Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 28, 1873, Page 8

8 1HE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, i873. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, ATRME OF SUBSONIPTION &FA}A‘II.I 18 ADVAXOR). () | Bundn Palbrogontcerr S1E00| Wesky Thrts of o yoar at the snmo rato, To provont dolay and mistakes, ba suro and glve Post Of co address in full, including ttato and County, Rorittancon tany bo mado oither by draft, oxpross, Post Oftioo urdar, or i rogistored lottorn, at our risk. TRRMA 0 OITY AUDACHINENS. Dafly, delisorod, Sunday oscopted. % conte por wook. Dally, acllvored, Sunday includod, %0 sents por wook, Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Coruer Madison and Doncborn-sts.. Ghlcago, 1il. DUSINESS NOTICES, TTERV—WE SOLD THI 8500,000 IN A AN denwing ADELE, Chitings Shnts i Bt v . 1 NATERNLZ & CO.y 10 Wall'stey P, 0, Tox 4,65, Now York The Chicags Tribune, Sunday Morning, Septombor 28, 1873. THE BUSPENDED BANKS. The banks that have actuslly closed their 300rs owa it to thoir depositors and to the pub- 1io oithior to reopon forthwith or go into volun- tary liquidatlon at onco, undor the procees pro- vided bytho National Curroncy sot. If thoy nogloct to do 8o, it fa tho duty of tho Comptroller of the Curreucy to put thom in tho hands of & Reeeiver. It is propor that tho interests of thelr oraditors should bo protected, aud it is for tho publie good that tholr nssots should beturned out ns speodily as is practicable, If they really cannot roopon, tho beiter way out of tholr ombarrassmonts fs a formal notice of vol- untary Jiquidation, This will cnable them, undor the law, ta turn’over to tho dopositors their just proportion of tho currency on hand, ond as many of tho Dills recolvable and con- vortiblo assots as mocossary. Mr. Holmes, of tho Manutacturers' National, is tho only ono of tho suspended baukors who has anunouncod the Intontion of adopting this courso, The othors should loso no time in coming to some dacielon, Tho Union Bank closod, according to its own statomont, with $600,000 curroncy in the vaults, 800,000 0f Enstorn exchango, whichisfalling duo from dn‘v to day, and collaterals on maturing notes which may bo converted into cash, Tho ‘Union Bavk has no right, logal or moral, to with- hold this Jargo amount of money from the pub- lic at such a timo as this, and much less from tho dopositors whom it owes. If thero wasa necossity to. suspend businoss, thon it becamo proper, st the same time, to adopt tho read- jost means for ‘turning out to dopositors ‘tho ensh oud negotisblo nssots om hand. What is-true of this caso is equally true of all the others. Time enough will Lavo elapsed by-3fop- day todecide whether s resumption is posalblo. The whole secret of tho financial distress in Chicago aud tho West ig_the lock-up of tho cur- rency. Wo havo not been romies in opstigating tho cowardly dopositors who have mado & dis- gracoful geramblo for currency to stow away in pafoty deposits and privato vaults, When half a fozen banks close, and thuskeep an aggregate of pne to two millions of money out of tho mar- ket st this time, we approhond that ‘& large shinto of tho biame must bo transferred to thoir shoulders. If this largo amount of money 18 to bo locked up in the vaulta of bankers who ore doing no business, it doos nobody sny good. Tt cannot relieve the banks, nor the morchants, nor the grain-dealers. It should come out. If the suspended bauks do not voluntarily adopt the mcaus provided by law for just such n cons tingency, the depositurs will undoubtedly take atops to havo them placed in the hands of s Re- zoiver. This becomea thoduty of tho Comptroller of the Currency upon the application of any ored~ itor who fails to receive his moncy on demand, Tho depositors have a right to reprosentation and protectfon. In the presont condition of the suspended banks, tho intercsts of the ercditors aro entiroly in tho hands of the debtors. If tho suspended banks are actually solvent, as thoy all claim to be and as we beljeve thoy aro, tbis procoss will ecmable them to save their chartors and porhaps their capital. They will then bo in condition to reaume busi- nese with restored confidonco. If any of them aro not solvent, it will still bo better for thom to eavo the oxponso and delay of a Recoivership, and escapo the improcations which such expense and procrastination will bo sure to bring down: upon them. Every bankor who is not in a condi- tion to resume to-morrow morning can do his elivro toward rellaving the distress by giving notico of voluntary liquidation, aud turning out his assets as fast as possible, — | THE MEN FOR THE CRISIS, It is not unlikely thata spocinl sesslon of ‘back-pay and forward-pay Congressmen will be called to take action on the financial erisis, In snch an ovent, who will reprosent us? Whoso skulls will be tappod to furnish the wisdom thet is to bring business into smooth waters sgain ? To begin with, wo hayo Logan, and Ogleaby, and J, D. Ward, andJohn B. Rico, and Qharley Farwell, Bofore them will coma guostions like theso: Bhall moro groenbacke bo issued, or shall ateps bo taken to rostoro epecie payments? Bhall the protective tariff bo ropealed, or shall moro pro- tection bo piled upon what we nowhave 7 Shall groenbacks be funded into bonds, or shall ‘bonds be converted into grecnbacks? ste,, eoto, Without meaning to be ex- icting on our Nopresentatives, we venture to 1ay that not one of them evor rond a work on political economy in tholr livos, if indeed thoy over opened one. Thoy wera voluble cnough in the lnst campaign in telling how tho clection of Greeloy would bring on a financlal crisis, The ouly fault with Groeloy was, that ho hind urged long ago, nnd with yvehemonco, & rostoration of specio paymonts 08 & moans of chacking profli- gacy and speoulation, Opposed to him on this fssuo woro the Jay Cookés, and Honry Clewses, and Boutwells, and Logens, and Oglesbys, and all tho windbnga in the country, who ne- sured us that Grant was the ominently safe mul;, and tho only thing that could avert a finnnoial orisis, Thoy even mado Grant beliovo it him- solf. Now, we aro not 80 foolish as to fanoy that tho election of Gracloy would lnve avertod this sripie, It would have mnde no difference, o said so at tho timo. Tho eceds of disaster had alroady beon’ sown, snd they were suro to