Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 29, 1874, Page 4

e g A 4 4 —— e —— TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TATER O SUNACRIFTION (PAYADLE 1N ADYAXOK), Dafly, 14 nund 2,000 | Sundas. Tric el G001 Wy PAr(& 01 1 5enr st tho sttie ray oy ravout dosny anil mistaxes, ve snro and glvo Tost ©fi e nediers in full, Includine Stata and Connts, Post nl\tml(uucnl may Bl‘:““'n“l‘u“:n ‘"nd;':::;g;‘:;m N ¥ 4 01 In Tegiatero: 3 s deliverad, Bunday excepte inctuded, cents por esaereds Bungar UERIRIINGE COMU AN Bl A tor Mrdisnn AT Donrbarnes1s,. Uhicaro, His e v TO.DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, MY OF MUSIC- Halstord 2t rant Lt wosn Mad- R:'?fl-:r? el ngagomeut ‘o Miss Icuthiarine Rogors idoiphs ¢ Psgmalion sod Galatea,™ "VICK IS THIEATRE—Madliou streat, hetwean Do Hate. Aingaarmont o1 Miss Ostlatta Lo bteq. ** Behool for Soandal LEY'S TURATRI—Randotoh atreot, betweon OitiR o aSatlo, o Tho Vigintan." D OPRRA-HOUSR=~Clatk _atroet, opposito Bnlnlr‘x‘nAlfi House, Kelly & Leon's Alinstrols, ERS! IQUSR~Monrao stroet, hstween Bints A Dourbors: 108 Soaruin Sinatris ud TREY putlormance, ] "SOCIETY MEETINGS. MASONIO.—A snoclatasssmbly of Orlantal Conyiatory, : 40 8, B, R, 5., will be liold at l'fi'::fi“fl:"'fifi?'&‘n‘ Loy LTt o day)evopli st 1y oelocks MUK, Gr. Buo. “LUSINGSS NOTICES ORNER OF OLARK AND DR. McCH. Ct. 1 il b nnd Leal fuit st of NEITS KALLISTON- i1l BEST GOS. o 40 tho world,"—2hiladelphic b P AT patuliar suftuoss OF tOxthea = Jaston Thuns. obicotIy v ity acilvn of \ho skin.T_~Lovon vas, }Jnd«-nl-l,u l‘nr‘ln-‘:’umumn\ln ; l"“;lu’:t‘:’..l";m i admircd as & cusmmnic, "' —, g 3 Vo Tadyhs Lollet oomilota without 1=, O, Trus ESNEY, s salo by all deuggists. The Chivaye Eribune, Worning, October 28, 1874. Thursday ‘The Ruilroad Conductors’ Insurance Assocla~ tion seoms to Lo going tho way of all co-opera- tivo enterprisus in Ameriea. Tho Seoretary and Tyeasurer of the Asgociation roported to the an- nual meoting in Bt, Louis yesterday that 630 meinbers had withdrawn and 946 been dropped from tho rolls during tho year. Tho little town of Naperville, in the Firat Con- gresaioual District, has been made a pivotal point of the cawmpaige, Messrs, Smith aud Caul- tlold linving delivervd speeches thoro on succes- sivo ovenings, In proportion ss decent people heor of ond from Mr. Smith they will be s earnest supportera at the polls. Some fustructivo reading will bo found about thia timo in the reporis of tho eafe-burglary trlal at Washington. A valuablo lossou to 8!l knaves and jnstruments of kuaves, to ring- masters and thewr servauts, to rascally aud dorolict publio oflicers, 1s,containod in tho history of tho unsucoossful attempts to smother this trisd and save Nettlosbip and Whitaly. The Comwitlos appointed to couvgratulato Presidont Giaut on belalf of tho Union Leagues tor his recent Cabinet appointmonts did itu work in n graceful and becomiug, though not severoly logieul, fashion. To uay that the Union Leagucs thonghout the country would be heart sud soul with the Admivistration of Gen, Grant; if they oxigled, 8 mors amening toid finidy s pauias loous, Tho Epieconnt fanavat # . i DOXE wvsnnt tuon tho House of Bishops wil have passed upon tho anti-Riinal amendment, The Convention bus beon kiud to tho nowspapors in theeo dull times, and the nowspapers in turn Lava done well by tho Convontion. The termiune tion of these cordial relations i8 o proper oc- casion for oxpressions of condolence, The admirers of Willinm Culleu Dryant pro- oo to give him, ou his 80th Liv:hduy, somo testimonial of tbe oride and love which bave beun awaicened by his carecr 43a poct and n pub- licman, The design is to sccuro the money necessary for the parpose by popular subsexip- tion, The slorment to Chicago fa @500, of which 8300 havo aliendy beon collected, Itis not so much n duty 88 & privilego to join in this weworial offoring. A spoctacular performatco of unusual inde. sency was given by Mr, Henry L. Dawes iu Sa- fom, Mass., pigist before Inst. Mr. Dawes oxhib- itod lumself as an advoente of Gon. Butior's ro- election. Wa have already bidden good-bye to Mr. Dawes. Wo want no moro of hiw. Ho lins congorted with demagogues and political gam- blers, nnd when o nsks to bo considerod wilh them but not of them ho asks too much, Itis really humillating to ihink that the man who to- day pleads for Gon, Butlor has had the opportu- ity to betray the confidonce of tho respectable yoople in Ameriea, ‘The inauguraticn of the Iresident and Chan- colior of (he Chigngo University to-night comes more liko tho bouadiction after prayer than tho grace boforo moat. Both Dr. Moss and Dr, Bar- roughs aro well npproved as possessing uvusual qualifications for the positions which thoy now vecupy. Their formal induction to oftice is merely au oceanion for the cxprossion of a part of tho osteent in which thoy ate held by tho fiieuds of the Univorsity. Thoso who ate weary of politica and long to hoar and oo a new thing caunot do bottor than attond the servicon at Alc- Cormick Hall to-night, Chancellor McCraw, of Alabamn, who is elogacd with the respeotablo Republican alemens of the South, hoy voluntarily cortified to the rood ordor prevailing fn his judicial divislon, vliich embraces noarly one-third of tho State. He enys: **'Ine ontsido world ia deceivod by the tortible pnsslon into which lettor-writers and political cditors havo loshed themselvos.” Wo may add that the lottor-writors and political oditora would not have ‘‘lasbed thomselyos” Lialf g0 hard 3t thoy had known what the effect would bo in Obio ond Indiaua, 'Tho outrage- business has heen struck with o ponie, and fs not likely over to revive, This much the organs ato almost propared to admit, [ Tho Chiesgo produco markots were strongar yesterdsy, with more business doiug, Mews potk wos in good domand ond 9250 per byl bhighor, closing at $10.00@19.25 cosb, mnd §18.723¢@10.75 sollor tho year. Lard was quiot wnd Tge por 100 Iba higher, oloslug at $12.40@ 12.80 cnsh, and $11,16@11.20, eoller the yoar, Hoats were quiot and firm at G3@0%c for houlders, 03¢0 for ehort ribs, and 1134@113{0 for aweet-plckled hams, Ilighwines wore moie wtive andeasier at 970 per gallon, Luke froights wero more active and firm ot 43gc for wheat to