Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 17, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATZS OF STESCRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVAXCE). Postaxe Prepaid at this Ofice. Daily Edition, post-paid, 1 year........... -813.00 Parts of yoaratsame rate. address FOUR WEEXS f gt e To prevent delsy and mistakes, be suro and give Post-Office address in full, inclnding Stateand County. Bemittances may be mads either by draft, express, Post-Offioe order, OF In registered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCEIBEDZ. Datly, delivered, Sunday excepted, 235 cents per week. Dasly, delivered, Sundsy included, 30 cents per week. Address THE“TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Desrborn-sta., Chicago, Ill. AMUSEMENTS. ‘TO-DAY. MoCORMICK HALL—North Clark_strest, corner Kinsle. Lecture by Mrs, Julis Ward Howe nt 3 p. m. Bubject : “ The True and the False Soctalls.” NORTH SIDE TURNER HALL—Concert by the Lbederkranz Soclety at 8 p.m. 5 ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn street, corner Monroe. * The Bpendthrift ** (in Germen). TO-MORROW. ki MCVICKER’S THEATEE—Madison Dearborn and Btate. Engagement of Jobn. # Jack Cade,” between allough, ‘WOOD’S MUSEUM—Monroe strest, between Dear- ‘born and State, Afternoon, * Aurora Floyd.” Even- 1ing, *“ A Dangerons Game.” Monroe, Variety performance, HOOLEYS THEATRE—Randolph street, between Clarkand laSalle, Engagement of the Californis Alinstrals, ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Haisted strest, between Madison and Monroe. Engegement of Frank Msyo. “ Davy Crockets,”- PLYMOUTH CHURCH—Lecture by Daniel Dough- gety. Bubject : * Oratora.” SOCIETY MEETINGS. NG LODGE, NO. 911, A.F. & A. M.—A !egflhrmmmn.m"xr;mfifim of this Lodge will be held on Thursdsy evening, Ock. 21, Every member is earnestly requested t0 be present toattend to business of im- ‘portance. A H. BOBINSON, W. AL L. 8. CHARLETTE, Sec’y. GOURGAS CHAPTER OF ROSE CROTX.—Regular ‘eonclave an Thursdsy evening next, 21st, for business. Sir Enights can. at this meeting, procure invitalions and tickets for the Consistory Socisbles for the coming esson, By order of H. H. PGND, M.-. W.-, & P~ AL~ ED GOODALE, Gr. Sec'y. RAINBOW LODGE, NO. 400, L O. O. F.—Regular g ball cor%!r lhd.?}'an and Robey-gte, to- morrow (Mondsy) evening, to recfi:.e ;mt from Fort Desrbarn Full attendance s destred. foden. M. B, ROBERTS, N. G. JOHN O'BRIEN, Rec. Sec. ATTEXNTION, SIE ENIGHTS!—Stated" conclava of Chicago Commundery No. 19 K. T., Mondsy evening, Oct, 15, 1675, for businesa snd work on E. T, Order. Viriting Sir’ Enights courteously invited. ~By order of the Em, Com. G. A. WILLTAMS, Recorder. MIRIAM CHAPTER, No, 1, 0. E. 8,—Wil hold a musical cad Iiterary entertainment st Accordia Hall, 112 East Randolph-st., Saturdsy evening, Oct, 23, Ad: 25 canta. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, No. 63, B. A. M.—Specia convacation Mondsy evening, at 7:50_o'dock. Work on B. A. Degree. J. 0. DICKERSOX, Sec. The Chivags Tribure, Bunday Morning, October 17, 1876. At the New York Gold Exchangs on Sat- unrday, greenbacks, at the opening, wers quoted at 85§, from which price they de- elined to 854, closing at that figure. The Prince of Wales embarked a4 Brindisi yesterday for Hindostan. It is ‘only a few years gince 8 religious fanatic stabbed the Governor-General of Indie, and avowed that he did 50 a5 a religious duty. Will some one like him see the finger of fanaticism poeinting ot the Prince? If so, the Royal Guards may wot save the Royal life. Mr. Hestve claims that the reporter of ‘TErsUNE reported one passage of his speech incorrectly. He states that the following was the language he used, to the best of his rec- ollection ; ‘The newapapers are charging me with being & bank- rupt, This charge is false, and they know it is false, My peper has never been protested in this city, Thave paid doller for dollar, and havenot donelikes great m2ny others who throw stones at me, in settling at 25 cents on the dollor. It is trus, T would have to sell part af my interest in the Staats-Zeitung, but I would rather do it, and move into the most humbls cottagein the City of Chicago, than that anybody ehould loso a cent by me. 5 ‘We presume this is substantislly what Mr, Hzsrva said, and therefore the editorial com- ment was based on an erronedas understand- ing of his langusge, and should be withdrawn. M we—" ‘We desire once more to impress upon the Eepublicans the urgent importancs of adopt- ing a resolution in the Convention on Tues- sy calling for the appointment of a judge of election in each voting procinct, to be designated by the Central Committee, and thet the Central Committee maks ont the list and go before the County Board and msake the demand officially. As the matter now stands, the Board has ignored the agreement made by its Election Committee, and has sp- pointed afew Republican judges in a fow precinets of strong Republican wards. In the Democratic wards, and also in wards pre- sumed to be Democratic, there are no Repub- lican inspectors. This simply means ballot- box stuffing and false returns, and, if it is suf- fered to pass without remonstrance, no power can beat the Devil-Fish party. The Repub- lican Convention, therefore, must take offi- «clal cognizance of the outrage, demand its correction, and, if the demand is refused, spot ¢he men who refuse it, pice them on record, and maks it 8 bot issue in the election. ‘We suggest to the m/:mbers of the Repub- Uean party, and especially to those who mey be selected as delegmtes to the County Con- vention, the proprietiy of a general and unan- imons indorssmewt of the re-election of Judge Garr. Trhe substantial, respectable people of all parties gre united in urging the re-election of & Judge who has borne himself in office with such credit. In the case of the racancy on tho Circuit Bench, the Opposition have nominatecdt Judge McArrmrer. There an be no objertion made to him on personal or professional grounds. We suggest, there- fore, that