Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1877, Page 4

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TCCKER, Secretary. CORINTHTAN CHAPTER. NO.69, B. A. M.~Rez- A o S SR T A e Bl X k. Ve . M. dey . velock Workonthe ™ 3. ATCIAWFOID, H. P. SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1877. Thke Hlinois Legislature has adopted =2 resolution recommending the compromise plen. At the New York Gold Exchange on Satur- day greenbacks were worth 933@933 cents on the dollar. Tle Associnted Press Agent at. Alemphis £ays his report of the shower of snakes in that city recently was not a fiction. He saw ‘em himself. This is the fifty-second day of continuous sunow and sleighing. Friday evening there were plenty of appearances of a thaw and Tain, which would earry off the snow very rapidly and flood the streams. Before morn- ing the thermometer went down below zero, and has kept down since then. — The Democrats have secured possession of some telegrams, sent over the Western Union Company's wires, that they might have pre- ferred not to have found. Among them ‘were dispatches, sent by Prrtoy, which are very damaging to the Democratio party. It is impotently explained now that Mr. Per- TON's actions were not known to his uncle, Afr. Tmpex, who, when he became cognizant of his nephew's frantic efforts, warned him to desist. It might be well to explain at the same time, or as soon theresfier as counsel can be heard, when and how Mr. Tmpex first learned the exient of Mr. Prrron’s operations. In the Senate yesterday, Mr. Epwuxps opened the debate on the bill reported from the Joint Committes in regard to the count of the Electoral vote. His speech was large- Iy devoted to & further explanation of the messure 'and- the considerations which led the Committee to the conclusions finally ar- xived at. In the House, Mr. PoyNE, who has charge of the bill, gave notice that he wonld call it up on Tuesday next, and would allow the debate to continue until Wednesday even- ing, when he would call the previous question. It is hardly to: be expected that the Senate will act thus promptly on the compromise %, " ‘Proposition, as it is not in the nature of that \, sugust body to do so; but the bill will prob- \.b!y be disposed of in the Upper House one :way or the other by the end of the week. short-ribs; 8Zc for short-clears. Highwines were dull and unchanged, at $1.07 per gallon. Flour was quiet aud firm. Wheet closed ic lower, at $1.304 cash and $1.30% seller February. Corn -closed #c lower, at 433c ! cash and 44c seller February. Oats cloced steady, at 35)c cash and 85jc for February. Rye was quiet, at 72c. Barley closed 1¢ high- er, at 63@633c cash and G3c for Februasy. Hogs were firmer, at $5.75@G.70 per 100 Ibs, Cattle were quiet and weak, at $3.00@5.60. Sheep were nominslly steady, at $3.00@5.25 for poor to choice. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $106.50 in greenbacks at the close. ———— A shrewd, observant citizen, who has spent the past week 1n Springfield, writes a private letter to a citizen here, from which we are permitted to make the following extract: SPRINGPIELD, Saturdsy, Noon.—I think the gold- en opportunity has passed for the election of & Re- publican Senator. All the indications noware that the Independents and Democrats are coming to- zether on an anti-Republican candidate. Not a man of them will support Logas, even if the bal- loting ehall continue until the 4th of March next. The election of Logax is beyond the possibilities. Half the Republican members admit this in private conversation, bat they have not the moral courage to break the caucus withes that bind them. They are drifting upon the breakere of defeatwith their eyes open. To change the figure, LogaX is riding the caucus, whip and spar, to the devil. He is determined that if he csn't be elected no other Republican shull. He is utterly selfish; I don't believe he cares a copper for the success of the Republican party unless he is the recipient of ita favors. On Monday next the coalition will elect AxpERsoN, from present appearances, which will be a shameful and diszraceful conclusion of the contest, as he fs wholly unfit by nature and education to represent the great State of Iilinolsin the United States Senate. The worst feature of the case Is that it is too late now to elect a Repub- liesn, even if the desperately sclfish LogaX Were 10 withdraw and release the caucus. He and his **machine" balldozers have terrorized over the caucns too long, and the tide can no longer ve taken at the flood that leads on to fortune, My Jjudgment is that as a choice of evils the **Salary- Grabber™ had better be allowed to remain on the track till defeat crushes him, aa it is too late now to elect any Republican and save the Senatorship. The professional politicians generally will, as & matter of course, oppose the ** Electoral Count bill” introduced as a compromise. All the extreme men on both sides will eriti- cise, object, and demounce. They have nothing to propose as a substitute; they prefer to act the part of the dog in the manger. What they want is a row, civil commotion, and dangerous strife, as that will magnify them as leaders and great men. The officeholders want no compromise which will endanger their hold on tMe fat places they now have. The office-seekers can't bear the idea of a compromise plan of settling the dispute, because they think that Trpey is sure to be forced into the White House by some means,—if by force and violence, so much the better for them. If the bill carries, it will only be in deference to the wishes and demands of the great business interests of the country. Un- less the non-politicians nsist upon the pass- age of the bill it will be ground to powder by the officeholders and office-seekers,—by the machine men and political gamblers be- longing to both parties. Nearly all the dis- putes