Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1878, Page 4

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Ry endcrol mmflm‘“.l.‘{'— DUNLOP, Eecorder. ORTERTAL CONSISTORY, S.-. ‘rrsare potined 1o he preseat at drill M 161h. and those gulnz 1o Milwankee at day, 17th, ‘The Cotnman cisely. Train le: depot, corner Rinzie «nd Caual- sis., a2 10v'clock 8, m. ried by St ler il leave the Councll Workon the cordially fnvite SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1878 In New York on Saturday greenbacksuled steady at 997 in gold and silver coin. From the military contest at St. Louis the Chicago companies return wearing the meta- phorieal lmurel, In the award of prizes Jesterdsy Company C of the First Illinois Regiment was given the first honor, Compa- ny B the fifth, and the Lackey Zouaves the ninth. Considering the amonnt of rivalry and competition that prevailed, this is & showing of which the friends of the Chicago militia may be proud. The reports received by the Surgeon-Gen- eral from the various infected points in the South show that during the past week there was a decided increase in the number of deaths. In Memphis there were 687 victims to the yellow-fover scourge; in Holly Springs, 42; in Port Gibson, 9. No weekly report hias been eceived from New Orlcans, but the situation there is assuming a more hopeful phase. A limited number of Democrats wert to Farwell Hall yesterdsy evening, and were treated to a fint-money speech from one who is commonly rumored to be a candidate for the office of TUnited States Senator from Illinois. He was followed by an aspirant fo_Congressional Lonors from the Third District, who took a bath with . the Communists, and virtually wished them saccess in their cfforts fo ag- propriste fo themselves the savings & Lonester ard barder working men. The amount of hog-wash that soi-disant states- 1men of the Tllinois school of Democracy per- petrate, when they have an itch for office, is perfectly astounding. ILuekily it is not elarming. The rain which visited this city at inter- vals last week was the tail of a great storm which sttacked the Dominion with extraor- Qinary violence, beginning Tuesdny and last- ing until Friday moon. During that timo ain fell to a depth of over five inches, and in the first thirteen days of Sep- tember it reached 8 depth of 7.2¢ inches, that being the heaviest that has been kmown in Canada since 1845. _ Part of the time the rain was accompanied by gaies which inflicted great damago and caused the suspension of all communication by road and rail. The area of the storm was vnusualiy wide, its force being uncomforta- bly felt in Obio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginin, where washouts and freshets hin- dered travel on many of the railronds. Those curious nomads, the Zingaris, will celebrate to-dsy at Dayton, O., the funeral of s woman who in life held bigh ravk among them. The Saxcey family are the royal blood of the gypsies, and their sway is recognized wherover the tribes happen to wander. This MaTiLpa STANLEY came to America in 1836, aud roceived the homage of the gypsies as their rightful Queen until her death last Febrmary. To nccordance with the customs of the race her ‘body was embalmed and kept in a vanlt with lights burning continually arcund it, until by mandate the subjects were called to par- Hcipate in the closing services for the dead. Levr Staxiey, the husband of the Iate Queen, survives her, and succeeds to the somewhat imaginary throne. He is not 8 Sraxrey by birth, having taken the name of bis wife on marrying her. The Secretary of the Treasury has been compelled, under a critical construction of the law, to modify {he order directing the issue of silver dollars 1n exchange for green- backs. It is understood that this is not con- sidered legal under the Resumption law prior to the 1st of January. But, while specie- payments cannot thus be formally begun, there are other means open to the Treasury for putting silver dollars in circulation. Silver dollars are now legally and substan- tially oquivalent to gold coin in all transac- tions in which gold can be employed, and in several in which greenbacks are not availa- ble. Thus silver dollars are legal-tender in payment of customs duties, and are legal- tender in exchange for 4 per cent bonds. They are also legal-tender in poyment of all interest due by the Government on all its bonds. They may be paidout in satisfaction Pf all current demands on the Government, in payment of salaries, in psyment of trans- portation, in payment for all contracts for army and navy supplies and clothing, for all expenses of the Post-Oficeand Indian service, andin payment of pensions, and all other current expenditures of the Government. ‘The silver dollars may be shipped from the mints to all the Sub-Treasuries, from Maine to California and from. Buflnln' to Texus, and all orders by the Treasury can be directed to bo paid at these points in silver ollars, and wo can understand no more practicable way of -putting the coin in eir- culation. Tho expenditures of the Govern- ment are at an average rate of 20,000,000 2 month; the payments are made in all sec- tions and localities in the country ; and there seems to as to be hardly any want of oppor- tunity for paying out the ten or twelve mill- ions of silver dollars, or ten’ times that sum, in the ordinary transactions of the ‘Treasury. It may not be techuically legal to pay 8 man 10,000 silver dollars in eschange for as many paper dollurs, but there is 0ot the slightest difficulty, legal or otherwise, in paying o contractor 10,000 silver dollars in -payment of his bill for services. If he does not like the silver let him wait until he can tind use for it. The attempt of creditors to refuse silver dollars may us well be wmet promptly. This Jegal inabulity. to exchange slver dollars for puper dollars points ont the danger of repealing the Resumption law. Lo repeal that law would have the effect of prohibiting the Government at any time, no mattter what the condition of the Treasnry, from resuming specie payments. To repesl the law will