Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TUTES OF AEARORIPTION (PATANLE TN ADYARCE). Postage I'repaid at thia Ofilce. Hobhle shee 2.00 Partn of 5 yoar at the seme rate, Waxtan—Ona active agent n each forn and villago. SBpecial arrangementa made with such, Specimen copon seut free, To prevent delsy and misiakes, be ture snd girs Post-Oflen sddress in tall, fuclndmg Slale and County, Hemittances may b made efther by drafl, express, Poel-0flice order, o in registered lettors, at our risk, TRRMS T CITY sTMCIIDENS, Dafly, delivered, Sondny excepted, 25 ceuts per week, Daily, deliverod, Bunday fucluded, 30 cents et week, Addresa TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Goruer Madison aud Daarborn-ata, Chicago, Til T AMUSEMENTS, HOOLET' THEATRE—Randolih street, hetween Clark and Losinile. Eagagement of the Union Square Company, “ The Two Urphans.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC—~Haleted strost, between Maaison aud Monros, E ent of Robert Mew Wade, * llory 0'More " and * Dick Mit Dbres Eyes.” The Chicans Teibuane, Thurslay Morning, July 23, 1878, Greenbacks were stronger yesterday, open- ing at 88, rising to 88}, and cloxing at 88§. — Two more victims are ndded to the list of those in Germany who rested under the de- lusion that frecdom of speech and of the press wis & aafe indulgence. Baron Lo and one S161, tho Iatter the editor of the Vater. land, an Ultramontane journal, were yoster- dny convictcd of trensonablo utternuces and sentenced to imprisohtnont. The Connecticut Houso of Representatives yesterdny decided, by a vote of 102 to 82, to lot rome future Legislature have the lionor, iZit in ro inclined, of confarring the privilege of voling in DProsidentinl elections on the ladics of the Nutmeg State. ‘I'lie mntter has baén pending beforo tho body for several woeks, the Committeo's report being unani. mously in favor of granting the right. The people of Decatur, 11, are lnboring under an atiack of gald excitement attendant upon the discovery, upon a farm near that city, of gold in small quantitics. Some nug- gets were found in a cornfield, just where any Llinois farmer can find gold if ho nsos the right sort of mining taols, and the Decntur folk uro greatly elnted at the prospect of hav- ing s new Eldorado right at their doors, A finnl docroo was entered yesterday in the United Btates Circuit Court in the Rockford, Rock Ialand & St. Louis Railroad case. The decres orders o foreclosurs and sale under tho first and second mortgages, covering an cstimated total of $11,251,585.90 in gold. "The property to bo sold includes tracks and oppurtonances, contracts, leeses, rolliug- stock, real estate, cte., tho sale to be nbso- ltuto, and not sabject to rodemption. In England, when n bankrupt sunocoeds in eoncealing his financial rottenness and in ne. gotisting his paper to innmocent and mi suspecting people, they call it obtain- ing money by false pretonses, and pros- eoute the gewindlers. Two membors of s TLondon firm which lad recently susponded wero yestorday arrnigned on this charge, and held in bail of £40,000 ecach. The operation of & similar prooedure in Chicago would bave an unplessant eflect apon a certain great financier not now in the banking business. A large number of thegenerous and humane Iadies and gentlemon of Chicago have inter- sstod themselves in the mercifal project of establishing in this eity o systom of tlonting hospitals for the benefit of tho sick childron of poor peopls, to whom the fresh, pure, cool air of Lake Michigan in theso Lot sum. mer months will be medicine such ns no money oould buy. The philanthropio pro- ject has assumed a definito shapo, and an na- vociation has been organized to solicit funds and carry out tho plan without delay. It isa worthy and A beautiful charity, and ono ‘which will receive liboral support. — Concerning the prococdings at a purely so- eret Cabinot mneoting in Washington yester. day, not a little is contained in our Washing- ton dispotches. Itghas leaked out that the President's unoxpeoted visit to the Capital, snd tho sossion of the Cabinet called forth~ with, had somothing to do with the romoval of Tisues, the Prosscuting-Attornoy of the District, aud the newspaper correspondonts woro guccessful in ascertaining I'isurn's fate, That he is to be removed eventually there is no doubt, and tho only favor he has been nble to obtain fs an cpportunity of clearing himsolf of tho charges ngainst him. ‘There is no disagreement on tho subject bo- tween tho Presidont and his Cabinet, and no prospect of a rupturo, Deraxo and the Manan charges were also taken under advise- ment, with the rosult, it is belleved, that the Bacretary of tho Interior will not vacato his portfolio until aftor those chargea have been Investigated. ’ — The nomination of Mr. Gronoz L. Dusrar a3 Oity Marshal was submitted to the Com- mon Council last evening, aud way referrod to tho Committes on Polico, with instruc. tions to report at or before the next regular mecting. There is now good rvason to an. ticipate that tho nomination of Mr, Doxtar will be confirmed by the Council, though the Bupporters of Hioxey will doubtless make his pormanent retention as Deputy-SBuperintend. ent a condition of their mssent to Mr, Dux- ra®'a appointinent, in spito of the fact that such an officer will not be needed, and that was not contemplated in -the ordinance sholishing the Board of Police. Tho orea- tion or continuance 6f an unnecessary sub- ordinate office, however, is of smalt impor- tance compared with tho sdvuntage of baving a competent and onorgetio man at the head of the Policc Department. Tho Council had also under cousideration a prop. osition, the adoption of which will muet with general approval,~that of vesting in the Fire-Marshal the sbsolute power of removal and appointment in hig Deopart. ment, without consulting anybody, In no other way can a porfect military discipline, such aq should obtain in the Fire Dopartment, be seoured. Altogether, the outlook for these $wo important branches of tha municipal ser- vioa is not po bad afterail. It has inproved sduce Monday night. ‘The Chloago produce marketa were again stronger yesterday. Mess pork advanced 8o per brd under an urgent domand, and closed 550 highas, st §30.20 for August, and $20.40 forBeptember. Lasd was quiet and 150 pag 100 ta higher, cloging st $10.55 for