Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1878, Page 4

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Business of importanec. J. 0. DICKERSON. Secrotar, DERY. NO, 35, K. T.— . Feb. 6, at order . WHITE, E. C. CORINTHIAN CHAPTI . 69, K. A. bles i g GIL. W Alh\’:\llb. LT J. 0. DICKERSOXN Secretary. N RENSSELAER GRANDLODGE OF PERFEC- TION, Ac AND COTTISH. RITE MASONS, will hold A recular Assembly on Thursdav evening next. Work on tic 4t and derof th Decrees. By PETTIBUNE, T.-P. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY .3, 1878 CHICAGO MARKET SUMAMARY. The Chicag> produce markets were rather quiet Saturdsy. anc. steadier. Mess pork closed a chade firmer. at §10,72%@10.75 for March and $10.87% @10.90 for April. Lard closed steady, at §7.521:@ 7.35 for March and $7.45 for April. Meats were easicr, at $3.62% per 100 Ibs ior boxed ehonlders and 5%c for do shortribs. Whisky was steady, at FL03per gallon. Flour was in moderate demand. Wheat closed Yic lower, at S1.0275 for January and $1.03i¢for March. Corn closcd steady, at 39c spot yud 413c for May. Oste closed c lower, at 3%c for March. Rre was firmer. at 50%c. Barley closed 1c Jower, at 45@48l4c for Feb- Snary and 48%c for March. Togs were dul 33.65@3.90. Cattle were firm, at $2.00@5. 3heep were steady. 8t $2.75@+4.15. Since 1 Chicago has packed 1.944,090 hogs, agamnst 1,411,434 in the same time one year orevionely. The packing of the West to date is estimated at 5,100.000 head, 36% per cent of which has been done in this city. Received in Chicago last weck, 75,691 brls flour, 480.215 bu wheat, 318,687 bu corn, 191,853 bu oats, 22,742 bu rye, 111,357 bu ‘arler. 16,737 aressed hogs, 209,143 live hogs, and 16.317 cattle. Exported from New York last week, 24.615 rls flour, §62,635 bu wheat, 311.- 635 bu com. Inspected into storein this city satarday morning: 93 care wheat, 153 cars corn, ©2 cars oats, 6 cars rye, 31 cars barley. Total, 315 onrs, 0r126,000 bu. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $102.00 in greenbacks at the close. Dritish consols were quoted at 95% and sterling exchange at $1.881¢. In New York on Saturday greenbacks ruled 8t 95@954. An glliance of England, France, Austria, and Ttaly against Germany and Russia! It is within the bounds of possibility. But what 8 tremendous coalition ! There appear to be some silver men in the City of New York, notwithstanding the repressiva influenco of BELxosT, who runs the World,and of JaY Gouwp, who prostitutes Greevzy's Tribune. The energetic Miss McKer, whose efforts to immortalize the Constable, McErricorr, some time ago were ecntirely successful, was yesterday released from further responsibil- ity in the matter by the verdict of a jury in the Criminal Court, which declared her not guilty. This result was not altogether un- expected. There are 20,000 sble-bodied men in this city out of work, every one of whom will accept the ““light-weight” silver dollar of 4124 grains which the Journal ealls *“a91- cent piece.¥ They will give faithful work for this kind of pay, and be mighty glad to getit. Bring on the work, and sece how they wili grab for the doliars of the dads. Gov. Hexpnicks makes a prompt and definite rejoinder to the charge of BeraosT that he some time ago advocated the pay- ment of bonds in greenbacks. He, with ‘many other prominent Western men, is not envious of tho position so frequently attrib- uted to Westerners by the bondholders’ organs in New York and other towns upon the At lantic coast. He wishes it understood that he is not & greenbsck man, but he is willing to fulfill the promise of the Government to pay its bonds in coin of the Republic, either gold or silver. The war-cloud upon the European horizon does mot seem to lift or diminish with the cessation of hostilities. The armistice, it is now reported, has been granted by the Rus- sinns with the special condition that they may introduce later such modifications as they think necessary or desirable, thus practically placing it out of the power of Turkey to refuse any farther conditions that may bo imposed. But, strangely enough, we have ®the spectacle of the other nations of Europe suddenly awakening and giving voice to their protest against Russian ag- grandizement. What does it forebode? Is the war-cloud to grow still darker and overspread the Continent? The cable brings the intelligence of the eath of Geonce CRUIRSHANE, the English caricaturist of world-wide fame. He was born in London in 1792, and was conse- quently in his §6th year. When a young man he manifested great dramatic talent, and was associated with Mr. DiceNs in amateur performances, as he was afterwards in the inimitable illustrations to his books. . His earliest illustrations were in juvenile and song books. He next became famous as a political caricafurist, and in 1621 created a great sensation by his squibs on the public snd private life of the Prince Regent and the marriage and trial of Queen CaBOLINE. He had illustrated an immense number of novels, almanacs, poems, and magazines, and during the latter part of his life, having ‘become a convert to total abstinence, e employed his vigorous pencil in depicting the evils of intemperance. Inall his works, like HoganTr, he displsyed a desire to min- ister to the cause of morality. During the past few years he had dovoted much atten- tion to oil-painting, but he will be remem- bered as one of the most original and graph- jo caricaturists England has ever produced. A Tondon dispatch vesterdsy stated that members of the Stock Eschange, amid a storm of groans and yells, had burned the Times, and News, and other publicationsof a pro-Russinn tendency. This, of = course, means that copies of the papers mentioned wero destroyed, and not the newspaper offices, slthough both acts would indicate the same sentiment. In the speculations that have been made upon the Eastern question during tho past year little allasion has been mMe to France. It has been generally belioved that the French nation was too much occupied in re- cuperating its own affairs to become em- broiled in the Russo-Turkish contest. But our dispatches this morning contain some surprisingly significart utterances of Gax- DETTA, who stands to-day as the real ruler