Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY,? AUGUST “11,” 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATEZR OF SURSCEIPTION (PATAPLE IN ADVANCE), Postaxe I'revnfd at this Omee. a.00) " Farta of & year ot (b ; WaxTED—One active agent in cach town aml village. Bpecial arrangements made with auch, Bpactmen copien sent freo. To prevent delay and_mistakee, be mre snd give Tost-Office address tn full, including State and Counts, Remittances may be made aither by drsft, expross, Post-Offios arder, or in regisierod lolters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY SUDSCRINKNA, Datly, delivered, Sundsy excepted, 23 conts per woek, Daly, delivared, Bunday icludet, 30 conta por week, Addreas THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornar Madison and Dearborn-sts,, Chleago, Ll T AMUSEMENTS, HOOLETS THEATHE—Randolph srcel, betweon Clark and LaSalle, Engageraont of the Cnion Aquare Company. *Ths Two Orphans.” Afternoon snd #vening. ADELPHI THEATHE—Dearborn wireet, ocornsr Monros, * The fee-Wltch.” Afternoon and evening. “SOCIETY MEETINGS. HESPERIA LODGE NO. 411, A. . & A, M.—Reps- Tar communication thia (Wedneaday) ovening, Aug. 11, [ MMonI13‘,'l‘l’le"r‘lzIl!."'t:ti:i m;)uvl&:ph lh(!"H“lll‘t "“fl:? JTHIRD DEGRE 1siting brothren cordially invited. & Cflg\fl. u, BIULNAN,’W. M. CEAS. F. FOERSTER, Bec’ BUSINESS NOTICES NMORRE HRARTS ANE CAPTURRD RY A FRESI and brilllant somplozion than by tho must exmtnetrical 20d elaanio face, 1f DAL oF salinw, All women ki s, and as Latrd's filoom of Youtn' davelaps thy chann 1t doos not xis naturally, every fady who dued oot the ** Bloom," Procursbio from sl nt it shonld Bhe Chicags Tribune. “Wednesday Morning, Auguat 11, 1875, At the New York Gold Exchango yesterday greenbacks wore weuker, opening at 87 and closing at 873, o] The French Canadians of Montreal hnve an offective method of influencing legidla- tion, A new health-law compelling vaccino- tion was pending before tho City Council Monday night, and the opponents of the mensure sent in solid remonstrances through the windows. Two of tho Aldermen were struck by the force of this popular expres- sion, and the Conncil postponed the unpleas- ant snbject for six months, Affairs nro growing scrious at Fall River, Mass., among tho 15,000 mill operatives who have chosen to romain idle rather than work at reduced wages. Pablic sentiment scems to have taken sides agninst the strikers, and the grocary ond provision morchants have taken a stand which will either shorten the strike or precipitate a violent conflict. They refaso to allow the idlo workmon to mn up bills at their stores, on the ground that people who can afford to voluntarily quit ‘work for o month cau afford to pay cash for family supplics. Tho citizens in general will, it is said, opposo any extension of municipal relief to the operatives boyond that abso- lutely necessary to prevent starvation, and the mill-owners aro firm in their dotermina- tion to resist the attempt to force them to terms, The people nno, , on the line of tho Central Pacifio Roilrond, are consider- ably troubled about a disagreeablo element of their community, Tt is a hybrid abomina- tion, Indian by birth and Mormon by Laptism., Theso oarnest converts, to the number of nearly a thousand, baving been recently baptized into {he compnny of Latter Day B8aints, proposo to demonstrate their change of heart by driving the unregenerato Gentiles from tho west sido of Bear River, under the protensothat the Mormons granted thom tho region 0s a reservation. Tho bene- fits of baptism have alrendy been realized by the nccumulation of n good supply of arms and ammunition, and it is more than likely that the Lord's anointed will have to bo treat- ed to o now dose of saving grace, this timo at the liands of a troop of military missionaries from tho nearest fort, Judge Wirrace's decision refnsing judg- mant for tho taxes of 1874 was a severe blow generally, but it operated ns a positive catas- trophe to certain members of the Common Council. Dividends having bsen scarce of late, they hud set grent store by o neat little arrangement connected with tho Fullerfon avenue conduit job. The plan was to forco the award of tho contract {o n bidder whose lerms {0 the city wero soveral notches from tho lowest, but his terms to the Aldermen in. tarested wore such ns to socuro the majority necessary to dictato the awnrd of tho contract. Everything had beon fixed up, and the scheme waa to not about $4,000, or sny $200 ench for the faithful. Then eamo the tax decision, necessitating a complete suspension of public improvemonts, and relegating the conduit job to indefinito futurity, Fortunately for the oomtractor; the monoy had not changed hands, so that he saved 4,000, und the city escapod o costly project of plunder, Thero is no great loss without some small gain, ki TUnited Btates Court officinle and whisky- ring circles in St. Louia aro greatly agitated in consequence of the discovery that nn ox. rovenus official, against whom severnl indict. monts were ponding, has slipped through the careless fingers of the law officom and fled thoe ity to parts uuknown, The abscouding criminal had nlready given bail upon two indictments, but the Lail has proved to be worthless; while by his flight he has altogather escaped the addi. tional indictments. e had grown rioh in defranding tho revenve, and had taken the precantion to puj his noney into bonds and largo mnotes, so that n permanent change of residenco might be effooted upon ehort notics, The fact that the Court officials pormitted several daya to paas by without making the arrest, and leniently allowed the criminal to hunt up ball ot his lelsuro, wns a sufficlent notice for his purpose; and, finding dif- ficulty in procuring the requisite wurotios for his future appearance, he sensibly con- cluded to improve the valuablo opportunity, and digponss with bail altogether. Ho was known to be wealthy, ‘but it may be consid- cred worth while to inquire hereafter why the possession of $100,000 should entitle a eriminal to privileges and opportunjtios of escape denied to less affluent offendery, Ths, Ohicago produce markots were irregu- lar yesterday, breadstuffs varying with tho weather prospects. Mess pork was quict and 