Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 25, 1877, Page 4

— . L IETR . OITICA QO TRIDIND SUNDaAY, “wovEIBER ‘25, 1877~SIXTEEN o3y PAGES. Thve Trilmne. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy. per Clib of four.. Speclioen copiesrent 1ree. Give Pust-Otlce address {n fall, fncluding Stateand e eitapces maybe made cither by draft, express, Post-OfEc order, o in Tegistered lotters, at our risk. TZRMS TO CITY SUBSCRILERS. Dy, delivered. Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. 1 541y, dellveivd, Sunday included, 30 cents per week. adiress TUE TEIEGNE COMPANY, Corzer Hadzon and Dearboru-sts... Chicsgo. L. Orders for the delivery of Tie Tri 1 Evapston. Engleweod, aud Hyde Park left In the counting-room il receive vrompt aticatton SOCIETY MEETINGS. RENSSELAER GRAND LODGE OF PERFEC- Y T iion Tote Afacons Wit hotd Spectal Lnscmbiy on_Friday_evenfis Work ou the #Fourth and Fifth Demrecs, By order JUHN O'NEILL T % P.%Gm Moy ED GOODALE, Graud Sec. 0. 2, It A. M.—Thall, 76 fon Monday evening. Nov. k. for business, and work on the 11u7s cordialiy fnvited to nect v W. 1. REID, 1. TCCKER. Sec. us. 22 NOME LODGE. No.416, 1. 0. 0. F.—All members gorequestea o meet at their hall Monany crening, Xor. 28, corner of Adans and Las: A o G exempify 1l seret worki, rothers o = ure i d. of tie Order ure cordiully Y OGNSEURY, Sec. nizhts of Pytnias— shecially requesied o rrow (Moa- IMPERIAL LODGE, X Thie membera of 1his Lodge zuler 1. KNIGHTS TEM- fonroe- APOLLO COMMAN PLAL b Spe=ial Cot on_Tueséay ¢ o'dlock, prompt. T ferred.” Visitonsalwass GORINTHIAX CHAPT! Regular Contocation Mod wclosk. Work on the Ma . AL C J. 0. DICKERSON, Secretary. municaiia el Ly OFaer o Fes soniilinghen JAMES KEATS, . M. JOHN GINOCHIO. Sec. Iy order i A BURBANK, J. 0. DICEERSOY, Recorder. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 18i7. CHICAGO KARELT SUMMARY, re active and, closed 71, L: ders and 67c for do soort rite. were dull, at 4¢ for corn to’ Builaio. hisher, at $1.003 for November and $1.08% for December. Comn closed steadier, at45%c for Novemberand 3¢ for December. Qats closed trm for Decom-- bher. Rye was enc steady, at ~were il and 10¢ 1oy wrere quict 2nd stea dull at §2.7574.00. liogs this month. fiece 81,901 brls foar. 761 bu ca 1 4.40. Catile Sheep were bu wheat, 637,866 b . 17,300 by rye, 202,510 bu 06 cattle. Export- 15 flour, $61.455 bn Inspected into store cars wheat, 304 0 b outs, § Total (670 cars), in gold would at the close: wheat, and 560,111 du corn. in this eity Satorda; cars and 4. Onc hunér 102. 8712 in greenbach Destructive floods are once wore reported from Virginin. Incessant ruins heve raised the water-courses, and already " considerable properly hes been destrozed, with a fair prospect of even greater damage before ihe waters subside. Reidlway tralic is inter- yupted snd {clegraphic communication cut off by the inundation, znd there is cvery propkecy that the disaster of 1570 is aboat 1o be repeated. Urless a radical chacge shall take place to-doy in the aspect ‘of affeirs, Burrre will probably pass throngh furnece to-mor- row and conde forth » well-done and turned- over Senntor. Coxover still sticks to him, ard unless Patreesox dies of fright the business may be considered as consummsted. Coxover wiil tken bend his giant vote in favor of XELLOGG, while PaTTERSON, looking nup from his political coffir, will perform as the Democratic grove-diggers direct. Scnator Coxoves, of Florids, is utilizing his time in explaining his position. It ap- pears from lus statement that he is as good 2 Republicen as could possibly be put for- ward, but that he is t2king a sorb of vacation and voting with the Democracyyin order to Drace himself for the time when his party necdshim, at which time he will duly and gracefully flop again 2nd come up smiling. The vhole business, Wwith him, is 2 matter of recreation, and he pssures the country that after he has cfected the seating of a Demo- erat o will go back to his duties, refroshed and invigorated, and prepored for any emer- gencr- i Advices from the City of Mexico indicate a disposition on the past of the Grensers for arow, while intelligence from Texas points towards an icclination {o assist mn any war- like festivities thet tho Mezicans may ingu- garate. The Stete Department at Washing- ton is busily ecgaged in winding red tape around the sore spots, with indifferent re- sulls up to date. Gov. Htepampis repre- sented s spoiling for a fight which may be temporarily * delayed, but which may not be Jar distant. His troops aro not disinciined fora brush with their natoral cnemies, and every hour briugs the contestants nearer the ‘point of contset. Al along the line of Chief Josepa’s march fo his quarters at Fort Leavenworth the 3 w?&my savage ond his braves are received * with warm demonstrations of athy. 3L Paul yesterdey o eoup!usyégpm:‘m:; sdle-faces turned out to express their sympathy with the copper-colored childran of the prairie and sealping-knife, The dis- + patchies indicate that the breve sons of Min- nesota, aided and abetted by the fair ladies of their bailiwick, are inclined to look upon the red-skins as sadly sinned against, o feel- ing that might well obtain outside those Intitudes to which Joserm has confined his operations, but one which will find but in. diffzrent echo in the breasts of those who nanaged by dint of great industry to inhabit e country through which the Chief chose i make his marches. i Thi_s morning’s dispaiches afford but meagre and unsatisfzctory details of the ter- zible digaster to the United Stales gunboat Buron. ~ During tho storm of Friday night she wes driven ashore st Currituck; off the North Carolina coast. She was a third-class steam vessel, schooner-rigged, carrying 119 men and fifteen officers, and so far as known only thirty were saved. She :sailed from Fortress Monroe Friday for Savaumah, and when twelve hours out encountered 2 heavy gale from the southeast. The theory is that, in trying to heave to, a portion of her machinery gave way, and her sails being useless, she drifted on # sand-spit and broke up. There was no effort to save her peopls, as the efficient life-saving station in that vicinage had not been manned. - Steamers have been dispatched to the sceme of the wreck, and it is possible that a few tiribers and acoil or two of ropo may be saved, thongh this is by no eans certain. —ees During the Covey * held-over” Adminis- stration of tl«d City Government, the intro- duction of an ordinance in the Common Council authorizing prties to establish gas- works, aud to lay