Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1876, Page 6

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ROOLEY'S THEATRE—Randelph strect, between Olark and LaSalle, The Californis Minstrele, MoVIOKER'S THEATRE—Madlsen strest, betweon Detrborn and Stale, **Tho Poor Girl's Diary " and * The Dead Slot.” ADELPIIL T Monroe. * Quilp, ATRE—Dearborn strest, corner !1;:CDII.\UCK HALL—Rorth Clark stroet, corner of ingie, Concert by Gilmore's Banil, SOCIETY MEETINGS. F WASHINGTON CHAPTER, No, 43, R, A, M.=Tteg- nlar convoestlon this (Friday) evening, st T:30 o'clock, for business aud work on the Mark Degreo. Visiting Compantons corlially invited. By ordar of the M. E. o e, CHA . WRIGHT, Sec, ORIENTAL LODGE, 0. 33, A., F. & A, M.—8tated Communication this (Frlday) evening, at 7:30 o'clock, for business aud work on the 3. M. Degres. Membern nd visitors fraternally invited to attend. By order of the Master, E. N, TUCKER, Secrelars, Ghe @Yiflnfla Qvibame, Friday AMormng, April 7, 1876, Greenbacks at tho New York Gold Ex- change yesterdny closed nt 883, ——e—— Ocensional rains and partly cloudy weather 1s what there is in storo for this region to- day, 'Tho Senate, in doaling with tha Silver bill, has mode various important changes, among others reducing the sum for which silver coin aliall be logal-tende: ‘Tho day fixed for the execution of Doraw, the murderor of Jaxes II Nox, tho New York merchant, was indeed Good Friday, for on that account Gov. TiLpEN hag granted the doomed villnin n respito of one week. A light is to be maintained at Government exponso in the tower of the * Crib,” which constitutes the lake end of Chieago's system of water-supply. The Houso yesterday passed & bill appropriating $4,000 for this purpose. Turkish advices aro exciting and bewilder- ing. According to tho Zagblalt's special from Suttorins, Pego Pacrovus refuses to ba pacificated, and an insurrcctionary upris- ing ia in full headwsy in the Dibaes district, along the Driva, and between Magdane Palje and Potrowstz, No mention is mado of the morvementa or designs of LsunonnaTicns and Kanaoronay In a fow of the wards the Democrats Jesterday mndo nominations for Aldermen, Tho list, 50 far as completed, contains soveral good names aud sovernl bad ones, but tho nominations 09 a wholo are of an exception- ably bigh character, giving pomise that in any evont the now Common Conneil will ba & vnst improvement upon its predecessor in point of respoctability, honosty, and oa- pacity, There is o vast deal of good sense, practi- cai utility, and humane consideration in two bills passed yesterday by the Ohio Houso of Representatives. Tho first confers police power upon railwny conductors, compelling them to ejeot from their trains all throe-card- monte swindlors, confidonco-men, ete.; and tho second forbids the employment as gym- npsts and publio singers of children under 14 yenrsof age, ' ' The nominees of the Republican City Con- vention yesterday are all mon againet whom, wo balieve, nothing dishonorable or disrop- utablo can be truthfully urged; mon who, it clected, will doubtleas discharge tho dutios of their respective offices with satisfaction to tho people of Chicago, Tho tickot con- tains no nominee for Mayor, tho Convention relegating that question to tho voico of the wholo poople, without regard to porty, to be expressed in mass.aeoting nozt Tucsday ovening. Tho nomiuations yostorday reprosent and unite the twe grent wings of tho Republican party in Chicago,~tho Amerienn and Gorman ele. ments,—the former furnishing two candi- dates, Messro, Liee and Turunz, and tho Iatter two, Messra, Burz and Best, For the remaining nationalitios the nominations for Aldermon throughout tho city furnish ropre. sentation in the Munleipal Govornment of even moro importance than the, nomineey on the general ticket. First Ward bummers and primary * artists” will pleass take back sents. The Republi. cons of Chicago, in convention assombled, yesterduy repudiated and spat upon tho pri- mary election froud of tho First Ward, ox- tluding the delegation which roceived tho votes of the Warney.Lyox.Forzy clique, and admitting the delegation chosen by the Firat Ward Republican Club. By a voto of 141 to 87 the Convention decided that this particn. lar primary election was adisveputable fraud, sud Iater on the Convention denounced the whole system of primary meutings. This judgmoent extends boyond tha claims of tho rival dolegations ; it remches nnd in- cludos the nominees for Aldermen, ropudiating Wanezy and Lyox, and indorsing Messrs, ‘Wesrwortn and MoAurer as the only Re. publican candidates in the First Ward. And the respeotable citizons of the ward will confirm the action of the Ropublican City Convention and elect Mosara. WexTwontiz and MoAuiex by s msjority as decisive as that by which tho bummers and primary manipulators were extinguished by the Con. vention yestorday. The Chicago produce markets woro irrog- ular yeaterday., Mess pork was dull and 200 per brl lower, closing at $23.16@22.20 cash and 822,80@22,824 for Moy, Lard was less -aotive and 7§@100 per 100 tbs lower, closing b $18.63 cash and 818.72}@18.75 for May, Meats were modarately active and easier, at o for boxed shonlders, 11jo for do short tbs, and 12fo for doshort clears, High. wines were quiet and steady, at $1.07 per fallon, Flour was quiet and firm, Wheat was less notive, and closed go lower, at 00fc ‘or April and 81.0¢} for May. Corn was more actlve, and alossd §o higher, at 45jo for dpril and <8jo for May, Oats were more wiive snd easler, closing at 88}o for April® and 83%0 for May, Iye was quist, st 64)@ 6o for regular, Barley was dull and jo lower, closing at L8o asked for April aud 58)c for May., Iogs were in fair demand at 5@10c decline, common to prime selling at £8,00@8,50. Chattlo were active and strong, with sales at $2.50@6.75 for inferior to ox- tra. Sales of sheop wero at $4.00@7.80. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $112,87} in greenbacks at tho closo, A disposition both fair and friendly toward Gon. Sonexck {8 manifested by tho House Committeo on Foreign Affairs, and it is evi- dent from tho proceedings, yostorday that, whatever opinion may be held as to the pro- priety of the American Minister's prominent {dentificntion with Emmn Minoe Directory and the sale of the stock in England, the Com- mitteo nre convineed that no charge of frand or dishonesty in the matter ean be mnin. tained ngainst QGen. Senexck. 'This cenclusion s jmplied in the spparent willingness of the Commitice to concede that Gen. Scncxex purchnsed his stock and beeamo n Dircetor in good faith, belioving tha mine to bo valuable property—n sufllcient concession, it would scem, so far s the question of integrity is involved, though not ratisfnctory to Gen. Scnenck, who insisted that the whole subject of the valuo of the Emuna Mine, past and present, should bo in- vestigated aud reported upon. Tho Connit- teo declined to take up this branch of the quostion, and decided to conilne its report to tho matters proporly within its jurisdiction, It is o somowhat costly luxury to- hold a Governmont office in Florida. 'This fact Punatan, who is now Congressman from that ‘Stato, well knows, for he has bad the hand. ling of tho ropes, Lesides no inconsiderable sums of money. Thoe way to offlcinl position anywhore is generally besot with thorns of o moro or lessa pointed character, but the crossea which the ‘aspirant for office in Flori. dn has to corry ars 8o numerons and go weighty that the wonder is that any person enn bo found who is possessod of the fortitnda to onter tho lista, Accordingto the testimony before the Congressional Committee, this man Ponsax hod & complete stock in thoe office-barter trado, and it is also said that hehad littlotrouble in convincing himself that this sort of businesswas commendably re. munerative if not precisely on the square, 1lis price for cadetships was liboral, compara- tivoly speaking, but he seems to have had no fellow-fecling for Customs Collectors outsido of his all-governing proponsity for foeling their pockets. Some peoplo will, on reading tho testimony in this case, call Ponaax self- ish, but it would appoar from tho general iden governing ths chapnoter of this moidel Congressman that ho is determined to live’ down nll such chargos, and stand or foll upon Lis record, THE FINANCES IN CONGRESS, There are now Dleforo Congress n large number of bills having for their purposo tho seitlement of the financial and currency qnestions. It may not be unintoresting to briefly recapitulate somo of the features of theso measures. Mr, Horuay, of Indiana, has a bill to com- pel the retirement of thy circulation of the National Bauks nt the rato of 5 per cent u montb, and the issuo of a corresponding sum of greonbacks; theso groenbocks to be lawful money and logal-tendors as aro the other greenbacks, 1Mr, Horaay is o candidate for the Governorship of Indinna and o rival of tho notorious Laxpres, and something must be pardoned to the necessity which one dema- goguo has to outbid an opposing ono. Afr, Horaxn knows that thero is n solemn con. tract that the amount of legal-tender notes shall not exceed $400,000,000, and he is also awaro that a bare majority of the Supreme Court could only be obtained to hold that the making of papor notes alegal-tendor was con- stitutional, ou the sole ground that the neces- gities of tho nation at the time rondered al- most anything logal that was* considered es- sential to tho safoty of tho nation, But Mr. Horatax, who is a Democrat, proposes to vio- lato every tradition aud dogma of his party by maldng the Government a manufacturer of rag-money-irredecmable paper. Mr, HoLwan Lias another bill to repenl the law for resump. tion of specie paymonta, Mr. J. Ravporrn Tuosen, of Virginia, has a bill pending substantially for the os. tablishmont of & National Bank.Ex- choquer, as ho calls it, with a capital of n hundred miflions of dollars, having branches in oll the States of the Union, oud authorized to do a gencrsl banking busi. ness, with an issue department, the circula- tion to bo two hundred millions of dollars, sceured by one.fourth gold and throe-fourths uationnl bonds, This mensura containg an excellent principle ; but, instend of one na- tional bank with branches, the same result could be attained in o less dangerous and un. objectionable manner by applying the prin- ciplo to the present system of Natioual Bunks, leaving banking, as now, free to all who may wish to engaga in it. AMr. ItoLe, of Teunessoo, hns n bill to issno Q65,258,300 of legal-tenders, to bo used to “ pny " that numbor of 5.20 bonds of tho issuo of 1862. In other words, Mr, RipprLe, who is o Democrat, proposes to take up and Jpay on intorest-bearing note with n non. i‘l;lcrcsb-bcuring note *irrodcemablo at any me, Br, Bruaer, another Democrat from Ten- nossee, hus w uchomo for the 1ssuo of groen. Locks to an indefinito amount with which to pay off tho dubt and malke things generally aud the debt.especially o mutter of trifling consequence, * Alr, Laxoens, an Indiana Democrat, has n comprohonsive seliciue to issua legal-tonder money—not notes, or Promises,” bhut paper money ; stamped o3 monoy und requiring no redemption, his money is “ founded on the fuith and resources of the uation.” ‘The paper is to simply bear tho legend, * Ty 19 TEN DoLLARS,"” and that is to be the end of it, Gold is to ba demonetized, and the paper woney is to supersede all others, On this platform Mr, Lanpess is a candidate for Governor of Indiana, nominated by the paper- monoy party, and expeoting the support of the Democratio party. Senator Boay, of Missourl, who is a pros. poctive candidate for the Presidency, pro- poses that specie paymonts be brought about by making greenbacks recelvable for oustoms duties; when that {s done, he thinks the holders of gold will bs compelled to sell it to the Government for whatever the latter chooses to give for it, Mr. Payne, of Ohfo, s Democrat, has a bill requiring the Government to collect ton millions in gold annually by taxation, and Loard it in the Treasury until