250 per brl lower, closing at $21.25 cash, and $2L65@2L.87§ for Beptember.. Lard was dull and 50 per 100 lbs lower, closing at $13,62} cash, and $18.756 for Boptember, Meats wore quict, at 8jo for shoulders, 1240 for short ribs, and 120 for short clears. High- wines were quist and firm at $1.18} por gal- lon. Lake freights were dull and steady at 2§o for wheat to Buffalo, Wheat wae sotlve, and ndranced 2c, closing Je lower, nt $1.26} eash, and 1.2t} for Beplembers Corn way quiot and closed o lower, at T0}e cash, nud 71§c for September. Oala wero aclive, and closed Je lower on options, at 4ic for August, and 38}e for September. Rye wns quiet nt 8Jc. Barley was activo and woank, closing at $1.13 for September. On Batar- day evening last there was in storo in this city 114,768 bu wheat, 3,020,446 bn corn, 118,374 Ln onts, 2,616 bu rye, and 5,076 bu barley. Ifogs were Qull, with sales at $7.00 @8.40. Cattle wore dnll at 25@i0e decline from Saturdny’s prices, Bleep wero steady, A residont of Rochester, N. Y., bas \rrilfcn a lotter to a gentleman in this city describing the manner in which a street wos paved in that city, which hos proved to be o delight- fal pavement, nnd is thought to bo of the most dnrable natare. ‘Thero wna firat a fill ing of 0 iuches of stono, one atone overlap- ping another, something like shingles. This farnished the foundation, on which was put 6 iuches' depth of the Macadam stone, broken in the size of s large cgg; the spaces wero filled with sand and packed down, ond then another layer of Macadem stone wns put down nbout 8 incles in depth, and of o Fmaller size, This waa then packed by a steam roller, weighing abont 20 tons, for noveral days. After that, a lLeavy conting of tar and sand was put down, and this was rolled nand packed. This completes the pavemont, which fs now do- seribed os being ** hisrd As a rock and smooth o o tloor,” It is o modification of the oid Macadnm process, and it would seem from the description thint the pavement is a model one, We hiope it may prove to be so. Unless thero is a decided improvement in the wan- ner of Inying the wooden pavements, Chi- cago will be xadly in need of a different kind of stroet pavement, and we hope one may bo discovered that will unite durnbility with a plensant and comparatively noiseless char- actar, POWER OF ENGLAND AND GERMANY. Qur readers have ot failed to notice a very interesting and ably writton letter from Lou- don, which appeared in Tne Tnisuse of Saturday lnst, commpnicated to this paper by Mr. Honace Wik, who is so well known to its readers. 'Tho letter was mainly devoted tg an articlo which appeared in L'ue Citorao Tainuye of June 28, entitled ** The Declineof on Empire.,” Concerning this article, Mr. Warre says ¢ I have not the arilels of the Fortwightly Reviow be- foro me which furnished tho text for Tak Turnowa's argument that Grest Dritain {s in a decline aa a Euro- poan Pawer, buty sa T recolloct it, the drifi was very much a8 if ono had said at tho outbreak of the Rebell- fon that, if the Bonth shuuld selza tho farts, arsenals, and navy-yards within her Hmits, tho Goveriment could not put 40,000 soldiers into the feld to prevont 1t. Buch atatements wore mado, and wero perfoctly true, yet tha fact did not prevent the Government from subscquently ralsing 2,000,000 men to recover the captured proporty, The Fortnightly said that if Ger- ‘many should resume her threatening attitude toward Frauco and Belginm, aud should make a descent upon e Iatter country, Great Britaln would not boable to opposo more than 40,000 men to lor progress, snd would be ntterly unablo to prevent the exsoution of her designs, With this text for a theme, Mr. Wmnirs very ably discusses tho relative wnr-power of England and Germany, and socks to cstab- lish the fact that the former Kingdom is so far from being in & *“declino” {hat it would successfully cope with Germany and main- tain tho neutrality of Belgimn against all odds. To this conclusion some exceptions may bo taken. In the first place, the writer procecds under a misapprebonsion in nttrib- uting the assertion of the decline of English military powor to Tuz Trmuxe, That asser- tion originated with the Fortnightly Review, one of the ablest and most thoughtful of the English periodicals. 'The article in Tue Tuwune was devoted to a recapitulation of tho statements set forth by the former, and an cxprossion of gurpries thereat, 5o that Mr, Wirre's dissent is rather with the statemonts of the Fortnightly than with those of Tum Tamove. He novertheless has Joid down a proposition which can be srgued in Chica- go ns well ag in London. The fallacy in his argumont, it seoms to us, lies in this, that the parallel which he draws botween the Northern States at tho time of the War of the Rebellion does not hold in any rospect ns between Gormany and England. ‘When hos- tilitios broke out between the North and Bouth, the two ecctions were virtually in tho same state of military unrerdiness, and en. joyed a similar ignorance of the art of war, Neither had o standing army or disciplined militia. Both sections had to commenco operations with crude materials, with volun- teers who had never been under firo, who were undrilled, unseasoned, pu?fectly raw, and innocent of all knowledge of camp-life, sol- dier's dutios, or military manual and formation. Thers were some men sccustomed to tho usa of the rifle or shot-gun in hunting gamo in the North and some in the Bouth, A few middle-aged men had fought in the war with Mexico, and were rustily available for officcrs, and if anything the majority of thess were in the SBouth. Weat Point also had furnished somo officers in about equal proportion to the North and the South. The material in both armics came raw and green from the work. shops, the farm, nnd tho counting.rooms. All thia unripe, undrilled, and undisciplined materinl had to be molded into shapo and prepared for work, and this consumed much time and involved great dolays aud oxpenso, After tho War conunonced, it was pro. longed four years, whoreas it would have been wettled in one-fourth of that time had either the North or the Bouth been a military power, instantly ready for war with 8 veteran army, and with ample preparation and accamulation of material In point of