Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1878, Page 4

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Dr, Haxe writes a letter, which | have been we print elsewhere, claining thaf it is the uniform practice of the Homeopathic school to use water and ice, externally and internal- ly, and mno hot spplications, except in casa ‘of the congestion of the brain, We also print azother letter from Dr. Jomxsoy, in which he quotes from the books to show that the cold treatment was recognized in his school as far back as 1852, and says that the columns of Tme Triuse might be filled with suthorities to the same purport. Ad- mitting all this, we must still contend that 1he exceptional prominence given to the two or three cases reported where the cold trent- ment was employed indicates that thistrent. value. It would warrant. The first authentic jnformation concern- | as much ing the mew troubles of England upon her Indisn frontier comes in the dispatches to the London Zimes from Calenita during the middle of last month. Gen. Sir NEVILLE CramsERLALS, the English Envoy, was to sr- rive ot Simla on the 22d ult. to await the Ameer’s reply to the proposal to receive an English mission at Cabul. The English policy for some time past has been io force the Ameer, by stoppizg his subsidies. to seek British protection against the aggression threatened by the Russians, who have an army upon his borders. It sppears, how- ever, that the policy bas becn o failure, first, because of the dislike of the Ameer to the English, and, second, because he believes the Russians are invincible in Central Asia. Acting upon thiy belief, he has chosen to cast in his lot with Russia rather than with England, whose penceful attitude he could not understand. The Times correspondent s8y5: : The reception tn open derbarof the Russian En- voy. with the possinility of a permanent reident being fixed inCabul, and the still further proxi- mate posibihity of Brilish India being flooded with zemts dissemicating disaffection at the various atory Courts, excit ions for native andizement, and b schemes uimed at 1hé qestruction ‘of British power, render au abgo- lute change of policy an immediate pecessity. Yet departure from the policy by which we bave en- deavored 10 starve the Ameer into submissiou can- Dot but be deemed the confession of a rather hu- milating failure. The Ameer has completely beaten us. S0 far from comiug in to suc for British protestion and_Briush favor, he has, by adroitiy piaying off Russia upon us, forced the Indian Gov- erninent 10 descend from the lorty pinnacle of cons Temptuous reserve {rom which they bave 80 lonz obeerved him, and compelled them to invite him once ugain toopen friendly relations with them. The new development of affsirs isa hu- miliating one for England, as it is apparent even to the most careless observer that she has been out-diplomatized by Russia, and that she has to occupy a second place, by following instead of preceding the Russian Mission. If Russia shonld so far improve the opportunities of that Mission as to con- clude an offensive and defensive alliance with the Ameer, it brings up a new phase of the Eastern Question, so important in its character that England will have to increase her Indian forces to counteract the steady numerous days than THE The fall tending p: grassional asual, but same day _ _SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER §, 1578, advance of Russia in the direction of India. | 2iod the of the In New_ York on Ssturdsy greenbacks TEE RECOVERY N BURIISS: defermine were steady at 995 in gold and silver coin. President Haves met with another grest popular reception yesterday in Minneapolis. Ho oddressed an nudience of 20,000 at the fairgrounds, recapitulating the poiats of the speech previously delivered in St. Paal, end dwelling with special emphasis upon the fact that the balance of forcign trade +was in favor of this country. Prince KARAGEORGEVICE, whom to name in Servia has been dangerous for the past-few years,—he having been & rival of Prince Mrrax for the throne,—is now mentioned as » possible candidate for the Governorship of Bulgaria. Baut it is hardly possible that the Tumor has any good foundation, as the influ- ence of Russia has been exerted on the side of Prince Mirax ever since he came into power. The weekly sanitary report of Surgeon- General WoopworTE shows that the yellow fever is still on the increase in the South. At Grenada and & few other points the epi- demic bas lost its virlency, owing to the fact that there are no more people to be made victims, bat it is still spreading in ths larger cities and extending almost daily to places that have heretofore remnined un- touched. In another column will be found an interesting sketch of the plague which 200 yeors ago carried off one-fifth of the populstion of Londo: Several of the Roman Emperors had the cheerfal habit of condemning Christians to Lo torn in pieces by wild beasts in the pres- cnce of the most select society of the Im- perial City. Of course there conld be no comparizon between that kind of spectacle and the one offered to the Chicago public yesterdsy, Still, a little more care on the part of tho managers of the Fire- men’s Tournament might have prevented the accidents which marred an otherwise usefal and interesting outdoor entertain- ment. Aside from these vexations mishaps, the closing doy of the tournament was high- 1y successfnl, and, to use a generic simile, the exhibition went out in a blaze of glory. Although many months have elapsed since the actual end iof the Russo-Turkish war, we are still treated to occasional incidents 1hat happen st the scene of the late con- flict. An important one was the formal tak- ing possession of Batoum by the Russian forees Friday morning. conceded to Russia by the Treaty of San Stefano, and the agreement wes ratified by the Berlin Congress. Another incident zeported this morning is the as- sessination of Mremexer'Arr, ome of the ‘bravest and ablest of all the Turkish Pashas, and Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish army. His death was gnoble and tragic. He was chased by & mob of Albanians, to whom he had been sent on a concilistory mission, and, taking refuge in a peasant’s barn in the mountains, was brutally mur dered, together with his attendants. Not so much for the purpose of justifying the position of . Tez Tamrye. whick Dr. JonNsoN resented ard sssailed as an attack ‘upon the medical profession, but rather to farther impress the negessity of a more gen- erl employment of the cold treatment in yellow. fever-in Enss it is‘neglected; we call’ attention fo the following recent dispatch* from New Orleans: - - oy S + NEW ORLEANS, SepC3. —Anotier interesting ex- PETmEDL With mATKed- nccess in 108 resaiL Ay tricd das before yesterday.