Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 9, 1875, Page 8

THE CINCAGO TRIBUN SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1875.—TWELVE PAGES. ir NR a TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATER OF FORBCRIPTION (FATADLE DH ADVANCE). Postnae Vrepald at tie OMecc, Dally Ealtion, post-paid, 1 sear, Parts of year at clears do. S114 per gallon. Loko freights were in 613.00 falo. Flour was in fair demand and steniy, pane Wars atey are tterary aed Henligro ‘io 1 Wheat was moro active and 2@2)e lower, sient, poate paid, U:50 | closing at $1.07} for October and $1.08 for MentisRanie ee ceeee ee 1.9 | November, Corn was quite active and 1@14¢ Sack tab of teats 2S | higher, closing at S7f¢ cash, and fie for ‘One Bree Copy wil Novembar, Onis wero in fair request atid prery On all clave the subscrinor must remit the postages which te 18 conta a cony ger sear. Spocimen copies sent frea, To prevent dclay and mistakne, be nm and give Post-Office addresa io full, including Staleand County, Remittances may be mace either by draft, express, Pest-Office ardor, ar in rexistered Iettors, at our risk, TRNMA TO CITY AUNSCRINERA, Dally, Aelivered, Broday exropted, 25 cepts per week. Datly, dolivered, Sunday inclided, 20 cents per week. Addrees THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Medien anit Dearborn-ata,, Chicago, IU, ee for November, Ryo was firm at (2c. strong, but closed weak at 'huraday's prices, Sales were prinel pally at $7,607.00, were in fair domand at easy prices. were morn active and unchanged, dred dallars in gold Would buy $116.50 in &reenbacks at the close. ‘Mr. Atrnep A. Conex, of San Francisco, hns been interviewed by New York reporters on tho subject of the new National Tolegraph Company, of which he is an incorporator, to- getbor with Senator Saanoy, Mictarn Reese, and soveral other moncy-maguates of tho “SOCIETY MEETINGS. BT, JNTN'S CONCLAVE NOI, K. OF TR, AND O, AND’ R. OF If, O,—Stated Conclave this Saturday avening at 8 o'clock, at 72 Munroo street, J.B. MILES, _ Sovereign, WM, B, WARTEN LODGE NO, 20, A. F. Kk A, Mo Reguiar Commmuniestion this Batardar erening, at Oriental Hall, 122 LaSalle rtroet, J, 2. DUNLUP, Jn, Becretary.. Paciflo Const. ‘The enterpriso bas bad its in- - ception in tho Far West, but it is designed to TUNENAL NOTICE—Mombers of Wm, B. Warren | OCD! : . i Wo Ney 209, A. ¥, SIRO, REE herely poctne invite the co-uperation of Eastern capital, and emsble at Oriental Hall, 122 LaSalle xtreet, Felock, aharp, au snnisy forenoan, ta attend the anetal of Inte Brather Tohn M. Ostrom, by care to Dakwond Cemetery, Members of Lanimark and other Hater Lidgea aro invited fo be pereent, By order of Moator, 4, M. DUNLOP, Bacretury, —_— “AMUSEMENTS. WOON'S MUBEUM—Monrva etroet, between Deare Sern st Stata, “La Tentation,” Aftornoon ond rreuing. to'make it in fact, as in name, a Nationat Telegraph Company. Mr. Coen states that tho capital stock is fixed at $25,000,000, with 0,000 already paid in, Recent financiul roubles in California haye interfered with the further enlistment of capital in tho project. ‘Tho intention of, the Company, as outlined by Mr, Coney, isto construct new lines thronghont the United States, at an estimated outlay not exeeeding one-fourth the cost of the plants of existing companies, and to cheapen telegraphy to a point which will render if available for the general purposes of communication, largely taking the place of the postal system for this use,—in short, to accomplish by private capilal and enter- priso what the Govermuent of Great Britain has achieved by obtaining the controt of the telegraph system of the United Kingdom. In theso days of conibination, consolidation, and monopdly, such a sehome sounds Utopian, but in tho light of the recent history of the Bank of California there is no telling what those solid chaps over there can aud way do once their brains ond bullion aro genuinely in carnest, McVICKER'R THEATNE—-Madleon atreet, between Dearborn and State, “Tho Bea af Ico” Afternoun ind evening, ROOLLY'S TAEATRY—itandolph street, between Clark and TaSale, Kngugenut of the California Minstrels. Atternoon and evening, ADFLPNI TIEATRE—Dearvorn street, | corner Wonros, Variety posformance. Afternoon abd ovon- ng. ‘ INTER-STATIS EXPOSITION—Lako xbore, foot of Adama atreot, The Chicaga Gabune, Saturday Mormng, October 9, 1875. THE WORK OF FOUR YEARS. Four years ago to-day, Chicago was in sore distrosa, A yreat conflagration, unparalleled in the fire revards of the world, was sweep. ing through ber streets. Before ity ravages were stayed, it had consnmed the business heart of tho city aud swept the whole norih- ern section bare of residences. Tho destruc- tion wag completo, Merchants had uo places of business, thousnuds of citizena hod no homes, There were no banka, no ingnrance offices, no newspapers, no hotels of conse- quenee, no places of amnsement, a reduced mnmber of churches, grain elevators, and warehonses; and thero were no public buiklings left, The city was stripped bare, and in tho place of all these stretched a long, dreary waste of ciuders, ashes, and ruin, Be- numbed by the first shock of the blow, men grow almost despairing, and scarcely a gleam of hope peneirated through the denne, dark pallof smoko which hung over tho devoted sity. Tne Cm0aco Trusum: suffered with ul the rest, and on the morning after the fire ound itsclf possessed of a dirty, dingy Canal strest tonement, n few tallow cnndies, and somo beards laid upon barrels for tables, aa itsatock in trade. On the morning of the 11th of October Tue Tarause reapponred ina form hardly recognizable by its oldest friends, but it was brave, confident, and hopeful, and the following brief oditorial epoke words of encosragemant to its readers; CUTER UP. Ya tho midst of w calamity without parallel tn the world's history, looStug upon the ashes of thirty years’ Bccumulations, the people of this once bosutlful city havo resolved that Chicago shall riso again, With woo on every hand, with death in many wtrapge piscoe, with two or three hugdred millions of ute hard-earned property awept away ine few hours, the heatta of our men ond women sre still brave, and they