Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 23, 1875, Page 8

THE CHOICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY OCTOBER 23, 1875.—TW LLVE PAGTS. s ————— ———————— =i TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATZS OF AURFCRIPTION (FATARLE TX ADVANCE). TPostase Prepaid ng OmMce. Thily Kditton, post rald, 1 sear, \812, Tarts of year at snmo rate. Muitt to any $ddrres FOUR WETKS far. oy Fdition Parts of yesr at same ma WFERLY RDITION, POATPAID. v ‘Th portare is 113 cants s yours Which - Kpecimen coples sent free. o prevent dolay and misidkes, he rire i Post-Ofiice addross in ful, including Stateand Connty, Remittancesmay be mada either by dreft, exprens, Toat-Oflico order, o in registored Ietters, &} Onz Tisk, TERAMS TO CITY AUMCRINERS, Datly, delivered, Snadsy excepted, 23 conta per week, Daily, delisored, Sundsy inchuded, B0 conta per week, Addrem TUR TRIDUNT COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sis,, Chicago, Il it e T AMUSEMENTS, MoVIOKER'S THEATRE—Madinon sirect, batween Desborn and tate. Engagement of John McOullough, ‘Altarnoon, * Virgislus," Evenlng, Nichard IIL" WOOD'S MUBEUM—Monroe strret, hetween Desre born aod State, *“A Dangerous Game,” Afternoon and evening, ADELPII THEATRE—Dearborn street, corner Monroe, Variety performance, Afternoon and eveuing. AOOLEY’S THEATRE~Randolph street, between Clarkand LaSalle, Engagement of the Califoruis Minetrels, Afternoon and eveniug. ACADEMY OF MUBIO—Halsted streot, betwoen #Madison snd Monros, Engagement of Frank Mayo, # Davy Crocketl.” Afternoon and evenlug. The Chicags Tiibune, Baturday Morning, Ootober 23, 1875. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- chinuge yesterday opened at 863, roso fo 86}, ond closed at 86}, —ee— In the Prosbyterian Synod of Hlinois North, in session nt Freeport yesterdny, the cnse of Prof. 8wivo waa for the present disposed of by the adoption of n mild resolution declara- tory of the * manifest irregularity ” of the sontinucd identifieation of Prof. Swiva with the Fourth Church as its pastor, but stating chat the Synod has foreborne to take any sction in view of tho expectation that the pastoral relntion will be dissolved on the 1st of January, 187G, In the Government tax case of the Hlinois Central Railrond Company the Commissioner of Internnl Revenue has rendered a decision in part sdverso to the claim of tho Company for exemption from tho tax of 5 per cent apon dividends, The Commissioner rules that a certain portion of receipts from notes zivenin payment for lands sold by tho Com- pany must bo considered ns net profits, and as such must be held subject to the tax of & por cent. The London Times notices as n significant fact the recent importation and sale of American calicoes in the Englishk market, a Manchester firm having received an invoice of those goods which aro acknowledged to bo of much better quality than those of En- glinh manufacture, Manchester has hereto- foro hnd no competitor in this line, and the introduction of foreign-made cotton goods with profit hasalways been considered among {he impossibilities. In fact, the shipping of American calicoes to Manchester secms quite s unexpected 08 wonld bo the * earrying of conls to Nowenstlo.” St. Louis yesterdny enjoyed the excite- went of 4 hanging. A negro named Hrnny UBnowx waa executed for the murdor of Puire Prann, o German farmer, whose wifa was also outraged by the black flond. While the testimony was obsolutely con- clusive ns phowing a deliberate mur. der, tho wretch persisted to tho last in nsserting that ho acted in self-defense, and in denying that ho commitied rape. With this lio warm on his lips, and uttoring the pious wish that he might go to Henven and 1neet his folks, the negro went presumably in another direction, Although occurring in St. Louis, the hanging is said to have been con- ducted in good style. A caso is now pending beforo the United States District Court in Admiralty in this city involving the question of the right of the ity to levy upon vessels owned in this port for the collection of a personal property tax. The owners of u schooner attached by the Oity Collector for non-payment of taxes claim that the warrant of sciznire was not walid, ond thoy cite, among other ihings, n clsuse in the Constitution of the United Btntes which provides that no State shall lovy o duty on toumsge, ‘The city, oun tho other hand, denies the jurisdiction of a Courtof Admiralityin tax caxes, and maintains the legality of the taxation of vessels ng arti- cles of porsonalproperty, In 1874 tho City of Chicago realized a revenue of aver 20,000 from the taxntion of vessels mpon a total valuntion of $1,192,030, and the decision of ‘adge Broporrr will bo awaited with in- tereat, " Mr. Franx Mourrox's vigorous and per. sintent demnod to be brought to trinl upon the indictment for perjury procured ngainst him at tho instance. of the Tev. Henny Wasp Beecnen has availed him nothing, Mr. Mourron insisted upon this trial as his Tight, as a matter of gimple justico, 1l was indicted upon the sworn testimony of Mr, Brrenes before the Grantl Jury, and the mero refusal of the principal witness to ap- peAr agninst him in court leaves the sworn testimony still uncontradicted and in faoll force, and permits the stigma of perjury to attach to the mname of asnsn without giving him the opportunity of proving the falsity of the chnrge. Mr. Bezcu. xk declines to prosccute, but does not recant his evidenco undor cath given before tho | Grand Jury ; and, in spite of MouvLToN's ap- peal, District-Attorney Wonsrow coolly enters 8 nwlle prosequi, aud the case is dropped, It is u sort of judicial outrege for which the law should provide some adequate remedy, If Movrron was guilty, be should bs punished ; if innocent, Lo 14 clearly entitled to the privilego of proving it. The Chicago pwdncu' warkets wero un. scitled yesterdsy. Mess pork was quiat aud firm, closiug ot BULOU for October, and $18,87)@ 18,90 seller the year, Land was dull uudstendy at $13.50 for new, and $12.25 seller tho yewr, Moats wero quict, ot 