Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 8, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1876—SIXTEEN AGES. gra duated, having taken the vains to verify; @he Tribwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT THIS OFFICE. Dafiy Edit{on. postpaid, 1 year. Tarts of ', per mol pre; Epecimen coples sent free. To prevent delay and mistakes, be sureand give Post- Ofece address in fall, including State and County. Remittances may be made either by draft, expres, Post-Ofhee order, or in registered letters, at our risk. *ERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dafly, delivered, Sundsy excepted, 25 cents per week. Daily, delivered, Sundsy included, S0 cents per week Address ‘THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, SOCIETY MEETINGS. APOLLO COMMANDERY, ENIGHTS B ."A’B‘ conferred. All pecial _Assembly Tuesday evening, Oct. Monroe street. e of K, T will be Bir Knights conrteously invited. 'BICAGO COMMANDERY, No. 19, K. T.—Atten- ! Conclave Monday evening, 8, a1 7:30, tcfi 'ao;lé." vis th:‘Esg ‘Knights court- CHAS'S. TROWBKIDGE, Recorder. ST. BERNARD COMMANDERY, X0. 35 K. T.— Special copciave Wednesday evening, Oct. 11, 8t 7 olelock.” Worx on the onder of the it €. Visiting BIr Enighs couricouly fnzited. By orderof E. C. : B e e Faslspin et Yo the election of omeer) S8, Fourh Cnlefeain. Oct. eously (ovite ‘GAUNTLE NO.4,ENIGHTS OF PYTHIAS —g:mr T aoRiee: Tocsdty mignt Oct. 10, for Jrorkon the Amplified Thind sk Al mebers sre Bereby notlfied to be presgrt A0, THOMAS, C. C. GEO. FAULESER, K. E. sdS. 1. 0. 0. F.—Arrangements have been msde with the Chicare, Alion & St Louis Raflrosd to eell ticketa at Balf fare 1o members of the Order who wish to atte he next session of the Grand Lodge at Train leaves Monday, the Sth, st 12 o'clock noon. 18 10 be obtained a the depoi- CEICAGO LODGE, XO. 437, A. F. & A M.— Bpecial communicats Monday evening, the Sth inst., B o D arai seancsted. by or- 2 : G t WATHAN HEFTER, Becreiary, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1876. At the New York Gold Exchange on Satur- day the price of greenbacks was the highest recorded since July, 1874, namely, 91§ cents on the dollar in gold. N S — In the present unsettled state of affairs in the Republic of Mexico, the Congress, now in session, deem it unadvisable to hold the | election which is soon in order for the choice of members of that body. They have, however, deemed it necessary that the peo- ple should be represented in Congress as- semtled, and will therefore adopt the simple and unique method of perpetuating their terms of service by electing themselves to continue in office until such time as the nation may be in a proper condition to risk tho ordinary mode of chosing Congressmen. e The evident determination of the Confed- erates of South Carolina to overcome by force and intimidation the heavy Republican majority in that State has compelled Gov. CrAMBERILATNY to resort to the only remedy left him, and he has appesled to the Presi- dent for aid to put down insurrectionary movements which he is unsble to mas- ter. The organization of rifleclubs, the murder of the colored men ot Aiken and other points, and the pérsistent break- ing up of Republican meetings, have fully convinced the Governor that help is needed to secure a fair election in November. He has found that the civil authorities cannot hold the White-Liners under and maintain the supremecy of the law, and is therefore compelled to request the President to per- form his constitutional duty in the premises. There have been desperate and persistent efforts on tire part of the Tildenites to falsify the result of the election in Colorado until after the elections in Ohio and Indiana next Tuesdsy. Bold and mendacious attempis have been mads to compel the Denver Agent of the Associsted Press to falsify the actual returns as they ceme in. He hasre- fuscd to transmit untrue reports, and is de- nounced therefor in the most savage man- ner. The Press Agent has sent forth the actual returns from the different parts of the State ss they have come in from day to day. It is no matter to him who is ahead or be- hind, or which side wins, or how the result in Colorado may affect the minds of voters in Indiana or Ohio. To all these considerations he is perfecily indifierent. The only orders he bas received are to send the truth, and to report the election precisely as it went, with- outregard to party necessities or considera- tions. This he has done ; but it gives grave offense in TILDEN quarters to have the facts known until after the elections in Ohio and Indinna. The Chicago produce markets were gen- erally essier Saturday, with a fair business in grain. Mess por» closed 5@10c per brl lower, at $16.50 for October and $15.00 sellerthe year. Lardclosed a shade easier, at $10.30 for October and $9.374 for the year. Meats were steady, at Tic for summer shoul- ders, boxed, 9¢ for do short ribs, and 9}c for do short clears. Lake freights were more active, ot 3}c for corn to Buffalo. Eigh- wines were firm, st $1.10 per gallon. Floar was quiet and unchangod. Wheat closed 34c lower, at $1.06 for October and $1.07} for November. Corn closed lc lower, at 423c cash and 42}c for November. Oats closed §@$c lower, at 33}c cash or seller November. Rye was 13c lower, at 60@6lc. Barley closed higher, at 89c for October and 86c for November. Hogs were in fairly act- ive demand, and were steady at Fridsy's quotations, with salesat $5.65@6.20 for poor toprime. The cattle market was guiet and steady, at $2.50@5.00 for common to choice. Sheep were in light supply and in demand 8t §2.75@4.50 per 100 Ibs. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $109.00 in green- ‘backs ot the close. The *‘old man” pretty nearly throws up the sponge on Indiana. He has taken tg hedging vigorously. In yesterday's T'imes he says: Considering all the anti-GmaxT people have sgninst them In Indiana, it would be neither sur- prising nor significant if the MorTox folks scraped through by a narrow msjority next Tuesdsy. This is preparing the Democracy for a de- feat in Indiana; butit is an entertainment to which they do not wish to be invited. Four years ago—in 1872—HeNDRICES carried In- diana by abont 1,200 msjority and was elect- ed Governor. This was before the crisis and hard times, which have been wrongfully used by demagogues to the prejudice and injury of the Republican party. It was also before the greenback-inflation monomania was’ started, which bns since then run over the country like an epidemic, to the injury of tne Republican cause. Two years ago the Democrats swept Indiana by over 17,000 majority. They have loudly proclaimed from s thonsand stumps during this campeign ¢hat “Truoxx and Beform” would sweep the Hoosier State by a far larger majority than that of two years sgo. But now, just on the eve of election, when nothing remains to be done except to receive and count the vofex,‘ the Confederate party organ of Tmpex and Hexpricxs owns up the com, that the Moz~ Tox “folks ” will *scrape through by a nar- row majority next Tuesdsy,” and warns its readers not to be * surprised”; but they will be dreadfully astonished and shocked to find this admission true. We cheerfully sgree with the Times that the MorTox folks are going to pull through, and by a larger major- ity than the Times has yet brought itself to concede. THE WAY TO REFORM. The statement is sometimes made by a few short-sighted Republicans that, as the Republican party during the past eight years has developed some cases of corruption, and as some of its members have proved to be dishonest and untrustworthy in office, there- fore a reform should be instituted by turn- ing over the Administration to the Demo- crats, upon the ground that reform cannot be bronght sbout except by a change. To soch members of the party we desire to make an earnest appeal, and to show them the absurdity of the position they have taken. We might answer them at once with the broad assertion that charges made by the outs against an Administration in power are always grossly exaggerated and perverted, and that if they restricted themselves to the truth their charges would be harmless. We ‘might answer them by asking what have the Democrats and Confederates in Congress, after eight months of investigation and a hslf million dollars of expense, dis- covered, even with ez-parfe testimony and starchamber proceedings, instituted expressly to blacken and besmirch the Re- publican party so as to affect the public mind in the pending campaign. What have the campaign orators and newspapers in nearly three months of work proved against the Republican party ? These are pertinent questions, and ought not to be without effect in showing this class of voters the weakness of the position they have taken ; but there is another and more forcible argument which we commend to them. If the Democrats were in full possession of the Government is it likely that they would give the country a purer or mors honest ad- ministration than the Republicans under the leadership of Hayes and WeErrer? The proper basis for an answer to this question is the composition of the membership of the two great parties. The Democratic and Re- publican parties are made up of the same material all over the country. The Demo- crats of Chicago and Cook County are types of Democrats everywhere ; therefors we may use them in the way of illustration. We would ask these Republicans who want & change if it is likely that the Democracy of Cook County, if they were in power, would give the county a more honest Gov- ernment than the Republicans? Are they better men ? Have they more solid and re- sponsible businessinterests ? Are they men of a higher standard of morals and general intelligence? Do they pay more taxes, or have more at stake? Are they better patriots? Did they come to the rescue of the country and defend it in the days of peril with more unanimity and determinga- tion thani the Republicans? No man can answer these questions trathfully without prénouncing against the few hundreds of respectable men and the thousands of cor- ruptionists, bummers, and loafers who con- stitute the Bemocracy of Cook County. Now let it be remembered that the Republicans of the United States are but an extension of the Republicans of Cook County, and that the same rule holds true with regard to the Dem- ocrats until the line of the Ohio River is reached, beyond which the Democratic party is made up of Rebels, White-Liners, and Eu-Klux. In the twenty Northern States the Democratic party is neither bet- ter nor worse than the Democratic party of Cook County. The character of its adminis- tration, thercfore, should Tizpex and HEN- pricss be elected, would not differ from the administration of our own bummer Democra- cy, and what that has been the peopls of this city and county know only too well after an experience of two and ahslf years. It reached a pitch of corruption and dishonesty so aggravated that the .indignant people at last arose and overwhelmed it. Since that time the Republicans have saved two millions of dollars, and have substituted hon- esty for dishonesty, and purity for thievery. Plade the General Government in the hands of the Democracy, and no result can be sn- ticipated different from that which has ob- tained in that nest of corruptionists in the County Court-House,—a nest of Democrats under indictment, candidates for Grand Juries under suspicion of all honest men, ‘bummers who have made no redaction of expenses, who have piled up taxes, who steal, swindle, and rob paupers, and whose appetite for lucre is just as keen in hard as in flush times. Now we would ask these wen who want a change, who is to make the reform when the Government is turned over to the Democra- cy,—a party made up of just the same ma- terial as the Cook County Democracy? Will it come from the Tammany Democracy of New York, that festering sore of corruption, from the plug-ughes and ballot-box stuffers of Baltimore, from the thugs of New Or- leans, or the Ku-Klux of Charleston? How is the condition of things'to be improved by taking the Government out of the hands of the better half of the people and giving it to the worse half? 