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

+ tained for tho d 4 TiIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 171, The Tribwe, TERMS OF SU BSCRIPTION. Onecopy. pery it of four. Freetmen coples sent trec. filve Post- Ufl.ee mildress in full, Including State and County. Lctalttances mag be made efther by draft, exnrees, Toat-Oftice order, or in reglatercd letters, At our Hsk. TRUNMS TO CITY SURSCRINERS. Tally, dellvered, funday execpted, 25 cents per week. Ly, deilvered, Eunday Incladed, 0 cente per week. Addres TIHE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Carrer Madison and Deatborn-ta, i, Orders for the deilvery of Tie TRINGNK at Evanston, Fuplewood. and fiyde Park lettIn the conutiog:roam Whtieeeive Lromt attention. MeVicker's Theatre, Madfson strect, heiwren Sisle and Desrborn. **Liliian, or Womnan's Last Love.” Haolov's Thentre, Randolph sireet, between Clark and LaSalle, Hinverly's Theatres Monroe street, corner of Dearharn. Engagement of Mlle. Zoe. **The French 8py,” Afternoon and evening. Coliseum Novelty Theatre, Clark strect, hetween Nandolph and Washington. Varlety performauce. S0 CUICANO CHAPT Tweutvsrcond s, day eventng Bt Eogal Areh By orier of the M ock. sharp. Work on tho ne Gompantony cordislly fnrited. ELI SMITII, Secrotary. CHICAGO MARKET BUMMARY, The Chicago produce markets were generally firmer yesterday, and the leading cereala were a ve. Mesn pork closed steady, at 12,1001, far November and §12,25212.273 for Jannary. Yard closed 245c per 100 1ba higher, at 87002 7.0 cash or selier January. Meats wero firmer, at fic for boxed shoulders and 6Yc for do ort ribs, Lake freights were more active and «ler, 8t 4c for corn to Buffalo, Whisky was auoted 8t $1,00 per gallon. Flonr wwas steady, Wheat closcd 4@ 1%c higher, at $1.10 for No- vember and $1.07% for December. Carn closed 4 Galc higher, at 44tjc for November and 42%c for 1 Onta closed steady, at cash and . Tiye was firmer, atiie. Dare ¢ closcd stealy, at Gdc cash and 63tc for De- cember, Tiozw were active and strong carly, but 4 quict and easy, at £4.3334.60. Catile dull aud nnchanyed, with snles at $2.00% 5.00. Sheen were dull, at $2.752+4.00, The ex- ports from the resloard lnst week nclailed 48,411 brls flour, 1,147, 185 bu wheat, 1,185,177 ba cora, 50 m rye, 22, 751 Ibs lard, & In store In this city last Satunlay: 287,020 bu wheat, 135,067 bu corn, 113,740 bu 01,001 bu ryc, 549,811 bn barley. Totul, 1,581,204 bu, Wheatn Milwaukec, 418,500 bu, Total wheat In sight, 11,315427 bu; do corn, 7,720,430 b Inspected [nto store fn this clty rday worning: 124 cars wheat, 2% car corn, 08 cars oats, 6 cars rye, and 40 cars and 07,800 bu burlev. Total (437 cars), 212,000 bu. One hundred aollars in gold would buy $10:2.75 In greenbacks at tho cl ™ meats. Greenbacks nt the New York Stock Ex- chango yesterdny cloaed at 97}, ‘The funeral of the lato Geonar 8, Baxas, former Buperintondent of the Railway Postal Bervice of the United States, and subse. quently United States Sub-Treasurer in Chi- cago, was & morked tribnte to the virtues and services of a public oficer and a mnn without ,n blemish. - The large attendauco from distant cities of gentlemen promiuently identified with the postal service altested: tho affection and respoet everywhere enter- ased. — e Mr. Tuensay's Domocratio caucus resolu. tion for the dischargo of tho Senata Elec. tions Committes from further consideration of the Sonth Carolinn case was offered yes. terday, but was objected to by Mr, Wap. zrion, Chairman of tho Committee, and went over until to-day. The Committeo claim to have used all possible diligenco in pursuing their inguiries in tho contested cases, and it s quito unlikely that the radi- eal departure from Senatorial usnge contem- plated in the Tuonuax resolution will bo permitted. Mr. Daves, of West Virginia, I8 now in n position to enrry dismay by the cartlond into the Treasury Building. Iis resolution Jook- ing to an investigation of the system of Lookkeeping by which ho alleges the coun. try to have been swindled out of untold millions has been passed by tho Benate, and himself appointed as Chairman of tho Com- mittee, with Mr. Becx, of Kentucky, an ar- dont sharer in Mr, Davis' mngniticent ex- pectutions, as second man, Now we shall sco what a Senator with a mission can do ‘when vested with unlimited powers. Tho fate of Erzeroum is soon fo be do- cided, and with tho overwhelming force that the Russiang can being against it the result is scarcely & matter of speculstion, Imme- diatcly after the capturo of Kars Gon, Mruxorr with 15,000 nen started for Erzeroum, the object ovidently being to strike at once the blow that will virtually annibilste the Turkish army in Armcuin, and leave tho Russlang free to divert o portion of their force to the reinforcement of the troops iuvesting Plev. na, and with the remainder to pursuo such unopposed operations in the dircction of Constantinople from the onstward as moy hureafter be determined upon. Au evidence of the fact that tho Blate Board of Heulth creatod by the last Leglala. turce is not entirely a superfluity js furnished in the history of the Board’s suscess in squelching a quack doctor in Belloville, Iil., who, from beiug *a barber of the deopest dye," suldenly blossomed forth as a full fledpged pill-sciler, Ho had opplied to the Board for the certificate required to be fusued by that body before ke could legally practice medicine in Illinois, and forwarded 8 bogus diploma, the truo character of which was finally ferreted out by Dr. Raven. In this way the quoudam chin-scraper was forcod to relinquish the large and successful practice he had acquired at Relleville, and o now flourishes at St. Louls, where his death. dealing prescriptions will strike new terror to the heart of the already frantic Directory mau. Affairs i Frauce have arrived at a critical juncture. 'The Chumber of Deputies yes- terday placed itself in an attitude of declared Liostility to tho Governmont by the adoption of & resolution reciting thal, in view of the doctrine enunciated by the Duke De DBuoartz in his speech of Mondsy last, *¢tho Chamber, being resolved to waintain it prerogative agmust oncroschment, ad. Jourus the discussion on the validity of M, Rriry, Under-Secrelary of Btate at the Mlinistry of the Iuterior, until the Electoral Abuses Committes shall bave reported on bis doings relative to official candidatures.” ‘The obvious wesuing of this action w, that the Chamber will stand on its right toinvesti- gate the procecdings of the Government in conncction “with the elections, and Jdemand that the ingairy proceed. Tho Chamber at onca adjourned, in spite of the protests of the Right, until Thursday, on the ground (hat the resignation of the Ministry had left no Government in exiatence. The new Ministry will be nnnonunced to-morrow, and MacMauoy is nrged by his enpporters to aclect as Minister of War a man who is capa- bla of porforming the important duties likely to devolve upon that office in a short time. Gen. B, F. Rurien yesterday missed a taro opporiunity to firo the first gun in his campnign against the Administration, He bad intended, by the ail of Procton KvortT, to spring his rattle'on the item in the Deficiency bill appropriating 84,500 for the expenses of the Iouisiana Commission, upon which tho Appropriations Committee, liaving a wholesome nppreciation of the value of (heservices perforned by the Commission, had reported favorably by n unanimous vote. Rutiu an nnguarded nioment the hero of Big Bothel and Dutch Gap fell asleep nt his post, or at any rate was absent from the Ionso arguing n motion in the Distriet Conrt, and the friends of the item got it recommitted. Not for tho fea which o was earning in the interval would the lawyer-Congressman have missed the chance to open his batteries. ‘When next an opportunity occurs he may find his guns spiked Mr, Saxurn 8, Cox, one of the many solf- appointed leaders of the great.Democratic party, and ofttime aspirant for the Speakor- slip of the Housc, must have beon cxceed- fngly moved, to say the least, at the treat- ment his speech on an amendment to the Paris Expasition bill received at the hands of tho Tlouse yesterday. A cleverer and moro flecided cnse of the cut direct hns not occur- red in parlinmentary practice for many a day. Mr. Cox is possessed of n genial wpirit, and hns the faculty of rising above amall disappointments, but it ian question if tho rotten.horongh member, formerly from Ohio, can content himsalf in this contest with the insiguificant glory wonin the bring- ing down of Our Canten with o well-timed shot. 1In the quict twilight honr, after the wearing Intignes of the day, the funny meraber will ho very apt to tako np the man- nseript of that widely-ndvertised lecture, and nsk * Why Do We Laugh 7" Rugsin has at last the npper hand of Tur. key in Asin, nnd is master of tho situation. ‘The fnll of Kars will relense n powerful army from further siege dnty aronnd that fortrers, which will specdily reinforce Gen. Iferaxx nt Erzeronm, and ensily overpower Mogirtan Tusha by sheer weight of numbers. The fato of Erzeronm is already forccast, and with its fall all Armenin will pass into Ras- sian hands and the enmpaign in Asia become o matter of history. ‘Ihisin turn relenses tho great army of the Grand Duko Micmaes, which, after garrisoning certain strategic pointy, can if necessary bo transferred to Bulgnria and seal the doom of Osstav Pnsha and SoLeitay Pasha, should the Czarowiteh and Grand Duke Nicitoras not sooner com- plote the work, ‘The moat striking proof of the desperato character of the Turkish cause is to e fonnd in the trepidation of England. In tho firat place, & snggeation of peace has been made which Itussin will never nceept for sufficiont reasons. Bocond, the English aro nfraid leat Russin may proposo terms which Germany will not allow Lor to nccept. ‘Third, they aro agitated lest Russia is about to make nn allinnce with Germany, In either the kecond or third emergency, England might bo left powerlers for want of allics, without which sho {s not awar-making Pow- er. In the midst of ml these suspicions, doubts, and uncertainties, tho only step that does not involve absolute danger in the pros. eut or future is n sympathy moeting, and it Is nnnounced Lkat ona will bo held In Lon- don, It s diflcult to see, however, Low sympathy will restore Kars or reliove Plovna, Tho Sccretary of the Treasury, in his yes- terday's statement to Congress, sald there were 236,620,732 of subsidinry silver coins isaned up to Nov, 1, 1877, Thero s con- widerablo old silver in circulation, as people may notico,—old halves, quarters, double- dimes, dimos, and half-limes, colucd pre- vious to 1863, Tho amount mny be safely ostimated at 24,000,000,—making a total of something over $10,000,000 of subsidinry silver now in circulation. ‘This mouncyisa legal-tender to the amount only of $5, The bullion value of thix silver is not to excoed 87 cents iu Loudon at this time, Two half- dollars contain tho satne quantity of pure sil. veras a French five-frauc piece,which is worth about six cents less thau tho silver dollar, ‘Chis §10,000,000 of silver monoy is passing current all over the United States for 974 conts in'gold, the snme as greoubacks, 1t in daily buying millions of property, at 10 per cent above its bullion value, 1 f frecly roceived and poid out at the fall valuo of legal-tender notes, which is 97} ceuls in gold. Nobody is * cheuted” or **swindled” by receiving it in payment of debts at its faos valuo, Why is this £10,000,000 of sub. sldiary silver worth 974 centa on the dollar in gold, while it is only worth 87 cents as bullion? Decause it is a logal-tonder, al- though for no more than &5. Tha bullion in o silver dollar is worth at presont about U3 cents fngold. If sllver dollurs wero made unlimited logal-tenders, why would they not be worth at least as much as (ho legal-tender paper dollar, which is intrinsic- ally worth nothing? In the nalurc of things, the legal-tender silver dollar could ot be worth less thau the papor dollar, and that is over 07 cents. Would it Le swindling creditors for deblors to pay them in silver dollars worth 97} cents? 'The Shylocks call it *swindliug,” but are unable to ex- plaln whero the swindlo comes in. The money they paid to their dubtors between 1870 aud 1876 was only worth 50 to 88 cents, Tu what way are those lenders to Lo cheated by repaying them in silver coin worth 10 to 18 cents on the dollar better than the money they loaned ? The Benate Finance Commwittoo are getting down to business on the Silver bill. ‘They bhavo adopted an amendment offered by Avsi. 8oy, giving the Government all the profit on the coinage of silyer dollars. If silver bull. for tho purpose of purchasing bullion $and getting tke new enin inta circulation. The Department is, by the terms of this amend. ment, required to purchasa silver bullion to an amonnt not less than £2,000,000, and not exceeding 4,000,000, each month, and coin the same into silver dollars. This clause will requiro the coining of nt lenst $24,000,- 000, and not to excoed 318,000,000, n year, This certainly is a moderata nmonat, but ita effect on the country will be good. Another amendment was offered, providing that, af- ter the enactment of the bill, a Commission shall be appointed to confer with any similar Commissions that may be appointed by the nations using the double metallic standard, for the prirposs of recominonding the adop. tion by all such nations of soms ttaiform re- Iation of valuo between the metals. Those who fenr that silver cannot be advanced to the value of gold, and maintained at that lovel, will have an opportunity to nse their iufluence to sccure sich co-operation of oth- er nations ns will establish the double stand- ard at n uniform value, and sustain it. Our Washington special gave the probable Senate vota on tho bill, viz.: yens, 03; nags, 20; doubtful, 2. We regrot to sea the sectional character of the nays, s they aro all from the East,—eloven of them coming from the littlo New Eungland States, and tho others from New York, Delaware, Maryland, and Now Jersey. Cameroy, of Pennsylvania, is sot down among the nays, but Warrace, of the same State, nmong the yeas, The ma- fority for the bill will bo so nearly two. thirds that the President mny weil pause be- fore giving ear to tho Shylock class of selfish blood-sucker: THE VALUE OF SILVER. ** The silver dollar will be worth only 02 conts, while the groenback is worth 97 cents," is o favorite declaration of the anti- silver howlers, Silver ia worth D2 conts on the dollar in gold; it is worth that i the bars,—coined or uncoined; while green. Uncks, divested of the legal-tendor character, would not be worth more than the prico of wasto paper. " Tho present comparatively law price of silver bullion is duo to circum. stances which will soon cease to exist, The world consumes the same nvernge amount of silver aunually, and the sunual product of silver hias boen about equnl to this demand. 8o uniform has been tlns product and de- mand that the price of silver as compared with gold has varied at only rare intervals during 200 yenrs, and then tho variation has Leen generally caused by changes in the prod- nct of gold, ‘Tho Fronch standard of tho rela- tive values of gold and silver is 15} ounces of silver to 1 onnce of gold. That propor- tion has long been maintained in France. ‘I'he American silver dollar, however, was, by a chango in the gold coinage in 1834, fixed at n proportion of 16 of silver to 1 of gold, sud subsequently, when the world's product of gold incrensed, this proportion made the American silver dollar worth moro-than the gold dollar. The gold coin remained at o disconnt in silver. Tho gold wns worth about tho same in silver that the greenbacks are uow worth in gold—nbout 97 cents in the dollar, Germany sdopted sevoral ‘acts be- tween 1871 and 187 looking to the demoneti- zation of silver, but tho date thercof wns left to bo fixed by Imperial decree. It was not until Inte in 1875 that any active steps wera taken. 'Tho amount of silver in Ger. many was an unknown qunatity, and a panie in the silver market followed. The price of ‘silvor in tho. London market fell from Gl peuco per ounca to 47 pence per ounco, This wn3 upon the offer of Germany to exchange reveral hundreds of mill. lons of ' dollars of silver for an equal amonnt of gold, The demand for gold appreciated the value of that metal, and the immienso surplus of silver offered dopre- ciated the valuo of ailver. Then, in answer to the Inquiry why silver was not coined in " the United States, it becnme first known to the public gonorally that nearly threo yonrs be- fore, in February, 1873, the silver dollar had been demonetized. ‘Tl silver dollar must not bo confounded with the snbsidiary silver ‘coins which dato back to 1856, When the sil- ver dollar was worth 103 in gold, the sub. sidiary colus, halves, quarters, and dimes, containing less proportion of silver, wore worth about 6 per cent less on the dollar, In 1876 Congress wag driven by public opin. fon to authorize the coinnge of this subsidi- ary silver to lako the place of tha fractionat currency, Filty millions of dollars was the mnximum limit placed o this coinage, which waa made o legal-tonder to the amonnt of 5 only, This ction on tho part of the United States had an immediate eflect on tho valuo of silver, and in Loudon the price advanced from {47 pence to b5 ponce, nnd at abont that sun it has remained ever since, Germany has siuce been selling silver at that rate, or buyling gold and paying silver for it at that rate. Within a day the German Govern. ment bas asked an appropriation of 50,000,- 000 marks, sbout $1:2,000,000, to cover the losses ineurred ja buying gold to take the place of silver. Silver at 60 pence per ounce will placo onr dollarat par with gold, Day after dny tho Germnn stock of silver is roducing, Snding ita wy toIndia, China, and othersilver conntrics, Sowe of it is in Frauce, whero the silver five.franc pleco is o legul-tender and circn. lates unlimitedly, In the meantime the Auwerican product of silver continues, and, beiug excluded in this couutry, is sold in competition with the surplus in Enrope. It s umversally concoded that to remonetizo silver and permit ity freo coluago would, Ly consuming the whole American product and withdrawing it from wio forvign market, have the immediate effect of largely advanc. ing tho price of silver, which advance would coutinuo as tho surplus stock in Europe would soon be consumed, At the prosent price of silver in London, our subsidiary silver coius aro worth as Lullion about G conts on tke dollar in gold; yet beivg a logal-tender ouly for §5, they Lave & current value as money equal to the greenbacky, which aro worth 07} cents fu gold. ‘Tho remouetizing of tho silver dollar, which will bo worth as bullion 93 cents on the dellar in gold, snd making it a legal-tender for all sums and for all purposes, will unquestionably place it &t par ns woney with the greenbacks. Dut at present the merchants bave to purchaso during each year an average of $120,000,000 of gold with which to pay duties, 'Thq silver ion is worth only 92 cents on the dollar, and | dollar belug equivalent to gold fu the pay- the greenback is worth 97, then the Goveru- mout would make fivecents profit in the pur. chsse of bullion to be coined and issued as money, less the cost of colnsge, ‘There will bo no particular objection to this amend. ment. Whatever the difference of price be- tween the bullion and the legal-tender silver dollar may be, let the Government have it, il that will belp the passage of the bill. Benator Ariiso¥ proposed auother jm. portatit amondment, which was adopt- ed, that 8 fund of $5000,000 in United States legal-tender notes shall bLe sot apart by the Becretary of the Qreasury teut of duties, it will bave that advantage over the greeuback, and it is possible that, notwithstanding silver as bulliou may be at a discount in yold, the mlver dollar, even during the first yearof its coinage, will bs worth as moaey 99 or uven 99} cents in gold. As the silver colnage increases from year to year, oconsuwming the whole product of the Aumerican miues, the price of mlver as bullion will recover its long-established rolution with gold, wud the American dollar will then be threatened only with the dangerof being, as in 1873, worth more than gold, and hence be esported. The talk of silver dollars buing worth 92 conts only, and baing issued to de- frand, is rank and contemptible nonsense, and can deceive no rationnl man. THE FIRE-LADDER ORDINANCE. In finally passing the ordinance which re- quires tho sdoption of metallio ladders or fire-escapes, the City Council has followed the muggestion of Tne Trinuxe that a diserctionary power be lodged wit' a Com. mission, rathor than that nll buildings of four stories in height shall be required indis. criminately to adopt theso accessorics. The Commission intrusted with this matter con. sists of the Mayor, Fire Marshal, Superin- tendent of Buildings, Chairman of the Coun- cil Committeo on Fire and Water, and Chair- man of the Committea on Publie Buildings. Wo infer from the text of the ordinance that this Commission will have the discretion to correct errora in detail that have been made in the ordinanco itself ; ‘otherwise tho ordi- nauce should be amended in some re- spects, Thus it requirea that all build- iogs of four stories and more (ex- cept those mnsed ns private residonces) shall be provided with metallio Indders ** ex- tending from thesidacalk to the upper stories of such building." 'T'his would indicate the intention to construct the ladders on tho frout of the nildings. DBut such n plan will be utterly impracticable in somo ‘cases, and it is undesirablo in all cases where tho rear of the building {s on o court or alley which can be renched from the street. Not only would the proposed ladders disfignro the front of a handsome building, but almost all buildings to which the ladders should bo at. tachied have large, heavy, projecting cornices on the sides with street fronts, and the lad- ders could not be run oser these in such a way that the firemen could use them to gain the roof withont pgreat danger. There {8 also o positive advautage in loeating the Iladders in the nl- leya; the nlleys aro usually from fifteon to twenty-five fect wide, with bigh bulldings on cuch side, . If ono building i3 burning in such 8 way that the Indder attached to it cannot bo used, the ladder of the building directly opposite ean bo used to reach the roof ur one of the higher stories, ‘This moy of itself give tho firemen n commanding position fron: which to fight tao lames, Otherwiso they cnn draw up #ome of their own ladders, and throw them ncross the alley from one build- ing to tho other, either from the roof or win. dows of corresponding ' atories, and thus se- curo o practical bridge over which they can gnin access to any part of the burning build- ing they may desiro to rench. Thero aro few buildings to which thess iron ladders onght to be attached that do not back on nlleys or courts; Inid out as Chicago is, there is an alley.wny throngh overy block running parsllel with tho streets on two sides of it, Thero Is another point which ought to be conceded in tho construction of these Indders wherover the owners of the Luildings desire it. The objoction which many house-owners have to them is that they afford a prominont means for burglara and thieves to gain access to the building by one of the upper stories or from the roof, To overcome this objection, the ladders might be made to extond from tho firat story (fiftoen or twenty feet from the ground) to the roof of the building. They would then serva equally well tho purposes of the firemen and the purposes of a fire-cseape, sinco they could be rondily reached hy the short Indders with which the Department is amply supplied. But this coustruction wonld prevont the ready uso of the metallio ladders by burglnrs, who could not reach them without carrying short laddors for that purpose; this thoy wonld fear to' do on nccount of the in. cronsed danger of detection. - With theso modifications and a judiclous distribution of tho metallic Indders on the high Luildivgs, there will Le a very important nddition to the facilities for extingnishing fires in Chicago, which will save millions of dollars of losics in the future, and which should operate to reduce insurance rates, THE CONTROL OF THE COUNTY BOARD. Ever sinco the recent local eloction which resulted in tho choico of the entiro fivo cau- didates for the County Board presentod by the Republican Convention, there have been various rumors and speculations ns to tho probablo division of the Boand rather on a Riog and antl-Ring basls than on strict party lines. ‘The numes of somo of the gon- tlomen newly clocted have been spokon of in connection with a possible alliance with tho Ring, and the names of one or two of the old mombers who liave been counted on to act with the Ropublicans havo nlso beon moutioned as likely, under cortain clreum. stances, to affiliate with the corrupt Demo. eratio clement in the Boord, The Chairman. ship of the Board s said to figuro conspic. nously in tho flunl determination of the majority, and there is littlo doubt that tha Democratio Ringsters will endeavor to use it in such manuor a3 to assoclate with their in. terests ouo of theCommissioners upon whom {lie public rely for falr dealing. Many of the rumory that have been flying around are un. doubtedly irrespousiblo and false, aud they may have been sel in motion at (he Instance of the old Ringutens in order that the publie shall fdontify somo gentleman of good in. tontions with the Ring, and thuy, by doiny, him an injustice, goad bim on to associations which bs would naturally ba disposed to avold, At the same time, 50 much hus beon said as to call for a solemn warning to each and overy ouo of the Commissloners from whom tha people have the right to expect honest conduct, In the lato county clection tho Republic. aus voluntarily assumed the same respousi- bility which they tuok upon themselves in rescuing the City Govorument from the gong of bummers sod plunderers iuto whose hands it bad fallen, The eituation differed only in the fact that only one-third of tho County Boand could ba elected justend of the cutire Couuncil, as fn tho cass of the city. Naverthelegs thero was reason to bolieve that the election of five houest Republicans would fiud enough houesty among tlhe old Commissioners to constitute a wnjority sgainst the fliug. Tho five men named by the Republicans to assume this trust were Messry, Seorrorp, Mevxs, Bunuive, Borse, and Wuzeres, ‘These gentlemen wero voted for on a ticket which bore at its head the legend of *‘ Houesty aud, Economy,” and each of them was uuderstopd to be person. ally pledged to this declaration. It was the ouly issue in the campaign. 'The ticket on which they were elected was gensrally known not merely as the Republican ticket, but as the Republican * Iieform” ticket, They received o large mumber of Democratio voles, and every Democrat aud every Re- publican who deposited a ballot for themdid 0 in the finn conviction that he was voting sgalust the Ring. The people, thoroughly conteut with the refurm of city affairs under the auspices of the Republican orgunization, resolved to iutrust couuty reforis 1uto the same hands. If auy of the men elccted on this ticket shall doviate in the slichtest ds- gren from the atralght conrse to honesty and reforin, he will bring disgrace npon the party which elected him: and, a8 for himself, ho will enconnter such an experience as will make him wish that he had never taken up hia residence in Chicagn or Cook County. There aro thres men among the Commis- sioners holding over who should consider themsolves undor an equal obligation to be trne to tho Repnblican pledges. They are Mensrs, BrsNE, Avars,nud Tanor. All of them are Republicans. If they have any political aapirations, it is to the Republican party they must look to the realization thereof. All their hope for publio racognition and the gratitude of tho people rests upon their rendiness to not with the fivo new Cominis- sioners in presenting a solid front to the corruptionists, Wa do not urge this for the purpose of sceuring & party majority in the Bonrd, That would be small gain, 'Tho co- operation of theao three gentlemen is eapecial. Iy bespuken bocause, ns Republicans them- relves, they onght to share the responsibility which the party has taken upon itself, and ought to nssist in every way they cnn in bringing nbont the necossary reforms. 'Lhere is nnother Commissioner in the Board (Firz- agranp) who, though o Democrat, onght to act uniformly with the Ropublicans on nll Reform questions. Mr. Firzeenatp bos thus far given evidence of a hostility to the Ring, and hence it s ex- pecled that he will rango himsclt on the side of the Reformers; but ho eannot net with tho Democrats in the Bonrd for partisan or organizing purposes without nssisting them at the satno tine in their Ring schomes, It the Republicans, old members and new, ot togother, they will have n majority in the Board of just one; if Frrzornarp joins them in the public interost, the mnjority of the Reformers will be three, and the Ring will bo holpless. Any ono of thess gentlemen who shallavail himsolf of any pretext what- ever—Clhairmnnship, Committeo organiza. tion, or othor movement—to voto with tho anti-Reform cloment, will subject himsolf to the suspicion of having heen eaptured by the Ring, and will forfeit for nll time his cliar- noter and standiug in this community, PUSILLANIMOUS PITTSBURG. The report of the Pittsburg Grand Jury npou the subject of the July riots in that city is pusillanfinous to a dogree that has nover before characterized s body of that kind in this country, It is recklessly untrne in ity statements, malicious in its apimns, and the roport is made not upon the merita of the enso, but for o spocial purposs, show- ing in the nggregate n distogard of public sentiment and n pandoring to mob spirit that call for tho soverest condemnation. The report in the first inatance censures the' Penngylvanin Railroad Company for taking menaures to protect their property, and snys “thoy wero importuned mnot to attempt lnrsh measures,” If the history of the riots is correct, the Railrond Company were at- tempting to prevent afarious and violent mob, wnde up of the worst cloments in Pittaburg, from burning their buildings, stenlivg and destroying property bolonging to them ond to Western morohinnts, nnd slaughtering thoso who songht to provent such outrages. According to the rensoning of this jury of sympathizers, if an incendiary attempts to burn your house, you must use no barsh maonsures with bim, but kindly sup. ply him with lorodenc-kindlings, express your rogrot that he bLas so much troublo ju meking his nrrangements, and quiotly leave your property, lest yon may embarrass him. If you find u thief in your house, you must conduct him to your silverware and money, nid him In packing it up if neces. sury, and mako no alarm, lest tho police may como in and nse harsh measures. If o man attempts to murder you, you must use no harsh measures with him, but quietly submit, It would ba difiicult for human ingenuity to framensuggestion mora repugnant to justice, foirness, or oven common sonse, Not con- tont with consuring the Railrond Company for wanting to protect its property, it cen- suros the use of militia, Having failed in the firat inatauce to nid tho militia who had como to the rescue of Pittsburg from thoe hands of a mob, Laving stood by in tho most cowardly manner aud witncased a little handful of wllitia at the mercy of n furious mob of thonsands, baving seen their own compnuies fratornize with thia howling mob' and hand over their arms to thom, now comes a Groud Jury of presumably respectable snud sonsible citizons and condumns the militin who came o the nld of their fellows, aud coolly publishes to the country tho absurd and impudent state. mont that the trouble In Pittsburg arose from *the meddlesomne and insclent course of the military " Having censured the Railroad Cowpany for wanting protection and the militia for affording it, this Graud Jury next censurey the Governor and State oflivials for ordering troops to Pittsburg and issuing proclamations withont suflieient authority | Who is to bo tho judgo of authority when the Shoriff of o county, ovorpowered by a wnob of thousands, with the whole city giveu over to amon, pillage, and general lawless- ness, calls upon the Goveruor for help? Supposo that tho Governor bad acted in ac- cordauce with the sontiment cxpressed by this Grand Jury, and had sent no troops at all to tho soene of theso riots, where woulil Pitteburg havo beon in s few days moro, or oven hours? Suppose thls mob of {hieves, voughs, incendiaries, and Comiunists had known thoy could not bo interfered with by troops, whero would have been the limit of their lawlessuesa? These Grund Jury Come mune-sympathizers having censured the Railroad Cowpany, the Shoriff, the militla, aud the State Government, why did they stop short with this? Why did thoy not in. clude the United States Government, whose troops woro ulso justrumental in restoring peace and order in Pittsburg? TLis is cer- tainly n.remarkablo docwucut, which, after assuliiug aud even abusing every agenoy that wos used to put down lawlessuess, has not oneword in it from first {0 last of sin. cero condemuation of the malicious rioters ur thelr lawlessness, Tho motive of this viudictiveness is apparent. It is an attempt 10 fasten the responsibility whero it does not belong, in order to avoid the pecuniary liability which the county hay incurred, and which it is bound by every obligation of hou. caty, morality, and justico to pay over to the Pennsylvania Railroad Compuny for allow- ing their property and the property of thousands of merchanta oll over tho country to be destroyed, ‘The report of this jury, therefory, is not only iwpudent iv its epirit and mendacions in its statewents, it uot ouly exposes Pittsburg to the contompt of other cities and the coun. try st large, but it is essentially mean and pusillanimous in seekiog to cheat a Rail. road Company which has done more thau any other sgency to build up Pittsburg, ‘L'iere is no indictwect that could be found with so much of propriety and with so much of satisfaction to the rest of the country as the indicunent of the Grand Jury that made ——— thislying and insolent report. If this Grand Jury were investignting tha case of any other county wunder simnlar circumstances, they wonld have no difficalty in fastoning (he ! reaponsibility whero it proporly belongs. { If the Grand Jury of any other locality woro investi.nting the report of this Pittaburg Grand Jury, they would have no difficulty in indicting that body, not only as n public nnisance, but a8 accessory to the Pittsburg riots, — INSANITY AS A FINE ART. The circumstances of Mr. Coonpavan's donth, 8o far as they are publio property, do not demand any Iarge proccss of moralizing. The facts nre that lio was in domestic trouble and took his life, The curious thing to the mnsses ia that, being a rich man, ho shonld have had trouble, or found lifo burdensome, Those who have not had experionce of riches are accustomed to think of them nas n con- solation for every grief. The moralists have tanght to the contrary, but the moralists havo spoken out of decp poverty, and have not been accopted as unprojudiced witness. es. Thera was no renson why Mr. CooL- BAvGit should at once have Leen declared in- sane, except that Lo had voluntarily deprived himself not only of life, but of a large for. t;mc, which many moen esleem dearer than lifo, The practice of attributing snlcide to in. sanily is dangerous and pernicious. The effect of it may be perceived in a communi. cation printed in Monday's Tminuse, the writer of which seriously maintained that all murdors ns welt aa all anicides wero produced by insanity. The first consequencs of ox- plaining all murders on the hypothesis of insanity is to justify and require tho aboli- tion of capital punishment. As to the com- parison of tho insanity which controls tho suicide with that which controls the mur- derer, wo intend no dispute with our corre. spondent. The suicide may or mny not be insane, Bociety, in its organized enpaeity, does not cara whether he is insane or not, ‘The suicldo provides for himself by appoal. ing his caso to a higher court, where 10 eminent counsel are retained to acquit, no Jjuries packed, and no testimony from experts required. Boclety cannot punish him, and society consequently Liss nothing todowith him, oxcept to bury bim when his friends do not undertako that task, Tho suicide, morcover, differs from all other criminals inasmuch as he inflicta the greatest injurics upon Limself, Ho oceuplos about the position nt the bar of so- cloty of tho man who, having o largo for- tuno, should deliberately destroy it orim- providently wastu it, aud leave his family in destitute circumstances. The snicide does violonco to himself and his own; ho over- comos tho central instinot of self-preserva- tion; and he inflicts upon Limself the pun. ishment which socioly has set apart for the greatest criminals, In all theso respects o differa from tho murderer. ‘The question that ought to be raised by the opponents of capital punishment is not one of greater or less punishment for mur. der, but of punishmont in any degroe or for any kind of erime, If murder is, produced invariably by a disorder of the mind which amounts to insanity, all doeds of violenco must result from tho tamo causo, It fol- lows that all the crimes but tho small onos ought to bo attributed to insanity, and all the persons who commit them onght to be troated for cnro in insano nsylums, If there be such a thing aa an amiable crime, it would probably be eradicated under the now regimo by hard labor in 8tate Prisons, while the victims of insano, otherwise kuown a8 angry, passions would be cared for more tondorly in soparate institutions. The mur. derors, burglars, garroters, bhighwaymen, forgers, and rapists must be, by analo. gy of reasoning, all momentarily insano, Nay, more: the publle officers who catch theso eriminals, tho Judges and juriea who conviot them, and tho jailors who keep them, must be the viotims of n noble rage. Hang- ing can be justified with the arguments of the porsons who oppose it; for it can bo said thot soclety is ecized with o fatal paroxysm when It catches a villain who bos taken an innocent life, alrings the murderer up momentarily, it wore, in n fronzy of passion. W¢ do not need to go ns far ns this, howover, to justify hanging: It finda a broad basis of reason tn tho' natore of things and in ox- perlence. Socloty hns established it as tho beat deterrent of murder, aud aa the only adequate punlshment of murderers; and ex. perienco lins domonstrated that the afirma. tions of socioty In this vespoct are true, Fulsa notions of human responsibility are encouraged by sentimentnl letters such as the one writton by Mr. Honine for Monday's TuisuNe. Ouly & coufusion of idens aud o want of logical acumen could beteny mon s ogrogiously. In one seuso all extraordinary ood uctions as woll as all oxtraordinary bud ones cau be attributed to a temporary dis- ordor of tho mind, but we do not on that account think of restraining the binefactors of tho race of thelr liberly, 'The poet's eye, which is “in a fine frenzy rolling,” and lvooks from earth to heaven, from heaven to earth, Is better evidenco of Insauily than would be required to agquit the blackest criminal known to history, Butethe poct is not donied the fruits of his labor; avd, with. in certaln linits, tho murderer should none thio leas suffer tho consequences of hix acts because his possions sre inflamed and lis Judgment warped. "Tho silver {n two half-dollars,or four quarters, or ten dimes, is only worth as bullion 87 cents; but, for paying small debts, it {s worth the same 0s greenbacks, For buying auy kind of merchandise In inoderate amouuts, or paying for labor, those subsidiary coins are worth ns much as greenbucks, vis.: 973 ceuts. What makes the the $10,000,0000f alloyod siiver suall money worth 075 ceuts oa the doilar? Because they are legal-tenders, although only for $3, 8uppose siiver dotlars‘wera remonctized, how much would they be worthi Of neccssity uot leas than the greenbacks, viz.: 973¢ cents, They would coutain six couts more silver thau the subeidiary coiu; snd It Is wonsenss to sssert that they would be of less valuo than the sub- aldjary, when they also aro made legal-tenders. A resolution offered by Mr, SENNE o tha County Board, Monduy, providiug for the aboli- tion of JomN RoOUNTREE and with bin thy atlice of Couuty Attorney, has a pleasaut smack for tho taxpayers. ‘The functions of the otfice under the present incumbeot are lmited to keepiug the ** Ring" members out of jail und providiug for bis own re-election. This service is uot worth the $7,000 snnually pald for ft, and we shall look to a passaze of the resolution as indication of further reforms In storv for the people. ————— In the interest of the Hon. Tox Ewixo, a resolution for adjournment of the speclal ses- slon will shortly bo presented. The adjourn- went will euable Mr. Ewing to kdep nls agree- ment with his coustituents, lle cau thon speak st length on bis anti-resuwption bill, sud, upon a call of the roll, thers will bo his vote fu the allirmative and nous opposed, thus securiog the vassage of tho measure. In working for an adjournment Aly, Ewingbas catablished u repu- and jt & tation as a parlamentarian to which his eTorty hitherto have not entitiel him, amwd it 1, Took s [T he had fnstencd Bis eagle.¢ achemne from the tirat, and been tualing 1} ponents from the start, e o 9 this his oz ——— That Pittsburg Grand Jury s entitled to gy hospltatls and bloody a grave na ever was dug, Not satisfied with finding that rioters wera pec. fectly justified {n burning, killing, nud atealing, they regret that Gov. IARTRANFT and the T'hiladelphia militla were not within their Jurisdiction to indict for tus occurrences of that gory July 8undav, Hereafter when the Penn. sylvania authorities want to eatch tramps ang rioters, all thcy have to do Is to Impaue) o Graud Jury, — Bomotimeazoaman by thenameof Praremang some charges agalust somne army people whosy names we have forgotten. Subsequently it way reported that tho Secretary of War had eclded that any lnquiey into the sudject was unneces. sary. It now appears that this was an erpor, and the Sccretary announces that he wiil umrl: iy Instituto an Investigatlon, probably witl, a view to ascertalning who this Mr. P1atr is, ——————r—— Canter HARRISON, we aro informed by the Washington dispatches, * made a speccti partly serious and partly bumorous,” Thatis thewny CART. tins. ‘The serioua parts are the Lumor. ous and the bumorous the serlous, R S R Five thousand for a Commissioner-General and $1,000 apleco for twenty assistants at the Parls Exposition fs too mueh. That's wha's the matter with HAnxA, There s a good deal of truth in Hawrrys charge that Cox does not reside In the districy he represents. He lives In hopes of yet belng Speaker. | # There is a suspicion that Si177ixa Buri's de. scription of a man with ears all over his head was {utended for the Jlerald's interviewer, | In the death of Pongo, DARWIN loses the only scientlst who agreed with Lim on the origin of mau. PERSONAL. Bogardus desires to shoot against Paine for $5,000 a side, $1,000 forfelt. The facade of the Duomo nt Flovence, so long left unfulshed, Is likely soon to bs come pleted., ‘Thera are seven officers in England who were in the battloof Trafalgar, ten years before Waterloo. The Athenaum assorts that a romance hitberto unknown by Edzar Allan Poe, entitled **The Journal of Julius Rodman," has been un. earthed. ‘I'he Boaton Herald mnkes charges of se. rions Irregularitiek 1n the Hoston Post-OMce, and patticularly of favoritlsm on the part of Poat- maater Burt, ‘Weudell Phillips haswritton another letter about the Sumner-Fish quarrcl to tho Meruld, ‘The patlence of everybody concern:d was eshaust. ed by the provious arguments on both stdes, The Indisuapolis Journal denies the wide. ly-published report that the late Senator Morton owned a half-interest in that paper. It says: **Senator Morton never held one dotlarof Intereat, efther directly or judieectly, in tho Journal,"* Tho Springfleld Republican * romarks: **Willle Winter thinks ho s *an educated man,' notwithstanding Dion Louctcault, But if ho iy, why dots he say, *not 80 very lung ago, nefthery * Aud why dous ho writo such rot about Adelside Netlson and Ueorge Fawcott ltowa? I'welvo bridesmaids will attoud the bride of the Duko of Norfolk, Lady Flora Hastlngs, to tho altar at the Lrompton Oratory to-day. h of them will bo proscated with & massivo gold bracelet, studded with pearts and bearng tne bride's monogram {n dianionds, surmounted bya Ducal coronet, Tho ladies of West Branch, Ta., have formed a Soclal Science Club, with the fullowing oftlcers: I'resdent, Mew, Luura Minthomn; Secre- tary, Mrs. N, W, Macy; Exocutive Committer, Mrs. Auna Rich, Miss Ciara Bean, Mre. Civa War- ringlon. ‘This thiey dId to pleaso Matilda Fictcher, and it i 10 bo hoped thoy will- keep 1t up far thist owu pleasare and profit, Dr. T. J. Dills, of Fort Wayno, being called for a professional uplalon In a wurder trial, refused to give his evidence excopt for a reasona- ble foo, and was sent to jail for contumot of cuurt, Hohas taken this pusitlon ae a representative of the Allen County Medical Soclety, for tho purposs of having it authoritatively svitted whether pro- feasional men can bo competled 1q glva testimony &8 oxperts fn criminal cases without payment for tholr services, Tho announcement that the Marguis of Lorne ls about to be ralsed to the Poerage, when 8 will to ile sest in Parilament as meusoor for Argylishiro, calls attentlon 1o the fact tnat the Princess Loulse is marrled to o commoner, The title of Marquia la borne by her husband vnly ssa title of courtesy in hls quality s» clucet son and helr of the Duke of Argyll. Legally he s simply SirJohn Douglan Sutherland Campoell, a Knlgnt of the Thistle, with the style of Right Hoaoruble in virtue uf Lis position as & Privy Councllor, Boya Joy Gould in his papor: *'I'wo of tho mildost-mannercd and softost-volced men in Now York sreJohn Kelly and John Morrisscy, Mr. Kelly seldoin speaks lond onough to be heard across the room, and hle toncs, If not preciscly *vocal velvet,' aro pecullarly soft sud mellow for & man. Mr. Morrlssoy's voice has been almost loat for years, and It Is an effort for bim 1o speak at all, and a8 for milduess of maunors. neither of Aheso terribla characters would Larm & dog, and eltticr would go & block oat of the way to avold & crowd," Tdmond About was recently challenged by a Donapattist lawyer, who pretended that ho had been nsulted by some remarks Iu the Nineteenth Uentuary, \he Kepublican jourpal of which About Isune of the editors. It appesrs that M, Joly was hurt by the strictures on his conduct during the clections, and therefore roared for blood. About simply refused to Oght with him. Thercnpon 3. Joly wrote a prowsly injurious Jutter conceratng the Journalist, aud scot copica of 1t to all the principal Journals of the city; but none excopt the Tuys, the organ of that excesstvely chivalrous and intenscly refined youth Faul de Cassagnac, printed the libel. M. About was ongry because oveu Do Cassaguss printed §t, snd bas determined to prosccute the Luye s well as tho Bopapartist lawyer before the correctional police. Miss Annie Blory, nicce of the late Chiof Justice Story, and u recent Treasury gir), has been brouzht out fu Washington as & professlonal acte resa, through attention having been ealled to some dramatic rcadinge by her In private. Thers are difficrent opinfons 8 to Ler abllity and nltimate success, with thu respective merits of which tuls slory has nothing to do. Darlug the week **Pink Dowinus™ has been running st tho Natlonsl, and Mivs Story was cast for ono of the threo Dominod. Haviug conacientious scruples agalnsg appearing in the play, she declined te porform the past, after two ot three niglits, and It was found necessary to find 8 substitute sud angounce thatalio wad rick. ‘Cliat was ali well enough, but sh was bebind the wcenes ond witnessed the play during the mat- inee performance. A Washington correspondent thiuks the play ourlit to havu been too bad to look st il it was 100 bad to act In. Tue Oincinnati Commercial now under- takes to eolve & docp and awful mystery, namely, who ls Julia A, Mooie, the sweet singur of Michi- gun? The story goue that Julia A. Moore Las been Riviog readings tbroughout Michigan., Dressed caactly as [n the picture on the outside of bLer book, with wildly-Bowing puctical halr bulning up 10 chunks throogh her pastedoard diadens, sho up- pearsupon the stage aod roads in & dulorous whine ber own productions, **composed by the suthor, " the truthful pleces **which speak of detug killed, died, or drowned,” Every placo sao goes, it is | sald, the Lalls and sodieace-roows are crowded time the **Sweet Singer marksble recitations on the subjectof **being kitied, dlod, or drowned,” her audicuce lains witd uproar of laughter. A full brass Laad usual- Iy addeto the attractions of the eveniug, sod st toe close this hana suddeuly fotches up with a tree menooas snort or {oot, the whole scens being lo- deacrivably ludlcrous, Tho Commerclul secus to tbluk the bouk 1s & boax, for which Kyder, tue Cleveland publisher, (s responsible; but the fact that the orlginal puollshor was 8 Grand Raplds wan who aald out 20 ltyder cosfllcs wlin this theury.