Toot into the future with undaunted hearts, Aa there bas nover been auch a calamity, wo baa thore vever twen such ebeerful fortitude in tha face of desolation audruin, . . . « Woedonot belittle tho catsnitty that haa befallen us, ‘The world has probubly nover ace tho like of It—certainly not since Moscow burned. Dut the forcea of naturo, to leva than the forces‘ of Teasou, require that the exchanges of a great region should be conducted here. ‘Ten, twenty years may bo roqulred to reconstruct our falr city, but the capital rebuild it dreproof mil bo forthcoming, The lowsea we haya suffered must bo borne; but the plsce, the time, and the men are bero to commence at the bot. tom and work up again ; not at tho bottom neither, for webayecrotit in every land, and the oxperionce of onoupbuilding of Chicago to help us, Let oa all cho2t up, eavo what is left, and wo shall came out right, ThoChristian world ls coming to our rellef, ‘Tho worst is niready over. Ina few daya more alt the dangers will be past and ws can resume the battlo of Ufo with Christin faith and Western grit, Let ua all cheer up, ‘That editorMt prediction has been fulfilled to the letter with oue exception. Tho writer erred in his ostimata of tho time it would take to reconstruct the eify. Instead of “ten, twenty years,” four short yaoars havo passed, and fo! tha now Chicago, larger, stronger, firmer, better, and handsomer than the old Chicago, although since thasa days of 1871 another great fra hea swept through the South Division, and a wide-spread finan-. cial panio hss borne down upon the new Chicago with crushing weight, It ia impossible to overstate the groat work which hos beou accomplished in these four wemorable yours, Tho city hos had to con- tond with a fearful array of losses, tho lors by the tire uf 1872, by the fire of 1874, and by the pants of 1873, It haa cout two prices to rebuild, Ter insurance haa been doubled. Ler buildings, both private and public, hava had ta be replaced at a timo When labor and materials were greatly inflated in price, Now banks have had to take the placo of the old ones. ‘The railroads have had to build now depots and warehouses, Christians havo had to build new churches, Manufeeturers have hed to construct new Works aud uuchinery, Tens of willons of dollars’ worth of stack have had ta bo ree placed. Private citizens have had to rebnila their houses and restock them with turnitare, aud libravies, and pleturcs, The city iteolf hos dole a gigantic work In restoring hor streats, bridges, tunnels, sewers, sidewalk, and buildingy, aud the county likewise haa had to replico its rocords, build new offices, and do its share of tho groat work of reconstruction, And Chicago has not only dono all this, not only brought ordur out of chaos, nnd a great, well. built, busy city with comploto appliancos for irado and commerce and conducting tho oxchauyos of the West out of smoldering mins, butshe haw alyo in this short tine Gone a gigantls work fo protecting hervelf against futura dangers by inereasing hor walor supply ond fro apparatus, and avuiling hergelf of all posslble precantions against tho WITH SUPPLEMENT. At the New York Gold Exchango yesterday meenbacks commanded $5}, under the nows f slupmenta of specio from England and falifornia for New York. The Canadians have their religious riots md graveyard combats, but they do some hings better than their ncighbora af the itates. ‘They kaye indicted Moxonn Corr, panagor of the collapsed Jacques Cartier Bank, for mnidng n false statement of tho lnances of thet institution. Attention is directed in onr local columns tho number and chavacter of the stroct-rail- vay jobs now pending in the Common Coun: dl. It would appear that the corrupt mng un that body has become so emboldened by wovious immunity from disagreeable conse- qwences as to have almost entirely ceased to atempt concesdmont. a Another batch of revenue-deftauders have tome to grief in Chicago. This time Qo Uicit umtillers and rectifiers wero caught as tearly ag could be in the very act, and unless thoy shall succeed in’ conviieing a jury of Leir peers that highwines will remain hot in svat for somotbing liko two wecks, thero is excellent prospect of an opportunity to wctify their mistakes in Joliet. Moony and Sanxzy, according to a press lispatch, after costing about goveral weeks for tho best point for commencing their re- fival campaign, have mada a selection which will commend itself to the approval of the . my judicious, They will bogin in Lrook- gnt Noone con now deny that Mr. Moopr ted indeod kept closo track of ovents trans- spiting in America during hia abacuce. maseaeinen nannies Tn connoction with our building review for tho season of 1875, o notable and gratifying ‘eet thould olsim attention, It ie that, suong the 1,800 or 1,900 houses built and com- nenced within the corporate limits of Chi- yago Anring the yoar, ab a cost of from $16,000,000 to $18,000,000, not a single fame or wooden ptructure is to be found; Ul were of brick, stone, or iron, or of these materials combined, This ix tho result of the faithful enforcement of the ordinance soalcing the fire limits and the city linits co- Yerminons, and it constitutes a record of which the city may well be proud. —_—_— Aaow and ominous being looms up upon tho Herzegovininn horizon, Tha London Daily News of yesterday is responsible for tho etatemont that the “Sjubobratich "— whatever be, uho, it, or they may be—astl- matca tho insurgont loss so far at two- ‘eavenths of tho entir force. It appears, Joter in the aame dispatch, that Sjnbobratich Sa a “ho.” Wo are sorryfor him. He is worse off than the Skuptschina, ‘The only thing left for a person burdened with such a name isto die, If this is his official titlo, tho necessity of verbal reform in tho Herzego: vinian Constitution becomes more apparent than ever. No better reading will bo found in tho col. umans of Tn ‘Taune to-day than the letter af Cann Scucnz in reply to thorecent attempt of Wexprin Poms, through the New York Herald, to onswer Mr. Sonunz'a great Cinoin- natlapeech on tho finance.question. It is not too much to say that Mr. Pumzurs has passed through ological threshing-machine, and bls