Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1875, Page 8

| gt to TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. ANLE IN ADVANCE), nld mt this Ofe Weekly, 1 Eiva soplos, Ten RATER OF SUBRCRIPT) Epocial arrangements Bpecimen copire sent free, To prevent delay and miatakes, be ware and gire Poss. Oficy 13 4 Co TERMA TO CITY STRECRIBANS, Dally, dellvered, Runday excented, 25 o TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ACADRMY OF MURIC~Hal! lson and Monros. Engagement of *"Dantel Boone,™ Afterncon and evoning, MOOLEY'A TURATRE—Randoloh street, between Clark and LaSatle. Emerion's Minstrels. Aftornoon snd Neulng, M'VICRER'S THEATR Dratbarn and Stata, F f\farmoon, ! Damon sod Prih 1as Papo. “Richaed 1 THRATRE-Doathara strest, cornar Mon: [ I!'Iy Kntoriainmant, ** The Coutler of Lyons.” Afternooa and oveni "SOCIETY MEETINGS. 1.0, 0. T~ All membarsof th i’Y l}l; Dvd?'dl e orn Tade h'flnlllrd)lru.'nul"l- May 29, a8 [ncen to b Eravassted: The Chirage Tribune, Saturdsy Morning, May 20, 1875, WITH SUPPLEMENT. St. Lonis at last hias a dona fide Mayor, the Council of thiat city lnst night having decided to swallow tho recent election whole and de- clare Brirrox elceted. Ineampraent Rranch at ‘IP' Hiall of Fort kiAo Tk 8. Lo UTET, Hecr. Oshkosh has had another fire,—this time o #12,000 affair; but at one time it seriously threatened the destruction of that portion of the city left standing after the great blaze, The Northern Presbyterian Assembly yes- terdsy made a deliveranco in reference to the Temperance question, tho ministers gen. ernlly being urged to a more uniform incul. crtion of tempernnce principles in thoir pul. it diecourses and in their church labors genorally, A merciful discrimination in behal? of rrasshopper sufferers is made by the United Sitates Land Commissioner in an order ex- fending the benefits of the special act of Congross as well to those pre-cmptors who lost thair crops by grasshopper ravages as to those who from the.same causs wors com- pelled to abandon their lands, ney-General Prerneroyt Lo District Attorneys, directing the commoncement of proceedings nyainst tho members of the Whisky Ring. Tt is said that some diflicuity is encountered in securing counsel to sssist in the prosccu. tions, as the remuneration fixed by the Gov- ernment for logal services s not satisfactory to the Bar, An (nleus_uAng n;u-l; lEp;d yesterday £t LnCrosse, Wis., where fifty Winnobago Indinns, baving complied with the law in . obaudoning their tribal relations and ndopting the customs of civilization, mado their appenrance af the Land Ofice and procesded to eonter 40 acres of land each under the Homostead set, Tho land is located near the Black River Falls, Wis., and the Indinns will at oncs ocoupy their new possessions, where they will erect farm-houses, establish schools, nud generally cast off the generio habits of their race. ——— Prof. Munen found Rep Croup s slippery customer of the Council in Washington yesterday, wherent the formor's nssertions regarding the provisions issued were the proof and found want. ing. Rep Crovp failed to corrob- orute the Professor's statements, nnd upon cross-examination showed that a Sionx Chief, ts woll as a great prescher or a Chicago Al dennan, may bo gifted with a bad memory. ‘the Council was far from satisfactory to DProf, Mansm, who is doubtless tempted to Lnrl back Srorrep Tim's favorito epithet, *1leap big liar." The Portuguese Cortes has passed nn act providing for the full and final emuncipation of slaves in that Kingdom. A decroe pro- mulgated in 1869 modified the character of tha servitude under which slaves woro held, and insugurated a systom of appronticeship. "This act nullifies all former decroes, and pro- videa that the liberated slaves, who, through ignorance or for want of a trade or business, cre unablo to take advantage of the freedom vouchsafed to them, shall be subjected to a course of threa years' tutelage, they being in the meantime at liberty to make their own contracts for labor performed, nubjoct to revision by the proper authorities, e ——— 8t. Louls, if wo may judgo from ita news. papers, is vory much concerned nbout the Chicago tax-list recently published. ‘The astonishment comes, we presumo, from the fact that the St. Louls poopla are not aceus- tomed to paying 80 much taxation, In this they are fortunate, but tholr escapo fs to bo accounted for In three circumstances, rovealed by their recont directory and the last state. nent of their Comptroller, to wit: (1) Their population iz smallor and their expenses con.- sequently not so great; (2) thoy have fewer publio improvements; and (8) thoy keep adding largely to thelr publio dobt, which €Chioago is luckily prohibited from doing, o title of & most read- sble and interesting articlo from tho tronoh- aat pen of our special corrospondent, Dr. 8ynrax, which wo publish this morning. It comprises a must minute history, based upon filoms of information not hitherto available, of the astonlshing carcor of B, P, Aurew, the Yowa banker, whoss financial complications have figured so prominently in the newspapers during the past six montha, Tt ia the story of & magnif. icent financlal fraud who was for saven yonra @ rulned bankrupt, and yot who, up to the very date of his collapse, was looked upon as ona of ths wealthiest men in the Northwost, #ud whosa fall was 8s absolute as Lis pros. perity was upparently gecure, —— e The Chlc.