August, TIIE CITICAGO TRIBUN TITURSDAY, JULY a9 iy 1875. and $UL75 for September, Monta wers active and d@{e higher, at 810 for shoulders, 11¢ for ghort, ribs, and 123c for sliort clears. Highwines wore nclive and unchanged at $1.17 per galion, Lake freighta wero netive md je higher, at e for corn to Buffalo, Flonr was in better demand and stronger. Whent was active, and Gic higher, closing at $1.23} eash, and & 4 soller Augunt. Corn was nctive, and 1{@1§chigher, closing t 74}o ensh, and 74fc for Augnst. Oats wore quint and irregnlar, closing at flc for July, and 40jc for August. Iye was quiet and stronger, at 80@81c for August. Darley was dull, closing nt "$1.08 for September, Ilogs were active and ruled firm nt 5@10¢ advance, with sales chiefly nt R7.2567 Cattle wore in mod. ornte demand and were casy, Sheep were in fair detannd at stendy prices. s The Bankers' Convention, which is com. posed mostly of Cashiers of tha Natioual Banks throughout the country, have, among other resolutions, adopted onoe favoring the resumption of specio pnymonts, and calling upon every citizon to lasten the day when overy promise of tho Government to pay a dollar shall bo redeemed in coin, This expression is ons of considernbls importanca, "I'ae Saratogn Convention may be fairly con. struod to represent the preponderancs of sentiment of the hankers of this country. Their declaration means, thereforo, that thay are willing to redeem the notes they isane in gold whenever the Government is prepared to do tho samo thing, or fund its notes, and that they are anxious that this time should bo hnatened. Of course they will not re- deem in gold 80 long a8 greenbacks remain legal-teudors, sud it wouldbe folly for them to altemptto doso. But this declaration of theirs shows an honesty of purposo and de- gree of cournge and intelligence that are creditablo to the bankers of the United States, and they can searcoly fuil to exort su impor- tant influence in the right direction. INCREASE OF AVAILADLE GOLD. ‘Wo print this morning a well-written arti- clo npon the subject of reducing tho demand for gold, and thus hastening the advance of greenbacks towarda par. That part of the proposition to receive interest conpons in payment of duties we indorse, as that mensure was suggested some yenrs ago in 'Fur. Trmuxe, but, owing to the occupation of the public mind with reconstruction and moro exciting topies, the subject wns not pressed upon public attention. ‘The proposition is & plain one. Wo annually collect §163,000,000 of duty from imports, and this is received in gold. The Government has imperative use for coin for two purposes. Ono of theso is tho payment of interost on the publio debt, amounting to $107,000,000 annually, and the other is for the sinking fand, 1 por cont on the amount of the pnblic debt, averaging $20,000,000 annnally. Theso two items now nggregnte 127,000,000 of gold imporatively required annually. There is, therefore, n surplus soceipt of gold equal to $U7,000,000. This surplus, with ita an- nual necummlation, is kept in the Trensury, nnd held in rendincss to pay out in the pur- chaso of bonds, or to sell for greonbacks, and uso for goneral expenses to whatever oxtent tho internal revenue is deficient. But, in nd- dition to this surplus, tho Government keeps on hand twenty tq fifty millions of coin to redeem the coupons of the bonded debt as thoy foll due from time to time. Thero is gonerally a coin Lalance in the Tronsury of idle gold of fifty to cighty or nincty millions. The only gold pnid to the Governmont is for duties on imports, and the only present commercinl uses for gold is to pay duties and {0 export as bullion in settlement of balances in European, Cuban, Brazilian, and Chinese trado, and to pay intercst on various kinds of American scourities held sbrond, nnd the traveling cxponses of American tourists in foreign countries, On this point our corro- spondent intelligently obsorves that gold is one of our industrial products, and that, be- ing produced in surplus, we export it just as ‘wa export cotton or any other product. Those who griove over the cxportation of gold might with as much gonsistency complain of the ex- port of corn or provisions, Tho national misfortune ig, that, while the world would rather Lave our manufactures than our gold, our tariff laws practically prohibit their ex- portation by rendering it too oxponsive to export manufectures, At tho close of business June 30, 1875, thero wero in tho Treasury 379,854,000 of gold ; at thal same dato the interest due and payable was $28,450,000, leaving a surplus of 851,000,000, After paying the July interest the gold in the Treasury will accumulate, paying out small sums for interest in August, Soptembor, and then nnother £28,450,000 in January, and small payments in March and Mny. The nvernge surplus on hand, the year round, after paying tho interest and the sinking fund, will exceed 40,000,000 or §60,000,000, This amount of gold, thus car- ried from quarter to quarter nud year to yonr, beara no interest, and enrns nothing for the Treasury, Tho surplus would be much groator if the Secretary did not go into tho markot and buy up greenbacks at the current rotes,—the * premium* on this transaction exceeding five milliona of dollare 8 year. The merchants of the United Statea in order to pay dutica havo to puarchase £163,000,000 of gold annunlly, of which the Government carries $50,000,000 or more without interost. It collects $163,000,000, pays £127,000,000 for iuterest and to tho sinking fund, sells $36,000,000 for green. backs, and ot the same time keeps a zurplus of §60,000,000 or §60,000,000 unemployed, As 107,000,000 of " this gold is intendoed ox- clusively to poy tho intercst coupons when due, we can discover no impropriety, wrong, or derangement in rocoiving these coupons at their valus in placs of gold for duties. Thus, after the 1st of January, 1876, there will be hield 28,000,000 of intorest coupons payable on the 1st of July, or six months later, It the Unitod States ‘would roceive theso coupons as equivalent for gold in payment of duties, it would havo the effeot of placing $28,600,000 in gold in the market available in payment of dutics to the nmount of their face value. 