Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 25, 1875, Page 4

a TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATER OF STRECRIPTICN (FATADLE T ADVAXCE). Tontage 'repatd at this Ofice, Dalty Edition, poat-paid, e §13.00 Parts of y Mailed toaoy adiresns born Funday kaitton: Literary a and 81¢ for Jananry, IRy was firmor at, Barley was nctive and finner, closing at 88 ensh, und S7e for December., Hoga weradull, and closal weak. Sales clielly at §7.00 @725 Cattlo were inactive, nnd 10@200 {Tower, Sheap wera nnelinnged. One hundred for. WEEKH i itellgion THWesiiy, pori paid, T yons: ¢ ! doflars in gold wonld buy $111.12} in groon- Parts of scar at eame rat | CERLLY Loy backs at the clo ::I.Il!iflv ¥y DOT YOAT.,, Cin,of twonty, per oo Nt The postage It 15 conts a yoar, which we will prepar. Specimen coplen tent free, Tojrevent delsy aud wmistakes, to sure and gis Tort-Oftice addroen [n full, Inelnding Statesnd Covnty, Hemittancen may be mado eithrr by dratt, exprean, Tost-Offico order, or in reqiatered letters, at our risk, . TANMS TO CITT AUTSCHIIEND, Datly, deliverad, Bunday exeepted, 275 cents per week, Duily, delivared, Sunday fucluted, 30 vents per weck, Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Gorner Madison and Dearborn-ats,, Chicago, 1il, The Southern Pacific Subsidy Convention { closed its Inborsat St. Louis yestordny, having o | necompliched the purposo for which it was brought together, viz.: the indorsement of "foxt 8cotr’s plan of obtnining the (iovern. nient's guarauteo of the bonds to ho is. sued for the construction of another rail- rond to the Pacitic Coast. In the address and resolutions adopted the Convention presented & cleverly-collected batch of Ts. { reasons why Congress hould vote nn enormos subsidy in honds and land grants, but 1o ruwon was advanced which iy not fully met and overcome By the single fact that the whole people of the United Statos will not consent to be taxed for the benefit of any particular locality. and that uutil pri- vate capital and enterprise can be enlisted in the proposed road it is prima fuck evidence thnt the rond is not needod, or that, if con. structed, it would not prove n profitable in. vestment, KEW CHICAGO THLAT -Clark wirect, betwean Ramdolnh sud Lake, Lngagriment of Kelly & Loon's Alinstreis, Afternjon et eveniug, TIOOLES'R THEATE Clark acd LaSaile, Iantrels, Afternoon Randolph street, betwacn gement of Lo Califorala U cvening, ADLLPHI THEATRI~Dearbarn_street, corner Mooroe. Engagement of the Kiralfy Troupe, ** Around Abe World In Eights Days,” Afternoon and eveoing. WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monroo street, botwween Deare born and State. Threo performances. PSS — In connaction with tho last feahlo nttempt on the pavi of sensational correspondents to initiste n war with Spain, thero lLave been many wild aseertions made a8 to the inten. tions nnd purposes of our naval nuthorities, but thesa storics, as a whole, havo lacked that assential which along could givo thom weight ; inother words, they had no outhoritative sonrce, It in a strange commentary on tho work of theso scnsational writors, that while they invont and send out upon the world the most unlikely yarns, going to show tint our Govermment is on the avo of a war with Spain, or with England, or any other nation that bites hee thumb at us, they should omit to ktato yariousimportant itens of intel- ligeuco that are known of many if not of el men. For instance: That the iron.clads at Mound City, which have been ‘xhooked,” marked, and econvenient. Iy stowed away awaiting a favorablo tnrm in tho iron market, have not yet been ordered into commission ; or that tho canal- boat Saral Jane, which has shown such sea- worthy nnd fighting qualitics upon the angry waves of the Illinois & Michigan Cannl, has not received her iron-plating, beeause the situntion lws not reached that de- gree of gravity, epecific or otherwiso, which warranta the fitting out of vessols of this class. It might nlso bo stated withont fenr of successful countradiction that the Rock and Wisconsin River flotilla_has not, so far as is known, been ordered to preparo for 4 Lattlo with the Spanish corsnirs npon the const of Cuba. All theso aro indubitable facts, and ean bo 50 proven by nuy inquisitive party who may ingnire at the Construction Bureau of the Navy Department. — LET US GIVE THANKS. The day for the annual giving of thanks ha arrived, and all of our renders who aro not ungrateful wretehes will take this ocea. sion to display their gratitude for the mercies which have been vouchsated thom during the year. 'The motive for tha Puritanic obsery- auce of this day was the eshibition of the plenty which hnd crowned the year and tho pouring out of blersings from its cornucopia. "Their purpose was to be of good cheer, and our grim old ancestors never failed to exhibit that good cheer,—if not in on uproarious, at lenstin nsubstantinl manner. Outofthis pur- pose lias grown tha enstom, whick still exists, of filling the larder to overflowing and of muking the Thanksgiving table groan with its MOVICKER'S THEATR! ladison street, betweon Dearhornand Biste, * The Jewess.” Afternoon and evoning, TALSTED STREET ODPENA JIOUSE — Halstod street, corner Harrinon, MacEvoy's Iliberntcon, Af- tarnodn and evening. FARWELL DALL—Madisan stroet, botweon Clark and LuSaile, Duguiney's * Tous of the foly Land.” Afierooon sud evening. SOCIETY MEETINGS. TLETADES T.ODGF. No, 478, A, T\ ool M.