Buftalo, Flonr wae in bottor domend at the recout decline. Wheat was active and advanoed 1840, closing at B4}{o oash, B3¢0 for Novomber, and 85360 for Decombor, Corn was aotive, aud in urgent demand and 2@2}¢o higher, closing at 430 for October, and 450 for Novombor. Rye was ‘quict nnd firmer ot 81@%2c. Barley was In good damand and firm, cloxing at $1,10 for Ootober, ond §1.07 for Novombor. Hogs were netlve una strong, with eales at §6.25@0.46. Cattle wern dull and unsottled. Sales at 81.76@0.10, Sheop wero unchangad. The Minera' Conventlon at Olavoland fs dis- posed to imitato tho example of the Engineors® Brotherhoed, and dlsregard the advico of its Prosidont. Indeed, the Presidont may bo thauk- fulif ho long remning at the head of the organ- ization on any terms, His offeuse apponts to b good sengo, und & willlnguoss to exorclse it on behalf of the minors, Ho bns advisod sub- mission to tho terms of tlho proprietors, aud srgued tho rossonablonoss of Lis views ably and in excellent temper. 11is nddresshas thue farhad no offect, except to provoke the submission of resolutions reviting the injury eaused by the om- ployment of *Inzzaroni " i the mines, and call- ing for the distribution of arms awmong mombers of tho Union. 1t is onsy to undlorataud now why a Presidont with brains and solf-respoot may bo troublesome to the Miners' Association, Au nbsurd story bas been started in the Third Congrossiounl District to the offect that M. Le- Moyue i8 n ** Kentucky Copporhicad,” that ho opposed tha War, discourngod enlistmonts, and sympathized with the BSouth, The facts are thewa: Mr. Lo Moyneisawon of F. J. Lo Moyne, of Whashington, Poun,, who was ono of tho founders of the Liborty party, and wag, if weo romombor rightly, o candidate for the Vico- Pregidency on tho tiekot with James G. Birnoy, Mr. Lo Moyne, 8r,, is still living, and his pres- once at the Auti-Slavery Rounion held in this city laet Juno was warmly grooled by the othor voterans of the old Liborty party. His son, Mr. J. V. Lo Moyne, voted for Abraham Lincoln to 1660, and agan In 1804, Sofar from discouagiog enlistmouts ho put a man into the three years' sorvico at his own exponse at o timo when thoro was no draft ponding, aud snbsoquently ton- dered his own sorvicos as o private soldier. It this kiod of a record makes n ‘* Kentucky Cop- porhend,” it wonld bo bard to find any loyal mon in the Third District, Peunsylvavia Ratlroad Gowmpany is exposed this morning by our apeeial correspondent in Harris- burg. The Domocratio candidate for Congross in tho Soventconth District is the Company's Buperintendont of Transportation, rosiding at Altoons. Ho has boon making an oxcellent cauvnss, and had an oven chance with the Tepublican candidato of the olection, Tho Re- publican eandidate happens to be also an em. ployo of tho Railroad Company, and to stand higher in favor of tho management than the Superintendent of Travsportation, So the lat- tor has beon summoned to Philadaiphia and advancad 13§@80, olaslng at 03¢0 cash, 70)e for Qotobor, sud 665¢0 foxr November, Oate were forced to withdraw from the contest. . Tao evi- dont design of thia movo is to cripple tho Domo- cratu at o day (0o near the claction to pormit of thoir recovery. After this account of tho cir- cmnatanca it is rofresing to read in tho lettor of tho wittdrawing candidato that he is “an oflicer of corporation that uvoids participation in political conflicta,” The voters of tha Boven. toonth District are ikely to complain that ho has been an unreasonsbly long time in making this s & =¢ter zll, be tolling an un- wulh, Itis a mournful commentary on the ocaucus systom {hat the Repubiicans of the First Sen- atoriol Distriot ure compelled to continue Mr, George A. White a8 a candidato for tho State Bonate; and that thoy, 88 o party, are compolled to support him at the polls againat Mr. Jobn O. Haoines. We goro informed that Mr. White's friends ectually onrotled, 8s & preparatory klop towards his cloction, some 000 addi- tionnl namen to tho 1cgistry in the Elov- enth Ward, and that & partinl oxamination discloses the faob that the reaidences given by mauy of theso enrolled voters are frundulent, no buildings of tho numbors given oxistiug. Of coutse this wholesalo illogal vot- ing will not be conflned to onoward ; these samo mon may be'onrolled in aovoral wards, or, adopt- ing the plan of ropeaters, wiil vote in os many wards as they are paid for. Tho district is com- posed of the Firat, Sooond, Tenth, and Eleventh Wards, and it will bo a reproach to tho dis- trict and fo the city it this man White bo elected. Thero aro considerations of fitness aud of common decenoy that rive above all party con- siderations, and wa trust that the people of tho districs will, for their own crodit, aon that that Mr. Haines be olected by the solid vote of all respeotable men of all parties, It thers is anybody who bolioves thero fs nothing in the ThirdwEerm talk, we rofor him to tho gatherings of ono day from miscellaneous dources that bonr o this kubjeot, We print n couplo of columns of muttorings in this wattor, beginning Witk tho utteranco acereditod to tho Dresidont at tho last Cabinet meoting., This is 08 sphynx-like as ususl. Ho attributes the agitation of tho question to tho desire of thoe nowspapers for a sonsation, and suys that it would not compdrt witk his dignity sa Presidont of the United Btates to rospond to such clamora, But bo dacs 7ol gay that ho s not a candidate, and loaves tho matter juat where it was wheo Lo last snubbed Vice-Presidont Wilson and Benator Edmunds, Gov. Dix's referouce to the question at Coopor Instituto, which wo also print, and whie waa ovidently preconceived, is of no doubt- ful charactor. Ho s opposod to o third term for Gen. Graut “or any other man," The Wash- ington Republican siguiicantly eays that the ofiice of Presidont should nover be sought nor declinod, and epplios tlis generalization to o third {orm as woll o8 o flrst. Gorrit Smith thinke that it may Lecome desirable to renominate Gon. Graunt. Tho Baltimoroe Amer- 1can (Administration) rovolts, and tho Philndel- phia Inquirer (Administration also) says that tho Presidont must speak out, The Bpringfleld Republican asks some pertinont queations rola- tivo to tho foimation of a