Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 23, 1875, Page 4

4 RATER OF RUNACRIPTION (PATABIR IM ADVANCE). Pentage Prepaid at this OMce. T.Ab | Weekly. 1 cris Festal oo! ime rata, nt tn each town and village. with auch, tft ‘Lo prevent delay and mistakes, be snte and give Post. Othe address in full, including Stato and County, Ramitanceamay bomade eltherby draft, exproes, Paste Ones order, or in registered letters, at our rink, TERME To CITY BUBECHIBENS. Daits, delivered, Sundar excevted, 26 conta per weok, Daily, delivered, Sunday Included, 30 cante per weak. TILK TRIBUNE COMPANY, an and Dearhoru-ste,, Chicago, Ii, 1o lower, closing at G8}o cash, and GOjofor|he had a cask of July. Onts wero active and weak, closing at 62}e cash, and blo for Inly, Ityo waa quict at 93e, Barloy was quict and easier, at $1.05 for Beptomber, On Saturday evening Iaat there was in xtore in this city 8,089,650 bu wheat, 2,218,699 bn corn, 408,462 bu onta, 2,146 bu rye, and 11,800 bu barley. Hoga wero fairly active and firm, at $7,10@7.20 per 100 Ibs, Cattle were quiet and lower. Sheep were dull. Astriking instance of lows energy and persistant application is found in tho appointmont of ex-Ald. Mie Hainer to the position of Building Inspector. TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. OF MURIO—ialated atevst. between, anand Memrocy, Paparamant et Sei Basar Jail.” Afternoon and evenings : Made Broke LRY'S, THEATRE—Nandoloh street. hetween agoEs taSalle. Royasamant al ‘Tony Pastor's Com- ‘Dination. Afternoon and evening, WVICK! uRS AURA TRI Midleon otrret et geeE RUG Rvedus Theslsa compely. rhe, Big Bonancas ADELPHI THRATREI—Dearhorn strest, corner Mon- fom, Variety Entertainment. Afternoon and evening. BUSINESS NOTICES. THOUSANDS OF LADIES WHO USK shale fleen of Youth | koep thelr own, souneel, snd @ that complesions ao. sitarel ia spponcunee moat be Nature's owas Goa by at dingaiste, The Chicana Tribune, Wednosday Morning, June 23, 1875, Advices from the Black Hills expedition under tho lead of Prof, Jexner nro of an ex- siting nature. Col. Dopar, the officer in tommand of tho escort, writes that gold in paying quantities has been found, and that Cosren's roport is fully confirmed, One hun- dred men were found in the Hills, busily at work, and taking out gold at tho rate of from $6 to $25 perpan, They report quartz mines as nbundant and Indiaus scarce, Exxten Wasununy and hia secret-sorvico dotectives struck a rich lead in Pittaburg, where they captured a large party of coun- terfeiters, who had carried on their opern- tions for soveral months. A now stylo of counterfeiting was developed in the course of tho search among the effects of the crimi- nals, It sppeared that they had turned their attention to railroad-passes, and had on hand hn boautiful collection, embracing the coun- torfeited signatures of officors of all the lond- ing roada in the country, The inflation and repudiation policy pro- mulgated by the Ohio Democrats was yester- day moat emphatically spurned by the Demo- cratia Convention of Maino, An cffort was made to socnre on indorsement of tha Ohio financial folly, but it met with small mp. port among tho hard-monoy men of Maine. They declared tho exact reverse of the Ohio resolution,—for a sound currency, coin or ita equivalent, and the honest proservation of the publio faith to public creditors, Gen. Onantes W. Ronents was nominated for Governor, District-Attorney Wanv yesterday scored a valuable victory in his battle against tho whisky combination. Tho distillers made a “ strong effort to deprive the proscoution of the bonofit of their books in proving the al- feged frauds, taking the ground that tho books were no part of the distillery, aud therefore vould not bo seized, This vital issue was stontly contested by the District-Attorney, who perocived tho difficulty of securing evi- lence without obtaining sccess to the books, tnd who was supported by Judge Buoporrr, the latter ruling that tho books be forthwith ‘brought into the custody and safo-koeping of tho Court, = . To-day tho miners formerly employed by tho Wilkesbarre & Lehigh Coal Company ro- turn to worl, all differences botwoen the em. Pployers and employes having been amicably ndjustod. Tho figal question for settlement ‘was ono regarding tho re-employment of cer- tain active leaders of tho Minors’ Union, these partics having, by ordors of President Pasntsn, beon rofused work on any terms, ‘The order was, howevor, rescinded yesterday on petition of the miners, and the Company, in its note announcing this concession, dis- tinctly announces its determination to be governod only by its own choice and dis. cretion in employing and discharging men hereafter, —_—_—_— Disaffection and gloom porvade the ranks of the Democracy of Northern Ohio on ac. count of the wretched absurdity perpetrated by the recent Convention on the finance question. The leading German daily makes a bolt outright, and tells its road. ers that the ‘muckeriam” (tompor- ance proclivitios) of the Republicans is harmless ond inconsequential compared swith the ‘' paper swindle" advocated in the Democratio platform. Prominont and influ. ential Democrats, both American and Gor- man, take the same stand on the subject of rag-money, and the Ropublicana aro jubilant over the prospect that their opponents will lose the antire German vote ini the Stato. The trial, conviction, and sontonco of Henny Tuosrson, of Iowa, for the fearful crime (7) of marrying hia step-daughter, hus attracted general attention to the barbarous law which makes auch 4 marriage inceatuous. ‘The discussion has brought out the fact that Michigan has tho eame sort of ‘ stain” on her atatute-book. At least, howevor, she doos not enforce the act, ‘This unfortunate ‘THomrnox {sm martyr to legal barbarity, Ev- ery day he spends in prison fs an addod out- Yage. It ia amazing that a commuuity which ‘weeps over murderers and is too tender. hoarted to Langa man who chops hia own daughter to pieces should suffer one who mar- rica bis step-daughter to be sentenced to ten long years of eolitary confinement, Ag yot there seems to have been no effort to get him released, by means of a pardon or in some other legal way, from prison, We are much mistaken, howover, in