Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 21, 1874, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, . ;‘flbl OF SUBACRIPTION (PAYADLE I¥ ADVANCE), .l ! g ol Rt R : Partsot n yearat th Ta provent delsy and mistakes, be aure and give Post Of ce nddress in ful), including State xnd County. Hamittances may bo made eithor bydeatt, expross, Post Ollios otder, or in reglstercd lotiois. ab our TRLMB TO CITY SUDACRIDERS, Daily, deliverad, Sunday wsceptea 25 cante per waek, Dally, dolivorad, Sunday incinded, 30 eents por wook, Addrows TILR TRIBUNK COMPANY, Carner Madivon aud Ucarborn-sta,, Uhioago, 1l TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VIORKR'S THEATRE-Madlson strost. botwosn Dearbomn and Stato. ** Two Laves and & Lifa." ACADRMY OF MUSIO—Halsted strost, botwasn Mad- toon snd Monroo. Kegsgomont ot Schumann's Transat- lantio Novelty Gompas HOOLEY'S THEATHE-Tandoloh ‘stroat, botweon Olark and taSatle. ‘fno Ureay Adoipti Uompany. BMin: strslay, Farco, and Varioly. et "SOCIETY MEETINGS. N0, A, T. AND A M.— LAt Keauite chmiuatoation (i (¥ E\V nvnulnu.;u.&u'nlul; :lll'rlgll;lll::llnflfl ‘work on tho Iy Or Gogron, Ly ondor ol o BEVE: qyokn, Socty. The Chivagy Teibune, ¥riday Morning, August 21, 1874. Thero is not onough of tho Porto Rico story “oft to go around among tho nowspapers, Ex-Gov. Washburn, of Wisconsin, hag returm- «©d from Burope just in time to nsslst in the fall oleotions. Senntor Carpenter is doubtloss confl- dent that bo could bavo mauaged quits as woll without so dangerous an ally. P A AT England bought up her telographs for £0,405,- 197. This Is supposcd to bo just about double \oir value. ‘Tho revonuo therofrom s £85,358 per year,—about 1 por cent. The Post-Oflico nuthoritios are now trying to cut down tho ex- penses and lucronso tho roturns, Thoy are not meoting with remarkablo success, Beliovers in Government telegraphs and rallways will ploaso take thoss facts to heart. The Republican State Coutral Committeo of Towa has issued its cizcular to all Fedurat oflico- loldors, nasossing thom in proportion to their officinl incomo. 8o goneral is it that they havo «evou assesacd tho smallest grado of Post-Ofticos, 8ud ono Postmaster who is called upon for $1.10 rafuses to ** como down," and hias eoused tho cir- oular to bo published. This iy tho work of Civil- Bervico Reform under tho suspices of thoRepub- lican party. Pero Hyacintho hna rexigoed tho office of Cure of Genova, for the romsou, sowowhat uvgra- ciously cxpressed by him, that the Liboral Catholiciam of that city is neither liberal in politics nor Catholio in religion, And Pero Hya- cintle is still a Liboralaud a Catholie. Gonova's claim to the proud eminence of tho ancient Jorusalom as a killer of prophiets and stoner of thom that aro sent unto it bas been too long es- tablished to bo affectod by the testimony of the most rocont Roformer. About this time look out for the mysterious dlgappearanco of small children who can be supposed to have respaable and woalthy con- ucotions. The Charloy Ross affair hag put it in tho henrts of bad men to try if they cannot nchijeve as distinguished a success, This warn- Iiig I8 for the bouefit of anxious paronts, A dis- crest uso of tho material containod in it wiil mako the young olive-plants abstenious in the mattor of pio, aud submissive in the Lands of the nursery-maid, for tho infant mind is weak enough to argue that virtuous living is a certain #afegunrd agalnst misfortunio, P — ‘There secms to be a geperal desire expressed all ovor the State, by thoso who respond to the call for the Couvention of Aug. 26, that that Con- vention shall uominate candidates for Stato Treasurer and Superintendent of Public In- struction. The nsmo of tho Hon. Alexander Starno is suggestod for State Troasuror. Mr. Btarve has served oue term as Becretary of Btote, and ono or two torms as Stato ‘Uroasurer, and soveral terms in tho Logislature, and, in all thoso positions, his service has beon marked with ability and strict intogrity. H. J. 8till, the CountyT'reasurer of Livingston County, whose compousation was fixod by law at 1,600, with 8500 additional per yoar for clork~ biro, is dissatisfied, and, instend of resigning, bne sot up & olaim £ the 2 per cent fees allowed the Treasurer for collocting taxes, ‘This elaim, 1f allowed, would oqual §2,500 & yoar, in nddition to his logs! compensation, Such s cluim is ut- torly preposterous, and reducos Mr. Tressurer Btilito the levol of a Congressionsl back-pay grabbor. Itwouldbe wollto apply toall such oficetiolders tho disciplino applied by the farm- ars in Ford County to their ‘Creasurer. Charles J. Faulkner las been -nomiuated for Cougroes by tho Domocernts in the Second Wost Virgiula District, Dofore the War, Mr, Faullk- nor wag one of tho most prominent men in Amerioan publio life, Hoe sorved in Cougress from 1851 to 1859, and was Minister to Franco under Buchanan. Ho returned to this couutry in 1861, was wuspected of sympathizing ‘with tho Robollion, suffored imprlsunmou!, was aftorwards exchanged, nnd becamo identifiod with the Lost Cause, Mr, Faulkner has beon ro- Ueved of his political diasbilitios by speciat not of Congross, His nomination is equivalont to an slection. Seduction {a 50 ofton followed by the violont denth of ono of tho parties to it that the in- stance of such a conjunction in Indiamapolis, ro- portsd by telegraph this morning, will scarcoly Pprovoke much comment. Thera are, howover, vomo ciroumstancos of n very dlstrossing neture connected with this Indisnspoliy kegody; and ho would bs & storu morshist indeed who could feol no compnssion for the sctore fu it. The suioids of tho un- foriunato girl, the ahooting of hor lover, and tho terriblo ruin which has been brought upon bor fathor constituto a punishmont sufticloutly heavy for the gratification of iMlielt prasions, The Chioago produco markots were stronger yestorduy, on tho geuncral average, with moro dolng, in & specnlative way, in grain, Moss pork was dull and unchanged, closing at 822,60 @32.76 per bl oash, aud $106.80@17.00 soller tho Jeor. Lard was quiot and stoady, at 1475 @1I4.875¢ por 100 bs cash, and 11,00 seller the year. Moats wero quiet and firmer, at 8% @85go for shouklers, 113{@12 for whort ribs, 11}@ 120 for ahiort closr, and 18X(@183{0 for swaot- pickled homg, Highwinca wero quict and stesdy, at 070 per gallon, Lake froights wero dull