Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 27, 1875, Page 4

L} THE" CITICAGO TRIBUY rra %2 MONDAY: SEPTEMBER 27, 1873. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATES OF KURECRIPTION (PATABLE IN ADYANCR). T"estnge Prepnld at this Offces Datly Edition , post-paid, 1 sear, Darta of sear 813.00 Malled ta anr addresa FOUR WEEKA for L. 100 Bunday Faitton: Literary and Koligiovs doubls i X o0 WrKRLY BDITION: U: 1.50 B AR R Ay A00 Weaj - Ciub of {wniy. 20:00 e Iven Copy yrith Frery Cinb of Ticent, On all clabs tho subscriber must remit tha postage, which 1416 e34ta 8 oDy Per yonr, Epecimen coples sent free. To prevent delay nnd miatalics, ha sure and glve Pes-Ofies addeers In (), fucluding Stateand County, Remittances may be mada cither by draft, espreds, Fost-Oftice oriler, or fu rocinfered lotters, at our riek. TERHA TO CITY AUNWCRIBERS, Daly, delivered, Sundsy excepled, 27 coute per week, Daily, delivered, Sunlay Jocinded, 30 cents per woek, Addreas THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madiron tud Dearborn-te,, Chicago, fil AR TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUBIC—IIaleted stroct, betworn Mudiron and Monros, Engagement of W, T. Melville, “ gmoke,” TI00LEYS THEAT! Clatk and 1aSalle, E Minstrels, Standalph_steeet, botmoen goment of tle Califoruis WOOD'S MUSEUM—3louron street, between Dear- porny and Sinte, Alternoon, East Lybne,” Evening, “Caste " and ¥ Kiss in the Dark.” ADELIIII THEATRE—Dearlorn etreot, corner Monror, Enmanement of tho Mckoo Rankih Troupe. 4 The Two Orplians.” McVIORER'S THEATRE—3Madinon sireet, between Dearborn and Btate. * Running a Corner.” CHICAGO TIIEATRE—Clerk street, Letween Ran- dolyh snd Lake, * ThoTwo Urphans,” INTER-STATE EXPOSITION—Laks shore, fool of Adama street, "BUSINESS NOTICES. REAUTIEY TIE BKIN BY USING A HARMLCSS toilrt n.qxumll\m Known as Usargs W, Laird's “liho.n of Yourb\' Tt will ronov taw, freekie other disfiguramonts from o thin, jesvity wmoath, clear, And Loantiful, without showen the slignts ot treago of linapntication, Yoroale by als drugziste 1o 1ho United ot os, 3 o, ot it The Chicagy Tribune, 1875. Mondoy Morning, Soptomber 327, At the New York Gold day greenbacks closed at The newsis o little slale, owing to civ- cumstances over which nobody has any con- trol, though we suppose the fact should bo recorded, that tho O'Coxnzry Centenmial way celebrated with greab spirit at Melbonrne, Ballarat, and other cities in her Majesty’s proviucy of Ansiralia, Prominent among the local religious events of yesterday in Chiczgo, sud which are duly chronicled in this issue, wus the valedictory germou of the Rev. lomatio N. Pownns, whose connection with St. John's Episcopal Church s its rector terminntes, greatly to the regret of his parishionors aud of the people of Chicpgo in general, who have come to re- gard him a3 one of our brightest pulpit luminaries, Also, n sermon by the Lev, C. W, ‘WrsprE, Unitarinn, whoso topie is the great presying univorsal want of A Man,"” Fathor @121 for short riby, nnd 123c for short Highwines wero active and }e lower, 115} per gollon, Tnke freiphts wero modirntely setive, ot 2e for corn to Boffalo. I'lour wad in fair demand aud ensicr on now, Whent was more active and 1}¢ higher, clos- ing at £1.07} cash and 21,05} for October, Corn was in good demand and advanced 1e, but closed weak at 56)e cash, and 53a for October, Onla were moro active and irregu. lar, closing at (i for Scptember, and $2¢ for October. Ryowas quiet, at T1@75e. Bar- Iey wns stendicr, closing at $1.09) for Hep- teniber, and 81,02} for October, Tlogs were in nctive demand and wero stronger, closing 10¢ higher tban on Friday morning. Sales waro chiefly at $7.75@8.00, The cattle mar- leet was activo and stendier. Bheep wero in- netive and nominal, at $3.00@5.25. One hun- dred dollars in gold would buy $116.50 in greenbacks at the close. ‘Weo publish this morning nmong our Wash- ington dispatches tho correspondenco be. tween Seeretary DEravo and President Grast relative to the formor's resignation, tendered nearly three months ngo, amd its aceeplance. A close personal friendship has for several years existed between the President and Mr. Drraxo, and this will in somo mensure ac- connt for the thatlering indorsement of tho Secralary’is oficial nbility and integrity, and for the allusion to the * persccution henped upon him by the public press.” A bitter ex- pericuee in nctunl newspaper persecntion of the most malignant type, together with n ruling characteristic of that trusting and fer- vent friendship which refuses to believe any- thing but good of a friend, aud, mercover, n Lindly tendency, also characteristic, to smooth the pathway of a retiring member of his Cab- inet,—nll these conditions peculiar to Presi- dent Graxt bave operated in favor of Mr, Drraxo, who, in proof of the sincerity of the President’s expressions of esteomn aud confi- dence, can at least point with satisfaction to the fact that hiy resiguation wus not accepted with alaerity, THE LOGIOAL REIVLT OF THE 3.65 BCHEME, On Satwrday we hed some suggestions concerning the issue of 3,65 bonds by the Government, convertible at pleasure into wreonbneks, Wo propose now briefly to irace the ndoption of such a scheme to its conclusion and logienl consequences. The plen beging with abolishing all bank or other notes, aud issuing in len thercof additional greenbacky, making an aggregate issue of SETHL000,000 o commenco business with, 1bo holders of these greenbacks to havo tho privilege of surrendering them at any time, and receiving therefor Government bonds bearing 3.6 per cent interest, Donbling tho volume of greenbacks will necessarily depreciato their gold value, They wa now wortl about SGeenty, Lot us concede that the new scheme will not knock them down below 75 conts in gold value, or, what in tho snme thing, in purclimsing power. “I'he nggregate deposits in all the bauky of the United States aro sbout £2,000,000,000, Lalf of which is in the savings banks. T'hese deposits, to begin with, will lose Tonuay, o deposed Catholic pricst with a bad record, and one who evidently courts noto- riety in any form, spoke to a creditably small audience, and, in the courao of a somewhat freo discussion, got comsiderably tho worst of tho argnment. In addition, wo print an interesting collection of sclceted mattor relay tive