Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 23, 1877, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. —fi Tye Tribwwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE FREPAID. Spectmen coples sent Tree. “To prevent delny and mistakes be sure and give Post- Oft ce address in full. {nciuding State and County. Temftiances moy be made either by draft, express, Post-Oflice order, or in registered letters, ot our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Datly, dellvered. Sunday excepted. 25 cents per week. afly, delivered, Sunday Included, 30 cents per week. Address THE TRIBCNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearboru-sts.. Chicago. Il Orders for the delivery of Tux Trisvse at Evanston. Engleweod, and Hyde Park left ln the counting-room ‘will recelve prompt atientd SOCIETY MEETINGS. APOLLO COMMANDERY. ¥o. 1. ENIGHTS TEM- PLAL—Attention, Sir Knights? “You are hereby noti- fied 1o be preseni ai_Asyium. fally equipped, t0-day (Sunday) at noon sharp, to attend the funerai of our Jate frater Abram Green Coursen. Carriages from Asyluim to resfdence, 597 Carroll-av., and from thence 10 Ytose 111l Cemeters. It s cxpected that every resi- dent member of this Commandery will consider it a duty 1o be present xnd participaté fn_the ceremonics. Members of sister. Commanderics are courtcoudly o° ¥ited to join with us. By order of the E. C. 3 J. . DUNLOP, Recorder. ORIENTAL CONSISTORY, S.-. P.- B.* S. ", 32D Regular Assembly on next Thursday evening, Sept. Z7.at 8 g'clock sharp. Business of importance. and ork 03 the grade of Grand Jnspector nquisitor Com- or s 1y order. e W BARYALD, 33 Deg.. 11l. Com.In-Chief. JAMES A. T. BIKD, Grand Secretary. DERY, YO. 35. KXIGATS necial | Conciave Wedneaday —eventng. gopt 26, Work m the Order of the licd Groes. | Visii- A usly 1o . ¥ S Ing Sir Knigits are courteously tavized, By order. J. 0. DICKERSON, Recorder. INCOLN PARK CHAPTER, No. 177, R. A. M.. Splélcu‘l;?}‘ vocations Monday and Thursdsy cvenings, at 7:30 o'clock. Monday cvening, Sept. 24, work on and M. E. M. Degrecs. Thursday’ cvening. ;;’g'-f» cork on the 15, A, Dezrce, Viting Gompaii- y " By orer of the 1i- I fas courieously faviied.” By offerof thelt B o . C. CREGIER LODGE, No. 643, A- F. and A. M.— ‘B?su?nc%ommunlmlmn next Wednesday cvening. Sepl. 28, at s o'ciock sharp, at Nos. 278 and 230 Afiwsukiee-av. Work on the M. M. Degrec. Visiting JOIN GINOCHIO, See. Brethren cordially tnviicd: . 1. RNIGNTS TEM- 78 Monrge- s Dy onder of the DUNLOP, fiecorder. YETTE CHAPTER. No. 2, I A. M.—lall, 76 s T Ca Gonvoatfon \ondsy evenlns: Sept. t 745 o'clock, for business snd work. Ey order of W. Ji. REID, H. P. TUCKER, Sec’y- 5 N CHAPTER, X0. €0, R. A. 3.— e cation londay cvening, Sent. 20 Woik 2 - Dez . By order outhe . aud . E. M. Deregs. 8 WFORD, 1L P. J. 0. DICREESON, 6ccretary. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1877. CHICAGO MAREKET SUMMABY. The Chicazo produce markets were irregular Sotordny. Mese pork closed 20¢ per brl higher, at €13.00-tor October and $12.72% for January. Tard closed 5@T7ic per 100 1bs higher, at $6.95@ 8975 for Ociober and $8.32% for the year. Ments were 3c per 1b higher, at 6%c for loose ‘shoulders and ric fordoshortribs. Lake freishts were steads at33%@de for corn to Boffalo. High- rines were dull, atS1.09 per gallon. Flour was nict. Wheat closed %@1c higner, at §1.134 for oeptember and $1.08 for October. Corn closed 3clower, at42%c cash and 42%c for October. Oats closed casier, at 23%c¢ cash or seller October. Rye was steaay, at5i4c. Barley closed firm, at 633c cashand 643:cseller October. Hogs were active ana 5@10c higher, closing 3t $5.15@5.85. Cattlo were steady. at $2.50@6.00. Sheep were dull, 21$3.00@4.50. Receipts in Chicago during last week included 56,360 brls flour, 760,863 bu wheat, 1.443,964 bu corn, 645,602 bu oats, 59,039 hogs, and 21,651 cattle. There was inspected into store in this city Saturday 467 cars wheat, 526 cars and 55,200 bu corn. 157 cars and 6,000 bu oats, 7 cars rye, and 94 cars barler. Total (1,271 cars), 562,000 bn. One hundred dollars in gold would ‘buy $103.12%; in greenbacks at the close. At the New York Gold Exchange on Satur- day greenbacks ruled at 97@974. Of the séventy menleft on the abandoned whaling fleet in the Arctic regions last fall, but two, both Eanakas, have been heard from. It is supposed that all the others perished during the winter. . Those persons who have been criticising Canon ExNowLes' opposition to women vot- ing for church offices in the Episcopal Church, have all, in . claiming credit for the part of women in the cause of religion, re- ferred to the exclusive interest taken by them at Cmmisr's burial and resurrection. These persons should remember the explana- tion made by an English clergyman, that the angel gave the information that Carist had arisen {o the women in order to have th news spread the faster. 2 Finnncial - surprises are becoming alarm- ingly foshionable. Philadelphia had its turn yesterdny, the President of the West Phila- delphia Railway Company being the party +who pulled the strings. He has, itis slleged, been experimenting with the stock of that company (which has lately been selling at three times its par value): for the pur- pose of discovering how far he could o0 in the way of watering before the pulse of the market would be affccted. His curiosity has been fully satisfied. An over-issue of 10,000 shares on his part became known on the strect yesterdsy, when the stock dropped from $150 to 60, and a further decline is expected. The President has neither ran away nor taken to his bed, but hos mag- nanimously resigne The dissension of the West Park Board has come to be a very unsavory subject. There is nothing but dirt-throwing, and the dirtiest kind of dirt at that. The dispute now seems to hinge entirely upon the disposition of night-soil, there beinga difference of opinion os to whether this night-soil (or, more properly speaking, the procceds thereof) did or did not pass through Mr. GrExxEBAUM'S hande. Having reached so mephitic a con- dition as this, 1t is time for the dirt-throwing to cease. If the Board have a proper claim against Mr. GReENEBAU, let them present it in the proper way; if he resists payment, he can bo constrained to settle by process of law, and ke is believed to be abundantly able 1o meet his liability. It is a question of bookkeeping, which can be decided in Court by proper testimony. Meanwhile, the public begs to be spared any further details, —_— Aside from the five County Commissioners to be elected this fall, the offices of County Treasurer and €ounty Clerk are attracting the most attention. Thers are numerons candidates for .both places in both parties. All we desire