Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 29, 1875, Page 4

TIIE CHICAGO FRINDAY OCTOBER €9, 1°75. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATFS OF AUDRCTITTION (FATABLE IR ADYANCE). Postnee Prepnld nt this Ofice. Datly Fdition, prst-painl. 1 yaa ! scarat samin rato, 1.00 a.00 Lot piid, Tye TPartaof yoar at <ama rate. K1.50 Nt W) Camenpy, pac b of five, per Club of twenty, per capy. Tha postage i3 15 centa n yoar, which wa will propsy. Bpecimen corlen acot froe, To provent delay and mistakes, be auro and givo Fost-Otlice addresn In full, Ineluding Statoawd Connty. Temittances may ba made either by disft, exyress, Poat-Office ordor, or in regintered letlers, at our rink, TERMS TO CITY BUDSCRILLRN, Deily, delivered, Bunday excepted, 23 coata per weak, Dusly, delivered, Sunday fnchide ) cents por work, Addrers THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madinon sud Dearborn-ta, Culesgo, Til, il Sl Ay T AMUSEMENTS, LEY'S THAFEATRE—Randolph strest, betweon m{‘:‘:‘:{»d IAST"IL }angamm'pul the California Siustrels, McVICRFR'S THEATRE—Madizon sirect, between Dearborn and State. ** The Sea of Iee,” ADELPH1 THEATRE—Deatborn street, corner Monzoe, Varicty pesformance, WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monros sireet, betweon Dear- born and State, Afternoon, ¢ The Widow Ruat.” Evening, ** The Roniance of Eifin Tower,” McCORMICR HALL—North Clark street, corner of Kinzle. Entertainment by Yepper, SOCIETY MEETINGS. COVENANT LODGE, No, 624 A, T\ snd A, M.— Bpectal Communication this (Frid .fi ovoning at 7:30 w'clock, at Corfuthisn Mall, 147 Rinto-at., for work on tho M, M, Degree, Visiting Lretiren cordially invited By order of thu W, 31, WAL KERR, See, WASHINGTON CHAPTER, No, . M,—8pre- i Couvocation iLia (Friday) evenlng for work on the I, A, Degres, Also on sturday evoning for M. AL Degreen, Visiling Compandons cordially,fnvited, By order of the I, 1\, CHAS. J. TROWBRIDGE, Secs TBUSINESS NOTICES WILBOR'S COD LIVER OIL AND LIME-THE at popularity of (hisante and eficaowia preparstion s alonn attriburable to lts Intidasle worth. ln thy eurs ©f coughs, colds, asthma, Lranchitis, wheonlog cough, scrofulous humurs, coprumpLive fymproms, It nay oo suparior, Il oyu Lot no vnp neglect the cacly symp- Toma of diseaser Whon an agent 13 tiug n: head wi vl atjoviato all complaints of the chust, lines, or thy glnlsnbhemn‘d ‘only by A, f, WILBOIL, ehemist, Bost o i drnggin The Chicngy TCibuse, Friday Morming, October 29, 1876, Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex. chango yesterdny fell from 86} to 851, re- ncted to 8GY, and closed at 8 —— Tho manin for fast mail trains has extond- ed to the Baltimore & Ohio Rond, tho man. sgers of which have submitted to the Post- Offico Department the proffer of two light- ning trains daily between Washington and Chicago by way of Baltimore. It is promised that by these traing a gain of one day in time will bo realized by points west of tha Missis- &ipplh If Hesrva were willing to have Ropublican judyes of election appointed, this would bo doune. When his croatures on the County Board deny this simplo right to homest tax- payers, it is Hesiva's mandato that prevents, Tho Devil-Fish candidate for County Treas. urer denics the peoplo who are to olect the County Treasurer an honest count of the votes. Fix the responsibility | Tt is brdly necesnary to remind tho mer- chants and business-men of the mass.mecting to be held this ovening in Farwell Hall. The eall for the moeting cmanates from a sourco wholly non-political, and it cmbraces in the invitation not alono tho heavy wholesale dealers, but a/l tho merchants and business- men thronghout the entire city. The mecting will be bLeld solely in the interest of an honast and fair election, and it 18 a cheering sign that the impending danger is clearly porceived, and that this important step is to bo taken to avert the threatened calamity of a victory of the ballot-box stuff ©rs, repenters, and frandulent voters, Tho Baltimoro city eclection demonstrates tho fact that the truly Americanized Catholics do not sympathize with their clergy in their war on the public schools, Baltimora has motably n larger proportion of Catholica among her voting population than any other city in the Union, and yet the Domoeratio candidate for Mayor, wha cspoused thio illib- oral or Catholio side of tho school issno, though elected, received somo 15,000 less votes than were cnst for the Domocratio ticket Inst yenr. Tho inferenco is that the , Wealthy and edneated classof Catholics voted *tho Reform ticket, which favored non-intor- ferenco with the school systom, ‘The Democratic Central Committee ara dnl- Jying with the ballot-box question, uncertain ‘which ko of the dilemma to chooss, On the cno side they perecive the danger of o great burst of popular indiguation, to bo mnde manifest ot the polls, in consequonee of the refusal of tho Devil-Fish Ring iu the County Board to permit n minority ropre- rentation on the list of judges of election but, on tho other side, tho Commiuu; staro not join in the gencral outery and con. demn astep taken in specifio obedience to the mandate of Mr. Heaina, whoso tools the Committee have become for campnign pur- poses. Now tho Democrtic Central Com. asittes may aa well wtop fretting about the clection-bonrds outinge; that matter is in the hands of tho Committeo of the Whaly Leople of Cook County, and & majority ru. port will bo submitted next Tuesdny, —— A story in telograplied from Doston thia wmorning, beforo which (to put it in Hibcr. nign) tho edifying legends of TaNTsLUs, "Tuvestes, and Titos ANpRoNicos must take | his powerful fnflucuce and his daring effront- hack scats. ‘Iho erow of two Boston ships | €% &Tiycd the eriminal population of the 813.00 o lower, nt Bjo for part salted shoulders (boxed), 11}@11}e for short rihs do, and 11}e for short clear do, Highwines vere quict nd stendy, at 21,13 per gallon. Lake freights wers quict and strong, at Ge for corn (o Buifn. lo. TFlonr wad Jess nctive and unchanged. Whent was active and declined 1}o, ¢losing at 51,14 eash, and 21.08} for November, Corn was wenk, declining 1@1}e, and closing at &2le cash, and Hljo for November, Oats were quistandsteady, closing at 33|c cash, and 82]c for November. Rye was dull and easier at Gfte, Barley was quiet and lower, closing ot &4o for October, and 8e for November. Hoga wore dull, and closed weak at decline of 025, Tho eattle trade was quiet and nominally unchanged. Sheep were in do- mand at Wednesdny's prices. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy §116.75 in green- Dacks at the close. The Davil-Fish candidate for the County Ireasurership by his boastful nssertions of pecuniary honor and financial integrity lins invited n oloso serutiny of his history in this regard, nnd ho ean find no fault if his op- ponents have nccepted the challenge, and if the result is not in the highest degreo credita- ble to himself. An examination of court rec. ords and official files revenls nstato of facts strangely at varianco with MMr. THesiva's loud-mouthed proclamation thnt his credit was of tho strongest, and that no wman conld sny he had offered to liquidate his debts fur anything short of dollar for dol- lar, "The files of the Bankruptey Court tell a very different story, and they also suggest an explanation of the fact that certnin bank. era and note-ahavers nxdently desive Mr, Hea- 1xa's election, Whatever may be thought of the other stories current reflecting seriously npon Mr, Hesmo's integrity in times past, there can bo no question aa to the nuthentici- ty and truth of the statements gleaned from the court records. THE TRIBUNE AND THE ELECTION, Renders of Tar Triorsk outside this coun- iy mny think that more spaco is devoted in tho paper just now to the local clection than inof interost to the general reader. The clection will, however, take place on Tnesday next, and the columns now devoted to elec- tion matters will then be otherwise employed We mnke no npology, however, and heliove that our readers in the * rural distriets " upon reflection will think none is needed, The issue which now engrosses the attention of tho hnlf-million of peopla of this county is one in which the whole peoplo of Illinois, and of all other cities in this and other Stales, must feel a deep interest. It is the question of good, honest loeal Government. Cook Connty in the largest municipality in Illinois; it is nearly equal to one-sixth of tho whole Stata in population and property. What- aver affects this county materially affects the wholo State. Ifonest elections in Cook County are essential to the honosty of ail Stato elections. Dishonest clections in Cook County may defeat tho popular will of the whole State, chango the mnjority in the Legislature, and reverso the whole policy of the State Government. The grent evil of the day is corruption in Municipal Governments, and this corruption is due to tho clection frauds which are com- mitted in all tho largo citics, whereby the criminal classes seizo tho machinery of olec- tions, resort to all manner of frauds, obtain control of tho local Governments, and nse them to tho plunder of tho goneral pullic. New York, Brooklyn, and Philadelphin, with their aggrogate dobts of three hundred mill- jons of dollars, attest the alarming conse- qnences of this misrale in the large citios. Chicago has been no cxception to the gen- eral rule of large cities, though, owing to the protection of the Stato Constitution, no nddi- tion to the funded debt has been ponsiblo. Nevertheless, there lias been n stendy effort running throngh many years on the part of the non-producing aud criminal class to uso tho local Governments for the purpose of the most reckless exponditure. It was not, how. over, until quite recently that there was an open and avowed combination for this pur- pose, and it was then only possible beenuse n mon of much natural ability, of great force nnd boldness, of ardent temperament, and unlimited audacity, suddenly aban- doned “all his previoua porsonal and po- litical mssociations, and placed himself at tho head of an open alliance of persons of foreign birth, and of the entire criminal and disreputnbla population of Chieago. Tho couspirators against honest Goverument had always oxisted, but it wns not until 1873-4 that they found a lerdor compotent and pos- s#essing thoe nudacity to make an open fight ond seizo the Municipal Government for pur- pose of plunder, "The public could not believe that this man could o suddenly change tho nssociations and policy of alifctime, and voluntarily placo himselt at tho head of suchk a dnugerous or- genization, and it was not until the whalo City Government hod passed nnder the con. trol of notorions criminals and scallawags, {hat the public were fully arousod to whut Lind beon accomplished, The next step of this Government thus clected was, through the agoucy of the gam- blers, pickpockets, vagrants, and criminal class generally, to atafl the ballot-boxes and forgo eloction returny, snd actually put in operation for the government of this eity a churter which continued the existing Mayor 1wo years in office boyond the term for which bo wns clected, and the other officers for other peroids, Thus firmly inatalled, tho cowbination considered itsclf permanent. Iy estoblished in offico, froo from in. terferenco by the public. At this mo- ment this leader, who had, through Oorvis are leadors tho streets swarm with bunko-steerers, confidanco-men, pickpociots, thieves, foot-pads, gamblers, brothel-runners, and all manner of erimiualy, plying their vocations with perfect immunity, Our local Government is hand and glove with theso villaing,—is in fact their guardinns and pro- tectors. Tho wholo West is interested in Lreaking np this reproach npon civilization, Every man dealing with Chicago Is interested in heing protected in person and property while here, nnd tho business and character of tho city demand that the atreeta bo cleared of the ruffiang, blacklegs, aud pickpockets who erowd tho thoroughfares under the protection of their representutives and associntes in the Aunicipal Government, The importanco of the issue of this clec- tion—the smnshing of the