fact, the Wor might Lave Leen over beforo one side or the other could have colleotsd its waterinl and pat it into the field. For in. stance, supposs the North had borno the same relation to the South when the Rebell. ion broke out that Germany now bears to Greut Britain in respect to military orgnniza. tion ; that is to say, supposo the North lad been prepared to march a million of trained, disciplined veteran soldicrs upon tho raw militia of tho Bouth, what would have beon the result ! The War would have boen over and tho rebellion complotoly stamped out the first summer, Tho rosistance of the South would have been utterly inpotent. But we shall place tho case in o strongoerlight if pos. sible, Supposo it had been tho Houth that was propared far war with the German sys. tem, and the North with tho English system, The North, with her 10,000,000 of white pop- ulation and a handful of regulars and masscs of green volunteers, would have been con- fronted by the South with only 9,000,000 of white population, but Aalf'a mulion of drilled wariors, With what result # It 48 not hard to predict it. ‘The Bouth would have quickly defoated tho Northern undisciplined militin iu any encounter. Battle after battle would have been lost. The Southern armies would have rapidly sdvanced into our territory, spreading panio and dizmay sa they atrode farward. Qur poor militla wonld have goun down liko grnss bofore the tarrible onret of their veteran legions, Washington wonld have been woized as carly ns May, 1861 Balti- more, Philadelphia, and Now York would have quickly fallen into their hands, In short, whero could not their columns have mnarched ? Our superiority of numbers wounld liave nvailed nothing. Weo should have been crushed before an army could be diseiplined nnd prepared to fight with any chance of auccess, Tho South, in the cnse supposed, would bhave dictated terms of penco in Boston and Chicago to the Enst and West., Now, England bears to Germany, in respect to preparation, the xame relation that a pro- fesgionnl heavy-weight prize-tighter benrs to an onlinary citizen who Inows nothing of the “‘manly artof sclf-defense.” Germany isana- tion of warriors. Every man between 20 and 45 years of ngo {a n trained fighter. Germany has 2,000,000 of disciplined men who have fought in two wara ; England has not 100,000 disciplined men, and the Fortnight!y declares that sho ean spare but 40,000 men sufticiently drilled to bo fit to send into Belginm or France. England is rich, but Germany is economical. Grent Britain hna but three- fourths tha population of Germany, and thereforo is not a mateh in nny ovont. Ger- many has grown to bo a military empire, where every able-bodied man is a veteran soldier ; England is n commercinl nation. Germany je constantly studying tho art of war; England is studying the art of making monoy. Germany has a force of 440,000 youug men in hor training school of arms, ready for the fleld nt o day's notice. Behind this forco undergoing instruction sho hasn million and a half of grim warriors who have graduated in the art of war, who can be sum- moned into the fiold at whatever numbers the war may requiro to instantly overpower nnd crush the enemny, Against this irresistible power the Fort- nightly sud other British authorities confess that England can do nothing; that, in fact, sho has not trained soldiers enough who can be spared from home to meot one single army corpa of the twenty-four Germany pos- sosses ! 'T'o be sure, England has 100,000 volnntoors, but they are oxclusively home-gunrds, and utterly unfit as an army of invasion to cope with a German army on the Continent, Be- sides, they are under no obligation to cross tho Channel in search of a fight, and are quite unlikely todo it. With such an enor- mons disparity of propared force, England is no mntch whatover for Germnny, and every English military man freoly acknowledges it. No Engliah journal has denied the statements or conclusions of tho Fortnightly Magazine article on which wo commented. Tho natural dournge and tenacity of the British raco have not doteriorated or wenk- encd, but the people are uninstructed in the art of war, are unfamiline with arms, and ignorant of the roldier’s trade; whilo Ger- many is a groat nation of veterans armed to the teeth, completely equipped, and ready to march to the front at tho tap of the drum. Any militia force England would send into Trance or Belginm to mect theso disciplined warriors would be mown down like grasa be- fore the scytha, There is only ono way in which England con regain her military standing and prostige in Europe, aud that way is to adopt the Ger- man military eystem and pat all her young men in training in the three Kingdoms; give them a thorough military education and dis- cipline, such a8 all Germans have received; and at tho end of a generntion England will have a force of men compotent to fight the Gormans on equal terros. Bhe will then amount to something o8 an ally of France or o guarantes of the independence of Belgium and Holland. Her menaco will then carry weight; her protest will be respeoted ; her arguments will then be convincing. And when the British lion roars, the other animals of the forest will, as of yoro, trembls and hide; but at present the Dritish lion has neithor claws nor teeth which he daro ven. ture to flesh in his Toutonio rival. THE COURT-HOUSE BUILDING, The Common Council, in its lnst meeting, reoms to have boen actunted by excoptionally judicions motives. It not only provided for the collection of city taxes according to law, which it ought to have done, however, last yoar, but it adopted tho most sonsible pro- gramme it could under the circumstances rol. ative to tho eraction of the city's portion of the Court-House building. It formally ro- scinded oll previous ordinances and agreo- ments relativo to this building, oxcept that concerning the location, and thon voted that the city shall employ but one rrchitect, that his corapensation shall be limited to 837,500, which will yield a fair percontage, end that the ontire cost of the city’s part of the building shall not exceed $1,450,000. It would have been better, of courso, if tho city and county could have ngreed upon one man, butwe have about given this up as too business-like