Congressional ring to nssist tho project, and the Loulssillo Courier- Journal says it has not beon killed by tho result of tho racent cleations, So it will bo seon that, if thengitation of tho subjoct 18 Gue to thie news- papare, it is not conflued to u few of them uor to any one faction. The Bouthern * tes-party " which followed that of Bostou by noarly o year Las been cole- brated in contonuial at Annspolis, The little clraumitanon shich was then solemuly callod to miud nas not allogother unlike that of Doston. ‘Tho Poggy Btewart was o belyg, ownod by An- thony Btowart, which arrived at Aunapolis in October, 1774, with a cargo of ton, Animatod by tho oxamplo of tholr New England brothren, they decided to destroy the eavary horb ns eme blematioof tho tyranny wlich they rosouted, ‘Thoy acoordlngly forced tho unfortunats trador to run the veasol sground at Windmill Polat, and 'I'HE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1574, sot fire to it Iimselt in the prosence of o grent i multitude of poopta. Tho celebration was hold" both at Anuapolls, the old Capital, and Dalti- mota, tho prosent moivopoly, nud thowe, on Oct. 10, with banvers nud decoratious, choors and npocchos, recalled from the dead past tho Lov of doflauce which thoy dared 100 yones ago. ELECTION-REPEATERS. Wa are intormed that a ropesting orgnuiza- ton Ly heen formed to opoerato on eloetion duy in the Menth, Eloventh, Elghtoenth, snd Twen- tioth Wards, the purpose boing to securo tho alections of Jumos Walsh, tho convieted Aldor- wan, Goorge 1. Whito, enudulato for S:ate Sen- ator, Chiarlos 13, Farwell, candidato for Congrons, and probably Johnny Uorcoran for Alderman., ‘Theso four wards are contiguous, belng cou- nooted by the bridges, and tho ropostors, sove oral huudrod sirong, proposo to vots all day under all possible names, ‘Tho regletry or the Lightoonth and Twontieth Wards, on the North Bide, and of the Tonth and Eloventh Wards, on tho West Sido, huvo already boen sprinkled with nnmes, fraudulont and fleti- tious, undor which thoso ropeaters propono to voto ou clectlon duy. This club haa beon organ- izod by tho gamblors, who are cspeolally futer- ested in tho oloction of theso throo caudidates. ‘Tho money to puy theee ropeaters lau probably boen furnishod by the seveial gambling-hells, and tho whole sffalr s undor thewr ospocial chargo and management, Wo suggost to thoso who have the maunge- ment of this clection in their hands, both Re- publican and Opposition, to take the registry of each prociuct, and have the vame printed, dis- tributed, and posted through thoso wards that thoy mnrk thereon all fictitious names and fraudulent entries of residonces, all of which can he arcortaived in twenty-four hours'inquiry; and that when any of these mon prosont them- solyos on olection day to vote they be arrestod then and there. The pennlty for fraudulont registration is tho eame as for fraudulent voting, and the conviction and removal to the Peniteu- tinury of e few dozon of these porjurers will bo o great public good. The gnmblers of this city have got desporato. ‘This is thelr tnst card, Mike McDouald and John Corcoran nre working togother with might and mnin, and upon tho success of this repenting operation, by which itis expeoted to poll sovoral thousand fraudulent votes, now haog the hopes of Wulsh, Farwoll, nud White. Lot tho lists be printed and the scoundrols detected, and if one of them dare show his face at the polls let him bo arrested, THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T VOTE, The problom, What besomes of the Amorican voter? is as intricato aa tho other, What bocomes of oll tho pine? On the 80th of June, 1870, thero woro in the United States 9,439,208 males over 21 yearsof ago, of whom 8,425,941 woro oftizons, native and naturalized. At the Preai- dentinl eleation in November, 1872, two years ond a half later, the aggregato vote polled, including fraudulent votes, waa only 8,500,000 leaving about 28 per cont of tho male votors not voting. Wio are these uon-voters, aud where do thoy reside? Axocent coneus of this city for school pur~ poses BLOWS 217,628 persons over 91 years ~* | age. Tho male population of Chicago excesds the fem:lo, In 3570, under tho Fedoral census of that yoar, there were in this city 84,114 males 21 years of ago and upward. In Cook County thore were at tho snme date 97,645 adulé males, of whom 66,607- wora citizens outitled to vote. Two years and o half later, whon a large propor- tion of the unnaturalized Lad become cltizens, tho aggrogate vote n this county for Governor (whioh vote was greater than for Presidont) was 60,209. The numbor of logal votora at that time waa probably 75,000, The school census does not' clagsify tho scxes, but the proportion of aduls will probably be obout 117,000 males to 100,000 fomples. Assuming that of tho 81,000 adule aliens resident hore in 1870 three-fourtht hovo since comploted their vaturahzation, and sllowing & porcontage of incroase for tho natives who have becomoof agein the interval of four yeara and o hall, the aggregate of males of the votiug ago entitlod to voto 1n this county ot this time can hardly be less than 90,000. Yot tho greatest vote polied in this county was tho ex- traordinary ono of 1873, when 00,000-voics wero polled. This goneral doficiency in the vote can Lo seen by comparison of saveral States. We Rive tho numbor of male cltizons ontitled to voto in Juue, 1870, and the numoer votiug in Novem- ber, 1673 ¢ o, of voters Actual 0, vt 163, States, Miine, . 