Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 21, 1877, Page 12

THE CfilCAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. GCTOBER 21, 187/—SIXTEEN PAGES MUSICAL, FOR SALE. SILVER. -’ Report of the Silver sion, Commis- Interesting Extracts from That Document. Strong - Arguments in Favor of Remone- tizing Silver. ‘The Report of Senator Jonesand his Com- mittee on the guestion of remonetizing silver Jas reacned us. It makes a book of 203 large, closely-printed pages, and would fill the double- gheet SuspAY TripoNe in small type. But it is 2 crushing document arainst the single zold standard, and a convincing, unauswerable arpument in behalf of the double standard of silver and gold. The 1njury that has alrcufl)' been inflicted upon the country by demonctiz- ing silver is immense, as ghown by the l}:non_ The Majority Report is signed by Senators John P. Jonesand Lewis V. Bogy, and George Willurd, W. 8. Groesbeck, and R. P. Bland; tbe Minority Report by Georze 8. Boutwell, Francis Bowen, and 1. L. Gibson. No intel- lizent, impartial man, who reads the two Re- ports, but must feel that the weight of fact and of argument is enormously on the side of the double standard.. We make room for a few ex- tracts from the Majority Eeport: THE DOUBLE STANDARD. . The philosophy of the double standard is, that a rise in the vaive of money and a fallin gen- eral prices are the sreatest evils which can bufall 1he world, and its object 13 1o prevent, as far a: possible. ‘the occurrence of thes evils, It takes 10 precautions amainst a fall in the value of moncy Decause in the whole bistory of the hinman race not a ringle inetance can be pointed out of a fall in the Yalue of cither or of both of the wetals which has ot proved a benefaction 10 mankind: while on the other hand, during every period and whenever a Tire in the value of metallic money has occurred, it Tiae been attended by Snancial. industrial, pohtical. and social disaster, ~ 4utncreasing tulueof money and salling prices hiate been ard are more frutlyu of human wusery than ar, pestilence, or Jamine, “hey hare wrought more injustice than allthe bad * fawawhich were erer enacled. Under the double standard these cvils conld never occur, except by 2 ricc in the value of both metuls, while under the single standurd they might be caused Ly & rise in the value of one of them. Hics shiould resume epecie-pay. jted States should re 3 -pay- mgéhfxgflr tne double standard, with the same Jegal relation of value betweer the metsis as ex- ieis in France, therc conld not be a reasonable doubt that these two great commercial countrics would be strong cnouga lo_preserve a coincidence between the lezal and market relutions of the me; ale, and thereby preserve their concusrent nse 35 money. The United Siates ie now relatively a sreater_commercial snd financial power Lhan was France in 1503, and with grester opportunitics for zrowth and development, “and could alone exert u steadying inflnence on the relation of the metals more powerful than France was able to exert. Under the aouble sianaard the debtor way. at his option, avail himeelf of money coined out of either metals in the vayment of his obiigations. This option is of no practical importances except wwhen a variance between the legat and market relations of the metals become eensible. Neither does it work any injustice. nor is it, in fact, con- zined to one €iae of any transaction. The creditor 36 8Wift to avail himecli of it when he lends money, and be never lends in the metal which for 1he time being happens to be the dearer one. e cangot clsim. therefore, tbat it his cquity to be puid in the dearer metal. and be never iaeo naid unjesr, between the dates of lending and of being paid, the donble standard is abrogated, €0 that hé is enable toesact what he did not lend.” The debt- cr may jastly complain if hic is forced topay in the @earer metal or money, which he never receives when he borrows. The enormous aggregate of debts in this country, public and private, were con- tracted by borrowing nutional psper curiency or in 1he parchase Of DRODETY Al paper-CUrrency prices. It 15 urged that the debtors ouyht not to complain 3f rhey are forced 10 Day these debts in specie. and that they ought to have foresecn that the resump- tion of rpecie payments in the near future was probable, and that the nzbtof paying in paper cur- Tency might be teken away from them. Dutit cannot be raid tiat they onght alo to hive fore- soen that the option of payinz in silver, which had always becn theirs. would oc taken away, and that 1Ley wouid be condemned to pay in gold alone, and not only that, bul in zold enormously zppre- ciated in vulue, if other important double-staacard cutntries shouid foilow our example and make it aberr sole standard of value. 3 it 1s of tue inghicst importance that tne relations ‘of value betwcen money and all cther things stonid be proserved with as lirtle disturaance as , possivte.. Ail expenience sEows that tns important endcan be more nearly attuned under x money eysten haeed on both metals, and through the use of the cheaver metal whenever a change occurs in iheir relative value. The industrial 2nd economic- al world £nd thewr principal occupation in the pro- duction and distribution of those things which are necessury for humen wants, and whict mimster to human comfort aue_happiness. They are not en- gered in juggling with different kinds of moner or exchanging coiLs for the siall premium which it 1may Le po-sible o oblain oceasionally for the one over the utner. GENERAL EFFECT OF CONTRACTION. At the Christian eratae metallic mones of the Roman Empire amounted to S1,500,000,000. By the end of the fifteenth century it had shrunk tc £200,400,000. During this period a mozt extraor- dimary apd halefal change took place in the con- dition of the world. Population dwindled and commerce. arts, wealth, and freedom ail disap- peared. The peopie were reduced by poverty and Jaisery to the most degraded conditions of serfdom and slavers. The disictegration of society was zimost complete. 1 he couditions of life were so liard that individual ecldshness was the only thing consistent with the instinet of self-preservation. Al public svirit, all generous emotionx, all the Toble asviration’ of man ebriveled and disappearcd us the voiume of moncy shrunk and as prices ) :ptoms of disaster similar 10 those which be- Jety durine the Dars Azes were observable ery pand durine the %<t half of this century. In 1509 the revolutionary troubles between Spain anc her .merican colonies broke out. These troubies reenlted in a great diminution of the pro- duction of the precious metals, which was quickly indzcated by u fall in general prices. As slready stated n Whie report. it is estimated that the pur- shaxing power of the precions metals increased be- iween 1809 and 1648 Tally 145 per cent, or in other word~, that the general range of prices was 60 ner reutiower in 1545 than i was in 1809. During his period there was no general demonetization i vither metnl and no important fluctuation in the relative valne of the metals, and the supply was seficlent to keep their stock good against iossea oy accident and abrasion. But it was insufficient to keep the €tock up ta the proper correspondence with the increasing demand of ad- vancing populations. The world has rarcly passed iroush & more gioomy period than tiiie one. Again do we find fullinz prices and misery and des- titution inscpuraple companions. 1tis only under steady prices that the production of weaith can reacl; jte permanent maximum, and_that it equit- avle distribution is possible. Steadiness m prices Spsures Jabor 1o all and exacts labor fromall. It Tives security 1o credit and stability and prosperity 10 buriness. 1t encourages laree enterpriscs, re- quiring time for thur development, and crowns With riiccess well-matured and carefnlly-cxecuted 1t Ginconrages purcly speculative ventures, lane. i Tud expecialyy thore based upon disaster. 