a proceeding to be expected from two political bodien, The County Commissfoners having seloctod a representativa of the Emerald Isle in the person of Mr, Eoax, it was o bo ox- pected that the compact with the other wing of the anti-home-rulers would bo carried out by the selection of a Teuton to represent tho city. But the Council seemed determined to surprise the people for once by giving the despisod Amoricans a chance, and Mr, Tiuxy received a mojority of tho votes. The Germun olement of the late Hibernico-I'entonio com- bination appeara to be more modest than the Irish olement, or else the Irishmen, having located their man, are indifferent to German claims. At all events, it was a genuino sur- priso that an American waa choson, If the soleotlon of Mr, Trrey means that an effort is 8till to be mado to hiave the Court-House built on his plan, we are gratifled at the choico, and hope that his suporvision may prove as efflciont as Lis plan is beautitul, This is all very well so far as it goes, but how about the ways and means for golng n with the city's part of the Court-House? The $050,000 of the canal-lien money sppropri- ated by tho Btato for building the Ciry-Hall hias been spont long ago to fill up the gaps caused by the Gaar defaleation and the tax. fightors. The recent decision of Judge War~ LAoR has just abont stranded the city for a yeor or two, ‘Thus the building of the city’s part of the new Court-House will, therefore, necessarily be delayed for a time for lack of money, However, it is well that the plans should be ngreed upon, and the foundation com- menced, in order that the county may go on with its share of the work, The county may borrow the money for the purpose, kinod its constitutional limit of debt Las not yot been reached, and there nevor was a time whon the money could be borrowed on more favor- able terma than now. It will bo to the in. tercat of Chicago in many waya that the work should be begun, even if the county has to assume the city’s part for the present, We shell hopo, therefors, noan to hoar of & date inite agreement upon a plan, and such steps toward tho construction of n pnrt of the huilding that there will be uo excuse for more lobbying, snd blackmailing, and bickering about it A LIE ON IT8 TRAVELS, The Cloveland Leader comes to us with n Aengational article on the ** Municipal Dobt of Chicago.”" Its statements aro taken from the mendacions article of the Chicago Sensa- tionalist, whose threat of repudiation is of oourso copied, and the money mnrkets of the country warned to bewaro of lending money to Chicago. Tho Leader thus sums up the situation: That on April 1, 1875, the city owed ¥13,466,000 bounded dobt and $4,000,000 of floating debt; that since then 3,000,000 moru have been borrowed, * rune ning tho debt of the city up to $20,537,819, about 15,000,335 in excess of the conatitu- tional limitation.” ‘Che samo papor, further copying from the samo shoet, nsserts that the value of the taxable property of tha city is but £110,650,275, and that tho Constitation of Nlinois limits the eity debt to 5 per cont of this valuation, or 35,682,513, lenving tho city with n debt of over $15,000,~ 000 ** contracted in flagrant violation of tho supreme law of the Stato.” Tho Leader, fur- ther following that print, enys that a Wiscon- sin court, in which the same question was involved, has decided that kimilar certifientos were not worth the paper on which they wero writton. Now for the focts: 1. The debt of the City of Chicago is now precisely 313,466,000, the samo as it was bo- fora the firo,—not a dollar moro or less. Be- cause of the fire and tho emormous de- struction of taxablo property, and be- causo of a general change in 1872, under the new Constitution, of the Rovenuo laws, ond beoause of ill-advised and now confessed nbortive cfforts to collect the con. tosted portion of the city tegoes of 1873 and 1874, undor what coarts decido to bea special law, thore has been n failura to collect por- tions of the cily revenuo when due and in time to moet the nuthorized expenditures. Tho city, therefore, has been cowmpelled, in- stend of pnying its oflicers, oontractors, and meeting other current expenses in cash, to isaue to them vouchors callod oortificates of indobtedness payable out of the taxes levied for that purpose ns fast as the samo are col- lected, Tho uncolloctod taxes nggregato porbaps from one-third to one-half more than tho certificates issued in auticipation of thems, and payablo ont of thom as collected. As fast as the taxes aro collected the certifioatea are taken up, No now dobt has been con- troctod ; the citylns made noexpenditurs, and authorized nono for which it had not pro- viously made an appropristion payablo out of o tax levied for that purposs. It has, in consequenco of the non-collection of taxes by tho refusal of the Court to give judgment, issued certificates, in the nature of orders, on tho City Trensurer, payablo out of tho tax when collectod. The nmount of these orders aggregate nbont $4,000,000, against which ths city holds warrants for uncollacted taxes far in oxcoes of them. 2, Tho Btato assesament of taxable propor. ty in the City of Chlcago for 1876 is not yet completed. The assessment of 1874, which governs the question of debt, was in oxcess of 8225,000,000. Tho city debt of $18,460,- 000 was in existenco before the adoption of the conatitutional limit, and, though it is only slightly in excoss of that limit, it is wholly unaffected by it, oxcept that it cannot ba increased. 