3 217,301 In tho above list wo give tho vote for Gov- eroor fu 3aine snd Ponneylvavia, that belng Inrgoty in excoss of the vote for President. Here is o non-voting population of 26,000 in Muine, 120,000 1 Mussaohusotts, 152,000 fn New Yoris, 104,000 in Pennaylvania, 72,000 in Olio, 115,000 in Tilinols, and 57,000 ia Michigan, and this does nat meludo the inoreave in the voting population from 1870 to 1872, A further compatison shows that this non-vog- ing population iy residont in large excess in tho cities. Wo give s few oitations of those coun- ties In whioh lurgo cities ara located: Citizen Actua Countics, tufers, vate, Now Yor CBBATE 234,905 Y6 1110 42,200 44,000 44,150 50,209 29,50 In these sovon citips tho non-votlng population wag 131,000 out of au aggregate in 1870 of 684,- 000, which, added to tho natura) {ncronse, showod an averago of 33 por cont of tho legal voters who did not voto at that eleotion, Wo give the like comparivon in six counties 1n this Stato: Countfes, Edwerds McLeau, Monroo, Voting popula- tion 10 170, Aetual Bingam 1o, FX Woynn, 907 9,330 Wabagh, 190 1,000 Sangamon has the City of Springfeld and Ao- Lean tho Clty of Bloomiugton, and tho nati-vot- ing population is 20 per cont in the one aud 25 por cent in the othor, whilo in tho rural coun- ties tho voto is proportionatoly larger. Nevore theless, the failuro of & large proportion of the voting population to oxerclse that privilege is goneral {n all parts of the country and in overy locality, Who aro those nou-voters? As wo havo seen, a largo proportion of them are fn tho cities, and that proportion would seem much greator wero not tho numbor of actual votos polled largely fucroased by tho frauds which nro not practicod aud arenot poseiblu in the rurul towns aud precincts, In the lurgocitios tho non. voting class 1a mado up largely of morohanta aud thelr olerks, oll of whom are eigaged at busle noas romoto from thels rosldoucos, Anothoer olnay ate tho mechrulen nnd Iaborors, who live in the outer wards, and who aro ut work in shops aud elioswhoro a% o distanes from their vating- plucos. Thauy men leave hame celore 7 o'clock in the morntuy, and, aftor working all day, have no time, aven if thoy had tho inclination, to go to the polls at nignt to vote, Another class are those who look upon voting ns o personnl strg- &le with tho profossionnl votors, and nvold that strugglo by not golug to tho pulls. Do thoso must ho ndded the aged, iufivm, and fnvalids, who, If they feol any intorest in an claction, aro not able Lo attend, All thewe clusses may Lo generally consdored as totally indifforont whotler Jones boats Brown, which fs, unfortu- uately, the averago magnituds of the issucs in- volved 1w tho cluotions, Amnothor question growing out of this non-voling by suoh s large proportion of the public ia, do thuse who do vato represont fuirly those who do not vote? or, in other worde, would tho rosult of tho oleotions Lo ehangod if the whole populntion entitled to voto did actually vote? Tao bad and tho woret effect of not votlug, especially In largo oitios, is that tho selcolion of candidates and their eloction I lelt to thoso who follow that business for n llving, and whose intercsts are bont promoted by the election of corrupt govern- ments, looal a3 woll as gonoral, THE STRIKE OF THE LICOMOTIVE ENGI- NEERS, Somo of tho Weatorn railronds are consldering tho expodioncy of catting down the pay of thoir ongineors, If they dooide to do so, thore is s probability of a gonoral striko. It is diflcult to decide the justics of tho proposed reduction. Ou the oune hand, tho rallrond moungors clsim, with justico, that tho ronds must retrench, and that it {8 not unfair, under such civcumstancos, to ask thelr omployos to work for tho wages which their fel- lows receive at the Enst and on some of the Wostorn lines, On tho otbor, tho ongineers doubtless argua that the avernge wngo is higher than tho mauagers claim it to bo; that their premeat puy 16, at any rato, no more than & far roturn for the eLill noa trustworthiness required in their profession ; snd they ought. not to bo the only emploges to sliare the sufferings of the companics. Thara isronson in all this. It is notoriofis that mon working on fixed salaries suffor mora fn hard times than any othor class. Tho resources of crediv fail them and they cannot, by extta in- dustry, incroase their incomes, It is snfe to assume, a8 o goueral trath, that sslaried em- ployes are not receiving, in Americs, moro than thoy need to livo upon, -Again, the raflway com- paojes are paying large snlarics to their chiof officinia. Thoonginoors are unable to seo whythe men who get hundreds of dollars por yenr should Liavo thoir pay cut down whilo those who got thousands escape. While admitting that brains capable of management should be well paid for, thoy insist that tio long training they must un- dorgo, the responsibility for merchandise and for livos they must underlake, and the risk thoy ‘must run,—a risk incroased, in somo soctions of the West, by tho posulbility of denth from a train-robber's bullet,—make thom, too, worthy of good wagoes. Whoen so mueh van bo aaid on both sidea of . <iobla? Tint, 1 a the partof prudonco to compromise. If tho reduotion of pay is really in contemplation, the companies and tha ongi- neers will do tho best possible thing for their mutual wolfare by appoiuting a conforence com- mittee. It should be iastructed so proparo a compromise, If it is carofully ohosen, it might be givon power to prepare and ratify such a mensure, It ia probable that if the managers showed their anxiety to act falrly to ail the in- toreats concerned by appointing their soction of such o committeo, tho men would mect them balf-way, Itis probable, moreover, that the good feeling caused by such an action on the part of the companies would induco the en- pineers to ngroe to work for the average wagos vaid their fellows in the United States.” When wmattors had progrossed thus far, a'fair settle- ment would be'suro. It would be easy to find by correapondonce what this average rate roally is, ‘Whon this was diacovered, it would bo adopted ot once aud the danger of a trike would cease to exist. Thero would bo no Interforence with business, no waute of money, and no creation of ‘bad blood. Common senec dictates tho expedi- ency of such a compromiso, CLEANLINEBSS AND MORTALITY, Dr. Lyou Playfalr, an authority, if thero bo one, on the subjoot of eanitary sclence, has, in his addross beforo the Bocial Sclence Congresa at Glasgow, reduced tho whole subject to one word, and that not an unfamiliar ono—cleanli- ness. From time immoemorial, men have con- nected unctenntiness aud discase 18 cause and offeot. ‘Evorybody kuoows thatif ho would on- joy hoalth ho must be no stranger to ablution. But 1t i only 1n tho prosence of statistics that ono is apt to realizo the force of this trufsm. These Prof. Playfair furnlshes, In bis lnvesrigation of the quostion, whothor or not wo are making eatiafaclory progress in our sanitary