- A young. lady, ereter of one of the Inepectors of the Port, was supposed 10 be dying, congestion of the kidagys having es- ietea for thirty-eix hoars,and, she being comatose, Ice wzs applied to Hhre region of tha , kianeys aad 1o the wms?ndnnkle +dn. two iy sctousness rétarned, infhreel the un&? Iélieved, and she began rpiciy to jmprove, This vening' she W Many of the>dostors hefeabonts confbndk that there is nothing new -dbout the .cold treatment. . Thatinny be, ‘but the fact that exceptional prominence has been given to two or three’ cases in which such freatment has been lseddnr'fng the prevailing epidemic ef cop’, Tre Trrsuse has frequently puinted out the fatal consequences resuliing from the de~ lusion that there is or can be any general accumulation of wealth, or, as it is popularly expressed, * getting rich,” without labor, economy, and industry. The casy fortunes made during the War, by speculation, by the discovery of oil, and by sudden rising or folling of stocks—and thesa fortunes were as a general thing exbansted and wasted in a comparatively brief time—had a most demor- alizing effect upon public sentiment. It con- verted the American people into a ration of speculators. It turned men’s thoughts and hopes from labor and industrial occupations crats and pendent » ever made, or the mire of bankruptey. wait for the wheat to grow from which they ‘were to get bread; but the wheat has grown and the bread is to be had. There has been along and distressing suspension of the Iabor formerly peid with debts; but the Iabor that is paid with cash has been mainly restored and is again so gencrally cmployed that to-day nearly ail men willing to work can find Inbor at fair wages. Wages, computed by the number of dollars, may be less, but the dollars are larger, and wages will now buy for such a movement, party concern in the Congressional and Legislative elections, which occar on the headway the Alortgages, and l;om-is, and notes, | fewer and ‘more difficult to nego- tiate; but whatever a manhad was renl and not ijmaginary,substantial and not shadowy. Rail- roads are nolonger built by “confidence,” and, thongh there are fewermiles constructed, the railroads built to-dny represent actual cash has taken five years to get out of Thousands had to food and clothing, aund humsan comforts and necessaries, as would the more but less valuable dollars of the days of gns. No man can resd the speech of President Haves upon the constantly enlarg- ing surplus of earnings over expenditures since the panic; the estinction of debt, the reduction of taxation, the extension of the markets for the products of American labor,— noonecanread the President’sexposition of all these facts without rejoicing at the general tecovery of business, the improvement in the rewards of industry, and the rapid ap- proach of brighter and more prosperous the country has witnessed 1 all its previous history, A_PPEOACHJNG ELECTION. election is less than two months removed from date, but the result, so far as Cook County is concerned, will be prede- termined before that time by the character of the candidates put forward by the con- arties. - As soon as little Doovrr- TLE was nominated for Congress in the First District (the South Division), it was all but unauimoysly conceded' that a Republican would be elected ; since then it has been con- sidered a question’upon whom the choice of the Republican Conventiqn will full. There will be much the same settlement before election in the case of every other mnotably unfit nomination from this city and county. The resson for thinking so is, that the county certainly, the two remaimmng Con- Distriets, and nearly every Sen- atorial and Legislative District in the county, are so close and uncsrtain that the result is almost sure to turn upon the individual merits of the candidates. There is some talk of an independent tick- et for the election of county oilicials, as the present year is unfavorable There is too much as the local election, to admit of any general abandonment of party lines. Both Democrats and Republicans have in fact that the next Legislature elects a Senator, and that the complexion Homse of Representatives will whether or not the Democratic party shall control the National Legislature. Cnder this condition of things, the Demo- Republicans will put forth their strongest partisan efforts, and neither party will be inclined to give way to any inde- ovement for local offices.. What- v Fiatists ' may have may be making, elsewhere, there are no indications that they will cut any figure ; sional elections in which Cook County is concerned. - The Communists, in case they run s Congressional ticket in the West Divis- ion, will cut into the Democrats in one ward in “the three . Congres- for getting - rich without work. The ordinary means of earning the general esti- every man wanted to *strike oil ¥ and become rich in a day, and men shrunk from the old method of toil, persevering labor, and slow accumula- tion. Coupled with this thirst for sudden wealth wos the equally feverish desire to enter upon a speedy and extravagant expend- itare for personal enjoyment. insanity took possession of the popular mind, aod it became & general belief that money was ‘no longer essential to wealth; that credit was as good, if not better than money - became, mate, all too slow; A kind of and into the Republicans in another, so that it is difficalt to tell which party will suffer most from the defection. The Legislative elections this fall will also assist in holding the two chief parties to strict pertisan lines, because the next Legislature elects a United States Senator. While Cook'County has, as a matter of fact, & paramount