8}@8le for sumumnor shoulders (boxed), 12}e for short ribe do, und 12}@180 for short cluar do, Highwines were quiet and steady, at ¥1.11 per gallon, Lako freights were uctive and stronger, &t 4jc for wheat to Buffalo. TFlour was dull. Wheat was aclivo and fo higher, rlosing st $1,10§ seller tho month, and $1.08 Lor November. Corn was sctive gud so lowes! " Oata were in fair demand and firmer, closing at f2lc eash, and 3¢ for November. Nye was dull and easier at 727 72ke. Barley was active and weak, closing at 90¢ cash, and 87e for November. Hogw were in fairly active demand at 10¢ decline, with most of the {radiug &t $7.00@7.25. Cattls were dull and heavy., Bheep were wehk and nominslly lower, One hundred dollars in gold would buy §116.62) in greenbacks at the close. Eryrr Wasnnury, Chief of the Treasury ‘Secrat Service, has achioved anothor brilliant suecess. Under his personal supervision the Governntent detectives hnvo succeeded in eapturing three of the most dangerous and suceesrful counterfeiters in Amerien,—men who had bafiled every attempt to devise a poper-money design which conld not be imi- tated, nnd who have mannfactured spurions notes representing a valae of over 1,(KN.000 with sueh marvelous skill aa to cseape dee tection oven in the banks, With the count- erfeitern wers scoured » number of uafinished plates which wonld soon have wout into cir- eulation other millions of notes of eqnally perfect excention. Ny the arrest of these 1nen the ehiof sourco of supply for the West sud South has beeu ent off, and the business of counterfeiting par excellence has received an effectual check for a time, JE Tax-payers will be nt this lime peeuliarly interosted in some figures which have been compiled from the records by Commissioner Puaniex, Chairman of tho County Board. It appears that the Opposition ring in that body Linvg at the expiration of ten months of thio fiscal year exbausted the sppropriations for current npfznnés for the entire year, smonnting to 1,275,000, and that a defi- ciency will Lo created for the next two months. At the same mte of expenditure, Commissioner Bunnick finds that an addition of from 10 to 15 per cent will be necessary for 187G; or, in other words, that the contin- uance in power of the Oppesition corrnption- ists of the Board will add nearly $300,000 to the already enormous aggregate of the run. ning cxpenses of the County Government. This, it shonld be remembered, does not in- clude the department of the construction of public buildings, to which, at o moderato estimate, another $300,000 of extrn cxpense may be ndded, making n total of $600,000 that the tax-payers of Cook County will have to pay next year for the luxury of eclecting the ticket put in nomination by the Opposi- tion crow. Thero is food for reflootion in this showing. ‘WATER FOR THE MISSISSIPPL ‘We yestorday noticed tho efforts muking for o general assault upon Congress in order {o obtain n cash gold subsidy of nearly five millions of dollars n year, for forty years, to bo paid to Tox Scorr, to bwld a railway through the Indian Territory, Northwestern Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, to San Di- ego in Bouthern Califoruia, with branchey from the main line to several points in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missonri. To pro- mote this schome n Convention is to be held at Bt. Lounis on the 23d of November, and this body is to make the formal demand on Congress for tho subsidy. So wide-spread has becn the effort to bave this magnificent scheme of plunder indorsed-that even Gov. Bevenmog, of Illinois, according to the St. Lounis papers, has written a letter commend. ing tho job, and has announced his intention of sending delegates to the Convention. But this is not the only mcnsure devised for spending the public money. The St. Louis Republican comes to us with an edito. riol demanding that the Mississippi River, from the mouth to 8t. Louis, bo so improved a8 toafford at all timos a suflicient depth of water to flont ocenn stcamers, so that the countries of Europe, instead of having to land at New York, Doston, Montreal, Phila- dolphia, Baltimore, Savennal, Mobile, and New Orleans, can gail direct to St. Lonis! And passengen going to the Ol World, in- stead of going on board tho steamer at an Atlantic port for an eight days’ journcy over the ocean, can go to Bt, Louls and have tho delightful pleasure of four or five weeks’ river and ocean travel. p 1t is well known that the entire foreign trade of the United States, including the pussenger traffic, would of courso be exclu. sively donoe ot the port of St. Louis if it wero not for the want of water in tho Mississippi River ; andit ia owing to that trifling dificulty that the citics on thoseaboard have for nearly two contaries enjoyed the profit and the dis- tinction which Nature, in laying off this country, intended should belong to St. Louis. The monopolists, once in the securo posscs- sion of the trade, have refused to surrender it. In fact, nthorough examination will show that tho whole policy of the Government has been, by large expenditures for the removal of bars and other obstructions, to facilitate tho flow of water from the river into the CGulf of Mexico, thus reducing the depth necossary to float screw steamers up to St. Louis, Occasionally Nature has exhibited hor wrath at the violation of her plan to make Bt. Lonis the excluslve seat of our foreign commerce by sonding down vast volumes of water, which have flooded the valley, destroying lovees and plantations; but these displays of power have ended in leuving the river less capablo of navigation than before, and Kt. Louls, with tho gentle patienco of a lamb, has sub. mitted to the long denial of her natural and geographicnl position. But there must be au end to injustice, 8t Louis is now about to dewaud that, with the begioning of the second ceatury of national independence, the great foreigu commerco of the country #hall have liberty to seok its natural centre, oud bo no longer diverted to a dozon or more starveling ports on the Atlantic coast, Hence, Congress must provide at once for & supply of water nover leas than 12 foot doop in tho Mississippi Itiver, Tho cost, says the e publican, is immaterial ; tho end will justify all tho means necessary to accomplish it. Millions are bnt ciphiers in comparison with tho benefits to follow to the unborn people ©of overy uation on the carth, Too long lave tho oppresscd people of tho world been kept from trading with St Louis because of the mere want of a little 1moro water in the river. 