, tho yoars of *“hnrd timos,"” tho quantity of Bugsr uged was but 1134 Iba. per capila, whoreas for fivo yoars onding in 1843 tho average hnd boen 18 Ibg,, and for four yoars boglnning with 1843 tho averago waa 183 1bs. Tho avorago con- sumption of coffco {n tho five yoars ending with 1842 was 53¢ Ibs., but in 1840 1t was only § Ihs., and in tho four years boglnning with 1848 it wam 6 4-5 1bu,, but in thot yoar only 46-10 Ibe. Again in 1857, tho quantity of coffs consumod was but 6 Ibs, though tho aversgo for four years, 1855-58 inoluaive, waa 744 Ibs., and the sverage consumption of sugar during the samo roriod was 803 the.,, but tho consumption in 1857 was only 26 Ibs, Thus tho consumption of food in any country indloates with vory groat acouraey the condition of tho majority of consnmera—the Jaboring olussos, CQoat of food romaining tho Bamo, it | will rise with a riso of wages; and wagos ro- maining the samo, it will fall with an incronso in pricos; whilo, wages and prices both rising, the consumption of food will indicate the resulting condition of tho Iaboring clnases. If the day's ‘wagos will purchagse moro food, an increass of consumption may be expectod ; if less, tho quantity of food consumed will uaturally decrense Moreover, sinco thoso whoso jncome cnablos thom to entisfy, without rostraint, tho desiro for food, in varioty and quantity as well agin quality, aro comparativoly few, and consumo but a small part of the whole, the consumption of food, inereaso or dacreaso of,woalth being known, indicatos yory cloarly tho distribution of wealth, If the wealth of the community in tho aggregata has groatly fncroased, while the consumption of food bas decroased, it may bo fairly inforred that tho condition of the laboring olasaos has deteri- oratod, oven though tho woalth of the capitaliats has multipliod, and that the forcos at work are such a8 ** to make tho rich richer, and tho poor poorer.” Those twhoso twoalth s such that tho cost of food is not rogarded, oonsume bnt an inappreciablo part of the wholo supply. Evon in Mnssschusotts, ono of tho richost Statos in tho Union, thero'aro only 213,- 129 tx-payors in 205 towns, and 87,408 pny only a poll-tax ; while less than ono in 250 of tho pop- ulation of those towns, or only 2,611 persons, paid taxos on ovor £20,000 of proporty. In thoso towns Daving s population of 725,040, there wore 438 persons who paid over $1,000 taxes ; 9,173 ovor $300 aud less than §1,000; 8,918 be- tweon $100 and $300; 16,607 botween 50 and £100; 27,925 botweon 226 and 950; 40,188 ho- tweon$10and $25; and 88,767 botweon 8~ (poll- tax) aud' $10, tho averago rate being §1.43 to $100. 1t the ratio of the comparativoly woalthy i3 80 emall in ‘Mossachusetts, it must bo still smaller in the wholo country. Thus tho number of thoso whose consumption of food is Littlo affocted by chianges in the condition of tho laboring class is s0 ‘small, oven in tho rickost States, as to bave little offcot upon the aggro- gate consumption, Now tho woalth of tho country has been greatly increasod since 1860, and yot tho cou- sumption of food, in proportion to population, Luo uut inoroaand, but, ou thoe wholo, actnally decrensod. -From this fact, in viow of tho con- siderations alroady presented, but ono conclu- sion can be drawn : That the condition of the Inboring class in this country has dotoriorated since 1800. A conclusion 8o {mportant, snd tho facts upou whicl it ia based, roquires attontion in a soparato articlo. e — ‘WAREHOUSE LEGISLATION, Wo beg again to call the attention of tho Board of Trade to the necessity of taking somo aclion on the subject of hot corn. During the courso of this summer thoro may bo, say, 600,000 bishels of corn postod as hot, This posting may bo all honest, and the corn may bo just as it in posted, but o 1ong as corn can bo posted na hiot which i 10t Liot, or. not ot enough to hurt P A0 long as fraud is possiblo, and so long os it is remembered that falso posting of corn was once systematically praoticed for dishonest purposos, 80 ‘long will tho_improssion provail boyond tho city thet such posting is gonorally fraudulent, The man Iving 100 