of the Republic, wielding far greater power than the Marshal-President. Aund upon this important European political question both leaders have arrived at the same standpoint. This will be disagreeably interesting nows for BIsMARCE. It is probable that the Louisiana politi- cians will have a brief season of repose after nest Tuesday, when the AxpEmsoN-WELLS case will roach a verdict. Meanwhile, we are informed from Washington that the CraxpLeR cligue continue the circulation of sensational rumors concerning the past action of the Louisiana Returning Bonrd, hoping that some of the lies may stick and possibly injure the President. On the other hand. it is positively stated that at {he famous * Wormley’s Hotsl conference ” but two- documents were ever shown. One of these was o letter from the then Gov. Haves simply expressing the hopo that thereafter the flag mught wave over States and not over provinces,—a proper wish and well worded. ‘WHY SILVER SHOULD BE RESTORED. The resolutions adopted at the great Silver meeting in New York on Fridsy last met the pending issues fairly, and tho following resolution expresses the judgment of those who favor the remonotization of silver: Rerolved, Thata return of confidence, a revival of business, steady nnd remunerative employment for the now uncmployed and suffering working classes, of whicn they are now unjustly deprived, will b consequent wpon thie rewonctization of silver. The reasons which lead men to expect such beneficent results from the remoneti- zation of silver may be briefly stated: The money of mankind is that made of the precious metals, gold and silver. By this money is measured the values of all other property, and in this money are to be paid all debts. Any decrease of the quantity of this metallic money increases its valuo a5 an exchange for other property; or, in other words, .every appreciation of the purchasing power of money works & corresponding de- preciation in the value of labor and of all property. Silver having been demonetized, we have been for some years gradually near- ing the resumption of specie-payments in gold coin exclusively. We have by law discarded silver and made gold the ex- clusive money. Gold is scarce and in demand. The annual product of gold is decreasing, and year after year it will become ‘more snd more scarce; if made the sole, uni- versal standard its purchasing power will continuse to increase, until the twonty thou- sand millions of dollars of publicdebts due in all countries, snd not including private debts, will become payable in gold coin, and will be equivalent to from 30 to GO per cent more of other property than they now can bo paid with. The rise in tho value of money, and the corresponding decline in the value of property, is of all things the most fatal to national and individual prosperity. It destroys the value of labor; destroys the accumulations of labor, takes from men the ‘means of purchasing, reduces consumption, suspends production, throws labor out of employment, and reduces the great pro- ducing and consuming class to want and de- pendence on alms. Under the deepening shadow of payments in gold coin largely appreciated in value, there has been a constant decline in thevalue of labor and property. Day after day men have witnessed the decsy and shrinkage of all they possessed ; have witnessed the sus- pension of ‘labor, and the decline in con- sumption. There are, it is estimated, & million of persons of the wages class out of employment. These represent many mill- ions of consumers ; having no wages, they have censed to be purchasers. Their whole incomes if at work would be expended for the products of labor; having no in- comes, they are no longer consumers, and esch addition to their numbers necessitates the discharge of other workmen, for whose products. there is a decreasing demand. Notwithstanding this decline in values has been going on so long, and the number of producers and consumers has been increasing with rapid progression, the policy of the Gov- ernment has been to still further widen the distance betweon the rising value of gold and the falling value of property. The whole banking and money-lending interests of the country have devoted their labors to pro- mote this policy of general impoverishment. The only way to arrest the rise in the value of metallic money is to increase its quantity. 'The only way to stop the extraor- dinary rise in gold, because of its being the exclusive coin, is to restore the white metal which has served as money since long before the days of Apeamax. The only way to break the corner in gold is to restore. silver | toits place in the metallic moncy. With silver and gold both legal money, there can beno permanent difference in their values. The gold can have no extraordinary value as money so long as silver has an equal money value. Thero can be no rise in metallic money, so. long as both are legal coin, that will not be common to both. There can be no return to specie values unless both silver and gold are legalized as money in the payment of debts. Gold, being scarce, and growing scarcer every day, is alone inadequate to furnish the world with metallic money, without reducing the value of all other forms of property immensely. The differonce botween inflating the currency with silver and inflating it with irredeem- able paper s, that the one is actual money of itself, and the other is ot money, nor is it convertible into money. The one is an act- ual addition to the stock of money, while the other adds nothing to the purchasmg cspacity of the currency. The onme is the actun! substance, permanent, enduring, and ‘having intrinsic value. The other has none of these qualities. The increass of metallic ‘money, and the establishment of the values of all property on this metallic basis, will mark the limit in the fall of values. Having reached the point be- low. which values will not fall, then the change must be arise. Specnlation, though -grossly abused, is the living principle of trade. When men cannot buy and sell with- out a loss trade stops, or the men must go on to bankruptcy. But when men can buy under a reasonable hope to sell at a profit then trade revives. Money, idle before, will then be