pipesand mains in the streets and olleys of the city, was a matter of weekly occurrence. If we remember rightly, there was at one time no less than four so-called companies contending for the privilege of erecting gas-works and laying down pipes and mains in this city. After the reform in the City Council, the business did not cease. On the 11th of Angust, 1876, the City Council passed two ordinanges, one chertering the “ Coke Gaslight Company,” and the other the ** Consumers’ Gaslight Company,” and on Sept. + new ordinauces were possed in relation to these com- panies. As was suspected at the time, nothing came of these ordinances. The City Council had wasted wecks in dis- cussing and smending them; nnd when the privileges were voted to the “ compenies,” nobody wanted to put in the capital, and that was the end of them. Some time ago, an ordinance wns introduced granting to Manrox S. Frost and Epwarp J. Frost, of Philadelphin, the franchise to establish gas- works and lay down gas-pipes, mains, and service-pipes in the streets, alleys, and pub- lic grounds of Chicago, which ordinance, after several months, it is proposed to tzke up this week and dispose of. Is not this Dbustness pretty well eshausted? In thedays before the reform of the City Government, everyhody understood the blackmail pur- pose of these ordinsuces; but no such rea- son can be supposed to exist under the new Government ; and with the ceasing of the reason for the ordinances, ought not the ordinances elso to stop? The City Conncil hos brevely and well managed its dealings with the existing Gas Compacies. It has made sn immense saving in its expenditures for gas. Tke Gas Compauics have not only reduced the cost of gas to the , but the West Side has also reduced its price to pri- vate consumers. The South Side Company should also make a reduction to its private consumers without further delay, and we suppose it will do it. The city has shown that, deaiing with these Compauies in the right end direct way, it can, whenever neces- , compel them to act fairly and justly with the publie. In the meantime, the man- ufacture of new compenies at the request of every speenlator who wants to have some- thing to sell might be omtted by this Coun- el That kind of business, however sue- cessfut in olden times, has become stale, and is unwortby of the present Council. When there aro two or thres such charters now ontstanding and unused, what is the need of more ? THE REPEAL OF THE RESUMPTION BILL. Tize vote in the House of Representatives on the prssage of the bill to repeal so much of the Resumption act asdirects the redemp- tion of the greenbacks on demand in coin onand after Jen. 1, 1879, showed but a small majority in favor of the bill. The vote was yess, 133; nays, 120, and 34 dodgers. ~ This majority in the House, beirg small, would indicate thet the bill will have no chance of passing in the Senate. This result may, Lowever, be largcly affected by circumstauces as they occur withiz the next few months. In the first place, Congress will remain in tinucus session until next June. At that [ate there will still be six months of time intervening before the deaie of resumption. The probabilities of obtaining a supply of coin with which to redeem will, by thet time, be more definitely established ; and for this reason many members who have no faith in the agsurances of the Secretary of the Treasuyy were willing to posipone action present. But o great consideration govgming many members on this subject was prospect of remonetizing silver, end giv- g the country the benefit thereof in the way 'of rosumption. 'The free coinnge of silver would bring to the mint n large supply of silver, far in excess of the capacity of the mint to coin_into dollars, but” the silver in coin and in bars would nevertheless be on hand, aud certificates of the deposit of these bars in the wint to be coined would have the some valne os the coin itself. With the whole sum of silver on hand, coined or on deposit waiting to be coined, and all avsilable to mect coin oblign- tions, whether of the Government or of the P:mks, _the difficulty of redeeming greenbacks in coin will be obvisted. Silver and greenbacks will be equivalent, and TeSuInp- tion will have tzken place 2s a matter of course. ‘That Silver billis yet pending in the Senate, but with a prospect of passing by 8 decided mejority. Itisnot yet alaw, and the strongest efforts will be made to defeat the bill, even after it shall have passed both Heuses of Congress. If the Silver bill shall l{e vetoed, aud the Government shall in- SISE upon attempting to redeem in Jonuary, 1879, in gold, and force the country to adopt an exclusive gold currency, as demanded by the Skylocks, then an appeal to the country at the clection of Representatives next Novewber may determine authoritatively both the question of gold resumption and silver remonetization, i The Wall street Shylocks ave forcing mat- ters {o a direct issue with the péople. It they shall in auy way procure the defeat of silver remonetization, then they must take the consequences. To defent that measure is to put the country at defiance. It is to challenge the people to do their worst, and at the election next fall for Congressmen and for State Legislatures which are to elect Senators, there will bo a popular unanimity such as has not been witnessed since the country rose en mass to vote men and money for the War. Mr. BrLawp’s speech was not all an idle threat. It wasa fair notice that, ina conflict between the people and the Skylocls, the Iatter may congratulate themselves if the remonetization of silver and the repeal of resumption in gold bo all that will be en- forced by the popular will. . The Resumptiodl law, with silver remox- etized and flowing to the mints in quantities excc.eding the coinage ecapacity of those es- tablishments, is one thing; but the Resamp- tloulm!', withsilverdemonetized and paymaent ?i nIl debts public and private in dear gold, is quite another thing. While a Representa- tive in Congress might be willing to tolcrate the Resumption law with silver restored ns a legal-tender, and the mints employed in | coining silver doliars, the same Represanta- tive might-well feel otkerwise when the question of resuming specie psyments in gold alone was directly presented to him. Of course, if the bill to remonetize silver ‘be defeated by a veto or otherwise, the same influences can defeat the repeal of the Re- sumption law, and thus the question of & double standard of gold and silver, or of gold exclusively, will be the governing one at the