Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 19, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATES OF FTARCRIPTION [FAVADLF IN ADVARCE). Postage U'repnld nt this Offices nnday Filii i sheot., Pariaot a WANTED—Una setive azsnt In exch town and village. Epacial areaugemonts mads with sucn. men coples sont fres, Ta prevent delay and mistakes, ba snrs sod givo Post Oftce addrens In ull, including btate and County. Tlemt,tanceamay bemade eithorby deatt, caprens, Post- Ofkce order, or in reglstered fetters, at aur risk, TERMR TO CITY BUTACRINENS, Dally, delivered, Sundar excepted, 23 venta parwesk. Dells, delivared, Sunday facluded, 30 cants par wook, Address 1} TRIBUNE COMPANY, Curner 31 [ Chloago, 1ih TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, M'VICKER'S THEATRE: Pearbren and Btata. 1nyga, Fiftn Avenun Thoatro Cumapasy, Attorioon sad eveaing. dlenn atecot, botwean ol the Now Vork Tho Big Honauzs." AAOADEMY OF MUSIC— Hutatad street, betwagn Mad. fson and Manrce, ' Evs,a Talo of the Layous.” After. Touns and evening, APKLPHITUEATREDeathorn ateent, cornor Moo. arioty Halertaloment. Af.ernoon and evaning. HOOLEY'S THKATRE—Randolon atrsat, hatwacn Clark and $aSails, Kngazoment of Tony Fasior's Cora- 5 evening. FARWELL ITALL—~Madisan atreet, betweon Clark and Tasalle. "katertaiomont by Hilnd Tom. Alternoon and croning, TWENTY.THIRDSTREET BASR-BALL GROUNDS Chohamplonship gacie hatwosa tha Hastlord sud Ghleags abs, The Chitage Toibune. Baturdsy Morning, June 19, 1875, WITH SUPPLEMENT. Ex-Senntor Hanuan hns concluded to nban- don jonrnalism and return to politics, e lins sold out his interest in tho Washington Chronicle, and will go back to Jowa with the intention, it is said, of entering the fleld as s candidate for the Scuatorship. It is now regarded as cerfain that Secre. tary Basrow will bo disappoiated in his ex- pectation of n surplus of about $5,000,000 at the closo of the fiscal year, July 1, and that thoro will bo a deficlency of at least £5,000,000, the amount of falling-off in cus- toms roceipta as compared with the estimates, A correspondent of Tus Trisuse who vis- ited Nemalia County, Neb., sends ua a vivid deseription of the ghastly ruin wrought in that couuty by the grasshoppers, His state. ments may be relied upon ns embodying the simplo and exact truth, without exaggeration or undue celoring, concerning a degreo of devastation so absolute ns to be alimost incon. ceivable. Other reports of the extent of the ravages in Nobraska will bo forwarded at short jutervals by tho samo acourato and re- liabla observ Wae publish this morning a racy and read. ableleiter from o momber of the scientific party of Black Hills explorers, under the lead of Prof, Jexszy, giving, an accotnt of the progress of the expedition, which, at the time of writing, had just renohed the Hills, Our correspondont’s next lotter will contain relinbly, and even semi-ofecinl, nows of the rosults of the cxploration, and will tell what the world wants to know,—the truth about the presenco or absonce of gold in paying quantities in the Black Hills region. Postmaster-Genoral Jewers's visit to Chi. cago woa yesterday rendered extromely pless- aut to himself and notable to our citizens by the cordinl and hearty recoption he encoun. tored everywhere, Calling upon the Board of Trade, he waa in turn called upon for a apeech, and’ he gave the bulls and bears a briof talk brimful of neat com- pliments, happy allusions, and interesting facte. Mr, JewxLr evidently likes Chicago, and has a lively appreciation of the second city in the Union in postal importance. In . the evoning he was handsomely entertained by @ complimentary dinner at the Palmer Houss, the affair being a peculiarly plonsant one, The National Board of Trade previous to its final adjournment yestorday wrestled with two important questions—that of reciprocal trado relations with Canads, and tho trans- portation problem in general. Thae resolu- tion submitted by the Chicngo Bonard of Trade upon the subject of commercial rec- iprocity between tho Dominion and the United States waa adopted. It memorinlizes Congress for the appointinent of o Commis. slon to act with a corresponding body of Canadlan merohants and business-men to ngreo upon tho tarms of the proposed trenty, and snbmit it for ratification to their respdot- ive Governments. The Convention was greatly divided upon the transportation ques- tion, and ita aotion was not of much couse- quence, Gon, Porx has been heard from on the subject of Indian starvation and the alleged frauds by Agents and contractors, Ho for- ‘wards reporta from the commanding offlcers at the various Agencies, from which he con. cludes that the previons reports of suffering and dishonesty were mnot exaggeratod, and that the excuso of bad roads, ate., i8 mnot In accordanes with tho facts, Gen. Pore's roport, and his accom. panying commaonta, are of a character which ronder it proper for tho Interior Department 1o make & choice botween tho officinl stato. ments of army officors and the explanstions and defenses of dishonest Agents and con. tractors. Thero is a matorial disagreement, and it {s desirable to know which side enjoys the confidonce of Becratary DeLaNo, —— It was & great day for hemp fn Illinals goatorday, The people of Paris were troated 1o their first view of a bangiug, and, it way be presumed, wore gratified with the experi- ment, a3 it involved the righteous punish. ment of & wretch named Jony Caser, who, with a razor, cut his wife's throat from ear $o oar, merely for the purpose of ridding himwelt of an inconvenient Incumbrance, At Efingham Natman Bunoess answered with his iife the demand of retributlve Justico, o, too, was a most fit subject for the law's extremest rigor, having assas. sinated Josera Ronntys, n bridge-tender, who had just received his mongre monthly woges, 1be possssaion of which was the only motive of the bruta! murder. An sccount of cach execution, accompanied by a bistory of the respective crimev, will