Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1877, Page 7

TUE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1877. 7 ee of Lonion, England, whe reported therm Iritish Judes at the Phi! solute Faihiers, The Committee appointed Last | Exdubtiton.? whieh be naw year th Loft best te gwait tne answer of | Therein touch valuable difertantion Pe given Dr. Parrish, na he was personally attar keel. touching metal wares," Locks, hinges, and De. Albert Day, Superntendent of fh Wash- | bolts, furniture, spikes, and nails,” are reported: {ngtonian Home, Boston, then read a paperon | upon by Mr. dates Bain, Lord-lrovost of Glas- the curabllity of fiebriety, conclusion | gow. “Mr. Bain, upon the question of which he reached was that the comtition of the | variety, for example, pofntx out that in drunkard fs ong of disease, nud that it is | England we bave only os few patterns of curable, and {6 46 often cured by proper treat- | stalr-rods, and those mostly in. brass, whereas ment as other disenses are. the Americans exhibited about thirty different Dr. Earle conte that drunkenness was | patterns, all of them artistic, many of thers ex- not adisense, bit & babi, and instinced a case | ceedingly 36, tu brass, in 'varlous shudes of where n Chicago man was adiitted te the | bronze, and particularly fn & coating of nickel, Washingtontan Home and broke off the habit | Touching this last in of ornamentation the by the exercine of his witl-power. He wanted to | Lord Provort says: 1 think our munnfacturers: know, if this were a disease, shat the remedy | shoubl specially Intercet themaelves in the ac- ‘was to be, thon taken In the Americans in the use of this, Dr, Day in reply cited an instance where he | metal.’ He then gues onto mention that in enred ainan after four months’ tardicat treat- | America the Ironmongery of 9 building, such as inent. “It drunkenness were not a disease, how | duor-knobs, hinges, cte., 1s usually couted with could it be made to yield to treatment! Adis- { nickel, aud the result is Hulitness and beizht- case, aa he uuleratood, was adeviation trom a | ness, Their etove fronts, dour-plates, and other healthy condition, and when a man by einidag articles are also coated with nickel. Upon the got his veins nnd blood-vessete into a congested | saw trade, Mr. doin Anderson, C, E., sound condition he was not in sound health, this algnitleant note of warning: “The men of A general discussion followed, In the course | Sheffield will Mud.that they cannot offurd to of which Dr. I. M. Lyon, of this city, mstanced | fall back on these competitions, whatever the an Inatitution sith wileh he was at une thne | trouble or cxpense may be, and wothing less connected, and where, in his opinion, the course | than fighting In the front at every encounter of treatment wag not enteulated to work a full | will malntain our prestige’? cure, the discipline not being strict enough. ‘The advices last recelyed from Austratia anit ‘The Chote held chat alcohol was a polsun, and | New Zealand contain an increaseing number of MUST BE REMOVED ENTIRELY orders for American-maite hardwarce, Simulta- from the persons whom it was suught to treat, | neously, English merchants are being required That was the system adupted by these Homes | by buyers in Sydney te eupply American-made and remedial institutions so far as he knew, atecl, which the buyers intimate anaes in Dr. Widney, of St. Louls, told of a resitent | thelr bellef, some advantages over that of Shef- in that city who, after a long perfod of stendy | field. ‘The Americans haye clearly not pushed drinking, fell under the power of alcohol | business, whether at the antingdes jor in En- and wus unable to shake of the dia-'| gland, !n yain, They have reason to be encour- ease. He gut into eume trouble, and | aged by what they have done. That they have was locked up, where be could obtatn no iiquor. | this view would secm to be inferable from the When he came out he fought against the terri- | statement now to hand that * Philadelphia mer- Me appetite with all his power, and failed. | chants are moving to introduce manufactured Twice he attempted suichio, his family lett hin, woods of tit city and State Into Great Britatn, and his bume was broken up, Ile constantly | by the establishment of headquarters in a num felt adestre for drink,—un eternal craving for | ber of leading towne in the Kingdom. The stimulants. Finally he placed himacl€ under | first sbipment of goods is about to te dlepatel- the care of the epeaker, whe dealt with the case | ed, This will havy the effect of indaciny the purely a8 one of disease, and after a wlile suc- | commercial men of New York and other cities to ceeded in conquering the discaee. From the | move {a aetiniiar manner? And as we write day that the patient left the institution, two | the information reaches us that the representa- years azo, he has not felt the craving, atl he | tive of alarze American suldiery and harness is now areapected member of society and Ino | house has Just been In Walsall with samples of good poaltiot # superior goods,” and has sticceeded fn obtaln- Ur. C, W, Earle, of Chicago, followet with a | ing a number of ord Such an event in the Heeun improvements, Inatead of cacour- | to which the Government be cheated auder them, aud so damaging all the partles { its operations, and toe illustrate the imperative eoncernel, necensity for an tamedite chang Xow, the whole thing comes from. the $5 MARINE NEWS. niche doctrine, that the property ts not in the a NAUTICAL MISHAYS. But let tha two parties try to sell out,—the one his paper, and the other his mort- Additional particulars concerning that collision up the South Branch, near the Flint & Thompson property,—and ‘It will not take long to aarertain which of the two partles holds the a- Elevator, Monday night, wero received yexterday from an eye-witness. Hin statement rhows that trinsic value. again: Aman in Connecticut Ins $100,(00 in the tug Satlefaction was coming down, under rapid headway, with the barge Minneconne, and the tug greenbarks (or Uncle Bam's vromiaes to pay— Hrother waa bound up, with three canal-boate fn “evidences of indebtedness”), well secured, earning him no money, put bel fly taxed. tow. Jurt asthe tags neared each other the barge aheered over toward the canal-bost D. G. Ho concities to change them for Uncle Jim's promixes to pay, of Chietgo, drawing 10 per Wright, of the tow, and struck her with creat force. Considerable confaston resulted for cent Interest, well avcured,—and preatu, change, He {s now getting $10,000 a year, and no taxes topay. Verily, great is science aud learning, 8 few minutes, and — the informant was unable to discern the extent of the damage, but believer the Wright wae injured, and states but just a little dangerous. ALB, — that she went on her way towards the canal after the collision. Thia statement is siven ta rhow the A QUESTION. To the Raltor of The Tritmine. wide diflerence from that furniebed by another In- formant yesterday, Lyons, fa., Sept. 11—I have just read your editorial {n yesterday's Tuinunr, entitled w cay Taxation of Debtad’ Would not your idea, | ea ey scanon han entered protent at DBuflalo on account of heavy weather experiences! on her recent down trip, A part of her cargo In Detroit at noe, MeApron, coal to Toledo at 20¢; 1, Vbrieraltto Hetrait at 4¢; 8. A. al hence to Dalnth at Oe, aukee and Chirae Vilbur, Cleveland, nus, i) tone cement, 5. Bacon, Chicago; A.Cobi, Eighth Annual Meeting of the As- sociation for the Cure of Drunkards. Chicago lnter-State Exposition NOW FOLLY READY FOR THE PUBLIC, Complete in all Departmente, and the finest repre- acntative exhibition of American Industry and Art everheld in this conntry except the Great Centen- lal, Admission—Adalts, 25 cta; children under 19 years, 15 cts, Excursion rates on all tranepoi ADELPHIA THEATRE. 