our estimate of Hawk- tye justice, and fairnoss, and common wenge, auch an effort is not soon and strongly + made, ‘The Chicago produco markets ‘were gener- ally slow and caster yesterday. Ness pork + ‘waa in moderate demand,. and declined 25c per bri, closing at $18.90 for July and 919,07) fdr August. Lard was quiet, and 100 per 100 lbs lower, closing steady at $12.90 for Jaly, and $13.07} for August. feats were quict and firm at 73@7jo for shoulders, WU@ii¢o for short ribs, and 114@11}o for short clears. Highwines were in fair de- Sand and steady at $1.16 per gallon. Lake treights were dull and unchanged at 2}o for torn to Buffalo, Flour was doll, ‘waa leas active and 140 lower, closing st 070 tab, and Vie for July, Corn was quiet and | The man with 15,000 paper dollars fuals as if | not beog fpald and fos whieh the aity has | plagues that destsoy crops, and the feeling le 1 ‘this Bureau of Inspection is 9 creation of Baer's, He started at it shortly after the fire of 1871, and button-holed and impor. tuned, in an Insinnating nud not unpleasant manner, everybody who could possibly have any influence in securing the passage of an ordinance, Failing with the preceding Ad- ministration, he recommenced immediately upon the incoming of the present. He haa never lost sight of his bantling from tho day it was conceived. He went down to Spring- ficld, where ho defeated the General Building low, that had been constructed by tho archi- tects and Insurance Board of this city, and cane very near securing the passage of an abortive substitute of hisown. As this also failed, he returned to Chicago and went nt it again. Ho has hung on until the ordinance ‘was passed and he himself appointed os hoad of tho new Board of tax-eaters, Mr. Bar LEY's persoveranco cortainly eutitles him to tho place if there is to be any Board of In- spection, Aside from this ho is competent enough, and, if he will only insist upon the rigid enforcement of tho law and restrain any careless or dishonest tondoncies on the part of his subordinates, he will receive the support of tho public, and may domonstrate tlie Board to be sufficiently usoful to live, CHEAP MONEY. Thero is no more common expression em. ployed by those who demand an inflation of tho currency than that there should bo an abundanco of cheap money; and they argue that when money is cheap there is alwoys an abundance of it. What is cheapness? The valuo of all things is measured by some standard. Tho universal standard is coin; that is subject to tho least variation, Values of commodities aro estimated by their relative value in ex. change for coin, When $10 in money will buy 600 pounds of iron, and $10 in money will biy two pairs of boots, then the iron and the boots Lavo equiv. alent values; when $10 in money will bay but ono pnir of boots, thon .but one pir of boots will be exchanged for the iron, When a commodity is sold for tess than its ordinary or renl value, then it is cheap; and nothing is cheap—that is to say, nothing is sold for less than its ordinary or standord valuo—except for somo special cause, . ‘Thus an articlo may be produced in excesa of the demand, and in such case may bo sold for less than its ordinary price, thereby lessen. ing ita standard value temporarily. Ma- chinery or other process of manufacturing may be employed, thereby so reducing tla cost of production ns to permit it to be sold yuuech tess than formerly, and in such cosy the standard valuo of such article may be considered as reduced permanently, hero ia, however, nothing to chango tho role that no commodity can be called cheap un- less it bo obtainable at less cost than the ordinary prico for tho standard articlo, Inferior goods, of whatever kind, sold at less prico than standard goods, are not cheap merely becouse thoy cost less. Thus the same dealer may have boots for sole at prices ranging from $£ to $16 a pair; the difference in price is no avidenco of cheapnoss; it ig merely ovidenco of difference in valuc,—a difference inthe exchange value for othor articles, ‘Whon we como to consider what cheap money is, the rule is the samo, A dollar has astandard value, recognized and known by all, because it means a certain weight of gold, Bank-notes are put in circulation as o substi- tuto for money, and, when exchangeablo for coin, they have an equivalent value. . When they ara not exchangeablo for coin, then they depreciate—that is, they become choap, In 1859 wo had a eamplo of cheap money in this State. There wore some eixty banks in Iti. nois, and their notes ranged: from 15 to 60 centa on tho dollar, They were cheap monoy. <A man who had ‘goods which he could exchange for $100 in coin, could with his goods purchase from twico to six tines that number of dollars in bank-notes, Tho latter were cheap, as compared with coin, just as a pair of boots at $4 is cheap when compared with another pair of boots at $10. There is another form of cheapness: The law ostablishes 16 onnces of 8 pound, and 8 feot asa yard. Sugar, wo will say, is worth 12 cents a pound and cotton goods 12 cents ayard, ‘Che grocor may sell bia sugar at the cheap rate of 9 cents a’ pound, and make in. crogged profit, if hoe put but 8 ounces in his pound; and the dry-goods man can in the game way increase hia profita by selling his cloth at 20 conts a yard, his yard-atick being only 24 inchos long. The sugar and the cot- ton cloth can bo even sold cheaper still if the number of ounces in the pound and tho numbor of inches in tho yard be leasened, When paper dollars aro worth 85 cents, thoy are, considered ag dollars, cheap, and Are so, because a bushel of grain which will bring only ¢1 in coin will bring $1.17 in paper dollars, When paper dollars fall still lower, say to 75, and Cu, and 60 conte, their cheapness continues justas docs that of the sugar when sold on a falling scale of ounces to ths pound, and as doss tho cotton cloth sold ona falling number of inches to the yard, The variety and dogroo of this cheap. ness are rendered still more interosting when the ounces to the pound and inches to tho yard aro constantly changing—rising and falling from day to day, and often several times a day; and tho cheapness of paper dol- Jara fluctuatea in precisely the samo