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

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1877. BY MAI—~IN ADVA: afly Editton, one yea araot 8 ye m e four woekn f Literary and -Weekly, one yoi 'arts of & vear, per month. WREK 5,12 Ine copy, per ye B Tub ) Ciub of tweiii 006 Epecimen copes sent free. Toprevent delay and mintakes b sure and aive Post- Office addrese In full, {acluding State and Cousty. lemittances may be made cither by draft, express, Tost-Office order. or fn registered letters, st ourrisk. TERMS TO CITY BUBSCRIBERS. Dully, gelivered, Sunday excepted, 25 centa per week, Dally, delivered, Sunday ineluded, 30 cants per week. Addrem THE TRINONE COMPANT, Lorner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, Il Orders fot Lhe deltvery of Txz Teinuxx at Evanston, Englewood, and Hyde Park left o the €ounting-room ‘Wil recetve prompt sttentlon, B AMUSEMENTS, Heoley’s Theatre, Randoip street, betwcen Clark and Lastalle, Fa- mgement of Lawrence Barrcit. **The Merchant of Venfce ™ and ** David Garrick." Mesdames Cume mens, Foster, etc.; Mesars. Darrett, O'Netll, Price, e, MeVicker’s Thentve. Madtson atreet. between State and Desrborn. En- gsgement of Kdwin Booth. ** Fool's Revenge,” Mes- dames Don, Price, eic.i Mesars. Dooth. Wheelock, Pearson, etc. Adelpbl Theatre, Monroe street, corner of Dearborn. '¢Ticket-of- Leava Man." Meadames Myers, Plerce, gle.s Measrs, Blalsdell, Keane, et¢. » New Chicago Theatre, Clark street, opposite Sherman louse. Tiaverly's Minstrals. Mesmrs. Rymsn, Thstcher, Howard, ete. Wond’s Juscum, Monroe street, between State and Dosrborn. Ene Eagement of George France. ** Wide-Awake." Exponition Bulldlng, Michigan avenue, opposits Ada Staze Industeia] Exposition, Day SOCIETY o'efuck, aiCorininian (sl o East Kinkierse. Worg onthe 31, 3, Degree. A full sticndance is requested, i rdiail ted,Iiy order of U W AR brotines cordialy avited,o by ORIR, a0 Inter- 28, A, . s (Brida) etening at 7:30 1 A M~ ORIENTAL LODGR, No. 33, A. F, and A, ”-—"l.“’ Eriaing 1130 6 elock, 1ar usmcss it AT EiOAT) | :30 o'cloc! sl Harerr © E.'N, TUCREIL Boc. JIOME LODGE. No. %R, A. F. & A, M.~Regular Communication this (Friday) evening. 44 Twenty- SRl inviies Dy order of the Mastas o DretBren comiinllyfaviied. Ty order of Lo NEMHiCK. Socy, E—————— FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1877 CHIOAGO MAREET SUMMARY, The Chicaro prodnce markets were generally Mronger yoaterdny. ess pork closed firmer, ot $12.80 cash or October and $12.32% eellcr the year, Lard closed 10@15¢ per 100 ibs higher, at $8.024 for October and 88, seller tho year. Meats closed firm, at GXc per B for loose shoulders and 7%c for do short riba. Lake {freights were stronger, at 3%@4c for corn to Buf- falo. Highwines wero steady, ot $1.00 per gallon. Flour wasactive. Wheat closed 2@22%c¢ higher, at $1.14 for September and 81,074 for October. Corn clased easler, ot 43%c for September or October. Oata closed steady, ot 24%c for Septeme beror October, Rye was irmer, ot G4%c. Uarley clored tame, at 02Yc for Septomber ana 03xc for October. Hogs closed octive and stronger, at £5.0005.65, Cattlo were dull and jrregularly lower, with ssles at $2.50@5.75, Sheep wero quict and unchanged. There was inspected into #t0re in this city yesterday 232 camn wheat, 450 cars and 42,500 bu corn, 140 cars and 4,700 bu vats, 10 cars rye. and 83 cars barley, Total (080 cars), 462,000 bu, Ono hundred dollars in pold would buy $103.124; in greenbacks at the close, chungo yesterday closed nt 963, T —— ‘The Maryland Repablican State Conven- tion met yesterday nud nominated n candie dato for Comptroller. Among the rdsolu- tions adopted was ono cordially Approving the courso of Prosidont Haves in his efforts in behalf of solf-govornment and roconcilin. tion in the Boath. S——— For onca tho Slate fairs have been vouch. safed a season of the moat delightful weathor imaginablo. In the favored towns, where rolls-the silver-mounted threshing-machine and hoars no sound eave ita own threshings, * tho carth quivers beneath the tramp of tho curious, sud tho hearts of tho agricultural magnates aro as light as the infinita ether abovo thom, President Haves' trip from Nashvills to Chattannogn was reploto with further evi- dence, if any were needed, of tho good affects produced by tho reconciliation policy, At every station on tho routs the people flocked to welcomos tho party., White and black uliko mingled their cheors of welcome, and the only disappointment experienced was be- causo of tho railroad timo-card, which waits for no maa, e ——— ‘Tho Union Pacifio Railroad Company has ‘volunteered Another proposition lookingto the settloment of the long-pending controversy relativo to the payment of interest on itw bonda. The dotails of tho offer have not boen made public, bat it is roported to Le more in nccordauco with the views held by the Government and with the speoches of Congrossmun mado upon the subjoct at the last scasion, —— The Btadacona Firo-Insuranco Company, 80 soriously crippled by tho St John fire, yesterday began paying 25 per cont of their loases by that catastrophe. About 270,000 werv distribated, which sottled about a quar- tor of the present payment. The balance iy’ poid in notea on short time, This is not so much of o fuueral as getting 14 per cont from a bursted bauk, and, taken altogether, the Canadiaus inturested might have como further ond fared wo! ‘Tho not unexpectod death of United States Benator Bour, of Missourl, occurred yester- day forenoou. Tho vacanoy thus created in Missouris represontation willy be flled by sppointment, as the Legiilature does not assomble until January, 1879, The new Bunator will be a Domocrat, of course, and the scleetion rests with Gov. Purres, who, 8 it happens, is himself an aspirant for Benatoral honorw, and it is not unlikely that ho 1uy resign and recoive the appointment from the present Lieutenant-Governor, T ENees— A trial for wwault with ntent to kill, ‘which was st for yesterday at Richmond, Ky., was not reached on the docket. It was reached on the streot, howerver, after tho Court had sdjourned for the day, and the aspect of the easo was matorlally changed when all was ended. Jaserz Maveiy and Joux Burmax were, respectively, defendant