Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 9, 1878, Page 4

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A, M.~Tieculer Cunvocation Thursday evening. June 13, 1578. Work on th M. £, and It. A, Degrees. Vistting Companions elcome. By onder of the I > MYEON HARRIS, Sec'y. CORINTHIAN CHAPIER. NO. 69, R. A. M.—Teg- iar Contocaifon Monday evening, June 10, Businces of tmportance. Vhiting companions are cordiaily n- Yhied. By order. GIL W, BARNARD, H. ¥ SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1878. In New York on Saturday greenbacks ranged at 99@99} in gold and silver coin. A sensational dispatch reached here yester- day afternoon to the effect that a prominent Communist in Iowa had predicted a stoppage of all railroad traffic at noon on the day when Congress shall adjourn. The annual report of the Directors of the Public Library shows & gratifying improve- ment in the condition of that institution during tho past year, notwithstanding the reduction in the sppropriatiom made by the lest City Council. It ranks third among the Public Libraries of the country. —_— Senator StaNvEr Marrmews, of Ohio, hay- Ing secured the appointment of a special committes to investigate his connection with the Louisiana - election, pleads his Senatorial privilege, and refuses to testify before the Porres Investigating Committes of the House. The Ohio Senator declines o be caught with mere chaff. Gen. Joux C. FREWoNT, aforetime promi- nent in the politics of the country, and the Republican candidate for President in 1856, has been nominated for thio-Governorship of Arizonn. Having been the first candidate of the Republican party for the highest office in the naiion, he has some claim to prefer- ment, especially as he is reported to be in poor circumstances at present. Is the German Empire resting on a sure foundation? Until a few days sgo the answer would have been in the afirmative, Bat the shot fired by the Socialist, N ORELING, has echoed from one end of the nation to the other, and has induced the aged Emperor to pn}ctica!ly sbdicate in favor of the Crown Prince.. In view of theso recent thrilling events, it would seem that tho legacy is not 60 valusble as has been hitherto supposed. — The 0ld story about BeacoxsFrern being mode o Duke has been revived in England, and it is generally reported that after his re- taurn from the Berlin Congress he will be Lonored with an elevation in the pecrage. There is no doubt but that the diplomacy of BeaconsrrErp has been strikingly success- ful; he has won all the points that he set out to gain. - In the politics of Europe En- gland still maintaing the place of honor, and not even BisMarck can dispute the eminent ability of the wily Premie Pit explosions have become unfortunately too common in England the last few years. Tho latest case, wherein several hundred coal-miners were killed, occurred day before yesterday in the Haydock mines. The fire- damp exploded, and the choke-damp came on, and it is estimated that as many as 250 lives have been lost, The frequency ;)i theso sccidents, and tho terrific osses of - life accom i would scem o suggest ta ontobiens that 8 system of lighting and working mines might be invented by which all such disas- ters conld be avoided. Certainly there must be a cure or preventative of them if it can only be found, and it only remains for some inventive genius to discover the right ap- pamatas. The safety-lamp seems to be in- adequate. - AxprRsox, the champion of all Louisiana Tiars, bas rested his claim for credence largely upon the alleged anxiety of persons high in the Government to take care’ of him. But o3 the case proceeds it becomes very evident fl_m nobody made any effort, or had any de- sire, to provide for him except Senator lh'x_'m.:ws. ANDERSOX tried to impeach the mnm.'es of the President by referring to his appointment to s minor Consulship, which he (AxDERSox) rejected indisgust (?)as anin- sufficient reward for his pretended villainy. Now that the President has submitted the correspondenco in the case, taken from the Government files, this provas to bo another ©of ANDERson's lies. The President simply referred the application to Secretary Evants in t_he first instance withont any recommen- dation ; but, just s soon &s the President had the slightest reason for doubting AxpeRson’s fitnes§ £ or the place, he directed that the comuission, be not issned till further in. qt s could be instituted, The reason AN- DEBSON did not take the place, then, was be- canse ho conldn't got it. It is encions 1 note, too, that o Government proof-reader, Ar. § first came 10 the conclusion 5 STZAIGHT, it ANDERSON whs i e scoundrel by reading tee, from which it wag evideut4~ SUAIGHTS mind that Axpengoe et been resdy 16 sel) out {o th~ Domccrats, Meanwhile, Axpre. 50X could get 1o recognition or comfort from Secrotary Smemauy, though claiming to hold - “emning letter from that high officer of before the Louisiana Commit . the Gove.rn?ep N % 3 : e Tsn’t it about time that tho Democrats shiicsr, 44 gayo themselves from this conviotd fovg. 2 pesjuer? TRE COURT-HOUSE+BU.. ING. The County Commissioners ?“e " about reached the end of their string. The ~oney at their disposal has been exhausted. "~ o reason for excludingreporters from the Com mittes meetings is mow disclosed. The- finances of the county are in that wretched condition that it is now a question whother the work on the Court-Honse can go on, or will have to be arrested. The contractors are in o desperate mood. WaLEES, the stone contractor, is so far behindhand in money matters that he is unable to keep up the work, thereby causing SExroy, the brick con- tractor,and Hixsparx, the granite contractor, long and costly delays. They all complain of thewant of moncy. All their bills are paid by orders on the County Treasury, which orders have to bo,sold at a shave, and the inability of the Treasurer to meot these orders is so great that money cannot be bor- rowed on tho orders, nor the orders sold ox- cept af rates which the contractors assert ara ruinous. The county cannot borrow, and has no money, Every fund has been robbed and plundered in order to keep up the Court-* House job; but there must be an end even to that. The credit of the county is now exhausted. The contractors, especially WAiLKER, cannot