Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 21, 1878, Page 4

| ternoon and e THii CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1878, The Tribmme, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, BT MAIL—IN ADVANCR—POSTAGR TREPAID. 38 Fpecimen Give Post-UMfice sddress In full, inclading Stats snd County, & Liemittancen may he made elther by draft, express, Toat-Offica onler, or In reglstered latter, at our risk, ., TERMS TO CITY SURBCRIBERS, Daliy, delicercd, Bunday exeepted, 23 centa per week. Dally, delivered, Bunday fncluded, 50 cents per week, Address. THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madizon and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, 11l Orders fot the dellvery of Tnr TRIRCAR ton, Foglewood, and Hyde Parx jeft In the counting-room W peceive prompt sttention. TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. Tg Cmicann TATATNE has established branch offtees for tho recelpt of subscriptions and advertisciuents aa follows: NEW YORR~Room 29 Tidune Bulldiog. F.T.Mo- Fapnzx, Manager, PARIE, France—Xo, 10 Rne de Ia Orsoge-Datellere, . Mances, Agent. LON: Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand. AMUSEMENTS. Tlootes’s Thentre. Tandoloh preet, letweon Clark and LaSalle. Enzagement of Iiarry Webber, **Nip and Tuck. Atternoon and eventag. Ilaverly’s Thentre, Dearborn strect, corner of Monroe. Engagement of slie Colvll Folly Company. **Our Cloderelis.” Af- 1 BO TIN ¥ S n i (‘\hzn ‘elock. 11all 78 Monyoe-s tatly tnvited, GroliG WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, Communi BLANEY LODGE. KO. 278 A.. ¥. & A, M.~Stated 1878, Greenbocks ot tho New York Stock Ex. chiango yestordny closed at 993 A Prior to leaving the aity last evening fora period of reoreation Mayor HeaTu propared nmessage to the Conmmon Conncil vetoing tho resolution passed Monday evening in- structing tho Mayor to order a suspension of work on the City-Hall. His firmness in the watter will bo approciated by tho taxpayers, 'The supplemontary statement of State Trensurer YaTes, of Missouri, so far from guicting public spprehension of disaster to the State finances, has only sarved to in crease tho excitement and distrust. Now revelations aro made which show the Trens- ury to be in n hopeless condition of in- solveney through his management, and tho certainty that nboat $1,000,000 of obliga- tions caunot bo met is now only too -ap- parent. Gen, Ganrierp was yesterday nominated by the Republicans of the Ninetoenth Dis- trict of Obio, this being the ninth success- ivo instanoo in which the cholos of his fel- low-citizeny has fallen. upon him. Tha ro- cont gerrymnnder, to tho order of .Speaker RaxpavLL, by the O'Connor Logislaturo added Mahoniug County to GanrizLp’s distriot, und that county yestordny claimed the honor of presenting to the Nominating Convention the namo of the man who has reflocted so much eredit upon Lis own State, and rendered 30 wmwuch servico to the grest party which reckons him among its most eminent leaders, It is gralifying to mnote that gemerous responses avo bolng mnde in Chiengo to the uniz:rous appenls for ald which are daily racoived from Southern cities. The need 4till continues pitifully urgent, ns will bo seen by the telegrars printod this mornfug from tha Vicksburg baokers and from tho Hon, LasEr Youna, the, Fennosseo Cougrossman, to tho Tion, Cantem II. Hanmisow, of this city. Mr. HanatsoN very promptly rophied with a pledge of help from Chicago, and our people will eo to it that the pledgo is re- deemed. The banks Lave already sent for- ward a haudsome contribution, and the mor- chants and businew men of Obicago will not Ve bohind the bankars In liborality, Beforn ho gets tbrough with Sranezy Marrnrws, Bex Borren will find that he bus niot unly wmet his mateh a4 a lawyoer, but (hat Bo has found a men better versed in parlia- mentary usages and precedents than himself. While it socins to ua (Lat it would look bet. ter for MarTurws not to stand upou the or. der of nia gofuy but go beforo thut Commit. tee at ouce and tell all ho knows, he hny evi. dently naight to sholter Iimself under his rights and privileges as a 'Senator, and tode- cline to respond to the sumnmons of the Com. mittec. Any ouc who wishes to satiafy him. self in regard to this question can emily do s0 by n thorough investigation into the his- tory and practico of all parliamontary bodies, — ‘Tho opinion prevails amoug Treasury of- ficials that Jegislation should bo had to pro. vide for the redewption of the trade dollar, sad it id thought that such n course will bo rocommented to Congress by HBaoretary SuEnsay Thery are now in circulation about 46,000,000 of these dollars of 420 graing, aud it is belioved that if tho question were carried into the courts the Govermnent could be compelled to redeem all that weve coined in tho inturval between the passage in 1873 of the act suthorizing thelr toinage and the passage of tho act of 187¢ divesting trate dollarw of their logal-tender quallty, Tho full redemption of the outire fssue and tho retirewent of the trade dollar from cir- culation will bo strougly urged ‘upon Con.' grosd, . ———— ‘Tho expert Guuger sent out by Commiis- sloner Raus to inquire juto the why and whereforo of the alility of Cinolunati distil. lers to undersell Chicago roports that be has discovered the secrot, which is, bricfy, hot whisky. Ny ruuning off the product at a high tewperaturo the distiller gots an allow. ance of one gallon por "barrel for subscquont shriokage, while ho sells to the rectifior and gt pay for the full quantity, thus dodging the tax ou oue gallon. It needed no aston. ishing cloverness on .the part of the expert Gauger to wake this discovery, siuce it s preclécly what the - Cipclunati distillers have all along declgred to be the. weeret of their advaptage. Commissioner Rava will by hard soarching probably find that the hot-whisky theory is not the gorrect otiv, and that there is -a scrow loose some- wiore which the Ciucinnati distillers are not o reudy to acknowledge. ... Keamser's first publio uppeatpuce’ in “Chi-$ €a;o was unattended with any gotiogable up-'| Leaval of tho sociul, Snancial, and industrial fabric, Ho cumo hero