Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 19, 1876, Page 4

e Teibune, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF BUDSCRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVARCE). Postuge Prepnid at this Onice, . thaid, 1 yesr... 13.00 DLy B o, m:nt nll' AL mme ¥ Mafted to any address four weoks fo 1.00 Iiunla Badition: Liu S Tri-Wealily, 0.50 yéar aLEAMe Fato. TIAID, Py The postage 18 16 cents m ycar, Bpecimen coplea sent free. . To pravent dolay and mistakes, he ruro and give Fost- ©moé sddress in full, including State sad County. Remittancos may be mada either by Uraft, express, Post-Olos ordor, or In reglstercd lotters, ot our sisk. . TRRMB TO CITT BUNSCRIBERS, Dafly, delivered, Sunday excepted, 33 ecats per week, Dally, delivered, Bunday Included, 30 cents per week* THE TRIDUNE COMPANT, Osynor Madison azd Deatborn-sts., Chicago, Ll i e e e AMUSEM 4 New Clilcako Theatre Clark streat, between liandolph and Ninrels, = . Hooles's Hooleyin Thentres | V et 1 Clark and_ LaSallo, - ol STl ens Connpany. - Plgus. : McVickers Thentre M stroet, batween State an earbora, Ine !flx:’l}m ol &D‘; Magglo Mitcholl Tioupe, *‘Jauo fyro Adelph] Theatre. strect, corner, Montau, Verlety entartalne Desrborn ment. */Tha Walls of Now York.” Woed’s Musenm. T i ateect, between Dearborn and State. After. e TN TavikLle drince. B 3 Evenlog, **0n Haud. MeCormick Hall. North Clark street, corner of Kinzfe, Concert by Mad, Pappeahelm. i Bnse Ball Park. sk Twenty.third strect, corner Dearborn. Champlon: ship nm’o\-ewa:-mn 5t Touts and Chicago i PR Ly SOCIETY MEETINGS. N’ LODGE, No, . & A. M.—ITall T L SotirmaniSation “this (Frigay) !VL‘MIIF ‘at 73§ o'clock sharp, for busincss and kb" e Third D DY Ukler Ut "the Mastor, © B N e ckree. er uf the Masier. I, Betretarye) © FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1870 e Greenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- shango yesterday closed at 894, The wentber burean prm‘lflm warmer weather with rain aress in tho Upper Lako region to-day. Mr. Jewznn denles the report that ho in- tonds resigning the Postmaster-Generalship, and everybody will bo giad to hear it, ex- ocopting, possibly, that ¢friend of CoNk- wNo's" who was mentioned ns his suocessor. Tho primary olections in this city yester- day for the choics of delegates to the Ro- publican County Convention resulted in the succesa of tho anti-Beveninor tickel. Out of 162 delegntes elected at the primaries, 124 aro known to favor tho permanent with- drawal of Bevempoz from the Executive wice at Springfleld. Kentucky comes ont for Bmisrow with o vigor and enthusinsm which will be certain . lo extend boyond, tho party lines in the event that the glowing recommendation of tho Republican Convention yesterdny should be concurred in at Cincinnati, Kentucky farnished one grand President in LincorLs, and she is anxious to repeat the donation in the person of BrisTow. i — The French Chumber of Deputios yestor- day dofoated, by an averwhelming majority, the bill granting amnesty to the Communist prisoners, exiles, and refugecs. Ii is pro- posed .to leave the pardoning power dis- cretionary with President BaoManoy, who Is truated to exercise this prerogativo in ac- tordanco with the interests of justice, bu. manity, and tho welfars of the nation. Mr. Hewrrr, who was deputed by the House Committee o Foreign Affairs to pre- pare the report on fhe Emma Mine investi- gation, has comploted his lobors, and it is mtated that the report, while exonorating Gen, SoneNox from the imputation of inten- tiona! fraud or fraudulent intention, will con- gure him for impropriety of conduct in using his officinl position to further tho interests of tha Mining Company. A curious confirmation of the general judgment regarding the ‘‘mule” story started by detractors of Sccretary Bristow is found in tho fact that tho Houso Com- mittes on Ways and Means havo agreed to reporta bill, drawn up by Mr., Tuoxen, of Virginis, granting to Booxxer relief for the losa he sustained in his mulo contract. Mr. Bustow believed the claim to be a fust ane, and it seems the Committeo hold the same ‘opinion, The Indianapolis Irrcconcilables have met their first disappointment almost befors tho dolsgates conld pack up their cigar-boxes. M., Peres Coorer desires to remark that he will not be President of the United Btates 1f $o bacomse so requires him to have such back- fng, Butthen Mr. Cooren suggests that ono ‘Winzaax AvieN, now and for apy time dur ing the post century abiding in thw State of Ohio, would maken proper candidato if the peoplo cauld strain theirimnginations to such a dogroo. Tt was Hxsmo who &nd it was Remt who first onticed Hxsino from the path of virtne. Singular colnci. dence! It wann remnarkable caso of irresiat. ibls affinity, of mutual seduction. Until Heavo made improper proposals, Rems wag purity porsonified; until Reun lnid siege, Humama's honor Lad nover yielded to any man, It was a simultansous plunge-iuto sin of two whito souls, who date their downfall at the eame instant, and attribute it to cach ather. Thoy mot, they fell, and = big be. gumbdng of crookedness and cash was the re- sul The sction of the Ohio Convontion has suggested to the minds of the hard-money Democrata the importance of abolishing the - éwo-thirds rulo at the 84. Louis Convention. "They argus that the success of the inflation. {sts in Ohio is likaly to give the rug-baby ole- ment of the party in other Blates fresh cour. ego and strength, and may-result in sending o the Convention sstabborn minority of one- third, which woald be able to prevent the nomination of any but & pronounced green- backer, Honce the advisabdlity of so alter- Ing the rule as to allow of a nomination by tho usual majority over all, S ———— ‘fho Chicago produce markets were ir- vegular yesterdsy, provisions baing dull snd stosdior, while grain was in good domand nud stronger. Mess pork closed a shade firmer, at §20.57§@20.00 for June and $20.75 forJuly. Yard was unchanged, closing at $12.37} for June eid $12.874 for July, . Meats were quist mnd easy, at 7jo for 1boxed shouldars, 10}e for do short ribs, 1.-& 1340 for doshort clears. Lake frelghts ‘"du!