1t on S0uraces actial transactions rather than pambling 5n fulre pricce. It muetes out justice to both Achtor and creditor. and secures credit to those who deservelt 1t prevents capital fram oppressing Subor snd 1abor from oppressing cavital. ana sec Fures to ench it just share of the fruits of indnstry and cuterprise. It €ccares o reasouanle intered for its use 1o tiie lenders of money, and a jusr share in the profits of production Lo the bosrones. It keeps up 1be distinction between 8 mortgaze snd adecd. Itinsuresamoderate competencs to the smany rather than colussal fortunes to the few at 1be éxpense of the many, Lue wuaitity of wetallic money, or of paper amaney coisizntly convertivle into metallic mongy, wicl can be mamtained in the circalation of agy ‘pasticular country caunot be controlled arbitrarily. Jt cannot be greaier than rucu an amount as may De requisite {o mairtain lix brices of xuch country 9L a substantizl parity with the prices of it gy Cpuntries Geing the sainc kind of moner. Any fh?]ngt from Imsnmnnx;ll must be temporary, and Wwill Le soon automauezlly co o Tl szavon, ly corrected by the eburse EFFECT OF CONTRACTION ON MANUFACTURIN( The :IKNX;G‘XAXH RAILROA! oy e grect and stiil eonunoing fal g i Dearly every industaual enterprise. | The biiter pes Berietice of the last few vears bas becn zn. aehes five but most thoroush teacher, 1t has tagghs o itaiikts neither to invest in nor Joan money on sngh ghterprises, and just ae thozoughly has 1 fapais business men not'to borrow for the. Purpose of x;'u. 2UZUTALNG OF prosecuting them. OF tie rew it Inees euterurnises 1ow being successfully prosecss. ed, the larger past are based on a monopoly secured gither by patents or exceptional conditiops, - e business man Lius discoverea toat the losw active siig siterprieiag be s the better te s off. " The many. cturer avuids 10ss by damping down furngoe] and slowine down Tnachigery. > oo furmace:Gres The mining companies would fina prod - activits. and would provably wuspend” gpera ol Jyere i not for the greet loss they would eustain 1a doing so. Mines can be properly openod mis Lhrviizh & crest outlay of espital, which weulgby practicaliy lost if thex were closed down for amc Consideratle period of time. ~ The filing up vy awater. the caving in of malierics, the ctshing 1o of shafis, the rusting of machinery, and the pen emal disarmangement of their intefior workions would require” for their repaira not much lees oo penditure than was necesssrv for their origi opening. Hopinz for better times, “#trucgle on azainet an aaverse current, profiand sencrally only withoat loss by thexr wiscetianeousexpenditares o the fowest eble poiat, and wages 1o a starvation level, - Fue mumers ascend from the dark and gloomy depthy of the mine with their ecanty pittance called wages, to find in a famishing Lonsenold a gloom thatis more profound. Thep await with hereie fortitade and 2 sometimes mpatient hope the ad- vent of another Sir Humphrey Davy. witha lamp capable of shedding Jight on the cause of existing evils, and of protecting them and all others who depend on their labor for their daily bread against a Imgering misery wore to be dreaded than the deatfly danger that lurks in the treacherous ire- lamp. The etockholders of railroads have suffered a Yast ebrinkage in the value of their property aud in the volume of their tratic and in rates of trang- portation, while their debty have remained nowi- ally the same. but really increasing. In order to make the decreased receipts meet the inferest ou their bonde, they are forced to reduce their operating expenses'to the Jowest vossible point. Their struggles seem to be in vain, and, uuless that eysiem can be changed which is makirg cach dollar which they owe inore valuable, and at the same time causing 3 shrinkage in their business, 2ud which is chaming labor aud all other forms of capital to the chariot-whee!s of mouey-cavital, they will, one after another, be swallowed by the bondhoidere. In the end the stockholders will be enturely out of the account, and the contest will be Detween different clusses of bomiholders, if that can be called & contest where victory is assured in advance to the liens which have priority WEIGHT AND BULKINESS OF SILVER. So far as convenicnce of handling is concerncd, it it enoush to fay that both zold and silver are 100 bulky aud beavy for the ordinary transactions of bushiicss. Only a minute percentage of large pay- ments is made in either metad, nearly all of themn being made with paper, or by transfers of credils. What s called gold in the markets and in the bank reserves in this country i€, 10 a considerable cx- fent. not really that meral, but_ certincates of the deporits of 1t fusued in noney-note form by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Such certificates may and ought to be issucd. tjon the deposit of silver, which can be held at less rixk thap gold. They #hould be ixsucd for bary of both ametals, stamped at the Gosernment assay-oflices, as well'as for coins, They would be much more conventent for money use than coin of either met- al. The habits and prejudices of the people of the United States are. confirmed in favor of a safe peper money. 1f by safely is meant constant con- vertibility at will iuto coin, no paper money could be £afer than that based dollar for dollar on coin or bullion in the Government vaults. Such paper would be universally used in transacting the busi- nees of the country.” A certificate in_money-note form issued by the United States Treasury for a depasit of silver in its vaults would be neither heavier, bulkier, nor less convenient than like certiticate issued for a deposit of gold. A shrinking volume of money und falling prices always have fiad and always must have a wendency 10 concentrate wealth, 1o enrich the few. and 1o impoverish and degrade the muny. This tendency is subtle, active, and portentous throughout the world to'day. EFFECT OF CONTRACTION ON REAL ESTATE. When money begins to become scarce, by rea- #an of & ehrinkage in its volume. the fret effect upon real estste is found to be, not a decline of its numinal prce, but a diminution in the number of transuctions. Market reports quote real estate dutl: reweales, buf prices firm.” This st tion is 2enbed to'temyporary canscs, and a & recovery predicted, In order to muint the terms of purchace are made xier. The amount of cash payments is reduced, end the de- ferred payments, eecured by mortzage on the prop- erty, extended over longer perinde. After a time this’ cxpeaient fails, - and. even then, nominal Jrices are unnataraily hela up for a short period by the strugzies of those who have purchased upon thesc extended credits, and by the teuacity of own- ers who refuse 10 sell at lower figuree, and mori- gage their own property to protract. their power to Bold. The stagnation of yoluurary traneactions sinally foliowed by the activity of involuntars one, undcr the dircction of Sheriffs and by the foreclos- ure of wortgager. 'pon uny marerial decline in the price of real estate, s larze class of investors. believing that the bottom bias been reached, and desiring 1o protit by the reaction which they think is #ure (o come speed- ily, enter the market and temporarily check the de- cline. Another fall in prices sweeps thew and their marging away, and a third class of dealers, now ab- eolutely cerfain that bottom prices bave becn reached, and sure thata further gecline is impos- sible, came in as purchasers, Each succeeding purchascr fortides his conclusion tuat present prices are bottom prices by comparing them with and find- iy that tiey are no hizher thaa the prices of some period in the past which is arbitrarily axsumed to be a standard level, below which subsequent prices could never permanently go. 1t is overlooked thiat price is oniy the cxpression of a relation, and tuay Do correct conclusions can b drawn from a com- parixon of the prices of two periuds unicss com parison be alco made of the money stock, popula tian, and exchanges of buth periods. Contriry 1o all caleulutions, as the volume of money ~hri prices continue to fali, and these dealers dnco the fate of their predecessors. These operations reneat themselves until umiver<l distrust prevaiis, and watil it is found that, when money is Gecreas: ing in voluwe, prices have no hottom except a re- ceding one, and that they are inexorably ruled by the volume of money. CONTEACTION AND THE FARMERS, Farmers whose lands are not morteaged. and their employes who at least ‘are insured aguinet absolute want, best escape the evils of the times, but the prices of agricaitural products muss finally decline with the reduction in the number and means of the consumers. The tendency of falliny prices is to break down the vast diversified inters ests of the countrs, and to force a constantly-in- creasing_proportion of the population into the one single primitve industry of caltivating the roilé The United States, instead of continuine a hizhly commercial and manulacturiny nation, will, unul falling prices are checked, Lecome more and more exclusively agricultural and pastoral. LFFECT OF CONTRACTION ON SECURITIES. Sccurities have already becoms so impaired throush faliing prices that loanable capital has fird affrighted fron: the newerand ore sparsely settled scctions of the country, and accammlated in larze amounts in the great fnzncial centres, where se- curitics are more ample. ‘e personal and prop. erty secarities of