Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1877, Page 4

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Madteon street. between State and Dearborn. **Rere Sphine.” Mesdames Meek, Maye, Mice, eto.; Messra, ‘Wheelock, Hamilton, Tearson, etc, Hooley's Theatre. Rantotph street, between Clark and Lasalle, Ene gacement of the Unlon-Square Company. ‘* Miss Mutton." Mesiames Morrts, Heron, Jewett etc.s Meure, il, Tarselle, Stoddart, ete, : Adeiptt Theatre. Monroe rireet, corner of Dearborn. Engagement: of J. H. Mack's Metropolitan Olympiad, The La Rue Family, tha Great Lolo, ete. Hase-Hall Park. Twenty-third street, corner State, Champtonehip frame between the Loulsville and Chicago Clubs at 3:30 Pm, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1877. CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, The Chicaco proluce marketa were active ani weak Satarday, Mees pork closed 7c per bfl Tower, at $1:1,1914@19.15 for September an! $10. 02142015,05 for Vet Land ciored Se per 100 Ibe lower, at $8,G0@R, 024 for September and $8.C24@R.05 for October, Meats were atendy, at 4c for toose shontders and Gaye for do rho ribs, Lake fretghts were lees active and firmer, unchanged, at $1.0%pergallon, Flour was doltan: weak, Wheat closed 1%4@1¥e lower, at $1,003 for Aucnst and {0%c for September. Corn clore: Ac lower, at d4tge for August and 44¢ for Se: tember, Oats closed 4G 4e lower, at 280 fo Ancustand S14 @2aqefor September, Hye close: caster, at tHige. Barley closed eteady, at G7e f September, loge were active and firm at, $4. 7540 5.40, Cattle were quiet and steady, at 2.502 B.35. Sheep were quiet, at $2,504.50, One hundred dollars In gold would bay, $105.25 in xrcenbacks at the close, In New York on Saturday greenbacks were steady at 95, The demornlization of the Russian forces in consequence of their recent reverses is admitted by.the’Grand Dake Nicnouas, who expects to remain inactive for about throe weeks, or until be is reinforced to tho extent of 100,000 fresh troops, It ia said that tho cholera has broken ont in the Russian camps in Balgaria. The fag coda of tho strike in Pennsyl- vania continue to crop out occasionally, An attempt was made to wreck o passenger. | train at Packerton by the tarning of a switch, but luckily the kngineer saw it in time to avert a terrible calamity. At Pitts. burg the wretches yet unhung tried to ex- plode tho magazine at the arsenal, but were foiled by the guard. Tho storm which Chicago #o confidently expected and so narrowly escaped. yestenlay seems to have dropped down sbont noon upon the vicinity of Buffalo, N. ¥. At Attica, a few miles distant, the lightning set firetonbarn, and the flames spread so Tape idly.as to threaten the destruction of the entire village, As it was, about $20,000 of damage was done, the arrival of a fire.en- gine from Buffalo averting a more extensive conflagration. An interesting letter from a correspondent with the expedition of Black Hills miners who have undertaken to prospect the Big Horn is printod in another part of this issue. So far as gold discoveries are concerned the writer confirms the his previous reports of Progress—plenty of “ colors,” but no payitg deposits as set found, and amall reason to enticipate any more satisfactory results of the long journey than in giving to the world some fucts of interest concerning a@country almost unknown to white men. —_—_—__ , Reports of recruiting in New York for the Toerkish army are denied by the Turkish Le- gation, It is said that the Porte values highly the good understanding which pre. ‘vails between Turkey and the United Btates, and will ecrapulously respect the neutrality of tho Iatter Government. As the pay of o private soldier in the Ottoman army amounts to about $1.25 per month, with «mall chances for ever getting it at that, it may be safely set down as probable that recruits from this part of the world are not coming forward with alscrity. —_— Political meteorologists in Europe are watching the gathering clouds on the French horizon with the utmost concern, The com. ing elections, it is believed, will be claimed by the Hed Republicans, and an attempt tunde to count the votes in the lurid light of civil war, The monarchical leaders, having controlof the Government, will, it is thought, soon do away with ordinary forms of law and dispense justice and protection by o military administration, The action of Ger- juny upon the advent of any new regime is the prominent factor iu oll calculations, and it is generally believed that Bumancg will attempt to cast out everything in the alight ext respect irregular or informal, When people go out for s cruise on Lake Michigan on # windy day like that of yester- day, and in a cockleabell with @ ton and a half cf pig-iron ss ballast, the marine report. er looks out for squalls, if the voyagers do not, The yacht Pamlico tried a trip off Chicugo yesterday, and a sudden pul cap- Gized the fruil craft and carried four persons te the bottom. ‘The catastrophe was eo sud. dep thut rescue wasiinpossible. ‘Ibree foul- hardy luds, who had set out for a pleasure ride in 8 omall rowboat, barely missed being swallowed up by the big waves, and their over-indulyeut parents have to thank a bu- quaue tugbost Captain for the privilege of iduiuistering the spanking that the young-| biens Generve. The dispatch from Gen. Giszox, date Aug. to Gen. Tener at Bt Paul, aud b: the latter trauamitted to Gen Surman ii Chicago, reads strangely by the side of Uneticial accounts of the terrible affair Big Hole Puss, The latter tell a story uf feat with fearful slaughter, while Giszos’ report would make it appear that his troy; though Ieiug heavily, were in iain victorious, getting Puseasion the Nez Perces’ camp which they £ tacked. It wouid be pleasunt to belie shat Gissem conveyed to his sapere i 1 officer a fair and acenrate account of the en- gagement, and that it ia alt a mistake abont afearful array of killed and wounded, tho ficll-howitzer captured by the Indians, and ‘the affair-in general a disaster hardly loss rickening than tho fate of Cuarsn and his men; but there is, unfortunately, too much teason to believo that somebody haa blun- dored horribly again, and that Ginnon's chronicle leavos the worst untold, Thero ia gratifying encouragement to be. lievo that tho United States and Moxican Governmenta ara at last co-operating cor- dially and efficiently in snppreasing incur. sions by filiiusters and