invested in production; a renewal of production will give employment to labor and the distribution of wages; the millions of producing Iaborers, being in the receipt of wages and having the means to purchase, will become consumers, creating a demand for products, and thus the arrest of the fall- ing market, by stopping the rise in the value of money caused by its senrcity, will begin a recovery from the existing stagnation and decay as rapid and as extending as has been the impoverishment under the existing policy. The silver dollar is to be the standard of values; 412} grains of silver are to measure the dollar in which debts are to be paid, property bought and sold, and wages dis- tributed. Below that thcro1s to be no de- cline. On that basis money is,to be invested, raw materials sold, menufactures produced, labor employed. Permanency hav- ing been mensurably secured, then capital, unprofitable while idle, will seck investment ; men will produce, expecting to sell at a profit, snd then, step by step, the employment of labor, incrensed production and increased consumption, the essentials of any prosperi- ty, will succeed one another rapidly, and the languago of the New York resolution be verified generally and specificaliy. THE GRECIAN UPRISING. Tho Greeks have arisen at last and drawn the sword to cstablish their old frontier by severing Macedonia in part, and Thessaly, and Epirus from the Turkish Empire. Al- though the uprising comes at a hopelessly late period,—too late, it will bo feared, to ac- complish anything more thau to add to the existing complications,—there will be unusual interest felt in the fate of the Greeks, and there will be a universal hope that they may recover their old frontiers, and once more become in reality a Power among the na- tions. The memory of their ancient glories and trinmphs in war, in art, in literature, in oratory, poetry, and song, will onlist a keen sympathy in any movement~the descendants of TresmisTocLES, DEMOSTRENES, and PERI- cLEs may make, The immense impulse the ancient Greeks gave to the world’s ecrviliza- tion, the stores they added to its knowledge, the clegance of their culture, the brond sweep of their conquests on land and sea, tha Dold struggles they have made for freedom, the cruel persecutions and massacres inflicted upon them by their Turkish enemies, until the European Powers gove them their independence, add a senti- mental interest to their present struggle that could hardly attach to any other nation. The desire to extend their frontiers isa natural one, and, although they may not ac- complish their object in the present upris- ing, it must some day be attained. They deserve it for the moble manner in which they have preserved their identity and re- tained many of their old characteristics in the face of persecutions and misgovernment that would have sunihilated almost any other nationality. When the Turks in the fiftcenth century incorporated Greece into their Em- pire, thoy commenced the most cruel system of government, or rather misgovernment, the world has ever seen; and yet, al- though they succeeded in reducing them to a condition of pitiable wretch- edness, they were unable to break down their nationality. The Greeks never awalgamated with the Turks, and even in the midst of their persecutions Grecian com- merce was extended, literature revived, and education spread. Great societies were formed to arouse the glorious memories of their ancient days, and eminent writers and orators stirred up the people, until the old blood took fire, and revolution followed revo- lution. Undaunted by the horrible massa- cres of Candia and Scio, they bore them- selves 5o gallantly that at last the European Powers came to their rescue and gave them their freedom, fixing their boundary at its present limits, which dofine the Empire of Greece ns it existed in the days when Penicres made Athens the glory of the world and enriched the Empire with immor- tal trensures of art and architecture. The Duke of Wellington wanted the bound- ary extended farther north, up to sbout the fortieth parallel, which would have taken in the whole of Thessaly and a portion of Epirus, but the sentimental view prevailed, and Greece was included within the Periclean limits. She has struck now for substantinlly what were the Alex- andrian limits, when Macedon absorbed her through the conquests of Prmir and Arex- ANDEER, including the islands in the Archi- pelago that fosmely belonged to her. This wonld bring her northern boundary nently up to the forty-first parallel, extending from the Adriatic across to Salonicn, including Thessaly, Epirus in large part, and the southwestern portion of Macedonia, which is Grecian. These provinces annexed, Greece would have a population of about five millions. With their intense devotion to nationality, their great mental energy, their love of freedom, their intellectual quickness, their remarkablo commereial aptitude, their undaunted cournge, and the proud memories of former glorics which they still fondly cherish, they would speedily rise into emi- nence as a Power in Burope. As tho bases of peace, however, have already been signed, and all matters of European interest are to be referred to a Conference, it may be ques- tioned whether they have not waited too long. The time will come when she will have her old boundaries, and it will hasten that time now that Turkey is wiped out as a Power. SILVEE IN NEW YORK. It has been the aim of the New York press to convince the country that there ig no pub- lic sympathy in that city or State in favor of silver remonetization, but that everybody thereabouts has regarded the movement as a dishonest effort to pay debts at 90 cents on the dollar. There is no docbt that the course pursucd by the Enstern press has created a general impression that New York and New England are solidly opposed to the re-establishment of the silver dollar, and, if it had not been for the popular demonstra- tion of the contrary in the mass-meeting held Fridoy evening at the Cooper Institnte, the West might have been forced to sccept the issue as sectional. It was prepared, even on this ground, to maintain its rights; but it now discovers that it does not stand alone, and