the question be well and deliber ately considerad whether it be advisable or not under the circumstances to nominate an opposing candidate for that office. To do 50 may have the effect of causing his friends to put forth strong efforts to secure his clection, andinsodoing may greatly help the whole Dev- il-Fish ticket. When the Opposition have set an example of ignoring party on the Judge- ship, would it not be the best policy for the Republican Convention to do likewise? We throw out this suggestion for what it is worth, The Chicago produce markets were very frregalsr on Saturday. Xfess pork was sctive, aud declined nearly §1.00 per bxl, closing at $21.25@21.80 for October and $18.95 seller the year. Lard was guiet and steadier, closing it 18.40 per 100 ths cash, and $12.15@ 12.20 seller the yoar, Meats were quiet, at 1@%4c for summer shonlders (boxed), 121@ ‘% far short ribz do, and 18@184e for short daxr do. Highwines Weromode active aud T HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: e e B e : importance for every day. It is too often | ceived 10s. 6d., and must have regretted his comrmunication to the SUNDAY,” OCTOBER 17,” 1875.—SIXTEEN PAG: steady, at $1.134 per gallon. Lake freights were quiet and steady, at 8ic for wheat to Buffalo. Flour was in light demand and firm. Wheat was active and stronger, closing at $1.13 cath and $1.103 selier November. Corn was in light demand and 1c lower, clos- ing at 55jc cash ana 53jc for Novémber. Oats were quiet and easier, closing at 333c for October ‘and 32}c for November. Rye was firm, at 73c. Barley was quiet and firm, closing at 97c for October and 93%c for No~ vember. Hogs were quiet and a shade lower, with the bulk of the salesat $7.50@7.80. Cattle wero in good demand and were firm, at §2.50@6.50 for poor to exire, Sheep sold moderately, and were quoted-easy at $3.00@ 4.75. Onc hundred dollars in gold would buy $116.874 in greenbacks at the close. Mr. Hesive had scarcely divested himself of the odors of the Bummer Convention at McCormick Hall, on Fridsy afternoon, when he rushed into a Republican meeting in the Second Ward, held Friday evening. There were & good many colored people pres- ent, and Mr. Hesmva went for their votes. He knew he could do this best by coming be- fore thém as a Republican, and he proceeded to tell them that he had been a Republican since 1854, that he was among the first to maintain the rights of the colored men, and that he would always support the principles of the old Republican party. He then added that he “wanted the votes of all present as the reward of his lebor for them, and closed by stating that in 1876 he would be found on the side giring * rights to every man, let him be born where ke may, and let his coler be what it may.'” Now, what does this mean? If Mr. Hresrve is opposed to the Repub- lican party, is he not frying ‘to obtain Republican votes under false pretenses when he attonds Republican mecotings to make harangues, and uses the language accredited to him above? If Mr. Hesrve prides him- self upon having been 8 Republican, and is still a Republican. and expects to act with the Republican party in 1876, why does he ndt ssy so outright at all the meetings and in all the speeches he makes during the campaign? Why does he confine these utterances to Republican meetings and suppress them at Democratic meetings? If looks very much as though Mr. Hrsmve is playing fast and loose to get the office he seeks, and that he represents himself to be equivalent to a Democrat among the Demo- crats and to be a8 Republican when among the Republicans. This is treating neither party fairly. Come, old man, be ail one thing or all the other. THE DEVIL-FISH TICKET. A few days since we drew o parallel be- tween the *‘‘Opposition party” of Cook County and Viczos Huaeo's horrible monster, the Devil-Fish. We showed the striking similarity of habits beiween the two as well as of construction ; that while the one was a monster provided with tentacles which it wound about its victim while it sucked its life-blood away, the other was provided with tentacles also, which it has wound about the cityi and county preparatory to its corrupt purposes. The Devil-Fish on Fridasy moved out of its hole and spread its tentacles, and is now swimming towards its prey. On Friday the Opposition party gathered in MecCormick Hall, accompanied by its gamblers and loaf- ers, its bunko-steerers and ballot-box stuff- ers, its thieves and bummers, its roughs and rowdies, its riff-raff and scum, gathered from the dens, alleys, slums, and grog-shops. They swarmed upon the floor, and they swarmed in the gallery ; they voted on the floor, and they voted in the gallery. Al the tentacles of the Devil-Fish were in active mo- tion, all twisting and squirming in the direc- tion of the County Treasury. The financés of Cook County constitute the prey of the Devil-Fish party. Its object is to get those finances under the complete control of that festering mass of oorruption which was in McCormick Holl on Fridsy. To eat the taxes is 1ts purpose. Whether the paople of this county have the courage to slash off the tentecles and save their treasury remains to be seen. The Devil-Fish party has nominated a ticket. The more completely to carry out its purposes it nominated a Foreign-Enow- Nothing ticket. Look st the tentacles. For County Treasurer, A. C. Heamxg, 8 German; for Clerk of the Superior Court, J. F. FvEr- 7%, Irish ; for Couniy Surveyor, ALEXANDER Siuversparer, foreign ; for County Gommis- sioners, Mise Murroy, Irish; Par Creany, Irish; Scmvrrze, German; Cowuy, Irish; Crawrorp, Scotch,—not an American on the county ticket. The plunder centres in the County Board,—it has the stealing and pil- fering. It builds the big Court-House. It lets contracts. Itsells bonds. It distributes and eats taxes. Hence the Devil-Fish party was particular in its selection of - Commis- sioners. Mvzroy has been ' gate-keeper of s race-course, a prime qualifica~ tion for County Commissioner, and is in the present