measures, ho answors that, it we date ' tho standard of comparison far onough back, we eball fiud a merked improvement. Thus, the denth-rate in London from 1600 to 1670 was 80 in every 1,000, For tho last thirty- four yeara it has becn only 22.4 in overy 1,000, “That tho maan ago of tho wholo popilation, {n decado after docade, remning tho same, 15 no proof that sanitary seionco is not Improving, but only that the causos of mortality are increasing Wero it not that hyglenlo improvements konl; pace with the {norense fn the caus- 08 of wortality, mortality ftsolf wounld of courso increaso. The sterdy convergence of population to large towns has a tondoney to incronso the cauecs of mortality, espeolally whero hygionio mosenrca sre noglacted, Dut large towos in somoe countrics are henlthior than in others, aud the donth-ratois greater justin proportion to tha neglect of sanitary moasuros, Thus, in London, whevo the henith of the city ia closoly attended to by the municipal authoritica, tho doath-rate l8 22 per 1,000 per aunum. In Glasgow, whore, 88 in moat large towns of Scot« land, eanitary moasuresara neglooted, the death. rato fa 80,4 In overy 1,000. It follows from this thattherodioin Ginsgow, avery yoar, nearly 4,000 poople from the criminal negloot of the authori- ttou to look aftor thoe suitary condition of thocity. This ia not all, Statistics show that, for every person who dioa from the effeots of wanitary nogloot of tho municipal authoritles of Glasgow, thirty-four peraons sre ill, on au avorage of olghteon and o half days, from the same causo: thiat is, thero are ia that city alono over 160,000 cagca of lokneas runually which might bo pro. veoutod. The only roqulsiten nccessary ta Insure tho Leslth of Jarge aitica are, uccording to Prof. Playfaly, closu lousos, cloan water, and cloan air, ‘This was vocogulzed ns long mgo as tho times of Homor and Mosos, MHorelu is to bo found the philosophy of tlue wblutions in uss in the anclent religions, The opidomics of tho middlo ages, the spotted plague, tho black denth, the mwonting sickness, the danelng manln, the mewing monle, and Lo biting manis, had Whel ovigin in the noglec of personul cloantiness untveisally prevalous at that poriod, Prot, Plastair did uot conflne himuelf to the hintotical phneo of his subject, 1le throw out practical suggestions whicli ave worthy of con- #lderation ovorywhore. Ho rominded bis honvorn that wo allow gachaga to be only partially ox- Idized, und thus save it from being made havm- loss, Wo dig holes aud storo it up whore it canuot Lo fully oxidized. Wo poison our tivers by poutlng more matter futo themn than natural. agonts can reach nsnd bresk up fvto inocuvus oloments. Munieipnlities uud manufacturing establishments should bo prolbited to use rivers for pnrposos of draln- ago. Next to this moensure, he would forbid over-crowding, and urge tho thorough ventila- tivn of ull buildings, By adhering to thoso sim- plo rules, 4,200,000 casos of ilness might, ho thinks, bo preventad in Eugland overy year. Of course, to carry out the measures recom- mondod by the Professor raquires monoy. But tho cost wonld bo more thau saved in tho im- proved lieallh of all classes of the community aud the efticlency of thoir labor—the source of wealth, RELIGIQUS-NLWSPAPER ETHICS, At lenst ouo roligious newspapor oy hoon run to carth fn tho matter of the corrupt use of its columns to furthor the sale of railroad bonds. Thore are vague suspicions in the public mind that others have been roceiving money from the same illegitimate sourcos, and havo devoied ono portion of thelr columns to tho elucidation of morality, and tho ouhor to tho intorests of Mam- moun by bargain and ssle to railroud corpurativns havivg bunds to disposo of ; but, however dark appearances may bo, thoy are eatitled to the benoflt of & doubt uutil the facts aro proven, In tho cads to which wo havo alluded, that of tho Now York Independent, no doubt oxists suy longor, The Nation hus hunted it to its hole,” smoked out the animal, and now holds it up to tho public viow with its brush cut off. Tho matter in contfovoray was that favorite invest- mont ot the roligious nowspaper, the Northorn Pucific 7-80, which speciully commonded itselt to those organs of public morality, from tho fact that Jay Cooke had domo much for the causo, Lad lavishly cntertained clorgy- mon at bisvills, aud had built numorous chapets, The Nation having plumply charged the Inde- pendentwitheorrup.ion, the Independent at firat as plumply denied it. Tho Nation then cawablished the fact that thore waa u coutract botwoen Jay Coolto and Mr. Houry G, Bowen with regmd to tho Northern PacitioReilroad. The Iudependent, of which Mr. Bowen is monager and owner, thon acknowlodged tho contract, but, saye Bowon, it was for labor, and for the persousl aid and servicos of woveral other businoss mon negociated with Ar, Bowen and mot conuccted with any nowspapers,” 'The Nation promptly oxposes the quibble in this statement, and rises to explain, aud we may add that the explaua- tlon {s vory satiafactory. Tho coutract in ques- tion {¢ in the hands of Mr. E. R. Robinson, the coungel for tho Trustee in bankruptey in Now York City, snd Lo has beou instructed to suo Bowen on it on tho ground that it is confra Ubonos mores (* against good morals"), the ronson why it is opposed to good morals being that it stipulates that Mr. Bowen sball give to tho sale of the Northern Pacifio bonds ** the exclusive intorest and influ- onco of his monoy aud his editorial columns.” The Nation furthermore explaing that *the sove oral other business mon associated with him,” alluded to by Mr. Bowen, aro his nephew and a AMr, Kibbey, botk of whom are in the ofico of the Independent; that Mr, Bowen subscribed 846,000 in bonds and $460,000 in stook of the road, but pald no money; that ha thon entored into the contract with Cooke, and under it paid for $560,000 in bonds aud $460,000 in stock by tho servicos doscribod in the contract, namely, *tho exclusive interest and influcuco of bis money. and Xis editorial columns ;" and that Cooke then gave him s receipt in full, ea it for cash, & short time beforo his failure, This contract was found among the bavkrupt’s papors aud is now in the lawyer's hands, with instructions