and tirm, a4 80 fof corn to Buftalo, Flour was quiot arad weak. Whoat was more sotive and 3o lowas, dloalng at #8)¢0 oaab, 880 saller the month, and 9534@063¢o tor Hoptombor, Corn waa loss aotive, and ¥{o highor, closing a$ 063¢0 cash, and 089§@00¢0 for Boptombor. .Onts wara Activo, and 2@23¢o highor, closing at 420 moller tho month bid, aud 80%0 sollor Soptembor, Ryo wnd quiot and fivmor, closing at 78}ge. Durloy ‘way nctivo and strongor, closing at 0o cash, and 92 bid for Soptombor. Hogs wora dull and Jower, with tho bulle of sales at £0.76@7.15. Cattlo woro quiot, and pricos were unchanged, Bhoop wero Inactive. A Bouthorn corrospoudont vividly doplets the distrens which has boon occaslonod anoug tho negroos of that region by tho faflure of tho Freedmon's Saviogs DBank. In Nashville, 85,0005 in Augusts, $200,000; in Clarloston, £200,0005 ond in Richmend over $100,000, were lost, in auma ranging from a dollar to sevoral hundred. These wero the cnrniugs of hard- worlang negroca during tho past two or threo yoars, and numorous piliable cases of porsonal sulforing in thoso oitles aro described, which may bo taken as fair samples of tho ruin which thn failuro of ihis bank and its branchos has wrought, Of all tho erlmes porpetrated by the Dustrict of Columbia Ring, none can excol this one in meanness and troachory, Tho blow has fallon upon the innocont and poor, and thoy Liavo no menns of redross, MMarshall Jowoll has roturnod home, dutifully paid his rospocts to tho President at Long Branch, and gone to Hartford for recreation. It i8 now two months since ho was appointed Post- mastor-Goneral. -aud ho has not yot undertaken tho active manngement of the posial servico. “I'hose facts naturally suggest au unplensant sus- picion in regard to tho ronsons of My, Ilale's doe- lination. Tho alory given out at tho ‘timo was thot Mr. Halo's Loalth would require him to tako n vication for thros months, and tho abssnes of tho Postmastor-Goneral forso long a timo was. said to bo utterly out of the question, Yot horo ia Mr, Jowell just como home, and his firat caro 1n to pay o visit to tho Summor-Rtusidonco ; ho is not apparontly oppressed Ly the responsibilitios of his official pomtion. In the light of recont oveuts, it is casior than not to bollove that thero was somo attompt ate s bargain botweon Mr. Bluine, Mr. Halo, Sonator Chandler, and Presi- dont Grant, in which tho oflice of Postmuster~ Genoral was » considoration offored, and that tho final bronkiug off of nogotiations was an end of cordial rolations botwoen the Presidont and tho other gentiomon wontioned. ‘Tho Boecher agony is drawing noar the closo. MMr. Moulton's full statement will be printed in New Yorlk this aftornoon, and in Chicago to-mor- row morning. Wo cannot but think thiat it must be detinito and final, Mr. Moutton {s a crediblo witness whenover it bocomes ovidons that hio ia telling th8 wholo truth, As tho holder of tho Boecher lettors dirocted to him, ho is compotent to tell what the circumstances woro under whick thoso lotters wero wiitten. DBut his statemont must bo plamn, dircet, sud candid. No mers inferences will be accepted on cither side, and suy intimation that ho could . tell more an' ho would will bo rojected with suspieion and indig- nation, The timo 18 now eo shait before thia © gtatomont will bo public property thst all mon can aford to suspond judge ment. Menuwbilo wo give a dispatch that rather leads up to it than discloses its contents, MMr. Townsend, aftor another talk with Moulton yostorday, councedes that he may bave erred in a0 or two partieulars, but stands by his guns fa the main. o admits tbat what Mr. Moulton #aid to him was communicated to him in his per- sonnl and not his professionnl charnoter, but novertholess maintains that what he gave Tug Trinusg Monday, Aug. 8, was actually commu- nicated tobimall the same, Mr. Moulton has not donfed this st any time, and in yostordsy's interviow desirad only to correct the impression that ho gave to Mr. Towusend things for publication which ho ot the time withbold from tho Committeo. As tho statement which Mr. Moulton is to make public to-day is that which he contemplated making when he first talked with Mr. Townsond, this phase or the mattor will bo cleared up along’ with tho rest. 1t ig now safe to say that, in twenty-four hours moro, it will be kuown beyond any ressonablo doubt whether Alr. Deochor is guilty or fonocent, or, if not then, that it will naver bs known, —— THE SPRINGFIELD CONVENTION. The Stata Convontion called by a large num- har of citizons of all parties, including the Dom- ocratio State Committoo, is to be held at Bpring- fleld on the 26th of August. If thut Convention doos not fail of success, it will not bo beesuse of tha want of vigorous effort on the part of the Republicans, and of the Chicago Times, and of varlous papers aud Individuals profossing to bo Democratic. In tho first placo, tho Republicans do not want the unfon of the Opposition iu this Stato on an houest money platform, and henco thoy are patting Ledlie, and Richardson, and Singloton, aud Dowdall on tho back, telling them to o in for sbinplasters and ropudiation, An- othor dodgo is to mako tho Couvention edious and offeusivo boforchand by styling 1t tho Chi- cago Times Convention. Shinplastors aud ro- pudiation would kill the thing in the estimation ot ono-hal? tho community, and the idea that it was o body originating with tho ‘Chicago Times would kill it with all classes, oven if its platform wag writtou by on augel commigsioned: for that purpose. Tho two blades of tho whears ave, therofore, industriously at work,—the rag-money and repudiution blado operated by the Ropubli- cans aud thelr Domocratic tools, and the other operated by the Chicago Z%mes and its tools. To tho call for this Convontion wero attached the nanies of many gentlemon who were desiv- ous of uniting in a declaration of sound princi- ples, and who cared nothing whatever as to tho choles or eandidatos, Those gentlemon unitod in a cal, not for s Domooratie Convention, not fora Chicago 2%mes Couvention, nol for auy party Convention, but for a Couventlon of thoso sgrecing with tne principles and policy enun- ciatod in tho call, Lhis Couvention it to moot on tho 20t inst, If it shall ignore thoso who callod it, aud ignope tho principles aud_polioy ‘proposed in tho call, thoen it will not ba the Con- veution ealled, und the callers will be under no more obligation to sustain or support its notion thun they will bo to support tho action of tho Ropublican or Independent Convontions. 