Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 18, 1875, Page 2

z 1ats has becomo axiomatie, {s, that the ‘‘upper Son, " nnd tho grenter part of roclety in general, rs A mask which is almost impenctrablo, (Luis in one of the reamou# why ko many voung marned peoplo aro disappointed in their companion.) True, there uro thoee npon whom tho mask looka bettor than the otiginal 3 yat there ara those who by tho manuced and customs of nocioty arp compolied to go direely againat thelr bhetter judgmant, and thareo aro not few elther, Bho cannot mean e tly what slio savs whon she upholly her own x, and then pous the following, in answer to the quertion, why not marry : * Decauro I am dirgusted with the * brainless young fops’ who mako up tha socioty of (he prevent day, and am waiting,” eto,; for uman naiure averapes the ramo i both seges; tha averngo cluracter of tho ono I8 &s goo as fn that of the other ; then mive to oach ite dus, Yo may say that I'epeak wildly and that Galesburg {2 8 place of no size § true, butIcan juetly say that 1 know from ex- perionce Lbio requirements of a city rucial circlo. A fow wordsns to myseif and why I do not marry. I am a yonng man (21), with tio bad Liabits, know the valuo of money, at loast hink that 1do, haviog supported nysolf slnce tho ago of 14 ; obtsined & college oducation dur- ing that time, and liave eeveral hundred gollars out at totereat now 3 am not afrald, with good Realth and good sonwo, to marry, Am confident that mwy income, though small, would more L balavea tho Joiut expenso accouut, ana as noon as the right perron ia found [ shall marry her, but do fiot proposo to marry an elophant or a butterfly, Further, I belleva in marrying oarlf, bofore the peculiaritics of each ara uuchangeabls, snd whilo the details of life aro yet frosh aud way bo appreciated by both mau aud wife ; let their hab- its of lifo bo formed togother, then wil they have a warmor, truer, aud better hoart to bestow upon each otner, Fellow-young-man, lot mo say in tho worda of another that : 1f you have money, marry awife to help you keep It, And If you have none, marry & wife to heip you get it Wartz, NOT 80 BAD A8 THEY SEEM. o the Editor af The Chicago Tribune : B, JosErn, Mich,, Bopt, 9.—1 wieh to say & word to those martyrs of croation who aro wux- coptible to tho charms of the femalo population, but aro afrald to choose a wifo from among thom, and give up this neceseary appoudago to their happiness for soveral reasous which thewr narrow minds have coucocted, The principal ono is that tho youns ladics of to-day do ot work., Now, you litlo dears, do you suj~ poeo that becauso tho young Indy upon whom you call does not bring iu a cake-dish and atir up o cake before your wide-open oycs, that sho vover did o thing of the kind? Why do you not inquico into the mattersud loarn onr true worth, bofore you sbmse us o untnercifully througl tho colutans of Tur Trinusz? It a young lady fricud should present hereelf in the parlor, attlred in working costumo, aud say that sho had bepn cooking, you woamld imagino all kinds of domestic odots arislng from hor dress, aud sit with your noso at an anglo of 46 degrecs, and upon leaving the liouso wonld eohloquize thusly: **Iam sur- prised that Mike A, should present horself i ruch 8 mangor, Bhe doesn’t look near se well witther haiv plain ss in crimps, 8ho is eimply 8 gao-light beauty,” ote. Now, If you think wa are golug to subject ourselves to such remarks, simply fo consince you thac we do work, you are unstnlien, Nu fudeed; wo appreoints your weakoess, dnd aro going to hamor it as long as posaibly, oven thongh wa do prick our poor little flugers thaking thoe costumo which B0 dulights your fastidious eye. Now do not attempt to deny it ; do not blamo un for what {ou cotnpel us to do, but Lo men, cqme out boldly and say that you cannot givo up your own foollsh habits for the more retired ones of a married man. Judge us not too barshly from our exterior, but ve assared that therois many a trae and faithfnl lheart beneath » fashionable dress, ouly waiting for tino and oppurtuuity to prove bowwillingiy alio will battle wrish lifa for one whom etio loves. lsavna. PRODUCE THE FIGURES, o tae Bifitor of The Chicaqo Trivune : Rock Isvaxp, 1., Sept. 13,—1 bavo taken a great doal of Interest In your columns dovoled to tho sgitation of tho matrimonial question, and, as I have not yet secn any letter which fully coinclded with my views, I begspacoin yonr papor for o letter exprossing my opinions and views on this very hoportant Mubject, 1 importaat subjoat, for such I think it to be, and‘the intorest takon by both married und un- married partios in your columna cleatly proves that it is Important, au loast to thug rising genor- ation who will .in & fow ycars bo the mainstay of commerce aud ivdustry in the land. o the young mian of & marringeablo ape, oven if hia jutenttou is to got married, tha question occurs, How much wmoney, teady cash, do I need to bo able to launch myself on the matrimouinl #ea? I notico aithougly this is a primary quoation, yob all your correspuudents bave overlooked it. Mooy a youug man would not fear to be able to live ou s present wmcomo wero e but started; ond lere, toy, iy where thoy greatly differ au 10 the cost of the oulstart. 1thivk it would undoubtedly be of beneiit to many if some one who hiss *“gone through the mill” would enlighten us s uitis on thts, the tiras cous of adwission into watnwonial ranks, 1 think that mavy o young man i to-day afraid 10 VEnturo a4Kiug o young Lidy to euter into tho married stato with tim, uot from any fear of her **giving him the mitten,” but simply becanse heo Ling nob the figures o show bim Low much, or even Low litlle, is actuslly neoded to commenca Lousckeeping ; whereas, if these tigures wero sbown bitn, be would not hcsitate o mowent, bo- ing sure that it onco etarted Lis presont salary wouid comforiably keep both himself aud wife, for thore caa lintdly be auy young man of eveu ordinary utelligenco or Judgment but who c¢an plamly sum up that the cots of lulliards, ¢lub roows, cigars, and other bad aod expensive Liabits which the stnglo man 18 liablo tu, wuuld more than pay half of the ox- peuse of 8o urdwsarily ocouomical household, and then tho clean and Lrghs appesrance of o Lome aud the bappy emile of a loviug wife, I am sure, would wore thau componsate for the loss .and sbsanco of the swoky and bojsteronsappuar- anco of billisrd aud club roems, bedtdes lis be- iug bovetlied worally, pecumarily, and in orery otber wug., Legain esy, eive us your ligurod, sud wo may tuen be encouraged to make the trial of doublo blesvednosy, Yours, 0. Iatros. “TRUE INWARDNESS " OF A PEN;DRIVER. To the Editor of The Chicage Tribune; Oizoaao, Bopt. 8.—You wish to know eome- thivg of the ‘‘true inwarduces" of a working. man’s life. It you will grant me apace in your columus I will try and enlighten you, although you canuot oxpoct & contribution of this kind jn thogo timos withiout suine exprossion of discon. tent, a8 I start with the premuble that workingmen are mot ab presont paid & suflleiont romuncration for thelr lalor, 1 muat tirst premise that you will allow a ¢ gl driver” to be n workingman, You ouly inrite communlcations from, laborers wud moclanics, though Ido not underatend why you did not invile thom from clerks, Who hold equally ws lJow a position in tho sociul wculs, it not lower. uunloss it is for (he reawun you do not wish yout columus fairly inundated Wwith the subject. 