faublon and with the Ilke frequency, But itis said that when money is cheap there is an abundance of it, and that men aro willing to spend it freely and to lend it, ‘This is true. ‘Che men who sell groceries at 8 ounces to the pound, and dry gooda at 24 inches to the yard, recalve more money for the samo quantity of cheap goods than thoue who sell by the standard weight and measure, Sotho man who, instead of exchanging his Property for 10,000 coln dollars, receives 15,000 papor dollars therefor, hasin one sense 8 surplus stock of money,which, however, ho kuows is aubject toshrinkage and fluctuation. ‘The man with 10,000 coin dollars js under no such approbension, He holds his money for investment at such rate, and ‘upon such gee security are nosoffered, he waltauntil they are, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY JUNE 29, 1876, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. demands that he got rid of it with the lenst delay. He therefore puta his cheap money which ho does not want, bnt it has some substance; he bnys stocka to sell again; he lends monoy, taking the chances that when itis paid back it will not be so cheap; he buys cheap goods on the principle of 8 ounces to tho pound and 24 inches to the yard,—in short, he gets rid of the paper dollars leat they perish on his hands, In return for his 15,000 paper dollars, he findsin the end that his possessions, howover they may be valucd in paper, will not by any moans purchase tho 10,000 coin dollars which he rejacted in the beginning, Other men similarly crowded with pnper dollars, in their anxiety to get rid Of thom, aro tempted into all manner of reck- lesa speculations, Some engage in corners, some into building railroads running to set. tlomonts of wolves and owls, snd over desert plaina, and through unproductive mountains; some purchase imaginary minos in the hope of finding imaginary gold; others put their paper dollara into palatial resi. doncea, and buy splondid carriages and horses; and the haste and excitement to get rid of their choap monoy leads them on from one insubstantial thing to the other, until away off in a distant port of the country some man's paper monoy gives out, and com- pela others to fail, and others to sink down crushed, and the ‘ money" investedin Bpocn.- Intions evaporates, and thon thero is the Bankrupt Courts, and Assignees, and Re ceivers, and a general reduction of values to the hani-pan of coin dollars, Tho railroads which cost 10,000,000 of Paper dollars are sold for ono-tonth of the sum. Tho mills that mado tho iron have not been paid, and are unable to pay their labor. ers, and close; the sale oven of chenp goods is suspended; no more carpets aro needod, nor china, nor mirrors, nor carringes, nor silks; clothing ond even food is reduced to the minimum; production ceases, wages aro not paid, Inbor is unemployed, poverty and suf. fering oppress the dependent. Cheap money has been abundant ; it haa flooded the coun. try, bringing this dosolation. And now come the Demoorats of Ohio and propose to romedy all this by such an in. ereasa of currengy that ‘paper dollars” will bo as chenp as they were in Richmond before tho collapse of tho Rebollion, whon a man carried his monoy to market in o basket ond bronght home his purchases in his yest pocket, Of all tho cureos that mankind was ever in. Alicted with, and especially thoso dependent on their daily wages, is the curso of legalized cheap money,—that is to say, fluctuating irredeomablo shinplasters, ———_——. LOSS OF CITY TAXES: THE REMEDY. Tho decision of the Supreme Court in the tax cases has scomingly blotted out all the uncollected taxes of 1873 and previous yoars’ topresented under.the two hends of taxes ap- pealed and enjoined and tax-cortificates of sale, These amount tothe sum of $1,064,779, Leaving out of view for the presont the probable result of the collection of taxes for 1874, it ia pertinent to inquire whather thore inany remedy for this loss, or can there be ont found short of additional legislation, and cau tho Legislature even romedy the loa? ‘The city, in anticipation of tho collection of this revenuo, bas borrowed the Money and expended it for the purposes for which the tax was lovied. The general public have had the benefit of the expondituro; but, instead of being a debt duo by the dolinquont prop- arty-holders, it now practically stands in the form of a debt against all the proporty in the city. Can the city now lawfully tax the property of the public genorally to make good the deficiency in the revenue cansed. by tho non-payment of the tax by a fow ? Would the tax upon the whole property of the citi- zens to pay the tax asscased in 1872 and 1879 upon the property of 100 persons, but not paid by them, bo justor legal? Would it not be requiring those who have pald thejr taxes for those years to pay more than thoir {oir or legal proportion thereof, and would not a goneral levy for that purposo bo sot aside because of its inequality andinjustice ? Intho cased under tho railroad-bond law of 1869, tho Supreme Court rulod that a tax levied upon the property of citizens to make good adeficiency in the revenue caused by 2 di- version of 8 portion of the genera! reyonue to local purposes, was void; that when a tax was levied the man who paid his proportion thereof could not be again taxed to mako good a deficiency caused by tho non-pay. ment or non-colloction of a portion of the revenue from that levy. An not of the Leg. islaturs authorizing the Common Council to cortify that $1,000,000 is necessary to be raised by taxation to make good a deficiency in the revenue caused by the non-payment of taxes due on certain property in former years, would hardly stand the test of consti. tutionality. The Constitution expressly lim- ita the liability of property to ite fair and duo proportion of the tax as levied, to be com. puted according toits value; it cannot be taxed again to make good the uncollected tay imposed on other property, ‘Tho General Revenue law of 1872, in pro. viding for State and county taxation, hag a provision whioh, if it dues not extends to casos of thia kind, might readily be made to dova, It ix in Boca, 276 and 277, ond readu: If any real or personsl property sball be