it amounts to $110,000,000; and then, on the assumption that the greenbacks will circulate at par, to koep tho gold unused. In the meantime an equal amount of gold bonds bearing 6 per cont fnterest are to be kept outsanding. The ssmp bill proposes that the banks ahall hoard gold in the same way, Mr, Buzowinn, of Lilinois, & Republican, has & bill propoaing tho same policy of hoarding gold by tho banks and the Governmont. Mr. Krtrry, of Peunsylvanin, has his fa. vorito schemo of an interconvertiblo currency and bond, tho latter to bear 3,63 per cont fn. terest, Tho notes are to be issued indefinite- 1y, and may at pleasura bo fuvested in this bond. This samo goeneral proposition hns been introduced, with numerous variations, by soveral other statesmeon. Mr. FarwzLy, Republican, of Illinois, has 0 bill pending for the retiremont of one mill. fon of dollars of logal-tonders monthly until thosa notes ahall bo at par with gold. Mz, unp, of Ohio, has n bill which de- clares that after January, 1877, nothing but gold and silver coin sliall be legal-tendor, unless otherwise stipulated in a writton con. tract, Mr. Senrricurr, Democerat, of Texas, has a bill which provides for sotting apart all the gold and silver in the Treasury, now and liereafter, for the payment of interest and for the payment of Jogal-tonder notes of the United States. The Secretary of the Treas. ury is required to sell ten millions of dollara of gold monthly for legal-tendors until logal- tender notes shall rato at par in cdoin ; after that he is to redeem overy month ten millions of greenbacks. To enablo this to bo done, ono hundred and ninety millions of dollars & bonds may bo sold. Alr. JoNes, of Nevada, one of tho Silver Kings, hns a schempo to make silver a legal- tender, nnd to mako silver cotnngo free, By this menns n metallic currency can bo substi- tuted for papor, Fearanoo Woop has a long, complieated schieme for the issuo of a now Trensury noto which {8 to bo interconvertible into some kind of n bond. 3 Sonator Monnary, of Vermont, has a bill which provides for the immediate rosump. tion of specio payments, without any why or whorefore or any timo for preparation or for adjustment of existing contraats, Senator SanaaN sticks to the Resumption act, which provides for specie payments in 1879, JMr. CmiTrENDEN, of Now York, proposea to rotiro and cancel legal-tendor notes, at the rate of four millions a month, by tho sale of bonds lmving forty years to run, The Democratio party in 1874, pointing to the failuro of the Republicans to adjust the finnnces, promised that if restorod to power they would furnish the country with a finan- cinl policy. Tho peoplo elected n House of Representntives composed of nonrly Lwo- thirds Democrats. Upon that party rests the responsibility of legislation, If the House cannot devise sach a plan, then it wil) be false to its promise, and provo ity inabil- ity and the inability of the party to govern. The Democratic Houso, however, does ot propose to pass any bill, nor to let any bill pass. They have proposed innumerabls wild-cat Bchiemes to eatch all kinds of votes, but that is not legislation. 'To be honest, DIr. Morn1sox, as the leader of the Houso, should propose and have adopted a resolu- tion declaring the incapacity of the Demo- eratic party in Congress to legislato intelli- gently on the finances, and that that subjoct bo relegated to the people in their several Congrossional Distriots. Such an honest con- fession of incapacity would be more credita- ble than the preseut disgraceful and humili~ ating pottifogging by the party. e / THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY, The death of Aliss- Jurza Newperny, tho last surviving daughter of the late Warten L. Newsenny, which ocourred at Rome on the 4th inst., makes the peopla of Chicago the heirs of one-half of thoe eatato left by that gontleman, who provided in his will that such portion should be applied, under the di- rection of his trustecs, to tho foundation of o free public library in the North Division of Chiengo. Mr. Newozany left his property in tho hands of trustees to be given to his two dnughters, or the survivor of them, but in tho ‘ovont of their both dying withont childron, one-half was to be applicd to the noble purpose above mentioned. Probably s more munificent legacy has nover been mado in this country for a similar purpose, oxcept that by which the Astor Library in New York was established. The provisions of the will, however, do not tako effect until the docease of the wifo of tho testator. There will then bo an opportunity for Chicago to have a great Museum of Liter- aturo by bringing tho three principal organi- zations of the city, the: Newnenny Library, the Chicago Public Library, and the pro- posed Historical Bociety Library, togother under ono roof., It may be impracticable to unite thom under ono management, but it will be entirely feasiblo to bring them to- gother in onoe place, and thus enablo the eiti- zons, for whose benofit thoy are designed, to roup tho highest advantages with the least ine convenience. ‘Tho location of the joint col- loction would necessarily be in the North Division, sinco Mr. Newoenny's will dosig- uates that location for the library founded by him. Tho Historical Socioty ia alreudy fixod in that quarter, and consoquently it wiil only bo necossary to move the existing Pub- lic Library across the river, Fortu. nately the Intter is not anchored in sny permanent location. It hes no real estate or expensive Dbuildings te lold it in its present place, and, although its situation in tho South Division is omowhat mora accessiblo to the whole population than it would bo on the North Side, the advan- tages o be sccured by having all the books of tho three institutions in one place far out. weigh tho consideration of the fow blacks distance to be traveled. It is not likely that tho trustees of Mr. Newnrnny's will can ob- ject to this arrangoment, since it will tond to heighiten tho jmportance of the institution they will have in charge, und iucrense