‘l,nzfiuuvhmtotmflo. Ball froights .wero doll snd anchanged. High- wines woro steady, at $1.074 per gallon, Flour was in fair demand aod firm. Whont closed 2jo higher, at $1.00} cash and $1.00} for Juns, Corn closed §o highor, st 48}a cash and 46} for June. Onts closed easler, at 40]@31e cash and 30je for Jumo. Rye was stronger at G67c. Darloy closed 2@30 higher, at 730 cash and &9 for June. Hoga wera fairly active, at @100 dacline, the bulk of the sales making st $7.00@7.10. Cattle were dull and wenk. Bheop were firm at full prices. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.76 in greenbacks at the closo. ‘I'hs Methodist Gonersl Conferonce was 2 little toowoon in its complimontary reolu. tions concerning tho Chyistian management of tho Contonnial, The Commission were patted on the back for closing the Exhibition and grounds on Bunday, but the brethran at Baltimore have got into a rage of righteons indignntion over the sals of liquors insido the Centennial inclosure. The opportunity afforded to thirsty wretches to get a glass of beer without going outside the gate is char- acterized by the General Conforonce o8 an ontrago upon tho Christian sentiment of tho country, and m solem protest is onterod ageinst it which the Contonninl mansgers will probably put into a pigeon-hole along +with the flattoring Bunday resolutions and esll it square. ——— The excited condition of mind which pre- voila in Constantinople and the stroug proba- bility of n genoral religious riot upon the slighest provacotion have determined the postponemont of the dedication of the new English church justcompleted at tho Turkish Capital, this courso boing urged by the British Ambassador after consultation with tho Minister of Police, The Mohammedans are buying revolvers, daggers, and other weapons for use in caso an outbreak oceurs, and the Christians aro also arming for tho possible conflict. If a strugglo should take place, it is belioved the Chris. tians would bo victorious in Coustantinople, provided the mob was not aided by tho Turkish troops, but extra procautiona aro heing taken by the forcign Ambnssadors to bo in roadiness for defenco and protection. Penca bas sottled over the distrncted pre- cinets of the City Hall, and Mayor Hoxwx is completely installed in the position to which he was lately called by the people of Chicago. He presided at yesterdsy's mooting of the Common Council, anddelivored his inaugural mesango in porson to that body. The intoresting document is printed in full in our columns this morning. Tho reador will bave no diffenlty in forming tho conclusion that Chieago has finally entered upon an era of honest and economical government, and that wo have a Mayor who Lnows what roform means and is propared to carry out tho popnlar will. 'The messago has the gonuine ring of retrenchment and re- form,~tho reduction of unpecessary ox- penses in every dopartment of the City Government, and tho utmost possible cur- tailmont of every sourco of taxation and out loy. Mayor Hoxe i n worthy head of the fine body of mon who now composs the Common Conncil, and the radical reforms and sweeping chsbges racommended in his mes- sago may be safely intrusted to tho largo majority of conscientious Aldermen who are in entire harmony with theso views. THE DEMOCRATIC BLUNDER IN OHIO. The Democratic party in the Stato of Ohio haa just passed through the operation of self- slanghter—suicide. The Convention which a yonr ago raised the rag baby, and with old Wisriasm Arrey declared specio poyments a * damned barren ideality,” was a surprise, in which the rag-money men grosped the organ- ization sud had things their own way. ‘This year thehard-moncy men, ropresenting Judgo T'runuan, wade an effort to have him in. doraed by Ohio for the Presidential nomina- tion; but the managers called the Convention to moot at Cincinnati, and turned the rog- money mob into the lobby ; then, by & vote of 868 to 800, adopted a rag-money platform and nominated old Mr, Arrey for tho Prosi. daacy. Up to this action the Ohio Domocrats Lad a chanco to furnish tho candidate. As o Just elfpt the Now York and Enstern Democrats might have con- .| coded the nomination of Tuunman, That, howover, is a8 for as they will go. With T'nursaN as o candidato thero would be live- ly work in Ohio, and, unless Bmsrow wera the Ropublican candidate, the vote of the Stato would be in extreme doubt. But the condidacy of AvveN is a grotesque absurdity but a particle removed in the sonso of folly from that of Peres Cooren by the other madmen at Indianapolia. This Convention will pass into the history of politics asre- markablo for two things : 1. Tho voluniary surrender by the Democratio party of a largo State of all faturo voice, interest, or control in the nomination of tho candidate for Presi- dent. 2. For tho declaration of a policy of financo which betrays beyond all precedent the mndness or the ignoranco of tho men who at this sge of genoral intelligonca present such nonsonse for the approval of ths Ameri- can people, = "I'bat financial platform exceoeds in absurdi- ty oll of its kindred predecessors, and, by camparison, venders that of the Indicnapalis people tolerably respectable and sane. Wo roproduce the declaration entire 1 Wo declure that wo shall urge, againat all opposi- tlon,~como from what quarter It may, —measurcs 10 effoct tho following ohjects: 1. Tho Immediate and unconditional repeal of the Tepublican Resumption Jaw, . Thodefeat of sl scheues for resumption which {nvolves elther contraction of the curroncy, peepetuation of bauk lususe, of Increase of the In- terest-burden of the debt. 3, 'Tho gradual bul carly subetitutlon of Jegal- tenders for Nationsl Bank-notea. 4. Thofusue, by the General Qovernment alone, of all the clrculating medium, whether paper or matallic, 5. No forced Inflatlon, no forced contraction, but a sound currency equal to tha wants of trado and industry, to bo regulated with gold by mesna of appropristy legislation, wuch a8 making it recolvas ble for curtoms and Intorconvertible ut tha pleas- ura of the holéer with a bond bewring sn intereat not to excecd 3 65-100 per cent payablo in gold, so that the volume of currency sbull not be detor- mined by tho pleasuse or caprico of elther Cangreas or the banks. ©. A yradunted income-tax tomect st least the premium on gold uceded to pay {nterest onthe pubtic debt, 7. 