1f tho Republicans sball bo so far succesaful as to defeat tho purposo for which thle Convontion hos boon called, and ghall be able to induco those prosent to ro~ solve thomselves into & mero Domoeratic pow-wow, auch ay was hold over in Indians, and deolaro for an indefinite isaue of shinplastora and a ropudiation of tho publio dobt, then it witl be morcly a Domooratio Ropudiation Conven- tlon, Only that, and nothing more, If tho Convention shall ropudiate tho eall and the cail- ors, it will dirootly invite tho opposition of all thoso who eympathlzed with tho oall, aud have tho effoet of elevtlug the Republican Bsate, Cone HE, CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU grosslonal, and Legalativo tokots, That this t tho objeot sought by those who, in tho namo of tho Demooratlo party; aro opposlng this Con- vontion, and arosocking by dividing it to dofeat any unton of the Opposition, ia domoustrated by tho fact that they aro oncournged and supportod in tholr offort by tho wholo Ropublioan pross and vasty iu tho Btato, John Logan has gono off to tho mountaing, leaving Col. Rlchardson to do Iis work. Qon. Bingloton and Mr. Ledlio aro oxpeated to do the work of Oglosby and Bovor- 1dgo, and try to have tho whole Convention run 1u the intoreat of the Republican party, T'ho choice is piain one : Siand by tho call, and wocitro a genoral victory all ovor the Stato ; abandon the call, énd renow the loaso of power to the Ropublioas party. It has boon objeoted that this Couvention may nominnte Mossrs, Goro and Ettor, tho eandidates of tho Indopond- onta, This doas not follow, by.any moans. It in probable, sud we think perhaps highly advis- ablo, thiat this Convention shall n'omiusto its own caudidates, and for that purposo select men who Agreo with its platform, and aro not in opposi- tion toit, Thero should bs no Lesitation in nominating candidates who agreo with the Con- ventlon, partioularly as, in cnso tho Convention adheroa to tho call, its ticket will cortsinly bo olocted, THE ‘‘BPECIAL TRAIN" NONBENSE. Thore i1 nothing like entorpriso in this world, cxpeclally when i is choap, and costs neithor monoy uor troublo, The Chisago Times just uow is afllioted with this kind of onterpriso in tho matter of ** apecial tralus,” aud is blowing its Liorne a8 vigorously nw if it owned all the rail- ronds centoring in Chicago, aud dispatobed all tho trains upon thom. It has beon the regular practice of the Northwestorn Road to send out o traln of onipty cars to Clinton evory Saturday night. Rocontly, the managers of the road changoed the time of this regular traju to Bundsy morplug, In order to accommodste the Chicago nowspapors published on that morning. Biralght- woy tho Z¥mes comes out with a flamboysnt su- nouncemont of * ity special train,” aud prints a timo-table. In order to farther accommodate tho newspapers, this Sunday train’s timo has been 60 fixed 28 to énublo'itta connect atTumer's Junction with another ompty rogular train, which runs up tho Fox River Valloy to Algou- quin after mill, Tho Times thoroupon blowa ouother blaat about its * special train,” and pub- lishes o timo-tablo, when tho fact is that the Fox River train is » rogular train cnrrying back tho Algonquin milk-cans as ompty as the Times iteolf. ¢ thoro Is sny onterpriso at all in this, it is tho outerprise of tho Northwestorn Road, which gives tho pooplo along its linea an oppor- tunily to got Toe Ciucaao TRIDUNE, and other Chicago papors. * Our special train " and ** our tizme-table * aro simply gratultons pleces of im- pudonce. Tho Times has just ss much ground to clim enterprise for the running of rogular trains on Sunday a8 it hos for tho ranning of regular treins on other days, and no more. Toe Cut- ©AGO TRIBUNE {e delivered on overy early train that leavea Chicago, and will be now and bonco- forth, Iilis nover occurred to us, however, to claim theso regulor trains us spociul to Tue ‘I'uinunE, vor to delude peoplo with theidea that it was any particular enterpriso on our part to doliver TumuNEs to our rucal readers on Sunday morning, nor to”publish a time-table for tho beneflt of thoun roaders, who ara quite as well aware when tbe regulsr trains roach thoir stations a8 wo are, -1f boing the Times' ides of oulorprige, bowover, to claim empty trains and milk-cars which are making regular trips ‘as its speclal trains, what o rogniticent field offors iteolt to thmt paper for the publication of timo-tables, T'bere aro numerous other traing which loavo Buudays whoso timo-tables can be utilized. There aro regular steamboats and excursion stoamboata. Thoro 18 the Hyde Park dummy, with & magnificent opportunity for time-tables,— Oankland, Kenwood, Cleavervillo, Reform School, and atl thoe streols from Thirty-ninth to Sixtieth, including the parks. Thore is tho North Bide dummy, stopping all along tho lino from Wiight's Grove totho cemetory, with tho beer- shops thrown in, whose time-table wonld fill a column. The various horse-car and omatbus lines might be utilized as gpacial traing, and, ns moro or loss papers avo carried upon tham, by all means lot us bave their time-tables, Why not aleo give us the time-tables of such canal- bosts os leave on Sundasy mornings? Let it got up au ox-team oxpross from Wolla stroet ta such poiuts aa caunot ba reached by railroad, and map out & time-tablo for it. Anything for cheap cuterprise. In tho meantime, white tho Times i ongagoed in printiug tho time-tables of the various segular trains which leave this city Sundsy mornings, and in cluiming thom as its Apeoial traing, we ere freo to inform our readers that Tue Cuicaco Tnmmusy will be dolivored rogularly from overy' train that now leaves Chicago Sunday moruings, and every other morn- 1ng in the weol:, and from evory train that will leave it in tho future, This being tho caso, it in quits unnecossary to print timo-tables or blow about “ypocial trains.” ‘We promise, however, that when we fnd spaco for this Choap-John business, aud havo no nows to give tho publio, wo shall chooso somothing besides milk-traing and trains of empty cars to talk about. DEATH'S-HEAD-AND-ORO0SS-BONE POLITICS. Tho loyal press Liss awaked to the impor- tanco of publishing Southern news of Northorn