'The coupons on all the othor bonds boing in like manner available, the sggrogate of coupons at one time on tho markst would be equal to one.halt the whole amount of intercst on the publio dobt, or §53,500,000, The men who are com. peolled to purohass gold to pay custome dutles would then have a choice between purchas- ing gold coln or interest couponay the avail- able par funds to pay duties would then be fucreased by the nddition of $53,000,000 of coupous always on the market, Assuming that these coupons would bo purchased at Jess than the ordinary premium on gold and paid into the Tremsury for duties, the Govern- ment would pay its coupons as fastas thoy were prosented for duties, instead of collect- ing gold and keeping it idlo until tha coupons matured. The Qovérament haa 00 othar nae for gold to the extent of tho conpons except to redeemn those very coupons, When a coupon ia received for duties it in paid and rendy for cancellation. Dlacing the receipt of the conpons at an avernge of three months befora their maturity, the United Stntes would offer n Alight but all-sufficient induce- ment to havo theso coupons put on the market, To thus accept thess conpons would far. nish & constant check on tha gold-room. The amount of gold which speculators would bLe compolled to earry would be thun increased, | ond pormanently, and such a thing as main- taining a speculative demand for coin for that purpose would be rendered far more difficult, ‘There would be $107,000,000 of gold coupona put on tho market every year; these would be in constant competition with the gold held by the speculntors, sud the result would be that tho premium would not be subject to sudden ndvances, and would of necessity gravitato to that rate warranted by the ro- duced domand. We do not agrae, howerver, with the proposition to receive groenbacks in peyment of duties. 'The valueof greonbncks iy not a fixod one, It in subject to fluctun- tions, and there wonld be no cortainty in the value of that portion of ~ the revenmo recoived in that form. There is n wide difference botweon them and the conpons. The lntter are equivalent to yold und redeemable ab a fixed date. Their pay- meut is an annual chinrge on the Govornment, and to receive thgm in payment of duties would be merely to make the gold surplus now idle in the Treasury available to restora the credit of tho Government and reduca its indebtedness by tho purchase of bonds. There mny be objections to this plan. Let us hiear what thoy are, and they will be duly cousidered, . GEN. BHERMAN AND BHILOH AGAIN. It seems that the criticism upon Gon, Suen- Max for snying that ** Gen. Grant did not make an official report of the battle of Shiloh * originated with the Louisville Courier-Jour- nal, and was made *“to show tho suthor's general innccuracy.” The Courier-Journal roturns to the charge after reading Tnx T'nin. uNe's semi-official explanation of the matter, nnd finds in Lo ** Rebellion Record ” o brief lotter writton by Gen, GRraNT to Gon. Hat- 1xcu's Assistant-Adjutant-General, and gives somo extracts which we produce ss an inter- esting bit of history : Hrapquanrezs DIATRICT WRATERAN TINNRSSEE, Prrrsnvnc, April9, 1863,—To Capt, £, H, Mcliean, A, Au G, Department of Musissivpt, St Louls : Car a2 Ithocomes my duty sgaln to report another Uattlo fought between two groat srmios, one contond- iug for the maintenance of the best Government ever dovined, and the other for its destrnctlon, 1t s pleas. snt to rocord the auccoss of the Army contending far the former principle, On Bundsy morning our pickets wero sttacked and driven In by the encmy. Immedistaly the five divis- fous stationed at this plece ware drawn up in line of battlo to moot them, Tho battle soun wazed warm on the loft and con tre, varying st times to all parts of tla line, There was the most coutinuous firing of muskatry and artillery sver heard on this continent kept up uniil nightfall, Tls enemy baving foroed tho contre lin to fall back neazly half way from thelr camps to the landing, at s Iato hour {n the aftornoon & desperata effort was mado by the enemy to twm our laft and get poasesalon of the landing, transports, o, . . . As thioro {8 doop aud fmparsable ravine for artillery nnd cavalry, snd vory diffioult for fufanlry at this poiut, no troopa woro stationed hare excapt the neces sary artillerivta and & small infantry force for their support, Just at this moment the sdvance of Maj,. Gen, Buxru's column and s part of thedivislon of Gon, Nezsox arrived, the {wo Generals namod belog present, An advance wes immedlately made upon the point of attack, and the onomy was soon driven back, In this sepulse much 4 duo to the prosence of the gun~ boats o . . aud tholr ablo commanders. . , . During the night the divisions under Gens, Ciiz- TENOEN and McCoox arrived. . . . 1 inclowa herawith & report of Gen. Bmeayan which will explaln wmore fully the resultof the pursull, and of the part taken by cach separate command, » . . 1t soems, then, that Gen, Gnant did mako 8 roport, which was perbaps official in its charactor, sinco it was sent to tho Adjutant- Gonoral of the oflicer commanding the do- partment. But wo fail to sco that this in- validates the explanation which we mado of the matter, or that it illustrates Gen. Bizn- MaN's * goneral inaccuracy.” Gon. Smemaman had before him a volume containing one hun- dred and sirteen reports, which had been transmitted to the Bonate by the Socretary of War, in responso to s call of that body, as all the official reports of tho *‘Dattles of Pitts. burg Landing.” This was certainly full war- rant for Gen. Buemman's statement, and it was not incumbent on him to look further for a roport which tho Becrotary of War did not bave long after the battle, and after he had received one hundred and sizteen other reports anbout the same battlea. Eithor tho Seccretary of War did not reo- gard Gon. Gnawt's lottor to Capt. McLzax o4 an offleial roport, or elso Gen. Harreox did not so regard it, and did not transmit it to the Secrotary of War. The Courier-Jour. nal inclines to the latter opinion, but oither prohibits the citation of this luttor as a proof of Gon. BuenMan's ““gencral inmceurncy.” ‘Ihe Pittsburg Chronicle, commenting on the matter, aasigns s o reason why Gen, Gnant never made an officlal report that he conld not do so without reflocting upon the judg- ment of Gen, Puentiss, who was capturod, with the most of his Lrigade, on the morning of tho first day's battle, but this is manifostly