1 amn a marriod moy, and tho father of five ** young barbariaps," all of them as yet not old enough for anyiling but *piay.” 1 hve buried two since I cawme to Chi- capo, thauk Uod! Quoer oxpression this, fsn't it¥ HBomeof yuur reudors in my grade of hife will uudarstand it. & aw employed 1u a largo £ & coucorn whweh I will ecall " Dotheboys " esinblisment, whero four-ifths of the clerks cmployed are paid at the rate of g1 perwoek foruine Lours' labor,one or two at &%, and ouo or bwo moro at 10, aud I may Lore ycuarls that the Presbyterian Pooksniff who ruus Lo cuncern profurs warricd mon 0 single men, wall knowlig that » warricd man canuot afford 0 Jore tiwe to look after s situation,* and if ho diil tuko half & day now or dgain to look after o witiation, wonld must certuinly charged for innttontivenoss, and that witbout wny nolice, Did you ever yead » Avery (Hi- burd,” by Orpheus €. Kerr ? “If you have not, do 8o, ryldiuu will find tho piototype of this concern woll-depletod theso, Now fof the prob- low whuch evory wife has to eolve, mors difiiculs than tho ** pious wsinoruw " or * furty-sayoutl proposition o & school-boy, Given 810 {ww to support o fawily of seven on it for & woek. iere §¢ her solution: Rept, &2 flonr, #1.60; toa, B0 centa ; suzar, T2centa s cofeo, 80 cents; potatves, bUcuuts ; bulchio's nuest, §1; wilk, bU couts (horribleexiravagance); coul (present season), 50 cents ; light nud ruup, Ui couts (necessily); vogetables, 3 conty exe travaganco, our diet not requiritg anti-scorbu. fics); butter, b0 couts; total, ¥8.61, lewviny 814 to be applied to the purchass of mise collancous, You will ree theie is nothing charged for foot wesr or clothiug, and soms esplanation may be required us to how wo pro- cure those srticles, Adaw's uriginal ein Lavin ent on us, biy desccudants, Lthe necearity of- woaring shem. Well, we abup the suppiy of luw- nries in the above list, ayo and of necossaticn, tao, 8o that if at any time nny of my nionay flinla ita way to the dry ‘goods and baot and shoo wtore, lean of It goen to tho Thern 18 Low my wifo Apends L, Quod erat demonstrandum.’ This in tho actual oxpenditnre for the weok ending Hept. 11, no elothing, boats, or shoos being re- quiredd during this weok, Modical advice wo get pratis from the dispensary., Lord wnly knows what we would do it auytiing was to happon mo, a8 T have not @1 Iaid ap for &n emergency, Fhat in a calculation I try naver to think about, Naw, whoto is tho money for picnice, beor and tobaceo, church fairs, otc., to come from? Can yousav? I caw't. A for giving monoy (o church or church fairs, T wmll& not if 1 conld. I hava beon s residont Lero in this city now four years, and in nll that tima neithor Seripture- reader, older, or mintater of any persunsion ever put their foot In my houre to show mo the araigbt rond, Howaover. that may bo easily ac- counted for; my wifs s vory plain in porson, and not at all good looking, and my danglitots are moro ebildron, T 1uay add that [am a thorongh heliover in tho Malthu doctrine, and if Iwas a_soung nau agsin 1 know what I would do. If you know any young man in my position as regards salary and smployment eontemplating matrunony, give T Tallovrandys adsioo, which s, if & pereon s in doubt nbout doing anvtlung, why then—don't. Augd yet, on the other haud, o mian may havo a tonder ‘wifo and loving chddren, 1 can't' weileco how bo ean Linvo a home vf bis own. but ho can liavo & restod one on 10 jor week, and then thara ia alwags hopo in tho distavce, and I mny Atriko A bonauzn in the ehape of & good situa- tion at 212 por weok. TLiks Alr. Micdwber, 1 am always trusting for something to turn up. Mind you, 1 dou't wake avy whino over my Present posttion. but I do say the laboror is worthy of his bire, amd clorks, ns a rule, ought to Lo as well poid 88 any mechauie, which they aranot: awl I say, alro, that no man onght 10 marry whoro ealary is under $1.200 per anuum, n conclimion, I will add, 1 have tvo sous, and 1'll bo (d—a if over I educate Any of them to o like their father, ‘*A BLAYE OF TuE Frw.” HOME TRUTHS FOR YOUNG FOLKS. To the Editer of fhe Chicaon Tribune ; Cuiosao, Sept. 11.—Ts thero no ono to tell the young folks somio homo truths on this marriaga quention? Whero's- Robart Collyer? Where's Mrs. Bwisshelm ? Thoy kuow what pitiful nou- sonso **Tho Louely Bix," * Cosmopolitan,* and such young fellows are tatking, and what con- temptiblo golfishuons, cowardice, aua lack of maoly independence, thoy are rbowing. The substance of ail this weak whining is, that A8 between marrlago aud their costly, shiowy, superfleial Mfe, with its damaging amusoments and luxurios, tuey prefer tho latter. Tf they can combino tha two by tho hetp of father-in- lawor a girl's *“proporty in her own right,” they'ro agreeablo; and to that end the * Lonely Six ™ advertise thomselves, or, rathor, n con- vontional portion of their society, for sale to the Lughess budder. Citls, don't buy ons of them! To eay nothing of the *‘portion,” don't glve yourrelf for ono of the cheap follows, aven if ho slounld fora momont to valuo you abovo his éolfish plensures. Ifis momontary manliness must yield to what ho calls tho ** demands of his position,” which means his own enjoyment of cresture comforts, aud his own mortal terror of Mrs, Grundy and her cowardly tollowers, and means nothing clac. Show a littlo favor to the young man who wants you tizet, aftorwards income for your sakes; who Tnows thiat ho fu equal to tho task ko ects Lim- solf, and who focls unly for you. In genoral tormnm, the wirisoré more nearly right on this question than the young mon who bavo writtan 80 far, Their devotion to dress aud ehow generally yiclda fa the presence of strongor ties aud higher dutjes. 'I'hey need not be expocted to adopt a life of toil, unless homo and loved onea demand ir, merely a8 a propara- tory discipline, until mon are ready to waive their proforences for woftness and dolicacy, and to shuw thoir appreciation of the roughicning offects of * proparation of moals," cte. ‘Lltoy are mote capable of solf-denial for home aud hesrthistone than thes young man as exhibited tu your colnmns Intely, who is afrard to marry on'an iocome of parbaps doublo shat his pa- ronts onjoyed, lest a littlo loza * stylo ™ in his liy- ing might * let hira down s g “in the estimation of foolk, who reems capablo of a wholesome, persistent self-denial, and of the moral courage to dofy the onticlam of that most contemptibla of all shams, a purse-proud, dross.proud mocioty. ‘I'ho youug won who csauot ufford to warry on 21,600° or 32,000 simply dofive themselves an too aclfshly fond of thair owo onjoyments, and incapablo of soll-sacrifics for thut swhich ought to be tho aln of thoir lifo, It is botter that thuy uover marry, in any ovent. it is not “dewrablo that such woft-honed woaklings ehould porpotnate their kind. -m!hn half framo, with content and suflicioncy within, Nouw da not think mo foolish for writing theso thonghts, and talking so much of myrelf, but as 1 know host how T thought, mysolf soomed tho one to writo abont, But let mo say that ali the gurls ara uot what they seem to the viter worid. AMauy a girl who likes svoioty can flirt, sing, danco, play on the piano, and make herself gon- cually iively and attraciive in overy acnsd of tho word, can fove ns ardently, o as constant, aml hake an oo cako and hroad AR thoss who aro less frivolaus in their outward appearance. Now 4 