—Thn members of Pletaden No, 473 uro hereby notiflod to nppent at their hali, Went Twelfth street, this Thiurs day morning kt 10 a'clock sharp, for the purporn of attendim? the fuureal of vor lsts Bro, Joun £, Dritcl wrd, Visiting brethren invited, 3 . The Chicsnu Tibune, Thursday Morning, Novomber 25, 1875, Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- chango closed at 87§, with sales ot 87} and 873, So confident is the feeling in Washington that the little nffnir about Cuba has been plensantly patehed up that it is assorted that the President’s messago to Congress will embody the draft of a new treaty with Spain, in whicl will bo omitted tho present odious clause granting the right to search any and all American vessels. And yot the fitting out of irou-clads goes on just the same, Ono of Pennsylvania's favored sons is duly trotted out as the Presidentinl candidato par excelence. Tho Pittsburg Post Loldly de- eclares for Jernmian 8, Brack, and furnishes that gentleman with a entaloguo of qualifica- tions so transcondant and comprehensive ny to excite wondermont thet such u marvel of Atatesmansbip conld have lhuiled from Penn- Fylvanin all these years without anybody sus- pecting it. — - Secrotary CiaNpLER 15 engaged in vigor- ons voyage of exploration in search of au undiscovered Cotnmissioner of Indinn Affairs. Fie bas made up his mingd to drop Sanmi, but is troubled nbout picking up 0 Kuccessor. ‘I'he place bas been twice profferced to diffor- ent men, but ench timo rejected on acconnt of the disparity between the responsibility and the salary, the latter heing but $:5,000. The Seccretary of the Interior i n wan of immense wealth, and us an extra inducement | THE CHICAGO TRIBU that our churches aro gotting along without scandaly that pull-backs are still he fashion; that the South 8ide Stroet Railroad s to have conductors; that the Sunday Leeturo Society moets but onee a week; that oyaters and i other winter vegelables aro plenty; that | book-peddlers and Hfo.insurance men aro not %0 plenty; that building materinl is cheap; cthat wa have an incxhoustible sup. ply of good water; that nono of our miniaters have fallen from grace; that Hanata didn't drive his swamp-olm piles; that the man at tho Crib is well nud happy ; that Hiegey threntons the bunko men ; that the doctors have so Iittlo to doj that the all; that wo oro not down nmong the dead men: and that the Tlymonth Church cornet is o thing of tho past. Ior all theso nnd numerous other blessings, including to.day's dinner, lot ws all be thonkful. And in the midat of all our thankfulness lot us not for- get the wortby poar who Lave ko littlo canse to bo thankful, Tt vs relieve them from our own bountcous store sud moke them happy. With this prelude wo commend the doy to ench render, aud, in the langunge of a cor- repondent of the Congregationalist, we ABY ** Has any one found grace to repent and seck the Lord; hns any found graco to reform; lins nny one'received tho presont of a cond of wood, a pair of shoes, n new coat, a cow? 1Ins any one recovered from sickness, or Liet with n narrow escape; have peoplo been kind to you in trouble; has your farm pro- duced well ; have your cows done well ; bave you good neighbors? this is n good place and time to thank God. Afakeit a glad dny. Let somo songs be sung wherein all the houso shall ging, Never mind discords. Sing. Pray, ‘Break your drumstick.’ Make s loud noike. Have no sermon in the way. Don't go to telling how we ought to b thankful, but b thankful. Expross gratitade. Make it the people's Thanksgiving, not the minis- ter's alone,” A DEAD MAN'S SHOES. ‘The death of Senator Fruny, of Connecti- cut, lecves a vacancy which some Democrat will il As tho Legislaturo ia not in session, Gov. IvaersoLs will appoint n Senator pro tem,, who will servo nntil the law-mnkers and Senntor-makers of the Nutmeg State gatherto- gether and cabal, enucus, and vote, Fenay, al. though a Republican, was ro-clected in 1872 by Democratic votes, aided by tho bolters from the Ropublican caueus, which had 1o a prominent New Englander to nceept the Indian Cowmrnissionership ho ngreed to in- creaso the compensation 35,000 out of his own pocket. This offer being doclined, the Secrctary has not been able to install the righit mnn in the right place, Tut he is the sort of person to keep on lookmng till he finds what be wants, and he will yot have the Indian Burean rvorgamzed to suit Lim, ——— The Citizens' Association do not Proposo to retire from contesting the purchose of the obstract books on nccount of tho decision which dissolves tho injunction egainst the paywent of tho money, If Connty Treasurer R h averago American to-dny. ‘V“""i"‘ pays over this money, ho will mako ! Whiatever may be tho purposes or offects Dimsolf and hie bundsmen Individunlly liablo { ¢ ‘Chanksgiving, whether peoplo have reuson 4n caso tho bigher court, to which the citizeus to be thankful or not, and withont regard to pmpcoso to appenl the cnso, whall decido thnt prospectivo dyapepsia and dootors’ bills, thero tho Commissionevs had no right to mnke the | 4 one episods of Thanksgiving Day which purchase, —whetlior on account of exceusive | o endearit tonll. It is the ocension for price, fraud, dufcetive books, or lack of con- family reunions under tho old roof-tree, “Tha sidvmlmu: In this view of the matter, Mr, currents of Aweriean lifo are o diversified, M"‘.?,’“ wx‘ll dq well not to incur the linbih?y ond flow in g0 many divergont channels, that c: s) in.l)(;; ;lunng the few .dnyu that TOmMN | i ig only on some such occnsion ns this that :’“o' ”iiu‘;tfln;e‘;"&‘l“‘,l his Vondsmon will | 11" yentterod members of families can got ORIz ol mtorust to protost | toiomer ind renew: thoso, tas of affection ogainet tho payment. 1t is onoof tho matters which may have been weakened by distanco ;!;mh b bud botter turn over to his sucacs- and ubsence, TFor this reason; if* for no r——————— - - - othier, should Thauksgiving Day Lo sacredly No doubt, consideralls fuss will be mado | Oberved. It cannot but mnke avery man over tho inevitablo indorsement of Pon better. Scarr's Pacifie plan by Tox Scorr's Convin. In making a retrospect of the year, thero tion nt St. Louin. It js jnst ns well to re. in preat reason for thnnkfulness. Limst of member that any project to give pome hun. | U 1ot us bo thaukful for all of God's bloss- drads of milllons of doliurs of the people’s ing, for in every year, it we should atop to 1ooney {o a little cliguo of specnlutors will g1 | Meko the enleulation, wo should find that tho ‘ways receive the unauimons approval of the average of nmiercies exceeds that of misfor- cliquo and tho favor of tho pomsons muong | funes. Let us bo theokful that Drother whom the money is to Lo seattered by tho | Moody and the melodious Banzry aro over- speculators, Wo have no doubt that Avkan. | Whehming, ono nfter tho other, tho strong- vas, for inutanco, would poll o nearly unani. | holds of sin, and ure hringing hardened sin. mous vote in favor of n proposition to dis. ners to o renlizing senso