Shrievalty Ring. Creany was paid 815,000 for collecting some person- al taxes of the South Town. ScrvirzEisa shoe-contractor for paupers, and suits the Devil-Fish gang exactly. Coxvry is a leader of the Ring, and one of the Committee on Elettions who refused to allow Republican representation for Judges of Election. Craw- FoRp is also one of the Ring, and voted ageinst giving the Republicans Judges of Election. This does not mean reform. It means & deliberate intention to keep the County Board corrupt, to continue eating the taxes, levying on contractors, defrauding the Treasury, dividing the spoils. - It means villainy. The duty of Republican tax-payers is evi- dent. If they do not strangle the Devil-Fish, the Devil-Fish will strangle them. If they do not amputate the tentacles, the tentacles will soon be wound sbout the city and county, and it will be too late to esczpe from its clutches. The Republicans must not make the mistakes that have boen made by the “ Opposition.” They must put no half- way men on the course, They must nomi. nate a clean ticket, with nothing but honest men upon it. They must at leest recognize Americans, who pay -three-fourths of the tazes, by placing some of them upon the ticket, to show that they ave still citizens and are not disfranchised by the ‘unfortunate saccident of birth in this country. Thers must be no bummers or secallaw: upen the Republican ticket. They must sink all differences, all jealousies,: all personsl aspirations, and un the strongest, ablest, most 9 and most respeotable men.. FHOES™ ser vices can be secured. The DeviliFish party hes nominsted a bad ticket. Thg Repub. licans must nominate a good oné: If they do, and tha tax payers then dmbt come out and vote for if, they deseryé™38 be strangled by the Devil-Fish. . We- balieve, however, that, if the Republican-dalegates nominate their best men, the people will turn ont bl vote for tham, and we believe thas there is no other way in which the ticket can be elected and the county finances saved. If a ticket of Republican bummersis offset against the Devil-Fish bummers, the latter will win by an overvhelming msjority. If the Re- publicans give the people a good, honest, coursgeous Gruriarr for their champion, he will slay the Devil-Fish party ss surely as did his namesake slay Vieros Huco's mon- ster in the Douvres Rocks. THE REPUBLICAR CONVENWTION, A County Convention of the Republicans has been called for next Tuesdey at 11 o'clock, in the Council Chember of the City Hall. It should be the pride and personal endeavor of every Republican voter to assist in the formation of a Convention that will present the strongest possible contrast to the crowd of bummers, gamblers, roughs, and thieves who assembled in MoCormick Hall on Friday lost. The city primaries will be held to-morrow from 4 till 7 o'clock p. m.,— hours which admit of the attendance of all classes of voters. These primaries are, in fact, as important es the election itself. A set of delegates should be elected from each district who will give character to the Con- vention, and who will go there wun- pledged in the interests of any particular candidate. Of course, there have been cer- tain persons bumming around for the Repub- lican nominations a8 well as the Opposition nominations. These are the persons who ought not to get them, and the delegates running at the primeries in their interest ovght to be defeated. It cen only be done by the attendance of the respectable voters and tax-payers, and the election of dele- gates whom they feel they can trust. There is no doubt that the leaders in the Devil-Fish party will busy themselves at the Ropublican primeries, throngh agencies best kmown to themselves, to secure the choico of delegates who will put s weak ticket in the field. The success of the Hesive ticket depends more upon this than anything else. This wire- pulling and pipe-laying can only be defeated at the primaries. The Foreign-Know-Nothing party repre- sented by Mr. HesiNg, and assisted by the class of people of whom Mixe McDoxarp, Jomnxy Concorax, Mize Murroy, and “ Ap- petite Bill” are the leaders, is the most dan- gerous political coalition that has ever been formed in Chiéago. It is a counterpart in all essentials of the TweEp cliqgue that con- trolled New York for years and loaded down the people of that city with a debt from which several generations will not be able to escape. It has its ¢ Cosmopolitan ” Club, its “Union " Club, its * Bean " Club, correspond- ing to the Americus Club and other similar organizations of the Tweep crowd in New York. It grows bolder and more aggressive with every new thievish success. It has its cyes on the public treasury and both paws deep in the public pocket. Its highest ambi- tion is to obtain the largest possible amount of the tax-payers’ money in city and county. Incidental thereto is the protection of the thieves, confidence-men, gamblers, ¢ fences,” ‘pawn-brokers, rum-holes, and generally the vicious and dangerous classes of city life. These are the people who furnish them with the “‘balance of power,” and it is necessary that they should be givem full license. Such o combination should be attacked at every quarter and on every poesible occasion. The only hope of defeating the disreputable crowdnow in possession of the city and county offices is in the selection of men for every posi- tion the mention of whose names is a sufficient guarantee of the honest and capable adminis- tration of the public trusts to be confided to them. It is necessary that a responsible political organization should undertake this task. The only party that can do it success- fully is the Republican party. The Repub- licans have a majority in this city and county, if they present an unexceptionably good ticket thronghout which will bring out the voters. The Republicans who voted with the so-called People’s party two years ago, when there was no Republican ticket, will have no .excuse for doing so this year. The Republican party will have done its duty if it puts forward