incorrect, since Gen. Gnaxt, in hi lotter to Capt. McLezan quoted above, makes a com. plimentary allusion to Gen. Prexties, The gist of the whole matter is that Gen, Grant wroto a letter to Gen., Harrxox's Adjutant, which either Gon. Hivwrox or the Socretary of War did not rogard as an officinl roport, and which was not included among the other official reports kent to ths Sonate, 'This fully justifios Gen. Surasan’s statemont, The statement is mado that a man named Oarraguan, who was one of the charter elec- tion judges 1n the Twentisth Ward, and who 1s now undor indictmont for stuffing ballot- boxes in behalf of the chartor, has been ap- pointed, it is stated, to the position of stract forcman by the Board of Pnbllo Works, at the dictation of the Mayor. T'his is said aud belioved not to be the first nor the only in- atanco of rewarding political kuavory, Alr. Hosux Reep, ex-lackman, who scrved aa judge at tho extraordinary election in the Becond Ward, has likewise beon rewarded by a place in the city service, Manx Suxzwan professoa to know of othoer similar cases, and it is sald ho will make a sworn statowent, giving names and facts, It appears that Mr. Cowvix, belioving himself to bo possessed of full power to removo all the Com- missionors af all tho Boards, forces his ap- pointments upon them, This would be in. decorous, even if thoy were made with good motives, and wefall to see how the members of the Board of Publio Works can retaln thelr self-respect and submit to thia dictation. They might better give up their placos thap stand spousors for such appolntments as have been roported lately, As to the Mayor's share in the matter, he scams to bo utterly indifferent 24 to what the opinion of goed oltizens and tax.payers msy be, It s elther that, ox he {8 undes some unknown {uftuence that controls his action agniust his hotter judgment, But if a Twentioth Ward ballot-hox-stuffer it to ho rewardud with an official phace, how mmch more do the julges and ballot-box. stuffers of the First Ward and some other wards doserve oflice? ‘I'ake the Fimst Ward for no instance. 'I'ho logal voto of tho Firat Ward last fall, in an exciting Congressional nud ponernl election, was only 1,001 while the vole cnst in the Third Ward was 2,141, or more than twice a1 many. Yot at tho charter election, whilo the 'Third Ward cast only U887 votes® nuder the samo excito- ment that existed in tho First Ward, that wond ia returned as having cast 1,762 (1,065 for and 97 against tho charter), or nearly twice as many ns the logal vato of the ward, fivo times as many as wero voted in the Thind Ward, which has twice the number of legnl voters, and at least ten times ns many as the number of legal votes actunlly cast in the ward, In other words, the stuffed ballots in the First Ward probably amounted to 1,600, Now why isn't somobody rowarded for this work by an official position? Isit bLecauso the perrons who did the ballot-box-stufling in the First Ward Liave more valuablo benefita from the present system of municipal man- ngoment, and do uot need any paltry offices ? If not this, it in evidently an injustico to the Firat Ward ballot-box.stuffers to ignore them, when the minor oftices are Loing divided up among the ballot-box-stuffors in the other wards, INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. Mr, Cuanris Reapr, the novelist, has ad- drossed nn open letler to tho New York Z'ribune upon tho question of copyright, in wwhich he takes the Lrosd ground that copy- right is not a monopoly, and sensationally offurs Lo bot £130 to £50 that it is not, and names certnin refoross to decido it. The letter is written in his customary inflated and stilted atylo, nnd abounds with a little mora than his customary vanity, self-conceit, and persounl abuso, All who oppose his proposi- tion are set down as * muddle-hends, knaves, fools, and pettifoggers.” 'Chat Mr. Reape himself lins not wuffered by a want of copy- right is shown by the fact that ho admits our home markst is not seriously injured by American piracy, but A (the American's) home market is,” and he odds: The remunerstion of the established American sathior {s artiticlally lowered by the crushing compe- tition of stolen goods, and, ux for the yonng American autlior, however promisiug hin genius, he §s genernlly nipped fu tho bud. 1 ean givo tho very process, o ‘brings the publisher hia mauvseript, which represonts months of labor, and of dobt; becouso &l the time & 1nan {8 writing withont wagos (be butcher's bill and Luker's aro growing fast and high. His mauucript {s tha work of an aldo novice; there aro some gonuino observations of Ameriean ifo and manners, and somo sparke of truo mental Bro: but thers are defects of workmanship; the men needn sdvieo snd penction, Woll, under just Iaws, lis countryman, the publishor, would nursa Lim ; but na things aro he daclines to buy, at over 80 clicap & Tata, tho work of promiso, be- cawas hio can obtnin gratls works writon with s certain mechiauical dexstarity by bumdrum but practiced n- glish writers. At§tho risk of being ok down in Mr. Reapr's eategory of ** muddlo-hoads, knaves, fools, and pettifoggers,” wo very seriously question whethor Amorican genius is being driven out of tho book-market at all by ‘“‘American pirncy,” as Mr. Rzape colls it, Btalo stuff and trash may suffer in tho com- potition with Euglish stalo atuff and trash, Lut respectable and competont suthors al- wnys find a market for their work ntn fair prico. The publishers will bear witness that the market is now overstocked with authors, English books are in the main cheap, and, under the spur of the competition of cheap- neks, American books aro made cheaper. Being made cheaper, their anle is enlianced. Choap English books means cheap Amcrican Looks, and vice versa, Protact English books with a copyright monopoly in the United States, and immedintoly the prico will be put up. Tho dotlar book will become a two- dollar book, The two-dollar book a three or four dollar book, and so on, The American boolks will follow kuit. 'The absonce of an intornational copyright means a full market of cheap-selling books, and a wide diffusion of knowledgo and information. 