remains aro so bailly scattered ns to preeludo tho possibility of replacement and mticulation, Antywcs Wanp would have said, after reading Mr, Hcuvuz's letter, that it world have been 810 in Wenpxzn Pumaren! pocket if he had never been born. But be was born, and in a luckless hour he wad incited by some dark and siuleter spirit to put on paper something about the qurren- cy and political cconomy,—nomething about doing away with checks, notes, Grafte, bills of exchange, and in their place substituting greonbacks ; something ebout what Joux Srvant Mice and Hoyas Price have said sud written, sud abont other inattera relat. ing to the general subject undor considera. tion, With what reault, can Leet be poresived, by reading overy word of Mr. Scuvu’s ro. ply. 3 ‘The Chicago produce maxkets wore quite drregular yesterday, with wore doing, Noss pork was less uctive, and closed firm at $22.45 for Octuber, end &10,.25@19,20 ascller the year, Lard waa dull aud Wy per 100 tho | possibility of future condagrations, Some lower, cloaing ut $15.25 cash, end @IZ.07}@ | tw were destroyed: by the Ara, but TW seller the years Meats were quice waa pera with wont energy and onter- fina at WjGYto fur summer abouldess (bused), | prisy have atipped iato thels plavos, 18Je for short ribs do, aud 13$0 for short Highwines were quiet and firm at good demand and firm at 2c for corn to Buf. @he higher, closing at Be cash, aud J2le Bar- ley was 1@1c lower, closing at 47a cash, nud We for November. Hogs opened active and Cattle Bheep One hnn- ohecks, and transfers of credit, of population and of business will, if it have any effect upon this porcentago, reduce it. and the wheels of — trate have thus kept up their revolntions, Some of ow old citizens have left us and othera havo died, but thero aro not wanting men to step into their places aud go on with their work, Four years ago to.day our merchants were without stores or guods ar banks to help them ; to-day they are better accommodsted than aver before. Fonr years ago today church.goers wero worshiping in the midut of fuins; to-day they worship in tho most ele- gant temples they have ever had. Fouryears ago today the City Government had no place to exercise ita functions; now, bad as it is, itis well provided for, with ample accommo- dations for atl its rings avd corruptionists, Four years ago toalny thonsands of the ple of Chicago were occupying tho prairiv, the fake shore, huts, cabins, churches, engine and school ionses ; now overy citizon is eum- forinbly housed. This great work has been accomplished in tho faco of almost immensnrable obstacles and a period of great monctary stringency, and to-day Chicago is Inrger, better built, more poplons, strouger in all material ways, moro beautiful in herself and in her snburbs, the . ever before, in tho fact that all this has been accomplished under peeniiar dit. enitics lies strong hope for the future. If “Christian faith and Western grit” hnvo ac complished so much under disheartening circumstances, what will they not do when the clouds break and the sun of good fortune and prosperity shines out clearly? ‘In the midst of a calamity without parallel in the world's history, looking npon the ashes of thirty years’ accuinulations, the people of this once beautiful city havo resolved that Chicago shall rise again.” "Tho prediction has boen fulfilled. ‘Cho resolution has heen accom- plished, Chicago has risen again, and starts upon the fifth yeor of her new birth with the same old ‘Christian faith and Western grit.” The statistics of tho building during the year, which we print elsewhers, aro on eloquent proof of this faith and grit. THE SUPPLY OF GOLD. Tho answers of Br. Scrunz to tho care- fully-propered questions propounded to him at Canton, O., ato, in brief, ono of the ablest expositions of the curreticy inatter that has been published. ‘The twelye questions and answers wero published in Tas Trinvse yesterday. Wo reproduce ono of these ques- tions, with tho answer,—avu error having occurred in its printing yesterday. They were as follows : Question~Tn It not a fact that, whilat the Increase of the poputation, business, and property of our country tuquizgs a correaponding tncreaso uf the vole of money {n circulation, thera is at the present time a feau quantity of gold and affyer fn tho country to supply the cireuiation than there has been at any timo since the clone of the lato War? Anncer—I hopo the writer of this fetter will not consider tt 5 want of courteny if T say he fa at logger heads with tho AHO of tnance, (Cheers,} It ia a well-lmown fact that uo corresponding increas of currency ta required, with the increase of population, business, and property, Money ian measure of valtte and a tool of exchange, ond you might as well sxy that, because tu measure ten yards of cloth requirea & yard-stick, to measuire twenty yanla of cloth requires two yord-atichs, {Laughter ond cheers.) Ninety threo rer cent of tho exchanges of the country aro carried on by the mere transfer of bank accounts, and only 7 per cont by tho mero transfer of currency from hand tohaod, Formerly, whona building waa put up, {t wan nocessary to havo so many hands to carry up brick and mortar, Put up » steam-engine thora te do the same work, und the writor of this letter mlyat pat hayeeay that wo mtijl want moro hands (great cheer- ing): and still It ia tho etanding thonry of the in- tlatlonists thet the facruseo of curretcy must corn spond with tho increase of popuiation and property, As to the question whether thera ia not o lees quantity of gold and ullver fp the country to supply the clreu- Jation than beforo,—-of course thero is, and will be leus and leas tho longer that financial policy continuce which deprives gold and ellver of employment; and, af tho jnflatfoniuta get control of the Government, they might euccoed iu driving the Isat gold dollar out of the country. {Cheors,} This question ingeniously auggested as an assumed fact ono of tho absurd assumptions of those who advocato an incronse of the cur- roncy, coin, or currency, to execute the oxchanges of commorce, must of necessity increase with the population ond business of the country. Ig is that the amount