'Too long have the despots of Europe, Asin, and Afrien practiced thoir abominatious upon people wnable to cseape to St. Lonia for the waut, at timey, of oven C inches more of water! Hhall this thing go on forever? Forbld it, Heuven | for. bid it, Liberty ! Wo do not exactly know how the depth of water in tho Mississippl River is to boin. creased, but 8t. Louis always bos an engincor rendy to show how snything of that kind can be done, aud go doubt this cngineor is ready uow to demounstrate that ho can furnish all the wator that can by any possibility ever bo needed to float all the ocean steamerv that will attewnpt to run between Liverpool aud 81, Louis, Wo do not wish to be uydenstood cloiug at G0c cash, and 5le for November. | aa objecting to having thia thing done. Wo sympathize with the good people of St. Lonis in their suffering.—the practieal closing of their port,—nnd we are willing to pay onr mita towards supplying the remedy which that ity asks to assist Noture in recuring a safo passnge to the Gulf : bnt why limit the work to St. Louis? Why not ecuva 12 fect of water from New Orleans to St. I'aul ? Then freight and -passengers conld have nn additionn! week on board the steamer. As the schemo of having the forcign traffic take eoveral weeks from ono port to tho other.in. stend of cight days rests on the admirable peinciple of *going slow™ ns opposed to “fast” business, the extension of the steamer’ jonrney to St. Panl would be merely following the principle to ita logical conclusions, I'assengers fromn Europe to St. Panl could get off at St. Louls and ges the big bridge and ride out to 8maw's Garden. Tt wonld add much to the resources of the ad- vertising ngents of the stcnm.nhip company to be able 1o include a visit to the Falls of St Avthony and to the Falls of Minnelaha to the advantages of shipping corn and dry goods nand taking possage Ly the great natural, international, and interocennic high- way of commerce seeured by nct of Congress in the possession of 12 fcet of water at all seasons of the yenar, V! e— YOUNRG MR, POTTER AGAIN. It ja evidently high timo that Secretory Bristow onco more exercised his authority by lopping off the hend of the young man Porren, Supervising Architect, who has proved himself, elther through {gnoraues or through malice, incompetent to go on with tho cowpletion of the Government buildings in this city, In the first plnce, bie has delayed going to work to suit his own convenience, after positive orders had been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, and now it ap. penrs, since he has commenced, that ho ig pursuing the very courso to endanger tho buildings by putting in fseless conerets, and digging down and under thepresontconcrete, Tt looks very much as it the yonng man Por- TED wero determined to destroy the building to prove his prediction that it would have to come down. If this be not so; then he ie an inefficient man who caunot safely be intrusted with the work of completing the building, In either avent, he shomld be removed, aud the petitions which have been sent to Washington from the mombers of the Iate Commission, from architects, Govern. ment ofticers, and business men generally, show that tho publio looks at the matter from the same point of view. Doth to save exponso snd save the building, the SBeeretary shonld take this young man's bead off imme- diately. 'The appointment of Mr. Bunrive ns Superintendent of the building, especially if PotrEs is removed, as ho undoubtedly will be, which appointment has been intimated ns probable in our Washington dispatches, will prove an admirable one, Br, BunLwio is an architect of many years' guccessful experi- ence in Chieago, who has erccted many of our finest and most substantinl - buildings, and he is & thoronghly honest and incorrupti- ble man, Under his administration, it is safe o say there will be no mistakes committed in tho progress of construction, and that the building will be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. It is equally safe to na. sume that he will bo concerned in no rings, and thet corrnption and dishonesty will faro badly in his vicinity. He enjoys the con- fidence of the whole city, and, if he hag the superintendence of tho building, the people will fecl nssured that nt last thero is o pros- pect the work will be specdily and honestly done. Tho first thing of importance, how. ever, is to romove young Mr, Porten. If ho is not malicious, he is incflicient, If he is not ivefliciont, then he is ma- licious, and in either event he is not tho mnn that is wanted. Ilaving once nagerted that the building must come down, he scems to be deliberately planning to make good his assertion, There has been enough delay, onough botching, inefficiency, and malice already, without sulforing more of the snme kind from young Mr, Porren, THE WHISKY CONFESHIONS, Tho plea of guilty ontered by a number of the distillers and rectifiers indicted in St. Louis for frauds on the Government is a con- fession of-the whole case against the Whisky Ring of the country. Thero ia no doubt that there wos a general organization for the plunder of the Government revonues, extend- ing to all tho cities where whisky waa soized and indictments found. Thefe was a con. certed uniformity of procedure, which was traced from one district to another, and the indictments everywhere are meterially the same. The indictments were found and the seizures made ouly after the evidence of guilt hod been carefully piled up. The Becrotary of the Treasury fell upod the Ring simultaneonsly at all