}o produce markets wers goner clly weak yesterdny. Mess pork was moder-, ately active, and 20@40e porbrl lower, closing &4 10.46@19.47} for June, and 819,70 for July, Lard wis rather quiet, and 12§ per 100 1ba lower, closing s $14.05 oash, and €14.28 for July, Meats ware in moderate demang and firmn, & 730 fox shoulders, 11j0 for short ril ind 11je for short cloars, Highwines were quiet and 10 Iower, at $1.15 por gallon. Lago freights were dull and' stendy, at 8ic asked for corn to Buffalo Flour was quict and easier. Wheat was loss active, and declined 24e, closing at 91jc cash, and 924c for June. Comn wss dnll and 20 lower, closing at 63{c for Juno, and 67je for July. Oats wero tams and wenk, closing je lower, at £83c for June, and 42a for August, Ryo wns nominal at $1.0{@1.04}. Barley was quiet and firm, at $1.20 bid for cash, and 96e for September. Hoga wero dull, and 15 @20 lower, with the bulk of snles at $6.75@ 7.00. Catlle wero in fair demand, and ruled steady, Sheep wore lower. Town hns succeeded in electing a Bishop by o close vote, and without {hat harmony, and onthusissm which should prevail in con- neetion with such ovonts. The contest was asinbborn one, and devoloped no littla bit- torness of feeling, Dr. J, I Econestoy, Rector of the Church of tho Savior, in West Philndelphis, wns chosen on tho sixtesnth ballot, by a vote of 81 ngainst 25 cast for Dr. Kytexennocksn, of Minnenpolis, Tho rosult was o disagreonble surprise to the minor- ity, who Lad confidently expocted that there would bo no choice, nand that, necording to agroement, a compromise ecan- didato would be taken up on the noxt batlot, Thers woro cliarges that log-rolling had becn resorted to in order to elect Dr. Ecoresron, and tho defented party refused to sign the credentinls, Dr, EccLrston is a member of the Pennsylvania Standing Committes which furnished Dr. Jaaoan to the Ohio Bishopric, and is, wa presume, n Low Churchman, as none other would be apt to find favor in Iows. From Sioux City comes an account of & most shameful and exasperating outrage com- mitted bya detachment of troops under Capt. WALRER upon & party of miners camped at *‘Gordon City,” which is said to bo just in- side tho State of Nobraskn, and outside the Dlack Hills reservation. Whether the miners ‘were or were not trespasaing upon the reservae tion, if the facts as stated in tho dispatches are trus, Capt. Warken and his command should be drmnmed out of tho United States in disgrace, and then tarned over to tho No- braska laws and dealt with soverely. Theyare charged with having been guilty of great bra. tality in their treatment of ths eaptured miners, whom they surprised enrly in the morning, and, having brought a cannon to bear npon the party, compelled to sur- render, nnd them, it is ‘snid, the gol- diors stole such monoy, valuables, cloth. ing, boots and shoes aa thoy could Iny’ hands wupom, forcing the ownems to walk Larefoot to Fort Randall. The citi- zens of Sioux City, who learned the partic- ulara from an escaped prisoner, are in n state of oxtreme indignation, and have telegraphed to Washington concerning the matter, Afili- tary rmle is, of necessity, summary, and severe orders have beon fssued in respect to Black Hills invaders, but if the half is true of what is alleged of Capt. Warxen's perform. nnce, the perpotrators should be rigorously denlt with, THE HOLYOKE CHURCH DISASTER, Any calamity that occurs in a church is fortunately rolioved from the usnal explana- tion that it is a visitation of Providence, Wo can searcely beliove that denominational dif. forances can be carried 5o far that any one will allego that the Catholio church at Bouth Holyoko, Mass,, was destroyed, and soventy. fivo lives wers lost, because thore was a atatus of the Virgin Mary, or because of the ritnal. istic practices of the Catholia service, If not, then here is ona of the most frightful calamities of the day that must be scconnted for on temporal and human gronnds,—that is, s something that might Lave been avoided by ordinary prudence, or the fatal results of which might have bean averted by tho prop. or construction of the edifice in which it .oc- curred. It idwell to have such a digaster fully disassociated from nll phases of super- stition in order that it may be of some bene. £it to mankind in the way of a losson. To bogin with, then, the burning of the Tolyoko church is a practical warning against the use of drapery and inflammable decora. tions of all kinds, In this respect tho lesson of the disaster ia directed especially to the Catholics, who use more drapery and fanciful ornamentation, along with candlos, about the altar, than any other denomination, The destruction by fire, several yours ngo, of tho La Campagna (Catholic) Church, in Santiago, Chili, in which 2,000 persons perished, was the result of the same cause s that of tho Holyoko fire. Tho church was draped thronghout, and the moment one part was ignited the flames apread to all the rest, and the women and children, of whom the con- gregation wos mainly composed, wers litor- ally devoured by fire, A church is the last place in the world for drapery. It is notin constant uso, under the chargo of porsons interested in preserving the property ; and those who asaist in the services as an oces- sional duty are not apt to exercise the snme care that in fonnd at theatres, hotels, and othor publio buildings where great crowis assomble. Tho drapary in the Santiago church and the Holyoks church was not an ossential fonturo of the ritmal, and both calamities might have boen spared had it not been foolishly used. There are no churches, asa rulo, that are so numerously attended as the Catholle churches, and it is the duty of tho olergy to prohibit the uss of evary acoessory not essontial to tho service which increnses the danger of fire. The Lord of our day does not oxactany such burnt offoringa a4 that of Holyoke, Asto church construotion, this is almost univorsally bad among Protestants and Catho- lics, both sa to ventilation and safoty, Im. provemonts have been madoe in some of the mors recent churohestructures in the large citic, but those of the smaller towns and raral distriots aro still built with the most gupreme indifferonce to the personal gnfoty and comfort of the worshipers. The Holyoke church was fotally destroyed in about fifteen minutes, and it would probably have roquired full ton minutes to ompty the chureh of the peoplo gathered thore if done deliborately nnd systematically; in a panio thoy copld not have ecscaped in twice the time roquired for tho total deatruction of the | building, There was but one entrance to the gallery, and that probably a narrow ono, 5o that 1t {s not surprising that tha peoplo were packed on the stairway in a solid mass, and becamo incapable of moving one way or the other. It is mnot likely that the ontrance to the church was broad enough to admit of the ready ogress of thoso on the main floor, much less thoss in the gallary ; ot all events, thisis usually tho case i provinoial churches, and frequently so in tho gorgeous edifices of the large clty, There 18 & recklossness and indifference to human safoty about the conatructica of moust churches which would not be tolctated in the oconstruation of thestres, and for which the THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 920, 1873.