individuals have vencraily ceased to be available, except at the highest rates of in- terest. orat rinously low valuations, Money can be borrowed readily ‘only npon suzh’ securities as bonds which are bused vii the unhimited tax-leveing power of the Government. or upon the bonds and &tacks of first-class trunk-limes of railroud corpo- rations, whose frelzatund farc rates are practically A tax upon the entire population and resvurces of the rezions which thcy traverse und supply. The competition amons capitalixts 10 loan mones on these more ample sccurities has become very keen. and such secarities command money unprecedentedly low rates. These low and loweriagy rates of interest, instead of denoting Gnancial strength and industrinl prosperity. are 4 cauzeof Increaring prostration. Large accumu- lations af money in financial centres, instead of being caueed by the overfiow of a healthful cireu- Iation, or evena proaf of a suflicient circulation, are unmistakable evidence of 3 conzested condi- tion. cansed by a decreasing snd_insufiicient cir- cniation. ‘e readiness with which Government bonds bearing a very 10w rate of interest are taken, instead of showing that the credit of the Govern® ment has improved. is melanchaly evidence of the prostrated concition to which industry aud trade Dwve been reduced. There need be no naste in re. funding the public aebt at the Fates now propo: and considered low. Unless the progressof the commercial world in the policy of contracting money by demonetizing silver s checked. bonas bearing a mach lower rite of Interest than any yer ofiered will be gladly accepied by canitalists hure and in Europe. When the ‘money stock is diminishing and prices arc falling, the lender not only receives intercst. but fins profit in the zreatly increazed value of the princi pal when it fs retarned to m. A loan of money made in 1809, if repaid in 1543, would have beey repaid with an eddition of 145 per cent in the pur- cliasinz power of tie principal and intereet, be. gides il the interest paid. - Those who hiave loined Dioney (o tnis Government since 1551 have already received nearly as much in the incrensed value of their brincipal as in_interest, and ail the proba bilitics are. in regard to the £ ner ceut thirty-year national bonds now heing negotiated, if thcy are redeemed in gola, that more proft will be mage by the anzinntation in the valie of pringipel.shon throush interest. Indecd, the siznsof the times are that the bonds of u colntry possessing the yi. bounded resources and etuble” institutions of the United States, payable in 2ol at the end of the thirty vears without any interest whatever. would. through the fucrease of the value of that metal Drove s most proftacle investment. R OUR POOR DAY-LALORER: The woret cffect, hawever, economically con. sidered. of fallitg ‘priccx, i’ not upou cxisting Praperts nor upon dediors, evil ae i is, but upon atorers. whom it deprives of employment sad consizug to poverty, and upon sociely, wiich 1 deprives of that vest sum of ‘wealth which resides potentially 1 the vigorous arms of the idle work. man. A shrinking volume of money transfers ex. isting property unjustly, and causes n concent; tion and diminution of wealth. It alxo Gmpuire tie valuc of existing property by elmmzting from it thapimiporiant element of value confersed upon it Dy the skill, encrey, and care of tue debtors from. whom itis wrested. But It does not destroy any existng proverty, while it dovs abeolutely. sie mbilate all the valties prodaeible by the labor e it condemns 1o idleness. The estimate i not an extravagant one that there are now in the Lot States 300,000 persons willing 10 work. petats are idle because they cannot ubtain cmployment. This vast poverty-stricken army is incroasing and will continue to increase as long as falling prices shall _continue 1o scparate —money capital; the fund out of which wawes: s pal: {rom labor, and to discourage investment in other forms of property. . . . But duriug this period, ‘When proverty is being eacrificed to meet current necessities, and 1aborers are being remitted to idleness and destitution, money fattens on the gencral dissster. Under any ‘money eystem whatever, labor, money, and ofher forms of capital confront each other is opposing forces, cach seeking through a natural instinct tg secureasmuch a6 postible of the others in ex- change. These forces, although always operating agiinst, are mou necessarily inimical or des structive of each othier. On the cuntrary, under a Just money system, they are not even harmiul to each other. But under an unjuet money-£ystem, undera s; tem which throuxh law or accident fails to regulate the quantity of moncy 0 as (o preserve the eqniltb- m between money and the other faciors of pro- duction, the conflict between money and lahor 2ud olker forms of capital becomes destructive 2nd ruinous. It is in ihe hadow of 4 ¢lirinking volume of moncy that disorders social and political gender and fester, that Communism pruanizes, tnit riots threaten and destroy, that labor starves, that capitalists conspire and work- men combine, and that the revenues of Govern- ments are diseipated in the employment of Tabor- gra, orinthe maintenance of iacreased stand:ne armies to overawe them. ful_conttict \rhich, undera just moncy system, o contingally Waged between money capital and labor, and which Londs only to secure the rights of cxch. and 1s o5 £ential to the prosress of society, is chanred under a shrinking volume of moncy to an i war. threatening the destruction of Money. {peither surinking or unduly increasing volume, like a dissoiving chemical, separutes capial Tros Iahor. 1t s not against capital, but seamnst the finzncial system that nesmits the volume of il by and money to either shrink or unduly increase, that the Liostility of socicty should be nronged. Let labor and capital oe_ pat on cqual ferms, o that idle capital will be as unfrnitful ns idle labor, and the contlict between them will ceaxe to be destructive. An unjust moncy-system produces an unjust relation between labor, capital, und money. and the resulting evil cannot b rem- edied by special legislation on particular cases, nor by ceneral legislation avridging the natural rights of either, Such legwlation” would be futile and impertinent, destructive of that freedom of fndi- vidualiction 2o eesential to progress, and enbver- #ive to'the true interests of al) classes of society, and wonld powerfutly tend to the overthrow of free inetitutione. Tlic equitablendjustment of the correlative demands of capital and fabor cannot be made through yiolence. and is utterly impossinte throush any lesul or other contrivance, under any sy¥stem that permics contraction or undue expan- sion of that great instrument which measures alike the proverty of the capitalist and the labor of the workman. "1t is only through the action and coun- teraction of the antazonistic forces of capital and labor, ~unfomatically operating under a juat money system, that équity and harmony can be evolved, WOODEN PAVEMENTS. ow They Are Laid ln Chiengo—The Truth Plainly Told. Chicago Engineering News, Oct. 20, N The present grade of the streets in the busi- ness portion of Chicago is about fourtecn feet above low water-mark of Lake Michizan, or about eicht feet avove the average surface of the ground. The streets are cither sixty-six or cihty feet wide; the sidewalk allowance in the former is fourteen feet, and in the latter sixteen feet on cach side, thus allowing a roadway of thirty-cight or forty-eight fect re- spectively between curbs. To form the foun- dation for the paved streets retaining walls of stone are built at the outside of the sidewalk- alluwances, aud the space between is filled in with carth hauled from the adjacent excavations and by all the rubbish which can be obtained in the peighborhood. This, of course, is made up of every variety of material, from refuse bricks and stoncs to mauure and kitehen slops. A great deal of material is baulea in the winter aud in a frozen condition, and the consequence is that when warm weather comes the suliditica- tion of the accunulated mass is anything but uniform. This aceumulation of refuse is the tion upon which the wooden pavements o are luid, and §t is hardly ever the case that the street is traveled over to any con- siderable extent before paving, as it is almost impassable, and the residents are clamorous for the completion of the work, as their business interests ure very seriously interfered with by delay. ‘The conditions, therefore, for a suitable {foundation upun which to lay the pavement are all unfavorabie to permanence. The specifica- uons for * fillings ' of the City of Chicago re- quire that they “shall be of