points whero the frauds were discovered, and thereby provented any favoritism or escape. The men who have pleaded guilty in t. Louis Lave virtually confessed not only for themselves, but for their fellows in St. Louiy, Milwankee, Chi- cago, and all other points whers the charges have been brought. It is just possible that there may be exceptional instances of in- dividual ignorance which will act ns a mitiga- tion of the punishment; but, as arule, it is safe to say that theso Bt. Louis confossions nsaure the conviction of alt the men against whom chorges have been brought, and os- peoially of the Government ofileials whose co-operntion rendered the frauds possiblo. ‘Wae do not believe that there has been any forinal coropromise between the Government and the guilty parties who have now con- fessed. ‘The policy of Secretary Brurtow from the beginning is opposed to any such supposition, At the same time, those who voluntarily enter a plea of guilty, and there. by save tho Government the cost, risk, and time of a trial, should receive more considera. tion than thoss who hope to escape tho pon- alty of their frauds by contesting the charges in court, and who rely upon further cortuption to eovade punishment. Confession should not dischargo any of the guilty persons from the fines and losa of property incident to the frauds, The Gov- ernment should, in every case, indemnify it sclf to the full extent of the law for the loss of revenue it has suffered from this danger- ousand vicious combination. At thesame time tho snen whom tho Government offioials know to bo equally gnilty, but who trust to the 1aw’s delay and the possible corruption they may work by means of the money they have fraudulently scquired, should Lo punished more seversly, if couvictod after long, tedi- oug, aud expensive trills. A distinction should also be made against those who were in the Government ewploy, and who not only assisted in the frauds for money considerd: tion, but also botroyed tho public trusts which had been contided to them, and which they hud sworn to hold sacred. The wuccess of the Government in mwaking out so strong o caso that soms of those who were lndicted did nat even dare to go to trial, will only encour- nge it to prosecuta the other cnses with re- newed vigor and confidence. The Chicago members of the Whisky Ring will do well to imitato the exnmple of these 8t Louis men, 'They are, to nse » homely expression, ** links of the snme sansage mado from tho same dog.”" The frauds which the 8t. Lonis men have confessed nre counter- parts of the frands that have been committed in Chicago. Tho (lovernment is in posaes- sion of evidence just s conclusive against the Ht. Lonis link, and tha Chicago cases will be pnshed juat as impartially, It is known that certain influoncos have been hrought to bear to protect persons fmplieated in the Chi- eago frauds, and that these influences have uniformly failed. 1t is undoubiedly the fact that there will be no favors shinwn that led the St. Louis men to plead guilty, and tho sooner the Chicago men, snd the Mil- watikeo men, and all others como to the samo conmclusion, the better it will Vo for them. They hind become carcless from long immunity, and furnished the Gov- ernment proofs against themselves, Thero is no escaping these proofs, except in the relaxation of the Government prosecution, But thero will be no relasation in the case of anybody, 'his is corlain. Lenity can only be shown toward those who seek it through confession, nnd o willingners to accept the penalty of their misdeeds without putting the Govornment to additional troublo and cost to enforco that penalty. r———————— COMPARATIVE BUSINESS OF WESTERN OrTIE Tho nbstract of the statements of the Na- tional Banks of the principal Western cities, showing their condition on tho frst day of October, 1873, published in Tnr Trinose yestorday, in interesting o8 indicating the relative business of the soveral cities. Tho abstract is obtained from the books of the Comptroller of the Currency., Here are somo of the items : Leanaand Total Citics. o, res: 't Chirago, 4 X 0 420, 1,80,00 #3416 #2014 14,004,073 These figures indicato pretty clenrly the amount of business done through thesc banks, and consequently in oach of the cities. Other detnils of tho stutements aro of tho samo character : Canital. Surolus. Deporite, §.57,500 g 49) the items of checks, exchanges for clearing house, due from Trensury, & per cent redewp- tion fund, bills of other National Banks, frac- tionnl currency, specie, and legal-tender notes, the * money " on hand by the Lanks of those cities in thus given : It will be seen that Chicsgo hns moro cash on hand in her banks thau thero is in the banks of St. Lonis, Cincinonti, Milwaakeo, Detroit, and Cleveland, combined. The business man needs but a glanco at these figures to show the comparative amonnt of business done and doing in all these citics. It will be seen how closely Cloveland presses upon 8t. Louis in nearly every particular. THE CENTENNIAL AS A FREETRADE MISSIONARY. Wo have invited tlio nations of the world to exhihit their products at Philndelphia. ‘I'ie more imporiunt of thoso products are excluded from ourmarkets, os far as possible, by discriminating duties, Ounr invitation should have read: * Prny show s what wo try to prevent your selling us,” It is not surprising- that foreign manufacturers should have been slow in accepting an invitation which, though not couched in these words, mesnt this thing. It secmed likely, ot one time, that scarcely any Englishmen wonld exhibit. Fortunately, better counsels have prevailed. Not only will the manufacturers of Bivminghatn, and Manchester, and Shef- ficld, and Belfast displdy their wares, but they will attach to them certain placards ex- planatory of the incrense in their cost duo to the tariff. We may expect protectionists to protest against this simple statoment of facts. Bome of thom nctually protested against tho proposition to admit articles sent for exhi. bition free of duty. But we do not sco how the sinful purpose of theso forcignera