spring up.. The Ad- ainiatration is largely responsiblo for what Jiss ‘happened, in awarding ita prestigo to suoch moon- hine operators as Jay Cooke and Henry Clews, 4hus enabling them to trado and speculate on tho confldence of tho country. DBut thisisno timo for fault-flnding. Wo only insist ihat all theso *omingntly enfo” men shall | come to the front, accopt tholr respone aibilitios, and foll us their way out of the miro. Thoy wero ochock-full of finanolal wisdom twelve months ago. Now, lot us soo what their patent contrivanco is, Don't lanturaua about tho boya in bluo, but tell us " applicable to panica. about the ladics in greon. Thero is ex-Sooro- tary Boutwell, soon to take his mont in the Unltod Btatos Benato. It {a au oxlom of this stunning finanolor,~—thia American Vansittart,— that “Thore is no such thiug as a sclonce of po+ litienl coonomy.” When he opons his mouth in public dobate, will hio bo good enough to sny whother thero ia any such thing as selenco; whether thoro sro any such things in this world a8 facts? Bolouco, whothor of political economy, or chemistry, or geology, or what not, consiats in nothing olgo than the collootion, observation, and arrangoment of facts. If Mr. Boutwoll will tell us that thore aro no facls rogarding monoy, trado, industry, banks, gold, shinplastors, dobt, and credit, woshinll bo ablo to know what ho moans, sud Logan and Oglosby will bo on hand to rofuto him, THE LESSON FOR THE DAY, This blessod dny of our Lord being n day of rost, and sot apart for sorious reflection, it is propor that all mon shonld ehut ont the world with its flooting showa from their thoughts, and concontrate thom upon tho futurs stato and its otornal roslitios, Thero sro no chocks to bo drawn to-day, no doposits to be made, no drafts tobe protested, no whoat to buy or soll, no bnnks to burst, no notos to cancol or renow. Tho whole orazy financlal mechine comes to s stand-still, and the whoels, which have beon running all out of gosr, with tho boiler st the bursting-point, stop thelr eccontrio rovolutions, The noiso, and bustle, and fury and ineanity of tho Exchaugos, the Chambers of Commerco, and the stroets are hushed, and the holy penco of the Sabbath morning braods upon evorything liko a dove. Upon such an oceasion, therefors, it i3 meot that man should give him- solf up to devout thought and solitary ronding and meditation, and banish the world far from bim, that it may not disturb tho holy peace. To furthor this end wo havo to suggost that ‘bankors anddepositors, gold-gamblers and wheat~ _spoculators nnd corn-cornerers, note-holders and note-payors, and all mon who havo money in tho bank, should rost thoir weary brains and calm tholr porturbod spirits by quict porusal of the Sserod Scriptures. Tho unfortunate soul who is sore oppressed and knows not which woy to turn from his financial oppressors will find it writton: #Thero the wicked conse from troubling and the wonry are at rest,” aud ho can tako this consolation to himsolf : that therv'is ono place whero the banks never break. If ho has six notes coming duo on Mondny, ho will find i thero recorded: ‘Ho shnll doliver fheo in six troubles; yos, insovon, thoro shallno svil touch theo.” Thoso whose nights have hoon rostloss, and who havo tossod to and fro until day-break, will find aweot comfort in these thoughts s My days aro swiftor than a weavor's shuttle, and aro spent withouthope, Q, remom- bor that my lifo is but wind. Iloatheit, I would " not live slway; lot mo alone, for my days are but vauity.” A careful study of Job,. who was worse -off than any Obicago depositor, will show that tho old patriarch lad much sound philosophy whore- with to consolo himsolf, aud we commend to thoso who aro troubled sbout thelr moneys, his ominontly seneiblo romark : **If I havo made gold my hopo, or have said to the fine gold ¢ Thou art my confidenge’ ; if I rejoiced because my woulth was great, and booausp mine hand had gotten much, thia wore an Iniquity to be punished by the Judge.” Above all, it is nec- ensary that man should have a realizing eonso of his littlencss, and no longer utter vain knowl- cdgo, or fill his belly with tho cnst wind, He phould understand that * Man that is born of & woman is of fow days and full of troublo ;"' that 1ip cannot draw out s loviatban with a hook, or give goodly wings to thé peacock, or bind the ubicorn with his band in the furrow ; and all this he will clenrly comprehend by studying the Holy Bcriptures, As a climax' to the Scriptural losson of thodsy Lo can fako to bimself that healing balm: “Loy not up trensures on oarth, whero moth and rust corrupt, and thioves break through and stonl” ‘The Scriptures aro full of consolations for every man in the present prisls. Having closod the Holy Bopk, ho may turn fo tho dislognes of Plato and find much wisdom Marcus Aureliug will spt- Isfy him that everything in this world is a vapor, oxcopt virtuo,” Epictotus will show him tuat these things aro not evils, bug only the view we toke of thom, and that the man who has noth- ing but a skillet and .o stono lamp is well off, if ho only thinksso. Out of tho mouths of old sages - and henthen philosophors, who had tested all tho vanities of the world, howill find how unsubsiantisl and hollow tho world {s, after sll. The modern philosophers also ean comfort him, and Behopenliauer's Pos- simistio Philosophy will convince Lim that the worst is tho best, and othor transcendontalists stand ready to prove to him that thoro {8 no such tblng‘m & panio ; that tho pooplo are only run- ning to and fro imagining & vain thing; and that what ho thinks is a soro misfortune is only o fresk of the Imagination, which has no exist~ onco at all, By such a course of reading 38 wo have indi- cated abovo, by calm roflection upon tho things of etornity, by keoping cool and lotting tho hair grow, by cating threo good, squaroc meals, by going to church and listening to tho ministor, by taking s quiet walkk this evening and admirlng tho starry heavens, by going to bod eprly and by lotting banks, and drafis, =nd notes, and currency, and the other vain things of oarth talo care of thomsolves until to-morrow, there is no doubt that overy man will wake up to-morrow morn- ing rofrosliod, calm, consolod, and with alovel hoad on bis shoulders. The ono grest neod of the hounr is cooluess, and there I8 no botter