omitted In thoaucsnment Of any year or number of years, on the tax thereon, for which euch property was latin from any cause haa not bean weds, oF Uf aoy such property, by ressou vt defective description or assess- fuent thereof, shall fail to pay taxes for any year or ‘yours, (neither case, the same when discovered shall be llstod and ssseased Ly the Asseasor and placed on the anscesment and tax books, ‘The arrearages of tax which might ave been asseasad, with 10 per cent in- doreat thereon from: the time the same ought to bare been paid, ahall be charged agsinst such proparty by the Gounty Olork, If the tax or asseasinent ou prop- erty lable to taxation {4 proveated from being collect. ad for auy year or years, by reason Of any erroneous proceeding or other cause, the amount of such tax or ssserrment which such property shouldhave paid may be added to the tax on euch property iz wny subeo- quent year, to separate columns desiguating the year or years, How far these provisions of this law may be now applicable to the collection of thesa unpaid taxes due to the city we do not pre- tend to aay ; one point is, that, in casa legicta- tive action ehall beconsidered neoessary, here ig the form and precedent under which all Btate and county taxea whioh are, from any cause, not paid when due, can be included in tho next year’s warrant, and anew judgment | panio is a surface panic, causing some ad- obtained thereon, It seems to be the clearost and lesst expensive mode that cin be devised | ingly affects is comp: to remedy the avoidance of taxes, It should be remembered that in no in. stance havo the courts set aside judgments for city taxes because of any. alleged ille- gallty in the tax iteelf, The tax, therefore, ia legal, and follows the property, It cannot be shaken off, but in the meantime there ju no process by which it can be collected, and the ‘Wheat | curity, aa he can get; and, ifthisrateandthis | loss to the clty ie practically the: same, ‘Whenever this property on which taxes have gunpowder upon his | certificates of tax sale, is sold, the tax sale Premises, It is lable to explode, and safety being a matter of record, the purchaser will probably insist on having the tax paid, and in this way the city from time to time on the market; ho hunts up real ostate,! may collect somo portion of the tax, 1874, held certificates of alos of property for the unpaid taxes of 1872 amounting to $594,811, of which thera nd been rodeomed before April 1, 1875, $100,691. Bo, on tho Ist of November, 1874, tho city held certificates of tax salon for the taxes of 1873 amounting to $548,142, of which, by the 1st of April, 1875, noarly The unre. deemed certificates of salo for tho taxes of ‘Thus, the on tho 1st of April, City Comptroller £175,000 had been redeemed. 1871 amount now fo less than $20,000. Thera is no record, however, of the fact that the taxes included in the item of ap. pealed and enjoined taxea are unpaid. ff the fact that thers taxes aro unpaid were put on tho record of deals, the lien would appear on all nbstracts of title, and would be notice to purchnosers. It would facilitate the collec. tion. Should it be determined that addition. al legislation is needed, then nothing can be dono before January, 1877, unleas a special session of the Legislature bo held for that purpose. THE PANIO IN ENGLAND. Tho Chicago organ of ahinplaster expan- sion, high-tariff taxation, and the corrupt rings, partly misnndorstands and partly mis- represents Ina Tamonr’s oxplanation of the English panic. It follows the accepted defi- nition that “Whatever gives profit ia capi. tal,” and thon proceeds to say : In 6 word, Tux Tornuya mafntatas that the com. mercial community of England have accumulated so largo m surplos of rent and anterost-paying capital that they are unable to pay their debtal To charao- terize this oxplanation of tho preeent pante in En- gland as nonnenee, 1s to use a very mild term, We have boon told that the way to avoid panica is to main. tain a specie basis currency; to deal only in honest mopey—gold, But England has pursued precisely this course alnco the close of the Napoleonic wars, and yet England has beon repeatedly conyulsed by panics,.and {a now suffering from ® panio which threatens to be widesproad and fosrfully disastrous, We have boon told by the free-trate bulliontate that. Our panics aro caused by currency inilation, protection, and a lack of “capital”; and now wo ace England rent by « panic, notwithstanding England has free trade, {e frea from currency inflation, and possessee a aurplua of " capita? Now, accepting tho above definition of capital, it losos its character whon it is no longer invested reproductively, or when it ecases to bring rent. Tho desira to keep enpital in nective motior, when it bad accumu. lated in an oxcess above all legitimate do- manda, is proctsoly what caused tho recont disturbance in English financial oircles, In other words, it was an oxcesa or ‘inflation of capital,”—that is, an expansion beyond tho limits where it could bo mado reproductive at home, or to bring a rent abroad, with reason. ablo assurance of proserving tho principal. We will outline the argumont wo used before, Tho British nation has been produc- ing 100,000,000 pounds sterling ($500,- 000,000) per aunum ovor ond sbove ity home domands. It fonnd an outlet abrond, and wns loaned for invest. ment to foreign Governments, Stato and local; to railroad and mining corporations; to companies for publio im. provements and premature developments; to averybody and everything that promised n return of tho principal. Then came repudia- tion in various quartera. Governments and corporations suspended payments, Railrond building ond public improvoments wore brought to o atand-atill, Not only did the de. mand fall off, but thore was no longer any reasonable prospect of gatting back the prin- cipal in loans of this character, It was then that English capital began to accumulate in tho vaults, where it lost its character oa capital and became non-productive. At this timo thera was an abnormal and unhealthful demand ot home, Many of the manufacturers had extended thoir business boyond their own resources, atimn. lated thereto by the demand incident to the railrond extensions, publio improvements, and Trematuro devolopmonts wo have alraady noted, They wero crippled.