4.11, HAVERLY.. ++.Propri¢tor and Manager. TEXAS JACK ANRIVED. PLATS TO OMEAT TEXAB JACK COMBIN AT, ecexafal atirring Drama. THE SCe INS, real Texas Jack, i Donal MeKay. Fiehting M fr eround, Wite of Mchay=Daugliter, th of Warm xpring Indlans, Jack's hutre, Mei proms, Dramatte Gampang. | Adnitesion haltthe price of any ortier fret-rinan theatre. All Las les" Nights, Matinces Wedoenday and Saturday. LLINERY| 1244 STATH-ST WEBSTER’S. CHICKGO BUSTA tu blocks marhle; 3 Eeconaba, A LITTLE’ SQUALL, The Milwankee Wisconsin of last evening te re- sponstble for the annexed: Capt. Young, of the sche Japan, started out Thureday from Manistee for Chicago witha cargo of jumber, his wife ac- companying him anon the the trip. After being out about an hour he atenck a heavy '*equall” (weighing abont eleven ponnds, and of the male Persuasion). which indaced him to retarn and seek abelter at Manistee. —- MILWAUKEE. Bpectat Pirpatch to The Tritune, Muwaunre, Sept. 12,—Charters, sehr E. M. Davidaon, wheat to Kingston at fe; to Buffalo, scht Tone Star, wheat, 4c; to Oswego, schra Comanche and Jolin Wesley, wheat, 720: to On- densburg, prop Garden City, wheat, through rate; aggregate, 47,000 bu, The Responsibility of the Medic- al Profession in Extending the Opium Habit. oarncd Discourses on Persistent Alco- holism and Chronic Infem- perance, ‘Tho elghth annual mecting of tha American ‘Association for the Cure of Inebrlates wae call- edtoorder yesterday morning in the chanel of the Washingtonian Home by the President, Dr, ‘T, L. Mason, of Brooklyn, N. ¥, A great many of the delegates fatled to respond, but It ts ex- ed that some of them may arrive In time to participate in the ecvond day’s proceedings. hose present were Dr. Albert Day, of the Bos- fon Washingtonian Home; -Dr, Daulel Wiikins, of Chicszo; the Rev. J Willett, Superintendent of tho Incbriates’ Home, Fort Hamilton, {N. y, and Dr T. D. Crothers, Supcrin- fendent of tho Walnut Lill Home, Iart- fort, Conn., Secretary of the Association. The following gentlemen were preacnt hs vis- ftors: Dr. C. T. Widney, Superintendent of the gt. Loula Sanitarium; Dr. Charles W. Earle, pbysicfan to the Chicago Washingtonian Home, and Messrs. G. C, Stratburk, A. A. Miner, and. Jolin E. Tyler, of Boston. Tho three Inst- named conetitule a Commilttce appointed by the city authorities of Boston to investigate the subject of Inebricty and the remedies therefor, Owing to the absence of so many of the dele- gates it became necessary to revise the pro- gramme, and Messrs, Day and Willett were ap- polnted a Committee on Vapors, Mevticine carried out to its legitimate onl. exempt from taxation all the tnoney owned In Connertleut, If {t should be Joaned to partics outelde of that tet XX. [It would releaseit from taxation In Connecti- cut, and inake it subject to taxation where It was located,—En,) ‘A BAD LAW. Marked Falling-Off in the Isnae of Poatage- Stamps—Caus of, the DecreaseeFranda- Jeut Operations of Country Postmasters. Washington inepateh to New York Times, The Issuc of postage-stampe hy the Post-Uffice Department shows a marked falliug-off during the past fiscal year, as compared with former yeara, The average annual increase In the festie of stamps has been for several yeare past about 6 per cent, bit Inst year the value of stamps is sted 1s neurly 8500,000 below the value of those Issued for the preveding year. This ts mainty attributed by the postal authorities to the leval- lzed system of paylug country Pustmasters a large commisefon on stamps sold by them, Uniler the present law, statnps may be ‘furnish- ea NAVIGATION NOTES. Cmeaco.—The stmr Peerless has received a now alr pump at Milwauzee, snd resamed her trip to Lake Superior porta laxt evening... There were but five vessels at the Inmber ms Inat evening. About fifteen cargoes were diapored of during yesterday... The weatlice was fine yeaterday, and the Bret Harte took ont quite a tare number of excurslonists to the Crib In the afternoon....The gtine Corona drought 2,400 pkgs of peachcr and 200 hrla of applea from St. Joe yesterday, an evidence duatelipiucnts of thorefrustsare onthe increase... ‘The prop Badger State arrived yeaterday, her firet appearance wince the Kulghts Templar conclave at Cleveland, where the Detroit Commandery used bee to aplendid advantage... Mrs, Margaret Shaw, owner of the rchre Fashion and Atlanta, died at her reaidence In this city Monday. She tne Raxed fo the manufacture and sale of malturs’ cloth- ing, and wasa native of Deifaxt, Ireland. Ornen Pouts.—The revente cotter Perry was at Cleveland Monday, and departed down tie lake At Cleveland Tuesday iron ore freights were 'y scarce and butlittle wae doing. There war not much activity In coal shipments, the supply of coal tn aoe cases being cnt short by the strikes at the mines....The schr Valentine recently rate the round trip between Port {uron and Buffalo in we The Canadian eche Star loxt a cathead and her Jibboom guy Iset evening, while being towed out of the river, It was the Roanoke, and not tha Antelope, that the nteam-barge Kershaw Lamped againet re- cen Capt. Charles McKillop, of the tug Pony, was drowned at Muekegon Tuceday. Wiliiain Waehington. fireman on board the prop China, was drowned on the Juat trip down, The eche Franz Sivch, while off Ashtabula, wan stenck by the Jate gatu and lost her mainsail and three sibs. PORT COLBORNE, Duxrvar, Sept, 12,—Veeaels paesod Port Col- borne lock for tho twenty-four hours ending @ o'clock Lith: Weatward—Propa Wertford, Ogdensburc to Ath- tabula; Africa, Montreal to Toledo: Europe, do to Chicago; barka Sweden, Kingetonto Toledo; Ri- val, Sodus Maint to Detroit; Falinouth, Oswego to Detroit; Arctic, Hamiltun to Cleveland; schrs Queen of the Lukes, Turonta to Biack River; Flor- Urwego to Racine; Stalford and Casvade, Ug- densborg to Cleveland, Eastward—Prop City of Toledo, Chicayo to Og: dentbarg; barke sibona, Toledo to Kingston ESS GMVERSITY paper on Terstatent Alcotiulisn." Aleoholiam | very capital of xaddlery and harness suould tn- | ed fourth-class Postinasters to the extent justl- | Wayne, do te Qsweso: Two Friends nod Cecelia. | six and one-half days, taking down 267,000 feet uf AND : : ‘The Secretary then read a paper on “ Tho Re- | was not adlseaae aul generis, aud he waxopposed | decd put manufacturers on tne alert. fled hy their official bond, and there ts noting | ToledutoKingstuns Elgin, Detroit to Kingston; | lumber and returning with ‘ub tons of coal....A | POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, 4 sponsibility of the Profession in the Production | to su considering It. ‘lo so term it waste destroy to prevent them from traversing the country | Clara Yoneli, Black liver to Brockville; Loulm, | new red light lato be placed on the end of the y Black Kiverto ‘Toronto; eclirs A, Bouody, W. fF. Duffel. and Oriental, Toledy to Kingston; Ella Marton, | Cleveland to — Hamilton; lber~ inuda,” EIk Itiver to Oshawa; Portaze, Ere‘to ‘Toronto: Acadia. Sandusky dus Wacourts, Fairport to Weiland: Atmosphere, Toledo to Uswezo: Lewis Kone, Black iver 1 Prescutts M.A. Lydon, Black iver to Toronto; Ontany, Ferry Sound w Thorold; Twilight, Cleves lanp to Lanvaton; Mary, Kingsville to ‘Langton; White Cloud, Detroit @ Oswego; Prince, Toledoto the whole responsibility of the individual Tit seven years’ experience, during which he had treated nearly 2,000 persons, le lind not seen twenty who eotld not break off tno habit if they fully determied to do su. ‘The speaker gave a yery (ull account of tha different degrees of alcoholism ad the