Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TIIURSDAY, JULY 8, 1875, e e e e e e e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. WATES P BURSCRIPTION (PATARLE IN ADYANCR). Postnxe Prepaid at this Ofice Daily, 1 13000 | Weekly, 1 i.fln k 261 | Eirn oopl 80 i .{g'.'; 'L 4 m Ton ooplo 1400 mistakes, ho sore and xive Post. I, inoluding Stato snd Connty, Remiitaiices may bomade eitharby draft, expross, Post- OB.ceorder, or in reglatored letters, at onr sk, TERMA TO CITY ADDACRINEAL, Dafly, delivered, Stunday excopted, 23 cente per week. Daily, delivered, Funday faclndod, 34) canta pae woak, Addrme TJIK TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madisoffand Dearborn-sts.. Ohicago, L AMUSEMEN EY'8 THEATRE=-Randoinh strest, hatween 2 An paa - fasgament. f the Uniza Ruace Copany, ** TheTwa Orp! Afterncon and eveniog. M'VIOKKR'S TIEATRE—Madisan stresr, betreen h-:vbflmllm’} Stato. Engagemens of Iaverly's Min. s, TO-DA 7L,PII THRATRE-~Deatbarn streel, sornar Mon. o ey Fatetiantagabe Alteraban a5 evanin. The Chitago Tribune, Thursdsy Morning, July 8, 1875, The bill for the extension of homsehold suflrago to counties and boroughs wns do- foated in the British Houso of Commons yes- terday by a large majority. Tha seventh annunl report of the Hlinois State Auditor, embodsing much interesting information relative to the business of life pnd accidont insurance companies in this State, has beon submitted to Gov. BEVERIDOE, and an abstract of the roport is published elsewhera in this issuo, Do divorces run in fomilics? Is the pas- sion for putting asnnder what God hath joined & matter of blood,—an opidemio which is eatching ? - It would seem so from a recout occurrence in the New York Marino Court, A divorco suit was brought in that court, and overy witness examined had been divorced. Thora were five altogother and all related to each other. The record does not show what caused these divorces, but it cer- tainly indleates that tho disease had a very successful run, ¢ Franco and Spoin aro both travailing over now Constitutions, The latter has had an ensy timo of it,—almost a3 ocasy as the over- throwers of the Constitution will have. The Committes oharged with the matter has turned out n protty picco of work, supplied with all tho necossary formulas about indi- vidual rights, ete., and about as likely to be carried into effoct as p tunatic's mad dream in to be realized. Franco is doing better. Step by step, and day by day, the fight i earriod on. Opposing intorests clash, strive to con- quer, finally compromiso, The Constitution 48 growing. It hns not been mads to order. 1t has o chance of survival, ‘The argument in the Police Board injunc- tion case wns yesterday concluded before Judgoe FanweLy, who will render his decision this morning. Meanwhile the injunction s ocontinued for another day to guard againat the possibility that the provisions of the or- dinance of abolition might be carried into of- Loct while the Court was engnged in doliver- ing the opinion. 3t scems to bo concedod . thst Commissioner BuErroa¥, having beon elocted by the poople, cannot be legislated out of offica either by an act of the Legisla- ture or of the Common Council, though it is claimed that he may bo doprived of all his duties and functions excopt the drawing of hia salary, One would think this was pleas- ant enough for Suznoax, but he fs probably fighting for a prinoiple and the possi. bility of & re-oloction in oase it shall trans. plre that tho Police Board is not abolished. Plymouth Church hss accomplished an. ther dramatio and apeatacular demonstration in voting Mr. Bezonzn o salary of $100,000 for his pastoral services during the onsuing !yonr, Of courss the purpose of this enor- 'mous etipand is to defray the expense ‘of the trial, but it would have beon in better ~taste to have put it plainly in that shape, instesd of calling it salory, which impliea that a preacher nat “yeot vindicated from a charge of adulteryis five times ns valuable to his flock a8 he was beforo Lis roputation was ealled in question. It would have looked bettor to have raised the money by private contribution. In case Movrron #mececds in sccuring Beromen's in- dictmont for perjary, will the Plymouth mill. donaires consider this circumstance another sugmentation of thelr pustor's usefulnels, end add anothor $100,000 to his * salary " P —— Wisconsin and Minnesota hold State Con. ventions yestorday, the Republicans in the former ond the * Democratic-Republioans in the latter Stats adopting platforms, and ;placing full ticketsin the feld, Jhe Wikcon- ain Convontidbn nominated for Governor Hak. wsoX Louvmazon, of Milwaukeo, one of the most popular mon §n the Btate, and a candidaste who {8 confidently oxpected to dmw largely wmpon the Democratio ranks in Milwankes, nnd to poll the united Republican voto of the Biate. Hia olection 1a regarded ms certaln, and, aa tho remainder of tha ticket {a excop- tionably strong, and the plitform is one ‘which should command general ndheroncs, it i3 probable that next fall will witness the re- torn of the Badger Btate to the Ropublican fold, In Minnesota the Opposition unit- &l under tuo onrioudly contradictory title of Damocratio-Republioan, which is appropriate cnough, after all, na the only Democratio featura of the platform is the plank which declares hoatility to the Ropublican party ; all the rest of the resolutiona are good lte. publican doctrine it intelligently construed, The tloket placed in nomination is sufoient. Iy strong to solidify the Republican ranks and neocssitato extra care In the selection of opposing candidates, The Ghicago produce markets were frregu. lar yosterday, Mess pork was more motive sod 80@850 per brl lower, closing st §19.85 cash, and 819.40@10.45 for August, Lard waz dull and 100 por 100 s lower, closing at $18,05@13.10 oosh, and $13.17) for August, Bluata were qulet and firm st 8}@8lo for shoulders, 11§o for short xibs, and 120 for short cleari, Mighwines were sctive and firm at $1.17 per gallon, Lake freights wero in fair demand and steady st 2j0 for wheat to Buffwlo, Flour waa less active and steady. Wheat was in fair request, and closed easy ut ©1.03} cash, and 1,04} for August. Coru Was more mctive and advauced §o, closing