Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER YG, 1877. AT MAIL—IN ADVANC DMIs Editfon, one gen T'Arlz of & JeAr. Dot » Funday pdifon: Literary and Uedig Tiouhle sheet £pecimen Glve Post-Oflice eddress fn foll, focluding State and County. Temittances may be mada elther by draft, cxpress, Post-Oftice order, or In reglstercd letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITT SURACRIDERS, Datly, dellvered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Diatly, deifrered, Eunday included, 20 cents per week, Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madieon and Deathorn-ste.. Chicago, Il Orders for the delivery of Tite TRiUSE AL Evaoston, Englewood, and lyie Park left I the covaling-rootm willrecelve orumyt attention, AN MeVicker's Thenire, Madtron street, between Btnte and Dearbarn. “*Pluk Domtnos,™ Mcsdames Don, Stoneall, Granam, etees Mesers. Wheelock, Learock, Pearson, cte. Hooley’s Thentre. Randolph #trect, hbetween Clark and Lass The Exangeline Combination. *'Le Petit Corsair.” 31 dames Westhershy, Clancy, etc.j Mesirs. Govdwiny Rostoe, etc, Haverly’s Theatre, Mentue street, cotuer of Uearborn. Eagagemest of Kate Fisher, *‘Mazeppa.” Coliscurn Novelty Thentro, Clark strcet, between Wasbiogton sod Randolph #1Qur WorkIngmen." Now Chicago Thentre: Clark street, opposite the Sherman House. Engage- ment of Campbell Comedy Company. **My Foollah Wie," TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1877 CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, - The Chicago produce markets were twoderately active yesterday, provisions belng quiet. Prices were stronger. Mcees pork cloted at $12.70@ 12,72 for November and 81 Lard closed firmer, ot $8.02@8. and $8. 1568, 20 for January. Meats were steady, at bie for Joose shoulders and AX@7c for do ehort xibs. Lake frelghts were qniet and firmer, at i G.ic for corn to Buffalo, Whisky was duil, $1.00 per gallon. Flour was quic. Wheat closcd 2@ Xc higher, at $1.05% cash and 31,05% for Novomber, Corn cloged ¢ bigher, at 43%ec cash at 425@42%c for November, Oals closed firmer; at 24Y4ec cash and Bic for Novewber. Kyc was 4 t Mg@5ic, Barloy closcd e lower, ot G#l4c carh and (0c¢ for December, 1lowe were act- fve, ana e Ligher, with eales mostly at $4.60Q 4.85. Catuie were stronger, Sheep were firmer, at £3.0024.50. Inspected Inlo store fn this city yesterday: 315 cars wheat, 240 cars and. 8,200 bu corn, 80 cara oats, O cars rye, and 120 cars barley. Tolal (504 cara), 546,000 bu, One hundred aol- lars In gold woold buy $102,02% in greenbacks at tho close, Greonbacks nt the New York Stock Ex- change yesterday closed nt “Doctor " Barra, the Canada abortionist, rocoived n Rentence of denth at Cobourg yus- terdsy. Ho is to be hanged Dec. 10, Thousands of reapectable, fntelligont Dem- ocrats nre expected to voto to-day to matify Dave Tronston's ssloon ticket. They are expected to mtify the snles made in the sa- loon, Every voto for Lizp, and Lyson, aud Iaines is really a vote to continuo Dave TronnTox as the Democratio leader, [ In the French clections for Councils-Gon- eral the Republieans gained cighty-five sonts so far as returns had been recoived lnat cvoning.s Additional rotwrns are not ex- peeted to keep up thoe sawo ratio of gain. The formation of a new Cabinet hos not Loen complated, Lut the list of membors be- lioved to bave beon selected dloes not vary materially from that already announced. —— If the bummers should be successful toe dny, we may oxpoct that Dave 'TunonxtoN will bo n candidate for Congress next fall, ond that ke will have himself clected by the sawme means that will enoble bim to clect L to-dsy, In such an avent, Dave I'nonxton's saloon will become, ns in fact it is larguly so now, the Tammany Ifall of th Chicago Democracy. S Dave TuorsToN is ot the head of tho Dem- ocratio Conunittes, and his snloon s tho hendquarters of the party. Application must bo made there for nominations, and no man can get cither o nomination or au clec- tion who does not pay for it. "The principal Lusiness of tho saloon is the buyiug audscll- ing of Democrulio nomiuvations. It was there that Iloxiz bought Lis nowination a year ago for 37,000, ‘The friends of the Bilver bill are very con- fident of the success of the measurs in tho Benate, 'They anticipato no troublo in that squarter, and their only uncertainty is con- cerning the Vresidont's conrse aftor the bill shall have passed both Houses, Inssmuch #8 the majority in Congress correctly ropre- scats tho majorily among the people in favor of the restoration of the silver dollar, there would seem to boe no reason fo appre- Lond a vuto by the President, oSt Y ‘Lhe presout cost of operating the County Clerk's ofiice is ut the rato of 11,600 per month for salaries, In nddition to what is prid for copying the records. Thiy isat the rato of 137,500 & year. 'Threo yoars ngo Lrn offered to do the wholo business for 45,000, admilting that at that rate ho would mako $10,000 a yusr, If Liks vould muke £10,000 4 year on an allowance of 13,000, what does he make when tho apprgpriation is $147,6007 Lien is too costly & luxury, and should be got rid of without dolay, et b ittt i, If the weather should ba stormy to-day, it will be all the more necessary that Repub- Jiesus shall tarn out and vote. The Demo- cruts will not lose n votu on sccount of bad weather, A thero 18 no registry, the voting will be very rapid, and even if it rains pitch. furks no voter will be delayed but o very few, minutes. It s time that Republicans should wips off thot stigma of being fuir-weather voters, If the llepublicans refrain from votlug Lecauso of bad weather, the bum. merd, who ure notb afraid of a storm, will win, Wo bhave had a Citizens' Assoclation to which tho wmerchants, business men, and taxpsyers oppeal on all occasions to protect them sgaiust robbery aud fraud by thoe local Governuent. Lot overy mnan make himself s citizens’ asacciation to the extent of voting to-day to keop dishonest men out of offica und to put honest men in. Thou there will be no necessity for a Citizens' Association, with its corps of lawyera aud its many suits, to prevent wrong. Fifteen minutes at tho polls to-day will save thousands of dullars of costs and taxation, The great War-Goveruor of