syinp- toms developed therein, Jn order te treat such : a properly, the power of restraint should be Bl in quest of purchasers. For the first $1,200 worth of stumps suid, the Pust- tasters of the class referred to aro authorized to retain 8600; and for sales in excess of $1,200, they retain W perecnt, The purpose of the law was to grade, by a sliding scale, the sularies of Postmnastera whose compensation is leas than $1,000 per sear, aud, if the law was not abused, It would aceumplish the purpose intended, ‘The old system of pilusting the salaries of Post- east pier at Port Jtope. A bar ia forming outside of the harpor with only ten fect and a half of water over [t, but noth- ing can be done with it thie ecason Gen. Damont, United States Supervising Inepector of Steambuate, at Waehington, recommenda the re- duetlon uf fees now charzed upon licensed officera of steambuate. The present chargeon these aflcers is It Je belleved that the aurpius of the past which wunid justify a reduction of aboul 25 percent, Is 831,000... The canal-boat M. . Cassy arrivedat Buffalo Monday with a fall load of raisins of Opium Incbriety,” which had been prepared by Dr. J. B. Matteson, of Brooklyn. ‘The writer ect forth that, within the last two of three decades, the consuniption of opium has fnereased far in advance of ite direct thernpentic- sl need. The question to consider was whether patients indulyed inthe use of oplum for the urposo of obtalning transient happiness or ob- iviunt, gg Whether once ordered by tha piyalelan TAXATION OF DEBTS. THE KIRTLAND CASE. To the Eulitor of The Tribune Minwaureg, Sept. 12,—I have read the itlog- feal article in the September number of the Atlante Monthly, by David A. Wells, and also your edlturial in Tie Tainuns of Monday last Vigan aoe ash? Cork somts coon ‘The next recuiar w-rin will commenca on Mond BL. 1, INT. The business course wiil embrace Buu! y. Commercial Arithmetic, Mere Euhice of Business, Commer: rench and Gertuso Laneusces, ree wit embrace Drawing, Archt- hanicnl, ana Topographical Rtgl- acicnves, the Iixber Slathematics, ie French nnd German Languages, ato every student whu sivatl Described course of two rears, jon have taken ti nto tho institutions for reform, re . ular a * 7 iy a irae ‘J * ; 4 “ Collin’ Bay, Upon condition of bin serving one year in the **CILICA> and couthnucd indefinitely, its use caused auch The Rey. J, Wiltet sald he hud listened In | on the same subject of taxing debts, and in re- | masters of this claas was based mainly upon the ? “ = a: tg. | GORWOCNTING HOU: nh ar ent of books hrental and physleal changes ag to engender a | stent astonishment to the reuting of the mapers | ply to your Iilisdale correspondent. All agreo | number of stamps canceled,—the theory helng | goon’ Mike nee ie Betta eet are Ge HY on board, TE te probably eafe to pay that a carzo’| willie pinced under iis charey ade wilt bestiowh how like this has not come by canal before in twenty Years, The railways have lsd tne monopoly of thin clees of goods for a long time, bub a conatunt demand for it, ‘The vast preponder- ance of testimony was to the effect that its use was often entered upon unconsciously and con- Dr. Earl dia not. Tf the symptoms descrileed by anyhow! Al- show digcuse, what waa) dise: though not a'medical nan himaelf, he had had tint the stamps canceled represent the amount keep them, thus taskliy him a practical boukkeeper. of labor perfurmed itn hand) ting matter for mail- to The books reprracnt teal Guntnees! and are furnished by the bustoess men of Chicago. S- Ie—A REGULAIE SIGHT BCHOO to much that both you and Mr, Wells say iu re- yard to the Injustice of double tazution: but PORT WURON, fing, while the value of stanips sold ls no test liberal canal policy is restoring {t to the canals... will be open- tinued until ft becainea phystenl necessity. Ligh | a very long experience with tunatle jatients, | the great fact which both of you persistently | whatever of the atouat of work required of Bpectat Dispatch to The Tritune, ‘dine of $4100 uae Leen pald te the Federal Gove oun men who cannot attend during. the day. authorities concur that the and he had never seen anything: firnore {u the discussion Js, the right and interest) Postinasters. Under the present aystem, the Ponr Heunox, Mich., Sept. 12—10 p.m.--Down— | ernment by the Captaly of the Canadian ache Alex- ctlar elevator. For further toe ni formation apply at the college ofice or address Wo A. MYEMS, President, ALLEN ACADRUY, 344 and 149 Twenty-second-st.. near Michtes Chleaga. Mort elexant and thorough equipped fi Behool in the United states, Five Department je Mary, Preparatory. Classical, Commercial. Polytechnic. Fifteen experienced Professors and instructors. Indl> vidual instruction In addition to eiass drill. Location th the Onest restdence district of the city. Gord lonrds {ua places urar the School. A few pupitb recelved Ito the fainliy-of the Present. “Ail Derartmente wilt ha opened to Young Ladies and Miwea Sept. 17, Young Ladies who have graduated from other schools cap pur- nuce inal predate. course 10 this institut s a No. 11 Eighteenth-st. Clarsical and Engiteh Day School, with Primary, Intermediate and Callegiate Departments, Puplis of both sexes have equal advatitaxes, and may pre- patg for adwtsalon to any Colleze of University oF jor business. Eleventh year tecine Sept, 17, H. H WABCOCK, Princinat, LAKE FOREST ACADEMY, ‘The leading Preparatory School of the West. Ite graduates in nine diflcrent cullezea. Presbyterian control, FALL TERM BEGINS SEPT. 13, Addrers ALBERT BR. SABI Lake Forcet, 11. i OVUM MADIT HAS ITS INCEPTION in preaeriptions onlered by physicians, It ts, therefore, advisable not to recommend optun continuously for the purpose of alluyine puin, cepeeially with patients of a nervous tempera- ment, lest the physician might become tho ine nent cause of setting the spurk to tho fire that nay only be extingnished with Iite. The writer held that fully 50 percent of the cases of oplumn inebriety in this country may be traced to oplate prescriptions. Physicians are too ready to prescribe oplates for the c ellef of pain or Insomnia, and too carcless about acelin that when the strict therapeutical necessity for ite use has heen fulfltted the use be discontinued, An auxiliary factor of great dm portaucels found in the absenve of proper resttictions on the sale of oplum and its preparations, An apothecary can refill an oplate prescription as often ns It may be presented, If this were probiblted, muny cases of oplum use might be stamped out In their inception, Another phase of the quee- tlon was the use of the hypudermic syringe, While the sub-cutancous administration of mot phia has contributed immensely to the allevia- tlou of human suffering, it hos been assert- ed that increased fuellitica. for contin- ued indulgence are. — thus afforded. A prominent tnember of the Association holds that there is far treater danger of inebriety In this case than where morphin is nper orem, A pernjclous practica exists of recommending paventer ks purchase a syringe and personally employ It. ‘The remedies for the resultant crils arc to be found, first, in a diminished prescribing of oplates, a lessened fdea that they are the sine qua non, and the substituttou of various ano- dynes, soporiics, and nervincs, which, though not so efficent’ as oplum, arc free from that. pecullar property which so often, entails 80 ANSOLUTELY UNCON TROLLATLE as theae eases of acute alcoholiin described by the previous speaker, Surely, Chicago wilsky must be terribly bad, and contain a guod deat of fusil oil. Anil yet Dr. Karta denied. that all this constituted disease,—this acute manta an terrible delirium, «Tn hls experienc {nan English hinatic asylum he found that seven-tentls of the patients had become insane through the use of alrohot. Was not insanity a discasel If persistent alcoholism was not adis- ease but a habit, then the Penitentiary, and not. the Inchriate asylum, was the plice for the habitual drunkard, ‘Tne Chair apoke of the terribte effects of al- cohal on the population, and said he hoped that: the result of the mecting might be that they world got additional Nght on this subject. Dr. N. 8. Davis, of Chicago, thought that. they scarcely understvod one atiother, for the reason that they did not all use thelr? words un- derstandingly. For Instance, inebriety was de- fined as a disease, but a good muy peraone Ins cluded tn that word ‘inebricty” ‘the hablt of taking a drink, thus confounding things easen- tally ditferent. Thera were many reasons which Induced a man to drinks he might do so. because he was depressed in spirits, or becausu he wanted to liven good time, and felt Jolly. In speaking of persons being hereditary drank- rds similar tmisconceptions arose, No child was ever born drunk, for the mother coutd not. drink enough to make itso. A child might tn- herlt a predisposition to consumpt(on, but it was not born with tubercles in its lungs. Some persons were more readily affected by atmos pherie changes than were others, and the sane was true jn regurd to alcohol. Habitual drunk- enuess must be treated Hike other diseases, by micdicines and treatment of mind oud - boy. Above all, the patients must be taught that the: aniria fur au infraction of the customs lawe,.... Dr, Veryuron, of Torunto, contractur for section No, 2) on the Weliand Canal enlargement bas becn awarded the contract for No. 28. Memrs, Jones (Kenipiviley and Ctark (Buffalo) are the lowest bidders for Nos. 33 and M4, and it ta believed Meeere, Hunter, Murray & C 27 and Props Commodore, Huron City, Waverly, Gorden Campbell, Thomas A. Scott, Annio Sinith anacen- eort, Havana and consort, Cayahoga and barges, J. 3. Fay ond consort; schra queen City, Bertua Barnes, F. C, Leighton, Nellie Wilder, Francis Pain yetto Hrown, SirC, T. Vanstrauberzce, D. i, Keys, C, Ameaden, Iris, Jane Belle, Up—Propy Bt. Joseph, Wissabickon, Lawrenco, D. itichmond, Newburg, Java, Lombard and cun- dort: wclire St. Louta, Li, J, Webb, Senator N. G. West, Skylark, Pentwater. which the Btate of Connecticut las in this case of Kirtland’s, and all similar cases, But it did not cavape the attaution of the Supreme Court, of Connecticut, If the theory of Mr. Wells, which you indorse, Is to prevail, now ts the State of Connecticut to make Mr, Kirtland, and other eapltalists like him, pay thetr proportional part of the public expenrest While he owns $20,000 worth of laud in that State the Asscasor finds it and taxes it, because it has both a ‘corpus’? anda "situs ’t; but, when he sells the land, and loans the money” on bond ond mortgage in Miinols,—on which he ets amuch befler return than from bis land, then he inust net be taxed, because, forscoth, somebody {un Chicago has borrowed hia money, And Mr, Kirtland can live on in Counecticuc, under the protection of her city, county, and State laws, educate his children in her public schools, bo protected by her courts. and enjoy all the comforts that are to be derived from her modern and expensive civilization, without money aud without price. Judge Foster, who delivered the dissenting Jopluion, puts alfogettier too tine a point upon it when he argues In favor of the exemption of Kirtland’s mortgage because the mortgaceor fn Inois fs tnnde to pay taxes upon the murteaced property. Tt is all ‘the worse for the Chicazo Iman, {t is truc, that the case is thus; but that Js not the business of the Connecticut Assessor. Ills business fe—and the Supreme Court has wiscly sustained him—to find out now much personal and real property every man in hls dis- rlet is posacssed uf, and list the same, so that. eyery one inay be mado to bear his just share of Government loses money whenever the Postinaster of a small ollice disposes of stamps within the district of a large off, A conntry Postmaster, under the present low, can visit Now York and pedule out $1,200 worth of stamps for 20uy, and thus: earn 8300 cleur for hitnself, sud enable his purchasers to suve a like amount, while the wstal revenues would be cheated out of $600, ‘ere are Humerons ways in which the Goyern- ment cau be cheated under the present law, amd the fact of o large decline Inst year in receipts: from sales of stainps shows the extent to which tho Goveromunt is made to suiler., Instead of a deercase of &500,00U, there should be an In- crease to that amount, which makes the loss 81,000,000. ‘The postal authorities believe that during the two years ending June 80, 157, country Postinaaters, through forced sales, have overstocked business men with stampa, and the revult of such forced sales is now made ‘Appar- ent in decrensed revenucs. The number of regular stamps issued during the last Uscal year was 059,580,070, —n fulling-olf of 9,210,420 compared withthe pree ding year. Tn newspaper and periodical stainps, stamped envelopes, und postal-curds there was an tne crease, Which fact strengthens the theory of the postal authoritics as tu the decline in the tesue of ordinary etamps. Of newspaper and period- jeal statnps there were tesued 1,)03,70); stainped envelopes, 171,051,450; portal-cands, 170,015,900, The tocrease ip poatal-cands was 20,730,500, ‘The yale of the above fssucs wae’ $25,100,908, ‘There wero also issued during tho yeur to the Executive Departinenta 13.867, 145 otllcial stamps: and 14,350,445 official envelopes, both belug valucd nt $1,021,163, Later Idepater to Same Paper, Somo time ayo a dealer in sewtny-inachines at Little Rock, Ark. wos exposed, through dis- . are lowest for Nos, 2 apt. John Burr, of the schr Gers trude, has been mileainy alnce Sept. 7. He fa 48 yenra'olds aboot five fect and nine inches tall, and av thick snudy balr and whiskers, blue eyes, Hight complexioned, and stout built. Any information astu bis whereaboute wilt be gratefully received by his friends through the medium of the Central Ration. Ww uthweat. Werther fine. The darves Iho Grande and Dutuqne, which went ashore tecently at Long Point, lave been stripped and abandoned ass total loss, ‘The toy William A. Moon arrived down to-day mlnus her radder, which elic lust on Lake Huron, NEW WINTER ROUTE. ‘The Goodrich Company nave decided to place theirstmr Depere on a new ronte the coming wine ter, Sho will run once a week, —perhaps twice, — aud stop at Milwaukee and ports north of that an faras Two Rivera; thenco ebe will cruss over the Inke, and land ot Ludington and Manletco, and proceed down the enet shore to (irand Haven and Muekezon, taking in the latter port when practica- ble, When the Chicago iver waa inite primitive muddy aud gary condition the ice did not acctiniulate very thick at the month of the har- bor, but since the water becutne clearer the tco baa frozen thicker and the steamer hu» made her dock atthe foot of Michigan aventte under more difi- culty, Should the winter be severe, andthe Ice too formidable to break a passage from the lake to her dock, the Depere will land at the onter part of the North Pler, where the lako fs generally free frum heary ico. . LOW CANAL TOLLS, Last Wednesday an organization of the’ Erie PORT OF CHICAGO. ‘The following were the arrivals and clearances for the twenty-foor hours cniling at 10 o'clock last xight: Anatvate-Btmrs Corona, Saint, Joseph. sundries: Alpena, Sinuekegou, sundries; Citcagu, Manitowuc, aundries, “Prom Colla Campbell, “Ludington, lombers lenton Harwur, aundrica; Missourl, Ontou> indrlea; ie, South Haven, sundries: G. MKAtUCK, Bundries ‘avorite, Menomine towing. Schra equn, Jombuer; Sars Ginia, Maskeguif lumber; Mercury, Ludington, lum- Dery Relt, Ludington, tamber; Honest Jann, Muskezan, lumber: GE. Purlnicton, Horle's Hathor. poles: INack flewek, Luilington. Inmber: Fiying Claud, Muskegon, utter: Lumberman, Muntaxue. fumbertLincotn ball, Muskecon. Jumber; 0.1t. Johnson, Muskegon, lambert, Mockluy ied, ist, tanks, bark: Mystic. Muskegon, Jumner; Christine SHleuny Duncan Clty, tumve L., Traverse City, lumber; DBelutt. Torn Palne, Muskegon, wood; Herschel, Meouminee, Jumber; Eien Willams, Menominee, lumber: Planet, Menominee, lumber; Winnie Witt,” Stoningion, lam: Ler: It. J, pkidmore, Tentwatcr, lumber; scow Mary reer nuncenSche Ainertean, Unton, Menomt - RATA NCE he American Union. Menominer, # brivof salt’ and sundries; chr Elia Ellinwood, White 1 bu oats, 4 tons hay; echr Chester i. Jone, bis rey sche titan ume, iumtalo ectir M. OF. Me JY, WO, th Asktavala, Littio Day du Noe, aun dries; sche Star, Kiowston, 52.741 be wheats ir Harsha, Butalo,’ 34,101 tu cura ach Clara Tarker, coi ewater, harks ae of euch purchases to Postinasters is fully ect forth in the dealer's circular, which {s marked “Strictly coufidential, and fur Postrinstera only.” +The attention of the Post-Otlice author- {tics was given to the case, but as the present law permite the postal revenue to be robbed In this manner, nothing could be done except tu caution Postmasters that the snlo of stamps in any other manner thon that contemplated by Jaw would cause the summary removal ot the offenders. your sense anil better feelings of the sufferer than iu any other way. Ile hoped that there would be noconfusion of terms, aud that when they spoke of discase they would understand whit was referred to. The Chair sald that Dr, Davia had fully em- bodied his views on the muti When the As- sociation frat commenced ita work, the relig- fous press assailed them because they used the word **disease.” ‘The Association theradjourned until Do'clock dire results. Jn the second place, cai rs Espo fp | the publle burdens. Or, ag you say in Tie | patches fruw this city, in bis efforts to Induce | Canal Low Toll Apsociation of Western New York | }iualo. 9.16) bi schr Thotiss Jarsons, Glieg, atu WaiNle oe tee EhornCaTONS | hee ti ble sen ie the. speaker had Ruane The Acacgeur Ads the valud of chy |.equatry. Vostiwestors to purchoge iechines In | woe organized: in Dandie, ‘The Hon. James i Oi corn Nr Me pcotty Tiere us ELMHURST BOARDING SCHOOL. a of the yn vob and ws ry vet proper! ie oa exchauge for post c-stamps. he advantage 1 wheats Brop China, tut lour—! Planet bis patient pda he hiatieg aecotn plished mure by appealing directly to. the | P In thie case the Asscseor found th jie ot oS 4 pt Dp Wadsworth, In 5 couimanféation to that body, | wheat) 2 eat, 3 al oon A Pamily School for Youngs urges that tho friends of the Eric Canal, all who do work on it of make profit by it; all who be- Vevo that ita maintenance and efilciency should not be joopantized by congtitutional restrictions, and that the prosperity of the people and tha State ie subserved and will be atill further prometed by a continuance of the low toll policy, are tnvited in person or by delegate to attend & coureation to be wld in Syracuse, during the present month, to discuss the mubjects referred to, tw confer toxether and deviee such ways and meaneas shall in their certain property owncil by Mr. Kirtland to be in ‘Next schuol the shape of a bond and mortgage, and be taxed that. And very good ppoperty It ts, too. Ils mortguge fs a8 well eccured as mortgages rencrully are, he can convert it Into Fold an; ‘fay ie pleases, and gold 4s the seme of all bus{- ness transuctions that look to moncy as their Or, considered us an instrument, It is more profitable than real estate, because woine {6 not contingent upon thecrops, the: juterrupting anadinjnistration at short tutervals, will lessen the chunces of habituation. Mhy- slelans should keep careful watch over thelr paticuts, aud demand that they abandon the use of oplates, and especially of the hypodermic oe immediately that the absolute neces- slty for thelr use ceases. In cases of private ue’ of the syringe, patlents INVARIANLY USE IT TO BXCEMB, The question arises whether It fg not the duty ‘Travere Cliv, Catchpole, Moru‘a 1 Uris purk, wa . Thorongh Eoglish tea hantUecrinan, The nove Muste and Panciug treat ‘ te the Fincipal, Le ACADEMY, =, A First-class Preparatory School, kin J, MeVea,ituttalo, ty jelie, Holland, #4 conde of stones prop It. M Buffalo, 31.000 bu wheat, 450 brls fu: aces oll cake, aud auntie bela whlaky, tuck, 6 bela Of off atu sund) Wend, 10, 104 bu whe aty prop bri dete sehr We U. Alien, O ‘avorite, Menouilnee. 10 he lands pro} the of the Association to direct attention to the tue . The represe $ murkets, or any of ths viclsitudes of trae | The namaof. tho agent alluded to ts 81, | Judgment best tend ta promote the freedom of | Driesuxa, co wk fourle beet, 7 ,;oaslon bexine Sent G. 1877, Fur catalogues and trib discriminate sale of uplates and. to take tment: | City Oe in Joeuak hour bu privete pension whlel mike the unuusl ixcome of any business | Kirby, and In bis clrenlar ho strles blinsclt | commerce and the permanent prosperity of the | Geweuatchle, hineston,, 1:00 bu’ wheatt prop tie PAsiraeiclabhly et Ruom 2, Sechodist Chureb tock, ures looking to its restriction. So long as no | with the members of the Assoctation, and fn the | Precarious and Guctuariog. General dealer m_ Wheeler & Wilson Manu- | canals and of the people of the State of New York, | wrgarchic. Chibesean, 6 Oris Gove ang anndrien: nop SIRE TALCOTT, | Assoctate safecdard in provide will there be constaut ac | evening the delecates were entertained ot x | And just here Isa point where the law ts { facturing Company’s new improved scwing- —- -WHIGHT, As SL. ST rinctpals, Jacinto, Collingwood, 19.120 in corm, mehr Frank D, Barker, Bingsivn, 2,34 bu wheal. i —_———— WADE HAMPTON, Brectal Dispatch ta The Tribrme, Rockronn, IlL., Sept. 1.—Goy. Wade MTamp- ton, of South Carotins, arrived here on the 3 o'clock train to-day. Heo wil deliver an address before the Winnebago County Agricultural So- clety to-morrow afternooa, Ih on interview with him this aftcrnuon he stated that ho had not yet made ap bis mind what le shoald say in hisapeech, He had hardty civen ft avy thought. He should not make It 9 polluical speech, but woukl, of cours, touch upon the condition of the South from an industrial and agricultural standpoint. The Governor {s a cordial, pleasunt gentleman, of ubout £0 years, quite chatty, though he docs not ‘allude to South Curolina troubles. He spoke very highly of President Hayes, and satd with jocularity that, duriug the etrike, he had thought of telegraphing the President lie could furnish hits with colored troops, if wanted, to assist In quelling the rots, The Governor is ous of those sort of men who will take well with: all classes of people, and his visit bere will un- wiser than the fine-spun theories of these Inm- practicuble cssaylsts. Itdoes not allow these sleewd men the privilege of shirking their reaponalbility by inventing new definitions in regard to seroherty a nor because they have attempted to hido;thelr money out of sight on purpose to escape taxation. If Judge Foster's opinion should tially prevail in Conneetiput, that State would bo tho very Paradise for money-lenders. They could put thelr money all out fu distant States, get good security and aohigh rate of Intercst, pay bo tares, but feave that unpleasant duty to those who have not been gimart enough to convert thelr Droperty into debts agalnst their neighbors: for str. Wella and Judge Fos- ter