manufacture celculated to avouse the old ha- treds on which tho Ropublican party now lives, The favorite stylo of jtom at this momont iy somothing liko this ¢ Guus and mumunition aro belng shipped to tho South v Jarge quantities, Promiuont Southiern ol tleluns say that the whitos aro arming for tho purposa of keoplug 1egro votera from tho polls, In a fow months the dotails will be more pan- gumsry, Wo shall loarn that the white inhab. itants of Hokeapokeo County, Florids, have mas- sacrod sovonteen lovely colored babics and one colored adult. Then we shall bo thrilled with the nows that tho editor of tho Louis- ville Courier-Journal haa boen found poison- ing tho lemonede prepared for a plonio of dusky Americans. Daforo the campaign is over, wo slnll doubtless Lear that overy whito Bouthernor hns sworn upon tho Bible to Xlil threo blacks per diem, and roduce thoge who remaln 'allva aftor the election to hopeless slave- ry. It will bo & raro foast'of horrors,—ana it will forco into completion the very separation of the tio races which these organa protend to de- plore, Theyarn now maling tho most of the fow disturbances nt the South, With wondrons ‘fmpartlality thoy attribute them all to tho agarosalons of tho whites, evon when the lattor bave nothing whatover to do with thom. Thore ave mow two specka of war in Bouth Carolina, Tho whites in that Blats are in a hopolossly small minority, Thoy would be ldlots to provoke s conliot, Thoy have shown no eigna of dolng mo, Yot, whon two negross, Dowle aud Jouss, axm their nogro foliowers and skirmish up and down Georgotown stroots, thoro is nuinstant howl of * Whito Loague,” snd an inntant call upon the Genoral Governmont to 8avn thoso’ doar colorod mon, thoso lovod Ro- publican votors, from tho attacks of & fondish onomy,—ssid enomy belng in truth the mon and voters aforosaid. Whon the mnogroos of the whole rogion around Georgotown como flocking: thither, each faction ‘broathing out threats agalust tho othor and tho whites, the Inttor arm themsolvos aud mtand rondy to dofend thom- gelvos, tholr homoy, thoir children, and thelr wives from the brutal rago of ignorant ronghs, Then thoro is a still louder outery. Now, the fact is that not ona singlo caso of assault by o whito man upon a negro bas boon roported during the wholo disturbance. While tho nogroes have been firlng at onch othor from safo distances, and making the atrootsof George- town bloodless battlofldlds, tho whitoa havo kopt porfeotly still. The Btate Government has boen called upon to quell the disgracelul row among its supporters, and has proved unable to raiso ono company of militla, The Executivo Ling roduced steallng to a fiue art, but {s unable to grapplo with any other branch of tho sclouce of govornmont. Thus, bocauso s disturbanco Lias boon caused by two factions of nogroos in n negro-ridden Htato, and beeauso n 8o of negro oflicials bavo failed to Buppress it, tho whito men of the South aro donounced ns murdorous as- saasing and fomonters of bloody strife. Wo do not rogurd thom &8 epotless angols. Noither do wo, like tholoyal press, regard thom as dovils in~ canato. THE NEW YOEK. S0UP-KITCHENS, Last wintor during the pauic, and while the poverty consequent thiorcou lasted, charity in Now York took the form of tho soup-kitchon, Tho soup-kitebon was croatod as an antidoto to New York pauperism, It was napposed that tho moro soup-kitchous wore ostablished, tho loss pauporism thore swould be. But tho more soup-kitchons were opencd, the more paupors appeared. Boup-kitchens produced paupers. Men who Lad never boen paupors boforo be- eamo such the moment soup-kitchens wero es- tablished.- Mon who had blushed bofore to re- coive aid from the publio, blushod no longer whon the soup-kitchon becamio a publio institu- tion, Wherover tho soup-kitchen mado its ap- pearance, the dellcncy aud solf-respect of tho poorimmediately doparted. Tho soup-Kitohon was odvertised, and impostois abd vagrants found a means of support without the necessity of work- ing for a living, Whon thoso iustitutions wore estabiislied in Now York City last winter, the beggars sud paupors of all the surrcuunding country congregated thore to enjoy tho liberality 80 profusely offored. Tho streota wore thronged with thors, The station-houses woro turonged with them. The slms-honses wero filled with thom. Of cowrso psuperism seldom comos alono. Othor evil aro suro to follow it; and thioving and drunkonness kopt pace with the in- creaso in tho number of soup-houses, in Now York. Tho pressure of necossity sent n moro rospect- ableclaes to theso kitchony, The laborers from farms in the interior of New York moved to tho DMotropolis, and, it is eaid, even from Boston and Pittsburg, Young mon divided thoir time botweon tho soup-houses and houses of ill-fame and other places of o kindred churactor. Some famulles with s little money concluded that 1t would not bo & bad speculation to spond it for liquor, considering that the city kopt them in ‘food. But, worso thanail this, somo of tho ablest-bodled workingmen in tho Wletropolis, who might.have earned respoctable wagos, had their food and lodging furnished st tho public expenso, They proforred to be sup~ ported as paupors rather than submit to o re- duction of wages beyond what they were beforo the pauio. Bmall enting-houses for the poorer classes were almost ruined by tho competition of tho soup-kitchons, Thero were numberless in~ stancos in which good witustions were procured for young mon and young girla who had been frequenting these places for rolief ; but nothing could induce thom to roturn to an Lonost way of living., Having tastod the sweots of paupor- 1sm, thoy could not bo reclatmod from its ways. Evidently cbarity is not, under overy form, com- mondablo. The exporiouco of New York ought to uatisfy othor citios that tho soup-kitchon is not o success a8 & philunthrople justitution. A bottor menvs for tho propagation of pauperism could bo lnrdly devised, according to the ex- porience of the Now York peopl THE CHINA-JAPANESE QUARREL, It would meom from yosterdny's dlsputches that o coutingonoy fearca for some months past, ¥iz. : awar between Japan and Ching, Is now in- ovitable, Tho Chineso Government has given the Japanese forcos ninoty duys to withdraw from Formogsa. Ponding the notico, both countries aro making extensive praparations for war, Formoss is au fsland