the benefits intended to bo conferred upon tho public. Moreover, such an sggregation of literaturo would become s matter of mu. nicipal and civio pride, and would serve not only to dignify the Public Library in the ostl- mation of the community, and secure for it botter troatment than it has commonly ro. ceived, but to attract other donations of money and books from private liberality, such as tho Boston Public Library has re- ceived from Josnua BaTes, Gronor T1ogNoR, Tuzovons Panrn, and others, We shall eventually have the materials for the com. mencoment of one of the great lbraries of the world, ond ft fy fitting that the honor justly belonging to Mr. Newnenny should be Rugmonted by the drawing to. gothor of all the books now or hereattor de. voted to publio purposes into one place, We trust that when the time comea no local Jeal- ousieg or private interesta will bo allowed to stand in the way of so beneficent a consum. mation. The Nxwozanx estate was valued at the time of the testator’s death by two law firms, ono representing the heirs and the other the trustess. Thoe valustiona were $2,500,000 and 4,000,000 rospeotively. Tha greater parilon of the income of the estate has been added to the principal sinco his doath five yoars since; 80 it is probablo that ths larger figure fs nenror the roal valuno than the formor. ‘The magnitude of this donation mnkes it one of the moat important events that haa ever happened in the history of Chi. engo. 'Tho trustees of the estate aro E. W, Braronronp and Winzaast H. Braorey. Und der tho provisions of tha will they aro em- powered to nama their successors, THE nsmnfic’ ALDERMARIO NOMI. NEES. "The following'is o complato list of the can. didntes nominatod for the Council at tho Ito- publican primaries of Waednesday : Hrst Wand—Frank W. Warron, D. J, Lyon. Becond Ward—Addteon Ballard, Jaoon Ltosenberg, Third Ward—J. L, Thomjson, Willism Aldrick, Yourth Waru—J, W, Btowart, J, 11, Glibort, Fifth Ward—Wilam Van O'Linda, 3L Schmitz, Sixih Ward—Jacoh Knkiiska, Ifenty Valk, Beventh Ward—I, W, Ruyer, John Chipp, Lighith Warg. -ank Lawler, Georgo W, Spofford, Niuth Ward—T, M, Van Usdel, Jucob Leidler, Tenth Ward—Gaorgo E. White, A, H. §mith, Eloventh Ward—-A, G, Throop, J. B, Briggs, Twelfth Ward—J, L. Campbell, L. E, Clark, Thirteenth Ward—8, E. Cloveland, Lisrtholomew Quirk, Fourteenth Ward—J, Jaumgartea, W, T, Johnson, Fifteenth Ward—3, Ds Puy, T, W, Stout. ixteenth Ward—Jacob Lengachor, Patrick Kolly, Beventeenth Ward—-1i, Janiton, Olot Viedor, Efghteenth Ward~J, A, Rirk, Jacob Boeser, Many of these nominations are among the ‘best that hinvo evor beon made for tho Com- mon Council ; some of them are as yot un. known to us, and a fow, wo think, ought not to have beon nominated, and will hardly be accopted by tha Republicans of the ward in which they live. On the whole the rosult has been os favorable as could reasonably havo been expected from tho usual primary. systom. Among thoso who are known to be worthy of the Republican support, and that of all the respectable and tax-paying citizens, mny bo mentioned AvpisoN Barzanp and Jacon Rosevozno of ihe Bocond, J, L. ‘CmosesoN and Wirziax Arpnicn of the Thirdy, J. W. Brewanr ond J. H. Clusenr of the Fourth, Wmrmx Vax O'LiypA and Micmaet, ScmMtrz of tho Fifth, Fpang Lawezn and Geonoe W. Sror- Foap of the Kighth, A. G, Taroor and J. B Dutaas of tha Ninth, Crevenanp and Quink of the Thirtcenth, who are the presout in- cuwbonts, J. Bavaoartex and W, T, Joun- sox of the Fourteenth, and J. A, Kmx and Jaonnp Boesen of tho Eightepnth, All theso men, thore is renson to bolieve, will serve tho bust intorosts of the city, and ought to bo clected. 'This list does not nccessarily ex- clude others who may be fit men but are un- known to ug at presont. In some of the wards probably tho bost availablo material hos beon selected. Tho nominges in the Fifth Ward aro far superior to those which gonerally come from DBridgeport. Mr. Somyrrz hos already served in the Couucil and was n good momber ; Mr, Van O'Linpa is in the real-estate business, has never boen a strong partisan, and is well spoken of. Mr, Kakusga hos bden solected by the Bohomians and Mr, Vazx by the Hol- landors, both nationslities forming a large part of the population ; and, for aught we Lnow to tho vontrary, they will reprosont the ward as well as any porsons who can be found there. The samo is probably true of JaNsseN and Vizoen, who have been nominated in the Boventeonth Ward. Tho regular nominees of the Twelfth Ward, Caxpssty and Orang, will bo opposed by two Republicans, Messrs. MoCnea and Rawcelo, both excollent men, ond who have consented to run on the solicitation of 500 Republicans who signed o call, Thoro woro soveral other persons nominated for Aldermon of whom we many speak hereafter. Tho charnc- ter of tho next Council ia of too serious an importance to the tax-payers of Chicago to juopardize its usefulness by clecting any men likoly to vote with tho ring of tax.eators, no matter what party nominstes them. If the working-classes living in wards that have usually returned tax-eators and bummers de- sire to seo a revival of trado in Ohicago, and o restoration of thoso conditions which will furnish ample and stendy employment at fair prices, thoy will also range thomselves on the side of the tax-payers, and send to the Coun. cilmon who will vote for such a reduction of taxos 0a will enable people to live and do business in Chicago, Itis tho duty of those in charge of the campaign to make this ap- parent to non-property-holding voters. FIRE INSURANCE AND BUILDING REGU- LATIONS. An interesting papor on the relation be- twoen insurance and building rogulntions, written by Mr. Awpnews, of the United States Legation in Sweden, to Beerotary TFisnm, hos just beon republished. He statos that the rates of insuranco sgainst fire in Stockholm are very low. A brick house in that city which has been built in accordanco with tho common regulations in respoct to foundations, thickness of walls, eto., must hiave threo requisites in order