to the Roman Church and its presont conspicuous position in tho affeirs of the timo. = - The Bonapariists of France, although in o hopeless minority at present, have not aban- doned ihe idea of an ultimate restoration of the Napoleonic dynasty. At the recent con- ferenco in Switzerland, at tho chatean of Ev- GENIE, o policy was motured for the party: The ex-Empress resigus her regency, boing, itis suid, unpopuler by renson of her Ulira- montane proclivities, leaving tho Prineo Im- perial oy tho solo end of the movemont, tho youngster to be guided by the couusels of M. Rouvaem, whose clevation to the Premicrsbip of this imoginary linistry indicates tho despotio charneter of the Gov- ernment which these arch-conspirators are contriving to re.establish, A strong bid for populerity will bo made by an incessant demand in the Assembly for a plebiscite, thing giving an appesrence of leaving to the people the seloction of the form of Government. .Altuguthur the programmo is & bold one, but if, a4 nOW uppears, tho nehemo Is utterly Quixotic, it wight w well be hold ns cautious. P it e ‘The financiel magnates of Peru are offered adoleful choice hetween rag money and no money. They have Leen called upon by tho Lropident of the Repullic forn loan to the Government of B,000,00 toles, The bankers have offered 1,000,040, but this §4 scorned by His Excollency, who declures that if the entira nmount called for is not fortheoming o will issuo the whole sum in Government notos, “bosed on tho faith," ete. With tlig dire threat hauging over them, the unfortunata possossors of monoy with a fited valuo are in o painful quandary, Pho two nlternatives wure about equally dis. tasteful and Qisastrous, since the crodit of Poru as o borrower is at o low b, ond the pruposed inflation, with o legal. tender claune, would amonnt Lo riin in the end. Pig.Iron Kecrzy and Old Bion Anves should hasten to Peru, where their viows on Lnance would be certain to scoure for them the most distinguished conuideration at the bands of the Presidont of that Republie, ‘That was a sound, practical sormon which the Rov, Father Warpnow, of Bt Johu's Catholic Church, iu this city, preached to his ock yesterdsy. Tho good pricst, in hls walks nbout the parish,—a notable ono forits extrome poverty,—found that the stroots were full of magged and horofoot boys and girls who shonld go to schoal and to church, Looking decper beueath the surface than is the wont of clergymen whon they look at all at such things, Futher WiLvsox discovered that pride—tho fact thut they are barofoot and rigged—ia ot the bottom of it all. Now Lo didn't forthwith wscend the pulpit and hold forth upon the sinfulness of pride; ho commeuded it instend, and struck at tho real xoot of tho evil when he carnestly appoalod for funds to clothe theso sonsitive litile ox. flos from school and church, Baid ho; ** Give them the boots first, then, we can got thew to tho books afterwurds,” ‘There's tho true missionary iden in & nutshell,—boots be. foro books,—audthe result will be that Father Warngox will succeed in furnisliog both, ‘I'ho Chicago produce gnarkets were gen.. erally stronger on Baturday, Mess pork was uctive eud 23@306 per brl bigher, closing ot #2400 eash, and 22,20@22.96 for October, T.ard was quiet and 5@100 per 100 Ibs higher, closing at 18,40 cash or soller Octobor, aud- 1200 seller the year. Meats wore in fair foquest aud firmar, at 8}@8jc for ahouldurs, 200,000,000 of their present purchas. ing power, As wa cxplained in tho previous nrticle, the interest on %750,000,000 of greenbacks at 3,05 per cont is over $27,000,000, and to get this interest would constitute ou irresistiblo inducement, or suction power, so to speak, to change grecubacis fnto 8.65 bonds, which bonds would circulato as money just os freely a3 bonk-notes now do. In g fow months after tho proposed bill goes into effect not less than $700,600,000 of the greonbacks will disappenr-from circulation and reappenr in 1lio shape of 8.65 bonds, drawing an interest of moro than $25,000,000, which, ndded to the loss of the taxes derivednow fromtho then nbolished banks, will causo a doficit in the Nutional Treasury of about £33,000,000, tobo wmndo up by an increnso of tazation, Tho bonded debt of the United States would thus be incrensed by fully 700,000, 000, nud there would bo an equal sum of idle greenbacks piled up in the ‘Freasury. Buta part of the sehemo is to reissuo this currency. Dut how? To got them back into circula. tion the Treesury must go into market and parehase 6 per cent or & per cont gold bonds, These, with grecubacks worth 75 cents on tho dollar, will cost ot least 135 in green. backs, To purchnse a $100 bond will re- quire $135 in greenbacks, and tho recciver will immodiately sxchango his $135 for 3.65 bonds, receiving therefor abont 5 per cent interest per anoum. The $700,000,000 of idlo greenhacks will b thus kept pushed on the market continnously, and necessarily their valuo will constantly depreciate, Tho 8.65 bonds will of themselves becomo o cur- rency poassing from land to hand. The greenbacks will steadily depreciato es they aro reiwsued, ond 3.65 bonds will becomsa drugin the soarket. As their interest will Lo payublo in enrrency, there willbe no foreign wavket for them, Tt is snfo to asenme that nobody will sell their gold bonds for lees then 150 or 160, and 50 up to 200, oy the greenbacks are forcod on tho warket, for the purchess of theso gold bonds. Thus, to buy 131,000,000 of bonds will cost At the start b least $1,500,000 of greenbacks; and the receivers then will in. stantly convert them into 3,65 Londs for the sake of tho intorest. Thus tho bonded debt will incronso half o willion for every million of gold bonds purchased ; and, after awhile, for overy million of gold bonds purchosed, two millions of 3,65 bonds will havo to be is- sed, because tho non-intorest greenbacks Will go streight back to the Treasury, in ex- change for currency 8.65 bonda, At the end of the time necosanry to got dona buying bouds aud issning 3.06' in their pluce, we shall have somothing like the fol- lowing result; § 500,000,000 bonds prrchaned a4 135, .8 675 cars, 000 LOONOI) Lowds Lurchased ut I, * 835,00 __Si00 venak Jurchaded 4407 1 S0t $§1,602,000,00 $2,360,000,600 In other words, wo wonld have changed §1,000,000,000 of 6 per cents und $300,000,- 000 of & per