to dis- play printed lists of truth to those who stop to look at their cottons, and woolens, and silks, and cutlery can bo thwarted. The wanagers of the Ixposition cannot dictate tho contants of placards shown by the exhib- itors, especially when the exhibitors them- selves are subjects of a foreign country, and thereforo in o certain sonse the guests of this, Moreover, the fundamental idea o? au intor. national exhibition is international compari- ron, and that corparison cannot be mode un- loss the nrbitrary factor of o tariff-tnx ix ex- cluded from the caloulation, Wo might aswell compare the gold-prices of English goods with the currency-prices of thoso of American make. The Centonniol is a national exhibi- tion, intended for national information, and appealing on theso grounds to the nation for support. ‘"Public opinion will not allow & clighe of Pennsylvanians to proscribo free speech or freo print under roofs owned by tho whole people, The ulleged iutont of in- terference on tho part of the managors is but a pretense, They canvot carry out the threat which protectionist popers have aswumed to make for them. If a manufactnrer, foreign or native, choose to tell the publio what he could afford to sell a cortain articlo for if a certain tax wero removed, who is to ssy him nay ¥ Davo A, WeLLs has written to J. B, Por- Tex, M. ., tho Becretary of tho Cobden Club, urging that famous organization to see that foreign exhibitors at the Centennial dis. plny placards on thelr goods showing their present gold prices here aud “the pricos at which they couald be sold, in gold, under a 20 per cent ad-valorem duty and uuder no duty atall, This will probably be donoe to o large extent. Tach placard will then show the cost of protection, of a revenue tariff, and of ebsolute free trads, to the people, a8 far as & partienlar line of goods is coucerned, A correspondent whom Mr, Werrs quotes in this letter, Mr. J. K. MooRE, ays that ordioary alpava costd in Brodford, Eugland, 8 or 9 conts per yard. An ad-valorens duty of 7 per cent and a gold premium of 12 to 13 per cent muke this same material cost 8 or 40 couts, currency, per yard in New York. Mr. Mooz would bave the Bradford maenufaoturers display & placard with these words: *'T'his slpaca, which now sells in New York for 40 contd per yard, currency, could, if admitted duty- free, bo wold far 22 ocats per yard, gold.” Snch facts, given by the thousand, would be torrible nrguments against protection. 'They woull do more ta edueata the peoplo than anything else conld, They wonld mnke the Centenninl a renl blessing to the nation, e e THE OCEAN BANK ROBBERY. Oser six years ngo, the Ocean National Bank, of New York, was ontered, s was sup- posed, by professional burglars, and robbed of 30,000, moxtly in unregistercd United States bonds. The whole affair lins reated in mystery until the present time. The extent of the robbery stimulated the police to un- usual effarts, nnd large rowards were offered, but they were of no avail. The supposed hurglars hava never been discovored, and the whole mntter had been forgotten by the pub. tie, whon suddenly an attorney in a auit pond- ing ngoinst the bank rires in open court and makes the declaration that the bank was toblied by the conuivanco of its thon Cashier, Covuynus 8. SreveNsoN; that the very tools with which the bank was robbed wera purchased with the bank’s money ; aud that the Cashier was with tho burglars when thoy robbed it and shared the plunder with them. The statement was closed with the proffer of witnesses to prove the charges. Startling ns the statement seets, owing to its snddenness, it is only auother proof of the demornlized condition of the publia ot that time with regnrd to the heaping up of woalth,—n coudition which otill exists to a large extent, It is one of the effects of the enormous and demoralizing infla- tion business coused by tho War which set men crazy and mado them utterly reckless in their desperste rnce for wenlth, The great gamblers of finanes, like Frsg and Jay Govtp, set the cxample, and, 8 they were successtnl forn tima ingrabbing other people’s money, their example was fol- lowed in nll directions. Any megus of getting money, except by hard and honorable labor, was Jooked upon ag legitimnte, Frax lived in luxury upon his ill.gotten gains until a murderer’s bullet overtook him. Jax Gootp still lives, and has an army of follow- ers who nre obtaining other people's money by sharp tricks, corruption, nnd out-sud-vut robbery, like that perpetrated in the Ocenn Bank: The inflation of moncy and the uncertainty of values open up avonues for the wildest speculations, and men rush ioto them in the most reckless and fronzied manner, ‘There comes n time when they find themselves ruined, and then they stop nt nothing to make good their loss. ey, Other people's money is takon, with a sague iden that it can bo replaced when it is wanted, or it is stolen outright. This de- moralization will continuo as long as inflation continucs, When money comes down to o sonnd basis, when a dollar means a dollar, whon specnlation gives way to legitimate business, whon values bocome fixed and cer- tain, then the public will settle down to le- gitimate business, -aud the scramble for wealth by illegitimnto means will ceaso, Wo _#hall hear little of such acts of villainy as that perpotrated in tho Ocean Bonk. —_——— Mr. Wartace, known to a limited circlo ns one of the “roform " Senntors of the Unit- od States, clected by n “ regenerate” Domoe- racy, and more widely as ¢ Coffeo-pot Wat~ ricr,” on nccount of n certain humorous fraud in steoping false naturalization papers in coffe, and thus giving them the huo of -nge, is on tho stump in his State of Ponnsyl- vania, Mr. Toa Scorr eleeted his Vico-T'res- ideut, Mr. Wartice, to the Henate. T. 8. wants *“more money.” e wauats money to be nnde so chenp that even the bouds of the Sonthern Pncific Wild-Cat, Sand.and-Snge- ‘brush Railrond will be worth mora than the “ money," sud cnu therefora besold for it. So Tox Scorr's mnan is nursing the rag-baby, the