not merely ropeat the provision for resuming in January, 1874, but will prohibit resumption at any tune hereafter, until auother luw be passed for that -purpose. In the meantime, let the Secretary of the Trens- ury go ou nd coin silver dollars to tho masinum sam aflowed by law, aud let him puy them vat to the people in the way -of settlement of the expenditures of the Gov- ernment. e e CREDIT OF THE CITY. On Friday the following paragraph was published smong the items of city news: All the matured '77 ceruficates have oeen faken ap, as well as many ot vet due, aud a» there Dienty of muney in the Treasury efforis ace bel Iiude 10 eather 1 as many us pussible, but the Lolders will wot wive them up, Kuuwing that all will be paid at maturity, “I'his 15 stnctly true. The redemptions of the eity scrip for 1877 have kept pace with the maturity of the paper, aud in advauco of it, aud so much of the paper as may bo still outstanding will be redeemed prowmptly when pryment is demanded. Pructically, therefore, all the so-called scrip of 1877 has been taken care of, to the full satisfaction of those who mded the Uity Government by takang it. We have thus had sn illus- tration of the ability of the city to protoct (hose who placed confidence in the integrity of the City Government. = All the scrip issued ngunst the taxes of 1876 was paid and osnceled, and now the scrip of 1877 18 peid off up to date, and 1 duo time, s fost as it matures, will slso bo taken up. Unlike the puper 1ssued in previous years, there will be oone of 1t left as a legacy to subsequent years, to bo renewed aund con- tinued, but will be finally disposed of within the original hfetimo of the paper itself. Tlus tact, so creditable to the City Govern- ment, Lus been nccomplished in the face of the most relentless opposition. The serip hias been denounced continuously as illegal and void,—as a debt which it would be crim- inel fo pay, and the payment of which should snbject Lhe officers who signed it and those who paid it to prosecntions for felony. The most argent and persistent appeals have been made to the public to refuse to touch or bandle the scrip, and the most direful threats fnlminated that it- should never be puid. All property-owners have been ad- vised that the issue of the scrip was uncon- stitutional, and appeals have been mado that no taxes be paid, in order to force the city to repudiate tke entire municipal expendi- ture, and thus compel the City Government to disband and hand the control of the city over to the mob. These incendiary and revolutionary appeals, holding out the in- ducement of exemption from taxation in case of refosal to pay, have failed to destroy the city credit, and, as the result has shown, have failed to seriously weaken it. In fact, during thelast week, inquiries have been made liere by capitalists in New England whether the Gity of Chivago did not want to borrow some money, and & large sum of it, on easy terms. Fortunately the city did not stand in need of auy money in the way of making loans, but the offer shows that the furious war upon the issue of city serip, and its denunciation ns unconstitutional, and the prediction that it would nover be paid, have failed to destroy the public credit sbroad, as they have failed to destroy it at home. With the scrip issued against the taxes of 1876, all long since paid, and that issued against the toxes of 1877, paid so faras it has become due and been presented, and cer- tain to be all out of the way as by agreement, there will remain nothing of the ounce-for- midsble old foating debt save the scrip of 1874, 1873, and proceding yeurs, represent- ing odds and euds of uncollected tases. Thié balencs, at the beginning of the year, was Dbatween $400,000 sud $500,000, and since January last over $52,000 of these old taxes have been voluntarily paid to the city, reducing the old liability in that sum. These taves are all a lien on the property, and, gradually, as the property changes hands the tazes bave 1o be puid. In the settlpment of the baukrupt estates of large real-estate operators the grester portion of these old tuxas will have to be pmd in order to clear up titles, and, therefore, it may bo safely ns- sumed that these cortificates, somo of oxtending them back to 1872, will all be paid off to the last cent, and pud from the taxes ogainst which the original certificates were issued. 4 While the City Government may bé con- gratulated upon this successful maintenance of the credit of Chieago, end the successful preservation of the City Government itself, notwithstanding the financial complications, itis not less important that proper legisla- tion be had this winter to put an end to all further trouble in these matters. The serip of 1878 caunot be paid off in part until after December. when the taxes fall due, and there will'be no money or scrip to support the Government during the first three months of 1570. 'This difiicalty and perpetual cause of embarrassment should be permanently rem- edied. To the Legislatare the city must ap- peal for the means and theauthority tocorrect this ever-increasing embarrassment. The city should have some other means of de- fraying its espenses than by the issue of non-interest-bearing scrip, and baving that scrip taken as o matter of charity to the payees. Each political party in making nominations for the Legislature should have the especial wants of the city in, view, and select persons as ecandi- dates possessing the ability, the esperience, and the disposition to frame such legislation as will overcome the embarrassments result- ing from the existing defects and complica- tions of the Revenue law so far as city 4axes are concerned.j fA half-dozen energetic men of sbility and experience in city affairs conld accomplish all the reform in the law needed; and it is not asking too much of the two great parties that, out of the twenty-eight members representing this county in the General Assembly, there be Six ‘members chosen who will Lave some knowledgo of city uffairs, some knowledge of the City Char- ter, soine knowledge of the financinl difficul- ties which