conts into £2,500,000,000 .,', 8.65 por cents. Tho presunt interest on tho 6 and & por cont bonds aggrogutes 585,000,000 o year; the interest on the 1.65 Londy m,'“.,,, sary to replace them through purchese by groonbacks will bo at the lenst 491,970,000 o yoar, 'I'io resalt will bu that we will increaso the annual interest six millions uwnd a quarter of dollars, aud add a tousend willims of dallars to the principal of tho bonded debt ! After this point would be reached, and there would bo no more bonds to buy in, there woald be stacked up in the Tronsury 700,000,000 of greenbacks. How could it bo got into cironlation? A class of * dead. beats " propose that it shall bo loaned out to the * peoplo™; nud, of course, a8 fast aa it was loaned outit would be convorted into .05 bonds, until the latter wonld swell billions and-the whole thing burat. Hore, then, 1a the 8,85 bond schomo oarried 10 14 vertain, inevitable, aud loglonl woncite sions, Just na rapidly as the new honds ean be issued, the greenbacks will bo rshed back to the Treasury ; and ns fast as it beeowes necessary for the Trensury to purchase okl Vonds, the price of the Intter will he rushed np. We have put the probublo rates at whicl these old bonds might bo purchased at 115, 165, and 200, in greenbacks, but this ia alto- gether too low an estimate, ospecially ns the greenbacks will have to bo sold for gold in order to redeem or purehnse the one thonsand millions of bonds held in foreign countries, The Sceretary of the Treasury has during the last three years exchanged 500,000,000 of 6 per cenls for an equal amount of ¢ per cents. In due time he will be able to redueo all tho 6 per cent bonds to 5 per cents, aud, if the business of the country wero on n permanent specio basis, thero is no doubt he could find a market for n loan at 4% per cent, The pevpotunl agitation of the question of inflated currency, and tho public advoeacy of o perinnnent paper-money basis, so affects national credit that all oper- alionsof the 'Creasury are embarrassed. Bt of all schemes that have been devised to pateh up nrotton paper-moncey systemn, this thing of issuing depreciated paper to buy np gold, and having the paper famdable nt par in interest-bearing bonds, is the broadest burlesque upon common sense and financial poliey. Thore are now $170,000.000 of greenbacks ontstanding, If the option were made to tho holders of theso to fund them even inn 4 per eent gold bond, payable forty or fifty Yyears henee, wo have no question that the great bulk of the legal tenders would take that form of investment, even at their pros. ent yalue, But if theso smme motes were to Do agein issued to purchaso fold and gold bonds, and seld of course for what conld be got for them, their value would fall to such an extent that their ex- change for the new bonds would be simulta- neous with their issue. The whole pro- ceading would be equivalent to the vedemp- tion of the present bonded debt by the issue of new bonds bearing 3,65 pur cont carrency interest, in the proportion of two now bonds {or one old bond, thus practically substitut- ingarate of 7.0 per cent interest for the present & per cent, and at the same tine doubling tho debt, CHICAGO BUILDINGS IN 1875, 'The St. Lonis papers ave still at their old gnme of brag with referenco to the number of now building permits in that city during the yeav as compared with Chicago. The Republican says that St. Louis will count 4,000 new buildings for this year, and cou- troste that with n atatement of a paper in this city that only 887 bailding permits hiad Leen issued in Chicago during the past vight mouths. But the Reprblican omits to explain, or perhaps did not know, that ono building perwnit in Chieago mny cover n scoro of dwellings or n gront block of hialf-n-dozen storerooms. ‘Choro have booa erected or aro in process of construction in the West Di- vision alone more than doubhs 837 structures sinco Inst spring. When the yoar expires we shallcount np all tho now buildings. For tho present it is sufiicient to say that Ohicngo is building oll sho deeds, and sho needsn good many new buildings to accommodate her over-increasing population. 'ho amounnt of money expended this year, from March | to Jan. 1, for building, will rcach fully $10,- 000,000, paid out in tho coustruction of rolid buildings of brick aud stone, No framo buildings have been orceted, and hun- dreds of old frames havo been demolished or removed outside the city Hmits, Theso 310,000,000 bavo produced results which could not have been accomplished with §14,- 001,000 at any timo beforo the panic, Thero is more to show for the money expended this yeor than could have been shown for tho samo amount at any timo daring tho pnst twenty-five years. Our people have learncd to build not ouly in n solid aud elegant, but very ecouomical, manner. Building matorials luve bocomo o vory importnnt branch of local mannfacture. Stone of excellent qual- ity is obtained closa by the city, is quarried mpidly and cheaply by labor-saving appli- nuces, and is brought to tho city at very low cost for transportation., Tho samo general fnct in true of lime, sand and Dbrick, roofing materiul, lumber, glass, puints, and fin. ishing work. It ounly required about three-fifths as mueh to put up the buildings of this year as it would two ycars ago. The vncant lots of a year ago in the old burnt district axe most of them filled np with fine blocks. A nurober of the principal streets re comploted with continu- ous rows of business buildinga from river to lake. Senrcely a lot is now vaennt, A largo proportion of the 60 acres in the Socond and Third wards made vacant by tho flre of last year has boen recovered with good, eolid buildings, aud in the suburbs buildings are going up literally by the acre. Chicago has built exactly what she needed ; if sho has not done moro, it is Lecauso sho has not required more. What she has done is to accowmmodate the natural overcrowding of the city, ond our citizens have improved tho opportunitics to baild, because it was the bost thing they could do with their money, The improvement of thousands of vacant lots wns the best investment they could make with their monoy, and in almost every in. stanco tonants bhuve been sccured in ndvance of construction. Chicago is sufforing less and has less to complain of by reason of the panic of 1873 than almost any otber city in the Unitod Btates. Mer prosperity s solid and per- mavent. 