of their condition, tribute 100,000,000 of nutional fangs | "4 that they Lave disinfocted Brooklyn of in thnt State, and wo foar even Tinoly | the odors of tho Bescuen business. Let us would bo willing to play pauper in the Lo thaukful for an abnndant barvest, and samo way., Tox Scorr iu perhops not mis. | thot oll tho crops have yielded richly to the taken in thinking thut o fair percentago will | Lushandinan, diling Lis garuers with futaro get any amount of wubsidy ont of s Deno- \'rcr.lth. Let us bo thankful that the country cratic Congress, and i shrowd enongh 1o | ¥ blessed with good health, and that no provido o fow Qimey protests beforehaned in Dplague or pestilence prevails within our bor. order to veil tho rusl rensons of a good many | ders. et wi bo thaukful that we have votes, If the Houthern Pucifiowver dows grab | Msely vecovered from tho effects 750,000,000 0f ths Ppeople’s monay, it is safe of’ the financial panie which grow out of the to predict o round number of Congrossmen | WoF of the {bellion, und that we ara bogin- will ko mumong itu stockholders and hondown. | DIBE t0 renliza the importaves of national e, Attributing any welght, however, to economy. Let us bio thankful that. the poo- tho proceedings of upecked Conventionwould | P1e in November voted to bo Louest, and ex- bo &8 absurd us belioving o Democratio pro. | Pressed themselves in fuvorof the money tession of reforr, madg by the ALmiglty rather than the rags of tho paper-nill and printing.press, Lot us bo thaukful that in our own city the people shivered an infamous Ring, defeated tho gomblera and thieves, wud redecnied tho county from their clutches, Let ug be thankful for our exemption from fire und flood nnd grent catastrophies, Lot us bo thankful for the city's growth iy all the cloments of greatnows. Lot us 10§@10}¢ for short ribs, and 10j@1le for | bo thankful that the dayor's torm short cleaws, oll Loxed. Highwines Wore | {8 50 wearly expired; that fire insur. octivo and steady, at #1.11§ per gallon. Flour | unce is so cheap; that thore is o gleam was dall and uuchanged. Wheat wos uctive | of hopoe that the City and County Architects and advanced {6 closing weak at $1.05] cash | 1any ugres upon some uniform plan’ for a und §1.05¢ for Decenber, Corn was in goud -| City Mall; that the faxes have not eaton up danand, avd advanced §o, but closed weuk Wl our proporty; that the river does not 8t 51 for Novemlbier sud 47§0 soller the yeor. | smell bod; that we are not - wicked as §t, Osts were active, clnelug tams at £0jo oash, | Lvutsy that Heaio fu not Gouaty Tresourse; wealth of turkey and chicken, of vogetables and game, of pies and puddings, aud the cheer that comes iu boltles. On other days the Puritan wus naturally abstemious ; on Thanksgiving Doy ho was cheerfal. Binea bis timo the country has progressed, IMis descendant, even on ordinary days, s dis. posed to bo cheerful fn the culinary Bense ; on Thanksgiving Day, to exprens his grati- tude by gormundizing. In tho ordinary conrse of things, thereforo, it must eventuato that all over this laud to-morrow the physi- cians will bo busy in correcting the cffects of tho surplus of gratitudoe which will afilict the The Clicago produce urkets were irregu. lar yeaterday. Mogy vork wus in lews de- wand, and declined 10q per brl, closing finp st $10.40 seller the year, aud 19,35 for Peb. ruary. Lard was sotive, and 124 per 100 1hs. lower, closing at $12,25 cosh, or reller the year, aud #1235 for February. Meats wery qulot and easier, at 7}@7)o for shoulders, nominated Gen. J. R, Hawrey, Since then, his collengue, Sonator Bucrmamaw, died, amd the vacauey thus created was filled by the election of an nntediluvian politicia n nauied Extoy, a criminal lawyer of Hartford, whose rank Copperheadism is relloved to some extont by his unsworving advocaey of hard money. Tho successor of Bucrixg. 1ax should have been, and the successor of Ferny should be, a bettor man, It is a matter of comparatively small mo- ment whom INoRRSOLL appoints for the timo Leing. The two names nost prowinently mentioned ave those of Liout.-Gov. Sivy, and ex-Gov. Exeuen. The latter will probably Lo selected. o was the standing Demoeratic nomineo for Senator when the party wasina hopeless minority, and hes been carefully shelved sinee it eamno into power, If the Republicans earry Connceticut next spring, as thoy probably will, thanks to their owEL reorganization and thoinevitablo blunders and misdeeds of the Democratic Houso which moots next Monday, tho contest for the Benatorship will be narrowed down to Gen, J. R, Haweey and Hesay C. RonrxsoN, of Hartford, and H. B. Harnwson, of Now Ha. vou, Tho first two aro hoavily handicapped by their residonce. Bectional jeslousy is keen in Connecticut. The presont Senator, Tatox, is 8 Hartford man, nnd it is not like. Iy that either porty would consent to give that city both Benators, Thia fecling dofeat- od Haweey in 1872, Tho Republicans from tho western half of tho State voted against bim, ou the ground that Hartford already hod ono Senntor, Buckivamay, and onght not to have another. His recont failures ns & mem. berof the House and 25 o momber of the Centennial Cowmiasion also tell against him, 50 that it is not likely that he will grasp the prizo ho has alrendy thrico barely mussed. 1o in on able man, despite his indolence and his Dassionato tempor, and it it to b Loped that e may herenftor be placed in somo position whers he can bo of service to hin State and his country, Of the three Republican candi- dates, HanntsoN hag tho best chance, Ilo is au nblo gentleman, Tho Democrats aro provided with a swarm of candidates, including two Congressmen, Banxuyy, the present, and Honpano, the past, and two Governors, ENovnwsm, the past, and Traknsors, the presont. Hubnanp in 6 law- yor and scholar, whose Congressional Tecord is one of continual absenco and sustained lnck of brillinney, Exavisn is o respectable capitalist, whoso Senutorial seat would al. ways bo filled with spotless broadcloth, He hias nover been troubled by too much mental vigor. INormsory is the best of tho four, He inherits some of the statesmanlike traits of the frunous family whose namo he bours, Although not by any means u great man, he has o mind sod A trained