the Revenne law imposes on the city, und somo willinguess to apply them- selves to procuring legislative remedies. THE PRESIDENT'S LATE TOUE. After having wisited New Evgland and the South, the President has paid Lis respects to the Northwest. ‘Ihis visit prounses to have some importaut results. It has brought the President nearer to the people. One effect of it onght to be to give hun fuller kuowl- cdge of Western interests and resources. ‘fhore has at times been in this part of the country, since the innuguration of the Pres- ident, u feehng that he has been too much under the shadow of Eastern influence. Whether this feeling was just or not isa quostion that need not now be discussed. It existed. Nothing could tend more ef- fectually to remove it than a visit to the West by the President. He could not ses the brond louds aud the cit- jes and people without estimating properly their importance to the country. The States through which the President has just passed were part of the stronghold of his power. With Obio and Michigan they gave him moro than one-third his strength in the Electoral College. 1If he had visited Towa and Kansas, as well as Minnesota, Wiscon- sin, and INinois, he would have seen all that part of the country which supported bim most heartily both before and after the election. ‘e President had an opportunity to study the resources of the country. ~He saw n St. Paul 2 motto which told’ him that **Minne- sota coutd feed the world.” On the DaL@x- riz farms, near Fargo,—in the -hLeart of whut wus formerly described on the maps as the ** The Great Americun Desert.” —he saw ten teams plowing abreast and & crop of 350,000 bushels of whest that hind been gathered by oue owner. ~llv was in- formed that Darevmere had 11,000 to 12,000 neres sown 1 wheat, und 50,000 acres im- proved snd unimproved under bis manage- ment, Returning to Minnenpolis, ho saw munafacturing community, as St. Paul is 8 trading community, both cities enjoymg a rupid und prosperous growth, In Uastings and lKed Wing he observed the sources whence Minnesots derived her wealth. It was an oceaston of remark st these places that the ngricultural Statos of the Union ulone have recovered fally from: the effects of the Inte commercial depression, and are able to give u duy’s work to every man who comes honestly and claims it. The Presi- dent mnay tmve learned from the prosperity of these farmers, many of whom drove lim sud his friends in their carringes, that there 1s ono branch of industry at lenst in the Umited States which not only does not need protection, but can thrive in spite of it. Coming down to Madison, the President saw that the West had beantiful scenery, nud that for esthetics and **enlture ™ 1t was not to be despised. He met slso as active and vigilant a set of politianns as perbaps it has ever been his fortune to eucounter, showing him that in the **management ” of elections we bave no lessons to learn from the East. In Milwaukee he saw evidemces of a thriving commerce und a hospitable population; of srchitectural skill; of success in brick-making ; . and heard of, per- haps, though he did not enjoy, the justly- celebrated lager-beer. Finally, in Chieago, he met tho representative commercial body of all that country which he bad previously traversed, and the best society that tho metropolis of the Northwest could afford. 1t would be strange if the President did not cerry away favorable impression of u coun- try viewed under such circumstances, and if he did not estimate higher than before its commercial and political importance. Of more consequence cven than the in- struction of the President must have been the tnstraction of the people through his visit. The financial speech which the Presi- dent delivered, in longer or shorler form, at every convenient stopping-place, had been prepared by him before leaving Washington. Some of the figures were coincident with those used by Secretary SrERMAN, and others with those of Secretary McCrazy’s Keokuk speech. But the arrangement of them und their statement were the President’s own, ond they were forcible and convincing. He is pot what is commonly called * an elo; quent,” but a persuasive, speaker. He impresses the people with & sense of his candor, correctness, and accuracy. It is difficult to believe that a man who is anxious to be right, sod who has the means of knowing the truth. should by any possi- bility be wrong. T'he people scemed to think he was right. There was oo audible dissent from his doctrines. Though speaking on a dry subject, he was everywhere listened to attentively and intelligently, and frequently applanded. The specch wis arranged under the heads of Balance of Trade, Taxation, Debt, and Currency. snd was devoted to showing that in each of these dircctions there had bLeen of late o great diminn- tion of the burdens resting upon the people. Hencs the conclusion was drawn that the people had resson for en- couragement and satisfaction with the financial policy of the Government. Then followed & discussion of the currency ques- tion, on which the President dwelt at some length, explodiug the fallacies of the Fiut- Money party in a humorous and very eflect- ive way. These views seemed to call out a hearty response _from the people, and they met with such favor from the party man. agers that, 1t 15 understood, the St. Paul and Madison specehes are to be printed sep- ‘arately as campaign documents. On the whiole, the journey has done both the President and the people good. It has given the people some personal aequaintance with him, and has induced them to believe that, us he said substantially at St. Paul, he is an honest man and avxious to do right. It may also bave taught them that he is a man of more firmness, sogacity, end teacha- bleness than he has been reported as being. The President, for his part, bas learned that the solid West, es well as the solid South, is a political factor of moment in his celcula- tions, and that in the further discharge of kis Executive duties it will b more unwise for him to oppose the will of the former than that of the latter. The