'hat public policy and a senso of common Justice requires, that tiso aliver luenod by the dove ernment shiould ba 8 legal-tender in payment of a1l debta, pablic or private, and tial we demand the unconditional repeal of the so-called Bilver act, so far 22 the sam Liilia tho amount for which silver coluage abiall be o Jegul-tender, . Thisdeclaration of anational financial polioy was odopted in o Convention over which Gronar IL Pexprrton presided, and which proposed a condidate for the Presidency, It is hardly necesssry to comment on this policy. Itis a waste of words to discuss the points presented, ‘Chis is a nation of forty- five milljouns of peophs. Undor wige lawa the United Btates might bocome the. workshop for the world ; our commerce should exceed that of any othor nation, Wo havo all tho natural olemonts of o great producing couns | THE UmCAGOZ TRIBUNE:: FRIDAY,' MAY “19,~ 1876, {ry,—nble, from oursurplus, to furnish man- kind with all the rw matorialor the finished fabrics that enter into tho world'a traffic. Among other things wo produce gold and silver. But ths little commerco that s loft us under onr tariff lawa is now clogged and ombnrrassed, wenkoned and destroyed by a fictitions monoy unknown to mankind and discardod in every markot, Atthis time, and under snch circumstances, n Conven- tion calling itself Democratic, and, what is worss, calling itselt intelligont and representative, proposes to olect a Prosidont to carry out the policy indicated in the plat- form we have given, That platform proposes that the United Htatos shall nover resumo speclo payments; tha duplication of the amonnt of legnl-tender greemback notes; the cstablishment of nn oxclusively paper- monay curroncy ; & paper-monoy standard of valnes, and thet papor to be perpetually frre- deemablo, excopt in a bond, which bond itselt is to be payable in the jrredecmablo paper. ‘Tha use of gold in payment of dutiea to bo discontinued. This party, which thus proposes to manage the national financey and sink tho nation in frrotriovable disaster and ruin, asks the American people to commit the Governmont of the United Btates to tho mon who framed and who voted for theso proposed measures of finence ! X In tho mesntime, the Ohio Domocracy have won the deserved contompt of the whole nation, Lave made themsolves the laughing- stock of the country, and have justly ox- cluded themselves from all weight or author- ity in tho Convention of their own party. TERMINAL GRAIN CHARGES, It ia an unusual thing in Chicago to bo obliged to mako a public confession that any closs of businoss-men ars wanting in o prompt scquiesconce in any measure noces- sary for the progrosa and commercial welfare of thocity. In regard to the terminal grain charges, however, such & confession seems to bo more necessary than concealment. Un- lesa thero shall bo a radical reduction in the cost of handling grain, the decline and fall of Chicngo's supremacy in this trade are merely quostions of time, and the moro ap- parent this can be made tho quicker the remedy will bo provided. We aro inclined to hold the Chicago Board of Trado mainly responsible for thoss axcessive charges which are forcing the grain in every other possible direction, for the reason that tho Board of Trade baa sufficiont fiscal and moral strength to coerce a reform if it saw fit to oxorcise its full influence. Last wintor, whon the East- ern railroad pool was dsmaging Chicago's trade, and discriminating in freight charges agoinst this city and in favor of points to tho west and sonth of us, the Board of Trade took hold of the matter, and in the cnd brought about sn abandonment of the pool. At that time it called upon and ro- colved from the press the most active sup-. port. Butit was found upon investigation that it was not the rilrond pool exclusively that was hurting the trade. The complaint from tho country was universal that the ter- minal charges on froight—tho side-tracking, “trimming,” anad elevator rates—were oxcos- sive. 'The press hag boen unable to counter- nct theso complainta in the faco of facts, and bas ecalled upon the Board of Trado in vain to tako somo vigorous steps toward corrooct- ing tho abuses, It would scom that an appeal to the elo- vator owners thomsolves eught to induce thom to sbate thoir rates. It is notorious that the charges for handling grain in other cities ore much less, and it is belioved that the elovators in other cities are mnking money st the lower rates. The reason is that they ars gotting 50 much moro grain to handle on materially the some expensos that the smaller profits oro swalled by the increaso of business. In the meantime, the Chicago elovator pool in carrying idlo storshouses attho oxcessive ratos charged by those which arg running, nnd the grain s diverted to the other citics which the Chicago clovators might handle with the same aggregate profit thoy now make on the smallor businesa. Tho Board of Trade was prompt to investigato and ve- port on the abuses of the pool railroads; why is it not oqually prompt in exposing the warchouse obuses and domanding their re. form? Is it becauso a fow clevator-owners are permitted for selfish purposcs to damage tho business of the Board and the city as a wholo? If the composition of the old Com- mittee to whom tho railroad investigation wag intrusted is in the interost of tho clo- vators, 8 now Committce should baappointsd, and the cxact facts of the case along with tho comparative rates in tho other citica should bo exposed to the public view and | properly denounced by the Bosrd, [ S — OUR SECURITY AGAINST FIRE. Tho snnual report of the Board of Pablio ‘Works for tho three months ending Dee. 31, 1875, a summary of which was printed in our last issuo, gives a clear and coneiso view of what Chicago has been doing to protect borsolf against future conflagrations, and o fow of these facts wo rccommend to the Now York carpers. The total cost of the water-works hus beon over six and s