cattle-thieves. Dre- vions to the firm atnnd taken at Washington in reference to the plunder of the Texas bor- der by bands of inarandera from across tho line, and tho instrnetions to Gen. Onn to Ppursno the thieves wherever their flight should lead our troops, the Mexican Gov- ernment manifested very little concern either asto provention or punishment; but now things have changed, and we find the two Governments working harmonionsly together for the protection of life and prop= erty on the frontier. Moxico could better afford (o exert some force and render unnec: easary the execntion of tha alternative nu- thorized by Gen. Onn’s instrnctions, than to pursue the former policy of do-nothing and eare-nothing and then make a fuss about an invasion of her territory, and recent advices indiente that the joint police arrangement works admirably, and that tho days of tho eattlo-thief are numbered. —— ESTATE, GOLD, AND THE NEW YORK TIMES, Tn an articlo somo days ago we endeavored to show how serionsly the value of many kinds of property, and especially real estate, had fallen in conseqnence of the apprehen- sion that the Resumption act, to take effect Jan, 1, 187%, wonld be enforced instead of repealed or very exsentinlly modified, and that the pnblic were alarmed nt tho prospect of redneing the currency, of the country ex. alnsively to cli coin, . This depressing effect we pointed ont was mort noticbable in tho ease of real ostate, and we thought wo wero but stating a notorions and confessed fact when we said that the “value of real estate had fallen xo low, and so continues to fall, that men were unwilling to invost in it”; and that ‘ morigagos excented nt 40 or? per cent of low valuations made since the panic aro not now even worth the money loaned.” Wo based these assortions upon the concurrent reports of tho renl-catate markets in the press of all parte of the coun- try, including the City of New York. ‘The universal testimony is that real oatate, in an alarming degree, has ceased to be salable; that improved real estate in large cities has shrunk in valuo because of the want of de- mand forsuch property, the fall off in rental, and tho absenge of any inducoment to invest capital therein, All this we considered ac- cepted truth, not questioned or denied by any onc, aud particularly vorified by the general statements of the owners of such improved city real estate. The New York Times, however, has discovered in thia arti- cle evidonco of luuacy, ** recklessnoss appro- Priato toastriker with blood in his eyes,” and varion’ other things that are ‘mon. strona, barbarous, and inaccurate.” Befora undertaking a reply to the New York Tunes, wo invite attention to what that paper itself admits as to the decline in the value of real estato. It saya: . It Je nndonttedly trne—not only im Chicago, about which Tuc Taimenc may bo better authority than anybody at tho East, but pencrally—tuat eurne real cotate witl not now bring the face of the mortzages on it, and there are Inetances within out knowledge tn which property eold before 1873 on a falr proportion of cash and mortgage bas now been taken back by the mortragdes, {ts former owners, ineatiefaction of the llen and in len of foreclosure proceedings. It in true that a great deal of prop> erty {n bufldings, erected before 1474, could be re- Placed for 60 to 80 per cent of ite cort; true that # Breatdeal bullt, like rallroade, upon epecuiation anil with only a narrow margin on the equity, Is down more than 50 per cent fruin the fictitious and expectant value sct on 1; (rue tha? real estate gen- erally te stagnant and dead, unsatatle except at tery tow Aqurer, Mot what then? Of course, what ‘The Trinexe says te malnly p question of valua- tion: but areuming that the WAustione rade since 1873 were really low, the broad assertion that fm- prove property bas ehrunk 50 tu CO per centinthe past four years, is monstrous and reckless, Tho Times then goes ov to explain and confess, and give away its case as follows: Teeal estate is the best teat, not of values, but of Prosver.ty and acticity, Ite ** worth." Ime proved, what can be made from it: animproved and epeculative, just what the fever of the hour may ansume. Jt ia dead at present, because It te yielding an insignifcant rental, comparatively speaking, while saddled with tazes which have scarcely diminished at all, and Lecause the uncere tatuty adout tae future ie auch that capital post lirely will not go further into it, Business men cannot earn tbe rent they formerly paid, and must Day, then, ont of surplus formerly made or ont of capital, if at all; owners are naturally relactant to. sccept the conclusion that the net sncome from reat evtate should properly be a tittle Ieee rather than 3 Uitle more than that from the most conservative and permanent securities; and while the reason, for this shonid be the comparative freedom from Tick in real estate. the collection of rente hae be- come so fara watter of question that this compar. alivesecurity dues not appear at present. Take, then, the further facts that while personal prop- erty can and dors evade moet of the tax burden which the law ettempts tu lay on it, real estate caunot. that the difusiveness of taxes ie not gen- erally understood, aad that camtat sarings at Present from putting itself In a position to be tar. ad, and there ts reason enough apparent Jor the deadnest of real catate, We are content to leave the question upon this statement of the leading New York paper. It asserts all that and more than we did. It a mits that mortgagors are fraquent- ly willing to surrender the property in satia- fuction of what is due on them; and that “* real estate generally is stagnantand dead.” If w property be “ dead,” it ix hardly neces- wary to add that it is “stagnant”; and when it is ausalable except “at very low figures * (the ordinary prices of cadavers), it iv not uuressonuble to assume that it has shrovk in value 40 to GO per cent. When improved property * ix dead at present, be- cause yielding on insignificant rental * while saddled with tazes, aud “because the un- certainty about the futare is wuch thut capi- tal positively will uot go further into it,” then the condition of real estate is even worse than Tas Tarusr represented it to be, and the cause given for that condition by this paper is affirmed and reiterated by our itic, ‘Tux Tezpcwe gave as the reason for what the Yines calls the “desdness of real ex- tate” und “ uncertainty of the futare,” that meu having capital preferred to let the same remain uuewployed to investing it in real estate, even at the present low prices; that, owing to the uncertainty, or more properly the probsbilitics, of the future, when the ovnstriction act gues into power, real estate was to fall still lower; that, if the policy should prevail of forciug the redemption of the yreentgcks in gold coin in 1679, then oven before thet date the whole volume of Wuys-e-nocey would be withdrawn, aud, sil- ver Leing demonctized, gold coin would be the sule and exclusive curreocy in which all debts will have to be paid aud busines dons ;! thet gold, owing to the boarding byt i | ! should still bd allowed to rogniate the do- France, the efforts to obtain it hy Germany and ta hold on to it by | mestie affairs of their Sclavie dependencies England, has already an increased yal- | according to their own sweet notions of uo; that to obliga the United States Government to purchaso enough gold to supply this country and redeem 360,000,000 of greenbacka therewith, mnat necessarily muake gold far dearer and scarcer, and of course of greater valno in all other forms of property. Woe pointed ont that as we noar tho day fixed for an exclusive gold cnrrency capital finds it to be more promising to wait until that time rather than invest in real estate with insignificant resulta, heavily taxed, and generally dend.” Every day the tailhons of money now lying idle are ap- proaching not only a gold value, but the valuo of gold under the extraordinary cir. cumstances of scarcity, unprecedented de- mand, and banishment of all paper money, Men will not buy real estate, nor will they lend money on it, when within a short time that moncy will have a high gold value, and the “denduess” of ronl estate mensured by its salable value will be atill moro “doad” and “ stagnant.” ‘Tax Trinuyk has nrged each netion as will remore this horrible menace, and reliove capital of the dread that if invested in im. proved city proporty to-day the property will be worth less to-morrow and still less tho day after. The way to remove this depressing shadow is to repeal the date of the Reanmp- tion act, and then take suok steps as will re- store coufidonce in the minds of capitaliats, and thoreby enhance the value of: real estate and rendor it again salablo and active, Chicago, liko all other parts of the country, has suffered from this terrible decline in tho imarket value of renl estate. ‘Tho dectino in other cittcs has been forced somowhnat by the “ deadness " which first fell upon real estate in New York City, and which sympathoti- cally extended even to Clieago. Tho tables Published recently by tho bankrapt and fail- ing insurance companies of the shrinkngo of values of improved city property in Now York have hadn depressing effect npon like Property clsewhere. Property taken by in- surance companies nnder mortgage in Now York City—on Brondway, some of it—ia_ not now valued by disinterested appraisers at mnch more than ove-thint of the snm at which it was counted among the ass ta of tho companics, Isit possible that the New York Timea hax never had its attention called to these revelations? Here is another item which wo clip from an exchange, which, per- haps, may bo news to tHat paper: In the proceeilincs In New York for the appoint- ment of a Receiver for the Universal Life-Ineur- ance Company an expert testified that the real value of nine pleces of land In Rockland County on which the Company had made loans wan $83,000 Jess than the amonnt of the mortgager, ‘The taxca have not been pald for three years, and the inter- chton the mortgages haw not been pald for tro years, The property would not now sell for one- half the mortgages, Unfortunately wo have not the figures showing the amount lonned, and theseforo cannot tell how great hins been the doprecia tion, Assuming that the loans did ‘not ex- ceed 50 per cent of tho value of the land at the timo they were made, and that the land. would not now bring 50 per cent of tho loans, the declino in the salable value of tho real estate is over 75 per cent, That perhaps will bo considered by the 7'imesas evidence that that real estate is both dend and stag- nant. We suppose that no moro melancholy evidences of the terrible shrinkage in the value of real estate, as measnred by its ront- al or by the price for which it can be sold, ean be found anywhere than is fnrnishod by tho City of New York. The declino in that city is not conflued to any class of improved elty property, Lut is found nlike in tho waro- house, residence, and retail business dis- tricts. tyranny, magsadré, slavery, rape, and pillage, In 188 the Darks did little of the work against Rusain, England, France, and Pied- mont did tho fighting, and Anstrin was a powerfal ally by her refnanl to lot Russia cross the Danube into Roumania, Shoe was then ontnambored and overpowered. Sho had no railroads and no moana of transporte tion but ox-carta, It is no wonder under such circumstances that-she waa beaten, Now, however, tho Tntks aro without allies and fighting single-handed; but already the campaign has lasted longer than it took Ger- many to overcome Fratico or Austria, and longer than it took Franco to vauquish tho Intter Power, althongl Ruasin has tho active assistance of Ronmania in men, munitions, and subsistence, the indirect aid of Servia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Greece, and the sympathy and such assist. ance as they can render of two-thirds of tho people of Bulgaria. ‘Tho rornit shows, con- trary to the general belief, that Turkey has not squandered the millions of moncy ob- tained from England sinco tho war of 1835 entirely upon sefaglios, palaces, and luxuries, She has built a powerful fleet which domi- nates the Black Sea, keeps tho Russians in their harbors, maintains communications bo. twean tho disjointed frgmonta of her Empire, and has proved of inestimablo yaluo in trang. porting troops and mumtions. She has equipped her armies with the beat of modern arme,—tho American long-rango rifles and re. volvers and the Krupp steel cannon, and sho has learned tho American system of fleld in- trenchments, with what result waa shown at Plevna. In tho contest betwoon thoso two: tough-fibred nations, the Turk lins thus far shown himsolf 9 mateh for tho ‘Tartar, Of the ultimate result of tho contost between tho two Powers thero can bs no doubt, Tho result