1ler trado is henlthy and strong, and her commerce is flowing securely in ita oldchinnnels. If St. Louis wanta toknow the condition of Ohicago, let her send up an observaut conunittes of citizons to look at our new buildings, our busy streets, our stores and shops crowded with customers, and tho river with vessels, and the depots with trains, and the grent wheols of trade ro- volving with resistless power and great repid- ity. There is something more palpabloe and real in this than making bogus ocensus re- ports, duplicato Clearing-House roturns, and boasttul building permits, Hoy not Chicogo bieen about sufficient- ly disgraced by the public sprees in which & large number of ety and county officials indalge from time to time, asiintod by political bummers and dead-beata ? A week or 60 ugo, it was an excursion to tho County Poor-Houso, which resulted in a grand drunk aund public exhibition of official bum. merism, The only nofable effoct of this ex- cursion was to incruase the whisky bill of the county beyond that of tho medicine bill, and divide a round sum of the publis moneys among the livery men. Saturday, the Court- House stone furnixhod an excuss for auothor etcursion and grand drunk. Aldermen aud Cominissloners, along with other city and oounty offlclals, and a lot of bammers and loafers who want to be oity and county ofl. clala, waut off to Y.emond, oatenkidly to In. wpert stone, bt really to makobeasta of then- Lobsterssalad and ehampagae were wiited upon havdsnad gullots and indurated stomachs that would hiave enjoyad sod-corn whisky and crackera infinitely belter, 'The nebresult wes the samo as {n other exenr- sions of the same nnture, vi the veporters hiad to come back to write up the old story of drunkenness and disreputability in such new Inngunge ns reportorinl fertility could find. Wo don't know (hat these eshibitfons of bes- tiality can bo stopped ns long res onr pub. lic ofices ave occupied by Dwasta; bat tho paymaent of tha bills out of the public funds may bo and shonld be prohibited. I our public ofidviala haveno longer any respect for publie deceney, and are in no wiso re- steained by the forco of publio opinion, it is tito for the Citizens® Association to atep in and enjoin the payment of the billa for these public sprees, It is too much that the peoplo should be requirad to pay for being disgraced and ontraged by their publie sery- ants. e e POLITICS IN MINIE3ITA. ‘The politieal situation in Minnesola is got- ting a little mixed in its warp and woof. The threads have erossed sud suarled, and thesit- uation may be summeid up somewhat as fol- lows : 'The Republicans held their Conven. tion and pronounced for honest, par money, ‘ito Democrats held their Convention and pronounced for hanl money also. They adopted the Republiean platforin almost bodily, It herdly contained enough of the essence of Bourbon (o Lo recognized by the most inveterato oldJdiner. On ewrency, sound money, tariff, national sovereignty, en- forcement of the Inws, cte.,, the two wero nearly identical in planks and general con- struetion. Upon the Demoeratic platform D. D. BurLn was nominated for Governor, So far, 5o good, ‘Then enmo the * Awi. Alonopolists'” Convention, a squad of infla- tion mnicontents, ten or fifteen in number, headed and failed by Iayarivs DoNNELLY, The dozen met, and, wnder DosseLLY's direc- tions, they buited o hook with inflation, rag- ooy, $.63 bonds, and other trnek; andwent fishing for o candidate. 'Tho fivst ono to bite was this same D, D, Buzty, who had alrendy seeepted a position npon the Democralic hard-money platform. All of the other Dem- acratie candidates but two bit at the same bait, and, in the pldce of these two, Prohibition fanaties were substituted. The situation re. salvesitaelf, therefore, asfollows: Rukwt, the Democratic candidate on a hard-money plat- forns, hnsnccepted the nomination of the Anti- Alonopolists upon a rag-monny, inflation plat- form. Ha hind niounted Lwo horses going two different ways, nnd is going to attempt tho feat of riding them, The St Yaul Dipateh (Democrntic), speaking of the rag.-moncy ticket, says: *‘Tho ticket will command just about two-thirds ns many voles as there wevo delegates present, and is not even so much ng o gnat on a bull's horn in tho politienl af- fairs of Minnesota.” But how nbout the Demoeratie ticket? The people of Minne- sota are reputed to bo possessed of more than ordinary intolligence nnd honesty. What do they think of tho greed and covetonsness for offico dispinyed by this man Durir? Will they swallow such spocimen of hypocrisy ¢ this without o protest ? 1f he iz nn infla- tionist, whatis he asking hard.monoy votes for? 1If hois & hard-moncy man, why is he congorting with the inflationists ? The peo- plo of Minnesotn never had such an excel- lent opportuuity bLeioro to rebuke po- litical duplicity, and we mistake their temper if thoy do not erush thiscorruptcom- bination into atowms, 'Iho political issites of the day aro too momentous, too powertnl in their influenco upon the Lusiness interests of the country, to allow of such double dealing and bed foith, politicnl trickery and persenal hypoerisy. 1t is a timo when every man run- ning for high office should be clear and un- mistakablo in his views, We submit that n man who declaros himself in favor at one and tho sawme time of sound woney and unsound’ mouney is & political charlatan, who is uot safe to bo trusted in a responsible position, nnd who does not deserve the vote of any honest man in his own party, or in cither of the two parties whoso opposing interests ho champions, Agalost such inconsistoney and hypoerisy tho Ropublicans should aim their heaviest bolty, THE CUSTOM-HOUBE BUILDING. The report of the Inst Govermmnent Com- mission which investigated tho condition of the Custom-Honso building, and the direc- tions of the Secrotary of the ‘Creasury made in accordanco therewith, rench the result which 'I'nc TrisuNe predieted at the time the local architects mada their cxamination, "There can be no reasonable question as to the corractness of tho conclusions which aro set forth in this report. Thoy liave received tho unanimous coucurrenco of roven of the lead- ing architeots, bailders, and engineers of tho conntry, and agree in the