Pounaylvanin twin of the Ohio brat that was buried nnder the votes of houest men on the 12th just. It is not to bo expected that a Pennsylvania politician, espocially a Demo- cratic ono, should know auything, and the coffee-pot Senator will never excite any surprise by his command of facts. Ac- cording to the telegraphed summary of his Pittsburg speech, he snid that « forced ro- sumption” coused * wholesalo and wide- spread” disnster nmong all glasses of tho En- glish people betweon 1815 and 1825, IFrom 1815 to 1823 there was considorable distress, 1mainly becauso specie paymonts were not ro- sumed. In the latter year, when resumption took place, England started on a new era of prosperity, checked only by that twin barbar- ism, o high tariff, and renowed as soon n3 that was removed. During eight of the ton yenrs of which the Senator speaks, the floan- cial system which ho now praises was work- ing ruin to the English people. During tho other two years, tho syatem which he depre- cates was working the industrial salvation of thot people. ———— The Staals-Zeitung, in its frantio cffort to olect its principal proprietor to the lacrative oftice of County Treantrer, endenvors to re- vivo the “Law and Order " cry, and to iden- tify the Ropnblican party in the present cam- paign twith the Citizens’ Party which opposed tlio People's Party two years ago. To this cud tho Stuats-Zatung sceredita the phrass “Yaw and Order” to Tur Tmmowe in the local political senso it has acquired, while the words were simply used in their general aud accepted signification. This is charactor- istically unfair. While “Law and Ordor” origiually is n phraso that onght not to excite much antagonism, it has become associnted with s movement onco mado in this city agoinst the personal privileges of the Germaus, The Staate-Zeltung will find it s protty difficnlt matter to persuado the Ger- mans that this question cn‘n any figure in the prosent election, for tho following among other rensons: (1) There is no city election this year, and no change is possible that could affect the present ordinance; (2)the Germans won this battle, secured the repeal of the Bunday ordinance, aud bave all they aukod; (3) the Republican party, which is now opposing Alr. Hestva and tho viclous crowd with which he has surrounded himself, has novor made this issue ngninst the Ger. -maps, Anything which the Steats-Zeitung fusinuates to tho contrary is & deception on ite face, The FEastern gestlenen in the Universalist Convention now In sesilon 1n Boston who proposed to censure Dr. Ryper for some plain words that he had spoken enconntered a cloar grit which proved -too powerfal for them. Dr, Rypen told the Universalists in effeet that they were growing weary in well. | dolug, that they wero not earnest enough in thelr work, and that thoy were permitting themselves to fall into the second rank among Christian powers. Aftor a tolerably thor- ough canvass of the subject, Dr. RYpkn's out- spoken charges wero pretty generally edmit. ted, and the resolution of censure was with. drawn to save it from overwbelming and ig- nominious defeat. The Convestion should have kept in mind that Chicego is the great centre of the revivalists,—that we furnish M wpy, and Jacons, and WiitrLy, and Fan- werL for the orthodox people, and that we have reservo material of tha sama kind nmong the libern! Churehen, ‘The Universale iats, it is falr to remember; are nt A Rorious disadvantage in not having a stock of holi- fire and brimstone with which to excite terror and cause repentance, But there is no ques. tion that an infusion of some naw energy, of which Dr, Rrpen can furnish an admirablo specimen, will euable them to don larger share in the work of conversion and salvation than they have done heretofore, —————— e Mr. Hzsmva puts himself in a very awk- ward position in recalling the loeal clee. tion of 1868, wlhen the Republiean party was defented on acconnt of his management. 1le seems to think that, beenuse the editor of Tnr Curcaco Tumuse was o Republican then, and stood Ly his party nt that time, including Mr. Ilesivo, he shonld stand by Mr. Hesisa now when he is outside the Republican party, and also that the edi- tor of 'Tne Tminune is inconsistent in sup- porting Mr. Hucr now, Leennso Mr, Huck apposed IIrsya and the Republicnn party in 1869, The force of ths reasoning is not ap- porent, Tho editor of Tne TRusE was with the Republican party in 1869 ns he i3 to-dny. Mr, HEsiNo doos not stand to-dny where bo stood then. But the editor of Tue Triouse and other Republicans who stood by their party in 1869 could not cairy the fond which Mr, Iizsixa's mansgement hud put upon it, and the Republican ticket wos defeated. Having led the local Repullican organization to defeat, Mr. HrnNo subse- quently absudoned it. The hopo now is that the local Kepublican organization may regain tha control of county affnivs, to which it is entitled, sans HEesiNa, " OBMUARY. The record of deaths among prominont mon during tho past few days [8 uunusually largo. ‘The mumeal world has lost MATTIIAS KELLER, known to fame na the composer of ** The Ameris can Hymn," Ilo was born at Ulm, In Wurtem- berg, in 1813, and studied music under the brat mastors in Stuttpard. At thonazoof 16 Lo wad first violin s the Noval Chapel, and remained there five yeara, atudying menuwbile with Lixn- PAtNTNER and MoriQue, Lator, he atudied coun~ torpoint with IuTren voN Hevewico at Vienas. Ho was next apponted Bandmaster 1 the Third Toyal Brigade, a position he beld gevon years. Iu 184G ho camo to this countrs, and for rev- cral years resided in Dhilegelphin, conducting theatro orchestras, Ho thon remaved to Mo York, and for the past twelvoe yeam bes lived io Boston. His * American Hymn® was composed woon after tho Iate War broke out, and, although it did wot make o wuccess whon first beard, it has sluco becomn a national bymn, and bas boon heard Lundreds of times jo festivals and upon Jubilee occagions, e hna alio written bundreds of songs which have bacomo vory vosmla=, but no~ witbstanding the popularity of hiu museho Lived and died, liko many avother musician, 1n poverty. THE REV. WALTER FANQUIIAR HOUK. The cablo s day or two ago brought tho nows of tho death of the Rov. WaLTer Farquian 1100w, of the Church of Englend, and a nephow of tho colebratod Tirtkovons Hook. Ilo was born in Londou in 1798, becamo Vicar of Teedw iu '1837, and Doan of Chichester 1n 1859, His moxt famoanus sormoun wes ona proachied on tho acces. sion of Queen Victomia, called ¢ flear My Caurch,” of which thousands wercaold, 1o wae upecially noted for bis labora in chuzeh exten- sion and for philanthropic enterptises. 