'I'ho copy- right can have no othereffect than to increaso tho price, and eventunlly make literaturo a costly luxury. As ouly high-priced books can hold their own against the monopoly of a copyright, all cheap labor must be erushod out, and a favored few will enjoy the extor. tionato emoluments of their profession, High-priced and bigh-toned authors may have rights, but the public also has rights, and, if it has onoe right more positive than auother, it is that of obtaining knowledge as cheaply as possible. HIVE, Tho United Kingdom of England and Wales, Scotland and Ircland, with the Channel Islands thrown in, ave only twice o8 Inrge in area sa the Btate of llinais, but they are all the ‘‘world's workshop," and are supplying the unocenpied parts of the habitable world not only with manufactures and capital, but with men, Ono of their lnrgest oxports is human flesh and blood, done up in individual pack- oged, and shipped noross oceans and sops. 'Tho tido of emigration has boon flowing eversince tho firet Englich settlonent was mado on the American const, mora than 260 yoars ago. It has had its ebbs and floods, but has never been wholly cut off. Even during the Revo- Intlon, some of tho British soldiers who came to prevent our indopendence remained to eu- |. joy it Emigration from the United Kingdom at- tracted comparatively little sttention beforo 1815, It desorved little, for by that year it had attained soanty proportions. The num. ber of persons emigrating was only 2,081, The next year it rose to 12,610, and there was & steady odvance until 1819, when the number was 84,987, Tho average for the noxt ten years was not not as great as this, but American flush times when wa were rushing upon the crisis of 1836.7 attracted crowds of British and Irish subjects, In the five years from 1880 to 1834, inclusive, the aggregato numbor of emigrants from the United Kingdom to America waa 881,056, This was thought enormouy, but it is only o little more than the annual aversgenow. Up to this time (1834), more persous had emi- grated to tho British Colonies in North Amer- fca than to the United Btatew Very mony of them Lad mado Canads only a half-way house on their journey to the ¢‘Btates,” but numbors had changed their homoe and not their flag. The tide turned in 1834, Aa laie as 1839, Lhowever, the emigra- tion of the last twenty-five years had sent 499,800 to the Colonies and only 417, 705 to the ‘‘Btates.” But from 1840 the figurea wore respectively to the Canadas 003, 760, and to the *Btatea " 4,720,570, ‘T'he ofilclal record of emigration from 1840 to 1878 registers every great sconomio event of that time,—~tho Irish famine, the disoov~ ory of gold in Californis and Australis, the American financial panio o£ 1857, the Civil Was, ota, The'87 arjuisout down British emigration to this country from 128,903 o 1857 to 5716 in 1958, Tho ontbreak of the Civil War raduced it from 87,600 in 1860 fo 4,764 in 1861, THe Irish famine foreed it up from in 1846 to 142,161 in 1817, and 18 3 in IR18, and 210,450 in 1819, and 280, in 1850, Corresponding fignrea for the North American Colonies wero 433,439 in 1816, and 109,680 in 1817, when it auddenly dropped to 31,005 in 1818, When gold wan dincovered in Auatralia, the numbor of omigrants thither ¢nadrupled in a yenr, From 21,532 in 1861 it became 87,881 in 1852, and 61,401 tho noxt year, and 83,237 the next, or 1854 It continued to decline in Australin down to 12,227 In 1870, Tuz 1873 tha total number of omigrants from the United Kingdom was 10,612, or about 1 per cent of the whole' populntion of the King- dom. Of theso porsous, 233,073 came to the United Stotes. 'This ralo of decreaso excecds the annunl nvérage increase of the Dritish population between 1861 and 1871, For these ten years it was only 8.8 per cent, lnt the grent proportionnate lows was from Ireland, Navertheless, population is now increasing more rapidly than emigration and death to- gether ean thin it. According to the report of the Registrar-Genoral, the net daily in- crense in the population of the United King- dom is 705, In 18G5 tho tofal population woa 29,801,908, In 1874 it was 32,412,000, Tho wonderful fact shown by these figures is, that thia little cluster of islands on tho weatern shore of Europe shuuld produce such enormous numbers of human beings. England and Wales, in which the Iand is owned by comparatively few porsous, are more donsely populated than any other oountry in Europe except pclginm, which is a land of manufaclures and farm patches, Yot the density increnses every yenr, despite the hundreds of thousand who leave the tooming shores of Old England and sncient Erin for the Now World, It would be an in- toresting study to trace the effect of British omigration upon British trnde, and discover how much of the vast commercs of the United Kingdom consists of buying from and selling to ex-Britons, Wo sholi return to this thome hereafto THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN, Voasar College, when it was founded, was the best institution of the sort in the United States. Itis hereaftor to have competitors which may eolipso it. Not that it Las rotro- graded. It seoms to bave advanced. It hns, morcover, the great ndvantage of soveral yenrs' oxperienco. DBut Marinrw Vassan's douation of the monoy set an oxample which hos since been followed, and, like most ex- amples, improved upon. Next fall will see the opening of two large colleges designed for feminino education, and npparently most wisely plaoned. Each has peculine features. I'ha experionce of the next ten years, in thom ond i Vaassar, will go far towards seltling various vexed questions about the education of women, Sage College will be an oxperiment in modified co-¢ducation. When Cornell Uni- versity was organized, tho seal chosen for it bore Ezma Comryrin's raying that ho wished to found an institution in which sny one could bo taught anything, Dut the saying was forthwith falsificd by tho refusal of the authoritics to admit women rs studonts, Soma time ago, the Hon, H. W. Saar offered the University $300,000 on condition that the money should be used in promoting tho higher education of women. ‘Tho offer was too great to be rejocted. 'The Trustees swal- lowed their seruplos agninst co-education and pocketed tho cash. Hence Sago College. 