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

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE : WEDNESDAY. SUPTEMBLR 0y) 1875, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF AUTACRIPTION (PATARLE 1N ADVANGR), Tortnae Prepaid at thin Office, Dally Editfon et paid, 1 pear., wernn 81,00 Tarta of yeat al Lon 2.4 ot e Froe Cony with Ecery Chib af Treente On all clubn the subscriber wuat romit tha postago, which s 18 conts & cany per sear. Bpecimen copfen zont frve, To prevent dolay and mistnkes, ba #ure and give Tuat-Office adidresa in fuil, including Statasnd County, Temiitancs niay be madr cithor by draft, vspress, Poat-Offica order, o In Fexisicred leitera, at onr rlak, THRNR TO CITY KEACCIINERS, Datly, delivered, Suniay rxcepted, 225 conts par woek, Dauly, delivered, Bunday lncluded, 30 cents per week, Address TIlli TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cortier Madison snd Dearborn-ata., Clicago, Tll, Skt TO DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Talsted atrest, hetween Madiwon tnd Monro, Eneagement of N, D, Tob. st Combination, * Jack and JiIl" Afternoon sand srening. MeVICREIR T THE—Madison strect, belween Deartorn and State., * ltuuning s Corner,” HOOLESH TIEATH Curk and lasalle, Mlostrols, tandolph street, telween I'ngagement of the California Afternoon and evenisg, —Mouton sireet, Iotween Dear- wate ¥ and * The Irish Lion,” Af- tereoon und evening, CIHICAGO THE. dolph and lake, Troubadour,” ADELPH1 THEATRE—Dearborn sireet, corner Monzoe, Engagement of the McKee Rankin Troupe, “Thbe Trwo Orphans.” Alleruoon aud evening. THRE—Clark Mreet, Dotween Ran- **Iauhne " aud * Tomplkina the INTER-STATE EXPOSITION~Lake shore, foot of Adams street, ———— SOCIETY MEETINGS. GARDEN CITY LODGE 141, A, F. and A, M.— A reguinr commnnication will bo heid at Orientsl all, on Wednender Evo, Sert, 28 Work on iho 31 3, Do- wroe, Viniting brethren fraiernaile invited, 5 1, ¥, MOLCOMB, W, M, L. L, WADSWORTIL, Ser, e NOTICES. BUSINE! BRAUTIFY TIE SK 186 A HARMLESS toilot prepaeation known s Gaorg W, Tated's it om of Youth 1t will remase tan, Tesckiss, wosh, and all ente frau L Inaviitg it borfretly ameth, cleas, ang hoautiful, tho light est traco nf 14 anplicaiba. v United A ato Bhe Chitage Tfibune. ‘Wednesday Morning, Soptember 23, 1875. @roenbacks, at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday, closed at 553, after selling for 851 and Yestonlny's aunonncements of denths in Europe include that eof Princo Aperpesr, uncle of the present Kimg of Bavaria, and Horatio STosr, tho Americen seulplor, Cann Senunz's openivg speceh in Ohio will bo delivered at Cincinnati next hlonday even- ing, Sept. 27, e gues at tho solicitation of & number of the murchauts and business men of that city. October. Hngr were in fair domand at nom- inaliy unchanged prices: sales ot §7.00@8,50, Cattle wera dull and easy. Sheep were ac iveand firm, al $3.5067.27. On Saturdey inyg Inst there was in storo in this eity I whent, ALY bu corn, 214,161 b oats, 85,656 bu rye, and 81,808 bu barley. One hundred dollara in gold would bay $117.25 in greenbacks at the cloke. The detnils of the terriblo diraster at In- dianola, Tex,, to which brief allusion has been made in the dispatehes for several days paat, aro given elsowhere. Of all the houses in the town, containing some 2,000 inhinb- itantg, but three withstond the fury of the terrific wind and angry flood. All the busi. nees honges and wharves shared in the general ruin, tho stenmer which brings the intelligenco of tho ecatastrophe be- ing obliged to retnrn to Galveston for want of a placo to land her eargo. ‘The loss of lifo is not yet fully known, but most of tho catimates placo tho list of victims at from 100 to 150, 'The shores of Matagorda Tiny, on which tho town was situated, ave lined with the bodies of the unfortunate Leings who were driven from their homes only to find death in the roaring torrent, their Dodies being earried to the shora by the re- ceding waters, The town has for sore time carriad on quite n thriving trade with Galves. ton, & line of steamers plying regularly be- tween the two ports. Rep Crorn is understood to have accom- plished the feat, possible only under condi- tions of great disgrantlement, of perambulu- tion hy menns of one of his auricular ap- pendages. The place solected for the ment- ing of the Grand Council was not agreeablo to this high and mighty chieftuin, and ho will havo none of it. But the Council will goon just the snme. with or without the nugnst presence of Rep Crovp, whose sonl will be still further harrowed up by tho np- pointment in his stead of Yousa-Max-Arzai- or-His-TTonses ns the representative Chief of tho Ogalalla tribe in the Couneil. Ex-Sennator Aruisoy has submitted a proposition in belhalf of the Commission which contemplates the Ieasing of the Blnck Hills country by tho Goy- ernment for an indefinite period to be termi- nated upon two years' notice. 'The Iailure to discover gold in paying quantities up to this time has induced this proposal, the Gov- ernment not being desirous of paying a largo sum for tho purchase of the reservation, only 10 fiud it valueless for mining purposes. This is doubtless & phase of the question unlook- ed for by the Chiefs attending the Council, and they will probably require & few days for consideration. THE OUTRAGE DUSINEES, The Prasident and the Attorney General have, in their letters on the appeal of the Governar of Mississippi for Faderul troops, plainly indicated that the Awmerican peoplo are gotling tired of this Southern outrage- husiness,—this copstant appenl to the United States to protect ablo-bodied men who will troops. "This, in a Stato whers La cau put 50,000 arned men in tha field to execnte laws, is child's play, and the peoplo of the country are, ps the Prosident says, ** golling tited of it.” When tha American people made {he biacks freemen and citizens, they did uot under- utand that they were to furnish ench colored mnn with n body-guard. The country armed him with a rifle, with legal equality, and placed the hallot in hin hands and a bullet in his gun. 1t made him the