interest in the election of a delegation to the State Legisla- ture that will be competent to influence use- ful legislation of local import, and especially secure & change in the mode of eclecting County Commissioners, it is probable that the choice of United States Senator’ will give party lines the pre-eminence. As 2l the indications point to & square This seaport was', lion was cash; that railronds, to the extent of 5,000 miles a year, at four times their proper cost, could be created by the mere issue of bonds or notes; that mortgages for indefinite sums, and bearing the most extravagant rates of interest, could be issued with im- punity, and would pay or otherwise take care of themselves. The whole country was prolific with notes, bonds, and evidences of deot ; money could be borrowed by the mill- ion, and no thought of future payment was ever allowed to distress or disturb the most estravagant operator. The luascy affected all classes of society,—few were fres from it; all Bupposed they wera getting rich, and were living aceordingly ; producing was of secondary account; all were buying nnd selling each other’s notes, bonds, and mort- gages, and always at immense profit, as they thonght. We need not say that there was an end fo this gasbusiness. Theend was sudden, dis. astrous, and overwhelming. For five years the country has been struggling amid the remnants of the gemerat wreck. The nation bas been as if it wers recovering from along debauch of idleness, wasteful- ness, prodigality. ‘The wealth supposed to have existed m credit bas vanished, the riches other than the sctual product of labor have perished. and tLe American people are brought face to face with the inexorable truth that there cac be 10 wealth and no ac- camulation of riches save that resulting from the accumulations of labor. The most painfal remnant of the old deln- sion is the effort which certam classesof men are making to restore the old condition of afsirs, which, origivating daring the War, reached a collapse 1 the panic of 1575, They refuse to recogrize the inexorable fact that haman industry alone can create national and individual wealth, and that the personal acquisition of riches, as a gencral thing, is the result of the slow accumulation of sav- ings from the regular and ordinary earnings of labor. There are exceptions, bui the ex- ceptional acquisition of richies' is not more namerous-than the reckless and profligate expenditare thereof b those who thus sud- denly, and by short processes. acquire therm,” 1f there be any mau intheland whoexpects fo- seg aTeturn to the wild spetulative credit system which prevailed in_ this conitry from 1862 tp 1873, or any approach to it; such man ‘is doomed to utter disappointment.- There dre men, and of those who call themselves’ vote. In by about sl their they uro lines. all this is, the If we h gressional choice of will be in featare of nominate likely oul statesmen, who reptésent_that ‘the period | the nomi ¢overed by the War.-when .so-called dollars | County B it was mearly a Democratic candidate for Sheriff, ran about 4,000 ahead ; but the Republicans elected majorities. cavs elected their County Treasurer, Coun- ty Clerk, and tive Commissioners by good majorities, but the Democrats were ungues- tionably weakened by the bad candidates they put forward. election, cast about 7,000 votes, and at the city and town election last spring their vote in the three tawns was6.552, which indicates about their entire strength. It is likely that they will nominate candidates this fall and vote their own ticket (though without a hope of electing anybody except, perhiaps, one or two members of the Legislature), because Biven the ¢ coutest between the Republican and Demo- cratic parties in Cook County at the fall election, so they all foreshadow a very close 1876, Tln,nts carried the county 2,400 majority, but for Governor tie, and Kemy, the other candidates by handsome One year ago ‘the Republi- The Communists, at Jast fall's guided by some obstinate dema- gogues who are determined to maintain a So- cialistic organization in this city with a view to something that may turn up in the futare, The local Convention held by the Fintists iwo or three weeks ago, which was a small mob and broke up in & row, did not threaten any serions disturbance of existing parry "The most reasonsble conclusion from that the two principal parties will cbstinately contend for the victory, and that 1t will depend on which side runs the best candidates. ave correctly stated the situation, the obvious moral is that the Republican party should select the very best men they can command for all the local offices as the surest means for athieving a victory, for these candidates for the Iocal offices will ex- ercise & considerable influence on the Con- and Legisiative vote. Thongh the the five County Commissioners maony respects the most important the election, the local ticket will be headed by the candidate for Sheriff. The Republicans hold therr Convention first, ond cannot count upon any Democratic’ errors. Their only course, therefore, is to their “most available candidates, “with special reference to Kenv's being the Democratic candidate, as - that is_the most tooma. -.Great . strangth may be entire Republican ticket, too, by tion-of five first-class men for the rd, for the taxpaying community iwero worth- tromi 70 t0 40 cents each;Wna:| is determined not to vote for any others for “the most prosperous period of tfie country’s | County C ‘dife. This, however, is but the raving of in. | be. influenced. to ommissioners, and’ those, who can vote for the Republican considerate madness. Since 1878 there has | candidates for the County Board, by reason of been & gradual return to sense and frugality. There has been an immensely increased pro- | the restof their beipg the best men, will be likely to go the Republican ticket if it be good. duction, but it has been of substance and not | There was never a time when the selection of the :best mnteria] wps 50 imperative for the Republican partyin.Cook County as with refgrence to this fall’{ efection. . - A amrsf 3 IKEWERED. i Tn the Editorjof (The Tribune. -+ Cricaco, Sepl. 7.