of silver and This is ono of the great delusions of tho ignorant writers and talkers upon finance. Any man in Chicago having o thousand dol- lara to pay in New York docs so by deposit. ing his chock in # Chicago bank for that sum, taking a draft on New York, which draft ho sends by mail; or ho can, if time bo impor- tant, deposit his check in the Chicago bank, and that bank, by telegraph, can havo that sum applied to the payment of the note in New York, This operation is multipliod many thousand timea oach day between all tho cities, and towns, and villages of tho country, and this immonso amount of ex- ehango of credits ia porformod without the actual transfer of ao dollar of coin or currency, Tho daily exchanges mado by checks in Chicago aggregate nearly four taillions of dollars, and all the money that is actually employed is the small sum neces- sary to settle balances botwoen the banks next day in the Clearing-House, Tho great. er the population and business of tha country the Iesa is tho proportionste exchango of ac- tral currency. If aot a given population and amount of trade the amonnt of actual money needed for exchanges be 10 per cent, then when the population snd business shalt be doubled tho percentage of cash to adjust balances will grow amaller. It is ascortained that in this country,tho percentage of cash omployed in making the exchanges iy now 7 par cent of the whole, while 93 per cent of Payments aro mado by bills of exchango, An incraaso ‘There is no more common aud yet no more absurd idea than that the volume of curreucy shall boar o certain ratio to tho nomber of the population of the country, and an exami- nation of tha spoeches in Congress will show how generally this idea ia preasod by tho stateamen who think tha country wants more money and cheap money, that at some time, in some country, the paper monoy in circulation has equaled $15 to 320 per capita of the population, they insist that tho American peoplo aro entitled to an equal amount, and that for every child born in the land 'the currency shall be increased by a oor- responding issue of paper! icans must have currency enough to work out their dostiny. It they discover Infant Amer- ‘Mr. Scavaz also as happily answers tho suggestion that the ooin in the country at present is reduced below what it has been in former times, value geoks the markot where it is needed. Wo have all tho gold that is required for sot- Gold having an univoraal fling tho balances of our foreign trade and the payment of dutles; the surplus, not being wanted, {s sont elsowhore, If tho Demoorata shall provide for the payment of duties {a gesenbacks, then the gold necded to pay interest will have to bo purchased by the Government. That being all the gold that {4 needed, it will be all that will stay here. When, howover, the carronoy shall be advanced to colu value, and this wil) naturally reduce {ts amount, then coln will flow back to He precios esnount uedded foe the now order of things, Gold wit! not cheapen; it cannot do so while it haa the world for its market; but, when required asa basis for the new order of business, it will como hither to stay. TAMMANY-SIGNS IN CHICAGO, ‘Tho political situation in this city is a seri- ousoor, Tt containa au ominous threat of tingruir, Whether the charter stands or falls, whether men representing tha ‘Tweedle- duntor Twoedlegee party grab the spare offices, tho ‘I'waen parly is pretty sure te occupy a good part of them, and control civic affairs ty its own dishonest profit, Tho different steps hy which thy Twrep dynasty rose to supreme power in Now York are being faith. fully Imitated by n similar dynasty here, Dif. ferent men have been put in rosembling those held by et at, in the metropolis, men are honest, but forced ont of office and replaced by tools of the ring. Thus the ground is being — propared for the harvest of plunderod pelf. The clubs recently formed here’ aro muorely imitations of the Americus and the other ring clubs founded and fostered by the grent thieves of the East, In them, sekemes of pofiticat kuavery fre formed. ‘Che conviet fresh from his Toliat cell cets in thom his colleagues in the prodtable task of governing a great city. Aldermon meet their paymasters there, Votes are always on salo there, It ix in them that plans for making the ballot-box lie are discussed and the precise maynuituile of the lie determined, Vercontages aro adjust- ed, the lettiug of contracts on fraudulent bids is‘ fixed, and the exact amount of “‘aquoeziug” which om wealthy corporn- tion, a gas company or n_ horse. railway compsny, can or will stand, is decided. ‘These clubs are supported by contributions frost pockets stuffed with bribes and stealings, and are kept alive for the sake of making bribery and theft ensy. ‘Their meetings are attended by o gang, tha appenronce of which in any respectable neighborhood wonld fend to nn inatantaneous call for the police, But this gang has more tony about the composition and manage- inent of our polico force than all the respect able citizens of Chicago pnt together,— partly, of course, because the respectables eannot be put together. ‘They stay apart, and tho rogues, who know that strength lies in union and the Union Club, combine, ‘The men who form our Americus Clubs aro cou mopol.tan in nationality, bat singularly alike in charactor. One Tink will bind them ever,—and thy link is stenl ‘These men do not maku mistakes. “ho guile- less Citizens’ Association nonrly committed hari-kari by foisting the charter of 1872 upon us, and tho melancholy Jefersonians avo been sitting on their platform and their dig- nity, and waiting in vain for romebody to nominate them for oflice, Failing in this, they are thinking of callinga Convention of their own in order to nominato themselves. This rexpectable and this semi-respectable Club have both blundered frightfully, but tho rogues have tnado no blunders. No opportu- nity for theft escnpes them. Vultures aro proverbiatly keon-scented. We are not crying “Wolf” beforo the wolves are ere. They are already busily engaged in devouring tho substance of hon- ext tax-payort, It will bo ensior to throttle them now than a yenr, two years, tun years