Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 23, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY., AUGUST 23, 18767 erected an inverted pyramid of claima that cannot even bo catimated. The sama principle, of conrse, which jus- tifles n recompenso for property destroyed in an inveded country in war will oporate to rolieve the people of the South from sustain. ing any part of the costof the War. The only war-tax over lovied upon the South was tho cotton-tax between 1863 and 1868, which yiclded in bulk s little more than £68,000- 000. The people of the North, during tho War, paid ns high as $400,000,000 n year of War taxes on manafac. tures, incomes, gross receipts, ole, DBut the people of the HSouth have always resented the cotton-tax, and have been per- alatont in their demands that it shall be re. funded, With n faction in absolute control of tho Governmont and all national logisln- tion which belioves that the South waa in no way responsible for the War, this tax will bo promptly refunded, for, on that theory, it is manifestly unjust that the South should bo made to benr any proportion of the cost of the War. This will probably bo the first stop taken by the Confederates, as tho country Lins beon prepared for it by an agitation of the question for some years. The cotton- tax rofunded, and the Riebels paid for the supplies taken from them for the army, the principle of their non.responsibility for the War will have been thoroughly recognized ; and it will follow that tho South shonld be poid for that property in negroes which wos lost whoen the blacks were eman- cipated ns one of the results of the War. The payment for their slaves will bo a further recognition of the theory that tho North should snatain all the cost of the ‘War, direct and indirect, and will lead to an assumption of the Southern debtsand the addition of the Confederate soldiers, widows, fairly active and closed wenk and a shade lower. 8heep wero unchanged. Last Sntur- day ovening there wns in store in this city 1,076,771 bu wheat, 1,567 bu corn, 114,- 053 bu onts, 147,939 bu rye, 321,244 bu bar. ley, One hundred dollars in gold would buy £110.75 in greenbacks at the close. #ccond term bowould withdras from the infincuces which would surround him all opportunity ta ex- cite In him any other emotion than that of making asingle term’ honorable. This fn no extravagant pralee, but it has the advantago of belag true. And, in relation to tho chargo to which we have alluded, Mr, Scnionz further saya: 1¢ it 1s said that the electlon of Mr. Havza would fead to 5 mere continuation of the Gnaxt Admin. {atration, it Is the chatter of party, no les absurd than it his letter of acceptance were a glorification of Grantism. Mr, Gnaxt himself hos a better un- derstanding of the matter, Tho news from Wash- ington cannot have escaped you that Presldent GHANT has found Mr, HAtEs® Iotter of acceplance “rvery Inappropriate,” and haa taken ft almost as apersonal affront. 110 wiil no donbt express his feelingy to a further extent In the conrse of tho campaign. As wo have alrondy sald, Mr. Iayes was principally selected because he is wholly dls- connected with the present Administration, and becanse he can go into the Whito Houso without being ontangled in any of the exist. ing rings and cliques, without having to sot. tlo any old debts, without danger of the in. fluonces of any wing or faction of the party. It is, thorefors, Loth unfair and maliciously partisan, ns Mr, Scuunz expresses it, *‘tho more chattor of party,” to allega that ho will continue Grantism in an vffensive senso. Ho will ndmninister the Government in accord. ance with the vlows sot forth in tho Ropub- lican platform, Ho will enforce all tho laws. He will be surrounded by Republican coun- selors, It could hinrdly bo oxpected that he wonld take advice from counselors of the Tyoey and Hexpnioxs stripe, however safo or sagacious they might be, much less when those counsolors would come to Washington fresh from tho corrupt and infamous school of Tammany, in which Tpen received his teaining,. He will prolong Republicanism and Unionism, but hewill not prolong Grant- ism, and none know that botter than the vory mon who nre making the unjust alloga- by its contrnot to pay thaGas prico atipulated, it is only bound to pay for the gns it uses. Tho city i+ at tho same liberty lo use gna or oil that the citizen is. The city finds itself in that condition finan. olnlly that it cannot pay $700,000 8 yoor for gns to light the stroots; it bas not and cannot get. tho money. It mua, therefore, if the Gnas Company docs not voluntarily reduco the prico of gns,ro. sort to oil, which it can obtain at a compar- alively small cost, Mr, Bituives quotes from his charter that tho Company shall not bo compolled to take loss than $3 per 1,000 feot. But there is nothing in the charter which prohibits the Company from nceepting loss than $3 per 1,000 feot. Indeed, the Company has alrendy furnished private con- sumerd with gns at $2.50 per 1,000 feot. It is not, therofore, a question of law, or of contract, but a quostion of conscience. The city asks thaot the price of ges bo roduced to $1.60per 1,000 foot, Mr. Brnuvosoffors tofur. nish it ot $2.25, That {s asubstantial waiver of tho contract prico, and tho moral question botweon the cityand tho Company fs reduced to s difference of 75 conts per 1,000 foot for gos. The trustes or sgent of the People's Gas Compnny intimntes that under his contract ho is entilled to $8 por 1,000 foct, and do- clares that the refusal to take gas from him will bo such a flagrant violation of contract that the Company will be entitled to dam- nges, Weo suppose tho Company ean only claim damnages equal to the amount of profit lost, or profit.which it would have mede had the eity continued to use the gas, This sub- joct of the price of gas {s notanew ono, The Wost Sido Comnpany has always complained that in its immonse territory the privato con- sumption was vory small, and that to fur. The Tribwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PATARLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAQR PREPAID AT TILS OFFICR. ostpall, 12, per it 1 An interesting contribution to the inside workinga of the prosecution of the Chicago ‘Whisky Ring will be found in alettor printed this