—Yon argue that the Govern- ment cannot igsue irredecaole Fial-paper money and maintain it at par withgold. liow,then, does it manage'to make stundard filver dollars whose bullion Vsiue ia rather fess than 80 cents pass cur- renlat 100 cents fri cola? And why is it that the trade dollar. which contains 755 2rains more silver than the standard dofiar, i§ worth 10 per cent fess? 13 1t 1ot becauee it Incis the ** flat " of tne Goy- crnment? Will you plense explain the caude, a3 it nnzzles a ood wany people. QuenisT. Ir1s not as hard a.conundram as ** Quer- ist” thinks, although tHe question is the fa- vorite Fintists’ puzzle, which they regard as uzplainable except on pure Fiat principles. In the firsi place, if silver was the sold hard-money legal-tender, and gold was not a legal-tender in this country, the value of the standard silver dollar ivould be precisely that of the bullion it contains, with expense of co:nage added, which’ ai this time would-bo about 90 per cent of ‘thg valne of gold. We’ mean by “value” purchasing. power,—the quantity of any commodity that a doller of each will bay. E No “fiat” of the Government could make the purchasing power of the legal- tender standard silver dollar of 412} grains equai to that of the trade doliar of 420 grains if gold was de- wonetized. it is only necessary to repeal the legal-tender character of gold to bring the standard silver dollar down to the value of silver bullion in che markets of the world. In that case the non-fiat trade dol- far would be passing current for about 101, on account of its excess of bullion over the “ Fiat " standard dollar, justas a foreign gold com a trifie heavier than one of our legal- tender gold coins will pass for more’than the latter. Mexico, Russia, India, and Chins, have the single silver standard of hard mouey. 1n each of those countries gold bullion is at & premium of 10 or 11 per cent over their legal-tender silver money, and no ““fiat” can preventit. So it would be in the United States if we should demonetize gold. If Congress nest winter shonld throw out gold 8s o legal-tender money, the purchasing povwer of our standard silver dollars would instantly decline 10 or 11 per cent, or down to the value of the bnllion, whereas the demonetized gold would continue at its present commercial value, which is estab- lished by its foreign purchasing power. ‘Why, then, asks a Fiatist, are legal-tender silver dollars worth 10 per cent more than their bullion value, and why are they worth os much as legal-tender gold dollars, when gold is s0 much more valuable than silver? The reason is not difficult to give, snd must be obvious to’those who will reflect that these..notes ghall be ““placed on sach Lasis that the same shall be equal in value with coin.” Thisisa very different matter from_the “ Ohio idee,” which wants legal- tender notes that shall not be redeemed or redcemable. . It was ‘probably because the Minnesota Democrats understood - that the only way to keep notes on a par with coin is to make them redeemablo on demand, that they did not ask for ths repesl of the Re- sumption act. The fact is that the Minnesota Democrats are more in accord with the Republicans generally than with most of the Democrats throughout the West and South. The Re- publicans are opposed to any farther con- traction of the currency,and believe that the greenbacks now ontstanding can be kept at pir with coin by carrying out the terms of the Resumption act, and are also of theopin- jon that it will not be necessary to #ell aoy more bonds in order {o render ihe Resump- tion act snccessful. IYndeed, there might be no serious opposition within the Republican party to the retirement of National Bank notes to make room for the sams amount of ‘Treasury notes, if it could be demoastrated that such new issue can be maintained at par with coin, as the Minnesota Democrats demand it shalibe. Since the class of Minnesota people professing to be Democrats are so much more -nearly in accord with the Repnb- ticans on the vital issue of the time than they are with the majority of the Democratic party, we wounld suggest that they * pool their issues” with the Repnb- lican party and vote the Republican ticket. There is nothing selfish or designing about this suggestion, since there is little hope for the Democratic party to msake any headway in Minnesota in any case. But if those Democrats who are in favor of maintaining the paper currency of the Government at par with coin will join the Republicans who believe in the same honest, consistent, and profitable policy, they will leave the Fiatists in that State to their own resources, and ther there “is little danger that the insane scheme for issning unlimited and jrredeem- able flat scrip will gain any strength so far as Minnesota is concerned. HOW TO BEHAVE AT TABLE. ‘The Yankee dancing-master, whose prepa- rations to instruct the benighted people of Canada in the nice points of etiquette that will havo to be observed in the Court of the Marquis of Loaye have slrendy been chron- icled in Tae Caicaqo TRIBoNE, hos made his famous visit to the English Lord-Cham- berlain, and come back loaded with answers to the 250 disputed guestions in etiquette. His first letter is devoted to dinners with upon it after it is presented. 1t is the option given to men to pay duties as well as all debts 1 standard silver dollars in connection with their scarcity. It takes 130 millions a year to pay daties. There is not one-tenth that amount yet coined, and only two or three millions in circulation. Gold and silver alone are received in payment of duties. Importers must pay over standard gold, if they cannot procure standard silver. They are willing to give within the smallest fraction as much currency for standard silver as for gold. It is no difference to them whether silver has any more purchising power or bullion value than an cqual weight of lead, so long as it will pay duties. While the Government receives it for tariff taxes, and it is scarce, this special use must neces- sarily make it worth as mach as gold, It does not require very deep penetration to see this. Evena ** Fiat fool ” ought to be capable of comprehending it. |, Next comes into play the * Cernuschi law,” that governs the value of money, viz.: the debtor’s option. Establish two _metallic legal-tender