ascendency of the criminal and dishoneat classes by the defent of their ringleader—will bo necepted by our readers ns o suflicient excuso for the devation of 50 much of our space to a loeal election. THE SUBSIDY ECHEME, The 8t. Louis papers pretond to be indig- nant {hat anybody objects to the proposed acheme of sabsidy in tho interest of Col. "Tost Scarr's Railrond and Construction Com- panies. They affect to see n difference be- tween n Government snbsidy aud an agree. ment to pay tho inlerost on the bonds of pri- vato corporations. Let us compnre tho two propositions + In the case of the Union and Central Tacific Railroads, the Government loaned to them the bLonds of the United Staten to the amount of $74,000,000, These bonds bear jnterest at G per cont, and aro pagable at the end of thirly years; the agree- ment of the Railrond Compnnies is to pay to the Government priwcipal naud iatorest at maturity. The Rnilrond Compnnies have paid bat nbout one-third of the interest which has becomo dne, the rest nud tho prineipal re- main to be paid,—the Government holding a second mortgago on the property, That is conceded to be a subsidy,—the United States paying annually about two and a half mill. ions moro interest on the bonds than they receivo from the Railroad Companics, The other praposition is, that the Uunited States shnll guarantes the payment of tho in- terest on the bonds of the Railvoad Company ; theso bonds to bo issued at tho rate of $40,. 000 a mile for 2,200 miles, the interest to be at the rate of 5 per cent in gold, and the bonds to run forty years. The property of the Company is to be mortgnged to pay the principal of the bonds at maturity, and ther to refund the principal, This gives ns the following result: Wholo amount of railrond bonds issued, $88,000,000, Annual interest thoreon, at & per cent in gold, $4,400,000. Total interest pnid in forty years, in gold, 2176,000,000. Security—a second mortgage. This, it is snid, is nol n subsidy. ‘The aunnal payment from the Trensnry will be £4,400,000 in gold, and this payment is guaranteed for forty years. And, though in the sggregate it reaches tho enormous sum of £176,000,000, it is not a subsidy ! In point of eash outlay it throws the subsidy to the Union nod Central Pacific Railways in tha shade. At the end of the thirty yoars the United States may take the Union and Cen. rlhiowed that Frrin, Lereen & Co. wonld for. ninlt dry goods for 40 per cort and loss, of the amounts actunlly being paid 1o the con- trnctors, and proved that the county had been charged $5.000 more than the same quantity and quality of goods conld have been bonght for. But the usunl majority of eight, including Contx and Crawrono (Mr, Hesva's eandidates for relection), refused to entertnin the report. In letting tha contracts for tho present year, the majority in the Board refused to givo the bread.contract to Mr, Voutz, & responsible baker with ample facilities, who offered to furnish it at 82.19 per 100 pounds, bnt gave it to the Scnweiy. Funtit Brothers at $2.50 per 102 pounds, taking a diferonce of $2.500 to tha Connty. The nest move was a big one, £13,000 Leing voted for o lot of defective nbstract-hooks thnt aro sworthless to tho connty, and which it is quite doubtful whether the Board had any legal authority to purchnse, Then camo “Farmer " Hanys, who was awarded a con- tract on the Court-Honzo st 211,875 more than the sum at which MeNeiw & Son, prac- tical builders, with responsible bonds, were willing to undertalke the job. It the tax-payers of Cook County think that this sort of thing ean go on without their paying for it, thoy aro very much mis. taken, The cost of our county charities Aas been more than doudled within tico years. In 1871-"2 the total approprintion was £173,066; in 1873 it was $893,129, Tho ‘preseat year's expenditures will exceed the appropria- tions by at least 25,000, The persvnal ex- pensesof the Bonrd this yenr are more than doudle what they were in 18712, In that Fonr they wero $12,510; this year they will be 925,669, The net reault of this Ring man- agement of county affairs is found in the fact that tho tax-levy proposed for the next year is G.6 mills, while it was only 4 mills lnst year, being an inerense of more than one.half of the lovy of last yenr, Mr, Hesrvae asks the people of Cook County to vote for the re-clection of two of the men whom he formerly denounced ns *thioves, rascals, and dnmned sconndrels,” to vote in two others to displace honest mem- bers of the Board who have opposed the Ring, and a fifth who is o contractor. In other words, ho asks the people of Cook County to approve tho rascalities cited above, and to strengthen the Ring which has been guilty of them, THE VINGINIA CITY CALAImY. Tho latest detnils of the great calamity which has overwhelmed Virginia City, Neva- da, and reduced tho business portion of that enterprising mining city to ashes. do not, as often happens in calamities of this nature, diminish the first estimates and statements, but, on the otherhand, increase and intensify them, The extent of area burned over and the loss aro both greatly increased, the area now being fixed at three-fourths of a mile in length by sl a mile in width,—a somewhat larger tract of ground than was burned over in our fire of 1874, and the loss at £7,500,000, which is £5,5600,000 grenter than was firat reporied. In almost every detail tho fire nt Virginia City is a repetition in miniature of our great fire, and tho narrative os seat by tral Pacific Roads for £108,000,000 principal (first and second mortgages), nud the sixty or seventy millions of unpaid interest. At the eud of the forty years, the United States hav- ing paid 176,000,000 interest, may take Toxt Scorr’aroad by paying 288,000,000 of principal. And still this Inst job is declared not to bo a subsidy,—n moro indorsement to nn enterprising gentleman who happens to bo propriotor of some bankrupt corpora- tions, and who is willing to divide with his frionds. But this subsidy is demanded on behalf of tho South. This road is by no means a Bouth- ern one. It gives Eastern Toxas, Now Or- lenns and