to do jusé now is to warn the gentlemen who cre working so vigorously on their own behalf that too much zeal is likely to aronse public suspicion as to their mo- tives. The excellent administration of the County Treasurer’s office under Mr. Huck, the persistence with which he has fought the County Ring whenever they have attempted touse the county moneys contrary to law, and the emergy with wiich he has pushed the colléction of taxes, have taught the peo- ple of Cook County the advantage of having a capable ' and plucky man in this office, and the same quaslities will count far more in securing the nomination on the Bepublican . ticket .than any amount } of wire-pulling. A man will be taken who will promise the same sort of administration that Mr. ‘Huck has given the office. In the case of the Comnty Clerk's office, the present incumbent, who is meking a des- perate effort to be re-elected, has shown that extravagance and a preference of party polities over the public welfare can make the place a serious charga upon the public. His usefulness consists mainly in teaching the necessity for a different sort of person as County Clerk; and, if he succeeds in manipulating the Democratic party sololy with reference to his own renomination, the Republicans will find an easy victory by the selection of o candidate who is not turning heaven and earth to compass his own re- nomination, but whose character will be a guarantee of very different managcment from that which Lizs has,given the office. The term of County Clerk 1s four years, he is intimately associated with the County Board, and the position is one of great im- portance. The County Board has voted an extra al- lowance of $3 per thousand for bricks lni‘d in the Court-House. This extra allowance applies to four millions of brick already laid, amonnting to a gratuity of $12,000, and the whole allowance,.including the brick yet to be laid, will amount to $30,000. When the Harus robbery was put through the Board, Commissioner FrrzaxmaLp appealed to the Courts, had the payment arrested by injunction, and the Court finally crushed the steal by making the injunction permanent. It cannot be expected that he shall person- ally carry on o lawsuit with the Board of whick: he is a member every time one of these steals is perpetrated, and it is the duty of the taxpsyers to take this matter in hand. The present robbery is more glaring than that sttempted m the Harys case, and some citizen should try the virtae of ‘the law by asking that the payment of this gratuity be stopped by injunction. At a meeting of the Sonth Town Board held Friday, & motion was adopted to recon- sider the vote disallowing the town orders now held by J. V. Fanwert & Co., the Trad- ers’ National Bank, and the National Bank of Commerce. These orders, which aggregato 45,000, were issued in 1869, 1871, aud- 1872 o Isaac Prramy and Jurrus Ropsesrus, who were Assessors. Suit was brought ngainst the town on the FARWELL orders some years ago before Judge Gany, who held that they were illegnlly issued, being in excess of the sum the person to whom they were issued could legally claim for salary. Besides these there are other orders, amounting to 5,000, which have Dbeen presented to the effect to tho party conventions ¢hat these five men must be nowinated or they will be run s an independent ticket, Now, no matter how excellent the sclections thus made may e, the conventions will resist the dictation. They may accept some of them or none of them. Tho process is rather a menace than an influence. If the conventions refuse to nceept the tive candidates, and these gentle- men be run independently by a Citizens’ movement, the result may easily be such a division of the respectable vote that some of the bummers gud schemers will slip in_ be- tween,.and the County Board wiil cont{nnc to be us corrupt as ever. This is too serions adanger to be risked, and, if the citizens who held a conference the other day have any such programme in viow, they should abandon it at once. As we suggested at the time, the proper way for the citizons who are interesting themselves in this matter to acquire o bene- ficial influence over the election, is to bring out not five but tweuty-five citizens, each of whom till make an efficient and trustworthy County Commissioner; they should ba about equally divided between Democrats and Re- publicans, and then submitted to the two par- ties as proper men from whom to choose the party candidates. 1f there is any chance for the two parties agreeing, they are more likely 1o do s0 in this way than by giving them no choice: and, even if they donot agree, they are both likely to confine their selections to the list thus submitted to them; and, if the candidates nll be honest and capable men, of recognized character and position, it will not be & matter of much importance which ticket shall win. In making this suggestion we have omit- ted all consideration of the Workingmen's movement for several roasons. In the first place, the workingmen are not organized into a single and aggressive porty ; the two great parties are the Republican and Dem- ocratic orgauizations, and workingmen, like professional men and business men, are di- vided between the two. In the next place, the Workingmen’s meetings seem to be en- tirely in the hands of demagogues, who are seeking to use this class of citizens as a means for obtaining office which they could not secure at the hands of either party. In the third place, if the Workingmen's move- ment be an honest one, that party will accept five of the twenty-five names thus sug- gested, to the exclusion of the demagogues who are 5o unxious to get on the County Board. It may be laid down as a saferule to go by, that no man who strives for the nom- ination for County Commissioner ought to havé it. The place is not one to be coveted except for corrupt purposes. There are five honest men wanted. That number is essen- Board' aiid payment, yefend,, and Lhm.