to 200 miles trom Chicago, who has in store horo 5,000 bush- ols of corn, gound when it went into store, natu- rally inclinos to the opinion, whon his corn is posted'as hot, that somobody s Iyibg. At all events, lio will say 80, - It will not do to tell him that such frands wero practiced by X and Y, who arono'longer in the business, aud that now warehousing is In tho hands of straightforward mon liko Hiram Wheeler ; tho owner of thocora fuils to sco'any reform in the businoss so loug as tho posting of corn continuos, % Ino grent public who sond their corn to Ohi- eago have a lively recolloction of tho fact that for soveral yoars thore was an effort to obtain logislation that would romoedy tho dofoots and ovils of tho warchiouso system, und that in this strugglo tho Board of Trado of Chicago wis not courageously on tho side of roform, and that what was accomplished, both in tho Legislature and in the Coustitution, wae done in spite of the enrnest offorts of a portion of the Uoard, So strong and vohoment woro the denials of fraud; and eo carnest tho offorts to maintain tho old systom, that it roquired tho disgracoful dis- closures of a fow yonrs later to silonco tho fulsitiors. Now, whethor the Chicago Board of Trado moves in tho mattor ‘or not, thoro is no doubt that the Legislature will take action on tho hot-corn business, What that nction will bo cannot now bo foroseon. Tho provaillng senti- ment among pooplo nob in the trado is, that; when & warchouso man receives corn in géod condition i storo, and destroys itu {dontity by mixing it with other corn, ho is bound to doliver to tho owner an equal amount of govd eorn, Tho common law raquiros from the waro houseman only ordinary eare and diligonea in proserving the proporty intrusted to him, in cases whero the property can bo {doutitled, 1t docs not proseribo the romady for loss In coyos whero tho particular proporty eannot bo fonnd, It is compotout for tho Legiulature to prosoribe el romedy, and the principlos of onuity will authorlzo the ownor to domand good corn in ovory cayo, unlosy tho warchousoman shall huvo takon all tho procsutions knowi to the trado to koop it in ng good condition a8 whon recoived, I'ho ropontod postings of hot corn in this city this summor; the notorious fact that the corn thus discredited was shipped to Duffalo, snd thore dricd aud old aa sound corn, at an oxpouye ot a'toty ‘contd ‘por " bushel, have mot falled to attract tho attontion of tho corn-producors. The indifforonce and non-action of the Ohieago Board of Trade, and tho insulting and overbonr- ing roports of its. committeos, have thoroughly satiuflod the ‘equntry, that ' turther logihlation in domandod to put an ond to such . an abuso. It would look bottor it tho Board wonld iteclt pro- pose such romedicsna nro needed to placo the wareliousing of corn on a liottor basla : but if {he Board will not o this, 1t will find tho Logislaturo spplylug romodion without, ‘ssking them any quostipus on tho subjoct, —— COMPARATIVE REWARDS OF INDUSTRY, Tho wenlth of the farmor doponds not only upon his roward na a laboror but upon his profits 08 a capitallast. Owning the Iand which he tills, the stock and implomenta employed in its oul- tivation, the farmer has & right to oxpect a ro- turn proportioned not only to the labor oxpond- od, but to the sum of monoy invested in land and stock, buildings and imploments. This is the roward of his industry, and corresponds to the ““not product” of tho manufacturer—to tho valuo of producta over tho cost of materials, From each tho producer has to pay tho wages of Inbor, whothor his own or that of others, the in- toreat on' money borrowed, and tho cost of ra- pairs, roplacomonta, and purchasos for extension of his buslnoss, . g Acoording to the consus of 1870, the entira value of products of tho farm, inoluding fm- provomonts of farms, was $2,447,588,189 in curroncy, or 1,847,891,687 in gold valuo. Tho number of porsons employed ' in agriculture was 5,922,471, and tho not product was therofora $312 in gold for each pergon thus omployod. But tho monoy invested waa, first, cash valuo of farms, gold valuo, £6,991,210,916 ; wocond, valuo of live stock (gold), $1,161,683,725 ; nnd third, valuo of implemonta and machinory (gold), $254,343,218; 80 that tho wholo sum thus invested, in gold valuo, was $8,897,149,853, or $1,417 for evory person omployed. Lot us suppose that tho caps ital omployed ia worth 7 por cent, then £812in 8old, tho yoarly valuo of product, pays $99.19,—7 por cont Intereat on 81,417 investod to oach porson owployed, and $212.83 over, from which must como the yoarly wages of onch peraon thus em- ployed, the ropaira, renowals, and replacomonts, and all profits shova actunl intercst on tho sum invostod. According to the same cousus, the net product of manufactures, value of raw matorinls used boing doducted from gross product, was 91,413,- 910,401 in gold. Tho number of persons em- ployed in manufactures, men, womon, and childron incladed, wag 2,707,421, and tho product was, thereforo, $531 to oach person. Tho amount of capital invosted, according to tho consus, was 81,715,780,196 in gold, or $630 for each porson omployed. - Soven por cont interent on this sum {8 $44.10 ; thero remains, theroforo, for tho wages of each person omployad, and for ropairs, ronewals, replacoments, and profita sbovo intorest, $176.90 in gold for oach porson omployed. Tho difforonco horo is atartling.. Agricaltnral Inbor, aftor paying futorest on capitel invostad, yields $212.83 to each person employed ; manu-~ facturiug labor, $£476,90 to cach person—moroe than twico as much, Of porsons employed in manufaotures, a con- siderablo numbor aro womon and childron. Not loss than 853,950 wero fomalos, and 49,979 males undor 15 years of sge. But, whilo moro than twice as many porsons are omplogod in agrioul- turo, only 96,968 of.thom are fomales, and 426, 831 aro malos undor 16 yoara of age. Oloarly, & much larger proportion of those employed in agrioulture have to support fawmilics ; but, if the proportion of persons supportod by both is the samo ag the proportion of porsons unom- ployed, according- to tho consus, to {tho wholo number of persons employod, name- ly, 2 80 to cach, tho average supply for oach porson supportediby manufactures, attor poying intorost on mouey investod, is $170 1n gold, and for each porson supported by agri- culturo, aftor payivg intorest on monoy investod, $76 in gold. Tho cost of living for each porson, man, woman, and child, in manufacturing towns in Massnohusetts, has beon sliown to bo about 182 in currency, and in Westorn towns, at tho fame rato of cousumption, about $126. It thus appears that the roturu of manufacturing Iabor, if oqually distributod, will support onch person omployed and thoso dependent on them, with some surplus, unless tho cost of renewsals, ro- pairs, and tho sum tuken for profits ovor iutor- o8t on capital is too largo, But tho entire sum renlized from agricultural labor, * after paying interest on capital, will not sufiico for tho bare cost of living of thoss employod and thoso do- "pondont on thom. Ouo of two things must bo truo; elthor thoy livo with painful economy, or tho returna of agrieulturo do 1ot pay 7 por cent on tho monoy invested. - It may Lo thought that tho uttor prostration of agriculturo’ ot the South ' caukos this dis- crepancy. In part it doos. Boparating values of products and property, and numbors of por- sons employed, we find that the farm laboriat the Bouth pays only $210 in gold to each porson employed, and to 3032 invostod, while farm labor a4 tho North finya 8312 to‘each parson employed, and to $2,241 invosted. Though the Northorn average is much higher than tho avorage for the wholo country, the contrastbotweon evon Northe ern agricultura and manufacture, as to profits of capital and rowards of Inbor, is atill startling ouough, . Tt waa ahows, fn rocant articles, that tho baro oost of food and clothing, rent, fuol, lights, and furbiture wag $110.93 for each pordon in labor- ing familics- in Massachusotts, and $103,02 in Iaboring familics In Wostorn towns conmuming tho same artioles, . Tho cost of food on thoe farm, it alwo nppearcd, was a little losa thon 90 to erich person, whorons to the consumor in manu-~ facturing towns at