'We appeal to these discon- tented men in all earnestness, is it not bet- ter, more practical, and more sensible fo turn in and improvs the Administration in- side of the party than to make a change and expect a reform by handing the Government over to Northern corruptionists and South- ern Rebels? CHICAGO IN THE LEGISLATURE, Duoring the present week the Republican Conventions will meet to make nominations of cihdidates to represent the seven Legis- lative Disfricts in this county. The candi- dates to be selected are three Senators, one each from the Second, Fourth, and Sixth Districts ; and two Representativesfrom each of the seven districts. The Republicans have an opportunity to win the respect and confidence of the people of the city by mak- ing creditable nominations. The Republic- an Congressional Conventions have present- ed candidates who enjoy the confidence and respect of the whole people, and who, in ad- dition to their party vote, will have the sup- port of that portion of the Democratic party who are disgusted with the disgraceful nom- inations made by their own Conventions. The Congressional nominations of the Re- publican party in this couhty have won' the commendations of the press—including the Democratic—of the country. There is no reasson why the Republicans should not = make equally good nomina- tions for the State Legislature. In point of fact, st this especial juncture of our -ple, they turned ount and elected enough municipal affairs, Chicago has more at stake directly in the action of the State Legislature than she has in the actionof Congress. This city owes a debt of $3,000,000, and there are due to this city over $3,000,000 of unpaid taxes. The city is in that peculiar condition that she can make no legal provision for the payment of the debt, ‘except ont of collec- tions from the unpaid taxes due her, and she is deprived of any power to enforce the col- lection of these taxes. Placed in thisanoma- lous and embarrassing position, and helpless except through remedial legislation, Chicago is, of necessity, interested in having a dele- gation at Springfield composed of respect- able and experienced business men. Last spring the city was in peril by the threaten- ed re-election of a City Council of the char- scter of thoso that bad preceded it. The peril was a serious onme, and, having been brought home to the knowledge of the peo- business men—respeotable” and intelligent men—to- have more than a two-thirds ma- jorityof theBoard. Thenew City Government has done much, butit is helpless in many things, being hampered with bad laws and embarrassed by defective laws. It is crip- pled by defects in the Revenue law, which, if not corrected, must bankruptevery mu- nicipal corporation in Illinois. Under these circumstances, the election of twenty-eight Senators and Representatives from this city and county selected from experienced and respectnble business men to the Legislature is of even more importance to the city than was the election of the same class ofémen last spring to the Common Council. Unless we can get legislative amendments and cor- rections to the Revenue law the reform movement of last spring will be largely de- feated. The city must have revenue, and to have revenuse it must have the means of collecting taxes. The law as it now stands practically leaves the payment of taxes optional with the property-holder,—a state of things existing in no other part of the world, and utterly fatal to the maintenance of any Government. The Republican Conventions have before them the example of the Democrats. With three exceptions, the nominations by ihat party are utterly disgraceful, and are dis- creditable to the people of a large commer- cial city. These Democratic nominations will be repudiated by the bulk of the Demo- crats; and, if the Republican Conventions select candidates of like standing, then the Republicans should spurn the nominations in like manner. It isuseless for men, acting individually or through conventions, to force themselves upon the public. The public have the power to correct all this business by ‘defeating that class of candidates. If the Republican Conventions shall nominate unfit, and incompetent, and inexperienced men as candidates for the Legislature, noth-~ ing will be easier than the nomination of other candidates, and a combination of all reputable citizéns, as there was at the last charter election, to elect a legislative delega- tion such as the emergency of the public in- terests so earnestly demands. If the Re- publican Conventions will nominate men of the class which compose the Common Council they will draw to the support of their ticket men of all parties, just as their Congressional ticket will command a general support. : THE GAS BUSINESS AGAIN. The bids for lighting the streets of t] ‘West Division with oil have not disclor i such an economy or such o comparative ¥4, - duction in the cost as the pablic have b reason to expect. It is possible that the re- cent large advancein the cost of oil may have had a sevious effect on the prices named in the offers of the several bidders. The prices named in the several bids were as fol- lows: Joseph Hirsh bid $18 per lamp per year for gas, and $13 per lamp per year for mineral ofl. George W. Farrington bid §20.08 per lamp per year for spirit-gas. J. Alken & C. C. Charles bid $16 per lamp per Fear for spirit-gas. E. F. Reed bid $25 per lamp per year for gas, T. Tully, of Springfield, IIL, bid $20 per year per Jamp for gasoline of 74 degrees gravity. John Cox bid 10 cents per lamp per night for six months. Gas. Covington & Cozzens bid $24.50 per lamp per year for gasoline. The average price of lighting the streeis with oil given in these bidsis a fraction over $21 per lamp per year. The Gas Con- pany has offered to furnish gas at $2 par 1,000 feet, and to use a 8-foot burner instesd of a 5-foot burner, and to light the lamps by the newly-adopted time-table. What will this amount to per lamp per year ? The present average cost per lamp pér year is $55,—the price of gas being $3 per 1,000 feet. The change of the burners will reduce the quantity of gas consumed 40 per cent. The reduction of the price to $2 per 1,00 feet will reduce the price of the gas con- sumed one-third, and this reduction will be greater because of the changed time-tatle. At the present cost of $55 per lamp, the aversge annual consumption of gas per lanp i5 18,300 feet. The change of burners has reduced the consumption to 11,000 feet per lamp, which, at $2 per 1,000 feet, will amount to $22 per lamp per year for gas. It isnot easy to estimate the exact reduction made in the number of hours when the lanps will be lighted ; but, estimating it at 10 per cent, we have as the average amount of gas now consumed per lamp at 9,000 feet, which, at $2 per 1,000 feet, will leave the annual average cost per lamp per year at 1€, or one-third the price heretofore paid. These are the terms to which the People’s Gas Company have been brought. In conse- quence of the great increase in the price of oil, the offer of the Gas Company is now, in the matter of dollars and cents, aciually less than the average price asked by the oil bidders. There aretwo considerations havings di- rect bearing on this subject which the Com- mon Conncil should not overlook. The ma- jority of the people of Chicago reside on the West Side. The territory is very extznsive, and very large unoccupied tracts inter- vene between the resident distrids. It ‘would be a calamity to extinguish the lamps in the streets of this division of ths city, and to do so would render large porions of it uninhabitable. There would be an exodus of thousands of families. The practicability of lighting the streets with oil in the stormy and winter season is guestioned, ard there is quite a protest by property-owners in the West Division_ sgainst having thal whole district subjected to the risks of the experi- ment, while they are taxed to lght the North and South Divisions with gas, ‘While the ;people of the West Diviion are willing to share any general sacrifice to meet the wants of the city, they do notfeel dis- posed to submit to the experiment of having their streets lighted, or bedly lighied, with oil from OQotober to April, when the same sireets may be lighted for the same or less money with gas. They think thst, when the comfort, and protection, and safety of 300,000 citizens are at stake, thers chounld be 50me previous tesd mads whether the oil Side residents and property-owners ig that it is possible that the abrogation of the con- would be enjoined, and between the two the llunpu can be made as effective in the stormy and wintry season as the gas lamps. Another consideration urged by West tract with the Gas Company and the raking of a contract with ‘the oil companies may re- sult in litigation, in which the new contract ‘West Division would be left unlighted altogether. 2 Under all the circumstances, the Gas Com- pany proposing, according to the figures, to light the street lamps at less than the price asked for oil lamps, it is probably advisable that the city close the contract at the offer until April. In the meantims, while enjoy- ing the gas lights at the rate of $18 per lamp per year, the city should have the efficiency of the oil lamps in the winter sea- son practically tested by experience. -With this experience, and with the results of six months’ trial of the oil lamps in the streets, the Council, in April, will be in a position to act for the succeeding year intelligently. It is possible by that time the price of oil will have fallen from its present extravagant rates. To extinguish the gaslampsin the ‘West Division without any previous trial or test of their efficiency will provoke universal complaint and protest, particularly if the gas can be had until April at as low a cost to the city. BROTHER MOODY. The first week of the revival work of Brother Moopy and his co-worker, the melodious SaNkey, has come to a close, and this Sabbath day dawns upon results even more important than were expected by the most sanguine. There is a temporary break in the personal work of Mr. Moopy, occa- sioned by his sad domestic affliction, of which notice has already been made in THE TRIBUNE ; but the general work will not be interrupted. Other hands, esger and will- ing, have taken up the work, and will go on with it yntil the great evangelist’s return, when he will resume his solemn duties with a new fervor and earnestness growing out of his affliction. It is in admirable keeping with all the cir- cumstances of these meetings and of Mr. Moopy's career that Chicago has done 50 well for him. Brother Moopy is one of us,—our friend, neighbor, and citizen,—although he has wandered far and wide and traveled in many strange countries. He was unknown to fame when he began his labors here. He 1aid the foundation of his wonderful success here. Chicago gave him his first impulses and his first encouragement, and out of all the experiences and influences of this cosmo- politan, energetic, and go-shesad city he de- rived the tact which has fitted him to deal with all kinds of people. There have been 2 genuine Chicago force, grit, and energy in his work which have impressed them- selves upon people and given practical results to his teaching and preaching. | Chicsgo has received him in a royal manner. She bas prepared & church for Lim, built in the locality of his earlier triumphs, where he can minister if he is so disposed. She has erected for him the finest and most com- modious tabernacle he has ever had in this country or abroad, where he can stand in the midst of 10,000 people and be heard by all of them. Her people have filled that vast building morning and night, and atnoon have crowded the Farwell-Hall prayer-meet- ings. The ministers of nearly every denomi- :ation in the city have not only sttended ese meetings, but they have joined in the work, and they have given Brother Moopy personal encouragement. In every possible manner Chicago has shown her interest in his work, and that that interest is sincere iz shown by the continued large attendance upon thess meetings, notwithstanding the absence of Mr. Moopy. This proves that Mr. Moopy's appearance here is not a matter of curiosity or sensation, but that he is re- ceived and recognized for the sake of the cause he represents. . Brother Moopy has come here at an op- portune time. Al the departments of basi- ness are reviving, and there is need that the Church shall revive also. Although he ‘works independent of all denominations, the great central truths which he preaches are common to them all, and therefore all have more or less of interest in his services. He will rouse the ministers snd their flocks to renewed effort, and will infuse a new life and activity into all departments of denom- inational work. He has also come here in the midst of an exciting political campaign, and will do much to mitigate its asperities, and tranquilize and restrain the angry pas- sions of our people. He will remain here after the election, and may keep the tri- umphant Republicans from exulting too loudly over their opponents, and administer comfort and consolation to the defeated De- mocracy, who will learn from him that it is better not to lasy up their treasures where moth ~and rust corrupt. In all respects, Brother Moopy has a glorious field here in which to work, and it 18 white for the har- vest. All good men in the city will bid him godspeed in his work, and all bed men should go to his services and become better. —— THE COUNTY OFFICERS. The Republican County Convention will meét on Wednesday next. It will be called on to nominate & State's Attorney, to serve four years; a Clerk of the Circuit Court, to sefve four years; & Becorder of Deeds, to serve four years; & Sheriff, to serve two years; a Coroner, to serve two years; and five County Commissioners, to serve three years. There sre general activity and strife among the friends of the several candidates for all these offices. They are all classed among those which are considered lucretive. The office of County Commis- sioner has no compensation attached save a per diem of $5 when officially engaged. This has been so arranged that the Commis- sioner’s pay-rollaverages $1,500a year. The profits, however, whatever they may be, are outside of and beyond the law. ‘We have no disposition to enter into any controversy between the rival candidates, unless there be some special reason or objec- tion to the nomination of a candidate. In- sisting that the Convention can only hope for guccess, or merit success, by naming a list of candidates who, from the first to the last, shall be not only personally respectable, and with clesn hands and clean characters, but shall also be competent, we insist that special care be taken in the selection of candidates for County Commissioner. Mr. Busse, from the country district, is a Republican, but, better than all, has beena man of consistent honesty in the Board, and such & msn can- not be spared forany reason. Mr. Burpiox, another member of the Board, has been en- gaged during his whole term of three years in a daily struggle with the corruptionists ; he has proved himself an honest officer, and the Republicans can select no man more ac- ceptable to the public. His greenbackism will not wesken him in the defense of the county.¢ ‘We understand that, with the tactios of an | ing 5 per cent interest, have already been old veteran office-seeker, Mr. Braprry has been selecting delegates who are expected to be numerous enough in the Convention to nominate him for Sheriff. We have no ob- jection whatever of a personal or political character to Mr. Braprey. He has been Sheriff several times, and has given the Re- publicans considerable trouble to elect him. The people of Cook County are somewhat tired of Mr. BraDIEY &S & candidate, and especially with the efforts he makes to have County Conventions filled with delegaf®s whose main business it is to nominate him for Sheriff. Two years ago this thing was re- peated, and the Republicans can remember how that nomination weakened the general ticket and helped to defeat it. A like mom- ination last spring for City Treasurer was resented by the party at the polls; and such nominations may expect to be resented and defeated whenever they sre made. The party will make a great mistake if they do not learn wisdom from these costly ex- periences. In 1874 the Opposition candi- date for Sheriff was an Irishman, and yet BrapLEY could not hold the vote of the Ger- man Republicans. Look at the vote of Chicago at that election for Bheriff and for Congress: SHERIFP. coNenEss. ||Brad- wamp, f——— | ——{ley's 4gnew. |Bradley.|| Dem. | Rep. || loss. 1. 541 . 440 psid . 048, v 1,259 Y 1.575| vi. 436, VI 557 yio 2,162| 465, x 2,794 890! X 909 890| X1 1,079 5851 X 647 1,197 97| 1,700, IV 5 814! Total...| 25,438] 15,9 ,389.19,903}! 3, = - Tt will be seen that the number of Repub- licans voting for Congressmen who refnsed to vote for BRADLEY amounted to nearly 4,000, and many of them voted for AGNew. Thousands of native as well as German Re- publicans refused to support him. ‘We submit whether the nomination of Mr. | Braprey, forced upon the party at this time, is advisable. Voters will not be dragooned year after year to vote for a man whom they have so often repudiated at the polls. There are other Republicans gqually compe- tent, whose nomination will give strength to the ticket, who should be preferred. PAYMENT OF BONDS IN SILVER. The adjournment of Congress, and the necessary postponement of any legislation on the subject, and the absorbing topics of the Presidential canvass, have to some ex- tent suspended the discussion of the silver question. That question, however, is of too vast importance to be overlooked, and, before Congress meets, public attention will be strongly directed to it. In the New York Nation of Sept. 14 we find an article entitled “Why we cannot pay Government debts in gilver.” The drift of the argument is, that, even if the United States were at liberty be- fore 1873 to pay the bonds in either silver or gold, this privilege was lost by the act of 1873 demonetizing silver, and the obligation thereafter became payable exclusively in gold. Here is the assertion: . Now, let us apply this to the act of 1873 de- monetizing silver. We will concede that up to that time we bad s double standard, and that the Government had the right to pay its creditors cither ingold or silver at its option. In thatyeu., however, and by that act, Congress, with all the necessery formalities, made its option and an- nounced it. It gave notice to the national credit- ors that it would pay in gold, and not in silver, and weare boand to presume that it did so fora good and snflicient reason. The act demonetizing silver did hot change any existing obligation of the United States. The national bonds are all payable *in coin” of the United States. When the act demon- etizing silver was passed, the standard legal- tender coin of the United States was, in ad- dition to the gold pieces, the silver dollar of A12} grains, and containing 371} grains pure silver. The promise to pay was, therefore, to pay in either the gold coinage, or in this gilver dollar, which was then worth more than the gold dollar. The United States could not change this contract. It could not deprive the creditor of any part of the prom- ise to pay. The Government could no more avoid the contract by demonetizing sil- ver, which was the more valusble coin, than it could by demonetizing gold. Had the United States demonetized gold in 1873, then, ac- cording to the Nation, the United States would forever after be compelled to pay its creditors in silver dollars. If the logic of the Nation be right in the one case, it must fol- low in the other. To further illustrate the absurdity of the argument that by domone- tizing silver the United States released itself from the obligation of paying silver, why could not the Government demonetize both gold and silver, and thus escape payment in either kind of coin ? The obligation isto payin coin of the Ugited States. The standard coin was, at the date of the contract, gold and silver, and payment in-either or both was lawful. No creditor could refuse either. The demoneti- zation of silver was not anotice in any sense to the creditors that they should be paid in gold and not insilver. The United States had no power to change the contract one ‘way or the other. This question is not likely to be tested in any way on the payment of the 5-20 bonds, The fate of these bonds is probably fixed ; they are to be taken up by the substitution of bonds issued under the Fandinglaw. Five hundred millions of these new bonds, bear- issued; three hundred millions more, bear- ing 4} per cent interest, are now in the mar- ket, to be followed by the issue of 4-per- cent bondsin sufficient number to take up all the outstanding 6 per cents. Qur bonded debt, with the exception of the comparative- ly small amount in 10-4@bonds, will be in the form of bonds issued under the act of July, 1870. This act recites, and the bonds themselves contain on their face the re- cital, that said bonds: shall be payable in United States coin of the standard' weight and fineness as provided by law on the 1ith of July, 1870. It is immaterial whether the United States de- monetize silver or gold, or both ; the bonds are payable, and must be pnid, in the coin of the United States which were a legal stand- ard on the 14th of July, 1870. The creditor can lawfully demand that he be paid in either the gold dollars containing the standard quantity-of pure gold, or in silver dollars containing the standard quantity of pare silver, as the laws of the United States re- quired on the 14th of July, 1870, The Uni- ted States in like manner can pay these bondsin either gold or silver dollars, pro- vided such dollars contain the amount of pure metal required by law at the date of the contract. No action of Congress in 1873 can change the obligations of this contract, which Dy law pertains to'all the bonds issued under | the Funding act of July, 1870, without refer- ence to the date of their sctualissue by the Treasury. All these bonds recite on their face that they are paynble - and must be paid in any coinof the United States a legal-ten- der on that 14th of July, 1870. It was wholly unnecessary for the argu- ment of the Nation to misrepresent the facts of the silver coinage by asserting that it was only a subsidiary coin when it was demonetized, and had been so for twenty years, and was not in circulation.” Thm silver dollar was, by law, the standard unit of value in American coinage from 1792 to 1873. By reference to the tables of annual coinage, it will be seen that, during the last five years preceding the act of 1873, the coin- age of the American silver dollar was greater than at any like period in the history of the country. That it was not in circulation was due to the fact that its commercial value was greater than that of gold, and was worth less ascoin than as bullion. It was, however, the American dollar, and, whether it was coined or not, it should never have been abolished. —— The Chicago Democrats yesterdsy evening elected delegates to their County Conven- tion, which meets to-morrow. The proceed- ings of the ward clubs were generally noticeable for the rough-and-tumble fighting which cheracterizes Democratic assemblages. The chief fight was between CHARLES Keay, eternal office-seeker, and Dax O'Haga, eternal office-holder. Unless white men are a little more uncertain than nsual, the prob- sbilities appear to be that Kemy will be nominated Sheriff in order that he may meet with his third defeat. E— ASPHALT PAVEMENTS, At a recent meeting of the Council a resolu- tlon was offered directing the Department of Public Works to allow what is called the Illinois Paving Company to pave one street in each di- visfon of the city with bituminous concrete. The subject was referred to the appropriate committee, and,if financial considerations allow,, the request will probably be granted. - The many abortions in the way of wooden- block pavements which disfigure the Chicago streets has of late caused special attention to be given to the advisability of using asphalt or conerete 88 a substitute for wood. Prominent among the many processes suggested is that which is championed by the Illinois Paving Company, and which may be used either for con- structing an absolutely new pavement, or for repairing worn and defective wooden-block or copble-stone paving. It has been applied in this city in two of these three ways. Last year the Board of Public Works, unwilling to go to the expense of relaying some badly-decayed block pavement on Sangamon and other streets, covered the bad places with a coating of this bituminous compound, and it has thus far ap- parently stood the wear and tear pretty well. At an earlier period a specimen of the bituminous concrete pavement was put down st the intersection of Washington and Dearborn streets, and, with one renewal, is still in use. The method of construction was to lay the pavement in two courses, the lower one of coarser material from two to five inches thick, the top oneof finer stuff, laid on from one to three inches thick. % Owing to its location this plece of work has been put to a severe test, and hasstood it tolerably well; but has betrayed defects which ore unimportant there, but which would be serious if an entire business street were paved with it. The great dificulty with the asphaltor bituminons pavemen 8 is to so construct them that they wjll resist the extremes of beat and cold to which they are necessarily subjected in Chicago. Where the thermometer has a range of 130 degrees the strain upon apavement is terrible. The specimen on Dearborn street does not secem to be materially affected by winter, bat it has not stood the test of a summer son so well. During this year’s July days persons passing that way must have noticed the imprints of the corks of the horses’ feet, and must have observed that ‘the composition yielded slightly to their own tread. Had it been s little warmer the bituminous concrete might have been as mushy as some of the so- called asphalt pavements of Washington, where there is but one first-class piece of work, and that laid at the contractor’s expense, with gen- uine asphalt. It has been discovered that these defective bituminous paverents have caused a heavy mortality among the horses. During the hot weather the bituminons compound has got- ten into their feet, and cause foot-rot. Unless an unmelting roadway can be guarantced, the same loss of horseflesh would result here. The asphalt pavement which we want is one which is not go soft that it will run in summer or so hard and flinty that it will crack and break -1 winter. There have been some bituminous concrete sidewalks put down in this city which have been 50 cracked and disintegrated by the action of frost aud ice as to be now utterly worthless. The Illinois Paving Company, how- ever, claim that by carrying the concrete down from eight to eightcen inches slong the edge of the pavement they can obviate all that. ‘The oniy practical way to settle the question, however, is for the Company to pave an entire street. While the piece above referred to has, on the whole, done excellently well, yet there is not enough of it to enable one to arrive at a de- cisive verdict. ——— Among the deaths recently reported are those of M. PRILLEUX, one of the most popular artists of the Paris Opera Comique; of a great aunt of GusTavE FLOURENS, the French Communist, who died recently at the extraordinary age of 106; of another centenarian, Mrs. SusaN Per- KINS, of Sucasunna, N. J., who died last Thurs- day at the age of 101; of Capt.Joserm F. BAKER, of the United States Marine Corps, who served on the sloop-of-war Congress when that vessel was sunk by the Merrimac; and of Col. PaILIP B. FOURE, ex-Member of Congress, of whom the IWinois State Register says: “He was born in Kaskaskia, Jan. 23,1818, He began active life as a civil engineer, and in 1841 estab- lished the Bellevitle Advocate. He studied law, andin 1848 was elected Prosecuting-Attorney forhis district. He held this office for two terms, and fn 1851 was elected to the General Assembly. In 1858 he was elected to Congress, and re-elected in 1860. He resigned this posi- tion. In 186l he recruited the Thirtieth Ilinois Infantry, and served until April 22, when he resigned.” R —— PERSONAL The American Library Journal, devoted to the exposition of alibrarian's duties, has appesred in he East. A New York Zimes reviewer ridicules the sys- tem of Latin pronunciation which has been pro- pozed by Prof. Lane, of Harvard. Jacob Lont, & young German, committed suicide by the open grave of Josephine Brochtin Green- wood Cemetery Wednesday. They were lovers. The Independent states that Mr. Sumner's’art collection was so poor that the Directors of the Doston Athenzum, to which it was bequeathed, refused to give house-roomto a large portion of it. Arthur W. Tyler, a graduate of Amherst in 1867, snd for many years Assistant-Librarian of the Astor Library in New York, has been appointed Libra- rian of the Johns Hopkins University in Balti- more. Goldwin Smith publishes his valedictory in the 1ast number of the Toronto Nation, taking a gloomy view of the fature of periodical literatare in Cagada. But the prospect cannot be so dark, since Mr. Smith. has resolved to returnto England. Mr. John Fiske, of Harvard College Lit ‘bears testimony that there are seldom any fl::::{x‘x the mechanical execation of English books, while .in German and French worke blanders of the gross- est description in paging, lettering, and binding, are only too frequent. The San Francisco Nzics- Letter has been publish- ing a list of medical practitioners in that city with- out diplomas, and has supplemented this with an- other giving the names of those who have regularly writing to the institations from which the degrees~ were said to be derived. The work bas caneg considerable excitement, but it has had & beneqgy effect. It 15 belleved that the establishment of the pey cab company in New York will have the edfect tg ruin the small proprietors of hacks; and the Heralg suggests that they be allowed a share in the ney enterprise, In proportion to the valus of the prop. erty which they can tarn fn. 3 Charles Reade, having been presented with th, E “‘ladies’ Centennial brooch™ by Mrs. JamegT. Fields, of Boston, returns to her an antlque any = curlons tea-pot **of the period when the citizery - of Boston turned thelr harbor into a tea-pot, agg tasted the sweets of liberty." % Mr. Eugene Schuyler, our Secretary of Legatioy and Consul-General at Coustantinople, who sy Intely distinguished himself by his independen; investigation of the Bulgarian outrages, is a may of solid acquirements, He has a talent for lay. guages, and even understands several Slav dig. lecta. The project of certain public-spirited citizens iy Philadelphia tobuy the msin exhibition bulaing with its contents for & permanent memorial of {hy Centennial is likely to be realized. About $500,- 000 would be required for the parpose, it being impossible, of course, to obtaln most of thy articles on exhibition. . The monument of Columbus, to be dedicated in Philadesphia this week, was made by Prof, at Carrars, Italy, of the purest marble. The figurs is ten feet high, representing Columbus in the dress of his age and clime. The left hand rests upona globe fifteen inches in diameter, the right holds s chart. Around the waist s a plain belt, from which hangs asword. The beight of statze and pedestal is sbout 22 feet; ths work cost $18,000. A plous woman of Boston, Who has been giving splritual seances of late to the edification and de light of & large circle’ of admirers, bus been de- tected in cheating and exposed as an Impostor. She adopted the old device of baving her ghosts move up from the kitchen through a secret passage and s panel-door. The most important resalt of her experiments is the establishment beyond cavil of the fact that the turbulent spirits of the kitchen, with a little art, can be dizguised beyond rédcognt- tion. The article in the current number of the North American Review which caused the dismissal of the ' editor, Mr. Henry B. Adams, was written by Mr, C. P. Adams, Jr., and entitied ‘‘The Indevend- ents in the Canvass.” The publishers have caused & slip to be inserted in the magazine disclaiming sl responsibility for the article. It was unsigned, and commutted the Review to the support of Til- den, —manifestly an absard position for a period- 1cal of such pretensions to take, with referenca to either political party. . The Natlon objects to the appointment of Mr. Groesbeck, of Cincinnsti, as one of the ‘* experts™ t0 be chosen by the Silver Commission, intimating that he has not snfficient qualifications for the po- sition. It says, further,. that great preseare has . ‘been brought to bear upon the Silver Commission to induce it to dlspose of its * expert™ patronsgs according to political preccaents. But we do nof understand that an appointment of this nature con fers any conslderable advantage, social or pecuni- ary, upon such a man as Mr. Groesbeck. The Rev. Dr. Dix, in the October numberof ths Church Review, examines critically the masic ot Moody and Sankey. He finds that their melodies arederived from the oldschool of ballad and parlor- song musie, which forty years ago, before the fn- ‘trodaction of Italian opera, was most in vogue. ‘They have been revived, with all their character- 3 istics and methods; **and now, adapted to sentl- " * mental verselets, are sung In bippodromes, and in Gospel-tents, and in parlors and boarding-honses on Sunday evenings, under the name of ‘Sacred Gospel Hyams 't ™ The London Court Circular announces the ap- proaching marriage of Lord Roseberry with Mias - ‘Hannsh de Rothschild, the only daaghterof the Iate Baron de Meyer Rothschild. She is the richest woman ip the world, having an independent for- tune of seven millions of money. The report of this marriage i8 received with some surprise and distrust in New York, where it is known that Lord Roseberry was engaged to Miss Duncan, s daughter of William Batler Duncan, recently bankrupt. No- Dbody had presnmed to question that this latter mar. riage would take place, notwithstanding the banks ruptcy. ‘There fs, however, reason to believe that Lord Roseberry has transferred his sffections to Miss Rothschild. There is probably nothing in the statements concerning the objectionspf the latter’s family to her wedding a Christian. The Roths- childs object to having thelr children carry money ont of the family, but as between outside Chrig- tians and outside Jews they seem go have little choice. Indeed, it is said that the headsof the family for some time past have been lax in their adherence to the Jewish faith, looking with favar upon the doctrines of August Comte. A representative of the San Francisco Chronlcle . had the privilege—so he seems to considerit—of = g3 seeing Mr. James Lick die, and describes the scens . [ with gusto to the minutest detail, not omitting - ** the cat and a small teapoy.” The repor: of ths dying man’s struggle with death is shocking in the highest degree, and should have been excluded from 8o respectable a paper as the Chronicle. 1t ¥ appears from the sabsequent narrative tha: Lick's | son John was born in 1819, as the result ofan m- timacy with the daughter of a rich miller {2 Pred- § ericksburg, whose father refused to sanction her marriage. The foundsilonof Lick’s fortune was - 1aid in South America, where he was engaged in the manafacture of pianocs. In 1847, he arivedin ; SanFrancisco, and, by the judicious purchase of real ; estate, acquired the immense property which heleft on his desth, He was never disturbel by the. mining excitement of '49, but in the midst of it continued quietly to buy all the real-tate he could get, witha keen eye to the futwe, often paying as much as $20 per day ezch to men who were required to protect his land fron the in- vasions of squatters. ‘‘Lick's Folly” was & magnificent fouring-miil, finished in nahogany and other hard-woods. When he becams tired of ‘'his plaything he gave it to the Tom Paire Society, with whose principles he had some symjathy; but ‘When that body afterwards sold it for les than it value, he sbjured Tom Paine forever. Lick wa mnot of a social disposition. He rarely ‘onched 1 glassof wine, and never indulged Inwcial ex- cesses of sny description. He was arbtrary snd severe in his dealings with others, ani towarde the close of his life was full of crothets and prejudices. He died of paralysis. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Palmer House—John W. Weeks, tpringfeld, Mass. ; Fred A. Mason, Waterbury; J. H. Foster, ‘West Meriden; J. W. Nichois, Eansas (ty; Silss Weeks, New Orleans; D. W. Lambe London, Eng.; E. 8. Keep, New Orleans; J. Vagn Mor- gan, London, Eng., W. R. Vermlily, Engle: wood, N. J.; C. 8. Wryckoff, Quincy/ J. H sand W. S. Dallibra, Jarquetta the Hon. Lorenzo Clay, Maine: J. W. Hoge Washington; A. Alvin, Brazil; the Hn. E. D. Frost, New Orleans; Ira Stearns, New York; tht Hon. J.H.Barles, Boscobel, Wis. ... Grad Pacific— W. 8. Ridgeway, Cincinnati; A. M. Gunt, Gales- burg; J. M. Beardsley, Rock Island; Leut, Call- will. R. N., Ireland; Watkins Addisonind George Eatle, Georgetown, D. C. ; the Hon. L P. ilile; by Philadelphia; the Hon. J. P. Sanford, ulbany; F. ¥ E U g - e C. Foster and H. A. Foster, Bradfore Eng.i Ho ¥ L. Pilkinton, St. Panl; F.Corbin, Nev Britain, £ Conn. ; John L. Emerson, Central City Col. ; Col i T. J." Hoyt, New York; H. Moora Oskland, Cal.... Tremont_Houss—Dr. F. J. (bbon. San 2 Francisco; H. J. Cassidy, Boston; 1. De La- mashe, P‘Hf H. G. Leonard, Fond d1Lac_Jour- nal; Col. P Wi . Lewis, New York; J. W. I Dewer, Col3 M. A. Falton, Hundson, Wis.; M. Simp- son. Burlington, Ia....Sherman Hose—Geo: G. Bauder, inton, Ia.; A. H. Levy.New York; i W, J. Gordon, "Davenport; dame W, Hull Pittsfleld, Mass.; John M. Stewart Glasgow, Scotland; A. Hodgson, _Liverpool, Eng.; G- Jacques, ' Liverpool; D. D. Camp, U 8. A.5 G- B_Bzuxa Huob! Connecticut; pred ‘'Wiiams, Cin- Anthony Trollope’s American Senator. ¥ Mr. Anthony Trollope takes hi American 5 Benator to a dinner-party in an Enghh country- house, and canses lum to talk. “Ve are two- thirds English, my lady,” sald M: Gotobed; but then we think the other third a improve- ment.” “Very likely.” *We bav nothing so nice as this;” as he -spoke he waed his right hand to the different corners of the room. “Such a dinner-table 88 I am sittog down to now couldn’t be tixed in all the Unted States, though a man might spend tree times as many dollars on it 'as ELLorfib(p dou-: “ That i8 very often done, I shuid think. * But then, as we have not! g0 vell done a8 & house like this, 80 also have we mthing 80 done as the houses of your por e L Wugesm higher with you., Mr. Gotobed.” . public spirit, and the phulantirooy of the age, and the enlightenment of the jecole, aod the institutions of the country all rund. Thcfi fie nfii\l ner.:'Y “ C.}xrnm h;k «cucks,” sl e jor._* we have canvas-back ducks,” ¢ Make u‘fflr’l great miny (anlts,¥ Asid the Major. 'n8( course, sir, wien 3 man’s stomach rises above his intelligencq bell bave 0 argué secordingiy.” sald the Semtar.