hence. Must wo suffer as New York dit be- fore we clap our rulers into jail and odminis- ter our own affairs, og sho has dono? Some of these they ot any may bo moment THE OOTODER ELECTIONS, Thera are to be several elections of more or less importanco during tho course of this month, All tho Stato elections havo acquired Spacial interest on account of the approach- ing Presidential carupaign, and the recognized bearing of the carroncy question on tho ro- ault, It is felt that the result of thé State clections this year, particularly thoso of Pennsylvania and Ohio, will decide os be- twoen the two factions of tho Democratic party, whether or not tho Democrats will enter the Presidential campaign og 8 con- fossedly and professodly inflation party. Tho elections in the othor States will exercise moro or less influence in the same direction, though not to tha sane deyroo, Beginning with tho most important, the election in Ohio occurs noxt Tucsday, Oct. 12, ‘A full State tickot ig to bo elected, and there has never been o canvass more thorough and sweeping. The two State tiokets aro ag follows: Repustican, Democratic. Govornor.,.,.,..It B, Waves, Wst, ALLEN. Liout,-Goveruor,T, L. Young, Bas, ¥, Cany, Suprome dudgo .G. W, Mclnvarne, Auditor,, Tamra WILLIAMS. Atty-Con Jou LITTLMK, ‘Treasurer, jo M. SGnutcen, J, Scumstues, Bid Pub, Peres Tuatcueg, H, E, O'Hagan, ‘Tho Stato is now in the hands of tho Dem- ocrata, ALLEN was elected Governor two Yours ngo, over Noxrs, by 817 majority, but tho Democrats carried tho Stato last yoar by o majority of 17,202. Tho Legislature ia in their hands, and they havo all the advantages that attach to complete possession of the State offices and thorough organization, ‘There sro two questiona that have loomed up into opecial importance,—tho Currency quos- tion and tho Public-School question, While tho Democratio platform professas an nd- horonce to the public-school doctrine of soou- lnr education, it is notorious that through- out tho campaign the Demoorats huve pandored to tho Catholic voto on thia and other matters, as conspicu- ously illustrated by the renomination of Gxatan, who had declared that the Catholic voto Was depondent upon certain concossione to tho Catholic Church, As to tho currency question, whatever might havo been the first construction put upon the two platforms, cach has been unmistakably construed by the lenders on elther side. The Republicans ad- vocato the honest payment of tho national obligations, whether bonds or greenbacks, in the recognized money of tho world. The Democrats advocato an unlimited issue of grocnlacka and the ultimate redemption of the 6.20 bonds in that kind of monoy, ‘Chia is the iusue aa it iv equarcly before the poople of Ohio and dofined by tho lenders, It{s also fell that thelr voto on thia question will do much to frame public sentiment elsewhere in the country, apd tho result is awalted with anxiety by all won who have falth in the uational honor, an@ who ook forward to a resumption of bnalness prog. perity as the foundation of a safe, uni. form, and unvarying curroncy,—o currency that can only be attained through an inter- convertibility with coin. It is usclovs at this late day to make predictions as to the resnlt, but the dissfection among the German Der. ocrats on the ination doctrine, tho faithful. ness of the Republicans to the national honor, and the telling epeeches which Cann Scuvuz has mage in behalf of sound money, as woll au tho lotest advices from the campaign, in- dicate a strohg Hikelthood that the Demooratio tujority of 17,000 may bo overcome, aud the . E, Dowenn, Republican ticket eleeted hy a handsome majority, ‘The Town State election occeure on the rame day at tha Ohio election,—next Tuesday, ‘thy tickets ave a3 follows: Ropthlicart, Onporittan. Covernor, Sam’ Kuupsoon, KirenrRy Larner, Lieut, Gord, B BT, Weonwan, DS. Gee, irene Avonzu Anrnsctiy, [aun Doan, Though nominated under the meaningless name of “ Opposition,” Mr, Lerrien, of Des Moines, jan Bourbon of the regular old- gchool, and gives character to tha ticket. It was evidently tho intention lo abandon all previons altinuces by which it was sought to gain Republican votes, and to draw tpon the rate clement in Iowa as that led by the an- cient Winn Auies in Ohio, This pure poxo waa further carried ont hy adopting a financial resolution, susceptible only of an inflation construction, calling for the sboh- tion of tho National Banks and a ‘suflivient supply of national eurreney for business pur- poses.” The saine sort of eauipaign is made in Iowa as in Obio, though not with thesume intensity, ‘The Republican majority in Towa in L878, when Canrentan wat elected over Vane, tho candidate of the Democrats and Grangers, was 2: ‘This majority will probally ba increased this yenr. though the Democrats ara oo mrking desperalo efforts = to. get large reprosentation in the Legislature with a view to the United States Souatorship, It is given out that there may be some dissension amobg the Ropnblicana in regard to the Kenatorship, andin that caso the Democrats want to bo strong onough to assert themselver. It in probable, however, that ex-Gov, Kimxwoop will bo elected Governor by so large a ma- jority as to seitle oll- question of dissension among tho Republicans. ‘Thore aro three other elections during the month. Tho Nebraskn election, which oc- curs next Monday, is for Judges of tha Su- promo Court aud Regonts of the Universit: andthe peoplo nlao vote on the now Consti- tution. ‘The chief point of intercat is that the Democrats of that State have ra- buked their fellows in Ohio, Penn- sylvania, ond Iowa by adopting o plat- form which is uncompromisingly in fie vor of n sound currency, ‘coin or ita equivalent.” ‘here is p spocial Congres. sional election in Oregon on tho 25th inst., to fill tho vacnnoy ocensioned by the denth of Mr. LaDow (Domeacrat). Tha two can- didates aro Hrxny Wannrn, Republican, and Laraverre Lane (son of Gen, Jo Lanr), Democrat. Mr. LaDow was elected because tho Independents ran n candidate, which drew away from the Republican voto; but ag there is no Independent candidate thins timo, ibis likely that Mr. Wanvern will be elected. An election