tho Enst it was $62.67, and ab tho Wost $09.44. Lot us auppose, thon, that the aotunl cost of Mving .for ench porson Bup- ported by farming is ouly $90 yoarly nt the Wost ani $76 yoarly at the Soutls, aud for each person supported by manufactures 8110 yoarly—no amusobionts or comforts inoluded In eithor cao, ‘This is cortainly moro than just t6 the manufac- turing sido, for itallowa for all poreons omployed in that industry the costof lving in the State whore living is most costly, eud for all Porsons employed in sgrioulture only the actual cost whore food fu the cheapest. The account then atands thuy Agrioulture, Routh, Agriculture, North. 101 Muunfacturcs, a3 TFurming at the South, after providing only $75 a year for tho pay and subylstenco of oach por- son supportoed, yielda only &6, or less that 1 per cont, for repalrs, renowals, aud intorest on @033 of capital investod to oach porson omployed. Farming at tho North, after providing only $90 o yoar for the pay and subsistonco of esch vorson supported—losy than the more pay of Inborors hirad, and loss than tho aotusl ayerngo 008t of Hving—ylolds only $101, or loss than 8 por cont, for repairn, ronowals, and interest on 92,241 of caplial inveatod for oach PorRon oms ployod. But manufacturing, attor providing $110 for tho subsistonce of oach porson supported,—juat what it conts in Inboring famitlos in tho State whoro living s most costly,—ylolds $a18, or 83 por cont, for repairs, ronowals, and profite of 8030 of capital invosted for each porson om- ployed. . ¢ Qlenrly, 1t is no wondor that agrioulture, ocon- Pying Linlf tho workera in the Iand, though it had socured thom 66 por cont of tho waslth of tho country in 1860, possersed only 87 por cont in 1870, But, then, *¢ tho tarift is & political ques- tlon, and the farmors ought by all moans to avoid it "1 BUNDAY.BEER CONBIN, The qulet City of Madigon, Wls,, usually os Plactd a8 tho urfaco of oue of its nolghboring Iakolots of & summor's day, bos beon ruffled by tho braoze that Is suro to grow out of o fondness for boor amoug a part of the community and a veneration for - Bunday laws among tho rost. The Madison Gormans have horotoforo onjoyed tholr Bundays and tholr Loor aftor their own fashion, and'they took the precaution, so it is aaid, that the prosent Mayor, Mr.J. 0. Qrogory, should givo thom a Pledgo boforo election not to intorforo with thom, Sunday statutes to tho con- trary notwithetanding, But Mr, Grogory weut away for o vacation, and Mr. Chandler P. Ohap- man wag sppointed Acting-Mayor. Mr. Olinpe man, it appoars, fa not fond of ‘boer on Bunday, or, it he is, Dboliovos that tho Bundsy law should bo onforced. Ono of hia first acte, thorefore, was to isauo a clreular to the saloon-keopors, calliug tholr ot~ tontion to the eity ordinanco and tho Btato statuto prohibiting the solling of liquor on Sun- day, and providing s s ponalty for violation fine not’ loss than 810 nor moro than £40, and imprisonment for not moro than thirty days nor loss than ono day. Acting-Mayor Chopinan basod his order upon his duty to enforce tho laws of the Stato and tho ordinnnces of the city within the corporation. The snloon-keopora mado the best of tho situntion tho next Sunday and shut up thoir plncos, with the oxception of ona porson, against whom an information was lodged withs tho Stato's-Attornoy, who will prose- cuto him'undor tho Stato law. Tho testimony of the State Journal is that Mndison hiad not on- Joyed so quiet and orderly a Bundey for yoars. During the week n Gorman circular ‘was feauod, colling a mass-mooting of * tho frionds of porsonal and constitutional liverty " to dis- cuss tho Acting-Yayor's order. Tho meeting was attonded almost exclusively by Gormans, and the proccodinga were conductad in the Gor- man Ianguage. The #poechos were condemna- tory of tho policy of roviving obsoloto statutes, and exprossive of the baliof that tho purposo of keeping the Sundny law on the books was simply to have n remedy at hand to’ uso in caso of pub- lic disturbance. Tho langusge used at the meoting waa temperato, and tho resolutions adoptod indieated o ‘vory difforent policy from that