to bo rated by the insuranco companies as first class. Thesa requisites sre: 1, Stone, brick, or iron stairs; 2, an- iron door for tho entrance to the nttic ornpper story; and 8, that tho attio floor must b fire-proof, Insurance por yenr on such buildings is at the rate of one crown for o thousand’ crowns valae, equal to $1 por $1,000, or 1 mili on s dollnr, ‘This rate will sound refreshingly Jow to owners of property in Chicngo even undor the present reduced ratos of insurauce. A second-class house is ono in which the attic floor is not complotely firo-proof, and whero the atairs to it are of wood, On this sccond-clnss houses the rate of insurnnce i3 $1.25 per $1,000. If the houso have thp main walls of brick bnt the interior or room walls of wood, it is considered 0 third class, and the insuranco is $1.560 per $1,000 of value, Tho fourth. clasa buildings ara those of wooden frames but bricked botween the tiinbers, and tho outer smurface plastered, and the rate of insur. anco is 83 per $1,000, Houses constructed wholly of woud are rated ns fifth olass, and pay from §4 to §8 insurance upon $1,000 of value. Mr, Axpr:zws statos that thess cheap rates of inguransce are the result of building regu- latfons whfich in turn have been forced upon the city Ly repeated and destructive confla. grations. Thero are, he states, many brick buildin 3¢ in excellent preservation which are upward of two centuries old, It took s long time to teach the city the necessity of strin- gent rogulationa, Btockholm was founded in 1187, and during the centuries that followed was subjected to repeated conflagrations, which compelled the paople to protect them. selves by wholesome building regulations. Among these regulations is one requiring in the exterior neatness and style corresponding to the partof thecity, Generally they anustbe of brick, iron, orstone, Wooden buildings are, only allowedin the outer paris of the oity, Each uilding must have its own cellar-walls, In uildings two-story and ovar, the front and rear must have a thicknessof 3 foet in the lower story, and in the other stories of 17 ioclea Hach houss must bave its own fire. walls, The intorfor or room walla are gon- orally of brick; the stairs aro of iron or stono, nnd aro arched with masonry ; the steps are of limestono, planed nnd grooved ; thero 1a but one stairway in eaoh honse, and 4 or foot wido ; tho lialls are olso of atone. There i but ono entrance to the attic, and that has an fron door ; tho chimnoys are of brick, and nona of the woodwork of the roof mush bo within 5 inches of tho chimney. Tho roof must be covered with tiles or motallic plates, Tho Swedish oarthen stoves aro permanent fixtures in each house. Mr. Axprewa writes: “ Spoclmens of these stoves will Lo eeen at the Philadelphin Ex- hibition. Aftor moro than flve years' ex- perience with them, I nm satisfied that their iutroduction into tho colder parts of tho United Blates wonld be productive of health, comfort, and economy.” The efflciency of the building regulslions of Stockholm is shown in tho fact of tho low rates of in. surance, and tho nbsonco of anything like an orgauized fire dopartment, and the spparatus used {s the old hand-engines, It will be soon that the aim of these regula- tiong is to mako tho buildings all monsurably fire-proof, and especlally 50 in tho attic ortop story. It is rendered impossible for a firo to originate on tho roof or to burn downward, Mr. Januze Boonayay, namesake of Llessed memory nud greenbaok candidate for Pros- ident, spoke bis spoech to a Chicngo audicnce Wednesdny night., We will glance at a fow of his nphorisms. Ho snid, ** Monoy is a non- producer; put n hundred dollars in your pocket and rotain it thero for a yoar and it will not increase.” Noithor will non.pro- ducors find a hundred dollars in thoir pockets unless thoy steal the money. 1If n man carns and saves it, a hundred dollars will get into his pooket. And if ho deposits the monoy in o sound savings-bank, at tho ond of tho yoar it will have increased 6 or G per cont; or he may loan it out at a higher rate of interost, sccured by roal eatate. Monoy is tha instrument used to distributa the products of labor from hand fo hand, It!a s tool of trade, #0 called by Dowasy Pnice, tho dappor littls political economist of Oxford Collego—tho bullion cen= tro of the 014 World, Here wo have a bit of information that is now to us, never having heard before that Ozxford Collego was the bullion contre of tho 0ld World. We know it was largoly endowed with broad nores, not less in fact than 126,- 879, nccording to the new Doomsdny-Book, and from which it was deriving mors than n million of dollars a year of rental. We had Inbored undor the impression that the Bauk of England was the bullion centro of the O1d World. But monoy is more than a “‘tool of trade.” It is an eqnivalent of value; it only exchangos for property of the same, estimated value to tho possessor. Thus 23 grains of gold whon coinod is called & dollar. Yeostordny it would oxchange in this market for one bushel of No. 1 winter wheat, ond so would 23 grains of uncoined gold; both have thesamo exchnpga valuo or purchasing powor, and when expotted the value of both is esti- mated by their weight and flneness. The Government stamp on the metal neither adds 1o nor subtracts from the oxchangenble valus of the gold. ‘Wo don’t proposo to abollsh the taking of all inter- est, but fo fnatitute s syatem by which the fndustrics of the country would be rid of ® heavy tax for using this tool of trade, Intercat makea low prices in first hands wod high prices to consumers, An ordlnary shirt that will coat $2.50 originally cost sbout 10 cents, The grest bulk of the valus goes into the pockets of tho moncy-changers, Those * originsl 10.cent shirts” which aro held ot $2.50 are not to be found in this market, but there aro planty of shirts which cost tho wearer originally 2,60 for which tho rag-man will not now give mora than a dirme. ‘Lho great bulk of the valus of Ohi- cago shirts goes, not into the pockots of the monoy-changers, but