in the Chins Ses, with an aron of about 16,000 square miles and & popula- tion of 2,000,000. Paris of the island ara vory fertilo, presonting tho eppearance of an immenso gardon. Rice, tobaceo, coffo, tes, sugar, cot- ton, flax, sltk, and othor valuable commodities, aro among the products. ts principsl minorals aro gold and coal, It sends snnually to Chiug vast quantitics of augar, beans, sulphur, cam. phor, and lumber. For a few huundred yoara the Chineso havo omigratod axtenaively to tho weat- ern part of the istand, The sborigiues are deseribed by an Amerjean ofticer who visitod them in 1855 as mon of large stature, good forms, copper complouxion, ligh cheek-hones, hoavy juws, coarse hair, “Thoy ara vory warliko and borbarous. Japan bas long looked with envious eyeaon thisrich island, Not many months ago, under protoxt of punish- ing tho witd natives for roblery and the murder of some shipwrocked men, the Government sent & lorgo dotachment of soldiers to the island, From tho vory bogluning of tho movemount, it wag plain that the Jupanose contemplated ity canquest, though porbaps of thut portion only whiok tho Chjuese kad not takon possoesion of, ‘which compriees all excopt tho westorn part, It was announcod that the Japaneso Government coutemplated the colonization of Formosa, and holdlng it as s pledgo for the future good bohav- ior of the aboriginos, Binco that time, and even for somo time provious, ships ot war, soldlors, munitions, oto., atc., have boen seutin larges num- bora or quantitissto Formose. Aftortho oporationy againat the sborigines were susponded, it was obsorved that the main body of the Japaneso re- matued encamped 8¢ Lisnklao, on the island, with no appavent intentlon to vacateit. The Japaneso claim that tho Ohineso have no clajm whatever to the whole island, and that, if the Ohineso want thom to leave it, tho Chinese muat pay tho oxponaes fncurred by them in thoir ox- podition against the aborigines. Chinahas not ceasod {o protest against tho cncroschments of Jopan, The ropresantative of 1lis Celoatal Majesty, tho Vicoroy of Fohkion, has pddmund » communioation to the Japaucsa commandor of the Ceatral Arwy, sotiing forth the reasons FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, pis . A V27 why his invasion nod possossion of Formoss la unwarranted. o rominds the commaudor that, not loiig sluce, » troaty waa coucluded botweon Olina and‘ Japan bloding tho w0 countrios foravar ln tho most fricndly relo~ tous, Bpito of this, however, tho Japanose commandor had broken the law of nations and mvaded a country belonging -entircly to Cluna, Tho Vieeroy fvaists that tho nborigines, tholr peraons, proporty, and villagos, bolong to China; that, thoro aro clesr proofs, dating from au- clont dato, to that offoct; that clghteon vil- Iogea in the southorn part pay s yearly tributo to Chinn of a thousand taels, and that thero iua Chineso ofticial at Taiwan charged with tho ad- minlstration of affairs for tho aborigines fu the southern and northorn distriots, From the latest accounts, we infor that theso arguments have availod nothing, and that both countries will rogort to war to settle thedisputo betwoeon them. ’ bl i THE FAMILISTERE AT GUISE, The thing hero indicalod is ns unkuown in Amorica a8 its name,—more 8o, in fact, for s numbor of Americans know onough French to iuterpret tho word, while very fow have read M. Godin's **Solutions Socinles " and g0 learnod whut his Familistore really 18, 1o is an extonstve manufscturor at Guige, Franco, Studylng his | employes’ modos of lifo, ho became convinced that the principal evils of poverty wore thesa: Lack of ability to seouro good lolp,—cooks, nursos, doctors, ete.; Ill-ventilated, ill-drained, ill-lighted homos; Distance from place of work for adults, and from schools for childron; - . Lack of moral amusoments, and conzequent tomptations, This i8 cortainly & comproliensive liat of ovils, Tho romedy mustbe comprehensive, tos, So M. Godin thought, The result of his thinking istho Famillstore of Guise. In a large, well- kept park op the banke of the Olse, this great soolal palaco stands, Hundrods of porsons live in {ts spaclous rooms, Co-operative stores, and kitohous, sud lausdries supply their neods, Theatrical and concort troupes, formed among the inhobitsnts (all of whom are employes of AL Godin), furnish thom with amusumont, An excellont physician, a flrat-class druggist, and o corps of akillod nurses form the modical atafl of tho institution, The best of nttendance Is thus “Within tho roach of tho poorest resident. Chil~ dren aro tenderly carod for whilo their parents aro at work ' Tho intornsl mansgomout of this curious homo s fn the hands of twelve mon and twelvo women. Tho mon take charge of such matters ns tho formation of providont sociotios and the goneral smielioration of the workingman's coudition, Thoy nlso consider questions in rogard to wages thot may arise botweon M. Godin sud his ewm- ployos. The womon supervise tho quality of the goods furnished by the co-operativo stores, overdeo tho arrangements for the care of the children, and make regulativns for the general order and cloaulivess. Crime i8 said to bo un- known under the root of tho Familistero, If we hesitato to indorso this sweoping statoment, wo may yot readily accopt the asgertion that the standard of morality ‘aud mauners smong the membors of this slugular commuuity is vory much highor thau it usually is among persons ot their position in lifo. M. Godin hos given his omployes all this withont loss. ‘Tho reuts puy & falr intarost on the capital invested.” This iu by no moana tha chief return, Not to spenk of the ouormous gratuitons advertisiug ho receives, ho bins secured tho hearty good-will of his work- men, who labor with greater onergy, groater honesty, greater caro, and groatér skill Thoir inerossed eflicioncy i purtly duo to the faot that thoy share in the profits. After capital has boon pmd 15 por cont, nnd tho mon have recoived thofr ordivnry wages, nnd o roservo-fund hog beon got asido, tho surplus is divided botweon copital, lsbor, and the resorve. The last geta one-thurd, Tho remaining fwo-thivds are divid- od among capital and labor, in proportion to tho sum each hag already received. To illustrate, lot tho balance-shoet staud thus One-third of this sum ($8,000) is aliotted to the resorve. The rewainder (816,000) is divided among