—TWELVE PAGES; prayora and devotion of thosa it will scarcely atone, It is sickening to dwell upon the horror of such n cntastrophe as that at Holyoko, but the unfortunate people who perished there shonld not hnve lost their lives without having done something for the church-goers who aro left behind, If tho builders of churches wonld employ one-half the money in provisions for safety that is expended in extravagnnt, gandy, and unbecoming orna- mentation, there wounld ba no auch holo- cansts aa that at Holyoke, Churches nre usually located go ns to admit of & number of entrances and exits, and ample scating-room aftor leaving wide passnges between tho rows of pows; and yet thoy are rarely provided with these common precautions agninst the danger of fire in a crowdod condition, courss not ; and so the hotel-owners continue | componiss muat have mo much thereof as will touse their frame Mnausard roofs, wooden yield them 20 per cont dividend on their cap- cornices, unsnfo gas-lights and boilers, and | ital; the tranaportation ecompnnfes muat in dangoroua lnnndries and drying-rooms, and | like monner have like dividonds, and the ‘to oxposs tho lives of the tlousands of | wages of the minors and Iaborers, nud people in these fire-traps, egress from which | the mon employed on tho railroad is almost imposaiblo in caso of suddon dau- | and canal routes, must be 80 graded ns to be gor, which may come at ony moment, and | paid in full out of what remains, Anthracite the insuranco companies continuo to take | coal is for some purposes anecessity, and the riska upon thom rathor than drop thoir | prostration of iron manufacture in Ponasyl- jenlousiea and compotition, and fail to insist | vania hns, during tho Inat yenr, roduced the they shall make the necessary ropnirs, 8o that | demand for it, lionco the large surplus, The the lives of poople sholl ba aafo. Lot n | combination havo had no unensiness about & wooden cornice be discovered in this city, | short supply, and in case of an unusual de- and straightway the whole Board of Under- | mand could ndvance their prices. 'The groat writers and the Now York press atartoff fn | evil is in tho fact that thess anthracite the ho and ery agafnst Chicago, Tho press, | mines have all fallon into & fow hands, who, headed by the New York World, dovotes col- combinoed, hold the country, as weil as the umns to the insecuro condition of Chicago, | minors, at definnce, and can fix tho price of and call upon the insurance companios to | coal at whatever figure they plenss Thore take action, Thoroupon the insurance com. | is no aocond shop for anthracite coal. ponies threaten to withdraw thoir onpital if Sm— the wooden cornice is not removed, But if COTTON FACTORIES AT THE SOUTH. this be good dootrine for Chicago, why is it | Dx Bow, writing a dozen yenrs bofore the not good doctring for New Yord? If Maa- | War, bewniled the failuro of the diferent sard roofs and wooden cornices are un. | dttempts to manufaclure cotton whers it was safo in Chicago, why are they not | grown. His book evades, with groat doxter- unsafe in Now York? If insurauce | ity, the real renson of tho failure. Slavery eapital is to be withdrawn from Chi. | was responsible for it. Skilled artisana would cago, why mnot from New York, when | not go whore labor was dospised, and fine tho conditlons are moro nggravatad in New | Work could not bo got out of men who York, for Now York is not only without s | worked only under the impulso of fear, with- safe hotel, but hundreds of morcantile bulld- | ont lot or part in tha profits of tholr labor, ingn are equally unsafo ? Lt us look briefty | With the dlnnppnwco of this curse, manu- at tho disposition of the two cities. When | facturing industrics becamo possible, Au- tho appenl was made to Chiengo to mnke her. | Busts, G, is bocoming quite au industrial self moro securo sgainst fro upon poril of | centre. Acorrospondent of the Atlnuta erald, losing insurance capital, what was dono? | Writing from Augusta, rolates tho history of The lottor from the Chicago Bonrd to the | threolarge cotton.factories thero, all of which Natfonal Board, printed in our last issue, | bave proved exceadingly profitable vontures, furnishos o conclusivo answor: 1, Every | Ono of thom was opened abont the' com. prominent mercantilo building hns beon sup. | Mencemont of the War, after a cash expondi. plied with von shutters on all sido and ronr | turo of $60,000. It paid enormous dividends openings. 2. Firo walis have beon extended | (in Confedorata money) during the W‘,“'-- from 18 inches to 3 fect abovo roofs, 3, Tho | They ranged from 700 to 900 por cent. This, fire-ordinanca includes tha whole city, and no !xowevar, was & somewhnt factitious prosper- mors frame buildings cnn be erected within' [ ity. It romnined to be seon whether the on- tho city lmits. 