to muke speech, sud bo mnde it dast oveniug at an opon-air meet. ing cowposcd of perhaps 3,000 curious Listeners aud spectators. Aftor hearing what Huansey bad to sy, or after readivg tho re. « portof L speceh in tho moruing papers, thero is not a workingman in Chicago who i3 one thonght tho wiser for it ail, or who has any clearer idea of tho remedy for the grievances he complains of. The speoch of last evening was, like all of Kxannzr's intomperate harangues, full of wrath againat the thioving eapitalist and the lecherous bondhotder; full of destruc- tion of established forms, without a sugges- tion as to reconstruotion. Now that publie curfosity has been gratified by the sight and sound of the California swashbuckler, he wilt ceasa to be of interest to Chicago working. men and fade ont of recollection, The Protestant Irish were recontly very indignant over the statement that Kearney wns an Orangeman and had never belonged to the Roman Catholic communion, and the Joman Catholies are now very indignant be. cause ho claims to be a member of their Church and has never bsen an Orangeman. It is not at oll romarkablo that they shonld feol shus. As a matter of fact, if we could got at the sentiment of Irishnen gonerally, we shonld probably find a great deal of in. dignation, not because he is a Protestant or Untholio, but becanse he is an Irishman. A brawling, profane, and vnlgar agitator of his stamp is not a credit to any sect or nation- ality. THE UNEMPLOYED, Tho Massachusetts Buroau of Statistics of Labor hos prepared n_report of the number of laborers, skilled and unskilled, unomployed in that State on the first day of June last Great pains were takon to mako the resnlt as nccurato ns possible. The canvass in the cities wns made through the police, and in the towns through the Assessors, The esti- mates reiated to able-bodied males over 18 yeors of age, and comprehonded only those who renlly wanted employment, Answors were obtained from all Lut fifty-one towns, and thess wors agricultural commupitios in which laborers are fully employed. It moy Lo said, on the one hand, that the onnvass of the Btato in June, when all ngricnltural in. dnstries aro active, would be likoly to show a better conilition of affairs than the average; but, on the other hand, it is known that many manufactories that wera stopped in June, notably shoe-factories and cotton-mills, have since started on fall timo, and the show- ing ir, If anything, loss favorable for Jnne thou it would be for any other month in the year, ‘The canvass made in this manner showed that there were out of employment in the towns 4,120 skilled and 5,557 vaskilled ln- borors; and in the citles there were 4,140 akilled and 7,695 unskilled unemployed. Tho whole number of skilled laborers in the State uncmployed was 8,560, and of nn. skilled 18,262; grand total, 21,812, To thiy amount thero is to be added 80.7 per cont (the proportion of females to males em- ployed) in ordor to ascertain the total unein- ployed malos and females in the State. This addition gives 28,503 us tho nggregato nnm. ber of skilled pod unskilled male and femate Inborars out of omployment in MMassachu. wetts, Juno 1, 1878, Al tho caleulations aro mnde on tiio basis of tho consus of 1877, and it 1a shown that thore has beon no matorial increaso in the popnlation sinco then, Theso figures aro very much lower than it was sup. posed they woiild be. Popular and unan- thenticated cstimates haveput the number of unemployed in Massnchusetts ns high s 00,000, and in the whole Union at 3,000,000, But this, the first attempt to nseertain tho tmth by careful and official canvass, shows that tha popular eatimates are absurdly wide of the trnth, On tho basis of the unomployed in AMassachnsetts, calculat- ing tho other States in proportion to their popuiation, the unemployed in the whole United States would bo numbered at 570, 00, Theso figures are far too large, hecause it is conceded tuat Maasachusetts, having o manufacturing population, has more than her proportion in - numbers of unemployed, Trobably 00,000 would be a libernl estinate of the whole number of persons willing to work who nre unable to find employmont, Thin is obout one-tenth of the number guensed by tho Bocialist agitators and sponk- ers, sud not one in ten of tho 800,000 i in uctnal want, Home eignifioant Inferonces 1oay be drawn from theso ostimates. They show, in the first place, that the recent labor agitations #pring not so much from the anemployed as frow the partially cmployed and thoss who consider thumneiven insuficiently pald. If tha cry ware for bresd aud clothing, it would be barder to meet; but when it 1s, as it scems generally to be, for luxuries and com- forus, there is loss difficulty fn resisting it, ‘I'hio rovols §s not against what Mr. Burszn ana Mr, Keanser ore sccustomed to call *‘too despotisin aud tyranny of capital," but ogainut the *despotism and tyranny” of hard tunes. It i o uad thing, no doubt, toat the intlation bubble should be pricked, aud the niarkels bo dopressed, and millions of fortunes be lost, and wages he reduced ; but it s just a3 1mpusaiblo to prevent this ns to niler the operation of any natural law. Lavor has boon dosperately cheated and wronged by paper-uouey,.as it always is by a bad currency, Hut two wrongs do mot msko a right. Moro paper-money would ouly tear open and set bleeding again the wounds that now are almost stanchied. Since it is a question of laraship aud not of sotusl starvation, the workmon must liston to roason ; thoy must remembor that they do uov suffer alone, though, perhiaps, thoy suffer most. Capital has suffored 1n ite tur ulnost as severely as labor, Its monoy loss las been oven greater; and, if tho number of rich men who have beon reduced to want within tho past five years wero estimated, it wonld bo found larger, we have uo goubt, than anyvody now imagines. "The statistics in regard to the unemployed may show . more cheerful state of affairs in Irvospect, Three hundred thousand nnen- ployed, out of a total -populstion of more than 40,000,000, is 'not a discouragiug pro- portion, This number—including, as jt does, those who are passing ‘from one occu. pation to nuother, those