tho Gulf, Lonisiana, Mobile, Missis- sippi, and Memphis a wido berth, aud from Arizona sirikes a beo line to Pittsburg, New York, and Philadelphia! It leaves Bal- timore, Norfolk, all Virginin, Georgin, the Carolinas, Florida, and Alabama as remotc from a commercial routo to the Pacific as they would bo if the only route was by Lake Buperior and Fort Garry, No one, however, pretends that such a mnmmoth subsidy can go through without a half-dozen partners, There aro other bank- rupt corporations ag well as Col. Scorr’s, and, boforo theso will consent that he shall have this enormous cash subsidy of five millions of dollars a yoar in gold, thoy must bo in like manuer appeased aund satisfled; they, too, must bo quartered on the Treasury, and the conntry must bo taxed to carry them all. THE COUNTY BOARD RING. The Republican Campaign Committeo have struck ono of the key.notes of the ponding clection by reconnting tho profligate jobs of tho County Board during the past year. Whon it is romembered that this Board hos tho powor to levy taxes to tho amount of nearly §2,000,000 annually, and to increnso the county debt by the issue of bonds to the amount of $11,000,000; that their action in making contracts and voting moneys is final ; that theroe {s now a Ringin the Board which has snccoeded in crushing all honest opposi- tion to it; and, finally, that Mr., Hesivo wonts two men whom he has denounced as mem- bers of thia Ring re-clocted, and the places of thres of tho Ring's opponents filled by Craw- roep, Par Creny, andMize Monrov; when these things are kept in mind, the danger of electing tho HesiNa bummer tickot is pal pa- Lle. ¥ ‘Iho rule of the Ring has been undiaputed, except by the impotent protest of the honest minority in tho Board, ever sinoo Hesva's party has had the majority, Somo samplos of their transnctions may bo cited: 1t was und o craft hailing from an English port aro | ¢itY 848 compact, closely-orgunized political said to bavo been beealmed near tho Auckland body, having posacssion of all tho election Lslauds, sud 1o have beon boarded by the | Machinery, aud especially of the inspectors 1uan-eating jubabitunts of that locality aud | ©f election, aunounced himselt as a candidate wli eaten but the Jast ynan, who oscaped to tell for one of the most lucrative offices fn the | o later, tho tulo to Coapt. Buzwen, of Biddeford, Mo, | United States, and surmoned his mob to for- at an Occanio port, whers tho surviver mally nomiingte him, Excluding Lad obtained an asylum, Tho prolonged ab. | tieket every perion of Ameriean from his bivth, he souce of theso ships gives tho story welght | Publicly announced tha majority by whichtlie cuough o creste grave approlicusions at'j Vellot-boxstuffers Boaton for the uafety of the thirty men who composed tho crew, These opprelieusions fro augmented by a koowlodge of the fact that 10 veasol of tho Uhited Btates unvy iv stationed mear cnough to this purt of tho world to afford suy Pprotection, and that uothipg provents the cannibal from emack. iug Lis anthropophagous chops and compla. on seafaring men who happen toZencounter ill-favorivg winds, or no winds cently faring ut all, as iu represented In this case, et 'Tba Chicagoroduce markets were general. Iy vutho downward turn yesterday, Mess pork was quict und 16@90¢ per brl lower, closing at $21.60 for October, nad $18.75 scllor the year. Lard was dull und 10@1240 per 100 | L ower, closing ut §13,00 for new, and &l‘.’.l‘.{; @12.15 gellor the year, Meats were dull pud would report him elected Appeals for o fair elncfi:u—nppenls for :s representation of those opposed to Mr, Hese 156 ou Lhe Eloction Boards—worg contomptu. ously vojected, andall that s left betweon tho half 1million of peoplo of Wiix county nudthe nbsolute reign of the oviminal yopulation in sn appesl to the thousands of habitual non. voters to go to the polly, and by their yotes and by their personal efforts defeat the leader of the scallowags and criminaly, break up the infamous combination, re-e4tablish the purity of ¢lections, aud onable the honest class of people of this city noxt year to recover thy City Government, ‘[he City of Chieago is the groat metropo. lis of the West. Mither como the whole States ou buniness or ou pleasure. the rule of the party of shown, for justance, that the beans furnished the paupers by Hesrsa's friend, Prriorat, ‘wore rotten and offcusive, ‘The matter was reforred to the Committee on Publio Chari. ties, where it was smothered, A month or Commissioner Boav presonted a list of goods furnished paupers which wero of bad quality, aud moved for the sppointment of o special committeo of three to investigate the mntter. Commissioner Cnawrosn (one of Hearva's candldates for re-clection) opposed the spocial investigation, and insisted that the Cowmitteo on Public Charities should eguin bo intrusted with the matter, This was also smothered, nud the Comnmittee nover reported. In August, 1874, Comumlssionor Boavr preseuted a list of eighty articles which Peniouat wes furnishing the Tnsane Asylum, and County Poor-House, and County Houspital, at prices rangiug from 10 to 100 per cent in excess of the contract price. Commissioner Crovan moved for a Seloct Comuittes of Invostigation, erduding the Committes on Publio Charities, but this wils rofused, and the matter was roferved to the sawme men to whom the previous chawges had boen refurred, Of course there was a white- - comuercial population of bnlf a dozen great washing report, to which Commissioner Bra. Under | pick refused to give his assout, Later in the which Hesine and | year, the Lonest members in the Loard telegraph has a very familinr tone, It hnp. peued in the samo time of year, The wind was blowiog a galo at the time. Everything was dry and inflammable. Cinders and flames were driven far in advance of the main body of flame aud kindled other fires, There wero the same confusion in the streots heaped up with goods and furniture; the samo roar of the flames mixed with the curs- ing and fighting of teamsters, the weeping and groaning of women and children, the falling of walls, and the howls of