get money on the county orders. The amount of cash and county orders issued to contraotors is now equal to $687,000, and of this only a small portion was in cash. The rost was sold at alarge discount, and now cannot be sold atall. More than half the contract prico of the building has been expended, and for the money spent the building itself ought to bs now under roof. It is, therefore, perhaps a pertinent ques- tion whether the work on the building ought not to boe stopped until the county can get money with which to resume. Last year tho people of the county peremptorily voted down amesnsure to issue bonds to pay for the work. This adverse vote was the result of the total want of confidence in the members of the County Board. The character of the Board has not much improved in general estimation sinco then. The public regard the Court-House work as one vast corrupt and dishonest job, engineered and managed cor- ruptly by the majority in the County Board. No issue of bonds will ever be sanctioned so long as the Board shall be constituted as at present. Tho public is willing to voto what- over money may be necessary to complete the Court-House, but they will not intrust the expenditure of the money to the present members, Only five members are to be elected next fall,—not a sufficient number to change the genoral character of the Board. If the Commissioners want the peopls to vote for an issue of bonds, lot ten of them, resign, and the public, having the power to elect & majority of the Board, will not hesitate to vote the money needed to complete the Court-House. Lst the Commissioners try the experiment. Their collective personal and official character is fatal to public confi- dence, fatal to county credit, and fatal to the rapid completion of the Court-House. If this work has to stop,~—and it looks very much a8 if this will be the case,—the unfinished building, covered up for want of funds, will be an appropriate and fitting commontary upon the dishonesty and corruption of the present county government. Perhapssuch s striking example is needed to arouse the public to a full sense of their own negh- gence in permitting the county to fall into suoh dishonest hands. THE FALSE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNISM, The fundamental ideas upon whith the Communists basa their aystem of philosophy are not only sbsurd but false, and not only false but absolutely destructive in their ten- dencies. If the doctrines of Communism could ever be put into practical operation they would destroy many rights altogether and nullify the advantages of the remainder. Socinlism and Communism in one respect are identical. They may differ in some mi- nor details, but they have a common origin and characteristics. They belong to the primitive forms of society. All early, crude, and uncivilized communities are socialistic. They sink the individual ont of sight be- neath the community, and give him no rec- ognized position and no separate right in anything. The tribe holds everything. As tho community becomes civilized and prog- ress upward commences, the individ- ual appears ond makes a future for himself, and takes care of himself, and his property and accumulations are pro- tected. The London Saturday Review, in a recent article npon the first attempt to ns. sassinate the Emperor of Germany, admira- bly characterizes Socialism, as follows : Socialiem is the nataral creed of the habes of this world, of ardent, loving souls who think that_eversthing could 'be pat right if every one would but sltogether change, and if men lived al- together forone another. But there are babes and babes, and the -Soclallsm which appeals to the babes of a bigher class also appeals to the babesof a lower class,—to thoge who are just cdncated enough to be really ignoraut. and Who hate the society in which they find themsclves, and who think they are entitled 0 & much better lot on earth than is given them, Themost disastrous effect of Socialism,—in which term we also include Communism,—if it should ever obtain the ascendency, would bo the fatal blow it would give to self-effort and self-respect. It would not only destroy all personal liberty and individusl rights, by molding them into one common mass, in which thoy would be lost as effectually as the particles of flour are lost in a lump of dough, but it wounld bresk down ell human aspirations and ambitions, and utterly re- move every incentive to effort and every motive to ameliorato the condition of the xace or advanco the interests of the individ- ual. Commerce would be paralyzed, for therewould be no use in accumulating wealth that could not be held. Invention would stop, for the inventor would have no title to the product of his genins. Agriculturs would languish, for 20 man would have any purpose in raising more than was sufficient to satisfy his own hunger. Education and science would be sbandoned, for people who have everything in common, and lead s band-to-mouth style of existence, have no need of them. Suppose that Communism had obtained control of society a century 8go, whero should we have been now, or in what condition? As it would have destroyed everyincentive to personal effort, Jtaken away every reward that appertains to labor, and de- stroyed every human ambition, thera would have béen no advance of the. race. Instend of traveling by rail, we should kave been creeping along in wagons. Instead of flying across the ocean by steamship in a few dava. wo should have made_tha_sl-=:¥0y0ge of months in o ~«2:IgVESEEL: Tristend of trans- DI Rsiness by telegraph and knowing whilt i3 going on all over the world every morning, we shonld be waiting for weeks sud months to hear from correspond- ents. Instead of enjoying the comforts and conveniences of innumerable inventions which tend to makg life more ondurable and , enjoyable, we shonld be holhng'onin the old rongh and painful way. It isa peculiarity of Communism, however, that society can- not remain stationary under its influences. It*would not only prevent adyance, but it would cause retrogression, and society would speedily lapse into that brade and uncivilized condition which is always characterized by Socialism. Apply Communism to Mr. Ebr- y's case. Take away all motive for self- efos gnd gll reward for intense labor and