re- olpo for coolnoss than tho course of roading sud ‘meditation wo bave suggosted ; and thore is no better time for it than this blessed Sabbath day. Tho reported dofaloation of tho Pittsburgh Poatmaster, John H, Stowart, {8 an indication that all exieting swindlos will be apt to come to the surfaco about theso dsys. It is a good time for dofaulters, The ineignificgnco of compara~ tivoly petty etoals is overwhelmed by tbe groator misfortuno which eppresses the publio, and the officlpl scoundrels and botrayors of trust, both public and private, will escape the promi- nont attention which thoy might oxpect to command at poother timo. As an instanco of this, wo may mont{on that Mr, Harpoy’s caso hns disappeared altogothor out of public ponslder~ ation, and Oarloton, tho dofaulting Onshier of tho Unlon Trust Company in Now York, though homade way with 400,000 or ©500,000, isno. longor montionod. A atill more unfortunato eoloment of tho prosont panio 18 tho encourage-.| meont it I8 Nkely to hold out for now swindles’| under tho hope that they will bo undiscov- ored in the genoral moloo of suspensions aud failpros, Tho utter demoralization of a pans by fo 1s apt to euggost to men, whoso thoughts swould never tako such ndiroction at other timos, that overybody is taking caro of himsclf, and that ono shiould mako the most of his opportu- nities, It will bo nccossary to have a genoral sottling dny, oftor tho storm has ‘blown over, which' shell includo tho moral sa woll ss tho | financial delinquents. THE RAILROADS, . Bhiould tho prosont financial distrust continue- its offecta will spoedily bo felt in overy house- hold in tho land, cspeolally in the country. A modorato influx of cnrrency, and resumption by tho banks, will afford only partial relof, Evon » roturn to tho business transac tions of Ilast month would not avert tho inconvenionco and suffering now inovitablo, Not less than eight of our Chicago railways woro hoavily engagoed in worke of construction, Tho Lako Shoro & Michigan Central were laying dou- Dblo tracks, malnly of steel, to facilitate thomovos mont of our oxchanges with tho East. The Burlington, Rock Island, Alton, and Northwost~ ern woroe also putting down largo quantities of stool rall, and porfeoting their magnificont sya- toms of ronds, Tho Illinoia Contral was asslate ing tho Bouthorn Raflroad Assooiation to form on all-rail routo botweon Chicago aud Now Or- loans, and goveral companios weoro ondoavor- ing to bring coal much cheaper to Chicago. All thoso . improvements woro greatly noeded, and would have inured to tho public bonofit, They would have facilitatod transportation, ren- dored travel safor, and living cheaper. Tho progress will go no farthor. 'Tho mandate hné gono forth to retronch. One railway company in this olty has dischargod 776 mon this woek, and in o fow days will dismiss 260 moro. Theso mon woro all ongaged upon construction work. The train force hns scarcely been touchod, but the falling off in trafflo will necossitato numorous roductions, The same rigorous oconomy will provail in tho machine shops. BSingle mon will go first, and overy coffort be mado to rotain the mon having familios dopendent up- on them, Wages will bocut down correspond- ingly, and tho mon bo put on cight Lours’ timo ; and, if deomod necossary, the time will be fur- thier lossened one-half in order to rotain a largor mumber atd afford thom a bare chanco of earn- ing a subsistonce. In this way, this one Com- ‘pany oxpocts to losson ite pay-rolls filly 2,000, Should the other compnnies bo reduced to tho same dire necossity,—and all baving unsalable bonds on tho market certaiuly will,—a vast por< tion of our hitherto consuming population will be forcod to half rations, This serious viow of tho quostion did not occur to the men whoso violent outcries ngainst the corporations havo procipitatod the dissstrous ro- sult. It was not altogether unexpected, Prom- inont rnilroad mon who nogotiate with foreign capitalists forosaw tho crisis. But they wore poworless to avert it. Thoy had no means of roaching the people to warn them of tho dangor. Only the hoarse ery, * Down with monopolies! " could gain tho popular ear. Tho multitudy caught up the shout, and, accompauying it with fierco domonstrations, sont it across tho soa, un- il capitaliats, who woroe ready and able to ad-. vance the monoy tho Wost needs and must have for its dovelopment, shrank from touching so- curitios which tho smbition of domagogues conld at any moment render valuecless. ‘Woro tho railroads the only sufforers, the dis- aster would not be so grievous; but, in their paralypis, o wide-spreading industry is affected. ‘The locomotive works in tho Fast are dismissing |- mon by tho hundreds, and car-shops will bo forced into similar economy, Rolling-mills and iron-furnaces will also bo houvy losers. These havo grown into giant proportions in our midst, The pay-roll of one Chicago mill averages 00,000 mouthly, nud it is ot tho lnrgest con- corn. Thoy are all full of orders for somo wecks to como, but tho prospect of a continued busy ecason is not promising. Iron and lumber firms will suffer to o greator or lessor de- gree, and ovory branch of trade will have o bear its ghare of the pinck. The result of the conflict 18, that the farmer, with bins full of grain, is taking tho bread out of the working- man's mouth, and forcolosing the mortgago on his own farm, The ful] remedy lies in education and en- lightenment. When (ho peoplo can Do brought to sce that eapital will not seok Westorn iuvest- ments unless assurel of safoty, thoy will conso threatenings and logislation that wall us in from $ho only mon financially ablo to carry through our moat needed ontorpriscs, When the rail- roads, on tho other hand, Jearn how to avoid ox- nsporating the farmers, thoy, too, will ba wjsor, Tho Wost is boundiess in rosources, which re- main comparatively unavailablo, simply bocsuse thero is not, and never was, money enough horoe to dovolop thom, Europo can supply our.de- mands, and - will, rendily and fully, whenevor? convinced that the inyestment s enfo. OUR POPULATION IN 1800, Mr. Fraucis A, Walkor, tho Buperintondont of the Ninth Census, discussos in the current num- Lor of the Atlantio Monthly the probable popu- lation of tho United Btates in the year 1000, Not tho loast intoresting fenture of his essny 18 tho