the galo; and the same crowds of homeless people secking shelter on the ontskirts of the city, As with ns in onr time of calamity, there wero thievos and drunken brutes in the streots, and military patrols guarding prop- erty. The school-houses nnd churches were thrown open and crowded with homeless and hungry suffercra. The thoatres of other cities nre now pgiving Dbenefits for the rolief of the sufferers, and supplies are pour- ing in from all parts of Nevada and Cali. fornia. Morcover comes tho good nows of tho snme Western grit that charneterized tho people of Chicago, Tho correspondent says: “The people are in good spirits, and, while torribly aftlicted, are the pluckiest, bravest lot I ever bad to do with,” In nll respects, down to tho most trivial detail, the picture of the Virginia City firo is the picture of the Chicngo fire in miniature, and Chicago well knows how to sympnthizo with tho peoplo of that city. Wa can realizo their situntion in its fullest extent, and we can look forward with tha same hopefulness, as in our own oane, to the time when they will restoro their city stronger, moroe beautiful, and more securo than over. 'The cseentinl difforeuce botwoen tho results of the two fives is, that while the business interests of Chicago worae varied and distributed over va- rious dopartments of trade nnd commereo, the intercsts of Virginia City are limited to the mining business, The disaster to the minos, however, i8 not as serious as was first supposed. Thoro will be much delay in the resumption of business, and Dr, LINDERMAN, tho Mint Director, has alrendy ostimated the oxtent to which tho supply of bullion will be cut off for tho next fow months. There may also bo losses to stockholders, but tho mines aro still thore. The supply is not affeeted. Tho shafts and machinery will soon be re- paired, and it is alrendy thought that in G0 daya tho mines will be in operation again. ‘The lesson of the Virginin Oity fire is the same as that of the Chicago fire and tho con. flagrations in Michigan and Wisconsin the same year, It emphasizes the inseourity of the great wooden towns and citles in tho ‘West, and their linbility to inevitable destrue- tion under a givon combination of ciroum. stances. 'The people of Virginia City will do well, thorefore, to fnitate the cxample of Chicago in rebuilding, and to replace thoir inflammable wooden buildings with brick and stone, 'The warniug they have now roceived should be hesded. 'They should avo to it that thelr city hereafter is safo agaiust such omor- goncies by robuilding not ouly more boautl- fully and conveniently, but in a stronger, moro solid, and moro fire-proof style, ——eee ‘I'here is one duty in connection with the fortheoming election which should fwpress itself upon tho merchunts of thik city—the closing of their pluces of bLusiness for n port of the day Bt least, so s to allow their eme ployes an opportunity to go to the polls and vote. ‘Thers are thousands of clerks and om- ployes iu the wholesale houses and myuufas- tories who live in distant parts of the city and in the suburbs, and cannot get home in timo to vote, for the reason that they are con- fined in their places of business, in many in- stances, until after the polls are closed, and thug lose thelr votes, 'Ile present eloction ia one of the most important ever held in Ohicago, for tho reason that, if this corrupt County Ring is broken next Tuesday, tho City Ring will bo smashed next spring, and the whole corrapt combination will fall to the ground. ‘The merchants of {hia ecity, theretaro. havo n most dircet issuo in {his contest with tho tax.cnters, nnd they should give {heir ewployes time enough not ouiy to vote, but to work; time enough not only to enst their own ballot, but to help guard the ballot-hoxes, nud see that no citizen is disfranchised by repeaters and ballot-box stuffers, BOCIAL BCIENCE, Once year a Socinl Heienco Congress is held in England. It is under the mannge- ment of a permanent organization, which ar. ranges, throngh ita Standing Committees, for tho preparation, presentation, and oecensionnl publication of papora on soma of the thou- sand-and-one questions within tho scopo of sociological stuly. The Conugresses aro po- tent factora in shaping English thought and legislntion. The nen who take part in them are also the chief supporters of the Social Seience section of the Association for the Advancement of Science. ‘Their debates dur- ing the Belfast mecting of the latter, in 1874, Ied to the settlement by narbitration of the famons striko of the Belfast operatives, which is said to have cost tho employers $730,000 and tho employes n round million. Their Congresses are eredit= ed with the inspiration of Mr. Disnartt's ‘!prograinme of the common sewers,’—the programmo which was fall of economie re. forms, aud which hos been o shamefully abandoned by the Premier who anuounced it. ‘The good work done in England led to the organization, two or three years ngo, of an Amerienn Social Scienco Associntion, It Is formed of five Depnrtments—those of Edu. ention, Ifealth, Trade and Finance, Sociat Feonomy, and Jurisprudence, Annnal mom- bership depends upon the paymont of §5. Lifo membership is rocured by paying £100, Members are entitled to participation in tho government aud discussions of the Associa- tion, and they reccive all its publications, Tho most important of these is the Journal of Social Science, which in issued at irregular in- tervals, and in made up of contribu- tions from authorities in duferent fiolds of sacinl seience, The list of officers and members includes some of the best known names in Ameriea, There is, however, a no- ticeablo lack of those of politicians,~n fact which is not to the credit of our statesmen, ‘The annunl members number about 300; the life members only 0. The Association is naturnlly in nced of money. It appeals to the public for menns to carry on its good work., Membership subscriptions aud dona- tions can bo sent to Gayauizs Braorono, b Pemberton Square, Boston. Orders for any unmber of the Journal of Social Science may beforwarded to the