in- ventive ghiity, what would Do the effect? Instend or unplying his busy brain to the study of the’ sciences aud mechanical arts, discovering ney’ principles and wresting {he secrats of Natuh, from her, levying contri- bution upon earth gir, fire, and water, and upon the laws of:emctiicity, heat, sound, ond sight, to lightéh yiiman burdens and increase hamsan enjo; it he, liko all oth- ers, would have been livinyy mouth existence, grubbin, den, perhaps, to obtain bhis d no more incentive for effort origh) ition to advance himself or his kind ' figm. the clods he was hooing. He 'yduld have no desire to help others, becausd ihe others would want no help, and no ambiticy to Iny up substance for himself or accumu: late anything ahead, becsuse that accumu- Iation would immediately be divided pro rata among bis lazy associates and neighbors. One of the main props upon which Com- munism supports its monstrous doctrines is the dogma that sll men ares cqual. All'men aronot equal. The Supreme Being never made them equal; and wherover and Whey ever by its leveling-down process Commuil ism has sought to enforce this equalization, the Supreme Powers have overruled it and restored the natural relations of men. AMen are not brought into existence with equal powers or equal capabilities, and Commun- ism cannot bring strong men down to the Iovel of weak men without destroying them, or in course cf time reducing them to the condition of tha brute. Al men have cer- tain rights in which they are equal. They have the right to earn property and to have that property defended. They have the right to personal protection. They have an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of lappiness. And with these conditions equal- ity ceases. The mind is what constitutes the man, hisbrain, intelligence, thought, and will. The body is of subordinate account. We hustle it out of sight as quickly as possible affer these powers are gone. To assert, then, that a vicious, ignorant clod is equal to the virtuous man with a big brain is simply puerile, and the attempt to. lovel the latter down to tho former still more so. And yet this is just what Communism is striving to do. It would bring the ~man of creative intellect down to the level of the stupid lazy drone ; would bring down industry, sobriely, and thrift to the level of indolence, ignorance, and orime ; eradicate all self-respectand self- effort, turn the Government into a paternal soup-house, offer a premium for slothfulness ond dishonesty, and quickly pauperize the country. This is the logical outcome of the false philosophy of Communism. EDISON AND HUGHES. Mr. Eprsox, after having excited the ad- miration of his countrymen, is called upon to suffer one of the most iordinary penalties of genius. A rival has attempted to rob him of part of tho credit to which ho is justly entitled. Prof. Huenes, of London, has laid claim to 6 new instrument, which he calls the microphone, the essential principles of which were aunounced by Episox some months ago and deseribed by him in con- fidential letters to scientific gentlemen in England. The London Spectator of May 25 refers to *‘the instrument which Prof. Hucnes has discovered” (sic) as “‘an aston- ishing step in advance not only for the science of sound, but for all the sciences in which sounds aro the symptoms of changes hitherto undiscoverable by man.” Further on it describes the in- vention 98 dopending on the inter- position of charcoal permeated by fine atoms of mereary in electric currents transmitted by the telephone wire. This is precisely the principle of the sensitiveness of carbon to tho electric current which Mr. Episoy dis- covered and announced some months ago. The same principle is usedin the thermophile, which is so sensitive to vibrations produced by heat that it will eventually be possible to measure the heat of the fixed stars by it, and in the carbon-telephone, which Mr. Episox has introduced in the Eastern States. “Moreover, Epson expressed his intention, many months ago, to use it for the indefinite multiplication and expansion of sound. Some of his plans with referenco to the spesking-trumpet—which was a mere incident of his main design—wera re- ferred to and described in Tme TRIDONE at the time. Mr. Episox now charges very di- rectly that this Prof. Hucues, of London, who has caused himself to be greeted as a ** great discoverer,” has oopied or imitated his ma- chine, specimens of which were sent to England five weeks ago. It is at least a carious coincidence that Mr. W. H. PreEcs, Chief of the Postal Telegraph Department in London, who introduced and explained Prof. ‘Hucass' theory, was one of the fow persons in England to whom Ep1sox's machines were sent, and who wag in entire possession of Episox's confidenco. This Mr. Hucsmes, unfortunately for the credit of English discoverers and inventors, is an American by birth, so that, even if hisspu.” rious claim were admitted, English national pride would gain nothing. It would have been in accordance with the history of the telegraph and olectric machinery gonerally if some such claim had been advanced on behalf of on Englishman, pure and simple. Although the electric telegraph and ali the important improvements thereon wers distinetly Amer- ican inventions, there has never heretofore been the lack of an Englishman to claim credit for them. From the original and highly-important investigations of FraNgrin to the invention of the quadruplex,*it has always been tho same. It was so with the Mogsk telegraph, the Monse alphabet, the sounding-board, the relay, theduplex, and the quadruplex,—each of."these was an American invention, and each of them wag claimed for an English compet- itor, or, if not directly claimed, each was publicly discredited -and pronounced of no account,” while the principle contained in it was quictly and privately, np- propriated. In the caso of Prof.” HrGHES there has been some modification of the old practice. An English resident, though an American citizen,. is accorded part of the ,Dinsos which belongs exclusively to one who is both a resident and s citizen of the United States. . TR ‘Whils we cannotagree with dia TLondon Spectator as to the merit of Prof. "me;u in this connection, we may safely accept and spprove its estimate of the importance of tho microphone. The microphone, 1t well says, will not ghow us new sounds, but:will make distinet what wo could not plagvfsons]y dis- corn. The first result will be to provide thoso who are partly deaf—whoso auditory nerve has not been destroyed——witb_ a nearly perfect ear-trumpet. *The now in- strument should algo ndd a hundred times a8 much to the means of investigating the facts of both vegatable aud animal physiology a8 the stethoscope added to the knnwledgu_ol the structure of the heart and lungs; for, while the stethoscops only collécted the sound, the microphone Wwill' magnify it.” The Spectator also suggests that it may be possible, through the use of the new instru- ment, to kear the definito sound caused by light touching a surface. *We may find that tho rippling of tho light from Sirius Tins o sound quite different in character from the rippling of the light from Arcturus, or the Polar ,Star; ond oll of these on- gots of starry light, if they can be heard at all, must make a sound as inferior fo the cataract which rushes from the sun, as the dash of a brook.” Whether this dazzling day-dream shall be realized or not, it is yot too soon to predict ; but one thing is certain, that tho glory of achievements like these will not in any degroe be detracted from by ou open acknowledgmont of honor to whom bonor is due. . \ THE STENCH NUISANCE. | At last, nfter an agitation of sevoral years, in: which T Trisuse bas not been insct- ive, thero seems to be s prospect that the sténch nuisance of this city may be abated, and by the very process whichk we have counseled all along. There has been one conviction, as the result of tracing thoe stinks {o a distinct and numistakable origin. Some ‘weeks ago, indictments were found aguinst sovern] of the more prominent ownersof rendering and fertilizing establishments. The first case tried was that of Scaxrox efal, and it resulted'in a prompt conviction, which will enable the Cotrt not merely to impose a fine but poremptorily order tho abatement of the nuisance. The State's Attorncy promises to prosecute the other cases with equal vigor, and, if the evidence bo as direct and convincing, wo may hope for new con- victions and for very marked relief this coming summer, if not entire immunity, from this horrid nuisance. The evidenco on which tho establishment of Boaxzox & Co. was convicted consisted of the testimony of two Health officers, one of whom started with the smell from tho corner of Thirty-fifth and State stroets, and the other from the North Side; both of them arrived at the same destination and conclu- sion; tho particnlar smell which they had seized was tracked directly to a stand-pipe at Soavrox's. Onpe of the officers had tho moral courage and the sublime sense of duty to hold his handkerchief in the escaping gas, then put it in his pocket and earry it back to the city. Thon, with o heroism that cannot be too inuch admired, he sniffed the foul air first and the saturated handkerchief next, end found both odors to be unmistakably alike. The testimony of the defense was curiously corroborative of the theory that these noxious smells come from the fer- tilizing and rendering establishments. It consisted of the testimony of the owners to the effect that they rather liked tho odor of their business, and certainly grow fat on it, and of tho testimony of em- ployes and neighbors denying that there was anything particalarly offensive about the premises or in the immediate vicinity. All of which goes to skow what we have heretofore maintained, viz.: that the most offensive gases are those which are allowod to escape into the chimneys and stand-pipes, which rise into the air when they are emitted in a heated condition, and then settle down on the inhabited districts that are in the unfortunate line of the prevailing wind. The testimony of tho Health officers and the defense takon together renders it unueces- sary for any further speculation as to stock- yards, sloughs, ponds, ditches, or other local smells, and show how absurd it would have been to take a jury out to the premises to smell for themselves. The smell can only bo traced to its origin by the process which tho Henlth officers adopted, which has led to one conviction, and ought to lsad to more. Tho indictment of the persons responsible for these stenches, and an order upon them to abate their nuisances, are not in the nature of an attack on a useful industry of Chicago, a8 tho owners of stink-establish- ments want tho public to believe. There is more than one way for successfully dispos- ing of and deodorizing these noxious gases, and the city suffers from them either from entire neglect to provide the necessary ma- chinery or from carelessness in the use there- of. Buccessful prosccution in the Courts will convinco the owners of the rendering and fertilizing establishments that it will be cheaper and better for them in the cnd to protact the public than to make a temporary saving in machinery or the uso thereof. THE NEXT WORLD'S FAIR AT CHICAGO. The suggestion made by a Buffalo news- paper that tho next great International Exhi- bition be held in this city, was manifestly in deference to Chicago modesty. The intelli- gent editor to whom this occurred knew very well that, notwithstanding the eminent fitness of the location, Chicago would not urge its own merits and advantages in the first instance. Now that this sensible propo- sition comesfrom an outside source, prompted by animpartial recognition of Chicago’s supe- rior ‘claims, it is only proper to consider the matter. It would not be right to deny to the world the enjoyment of the exceptional faoilities and attractions which Chicago offers for a great intornationsl show. The United States, having once entered the field with the great nations of Europe in periodi- cal'exhibitions of this universal character, will continue to compete in the same line, and Chicago is conspicuously tHe most desirable centre of 'attraction. ‘The date suggested—1882—s altogether too early, as this would give an interval of only six years between the first and sec- ond Exhibitions in this country, and would bring the second American Exhibition only four years after the Paris Exhibition. No nation has attempted to gather people and products from sll guarters of the globs more than once in fen