Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 7, 1875, Page 4

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WOOD'S MUBEUM~=Mow: harn aud State, Afternoor * L Tentation,” 3(cVICEER'S THEATRE—Madfron Kireot, between Dearborn and Blate. * The Sea of Ica,” street, between Doars East Lynne.” Eeventng, HQOLEY'S TUEATRE—Randolph strest, hetwaen Clark and LaSalla, Engsgement of tuo Califoruis Miustrele, ADELPH! THEATRE-Dearborn street, corner Monros, Variety parforinauce, ACADEMY OF MURIC—-Hiaisied ntreet, helween Madieon and Monros, Engagement of W, T, Melville, **Chicago in Bllces,” INTEN-STATE EXPOSITION-~Lake shore, foot of Adams atreet, Ebz Gfljifagnm"@'fl_hmw. Thursday Morming, Octobor 7, 1875. Groenbneks, at tho Now York Gold Ex- chango yesterdny, opened at 83}, and closed a shade higher. P The Tlinois Grand Lodge of Frac-Ynsons yosterday volod to appropriato $1,000 toward the fund for tho ercction of the Washington monument. Tho I[raternity aro anxious that the sound of trowel and hammuer bo heard on the work when America rocoives her Centen- nial visitors from tho Old World. 1t s encournging to know that there is pomewhere a disposition to hold in check the propensity of corporations for mnking money ot tho risk of human life. The Contral Pa- cific Railrond Company recently applicd for permission to carry conl oil sad othor com- bustiblos upon steambonts which nlso carry pnswengers, and permission was denied by the T'reasury Depnrtinent, tho law exprossly pro- hibiting the transportation of such articles upon passenges-carrying vessels, A tour pmong the largo stables of “the city develops the fact that the cpizootic, or what- over it may prove to be, hns not yet mado its sppenrnnce in atypo so violont as to disable any considerable number of horses, A gen- eral condition of colds and influenza is noticed, but by the exorcise of exira eare and preeantion, suggested by former expericneo with tho disense, it is hoped that snother sorious visitntion may bo averted, From other cities the reports are not altogether so ¢ncouraging. . A small number of lunatics styling them- golves Labor Reformers have gone through the farca of holding a convention in Worces- ter, Mass., nnd nominnting a full Stato ticket, with WespeLn Puinars as their coudidato for Governor. Of coursa they adopted reso- lations, “vith the usual demand for a reduc- tion of working Lours, but uot pay, an in- dorsement of P.-I. Keriry's 8.5 bond scheme, and o declarstion in favor of speedy resumption, not of ‘specic payments, Lutof operations with Governmental printing- pressed to the end that every workingman shnll enfoy a volume of currency adapted to Lis notions, Here is n party and a platform after Mr, Pureuies’ own heart. o will ac- copt the nomination, of course, if only to shiow his gratitude for the distinguishied come plitaent of o mere mention of his name in couneetion with the Gubernatorial office. It will probably never happen ngain, The Grand Jury was impaneled yesterday in tho United States District Court. Judge Brovoerr, inn very temperato and careful charge, called attention specinlly to the viola- tions of the law in regard to the illicit monu. facture of distilled spirits, and to the charges of malfensnnes on the port of Gaugers and others in the Government employ. 'Tho jury was nlso cautioned to report to the Court any person who attempted even to ascertain any of its procecdings. 'The jury is an excep- tionally good one, nod will have au onerous duty to perfonm, ns there are over 200 casea which are cxpeeted to bo brought beforo it,~a greater number than has over been brought beforo a Grand Jury of this District Defore. 1t will bo scen from the chargs that tho Government intends to push tho whisky cases through to conviction without relaxae tion, while, at the sumna tiwe, there is no do- sire to make capital by a violent and indis- criminate persecution, e — Tlinois s represented in the Ohio cam- paign by a score of inflation orators, nmany them ‘Foevervics, HooroN, Busckrrronp, and oven “Mr. Speakor” E. AL IHamxes, "I'hese men aro hard at work preaching the benofits to result from having 60-cent or lens dollars. Mr. Hooroy, who lives at Ceutralia, and who haa made himself ridiculous even ta the inflationists of this Stato, is repenting to the people of Ohio his celebrated asscrtion that ‘‘it is tho Government stamp on the gold dollur that gives to that coin what valuo it has”; aud that * the Government stamp on n picce of paper is all that is noeded to mako the Iatter as good n dollar as the coin.” Strange us it may seem, there are people fools onough to beliove this asscrtion, and thero s ot least ono nowspaper in this city that ropeats it substantially every day, If Hooron had in his possgmion s pieco of rough gold of the weight and flneness of tho gold eagle, without any Government stamp on it, bo could got fu exchango for it $11.75 in greenbacke by last quotations, If, instend of taking the notes, ho delivered the wetal ot the wint, ke would get a coined vnglo, for which he could get in notes o fow cunts less or more than Lo could get for tho uncoined gold. Mow much counld Mr, TootoN get for his unstnmped paper? And how is it that the stamp on the paper does not wake the peper oqual in value to the un- stanped metal ? 'Tho Chicago produce markets wero steadier yenterdny, Meas pork was iu good demand, sud firmer, closing at at $22.40@25.60 for Oc- tober, und $19.15 seller the year, Lard wos quiet and strongur, closing at $13.30@19,82} per 100 Ibs cush, und §12.10 seller tho year. Meats were searce and firm, at 135@18{0 for short ribs, and 1{o for short cloars. High- wines wore more nctive, and jo, lower, at THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE e ——— §1.14 per gallon, Lako freights wero in pood dsmand, mnd strong, at 24e for corn to Buf- fulo. Flour wasquict and stendy, Wheat was {lass nelive, and be lower, closing at £1.10¢ | for Qctober, aud $1.10} for November, Corn { was in moderato demand, and }@jo higher, clasing at 56lc cosh, and &ibia for Novewmber, Oataworo n shade firmer, closing at 32c cnsh, and 22Jc for November, Rye was firm at 72}@78¢. Barley was in good demand, and 2@24a higher, closing nt 090 for October, and 97c for November. Ifogs were fairly nctive, and fe lower, closing steady st 87.20@7.00 for comman (o good grades. Cattle wero dull and irregularly lower, Sheep were quiet and wenk. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $117.00 in greenbacks at the elose. Tho publio will read with regret that Mr. Gronon I Dustar hins resigned the offico of City Marshal, nnd this regrot will boincrewied when they understand the causo, ‘The re- moval of the Police Commissioners was gen- erally acceptable, beeauso it was considered that that Board was responsible for the non- exeention of the laws and the licenso given to crimo in the city. Mr. DuNtar's appoint- ment was welcomed in the lopo that a change would bo made and tho lawe bo on- forced ngainst the erimingl clnsses. But Mr, Dusrar has been from the first in subordi- nate position. ‘Thé trouble has beon that he has had no anthority to actupon his own sugrestion, sud his superiora in oftice hinve nat becn in favor of the enforcement of the lawe, the suppression of crime, or the pun. ishment of crimiuals who vote tho People’s ticket, 1o hds, thereforo, been officially hampered, restrained, aud probibited from any action distasteful to the head of the City Government., 1o has Dbeen reduced to a mero cipher in office,~without power or autbority, incapable of independent action, and subordinate to the friends, mssociates, and sympathizers of the criminal classes, 1t is not surprising, therefore, that s gentle- man of publio spirit, character, nnd respectn- bility shonld withdraw from an offico whero ho wns in ono senso responsible for the Palico Department and yet without authority to act, Ile was out of place ss an oflicial asso- ciate of men who wera not in favor of sup- pressing crimo or punishing criminnls, aud henee he hind but one course open to him, nnd that was to resign, —— e THE CHARTER DECISION, Tho publio will only be interested, perhaps, in the main fact that tho charter election las boen sustained on the defective record of tho cuso ns presented to the Supremo Court, The effect of this is, that there will be no city clection this fall; that the bulk of the city officinls, inclnding the Aldermen, hold over 1ill next spring; and that Mr. CoLviy holds on to the Mayor's offico till April, 1877, or cightcen months beyond the term for which ho was elected. It was to securo this that the combination for carrying the charter was made, and for this that tho ballot-boxes were stuffed, Tt was for this that tho Common Council disregarded the order of the Court and canvassed the returns in definnco of an injunetion. Tho beneficiaries of tho decision are rejoicing nccordingly., Indeed, they seem to have been notifled in ndvance in gome way or other, as the Mayor and his friends began celebrating in the *usual way” dny before yesterdny, before the decision had been an- nounced by the Court. Whatever technicat cor- rectnoss may bo found in the Supreme Court's construction of the record as it was presented to them, the effect of ity decision can searcely fnil to bo fatal to honest clec- tions in Chiengo. 'The popular impression which this final disposition of the matter will mnko is, that men may schieme with impunity for a prolongation of their ofticial terms in definneo of the popular will, that the Election Inw mny be evaded nt plensure and without penalty by men in power, and that ballot. Loxes may bo stuffed without danger to carry any election in which thoso in possession have a personal interest. 1t ix not an easy matter to divest tho record of the mass of legal technicalties with which it was confused beforo it renched the Su. prewe Court. There were threo points, how- ever, which the Court bolow had decided in favor of the People, and upon which a judg- ment of ouster would have been given but for tho appenl. 'These wero ¢ Ffrst=Whetlior tho resolution of Jan, 4, 1575, which 19 set out fully In the first replication to the third smeuded pitcs, subimittcd the question of minority rep- sencutation to tho clectors of sald city, to bo voted upon, ‘Second—Whether ang noties of such eloellon, asd tho subects to bo voled upon, was given for thirly dngs, o4 required by the actof 1873, and hereln what conulitutos notice. Third—Whother it was nocessary to fix the places of tho eloction, and give notlea thervof, thisty dsym prior to such slection, But thero were othor points which went to the Bupreme Court ns cross-errors, which had not beon sustained on the part of the People in the Circnit Court on account of somo technical distinction made against thom, Oue of these wns that no poll.books had been kopt at the polling-places of Wards 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 11, 18, and 20; that no clerks wero ap- pointed or present at these places; that there wns no eutry of the names of votors; that the roturns wore not aitested by clerks; that no poll-lista or tully-shects were returned. ‘I'he wecond point waa that, at theso polling- places, ballots wera cast for nnd against mi- nority representation, but that only ono bal- lot.box was used; that the judges received two ballots from cach of tho voters who of- {ered thew, and deposited both ballots in the eawe box: that the ballots thus depoaited wero returned to the Common Council, which counted and sllowed them. The third point was tho allegation tht & large number of ballots were fraudulently inserted into the ballot- boxm_m( these wards, that the judges, after tho election was over, added to tho sctual count of votes 2,000 batlots which wore nover cast oven Ly repeaters, nnd that sald returns wero canvasicd by the Common Council. Tho lawyers for the ety demurred to theso points, and the demurrer was sustaived by the Cir cuit Court. That iy, theso pointa were cx. cluded from the case of (ho Peaple upon techuleal objections, thongh they wera the vital points and involved the wholo fssue of ballot-box stulling. It wus claimed on the part of the Peoplo that these omissions viti- ated tho returns aud