capital aud lubor iu the proportion of ¢ to 9, That is, capital receives 6,400 and labor $9,600. This bowus on !abor is divided among tho employes in proportion to the sum of tho wnges carnod by eaoh during tho yoar, M. Godin finds that tho moro o has done for his omployos, the more they have dono for him. His philantbropy yields bandsome dividonds. Mo has found imitators in England. We aro not rwaro that hio has in the United Btates, 1t witl be remombered that not long mincs tho maungors of the Northern Paciflc Road referred in vory glowing torms to the garden of roses beyond the one-hundrodth meridian west, as one of tho iuducements for bondholders, although tho German oxperts had reported uunfavorably, Thon came Gen, Hazen, who was lving in that quartor, aud stated that o had never found any of tho roses, and that tho lund wasn't worth a ponny o sere, Lo offset this, Gen, Custor was employed to wsist upon the garden of roscs and tho land flowing with milic and honoy. Now comos & correspondent who Las boon through that region recontly, aud roports to the Ciucinuati Commercial that he can't find tho roses, but that the country is **a8 brren a8 a goose-pasture in winter, audag gray au & Norway rat.” Thograss hssn't growa two inohes this year, Tho trcos which bave boen sot out &ro dying. Thoro are no gardons, no liviug water, no anything, This bardly com- ports with tho existouce of many flourishing rose-gardons, Wo fear that tho rosy complox- ion which hao boon nttributed to this torritory ia thin, and that, a8 in the Boechor cuse, tharo has beon soms tall lyiug done by somobody, In viow of the conflieling testimony i the case, the only safety for thoso who want to invost money 18 to go up and examine for thomselves. A story I8 now golng tho rounds of the English newspapors of a ondo vory almilar to that of the Tichborno claimant, It was triod lu tho year 1840, and possessos 80 many features in common with the more modern conspiracy that one can« not doubt.thet Asthur Orton was in = groat measure indebted to it for the details of his in- Fonious plot. The most remarkable point about it Ie that it should uot. have beon ex- humed from the records before the conclusion of the Iatter and tho comviction of the congpirator, The property 1nvolved was in possession of a Bir John Bmyth, hav- ing peascd to him through Lis mother, Whoso Lrothors, though marriod, had diod without issue, ‘Tho olaimaut pratended to bo the logitimato son of the elder brothor, Sir Hugh Smyih, and pro- duced the most convinolng testimony to outsbe Wsh his idontity. Ho was recognized as the rightful boir by bis supposod reltivo, sud ap- poarad to be in & falr way to win the rioh oatatos, It {s & ourious coincidenco that the iguorance of the clalmant in the matlor of erthograghy, obe #orvable in his spolling two famillar words thus, “nott msnldo,” injurod hla osso somo- what, jusb a5 Arthur Orton's orthograph~ cal ~ wonkness ocsiranged some of bis supportera. On tho very ovo of » surrendor, the dofonso proved that tho claimant was a conviet, aud had beon Imprisoned for throo yoars for the erlmo of borsa-tonling ; that his nock and arm woro marked with *Tho King's Evil,” and that Lis apparontly irrofragablo ohain of evidonco was 8 froud of tho most iugonlous doscription, Orthography, or tho want of it,was his bane onco more. In forging n signet ring, an sceident on tho engraver's part had changed s lottor, Tho piotto Qui capit capitur had beon chauged, the lust word readlng capitor. Liko Orton, the falso Bimyth, lnslond of ocblaining a Daronotey and a fortuno, rocoived a sontence of transpor- tation for twenty years. It is probable that Arthur Orton, in adbering as closely as ho did to precedent, was unprepared to find that similar canses, undor similar conditions, produce slmilar offoats. _—— Tt soomn to be one of the monstrous deformi- tios of our aacial eyatem thot tho ineave, of all othors tho most helpless wards of humnanity, should bo perpetually at tho meroy of corrupt and unsorupulous mon. 1tis not for nothing bnt tho asylums for those unfortuuates aro secluded from the publio eyo; it ia not without purpons that tholr government is & mystery, and that all matters yortaining to thom are roligioualy concealed. Now and then this veil is lifted by oxtranbous force, snd it usually hap- pons that a mass of corruption is revoaled which shocks aud sickeus tho botter sense of bhumanity. It is not for mothlug, porhaps, thas the Cloveland pross complaivs of socrooy, and irrogulatities undor tho cover of it, st the Ohio Asylum. Tho recont revelations made at the Kings County buildings, at Platbuab, N. Y., aro suflicient to justify the mutterings of tho Clevoland papers. The Commisaioners at thio Now York intitution found thnt the unfor- tunato inmates hnd for a long time been kopt in a stato almost of atarvation. Vogotablos had boen denfed thom thoir animal food had boen foul and putrid; the salt moata furnishied thom wero rovolting even to tho eight; the butter sout to tho Asylom was tho scouring, probably, of lhotel Litchons. This was bad eoough, but not all. The gravest immoralities hod Hourighied in tho Asylum. Alalo and fomale attondants had mingled indiscrimivately, and oven the engineors and day-laborers were fur- nishod with keya to tho fomalo warda, which thoy entored at all hours of the day or night, Hu- manity revolts againat such outrages as are horo shndowed forth. Our own County Iosane Asylum is not nbovo roproach in the matter of supplics to tho inmates ; though, 80 far, nono of tho othar shominablo evidences of inhumanity como to light. This is an era of oxposures ; tho rotton- nesd of our institutions is coming to light. puanse i K dien i Bpain numbors among its curses, in addition to Doun Curlos, Dorregaray, sud tho inkorant oruel- ty of its poople, a systom of brigandage of a bold but extremoly polito order. A Mr, Arthur Hasledon, of London, writes to the Times, giv- ing bis oxporlence as'a captive among brigands. He was traveliug with his foroman to some mines in the Linares distriot, whor the bandits cap. tured Lim, and coolly demanded & ransom of £40,000. Mr. Hasloden laughod at the amount, and told his captors that they might save thomsolves tho trouble of awking for it from his relatives by disposiug of him st once. He consented, however, for form'a sako, to attsch his signature to the demaud made upon his