sund, clay, carth, or gravel, and free from any animal or vemetable watttery or any perishable material. It shall be compactly put in and well puddled, rammed, and “roffed with 3 roller of mnot less than five tons weight, and be so tirm and compact as to be secure from settline.” The facts are, nothing is excluded from street fillin the material is dumped in the wost careless way: there is no puldling, ramming, or rolling; we do not believe the eity owns a live-ton rolier; and instead of the ground thus formed beine 3o tirm and compact s to be seeure axainst settling,” every citizen of Ch caro is knowingz to the fuct that hardly a pave ment is laid that does not show settlement in places besore the work hus got 100 yards in ad- vanee, and that soluity, jnstead of being the rule, 1s the exception. ~ This, then, Is the sub- structure—zhe fouudation—of the Chicago pavements, and they are, from the bottom up, fraudutent. e city specifications call for “ rowsof sound, Tive 4xSinch Norway or white pine olocks, free from sap.loose or rotten ts,0r other defects, twelve inches (12) lons, placed 'on end upon the sand, the ruws runnisg diagonally aeross the street, and being kept 2o inclrapart, the blocks in the different rows of the pavement to break Jvints iu 4 similar manoeras in brick masonry.” The sound, tive blosks of Norway or white pine consist of dead, scorcired pine, brought from the burnt forests of Wisconsin, and when laid in the streets of Chicago the process of decay has already commenced, and to-dav any person driving over the wooden pavements laid oul three years 220 dacs so at ituminent peril to his vehicle, so rough and unceven is the roadway. Inlaying the pavement only the cheapest class of labor is em- ploved, the blocks arc thrown in loosely and carelesdly, the gravel is rammed in, and iravel at once conmences. Aswe remarked before, a road-roller is never seen in Chivago streets; oe- ionaily a stone-roller or an irou one, propetica by two men, is run over the blocks. For this ciass of pavement, on a thirty-cight feet road- S20r §2.50 per Hueal 100t is asseesed on the residents on each side of _the street, or the pavement is laid av §4 and $5 per foot; the jv- tersections are laid at the expeuse of the city; the recaining walls and curb-stones are charzed to the residents of the street. The average wooden pavement, as laid in Chicago, sts three Lo tive vears so_ a8 to be passably Ppicasant to drive upon: after that it is worse than auy corduroy road in the backwoods of the neiwhboring Donlinion. The wooden pavement of Chicazo is a standing diszrace to everybody concerned in them: to the city authorities wuno such fraudulent impositions on the perm; licavi d citizens, and who descend to Dractice the meun and expensive policy of evad- ing the royalty ou the oririnal pavement: on the coutractors who perform the dishonest work : and on the cngineers who permit such foundas tions and muterials to be approved; and.kastly,on the citizens of Chicago, who are willing tostand ch tiie whole dishonest proceed- ing, and coutentedly pay the bills year after year for the Worst pavements in America, when a few well-directed efforts _on their part woald insure them good ones. There arc some hun- dreds of miles ot wooden block pavement in Chicago, and for this city it is undoubtedly the best and most satisfactory that can be haa, provided it is properly constructed. But ut present there is haraly a dozen miles of wooden pavement in the cify that is fit to travel upon, althouzh laid only three to five vears ago, and now a Committee of the City Couacil Is investigating s to what kind of pavement is best adapted for tie renewal of these miles of distionestly paved streets. With the improve- ment in the city’s financial condition there will be contracts miumerable for street paviug and sewering to be Tet; and while we would like to See i improvement on the present condition of things, we have but little expectation of there beingr any. 'Thosc of our readers, however, who are interested in pavinyr contracts will dowell 1o et acquainted with this Committee, and be on the lookout Tor some rich pickings in Chicago during the next season. E —— SALARY AND COMPENSATION OF THE COUNTY TREASURER, To the Editor of The Tribune, Cineaco, Oet. 19.—From a casual survey of the political field it is evident that the office of County Treasuret is the pvatal point around which al the other nominations by our so-called party managers ure made 10 revolve. Larze sums of money, it 1s said, bave already been expended, or placed where they **will do the 1008t good, ™ by eeveral of the candiaates for thix oflice, while those who have elguified their willingness to serve the people of the county in other positions of trust, supposed to be lesn remuncrative, freely concede that thein chances in the Convention depends in no smal) de.. gree upon the numination for County Treasurer. The catise of thia is probably well understood by the great mujority of the votersof the connty, The compensation to which thie County Treasnrer = entitied, ot rather the amount of money which €an be made out of this office, is supposed (o be very larze. Ifence this unscemly scramble and fierce contest. That all the other important offices to be filed this full should be pushed into the background, or :radc([l Off by ** the managers ™ for this one posi. ion, [¢, to use mild Janguage, extremely nnifor Tor ine'wpayers, LUt (he. deiion. of Jse ol Inen Who have eznended laree snme of T the position, ecting be able to reimbursc themsclves out of the lezitiziute fees of the oflice, is mop fiu;‘:&;‘-‘ rehensible, but partakes larzely of the Taderre! It Is true that the comuensation recerved of ro- tuined y the incumbents of this office by the pat hag been larse, and the people. have generaliy e guiesced in tne action of the Treasnrer. not being faily posted as tu their i mutter. For the purpose of aflording a little light upon this quws tion of compensation as related to the oflice of County Treasurer, and which Gocs nol seom se genoralis undersidod. allow me L0 refer very pejets fosome of the provisions of our Constitaiion srl) statites relaiing 10 the matier. Sec.d of Ary L. of the Constitution of this State provides as Ty Tows: ++The Clerks of all the conrts of rosons the reasarer. Sherill, Coroner. and Kecoruerat Deeds of, Coak County, shall receive as {hofe enbr gompensition forthuir services saliries 10 be fixed by case be as m compensazion of a Judie of #aid county, and shul be pay the fees of the office actually cof pequisites, and emoluments of sai faluries ehall be vaid into the Co Treasurs. The number of the denutios agd o sistauts of euch ofices shall be deteriined by raje of the Circuit Court. to be entered of rocord, g their compensation shall be determined Ly the ounty Bourd.™ From the provisions of this s ton, which it sill be ovserved apphies onty o Couk County, it i3 exident that the ramers of ore Lonstitation” intended (o cut off all sotreos of o Some niherthian the salary 1o those who might {her . 3fter hold any of the positions above ennmerateq Uence theexpress provision, **All fets, ‘Ppergui- iected. _above the amount sites, and emoluments:above the nmount of ¥aid ealariea ehull be vaid into the County Tressurs. With this section of. our Constitution in view, it i not casy to see how tlie incumbent of this ofiice can tegally retain in his bands, by way of compen- sation, any more of the fund¥ received than the amount of his salary, ss fixed aud determin- cdby the Legislature, And swhat is the amount of the salary¥ By Sec. 31, Chap. 55, of onr Kevised Statutes, it is provided: **The Clerks of all the courts of record, the Treasurer, Sherift, Coroner, and Kecorder of Deeds of Cook County, —clected after the udoption of the preseat Con- elitntion of this State, _shall receive . ag their only comuensation’ for their services the following named salaries. . The Coun- Ly Treasurer the sum of $4,000 per annum.” Thia law was passed in 1872, and_1am not aware that it has ever been repealed, modified. or in uny man= ner changed. Taken in councction with Ses. 0 of the Conxtitution above referred to,—and it will be observed that it is almost in_the esact langmage ¢ of that scction,—it would reem that the only com- peneation or reward 1o whicl the Treustrer of Look County is lesally enuitled ie the sum of $4.000n year, andail the ** fees, perquisites, and g¢moluments, ™ from whatever urce derivedy be- lonz {o the people of the county, and of right should be paid into the County Treaxnry, By Sec, 144, Chap. 120, of the Ktevised Statutes, it 8 further provided: ** The Treasurers of coun- ties uuder fownship orgsnization, and the Sheriffs of countics not under township