hal? miltions, and what have wo to show for it? In general terms, the bost protected city m the United Btates against possibilitios of firo. The dotails will bo of goneral intersst to our own eitizons, and should commend thomselvea to tho insuranos companiea. Tho roport shows that we have now 410 milos of water pipein this city, sgainst 272 milesin 1871, at the time of the GroatFire, showing an increase of 184 miles. A largs part of this work has consisted of substitu- tion of large pipes in the place of mall in the important strssts of the city, 6 or 8- inch for 4 and 12inch for 8 'Che most valusblo parts of tho cily are now traversed by large mains, ‘There will be whon finished, two months frow now, five miles of 3-feot mainy whero thore was but one mile befors tho fire, runniug from the wator-works to theriver, and, of the total amount of pipe laid, cloven-aixteenths are of sizes considered safe for fire purposes in all large citics, Of tho 24-inch pips there ure now 18 miles, which is anincrense of one-hait, and the 16 and 12-inch pipes also have been doubled. Now York has 255 miles of 8-inch pipe; we havo 276 miles, and yot New York clamors for en iucrease of insuranco rates in Chicago. ‘The increaso of hydrants hasbeen 23 remarkablo as that of pipes, Whoro there were formarly & hydrant ou overy other cor- ner, thero is now o hydrant on every corner in the thickly-sattled part of the city, and thoy are being rapidly distributed through the wholo city, The southwestern woodon section and tho Jumber districts, which wero not protectod before, are now well provided with water snd applinnees, aud are safe sgoinst o destructive fira except under such natarsl conditions es cafy the extinguishing of a conflagration under sny cironmstances. The sewerage of the city has boen increassd proportionately with tho water facilities. At tho time of the fire in - 1871 there wera 101 miles, and now thers pro 263, an jncreaso of 112 miles. In ton wards the soworage system is virtually completad. Apart from the improvement in 1hs publio health, alrendy apparent, and the fact of earrying off tho wasto wator and giv- ing people &a opportunity to put basements under thoir houses, this great incroaso of sowornge has n.very important bearing upon the qrostion of protection agalnst fire, sinco, whon the unpaved streets are dried and thereby rendered pasanble, the firc.ongines can readily got to any part of the city with convenicnee and speed where they now meet wilth sorious obstacles to progross. As o result of this wvast system of improvements, tho businoss portions of tho city aro es strongly oud se- curely protected agninst fira 08 any other city in this country, Tho most valuablo re- sult, howevor, will be found in the sonthwestern part of the city, where, owing to tho provalencs of southwost winds in tho dry ecnson and the largo extant of wooden buildings, lumber-yards, and othar inflammable materisl, the dangor has stways boan an alarming ono, By the firat of July these improvements will havo beon so far completad that if a fre shonld brosk out in that saction hose can be attached tohundrods of plugs and used with offect without tho aid of & single engine. 'Tho pressure of water in tho wost remots portiona of this district will be 80 pounds to the inch, raising | a column of water 60 feot, nnd this pressure will run up to 100 pounds. Chicago, thore- fore, way feel comparatively sccure ngainst any possibility of a wide.spread conflagration in the future except under such conditions of wind and dryness sa will dety any fire depart- mont nnd apparatas. Inview, therofore, of what Chicagohas dono to protoct herself ngainst firo, it is manifoatly unjust for the insurance companics to dis- criminate against ber pnd maintain extra charges. The rates ought to be reduced o8 low ns they oxist in any other well-protacted city. We havo now & botter supply of water, larger mains and more of them, moro hy- drants, an incrensed pressur2, & moro power- ful and better organized fira dopartment, and an ordinance forbidding the erection of any more wooden buildings in the city limits,— conditions of eataty with which even New York cannot compete. The possibility of future confiagrations has thercfore been miu- imized, and we should have the benefit of it in reduced otes of insurance. THE PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK. One of our Washington correspondents, in & lotter which was printed in Tue Trinoxe of yesterdny, has mado up from s Washing- ton stand-point acareful estimate of the rola- tive strenth of the various candidates for the Tepublican nomination'at Cincinnati; and, with the returny of Btate Conventions bofors him at the time, ho figured out the following status: Bnistow, 132; Brame, 121; Coxg- riNg, 92; Morton, 83; HanTRanFT, 8. Bimco this estimato was mado other States have been heard from, but they do not ma- terially changa tho relative strongth of Bnu- qow and Braivg, but bring them both out conspicuously as the leading candidates. Thus Now Jersoy has gono for Bramig, but this is moro than offset by Alabams, which hos gono for Bmisrow, while in Tennesso Bnisrow hna 11, Monrox 9, and Brarse 3. Kontucky, yot to hear from, will be solid for Bastow, and the votes of Tlinols, Minnesota and Eounans will be divided botwoen Brams and Brisrow. This showing makea it tolera- bly safo to predict (leaving out tho possible appenrance through a trap-door of the “iGreat Unknown™) that tho contest will mot- tlo down to Bnmrow and Buixg, with a protty evon rnco at the outsct, but both so complotely overshadowing their present rivals on the first ballot that tho latter will bo forced to rotire from tha fleld. The fivet notes of tha veal strugglo will bo sounded after.tho first or second ballot, when the soveral delegations shall havo paid tholr expected compliments to the *favorite sons.” Pennsylvanis will be tho finit probably to bronk the *‘favorits-son” line, and Harnr- naxpr's fiftv-eight votes will go—to whom? Probabiy the bulk of them to Braine, who is n native of Pennsylvania, and who is said to enjoy the favor of the Oamznon and Hanr- naNyT men in that Stato. 