Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 29, 1878, Page 7

MULLETT. vihat He Says of the Chicago QGustom-House Indicte ments. fic Always Thought 'There Was Fraudulent Mismanage- ment, And 6o Reported, but No Notics What- ever Was Taken of His ¢ Reports, fle ITas Reason to Belleve that Secretary Sherman ITas Been Grossly Decelved. From Our Own Correspondent. W asninatoN, D. C., Nov. 20,~—~The attention of Nir. A. 3. Mullett, ex-Supervising-Architeet of the Treasury, having beeu catled to tho pomerous publieations respecting himaslf in conneetion with the Chicago Curtom-1lousa fn- ditments, hey in the course of a conversation with Tie TRIBUNE correspondent, eald: w1 donot think that It Is proper for me to an- tipate any evidence that [may be ealted upon togive before the Courts; but, fnusmuch s te friends of Mr. Potter, late Bupervisine Architect, have heen led to belleve that I have endeavored to fujure him, and that I mn o some way reeponsible for his indictment, I fecl that it fsaduty to that gentleman svd to mysell to sy that there is NOT, A PARTICLE OF TRUTH o the statement. On the contrary, while it Is true that—durine Mr. Potter's term of office, and when 1 coukd only seo the results of his aiministration~1 did nat liesitate to cxpress mropinlon I a very unfuvorable manner as to My management and Bs to his Integritv: vet, when [ wns subsequently anpointed Superin- terding Architeet of the Custom-Ilousca, at Chieazo, Bt. Louls, and Cinctunatl, and of the Tout-Oflices fn New Yurk City, Philadetphia, and Hartford, Comn, my views were changed., My appointment was of an- advisory character, and gave me no control whatever over the work, and no mithority that coabled me o reclify any evils of management that 1 found, Imade carefol nnd elaborate reports of the con- dition of the work, and the management prac- teed on nlf, save thoe bullding at Hartford, which 1 diit “not visit, Irerorted gross mis- maoagement n every building, and made direct charires of frandulent mnnszement end of fraudutent award of contracts In eeveral cares, I nccompanted my reports with specifie recommindations fn cach case, No notive what- ever was taken of them; and, failiue to Induce fgecretary Morrill to take any actlon,and finding ft Jmpossible to reuder ang practlcal service to the Government, T deelined to perforn any far- therduty untfl the charges I bad mado were fuvestigated, This bins never heen done., MULLETT ON HILL, “8ceretary Sherman subsequontly offered me, In writingy the Supcrinteudency of the Customn-touses at Cincinuatd nod Chivagos nhich I declined, Ife then serbally offered to add thie Custom-Houso at 8t, Louis £o mv furls- diction. L explained to him thut my objecttan %as notone of etiyuetty or pride, but came from & convictlon that 1t would be mse- Jess to attemipt to traneact businuss Io an lonorable and honest manncr, vnlesy a radical change wus mnde in the oflice of the Bupervising Architect; In which cato 1 expreased o widlingness 1o accept the np- polntment. In my letter declining, 1 enld that, *knowing the present management of tha ofllee oftheSupervising Architect to be hoth inzompe- teut and corrupt,’ I was compelled to declinouny sppotntinent underIt,—feeling assured, fron ex- perience, that I could nelther correct exfsting evils, proteet the interests of the Government, ormy oiwh reputation. I huve sitce that timo bad notbing whatever to do with any investiza- tion inta the umnni;rmcm of that oftlee, save in two coses where I havo been called ns o wit. ness,—2s at Chicawo before the Grand Jury,— and each time without desiring to perform any such duty. "1t would bo uscless for mo to deny that T bave eritlelscd Secretary Sherman’s action in res talubng Me, DI (n oflice, and this in ny compli- wentary Janguage. L havo racently, lowever, bad reason to bellevo that tho Secretary of the Treasury LAB IEEN GROSSLY DECIEVED, at I informed him looz siove that ho would bo, ‘The statewment he hus recently made shows that ke is entirely dgnorant of the real points In the controveray, and that Mr. iliil's statcwcnts to bim have beew ns for from the actual facts ns the statement bo Las recently made tn explana- tion of his conduct at Chlcago, If It wers pose eble for Mr, Hill to say anythlug that would vxeuse him er any onvelse, think it would be his_wssertfon that the selection of the Buena-Vista stone fnvolved corruption [n the exceution of tho contract, aa charged by the tirand Jury, If that statement 1a true, the Government_should certninty provides good tuard around the Buena-Vista teeritory, Lo pre- Yent the uso of & materlal o corrupting to the tiorals of those who useit. I feel confident that, when Secretary Bherman and Presfdent Hayes Investizato thls question, they wilt flud tuat piy reports, so far from belng extrayagant, andabusive of Mr, Il or of his assistants, were mild stutements of tho mismanagemout tbat haa prevailed, and which, so far trom belng rewedied since then, 3 11AY CONTINUED AND GROWN WORSE, * “The Becretary of the ‘Ireasury was, lowever, versuaded that thes reports wero simply actus ated bwanmml hostility; and that, instead of Leing evidence of mismanagement on Mr. 11l's part, thiey wero simply tokens of o quarrelsome disposition on mine: just as tho present fnves- tigation, naugurated by the disbursing olllcer 2 Chicago,—whoso sworn duty {t was to muke b an {ovestigation, and who, had he taken any outier course, would have been equally Ha- Uie to Indietment,—has been paraded before tha tountry ns cvldenco of 8 destro on the vart of Williain Menry Smith o atlewpt to meddle With public business, and to find o place for some Chleago architect, One thing s certoin: Whateyer may be the result of this trial, Col- lector Willium Heury Simith eould, ns an honest man, huve takien no vthier courss than e Las, Had bo dono less, he would have descryed pub- ““f‘l’ln“‘"'vh as well n-'uu[mlalllnuenl." *llave you seen the [udletments, or thoe Polnts of them? 3 "1 bave seen nothing but the memorandum of thew as stated In 'Fits Tiununs which came today, I dou't, however, think it proper to eIpreas any opinion on this polnt, as it ls pos- sitlo that [ 'mny be called upon us o witness Berealter,” Do you think the indlcticnts witl bo sus- lllnt-)lll' Ot course I don't know what evidenco has 3:;:: ‘lam his)rloral mx lllrnnr.l Jury, or what evl- e Distrlet-Attorney may buve fu bis Possesslon, but Al it gyt BIOULD NE VERY MUCH SURPRISED the indictments sbould by sustuined. My Feason for this Is, that it I incredible 1o me that Stuclter or Mtlls would cuter fnton con- Spiracy to defruud the (Government with por- 098 who had previously entered futo s con- ,l‘mucv to destroy thelr own busiucss, and who ave, {n plolon, damaged it to the extent O hunareds of thousauds of dolfars. 1 huve rfl doubt that Elilluud his associates wero - t:md by somo corrupt motives In the Mtempt {o destroy the bulldlng at Chiva- »f“- which took place almost fnmediate- y after my reslenation. I feel war- iuuc\l in cxprosslug thu opinion that, l:d they succeeded, it would huve been a per- 'ulv.cuv trausuction for them, althourh . it "ouhl haved cost the Government certalnly 000,000, —possibly double tLat sum. ‘Fhis matter bas, however, been fully explained ina }'[mv. made to the Departmicnt In Uctober, fl:‘o?‘,.lng.wdm"lh 1 (.rnxume. l-l atill on m;-.‘ l;h ude chiarges of conupirucy miyee %0 years urep, Ay piriiy mywelt il :: Vhat was the character of these charges?’ -bo“"" werg fully explained in the rcports t Ve rch:rn:d to, aud also in the report wade Gotle Committee on Pudlie Buildings and Tounds at tho fast sesston of Congress, in Which 1 have snown ereat smanageuent, aud, l;llxe result of which, the cost of perforuing ‘”;c Work, under tho vercentogo contracts, wWas i Feds: bis was done with o view to alary ¢ Becretary of the ‘Ireasury, and 10 procure a sheugs Lo epecitic contracts, | It is a matter of Vublic nutoricty that contiactors for the fiunhe for soveral large bulidings now ‘l Lrogress ol coustructivn, whoss cuntracts ulultlw_uut I the weeregute to muny wihous of “‘,, A, ewmployed an attorney to procurs this 4 auge. [t 13 susceplibl legal proof that the E}”“ under these contracts are al present over ex SxEeenty and 1 betieve that Ieould, without Ny 2itviation, eay that they were, b sowe - i duced at leust, making a protis of MUE Liss THAN 4 NUNDUGED AND FIFTY VER The CEAT, b Uovernment, meanubile, 13 oblalnivg sy rn erhor grade of work, —a erade of work that fs, L‘_"ff" uiLlon. culirely uiill 10 put iote such :‘:Jlux-. No such work wis vver put into any “UILZ crected wuder wy supervlaon. §obe Teve these stateenta can untained in lezal Inyertimation, There fs an apharent motive tor fnereacingy the cost of work under the contract at Cliienzo to thiy most extravaeant degree, “There are Lo reasons for this ol aage in the manner of work: ** 1re'—The newspaper-nress In Chicazn has been giving special attention to the management. of warle on the Custow-House building there. and hns been erfticiaing it with unnaval vigl- Iance, It was, therefore, eyident that the cost ol the wark at Chleago, which would be mani- feat under the old sy atem, would atteact public attention, and that the feets would be broughe to the notiee of the Secretary of the Treasury, who, Ib was abaotutely nocessary, should be prefudiced nzainst these vontracts, and bie con- vineed that It would be to the advantage of the Guyernment to have them changed, ‘¢ Second—Tho bencficiaries ot thn proposed ‘change would not be unduly dlsmayed. In other words, the Muclier contract could be made to neeform the same part that the intoxteated hrother of the temperance-lecturer was ac- ;-u-lm'u,m-l to actin the vlay of temperance-re- orm,' *Doyouthink there will be convictions under these indictments??’ IRLLRR AND MILLS, “ That fs an Inference you must draw from my statemente. I can only spenk of Mr. Muel- Jer aud Mr. Milla from iy experiencewith them. I havo known Ar. Muelfer, witbout belng Inti- mate with him, for more than twenty vears; and 1 have never heard him charged with any dishonorable or dishonest conduct before, Mr, Mitls was my cblet clerk for many vears; [ parted with him with siveere rewret, amd only bocause ha thoneht he could do better in out- nide bustness, T have not slways agremd with Ar. Mills in fudrment, but, 1 seo no reason why the opinfon, which I formed Jong since, that he was a gentleman and a man of honor, should by chanced by the present indictments. T certaln- l“ should be more surprised than [ bave boen, 1T Die 18 proved to be gulity of fraud, ** This fuvestigation will have the offect to com- pel the Sueretary of the Treasury to {nvestizate the matter. 1€ ‘tha potnts of tha tndictment, as stuted in T Tutnung, are correctly given, the Secretory of the ‘Treasury must bo satisfled that he has been cutirely misled In the marter, have no doubt that e wiill be_compelled to make a personal {nvestization. more gratified «thun mysell to find that I have done the Seerelary inlustice. I have been n rsonal friand of Mr, Slicrinau for many ye; usedd my fufluence to secure bis re-election as Henatorg and bave always considered him not only a personal friend, but a fafr and unpreji- diecid man. 1 found, however, that he had beun persuaded, after he beeame Seerctary of the Treasury, that the opposition to Mr, Hill was of A persohal character, Ilo seems still disposed to hold to that iden, I feal no hesitatfon in aay- Ing, however, thut Itsla shnplv o question of tine when that flluslon will be dispelicd,” Mr, Mullett couldl bave talked for hours on this subject, but there are Hmlitations to news- paper-columns, E bW ——— NASBY. Trouble with Fint Monoy nt * Confedrit X Romis." Toledo fitade, ‘Tbe effeck of the Noveuher clekshuuns hez bin disnstrus on the prospecks uy the Cornors. Work on the Court-House, ship canal, and ralerond hez bin suspendid. It went along well cauff toratinie. The men got {nto a hablt uv demandin an increso uy wagis every day or tio, and we met thefr demnnds librally, 1t didn't make a particle uy diffcrence to us whether we pald a dollar o dayor fitty, It cost Jest ez much to print n dollar note ez it did a fifty dol- lar vote, and ef aman felt richer witha Afty dollarnote why not let him have it? ‘The hizher the wagls we ‘paid, the richer the. community wuz efitin, becoz more money wuz cittln into clrkelashen, But ther cum a thne wheu we hed to hev o dozen spodes and n pick ax, and with- outem the work cood notwo on. ‘The hard- sware-declers wood not toke our money for emn, ond we bed no other; and so, for want uv ton dollars’ worth uv apades and nfvlz-uxu.x, improve- mients Involvin milllons waz brot to o comulete stoppage! Fint money Is all well enofl, but woo:d Lhied the power to_compel the peonle to tako It whether orno, Legislashen it wat wo want, but the results uythe November elek- shuns give me no hope uv that, I feel we are ooin to be in the power uv the boudlolders for atime yit. ‘I'ben eame moro trouble. Bascown had hed an unvaralleled run uv biznls, and taken every dol- Tar uy Fial money ther wuz In the Corncrs. I hied bin printin i€ on wall-paper for a week, anid the day afore eleeshun the last serap uy it hed bin exhaustid, Iwscoured the willage to find suthin thet vood bo used in printin, but ez the people never indulged to any extent fu the jux- ury uv wall-paper, T coodent git any. In dispnir 1 went into L'ollock’s store, and begged him to sell me wat he hed on band. “ Certfuly,” sed hie, * for casn,” 1 will give you,” 1 sed, * exaetly the money we hev, and L can't do more tuan “that. low mtich hey yool ™ n bolte,” “ Very good," red 1. * Now, Pollock, Iwill tell yow'wat I will do. Weo toust hey more moncy, and wo hev noe paper to print it on. I will take them ten bolts uv wall paper, and L will print five uv em In one- dollar_bills for yoo, to pay for thu other five. Tdon't know how many yards ther fa In o bolt uv wall-paper, but [ will spose that eech yord witl mnako a hundred bills, aud thet ther 1a twenty yards in a bolt. Thus yoo will git §4,000 for a ten-cent holt uy wall paner. Kin voo dis- pose ny yoor stock to better advantagel™ *But wat oud will gll thesu dollar bills do me?" wuz his onfeelln unaer. * I coodent buy flfll}lhfil‘ ten bolts uv paper with a cart-load uv it 1 then offered to print the five bolts up in two-lollar notes, thea in fives, and finally In twontics, and cz lust recort, fo_handreds, 1 showed him wat a mwillionaire he wood be, Five bolts uv wall paper printed up tn huudred dolar bills wood make him mch, ood it wuz within his reach, Afl bie bed to do wux to give mo the other fivo boits for the yousy uv tho coporashon, 1 shoodent hov been eo Hberel, but I hedn't hed o drink for four Lours, and Bascom hed refoozed likker except for down payment, and Led put up the price to four times the welght ny the lkker, glass aud all, {n five dollar notes. I wuz driven to makin any terms possible, Thu monstor wuz, bowever, fotlexible. e Jaffod me to skorn. 1o refoozed the inillyuns Totfered htin, 1o sed he wood sell the paper to o ot ton centss bolt, cash, or Le would even elvs mo creddit for the flve bolts, Thie woz o gleem uv comfort, svd 1 cagerly aceented It But bo crushed e with these crooel worda: On eredl, of T wood eivo good secoority. Becourity | Wat holler mockery! Wher cood 1 it secoority? And so [, with “the mneons uv muakin milyuns {n my handa, wuz redoosed to abject poverty for want uv 50 cents (o buy the wal l-u:xr‘cr onto wich to pring wy milyuns. The Ui Bascom hez the urners I8 prostrate, miltions we hev printed, the cltizens hevn't a dollar, and we can't cit no paper to perdooss more curreney, Wit wo shel do I hevn't the slitest idve. Ef 1 cood @it the Loolaville paper- dewlers to take our money for nore paper, and of Bimnson, the printer, wood go on aud print 1t, takin his pay in kind, all wood be well, " But ez we can't it any, wo hev voosed up all the Pl- per 8lmpson hed, und ez ho hezn’t got waything 1o buy any more with except what the cold- bartld wnd mersenary paper-inerchants won't take, our cnsu I8 bard fudeed. W urs roolucd, and I aposa wa shiel bev to return to the old Kinds uv monoy. But wat wiil Bascom do with the gccommulashen ba Lez vu band! 1 dread to faco him, < Prrnocrvs V. Nasay, Finanscer, et HE WILL REDEEM GREENBACKS ONLY IN GOLD. To the Editor of The Trivune. Cutcago, Nov, 27,—1 liks your position on the munstery questions of the day, sud partlculurty upon the silver auestion. 1ut thero Is one point wn which 1 want leht. Phoro has been o youd deal waid ubout the dificulty of petiing siivor nto circulaiton, and of keeping it tu clreulation, ete, Now, what fo the necesnty of miaking It circulsto ot all, auy mote than toero Is 1n making gold cire cnlatey WLy sbould uos every dollar of ailver bo hourded by the dovernmonut agaiust the day of apecie paymcnts? Are not e precnbacky the most convenlent, and, when backed by specie, the el cirenlaling medium that ever bad of can Bavor Lo *aman up 8 tree " It looks ax though the coin vhould bo held as a vuarantco of e value ol the paver woney, and the object of the remun- etlzation of rllver Was not to gut Jt as o circulating mediug, but 0 make | the Guvernment strung on the day of redewptlon. Tho fuct thut silver fa bulky and fnconvenlent will provent the thylocks from sitemblings rcn on the Gov- crument, proviaed thu Governmons Aalds 3t 1o i upun thew whenover they (ry (o coruer, Then bv pol the true oftice uf allve: 1o protect the Governuient and wake every green- back equivalent 1o u ‘cuin certificate I Plessa auswer through Tus TRIBUNE, sud obllaj [The pomt Is, that the Becretary of the Troas- ury has anuouuced that he will redcen green- backs only io gold, unless the noldor s, y demsuda sliver. Instead of usiug his option to pay out elther metal, or both, tn equal quantt tles, he proposes w0 Yook up the sliver sud pay out the guld alvne. And the New York Clears fug-Houag banis Kive uotica that they will not receive sllver dollars on deposit 83 lawful wouey, avd the Seerctary of the Treasury is ald- fnz avd abetting thls act of wulitiation. The case i3 pla—ED.| ily CHICAGO TAdBUvG No otie will by ELECTRIC LIGIT. What Mr. Edison Thinks of the Recent English In- vention. Wonderful Improvement fn the Telephone---A Marvelous Type-Writer. A Patent Secared Through the Use ol . the Atlantic Cable. Neto York Sun, Nor. 23, A small American flaz fluttered from the roof of the new engine-house In the rear of Mr. Edi- son's Menlo Park laboratory on 8aturday. The bullling {a nearly completed. The boller Is in vosition, but the eokine remains onthe plutform cars near the depot. A svore or more of men arg at work fn tho yard, aud every possitle preparation is belug mada for the declsive ex- perlment with the electriclight. Theinventor's faith fn the practicability of his Inventlon is shown by the estimated cost of the experiment. He purposes to alart In at Menlo with 2,000 lights, uslog telegrapli poles with fifteen Nights on cach This experiment, including the cost of the bufldings, engine, cenerating tma- chines, and everything, he thinks, will eat up from 875,000 to 8100,000. One of his assistants 24 1 always gu on the princlply of adding 80 per cent to the estimated cost of all experi- ments, and find myself nearer right in the end. It will cost nearer $125,000 than $100,000 to make this oxperlnent at Menlo” - Mr. Edison nodded his head apmovingly. * Whatever the cust,” he sald, “jt will nrove the practicability, cheapness, and utility of this subaivision of theelectrie lght bevond a doubt,!” The downfall in gas stocks has been followed by a corresponding Increasc in the prive of shares of the Edison Company. It is under- stood that 200 has neen offered and nevepted. Confident himself in the succees of his Inven- tion, Mr, Editou scems ‘)llcnnfl with Indications of public contidence, The well-knuwn fln_of Fabbrl & Chauncey have bourht from the Edi- .san Company the exclusiye, rizht to the are of the new electric tght in South America. From one of the ollicers of the steamship City of Itio Janelro tho writer learns that the conteact for lighting the Brazilian Capltal expires very scon. In view of the franchise bought by Fablrl & Chauucey, he thought t not {mprobable that tlo Janeiro might o the firet tity In the world lighted by electricity, THR IKCENT ENGLISIL INVENTION. In further conversation I alluged to reports that gentlemen In Eogland and France hnd dls- caversd means for the subdivision of electric hight, 1 drew from my poclict u_slip from the London News announcing that Eogland, ond not Amierlca, had solved “the great problem of the divisibility of this ught. A Mr. Werder- inann had givin a public exhibitian of an (nven- tion for lighting with a divided clectric current, ** Have you scen any nccount of this fuyven- tion¢" T nslked. Mr, Edison smlled, and laid before ma an English weekly newspaper, containing a fally l!lu‘slmmd descriptionof the Werderinann subudi- vislon, Mr, Edison then said: *“Thia Werdermann lizht nelther forestalls uor contlicts with my | ventlon, Iuseno carbon, My lizht does ug burn Itsell out, Tne Werdermnnu lght, how- ever, faagood thing, It alluws more rulsll- vislon than tho Joblochkoff; bul the mai tenance of attention and consumptlon of earbon cost more than tho horse-power used to keen it running. 1t doean't atlow of a reliable sub- divislon,’ “ Wiy doesn't it1" [ msked, # Becauae,’ aald Mr. Edison, “ you must keep fooling with the Jampall the €lme to keew it golug. To be of atility, the subdivision must bo absolutely constant, As ncurbon lomp | like it very moch, But Lhe carbon lamp wou't do. [ bave made repeated experlments with carbon, aud at one thne made a lamp very simi- lur to this one of Werdermann's,” ““Then vou think Werdermanu's fnvention of no practival utility?"”? *No, 1 won't eay that,”” ho replled, It may come iuto use in many niaces, but it can nover hecome of general use, ” The lamp for the people must be £0 slnple In its construction that any fool or mule can useit. 1 om maoking such o nru{r. Yau turn your faucet, and there i ‘yuur lght. You turn ‘your faucet, aud your light 1s gone, There Is'no dickerlig and no feeding. Your lght Is there when you want it, aud wheu you don’t saut it {t disappears, It i s0simple “In_1ts desizn that s chiid can unded stand b and use lt, uud it costs no more than the horse-power used to turn the gencratlngy machine, The current is noisclvssly carried from one lizht to the other, and thero is no rush or fryine-pan sizzle ns 13 the caro with the carbon poliits, And then there {s the question of supply. With a tour-cell battery I can get moro Hghit with my lovention than any carbon lizht 4o for deviced, with the same amount of electrle toree, aud I can see nothing to prevent its Jonuclmn to stronger currents ou 8 lurger scale, PATENTS IY CABLY, * These fellows across the water ore working the light for certaln,”” he smd. * [scethat seven patents were granted in England alone between Oct. 20 and Nuv. 4. About one-teuth of all the patenca yuw taken cut 1n Greas Urliatn ore for electric lights. [ patent all- the discov- eriea mode in my experlments both here gud in Eugland, And somctimes we make quick work of it, Last weok | mude a discovery ut 4 o'elock fu the afteruoon, 1gots wire frum here to Plaiufield, where my solleitor lives, and brought blin fute the teledraph oflles at that place. 1 wired him my discovery, Ho drew up tho lruumnuom on the spot, and ahont 9 o'clock that nlght cabled on application for a patent to Londom Before I wns out' of bed the next morning I recetved word trom Loudon that my spplication bad been ftiled in the Engllah Patent Oflce, ‘Tho application was filed at noon, sud I received my fuformation about 7 in the morn- ing, five bours befure the fillng. Tuo difference between Loudon and New York time explaing the thing." NONSENBE AND COMMON SENEY, Mr, Edlson says that the cost of tuls maneu- vro did not exeeed ’50. 1le thought that the total cost of his clectric light pateuts migie smuunt to $17,000. A minute afterward he picked up the slip from the London News, snd qnickly becawme interested, [is cyes lighted with humor, and u smirk enclireled his mouth. “lh'nvr, Jouk here,” sald he, reading from the slip: Mr. Worderpiann stated that he did not bellove 1u tho vrinciple of thy indednite divislon of & cur- rent of oquel strcugih, which Mr, Edison Lus Leen satd to utirm. * Woll," he drawled, ua Lord John Russell #aid, the sourcee of tho Infurmation obtained by her Malesty’s Governmunt arv quite Incom- prehionsible. 1don't aud never dld allirm any such monsenss as that, It s vousenie on its face,” He read furthe In his (Mr. ermann’a) opinlon & enrront equal tomalutaining 100 lights would ot maintain 500 |iulits anv 1ngto than an amount of gas ouly sugiclent fur 100 burnors wouli supply 500 burn- ere, But, he udded, tho praporiion of borss-power absorbed by cacn lleht would bo leas av the numbor of lahts Wad greater, ‘The grosler the nuw. bor of lighte mn‘umaurwoum bo the yuantity of the current requitod, und the Jonser the distunca traversed by the current tho lantur must be the eluciru-motive bower, “That's common sonse,” added Mr, Edlson, “No sane mau can doubt it [ understand,” 1 sald, * that you propose to {eed a certain number of llghu runi otie current of elrcxru-ufi'. uw, when that current strikcs the Uirst iight, aud what is not wanted is corsted on to the nexs lahts, would it not bo a gieat deal atronger than whoa 14 reached the last lisght] - Might b not b s strony as to welt tho contrivance used to send It ou I2 it did not welt the burner ¥ * You can only carry so much water through 8 two-Inch pipe, he suswered. *A certam amount of gas will go throuzl a gas maly, sud nomore, A wire whil tauks only s much elee- tricity, We arrange the couductor in such a wanner thet the currcut at all poluts ia the sawe, and that ls all thero §s of 1.7 88, 1% LIGUTS T0 ONB HORYH-FOW In further couversation Me. Edison vafd he was vetting four times a3 much 1kt with the saimo force 8 ha did when be first begau by experimests. Ho fouud tne geseratng ma- clunes fn ude f(aulty, and was mwakinz (wo n- proved machines of” his own, with the view ot turping tue eredtest awouut of burse-puwer iuto electriclty with thu least possiblo loss. ‘Theso wachines are to be e.?u.-l:ulv applicable to his eleetric hizbt, From his experimcuts he wus satlatied that ho could g8t three highis equal to an urdinary gas jet for cach horse-pawer with cach old peneratioy wacuine, and six with the new machioed. The writer then called the - yentor's atteution to the fullowing extracs from t’h» London correspondence of the Liverpuol sty Soms tmportant Information Las resched mo on the nature of Kdion's vlectne hwbt 1t s fornied. by acoll of plaunum beinz plicod over & wire ¢d by tho eluctnic current. ‘Tue coll Jtscll ls the urca uf gLt the current sent through {6 Ueing strong 8puth to make 1t white but and welf- Juminous, Yhe dithcully 1w be vvurcowo et fbis poiut of thu fuvention waa the Lnollity ol the wire 10 fuew gud apoll the hizhs, ~» ditiiculty which alr. Eulaou claims t0 bave s iuted by (e 10ir0dutiion of s aple device, wiilch, o Wby CaDIUVIOE Of 4 sdil Las thy Justast the Beatof e Cois epe prorches the fasinz polnt of the platinam. nter. avn ehieck to the fiow of the earrent throngh coil. Thie antomatle arrangement acenree, it 1 rald, an even llow of electricily thraueh the coll, onseqnently o steady flow of pure lght. "his was eviaently written,” said Mr. EJI- ton, by koo one wno had scen one of my carlicst experiments, [t does not tally at af] with iy latest hight, ‘There {4 to bar, and the whole thing {a entirely different. 1 fancy that I esn soun give o ccmplete explanation to the nublic, Bateh., wioers ia the Jamp that this ar- ticle evidently refers to"? % Mr. Batchélor hunted 1t ofl. It was found among the cast-o!f caperiments, hsuken and dnsty, and was exhibited nmid the lsughter of Mr. Exlison's assistants, ENOLAND AWARE. Mr. Batchelor handed Mr, Edison s slin from the Londan Zimee lie passed it to the writer, <aying Do yon rensember the controversy in fisgland concerning the merts of the carbon telepnone ! Hughes and Priest of the Rritish Postat Otlice hoth comanended It Hughes safd it dlin’t work at all. Well, now read what the Britiah Thunidercr says about i, ‘L extract was eat from the Londen Times of Nov 12, It zlves an accoint of *some Inter- entini and valuable experiments on electric tele- uhony, between Norsich and London, under the most” adverse cinumstances of bad weather and powerful induction of nefzhboring wires, hiear: exoeriments,” tha Tones sayn, *<hud for their object the cunfirmation of rome extraor- slinary atatements that had appearcd In the Amerfean Journals resecting the abllity of the carbon telephone, one of Mr.' Fdison’s’ numer- ous Inventions, and perhaps one of the most fmportant to work over great distances and un- der conditions favorabla to other svstems,— conditions which up 1o the present time have heen the chiel wbstacle in the practical use of clectrle telephoty.” ‘The wire_stretched from Messrr, Colman’s works fn Norwich to their office in London, or a little over 115 miles, It ran over the sama yoles as other wires. When the cxuertinentn begam, tho fncessant crack- ling aud bubbling sounds in the re- celvers revesled the fact thut the adjofaing wires were belng worked to thelr fullest cabacl- ty)and that fnduction could hardly be worse, ‘The first exclamation uttered in Norwich was heard perfectly fn London, Conversation was carried oh without ditliculty, and the Yankee accent of Mr, Edison's agent was distinctly recognlzable, Tteninrks passed on the weather rliowed that there was a storm of slect ot batn ends. The conversation was best lieard when carried on alittle helow the ordinary tone of volee. Toward 9 p. m. the induction disturb- ances grew less, hut were still cocsiderable, “The volees from Norwich were louder, and the tudividuality of the speakers more marked. ASTUUNDING DISCOVERIRA, Commenting vu these cxporiments, the Times eays: Ruwnarknble a8 they were, they appear to be out. stripped by what has been achicved in Americs through the aamie instruruenta, Mz, Prescott, the chief electrician of tho Western Union Telcaraph Combany, siye they lave beon iccominily ued when fncluded in « Marsy ciecuit, and that reversi stations could oxchange buainesa telephonicall; upon o checnlt that waa belng workea quadzupl without disturoing tae lagter, ) ‘This statement #as a0 astounding that Iasked Mr, Edison if it was true, ** It was doue by Hewry Bentloy, of Philadel- phia,'” de replied. It has alao been tricd with success over o wire 720 inlles long.” The Times continucs; Mr, Edison has Intely mado a new and improved recelver to Lin instruinent, of which he rays ina recent letter o Col. Gonreaud that by fta meaus Uatehelor, one of Mr, Edivon's assistants, ** heard o whisper last ajeht ificen feot awny from the re. celver.and ordinary conversation conies out tuto the room nimost 8s oriinalty spoxen, I this recelver pruves na practicable as “the carbon transmitter, new eru has apencd In clectric telephuny, Ana sov we may hope to have the speeches n the Hoase of Commons hieard atall the clubs in the meteopolls. atement was even more astounding than the other. Mr, Edison says it is strictly true. lie has ono of” these roceivers now nt work {n ks lahoratory. Words spoken miies away are uttered within tha room. und so plain- Iy that they ure distinetly heard fnany partof It A whisper §s heard from fittecn to tiwenty feet. The great lnventor sayi 1 think it entirely practienble for an audiénes milesawav to hear overy word uttcred by Henry Ward Beecher fn delivering his sermons at Plymouth Church. ‘The dubates [n Cunuress, a8 well a8 thase in tho Houee of Commony, tiuy also be heard by an audience anywhere” ASOTHER REMARKATLE INVENTION, Une of the most remarkuble of Mr, fdicon’s fnventons fs a stencil type-writer, Tle patented it 10 1570, but threw 1t aslde without liuproving It to begin the experiments which resulted fn thediscovery of tho telephone. To use his own words: * L chucked It intoa dark closet, nfter seiting into the telephons busivess, ond there It rematned untll the other day, when my old friend J. U, Mockenzle come iy with a slinflar iden in bis head, 1 yanked thething out of tho cluset, turned It over to him, ‘and ‘sald: ¢ Y want someth.ng to do. Work thas un! He taok It and cleared out. Tu-day b canc bac and fusteud of druppling the thing, as I expect- mtl."h'-': seeins to have mude o perfect success of it Alr. Edison's filea seema to have been founded on the use of needie-polnted type, but Mr, Mac- kenzie gives them chtsel polnts, which {s more durable, and wnakes thu stencll fully us dis- tinct. These types are placed fn a typo-wrlter, worked with the (lnzers Hike o plavoforte. Each written page may be placed upona Gordon press or an eleetric pen press oml ns wmaony copics worked off ns wantdid.' Waen mistakes are made the type may be corrected, and the lioes may be justitied or spaced out, as desired, It nust prove of ereat valuo to lawvers, as they mizht make os many coples of thelr riefs or otuer documents aa tiey required. By ita use any man might wrlte and print “his own circulars, Smiall dally country newspa- pers might also te printed. Crude as the fu- vention necessorily fs, Mr. Muckenzlu ptinted 148 coples of n smglo page on Saturdav In thirty minutes. 1o sava bis chtsol-pointed ictiers are subject to mudification, but he reigards the suc- cens of the stencil type-writer as assured, and there is undoubtediy o fortune in store for its inventors. TN¥ LATEST DISCOVERT. After an cxplanation _of this fuvention, Mr. Edison becuwu jucose, Brory tollowed story, and there were froquent eailies of wit ol humor. As wo were drawing on our overcoats prepuras tory to departure the great luventor said: v 1 am now about to tell you_something that witl astonlsh all electriclana, T am prepared to send o current of electricity from hiere to Phitladelpbia without uny wire.,” “Why, Al (hla second uame {8 Alva, and many of bis frienda cull him AL, that's imp ble,' sald Muckenzie, who is an old telegraph operator. 3 * Ob, no,” answered Mr, F o on. % 1t can b l'knuw it It is theresult of o rovent ** Hiore It up tn & condenaer and send it there press,”” was the repl, Now dou't give sy L0 any of these nowsvaper men," PRANCE CLADMING THK DISCOVERY OF TUE SUBDIVISION OF TIK ELECTRIC LIGUT, Furis Eieetrivite, Tu your fournul of Oct, b you announce that MM, ‘Edison und Werdormani have discovered the divisiblilty of the elecerke Neht, Perunt me to remind yon that about two vears ago | took out 8 patent for photo-olectrie reru. latora which perfectly divlde the current fure ulshed 10 them. The Allfancs Magneto-Electrie Maching, In operation at the Kxnosition, bas fed four Jub~ lochkoll candles. This sutne machilne, witbout auy change befue made in dt, hus worked twelve of n:ly regulutors, flere il strikes o you bave the divielbility of the cleetrie light, aud no mis- take; o divisibility all the more res) from the fact that the lizhting power of each of my regu- lators fs cqual i lutensity to utueteeu Carcel buraers, Moreuver, tbls nitle of Hwht can be reduced, siucs | have obiatmed Jutensities of only five Curacls, 1 LhInk §am warranted in be- lteving frum these experiments that the Alllauce muching, or oue ol my dynamo-clectric - chines mhu-l.ed for y use, could easily feed Lty regulatora, The .{u rallroad station was Jigited last year with one of my clectric regulators, which gove twelve currente, Each current served two or threo diziits, ‘The new system to be futro- duved In u lew daye from vow will o tour Jiglits to the current, At the Bt Lozars ralis roud station each current gives two to four Tighits, the wtensity of which ts sdjusted to the vevds of the servic “T'o sum uu, | have succeeded in dividing the eloctric lzht, as s proved by wy work In the past twa vears, mnd think 1 suzll be sble o bresent to you, & few@luys houce, a vew ap- parutus which | hope will enable us to sepluce &as 1o ull 18 upplicat; 7. 3 Vaurizard, LIGHT J¥ USED IN TUB LON- DON TIMES COMIOSING-BUUN, miden Work The state of expectation in which the public mind allows lisell to bo held with refepenes to the so-called *divisibility " of the elegtric light Ly Mr. Bllaun bs solewhat surprising, m‘u”{ that ali thu time this divistOllity 8 o failaccompds 1 Eugtand, and may o withessed and tested upy vight of the week ub the Zoues printing otlice. Arwmed with au order for this pusposs went there the otber eveplug, wnd this fs what I euw: From ‘gas lizht we werged suddeuly duto wha® sccwed w floud of dsylieht, wulh came from six awall liops, Khwd ut futervaly wound o large toom, I which vompusiters mid otticrs were busy at work. These lamps wees suspended ao 03 10 by rubed aud lowered s will. o com- | vliauce with tho wlali of one of the gestleney preseat. v of these fguns, sedected ut bage Lazard, Wos tiiecd Vil Ly tucute 0o d b, aid [t remained out without the slightest sercepti- ble Increase in the volume of lieht in the other lamps, Thew another lirht at a distance was treated in 8 shinilar manner and with a Hke re- sult. These two were then relit by a turn of the tap the reverse way, and tnmed oo full nower, Then one was slightly *low- cred” %0 as to give ahout a third of s full light, as with oralnary gas. In ehort, we found there & nseful and “agrecable light, which can bo moederated and arrauged to sult all circumetances. ‘This i the Rapfeff light. Iam no electrician, and shall not attempt togive a technical description of the apparatus employ- e, hut it scemed o possess great simpliefty. 1T rays he can burn ten lights In the that his carbuns will burn for ten that !hr{ can he eaclly reacwed, and without extinguishing the lights. $e further estimates its comparailve cost with gas as loss than a third. His statements may be taken for what they are worth, but, juilging from what I sctually saw la thg Times oliie, 1 should say the sooner gas shareholilers begin to * hedge ™ by investiog in clectric light shores the better. MARINE NEWS. A BTATEMENT OF FACTS, The Detrolt Free P'ress pays & statement of fact 18 roniething that a Chicago re, er selilom meeta in his own paper. Ta 1t not aingalar that the ma- tine man of thi eteoples numerons itema from Chicago newapapers? Then, Loo, there [s that tag- spectro that must hannt bim. The Free Press thoutd not fail to note the fact that the prop Dovar hss laid wp in Chicage Niver. Her managers have abandoned the f(rlp to the Gulf of Mezico since she burst her air-pump and pnt back to this port, She had previoosly been detained in dry-dock rather lonzer than her nianagers (nobody, seemingly, claims ownershin of the vesnel) calculated on, owing to & desire on the part of the dry-dock firn to give the gentle- facn a recelpt in full for §2,300. VESSEL MOVEMENTS YESTERDAY. The wind has heen so changeable lately that se- tions and perplexing delays have been caneed to muny vesscls, especlally those bound out. Yestarday a fate breeze blew from the sonth- west, and the craft loaded with grain and waiting s ot away. They were & we Cl lflbl‘o( Huelbut and consort Nottherner, and echra Red Wing, North Cape, 1. T Johnaon, (ncen City, Fiylng Cloud. John Bul Eoina L. Coyne, nnd E. A, Nicholson. The schr Pensaukee srrived from Cheboyyan with lumber, the Erastun Corping with cosl from Buffaly, ona }hu Doualdson with Jumver. The latter wiil 8y up. PONT IIURON, Panr Hcnox, Mich., Nov. 28.—Passed up— Praps Colorado, loanoke, Onelda, Arrived—Emma Thomson and barges, tug Gill, schre Nlemesis, Allegheny. Down—Prapa James Fisk, Jr., Newbary, with F. A. Georges, The echr Riverside arrived down with ber minai) boat and foresall cnne. Wind—Northwest, brisk. - Westher clear, Tont Hunox, Mich., Nov, 26—10 p, m.—Passed up—I'rups Uscuda, Garden City and consort. Atrived—Prop Untarlu, Nchif Gladstone, Down—Schr E. M, Davk Wind—Nurth, brisk. n. her ine. LUDINGY ON. Spectal Dispatch o The Tridune. Lrpinaton, Mich., Nov. 28, ~The schr Gracle Fller, salling Into tie harbor during lass night, ran into barge Rutter, rtaving In her stetn. The Rutterfs sground in sixteen feet of T, AS roon aw her stecting-gear in resdy, she will be vumped out and taken to Milwaukee. MICHIGAN CITY. Bpectal Dispated to The Tribune. Micnmioay Gy, Ind,, Nov, 28,—Arrived—Schr Zayelato, Alpena, lumber. Sho will dlschargo part of hercargo and take tle balance to Chicago. + Clenrcd—Daniel Mncy, Spriog Lake, light, Weatlier fair; wind Iigat. ' I'IITE COLORADO, Bpecial Jueateh to Tie Trivune. Axuznstorna, Ont., Nov,28,—The large freight prop Colorado ran hard aground last night on the Canada shure, about two miles above this place, NAVIGATION NOTES. cHIcAso. There were half & dozen vi Market last nlzht. "The tuga Rebel and Iliggie, of the Veasel-Owners* Towing Compsny, and the Goldsmith Mald have licen laid up for the winter, The prop Empize State ran Into the schr Malno night before last and carried nway the lattor's Jibe boam, The accldent occurred 1n the rivee, ‘Thankegiviog-lay was uuly observed liere by those enzaged fn maritime pursulte, and & unday- like quiet reigned alonz the docks snd especially nbont the Lumber Market, ‘I'ie barkentine Two Fannies, after making valn nttempia for over two weeks p. to get from Lhis port 1o Escanaba, where sie was to load fron-ore for Cleveland at $1.50 per ton, frelght, ran back yesterday, She may now take praln below §f o satlefactory chiarfer can be wade, anasheis re- lcused frow theother, ELYEWHIERE. Theprop V. Bwsin has_reached Bafalo with a fur..u of whoat, taken at Bc per bushei from Du- uth. ‘The schr West Wind arrived at Osweeo Iaat Mon- day, with 700 bushels uf her cargoof barley wot. She loadud at Torouto, ‘The barge J. H. Rutter, now juet outaide the harbor ot Ludiugton, ts not in such” bsd condition as ot iret supposed, 4 The sche Cheney Ames, which wan ashore st Cole's light, St. Lawrence Miver, u off and in Og- densburg, withabout 100 brahe!s of er cargo wet. "The wer Sweetheurt arrived at Cleveland Tucs. day with ore from Escanaba. for the Jackson lron Ko encountered rouga woatlicr all the and leoked badly, nternational lies left Baftalo for Sarnl. 8 will be overlsuled during the winte Next veason ano will again sssume lior position At jonal bridge. 3 id_Kial, of the prop Canada, has re. covercd from the smallepox, and lett Buffalo for his howmy tn Namilton, On ast Tuemlsy, The Cunada has been lald up at the latier part. At Cloveland toa followiuz vessels have lald up: Prop D, M, Wilkon, eteain-barge Votter and cone 1, Maxwell and Ouden, i a lst of vesscls that have strlpved and gune tnto winter quartersat Lrlo: FProp Mary Jar echrs Mareugo, Julia Willa Hurvest Qneen; stmr Ueo, 8. Frost; United States stwr Michigan, els at the Lumber PONT OF CHICAGO. ‘The following are tha rrivals and actual sailinge at this port for the forty-clght hours cuding at 10 a'clock last nights anmvALe.: Sehir John Dare, Michlzun Cliy. lcht, Rush atreet. Benn den, 1. secver, Mlualezia, " luiuber, Sorth ruch, int heboygan, Manttowoc, sundries, Jush street., s R G Baldwii, Eacauata. ure, Norih Hraneh (e A A'nflm. 1. Owen, Escanaba, ore, Nurth Branch loll- g A3, Wl Hosa Ttelle, Qrand Javen, lumber, market. Fro o bt Lake, auirice, il strect. o selie Clars, Mliwkegon., Iwniber, Twelti Prop It r'0cean, Aiahuin, Coal, Lush streci, Selir Aryunaut, Ashisbula, coal. Van liureu sirvet. & iir Puailne, Suskezon, funber. Murk Beow Banuct shielion, back, liusly s Beiir L. 1, G ke cr, Siar op (1. Lun! i, Markit, Market, Frup G Cain tuioer, Belir dere uinber, §154en's Al ur L. 3 o Dutuber, Market, ¢ Cock, Muskegon. Jun Twelfih sire ne Tiaros Giraind aven, Winber, Market SChE Ontriet, hautco: TAHer, DEdey’s o cur Ostrict, co. Tiiler, Ogdey's aiip., FeheFilreaea Leaier, Aaisiees Iuiters Twelfih reet. { Menomiinee, Green 161y, gundries, Jtush atreet, i liarics Kellz Manistcd, luwber, Lake atreet, uwi, White Lake, lumber, Eighiceuid t, 10F ChIrago, Manltowoe, nundrivs. Tinsh steeet, ury, Rehr Evi Rehe rdon, Bouth flaves, eravel, F M. | unipeon, White Lake, luinbor, Sarkei. Winnls Wing. sier fumter, Yariel. Mary Ludwiy, isckards, woud, Van furen tiaus, Sturgeon Day, lu jo baurle, Muskegon, it L'rop Apnl ;Mg Behr ilaitis Fistier, Pa Jutaber, Market, Bulir G, Michacka 3, luliier, Marget, Fehr 5. Anderson, 1. o Juilier, ‘Market, e, Muskeguin fanbur, Murke Ui initun, Limbe oud, 1. Hibard, Muskegou, wood, irning, Bultalo, coal, nu urdens ichard Mutl, Ucouto, lumber, Market, rehr Peusauken, ¢ heluygun, luiiwr, Sarket, bt Dunalduo, Blaeliilved, couly Markut. €, teruad Huyun Hght, WIOTL, Sugliaw, aunrios, ‘ol Lakv, siudrics. rlih, Grasd Haven, suodiies. ) deotla, Buftalu, sundrics Lurg, sundrics, cs. g sl 4 i, e suu, Iy Lyuus, $lusiegon, lghi. sk Leorys Lunbar, oy Vgt Benr Jtosa Bellr, Grand Hav gk, Prup Barles lelts, Ma belr Jubu Sisrk, behir Flurence Lusi: Ot i CURRENT OPINION, % A The colored people will ba well cared for 10 tby South. They bave become Liarilcss a1 coo cules, apd can b safely treated ae fricuds, b Soutl will watch over themw with solicdiuug care, a6d will tuke ¢ 1 bubion 1hst they sbail not by cepitied of the Laiiut, whach ey Wil be LY bd Whised (Wikis boUsglun iy 1 ek b0y motlan of gnod Goverhment, domestic tranguility, and civil and religions liberty, and, neceasartly, in electing n Democratic President (wo s ears hence, — Charleston (8. C.) Neat and Courler (Dem. ). It is strange that no onoe has stolen the corpee of the Democracy! But probably therefrn't -enoueh Jeft of it to pay for dissection —Yiheaukee Sentinel (Jep.), We would ba delighted to sea the Sonth in Rood shape, but {enot that section rather too unanimons # Nccasions] differences of opinion #hottid be tolerated, even in the most sunny lands. —Ulncinnatt Commerciai (Ind. Rep.)s 1t the stiver dollar in a trifls too light, why not reduce the gold ane to eorrespond with it* If we are going to carry on business on napecie hasls, tho best way s to make specie that will atay at Lome. ~Cincinnat Enquirer (Dem.), Foroign advices state that tho King of Dahomey has recommenced the custom of human eacrifices, e kills those who bring him the news. An 8 suftable messenger to convey Greenback 1 telligence to his Kingahip we nominats Dents Kear- ney.—Klome Senlinel (Lep. ). It is not probable that Grant will bo eloct- «d Senator from Iilinole, ae sugyested in one of the dispatches. If he ahonld be, the three men who are now (o the public tnind as the clrcle from which the next President will be chosen woold all be in the Xenate together.—dAlbany Keening Journal ltep.). Alrendy it is given ont that councils aro being held and formal deliberations will soon be had with & view to 1650, It seems to be accepted that Grant will be the Republican candidate, Un- lesn romething unfnsecn occars, we Imagina this will be the ease. Hlo will givo eclat Lo the Gov- ernment. e will be accepisble to more than any other. A1l else anide, ho ix the only man tnat ean bresk up the eolid South. ‘The negroes know him and would do more for him than for any one clse, Itence ha deeerves the nomination, will honor it, and will prove the sirongest man we have. We are for Grant io 1880, ~£uteburg Commercial Ga- zetle (eep.). Whother the policy of Mr. Ilayes was right or wronz in its inception, it cipnot mow be reversed without endangering the peaco of the country to an extent which we are not prepared to sce. We must accept the solid South, and nre it a4 an argument for a rolld N The South wil aftee a while, get tired of tnis sort of solidit: ind will of ita own accord break it up. 1f Grant is elected President he will enforce the lawa, as he slways did when In nower, Uut we are very sure that hie will not gnout of bls way 1o restore to po- litical power such men as Wella and Anderson in Louleiana, pnd their bad bretbren and imitatora in othier Sunthern Btates, Grant can be elected with- out any shaking of the bloody shirt.—St, Louis Globe-Democrat (Lep,). A Washington telegram to the T'ribune announces that Tilden fs secretly making special efforts to sccure the support of the Democratic patty in Pennsylvania. ile counts on the active co-operation of Spesker Randall and Mr, W. L. feott, of Erle, and, by taking advantage of the divisions in the party, hie hopes lo csvture the Iarger faction. Bat he will enconnter the ener- getic opposition of Senator Wallace and mmany of the most nctive and influential Democrate, and will be beaten if he 18 foollsh enough to make such a desperato attempt, 1t 18 characteristic of the misy 19 seize on such an unfortunate breach in the paety in that State and try to wedge himse!f Into yrominence through the clesvage, Il scems to feel that his only hope (4 In the miafortunes of this party, and his chief efforts since his disgracefol flasco In 1877 have been directed fo foment dis- tarbances and make trouble. hteak In this State was wholly of his making, and the recent discomfitare of the Democracy was the result of hie dissatrous and malivn interference. lle has cursed the party Jong enough, and the sooner he i shaken off tho bLetter for 1L snd the country.— New York Espress (Uem.). The thoft of Mr. A. T. Btewart's body from his grave Is hardly surpriming in view of tho extraordinary Influence Lis carecr has exerclecdon the imagination of the geperation which witnessed Itaclose. Probably no man who has appeared in Amertca within the present contury has roused such aupintof emulation, owing to the fact that he made his fortune in & pursnit io which vast num- bersof ambitions and nout very well-trained men are engaged, and by th display cf qualities which no dry-goode man had mach difficalty in betleving himae)f 1 s. Ile died, too, with the reputa. tlon of posscasing enormous wealth, and yet withe out havinizwon much personal reverence or ree rpect; while he left hundreds, §f not thousande, flicd with a feverish desireto pet some of his money by any means, fair of foul. ‘The number of perrons who bave trled thelr ingennity on his widow aud Judroe 13liton with claims of once sort and anoth wald to ve very freat, thongh perhuos not greater than that of 'Jm.e who tried to extract monoy {rom Uim while e was Hiving by every vatiety of fulee pretense. The desecration of his gravo fa a lant stiempt 1o put him o ransom. and Is In 3 measuro explained by the acnsation tho efair has excited and the ainount of space Lo press ivesto it {a not surprising 1hat under tho circumatas gmard tise hiad to be placed over Mr, V ""’“‘“.I’ onnence prulonged pran ‘p.npur‘.‘u 10 P the Listory of hla ness, the revoling ninuteness with which tho reporters were allowed to describe hia all- ments, and the stlll more revoltiny conflict over his property in the courts, the wonder e, that rome wretch has nut_thought before now of robe Bitig hin tomb aleo. Tt has bean sald that not only the living but the dead die, **ctiam pereunt ot But it oppears os If " thiv wae not go- fug to be true of onr willionairest their dvad Jive on to be a stimulus to brutal cuvldity,—JNew York Nution. ——— COUNTRY ROADS, o the Editor of The Tribune. Quiver, I, Nov. 20.—About tho 1st of January last Tne TriseNe published acom- munication from me upon tha utllity and cheap. nees of creck-gravel for road nakir, You did me the bonor to cditorially call it a * most sensi- ble anil practical letter on the subject of country ronds.” On the 12th of the same month you also pub- lished an account of an interview had with me by & representative of T TRinuNz speclally sent down hero to seo ond hear about *that roa! that Jones bullt.” Your reporter came hiere the duy after the tirst freeze, and when our gravel road was {u Its worst possible coudition, and yet he and myself drove over it at & brisk trot, while the dirt roads were practically fine passable from rourhness, hubs, aud ruts. Expericuce, obscrvation, and practical tests ouly cuntlrus what 1 suid n thoarticles nbove re- ferred to. Thw lnst evidence of the utllity and economy of the creek-zravel road-bed is the fact that at least ten mitles of this sort of rood hus beep mude in the Towns of Eliliirton, Ursa, and Mel- suse this year, and over five miles in l}umuv on streets leading to the muln thoroughfares Into the couutry, Lesides patclies in tho worst nlaces In muny pasts of the country, And sulll lhem are pleuty of hills on cach creoks within a atone's throw of 1 that are bad enough i sny muddy time, ouzht not 10 be, Within a week after you publish this letter you will provably get o duzen or moro letlers upan this sublect, Bome of the writers will say that fn thelr nelghborhoad there {s vo creek or bank-gravel to be hed, Then lot that neletibor- Looa turuplie und underdral ‘There I8 creck and Liank of the State, aud well seatt wany husdreds of milea of very puruttvely good couutry roads. * Wherpgravel or brol rock will beso ex. cualvf3a 10 prevent s use, and where, like Morgun, Banuaimon aud other counties, sunie so- 1ution of thisguestion ofliow to get better roads at a reasonable cost muat be fuund, experimeat aud the iveutive genlus of the age will some day solve that vrobleur. T am foformied thut tu Indiana, near tho west Loundary, una ot the lino of the Wahash Rail- way, there [s an Incxbaustitle bed of bank gruvel, Now the Wabash Ialiway would be limensely benetited 3 it were o say, for fn- stunee, Lo tho City ol Bpringfield: “Wo (the Wabash Rallway) will deliver ator uear vur treigzht depot enough of 1kis gravel to make a romb-bod ten miles long, ten feet wide, aml averagu one foot thick,” = This wlil require tive and a half yards to ths , or 1,i00 vanls to tho mile, “'Ihe actual cost to the raflroad for shovehiue aud hauling would not Lo to exceed 25 cents per yanl, or §440 per wile, ot the Wabash, or any uthes company, sav 10 "any city, ur the road’ suthoritics oo thelr Vine, ¥ We will start this thing, deliver so many yirds of gravel to be put on vuch roads ns yoi iway desicuste, provided the authorities or Individus!s will haul the gravel. 