canvass, whils the coun. sel for the city contended that they were only to bo considered with refercnce to tho actual result of the vote, and could not b brought iuto the guo warranto procecding. Tho Supreme Court refuso to sustain the Aevision of the Cireuit Court on the questions of notice, chango of voting-places, and tho subwitting of winority represontation. They suy, in effect, that the question of minority ropresentation was beforo the electors by the virtue of the stutute under which the generul charter was submitted; that tho Boyor's notice wos all that was required ; and that the change of tho voting-pluces within the thirty days coald not wvalidate the clection unlesa it wero shown that it deprived voters of the opportunity of votiug, which the record does not show. The more vital points in tho issuo~-the opon violation of tho Elee- tion law by keeping no lista of voters, having no clerks, offering but one ballot-box for twn hallots on separate questions, ete.- wore likewiso ignored bLecausa the record did not show that these omissions lud to tho ballot- box stufling which nctually cecurred. In view of tho decieion, it is evident that thers was @ Rerious crror committed in making up & record for the Suprome Court which did not include proofs of tho villniny by which the charter was cnrried. At the gnme time, this decision of the Suprema Conrt is a formui notics that men in offico may disregand the provisions of the Blection Taw, and that there in no remedy withaut 4ra. cing the feauds incident thereto, 1t moy bo that the conngel for the Peaple erred in their confldence that they could go to the Supreme Court with admitted violations of the Elec- tion Inw, and it may be that they should have trivd tho cnso on its merits, It wonld havo been an easy matter to prooure proof that the ballot-boxes had been stufied as a result of the violations of the Election law. We have understood that there was ullicient ovidence of thin gencral fact before the Grand, Jury, though not of a kind to xhow who wos gmilty of the stuling, which was nocessary to secura indictments, Bat, while this mis. take may have been made, it is a serfous penalty that tho will of the penple should be defeated ; that an clection noto- riously carried by ballot-box stuffiug shatt stand as n precedent for all future elections ; and that the very men who connived at this resalt should thercby be continued iu oflice to couspire at the next eclection to ngain de- foat the will of tho people. 'This is tho prac- tieal effeet of the decision, whatever its tech- nieal merits may be ; aud, while the Supremo Coutrt mny have nttested once more {ts ncuto perception and enthusinstic apprecintion of legal technicalities, it hias given the peoplo of Chicngo a legacy of fraud from which it will not be ensy to escape. WORK FOR TIE AMERICAN BOARD, It will be impossible for asny one but a sodden brute to read the story of the butch. ory at Pembroke, N. 1L, ns told in 'Tux Trin- vxE of yestenday, without a thrill of Lorror ot the detnils of this inbuman and worss than bratal wurder. A young lady starts for school in the morning ns nsual, but does not return ot night. Her friends and neighbors, Decoming alarmed, instituto a secarch for her and find her headless body concealed in n dense undergrowth of birehes, some distanc off the main road. Tho condition of the body nnd clothing show that she had been surprised by some inhumnn brute, that he had violated her porson by force, and then murdered hor by pounding her with a heavy onken cudgel, stampiug upon her and cutting her. Not satisfled with killing his innocent and unpro- tected victim, he mutilated Ler body, a part of it having been done, ny tho physicians think, while slio was yet alive, in the most horriblo manner. The most terrible ernolties of Eastern Thugs or Western savagos never exceeded the crueltivs of this New Hampshiro brute. Mlis work was completod by the lesser crime of stenling the fow trinkets upon her person. For this murder and cruelty there wns no provoeation except the gratitiention of the flendish instincts and lusts of tho brute who committed them. Tt is & sickening task to write of theso do. tails or to comment upon thom, and, if the murderer is apprehonded, death would bo a light pusishment for tho offense, If over o caso called for vengeanco by slow nnd hor- riblo torture, it is this ono. It almost londs ono to lose faith in humanity, aud to bolieve in tho theory that hns been advanced by somo philosophers, that there are men who are brut. ish beasts, having no instinets but those of tho wolf and the tiger, and in whose breasts thero is pot a spark of humanity left, 1t al- most induces ono to beliovo in were-wolves and human vampyres who lived upon human Lodies and blood, and roamed sbout in search of it like the brute Uenst. To comment upon the causes of this fearful epidemic of crime is hopcless aud fruitless. It is & branch of moral philosophy without any valuable practical results, Winlo wo indulge in nico motaphysical analyses as to the causes of crime, the crime goeson in. creasing all over the country, and constantly doveloping both in quantity aud in Loryor, Would it not be better, then, to cease ques- tioning so curiously as to the cause and see if we connot find a remedy ? Would it not bo more practieal for Christian men and women, especinlly those organized into charitable and religious societics, to concontrate their offorts to redoem humanity ? For instance, there is now in session in this city a large body of coger and dovoted Uliristinn workers, who year after year givo of their money and time to tho sprend of Christlanity iu foveigu lauds. We would ap-. peul to them seriously nud earnestly, without any intention of belittling the work they are doing or of doubting their eficacy, whether tho prevalence of corruption, tho frightful incrense of crime, the uational and individual demoralization in our own country, are not woro fmportant and wora imperative sub. jects for prayer and active work than the education of the Turks or the conversion of the Zulus, It is the despair of the situation thatthechurchescannot grapple with this great problem of the jucrenso of erims. 