\J tial to the disruption of the present Ring. thers ars others for sbout $10,000 which will be presented in case these reconsidered claims are adopted, and which it is claimed are just as much entitled to payment. It had been hoped to run the town next year on the commissions turned over by Collector Krasary, and thus avoid levying a tax ; but, if all these claims are to be allowed, the money now on hand will be swallowed up, and a tax will have to be imposed. Town- Clerk Snrzox W. Emve voted for the recon- sideration Fridsy; but he will doubtless cxamine the court records and see what Judge Gazy held regarding these claims be- fore he casts his vote for their payment when the question comes up Monday. The Mayor and Committee in charge of laying the foundation of the City-Hall should not permit any counfusion or delay on account of Mr. Tirrey's preposterous claims, but proceed with the work in hand according to their best judgment and ss rapidly as possi- ble. Mr. TILLEY, it seems, has two claims. One is based on the acceptance of his ‘“ Eure- ka” plan, which he submitted in competition for the prizes offered, and which was accord- ed the first place. He claims 2} per cent on the estimated cost of this building (which [ would yield him §72,400), in spite of the fact that the Council subsequently rescinded all its action. His second claim is based on his late election of Architect, with compensation at 3 per cent(which would yield him $37,500) on a building to cost $1,250,000, erected on plans which should be uniform in design, and mutually agreed upon betweon the county and city authoritics. There are {wo answers to this claim, viz.: (1) that the Council, at the time, had no_ right to elect an architect, and (2) that Mr. Tmrey mever agreed with Ecax, the County Architect, up- on s joint plan. The present Committee have nothing to do but proceed with ths construction of the fouudatinn this fall, They have $90,000 to work on, and no more. Itis their duty to go shead, withont eny reference to Mr. TrLer's cluims, which may be considered in coust, if Le has any rights that have becn infringed upon or ignored. ELECTION OF COUNTY CUMMISSIONERS. We recur todsy to the Citizens” Con. ference with reference to the coming county election in the hope that its action may receive proper attention from taxpayers and the counssl of il those who are sincerely enlisted in the Board. 2 voluntary action of citizens may do some good or much harm, according to the manner in which they proceed. It is not necessary to recall special incidents to remind the people of Chicago and Cook County that independent, non-party move- ments in local affairs have more than once resulted in a positive injury, either by directly inducting men into office who proved to be nnworthy, or by so. confusing the status of parties as to open the way for the election of unfit candidates who had forced themselves upon party tickets. The most notable instance of local reform is in the rescue of the City Government from the Corviy bnmmers, brought into office by an independent political movement under the name of the ““People’s Party,”and this reform wai sccomplished directly and openly under the auspices of the Republican party or- ganization. There is every reason to belisve that the Republican party of Cook County 'Bmore'to be trusted with the work of in- sugurating a gimilar reform than any amateur association of citizens, no matter how good their intentions may be, which n}mll undertake to run an independent ticket. The distinct manifestation of such apurpose on the part of the Republicans Till force the Democrats to nominate a ticket that shall be equally promising, or their failure to do so will insure their de- feat. In the meantime, the efforts of the cm_mns who meet for conference should be to influence both parties to this course, and not to dictate to them or thresten inde- Ppendent action in case their candidates shall not be accepted. It'is on this account we repeat the sug- gestion we made the other day to the eciti- zens who are now engaged in the selection of a commiftee tonominate five candidates for the County Board. Itisnot the wisest course to pursne. It amounts just to this: irteen citizens selsct. five men, and sy in effort to reform the present character of the ' If only three or four were eleeted by bad management, the Ring might still retain its hold upon the throats of the people. Noth- ing must be done which shall admit the election of a singlo suspected or doubtful candidate, and hence any independent movement must proceed very cautiously in order mot to get too many tickets in the field. THE SAVINGS-BANK SYSTEM. The Mrezs bank, as it is uncovered, prom- ises to turn out worse proportionately than the State. The State had on hand $24,000 cash against $2,900,000 of deposits, which was about four-fifths of 1 per cent, while AfyEns'cash assets—362—axe but an infinites- imal percentage of the $500,000 of deposits. The State had, however, otber assets, which itis estimated will swell the percentage to from 30 to 40 per cent; but the other assets of the Mrzes bank, if any, are yet to be discovered. It seems that Mr. Myens was President, Cashier, Manager, Trustee, book- keeper, and sole stockholder. He is alone responsible. As Tee TrmoNe said yester- day, the tendency of the present irresponsi- ble system of savings banks is to their be- coming the property or within the control of one man. The State was bought and sold until it became SrexcEr's bank; and then Spexcer took half a million and more, and put up the baok stock to secure the bank Mrers, we suppose, will turn over his stock— that is if he kept up the farce of having any stock—to the bank for the benefit of itscred- itors. Ar. Myens has always been supposed to be honest; he certainly enjoyed theconfi- dence of many respectable persons, many of whom were luwyers and men who ought to have besn able to detect an ordinary fraud. Wa are not disposed to pursue him with epi- thets; but, being solé owner, mansager, cashier, and bookkeeper, he must have known that his bank was but a fraud and a trap, into which by deceit he was inducing people to put their money, which he knew they were never to get out again, The bank wasa mere shell, having no other substance than the rotund and portly form of the President. That is, however, not available for the pay- ment of depositors. One feature about this bank was a scheme of investment which no person other than Myens was ever able to un- derstand. It was such a monstrosity as might result from a cross between a hydranlic ramandan 1O TU. The man who put his money in the bank wes induced to have it put into this patent investment, and it will puzzle even a Receiver to discover what be- came of the money ; it 1s not in the bank, it was not a savings deposit, and the invest- ment has probably never had a. substantial existence. Confidence in savings banks has received & shock in this community and in the country generally from which it will take much time to recover. A succession of ‘similar frauds in England led to the establishment for small depositors of the Post-Office savings banks. Thess Governmentsl institutions have had a wholesome effect on the private banks, which must be honest or they would lose that part of the business which has not alrendy left them. Savings banks, or some other form of institution for the safe-keep- ing of the small savings of the people, are essential. The man who has five, ten, or