standards—gold and silver—and give the debtor the option to pay in either, and he will invariably seek the cheaper of the two and tender that to his creditor. ‘When silver bullion is cheaper than gold he tenders silver dollars for -duties and debts. This makes a *‘run” on the cheaper of the two, and this general demand for the silver dollars raises their selling price above their bullion value, and the ‘“‘neglect” of gold reduces its monetary value, until the two coin standards come to & practical equi- Librium. The law of supply and demand rules here as well as in- the price of corn’or pork, iron or cotton. It is this debtor’s op- tion of tender that enables France to keep ber silver at par with gold. Take away the option from silver and it will instently fall to its bullion value. Include the trade dollar in the debtor’s option and immediately it will advance to a level with the standard dollar; but demonetize gold, and the option is gone, and thereafter legal-tender silver will sink to its bullion value in the world’s markets ; and this is all the **fint” there is in the case. MORE DEMOCRATIC VAGARIES, 1t is no easy matter to kecp track of the vagaries of the Democratic party on the finance question. This remark is suggested by the Minnesota Democratic platforn: just at band, which differs from all the others that have come under our notice. Let usre- crll some of them in the West alone. The Michigan Democrats abide by the hard- money traditions of the party, and honestly demand a return to & specie basis. The ‘* Ohio idee ” is to repeal the Resumption act, and substitute -legal-tender fiats for the National Bank notes.: Indians and Iilinois Democrats pander to the Nationals in favor of fial money,—that is, an unlimited amount of irredeemable scrip. And now come the Minnesota Democrats with the fol- Iowing propasition : Resolred, That we are opoosed 1o ans further coutraction of the currency, ton fartff for protec- tlon, to class legislation and sumptuary Jaws, to monopolies of all kinds, to ary incréase of the bonded debt, to the sale of bonds for the purose of coin for resuinption purposes; azd, theretare, Ziesolved, That we arc n favar of tne sradunl sutetion of Natwnal Treas Na- Banx notes, and makin, g he soie baper currency of the couniry, an ousuct hasis as tha: the same shail be equal in valae with coin, and a legal-tender the same as coln, ete. ‘We omit the remainder of the Minnesote platform, because it is of the nature of a partisan stump-speech - ‘and has o signifi- cance ; the rest is declamatory, and this sec- tion alone indicates & policy. Now it will be noted that there are several points of diffes- ence between the Minnesots Democratic policy and the Democratic policy of the other Western States, among which may be mentioned the following : B 1. The repeal of the Resumption act is not demanded.” The policy of selling any mors bouds for resumption purposes is opposed, buvmost Republicans. including the Secre- tars of the 'Trensury;i'are also in favor of _ 5topping the sale of bonds f6r resumption Purposes, because the coin Teserve is already ample to that end. The significant point. is that the Minnésota Democrats designedly omit to demand" the_repeal of the Remmi)-' tionact ., - _ g T 2 2.. While the' Minnesota Demacrats declars themselves in favor of substituting legal- tender Government nofs for the National Bank notes, they demand at the same time Royalty and dinness en famille. As none of our readers are ever likely to dine with Queens and Emperors, it will be unnecessary for us to dwell upon the state dinners. How they should behave in the family feeding, however, is a matter that will come home to them all. As SrniceiNs sits down to his table this noon and gathers Mrs. SepicaINs and the olive-sprigs about him, stations the invited guest at his appointed place, and summons Bripcer from the kitchen, he might rehearse the etiguette en fumille with profit to himself and his flock. To begin with, SrricarNs will place his guest ap the right of Ars. Sericarys, and the family to her left. It used to be the fashion' to ask the guest whether he liked soup, or whether he would take soup or fish ; but now, nill ke, will he, the soup must be placed in front of him. He can eab it or not, as he pleases, but 1t must stay there un- til all the little SPrIGGINSES have gobbled down what they want. It alsoused to be the fashion for the first served . to wait until every one elss was served before he began to ent. The small Sprracvses, who are always voraciously hungry, will hail with unbounded satisfaction the announcement of the Yankee dancing-master that this is no longer en regle, and that they can pitch into their dinner as soon as it is set before them, without wait- ing for anybody. It will not be proper, how- ever, for them or their elders to help them- selves. BRIGET must pass everything. If SpriGomys has been in the labit of saying grace, he must' not commit the im- propriety of offerng up Lis grate- ful petition on an empty stomach, but intro- duce it between the second course and the dessert. The exact point where it will be en regle is immediately after the cheese is passed round, and the cheese should be passed when the second course is removed. It will be a matter of very general regret that the Yan- kee dancing-master has mot provided for emergencies. Of course every well-regulated family should have cheese in the house; but it is in these well-rogulated families that ac- cidents always happen. Now, if it shounld happen that Mrs. Sprica1ss, in her effort to wrestle with the very elkborate and compli- cated etiquette of the meun, should forget to order cheese, of course SprioGINS would be m au ggony of doubt. If it is etiguette to say grace after cheese, then it cannot be etiquette tosay grace when there isno cheese. It would be.ns absurd as to say grace be- fore cheese. We can conceive of two ways in which Mrs. Sericotys’ sin of omission might be cured. After dinner, when the etiquetie was all over, SpaicaiNs might offer up a fervent petition for-the improvement of Alrs. SPrIGGINS’ memory in the direction of cheese, or, skipping prayer altogether, he might give her 2 piece of his mind, after the guest is gone, witk such vigor of emphesis and enuncintion