November election a year hence, and npon this question there will bo no party division in the West, or Northwest, or South, and the people mey find a way to have their will ex- ccuted in spite of the Syndicates-and Shy- locks of the East, and in spite of the objec- tions and prejudices of oven the Executive, led by the Secretery of the Treasury, Senators aud Representatives, and those in exccutive authority, may profit by a calm considera- tion of the consequences of putting the nn- tion 2t defiance. THE SEXION BRICK JOB, Mr. P. J. Scxron secwns to bea special favorite of the County Ring and its attehd- ant satellites. The statement is mado that bho was given an order on the County ‘Treasurer last Friday for £50,000 on account, in_the face of the fact that there was a dis- crepancy between the County Architect’s measurement and the measurement of the Committes of Experts amounting to nearly 2,000,000 of bricks. The swirdling allow- anceof estras on this samo contract ought nlso to be sufficient reason for refusing him payment till there shall have been an oppor- tunity to correct the whole matter; but there seems to be a determination on the part of the Ring that the job shall be rushed through and tho money paid before the new Board shall have an opportunity to set it aside. As an instance of the operntions of the Ring, this final rct of villainy may as well be recounted in brief. Sexron got the contract for furnishing brick, of a description and quality corresponding to what is known as sewer brick, at $9 per, thousand. ‘Thiat this was a very liberal price is evident from the fact that the city has been buying sewer brick, used in the actual con- struction of sewers, at prices ranging from 25,55 to G0 per thousand. It is also stated that a large portion of the sewer brick furnished the city came from SexToN's yard, so that he must have sold them as low as that, or for less, as tho contractors who bought from him and sold to the city must heve mads something ou the transnction. ad he been content with his origing con- tract prico of £9, he would still have received over §3 per thousand in excess of what other contractors have received ; but he even demanded 53 “extra” per thousand on the gronnd that sewer brick had been furnished, and that they wero not expressly named, though fully described, in the con- tract. This ** exira” was allowed by the Ring majority in the Board, sud as a result Sextox receives 312 a thousand for the same bricks that are scld to the city for less than $6 a thousand; in other words, he receives more than doublo what they are worth. Besides this, he is credited with nearly 2,000,000 brick that have not been delivered at zll, according to the measurement of the ox- perts. The not result of this transection is that the comuty is plundered about £35,000, including the allowance for brick not delivered and the cutrageous overcharge mede on the brick actually used. This is a fair sample of the way in which the county affairs have been administered by the Ring. To is preposterous to assume that anumber of County Commissioners banded together to put £33,000 into Mr. SExTON'S pocket, over and above = reasonable profit on his contract, withont some share of the robbery. The squandering of public moneys Las scarcely become n mere pastime. Wo dv mnot think so badly even of the Cook County Ring as to believe that they vote away the people’s money in raseally jobs for the :mere fun of thedhing. They regard the Sextox brick job as their last chance, nnd wané to meke the most of it. Asitseemsa hopeless matter to reach and punish the Tingsters by process of law, we can only hope thet Sex7ox will keep all the money ho is able to lay his hands on, and let the retir- ing members of the Board whistle for any share of it on which they may have counted. This Sexrox job illustrates pointedly the necessity for the new members of the Board to enter upon their duties without even the appearance of combination, but simply and cpenly as the sworn agents of the people. | There ave five of them,—Alessrs. Srorrorp, JMeyer, Burnive, Borsk, aud WoEELEm,— nand they censtitute a nucleus for the forma- tion of n taxpayers’ majority in the Board. There are four of the old members who ought to join them on this brond basis, viz. : Messrs. Avars, SexsE, Tanon, and Frrzeen- arp. Let these old members be thrown upen their own responsibility. Any one of them who fails to make common cause with the new members agaiust the old Rung and its influences will do so at his peril. Agree- ments and trades are not in the interest of the public. Wkat is needed isan open and’ courageous attack on the Ring. Q| THE EXPENSE OF FRAUDS. Wkenever o fraud is perpetrated, the first instinct of the community is to deprecate it from a moral point of view. We deplore the dishonesty of the fraud and the low stage of morals that has nllowed it to be- come possible, and we assiduously study how to raise the standard of morals in {he commercinl world. If the forger or defaulter bz a man who has occupied a prominent position in the religions world, has been a Deccon in the Church or a Superintendent in the Sunday-school, we go stil decper into the moralities, and are apt to jump at the conclusion that the OChurch is growing worldly and going fo the dogs, and that there isnokope for any onc when Deacons and Sundny-school teachers go eostray. Tho moral aspects of frauds are cerlainly impor- tant, but they are not all. Fraad hasits political cconomy as well as finance, and it is worthy of study. Leaving out of consid- eration the provisions of the Decalogue as they apply fo commercial frauds, the expense account of forgerics, defal- cations, and ecmbezzlements as it re- relates to honesty is absolutely startling. It amounts to a heavy tax upon hoaest peo- ple, which is imposed at stated times, the assessment varyinfin different countries and being fenrfully onerons in this, and the col- lsctions being made with promptness and in full. There are no arrearages in these fraud taxes. There are no back taxes. They never appear on Supreme Court dockets, and ‘there are no decisions involving them in the law reports.. Every honest man pays them withe out question, und while he may bewnail the immorelity of the Assessor and Collector, he hardly stops to consider the ambunt or the injustice of the tax. Looking at .the ques- tion from this point of view, the London Spectator, in a recent articlo mpon frauds, finds that this tax 1s 5o large ““ that in cor- taic branches of industry joint-stock enter- prise has been almost drawn out of the