real-estate speculators’ scheme tc narrow the fire-limits and build combustible frame structures instead of brick in the out- side wards was brought up in the Council last Monday night by Ald. Ccrirrrox. A nthfl of Aldernien supported his incen- diary scheme. Among them we were sur- prised to notics the names of AlaLLozy, of the Fourth Ward ; R1orpax and McNazLy, of the Seventh; Lawrer, of the Eighth; and McNTRyEY, of the Tenth. If CuLrerTON's ordinance should pass, it would greatly in. crense the danger of destruction by fire of ovary house -in ‘thiose wards. - It would add materially * to.the cost of insnrancs, as well as to the senseof insecurity. Every man occapying a dwelling, shop, or office would find: his insurance reised in -proportion to the incrensed danger of his being burnt out. Do the householders of the Fourth, Seventh, ‘Eighth, and Tenth Wards want the number of combustible pine structures multiphied in their respective wards? Left to a voteBof the Loaseholders, we do not believe that ono man in‘five in those wards would sapport such an incendiary proposition. Men occu- pying frame structures are not anxions for a multplication of that kind of building around them. Those Aldermen misrepresented the wishes and intefests of o vast majority of their constituents in favoring CULLERTON'S incendiary ordinance, which in effect ubol- ishes the fire-fimits and destroys all the pro- tection denved therefrom. If the Gouncil tampers with the fire-timits by nerrowing them 50 as to exclude certmn ontside wards, a further agitation will drive 1n the limils agnin, and this process of circumscribing will go on until there will bg nothing loft of the firelimits, outside of per- hops the First Ward, and it is doubt- ful whether even that would be excepted. The ennctment of the CuLLERTON ordinance would probubly add one-half to two-thirds of amillion of dollars to the expense of in- surance in this city the very first year there- after, and ench yeur still more in proportion as the pino strictures multiplied aud in- creased. The whole scheme is bad and muschievous, and CurrEnToN is the tool of certain real-estate speculators. Some of the Aldermen who are assisting him have un- doubtedly been tampered with and offered bribes, otherwiso they would not maliciously support -an ordinanco that will injure every honscholder, shopkeeper, and manufacturer in the city. Every man who owns house- hold farmtare, as well as goods and wares, will hava his insurance increased. THE COLORED TROOP3 FIGETING NOBLY. ‘Phiere 1s music ull slong the line in the Scuthern politieal campaign, especially in Alabama sud Louisiana. The negro has come to the surface, and is an object once more of political interest. He1s a factor to Dbe consulted, calculated upon, and used. The abolition of the color-line is responsible for this. So long as ke could be bulidozed and kept from voting, the Bourbons bad it all {heir own way. When he refrained frem voting, however, o great many discontented white people began to see it wis a shame so much voting muterinl should bolaft idle. In the recent State election the Bourbon bull. dozers had no opposition. ITaving no oppo- sition, they naturally enough elected a great many officials who were distasteful to the conservative whites, whereupon the pro- grossive whites procceded to mako it interesting for the Bourbons, snd or- ganized the. “Southern Workingmen's Perty.” ‘The Bourbons, - fearing the effoct of the new depariure, made a bid for the workingmen's vote, whercupon the Conservatives cut clear under them with & platform which is as asique as it is absurd, and as radicnl as it is hurinless and iuoper- ative. 'T'he Bourbon bid was for the black vote, which they had hitherto practically dis- franchised. The Progressive bid was for the same vote, and the platform wos artfully con- structed for the purpose. By this platform there is to be currency enough for everybody and sufficient to keép everybody employed. There is to be an immediate repeal of the Resumption act and National Banking' act, aud no further issué of bonds. Any work- ingman not receiving his salary at the stated time can without further ado have a Receiver appointed for his employer’s property and apply enough of it to sottle his elaim. Tn- tornal improvements are to be inaugurated on & vast scale, and -the Government is to mannfacture and keep on bhand for sucha purpose about two_ thousand million dollars. The public lands aro to be given away, and men paid for taking them ; public instruction is to be free; and railways aro to be built in every part of the public domain, whether there is any use for them or not. It will be seen from this slight sketch of the Workingmen’s platform in Alabama that the Progressives bave started a fire for the runuing of the engine which, if it should ever get under full hendway, would burst the boiler and tear the machine all to pieces in no time at all. It is evident, however, that the Progressives had no intention of burst- ing the boiler, but purposed to make an offer to the blacks that the Bourbons could not discount. It 15 a very attractive pro- gramme for that race, which likes bright colors, and certainly there 1s glitter enough about it to catch them. Sceing that there is likely to bo n stampede for this new orgunization, which promises even more than his long-cherished hope of ‘for- ty acres ond o wule” the Bour- bons have conceived s sudden affec- tion for the megro. ‘They are quite sura now that they have never bulldozed bim. Tt was not they who recently visited him with o torch in one hand aud rope in the other and tbreatened to burn him out and havg him, if he voted, but the Conservatives. It was wot they who, revolver in hand, drove him away from the polls, but the ¢ other fellers.” The Radicals are the Kn- Klux. The Bourbons have always known the megro and appreciated him; they were brought up with him, and bhave summerad: and wintered with him. In token of their respect and admiration for bim they bmtton- hole him on the street, and talk confidentinl- ly with him; so do the Conscrvati ‘Theylovingly throwan arm about