4. The Firo Depart. | torprise could stand tho unfettered competi. ment has been completely reorganized | tion of the North and the fottored competition and placed wnder more offoctive disci- | of England. It has done so. From July 1, CORRUPTION IN ND, The editors of the London Standard, who are just nt present giving their tender hoarts on unnecessary amount of agony over tho corruption of American politice, wonld do well to take n courso of reading in English: politics, Tho process might result in remov. ing a choico collection of motoes from thelr cyes. Wo aro badly enough off. The ballot. box stuffing, the fraudulont counting, and the military terrorism, which are the politi- eal logacios of tho Civil War, lave never had, nnd have not mnow, paral lols in Euglish politics. The British Civil Sarvics, too, hna been thoronghly roformed, £o that one vory great reproach lins baen ro- moved. Butavost amount of bribery goes on in English elections,~an amount which probably far exceeds anything of the samo sort practiced hero. Evor sinca the last Par. linmentary elections the courta have bgen busy in unseating Mombers of Parliament for bribery, In some cases ths crime hns been shown to have been so fiagrant that the offonders have beon adjudged forever dis- qualified for n seat in Parliament. On about the dny when the Standard began its long-drawn tirndes ngainst American politics, the London Times published an articlo on the borough of Norwich, which seems to strongly resemble the motorious borough of Stroud. Tho *‘frecmon ™ of Norwich prior to 1832 wora bought and sold like cattle ; the * ton. pound honscholders,” enfranchised by the Reform nct of that year, promptly made merchandise of thoir new privilego ; and tho beneficiarios of the act of 1867 did likewiso, About all tho voters wero bought in 1868 by Sir Henwy Stoacer or his agents; and this ornament of the British aristocracy wna con. sequently put out of Parliament. The sue. cessful candidate in 1874 has just lost his seat for tho snme rensons. His name is Trerr, aud his campoign was one of con- sistont vote.-buying, Part of the buying was direct, but most of it wns under ostrich.like disguises. Thus, Mr, Tineerr's agents hired ¢! committes.rooms,” in whick no committoes evar eat, from anybody who had a room—nnd 8 voto—to lot. Thoy * treated™ lavishly. The ordinary market price for votes in Nor- wich scems to bo a pot of beer, but occa- sionally a voter, Crananoz.like, had to bs drowned inwine, Then * intimidation " was nnother frequentresort. Tenants-at-willwors plainty told that their lonses wonld terminate unless TiLLeTz got their votes. Finally, tho Tuxerr party suddenly beoame wildly anx. fous to hire * mossengorn.” The messongars had to have ono unique qualification. They might be Inme, or doaf, or blind, or {diotio,— all this made no matter. But thoy had to be cither votors or the near rolatives of voters, The only messages any of thom gseem to have carried wero printed on oblong bits of paper ; wero called *“ballots *; had * Trr. rerr” printed on them ; and wers carried to the polls. An attempt was made to justify those tactica by the old plea sbout the necessity of fighting the dovil with firé, and, indoed, both candidates soem to have pur. gued substantinlly the same policy, The highest bidder had the representation of Norwich in Parlisment knocked down to him, Thia story, which finds plenty of parallels, seems to show that bribery is more common at English than at American elections, justas ruffianism ja, On the other hr 1, our mr- rangements for dotecting and punishing bribery are much inferior to those of En. gland. If the public sentiment of any locality allowed an American Trrrer to bribe right and left in order to got into Congress, un. seating him would prove & much harder task than a similar process s mcross the water, The balance is nearer evon than most poopla suppose. And, although corruption in England by no moans excuses corruption here, there 13 a satiufaction in the consciousness of being no worse than one's neighbor, e —— THE NEW YORE HOTELS, ‘We have already briefly alluded to the in- sacuro condition of the New York hotels, owing to their exposure to fire, and refor to it & sacond timo, as we are now in posscssion of the report mads by,tls Superintendont of Rates and Burveys, presented to tho Board of Fire Underwriters in New York racently, which presents the detailed facts in the case, In this report tha Buperintondent makes the romarkable statement that of the 69 hotelsin Now York City, 24 have frame Mansard roofs, 89 havo wooden cornices, 55 have unsafo gas-brackots, 25 have unsafe stenm-pipes, 20 have unsafe fluesor fire-places, 49 have unsafe laundries or drying.rooma, 51 have uncovered lighta In basements or wine-cellars, 25 have repair.shops in the buildings, 20 have unpro- teoted bollers, 26 have open elavators, whils, inall, tho atalrways aro open. The report further atates that 83, or abont one-half of theso hotels, have fonr of these several da. {fcets, and not one of the whole number ex- iats without one or more of thesa defects, In other words, thers s not an entirely safe hotel in New York City. 'There is nota hotel {n Now York City in which the guesta aro not exposed to denth by fire, explosions, or acoi. dents in elovators and af stairways. Further. more, says the Bnporintendent: + All of thesa buildings have besn repsatedly azame ined by the surveyors of the Doard, and the yiroprie tors bsve been officlally urged o make tLe necessary alterstions, that the mutual foterests of the fire une derwriter and the Insurer may be protacted, and to affecd protection to human Lfe, Ouly twelve out of the sixty-nine bave made any corrections. These bulldings range from five Lo seven atorfes fu belght, with tortuous paamsge-ways or balls, confusing fo Mrangers under ke most favorstle clroumstances, diicult of acceas o our Fire Depastment, and but {fow of thom provided with sppliances for satingulahe ing a fire, while the sparse provisions that are made 0uld, n most {nstsutes, be wseleas, having no ore {zed body to usethem in cass of smergeucy, We 101d that those butidings are carsfully welchad night snd dsy by competent persons, A sad expert- sace has taught the fire underwrilers of New York the fallacy of placing entire dependence upon watche meon, Lowsver sareful and trustworthy, There is an nvorsge of 20,000 paopls ex. Posed tq theso perils overy day in Now York, and what procaution has been tskon to pro- teot them? None whatever, When these dangora hava