moming, which District-Attorney Bavos wrote to Mr. Dexten, giving the points of Remy's evidonce ns originally of- fered to the Government by his attorneys in exchinnga for immuaity, Mr, DEXTRR waAat that time in Washingtdn, and the District- Attorney wished him to consult with the Becretary of tha Treasury and the Attorney- General abont accepting Remst's testimony. Remm wanted to plead guilly and get his sentence \which ha desired should be a fine without imprisonment) befora testifying, but Mr. Banos wos afeald to trust him, Tt will also bo secn that Mr, Baxas submitted the points of Remi's lestimony to the Secretary through Mr. DExTER with the understanding that it should bo sustained by corroborating evidonce, But hora is just where the prose- cution was weak, It did not gat his corrob- orating evidence, on the bnais of which tho Secretary probably inmstructed that torms should be made with Renx; but Renx got partial immunity all the same, —— e A dispateh from London gives an account of an alleged interview between tho Servian Primo Ministor and the Russian representn. tiveat Belgrade, wherein theformerstated that Servia had determined to maintain the con- test ngainst the Turkish arms, and appealed to the gonerosity of Russia for aid both in mon and monoy, Permission was asked for £25 ¥S3 §88 Bpecimen coples sent free. o prevent delay and mistakes, be snreand give Poste Ofee sddreas tn full, Incloding State and County. Temittances may bemado either by &raft, espress, Fost-Office order, or in registered letters, at our risk. YERMS TO CITY SBUBSCRIDRRS, Dally. deltrered, Bunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Daily. dellvered, Bunitay Included, 80 cents per week Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANT, Corner Madison and Dearborn: Clicago, Il e—— TILDEN'S RECORD. A OREAT CAMPAION DOCUMENT. The record conclmively proves that he was— 1. A SEUESSIONIST, AKD OPPOSED 10 TIHE WAR FOIL THE MAINTENANCE OF THE UNION. 2. A DDSOM FRIEND OF * 1038 TWEED" AND A MEMDER OF THE TAMMAN ANG. s, A_BOGUS REFORMEL WHO REDUCED RO TAXES, REFORMED NO CANAL CORRUPTION, AND MADE NOTHING DETTER THAN HE FOUND IT. 4. A CORRUPTER OF THE BALLOT-BOX, AND A LEADER IN FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS, AS CHARGED UPON HIM DY HORACE GREELEY. 5. AN 18SUER OF SHINPLASTERS TO LABOR- ING MEN 1N THE INON REMONS OF MICHIGAN, 0. A MONSTIOUS RAILROAD SHARK, WIO AMASSED MILLION BY DEVOURING WESTERN RAILROADS IN FINANCIAL TROUDLE. This great Campalgn Document fills four psges of TrinuNE size, A copy thereof ahould be placed fn the tiands of every voter In the West. 1iayes and Wheeler Clubs everywhers should order **Tfiden's Record " for dlstribution. COST OP THE RECORD. 1t will be sent by mall or expreas, with charges pald, on the foltowing terms er 100 coples. For A dozen c« and children to tho pension hsts, Ono is nish tho strost lamps exclusively over largo ‘&%‘&?é; : & g g::i‘:: :g:;mn:gfl i:o‘{? o:;,;o t‘;,::“. ‘fh“: not moro unrensonable than tho other, and | tion. distriots involved I:;ueh a Iouy that oven 8ead orders Immediately for **Tilden's Record.” vorslile: anRwer - Wb given by, the all aro comprohiended in the dootrine still 1THE TURRISH CRUELTIES, at $3 por 1,000 feet tho manufactura TRIDUNECO. Chleseo. | f P o vornmont, As 8 consequones, | Dniained by e Democtatio party, s on- | g Turks havo onco moro vindicated their | and _delivery of gus ylolded no profit trolled by the South, that the Bouthern States meraly exercised their sovoroign rights in seceding, and that it was a crimo to resort to war to coerce their submission to tho No- tional Government. These ara the real dangers of the asconden- ¢y of the Democratio party, governed by the Confederates of the South, to supreme power. 'Tho peaplo of this country will be helpless in their opposition to this general schemo of indemnifieation, It will be worked ont in a lawful mnnner by the Na- tional Congress, approved by the National Exocutive, and sustained by the National Courts changed in number and character to T AMUSEMENTS, Haverly’s Thentro. dolph street, hetween Clark and toia Sl rets. " Aftornioun and ovening. to tho Compnny. We suppose that this ropresontation has been honrd by evory gns consumer in the West Division and by every person over connected with the City Govern- mant. The Weat 8ide Gas Company, though never, until Inat January, collecting less than $3 por 1,000 feet, has been ropresented a8 always doing business ata loss. It it ba n 1oss to furnish gas at $3, tho Company is now voluntarily losing a much grester sum by furpishing it to private consumors at $2.50, and yot it now offors to supply - the city at $2,25 por 1,000 feok. 'We do not know the resources of the Company ; but to furnish the public with gas at 75 conts por 1,000 feot according to the London dispatch from Semlin, Russian officers and sub-officers are flocking to Belgrada daily, and offering their services gratnitously, and the Belavonio Com- mittee in Rusain have begun sending forward large sums of money. This information, it true, is foll of promise to the Servian cause. The current of Russian sympathy onco sat *in motion unrestricted by diplomatic inter- ference, tnd the cause of the insurgents would receive the support necessary to turn the scale and beat back the Turkish forces. It isto bo hoped that the long.restrained voluntcor aid from Russin has st lnat been permitted to go to tho rescue of Servin, and claim to the sllegation that thoy are the champion liars of the world in denying that thoy have perpetrated the cruelties charged ngainst them. Epm Frrenor, a Commis- sioner nppointed by the Porte to investigate tho alloged cruelties at Adrianople, has made ayoport in ‘which he denies the atrocities and makes counter-charges of barbarities on the otherside. Tha report, which is printed in the English papers, would be a trlumphant defonso of tho Turks if it were only true, but, unfortunately for ita veracity, these cru. cltice are not only alleged by the Servians, but thoy have been rehearsed by hundreds of eye-witnosses, by Consuls of all the Pow- DMeVicker's Theatre, Madison street, between Dearborn and Btate. *'The Three Gusrdsmen.