one, and would mako o creditable Scnator, Dannvar, tho Inst of the quartette, is a bad ' man, who buys his district biennlally and represonts the Paciflo Railroad and high-tariff rings nt Whashington, His record ns & Congresyman in simply disgracoful, but it ianot improbable that ho can browbeet and bribo a Democratio Legislature, should such n one be chosen, into electing him. Judgo Kuvrex will bo grioved to loarn that mone of the candidates announced to dnte believe in rag-money. Tho Tunatio asylums of Connoeticut, however, are yet to be heard from, Bomebody hns started tho rumor that Davin A. Werns will be chosen, if the Domocrats carry tho day. ‘T'his is far too good to he true. The Demacratio party doos not elect such Banators. When the pluce of a Sonunz in to by filled, it selects some six-by.nine ex- Lonfederato, whose treason to his vountry ¢ the ono thing that recommends Lim. The last time the Connccticut Bourbons hed a chauce to choose o Benator, they raked tho Btate with o finc-tooth comb in search of a represontativo of overy deadly theory, the practico of which would ba fatal to the con- tinuance of the Union. 'They found just the man they wanted,—Earon,—and sont him to ‘Washington, where Lo has sat in atoady in- signilleance. The idea of their electing Weras {4 o dream. Should they by soma chauco do ko, they will agreeably disappoiut sensiblo men, and we shall gladly give them eredit for the net. But unless they chooso oneof the mediocre persons we have enu- worated or Baunusy, they will donbtess olovt Eazox's political ¢ In discussing tho Lake-Front question yes- terday, oue or two scutences in rogard to the riparisn rights of the city and the Nlinais Coatral Ballroad Company may Le sonatrusd South Side Company's gas gives any light at’ to favor tho cleims of the Intter slronger than the writer intended. Tho iden songht to bo conveyed was, that tho Railvoad Comnpnany be- lieved ithadncquired from the Stata Legislaturo in 1867 a niora or less perfect riparlan right titloto the ground covorad by water enst of its tracks in front of the threo blocks of Lake. Front Park on which it desires to erect n grent depot, nnd that it would never voluntarily relinguish snchi right, title, or claim, or confor the samo on the eity, in part considaration of a quit-claim from tho city to the thres blocks in question. ) 1t tho Railroad Company has nover acquired nuy riparian vights, it hus nons (o relinquish to tho city or anybody elso ; but if it has oh- tained somo itlo, it woukl be folly to oxpect thnt it will abandon such elaim, What kind of a riparian title the city over naequired has never been determined by the Jourts, Whether n riparian right can nt. tnch to a public pork title which does not enrry the feo simple with it, but only o right of usens n plensure.ground, we believo hing never been decided by the Courts, ‘Tho City Government contends that it pos- fesses certnin riparinn rights; so does the Railrond Company. The latter does not ask the city to cede, deed, or quit-claim such rights, if any, to the Railrond Company neither will the Company quit-claim to the city, or otherwise relinquish or divest {lself of any ripnrinn righta which it may possess ot this timo, This s the position taken by Mr. Douotas, President of the Illinois Cen- tral Rallway, as wo understand the purport of his convorsation with our interviower, — BATURDAY PAYMERTS. Nearly all employes nre paid by the week and at the end of the week. Their salarics may bo computed by the day, week, month, or yenr, but tho pay comes in hebdomadal instaliments, and is handed to them every Saturday night. On that night, the numer- ous classes that perforce live from hand to mouth—the usunl fate of snlary-gosters and wnge-earners—settlo the -butcher's and baker's and grocer’s bills for the proceding #aeven days. In England, the rents of small tenements aro collectod on that night, but here tho moro common motliod is to collect such rents every month. It is evident, how- ever, that an enormous smount of money should chango hands every Snturday night, An eunormous amount is transferred, but great sum that should be paid to trades- men is epent in dissipation of various kinda during tho leisure of Snnday. It is a fact—unpleasant but none the loss trus— that n largo portion of workingmen caunot be trusted with theirweel's ‘wages and thirty- six hours of loisnro nt one and the samo tima, They waste thoir money, or part of it; vory likely get drunk, and so Iose the wages of the two or threo days consumed in gotting over their debauch, The evils of the mothod of payment which involves such results have often boen dwelt upon. Sotne laygo houses abroad and at home have yielded to the urgout appeals of social scientists nnd adopt- ed Mondny as pay.day. Tho consequences have been admirable. The romoval of tenptation has borne its legitimate fruit in the decreaso of dissipation. The Now York Erening Post diacusses an oatiroly new phago of the Saturday.payment question in avecent ixsue, 1t seems that the banks complain of tho practice. ' Thelr de. positors draw ont large sums of money Satur- dny mornng, which is paid to employes und by the latter to tradesmen of every Lind, and which does not come back to the banks again until Wednesdny or "Thursday. Money hes to bo hoarded to moet this demnnd, and there is a rogular stringency for part of every week, When tho markot is ensy, thero is no trouble. Bat when it is foverish, an in. cipient panic may be grently aggravated by tle absorption of the banks' circulating capi- talin this way. Instances have been known in which n mercantile house has boon forced into failure, because it happencd to neod s loan Friday or Saturday and could not got it. On Monday or Tuesday the amonnt could have been spared. Later in tho weok it could not. 8o the housn went down, The banks wonld like to have firms em. ploying grent numbers of men pay them on different days, somo Louses taking Mounday, others Tuesday, and so on through the wack. ‘Ihis would pruvent an enormoun drain upon the reserves ou any one day, The expedient iu n simple and an ensy one, though the inertia of long-established custom might bo diflicult to overcomo. 