both assure us that “A debt ts neither vini- ble, tangible, nor ponderuble,” although it may be made to pay tie erediter 10 per cent Inter- cat seil-anudally untll the interest equals the princlpal und then the mortgage can be foroclosed, and the orizinal auin borrowed can. becollected. And all this happens while the tortgageor fs puzzling bis braln over the * Im- ponderable and “intangible? nature of the business he haw been engaged In, according to the dictum of Judge Foster and. Bishop Hert cessions to the ranks of opiuin habltues, Legs fslative enactinent prouibiting the refilling of un opiate prescription, or the dispensing of oplun in any forn without a positive urder from a physiclin, would accomplish much good ‘by protecting thosa who might otherwise bee come possessors of an appetite taking havoc alike of body and mind. precedeut for such Jexislation exists, for during the past year Ger- anany has udupteil Ite Dr. Widney sald that fn bis experience South during the War, when optuu: waa very scarce, the persons who had been in the habit of using ft turned their attention to alcohol as a subati- tute. In one case a womun who bad been [n the hablt of taking as bigh as twenty rains of more phine aday drunk aquurt of ‘whisky without ecoming Intoxicated, Persons could use aleo- holforalonger time than they cuutd oplum without becomfug dependent upan ft. He bes lieved that legistution was necessary for the elute of the sale ut oplum and ita prepara- 18. ‘rhe Rev, John Willet believed that the charges ugzaiust the profession were too ewer} dng, and that they were less responsible than the Crugetsts. Great diillculty exlate In reaching tho facts, owing to the utter want of veracity on the purt of the patients. No oplum-cater, in his PROBAULE COMPROMISE, ‘The stmr Skylark hae been taken off the ronto between thia port and St Joseph and Benton Ilarbor, and now runs from Milwaukee to South Uaven, This gives tho St. Joe trade to the Good- rich etinr Corona, and the Benton Harbor business to the Messenger, of Messrs, Graham & Morton's line. Juvt why the change was made {ea matter of conjecture, The stylark {a waid to have been paying — fale); Bhe* took fo both Benton Harbor and Et duc on ber. trips, and her competition was,” ao strung tl treicht Tates wero low. A compromise han been eflected, undoubtedly, and tt te Tixely the Goodrich steamer anil the SM "s owners will prodt by it; for ratee hove been ralecd toa paying fivure, The Skylark wnay not do so well on er new route. LAKE FREIGHTS, Cuicaco, Sept, 12.—Grain freighte were rather quict, as catrlersaxked }$¢ sdvance carly, which shippers would not concede, Must of the engago- mente were made at Tuceday’s rates, on the basis of Sc forcoru w Buffalo, Room was taken for $0, 000 ba wheat, 177,000 bu corn, and 28,000 bu oats. Charters: To Butlalo—frop Oneida, wheat and corn through; achr, Mean, wheat at 33;c; ache d. ‘corn etic; echrs Peahtigo an machlne for thu State of Arkaneas."” Kirby has recently fssued a new circular, which has fallen into the hands of the postal authoritics here, in which he offers “still gruator inducements” to. Pustmasters to cheat the Governmeut. In his etreulur the persuasive Kirby says: ‘The hard tlines, great scarcity of money, and a reductlon in the prices of sewing-machines, Induce mie tu offer you uxtraordinary low prices in the witely-knowa and popular Wheeler & Wilsou sewlng-machiney, I make you this liberal offer, i will_ send you one uf my $100 machiner. > 1, ilver-plated, half-canu, fur machine now,-No. 8, for SH; $00 machines, No. 3 balf- case, for Si, Aaa atlli greater tuducement 1 will take the above in one, two, and. three cent pust- age stamps, After deducting your commission on the stampa you see the macnino wilt only cost you 12 for a machine; machine, and 14 fore $100 machine. If you dealre a good ma- chine at comparatively small cost to you, now Ix the time, If you have the stamps on hand acuid (hem at once; If not, order them and notify mu, #0 that I may know that you accept the offer. N, M.-For the benett of Vostmusters who ay think that It tee vivlation of law for them tu Dove of stampw fora machine, | would say that pad one of our best attorneys here toexuminy the Taw on the wubject, and bo says that {1 1s no viola tion of the law. ‘There fs, huwevor, an order of the Postmaster-Genoral agaiuet it, but the unly banquet iu the parlors of the Hone, at which Dr, Davis delivered an address of welcome, which was responded to by several visitors. a AN EXPLANATION OF A _BLUNDER--PROF. DEMARS' STATEMENT, To the Euitor of The Tribune, Cmicaao, Sept. U.—Ln your yeeterday's edl- tion you have a “cornetlun” about an article I had sent you a week ogo, To satisfy you that you were not “imposed on in printing ft,’ that it was not a “forgery,” wid that Prof. Demars was true when he sent it to you a4 0 translation of an article which waa to be Inserted in the Courreer de PTilinols, and in Justice to myself, to you, aud to the very “dear” friend who gaye you the wrong information you published yea terday, I must explain: Thad written the article tu question on Fri- day, ready to be sent to our paper in Kankakee, where Me, Gramtpre, proprietor, publishes it every thursday. Ispoto to my “friend of the ‘propricty of having it in Tus ‘Thinuns, mide a translation, slowed {t ta hin, and Saturday broughe it bo yall and sent It at the gaine time to Mr, Grandpre, ANIA MILITARY ACADEMY, opens SET, 13th. Location bealthe ulidings commouious, LCOX,” Bea, use, Chicayo, oF Cait Mile. C. Broussais” Fronch and English School for Young Ladies and. : Cc ildsen, Feonene on eee Ag at ae qilehlie: ay. ie wi he aawiates by le. 6 roussaly, Mins deters, pet it teachers, HARVARD SCHOOL, 21 Sixicenthest., : Pallege ri eeveutite: Reboot See aration, £08 Mr. SCHUMINGEN will be assisted Ly a full corps Of competent teachers. ts Hershey School of Musical Art, 88 & 85 MADISON-ST., ¢ “At Hembey Muaiceitall, _ Abilenbey MusleeHall, Yall term commenced Moa to JEW remont Ho ent, 3 4 2 f lty ia removal from ofiicy should he fod it | Pathdn sornatiyec, To Collipgwood—sctre | doubtedly prove a pleasant If not a protitable Uooke pow open. experience, ever told the truth iu regard to the | Now, aa political editor op the Courrier del’ /ttt- SOME BUPPOSITIONS, Rel ‘ 1 CF, an “ q crntn el their ween a fan ae not Pie tape ra art Tv the Editor uf Tha Tribune, out aud so desire, The penalty, however, will | Jutn Miner, A. Slosher, and Ituperial, corn on Bs | 98 Ue iseutertained at the house of Dr. X never be enforced, as this transaction tv strictly confidential, and no one will kuow of our trade, Ifyou wanta good machine, thera is nothing wrong in the trade, No stronger argument for the {mmediate re~ pealol the act of June, 1974, regulating the Salaries of VPostmasters, can bu furnished than fs contained in Kirby’s eleculur, This is only ove of the numerous Instances constuntly being, brought to the attention of the Post-Ulllce De+ partment, Arie her case will Glustrato oft Not fu college which fa under the ausple sect, and which is attended by about 130 atu- dents. For the accummodation of the Pro- fessors and students, who constitute a large majority of tho fubabitants of the locality, a Post-Otllco was estabplshed at the college vuthd- jos, the President of the collegeacting as Post- muster, As tho bulk of the mail received aud forwarded {8 on account of the scuool, {t is very proper that the Post-Otlcs should be located tu proximity to tt; and as ite Present kindly. agreed to douate the salary. of the office for the extension of the college library, the Trustees had that gentleman up- polnted Postmaster. Prior tu the act of dune, In74, the salary of the ollicu was 8500 per an- nut. Since the passage of that act, however, the salary has been increased to 82,2 and te now kuuwn 04 & aideutial appointment. ‘There has been no increase in the actual busl- ness of tho oftlce to Justify this iucrease of lary and rank, The iucrease was brought gutin the following munoer: Some of the ‘Trustees are large merchants of Philadelphia, aud require a lurge uuiouut of stamps in the conduct of their busiucss. As the President of the college donates his entire salary as Poot master to the college hbrary, the Trustees t. To Kingvion, sche Merrick, wheat as Thc. Ogdensburg—Schr Montauk, oats at 5Yc, ithe echt Levi Kaweon gets 800 for © cara of owder and coal from Hutalo to Stoughton, and 1,15 for tron ore back to Cleveland. ERIK. Spectat Dispatch to The Tribune, Ents, Pa., Sept, 22.