to submit it to a court of Iaw, upon the ground that Bowen obtained tho bonds and stock undor sn immoral agree- mont and without adequate consideration. Tho Nalion suggests that Bowen should pub- lieh tho contract with the lawyor's certifleate of the accuracy of tho copy, as thoero are four classes of peoplo entitled toses it: ** (1) Tho oreditors’of Jay Cooke & Co; (2) the bond- holders of the Northern Pacific Railroad; (8) tho subscribers to tho Independent; (4) tho divines and moralists who, by contributing to Mr. Bowen's paper and lending him the use of their names, make his *money and editorial columns’ worth pur- chasing.” There aro others who may not be en- titled'to soo it, but thoy would bo gratified to underatand Mr. Bowon's ides of nowapupor oth- ics, about which ho Las been prating so much of Iato; for instanco, the publicin goneral and other roliglous nowspapors in particular—the former, to fully comprehiond how such o truly good man a8 Mr. Bowon could act contra bonos mores, and tho Iatter, to be fully posted before they com- mons upon the Infqnity of Mr, Bowen’s conduct, aud toseo whother their own counting-rooms bave beon in pari delicto. Tho fato of Bowon has o double warning ; first, to other religious nowspapera ; second, to him- solf. Itis o warning to othor religious nowspa- pors, which havo boon tho most zelous advo- onton of Northern Pavifie, to hunt up thelr advortising ocontracts aud sco if thoy are contra bonos mores ; to cstablish a moral cordon about thoir counting-rooms, lest peradventure the onemy bne stolon upon them unawares, It 1n a warning to them that, when sucha truly good man a8 Mr, Bowen 18 tompted and eusnared by tho dovices of Mammon, no onois seoure, and {hat thoy cannot bo too watehful, We are loth to belleve that any more of thom have beon act- ing contra bonos mores, or that thoy have not been actlug molely for “tho cause” in Lolping futlate the Northern Paelfle bale loon, but when suoh & truly good man as Bowon goss to the br, it makos one fool norvous abont overybody. Itis o warning to Mr. Bowon that {f ho keaps on at this rato, nagociating himsolf with scaudals, even ono ko truly good ag ho may at lant got soiled, Ho al- rendy hea nt lenst half o dozen wwits pending, Rrowiug out of tho Boschor business, to ostub. lieh bis ohsracter, and now comes anothor ono. s triportite contract witl Beschor and Yilton, und his dunl contract with Jay Ouoke, and tho snd plight fo which thoy hiave loft him, should be o warning to him hereafcor to eschow con- tracta or mako thom with Honry O, Bowen, Tho Intter form would not bo contra bonos mores, Ho will aiwaya be kafe in giving 3r, Bowen * thy oxclusive interost and Inflaonce of his monoy and his editorial columuna,” MATTERS IN ARKANSAS. Wo have recoived from o trustworthy cor- rospondent & long lotior on Arkansas affaird, which wo aro unnble, for Inck of apace, to pub- il Hoealla uttention to the fact that while thie North in constantly informed of fletitions ontrages on tho blncks, all montion of real ont- rages on the whites is ocarefully snppreseod. Theso Iatter offouses, in Arkausns, may bo roughly cinssified as politieal nud pecuniary, Unudor tho fo:mor hiead our conyenpondont con- fributes something to the popular stook of Imowledgo about Arkauens polities, Tn 1872 the Republicun purty tn that State split. Joesaph Tiooks led oue faction, Towell Clayton and Cuniof=Justico (** Poker-Jack ) McCluro lod the other. The Arkansas State Gazetle, in o momont of inspiration, remarked that Trooks' complox- ion waw lke that of o brindle yearling, and nick- named him “Old Brindle.” The name took, ‘Tho Brooks faction has since been called * I dlotaile.” Another paper rotorted that tho editor of the Gazelle wos onco a negro minstrol. Tho Clayton fuction nt once bocame tho ** Minstrels,” Tho Brindlotalls called & Republican Slato Couvention to meot at Littlo Rock, in Juone, 1872, to nowminate a Htato tickot und to olect delogntos to the Phila- delphis Convention. The Miustrela called thelr Counvention two wecks enrlier. T'he negroos wore supposed to sympmhize with the Brindles. Iu order to geb them to attoud the first Conven- tion, those selected for delegates wero sube pouncd to attond the United States Distiict Court, then In gguslon. This was dono without the koowledge of the Judgos. The sham wit- neuses woro, of courso, uever called upon to testity, but wore paid off and discharged whon the Consention was over. DBy such ‘menns it Is bnid that the Minstrels succeoded in golling togother a large Convontion. Its nomineo, Baxtor, was counted in, although the Brindle- tail candidato, Droois, was elected, Now, a8 overy ono kuows, DBrooks, hungry for ofiice, bas clasped hands with the meon who coufess that they counted him out in 1872, He Is making spocclios in support of the proposition to distranchiso forover all men who took part in the Rebetlivn]l His party will hiold a sham elec- tion tor Stato oflicers Nov. 3, and will appeal to Congreas to put ite nominees in tho places beld by the men who have just been elected by 654,000 wnjority 1o the first fair vote cust in Arkanses sinco tho War. OQur correspondent brings grave pecuniory chinrges against the United States Marshals and their deputies, Cnirying liquor into the Indian Nation is prohibited by law. Bofore the War tho Indians kopt s mounted police on the border. Tart of its duty was to seizo and pour out all whisky emuggled across. Aftor tho War the law was changed. Its enforcemont was commite ted to tho United States Marshal; tho proporty found in the possession of & convicted offondor was ordored to bo confiscated ; and Lalf the pro- coods wers grantod to the oficor making tho ar- rest. Tho merchants of North Toxas used to ship the goods thoy boughtto Fort Smith, on the Arkausas River, and then lLsul them by wagon to Toxas. Tho wagon-rond runs forsome distance through the Indian Nation. It is said that the Deputy Marshals mado & practico of socreting whisky in thess wagou-trains beforo they crossed the border. The officers would aftorwards pursue and overtake them within the Nation. Search would roveal the hidden liquor, sud tho trains would bo confiseated. This nofarious game was played so often that the Toxan merchants have abandoned