snd prosecuting witness, the latter having boen shot and wounded by Mivrrx about a year ago. They et in the evening, sc. sompanied by friends, and, as the dispatch hag it, **firing began.” Aaveiy, Banuay, and two triends woro killed, sad * the survivors were wrested.” Mr. Sawvry D. Wazp was yesterdsy ap- pointed by Judge Wirriaus Receiver of the Berchants’, Farmers' & Mochanlos’ Save money out of collaterals county election, S t— Tho oxposure of the Now York 7T¥mes, printed in yeaterday's issue of Tie Trrouse, in which light was let in upon the common practices of Wall stroet brokers, is said to have cansed n great sensation in tho New York Btock Exchango. Notwithstanding tho bulls 2und bears liave taken immediate mensures to ** investigate " and thereby reatoro the confidonce of ver- dnnt sockers aftor uncarnod wealth, it is prob. gbla that the monetary dispatchoes from Now York will econ noto *‘a very apparent Iack outside support to tho market,” which, made plainer, means that very fact that the of small heuls of suckers are being caught daily. Tho somewlhat *tiresomo " game of keno, as played in large citics, may Lo less legal, but is just as respectable, and rather maro profitable to honcst men than ¢ speculation " ns possiblo amidst the sharks who swim in the deop financial waters of the motropolis, Two characteristio Ring measurea were voted through in the County Board yostor- day. 'I'he first in magnitude and effrontery is a gift of somothing liko $50,000 to BexrtoN, the brick-work contractor on tho Court-Houso, tho pretoxt being that heis entitled to an extra allowance of ¥3 per thou. sand for using sower-brick in tho walls, whilo tho fact 1s that ho is using no better brick than that required in his contract. Tho second is an agrooment to snbmit Warxen's claim for ““extras” foan Arbitra. tion Committee composed of respeotable citizons, the Board, however, roserving the right to disregard and set aside the Com- nittee’s decision. It is perhaps fortanate that this brace of +brazen steals have been carried in the Board just at this time, as they serve to emphasizo the importance of breaking up the Ring by the nomination and olection of five lionest mon ns Commiasion- crs, Sexron has not got his money yet, and will not get it beforo tho matter has boen ro- viewed in tho conrts, which aro nt present tho only protection the taxpayers have ngainst the rapocity of tho County Ring. THE WORKINGMEN AND PROTECTION. ‘The platforms of tho various workingmen's organizations all contain o clause that tho tariff shall be revised so as to afford greator advantages to homo industry, 'This declarn. tion is rather a blind one. Hevotofore theso organizations have demauded tho highest ¢ protection " in tho tariff, and whother the cliango of phrascology means any change of sontiment docs not appear. That the mochasics, and minera of the country have herotoforo boen the defendery of the Protect. ive policy has been duo largely to tho con- trolling influence of demagogues, and to the notorious purchase of the self-constituted leaders of the workingmen by the Protoction organization ; and tho country has furnished the strange and melancholy spectaclo of the mon who live by the wages of labor by thair votes ondoavoring to reduco the production of labor to the lowest point, and of necessity to roduco the employed workmen to the smallest number. Tho United States hava an abun- dance of raw material, have cheap food, and inoxhaustible supplies of fuel. Thoy have 46,000,000 of peoplo. They have the labor, and the material, and the machinery equal to the supply of manufactures for many hun- drods of millions of poople. Thoe Protective policy limits the prodnction of manufactures to tho supply of tho 45,000,000 poople of this couatry, and consequontly the labor in the country in excoss of what Is needed to meet this limited domand must go unemployed, and that which is employed must work at such rates and on guch torms as can be ob. tained when thero are four men competing for the work which one man can perform, In the face of this nolorious, solf-evident fact, the Labor party, spcaking in bohalf of the million unemployed workmen, demand that the Protective policy be mada more rigid, and that the production of manufac- tures be furthor reduced, and of courso the number of workmen omployed still further diminished, 'The United Btates should be in a condi- tion to produca cortain lines of mannfactures and gell thom in the. markets of the world. ‘The distross of our workingmen is that thero ia no work for them. Tho coal-winers aud the iron-workers, and the labor of overy kind engaged in manufacturos are unem. ployed because thero is no labor for thom. The morket for all branches of manufac. tared products is filled to overflowing, Tho truo romedy for such o caso 3 to enlarge the market; if tho existing labor can fur. nish the present market, leaving one-halt the workmen unemployed, then to enlarge the market 8o nsto doublo the sales wonld be the most direct way to give work to the unemployod. Tho tariff, as it stands, practically prohib. its the exportation of American mnnufac. tures, and yot an oxport trade in manufsc. tures {4 casential to any incroaso in their pro- duction, and to any incresse in the employ- 1t wo could duplicato the value of our agricultural exports by an oqual value of exported manufactures, thus estab- lishing a market for tho surplus products of Loth industries, there would be no more dis- tress, fdleness, and povertyin the workshops or the mines than there is on the farms. Wa iuvite the attontion of the working class who Wast moro protection in the tariff to an in- stance of the way In which Protootion pro- wment of labor, tects labor, ings Bank, nnder a bond of $300,000. The selection of Mr. Wanp was avidently accept- ablo to nll the parties reprosented 1n court, and there {8 every reason to anticipate that tho affairs of the bank will bo administered rkillfully and for the beat interests of the de- positorn. To what extont thoe assota will cov- er tho claims cannot yot ba stated, Ar. Mrzns declining to give any information con- cerning the bank’s condition, except to the Receiver, whom he promiscs to assist o the ntmost of his ability in tho work of bringing