Ono Who Knows " raxs (o © charactonistic of man_is pare, noadulierated eelfishnosm® [ sbanld rather xay ft t« the fault of somo men, rather than characteriatic of all moo, < Martha " rays, ' Men enconrage and fostor the love af dress in wowen by tho special atton- tion which they pav to stylishly-dresec Iadios." I plead gulty tothis charge. I would rather tako o stylishly-iressed Indy to prontendaa with, or to the voulovard, or to any place, to mnko the other boys Jeaions or aek (questions about; but when ¥ou tatk of marrving then, thon do the men pick out the styliehly-dressod ono? Oh, no! y: Many a Charley or » Will hins flirted with & splendidiy-droesed woman with po stamioa or true womanly charactenstics, snd turned away dirgurtod to & wowan who in the poorest of dresecs had moro real worth thsu tho othor, Bt tho secrot Aeemn to bu that men feel that & woman who shows a good tasto for neatly dress- ing when a girl, sho miay show. that abomination of alt men, the * elipshod style,” when at home, The watn thing that keeps young folkd from marrying is, tho eash neconut 18 found to bo too limited to rupply the wants of the young folks in their ** high-toned ™ notions, but swhon they consent to begin life as thelr pRrents befora them, then will this question settlo tself, and wo will all bs the Lappier for tho adoption of tho ** commou-souse plan.” Yuurs respectfully, louent, A FEW WORDS FOR "AGRICOLA." To the Eaitor of The Chicago Trivutne : Cnicano, Bopt, b.—I'leaso grant me spaco onongh in your paper to address a few worda to ** Agricoln,"” swho woudered **how many of our cdieated *elty girls * wonld bo willing to leave their city homes, with ita various atitgomonts,” aud sottlo down to a quiot country lifo, **to bo a Tho giris aro made of sterner stufl than this, ond 8ro proving It evory day by leaviug homes of eauo whore thoir prosmeo is * swootnoss aud light,” wliero they nood not toll, for an unknown tuture, and a companivnsing which is to thom a reater good than they leave, whatever of sell- fiuulnl may come with it. Tho law of thoir henrta is strouger thau sil things else. 'Fhoy blunder fenrfully in oboying %, but that is no impeachment of thoir motives, Mokt tnon of chiaracter of tho present genere- tion, and noariy nlt the promincut men of a few yeara ugo, could toll of early homes, maintained on seauly incotnes, into whicls the sorvant-girl novor eutervd, aud of & degroo of evonomy which *wusn't nice,” but was morally and physically wholerome, to which the young men of ‘to-day are uttor straugera. Lhéy can aleo toll thas thio beat tho earth holds for them now i8 uot the weslth ju their hands, but their plage in tho hearts of thosoe who, * bouo of thelr bone, and tleah of thoir flesh,” -aiared with them tho privatious of tho oarly years. It tsnot necossary to iix tho multiplieation with this question. Msthematics rulo the pliysical world, but a trus marriago conquors tho mathematies, It is sorribiy significant of ovil, whon the divinely appoluted univorsal law of mmrriage is redoced to weair wubjcction to changing **tigures on & dial™ by a cowardly s;lblervwncy 10 tho extravagant customs of do- clety. g ‘Ilieso tables of oxpenses noed frighton no one. ‘Khoy are all compiled by Mrs. tirundy. Four hundred & year for olothing for the pair, oud that thoy call economy! Cut it down oue- half, and cut the aoqualutance of ali who cannot rospect you therefor. 1In thia matter ouz American society needs a lenven of strong indopendonco, fearlews, de- ficiont! Neods men aud swomon of mnall ur large incomen, who daro iaunt their disgracetul economy in church or aociety, whenevor their rightful duty or pleasaore leads, Vo all such i+ bereby extended the right band of felluwship of « New Exoranp, THE BRIGHT ASPECT OF THE CASE. To the Editur of The Chicago Tribune : Cuicaqo, Bept. 14.~Tho young folke have cre- ated so much discussion of tho question, **'I'o mihrry or nok to matry,” that I have becomo an Interested reador, and spent gome pleasant mo- wonts in roading their different viows, and somo of them have como liomo to mo a8 hejug particu- larly true. And at the samo time I feol that { 1alghit offer some suggostions which would be of 60 in furthering this good work. Tagreo with ** Busy Body " thas tho way to be- glu life {8 to dovelop tha . phrenological bump of ¥aViLR powor as suon a8 possible, and that & spitlt of contentment ls to bo valued above 1nany other things, 3ly ides wsod to bo, nover marry until you cau support s wife and yourself as well 88 you wero when at howme; ‘whereas, 1 Ihiad contemplated tho past in nry memory, I could Lave seon that wy paronts, with al Chelr yoars of toul and experionco, Lad only now attainod the puint i thar lifa at whldh I pro- posed to stast, 1 sy have been ealled ambitious or, prond, but Ithonght L bndonly the jdeas of one who bisd swbition enough to carry bim wuccosefully through life. But tuw is all foolisliuoas, 1 have radioally changed my ideas by belng thrown In tho socioly, “and uudoratsnding the nature, of truo wonisu. 1t all wowen ata Mke shome of whom L spouk, tLon freoly do I suy thay women aro loss given to foolishly txlilug a “uphirgoe " than & cestain 0ne of tha genus Liorio, 1 was brought up with all nosds sapplied while undor sge, but I wus told that when | becamo 41 Linust sapport toyaelf, and uot inok home to have the whaerewiltial towmake euds tnest. I remotmnber I quailod at the thonght, aud wondor- edif I would not rather always Lo 13, but { know It to bo Inevitablo, and 40 ¥t to wark 1y leurn budinosd ways, snd by the tine | wus 0 years of sgo 1 cawo to (mmtx » able Lo corn wy way and Jive comfortubly, and wwore of s man than I wonld "havo been if I Lad louned om iy parcuts. Aund the sge of 2l cowe and wont, sud Ifouud 1 had boon troubled by ushadow ovly. Thusit sectus to e it may bo with those who wizli to marry, yet quall st tho respousibility of supporiing two or more 10 the place of vue. Bo mighs 4, buy when | gave up the wuloa of comwmenciug house- keoping in & marblg-front, theso horrible visious took wings, And in theix placo came & neat story farmer's wifo, in short,"” Norw, I dou't intond to inform him of juat how mony scnsible girls that swould leave the city “in o Jity " for & ** quiet country howe " if they ouly bad tho chance, Lut Ido intend tolling him of ouo, whicl ono just bappens to be myself. 