thirty dollars must have some place in which itcan be kept. If carried on the person or left at home, it is lisble to be stolen. Until wo can have & State law im- posing restraints and penalties upon the offi- cers, and requiring responsibility, and pro- viding for inspection, with power to close up unsafe institutions, there will be a Iack of confidence in such banks. Until such laws are enscted in the several States there are two remedies to mest the public necessity; one is the reception by the Government through the Post-Offices of small deposits, and the payment thereon of 3.65 por cent in- terest; the other is the issus, at par, of long bonds, bearing 3.65 per cent in- terest, for $50, or - any multiple of that sum. Small deposits, when they reach $50, might be convertiblo 1nto ‘a bond at the ap- plication of the depositor. The difficuity of kceping the bond might be obviated by hav- ing the latter registered. These bonds being negotiable could be used in an emergency as readily, as currency. Practically, the bonds ‘would unite the advantages of safe keoping, bearing intarast_and resdw use of casb— which nre the things sought in savings banks, but which are often wanting when needed. The small deposits—the weekly or month- 1y savings—do not ‘admit of direct invest- ment in bonds; it was for this class of de- positors that the English Government estab- lished the Postal Savings Banks, which sys- tem has been followed and works most suc- cessfully in Canada. The epidemic in savings banks which be- gan in New York last wintor and has spread to all parts of the country, while it will work terrible loss to the industrinl and thrifty classes, will have a good effect upon the other savings banks. It will teach them caution, and, while nothing can prevent frand and dishonesty, the honest.and well-managed institutions will be able to do s larger and more profitable business, in the absence of the competition of the wenker banks, which have generally sncceeded in getting deposits by their lavish promises of interest which no hozest banks could pay. THE CHARGE OF BARGAIN AND BALE. Ever since last March there has been a story circulated intimating, suggesting, snd at times charging, that a bargein had been made at Washington, in the name of Mr. Haxes, by which he pledged himself that, if the Southern members of Congress would sustain his election, he would withdraw the troops from Louisiana and South Carolina and givo both these States to the Democrats. This is the substance of the story, though the details have varied, and it has been busily circulated by the Implacable papers, Democratic and Republican, North nnx11 South, and has been one of the standing in- sinuntions by the ¢stalwart Republican” faction in the war on the President for ‘‘ be- traying” the Republican party. In all the versions of the affair it has been represented that Mr. Stanrey MaTTuews was the agent of the President in this bargain and sale, and it has been more than once asserted that written proofs of the trade were in ex- istence and could be produced when required. At a recent meeting in Obio, Gen. EwiNe, one of the leading Democrats of the State, repeated this charge, and was promptly, at the moment, in the presance of the same sudience, answered by Mr. Marrmews, who gave a broad sud emphatic denial to the whole story. He thus put an extinguisher upon the malicious calumny : Now, Tintend to make my denial to coveritin every form, —written,, verbal, implied, expressed, collateral, incidental,—in ‘every possible form, shape, variety, mood, tense, or view that the in- genuity or the malice of men may alirm it. It isa lle. There fs not a particle of plaunzible founda- tion forit. There is not an event, a fact, a docu- ment, or an incident which could justify a reazon- able, conacientious man, concerning the possibility ofit. Every sceap thatI ever wrote or signed in connection with the history of that event has been published far and wide. If any man bes anything yet, let him produce it. I"defyall my accusers. No, fellow-citizens, it is not fair, it is not right, to undertake to deprive President Lavzs of.the honor and grace of first conceiving avd orizinating the policy which be himself carried out. It was born of his own good sense and his own good heart. This certainly is comprehensivo enough to cover the falsehood in whatever form it may assume. Now, if thero be any person, North or South, white or black, Republican or Dem- ocrat, who has any proof to offer on this subject, lot him produce it now, or forever hold his peace. Weo have always thought that the Southern men who sustained the action of the Electoral Commission did so because both parties in Congress had, by their votes on the law creating the Electoral Commission, agreed to abide the resnlt; and these Southern men felt that. they were in honor bound by that decision,—an obligation which rested very lightly on the consciences of the bulk of the Northern Democrats, There is no use in repeating this silly story of a bargain and sale unless the evidence to establish it accompany the story; and until they are prepared to do this the Implacables can find occupation in studying Senator Marraews’ denial. BETTING AS A FINE ART. The art of betting has received a great impulse in this city of late by the establish- ing of & number of *‘pool-rooms,” which have, or profess to have, the sanction of the law. One of them announces to the world, 1n staring letters two feet high, that it is the only chartered pool-room in the State of Tlinois. There is no authority in the Con- stitution or laws for the licensing of pool- rooms ; but this fact, of course, does not dash the confidence of the gamblers. They see that rooms of this description are not in- terfered with by the police, and that the effrontery with which they are kept open is in itself a recommendation to public favor. The pool-room thus has all the advantages of the faro-bank and the keno-house, with none of their risks. 