™ Wand's Museam, Monroe strect, between Dearborn and Btate. fcesonvilic’” Afternoon and evenlng. Adelphl Theatres . uMmmm street, corner Dearborn. Varfety perform- ce. " Ane Tloaley’s New Chlcrgo Theatre, Clark street, between Lake and Randoloh, ITocley's Minstrels. __Aftervon and evening. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1876. i & suit tho theory of State Bovoreignty. Itis d b or correspond- | below tho cost of manufacture and delivery e = z ;?&fl:nt:fi'gfifi:‘:g:flgx: t:’mrn"";fiz not likely that tho Confederatos will resort to ::"s ;‘:m j(,m"“;:fl"" of u,,m:,(vn. and the ordinary expendituro must bo & so- Greesbacksat tho New York Gold Exehango | grmpatly and succor to practical account. sdditional taxation for tho present topay | 1,01 world. Nowhoro have thoy been | riousloss in the course of ayear. Hence, yesterday closed at 904 these Southern war claims; thoy will more probably sell bonds and increaso the public debt to that end. To what extent they will do this it is simply impossible to guess, but the nntional debt may be doubled by earry- ing out the thoory to its logical conclusions. The only way to pravent this is to reafiirm the Republican doctrine of National Sovoreignty nnd repudinto the Confederate heresy of State Soverciguty. the proposition of the city to release the Company from obligation to farnigh the gas at all ought to be gratefully accepted. In- stead of claiming a bill of damnges, the Com- pouy ought to bo thankfal to the city for roleasing it from =a con. teact under which the Company hes beon losing monoy for soveral yoars, and which, with the additional sacrifice of 75 conts per 1,000 feet, must oventually im. pair tho capitel, destroy the credit, and absorb the entire property of the Company, leaving the stockholders insolvent and bank. ropt. Under those circumstancos, the talk about the city having to pay the GasCompany dnmages, if it dispense with gas at the rain- ous prico offered by the Compuny and use oil, is hardly consiatent. Without pretending to know what the Msyor and City Coupeil will do, wa think that public opinion has scttled down to the proposition that if the city cannot bo fur- nished with gas at 1,50 per 1,000 feot, that the streots be lightod with oil. That isa result from which, unless there be some serious legal diffiulty, the public will not be driven by talk about damnges. stated with more detail and cireumstance than in the English papers, although the Tory Government of England has winked at them becauso it looks upon the Christian re- volt as projudicial to ita viows of tho East- ern policy. Tho charge that the Turks had beon guilty of o burbarity so flendish that it was without excuso has been thoroughly es- tablishod out of the mouths of innumerabla witnesses, Even tho London ZTimes, ro- ferring to this report, is constrained to dis- believe it. Itpays: b The Turkish Gavernment has falled to observe that Ita nccosers have made distinct and specific sccusations. They have given names, dates, places. Thoy havo bronght charges agalnst par- ticular officials. If the Porte wishesto clear itself, it must be equally apectfc. It will not sufice to say that in somecases the Turkieh troops wore mer- clfnlor that in othors the Mussulman villagers practiced tho ordinary datles of humanity. Tho Porte is Jnmentably mistaken If it supposes that the opinion of Europe will bo Infinenced by so vaguo and evaslve a reportss thatof Epin Er- rEsDL 1t shovld bo remembered that the atrocities nt Adrianople wero perpetrated bofore tho outbreak of the war, oven before the masancre of the Consuls at Salonica, Since that timo hundrods of towns and villoges have beon burned. Thousands of women and children have been tortured and butch- ered, and other thousands have beon carried off into slavery and shipped to Turkish harems. Never in the history of the world hos there been such a rocord of horribla savagery as that which has boen inflicted upon helpless women and children by theso fiends, For those cruelties England stands morally respousible, astheywere done under shelter of the Tory Government, Thero must some day come a fearful reckoning. THE GREAT POLITICAL DANGER. Tiroey aud HENDRICRS casnot be clected without at the same time giving the Demo- cratic party full control of both Houses of Congress. The majority of tho Domocrats in Congress will be composed of the mem- bors from the Southern States, who will therefore control tho caucus. All logisla. tion, as a consequence, will be shaped finally by the Confederates of tho sixteen Southern States acting solidly in the sectional interest of animpoverished but ambitious and greedy people. Mr. TiLpex will owe his clovation ta these people mainly, and will not be able, even if he have the inclination, to oppose them,: Thera will be nothing, therefore, to prevent the Confoderntes from reconping their losses of the War at tho cost of the en- tire tax-paying public of the unntion. Thoy will have the temptation offered by oppor- tunity, power, poverty, n sense of wrong dono them, aud tho theory and belief that the War was forced upon them withont justice or tho nuthority of the Constitution. Under such cireumstances it will demand greater for- bearanco and self-control thau human naturoe s yot been found capablo of to resist tho temptntion of indemnifying themselves for losses which thoy believed they sustained through the malice and injustice of others, Aund this is the greatest danger to be appre- hended from n change of the National Ad- ministration at the present timo, One section or the other must have been in tho wrong in the late Civil War, On the theory maintained by the Republiean party. that sovercignty is vested in the National Government, and that no State 1nd a right to withdraw from the Union o8 from a mere cotnpact or treaty, then it was tho duty of the National Government to coorcs the re- turn of the seceded States, and they must ‘bear the penaltios and losses of their own crimo in sustaining an unconstitutional act by an oppeal to srms and the horrors and desolation of war. Dut if the principle of sovereignty is vestod in tho Siates as individual political entities, and the Sonthern States had a right to secede, then the North commutted a constitutional crime in com. pellivg them to Iny down their nrms and ro- turn, and the North is responsille to them for all the damnges they snffered on account of this unwarranted