the kind of ticket we have suggested. This can only be done if the re- spectable men control the primaries. If they do that, the Republicen party will have done all it can do as an organization, and the tax- payers will have nobody but themselves to blame if they permit such a ticket to be de- feated. THE DIRECT TRADE OF CHICAGO. Trz TrBUNE has repeatedly referred to the growing direct trade in grain of Chicago (and by direct trade we meen sales to consumers, and not seles or shipments to New York, and there to be distributed). This is especially the case in regard to the European trade, and is measurebly the case with regard to the trade of Now England. Foreign purchasers, es well as New England dealers, have discov- ered that they can do a better business by purchasing their grain in Chicago than they can by purchesing it in New York. There are vorious reasons for this change, but an all-sufficient one is the now notorious fact that whoever purchases Chicago No. 2 wheat in Chicago obteins a very different grain from. the Chicago No. 2 wheathe gets in New York. Chicago has a grade of whest known as No. 38, which is grain not fit to be classed as No. 2, because of the dirt in it, because of not being dried, and especially because the berry is shrivoled, small, and not plump like No. 2. This No. 8 wheat is largely bought in Chicago, and when it reaches Bufialo is put through a Ppro- cess of improvement,—that is, the dust and dirt are blown out, & slight addition of No. 2 wheat is made, and the whole goes to New York and is sold there as Chicago No. 2. No amount of blowing, however, can enlarge the berry, or give to No. 8 wheat the quality which is essential to Chicago No. 2 wheat. Purchasers on foreign account have satisfied themselves that they can get Chicago No. 2 wheat in Chicago, which is not always the case in New York ; and that, buying in Chi- cago, they can protect themselves otherwise. All grain sent to New York is subject to the charges and expenses levied by the local monopolies, which are of course added to the New York price of the article. By pur- chasing in Chicago there is & choice of four routes to the seaboard, on one. or other of which they can make contracts for delivery of grain free of the exactions in New York harbor, and even on special rates for transportation. During the present season thess direct orders to Chicago for foreign ports have been largely increased over past seasons, and there is no question that this direct business will hereafter be- come the rule, and not the exception. There is also a change going on in the trade in provisions for the South, which is swinging round in the same manner from New York to Chicago. Orders now coms direct from all points in the South to Ohica- go; and, instead of the pork going from Chicago fo New York, and thence shipped upen orders to the Bouthern States, it goss direct from this city to all points on '_.hs South Atlantie, as well as to the river and in- terior cities and towps. Apart from fhe economy of this direct trade, there is another reason which is producing this change, and that is, the disposition of the overplust of pork. The barrel of pork when packed con- tains an average of 190 pounds ; after being in barrel some weeks it increases in weight to the extent of 20 or 24 pounds per lfnxrel. This increase, however, fades away in _@e summer, leaving the weight as it was origi- xm!]x. The practice in New York has been to “take this overplus from the bar rel, and sell pork to the South withont any provision for the subseqwiont shrinkage. The result has been, that s bar- rel of Chicago pork bought through New York always pans out from 20 to 24 pornds less pork than a barrel of Chicago pork pur- chased in Chicago. This matter has of n.s.elf had & very strong influence in domanding that the pork trade shell be direct with the place where the pork is packed, and where the barrcl is not subjected to a heavy toll be- fore it reaches the consumer. New England also is largely becoming o con- vert to direct trade with Chicago, givirg up the trade through New York ; and gradually, but rapidly, the trade of this city in provitions aud grain will become direct with all the: At- lantic ports and the interior, having only such trade with New York as will be more or less local to that place. The distribration will take place here, and not in New York as heretofore. ‘WABASH AVENUE. The new impulse which the paving of Wa- bash avenue has given to thet street isal- ready epparent. As soon as it was kmown that the avenue wonld be paved, new build- ings were begun and landlords began pratting their old houses in order. The imp:issable condition of the street had rendered it as quict as a cow-path in a deserted village. Notwithstanding some individual opposition to the laying of a horse.railroad tracls, there are few now who will deny that the horse- railroad is a decided advantage to the street, as well as & great sccommodation to the gen- eral public. The Company is putting on this strest @ better class of cars than it has been running elsewhere, and promises to provide large, commodi- ous two-horse cars, with conductors, as rapidly as they can be procured. It also claims that it has sabseribed $20,000 to the paving of the street over and above what it was required to pay. Wo presume this means that it has paved the full 16 feet, including both tracks and the space lyimz between | them. They have done everything they could to hasten the improvement of the street. There only remains one drawback to the rapid progress of Wabash avenue in s busi- ness way, and one lack in its asstred condi- tion of the main thoroughfere of the South Divigion. This is the refusal of some of the property-owners along the line to improve that portion of the street in front of their places. There are in nearly every block one, two, or three spaces of from 25 to 50 feet which are left unpaved. They are not mere- ly offensive to the eye, but a serious obstacle in the way of travel. As the street has been