of washerwomen or. Ohinnmen. They pocket the value of the shirts and rub thom to picces besides. Itis vary avident that the Presidentisl candidato of the greenbnokers is not well acquainted with tho valuo or use of the nether garment called n shirt, else he would not have fallen into suoch styango errors as to tho first cost of tho article ond what bacomes of tho valuo of the shirt afterwards. Insteasd of being n rufflo-shirted or shirt-tail candidate for Preai. dont, he ia a shirtless condidate. The reason, porhaps, is that tho cotton needed for hia shirt has been laid nway until after ho is elected Prosident, whon it will be used to ro- duce the rate of interost snd make overy man rich by having o pocketful of cheap papex- money~—worth sbout 8 cents n pound, The Springfield (AMass,) Repudlican also has been surveying the Prosidential prospects, and, npon nnalysis of Conkrma’s following, finds that it is of exnctly the sort especially linble to soll him out, The same observation is made by the Republican of Morron, whoso partisana in Ohio, it may bo ramarked, having #ot up Haves as o * favorite-son” diversion in Montox's interest, ind that thoy have' gono go far that thoy aro liable to have to support Haves in onrnest. Tho candidate in whoso intorest both Conkrrna and Montox - aro in peril of being sold out, the Republican finds, is Brawve. But the lending politicians tako no atock in him, becauss he ia, in their phrase, too brillinnt, too smart. In Massa. chusotts it notes that neithor Scnator Dawes nor Congressman Ifoan, 8exrye, Prence, nor o0x-Gov, Rice aro for Brawe; that tho Now Hampshire leaders and Congressmen are di- vided; that in Connecticut, Hawrey, Ronix- soN, Hannison, and Jewzry tako mnoZstock in him ; that tho Rhode Island Ropublicans, with Seonator AnTmoNy at their hesnd, are looking elsowhere, 8o that Mr, Braixe has amall prospeot of going to Cincinnati oa the choico of Now England. Tho CoNkruing fao- tion from New York ho cannot count on, and no more can he upon the bettar element in the New York delogotion led by Geonax Wrntian Cunris, Ponnsylvania, so far as Smion CameroN controls it, the Republican torsoly obacrves, will be for sale to the highest bidder, but inno event for sale to o losing candidate. BMr, Brae's chances depend largely upon what he may do between uow snd the meeting of the Convention, and Lo i 80 capable of brilliant performance that it maokes the situation the moro uncertain, But tho Republican finda that what most mili. tates ogainst Mr. Brame s the growing feel- ing of uncertainty asto whether, if nomi. nated, he could be eleoted. This is based upon the faot that for eight years past he has been the Republican leader in Congreas, and practioally the second man in the Adminis. tration; andthe question which {s gaked Isin what respect is his political record better than that of Conxuva or of Montod, This question the Republican declores will ba sharply pushed when he enters into compe- tition with them at the Olncinnati Conven. tion, and demsnd will ba mada for proof as to in what particular he has identified him. elf with the causs of politioal and adminls. trativereform, and what mensure of realstates. ;hmhlp he has l:wght forward or advanced. e Republican, howevez, is disposed to oritl- clss Mr, Brinm sharply, Dul whils the gronnda of it criticlem may be disputed, ita prosontation of the mituation shows the un. cortainty of his support in New England, Penusylvanin, Now York (and Ohio may be' added, since canvass of the delegation shows that on rocond Lnllot Bristow will reccive n vota in the delogation of that Binte twico that for Brawe), and that Mr. Braisg has littlo Lotter prospect of seouring the nomina. tion than has Monto¥ or Cowstmva. Tho Repubdlican's conclusion is thot in the Con- vontion at Cincinnnti tho contest botween the mnchine.men in siipport of thelr respoctivo candidates will develop tho mnooessity of nominating Bnistow, the man pro-eminontly identifiod with administrotive reform, and agninst whom in consequence the machine- politicians of ovory faction are instinctively united in common hostility, It i3 woll that n sharp look-ont bo kept about this timo upon the proceedings in Con. gress wpon the bill subjeeting railrond-grant Innds to local taxation, Iitherto tho Pacific and other companies to which milllons of acres of the public domain have been grant. ed bave neglected to, tako out patents for these oxcept ns thoy mado sales; and, on tho claim that tho full legal title had not vested in them, have refused lo pay Btate and local taxes upon their Iands. ‘I'iey have thus cs- caped taxation npon millions of dollars' worth of proporty, castiug upon poor settlo:s, Whose improvamonts inereased the value of tha rail. rond Iands, the ‘hole burden of State, coun- ty, rond, and echool taxes, and, s the compa- nics’ titla was not completo until patent was takon out, have sct the loenl tax.collectors ot doflance. 'Tho injustico of it hns ot lost attracted the attention of Con- gress, and o bill has been introduced declaring all lands granted by tho General Govornment to railronds subject to local tax- ation, though patents may not have beon taken out for thase, But ns reported from tho Senate Committeo, the bill contains apro- vision designed manifestly in tha Intorest of the land-grab corporations to nullify tho act by making the collection of the taxes lovied by Btate or local authority practically impos- sible, This by a provision that when the purchasor of any such lands at n tax-sale made’by the Stato or lacal authoritics shall poy the Iand-oftico foes, otc., a patont for the land sold for non-payment of taxes shall bo jssued—not to tho purchaser, but to tho rail. road company. Tho result will be that &ho tax-purchoser will then be left to fight out his lion with the companies, with their millions, and attornoys hired by the yoar. Whoover has tried litigation with thom, even the Gon- cral QGovernmant itself, has found ont whnt that costs, and how bootless such litigation, after nppeals to tho