comparison of tho predictions mado by somo of his prodecossors with the actual results o8 -ag- gortained by tho mnccessivo conausos that have been tpken. . Mr. Elkangh Watson, in 1815, undertook to forocnst the populution of tho cauntry for tho soveral decades from his timo on to the ond of tho contury, Thefive suc- cooding census roports vorified his prodistions with sygh remarkablo accuracy that many poo- plo began to look upon him ns an oraclo, or.credit him with clairvoyaut ‘powers, Mr, Watson's mothod was vory simplo, however ; it waa noth-~ ing moro nor less than tho application of tho # Tulo of Three,” taking the atlo of ineroaso from tho first consus of 1700 to his own timo a8 the standard of comparison. OQn this basfs, ko caloulatod that thero would bo sowothing ovor 100,000,000 souls 'Ih, tho Unitod Btatos in 1000, Tor 1620, 1830, 1640, 1860, and 1800, Mr. Watson'n caloulation came within a few thousands, ono way or tho othar, of tho actunl population of those years, Mr, Walker pointe out that this approximation of Mr, Wat-" son's was altogotlior fortuitous, If nullification 1iad succeeded in 1833, ps was possiblo, Mr, Wat- son's estimpte for 1840 wounld not Liave boon ro- alized; had not ie potato crop fafled in Troland in 1840-'7, tho ostlmato for 1850 would have tallon short; snd if it'hed pobt beon for the accoloration of Gorman emigrajion 1860 and 1854, Mr, Watson would not have: como within s million of the resl popu- Intlon of 1860, Aftor thjs, Mr, Watso's luok 88 a caleulator fafled, I8 figures fer 1370 were not verified by some four millions, Mr, DeBow, Buperintondent of the Seventh Consus, and Mr. Koninody, Superintondont of tho Elglith Consua, followed in tho footsteps of Mr, Wat- sony aud, practically adootivg bis method of caleulntion, without nny ostimato of tho national disturbancos likely to intorvono, arrived nt tho gomip conclusion, Mr, DeBow found tho pro- grosslon foraix docndos Liad boon n avorago gain of about one-thitd for every ton years, aud on this basls set tho populntion for the yonr 1100 at 100,837,408, ox but n fow thouennds lowor tlion Mr. Watson's ostimato, Tho consus’ for 1870 was nearly as hard on Mr, DeBow as on Mr, Watson, . In ono cago, tho ninth consus fell short about 4,266,355 ; in tho othor, 8,770,001, Evon if Mr. Wulker woro not shrowd eonongh to forcaco tho likolihood of materinl disturbanacs in tho growth of population, tho disappointmonts attondant upon tho caloulation of his prodeces- sora would have taught Lim to bo- ohary of any abaoluto systom of caleulating perspoolive popu- Iatlon. Ilo ndmita that any plan of caloulations’ that could bo adopted Is fallacious and apt to bo rovoraed by influences that cannot bo determined inadvanco, Tho falling off in tho ratio of in- cronso botweon 1800 and 1870, however, furnishes somo bpsis for estimating tho probable docrenso during tho noxt thirty yonrs of tho ratio, which romained about tho samo for tho iiret sovonty yonrs of our Gevernmont, The increase from 1860 to 1870 was mbout 4,000,000 losa thnn it would have beon had the proceding ratio held good. Of this, o loss of 1,705,000 is dircctly at- tributod to the War of tho Robollion. That is, Mr. Walker cstimates this number to be tho direct losses by wounds or discnses, turough tho rotardation of incrense in the col- ored population by reason of privations, ox- posiires, and excesson incidont to o chsngo of condition, and tho chock given to immigration by tho existonco of war. To this must bo added tho roduction of tho birth-rate by tho withdrawal of sble-bodiod men from thoir homes, which, by on intoresting process, Mr. Walkor cstimates to Davo boon about 750,000, Togethor, thon, the war caunot acoount for n decroase of more than 2,600,000 out of tho total loss of 4,000,000 in tho ratio of progrossion. Tho other 1,600,000 that *turned up missing " must bo chargod to various influcnces that are likely to Increaso within tho noxt thirty years, Among theso aro the changes from sgricultural life to mantifacturing pursults, from country to town; from simplo habits to tho fashion of foreign lifo. Thoso changes will be more deoided than ovor beforo from now on. Mr. Wn.;kor saya: As tho lino of ngricultural occupation draws cloger 10 tho great barren plains ; as tho oldor Westorn States change more and more to- manufacturcs and to come mereo; na tho manufacturing ond commorclnl coms _munitics of tho East become compacted ; as the wholo population tends fncreasiugly to fashion’ and soclal observance ; as dlet, dress, and equipago become moro and moro ortificial and s tha. dolestable Amerlean vieo of * boarding,” making children traly # incum- brances," and uprooting the anclont and honored in- stitutions of tho famfly, oxtonds from city o city and from villago to villago,—it {8 not to Lo doubled- that wo slill noto o stoady decline in the rate of the nationsl fucreaso from decado fo decado. But it would bo meroly an attempt atimposturo to assumo that numer~ feal data oxist for detormining, within eight or ton'or twelvo millions, tho population of the country thirty years from the dato of the last census, ¥ . Without undertaking absolutely to dotorming tho now rato that shall bo substituted for the old rato of increaso, ho hnzards the assertion that tho bost of good fortune will hardly carry .tho population of the country beyond 975,000,000 by tho close of tha contury. Curious porgons may use Mr, Walker's con- sorvative estimate to forecast tho probable pop- ulation of Chicago in 1900. The population of Chicago in 1860 was something over 109,000 ; in 1870, it was, acoording to the Unitod Blates con- sus, about 800,000, This is o ratio of increaso of sbout 200 por cent. Tho ratio of incronse in tho population of tho United Btates waa 83 per cont prior to tho taking of tho last consus, The population of the country is now 40,000,000, in round numbers. AMr. Walkor, with superior facilitios for making the ealculation, cstimates that tho population of tha couritry will bo 75,000, 000 in tho year 1000. As the wholo thing is pure guosawork, there is rocom for any amountof speculation on the subject. THE KELSEY OASE, The Kelsoy murder, at Huntmgton, Long Tsl- and, promises to bo one of tho most interesting, and, at the samo timo, curious, casos which bos over come boforp the criminal courta of this country. It has alrcady attracted as much at- tontion as the Colt or Webster murdor, and has doveloped from o local event into ong of such comprohensive importance as to attract tho comments and thoories of all the law jour- nuls and noary all .tho leading papors of tho country, At Huntington, the affair has com- plotely rovolutlonized soolety, * Tt hos’ arrayed ono half the town against the other, in tho most bittor manner, and bas even ontered into polities, and bocomo a localism. 