beon polnted out to the hotal. owners, the Buperintendent says they roply: *There {8 1o neoessity for us to spend the money while we can procure as much fngur. Anoe a8 we wand ol matlfectory rates® Of plino, thirty-olght watchmen have boon [ 1805, to April, 1874, it paid annual dividends omployed, and four steamers, 12,600 feet of | (in greonbacks) averaging 200 per cent on the hose, two Banoocx enginos, and another liook | original capital. The factory consumes 200 and ladder truck purchased and equipped. | bales of cotton per weel, runs 22,448 spin- 5. Over 100,000 hoy beon expended in im. | dlos and 722 looms, aud employs 071 per. proving the water-supply since July last. | Rons, of whom 260 ara children and 202 Over 3¢ milea of water-pipes have been Inid.. | women. The yonrly wages nmount to 3632, Thirty ‘fire.cistorns have been built, each | 000. The socond factory made 10,636,600 capable of supplying four steamers at once, | yards of cloth out of 8,171 bales of cotton in A now lake-tunnol has been constructed, nnd | 1874, Its stock is held at' 160 and is the pumping-works will bo finished this yoar, | not in the market. Both of these mills This is what Chicago has dono, Whon New | have boughtor built some hundreds of houses York iu shown to bo inseenre, and an appenl | for their oparatives, using only surplus prof- is madeto her, what is the roply? *There | its for this purposs, The third factory bo- is no necassity for us to spond money while | gan work in April, 1872, Within threo years, W0 can procure a8 much insurance s wa want | it has olonred nearly 50 por cent on its capl- ot satisfactory rates.” This being the caso, | tal of $100,000, It makes nearly 7,000,000 would it not be simply decont for the New | yards of cloth o year. Its successis the more York World to quit its nbuse of Ohicago, nnd | noteworthy, bocauss it had onlybeen running would it not be woll for all Western mer- | & fow months when the financial crisis came, chants in buying goods hereafter to buy them | and bocause over half of the operatives wore where they can avold hotel dangors, and hotol | wholly ignorant of thelr duties when thoy extortions, which are almost ns bad aa the | woro first ongaged. Maoy of them had nover dangors? This question is ot least worthy of | soen a cotton-faotory beforo, considoration. The letter from which we have taken these S—— facts leaves many intoresting points un. THE ANTHRAOITE COAL MONOFOLY, touched, Wo shonld like to know, for in. The condition of the conl-miners' strike in stance, whather both whites and blacks are the anthracite coal districts of Pennsylvanin employed; how the Intter work, and what is o poinful commentary upon the bitternoss | wagos thoy got; whothor any Northorn capi. und passlons of the contending partios. The | tal is invested in the milla; whore the ekilled district in which snthracite conl is found is | Iabor was gob at the beginning, ate, The comparatively n small one. The whole area { oficers of the companies scem to all bo of this deposit is now eithor'owned, or lensod, | Southernors, o that it is probablo that or controlled by a fow persons and corpora- | the factorles are the result of purely South. tions, who have therefora n monopoly of the | ern pluck and thritt, In any event, their production, Itso happens that thoso samo | establishment in Georgia is a good sign. persons and corporationa own all the means May thoy go on and prosper, of transportation by which conl can bo moved {from the mincs, They are thereforo absolute maators of the aitustion so far as the control | /Tho proposition to tax churah property, of the coal in the mine and the power to | whichn few years ago received but little move it from the mine to market are con- countenance, is growing into faver ns the an. cormod. They do not own—lagally—the men | nual increase in that kind of property growa who excavato this coal and place it at the | lnrger. The mania for building largo and pit's month, but havo sought and aro yet | costly church buildings ia growing stronger. seoking practically that propriotorship, Religion in the large cities is becoming not Bome yeurs ngo, when the selling prices of | only popular but fashionable 5 tho worshipers coal were high, and dividonds of tho mining | are becoming proud of their identification transportation companies wore & per cent a | with religion, and are giving Invishly for the quarter on stock that had been watored per- | erection of costly temples, Thoro ara at this haps 200 per cont, thero was such interrup. | time building and already built in New York tions in the businoss by strikes that a gen. | City several churches which cost an averago eral system of compensation became o neces- | of $1,000,000 oach. 'We aro indebted to tho sity. The result wes what is known ns the | Tmes of that city for an account of tho ro! ‘‘basis.” That s, the price per ton at which | cont completion of one of theso ‘buildings, conl is sold at certain points is taken asa | ond of the prompt' furnishing of the money standard; and the price paid to tho miners | to pay for it, and the system adopted for ita por ton for coal dolivered at the pit's mouth | financinl support, and the whola is a striking 1s proportioned to the price obtained for It at | instance of what'that paper styles * church the points indicated. As the selling prico | enterpriso.” 