main with the con- clusions of aur loenl architocts and engineers. ‘They recognize tho defects of the original plan, tho neglect to reach tha hard.bottom clay with piles, the careless inspection of the stone, nod the apparent indilference to tho public good in making tho stone-contract, but they do not declara tho building unsatd, and therefore do not insist that errors and de- fects which are not irremedinblo shall cawso the walls to bo torn down at & cost of 1,200,000 to the public. The Commissioners make severnl recommendalions which, if carried out, will render the building as firm and sub- stontind a4 an entirely new building of the samo kind conld Lo made. They suggest (1) that the concrote Do increased to a uniform depth of 4 feet, nnd brought up to o level to recaive the flooring ; (2) that thore ba hence- forth n moro rigid inspoction of the stono, and all the defective and discolored stone now in the building be removed, and good stone in conformity to tho contract bo substituted therefor ; (3) that the weight of the build. iug above the second story bo reduced by omitting tha stono waork nbove the cornices and the stone roofs over the porticoes; (4} that tho concrete foundations Lo thoroughly secared ogafnst frost ; (5) that bench-marks shall be provided Ly driving piles into the blue clay, from which the levels of the build. ing shall be tnken. These are the principal recommendations of the Commissionory, and thoy cstininte that the additionsl cost of oqualizing the foundation will be fully offset by thekaving in aloue-culting and ornarcenta. tiop, the omission of which is rocommonded to reduca the weight, Becretary Brigrow has in no instance in his oficiul career showed wore good judgment end impartiality than in his treatment of this report. Notwithstanding the well-luown fact that his Bupervising Architect is strong. ly commilted in favor of pulling down the ‘walls, and destroying the structure, and that the Secretary himself Lhas horetofore insisted that the work should be deferred to give Congress an opportunity to investigate it, he BOW accopts the report ns final, gives it his hearty {ndorsement, and promptily orders the lomsdinte resumpilon of the work, witha complinnce to the recommendations of the recent Commission, By this prompt and decigive netion, the Seerctary of the Treasury has saved the country the intolerablo nui- ranee of o partiean Congressionnl in- vestigation, which would have elogged legislntion during an entiro session and exncted the attention of the whole people merely to make out a easo ngainst tho Tepublican party, withont any regard to tho facts, Ho hns also saved a useless weste of 200,000, which the demolition of tho presont walla sl s recoustruction of the Lnilding on o new plan would have cost. e Tina gratitied the peoplo of Chicego, the prine cipnl parties fn interest, by ordering an im- medinte resumption and rapid prosecution of tho work, so that it will not be fiva or six years befors Chicago has a Custom.Hlouse worthy of its size and prosperity, ‘Tho work that mny be dono hefore frost sets in will bo preparatory in its natare, such as to protect tho building from the severily of the winter aud place everything in readiness for rapid progress enrly in tho spring. According o the present outlook, tho Cnstom-1{onse ought to bo under n roof by this timo nest year, e e The Philadelphin Ledger punctires the rag- money argument of the intlationists that the currency has been contracted, whereby busi- ness hos suffered aud kard times been pro- duced. Tho assertion that the volume of pa- per notes fs less now than eny time sinco 1860 is completely knocked in the head. But the tablo does not exhibit the full force of the refutation, in not showing the greatly en- haneed purchasing power of the currency siveo 1866, During that yeor gold ranged fram 140 to 167, whereas thiy year, 1875, it lias rauged from 112 to 117, ehowing that the paper dollar is worth 25 to {0 per cont moro than it was fen yonrs ngo. Everybody knows that ®75 in curreney will go farther now in the support of a family, in- cluding house-rent, fuel, and clothing, than 100 would in 1866, And yet, whilo the pur- chasing power of the curreucy has thus in- creased by more than a quarter, the quantity of it is geventy millions grenter than in 1866, 8till the knaves tell the fovls that thers has Daen u fearful contraction of tho currency sinco 1866, and that tho *‘hard times” have been produced thorcby! Now, hero is a iable, compiled from ofiicial suurces, showing the slate of the currency from 1861 to 1875, It is n complete refutation of the wild and ab- snrd assertions to the contrary @ Year.|Hank notei 1961, §204,205,04¥) -1 19,794,C00}$1 N0, KR 234 e, 000] 42 HON 4152 00,0 0| eaal tend's) Fractionial, 07,000 43,00 274 3 i7a,0mi| G200] 1 39,001 & 00} 000 0,000 75841, ] Ono of tho most striking fostures of tho motropolitanism of Chicogo is the number of public places of amusemont which are support- ed. Thero aro now six theatrea in thecity which havo opoued rogular soagons, besides o host of inferior places, while eitiea liko Bt. FLouls and Cincinnat: give but feeblo support to not more tuan two reguiar theatres. It iyworthy of noto, however, that the citizens of Clilengo havo post- ponod their thoatro-going later this sonson than nenal, and tho support the awusements have re- coived thus far has: heon maluly from the sirongers and floaling population, It fs to bo hoped that this ds mno fudication of o decline of intoreat in theattical and musical entertajumonts. It vosts with tho reaidents of 8 city to determine tho character of tho public entorialnments, and it fs for them to use the proper diserimination between legitimate and reputablo placey of amusemont uud thoso which pander to low tastes and bad Liabits, Deor may be ull soll enough in 5 proper way, sud music cortaluly is, but whon they aro combined to entico young men aud young women {o cortain places which it is not necessary to uame, but whick lave bocomo na- erous of !ate, they aro both duugorous agents of vice, Tho bLest way to discountenabeo and digcourage such places is to patronizo and support the theatres, concorty, aud lectures which furnish intelicctual nug reputabio onter- {ainments either for Instruction or amuscmout, Good thentrea are the surcst ovidence of nd- vanced motropolitaulsm