sud unconstitutioual procedure. Lhere is no manner of doubt that the vast majority of the ex-Confedorates —probably ninety-nine out of every hundred —beliove now, as they did in 1860, that the sovercignty is vested in the Statea; that thoy hod s constitutional right to withdraw from the League, which they regarded as a moro agoucy of the Btates; and that they have yiclded merely to superior force and mot to morn! right in retarning to the Union, The ante-Waor rocord of both Trepxn aud Hex. pnioks, a8 well as various recorded utter. ances of both during ths War, show that thoy aro also imbued with this State-Sover- aignty heresy. Thus their alection, along with a majority of both Honses of Congross, will restore to the controlling power in the nation that faction which lolds to the belief that the War was conducted by the North without constitutional suthority, Tt does not follow that, holding that doc- triue, there would bo any movement Ly the South, or any part of it, toward another se. cession or disruption of the Union, (1) bo- cause thoy probably do not now rogerd it as denirable, and (2) because they mny woll doubt its succoss, But it does follow that, Laving absolute political power, they will usae it for their own bonefit, aud provide res- titution of the lossca they suffered in a war which thoy bolleve wns waged ngainst them withiout justice or authority, Tha fact that they were on the ove of & Preaidontial elec- tion, in which thoy hoped to attain absolute power, and the cbeck put upon themby & Republican Senate and Republican Pres- ident, did mot provent them from at least foreshadowing this polioy in the late House of Reprosentatives. DBills were actually introduced for the -pay- ment to Rtebels for stores and supplies taken during the War for thouso of tho avmy, for the uso of vessels, boats, and camping- grounds, for the fonces destroyed, the trees cut down, the pluutations desastated, and evory loss incldeut to on invasion of an cnemy's territory. Tho passage of legisla- tiox in these comparatively small matters will establish the privoiple, cu whicy will be o — There will bo mors warm wenther here- abouts to-dny, with a reasonablo probability of an occasional shower. A victory of some importance to the Ser- vion arms is officially announced at Bel- grade. On Monday Gon. HonvaTovicE ro- captured Gurgosovatz from the Turks, and HAYES AND GRANTISM. The campaign is now over two months old. The Republican cnndidates have been beforo the people since the middle of June. There haa been nmple time for the Demo- cratic papers and stump-spenkers to thor- oughly annlyze and eriticize theso candidates and to present the peopls with their rensons why Hayrs and Wneeren should not be clected. It will bo conceded by every one that the Democrats are not acoustomed to wasto opportanities of this sort. During all this time, howovor, aftor the most diligent and laborious investigation, thoy have been enabled to make but one criticism and to offer but ono objection to theeleation of the Republican candidates, and, as might be ex- pected, thnt objection is as flimsy na it is untrue, The burden of tho outery of overy Democratic nowspaper and stump-speaker is, that in case of tho election of Haves and ‘WugeLen, their Admistration will be a con- tinuation of Grantism, and with this unfair, unjust, and untrue statement, thoy arc seck- ing to moke capital in the Bouth, which do- tests GRANT, not beeauso he is President, but because he ovorcame secession, and with such wavering Republicans in the North as aro feorful that the policy of Grant, which they dislike, may ba continued by Hayes. Tle answer to this is a very plain and sim- ploone. Mr. Haves was nominated at Cin- cinnati for the very reason of avoiding this charge, which, it was anticipated, might be made. He was selected bocauso ho has never been under Gnaxt's influence. He has nover been n membor of bis Cabinet, o bas never eubscribed to his errors, Therefore, to utterly avold every suspicion of Grantism and to onable the party to run free of the Lurden, HAves waa chosen as its standard- Lenarer. ‘There is only one possible senso in which the acousation can Lo made that the Haves Adminisiration will bo a continuation of the Graxr Administration, namely, that it will be u prolongation of tho Republican party in power. But in answoer to this it moy bo #ald that the Republican party has changed its ngonts. It has chosen a new leader, who comes to the front with a now policy. Ho has never trained under tho old leader, and is committed tc nono of his plans or purposcs, much less to his orrors oud mistakes, Tnstend of solocting a man for his military record, they elacted n man because of his clvil record, his unspotted personal character, and his abilitios as & statceman, They selected & leador whose moral and menjal character- istics, habits of life, and modes of thought all tend to carry him as fgr o possible from o coutinuance of GRaRT's errora and failings. Ho will not be surrounded by a herd of poor rolatives, nor will he ba besieged with their olamorous importunities, DBeing rich him- gelf, ho ds removed far from any possible finpneial temptution. Ilo has never been charged, even by his worst enewics, with gift-taking. Ilo not only has no taste for such things, but his moral rectitudo is so well known that no man will dare to offer T present or bribe. He is not a rash man, nor domineering in disposition. Ilois not 50 pig-headed as to uphold the errors that might pousibly bo wade; on the other band, hie bna always boen uoted for his coolnoss, sogacity, and prudence. Caru Scuvaz, in bis recent letter to thu editor of the New York Staats-Zeitung, mokes the following eloquont estimato of his abilitics: Tt does not occur Lo mo to elevate Mr. &, » demi-god because ho ln a candidate fo! dency, but he fa universally recognized man of serupulous Integrity, of a strong feshng of hunor, of & quict energy,—s man who has fulflled sl public duties which bave ever devolved upon him with succeas, and o every rospect without re- proach; aman in whom the deairo to restore and preserve Lonor tothe Government wprings from the natural tendency of hiv neture, snd pot from artiscs or afocted fecling, It Is quite as well kuown that, in his ofiicls] capacity, bo bas ropelled the bad