—Arrivals—Prope Annie Young and Philadelphia, Milwaukee; scr Jas, G, Masten, Uuffalo; bark Elizabeth Jones, Buifslo; four tow bargea from Tonawanda, bound for baginaw, Departures—Lrops Alpena, Annle Young, Chi- cavo; Araxcs, Saginaw. ‘Tho yan steamer Michigan ls at Baffalo season. Ubartere—sehed. Us Masten and bark Elizabeth Jones, coal to Chicago at 40 cents, A FIRST-CLASS YACHT. ‘The yacht Cours, acraft that takes rank in the firet-cleas, and which was recently purchased by Capt, A. A. Munger, of this city, has arrived iu port, and !s now anchored ia the lake basin, op- posite the Government pler, She te a veesel with excetlent line d bearsatrun, rakleb app ance, that denotes fast sailing qualities, Hercabin iva model of clegance, and ber outtt quite new, Capt. Bassey commands the Cora, and will sail her tn the Chicago Yacnt Club crue, which will suon taku place. HIGHLAND WALL, HIGHLAND PARK, ILL. Now open as an elegant Summer Hesort. Open Sept. 20 asa Ladice’ College. Al Sept. 20 jer College, Apply by letter or MISSES GRANT'S SEMINARY, 128} & 130 Dearborn-av., Wil open Wednesday, Sept. 12, Ampl = suodeiions fur boardigg ane day poplin” eo “Chicago, Aug. 3, 1477 JENNINGS SEMINARY (For both sexes}, ADLORA, ILL. 833.00 pays for buard, room rent, and tultfon In Common Engl ah for Fin ger of fen meek Leyte Dlow bepty Ite Torte, Pur lnc i reas the Prive “Halts E Caby. NORTII SIDE HIGHER SCHOOL, 3M) and SUK CHICAUO-AY, asees for Boys of all ages. Adiress ur m,, fier bey. fC Tuntitute_ of tho Saered Heart of Mary, WASIMNGTON WEIGHTS, ILL. Academy and day-schuol fur young ladica, WU res TRAPS, Ws porcaate ere ane ki ie SISTEN SUPERIOR, ME, DASILVA AND NES. HRADFORD's (LATHE a Mrs plat Frenca, aud Gere > for Juan adics and jatheulea, » 12 W. Sati Ww. Y.. ‘Applicattuu tay be nade by letter oF fioreuge heachere’ Lecture tree Be horuuguly coupetcat teac ue : Waterhouse Hawkinean! Dr. Labtertons + - VAN NORMAN INSTITUT (Founded 1457), 314 Weet FUlly-elgbth-et,, New Yorke (Geutral Park Faulty and Day School for Young Gers ikupesutsepe ah tee ee snd Gert aud Madaiue V aN ‘Nous, Principals. A WIISKY-DRINKEI WOULD LIB, Dut au oplum-cater Would eop ou lying all tho time. ‘The habit arisca {usldiously and b: wecident more than in any other way, and phyalcans a jedue erpuard agalnet the danger chtheir patients, and baruiteas breseriptiong, ss substiute ther r. Earle concurred with the last ph yalcians Were bol so much snewerdbieen cre be draguints. ‘They tilted prescriptions with- gut the order of wphysician, and he belleved that under the law they were allowed to h prescriplions as private property, and mleht cutie tinue to hold them indeduitely, ‘This wan all : Lente eeateiet lun was needed, vt believe that the epiuun M1 not believe that the opiauibablt, oF the Dr. Duy, of Boston, bad considerable ox- poneace of such cases, ond considered hut the orlvin of the habit was more often aceldentul than otherwise, He Dlamed the druguiate for the indtscriminate Uliug of prescriptions, Ue also recommended that speclal care should be given to ti control of the sule und use of oplates. The \- hublt was a most fearful disease, soe PUM ‘The Chair consldered the subject a most im- rtant one, ‘The importations of opium aro argely iucreasing every year, and the effect of {te usc on the race ly very profound aud wile- Teaching, Somewhere 8 great responsibility exteted, and he held the cruyulets nist culp- able, Many of them were as directly iuterested in the sale of oplum and morph as the Saloon-keeper was fn sulting Mquor. The Key, Jobu Willet (uilowed with an elabo- Tate paper on thy diseased appetite of the drunkard, and fts cure. Mr. Willct utterly dis. owned the miruculouscure theory advanced by the new order of retlgiu-temperance teachers, aud claimed that the recovery of the druukerd from his degraded conditiod must be attained paper? Was it ns forgery? Did d impose upou you lo giving you the article to have it repro: duced by antielpation# Your informant fia not dented any of the aliequilona contalned te my artic, but, In speakluue of the | affairs of Cook County, Gen. Lich Is not to be blamed. Uf he can make $100,000 out of the office, Jet him duit. Those tu blaine are the County Commils- stoncrs—the press—the peuple, Whyshould I poiut to the ollice of the County Clerk more than to the other! ‘Tae Trius and all the other papers of the city have repeat> edly published before me that our County Gov- ernment was mugnilicently eurruph. Your Informant ‘you w “correction”? which corrects nothing. must ulso tell you why the article did not appear iu the Courter del didinis, The very dear” friend of tilue who mukes you call me a forger, a War, telegraphed to Mr. Gruudpre * to, wall ti) next week” to publish ft. Mr. G. thought it was an understanding between ne, ond the article was not published, thanks&o the zeal of my frend who used my contidence and Irigudahip au wobly. 8o you sce, Mr. Editor, you haye not ta regret, the publication of the Gnpleusuntness of our county oflicial: TVrov. Demans, Jn Forelgn Competition In Great Uritaln London franmonger, August, “77. # Sfoanim locks of America make,” sald a Manufacturer to us the other day, ‘tare being sold In Bristol ut prices whieh we cannot touch.” The dillzence uf the representatives of American hurdware firma ts cousiterable, We have previously poluted out numerous fur stances of their activity on this side. Not the Jockmakers und Hight tron founders of Stallurd- suire alone complain, but Jikewise the saw- makers of Sheltleld and Birininzham. Irun- Lyons, Ia., Sept. 11.—It {s often claimed that © A Hitus learning is o dangerous thing"; but, from the article of D, A. Wells and your edl- torial on “Taxation of Debts,’ we are forced to the conclusion that great kuowledge is also dangerous, To fitustratu: We will suppose I om a realdent of Chicago, and all my pussess- fons consist of some suburban property worth $1,000, and on which I pay a tax of $15 or $20, Along comes au agent of Colt's pistol manu- factory, and says to mic, “Put up buildings 6o and eu on your fand, and I will lease the whole of you for uinety-nine years, and pay you au annual rent of $10,500, and keep the property Inoured und in good repate.” T ascertain it will cost $100,000 to put up the buildings, I havea friend in Counceticut who has the money lying {dle in bank, secklug loyestment, on which be ts paying taxes, I lay the matter before him, with & proposition to borruw bis money, and ay him 10 per cent, and mortgage o him the whole thing, ‘The security will good, because the property aud all adjacent will be enhuneed. A great many families and akill- jing will be brought on fromthe Eust, tly around it, thus increasing the wealth aud populaton of the State. ‘The whole Lr looks feasible, and a decid- odly y@xd thing all around. The Eastern capi- talfat ts getting his $10,000 a year; I am getting £500 froin my Jute; the State is benefited from jucreasod wealth and population, The bargain is. on the eve of consummation; but bold ou!