The local Demoeratic parly seoms to be dividing on the question whother Lizn shall bo renominated for County Olerk. His candidature appears to overshadow all other issues, and everything clsa is to be subordi- nated to his personal desire to run that office for auother term. Even tho County Committeo, and of conrse the Convention, aro to bo shaped with this end in view, From a party point of view, Tux Tnmuxe has no objection to urge against this misnse of the Domoeratio organization, for it will pretty surely nssist in the Democratio de- feat. It wonld be preferable, of conrse, if tho Democrats shonld shape theirlocal policy with roference to n good ticket throughout ; but if Laes can use it for his own benefit, thoro is great consolation in tho outlook that ho will thus compass st once his own defeat and that of tho Democratic party in the The tarift imposes a duty on foreign cop- per of 45 por cent. The law permits American .ku:u in American ports to be re- to American ship.yards, is zold for in New York or Noaton. per for less money than the same work done at home. Ameriean copper nll the American ship-yards on all vessels, country, when, in consequence of the low cost at which copper can bo produced hore, yards, while, under the tariff, American-built vessels can be taken to Europe and coppered, orean import foreign copper for that pur. poso, at less cost than the work can bo done with American copper. The mining com. pany which can soll its copper in Europa in competition with foreign copper prohibita competition on tho part of Ameriean Inbor by adding 45 per cent to tho price of ita coppor used at home. Tho American work- man will look in vain for hus sharo of this protection. Tho tariff strikes the American workmpn in various ways. Tho Uritish workman is untaxed. He buys bhis iron, steel, wool, cotton, copper, and all his material wheraver ho can got it chenpest ; rocoivea it all freo of duty and of tax. Ho can therofore produco it at tho lowest possiblo cost. DBsing able to produce st n less cost than othors, he ean sl choaper, and consequently e pays for all he buys with what he makes for salo, and reaps the ‘profit of carrying his own oxports and hisown imports. The Amorican work- man is not pormitted to buy where he can for the lenst money ; he is subjoctod to o hoavy tax on everything ho uses; unable to produce except at an advanco on the world's prices, ho is confined to a production for tho home market ; prices in that market being high, consumption is reduced ; all Iabor in excess of the production for the home mar- ket must romain idle; no work, no wages, and poverty and want are tho work- man's share of Protection. If there bo a surplus produced, it is a loss. The agriculturist, however, supplics tho market and has a surplus; the surplus is sold to the world at the world's prices; Lience the farmer produces not only all that he can consume, but has something to sell, and something to oxchango for things ho does not produce. Tho American manufacturers of cotton goods have long since nbandoned the fraudulent devica of Protoction, Instend of working their mills on balf or third time making goods for the *‘home market,” thoy have put their mills, their machinery, and their oporators at work on full time, mnking cot- ton goods and shipping their surplus to other countries and selliug it succesafully in competition with British cottons. ‘Thay give labor employment which wonld other- wiso bo idle. 'The manufacturers of Ameri. cnn hardware, though protocted Ly a tax of 45 to 55 per cont, have abandoned Protoo- tion, and are now producing goods for ox- port, and aro salling them successfully in cowpotition with those of other countrics. Theo tariff needs revision, and n thorough rovision, - It needs to have overy tax on every articlo of forelgn product which enters into tho uses of American manufacture ro. pealed. Tho American must have every frecdom that is enjoyed by his foreign com- potitor. Mo must have tho ‘privilege of exchanging the product of his akill and his industry for such other produots as ho may nced in his business. Ho must bo free to buy as well 0s to sell. ‘Then, with overy sale of the produetsof his Iabor, his market will increnso ; to meet that increased market ho must produce more goods, and to produce moro goods he must employ moro labor, With every increaso of employed labor there is n larger distribution of wages, and of ocomfort and plenty, poaco and contentment, and less poverty, want, destitution, sufforing, and crimo. Remove all laws which limit, or restrict, or prohibit production; give labor employment, and labor will take caro of itsalf ; and firat and foremost repenl overy lino and item in tho tariff which diractly or tndireotly limits production, and limits of nocosaity the omployment of labor, e THE PRESIDENT IN THE BOUTH, Tho cordial and magnificent roception of tho Presldont in the South promiscs to bo a noteworthy ovent in the history of his Ad- ministration. . The demonstration of popu- lor foeling in spproval of his policy which bognn in Kentucky has only been intonsified in Tonnesseo, and, s progress is mado, the tide rises inatead of receding, Virginia hasg promised to oatdo all her uister States in her roception, and South Oaroling, if Gov, Hase. ToN can induco tho President to go there, will bo a3 warm, if not as splendid, in her bospitality, It is a pity the trip cannot be extended to Now Orleans, for that is one of the historio pots on which the polioy tri- umphed, and there, as in Columbia, the Presidont might look for enduring memorials of his work, The reception of the President iu tho Bounth shows, aswo eaid the other day, that tho peoplo of that section are not ungratoful, It also shows that they aro cager to obliterato divisions that have arisen among themsclves solely in consequence of slavery, the War, and tho constitutional amendnents. The changes that have boen thrust upon them thoy accept as accomplished, and ‘not to be uudono by any logislativeenactments.” They could not it they would, and would not if they, could, restore the nogro to slavery, oither nominal or real. Having these foel. ings, they are prepared to applaud any Ad. ministration thet shows o disposition to ftrent the Bouth