at ©}0 cash, and 71}o for August. Oats were Sctive snd easior, cloalng firm at 8Yjo for July, mnd 400 for August, Itye was nominul. iy strvmpes ot 98@USa. Basley was qulot at W10 goy Beplasabar, . Tiogs ware active dur 4 ing tha forenoon, but closed dull and essier; sales at ¥0.50@7.40. Cottle were dull and 15@2i0 lower, Bheep were scarce ot §3.00 @450, The Common Council at the last maoting adopted the following resolutions : Rexoloed, That the Comptrollar of Chieago bo, and bo taherely directed to make snil delivor to Faxpxniox WicreR a good and_ suficlent deed or deeds £0 the property recently aold to nald Wacrsn, by orddr of this body, and tastipulate In sald deed or doedn that the City o Chicsgo will giva s good and clear title to satd property sosold, Resolced, alav, That in event it should be found that there {anuy llon or othier incumbratice Whatsoever upon said property or any part thereof, the Lasw De. partment {8 bereby direciad to take tha necersnry steps 40 ramove any and all such liens or clouds now resting tpon i property, snd o prosecuts such proceed- inge without delay, The sale to which these resolutions refer 'wig made some months ago, The property is on the North Side, near Lincoln Park, and waa purchased by Wackss for 851,000, Whon the question of confirming the sale was be- foro the Council, it was ascerlained that tho land was subject to a park tax of about $14,000. Tho salo waa confirmed upon the express assurance made in the Council that this assessment, if legally made before the salo, and therefore a lien on the property, should follow the property and be paid by the purchaser. The resolutions of the Coun- «il now look to tho execution of a deed to the purchaser free of any lien for assessmont or tax! This is o violation of the agroement and understanding at the time of the salo, when the very low price agroed to be paid waa dofended and justified becausa the pur- chaser had to pay whatever assossmonts had beon lovied on tho property. These resolu. tions were passed by a vote of 28 yens to 8 nays, a8 follows ; Ayer—Richardaon, Warren, Reldy, Sommer, Caller- ton, McClory, Mildroth, Balley, O'firten, Woodman, Clark, of the Tenth Ward; White, Quirk, Ryan, Eckbardt, Stout, Mabr, Bohaffoer, Murphy, Sweoney, Jonas, Corcoran, avd Dizon—13, Noes—Bione, of tho Fourth Ward; Olarke, of the Fifth Ward ; McDonald, Heath, Waterman, Cawmpbell, Case, and Cleveland—s, ‘The Alderen who voted for these resoln. tions may, wo suppose, bo thus classitied : (1) Those who did not understand their real meaning and purpose, and (2) those who did, and voted for it to accomplish that re. walé, MUNICIPAL EXPENDITURES, - ‘The Bt. Louis fepublican makes the pas. sogo of the aunual ordinance making appro- priations for the support of the City of Chi- cago on occasion for a comparison of several iteme with those for like purposes in 8t. Louis, It commits gome errors, Thus it states the Chicago appropriation for 1875 to be $4,637,000, ogainst an expenditure last year in St. Louis of $4,439,000, when in fact tho Chicago appropriation for 18756 was $5,319,000, Instead of being equal, those of Chicago are a million greator than thoso of 8t Louis, Tho Republican next compares the expend- iture of tha city for street work. Opening, ropairing, cleaning, paving Intersootions, efc., cost last year in St. Louis $941,000, against an appropriation in Chicago for like work this yoar of $339,000. It is claimed that the blocks or squares in 8t. Louls are much shorter thon in Chicago, thus making their length of satrest line ono- third greater than in Chicago, incrensing the nuwber of interseoions, This may bo true, but, genorally sposking, wo question whether there is such a differonce in this respect. ‘The Republicari, however, oxplains that the policy of macadamizing tho streets with | limestone 1s the great source of ex- pense, and without produaing good streets in that city, The length of streets in Bt. Louis or the number of miles of paved strests is not given. Chicago pays tho cost of paving the intersections and all of the streots, and pays for ropairing and sweep- ing all paved strests, and for cleaning all other atroets, The total length of improved streots in this oity on tho 1st of April, 1875, was 111 miles. How many miles of improved stroots Bt. Louls has wo do not know, but tho relativo cost depends on that faot, Tho next itom compared is that for gas. The appropriation in Chicago for posts and gna is §506,000; in Bt. Louis, $200,000. This difforonce might bo explained if wo know the number of lamp-posts in that city. In Chicago tho total number is over 8,000 posts, or a total cost, including tho gas used in publio buildings, etc., averaging 63 por lamp per annum, which is excesaive and ox. orbitant. Other itoms are thus stated : gfi‘euam p g item for Chicago is utterly docoptive, 'T'ho amount spent by tho City Govorument—all ita departmonts for printing and advertising, inoluding the publication of the delinquent list—exceeds 100,000 per annum, One daily nowspaper chiofly subsista on this sort of * plunder,” and another one receives a great deal of its nourishmont from tho same municipal cow, Saveral favorite job-offices also obtain many a bucket of croam from the samo source. ‘Tho 815,000 above mentloned will hardly pay for publishing tho Council proceedings, which {s only ons itom of printing expeusea. The Republiean addsi 1t i8 to be uoted that, while the aggrognta expendi. tuzen of the two clties are neazly equal, thore ls & vaut differeuce fu sows of the leading {tame, It tha twa cities could consult together, and each borrow the @ood poluts tn the othor's Government, 1§ nuight in. suso an anuual waviug to each of $500,000, . We think the suggestion a good one. The natural situation of tho two cities necessl. tatos somo exponditures in one city not ro- quired in tho otlior, Thus Chicago lns & river and branchaes lying wholly within the city, with a length of 22 milos and a dock. frontage of 44 1lles. This river hes to bo kept cloar, It nocessitates numerous bridges ; tho cost of ropairs, nud of men to operate them, and of new bridges, is an expensive item, Our oxponditures for the Fire Department include the purchase of sltes, and the orection of eugine. houses, und