highest courts, is lisbla to prove, Tho bill is & fit- ting nfterpieca to tho Pacific Railroad swindling mortgage aot, frecing tho roads from their obligations to the Government for their ninety-odd millions first-mort- goge lability. The only way the railronds can bo compelled to pay taxes on therr land. grants is to place them on a lavol with private land-owners, so that the tax-purchaser will acquira the titlo himself, That can be dono by providing that the patont be iseued di. rectly to him whon he shall have bought in railrond lands ot tax-sale. But if his pur chaso is only to have effect to put the logal title in the companics, so that all the tax. buyer scquires is & lnwsuit agninst a great corporation, it is plain that though the com= panics go on to the ond of timo rofusing to pay taxes, no tax-buyers will bo found for their lands. Evidontly the vote upon this bill to aid railroads in cscaping payment of their taxea cannot be too sharply scrutinized. Bunget Cox has doveloped & gushing ten- dornesa for the noblo red men, He protests againat placing the pioturosquo savages un. dor charge of tho army, for foar some of thom might get hurt, Undor the present sontimental polioy, these interesting chil- dron of Natura are dealt with at the same timo ns independent nations with whom treatios are made and as wards of the nation, to be fed and clothed at Government ex- penso, and furnishod guns and ammunition which, when their bollies have been filled, they mnke use of to Lill off the palo-faces. Thon they aro turned over to tho army to bo dispatched to the happy bunting.grounds, Tho sentimental policy is ndmirably con- trived to shortly fotch about the extermina. tion of the noblo reds. Whon a trenty is made with them, it satisfles them the United Statos is afraid of them. The pros. onts to them of blankents and rations, oto.,, tend powerfully to roinforce in the savago bronst the conviction that the country i3 80 wonk that ft has to buy peace with them, A full stomach ir- resistibly impols them to scalp tho pale-faces, which on the first opportunity they proceed to do. Then the army does some extorminat~ ing, and scalping nnd extorminating ro- spectively is about all that the sentimental policy has led to, barring tho frauds of the Indian Ring, which thrives thereby, Prao- tically, at loast, the transfer of Indian nffairs to the War Departmont would put an end to tho ridiculous trenty businesn. Tho terms to which the Indian must submit would, in ef- feot, bo dictated, and thoy would be loft no alternativo but submission, and it would rap- idly dawn upon tho savage understanding that such was tho procise situation ; and, per- forco remnining upon their resorvations, thoy would forego the murderous exoursions to which their contempt for the whites, bred by tho sugar-plum policy of buying peace, in- spires them. Sentimental nousense nside, thoy are sitnply to bo classed as among the dangorous oclasses, 10 be repressed by the atrong arm of the Government., The way to accomplish that is to leave the strong arm to deal with them instoad of engaging in the paltering treaty business.: Wera that made an end uf, there would bs loss exter- minating to bo done by the army as well as fower massnorcs of sattlors and emigrants, It wonld also Qispose of the present Indian Rings at least, which, perhaps, i what moves Sunset to profanely exclalm that the present condition of Indian affairs is h—}, but that it would be a worse h—1 were tho Indian Bureau turned over to the army, The New York Herald, having taken an. other observation of the political skics, pro. nounces the indications fitful as this April season, but concludes that the nomination at Cinclnnat! les between Conximia and the unknown who will be brought forward after the firat ballot, The Herald's proguostica. tions are based chiefly upon the movemeuts of Bruox Oauzsox in his own peouliar polit- joal orbit, He is reported to bave cut Bramve and gone over to Cowxuixo. The azsump.’ tion ie that he cnrries the vote of the Penn. sylvania delegation in hia pocket, and, aftern complimentary vote for Hantzaxrr, will throw i¢ for the third-term favorits and strutting of the political walk, which, added to the New York vote, would give him the best sandoft, Perhisps. Bubil is one thingto pack a dalogation and quite nnother to doliver | whon it i put wpon the market, Mr, Ous znoN may find, when he renchos Cinelnnatj, that thoro s mo placa thero for polltica) lckstors of hisstamp, Coxreixa's follow, ing of spoilumen and appointaes in tho Now Yorle Custom.Ilouse nnd Tost-Offico arp of procisoly the sort to provo fatal to his aspirn. tiona upon sight, and it wouldn't require any display of Camenon's huckstoring to finish tho grent third-termer, There is a powerfy) percoption nmong tho leadora and rank.aug. llo of the party, outside Mr. Congring'g placemon and Mr. GamenoN's pooket-delegy. | tion, that tho eandidate will in largo degres Do the platforn, and the timber that githey of thom offers is vory linblo to ho mmmarily rejected, Tlho timo hins not yob arrived whep a Republican National Convention ean by mauipulated by political huckators aud spoils. men, If ovar that lime does come, it will matter littlo what these do, for thoy will by without a following. The eablo dispatchies o fow wooks sinco an. nounced tio sunexation of Knokand to Nussiy 4.8 now 8tou in the programmo of Russlan prog. rost In tho Enst. The Horlin correnpondout of tho Loudon Tines has written s lottor to that paver recounting in dotail the varfons stops lasd. ing to nunoxation, o condonsed stalomont of which will bo of futorest. In 1721 the attantion of PerEn tho Oront was eallod to that countiy by the reporta of abunuance of procious tones and metals, and an agont was sant thoro to make {ovoatigations, whicli, had no practical result, Bucceoding sovereigns gradually extended thefr torritory from tho Voiga to tho Aral, and bogan 1o tax tho nomads in cortain accossible localities, In 1824 tho first caravan was dispatchod to Bok. Lara and was pliaderod by the