8till, if the plan bas half tho sdvantages claimed for it in the way of mitigating panics and keoping the woney- market ensy, it should bo adopted. The prosperity of the mercantile cownunity and of tho banks i closely interlinked. Either can well afford to take o littlo troublo for the sake of helping the other, —— THE COURT-HOUSE JANQLE. Tho county and city authoritics Lave not got through conferring yet, and meanwhile Granger Hanms continues to pog away at the foundation on tho Independent plan which the County Board sdopted. Wa defy an- other municipnl corporation on earth to pro. duco & parallel of official absurdity for this Court-llouss janglo. Thero i a groat publio square smple for the nccommodation of both city and county, The title happens to be in the connty, The county gives the city per- petunl use of onc-half of it fu return for some other proporty which the clty deeds the county, The same prople, it must be ro. membered, own all the property, and wse both the county and clty buildings about oqually, Thon tho fifteen offica-holders pur- porting to represent tho county af- fairs of the people and the forty office-holders purporting to represont the city affairs of the people make o contract on behalf of the ssmo people to build in uni- form style, Thisis very much as if a man who owns nud desires to {mprove o plece of ground calls himeelf together and Lolds o soletn sossion of self-communion, in which Lo gravely decides that ho will not build one- half of Lis buildlug in the Gothio style and the other half fn Dorle. Having come to this sago couclusion, the two ofticial Boards pro. ceeded to pay 810,000 fof plany, which done and tho money paid, they cast them aside. "Then, utterly obliviona of their obligution to build on & uniform plan, and to servo the in. terests of the samo people, thoy appointed two architeota,~one to reprosent the nominal distingtion known ns tho city and the other td reprosont tho . nominal dis- tinction known as the county, In order to insure disugrooment, the nrchitoots wers chosen with referenco to a long antagonism batween them. One of them went to work and propared plans for botly city and county, nnd rushed them throngh the County Boand before_the City Architect hod recelved his comdission. The County Board scented contaots abiead, nnd could not wait, Granger Hagus was on the ground to improve his op- portunity, and the first tking the citizens koow was that their money was being ex. poaded to ereob iwo separais buildings of OVEMB 25, iR 1875. different Liclght and stylo, aud join them to- €4,000,000; publio chiarition, $2,600,000; for as gether Ly somnn sort of unuatural ligatnro, It wns not even o Siamese-twins kind of architeeture ; thore was not any reseinblance nor ngreeiment aa to size, shape, or arrange- ment, Aftor having perpetrated this tromondous folly and_gross outrage, the Conuty Jonrd and the County Architeet are now very much worried nliout tho additional cost which may ncerue in order to agreo upon o plan which will ncconnnodate the city and recure some uniformity. They have not been sufliciently worried about this, howaver, to order a fus- pension of work on the foundatious, so that, if there shall Lo finally any agreement, every dny's work will incrende the expense of the change in the foundation that may Lo neces- sary to that end. Mennwhile tho two archi- tocts holdoutagninst enchother. Mr. Eoan will not agreo to any rensonable coneession, bacausa ho feels that he has a decuded advantago in the foundations niready lnid for the county part of tho Luilding, and in tho mssurance that eight County Commissioners will stand by him solidly withont any rogard to the Justice of the caseor the Intercsts of tho people. Mr. Tiurey, on the other Land, camiot accept the Foay plans, because they do not afford sufiicient room for the city's ne- commodation. 'The proposal to select o third architect will ba resiated by both, as a third man would be in the position of an arbiter, and the other two wseless appendoges or mero draftsmen. ‘This s tho situntion, aud wosea no outcomo by which the tax. payers are not the sufferers from official sconndrelism, The accumulatinggfacts about the monstrous ineflicioucy of NaroLrox 11L'g pre, tions for the war uf 1370 have alroady exliausted all our capneity for being surprised, but atill they como. We quoto n fesw fresh nstances of criminal sy~ pidity. All the 8,000 artillers-wagans were {n a strong inclosure at Vernon, which waa provided Wwith one narrow ontrance, Tlho wngona wore po lngeniously and intricately piled together that it would have taken oight months to merely got thom out, Gon. Ducror teatilled that, of the 2,000 cannon in Btrasburg, less than 500 were fit for use. The areenal was full of stono canaon- balla, mado in the timo of Louts XIV. There ware covking-pots for onmly 2,000 men and cantoens for only 15,000; thers were no lhalters or picket-ropes; but thore wag enough black cloth to dreas 100,000 men, Ducror said ho “ spent flve yeard in ssking use- lersly for indisponssble things.” In Metz, whiclh wastho basisofsupply forthroesrmycorps, the aupply of biscuit and oats was oxhausted mithin o weok. Thero was not an ambulance ‘wagon, not s catt, in the town. Of tha 8,350,000 maskets, ouly 1,000,000 wern chassepots, and many of tho others hind been sold for old fron, although not yot delivered. There wera only 160 rovudas of ammumition for coch chassopot. Tho traops wero handlod with sbocking incapneity. More than 100,00) of them, who were absent on leavo, were loft without orders, withont trans- vortation, without arms, and without rations, to Join their repiments as best they could. Aen who woro ordered to the frontier from Parls wora actually sont thither by way of Alglors, in order that they might bo clothed in tho moth-onten uniforms which wera lying theie. Itisneodless to pilo wp moro proofs. These are enongh to convict Narorrox 111, of o degroe of fucapacity ench as bla bitterest enemies novor dreamed of imputing to him, bofore his bubbla. reputation burst and France foll a viotim to Ler faith io him. — The * Tradesmen's Boilding and Loan Assoel- ation.” of Philadelpbis, 18 one of ,the many ad- mirable co-operative nosociations of that city, tho aim of wiich is to build homos for its mem- bers. Wo have siready explained their method