1, too, have becows disgusted with life in the city, wherein tho highest aim that tho poople in geuoral appear to wirive for is the attsinmont of wanlth (which material, it scomy, will keop the diehonest “ up in the werld.” and up m tho eo- cial circles, whilst those who ondeavor to lio lonest nud nprightcan do barely more than “wmnke both ends meot™), Now, I don't assuma to kuow a vory great doal about country life, Lut this much I do khow; thas the peuple in goneral who dwell iu the coustry don't deprive them- solves of the proper amount of food in order to enablo them to dress ‘n the latest mado and npe pear s well, if not better, thun their noighbors, ou o ¥mall income. Bomo imagino n *‘farmer’s wifo™ neod know littlo bosides how to perform their daily labor; bu it I wero to pieturo a country homo for mo 1 would pleturo a hotn where taste :for the orna- wmental, as well as the usoful, had baou displaved, and whioro the dayw proved fong enougn for the farmer’s wife to cultivato tho mind sy well a3 tho gardeu, Ereally cannot imagine why a farmer anda farmer's wifo caunot have as lofty aupirations, s noble nunds, aud 88 much reflncoront and odu- cation a8 a city gent nud o cify gent's wife. 1 firmly bolieve that more happincuy and moro on- Jjoyment can bo found out m the country thau ntho city, if sooght for, Now, * Agricola " need not{ufer that I am t_soncrsh of wmorely good home, that impels wo to writa thus, ad ho would be utterly mistaken on thas, poiut ; (pr tho Iacts aro, L have a8 good a homd with wy parents ag the most of girls havo; but, n8 he atated ho would hke to hoar from some of the city girls on the subject of ** country life,’" I concluded to offer him #omo of my viows npon the subject. Althongh o home of my own (or rathor * our " own) would lie o very desiratio thing indeod, yot L could not suffer mysulf b marry for such alono. I trust that if over I do raarry (and I pro- sumo 1 shall, “when the right oue comoy slong") that love wili he mutuna), and that he whow I marry will bo as worthy of mons I witl bo worthy of hiur. * Agricola” must not think that all the city girls do naught but shink of theatres, oporns, Im“im dresy, otc. T admit a goud mauy young adies havo a great fondnesa for such, sud soch youny ladies seldom have = 'vory groat amount of rouso—Leuco they would not be very suitablo for » farmer's wifo. Ara wo to hoar from “ A" again? I Woxpes. A PRACTICAL CON'TRIBUTION. To the Flator of T'he Chicago I'r{buie : Cmicavo, Bopt. 11.—All theso recriminations and qoarroling among the ycuug poople through the columps of your estosmed paper will not lielp matters half so much s tho detailed ox- perience of really competent housckeepers. Ploaso ask thom to rocount theiractual oxpenscs indetafl; then wo ehall know how they lived, and why it {s that we poow, inoxperionced, ox- travagant housckeopers une vo uch and havo £o litle to shiow for it. X suppeso most ladies Leep an account of thelr expouscs, and thero- foro they might easily furmish ns with an scconut of thelr daily oxpouses, may for o mooth. Tho mout any one has dono hitherte into eay: rent, 8o 1nuch ; butoher, so muoh ; gro- car, 8o much, and theu to agsers they lived weil un this amount. Tuo Iadter I bog lenve to doubt very much until the seciet warking of the sys- tem in oxplained. Jesuwhile, as I exn bslp in no botter way, 1 will cuntribute a recipo for a dish it for au opi- curo, and choap suough to be within tho reach of oven working people. My husbusd was kind enongh to sugiest its roparation, so tho credit of iuvoation belongs to bhim: Tomalow amd Rioe—Beald & tea-cup of good Hons acald and peel fiva to sbz uice, ripy lomatoes; put both togethier (s stew-pan, add & tablespoonful of dugar, sslt and pepper 16 tante, and water enviigh to briug the rice, when done, 1a the consistency of pisin- tol‘l‘ul rice, Uefure tuking up mld a tablespoonful of utter, 1F this diah i nicely preparnd, those who have oaten of it once'will want Lo eat it often, I may also add that it is vory wholesome, Lavuioian's Wirs, ANOTHER WHACK AT THE “LONELY SIX. To the Kditor of T'ha Chteago Tribune; Cuicado, Bept. 10.—While reading the many artioles in our papera on the subject of matri- mony, we, including imsids and bach- olors, anticipabe In each an alluslon to our own Individual circumetances or sontiments. Many ossed sre woll roprosonted, but 1, like many othors, bave not Leen relioved of doubts exinting a8 {o-tho advisabllity of en- tering the matrumonial fleld. While wu can, and do, support oursclves, * thero is no accountiug for tastes,” and wheu a teaclor who can support Liorself well *and cowfortably moets ono (for whow, perhaps, sbo bLas mure thau o wivterly attachmens) who is sustmned in the best socisty by nis faihsr's wealth, rather than hig own ambltion and energy, she cannot bus foel Ler suppott is more sure” througly hor- solf than in the ancertainty of the young man'y wealth, 'Thero oro wany cascs slmilar to thia, and our ouly alternaiive is to ** walt and walch for ono mora worthy of a true and independont woman, The girls “slone ars not detloient in whit is essential to promote the happiness and succens of married lfe. What girl of apirit would marcy a man arrived at the nge of ejther of tue ** Lously Bix " who could not offer her alkomo? Tapa would Lave to kaep it up. May suoh as tho ** Lonely Hix * livo their allotted timo Iu seoh lonolluess as their oxtremo woltiahe nesa I sure o briug, 18 the b of 848 GovEnNESS. STILL HOPE FOR THE DACHELORS. T the tilslor of The CMedgy Tyivune] QOurcaco, Hept, 14.—1 do uot consider myaelr & socloty youuy fady, although Ido go out oo- easioually iu what ls called socioty, and enjoy it too. Ithink with **Ajux” in Ssturdsy's Lsin. UNE that o mers existence would not contsut & yersou whio is woll educated, aud who hay been broaght up with tastes and fdeas abovo the comwon class, 1 can, like wsuy other young ladies with whom I am acquaintod, work aud do, whew 4y LUCBRHATY § and, s we keep only one servaut, L tind prenty todo (o attond to all the faucy baling, the ‘birds sud tho fowers, sud all the Lutle things st K0 10 make home. atiraotive, 8ull{ ot vnu that would not like to warry & wan with u walary of ouly #ix or wight hundred & yoar, and no proepect 0f an incroass. § hove several youug iuarried fricnds who live please sutly on fron §1,000 30 $2,000 & year. (uvod nuble wmoen with svuch ealariew can ud Planty of Rood wousible glrly whio would mako esououiical aud davoied wives. Locswx, _ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER I8, ‘A WAYFARER'S NOTES. Taken on the Iond from Chi. cago to Rock Isiandees The Crops, Some Observations of a Typioal Emi- graut-Family, and Their History. A Class of Amcrlean Soclety that Dee serves Recornltion nand Ene couragement, How tho Journey from Canada to Oregon . Is Mada by & Farming Fomily of Eleven, Spectal Corrasponience of The Chleaao Tribuna, Rock 1sLaD, 11, Sept. 15.—Passiug over tho conntry between this point and Chleago, via tho Chicago, Rock Iutand & Pacific Railroad, somo facts tvero noted which may bo of ivtorest to your readors. THE CORY CROP Renerally will be vory good. In some fow places, and vory fur, the yiell may Lo light, butasa sulo, xud mioro vapeeislly in this soction, thers will be a heavy crop, ‘The rich greenof tho corn-fleldy, only Jnst beginning to pale bofore tho fervid heat of tho fow days of recent suni- mer weathor, is grateful to the oyo, whila tho Inrgo, {fall cars, bending over with their own wolght, promieo that roward to tho farmer which Lo desorves, The expectation horo is most san- guine for heavy roturns, aud two wooks more of sun and armer woather will bomora than suf- ficient to render everything safe. Tho frost of wowo two weeks sinco did no harm around here worth speaking of. In passiug over tho rosd the vatled colors of the ICAUTIFUL ITAIRIE FLOWERS attrast tho eye, yellow, bluo, and purple pro- dominatiug ; aud, a8 they stand out againat tho background of groen, the offoct is most pleas- iug. A number of Osago orange hedges aro seen from tlme to time—somo of them wall- #rown and Linpasrablo for auimals, but ay a ralo mauny gups are perceptible, and tho ordinary ail-fouco on vue sido or the other is rendered necessary, Bome willow hodges were also noticed, well grown, Tho wild sun-flower iy zeon in profusion overywhere, its bright yellow giving variety to thie colors of tho landecape, Tlie heavy sultry heat of yesterday nfternoon wos very opbressive. Wo had oar ustal allow~ anco of dust aud cindoers, to which the patient