1 Tises or falls, the wages per ton paid to the The Presbyterian congregation of which Inborers rise or fall with it. There are somes | the Rov, Jonx Hary is pestor have recently datails, but this was aubstantinlly the agree. | comploted o church edifice at the corner of ment. Everything worked well undor thig | Fifth avenuo and Fifty-fifth streot, and the arrangoment until the combination proposed | cost was $1,000,000. The original estimate to reduce the proportionats sum to bo | Was #800,000, In order to reduce tho cost to paid to the miners, A striko was the | the catimate, a fow members of the congre- roault, The price of coal advanced, and the | gation contributed the extra $200,000, Mr, combination sold thoir accumulation, Thon | Ropenr Boxnxn, of the Ledger, giving one- thero wad & roturn to the basls; fmmonse | balf the sum. The pewsin tho churoh were amounts of conl were minad ; then tho busls | then classifiod and appraised, #o as to pro. wasropudiated, s atrike followad, and the | vido for the-extinotion of the whole debt and combination devoted itself to solling off its | for the future support of the church, The Iargo stook. This thing Las boon repentod at | 8ss0ssod prices of the pows ranged from 9500 intorvals, and last wintor tho comblnation | to £6,000 ench. The sale was on eonditfon again proposed a reduction from the terms of | that the purchaser seoured a perpetual titls, tho busia. = After much negotlation, tho dif. | #ubject to an annual rontal equal to 6 per feronce botwoon the partios was roduced to a | cent on the purchasopries, Thewhols num- small margin, but no agreoment was roachod, | bor of pews had a fixod prico at which they oud o gonoral strike was tho result, The | Wore to be sold, and the aggregato was point on both sides is the same, Tho miners | $800,000,—the whola cost of the church. insist upon compolling tho combination to | Ina congrogation so wealthy as this one, pay them a cortain price, and the combina. | it was to bs expected that m competition for tion seeks to compel the men to submit | Pows would exist, Bo tho pews wero put up to whatever torina are offorsd them. It g | at auction and knooked down to the men who a strugglo betwoon tho ownors and the | Offerod the highest premium in addition to laborers for the moatery, though tho means | the assassed valuo, Tho premiums ranged of the two partlos ate very unoqual, Loat | from 260 to $1,650, Tho sum of money year the Company hed minod enough coal to | realized from promiums was 75,000, and carry them over uatil next foll, and a famine | from the sale of pews $525,000; in all, in conl is just what they prefer, They have | $600,000 cash | A largo number of pows are coal on hand and an absolute monopoly of | utill to be sold orrented. The man who pur- the mines. On tho othor hand, tho miners | ohasod the moat eligible pew will poy therefor and laborora have nothing ; thoy are depond. | during tho first yeers ent on their wnges, and most of them have | Ericaof pew. familles. For fivo months thoy have beon | Premium. uaemployed, and have endured the groatesy | ey, sosssissasss BT privations and sufferings, The shipmonts of | yrig anuual oxpenio thoreafter will of course coal slnce Jan. 1, 1875, have boen 1,648,803 | 16 only the rental, and ho may soll hia prop. tons, againat 8,885,232 tons for the same time erty if so disposed. The annual rontal of the last yoar, The differanca of 2,280,340 tons | pewe already sold, computed ot 6 por cent Tepresent in round nwnbers 80 many dollars | of their purchase price, will be $31,600. The of wages loat {o those miners and laborers, assessed price of the romalning pews fa placed Of course there can bo but one result, no | at §275,000, making the whole sum of #800,- matter how long the strike msy continue, | 000 the cost of the church, ‘Tho acheme wus The laborors must yleld, and in yielding | to pay the whols cost of the church with the must perforce accapt the declslon that thoy | procseds of the salo of the pews, and have are at the meroy of tho combined corpors. | thersfrom an annual income of $48,000 to tigna who control the mines, However pain. | defray its current expenses. That this plan ful may be this result, it fs inevitable. The | will be aucocessfully oarried out there is hard!; companies do not proposs to sell coal for | any doubt, s what it will briog, They propose to produce Much of this is dus, of course, to the pas. only 80 much coal as will command u sale at | tor, Dr. Hars, who is one of the ablost, as o minimum price that will yisld a large profit, | well as one of the moat orthodor, clergymen_ Thusy £ they sell ot @5 per tou, ths soal | af the Prubyladan body, Hs has dawa OHURCH ENTERPRISE, aronnd him congrogation as zealons in re. ligious mattors ns it is svidently wealthy in this world's goods, Thia fever for largo and coatly church edi. ficon is contagious, Thero is hordly a donom. ination that is froe from it, and even omr Israclite countrymon are dovoting conaidera. blo attention to the same line of costly archi. tocturo, Nor ia it confined to the large citics, All through the conntry the rago i for costly chureh buildings, and smnll citics and towns, though they may not sttompt a million-doliar church, do erect church edifices which, con. uidering the population and nenns, aro pro- portionately ns extrarngant, As time progressen tho valuo of this church proporty in the nggregato will becomo enor. mous, It i so much withdrawn from taxs. tion. It is in tho muin tho property of those who can well afford 1o pny tazes, and in the not distont future the question of taxing ohurch proporty will become one of earncst disoussion and agitation, A POLITICAL PRENOMENON, A canvass without candidatea ia somathing Anything political without nt lonst o baker's dozen of candidates mixod up in it is unique. If there is any ono thing tho av- erngo American citizon can do, it is to ba & candidate, Ho takes to it naturally, geta up baso-ball clubs in his youth in ordor to run for Prosident, joins the Knights of Damon or the Independont Order of Red Scalpers, as he appronches manhood, in order to be elocted to some mysterious office whioh allows him to prefix throo or four® alphabets to his bafora him, You old men, vet fought for ttate righte and gave thin empirs srested from the Ms atand upan the shor of tims and orans of Torny, w 10 the Unlte) jyres Ticane under (i 4 {0 become fresmen and hold your Burely a man doca breathe deeply an finde bimaslf breathing the free ale Pulting tho two thin Davis can only be inte that the ** boys in gray " had botter i the old flag now beeause thay nro no enough to tear it down, their interest to do so; ture, whanever any Stat with tho