years, and it will not be safe nor desirable for the Americans to hazard it: *But a World’s Fair is not of mushiroom growth. It is s matter thatre- quires‘even years of discussion before it can be finally determined; so it is not unlikely that the opening of the subject at this time will result in the actual location of the next World's Fair at Chicago about the summer of 1836, just ten years later than the Phila- dolphia Exposition. It is probable that a World’s Fair in Chica- go in 1886 will be in the nature of a celobra- tion of a progress altogether unparalleled in the histoxy of the world. The present ad- vantages of this city for such an institation = are familiar, but they promise to be infinitely greather within the next eight years. By that time, itis probable that Chicago’s population will be as lergo as was that of Philadelphia in 1876. The poculiar industries and enterprisos in which Chicago leads overy city in the world will then have gssumed proportions that will prove & marvel to mankind, and would then bo-sufficient attraction in themselves, if no Fair were here. The great Conadian canals will then have been completed, so that the different nations of Europe may send their contributions and have them delivered in Chicago by the very vessel which shall take them from the port of shipment. It is not unlikely that o sccond trans-continental railway will bo in operation, and the two main routes, with half a dozen connections centering in Chicago, will gather up the people and products of the Southwestern and Northwestern portionsof this Continent to an extent that would be utherwise im- practicable. China and Japsn will con- tributo more bouniifully, by reason of more direct connection, than they would to a World's Fair located at any other point. ‘The West Indios will be simi- larly nearer by association and accessibility. There will thenbo a direct railroad connection with the City of Mexico, which will open up the curiosities of pre-historic America and iransport them to the Fair. Chicago will be tho centre of all theso new systems of inter- ocommunication, as it is of all the systems now in operation. All this would furnish the Exhibition with s memorial character ; but there will bo still other advances to celebrate. The world scems to have entered recently upon a new era of invention. The telephona, the phonograplh, the microphone, ete., will be perfected before 186G, aud ap- plied to practioal purposes that may all be exhibited at o World’s TFair at that date, to tho infinite astonishment and information of mankind. Chicago has now local advantages in the way of accessibility and accommodation superior to thoso of any other American city, and they will be increased and enlarged in grenter proportion than thoso of any other American city. Its hotel accommoda- tions aro already more ample, elegant, and varied than can be found elsewhere. It has just the spot for the orection of Exhibition buildings, which will be even more central than aro those of the present Paris Exhibi- tion, or of any other World’s Fair over held. Tha Lake Park—a mile in length and from 400 to 600 feet in width—is the very centre of tho business city. Every article, coming from every part of the globe, whether by water or rail, may be lpid down a$ the very door of tho building for which it is intended, and without transhipment on the way. There is already one Ilarge build- ing that will sgerve admirably for an agricultural hall. -All the buildings will be within easy reach of each other, and all within easy walking distance of the principal hotels. It will not be nocessary to undergo here the discomfort of hanging on the ends of tho streot-cars, or riding in freight-cars, or living in gront, dsmp, unhealthy cara- vansaries of a temporary character in order to reach the Exhibition grounds. The mass of the strangers will bo nccommodated in the hotels and large buildings within five and ten minutes’ walk of the grounds, and the horse-car lines, reaching throughout the entiro city, will all centre thers. The man- ifold inconveniences of Philedelphis, which the people of that city ¢ould not avert with tho best intentions and most determined ef- forts, will bo avoided in Chicago without making any changes. Chieago will offer many inherent attrac- tions of its own not to bo found elsewhere. ‘Thero i8 no city in the United States so fa- miliar all the world over, and regarded with such universal inferest, as this city. By the year 1886 the last traces of tho fire will have disappeared, and all the world may be in- vited to inspect the model of modern cities and the most striking exposition of modern architecture, enterprise, and progress. Our vast system of parks will then be completed, ond offer in themselves the advantages of rural summer rotreats, The summer season is nlmost necessarily the time of year for holding such Fairs, and the Chicago climato will of itsclf be a blessing, with its cool nights and invigorating breezes. Mloreover, wo shall thenbe at the very hight of tho good times that are coming, and the World's Fairin 1886 at Chicago will be the most brilliant event of the century. The ball is already started. Some of tho Enelish papers have expressed surprise that the prevailing hard times and stag- nation of business have not closed up the fur- naces ond factories of Belgiam as they have done in England. The London Pall-all Gazette has been looking into the reasons of the excep- tional prosperity of that conntry, and makes the following observations in relationthereto, which are well worth reading and pondering: Belzium ought to be a happy country at the pres- ent moment. Notwithstanding all the stagnation of the last three years, not a single frm or com- pany, says Mr. SAviLE LunLer, the Secretary of Legation at Brussels, in s trade report just issued, has failed throughout the iron- trade. There have been no such dizasters as bave occurred in Great Britain 1n the closing of mills and works. On the contrary, Belgian iron continues to be sold; and England herself 1s being undersold by Belgium inher own markets, The reasous for this, waich are pointed out by Mr. LUMLEY 1n his revort, are simple cnough. Oneprincipal causs is to be found in the small consumption of coal arising from fin- proved methods of manufactare. Another cause is the diminution which has taken place in the wages of the workinen. Wages of skilled labor, which in 1872 stood at 111, ($2.20), had fallen in 1876 to_5f. ($1), and are now stanaing at4f, (80c). Bnl?