'This will give Brame a tomporary advantage over BaisTow. But it will not be long afier that before CorriNa's sixty votes from New York will break, and whero will thoy go? Hardly to Buimvg, if Conxrmio can help it. Probably not to Monrox, in view of the moral certainty that MonTon cannot earry Now York Stato in the election. If notto Brameor MonTon, then they will go to Bristow, which will re- store him his original advantago, Then In- diana will hava to drop MoxntoN when it ghall bocomo apparent that his nomination isout of the question, and whore will that delegation go? I it ghall follow the sonti- mont of the majority of the Indiana peopls, most of it will certainly go ovor to Brisrow. At all ovents, it is safe to catimate that Bais- row will get at lcast one-half of the Indinna dolegates, This will leavo closo work with the scattering Bouthern delegates naturally inclined to Mr, Baisrow. 'Tho real struggle is between Bristow and Bramve. Thoy are the candidates of tho Western Btates after the * fuvorito-sonny” nonsenee is disposed of. Tho Biustow mon in tho West, it forced to an acknowledgmont that he cannot e nominated, will undoubt- edly go over to Bruxg; and the Buarve men in the West, when convinced that their condidate ecannot be nominsted, will go ovor to Dmistow, 'fho wituation is rather checrful, on tho whole, It is perfoctly certain that Bnistow can ba elected if nominated. It is probable that Bramvx can be elected if nominated, and that probability will become a cortainty it the Democrats make a mistake in tho se- lection of their man at 8t. Louis, as thoy are apt to do. But thore is one way where- by harmony and auccess can be nssured be. yond peradventurs; one way whoreby tho Ropublicans of the East, the Repyblicans of the West, and the Republicans of the South, can be united; one way to organize victory in the Couvention,—aud that is to be found In the ticket: Bustow aNp Brawe The Democratio Houss falled to carry out tho recent vaunted rotrenchment programme in the matter of the Postal Appropriation bill by negleoting to strike out wholly all sppropriations for carryiog themails. That would have suspended, in sbort order, the poatal sorvice, aud tho monoy now expended for transportation of tho mails would bave boen saved through Democratio economy, Trus, the public would have suffored tho ificonvenience and Almost irreparable loss rosulting from_ discontinuanco of tho postal system. But that is what tho Domocratio House bas provided for, within the next alx monihs, in tho bill as passed. While they wero about it, saving tho people’s money that is spent for carriage of the malls, the Democrats of the House might a3 well have saved tho whole amount by stopping it out- right instond of say six montha hence. The sppropristion was cut’ down seven million dollars, while tho routes were extonded about 10 por cent, leaving the amount ap- proprinted. wholly jnsufficient to keep up the sarvice half n yoar. quiring the railroads to carry the malls ot o Joss, the rosnlt will b that thoy wilt rofuso to carry thom at eny such figures as contomploted Dby tho bill, which, if passed by (e Somate, will simply lesd to a susponsion of tho postal gorvice or requira an oxtra session to bo calted to maka the necossary approprintion. This bill is @ samplo of the Demoorntio re- tronchment for buncombo's sake practiced by the Democratio Houso for effect upon tho approaching elcctions. It is the misfortuno of tho present. situation that the Democrats snd Confedorates control the Housaand thus control appropriations, while thoy are not rosponsiblo for the Administration, to ham- per and balk which, to tho detrimont of tho people, whils ostensibly retronching, ia tha summit of Domocratio cconomy. They will fail, howover, {n this aa in all other attempta to set up as mornl reformers and guardians of the Public Trensury. ‘The party of Twerp, TFrorp, PeaprLrTox, Tnoxeson, and the Tam. many Ring, and of the pnok of office-socking vultures that now throng the Houso lobbles, oannot acquire o roputation for public virtuo by crippling the postal service for the sake of moking political capital and embarrassing the Ropublican Administration, If they suc- coed in their lsro]ont, thoy will but bring down npon themselves tho full responsibility for this attempt to dostroy tho most indis- pensable branch of the publio service. A NEW RAILWAY PROJECT. Tho only railway projects that can com- mand capital or confidence in these times aro those which contemplate the improvement of existing property and tho vitalization of ronds that are mow idle and unprofitabla. Tho close of the litigation which places the Rockford, Rock Island & 8t. Louis Road in the hands of Mr, Osrznneno, who purchased it and holds it in trust for the German bond- holders, suggests a combination which will | give Chicago a now West and Southwest rail- road, and asaist in some mepsure in provent- ing arrangements like that of last winter for carrying tho grain around Chicago in its courso to tho aeabonrd, Tkho suggestionis to consolidate, by contract or otherwise, the present Chicago & Pacific with tho Rockford, Ttock Island & St. Louis, which mey be dona by® the completion of a missing link be- twoen Byron, in Oglo County, the prosent terminus of the former, and Sterling, in ‘Whiteside County, the terminusof thalgttor,— @ distance of less than 88 miles. Buch a con- junction of tho two ronds would give & new’ THlinois railrond nenrly 400 miles long, run- ning west from Chicago some 90 miles, and thonce mainly south, through the westorn countics of the State, to Alton, with a Bt Touls connection. Tho country traversed is thickly populated and rich in produce, which would then seok Chicngo ns its most nataral ontlet to tho Eastorn and foroign market. Tho conditions socm to bo peculiarly favor- abla to the consummation of such o project. The Chicago & Pacifio Rsilroad, running through Elgin, and with a moro desivablo entranco into this city than could now be so- oured by any now rond, has run out of moncy, and cnnnot carry out tho original iden of running to tho Mississippi River. Tho Rockford Road-has never been complotod boyond Bterling. 