Indiana is st rest. His funeral obsequics are over, aud tbe sympatby und respect which followed Lim all through his long and paiuful illucss wade their lnst manifestation in au imwonse concoune of people, aud e funcral pogeant that has not beemnsexceeded in solemn pomp sinco the obsequies of ex-President Lixcory. All partisan onmitics have been buried for the timo, and the wholo people have paid a tributa of respeet to the memoryof the great statesman, From Maino to Californin reso- Intions of condolence with his family have been possed and his virtnes havo been re- cited. All political considerations have been dropped in view of his great sorvice to his country in tho time of danger, and high and lotw, poor and rich,joined alike in the solomn tostimonial to his memory. County-Clerk Lien lins distributed his 220 clerks among the wards to act as election judgos to-day. These election judges mnke their roturns to Lres, who canvasses tho whole vote, Thia shows the necessily for every voter to give o few minutes to vote, that the majority for tho Reform ticket will e so largo as to overwhelm even dishonest, tricks at the polls, and also to put Lien ont of office, 8o longas Lien is in office, thero can bo bt little hopa for an honest clection, or for nn honest canvass of the votos, Yote, thierefore, to put him out. Wirieiax Wint, one of tho nblest lawyers and most cloquent man that ever lived, served tho United States as Attorney-General for many yeara at a salnry of 5,000 a year; Roorn B, Taxer, afterwards Chief Justice of tho Snpreme Court, Joux J.' CMTTENDEN of Kentucky, Reverpy Jomssox of Maryland, aud other cminent lawyers, held the same officoand ot tho snme salary. Joux Roux- TneE, of Chicago, holds the office of Attornoy for the Board of Cook County Commission- ers, nud receives $7,000a year bosides tho chances. Isit not time to get nlawyer for the office and pay him for legal serviacs, sny the salary paid to an avorage Attorney-Gen- oral? 1t was roported last night that the Ring wero' pressing HoaaN hard to withdraw in favor of Quentnes for County Commission- er, and that they had offered him $1,000 to got off the track, The Ring expect their four candiilates to bo benten in the city. But if they can olect cithor Gurxtnen or Hoaax, their power will remnin unbroken. ‘Cheir iden s, that it Flooan can be bonght off, onongh Republican Germans in Wheeling, Thoraton, and Calumet will vote for Guen. aner to elect him., There is one way to Lring thoso corrnpt bargains aod sales to naught, and that is for the Republicans who desiro to broak up the corrupt County Com- missioner Ring to tarnout jn fll strength nnd vote for honest WiLiax E. WaekLzs, e Tha defeat of Dz Broavre, tho heod of the Fronch Ministry, in the election to the Conncils-General which was Leld on Sun. day Inst, is one of the most siguificant fent- ures of tho crisis through which the Fronch people are now passing. 'The Councils-Gen- eral will in Jauuary, 1879, choose one-third of the Senate, nnd the MacManoy Adminis. tration made o desperato effort to carry this clection in order to mafntain an cati-Repub- lican mnjority in that body, nud to offer the second clection ay an indorsement of the Adwinistration, In cnse of success, Mac- ManoN could, if e were so disposed, use the Senato for another dissolntion of tho House, The defeat of Dz Lnoorig sbows that the enemica of tho Administration have not relaxed their vigilanco sinco the first election, Ex-Prosident DunasT, of the Union Pacific Tallroad, was yestorday the subject of severo condemnation ut the hands of the United States Supremo Court. Cortain renl estato ot Omaha had been conveyed to lLim in trust n¢ President of the Company, and, upon his refusal to reconvey it, suit was ‘brought agnivst PunasT snd wife. The Court bolow custniued his titlo, but its decreo was yestorday reversed Ly the Supremo Court, and Justico SwAvNE, in delivering the opinion, charncterized DuranT's courso as one which, *stripped of the verbiage with swhich it hins beon clothed, and viewed In ita nnkedness, strongly offonds the moral sense of the judielnl 1ind.” ‘Ihis wentence, strippod of tho verbinge with which it is clothed, clenrly meana that in tho estimation of the Buprome Court Alr. DURANT is o ras. cal. Tho Doard of County Commissioners of Cook County levy more taxes than nro lovied for the support of the Government of the State of IHlinols, including the Leglulature, nud the support of threo Ingano Asylums and Hospitals,two NormulSchools, s Penitentiary, o teforin School, Orphany’ Ilome, Asylu for tho Deaf and Dumb, Asylum for_the Blind, for the Idiotio, and for the Btate i}mvuuity! Tho State out of its tux supportsall theso institutions, Suprewe and Cikuit Courts, State’s Attorneys, nod provides buildings for oll the Ktate charitivs, and has o surplus; while Cook Couuty, with a much largor tax, lias n deficiency of uenrly o milllon of dol- lary, and is psking $500,000 more. The Alms. 1louse of this county costs moro {o support it than does the Btute Penitentinry, with its 1,600 inmates. ‘Tho wnlarios of tho Cook Connty Bonrd of fifteen Comntissioners und of thelr clurks and statiouery, cto., cost mare than the sularies and vxpenses of tho Bupreme Court of the State af fllinois. Tho opposition to the confirmation of Joun Wrisy as Minister 1o Fuglsud bas been strengthened by the alleged discovery of the fuct that the Philadelphia fivn of which My, WeLsn is n member is tho owner inCubaof o sngar plantation and o large uwinber of slaves, The friendsof Mr, Wersi seent to have beon tukon somowbut by sur. prise Ly theso developments, which, it must be confessed, huvo the appoarance of gen. uinouess, 'Their explanation fs, thot the firm i question, boiug engaged in the West Indies sugar trids, hwve buon compelled to take mortgages upon plantations ng security for udvauces to planters, und that the slaves, ng gy indispensable pud inseparablo part of the realty, have in this manner coma inta the firm's posseaslon. Unless Mr, Wewsn can succoed in discounecting Lis name en. tirely fram tho fwputation of ownership or pecuniary juterest in the Cuban slaves, hs will not bo likely to overcoma the jutense prejudice which tho undisputed vacts would create ugalnst bi The prompt