the purchase of machinery, somoe of which expenditare is 8 legacy from the Firo, ‘Y'he city thls year appropristed $822,000 for new sewors ; the length of sow. e constructed prior to April laat was 240 miles, A comparison of the work of like character in 8t. Louls would be of intarest to both citles. Thero ara expendltures, however, common to all oities, These ave 1, Balaries of ofi. ceri {u exeoutive departnents, 2, Salaries of policemen and firemen, 8, Balarios in the school department. These, in most citles, constitute a large shave of the total cost of municipal government, and there Ly no reason why the average should be diffurent in the sovoral citioa, ‘The Bultan of Zanzibar seams to be & good deal of & fullow, Heisdolng the sights of London in & manly way and dropping neat 1le remarks, whick are nons the worse for 7 the sting that Inrks in some of them. Th when he saw the splendid buildings of B8t. Thomas' Hospital, he wnid: ** The poor who are ill inhabit thesoplaces ; where do the poor who aronot i}l dwell?” When tho Archbishop of Cauterbury tried to convert him to Christinnity and a belief in mission. aries, Bunatuasu—that's his namo-rather pored the prelato. Canterbury said the mis- sionaries nimed to advance civilization, and Zonzibar asked him to define civillzation, When the definition was given, the Sultan ro- marked: *Ilitherto I have supposed that the missionnries came to teach their religion and not to upon markets nod promotetrade. " Tho Archibishop purried the blow by saying that commercs, civilization, and Christinnity wont hand-in-hand, but ho wna specchless when his interlooutor said : “ But the most polished of all the nationa of the enrth were not Chrstiaus ; they lived before your Prophet—may lis grent namo be praised |— came upon the enrth.” This was the ond. Thoe redoubtable beathen hns not yet.been couverted. o hasboen photographed, after the witcheraft in the camera had been duly exorcised by prayer, and has been to tho thes. tro, to great partios, whora he highly disap. proved of the very undrosa uniform now fashionable among women of gaod fon, has read the manuscript Korsn in the British Dugenm, and hos kissed the Prince of Wales' boys and girls, Theso romping, hoalthy youngaters were, ho says, ** the most pleas. ing gight which I have witnessed in England.” RECOVERING FROM THE PARNIC, In an article on tho galn in public wealth by the sbirlukage in cxpectations, fncomes, prices, and ex- penditure, Tik CRI0AQ0 TRINONZ romarks that * to- day thero 1s more 7¢al sulatantial wealth In the country than thero was when the bonds of the Northern Parlfio Ratlroad wers counted smong the assela,” 1f tho ldes o ihst the general wealth bias Leen incressed by the collapse of the Northern Pacifio Raflrosd bonds, the country bias tmuch of that sort of proaperity, for the amount of American raflroad bonds on whith default Das been made in the laat two yeurs is more than five bundred miltions, Wo supposs tho sinking of nssets 15 th form of ralircad stocks 1iss been as much more, If this mods of extinguiahing debts and capltat be in- crease of weallb, 1t can bo earrled much furtber, snd the country madevery rich, Dut we cannot see that the extinguiaiment of capital bas {ncreased produo- ton, On the contrary, it scems to have diminished by #0 much the capital avallable for investment toincrease " production.~Cincinnati Uazette. 1f our contemporary keepa oo fn that atyte, and in thay mothod of thinking, we shall have It with ns, before it knows It, on tho Enguirer platform.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Gazetie makes the mistake of suppos. ing that the idea of Tne Trinunz was that the goneral wealth of the country had *‘been increased by the collapse of the Northern Pocifio Reilrond bonds.” What we stated was that, despite the collapso of all that clnss of speculative soonrities, tho solid production of the country has gone on incressing, and that the actual wenlth of the country was in- cransod by its annual surplus of produc. tion. Wo did not underestimate the losses of individuals who had inveated their means in unproductivo business and enterprises. Tho bonds of the Northern Pacifio and of various other wild-cat railroads—including companies in this State operating over 2,000 miles of roilway—should have represented an equivalent of property. Unfortunately, thero was no such equivalent. Tho excess of bonds over property was fraudulent; an im- position upon the public; it had no substance. The panio ewept all these insubstantial se- ourities out of gight, It, however, destroyed no actual property. The Northern Pacifie Railropd and all the other rallroads have thelr lands and their tangible property just the same, It 1 true it is wunpro- ductive, but that is not destruotion. The property never had been productive, and would probably not have boen for twonty years had it been oompleted. It waa roally oxpectad to be productive, and the bonds were pushed upon the publio asa speculotion, This class of bonds issued all over the country became & sort of supple. mental owrenoy ; they wero pald to iron manufsoturers, and to coal dealers, and to lumbermen, and to all other creditors of theso speculative and unproductive oporations ; thoy were used as collatersls for losses, and in the collapse 0f1873 they shrunk from their nominal value to the value they really ropre- sonted. The shrinkage was not of real or substantial value, but of tho alr by which they had beon inflated. Despite all this, the sotual industry of tho country as shown by its produations has gone on prospering. The consumption of iron in 1874, a3 compared with that of 1878, shows how little that branch of industry suffered. ‘Tho American Iron and Steel Association given the following figures, which tell their own atory : 1873, Tons cn hand Jan, 1, sach year. de duriug Total Doduet stock on’ Lsnd Jan, 1, in 1874 and 1475, « 500,000 Consumption.. S112,00 3,310,000 It will be seen trom this tablo that the falling off fn tho consumption of fron in 1874, compared with that of tho former yoar, was but 522,000 tous, or lesa than oue-fth of the total production of 1873, ‘While the actual consumption in 1874 waa 20 per contloss than in 1873, it must bo ro- membered that