that o city can havo, und Chicago stiould oxert itaeclf to sustain its ex- cellont reputation ag ouo of tho baut amssomont cities in the country, g Wo desire to call tho special attontion of thoso wembers of the Common Couscll whu aro wa- vering ou tha tiva-limits question, in consequence of thy pressuro brought to bear by solilsh, fool- ish incendiary persons, to the fo'lowing ehort articlo from tho Dotroit P’ost of tha 21th inst. Tho J’0st oxpreadcs tho provailing opinion in all tho otlior citics on this continent, Tt save: 1f Clibengro adopts this ordtinaucs, und sticks to 4, aud aiso wtlekn to hor ordinance making bor firc-lum- itu cover thy wholo city, and focbudding the rumoval rom ono place ta ahother of wooden bulldings, and thelr abwolute dumolition aftor o cartafn poriol, Chi- «igo will, i o few ycars, bocoma a firo-proof eity, with ‘tho chieapest Saurance, the Mghtest Sro-advparimont tax, and tho nost permancut and bost-puying proporty for reuta on thiv cqutinent, It will wlso becomo tho Leat-butlt ity on the continent 3 for, by o natural law, buildoss—being absolately requlead to erect nono bul huildings coustructod of permanent matorfabi—will 1ake poinn to make thore bulldings beantlfal, peeing that they aro to b durablo, bocuiso & beautifil bufld: ing not only Tenta for & higher prico whou now, but will rent ter hen old than su dll-looking building, 1f Chbicago 18 10 bo Luilt, hereafier, entirely of Lrick, ulone, slnte, ' from, ud wuch durablo materialy, o groat awny of Lricilaysrs, ‘masons, alonc-cutiers, alaters, and skilled ariisnus of all kinds veeded for such buildings, bosido vast quan- titles of materfal, will bo collocted thera; oud the 1wost improved methods and the cheapost prioes will naturally result from the lare competition creatod . Whero thoro will bo 80 luge a market it wiil pay to manufaciure, import, ond kiep for aalo the vory beat anateriuln (u farge quentities, *As o result of wll” this, Chicugo will Teceivo nuew and vast bmpetun to hor wrowth, Capital will flow iuto s safe city; businees cutergrizo will uek wafa ety ; papulation will tlock ton durable and bandwomo city} akiliod Isbor will bo atiracicd to o city whero 1hero 16 b great Aud perma- ment dorwand for axill, Aud wo if Chicago uticka firnily to ber present inlention tn this respect, her great fives will prove, in tho lung run, to have Luou reat bleasluge, It would be well and wise 1f otber citles would profit by this examplo, —— e Wo tiave received tho first eight numbers'of a now serialllluatrated publication called “ Europo: Its Picturesqua Beonss aud Ilacos of Noto," published by the London Printing and Publiab- ing Compauy, to bo completod in soventy-aix singlo purts, issucd seml-wonthly, Tho lettors pross 8 by Joux Susnzn, Fellow of tue Royal Geographics] Society, aud the sketches sro on- graved on steel, two in oach nawber, by eminent artista, afier Tounss, ALLoBN, DBantiETr, Lutcy, and others, which is a guarauteo of their excellence. In s goueral dcopo it Ia very wimilar to the Pictur- esque Amorica recently completed by the Ave PLETONS fn thls country, excopt that it hns no wood-opgravivgs, Tho steel-piatos are fresh sud fluely executod, aud tho scenes melooted ara such as will comniend thowselves, not ouly to thovo who havo sosn them, bus also to thoae who have no expactatious of a Furopaan tour. When completod, tho work will have about 180 of theso plates, and will mako o magniflcent volunme of illuatration, sy well as & very Interest- ing aoo from a literary polnt of yiew. Mr. Jonx Cannotr, Room 7, No, 46 South Olark street, has the agenoy for the work. e Ar, Omances D, Wanvzs, the suthor of * My Bummer in & Garden," has wgitteu to Alry, Stows, snd Mre, STowx sends it to Mr, Bxx x8, and Mr, Begcris puta B 1o the CR: Unlon, that he (Wanwzs) and his wife bave ace Quitted him (BanoRas), Me, Caigixs D, Wane e i e e —— NEM fa now In Nubla, and, as the sontimonts of | tho Nubians on the Bescner caso would bo quito n intoresting na Mr. Wansen's, wo woniler ho «id not forward thom aleo. It i posaible, how- aver, wo do Mr. Wanven an Injuatico, Asho s A humorist, lto may bo only tn fun s e it Tha determination of Mensrs, Mouny and Sanxxy to viult Chicago and easay thioro Sheir rovieal work posecns ros sunie Interest, {nnsmuch ae Mr, Mooby has long Yarn aresident of Cliicago, and tixa isbored thera s 3 prenchier, with, truth compelt un to say, very moders afe aticeces, Whothor, with sil theanisinnen that they will recelva frow b evangelical elorgymen af tho vity, sil of whom are zoalous and many of whom are sen- satfonal, thoy will make any extomlet or purmanont myreesion on tho eity, will aon b dechded s buly a8 n seueral rule, revivatlate ara liko theatrival 'tars, mad maka o rreater sensation abiroat than At howme.—New York Workl, Hineo the aditor of the World wiolo(his sneer, Mesars, Moooy aud SAxxey havoe docided to go to Now York, Perhaps when Mr. Moopy soos this cold-blooded nttack npon hia old associates in tho pulpit, he will visit tho oflico of tho World and revivo that oftice in a mauney which will give it a botter opmion of one Clicago minister at loast, g =t An old French Canadian took ta whisky and wnA taken by dol. trem. While hy * hiad thom "' he hangod himself. The Catholie pricst refuned o bury hiwm in consecratod ground, whereupon hi rolativos threatonod to doposic him in a Frolestant cometery. This way too mnch, and tho matler wng compromised, 'Tho old slnnor’s clay was approprintely ndmitted into tho Cath- alie comotery ovor tho fouco fnatond of through the gate, Now, without wishing to bo importi- neut, whom did the pricst expect to hoodwink by this stratagom ? A Y Nasnvitze, Tean,, flept, 25.—~Tho Hon, THoMAs A, RFRCALVAL, ltepublican, was elected Mayorof (bla cily to-day by 163 majority ovee Srexcr nkin, tho regular Democratle nominee.