of oporation, and €0 give here only the actnal reanlts of this partionlar orgsnization. Ita 270 stockhioldors hold 2,200 ehares, representing s capltal of §19,646, of which all but §4,09 is paid wo. Duriug the lnst year it tias loaned, mainly to stockholders, $55,42 on real-estato decarity, end hos cleared more thau 30 per cont mnet proflt on thess loans, The majority of the members slready havo homes of their own, and all the othors aro scquiring them. A mechanie, by paying a dollar or two mors per month than Lis ordinary rent, can own hLis house within eighit or ton years at thefarthest. It ls a most signlfl- cant faot that the exponses of the concern dur- ing 1876 havo Loen juat £542, of which tho Soc- votary's salary absorbs £300. Wo fear the nsso- clationn of this sort lu thia city pould not make an geod n showing., Tho ront of their luxurions quarters, belind plate-glass windowa and blsok- walnat counters, would absorb moro than this. It our workingmen Led & fow socletles of the Renuine Philadelphin sort, thoir caunses for thankegiving would be greater. -— Mr. Beecien, in his Jast Friday ovening talk, mado & eurprising statement to tho effact that Brotler Moopr {4 s Secoud Adventist, and bo- lleves fn the imminent comlug of Christ to this world, As this statemont was mwado in tho mont sorions manuer, it would natarally ba pre- samed that Mr. Bescurr hiad somo authority for maklog It. DBrothor Mooy, however, has never riven out evou an intimation of such a bellef in any ono of his discourses, either in Euaropo or in this conntry, Did he really Lold that belief it in but natural that it sbould have cropped out womewhore in those numerous discourses, We aro, therofors, coustrained to beliove that Mr. Bexcuen, when ho gave utterance to tho statoment, was suffering from hypoclon- drin, or was in & cave of gloom, or was indulgiog in ono of his favorite metaphors, or bed visions of tho catbiedral efilgy, or thought MowzTox was round somewliers. It will bo remombored that he mado & great many statements which bad no foundation with reference to his relations with Mre. TiLzoN from thess nna otber osuses, It is probable, thorefore, that tho remark abont DBrother Moops {4 only a Deeclfbrism. —_—— The staid, strictly tomperate Cinclnoati Ga- Iclte seeme aleo to heve bean getting things mized. It concludos its editorisl on thedeath of Vice-Preqident WiLsox aa followa: There was nothing of the upatart abont him, Une Uko those who, baving clambered up to the tap of the ladder of uticcess, Rick at those who have reachind only (e lower ruunds, he was sa much o beliover fa truy Democricy when Vice-Iresident by ereditors, whore «claime are $140,100 fn the l‘fmntc. PoMenor had no sssctd but his clothes, and thoss were ozompt from attschment, Had hesiayed in LaCrosso, or rotfred from business fo time, be might Lave ba competency, and atill onjoyed & local itis, he Lias goute o Join the sray of humoriste and spouts eca who Were popular for & short time only, 10 pasa i 10 the depths of obucurity. It luuad, but ovidently somebody sbout the Qazetle oilios had » brick in his bat when he tangled up ** Brick " Poxzuoy with the lste Vice- Presidont {o such fashion. It must have been one of the wicked partnera of Doscon Syita. —————e Apropos of the recont exports, by American wanufaoturons who bavs to bo protected sgaiust British compatition, aof ootton goods to Ene gland, tho New York Merald ways the Alabams furoaces could undersoll the Euglish frou-mong- ers in English matkels, and adds: * There can be no doubt that it we were to-day ona specie basin a large foreign commercs in our manufso- turlug products woald rapidly spfing up.® And yot Pig-fron KxLLxr and his school damand rag- iuflatiou with no less emphasis than they do protection for the benefit of our sufferiog man- ufaoturing industries, At sy Au intereating etatement of the municipal ex- penses of Faris has just been made pubile, from whicli it sppears that it will require $61,000,000 to defrar the accosnts for 1874, or about ten times the amonnt wecsssary to ruu Chicago. Oae-third of this {4 for extraordivery exvendi toras, leaving $46,000,000 for regular expenses, aud of this, §18,400,000 goss for the clsy debt, ©f this amicuat, the publio doparimans requires Sesrment and collection of taxes, 92,120,000; public lnstruction, £2,000,000; lighting atreats, $1,200,000; streot-cloaningy, 24,000,000; naswars and water-supply, §1,600,000, e A correapondant aaks, * Which way nro Sat- urn aud Alars now moving 7" They are hoth moving onstward, a9 may bo casily poresivad hy roferance Lo the positiana of tho two fixed stara that nre Immodiately bolow tho planets when thoy are noar tho merdiso, The atar on tho right, bolow Baturn, s Gamma in Capricorn ; that on {ue loft, bolow Mara lat oveulng, ia Detta fn Capricorn. The gaocentrio motion of Sataru has beon direct mnce Oct. M} ho in now moving esstward, Increaning in right sacenmion, at tlio rato of 3.2 minutes of aro per dae, 3ars bas besn moving oastvard aluco July 26 his night saconsion In now increasing at tho rate of 41,9 minntes of tic per day. Eaturn waa nos retrograding laat Sunday ovoning ;: noithor was thers any error in our statement of tha time wheo Saturn and Mars wora Ih coojunctian on that evoning ; nor in onr stazoment of thoir angular distauce at that tima. ——— Thoaction of the Boston & Providence Rail. road Company m cuting down their dividend rather than their employes’ wages, to which alinslon was made 1o our last issue, was taken, it seems, upon tho aurgestlon of their venerahlo Promiiont, who declated that o would have the wages lucrossed, and aconer than consent to any reduction kLo would give up half his own salacy, ‘The Springtield (Maes.) Union vioualy remarks that this is practical Cliriatianity, 2na of such is the Kingdom of Heaven,—swhich induces tho staid old Boston Adrertiter to remark thero fa littlo daogor that tho Kingdom will be crowded, We Lave our own doubta whether St. PxTER will re- gard tho pussession of railroad stock in this world a8 a very satlsfactory reason for admission within the gates,or that mavy railroad maguatos will bo found among the harp-players. —— The Chicago Times abonld be content with In- Jocting its monstrous cxcophanies—** on yester- dny," “on to-morrow," ete.