1is principal works are the * Churca Dictionery,” tho * Eccleninstical Biography,” and ** Lives of the Archbishops of Caunterbury." ' THE,(ON, WILLIAX PAESCOTT, M. D, The Boston papers record the recout denth of the Hou. WinLiay Prrscort, M. D., a well-known physictan and scholar of New IHampshire. o wag born i tuat Swats in 1788, and cowmenced tho oractico of medicino in 1815, pursuivg it until 1862, whon he relinquished 1t aud devoted limsolf to literary and sclentifio pursuits, The Boston Joursial says 5 Tu 1848 Dr, PRESCOTT Was & member of the Board of Visltors to Weat Polut, o wua elected & Fellow of tha New Ifampshire Medical Soctety in 1418, and of tho AMaseachunetis Medlcal Society fu 1423, and rarved na counselor in both Sociel'es, Ha becamo & menibor of the New Hampshiro Itiatorical Society in 1637 ; of the Essex County Natural Hirtory Soclety in 18135 of tho Asociation of Americau Geologists abd Naturdlirts, st Wasbington, D, C., du 18i; of tho American Assocla. tion for the Advaucewent of Science {n 1847 snd of the American Moldlcal Asigctation In 1849. 'He wau elected honorary member of tho American Biatistical Astociation in 1840, and correspondiug momber of tha Nutloual (nstitute ‘for the Iromo dun of usnce, at Washington, in 1842, Alro an Looorary member of the Northorn Academy of Arta and Sctoncen an bous orary member of the Minnesota liistorical Socfety, ind » mémber of the Esaex Inatituto of Balom, Mass, The above memberubip suows the bigh rank which Le hold edlcal and ottier organizations, In 1343 Lo pub. alogue of tho wnar.ne, frash water, aud land stivlln of Massacliusetts, Tho greatest labor of Lin lifo was the proparation and publication of o largo volumo outltled & ** Gongulogical Memolr of thie Whole Race of Ireucolts in the Uniied States," A MIBCELLANEQUS, Among the deatbs which bave occurred daring the prosent weolr, aud for which we have not the materials for extended notice, are those of OTiy ReED, the setor, and for mavy years tho Lord Dundreary of Laura Krexe's Troupe; the Princess HANEM ZEINUD, the favorite daughter of tho Kbodive of Egypt and wifo of Inusnng Pasua ; M. Docving, s momberof the Left Cen- tro of the Freoch \ssombly, and oue of tho stafl of the Opinion Aationale; Counut MoLTrEe BneuxN roep, tho Ministor for Foroign Affairs in the Daunish Cabiuot ; and Prof, Hervnien Buck- EqT, the bistorian, snd ove of the Liberal lead- ore of Gormany, ———— Duting the War, the surgeous of tho Southern army hiad many cases of sickuess to curo and vory few druge to give, Thers was dcarcely s mannfactory of chemicals within tho Coufode- racy, and the blockado made the foreisgu supply scanty and dear. The doctors weio therefors obhxolf to experiment on & large scale. They tried overy sort of vegetable product, Thoy chauged, and {o somo iustances reversed, tto old wotheds of treatnent, beesuse they wero Tound to conllict with thie new remedics, Lives wera nccessanly sacrificed in this enforced soarch for knowlodge, but a numbor of valuablo discaveries wore made. It ta wald, indead, that medical practice at the Bouth has been perma- neutly chiaoged by thoe lessous of the War, In order to colinte and pormancntly record the re- wults of this uolque experience, the doctors have formed a Sonlhern Bucgeons' Associution, which is pow Lolding ita flrst anuual sesalon ac Riche mond. The late Burgeon-Goneral of the Con- fedorscy prosides, His addreas and tho papera read aro to bo published. They will doubiloss form cutiona cbapter in the history of medical Jclonce. To 1he Edltor of The Chlcuya Tribu Ci1gaco, Oct, 2l,~laving » in Tue Taipure, a2 woll s {h some Looks, Roman numerals followed by riod, T would ask if they can, properly, e treated subreviatlous { if not, wiiy s tho praciice perafsted fla e INquinsR, VWhen the Roman numerald are need as ordl- nals they are abbreviatious. and shguld bo fol- lowaa by the perlod; when-ihey are used aa cardiuals thoy should net 1ake the penod, except at tho end of & sentenco. The distinction may Lo ween in thia seuteuce: Io the yoar MDCCCLII Naroreox 11l was proclaimed Ewme peror of the Freuch. Home newspapers, notably the New York Zribune, siwuys speil out the ordinals, thugt XVIlb, sud 1a this case the period ts not used. e s The frame of mind in which Gov, HrNpaiCcKs continuea 10 agonize upon the currency question in indicatod by the Buancial plank which lus or- Kag, the ndisonpolia Sentinel, pute torward aa the dnaucial plank for the Dowocratic piatform 1870, 1t declares for “wuch prudeut reson- struction of flnsnclal interestd as, with the loast possible burden to the people, shall ultimate 1 emancipating the country from ihe domination . of ti monay nower, and ultimately raligye the nation from the aeht of axtravagance ayq cor. ruption that noa overhanga (L Aflar iy, o ettt but that Hasurtews {8 Lor ingay for kpecio resumptive, and for whieh ? ton, - 5 1z appoara that when the Hon. JToux Monngg. sy declitied 10 bo tho Antl-Tammany eau July, for the Biato Henato and champlon of (Le nm: fisted laburiug mon, bocanso Le didu’t want bia motiven criticlesd, 1t wasn'b tef.roncos to bis carcer 24 & bruiser and faro-bauke: flag La fenrad, It was figured out toat g election would eost £15,0:0, which be thinka s N10ta thag the oitlee ia worth, aud ho dec ined to ataze that amounr on it, Iin fulonds, however, 1ug on ranning ot anylow, and he wili ovidonly bavg Lo put up tho wiake. s S o the Fititraf The ehicaze it e T Hhs Shshy sty hen fond gn-borny ehildren, whons 