5 Tho px‘lnclpnl figure in tho supposed tragody fs Oharjos @. Kolsoy, who was a.rosjdont of: Huntington, and the oventa which have transe spired, whothor they aro comedy, farce,. or tragedy, grew out of his relations with one Julia Smith,’ o gohool-girl, to whom le peralsted jn poying his nddrosses, which were dlstastoful both to horsolt and to hor rolatives. Aftor sho hnd sopolled im, hp continued sending hor lot- tors, which slie finally consed taking from tho Tost-Oflico. Mo kept on writing, howover, until tho office was flooded with them, some of them being writton in the form of o ro- manco, in which ho and Miss Bmith woro tho horo and horofno. Aftor the réjection of his sult, gomo of the lottors woro addressed to Lior aunt, and in them ho insinuated somo stato- monts caloulated to direct suspiolons ngainat tho charactor of hor nioce,~the writor evidontly thinking thgt thero might bo & probabjlity of ob- talning hor if ho- could projudico ‘tho family ngoinat hor. At Jast, ho sont the followjng oplstlo to tho aunt, which wsa tho first stop in tho tragio avonts which quickly followad ; HunTivaToN, June 20, 1600, 2ra, Slyart: b Axo you awara under what clrcumatances Julls waa abscat from bor houss ontho 10tk of May, or near thpt timo, at & late hour of tho night ? - I¢ a0, ate yon whi- Ing uny lonyrer to intrust mo, without eufclent mo~ tives of eflonco nw yot, With 8o importaut a socret, whoso ‘momentary ‘divulgenco “might cast & shudow oyor Julia’s Ifo? Ihave refraiucd from maying any- thiug about tho affulr to tho world, but it is: somothing” moro (han you could--oxpect that ‘I shovl wiwpys keop wuch a mccrot unloss I were bound by gtronger ties to hor thau I mm at prede out, I offer you slonce, but at a prico boyoud all tho wealth that you huve, * I will glye yau an pppore tunity of mualing o private-and friendly. sttlement of {1ia question, which Julla has takon ont of tho reach of law; for, i going to tho faot of Cold Bpring hill, among the cedars, uloae, at 9 o'clack ot uight, whon sbo know that most 1ikdly sonio ono_wonld ba tioro, fs | not an evidonco of love on hor part, then nothing is, You uve oll boen ferce agatnst mo, and would liwve put mo down ut all hazards bad I not opposed you | with thefew rights that I could clatm in tho coutest, Now that Jilla Las given mo the advantago I wish lo 1a0ko no show of friumph, but would thomoro wiitiug- Iy spologizo sud bow o you, I hovo told you whay Julla hag dono to justify myself, +, OuanLes, Tho indiguation of the friends of Miss Smith | wau at length falrly arousod, and ouo night in Novembor last, & party of men ‘tarred and foathored him, and then turned bim looss, Mo wout home, and subsoquently disappeared. Ilis | boy {mmodiately aftor. disnppoarance did not exclto any comment, ns it was only natural that & man who had sufferod such an indignity should take Limeclt off as fant and a8 far a8 possiblo from tho scono of the oporation. Thero woro a fow who thonght that ho lind been foully denlt with, aftor the tar and fonthering, but tho gencral impresslon was that ho bad fled from tho place, Ton montha after this timo, In August Inst, o now phuso fu tho aMair waa doveloped, Bomo fishormen on Oystor Day, noar Huntington, dis- covored n pair of logs and a portion of tho ab- domon of a human body, covered with tar and fonthors, A pair of pantaloons and o pair of drawora wero upon tho logs, which bhavo been {dentiflod ns thoso of Kolaoy's, sud in the pooket was found a watclhi-chaln, which s also known to Lavo bolongod to Kolsoy, Thoso facts woro deomed sufficlont to idontify tho romains 8 thoso of Kelsoy, and theroupon threo thooriea woro based. Ono clagn of tho peoplo contondod that o had boon murdered and thrown Into tho bay; anothor, that ho had committed suicide. Btill anothor—and & vory largo class—maintain that theso aro not the romaina of Kolsoy at nll, but that Lo 1s still alive, and that ho {8 now on- gngod in plotting to convict tho men who tarred and foathered him of his own murdor. Thero sro soveral facts in tho evidenco which holp sustaln this bold theory. Aa wo havo #aid bofore, the affair haw influoncod polities, and has rosulted in the formation of & Tar and No-Tar party, tho lattor beiug opposed to vie- Jenco of any sort. Thoso who disputo the idon- tity of tho romains claim that designing porsons placed tho body whers it was found for tho pur~ poso of creating political capital, and cite numer- ous publications in the local political papors, as woll ma tho posting of & placard about tho Town of Huntington called “Tho Funoral of tho Legs,” fo support their theory. Again, tho pants and drawors on the romains lavo not boon fully idontiflod, Kolsoy's brothors, in fact, boing vory doubtfal about them. Auothor very strong point is urged by thoso who cutertain this thoory. A witness who was prosont, but had no part in tho transnction,” and, therofore, could not be implicated in tho supposed murder, swears positively that no tar was appliod to Kolsoy's lower limbs at all, and that, after ho was relonscd, his bands came in contact with his body, and tho tar casily rubbed off, and that ho walled homo a distance of throe- quarters of o milo, during which ho might ensily Lavo rubbod oft tho most of tho tar upon him, Tho legs, howover, whoen found, woro com- plotely covored with hard, thick tar from the anklos to tho Luces. Thoso who maintain tho identity doubtless have equally strong facts on tholr sido, Tho watch-chain is idontified be- yond question, and tho absouce of the watch is explained by the fact that it was found at home, with the chain gone. Furthermoro, it is shown that, on the morning aftor thoe tar-and-fenthor- ing, one resident of ‘Huntington saw a wagon rapidly drivon aoross the bridge nesr tho bay, and that anothor saw n boat rowed out into the Near this bridge o shict and a pair of boots wore found, which havo been positively