(1) by the long strikes at home, and (2) by a sudden suspon- sion of tho demand from abroad. The Ameri- can panic of 1873 bore heavily upon them among other things. They then bocame hoavy borrowers, not to mest a growing buai- ness, but to carry lossen already sustained and. increasing. They got the idle money upon securities which would not havo satisfled the English capitalists a few years beforo, but be- couse the capital was idle, and its owners were roady to loan it evon to hard-up manufacturers and reckless speculators, Thero had to be a day of sattlo- mont to atrike the balance and wipe out the losses, This was tho story of “in. flation of capital” and its consequences. If tho Chicago organ of shinplaster orpansion, high-tarif taxation, and the corrupt. rings cannot understand it, it is because tho ex- planation goos a little deoper than that organ {a accustomed to penctrate. But the conclusion of the Jay Cooke and B, F, Auten nowspaper relative to the Lon- don panio is og false as its lack of compro- hension is stupid. A London panic, with its unfettered commerso und solid currency, is not tha same sort of thing as an American panio, which comes from the joint influence of a high tariff and the expansion of rag money, <A panio in England is a tem- porary suspension for mgencral settlement of ® comparatively fow permons and Arar=, in which a portion of the «wots surpluscap- fia), auwinely Invected because it isa surplus, ig wiped out, But there is no general pros. tration of commorce, no genoral suspension of business, no general suspension of produc. tion, nothing akin tothe universal stagnation, want, gloom, suffering, and misery incident toan American panic whicli follows an ex. pansion of eredita, And the difference is to be accounted for by the facts that free trade opens the marketa of the world to Great Britain, that a sound currency enables the people todo business on @ uniform basis, and that taxes are equitably distributed a0 as to bear lightly upon Isbor and capital employed in production, The overlonded speculators and deoply-involved manufactur. era go undor; but, sfter their losses are sponged out in the bankruptey courte, busl- nose goes on, labor is id full demand on @ re- adjusted scalo, produption continues, *the ships bring in raw ma\ from all the world and take out manufactures, and prosperity continues to reign throighout the land. The vance in rates of interejt, the circle it seem. ively small, the de. rangement lasts for a fow weeks ors few months at moat, interest declines, and things gon aa before, In thidthe case, we would ask the organ of the infijtioniate and corrup- Kouists, in America, where bigh tariif and rag money prevail ? eres ‘There {s coming to be w very general be. Uef that the Weatera States alone are afflicted with the grasshoppers, worms, and other unqnestionably affecting advernsly tio in- terents of the entire country west of tle Mis. A curioun ilustration of the {nllacy of this sentiment is fonnd in ‘A Tis- tory of Bradford, Vermont,” by fhe Rev, Sas MoKzex, which describes visitation of 1770 in that rection of the countr. Thoro wan “an astonishing multitude of yorms, of uncommon size and destructivonsa, which passed through this seotion of theConnecti- cat River Valloy, overspreading to a grent sonri River. broadth the whole surfaco of tle ground, ‘They began their work of destruction extended aa far down as Loncaster, Mnas., on both sides of the rive. Thoy ap. peared late in July, and remaind until Sep. tember, ‘Choir march was vey rapid, and they wonld go up ono side ¢ a house in their way and down tho other side, covering it so complotoly that the board and shingles could not be seen, Woe cite it amply to show that the Woat has not a monovoly of posts; it isalmply tho Wost’s turn iow, but they may strike elgowhere another gason, ——_—__ THE “JEFFS” AND ‘QSMOPS.” ‘The organization of the Jefursonian Club in this city may be regarded as on honoat effort of the respectablo elunent in tha Democratic party to assort itsel? in the con- trol of party matters. In this sTort they aro naturally encouraged by such mon as Judge Taumaurs, Judge Ors, Judge Doorsrrie, J. V. LeMorvz, A. 0. Hesiva, 0 0, P. Hor. pen, and othor gentlemen vho formerly acted with the Republican party Respecta- ble and intelligent men who have been nsso- cinted with the party of intelligence and ro- spectability cannot complacontly zontomplate ox alliance with a political srganization centrolled by the saloons and bummers, ard their first offort in going over to the Domocracy has been to nttompt a revolution of the old order of thhgs, They have met with the co-operation of Democrats like Judge Mixer, Tuomas Howe, 0. H McGorsnox, Dr, Davis, and othe, whose preferences aro for political decmcy, but whose traditions have bound them down to the Democratic party. Tho offorts of theso gen‘lemen are heroic in viow of the cbstaclos they aro gure to encounter. Thoy aro enti- tled to the glory that awnits tho lenders of » forlorn hope. There is no prospect for their success, but they should be accorded the fnil credit of having undertaken a good work, which is nono the lees commendable becanse it {a foreordained to defont, : Whilo the Jeffersonians are organizing on tho ono hand, their opposites in the party ara marshaled into an effective front undor the name of the Cosmopolitans, While tho former are ondenvoring to combino the ro- spectability and intelligence in tho party, the latter takein the saloon-keepors, gamblors, Aldermen, small office-holdera, ward bum. mors, profesional repoatera, and expert bal- lot-box stuffera, ‘The Cosmopolitans do not bother with declarations of principles,—they have no principles to declare; thoy do not wasto their tims in mnking or listening to po- litleal addresses,—thoy havo other fish to fry; but whisky, olgirs, and cards are the attrac- tions which thoy hold out for memborship, In other words, they are the voto-brokors of tho Demoeratio party, and they go down to tho levol of the party to find tho votes, Now the question is how the Jefforsonians, with the bost intontiona in the world, can hopo to overcome the practical opposition which is thus dovoloped within their own party, The Jeffersonians have promulgated a declaration of principles, to which, with some oxcoptions, we have already given our appro- val, and which, as we believe, very fairly re- flecta the purposes that animate the Repub- lican party. Wo shall not go over the entiro Goclaration again, but point out a few pas- sages which aro sure to excite the antagonism of the Cosmopolitans and tho mass of Dem- ocratic voters whom they control. 