commonly chosep. Thoy sot forth that, na the Mayor could not monn by “tho enforce- mont of the Bunday laws"” an applica- tion to tho ealoons nlone, tho Gormans would uunite with him in seouring atrict obsory- anco of all its fonturcs, o was, therefore, re- questod to sorvo a notice similar to that sorved on the saloon-keepors, upon stoamboats, omni~ buecs, livery-stablos, soda-fountaing, hako-shops, cigar-stores; confoctionory and ice-cronm oatab- lishments, and all other business which has or- dinarily been conductod on Sundny. Tho State law, it ‘whould bo remembered, provides that *‘No person shall keop his shop, warehouse, or business, or work, excopt only works of neces~ eity and charity, or bo prosent at any dancing, or any publio diversion, show, or ontortainment, or tako part in any sport, game, or play on tho Lord's dny, commonly called Sunday.” Tho Gor- many mado the poiut that, it tho Acting-Mayor was coustrained to enforce the law against sa- loous by a sonse of duly to onforce all existing laws, 28 ho said, ho would also be anxious to carry out tho Bunday law in full, and would bo glad of their co-operation. Thoresolutions wero sent to tho Acting-Mayor, who acooptod thom with thenks for their proffered asgistanco, and voluutoered to make a number of the Germans apecial policomon, in ordor that their co-opera- tion might be the more efliciont, Dut Acting- Mayor Chapman did not distributo the circulars among tho business peoplo who aro in tho habit of keepiug their places open on Bunday, and did not tako any steps to onfores the law against thom a8 ngaiuat boor-selling, Mr. Chap- mon explained to a reportor . that he BAW. & distinction Dolwaon the Bunday law as applied to tiquor-solling and a8 applied to other pursuits, Though this dis- tinction may Lo well-founded, Mr. Obapman had ovidently forgotten that ho hnd told tho saloon- keopora ho was onforcing the lnw simply becauso it was his duty to enforco all tho Inwa. On this ground the Gormans cortainly had n good poiut agaluet the Acting-Mayor, Taking advantago of it atn maoting whicls thoy hold last Friduy, thoy withdrow thelr proforrad assistance, and accusod Mr. Chapmau of carrying out his in- dividual projudicos, instond of impartially on- forcing the laws as thoy stand on the books. Tho meoting then abandoned their first position, and votod that tho saloons should be kopt opon aud beor sold on Bundays the samo as other days, rogardless of the law and the uotico of tho Acting-Muyor. ‘This waa the flrst intimation of open resistanco. Yestorday was the. first Bun- day aftor tho now resolutions, and the dis- patohes of thiy morning will probably tell the Teault, ‘Thoro ja nothing now in this controvorsy to Chioago peoplo. Wo have had the beer quostion aud tho Bunday quostion protty thoroughly dis- cugsed within the past fow months, and arelikely to lioar considorably more of it bofore it Ia sot- tlod. Who Madison Gormans mado a mistake in abandoning thoir first position, which was a good oune, in viow of the Acting-Mayor's ane uouncomeant that thoe law roquired him to enforco all tho statulos and ordinnucos, Tholr daclara- tlou to opeuly vialate the law is no more do- fongble than n similar announcoment from any other elnss of poople in rogard to any othor law, Tho Gorman opposition {o tho Bunday law, hiow- ovor, is likely to oxtond throughout the Stato, Tho Madison Gormans have joined hands with the Milwaukoo Gormans in what ks called tho Amor~ ican Constitutional Union,” ywhoso purposo is to opposo tho Suuduy law, If tho Gormans do this through thoir votos, and observe tho lny until it 14 ropenled, thoy will moroly oxorolao thoirrights, and will securo greator sympathy among tho peo- Plo than if thoy pursuo the opposito courso, Wo havo alroady noticed the fact {hnt tho Privato Bocrotary of tho Kiug of Blam hag yrit- workhonso, or shall do any msuner of labor, or.