—~Into its own Bpecial dupatches. The Associated Press ought not to bo mado a sufferor fn tho samo way, As 8ooo a8 ita dispatclies aro touchod and defiled oy tho grammarian of the Times, the pride of every member of tho Association Is shockod. The Assoclated Press {s dolng mdmirable service ot present ss & newa-gatherer; it should not be mado, oven {n & small dograc, a teaclior of bad grammar and a vehicle of faluo sentiment, ‘Tha Centrat Pacific Road, it is & ated, will, at the approacling sosslon of Congress, offer to build the Southorn Pacific Raltway for morely the original land-grant offored Tox Scorr's Com- pany, and which has lapsod by failure of that Company to go an with the work. e At Cincinoati such falth i3 cherished in tho Kzsry motor that an ordinance has been intro- duced {n the Common Council authorizing the street railroad companies to run their cars by it WILLIAX B, ABTOR, The telegraph anuouno.s the death of ona of the woaltlilest men nud tho groatest landiord in the United States, Wirtax B. Asron. He was the oldess eon of Jonx Jacon Astom, who died iu 1848, and who left tho bulk of his immonse fortuna to him. The father accumulated Lis for- tuno io the fur buaifess, snd tho son has in- creased the rortion lofi to him by rontala from improved roal estate s New York City. There islittlo of interest c)innocted with tho life of WiLLiax B. Asvon oxc spt as conuocted with his money-bags, and pub;ic intereat now will centre about tho disposition of it. It ia s briofly told story. o {a reputad to have owned 3,000 houses in Now Yorlt City alone, and bis rentals woutd indicate a fortune of about $50,000,000, or doublo the Amount of his fath- er's. Io was not » pohemer like Jav QGovip, nor s coupon.clipper like VaxpER- BILT ; hie was simply a landlord, wnd his whole lifo waa devotod to collecting his rents and watching his agents, With that businces he s now through, and this Thanksgiving Day ho in where his millions csunot heip him. His father waa a llberal, generons man, and left bequosts which will always cagso Lim to be gratofally re- meimbered, both in this country and o Kusope. The Astor Library in New York, which ha found- ed, will always preserso bis memory, and the gon has greatly increasod ite usefulness, baviog donated a valuabie plece of ground for its en- Inrgement in 1656, and $60,000 for the purchase ol booka in 1866. e boliove that he leaves two song, Jomx Jacosand WitLtax B. Asros, Jr., who are in activo business in New York, e PERBONAL, A. T, Busb, Boston, s at the Sherman. E. P. Morris, New York, ia 8t the Bhermun, Judgo 8, F. Yates, of Colorado, Is at the Tro- mount, Blshop Welles, of Milwankee, i3 at the Grand Pacifie. Judge Q. C. Bkinner, of Quincy, is at the Gardner, Tho Hoo, 8, 8. Burt, of Marquette, ie at the Shormag, P, Ii. Btudebaker, of Bonth Bend, {sat the QGrand Pacifie, A bronze atatue of O'Connell is to be erected in Melbourne. ‘Tho Hou, W. D, Richardson, of Springfleld, is st tho Grand Pacitle. J. J. Crittendea and Alexander Ogle, U. B. A., ara at the Grand Pacifie, J. B. Carson, Gooeral Managerof the Bluo Liue, 1a at tho Tromont, Osy;00d & Co. havo pubiished & new odition of Dana’s ¢ Boforo tho Mast.” Capt, F. 0. Graham, R, E.and O, P. Grs- Lam, England, sre at tho Tremont. Thiera has finished the firat volume of Lis new philosophical work, * Man and Matter,” Colaridge did not know Pronch, but was varsed 1n Greek, Latin, Itallan, Soanish, sod Gorman, Gustavo Doro is engaged on o picturs 80 by 20 teot, roprosenting Christ's entry into Jerusalem. W. P, P, Longtellow, Cambridge, Mass,, and Dr. John P. Atwater, Poughkoeopsie, N. Y., are at the Tromont. Mias Alice Tilton has left her mother snd Is now living with ber sister Plorence and her fath- er in the family manelon, The Bostoa Post doesn’t beliovo Baboock is 4¢n chorubim.™ No; hostands iu-cholr-y woll, but of coursa he {8 not s pluralist, Helsonly s one-sntity, after all, Mr. George L. Fox is making his farewsll ap. pearances In Now York., The pbysicians who formerly countenanced his remalnlng oo the utag now advise hia withdrawal Religioas tatelligence In the Memphis (Teon.) Appeals * Her matchless and perfect Sigure was » wode), and never showed to 80 much advan- 1age sa when she knelt for baptism.” At the Commercial Club dinger o Boston Sat- urday, s Free-Trado speech by a gentloman connected with a prominent manufacturing establishment waa spplauded to tho echo. The author of thai favorite Suuday-school bymn, ** T want to boan sngel,” is now living in Newark. Bbe ia Miuss Kimberly, & musio- teschier, Both the words snd this musio are hers. “ For me," once sald Mr, Disracls Io sa attack upon Peol, “thers remains thls st loast—the op- portunity of expresaing shus publicly my balief that & couservaliva Government is an organized hypocrisy," The Hon, A. E. Btevenson, Congressman-sleot from Illinols, departed yestorday from Bloominy-~ ton for Wasklugton, to attend the funersl of Henry Wilson and to be presont st the opening of Cougress. ‘Tue boris| of Gulbord hea snggested the gensral usa uf oementiusepultuie, esnecinlly insuch cesss a8 may demand protection from resusteotlanisty, The c.meab Ls nob costly, and i) forma a pesteats ————m ly imporvious aurronnding for the body. Datje tho decoasod dio In the bopo of & blessn | rowy. rection, they shouid bo furnished With caus o ultro-glycorine to facilitate their osit to the ouler air, It tn & vory ernol davice, the latest ono of tie ntove manufacturers, to put s statnotin of Iy, Franklin on top of s parlor stove, It 8eems ik au nncomfortablo placo to slaud § but then Leg mac's thoss maxima. A bricht Jittlo hoy in Springfield, Mans., aay romo of tha relics o 1he Centennial perind, £ the Citv-Hall, and he (hougntfully romarked, * Thoy bad little wash-bowlsand bl cidor-tongs, dida't they, mother 7 The Springflold Republican atimates that Moody snd Bankey will not succeed in Thiladel This unloss thoy clait ta Lo working in tho g, tereata of tho Cgutennial. It must be a Conten. nlal revival, or nonoat all, Victor Hugo recontly witnoased tho marringe of Argona Iouessse's son in Paris, ana 3, Thiors was present at the marriago of M, Lm. manuel Arrago's daughtors to M, Neujamin Coge stant and 31, Julen