mnnagoment of hes a porfect right to s struggle, 1f these aro Mr. Davis' sentin, 88 we atrongly suspeot, ho had bettor r( olivery thoreof ; for he will self nor the peopls of e South any good by giving thom publis ¢, g4 togothor, 1, or becanse it 5 in but that, in th, p,, o feels discontepy,g f National Affaicy, § ecedo and renar (1,4 from & publio d do neither him It will bo remembored that ¢ Btocking Bnse Ball Club of Chica; 8t. Louis rocently and wora boaten tws win succession by a club of that city, 8t. Louis howlod itsolf lLoarse and Jubilatag in & vory romarkable mannor. Since that time tho viators ,have Leen in Ohicago, mg bave played two'games, in the first of Vhich they woro beaten 9 to 4, and in the Becond ¢ to 2. Theso young gentlomen from St, Touig wore brown atockings. During the pruseat woek nnother club from Bt. Louls, rod stockings, has been lere, and Lns; algy been beatan twico, the firat time 16 to 2, the socond time 16 to 01 Now if St. Louis liagg alub with any other kind of stockings, send them nlong. Blannwhile, can wo not pravail upon Bt. Louis to keop up its courage, aug not give way to grief? It still haa its bridg, owned by Chicago oapitalists, it i trus, ay] ils consus.takors. from Alderman dont, with the samo rondy grace. in one corner of the United States thero is actually a heated political canvass going on, and not one solitary eandidate for anything This abnormal state of things oxists in Floridn,—the land where the natives livo on oranges and touriats, where evory prospect pleases, and only maon is vile, There is n difference of opinion, howaver, ns to which man s vile. Poraay, Ropublicsn Congressman from the First Distriot, says it Ropublican Governor, Sreanvasays it is Pumay, Both of them ars in office; neither of thom has any immediato chance to 1un for any other office or for ro- election ; “but the Congressman has bocome possosied of an abiding Latred sgainst the Governor, and hns taken the stamp against him, Ho is haranguing tho blacks of his District with steady and fiorce porsistance, and his text is ever the snmo,—the sing of StzAnys. Things libelous in the oye of tho law £nll from his lips more rapidly than even the Chicago Times could print*thom. For somo time he hel eve: Ho dragged the shade of his adversary be- fore his oudlonces, riddled the Governor, knacked him down, danced ovor the prostrate body, and repeated, ad infinitum. Then hig viotim sent out a champion, a cortain Hiozs, He and Pomwan aro now stumping together. Thoy are snid to be fast toaring tho Republioan party of the Btate asunder, It holf tho charges rockiosaly bandied bo- twoen them are true, it g another ropatition of the old, old story of the pot and kattlo, ‘The negroes are reported to bo siding with Punumix and the whites with BreAnNs, 80 that tho isame of the phenomenal strugglo may be to draw the colorline more strictly than ever. Unless party management has beon wholly abandoned, some attention might woll be paid to this danger. If tho frantic Pom. Max plays bull In the ohinn-shop muck longer, the pieces of ths party left in Florida won't be worth pleking up, is. concorned in it, rreipondent announces the death of » remarkable scholar, Huintonm i, Professor of ‘Semitic Langnages at Gottir.zen, Like many other distioguished scholars, he wag intoleraut of tho opinlons of others to a Tudi- crous dogreo. o quarretod with Bisaarck A fow yeara ago on a phulologicsl point, and theyo. atter ridienlod him on overy opportunity, unti tho Chancollor took his: professorship from him and gave him & fell out with the wnoted Drof, about the pronunciation of the Flobrew namo of God, and porsecutod him with wrathful and eaticical osnaya till {t becamo a proverb thet be commencad his prayers with *O Iakve, whom stupid Geaxntus calla Johoval,” eto, He gob into Parliament, and {thon made a poin! of roundly tating Biaaancx threo times & yoar, al- waya making enre that his victim was prevont, These wore but the cccentricities of BOIL, howavor, and, much a8 thoy may bave damiged him woclally and pecuniarily, they will not rub him of the intellectnal triumphs won by his valuablo works on Hobrow and Arablo. rything his own way. The Heathen Chinae is atlll sorsly puzzled ax to the correct mannor of living In San Franoisco, aud even bis rotirement and leisure for confam. plation does not ald him in forming s fust cetie mate of hisdutios. Thus it bapponed thst » Chinese mstron found heraclf betwoon two fires the other day. Hor huaband died and loft her & lone, lorn widow, to polliate whose sufforings it was oustomary to burn up the dear departed, thus propitisling some partioular deity. Scme Irish Iadiea in the neighborhood, discovering the ceremony, dockded hsstily on making a veritstls nuttea of the widow, and seatod hor on the blaze ing pyre with her dead husband. Tho widow was noarly dons to ® orisp when rude flshormen broke in upon the coromony and released the crispod and basted widaw from the plls, Thutla the hapless Mongollan confusedand misled as ta tho real oustoms of his adonted country, Bome of the London newspspers have frat discoverad virtus In an Amoriean lovention, and cordlally rocommend the ayatem of life-rafts uso upon ocoun steamers of Stoamuhip Line of V'hiladolphis. These rafts will earry twenty porsons easily, and contain tivo tanks, one for water and the othor for provis- fcos, both of which are always filled, thrown Into the water, or cut adrift when the 'vearel ainks, they flost buoyantly and cannot Lo upaot, The English press rightly,concluds that bhed the Behiller been aupplied with ten of theso rafts, theloss of lifa would ha —— THE FIGHT OVER THE CANNON, The Intercollegiato war in Now Jersey is finished. The avorage undergraduate of Rutgers and of Princoton Colleges donbtless considers the war aforosald as the most momentous ocourrence of the nineteenth oentury, but our renders may bave forgotten ita precise natura. We recapitulate the facts, There wera two cannon, Revolutionary relics, plantod as posts on tho Princeton ©campus,—studonts always say oampus instead of field or square, under the impression that they thoreby prove a montal kinship with —_— The Township Trustoes of Carbondals, Kan., have proposcd sod advertised & grand gift con- eort for the bonefit of tho grasshopoor sufferars, with & capltal prize of $10,000. The romedy is worso than a diseasa. There {s absolutely na Justification of a lottery, Thore was nover ono yot which accompliishiod as much good s harm. Moreover, there is & painfol satire in the very Iden of drawing a lottery among a deatitute paoc- whom thoy read by the kindly aid of Mr. Bony's invaluable translations, Thore wis & tridition, entircly unfettered by any connection with facts, that ono of thesa can-~ non had been stolon from Rutgers, which s a amall colloge situated, by a striking coinci. dence, on & sluggish canal, Xt is in the Town of New Brunawick, It has no espeeial renson for existing, save that its endowmont Bup- ports a number,of ministers. Its corporal studonts, in & momont of unwonted vigor, horoleally wont to the grounds of Trinceton Colloge at night, and, we beliove, during vacation time, stole one of tho cannon. Then the ingonuous youth of both colleges shrisked wrath and dofiance. Dr, McCosn, the Presi. dent of Princeton, threw aside tho five or six books he was writing and ponned voluminous lotters to Dr. Oaeprwy, President of Rut. gors. Hin absorption in this cooupation ex. plaing the failure of his publishers to issue any of his works during tho last fortnight, Campoxrr's roplies wers pious but unsatis. factory. MoCosm waxed more hbolligerent. A party of his students took rovenge into their own hands and mado a rald on Rutgors. Thoy smashed some glass in the musoum, and ro- turned under thoimpreusion that they had done somothing groat. By this time both collegen wero fu a ferment. ‘The looal prosa took up the fight= Ardont students inundated edito- riol waste-paper baskets with ariless lies There were threats and The rospootive facultios got scarod. They appointed committess of con- ference, and tho result was an agreement that nobody had done anything wrong, but that the cannon should bo given up. 'The official announcoment of this was received at Princo- ton with choers and at Rutgors with gullen But the cannon is nevertholess to bo sont back, ‘With ite oxohange for the cap- tured muskets, the *‘ war” that has boen rag- ing so flercely on paper will onq, and New Jorsoy will relspse into its scoustomed clam. —_— Abill for tho establishmont of & collags of music o Contral Park was loft by the late New York Legislature in the hands of Gov. TiLpEN, The Governor in strongly urged to withhold his signature, Defonders of Cantral Park protens to the Govornor that if one private enterpriso {s* admitted to the Park on the plea of art, s hune dred others will olaim the same privilege. bill does bear about it the taink of & hugs and cunning speculation, 6. 8. L'HOMMEDIED, The Cincinnati papers of the 27th Inst, cone tain long obituary notices of the Iste B, 8, L'HowuxdIEy, who was for so many yoars identi= fled with tho railroad Intorests of that city, from which we oundense & fow pointa of intereat. The daecossed was born in Bag Harbor, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1806, and was a linoal deicondant of an old Huguenot family. When 15 years of age, he learned the printing businossin the oMee of the Cincinnati Gazelfe, and after sttalning his ma- jority waa taken into the concorn as partnor. In 1848, aftor tho Gazelte had bocome a daily, ko retired from it, and upon the inducements of his friends {dentified himsel? with the construotion of the Clncinnat, ‘Tamilton & Dayton Ralte rosd, which was chartered In 1846 with » caplial of only 500,000, Presldont of tho road fn July, 1848, and romained {n that position for twenty-two yoard, which cover the entlre perlod of Ho was as a parly man & Whig, and, as such, becama a dolegate to tho ‘Whig Conventlon at Philadelphis in 1848, where Gen. Tayron was nominated in place of Henar Criy, who was Mr, L'Howeoru's favorite Stateaman, 3r, L'Howueniry loaves s wife, in declining health, to whom he way married forty~ five years sgo, IlIn surviving childron ara four 8008 and four daughters, all of whom are mar- x0ep$ the throa youngest sons. The sons are Erremuw 8, Jr, Ousnixs, and Lous, of Cinclonati, and Hazay, of Milwaokes, Of his daughters are Mrs, Gen. Ruaaixs, whose hus- baud, of the regular army, is atationed at Oma= ba, and Mis. J. J. Brocoy, of Milwaukes. Mre COionas Br., Lxpoam, of Chicago, is snother daughter. Mr, L'HoMuxpIxv's sister, Mrs. M. L. Brrrrow, lives at Hamilton, O, RIALOY PLANTIRH, A cable dispatoh from Parls, a day or two ago, snnounced the desth of the Right Rev, Cravos Hexar Avaveri Prantres, Dishop of Nimes, who was born at Osyserieux, Franoe, in 1813 He studled for the prissthood, snd, atter havicg hold somo minor ecolesisstical preferments, be waa appointed Vicar-Genersl of Lyons, sud was eonsecrated Bishop of Nimes in 1858, He wes & member of the extreme Catholls body of Franos, and an arden) supeorter of the Churels In b lssd Vetiosa Council be opposed Galloau party, sad advosdted the dagme of about the matter, 4 counter-throats, Ho waa elocto ita practioal history, Mr. Jeyrensox Davis is exhibiting very bad taste and very bad judgment by making a tour of Texas In & semi.publio charaoter, yielding' to publio roceptions and making publio spsechos as he goes 3r. Davis, in ona of his speoches ab Dallas, is roported an Poying a tribute to the **Btars and Stripes,* and sppealing to the “boys in gray* to stand by it. He has a curions way of illus- trating the sinoerity of this sppeal, as evinced by the following : Babssquently he sald, men of the Norm, Boath, Eaat, sad West, revere Blates rights, Where is the Awericsn Anglo-Haxon who does nmot in Lis heart respect Hiates rights? M de the foundsiion of this Blale sod Government, tha rook upoa whick they atand, aad if in eezor i§ has h—'u"pn'ly.“nlw, aguits ansert thale sights Tho Losid Hiav Wae Watiog