8. The story of the Claveland paper, found- ed on the mendacious stntoment of the Chi- cago sheat, that over 15,000,000 had been added to the city debt * in flagrant violation of the supremo law of the Btate,” is wholly unfounded in truth ; not o dollar has been added to that debt since 1871, The city cer- tificates, or orderson the Treasuror to be paid out of tho uncollocted taxes, will be paid out of thoso taxes s they aro collectod. The city hoving adopted tha State machinery for the collection of taxes, there will be no ar- rearnges in the future, 4. Tho story of Sroney, that n Wisconsin court had rendered a decision in a case whero the same question was involved, that orders on tho Treasury to bo paid out of taxes netunlly lovied, when such taxes wero col- lected, “were not worth the papor on which they were written,” is & myth. No caso of the kind has over boen presented to a court in Wisconsin, and no such court has ren. dered any such decision. The advice of the Cloveland Leader and its Chicago authority, that no man give credit to or accept such cortificates, s like all gratnitous logal ade vice, woak, and, under the eircumstances, uncalled for and contemptible, ‘The Chi. engo adviser aoted malignantly to produce a sensation, and tho Clsvoland repeater spoke through an ignorant satisfaction at having somothing moan to any of Chicaga, JEFFERSON DAVIS AT ROCKFORD, ILL. Tho whirligig of time brings about some very curious changes in political eventa. Mr, H. P. Kiunary, the Becrotary of the Winne. bago County Agrionltaral Bocioty, makea tho novel announcowent that Jerrensow Davis, the ox-Presidont of the late robel Confeder- ate Btates, will delivor the annual address be- faro the Bocloty, on the 14th of next month, ot Rockford, Ill. Tho occasion will be a notable one, for the meoting of oxtromos, if for no other reason. Mr. Davis will moct the most practical, thrifty, industrious, and in- telligent body of farmers on this occasion that ho evor addressed or thaf ean be found in the United Btatos. Ho will meet men who thoronghly understand their profesaion, who cultivate the ground in a skillful and oven aciontific manner, and whoso farme are better improved and tilled and moro beauti- ful and prodactive than farms in almost any other part of the country, He will meet men who cams from New England and represant the Now England idea of work and economy, —men who are well read, who beliove in uni. versal education, who can discuss political as well a8 agricultural questions, and who are skilled workmen in the noble fleld of agricul- ture. But this s not all. Ho will visit a coun- ty which is not cnly the banner county of agriculture, but the banner county of Nation- al Ropublicaniam since the War, aad of opposition to Btate Hovereignty with Jxrwes. #oN Davis as ita embodiment during the Re. bellion, Among the Winnebago tribes ho will find Republicans outnumbering Democrata & to 1, the latter being confined ohiefly to the Irish population. He will visit this gem of & county framed in a setting of strong Repub. lican counties,—Boone, Ogle, Btephsuson, and Rock, the latter the baunner county of ‘Wisconsin Hepublicanism. He will epeak in a section of country which made a more de- termined assault on the secesdon movement which ho headed than perbaps any other part of the United Btates ; that alugle county fur- nished five or six complete regiments ; which helped to sond out Famxsworta, Husteor, and BurTn to fight him } and whiah sacrificed thousanda of the very flowsr of its young 'ty. men in overthrowing the causo which wns championed by Mr. Jereerson Davis, In view of themo thingy, it will become Mr, Davis to oonfine himsolf to ngricultural topica. e should stick to aub- aoila, composts, roots, and small graine, If lio has any suggestiona to mnke relntive to improved Lroeds of cattle or modes of enlti- vation, the farmers will thankfully receive them. If he can show them how to grow Inrgor erops or cattle, or get lnrger prices, to maka their soil more fertilo or to guard agaiost tho dnngers which alwnys threaten tho farmer, they will listen to Lim gladly. He should keop nilentjon Btate Sovereignty ; he should make no alluaion or shed no visible tears over the Lost Cause, for tho farmers of Winnebago have lost too many of their sons in overthrowing that cause, nand Linve not an jofn of sympathy for it, or any canse to ramember it with any othor feclings than those of satisfaction that it has been forever lost. Tlo should advance no atate- ments tending to rovive suggestions of sour apple-troos or the marching of Joux Brown's soul. 1o should attempt no fustification of the right of sccession,—thnt odious dactrine which ho sought to put in forco bydestroying tho National Governmont. He should not give utlerance or even alinde to any of those horesies which cosy Winnobago County so many of hor brave sons. Tho fatners of thoso young men do not want to hear Jerrrr- 808 Davis on political topics or secession reminiscences. They aro rendy to forgive and forget tho past, and to cultivate feelinga of amity and harmony in the futuro. One of the rendiost methods of doing this will bo for Mr, Jerrenson Davis to como amongst our farmers and talk agriculture with them, and to keep his Lost Cause out of sight ; to exchange information, imparting to them *what he knows about farming,” and receiving from them what they know, visiting their olegant farms and aacepting their hospi- tality, nnd sceing for himsolf how they live and operato their lands, so that he may ro- turn to the South and inform his people how and in what manner Northorn farmeors couplo intelligenco with labor, and thus crown thoir work with success, It is a curious fact that this county, perhaps tho most in- telligent ogricultursl county in the United States, which nlways voted againat and which fought so unanimously against JeeFensoN Davg, should have invited him to address its farmers, but it shows that they can overlook their prejudices and resentments, and the sad consoquonces vwhich grew out of the Re- Dbellion of which this man wes the chief fomenter and lender, and that thoy are oven pleased to sond for him to address them upon topics which are of practical intoroest to thom, and which have a bearing upon tho future welfare of tho South. If Mr. Davis does not abuss this confidence, his address may be productive of vory valuablo results, THE WILLIAMBOR MURDERS. The tardy Exeontive st Springfield has at Inst moved in the matter of suppressing the numerous infamous murders which have boen perpetrated in Williamson County, growing out of the vendetta botween the Russery and Burumer clans, The Governor hes followed in tho wako of the county authorities, who hnve offered a reward of $1,000, by affering $400 for tho apprehension of each of the murderers, It is refreshing to know that the Governor has made any move ot all to wipa out this disgrace upon the wholo State, but ho ghould have dono still more. He shonld have mado the roward equal to that offered