'Thoy can only caro for those within their own folds, ond sometimes find groat difieulty in doing even that, Intomperanco is the most com- mon root of crime, and yet thoy canuot even grapple with this vico, not to mention any of the othervices, Tho circle of their in- fluence never intersocts tho black tides of vice and crimo which swirl and eddy through tho olleys and byways of the great cities, and in the underground dens and haunts of the vile, where no ray of moral light ever pene- trates, With all duo respect to tho American Board of Foreign Blissions, wo would ask its mewbers whether it is not worlh their while to do sowething for personal purity, for hon- csty, for morality of life, and for religion at liome, Is it not worth while to do some- thing for the tens of thousands of waifs oud estroys in our etreoty who, without horne, frionds, or guardinus, are duily drifting into crime? Is it not worth while to do something to reclaim the tens of thousauds now in penitentiaries, jails, and roformatory institutions? If this Hoard can. not grapple wath the hoeathenism of Chicago, of New York, of Boston, of every great city and of almost every town and village of our country, if the interests of tho henthen of "furkey and Durmah are paramount to tho iutervats of tho hestlen of tho United States, then s thore not room for the orgeni- zotion of unother socisty upon a similar basis aud with similar wachinery for the spiritualiziug of our own hoathen? Ara nmot - the evils rosulting every day frow the demoralization of our heathon greater and wore torrible than the evils grow- ing out of the creods of the Brahmiuy, the Lawiay, the Mahowmedan, and the Isruelite ? Tf they cannot find it in their Learts to neg- teet the Turks, and tho Zulus, and Microne- sinns, i8 it 1ot fair to sk of them to organize abranch of their Society, an Amneriean Na. tionul Missionary Socicty, il enll into it all the sects and the moral men ontsido the churches, and fo unite their prayers, and their counscls, and their energles, to grapple with this great national demoralization ? Men and women of the American Board, remember that Gaxx and his squalid, miseroblo family are not anly in Burmah and the isles of tlue sen. They are hero at yonr very doors, in the shadpw of your churches, in {he xound of the ehurehi-bells, swearing, stealing, ighting, murdering, starving, nnd dying, while you deliberate and wonder over the fact that in attepting the conversion of Fongaree and Timbuetoo vou have ran 50,000 in debt, Genx and his family are going to destruction within a stono’s throw of where you aro sit- ting, when perhiaps they might have been resicned without expense. Tho I'embroke batchery was committed by one of the Gr family. There will be moro of them unless saved, Who can sava them so Aro they not equelly worth saving with Zulus and Turks? CHOLERA ; 1TS CAUSES AND CURE. The cholera was epidemic in this country in 1802, 1819, and 1552, It counted ity viee tims by thousands, aud numbered among them nearly every ono of tho brave phy- | siciang and nurses who voluntarily risked their own lives for tho sake of saving others in tha cities which Lecamo the especinl centres of the plague. For nenrly n quarter of a century wo havo been fortunntely exempt from this terrible eurso, It has been often rumored as coming, but it hns never cotme,~exeept, indeed, to slay o few unfor- tunales. Itd manifestations have beon spo- radic, not epidemic. There wns n genuino cholera-searo in 1873, duo to some genuino cholera cases in Carthage, 0., Crow River, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1¥76. i N imuucd, These bonds, bearing & per cent iuterest, wora issued in place of 8 per cents, Of the original issues of /.20 bonds of 1862 and of 1864 thera are hut 39,000,000 out- standing, wnd of the £-20 bonds of 1865 there nre only 3 100,000 now outstanding. The remainder of the bonded debt I in *the con- sols of 1863, 1867, and 1868, These bonds wera issucd to consolidate in ono form of debt a variety of obligntlona then ouistand- jng. These, with tho 5.20 bonds of 1864 nnd '35, constituto the ouly partof the debt npon which Mr, Ewixo, ns Beerotnry of Q'reasury, ean make inguiry ns to when they eamo into the hands of the present owners, Tho probability is that nine-tentha of them lave changed hiands n dozen or moro times sinco 1269, and that beforo Mnreh, 1877, they will hinve chunged hands another dozen of times. So that, in ease of lie success of tho Demo- eratic party, tho wholo bonded debt is to he poid fu gold, and all the talk about paying tho bondholder in * people’s money™ is o mero fraud, intended to chent, not the bond- holder, but the ercdulous voters, The second material statement mado by Mr. Ewixa s (hnt, when the National Banks liave Loen abolished, the Demoeratic (tovern- went will fnsne 350,000,000 more of legnl- tender greenbineks, and use them in the open market to purchaso outstanding honds. As oll these honds are payable, according to Mr. Favixo, principal and intevest, in gold, it will be eurious to seo how far his new issuo of greenbacks will go. The present value of greenbacks i 85 cents on the dollar. The isstio of na many more, without any provision for their redemption in coin, mny safely bo estimnted to donble, treble, or quadtuple the present diflference betweon paper and coin, and with greenbacks at 70, GO, or 50 cents Ar. Ewivo proposes to purchnso the bonds, As the Government cannot compel holders of Londs to sell them, the Government will sell its notes at 70, CO, or 50 cents for gold, and with tho gold eall in nud redeem the bouds. "To purchaso §100,000,000 of gold bonds, with Minn,, nand Ynnkton, Dakota. Emi- grants from Holland, Sweden, and Rus- sin brought over poison-particles in their houschold effects, When their Inggage wag unpacked, these particles did their dead- ly work. Fortunately, only tho emigrants suifered, They nearly all died, vietims to their own ignorance. 