tho route via Fort Smith, and now havo their goods shipped by way of Kansas. Deputies do not despiso small goins in their zeal for large oncs. Thero are two stories in point. A woman living in the Nation was sick, Bhe sont for a friend living in Fort S8mith to nurse bor. Tho lattor borrowed a horse from a Dr. Barry, bought o pint of whisky for hor pationt, and started. Sho was pursued, ovortaken, arrosted, and brought back. Bhe was tried, convicted, and fined 85 and sentenced to ono ‘minute's imprisonment. Tho horso was confiseatod. All Dr. Barry's efforts to recover it have boon in vain. In another case, an Indian came to Fort Smith, got a physician to prescribo for o sick friend, bad the prescription made out, and started bome. Onoof tho ingredionts of the medicine was whisky or brandy. A deputy discovored this, Thoe Iudian was overtaken sud brought back. On his trial Lie produced his pro- seription. Nevertbeless, he paid $10 fino and way imprisoned for five days. His pony was con- flscated. Our correspondent writes that theso are butb samploa of the outrages constantly committed by the carpet-bag ofticiuls, aud as constantly lushod up. If any cue thinks it impossiblo for such corruption to exist, we bog leuve to remind bim that ths expenscs of the two Judicial Dis- tricts of Arkausas hinve been simply encrmous, aud that Attorney-Genoral Williams has dectarod that two Marshals have beon guilty of gross peonlation. These charges are no worso than those sgainst Bonator Cluyton, and Clayton, to rovengo himself on Daxtor, has contessed his own guilt, When the leaders run riot, are their appointeos to rofrain ? Wo havo hnd & Lord or two aud a Grand Duke a8 visitors, but uot a King for muny a day, And now a Kiog is comivg. Ho is not & monareh of very portontous power. His navies do notswoep tho Southern soas, nor do his juvading Losts sproad torror aud desolation thiough coutinenty, 1o is not the King of the Canmbal Islsnds, but comen very uecar deserving that lyrio sppellne tion. Haqis, 80 to apeak, a Kiug of shreds and patehes, but whether o bo & onc-horso or o gix- In-hand monarch, w King's a Xing for a' that, Ilis npme is Kalakua, and ho reigns in Hawaii, o visit to this contment s puroly one of busi- nesy, for ho comes to nogotiste a reciprocity treaty with tho United States, s prede- cossor was invited over hore iwo yours ago, but death out short his vielt nnd his reign at once, l'ha Honolulu Gazetle utates that the Americau Ministor recolvon o dis- pateh from Wushingzon ditecting him to iuvite Ring Kalakun to "the Uuited States; thas tho United 8tates stoamor Benicla wus placed at his disposal, aud that ho loaves some timo in Ou to ber, so a8 to arrive in Washingtou about tho timo that Qongross mocts, Kulukua is s Dachelor, aud will probebly have timo for plonsure as well o8 business, ‘Those young ladies who would pro- for roiguing in Huwail to sweoping carpets and Lnending dough in those United Btatos had bot- ter conunence propating tho caps thoy sre towsot at biw forthwith, Tho latest froak of tho young rad jolly King Ludwig of Buvarin ds (o go o Iuula to petect hiy artistle studios, and ihe genoral answer of the Bavarinns ovor thejr boor 1s Warwn nicht ? o has dona muny oddsr things than this, Ilo Lline buiit himselt & glaey houso on tho top of his pulaco, which ho hae fllled witih tropleal birds sud planis, 8o that ho cau go to the Orlent whou. over ho ploaves, IIo lies arruugod ballots to be givon to an audience of one, Ho hing allowed ‘Wagner to put his arme into tho Royal Exohioquer up to tho elbows to bulld his Daireuth thostre, 1Ile Las mude himwelf the pate ron of Die Wallmoren,” * Tristan und Twlde and all tho othor muele of tho tuture. 1o has wtocked s palnce-ponds with whits saany, He bs building a phitosophios ul rotrent to bo diled with old tomes, Ho bas wnde colleations of munfeal lnsirumonta, [To hag used lis erowen for & smokg-cnp ond his Heoptro for o wallklug-atick, Why uot go to Indw and complote his artistic oducation ? What hasheto do with rullig Bavaria? Io mny vroposg, but Binmntek disposes, Undar such cireumniances ftusems that the wisoat, happieat, and mosk seneible monavel 1y Lurope ls Youug Ludwly of Bavarin, e e 2 The Buab has been welzed with the cacoethes acrdbendi, which socus a8 fnevitable 1o tho Lrave- olor oy seasickness. o haw wiittou w Gimey £ his improssions durlng the late Buropeny toar, and has caugod tho #amo to bo published in 203 quarto pages of vory bad print in Tencran, Tuo stylo la the most childish and sinipio, and recails tho eavifer essnys of impressible infancy, Lo has condensed his English oxpurionces to sipie teon pnpes, narcating ovorything with the ute most brevity., Although noted for hin admiration of beautiful women, ko fails to treat extonsively of thogo ho uaw, morely dismissing them with tho romurk that ** London has some very handsowo womou; on the countennuces of both mou a.d Wwomen aro dopicted nobility, greatuesy, digoity, and strength.” Whon It ts 8 mattor of Jupuuosse Jugglers, negrosscs, and cafo chantuntes, the fnporial barbariny waxes eloquent and commi nicativo, Of L'atti, who was eugogod to siny at iho opera one night, he unid: * Tatti, ono of the colobraiod Europonu slugers, bad beon expressly brought from Laris, Sno sang very woll; sho w o vory handeomo woman ; sho took » larga pr to como to Loudon." This seems to be n rather opigrammatic aud seusible way of summing tho opera up. At the Zoological Gardous ho tuww the bhippopotamus, which was *a won- derfut thing.” Evorgthing Lo muw which was new to him was dismissed with tiio samo adjective. The cheering of the crowd ab this placo ticklod hin vanity, and bo immedintely recorded Ly impreseions fna pleasaut, half-sur~ prised way: *Renlly thoy cordially Iike wo. Ho thinks the English army small but well drijl- ed, well clothed, youny and strong, Ho wus struck by the number of city and matropolitun police, nud is awo of thom, sot forth in the supposed ponalty for showing disrespect for thom, hasalready been roared over as an lugenious satire upon tho potency of these bluc-bodied socvants of the puople. His deecription of Euglish porty politica is not so britliant, but charactorized by the ssme simplicity of style which shines in tho well-known