| fo ton a lottor sovorely commonting upon tho re« cont work publishod ‘liy Mrs. Loonowens, on Tarom Lifo.nt¥lie Court of:Sism. Mra, Loon. owone in turn hns ropliod to thoBocrotary, and in hor communication, printed In the Doston Ade vertisor, oxprossns .no Rurpriso ot the con- tents of ., tho Becrotary's lottor, and statos that boforo sho loft Biam 8ho was threatoned with tho hontility of the chiof officors of tho Government, and tho with- holding of tho honorarium- left hor and Lor How by tho late King, if sho published a lino con- corning Court life in that country, Mre, Loon- Oowens says, furthormoro; that thoso who doubt the trath of hor statomonts would do well to ry & fow yoara of sojourn within tho walls of Bangkok, *and thon thoy will not only b forced to admit by actual exporionce tho strict integrity whioh charaoterizos my skotches of Biameso 1ife, mannors, customs, and praoticen, b‘,’t be led to wondor how any woman with head and brain could havo prosorved hor renson undor such complicatod and torriflo aspects and con- ditions of hifo.” The Paris Figaro is diaplaying romarkablo ona torpriso just at prosent in collocting Americnm nows. Ithaa mstonisbiod the Parisiana on twa occaslons racently, Tirst, it drow a torrible Ppic~ turo of the oporations of a band of assaEsing which infosted tho Blate of Now Hampshize. All thoir victims had the samo mark, the sover< Ing of tho cavotid artery. Onco tho polico cama, suddonly upon the band, but the members fled and rau throngh the town at full 8poced, paga~ ing n phiotographic gallery in thoir flight. The photographer at onco turned his Tourn upon thom and had all their photographs in & twinkling. Tho noxt morning thoy wera rocog- pizod aa residonts of tho town, and woro all ar~ rostad. Tho socond story of the Figaro was about an American millionairo who packed hig fatbor in a pork barrel in ordor to mond him home 88 froight, and save the prico of passage demandod for a corpso. This sort of stufl hag mado o great sonsation in Paris, and is getting np a lively roputation for the American visitors, Having succeadod so woll with the flrat two yarns, wo may look for still more startling nar- ratives from this entorprising shoot A Matamoras mowspaporreports a recont mas~ sacront tho townof Zaragoza, which compares imy kind and horror, if not in oxtont, with thoSt, Bar- tholomew Massncre of old, About thirty Proteat- antywore assemblod for ‘public worahip, whon the door of their meoting-houso was broken opon by on armed mob, who killed ono mnn ontrighat,’ mortally wounded two othors, and heat and routed the rost. Tho women wore malireated and violated. ‘he worst featuro of tho cass is, that tho Govornment of Puebla has taken no moasures for approhending or punishing the sesausing, aud the statoment is madoe that tha Protostants have boon rofused protection at the Lands of the poli ——— NOTES AND OPINION. Tho Ohio Constitutioual Convention (Ropub- lican), which assemblod May 18 and adjourned Aug. 8, for a recoss to Deo. 2, bas completed na part of its work, but bas used up $62,781 of an appropriation of £65,000 intondod to covor allity, exponsas, —Tho Minneapolis Tribune, one of tho Fort Buolliug ring, says : Tho contract was oxecuted before the Republicar party camo into powor, and, as the Constitution forbida the smpairment of the obligation of contracis. thof purty Jelt compelled to ratify the contrnt roc eliver the lunid to Mr, Btoelo 08 had beon sgreed, This soeing to ua tho correct thing, unlcss tho Government chooses to ralsa tho banner of ropudlation, Tho Hartford Courant (Josoph R. Hawley) considers the subjoot in amore serious light, and says: It 18 oyident that tho action of Secretary Belknap In sottling tho long disputod elaima for the Fort Sneil ing Renervation hsa made himeolf lablo to suvern orlticlam, which ho i4 rocolving alike frow friond andt e o o+ The revolations of lnst wintor make ua Inindful that tho most trusted and Lonored men niny y thelr trusta ; but it is nos right, becauso of the nd_misdoods of the fow, to'give up all faitly in human virtue, The futuro may show that Gen, Bolknop has been deceived and haa thereforo acted mistakenly, ) ~—Tho Des Moines Leader says of tho canvasa. to bo iuaugurated this wook, in Iows, by a Btata Convention : ' Tho county and Joeal Conventions held thronghout tho Stato, thiss far, in overy instance, bavo pasacd ro- solutions