that a brond distinction must be- made among the people of the East belween the industrial classes and the money-lenders. The statement was made at the New York meeting that a silver petition actually re- ceived 64,000 signatures in that State, which makes it extremely donbtful whether, on a popular vote, the gold clique could carry the State. Al this has bedri carefully concenled by the New York journils, which have pur- ported to reflect, or atleast fairly represent, public opinion, by persistently suppressing all indications of any sentiment running counter to theinterests of the money-lending. closs. o Though the statement has been made that the Now York meeting was largely composed in numbers and sentiment of greenbackers, the resolutions do not confirm it. There is nothing in them to warrant tho assertion that the meeting had any other object than that for which it was ostensibly called, viz. : to demonstrate that the proposed remone- tization of the silver dollar has its friends in New York as well as elsewhere through the country, nand to demand the restoration of silver to the monetary system as a right, and as caleulated in itself _to improve the mercantile and industrial in- torests of the country. The resolutions urge the immediate passage of the Silver bill ; set forth that the remonetization of the silver dollar will tend to enhance its value toan equality with gold; contend that it is unjust for bondholders to clamor for payment in gold alone, since the bonds.were mado pay- able in ‘“coin,” which, at that time, meant silver as well as gold; denounce as false the statements that silver legal-tender will lessen the wages of labor; oppose any limitation on its legal-tender value, which would give one kind of coin for the citizen and another for the bondholder and capitalist ; and, final- 1y, predict a return of confidence, a rovival of business, and increased employment as the results of remonttization. There is certainly nothing in all this that indicates a disposition to favor the indefinito postponement of re- sumption, or an inflation of irredecmable greenbacks. The simple fact is, that, in New York asin other sections of the country, the continued distress in business has awakened a wide- spread hostility to the fatal policy of forcing resumption on an exclusive gold basis, and brought about the conviction among o large portion of the people that the only safe and practicable way to resume is to restore the same conditions that existed at tho time specie-psyments were suspended. The property and business interests of New York City bave suffercd os sorely ns those of any other city in the country. The aver- age shrinkago in the values of real estate and securities has been greater there than elsewhere. A striking instance of this fact wasshown only last week by tho voluntary reduction by the Ninth National Bank (one of the large financial concerns of that city) of its capital from $1,500,000 to $750,- 000; that is, three-quarters of a million of dollars had been wiped out by losses, shrinkage in real-estate values, and depreciation of collaterals. It is not likely that this bank stands alone, but more proba- ble that its condition is a fair index of the general condition of the financial and mer- cantile institutions of the city. Thers is no reason to wonder, then, that there should be a powerful sentiment in favor of a change in Neow York as well as in Western cities. CITY EXPENDITURES AND THE POLICE. ‘The annual report of the city Police De- portment makes the usual appeal for an in~ crease of the force. There is a demand for 250 moro men, a new police station, and an increase of nearly a quarter of a million in the current expenditures of the department. Before considering the arguments and state- ments upon which the demand is based, it may as well be stated at the outset that neither this nor any other demand which in- volves the expenditure of an additional dol- lar for local government in sny branches will be tolerated for a moment by the people of Chicago. The city tax-levy for last year was a little more than $4,000,000; it will be the duty of the Council this year not merely toturn a deaf enr to every plen for an in- crease, but to ascertain whero the expenses can be most judiciously cut down. The shrinkage in property values during the past yearshould be recognized by a corresponding curtailment of tho tax-levy. It will require & reduction of half a million of dollars in city taxation to offsct the actual loss in values and to adjust the tax-rate to the capacity of the people to pay. The Chicago taxpayer for the last year has been obliged to con- tribute to the genersl tax-fund for city, county, town, and State purposes nearly 4} per cent on his taxable property. The strain upon his resources, slong with the shrinknage in the value of his property, the apprecintion in the valuo of the money he pays out, the reduced profits or actual loss in his business, and the other burdens incident to continued hard times, has been almost un- bearable; he cannot and will not face an in- crease in the tax exactions while all condi- tions demand a retrenchment. This applies to all branches of public expenditure for ‘whatever purpose. The plea for an incrense of the Police De- partment is not sustained, however, on its own merits. If the property values of the city were steadily enhancing; if the busi- ness were growing at the rate of former years; if the population wero increasing rapidly as in prosperous times,—then there would bo an actunl reason for increasing the personnel and perhaps the pay of the Police Department, for there would be more lives aod more property to protect, and there would be more abundant resources with which to pay for such protection. But the very reverse of these conditions exacts a re- versal of the public policy. Instead of pay- ing more for the protection of smaller values, the smaller values furnish a reason for paying less. The people who work for the public cannot hope to escape all the hardships borne by those who work for private employers. It is safe to say that, at 8850 a year, the policemen of Chi- eago arc earning more money than is paid to the samo grade of labor in any private