'The proprietor keeps an open place for betting, and appropriates a per- centage of the moneys passing through his hands. Betting is & branch of a liberal education, as the term is now understood, which is cul- tivated more than any other by the fashion- able youth. From the time when the dis- tinction between * alley-taws ” and *‘ com- monies " is drawn in the boyish mind until the period of champagne and swallow-tails is reached, the manin rages. The ability to bet fearlessly and successfully is esteemed one of the highest manly accomplishments, and one’s reputation for courage, to say nothing of so small a vice as discretion, de- pends upon the practice. The boy at Yala who can wear a red neckeloth, ¢ pull in the boat,” and twig the tutor, is still less than a “ man ” if he cannot risk his money on the ordinary chances of life. The same notions prevail after the first bloom of adolescence bas passed ; they are not removed, indeed. until somo severe experience, involving per- haps heavy losses of money or reputation, calls out a better sense. The pool-room gamblers catch young men when they are at this susceptible age; when they believe an opinipn is better for being “backed up,” and that only a mean spirit will refuso to fortify his position with a bet. The sallurements of gambling are covered over and disgnised by being called other namee, Itisnota *“stake” buta “pool” ‘which the dupe engages in ; he does not Iny mongey on cards or colors, but deposits it ; he is not concerned with any of the implements of gambling, but adopts all the forms of an ordinary wager. The transaction is further diguified by atteching to some public event, such as a horse-race, or 2 base-ball match, or an election, which may be perfectly respecta- blein 1tseif; and the pride of the partici- pants s flattered” in every case by the appeal that is made to their judgment. The money is supposed not to be risked on a chance, but on the observer's sagacity and acquaintance with the subjects concerned. The pool-rooms, appesling to young men thus on the weak side, would be dangerons institutions if they were honestly conducted, but many of them are frauds of the worst ¢ only ona they care enything for. every form of dissipation. Their bu: character has been almost universally recognized in other cities. In New York, mnot long since, they were shut up by the police, and Chicago is the only place, so far as known, where they are permitted to do business openly. There is a grave responsibility. not yet ascertained, for the prosecution of the business here. There is no State authority for the licensing ofssuch places. A bill introduced in the Inst session of the Legislature with this ob- ject in view was thrown out, and the law in regard to articles of general incorporation does not, of course, cover associntions for illegal purposes. The attention of the City Government should be turned to this matter, and the action of the polica be stimulated by a reprimand from the proper quarter. A gang of demogogues calling themselves the Workingmen's Party got together the other night ot one of the hotels and erected o platform. The sixth or last plank is the It reads: 6. A just pro rata of ofiices to be awarded to the industrial classes. It is mnodest in them not to demand sli the offices. But the resolution is a little misty and obscure. Who do those demogogues mean by the *“industrial classes”? Defini- tion of terms isimportant. It must mean those who practice industry. But what is industry? Wesster defines it ** habitual diligence in any employment, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business.” And “*industrial ” consists in industry; per- taining to industry. Did the gang of demogogues intend to embrace the class- es the meaning of the word covers and includes? Weo imagine mnot. They intended to exclude everybody except the journeymen and common labor classes work- ing for hire. In their eyes no other sort of people are “‘industrial.” Those who work for themsclves are ruled out; those who carry on industries by the help of hired la- bor are ruled out ; all business men are rnled out; all professional men are ruled out: all agents, accountants, assistants, or clerks, are ruled out; all shop-keepers are raled out; all farmers or gardeners working their own land are ruled out. None of these are con- sidered to be ‘‘workingmen” or belonging to the *‘industrial classes.” Itis necessary to be a member of some * Union” combina- tion, and under the control of a committee who can order “‘strikes” and levy assess- ments, and who issus *‘rad cards,” in order to be embraced in what those Communists denominate the * industrial classes.” There is not a plank in their platform in favor of retrenchments of county espendi- tures or saving money to the taxpayers; not a syllable or hint that they desire reform in the management of the fiscal affairs cf the county ; not a word against the profligacy and corruption of the County Board ; not s lisp against the Brur, Tweepisy that is being carried on by the tax-eating rascals in the county buildings. This so-cailed industrial- closs platform has not a trace of sympathy for the bled and robbed taxpayers, and, of course, no promiso of economy, or houesty, or reform, The renson is obvious. The fel- fows who are riding the “icdustrial hob- by are a pack of dead-beats and loafers who aro industrious only in deceiving industrious wen. They want office; they hunger and hanker for ‘paying offices; they would like to be Commissioners, to vote “ex- tras™ to their confederates and divide with them, and multiply tazes upon the thrifty and industrious to be devoursd by them; to multiply offices and divide them among their cronies ; to promote plun- der and enjoy it; to ““hold up ” the tazpay- ers and rob them. That is precisely what these ‘‘chevaliers d'industric™ mean when they demand a just pro rata of offices to be awarded to the industrial classes. AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH A330CTATION. The fifth annual meceting of the American Public Health Association will open at the hall of the Grand Pacific Hotel, in this city, Tues- dag, the 25th fnst. The list of papers and topics for discussion, which we print in another col- umn, gives ample evidence that thisis a Work- ing body of earness and practical men. Ourcity welcomes such gentlemen, and invites such dis- cussions as theirs will be. No other city in the world owes more to sanitary scicoce, and espe- cially to sanitary enginecering, and perhaps none still requires more comoreheasive and persistent aids from tiese beneficent agencies. The Public Health Association secms to hold this opinion, for at the very opesing of its annual meeting here next Tuesday it first appeals directly to the Chicago expericnce and great sanitary and engincering problems. On Tuesday President Ravcn’s opening dis- course will deal with the facts in the sanitary topography cf Chicago and the remedies forits disadvantages, a theme of which he is master; Engincer Cugssrouan follows with the prob- 1lems of our drainage and sewerage; the Sccre- tary of the Association presents the outlines of proposed general surveys for sanitary purposes in the United States; and in the evening Proi. Hosumer A. JouvNsoN is to discourse upon the sanitary geography of our city and certain other Western regions, with reference to the local causation and prevention of pulmonary consumption. President GREGORT, of Cham- ‘paign, closes the excreises of the first evening by adiscoursc on hisfavoritetheme,—Health and Hizher Education; or health and happiness as a means cssentlal to culture and successful edu- cation. ‘Wednesday and Thureday are to be filled up in like manner. Dr. GEORGE L. ANDREW, of Indiana, opens on the sanitary value of forests and trees, and the Westernnaturalists and sani- tarians will follow him. Dr. Forsody, the emi- nent Secretary of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, follows witha draft of a project of law on pollution of strecams; and after him we notice the veteran Prof. N. 8. DAvis, show- ing low to save our children from the ravages of bowel diseases, and Prof. HENRY M. LyMax advancing to the work of stamping out scar- 1atina and other zymotic maladics. There are no less than fourtcen important papers in the list for Wednesday, aud as many as can be dis- posed of on Thursday. ‘We repeat our welcome to all this kind of . in- struction and discussion. Chicago bears wit- ness to the debt she owes to sanitaryscience and to sanitarians. Upoun the low. marshy borders of the lake and river, where in 1832 Fort Dear- born witnessed the first ravages by cholera, which added terror to the Black Hawk war, we now have a city of half a million inhabitants; and wherein later years, especially in 1849, 1830, 1854, and 1866, fatal coidemics prevailed in our undrained dis- tricts; now we witness some of the greutest triumphs of sanitary enginecring. True. there are problems yet to be wrouzht out, and to these we invite the special attention.of the ex- perienced sanitary ofticers and civil engineers of the Public Health Association.. But a glance at the compendious sanitary history of Chicago, ns published by our Board of Health in 1871, will show how well the public health problems have been studied and how great theyare. Since the date of that report, in which is sketched a con- tinuous record and mapped the sanltary topog- raphy and wants of the city, the great fire put to the test the medical and sanitary ability of bealth officials and physiclans to devise and apply all the means of saving tae health and life of a city full of houscless inbabitants. description. They have regularly-organized bands of “ropers” and *stool-pigeons"® they disseminate falso. information, or make use of exclusive news to the injury of the publioz -thev promate:sintsmnazance-and: The fecding, sanitary supervision, and hospital seryice which were organized and administered at that time surpassed all other good work ever ‘before witnessed in our conntry in the name of charitw and, sanitetion. Sanitary-science and mercy were united in that service. We wish all the wentlemen who attend the public health meeting pext week would examine the report of tho *Chicago Committec on Sick, Hospital. and Sanitary Mensures of the Relief and Aid Soclety,” and read the ghnitary report of the Board of Health issucd in 1871. Some of the men whose Iabors gave successto the works Qescribed in those reports are representatives in the public health meeting. Otherand young- cr men also appearin the ranks here, while from the various States the recoznized leaders of sauitary science and public health service are to be present. That “public health {s public wealth™ we think may be shown from'the sta- tistics and report of the Aid Society, for Prof. JONNSON'S records of the Hospital and Relief Service prove that not only the fevers, but even the lung diseases, especially pneumonias and consumption, continued for two or three years at 2 very low percentage, amidst all the trials that followed the great fire; and the Board of Health records show - that se- curity to human life in this great city must henceforth be measured by the staudard of official faitnfulness. Indecd, for Chicazo we may well apply the crisp words of DisrAEL], *‘Sanitas sanitatum, omnis sani- tas.” Chicazo has accepted all the logical conse- quences of laying foundations for the greatest interior commercial city in America. On the shore of a great lake of purest water, but vexed with its stagnant affluents called Chicago River, which became elongated cess-pools, this city nun- dertook to reverse the course or the foul streams and turn its very sewers into the Mississippi. ‘The great lake now flushes outward through the old mud-stream, and, by way of the Desplaines, to the Illinois and Mississippi, while, with other aids, sanitary engineering is proposing to wash and cleanse sewers and all foul things onward and outward until the city shall become one of thecleanest and most healthiul in the world. All these great works of sanitary improvement are actually being completely wrought out ; and it is appropriate, perhaps, that the discussions of this national organization, at its fifth session, should take placc on this ground, where sani- tary science is successfully meeting the largest demands. —_———— Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, the Demo- cratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey, is opposed to reducing the regular army, and not ouly so, but he strongly favors its augmenta- tion aud keeploz it in the bhighest state.of effi- ciency. He has contributedan article to Harper for October on the subject which is well worth an attentive perusal. It illustratesthe costliucss of parsimony in a striking monner. As an exchange remarks, “ The General shows from the Modoc, Sioux, and Nez Perces warshow ‘too freat a reduction of the regular army often re- sults in an increase of the trunsportation ex- penses more than suflicient to meistain a much larger number of troops’; and, fromthe earlier Inlian wars and the Mexican and Civil wars, how this reduction prevented our ¢ nipping in the bud ditficulties which resulted in long and costly wars, with vast auzmentations of the rezular force.” If Gea. TAvcor had reached the Rio Grande with 10,000 iastead of 3,000men; if the Federal forco at the first battle ot Manassas had had 15,000 regulars instead of less toan 2,000, the campzizn In cither case, Gen. McCreLLAx thinks, would bhave ended then and there; or, in the case of the Rebellion, we should certainly bave been enabled to redeem Virginin,as Western Virginia bad been. dy re- decmed from Confederate occupation. e cost of Keeping thesc 15,000 ndditional troops from the closc of the Mexican war to the outbreak of tie Rebellion * would not have amounted to one- fifticth of the war-debts of the General Govern- ment, the States, counties, and municipalities.’ lore tban that, ‘the intervst at 5 per cent upon the debt of the United States Government at the close of the War would, according to the cost of the present establishment, support an army of 140,620 men in perpetuity’; and ‘the amount we aave alreadr paid io pensions would have supported 30.00) a%itional men from the Mexican warto that of Secession.” Gen. McCLEL- LAN favors an inerease of the regular army to somewhat more than 40,000 men, and enters into the details of its orgunization, with a view to its must economical enlargement in time of emergency.” —— Senator KErvay, of New York, a stronz partisan Irish Democrat, was interviewed the other day, and in answer to a query whether Scnator MorTON’S loss would -mot be a s=vere one to his party, Mr. KERNAN made the follow- ing manly response: it wouid, indeed, znd it is one T eincerely trust tney may not be called upon to encounter. Sen- ator MonTeN's presence In the Senate at this time i¢ doubly valuable to bis marty, and especially to the Administration. [ respec d honor nim for bis ability. His experience makes hun a nost ose- ful member of the boay, and, howerer much his political opponents may difer with him on political questions, he commands their admiration and re- have no doudt that, if upererl. Senutor 2n Moxtox will be found a consistent hnd eflective supporter of President HATES in all his policy. ———— There are half a dozen candidates for County Treasurer on the Republican side, and one of the last-named appears to be making consider- able headway without any cffort on his part; we refer to Mr. WiLLtay BEYE, for several years the First-Assistant or Cashier of the Treasurer. Eversbody has confidence in BiLny and likes him, and if the other candidates keep up the fight right briskly, thereby neutralizing each other, the chances are that the Convention will nominate BEYE as a compromise; and if they do he 15 pretty sure to be elected. ..... —— * Boillng it down, sir.” He was a graduate of Harvard, says FORNET'S Press, . and he got a position ou one of tne Philadelphia dailies last week. “Cut that stuffl of yoursdown,"” said the city editor, as the new man came in with a column where 2 stick only was required. * Do you desire a judicious elimination of the super- fluous phrascology?’ mildly returncd the Har- vardiman. *No! Boil it down!” thundered the city ed. The new man is gone now—gone bacle to Boston. He says there ain’t ““cultuah? enough in Philadelphis ——— Some people blame STpNET MYERS for clos- inz his bank so soon; they say he conld have held out from six to seven minutes longer, as the bank had 362, to say nothing of the odd 27 cents, which might have prolonged its existence a quarter of a minute longer after the $62 had been exhausted. It is claimed that he ought never to have given in while he had a groschen in the bank, and that he showed the white feather in pulling down his vest—blinds, we mean—while the institution was still in funds. ———— The Congo River was said, in an editorial the other dav, to be 1,000 fcet wide. This was an inadvertance. ‘The river is two to four English miles in width at the mouth, and 1,000 feet deep. It forms an estuary, instead of a delta, as it passes into the sea, and its waters are fresh seven miles from shore. These figures give some jdea of the importance of STANLEY'S dis- covery. He bas been journeying for mine months on one of the five great rivers of the world. ———— The Post thivks there was too much cell and too little honey in MYERS’ bee-hive bank. The investigation made iuto the condition of the de- funct concern shows that what remains of it is all cell and no honey. The cash found in the vaults amounts to the enormous sum of $62.27. It was pretty well cleaned oat when it closed. ———— g PERSONAL. Harper & Brothers announce “Pottery and Porcelain, " by W. C. Prime; and D. Appleton & Co.. **Pottery and Porcelain, " by Charles Wyi- 1ys Elifott. The Philadelphia Press has authority to contradict the rumor that Col. Thomas A. Scott intends to retire from the Presidency of the Texas Pacific Railrond. . . Mr. Lincoln urged Gov. Seymour to make a public avowal of sympathy with the Tnlon cause. and the latter was at one time almost persuaded. He talked the matter over with prominent Unlon men, und even went o faras to write a patriotic sentenco for his message. Just then. Mr. Vallan- digham went to Albany on a visit. .The patriotic ntterances were stricken out, and tte tide i ¥ Seymour's affairs set in the weong direction, oy has never turned. - - The Rev. Tl om™s Doggett hs chargy’ the Professorship of Moral and Intellectual in Western Reserve College. Hudsen, 0., g, the absence of President Catter in Enrope, % The London Ezaminer believes the p ported present to the Lady Mayoress on the n: sion of her marriage of **fleh-eating knives gy forks"" is a matter worthy the atteation of Darypy JMr. Watterson printed an immense donbly paper on the occasion of the President's Yisit Louisville. It wos a shect of eight pages ,;; cighty columos, each nearly four feet long. Ty e overy way creditable to the proprietors. The late Mr. Samusl Warren, Q. . e +| personal property of the valne of 80,000 1o s widow and chilaren. The manusceipt of g, Thoasand s Year" he bequeathed to his eldest so. *tmsting ho will retaln itas an heirloom 25 logg 28 possible.” Mr. Matthew Arnold made some sensibly remarks on spelling reform in hus report as Io. spector ofSchaols. The changes that are mag, will not be made, he eays, in the hope of mikine apelling easier to children, but becanse things in our present epetling are irrational, Sir William Thomson, the distinguisheq British nataral philosoper, eays he works best i hie yacht: and there, on the glassy bosom of some highland loch. he may be scen actively at work of 8 sammer noon making expcriments on the How of liquids or the variation of compasses. Sometimes he eniertains distingaished company on board, ang one may there hea, of an afternoon. some bry). iant passage at arms detween such men as Hely, holtz, Joule, and Mazwell. while Lord Derby per cnance sits by, heartily amused at the abundang humor of Maxwell,and the Lalla Rookh careers up Loch Fyne towards Inverary Castle. A Frenchman thinks hs has s lien upon the newly-dincovercd real estate in the. vicinity of Mars. At ameeting of the Academy of Sciences held in Paris a fortaignt ago to-day, A rommanica- tion was read from Marseilles #lating that Borelli had discovered the stellites of Mn; simuoltaneously with Prof. Hall at Washington, his ‘‘observation begluning a little later, bat being Qefinitive rather earlier.” Thie, " remarks the New York Tribune, *‘is an ambiguons way of putting it. Doesit mean that just before the Amencan discovered the eatellites the Frenchman made up bis mind thatit was san mncommonly Ppromising section for moons?