Ifignette, ‘Tho Now Yorx Sun, ehining In 3 bonigoang siay, illuminatesa great truth thus: v 1¢ tho nte torly commonplace thiog about s Rubject bag oot been sald. It {8 wafo to rely on Tupper Hol 1and to supply tho doflciency.” Baid tho Beringilels Republican o fow daxs ago: *The troublo with Vico Presidesrt Wilaon Is that he has naver learned to work winelv, or eat wisely, or play at all, Hofa the Rroat topro ssntativo American in theso reapocss,” ' Tho Brooklyn revival-choir Ppraseniod Bankey with & watch just botoro ho took leavo of them, aud told him they hoped he wouald Loep botter time In future. Ho thinks eo much aboue etora ity that ho frequontly pags no attontion to time. Tue Centennial fover has thoronghly taken possesaion of Philadolphin, Tho Brookiyn Ar. qus saya that the common rematk on the weathor there s, ** A good day for the buildings,” or * bad day for the buildings”; and 1870 mubios aro tho stapla of overy respectable breakfaate tablo, Mr. John G.Baxo writes to tho New York Tritune that his oconvalosconcs promises g spoedy return to porfoct hoalth, but the sovery proatration follomiog ard work and » railway accldont forbids him to thiok of any further Ine bor in the lacturo-flold, sxcopt what may be done Io the vicinity of lus residence. Mr. Schurz' remark, that the fathers of the Ropublic would tell us, ir they could, to praiee them lesa and Imitate thom more, ssema to thy New York P’ost to go to tho spot, ¢ Such worda 88 theso,” it mays, * from such amauv ne Carl Schurz cannot be too widely ciroulated, nor ean they ve too deeply reflected upon,” Gov. Gaaton. of Massachusetts, 13 gaid to boar hindofeat gracefully. Ho will resutmo the active practice of law after Jan. 1. The Governor aeems to bo good at most evervthing he tries, As a publio ofticial bo baa won tho respoct oven of hia politioal oppononts, and ns & lawyar ho ls conceded & place ln tho front rank of the pros fension, Prof, Proctor receigod n cabls diapateh fn Bos. ton Saturday announcing the arrival of twin sons at his home, incroasing tha number of his children to eleven. The Professor is muck pleased with tho favor o bae mot with on this vislt to Americs, and marvets at tho Intorast 1 sciontttic subjacts which s mauifeatod by Amer ican audionces. The latest and greatost work of Meiasonler bas boen purchased by Mr. A. T. Stewart far §00,000 gold. It was exbibited nt tho Vieons Exposition of 1873, though in an unflolabed condition. 1t waa ontitied In tho catalogue simply !+ 1807." The work waa begun in 1865 ar 1866. Mr. Probasco, of Ciueinnati, offored 930,000 for it in 1807, but was rofusod. A writer In an English periodical directs attene tention to tho diminution in forco which the word !*Dbaroess” bas undergone einco Biake mpeare'stime, Ilarness then mosnt tho trappioge in which man and steed went to battle, not the equipment of a cab-horso. * At loast we'll die with harness oo our back,” saya Macbeth. Tna old word stood for the wildest cnorgy, the now oo for the (xmest submission, Mark Twain will deliver o locture in Hartford for the benefit of tho poor. In bis lotter to (he Committee ho says: **As this will probably be the last timo I shall ever bave the opportumty of hesring sound wisdom and pure truth deliv ered from tho platform, I wish to bny a ticket to ths lecture, and I herewith send moaey for tho porchuse. I am aware Icould getln for uothing, and atill be actiog 10 a measure honor sbly; but whon 11un my lecture over fo my mind, and roalize what & vory' treasura of price. leas information it i, I eaunot conscientionsly accept & froe pass.” Mrs. Scott-8lddous gave a Cambridga andience s decided hit, recently, aftor thoy hud langbed over the story in verss of the * Fuuny Auction.” Bhesaid: *I was told whoo I consonted Lo come to Cambridge that I must rend n good desl of Shakapeare, for Cambridgo peovle wero clasalcal, and Bhakspeare, Shakepeare they must have. Now you haven't applauded & bit In the counie of alt my solectious from the greatest author the world over kmew, but you Lave plenty of ape planse for the nonsunsical place I read about the selling of & lot of old bachalors to a lot of old malda.” Thoey applaudod thie next Bhaks; 1t soloction lustily. Mr. Ouarlos Bradlaugh s in Now' York, It it truo that tho oquivalent of 3130,000 in American moner has bLoeu bequeathed to bim by aa admirer jo Eogland, but the will s conteated by pernons who claim to posacas s dooument of & mote recent date in thewr own favor. The doceased gentloman seema to havo diod from the offocts of poison, and it in suserted that whal purporta to ba the latest will Ix a forgery. Thosd wiio bonefit by it Lave offered to compromist with Mr. Dradiaugh, but he declines oo tb¢ ground thas e will bave nathing todo with sus pected polsouers. Tho csse I oxoiting a grest dealof interest in Evgland. Afr, A. Onkoy Hali's unew play was read to the company at the Parx Thoatre, in New York, lsst Monday. Itis eutitled * Tho Orucible,” and is fa four acts. It is eaid to picturo the moutal aufforings of & man mingling in commercial pursuls, who s scoused of & crime, the creas tinn of othors, of which ho s wholly lunocent, and whoss high and noble qualitics are brought ous under sufferiug. Thore 18 & moat effectve Jury sdeno, and many most powerful dramatio situativue. 2As {n a recent ontebrated trial, which “this porbaps reflects, tho hero of tho plece, un- Justly acoused. finds acquittal, There is nov good reason for bolieving that Mr. fall wu! personste the hero of tho pleco himself. I3 ahould be noderstood that hois only the pric- cipal callaboratenr, not the sole author, of i plsy. Ho has besa alitod by sevoral bnillset literary men of New York. Mr. Joha Dillon, the old Chicago favorite, will buvo & part in th? visy. i D um?ond dn Lao; W. V% aldin B i Humales, .n’gx“n. Quwald, znsh;:‘l sine, d“"iflx : ugh-h}:flt !nr; 3 IHL & Now Yorki 16, ‘Haydes, Bau Claiie; ., Blate Houw ton, Marsollius, France..,.Shernit L aise g Paal; W, A, Cariton, Dulfalof ¥ W, Kavh, Milwaukee E. Houry, New Yorki 8 Vo Tioelpon fodiana ; Audrow Hosmatar, Jmaba dj‘ali % lade); Clerlos Evarta, Cloveland ; E: 'and 1. B. liioddard, e} B D Gariner Houie— W, B. Collist Now York; Ly O, Edw Ghantian,: Berins, Caas T, Tilacis; ‘Dz, B Losteg.