ba found In our columng this wmorui) The Chicago produce markots were some. what_ unsottled yesterday by the European fallures. . Mesy pork was qufot sad declined 100 per brl, closing st $18,55 for July, aud 918,75 for August, , Lard was modarately sctive and doclined 200 per 100 lbs, closing firm at $12.90 cash, and $18.05@18,074 for Auguat, Meals were dull and easlor o Tje fo* shoulders, 10i@11c for short ribs, and 11}e for short clears. Highwines were in fair demand and steady at $1.16 per gallon, Lako freighta were less nctive aud unclinnged at 2lo for corn to Ruflalo. Tlour was dull and ensier. Wheat wna less active and lo lower, closing at 970 ensh, and 980 for July, Corn was rather quiot and §@Jo lower, clos- ing nat 690 cash, and GUjo for July, Oats wore dull and 3@]e lower, closiug at G68je cash, and 55)c for July, Ryewasdull ot 9:@ 0. Barley was quiet and strong, closing at 31,40 bid for cash, and £1.97@1.08 for Sep. temher. 1ogs wero a shade firmer at $6,50 @6.60 per 100 ths, Cattlo were nctive and firm, Blieep wero in moderate roquest. Tha counsel for the peaple hava filed thelr replieations in the quo tearranto proceedings relative to the charter election, and the suit seoms to be in o fair way to bo tried and got heforo the Supreme Court of tho State at the September term, This is important as affect- ing tho question witether or not there shall be an election for city ofticers this fall. In order to do this, however, it is necessary that the Citizens’ Association and nll men who sympathize with them in their efforts to sus- tain tho purity of the ballol-box should promptly furvish all the mneans necessary fo this end. Itisnatural for men to permit their ardor o cool after the early excitement of n fight is over; but the citizens who are contesting this clharter election must not allow these snits to go by defanlt, If they do, the City of Chicago and the principle of pop- ular sovercignty will have received n blow that will render futare elections in Chicago n mero pretenso and farce. It i tho duty of every good citizen to contribute both in money and influence, if necessary, to the vig orous prosecution of these suits, THE OHIO INFLATIONISTS, If wo aro to assume that platforms have any’ significance, or that parties in whose names thoy are adopted and proclaimed ars in tho least concerned as to what is put in or loft out, or that thero are persons who nra governed in their votes by what is said in o platform, then wo thiak the peoplo of Ohio have renson to fecl humiliated that thros or four hundred citizens of that State, of above the aversge standard of intelligence, should, under any pretense, vote for an exprhssion of tho opinions set forth in some of the resolu. tions of the Democratic Convention on Thursdny. If the Convention sdopted the rosolutions About the currency under the assumption that such resolutions would nt. tract votes, it onght to be resented as an in. sult to the intelligenco and honesty of the peoplo of the State. The Democratic party in Oblois divided on thia question of further inflating ond debas- ing the currency. Wo published a fow days ngo tho regolutions of that party in Cleveland, which wers in full harmony with those of the Republican party and with the judgment of all parties in the Eastern and many of the Western States. But, in the recent Conven- tion, the Pendletoninn or inflation.repudiat- ing wing of tho party got control, and passed their rag-money resolntions. These resolu. tions assert and recommend ¢ 1. That the contractlon of the enrrency horetofors mado by tho Repubitcan party, aud the further con- traction propdaed by it, with a view to tho forced re- aumption of epecie payments, alresdy bronght disaster to the business of the country, and threatsns 1t with ganeral bankruptcy and rufn, Those gssertions are hardly warranted by thefacts. When the greenbacks wera first raado legal tender it was stipulated that thoy might be funded in 5.20 6 per cont bonds. Subscquontly Congress inerensed the amount, and in liou of tho privilego of funding the notes {nto bonds the faith of the Government was pledged thot the amount issued at any ono time should never excesd 400,000,000, Subsoquently, Becretary McCurroon under- took to fund the outstanding greenbacks, and had thus reduced them to §856,000,000, when Congress forbade any further reduction, This took placo in 1867, ond if this {a the * con. traction herotofore mado by the Republican party” it took a very long time for the conse. quences to develop, Tho contraction of the currency resulting from tho legislation of the lest Congress has really beon bronght about by the failure of freo banking to fill the , promises mado by its Democratio advocates. They insisted that the West and South had not banks enough, and that, if the Wost and South wore only permitted to etart Notional ~ Banks, cwrrenoy would be. como plenty and chonp. Congress thero. foro provided that for every dollar of carrency granted to now banks, only 80 cents of greonbacks should bo retired, Under this, about 2,000,000 of greenbscks have been rotired, and tho wholo currency would actunlly have been inflated had not other banks swrrondered their ciroulation, The rosult of free banking, therefore, has been a slight reduction of bLank-note circulstion, But, before this action of Cougress, $26,000,- 004 of legal tonders retived by Secretary Mo- Ovvrroon in 1807 hiad been restored to circule- tion, after having beon unused over six years, 5o tho total coutraction of eurrency sinco tho closs of the War has been $18,000,000, which hna beon offsot by the increass of bank-note circulation sinco 1807 to the amount of $48,- 000,000. Including the fractional currency, which ig legal tender, the amount of national currency now outstanding Ix far in oxcess of the §100,000,000 named in the contract with tho public creditors, The ouly reduotion in the currency since tho War is the $18,000,000 rotired in 1867, and ogainst this is the 218,000,000 increase of bank.nota