that forever afterward a dinner would suggest to her mind cheese as the very first article of consumption, and any reforence to the family-altar would bring up a vision of cheesy incense. Bat to proceed with our muttons. Eating is not the only object of life. If one eats, one must dsink, nnd in this regard’the in- structions of my Lord-Chamberlain take no_account of the drink to the east of us, ‘which affords such admirable opportunities for navigation, for the reception of the refuse of the ciy, for the natatorial proclivities of small boys, as well as for the domestic purposes of the sheepshead, bullfrog, water- newt, and sand-crab. To the horror of pro- hibition, it is wine of all qualities and in all quantities. For instance, the dancing-master Iays down the following inflexible rules: With fish or soup nse sherry or Sauterne, With ronst meat use hock and claret. With turtic use'punch. With whitebait use champage. * Witn game use port or Burzandy. Beween the roast and confectionery use epar] ling wincs. e q With sweets use.Madeirs, : With dessert usc port, Tokay, Madeira, sherry, or elaret - 2 ce & never pat in red wines, even fn summer. Burzandy #hould be slightly warmed. Claret-cap and champagne-cup snould alwuys be fced; and theae 3re the only two wines in watch ice i3 used. .Every kind of wine has its ditferent pluss: cham- baeue glasses for champagme only: gobiets for chret and Burgundy;. ordinary wine_glasses for sabercy and Maaeira; green.glasses for:hock; laree:| bell-shaped 'flauses for port. FPort, sherry, and #Madelza ace'decanted in'the jate style, but hock .and_champagne appear in #i®ir native bottl Clarat and Bargundy ore alway$ handed ‘sronnd claret juge. SRR IR - Still further by the code, the Missés SpriG- onys will be allowed each three glasses of different kinds of ‘wine. Mrs. Seafoorvs, being married, may go as high as six, and, after the female Spaicorvses have retired. Sericerys and his guest may grder BRIDGET into the kitchen and enter mpon those hi- | larious preliminaries that eventuate in what isknown to'the children of the world ns s lark, or a spree, or a bender, culminating in peacefal repose beneath the ruins of the Dbanquet,—Mrs. Sericorys in the inesnyhile, filled with six different kindsof wine, reflect- ing in her bondoir upen the ‘pymps snd vanities of the world, and ntterly oblivieus to the small femnle SPriGGINeEs, who, mpon onlyhalf the amount, have organized a gircus and menagerie combined below stairs, which, to the astonished Bringer, is {he own end orly greatest show the Seaicerns boase Las ever had. We had simost forgotten to me; that ilis en regle to tkrow your mapkins on the floor after the meal is over, instéad of leav- ing them on {ko table, though why yau should throw them on {te floor is as mys- terious as why you should cu¢ your bread at breakfast, dreak it st dicner, and bite it at tes. As the Lord-Chamberlain does it, how- ever, SpriGGiNs must do it, if he wishes to be considered in the higher circle among the booths of Varity Fair. Tothose in the pit it will be plegsunt to see the strings and wires that make the puppsts go in the hoxes. The announcement that the dancing-master will shortly open the doors of the Fair agnin, s0 that the audience may see the.proper manner of getting-in and out of a carriage, will be raceived with profound interest. THE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT ,0F NA- TIONAL FINANCES. - ‘The President presented in his address at St. Panl, on Thursday, a statement ina com- pact form of the national finances that is clearly expressed, can be easily understood, and will be accepted with gratification by the country. When the War closed in 1865 the ascertamed debt and the outstanding bal- ances due on contracts and claims were esti- ‘mated at three thonsand millions of dollars. So great was this debt that it appalled the boldest minds; and, while repudiation was but faintly advocated, there was & wide- spread doubt as to the ability of the Gav- ernment to pay the debt, and some reluct- ance to engagoe in making the attempt. The President presents the figures of the debt in those days following the close of the War, and contrasts them with {hose of the present day : A In!{rb!t- bearingdebt, Augnst, 63..82, 381, 530,295 ‘Annual interest thereon........ ... 130,977,607 Interest-bearinzdeot, August,™i8.. 1,809.637,500 interest thereon... . Hfi,lsi,ggg Reduction of principal Reduction of aunusl interest _These comparative figures striking story : Ascertained debt. Angust, 18835 Total debt, August, 1878 Reduction of debtinthirteenyears.$ 722,109,246 Within the iast few years a great change has taken place in the ownership of this debt. It is estimated that in 1871 about $1,000,000,000 of the public debt was held abroad, on which from $30,000,000 to $60,- 000,000 of 1nterest was paid and sent abroad. It is now ascertained that three-fourths of the bonds are leld by our own peaple, and that the interest sent anbroad- doss mnot excesd $15,000,000 o $18,000,000 annually. From these facts it appears that during the thir- teen years the debt has been reduced over seven hundred millions; the annual inter- est has been reduced over $55,000,000; and this interest is now paid mainly to our own people. Nor do these remarkable figures explain all that has been done. There has been a large reduction of taxes within the period since the War. The taxes are those collected from customs and from internal 465 801,818,838 240,732,904 Reanction since 1 247,5211160 Reduction since 1873 61,066, 551 A comparison of expenditures will exhibit equally gratifying results 5 1860. Expenditares. 1874, Expenditures. 1878. Expenditures. Expenditares in '78 less than in *66..$1:20, 578, In 1866 the currency of the country com- pared with the currency of 1878: 1866~ Greenbacks. ........ National Bank notes. Fractional currency. 0ld demang notes.. ‘Treasury notes, compound-interest notes, and State bank. mated... Total. .. Coln vaiue at 69 cents.. T678 Greenbacks. National Banl Fractional currescy. 87346, 881,010. 00 324,514, 284. 00 16,547, 768.77 Total...o .o i £087, 743,168.77 Coin value at 09 cents. 