occurs in Missouri on Oct. G0, when tho people will vote on the naw Constitution submitted to them, This vonelndes tho notablo political events of the mouth. THE WOMAN'S CONGHESS, We are in receipt of a sinall library of printed nintter in roferenco to the Congress of Amorican women which is to bo held at Byracuse, N. Y., on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week, Oct, 13, 14, and 15, ‘Tho list of subjects to be considered fa along one,—dangorously long, for even the fluency of speech which is supposed to bo a woman's birthright can scarcely enable the Congress to treat a small part of them thoroughly within threo doys. ‘hero aro soven heads on the list, and from three to filyo topics under cach head. Under tho general titte of ** Educa- tion and Hyyione," tho Congress is to consid: er tho kindergarten systom, tho ofilco and position of tho teacher, scien. tifle education, women on school boards, and tho health of American girls. Wo trust tho discussion of this last thomo will not be marred by the unseemly sneors and unworthy innuendoes with which a num. ber of prominent womon feably attempted to meot the able and courteous arguments of Dr, Cranse’s * Sex in Education,” when that telling little book first appeared, Tho sec- ond subject, ‘Professions and Employ- ments,” covers papers and talka on tho places open to women, women in the ministry, and women in journalism. The “ Art of Living” is to be taught by tho discussion of tho iden! and the practical in American lito, household art and docoration, kitchen chomistry, tho progress of art ag a medium of civilization, — is not this a little wide of tho mark aimed at by the Congress ?—~and tho ethicsand osthetics of dross, Under ‘‘ Finance,” theaudiances will lheor easays on the uses of money and an- swors to tho question, “ What practical mens- ures will prowote the financial indopendence of woman?" ‘Iho title “ Gharity" is tocovor a multitudo of cures fornix, Tho timo do- voted to it will be spent in considering vicari- ous beneficoncs, the office of women in the roform of criminals of their own sex, and women on the boards of roformatory institu. tions, “Tho relations: of women to tho legal and oducational provisions of the coun- try,” is a somowhat blind title, which proba- bly conceals somo reference to woman- suffrage, shough the stated sub-titles aru only “women ad guardinns of our educational liberty " and limita of personal responsibili- ty.” There isa chance to say a few good words agninst tho mania for prohibition under this last head. ‘he soventh and Inst subject ian bundle of miscellancons themes, cotopriging the efforts of progressive women in Europe, superfluous women, and statistics of the condition of women iu this country, Wo have already aketched tho proceas—n very good ane—adapted to obtain these statistics, ‘Their collation aud publication will probably be an enduring memorial of the Congress, If theso statistics and the best papera road during tho sessions could by published in one volune, the book would bo of intorest to every student of social science, not only in thiy country but abroad. See Wo do not wish to credit the rumor that Mr. Couvin intends to appoint Ald, Hirpuet to tho position of City Marshal just vacated by Mr. Duxtar, We have no doubt that it will be dificult to find s competent and rep. utuble citizen who will ncoept the place under theciroumstances, ‘Lhe impreasion has gained a foothold that Afr. Duxtay retired becauso he could not xecure the co-operation of thos shove and below him, and that the constrained and subordinste placo he held gava him no opportunity to carey out the refarma he con- templated wher ho assumed the office, Something of this kind innat hava actuated ‘Mr. Doszar to resign, since bis private busl- ‘ness cannot havo so increased within a couple of months as to render bia retirement neces- gory. Itizn good deal to ask that a man sha!) tae the responsibility of the police Management, which has been notoriously bad, whon he {fs deprived of the power to improve it, Still o better choice can certain. ly be made than 3fr, Hinensre, whe is ob. nosious on Many gocounts not necemary to reooint, ‘We should think that, now Mr over eighteen months beyond the term for which ho was elected, and under the certain. ty that ho will never ngnin bo a snceessful candidate, ho wight refuse to pander ta the dlepraved classes for political purposes, and give the interests of property-owners anid tax-poyere at least aqual consideration. THE HOOX TRADE, Tiwas one of the remarkable frets in the first contury of our history that a niultitude of books were printed, ‘Tera was then only a narrow fringe of settlements on the Ation- tle coast, and itty communication between them, The country was poor. There was no copyright. No pnblisher would assume the responsibility and rivk of printing a hook, Notwithstanding these adverso circumstances: tomy men Bought the costly immortality of type, Inecneasn Marutn, who died in 172i; 72H left. eighty-eight separate works bohind him, Corras Martner, who eurvived his father flve years, far surpassed him in bookmnking., Te wag the most prolific writer this country has ever seen. The Hravtnrs ond the Ane notts try in vain to equal him. He wrote and published 347 books, or sbout one per tnonth during his iministry. Over 100 of them were printed or reprinted in Tondon, For a century aftor his time, every town which contained a printing-press was a place whers books wero published. As Inte ns 1823, Dr, Noan Weosten, in order to get out the first edition of his Dictionary, mortgaged all his real estate aud used the money thus borrowed to buy the paper and poy the com. positors, "The publishing trado then existed only in embryo. Since then tho business has become con- vonivated in large commercial centres, and has follen into the hands of o few finns. "Tho ndvantages of this are obvious. It would be retrogression of n very bad kind to adopt tho old practice again, ‘Tho new order of things gives us better books, cheaper books, and absolutely, though not rolatively, more books, But there arealso disndvantages, The few firms who monopolize tho business can combine to keep prices obsurdly high, and they have done so, American books to-day cost tho reader muck more than they should. 