&n \workaien appear to have sood sense enough to sce that business can never flourish unjess masters can make a falr proflL, or, in other words, can find a soflicient {nducement 1o fnvest capital. _Moreover, in Belgium, if workmen do strike, they bave to support themselves, and_are not maintained in idlencss out of the rates. Once more, in Belgium, as soon as property 18 men- aced, Govornment at once takes the nocessary steps 1o protect peaceable industry. Troops are called out, and order is re-cstablished atany Hsk and at any cost. This the workmen know, andfne result is that they hesitate to strike. There is a saving on'every clement that enters into the cost of production; and the Belzian manufacturer is enabled (as has been shown oa many occasions lately) ta buy piz-iron in England, vay for tho freight, nnd deliver that same iron mapafactured into beams and girders in tne most central parts of Ergland, evenin the heart of the iron districts themselves, at a lower price than they can be made by English firme on the spot. ‘While the wages of the workmen have great- ly fallen, eversthing he buys has also erown cheaper, although food has not reduced in price in the same proportion as wages. —————— A somewhat curious application of the ballot was made recently in Lancashire, where a larze number of factory-operatives have been on a strike. In Blackburn, 8} certain Ald. Pickae undertook to} mediate between the masters and meo. He suggested that the men should sub- mit to the 10 per cent reduction, on condition that the masters should restore theold rates at the expiration of three months, in the event of arevival of trade. To make the compact more binding, it was. suggested that the question be put toa vote of the operatives. The masters, supposing that such a vote would surcly result 1o their favor, giadly acoufesced. Ia order to ‘make the batlot 3 true indication of thesentl- ment of the operatives, it was agreed that, con- trary to] the usual practice of trades-unions, the women and children employed fn the factorles in question ehoutd be permitted to vote. The ballot was taken under these cir- cumstances, and resulted in the surprising and overwhelming defeat of the masters. The Lon- don Spectator revorts the poll thus: Of the 40,000 peréons entitled to vote, scarcely & thied voted, and among this third in every dis- trict a croshing majority voted ** War."" In Black- burn, where the feeling had been setrongest, the fizures were 4,536 t0 202. In Darwen, where the riots began and excitement has always been great, they were 2,100 to 6. In Buruity, where lhe ! riots showed extreme exasperation, they were ,609 to 302, nnd in the whole district, Preston apa Accrington, which did not vote, being -ox- cluded, the numbers were 13,935 to 882, or very mearly 16 to 1. ‘Two facts wero strongly Indicated by thfs bal- lot: First, that the hostility existing between workiogmen and cmployers fn England, tempo- rarily allayed by the passage of the last Reform bill, has revived, and is now more unrelenting than cver before. Secondly, the ballot shows that woman-suffrage, so far a8 this limited ap- plication of it tends to castlight on the subject, is o delusion and 8 soare. The women in this Lancashire ballot were more exasperated and extreme than the men; and their sentiment, as in the case of all contests in large communitics, went along with that of the men. The propor- tion of votes on each side would probably have been nearly the same if no women or children had voted; for such as did vote were controled by men. ‘The night-editor singeth: 1 reside in Philadelphia, and my name's Untrathfal JAMES, 1 am not up to small deceits or very sinful games, Aud I'll tell in simple language what I'm bired to remember About the’ Louislana count, two years ago No- vember. But first I would remark that it 18 not the proper way For any gentleman to ask what I ewore to t'other day, Or, if a member don't appreciato & special lie, To rake up the aaid records of previous testimony. Now nothing could be nicer or more beantifal to see Then my first dealings with the Scc. of the U. S. Treasury, Till about my obtaining there was an awkward hitel 0Of a Federal situationthat was extremely rich. Then HATES be took an envelope and wrote on it to inform Evants to send me somewhere where it was ex- tremely warm; And SHERMAN, when upon him Taffably did cail, Snid my clainis upon the party they were no good atall, Then Maztiews smiled 2 eickly smilo and bade ‘me calm my wrath, And he would eweep the obstacles away were in my path; e was 8 very writing man, this Mr. STANLET M., And on several occasions these notes he sent mo them, Then R. B. Mlaves, of Washington, he said he didn't know me; i Then in wrath I scaled my lofty ear and to my- self gaid, ** Blow me " (As hia Presidential coat-tatl it vanished through the door), ¢+ But the subseqaent proceedings'll interest you moré." And in a short time PoTTER he got on the rampage With the other Bourbon fossils of the palezoic nge, And the way they swung the party-whip acout them was a sin Till the weakening of Cartsn H. it let a quornm in. Somow what do you want to know of oun pecnlfar Zames, For I come from Philadelphia, and my name's Un- truthful JAXES, And T'll tell in simple Janguage 211 I'm hired to re- member About the Lonisiana count, two years ago No- vember. Remember that Porrer’s Committee are on a “fraud hune” to discover how it huppened that the bulldozers failed to carry the Republic- an State of Louisfana for TiLDEN. Their main witness is **Night-Editor” ANDERSON, of Philadelphia, whilom carpet-bagger in New Orleaus. Their witoess was the Supervisor of the strongly Republican 2arish of East Feliclans, which be agreed to betray to the Tildenites. This is the way that parish voted in the years npamed. In 1872 the vote stood thus: : Grant (Rep.). Greeley (Dem. .1,867 617 Republican majority. eeseneeesad, 020 In 1874 the vote stood thus: Republican . Democratic . Republican rajority. 