field by an actual increnso in the cost of produc- tion as effectually as if a hard tax lad }:{:e::l 1mposed upon the earnings of companies. It cites the following illustrations : An eminen English Inwyer stated the other day at the Social Science Congress, With the comeur- rence of Lord Grrrono, a Scotch Judge, that tho whole law of frands must be attered If companies were to be protected.. But this is only a portion of the evil. Mr. Grerex has shown, in his avle essay on Stock-Exzchange Secaritles, the geriously injurions cffect on the prices of sound, excellent securities, which fs produced by the dutection of +‘bogus " companies. *‘A shrinkage of valnes® all round oceurs waen the public become aware of the nature of such enterprises as the Lisbon Tram- way Companies. The effect ia cxactly the same a3 if tho Chancellor of the Exchequer were to levy a tux’of 10 or 15 per cent on the capital of all com- panics whose shares srequoted. . . -. oughly epeakinz, we may say that none of the fourth-rate States of the world can borrow except on terms which arc virtually prohibitive, on account of their detected dishoncsty. The disclosures brought to light before the Foreign Loans Com- mittee, and the sharp experience .with respect to Spain and Turkey, not to mention many other States which have practiced **the confidence trick, " have destroyed the power of the smaller States to borrow. The studout engaged in analyzing frauds from the moral point of view will casily sea where this tax comes in, and how and why it 1s pnid, if he will study the subject from the politico-economical point. He will find that on nccount of commercial crimes Lonest business men ave subjected to an additional expenso for bolts, bars, locks, and guards, They pay an extra expense for policcmen and dotectives. They pay nn exira expense on accountof incendiary fires. They pay twomen for doing one man's work, and a third man for watching the other two. They pay’enor- mously for the veritication of accounts. In stock associations, they pay a manager for superintendence, Directors for looking after the managers, Committee Boards for looking after the Dircetors, accountants for looking after tho Boards, experis for looking aftér theaccountants, and sometimes detectives for looking after the experts, while the detectives generally look after themselves. When the concern goes to smash, a Receiver looks after the fregments, and somebody looks after the Receiver. The tax is also paid in additional rates of interest, and whoever negotintes a loan pays 'a direct impost to the credit of freud, or, more strictly spenking, to the ac- count of risk. Why isit that the Government can borrow at 4 per cent interest when the ordinary rato is 8 por cost? Simply because there is no fraud-tax levied. The people have confidence in the Government. If they had the same faith in the individual, money might be had at the samo rate. As it is, they pay 4 per cent interest and 4 per cent fraud-tax. The gross amonnt of this tex it is impossible to estimate, but it is all the time increasing, because fraud is all the time in- crensing. Herpeerr SpeENcCER, one of tho most comprehensive of observers, says that, “while the great and direct frauds have been diminishing, the small and in- direct frauds bave Dbeen increasing atike in variety and namber” While lLe is undoubtedly correct as to the small frauds, it moey well be questioned whether he is not incorrect as to the larger opes. ~ Certainly, in this country, huge irauds in breach of trust and criminal mismanage- ment have never been more plentiful than they are just now. In fact. it is doubtful whether the smuller frands can increaso without at the same time increasing the larger ones, and vice tersa. It looks very much as if both clnsses were on the steady incrense, ond to snch an extent that the tax is nearly prohibitive on certain forms of in- dustry and is shoving others into inevitable bankruptey. If a person or company are strong crough fo pay for the risk necessi- tated by this tax, they can go on, but there are very few who ean do it. The student of freuds, therefore, does nmot do his whole duty in simply bewniling the decadence of ‘public morality. . He should give cousidern- tion to this regularly-organized business of dishonesty, which levies so large a tax on honesty es to make the business of the latter unprofitable, and see if there is any way to avoid paying the tax. READING HISTORY FO2 PLEASURE, Some of the contributors to The Home de- partment of Tie Trisuse have called atten- tionof late to the importance of historical read- ing. They have been disposed to limit the cussion by considerations of woman’s capacities and tastes: but the subject demands a broader treatment. Ienorance of history is not peculiar to the women of this conntry; the deprivations caused by it arc not so keenly felt by them as by the men. The West is 5o largely engrossed in business that, as 2 rule. the. women lhave Jarger opportunities for useful ‘reading, nd avail themselves more generally of them, than the men do. AN aliike, with few exceptio cither do not read the rieht kind of books or read less than they mizht aud ought toread. "The women are too much given over to fiction, and the men to newspapers, magazines, andre Biographv is a favorite form of reading with both classes, because it feeds the apyctite for gossip and cnables the reader of it to make a large display on a slender stack of information. ~How 1 is it since the achievements of HARREET MARTINEAT, Crarees Ki EY, Lord MACAULAY and their contemporarics wera ringing in our ears? Ilow Iong willit be again before the Life of Cnanues SumxER shall be on every {ashionable table, and unimportant ancedotes concerning him furnish the staple of couversation at every esoteric tea-party? The knowledge that gathered from biograpbies of eminent men not to be deprecizted or despised, but it is not the knowledge which is of most worth. It shonld be acquired as the supplement and orna- ment of a thorongh acquaintance with history, not as the basis of a liberal education. The chief reason tor studyiug history, aside from the pure delight it affords when intelli- gentlv pursued, is the tendency of knowledee derived from this souree to broaden hnmau ex- | perience and sympathics. History extends the vision of the race indefinitely b ward. The man who has studied it faithfully, and kept its vrominent facts in mind, is not the chiid of to- day or of yesterday. butof all pasttime. A thou- saud years are in his sight but as ove dav, and one day as a thousand. years. Such