™" b There was sonrs trouble in connection with the arrangements for the funeral of Thiers. The Government offered to conduct the funeral services, Mme. Thiers replied that, while very gratefal for the Marshal's intentions, she could “only aree to them on the folluwiag conditions: 1, that the pall-bearers should be four persons nominated by herself, among them M. Grevy; 2, thut the sersica shonid be held at the Madeleine, notat the Iava. | haes; 3, that the 360 Depnties of the late Cham. ber should follow immediately after the members Of the family; and, 4, tbat the expenses shonld be borne by herself. Tac Cabmet agreed to * the first and sccond conditions, though obsers. ing that M. Grevy was to fgure in the ‘procession, althonzh no longer President of the Chamber, aod that the Duc d'Auditiret Pasquier, who was *as Presicent of the Scnate, was not to o so; bat they could not consent to tne third or fourth con- dition. The Nation this week says: * The Inter. State Industrisl Exposition-at Ciaicazo this year ish distinguished from the preceding by a bric-a-brae collection which is thoaght to be the first of the kind ever made at the West. Visitors to itare provided with & handbook and catslozme byall odds the Lest, 50 far as we are aware, of any ever attempted citiies at the East or West. The cos piler, Mr. E. Staniey Waters. wao bas also pre- sided over the collection. has not only the requi- site zeal and knowledge. bat be bas been able 1o draw on private collections in all parts of tae conntry, and forthe old furmiture upon the treas- ures of Eseex County, Massachusetts. The tutal number of articles described s 773, and in ppttery and porcelain they are very satisfactory represent- atives of mojlern work. Mr. Waters announces the arrival in this country of Mr. Gennett, former lyof the Doulton works, who comes to found & pottery similar to that at Lambeth.™ The New York World savs: **The New England papers are makiag much of Mrs. J. 0. Adams, a lady of Mznchester, N. H., because she has recently ascended and descended from of Mount Washington in the same dzy. very good piece of work, but Mongt Washinzton, it most be remembered, is not much of a moun- tain; and the exploit of Mrs. Adams by no mezas puts berona level with Miss Brevoert, of New York, who, after getting to the top of Mont Dlane in compaay with 3arie Couttet, drank champagae and danced & quadrille with the gmides; nor yet with that of Mlle. o'Angerille, who, having scaled the same snow-clad height, made her zaides take her in their arms and hold her up in theair. so that she might say she had ‘been hizher up than sny woman in Europe’; nor, finaily, with thatof . the Enclish spinster, Miss Stratton. who ciimbed lont Dlaacin the winter of 1875. and passed four days amid the giaciers. All of these, to be fure, were votaries of the chasto huntress Diana. Fors married woman, 3irs. Adams has done tolersbly well.” Miss Uns Hawthorne, whoss death in Ea- gland has becn announced, had not been in good heaith for nearly twenty vears. Althongh she in- herited her father's vigorous conyritation, she ne-er completely recovered from the Roman fever which she contracted in 185S. 3Miss Hawthorne wrote gracefully and inteiligently. Her maclina-_ tion was rather foraretired and religiouslife, to which sho has given herself eince her mothers death fn 1871. Soon after that event she edited her father's posthumous romance, . **Seplimins Felton, " being alded in this work by her friend the poct Browning. No doubt she aiso had maeh to do with cditing the manuscripts previonaly pud- lished by Mrs. Hawthorne, and those that bave since appeared. She was her father's com- panion during the period when his later works werc written more ‘than either of his other children—partly becansc she was bis cldost child. She was borne in the Old Manse #t Concord in 1843, while Hawthorne as liviog there in poverty and bliss during tne first years of his married life. When 10 years old she weat abroad with her father and mother, and remained there until their return to Concord In 1860. Daring her four montha' illness at Rome in 1858-'9 ber fatber **wrote no word of journal,” s Mrs. Hawthorne says, and the firat entry after her con- valescerce records a walk with her along tbe Corso. She was a person of ardent and enthusiastic affec- tion, and in these later years has devoted herselt very much to the care of poor children and other unfortunates, under the dircction of a slsterhood of the Anglican Church, with waich she hsd con- nected herself at Clewes. She did not constantly reside there, but much with her brother Julisn in London, or near it, having for some years cessed toconsider America as her home. It is suppoeed she will be buried beside her mother tn London, and not with her father on the Concord billnide, where his grave fe. Rose (Mre. Lathrop) aud Julian are the only remaining Hawthome chil- dren. s Mr. Smalley writes under date of Londo3, Sept. 1: ** Another brilliant exploit is to be add- ed to the already long list of Mr. Forbes® achieve- ments. The Doily News of Monday pablishes & dispatch of five columns from him on the fzating in the Schipka Pass. Itisidle to say that it s & better or earlicr dispatch than any that appesrs elsewhere. There is simply nothing else anywhere with which to compare it. All Europe bas been on tiptoe for a week to hear what had been going on in the Pass. Itscapture has been falsely an- nounced ky the Turks aud Anglo-Tarks balf a dozen times or more. The Russian dispatches, though accurate as far as they went, were tardy and meagre. Note, tnen, Mr. Forbes’ talent for being in the right piace at the right time, —the first duty of a correspondent, and oncof themost dificuit. On Thflfldflfflmfl.fl.fl‘ e hoars of the fighting, snd, - ‘actingon the maxim given by Prince Fred Charles to his officers, rode at once in the direction of the cannou-thon~ der.’ From Thursday to Sunday (with tne excep= tion of a brief reat at Gabrova Thursday nighth Mr. Forbes is cither in the_saddle. or under it orwriting. He rode on Tharsday from the Rus- sian headquarters at Gorni-Studemt to Gakrovd: early Friday morniug from Gaorova to the top of Schipka Pass; all Fridayshares the perils of the fight with its defenders; all Friday night is agin o the sadale, riding back to headquarters; and from headanarters on Saturday to Sistova and acrosstbe Danube to Simnitza, and from Simnitza to the railway, and by rail to Bucharest. Thence Bt | telegraphs the dispatch printed on Monday.—2 marrutive writicn partly in the Pass under aball of bullets, paruly, 1 indge. at difierent points 03 the road. and half, perhaps, at Bucharest; beb the whole of it as vivid and fresh as if the wits Ead had nothing to do fora month; ana this wers the firat fruita of bis leisure. It is a masierpicce of military literature, ands orodigy of pbysical - power.” Y