the sales af 1874 wore for cash, whilo those of 1873 were in the bonds of rallronds and .construction companies, which bonds were largely fraudulent, and had 10 substantial value, and have perished. ‘The business of 1878 was inflated and speculs- tivo; that of 1874 waa based on cash values, and wes honest aud legitimate. Of the two yoars, that of 1874 was the more pros- perous, The renson why money is so sbundant {n 1878, and to be had forall logitimate businesa for solow arate of interest, is thatit isno longer diverted from the ordinary chanmnels of comorce and of production to be invested and sunk in non-productive, speoulative, and gambling operations, There aro no bouds now offering &t 40 to 00 conts on the dollar, because capital will not touch thewm st any price; while bonds that are really worth 100 cents on the dollar find ready market at 6 per cent interest. The ‘‘ prosperity"” which reats upon unlimited credit, representing fio- titious value, is o enare and a fraud, and s cortaln to end in loss and ruin to those who invest in it. That prosperity is only gonuine which csn show a regulsr increase of surplus products, which is evidence of a regular ad. ditlon to tha subatantial wealth of the coun- 'Every firat-olass newspaper keeps an astron. omer nowadsys. The magnificont success of Tue Trrounz in this respect has spurred the Bt. Louls Repudlican to a similar course, but the only available man in Bt. Louls soems to have been a Prof. Jouw H. Tiox, who has discovered, as ho thinks, & coineldence and called it A oauso, and s now proclaimed by the Republican to ba *‘ihe great wenther- prophet of the age,” Mr, Tion first discov. ared, o thinks he did, that tha great cyole of atmospherio diaturbances coinclde with the yoar of Jupiter, which equals n trifie less tisa twelve of our years, Ths thues of greatest disturbance were bound to be during tho equinoxes of Jupiter (?) Prof. Tice dis- covered the equinoatinl pointa of the planet by a process of his own, which he does not roveal, In that respoct it i like the Krenr motor. As long as this is unpublished, it is impoesible ta sy whother the stormy wenther and the planetary equinoxes renlly coincido or not with the equinoxer of the other plaueta, and, if they do,whether the co- incidence is A cavso or not. Tho St Louls prophot, however, professes to have abso- Tutely proved, by his new process, that every planetary equinox affects tho earth's woather, On this basis, he makes predictions, all of which are vnguo and somio of which are ful- filled, fn tho same way as thoso of any com- petent metoorologist wonll bo, When a seientific maa believes a thing, e hnstens to sny why and whercfore. Prof, Tice's con- cealinent savors of charlatanism. Delievers in him will expoct bad weather, eto., on July 14, Bept. 1 and 22, Oct, 14 and 15, and Nov, 27, Theso ara the only days of planotary equinoxes dunng the romainder of the pres- ent yoar. A WARNING TO WOMEN, An svent which is now agitating all Paris, and thorefore all France, has a moral which makes its story worth telling on this side of tho water. About a year ago the Bonapnrtista wore ac- cused of maintaining a Ceutral Committee, It doos not appear why they should not do 80, but the accusation was instautly denled. M. Rouner wont so far as to say, '‘upon his honor,” that there was no such Commit- tee, It looks now as if M. Roumen Hed, for an investigation, nunkindly ordered by tho Asacmbly, hag resulted in tho discovery of the Committeo. Ono of tho incidents of the investigation was the capture by the police of a casket containing the private momoranda of s cortain M. Rouvrrig, a Bonapnrtist spy. M., Bourrre was a rakor and scraper of garb- nge, & political Paul Pry, an interviewer of servants, a man with un eye for a koyhole. Among the notes made in his book wero & serics of scandalous ngsortions about prominont women. Tha grossest charges were noted as motters of fact. This part of the book, with others, was laid boforo the Committee of Investiga- tion. ‘The latter vory proporly decided not to publish it but to suppress it at once. Some Bonapartist Deputies, however, demanded to sea the whole record; and the Committee yielded to the demond. A day or two thero- after real and pretended oxtracts from the book began to appenr in the papers, especial- ly in thoso of Bonapartist sympathies, It is a8 yet unkmown how tho gonuine extracts wero obtnined. Each porty in the Assembly accuses the others of having first published them. Bo this asit may, the consaquences have been most deplorable. Tho attention of the public was called to the existonce of the book. In such & city as Paris, thore could be only ope result. Forged coples of ‘‘the RourFx papors” ap- peared forthwith, vying with each other in sbameless slander and unclean innuendo. One correspondsant writes of having scon four Qifferent forgerios alroady. No woman who is prominent horsclf or is the wife of a noted man is enfo from these attacks. Tho Rour- iz casket has proved to ba a Pandora's Box. The protended copies of the spy’s notes aro worso than the Zolice-Gazetts literature of Now York. No woman in Parls is safe from the vilest insult, Each morning mpy see her ruthlesaly slandored by an anonymous sorib- bler, who tells lies for a living and would sacrifica the namo of his own mothor for the snke of n fow francs. At the time when the Iatest foreign filos loft London and Paris the oxcitement was at its height. No attempt had yet beon made to eupprosa tho forged copies. While overybody expressod horror, everybody was reading tho particular editlon which fnsulted the wives of mon of the oppo- sito party, The mora! of this stretched story iz a warning to women to koep ont of politics. Will anything thoy gain componsate them for tho risks the run? The unmensured abuse now lavished upon political men will not be eparcd political women. And nothing that can be said about A man is asdeadly, asdev. ilish ns one thing that can besald of a woman. Any attempt to ropeat in Amorica what is going onin France would now be instantly erushed out, but it is unfortunatly not doubtful whothor or not the respectful con- sideration of the American people for women would defy the influence of heated political pussion. Wrong ? Of