elementa of party, and surrounded himself with thoso most deserving of respect, Iu the Presidency he would thereiu not bo less succesaful, copecially as through Lis decided rejecdonof a mp murder of the foreign Consuls at Salonica wors formally dograded yestorday., Atrocity being at a preminm in Turkey, their rein- statement in n quiet way mey be expected shortly. The great anthracito coal combination was yesterdny disrupted. ‘The stock spoculators operating for lower prices wero disappointed in the fact that this event hadbutlittle effect on the price of certain sucurities which it was expeeted to reduce in value, Five hun- dred thousand tons of conl will be put upon the market ot auction Tuesday, and there is 8 bare possibility that the people may derive altimnto benefit from the change in the as. pect of the mnmmoth fitel monopoly. ¢ « MRS, SWISSHELM'S PATENT. The renders of Tur Omicico TRIUNE will bear us witness that Mrs, Jane Guey Swissuzras has been striving to bo a great public reformer in her rough and ready man- ner, She hns wrestled with every socinl, moral, and political question that has beon the subject of - publio discussion, Tho care of infants, the quality of soothing airup, the compounding of broad and doughnuts, the phases of tho Bezonen case, the construction of flannel waistconts for the population of Borioboola Gha, the resumption of apecie payments, tho merits of street pavements, the political aspeots of tho Presidontial cam- paign, the intoxicating qualities of lager beer, the evolution of spocies, the identity of tho man who struck WiLrLtax PATTERSON, the fallings of tho clorgy, the miseries of amateur singers, the corruptions of tho Court-House Ring,—ovory prominent topiein fact of the past quarter of o century has beon overhauled by her in the most vigorous manner, not always with any profitablo prac- tical result, but always with oarnestness and mascoline strongth, Shoe has had some- thing to say about everything, and sho has liad o way of saying it that has attracted attention and commanded respoct, notwith. standing tho charge of garrulousncss some. times brought against hor. Mra. Swissnrat has written and spoken much bocsuse sho couldn't help it. Her mind is a sort of grist-mill, grinding out sug- gestions from tho facts constantly running into ita hopper. Tho suggestiona have boen good, bad, and indifferent, according to the grist sho has had to grind, but in the midst of much chaff there has beon some good gralo, - A lotter from this lady in lust Monday's TmiuNs is in proof of this, She is the exception to the rule that women mnover invent anything., B8he has fuventod a aclentific apparatus that is des- tined to work a rovolution in the heating and vontilating system of our housea and publio buildings, and to prove o great bless. ing to mankind in a hygionio sense. After breathing the impure and poisonous air pumped up from cellars instond of the at- mospheric resorvoir, #0 miles deep, above us, which Is pure and wholesome, she st at work to see if she could not draw & current of air down from the upper pure strats of the atmosphere justoad of up from the car- bonized, poisonous air on the surface of the earth. We let hor toll her own story s 1 went home, and spent weeks in a dirty littlo tin-shop, getting modele made, and found that my principle worked to 8 charm, but that there was saveral ways of applyingit, When I got one,—a furnace, With thres hot-alr pipew and one cold-alr pipe, adjoining the smoke-flue, slarted tha fre, snd found a steady draft down this and up throngh those, I put more pipe on the cold-air flue, and d |t up three times the height of the hot-alr bl -aic plpe, thea Into another, and found the ale rush out of the other two, and the bit of tisaue paper lie on the top of the cold-air flue,—I thought thst would answer. 1 rolled that model in or, and carrled it to my snglneer friend's hou ud at dinner told him I had found a plan by which ho could draw air for his furnace down the drawlog-room chimney-fie, then unused, aud send it thzough the house with- out danger of counter-currents, ko laughed, and said be had heard of such ihinge. After dinuer I banded him the model. He took it, withs hesrty Jaugh, turned 1t over m while, began to Joak aerl. ous, blsw into one pips, thaa inte soothes, and The great rush of visitors to the Centen- unlal Exposition seems to have fairly begun. It is atated that 12,000 passougers wero car- ried yesterdny from New York to Philadel- phis. Among the now arrivals was o party of 118 Chincsa bays from their schools at Hartford and New Haven,who had proceeded in a body to view the wonders of the big shotw. 'Those are the young Celostials sent to America by the Chinese Government to remain in this country fifteon yoars and ro- ceivo a thorough education in our schools and colleges, A goneral movement in the, whisky-fraud prosecutions is to be inaugurated early in 3optember by direction of the Attornoy- Geperal, with a view to a thorough cleaning ap of the dockots in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Bt. Louis, Besidcs the persons who Lave been indicted but not brought to tral, there isa large number who have entered pless of guilty and have not yef, recoived therr sentonces, It is announced in Wash. ington that Eamenry A, Stonms, of Chicago, Las been employed by the Government to sasist in the prosecntion of the romaining cases. If his success in securing convictions isat all in proportion to his success in pre- vonting them, his assistance will be of no small value. 