Sceretary, F, B. Saxnony, who resides at Conocord, Mass, Tho Presi- dent of the Association is the ITon. Davio A. Wrris, Tho Association itself is tho centre of social nctivity 1n this country. Its nunual mectings are alwoys of interest and value, Its work is thoroughly good. People with a fivo-dolar bill to spare can find no better use for it than in tho encouragement of this work ‘WILL MR. HESING EXPLAIN We print in another part of this paper a communication which Mr, Hesmva and his frionds will find of interost. It comes from what wo lLiavo reason to regard s a reputable ond trustworthy source, and sets forth that Mr, Hesna is giving notes of which the fol. lowing purports to ho a transcript and sam- Curoaao, Oct, 53, 1878, Thirty daya after date, I promise to pay fo ; i tha order of Thirty Dollars, valuo ro- } celved, fn case T am eleoted Treasurer of Cook County, Illinota, A, O, Hesa, ‘Thoe gontleman who brought this commu- nieation to Tue Trmune offico says that he in prepared to give tho nome of the holder of this note and to prove the case if M IesNo denjesit. In viow of this confident nssertion, it is certainly in order for Mr. Hesiva to admit or dony the charge; to say, point blank, whother or not ke ins given such anote. If he bas given one such mote, the infercneo is that he has given o good many. The chargo made in connection with this note recalls u case not unlike it in which Mr. Hrsino was concerned some years ago, which went up to the Supromo Court, aud is report. ed in Volume 44 of Nlinois Reports, p. 113. A mon named Josern Laness desired the nomination for Police Court Clerk, which he thought Mr. Hesixa conld procuro for him, Ho thereupon addressed Mr, Hesixo the fol- lowing note : [Private.] Cit1oAao, Aprit 7, 1805,—.t, C, Heana, ¥aq., Present —Dzan 8in : Inclosed ploase find §20, for which please use your Influence to get mo nominated for Police Court Clerk; §t I got tho nomination call on me for $2more, Iam, slr, very truly yours, Josget Linrsa, Mr. Hesiva did not use his influence for Liness, but against him, It seems, how- ever, that he kept the 20, for Lryess brought suit to recover the money. It was decided for Liness in the Justice’s Court; taken to tho Circuit Court on appeal by Mr. Ilesiva, where it was decided in his favor; then taken on a writ of error to the Bupremo Court, where Hesmve was finally sustained in tho refusal to pay back the money. ‘Tho ground on which tho Court based ity docislon was, that it was. an attempt to influence, by woneyed considerations, Lthe actionofa person in n watter whero every one should be gove crned solely by a regard for the publio wel- fare. 'That is, Mr, Lixess sought to purchase Mr, Mesing's support without refereuce to his fitness for the position, and the Court held this to bo an improper and illegal trans. action, and refused to compel Mr. Hesmva to return the $20. Now, if Mr. Hesixo has been glving such notes na the ono cited above, ho kuows from a personnl test of tho question that they can never bo collected, The consideration, suf- ticiently oxprossed in tho note, is tho vote and influence of the holder to sccure Mr. Hesina's clection as County Treasurer; for, it not elected, the note will nover come due, But this is precisely what the Bupreme Court in Mr, Hegia's own cese has decided to be an fmproper trausaction, and refused to give it sauction. Mr. Iesixa knows very well that such & noto i of uo value and can never be collected; so it is propor that, if he Les beon giving theso notes, the holders should Lo informmed of the fact Will Mr, Heuna deny or explain this allegation ? PSR, Among Mr. Hesixo's forvent supporters is Mayor CoLviN. On the evening of May 8§, last, there was o mass-mceting in McCor- wick's Hall Lo protest against the corruption of the ballot-box, suggestod by the frauds at the charter election. Mr. Hesing was ono of the speakers at that meeting, and, fo the course of his remarks, is reported as follows: Referring to city ofiicals, bo said he did pot care whther the Mayor was & Hepublican of a Demccrat, if Ls wuro an honoet zuan and posaessed of v Lugy Tequinite ta enforce tholawa, $o dtd not want such A o an wan alrald to face aconndr.le and drivo ther 10 thelr holer—{applause],—~wio had not the coueags 10 tell the gamt1re, and plurs, and thieve: that thay tmunt feavu the ety within fwenty-fane hoars, snd that, i€ theg did not, they wiuld b nreeited na vae grante, (Choorn.} 10 kiuch & pro-Tunation were made, vititors to Chicago woulid ba wafa; ateangers would not Do dragged into bunko dens aud ro'ibed of fho money they had brought with them Lo purchase goods, {Clieern] % present Mayor had been brought fors e by hrn, - The (Covvts) was not hin cholea ; but he wan the anly oue they cou d get 10 rnn [Inughter]; and he asked thone who wero willi hit o year and a half 4710 fo forgiee lum [great and prolonged laughtor], be- na perfecty wellingto pe covered with acke’oth and asher for 10 ne tine to rome for hiaving invonted auch a eandidate for Miyor, [Laughter and applaure.] Does Mr, Cotviy now support Mr. Hrstxa becnuse of the latter's ** complimentary” al- Iusions to him a few montha ngo? Or lins Mr. IlEsiNe gone over to the ballot-box stuf- fers, whom he denounced a few months ago, Leeauso he has need of their peculinr servives Just nt this time? And, ns Mr. Hesmvo claims to have created Corvix nnd aftorwards to have become heartily asbamod of his crea- ture, {s the potter better than, the clay now that Hestxo has gone back {6 Corviy and Corviy back to ekt ? A story comes by way of Washington that the "PrLoEN Democracy of New York and of New England are disposed to favor ex.Gov. Guorer C. Warker, of West Virginin, for Spenaker of the next House of Reprosentn- tiven. Thero nre several reasons why this story ought not to bo true, and why it proba- bly is wholly untrue. In the first plnce, QGov. WaLkER goes to Congress riding two bobbies, one of his own special invention, These are: (1) To get tho United States to tnke off the Lauds of tho Btate of Virginia the James River & Kanawha Cnnal, begun in the days of WasnmvaToy, and still incom- plete, and