organization. <hall be ex-oflicio County Coliectors of their respective countics.” Cook Caunty is under township orgun- ization, nnd i consideration of the fact that the statute iwposed upon the County Treasurcr the duty of collecting the taxes remuining uncollected by the Town Collector, cte., the Connty oard. as 1"am informed, several years aga voicd an extr compensation to the “réasurer of about 86,000 pr year. A like sum was knbscauently daid to is £uccessor upon the theory that the ealiry of the Treasurer, a8 fised by the Legisiuture, was for services rendered as Treasurer simply, and as the statute imposed upon him the further duty of col- lecting the taxes, he wa entitled to furiher com- pensation. Lat thie Supreme Court of this State, in the case of Kilzore vs. The People, etc. 75 111, Hev., 548, decided that the County Treastrer is not entitled 10 any extra compensaiion by rearon of the fact that lie is ex-oflicio Collector of the county. In this case, which was an action on the bond of Kil- gore as Treasurer of Ford County lo recover inuneys which he declined to pay over, claiming ta hold the e2me as fees for biy services as Collector, Judge Lrease, who rendered the opinion of the *iAppellant makes the point that the oilice ot Treasurer and Collector are distinct, and Hus right to retain the statutory fees and commis- sionsor Collectoriy perfect. notwithstinding his galury 08 Treasurer muy bave been xed. . 2 The proper construction of the statute is o ¢on- sider it us imposing additional duties only, und not ay conferrinz an additional oflice upon the County Treasurer. . . . Weare of the opinion that sphelfant held bt one oflice, for the perfurmanceof the duties of which, including those of a Collector, compensation was provided which cannot be increased. All the fees and allowances therefore, beyoud that, belong to the County “Preastry, and on failure to pay them over the Tubility on the oflical bund was complete. From the quotations cited it wonla seet that the Treazurer of Cook Connty must not ouly perform the duties uf Ticasucer, but al4o collect the Laxes remaining uncollected by the Town Collectors, re- cetvinz a8 compensation for his services u salary of $1,000and no more. ‘I'his, st Grst thought, oy e an inadequate compensation, but the law imposes upon no man the burden of this office, and the Treasurer iy called upon emply to_supervise the work, all necessary clerks and assistants being provided'snd paid for by the county. % It is generally understood, I believe, that the Treasurer receives large sums by way of wlerest on the moneys of the county loane:d by im. Lam not awure (hat there is any provision in our statutes authorizin: r to loan this money, peither is there any provision probioiting such action; but that there ought to be u prohib- itory statute on tnis point the experience of the past fuily demonstrates, Ly what riznt or nu- thority the ‘Preasurer, having made tuese loans,” retains the interest received, it is not casy ' to discover. ‘The County Treasurer, like all other county officers; is simply au agent of: the prople of the county. and the mere fact of s having eiven a bond for the faizhiul dise chiarwe of his dutics in no mmnmer clanzes that re- lation. 1tis a well-estaolished principle of law that an agent cannot speculute with his principal’s money and iezally claum any proiits that may be derived thereoys cspeculy’ if e has no specite authority {rom bis principal 1o so nse the tunds in nis poseession. 1f A ux t colleets or receives funds betonging to B, s prncipal. under instruce 11008 to eafely Keep and puy the ssme uver at a miven tine. aud without axthority loans such funds and thereoy derives & benelt by way of interest or otherwise, B, the principal, s entitled 70 such teneilt, and A to no part of the same. if, then, the Treasurer of Cook County, an ent of the pieople of the county. without spectiic suthor- ity loans the money of the county.—his principal, —and receives interest, is he not legally and mor ally bound to pay_the' same over to his principal, naiely. o the County Treasury? But without reference 1o this general principle of law, if the Treasurer of Cook Goanty 1s aliowed 10 loun the funds of the county and put the inter~ Rmountiug to thirty, forty, or fifty est recei thousand dollars. in his poc! what becomes of it clause of the Constitution which provides that **All fees, perquisites, and cmoluments' above the amount of sald salary shall be paid into the Cmmly ‘Treasury 'y Is not this interest money n perquisite or an emolumentt und is it not evident that the framers of our Con- stitntivn inserted this clause for the very purpose of catting off this corruption fund, and of com- pelling the Treasurer to pay overand account for 21l the money wlich comes into his hands from whatever source derwved, savinz only the amount of bis salary as fixed by the Lezislature? There area large number of decisions which bear more or less dircctly upon this point, and the cxact question_came up ot lonz since jn one of the courts of New Yor nd was decided ad- versely to the claims of the Treus- This case 12 reported w6 sing's Reports, bage 33, Supervisors of Richwond Connty v, Wandel. and was an action on tue bond given by Wandel as County Treasurer. In rendering the decision in this casc, the Court makes use of this strong languuge: **'The notion that a public oflicer may keep back Interest which he has received upon & deposit of puvlic money as a perquisite of affice, is an attront to law and mor- ale, and if done with evil intent 1s nothing less than embezzlement. 1tis claimed that the defendants who are surctics on the boud are not liable for the item of interest received by Wundel upon moneys belonzing to the county, but it iy diflicuit to cover any reasonable erounds from which to ex- cmpt them from liability, " Whether onr present Treasurer, in making his final seltiement, will seek to retain the interest ro- ceived on the moneys of the county which he has louned, remains to be seen. Mr. Huck 15 reputed 1o ne a very honest man. and in the discharge of Dis official uties he hias met the expectation of the taxpayers of the county gencrally. It is fair (o presuing, therefore, that he will pay into the lreasury all the **fecs, perquisites, and emolu- ments " received during his term of ofice. Aud, should he or his successor fail to do thiz, it is not a violent presumption to assume that the already overburdened taxpayers of this county will take such steps as may be necessary 10 recoverall the money belonging to them. 1f, then, the total compensation to witich the Treastrer of Cook County is lezally cntitled fs the sum of §1,000 per annun, —the ealary us fixed by the Leg izlature, —and he is bound to pay into the Tre: ury all fees. perquisites, aud emolumunt recei over and above such salary, as provided by Sce. 4, Art.X., of the Constitution, 1s it not folly for those genticinen who are candidules for this position 1o expend any considezable sum of money in endeay- oring to sécure it, and may it not fairly be inferred that those who are lavish in the expenditure of their motey intend to rob the veople, it elected to this oflice, in order to reimburse themselvesy Kizk Hawes, It is diffieult to see how interest on deposits can be regarded as “perquisites or cmolu- ments.”” The law does nut recownize any such thing as interest on deposits, and a Treasurer is not expected to receive any interest or to ne- count for ‘it. The law simply requires the Treasurer to give a bond, aud it looks to him and his bondsmen for the safe return of the funds. Were he required to get iterest for county funds. it might be held to relicve him {from responsibility for the principal. Nor does he at any time lend money to the banks. e deposits’ his funds ther¢ as others do; it is more convenient than keeping them in bis safe He deposits wherehe pleases, at his own risl A and if the banks at the end of his term of service choose to give him any doucenr or honorarium for the” favor conferred on them, it would be hard 1o sec how he could be called on to pay aoy such gift over to the County Treasury.” Mr. Hawes? construction of the law does ot seem to accord with that which the Courts would be apt Lo put upon it; and the experience of this city does not sustain his One City Treasurer asreed to, and did, pay over the iuterest on dep sits, but, when he was unable to pay over the principal, hi bondsmen set up the defense that they had been freed from responsibility by this arranzement about interest, and the Court has not yet decid- ed that their claim is uufounded. To state the case briety, the Treasurer is re- sponsible for ouly that sum which comes into Lis hauds from the taxpavers; the law makes him responsible for nothing More. For any part of it which he does ot pay over he can be sued on his bond: he cannot be sued to recover somethmg which never belouged to the county. ——— CHIARGSCURO. ‘The laet rays of the sun tonching the earth, Elashing the woods with its tender kiss, e, every couccivuble shade, — 's more magically made, s of Dore's unconsciously fade, lost in a silent bliss, “Phinking, and longing for thee. Al drawi The deeo rich glow diszolves in twilight gray, From purple mist tomonrnful violet. And with 2 long, last gnze, a3 if to take, Such pure and” perfect beauty in my soul, I turn awny, 3 ¢a5 had filled the carth with gloom, The death of A1y fuce with tears was cold and wet, for taee, Thinki Lyrsxse. king, and longing GESEY: LaRE, Oct, 18, ————— . We love the merry sunshine, bat it is nearly 3 Z Spec volume. this. s publis Tieknor. June. poem for Ay, and h Fringed Betnmes th Prejuds Which fi The rood, down the have done buok, songful, t get at hot hero—the verse: ‘This has I verses 1 But one the little burne or J Te of This is fi in this vol and rmeas the lew p: the close, for pathos a national ed in Tug “patrons Birar price i ch until # o'clo T Isiand: GEORG LGHOtGE ERSONAL—A LAD ke the acquafitance 40 years; must be of zood standing whole number of pages is but 134. But it secms to me that there has been no book of poems for along time that is in any way comparable with Certainly nonc of the later books of Longfellow, or Holmes, or Lowell, or Whitticr, show the fresh charm of thesc pocms, which have the simple title of *Hawthorne and Other Poews,” and are dedicated to the friend as well socicty of the Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard lust From first line to last it isa most per- fect poem. showing traces of the fine student, yet breated upon by that full sweet breath of the unlversal soul which makesit not only a given to college societies at Comme THAT DULL, to listen to such strains as these: The sccret oracles thut move and haunt? At nighU's dread noon he scauned the enchanted Nor (o the thronging phantoms #aid Avaunt, Iiut waved Lis rod and bade them rise and pase; Till thus he drew the lincaments of men Who fought the old colonial battles three, Who with the lustibood of Nature warred, Wrestled with Terror and with Tyranny, ‘I'win wardens of the scatfold and the sword, The few and rude plantations of ber Pa: Her children, as he drew them, there they stand; ‘There, too, ier Present, with an outime cast Still’ from the shape thase other centuries wore, Change into woods o'crshadowing a host That witds along the Maseachuselts Iath; The Plymouth bund, and where the lewd ones boast Stern Endicott pours out his godly wrath. Like day with night, his sunshine and his gloom. ‘To him the stern forefathers’ creed descended, The weight of kome inexorable Jove i from the cradle to the tomb; liut therewithal the lightsome laughter blended Of that Arcadian gwevtness undiemayed The Naiad nymph of every rippling il And hears “quick Fancy win There have been gaver themes than this. These fine lines it is not at all likely brought TUE QUONDAM BASE-BALL PLAYERS TO STAMP- as Holmes? funny oddities and local bits would memory, and now, when they are placed before tite worll, to be welcomed a3 a new and valued possession. And_then the lyrics in this little nis in “The Lord’s-Day Gale,” “All'tn a Life- time,’” and * Kearny at Seven Pies.” of us have secu this before; but toa bost of peovle it will be new, and it will be fresh always toall of us, and to every lover of the true billad. How we sce the Iow he strode his brown steed! How we saw his blade brighte: Inthe flrne hand stitl left,—sna the reins in his tevth! He laughed I But a eoldier’s glance shot from kis visor be- neath. Tp came the reserves to the mellay infernal, Asking where to 20 1n,—2hrouglh the clearing or ine? Y ++0, Bnrwhere! Forwsrd! Tis all the same, Coionel: You'll tind lovely fighting along the whole line. ™ the pocms of the Irish pocts, James Clarence Mangan and Thomas Davis, which are marvels of riythmic flow. In the Lord’s-Day Gale, while the tempest tears and rends the Gloucester fleet, which is out at sea, we get the opposite picture, the shine of the sunasainst the shadow, The bedtime bells m Gloncester Town “Chat Sabbath nizht rang soft and clear; The sailors’ caildren Taid them down, — Dear Lord! their sweet prayérs couldst Thou hear? "Tix said that gently blew the win The goodwives, through the seaward blinds, Looked down the bay and had no fear. these lyrics to alyric lover. But, closiug hre, It me prescut one more verse and ask il Swin. and mantier: T know not if moonlight or starlight I catch but the near light, the far light, The scent of the aight, of the roses, May burden the i for thee, Sweet,— “Tis only the breath of thy sighing Lknowv, ax I lie at thy feet. and the verse will show what a range is given ume js not ouly for poets, but for the many. Irom beginning to end, with the exception of reader who has an car for melody and a hicart THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Mescona, Wis,,Oct. 18, —Is the Bank of England like our National Banks? Also explain the mean. ing of the terms, **Carrying rates 1@3, were also made flat,» swhich we find cach ing the above you wilt greatly oblize a AxswrR—The Bank of England is a private joint-stock bauk, with special privileses. - ¢ Car- Tying rates” are the rates paud for the use of gola. Lozns made flat arc loans of gold made without iutere: Ik TRIBUN OLDERTO ACGOMMODATE 0171 h Otfices i Ehie diTerent Division: Lelow, where auvertiseutents il be taken for L) ou Saturdaye: WILLIAM IL. WINNING, Rookseller 151 Twatv-second- Ject, fridndship. Address Y 9: DERSONAL—WATRY: COME T0 HOGSE 0% FOL- fon abonce, Whout ai; tatters Ea b e a BOSTON. Edmund Stedman’s New Book of Poems. - Hawthorne and Phil Kearny—The Lord's- Day @ale and Other Gems. cfal Correspondence of The Tridune. BostoN, Oct. 17.—Let e turn to the little new book of Edmund Clarence Stedman’s, which J. R. Oszood will bring out shortly, aud which is now Iying before me In advance sheets. Here is a baok which needs no printed marks of applause bracketed in to show the reader where to linger and admire. [t is not a bulky There are only twenty pocms, and the her of the author, Benjamin Holt “Hawthorne” was read before the 1t isn't often ment— RESPECTABLE ANNIVEKSARY EDUCATIONAL SHOWS— the few but the many. What xibyl to him bore itnself the warlock's mantle wore. And made her docile, ~—then He drew his native land, s shore by the beaches of her sound e orchurds and the clover-tields ‘The sword of Standish shiclds Two natures in him strove nds 1n Love 1ts Jasw, and graces stiil the penitential symeol worn, — Which se beyond the shade, her wilifal horn. house und set N 3 but they are lines to sink into the We meed mot run to Tennyson for uneiul lays and ballags, when we can ne such imellow music and pathos as Some STORY OP PHIL REARNY gay Insh soldicr—in this ringing a boy when the hotidass heighten, the real Irish ring in it, as much as ke this: might 2o on_quoting endicssly until book wps all told, so [ascinating are oaquin Miller, cuu mateir this melody €oft on the land und the sea, eycs that are burning for we; rom a short poem, entitied *{SONG FROM A DHAMA," ume of 134 pages to various moods urcs. And the'best of it is this vol- ages of travslations from IHomer at 1t is a coliection that every simplest must weleome. N. B Bt a s DI To the Editor of The Tribune. institution or a private joint-stock bank **Loans day quot- By amswer- =ubscriber. gL M. TRILUNE from New York. EIZANCEL OCEICES, NUMEROUS e liave esta a3 sl throughout the clty riedat the Matn Oflice, and will be received <D, In. durlug tae week, and until 9 p, m, aad Statfoner, near Wabash-av. Stattoner, ete,, 1000 THRUMSTON. West-Side Ne D -av.. corner of Halsted-st. e Depohat HENRY. Books, Stattonery, efc., 330 DI e _PERSONAL, s by, O SRR CL SO ALOUT 23 "WISHES T0 a Eeutieman froin 45 to ¢ and of means.” Ob. Tribune otfice. DEI Jeet, * fuil. Trigune jt ke Widoy NAL—WILL THE cloaks wlio met gentlemen on Fifth-ay 2215, send names and address to two aumireers 0 ot ONAL—a ML -merlcan, e acqualatance of some hontst, respeotat Jady marimontally fucilued Can g icsmas TWO SISTE Address GEOLGE and CHARLIE, P g, DL AGED GENTLE alone and In business, ufl\’l’;fibih;e to X 54, Tribune office. kentssee g dress A 78, At please g Datlced e are me 9, Loc: cheap, A. week since we had the pleasure of ep; tl pleasaut rays of Old Soli{ deriiide 20, Tribune SONAL=ALL Wilo INTEXD PATTIGIDAT: i fo the Yarts Rxncation i e AT ICIEAT their tnterests by addressing NAL—ALLIE, " orening, Bow: moraing. D ERSONAT_A Attractive lady fo Addre: 4 Feihas yior riendship. Address [n conidence X Ot SALEL: VWASTED=A" QUANTITY, for cash and ‘g00d, nearly new, open buggy. A eatly fc I L ready fareard DE AT CURRIER'S GRAND le. Oct. 25,8 b i 10 FA D PTY DUMPTY, FRIDAY N, ureu sl (£ar(o Throop, 11 b, e ie. {0 1adics some evenfing thi Wock? " Ao SDIANA-AV. "CAR SATURDAY ddress A &0, Tribune ocfliien gl GENTLEMAN GF 33, OF M - ans. wisliesto form ihe lcqnninrnn:gllj: 00’ DOZEN MORTISE AND RIN Largest stock in the Wes W. WHEELER, 141 Lake-sto. - 0o OUF OF GOOD OLD BEIiCK SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY b BARGAIN A KD A TR X ronre. LITY. NEW AND MAGNIFICE: ) sUBERR RICHLY FINISHE WARRANTED FOI: FIVE ¥ aving recently purchased for s 2 grent tacrifed. "ah aimente 4totk. of ELEGANT BRAND-NEW PIANOS, weare_enabled to ICES ABSOLUTELY BEYOND COMP ETITION. 