'Tho report that the Canadian Indians have been approached by the putative possessors of the colored elevations in Wyoining and Dakota is confirmed by official advices from the Dominion, It soems that tho red men ovor’ the bordes aro mot possessed of that ssnguinery temperament which distinguishes their brothers this side of tho line, They Lave, therefore, in reply to our invitation to join in the work of exterminating tho Torces of Cpoox and Teugy, roturned answer that they have no desire to cliauge their condition of contented peace for one of disastrous war, to which message the Sioux send word that they will, after properly punishing the civil. fzed invaders, turn their attention to the proud Blackfect, whose country they will overrun, and whose substance they will de- ‘your. MR, BILLINGS AS COMPLAINANT, We yostorday printed the letter of Mr, Bruuas, of tho People’s Gas Compauy, to the Common Couneil. It is needless to say thot, like all Mr, Bittmnos' proviouscom- munications to the public in dofenss of the Gas Company, it is nble and fngenions. Mr., Bruranas objects to tho action proposed by the City Couneil on sovoral grounds, (1.) That, howover groat the nocessity, the City of Chicago casnot justify on moral or legal grounds tho violation of contracts. (2.) That the contract madoe with the Gas Com- pany in 1869 is warranted by the expressed lotter of the charter of the Company, as amendod in 1866, ‘The law of tho Btate prohibits any ordinance requiring the Com- pony to furnish gaa at loss than $38 per 1,000 foot. (8.) That for the City Council to vio- late ita existing contract, or to substitute for the gaa ** burning torches"” in the shape of oil lamps, will involve the already embarrass. ed city in an amountof damnges far oxceeding tho supposed savingof expenditure. (4.) That, in viow of the changed circumstances of tho city and the financial troubles, he will in behalf of his Company reduce the prico of gas to the city from $3 to $2.26 por 1,000 feet, having previously reduced it to private consumers to $2.50 per 1,000 feet. Thera can be no question as to tho high morality of a religious non-violation of con. tracts, and Mr. Biuunos' remarks on this point will meot with Learty approval from all high-minded and henorable men ; but the trouble is that thers are very few porsons ‘who believe that any violation ol contract is proposed or intonded. Tho Gas Companies obtained from the Commeon Council in 1869 a contraot at certain prices and with certain agreements, tho Coundl of that year under- taking to bind the city for ten years to fol- low. 'Pho prices named in that contract were enormouy for that time, and of course are more so for the present time. It {4 denied by the city, and has always been denled, that the Council conld, make a contract for ton yesmw, or for any number of years beyond its own life and legal ex- fstence. If for ten years, it might bind the city to take Mr. Brrmas' ges far twenty or thirty years, and thee would bo no appeal, roliof, or redresa. 'The question now st is. wue is whether tlut contract of 1669 is legally any more t3an & contract for one year, and continuing by consent year after yoar. Mr. Birranogsssumes the whole ques- tion when he declars that the contract haa a logal existence expnding to 1879, That is a question of both)aw and fact which has to be determined, is now an open and not an adjudioated {uestion. But ovon adwittiy that thae city is bound | ‘The Chicago produce markots wero mod. erately active yesterday, provisions belng weak and breadstuffia firm, Mess pork closed 46¢ per bLrl lower, at $16.95@17.00 cash or Septembler and $14.95 seller the yoar. Lard closed 22jo per 100 1w lower, at 310,80 cash or Beptember aud $10.10 acller October, Meals wero qulet, at 6jo for boxed shoulders, 8jo for do short ribs, and 90 for do short clears, Lake freights wore active, at 20 for corn to Buffalo, Rall freights ‘were unchanged. Highwines wero dull, at §1,10 per gallon. Flour was quist and firm, Wheat closed jo lower, ot 00¢ for Au- gust and 91jo for Boptembor, Corn closed , dcJower, at 4430 cash aud 44}o for Boptom- L:r. Oats closed {o higher, at 80jo for cenh o Heptember and 80jo for October. Rye 'v'¢ firmer, at L8@G4c. Barloy was strouger, closiug at 7ic for Beptember and 20 for October. 1logs were in good demond s:d ruled steudy at Monday's prices, poor to enoica gelling st §6.75@0.40. Caitls wore remarked: **Sure enough! Yon have gob it! Why did nono of us ever think of that?™ That thoro is value to her discovery is sliown by tha {ssua of a patent to her by tho Commissioner, If her plan, which works so successfully in tho model, ean bo practically applied to buildings, she will have nocotn- plished moro than any of the savants or hygienia philosopliers hiave yot been able to do, 8ho will resous her own sex from tho stigmn of being non.nventors, and shie will recelve the blessings of all mankind for res. cuing them from tho slow but sure poison of foulalr, Jane is possibly to bo congratu- lated. * MORE OF TILDEN'S RAILROAD WRECKING. Tho peoplo of Indiana have beon visited with more thau thelr share of the popular burdens which have contributed to moke up TiLpeN's wenlth of soveral millions of dol. lars, Wa'have shown that, from his own answer to the snit brought against him by the Bt. Louls, Alton & Terre Hauto Rallroad, he has admitted eithor to a brench of trust or tho obtaining of money under falso protenses which cost cortnin Indisun people $168,000; Lut the people of another soction of that Stato woro mudo to suffer still more, A line of railroad was projected from Fort Wayno to Traverse Bay, known as the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railrond, and the people along the lino contributed some $600,000 of city, county, and private subscriptions to- ward building the road.. A suflicient sum in fact was ralsed In this manner to com- ploto tho nctual work of construction. Dut here was too good an opportunity for the application of Trozx's invention of Crodit- Mobilier to lot pass unimproved. A Ring was formod, under his direction and guided by his logal advice, for gobbling up all the subscriptions. It wns called tho Continental Improvement Company, which wes ambi- tious to construct the rond. 1t sccured con- trol of tho stock by proxies, voted all the as- sots of tho rond (including the $000,000 of 1ocal municipal sibscriptions), and an issue of $1,800,000 first-mortgago bonds for the construction. 