1n 1576 the vote was as fol Tiléen (Dem.) . Hayew (Rep.. Democtatic majority. ‘Which of those ¢lections looks like the one at which the * fraud ”* was committed? Bearin mind that the registration list made shortly be- fore the last election returned 1,004 Democrats and 2,127 Republicans. How came 2,127 Repub- licans to poll but 1 vote at & Presidential elec- tion, and how does it happen that 1,004 Demo- crats managed to poll 1,736 votes for TILDEN & Co.? Will some *¢ fraud »-hunter explain? ————— If there is one moment when & young and comparatively unknown journalist feels how hieh and holy a thing his profession fs, it is at the moment when he iaunches at the editorof a rival sheet a paragraph which wiil inevitably make that assailed person rip up the humble journpalist’s chief’s record from the time when he first stole green apples down to the present time. And if there1sa moment in a humble reporter's career when that humble reporter feels that Time, at least, makes all things even, and that the press is the Archimedean lever which moves the world, it {s the moment when at a lecture or mecting the mioister who used to bulldoze him in his boyhood, or call the con- gregation’s attentton to his misdeeds at church, getsup to speak, and the humble reporter, shutting up his note-book and putting his pencil into his pocket, says to his reportorial com- panfons in 8 whisper clearly andible four rows of seats back, ‘“Say, boys, we needn’t give more’n & stick of this old idlot’s slush.” ——— A correspondent of the New York Evening Post, writing from Rome, says of the Silver Congress: The invitation of the United States to Italy to take partina Monetary Congress for establishing the value of silver meéts with rather o favoranle rosponse here. The Italians heve little gold and Dot much silver, but a great deal of paper. How- ever, they hope in_time 1o return to specio pay- and. would prefcr to make them. 1 ailv They say they. would take part in & Congress if several other European nations did soalsc, But they fully understand the reason of tho United States for desiring this, and say tast the Yankees, who are candid_even when consulting tholr int csts, confess that they possess large silver mines, —_— e — The London Times says of the employment of Hindoo troops from India: The costof brinzing 7.000 men from India to Maita, and mafntsfning thom. will be no legs than threc-quarters of o million. They will cost rathor more than £100 s man. We venture to sugzest to those who are alarmed for the stability of our Con- etitution that, at this rate, we shall never be able to pay for a suflicient number of Indian troops to insure the suppression of our Iibesties, The Times i right. 1f the Bepoys cost $500 cach for moving them to Malta and keeping them there, Eneland’s purse is not long enough to fight Russis with such troops. .. . —————— 1,888 47 At a meeting of Cuban patriots at New York the other day, Senor MoREez said, with much warmth: * Gen. MAC2O has a great many things to attend to. He is willing o sacrifice his life for his country, but I do not think ho shiould be bothered with assisting in collecting money. That ought to be left to the Commit- tee and all patriotic Cuban exiles.”” Thatisa fair division: Onbe patriot goes to the front and does the fighting, and the others remain be- hind and pass the hat: —— There have been three scandalous cases of kidnapping recentiy where the kidnappers were Jersey officers. Does not this savor somewhat strongly of the arbitrary conduct which Gov. McCLELLAN'S friends used to denounce in war time? At present, when they want a prisoner or o witness who happens to be in Connecticut, New York, or Pennsylvanla, the Jersey officials go to ‘Little Mac,” and he just tinkleshis little bell. 0 ‘There s but little doubt that,having the State of Oregon in their hands, the Republicans, in their anxiety to save the Senatorship for Mr. MiTcHELL, have lost the Senarorsnip and the seat in the next Homse. The Senatorship docsn’t make much difference, for the Senate March next; bt we do hate to lose ative, especially when that m;:::;f:;"' will cast the vote of his State in the Bveu(m the House haviog to elect 3 Prosident iy 1&@“ ‘The moral, of it all is, that it Is best to elect Legislatare befora settling the Senatorly) 'ha cession, and that. the management of g i by one interested man {3 not always mmm;’ with its prosperity and snccess, il ——— STERNDOLD & HOPKINS wrote relation to the PorrEn Invesfignllu:‘: Sy He dipged a pit; deep di 2 He flfgned 3t for nig mfi?fié‘fi" L But, for his ain, he dia fall {n The pit he dizged for vother, A Cincinnati journcyman Sawbones p, deal too gently withhis subjeet. father. ever It may bfim ———— PERSONALS, Mr. Boucicault's £125,000 new stean, sacht bas come down 10 & small second hagg schooner, the Fleur-de-Lis; cost, $7,500, Lydia Thompson and her h\ubnnd, Aler. . ender Henderson, have separatod formally, 1y said that all her larze earnings have beeg mm: by his theatrical ventures at London, Mary Elizabeth Horth, tho woman Wh has been Interrupting Mr. Beecher's prayer.ess. ings of late, has been sent to 8 Jeraey jail for ;"_'r disorderly conduct. She shammed Insanuy, Of the seventy-seven gradmates st An. herst, 62 oo the theatre, 31 dance, 27 gmgy 28 (1) drink, 9 chiew, 50 play cards, 63 go for fs trade, 19 will enter the ministry, 21 wi) gtyge law, and 61 belong o the Church. Only ONE pro, into hterature. Hurrah! Ti-gerl Sha Anderson used to be an apprentics in t, Lancaster Union office many sears ago, from whiey position of **honor and trust™ he was disch, for offering to mix Democratic tickels with jra Republican ones which were printed at his og, ployer's office. 