his neck ; so do the Conservatives. They take him into the nearest saluon, and trent hirn and drink his health; so do the Conservatives. Butit i all of nouse. The Conservatives have cap- tured him. At the same time, the negro is not unmindfal of his opportunities. Ie ix awaro that ho must make biy whil the sun shines, acd that the Bonrbons will not keep on honeyfugling him. Their affection will cool after election-dny. So he takes bis drinks regularly with the Ku.Klux, and on election-day will vote with the Progressive 8s a ‘““Southern Workingmaun"” upon the most nondeseript platform that was ever constructed. As the result of this con- glomeration we may look for the return of a geruine menagerie from the extreme Southern States. What with Independent voters, Radical voters, Fiat voters, Greenback voters, Negro Workingmen voters, and others, itis asad day for the old rock-rooted and moss-backed Bourbons. The fall elec- tion will make some huge breaches in their castle. Itisthe rush of the sappers and miners and heavy siege-guns preparing the way for the grand charge all along the lines in 1880. The color-line is abolished. The colored troops are at .last fighting nobly with white lenders. As our Alabama cor- respondent writes: “ AcHILres has retired to his tent, but not to sleep. He will emerge forth at the proper time with his clean - sufficiently blade ready for the battle betwéen the friends and enemies of human rights.” P S —— - THE YELLOW-FEVER CEARITY. The vast outpouring of money and mate- rial from tho North for tha relief of the snf- foring South, and the nniversal expression of sympathy with the victims of the horrible scourge of yellow fever, speak- volumes for the tenderer sentiments of humanity. It is a matter of local pride that Chicago has raised $60,000, and the end is not yet, for thesa sufferers; of State pride that llinois has raised over $103,000 thus far; of sec- tional pride that the Wast has contributed almost half o million dollars ; and of nation- al pride that nently a million of dollars have been sent into the fever-infected districts to relieve the suffering. Even should the frost como immediately, the largess will continue, dnd over a million dollars will have been showered upon the South before it notifies us it has clatched the fever and can grapple with it alone. This immense sum, the prompt and ready manner in which it has been sent, and the messages of love and sympathy which bave accompaied it, show how quickly the bet- ter and nobler feelings of human nature can be touched when suffering humanity appenls to them. It shows how false was the sup- position that any feoling of hostility existed botween the North and the South so deep rooted a8 to chill the kindly sentiments of nature. It will be observed in any summary of the contributions that they have come almost exclusively from within the United States. Toronto has sent $100. and Liver- pool a very small sum. Al the rest of this large mount has come from the people of the United States,—nn evidence tiis is not merely a personal humanity, nor an effort to reliéve suffering men merely becanso they are men, but a patriotic feeling and national impulse. The contributions are Americau contributions. ‘They have come from Amer- icans, and have been bestowed upon Amer- jcans without reference to color or condi- tion. It is aTace fecling that Las cansed this magnificent response. The questions bave never been asked, Are they white or black? Are they Northern or Southern?. It was only known that American citizens were suf- fering, and American citizens flew to the vescue. 1t shows that the whole North has had the kindliest and most friendly feelings for the South, and that we have only desired to assist them and minister to their good. These contributions have. poured South with- out regard to party, church, or personal in- terest. They have come from every clnss of people, and three-fourths of them from the men who were most actively engaged in put- ting down the Rebellion, becauso they are tho men who control money and property in the North, aud represent the ability to pay in an emergency of this kind. It will be a plonsant souvenir for the South when the fever has left her people and they have once more gathered together in their homes and places of business, while they miss wany fawmiliar faces and mourn their lost ones, to remember thot the relief sent to them camo from every class and condition of people,—from men, women, and little children, from churches and Sundny-schools, from the theatres and the music-halls, from railrosds and factories, from' Chambers of Commerce, clubs, aud social gatherings, from picnics and pleasure-resorts, from ex- hibitions of every kmd, from Iaborers, farmers, and professional men. Whatever nnder other circumstances would have con- tributed to personal gain has been diverted into the ono common channel of humanity, and competition has been limited to the endeavor to contribute most largely to the common fund. In all this great work there \lgs vecn but one rogret, and that is, the failure of money and what it can buy, aud hire, aod do, to be more officient in checking the mavages of this cruel fever and saving more people from suf- fering and death. It tempers this ro- gret, however, the knowledgo that this money may have arrested tho pangs of hun- ger, that it has never boen misapplied, and that it has been a sacred fund, sacredly ad- ministered. The Rev. C. K. Marsmatr, of Vicksburg, thinks the yellow fever Is no respecter of per- sons, and is quite cosmopolitan in its character. Who are the sick and_dyi: towns and citlea in the South T’ 0id World; Irishme: from wont, New York, Ohio, —yes, from ali o Continent. Leticrs and telegrams from everywhere abroad come asking after sons, Lrothers, disters, Kinstolk. We are curiny for nearly 3,000 cases of wick und convatexcent, among whom are few na- tivew. Were 1 out of thi, in New York or Ken- tucky, I wonld rather give $10,000 than do my datly taskn and seo what T see almost hourly. Since the War there has been a great influx of Northern snd forelzn veople o the