widened, and the curb- stones moved back 6 or 8 feet on each side, the curbs along the unpaved portions are now out in the street, and will probably cause some serious_accidents if they are not removed. In such case, the property-owners should be mede liable for damages. The few people who are so mean or penurious as to refuso the small sum necessary for the pav- ing in front of their property should be con- strained to do it by the force of public opinion and the individual pressure of t{en- ants, since they cannot be reached by law within a couple of years. Every one of them must have a profound sense of his own meanness in refusing to pay a coaple of dol- lars a foot, and thereby ruining the looks and usefulness of the entire street. The ex- pendituro for paving in each individusl case will be got back tenfold within 4 year in the increased value of the property, and will re- turn every year in increased rental. ‘These blotches should be promptly effaced. CHURCE-DEBTS AND CHURCH-DUTIES. The average church has a mortgagein addi- tion to a steeple. The mortgage is nearly as ornamental and useful as the sieeple; but the latter weighs only on the stona founda- tions of the church, while the former weighs on the real foundations,—the pocket-books of the brethren. The holder of the mort- gege, after a few brief years, learns to be agreeably surprised when the interest is paid, and to regard the payment of any part of the principal a8 & remote possibility, not to be seriously considered as even likely to occur. It is true that church-mortgages are rarely foreclosed, but this is due, not to any punc- tuality in their discharge, but to the natural reluctance of a man to own a church. What can he do with it? He would be slow to eject the congregation and stop their worshiping. If he did so, he conld not well afford to wuse the build- ing for a private chspel. He cannot sell it to any other congregation without tek- ing nnother mortgage for most of the pur- chase-moncy and repeating his painful ex- perience. Finally, he cannot turn it into houses or stores, nnless he makes a billiard- hall or & concert-saloon of it; and to this there are obvious objections. In a word, the man who should foreclose a mortgage on one of our stone churches would find himself bur- dened with a whito elephant. And so the ser- vices go on, and the debt goes on, too, rolling up like & ball, until the disheartened congre- gation slips away and the dispirited minister censes to “‘draw,” and at last the church col- lnpses. There is at least one sect which re- fuses to consecrate mortgaged buildings. It is a sect in which the higher members of the hierarchy exercise a good deal of power, and it is a pity that they cannot forbid the construction, as well as the conse- cration, of such edifices. If the debt ‘were incurred solely from & devout wish to glorify God and help on the work of con- verting souls to belief in Him, more could be said in defense of it. But the real reason for borrowing so much money is apt to be vanity,—a desire to excel some rival congro- gation or sect in grandeur of constrnction and gorgeousness of furnishing. Would not the cause of religion be as well subserved by spending money to save stained souls instead of to buy stained glass? to bring the impure to rest in the hereafter, instead of to provide perfectly restful pews for the pure at pres- ent? to do good to sinners instead of to please the msthetic tastes of saints? It is not honest in the highest degree for a church to fail to pay its debts, but how often this ‘baneful thing happens. The best way for the churches to begin to pay their debts to a just God is to pay their just debts to men. ‘There is another great field for church effort that is left singularly uncared for. Religion 15 supposed to be semething of the highest made 50 only on one day. The churches are kept closed, as a rule, from Sunday to Sun- day and opened on the first day of the week only for a few hours. Opening them every day would entail only a little more expense, especislly in summer. The devil's houses are open every day ; should not God's houses beopen too? There is an atmosphere of de- votion about a great church, especially when few people are in it, which inclines the heart to prayer and praise. The Catholic churches abroad snd in Canada are open all the while. No visitor to the famons Bone secours Market in Quebec can have forgoiten the little charch close by, in which the countrywomen who come into the city with their loads of fresh fruits and vegetables stop and pray in the early morning. The tendency isto do them good and cause them to give honest meansure, heaping over. If our churches were open on week-days, would it not bring many men inside them for a few minutes’ de- votion at least, and that nearly every day ? The adoption of this ides might counteract the possible sad effects from the exclusion of Bible-reading in the public schools. Nearly opposite one of our large schools, on a South Side avenue, is one of the most beautiful churches in town. It is rich in stone-work, and glowing glass, and carved wood. It dif- fers from most of its class in having a steeple, but unfortunately resembles them in possess- ing—or being posseased by—a mortgage. If this edifice were open every morning between 8:30 and 9, and some simple service were given during ten minutes of that time, would not the pupils who came of their own accord, or who were sent to school half an hour earliar, be likely to gather there? And if they did, would there not be more real de- votion in the service than in the mechanical reading of the Bible by a whole school ? ANNEXATION OF NEW GUINEA, Early in the sixteenth century the Portu- guese discovered the Island of Papus, and’ named it New Guinea on avcount of the strik- ingresemblance of its inhabitants to those of Guines, in Africa. The island itself is prob- ably the largest in the world, provided Aus- linabil.it:y to discover any other affectionate couples within the precincts of Norwich, Another witness, after