travoler by raflway must nceds submit, About 3 p. m, a rofreshing shower of rain fell, which brought somo relief. Last night ot 9 p. m, & Leavy thunder atorm commenced at this poiné, and torrents of rain foll for a con- plo of hours, It hos rained slightly at intervals all night, and continued sprinkliug this morning, Lut bas now consed. A TVPICAL FAMILY, Wo Lind as passongors on ths tralg yostorday o family of eloven who wore omigrating from Yon- don, Canada West, to Oregon, 'Tho husband and fathor was & tall, robust, patrisrchal-looking mau of 45 or thereabouts, with fuil reddirh beard, dark bolr and cyos; great resorvo forco; reg- ular, handsome, aud mwunly faco ; quick, de and atern mannor st times, that told of decisive character. Tho norvous-s anguino temporament. had evidently in Lim been hold in chock alt hiy lifo lons by a life of healthy outdoor lnbor which bhad given him & maguiticontly-developed muscalar aystom, s wifo was oven a flucr specimon of o womsn than lio was of 8 man. As tall ns bor husband; about 40 years of agoe; of oummnnd[nfz and yot kindly presonco ; brond, full, and solld tu every nool and creyico whoro- iu tho female form moy accmmulate flesh with- ous absoluto obliteration of the Jiucs of boauty, sho stood, or sat, A MODRI, OF MATRONLY VIGOR aud robust health, upon which the oye pevor failed to rest with sotisfaction. Slio had borue nino robust children, four girls first aod aftorwards five boys, varylng from 17 down to 8 years of ago: and yet Licr light brown hair had 1o thread of silver, nor her fair, blonde faco n wrinkla of oare, ller eldest dnughter of 17 might have been u younger aister, but that the unusuatly broad anil geugrous pro- partionsof the mother suggestod long-continned and yet healthy child-bearing. She must have boon very haudeowe ns s girl. ‘The clear-cut, full, and yot xipo, red lips, with the ; barest lndi- oation of ' scornful ourve, toltened: by good- nature and humorons focliug, told of a power of warcas that_doubtloss could ingJf tho occn- sion demanded. And yot the. pud quict uess, tho peaceful, matronly atmdsphieye of re- ppuo that surrounded her, tho ¢ nECios- ness of power and sutbonty v Lac ol g:culinr sphere, which it was 1aroly necossary-‘to oven appear to exercise. was reallt mnost’ admirable &1 aud charming. _Stroug, 06 8 pablo a8 hor husbund was, she Wapto { far’ hottor woman than Lo was & 1a; ot v¥a® supo- rior spocimen of mnuhogniu roacl, prossuco commanded iustant rospect® 009 L, as ovory true woman must be, the pivt tho Uni'which ro- volved tho wholo doinesuo & it A7, Bhioquiotly took churge of tho large rogbag, .eejgets for tiio family, a8 belog s bottor 10| ‘than ovoen Lier buginess-liko husband. “)ay d=m:t: TUE ELUEST DAURETER was 17, fair, biown-haired, pestty, with strong fentures, aw indoed all had'with but ono excop- tion. She, like all the rost, was robust; of a dotermined tempor, decidedly **spunky,” and with o marked will of her own, points of charac- tor whiols shio, {n common with all her brothers and sieters, inhorited direct trom both father aud mothor. 'The * forco ™ of tLo fathor, a4 well ny the atrong tempor also, was eadily saen in ber. Hlo was plainly a girl that could take cara of liersolf, and would bo nobody's fool, Indecd, she would not have beou hor parents' child had sho lacked the strong common-sousoe of eithor, ospectally that of her mother. 8lo would in timo dovolop futo much such n woman as her mother was, though shoe could bardly, in thess dogonorata days, be tho possessor of such raro physical powers as fimcud tais true wowan, who fairly *Joomsed up ” upon the vision, if I may o expreas if, foworing over ordinary fomininity as might o frigate-ol-the-line over an ordinary mor- obantwan. | THE OTHER CHILDREN woro like a flight of stairs, gradually dnucend(n“ to thu youngost, of 8 yoars—liitle * Dick,” who waa au irreprosuiblo—falrly * awarnduy* nround ; sturdy, solf-willed, hot, dirty, nolsy, laugliug, tesrful, detlant, and dismal, scoording 84 lio was played with by his sistors, allowed to uurdo the rat-tertler pup, which, with s wore tuaturo Heoteh-torrior, -caum&mnlnd tho group or was pulled away from the danger of tho vpun duor, and incontivently spanked by **Pa' or cldest elater for willfulness, Of tho unnumbered bumps of Lls sturdy httlo heud agatnst tho {ron nud woodon-work of tho sents; of the wild and augry fl'ullu that foitlowed ; of who smiles nud tours, the rage and wrath, tho monarch-of- Hurvey u:{yln of this youngstor, who whall tellf Ho wos an”enfaut torrible at times, bolug, however, ever and anon stornly subdusd,—the fathor’s quietly-aggressivo will rulivg suprawe over the youny ono, to whow I uever Loard tho motler raise her volco or chnnf(o hor aduitrablo roposo of mauner, Hue ovidoutly knew that the domestio machine would run itsell, aud did not propose to worry over anyshiug, though sho was a woman who had o parfoct magazino of wrath at hor disposal ir onllsd upon, Ho littls *Dwk"” lad ploutiful Istitudo within dua bounds, sud the pioturs of hiy doar, dizty littlo legy, dying Lair, wondor- ing vycs, resolute mauih, doflans tlats, and per- spiration-bedewed fuce, b4 still before mo. "I'hoy wore & tamily of WELL-TO-DO PANMING PLOPLE, The fathor was born in Penusylvania, and do- rcendod frotn West of Irclaud "people, (le had emigrated to Cauada whou & Loy, snd there warried bis wife, who was a uative Canudisn, ter parsuts of North of Ircland stock, origi- nally of Hcotch desccnt. They had raisod thoir chitdien ou a farm mear London, Canada Weat, and bad now decided to emigrato to Oregon, whoro thoy had soma relatives, They had hexitated botwoen finally buying s faray 1 Canada and makiog this move, aud had ot lnst concluded to try the Far Wuat, settle, sud grow up with tho couutry, Tho father had heard that now was a good timo to buy in Orego Would leayo bis fainily to rest at Btookton, snd look pound himwself ab firel, i fricnds told Lo that Oregon was & wooderful cointry for wheat-ralslug,—producing o better and Jarmor wheat than that of either Caunda or the Hiates, aud that it was the geoatost appio-ralsing coune iry fu the world—tLis lust owing ta tho n‘m. o raln-fail 1 the wpriug, whhflh though goo tha vrchasds, was $ho most disagrovable foaturo of tha ehimate. Times wero dull in Canada, thiough thero was vokuttering, ‘I'halalorer el 1ivo very well, and prices peuerally ware inudurato, Thay liad now a good and poputar Qovernment. Tho laws, lio thought, wero bettor anforeed thero than hero; connidered this a fine, rich country through which wo wero parsing, but thought & wan coukd farm an woll in Canmis § nay digappointed ot the stylo of barus soen along the 1oad. * In Cruada onue could always son Iargo, roomy, amd_well-tinished Larns, oven where tho houees ight be inforjor, Thoro wan a constant emipration from Canada to tho States. The Ca- nadian Government were transportiz omigrants freo trom Englund and Neotlaud, and had beon for twvo years, and supporting thetn in Canadn until thov obtamod work, otily to aee them, a+ koon ay they gut &5 togother, and often leofore thoy bad stiptling at all, leavo for the States, It woild **swamp ™ the tGovernnent eventual they kept up such s systom, It dicd not pay to pick up machanies atd overatives in Li Manclisstor, Leods, Shiofliold, ote., and bring them o Canada, ouly to #0o thom croes Lho fron. tier 1o vaek work” in the Siates. \Wuat thoy wanted in Canadn was o farming elasn to scitlo aud devolep tho conntry, and it would pay the Governtont to offer suck pevplo inducoments to retain, Tho family traveled, from couxiderations of ceonomy, fu the smoking-car. 