South, and they are more likely to suffer than those who have been acclimaied by residence or mna- tivity. Lu speaking of yellow fever Prof, Dick- sox says that *‘Tbe Trish, Gernuns, ana Scotch aiford the worst eases: Spaniards, Italixns, and Frenchmy ecover. Midway stands the Enzlishman, the Northerner, the mu aineer, or the inhabitants. of our iuterior voun- try. As u gencral thing the recency of the arrival of the stranger in the locality has a grear deal to do with the severity of the attuck.” S it is not fmprohabie that the immense sums of mouey now flowing into the infectd districts of the South are mainly disbursed for the henelit of those who are oot to the mauner born, but strunzers and alicos. Mr. MaRsiaLL thinks the plague has not studied geozraphy, and that the day may come when St Louts, Louisville. Cin- cinnati, and ¢ New York and Boston, will cry out. for refief. * Then,” Le savs, *we will pay them back. Then every train will carry its fuil complement of physi i rless. umwearied, wa s, sisters. in better currency than gold or o will them, and die in doing our duty if naed ARSILALL, ne doubt, spe: ment of the entire South. ks il U, Oune of the things tiht have not vet been plaued by Prof. Baty ang other writére on mental science is the canse of hatlu- vinatiovs. Nor do any of them yrive the reason why. when a felloy gets 3 hobby, be showd de sire to wake it-dominate every other dea that enters bis eranium. Thus, for example. the St. Louis G.-D. bus wot GRANT on_the brain for 1330, and conseaucutly neither sees nor bears auything alse. The Repubhcan loss in Mawe means GRANT two vears benee, amd it rubsits hands w glee 38 it ad “* But w: the November elections if you want to beara unanimous shout on this subject.” It 15 vad o be permeated and woolly absorbed with a single idea. e — = Ii some of our foreign missionars societies will recall a few of their agents who arp,now- absent in Turkey” and Hindostae, and sead them out to San Francisco, they will be putting them where OARES ANEs said he placed the Credit-Mobilier stack,—* where they will do the most wood” The vrejudices that exist there against the Chinese are ehaping them- selves into laws that arc 50 mean and brutal that they are n.diszrace to our boasted civiliza- nign. It scems that some of theaposties of Dexxis Kearsey in the San Francisco Com- mon Council have succeeded in passing an or- dinance which is aimed directly at the Cbinese, and intended to oppress and harass them in a manner seldom heard of before. - The ordinance L ull after-| iy on the n T'room containing less than 500 cuble feet of air to each, person. it has never been enforced | against any but the Chinese. The Alla-Ca'i- fornia tells how this Christian city is enfore- ing its sanitary laws and dealing out justice to these poor barbarians at one and thesame times: Last Friduy a larye namber of them were arrest- ed an ontined in the City Prison.” They were syneezed into_three cells of the following dimen- sious, nscertained Uy carefal measnrement: One wae fourteen fect long, mine feet 3ix inches wide, nud seven feet high; the other two were each six- tecn fect long, six feet mix inches wide. and #ix. feet high. ‘Ihie total cuoic civacity of these cells was 2, 170 feet, ora trille_over twenty-three cuic feet of *tair ™ (Gob suve the mark!) 16 each man. AL 11 oclock Munday morning ninety-one Chineso were !m:},u packed in those pens on th ol ot oceupyinyg & space qual L 45,500 cubic teet! Tsn't it a wonder that John Chivaman and all his children sbould not be converted to Christi- anity at once, and avandou the doetrines of Coxructus for something so much more ra- tional and better? No wonder that he loves our cisitization so much, and that he clings o tenaciousty to this country. Atter such treat- ment as be bas been receiving here ever since he set foot on American Soil, 1t 15 strauge, mdeed, that e does not accept KEARNETY'S shibboleth and “go” at once, and not stand a moment upon the order of his moing. It is not surpris- ing that the poor fellows. when dying, refuse to Jeave their bones in such a lund as this. ——eT———— Senator Georoe H. PENDLETON was in Con- gress when the first Greenback bill was intro- duced. Tle madentierce fightagainstit. Among other things, be said in one of bis speeches There i no time from the bour when these fiol shall pass into the hands of the holder when he by therr terms acmand that they shall be redes il There I no time svhen the faitn of the ernment i pledgod to their payment. The holder may preseat theu, tad ue i told that the time has not araived at which, by the face of the bill, they areto be paid. They will inevitably deprecinte. The wit of man has necer discovered u medus Uy which paper curvency can he kept at par clue ec- cept by its steady, " cheap, certain conterfivility info qold and silver. You send these notes out 1nto the world stainped wub irredeciui zai bility. You pul on them the wark of Cax: like Cary they will o forth to be vagabionds and fugitives on the eartii. All that. be said to shdw that an irredeemable currency could never be at par, the history of the past sixteen vears completelv proves. As the Cincmnati Commercial remarks in comment- inz un PENDLETON'S reccut anti-resumption soeech Well, the time has arrived when the Government fs ready to keep faith witn the note-holder. 