Taccomaus, the Looty being sold at Khiva, Inssia hold the Kban responsiblo, but negotiations leading to votblog, the Russlan Genorals commonced the firat Kbivan campaign, which ongeq in » disastrous fallure, but noverihe. less frightonod Khive into s commoreia) troaty, In 1847 Emporor NicmoLis {ook tho stop that Peren the Great intended, and ocoupied tho northosstorn const of the basiy of Lake Aral, and tho same year launched s small floot upon that lake, In 1850 tho Russians, by slow advancos, at last menaced Khokand on two sides. Tho Ehokanders took up arms, but were badly dofeated 1n 1853, the Russians con. tinually gaining ground. The Crimenn War do. Iayod any further oporations, but at fts close, vr in 1858, they resumed oporations, offected. s lodgment in the north of Kbokaud, and entored it from tho east. Iu 1860 the Khokandors wers sgain badly defeated, and moro territory wa givea up to tho Russiana and colonized by them, Aftor o fow yoars' pause, tho Russiane Invaded Khiva from north sud esst, and occupled and appropristed tho whole country north of Tash. kend, Before 1875 they had appropriated Tash- kond and Bokhata also, and at fast the Kban of Kbokand ylolded. Robellion then broke oul, and, notwithetanding the Russian protootorats, tho Khan was driven fiom tho tbrone. The Russians then commenced work in earnest, sap- prossed tho robollion, and put an end to further troubles in Khokand by snnoxing it to their do minions, —_— As n fosture of woman's work for her own sox, the Young Women's Olristlan Assoclation of Norw York holdaa vory useful and noble placo, and suggoata an oxample for other citios. It is com. paratively s rocent organization, and last woek moved Into & now aad ologant bullding which hiag boou orected for its purposes by subsorip tion. In tho groat flold of charitablo and boner- olent efforts for humanity it occupios n placa eimilar to that of the Young Mon's Chnistian A sociations, although its work is more purely banevolent than the latter. As ono of tho speske org at the opening of the now bullding remarks eq, its object 1s to briog women ab tho two ox. tremes of socioty togotlsor 8o that one shall e colve advice and opportunity from tho other, 1t 19 obyious that women are tho bost and most sagacions workors for womea, and it 15 justas obvious that & band of Christian and banovolent ‘women, organized without raferonco to denome inational difforences, can sccomplish mach mors ®ood by such a doncontration of effort thanif . they were divided into amaller bodlos acting fo. depondontly of each other. KFor such a work thore 1smo hetter - flold -than Chlcago, and we have rio doubt that snch an’ organization in our own city would receivo tho matorial and moral support of all charitable psoplo, aad would dos great work jn uplifting women and smeliorating their condition. + Both the Republican and Democratle Convens tlons of Conneoticut passed empbatio and une quivocal hard-money resolutions. This enrsged the grecobsock fnflationists, who calteda Con- veotion sod nominated a tickot of their own, which was to swamp both the old parties sod ewaop the fletd. Tho advocates of tho curroncy waterlop folly stumped the State and nightly held forth in bohalf of cheap money, big money, non-oxportablo money, scrip which was to bo re colved for dutios, shinplasters that wero to b made ‘‘equal to tho wants of trade” and ib4 necds of the poor mau, paper dollara which were to havo no redeomablo nonseuse boul tham, but were to bo interconvertible into 9.64 por cont bonds, and tho bonds woro not to hart tho smoll of gold on tholr garmonts. Ever; body waa to bo made rich and happy by thost patent methods of making nothiug worth mor than something. Fioally the canvasa olossd, the etectlon was held, and tho votes ocountsd Hera is tho rosult : Por tho Det sumption For the Tlop susnption. v For tho Prohildtion ticket, . For the Groenback soft tickot and o rosumpiion 1,94 The prospact of the currency-dilationiats whe dub thomselves Independents sweaping the oountry for President is very tlattering, SO b But that this i3 the Contonnial yoar which I to be turned to such paying account by them, the Philndoiphianas would probably never havé learnod that for thoas many years they havt patronized the wrong hash-shop. It wasio bt basement of tho houso—No. 700 Markot atreot— whero JeryeusoN wrote tho immortal Daclarw tion of Indopondence, aud after the viaitor b mwallowed bis hash ho wae pormittod to go uP wtalrs and seo the room where JerrxrsoN actask 1y ponued it. Iut the hoah-oating and tho asconl of tho stairs aftorward to the slirine of doparted greatnoss was s mistake. It was not No. 700, bel No, 702, in which tho Declaration was peanod This bas boeon indubitably established by some mousing soaroliea of thio suclont chirontotes, It i now oceuptod 08 & slop-ahop olothing eatablish meat, and the room in which JerrEnsox wrolt the immortal documont s gone farever, the ak toratlona of the building since then heviod transformed the whole up-atairs into a sloglt ware or atore roome o the chair fn which bt sat, the dosk at which be wroto, and theold quill-pens he usod in writing, are npumb smong the things that wers, and the hash tbsl was consumed next door under the delusjon $hit the reminiacences that clung sbout the spot might sasson [t waa but unsduiterated indigs tion davoursd pll o vaig, Ruomiap Gaurr Wmrs and his breed of scholars may read and Inwacdly digest the fol lowiug ssd story with profi¢ to themselves and shelr oountrymen: J, P. Davms and wiiLis Arommison wers saw-mill bands, employed near Denver, Col. They were hetorophomista » bumble way, sad oftan dispated with esch other the correct pronuuciation of & word of the uncouth provinolalisms of the neighborhood: A fatal dy aerived on which they differsd in rogard to the word Newfoundisnd, Davis ssid the word should be prosounced New-fonnd land; Avcuwsor coutended for New-found: 1828 The book waa appasied 10, bus witbos! ustistaciory results, ; Theuos A sppeal wéd taksa 19 100 higbar eour af Bationtle, hed Dir