course, but none the less troe. FLOBRIDA FRUITS IN CHICAGO| Tho late visit of o number of Florida fruit- gruwors to thia city is likely to bring about & reciprocity of trade botwoen thia city and Florids that will have the happiest results for both gactions of the country, It hasa more practical purposo then tho interchange of | friendly sentiments, though these are not out of tho way, It menns that there is a bond of commercinl interesta which will grow strong. er with time, and contr bute to the prosperity of both tho interested parties. Tho trade has already been inaugurated by tho receipt in thias city of many carloads of Florida mel- ong, which wore in good condition on their arrival. The railroad routa is now somewhat clrcultons. It loavea Live Qak, which ia the contre of tho fruit-growing region of North and Middle Florids, then goes to Lawton, in Goorgin, where it hns to toko nn frrogular route till it reaches Afont. gomery, Ala; from there the ronte in tolarably straight to Corinth, Mius,, where it reaches the Mobile & Ohio Road; from thiu point it comea by a direct route to Cairo, and thounce diroct to Chicago via the linols Contral Railrond, Notwithstanding the pres- ent divergencce, fruit-tralns have been run from Florida to Chicago in eighty-two hours, or less than throe days and a hulf, But lttle more rallroad will be neoded to render the route direct and reduce the time of transpor. tatlon to within three dnys. Ohbicago finds some competition in the water-routo from Bt Augustine and Bavaunoh to New York, but this will be offset probably by the quick- or time made by rall and the superior market which Chicago will offer in connection with the country it supplies. The glowing antloipations of the Florida people relative to the future frull product of their Btate seems to bo warranted by thel oxperionco thus for in frult.growing, Witha ateady, reliable, and sccessible market, the territory formerly used for cotton-growing in Florida will undoubtedly be given up to fruit-growing, which may be almost s varied s the number of different fruita. It can send melons and oucumbers and other veg: otables to tho North severnl weeksa earlior than our sesson here. The Florida oranges ought to be sbundant and pecaliarly rich. The best pranges in the world are the Creole oranges,—thst {s, those grown on the Gulf belt, The climate and soll of Florida are of the same character, and the Htate had a lnrger frontage on the Gult than thad of Loulslaus, Mississippl, and Alabamn togother. Fxton sive orange-culture in that State, producing oranges much snporior to those of Messing, and evon botter than thoso of Cuba, will bo nbla to control thoe trade to the extent its oranges hold out, Other tropieal fruita may nldo be enltivatod in great quantitics and lux. ury. Donanes and guavas will be especlally desirable. Thero i a fair proapect that Flor- idn will some dny Lo a vast garden, with Chi- ©ago as its principal distributing centro. Chicago i# alrody the greatest fruit-market in the world, and hns the earlicst and Intost, tho hnrdiost and most delicate. It is the contro of tho fruit-regions of California, Mich- igan, and tho South, It is the best distrib. uting point in the conntry for tropical fruits, —covering the whole country west to tho Mississippi, northwest through Wisconain nnd Minnesota, northenst through Michigan, and east through Indiana aud part of Ohio, In addition to the superior facilities of Chi- engo for distributing the fruit, Florida will find nnother attraction hore in the sdvantages which Chicngo hne for furnishing flour, bread- stufls, Lacon, and the very supplies which Florida requires in exchange for her surplus produets, Clicago enterpriso will not fail to meat Florida half-way In providing any new railroad facilities which mny be needed to perfect the system of exchange thus mapped ont, and the Florida fruit-trade will unques- tionably be another important tendor to the commercs of Clhicago within s very fow years, THE BLACK BILLS GOLD PROSPECT. Prof. Jannzy, the chief of tho scientifio ex- podition aent out to investigate tho condition of the reported gold fiolds in the Black Hills reglon, has mado nn official report to the In- torior Department which throws great doubt on the sensational stories so persistently and imprudently circulated with glaring head- lines, and doublo-leaded dispntches, and pur- ported special correspondences, by tho un- scrupulous mining-swindlo organ of this city and other papers in the intorest of specula- tors and outfit agents, Prof, JANNEY reports thot ho has thoroughly exanmined the region about French's Creek, where the minera re- ported that the looss dirt was panning out 27 centa to tha pan, and finds that the beat dirt does not average one cont and n quarter to the pan. Inaddition to the examination of the dirt, ho sunk shafts into the bed rook without finding any trace of gold thoreon whatever. What gold was found wasin small particlos, showing that it came from tho quartz rock, and that there is but little gold dust in that rogion, The general result of lue examination is snmmed up in his state- ment that thero is some gold in the Black Hills rogion, but that it cxists in compara- tively small quantitios, and, a3 it is spread over a groat aren of territory, it will make digging s failure as a rule. This report con. firms the report mado by the spocial corre. spondent of Tne TrinuNg, wlo, it will bo re. membered, wrote a fow days ago that the miners already at work had formed or ex. pressed extravagant idoas of the manner of getting at the gold and the quantitiea to be found in a certain amount of dirt; that min- |- ing thus far was no better than working at hard labor anywhere clse for 32 or $4 at tho utmost per day ; that gold-finding was real, but it involved arduous labor, and perhaps would requiro & large outlsy of capi- tal to dovelop it: and that many who go there would return again sadly dis. oppointed. Prof, JANNEx has thus not only confirmed the statements of Tuz Trmunz's corrospondent, but he has given a direot contradiction to tho sensational falsohoods sproad sbroad by the mining-sawindle organ of this city. Thers is ono foaturo of Prof. Janwex's report, howevor, which {8 encour- aging. He finda