of the present enmpaign, however, rests in oxtreme donbt. Tho Sick Man is np- parently not xo sick as he might be. oO RIGHTS OF THE CONSUMERS. We ara indebted tothe London Saturday Rericwo for a view of the’ recent railroad striko not hitherto made sufficiently con- spieuous, It was an askanit, at once selfish, vicious, and ignorant, on the rights of con- sumers,—selfish, because o comparatively small class thonght only of ita own immodi- ate desires and sncrificed the interests of all the romainder of tha community; vicions, beeansa the methods adopted stopped nt neither violence nor Inw-breaking; and ig noraut, becauso tho strikers did not forexee that tho injury they were inflicting upon society. would react most soverely upon thomeclvos, Tho London journal puta the ease in a peculiarly apposite stylo that ought to impress the Penusylvania poople and all believers in the doctrine of Protection, We quote briefly : ‘Tho chronic coneprracy of producers against con- eniners has never been mora consistently prose cuted than in Pennsylvania, ‘The rails on which trains have temporarily ceased to run, and the en- ines which are thrown out of work, havo probs. bly cost twice their oatsrat priece, because the local tronmasters have combiued to levy a durdei some tax on thelr neighbors, The desire fora Profitable monopoly has now deacendeil to the en- gine-drivers and thelr assistants, to tho great in- conrenlence of the capitallste, whose example they follow, a8 well ne of society at large, Tho doctrlue of xeltshners ts parhaps profersed ina simpler or more naked form by trades-nnioniate than by protected manufacturers, who contrive to delade others, 1f not themeelves, bv an affectation of patriotism, . , Tho theory that clothes exist for the sake of tailors, and hats for the bonest of hattera, was propounded thirty yeareaco withcruda and passionate carnestnese in ** Alton Locke” and other popular publications, In West Virginia and Venneylvaniatue rlotera and their frlends in the militia practically aesert the proposition that stok- ers and engine-drivers aro the ultimate objects of milway construction, The truth that bate wera designed to coverheade and rallwaya to convey Parecozers and goode reqaires, though It te not fecondite, to be aven through a pon-refmacting me- dium, Itlaeasy tounderstand the popular feel- ing that men who work ought to enjoy a larger share of the products of Iabor; but It might occur tu the advocates of trade-unions that the must fm- mediate safferera by strikes are often of the same class with the malcontent workmen, Thero is no doubt that the oxsctiona of the Protectionista ond those of a mob of strikers who rofuse to permit other mon to work aro ona plane so faras the rights of consumers are concerned, The only differ- ence is that the manufacturers of Pennayl- vania “struck” against foreign compotitors, while the railroad rioters of Pennsylvania “atruck-" againat the employment of.their neighbors and fellow-townsmen, The prin- ciple isthe same {in both cases, In both cases the great body of consumers aro shut out from tho natural advantages they would enjoy, if no artificial or forcible moans were employed to arrest the natural course of things. In both cases the consumers of the United States hare to pay the cost,—in the one instance, an excemive prico for the clothes they wear and implementa they use, and in the other instauoo excessive prices for traveling and transportation, Tad the railroads throughout the country yielded to the demands of the strikers to the aame ex. tent that the political power of the country has yielded to the exactions of the protected classes, the parallel would have been com. plete, It may still farther be carried out by illustrating the ignorance of both classes of strikers, The protected classes have already discovered how they have overreached them- selves; wince they have exhausted and worn out the home market of consumption, they find themselves shut out by their own folly from forelgu markets, and are forced to clofo their mills, So the strikers, when success. ful, find that the increased prices consequent upon their action fall upon them more ap- preciably than upon those whom they regard as capitalista; whether successful or unsuc- ceasful, they suffer the inevitable losaof time and share the hardships that are sure tu follow the wanton destruction of capital, such as the burning of railroad property in Pitts. burg. ‘The fact that all strikes which include in- timidation, violence, and plunder are direot- od against the whole body of consumers, in. cluding the strikers theznselves, can never be made more evident than by the recent railroad strike. A suspension of afew days in even # part of the railroad system of the United States brought the business of the whole country to o standstill: The cou. samers were cut of from their supplies, ‘The city inen could not get their breadstaffs, the farmers could not get their goods and tools, all clases were prevented from. re. ceiving . their remittances and consign. aments at the time they counted upon them, aud the whole country stood aghast at the calamity which was threatened by a longer duration of the troubles. It would not have been long before utarvation would have staved whole communitics in the face; os it was, the price of neat and flour in cities ‘went up apprecisbly, aud the poorer classes, including the strikers, were the ones who aufered most, The fact ix that any combi- nation for selfish purpow, whether # combi. ustion of producers or workingmen, ix an essault on the rights of consumers, whether stained by a distortion or by s defiance of —_— THE TURKO-RUSSIAN DEADLOCK. The Turko-Russian war is now in its fifth month, and to-day the aorinies of the two Powers face each other in Bulgaria and Ar- monia with the result nx doubtinl as it wan Jaxt April, when the Czar declared war, Fifty years ago it required two campaigns forthe defeat of Turkey; it is not improb- able even now that tho winter's snow will find the Russians still north of the Balkans in Exrope, and on tho northeastern frontiers of Amueniain Asia. The unexpected fight- ing qualities which the Turks have displayed, and which have made the campaign doubt- ful, are simply astonishing, and have intro- duced a new factor in tho calculation of re- walts, ‘Thus far Russia has lost every pitched bat- tle in which she has been engaged, and the victorious Turks have inscribed ‘upon