and overwhelmiug passage of the Bilver bill in the Fouse was properly fol. lowed by o resolution making tho bill which vepeals the date of the Resumption act the spocial order for discussion until next week, when the flual voto thercon will bo taken. In regard to tho remonetization of silver thero was no chance to question the senti- mentof amsjority of the American people in favor of restoring the silver dollar to ity original aud legitimate place in the currency of the country, and it way right that tho fraud by which it was demonc- tized should by rcbuked and un. done at tho carliest possible oment. With Tegord to tho Lesumption bill, tbuw is & grester diversion of sentiment, and it is meot that opportunity for the widest discnssion shonld be given before final action ba taken one way or the other. It is highly important that, 1if any repcal measnre bo passed; it shall nffect only the dale, and leave untonched that part of the law which pro- vides for freo banking and the retiremont of greenbacks in proportion of §0 per cent fo the now issue of National Bank notes till the greenbacks shall be reduced to 300,000,000 in volume. A deliberato considerntion of the bill proposod wiil be necessary to deter- mino’ just what ite offact will boe on the law 88 it now stands. — Yosterday the Housoe of Ropresentatives, by a voto of 163to 34, passed Braxn's bill directing tho coinage of tho silver dollar woighing 412} graina standard silver,— Leing the old silver dollar,~—nand making it n legal-tender, and providing for free coinage. Alout ninety members wero absent or not voting. 1If theso were equally divided on the bill and wero present, there would still be moro than two-thinds in its favor, Many members probably dodged the vote, being in favorof its passage and yot afraid to go on rec- ord either for or against it. In the Seuntoitis understood there is a majority in favor of the passageof the bill, but in that body netion on tho measure cannot be hurried. The friends of specie payments in gold only will oppose the Dill, nud probably delay its passage until Inte in the winter, but such a bill will un. questionably pnss before spring. Tho senso of the country is s0 overwhelmingly in favor of this measurd that it cnunot be so definntly ignored by the Bonate, as will bo the caso should this bill be defeated. e r— A question of iutercst to the dopositors in the broken savings banks of Clicago is nnw pouding befors the Commixsioner of In. ternn! Revenno at Washington., Unpaid taxes on deposits, amounling in the aggre- gnte to about £100,000, are claimed by the Government, while, on the other hand, 1t is maintained that the banks are righttully exempt from these taxcs. If tho Govern. ment's claim is enforced, the money will be taken from tho aesels of the bauks now in tho process of liquidation, and in effect will be pald by the already impoverished depositors, Every consideration of justico and humanity should weigh in favor of theso unfortunata people in the decision to be mnde by the Intornal Revenune Bu- rean, aud if, ns appears by tue statement of the caso on bLoth sides, the bearing of the law is about equal, the Comumissioner ought not to hesitate in giviug the sufferers tho benefit of the doubt. In the event, howover, of o decision adverso to the depos- itors, it is belioved that a relief bill would Lo promptly passed by Congress. Tho na- tionnl sympnthy felt for the sufferers from the savinge-bauks [uilures in Chicago would render the passage of wuch a measuro swift oud certain, THE DUTY UF THE DAY, Had the election ocenrred yesterday, fatal ista might have concluded that the elemonts were ju lengue with the Cook County Ring, for the property-owners, taxpayers, and cotn. fortable Lusiness and professional men are gonerally fair-weathor votorm, ‘Thoy would havo found an excuse in the cold rain and driving slect wherowith they conld ense thoir conscience for not doing their duty, while the bumwers and the gang would havo been on band carly and often. Hopefully, thio colm that succeeds n stormn will make voting to-day attractive as well ns dutiful, and put all classes upon an cquality so far ns external conditions and powors of endurance go. Astherois no reglstry for loeal eclec- tions, and as tho police havo recoived in- structions to disperse the ** dummios " often employed to fll up the lines and delny voting, it is probable that it will requiro but a sbort time and little difficnlty to cast n voto, Nothing moro can bo kaid than has been said alrendy to imnpress upon good citizens tho urgent neces. sity of turning out ¢n masse to dofent tho Ring programsmo aud tho Ring agents; thero 18 no question but the good citizens are in tho majority when thoy nct together. If, then, the Ring provail in spite of all that ko been sald and donoe, the result will bo due to the avoldance of a little inconvenienco or tho judifferenco of men who profor to bo plundered the year round rather than devote a small part of ono doy to an effort for self- profection, A In urging activity upon the responsible citizens in this election, wo wish to eall specinl altention to tho fact that Tuz Tnin. uxe bas wo partisan interest in the result, nor any other individual interest than that of all men who own property, pay taxes, and desiro good government, As we havo already pointed out to Democrats, tho elec- tjon of all five of tha Republican Reform Cowmissionens will still leave o Damocratio maojority in the County Hoard; so it is not onsy for any roputable Democrat to find au cxcuso for submitting to the roughs mid ringsters who have possessed thommelves of the local party organization inorder to gain or maintain any party advantage. 