'Theso particles nre ths eause of cholern, They originate, ns far oy is known, only in Hindostan, Ain, the sourco of population, is also tho source of the scourgo of population, Cholera-particles can bo earried great distances without losing thoir, baneful power. A few of them, too, may kill their thonsands of human beings, for they nre not absorbed in the bodies they enter. Whethor they nre breathed into the lungs, or taken with food into tho stomnch, or rucked into the pores of the body from clothing, they emerge agnin and float in the air or frll to the ground, ready for tho next chance to murder. 'The ivsidious poikon is mow creeping westward throngh Burope. The incrensed traffic betwoen Asin and Europe makes the danger paper worth say 60 cents, will tako $300,000,- 000 of greenbacks., But the fact that the Government proposes to buy gold at the rate of five, ten, or twenty million dollars n week, and pay therefor in greenbncks, will nntusnlly lead to 8 speculation in gold, and tho purchasing value of green- backs will fall from 70 ta GO or 60 cents, just 24 the demand for gold may continue, In this way in the end the Government will bo paying 2200 to 2250 in paper for enough gold to pay n £100 boud, Tho greenback in tho menutime having depracinted in valuo, the expenditures of the Government will have to increaso in like proportion. Whero one million now suflices, it will then take two millions of paper, and, following overy precedent that has over oxisted of the fssue of irredeemablo paper money, tho currency will at Inst bo refused in exchango for labor or commodity. What, then, is to be done with these five, six, or eight hundred millions of dollars of outstanding greenbacks? They grentor overy year, Modical science must mnke great strides to meot this deadly foo of life. 1t travals with tho caravans that eross tho Russian frontier; it stenms through the Suez Canal ; it snils around tho Cape of Good Hope. Cmeein Europe, it fastens itsell upon the porscms of emigrauts, lurks in their lug- ango, and socretes itself in morchandiso. Ono man or one bale may bring it here. When hundrads of thousands of both men and beles are brought neross the Atlantic to our shores overy year, tho danger is increased many fold. 'The best cura is prevention, A rocent roport by Dr. Joux M. Woonwonti, Super- viking Surgeon of the Marine-Hospital Sorvice, prepared in pursuanco of n resolu- tion passed by Congress just nfter the caro of 1873, suggests & mofhod of prevention, Dr. Woonwonrn would hiave our Consular offi- cinls inspact all vessels clearing for the United States with referenco to the original, inter- - will by bought up on speculation at a fow cents on the dollar, and the Government will higvo eithier to repudiste them or to fund them,—in tho one case destroying the credit of the Governmeont, or in the othor adding two dollars to tho Londed debt for the one redeemed. Hero, then, is tho inevitable re- sult of the Ohio Demacratic platform, ns explained by its author and champion, FRANCE ANMONG EUROPEAN NATIONS, M. Fye pe Gmanpiy is the Homace Grerrey of French journalism. Ilo is no- toriously given o oxaggeration, but not the less influentinl in France because he ssserts himself in hyperbole in whatever o wriles or does. 'When war was proclaimod between Franco and Germany, M. e Ginarpmy pre- dicted that tho Prussians would Lo driven ncross the Ithine at the butt-ond of tho Fronch muskets very much as Mr. GreeLey shouted ““On to Richmond!” carly in the mediato, and final points of departure of the passongers, and report to Washington, by enblo, the sailing and dostination of any ship earrying infected or suspeeted passengers or goods, 'There should be an officer at Wash- ington intrusted with the duty of recoiving theso reports and sending word of tho danger to threatened ports and, through the press, to tho country ot large, Each endangoered community could then tale tho necessary pro- cautions. ‘This plau of proventionseems to be a happy combination of national and loenl effort. The expense involved would bo very small and the gain might be very great. Tha iden de- serves attention. The next vessel that enters ono of our senboard ports ny be laden with death. INFLATION EXTLAINED BY MR, EWING, ‘The political discussions in Ohio have been varled by nsories of joint debates belween Gen. Tuoxas Ewixa, tho author of the Ohio inflation platform, and Gen, Woopronn, of Now York., Theso gontlemon have mot sov- oral times, and, as hoth men are good speak- crs, tho oceasions have been of more than ordinary interest, At the mesting in Circlo. vitle, Gen, EwiNa was pressed with a geries of interrogatories on the financial question as treated by tho Democralio platform, and the author of that platform answered ns follows: 1. That he held the Coungressmen who on- nacted the law of 1861, declaring all tho bonds und obligations of tho United States (oxcept whero otherwiso expressly stated) payablo in gold, and pledging the faith of the country to that declaration, in contemipt, a8 acting dishonestly towards the American peoplo; novertheless ho would, so far ng theso 5-20 bonds may bo held, when the Democratio porty attaing power, by meu who bought them before 18G), pay them in greenbacks, Tut thoso who bought the bonds on the faith of the act of 186! have the right to hold them until paid in gold at par. 2, That the Democratio party, when clect. ed to power, will issuo §350,000,000 moro of greenbncks and tnke up and dealroy that amount of bunk currency; und to do this they will buy the bonds in open markat ag other persons do now, and pay therefor with American War, But both Mr. Gneeres and M. vE Ginanoiy represented large constitu- encles in the exaggerated views they wero bold enough to present in print. So now, when M. pe GinaroiN comes out In g serios of articles &8 a penco-advocate, and racom- mnends tho practical disarmament of France, it is safe to conclude that ho does not speak for himsclf alone, but that he represents & large sentiment among his countrymen. Whether or mnot it will prevnil against the martial traditions of tho French nation and their constitutional animosity toward the Germaus, is a question that timae alone can determine; but thero is no question but it would be to the great ad- vantage of France, and for the welfara of all Europe, if his counsel were followad, It mny be sct down as an undisputed fact that Franco cannot copo with tho military prowess of Cermany cither st the presont timo or in tho near future. Frauco hnsal- swoys bad s large standing army, but Gor- mnny i o nation of soldiers, Tho identity of citizenship with soldiery hns becomo the fundamental principlo of the Gorman poople. From tho time of tho crushing defest at Jena, and tho sacrifices and humiliation they bore ot the nands of Naroreoy, thoy began to or- gonize A nation of soldiers. Once a soldier ulways a soldier, was tho guiding rule, Actunl servico anly propared the way for re- serva sorvice with a thorough organization and anpual drilla. Every man in Gormany from 18 to €0 yemrs of nge is in some branch of cither the Landwohr or the Laudsturm, and the oldest aro subject and prepared for a call to the de- fenso of tho nation. Boldicry has thus be. come o nationnt trait In Gerwany, and not morely a trade. In Franco tho rulo has been revenied. A certain portion of thoe popula. tion became soldiers, ns othors wero divided among the lawyors, doctors, taflors, shoo. makers, ete, Tho term of service hes alwnys been loug, and retirement meant a placo in tho gendarmeris or somo civil branch of Gov- ernwment service, Nut the military strongth of tho nation bna always been represented by ita stunding army, the only difference being that in war the furloughed men wero always these new grecubacks, whatever the price wmay be, Here, then, in brief Is a fair and candid statement of what Mr, Ewine bad in his mind when he wrote the Obio platform, and of what the Democratic party will do when they attain power, Lol us exmumine the results of those several proposed operations. The en- tiro bonded debt of tho United Stjtes amount- ed, Bopt. 80, 1873, to §1,703,431,850, Of this sum, the follow.ng items aroull payable, by coutract, iu gold: . Loan of 1431, @ per cents, Losn of 15U, 6 por ceuta. This leaves $725,000, subject to Mr. Ewina's scrutiny whether the present bolders of them bonght them before 1869 or since than. ‘We Lavo put down the new 5s at fivo hundred millions, that sum having been subscribed, though nct all yot called into service, Outuide tho standing army, howover, thero has been no organiza. tion, no special preparation, and no disposl- tion for military service, Tho lesson of the overwhelming viotory ot tho Germans in 187071 was that France could only Lopo to miensure swords ogain with United Germany by adopting the German system of military education and onobilization. It was dotermined to try this system in a spirit of revenge. Dut the French have underestimated fts exacting nature, It is a systom that cannot bo built up in o few years, uor upon a foundation of sentiment and eclat, It requires above all indomitable will, unrelenting perseverance, und tirelesy patienco. ‘Thess are not Fyench charactoristics; they are German, The sentiment of glory end the passion for rovengo will bardly outlast the universal dovotion of a whole nation for two or three geuerations o atlaln tho strength necossary to their zealization, 'This is probably what M. pe Ginaunsy, with the prescience of truo jonrnalist, haw reengnized komowhat in ndv anco of his countrymen, If his infinence can persunds Franco to exereiso its natueal Fighit asn Republic to dewy ont from tha eon- tenions of ambitious despotizme, abandon tho hereditary spiril of revenge upon Germany, practically disarm except for parpores of domestio protoction, and turn its forces in ihe direction of industry nnd commeree, it will bo the happicst possible solntion of the problem of ‘natlonnl existence. ¥rance has tho resources of o great commercial nation, Ita exports are inerensing and imports do- creasing. Tt in nlready goiling back in trudo the enormous fine it paid to Gerinany, aud s recoining German gold into French monsy, ‘They ean afford fo resign the vaunted posi- tion of n great military untion to attain that of ngreat commarcinl nation. If the French will utiliza in tho latler direction tho hard- ships, labor, expense, loss of time, and re- casting of nntional eharacter necessary to nte tain the military prowess of Germany, they will be better off by millions upon millions of money, and the peace of Enropo will bo inflnitely Dotter assured than it is to-dny, when nearly every nation is siraining every nerve with a vicw Lo possible war. R — The Chicago Dilutionist sy, Thero ts only one succesnful Toqd 10 Fpecia pay- ‘ments, o that §ractically amonnts to the maum thing— viz,: the appreciation of the greenback 1o an equabty fn valuo to the apecte dollsr, This road i3 throwgh tho general revival of buriners, and 1his cau only bs attained through an abondsnt ctrrence, and In wuch form that we cannot bo deprived of It by vur forelgn ereditore, Botween 1570 and” 1875 there wos o mng- nificent ¢ revival of business,” but there way no appreciation of greenbacks, Aftar the panie thero was o large appreciation in the value of greenbacks. As busin revive after tho panie, the apprecistion of the greenbncks censed, aud as business con- tinues to revive the greoubacks hinve censed to npprocisto in value, ond in fnet Lfve declined, Iow long. at this rato, will it take for them to rench specia valito, especial- 1y if the revival of business be coupled with abundant inflation and dilution of the irre- decmuble currency ? Iy it not a fact ovident to auy intelligent mind that, so long es the wmaoker of anote refuses to pay or redecm it, tho noto enn mever Lo nt par and remain thero, but must fluetuate 2 A third specimen of barbarous ignoranco is thus conspicuously displayed ¢ & 80 long an tho precloun tmetala constitute tho moncy of our creditor countries wo cun have Lo assurance of plenty of ““siraw to make briek,” or, In other worda, uficient carrency for a prosperous basiucss, if anr curreney, to uses bulllontst expression, {38 * world- wido currency.” Thore Ja no such A thing w & world- wldo currency, Money, liko patriotiem, belangs to ono's country, and not to the world, Tho world takes no more of our gold now than the balanco of trade remuires, nud it never tool less in tine past, Our trade with, foreign nationg is carried on precisely ns i tho trade between oll other nations. We buy goods ; we pay for them in our national prod- ucts; and the bnlance, if any, we pay forin coiu, All other nations do business in pre- cisely the same way. Wo call especial witen. tion to the intelligence which boasts lhat foreign untions will not take our currency, and claims that the depreeiation of om: paper is a measuro of nationnl patriotism ! Onr merchnnts doing business in non-exportable paper, having little or no manufacturea that can bo sold nbroad to supply the deficiency in our exports, have to scll their currency Tor gold, nud export that to pay theirbalances. "T'hiat i8ntl tho gold that is necossary to carry on onr foreign trado. 'Tho gold paid for dutics is paid out ngaiu ns interest or sold for green- backs. Tho troulle with our deprecinted currency is not in relation to our foreign trade, but with reupect to our domestic busi- ness, ‘Thero is no difenlty in getiing gold by giving grecubacks enough thorefor. Any Chicago bank will sell any person a gold draft on New York for any mmonnt, There is no genreily of gold for all business trans. actions, 'To got gold, however, requiree the sale of greenbacks, and it is the price paid in groenbacks for the gold that fixes the valuo of tho paper currency. If we had specie payments, wo would export gold ns now to pay whatover balaaces may exist in our for- cign commerce, and wo must continue to do 80 tatil American manufactures can be ox- ‘ported and sold as freely as onr agricultural products, in exchpnge for whatever wo buy from abrosd. The world will purchaso what- over we have to sell ab the world's prices; ond 1o elpim that the greeubacks have a potriotic value becauso olher nations will not accept them, is to argne that it is not patriotic to produce corn, and wheat, and’ cotton, and tobaceo, snd provisions; which other uations purchase oven in prefercnce to gold. Tirtexs, the great lyric artist, made har debut n Now York on Monday uight, apparontly with etccess, although tho paners of that city differ gomowhat In their opivion as to her prosent nbil- itios. Noone doubts her past grealuess, As her tour throrugh this country will bo watched with great lo%orost by reason of hier oxtraordle nary roputation, wo reproduca in brief the opin- iond of the press as to her merits. Tho Sun eays: * From the carliest notes of the noblo in- traduction to the arin it was ovident that tho elnger no longer held abaolute control aver the volco, First tho tono itsolf was norther fresh nor puro, and secondly tho power of kustmnivg or diminishivg tho tone waa lmpaired.”” The World ways: ‘“After all [t 4 a voice fur action, not for exhibition. Livosted of the ‘niotive and tho cue’ that the situntion furnishos upon the oporatio stage, wo misy tho charactoriatio flavor which in pleasing tho sonve 8n. ofton atones for tho lack of emo- tion and pawlon, It iy a voico thst ie dramatically guided *.and impolled.” Tho Ierald says: jho illustrated tho Dbroadth and scope of # magniticant orgnu, which Lis4 suffered much load thau ons would imugino from tha labors of a long and arduous career. Occaslonatly a faulty note could be detoctad, Lut there i1 & completenasy in her art aud a force and exproasion 1n hor singlug Which spoedily offacos tha effoct of the fuult, What sho lacks ia sympathy, Even when bho i3 grandost sho falte to thrill her auditors with any emotion be- yond o senso of hor grandour.” The Z'ines eayss “ho lower tones are perbaps a littlo worn— potuitly maro veiled than acutoly worn—but the upper onoe uro of absolute purity saud clarion powor, sud thew charm and' forco are ouhsnced tenfold by tho esso and cortain- ty with whioh they aro soundod." The Tribune sayn: ' That bor grand and poworful voico has not tho frosbuess of a quarter of a century ngo of course goes without saying, Rosesare not porennisl, Undaubtedly thie voice in somewhat jmpeired. But tho groat singor shows horselt in this, that her magoificent ar¢ triumpha over timo, and carriea hor on to fresh victorics after a carcer which would bavo loft almost any other prima donua exhausted," From thesa opinious the reador csn make bis own selection, In one point, however, thoy aro all agreed, that s, the beauty aud porfection of hor astistio wethod, When s troman can do tho same work ss wall B4 0 1080, Wu 800 0o veason why sbe should uot go to worlr and do it, instead of silting down and moaruing over the crualtios of tho tyrant man, or golug upon a platform sud makivg » speech about 1t Mle. Founnies, of the Com- muuo of Laurico, iu Brittany, evideutally tokes - == thisview of tho sitnation. Tho othor day tuceq wan & plowing mateh in tha communs, Ky mado hoe npyearanes with her ylow, and, ey there was nothing to hinder, the jud2e3 altoney e ta entor. Sho oxesnted her wark bettey Lhan avy of the met ond fourtcen minites aopn. ox, and went homo witle the firet prizo, There can bo 1o question that Mile. Founvien jmg lor riglte, e e = A The magnificont equatarial tolesanpe at Wash, ington, 26 Inchos In dlamelor, the only onoig the United Statea that {8 Iargor than the Chicagq instrument, has boon put to good use minco j wan placed in the Naval Obsarvatory, in 1873, T'rof, Bitoy Newcosrs, LL. D., bas mado s rerieg of abservationa of the satellites of Uranue ang Neptune, aidd reduced them Ao a8 to give to the world n nioro precino knowleidigo of tho clementy of those bodies, 1fe makon tha mann of Uranyy to tio to that of tho nun e 1 to 22,000 and thy mnss of Neptuno s compared with that of tyy tun oy 1 to 10,350, —— Iuppy Is tho bride that the sun thines Tthon, pya tho proverh ; Wotca tho tecont dsmpnoss § ducelly ehargeablo to tho wedding-cpidemly Lot's eno for damnges, X s ‘Thia is rogular Toreign Misslonary woathe, Tho esuso of tho heatticn nover reigns but jy pours, ® e The Americans Borad with Forelgn isstons nevor meot in convention, No Lall could holg thent. i PERSONAL. Gon, Benjamin Alvord, Paymaster Goneral ¢ 1o aymy, I8 =4 the Palmer Honse, Ex-Licut.