by the county, and ho should have gone down thero personally, visited the scone of the assussinations, and stirred up tho in. active, cowandly county officials to more vigor- ous action, These murders, which have of lato spread beyond the immediate principals to the feud, and involved outside parties who bave been guilty of nothing more serions than expressions of opinion, have been the most shameful disgrace Illinois has ever suf- fered, Thoy have been committed by a pack of cowardly assassing who have nover met their oppoments in fair, open fight, and who have by their socrot opera- tions produced a reign of terror in that coun. 1t is grotifying to know that tha Gov- ernor has begun to do something, but ho has not done enough yot. Ho must not let this matter rest until the nests of theso scoundrels are broken up and the murderers are brought to the bar of justice. Thero is work ahond for the Grand Jury, the Sheriff, and the hang- man in Willinmron County, if the Governor and county officials have tho courage to do their duty, Thero is'nothing else of equal importance now pressing upon the Gavernor's attontion, and thare is no surer way of earn- ing the thanka of the whole State and re- deeming its reputation than by giving his whole time and vigor to the apprehension and punishmeont of theso infamons assassing, He has made a start, and now lot him followit up and secure the people of that county the pro- teotion to which their livea are entitlod. THE CUSTOM-HOUSE BQUARELE, As wo suspected and said at the time, the wild-cat concern deliberately, and probably with malico aforathought, misrepresented Becretary Baistow whan it spoke of him na ¢ turning up his nose ™ at the report of the Chicago nrchitocts, and treating it and its authors with unconcealed contempt, 'This misrepresontation of Becretary Duimrow's viows purported to be & Washington dispatah, bat, aa it is A ussloss oxpense to telograph lica from Washington which may be just as well manufactured at homo, we apprehend that the * Washington dispatoh™ waes manufac- tured in the Chicogo office by soms ome of the gentlomen directly intercated in the continuation of the rovenus frauds and “down on" Becretary Bnistow becsuse he broke them up. At all events, wo have now the Becretary’s word that ho naver made use of the langungs atiribated to him, that he awaited the official report of the Chicago architects in ordor to give it tho most delib- orate consideration, and that he intends to cangult with the President in regard to the ad- visability of resuming work on account of the Iatordevelopments. UnlikeyoungMr. Porres, Beoretary Bsrow does not profess to have any infallible scientific knowledge, and, also like the immatore gentleman who occupies the place of Bupervising Architeot, he has no ambition to satisfy at the cost of $1,200,000 to the publie. He is, therafore, open to con- viction, and we think that the olear, intelli- gont presentmont of the facts of the case in & unanimous report of seven Chicago experts, with their high reputations ot stake, will not fail to move him to a reconsideration. Aa for young Mr. Porrus, he scoms to ba considerably less confident though nol less blatant then st first. Porrex has takena ‘week's vacation, which Le should make a per. petual one. Tho great mental effort required to demonstrato that two feet and four inches multiplied by two feet gives a superficial area of seven faot, haa been too great a strain upon his constitution, and he hus gons off {ore. ouperabe. 1¢is sald that some of bls own subordinatos, of highor mathematical attaln. monts, have rocognized the absurd errors which the Supervising Architect lLna made in hin oager and shambling effort to contro- vort the report of tha Chicago architocts, ro- gardless of ils sintomonts and arguments. 8o Mr. Portes sceins to have concluded that lofty sneers, reckloss atatements, and porson- al ambition will not carry him through a calm and unprejudiced inveatigation ; he hina thorofore consed Lis contemptious allu- sions to Chicago architocts, and naw cou. tonts himself with whining over the way in which the Chicngo newspapers havo treated him. The newspapers treated him with respect ns long as his statements wore en- titled to respoct ; but when they wora dis. proved, and Porren in return wrols himsolf down an nass, ho conld scarcely expoct the nowspapers to defend him againat himgelf, Perhaps his temporary rotiroment will suf. fleiently rostore hia ponses so that permanent rotirement will not bo neoecssary. DISCIPLINE OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. A vory interesting letter from Motz las rocontly appeared in a French military paper, giving details of tho kind of drill to which the Germnn troops who ara learning the trado of a foldier aro subjocted. Tho description is very signilcant in estimating the relative strongth of Germavy and England, about which go much boen writton of late. En- gland hna followed the old military systom, which was long ago abandoned by Germany and recently by overy Continoutal power, nnd s o rosult haas a standing army of a fow regiments and a volunteor force without ex. perienco or disciplino—a mere show soldiery, Germany, on the other hand, hias a million of trained soldiors ready to tako tho fleld at any timo and nearly another million in reserve. The following extrnct from tho letter in ques- tion shows how theso troops are drilled, and that their peaco-training is evon more severs than nctua! campaigning : Military marches take placo dally, no matter what tho weathier o temperature moy be. Thowmen aro ine variably in heavy marching order, They startatsa, m,, after having taken coffee, and roturn to quartera about 1t or 12, The forces aro divided into two corps ~-ouo of them, in forage cape, ara supposed o repro- sent tho onemy, Tho cavalry s specially trained in roconnoitring duties, and & couplo of troops invarisbly sccompany the infantry. Tho troops are nover atlowod to entor s village; each man takos some brosd and moat with him, and when tho balt {s callod, If noar any. town or hamlot, each aquad of twenty men delaches two, who aro sent to purchsse wina or brandy. The mon who havo no money are generally allowed to Lave o pull at tho flask of thelr comrades botler off than