1, As regards national politics, the Jeffer- sonians demand a reduction of the patronage ot the National Government. To this tho Cosmopolitans, cuuntitutionally, collucrivaly, and individually, are irreconcilably antag. onistio, Party politica has no significance in their minds outside of offico-holding, and party success would bo uttorly useless to them if the number of places wero to be ro- duced, This sentiment is so foreign to their notions, indeod, that we understand a Demo- cratic Congreasman, recently elected from ono of our districts, haa demanded places for some of his conatituents,—members of tho Cosmopolitan Club,—cven from a Republican Administration, in the belief that his position as Congresaman entitles him to a certain amount of patronage. Tho Jeffersonians also demand that “ there bono more inflation nor repotitions of violated promises, but a return to specie.” This ia precisely what the Cosmopolitans do not want, and what they do not propose to permit if they can help it, ‘Tho Jeffersonians plodge “the honest payment of our debts, and the sacred preservation of the public faith.” In this they can hope for no sympathy from the Cosmopolitans, who never pay their own debts when thoy can avoid them, and who don’t care » rap about the publio faith. What they want is plenty of money, cheap money, rsg money, any- thing that paases for money, and leads people into extravagant, improvident, and viclous nabits, through which they (the '* Cosmops") may hope to obtain some of it. 2. In regard to the State and local politics, the Jeffersonians demand “a strict observance of the Constitution of the State by the dif. forent departments of the Government.” Now let us see how this would affect the “Cosmops.” ‘The Constitution requires that city taxes shall be levied and collected undor the General Revenue law; but to do this would be to abolish the Tax.Commiasioucr's and City Colloctor'a bureaus in this city and dis- place about 100 tax-eaters; consequently the Cosmopolitans, who ‘now control our City Government, refuse to obey the Constitution of the State. The Jeffersonians also demand ‘‘g jealous care of the right of election by the people, the banishment of all corrupting influences from and absolute freedom in the exercise of the elective franchise,” This iy the very reverso of the practice of the Coamo. politans, as illustrated in the recent vote on the charter of 1872, when, in order to retain some of their number in office beyond the term for which they were elected, they voted their retainors carly ond often, and stufed the ballot-boxes. ‘Wo might recite other equally irreconcila- ble differences betwoon the Jefferconians and the Coxmopolitans, but those we have named ere gufficient to mark the difficulties which bese. the laudable undertaking of those gentlecen who want to reform the Demo. cratio perty. The Jeffersonians are the theorists of the Democratic party, but the Coamopotitans ars the voters.. It is a clear case of a house divided against itsal/, and we fear that, {a case of compromiss, the Jeffer. sonléns Willliave lo give way. ‘The prove destroying tho luxuriant fiolda of whent and corn, and leaving desolation bohnd them," as far north os Lancaster, N. 1, and Tence of tho Jefforwunian idee in the Der cratic party would be the defeat of av sneg tho {ufluence and. purpone of the Cosmo. tho Jofforsoniamidens to prevnil ——— MOODY IN ENGLAND, ‘We trust that tho friends of Mr. Moony, our evangoelint, and of Mr. Sanger, our irroverent because it is disposed to rejoice dour have gone from hamlet to village, from village to town, nnd town to city; from hovel to painea; from tho church to tha thentre ond tho opern-house, where they the boxes and to commoners in tho stalls; and finally, that thoy have landed plumply in- to inquire if it be truo that Mr. Guapstone has given Mr. Moony letters of introduction an ontrance into that ancient seat of primary learning, Eton Univorsity, where the young aristocracy of Great Britain obtaina its pro. Yiminary education, We trust it will not bo considered irreverent for Tar Cnrosco Tats. ‘UNE to express its grateful surprise at thisin- usual spoctacle of this plain, blunt, illiterate man, who was never mistnken for. prophet in his own country, setling all Parliament by the onra, influencing 300 young aristowats of invite him to talk to them, and agitating the learned -governors of the College ihto hot discussion whether they shall le ae old seat of leorming listen tho attraction is it that Moopy possesses, which has made him the sensation of tho day all over England and the objoct of more itterest ond curiosity than even the Queen herself ? oran unhoalthy one, whether he is the bearer of “pind tidings” or bad tidings, whethor he be learned or unlearned, and whothor his tuneful condjutor be o mere miustrel singor or o vocal artist of magnitude, ono thing is certain: that neither Queen, Princo, nor Duke, poet Inureate, savant, nor soldier, aro creating the furore in England that plain Mr. Moopy has aroused. Wo trust, furthermore, that cortain orthodox brethren will not considor it irreverent for ‘Cn Cmoaco Tnrsuwn to congratulate Mr. Moopr upon tho success as well ns notoriety ho has achioved, and to in- timate its belief that ho has -been thus nuc- crsomothing to do, and is doing it with all this pinnacle of fame and mado his namo known all over Europe, Tre Catoaco ‘Tain. Moonr loft us, Chicago has retrograded, and is not going to the good. Tho childron of darkness havo got pon- dovil are. uppermost, and tho city au- thorities aro in loagne with them, Come back tong, The harvest is white and the loborers are faw and feeble, The powers of good necd the help of thelr champions, Moopxy and Sanxxry, and