—~I'reas Dispatch, 'Tho nssertion froquently mado in Tonnessso that tho Ropublican party in tho Htato Capital had disbanded and «disappoared ia rafutad in & vory unexpocted mannor by tho olection of tho Tlepublican eandidata for Mayor by 162 majority in & fair fight with the Democrate. The Ilopub- Ticans of 'T'enuesseo do not claim to bo ablo to carry that Htate, but they can uoverthioloss poll a vory respectablo vote. — Tho Boffalo oard of Edueation has docidod thnt 1o married woman shall bo omployed as o toacher in the public echoola of that cil Tlo Board, by this discrimiuation against Lho conju- ral reintion, is cutting off the sourco from which the supply of pupils is derived. Without pupily, thoro fu no use for rehools ; and, with- oul echiooly, thero iy no uso for Boards of Lilu- cation. Consequontly the sapient Buffalonirns are ;ommlmug aflicial felo-de-se. Fallows, d'ye sac ——— Gon. WirLias Paestos, whoso savage outery against reconciliztion at tta University of Vir- ginta tnat summer produced such an unploasant sensation untit he was promptly disowned as a spolioaman for the Houth, i not wrong on all points, 1Mo has fust doliversd an oration at tho Uenry County (Ky.) Fair, in which he made & vigorous and timoly ntlack upon @ * protective tarilf aud o dishoneat currency."” e oL Mr. Z. L. Wmite, ono of tho most reliabla Journalista of tho country, has beon exploring Goorgin in senrch of inflationists, Ilo finda very faw. Tho lcsaon taught by tho gray-vack has not been forgotten. QGoorgin wants hard and houost mony S A DParisian lady bas introduced a now fashion. The stuling ot ber chairs, sofas, and oven car- riago-custhions i compcsed of aromatic hiorbs, which emit o delicato perfume. This is tho most reentsiblo fashion yot introduced, and comes from Asia, s gt oy Tha gront and good Iast year wore not appre- clated, Tho importation of Inalian marble foll off 9,053 tovs. Monuwmenta aro more plentiful this ogsen, howover, and the large crop of peaches and watormelons will bring tho basiness .| up lively. — It i too lato in the soason now to mention it for prosent use, but sensitive Indios who do not liko mosquitoes can atwaya get rid of thom by keeping an able-bodied bat or two in thsir bed- roome. Keop it for noxt year. —— Bonton had troublo in keopiug her skirts out of wator tho othoer day, nud realizod the beauty of the provailing fashion, Bhae would havakeyt tho tde baok £ sbe could. ————— The velocipodo Is to bo uwed in tbe Italian army. It wll enable the mon to wheel into line battor. —_—— POLITIOAL NOTES, Tho Iotoa Slale Regisier ha been protty gon- orally discarded by decent Republicans in Des Mlotuos, Itim recognizod nu an organ of the Rings, and tho Des Moinos branck of the Chica~ o Infer-Occan. Democrats love it and support It 08 an slly of the party which it protends to opposo. Tho Springfleld Republican, sposking ap. parontly Ly suthority, and not as the scribes, asorts that Gen, Bartlett will decliuo the Dom- ociatic nomination fur Licatenaut-Qovornor of Mauaachusotts if Charles Francis Adams is nominated for Governor by tho Ropublican Con- vaeation. Congressman Farwell, of Chicago, will doubt- less bo surprived to loarn from the Now York Iribuna that ho iy o candidate for the Republt. can nomuation for Governor of Iliuois, Ho han not announcod himuolf a3 angious to sorve in that capacity, and it Is quite posaiblo that the Tritnine 18 misivforined, Tho doath of tho Moo, Jobn H, Reynoldy, of Albany, has deprived Naw York of an ornamont to her Bar, and politics of an nminent chieftain, Mr, Reynolds roprosented the Albauy dlstrict in the Thirty-sixth Congross, and ho has boona candidate for Judgo on tho Iepublican tickot, During tho later years of hls lifo ho was a con- sistent Republican, Bmn Randall fs protty woll backed for Spoaker by the infiation organs of his parfyin the Bouth; and this oircumstance possessos considersble signiftcanco. Tho Riclnond Whig, for instance, “hopes tho whole South will contre on him from tho firet, and stand by him to the last.” It dooa not appoar thalSam Cox has retalned all Lis wtrength tu Tonnossoo sud the Southiwest. Gov, Allen's open avowal of repudiation son- timents hes created s terriblo hubbub in the Domocratic party. Tho New York World, speak- ing for the party in that Stato, repudialea ** this hoary repudiatar”; aud the Drooklyn Eagle, certainly as {nfluential a Domoacratio organ my thore f4 in the East, advises tho Democrata of Obio to vote tho Republican ticket. Allen has gous too far. Ex-Sonator Tipton appeara to havo made a bad failure in his role of Democratio Reformer aud mniscoliancous stnmp-speaker 1n Obo, He talks too much ot Liberal Ropublicanism, which, as the Councll Blutfs Nonpariel well says, 18 & subject in which Democrats geuerally have foit vory littls intorcat aince the roturn o a body to tho Ropublican ranks of nino-lonths of thoss whom Mr, Tipton was onco popularly supposed 10 represent.” Tho Independent party of Illinols desorves to bo rocognized as tho only inflation and ropudia- tlon party in-the Btate, The Wayne County Convention resolved that tho floaucial queation was *the ouly vital lssue in tho Natlona! came paign,” and roafiirmed tho principles of the Do~ eatur platform. Tha proceedings in this county aro typical of thosa througnout the Btsto, 80 that the Independent Reformery muat be underatood wa doclaring foran sgRroasivo greenback cam- palgn. Fortunately, the party grows fesbler as it bocomes mora defiant and uncompromising. The Washiogton Chronfole gives the following statement, shbwiug the expansiou of thae cur- rency during tho iast twenty-one yeara: The prosent voluwe of paper motioy 18 $2,000.000 mora Lhan in 1874, "JIJ,M,'oanon T i 500 0,000 more than in 1672, $58,000,000 moro than in 1871, 30,000,000 1410, $09,000,000 S o o ot B S o mora Wian in 1867, $51,000,000 more than in 1, 3 001 o than T 1¥65, $155.00,00 snoro thay (3 1301, $432.0:0,000 100r0 than inn 1963, $137, 00, tian fu 1652, $191,0 0,000 more than in 151, ¢35 0 more (hatt [ 1830, 353,700,000 11010 il Iy $HLLOK000 mora than n 1EG3, E0620 LG gy e han 0 1477, §314,005,400 mors 1 D 150, 3 8 v;::‘rnum thauin 1453, nnd $3635,000,0.0 more thyy i Congronsman Beck I8 for hard monay,--[gqy. wino Ao far ny #oft monoy may not bo beteer, gy it {n possiblo to toturn to specio payments, ang giva ovary citizon & hotwo an:d lot at tho aame timo, ho poos no objection to Aolug to. Thesy Tucid viows on tho abaorbing enrroncy question havo buon funorted in Mr, Bock's hoad elncn the Honatorlal prospect beenmn overeost for iy, Bock grabbod is bnek pay In greentacka, g for this reason o has always had an affectiog for that kind of curroncy; but, on tha otfier band, it wonld ba hard for him to havo futyry prabs paid in depreciated monoy. Qold wouig be botter. The Muscatine (Ta.) Journal bhas tho follgy. ing . ** It doos not noom to bo ganorally under. #tond that at tho clection, next mowth, in ) Htato, tho voters will bo callod upon to expreyy their views on two proposed amendmants to (e Constitation, Onols to atriko ont tho war) 'whito' from the third lins of Hec. 4 of A JII. The offect of this will bn te makocol. ored mon oligible to membersbip in tho Geyaray Angombly. 