thomselvos, This 1s an understood thing, Tho oficers mostly do without eating; tho few who require rofreshment ar content with sandwich. Each balt laats threo-quarters of an hour, Atthosignal given by the. buglo tho sentries nd ontposts, which are stationed all round to s dis- tance of 800 metros, instantly fall fn, The rotura honieward {a widely different from tho marchiog out, Thero s no more mancavzing ; the body ‘of the men march in two Uines right and left of tho rosd, with a group of singors in tho middio, Patriotic songs aro {lie Tule whore the words * Koulg " and * Vateriand aroof froquent vccurrenco, Tho Davarisns are par- tial to warlike aluden in which tho Erirfeind seems sovorcly handled. Ever mince last Thursday all the non-commisdioned officers are engaged in meking fascines and throwing up earthworks, They start at Gp.m,and remain out all night. On dsrknights e powerful lamp, ko that of s ight-houso, is usod, This seems like and 1 hard work, but in South Gormany thodrill is fully s severo. M. Vicron Tissor, in his book **Voyage au Pays des Milliards,” tells how they drill recruits at Ulm : ‘Thoy aro specially practiced In markemmanship and gymnastics, For two hours every day they aro kept firing ot targots which bear a strong ressmblanco to tho distant outlinoof Zouaves and Turcos, Tho in- stractors in muskotry are sll Prussian, and come from tho school of musketry at Spandsu, Moreovor, thoy aro frequently practiced in the oporations of resl war- fara. Quito rocently the rallway station at Ulm was “captured by surpriso™ by s body of Davarian re- cruits, the employes were all made prisnurs, whils the spocial “ railway battalion " took possossion of tho rafl- way stock, and organized railway etappen, This ig practicing the art of war as a pro. fession, and it is what mnkes Germany a na- tion of trained soldiers, As against sucha nation from s military point of view, the raw militia of England is utterly powerless, En- gland has followed the old system so long that, oven wera gho to adopt thnt of the Gor- mans, it would take her n wholo gonerntion of time to get the system into fall operation, But tho sooner sho begins it the better, if she hopes or desires to regain any of her loat standing among tho groat powers of Europe. . REPEAL OF THE REQISTRATION, The Attorney-General at Springtield hns furnished the Sccretary of State with the in- formation that it is not his duty to furnish registration blanks in the ensuing fall eloc- tions, inrsmuch ag the Legislature in revis. ing tho statutes struck out the words, “coun- ty, town, sod city,” beforo “election,” and loft the law 80 as to require registration only beforo each State election. This infamous and surreptitions business, if it wero not do- signed principally to affeot Chicago and do- Liver it over into the hands of tho bummers and criminal classes, will have that effect, "It waa o dastardly, under-handed blow at the honest and respoctablo people of this city. It delivers us ovor into the keoping of tho scalawags, gamblers, and roffians of all sorts which abound here. As there can bo no reglstration in omr ity or county elootion, we are left at the meroy of the ropentars and ballot-box stnffers, In small places, whero' ovory man knows his neighbor, it will mako little difference, but here, where it may be sald no man knows the tenth of his nsighbors, it opens tho way to frand, violence, confusion, and anarchy. Of course it is now incumbent moro than over upon honest citizens to watch the bal- lot-boxes and contest elsotions; but watoh~ ing ballot-boxes which sre in the hands of dishonest men is a thankless task, aond eloo- tion contests nre long and tedlous. It i a gloomy outlook, sud, unless every reapectable citizen does his duty on election-day, porhaps with a revolver in his hands, it needs no prophet to prediot that tha City of COhicago will bo bound hand and foot, and delivered over to tha rapscallions and thugs even more ocom-~ plotely than it is now ; that worse confusion and more destructivo counsels will prevail than now ; and that wo &hall anter upon an era of ruffianism, corrnption, intimidation, and violence in comparison with which owr present sufferings will seem light indeed. Groxmox E. Puon hos been for many years ono of the most prominent Demoorata In Ohio. Ho has served a torm in the United Btates Benato as the representative of that party, and did so with distinction. When tho present Ohio campaign began, the ex- Benator waa invited by the Btata Central Committee to speak, and Gov. ALLg¥ rein. forced the request by personal solicitation. He dedlined to do so, and put the refusal on tho ground of the rag-money plauk. That plank, he says, committed the party to a pol. ioy of unlimited and irredeemable paper our. rency. TmUBMAN miaged a great opportunity, his friend and ally declares, in not boldly op- posing the platform before the Convention adopjedit. *Ten words from him" would have P! d the fatal blunder. This staunch old Democrat sayn that Penptrron's png Ewina's speechies in behalf of inflation ry ** nonsense heaped on nouaense to tho rkivs, This is sad, very sad. * Uncle Winnuaw would be a ghostly corpse under a 25,000 ite. publican mnjority in Obio, and what a pitiry monrnor ** Sweet Wirraast " of Philadelylia wonld mnke by the side of the grave of hiy now party. Ife might not feel so mnch liky raving for repudintion aftor he had persucd tho iuscription on tho gravo-stone ¢ Here llos the Ohlo Demooracy, Diod of inflation ; Uoue to meet other fools, Thero is ono point in regard o the unequg) prossure at the Custom-House, of whicl go much has been mnde, that should not iy ovorloaked. ‘Take the Lakenide Building, or nlmost any othor lofty business block in thy city, and it will bo observed that the frony' and back have openings for windows ang doora about equal in spaca to the solid wal}, whilo the sido walls are n solid mais of masonry from the foundation to the roof. Thero must be much less uniformity of preg suro in a Luilding of this choracter than jn tho Custom-1louse, where tho openings on all sides ara relatively about the same, Any in. aquality of prossuro in the Custom-Houze must bo owing to tho piers nione, but thy differenco cannot be enough to distur; thy foundations, na tho