business. If it is necessary for them to work fifteen hours, as is alleged, they have a compensation in steady employment and certein pay ot & better rate of wages than they could secure outside of the department, with employment and pay both uncertain. They rcceive more money and work less hours than street-car conductors and drivers, who assume money responsibility, and vari- ous other classes of labor that might be named where just as much ability and faith- fulness are required. Ofer the alternative of continuing at the present rate of labor and pay or retiring from the force (which would be the private business way of pre- sonting the case), and we venture to say that not a singlo man in the department will de- sire to give up his place. Indeed, thers is no room to doubt that, if the city were a private corporation, the Police Department would be run quite as efiiciently as now, and at a reduced cost. The comparison with other cities made in the report is utterly specious and deceptive.’ It may be that New York pays $1,200 a year and maintains a force of 2,560 men to patrol forty squsre miles, but the very next item shows that Philadeiphia maintains only half s many men and pays only $912 to patrol sixty-five square miles. No other statement isneeded to show that the square miles pa- trolled do mot necessarily cut any figure in the case. 'To talk of patrolling thirty-eight square miles in Chicago is sheer nonsense. This includes a lot of parks and uninhabited suburbs that are mnot patrolled and need not be patrolled. Thers are nok more than ten wards in Chicago that can properly said to be patrolled, and there is no necessity of patrolling more than this terri- tory. The depredations against which the police are expacted to protect the community are attempted in the business and thickly- settled residence districts, so that no fair es- timate can be made on the number of square miles nominally included within the city limits; under such a rule Philadelphia cught to have about twice as many police as New York, though as a matter of fact it has but little over half so many. New York is an extravagant city, and the police are an im- portant political element; we are trying to run Chicago on a different basis. The com- parison with other cities is equally unfair. Boston can better afford to support 700 po- licemen at $1,095 each than Chicago can to support 516 policemen at $850 ; for Boston, an old and rich city, has property values of twice as much to protect, and consequently double the reason and double the resources for maintaining police. ~Chieago’s popula- tion is set down at 500,000 people, and St. Louis’ at 450,000 people; this is an exag- geration in both cases; and, while St. Louis has 457 policemen at an snmnual cost of $512,000, and Chicago 516 policemen at an annunl cost of $534,000, the proportion is probably just about correct, considering the relative population of the two cities. Cin- cinnati, wo notice, is not mentioned at all, and thatis probably because the comparison in that case could not possibly be twisted to sustain the Chicago demand for an increase. We believe Cincinnati has a police force of less than 400 men. At ull events, there is loss property value to protect in this city than there was a year ago, and probably not many more people; so that, if the polico force has been adequate during the past year, thero is every reason to believe it will be so during the current year; and, as money to- day has a higher purchasing power than it had o year ago, there is no valid excuse for urging an increase in pay. All public officersin these times must keep in mind that Chicago has had more to con- tend against than any other city in the coun- try. It was burnt out only acouple of years beforo the panic, and during the last four years it has been forced to struggle under the enormous debt incurred for rebuilding, as well as the natural shrinkage in values and other trials of hard tumes. Its necessi- ties demand a reduction of public expenses instead of an increase, and it will be a sheer waste of time for any branch of the public service to urge an increased expenditure. The public demand upon the Council is for still further reduction. The report of the expert who has been en- gaged in examining the nccounts of the State Savings Institution revenl even greater de- pravity on the part of SpENCER thanbas been suspected. He began robbing the concern from the very day he entered it; made the depositors pay for the stock which he held, snd which enabled him to plander them; and charged them $10,000 a year for histime and services while engaged in this systematio thieving. The books reveal o succession of fictitious entries, which enabled Spexces to conceal the real condition of the bank, and represent its resources away beyond what they were actually. He was a swindler and o thief all the time, and it is a shame and & pity that he is out of the reach of an out- raged community. HOW TO LIVE UPON NOTHING. Chenp living, like music, hath its ‘charms, and everybody, even if not inclined to make a per- sonal application of her precepts, Is interested in the cfforts of Miss CORsON to tcach the difli- cult art of economical cookery. It isa coinci- dence that just at this time several eccentric experiences have appeared in print, which may- be cited as showing upon how little money, or the equivalent thercoi, a person may sustain Jife. One of the most shining of the illustrious examples thus set before us is that of the phil- osopher GEORGE FraNCIS TRAIN, who has re- cently been publishinz the results of his prandial experiments. and who bas been so far encouraged as to start out upon a lecture tonr for the purpose of instilling personally into the public mind his ideas of philosophic living. Mr. ‘TrA1N has discovercd that he can dine sumptu- ously for five cents, and that for ten cents he can procure at a restaurant a meal which is pos- itively extrayagant. Tobe sure, onemay not for that sum revel in entrees, releves, and desserts, but he can get more than enough solid food, such as ontmeal and pork and beaus, to satisfy the average stomach. Certainly this would be as judicious an expenditurc as was that of an- other philosopher, who, by