cwrren. cy, showing an netual inflation of over 30,000,000, 4 ‘Tho ** disaster to the buslness of the coun. try which throatons general bankruptey and ruin* oecurred in 1873, before the act of the Inst Congrress looking to specio resumption, ‘At dissster was not due to o want or searc. ity of enrrency ; it was tho natural yesult of the inordinato expausion of ecredit, Monay, such as It was, wos too plentiful for theo wants of legitimato trade, It begat speculation § credit was oxpanded to the utmost tension capital wes sunk in wild schemes that Pro- duced nothing, and, fiually, the wide-strotch. ed crodit broke, and suddenly, The capital invested in wild-cat speculation was lost, car. rying down with it everything that was ficti. tiods and insubstantial. In the reaction thers was no credit, Men put their money away aud refased to lend or inveat it, 'fhore was, for the time, & suspension of production, Tut after the first consternation had passed, subatantial, as compared with speculative, {n. dustry waus resumed. Nover in the Listory of the cuantry has thers besn so much wonoy lying idle and unemployed as now, Tho bauks aud private capitalists have money which {s unewployed. Noian who has suf. fclont seourity to offer need lack for mouney, But money will not seek investinent in the bondsaf railroads, or construction corpanios, or unproductive real estate, nor in anything talnted with spoculation or wild-catting. Thera are perhaps iwo hundrod milliona of currenoy At ALIs thne lylng unamployed, walting for in. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SA'ii: vestnient in safe and logitimate j roduction. Never .was cwrrency so abundant, and not since the War has interest been so low, But money cnn only Le borrowed for legitimnte and substantinl operatiovs. Tho crushing out of every fictitious, dishonest, specu. Intive mchemo for spending other peo- ple's money unproductively, and an abnodance of capitel and money seek- ing investment nt low rates of interest in any form of legitimate, and substantial, and productive industry, can hardly be said to portend cither bankrupley or ruin. On the contrary, thero §s no longer s waste, The building of railroads in thoe wilderness bas been arreated; popular extravagance in ex- penditure Lina beén checked. Men are com. pellod to live within their actunl fucomes, and not wpon fortunes in futuro. Retrench- ment, public aud private, has taken the placo of swaste, aud tho business of the nation is adapting itsclt to the substantinl basia sa long unknown, Tha conntry has had so long n season of riotous dissipation in speculation that the recovery is slow; but the strength s returaing, nud the first and most natural thing to do is to resume specie values perma- nently, Tho sccond resolution declarea that the policy of abolishing legal tendors and leaving the issue of currency to the National Banks #will increase the powor of an already dan- gerous monopoly ; aud the Democracy ask that the bank curroncy be abolished, and legal tenders issued in its place, So long as say man or number of men, who can raise by nuy means A suflicient amount of eapital, may start & bank anywhere, wo fail to seo that thero is or can be any ‘‘monopoly” in the bus ness, The banks themselves do not con- sider the privilege of issuing notes a profita. ble business, nor any particular hardship to be doprived of it. Thero must bo a return to spocie payments at some timd, and to retire the bank.note currency now will reliove the banks of the responsibilities and obligations of resuming and maintaining specle pay- ments, and roll that responsibility on the General Government, Thoe platform concludes, of course, with o demand that the national our- roncy shall be increased 80 as to replace the bank currency, and to such furthor ox- tont as to meot the demonds of trade. Itis unneceseory {0 comnment on this proposition to more than double the amount of a curren. cy that is now deprecisted 16 per cent. This Democratic currency lacks even the Krriex promiso of redemption in a low interest-bear- ing bond, It lacks everything looking like an honest restoration of the publio credit. Thero are many thousands of millions of property existing in the form of deposits in savingy banks, in commercinl banks, in notes, and other forms of credit, These ropresent the accumulated surplus of years of Inbor aud solf-denial. This Democrntio schome to de- grade the legal tonder and to deatroy its pur- chasing valuo is in fact a proposition to confiscate 80 much of this property as is rop- resented by the further depreciation in tho valne of the currency. This nccomplished, if this party nttain power, it will find itself unsblo to maintain a Gavern- ment with money worth but one-half its face value ; having banished specie, it will meet the diffleulty of paying the interest and prin- cipal of the dobt in coin by paying the prin. cipal in paper, and then, as was dons with tho old Continental money and the Confed. erate States money, repudiato the paper. Then we will have no debt, no interest, no monoy, and no eredit; we will stand convict- ed ng o nation of thieves and robbers; and, with the loss of credit, he demornlized and degraded peoplo.will bo rips subjects for any usurper from within or invader from with. out, THE BRITISE PANIO, Ths financial pasic in England can searcely havo failed to be roceived with surprise in the commaorcinl circles of this country, There has beon nothing to preparo the public out- side the money centrea of Great Britain for a sories of gigantio follures. All the surface indications have been of the very opposite nature, Tho peoplo of Great Britain have never, to all appoarances, been 50 well off s now. For the past scason tha grain-yiold of Qront Dritain and the Enropean countrica has been exceptionally large, making brendstufis relatively cheap, aud the prospect thia yoar is there will bo anotlier heavy crop of grain. There has been mo inflation of currency bo- yond tho requirements of trade, and