1Itslength from Sterling to Alton Junotion is 271 miles, and it hos short branches making 21 milos moro of road, with pidings and other tracks smounting to 20 miles, It has 81 locomotive engines and nearly 1,000 revenuo cars. The stock has ‘boen wiped ont, and tho basis of the sale of the roud, now fully approved by the courts, will enable it, after practically nbsorbing the Chicago & Pacific and completing tho gsp botween Sterling and Byron, to compete for ‘business on a practical cost of $10,000a mile, instead of 340,000 or $50,000 o milé. With n direct connection with Chicago, which it should control, it will bo ina position along- gide of the Burlington & Quincy ond the 8t Touis & Alton Ronds, running through a dif- ferent country but drawing equally on the cross-roads. Tho advantage of such an ar- rangement both to Chicago sud to the rosd itselt 18 obvious, and we think it ought to commend itsclf to Mz. Ostenszno and the goentlomen whose intereats ha ropresents. Certainly the Chiesgo merchants and ship- pors should encournge tho proposition in overy way thoy can, os caloulated to unite moro closely than ever the interestsof Chicago and the country to tho wost and south of us, A NAVAL MONSTER. We have hithorto briefly referred to the monster iron-clad, the Inflaridle, in process of consiruction in England, as the largest and most poworfal war-vessol in the world. She has now boen safely launched, and this fact Lsa been made the oceasion of much inter- eating disensalon in the English papors as to the availability and utility of their monster flonting citadel, some peints of which will prove of intorest. Tho firat of theso is her size and armameont. Tho Injleridls will carry in turrets four 81- ton guns, Thess turrsts will bo proteoted by 18-inch armor, and the citadel of the ship by 24-inch plating. Tho citadel is 12 foat high, 75 foet broad, and 110 feet long, and incloses’ the engines and boilers, tha baso of the turrets, the hydraulio gear, and the magazines of tho ship. The walls aro 41 jnches thick, made of plates from 16 to 24 inches thick, with teak between and behind them, The ship extends 18 feat below the citadel and 105 feet beforo and bohind it, these portions being utilized in floating the contral citadel. Dy tho use of hydraullo power the Bl-ton guns, it is stated, will bo worked oa casily as tho 58-ton gunson the othor English vessels, Her displacoment, with all hor welghts on board, will bo no less than 11,407 tons. 8o much for her sizo and power. In the construction of the Znflexible thoro has been a wide divergence from tho moth- oda employed in theearlior iron-clads, Those were long and narrow, in the shapo of a ci- gar. The noxt that wore built wore consid- crably brondened im besm., The Infleridle s almost oval, shortor and broader still, her benw being nearly ono-fourth of her length, and she ia divided into throe equal parts, the contral part alone being armed, the four guns firing in every direction from tho two diag- onal turrets, 'ho Ruasian vessels of the Popoffka pattorns are almout circular ; like- wise the new vessels being constructed for the Italian Govornment in tho Castalmara ship-yards, It is vory evident, in fact, that it the siza of the plating and power of arma- ments aro to keep on increasing, the circnlar form must ba oventually adopted, after which it becomes an interesting question how much further dimensions and armament can bo i~ creasod without ainking tho vessel, 'Ihere must be a Umitation somewhere, and, in tha present rapid development of ship-building, 1t 19 ovident that the maximum will soon be il As thore fs no Inw ro. reached. How ropidly that development in toking place fs shown that bofore this monster s fairly afloat tho buildors aro at work upon two monsters still mors formida- blo for the Italian Governmnent. Thesa aro tho Dandolo and the Duilio.” ‘They will carry four 100-guns instond of 81-ton guns, and their turrets will bo protectod by 22-inch armor instend of 18-Inch. Wordo thnan this for English prido, tho power of orduanco is incronsing also,—n Knurr gun, a few montha ago, baving picreed n targot rop- resonting the citadel of tho Jnflexible at n distanco of a milo. Tho London Z'imes, in drawing n contrast botwoon the [nflerible nnd coast dofensos, sliows, however, that she is o far moro powerful fortifleation than the whole island of Malta, with all ita fortifica. tions and naturally defensive situation. 'The now Krure guna aro not the only dangers to which tho Tnflexible is linblo. Tho torpedo throotons her, sinco it is impossible Lo pro- toct evory part of tho ship and keop her afloat, cspocinlly those portions below the water-lino. 'Tho ram is another danger; but to offaat theso it i proposed to fight thom with rams oand torpedces,—that is, sur- round the' Jnfleridle with a flotilla of rams and torpedo-boats, thus making her o flont- ing fort surrounded by ontlying fortifica- tions, ns on land n central fort is protected by outlying earthworks. Tho oxistence of such o monster ns the Tnflexible and her Italisn companions, the Dandolo snd Dutlio, is not very ploasant to contomplato in case of war betweon theso powers and our own country. The Inflexible, at a distance of two miles from New York, would hold tho city at its merey, throwing ita 1,700-pound bolts, as big as old-fashioned Dutch ovens, while our shoro fortifications peppered awny at her with bird-shot, Hor armor boing {mporvious to our projeotiles, sho could dofy all of our fortificntions, and mako short work of Now York City. ‘o rush into 8 competition with tho Europesn pow-- ors, however, in the matter of ship-building would bo a folly. AM wo have to do is to let thom work awny till they reach the maxi- mum, and then build from the bost models. ‘While tho English, ]II-‘much, Gormnns, Rus- giong, and Italians are exporimenting snd sponding millions of money upon their ox- perimonts, we must look to the apced of our vessols and to tho power of our guns, making tho Intter equnl to the best. Then wo have the ready raply to those flonting monsaters. Tundred-ton guns in forts on shiore ara just as sorviceablo ns 100-ton gnns in flonting forts, Our const defonses aro tho vital