we hopo that when thoy have finished at Eton they will retrace their stops homoward and give Chicago an awakening beforo it is too late —_—— ‘Has the City Government of Ohicago como to wfinal dotormination to overthrow tho whole system of popular education in thie city, and give it over to the domination of ignorance, vice, and corruption? It would seem eo from the manner in which {t opposes ituolf to evory moaguro calculated to enlighten aud clovate the masees. A portion of tha Council is opposed to making any appropriation for the aupport of tho Publio Library, withont which this useful sud noble Institution must close its doors, Auothor portion is striving to discharge all tho scachers in tho public schools who [ive oat of tho city. Tho Law Dopartment is prosecuting the book. sellers for selling without s license. In the Common Conncil, the other evening, an Aldor- men atated he thought it waa bettor for childron to be in the beer-gardeng than in the pub- Mo schools, These the manner im whieh the author. tiea of Chicago aro setting themselves againet popular education. What aro thoy giy- lng us in the placoofit? Bunday nights dess- erated with variety performances in low dens and dives on onr most public atreets; whisky- shops ronning st full hlagt on tho Sabbath; gemblers plying their avocation in full view of the publio; the atreots crowded with confidence men, monte mon, bunko men, thioves, pick- aro given bythe party which wont into power with such loud protestations of reform; and the party in power dara not interfere with this mob for the reason that thig mob is the party, and that without its votes the present suthoritios never would have been in power, and never will beagain. But because thoy dare not interferes with degradation, ignorance, and enmo, why is it necessary for them to interfere with educa. ton, virtue, and goneral enlighteument? A lawault over a disputed promissory note in Dutchess County, N. Y., brings to light forthe first time -the particulars of the death of the late Dr, Prox, of that coun- ty, which would have caused as much com: ment, perbapa, as that of Prof. \Vauezn, the vio~ tim of contam. Dr, Pxcx died in October, 1873, fron the effocta of adoae of sconito, taken by mistake. A number of bottles were on lila table, and he drank from that contalniug the poison. He took an ometic immodistely, but, though partially relieved by it, be roalized that the poison would kill him in two hours in epite of all human efforts, He sont for bis brocher aud a lawyer, told tham what had happened, and bade them ait down and write st his dictation, ho walking about meanwhite ¢o delay the working of the drug. A promissory note was made out for Mans E. Eante, of the value of $10,000, whlch Dr. Prcx algued, and which Is the subject of the present tigation. So long as ho retainod control of his limby, Dr. Peox walked up and down, glring business directions to his lawyers, and talking with « brother physician on bia foarlesuly awaited the end. After hiv limbs falled him, and be lay on the lounge quite con- scious, the attending physician asid to bim: “ep up at bim with mingled indignation and con- tempt, and ejaculated, “Ob, hI!" Ho died & fow minates later without pain, justifying bis contempt, if not his exprosafon, of it, ——_+_—_. ‘The discovery of an entry in a droggist’s book of the asle of half an ounce of prassic solid to m gentleman then balanced upon the tagged edge fn a cave of gloom, gives soma in- terest to the wulcide of another Brooktyn gentle- Mo- | manner of his taking off. Whathor Mr. Moopr's mission be a healthy | aatod ‘Freok Owen, Nevada; Symptoms, He was quite calm all the time, and ‘Haskell, Arizona; ape you way recover,” Dr. Pxox looked | 2. ae Hort tad fornia; I. Jr, St, Pauly Jolin Carson, Toledo; ML New York... ngs J ¥airbas ‘D, B. Meagher, Oita Coal on Mort mon with fiz. ed determination to dodgatie cousoqneces of keue in sim World, and» dono of the potou Will, politans in that party. Itis obvious, there. | them, mauld hayo swallowed it, as ad Jonas fore, that, having the power now in their | Cutzlewif, suo, coward as ho was, bed courage honds, the Coamopolitana wilt not pormit Fee teary & world he hel heped to dye Been FRRSONAT Louise Alcott bas made ¢),000 by her pen, Tho pulchrltadinous Rusby is to retura here singer, will not deem Tne Cmtoago Tninune | before the oystor, Dio Lowio haw writte * book entitled Pro. that tho Chicago evangelist aud his Troubn. | hibition s Failuro,” ‘Tilton Is becoming grod-naturaily fat. Having dispoved of tho mora! Niagara of bile, ho fools bottor, Ausasgin Stokes wondera why tho Supreme havo talked to Duchessps and Princesses in | Court cannot revera Lis cage, too. 1s was not mao for that pursoso. ‘Tho othor hat of the Daly company will play toParliamont,andexorcised that dignifiedbody | ¢ tho Arch Stract Theatre, Philadelphis, tho firat week in Septombor, George Clarko will bo in Europe soon, charm- with which onr: ovangeliat. proposos to make | {9% the arintccracy of Littto Britain and Penton. villo with that lovely mastacho. W. W, Van Aradalo, tho General Seorotary of the Yonng Men's Chriatian Association, returned yesterday morning from tho Eaat. “Dry Rot” having proved a failure as tho title of s tecture, Anca Dickinaon proposes next to discourse upon ‘ Moist Subjocta.”” Tim Keating, of New York, haa saved alx men from drotning, aud docan’t wuar » 0-pound watch-chain and 2-inch signet ring cithor. The Liverpool Post tela tho story of the fl Eton to violate oll collegiate tradition: and | treatment of the Dnohess of Edinburg by her hueband, and seems to dolight in sproading the scandal, ‘The Detroit Free Press argues that if he had to | tho true instincts of a journalist, Jamoa Gordon, tidings which Moopy brings and } Bonnett would have brought ovor sottors inatetd tho songs which Saker sings, What magic | °f Pointers. John Steole, the quondam petroloum million. aire “ Conl-Oll Johnny,” is working ona bridge in Shalby County (Is.) for @L.756 adsy, Hiswhe vllugs to Wim yet, * Gath‘a first lotter to the Bt. Loula Times wes “Tho East Window,” and tho Cincinua:t Commercial daily oxpocts ons written fron “The cellar vault.” Dominio Smith, of Toxas, whipped Bad Powe'l, and Bad