with generosity; and the mere nsmes, Republican or Dem. ocratio, os sttached to porsons thoy call their friends, have for them littlo signifi. cance. Once assured that both partles pra- pose to treat the Bouth inon impartial spirit, they oan foel at liborty to divide on someo other lines than the color line, and to rocog. nize the old idens of Whiggism and Podoral. ism, Freo Trado and Protection, National or State Currency, Intornal Improvements and Public Economy, which ongaged tho states- men of former generations. ‘I'ho most intereating incident of the Pres- ident's visit to Nashvillo was tho presentation of an address on behalt of the colored poo- ple, setting forth their confidence in the suc- cass of his policy, and their condial feelings towards him. At tho same timo, o similar address was brought forward by a number of white citizens. The Presidont answored both addresses at once, for, us he folicitous. ly sald, ho intends to speak to the colored men just as ho speaks to the whito men, sud to the white mon just as ho speaks to the colored men, and to the peopls of Tap. coppered with foreign copper freo of «duty. The design of this was to give employment But Ameriean cop- per is exported to Europe and sold thero, whero it pays no duty, at mnch less than it An Amcrican vessel, therefore, can bo taken to England and coppered with American cop- it oan have Now, it thers were no duty on copper, the wounld bo msed at American and foreign, and {he material boing abundant, the workmen who are now {dle would find employment. Inthe endeavor to give the copper mines an absoluto monopoly of the sale of copper, the tariff prohibits any foroign-built vossol being coppored in this thero shonld bo n largo business for our ship- specially interesting in the Nor.h. of the President, that “tho colored peopla are safer {n their rights in Tennessoe, with 1o Fedoral bayor undertaking to protect Btato was occupied by armies, S S — .. MACMAHON'S DEFIANCE. Marahal MacMaron colls himself tho Prosident of the Fronch Republis, but, if his manifesto correctly states his attitude towards the people, ho has no claim npon the title, constitutionnl Excentive, The manifesto in n thinly-veiled threat ngninst the Repub. lieans; it *bulldozes” Frauco; it s a command {o vote for the official candidates, There i8 not n soveroign in Europo protond- Ing to observe tho forms of constitutional government who would address his subjects in such terms; there is scarcaly one who would daro todoso. The Czar of Russin himself, who is ncenstomod to decide grave matters of Btate by simplo Imperial decroes, his nover resorted to insult in hia communi. cations with his subjects, MacMauon’s manifesto disposcs of sll his opponents ranghly by charncterizing them 03 * domngogues.” Ho declares that eleo. tions favornblo to him will affirm the princi- ples of authority “sapped by demngogy,” and again that ho * could not obey the man. dates of demngognes.” While ho **does not assumo to oxoroisc onv prossure upon the choice of the people, *‘ho feols ” bonnd to dispol auy doubt nupon what you [they] aro sbout to do," Tho manifesto is full .of ox- quisito frony of this natare, As n spocimon of dlevated composition in this lino, indeed, itls fit torank with the cholcest works of the kind known in liternture. We shall bo surprised if tha peoplo of Franco tamely submit to usurpation. They hinve not beon accustomed to have tyranny imposed upon thom by threat of violence, althongh thoy have not infroquently boen cajoled or chented into placing tho yoko upon their own necka If, as President MacManoy snys; tho lenders of the Radical parly havo ** forgotten the share of author- ity " which bolongs to him, ho hns likewisa forgotten “the slinrs of nuthority” which belongs to thom, and it is highly dosirable that his memory should bo refreshed as well as thoirs, No doabt it will bo rofreshod, if ho attompta to adopt in practice the theorics of government which ho has enunciated. Tho French peoplo wonld bo nntrue to thomsolves and to tho cause of freedom overywhers if thoy should permit their Presidontto bocomo their tyrant. 'Tho immediate offect of the manifesto onght to be tho return of n Nation- al Assombly overwhelmingly Ropublican, and an expression of popular fecling agalnet Mac- Manoy plain to be mistaken. The ro. sponsibility of tho fature will thon rest with bim. If he chooses to submit, he will be known in history merely as o vain and weak man ; if ho resists, ho will have a place among tho usurpors or among the victims of popular fary. In cither ovent, he will be deseribod as ono who censed to bo a patriot whon his conntry mostnseded the exhibition of patriotism on his part, v THE S0UTHERN PENITENTIARY, The approval of Chestor as tho site of the now Ponitentiary scoms to confirm tho suspicion that has obtained very goner. ally to the efect that Mr, Jacon Buwnw still has mnoro influenco over tho Government at S8pringfield than public opinfon exerts. Mr, Boxy's powor has boen of long duration, and ho uses it without stint. 'The pooplo bave alrendy poid doarly for it in the construction of tho Stato-louse, for which they will bo called upon next year to voto halt a million dollars in excess of thaconstitutional expendi. turo of $8,500,000; and, now that the State officors have yiclded to Mr, Buxn ngain, weo presumo somothing of tho same oxporionco will ba lived through in the case of the now Penitentiary. Every consideration of publio intercat was opposed to its location at Chos- tor a8 much as to ity location at Grand ‘Tower. Grand Tower was rejectad by tho Approving Board, and the roasons thoy gave for the action were good and suffi- clent ; the samo reasons applicd to Chester, bat Mr. Jacon Bunx owned property at Chos- ter which lio desired to soll, and possibly had other intoreats which will bo favorably nf. focted, and tho Stato officers approve of the location thero withont glving any reasons, ‘Ther ia no cause for wonder at their failare to descant on thelr action, since they could only have said of Choster tho vory things whichled thom to roject Grand Tower,— unless, indeed, they had frankly admitted that thelr cholco was influeuced by Jicon Buxn's land interests and certain railroad In. torests said to Lo involved fn tho scheme, Tho Approving Board, which has deter. mined upon,this location, consists of 8, M. CuLrox, Govoruor; T. B. Nezprrs, Auditor; and Janes K. Evesrt, Attorney-General. But tho chief responsibility for tho slection rests upon Qov., Cunroy. Ho sppoluted the Commissioners who made it in the first instance, and his ' assocl- ates on the Board were evidently in. fluenced by his singalar determination that the Jocation should be at Ohester, and no- whero clso. The responsibility the Gov- ernor has assumed Is o serious one, Tho ap- propriation for the building of the Peniten. tiary is $200,000, It was gvidently the in. tention of tho Legislature that its entive coat should come within thot figuie, o the cost of tha sito snd expenses in sclecting it were limited to 20,000 by tho aot; the maln purposo of tho appropriation, too, was to afford the quickest possiblu relief to tho overcrowded condition of tho Jolict prison. It the construction of the now Penitentiary be dragged out after themanner of the State- Houso; if its cost exceod largely the limit of the sppropriation ; if the Chester stone prove {o be of inferior qualily; if the State bo flecced in the cost of transporting the stone from tho quarry to the building sito; it the coet of other material bo incrensed by inaccessibility of the location; if a railroad ring be formed with & monopoly on the transportation of prisoners, supplies, and the product of prison labor; if the remotencas of Chester from a good market*depreciato the valuo of convict labor; i the site prove unhealthy; if it bo 80 remoto 0s to occasion special risk and oost in transforring the pris- nermo just ns he speaks to the people of Vermont. Bnt it i the address of the col- ored people to the President which will ho Snch nn indication of contont on their part a8 most gratifyiog. In ordor to the permanent suc- ceas of tho Southorn poliey it was necessary not only that the colored peoplo shonld b snfe, but that they should foel that they wora safe. The North hanlly needed the assuranco that the whito peoplo of the Sonth would not oppress the negroos; that assur. nuce was given monthe ago, and has sinco beon proved in action. But we did dosire to hear that the negroes would acqniesco choor- fully in the new nrrangemont. The address of the colored peoplo at Nashville convays such B0 assurance ; it points, morcover, the words them,” than they wero whon the soil of that Mo assumes tlo haughty tono of tho Dictator, not tho respectful manner of a- his political aspirations. choico butto confirm Chestor. which would liave been bettor than Chester, side of the old prison, which was offored to the Commissioners; and Grofton, which was almost ga desirable ns Alton. Desides theso, there was Enast 8t. Louis, which was in avery way superior to Ohester; tho objec. tion to East 8t, Lonis wns tho cost of rais- ing the ground nbovo highwater mark, but this cost would not bo greater than tho lovel- ing of tho unoven ground at Chestor, whilo the latter lins nono of the advantages of tho formor. Tho obstinate approval of Chester in tho faco of all theso circumstances places o rosponsibility upon Gov. Currom which wo beliove Lie will be anxious to got rid of befora his term oxpires, — CERAMICS AT THE EXFOSITION. An intoresting foaturo of the Chicago Ex. position this year ia the collection of coram- ics, which is believed to bo the firat of its kind' over brought logethor in this part of the conntry. Tho number and varicty of the articles, no less than the skill with whick thoy havo been arranged, give n now interest to tho subjoct. Tho departmont is in éharge of Mr, E. 8. Wareas, who Is recognized hero and in the Eastas an authority, Ile has propared o hand-book tothe collection which 18at once a history aud n catalogue, and ‘which conveys in briof spaco all the informn. tion that the visitor will need to have in ordor to nppreciate the works shown, Al though tho tasto for ceramics is now com- parntively old, and has taken o firm hold on fashionable society,—and what pnssos for such,-—a mighty ignorance of tho nrt provaila oven smong those who talk of it most fluent. ly. Mr. Waters has consequontly porform.- ed n substantial servico in making this col- lection 8o faithfully aud in explaining it so woll, Coramics aro deflned as articles of pottery and porcolain mado of clay., Pottery is a product of baked eclay, or kindrod earthy material, and is distinguished by threo qualities: (1) Opneity; (2) a high dogreo of porousness, unless artificlally glazed; (3) o rough fracture, Hard pottery is mado of n mixture of cloy and sand, and is glazed by tho lattor matorial in hoating; soft pottory includes Ly far tho larger num. bor of varictica' of earthonwaro, and is divided, for conveniones of description, into tho Ancient, tho Renaissanco, and the Modern. Aucient pottery has boon found chiefly in tho countrics along tho shores of tho Emtorn Mediterranony, na Egypt, Theonicia, Assyria, Oypros, Asin Minor, Grooce, and Lomo. -The Grocian po'mry is tha most intercsting of all thattho ancionts Lavo loft, marking at onca the full dovelop- mentb of the earlior schools nud tho sug- gestion of the Etruscan and Roman works of a lator perfod. In the Ronaissance, Majolica ware—so called from tho anciont name of tho Island of Majorca—ond Delft occupy the wmost important place. Modern pottery includes the ordinary ecarth- enwaro largely made in England from o mixture of clays, and sometimes so refined and changod by painting and glazing as closely to rosemblo porcolain, The genu- ine porcolnin, however, constitutea by itself tho second main division of coramie work, 1t Is but another nambo for what is popularly known as chiug, the first spechmon having been durived from the Chinaso, - It is pro- duced by a mixtare of Chinn clay and feld- spar, The former materinl, otherwiso known a4 kaolin, is infusiblo ander tho highost hent ; feldspar, or petuntso, on the other Land, unites in a stato of fusion with China clay, making n paste which is trouslucent, hard, and broaks with a emooth fracture. Tho porcelain of China and Japan reachod a high stato before tho colebrated factories of Dros. don, Bavres, and Staffordsbire were 5o much 08 hoard of, Wo have given {his brief ontline of 3r, Waress' littlo essay uoj Lecauso the fucts aro new, but in the hope that public interest in tho subject may be stimulated, Thoro is scarcely nny depsrtmont of study which is more usoful or moro fascinaling, Itis not onlya flold for the clogant trifting of the dilettanto, but for the seriows work of the Listorian, the othnologlst, aud the philologist, The charaotor of A race may Le epltomized in tho domestic utousilsnnd the oruaments it has left behind it, and sowe of the inacrip. tions on rolics of this kind have nssisted ina. terinlly in tracing tho growth of languago. Ooramio works are among the mout benutiful adornments any home can posscss, Next to tho very great arts, such ax Painting, Sculp. tare, Poetry, and Musio,—shall wo add Cook- ing?—lbis one coutributes tho most to the improvemeut of the popular taste, Moreover, it has the advant over wmost of the others, that it ‘can be gratifiod in some degree without too large an expenditure citber of timo or money, ‘The approclation of coramics does not ro- «uire a specially rigorous training or a visid fnuoy, and the purchaso of some articles of interest in this department is not boyond the capacity of a modest purse. Persous who find both time and moncy hanging hoavily on their Lands may find thoeir nitssion here, ‘The present oondition of ceramio ‘art in America is well described by the French workmen recently sout to the Oentennial, who havo just submitted their yeport on be- half of the ceramic workers of Limoges. ‘The Exhibition made them aware, they say, of ono dungor to Franco,—the discovery of guantities of raw material for tho objects of ceramio art in the United States, particularly in Maine, Marylaud, Delaware, Illiuoly, and Mississippl. ‘Fhis material has beon experi- meated on at Trenton and elsowhere, and at somo places, It is eaid, with & satisfactory result in the pecuniarysonse. The decorated porcelain of tho States, however, presented nothiug worthy of notice; the best orna- mentation shown by Amgrican firms hed evidently been dowe in France. The goms of tho Exhibition were in the British do- oartment, and, excepting those of Japan, onera; it it prove nol to bo self-sustaining beeause of its romoteness,—thon Gov. Cor- rox¢ will bo responsiblo to tho people of ili nois. All these contingoneien woro pointed out as probable, and, in spite of them all, Gov. Curtoxt yiclded to private pressure, so that hio has assumed n very great risk both {or his administration of Stato affairs and for A specious argument waa put forth at the time of announcing the deciwion in tho shape of nn opinion given by somo Bpringfiold firm of attornoys, tho purport of which is that the Commissioners had no authority under tho act fo purchase tho old prison now at Alton, The purposo of this opinion was ovidontly to create tho impression that the wns conflned to Chestor and the purchase of the Alton prison, and that, if tho latter waa not fensible nunder the law, then the Approving Board had nothing to do Thero is no truth in this. Even conflning the location to the river, thero woro threa sites, any ono of and all of them exclusivo of tho old Peni- tentiary at Alton, Two of them woro mon- tioned by Commissloner Lawnexce in his minority report, viz.: Alton, with a sito out- wares. or in the American stores. Tho testimony of the French workingmen, who aro acknowlodged masters of their craft, to the natural advantages of America for tho manufacturo of porealain ought not to pnas nnhceded. If wo have the deposits, tho importation of the skilled workmen nceded to improve them onght not to bo a Tho subjoct thus has an cconomie bearing as well as an artistic ones ond the importance awarded it in our Expo- sition is appropriate in n donble sense. The mavagers of the Exposition have, indged, made no addition this year for which they desorve fo be moro gratefully remembered They hiave beon fortunato, too, in having intrusted dificult matter. than for the bric-n-brac collection. it to thoronghly competent hands. —— BUGGESTION FOR THE CITIZENS' CONFER- ERCE, As wohave anticipated would bo tho cases, tho taxpayors have recognized that the most {nportant featuro of the appronching county olechion will bo the choleo of fiva County Commissioners—two from tho Wost Diviston, two from the North Division, and, one from the country—to fill the vacnncios that occur. While tho so-called **Independent Party” and the so-cnlled * Workingmen's Industrial Party " (tho ono boing the Greonbackers and the other o branch of the Communists) wera engaged in n noisy wrangle at tho Sherman Ifouse over tho respective merita of their platforms, neithor of which has anything to do with tho coming county cloction, » num. ber of well-known citizens and large taxpay- ers nasembled for the purposa of riveting the publio attention npon tho prima nocessity of nolecting five mon of unquostioned integrity and chinractor who will command tho confl- denco of the public fn so ominont n dogrco 8ss to mssuro their tho taxpayers. ono especially worthy of the public intorest. It is non-partisan, and thereforo should ro- ceivo tho counsol of. mon of all parties who desiro to nssist in réforming county nbuses. Tho result of the Citizens' Confdrenco was to resolvo upon the appointmont of n Com- anitteo of Thirloen, who shall be charged with the duty of solecting five candidates for the Connty Board, to be roported to n subsa- quent meoling of citizens. Tho genflomen to whom tho solection of tha Committes is intmsted are Messrs, E. 0. Lanyeo, Ronent Taw, Simurr, Coniyem, CrixtoN Bricas, W, J. Oxauaw, G. W. Fannswontn, and O, . Connrx. It will bo upen the Committco of Tlirtoen of thair solection that' the naming of tho candidatea will devolva. Wo will suggest s modification of the programme, which tho Committeo will bo competent to carry out, subject to ratification at o future conforonce. Instead of se. lecting fivo names, it will be a better plan to nclect twenty or twonty.five, about aqually divided botwoen Democrats and Republic. nps. If fivo mon should be nominated by this indopondont conferonce of citizens, it will bo amattor of considerablo diliculty to securo for them the ratification of the vari. ous party convontions, Each party organi- zation will object