the war, was aslave, aud who brought back 2 pound of sait wien re- quested by his Greek master to buy for a penny that kind of food which wauld go the farthest. Evidently Mr. Traix has found a disciple in the person of a Cornell student, who recently wrote to a New York paper stating that his board-bill for the past year had been $34, or about 65 cents a week. It is unfortunate that we have not been favored by the Cornell student with & more particular account of his method S cating, as there are doubtless many people who would be glad to take lessous from him. As he confessed, however, that he had been in the habit of doing his own washing, it is to be presumed that he cooked his food himself. A third example may be quoted in the case of GEORGE KRoNES, who died re- cently in London. For the last ten years he has lived in 2 common lodging-house, paying 50 cents a week forthe use of an unfurnished at- tic. His meals were made upon bread and cheese exclusively, which he shared with the rats, his only companions. These creatures he fed with his own hands and gave them pet names. After his death it was discovered that he was o miser, as over $1,000 o gold was found in his pockets. Itisalong leap from London to Danville, Mo., but in the latter town, or near it, there lives another person who may be quoted in this connection. He is a recluse from cholce, and his habitation is a cave. This singular in- dividual lives upon roots, and his shoes consist of pieces of board with a leather strap tacked on tofit his foot. Doubtless he comes nearer than any of the cases above mentioned to living upon nothing. But, sfter all, have aoy of these economical individuals bit upon the bes: plani The objec- tion may be raised to Mr. TRAIN'S theory that in order to carry it out successfully one must be a philosopher, and that {s almost impossible. ‘The Cornell student was right cnough, but people cannot all be students and enthusiasts as well as Jaundry-men. The case of the cave- dweller of Missouri {s less open to criticism, althoueh the hardships of his career must in- evitably deter the mass of economists from fol- lowing his example. Perhaps the truc course to be pursued may be indicated by the experi- ence of the Hon. CAROLINE YELVERTON BiNg- nad, who recently had a little trouble in a London Police Court. This lady, having a laudable desire to live cheaply, patron- ized several hotels of the metrapolis as well as numberless shopkeepers, and, whea called to account, entered a plea of irresponst- bility and was promptly set at liberty by the Police Justice. It will be seenthat she achieved est expense, withont subjecting herself to the annoyances that we have noted as accompanying. the other cheap livers. To be sure, her plan has not the recommendation ot originality, as it bas been practiced with more or less variation from the carliest historical ages, but it is the only €o- lution yet attained of a truly scientific problem ~—how to live upoo nothing. ———— Tha cclebrated Beau Nasx had a pardonable weakness for waistcoats, and devoted the re- sources of a naturally fertile mind to the com- position of new and improved patterns of that article of apparel. He hus found an imitator in acertain New York journalist, who has hereto- fore been known as a polo-player and an organ- izer of African expeditions, but who has mean- while been also engaged in gathering all the different, fashions of trousers known to the civilized and barbarous world. The collection as it now stands is a wounderful monument of human skill and industry, and it is proposed that it be purchased by the Metropolitan Museum and thus retained for the peretual pleasure and beuefit of New Yorkers. One of the grems of the collectionisa pairol magnificent blue-sitk bags once worn by the Khedive of Fgypt. There is no reason why the art of trouser-m aking should not be brought in this country to the high state of development that it hasreached in Enzland. Thercareseveral London cstablishments which devote themselves - ex- clusively to this particular branch of tailoring, and there is said to be a firm on Regent street which hoists the talismanic inscription over its entrance, **Trousers-Makers to the Quecn.” ‘The tendency of the age is indubitably towards the Esthetic. We are constantly reaching out towards the Sublime. 1If, in our yearnings for the Indefinable, we encounter prejudices of Race or dicta or Outward Show, what coutd be nobler than to overcome them, and thus ad- vance step by step to a grander existence? It is only by comparing the Cress of other peo- ple’s with our own that we learn wherein our education has been defective, and it is to be hoped that the Metropolitan Museam will not neglect the opportunity of securing this rare collection, and thus conferring a lastin benefit not only upon the tailors of New York, but upon the entire art-loving population of the country. ——e——— Wasnixaroy, D. C., Feb. 2. —Loth the silver snd hard-moncy men bave held conferances since the adjournment of the Senate on Thureday, and the question of compromise has been very fully discusscd. There is a_disposition on the mart of thelatter to make & very important concession, providing the silver men will accept it in good faith. ‘This is toyicld the question of legal-tender, if the silver men will increase the weight of the silver dollar 0 s to make it on a par with gold, at the present valuation of both metale. Tho advo- cates of the sinzle standard do not conceal their feara that the Sifver bill may be passed over the Prosident's veto by both/ branches of Congress, and they are more inclined now to make some compromise.