to expend seventy-five millions of ollars to finish if, (£) The second rcheme, and WALRER is ite inventor, is that Congress shall nssume all the' Stato debts, issuing nationnl bonds to the State creditors in lieu nf the State bonds. In addition to theso Ueavy financinl measures, ho favors an un- limited issne of greenbacks, * fnst to make money plenty, you know.” We can hardly understand why the New York and New England Democracy, or indecd nny other Domocrncy, should favor tho election ns Spenker of o man who enters Congress to promote these soveral schemes, and on whose success he nims cven ot the Presidency, T ————— Tho Constitution and law of tho Stato of Tiinois peremptorily declare that tho County Treasurer of this county shall in no enso re- ceive more than £4,000 & yearsalary, Various County Trenaurers havo set up the claim that they wero ontitled to compensation as Col. Iectors, but the Supremo Court has, in sev- eral cascs, decided that the ofties of 'I'rersurer nnd Collector in ono offico, and that no Treasurer ia entitled, legally, to any compen- sation as Collector. Despito this Inw and this solemn judgment of the Court, the Conn- ty Troasurer of this county recoives. annual. Iy, in additfn to his £4.000 salary es Trons. urer, §G,000 a3 * Collsctor,” making a total of $10,000 a year, or 6,000 in excess of the strict limitations of law. In addition to this enormous emolument, it is well understood that the Treasurer receives from $:20,000 to $30,000 a year a3 compensation or hire of the public monoys in his hands. Tho valuo of the office, ovon to a man who is froe from debt, is therdfore roadily perceptible, Mr, Ilesive celebrated New Year's Day, 1873, by remarking, through his paper, the Btaats-Zeitung, that the County Ring waya mass of “‘thioves, rascals and damued scoun- drols,” which overybody admits. Ie went on to say that Crawronp was ‘“votton to the marrow,” which few people deny ; that Coxny was ‘‘dishonest”; and that Cnawrorp and Coxny were ‘‘perjurers, thioves and scoun- drels.” Mr, Hesmva is now running on the same ticket with theso Lwo men, Consisten- cy may bo a jowel, but $40,000 a yenr {s bet- ter than conslstency—Ilrsina thinks, Tle is trylng to induce thg voters of Cook County to elect men whom ko has ealled, this very yoar, dishonest and rotton thieves, perjurers, and scoundrels to a Board which has the spendivg of millions of the fax.payers | monoy. —— The people of Cicero, Lake, Proviso, Ley- don, and Riverside, should give apecinl atten~ tion to the Devil-Fish candidate for County Commissioner from their district, Jony Craw- rorp, who i3 a very bad egg, and seo to it that Lo iy defosted. He is ono of the worst men in the corrupt County Ring. Ifo has been connected with every scheme of plun. dor that has beon developed in the Connty Board. Mo has betrayed his constituents over and over again. Ho is a political rene. gade engaged in trading in apoils and jobs ns a profession. 'Tho people of thess towns Lave uo sympathy with such a mwan, snd they should stamp him out next Tuesday and give him leave to retire from further serving them in county busineas, Poeeibly tho millious of Maokery, the 3lrnasof tho Pacitio Coast, and thoso of his assopiates, Fam, Froop, and O'Briey, will shortly be dis- covored Lo buve vanished ns completoly as did Racston's under tho prasary they organized agaiuat mm. Tho reore of milllons ench with which those gentlomon reapectively have been croditod constst principally of sharss of the Consolidated Virginia (B.g Bananza) and Cahe fornis mines, Receotly the yisld of thoso not- ted & miliion dollars per monthi. The day befure the firo tho mines swore tloo led by tha bureting of aspring, discharging with fmmenso force B volume of water mauy timos the eapacity of the punps, and which it is doubtful whother any pumps can bo constructed will lift from the twolvo hundred feot level. In the fire their boisting works, . which cost thras-quartera of a million, wero destroyed, and in any evont it will tako months to replaco them, Tho offcet Is manifest n tho quotations of the Condalldated and Californis mues. Xvon with the Nevads Bauk of Monars. I'ATR, Mackey, Froop, sud O'Buiex, with its £5,000,000 capital 1o hold up the prico, the uhintes of the Consol- tdated fell from 320 the day boforo tho fire to 220, and of the Californla from G3!¢ to 65, I remaius problematical whother elther miue can evor ngain be worked to profit, and it way be only & question of tune huw loug the 5,000,000 capital of tha Navada Dank witl ba able to bol- stor up tho quotations, even ut the figurea at which it would be impossible to nuload, and per- baps only & questiou of tine, too, bow svon Messrs. Froop & O'Buiex will reopen thoir chesp gin-mill uear tho docks in 'Frisco. The Drooklyn Diatrict Attoruey, who at the suagestion of Mr. DexcuEn noll'd tho judicte wente sgmnet Mouoiton, deprivivg the latter of opnortunity of defouso agalust the chargea nade, bas distinguivhed himsolf by vigorously ressting & motion to quash she indlotmeut Tn thay, t MouLtay Iy that ho intonda to fores Lonrn to trisl, avent it will not be forgot.on thy rich and keen-witted, whito Lones (g 001 Lon: r hias proved & blockhead, nud inovitatly it :::'.‘l LEene to eaplo Lo inguire wWhedier b cagny g thia Lootula mnled out usa vielim to the supplomental vindieation of Mr. Dieener, Tefareing o the roportal combinat] n on tweon tho Now York Central, Eri, pem,.,.‘.': mia, and Baltimoro & Oujo Railways, tondvanygy tates, tha World aayss = When four man can at Wk atany time, for reas 7y to themaclren, by a* aingle » roke of 1o b o 0 trilute of Wideads of milho i o P2 1o o e ith, 1abor, an fodustry of Jhy canit it ocomes tme to inquiry whelher toere ey dangor to e Stato - eaving the py.,,,:,"':f" af dus 1] n oreata of the peapls 1y wholly g (2 eyt i faw mon. o Tee ignte ny Tyt Lt 1o thele ‘stacklioldars, and 1o pofi e 2 but versonsl wud vorporate aggean dizons agt, O L0 P ok S 'lny(l;fkfj; [‘h(;o;fin ”lflulflfl . 