tho cur- rency itself has beon the very best in tha world. Toxos are lower in the United Kingdom than they have beon at any time within o hundred years, and they aro so dis tributed as to placo tho lightest possible strain on labor and capital engaged in production, 'Thero is mo war at homo or abroad to disturb valuos or create apprehonsion. Everywhero there Is, and hins boen cver sinco the recovery from the English panio of 1860, groater evidenco of prosperity, and In faot greater prospority, thon ever beforo in that country. That thero sbould bo a goneral panio in Great Dritaln, ot this time and under these cir. cnmstances, fa colculated, tharefore, to excite the liveliest npprohonsions in this country and elsowhero of a universal shrinkago and tightening that will alfect every business and overy Interost. It is useful, on this account, to inquiro into the cause of the Eaglish failures, sinco, if traced to local rensons, thoy will not occasion any goneral dismay. The English panic began about three wecks ago with tho failure of the Abordare and Qlymoutly Iron Companies, and the simulta. neous collapse of Mosars, Sanpenson & Co,, bankers and brokers. The latter seem to occupy, with rolation to the present panic, about tho same position as Jax Cooxn & Co. bove to the American panic of 1873, Tho failuro of the iron companies, which led to tho susponsion of the brokers who Lad beon carrying them, was oxplained by the main fact that a large amount of their original capital was withdrawn some threo years ago, and, since that timo, the re- malning partners have boen attempting to carry the business and pay off the claims of tha partners who retirod. The iron business Ia one that requires a heavy capital to tide over bad times, and await tho averoge profits of soveral years. Tho companlos that failed were crippled by the withdrawal of the rich partners, were forced to bocome heavy bor. Towers, werve met by the long strikes and de- crease in the demand for iron aud steel, and fAuvally hiad to succumb, earrying their brokers dowa with them, and the crash produced a shock of public confidenco. But the effects of these first failures would have been con. fined to & Umited circlo if they had been owing to personal and oxceptional reasons, ‘The aubasquent spresding and ‘widening of the circlo must Le oxplained by natural causes, and of theso, two are malnly respon. aible and bave run in parallel lnes. 1. The repld progresa that bas been made allover the world within the past few years in railroad 1 stimulant to Gront Briti sion for an conl that co up enorinot -n abnormal ustrics of divect occa- +¢ labor and Conl went »th $2 or 23 o ton at the ¢ 1 louble that amount, anii cal for meiv 1z nption got as high e i 1 London,— moro than ! 22 y¢ clnsses of labor bef .+ lo d vand ap . ges in pre - perate st among th puddiers, ¢ aotga w ven the agricul ers infeq o The manfactur -+ sie{*end stel kijse up, sup- plying the ¢ - ¢ilprien g whicyfell short of the actur oy cod . tion, It was just after endnr Vlztaly o dncddent to the strikes and cost nf labor and KRS “il'oe.. panie came, de- 11y one of the largest material th stroying in warketa for . ts Railroad build- ing and oxt. c1vfaos checked all over the world, No . Citpba devesd fall off ma. terinllyand - ¢ )‘,:\xlulh“ :ountries, not similarly &t 4 ) atrikes. and got in a position to “mbh tron, stee!. and locomo- tives at low ;+'cer thew ih. nglish manu. facturers et !l bo. tus [la closed in obout the « on al sides. The other manu: . irnt.rests were affected in the same . 1ugh not to the same extent, 2. Anothe { weltloral couse of the present fiun w2 . heinfation of capi- tal (not of currenvy) in Grest Britain, which lias been goingon for years as a rosult of its prosperity, Great Britain hns been accumu- Inting a surplus eapital at the rato of $500,- 000,000 o year in excess of all home de. monds, Weo mean that, after supplying its own business with every extonslon and nccos- sory mado necessary by jts incresse, the profits on its trade aud commerco abroad have amounted to thia vast sum sunually secking investment, During ten years of rapid de- velopment prior to tho late American panic, this surplus capital found an outlet nbrond, and lorgely in the United States. It went in- to oll sorts of foreign loams, especinl- ly municipal and Stato. Money waa loaned to all the borrowingnationson the earth, includ- Ing Turkey, Mexico, andthe States of Central aud Sotith Aracrien. When this outlet was fill ed, the surplug capital of Great Britain sought investmont in bonds end stocks of every de- scription in Europe and Americs,—railrond. mining, manufacturing, public improve. ments,ete. Tho British eapitalistsrediscount- ed the American loaua placed in Germany, Holland, and Franco. Everywhere, in fact, that money could bo invested with a roasonn- blo prospect of getting back the prineipal, it rushed forth from the blonted English capi- talists. The demand for this capital was out off about the time the demand for British manufactnres decronsed. 'The surplus moneys lay idle at homo, and wero loaned at very low rates to tho manufacturers and specula- tors going down hill. These Joans hove not saved the manufacturers, but in their fall they havo carried banks and eapitalista with them, The present panic fs but a general settlement day, when the nccounts are bal- anced, and when it is found that the waste of capital incident to tho strikes, the exor- bitant prices paid for labor, and tho losses from nbroad, bavo croated a hovos even among the giants of the financial world, Thers is one comfort about a panie in Great Britain which we did not bave in our pavio, There will be a speedy rocovery. The troubles are partly the result of too much eapital, as wo have pointed out, The losses can bae sustained without any bad effact upon the futura of the nation or the people at largo. After settling up, the En. glish mnnufacturers will Lave the markets of the world opon to them, and they will ouly neod