thet the Black Hills region is ndmirably adapted for agricultural pur. poscs, that the soil is very rich, the water sufficiont, and the pine timberhoavy and valu. able. In this showing undoubtedly lics the renl value of the Black Hills region ns an inducement for sottlors. Ita prospoctive wealth- i in its agrioaltural promiss, It will bo found in its soil, but not in the form of gold-dust or nuggets. Tho gold will not be washed out in pans and for. tunes, but will come to tho developora of this region in return for their ngricultural Igbors, There may yet be dupes, however, who will. be victimized by the unscrupulous specula. tors, who will go to the Black Hills only to bo disappointed, and who will part with thoir money to sharpers and roturn empty-handed, but those who aro thoughtful and judicious will give heed to the warning conveyed by Prot, Jannex's roport. The Chicago Times exults hugely over the faot that it published on Blonday two nowspa~ por-clippings relstivo to avonts muoh mora aat- iafactory nocounta of whioh wore preparsd for Tix Tuinunk of the same date, but thrown over till the noxt day ou account of the prossure of more fmportaut matter. Lot us seo how much ground the Times haa for cxaltation in this re- goard: Tha Times of yesterday (July 7) con- tained an articlo oo tho insanity of the brother of the King ot Davaria, which appeared in Tug TripuNE of Bunday, July 4; an articls on a pro- posed railway acroas tho Desert of Sahars, which sppoared lu Tuz TrioNz of Tuesdsy, June 20 article oo * Amphiblous Life at the Isle of ‘Wight,” which appeared {n Tug Tainuye of Sun- dey, July 4t an article on **Bpintusl Magio," which appeared in Tur Tnmuns of Tuesday, July 8; an articls oo socloty In London, which appeared tn Tae Tuisune of Bunday, July 47 an extravted artiole sod a minor edito- 7inl on & ecandal in Britlan high 1ife, an ‘socount of which waa given {n Tnx Taiunx of Banday, July 4 ; & miuor editoris) on the discovery of the socrot of the KkxLy motor, full partioulars of which slleged discovery appeared in Tue Tnin- uxx of Wednewday, June 80; and av article on the “Advontures of » Ponoeylvanis Youngster in a Bwamp,” which appoarsd o Tux TrRiUNS of Bunday, Jaly 4. In addition, the Times of yes- torday bed neasly & oolumn of extraots from the introduotion to Yioron Huao's pollitical memolre, which extracts were met up for Tux Tmipunm about two woeka sgo, and, having been crowded out for sevaral days, were fnally diatributed without insertion, Harvard studets have meds thelr cholos of sourses for the noxt coliega-youy, with results highly gretifyiog to frionds of clsssical eauca~ tion, The total number entersd for the classioal courss s 840, against 440 laat year., Modern Laogusges, Musio, sod Fine Aris have also gsiood § Philoaophy hag aboul held fts own while Alsthematios, History, Chemistry, and Natursl History will ba loas oultivated thaa la former years. The eleotivo system oan acarcely bo called an experimont at this day, but it may falily ba objcoled to any statistica of the nsture‘glven above that they do not represon tue teudenciea of the avarage college-studeut, ‘The cholce of studied in many ifustancos, doubtless, {s contiolled by parenta who have recollections of the old style snd preferences for the plan of education which is embodied. —_— ‘Whon the Bt. Louls TYuies waa s0ld, s number of the orlglual proprietora were aold also. The peper was put up ¢ suction, and Co), Joux L. Opiez was nominated by thy antl-Hyrcais rmy fur purchinger-in-chief, The understand- ng wes that orowxs should on no secouns be “llowsd toretura to the edilosial charge, Dat Ontar wold ont to Huzonxae; the two combined asnots, aud bought tho paper at abant 40,000 above its market valuo. Two eireumstancos en- ablod them to do this, Crisp horromod largely of the antl-Hutonns party, and pledged hime solf not to omploy Huroutns as editor within two yonrs, making only ono reservation, viz.: that the paper should be sold st n certalu pri lower than that afterwards veachod in the bld- ding, In the sccond placo, Crisp and Huramwg eould afford to offer & prico nominally Iigher than the value of the papor, aince thoy wore themaolves tha chief owners of the Londs, lo satinfy which tho sale was ordered. Hnzcmins 18 now n full contrul, Tho wholo procesging is remarkablo for uleight-of-hacd, aud fairly earns for Col. Cruse tho oplthot, now generally be- stowed on bim, of Count Foseo, Tha Time will continue au ultra-Bourbon organ, It Las » dally circulation of about 5,000, -— ‘Tho colobrotion at Cambridga of a third Amori- can centennisl has passed, and the poaple of tho Wust aro sonrcely any wiser. The coutcnnials bave boon coming too thick and fast; snd sl America, excopt that small portion activoly en- gegod v colobrating, is regarding these ovonts with equanimity, if not with Indiference. Thia Cambridge Contonninl was the one-lundredth snuiversaryof WasninaTon's Laking command of the American army. Tho chief point of interast of tho dsy was at the anciont tree whero this importsut act took place, Jaxxa RusszLr LowsLy read the poem, which is to appear In magazine- form before long; ana the Rev. A, P, Psanony dolivered the oration. There was much lees on- thosiasm manifested than on either of tho pre- vious occasions. Wo fonr indeod that if drafis aro made on the stuze of patriotie foeling for tho colobration of every event iu the Revolutionary War, thera will be nono left for tho grand opocha in otir bistory, such as the Declaration of Indopendenco, tho Troaty of Poacs, and ths adoption of the Qouatitution, —_—— The Now York Evening Post has been moved ioto its eloguut and commodious new bullding on tho cornor of Broadway and Fulton sireot. The Post haa dono two other thinge—roducod the size of ita sheot 20 per cont and the price of its subscription an equal rate. Tho Post in sound political journal, and is the best literary paper published in Now York, The first copy was laatied Nov. 10, 1301 ; it {3, therefore, In its 75th year. It Liag always rankod bigh 1o ability and integrity, POLITIOAL NOTES, This {8 Sam Carey's political history : Whig, Know-Nothiog, Republican, Prohibitionist, Andy Jobhngopman, Workingman, Agitator, and flually Domocrat.