'The apprentice woa father of the night-editor. The New York 'bus-companies have cir. cumvented the Ingenious author of s moye ** racket, "—~the man who sat near the box ggg when a dime was handed him to be dropped into s cleverly substitated & cent tishtly wrapped in tip. foll. e was netting abont $10 & week by this pe. fare-ions industry. Mme. Pappenheim’s hotel-keeper garni. sheed the net profits of her recent beneft st the New York Academy of Music, £0 a5 to secure pay. ment of her board-bill of $807.63. The net prp. cecds amounted to S3L.61, and his lawyer took $30 costs and fees ont of that, and handed ghe creditor over $1.61 on acconnt, Rome has just celebrated ons of its grand. st marriages, —that of Fabriclas Colonna ang Olympla Doris, representatives of the two grestes; housesof medern Rome. The bride was corersd with dismonds, pearis, and orange-blossoms, 3 Cardinal performed the ceremony, and shero wis 2 whole Arabian Nights of presents. Mrs. Fletcher Horper, Jr., has bonght s small botel ot Atlanticstlle, near Long Brsuc, which isto be opened next month as & sammer. reeors for young working-women who need rest and recreation but cannot afford 1o pay the chazges ugually exacted ot fashionable resorts, Womey only will be employed at the Louse, the chargeast” which will be about $4 a week. Bessie Sudlow's mother keeps a theatries! boarding-house in New York, and now is fa couns suing a Jewieh peddler who sold her s lot of far- niture on weakly installments, and. she clims, swindled her by keeping his accounts in Hebrew. This dealer furnishes all the actresses with sitks, Jewels, etc., upon the same economical plsn. His account-book would be Interesting if not romantls, A rather significant occurrence, tending to ehow that the tenants of the mardered Lord Leitrim were not mearly s0 dissatisfed with bim as they might have been, wss the fact that, when two of tie six men nccused of his assassinstion were dis- charged, they could scarcely scrape tosether o carpest solicitationa few shillingy o make good the emall sum they were short for their raflway fare to Londonderry. will be strongly Democratic after the 4th of In Paris, when a man gots too tight to take care of himseif, the saloon-keeper does not knock him on the head with a bung-starter, o thongh his pockets, and fire Lim out into the street. Naj, vorily; but be places the inebriato in chargeof & calm and sober man,—2 member of & guild kuewa as Guardian Angels,—who {a alwaya withfn call, and this Guardian Angel takes the drunkard bome in sa’ety, and gives what money the drunkard hat to his friends. The existence ot this sineuiarin- dustry has been revenled by the trial of a Guardia Angel, who, losing patience with particularly ab- streperous client, gave hima push into the gutter, where a paseing carriace killed bim. Though, wits one wing apon_ hls heart, the Guardiaa Angel de- clared that no Guardian Angel ever drank anythiog but water, the Court found that the Angel Guard- ian had been tipsy, and gave bim a month for care- tessness. The Archbishop of Dublin is coming ia forno end of eriticising for declining to order the removal of ascreen 1 the Cathedral, on the ground that if it were removed the clergy woald be **exposed to 3 great araught of wind that per- vades the buildioz.” Tho laymen sre natarally indignant. This recalls a good story sbont Archdeacon Paley, who had been invited toattead agreat gathering of the clergy, which concloded with o dinner at & hotel. Al were on the tiptoe of expectation to hear what the great Paley wold sy during the dinner, knowing that nothing but words of wisdom would drop from. his month, His b remark took them not a little aback, for it savored altogether, not of spiritual but substantial thizs; it was this: ¢*These puddings are not good oa- lees the seeds are taken out of the raisins.” But his second remark was like a bombsnell dropped on the dinner-table—**Walter, shut the window be- nind me, and open one lower down bebind the carates.” That howli—we mean to say, that eminent Train, bas been delivering an all-night ledtureat New York. o sald that be bad written to Car- dinal McCloekey warning him that the Catuolles would hold their Cardinal responsidle if thesar- ings banks burst, and the Cardinal hadu't seat bl any answer. The Stewart estaio was ‘bankrupt, and wouldn't pay three cents on the dollar. Beazs were a fine diet. e expended iive cents a dy for beans, and never tonched meat. A voles fromtho gallery—** Don't you eat pork?” **No, sir." **Howdo you get beans separated from pock! Mr. Traln was somewhat confused, sud said ho neversaw any pork. A friend in the orcheitrs suggested that beans conld be cooked without pork. Mr. Train adopted tho suggestion; bat I8 appeared that the first interrogator was in the habit of eating beans in the same restanrant, sad I elsted thatno beans were sold there not contaz= inated by pork. He gained his point snd the audience yelled with gratification. 1 They had an intoresting case up in a8 New York court one dsy last waek. A mflliner madod dress for a castomer Who refased to pay for it be- cause it was not properly made, The milliae contended that what her client denounced 2f botches and patches wero really designed a8 orms- ments, and were all the fashlon, and paraded b fore the jurors, as exhibits or experts, & number O fasblonably-attired and beautiful womes. Wl;:f the Judge came to sum up, even his acate tellect, — Keen through wordy enares to track. Suggestlon to its Inmost cell,— accustomed to the intricacics of patent saits, *:: cofled fn dismay at the task before It, 208 o, charged the iury briefly, winding up by s87iS svith the air of one who was lost in a forest fs‘wfli miles from home and at the dianer bour: '8 1 oll n puzzle tome, gentlemen." The jurs fl! 4 2 few minutes’ ubacnce, retarned with & vesdict 0 the aefendant. Probably the jurors were mar men, sworn encmies of fasblonable milliners. Judge Hilton insinustes that when b women at the recent indignation meefluz~¥'r; Dr. Lozier in particular—spoke of a letter udzm to 8 younz woman by Mr. Stewart, flzchfl"z*m the price of board was only to be $4 & week (Y lied. **Ho never intended.” 8378 e ¢ that women should sit at those tables who wel 4 earning less than the servants who walted TFO% them. He never designed when ho planacd magnidcently-fnished building, with s elabors appointments, costly faraitare, and mnxhltz'lwm; that it should be tenanted by serub Women“ 30";' of the women who fgured at the mecting L Judge says, would not be allowed to enter any = spectsble honse; and he declares that when o his severest crities was at the used to disgust the other inmates fric elippers and bolsting her stockinged-fect BPO% 0 library taoles. He concluded: by, one of 1 # compiaining women actually wanted fo eatefi ® male visitors in her room, und when that conld B d be done she wanted the doors of the recepHom room closed when men visited her tnere. philosopher and psychologist. George Fmdii o Woman’s Hotel 320 1 by taking off ber/ the Jodze..