—3peciat to Lvening Journal. What a wonderful compromise and conde- seension this would be on the part of the gold- ites! They cannot conceal their fears that the Silver bill will passover the veto, in spite of all they can do; aad when they perceive they are whipped, and the sil- ver dollar of the ancient weight is go- ing to be restored to circulation, then those generous souls are “willing to make an impor- tant concession.” What concession? That the silver dollar shall be increased 10 per cent in weight? This would be a *concession” on their part, traly. silver men are natural-born fools, or the Journal bas a stupid donkey for a reporter who sends it suchan absurd and imbecile dispatch. What would be gained by the acceptance of so pre- posterous a proposition? The slightest rise in the value of silver would make such an over- grown coin worth more thar the gold dollar, and prevent it from circulating as money, aod thus defeat the whole purpose of silver remon- etization. I The story told by Mr. SCHRACK, of Philadel- phia, gives us an interesting insignt into the experiences of people immediately after death. Last Sunday morning crape hung upon the door of his dwelling, and the neighbors said: * Poor Mr. SHRACK is gone at last.”” Word was sent to the doctor that he need attend his patient no longer; the undertaker was visited; in the Old Swedes Church the death of the favorte Sun- day-school teacher was announced. Four hours Tater the crape was torn down, the order for the undertaker was countermanded, and the doctor was told to hurry to his patient. Mr. Scnrack had revived, A reporter of the Philadelohia Times visited him the same day aod found him sitting up in bed, a good color in his cheeks, and-looking any- thing like o dead map. To the revorter Mr. Scrrack told the tale of his experience alter the moment of losing consciousness. He said that all at once he scemed to be falling from a great height, and then found bhimself in a val- ley. He walked along until he came to a ter- ribly dark, black river, at sight of which he shuddered and feared. He saw a great cloud, which expanded and became bright, and dis- closed a great temple and throne. This vision did not last very long, as be began slowly to re- cover consciousness and realize that he was still in the world of the livinz. Then he was grieved. A recent dispateh from Shanghai stated that an appalling famine was now Taging throughout the northern provinces of China, and that no Iess than 9,000,000 people were destitute. In view of this calamity a memorial has been circu- lated among the prominent merchants of New York, praying Congress to appropriate a sum for the relief of the suffering Chinese. The memorial refers to the singular fact that the Secretary of State has in charge a deposit of money, estimated at about $600,000, which was received in 1865 from China as indemnity for the spoliation of American property at Cauton. 1f it be true that so large a suwm is remaining in the hands of our Government, after paying the just claims of persons whose property was de- stroved, certainly no better disposition could be made of the fund than to contribute it to the purchase of food for the destitute in the famine districts of Chioa. E ——— - Since it has got into the head of the Journal at last that the present oullion value of a silver dollar has a larger purchasing power thana gold dollar bad at the time silver was demon- ctized, it has slacked up some in cailing a full Iegal-tender silver dollar “a 9l-cent plece.’” Before this cold fact gained a firm lodgment in its tolck skull, the Journal called that fine coin ta 9l-cent pieee,” a ‘‘clipped(!) coin,” a “ghrimped-up viece,” a *“light-weight dollar,” and other nmaughty names, about ten times every evening. It now only hurls those tre- mendous feather-bolts at the silver dollar three or four times of o sunset. It is a hopeful symptom to sce the goodold Journal employ 1ts one and only argument against remonetization less frequently per issue. In time it will swing the circle and be as foreibly feeble an advocate of the dads’ dollar as it has hitherto been an coemy thereof. —— Dr. N1xox, who hails from the sporting town of Cincinnati, knows very well that it is con- trary to all *square’ games for one party to #Jift " the money of another when he bets on actual knowledge. This improper advantage Tae TRiBusE would have if it gambled with him on circulation, as his half-witted brother has aircady “given bim away” on the circula- tion of the L-0.-U7 in 1674-'75, showing that it had but 6,340 daily subscribers; and the Doctor doesn’t pretend to say that the concern has in- creased any since then. e et = After long wanderings and adventures of ro- mance CLEOPATRA’S Needle has atlength reach- od a haven of rest, and in a few days will bo holsted into the place of its fature and perma- nent abode. The chosen site is on the Thames Emtankment, between Charing Cross and Wa- terloo Bridge, in every wav an aporopriate lodgment for the relic ot Egyptian greatness. ‘This point is almost in the middlc of the great curve taken by the river, and is visible from ‘Vauxhall to Blackfriars. It is fn the immediate neighborhood of historicobjects. Frontine upon the little park on the Embankment is the old water-gate of Buckiogham Palace, the only Enther the goldites think the. remnant of that famous edifice, while jug; yond is the little Savoy Chapel, Took; towards that proudest of all of London's pye. Somerset House, where CATHARINE of Bm.,,mn held her court. The Tand between Wagey, Bridze and Charing Cross was once all nw‘ o by that BUCKINGIAM Who Was the booq ool panion of CHARLESIE. It may be m,m,:m' as an odd circumstance that the streets mn‘;:d from the Strand £o Adelphl Terrace are gpues 1o order after the Duke as follows: Geo, street, Villiers street, Duke street, Of oy and Buckingham street. % 2 598 ‘The people of Italy were profound} by the death of VIcTor EMaaxuer, _-iv; :‘::: tive of popular fecling, a Rome dispateh 15) to the London Times says: S At Venice some young work, » Balfoenny subsCHIpLIOn, Tefumes: saria Obeied 3mount fzom any one, coliected within fhoed L3t 801, to urchase a laurel wreath 1o pe iy 20 coflln of VICTOR EMANTEL.. A wreath 000 tia wrought, tied with two broad black s uLiltely with stiver, and bearing the words, ** o aid Venctinn People, ™ reachied the Quirisal tic®, ing. Ithas heen decided at the Vaticar mer®l hostile proceedings shall be ventared yponat, 10 the new King's Government, bui that gy calts on the part of the Government shall be sireqaicst 'y Tesiatod. Tho truth in, great - reigns at the Vatican. 3 o the'hagy et e Hearing that the winter uo here wag p the people of New Orleans are prepariag fo without, Northern ice. The Neb Yoo P says: ‘There has just been shipped t huge ice machine, built by the T and Relricerating Company. fifty tons daily. 