1ta ample roof is to shelter 120 yonng women, who will follow the same course of studies a3 tho Cornell Loys do. They aro to attend certain loctures and recitations with the male members of the Univer- wity, tmt will have soparate instruc- tion in other branches. The University will grant thom the samo degrees bostowed upon male graduates. Bage Colloge will practically bo one of a group of colleges which together fonn Cornell Univorsity. It is anid to have beon suggested by tho sucoess of Girton College, at Cambridge, in which Euglish women are gotting a university edu- cation, and which hopes ero long to be fully recognized as part of the University, Tho othor new college benrs the boautiful and uncommon'name of Smith. It is the child of Miss Borma Surri, of Hatflold, Mnass,, whoso brother left her $200,000 fif- teen years ago. Bho decided to use it to on- dow some charitable institution, but hes- itatod bolween two oxtremes,—an asylum for the doaf and dumb and a college for women. She finally decided in favor of tho Intler, After ton years' study of the question of femalo education, sho made up her mind, mnde her will, and died. '"The buildings of 8mith College have been oroctod at Northampton, Mass., and the first class will be admitted next fall. 'Tho Presidont is Prof. (now Congressman) Sgerye, 'The Col- logo contains no dormitories, Tho students aro to board in the village, live in the fanm- ilies of tho Professors, or practice co-oporative Lousekeoping in cottages buily on the Collego grounds, The course of study is to boos comprehensive as that of Yale or Harvard, and the examination for admission 1s proposed to be as thorough as it is in these Univer- aitien, It will be seen that Vaasar, Snge, and Smith Colleges diffor radically in their funds- mental principles. Educators everywhore will watch the threo with intereat. AN INTERNATIONAL WRONG. The Rov. Leoxann W. Bacox hias contribut- od a paper to the July numbor of Lippincott's 2Magazine entitled * Bearching for & Grave in a Strange Land ¥ which contains some inter- esting facta touching the laws of Bwitzor- land regulating cemoterios, showing that it {s impossible to obtain a gravo there in porpo- tnity. Tho law of burial provides that the commune &ball furnish a grave without chnrge for aterm of filtoon years, which iu cousidered a roasonable time for a body to ro- turn to dust. For 300 francs one may soours posscasion of the grave for thirly years, with the privilgo of renowing the lense at the ond of that time for thirty years more, By paying 1,500 franca down, the lesses can securs undisturbed possession for ninety.nine yours. At the end of that time, however, the monumonts are removed, and the bodles likewise, if anything is lett of them, Thoere are no roceiving-vaults, al- though some of the older 'families have pri- vate vaults in the graveyards ; but that s all, and the State doos not encoursge private or family burial-places. - There is another poculiarity of the laws re- lating to cemeteries, made by recont enact- ment, which is peculiarly distressing to for. cigoers, A bill was recently introduced pro- viding aa follows : 1, The contzol of burial-places balonge to the ctvil sathority, 2. 4da the dutyof this suthority o see that the body of every decsssed person be deceatly intarred fn e osnatery of the communs Whese the decesse hag takin following tha regular order of the graves, 8 s az0eplion ahall Do taads to this vule, unlese by anthoriration of the polico In favor of familles pos. nevslug soparate burial-ylaces, or In case the relativas of A person dying at & distance from his place of Lirth oF raaldence ask o he nuthorlzed Lo truniaport tlie body W elthor of thess places, ‘Ihis bill waa passed, with the exception of the third paragraph, which was stricken out, and thus prevents foreigners whose frionds or relalives die in Bwitzorland from transporting their bodies to thelr native places. Undor this law, evary American family sufforing & boroavement in Switzor. land would bo immodiately proventod by the- polico from sonding tho remaina of the loved one home, and would be compoellad to bury the body in the rogular order of tho gravesin a Bwiss coemetery, to bo disinterred in the rogular order by tho moxton whon its turn camo round, As a remedy for this, Dr. Ba- con suggents that the Government should taka monsuras to secura some little plots of ground at & fow of tho principal contres of American travel to be wsod as cemo- terics, where the dend might rest without danger of disturbance. Thoy would bo taken caro of and adorned by the American rosi- dénty, nnd in time would becorhe delightful plnces of resort like the English cemoteries at Rome and Florenco! In the rush and hwrry of this material age, Dr. Bacox's proposition may not recoive attention, but it nevortheloss doserves it. Buch regulations ns those which exist in Bwitzerland will always be a drawbnck upon the pleasuroc of travelers, a4 well ns n positive injustics, if not outrage. Theso littlo plots could be purchased very chonply and would always be kept in order by Amecrican residonts. It would require vory little outlay, and wonld make roparation for o great international wrong. Pabile indig: y imposition practiced some monthn sgo In Philadelphis, acd remombored ns ** Tho Karie Kixa Fraud," bas scurcely subaided when tho Insanity of the prin- cipal victim, Mr, Ropen? DALz Owex, is an~ nounced to revivo it with incroased bitternoss. Almost simultanooualy with this 8ad event comes & atory from Brookiyn of a bare-faced repetition of tho Katie KiNu fraud In that city by the very aame impostor whom Mr. OWEXN ruthlosaly ex- posed, Tmmodiatoly sftor the newspapors pub- lishod Mrs. HoLues ss a common chont, sha called upon tho Spiritualists of the United Hiaten to protect har from want. Bums of monoy havo beon sont tior from differont parts of tho cono- try. The Spiritualists of Brooklyn invited her to wisit that city and oxhibit her powory. After many atteutive oxaminations 6t Kane Kiso aud JonN Kixe, who materializod much iu the sao way a8 Lefore, the Spiritualistic Bocfoty detoctod tha rublor-masks and other apparatun used by the modium, and again ox- posed her. In a report published ofiicially by the Bociety fu the Hanner of Light, thoy sdy: “We unhesitatingly declaro that, s Mra. Hovrxes has fallod in evory instance to givo us satiafactory proof of hor genuineness, we bollove that her manitestations in Brooklyn wero gross frauds, practicod upon ns eurnest, sincero, and humble an assembly of Investigators as aver met, who fool that their holieat and most sacred fesl- ings