an one not only leads a Jarger life by réason ot his knowl- cdge, but he corrects his. experience daily, Imost every ‘minute, by that of the h have preceded bim; he lifts his feel- ings out of the ruts whichi selfishness uud sensu- ality have creatéd for them, and places them on a higher plane and in a clearer Jizht. Great historiuns like Giosox, MAcAGLAY, GROTE, and Nicouns, withpowers ot assimilating facts, per- ceptions of relations, and memories that retain cverything, have lived a hundred times the span of ordinary hmman existence. METHUSA- LEI was to them aninfunt in swaddling cloths for METRUSALED could see hardly more than the- distance of his own time backwards to Noam.' His range of vision was as narrow as his experience, and in his day that must have been contracted, not merely by the want of a race-history, but by scanty means of communication between existing tribes, and the inability of all to preserve their names and deeds in coduring records. - Annihilate memory and you deprive man of all that he cousiders worth possessing, even'to the knowledge of his loss. Tbe ceprivation is only less in degree, not different in kind, when the memory is bur- dened with the facts of 2 common, everyday existence to the exclusion of all or most that we inberit. The futuce life without the preser- vation of the individual memory would be no better than t.mnflnht\on, and the present life « is hardly worth the having if it is not peoe- trated and stirred by the leaven of unrest hauded down from Apaxt and Noan. Everybody cannot be an historian or a scholar, but every- body can make honest efforts to dimmish his ignorance. B Reading by rote. or from a sense of duty, is a foolsh practice. This is taking hold of the question at the wrong end. It is an assumption that history is a dangerous drug or a soporific, and that the proper way to administer it is by hypodermic injections. Some teachers deal out history in small doses, as if they were trying to accustom the system to it. Autipathy to his- torical reading is evidence of a depraved taste, ora faulty ancthod. In the former case, the wayto restore the tone of the mind is to bring aids to the assistance of history. Clothe It, it need be, in the garments of romance : sogar- coat it with the idyls of the poets, or the folk- lore and myths that have sprung up in every nation and country. No methods or devices, however, can repair fully the injury of a long course of bad reading, resulting in dissipated cnergies and feeble powers of con- centration. 1f a faulty method be to blame, as it generally is, the remedy is casier. Instead of taking one author or one book at a tirge, and following no connected line of invisbi} tion. pursue the subject to its hiding-placesbf means of all the authorities that are necessary for the purpose. Talke the literature of - the period a8 the best guide to its drift and thought; but do not fail into the common and danzerous error of making the literaturc an end. What a wonderful lizhe is thrown upon a long period of Gredian history by the tragedies of SoruoCLES, Euririoes, and ZscuyLus, the comedies of ARIsTOPIANES, the Diulogues of PrLATO, and every mstance the isease was arrested within three daye, and in severat cases relief was obtained - in from eight to- twelve “hours. - The drag cid not appear to heve any antipyretic effect. The vatients 100k the zcld in ten and twenty grain doses, in cnpsules, at varving intervals. In the same hospi- tal tnree cuses of chronic rheumatism were treated with ealicylic actd withont_uny good results. In bis private practice Dr. YANDELL has used this drug in five pronounced cases of acate rhcumatism with entlre success: and in another case this drug, combined with quinine, broke up the disease. ‘Tho authior writes that salicylic acid is best given in milkc; it gives the milk u sweetfsh-sourish tasie; alitste tickling and eense of slight constriction may e felt about the throat, and an insigoif cough {8 not uncommon. He adds: alicylic acid I8 the lirst and only remedy that has proved itself at all relisble in_the control of acate rhca- matism in my hande. Salicylate of soda has shown no superiority over salicylic acid.” ——ar—— About the worst “give-away” on record ap- pears in arccent number of the Paris Figaro. Toe French journal gives up some twelve or fiftcen columus toa translation of the New York Herald’s “cable special” on theeve of the French elections, giving the views of all the Parisfan editors and statcsmen on the contests, and then adds eulogisticaily: Four days after the arrival of Mr. BENNETT at Par3 the work {of interviewing] was done. How we know not; but the fact is that on Zussday, Ocf. 2, the manuscript, m daplicate, was dispatched to England. Onc cony was seut off mext day by steamer, and the otier kept in the Herald's office In Fleet atrect. . . . It was calculated that the steamship would arrive at New York on the Lith, so that the article could appear on the 14th, the very day of the cleciions, but accidents had to rovided for. . . . The intention of Mr. Zr7, it the steamship did not arrive on time, 0 send the dispatch by cable. Iappily he was wa not compelled to have recourse to this azency, for on SaturGay, the 13th, us he was setting ceived new p, he re- at_his hotel, Avenue de I'lmperatrice, =l at New York of the steamship. What with.* Bissarce” cable specials that are not cabled and interviews that were not memorabilla of XENOPIION, in connection with the marvelous history, which remains to this day n model, of THUCYDIDES. and the less . trustwortny parrative of HEropoTus! The age of Aucustus fs associated with CiCcERO, VIRGIL, OvID, and HORAGE, that of Lous X1V, with RaciNE uud MoLIERE, und that of ELIZABETH with SUAKSPEAKE, ‘\\'hu has illustrated faithfully in his plays ncarly the whole period ot English history exteuding from King Jony to Lexry VIIL The student of history who knows not of these things or knows them indifferently, has studied to little pur- po! i *t Popular histories ™ often serve a purpose in crentine a taste for good reading, but they are not to be sought for their own sakes. The seience of history long since superseded them. Simple narrative instead of being adapted for the least disciplined minds is only used to the fullest advantage by thosg who have Iearned to place ideas in their true rcla‘uuns, to reicet the unimportant and the untrue, and to clevate es- soutials intoa system. Facth are abundant in the world, and the mere mention of one in a book need not provoke humility ontae part of the student. It is thereview of facts with refereace to present experience that is useful. For this reason the study of history tced not be, and ought not to be, a solitary employment. 