-Gov. Pound, of Wisconain, wasy gueat of tha Grand Pactlle yesterday. Aloxander MoDonald, Mayor of Fond du L, was & puest of tho Tremont Houso yestordsy, Jotin 0. Cathoun’s last surviving child, Ye, Clewson, died a fow days sgo at Peudioton, 8. C. i Suppone (len. Bheridan should have his head, quartera mored to tho Pacific Const. Thoy ssem to bo vory tisud of him there. ¥, M. Joukins, of London, of the firm of Cook, Hon. & Jenkina, dealors in roady.made tourn, is at {he Blorman Hoaso, Tronounce Titiena, young fellow! You wit find it casior, though, to ask your girl to thy concort without mentloning namoes. ook out for tho epizootle. Wet westher § suro to bring It. Mon with rough horso-seny will appreciate this persoval warning. Brooklyn in all agog in consoquence of My announcement that Prof. Bwing thinks serionsly of necepting the call to tho Tompking Avanu Conygrogational Chureh, dont Gilmau, of the Jolns ITopkins Unic ¥, will rotnrn to Baltimove enrly in Novew- Yor. 1o has beon lately examining somo of ths educational {nstitutions {u Munich. “Your littlo lawyer,” says Obarles Rends, *is o man who hay parted with tho good sense of a layman, and has not advanced ono fnch to. wurds the seionco of a Mansfield or a Story,” Hesldents of Tawrones,” Mans, spoak with great tonderneas of tho lamented O'Baldwin, M wau's residont of Lawsenco noarly two years baving quorters in the House of Correction, Carruth, tio Vinoland editor who was shot by Landlg, is faillug rapldly. e hes alreadyso. coptod money-componaation for his injuries, snd if Lo dies the law will not bave a hold upon bis Tnrdorer. d Stephen TFiske's dramatization of Tonurson's Quoon Masy,” which has been produced a the Arch: Bereet Thontro, Philndelpnia, seems to bea sad pinco of Lotehwork., Teonysen would golne to spasma {f Lo could avan sco it ju maouseriph C. K. Mecker, o Lioutenint in tho Unlied States Navy, racantly made two nusuceossfalat tempis to commit suicide at Poughkeopais, N. Y. Ile was on s wav to Chlcago at the time, and doubtlesy thought ho might 28 wall tale 3 shoil cut to l'arsdise st onco, aud ba done with it ‘- (iod blesn Roaton,” sava the Galveaton Newl speaking in belialf of the sufferers by thets cont inundahions in Tozas, Chicago also hu roagon to knov that thoso solid mon have teadet hearte, A Boston mau's first feoling for euffers Ing is in bis pocket ; and it js the bost kindof 2 feeling, too. R. B. ariftith, who roprosents Limsolf ss a8 employo of ‘it Curcaco Tuwnoxe, and who bore rowod €3 from tho propriotor of an cnling-hoost at Dunlap, Ia., Is o fraud. Pass Jim along—s0 Jail. Ho lias presed on soversl mailresds, sad with theso advantages ought to rench his destic uatlon in & lonely cell befare long. Prof. W. D, Gunning is delivering a populat cautdo of locturca on Cieology i Milwankeo Somo ardont sdmiror, whoio name msy be guossed, writes to Tue Tninuve ibat the Profeesor is * ono of the most noted scientists of tho times," and ** coe of the moat accom: plished locturers hefore tte public.” Cant. Albort §1. Leaguo. a tug-boat com: mander in Dultimore, Iately asssulted and st tompted to kill with & pleol Fathor Gaitley, of Bt. P'atrick’s Chuaeh, whom ho sccusod of infie- onciog bis daughtor to jolu a religlons ordss kuown os tho Bisters of the Iloly Cross. The girlis but 18yearn of nge, and though shomsy bo a Biater of tho Holy Cross, sho seems tobe tho daaghter of au Incarnate floud. Har fatherd rolationsbip to tho holy erons is manifustly that of tha imponitent thief. The prieat's life we savod by a bystander, who caught tho descend: ing hawmmer of thie platol on Lis thumb. The young folks' correspondence of Tme Car cavo Trinuse Lias considorably diagrautied $h8 Cincinuati Commerelal becaugo it haa doveloj only intenaoly eolfish views of martisge. Palisw! 1t will do no harm, Young peoplo of sense &0 not marry in_accordance with auy precogeaived “yigws,” Thoy Just fall Iu love, and thare's 82 ondof them. Nor van ftbo said, either, tost the young Iady with threo millions in herowd right, who wants to warry a poor but Ix_ouui Jjournalist, takes **a nelfish viow of marrisRe. Bho iy manifently & generous, ag woll ag au acui® snd truthful, little woman, Mr. Bonjamin Moran, United State s Minlste? 1o Lisbon, I8 visiting in Loudos. 'Ho was ® yagscngor on the Boyue, whick was wrocked 08 therocks off Brost in August, Thirough the lack of discipline on board, all the pmfl!fi"‘z Darely escaped death. Thoy ware (losting sbou in boats without tillers and badly lorking wero roscucd by some Lnglish weackers who Liapponad to bo in that locality lookwsg for 82 Eughsh steamor which had previoudly gt down in tho sawo plsce, A Norwegiau bark l\P; proachod thom, but coolly sailed sws¥ witho fl- offoring reliof. The salioraof the Boyad “‘ u00n a8 tho voasol atruck tho rocks, broks apeiy the ulorcs and sppropristed the Lquost 827 robbed tho passengors’ truuke of moue: J“"n 1y, snd overyshing of value. A Moran ll;.“ that Lis lowsen woro mora thon §1,760, 824 th4 1( tho compauy daea uot reimbarse hins be Liave recourso to law, HOTKL ARRIVALS, Qrand Pucifio Hotel—E. W, llartaborn, £, Waods, Catlialo, Pa,; 0. E, Yorklus, W, I, Whitlug, Genova Lakey L. Cotburn, Keo 8, 11, Petors, Loutsvillo; I, W. Davis, Keviuki a6 11, Canfleld, Vermont; F, Ueckley, Bt Fauli B 5 Cunninghaw, Cinclonatl, ., Gardner Houae=TbLEs 8, D, Cochvase, Miseour! J. L Dags S0 el Sorgan Vaughin, Eaton Rapids, Mich. ; Jo New York; the Hon, 8. F. Daowe yis; the tlon, B, W, Eills, Goshes, I Olispin, Missouri ; tho ey, J, 1. Olower Putmar House—G, A, Miliard, Loulw 1tan, J, I, Baker, Gosben, Inds We Tau iilan Binkler, Han Frauclaco ren, Beotland; P, M, Bowmaz, M, Pletighity, Lotton, 81, Loute; ¥, A, Magos, Bosloui e, 0 Jiugliaus, Wisconuils, . shernan Hous—L Colllus | Mobbins, Eufeksy Nevi = Jo ard, Corey, Paj A Buumpsogy Yone Oui Ik I, Wilion, ‘Bteriivg, I3 J. Groascits, Coustautine, Mich,; John, hu’T E. L i Liudsley, New York £, vemont Louse—W, A, Dostan; W Burlipgton i is, Penutylny ‘: aabluse Gourye s alasgow Rockwaye