juvenile essay on the horse: ** A horuo is a square boast with four logs, oue at each corner.” —— Cousidorablo sensation bas beon created in Vermont with roforence to tho liquor-law agita- tion in that Stato by tho publication of a lotter from an 1llinois clergyman, tho Rov. Dunne S. Phillips, who waa for several years Rector of 8t. Potor’s Church, Bonuington, in tho former Btate. Tho lotter was wiitten to one of tho former mombors of the Vormont Legulaturo, aud is as follows: EANKAREE, T, Oct, 0, 1674, MrDran Stn: I sond you to-day a copy of out “Licenso lnw,” us requested, 1 won the unmity of some of the unreazonable, loud talkiug, snd little-dolng tomperauco peoplo at ouo of tho * Crusado® meolings Iust epribg by advoeating {bis Iaw, aud praiaing it above tho - Probibitory low. I have secu the worklug of botls,—tho latter in Vormont, the foruier in Iiliuois, and T do not besitate a moment In prouonunciug in favor of the Iilinols law. It is juat, reugonable, apieats to common senac, aud _parcoption of ryht fn ull men, aud thoreforo—most important of ull—1i capable of being enforced. You caunot enforco your Irobibitory law, Seltor bn\'tl)ednauo st oll than a doud Iow, constautly disro= B tiope you may have something like it in Vermont. You huve'} layud tho farce of Trobivitory law long euough, Very truly, your old friend, Duase 8, Pumn The contenta of Mr, Phillips' lotter aro Lot as remarkable 88 the fact that ho had the courago to writo the lotter with the knowledgo it would be made public and find its way back to Tlhnols. ‘Tho statements contained in it nro aa true as tha Gospel, but this fact will not doter the Crusad- ors aud othor injudiclous frionds of temperanco from raising a very respectable cyclona abous tho reverond goncloman's head, e AMUSEMENTS. M'VICRER'S THEATRE, ‘When the public rends of tho revival of an old coumedy nt any of our thealros, the announco- ment calls up fond recolloctions of ungainly per- formances which, for its vrodit's sake, it endeay- ored to think weroe good, and which wera pnssas ble certainly, but full of faults, Thus it was with no enthusiastio expectation that it looked forward to tho revival of the best comedy in the Eoglish Ianguage, Bheridan's *$8chool for Sean- dul,” at McVicker's Thoatrae last ovening. It was with an idea that tho samo lines woro to bo read, the same poiuts of professional *busi- ness” were to bo gono thiongh, the semns govtures, and the samo forced lsughter, Thare was $o bo something of chango in all this. Thw droma wasa to bo romodoled after tne fasbion of its presentation in the Eost, and modernized 83 for ss olegaut mounting was concorned. Dub with even this prospect, and the hopo that layia the untied efforts of Miss LoCleieq as Lady Teazle aud J, H, McVicker as Sir Peler, wo can- not sdmit auy very ssuguino hopos before tho e of tho ourtsin. Those who went to Ml Vicker's last evenlng with this feoling we: destined to ouo of tho most agrecsble disay. pointments that come to a playgoor onco or twize én u Lfotimo. It was o briliant poformauce ; like most brilfiant thivgs, lacking uniformity m oxcallenco, but 5o roally good in tho more irie portant partioulnrs that its success was signul, Bofore advorting to tho acting, & few woris about tho dramu in its presont shups should b enid. It wes firat produced in ita modorn gash about u year ago at tho Priuce of Wales’ Thertre, Londou. ‘'he manugomont of this theatro bud witnessed the immense affoct given to worthless druwas by u tusty and olaborato sotting, wud decided to adapt this mastorpieco of comedy to modern tastes and requirements, To do thia it bocame nocossary o bauish tho ondlces shifung of scoues, and coniine onch act to ono seeno, Nothine is moro irritating than the worl of the scoue-shifter, but it was a diflloult matter to tampor with Sheridan sud modornizo him. Wo nro happy to suy that tho work has boon por- formed with consummate akill, The entire d.u- fogue bus boon prosorvod, but tho order of tha seouos has boen somowhat changed, It ruus, liowever, as smoothly and a8 glibly as ever, In the sotting it gains incrodibly, and, where all is galu sud no loss is ontailed, thore can bo uothing bnt praise to bostow. It rinv bo fuir in this, placo to rofer to =a sathor audacious act'of Elnm on tho part cf o manngor whose name has becomo familisr .o overy playgoer. Blr. Augustin Daly, by cou ugn and ability, hog wou & unme as & henofactir .o tho modern stage. Iie has euriched it in & meose ure by his htemz coutnbuticnr, but bis famo rests rathor upon tho superb galaxy of artiets ho haa gathored at Liu thoatro thau upon bie pci . In putting his nanie upou the back of tho s ornized version of “The School for Sou: without so much as giving oredit to the 1t author, ho hag exbibited no vory admirable to spoak in tho mildest mannor, But to the porformauce of last evening. W huvo alluded to it as & refreshing dicapy it - ment, withont intonding to refisct upor ¢y roputation ot Miss LaeCloreq, than whom 15 110 more studicus or acvomplished lady ot Aweriean iage, of her years aud oxjeri {lor poitraiture of Lady Zeazle must, of co o, have boen good. It could not have boon 0.hes wiHo, for tho part is one which every ambi ioua arlist would liike to play well, and his therctora naturslly been tho subjoct of earoful at. But ehe hos mnot beon hitherto uoted iy ono of tho best Lady Teazes of modern times, Blo proved lust ovoung that sbo 1u far superior to any wo bavo scen witlun tho pauc decade at any rato. She posscues & tc- markably awmple muturity of form, a prosca and manner admivably adapted to tho pmt, n: tacial advantages unsnrpassed hy any lndy wh vlays it. Her featurcy are slrong and moik und throughout every scenoe nov an idea is vx- pressed oither by herselt or the peraon to wi.owa sho listens but finds adequate vefleetion In hie fuco, Her foutuies ro noverin roposo, ere tain mannerlems of exprersivn pepoatedly eiiw themselves, but the gonorul oxpresssion i spir= ited and powerful, Thoro ave two or throe se:ucd given up to hor which are nsually rogauded us o toets of mu uctross—iho quearel with Sir Pefer the interview = with Joseph Surface, and the catestropho of what s usunlly known 88 the sovesn-ncone, Thoeo t ired slo sulticlens w sthiap Mis Louleioy #é i