who have only re- contly urrived in the country, ana thoso who arv resting vecause they can find no employ. meut to their tasto—Is not largely above the aversgo of unemployed in seasous of fair vusingss activity, ‘I'ie veturns show that the uuwmber of unumployed v much loss than was expected ; might'they not aléo show, if they were extended, that many out of em. ployment s year ago or wore ‘have siuco founa work? Wa bolievo this iu the case, both becuuse ‘the ‘applications for velief from the public treasury havo Tlargely ai- minished, and becauso the ccmplaints of sufferiug are much lows frequent than they ware. There is evideuce of {ucreasivg cou. tontmont among the trades eud trades- uuions, Above all, there has boen of lato a quickening in every kind aud vanety of business which could uot havo taken place without a correaponding benefit to labor. If theso fuferences are correct, it will not be louy before labor gety sgain its full share of tho prosperily of the country; low wages will be fonnd to posseas greater ;purchasing power than high wages formerly éid; work- ingmen will be ablo to buy sgain the little comforts.and lauxnries whicl: they used to enjoy ; and then Butleriam, Kearnayism, and Communism will be left to the domagognes and idlora who invented thein ansl pressed them on the people. e s THE S0UTHERN SCOURGE The torrible seourgo of yellow fuvor con- tinnes ita ravages throughont tbe Southern cities with unrelenting ferooity, and with a As com- fotality that has become appailing, pared with it, the epidemics of searlet fover, emall-pox, and other discases which some- times got n foothold and mpread thromgh onr Northern citles ssem to be insiggiticant. Perhnps thers js no clearer way of realizing the distress that provails in New Orloans, Memphis, Qrenada, Vicksbnrg, nnil othor places, than to imagine what onf own condi. tion would be under similne cirenmatances. Unlike our Northern epidemics, tho disease wonld not be confined {0 certain localitios, bat wonld sprend from honse to house and from ncighborlicod’ to neighborhood, un- ehecked by tho most vigorons nction of tho Henlth Commissioners, The Ilnke shors would offer mno mora sccurity than the proirie to tho west. The strects would bo filled with nurses, physi- ciaug, and undertskers going- upon their ghastly errands. Such of our oftizens 84 could afford it would fly Esst and North, The indigent would be buddled out on the prairie in tents, insufficiently fed, and poor- ly housed. Tho bsuks would be closed. Business honses wonld shut. Tho streets would be filled with unemployed men. Desperation would induco erime. Steam- boats snd railrosds wonld stop ruuming. Goods cotid not enter or leave the city. The swrrounding citics would closo their doors againat us, Our vessels would lie idlo atthodocks, andour busy trains that nowrun to overy point of the compass wonld rest in the depots. The crowded travel in the sireats would cease, and in ploce of tho thousands of teams earrying produce the henrses would'have the thoroughfares to themsalves. 'Those who could not get ontof the city wonld be leftto confront deathalone, not knowiug whet minnte they would have to meet the grim monster. A sailless har- bor, rusting railroads, silent strcots, closed business-louses, idle men wandering vacant. 1y about, deserted homes, nurses, physicians, mimsters, and undertakers the only busy ones left, and these falling doad on tho field of their duty, cut off from all sources of sup- ply by the relentices embargo of quarantine, 0 great Jazar-house of dond and dying, such would Obicago bo were it to meot the tarrible fate which has fallen upon the Southorn cities,—n fate whiol secems more terrible than the vacant rtreets and blackened ruing that followed the Great Fire, sinco then wo bad bealth, hope, courage, and energy left, and thousands flocked hers to Lalp us re. build, avd sympathy and supplies poured in from every sonree, . Theroe is not a fenture of this awfnl visita- tion that doos not commend these afflicted peoplo to the sympathy of more fortunate places. Cut off as they are even from their owh interiof citios by n quarautine a8 re- morseless as tho dead-line In & prison camp, they aro loft to thelr own resources, and, inolated from human contaot, must fight their battlo alone with this horrible scourge. However couragéons or liopeful they mny Do, tho odds, aro fearful, and 1o one can stand such a terrible contest long. At such a timo the tender of consola- tion, sympathy, and active assistance would come into thewr darkened cities liko a burst of sunshine, and inspire them with new hopn nnd dotermination. Chicago ahould take tho load in this noble work. In our timeof affliction these Southern citios hooded our ory for help, notwithstanding the sectionul bar Lotween us, and sout us money and snp- plics. Now is our timo to requite ther kindness nnd send them belp. They are moresorely pressed than we weroe. Wo woro vigited by a materinl dlsgster that destroyed property. Thoy aro visited by a scourge which not ouly paralyzes their business, Lut is reaping a fearful barvest of donth, Mem. phis sent us £#20,000 nud Now Orleans $30,000 in monoy, besides clothing and sup- plies, whou we asked for help, nnd Grenada sent us her mite in proportion to her ability, ‘These oities nro now asking for aid. What will Chicago do for them? e o e a—— PROGRESS OF TRE NEW OITY RING, ‘Pux: I'risuse of last Bunday exposod the formation of a now Aldermanle Ring to con- trol the building of the Oity-Hall, nud jndi- cated ot thet time the probable made of procedure, Then only oue step had been taken. Toxrixson & Reep, the present con. tractors, Lad roported, in responso to a Council resolution, that thoy would require 401,600 additioual in order to make tho proposed change to Lemont stone and grou- ite, 'Thoy liad beon forcod to ask this enor. mous flgure by the nucessary cost of toaring down what thoy havo alrendy construoted, by thio unavoidable loss of time, by the dam- agos they will be forced to incur om the forfeiture of their own coniract for stone, ‘but mamly by the exorbitant price which it i proposed to make them pay for the uew waterial. ¥ Warxes, who desires to be the Ring contractor, controls the Le. wont stoue, and it is understood that ho would not nAgres o well this stone to ToutaNsoN & Neep at less thon three thues f1w real valne, Since tho presenl contryctors wero forced to submit this oxceusive estimato of the' coat of tho proposed change, two moro steps havo been taken by tne Ring. The first was to socuro the rejection by the Council of "Tosrixsow & Reen's proposition, Thia waswhat the Ring designed when Toxvixsox & Reen ware co- petled to put their figures so high, The third stop was to seoure the pasuageof a rosolution through the Council justructing Lhe Mayor to suspond work on the gity-Hul, This is desigoed partly to giva the Ring more time to work out its endy, snd partly as au entering wedge for ultimately overturning thie presens contract. Weappeud the names o1 the Aldermen who voted for this rosolu. tion. It is proper that they uhould be kept cousplcuously bofore the punlic, &s each pne of thom will be called upon to make & per. sonal expianation of his vote wien tho dutaile of the Riog wovemont aball be revessed, Lhey wera : TULBY. TrLLy, Trusgx, Corisiray, MeNaLiy, Ly mu, Lawien, buvru, MKy Ereauzn, Ryax, Nizars, 3\ XTTEURER, Jdaxsuxns, McCarrsvr—16, oXan Among these sixteen will be found the nswes of ol the mon in the Council whoe reputation or previous carcer would indicate su assoointion with & corrupt cowbination. There amo only 8 very fow whgu‘ appearanca in sach company excites any particular sur- prise, ond thoy way have boen dsoeived. ‘Iho lendors of the new City Ring are the saluo puersous who conducted tho affairs of tho old County Ring. Joun McCarrnry, the ex-hoss 0f the Connty Toard, i nnderstond tohave tha genernl managomont of the new combinntion. It wns probably with this schiemo in view that ho made such desperato efforts to get into the Council nfter his official life oxpired in the Countvy Hoard, nnd when ho conld no longer bo elocted County Commissioner, The T'reasurer and disbursing oflicor of the Ring js underatood tobe Crew Pentorar, who was eminontly succesaful for many years in tho manipnla. tion of connty nffairs, Of conrse Ep Warx. En, tho old county contractor, ia to o the Uity Ring contractor in cnse the scheme ean be carried out, eitlior in his own name or in thit of somo figure-head. It is stated that Warker himself did not got a cont of the 230,000 recently paid him for county **ex- tras,” but that it all went to peopls who hold his * notea ™ (somo of them with and proba- bly gome of them withont a lawfal consider- ation), and theso * creditors " are still clam- oring for more, According to the mont authentio mccounts, the Aldermen who are nctnally in the Ring have heon secured at cheaper terms than were exacted by tho eqrupt County Com- misgioners in their dealings; perhnps this is partly becauso o larger numbor of Alder- men s necossary to securo tho reqalsito ma- jority in the Council, and partly because Aldormanio stuff is of a cheaper quality. At all evonts, it is expected that tho big profits of the new deal will bo divided among n vory few of the more experienced and knowing oties, whilo miost of the Aldermen who consont to bo corrupted will receivo a very low price for their votes. ‘Warges submilted a proposition through QmAL':nxe:‘d at the lost meoting of the Coun- cil to’the cffect that ha would take the con- tract for the Lemont stone and granite at $731,000. Thers wns nothing binding on him about this proposal, and, if the city shonld brenk the contract with Toxrivsox & Reep, he might miso his figures. Dot whotlier he should do this or not, the “ oxtrns,” undor Ring management, would probobly bo run up to £200,000 moro beforo the work conld be complot- ed. Then Toxumson & Rezp wonld have their claim for damages under their original contract, amountingto$477,693. This would mako o total coat in the end of over $1,400,- 000 for work that can be completed - under the existing contract for about one-third that amonnt, and with a better quality of stone, n8 Mr. Turey himself admits, 3r. Turer is reported aa giving it as his opinion, during the Uouncil discussion, that the presont con- tract could bo broken without sabjecting the city to damages. If thisisreally Mr, ToLer's opinion, ho will not find it sustained by law- cors of oqual ability, and he showld be ex. mely careful not to confuse his dutics sa Alderman with his individual opinfon asn Inwyor, for this individual opinion would not save the city if it sbould happen to be erro- noous, There is reason to bolieve that the Ring movement to grab tho constructiod of the City-Hall will bo checked at its presont stago, The resolution ordoring a suspension of the work was passed by ouly 16 votas, which wonld not ben majority of the full Council. The Mayor, who is fully fuformed nato the natore and purposo of the Ring, has vetoed this resolution, It will now réquiro a two-thirds majority to pass it over the velo, and tho Ring cannot procura that number of votes, Every ono of tho oleven Aldormon who voted againat the Ring move- ent—Moasrs. Peansoys, BiLrarn, BANDERs, Cany, Purcirs, Blrrony, Coox, Titnoop, Bearoy, Rawreom, and’ Warvo—will con- tinno to vote against It ot every atage, aud hey will ba reinforcod by soma of thoso who «id not vote at the lnst session, What steps the Ring will teke, if their schiome §s blocked &t this point, cannot bo stated; but the movowent is nnder tlhe direction of shrewd and desperate follows who will not give up the.prospeet for plunder mutil they shall huve exhnusted every conceivable cxpedient. BEN BUTLER A3 A CAPITALIST. Wo presume it wonld not do to liold n man liko By Burrrn down to oven the axioms of political economy; ho would probably re. ply, along with a distinguished gontloman from his ftate who was oneo Secrotary of the Trossury, thot * thero is no suol thing ns politieal cconomy,” If it were not for this, wo might well take excoption to the distinetions ho mado in his recent Now York speoch in respect to capital, enlerpriso, and lubor, His new point was to give *entor. prise " a distinctivo rocoguition s being ualtlier capital nor labor, It is easy to discern lils purpose in this new subdivision, Tlo desirua to protect himself, as