'The second propossd amendment fy to striko oul the word ‘male” In Bees. 3nngg 80 na to permit womon to voto and hold offjg, ‘Tlio vota ia onlyindirect, s tho yraposad amen). ments bavoto pass tho ovdeal of tho noxt Legis. Iature boefora their final sabmission to (b clectors,” Tho Massachusotts Itopublican Covventiey meets at Worcester Wodnesdav noxt, Tt i consist of 1,130 delegates from 522 towon, which have 717, and 14 citios, which bave 413, Tpg wholo numbor of dologates cliosen up to Fiiday was 502, of which number 193 aro eaid tobe sure for Rico; of the remainder, 171 gary unpledged, ond 135 sre claimod by Ur. Tornga friends. Charles Francg Adama is Jooming up oy s good third; sudijijy vossible that bo will bo firat by the tima by Convenlion meots, Tho Spriugfield Repnllicay thinks thoe only chanco of a Repuvlicau yictcry in the nomination of Mr, Adaws. It calla upog Mr. Rica to dectivo in favor of Adams, and thay save tho party. There is no doubt that (ne movoment ia hourly galning slrength. Ruh stanch lepuolican nowspapers as tho Worcester Spy, the Boston Advertiser, the Loston Jonrnal aud tho Pittallold Eagle, spoak of it with fasor, and all scom to agroe in t&o oplnionat M, Bowles, so far as to sdmit, {hat tho nomination of Adams, If not the only chance, {a the best chauce of rallying tho party. i OBITUARY. * KSIE, JEANNE LOUISE FARDENC, Mmo, JeavxNg Louie Fanrnenc, who died fa Taris a low days ngo, was oue of the vory fow women who hiavo mado any mark it ths compo. sltion of muzic, Sho wag bora in tho abova city May 31, 1804, and displayed her musical talast at o very corly age. At tho Consorvatory she had tho instruction of such toashers as Mose cueres, HuMMEL, aod Decnes. Bhio froquant. ly appeared at councerts, and in 1812 bocams tonclior of the piano in tho Corservatory, In 1812 sho marvied M. Arision FAnREXo, a digs tingnisbod flutist, who nftorwarda becams a pub- lishor snd eritic. In 1809 sho recelvod {ls Crantizr prizo for the hiest compositions of con- cert musie. Sho contributed froquently to tha tiazelte Musicale, and ono of hor articles, * Cop- certa Historiquo do M. Feris a Paris,” has bees publishod separately. She has published rondos divertissomonts, variations, six fugdes for the piano, roversl orchiostral overtures, and soms concertod ploces for piano and violin, UORATIO HTOXE, A cabla dispateh o day or two sinco annonnesd tho death, at Carrara, Italy, of Honario Stoxe, the emnent Americsn sculpior, In his G0k yoar, o wae of Now Eugland birth, andde voted his early life to tho study and practico of modicine, in whish ho achioved a wide-8presi reputation, About 1816 ho cotomoncod model Ing Io clay, and, an his modols attracted consid. crable attention, bo left for Washing. ton two yests Iater aud commencel (ko study of tho wart. While in Wash ngtou, ho produsod busts of several public men, among them Titoxas JEprEnsoN, Chiof-Justio T'asry, and Bovator Brutox. Later ho oxecated stataes of Mr. Beston aod Joux Hascocs, which ara now in tho Sonate Ohamber. In 1834 o salled for Itnly to comploto Lils atudios, sud durlog bis resldenco thers producod a Noo statar Jof tho colebrated Dr, Ilarvey, Tho lest twe yoars of hislifo were devoted to tho execntios of amodel for the Fanuaauvr etatue orderad by Congress, for which he waa an uusaccosaful sp plicaut. DEATSIA OF CLENGYMEN, During the past weel: throo prominent clorgy men havo died,—tho Rov. 4. W. Lruysuay. wlt was o misslonnry to Cirecce Prom tho Southers Presbytorian Church, but who returned to thit country becnaso tho Government domanded ln should uso tho Catechium of tho Greek Churet ar censo teaching ; tha Rav, Jouy Cusxpens, D, D., a prominent Prosbytorian divino of Phujadel phia; and the Rav, WiLtiasi C. CLARK, of Birook Iyn, & zoalous worker in tho Methodiet Churct for thirty yoors, principally tn Mageachusctis and Now York. DN, OSCAR PRICUEF. The death of Dr. Osoan Prsonkr, the eml nout Loipsic geographer, is announced. Hi suceooded WeIbEMANN In tho editorsnip of De Ausland, and waa the suthor of & * History of Qoography to A. von Houxsornnr,” * History of the Ago of Discovories,” an * E:hnolufl"l' “ Now Probloms of Comparative Goographf and othor works. PERSONAL. Qon, Cuater and wifo are guosts at the Falma Touse. Gov. Osborn seys Kansoa has 1,600 miles of cars loaded with grain. ‘Tho Coronor's olorl’s Don Bhott, bub bt doosn't want his boss to sit on Lim. Was 1t & red-lottor day in Pliaraol’s life whea ho foll into the Rod 0?7 Thiuk it over, Gen, Albort J, Mavera (Old Probu) is amond tho prominont arrivals at tho Grand Fasile otel, Barpum's * lightniog oalculator ™ lisa bacomt & minlstor, and {a now caloulating his treasureé In heaven. 3ir. C. W. Hobart, lato of Iowa City, might flud it to bis interest to communicate with thit oftico withoat delay. James (3, Bonnets drives thvough Nawport Io an English drag. Thought te dragon Benuetd was at Loug Branch, Thero s strong circumstantial evidence that Mr. Bayard, of the Brooklyn Argus, hae returs ed from Lis vacation. According to tho Sun thore ls mow but oot religigus nowapaper la New York, aud Chasled A. Daaa is it editor, Mra, Walliugford-Tiftany, Clilcago, oto., bau been squandering husbsud's millions in Memphis. A man in Iows, by dying, made four 'Idowl; o ls probably uncomfortable saough now, b 1u life ho was tolerably quartered. Poor Elizabetl ia doing pensuca for tho past fho {4 living with Mothor-lu-lawMorse, DBoté 00 tho reunion are three to ono again. Messrs. Slche & Normau, Marino Eoglneert to the British Government, pronounce tho aalee ing of the Vanguard jmpractitable, A Toard of Trade wan who owoe s eupert yacht was Lieard toremarkon Baturday sfteruodth $hat funch had au opward tendency. Ah King goes to jall in Troy for bigamy. o A. K, taken the precaution of going to Congresd first, there wouldu't have been troublo. Mr, Disracli sald ho owed what lterary 5epos tation he had largely o tho paopls of 1b¢ United Btatess Riaracli has auch basit of 4 Iate of St. Louis, Lor recent