'They were nll comflortably but plainly dressed, and ~evidently belongred to tho beat elnss of tho farming coni- munity of Canada, Tho shapoly. white, sud delicate, yet (irm. hnnds of tho cldest daughter showed that sho was noused of late years to lhouschold labor, and huer ready worsted worl, o which she was engaged from time to time, suggested n cultivation that ruder fingers might not attain to, ‘Their comminsariat departnment was of tho simplest, —aoda-crackors,:boled ham, and bread balug the basis, somo Jars of pre- sorven boiug kept more expocially under the caro of the mother. A CLASH TO TE COURTED, Iloro was, fndood, I thonght, n class of emi- grants that wo might woll welcomo with o Learty groeting 1o tho hoarts and homes of the hospita- blo West, Theso peoplo bring some money ; and, what is bettor (han monoy, they bring honlth and wtrength, and enorgy afid intolli- gonee, Thoy bring hnbits of Industry sad order, of temporsuee, and yespect for eatublishod ru thority. ‘Ihiey and thoir descendanta caunol fail to leaye their mpression upon whatover woction thoy may chance to settlo m. They will cousti- tuto a purtiun of tho truo bona-and-sinew of tho cotintry, aud 1o, community that receives them can fail to be the bottor for thoir presonce, 1f 1 havo baen protix boyoud tho limits, lot this Lo my cxcuso: It has been too much tho custom, methinke, in this Iatter day of Amorican history to run wfter tho * soclety people.” Weo linve had our shara, in all conscionoe, of Jonkius and hia retalled gossipiug, The politiciaus, the bnukers, the Inwyers, tho clergy, the editors, as well ns the thievos, murdorors, proatitutes, pick- pockots, aud defaulters of the country, bave been intorviowed to death. This being tho case, just for a chiauge, if for uo othor purpose, admit this linadily-written sketch of some unnssuming peo- plo who will henceforward form a portion of our commuuity. Rovznick Raxpoir. —_—— ASSIGNATS AND GREENBACKS, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribuns: Curcaao, Sept. 11.—Somo days since yor pub- lished tho following ou your leading oditorial pogo: Thoro was onoce & £ort of money known as asslgnats, 1t remomlded tho greenbacks in many respects, ity miaterinl was papor, I was & promise 10 psy, It cir- culalod, 1t was secured by & pledwe of the.faith and rosourcos, otc., of il France, But it wwmt down, down, uatil s chicf value wis 38 wall-japer in o peasant’s hut. Wil some tnflatloniat exnlain tho whyn and wherefores of this fact? Wiy, goutlo stupdd, tell us why? In rosponee to this T wroto you, offering to an- swer your question, if yon would publish iy ro- ply, and you uotify me of your willingnoss ay follows : **Homebody, who Is apparently afraid to sign his name, writes us aud offers to auswor the question why the Fronch asslgnat weat down in value, and explain why tho greenback, though wholly deprived of & speelo, is sure not to share tho eame fate. Let him anawer forthwith, When ho has porformed this feal of mentul gywuastica wo advise him to turu Lis attention to discovering perpotual motion, and to proviug that black ia winte.” And now we will look into some of tho reascns why tho nssignats ** went down, down,” and show whby tho greenbscks ** will not share tho samo fate,” Tho nawignats were igsaed in an amount ba- youd all hopo of redemption. 'Fhelr sum ran above 45,000,000,000 of francs,—-which, at & franes 1o tho doilar, would bo $U,000,000,000, Tho pa‘lmhuun of Franco at that timo was about 25,U00,U00 of, people, so that the issue of as- siguats wos eqgual to 3340 for every mau, woman, sud child in the nation, They wore not based on the * faith and ro- sources” of tha lrench nation atall, ‘Theic socurity was tho pledge of coufiscatod estates. Frauco was iu an sgo of revolutions, It wos one sut of mon in power to-day, and another set to-morrow. Resl vntate with porfect titlos s vory poor security for tho redemption of a cireu- Iating medium, but the titlo to confiscatod os- toted is of au inferior kind, oven uuder a stablo Government,—whllo such titles under tho then chauging and mvulnunmz!u‘: dovernmonts of Fronco were nlnust valueless, 8o thero way practically no sceurity for tho nassignats at alt, No wouder that they * wont down, down.” Weo huve about &400,000,000 of greonbacks, and our population in abotit 40,000,000 of psoplo, T'his gives $10 per capita. Lul, if we should have greenbocks as tho Erench hind assignats, that is 060 por capitn, wo would thon have 14,000,000,000 additioual in groenbacks. Allow 1ue to insert two tables to show tho force of the fuots by contrust: . FIANCE—19,000,00C OF POFTLATION, Assignats at £400 peg capita, . Awsfigniut ut $10 por eapita. .. TN 400,000,000 + 14,400,000,000 Dut, besides limiting the issuo of greonbacks to s smoll amonut, their payment is guarauteed DLy a stablo Government—ono that haw demon- stratod its strength us no nation over did before, Hore nro two great points of difference be- twoon ascignats aud greoubacks, and enough to make ouo worthless and tho other good. You know tho asslynats esmo praclically to nothing, Do you really think the grosubacks will mnot bo paid? You kuow vory well that grooubacks will not share ** tho sawoe futo as avsiguats,” Repksrrion (7). ——— THE ORIGIN OF MAIZE. In the dt‘yl when the grand old woods untamod Htood erect {u the sunseta red, Or Yesprinkied tho rushing floods unnamed With tho bloam of thelr sumtuors dosd, Lived o muld in o Lunter's lodgo, aa fair Asa tlower o' the forest rudo, And us frev os tho fros, untroublud alr Of itainfiuite solitude, But & spirit, whose haunt was tho river-ahore, Oft carcasing her slendor (pot, Blole a glatcu at (ko gentlo face hont o'er ‘Tho unrest of his winding-shout ; Aud w0 Himphd the depth of thusa dark eyes Whence licr fnnocens soul ontxhone That {ho god of the streatu destred, with sighs, Thut (o monlen miglit Lo bis own, “Then he twinod o'er bis brow the dripping weed And tue mariner-lily fuir, And in desperate mood for love's mad need Up aroko from his watery lulr, Like u atartied gazello the mati lvaped back 1Neath tho fluttorug foreat's whig s Witls tho tight of & faw, when tiereo lounds track, Hho oscapod from the fovd’s Lold King, But tho sona of the godn aro flector far “Than the daughters of mortal kiuds With the rush of a melcorlo star 1o pursuce, aud whe lca liko wind, Now a bond of the stream ber oyes deplore— Tu ber poth 1s the watery death; Closo betiud ia the god, * ¢) Tatal shore ! Qubier face 1u & cLill, dap broaths, With & panting of prayer, * Qreat Manito, antets now to dellver 1 ahio picadu; Then, Wik suddotiebosn (mpulso, awilt sho flow o o bower of river reeds Aud tliefr tremnloussteis about ber bound, As I uwept i o whithviud story § Aud Leliold | in thelr light embruces wonad, Sho fu changed to snothier form, Bho I8 rooted In eartl, her rare round arms Tuto fapering lvaves £ro grows, Aud a proud pluzned utulk, her heart yot warms, Like 8 princens thio recds enthrone, Finw aud allken, ber bair sbieaves round the pearls, Flaskied vut' from her smilo of veorn, Now thu kurnels of anow, the wilk-set whorls, Of & Loautiful ear of 'corn, Thus arveated, the god bia chaplet Atnge Ou 18e wavos of bin subject stresin— Uow, to mockery broken, its currens singe Of bid broken, deluafve dream | Then (Lo yasvivuute spisit, folied, betrayed, In dissulved [ntu dow-Buo sprare, "To adurn with a crown of tears the mald letawmorpliosed o graculul walzo, Aud au long s the rivers scorn {Le chaln Of u {uture of Yengeese kings, And as loug s th 0w tho wikd adowiug wings, Whaen the raoceasined foos of the rod wan Whierw bis Lasuered telds unfurl, Will Lo liket tho yustling lsaves of miize ‘[0 tho tight of a timid girl, L. W Luekus, ¢ Larper's Mugazine for Octader, 1875.