detailing the price— paid in shillings and sherry—of his vote, suggested a plan of electoral reform which has at least the virtue of novelty. He said that ¢ A pure election might be secured in Norwich, if every one was paid a certain sum after he had voted.” This idea caused much merriment. The fact that it was seriously propounded shows the wretchedly low state of morality that prevails in some English boroughs. Bad as our elections are, they have not sunk to this depth. We may have a mote in our eye, but the beam is monopo- lized by our British brethren. ‘‘THE COURT OF CILIATION.” This is a Danish and Norwegian institution, which has stood the test of eighty years' trial, has proved itself a great success, and has cu- riously enough escaped any notice.” It seems to be an admirable piece of legal machinery, which would work as well on American as it has on Norwegian .and Danish soil. Courts of Reconciliation were established in Scandi- navia in 1795. They extend throughout Den- mark. Each is presided over by a Judge and two assistants. The latter are usually not members of the legal profession. Befors these courts every case must come. Thereg- ular courfs'will dismiss any suit which has not been brought before one of these. The parties appear in the Recomciliation Court without :counsel, and generally without witnesses. Each states his case in the presence of the other. The presiding Judge asks any questions he chooses and ex- amine witnesses, if he sees fit to do so. When a complete statement of the dispute has been made, the Judge explains the law and tells the parties what he thinks their striet legal rights are. Then the whole Court unitesin a recommendation to plaintiff and defendant to settle the dispute in a certain specified way. Itis entirely optional with either to reject this advice. If they eccept it, the suggestion of the Court becomesa judgment. Execn- tion may issue upon it, and it can be pleaded *in bar of any other suit upon the same sub- traolia is counted 88 a continent. Borneohas { ject matter. But if both or either of the hitherto claimed a superiority in size, but New Guinea is generally admitted to excel it. Not long ago the authorities of New Soath Wales petitioned England to annex Papua. The idea has been received with the greatest favor throughout Australia,—so much so, in fact, that every colony on that continentis understood to demand annexation. The main reason alleged for this. desire is the fear that some foreign Power will seize New Guinea, unless England does so. This seems rather fanciful, however, in view of the fact that the deadly climate of the island has driven out the only nation—the Dutch—which ever gained a foothold on Papuan soil. The only danger would be that of German colonization, and Germany has never shown any incliration to surround herself with distant dependencies. Bis- MARCK seems to agree with CoBDEN'S sweep- ing statement in Parliament: ‘ You call the colonies England’s strength; they are En- gland’s weakness.” The real reason for Australian unanimity in demanding the an- nexation of the island is probably the wish to have New Guines a member of the feder- ated republic that will ultimately, and perhaps cre long, be formed of the different British colonies in that part of the world. New Guinea wes once a part of Australia. The sea has washed away the isthmus that stretched between them. What God hath put asunder physically, man now proposes to join together politically. Annexstion is almost certain. England is always half-ready to seize any stray island, and has in this casa the strong impulse of colonial sentiment. The seizure itself is a mstter of course. The Dutch have abandoned their forts, though they claim a shadowy sovereignty over a part of the island, and have trading stations there. The natives—a strong, healthy, temperate race—can offer no resistance to the appliances for murder and robbery in the hands of every civilized nation. If the dispatch is ever written in Downing street—** Annex New Guinea”—the thing will be done. ‘Whether the missma that slaughtered the Hollanders will spare the English, remains to be seen. If Great Britain can only use the island as a graveyard, its value will not be apparent. Its trade, however, can be greatly developed. It produces quantities of spices, tortoise-shell, sugar, tobacco, and rice, and is said to be capable of producing good cotton. The possible profits will lure England on to annexation. She will see guiness in New Guinea, and that British drnm-beat thatcircles the world has one muffled refrain—*‘ Pounds, shillings, pence ; pence, shillings, pounds.” THE VOTING-CATTLE OF ENGLAND. The continued inguiry into the Norwich (Eng.) election reveals an. amount of petty bribery that could not be paralleled in the worst wards of the worst cities in the Ameri- can Union. Every inn-keeper in Norwich might have truthfully altered his sign to ¢ Beer, ale, liguors, and votes for sale here.” The only question seems to have been about the cash or alcoholic value of each vote. 'The fact that it was for sale was safely assumed. A Commission is now sitting in Norwich and investigating the ways and means of the last election. Its sessions are attended by num- bers of persons, and the testimony—which is all ome way, and that s bad way —elicits continual laughter. The ver- batim reports teem with brackets in- closing hilarious words—*lsughter,” ¢‘gen- eral hilarity,” ‘““a laugh,” ‘smiles,” ete. The facts which amuse the Norwich mind are all of a kind. One saloon-keeper ingenuously confessed that he had been paid 10s. 6d. by the Liberals for the use of aroom that was notused, and that he had voted the Liberal ticket. While this was a favorite device, the bulk of the electors were bribed in an even more direct way. They were engaged as ““messengern.” Ono British yeoman testified that he had been “hired by the Liberals as a messenger for 8s. 6d. per day, This was—of course—immediately before the election. In this capacity he did two things. He carried a letter