'The aepreciation winch Mr. P. predicted ¢ and would exist now but for the readiness of the Government 10 honor the Dote on prescntation. Tteoublican financil volicy has brouxit the cur- rency ta the precise point \where it mects Mr. PEX- pLETON'S conditions. It is convertible into silver to-dny: 1t will be convertbie into gold after the 1ut of danuary next. What has Mr. PENBLETON L0 complain of* Are mot hig conditions met? Or 13 he of that noble army of financial theorizors who, when they sec a currency mnde 18 woud ns gold, \want to 20 baclk upon the steps that have led to re- sumption, and Hounder thronsh another cra of de- preciated’ paper money,—money that he deliber- ately declered in 1862 could not be kept at par withh 2014 and silver unless convertiole nto them on demand? ———— Two very unhappy women are looking for GEORGE CruMLEY, a railroad map, whois sup- _posed to be in thiscity. These two ladies both ‘clnim to be his wives, and both are the daugh- ters of rich men. CruMLEY married MARY PARSELLE; a Milburn belle, in 1871 They bad five clild Last May Crouirey wanted to change bis situation, aud bade lus family govd- by, saying he was going to Chicago and would write. But be did ot write, and hus oot been doing right. He married Miss Mours, of Fitz-Henry, Pa., and then ran away trom her. The Lwo fathers-in-taw declare that.they will jointly spend 3100,000 to bring GEORGE to justice. —— Why will Mr. WATTERSON, of the Courier- Journd', continue to drivk that awful Kentucky whisky, when it produces such frightful nurht- ‘mares, or nighthorses, as this? We quote from his last political essay on the nexs Presidency: Thus, GraxT bemg the Repuolican nomines amainst the reznlar Demoeratic nominee, it micht be within the books for BUTLER o angear a8 the only cscape from the man on horseoics, the aver- tarow of the Kepublic, und the advent of an era of persecution and pilkase. Reverse the tumbler, HES®Y, and the vision will not look so perfectly dreadful. S das o ity The Cincinnati Gazette says that the signifi- cance of the Maine election is that the Demno- cratie party is rapialy melting away. *In just such a measure a3 the Greenback party galos will the Democratic party dissolve. It bas sur- rendered to the greenback idea. It has not a doetrine or policy to staud on separate from the Greenback party. It has no excuse for exist- ence in the presence of the Greenback party. Its lenders, fu trying to capture the Nationals, have gotten thelr own party captured.” % vl i Bex BoTLEr was asked what be thought oi the Maine clection, and 1 reoly said that he *thought that the party which cast 52) votes in 1576, 5,000 in 1877, and 46,000 in 1873, showed signs of pretty healthy arowth, and that the babe of two years azo had become a stalwart youth: ‘Fhe mdieations are,”” he continued, “ hat the Greenback strength is in the country and farming towns, as it 1s in New York, Penn- sylvanis, and the West."” 4 ————— The St. Louis /tepublican savs that “ Chicazo has doue zreat honor to itself and wathered substantial aid for the sufering South by a ten- thonsand-doliar picuie. Now let St. Louis match it with a ten-thousand-dollar concert.”” The concert to be given in this city this evemng for the same holy purpose will add larzely to the generous fund already sent. forward. The crowd will be larze ami wet its money’s worth. ——— The name of Joux Lyrte Kixc has been sne- gosted tor Senator from the Fi inth, Temb Wards. We are tree to say that an abler man for the plice canuot be found tn the distriez. Mr. Kix6 would make » leading wem- ber of the Senate, and, if he 1s willing to serve, it is doubtful if the people of the district can Qo better Lbun aceent bis services. e The man Moxcn, who defeated Evsese TlaLg for Conress, 13 a stoncentter by trade, and an ititerate blatherskite. agitator of the KEarsey treed. [t beats all bow these numskulls run this year. The retlection is perfect balm of Gitead for little J1x DOOLITTLE aud Others ol thae lk. who las just re- turned from has been mterviewed by a Herald reporter, und suud w conclusion: * You may tell the readers of the Herald that T never feit in better votee or spirits, and that 1 golng to give them sume good wusie this son.” ) —e—e Col. HORACE SCOTT, Who hus been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Lonis- wille District, is hizhly spokeu of by his polit- jeat opponents. vs hie 15 It Conrier-Journal sy » seif-made maw of real energy, iudustry, and capacity. U oS To spile of CiARLEY Re®p’s holding back and hesitating abour runnigs tor Conzress. Lhe movement steadily gathers strength to tender Liun the vomination. This rows out o the feeting that be cav whip Iittle DOOLITILE oul of bis bouts i be runs. e ———— The people of St. Louis are thankful for a heavy white frost that fell in the vicinity of that tof the 12th It was 2 great relicf, because it puts an end to al) fears ol the spread of the terriblz yellow-fever plarae. - e — e KEARSEY wants a Jaw passed abohshing the Turkish baths. He says thedTurks must €0, sy well as the Coinese. e e ThetwoJiss. BLAINE and GARFIELD, couldn’t save Maine. But they must have credit for try- ing hard to do so. ————e— Lucius B. CROOKER, the jolly fat man of the Jast House, has been rcnomiuated by the Ke- publicans of LaSalle County. et The editor of the Dubuque Hera'd decllnes to be the Hax sliced ap for the Congresstonal table in that distrct. — —— It is eald there are stxteen millions of fraction- a1 carrency ontstandig, with several street-car makes & misdemeanor of the act cf sleepicg in | lines to beer froa. - ; comen g w The Republican County Conven. - o tion Postponed. T b A Demaocratic Rally at Farwell }mf. E Speeches by Hessrs, Gondy - and Others. v The Republican Congressional Contést in the First asd Second Distriets. Sheriff Kern Apt to Bs Left—DMestings .in the Wards, o :.I COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE: ;; 'he Republican County Central Committes < b met yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the 1 Appellate Court-rooms, Judgre Couch presiding, 1 Ex-Ala. Dave Clark moved to reconsider the ;\ action taken at the last meeting in fixing the o primaries for the 25th ana the Convention for - 1 the 30th of this month. Ile did so from the ks fact that. in his opinion, the action of the pre- b vious meeting wade the campaign entirely too k= loug, and stated that he did not think there wag « a-suflicient representation of the Commiites s present when that action was taken. t L] Ex-Ald. Dixon scconded the motion, and 4 made a short, pithy speecn fn favor of a short, ¢ active campalen. d : ‘Mr. B. G. Gill was_opposed to reconsidering, bellevini that the Couvention should be heff * e regardiess of the time when the Democrats hejd c thcirs. Thev were determined to beat the Deme a ocratd anyway, and be believed iu actine fode- w pendently fu this respect. and in - carryingona | d sharp, active, thorough campaizn. 