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Collars, 20 s tre per dozen: cufls. 15 ceats a pair, or 3 pais fok oy Fersible sivies, These are tho very foocs 1OF Sy Iateststyles. “Gtve usacall this wwee] lsewhere: 1t will DAy you. LN E S 188 Dearboru-st., ncar P £, omy. phiysiolozy, and hygiene, inz, manisin, mang charts. shd Saos my e i every portion of the stracture. m..,"{-,?;»m":l‘ ofiice. OR SALE—FOUR KING CIARI F 143 Norch Paias gy 1, Addresa’p’ dog pups. _ Iugulre at JFORSALE=A BAR kaiting-machine, Trfbune otfice. OR SALE—CHEAT. HANDSONE e e AT TANDEONE POy iaches wide, to match: alto parasal, 21ty prosg il Iace cover; wil new. Addrees Y 51, ‘Tibgs skt OR SALE~CHEAP FOR CASH. A Parst oF pisar O SALE-CHEA SH. A PALL OF pi LpLanis dormant scales iy i\ b OEENE ‘0K SALE—OR EXCHANGE=X 3 ¢ (almost rew), With s setes, St S10, LT exclianze clieap,” Address bS5, Tripums a8 OR SALE—A VERY FINE BULL AT so”some e |EL A0 1 smali Mexican: cheap. GUS WALKER, 813 Bide Ivfang ar UR SALE—THE FINEST Q. e . uraces, worih S3. for 31 chujn LY, RATCREY £ Tlest fu thie marker, ent. NICHOLSON SH PPAID FOR HOUSEHO] E or small lois: furniture of private residences pur- chased. 75 unda 80 Van Luren-st. ECIDED BARGAINS 1 _"lbr organs just r:tcll‘w: At prices besond competition: $50 and npward. Montuly paymeats, cash.or o OLGAN CO., 65 Edst [ndlanast. TNEW DAl F530, $75. $100, orice 125 s T. MARTIN, 154 Stae-st. JFOm SALEZSGs CAsH BUYS A FINE-TONED {Jacohus Stafner) vlolin, case, ete., If taken this ek violin alone ls Worth S100. Addfess Q 66, Trib- une oftice. 7O SALE—A SMALL MASON & TANLIN OF kan, chap for cash: also a catary bird; fine singer: Address Q 2, “Tribune ottice. 1“““ SALE-OXE ELE( ST 7i§-OCTAVE PIANO- forte for S15 120, nx(y bugzy horse, sound in every respect, for sale very cheap. A 36, Tribune. SALE—CHEAD- Jros OSE GOOD PIANO DN monthly lnstallinents. or for rent; also oge good fistes and oae Kimball Parlor Organ, E. ROGERS. 177 43t Madison-st., Kuom y. E. BLOOMFIELD, PIANOMARER, TUNER, Ko and reguiaior. toning, $2 polishing and varnish- 43 bansun eiry refereuces I any quality, S ordersto 943 West Madison-st., or 111-East T wenty- second-st. {(4ENT AND WIFF LIVING ALONE WOULD LIKE Z o rent u nice unrizht plano; excellent care tafen ofsame. Asdress, stating terms, Q 72, Tribune otfice. JIAVE A'FINE :0SEWOOD 7-0CTAVE PIANO, cearly new: will rent very cheap, orseil at a bar- &aln. Address 42, Tribune olce. WANT TO PURCHASE A GOOD SECOND-HAND Jano, orizlt oreferred;” state maker and price, AddressE 13, Tribune otlice. TE ¥oi was RENT A PIANO OF ORGAN, 9 o PROSSEL'S; he mukes Tentfng a speclalty. 215 State-at (OREANS FOT s50; Orians for $75. Organs for & $175 for a bieantiful new plano. $235 1or un elegant piang, §300 for astrictly first-cliss plano, PIANOS AND' ORGANS. rented. sold on iostailments, and exchanged. Best barzaids (n the city. STOLY & CAMP, 211 State-st. S TO RENT—A FINE A NEW. ctave, siperior quality all and examine at GAGE & 1l 235 Weat Madivon-st. L. H. CLEMONS, plauo-forte tuner and dealer. LANOS AND OBGANS FOR ON EASY PAYMENTS, T MARTIN, 154 State-st. _FINE PTANO. BUT LITTLE USED, FOR SALE; | oo 2 V% hor $1 each. and brac, A monthiyuntll pald £ iRl for fng | S+23Torsi.” A W HEELEL: 141 akasec” ™ years. 'S Temple of Music, 92 van Buren-st. OR SALE: Lot oF }'A?\'cr’mem YERY FINE STEINWAY PIANO FOR SALE | yy wiisasy s shesp fancy Inkatands, s bargas. A clieap; owner leaving eliy. o . WHEELER 141 Lakest. e TRETAIL AT TIIE FACTORY, PAKLOR ORGANS OF SaALE-TEA SCALES, sty GG S WhEECR ] ) frs ALE—(0 GROSS STOVE FOLIST AT S For SALE—PAIR OF FINE DITNGND Fi- Tings; cost $300; price $125. 35, 71 Wapal !""'"'i. price $125° Room s, 7; Washing! OR SALE—TEN SINGLE AND FIVE Docs Andrews® schbol deaks, alinost dressQ 14, Tribune offee, - " BeW. che: 'OR SALE—A XEW SALOON STOVE. ALL “Kettle: choay, S1NE: . FEET - staf At Wt etle:cheap. 31 West Ly 21 O SALE—X SPLENDID PIECE OF T B d 2 LACE Vil Vet worch 16 T Rl vors 518 Tor nearly half of thevaluen: a5 JFOR SALE—ELECTRIC FEN, AT 190 LASiiis DOCT; b, 43 FB SALE—1.090 PAIY SKATES per palr. Auctions ©or knlyes chieap. A. ¥ L7100 Doz AW Wa JOF SALE-LADIES “TONTIN J{Dolz‘lv?'::n #od loog chaln, 323, F‘t,"' ors a0 15 Cents per o AL CASE 152 Bearborasrd : e " PLATED Ti6E Spouss, forks, and desrert 7 Wholesuld cost.” Ar W WHELLELE i TALey Oft SALEPLATED TABLE-KNIVES dozen; Lette? quallty, S350 Ikt dogsns o Lateg, LEZX LOT OF ROGERS PPIANO-STATE WHAT YOU WILL GIVE FOR A tiyt-class pfano two years old: cost S150 cas) " 13, Tribuue oflice FIRST: 235 for the scason as leader in quartette, craslead bass. Address A 55, Tribube office. cumbired for $112. _AddFe handle carvers, $2.50. A. W, W HEELER, 141 -6l OR SALE—A LALGE STOCK OF pAT. it | Ffuanea aad caletmtulng brushes at less i = oSt A. W, WHEFLES, 141 Laderst, - oois@ry 3 SALE—FIRST-CLASS PIANO, - ADANIS, 6 Durbora-st. ’i‘{l REXT—GOOD PIANO-CHEAP TO CAREFUL, A prompt-pasiug parsy.Adar, PRIGHT PIA and to stand in fanos: special prices. 05_Wal TED AS DUEABLE tune 2 Jonz as tho best sguare REED'S Temple of dusic, 92 van Burea-st ANO, FOR USE OF WHICH STOR- WASTED-PT o vea: best of care taken of It. Apply at425 West tfarrison-st. 1. TOMLISSON VYE AR ANDSECOND-HAND ¥ 3 dlso organs at sale price: chaap, at GOOLD State-st VWANTED-STEINWAY Ok CHICKERING Gh: Fight, or will make loan at low rate of Interes! . Address 1 61, Trlbune uil “YASTED A GOOD SIN i concert hall {n Strentor 11.: Salars 243 Fentlug very GEE TO PLAY PIANO d board ald: aloug enezement to the tizht party: Isdy pro- Call or &icress F. K, WALLACE, Journal of- fice. Monday from 103. m. 10 8 p. m. ) OIf ORGAN IN EXCHANGE Jor zentleinan's board; part i private family and part [n comGiucation tickety, at resiaurants near busi~ ness cenire. Address Q 33, Tribune ofic BUYS BEAUTIFUL-TONED NEW PIANO With 5100] and cover: terms, $a per month ve yean' guarantec. Address A 51, Trib- 1.000 Zid305 AxD okeay monthly or quar- terly payments we give snectal prices. - Call and ex- gmine before buyinz. liustrated estalozues malied free. REED'S Tempie of Musle, 92 Van turen-st. 05 A OLGANS—FIVE YEALS WANTED—EITHER SILENT OR ACT- Ive, with S30.000 cash to jofu the advertiser in the manufacture of first-class woolens; have had an ex- perlence of over 30 years with the best woolen mills fn the East as superinténdent, sgent, and owner. . Control the best il iz the West, which can_be put in obera- tion fu three weeks' thng, capable of productaz $130,- U worth of gouda yearly. Best of references friven and required. Address, for fntervlew, B. W. WAR. NEL, Caraier 7, P.-0. Chleago, 11, ER WANTED-A GOOD BGSINESS AN INES with xmall capital to take «n interest in the best T ye: offered to the public: good city and required. Send name and address to Y 33, Tribune oiice. P‘}gug\;k'il{.“'.:, TR‘}J~\\;XLL‘IGKIVE S.'J_X:Jd;‘cok IN- cit {n som¢ good paylng busincss. Tiibuneofiet, o 1o ok nodiesl, Addres s ke half fntérest ta_an ofd established 3 clears S5.000 e year. Y 11, Tribune ofite, o 1ot DAETNER WANTE] T CAPITALYIY STOCK ruising 10 on of thie Dnest stock ranges fa the West Call or adres 57 Warren-ay. N, FLOUR. FEED, g , alredy estabillshed on Sontit Water-st., with $2,000 £0 53,000, Address X 81, Tribune office. PABTNEE ANTED—& Fasnio aker, 8t 24 South Green-sc, RTSER W) 0 JOIN ME WITH SI.500 In buyinz ld-established picture-frame bust- loliit well and free rom debt. "1 will contribute Address Y 67, Tribune otlce. FEW NNUNDEED welth a good mflu BLE DEEsS- an vqual amount. ARTNER WANTED—WITH dollars In old vitabiished bakery 1 Money could be made this wiager. -$40—-A GOOD MAN WITH this amount”can have half interest fn tirat- old-cstavltstied irm_ for {nside work: wiil bay $: snaually; sirictly a eash busiuess, Q 18, Tribune. 