pointa. Wo have no colonies to protect, and no necessity, therofore, of waging oxternal wars, All wo have to do is to provido guns of equal calibro and powoer behind earth- works with which to protect our harbors, THE BERLIN CONFERENOE. The conferonco of the Emperora snd Chancellors at Berlin is closed, and their momorandum of agreement has boon com- municated to the guarantecing Powors. It is atated that, while maintaining Count AN. prassy’s noto as the basis, it concodos the consideration of the reforme demaunded by the insurgent loaders, 'The statoment g tol- egraphed ia somowhat blind, but in gonoral torms it mny be considerod as favorable to the insurgents, and as paving the way to se- gura tha reforms thoy domanded by ultimate- 1y wiping out the Turks. As Count Anpas- sx's noto 18 the baals of ngreement, its pro- vigions are now important, Tho Austrian Chnucellor proposed that the insurgonts should lay down their arms and return fo their homes, and that the Turks should ngke no account of their robellion or punigh them for it. On tho other hand, ho proposed that the Turks should furnish the insurgonts with sceds, broad, and shelter until they conld raise n now crop; that thoy shonld assist them in robuildiug thoeir houses whi¢h had boon destroyed by flre; that tho local courts should be constituted half Turk and balt Ohristind® that taxcs should bo re- mitted to a cortain extont; that the payment of taxos should be mado in somo easier man- nor; and that tho Christians shonld not be compelled to work upon the roads any moro than the Turks, The insurgoents expressed their willingness to accopt tho propositions, provided the guarsutecing Powers would soe to it that they were enforced. Theso reforms had beon promised before, and tho promises had always been broken. ‘Thoy thercfore refused to lay down their arms until the guarnntosing Powors agreod to enforco tho roform. Tle Turkish Government, of course, accepted tho propo- sition, ns it had no intention of fulfilling it aftor tho insorgonts had dispersed. It is 1highly probable, now that the guarantocing Powers have givon tho insurgonts nssurances, that the stipulations shall be enforcod. This, however, will be tantamount to armed interferonco aftor all, as the Turka nover bave, and nover will, fulfill thelr promises. 1In whatover way tho Turkish quostion is con- pidored, there does not seom to bo but one golution toit, and that is the oxpulsion of the Turks from Europe back to their original torritory in Central Asin. The platforms of both wings of the Ohio Democracy declared ** for o tariff for rov- enusonly.” Abill to carry this ion into olfect was introduced into Congress by tho Chajrman of the Ways and Moans Commit- teo four or fivo months ago, but it bas beon quietly suppressod by tho Demooratio party of tha House, Thore aro thirtcen Domo- cratio mombors in the House from Ohio and only saven Ropubljcans, but not ono of thoso thirtcen Democrats hina ralsod o fingor in favor of Monnison's Revonuo Tariff bill, or any rovenue tariff bill, Not ono of them hus opened his mouth against the harsh and oppressivo * protective” features of the presont law, nor meda any effort to modify or amoliorate tho specinl robberies it porpe- trates upon cousumors, In Btate Convon- tions the domngogues of that party pass humbpgging resolutions in favor of a tariff for revonue, but in Congress the samo sort of demagogues quiotly uphold prohibitory aud oppressive imposta lovied for the beno- it of special intorcats, ] The groat Democratic party of Ohio made a fitting moral spectaclo of itacl? when it put Mr, Kentucky-Railroad-Claim-Stoal Pen- preToN in the chir to preside over the Btato Convention at Oincinnatl, o is a vepro- pontative man of the higheat typo of Democ- racy,~that which ateals from tho Trossury; when caught, insolenily wants to know # what you are going to do about it ¥; and, improving upon the example of Twesp, the inventor of that motio, inatead of running away, ataya to brazonly facs it down. Mr. Prnnreron coally plundered the Treasury in the matter of bis trumped-up, rejectad Ken- tucky Central claim against ihe Government for transportation servico that had once boon paid for, Mo presented it, not in Lehalf of the ptackholders, who, if anybody, were en- titled to the proceeds, but of tho estate of bis brother-in-law, who had gotten posses- slon of therosd in fraud of the rights of the true atockhilders, s the couris have since detorminod. On-the score evidently that they woro ontitled to nothing, the repre. sontntives of the eatate agreod to share with Mr. Paxnrerox whatover sum he mighg ronlize on this frandulent-claim spoculation, To put that through bo cunningly speonlated on tha tender suscoptibilitica of the ouam, orod Widow Bowzn, thon Berrxap, the whole copstituting the most shamelosa piece of lob bying and disreputable potticoat intrigue thay has como to light amidat all the exposures of corruption from tho timeof Frorp down tq Pvrep and the presenifpetty plundering Con. fodorato appointaes of the House. PenpLrroy ‘was thorofora approprintely seloctod to preside over tho Convontion of tho Ohio Democracy, who, while putting forward the infamounsly, dishonest rog-ropudintion programme, an taign corruption in ofico and promiso reform of the Civil Bervico. In his own porson, in tho light of the Kontuocky railrond-claim busi, ness and s Chairman of the Ohio Domo. cratio Convention, ho was a shining illuatra tion of the quality of the roform of the Civil Borvico that party would giveus, and of thy code of public morality that would obtaly -under n Denioeratio Administration, Py Tho minority report platform which wag i adopted by the Ohio Domooratic Convention Lins ono singular plank, viz. : ©. A graduated income-tax to mect at least the | premium on gold. aceded to pay interest on the public debt, The duties on jmports are set aport to pay the interest on tha public debt and tho ink ing fund, and whatever may be over is de. voted to genoral expenses. ‘Those duties arg collceted in gold, hence thero has been no *preminm on gold." What necessity is there for a graduated income-tax to pay premium on gold whon there {s