8o, too, we would remind Tuz ‘Uninuxe readors that this journal did not suggest a sluglo name to the Republican Counveution for nomina. tion, nor urgo the clafms of any cliquoe or taction; it malntained all ulong that jt wauld support only such a ticket as would commend itself to the contidenco of the community, "The Republican Convention wei the only ono that mede au honest effort in tins divection, and the reault was the nowination of n ticket which liss scarcely been criticispd on oy side. All the other Conventions were wmagipulated by the ofice-sockers fu the Ring interest, aud o list of candidatos wero put forward wlich cowpreboads men known to be in sctive sympathy with the Rling and others who aro open to the grovest suspicjons, Under these ciroumstances, the duty of every good citizen s clear, without regani to usual party divis. jons; thy Kupublicau ticket {s ontitled to support, not because It is Ropublicas, but because it is tho ouly ticke: that promises reformn in County Uovernment, The great danger of tolsy is that tho bul. lot-boxes will be tampored with, that the tiug raay nccomplish their purposes by fraud in case tivy fa1l to deceive aud bully the peo- ple. If this schewme bo carried out, the result will bo worse than jf the Ring should triumph by polliug the largost nuw. Ler of houest votes; for those ¢ elected,” or wore properly speaking those inducted inio oftice, will be uuder special ‘obligations to tho repeaters aud budlot-box stulers, and the public patrousge will be prostituted to their uscs, 'This jutention to gain the utmost by fraud can only bo. frustruted Ly constaut alertuess and untiring energy, und the citis zeus who hope for reform should contribute of their lime and attention to watching the polls and guardivg the ballot-boxes till the vote sball have been counted. It all this be done, wo have little .doubt that the Reform tickot will trinuph, aud o half-million dollars o year heacoforth will be saved to taxpsyers in the Connty Covernment, as a million dollars & year have alrendy been saved by resening the City Govornmont from the gang of bummers, 18 IT A CONSTRUC{ION RING? Mr, Caser Youwa, the member of Con- gress from tha Memphin District aud the self-constitnted lender of tho Mississippi leves construetionists, hns doveloped his schemo before Congress. It compreliends n preliminary Commission and the expendi- turo of a quarter of n million dollars for sur- vey and estimates. This is a clear waste both of timo and money. A survey wns mado by the Hesrinrys Commission some yoors ngo, and an elnborato report was submitted which forms the basis of the prosent movement. New catimatea will likawiso bo unnocessary, as the Youxa schemo modestly proposes to limit the cost to #15,000,000; of conrse, the cost of the work will never fall short of the outsida limit, and as that limit will probably fuil to carry out the embankmont scheme thoronghly, it wilt only bo necessary to volo nnother $45,000,000 after the first npproprintion shall Lave been exhausted, = No, engincoring skill mnor human power of guessing can approxi- mate the total cost, ns auy system of cm- bankment, {o bo efiicient, must inclndo the wholo length of tho river on both sides. and likowire overy tributary and offshoot as well ns overy canal, creck, or diteh used for drain- ing ndjoining Innds, It will be necessary to provide the whole Mississippi Valley with nn cmbankment system ns general and far. ronching as that of Molland, . There is ono oxccedingly suspiclons eir- camatance connected with this lovee scheme, Its promoters persistently and obstinately refuse Lo give ear to the obvipus advantages of permanently lowering, the bed of tho river, and thus avoiding for all time the danger of overflow by inereasing tha number of outlets. This is n notural and inexpensive means of protecting tho lowlands nlong the Mississippi, and if a reasonable amount ot Government nid were naked for a well-de- voloped scheme of this kind, it might claim sorious and well<lisposed attention from Congress without public protest. But the promoters of the levgo schoma aro o violent- 1y opposed to this m‘mmra of rolief that they eveon nsk the Government for money for arti- ficially shutting off the natural outlots, Thus the brenking of tho embankment at the Bon- net Carro crevasse opened a pasaage for the water into Lako Pontchartrain, back of New Orleans, nnd reduced tho waler in the river Ly three feet, The danger of overflow has ‘Deen averted to just this extent by the open- ing of this crovasse; that is to ssy, n flood of three feet which would proviously ' bave inundated the low- londs wonld now flnd n passago ovor the bed of the river and leave the lowlands unbiarmed. 'Notwithstonding this adyun. tage, Congress is nctually asked to vote money to dam up the opening into the Bon. net Carre, and thus put the Government to n cost to increase the danger of overflow. "T'herenresoveral othor outlets which will give tho river as much rolief nt the time of flood ns the Boonet Carre. Tho most important 1 n nataral opening into what is callod Lake Borgue (properly o bay, as'it is a'part of the son), which can bo reached by a short canal n fow miles below New Orleans, and which will draw off soveral feot more of water without damnaging ndjacent lands. Bo the strenns that run into the Lowoer Minsissippt and swell its body of water in ime of flood can bo tapped in the same way, and tho whole work can bo accomplished sim. ply by nssisting and regulating the outlots that Naturo has furnished, and at o cost which will be insignificant ns compared with tho embankment schome. Tho refusal to ontortain this suggostion, along with a failure to show whorein it would bo fnnde- qunto to the purposo sought to bo accom. plished, confirms the susplicion that the Mississippl lovee project, involving a final outlny of not less than $100,008,000 of pub- e moneys, is but ono of tho gignutic jobs in the interest of 8 construction ring. 