idontifiedas Kelsoy's, and it is furthermore shown'that there is a loose plank in the bridge, which could easily hnvo jolted them outof tho wagon. These are tho main facta in tho caso. Since the Coroner's in- quest, popular opinion has become go divided that thero Is little doubt those who participated in the tar-and-feathering will bo arraigned for lis murder. The whole of Long Islandisin a blazo of oxcitement over it, and thero will bo no peace until it is definitely settled to whom tho legs belong, Tho case, therofore, promises to ba oro of the most enrious on rocord, THE COTTON CROP OF 1872.'3, The cotlon year begins on tho 1st of Septom- ber, and closes on the 81st of August. The crop of 1872-'3 includes all gatherod after Sept. 1, 1872, which {s supposed to bo all brought to market beforo the end of August, 1873, Tho crop of 1872, from the returns and accounts earofully kopt during tho year, shows a ylold of 8,030,608 bales; tho oxports being 2,679,950 bales, and tho home consumption 1,201,127; stock on baud, 00,989 bales, The returns show tuo changes that aro taking placo in tho cotton trade, In former sears, all'the cotton grown in tho United Btates bas found its way to tho nearost Atlentio port, and thence by ocenn to its placo of destination, whether in Burope or in New England.” During tho year just closed 402,200 balos Lave beon transported overland from tho cotton floids to the manufacturors’ mills. The year boforo, tho overland shipment ‘was 842,180 bales, - % The Inereaso in tho crop of '72-3 over that of tho previous year is nearly a million of bales, and tho followiug table oxliibits tho place of growth and tho increaso of production‘in each Btato: North Caxolinn, Virginin.. Tenuessoe, Tolaluseees vossose Qonsuwed in the South.. Grand totuls, 125,030,508 2,074,33 Tho crop.of 1872-'8 is the lnrgest, oxcept that of 1870-'74, raiscd since the war, ns will be seoit from tho following pariiculars of ench year's produotion: Years, Dalen,| Veara, 1869-70, 164,010{1605-60., Thore is an ingrease of Lome consumption of cotton over that of ‘tho ‘immodiately procoding youra, | Tho oxast distribution of the crop iy thne ehown: Orop of 1872-'9, 8,930,508 Lules ; on band at bogluning of tho your, 59,387 bales ; total supply, 8,030,205 bnalos; oxported to for- *elgn ports, othor than Canadian, 3,079,030 Unles ; sout to Onuady, 2,000 bales; burnt, 1,000 bales stook on hand Bopt. 1, 1873, 00,080 bulesy at Providence, &o., 18,703 bales; totnl ship- wments and in store, 2,788,088 bales; Lalunce taken by epluncrs durlng tho yoar, 1,201,127 balog, of which 137,603 Lules woro taken by splnnors in tho Southern' Btates. Tho cou- sumption for throo yoars Las boon os followu: ' 1870- 87, 1872, Northern mitla X B 0T1,648 1,003,406 Houthorn mills,rorry | OL20 120000 ‘17,69 Total, LtloS.ery s n],100,108 3,007,640 1,201,197 The {ncreaso of coneumption ju 1873-'8 ‘was 03,687 bales, of which 17,662 was {u the Boutharn Htntos j 80,000 brlos wero consumed In Georgin, 16,000 in South Carolna, and 15,000 cach in Alnbama and Virginia, T'ho woight of the bales, ‘| taken at varlous shipping poluts, shows avernges rauging from 481 pounds down' to 444 pounds, Tho aggrogato was 1,824,920,023 pounds, which, @ivided Dy thoe wholo number of balos, gives an averago por balo of 404 pounds, “I'ho consumbtion af cottan in’home manufag turos, though slightly on tho inorense, thus compnroa with provious yuars pounds, 142,704,975 404,308 40,007,160 During tho intorval succeoding 1800, tho country has boen taxed nn avorage of 40 por cont to encourago tho homo manufacture of cot- ton; and now, in 1873, tho consumption of cot- ton goods is less por capita than it was fourtoon yoars ngo, when thore was no proteotive duty. Binco 1800 the population hng incressed 89 per cent, and yot, with the cotton grown atthoirown doors, tho Ameorican spiuners demsnd and ro- calkvo 40 por cont bounty on tholr goods, and do not produco as many pounds of coiton’ goods vor head of tho population as they did fourteen YORIS 80, JAPANESE TEAS, Any subject which s soothing ought to attract vory gonoral attontion in the midat of the pros- .ont financinl oxoitemont, and tho roador, ns he &lts down to his cup of tos, may thereforo talke gomo intoreat in knowing somothing about tho cup which cheors but not incbriates, espocially it it contains Japancse tos, aa it probably doos. Tho largor part of tho Japanoso ton comes to the Unitod Btatos, England taking vory littlo of 1t, as the proforonce there ia for blaok tons, and it has’ beon found mors profitablo to propars Japancso tons groen,—tho color which hest snits Amerioan ten-drinkers. Hithorto but ittlo has been known of tho Japancso tens In this country, although wo are such honvy consumors; but lately a state- ment has boon mado in the British Trade Jour- nal, based upon consular reports, which contains somo vory interosting dotails. The production of Japan for tho year 1871 was about 86,000,000 pounds, ono-half of which was used in that country and tho other half exported. The best ton is produced in the Provinco of Yamashiro, and in some parts of the provines thoro aro trecs 400 and oven 500 years old which produco ten ‘worth 5 por pound. The tea from young shrubs docs mot remain good for over a year, whilo ton from tho old troes is a its bost at tho ond of | 0 yoar, and remains so for eight months, Tho Japon tens, fine, finost, and choice, rank with fine to finest Obing Moyuno groens ; medium to good medium, with good to fino Foochow, or Amoy Oolongs ; and low medium with good cargo Oolongs. A vory important feature of tho Japancso toas is, that, as o rulo, thoy are not colored with any pigments. In’ the proparation of the OChinese green tems, on . ths other hand, n mixture of gypsum and Prug- sian blue ‘or indigo is wused, giving o glozod slate color. At Nagasali, however, thoro oro conscloncoless Japanose, who'imitato tho Ohinoso green tes, and it is exported under tho names of ‘Hyson, Young Hyson, Gunpowder, nnd Twankay. Noarly all the-tos, however, that in shipped from Yokobamn and Hiogo is uncol- ored. The color of the llq\ior which Japaneso uncolored tea draws is a palo olive—notao bright a8 that drawn by tho finost grades of Chineso tens, In Jopan, thoy attach great importanca to the color of tho liquid, as it is a rulo -that tho finer tho grade .of ten, tho poler {8 tho liquor it draws, In ordinary Ohineso black tems, the flavor of the liquor is cousidered of moro im- portance than the color, which is usually red- dish. Whon it {s muddy, however, it is & sura sign of adulteration. The Japan ton is packed In hatf-chest boxes, tho average welght being about 46 pounds. The lower the grade of toas, tho lightor it weighs ; o box which will contain 55 pounds of tho cholcest tea holding only 44 pounds of tho common grade, These aro the main facts stated by tho British Consuls in thoir roports, and thoy may furnishsomo cansolation, even ino panic, to tea-drinkers, by showing thom whist they aro drinking, and how It is made and exported. ¥ 3 The Iatest mail accounts from England indicato that tho tide has again changed in favor of the Tichborne claimant, Tho London Telegraph says that “Tho popularity of the olaimant seems grontor than over.,” This turn in publio soutiment Ling boon chiefly ocoasioned by tha evi- donco of ona Boglo, an old man 63 yonrs' of ago, and for thirly or forty yoars o’ confldentinl servant: in tho = Tichborno family. His recognition of the claimant as the genuine Rogor Tichborne was confident, and pustaitied by mauny ‘explicit statemonts of pgront forco, The impression made by this wit- noss upon the jury aua the publio is doscribod 88 having boen very favorablo; and the answers in dotail wero of a kind to put a now faco upon many of tho unexplainod and suspicious éir-. cumatances that have boen brought forward againgt tho claimant. From present indications, the Government will scarcely be able to in- duce tho- jury to convict the claimantof por- Obituary, “Mr. Donald Dalrymple, the momber of the English Parliamont who recently visited this country to examine into the mapagement and tho systom of our ipebriate asylums, died a fei dnys gince in Tondgn from disonsp contracted while in this country, Ho was born in 1814, and . during his oarlior days studied medicing, Tn 1836, ho becamg a mombor of the College of Surgeons, sud in 1854, Follow of that institu- tion, snd flve. years -afterwards & membor of the Qollégo of Physiclans of Liondon. - In 1803, Lo rotired ‘from " his profession, and in 1808, was raturnod to - Parllament” by tho Dath Liborals, Ho capoused all. the prominent measurea bronght forward by the Gladstono Minlstry, supported thp Irish-Ghurch bill and advocated tho voto by ballot, - Of lato yoars, howovor, ho ‘bns dovoted his timo almost ex- elusively in ondoavoring to induce Parlinment to establish asylums in England for inebriates, and ‘brought forward a bill to that effect, which was defonted. Ho aldo .hold many important local oftices, in counneotion with educatioual afuirs and charitios, 4 ¥ " The ‘cable hag also annomnced. the denth of: Joan Jacques Marlp Cyprian - Vie- tor -Costi, - ona of .tho . most emi- ‘nent .of the Fronch taturalists, His favorito study was embryology, and hls osesys upon this subjoct gained for hima gold modal from tho Daris Acadomy of Bcicnce. Bhortly aftorwards achalr of embryology was cronted for him in the Collogo of Franco, In 1851, ho was oleoted n membor of tho Academy of Science, Of Iate yenra o has given much gtiention to plsoloulture, Ho was furnished by the Govern- mont with all {he necossary moans, and in two yonra' timo ho stooked tho Rhono with 000,000 solmon, T 1803, ho was appointod Inspootor- Gonoral of tho river flsheries, and, lator, of tho fishories on tho ses coast, “Dorblay the Eldor," whose death was ane nounced p day ar two sinco, was an ominent Tronch palitiojan and agrioulturist, who has been activoly engaged in tho grain trade since tho time of tho First Empire, e wasone of the first inombors of tho Fronch Agrioultural Boofoty, and In 1841 was olooted to the Chamber of Dop- utfos, whero ho romainud until 1848, In 1840, he roprosontod the Dopartmont of the Seino in the Logislative Assombly, aftor which he retired to privato lifo. Ho was the writer of sevoral works on coreals and thoir proservations THE WORKING-GIRL QUESTION, Lotters from Somo of tho Girls, THE ORJEGTIONS TO NOUSEWORE, To the Rditor of 'he Chicago Tribunes 8im: I notlco fn your issuo of to-dny & com. munication from * Alpha,” fu which the dosire ia oxproasad to *'hear from the girly thom. solvos” the roasons why eo many of them proe for to acoopt sftuations in almost any other om- ploymont than that of domentics whon the lat- ter offers them bottor wages. | 1 oan only snewor for mysolf, and will sny thnt, in my cnso, it is noithor incapability to do, nor dislike for the work in itsol?, that would de- ter mo from nccopting a situation as a sorvant, but it {8 beeauso thore is so much diffoulty in suiting ‘o mistress, Thore is 80 ‘much fault found by mistrossos in rogard to thelr ser- vanis that it bns almost suporseded - tho topio of dress in thelr conversation. Evory little faling s largely mag- nifled, and fmaginary ones nro constantly bolog found, till ono would imagine—and I think thoro renlly is—n strife among the fominino heads of familtos to soo ns to which can procure tho worst servants. A poor cook isindaed n yory sorious drawback to tho happlness of the domestio ofrclo, and heavy broad oceasions many heavy hearta ; bat a lttlo kindnesa and pationce would go farthor to remedy tho evil thana do- :Jnuoll account of tho annoyanco to your noighe ors, Perhaps some may think I do not know any- thing about what I am writing, but I can nssuro such that Ido, and can toll thom to talk with #omo fashionablo woman for the epaco of half- an-hour, and, if thoy do not discover in that timo that she suffors everything short of mar- tylr(dnm from her sorvants, I am vory much mis. on, It is human naturo to desire to ba epprectated, and no fi’h-l of any refinoment or educntion would willingly place hersolf in such & position, whoro every offort to ploase, no matior how fimut, 18 mot with indiiferonco, and oven ‘un- indnosa; and then to havo deliborate fatsohoods told as mme hor officioncy is indeed adding insult to njull:‘y. And * Patorfamiling,” it o desires to promota tho intoroat of sorvant-girls, had bottor bo vory cautious us to what extont ho manifosts his ju- torest, or the * impudont hussy,” no mattor how iunocent of blamo she may be, will be dismissod in o hurry, and a new topic—tho forwardnoss of sorvant-girls—will be introduced in tho * circlo” ut'.l‘lllx“ mm’:i munt]u.x