'The next step was to moke tho bonds negotinblo at a falr rate, and the Ring did this by lossing tho rond to the Ponnsylvanin Company for ninety-nine yoars, which guaranteed tho interest on the bonds. This, of ecourse, wiped out tho 8600,000 of local subseriptions, nnd Joft the cities, counties, towns, snd privato subscribers to whistle for the monay. By this operation it is likely that Mr. T~ pEN and his Ring nssociates mode at the very loast 1,600,000, after allowing for the shave on tho bonds and the comstruction of tho road, sinco onough monoy had beon notaally subscribed for the latter, todivido to somo extent, perhaps, with tho controlliag apirits of tha Ponnsylvania Com- pany, whose guarantea of the intorost on the bonds rondered thom nogotinble; but, as the enginoer of the schomo, ho probably re- ceived tho lion's share, Tho rascality of the tronsaction was fully eoxposed by the Hon, J. K. EpornroN, the President of tho Grand Raplds & Indiann Company, himself & confirmed Democrat, and formerly 8 Democratio member of Congress. Tha ex- position was made in the Fort Wayno Senti- nel, one of the lending Democratic nows- papors of Indiona. Buball this wes before Trnopxn was thought of as a Democratio candidate for Presidont, Mr. TiLpe is now sending back some of this ill-gotton money into Indians for campaign purposes, but weo donbt very much whether the. peopls who were originally swindled out of it will be tho favored ones now ; nor can we understand liow any of those who are still paying taxes in Indisna to make up these railrond sub- scriptions for Troen's bonofit can consont to vote for him, & The Now York Zribune has compiled a table, which we print to-day, showing tho reduction in the wages of men and women which hos taken place sinco 1874, and the like reductions which have taken place in the cost of living in the same period. Theso changes have hnd a marked effect on thae labor orgnnizations and trade societios. The hard times having forced a reduction of ex- pendituro on the part of society generally; & reduotion in omployment followed of ncces- sity. As a consequance, the scales of wages established by tho arbitrary rules of trade unfons bocame absurd. It was no longer a question s to what wagos a workman should Le permitted to work for, but where the man could get work at any price. The num- ber of unemployed became so groat that all attompts to maintain o fixed rate of wages wero abandoned. In some branches of em- ployment the number discharged was pro- portionately so great that the * unions” have been disbanded. It was no use to * striko,” because the omployor was roady and soxious to suspond business altogother. The table shows the rates of ‘wages pnid to men in over fifty trades and to women ina Iarge number; and that in the formor class the reduction hns been from 10 to 20 per cent, and in women's wages from 25 to 36 por cont, Evon in that class of female oporatives known as *help,” and which have hitherto beon able to command undiminished wages, o considornble reduction has taken place, This is largoly due to tho fact that familien gonerally have reduced, the number omployed, thoreby incressing the number seoking work, The wages of this clasa in Now York have declined from $14 to $18 per month to $10 to $12 per month. The paper from which we take this statement, however, shows that those who have been able to maintain regulsr employment are doing better even on tho roduced wages tusn at tho highor rates in 1870, There haa been even a grenter reduction in the cost of living, giving to the wagoes of 1876 a greater pur- chasing power than the larger wages of 1872, "The saverity of tho hard times falls on those who are wholly unemployed. The cable dispatches a day or two since ye- ported the death in London of Joun FugpERICK Lxwis, the well-known English palnter nofls and water-colors, e was born {n that city in 1800, and was the son of an engraver. Between 1830 and 1850 he made long sketching tours through Europe, and on his returu from Spaln brought with him a large collcction of views of the Alhambra and coples of Bpanish aod Vene- tian mosters. In 1855 he Arst made hls sppear- ance ss an ofl painter, In that year he was chosen Prestdent of the Soclety of Painters in Water-Colars, and In 1865 was elected & member of the Royal Academy. Among his best works are “/The ilarem,” *' Bedouius snd Thelr Cam- els," ¢ A Halt in the Desert,* Sceno lu Calro,” “The Well {n the Desert,” and *A Frank in the Desort of Mount S{nal." e ——— ‘The mission to Switzeriand has been, In effect, abolishied by a refusal to make an appropriation to support {t. This waa the work of the Demo- cratie members fu Congress from Wisconsin for the purposs of aspiting the Hou. Homacm Rusres, formerly the editor of ths Madison State Journal, who has been the Minister to the Swiss Ropublic since 1809, Probably he does not regret belng legislated out, as he Intended coming home sbortly auyway. He lost his daughter lately, & besutiful and sccomplished girl of 18, educated ut Nurewmberg, aud will bring b remaing bome when the cold weathier Mr. Tupes hed | actain. When In charge of the Journat iy on able and excellent editor, and wieldod ;:‘:‘: Influence aver the polltics of Wisconsin, & e — THE ABOLITION OF DOOBSTLPS, A litte femindie wall went up in one of gy, Bunday pupers agalnst tho pernfelous lnh;: which some people, mostly bonrders, have g quired of sittfug vut on the front dourste The writer, with the vigorous and unwlump;f language of oue who had suffered much, ge. scribed how she was obliged cvery cvumm‘z to walk down West Washington sticet and under. go the humiliation of belng atared at Ly u,‘; myriads of young men and women assembley fo front of thelr residences, no doubt for express purpose of scelng her 08 she passe, And 0 If this were not enough Ignominy to poyr upon an unoffending female, the {nhabitants of that thoroughfare, according to the write cause thelr little children to trundle Vflofl[’!flg; up and down tho sldewalk In order to ryy ogainst her and tear her dress, The revely. tion which this correspondent makes of manners of society In that hitherto reapecteq quarter of tho city Is certalnly of a most rovolt. ing nature, and {8 caleulated to arouse the yg. most Indlignation In the mind of every law-abid. ing citizen. Somo effective measures should by taken at once to compel the residents of Wegt Washineton street to remain in-doors after thy bour of 7 o’clock in the evening, or oven afterg o'clock, 1f necessury, in order that Passers-hy may not have thelr delicate feelings harrowe] by belng gazed at from the front door-steps, Since the subject Is now falrly under discuy. slon, may it not bo well to consider it in fy, ealin light of true philosophy, rather than g grant all the premises and {ndulge in vitupera. tlon, which {s always superflelali Is there nop underlylng tho mere fact of people sltting out of