on the ground that it is not sufflciently represented, and thoro will be & strong disposition in all the convontions to resont the actual nomination of five men as an attempt to dictato, But it will bo an casy wmatter for tho Committeo to seloct tho nnmes of twenty-five gentlemon of different shades of party politics, each ono of whom will bo accaptablo to tho peaple, and prosont tho list to tho party conventions from which to solect the fivo candidatos. In that ovent thero can bo no suspicion of n purpose to dictato. - Thoro will be an opportunity for tho party mausgers to confer, and they may possibly ogree upon five ' of tho number whom all tho conventions will accept, . thus making their oloction sure. Evon if they fail in agreeing upon five, we think all parties, under tho circumstances, will fool conatrained to soloot from among tho twonty-fivo thus suggested; nnd thus in Any evenut sccuro the nomination by each party of proper men; in that caso, tho strongest fivo men nominated will protty surely bo elooted, and, whichever party may triumpl, the peoplo will bo certain of gain. ing fivo competont and honest Commission- ord, The poculinr importance of tho Commis- alonors in this coutost conslsts in the faot that all flve must be men who can bo abso. lutely trusted; the eleotion of thres, or oven four, might fail to brosk the Ring; but if five houcst men can be chosen, threo of thoso who hold over can bs relied upon to join them and constitute o perwancnt majority oguinst tho corrupt mombers, It will not do, therofore, to rivk the cholco of a aingle black sheep, and aoy policy that is like- ly to result In s division will bo dangerons, If the Citizens' Conforence agre upon only five men, and run them ab- solutaly ns candidates, the party conventions may uot aceept them, and o number of tok- els may bo put forward which would vory likely result in the choice of one or two Com- missioners of doubtfal position. If all the candidates in tho flold could be included among (he twenty-five men of charactor whom the Citlzons' Conferouco can suggest, tho people will foel confidont in the result ; tho suggestion of twenty.five, too, will bo miore likely to result fu an ngreoment among tho parties than (ho naming of the baro num. ber that ate to bo nominated. The Cltizens' Conference wiscly concludud to keep thelr ‘hands off in tho caso of tho other officers, and this will larguly {end to remove any sus. picion of a desire on their part to run the election to the exclusion of the party orgeni. zatious, and thelr offorts to securo tho best men for Commissloners ought to be met in n spirit of friendly co-operation by all parties that shall put tickets in the fledd, Recont ph(ffl‘n" litezature embraces couspicuously tha utterances of tho Massa- chusotts Republicans and thoso of the New Jorsey Democrats. Tho former sro much the more important of the two. Indeed, the Massachusetts platform stands out boldly ®s tho most Lonest political oxpression of the day. It is not ambiguous or hialf-hearted in anything it says. It gives a cordial ap- proval of the President’s policy both as to the Bouth and tho Civil Service, and assures tho one of popular support and calls upon all departments and branches of the Govern- ment to sustain the other iu such a way as to make tho personal efforts of tho President 8 permanent reform of the Civil Bervice. Theso two features will notably assist the Massachussits Republicans in re-electing Gov. Ricx, and will make the party in that thoro was nothing to como up to these The ceramio collection of Japan waa, withont donbt, the finost and the most comjpleto in tho Exhibition, It was nlong way ahond of that of China, whero tha art seems to havo stood atill for conturies. French porcelain atilt holds tho place of hon- oloction to tho Connty Board, and who, when electod, will bo able to bronk down the corrupt combinntion which has been squan- doring tho county moneys and pinudering This Intter movemont is the Stato strongor than # has been in years, Porhaps the refraining from an OXpression on tho silvor qnestion was as much as could Lo oxpected from Mnssachusotts under the cirenmatances ; and the peoplo of that Staly have roason to congratulate themeolves that, while the Convention gave proper Nengnifloz; to labor-reform, there woro not demngognos onongh to throw a sop to tha Communists, Now Jorsey being a vory little Btato, the Demoerats bave naturally a very littlo plat. form, and thore is very littlo to 88y about it, It conaists mainly of useless lament over the loss of tho Presidoncy, which is truo o the Bourbon instinct, but tedious. Tho most notable featuroawere the nomination of Gen, MoCrrrrax for Governor, and declaration in favor of tho rovival of usury laws, The two ciroumstances go very woll togathor, einco both are things which no Pprogresaive body of men wonld avor think of doing, ——r— "PERSONAL. Gen. Daniol Pratt informa his friends i Naw York that he hae recently passed serenty dayg In **Egypt,—that fs, Chicago," An Enstorn cynlo thinks the original gj Porkins must have been an Arab, becanse thy Araba say that Eve was 200 fect high, Mis. Barnott's ““ Lass o' Towries" iy ita dramatic form Is tha success of the scason In Lone don. Everybody of critical importanco was ot thy first night, . Lo Comto du Moneol, in his © Exposs des Applications de 1" Electrlcite,” published 1y 1857, very cloarly suggested the principles of the telephone, ‘Tho Philadelphia 7'imes loarns that the teathetlc fever lately prevailing among the young Indica of America ias piven away to a sudden ad ungovornable mania fur ** calchaw." A Loundon correspondent roports that Mr, James (Jordon Bennett has leased the batldingy formetly used by tho Echo, and fs abont 1o start g new journal there on the American plan, Tho Springficld Republican belioves the newspaper statement that Wendell Phillips 1 worth 820,000, and thinks this fact may [luminsta the conscrvatism of his capital-and-labor letter, “I'm in Love"” and *Onco upon a Timo” ~—#onga from {ho comic operns of **Evangeling® and **Lo Petit Corsalr," sung with great succeag by Miss Lizefo Webster—have recently been pube lished in scparato form. The Washington Capitad suggests to a star actrees performing In