no such premium? “The resolution’is nonscnse, and those Who b supported it did not know what thoy were voting for, unless they intend to.have re. caived n dopreciatod curroncy for duties, rnd propose to make good the losa by ro-onacting the War-tax known as on income-tax. Do the fuglemen who engineerod that Conven. tion suppose the country would accept so prepostarous a scheme ? This Ragamuffin party in National Convone tion at Indiannpolls has pressntod a most ox traordinary combination. It has taken ax octogonarian from the East,—a man who has passed boyond the memory of ordinary laws, and who in his socond childhood is pleased with n rxattle, tickled with a straw, and is aq vain ag a boy with his first pair of boots, For Vice.Prosident it has gone to the Pacifie and takon & man who represents gold. Mr. Booru represents people whodonot and never have recognized paper as money; who buy and sell it as morchandise; Wwho, in the ex. clusiveness of their devotion to gold, refuse aven to take silver,—will only reccive trade- dollars by their weight ss bullion. With these two men ropresenting the utmost ex- tremes on tho currency guestion, they have patohed up a Presidential ticket pledged to the substitution of paper for all other forms of money. Senility and ambition,—and these in the Nationnl Contonnial ! " OBITUARY. ' OEOROR A BENEDICT. The telegraph has already announced (hy death of Gronrar A, BEnepict, 8 well-known resident of Cleveland, and for nearly quarter of a century editor of the Cleveland ferald. He was a native of Watertown, N. Y., and obtained Nis education at Yals College. e commenced the practice of the law in Cloveland in 1853, and for sixteen years made the Inw his profession; & part of the time as Clerk of the Superior Court of that city. In 1851 tho Court war -aboliskied, and he then purchased an Interest in. ‘the Herald, and entered its serviea as assoclate -editor under the Hon. J. A. Harnis. A few ,years afterward Mr. HAnuis retired, aud Mr Bexepior succeeded to his position, which be ‘held to the time of Lis death.- Of his cditoral sservices lila own paper says: In politics he was originally 8 Whig, but jolned the Hopublican party soon after its organization, and continaed an sdhorent of that {alth daring the remsiuder of i life. ~ 1o was by naturo strangely conservative, and that eloment {n bis character ex: ercised an important influcace in his. professional carccr. Mr, BENepicT was an cnthusiast in his profession, and felt to the fulleat cxtent the dignity und reapoosiblility of the editorial calling. e was fair and conrteous to all with whom his busfucss relations brought him in contact, and ho sometimes aaid less than a subject demanded for the sake of ,sparing tho feelings of others. DR, WILLIAM W. TALL. ‘The dispatches announced a day or two since ‘that Dr. Wintiax W. Hawrt, the well-known weditor of Hall's American Journal of Health and Medicine, who hus been laylog down: bygienle laws s0 many years for other mortals, dropped dend of an apopleptic stroke. o was born in “Puris, Ky., Oct. 15,1810, and after his graduse ‘tion studled theology. e preached for tem Jyears at Lawrenccburg, Ind., one of his co laborers belng Henny Wanp Beroumn. At sthe end of that time he abandoned theology and practiced mediciue for o number of years in New Orleans and Clochinat!, Ie settled In New York In 1853, and sbout thut time began the publication of bis very succossful Journal of Iealth, In which the sclence of hygiene was pop- ularized, Howos the author and compller of “thirty-two useful works, the principalona belng #Jicalth at Homo,” which atill has an immense dreulation. Two of lislatest works, “Dipbe ‘therla” and ¥ Pnenmona,” aro now in press in "Toronto. Of tho cause of his death tho New Yok World says: For many years It was hin custom to riscat 6 In tho morning and work almost Incessantly until 10 atnight, in” this, if In nothing clse, violating sn fmportant rule«of health thathe ncver ceased to {mprexa upon otticrs. It was this constant labor that undoubtedly brought about his death. OTHER DRATHS. Among other deaths rcceutly reported ars those of Baron VoN SinA, the emincot Austrian banker, who cormenced lfo 2 & diplomat, oo cupylng tho poat of Greck Minlster at the Conrt ot Vienna; of tho Rev. Apnian Louis Rose- ¢iANS, one of thy Puaullst Misslonary Fathers, and eldest son of:Maj.-Gen. RosEcaNg; of tho Engllsh Admiral VERNON JACKSON, who Was the orjglnnl of MARRYATT'S charcter of 0'Lirlen in “Peter Bluplo¥; of Gen. Vou Coner, the Iust suryiving offlcer of the once fumnous P slan * Death's-Ilead Hussarg”; of ITARfIOTH ARNDT, son of the Gurman poet AnNpr, sutho? ot *Was lat der Deutschier Vaterland ' of the Rey, ELr CuanLies, o distinguished clergymsn of the French Proteatiant Church und an fatl mate personal friend of D'Ausions, the his torian; and of HERNRLALPHONSE ESQUIR03,.th French poet apdd romancs writer, ————— Thowar of tho rival pathles—allopathy and homeopathy—eguln ruges fu Michigan. From 1855 until last year the Regents of the Unlver- sity, ln deflancs of the atatute of the Btate, 1o faaed to permit.iomeopathy to be taught fn the medical school. The Legislature of 1875, how- ever, defented the intoleranico of the regulars bY making appropriztion directly for the eatabllali- ment of 5 brauch homeopathle medical schvol which, accordingly, after & deal of reslstancd upon the part of the regulars, was done. The branch medical sghaol was fucomplete fu itselty the profeasorships belng merely thoso of the theory and practice aud of sateria medica, in which branches of the sclence only does home- opathy differ from allapathy. The regular med- teal school was, therefore, forced opun for the admission of the homeopathic classcs to study thereln anatomy, phyalology, sad medical chem- fatry, But withal, tho obstinate intolerance of thoe regulars was nelther yanguished nor dls mayed by this spparent triumph of the Legis Jature of tho Stats over profossional bigotry alter n twenty years' struggle. That bome- opaths, who sccording to the aljopathic theory are ol wrong, and littieshort of being down+ right murderess, \) i y _———-# should o permitted 80 Tecelrs,