'Lhelr prices advanced during tho War on ac- count of tho increased cost of matorials nnd labor, ‘This reason bas measurably ceascd to exist, But books, which wont op with paper and labor, have not come down with them. Abook that xold before the War for $1.25, now brings $1.75 and $2. Whe publishers’ discounts to jobbers and retailers have nut changed. They range fram Uh) to 42 per cent. ‘Ihe rotailer can sell at from 20 to 3@ por cont below tha rates asked,.and stil! make a living profit. Ho is forbidden to do so, however, by tho trade-union or ring to which the leading publishors belong, ‘This union controls not only thoso who are volun- tary members of it, but bookscllers who have no connection or sympathy with it, Unless theac outside denters eell a book at tho fall retail price, they are waited upon and warned by a committee of the combination. If tho offense is repented, their names are sent East, and they are thereafter refused tho usnal trade discounts by the Eastern publishers, ‘This amounts to forcing them out of the business. ‘Thay cannot but submit. Books aro mental fooil, as necessary to the mind as physical food to the body, What an outery there would be if the trafic in four, coffce, and sugar was concentrated in tho hands of a few persons who could and did rogulato the pricos of these articles and shut up any grocery that did not conform to their sched- ulo of prices. Yet this is what tho publish- om! trade-pnion has done. ‘The rosult of this is that literary mon aro buying as few American books au possible, and aro filliug their shelves from foreign markets, Public librarics aro doing the samo thing. A buyer who has become familiar with the London market, its prices, its edi- tions, and its bindings, will be slow to come back to the American market, and submit to the rules of the booksellora’ union, Tho combination cannot Inst long, but it is doing grave harm no A Washington dispatch in our Ivano of Wodnesday atsted the number of immigrants thia country recoived during tho year ending Juno 30, 1875, ot 227,498, and went on to soy that thie wos 180,149 less than the number ia 1874. Acorrespoudent seks ue whethor theao figures are correct, Thoy are uot. There wero 318,339 immigrants ip 1874, secording to tho ro- port of the Bureau of Statistles for that year. ‘Tho decroaso ig not 180,149, but only about half that, or 85,441, This falling off, howover, is a acrlous matter, Ib shows that tho condition of our poor classea, ground botween the upper and nothor milletonca of a protective tariff ond «® fluctuating currency, is no longer such o8 to attract the attention of ovory Earopean workingman, ond moke this country the Mocca of the thrifty poor, Whilo 297,493 foreigners moved across the Atlantic last yoar, a great nuosbor—how many cannot bo ,exactly told—who had como hare in previous oars wout back again. Dor yore months tho stoamebip Uncs carried as many ateorago paa- Bongory cast ap they did west. phe oo Tho Springfield Mepublican hag discovored two Domocratio Congrosumen in Missouri who write thoir namea B, G. Caviyimcp and 0. H, Hannt- zon, Such is famo. Whon our Canten $I, is elected Bpeakor of tho next ‘Honas, it will be « feather in tho cap of Chicago, uot Missouri. + PERSONAL, Rosat ts afloat. Lawrenco Barrett, the tragedian, ie at tho Palmor, A, Ackroyd, Liverpool, Eng., sofourns at tho ‘Tromont. Gon, Josoph Chapman and wife pro at the Bherman, Tho Hon. J. 8. McDonald, of Dabuque, is at the Shorman, Potter Pahuer, Jr, ia » now guest at the Palmer House, Tho Han, C. H. Vergo, of New York, 8 rogis~ tered at the Gardner. J. A, Morgsa, of the Dubuque Times, le a tranalent at the Gardner. The Hon, T. A. Dradley, Sueboygan, in x sojourner at the Tremaut, Tho Hon. Voter Whito, of Marquette, io » guost at the Grand Pacific. Gon, Boynton's volume of criticiome on Sher- man’s memoirs till soon be published. Gen, J, L. Stowart aud the Hon. Ht, J. Carey, of Council Blutly, aro guests at the Tremont. Gen. Spinner ty said bya Republican journal in Now York to write in ‘a polnted atylo.” | Cortaluly the signature on the grecnbacka looke like it, If Carruth dios within one year from the timo of the ubooting, Landia fy hisble to bo indicted for the shooting, according to the laws of New Torasy, Ono of the papore anys Titiens is as largo, if uot larges, than Pareps, Talk of # volume of sound; here's an entire Ubrary.—Rochesler Democrat, “1 wonder what these foliows are doing?” anid one pf the Vioo-Presidyats of the Board Yeaterday ta a countryman who wee lingering by the adge of the corascrowd, “Well, I reokon Conyun tu assured of his privilege of holding ; tuagse Uviding m prayetimeoting,” relurmed official, tho Hhary Granger; "don't you wee they're proy- fugon each other?” No, that can't be! ney. vontinued the "Yos, they are,” persinted A nowspaper publinhed at Bowlogne aur-Mer, called the Season, pritta a Het of all marriagg. aule Iadies uasly-arrived, bo they young or ofa, Ita very convontent d'rectory, Faraon Mursay'e now paper, ths Golden tule, will nol, it in prodicted, moanire off many golden mounts of axielence. 1% would be more anpro. priately designated tho Golden Ruta ov Kun, It ia gornipned in Bloomington, ML, that during the comm Winter Mins Hallio Davis, daughter of Justice David Davis, of the United Btotes Supreme Court, whose home isin the nbovg. mentioned cits, will be married ton son of Jug. tice Bayne, Mr. Howolls' naw novos is entitled “ Privaty Theatrieats.” If it holde the mitror ap to na ture it will shock farhionallo people by exposing one of tho moat dangorouns forms of moder: Bmtlaoments, Itfasatd thats Pennselvanin tramp recently rojecteda pair af cast-off trousers that wary offered to him bacauas thor bad no boot-atrans, Ho wad 8 beggar on horaobacit, sud didn't carg who know it. Northampton, Mana, ta talking about the eloperment of James Roborts, aged 45, wng Teavos a wife and six childron, with Mias May Toller, agod 25. Both aro well-known renidenty, and have heretoforo borne irreproachable ropy. tations. ‘Tho Mov. Schuyler Colfax has beou appointed, Judge at tho