—Ohio State Journal. Tho Now Albany ZLedger-Standard anpounces that the Hon, M. C. Xorris not » candidats tor tho Prosldency or Vice-Presidoncy. But he enys notbing abous the Bpeakership—whbich perhaps bo hopoa to got, and which bois in many re- epeots woll quahfled to £l Baenator Morton is announced for some ten or twelvo speeches in Ohio, beginning abous the 1at of August, Smnce ho is said to bave rocently changed his views on the ourrenoy queation, ho witl have an essy timo in attacking thoe Domo- cratio resolution on the subjoot. Henator Spencer, of Alabams, basindeod fall- en upou evil timea. The Republican members of the Biate Lemslsturo havo dismissed im in ono and a half columoa of fiue print, and called for the ipetant dismissal of all Federal ofilcials appointed on bis recommendation. The disgrantlad Georgia ex-Congressmsan who complaius that he haw had no government alnce 1861, ought to apply to the young Amorleo-Gor- raan, referred to by tho Attorney-Genera!, who has two couotries, Perbaps he will lend the QGeorpion one, Lot it bo Qormany.—Alany Journal, | Honry W. Hilliard, formerly of Alabama, and now of Georgis, tatks right loyally to his com- pstriots ln the loat causs, esying: * The Gov- ernment of tho United Btates im our Govern- ment 3 its Gag is our flag; its Constitution fs our Constitution ; let us be truo to thom all, now and forever.” Republicans ganerally throunghout the coan- try witl subserfbs to this sontiment from the Cinelnuati Times : * Thore ia no 'organ * of the Administration or of the Republican party in ‘Washingtoa, lenst of all that shoot whish Mr. Charlos Nordhoft is plensoa to 1egsrd in that light, fn ordor, wo suppose, to maguify tho ins dignity he haa aufferad throngh ita columns." The Boston correspondont of the Hartford Courant eaya that ** Scustor Boutwoll {a now as dead for sny political ulility as is Gen. Butler.” Moreover, the ssme writer avers that *¢ no can- didato for the Preaidency over galus snytuing by writing lotters,” For these and athor reasons hie cousidors It improbablo that Massachusetty will havo any chauce &t the Presidential nomine- tion. Tbe Cincinnat! Gazelte hopes tho poople wiil not tender Alr, Delano their congra‘ulations on his fresdom from the welghty caros and re- aponsibilities of offfice until bis rosignation has beon handed {n. * Instances bave beea kuown where contemplated roslgnations have boon de- layed by roason of prematare congratulatious.” But the Secretary is goiug, euro enough, thia time: and, instead of congratulstlog him, wa will congratulats the people, and espocially tho Republican party. A nowspaper corrospondent traveling in Qeorgia hiss seut home & synopsiu of the viewe of tho Hon. B. H, Hill, privately exprossed, They aro sald to glve evidonces of rank Gresley- lsm—~which we undorstand to be the doctiiue of closing the bloody chasm and sccopting the con- stitutional smendments. Mr. ill's friends io Qoorgla are muoh shocked by this semi-author- tative statement of his opinioos ; for he pro- nounced bimself, while on the stump in the Niotb Distrlat, a desdly fos of reconatruotion. Afr, Cbarles Nordhoft's letter replying to some abuss of the Nalional Repubtican wsa pointed enough, yet it seoms not to have boen pointsd In the right direction. It waa sddressed to "*J. . Edmunds, Chairmsn of the National Repub- lican Commlttes,” who bas no control at all over the National Republioan newspaper, and who is Bocretary, not Chsirmean, of the Committee. Mr. Nordhoff was doubtieas mialed by the faot that Mr, Edmunds hsa soma connection with the Repubtic magazine, sn independent perlodical. The Hon, W. W. Phelps, of New Jorsev, doubt- loss missed tis digoity aod loat bis bslance at the Yale Alumni dinner, when he spoke of Yale #a a national colloge, and il tbe other oolleges in the country aa reproaentatives of sects or classca, A spocimen of hisatyle will justify & barsh Judgment of his good tasto. He sald: *Boacon strost tralng the aolld men of Doston ot Hervard; Now York aends her jounesse dores to Qolumbis—the oclisges of & Siate. The Dourbon Domocrat patronizes the University of Virgiula; tho Adminiatration Republioan atudies the bloody shirt st Obarlin—oolloges of & party.” It Mr, 8. J. Walker, one of Mr. Logan's "aix Chloago milllonaires” who potitioned for more vag money, oan hardly be acoused of financisl sounduees snd prosperity in himiolf, he may be the meaos of conduaing to finencial soundoesa snd prosperity in otoers, At a recent publiosale ot bis notes, amountiog to $100,000, tho pricss rualized average sbons 13¢ per cent of thelr face vyalue. Whother ia it Lkuly that it nis debts and promises to pay bad baen doubled without any fncresse of his assots Mr, 8, J, Walker's pavor would beve reallzed more or less than 134 per cont? That is » pertinent and persooal illustra- slon of loflation—~Nnw York World. The South is not unsnimously for ivflation. Buch journals as the Memphls Avalandie, the Bloblle Register, sud the New Orleans Times, stouly repudiate repudistion. The ZI¥mes says of tlo fooling ln the South: * Oo what author- Ity do the Nosthern papers declars that the Houth is fu fsvor of rag-money {oflation ? There 1s not # journal of prowinence lu ¢he Bouth that favors I8, nor s teally reprosontative man thet we kuow of wbo weats wors irvedesmable money 110 masb ihe wants of trade’ or forany vlhisr purposs. On the contrary, ro far as the South lias spolion at all, tho sontimant has bosn point- adly opposed to inflation, Noithor a *vast ma- Jority® or tho ‘mo-ostied Democratic patty througliout the South,' nor any majority elther of that party or of the peoplo, aro in favor of groenback oxpsnalop. Furthor than that, we Leliova it is antirely safo to say that not ovon & n’u‘;‘m‘?um 1tuority ef our poople aro in favar of it D PERIONAL. The Florida watermelon now rages, Goode bye, fifonds, Dolawaro has peachea enoigh this geason to annibiinte the Auglo-Baxon raco. The atory that Gon. Blierman favors & rag oure roncy was mado out of whole cloth, Tho jury plichod pennies, says tho Boston Post,—to make them stiok the thing out ? Doston declines to hang Jesno Pomoroy, but clamora for tho demsli-atrugglos of the dutank Moxican, A Tuesian nohloman gave & woman £4,000 for o Lins at o cliarity falr, Iow