that elty **that the practice of throwing kisscs from the wing to neqnaintances in the dress-circle Is not permisslblo by tho laws of social taato oratago atiquetts," : A Washington correspondent of the Cin. cinnatl Commerclal reports that Prestdent Grant dldt not vislt Paris bécause ho was not on friendly terms with Minlster Washbarne, and wished to walt untll Gen, Noyes came Into office. Albort Rhodes in the last Gulazy considers the questton, **Bhail the American Girl be Chaper- oned!" and seoms to arrivo at the conclusion taat she shall; but it may bo quostioned whether Mz, Tthodcs knowa enough of the subjact to speakon it with authority, The South German Qazetls of Juno printa this itom of locat Intercst: ‘*As o production which ts In every rospeet remarkable, we must mentlon o *Still Lite," by Charles Dyer, of Chi- cago, The arrangement Is thoroughly tasteful, the cffect of color and light {s brilliant, while the exo- cation is In dotall thoroughly faithfal and conscls cntious.” Oung of tha oldeat collegen ontsida of the -Now England Statos—tlio Unlvoralty of Pennsyl vanla—has concluided to offer instruction in cor- tain subjects to young women as well as to yonng men. Tho concesslon docs not extend, however, totho ncademic dopartmont, though it ombraces « usefnl atudics and may offor necded facilitios to women who would othorwiso Lo compelled to do without them, Homo littlo while ago Sardon was dining ‘'with M. d'Hnussonville, tho Duc de Broglia boing of the company, and was asked point blank whom ho had in view when be sketched Ratagas, **A typo—no onc person,’ sald Sardou. **I¢ wasn't Gambetta?" **Gambotta {s 8 man whose patriot- ism 1 honor too highly to allow me to bring him on tho stago," ‘The Ducde Broglle made a wry foce. . Jules Clarotie, very good authority, says that tho original of Ralagas was Emile Ollivier, The reason Dr, Storrs at tho Jast momont declined his call to the Drick Church in New York Clty 1s told by o correspondent of the Boston Jour- nal. Yo had declded to accept, snd to keep the mattersecrot until o was prepared to announce It asnfinality. Dutone ominont man confided in anather eminent man; tho sccond cminent man tald an editor; the cditor printed the stury; snd the rosult was that Dr. Btorrs was compelfod to remaln n Brooklyn by & pressure too strong for bim to restat. *An Old Californian " rscs to obsorve in one of the New York papers that llenry Molgn' California carcer had better be omitted trom his blography than whitewashed, Asa city contract- or, he committed forzerios for $1,000,000, by which many longcent and poor men were wronged. Many of theso clalms aro stitl unsettled, and when tho Leglslature of Californls passed an act of obllvion for his benefit the Qovernor vetced it ‘Whon he opens his Peruvian silver mine and pays up sll around, then it will be perfectly eafe for bim to return to Californla, Tho introductory article in tho Ilast nume ber of the Contemporary Kerlew dlacussce tho *4Labor War in the United States," and it s not surprising to learn that Prof. Goldwin Smith s lts author, V'rof, Bmith considers himself entitlcd to speak as an putbority by reuson of hls .broad ex- perience {n tho workings of Government In this country aud nbroad, and hls Iéng study of eco- nomic questions, **This vught to give a mana izt to spenk, * says the Boston Post, **but In tho ‘past Prof, Smith has froquently run athwart the projudices or the common seave of Loth Dritons and Americaps,” Grace Qreenwood, in & card to the Phils- delphia Hress, correcta n nawspaper statemont that sho had souglit for and obtained a divorce fromn her d, L. K. Lippincott. **It {s not true," shosays, **itnover has been true, it never will be truo; ** and ¥he sdds In some vigorous words that abe wishos the newapapers wou)d lot heralone. Mr. Lippincott was unfortunato Ju his relations with the Government some monthe sloce, and, mystorioasly dlsappearing, there bave paturally been many remarks about lum; bat it may at least boconsidercd settled that Lo hasa good wife and ono who does not proposa to descrt him, whether ho be guilty of not, in his hour of trouble, Jeunie Juno, in ono of her gossipy letters, undertakes to oxplain why it 1s that so many young women marry elderly men. 8ho looks away from money—which has been s0 gencrally brought into a constderation of such alllances—for the principal reason. ‘The young men of to-day, occording Lo 1hls authority, 1s not tho desirable younyg man of @ifty years ago; he Is not so thoughtful, sober, painstaking, and consclentious; he lives at a club, Lssno love of home:life nor desire to Luild up character and repatation as a man and citlzen; bis Idzaa of life are bounded by, the theatreand the do- ings of his little set; and in too many cases bis suibition is to own a racer and boon latimate terms with the ballet. Naturally motbers **shrink from intrusting theirdaughtors to such youths as these, even if they have tho opportunity, and aro better plcased to bestow them on older men, —men who have sown their wild oate; who know now Mttle of real valae thero 14 in tho temporary excitement of pleasurc; who have, purhaps, beon married once, and have learued ta valao howe and the guarsntos it alfords for permanent happincss.” ‘The most expensive volume sver sold, it is #aid, 1s the Valdarfar Boccscclo, but & very plala volume, having oaly ¢olcred initisls at the begin. ningof the chapters, Lord Blandford and Lord Spencer bld against each othor at the sale of tho Hozburgh lbrery 101812, sud the former got 16 for$10,90L. The Hoxburgh Club was founded 10 bouor of the sale, and Dibdin wrote bis **Bioho- graphlcsl Decameron” {n honor of the book. But the strangest part of ihe story hardly comes out In coutemporary ltergture. The Valdarfer Boc- caccio was printed in Yenico 1 1471, and owes its distinction to its belng tho firef edition of the Haliau romancer with a date. An Imperfect copy i in the library of the Duke of Marlborouvh st Dlenlsim; aud when Lord Blandford saccecded to the Dukedom b was sctuslly the Lsppy possessor of two out of the four known copics. Naturslly one must bo s0ld, The Blenhelm copy was aa beirloom, and had 10 be retalocd. The Hoxburgh copy was sacridced, aud Lord Spencas bought 18 o8 $3.437.50