to one tavern and went to another to get a free drink. That was all. Strange to say, after taking this bribefrom the Liberals, he voted the Conservative ticket. The only posaible explanation seems to be that he imitated another citizen of Norwich, who was paid 8s. 6d. by the Liberals and 4s. by the Conservatives for the same day's work at do- ing nothing, and who naturally voted the four-ghilling ticket. ~ Besides messengers, both parties employed * watchers.” One of the Liberal watchers was a’boot-and-shoe- maker. He reported, a few hours after his engagement, that he had watched one public- house and seen nothing, but that he was for- tunate enough, by peeping through a hole in the back of another inn, to discover the landlord’s wife sitting on the landlord’s knee. This thrilling political intelligence was prompily paid for. ‘The shoemskerspy z¢- parties should reject the proffered advice, the suit can be at once brought in the proper courts, ¢ These are the main features of the system, 88 we find them sketched in a forgotten book, “The Study of Goverrment,” written by Mr. G. H. Yeamax, and published in Boston four years ago. The preface is dated at Co- penhagen, so that this account of the Danish system was probably written on the spot and as the result of personal observation. Mr. Yeamax gives some remarkable figures in proof of the good work done by the Courts of Reconciliation. Within the five years from 1860 to 1864, both inclusive, 183,628 suits were brought before these courts. Of these, 123,897 were settled; 2,54¢ were post- poned ; and 57,187 were sent up to the regu- lar courts for litigation. But sober second thought led to the adoption of the advice of the Court of Reconcilistion in more than half of these, sothat only 25,967 of the 183,628 original suits were really tried at law. In other words, the Courts of Reconciliation promptly, fairly, and cheaply disposed of six eut of every seven suits brought in Denmark within thess-five years. By comparison of the statistics of the individnal years, it ap- pears that the whole number of suits de- creases year by year, while the proportion of suits finally settled in these Beeo\m:ilisu'on Courts as steadily increases. The system is in foll force in the Danish West India Islands. The following table shows its results there during the same five years (1860-1864) : Total number of cases.... Settled in Beconciliation Sent to regalar conrts. Pressed tolegal trial. In these colomes the Courts of Reconcilia- tion settled seven out of every eight snits. The two sets of statistics, taken together, are in the nature of cumulative proof. These facts should have been before the public long ago, but the legal guild, which ought to be aware of every interesting legal experiment, ig densely ignorant, as a rule, of everything outside one narrow routine. Bracs- STONE was right when he classed Iawyers as obstructives. They have to be told by other people of the progress made in their own profession. The Conseils des Prudhommes of France, the Arbitration-Courts of England and New York City, and the Courts of Rec- onciliation of Norway and Denmark, were all suggested and founded by nondawyers ; and if the lawyers had been left to find ount about them the world would probably still be ignorant of their existence. Among the latest engineering projects is a proposition to flood the Desert of Sahara by opening a'channel from the Atlantic Ocean, and turning it into an inland sea. And now comes a gentleman who suggests that this project for utilizing the Desert of Sahara will throw the earth off its present balance! Just how serious a disturbance there will be can be ascertained, he says, upon finding the actual length and depth of the desert. Meanwhile, he leaves room for the imagina- tion to picture the earth tnmbling through space and seriously interfering with the equilibrium of the other inhabited planets of the universe, This is a suggestion for the Millerites. They will find, in sddition to any scientific testimony they may be able to collect on the subject, their position strengthened by * Mother SmreTox’s ” proph- ecy of the ond of the world in 1881. If we are not disappointed in this cheerful prognostication, there is a chance that some of us now living may be in at the death. The Graplic, on the day before the elec- tion, contained a very clever cartoon, repre- senting old Brn ALLEN in & ball-field, in fall base-ball regimentals, standing inthe profes- siona! attitude, with his huge hands extended to catch a ball coming towards him labeled ¢ Ohio Governorship.” There was a large crowd of spectators outside the ropes, and inside, TrupEx and GAsTON, expressing a live- ly hope he would ‘‘muff” the ball. The Graphic, on thedsy after the election, contin- ued the pictorial story. Arrevy bas muffed the ball, which lies on the ground at his feet with torn cover, showing that it is stuffed with regs. Old Fog-Horn is tearing his hair and gazing at the ball, while Gasrox and Tz~ DEN are dancing for joy over the ** muff.” —— ‘We print elsewhere a short and practical communication from Jomx G. SHOERTALL, Esq., touching the Humane Bociety, which should commend itself to all humane men. Being destitute of any appropriations for its support, its members have levied upon thern- selves to keep it in operation, and now they need the help of the public in order to make their work systematic and continuons. Itis alofty and noble work, which ought to be encouraged by all, and the 810 subseriptions which Mr, S8B0RTALL suggests ought to come charif people of the ity 12110 20 by ——— : California has escaDed the eviigeg g inflation by maintaning & specie crrr 2 the ballooning in mining m,m:.m“'!; v out s paraliel m ta country, ang beeay; Iapse seems inevitable. Whep the ;:'kmfl ifornia cloeed its doors, and opersgn: & Btock Board were suagended, thare 008 0 o market, at the quotations of the d'."' 