1t can be best undertaken in the open family circle, or i sfaall clubs. Those who enter upon it in this manner, and in the proper spirt, inviting com- ment, illustration, and criticism from e quarter, will find History as truly one of the Muses as Pogjry or the Drama, and the cotn- pauionship which it affords as fascinating aad more profitabic than thatof eitherof the others. With a good beginning it is a matter of com- parative indifference what line of investizution is pursued, provided the utility of the study be ever kept in view. The order of progression _oucht to be from the History of the United States back to the osigin and causes of the na- tion, throuzh the period of the Puritans and the Enslish Revolution, to Normandy, Gaal, and Rome. There will be a diversion into the his- tory of the Angles, the Saxons, ana the Dancs, while the fierce Celt, cooped up in his mountain fastnesses, will not be forzotten. That history of the United States which can Le menerally accepted and approved bas not yet been writ- ten. Perhaps the preference will be given to HILDRETI over BANCROFT, merely because the Tormer is more complete. In European history there is an abundance of authority. One can bardly @o wrong in England, where so many excellent histories have been written. In an- cient history, the abridgments of Ginnos, MERIVALE, LIDDELL, and COXE are for some purposes invatuable. Amonz the welzhtier au- thorities are MuMsEX, CCRTIUS, and GROTE. Dr. Syutn’s Universal History 15 a tolerably accurate and satisfactory review of the earlier period, and an abridzement of the history of France by the same writer, or Wimre’s Com- pendium, will be useful tobeginners. Germany can be studied in COXE’S * Austria,” and Ttaly in RANRE'S * Popes.” There is not in any case want of zood nuthoritjes; it the zeal and indus- trr are supplied. the rest will be insured. Tue Trisuxe heartily seconds the suggestions in The [lome, and hopes to report the formation of mapy history clubs during the coming win- ter, ——eE— On his own confession the moncy extorted by Liep from his cierks docs not all come out of Lheir pockets. *1bave giveg them an oppor- tunity to work nights, and thatallows them to male more movey than they otherwise would have made,” he says. lc has been demonstrated t e has more than enough clerks for the business of his oflice. During the campaign they were active outside the uflice in his behalf, and yet the work was pulled through somehow. What right has he now to establish a system of extra work in order that he may gobble the pro- ceeds 2ud mulet the County Treasury in p: ment of his election expenses? If Herr Licn is interviewed, * metropolitan journalism is be- coming one of the * peculiar institutions 7 of the country. . —c— ‘The Cincinnatti Commercia! gives a variety of reasons in behalf of its suegestion of scnding Graxtas Minister to Berlin. This is one: Another reason for giving GraNT the German Mission Is, that at Berlin he would be within easy reach of his orother-in-law at Copsnhagen. DLer- lin has bruss monuments and horses and things that GRANT would fancy, 1o say nothing of soldiers i and unlimited tobacco, ‘The tobacco v z00d. It is strone, though. ‘The smok- 8 not ve ers can taste it as thev pull at it; and the beer is 1 sold in mugs-that would do GRANT'S good to look ar. The main thing G be wanted for n_Germany, 23 American Minister, is i cwing troops. and he and WitLiax could review 40,000 men every morning before breakfast, on u gimple lunch of a sausage and glass of beer, witholit exchanging a word of & smile. 73 1d —————T———— L1EB is probably prepared to explain that, as his clerks were too much engazed during the campaign to attend to the business of the office, it is now absolutely necessary to make the County Treasury pay for such extra or night work to make up for lost timein his service. ‘The taxpayers would not object to the payment of areasonable amount toward getting Lies’s office in readiness for his suceessor, but it has an aspeet barren of even common decency to gouge the county out of the time wasted in clectionecring for him, and then extort the money paid from the pockets of the clerks who earn it. ———y A prowinent member of Tammany had betted a hat, or the drinks, or something, that Jomy Monrssey wouldn't carry a ceriain clection district, aud when Jorx did, rather than sce a High Mukamuk stuck for the hat, the other Hizh Mukamuks undertook o stand the returns on their heads. But Mr. MorzIsSEY just put his fist, as it wers, under their noses; and his counsel seid something about the Penitentiary; and the High Mukamuks declared that it was all a clerical error, such a5 would happen in the best-rezulated wigwams, and MORRISSEY’S majority was atlowed. ——e— There are some funny papers in New York. One lays claim to fame becauseits editor is dead; another pretends to the premiership of American journalism beeause of its exploits in ‘African exploration: a third attests the excel- lence of its editor’s literary judgment by point- mg to the prices he pays for his trotting- horses; aud a fourth declares that it is the most. influential paper in the country beeause it never advocates & measure that the House docsn’t reject, and never opposes a nomination that the Senate docsn't confirm. - ————— If Jixr Bramse still has aspirations after the nomination in 1850 and wants to come out strong as the administrator of the old, orizinal Repub- lican party, we think we can sugzest a trump card to him. Let him take his brother out of the fat berth he holds in the service of the Sen- ate, and sccure the appointment in his stead of Capt. JoxarmaN WALKER, “the Man with the Branded Hand,” who is living, old and in waut, uear Muskegon, M b There are persons who o around insisting that by the terms of the contract all the Fed- ernl boods sold since 1573 are payable in gold ouly. They persistin ignorini the fact that on the face of every bond issuedsince July 14,1370, is a1 pro ble i the standard coin of that date, and the silverdollar wasa standard *¢ coin ou the said July 147 Silver on thaPday and for more than three rears there- altdr was a légal-teuder for everythi A S - There must be at least tiventy candidates fop the R ership of the Central National, and cach one is putting 1a his best licks to bring the necessary pressure to bear on the Comptroller of Curreney to getit. The Telexrapa Company plearc the ehaps who are making the money