684, 000, 00 To this must be_ sadded Bilver coin to the amount of §60,000,000, and about 30,000,000 of gold coin, not including that Leld for pur- poses of resumption. Th® tatal increase 1 the coin value of our currency since 1863 is over $300,000,000. Thatis, the purchasing power of our currency has been increased to that extent. The national prosperity is instanced fur- ther by the vast increase in sum and value of American products exported and sold sbroad. Exports—1878.. Exports—1S65...., Increase...oooeee woe veve sernen 311,203,898 Increase, 133 per cent. In the meantime, instead of having im- ports exceeding exports ai an averags of $110,000,000 2 year, our exports the for years 1876, 1877, and 1876 exceeded our im- ports in the sum of $485,628,242. Nor is there anything in the condition of affairs at home or abroad to indicate anything but a constant and regular increase of the annual exports of the products of the industry of the country, as well in manufactured as in agricultural and mineral branches of Amer- ican labor. The President’s presentatior. of the pros- perous conditiop of the Pablic Treasury ; the great progress in discharging the principal of the debt; the reduction of the rate of in- terest; the grent advance in the character of the public credit; the evidence of, thrift, saving, and economy on the past of the peo- ple, who out of their own earnings have be- come the owners of the debt; themmense increase in the value of the surpl@® products of the nation, and the evident increase in the accumulated wealth of the whole coun- try, was -especially sppropriate at a State fair in one of the most prosperous sud in- creasing States of the Union.- 2 A.dispateh from Néw Orleans §n.our last jssus intimates that Messrs. ELLIS and’ G18soY, the Democratic Congressional nominees from the First and Second Loufsiana Districts, have lost a grreat desl of valuable ground oy ranning off up North when the. yellow-fever epidemic com- monced, and that the Democrats thereby aré likely to lose New Orieans fn the election, the Natiopals and Republicans, haying joined their’ forces, and their candidates, CasTELLANOS and CuLLOo; being' on the: eround hard at work.: How the ‘absenceé of the-Demociatic nominces is tegarded by the New. Orleans Tinies, 3, Deir ocratic paper, is shown by the f comment: . : It will be observed with pride that, while our noble Congressmen- are biaving the inclement weather and deadly penls of the North, they have -not forgotten to make speeches in favor of. sending relief to the yellow-fever sufferers. They must bave ziven ifieen or twenty minutes a day 1 eral da7s £ theke heroiC endeavore. . Pretidns o ments. whieh they misht 0therwise have devoreg 1o such recreation a3 the weary esile may find | the dreary haunts of Sazatoma or the sandy plaps of Vermont! ‘Far away fsom ns, lonzing to retng» instantly and lend fiic encourazement of taeje - presence to thelrafilicted constitucns. they cannor. canuot doto. They are shut o:f from s by we koow not what insurmonntanle barrier. Wo oy, know that they aw peating to clinb over it agy et here; bat thev arc hurled back every fime into'the slimy vortes of the detested sepy - A6 Tesort. Yet we dreeomforiedingg Quately it maybe, but comfurted —uy the knowledag thut our fntrepid Coneressnicn ‘are safe. *Whate ever hardships they epdnrb, Snev are a: feast wate Bptodate. Safe and able t6 mase speeches, whiey - is proof strong as holy- wnt_that they are ing . normal condition. When 2 Conzressional candi: date ivelient let his_admirers quake—somer by vrong fnwacdly. . Yeliow Jack may siaz wmany zcod menand true, buk e fs no: Mkely io got 4 candidates. _We feel that th . No man with 1 vaticle of self-rexpeet sl permit bimself to doubtar. They will ccme haok- afi the wings of 8 s northern nrceze Jost in time « to whoop up the conwiigscent voter. Then we shali observe with a thrill how wandly fhey wilp £pread their codby coat-tails and =it them down o their geveral -Congressional chairs for another . term. i We have printed a number of testimonjals to the efiicacy of the col treatment in yei- low fever, and expi ise that it had - not been more wenerally tried In the Scuth dur- ing the present epidemic. In the New Yorx Times of the 4th inst. we find the following in the editonal columns: e An ol Surzeon in the Tnited Stat had on more than one occ: 3100 t0 fig] ful yellow-fever matady, telis of n remarkable covery which came under his nstice. Actomm dption beiny very himited on board a fever-strica sBID, he dedlrea that 1 patient whoss conditiey seemed quite bopeless szoald be laid in ane of tas bosts which iuug from tae davits, Tue map hyd sunk intoinsen=ibility, and, attention oeing arzent- iy demanded for cases less desperate, ne was left durinz the night to his fate. Meanwhile, a terrlile thander-storin, with-a_aclage of rain, came on which latter fell upon the patient in the boat ke - 1remendons shower-batn. When they went 1o laok 4t him next morning. e bad come' 10 tis gensey, was wonderfully better, and fiom that hour be 10 recover. Still, in the face of the many favorable expe- riences reported of cold water for yellow fever, the Southern plysiclans seem to fanore it al- together, and some doctors hera justify thair refusal to try it on the gronnd that some medi- cal books state that water was tried in 1833 with indifferent success. \What treatment are - the Southern doctors abplying now that resultg in even indifferent success? 5 o) S Mr., WiLLARD W00oDARD has hesitated abont consenting to be a candidate for Congress fn the Second District, and has nou been disposed to allow his name to be nsed in that connection, * But some of his friends assure us that he hag consented tolet his name 2o before thic' Repuf lican Convention, and will accept, and makethy * canvass if nomiuated. 