their banners Zewin, Delibaba, Batoum, Eski- Sagra, Plevna, and Loftcha, The other en- counters have not been in the nature of bat- tlea, aud Lave resulted in favor of one or the other Power, according to the superiority of force. At the ontset of the campaign the Russians gained very peculiar and important advantages, and a month ago there was not a mulitary critic in Europe who did not expect to seo them in Adrianople and Erzeroum be- fore winter, Their brillisnt movements gare them large advantages and placed. them in posseasion of very important strategic points, not one of which has yet been utilized for permanent results. They crossed. the Danube at Ismail and Galstz in splen. did style, and only sncceeded in placing forty or fifty thousand men in the Dobrad- scha marshes, where they have lain idle for nearly two months, and where their ranks are now being decimated by gastric and ma- larial fevers, They crossed the Danube at Bistova with equal dash and brillisncy, and took Nikopolis bya splendid flank move- ment, only to hurl their victorious legions against the intrenchments ‘of Plevna and Lofteha, and retire to Sistova again, crushed and shattered, and unable to move until re- infurced, They occupied Tirnovs and other points in Central Bulgaria, only to be forced out again, through fear of losing their com. tounications. With the sid of the Bulgarian mouutaineers, they dashed through tho Shipka Pass into Roumelia, cut the tele- graph fines, burned villages, and even ad- vanced so far ox to threaten Adriznorle, aud then were sent hurriedly Lack syain, after defeats at Exkitiogra ond Kesanlik, iuto the Pass, which they muy hold a short time, but{ which they mast eventually yield, if reinforcements do not speedily reach them. Iu Asia they divided thelr colamus and pushed forward almost within sight of the doines and minarets of Erzeroum, only to find their army doubled up and.driven back to the frontier, with s formidable insurrec- tion raging in their Caucasian provinees, and only six wocks left in which to end their campaign. It is opparent that Hussia has already pat forth # good share of her power, end is thus far beaten. If peace were to be declared st present, she could not show couse tothe other Powers why any tresty advan- tages should be uwardod her, or why the re- forias for which sbe has fought should be enforced, 6o far au ber own prowess con. stilutes 3 reason, On the other band, the ‘Turkey would pat in s sub tential claim, ws victors, thet they In, It was only broader and more notice. able in the caso of the railroad atrikora than usnal, and tho roaulia will be proportionate. Ty more serinna, THE COAL-MINING TROUBLES IN PENN- SYLVANIA. A correspondent of the Now York Times has beon imvostigating the condition of the miners in the Scranton coal district, and re- voaln a degree of misery and wrotchednoss that can hardly fied a parallol in this coun. try. Ho found them living in cheorless huta, and feeding upon potatoes,’ nodn-crackors, and water, Ono minor is taken ns a fair sample of the majority, Uo told him: That he had seldom mado more than $18 A month, ani thonght that $13 woud be nearer hin average. Ile rent wan $4, but he patd it [rrega- larly. All his eupntien wore draten from the track toro of the Company, which Isa private corpora: tlon, Aelting Ita coat atthe breaker to the Deln- ware, Lackawanna & Wertern, He was obitgeil to Ret hie suppties at this shop becanae he never could getcash for hin work. Since theetrike no flour had heen served ont, s0 ho cowl! have no bread, Ae with many other families, meat war a Inxary seldom enjoyed. Clothen wero bought scarcely altener than to keep the family decently covered. A chili dled last winter, and charitable people tn one of the city chnrches had farnishad decent burial for {t, the mother being anable to get money or credit for theexnense, There are men among the Weleh miners who have Ived In Hyde Park for many years, whose citcnmetances have been gomt, but who are nov sharing with the meanest Inborer In the hardships common to all the population. One man, aober, frogal, industrious, In twenty- one yeara had been able to accumulate a little property, which was now allpping from his hand: andhe wae$300indebt, Yet hohad practiced econ- omy fo eevore that no felon ing prison but would have felt wronged If ho were compelled to Hve on hia fare, Evon the most frugal of these miners gre in debt, Women whoso husbands aro sick subsist only upon charity, and some of ‘thom aro on the verge of starvation. A clorgyman who had abundant opportnnitios for know- ing tho condition of tho minors said he be- lieved it would bo nafo to any tho families in the valley averaged atx persona cach, and that thoy hod mnintained life for tho pnat nino monthe on nn average of &7 per month, A Roman Catholic priost who sas questionod by tho corrospondont said that thera had undoubtedly boon much intemper- anco, and asad want of economy in numer. ous cases, but that tho ryatem oF payment at tho storo was vicious ond kept the mon in debt. Ho donted that all of the mining population was made np of tho ‘ Molly Ma- guire” class, Tho majority of thom aro peacoablo, honest, and industrions, and hava borno their troubles with remarkable pa- tlence, 3 = Tho rovolations of this correspondont show a pitiable condition of things, and will com- mend tho minors to o large degree of public sympathy, At tho snme time, there must bo n cause and a remedy for it. It is not dim- cult to find tho one, however dificnlt it may bo to apply the other. Tho finsh timos yrevions to the panic attracted great crowds of European Inborers to this country, ‘Tho English and Iriah mining clomont. untnrally gravitated to the Ponnsylvanin conl districts and scttled down thero. Their numbers havo constantly increased until thoy aro largoly in excesa of tho domand of tho markat, yet still thoy remain there, with the demand for coal going down, down, déwn, The consequence is that for fonr- yonrs past they hava not ouly lived in safforing for want of the nocos- sarios of life, but in the midst of a social con. fusion which has more than onco throntonod to tako the form of civil war. Undoubtedly, tho companies must bear their sharo of the rosponnibility. Thoy have conducted busi- noss herotoforo on toolarge and loose ascalo, They havo spocnlated in vast tracts of cont Innds. Thoy havo watered stocks, and sproad out in such a manner as to porauatle miners thnt there was plonty of work for them all at big wages. Atlnst there wero tons of thon. sands too many mon for the demand for coal, and,.a8 prices have gone down, the mon havo naturally beon sqneezed to tho verge of starvation, Admitting all this, howover, it does not help mattera, ‘Tho companies can- not pay better wages than the coal market authorizes. If thoy do, then they must go quickly into bankruptoy, and tha whole busi- noss goes to plecos, The rewnlt of all this enormous ovor-supply of labor is low wages and unstenly omployment, Molly Maguirism, strikes, plots, Aights, mur- ders, riota, watered mines, incendiarism, broken. machinery, and chaotic confusion. There cau be no end to it so long as labor remains so enormously in excoas of the de- mand forit. ‘The only romedy {a for tho surplus of miners to leave and go to the Weatern part of the conutry, where thoy can work the land. The South is calling loudly for laborers by the thousand to help harvest its cotton and sugar, ono-third of which must otherwise Bo lost for want of help. Let those for whom there ia no work, or not work enough to live upon, go South, North, East, West, anywhere where occupation may be had, So long as they re- main in the coal districts, this demoraliza- tion, drunkenness, rioting, and destitution must continue, Tuan toterview with a Trinny reporter in regard to rebuilding the City-Hall, Ald. Rosxy- BEKO sald: “As to the building of tho Court- House, he had opposed that scheme, and would do so until the city was in a position to pay for the work as it progressed,” ‘The Alderman had better “climb down from this position of op position to golng on with the Citr-Hall, If he will take the trouble to look into the matter, he Will discorer that the city is{u position to pay for the work as it progresses; that there is mure money in the City Treasury uow belonuing tothie fund than can be spent on the building In the next eighteen inonths; that the Common Council three years aga approprinted $03,000 of the Canal Fund to this purpose; and that there 1s $115,000 of the Canal-Lien Bullding Fund not yet appropriated, making tn all over three-quarters of @ million of dultars of Canal-Lien buflding money, which is a special fund, and must not be use? for any other purpose, Has Atd. Kosan- nexa forgotten this resvlution, passed by o three-fourths vote of the Common Council only four weeks agot Resolved. That tne Mayor be and he requested to communicate to the ‘ouncil micnt of (he present condition of all ngetments heretofore made with reference ty plana and wa- teria) for such City-talt buildin. Cast the Council inay without deluy (ake stepe looking to the Lnine- dude opening of work in the construction of auch Clty-Hall. Aud. Rossy uno fs probally the only man in his cntlre ward opposed to commencing tho bullding of the City-Hall; and be bad better paya little regard to the wishes of his von- atituente if he wishes to reyreeut the ward 1a the Couocll, a Some uewspapers aod orators wildly declare that there are 8,000,000 of unemployed men in the United States! and upun this enor- mous exaggeration they preach frightful die courses, The wildoess of this statement is seen fn the fact that the entire able-bodied mals populgtion over 18 years of aye living in althe Nurtheru citles aod towns, iuckeding all the furbulest coal-utuiug populatiow, de uut ex- ceed at the outside 8,00/,U00 ef wen. ‘The nutober of men in the cities and towns of the Bouth are under rather than over $,000,000, and there fs pot much reperted dcstatlon tu the South from want of way Te fet 3,090,000 of unewpluyed men fu the gtles ané towns must, therefore, include thave-fousdies of all is hereby & slate: cities and towns in the United States, to nasert which is sheer nonsense. We have looked over the whoto field, and cumu to the conclusion that for the past twelve months there tina heen agencral aver- age of halfs million of involuntarily Idle able- bodied men, and another half million of men who can obtain only transient or only partial employment, working on odd Joba from one to three dnyain the week, or less than half timo by the day, It fn safe, then, to estimate that thore area millton of men either wholly or partially idte, who want to work In the cities and towns, one-half of whom can find nothing useful to do, aul the other half not enough to support them and those depanding upon them. ‘This fn end Industrial exhibit; the truth fe bad enough without the exagacrationsof the rheto- riclans. the men in the ——__. ‘Tur Cricano Thinosr has not explained wheth- ¢ritie In favor of remonetizing tha silver dollar at the standard of SHA graine of 41215 grains, but ae it advocates **cheaper money," ft would be nature ally inferred that It tavorathe former, —Spring- Sekt Journat, ‘This {tote remark {8 beyond comprehension. ‘The Trinune ts in favor: of remonetizing the standart allyer dollar as firet known to tho lawa of the United States, and described by the act of Congress of April 2, 1702, That standard legal-tender dollar contained S71!¢ grains of pure silver. It never was changed, but always contained just S714 grains of pure silver until it was domonetize.t {n 1873. ‘There never wasn “standard silver dollar’ in this country of 834 graina,or any other number of grains except 84. The dollar weighing 412)¢ geaina In- cludes the alloy, which weighs 414¢ grains; but alloy adds nothing to the value of the coin, The first thing for the Springfeld Journal writer to practice fs silence; tho noxt to read up on the currency question before undertaking to instruct his readers, <a If the hard Himes: continue, the water will be Pressed ont of a good many railroads which have paid large dividends for years post on fictl- tlous stock. A briof statement of the Pittsturg & Fort Wayne may Illuatrate how stock grown by the watering process. Tho road was built with very llttle money. Tho cash subscriptions Were not 8 per cent onthe whole cort of con- struction and equipment. The stock subscrip- tons were mostly in wild landa, farms, town Jota, and labor, Of the eighteen millions rep- rescnting tho cost, the contributions of shore- holders amounted to no more than four mill- fons. Tho stock was swelled In various waya, In 1866 (t began to pay dividends. In 1870 the stock atoud at $11,500,000, the debt at $15,600, 0. That year the road was leased perpetually to the Pennaylvanta Company, The stock was watered to $19,714,000, on which 7 per cont was guaranteed by the loasce, and on that eum tho Vennsylvanta Company haa been since then pay- ing 7 per cent. $e To the Editor uf The Tribune, Watnranay Wis, Aug, 10.