wout for him with a revolver. This tho first | did the learned pedagogue reatizo the full axtent of the dangor of tonching tha young ides to whooe, It fa comforting to think that if the ‘'Keeloy motor™ isan actual fact tho coal monopolii:ts will have nothing to do but divo down {nto tho bowels of the oarth and curse the mutability of hunian affairs, Wilitam Thaw, of Pittaburg, offers @1,000,000 to the Westorn University of Ponnuylvania, if a similar amount can bo raised before July. Mr. ‘fhaw haa awarm hoart, spparently, although cossful bacause bo is 4 man with o mixsion | hia offer's a nico ono. ‘Tho widows of Canon Kingaloy and Sir Arthnr his might, Now that Mr. Moony lina reached | Holpa baving accepted Crown ponsions of £200 eB yoar cach, the London Framiner doolaree tlint they havo dono tholr utmost to discrodit thorr une has a suggestion to make. Since Mr, | Dusbands’ teachinge. Tho Pittsburg Post has boon ordered to pay a ‘Mr. Moore $10,000 for calling him bad oaw2s, but i¢ Mr, Moore is going to sft down and five on that verdict bo'l! bo brried in the Pott.r's session, The -world, the flesh, and thp Fleld before s weok goos by. ‘Tho Rev. Br, Simplinson, Rector of Drington, Northamptonshire, bas succooded in tinding that tho ancostora of George Washington boloned to his parleh, and in tracing them up to ‘00 twelfth contury, Now ho will got a mosumont. Daniel Bandmann writesto the London Times tocorrect tho improsalon that Irving and Bal- vini have introduced ectirely now ** busines" (bel-epie!) into “Hamlet.” Ho shows that mout of thoir new points aro almost as old ae Garrick. Tho celebrated planist who fs coming here fo the fall'should make bay whilo the aun ahiros, foe Mon wante tut little bers, Bulow, Nor wants that little long. Mother and son exchanging palpits waa ono of the qnoer sights whioh shooked the good conserrativos of Jersey City and Little Talla (%. ¥.) mot long ago. The Rav, Phebe Hena- ford, of tho flrat-named city, and the Nev. How- ard Alcott Hansford, wore the preachers, Kean-eyed Californians killed Mexican bandit, and thou appointed a Coronot's jury to Investigate, Tho jury rendered» verdict tunt the decoased was Joss Maria Gaerro, that thay found bim in a canon, ‘and buried him aoco~d- ing to Hoylo.” Gov. Allen saya: ‘Hot? You think {t's hot ? are fair samploa of | Ovghtto been around that morning when mo an’ Aleck Stepbons Ut out o’ Sodom. You'd soon some weather then, my boy,—likowse some rather mishin’ pedortrian exercise on tho part of us." And the old gentleman put on another overcoat. Larry Boloher sat in an Arizona hotel a sho-t time ago with abig jackknifo in his hand, ar], while industriously chowing tobacco, he wag al<o busily engaged in whittling tho obair; but when the landlora came shuffling into tho room mith a pockets, burglars, and prostitutes, all at work | bowie-knife fn cack hand and slit hisear, Larry and undisturbed by tbe polico. ‘Chis ia what wo | piled out of the window, whilo the boss of tie ranche stood in the door and solled: “I'll teach ye how to carve }” The Parla American Register of June Sgivew tho names of the following Ohicagosns + Paris — George Armour, Lyman Blair and femily, Miwa Jonale aod Misa Jeasio §, Bradley, Miss M. E, Campbell, Miss Virgie B. Claytoo, Miss H, Dodd, J. N. Drummond, Migs B. Drummond, M.P, Epping, Miss Alice Gartold, William Hardin and family, J. H. Hayolo, J, Jenkins, L. J. ard Aes, Kadish, J. L. Rows A. and Mrs. Patton, J. 0, O'Connor, J. H. Wober, Dr. 2, Ludiam, J, M. MoLean, tho Misses Miller, the Miser: Strong, Mrs, J. Thorne and son; London—afiu: Beckwith, J. M. 4nd Mrs, Clark, Lyman Waro, Miss D, Spencer, J. Price, J. W. Ogden, G. lL. and O, Holt, and Miss Farnsworth, Tho Rov. W. BM. Daker wrote to the Indepen?- eng anstory Of Phil Sheridan, the evente of while “he vop-hes for es occurring within hia orn px- ‘periaice. Ho narrates thats young Indy, wish- dng to ba taken out for awalk by Sheridan, mad> # tequoat to him to accompany her, Sheridan de- colined on the plea of wet weathor. A fow minutes laterthe lady detected him atealing out alone, ant cbarged him with inconsistency, Sheridan re- plied (aaya the chroniclor), ‘The weather fs too bad for two, but I thought i¢ might be good enough for ono.” This same story, it is disooy- orod, was told of Richard Brinsley Sheridan yearsago, The Rev. Bakor's rovival of it iadue Perhaps to the provailing Conteonial fever, MOTEL ARRIVALS, ‘Tremont Howe—-W. 4, Willams, Indisospolla; J. P, Cooke, Honolua; A. O, BR, Hisle, Minnospolia; A, 0, Brad Toy, Ban Fraucteco; Mra, W, 0, Digby, Auckland, Nuw Zealaud; W. EB, Lyon, Now Haven; Mrv, Henry N, Manney, Japan; Capt. Tylor, J. H, Tyler, London } 2, 07, Austrailia ; J.D. Webb, Nobraskay joy, Han Francisco; L. H, Newton, Call- Goo, Dr, G, ¥, Gill, 8t, Loule; B, dage, Le J isheroion House—W. V. Danbar, “Wheel bany; 0. 2. Willard, Hartford ¢ tous JE. Wiener, New York? iteway H, 8, Hanford, Rockford ¢ iea Q. lived, Erie; Bamuel Gilbert; Cleveland} aries ‘Treadway, Hoston; Charles Beebo, California: llup, Hocheater; Fred 8, Swishor, St, Paul +. Grand Pacite—Charieg K, Parraaleo, New Ileyen 7 +, J. Thurber, Hiiteburg? » Detroit ‘ ward 8, Hildreth, Bi 7b pda a man. Dr. Narorzon Parmer bad been thus | 8. Follett, wi, Louie Willan Whlbire oucionhug situated, owing to.» settled belief thst inssvity in his femily extended to himself. He could Frauk B, Wil pads D8. Mulrea, Galvesto York; 4, Uoasley, Peorte; D, B, Caruthers, Sale hot get the concentrated a prussie seid, and 0 Patnar “eum Ges, Y. a. Contented himself with 80 ounce of the} Campbell,’ 3.0. T. Belly) Biba duuted drag. Rotarving home, be took st, and | Flint; Mulwaatere HP, Hired, eeeeeal pe tJ Ge Jo ten minutes died quietly and peaceably. ‘The | Yanan seysdalhiia ; J, Paster, Olncinnall effect of the poison in an undiluted condition Geary, Kaisa Cliy; Martin ‘aus n Nee is equally patuless sa sie nar rapid. Being | 287 bene ae a Je a borer, ‘Olncinnal ; Dav! volatile to ap extraordinary degree, is leaves no | vile; Edward traces a abort time after death, Itis jaat suche | laste yet fe i : poluon es a men of Lateliigence would aboose, | Hucaer, gblanon, D. Pus, tuon: Gid be desize be leave the world no slew bo the Dos hace