'Chu nctive supporters of this schemo will subject thomselves td the charge that they havo mora intercst in the futuro profits of build- ing tho levees than they have in the protec. tion of the Mississippl lowlands from over- flow; and this chargo will stand until it shall bo satisfactorily demonstrated that the clieaper and more natural moans of furnish. ing tho river with outlets is impracticable, THE EXPRESS BUSINESS. ‘Tho Cincinnati Commercial makes the re- cont death of ALviy Apaus, the founder of the Adams Express Company, tho occasion of sume comments npon tho origin and re. minrkablo development of this business, and presents some very interesting statements in this connection concerning Mr, Apaus’ carcer. ‘The originator of the {dea of the vx- prens business was Wittuax F, Hanxves, o Massuchusetts boy, who comiuenced on the Fourth of July, 1839, to travel betwoen New York and Boston, dolug errands for businuss- men, 1lis original stock in trade was a valise, As business inovemsed, he procured a hand.curt, and oventually rose to the digni- ty of n wogon. Thu very next year, ALvin Apans, who bad been watching Jlams. pEN'S venture, started an opposition line. Like Hanxoen's, his opening stock in trude waos 8 donk and n valise, but when the enrly railways in Now England were projected, he liad sagacity enough to foresce that, unlexs he made friemls with them and utilized them, thoy wonld specdily swamp him and leave hitm with an empty desk and valise, In 1850 bo bired n special car of the New York & New Haven Railroad Compsny. Iu that yeax, therefore, the real foundation of the express Lusinesa of this country was laid. Although Hamspex was the originator, ADAMS was the founder, The Caoliturnia gold flurry inerensed the business. Other companies started up, ammoug them the Overland California Express, which, by the use of relays of Indian ponivs and hardy plains-men, carryiug ouly ton pounds weight and making sixty miles per day, transported packnges ovesland to Sacramento in sixty days, 'Fhe telegraph, in 1862, howover, su- perseded (gis Company, which was glad to retire from® the fleld after losing 200,000 for its stocklolders. ‘The War of the Re- bellion gave the express Lusincss an enor. mous impulse, not only in the transaction of private business, but also ln the service of the Governwent, which nsed it a5 means of transporting munitions of war, largo sums of woucy, and official instructions, It is only forty years ago that Iazwprw and Apaus were cugaged in ruuning round for merchants with their valisesand handearts, and yet to<lay these gigantio corporations have their otfices sud ageuts in overy town and village in this country, carrying valuables to the amount of £20,000,000 per day, The awount of capital invested i the business is not less than $30,000,000. There arc 18,000 men epgeged in conducting tbe businuss. Yhe companies cover 60,000 miles of rail. zoud, aud their messengens daily travel 800, . 000 miles, They employ 8,500 horses, and thora nre over 8,000 offices. It is rare that n founder of n groat public bnsincss ever lives to seo it reach anything like n complote de- vclopment, or bacome a great public neces- sity, but Mr. Apasa did. It is not only a wonderful growth, but it hns become ns much an ergentinl of tho growth of Amorican cities and towns as tho telegraph and rail- road. . THE STORM ON THE LAKE. The storm that broke upon the lnke early yestorday miorning was ono of almnost un- precedented fury. Iis effects upon the Iand were not severe, and donbtless many persons in tho city will learn from the newspapers this morning for the firat time Liow grent was the injury to he shipping, and how many lives were imperiled. Sevoral vessels were broken in picces upon the beach and the breakwater, ‘The ‘‘Seventlh Ohio" wns crushed at the foot of Eighteenth street as if it hod beon an eggeshell. The wreck wan 60 coraplete that what was once o benutiful and largo vessel conld not be distinguished from the Inmbér with which it was Inden. Ouatside the harbor wero twonty or thirty vesacls, all tngging their anchors in tho loose, sandy bottom, aud many of them showing the 8tara and Btripes at half-mast, union down, nsa signal of disiress. The num- ber of lives in danger duringthe beightof the storm was Iarge, Fortunately the wind nnd waves abnted somoewhat as the day ndvanced, and ot the presont writing it is Lelieved few were lost in the vicinity of this city, though full reports from otber parts of the lake are likely to bo less gratifying. The cirenm. slances of this storm and the narrow csenpo of so many brave men from a dreadful death suggest tho necessity of some moro adequate life-saving mnchinery than any which at prosent exists, Tho scene of yesterday is not nn unusunl one in this neighborliood. At least onco a yoar for n number of years whereof the memory of man runncth not 1o the contrary, s storm bas broken over the lnke and caught a fleot of vessels in a pre- dienment similar to that of - yesterday. This storm was not mora furious than wnny which have preceded ft; and yot it found tho nuthorities in- sufficiently prepared for exteaordiunry efforts at saving life. The harbor is evon more dif- fleult of approach than it used to be, since the chaunel has been made narrower, and it is surrounded with piers which in astorm nro ns dangerons ns sunken rocks, Tie Cap- tain who is not lucky enough to make the horbor at the first trial wmust look forwnrd, with what composnro he may, to lusing his vessel and possibly his lifo on the beach or tho breakwater below, And tho mnking of tha harbor at night, without a tug, is almost on hnpossibility,. Ordinnry prudence. and common humanity demand that a life-saving station, similar to those on the Atlantic consls, should ba established hero; and if stenm vessel wera built specially for this servico, It would pay for itself in o Yew yeara. Tlhore ought to have been in our harbor yesterday somothing move than the mengre facilitics whick tho Government has provided for saving life; for, if the stona had coun- tinned, n8 it prowlsed, many would have been lost. 3 Tie TRINUXE 0ppod 45111, 000 aporoprla- tion for the new Stato-louse, not because its necessity 18 questioned, but b ccanse 1t has urper- sunal gnarrel with one of the nembers of the Joard of Stato-louse Cowmissioners, —Ecening Journal, That §s false. Tz TRIDUNE has §o personal quarrel with any of the Btate-llouse Commls- sloners. Its quarrel Is with the manner I which they squandered the money provided by the people for bullding tho Stutc-llouse, as proven by the Legislativo Commlttee of Inves- ugatlon, That report says: * For thie 1ast aix Iyl'nro the Tloard of State.lfouse Comumisaloners and tho principal and acting archi- tecta have- repeatedly nsaured the dovernor, and through him proclaimed to the peoplg, that **for 8, o we expeet to complete the entire strgcture by the 1at day of January, 1877, Wh thiexe responelble persunu have faficd in the fuiglls inent of their uft-repeated pledgo tv o subject of graso concerm, It was promised thet the falthless members of that Hoard would resign if the Legislature would refrala from kicking them nut; but they uave violated their promise ond stick to the offico witl the tenacity of lecches. ‘IuE Tin- uNE I8 upposed to letting them handle another dotlar of public moncy, The Juurnal has be- haved tadiy in this wholo matter, The fear of giving oftense to the Springfeld Ring has caused it Lo conceal the fucts from 1t readers, and to wistead them as far as fu its power, 1t may do thls, but it has wo right to wmisrepresent tho wotlves of Tue Trinuxe, e ——— The successcs mado by Amerlean sfugers In Europe aro very reiparkable. Mrs. Osaoop, s Boston soprano, who bas made herself o fuvor- ite i Englunud, s now traveling In the English provinees with ADZLINA PATTI Exsa Howson fs with the CavroseLro-8iNico Troupo In the south of England. Cant Rosa los i his troupe Miss Juria GAvrony, Miss Youke, and Mr. PackAnp, all Amerleansi and MarLrson has Fortaud Miss VALLERLA, both Auericans ulse, Mlss ROIEWALD, 8 youug Asmecricun so- vrano, has mude a successful dubut at Nurem- bure, Mlle, CiionNg, anothier American, has made n great hit as Marguerite at Uroz, and Herr CaxpIDUS, u New Yorker, Is delighting tbe Berllueso with his Stradella, Vavcnxsi, Guiseree Waonen, Miss Barron, aud Mrs, ANTOINETTE STEuLING, all Awericans, have mado great suceesses. Chicago ts not without its representatives, Miis GLENN, Mies Roex- neLy, Miss GoLbITICKER, wnd Mra, Sesoox. UOVEN, all pronysiug to wake successful de- buts, B — A Paris dispatch explaius the fimportance of the Freuch local ¢lections last Sunday week, as upon the result turna the future control of the Senute,which ut prescut contalus o small Royale ist majority. ‘The dispateh saya: It may bero be mentloned that of the seventy- five Scuatorelitba to be Ulled up In Januury, 1870, B1ty-two of the present hulderd voted for the dissos futiou and cighteen nrainet i1, while three were neutral, and two Convervutives are dead, This esplaine the importunce of the next Senatorial lection, snd tue anxlety of the Cabinet to n- Iueuce the hmpending General Counctl and municis gel slectiuna, —tho Iattur dxe, 1t 1 yal, fur tho bili of Nuvembice ;y10r un e compouition of these bodica will depeud the reteution or luse of 4 X Scnale, Even, thero- I the Cabinet contemplates resignation, it huw an fntereat tu usstwing o Lold front until tho ‘Jections areuver, for the sakeof mcrely clection of the retlriug Connervative 0 manths hence, The Kepublicans, on tele part, ate fully alive o the tupartance of {nsurivg tho introduciicu of new blood fute the Senate, evpeclally ns Lbeir sty life Senators aru graduaily dying vl and thelr places belng nlled by teactiouatics. ‘There is great excitement fo Balthnore ou the part of the Worklugmen on uccount of the tre- wendous frauds committed by the Demovrats at the latecity election, The Industrials teit sure they would carry the city, us the Republic- sus wade vo nomiuations of thewr owa, but geus crally supported the Workingmen's tleket, What was toeir astonisbment to find themselves beaten by 16,000 majority, or two to one. They have since then been making inveatigations, and find that ballot-box stuing was practiced by the Democrats fu all parts of tha city. Thou- sands of the votes of the Industrials were thrown out by the ** stullers " ood seplased by Demo- cratic ballots. ‘The extent of the frauds was unprecedented even In Baltiwore. Tho whole case is guing loto the courts for Iuvestirution; ibe proof aiready procured §s overwhelming, e, The Associated Press dispatchies yesterday contained the followings Senator IxuaLLy. of Eans: to relubarse the Blate of Kausas for expenses In- curred by that State fur the United States fur syl vaatng ludian boatbitien. Tlus refurs to the La- has presented a bill dton invaslon of propriation of $130, This Is one of several hundred bills to abstract money from the pocketsof the taxpayers. The proposition Is to take about £30,000 out of the peopla of Hiinots. If the claim had been a valld and legal one, it wonld have been pold long since. A few daya prior to tho Kansas grab, we read of the following littlo bill from Texas, which is about belng prescuted In Congreas for payiaent : Avarin, Tex., Oct. 10.—The State Comptrolier has tho m]nwlnr litte tll, which the Governor has transmitted to our Conqn‘,nnnl delegatlon to be presented to Uncle Sax, vi2®: o Jan Sov foTan gy Jerense Ta amount expended 1 1He? 1, 1877 To balance e Tesas 10 Py lelit of Texas. To balanee du¢ upon | Totglersuenns s i To satiafy this anclent claim will take about £300,000 out of the pockets of the taxpayers of filinols. 8ot goes, What do the flies care for the feelings of the paticnt, harmless ox who yields his blood to them? Some of tha newspupers are severcly com- menting upon Gen. Graxt's churlishness in hls speech at Stratford-on-Avon, and his disinelfna- tion to be Interested in BHARSPEARE'S birth- place and tomb, and thls, too, after the Mayor's dnughters gave Mra. (IRANT a copy of ** Bhak- speare's Hlome and Rural Lite," by thelr father, ‘There nre one or two counter-considerations in this matter. In the first place, Gen. GRAKT may have done nothing ot the kind. A great many ridiculous saylngs and doings have been attributed to im during the tour, for which, as we now know, he was never responsible. Ify however, it is true, and the General did not manifest that touching sorrow at the grave of BHAKSPEARE that Mang Twain did at the grave of Avax, it should be remembered that the Geners! never went very strong on the divine WiLLiAM, Busides, the Mayor's book may have been & very stupld one. 3, The UIll aaks for an ap- b, 3 404,408 + 1,225,117 ———— » What wus Mr. Wiutaw E. 8nurr, Demo- cratie Senator from Springfield, doing at the Palmer ouse yesterday! Rumor says that e brought 2500 with nlm to- expend in printing the wurds For Appropriation " un the Demo- eratic and Republican tickets, Those wordsmean atax on the peowle of ¥531,712 to fintsh the gilding and freacoing of the State-Honxe by the Busy Board; which refuse to resign, Tho peo- vle of Chicago know enouglh to attend to this matter without theassistance of Senator Snurt. They have made up thelr minds Low Lo vote ot the question, and they are in 10 humor to huve any tricks practiceid upon them in printing the tickets. Mr. Snotr had better attend to the election fi his own county, By the way, who subscribed the 3500 which Mr. SuTT I8 reporteil to have brought hercl Was il the members of the State-Houss Buard who want to handle the haif-miition? et The pleasantest precincts for the ballot-box guards will be iu the Third, Fourth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Wards, Just where they are not needed; but in those wards the “ guards® will swarm. A little watching will do no harm in the First, Necond, und west end of the Eigh- teenth. But tho piecinets where vigitaneo will rewnrd cffurt nre In thoe Filth, 8ixth, Soventh, Eighth, ‘Peuth, Fourtenth, and Nevenleenth Waords, ‘The sttention of Gen. O, L, MANN and his Lieutenants is respectly directed to thosa wunds, for it Is thereln the ballot-box stuffers Intend to get In thelr work, T e Toa Moong, the 1rish poet, Incldentally al- Juding to an * luformer,” casunlly remarks: MMay 1ifo’n unbices: up for hinm Tie dengzed with trencherles to the brm With hupen that Lat ablure {o dys With foys that yanish whilo he sipa, Like cud Nea fruits that tempt the oye, But turn to ashes on the lips, And when at lenath his apirit files, Just God ! then lee the damned one dwell Full It the sight of Pursdise, Scelng fieaven, fecling el Uyon tho other side of this questton we have Mr, Tost Ly~ent, who thinks he should be clect- ed County Treasurer. — —— ¢ Como out from bohind that stove, high-toned eitizen! You hove been waiting wntll the ** Re- form cloment* had a chance. It's come. Pul sonie red faunel 'round your neck, drink a little ginger tea, get on an Ulstér and a rubber cost over {nat, pull on your Arctic shoes and yarn stocking, wrup up well, and Gg 70 Tue PoList—Fost. That [8 the way to talk to the delicate gentle- men who are afrald of catehilng cold or solling thelr boots by going to the election, e A Paris dispateh to the London ZTimes, Oct. 19, eays: Demonatratlons of rejoicing at the snccess of the Republicans hiave boen held at Bruesels, 'Turin, Milan, and Naples, At Drusseis the anxiety to Know the result was Intonwe, the struggle belng ro- Ffll’d!d as one belween Clerlcallom and Liberallsm. 'I'he students of the Por! ese Univeraity of Cotw tiru hieve alo testitied lon. Senator Montox 1 a wifo and three sons, the oldest of whom Is siel up in Aluska, where he went 0s n Government agent, He leaves a very modest propurty—prubably not over $25,- 000, Muny men with half his opportunities would have smiassed halfu million; Lut MortoN waa B0 bonest man—the uoblest work of Gov, o — e Mg, Lizns hos testifiod his faith in the purity of conventions by refusing to pay for the dele- gates who nominated him. ‘Those who have been promised woney by bim for their sullrages to-dny should sceury the cash In advance, leat to-morrow be develop a phenomenalt foterest in the purity of the batlot-bux, ———— Republican judges should, fmmediately upon the count of the vote, -take a duplicate of the returns and receive the signatures of the Dem- oeratie judges thereto, I the Domocratic judges are in favor of o fulr election they witi not object to any mesus calculated to offect such & cousummation. B . W1t is important to me that the Ninth Ward aliould go sulld fn fuvor of my nominatiun,” re- warked Lies, Having refused to pay the del- egates as per contract, perhaps tho Ninth Ward will riso toa realizatlon of tho lmportance of golvg solid for Lixu's deleat: e me— Germaus will not support @ man who would swindle a poor Httlo contiding delegativn out of their bard-carned 8200, and Irlshmen will not rully very enthusiastically around the man who excuses blnself from employlug them because they geb drunk. ———— There miay Lo another whblsky rald at auy ttme, and It will scarcely be wise iu the Irish- men who “get drouk®™ 1o elect “theonly houcat diatiller* to au ofiles that will custail bis usefuluess (o the mopufacture of *the erathier,t ——— Thers should be no coutcats over this election. It the Republican Conunittes aud judges do their duty and secursu fair count, tho clesy sweep that will be mado will effectuaily put ev- ery Democrat whiese coutests will Le of no avall, R ——e Tho sufer course is to volo aguinat all special taxcs for State-Houso frescolug aud Courte House "etras” Let overybody be *bears? ugainet lax robbivg, and glve the roblers a squecze that will mako thel bulge out. —— ‘The disposition of [rishmen to * get drunk » is uot s0 much of au vdbjectlou on clectlon day in the eyes of Alr, Tox Lyacy, who, it {4 rumor- cd, has located two barrels of whisky where thoy will do the woat good during tho day. i St i 1f the vlcction to-duy was hold under the Regs stry law, the Refurm ticket would be clected by 18 goud majority, and it will any way If tho bal- lut-boxes ure guarded fu the southwestern wands agaiust ‘tuuhu: aud falss countiog. L3k says bis word is as good as a bank. Cer- ;mu. Such a bank, for instance, as the Stato avings. e c—— I thc Reformn ticket ls clected to-day, the Court-House Riog will be ‘“busted.” *‘Bust ‘em.” —— Gen. Lixn threstens his enemics with ludlct- meats. Among thew there will probably be one against Judgo Warxsu, of the Suprems Coust, charging him with “ mallelously and unlamy]. Iy, with mnlice prepense sndaforethonght, belng instiizated thereto by the devil,” ehuwing up the fact that Litrn's records intax sulta are unshape. 