linve been outraged by tho imposition prac- ticed upon them, and which tho refusal of Mrs. Hotates to vindicato horself clontly proves.” Thia socond oxpose s not important. The credulity which provided AMrs. Horaes with supportors and adhorents after tho first, will be proof aguinst a thousand subsoquent detoctions. PERSORAL. Count Yon Azaim is at Carlsbad. His health's bad, too. Tom Hughos is sufforing from iaflammatory rhoumatism. Moody aud Bankey leave Liverpool for Now York en Aug. 4. Chaucor’s famous Tabard Inn, In the Borouph, London, {s being pulled down. Edward Daxtor, s prominent lawyer of Yauh- ville, Lonn., is visiting in the city for & fowdays, Irving now threatens to play Macbeth, just to got his haud in for Cardinal Pole in ** Queon Mary.” “Carl Protzol” promises for his TWeskly, on Baturday, pictures of Donaldson: and Grimwuod from photographs, Bhearman's departuro for Europe has alarmed the Hollanders, Thoy oxpect the total destruc- tion of their dykes. L 5 “Bhe smoked 100 pipofuls of oplam in ono (any," is the simple legend on the grave-stons of » woman in Carson, Nov. The Iodianapolis Zerald mildly, but firmly, protesta against the extravegance of putting ++ @2 worth of eollar on 25 cents worth of dog.” Little Bammie Boudol, of Vermilionvills, La., sged 10 years, has immortslizod himsel! by cap- toviug s burglar in the not"of robbing & money- drawer. ‘Tennyson’s * Queon Mary " has not mot with o surprisiug salo, It s to bo feared that his aagociation with the Datemans hoa not helped him materially, #* Hia llfe was & complete riddle,” says & Texas paper of a gentlemoan who recently put s charge of twenty-two buckshot into himmolf. Wo ehonld esy e doath was s pretty complete one, tou. Tho Rev. J. 8. Norris, pastor of the Mothodist Church at Dundee, Iil, wasin the clty yester- day with bis newly-wodded Lride. The happy coaple have started for an extonded tour in the East. Mr. Goorga C, Bates, of Balt Lake City, for- morly of Chicago, was threatened with trontment for contempt by Judge Boreman. He explsined mattors satisfactorily, and ocacaped with a fine of §50. What—oh! what—haa that bright and capable little soubrotte, Bydney Cowell, done to be called by the Now York HMerald “‘another Lotta"? Doea not the groat O'Kelly know an artist from an antio ? ¥ Ioflation is what supports the rotten *Ohio canvass” of which we hear so much nowadays. Reckless political seronauts had better take to heart the fate of Donaldson, victim of poor rags and bad gas, ' A Bpringfleld (Maes) father has told tho champlon avoirdupols fable. His baby welghed 20 pounds 2 ounces when i was born. Buch babien generally grow the other way, and lose 12 ponuda or 80 {n » fortaight. The Misses Conway have been frozen out of thoir management of tha Drooklyn Theatre, Thoy aign a roloasa of the building, avd recelve & receipt in full from the Building Company, Thoy sall for Europo shortly, Miss Lmily Faithfull, lu & recent lecture, #paid & high complimont to Amorican ladies "y which is another poriphrastio intimation that she did not bolleve all shehoard about the Jadies who crowded the Brooklyn court-rcom some tline ago. Ald. George White atarts for Providenoy, . I, where his fsmily realde, tbis moroing. {l. will boabsent about throo weeks. The Aldsrman, ‘who {8 & native of “little Rhody," has not been ‘baok to bis *“native heath " for about ten yoars. At the TFantasles Pariziennes, & theatre in Drusssls, smoking has always been permitted duriog the porformances, Now & uokioe is poste ed o front of every meat: *“No smoking fa allowed during the eugsgemeat of Allle. Rous- selt,* ‘Tho last of the Hahn quartst, of Daltimors, s dead. They were born Feb, 16, Three of them Lived but one month, sud ed from catarrh. Katle, the last, improved in coodition vory fast, but died of whooping-oough st the age of montha, John Worth, s Philadelphis sotor, while bath. ing, the other dsy, sauk, and was taken oul of the water apparently dead, Hia friends worked for sa huur to resuscitate him, buf, falling, sbandonsd bims An Englahnian named Dz Michalson, happening along, appliad tha Sylves. ter procoss of artificial respiration, aud rectorog Worth to lifo. (ieorgo Dovelin, nf Cambridge, will nover tan tho truth again. Ifo applied for a liconses ta tn » ealoon, wan asked if Lo aver got drank, replisd in the aflirmative, and was rofusod. The name of Washington is poison to him, for ho raw hiy mendacious fellow-applicauts all abiain licenscs, Florenca Marrystt (Mrs. Ross-Church) in saiq to bs not far from 40 yoarn old, and the mothey of amarrlod daughtor, butshe isgenorally npoken of an a young Iady. Bbo in a blonds of tho purg Enghsh type, and does not took mora than yeara old, Bho is said to liavo gi¥eu up hor idos of coming to this country to road, Tho pronont Duko of Argyll Ia not only an honorable and intellectual man, but ho hay tralnad up bis family to imitats hin sirtues. Ong of his sons, Lord Walter Campbell, Is & mombep of tho stock-brokiug firm of Halbert, Wapg & Camplsll; anollier ia in A corn-desling fim; while the {bird is wtudring for the Bar. Thy Argyll family appoar to be mon as well as noble. moy. As blra. Wilaon, formarly Auguata J. Evans, abont to publish & now novel, wo give & spaci. men of Ler stylo: In ona of hior books, whera s heroino boods over hor dging adored one, and asks, *' Can I do anything for you, my boloved, in this agonizing hotr?" Lio responds: * Yes, my aogel. Uo to yonder shelf (pointing with pallid fluger to tho library-aholves in the corner), and, selecting the proper volume, bring it hither, end read to me in the origiual Gresk Proculuy lottor to Agathoclos,”—St. Louis Republican, An applicant at the Philadoiphia Ledger offioy for an original peom on the death of his Chrig tian, carpet-wenving uncle, atier many samplog, acceptad the following : Oy Death comes whon wa Isast szpect The thoren Yrovle to selee Thue Oppenbein, the carpol-woavor Vas earried off by billous forar, On high ha'll toe Lin wife and five Childron, who are not alive, ‘These ho'll etasp, without thought of lsavin} And comtng hack to carpet-weaving, one to mout Ars, Oppon! Orlginal, 3275, G. W, 0, AN, A tonuy story in told of the late Mr. Conway and Dolvil Brpn, Iyan was ongaged to play the part of au apa in au aftarpieco, Mr. Conway pre. viously appoariug nu Cato. Moeting the trago dinn one day afler the parformance, llyun asked him: *Which way do vou go, Mr. Conway?" “1, alr,” said the tragadian, **am about to walk up Broadway.” ** Ah, (hon I wil accompany vou," snid the othor. * Accompany me, air? roplied Conway, with & glare that astanishied the othor. * No, sir, novali| Cafo arm in arm with aring-tailed monkey, sir? No, air!"