baby-ahow in Niles, Mich, [tq motto will Lavo to be Niles admirari. Tha baby. show mothers aro Asimplo race! They waste thoir tov. Foy tho vato tribute of smile, In connection with the presont lecturing tom of Mr, Bradlangh in America, it ia intorostiag to Jinow that ho és likely to ba returned to Patlis. ment from Northampton at the noxt general election. lis popularity in that borough big increagod very much of late. Mies Parkor, tho English girl who swam 19 milea, fs but 4 years old, but yory plump, weighing 140 pounds, Abe throws her fat tn the water with remarkable grace aud daring nnd sug. cous, Tho professional London awimmera werg the subscribers for the medal lately prosontod to hor, A now advertising trick has beon invented in Sau Francisco, whore a mook ancounter between Prof. Hermann and an irate old ontlemsn in, his audlenco has caused quito a local aeneation, ‘The nowspapora report tho affair in s vorions vein, and as innocently as if that sort of wor Wore not worth $1 per ting, During a speech the other night, @ promineny membor of tho Boston Common Council made tho sage remark thatawiso mon changes bis mind often, buts fool nevor, and in the nest broath exclaimod: “I havo not changed my miud"—~and then ho wanted to know what th othor mambers wore laughing at, : Ayonng and boautiful New Jorsoy girl, who ‘was falsely accnecd of thoft and nequittod on in. structions from the Judge, sprang on the bonch and gavo His Honor a resounding kiss * for lis mother.” Sho was not fined for contempt, and the Judge did not say, ‘ Novor Jot me catch rou oro agein,” of Don't do so any moro,” Mra. Blackford, tho horoine of the Knasisn diamond ucandal, is tha obsorved of all obser. era in Paria, and ia said to bavo already avowel her fntention of detbroning Corsa Pearl. Her faultless fignre, almond-abapad oyas, rofned, half-molancholy oxproasion, and painted lips aro alroady familiar to tho loungera of tho gay Capital, Stern old Marahal MacMalion rofasad to permit tho Empresa Eugenie to pass tranty-four hours {ncognits {n Paris, The Marahal, it is said, is somewhat perplexed by bis own popularity, On a public occasion recently the oheoting for the Marsbal was tremendous, while an attempts raise the cry Vive la Republique was a conszic- uous failure, James Greenwood, the famous English jcnr alist who passod 8 night in o ‘canna! ward,” and became snown to literary pooplo by bis highly-colored story of his experience, is writing a, book ontitled Low-Life Deeps: an Account of the Strange Fish to Bo Fo und There,” Not- withstanding tho titla, {t will probably be s shal- low production. Whiloa carriago containing Presidont Grant was making ita way through tho crowd In Da- buque, Is., a burly 6-footer shouted in siento risn tones Hurrah for tho horo of Shilob." Justags the hazzas wero about to break forth, tho aame voles was hoard completing the sen- toncs, “Goneral Syduey Johnaton, I mean.” ‘Tho crowd did not approciate this ttle Joke, and tho cheers wara not given, Charles Frauels Adams, Jr., begins a sorles of railroad articlos in ono of tho Novombor mage zines, His firet aubjoct will bo tha worst raile road disastora that have occurrod since 1829, with somo inquiries as to thoir results in the manage mont of roads, Wo Imow alroady, withont heing told by Mr, Adame, that among the bonelicial rosults referred to fa not the hanging of ofticis! culprits responsible for tho diaasters ; nor doe reckon as & benoit tho maudlin verses that bare been written about berolo brakemon and et ginoors who foolishly dlod at tuoir posts in the diucharge of imaginary duties. Guibord's body is causing a good deal o troublo in Canada. ‘Tho intention is to have it 80 socuraly placed in the yravo that no otdinsty offorty can romoyo it. ‘Tho story in regard to tho proposed plant of an explosive eubstance noas the coffin ia probably designod only for effect; but thore seems to be no doubt that the cofin iteolf will be of unusual strength 20d woight, It will bo mado of stone, and will imosaure 12 fect by G& This will ba coverad by ® #tono wind riveted and bolted with alx iron pst, and will 1oquire ton horses to movoit. 18 wil bo finighed Saturday, and the burial will proba- bly take pleco a fow days lator. According to Mr. Hartsuorno, the Weddes. tribe living in the juterior of Coylon, take a Be rlous viow of life, They aro eaid to Le incane plo of Jaughtor, Mr. Hartshorn tried over? meana in bis power to make the Clef Jautly and, failing, ho asked fn amazomont mnotlet they ever laughod. ‘No, ropliod tho Wer “Why should we? What te thero to Isugh at Perhaps the aly old savago was laughing Bt St Hartahorne in hia eleovo; or, stil more ike 7 the English epecimons of humor sith which Ue jay regaled may have rominded him of his des: mother, and mado n feeling of anduows com? o'er him which hls saul could not rows. Charley Rose’ father had a comical intervie # in Cangda witha showman who bad sdvorti . “The Roas Faaily"’ eae part of bia oxhibition. Pho wax figures looked as Jittle like the ban family as like tho Family in the Moou; bul oa showman told Mr. Ros that they wore te i from life with the consent of Mr. Host 3 whom the man of saw-duat and wax broten tobavo an intimate acquaintence. When he tous rovoaled his persouslity the exbibiter te foased that ho had overdrawn bis staan Tho Rove Family way origioslly the ante Family, and was ttsod ads oounterpstt Os Jutomperate Family, which atill somaius hibition in the pame tent. - HOTEL ARRIVALS. tba use—3, M. Bludubaker, Bouts Bead i nanani Wel, Montreal; G, W, Qurtie and Tet Boson; Attia, New York; the Hou, J. J,,Bmith, Hodiiy,. ro Kcnignt, and ‘John ‘Thowpens taguers We Manley and wife, Afuive . Maison; D, Morton Pus, Boston; I My eenesl 4. Davis, end W. 0, Davis, Providence, It VoL Nyy Bees BEANE ation thn. 3 A, McArthur, Site Harton? Hi, Angele and i, Breytou, Mane a3 ind Par Eng. t Gen. Je 14, Zorusst, Wlavonala. + Yi ian, ifte--George J. Eity, Liverpool, Ya ord Springfulds Mk; LP. Alls ine om W, H, Maynard, W. ne i 2.5 Kuspp, New Yor! f jako; Wii larcataon: rr} ee me? Wenblngtou,,D. 2) ge, vane Patt Postien, tt Di Le Pratt, Michigan ie, “ 2.0, 8. Hoss, Washiiigians D. O-t Hopi Wiscousla,