00 A in round numbers, 847,000,000 'mflim shates, reprasenting mines that gey o that there is no Proapect uvsr.m_"hzfl dend. and from many of whigh ,,“:' sy - of ore was taken. At the quotations gy ¥ bofore the bank stopped, these bita Doy were worth 870,000,000, and it was tb-‘:t g ago that hastened the ban's fathure, by, % lapse was really arrestad by thy rp '™ - sinco it stopped transactions in sroeky Lo ing the suspension, the brokers m‘"ih. nearly the whole of the $17,000,000 yo2X ,. sbled to do 8o withont difficulty, the gy of marging being postooned nztil e <O B of the bank. The bank has reavened, py? 2 © or will not loan a doliar on fining—ahu = erals. The Bankof Nevads, with s 6&% T capital, baa declared th palicy, aag ool ~ heresto it, of refusing to maks ";Myx sharea s collaterals, and has be, Zas g, as high a3 13 per cent for mfi:‘l‘:n?”" { Stock Board has reopened, but the loaded down with paper shares, ang the tions are little more than nomis and sy, stesdy decline. Holders are making e offorts to revive ths bubble M,,:"" = the Bank of California under Rum‘u B agement suatained. but tharois svaey e, B that shortly the S47,000,000 worth of gyt be valued at precisely what they are noy B i their weight a8 waste psper. Tao ,;.,d;:" & paying mines, which may be numbereq oy ,: £ fioger's ends, are 10t included i thy g:ven, neither does there seem to bava by transactions in them since the re oy © considerable amount. They are Beld a3 inpey, 5 ments at their actnal value, which in % doubtlesa they will mainsain. Bat g £ the stock-gaming mania seems mmu L the coming wlhvs: whatever ather effacts: follow, will evidently signalize the California. el : —_— In Texas they cherish even less | common-school system than in hm:: ; bama. Inthetwo latter Siates the Tl oy tion is to bewg taxed for tho ** eddicashn g niggers,” but they disguise it nnder Daag § poverty and enormons State debts,—sguinn by payment of which Arkaness ba proridt my | Alabama is about to provide, by constitufinmg § restrictions upon the power of the Leguisz to raise taxes, which will preveat levies sufieiy ,. toeven pay the interest.. But in Teru thaeh r’— Jection which is nrged in the Constitutionl Gy ventioa is that the tax-payers ought motisly made to pay for the schooling of the childreny £ non-tax-payers. According ¢o Texan notion 5 ¥ of yore, the chisf essentials of ednestin e E to be that boys should be 8o trained 1 toeiy | upon the duties of life sccomplished b3 whackers and **d—d quick st drawing atrippe But thers is yet & gleam of hope for Tew Though the discussion in the Conventionby been prolonged, the opponents of ths sk system have not yet—as they would bavedes, if thoroughly in earnest~resortad to thetm srgument in Texas discussions, pistols s bowie-knives. The northesstern dozen counties of Obiod which Cleveland is the capital wers anginly settled by New England emigrants. Tbe iy over the vote of 1873 for Haves 1n ten of iy counties were as follows. We give the Bepsis can majorities for 1873 and 1875: 1%, Ga 410 w & o L » 2 = m @, nM 4= There was & cloge scralch for Senatoris B ilton County, Onio, but the Republicsa s date won, as follows: ;5 For Kleinschmidt (Rep.) =t For Beil (Dem).. ) B Majority. n é This secures : ans beyond peradventure. Ludlow-Street Jail, where Twrxp is lotted on the new charges, does not seem to bs vyl professional criminals would regard 33 the ™1 ‘wegst placa they could be seat to, shongh oot folk will wet it down as that procisely. Desdt = umequaled facilities extanded for privatsbon . in preferred cells, prisoners msy get druk¥ often as they can pay for tbe liquor. Theb® * rors of imprisonment for debt are also st - ed in the testimony taken before the Legisis Committee. The oldest prisoner is Bists - OrpExmEDNIER, a frandulent bankrupt, wkobr been confined in the prison five yems. Ei case seems to have touched the hesrt of & ‘Warden, who established forf OPPrxasnas regular “prison bar "—; —the profis @ which they share. The Warden, it seems, 18 ™ of those self-sacrificing patriots who serve ¥ild out salary ; but he manages to subsist ousof 8 profita of prisoners’ board and of the prsd bar. There has been some cariosity expresssd & see how GearAX, of Cincinnati, ran for ruh: tion to the Obio Legislature. Hamilton Cous? sends ten members to the Lower House. on a general ticket. The following is the ™ given for the varions candidates : Repubdtican, L Burckbardt. 07| Andrere Eael J. Zumstein. = o &) 3 - R ] oy wl.vZ J. Geghag, ... 24 Tewill bo seon that Gromas was hesti? scratched by his Democratic frionds. Tho 57 age Democratic vote was 22,700, while “fl:’: fell short of it nearly 2,000 votes, and is 1. low the next lowest on his ticket. The editor of the Ohio Stale Journal falt : ‘poetic spirit move him on the night of the . tion, and he was inspired to give ubtems his pent-up feelings thusly: Put sway his litile fog-born, Let his toy Lalloon collspse, Tilden, and them other mp!-! Gome to meet Naaby out in the SFAIF. o clal Adoertiser. ot Pt 7. Thoa Bt prersdy Blcllen_ windl'did make thoo howeld T i dor 2 An 3 Goma & meet the Soutbern CooledesscTs The Cleveland Herald, speaking of &'5::: 4 feelings of the Democrats in that cfY the Germgns, 8ays : the strestecars, n L3 and_ualoons,—espectally in saloons,—WhEreTEE Ty thres Democtate aro gathered together, the%® lond and deep on * \Be s Daten.” The mfl.fl of this city thougbt they had the GEFBAI, mdlut;unngrylud anly to shaut % the Germans shut their eses s34 £0 R0, - the Democratic whip guided them. They T3 4 thelr mistake eatly on election day ; tbey Fer it bofore the polls ciosed ; they all it naked horror the next morning. of the i faw Canv, the liviog embodiment o 1 flation insanity, ran 1,972 votes behind 6f the Democratic ticket in Clevelsad- Arrex was oply beaten 6,358 i thst Cazy kicked the besm by 7,725 votek - people of Cleveland evidentlythiak that 4! rency is diluted enough now. The Loulsville C.-J. mnnmnmc:: man who wmvitéd the crowned Mdg&‘ to come over and see Chicago and the “'l almast be & natural curiosity l:t::u‘f pouring in without delay. ‘We commend his | Trus., The Ceateamal should oot be F