1t would be better I tive puluts alung the lne wers desiguated, sud two wiles of roud ade from each puint, thus educating tho peo- ple to extend the system. The thivg ouve stuited, the residents and taxpayers, seeing fts wdvantages, would soon take measures to buve thut railway compauy bring alouyg tts hne nillions of vands of eravel 1o waku goud rosda from It stativus out fute the country, so thut jreduce could at all tiuies be got to that line. All ruliroad men in Hinols kuow that u sys- tem of good roads in thls Btate would be of al- moet fuculeulable ayvautage to 1be people and thy rallroad futerests, X Buch lines a3 the Chleago, Burlington & Quiuvy, Wabash, Chicazo & Altow, Ihnuts Cen- t3al, utnd utberd, vun well afford to deliver wravel anywhere on their lines whers the people watl Liaul 1t un o the rouds in suwillelcul quentitics to show fts utility, aud aiter that to denver Wy Kruvelut the bare coat of loading aud haulivg, Auy ol the above Hues now have just the surt of pricticsl, Cutiun-sense e i ther o) tocaity wil dofue st s lau gi vutiined sbove. uty of gravel s vel in wmany parts cif about to inake cheap und cowe- DeWitt Clinton immortalizad himself n mak- Inzthe Erln Cansl. What Governor bl this or any other State will leave his mark upon the surface of his State by originating thls mosr. ractial and essential svstem, by bringing (¢ icfore the Leplslature, and giving It the Infin- ence of hia pasition, and thua make a beginning? A system for the Improvement of anr roads can be devined that will give usbetter hiclway s with but lietie Il any Increase ol taxation, and without creating ane dollar of publls indebled- ness, Let alew miles In every connty be mado each yesr and paid for “as we go." Whot wemnst liave to begin with is some general plan for the States, and, above all, tha wroperation of the roml authorities and the railway lines. . Whois Lo be the DeWitt Clinton of the reat Northwest! Respectlully, K. Jongs. Diphtherin and [ts Treatment. 5 Anringfield (Mase.) Revubliean, Diphtheria is a disease which aprings from Lhe growth of & real fangus on some of the mucous surfaces of the ayatem, more menerntly of tha. throat. It may he spread by contact of the mucous surfaces of a diseased with those of = Liealthy person. as in kissing, and is$oa limited degree epldennie, From the local parts affeeted it spreads to the whole body, alfecting the mua- cualar aml nervous systems, vitiating the lymph and nutrient tlaids, and producing paratysis, As svon as the hacterium or fungus appears in white patches on the throat, it should ne more he neglected than a bleeding gash or broken arm, and there Is aimoat as fittle need of a fatal termination of one incident as of the othar, It has been found by actual cxpertment, hoth in and out ol the humar system, that this bacterinm is kitled by several driigs, the safest and most certaln of which s chtorine water, diluted with the addition of from two to four Limes the vol- ume of water. This wash is harmless, even when rwallowed, and Is pretty vertain to_arrest the discase. ‘Ihe great cyclopedia of Ziemes- sen on the practice o2 medicine lves the high- est place to. this method of treat- ment. To keen the patient well housed ond warim, with alditional flannel clothing € nee- u.«nr{. and Lo keep the system well nourished and the bowels upen are matters of nursing often neglected: but, with care in these respects and early application of the remedics above auie- Fult'll, {licre ts no need of the disease proceed- oz to a futal termination, or even to the debll- ftating itness and painful cauterizations which g0 togetlierin its later stages, Asto the orizin of diphtherfa, the weizht of testimony Is that it belongs to the class of filth discascs, but [urther thau that its source 1s not clear, Familics which would be scandalized nt the suggestion of unthliness are attacked, while others of filthy surroundings escupe. This stmlv shows that vur sense of cleanliness needs cultivation. so that we may discriminate between what is offen- sive to our falscly cducated tastes, The farm- er'swife, to wnom the closed nnd carefully. dusted parlor or the preternaturally scrabibed Nour nre the esscntials of neatuess, may endure the proximity of a sour swamy or of the kitchen ceaspool for years without taking offense, To many n careful and Inhorions house keener. n chancecobwebur thechildren’s “litter” of o lew hours' play will outrank in heinousness a de- fective drain for the cellar or abadly constructed privy. —— ‘The sale of sarsapariilas for blood nnd lcer medicines s almost entirely superseded by the introduction of Dr. Plerce’s UGolden Medfeal Discovery, which far surpasses in eflicacy tuese old-time mediclnes. AMUSEMENTS, UNITY CHURCH, Dearborn-av., opposite Washineton Park, TO-NIGET! Mlle. Maria Litta, Asslisicd by MR, TOUIS FALK, MR. A. ROSENBLCKER, AND THE JIARMONIA QUARTETT Admisston, Including reserved reats, 75 centsy for salo st floot & Non's Music Store, 150 Statc-sl. MPVICKER’S THEATRE Immense Saceran of the Grand Scenfe Production . of LESTER WALLACIUS DRAMA, ROSEDALE! Which will be contlnned avery Evening and Mati- nee thll furtber notice, In preparation, A _DOUBLE LIFD. HOOLEY’S THEATRE, Lost Tarturmiances of ZA WRATHERNBY?S FROLIQURS And My, N. C, GOUDWIN, Jr., I thelr Mustcsl Dagae telle entiticd EHOBBIRS, Introduclag e GOODWIN'S Wonderfu) Imitations of Celebrated Actors. UIAND MATINEE Faturday at 2 p. m. Saturd { b, The Trasic Comedy BLERN. witl Mr- GOODW lesque on LAW. 2, the emloent HEATRE, anager snd Iranrlator. REMEVMRBER ! REMEM LABT NIGNTS TII8 BEASON ( A CELEBRATED CASBE! Brronz, Cast: Siewsre.’d, ¥ Varrey, Thorne, O'Lirfen,” Mre. T vkerreit, Bascomb, fessts 1 win atrical fenuwn. Stouday—-MUTE 1) BN, MAMLINS THEATRE 87 Clak-st., oppwsite new Court o, IMMENSE BUCCHSS OF THE STREETS OF NEW YORIK! And Startilng and Sensylonal FIRE ECCNE. Only 'L fal o1t ung Amerlean Actar. OLL- wne dramauf HERD, 1Y 10N, In ATINEES Tuestiy, ¥ri aud Sunday. L3tra pertormanes Kinday N i, ART TREASURES, THE FINEST COLLECTION EVER BEBN IN THE WES'T, N E ITION OF THE CHICAGO 50+ THE LOAN EXINUI A ul-"l 1 DECORATIVE ART, At 05 Washington.st, WIll close Chirlstmas Eve. Till then open day and eva- ning _Adumle cents, PROVOSALS Ful, CONSTRUCTING ABOUT TWO TUNDEED MILES, NORTHERN PACTHIC RAILROAD MISSOURI RIVER TO THE YELLOWfiTONE. The Northern P'acifie Rallruad Company herehy tne yiten proposals for grading, bridging and completing ady fur the track sugcntr Chat purtlon of (3 i (1ot (e 1 of the Missourl % ! ¥ thie ‘Comnany for reoowins of An Shinnuesotd ald Dakotas L by [a2 00 OF belore the cotmLiun of e Iy the Cutapany, Mo, 3 Fitlicav., Mew York City, whor scaleil proposals wiil by reeclvod, up (. ond Inclada, the 17th day of Decetals 7s. By order of (e Boasd o fh LGHT, Prostdent. Proposals for Anny"Smipli:eS-. s or v 81X0 AXD DgeoT Couvin onn Kk W ARMINY v Cniesuo, 1L, Nov. 15, 1 4 In duphicats, w hud, will o rece Y salury Y. S, fur (ui- 1o tha sulaiat e be iV ed 5 asi Fibd, Ju doutle ute 10 1 lls. DEC eR $15a ki, saine se satipies o . U OGN Pirlino 130 CUFFE B Guuady BLGALL G e ‘0 poands EALT, fine, {n barrcls, full head lued. i hounds Granmated BUG Ali, sh barrels lde will L pecelved far e wiol oF Gy pe the hbovu aiuowaia, whiin aty o b ncreen : y b 10 i 0 uipel | e Y i ot iyt (8 Tequired, and no ¥'t0 tho usual condls Wy sainiden. hth s prosonals or further Information will ba furs nisied uad apbis st to s wance. The Bk TR L Byi. Lirhe, L i double baerels, il ur aint nerul 1 NOU The stcasicrs of day from icwme {3 FER 1ich, Sew 3O