of life and differences between men are settled by compromise or arbitration ; but in this case the desperate partisans are resolved that the national peril shall not be averted by meaus of a Board of Arbitration, but that the quarrel must be fought out to the bitter end, "THE COURT OF ARBITRATION. There can be no mistaking the universal sentiment of the public with reference to the condition of political affairs at Wash- ington. The public demand peace, and they demand this peace with sublime indifference as to its effect upon the hopes and prospects of the expectant Postmasters, Collectors, Gaugers, and Tide-waiters. Every man in the land hasan opinion of his own as to ‘whether Haves or TiLpex was legally and fairly elected. This opinion may be influ- enced by his previous political preferences; but, outside of the mob of office-seekers and office-holders, there are but few persons in either party who are not willing to accept any honest and fair decision of the case, no ‘matter which candidate msay by that decision be counted in. The country suffered through the long campaign from May to November from the general disturbance, excitement, alarm, and distrust. On more than one occasion during that campaign the country was brought to the verge of civil war; and the President was compelled, in order to prevent a war of races, to station troops in several States to preserve the peace. The close of the polls on election-day without a war was accepted a5 & great relief; but that relief to the public mind was of short duration. The result of the election wes for a time uncertain, and, when finally ascertained, was clouded with charges of fraud, violence, unfairness, and bribery. The worst passions of the previous campaign were again excited, and the coun- try was brought to the contemplation of the fact that the 4th of March will see two persons proclaimed President, each or- ganizing a Government, each claiming to be elected, and each supported by one of the Houses of Congress. The outcome of such & condition of affairs must be eventually the settlement of the conflicting claims by compromise and arbitration, or by war and the arbitrament of the sword. At this junctnre, a joint committee of the two Houses of Congress have reported a scheme by which this settlement of all the questions by an arbitration shall take place first, leav- ing revolution, war, and anarchy out of the business altogether. Mr. Lmvcorx told the Rebels that even at the end of a war there ner, oriron or steel worker, or any person phere loaded with scarlet fever or diphtheritic | draw the Grand Jury within the time pre- seribed by Inw, which gave the Sheriff an engaged i i i whose | contagion, it acts as an sbsolute preventive, gaged in mechenicsl or other Inbor, it B s Cpbortiiy T eélét soime Teputable wages, income, and even eraployment, have eral parzlysis of business produced by this threatened confliet, involving the erection and maintenance of rival claimants and rival Governments. When one man or ten men lock up their money, withdraw it from use, daily earnings. provement in general business. There were larger sales, larger production, more em- ble attitudes; and the madness of party has since then threatened revolution and civil war. The country demands peace; it cares nothing personally for HAves or TILDEN, or this or that party; and when the means are offered for a prompt, final, and peaceful ad- Jjority of the Judges of the Supreme Court, ‘With this question settled, the country will promptly recover. Our currency—paper, | thing of the kind. gold, and silver—waits only for peace to be- | in Illinois who voted for Havrs, the party coucus at Springfield took the ground that | interested in & speedy and penceful should | restoration of confidence, which has been be voted for by Republicans for Senator. | 80 seriously impeded. The mechanics, come equalized in values; our manufac- tures only wait for peaco and national se- | there was but one man who curity to enter upon a production for export, with exceptions so rare, and with symptoms 10t been injured, and seriously, by the gen- | so slight when any appesr, that one is forced [ o to believe that the fault was rather in an in- | sufficient dose than in the mgent. when either of these diseases has_ developed an attack, and within a few hours-the activ- ity of the disesse has ceased, and the remain- it1slost to general business, and the loss | ing symptoms speedily fade out into health.” falls directly upon those who live by their | Taken as a preventive, it may be safely _ thal ; the family guardians | that way alome, it is possible to administered by = : quantities | secure a revolution in this tax-cating Six months ago there was a decided im- | as put indicated by Dr. Berpe; but when the dis- ease has appeared it shonld only bo taken, ployment, and more money- distributed. | like all other medicines under s physician’s That improvement was delayed in becoming | direction. general bezouse of the pending election. | fover and diphtheria have become almost a Everywhore, all over the land, preparations | plague, it will be next to criminal for ph):- were made for a grand revival of production | sicians to neglect a thorough triel of- this that was to follow the closo of the Presiden- | antiseptic, and it is the duty of all anmilies tial election. But that election was not | with young children to make use of it as e closed; the contest put on new shapes; the | preventive, since it is unaccompanied by two Houses of Congress assumed irreconcila- | any pernicious effects. THE SENATORIAL ELECTION. X The week closed yesterday without change | conscienceless ring of tax-eaters and a com- in the balloting for Senator. * But tho week | munity of plundered taxpnyers, and every closed also with an assurance that s coalition | honest man in the Legislatura should give hed been formed