far bohlad us thoy aro Ju Ruesia, s An oxchange doep not wonder that Admiral Raus advocaten cock-fightiog, soeing tnat ho was bronght up on tha malo. A Coltes.County (Ga.) Lridogroom of 00 mare rlod & young woman of 20. Ilo was just old enough to know botter, **Jubiloe " Bmith still runs the DBrooklym Unton, which fades from human view just ss J. 8, * fados from politica." Now that Bardou's family circle s bson ox~ panded, ho daughter confine hia *‘studies of character” to hemaan subjects, ** Tl wait tilL1 get marriod, thank you,” was thofudignant roply of & Vallsy Falis girl whon tho dootor told hor to get & Littlo sun and air. An outhusiastic Boston dramatio critio sxplains that ko always expeots s kisy for a blow, A Ohi- ¢ago brother expects puft for pulf or blow ons for blow. “Bolentiflo Rowing"” was the subject of a Harverd osr-ration. Wait tUl the suthor is married. ¢ Domostlo Rowiog" will then be hig fruitful themo, * Fiod Qrant's syntax has booomo s campaign caid for the Domocrats, He said “ My noslth was druvk,” and they inaist that ho used a su. perfluous, decepiive, sud intolorable figure of Boeach, Religious disturbances ara roported in Crats, bolng fomeuted by certeiu Indis-Crete partioa, —St, Louis Times. Fomentation usunlly allovie ates troublo, You don't drink fowented liquors, evidontly, “Virtue alone out-builds the pyramids,” says o famous Brooklyn preschar whoso trial he ax- pocty to road of In the New Jorusatom long after radiation sball bave robboed tho sun of ltg aplondor, Great bravery is ovor allied with gentleness. A mombor of tho Governor's Guard walks four blucks out of his woy rathor than annoy a Jof- feracn streot dog with his gandy uniform.— Milioaukee Sentinel, The Rav. Alexauder Olark, oditar of the Methodist Recorder, of Pitiaburg, will lsoture as Lo Harpe, Til., next Friday evening, for the benefit of tho Mothodist Churon in that place. Subject ; ¢ California.” “China has sppropristed 40,000 tacls to the Centenaial, Pig-taols, probably.” Tuls comes from tho New York Commercial Advertiser, which ia tho last oiodit b ought to bave u nloss 1t sbbraviates its name. John Waterfall, of Datroit, wanted s divorce. He's out of fashion, and ina wife filod 1o croses bill, 8o out of pure cusseduess he relented snd stillclings to hor, satistied with s wife who cannot follow & provailing modo, Nilsson's halr la worth €2,000,000, A medical Journal asya thore are 200,000 bairs in her head, and sho recently sold ono for 310, Mr. Red Cloud's hivante acqniroments les Vanderbls on the ragged odgo of & paupsr's grave, Lady Iranklin bsasonounced tuat she will not dio till the latest Arclio Expodition brings tid- ingsof horbusband. 1t iw not ofton thatm woman throstens to out-live Methusslob, and whon sho doos she should havo oredit for her COUTARS. ‘The oaglo.screamer at Duluth Flats, Cal, was delivesed by » lady, aud ths samount of Daluth Flottory consequent upon 1t raised her higher thao that fmmortal bird whose digestive diftiguls tle provoked from tho late A, Ward a Llow for immorality, There will be produced shortly st the Academy of Mualo, 1n this city, a play called ** Ambition,” tho author of whiok, Capt. Jorome W. Hallen- bagk, resides in Dixon, 1ll, aud who will sustain the loading parv. Good jodgoa say thas it will creato a sensation, Will not somo charitable porson offer one of tho Bunday Locturo Socloty a tempoiary shelter? The lawn-mower has heen aver hia hesd, and Peri-like ho staudsoutside his desorted home walting for the sprouting influonces of tima to makoe 1t boalthy for hum ¢o entor. Tho corrospondont of s Now York newapaper telograpbed from Now Iaven, in rogsrd to the Yalo commoncoment : ™I awn so full I oan't gob off auything to-night.”” This youthful ipgeun- ousness secuted for him carta blauche to spend tho remainder of hlu life in convivisiity, Bome newapapors abhor the truth, M. Caubert, & retirod Fronch Judge, gave 8 banquet in honor of tho Fourth at Ltw chiutasu, near Paris. Among thoss present were United Btates Ministor Washburne, Gon, Torbert, Cons aul General § the Xou, Daniel E, Bickles, and M., ‘Laboutays, with acveral othor eminent Freuch- men dlstinguldied for thalr sywpathy with Ameriea, At last thointelligent composltor fa vindicatod, and struts the sidewaly with no air of trinmph, The dramatio oritio of thes ‘Journal delicately hinted that the Union Bquare Company * was botter than the troupe which preceded it,® The 1. O, pondered, Hu mused, He oven thonght, Tho paragraph Taosdsy evening announoed thad the “Union Hquars Company was better tuan the tramps who proceded iL.” What to him thut “somebody blundered™? There's a compo who knows sowothing. v The Rev. W, F. Short has acospted the Presle denoy of the Illinols Femals College at Jaokson. villa, 1L, recontly tenderad bim by the Doard of ‘Frustees. Mo is now Fresiding Elderof the Jacksooville Distriot, snd a good business man and a ripe scholar. Dotk tho Wesloysn Unlvere aity, at Bloomington, and the MoKendree Cole lege, nt Lobanon, claim him aa thelr son, ho having pursued his course with honor at each of the {ustitutions, receiving the dogree of A, AL, from each. The Colloge is to be congratulated on the wise selection mudo. . Grand Mp—'i%"&ffiz‘ubuumm; Dabes- ter EAdY, Byracases Jimes Daulels, Puiiadelubia; e v. ¥, At, Grogg, dyHogfeld; H.'B. Nason, Troyp It H, Whaelar, Daveiiport: G. ¥, 'Willlams, Ctacinostl; Jimen L, B) low Yorks 0. L. Case,’ Das Moinea i o, Craven, Toledoy E, 8, Edger, Iowa; J, ¥, Wil- e Fooria g 3. Baraer Wrisorm, Now' ¥ fE Michigan McCasamb ow_York: ¥, W, Plitsburg; D, Lindorman, New Xarr, ' Terro Haute; ' Joao) F O Prn g Willla Oinclnustly W, P, Hesloy, Marquotte, Liouse—~G. ~ G, ous, _ Del ayen Flak, a1, Michigeas A, Jonss, NeUradka; Goorgs &, laby Hocktond § irk, Wisconaiu] John Welkor, Pities Uiunssots; E. Levy, New Or- ballimore t Georgs W. Yatss, A i e vy 2o UotseSumen | Ao Wilkine t, Lol ‘homas ¥ aan, Detroity J. AL Vinaoo, 03., ek, Now Forki J..0, Kidridgs, Hattord ; 4, E, bhaw, Saginaw] C. {33, 1. Stewart, Wi Whlte, Dt tewart, Winona} Sulin A, pllle b e S s e W, d. Gordon, Iowa; O, E- Eay, W, I o Hi CGnrl it e TR W illem Ciark, Deis g ‘Aassachuselle W, A, Gulbrafit, Er " Hriae™ba. 5, B, Volsom, Veruont 6 roer, U, B. " G i B