just now in sending Jour wessazes of applica- tion, indorsement, and encomium to Jat Kxox. trying to console the taxpayers of Cook County for s defeat, heis cntitled to credit for the incenuity of his metnod. lie proves daily his eminent unfitness for the oflice he holds, and this revelation ot Lis disposition to grab, re- ardless of the sources of the money, will tend to reconcile even the few who stand toward him in the unfortunate refation of fricuds to his relegation to private life. At New York ¢k the President of a life-insurance company, or & savinzs baunk, or somethingr, was 10 come up for trial on a charze of defalcztion, embezzlement, misappropriatiou of funds, perjury, cte., ete. The day set, the Court was met, the case was catled,—aud the prisoner’s consel ot up and said that his client was unhappily Iying sick of a dangerous v ot the head; therefore he would respectfully ask a postponement of the case ti Friday. He added elling out his che: he was conscions of. his client’s innovence. On Friday, when the cise was amain called, the prisoner rose and said that his counsel had been attacked with severe lit of cerebral pipsy- wipsy, and asked that the - trial be postponed till next Monday. The request was granted, and the prisouer—inflating his chest—said he bad a firm belief in his own techmical innocence. ——— . To insure a peaceable inauguration of Gov. McCLELLAN, of New Jerse¥, or clsewhere, number of Penusylvania statesmen have pro- jected a march upon ‘Frenton. These gentle- men are disposed to sceurc peace even at the expense of war, and, in order to precipitate the alternative, they have armed themselves with that Democratic emblem the shillelah, upon the end of which they propose to push the dilatory General into something like actisits. The only objection to this arrangement is McCLELLAN'S well-known preference for spades as contradis- tinguished from clubs, a preterence which his Penusylvania constituents, being striking work- ingmen, utterly fail to cowprehend. ————— ‘We find the followine in ‘the last number of the Scientific Honthly, in regard to salicylic acid as 2 remedy for rheumatism: ‘The value of salicylic acid 2s a medicine in the treatment of rocumatism hasbeen under discussion {or sume time. the weight of authority plainly in- clining toward an alirmative solation of the prob- Jem. Asaepecimen of the favorable resulis ob- tained by the use of the druz, we quote tue obser- vatiuns of Dr. L. . Yaxui Jr.. as stated in his **levort on Matesia Medica?" io the Kentuciy State diedical Society. Dr. Yaxpril's report treats of a pumber of recently-introduced drus: it 18 puvlished in the Lonisville .Medical New, His experience with salicylic acid may be briefly stated as follows: Fist. in the City. Hospital of Louisville, nine cases of acate _articalar thenmatism . were treated with s drug, and a ' ‘‘perfect cure” efected; in ———— Mr. TILDEN is sufiposed to be eminently satis- fied with the result in New Jersey.. He didn't want the State to be lost, neither did he want- McC to carry it by too iarge a majority. In fine, he neither wanted to brezk the Lottle nor to @raw the cork, and now he rests content in his confidenve that *“Little Mac” can't im- proves vietory. i A New Orleans politician, speaking of the people of Lowsiana, says that ii “they were transparted to Heaven in a body they would be fore night about the distribution of seats.” he chances are that therow of seats to which this eongregation will be assigned will remind them more of their terrestrial summers thau of Heaven. —— It is the Gaily fear of the New York Herald that some of the effetc monarchics of Europe will send a force up the Congo River in Africa and rob the United States of the fruits of STANLEY’S discoveries. But, as these monarch- ies will necessarily depend upon the Jera'd’s maps, it is plain to be seen where we've got ‘e, ————— assurance that the President will veto any which nuthorizes the payment of the public debt in silver i8 good news. The annonncement ought to he unnecessary.—Vew York Tribune. But there is no such assurance. On the con- trary, the President has refused to pive his views; but. being an honest maa, the presump- tion is that he will not veto the bill —— A great deai of hope for the longevity of the Tope is based on the fact that his two brothers died ot the age of 95 and 95, respectively. When we reflect upon.the number of babics who have died after their brothers shave voted, we still ding to our obituary on the Pope, and refuse to * distribute” or be comforted. The bill StiLsoN Hurcnins (Bourbon Democtat), Jomy CocreriLr. (Copperhead Demoerat), =znd Josepr Porirzer (Communist Democrat) talk of starting a Democratic paper in Wash-. ington.’ This eStablishes the capital; who will furnish the brains? e On Thursday last the ciassical Republicans who wolke up andread that the Senator from: Floridz had voted with the Democracy vbserved with a sigh, “.Abiit ad plure—he has Cos- OVER to the majority.” b g It is contended by Lies that, as he danced at the solicitation of his army of clerks, they shonld pay the piper, while the poor devils who worked .bard for his election not unnaturally kick agalust giving him their salaries beside. Ly appears to have a prodigious amount of lation in those spees which he doth glare through. ——— There is still a chance for Mr. Trmwpey, Commissioner ot Agricalture has discovereq belt of United States country which produg. tea, and the zreat de-Frauded might be indeg. nitely postponed by seading him to intradge this important usufruct into China. —— Mistah CONRLING stands before “the “my. chine” with the rapture of Tobprs, and says. helikes “snce wheelsh zo wound.” He hopey Mr. HaYES won't zoto poking Civil-Seryiy Reform crowbars into the machinery. —_—— There is some little consolation in the reflec- tion that perhaps absentec Senator Suaroxis making money enough to sceure his election to another stay-away term in the Upper House, —— It is contended by Prof. GUNNISG thatny million years glaciers will cover New Englang, This is a_touching tribute to the procreasiys ability of Mr. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAvs, s 5 A Caleatta dispatch says that the Hindoos are getting excited over the Russian victories,— mfinc, that it would take very lttle to Hindogy them to rush to the Suitan’s assistance. ——— It would be several hundreds of milliong i onr national pocket asnually if the yonge American could learn that manua} Iabor s nog necessarily menial labor. - ————— Before Senator PATTERSON commits himsed, he should have a perfect understanding that his immunity is civil as well as eriminal. ———— Obviously the Republican party at present depends upon the Vice-President to Wreerez through. —_— It isn’t the first time that BUTLER hay Eellogg-ed the wheels of legislation. . —_——— Suppose we call Mr. Cox, Mr., Cricks? ——— PERSONAL. Roscoe Conkling’s family are going South to spend the winter. % During his visit to Ireland Mr. Gladstors calied on Cardinal Cullen. Jr. Tilton was driven out of his house ths other night by pestiferous reporters, and soaght lodgings at the Grand Union Hotel. Scarlet fever has broken cut with vigor at Wellesley College in Maseachusetts, and the gils have all been dismissed until Jan. 1. Alr. Lewis Carroll, the author of “ Alicey Adventures in Wonderland,” has written anew Dbook treating of Euclid in a serio-comic vein. Sunday Afternoon, the new Springfield re. ligious monthly, etarts with a scrial by John Eab- ‘berton, eatitled, **The Crew of the Sam Weller," H. V. Redficld, the weil-known corms. epondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, bas just* been elected Alderman of Chattanooga on the Re- publican ticket, thongh his ward is Democratic. Mary Clemmer says that George Hoars face, in form, coloring, and expression. stronzly resembles Horace Greeley's, and even the foaes of hisvoice recall the presence of the dead journalist. Mr. Charles F. F. Adam, whose father wes British Governor of Madras, and who is nowan attache of the British Lezation at Washinaton, is o marry. on Toanksziving-Day, Miss Falmer, s noted beauty of the District of Columbia. The Vermont deacon who is being tried for killing his wife wonldn't have done each s wicked thinzas to go to the theatre, bat in some of the kissinz games at a church sociable he got acquainted with the woman for whose sake ho be- came a murderer. The New York Tribune thinks thal “if Gen. Grant should be appointed to' the Berlin Mission it might prove that the Rev. Dr. Newnse, of the Mcthodist Episcopal Church, has more fo- flnence with this Administration’ than the lat Thomas Paine.™ All the high-toned editors of Virginia are unenimously of the opinion that the students st Whashincton and Lee University ougat to keep up mounting guard over Lee's zrave. The students thinis that the editors onghit to try it fgra yearor 1150 to sce how they like it. Prof. Hitehcock, of geologieal fame, has found, at Wethersfield Cove. Cona., four fossil ‘bird-tracks measurinz a foot from hecl to tocard proportionately wide, which he thinks must bave been madeby 2 bird twelve feet high, and must Lave been made 2,000,000 years ago. Mr. Watterson tells in his lecture cf 2’ Mississippian who was asked whether it was worth while to carry a pistol: **Well. siranger,” s answered, **you mout move atout fora yearaad not want it, and then again von mout, aad, if yo do need it, you will need it powerful." How thoroughly French and exhaustive is this inscription on 2 tombstone in a Paris cemetery: Jattends ma femme T await my wife 1820 1220 Me volla Tam here " 1830\ 1520 The Supreme Court of Vermont has held a nnmber of towns in the western part of the Staie 10 their rninous bargains with Treno W. Park,and the Sprinziela Repudlican says, **Served them right.” They were eager to lick his bootsten years ago, and eent him to the Lemslature astas representative of his own interests. Bismarck is credited with a rather savage mot aoropos of the recent report that her Imperial Highness, the Duchess of Edinburg, who ia Calo- nel of & Russian regiment, wished to go to the war and become an ofticer in reality as weil a3 in name. **\Why not?" replied Bismarck, ‘‘the Russians have been le by old women hitherto; let them try a young one for a change.” 3 Mark Pattison, the scholarly Rector of Lincoln, accounts cariously for the fact that pco- ple read books: **It is that we may cecape,” b3 says, **from the terrible ennui of socicty that we have recourse to a book. We go to read, not from craving for excitement, butas a refuge from 3o tedium vit:e, the irksomencss of herding with nnin- teresting fellow-mortals.” Richard Grant White, in an article in the w York Zimes, savs: **It is, perhaps, as hope- less to check the prevalence of ‘on the street’ss that of balance for ‘rest.” The proper phrase, however, both lorically and by good usage, is ‘in the street.’ A house even, although 3t fronts ena street, is ina street. There 15 a noise intys strect; people walk in the street, not on the street. Astreclisnots surface; itis a passage-way inor through which people go." The bauking institutions in New York do s service for their employes by farnishing them Iunches at prices which are within the income of - even the errand boys. ‘Their arrangements make 2 good thing for the caterers and a good thing for themselves, a9 their clerks are then where they caa always be made available ‘darirg banking boare. and the latter arc also mad: contented by the knowledge that they are gettiag better service and better fare for the money than they wouid receive elsewhere. A little more co-operation of this kind would be 2 good thing in all citics. Howthorne, when & Sophomore at Bow- doin, srrote to a young fricnd: **1 moticed in the paper that No. 15, 835 had drawn a prizeof 31, 000 Te not that one of your tickets? It it is, 1 congzat- ulate you npon your good fortune, and only wish that it had been $100,000. I have beenjmuch mor® steady this term than I was last, 2s I have oot drankany of spirit nor played cards, for the 0 fense forwhich I was fined was commisted Jat term. The reason of my rood condact s that [ amvery much afraid of being suspenged if Tcon- tinue any longer in my old course. 1 hope yoi will write to me very soon, #nd tell all about yeir prize.” Edward Eggleston contributes to b Grant-Sumnér-Fish controversy g private note he received from the Senator March 10, 1571, dune2 the debate on his removal from the Chairmanshid of the Committee on Forcign Relations, in which hesays: *“The President hias such relations wit me a8 he chooses. Ihave never declined to 562 Iim or confer with him. If there is = quarrel, iti3 all on his side. ‘The Sccretary of State sent (o ME throuzh Senator Patterson, to kuow how I woutl receive bim, if he came to my house on busine- Ireplied that1had a Geep sense of wromg from him, but that T should reccise him at ay time, O cunfer with him, on public business. Accordinz Iy, be came to my houae, and L received him kind- Iy. Afterward, when meeting hiwm socially, [53%0 him the cold shoulder. Mr. Fish fnsulted we per- sonally in hus disoatch to Mr. Motlev.”