™ And he stolkod away, ‘Tho Iats Grand Jury of Alameda County, Cat, in the porformance of their duty paid a visit to the County Hospital. Thoy roported as fol« fowa: ' Wo found a human skeleton in a box on the roof of a shed exponed to the weathor, and he intoates made serious complaints of the mannor in which skolotons are expossd and sube Jects troated. It has a depressing offect upon invalids, If it is necossary for anatomical sch anco to 1otain such skeletous, we would rocom. mend that a suitublo place Lo provided for the prenervation aud keeping of tho same outol night of tha patients. Wo were infdrmod by the Stoward thiat about thres months ago a skoloton waa seul to Bau Franclaco, Ita proparation way witnessed by some of the pationts. « We bellovs tat all such procoedings are in violation of tha nplrit and lettor of the law, snd offousive to pub. Lo tasto aud decency, and that all bartering in such remains should be probibited,” HOTEL ABBIVALE, Dalmer Honse—lames Shioeubaryer, Cluoinnat ; 3, R. Ertolle, Miwsouri; C. B, Myurs, lisciue ; W. T, Core nis, Philadeiphin Werd, Now Yozk ; 8. Rowloy, Paitedelybia s DL Tariwell, Dasmport ; A. B, Ad: ans, Ciaveland : Jacob fluck, Pkuhurgi‘ Tobert Douglase, Tidianapolis ; J, H. Knight, South Bend; . W, Jotikine, Maseacliiisntta ; Joln G. ourks, U, 8, A, Max Meyer, O James M, Ireland: J. B, Grayson, Caldwell, 8% Loul; ©.' E, J. 1. ' Aloxander, flochester § ilong Kong; A. I, Burhous, Cibreland: William A' Wobb, Naabville . B Austln, Loutsvill Kent, Hyracuse won, Boslon. J. 3L, Wibury, 1, Kiwam, New Tork: Cullen, Lowmville; Jobn D, Crowell, Toxan: L. . Walors, Oulvoaton; A, H, Jones, Jerney Cily; Dents Loog, Loulaville; J. Turnet, Cinelnnati: d, Colisn, Alluny; M, Davenpart; 1. Hellue, 43 A, J, Wirs, ohn Jsmesan, Detroit; A, . Thiompaon, St. Louis. ... Tramont o —W. N, llalnca, Baltimoro ; ‘O, C, Woodworll, Drooke I, Hollfilay, St. Loty ; J. W, Rodefer, Councll Heury Frowud, Now Yorks A. Walkor, Olnclns 3 11, C, Bwift, Cloveland ; Dudlay Hall, Boaton : A, Hallinan, New York; Dr.J. 1, Hiowart, Winona, Sherman House—Liout.~Gov, A. A, Glenn, Bterliug; I, W, Mchards, New York; I, L. MecGoy, Fulton ; 11, K. ow York: ‘B, F. Hi yton ; Charies 8, Brooks, 1, Bmith, Minural Bolnt 1 J, & Glimors, orgo Huckor, New York. gt QURRENT OPINION, 3 New York} Tock Taland ‘The fact of the matter socms to be that Allen lias gone over to Cary on the rag-baby fasue, aud Cary to Allen on the question of whinky. The two sro‘now in s besutiful state of harmony. —Cincinnall Gaelte. The New York papors are making no end of fun ovor the sudden accossion.of Mr, Lisut. Gov, Dorsholmer to tho Governorship, Mr ‘Tilden has gouo to Loag Branch, snd it is a tect that the New York coostilution mskes abrouce from the Btats, axcent at tho head of a military foreo in timo of war, n vacatiou of the offico. The Boston Pilot {8 unlkind enough to recok lect that Bam Cary, of Ohio, while in Iveland, somo Blx yoars ago, told s gratified sudience thal o biad said & thousand times in Lls own coons try, if o wore not au Americau, bie would profa to bo an Irishman ; and, direct); tura at Manohoster, mentioned to tho Johun Bulls that be was proud of hia direct descel from an Englishman aod a Pilgrim Father. ** Who is ho, auy way 7" suks the puzzlod Pilok No question of tho day emits so great sn amount and varioty of theoretic drivel as the flusnces. Every political quack-doctor in the Isnd haea his remedy, there Loing, in reality, but ono thing to do, which 1a to wait aud sava unti! the Government {s sblo to vay gold for its greonbaoks, dollsr in and dollar out, Tho wsy to resume iu to resumo--when wo are ablo. In the meantime tho cry for ** more munoy,” whilst it mav deludo the iguorant with & glitteriug no- tion of plenty, is, whore it Las any diutinet moaning and purposo, & sugsr-coated plea for repudiation, prefacing the overthrow of the national credit, tho desecration of the nationsl faith and honor, tho obliteration of all nationsl sentimont founded in an honest, solf-reavoctiog manliood, and the ultimate dextruction of liberly itaolf. This ia why wo oppose inflation,— Louts ville Courier-Journal, . Boft-hoaded soft-money people, when thoy coma to dlscover {heir true position, are likely to find themsolves uncomfortably hedged about upon the Esst and the Wost, the North and tho Bouth, by & somewhat hard-headed, uncompro- mising set of hard-monoy people. Therc a0 Toxns and Californis, for instance, where, W0 most {ntents and purposes, the Legal-Tender act is & dend lottor, whore s dollar is & dollar, audsn unfulfilled promleo of » dollar is mero deprech atod papor, ‘Ihese Histes have never loft the specie basis, and don't inteud to do o, no mat- ter who geta drunk over the fumes of the infls- tion putich-bowl. It {s remarkable that theio Btatos bave suffered loss from the panic, s0d with ona or two ‘)Mllhln exceptions, are flusne cially in botter plight than any othor Btates in the Union. In population, wealth, sad indus try, Texss is pmb‘bfiy growing st # more rapld a00 than any other Btate, partly canse its peopls among the most energetio and plo{rnlx'b in Amorica, mainly bacause the foundations of ité business and induatry sre laid upon the unfalk ing basis of gold snd silver money. Californis befng older fu developmeut than Toxss, Iv mha- bly making legs rapid progreas ; but iis thrift 8o sccumulations, uninterrupted by losses from panics snd shifting values, fairly entitle it to bd ronounced the most solidly Etolpemll.l Eul:‘- g‘nnde uita in its savings banke alone are :100 st nearly 870,000,000, belongiug to about ¢t depositors, and making an syerage of more 800 for each dopositor. In layluyg up thesd savi the thrift) ls of Californis bave, I8 th: ‘l"‘:;lkb. pmbc{»?;aggm no battar than JQE thrifty people on the IHastern soal moral of the storv fa, that the savers lu bard ax‘:noy Oméqr‘:l- have hg: tno;: ;‘-‘v:n:’x‘-;‘ 'x“‘ SAYerR 0 L-money, . Bave beon compelled 10 6ab 1y, thelr saviogs 48 Selault b vagua,—New XYork Worlds after, in alecs '