which on Monday will elect | his vote and infiuenco to the only measure Wirrzas B. Axpenso to the Senate.s Such | which offers relief. judication of the whole difficulty by a ma- | aresult will be doubly disgraceful to those who make themselves respounsible for it. it will hold every man and every party guilty | Ever since the meeting of the Legislature of o great national wrong who shall defeat | there hes been no time when there was not such an adjudication. While the banksand | a majority of the members who preferred the Boards of Trade all over the country arc | and desired the election of a Republican. unanimous in favor of this peaceful settle- |*The Republican caucus, however, refused ment, they are not as decply interested in it | permission to have any Republican voted for as are the vast armies of men who are men- | or named except Gen. Locax:s Gen. Looax bers of the labor unions, whose means of | has never been able to command more than support for themselves and families are cut | 100 votes, and some of these were given un. off and destroyed by the general prostration, | der protest. from which there can be no revival and no | threat coerced 100 men to vote for him, but recovery until this question shall be settled. | the whip, and spur, andthreatcould not com- i pel the Independent Republicans to do any- | community where the depress.on of business Among the 178,000 men | has beer the more notable since the election. The whip, and spur, and citizens for that service. What remedy is there left to the poople? The only one we Given | have been able to think of is for the Legisla- ture to give Cook County tho right to elect an entirely new Board next fall by the general vote of the connty,—every voter in the coun- ty having the right to vote for fifteen Commissioners. In that way, and in Board. Itis to zccomplish this that Senator Ronrysoy’s bill has been introduced. Of course the Riog members of the Board will Certainly ot a time when scarlet | have their lobbyists in Springfield to work against it, but the country members of the Logislature should all support the mensure without any reference to party distinctions. There is nothing political in the issue. No taxpayer in Chicago cares a fig whether the majority in the County Board is Democratic or Republican, so it is eomposed of honest men. It i not a gquestion of ome party against the other; it is an issue between a TO THE WORKINGMEN. Tre TRIBUSE is satisfied by its own inves- tigations that the vast majority of the bank- ers, the Board of Trade men, the merchants, and the manufacturers of Chicago regard the compromise measure on the Presidential dis- pute with almost enthusiastic favor, because it promises in a Iawful way to sssure peace and restore the commercial activity which was so suddenly checked by the political complication. What i3 true of Chicago is equally true, we have no doubt, of every other lorge city in the Union, and of every But it is not these classes alome that are to which the country has been a stranger | For a week tho Republican Independents, | dny-laborers, and workingmen of all since 1860. All things are ripe, with abun- | who hold the balance of power, waited pa- dance of capital, for a general revival of | tiently for permission to voto for and elect trade, and of production, and general om- | some other person, but the permission was ployment of labor, which has been so largely | refused, and the one hundred, like so many idle since 1873. The politicians, the place- | automatons, stood there day after day voting men, strikers and blowers in office and out | s machines for the man who runs the ma- of office, stand in the way. They want | chine. "Patience being exhausted, the op- office and plunder, and they prefer even war | position have been compelled to take & D clnsses, have a still livelier desire for the prompt removal of the canse of their suffer- ing during the winter. '~ Hundreds of these men have been thrown out of employment sltogeiher, and themselves. and families forced to resort to the County Agents, the Relief and Aid Societies, and the public charities, for the food end fuel necessary to to a denial of their wants. .Wo be unto | ocrat—add such aDemocrat!—and make hith JNseep soul and body together. Thousands of those who overlook the suffering interests of Senntnr._. This man AvpEnson has been = Democrat all his life, but of such limited capacity that, though living in the heart of a Democratic the whole people and listen to the clamor of the howling mob of spoils-seek others have had only occasional employment, and nearly all, without exception, and no matter what their calling, have been com- pelled to accept reduced wages. The snffer-/] SCABLET FEVER, AND THE REMEDY. district, the Democrecy have let him alone | ing among these closses—that i§, the people The Chicago Zimes of yesterday contained severely. Naturally, Le enlistedin tho green- who ere cccustomed to earn their living by an axticle o the frightful prevalence of the | Locy fraud and delasion, and in 1874, under | bard work, but have been denied even this scarlet fever in this and other communities | o political lunacy of that year, succeeded in | Privilege—has never been so great as during which merely gave expression to tho tersor- getting clected to Congress, two candidates the presentsevere winter. Many of them have ism which the scourge has occasioned inall | 7y ooningt him, Two months ago the | been obliged to abandon the common com- families, without contributing any informa- | hoonlo of that same district utter] forts of 'the cold season, many to leave their : ki T | peop erly re- tion of value; but in the courso of the article | pyginted Lim. Now it s proposed that, as | homes for squalid quarters, many to put chst- occurred the following brutal assault : the Republicans will have no man except tel mortgages on their