~—To decide a bet, Wil you please sidte whether or not Pixcitnack ever was Covernor of the State of Loulaiana? One party beta that he wax, and another that le wan not, antnever had been, We know that ho wae not the dily-elected Governor, and under the clr cumetinces give your decision ‘and ablize A Rrapan, Anmer—P, 8. 1. Pincnnack was elected In 1868 or 1870 a ncmber of the Senate of Loulsl- ana, Wanmoti was Governor, and a inan named Dunn was clected Licutenant-Gorernor. DUNN subsequently dled, and In December, 1871, Pixcuusack was eleztod Presitent of tho Senate, and ez-officlo Lioutenant-Governor. In December, 1872, the LegisIntive House of Repro- sentatives adopted articles impeaching Wan- MOTH, who, under the law of that State, was at once suspended, and Prnciuack became er- oficlo Governor, and was recognized as Govern- or by President Grant. Ayear or two ago mMicano Trintyn was azealons advocate of tha ‘*resamption policy. "— Sprinaneld Journal, “A year or two ago,’'—that Is, aince the Ro- sumption act of 1875 passed and ever ‘since, when Tits Trtnuns has had occasion to discuss the subject, it has held that unless that act was essentlaily amended, resumption was not prac tieable under it, It sald so when tho act was passa, und says so now. ‘Tho Springfield paper knows this, but it was necessary to open on editorial! with a lie In order to make its pelntloss point. There isa prophecy of great trouble and dis- may for tho State Board of Heatth, Tho dis ciples of the clectro-thcrapeuttc school of medi- cine propose descending upon the Board, with flro in their eyes and a battery under cach arm, demanding representation, and prepared to re- sent any attempt at a negutive treatment of their application. This school bas a large and influential following, Is extending Its dlsvoverica dally, and its members contend that the good It has wrought entitles it to recognition {n the councils of disagreeing doctors. The lack of enterprise ali ed by the New ‘York papers in dealing with subjects that moat nearly concern themsclyca is remarkable. When young Jiw Bennett was stood on his head a few thes in auud-puddie by Frep Mar, the Herald vover mentioned the incident, and now that Jay Gounp lins been dumped into a barber~ shop arca the Zribune{s as alent as tho pravo ‘on tho little accldent. Men and brethren, these things ought not 60 to be, ns Acorrespondent said the other day that the Ife or use of the worn block pavements could be prolonged several years bya judicious sys- tem of repairing them, by raising the btocks that are suuk and putting a ttle gravel under them, by replacing those worn out with now short blocks, and gencrally smoothing up tho aurface of the street. There ls no doubt much additional wear could be got out of them by dolng such repairing, eee ‘The Democratic authorities of Kentucky have offered $1,500 for the arrest of the unknown vigilantes of Carroll County who killed Cannis Anpenson,al6-year-old girl, by mistake, Intend- ing to kill her dlsrenutablo father and brothers, ‘The Demociatic authorities of Miselss'ppi havo pot yet offered 15 cents for.the arreat of tho known murderers of Kemper County who killed Coanauia Cassone and her young brother In- tentiunally. i a There will be great fun when tho British Min- ister marches into the Treasury Department, followed by his Mongolian constituency clalm- ing their rights under the British flag because they salled fur America from tho English port of Hong Kong. “Me nolonger Hamelican mlan, Mo Minglish mian, Hamellcan milan ‘ood!um, but Hinglish milan, ‘im hunderstands hal bablout Chinaman. Hemelican mlan be d—d."” ——————————— St, Loufs le stirred to its Mmestone founda fon because one of Its ministers, the Rev Born, hes taken the liberty of telling the truth abuut that decayed village, He romarked that Bt. Louis could get through # warriage and three divorces in M{teen minutes, and observed that tho peoplc who went to church Sunday incrning turned away to beer saloons Jn tha afternoon, and disappeared altogether at night. Tho American who called Marshal MacMahon an asg insy be vaid to bays madoa Bicgau ass othimself, It was very sensible of him to form auch an opinion, but very unwise to express It in public. Mr. Braga thought, possibly, that he was in this land of frecdom, where to call a President an ass t6 not only not sa indictable offense, but @ proof of patsiutiom. Lucky for Dawa that he is not in France. a A New York World correspondeut writlog from Constantinople speaks of a mau who is @ Aevarded reporter of a Chicagu paper, His hotel bil smounting to 1,000 francs, the hutcl proprictor refuses to allow hin to retnala longer, It as not to be wondered that W. Fewian Stower retreached, and arrgnyed his war curre- wpondcuce af a2 expouse of ons Feanc. Special cableyrams to the Chicayo Timesz “Londop, Aug. Y.—Communication with the front is alisost entirely severed.” Aus. 10—There bas bees nu cu with the front for nearly four da: dou, Aug, 1.—The lack of telegraphic commu nication ts omfnous.4 As noon os theay “apeclals" nottfy the Timer oles that there Ig but a doubtful’ prospect. of tho other paper hearing from the front, tho spectal artist whq regulates much matters whoops up adispatch xing the length of this year's campatgn at for. ty-eleht hours; moving vast boilies of men Ing varlety of directions; and glying in detail the plans of every Qeneral engaged In the war, Bnt unfortunately for tho achemo there hag been enough telegraphle communication toon. able Tre Titnune toturnish exclustye avconnt, of the recont battles, of which tho Tunes hian has as yet had no information. How long before the Government. will heein to recognize the great superiority of mitltts aver regular Generala? Gen. Qinnon totexranheg from Big-Hole Pasa: "We need a ductor ant everything. Send ua such rellef as you can Gen. Ducat telezraphed from Braldwood: ay have captured the town and dleperacit tho mob, See that now? That's the difference in Gener als. —— Sheetal telegram to the Chicaga Timer (fret page): “Thelack of telegraphic commiutitea. tion with the front ts ominous.” Special tele gram to the Chicago Times (fourth page): The ews from tho rent of war is py confused anil ro, indefinite that It fs almoat finposatble to site the truth from