0 New Orleans Staes s The cas-compressing pamves) frame I8 13 fect 6 inches high, ah;cgexn Tsn;;:a'}d wide at the base: the cslindors have 24 etts bore by 36 mches stroke, and weigh 14 pounds. The refrizerant is ligueled ammoniey gas vaporized 2nd asun liqueded by meenacl compression. The cold produced by the yapascl tl,an i d?_'n‘:u hel:ow lc{g. Fahrenhelt. Theegy of mannfactaring the 1ce in New Orleans wij Thuch excced 1 pef ton. oA wil e R e The New York Sun’s contributions to carmey social and political history are usually mo entertaining than accurate. Its latest interny, ing story was to the effect that Jomx Moa. RISSEY, being an invalid at the Pulaski Moy, Savannah, had butted the stufling out of a Georglan'bully. The-HTonorable Jofrs wouldyy hare thanked the Sun writer any way for biy, ing that in a disturbance he availed himgey of anything but his hands; but the Pulasg House furtier happens to have been closed for along time past, and Mr. MORRISSEY'S quar. ters arc at the Scriven. : The Iargest oyster on record in the Tnited Stiey was one taken from the beds in Yobile in 1570, 1t measured three feet and one inch in learth, suf twentv-three and n half incaes in breadth gery the widest part.—Exclanqe. This beats the size of the osters that were placed before THACKERAT at the Boston diarer given to him oy his Hub admirers. Taking up onc of the bivalves on the half-shell, be de. clared that it was like swallowing a baby to get it down. ——— One of the most encourasing - sivns for the fricuds ot silver remnonetization is the fact that Mr. HENDRICKS has gotten off the fence into their pasture. Mr. HENDRICKS isa man of much deliberation, and neser expresses ade cided opfnfon till {tis that of a working majority of the community. ———— A Paris newspaper that refused to publisha letter sent to it by a correspondent has beea compelled to insert, to pay the author 0 francs, and to defrav the costs of the action. It Is esth ‘mated that if this law was in force in the Unitet States Private Darzeul's income woald b $500,000,000 a year. —— When the Zimes changes on a guesticn b suddenly flops; but the Journa? gently swings round a half circle to get there. It has movi a few points alreaay on the dads’ dollar, Come ’round ; we are waiting for vou. ———— BarNDY, after hall a century’s experiment, has come to the conclusfon that ““nobody can cheat the Almighty.” e —— PERSONAL. The Boston Post wishes Alfonso much jawey. Kate McNamara, a female burglar, was arrested in New York Thursdag. - «+ -+ = The Greeks, too, were in favor of temper- ance reform, and slept in the arms of Marphy. Mrs. Southworth, Mrs. Stephens, and Mra. Bumett, all novelists, are now at tae Capital. The last words of the King of Italy were: +:Ibezof you, my friends, let me diein myown fashion.™ Mrs. Margaret Herbert and Mrs. Cather ine Tulton, twin sisters, of New Jarsey, colebrated recently their 90th birthday. An Athens correspondent reports the as- tonnding discovery of a choramec monument in the Dionysiac Theatre by Prof. Kumanudis. Ten years ago a Newburyport girl broks off aneedle in her richt foot. and last Sundsyit worked out of the little finger of her left band. Joaquin Miller lost his nmbralla the other aay, an ambrella beyond price, which has o 3 handle a sprout of a tree beside Byron's grave, 3nd is decorated with a silver bearanda horse's beal and & chaln. While ex-Postmaster-General Jewell and family were attending the wedding of Xies Shoe- ‘maier in Baltimore last Wednesday, thieres en- tered their rooms in the hotel and stole $300 worth of jewelry and clothlog. The Crown-Prince of Germany end his wife have not. copsdering their station, large annual income. Itis only about 375,000 They have. however, two residences, rent free,snd the right to give a certaln nnmber of dinners every year, at the charge of the Emperor. His 3fa) is said to have an annual income of abont $4,300,- 000. The following *death-notice” is translated literally from a Zurich mewspaper: ** I commaai- cate to all my friends and acquaintances the £3d news that at 3 p. m. to-morrow L shall incinerste, according to all the rules of art, my late mother- in-law, who bas fallen asleep with faith in Der Lord. The fameral urn will be placed near furnace. ‘The profonndiy-aflicted son-in-ls Brandol(-Licntier." The latest theatrical sensation comes from Buffalo. Last Wednesday evening a strolling com= pany opened at St. James® Hall in that city withs play called *‘The Danites; or, The Destroyinz Angele.™ As it is well known that a play of that name was written some time ago by the poet Joaquin Miller, and is now being played by McRee Rankin, curlosity was aroused to see 1f the 170 pleces were skke in anything except in pame. They were. In explanation, Mr. James R. Walte, the manager of the Buflalo st said that Jonquin Miller wrote the book from ! ““Tho Danites” was derived. At the requesta! ‘Rankin the author made up a play from the book bat upon examining it, Rankin found that il then conditton it was unfit for stage purposes; & he got o Now Yorker, named Fitzgerald, to recot stract it Fitzgerald has since dled, and B brother clafma the piece. Sach is the atory of 182 mannger of the Brent & Waite Combination, “n: claims to have procured from this brother the ris! to produco the plece. Whether he will be 825 tained or not by the conrts, it is lkely that at1ea% one point will be deciged by the litigation, that s the extent of 3ir. Joaquin Miller's satbo” ship fn the play of **The Danites.” THREE SCORE AND TEN- . P. R. in Harp+v's Weekiy. *Tis hard to be man With hoad as gray as & bat, To find that life’s bat a span— And a very fastapan st that. With rheumatism awry. ; With coughs and wheezings tronoled, Not long for this world am I, Though my body with aze is doubled- My steps I can scarce direct, And stumble constantly; ‘But who should not falls expect, With a cataract in each eye? A couple of nephews wait Atmy side and bewail my twinges, While they think a tottering gate Shoaldn't hang so long on ity hinges And though the grave i3 a cold, A narrow, and cheerless den, Still Tl be. like 2 mummy of old, Snugly put {n by two men. i i e s e tp TR B o b e L « 1 T \