subsoil will bear & very considernble irregularity of pressure, ns iy shown by the business blocks erected aroun) tho Custom-llouse and in closa proximity thereto. ‘Cho outlook for the Custom-1lonse grows brighter every day, and it now secug probable that the delay and expenso incldent tg o postponement for Congressional con:idern. tion will bo spared to the peoplo. Wo shall probably escape tho infliction of a long squnb. blo in Congress, and o tedious partisan in. veatigation and whangdoodle report. Or, it this Congreasional investigation goes on, it will bo powerless to do mischief if tho Cus. tom-House goes stendily ahend, and comes out—not perhaps as grand and beautilul s work a8 it should be for the money ¢xpend. ed—n good, substantial building, serving every purpose, nnd a8 solid and excellent 4 picco of work as could bo secured after the carclessness, neglect, and ignorance which charncterized tho ndministration of Motiere and his subordinates, and whick wero correct. ed by Presidont GraNT ns soon as they ho- cameappnrent. YoungAIr. Porrenmay havo to postpono his work of roforming ths archi. tectaro of tho world, and Maino will lose o job for furnishing granite, but Chicago v:iil have a Custom-House two or thres years earlier, and at o cost of $2,000,000 less, thun by Porres's plan. Tho tolograph yestorday furnished tho ouly name waontiog to completo tho State sad Con. grosalounl tickets in Californis, and we nr theroforo enabled to satlafy the desire exprersod in Tue Tainune for a completo list. The tickels aro aa follows : ATATR TICRET, 4 Republtcan. indenenient, * Demnera: Qorsrmor...T. 6. Pliolpi, foha Ridwall.. Williaig r . Gavod. M. Caria..itom. Pachood.T. A. Johnvo: V. Bongah.. Thos! Heck, AEamiltos, LW Minaly, Court.....G. J. TaggartPaul Morrill. D, B, Wooll. Syot. L nsteuc, Bzrs O, Care.J. M. Gulon,,0, P, Fltzgoraid CONOLESS, Burv.-Gan.R.. Clerk Hup, Int Distriotiea P. N . Pipe 21 DistrlctH. F. P s aper 24 Distriot,O; B; Do o8 Tiold. coad R L iitiel, 4 DltriciS.0, Houghtons. Thompeos.. P, D. Wikuintsa Tho Tomperance Roform party has also puta ticket in tho flold with W, E. Loverr as the candidnte for Governor, but it cuts a very insig- nifleant figuro in politioal calcnlations. Both the Republican and Indepondent partios have doclared war on the rallrosds, and the Demo- crats aro undorstnod to bo tho forlorn hopo of the Coutral Pacific, Ass consoquence of the now deal, tho Bacramento Record-Union, formed by tho consolidation of & Republican and Indo- pondent paper, and subsidized by the Contral Pacifio Company, {s now giving aid and comfort to tho Domocrate. The election in Californis takes place Sopt. L. A plece of disreputable jonrmalism, which ovory respoctable newapapor'in tho Unitod States ought to condemn, waa committed by the Indi- anapolis Sentinel That wook, 1t not only printed Sountor MonTon's speach in advancoe of ita de- livory, but procured the copy by theft nnd tho bribery of sn employo of the Journal. Ouly tliree journals in tho country, it is said, havo ovar violated faith {a this maoner. Thoko are tha Chicago Times, tho 8. Loula Globe-Lemo- erat, and tho Indianspolis Sentinel. Theio nomes should go on & black-llut, The practics of furniahing “ advance ehoeta of public doca. mentato the Aesociated Press ls froquent!y con- veniont for writers and apeakors, and {8 preatly 40 the ndvantago of all nowapapors concorncd. Bat it cannot endare if the nowspapoers o nit keop faith in tho matter of publication. Thor» snlt of continning favors to the dishomoralls noewspapers will bo to break up the practize al togothor, and to make the innocent eaffor with tho guilty. Let us have & biack-liet. The glory of the Chicago Police Board haa de- partod, but' it bas a worthy successor 1 Not York. . The tolograph told only half the taloof Baturday’s mecting of the Now York Board, when it reported Gon. Burrn as eaylug to Marizt +And you, sir, when you wore appolnted Supcr intendent, you wore tha editor of the I'oficd Gazelte, which waa organized sa a school for thieves." Tho Now York Times' report coulin® uos as follows s Mr. MaTSRLL Grew vory pale, and maid: “I thea ceneod my counection with the Gazelts,” Gen, Bt wsfils 4 §fow can the forco be improved, with s 1 13 adifylng spectaclo before them ¥ “Thut sheat was 53 beut text-book for young villslne T ever saw.? M. Marexer safd: * What's thut you say?" Gen, BuieE at It was the bout toxte k for young villains 1 ever read.” Mr, MaT4rLL neamed perfootly bewildered for ssvaral minutes, bub floally managed to ué.: “T am proud of having s tho editor of tha Polics Qazetle, The average Virginlan is growing more fsstidi- oun than aver. The late Mr. GwrxN, on leaving Virginia for the bournc whence no traveler re torns, made s memorandnm just bofore startiod to the following effect : I wish to be bwied with my head 18 inchoa higher than my feet ; lét my cane be pluced inmy cofMin, which must be carefally wrapped Ina blanket,” All of wbich goes to show that the fastidious Virginia gentle: man, who had been accustomed to carry bis besd well up during life, was bound to carry bis hesd Jhigher than his neighbors |n the cometery sty and, by wrapplng hia confined quarters in 8 blanket, ho would also kesp himaalf olear from the volger soll. What he wanted of the csd® nowsver, puzzles us, unlesa he intends to useit to kesp trouhlesome and low-down ghosts swAf from him. —— Mr, Jawzs T, FizLs, whose genial and grace: ful oratory 1a rarely heard outside of Now Eo* glaud, comes Weat this yoar with a budgot of tiftoen lactures. His sppearance will be snovent in the lyoeum sesaons of tne Northwoat, 1b% subjects of hisleotures are Omanrxs Laxs, Ts% xsox, LoNovstiow, Wompawourx, sud othef great authors whom he hes personally kuowzs besides the famous themes, * A Ples for Cheer fulness” sad * Master of the Bltuation,” whicd have made him the master of thoe alsustion thousands of henrers ascoodingly cheertal. M FizvLoa will be in Chioago in Ootober. A S The Jowrnal sayu that Tus Tarmowa is in errof in supposing that the Times and Staals-Zehi? have nelthor of them sour-mash establishuytt {0 thelr basemonts, It seems from ihe mony of the Journal that both of thoss big* tousd oonoerns kesp liquoresloons s ot lower siories. Having no aslual berdc’