brotbers, and remained with tho brigands for nino days. At the expira- tion of this torm the mossonger dispatohed for tho ransom returned with a sum of monoy, and Mr., Haslodon was 8ot at liberty. Tho chief brigand politely offored the captive a guido to his destination, promised bim immunity from any othor gang of thieves in the district, aud made him & presont of £6, with tho remark that it would not be righs for s caballoro to go shout without any monoy In his pocket. On roaching his brothors, . Alr. Hasledon loarned that £6,000 had boon paid for his reloase, and was given to undorstand that the local Goverumeut would &eo that the firm did not suffor pecuniary loss by the transaction. Thore is ap nir of romauce about this udventure which is usnally locking in similar episodes in Greeco and Italy. It oxhibits » phaso of Spanish char- actor s graceful a8 it is unoxpected, ——— Mr, Thomas Tooke, inhis * History of Prices,", attributes tho recont panio in this country to the fact that too much of our flosting capital bad been couverted into fixed capital in railroad eutorpriges, and assorts that this waa the cause of tho fiuancial orisis in Englaud in 1847, En- rland rocoverod rapidly from the shock, and the Unitad States, bo pradicts, will soon do the same thing. ‘The Railway Monilor divides the rail- road dovelopment in this country into threo stagos, and shows that Mr. Tooke's theory holds. Tho first poriod, botwoon 1829 and 1810, bub 7,805 mwilos of railroad woro buill; even this slow progress was too much for the finnncial strongth of the country, and the rail- road projectors wore ruined. Thon the simul tancous flow of gold trom Oalifornis nnd Aus- tralia infused fresh strongth into the civilized world, and at tho ond of thonext period, in 1859, the total railroad mileage was 28,789 mileh. T'ho third period, which closed in 1873, found o total of 71,505 miles of railroad, and the strongth of tho country 18 again exhausted. The present conditions diffor from those of the first period. ‘Fhen we had the life-giviag flow from the gold- mines; now we are struggling ogainst tho porilous excitemont of papor-money inflation. Tho Monitor concludos that for many yoars to como tho extension of our railroad systom must stop. In thehurry of spooulation the work has been poorly done, und the resources of tho country must be oxponded in bottering what weo havo, instoad of adding to it. This advieo is sound, and probably indicates the railroad pol- ioy of the country for some time to come, for thio reason that it is about the only polioy loft, Among the ovils engouderod by an irredeemablo curroncy, uot tholoast s an incrense of paupor- fsm. This result of the monoy ayed in blood s been pointed out ina papor on pauporism in tho Ciky of Now York, read on May 23, 1874, by Dr. R, T. Davis, bofora tho American Bociul Science Associntion. An irredeemablo cur- rency stimulates spoculation, brngs on fluoneial pauics, tho .destruotton of woalth; and, s thie ‘destruction must fall somewhors, it also brings on pauporiam. Tho issue of our greenbacks led to speculation, the speculation fo onprofitablo investmont, un- profitabte investment to the loss of wenlth, loss of wonlth to the wholesalo discharge of Inborors, aud the wholosalo discharge of laborers to pauperism. The peoplo of Chi- cago havo hiad proof enough of tho relation that subsists betweon pavicsand poverty. They do not yob forget the demaunstratious of the workingmen during the past winter. Not only bave the workingmon thomselven sulfored,— thoir wives and childrou have sufforod too. Tho extravagauco of tha rich, produced direotly by tho overigauo of paper monoy, 14 too easily imi- tated on & amall eoale by the poor. Under tho iutluence of this extravagance, tho resorved means of support for times of doprivation is tnkon away, ———— Prof, Huxley i not & believer in the good old times. Ou tho contrary, bo compares the pros- ont with the past in & mauner highly uncowpli- wontary to our graudparonts, Iu bis eulogy of Priestly at Birningham, he drew a vivid picture of the eoolal condion of England sud Europo genorally, ‘ Sooloty,” ho sald, # was {n a gtats of carruption which goutd ouly be compared to the Bocond Empiro in France. Bribory waa a means of governmont, and pecu- lation way ita roward, Four-fifths of tho seats of the louss of Commons wore notoriously for sale, in ono shapo or another,” Wo are prone, as a natlon, to be acneitive to tho romarke of out~ siders, Of gourso, tho gonial sciontist didinot mean to imply that the United Siates was juste ocntury bohind the ngo, althongh the portraht fe strikingly coinoldental, ' Contrasting tho prosent with tho past, Mr. Huxloy drase the conclusion that within ono hundred years tho world bas mado Immongo progrens toward the ultimate porfeotabllity of mankind, Rockoning back- wards fu this ratio, tho ulate of pociety in protow plusmlo days must havo possessed somo pit objectionablo fonturen, e That inevitable barnacle of Jonrnaliam, T, Torkins, profosses to have intorviowed 'C)uu Louiso Keollogg at Baratogs, and puts inthe mouth of that iady somo criticians upon ladios® dresses, in which she entors into. 8 detatlod parallol botweon sounds and colotg,—the eight notes of tho scale and the oight colors of the rainbow. As tho whole of this stus can be found In n rather rara work callod Gardner's ** Musla of Naturs,” which in s time mado considerablo of a sonsation, but long ago was s0c asldo aa nondenss, i i quite ovi it Mr. Bl Porkins laa boon gl ing himselt up from Gardnor aud vontllating himolf on tono-colors, It - 1y bo possible that Misy Kellogg, who ho:l“ g:;’:- toforo boou erodited with strong common sons, should ever Liave aid s “ Whon I mix unvemi erudo notes from difforent aataves, I produce & symphony.” There hLave undoubtedly been somo compositions called symplionies Pproduced i:ltlmu v;;:y r;:(mlnyhula mauner, but wo do nof ollovo Miss Kellogg is in this style of 1t is $00‘much like ENl Porkins, 5 R —_——— Tho ead nows comes from Romo that the T nal City, sinco it hae come within the js\rls'dil‘:::l:l: of the Italian Governmont ana organized s pare- Iy temporal munlelpality, is beginning to follaw in tho track of tho Yyoungor and moro suscoptible cities of this country, In other words, the changos which are going on have duvulapu’d nu- morous riugs and fat jobs, Froedom is boing socured in the