100k Gt thetr Jaterey come of Age, mun'n}? o - 8, Wity 1. Children of Amerienn citizens bory num'.d aro, logally, native citizens of tho United Bty 2. Vorelgu-horn ehiliron. whote piren.a liags nover o2 naturalized, must bo naturalizeq In order 10 becomo eitizons § and, in thix Staty, must bo citizens fu ordor to vots. i i . Gov, Haves is boeing ta'kod of ontsids Ohip " tho liepublicun Preaidential candidato [n 1378 Thie Boaton Herald publishes tho follo ving lote tor writton by Uaves whil> in the army, {a ye apouso to an nvitatlon to com home to run fo Congress, ond sayd 1t showa ho “will do 1o tinto"s N UAMP, ——= oYt — P s el g who would letve tha army at tals Urno to elretlnes for Congreas of any otber place ouzht 1o ke reped R B. flaves, ' Yours, N . Tho ** staff corresnondant™ of the New Yok Tribune, in Poousyleania, writes : Tiio newa of the U election s fallen Deajorratic Inflstlon. movement 10 Wenern '§asuacy yauda Ilke un ctober froat an a tank weel, wil fng i in n day, Tho noley crowd, who pustied ths Ouy vlstform down the thruat of the Erie Conventl vlanior, threata, and botsting, and who declare] tu it (nsiired 50,009 tasjority for the tizket vowmsnated thern, nia how @ very meek and modest Lot of men, ATl thio ** batiace "' 14 taken out of theta, Sinias s Tt Penemivg, the Peonsylvaula Democratio exn. didato tor Goveruor, evideutly deapieetl not thy homoly wisdom of the socient saw about s bind in the baud. Hoetefuscs (o resign bis position na Tudgo of tha Supromo Court Lefore the eleg. tion, nud, it he ba dofeated, o cotisa hie mil not rosign eftor the electson. Aad 83 Lo dmg. gles tho judieinl ermino in the political mire, e e The Springfield Republican hnving, by 1ts un. reasonable chamrioning of Ansus ay the Presl. dentinl candidate for tho centounial vear, effact. ually blighted his proupects, sesms now digposed to undortaka tho like oitico for TiLpzy, whom1h declares * the man nhead,” with the odfs 1o lug favor that ho **will be tho next Prealdeat.” e ool Tho womon's-rights queation in an exceoding- Iy mild form comes uy in Minnesots upon the conslitutionnl amendment, to ba submitted st tho approaching clection, making them cligibly an members of 1ho fchool Comuiitees snda winor local school oliciala, *Mig, Parteyaron™ (B, P. SuiLzases) hu Lroko 1nto nolitice, and is named for Demociate s candidate for the Honato iu the Soffolk (3aup,) District, PERSONAL Tueodors THton stops at the Palmeor, Col. Dalcock, of Moxico, o a guest at th Yalwer, i 1L, H. Conrtright, Missouri, ia regiatered st the Pacifie. Tho Hon. G, 11, Barues, of Clovoland, fa st the Bhormau. W. Temple, Londen, tho Pacifle. Charles Bradlaugh's Western tonr hegins i Deceinbar, ¢ Lydia Thompaon baa baou dangerously ill, but is now coovalescont, Von Bulow is not extravagant in his playing— or his paying, efiher, Prot. Ormond Sione, Diroctor of the Cindlo. uatl Obsorvatary, Is in the city, Motto for tho politiclana: **Little shall fraca my cause in speaking for myaclt. Gon. Jobn P, Du.fos, nud Gen. T. H Morrow, of Now York, are guastored at the Trowont, Tho Hon, J. J. Hagorman and the Hon, X J. Alkon, of Milwaukes, atop at tas [remont Wild goeso are flying Bouth, bui the femh sominarios as ye! show no decresss {8 numbers. Gon. 0. 0. Howard is to coutribute his recols lections of thres famous battles in threo papers to the Atlantic. i Man wents bot litle Von Bulow, nor wants that littlo long. Fortunately, the pianist gives briof concorts snd has sbort legs. Boston is too radicai for Moodv and Sankey. Wo should think thay wero tho men of sll otbers to extract tho root af that wicked city. Edwin Booth knowe now what it s to bs s mav of shreds and patches, xnd he will doubl- losy bo more tendor with the poor Ghostinfd- turo. Tt {a 8aid that members of the Blask Hills €1+ ploring expedition will soon visit tho city for the Ppurposo of correcting thelr chronomsiers st the Dearboru Observatory. A vow Hsmpehia jury balloted *Cuilten” Qiltey,” and * Qilty." Shatl our lu(t_hlgonl Jury-system, tha bulwark of freedom avd iuanls ty, go to thodogs? Novar! Lanra Woolwine, the Cincinnati woman who Lanrecently made s groat success (u operd abroad, s assumod the namu of Laurs Belliol That is scarcoly au improvement upon ook wino. Gen. Boynton’s book la iroulcally nnuunnflfi ag '*a comganion volume" to deu. Saerman's “tomolrs.” Tho books ogres ln bioding bot not in sontiment, Llost be the biud thst4l# them. . Emsrson says that Lowell ** broods ™ o:or bis wotki—o videutly o mispriut for ¢ boards. T work of Mr. Lowall s bLoarded over, 0 \@ apeak, to protect it from the fuclemency of the weather, A Secrotary Bristow las sent bls dnush""‘: Paris for an education, Let's docapitate bist onco for not eucouiagiug home wstiiutiok The altar of the Deunsyivanis Protectionists¥ waiting for & victim, Tho Emptoss of Austria had a delightful tot 1n Paris. bocause she remained fucog. snd i fused to be bored by oficial Huukeydow. T:"{ say slie ute ives aud cakea {o the reutaurants liko & common persoa. - Jo JofTeraon haa contributed €500 fnnmon: ment to bo erected In Contrsl Park, No% I“B’l to the memory of Irving, the creator of “}’, Vau Wiukle " and Jo Jefferson. Thesistod ptobably cost §20,000 to 30,000 e About thie holidays will be published a ¥ o of Dr. Nots, who, for over La'l & cunml.x t Preaident of Uulou College, Schenectadse “;"" The Doctor was long socopted as one of the most preackiers sud toachern of his tiae. it The froodom of the Ciy of Edinbusg lbl asd presentsd gavly in Noverber to Lord Vet L,h My, Forster, who will about that tme ey public addresson in the elty. The "":‘ L Town Counctl, st the saggestion of Provost, was unsoimous. The Warsen Avenuo Baptlat Cisurols in Boato? has bscome Open-Uommunion. The P"l‘:’:" i Rev. G. F. Pantesaat, refused to stsy ub 3 declaration of faith was vevised; sad ¥ pher ration of faith waa revised. That is 4 oue's fuith to abe's pastor with & \'mx':;m 0 A clorgyinan who went to flnr:!‘“m“mm preaoti had selected for bis et Cab ning ;" but aé the Haritord Base-Ball ng., i8 & tranclest ol