dvors in the evening some deeper meaning— & something that is still desper thon any urdl. nary eause or jncentivel It may unacknowledged and unknown even by the men and women who habitually indulge fn the vice of sitting on the front door. steps. In fact, any of these people wouly probably offer as a palliation for their crime that they were merely consulting thelr per. sonal comfort, and would make up a shabby ex. cusa grouuded on the weather or something equally as ridlculous. But those arc not the real motives, It remalns for us to declare an bitherto undiscovered fact, that it s the door. step alone which Is to blame in this matter, At first thought ono might feel nclined to doubt the statement or to carp at it, and yet the more ong reflects upon {t judiclously and without prejudice, the more it nssumes an ol of probabillty, Look at the case! IHere, it wiil be remembered, {8 the wholo populs tion of a reputable street collected at s certaln hour of the cvening ot a certaln corresponding portion of thelr resldence. Boarders they may be, but for all that they are human. Nor s there any limita. tlon of age or sex. It only the young boarder were there, accompanied a8 he alwaya s by the londlady’s eldest dsughter, then it might be clalmed with somo shiow of truth that he was there for flirting purposes. But the young boarder and his falr companion, no doubt to their regrot, ore seldom allowed to monopolize a place that {sin such general demand. The old bald-beaded boarder, the bearded and chiv- alric boarder, the flounced and painted boarder, the pretty, giggling boarder, and all the mul. tiform varletics of boarders, are represcuted. Does it not scem probable, In view of this ag- glomeration of people with dillerent interests and tastes, that there is somo such fundament- al cause for thelr action ns hias been suggested] The front door-step, then, scems to posseas s certain malignant foscination, not unlike that of the cvll eye, which impels people, ordinarily of good intentlons snd character, to visit and linger in its nelehborhood at a certain hourof the evening, and also causes them to gazeast people passing along the street. That In exers clsing that attracting power it does so wickedly 13 o matter of record, and Is therclore caslly susceptible of proof. lorEe (o Veea tclls about a cavalier who, when returning fron: the war, where he had encountercd danger in every form and whence hebad eseaped unscathed, was killed by falting from his own door-step, Soc- RATES was probably standing on his own door- .| step when s wife showered him with slops, Many simllar fnstances might be related whers ovil befell men and women on account ol thelr proximity to the fateful door-step. Convinced, then, of the fact that to the door- step alone should be attributed all the blame, and animated by a sincere desire to sce justico done to all, wo reiterate that the residents along West Washington street have Ueen mis- represented by the lady who wrote to the Bun- day paper, ‘The only remedy that we can sea for the people who, like her, are condemned to bo stared at cvery evening, fa for a petition to bo eirculated which, after succinctly stating the above grievances, shall demand, In the name of the long-sufferlng public, the total abolition of front door-steps. L —— The Republicans of the Bangamon District have nominated D. L. PriLrips, Esq., for Con- gress agalnst WiLLiad M, BPRiNGER, the Con- federato candidate. PnILLIPs runs as a sort of forlorn hope, o8 the District was constructed to be Democratic. 1t consista of six countles, which have always been sct down as ** Demo- cratie,” viz.: Cuss, Clristian, Menard, Morgan, Beott, and Sangamon, And yet D, L. Punties is not as onc without hope—of moking his call- ing and_election sure, and entering upon the joys of Congress. 'To begin with, he {s popular in the District; he §s acqualnted with pretty uearly every man, woman, and child in the sls countles, and liked by everybody, and esteemed ns a man of ablllty, encrgy and enterprise. And then he s & sharp and shrewd a politiclan “as they male tem.” If BiLL SprINGER, who, by the way,ls o slouch,” gets abead of PaiLiiry, he wil hava to riso very early in the morning, trarel fast, and not stop before dark, We sald the District. {s and was cat out to be Confedente, ut, Uke old Zaon TAYLOR'S politics—ho sad Lie was & Whig, but not an ultra Whig—1t {a ot ultra Confoderate. In 1873 tho vote for Ca- greas was: Ronmson (Dom.), 18,245, Cuate BRLAIN (Rep.), 12,811; Democratic majority, oty 934, In 1874 things were mixed, viz. BPRINGER (Confed ) iueedver voe Srursox (TMep.) .o Tusnzr (Ind, Rop. ve.210,3 0,027 2417 13,444 —_—_ Majority over BPRINGBR.vveveissrssensns 820 PrivLies! chances depend upon the propor tlon of TURNER'S vote he will get; ho is sald to be sure of the most of {t. While we do not ad* vise sporting people to bet on PriLLips elec tlon, yet plenty of men have been elected to Congress whose chances appeared much worsé than s, On election night we shall watch the Congresslonal returns of the Twelfth District with considerable hope, PmiLLies edits the 8pringfleld Journal, and ED MERRITT, of the Keylster (Demn.), 18 said to be golng for him. ———— From Texarcana (Ark.) comes Information of # large aud enthusizatic TILDEN meeting, The gentlemen composing it ralded s colored Re- publican barbecue, and, mildly but Ormly draw- ing their Innocuous pistols, ordered the col ored men off, and after gently but with comn- mendable determination thrashing the minister of that parish, they carctully and dlscreetly gobbled the horses and conveyances of the Re- publicans, and then quictly and peacelully drove them awsy, with s plonsly-cxpresscd warning that if they came back they would be slaughtered in Jukewarm biood, ———————— There has becn some contusion of Gxonos T ANTHONT, recently nominated for Guvernor o! Kansas by the Republicans, with D, R, ANTHONY, who lias had so remarkable & recovery from ai assassin's bullet, Both are good meu aud staunch Republicans, Gzongs T. ANTHONY served duriug the War as o Captaly, and moved to Kanass immedlately after, Liko bis cousit D, R, ANTHONY, ho las besn connected with the Kaneas press, and, ns proprictor of the Kunsas Farmer, placed that journal amoug the leading sgricultural papers of thy country. As