a candidato for the suffrages of the workingmen, from tho injurious attacks that might Le made up- on im o4 & capitalist, Az & manufeeturer, ho lholds that ho fa not a capitalist, but only engaged in * enterprise,” and in that charac- tor he is forcod to grind the workingmen Ly the exactions of the capitaliat, who {8 the mon that lends money o * enterprise,” and theroby enables * enter. prise" W omploy Iabor, It is scarcely worth while to poiut out how * enterpriso” nat. urally divides itsolf botween capital and la- bor, and has no cxistenco which is distinct. ive from tho othor twdb, ‘Theman who gosu into business with capltal of his own, aud borrows no monoy, is certainly as much of a capitalist as if he had converted all his prop- erty juto money and loaned it at interest. Tho msa who goes into business and bor. rows all the capital necessary to conduct it is a workingwan, expecting 10 earn his profits by-the labor of Lis braius and hands. ‘The manwholias sowme capital of bis own and bor- rows some of the capital of others, partakes of both capital aud labor; this is the condition ot most skilfed workmen who have tools of their own (which aze capital) and still work for others. Burezs limsel! is o manufac. turer, and bonsted that the cont he wore was the product of one of his own mills. Now it s likely that Burrxs was oud is the possessor of at lenst o part of the capital fuvested in that mill; Le may not have borrowed any money, and may own it all free of dobt; 1a elther 5040 be is a capitalist, and his subterfuge of ““enterprise " will handly reliove him from that obuoxious clussification. Morsover, we will veutwre the assertion that, even it Butixs owns the equtire mill-property and peys no, interest on borrowed woney, he novertheless charges an interest on the eapital, invosted sod oredits husclf as a capitalist with that sum before he estimates that bis mill Las earngd & profit. 1If he oredits himsclf with 30 por cont {uterest on .his cepital (which is the awount he says enterpriso is forced 1o pay cspital), then he is wwindling the laboring classcs more than most wmanufacturers in this ocohntry, for money ean be borrowed st ‘balf that rate sowadays for legitimate *‘cuterprses” To follow out Buriea's theory (which he does not carry out in practice) would lead .to' the conclusion either that capital should not be toleruted at all, or thps i shasld ha Taemea to “onterprice” without intereai; both wonld anount to tho rame thing in the end, for tho accumnlation of capital would oease, enterprise wonld bo shut off, n goneral hnlt would be enllod on all progress, and tho world tvould drift back into the primitive condition of digging with the hands, In the coursoof this samo mpecch, how- ever, Hex Burier proved himsolf to be as selflsh o speolmen of thoe capitalist as could well bo found. Ile donied that he was n bondholider, but snid that ko now wished ha had invested his acenmulated savinga (and he ought to be ashamed of himself for hav- ing accumulated anything) in Unitod States bonds. Tho reason he gives for not having done so is that ho thought (he bords would bo paid in greenbacks; ho now regrets that ho did not buy bonds, sinco thoy oro to bo pald in gold, 'That is n protty confession for & man who profossen to be at onca a Ureenbacker nnd An anti-oapitalist] Here ia n man who sdvo- entes an uplimited issuo of irredeemnblo notes ns the best possible currency for the nation, and 1% now confesscs that, por- sonally, he had 5o little confidonce in that kind of enrrency that ho wonld not invest his nccumulated earniugs in bonds that might possibly be paid off with greenbacks ! Herois n professed anti.capitalist who not merely accuniulatod capital, but also invested it where lie thonght it wonld enrn him tho most interest, aud now publicly expresses his regret that ho did not invest iu bonds which have proved to be better than his original investmont! Was there ever capl- talist that ovincod more greod than thin? Wan thera ever an advaeste of flat serip that more thoroughly _stultifled himself? Dnt Burnes's selfishness doos vot stop lera. Not laving invested in bonds, ho would wnow like to have them taxed while they nre ont, and finally Lave them redcemed in frredeemable noteg, which wounld be repudiation, sud which was the rrospect which doterred him trom buying them. If tha workingmen penctrato through Burtres's plrases, road aright their lrue meanlng, and discover his tonl motiven, thera is not a man on the con- tinent for whom they will entertain a woro profound contempt. Buren's argument on wmachinery and the hours of labor was as contradictory as any- thing ho said about capital, or bonds, or greonbacks. On this mattor he advised his henrers as follows: Chiange the whole conrse of leglalation in favor of labar Kutting \te fuir ehare of progte. Bix years ago, when all tho mon_and women of the country were engaged In productng that by which they could Jive und be comfortable, thoy worked from ten 1o fourteen hours aday. Now, by the aid of iuachinery, wo are able 10.do ton H{mes a8 much. nerelore, If you ars ablo to produce ten tinie inuch a3 formerly, instead of warking ten liour o sny, you only onziit to work ona houraday. {Loud hurral. | IF Uheo wan a fair divielon of labor, you ought to lighten tho hours of Ishor, Yeta inan who speaks of shortening tho hours of Tabor 1¢ lovked upon as a heretic, ovun by those wlo talk of over-production, It is o well-kuown theory of tho grent maoas of Inboring men that it is Jabor-saving machinery to which they must charge thoir most serions misfortunes, and thoy demond the abrogation of patent rights ns 8 means to check furthor inventions, Yot Burren tella thern that this very machinery which soms of them want to burn and destroy ought to have reduced thoir labor to * one hour a dny.” Formerly, he sald, they worked from.ton to fourtcon hours per day beeausa of the lack of machinery. Arguing from thin basis, and allowing for the natural fn. crenso of population aud consumption without may corresponding fucrenss of the moans of production, men would bave to work nmight and day now to keop sonl and body togethur if it wero not for this machinery which so many of them denounce. Bo Burrzs does not agree in this mattor with the workingmen whoso candidate Lo rsplres to be,~—first for Govervor of Bassachusotts aud then for President of tho United Btates, But to ap- ply a practical test to bis owa theory, will Le consont to give ten honry’ pay in liis own factory for one bour's work, ‘to which he #uys the timo of Iabor onght {o be rednced ¢ Not going evou so far ns ho docs, will he consent to give full ten hours' poy for even elghit hours' work in his mill? If he roplivs that he can't do it and compoto with athery, ho furnishes the proper answer to bis wholo argament. If the Stato of Mnssachusetts should pass a compuisory cight-hour Inw, the wmanufacturers in that Btate could not survive under it in competition avith manu- faclurers of other States; and if the United States nhould pass such a law, the manufac. turers of this country could not survive in competition with the imannfacturers of othor couutries, ————— Gen, Marneat E. Parve, ex-member of Cougress from the Milwaukee District, has beeu tendered tho appointment of Commis. wloner of Patouts by Svcrotary Souusz, and roport ays that he will soon accopt tho po- sition nnd enter upon tho dischargo of his daties. Homo time in 1858 Scnunz and Paiwe formed o copartuerskip for the prac- tico of law in Milwaukee, whero thoy tried hard to oblaiu practice, but as weither of them scemed to be adapted to the le- " gal profession, and in the face of A& very etrong competition from an old Bar olready containing sowme of the ablest Inwyersin the West, they found it an up-bill business to get o living. At the breakiug out of the War, Paixe ot onco en- listed, was appointed Colonel of the Fourth Wisconsin Regiment, was sent immodintely to tho front, and lost & leg in ono of tho enrher battles fought in the South, Mo was mado & Brigadier-Oeneral for gallant sl neritorious services, aud woa twice elected to Congross from the Milwaukee District, where ‘he proved a popular and valuable Represontative. o bos been practicing law in Washington for the last ten yeary, and {8 koown of ull men a8 an bonest, sineero wnan, whose appointment to the offico for which ho kos been named by Lis old luw-partner s certain to turn out well. The other member of that once ohscure law-tirm in Milwaukeo, Becretary Bcuyxz, hos had 8 carcer 80 sucoossttl and brlliant that only a word is needed fn regard to lum in this conneotion. Mr, LaxooLy ap- polnted bim Ministor to Spain, bul ke soon resigued that high affice, came Lome; en. tered the Unlon army, was made a kajor- General, afterwards was elected to the Uulted Blates Benste, and Is now ove of the wost efficient and inflnentinl members of Presideut Haves' Cubinet. From guping & ucanty and precarious subslstence by petty- fogging fve-dollar cases in & Justico’s Court to the axulted posltion of a scat in tho Cabl. ne} of ithe nation, surrounded by sll the plasstres that fame eud bonor can confer, may be cited as a oonspicgous example of what can be accomplisbed by bousst efost under the wmgis of our freq institutions, S—— _ In love, a8 iu volitics, 4t fs generslly danger- ous to write too wsny letters. Love dies out, or the partiesinterestod somclimes quarsel, snd they thoss old letters aw apt to mzke tronble. HENRY Cravis ssid to pave rulued Fie Boasldantlel numpante jie writfue A sbost. "less Qistogard ol sily lettor, andd Clon. LRwin €!A% made a sin- tiar mistalio when ha wrolo tho eolebrated Dox- R120N cplstle. Some ong has satd that yon had hetter travel @ hundred mlies to say an imnor- tant word to a friend rather than commit It to paper. A young theologienl atudent at Evan- ston hias just passed Lhrough an unpleasant ex- nerience on account of some old Jotters, ninety in number, 88 he alleges, thet he wrote to a soung lady In Jancsville, Wis, In an nn- guoarded moment, he fangled himsef to be in love with tho yowng woman aforcssid, snd in his correspohdenca with her ho no donht mave utteraucs to his feelings In that axnber- anca of style and fancy that Is nsual with vealy young men, But recently a changa eame over thte spirit of s alfection; his love couled, and in a fit of gencrous despondonuy he returned the falr Janesvilllaness sil her Ictters, and po- Titely requested her to return the complimont and give him bnck tho writton otldances of his own lovo and folly, This the lady flatly de- clined to do, whereupon tho young theologian took the train for Janoaville, and, procnving o writ of replevin, he undertovk 1o foren the girt to deliver Iis Jetters, Dut she ubjocted o forco, and ropaired to the offive of the Jue- tice with her attorney, determined to fieht it cut on that le it §t teok wil suminer. Finding more grit than he expected to eticounter, and realizing that * hell hiath no fusy ke & woman scomed,” and being no doubt further entlghitencd as to the fact that the letters peally belonged to the defendant. in the eve of tho law, and that the writ of roplovin - could not tovch them, the (nciplent clergyman Lacked out and Jeft the ity a wisor aud g tuad- der man. T A Mr. Dexxis O'KeanNgy says o never reada the newspaper roports of himselt or the critle clams of the editors dpon his speeches, but wo hope he will pause lu s brilliant carcer this morning long_onough to peruse the following littlo fable which we cut from the Now York World, For fear he will not sce tho polnt, wo will aay that it refors dircetly to himself: Tha Galled Jade ana the Pinguld CarteHorso, — A Guiled Jade which had been turned ont into n and Lot todlo, huppening to_sce a Pinguid Cart- House, besouglit' the Prosperous Animal to tako ity upon her. <t Phwat,' replied the Pingnid Cart-Horse, **d'ys want Water, an’ Bran Mash, an’ Condition Powders, an’ UOnts, an' ifay, and Corn? Then Twill teil you how'to get thim, an® chate thim leprous, nidon-eyed Carrion Crows which areshout to 'perch npon your old back- bone; ™ and when the Galled Jade feebly asked how, he whinnted, *tPool Your Issites,” Moral— Teol Your lasues, Horse, and Perhaps Yo'l et Grass, —— Uov. Wapn Hasrroy, of Bouth Carolina, fs evidently not much in favor of Unaxt for an- athier tarm, If his utterances at Edgefleld tho other day are a true jndex of his feclings, Jo obused Gon, GRANT 83 thoroughly as any old Copperhiead or Southern fire-cater could desire, and n tho cottrsc of bis public wddress ha sald; Wohadus the Chlef Exccutive of the Unlied £tates a man wiona highiest concoption of fhe jaw wan ambodied i the fndings of # conrt-mortla aud whose disgraceful 1gnonince of the Constit, tion of the country was only cqualed by hiy shsme- Mo mot acrod obligations. Lrutal, lmorant, and drunien, ho hestustad iot to crush fhe people of the South by the powes of & id solgtory, With an wrmed liand upon tacie heonts e attemnted to atide the broath of their 1iberly, and, placing the irou heel of military vp- Ppreasion upon vuo of the thtrteon ortginal stutes of the Unjon, be reduced it to o military satrapy, e e — e The Rev. Father FAoAN, of the 8cminary of 8t. Francls, Milwaukee, writes In o private let- terto o friend in this clty thot % while the Catholje Church bas always been the triend of the poor, of the workingman, too, she abhors Boclalism and Communlsim; o+ . . that she istho frioud of the American Republle, and wishes its perpeluation, . o . and that her children witl prove themselves its most faythful citizens,” The Revercud Fathes no doubl speaks tho sentiments of his Church, as he fs one of the most trusted and Infiuential of: hes adlicrenta lu the Weat, H e 5 Sotne of the Demacratie newspapers are too sensiblo tobe captivated with the glamour of the *Ohlo Idce.” Thus the Detrolt free Jress eays that Benator Tnunvan's speechis o Jucld exnlanation ot o virtuolly frredocmuble cure reucy, aud the Utlca Observer remnrkathat “The Ohlo {dea isto got more money—whichsalso the Now York fdew. But New York weunts good money while Oblo secks a deprectated curreney, —=a promfge topay whicifea false promise, Which plan commands ftself to tho wisdom and scnse of tho people!™ er— Bome of tho Chiucse hoad men in Nan Fran- clweo say the story {2 vot trug that they have been applted to for Chineae shoemakers, They also declore that thoy have never yet contracted for or Ict the fabor of one ol thelr countrymen, and that thoy are not uutburized to do mo. They declaro forthermore that the Chinese shoemnkers can make from 825 to 10 per month there, and could not afford to como to Chivsgo and work for @80. e ———— Look upon thls plenro and then upon thia; A Qepateh from Washington states that tho No- tional Republican Congresslonal Committes lias fssued a campaten ducmgcnl which contalus Beuator THURMAN'S late Olilo spaceh upon the finances, with which are contrasted his previuis utterances upon the same question' when ho was & hard-money man, These quotations snake the dignifed Judge appear ns ridiculous na the boy In the clreus who undertakos o rido the trick mule, ———e— TioTLER seems to hinve found o very ablo snd vigoruus opponent In bils project to ot the sup- vort of the Democrusy of Massachusctts for {iovernor In the Boston Jlust, which declores that *“The Democracy of Massachusctts have never boen accustomed to *pook thelr {ssnes.! When they sdopt that pellcy thev had hetter houl down the flag and abandon the feld. Kearnoylsm {8 not Demoeracy *hy o Jurgs majority,!" B ———— For fear Mr, Keanxzr inay think Tne. Tri- usn does not puy him sufficient ottention’ un the oc¢aslon of this lis first visit.to Chicugo, we print the followlug noat parody from the Al- bovy Kvening Journal: Kxanser's a drayman of such takiag tlog, nat 1o he Nkea ueeds only hegrors grepn; Butbeard 100 oft, familiaf with his bounce, ‘They tirst applaud, then ponder, then renvunce, —— L The Times now claims the credit of discover- ing the seeret that led to tho detection of the Palmer House robbors. 1t was one of Mr, Bronry's cmuloyes that sugpested thu theory of antmal Lieat to 8ir Hipwpruney Davy, and on- other of them was at 8ir LsAae Newrod's elbow wlien that traditlonal apple fell, eiving, the hint that led to the dlscovery of the law of gravita- tlon, e ———— Avsxanpen 11, 1nuNs sa'd the Porrsn Cowwitieo would prove to bo either M a farve or a tragedy,” and for thls o was violontly op- posed Ly the Bourbons of nis distriet, But now that they have bevn compelled to nominate the ¢ old s cloquent ** wratn, the question uaturally arisos whether they cousider the Po'rfl:u buslucss & faree or & trogedy. e —— As)Mr, Dexxia O'KBARNYY expectstodrive tho “hathen * Culuee oup of Cslifornta by getting the workiogmen of Massachwsetts to *pool their fssues,” 5o ho wlll ald lis patron satnt and admirer, Bx¥ BUTLER, $0 becone Governor of the Buy State by making biatherskite speech- e 10 1o laboriag men of Chicugo sndladlan. apolls, ——— . Wea credit Duwnis Kusnxay with one . grain of good seuse, Ho refused to go to the Tre- mont House oo %rriviug in tho city, probably for tha reason that it would have brought him incontact with gentlemen, As Drunge s st Jbeat slwbly & third-class fellow, 4t i3 aroper euougli that he should g9 to s third-class hotel. e —— Sluce tho defalcation of ANomLL, the Poree ax Palace Car Company have lssued an order vrohibiting thelr employes trom singlug that bovular Bundsy-school bywa commenciog, 41 waut Lo be en e ——— . Tho New York Tribuwy pretcuds to givo an sutheutic account of the Knights of Labor, & sceret organtzation which {8 reported to num- ber 800,000 1erbers, aud that Jta obfoct 13 Lo #ut plua vasteol ot fha it sud Nusional Legly- and o Lave great power aver ita uicul muile au atlemot to get vontrot uf the e vention of Watlunaisat Byracuse, an il to the Hratie delegation, but, the offor aued, In tgiling, deprivedl tho Knighits of 1 " trolof tho Stato Committee. It hag nlreagy swallowed several anialler seerot OTEANIZat o, but its wamerical power Is probably Q,'lml!y‘ ovurogtidiated, - eom—— The July wheat earner in Milwaukee s bogy fnvestizated. The Koard of Arbitrators of 1), Chamber of Commorvo are teying to flu| out what wheat was really warth on tho last day of July. Some of the bovs that got cornercd gy not propose to staml it, apd are ninking a g}, lant fight 8o far. The end fs not yet, —ee— Tt ts salil that when KKeARYEY was in Indtan. fpolls the other day o called on extgy, Hnsvnrexa, and rgreed to deflne the * fasyeg that by wanted * pooled* 1t Hesniicks wuulg nareo to define himpolt on the currency quey. tion, But the er traddler dectined. i e — FEviidently Prosidant 1ayns mado asight 115 tako when he wrote that latter to dudge Loy, wontH urging him to become n candidate fur Congross, Tha Judgo showed betier senee g declluing than the President lu mukiag e wropositlan, - T 5 Tho fellow that composed the platforr of (e Tenuesser Demacrats must bo o thoroughibireg from tha wonderful bottom that he oxhibits, Tio first scction Alls half acolumn, and Is really a stunp-speech fn extonse ugalust the Repuy. Mleans, . ———— The Mitwanukes Hally Murphey, Marr Cyp. TENTBRA'S porsonal organ, scums to have i speeay serudiza agratnat the Hon, Crtanres G, Wintiays, membor of Congress fram the Fiest Distrier, And yot WitLtaus always supported Uanpey. TEN. ———— BiL Seatvozn now refers to (fen. Siizing 28 ** tho hiern of two wars,” bt ho hind no vore for the old hero when ho was o eandidate for Doorkeeper of the Confederate House. i i Lrete swwears he saw the Snnnstan lotter, and Mry. JuNKs swore pholictated it. Perhaps LerTs was tho amanuensis, and now his quick. ened consclenco bas mado him crazy, Jonx SumuMAN {s going to Ohio to souud o keynote In reply to Sepater Trunsiay, The Oblo aerobat will peta gopd warming if the Secretary goes for hiin in carnest. ¢ Lxera had only gonu crazy before ho wavy his testimony befare the Porrer Commlttes, it would have saved considerable thne. e — . Mr., STEWART has made up lis mind not to run aeninst Qen. Wasnounx for Congress tu she Minucapolis Djstrict, O——— ‘The r in Septembor has the same gound thas 1t has Iu oyster, ——e— e PERSONALS. Dannis Keurn;y is n hard worker—with tats Jow, Rarus wea 80 slow that Rochestor has fall. cn back upon Lewls Switt. ‘The ' Pallman Company entortained an Angel! nnawares; but they want (o do it again. Blade, tho mnedimm, is in Anstralis bam. boozling the inhabitants with his Stade.writing. Daniol Pratt, the great Amorlean travoler, was nover 50 Anxtaug £ travel as now. o1 in Jail, An Fostorn paper advortises a now stylo of cofiin. The latest thing ln coting, however, fa the corpao, Charles O'Conor, tho well-known New Yark lawyor, has retired from practice, 1e i1 &0 yepraold, ¢ Banniug will not be returned to Qongress, and Uen, Shermon has half a wind to awour o awoaring. = 3Mr. Loote lias surprised everybody by domanstrating that he hss brains euough (o gov crasy with. - I'he vacation of the clorgymen has begun, and there fa o vory sndden and active demand for fuhing-tackle, Anderson has loft the Washington /o, and it appears {Lag thls unhappy an has not where tu lay hia hend, * Yoatmoster-Goneral Koy Is the father of thirteen childrau; yet, strange v it may apprear, ha fs not an Uhto man, . An exchango eays that Disrasli gosticulales a good deal with g handorchlef, Our awn ‘Thur- man wqves a red **bandanner," Among the prominont men in Massachu. setta swho approvo of the nomination of Ben Butler to be Governor §u Gen. B. F. Butler Madnoss sppoars to bo catching, Tieto doubtlesn caught hls from Clarkson Folter, who conteacted it from’ Samucl 3. Tilden, , ‘I'his i3 the senson of tho year whon the young man sadly pleks the bird-shot out of biy Jega npd declases that wotorniolous arv unealthy anyhow, The Marquis of Torno & extromely rich, and jo addition will rocolve §30,000 a y.or as Governor-General of Canadu, We must anuex this man, Qelia Logan says Foernando Wood once played the hind legu of as olepliant In the Bowery Tueatre, - Io nuw plays tho hind lege of every New Yurk Domocratis mievemont. Tho Bmpress of Austrln, who is ouly 32 years of age, fs m grandmother, Yt a notin which can exhiblt such enterpriso tluds it dif- Heult to occupy the Mitle couniry uf Boania, Kearnoy taka abont a commuuity of property, but uuthl thero Is & community of bralne, and Kearney gotr u full siare, moat paople will continge to st him downa asa blatant Juckase, The Earl of Boaconsflold says * Gladatone {n Inobriated with the exubaranco of hls own vor~ buelty. Whena man can tatk himself druuk, teniperance sucletics had Letier give up all hupe. Mr, McCormick, Commissionar-Gencral of tho United Btates to tha Faria Estibitlon, gavo 8 Uriiliaut recoption lust Wednosday night, which wau iacgely attonded Wy Uoth Freneh amd Amurl- cans, Blark Twain, who bims been rusticating quiotly In Giormany for the past three monthw, bay now yeut for his tricwl and pastur, the Loy, Jusepa 18, Twichell, of Hastford, to jous bius fna trawp In SBwitzerland, Thomas Nost is in London, aud, if tho DBritieh llon docun't toar nim all to pleces for tiy tnsnlting caricatures Nast has made of him, the Beitish llon 1s 8 mivorablo cownrd, dustituie of all maubood sod self-respect. 'Flieve i3 a vuigor fudLondon that the Growl Duke Nicholas of Ruasls has fallen inlo dlsgrace bLecausa of ofiolsl poculation. Those who have callud tho Husalnns & hordw of barbarlans ought to bo mienced by such sarprisiuy evidonces of 8 bigh clviuzation, A London pnpor says: Bayard Taylor has found ® place In the affections of tho Germsus already, Hs pats tnogrle onthe head, *talke Dutch ™ to the old womien, sud sits i eventide with the men, and huarsely calls out *¢Watter! w'wore lager, A manin Ban Francisco has invented an ombaludog procass, by the useof which the desd retain & life-like appearsuce, and are preserved agoinst decay. Forhaps Mr. Tilden has been 8p+ Plylag this procoss, and 18 ooly maklng beliovy that be W sllva aftor sil, The exccution of Hoedel, who shot at King Willisw and missod Lim, shows the desire of the German Government Lo promote yood workmsa- ship. Asthe clicioncy of \warmy depends upos tho skill of e common peopie, it would'not auswer o allow pdch bad vhouting to go uupunished, > 'Pho officlal listy of the bridal prosents re- celved by Mre. Capt.Pagst(lste Miss MinnleBtevens) occuples & column sad & ball in'the Courd Cireus lar, 1t Inclndes four clocks, threw band-mlrror, 188 distinct plecos of silver plate, eight fans, ©lgbt bracelots with dlamonds, aad threo lockets, aud bric-a-brac sud momentoos of all sorts, ¥ash- lonubly weddinge nowadsys heavlly tax the purses of the guests; but thore 1a sowe Gogsolatios Jeft in the thought that pressnts are qot given 68 1hg pcraslon pf diwneses