equal before the Inw with the white man, giving him an equal change in the race of life, and left tho rest to his manhood, conrage, and hisintelligence, 1f he confess his inability ; if he confoss that lio has not the physieal or moral courngo nor the manly principle to n degroe to en. oblo him to defend his person and his do nothing to protect themselves, The United States hinve minde the Wlncks citizens; they have been endowed with overy eivil and e e e An annoying bit of history hns been raked up relative to an ol transaction in which Gor. Tavron was engeged at tho time Wis. consin was raisivg troops to fill ber quota. It is alleged that tho great Reformer wns then uot nbove pocketing s easual dollar by digeounting hounties to rceruits passing through his hands as the dishursing agent of the town in which ho resided. Of courte, the Demoerntic papers aro prompt in their deninls of tho seandal, but.an ugly cir- cumstance in tho slmpe of rn affidavit by Farmor ‘Pavion’s partwer in the Lounty- brokernge business scemd to furnish furlher grounds for uncasiness, It is what tho Dem- ocrats particularly dislike, this mvival of old war {ssus, According to a Vienna letter to the London Ties, tho two Austrian Commnissions sent to interview the Bosnian fugitives who have talien refugo iu Austrin s to the causo of the insurrcction mscertuined that the upris- ing in Bosuin was not tho result of sympathy with Herzegovina, but was rather due to the policy of persecution eonfonced by tho Turks to prevent the spread of tho revolt. Tho plau of pecification adopted was pecul- -urly Turkishi; it consisted in the arrest aud jmprisonment of the eldors and otlier influentit! men of Bosnia, who only regained their liberty npon the payment of large sund. Tho fer of a repetition of these outrages led to u disiunt to the mountaing and preparations for re-sistonce, Tho movement failed to ncyuiroforznidsble proportions, both becauso of o lack of wrms and ammunition ‘F‘l the fact that raany villages romained pas- sive. ——— nother bicssing to taz-catems under tho charter of 1872 is foreshadowed in o proposi- tion to creste thooliosof City Coroner, Auor- dinanco to this end has boen introduced in the Commou Council, making the offica one of tho most valuable in the city, It contem. plates that the City Corouer shall reccive a feo of ¥10 for enel investigation mado by him, and that he slnll attend to ull puch busj. ness within the corpornte limits, Some idea 1way be gained of the ouormous income from such an office when it is remembered that the daily average of deaths occurring from other than natural couses in Chicago is not less than five, and as jurors are en. titled to €1 ocach, the oxpenso to the City Treasury would reach about $125 per day. There iy absolutely no necossity for such an officer. Cook County already hns a Coroner and assistant, who are paid stuted salarics for attending to all cases ocowrring in city or county, and who would bave practically nothing to do, &3 nine-tonths of thelr present Lubors consiet in the holding of inquosts upon deaths within the city. It would seem in- crediblo that these should be any prospect of the success of s shallow scheme of plunder iu tho Council, hut it is us well that attention vhould be colled ta it, ‘The Chice.go produce murketa wero irregu- lar yesterdny, Mess pork was in fair demand and a shwle firmer, closing ut §21,95@22.00 cash awl 82140 for October, Lard was mnoro aetive, and advanced 206 per 100 1bg, closing at $13.62) cnsh or seller October, and $312,074 seller the year, , Meats were in ‘better roquest and firuy, ut 736 bo for shoul. dery, 11fe for short ribs, and 12a12le for short clears, Highwines were in fair do. wand and §@1o higher, at $L16j@1.10 por gallon. Lake freights were quiet and un. chyged, ot 2]e for corn to Luflslo. Tlour was quict und weak. Wheat was getive and declined 1c, bat closed only o lower, et $1.07 cash aud #1013 for October. Corn was act. ive snd 162 lower, closing at 56530 cnsh snd Biko for October, Outs were setivo and §@jo lower, closing st U¢jc for Beptomber and 420 for October. Rye was morv active and steady, at 75@703c. Barley was dull and 1@ 2a lowey, elosing at @107 cash aud 8102 for political right that white uen con claim. It in asserled that the male adult colored people of DMississippi outnumber tho whites, a4 threo to two, and that, with those whites who are Rcpublicans, the Demoerats aro in a minority cxceeding 40,000 votes. But the whole Democratio populntion aro not Ku-Kiux, It is safe, there- fora, to cxsuma that the raffians who commit, or ara disposed to commit, tho outrages do not exceed one-fiftih or one-gixth the able- bodied men of the State, Tho Govern- wment of Mississippt in all its depurt- ments is in the hands of the friends of the colored men, 1t com wuster tho mili- tin of the Stato snd avm them ; the Governor of the Stato in o West-Pointor, aud an experi- enced soldier, ablo {o organize the State troops, aud able to command them, Mo is charged by lis office with the duty of en- fordng the law and maintaining thoe peace. Backed by the majority of the people, he cortainly can have nao trouble in exterminat- ing the ruMans and banditti, aud in bringing some of them to justice. In such a procecd- ing he would bave the moral and political support of the law-nnd.ordsr poople of the country, without suy cxception, We know of no way in which Gov. Axrs can so read- ily win the admiration of the country as by simply doing his ofiicial duty. But, -igstend of theso people arming them- aclves, and protecting their lives, homes, {familics, and proporty against tho local ban. ditti, they submit to be murdered and out- roged whenover the ruflians assail thom. Instead of meating force by foree, and letting daylight through them, thoy submit ignomin- jously to overy kind of personal outrage without striking a blow in their own defense, "I'hero is no animal that will not try to defend itself,—even & worm will turn against the faot that crushes it ; but these colored men of Missisyippi, who atand in the proportion of four or Jive to ono of their assailants, never lift & dotermined land to ropel force, and nover offer 1o atrike down the ruffisn who violutes their howes, An “outrage” organ of this city plends the baby act in behulf of the negro, and Buys: “Thers fs i all this no touch of charity for the help- Tewn condition of the neyro Just euierged from o wtato of wlavery ; no thought of geusrosity and forbearance toward a race loug Lield 10 o degrading bondage, Dui thero fa wierely tho cold demand that the negro must Dgbt or dle, The allcruative fn preseuted of aub- misslon or resivlance 0 an oppressin which the Consthation declares sball nevor sgalu Lo fastened upon auy helng o the form of & uau, Bub i pre. seutiug (Lia aiteruztive 10 the negro it veeins to be for- golten thatat ju presented to no other wan, In tho €a50 ol tho while cltlzen it dows uot occur to the Gove erument tn anki Can be protsct Limsclf? Can Lo auccessfully grapple with Lin would-be aggreusor? Ca b kil the susn who secks to kill ki ? 'Chis is runk nonsense, Why cannot a col. ored wan protect himselt? Why can he not grapple With his aggressor? Wiy can henot Lill the man who secks to kill him, as well ns tho whito men? Lot it be known that no man {n Chicago who way be wssaulted will defend bimself, but will submit unresistingly 1o be robled, his homo violated, his family outraged, and himself munlered, snd how loug will it be before this city will bo attho marcyof thisves snd mssassing? The best protection o man bos is tho knowledgothat, if assailed, ho will defend bhimsclf by avery possible weans within his veach, 1t #3-4hat certaluty that men will defend thewselves that detery crimingl violenco, Bo long ns theso colored peoplo rofuse to strike 8' blow in their own defense, so long will they invite the uttacks of vuffinuism. 'The State Government of Missis. wippl is lorgely responsiblo, Its pusillanimity unnerves tho peoplo ; iustead of organizing wilitary force, nnd in person pnuishing the ruftiong, —arresting the wurderers, and kill- ing thom on the spot, or bringing them to trial, convietion, and exeoution,—the Govern- oxy avery time thers isa diaturbance or a mirder of n negro, hastons to the telegraph ofico and implores the Presidant to send him family and his liberties from violence and outrage, then ho must confess he is n fnilare. At lenst let him #ry to defend himself, aud to the extont that o falls short in ability to repel agyreesion the Government will make it good and supply fhe deficiency ; hut the first thing is to exhibit a good long list of killed and wonnded Ku-Klux when the villaing attack him. ILet tho negroes Jearn to be men, and strike back ns men do, and the country will be tronbled with fewer nccounts of outrages on megroes in the Soath, LET US MAVE FACTS, ‘When Gen, Graxr was first nominated for President, his senténce, * Let us hava pence,” struck the key-note to the great need of tho country, Now that the time for nominating his successor nppronches, the great noed is of a differont kind, We need facts,—fncts on the cureney question. The people may be re- lied npon to decide the caso correctly, to vote in favor of honest money, provided the facts are fairly pnt befora them., 'Tho great dangor is that they will take Lold assertion, ropeated from platform to presd, ns o state- ment of fact, aud will sobo led into error. Chief among tho inilation orntors of this country, the men who rely upon their imag- inntion for their facts, nnd bLoldly nssert what a modicum of study woull show them to bo untrue, is Mr. Wesprun Prrenres, Tho lettor which we publish clsewhere, in which n eandid and courteons Seotehman ro. views one of Mr, Privrary’ outpourings, ond riddles tho fallacies which are theroin put forward as facts, 1 refreshing reading. The Boston orntor snya: England never know more pronperous yosrs than from 140 to 1620, during which me sha nclther hud ol nok wishod to biava it, nor promised to pay gold to nny ono whatever, Her enormous trade and cx- pendiiurcs were all paper, and oaly paper, resting on credir, and nothing elxo. In 1620, England, ylelding to theorlats and dreamers, tried to put thia new wino into old bottles, snd drogged her businces buck to methada a century old—to spocts and bankruptey, ‘Taking this o8 his text, the writor mildly remarks that this picturo is a pure foat of the imagination, In 1814, 240 Enplish bruks failed. Wide-spread wretchednoss followed. The dobates in the Ilouse of Commons wero foll of tho want and woo of tho people. It wns esserted, and assertod withont contradic. tion, that thoe nation was more miserable than it had been since the Norman Conquest. Mr, Vaxsirrarr moved, i Parlinment, that the Bank of England notes, then passing ata varying discount, should be equivalent to coin. Bgovansx added ap amendment that two and two should make five, aud tho orig- ioal motion wee laughed down, In 1519, specio payments wore resumed. Confidenco waa restored and trade rovived. Whilo En- gland wos in torriblo siraits botween 1800 and 1820,~the time which WiNprLy PurLrars calls hor ora of prosperity,~Scotland was far better off. ‘Tho notes of her banks wero convertiblo into gold. They thereforo circulated without fluctuation. On one side of the Tweed thero was o depreciated currency, business embarrnss. ment, and goneral wrotchodness; on the other, & stablo currency, flourishing trade, and popular plenty, «This case finds paral- 1cl ou our continent ¢ thoe presentday, Can- ada has a sound currency and sound business. Across the border-ling, wo have an unsound currency and unsound busiuess. To this cause and to the tariff tho corre- spondent in question, Mr. Breenry Masox, rightly attributes the long continuance of our hard timex. Ho points out that England now monopolizes the markets of tha world, becanse our high tariff prevents onr manufac- turers from ecxporting a tithe of what thoy would under free trade. This Scotchman hits tho nail on the head when he says: “With free trade, you would vory soon bo our most formidable and keenest compotitor.” THE SECRETARYSHIP OF THE INTERIQR. The question, Who will be the now Sec. retaryof the Interior? is beginning to attract some attention in political circles, In June or July last, the President detormined to have o new Secrotary, and it iy said sant a lctter to Derano, gently informing him that Liin resignation would bo accepted. The Beo- retary, in roply, the story goes, begged to continne his tormn until such time a8 a Com- mission, to be appointed by the President, could investigato and roport upon the Mansi- ‘Warxen charges, promising to resign upon the conclusion of such a report, whatever might b its character, The President ne. coded, and appointed the Commission, and the investigntion is now pending. Mean- while, it is understood in political circles that Becrotary Drrano has handed bhis resignation to the President to take offect Oct. 1, nnd the quidnuncs are busily at work divining who is to fill the vacancy. Among the names which have been already suggested aro those of the Hon. J, Russery Joxes, ex-Minister to Belgium, and now liv- ing in Chicago ; Judga Tarr, of Olio; ex- Gov, Dexxtson, of Ohio; and ex.Gov. O. U, ‘Wasnuuay, of Wisconsin,—all of them com. petent men, and men who would fill the office with ability and credit. The Ohio politicinns arguoe that, as the vacanoy will bo made in that State, it should bo filled from that Btate until tho end of the Presidential term, and geuorally put forward Judge Tarr a5 the propermau forthe very important place, 1fe is undoubtedly one of the nblest men in that Btate, aud would make n first-class Sec. retary, 1lis speoches in tho present cam. palgn show that he is & man of strong meutal grasp,. Ho iy popular with the think. ing peoplo of Ohlo, and is o man of sterling Lionesty and inflexible decigion of purpose. Ex.Gov. Dexsison wog formerly a Cabinot Minlster, and is now ons of the District of Columbia Commissioners ; but there is no cer- tain kuowledgo that he oither wants or would tuke the place if it wera offered him, It is equolly doubtful whother ex.Gov. Wase. BUBN, of Wikconsin, wauls or would take tho place, or whether the President would feel like juaping over Ohio to go so far West for a Secretiry, If he should go to Wiscon. sin, the ex-Governor would b the Lest man in that Btate for the position, He would meke an officer of high executive sbility and un. swerving integrity. ‘With repard to the Hon. J, Russees Jowzs, there ia a diosltion on the part of same of tho Eaatorn politiciana and papera to halittle i ghilities and convey tho idoa thnt his ap- pointment wonld not be a firat-class one; that he would not fill it to tha complete saiis. Laction of the prullie, tor bring to the afice e necesenry ability for the performanee of ils dutics. 'T'his either shows that they purposely underrate Mr, Joxes, or that they do not know him. 'There are foew moro sagacious, keenor- witled, brighter, or more popular and affabla men in public lifo than he. During the Presi- dentinl campnign of 1868 he was ono of the most netive, efficiont, nud shrowdest of all tho members. of the Natiounl Contral Committeo, and his political ability, hia knowledge of men, aud his keen and aceu- rato foresight wero shown in the results of the campaign in the doubtful States. Dur- ing his six or seven yoars abrond, as Minister to Belginm, he was the most popular mem- her of our entire diplomatic corps in Furope. Ho never Liesitated to placo himself at the gervice of Americaus who camo to Brosaels, and they could most liberally command his timo and hospitality. e kept open house, His hospitality was unbounded. 1is good humor wns never disturbed, ITo was invaria- bly sunve, affablo, and courteous, and in this respect wos the prince of the diplomatic corps. ‘Thero wera very fow Americans who came awny from Europe with enything but the pleasantest recollections of his courtesy. While tha relations between the two conntrics were such ns to require no special oxhibition of diplomatic talent, he uever fniled to perform any duty thet was re- quirod'of him in the most satisfactory man. ner to tho State Departwent. Trobably neither the President nor Mr, Joxrs have ever had o serions thought with referenca ta his appointment ta tha position in question. 'They aro old nud warm personal friends, aud undoubtedly the President would like tohave him in the Cabinot. TFow men would serve lim and the country more intelligently or efficiently in bunting down the corruptions and asbuses of the Indisn Ring, in the Pension, Land, and Patent Bureaus, and running down the rascals who swarm about in these parts of the public servics beeause it is so difficult to detect them, But Mr. JoNes bas purchased & comfortablo homo in Chieago, with tho intention of going into busincss, from lonest bread-nnd-butter motives ruther than those of fame. Those same papers which are now belittling him wero the first to announco—nlmost before he bad landed— that he had come howo o invitation to take the position, Ag we have snid befors, it iy probable that neithor ho nor the President have given tho subjoct any attontion what- ever; but, if the President should appoint him, wa should have no hesitation in indors- ing the appointmont as a good one, certain Festorn newspapors to tho contrary notwith- standing, THE NEW BUILDING ORDINANCE, Thero is much to commend iu the new building ordinance which has been intro- duced into the Common Council, and which will shortly come up for conideration in that body. 'There is no doubt that the pros- ont ordinpnco is niterly inadequate. It is not only very defective, Lut is #o contradictory and contlicting in many respects that it is susceptiblo of all sorts of constructions, The new ordinance, wo are informed, has received in the main tho npproval of the underwriters in this city, and o dotsiled examination re- veals a great many valuable improvemonts that lavo beon nltogethor ignored or badly treated in the existing ordinance. Tho new regulations suggested in regnrd fo the cornices, oaves, parapets, cte.; the exclusion of the incendiary pine-shinglo- roofs and combustible composition roofs; the requirement that tho Mansnrds shall contain nbuolutely no wood; tho addition of motallio stand-pipes in all buildings more than B0 feet high (which ought to read “60"); the protection of tho floors, beams, joists, and portitions by incombustible mn-. torinls in gll tha large and high buildings; tho protection of stnirs, hatchways, and openings; tho provisions for soparating flues and furnaces from the wood used in the construction of tho interior,—these and many other roquircinents rendor the proposed ordinanco & vast improvemoent upon the prosont law, and we sincerely hapo that thoy will be adopted. But thero is one clause in tho proposed or- dinanco which geoms to us to vitiate all tho good tho ordinanco contains otherwise, It rends : xc, 112. No wooden building or sbed of any de- seription shall be erectad injtuo district bounded on the weat by Halsted, running north on Ialsted to Indidus, east on Indlann to Wells, north on Wells to North av- ouue, exat on North avenus to Lako Mickigan, thonce soiith o Thirty-ninth street, weat on Thirly-ninth strect to Blata atroat, north on State o Twelfth streot, west on Twelfth atreot to Halsted; and no frame bullding of any description shall bo raovod i this dis- trict whore 1t 1s neccesary 1o croas any publlo strest ar alley, This looks very much ns though the pres- ont fire-limits, which ara coextensive with tho city, are to ba sbolished, and restored to the former limits. If the law is to prohibit the erection of * wooden buildings and sheds of any description ” within a certain district, the inferenco is irresistible thot the orection of such combustiblo structures is not prohibit- 2159, 20 per cent of the entire property of the State ta dischargo the indebteduness. It is theve fara to ho proposed to * keala ™ the indebted. ness, and hring it down tnabont 810,000,000, sehieh it in thought may bo carried. But will not the people conelude that, if they may re- pudiata i part of tho debt now, they way re- pudinte the rest’ at some futuro time? We suggest that n beiter way is to institute n strict examination, and ascertain whethor tho Btate is really vesponuiblo for the F14,000,000 or $15,000,000 of railrond indorsements, If ot, let that bo lopped off, and pay in full the honest debt remnining. 'here is no dis- grace in refuning to pay n debt fraundulontly forcad upon tho State, for which no consid. eration was ever received ; and, if Alabama hins any debt of that kind, the peoplo will bo justified in resisting pnyment, that they mny poy all the debt honestly contracted. e MURICIPAL INDEBTEDNEES, Mr. WiLLiam M. (inosvivon, of St. Louis, lias been making n recent investigation into tho munieipnl indobtedness of this country, and given the rosnlts to the New York T'rib- une, His wonrch domonstrates that Mr. Brarve hos rather understated than over. stated tho locnl debts of the country in the ¢xhibit which he made nbout a year ngo, and which nttracted so much attention at the time. Mr. Braye estimated the aggregato municipal indobtedness, near the clowe of Inst year, ab §570,000,000, This showed an enor- wous incrense within four years, since tho censun of 1870 stated the municipnl debis (exclusiveof Stato and county) to be Ri28,- 244,520, But Inter investigntions, covering n period of fivo years, show that Mr, BraiNe'a eslimate was n low one, A recent number of the Financial Chronicle gove a list of city seenritics, which showed that tho bonds of only thirty-two cities in the country (excln- sivo of their floating indebteduess) amount to. &625,002,728, or nearly as wmuch ay Mr. Braine's estimate of the gross municipal in- debtedness, But tho last annual reports of Massachusotts show that the cities in that Stato nlone, besides those included in the thirty-two cities citod above, owe $36,914,63¢, In Ohio, the reports show that tho citics of that State, ontside of the cities included in the Hinancit Chronicle's statement, owe 28,000,714, Thus the bonded debt of ‘the thirty-two citios, nnd the citics of only two States among all those mnot included in that list, nmounts to 371,457,076, or a larger sum than Mr. Brame estimated for the whole country. A comparison of the census stalement shows that these cities owed less than two-thirds of the total municipal indebtodness of that timo. Assuming that this ratio remain tho snme, the presont showing would make tho nggre- gata municipal indebtedness $850,185,614. 'T'his is o higher rate than even Mr. Guosve- xon is willing to accept. Hotherolore makes o proper allowanco for a smaller ratio of in- crense in the citics whero statemonts aro not wmade. Tho increase in tha thirty-two citiesbe- tween 1870 and 1875 was 160 per cent. The inerenso of tho Massachusotta citica not iu- cluded in tho list of thirty-fwo is 130 per cent. 'The incronse of tho Ohio citics has been 200 per cent, Tho averago in- crenso in the two States has been more than 160 per ecent. It s entirely within bonunds to assumo that tho increase in the other citics of the country has been 70 per cont, or loay than half of the averago increnso in the States of Mnssachu. sotts and Ohio. Upou thia bnais, the aggre- gate mmmicipol indebtedness of the country at thiz timo amounts to $758,000,000, or nenrly £200,000,000 more than Mr. Bramve estimnted. Now York furnishes & proof that the esti- mated increase of 70 per cont is entircly reasonable. Froma statement furnished ro- contly by Gov. Tirpey, it appears that tho maunicipal debts of that State outside of New York City, Brooklyn, and Albany, have in. croased 119 por cent in less than two years. It should be stated, however, that the thirty-two cities which have o total bonded.indobiedness of §525,082,728 have sinking fands that amount to 362,443, 053, Deducting thiy, the net indebtedness in thoso cities, and thosoe of New York, Mas- sachusetts, and Ohio not included in that Ust, is $551,684,638. Add to this the debts of the other cities in tho country, upon iho ostimated inerense of 70 per cent sinco 1870, and the net munioipal indebtedness of tho country, aftor deducting rosources, is atill $706,672,497, In an articlo which we printed a few waoks ago, wo drew & comparison between the mu. nicipal indebtedness of this conntry and that of Ureat Britain. This comparison may now bo extended atill further, The avorage muniei. palindebtednoss of twenty English citics small- er than London is about 230 por capita. But the minor American clties, with about the samo population ns these twenty English cities, owe about %92 per capita. The con- trast is prosented in still another form, The roport of the Local Government Board In Great Britain shows ihat, deducting tho Tritish national debt, there s & total local indebtodness of $360,000,000, or about 11 per capits. T'nko the swme looal indebted. ness in this country, including everything ed outside that district, Building-Inspeotor Barey, who bhas framed or sopervised . the froming of tho ordinance, says that this is not his futention. That may all be, but that is not the question for tho Council to determine. 'The question is, whether tho Courty will not construe this limited prohibi- tion to mean that anywhere within the clty- limits Lut outside the boundaries expressly defined iu the sbove paragraph, the erection of wooden buildings and sheds is permitted, They will not discover any other reason why this paragraph bad boen inserted. If it was the intention of the Commen Council to pro- hibit the croction of wooden buildings overy- where within the city-limits, it will be held that statemont would have beon clearly made, aud the distriot would not have bcon de- fined a8 above. We can put no other couatruction upon it, and heucs it is impera- tivo that the Cowmwmon Council shall strike out thisclause when it comes to consider the new building ordintuce, To adopt it while this construction is likely to be put upon it, will .destroy all the advantago of tha other provislons of the law, and ulmost ruln the city, We must takio no backward stops in this vitally important matter. Wo have ate tained the safoty of making the fire-limits ab- sgolutely coextensive with the eity-limits, and the welfaro of the city domands that wo shall finaly stand by it. To rctrace our stepsd, ovon by inference, will cost us millions of dollars annuplly in the destruction of prop- erty and the incrento of Insurance rates, and utrika a terrible blow at the oredit of the oity. Ono of the ost serious problems con- fronting the Alabamu Constitutional Couven- tlon is the treatwment of the Htate indebted- Including the :milroad guaranty, the aees, lnm s about $39,000,000, while the value of the taxable wropsrty of the Biate U oply oxcept tho national debt, and we have 342,070,617 160,000,100 769,000,000 TotLusssserresvnsnnesensseonsnnaess SLISLOTOET ‘This i o local indobtedness of about 40 per capita for all the people in this country, or abont threa times an great as the local in. debtodness per caplta In Great Britain, The straln in this country is still moro notable when we count tho interest paid, The in- torest on the lacal indebtedness probably av. ernges 7 por cout, which would make it 843,~ 000,000 snnually, while tho interest on the Diritish local indebtedness does not exceed $16,000,000 a year; so that, whilo the inter. ost on our national indebtedness [s wore than $40,000,000 less than Great Dritain pays on its notional debt, the total interest we pay every yeor on all debta is from $10,000,000 to £00,000,000 more than Great Britain pays on {ta total indebtedness, The statoment of local indebtedness does not fully set forth the full measure of reck. lassnoss sud extravagance that eharacterize our Municipal Governments; for, notwith. standing the stariling increase of local in- dobtednesy, taxation has likewiso increased st & frightful rate, A statement of fifteen clties (New York, Philadelphia, Bouton, Brooklyn, Bt. Louls, Chicago, Cincinnati, Jersey City, Louisville, Newurk, Olevelaud, Han Francisco, Providence, Albany, Milwau. keo) showa thot the taxable valuation of property has increased nearly $1,000,000,000 within tho lust five yoars, and tho tax-levy in thoso citics, which was £64,000,000 in 1869.'70, wus §97,500,000 in 1874-'5, It only renaius to be statod that in not ono of those cities Wiz the debt reduced within the time mentioned, so that tho in. crome of taxation was dovoled, aside fr0m tho payment of lateresd oa the bonded 000,000, According to this, it wonld take debt, to the pagment of curvont expenacs and lacal improvemonts, Tn 870 tho wholo sum raised by Btate, county, and muuicipal taxes was about $280,000,000, and tho most eareful astimata now places the reventio exacted from tho same sonrces ot H363,000,000 annually. "I'his ir over aud above the incroase of debt. Deducting tho Stato taxes, the County and Muaicipal Governments raise 205,000,000 n year, and have ndded $1:0,000,000 to their indebtednoss within five years. According to this, our local governmont roally costs, in taxes and incroased (e, 230,000,000 an. nually, or more than thoentire aunual rev. cnue of Gront Britain for all purposen, which in 376,000,000, ‘Wo kave 8o extonded this slatement of the startling increnso of local indebtedness nud municipal expences that we dofer comment thereon, Wo shall take occasion another tima to teaco tho canses and follow out the’ logical results of this unoxampled oxtrava- gunce. Meanwhilo wa commend this exhibit to the earnest considoration of our renders, as presonting tho most serious problem of popular government, and forecasting the most threatening diknater which tho indiffer- enco of tax-payers to loeal politicu is likoly to Lring upon them., AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 'fhe posple of the Dritish Isles consumo about a *quarter,” or 8 bushels, of wheat per eapita onch yenr, 'The figurea are Inxgo, but none the less true. The poorest classes eat bread made of wheat flour. A foolish pride or Inck of appreciation provents thoir using corn-meal, Efforts to introduce this nutritious, cheap, and economical food have all failed. Jouy Sruanr Miwn Jong ogo pointed out the advantage fo them of this change in their diet, but they will notchange. Oat-meal forme part of tho food used in Heotland, Tho fact has been madoe historie by the Bcotchman's rotort to Dr. JonsoN's rough speech: ‘“'They feed horses in En. gland and men in Beotland with the same food." 'I'he canny Scot replied: *‘And whera clse will ya seo sic horses and sic men?” Wheat, however, is the staple diet, oven north of the Tweed. Tha supply of tho enormous mercantile marino of England conmumen 8 great deal of tha grain. The omigrant-carrying steamships have to take licavy loads of it. English garrisons all over the world, outside of America and Australia, are supplied with flour by England. ‘FThese caused combine to produce an enormous con- sumption, Sinco the ropeal bf the Corn laws, the Tritish farmer has not been able to get an artificial price for his grain, Ilo must sell in compotition with tho other grain-growers of the world, Evory nation that has s peck of wheat to spare ships it to na English port, The result of this is, that cattlo-growing pays Dotter than wheat-growing., 'Tho acreago of wheat, therofore, stondily diminishes and pasturago incronses. At the same timo, the population increnses aé the rate of 400,000 a year. There axé mors mouths to foed and fowor bushels of wheat with which to fill them. Thus the British Isles import overy yenr about 8,000,000 bushols moro than they did tho year bofors. They necessarily im. port more cattle, too, The increaso in pas- ture land hna not kopt pace with the in- cronsed domand for meat. England is a na- tion of beef-caters. Whors aro ita boof and bresd to coma from ? The Continent cannot supply this hungry counntry. Holland has hitherto produced an ex- portable surplus of mont, choess, and butter, but this surplus is decronsing year by yoar. That country still supplics quantities of cat- tle, but they aro importers, not oxporters, of wheat. The American shipments to Rotter- dam and Amsterdnm do not by any means show how much American grain is entored at thosa porte, England is our farmers’ com- mission merchant. Sho buys their grain, uscs most of it herself, bnt ships the rest to Treland, Belginm, Holland, and, in bnd sea- sons, to France, Franco has become a man- ufacturing, s well as an sgricultural, coun- try, and the mnature of Lbor agricul- ture is changing. Whent is giving wey to mulborry ¢reos, vines, and pasturage. Her oxportable surplug is deoreasing. This is trus of Gormany also, Hor population iy concentrating in tho groat cities. Hor manu- faoturcs have been stimulated by a free-trade tariff, and sheo now exports large quantities of mannfactured wares and goods. She proba- bly prodaces no more wheat than she con- sumed, importing from the south s much as she exporta from her Baltlo citica, 1t ia evident, then, that the English de- mand for bread and boof is not likely to be g9 fully sapplied in the future as it has been in the past by the Continent, The United Kingdom now imports from America about half of the grain entered at hor ports, She will probably horoafter make gtill largor drafts upon our grain-flelds. As soon as n safe and ohenp mothod of carrying fresh mont across the Atlantio is devisod, shewill become a pur- chasor of our cattlo. Tho conclusion of tho whole matter is, that American agriculture will probably pay evon bettor in tho fature than it basin the past. Tho incrensed de- mand for beof and broad will outstrip the in- crensed supply. Our old votoran, Gov. OdrEssy, has been down in Obio making speoches on the polit- jcal ssues, including the currenoy question, and he is reported as having said thot, if the Government could constitutionally go to the minoral kingdom to find & material of which 1o coin money, he did not understand why it could not with equal constitutionality seok in the vegetable kingdom a waterial for the same purpose. Tho Senator, who is, despite the Jjokes perpetrated at his expense, a mon of good sense, aud can understand the truth when it is presented to lim, seoms to have forgotten that tho valuo of money made of minerals or vegotables will always bo procisely what it costs to pro- duce tho inaterial. It costs o cortain amount of labor to produce n certain welght of gold. 'The valuo of that gold istho gen- cral avernge it costs to produceit, 1t any other person cun produce the same weight and finenous of gold for less labor, then the lenst expensive cost of production will fix the valuo of the whole production, If the Sena- tor will turn to the vegotuble kingdom, he will find that the value of the production is regulatod by the cost of producing it. We have no doubt that ho can by law make hay, straw, ond cabboge-leaves, a logal tendor just aa constitutionally as he can do so with paper; but we question whether he can con- stitutionally make hay, straw, and cabbage of oqual value per bulk or weight with gold. That is the trouble with greonbacks—the law fails to give them any certain value, whilo the precious metals have the same value with or without any law ou the subject. Let lim sludy out why gold is of greater value per ton than hay or paper, and ke will discover thatit is not bocause of any statute on the subject, and ke will thon understacd why Cangzass canuod comstitutionslly make hay ¥ oqual valuo with gold, Iy wit g paper or other vegetubic p # bognl tonder conunt givo t valne of gold. They remsin ve the asmo. Wo would £leo sl siderstion this extract furm H eomtortporary of Pitr. swho, wiiiing in on this gamio suhjeet. anid ; 8 8 the oasence of o0y Lo e osr futvinele Paper currency has abviourly 0o fnirfarls vine, money or coln of n eonniry i @ et of Paper qurrency In nio Lart of the cayiial of o, 8 la 90 1anch circalating erullt, i That is tho diference. Paper money merely * cirenlating credit,” and cxeiditis g promita to pay gold, which hns real valuy, iy, depandlont of itw e us mouey, 1EE VOIE OF 040, Wa give the voto of tha Sate of Ohinct (y Preaidentinl elcctions of 1561 and 142 aud ofhar clactions sinco thew. Thu highest vots polled iu tho NI SUR{TR whists wan 93,015 greater than ju 1575, shen . waw elecled by B17 majority, Of thin 63,050, nbout 50,900 wora Democ:ata and 64,680 vere Regabicany : tecretary of probable that thin your the vorn il bea full ope, in which ¢aso 1% ougit Lo ren:l 540,060, requiring the victorioms purly to havo over 870,000 votos. A light volo will b disantzoun to the Republican licl=t, oy tho full Democratie vote will bo poiled, bue e look for a fail Dap: Hoan yolo. Bax 010y, ox-Know-Nothing, ex-Lrouibllions, bat now tha Ohio Domocrstic intation candidag for Lieutonant-Cloveinsr, dovoles a targe pr of his haraugues to tho ** bloated eoupon clip. pers,” whom he denounces witiou atint, Ty bas boon cwpremliy ravage towards thowe who convert their |roperty inty bonds to escspe tazation, and recciven greal npplanse therefer, Lataty st has leulcd out that tho dirty demae gogleal ra eal hng been practieing (ha very trek he protends to deuottuze. This from tha Ciu. olnnatt Commercial on tho £ t far & house and Lot ot Sain stevet, taken for th siteof the Poat-Oftice, and i wwrful ) vive ke ¢of, too, When tha Auditor xaw, 1 tho apring followdny-—tlat is, I spring,—that he 10wy na return showlng the Case ence of s amount, (o great Colupiblan orator wis ‘“allod for, and lie had pheed hty nioney in bouds, Thy money was 1aid Liim ot (1o day beforo last Christaiss, Now, 1f he atuck hia mouey into bonds mevely to ovady taxalion, be was jruilty of & ehabby trick—a trick y terly unbecomning a gond citizen 3 und 1f ho bought ths londs a8 an {nvestmont, vt o Togalar coupon clipe Jer, ha ought not to bo Lowling about to bonduid [N g We sre Informed that ono of tho South Side cturehes in thia city has already innugurated a rovival, without waiiivg for Hrothor 3oobr, This Jooks liko businces, and ought to bo imj tated by ko other churches, Why wait for Brothex Moopy? Ke may uot got hero until winter, possibly not until spring, =ud much time must thereforo Lo loat, Be.idee, isnot this holding off, month after month, & tacié econfession upon the part of ou ministers shat they cannot got up a revival, and tbat only Mooby can? This ig pot ereditablo to their zeal or ability o roligions warkers. Again, if tley got tho rovisal undor way i will make tho work all tho casior for Lirother Moopy whon Lo arrives. As he will have nomerous othor engagoments on hand, of course his time will bo limited, and ft will boof groat advantage to bim to havo tho gronnd pro- pared for him in advance. We lave neatlys bundred evangelical miniators in the city, and their united efforta ought, at least. to atart are vival if Brothar Moobx can start one aloue. Shall fhis resumption ace ba exccutod? Will the people safer the monoy lords hure, by tho faise ay of publin lionoz, to nako the fortiues ofjtholr farailics sud ruin (heir sountry | Novor! Let Obio, standin in tho centre, ary out, liepeal] Peunsylvania ad Virgints will saswer back, Ropoal! Aud from every Siato wheea the Jelsmstinpl gt lta wator il tht Repeal | Ropeal 1 Ropealll! ‘The Obto Domocracy domand thet hls whols plan of resump- ton be Tom Euwinn. This war-whoop egainst honest money is easily explained, Mr, Ewxo, if nota * money lord.” jsaland lord. Hoelas bought several thoussud soros of 1208, on which ho owes a considorante part of tho purchase money. If the currevoy wero watered down to 15 or 20 conts on tho dok Iar, it would be muah easior for him to make his deforred poyments, It is plain that itis Mr Ewixa's solfsh interest, aa it is that of all doep- Iy-indebted bolders of unsalablo property, to have the carrency debased. 'Thoso wpeculating debtors can them legally chieat thoir creditors. Hence theso exclamation points. lie wante to makoe bla fortune, and {u willing to ece the country ruinod as loog us I He The Now York Evening J'0st huy adopted the idon of quoting real instead of shuun woney in its financial columns. It hLeads ity review io this way : **Tho gresnback dollar at 12 o’clock to-day wae worth about 86 conts gold, or acens rately 9100 in graenbaaks wora worth 85 63-100 gold.” : POLITIOAL NOTES, The Richmond Whig fears that rcpudistior will figuro in the Btste canvass in several lepis- lative districte. It protests. The Democratic Banators from West Virgiala ore divided on the cusrensy question, ono being for hard money and the othe. for paper, A Now Hampahire Probate Courthas grante! Nathaniel Head legal authorization to be plan Nott Head for the rest of his lfe, Ho thore it another {asuo disposed of, The North Carolina Conatitutional Convention hss already adopted an ordinanco limitivg the poy of membeta of the Legislatue to u por dic of $4 for a uesslon of sixty days. The roturas from New Mexloo, whicl are not nearly complets, indicata thas Elbins for Dele- gate In Congress has & msjority of about 1,500 1n Wyowming Terzitory the Demoarats Lave made & cloan sweep. ‘The Reform State Contral Commitiea of Micli- gan have decided to send dolegates to tho bard- 1woney Convention in Cinoinoatl, Oot, 25. Michl- gau gooma to bo a tolerably solid Btate on the currenoy quoation. Ths frionds of Mr, Rice clalm that up to Bl widay 147 dejegaten favorabls to him bave beca elected to the Massachusetts Bepublican Biate Convention, Of these, 111 go from Boatco. Tho other delogates thus far elected, thoy 881 sand thus: For Mr. Loring, 857 Adems, 31 doubttul, 14, Tho Vioksburg Herald saya tbat Monroe, Mar- sball, Hinde, Warren, and Adams Couatios Lave oschmado {enders to Gov. Amey of mou sud arms to supproes disorder and mamtuin the peacs in any quarter of the Biate, These “.fl\l“’ ties can furnish 1,500 men a® threo hours' 1o tice. Certainly this {8 no case for the inter forence of tho Nationsl Government, it the facté 1o a8 stated, Qov, Bagley, of Michigan, jnforms the publio through the Detralt News that he **belleves o Lonest money, and wants nelther inflation uor contraction,” s opluion lu that the volume of the currency will rogulate ituelt without Govarn® ment interferonce. The way to resumé be thinks, 1s to prepare to resame,—from ‘-hlofi:: i fair to presumo that tha way to do anything to propare to do 1. The Republioan party o Misslesippl bas Leen badlysplit by the conteutions bot¥ Beostor Alcorn and Cov. Ames. Two Cooe gressional candidates bave besa pus in nan{lw tion by thie Ropublioans of thie Becond and Julé Distriots, and it {8 undaretood that the pazty I8 bob uulted in the Fourtn and Fifth Disurlotss Lauax is Ukely t0 have » walk-over ln the i Diatriod, There oad be Liitle tlanki elthar