making the abandonmont of prosent partiom 8 noceusity for tho accomplishmont of reform. This will be tho entiment of tho Couvention which will aspemiblo as an Ant{-Monopoly Convontion, Whethen or not the roprosentation will boof such a character oa to givo Impulso to tho formation of n naw party ree mains to bo seon., The delegates chosen in the various. countied are mado up principally of farmers aud cne tiroly of men \ho bave lind hitlo to do in politics, The disaifectlon which ox{ste throughout tho tata Is stichh that if harmonized inio an activo, vigilant organizes tion, it must mova to victory, ~—The Dubuquo Telegraph says tho Demo- oratio party i “not dead but stopped living.” Itadds: . Who will fight to got back to the peopla what e longs to them ? Not tho Domocratic” party as sucl, Dbut Democrats and Republicaus who ore opposod to despotlan, and who uroin earneat in their bellef of, freo governuicnt, aud in their right to possess it, —1he Iowa Democrats havo protty nearly, nuanimously conoluded that their party sloopa the slaop that knows no waking, aud thoreforo will not put & ticket in the fleld this year.—s&t. Louis Republican, —I'ho disnppearanco of the Domocratic arty would broak in rudely upon the ologant leisura of the Ropublicans. -~ As an adversary the Domo- oratio party is an *‘amoozin littlo cuss,"—Cin- cinna’s Commercial. —Offico-holders and professional politicians cannot startlo tho poople any longer by calling up tho ghost of tho Democracy. ~Fhat trick 11 pf;yod out. Tho poople ara thinking for them- f0lv0s, and thoy kow that this ory against Doms ocrats is only ralsed to keop up tho projudicon of old, 'he Grant party in losing tho bost of ita followers, sud no powor on earth can prevent tho defection.—Lawrenco (Kan.) Standard. —LPartisens in both runks ‘cannot bo brought t0 aoo that old party politios huve no longor tuyg forco on the popular mind. ‘Cho error of thi rocont political domonstrations in Olio sooms to bo this ignoring of the now state of mind inta which groet bodioa of both partics have fallon,— Indianapolis Sentinel, —Thoughtfal mou of all political parties nre hoping for thoe formation of n party whoso no- blo mission and aim shall bo to restrict govern- ment toits froo function—to interforo aslittle a8 consistont with the good of the wholo, with the frecdom of the individual citizen,—Aew Bed- Jord (Mass.) Mevcury. 3 —Xvorywhere tho politicinn asaumes to bo the Fnupla‘ aud by admitting the assumption ho . pooplo nre lod to believe that thoy are respousiblo for the -rascality of the politi= olnng. In asonso thoy are, but il ls.becanse thoy gubmit to tho politician st firat and ther complain of him aftorward. _Juat now, tha AL point of ausault is the political mncl,mmry.‘ and that ought to. bo brokion up.—Aeiw York * i ing Post, go bnok on ¥y record, of the organa: —Uan Masnnchusetts and throw asido its well oarned TOpUtation ag the oxpouont of what is honoat in politicg, for what it can oxpoot of Gon. Butlor a3 tha eray of v litieal hangers-on that will coma into power with him ?—Vorthampton {.Vas.-.) Gazctty, —lho City of Philudolpitia in beginning to roalizo the consoquenco of dynastic adminintra~ tion In ovory doparimont of ita alTaire. iro s, and womon of the “Ring " help thomselves out, of tho City Trersury, and escape prosoention. 1n tho Recordor of Deed's oflico, practicos haves been discovered that shake the socurity of titlos to roul estate. Yet whon a large number of tho. most rospeotable convoyanoom of this olty doe. olurod ovor thoir own wiguaturan that the bis- nesa of tho Rocorder of Dood's oftlco whe k- couductoed, evory Radloal journal Jolned in the ery that it was™opposition caluniny."—Phila~ delphia Age. —Tho Ropublionn press ara very ansions to ignora the subjoot of corruption existing in their l’“‘i" As 8 gouoral thing thoy ara diuposed to ront tho matior with lovity," to sot asido the oplnions of good mon, and folst upon the pub- lic mind all mannor of exousoa for the short- comings af the publio sorvants. . . . , Thera is ovidouco of not only a **doop thinking but pro~. barationo for active oporationa that will causg