to reduco their prices to avail them. olves of their opportunities, There i no bigh torif to shut thom out from the ra. sumption of their. trade and commorce. Thelr losses having been made at home, their credit is not affected, Al that is necessary Is to squeezo out the inflation that has re- sulted from over-production and too great s surplus of capital. The offects of the British panio, therofore, thongh it may be very gen- eral throughont Great Britain, are not likely to bo felt in any mnrked degrea in this coun- try, unless it bo in offering our importers clieaper goods and wares, whioh must result froni a fall in wages, coal, raw materials, and cost of production, THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING, It scems to ux that the most.practical way of settling the present unfortunate situation of the now Custom-Honse building Ia to go to the foundation of things, Much time and talk aro wasted in discussing tho quality and oppenarance of the stones, as if these were vital dofeots, Thero is no doubt that some of the stones have commenced peoling, owing to tho nction of the atmosphere, but they might pecl a great deal moro than they have without seriously affecting the Intrinsio qual. ity of such maasive blocks ng havo been used in the bullding thus far, and these defects might be remedied by an application of paint or cement, which would protect them against atmospherio influences, The varisgated quality of the atones, agaln, s not a vital de- foot, howover unplensant it may bo to the eye, slthough the man who passed such stones ought to be severcly punished for his dere. liction of duty. The real point which should be softledis thocharacterof the ground or soil and its capacity to hold the burden lald upon it. It it is unablo to hold the basement and first utory, nlready erected, it would be the hoight of folly to pile up a superstructure of tbree or four stories mora, The Government Commissioners, in their investigations thus far, have discovored that, after o cortain distance of boring, the auger strikes mud or quickeands so soft and pliable that {t can be easily pushed, and sofflcient other testimony has been doveloped to pro- duco a doubt whether the foundation is se- cure. The Government Commissioners, however, who have made those experiments are strangers here, and know nothing of the character of the soil. It would seem, there. fore, very proper and entirely desirabla that & commission of our own architects shonld make au examination of this ground also and report, The new Qovernment building is a structure in which the city is deeply inter. ested. Every person who has dealings with the Post-Office, the Custom.House, and the Courts, and who is suffering from the incon. veniences of the present restricted and tem. porary quarters occupled by the Govern. ont, foels a personal {nterest in having this questionsatilod. It involves $1,000,000 and two years of thne, and businesa Is suffering from this aggravating daolay, It would not be at all inapproprists, therefore, for the Aayor to appoiut Aive or aix of our oldest and most experisnced architeots,—men like Bov. wmozon; Duausxe, Damuwy, Oooumaxs, and otbers,—with power to carefully investigate the condition of the ground and report to the moterinl at both ends of them, like the Ger- man military explotives; but MuLLerr has Mayor, Thess men are probably ac. | nono of these about him, There are polite quainted with almost overy inch of | oaths, aficcted by drawling, side-whiskered Chicago soil. They haso orected build. | snobs; marine onths, savoring of shiverad inga all over Chicago, both with | limbers, blasted uyes, aud snlt-water; gilt- light and with heavy foundations, They have erected henvy buildings like tho Paciic Hotel, the Palmer House, the Honore build. ings, Tne Triouss building, and others about the locality of tho Gavernment struct- ure, and many churches and business buildings upon the very lino of the quicksand or slongh which is said to underlie tho Govern- ment grounds, With their knowledge and oxperience thoy could probably settle the question deflnitely in a very short time, and their report would ba of great practical bene- fit to Secretary Bristow In deciding whether tho walls must come down, If other build. ings can stand upon similar ground. wo seo no reason why the Government buflding cau. not, It will not bo any higher or henvier than many others of our business buildings. ft bas wmot got to susialn any unusun! weight or pressure. It s not o jrain warchouse, will not Lo stored with merchandiso, nor is it expectod to reslst earthqualegs, Nothing heavier will af- fect it than the ordinary passing to and fro of people engnged in business. There are build- ngs all abont it exposed to much greater weight and pressure, whose foundations have ot settled nt all, 1t is therefore a very im- portant matter that the question of founda. tion should be determined, and it appears to ug tobo the only question of importance conngeted with tho present unfortunate con- lition of offairs, We do not doubt that the wiovernment Commissioners and tho Govern. uont itself would be pleased to bave a report from o commission of our oldest and most :xperienced nrchitects on this point, It would cost the city a mero trifle, and the pinion would bo 4 final ono and earry greal wcight with it, edged Httlo oaths for. femnale use; great, hearty, wholesome, plump onths, monopoliz- ed by railrond milllonaires; mean, snarling oaths hurled ot mules by their drivers; stage oaths, always inserted at the particnlar placo where the virtuous liero confronts the villain, and bringa down the house with the eruehing monosyliable, But none of - these ave Myt Lert's, He has something of ench in his, He is cosmopolitan, composite, and mosnic in his profane construction; but the distin- guishing featuro of his is the quantity, not the quality, 1fc takes a certrin number of expletives with much regavd to their charac. ter, and then lets drive with themn, Deing