furniture 2nd household There Is a physicien who claims to bave an in- | 705,11 to elect ANDERSON to the Senate of | goods which they see 1o chance of redeem- fallible preventive and care for scarlet fever, and the United States ! The Republicans have, in their enforced make it public at a time when scarlet fever is liter- | adherence to Locax, lost, perhaps, the op- ally covering the city with its slain victimw, he fsa | portunity of electing a Republican, and, by , and, which he peddles out to familicsat so much a head. Now, if this man have such & thing, and does not ing, many to witness actual suffering among their own children. These are the persous who have the first right to demand that tke politicians shall abandon their struggle for B e T O e n everlasting | 4y, i rofusal to accept any other Republicen, | mere party advantsges and the spoils of libel on the human race. Failing to make his knowledze puolic, —if he have any such, —his claims may cause the union on ANpDEmsoN. shounld be investigated. and, if found to be what he | the responsibility of such an election will asserts, he shoald be paid whatever sum such & | rest on them. Gen. Logax has been present controversy If so, | office, and that Congress shall pass alaw which shall assura a settlement of a national which, if pursued, threatens, at character would demand fof his secret—and then | o 1o gt he might have withdrawn some | the beat, prolonged and inereased bard times, hauged. z o days ngo, and permitted the Republicans to and perhaps a bloody civil strife in which the I8 Poaa ug ta ntentian werd i single |y o inited on some other Republican.’ But | country shall bo torn asunder. We are not out Dr. G. D. Berse, who had previously |y o policy of grab, whip, aud spur does not | surprised tolearn that. the various trades- announced in the newipapers that he hod | iy the man in the maddle to diznoust’| wuions are taking steps for consaliation to discovered what he believed to be both a pre- until he kills the snimal he rides. The 100 | the end of meking a formel demand on the v.entzve and a remedy, which he would fur- Republicans in the Legislature. ought to | representatives in Congress, without refer- alh-at ebant goat to Wigse who wonh? 3PP | have manliness enough to shake off the [ ence to party allegiance, to give the pro- o ho prescription for which be would give | 1\ 1 01eg tht bind them, and strike out for | posed measure their hoarty support. Such s o any physician desiring it. 1f guch an an- | 0 ogit of the State snd of the pasty. It | demand, properly expressed, Iy the combined uouncement wag provocatian fof-an stiack, is possibly too late; but they would, by so | workingmen in Chicago and thronghout the to discover an agency that would counteract the ravages of the parasite which he belicves to be the occasion of the disease, and it was there i:";"‘ m“;’,‘ 9"°°“"b’fem“"blf°’ doing, have ot least the self-respect of hav- Bhsicins hm;““fl s I oo PO | ing voted at least once in the interest of TIli- | the National Legisloture. It would carry r. BEEBE een at worl Oor many years nois and of the countr THE COUNTY RING. The annunal award of contracts for fur- ployes suffer still more; and tothe great mass weight with it fully as effective as the influ- ence of the bankers, merchan’s, and manu- facturers. When the employers suffer, theem- only the recent prevalence of searlet fover | nishing the county supplies for the Poor- | of both classes the question whother Trms and dmhtheni- that enabled him tomake such | House, Tnsane Asylum, County Agent's of- | or Hayrs shall b President for the mest ageneral application of hisantiseptic remedy | fice, and so on, simply shows that the Ring | four years is insignificant, as -compared with os satisfed him that he had found the | hus mude up its mind that it cannot bo | the question whether the hard times ehall be Droper agent. Ofo of the constituents | broken by newspapers, Grand Turies, Courts, | sontinmed by the waref tho politicians; and of the romedy is a poison (earbolic | Legislnturs, or public opinion, aud has re. now that a lawfal and peaceful way ont of ncid) which, properly used, is invaluable 55 | soived boldly to carry on tho sume old sys. | oy difficnlty is offered under the auspioes of a disinfectant, but when improperly or care- | temn of thievery and jobbery. O'DoNNELL, | the best men in both parties, its rejection |essx3z;nsgd is Is: dn:lger;us Z otlier poison- | the mest contractor, McCrevT, the grocer will excite a dangerous hostility among those e See, B0 d bave been not merely | (who is understood to be simply o nominal | siasscs that will have o safor. the conso- unprofession: ut reckless to aunource for substitute for PErIoraT), and in fadt Pretty | guences thereof. general h')!ormnticn o medicin® that should much all the old set, are again the favorites, be administered nunder a physician’s. super- | without regord to the lowest bidders, L vision, znd such an annonncement wights| the case of O'DosyeLL, who is said to have, Take THE PYTHAGOREAN DOCTRINES, The revival of religion now in progress in have bfi":‘l f"“'JWE.d by serious comsequences. | heen furnishing the County Agent with meat | this city has called public attention to the But, while the Times was denouncinga phy- | not fit to be eaten. Notwithstanding this | great names in the world of theology. Somg sictan for not doing something he ought not charge, 8 new contract was given to him at | of Mr. Moopr's ablest disconrses have been to do, Tu TripuNe sought Dr. Bezse and | 5 cent bigher price per pound than was | devoted to monographs of some of the ald procured from him a paper which Le hail | 13 by g reputable and responsible butcher, prophets. JMr. SiNEEY's songs have been prepared for o medical journal, in order thet | Tt twas admitted that, in McCrevy's bid | devoted to them, and thiwe has also been a his theory might be thg more fully p!m_:ed for the groceries; there were many items | very general interest upem the part of the before the general P“."hc: and u{““ue"u"“ much higher than in other bids, and yet the | great crowds which have mttended the Taber- of the ma_dlc:;llmofessmn “"‘? fam}hcs drawn | Gommittes recommended the award {o him. | nacle, those who have been converted, and the ;:::: g;::“';“nyu to o ;”:‘:el;f‘c u!;i“' has | Ar. Bravrey, one of the Commissioners, | church membership of the'city, to get better R "y prov eb L ‘”e“f' came in with n charge, which he says he will | acquainted with the sources of the doctrines eptie,” it may be esplained, 5 | otablish abundantly, that MoCrevy has had | and the faith which they profess. In con- aterm: implying merely a condition or tend- | hills andited and paid for supplies which | nection with these discussions, interesting ns ex;]cjs;;o putrefuction; an sntiseptic 18 that | wer never delivered, To this McCrrve they are, they wonld berendered vastly more & m";m”"s t’?l? condition or comnteracts | (qligs Prnsorar) replies that he was holding | intereting if the modern preachers, and es- Efi : ency. de P’"“;""i_k‘l“’w’f 85 a0ti- | 116 goods in his store for the Hospital, and | horters, and theological writers would go still 5:81: izwn?:m:;z wxnt;: uloy mlhlg ":le ke cleims that the Committee in auditing | further back aud give us their views of those v of) sc;‘sv Py Brow FH“ 8¢- | and paying the bill simply extended to him | old philosophers who, outside the pale of o ence 1t Will become still more | common ¢business courtesy” in enabling | Christianity, foreshadowed its system. Tme genen Lim to “meet certain obligations.” Even | Trmuxe haslately devoted considerable space which of itself accounts for the imperfect records of the Pythagorean philosophy which have come down tous. The first feature of his philosophy was the doctrine of numbers, which he used as symbols of the piinciples and forms of Nature, and of the eternal essences which Praro afterward called Idens. He was the father of systematic music, dis- covered the musical chords, formed & musical scale, constructed stringed instruments, and also originated the fanciful doctrine of *‘the music of the spheres.” He studied geometry, reduced it to a regular science, und invented many theorems ususally sscribed to Evcrm, who lived long subsequent to him. He originated the ides of the solar system, which Corerx1cUs revived and NEwron fully estab- lished, by showing that five, or the sun, holds the central place in the system; that the earth has motion, and revolves about the sphere of fire; and that the earth is a globe instéad of being flat, as all his cons temporaries believed. With regard to his favorite doctrine of metempsychosis, which he boirowed from Egypt, every one is familiar. The world has outlived the doc- trine, but there are other theological doc- trines which hLe held and for the first time advanced that are zow accepted by all think- ing persons in all religions. He taught that what is called Gop is the universal mind diffused through all space, the cause of everything, the first principle of the uni- verse, invisible, incorruptible, and only to be comprehended by the mind. Upon this basic principle all religions have been con- structed, aud it was upon this old Pythago- rean doctrine of an invisible, all-pervading, omnipresent, omnipotent Gop, that Mr. Moopy has been conducting hismeetings. Is it not time that Prrmacorss with his demonstration of Gop, SocraTes with his demonstration of conscience, Coxrrervs with his - demonstration of the Golden Rule of morals, Prato with his demonstration of the immortality of the soul, all reasoning ont their deductions from their inner conscions- ness, without the aid of a revelation or in- spiration, should receive their dues from the modern theologians? Why is it that the weed of praise due them is usually accorded to them only by the heterodox people? How interesting, for instance, it would be if Mr. JMoorny would give the world his estimate of such giants as the old philosophers of Greece and Rome from his own religious stand- point ? REFEREE COURTS. In Tez Teinosk of yesterday was pub- lished a complaint against the crowded con- dition of the common-law dockets of the Circuit and Superior Courts of this county. 1t was stated that there are at this time 3,000 cases on thd docket of the Gircuit Court, and 8,000 on the docket of the Superior Court. ‘These do not include the cases on the chan- cery sides of these Courts. The same writer suggests varions means by which this condi- tion of things may be mended,—a=ong other things, that one of the two Circuit Judges now henring chancery cases give his time to common-law cases; that attorneys be limited in time when masking speeches; the establishment of a City Court ; and the more general trial of ceses by Referees. There may be some wisdom in this suggestion asto the trial of cases by agreement befors Refer- ees. The law of the State fixes the pay of a Referee at $5 per day, but permits the allow- ance to be increased to such sum as the liti- gants may agree upon. It is complained that this fee—say $10 or €15 per day for the Referce—must be paid by the parties, adding greatly to the cost of the proceedings, and that it is for this renson that the references are so unusmal. It is assmned that if the county would provide for the payment of a reasonable per diem there miglt be os many of these Referce courts in operation as litignnts might re- quire. The cases which cumber the dockets creof several kinds: 1, where oneor the other party seeks delay, and a trial is the last Union, would have to be hearkened to by |/ thing desired ; 2,—and perhaps they ace less in number,—where both parties are willing to liave their cases tried with the least delay. The one class stonds in the way of the other, and much of the time of the Courts is con- sumed in hearing motions of all kinds, the purpose of which is to postpone or avoid trials. If the county would provide for paying the Referee, the Bar wonld have no difficulty in finding competent men snitable to try these cases. Many suitors wonld pre- fer to have their cases tried by such a Court. When dispensing with a jury, all the facts and circumstences, including the equities of parties, could ‘be tried by an intelligent Court. In New York and in other States these Reference Courts are largely sought by merchants, and dealers, and corporations, and others who desire prompt determination of con- troversies, and who have no taste for litiga- tion for litigation’s sake. The County Com- missioners for along period appropriated money sufficient to pay Judges from other circaits a fair per diem for holding courts in this county. This practice has been discon- tinued because of an intimation from the Supreme Court that snch Judges could not receive such compensation. It does not fol- low, however, that the county authorities may ot pay the per diem of the Referees, sud thus provide the menns by which all persons having cases in the Courts, and willing to bave them tried and determined by a Court without a jury, can have their business disposed of promptly. There might be one or a half dozen of these Referee Courts in operation at a time, and the gen- eral contempt of jury trials in civil cases and the growing preference for the trial of provement is based B “ the commercial depres. :lu,. n& States of America has Prectieslly iy trade with the great agricultura] States A healthy condition.” The coal 3 trades have both been badly g, iy prices of coal having fallsn to fe g cmrent prior to 1872, and rails gnd al m"«: factured iron having suffereq in o s 5 equal degree. The depression -3, 2% cotton trade was owing Qm th. miscalculation in * the extent of crop, which was reckoned at 4,150,009 e (apparently a deficiency), bat pruv'gd o : 4,669,000 bales; it is observed, howarer (here might have been a serious e the surplus been anticipated, Thepy close of the year was three-eighthgs;:e%‘ per pound less than at the éloss of fl:% vious year. The course of the wouim:: ; is spoken of as more unsatisfacts, cotton market, and does’ not pmz,'::‘i& better. The sugar market has begq stimy, lated by the deficiency of the supply tm the West Indies and Brazil, which Lo evident early in the year, and it i3 probyy, that prices will rule still higher op goe of the falling-off in the SUPRIY . of bagy. sugar. 'We quote what is said .of thy and provision markets ag of particular iy, est to Chicago : M The corn trade =t the opening of (i, ;i depreased with heavy stocks, but I.Yxnu:; :m harvest1as turned out better than way g time anticipated, atocks are nnwsmnflandm: ure strong and tendiag upwards. = For the yeiry average Import of wheat ]fiwflrerpmlh.h g about 230,000 quarters permonth, bat the sumption has averaged 250,000 quartcrs Ina reduction of the stock of whet from peey 800,000 quarters to aLont 200,000 qm;m:; an advance in price ofaboat 2 shillings per, Flour hes also been similarly redaced o stacs, g has ndvanced fn price. " Of Inditm corn more gy | milllon quarters have beon impomdduxh:n: b sear, and prices have raled low, being now gy lingsto5shillings per quarterunder the ratey ; tweive months ago. Stocks have incresied £ 23,000 quarters to 120,000 quartess, ut:‘ ingz an excess of fmportd over sommey . tion of nearly 90,000 quarers. The gy | vision trade s rapidly sssuming gipmy Gimensions in Liverpool, this port dotaes vy large carrying trade between America ol iy XNorth of Europe, where the conszmptida of bacny avd lard iy largely developing. During thepy year the Continental demand has been greatertyy - inany previous year. and, together with thege mand in the Cnited Kingdom, has been equal to the large import there has been of tewy andlard. Prices. however, are 10 per cent iy in consequence of the very larze quantity of Infiny % corn that has been available for feeding in the States, having made hogs Iarger and heriy than usual, so increasing the eupply. It is very evident that the grain and o vision trade is the most reliable, and fis prospect for an increase in these branchxy } more trustworthy than in any other,~lld which is good news for Chicago and thy Northwest. s & = THE GROWTH OF TR, The Governor of New South Walss, S Hezcuzes Ronmvsoy, made & speech ‘Tecently at a banquet upon the necessity of fedent. ing the Anstralian colonies, which is atird. ing great attention in England, and will b 3§ likely to attract attention the world owe, from the surprising facts which it pressts relative to the growth of Australia—a growth which has only been paralleled in thasof ox own country. In treating of the populstia and its growth, the Governor said: “Tt population of New South Wales is at presal but little more than 600,000, while thatd the whole Con inent of Austrslia is b 2,000,000. The population of the Unitd States of America at the date of theirixs pendence 100 years ago was bat littls abom £2.000,000, and now it is over 40,000,000" 4As to the prospective growth f tha coloais, the Governor says: 5 Suppoaing that oaly the recent New South Wald increase of 4 per cent annually Is maintained, tie populationof this Continent ut that rate, of th: i end of the present century,—twenty-ilve Yeurs hence,—will ba over 5,000.000; twenty-five yexs later it will be 12,500,000; while in the year 190 it will be 31,250,000, which was the popalation of the Cnited Kingdom by the last censas, takenfa 1871 I think that my estlmate of increase for Australia, which is based upon the recent estsh- lished rate of increase In New South Waies, of 4 per cent annnally, will be fonnd to be below thé mark., Assuming that the recent rate of incresse in the United Kingdom Is not diminished, and th for Australia is not angmented, the pupalation of Australia will, i 1055, be over 33, 000, 006, which was the population of the Un:ted States of Amer- ca at the last census In 1870. ‘The present growth and future prospecs of Australia are not the only arguments which show the imperative necessity of fed- eration. Australa is divided at presentindo six or seven districts, which have very Lt in common, and have independent systems of administration of all their affairs. They have no common system of defense. Thers isno system of fres trade between them. They have their own custom-houses and ta- iff-rates, and & citizen cannot take goodt from one to the other without paying duties. The result is a continual increase of smig- gling. There is not even a common systen of postal service, railroads, or telogranhy. There is such a bad state of feeling betweer the different districts that they have beaa perverse enough even to have their ow3 railroad gauges differing from those of thait rivals. Out of this grows jealousies, 1o willingness to help each other, refusalsio combine for the common good, and q'_fl aggressions upon each other, all of which tends to hinder the common prosperity of the whole country. The commercial inter- ests of Australia are no less remarkable thsn its growth of population, as may be seen by the following extract from a speech read s the same banguet by the Governor of Vi toria, who, speaking of the States of A tralia when federated, said : Even now the deminion of Australia would tak8 her place among the ten or twelve great nations of the world; for the dominlon of Australis bsf U \ == Tre TRIBUNE, then, printed Dr. Brese's | ¢ 4., is class, i tronbl 4 A i . s if this were the whole case, the C t f this —thi it Chi b"nr ‘own political tronbles appear to be | Lou1a have to be a settlement, and it would | hypothesis, the relation of bis experiments, | oo pre St °“1““’ ® Gousty Board | o aas; o hevigeeat \Chineds | |/ cesch by a competent Judge leave no | already in the agaresate 2 public revenue of wery trifling as compared with the inconven- 7 3 e 0 extend ** business courtesy | religiousteacher CoN¥rores ; and, asitsarticles 7 inelnd- fences thy4, are suffered by politicians fn | "27¢ Yoo Of distress and bloodshed to have | the result of his search, and the combina. | ¢ Mr. McCrevy or Mr Pemtorar | upon his remarkable system of morals were | G0UPE that such Courts will be liberally | £14,000,000a year,and anaggregate trade, s Belgium. 'm,e pmwomyofp the Pacifica- the settlement firat, ;”d omit the war. The | tion of drugs which he finally discovered to Ly advancing money to nabla. iess wilol received, we to-day devote a bricf space sought. If necessary, the Legislature might ?i;"’f:fl:‘lffimfi :!r fi:&mfl.o:;n:t" “Hon of Ghe, ‘elich Tave beenths sobiess ggg;tnon'm'ai timel i Dow a3 it was in 1661. | be efficient as aguinst the supposed living gentlemen fo meet their obligations; but | to one of Coxrvcrus’ grest contemporaries, | S0th0rize the county authorities to pay the | ghe pronpof Australitn colonles, has now & puble of very heated discussions in the Parliament, | X = ‘;’i “fi i mb o office ‘:“St :"’bd“' mdlptm'fnsftlc °r§'m,“m in the putrefaction of | g ghall be surprised if the investigation | the father of all philosophy, who inspired | P®¥ diem of these Referees. rovenue.of four aad a ball milllons ’“;’D'n:,:lx: B ey 1edton very semarkabe awest | o500, 2 O S vhTmol e | st foves nd dpbihein, a3 gov 0 the | dog not s somotbing more ssiow e | it o SocmrasrPareioorss. Seoms | 1ast ToAET SToeo T Sorzmsons. | hAk e e he s s o 3 in Glent itselfl It appears that seventeen | oy b gomen s s b Rl :;3;:::-9‘;0 EW’ZN this, though two or three members of the | of the great minds of the world, he stands | The London Zimes' nmnmal seviow ot the Nearly all the English papers favor b8 young women riding on a gigantic car took Th f hundred h éry sins day ths TVmes ohe ;‘:fiy "'“‘ 1@ | Investigating Committee are said to be inti- | with Socrates, Prato, Zomroasren, Moses, | trade of Liverpool has a special interest in | federation of this wonderful country, whick part ia tho procession, representing theMaid | ‘00 0 ST hundeed thomand people | TP S50 S LS Les wes abnsing it g | nte associates of McCuzvy. Of o piece | and Muxoxer. Twenty-five years of his life | this country beeause. our foreign trade is | in the short period of twenty-five years bl of Glent and the sixteen United Pravinces. | b "4 %63 who ate directly alecied Ly this | Ay ormitnbo'diog erming iadis- | with these transactions is the exposur. of | were spent in travel and study, daring which | mainly transacted through Liverpool as the | become a nation of 2,000,000 people. ‘The procession was of & Liberal party char. en ;' a ance. The value of Prop- Thr’;’ S : e ] the printing steal, in which it has been | .ime he mastered the whole scope of Egyp- | point of transshipment for the rest of the — acter, and the Lext morning a Socialist paper erty is depressed ; the volume of lmsm.essm e frequent intermi n.glingul the characteristic | ghown protty conclusively .that the count: tian learning, the mysteries of the Persi i 0N SPELLIFG i & pap decreased ; the employment of labor is ar- | EYmPtoms of scarlet fover and diphtheris in the | 3 o 2id nearly double what if d o e Fph 2 02 | A dapleasins 8 -lesey, thinsfors) TG LANDON ACHOL BOARD e P! 'y double what it agreed to pay | and Chaldean magi, and the doctrines of the | that the year’s business proves to have been Last year the fffffi,“ and. other schools and two of the Ultramontane journals print- g 5 RN 5 same subject, and the state of system in which ed reflections upon the homor of the ladies rested ; industrial occupation is restricted. scarlet fever often left those who survived an at- | fOF Something that was not needed at all. Indian Gymnosophists. In his50th year he | on the whole more satisfactory than was an- dopted the Amerl winter amusement adopt e American - who rede ,én the car. The result was that the whole. seventeen have sued these papers for libel, claiming large damages in each case. ‘Our own superiority as politicians over.the Belgians is shown by the immunity from sssault which the Goddess of Liberty aud the thirty-eight divinities in red, white, and blue, who do good service both in Re- publican and Democratic triumphal cars, en- joy- The Chicsgo produce markets were gen- erally easier Saturday, with less doing. Mess pork closed 373@40c per brl lower, at $16.65- @16.70 for February and §17.02§@17.05 for March. Lard closed 20c per 100 1bs lower, at $10.80@10.82} for February and $11.00@ 1102} for BMarch. Meats closed ic per b lowar, &8 6o for shoulders, boxed; Sjc for The hoarding of money and its withdrawal from business have been extensive, ont only in Chicago but all over "the country. Capi- tal is withdrawn from invesiment. No man ventures into new business, The earnings of labor have been largely reduced, and business and trade paralyzed, because of the complications which threaten to produce the Mexican plan of having two or more Gov- ernments slways on hand, each claiming to be the lawful one. Thete is not a mechanic or a laborer in Chicago whoss condition has not been se- riously injured by the protracted disturbance of confidence caused by the violence of the Presidential contest and its subsequent com- plications. There is not & stonecutter, masson, carpenter, painter, wheelwright, blacksmith, shoemaker, harnessmaker, tan- tack,—a condition in which the blood and fluids of medical men that this disease wonld eome time be demonstrated to be as clearly of septic character as reasons: the abeence of decided epidemics in Chi- cago, on which to test the theory; and the want of an_entirely-satlsfactory antiseptic agent, with | On every occasion. ‘which to make the test. o To all this the County Ring will reply with | returned to Samos, erfectly acquaint i fifnfi;h‘;";'i::dni“fi,'?ZZ?a,‘Z“L’,‘“"J,‘,,‘fi’:{} Sl the usuel Tammany question, “What are | the learning and p’l:!x')lasoph; a?q the E:sl:,::xc]l 3 v i ¥ 20 | yougoing to do about it?” The Ring has | assumed for the first time the appellation of been exposed and denounced in the public | ¢ philosopher,”—a term which he invented. Ithen regarded diphtheria. Itisonly within the | prints until the varions members have been | Acting upon the theory that the State and Pl::‘:‘? ifriufl '?M l:ll demonstration has been | entirely lost to shame, have become imper- | the individual should reflect the order and Teacon: the sbee advance has beendue 1o two | vigns tg eriticism, and vote solidly for their | the harmony which are.apparent in the own interesias and against the public interost universe, he founded a society at Crotona, Many of the Ring | Southern Italy. To carry out his principles ptest L have elready been indicted, and the escape | he formed a school upon the Egyptian T!}e drug, which is admmlstfrefl 8358 pre- | of some of them with the prospective | model, his method of “instruction being two- ventive and remedy, is & chenu‘cnl combins.. | escape of others through postponement and | fold—exoteric and esoteric, or public and tion of carbolic acid and sulphite of soda,— change of venue has encouraged rather than | private. By the one method he held public sfxlpho—grb;;nte of sods,—and of its effi- | discouraged them. They have o more to clency Dr. Beesg soys: “ By its adminis- | apprehend in the ‘way of indictment, becanse | just 25 Coxru taught i i tration the blood and tissues of the human | they themselves select the Grand Juries end iha other methm;:, he szi uLseIz-:e 1::!:;“;5 bo‘iy.my be thf:umughjy disinfected withont make them ap with special reference to their disciples, who were admitted after a long exciting any toxic effects of the'drug. Ad- | own escepe. The way they came to be in- | course of instruction into the mysteries of assemblies,—teaching morality to the people ministered to children breathing an atmos- | dicted befors was throngh their neglect to | the esoteric doctrines, which +rere un- | ticipated, and warrants a brighter outlook for the ensuing twelve months. If this can be said of Liverpool, it will apply similarly to the general business outlook in Great Brit- ain, for there has been no particular interest of commerce more depressed by the hard times than the carrying trade, which is the mainstay of Liverpool. To the Centennial Exhibition is attributed main- Iy the fact that the passenger traffic has mnot increased, as that kept many Americans at home, and the number of pas- sengers from Europe feiled to compensate for the decline. It is predicted now that emi- gration will again set in, and an indication of it is found in "the fact that the White Star and Inman lines are again starting their for- mer number of steamers. Much of the ‘opefulness of the ontlook for a general im- orthographical *bees,” or spelling matchety and derived a great deal of fan and considershl® benefit therefrom. But the fun seems to ba¥ taken a serious turn, and the Briton basgots new bee in his bonnet. A great movement 18 been instituted looking toa ‘reform an plification *? of the orthography of the hn!\‘l’!" 1t seems, as we learn from the London Specs tor, that the School Board of London pas resolutions lately gsking the various S¢ Boards of the Kingdom to join them in 7eques® ing the Government to appoint s Boyal (—;"; missfon for the purpose of refurming * simplifying the present metbods of B glish spelling. The London Board Dav® not committed themselves to eny P . ticular system of reform, nor Eave thef indicated the extent to which the sxmpwafln‘: of the orthography shouid- be carried. 128 - idea put forth by the Rev. J. P. GooD: resident of the East Midland Teachers' Asso