— there's onu element that bas not been conside ered; who is to pay the taxes un allthis? © You, of courae,” saya the lender; “ bave only a few bits of pe evidences of debt;’ the proper- eal MACOUPIN’S COURT-HOUSE. Syectat Dispatch to The Tribune, Caninviie, Sept. 12.—Tho Board of Buper- visors of Macupin County were served to-day with a mandamus frum the United States Dis. trict Court compelling them to levy a tax for Court-House purposes, This ts considered os bad faith ou the part of the bondbolders, who have been so golicitous for the compromise proposition of 7% centa on the dollar recently subintted to be yoted upon at the Noveaner Glection, and, from present indications, the compromise will be badly defeated, as it is de- nounced by the Cartloville Democrat as a propo- sition with too many loop-holes, and unworthy of suppurt. different phase consideration, ‘Ss THEATRE, DWIN BOOTH. EVERY NIGHT AND SATUUDAY MATINEE. Wrostshay asp THUHSDAYY odie kiguiest EDWIN booth “RING LEAT. aiirday. ‘oaby nights of Frid: EDWIN Boo Ht BRUTOS, tt EDWIN BuOTHT ae CLAUDE MELNOTTE, Monday, fF: if aa RICHELIEU, Secure ui HOOLEY’S THEATRE, Thursday Frening, Sept. 13, (be Eualnent Tragedian, LAWRENCE BARRETT Bupported by Mr. JAMES O'NEILL and a Howerful Premade Captanys willappear {a uakapeare's Great 1 Es i amie THE CANAL, Butnaerowr, Sept. 12, —-Arrived—Pirat Nattonal, Kankakew Feed«s, 0,400 bu corn, 2,750 Ibe seed; Gold Rod, Lockport, 7,800 ba oats, Cleared—Phanix, Lockport, 1,400 §t lumber; Cayugs, Lockport, 27,000 lath. Baiwaerons, Sept. 12-0 p. m.—Arrived—Mor chant, LaSalle, U, 000 ba corns mougers vo more than other distrib ii ty fs all with you; you must the taxes.” | naturally felt aa fotereg In having tho | & a jack Robertson La- | fravedy, MAC S ium, He,t dead | Bea ay Goa cosocios butt repre | £7 Caraa end a B A Rtn the, Great | ary rato Seba chet pois | Blais Maria Sow aucreae any wee’ SEEAMMMRL en avy souaee. | ervpage panes pregtl uaa in tek sentatives of Americ: eralstes Mogul on finance; aud the Btate er- | Uzures. og vantae, erefure, “le: ‘ RUC RICHLALGL? S11 : ‘4 f sud appetite can be cured: by ulracutous tuter- | thrust ‘their goods bolyre thew, aud seraseus, | aiuly-cthat's the Lave : the opportunity " preacated by a | gc iiarygg avtowens Ottaway 80,571 # lamber, | katurday Sigut—HCuAKD 1. eat 5 Iweson fa French ts included in the course for all but tay youu we a (ee Forelrculars apply are Bu auc seasful in demonstrating their merits, that it is imposslble to resist the tide of Indueucu that Fegults. 80 excellent ure ome of the Ameri cau saws that if the British sawmakery do not adopt the style they will have to loec a lunge proportion of the orders which they hav for a jong tine beeo executing, Lut whichure smaller aa the result of the fast Journey than for sume time past. ‘ Other American hardwares, tuo, will certainly get luto tucreasing favor on this side if our maifufacturers continue to deem ft pualtion to visit un incbriate asylum and experi- At tho conclusion of Mf, Wilet's addre w conclusion of Mr. Willet's $8, o Feces Wis tuken unttl 3 o'clock, : AYTEMNOON SkS8I0N, ‘Tho Association reconvened at 9 o'clock, the President in the chair, The secretary read a Feport of the Habitual Drunkards’ Cuinmittee of the British Medical Avacciation. Iu their re- oie uesubted rt aaactatlons at Manches- f ust dust, they recommended legisla- tlve action forthe treatment of ‘habitual’ tues Mundpy, Sept. 17, will be produced, with magnificent sceule Edevta aul» lune tragedy, JULIE NEW CHICAGO THEATRE, Clark-st., opposite Sherman House. * J. HW. RAVERLY. noes seseeeree MSORECE, Guequlvocal Success, Crowded Houses. The Henowaed HAVERLY’'S MINSTRELS, panentirely new, frosty gud sparkling yrograinuie, Populur pri Saud 33 ceuts, Bus Onice o But geuttemen, one and all, cannot you sce that the thing ts impossible? ~My net income ts only $00, und my taxes will amount to $1,500 or $2,000, It is hot only impousible, but there fs uo Justice or equity in it. ‘The lenderts eettlng, nearly all the benetit; oy share Is u were baga- tell. “But you must," saya scleuce, and law, and the lends, us ine Mes back ou his’ §1U,000 a year in ease aud luxury, inwardly exclaiulug, Greut bs eclence and Iearulug! But F euy E cannot, and will not, and that 1s eae cli iG La bre charg fois BiaKL SSD, gay Harvest APLEWOOD INSTITUTE FOR YOUN = M ‘Vittedeld, Mass, offers Ubarougy cults ta'e very Pee eres Aa a ed cipal, foreircaiar E afclie ts Reena AnG. CHAMBERS Priach aa shale ae a ae MORBISTOWN, XJ. po lnniva-scuoo! vOR A Bes ples from bew York, Ken 4 Be of dolective law, hy nary to purchase all their stamps from the College Post-Oilice, instead of from the General Post-Ollice at Poiladelputa. If the salaries of all Pustwasters were deter mained scvording tu the amount of stumps suld, ny lujustice would result to the postal revenues by reason of such trauractions, because what would be pained by vue Postmaster would be Jost to another. But, us ia this {ustance, with- out auy technical ylolation of law, the $1,400 added to the salary of the Colleze Postmaster ta Markabie cast, Shakepeary's sub- A GENEROUS TESTIMONIAL, CESS = Capt. James Gibson, of the prop Fountaln City, hasbeen made the recipient of an elegaut allyer tes-service, by Lake Erie Commandery Kights Templ: t Buffalo, The present was @ token of the app sion of the Kaizhts fur the kind and genetuus buepttallty shown them by Capt, Gibson, during their recent pilurimaxe to Cleveland, on which occasion they lo thy Fountals City ther headquarters, ea . tufra dig. to adopt some of the American pr e it. fam r nau, aul, by your | abstracted from the nativnal reveuues, thy Gov- ——— dally. WaTINEE vdueeday aad Saturday wb 2: Urlates aud the establlsbmeut of refurmatory in- tices aud pattetiia Te teouste teeta, | eget te stcgustions Pouare meine the your | eraugut te thus moder by a Usvoucst’ try to BUFFATO. itsiubye dept f7-CUSHEEE GOWaitbs” TT ANPALUSIA WALT. ANDALUSIA, PA. Neaw Htlous for thelr contuement, aud tho Section | much greater in deallug with the British opera: | man pay the taxe- of tbe rich, bealdes laying u | covtribute annually $1,100 to exteud the brary | *perparo, Sopt. 12.—Chatteré-Scbre Erastes 2, faut ero ares COTTON'S OPERA-HOU: SPLENDID OLIO, i Poile Howie schuol for buys of Peyeholuzy adopted reaulutivon duconforuilty salbugul locatiu ua Wodes eae — with the report, DRERSKILL (NY OMILITARY ACADEMY. BEND iy ustraicd Cinular, 40 pags ious details te Chair sald that this formed a full ana tive than with the Amerkan; aud the variety so much desired by a shup-Kceper fs wore at- of a private imstitution. aabarge. on all faterual inprovementa, acti dau mil) hue es eaUit tice Nuleroue fustatices showing the evils of the heavy Gentlemen, gen will have to count we outs and Corning and James Candee, coal frow Budslo to Chicago st 30c; J. W. Porter, sull to Cleveland at ss talualie lu American than British hardwares. the wholo thing falls through because of this | present law mlzbt be quoted from the re We. To Couciude with the Comcuy-Drama, ae eee | iota suilctent anewer to tho charyey made agalust, Makers would du weli ie possess themselves tnjass: lew of the ‘Biatecompelligg-s uian to | of the Poet-Ollice Department, but those given | 4¢: B. Jones, H. W, Sage, and J. G, Masten, coal Tile FOOL OF THE PAMILY roc yack, N. ¥. BOTS ian inebriate wsyluos by Dr, Buckush Lot the Mrab volumy of thb “Henart af pay tated on whit be omens Lado oo Mapateh sna suk ta alo ths extens | from Bele to Chicaxo ws ic wet ton, J. We Posten ‘ \ pededy 225 per Fears ud estrus, £08 Arcalad