1y, bungling, and slovenly, —— If the bummers take enough interest fn the down(oll of our county prosperity by voting five or six times cach, should not ecach taxpnyor take enough Interest In the welfare of the coun. 17 10 come ont and vote vncol 4 1t I8 thought that the scheme for stufing 1y the First Ward is defeated, but how about the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Seventeenthy What has been done to sccure an honest voto and a falr count In those wards? ———— A half-miilion of taxes can be saved to-day by electif the Reform ticket, which nmoungg to more than one dollar to cvery mun, woman, andehild fn Cook County, Is not that sup, worth saving, these hard times? e ——— Watch the Dballot-boxeal Repeaters nre abroad {n the land, with thelr belties ful] of whisky and their rockets full of votes. Dy few of them are entitled ta one vote, but they are prepared tocast many. ; ———— Eifit diferent Ictters to tho Chicago Time bavo stated that Mr, Lyscu emploged clght Trishmen, and that the writer of each Tetter wgll support this magnanimous recognlzer ot bl countrymen’s tights, e Lirn's County Board appointed the clestion Judges {n Lien's interest. Thoy shoubd by closely watelied up tothe last moment to-nlght, lest the vote retnrned represent twlce the popy. latlon of the county, . ——— There should be no “close vote" to-dny, Remember, Lizn has the counting of i tickets, and nothing but an overwhelinlny majority against him will roccive any rucogm: tion from Llm. S e b———— ‘The colored citizens of Chicago, with one an cord, have declded to give the Democratie nom. fnee for County Clerk ** leab?” to withdraw from all farther participation fu the county ndinints. tratlon. | Ir, as stated by Mr. Tos LyNca, * Irishmen arc in the habit of drinking too much whisky,” the two barrels he nas put fn @ North Sideranch will searcely be sufliclent. | 1t costs less to vote low taxes than to Ocht your taxcs If too hizh. Better go to the polls to-av, good irs, and do a little samething for your own Interest. | 1t Irizhunen ore really In the hiabit of deink- lug whisky to such an fnordinate extent, Mp, Tox Lyncit can scarcely be spared from his distillery, -~ e e Y— e If large enough rewards are offered for the detection of ballot-bux stulfers, we shasl exneet sowmo startling revelutlons from Mr. Tox Lyxen, e — Gentlemen who have rontracted to vote for Mr. Lien to-day will do wisely to sceure their money before casting thcir bullots, —— Bogys, the Reform ticket has the “bulre® on the Ringaters to-day, i€ cvery mun does bis Huty. - ——— Turn out and vote the Reform ticket and smash the Court-House Ring. ——— ‘The Reform ticket will be elected If ropeating aud stulling arc prevented, ——— l.ct every honest, decent voter sit down heavy ou the Ring ticket. - e — Ballot-Box Guards, ** Up and at 'em1* PERSONAL. William Cullen Bryant waa 84 yoars of age Saturday. * Willinm Black's * Madeap Violet " lins been dramatlized, Tho Hon, Charles’ A. Dana wupports the Hon, John Morrisecy as o caudidate for thoe New York §enata, Miss Sarah Alden, a daughter of John and Priscilla Alten, was marsied in New York Friday 1o Dr. 1. 1L, Derby, Dr. Garduer, the old hendmuster of the Roston Latin Schonl, used to bosst that he isd worn one coal forty years, Gov. Morton obtained 500,000 to pay bounty-money with on his individua) namoe during the dark dnys of the Itobellion, 'ho slumni of Lofts College havo com- missloncd W, W, Story to moke 8 bust of Dr, Honea Ballon, flist Preeident of the College, ‘Ibe Rev, William H. Wyckoff, Seoretary of the American IMible Unlon, dropped dead Friday morning while taking Lis customary morulng bath, Ho belonged to tho Baptist denomination, The death of Chief-Justico Draper, of Canada, has heen the occasion of obltuary notices of the most laudatory description from newapapers of both partica throughout the Duminion. 3 The Bpringtleld Republican ways L'residont ay, uow convinced thab Collector Simmons was rlgiual Civil-Bervice Rotormer, and hopes o will ook for o strawberry-mark on his left srm, ‘I'ie Kentucky Seuator, Mr. McOreery, i3 sald to be very Indolent, and for this reason has not yet exulibited in Coogress the scholarehip, common sense, and dry humor that dletinguub um, David Toylor Bhaw, a well-kuown Now York connolsvenr in art matters, attempted snictde Ly taxing Jaudanum recontly, Ho was aaved by an overdose, and had all thie pleasurcs of a Jdoe bauch on nux vemica and pothing mere. Doan Stanley is auid to be wanting in suo- cess as wpeaker at public mectings where thero are upoosing elements, As 8 writer ho s charming und In the pulplt impressive, but a church con grewa 1s not good ground for hiw, aud ao he diu ws atteud the luss one fu Evgland, The Phanksgiviug Proclamation of Gov. Van Zandt, of Rbode Ieland, was as follows: *'I uppoint Thuruday, the 20tn ing ‘Thanksuivings Day. and request the people of 1hus State to asscia- Ule In thele boases for public worship, and relurm thanks to God for Iis tender mercies and Joving kindooss, and may thows who gro blessed with abundance give loerally to the poor.™ Miuistor Kasson wriles from Austrla to o friend In Iows: **Myoflicial reception was very cordist aud satisfactory, aud I have yet sccnno causg to complain of the vromptitude with which buslnees ls transacted, awl I am glad to find more of it to do thn I bad expucted 10 8ud here. Tho Ewmperor acts tho examplo of industry, rlslng st & o'clock In the morning and Immodiately neginalng his work. He gencrally retires about 10°clock. " Lieut. Albert G, Squires, of the First In- Iautry, aged 18, is the youngest ofiicer In tho army. e bad beon at Washington nearly two years pushing bls own causy aud spplying in vain fot an appolutment to West Point or Apnal when hic managed lo secare & chance for &n exame Instion. He passcd accoptably, snd after waltlng somo montlis got 8 commlssion to Ul & vacaucy made In an Judian battle, It is announced that tho second son of Viclor Emwanuel, Prince Amadeo, ex-Klug of Spala, fs about to enter Into IIOILOMEII. s heart has been surely stiicted by the deathot bis beloved consort. and he hasaluce Gevotod bimselt with ardor to works of ploty and sellglous obscrv- ances. A great deal of his time bas been passed in preyer in tho gloomy vaultof the House of Sa- voy, whero the colin of decegued Princess 18 1ald. Kamor runs before events i these daysi thorofore thoy vay that the rince pricst willnob long remaln uncovercd with tho scarlet bst. 'fhe Rov, Mr. Dalv’ adjurcs clergymen to keep up tho knowlcdge thoy hoye scquired at the university—their mathematics and acience, if tbey cauj thelr anclent sud modern languages, whoiber theycanornot, Ueadds: *'That you will keco By, moreor leas perfectly, your New Testameud Qreck ls » thatter of course; but, i 1 may Judge from my own observation and my own experience— Jackuowlcdge It with wbamo—uothiug is easict fur s minister to 10se, in 8 very few years, his famil- tarity with Hcbrow and Syriac, The precious zes salts of months of hard work may vanish with ez~ truordinary rapidity, sud Ib will by very diticuli W0 secover thwu. '