usual manner, by swindling, thioving, and plaudoring, and th pross, whicy Das horotofora boon fnspired by the sanctitios of tho Vatican, and kopt tolorabiy cloan, ig now full of dirty linon hung out toalr, Has not Roma ruins enough without adding to thoiy ‘numbor tl‘ml pr;fl!flu boman ruins which this sort of mue nicipal goverumont produces? Li ng enough to know better? e ol —_—— NOTES AND OPINION. The Tennassee Ropublican Btate Central Come mittoo decido that this is not & good year far x Republioan Btate Convention in Tennesseo, —A proclamation of Powell Clayton, sumtmons ing tuo Ropublicans of Arkansss to a Stats Con- voution, speaks of ' Elisha Baxter, proteuding to be Governor of Arkaness,” Powoll Clayton ought to know, He mado Elisha Baxter Goye ornor—or protended ho did. —Another grabber ronominated: Smith, Republican, Pennsylvasia. ” —Oune Congrorsman can't draw ealary cnongh for tho Ropublicans of Nebraska, who proposa this yoar to vote for s second man, “con. tingont.” . —Martin Maginnis, Domocrat, was elocted Delogate of Montans in Congreas, in 187, by 819 majority. Ho has just boen re-olected by 640 majority, % A. Hom ~@eorgo W. Jones, of Dubuque, ox-Senator, otc., an O'Conor-Grant man iu 1872, a Republi oon fn 1878, aud last woek a delegate in tha Dubuqus County Antl-Monopoly Convention, an- nounces hiniself a candidoto for Congress, The Dubuquo Times (Ropublican oftice-holding) givos the anuouncoment somo prominenco, —From that ever-rofreshing woll-spring, the Ropublican Congressional Committoo's Address: You are about ta aolect representatives to a now Con gresn. W carnatly entreat you (0 send (Lo trueat angl ableat Republicaus you have, But we entreat you to gend Jtopublicans und not Democrats, You will seud ougor the otber, No matter what the individual may call himpelf, or what disguiss bo iy wear, ho will ba & Republicait or n Democrat, Thero ia ot prescnt 10 room for any othor style In our politics, If you do Dot mean to retracs the past, you will solcct Hopubli- tams and not Democrats, 1f you mean to go forwnnl i the tuture, you will seloct Repubiicaus suid not Dewa- ocratn, —The Bopublican party is dead in East Ton- nessco. In .its stead is substituted personal politics, They have nothing but Butler and Gillenwater's papora over there, and Houk and Thorubuxgh papors, and 80 on.—Nashville (Zenn.) Republican Banner. . ~—The Ropublican journals, with their party rooking with filth, filled with corruption, with its Banborns, its Shepherds, its Butlory, its Kol- loggs,and its Mososes,are begiuping to talk Domo- eratic immorality, Tho Chicago Post spoaka of * tho Domocracy of tho editors’ condemwing Mr, Beechier, bohind which is the ponoral immoralit: tiat breeds Democracy.” When mu{;eambi - ity " mukes robbery legal, and whon tho purty of *“God and bumanity " makes it a point to whitewash all volitical offonders, it must bo s good time to talicof immorality breadiug Domoc- Tacy.—Grand Rapids Democral, —The noxt clection in Lowmsisna is likely to be ovoun a groater fruud than the lust, for J(auugfi'i naw regietration systom will virually debar Lig appouauts from vating. There ia a State DBegia- trar, with Chief Clork and assistants to en or the machine, Undor them aro the Bupervisors of Rogistration, one for each parish, and one for ench ward in Now Orlosns. All tiwoso ofliciale aro to bo oppomntod by Kelcwg, aud rcceive good malarios dopendont upon his touure of office. ‘I'ho Bupervisors aro to (e cide all questions of erasure from or addition &0 the rogistry, and thoy huve the appointmont of Special Constabled to atteud tho polls. LTho Suporvisors may roject, if so disposcd, aven the proofa of naturalization roquired by law. In order that the courts may not mar the plans of theso officlals, it is provided that any Judge interfering shall be finod $500, and imprisoned for not less than six months, CASUALTIES, Two Men and Two Horses Killed by the Gnrs. Spectal Dispatch to T'he Chicaco Tribune, Oaspripee Otry, Ind., Aug. 20.—The night expross on the Cloveland, Columbus & indisnn Central Railroad ran into a team of horsed con- taining two men just a3 it reachod Dublin, kill- ing both men snd both hordes. Tho namos of tho unfortunato partios woro Cummings and Willlams, 'Thiey wore supposed to have buea in~ toxicatod at the timo of tho accidont. Two Men Killed by n Powder Explo« ston. Cixcinyary, O., Aug. 20.—At North Virden, Ind., yestorday, Mr. May and Steplion Bulter woro Lilled by au exploston of powder iu s well in which thoy wore digging. The powdor had Been piaced in tho well and fired by a slow matoh, but asit did not oxplode,alter waiting some time, thoy both dosconded into the well and nad juse renched he bottom whon it oxploded, kill- iug both instuntly. Killeu by o Kot Sall, CtyorNaty, O., Aug. 20.—At 2 o'clock this at- ternoon, Walter Brown, a boy 10 yoars old, stuod watohiug & practico-gamo of bail in tho villago of Ludlow, Ky., opposite the mouth of Milt Crook, this oity, A boy namod Bhanuon struck o ball with & bat and sout it whirling agaivat the lofc breast of Waltor Brown, kilting him inatant- Iy.* Browu was au only son, No bikwo attachod to any ono. —_— POSTMASTER-GENERAL JEWELL. Special Disputeh to The Chicago Lriduns. 2 New Yonk, Aug. 20,—Postmastor- Gcnqrnl Jowoll left tho steamship Botbnis at quurautine Iate last night, and asrived in tho ollvnt_fl o'clock. this moruing. Ho weut dlract to tho Fitth Avo- nue Hotol. All tho forououn his roows wero filled with his fifonds and smiling post-ofiice offi- aisli, The Hartford Recoption Committos wero alko thore, Accompanied by o fow friouds, Le took the aftornvon bost for Loug Branch, for tho purposo of calling on President Grant. Ho s the bonror oOf mows _ from {xe Bastorig, whom he met in Englind, o Wil yeturm to the city to-orrow In thio morning boat, and leave af 11a. m, for Iast~ ford, Alr. Jowell esys that siuce lonving Bt Petersburg ho bins lmproved every opporiunity to got knowlodgo of tho Kuropoan poetal systeny. e bas visltod Borlin, Faris, und London, and tho ohiofs of the Pustsl Dopartmonts in thosa oitios havo opencd evaty avenuo of information to lum, All that ha has obtained {4 in the form of documents or rough uotes, and houoo he fu unablo to speak dircctly on the subjoct, Ho will uee thia knowledga fu impraying the poatal gorvico of the United States whon hs soes ge an be wade with advaniage,