1t cannot be denied that MMr. WoODARD is one of the ablest men in thy West Division.. He made a woud reeord fn * the City Council and in the Legislature, He was both honest and efficient in “office. The nomipation in that close and doubtful distrid, we suppose, will depend considerably on grait avility. Sometimes that rocs further vention than the shorter word adllity. il re- Mr. BEECHER'S troubles witd the Tmroys * . does not seem to have prejudiced the people of ° the Pacific Sjope against bim. Everywhere bls oudiences have been immense and entbnsiastic, and bring to mind the erowds of peodle tha used to flock to bear him before the terrible ° shadow fell across bis pathway. The world is diwided in opinion in regard to his guilt, gna will ever o remain; but in spite of any wesk- ness and sin, Californians regard him the great- - . est preacher America has yet produced, and think his thirty-odd years of public tesching Irom the Brooklyn palpit bas been of incalen- lable benedlt to bis rac —————— The Cologne Gazette sets down the compost- . tion of the new German Reichstag as follows: Conservatives, 605 Liberal Conservatives, 50; National Liberals, 97; Clericals, §9; Progress- . ists, Poles, 15; Hanoverian Particnlarists, *f*° '3 Spectal Dispatch lo The Tridune. B e ) e o B B R ke g 9; Socialists, 9; Democrats, 3; Alsatian Anton- omists, 4; Alsatian Protesters, 6; Danes, 1; - ‘Waverers, or persons yhose opinions are uacer- tain, 19; making a total of 397. ————— The West Side bummérs of the Demoéeatic persuasion who desire there-election of CARTER Harrisox are exhibiting a ereat deal of zealfn behalt of Gen. DAVIS’ nomination by the He- publicans. Why is this thus? Is it because they think he wonld be the hardest man tobeat? ——— [ e o The West §ide Democratic bammers areuot . buttooholing Republicans to tominate Gey: * Bsga for Congress, but devote their valusble time and remarkable talents to prafsinz up Gen. Davis as-the SAxsoN on thue Republican side, e BRCKEN GAS-LAMPS. Forsome time pack therc bas been a grest de- straction on - the West Side of. street-lamps’ 2ud ‘burners. Some of tne grown boys or mischievous men devote themselves almost exclusively to this particular form of mischief, sometimes breaking as manyas fifteen or twenty orthirtya night. The result, of course, fs that the ety mot caly . ! bas to pay a heavy bill for replacing tnem, buttbe consumption of the gaswas greatly increased. : These ourners are lava tips, more eadily smasted {han the old ones, and conscqueutly more attract- ive to the miscnievons street-voy. During the < sbsence of Mr. A. M. Billngs, President of te + West Side Gas Company, 1n New York, Air. Ben- nett, bis Superintendent. made cowplaints attha " various West Side polics statfons, and urged ot~ cers to make some elforts to stop this_destructiun which was costing the city s0 much. However, 1o attentfon was paid to lis suggestions. On Mr. Dillings' return from tae East toe of enocte called on him and, while making his gea-*x eral report of what had happencd during bis ao- 3 sence, stated this consiant destruction of jamp3 and vurners. Mr. Billings asked if e had not re- ported itto the police siutions, anl Mr. Bennett ¥aid that he Rad. but that no particalar attention was paid him to'it. Thercupon Mr. Billings took the matter jn hand and went over to Police Meadquarters for the pu Dose of secing ubout it Supr. Seavey was mof '3 in, snd tho only person’in whom he saw ‘was a suboratnate. Mr. iifiings was there not Lo 100« after the interests of the sWest Side Gas Com- > pany, which were not at stake, but those of the °} City Of Chicago, of which Le 18 a taxpayer. He “2 stited to ins suborainate that dozens Of burners were broken every night; ths the Iamp-fund, from which alone they could be replaced, was nearly exhaustea; that the consumo= tlon of s, for wnich the city had 1o pas, Wi Jarzely Increased; that in some quarters, owinglo "¢ this destraction of burners, the luups mizht Dot 7| be lighted; and thac® it wouid oot be long befure- ¢ some miscnief would happen which would resale in a suit for damazes auinst the city. 1n viewof - all these things ne sugvested tnat it might deas . well for the people around tac City Hall to loog 7 after the maiter and #top this leax i the . expenses. The city was pour and coald not afford to oe 3 t ey this rate and in this mauner. £ istuction, howercr, bein: treated, it i4 alleged, 1n a vefy lofty manaer. ‘The only satisfactiun he il get ot of uls visis was fo fiad fn one ot the morn- ng papers the next day & scorrilous paragraph {0 tne egect that ue Lad peen on hus car,—that 1s Lo say, very angry, —and that ke bad, with some coi- siderable pomposity, demanded that_this tampas- ing with his lamps’wnould cease, Mi. Brenoas, the clerk whom Sir. Hillings saw. says that Mz, Billings came into the otlice in a etate of consider- able excitement. _He proceeded to utate the matier 7 10 tDe cierk, and, when be aad closed his nacrative, did, 8s 13 allezed, remark that he supposed it would do no good to complam to the pol who _never attended {o saything thut there were several °*lunk-hesds” o8 the force, and some of thetn, 0o, were uot far O from headquarters; und that, if he were Ctiel of Police, he would gee to it that they were put Wh!ffl they belonged. 3Mr. Brennan. for his part. slates that his only reply was: - Well, Mr. Billlngs, the police néver do anythinz, why Go you take L8 i trondle to come herex He then assured ME. e Billings that the matter shoula be repored Supt. Seavey, on his retarn. and he had no dod prompt actiow would be taken. Mer. Brennan stor 1y denies that Alr. Billings reccived any cavalie! treatment at his bands, and _states thaly throughout ' the interriew, - he (Breonan) * was gentlemanly sad respectful towards his Fuitor, The loftineas, in facs, coming from the- laitef. Woen Snyit. Seavey ceturned he communicated the. matter to bim, and the ‘Superintendent- lssued &1 order to Capt. tood, of the West, Side, dlcectiaZ - him tp bave hi3 men see to it that tuere whs 10 further Lampering with tne lamps and Buruce, and, If possble, to discoverand arrest those who had' alrendy’done 'the damogre.' Yesterdsy 100 M/ Billings calied personally on the Supermeei ent, made his statement of the case, and Fecciv! every assumnce:from the Chief tbat th: poticy. would do all in their power to prevent g 0 this kind in he futare, and, 8t the sang i, every effort would be made to arrest the PETRE;, tritors of thé past untrages. % o} i OBITUARY. . B g i # % ReoHagIopaEeEp e rnarc i nan comaB e n man - b 1 a 4 I Y « 1 1 s s T e I 1 ! : SPRINGFIELD, Ill; Sept. 7.—Intcllicence ¥ rocelved. to-day of the” death of Gen. Cn‘f;; Hali; or Shelbyville, and the fact is learned Wit great regret. Sceretary Hariow left this noou to attend the funeral