000 TO JOIN 1N Store in this eliy; drug- Tibune otlice. PARTNER WANTED—A MAN WITH $.030 TO take ap {ntérest ina ully established and aayiog business. Full favestigation desired; must be o e of Rood executive abliity. Thiy Is an opportunity acision i u legltimate busiuess. Address Q §2, Tri O ALTNER W *D—WITH $7.000 TO £10 N cry husinesd, well estatilshed. o res A fbune ot PARISEE WANTEU—IN FRODOCE €oMMIS: sfon Liistness; Gue ready to A i £ peon s ¥ to travel. Address A T, e I e 54 000, TN X MaN factiri routs lurce: will bear close fa- stigation. P55 Tribine e coF €198 Lo PARTNERVANTED=IN A FIRST-CLASS LEGTT %u{"‘%’fd“c“a’"?’ suurini: dusiness: koods l“‘fiij[,ff..‘.:r,., i S20 cash required. N o thia amount. 4 77, Fribune oies, oo AP Without PDARTNER WANTED_LADY PARTVER g It 200001 £5.0n) a2k ey i B EOED Jekittuate estabilhed Lustuces. For parficulars addres eribane oflice e s JIACHINERY, 08t SALE~ONE 6-HIORSE. ONT: 25 HORSE, O] ! 20-hoese: portabic: ane 6-horse, oac 0 ;gmef‘ihrr:?ni-: Ing second-hand Ames engines, nearly a3 ood 25 rew, atalarguin, All izes of new portable and mounsed gistacs "’ stock.” COLLINS "EATON, 13 Soath JFOL SALE-TWO LONG FLUE BOILERS, HEAVT, 000 fOr caw-mills. " Waabing" ton-520 for saw-milis; one lard taak. 156 Washing {OR SALE—CHEAP—ONE BOILER, 50 IN s‘néfifz‘nyg 18 thiree-inch s, nearly aows anetd ener meat uf sccond-hang 7 Seriner's ron Yayd. 56 to 58 South Cingan e " 2 OF SALF—OXE SECOND-HAND 100 (OTSES FoRgESelng and bollr, complotoand o perient A T, _SPEAE & DRIV 11 En S DRIVED, UG basaliese STORAGE, o STOREIOUSE FOR ALL 1 merclinnise, dry proute. tes a1 5DeSOODS: cash advances. 200 (690G Kandoiph-ate, -PROUF STORAGE FOR FUR- merchandise. carriages, etc, eyl 10 per cent year. HARKES & Cow 160 Weas Soionted IDELITY STORAGE COMIANY, 78 AND 50V [ Buren-st.. facilitles for siorage oy Turniture solen: se: advances at leal races: safety sagite. STORAGE-CLEANEST. SAFEST, AND CHEAPEST An theclty. Luans ut 10 per ce a0d storchouse, 64 and 535 D;!Mg stere Aanu: Ofice CLAIRVOY, PATIAN & TATI0R, 18 ADANS ST CoRS B Materializiog <cane, Eri‘;y'nll:'.(v)h’zf\um-" ceot Saturday, _ Clairvosant sittings dally from'1] to 3, NI ADAE ROSK. Tizx TCM AND MAG- netic physician, ous, ill reveal to BT wislors thcle most broruuiil secrets? eives gharing UStact o ced; can be con- suited Sunday. i1 West Mantsonepe. Lo ¢ ©a8 be eon (CLasSEASS | JoR SALE=100 BEAMS SAND-PAPER AT 83 ream: a lot Of curry-cumbs cheap. A, W, i, 131 Lage-st. ¢ GE MAGIC LANTERY, WITH § res. ot 521 (lubband-st., nesy 24 B Y 52, Tribune otfice. 'O SALE—RAZOL TIONES WONTH $1.50 FOR ?‘1‘ o £0c. Wade & Butcher razora 75c and $1 eash. 4. g W WIJELLE!A M1 Lakc:st_ . JFOR SALE-BUTCHEIS GATL AND EXAWN our portavle fixturcs and ice-houses besore riizy up; tools and machinery of all kinds, MATHESON, | 76 West Van Buren-st. TOR SALE—~AN ELECTRIC PEN; NEW AND CON- L __plete working order. Aduress \'w, Tribuge, OR SALE~TO PAY ADVANCES: GENTS AM ladles” gold watches. fine dlamonds, cameo azg OLher Jewelry. 166 East Waslington-st., Lvi . [{OE SALE-BOARD OF Ti:a ticker. ~ Addréss Q 50, Tr) & SHIRT THE WORLD PRO- duces made to 1L you 32 2.2 each, orsix fur $1o: & good shirt for $1.50.° We use oaly reituble goods, At Suarantee every slirt (o give entire satlst fund the mones. Try us. *+LON tory, 188 Dearborn-si., near Post-0: 7OR SALE—TO PAY ADVANC] ! fog watch. stem-winder, Anierlcan W S, XGOLDITST- h Con- pany, Park-road, oniy SI. JAS. B. ¥, 8l Salle: E R SALE-TWO LADIES' GOLD HUNTING o F watches, two guard-chaing, oue Ting, vie_cameo aud dismond ‘ri JAS. B. STORET, &4 LaSalle-st., 1o OR SALE—ONE ™ SAFE, DOURLE boor bluatlon-lock: size, 35 inches wide. a2 dg Une wainut standing desk, 10 feet o nutdouble-desk, and letter-press. 167 Washinzton-st, I‘OR SALE—BOARD OF TRADE MEMHERSHIP; ° Kive best offer; dues and transfer pald. Q64, Trib une office. [OR SALE—A LARGE PIER GLASS, 8iX30 chex, with gilt-frame. or will exchange for car- pets. Address Q 62, Tribune uttice #: TOR SALE—AN "EXTRA FINE_AND WHITES stone dlamond rinz, with very suvlisn sewhas: c'r'lce S120, cost $250at Tiffany's. Ruom3, No. 11 Washiogion-st. i TFOE SALE=8 BEXGTIFCL SWISS STRM-WIND Ing watch~lady's—recently purchased at Matson's Tor $140; will sell 1o best oifer. Address I 35, Trbcae, 'Lt SALE—OR_EXCILANGE-2 LOTS ON MICHL: kan-av., near Sixty-third- for stock of zoodst crockery preferred. Address BN, Tribuie oftice. TOR SALE—I MUST SELL THIS WEER M D ond ring (a beautiful stone), stem- wind| g Wl Roman gold necklace, and band elets,—all 25 g0 asnes, " Address B 33, “Iribune otlice, 'OR ' SALE—OR TRADE_THREEE DOZEN OF more fine cast-steel coal scoops; will exclisageTor coal. Address I 50, Tribune office. OR SALETAN EXGINEERS _INSTROMET lunt level) as good as new, cost $135, will sel 875, Address 0’25, Trlbans once 'OR SALE—ONE HEAVY SILVER-PLATED 8 o0t shuw-case for $25, cost $33; one 5-100% one for $13, both drst-class and new; one outside cate, 510 Falua: frame; also. one large upright case in Expost tlon Building €USt S200; these are all bafgsiod dismond INSTHUCTEON, TOUNG COLLEGE PROFESSOR. GRADTATE of one of the Dest New England colieges, and e gently returned from Europe, desirous of prosecatias bi3 stodles In this clty during the winter, would b¢ Pleased to enguge himselr with a first-class school o sewlnary from une to three Rours dalls, Fora pleasaas Position, terms moderate. Woid ais tase 03¢ or W0 private pupfls. Addruss B 44, Tribune otice, A GEADUATE OF YALE COLLEGE, EXGAGED for the pust four years In_ preparin: studeats (ot college, can gfv¢ a few hours per day 1o private orclas Instruction: Tefercnces: Galusha Anderson, D. D. ustor Second Baptlss Church; Deacons Sunuct Hossd: foratfo L. Wait, Master in Chancery; Nouh Porier LL. D., President Tale Collexe: and Giner promiaeny Rentlemen. _Address X 82, Tribune odbe GERMAN LADY, WHO GRADUATED WITH highest Lonors before tie Loyal Prussisn Boand of Education. excellent wusclan from Beriin Cons Ecrvatory., desires puplly, Unexceptionable Lestimo- nials. 55 Ashland-av. WOULD LIKE TO_TAKE A OUNG LADY £\ tessons fn réading and writing Eaglish o the eseas ribune oal ing. Address A 44, A GENTLEMAN RECEXTLY FROM EASTERY sclentific sclioul would 1lke a few puplls {a mache- matics or phyelcs. _Address Liom 1 McCorzick Block. COMPETENT GENTLEMAN WISHES A FEW A Soore puplis for the plano. Special attentlon W0 Deglaucrs. " Terms Mberal. " Add TRITOJOFF E. LU ‘erms liberai, s, Tribuae. foric, thorough Lass ani DE; TEACH cultivation of volce: Rive Jer0ns 1o punlls at their own 3 of thesclty. B &) A LESSONS GIVEN N RETOLCHING Terms moderate, Call ac &r¢ studia ! aud pantinz. 670 West Madlion-st. [FREE INSTRUCTION TN FRENCH STSTEM OF o 2 wrt “Liand on Wednesday evening ot Prof. room, 543 Wabash-ay. [SSTHCCTION T8 BOOKRERPING 0N TR a-sccount gystem. by che auctior, Terme. S lessons. Addresa C. 0. E. MATTHERU, 5% :\'gnhj"t{ B IA STRUCT] lace makin, North Ashiand: st e SRl 20 years fn Chicago, will give single, ] £008 10 FAmilles, CAGGtes S04 Larkeas. L wil il SP6- clal atteation to thuse who wish to teach. NEGATIVE RETOUCHING TAUGHT 1N ALLITS branches. Whiting's Art Studio, 622 West Lake. PROF. ETIESNE LANBRET WILL OPEY Xe ¢lementary French classes at his rooms [n Tlershey Hall Sonday and Weduesday at 2 p. . and Taeslay 32 11: also Tueiday aad Wednesday we 3 . m.; drstl ree, PTASC AN VOCAL LEREONS 52 PER MONTH by competent iady teachers. Practice ressouadie Rooms 7 and 8 Farwell llall. = BOF. R EDOUARD (PARTS), FRENCH MAST bas Just returned to the clty, ind s realy 0 accept alimlted number of pupils. For terms, ete., 3ddreS. Chicago Musical College, 493 Wabash-av. x STRICTLY ¥ GIVEN TN IONITON ASDTOINT, ernus Teadonale, Apply 8t N OUND DANCES TAUGHT FOR &5 35 rivate, day and eveninz, at Prof. RUBERTOS momp:. lle‘nml’lfl. ‘12’? Sonth Clark-st., Grss Hoofs Would be plesscd to see former patruns. SHORTHAND-Ss FOR % LESSONS n and evenlog classes now paplle also taken o moderate terms. - For bartculsrs apply todlrs. K. HOWARD KELLY, 76 Park-av- ___ W ASTED-MUSIC SCHOLARS BY A COMPETEST Leacher: Insrruction given at pupilshomes. Ter Address Q 34, ‘Tribune otice. 50 cents per icszon. VWASTED BY EXPERIENCED MUSIC-TEACH: <cr. puplis. who Wil be instructed (n fatest mett 0ds; $5 per term._Call at 218 State-st. [ADAME NILSOM. NATURAL CLATRVOTANT. i) 1368 State-sL. s Thirky-trsk. Escaoiaer 1on ADAM MAYNARD, CLAIRVOYANT, FEE. §1. DMAREANRARD, CLALLVOYANT, TEE o1 Iogs; 50 cents. Dr, AI_A' HEW, 167 West Madison-st. ADAME DE VILLE, THE GREATEST LIVING Mttt douae i o enn L ING oftice, 5. ELLINGEL, v 5 MBS, ELLINGER, CLAIRVOTANT 1w WEST NVANTED-—D UNG LADY, A FEW PUPILS i1g Wi £ o T Fesidenees € 1 Sou yayrens maisiy required. Apply A TS BRCTIES AN IR commodations for invalids. Fevers cancers, an gr.n‘z.m-:!om cured withoui fall, M. MILLEL, S AN E IN® PELTABLE DOCTERESS AND MIDWIFE LT Ine gh