—TWELVE YAGLTS “LOOEYVILLE." Popular Pride ns to a Not Very Ex- traordinary Btructure. Tho Fifih Grand Aggregation *of the World’s Arts, Sclences, Mane ufneluresy Eteo A Loose Btato of Morals—S8omo Politioal Poculiaritios—The Joming Mu- nicipal Eleotion, Special Corresondence of The Chicagn Tridune, LoutvirLg, Ky, Bept. 15.—Tho natives csil it ' Looeyvillo,” and the Cazettcor #nys it Is a thriving town on the gouth branch of the Ohlo River, 160 milos bolow Cinclunati, “roogyvitLe" fa a town of markod charactoriatics, and a thor- ough oxample of thas peculiar combiantion of provineial appaaranco and metropolitan features peculior to citics in the West and Houth, Cow- pasturos and iron buslooes-blucks nro thrown into vicloity in o strango jumble ; whilo a ves Liclo, aftar bowling emootbly along ovor & con- crete boulevard or maderu-block pavement, sud- deuly finds itself folting over a limestone-paved or micadawmizod streot, of most primitive con- struction. Loutsville fs an old town, Antiquity Ia ig boast ; but, when they eay that Danlel Boono discovored tho city, that ig putting it on too strong. If numorous gaudily-colored lithographs, calling aitention to the vir- (ues of various nostrumsy, are to ba be- lieved, Louisville was, in 1775, composod of five canoes nnd tweolve Indiane, with eagle- featlier head-dreesos, and very littla olsa to hido their tawny physiques: and, in 1875, of a bridge across the Ohio, 'Lho visitor to Lowsville b idgo choked into him at ovory step. A friend 1meots you and vaya: * Baen the bridge ?” “¥en,"” “Bocn the eanal " “Yon.! #Ohf then {here's nothing to do but tako a drink.” Omeinnatt 18 prond of ita two bridges and fountain; but the pride of tho averago Louis- villian over Lho very }mhflcrnm woaden-and-iron sirucluro connecting Jeffersonvillo with this city approaches the sublimo. Juet nov, AX “pxPOStTION claims thoir attontion bokweon drinks. Whon the Exposition epidemic, which sull existainn viruleut forin, firet broke out, Loujaville toox it very bad. A brick bulldiug was erectod, and four finnucial and oxhibitivo failurca did not doter the onthusinstio morchants of tho city frora onco moro moviug their #how-casos up to tho buitdivg and calling the display the * Fifth Graud Aggrogation of the World's Arts, Sei- eucos, Manuafactures, snd Woanlth,” Ou Wedseaday, Sept. 1, the package aud de- ltvery wagous, drays, carty, conl-biny, fco- wagons, and anything and everything that went on whoels, formed in procession, sud marched, or rather rumbled, through tho stroets, bearing Launers on thelr sides doscriptive and laudatory of tho virtues of various ‘‘Lafe-Giving Otls,” * Electric Salves,” ote. This was termed by tho Louisvillo press *a grand allogorical pageant, indicativo of tho rosources und woslth of Amar- iea,—tho whoto glittering panoply rtanding rorth an upanaworable argument and evidencs of tho superlority of America over Lier moro protens tious rivals of monarehy-ridden Europo.” That's {:rcuy, am'tic? Itisaepawn from tho teoming rain of the gorgeous Padman, of Small-Talk”™ notorioty, ‘Tho display nt the Exposition Duilding isa good ono for Lowsville, As a local falr, it iy & BUCCOsS ; 8 an exposition of Alorican rosourcen, au ignominious falure. 1 want 1o say thas Louisvillo is AT IENORAL TOWS, The vigor with which thioves, gamulers, and thuse fcsteriug sores on humanity, the social evils, wore treated at tho bauds of tho law dur- ing the yonra 1873 aud '74 (durlng ouo of thosa spasmodio fitw of reform with whick all cities are occasionnlly attecked), haa beon succosded, during the post yoar, by an almost oqual Inxity, Faro-bunko thrives almost in tho open air. A walk down Jefforson uireot will allow tho podes- trian to hear distivetly the ** All ready, gentlo- man,” of the "dealer,” or tho mufled rattlo of the ivory balls {n tho keno * gooso," and the outhusisstic yolp of tho wan who has * fivo m a row,” followed, of courso, by tho growling rof- arence to the infernal regious by tho mon who liavo **cases” ou band, Thievos ply their oce and tho scarlot woman 1 8 brazou effroutary that equals (it wero impossiblo o excol) that of the fruil denizens of certain Chicago streots, Ono thing can be said ng to the police-rogula- tions of Louisvillo in regard to this class of womoun : Thoso whilom blackmailing raids made upon the gitded and ungilded nbodes of e, at the instanco of conrt-olticers who seck feos out of the inisfortuncs of this unfortunato class, aro strictly taboood, snd quiot houses remain un- molested. CENTRALIZATION is mado a feature of their governmont. Inatead of being allowed to exint throughout the city, an aunoyauce aud disturbauce to all quict aud re- spectablo citizens, thoy ura all (with nat over six excoptions) forced to tako up their nbodo on stroot in tho contra of tho eity, known as Lafay- otto street, Iero, on both sides of tho stroct. for a distanco of o Lalf-milo, cluster theso sink- holen of iniquity,—a commnnity of evil,—n veritable cesspool of corruplion. Bida by stdo aro siately manslous and abject Lovels,—tho one illod with womon decolvod by the glitter and glamonor of tho life thoy lead, foolishly imagine 1tz that tho gay oxistenco will always contiue ; tho other filled with women upon whom ruio, dinolr‘wu, and their mode of life, have done thoir Work. The ndvantage of this plan of ocontralization, from & policorinn's standpolut, ls apparent, 1t has been remarked that .the . Kentuckian likes his plvo. his pot, his pacor, aud bis politics, —prineipully the second and laet mentioned, the formor being bottor knowa as a demijohu. TIE INTELEST IN FOLITICY Ia gouornl, This §3 owing to tho peculiar man- nor In which their olections are conductod. Dol- fignla or mass noniinating Convontious are not nown. ‘Whou a man, by some poculiar soplistry eml- nontiy his own, niakes tha discovery that the lxublu: is anxious to raiso Ll to o pouition of rust and powor, he writos out a card, sigulog 16 *Mauy Voters," calling upon him to be a candi- duto. “Ho acconts, and is fatrly on the turf; and thon, as Watterson remaried, **The mau with the most money wina,"” Campaigna are long and earnest. I remembor two men who aunouncad thomselves through the publlo printa as candidatea’for tho oftice of Cor- ouor, iu. April, 1578, **subject to tho declsion of tho peoplo at the polls, Aujs, 4, I874." Monoy is spent froely, and Lonisvillo during a canmpalgu is the Paradise of butnmors, ‘I'io geutlo render may not know that in 1ten- tucky tho votivg is done opon and aboseboard, and the rival caudidato kuows how fares tho dny with lilu at any time by meroly glancing st tho poll-books, whore are duly registerod tho npmo ef tho voter snd his political preferonces. This admits of much * jockeying," and it {8 not an uncommon thing to havo six or eight candidates for a particular position withdraw at noou in favor of ono of their rivals. This system ls sup. Lwnpd to “preserve the purity of the ballow ox.” Doew it? A IMPENDING CONTEST, In Docembor noxt tho blounial contost for the Mayorality eusuoed, ‘Thore sre two candldatew out. Uuo {8 named Jacobs. 1lo is tho law, morality, and ecenomy candidate. 1lis opponent rojoices in_tho uama of Uaxtor, aud he is the choico of the contractors, and a veritable +* Ring candidate.” Baxter hold the ofice six yoars ago, and *tho Ring" etruck a bouanza. It wos undor Buxter's roign that the #1,000,000 City-Hall was built, sod stroots wore improved in ‘s tockloss manuer. Jacoba, who iy the ine ocumbont, sud a oaudhdate for ro-election, put s wtop to this upon his accession, and went to the appasita extremp, | The coutraotors—which 4y 10wy, * the Rlng "—alglh for the lively days agatn. Thousands of dollara will bo spent on cithor elde. ‘Tha Courier-Jourpial wmil support Jacobs, whils Ballard Smith, lato of the C.ed.y Lut now wavaglug editor of tho Ledyer, will sve thnt Baxter's claius are urged, O, W. 8. CASTLES IN SAND, ‘Two children wero makiuy the most of the day, In tho wand their castiou buflafug, ‘While out ju tho harbor the sunset gold Was overy vessol gilding. Bui the ses came over the castles dear, Aud the charm of the sunses fadod | Olul atter u fubor {n lost may we <0 happity oo os thoy did, Fur wo Lulld sud build 1a & dsfferent way, "Ll aur Luada sre wiso aud huary; But sfter it alt the sun yoos down, And tho vea—"t4s 8 common atory, —Huun Bicn in the Ocloder Aluntia _ RADWAY'S REMEDIES, R R.ER. 'Radway's Ready Reliat CURES TILH WORST PAINS . In from One o Twenty Minng NOT ONE HOUR After readling this Advertizement need suffer with pain, Radway's Ready Relicf I3 & CURE FOR EVERY PAIN 1¢ was the first and is the Only Pain Remedy That fastantly stons the most sxarnolatin inflatamations, ani curos 2onges e oy o Lunwn, tiomnsh, liowels, or other giauds oF orgsas jon, Infrom Oneto Twenty Minutes, any ¢ ong No matter hiow vialent nr sxcrciating tho pan, itheumatio, Ied-riddan, Tnfirm, Orlppled, N s ralgic, or prostrated with disssso may saer, o O Radway's Ready Relief WILL AFFORD INSTANT EASE, Inflammation of the Kidneys, Inflammatl of the Bladdor, Inflammation of the Duwl.“ |71uL umps, Congestion of ilg ungs, Soro Throat, Diffloult Hreathing, Dalpitation of _tho “Hoart, Lgsmries, furrh L Pl b uenran, Hoadacho, Toothaoh, Nouralgls, Rhoumntism. Oold Ohills, Agae Ohills, Tho annlioation of the Readr Ralls! to the part o arte where th e arts 1 patn or difhoulty exiita will afford su rt. [aitor than French Dramds o Biiranks, ofyater. Tl FEVER AND AGUE. Fovor aud Agne oured prmeifalagont it won 3 Rud all nther malacinng, il i, scar e v G o i e i Tl Htwnr ey Hold by Drorglate. HEALTH! BEAUTY| Strone and pnre rioh blond: fncroase of flash olaar ki atid bautiful courpiesion socured st DR. RADWAY'S SARSAPARILIAN RESOLVEN! Has mada the most astonishing ca TRl o T chmuon” 0 ey ur raat * undor 1o tailutitos of Lhis trly Woir doctul mediclno, that Every Day an Inerease in Flesh and Woelght & Scen and Felt, . THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIEY Every drop of the Sarsapariliian Rosalvont common eaten through tho iluod, cwat, rine, and uthir fall aud julcosur the systom) 1 vigor of " Wb, far it repain tlio wastes of tho bodynith nawand watnd matiri Herotula, sypltlis, ennsumption, glandular dlsease, tiors f1v L0 thivoat, motath, tuniors, des thor pa tlio ') atew, 'sura” osar, ca tromn tio earv, aud tiio worat forins o fover soren, scald Load, Fiogworm, rail s achc, black apots, warms fu tho ancors o tho' won! ainiul’ dischargos, night swcats, Inss of sporm asd 2 wastes of tha o prinetpl2, are within the carativo, of thls woudor of inodern chomlstry, and & fow da will provo ta ny pursdn uslng it for ofthor dise potont power to cura thom, If tho yatien bcomlag roducod by tho wastes and decomposit| at s continually pengrossing, s coeilsin arre 1080 wastod, nnd any with niow matorial madn frony healthy b iThivia Farsapariliian will ol doss socy ol certta; for whon onca thls ramorly sy o arid: gation, and siceoeds 18, Wiminithini, o fof viky s ropairs will Do rapld, and ovory day tha jiient fool Biimanit ttor and ‘airungor. tha food growing v \zsrh\.llbdlmr, appatite fmproving, and leeh and welel) fucroaaing. Notanly dons the Sarmapacifiian Rewnlvent excal al known rocdial agnnts (n 1o curn of Ghronie, Sernfaley Constitntional, aad Skin Ciseasor, Lt 1018 the unly pos tivo auro for Kidney and Bladder Oomplaints, Urinary and Womb Discases, Gravol, Diabetos, Drpm, stuppaga of water, inomiinonce of y a3 urino, rlgh Ibuminuris, and inall caros whary thiero aro bric) u uuu.n.r‘unha walor la thick, ‘clowdy, miird = subistanced liko tho whita o 3 ika whis silk, or thern s 4 marhid, illous appearanon, 3 hita <t dosumits, &a0 wehion thers 1s & prictlics tion whep pasing wator, aud pala the s nd aloug tho lous. 3 o 3 2 E H § 5 of Tamor of Twelvo Yen: udyys Growth Curcd ) s Jtusolvont. BzvenLy, Mass., Julr 18, 149, Dn, Rapwar) Ihavo bad ovaifan tumor ju !h!l‘nm(! ani bowela, AH tho duotors sald **thore was o help fot it." Itrisdeversthing that was recommunded, but nads Ing belpad ine. I saw your lcsalvent, and’tho wuuld try 1t but bad no’ fafih {n it, bocauso { b farad fos twslvs yorss, ok six bottles of { ind ono buz of iadwar's Pills and two bottles of yo thero Is not & slgn of tumor tobe »‘1 a Ltesdy Rellaf, nr\‘l ‘oo or folt, and bolter, smarter, and happlor 1ha Lavo for twolva years, ‘the worst fumor was w tnels S160 i Bowols, oY Ao WTolms. L writa this to 08 13 the benallt of othors, You can 'ii‘}{'%'fli‘d'x‘»i"kfi'.'fié Prico, 81 por bottlo. AN IMPORTANT LETTER. Troma Pmmlnlut gentleman and resident of Cinclaath ., for fle past furty years woll known to the howspspsd publisbiers throughout the United Hatos, New Yon, Oct. 11, 159, Dn, RaDWAY—Dzan Ain: Vam iuducait by sonse o duty t4 the sufforiu (0 sk s brior statomient uf 14§ orklag uf pour mudiciuio on For averal yin eau affeatod witl Lzoubile in tho bladi wuj o twelry tuonthis ago uluoue lu‘q ineaso, whivh tho plysicadt ustalio stricturo la the ureth: i la the kidness and bladder, an thalropiulon that iy ays—173 yoars—would procent By over yotling Tadics I bad tried » numberol urluary orga; e mitat Lorrn all said wan s Hamwatinn of au byslcians, and kon a largs guanilly of wdiet Hu(lllllullllhln aud homeo) : it b . r-':'z 1 had road of stunishiug curos having i romedles, aud same faug suonths ago jead a uolice 1a é Fhiladulihia Saturday Foening Foul of s oua baringbe eftectod ot & pergon wh g been sulleriug o4 1 Dron, L aentoata i o ad ( eact—your Sars fita, Tiranivent: sy Stabists and Hoguintink Pk & commencod taking thoin, | I tlirea daye T wat gres rel A1 evor: oo, et hom @130 W, TAMES, otuolanatt, & DR. RADWAY'S Regulating Pills potfuctly tastal Durge, regulate, war's Puils, lor -lu.-rny coatod with swost [l iy, ‘Glyaiee aud atrsagtuvit, 75 of M disordors of Lo et nls, Kidieys, Liladdor, Nurtoas Diotss lachie, Coustlyation, Costiveness, Tudigestivi, |’M Jiig: '"[1 susness, Hllious Fevor, latlamuatin of (8 oli, Filos, wad all Derauyomedtd of llmlr_lmnl\)m Aranted o offect s positive sure, Purly T cuntalalag BO wercury, cunerals, or duliia! druge! Disord Observe the fol toms resultiog from y ot ¢ i al . s oo K ulinosn of \Watebt (a Al B 8 i gl ol G ADge AL the Hiok g or Nutlwcsh uttoringe at ti » Lyjog Pt Diige ‘sl L h'-'*s;',,’*x:':;z.a;.:f e ; 5 P de, Chast, in tho Kiesh, % wit freo Price 3 cents M AT e e A To doves ot RADWAY fedin a1} the sbove-naied dlsurd box. ‘Bold by druguiata. RRead *False and True,” o e R AT RN