70, Oot, BL—WII you | 1saxg stat, Of iicx nfereated, 1 1n this forfuen oy To0ts election, 1t {8 nn-esary for citizen to havs ljog ] tho ward n= preciuct. any _stipulated Jongih of 1o 3 Dioes n legil voter hedoma disfranchised, m‘]m,?, throug' lisving reaavad from tho Taind o iy i Ward'»inca tha Vitl of the preeent monin g ° FOSHE ONE InTrngursy ‘To I of thin Stata roquicea & residonse o) ono sear in tho State, ninety davs in the h coul sad {hirty days in the electin district 154 r tho oloctlan, to «otitla & citizen fo votor - °8 Mr. BILvERSPARRE, Dovi'-Fialy candidata f Burvevor, 1 o commnnication ta I'ng T.unm-: noga that ho werved faitlitully in tho War, gy alwo [ past Ronablican cannigns, Bay wp, publicly advertiaa your anostacr? Doas | u'. cuse you for keoping your prosont CONNRTY with butamers an 1 acallawags, and running for offic tn tho intoreats of a corrupt Ring, thay you weny ouco in good company ? ——— Furtker awfal conseqiensng of thy dnfoat of ALies, anl ths emieqieue falure of AuLey'y project for miking miasy ohowp anl nlntv.u 8030 18 ho shoutd by elacted Goveraor of Ohio, aro pointed out by the Cine nnatl Enguirer jo tho fact that “Bulciles 1 ths (atorlor of the #nto aro increning, and tho rural Coroners are buay.” ——— Ocly ten months ave Mr. Hesrxo gald that Crawsono and Coxny w s d—d thlovos and scoundrels, Now hols running oo the same tickot with them, Thoy aro #7pP0TLNE him fud ho 8 Aupporting tham. o othor words, {f Mr. Heatsa told tho trath last Jaounev, hois 0w cousorting with “d——d thioves and scoun. drels.” ———— Carly, liko charity, somotimes covera a multle "tudo of vine. The vrospoct of $10,000 & yeuu ha¢ mado 1t lmpossiblo for the * Boss" 10 seq anythiog am'ss i the mon whom ho truthfolly cnlled, ton months agn, * thiovos, raseals, and dsmned conudrels,” and *rotten to tho core, Taking tho voto of Now York City last yoar ag the bay's, it neads only o chnge of 5,000 votes from Tammany to eecuro tho eloction of the Ant-Tammaoy ticket headed by Rocorder Hacserr. Jouy bounisgev, it is hoped, will be worth thoie 5,000 votes to tho ticket, Eodbdcton LA agalust Lober. The real ground upon which the Mouron fudictments wero nolle'd was Lhat no good could come of agaio voutilstiog the nauscous scandal, and Mr, Dexcues's conduce waw credited by his friends to his Chriatiau for- bearance. Meaawbile thet Chrlatian forobear- aace {4 not extended to Lobky, uir dosw she ob- Jection to draggiug the olious nastiness bofore the publio seam to weigh 1o his cage. The course uf the District Aitorney would indicate Whon notatocs wero melling for 13 conts a bushel in ourma Lots, 'z oL ¢ was bolug pald 90 contn a busnel for thom by the Couuty Come missionors, Tho Dovil-Fish cand.dies for Connty Commissioners alluwed the Doan Boes to thus defraad tho tax-payers. From amidet tho wreck and dehris cast sshore by tho tidal wave in Olo, poar Teay comes ot unhnrmed. Tho dog-tas constitu'lnal amsnie ment was lost, afierall, and the Buckeya State purps can now wag their tails under the very 0050 of tho tax-gatheror, e Mr. Hestvo said to the Jefernonmang: “Dr, Davis does not atand firmor oo the Democratic tlatform tban 1do.”” As far a8 tha Democratit dogma ** T the vietor belong the spoits " {scone cerned. thero can bo no doubt of Mr. Hzsixa's vincority, Laxz, Domocrat, elected to Congress from Otogou to flll tho vecnncy occasioned by the duzth of L Dow, is a son of * 011 Joz" Lasg, fermorly Sonator from thot Htato, and candidate for Vice Presidout onthe Da 1860, s et S ‘Tho dayrfter his wus nominatod, HEmnxa bosst ed hio would bo olected by 16,000 msjority, snd Lis eliquo wanted to bet odds on that result, Yot can't mako IIEsiNG nams any majority to-<day and you can’t got even bets out of his clique. Nov. 25 s to bo Thankegiviug Day, Cook County Christians will then thans the Lord for the defeat of tho Boss and the Ping, Nov. 2— thut {8, if {hey tarn out mext Tuesday snd do their duty, Thera aro 230 Opposkion judges of electios and ouly 30 Republican.® ‘This mesus an attempl to stuff the ballot-boses aud olect tho Devil-Fisb ticket by fraud. Guard the Lal.ot-box | —— Vo should adopt an economical Govornmant nnd reduco our oxpenses."—A. €. Aezing. T¢ dowo wo most first dofent the Ring aud the Bouws, R Thero is not an American on the whole Derik Fisli tickot, BShall Amoricana bo disqnaliled from holding offico becauso of tho acecident o bireh ? P — Mr. Hesing has s denp intercst In this osm: paign. Ho wauts to moke tho intoreat on tht connty funds for tho noxt two soars his Interosh S - Tho Loneat volors of Cook Connty want el lioygst count of tho votes fn tho ballot-boxed nllrof the collars in the County Tressusy. plie s by s Mr, HrsiNg has nover beon famoua st s ré. vivallst, but aftor next Tuoadsy he will feel Moody, —_——— Tha Dovil-Fish ticket i fishing for votes, bud it will *cateh the dovil” nost Tucudsy. PERBONAL, Bishop Haven I8 in Buston. Titlens was approved in Philadelphis. A. 0. Mathows, Bpringfold, 18 at tho Pacifie HBuporvieing-Architoct Potter ia st the Tre mont, L. Nightmeyer, Klucardino, Ont., 18 st tb8 Paoifie, Judga Btophen O, Mooro, Kankskes, la st the Pacitle. Mr. Groeley’s dauglitera have roturned from Enropo. Tho Hon, F. I', Dall, Bpringdold, Tt. is st the Shoroan. Salvinl han married again, THis st wifo dsd somn time ago, Houstor Bievenson's daughtor has just maried & Ciuclunat: lawyer, The eoft-monoy mon, asys the Now York L ald, age otil) hard up, The Houn. E, P. Forry, of Grand Haves, - stoppiug at the Tremont. Pious plckpookots profess ponlience 8¢ the Moody meetlugs in Brooklyn. * The Hon. Gaorgo Earl, Avelstant Postmastar: Goneral, of Washington, is at the Tremont. Tho Hoo, W. N. latter, of Dostoo, and Gk C. Yotter, of New York, stop at the Bherman. The Iudiap-summer, Likn the Indlan-giveh deceittul above all tungs, and desperately wl Bowaiol i Tho young Baron de Rothacbild Is not & g s subject to ** luterview,” Ho iu too much of geutlewan, Madame Beibert, formerly well cago s a teacler, bias rutuzned, atter reside lu this city. “ 3. N, MoCullouh, \F. It Myers, and C. e Colo, of the Intisburg, Fort Wayne & UW‘:’ Iuload; Col. Willism Stewart and Gen. JS-: Layug, of the Penusylvanis Sail.oad j J. .2 s known fu CEI* will Lo