the great muss of dispatches con.. stantly arriving.” ———— Deacon Bitt.tam McKss smiles as he looks upon a pile of writs seventeen feet high ant says there aro millions In it If the Deacon could be aned to recover the ttema his paper has embezzled, the paper-milla of the unlvers would have to be kopt running day and nicht for years to supply the demand for documenta, <tr rhm-visaged war has smoothed his wrinkle front; white-winged peaco amiles upon the Tana, and BrurJeans Wats’ son-in-Inw's cats are allowed to pss over the initroads without letter to the strikers from the Clovernor of In. danny. ——— It it bad beon a son-n-taw ‘of Prestident Gnant’s {n whoso behalf such a letter aa Brive. Jeans Wats’ had bean written, the Demo cratic press generally would havo conaldered it aead case of ucpotism, - As a corresponiont, BiusJaans Was, of Injianny, is'ono of the wonders of the une verse, whether we regard hla Firat Eplstie to the President or his Second Epistle to the Strikers, . — Tho Democrats of Injlanny ought to bo proud of the Governo: they elected on the Old Clot Hcket lant October, aud the prospect of haying threo years mors of him. a The Democrats of Injianny havo bad luck with thelr live-stock, First It was Bannuw's mules, and now ft le Buum-Jaans Wats" gon- In-law's cattle, ————_— PERSONAL, The Adama family began to bo officchold. * ors in tho reign of tho father of John, Collcctor Simmons, it is unidorstooil, is Forng to losture next season on *Teforina,” Mr. David Dudloy Field is anid to have heen Invited to stand for the New York Stste Senato, Mr. Fredorick Tonnyson, a brother of tho oct, 188 Spiritualist, and ho says Spiritualism is tho only queation of the day, Miss Sua Hurey Olagett, of Kooknk, in aviused at the contso roxpecting the atrikera’ moves ment which fs taken by gone of tho lato Granger Papers. Tho Belden family throughont -Now Fa- Fland and tho Middle States have a reunion at Fone wick, Conn., on tho 28d. Chiof Justice Waite will prealde, The Spectator anya of John Habborton’s ‘*doricho Road,” publiched by Jansen, MeChurg &Co,, of thivelty: ** te power aud ‘Intorcat we ‘beyond question.” Tho statomont that Mr. Hepworth Dixon haa adopted the Baconian theory of the authorstiip akspearo's plays is contradicted. Io docs not belluva in chat theory. ‘Tho absonco from the Maino platform of » resolution camplimentary,to Gall ifaullton {a the moat signideant (hing that haa been brought to public notice fora long time, The death ix recorded of Mr, J. Langton Sanford, of whom it fe maid: **Ilie kuowl edge of Engllvh history was Ike othor men's knowledgo of thelr own Ilvea," Mr. Ruskin says thatin tho last twenty yeara much morv general progress haa boun made In tho appreciation of good musis than In the knowledge and lova of good pictures, Swinburno's notice of Congrove in the Inst volume of the Encyclopmdia Britannica fs Justty pralsed aa8 vindication of ono who, in the worle Of Hallam, **yavo a tono of rednument to the pub Ac tasto which it nover lost." Tho Philadelphia Times thinks ‘Tt fs ine finitely to Mr, Schurz's credit that ho was always able tocommand the hfyheat rates’ both in the Tecture-feld and on the husting?."* That seoms to be about the ‘rational view of tho case, The nomination of Mr. William H. Smith as firat Lord of the Brillah Admiralty seoms to be regarded somehow aa atelumph for journall gh he probably never know what it wae to line fora newspaper, He wasa distribu- ‘Whore can I put my aon eo that he will be aste?" asked an anxious mother of a worldly wieo oldman. '*The only place I know of {6 the one we are going to now, or another Iiko it," was the reply, They were on their way to Mount Am burn Ceimotory. é~ Mr, Bright's health and vigor aro proved bythe fect that be delivered three specches at Bradford in tho contas of one day, the occusion belny the dedication of tho Cobden atatue, ‘The Speeches altogether Allied alx cfosely-printed cole umns of the Loudon iewapapera, A new editor of Coleridge, Mr, Pickering, has recetved from atray periodicals ® number of neglected pleces from the pen of the poct, among them this definition of aa eplzram: Tho Nation remarks that the Britieh Islands, protected, like ourselves, b; from the danger of foreign invaslun, maintain a force of net Jeus than 40,000 regular troops ae an auztliary Do Hee for home duty ‘Thelrterritury te emall and thelr population compact, white ours aro widcly extended and loosely Joined together, The Livorpool Art Club proposes an erhi- bition ofa loan collection of fane, All fans of an artlatic character, or of an historic interest, are eligible, Including those of which the framework 1s inlaid, jeweled, emameled, of carved, Tho decorations may conslat of painting, embroldery, ited work, lace, foathers, or birds; and the lals of paper, ivory, sellk, pearl, banibuo, paim leaves, matsl, or wood, Bjorustjorne Bjornson is the national poot of Norway, Years ago the rumor spread abroad that he Intended to emigrate to the United states, bus{thad no foundation in fact, slthough ithe statement wey atti] be found In some bovke of teference, Hislife hasbeen uneventful, yet full of work. Ito was burn Dec. 4, 1832, aud gradust- ed in 1851 at the University of tiene, lis began immediately to write eketches and theatrical Criticleme forthe newevapers of the Capital, and wassfterward an editor ands theatrical msnarer, both of which posltions he still Lolde, iis reele dence for the past twenty yoare bas been Jo Chrletiana, and {tis uo more probable that he will ére than it is that Tenuyson will desert bie Bjornson ts an jroportant figure in cun- temporancuus anosla, because ho is the founder of the young Norwegian Iitersuro, and ia tne leader Of a widespread movement which ecoms dostincd to form & new fésue in Norwegisn civilization. When the separation between Norway and Neo- mark took place tn 1414, the former country was entirely without a literature of her own, and bet janguaye, suing educatod poopls, was pure Danish, ‘and among the peasants a, sort of medley, Bjurnion re-estatilehed tbo Norweglan tn bie own writloge, and tha nation soup rallled to btsaupport. in politica bo tu recognized as au ardent Hopudlican, thuust at & revvlutivoist. ‘Tho volitical Constitution of Norway te now so froc that any attempt te aubvers it would be unpatriotic, but BJuraaon and vis tol- lowers aro active iu puttlog every cunatitutionsl | Shock upun the vxercisg of the Kingly prerogatives