mainly ndjectives, all that is necessary for their employment is a noun which they can quali- fy, ond, as nouns nre not very searce and several of thom enn be lugged into almost every sentence, he finda ample opportunity for substantive ornamentation. In their conatruction, ha is not over nice as to em- bellishment, Ha rather consulls fitness, ap. positeness, weight, and bulk, They are al- wage large, imposing, decisive, and mostly double-syllabled, and the object or occarion does not scem to vary the nature of the ex- pletive. For instance, ho damns the reporter of Tuz TnisuNe with the samo specics of d-—n that he applies to the new architect, and ho Inunches o curso at n {ly buzzing about his nose with the snme directness and impetus that ho fires away at the Govern- ment Commission. His main idea scems to be to concentrate tho greatest possible quan. tity in the smallest possible time, whatever the oceasion may be. And it is only juatice to Mr. MoLLETT to say that he does it well, 1t seems to us, howover, that Mr, MurLerr wastes much of his native sweetness; that his columbiad seatters, and that his talents would be more useful if he would concontrate them where they would answer some practi- cnl purpose. For instance, what an irvalu. ablo piece of property he would be for gener- Al metropolitan use! What a relief it would bo to have such sn nccomplished and fluent profanist to damn the present City Govern- ment of Chicago, the Couuty Board, the South Sido Reilrond Company, the gas mo- uopoly, the water-wasters, the bunko men, and othor nuisances! How soft-apoken peo- plo in unploasant junctures, who feel like freeing their mindy but do not dare to owing to conscientious scruples, or cannot from want of early tndning, would rejoico to havo some one undertake the job for thom, liko Mr, Muruert. Thero are numerous ways, in fact, in which ho might utilize his gift, any of whick would ba preforable to his recent exhibition. Our Governmental ruin is bad enough without having its foundations wonkoned any moro with Murrerr's English, PRESIDENTIATL BALARY. Ono of the planks in the Ohio Democratic platform reads: *Foorth, Tho Prosident’s sorvico should bo limited to one term at e nlary of $25,000 a yoar,” As to limiting the servies of the President to n single term, n great deal has been said on both sidea of the juestion, It was earnestly discussed in the Constitutional Convention eifhty-six yenrs 1g0. A strong minority of the members nd- voeated a single term of six yeara; a fow were in favor of ono torm of eight yonrd; but o majority finally voted that the term should be four years, and that the State Electors might re.clect the President ss often ns they plensed, Gon. Jacksoy sdvocated o single term, and urged upon Congress in several of aig annual mossnges tho submission of an wnendment to the Constitution limiting the time of Exceutive service to neinglotern, But lie was unable to induce any of tha Demo- cratic Congresses to favor the proposition. The single-torm idea bas been discussed in and out of Congress over since, but the peopls have not evinced any qreat desiro for its ndoption. The resolution of tha Ohio Convention was not intended to promote tho iden; the object wns to getin a ‘elap"” ot the present salary of the President. When WasuiNotoN was Presi. dent, Congress fixed tho salary of the Execu- tive offico at $25,000 per anuum, A dollar in those dnys possessed more than double the purchasing power of o dollar nowa. days; 860,000 in depreciated greonbocks at this time xeprosonts loss value than £25,000 when the compensation of the first Prosident was fized by Congrasa. At that timo the United States wero a poor, wenk nation of four millions of inhabitants, and possossed less taxable proparty than the Btate of Illinols does at present; $256,000 now s no more value than $12,000 would have been when WasmNoToN, ApAue, Jer- rensoN, and MapisoN were holding the Presl- dential office. Either thoy woro pald twice too much, or tha sum proposed by the Ohio Democratia Conventlon is only half enough, The United States contain ten times the population and twonty times the wealth they did when WasmnoTon or Jer. engoN was Prosident, and tho du. tios of tho office have increased ten- fold sinco that period. On the bnsis of population and wealth, official duties, and responsibilitios, & salary of $4,000 or 85,000 {n WasmixoToN and Jzrpenson's terma wounld ba relatively ns much as $50,000 at this time, oud that, too, without takinginto accountthe greatly decrensed value of a dollar as compar- ed with what it was seventy or eighty years 8go. It is questionable whether the Arvey ticket will gain many votes by ita salary demsgogism, It is very certnin that if the Democrata coma {nto -power next year the Iast thing they will da fa to reduce the salary of their President to the figure named in the Ohio demagagic resclution, The declaration of the Ohio Democracy, thot **wo favor the complete soparation of Church and State, religious independenco and absoluto opinion, equal and exact justico to all religious sociotios, and purely secular edu. cation ot tho expense of ths tax-payer, with- ont division among or control by any sect, diroctly or indirectly, of any portion of the public school fund,” is sound doctrine. Any different doclaration of views on this impor- lant question would have resulted in the complote crushing out of the party, It may, and probably will, offend a certain faction of that porty, but whore they will lose one veto thoy will gain ten, Their view of the sub- joct ia mbsolutely correct, and the only one that oan be followed with safot; POLITIOAL NOTES, The Memphla Avalanche bolloves that the procervation of the Unlon while the Capital re- walps oo the soaboard s doubtful. Parson Brownlow's proposition to fight a duel with Gon. D, H. Hill o o open hog-pen, after » hard summer ra'n, with dung-forks, betrays a nicor sense of proprioty than the Parson is gen- srally supposed to passcss. Cortain country newapapera in Louisiana have recently declared that tho Btate mughi havan worae Governor than Henry Clay Warmoth : and thoreupon the 8t. Louls Times asserta that there has been brivory aomoswhers, George Willlam Curtis {s a fino-looking man, and s great fuvorito with tho Woman-Saffinge paity. He might bave the nomination of that coterle, or the Now York wing’ of It, for the Prezidency, if be would acoept. Bposhor Blsine '‘never talks politios betwaon politioal campaigns "—to wowspaper-roporters ; and he did not ewerve from his practice whou a Now York Tridung¢ man pmd him the dolleats attention of visiting him in bis sick-room, Vice-Tresident Wilson having remariced confl- deotially whilo {n tho Sonth that hie bad neverbot on a horso-raco, the Augusta Constitutionalist takes unibsage, aud says violently : ** Hehad bet- ter not bat thot ho will bo tho vext President.” 1t woems to be concoded that ex-Bonator Fon- ton might be olected to the Lower House of Congross from tha Chautauqua District, if he coutd bo induced torun, It is thorofore crucl 8 well a3 unnecossary for the Ney York T'ribune {o anpounce 8o often that it has Mr, Fonton's assurance of & declination. ‘When tho Press and Ploneer, of.Et. Pacl,wera consolidated, tho Minnoapolis Trituns oetabe liabed ita claim aa the loading * clean-cut” Ro- publican daily ln tha Stata, Wo ara tharafors vained to loars that the only works of srt toler- ated {u its oditorial rooms mre poriraits of the Hon, William 8. King and the Hou, Benjamin P, Dutler, Thoso gentlomen do oot oxclusivoly oo~ cupy the hearta of tiuly **clean-cut™ Repub- licaua, Wa direct tho atteation of those newspapers in Innotw which bave recently been howlog sbout tho arbitrary and tyrannical proceesea of the courts tothe calm, digalfied, and decent comments of the Now York papera on the do- cialon of the Court of Appeals reloasing Doss Twead, There 18 not apparsutly ona editor {n tho Btate who Impugos the motives of the Court, or doubta its competonsy to deal with the legal questiouns fuvolved. , Tho most lofluential Democratio newapaper in Peposylvania outslde of Philadelplua sad Pittsburg s the RNeading Eagle. 1t has struck terror to the hearts of the local and rural politicians by refusing to publiah palitical no- tices without cinrgo. The Impecanjous Demo- erstic Aseociation of Reading ‘has passsd con- demuatory resolutiona and threatensd to with- draw the support of the party from the Eagle,—~ which wouldbo Hlke taking u tottering houss away from the props that held it fn place. Tho meaning of the recent change in the management of the Bi, Louls ZTimes la explaived {0 mome measurs by ita sud. den sttack on the Whisky Ring, which has lorotofore been igmored by every paper In that oity, The ZTimes proposes to make mno truce with corvuptionsis, Its preasnt propristors disavow rosponsibility for former negligance, aud promise 1o make mal lvely for all parsons convioted of frpuds on sevenue. ‘The uext Governor of Maino will ba Gen, Bals don Coonor, who became knawa to tha peotleof Chioago recently {n couneotion with the reuuion of the Grand Anay of the Republio. Il is & native of the Biate, & graduate of Tuft's COal- loge 1n 1856, aud & velérau of the last War, bave MULLETT'S ENGLISH. If anything elso than peeling stones, crack. ing sills, springing arches, settling foundn- tions, quicksands, mudholes, and corrup- tions were nccessary to sottle the caso of the now Governmont building, it might be found in Morrerr, After reading Mr, Murrerr'a cheerful conversation with the reporter of Tue Tamune, printed in our last ssuo, it would scom as if nothing wero loft to damn the building, Mr. Morterr in times past has displayed most remarkable talent in divers and sundry ways, but in nothing has he shown mora romurkable talent—in faot moro positive and plienomennl genjus—than in the use of that forcibls form ot the En. glish language which cannot well bo exprossed without capital lettors and dashes, In point of faot, MurLerr as nn architect, or a gas. fitter, or patent-roofer, pales before AMurrLrerT 84 a dashing lngulst, dealing with single and compound expletives not usually heard in churoh services and quite uncommon in drawiog-reoma. Aa 8 compounder and expounder of langunga of tho nitro.glycerine sort, he is aimply incomparable, 1o hna at. tained a proficioncy in the aclence of oaths which amounts toa fine art, AsDuvip ex. claimed with roference to his enemics, so our roporter, astounded at the expletives flying about him and wmaking sl the air blue and muorky, could only exclalm, He clotheth himsalf with cursea like a garment. We can only judge of Mutrzrr's accom: plishments by comparizon, Thereare various kinds of onths. There aressd sud melan. choly oaths, like those uttered by men dis. gustod with the world, who sum up the re. sults of their contact with thialifo in one pathetio but satisfaotory expletive ; but Muyr. reTe's profanity fa not of this sorl. There are quist, quaint, end queer oaths, like those of Uncle Tony, which the Recording Angel erases aftor thoy have been entered upon tha books; but Murrarr's do not belong to this olass. Thero are huge, sanguinary, savage oaths of the army kind, which go off like cay. non, and sometimes make the whole alinos. phere blue g but MoLL¥TT's ave none of thess, ‘Thero are blg compound caths, with sxplasive B ——— = — {og entered the army as a private and tlsan (o the rank of Brpadier-Gouarnl. Ufo was wounded in the Wilderness, and uas been on crutchesaver since, Fiven the Domucraiw conceda bis olecilon by av overwholming majority, Benatar Thurman was not man enouzh for the oceasion, whon tho Democratio Conventlon taot on ihe aumvorsary of tho Dattle of Dauker Hilt, aoy more than he was two yearaago. Tho Ronaral impression {8, that he hnd the making of the platforn: in bis own handa; and tuat lis fallure to insert n hard-money plauk was & cone feaslan of political {mbaoity. The newspapera fn Tounovaeo which aeouted tho statemont of Tue Cuicaco Trtnxe that the Doniocracy of the Bouth [s hostila to the publia- school ayatom will confer a favor by carting licht on tbo receut proceedings in Mompbis, The Behool Banrd of (hat city broposes to enter upon mensures of rolrenchmont which, tho Appeal says, * will efectually kill tho publio schouls,” It in now sald that Lotts abandoned tho banjo to stully Lady Macbeth. bam Wilkeson should study from Mallett be fora ho next fulls to cursing. Gov. Tom Ilendiicks, of [udisua, will arrive at tho Graud Vscitlo this morning. The Hon, Angus Cameran, United Statos Sen- ator from Wiscoualn, is at the Sterman Honse, Mr. Dieraoll roquosts tho new Arctio expoe dition to burry back, as Lo wants the mattor eoltted befors ho dica. Hie fomlllarity with the datails of the scondal 18 paid to givo Stanley an axtraordinary prostigo smong tho Hotteulota. Gen. Sherman vialted Concord, Masa., yostar. day, a4 tho guest of Jadge E. R, Hoar, aad tact s onthusiastle welcomo. A volumo {ncluding the most important phils osor:hicul correspondence of tho late Joha Ber- art Ml 18 to bo published. Kentucky points to the Rev. L. T. Hardy, of Bhetby County, as {te Doocher, Tho Iuvestigas lug Commiiteo found him guilty. Lococq, suthior of “La Fille ds Madame Angot " and “Giroflo Qirofla," islame, fat, lazy, ahort-aightod, billous, melancholy, and 40, Karl Dliod has written an cssay for Frase's Magazine on ** Tho Cromation Cnstoms of tl.a Teutonfo Racos from Aociont Times.” Go it, Blind, Sam Wilkeson, ex-champlon cursar, wore a rod night-ahirt, Mullett **clothes himself w1 b cureos a8 with o zarment," and therofore wea:w | o blue-sireak ono, Fravk E, Snow, Genoral Westeru Passengrre Agent of tho Mictigan Contral and Great We te orn Ntatlroads, haa just roturned from s weddit- 1= trip to Culifornia, sud is stopping at the Pulc. s Ilouso. Pity to bang such an =ccommodating pert in «s the autbar of tas tollawing: Pleawo ndmit my friond, Mr. W, 8, Orady, to 11y hanging bo-d 15, st 1 o'clock, ALYRED AnING. Juno 4, 1873, . Mr. 8. 8, Whipple, fonndor of the Whip'e Academy st Jacksonvillo, In fn this city on hin way to Europe, where Le lntends to spond tia summer, kr. Whipple {8 now 90 yoars of s;0, but fa yet bala and heatty, . Three new British Fiold Marabals have bron oreated: the DPrinco of Wales, aud two Pon'ne sular vetorans, Bir John Fitzprerald, sged 89, a.d tho Marquis of Twooddale, agod 88. Tho titlas azo Lovorary only. Current roports to the sffect that Mr, Mire plsy, late law-partncr of Matt Carpenter, Liid bocomo editor of tho Milwaukoe Seatinel, nro without foundation. Mz, Aloxander O, Butiin rotaing that position. Mallett points with prido to the fact trab Georgo Washington sworo dreadfully at (ha battle of Monmouth. The Jittte bantam-arciiie toot fancica himself called upon to colebrate 118 contonnial of thas bi.torical vussiug, #Wo noed the moans for organizing the Democratic party in this Siate,” eaid & loudiig Pennaylvania politician, A Wosterns man 1oe nponded prompliy by telggraph, “Will abip 10 day ons barrel whisky and ons orator; fuvolse by mait.” Tu Fayatts Couuty, Iows, the other day, atcae party cocurred of six persons,~—'alf-"an-'alf—ihe youngest of whom was G5, the eldest 84 yeaia of sge. Ench man was s stop-faihor, snd ecch woman s step-mothor, and there was not & child about the promises, Prosident Grant, sccompanied by Uen, Bibe cock, Algemon Bartoils, and a friend, visit d Phlladelphia yeatorday, At Camden, N.J,, the party were rocalved by tho Contounlal Commia- siouers, and procoeded to inspect the centenn sl grornds and buldings, They returned to Loag Branol Isut ovening. “Two Rivalots” {s what ¥alt Whitman ca'ls lifs fortbcoming book of poems, one-third of which will bo now, ‘It {s," says ho, *n scrtof omnlbus in which I havo paciied -all the belated ones since tho outsot of the ‘Leaves.'" Quiten good ides—omnibua ; but how Walt's flery, vi- tnmed Pegasus must have been broken in api:it t0 draw such & vebiole for hls gonlua | I ibe City of Moxico rocently” the Hon, Will- fam Walter Phelps folt rathec indlsposed, a*d thought that he would not riso early. Whsn ha did Jenve bis bed ho found piuned to bie dre s~ {og-table & piece of pspor, on which biy host hid written: ** You were sleepiug 8o soundly that £ thought I would not wake you to say that 1h:d to go out to keep an engsgemont. Bhould you noed anything, call upou Josus,” 'Iiue apparsnt- ly devanut advico rather staggered Mr. Pleljs, until 1t ocenrrod to him that the servast maa of Lits Lost boro that name, Wuon Qen, Cluseret wae all powerful in Paris in the deys of the Commune, he concelycd a dislike for s man named Pichon, whom Lo do- termined to imprison, and wit . thia view he eall ono day to au ofticer of e staff: .**I palnt ovt Pickon to youy do not loss sight of him." TLo officer, not understanding Cluseret's motive, but (binking that he wanted Pichon promotod, hiad him forthwit made Lioutouant, A fow days Inter, Cluserat sald sgaln: *“You are nob losing sigbt of Pichon, uro you?" Agsin, pro- motion followed, sud before long, by thiesyr tem, Plohon found himeel¢ named Colons!, lu tull uniform lie burried to the Place Yendome to thank Cluseret, who sald, oyorcome with sur- “ Well, a2 you have distinguistied yournelf vico, and havo aliown thas you sre & brave :n '.' lat ua theo embrace, snd lat all ba forgat- oy D) TOTEL ARBIVALS, Sherman House—¥, B, Clark, St Pauls 8. G, Bd wards, Clacinanti; J, 3, Diaisdul, rnnuh‘lxpum v, A, Tantll, Yokobama, Japani J. A, McOulloch, Bt Lous; W, P. Wiggin' Hoston ; W, 11, Lostatter, sielphtn; ‘Grorgs B, Bigne, Ciaclnoutt § D, A Clarke, Metpliss Jamer D, Walker, Ban Frauciscos €, O, Williams, 8t, Loula ; Rolaud D, Irviug, Joun Galiup, Rocliester ; J, M, Danforth, Duburus. Tramon touse—T,' Workman, Toroplo; A. P, Leland, Cloveland's Warrou Laland, San' Franclsco{ J, P IHitchoock, Maine: B, ', Baker, Tacinej Slophen Brown, Ol P, it Brodiisad, J. O Bpencer, Milwaukes ; E.'F. Watison, New York; 1. 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