i en, again, o girl is often required to do double the work sho iy capablo of d‘fiug, inordor that tho wages for extra help may bo saved to rocuro o moro oxtenslve wardrobo for hor mis- ress than could otherwiso bo afforded. If such conduot is not as absolute injustico ns ia prac- ticod by any class of employers, I do not know what to torm it, Thoro aro some good mistronacs, but the bavo long ngo been supplied with sorvants, an 8o the difliculty is still unconquorod. All that I havo snid or could tifl say has, in substance, been said boforo, but, o far as I can 800, the evil hns not beon eradicated. As T anid at first, I cannot ond do not spealk for othora; but what Iliave writton has beon written from firm conviction that it is truo, and Iwould rather remain what I now om,—n clork, with, it i8 truo, o emall salary, and _receivo kind and reapectful troatment, than {o be n servante &r], and receiyo, in nddition to my bottor wages, 0 sncors and {naults, both direct and indirect, of my mistross. Yours respecfully, Cut1oAdo, Sopt. 25, 1873, ONEIDA. “NO OARITY" WANTED. To the Editor of The Chteago Triuna: 8in: Sovoral communications havo appeared in your pnpor advacatiug the advisavility of providing for “ worthy wotking girls " pleasant, cheorful boarding-places, at a price within the ronoh of their wages. I iufor that the writers id not intend them to bo charitabloinstitutions, where paupers would have their wants supplied ; but cheery homes, where *‘worthy working girla” could gather, aud buy their bonrd—nof Veg it—nt a reasounblo rato, ‘We cannot, from the small wages wo recelve, support the familios of boarding-house keepera snd middlemen, who handle tho necessaries of lifo aftor ‘lmsmng from tho producers’ hands ; but can and will support ourneR'us. Tor ono, I can say we don't want charity, We allunderstand whatthat means, \Wo possosssomo spirit, thoth Y‘nar sud industrious, and would rathor live in tho alley than in n marble mansion on the avenue, by which * Paterfamilins,” * Hu« mauty,” and their wives aud daughtors could 8“5 In their pleasant promenades, and, with nintily-kiddod haud, point up to our abiding- place ; and, in that patronizing tono that to worthy poverfy is so unbearable, exelaim, My friond, thatis tho home for working girls wo wore lelhug you about, to which wo contributed ten dollars.” "~ No, Mr. Editor, wo acknowledge Wo are poor, very poor, but don't allow us to bo forged into ' homos of that kind, so humiliating, ls'o dfgrndmg, to every feeling of worldly woman- ood, But wo should hnilwith joy * cheorful, ro« spootabla boarding-places at rates corrosponding with our earnings.” Such 2 * Home " would ba very accoptable to working-women, where no nhmtfl wag asked or raceived ; but o “ Homo" carried on in o practical, bueiness way, affordiny us board at the actual cost,—not taxing us wltfi tho burden of carrying along, with profits ro- alized from us, o wany idle onos. A WorrNag-WoraN. 0On104a0, Sept, 25, 1873, WONE WHAT 18 NEEDED, To the Editor of The Chicago T'ribuna; Bmm: On the working-girl quostion, I ropeat what * Humanity " has quoted: ** Loolk woll be« fora you leap.” Friends of the working-girl, you havo asked to hoar fromus. What wo most noed is work. @ivo us work at $1 per day, and wo can provido ourgelves with plonsant Liomos. What “ Alpha’ has said in rogard to a Homo for working-girls resultivg In more profit to their omployers than to tho girls themsclves is too Iucid o faot to quostion, and we thank him for making tho statoment. If the fund proposed for building a Home could bo used in nmmtmut- ing sn industrinl manufneturivg house, whora thoso wanting could always fiud employment, the.groat evil and cause of heart-nchio amon; tho girls would boe no more, Wo wish our gaofl frionds ' would call & mcoting for Irotostant Amorican working-girls and hear some of thoir oxperionces as American flesh and blued, EXPEUIENCE. DEFECTIVE TRAINING OF AMERIOAN WOMEN. To the Editor of Tha Chicago T'ribune " Sm: I havo read attontivoly the communicas tion of ** Bonedict " in Tie 1'RILONE, 08 woll as that of “ Pater” and *‘Matorfamiling.,” For my part, I am docldedly in favor of furnlshing working women comfortable homes, ond that, too, on & ecalo commensurato with tho oxigons oles of tho case. Dot why not apply tho effect- ual remody. at onco to tho root and sourco of tho ovil, Tho education and training of "American women i8 altogether defectiva in itg way. Instond of boing taught housowork, and theroby DLecomlug convorsant with the Toutine of domostic oceupations, thoy dovote their loisure-hours to tho reuding of novols, in- stend of learning to fit and mako their own dresgos, and their fothera’and brothors' ehirts, They aro allowed to go gadding about the stroots, and that, too, at Lours that thoy ought ta Lo ut home under their mothers’ oyes, darning stockings, or proparing tho mnoxt morning's monl, luny that youug girls, (rom 8 years and upwards, aught td bo 1nada to wallc at loast § milos o day, in sunshine or raln, oven if thoy could xido that distanco for 5 vonts. This i tho way that I propose to upply the remedy, In no civilizod country in tho worll is tho domes tlo educstion and training of woman con sidered disgracoful or undignifled, excapt. ing (ho Unitod Stntos of Amorica, Horo lof mo stato the custom iu that respeot in Germany, and that, too, amouget tho mout noble families As soon ns tho duughtor fluishes her sohooling, sho loaves hior materual homo, nud is taken intg tho famlly of womo lady of oqual rauk and standing With. hor mothor, and thon rssumes ohiarge und control of the pulace or manslon, ng the caso may Lo, Bhio (ukesthe koys of the whole establishmont, and superlulends the sorvants aud kitohon. Yet sho does not lase onato by so doing, ovonif the King or Emporor should” como to dine, sho eits down with the lnd at tho table along with bim, And sho romping in that capaclty till sho Iy considored capablo of managing Lot own housohold, In thai country, tho occupas tton ia not considored drndyery or moninl, by any monug, Evon in Dyitain, the dnughlom of Dukes and Lords go to the markot to scloot the moats, and superintond the cooking and propas Tation of them, till they aro brought to lho table; whorons our Amerlean girls ave allowed to play the plane, or quoto passuges from tho logt Now York Ledaer, ANaus McDoxaLp, ~