3 i Mr. Dixon wanted the outsiders to havea 1 chance to speak 1o the yuesiion, and was finally & (ul iu putting throuzh a motion to that b : n e n mpaiem, parti 2 onnt of money on hand to be-svent. Not be- t e 2 candidate Dimself, he could advise impar- -0 tiall ary, wis_ to nominste d u nexceptionable meu, and then make a shart, b v izorous eampaizn and cleet them. i 1 Mr. Washington Hesing had similar views, ¢ About ten deys would suit him. E Mr. Georee M. Bogue was also in favorof s s campaign. & T Kirk Hawes, being called upon, also ex- t pr himself as in favor of a short campaigy 4 of active work. He did not think the Conven- b tion should be Lelu before the middleof Oce- §~° ber, and suggested the importance of holdiny a the two Conventions on the same day. 5 v T After further taik, the motion to reconsider orevailed. . Mr. Clark then moved to hold the primaries* for the country towns on Saturday, the I%th of * ] October; for the city on Monday, the 1ith, and the Corventfon on Tuesaa agreed to. An inexcusable amount of talk foilowed as - to the hours tor holding the primaries, it beinz finally determined to Lold them between the ours of -3 and 7 in the nfternoon in all.the cit wards with the exception of the Tiwelfth Wa in which the vrimary will be heid from $ 3 m. w7 p.m. The primaries in all the conntry towus will be held between the hours of 5 ana - S pow. - o accordance with a request from a commit- tee frow llvde Park, it was decided to allowthe town to vreanize upon a plan perfected by the tiean voiers of that villace. Toe plan jo q u provides for Lhie orzanization of a Re- publicanClub emposwered 1o pass upoen the quatifieations of its members. Tle plan oliv provides for a registry of voters, those not reir- fstered ten days before the primaries w be ex- ctuded. * n motion of Mr. O. II. Morton, the plan was so amended as fo provide that tnere shoald be no rale prosenbing a mood Republican wha should be vouched for, and who should bes” resident of the town. On request of o committee from Jefferson, it was deeuled to atlow the holding of primaries i~ all the, ciucts eomnprising that town. Mr. Whitehead, of Cicero, preferred o requast on behulf of his town, to the edect that the Committee adopt as the basis of its calenlations in aoportioninz delegates the vote cast for Me Crea, which ws the Jast expression of the RE publican will of the county, aud that 150 votes” be the basis of representation. 2 After considerable talk this request, together with the whole question ol apportionment, w35 referred to a coumittee of five, with instruc- tions to report ihercon at the nest meeting. On motion, a comumittee, consisting of Messrs- Morse, Farwell, and Folz, was avpolnted to confer with the Congressional and Senatorisl | Comitts fous ‘districts with rezand © to holding the primaries 02 the same day and a8~ the same hour and with one set of judzes. —° The Commistee then adjourncd to me:t on the 25th inst. THE DEMOURACY. The “grand Democratic rally” at Farwell Hall last evening Was o fafiure in that there werc less than 300 people preseat,—certainly 3 poor “opening of the campaign.”” On: the platform a few **boiled shirts ™ ware tobe seed, but the owners. with oacor Lwo exceptions,were not lights. Johin Forsythe called the patheriog to order. Y Maleolm McDonald was clected Cbairman, uty-six wentlemen, three of whom were present, Vice-Presidents, and five others, oneot whom was on hand, Secretarie “T'e dirst spesker was Mr. William C. Goudy- He said the practival question to be deciled b7 the people at the approaching elcction Was How can they securc the benefits of a gool Government a the least expenses What ne2é- ures will best remedy existine and admitted 2By evils? Lt was not important to inquire into t opwions or conduet of - those why composed the party fifty, or twents, or ten years agoy nor was ftn al to ascertain what party of e el BN parties were respunsibie for the istmz stuation. know imbor was madequatels rewaniud: property hud shrunk in valune: that the m:m? facturer, the farmwer, tie mevhanic, wore alit® - distressed by the action of bustness: that the bunden ol ments, to mave this rul £ the pre 1 promoting be. weneral ol the public moneys and faods' had by il CoPpo- ek 10 servants, the latter lad a ulers, and e treat vilizen: orbitant revenues wore exacl and property. and public espcnditures wens e 3 cremsud withont rd to the ability of the country to meet them. History tanght. that-id the contest botween acenmulated moucy snd o ¢ went down in the unemal labor the strugele, nnl assisted ty wise legislation. Yet m detiance of tns lesson, laws bad deed cructed to waiie Tnhor 4@ 1& SERVAKT OF MOSEY. ¥ There was ersistent elfort to make money: more valuable, and, while the by of the peor.: ple had been ahsorhed i the groat struzele ol = ation for its Gxistence and 13 Sequenced : ot had sceured all the lewlslarg and, when the tofle asten the 15, the cry was yuestion aione,—the: 1l country. will “hie tusiness of the countryonzhi riy werd: s of 3 upon their *Let the business of aisturbed.” w0 he disturbed il fapor and proy released Irons the wrasp o the hold cumpulated mouey: wutil the workmap Wi rurly pad aund property justly zllsl.nbfll:&[' until poverty and distress were banished univereal prospenty prevailed, | Applause.] The acts of lemslation sceured hy mopevs brokers awamst tho business-men ;dn;‘nn'.' Iust twenty years we g the e tender quality of Governincnt billsof credit transactions between private individuals w:sl creating oue kind of money for the rich 850 auotner for the pour: the continuancys smee the close of the War 8% a Nationul-Dank cireutations for Treasurs notes when the notes great discount, and then passing the Credit act of 1), by which Cangress the bonds pavable in coin, therel pubtic debz and morethan the Gov sgale of the bunds wiiich the Seerelary of th ed to 1ssue new bonds, ver coin, to_the extenzof SE5000 sunstitate them fur 5.20 bonds, which, aets authorizing their issne. wero pagstly frreenbacics; the Cumonctization of SUVET: