Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1879, Page 10

10 IOWA. Agricultural Products of the State for 1878, Corn, Wheat, c:itue, Hogs, Bheep, Oats, Barley, Eye, and Flax, Report of the Sccrctary of the State Agricaltural Soclety. Breclal Correspondence of The Tridune. DEs Moixes, Jan, 8.~To-day John R. Shaf- fer, Secretary of the State Agricultural Bociety, presented bis anousl report of the condi- tlon of Agrlculture throughout the State for 1838, It ts lengthy and exhaustive of the whole subject, as his reporis usually are. Nowblere can be found so comprehenstve and complete a review of the sgricultngal condition of Jowaas in his report. From It I condense the follow- tag: After the general statement that the peovie of the State have cause for thankfulness for the bounteous harvest, fic save FRICES HAYE KOT DEEN ENCOURAGING, Bince the beginnlng of market corn has been bought, on the line vt tho Chicagy & North- western Rond, for olght centa per bushel,—the usual price is about 20; that is bettor than to burn it for (itel. Wheat has sold fromn 30 to 00 centa; that is better than to let thé land lie fdle. Beef-cattle bave sold for threo and a halt cents per pound; the peonle eat beef, and pay elght to cighteen cents per pound,—n profit to the butcher which enables itm to accumulate wealth rapidiy, and thus bulld up the State. llogs have sold from two to threa cents per pound; refused in December at two cents be. cause there were thousands fn the pens which roula not be slanghtered for want of capacity 1o the hanves. ‘Two centa per pound for hoga will not pay. To avold this overproduction, thers must bo & more varied avatem of Ayrl- culture. To compensate for these low prices, thero are low prices for all things consumed In the family, so that the economical farmer and thrifty wite can feed and clothe themseives better and cheaper, and havo o wider margin Teft for hooks and papers, which will tend to o wider diffusion of knowledge and tell on the farm. B SMALL, FARNS, Instead of attemnting large operations, with- out capital unless borrowed, anid speculating upon crops not yet planted ur fit for market, it ia better to nvoid debt with a twenty-acre farm, under high caltivation, well stocked, and the home comfortable and unincumbered. The worry and fret over a mortizage will do o {armer much fnjury. It brings discouragoment, care- lessncas, neglect of family,—nover a spars dol- lar to give them for their own delight; then, comes lalencss, tha farm {x swept awav, fol- Jowed by despondeuncy, disegse, and death. Divide your land, scll to soma enterprising, act- Ise man. and he will set the neighborhood to seratching, Let us have Infinitely more farms, and infinttely moro men to work them. CONX, Five millions one hundred thousand acres ot corn were planted In Jowa. Elghtv-four coun- ties reporting mive an average yiold for the Stata of forty bushels per acre, showingt a total product of 204,000,000 bushels~—an increase of 20,000,000 bushels over 1877, which places Iowa next to Illinols, and it is probable will ploce Jown alicad of that Htate. Assumiug that S0 per cent wiil be needed for home-:ansumption, thiero would bo a surplus of 24,000,000 bushets, which, at 17 cents per bushel, would produce 84,003,000, or about $3 per capita of the popu- lation of the Btate, ‘I'he average yleld per acro fsabout four bushels moro thab in 1877, and there I8 a docreaso of elght cents i the price, WHEAT. ‘There are too many acres in Towa devoted to wheat, It is wearlng out our flclda, Onlya fow vears ago tho wheat belt was in Olifo, firadually {t las passed to Jowa. Eastward whest (s produesd (n paying quantities onby by Tertiization, Aill, and cconpoy, So. 1t il soon be in lowa, unless there is put back some- thing to supply the elements which wheat has taken from the soll. In Juns the condition of the wheat was 10 per cent over the average, Never wos there a fairor vrospeet. Tho grower congratulated hlmself on the prospect of paylux his dubts. But Fr(- dny, July 12, 1678, waa o day the whent-growers of Towa will not soon forgét, ‘The intenso heat of that day rulned the wheat-cron of lowa, Fields that promised forty Lushels per acre were not harvested. In sections whers soring wheat ylelded sIx bushels per acre, winter wheat slelded elghteen to Lhirty bushels, ‘The area sown was 13,%50,00) acres, as against 4,200.000 for 1877, Elghty-four counties give eloven bushels us the average yleld,—making o +total of 13,750,000 Lushels,—u decrease of near- 1y 20,00000 fromn 18773 yot, cven with this de- Nefency, Iowa stands first as & wheat-producing Htate. To show thovastness of the wheat-crop of the United Btates, the following iable is klvans Tiushels, 000 3, 00 Hushels, | 267, 7415, 000!1R75 420, 722, 00 TRT(, 40, D07, 0001677, 100, 000 81,404, 00,1878, ... 380,000,000 , 102, 700) ‘Flie deprociation in quality, and the larzoe dif- ference in price, are truly remarkable, Of elulity-four counsica reporting, only elzht report the quality good; and the price 13 given at from 93 ¢eity t0 §1,~tha latter from ouly one coun- ty, Filty cenls s the aversre price,—making the value of the crop, $17,575,000. Tho surplus will he 15,000,000 bushels, proaucing a revenus o $7,500,000, The loss on the produet for ex- post 18 $18,755,000 ns compared with 1877, In warebonses—iiity-six in lowa, fo four in - Minnesots, nineteen in Wisc sy, and iwenty-one in Nebruskn—were 2,011,000 hushels, sguivst 1, at the nawno date fu J8IT; aud 1t waa eatlinated that in these diatylets one-fuurth the crop was in tho hauds of farmers. Exports fof tho first quarter, trom the United Btutes, for the years usmed, were: 1870, 1877, 1R7H, Flour, br 44: 07,472 Wheat, bu. B 241 1,663, 502 10,404,441 The firat car-lowd of new No. 1red wintor- wheat from Southern 1ilinols sold in Chicago, June 30, at U5 conts per bushel. Tho same kiml soid in 1877 at $L60. New lowa whcat, July 10, soid ut 5 cents. Tho total value of the whoat crop ot the Unltod Btates is estlmuted st §:515,200,000, “The followtui will show the receipts of wheat for the first ten inunths of the years named ut sea-porta, o busbels: New York. . Haalon . Portland. Nontreal 153, 038, 123 The following will show the wheat and tlour expoits Lo Great Brituin for the yeurs named; Vear. Huakels, P'rice, Yalue, 1867 0vcns MO l(_‘»'gl 00§ 97,501,480 TeFalinatgd, Recelvts of wheat nt Chicago; 53 buslielsg Hunr, 4749159 L wheat, 2545510 bushels; fuyr, rels. The incpeuse is ucarly double CatiLe tue year, No land supplies u better adaptation of all its couditions tu” cattle-raising than fowa, oue Wing I8 nceded, and that is the practical Intelixeuce necessary 10 put a good ruast on avy tuble at eny tlme, Al have ugt learued thit a lieral fofusion of blood of chulve brecds , wotld pay & round protit. IL1s a rare thivz to Kot a tirst-rate plice of beel west of the Mis s The beat le sold and goce Lo cities East. ‘the surplus for shipmeut ix a source of great Fevenue Lo the State, und will be still larger us Hhe purity of the stock 13 [nproveds Progress being wade fu this directlon, as s showa by the sates of Shost-Horns In I878: But 5 Averane Vit rice, e, Keotaeky i samoin s 171,006 gy 174,570 Missouri . . Wi 165 55,415 ‘These do pot lnclude Jerseys and other kinds of cattle. Nearly every part ul Iowa bas some of these smaller “Lreeds that help to bring the Lutter aud cheese narkets foto wammott oro- Purtivbs, —Lig coougl tu beat e world at Plil- adelphls, and the whole Datrgren’s Falr {n New Yor! Norlhwes| ke mons. Exports for the years named are: 1877, Tork, brls,... 77,607 Cut-ments, D4,R74, 890 170, 7% Lard, ... 40,842,797 107, 0! These are enormons_Ourcs on_the ontaide, The actunl dollars realized dwindlo cons{dera- bly, but tha batauca of trade ts in our favory we scil more than we buy, which gives us un- ""l‘{""d mdu& fpnated “flithy antmals," og8 are desipnate n . X or i n Nuku’ral it Tlhere i no greater mistak With hogs ae well as with nen, cleanlinesa ts next to profitableness, Farmers could maka more money with less hogs {[ they would pro- vide them “with comfortable quarters and feed them sceording to thelr nature, The munber of swine in the Unlted States for the vears uamed was: 1877, 23,077,100; 187 RAN2500. From 1871 there was o gradual {atlin-off unt(l 1878, The maximum {8 oearly reached. The Iollowing shows the number of hogs in five leading Btates: 1870, 140, 100 3.0 \B74.:00 3,500,000, 55 12,110,000 2,376,000 " 2,42 e 1,600,100 1,755,700 2,250,000 The State Auditors of soveral States report {he number of ewine asecssed for 1878 1877, o, Tilinols Town . . Qhio . B, 484,465 Missouri and Indtana no ropart, lowa must yleld first pinco to Iflinofs, and tako tho _third in rank, on awine. 1In 1877 about 820,000,000 was lost to hreeders and farmers through hog-cholera, of which Towa contributed tiearly 83,500,000, ‘Thore fs bt little abatement of the disease. A careful nurvey of the field justidea tha conclualon that the supoly of hogs for wmter-packing Is largely in excoss of former years, Park-rafsing Iins be- coine the third industry of the Nation, reac| Ing the enormons sum of $110,000,000. The to- tal product has Inereased from 190,000,000 ponnds In 1871 to 700,000,000 pounds in 18, Iteeeipts of lllili! in Chicago fn 1577, 4,025,970, valued ot §5%,337,000,~a _decrease from 1570 of 106,030 1 number and $10,512,400 In value, In 1879 the rcu:g»ts were UaHG,(01—an fucrease tn nuinber of 2,310,721 over 13 Hops packed In Iowa In the winter of 1876~ 177, 419,443; in the winter of 1877-179, 486,850, noaA. Dogs are the greatest ¢nemies to success in sheep-growiug, The nutural advantazes of the Btate are all In favor of another trinl of shecp- gruwing. Becure u few hardy sheep, of good brecds,~not at extravaeant prices,—aund care for them with inlf the attention given to hors and cattle, and hereisa Hold that will add wealth ta tho farm in larger proportion than any other anfmal that can he putonit. The remedy, to destroy those pests of the fluck that lurk nfimu cities and towns, or belong to some land-owner who never paysa tax on them, seems casv, Pass o law of extermination or taxation, and enforce it. Let nll damages done by dogs be paid by the owners to the person damaogod. 1 the Legislature wiil not aiva relicf, steychnine Is effective, and, sprinkled on the dead carcuss of n atieep, the dogs will got it and die. A gun I8 n zood thing. Shoot to kill, and bury the carcass for fertiliziug pnrnoscs. BUEEP, Bheep-raising can be made profitable In Towa. Sell the surplus mutton at home, Sheep In cat- tle and horse-pastures will cleau out the bushes, which other aphinals will mot, so siso in corn and ont-fields, dotng httle damage to the grain, No anfmal grown on the farm so cnriches it as ahoep, or 18 so valuublo as a diversifier of agri- culture, or i more yatuable for food, or s leas Hable to epldemlc diseascs, or I8 s0 certalo of o fgand price for all its parte. ‘I'he total woal-tlip of tha world for 1877, was 147,500,000 pounds, valued at8100,000,000. For 1873 It wiil bo 10,000,000 pounds less. ‘The number of sheep In Iowa was, 1807, 1,598,~ 220 1875, 794,904 1877, 18,4303 1378, 288 gL a dleerease from 1807 of 1,809,908, direct!y ateribu- table to dogs, The 2,010,000 squars miles of the United States fn 1870 produced 100,000,000 pounda of wool,~—less than one pound for every twenty- nine sqoare miles; whilo the British lstes, with 84,000 squaro miles, produced L"‘:O.obo.lm pounda, or 2,100 pounds per square mile, The United Statea that year imported 1o wools and woolens to the value of $44,220,385, and export- el 1n 1560 $42,23%,770 fn_ breadstuffs and only £U15,831 in wool. Thesc figures will alarm Zus when the population of fowa becomes 4,000,600, A Iarze growth of wool will induco the bulld- iny of factories and tha use of capital and skill- el labor. "Tho eausca of fallurs of thu hicavieat factories in Jowa were: 1. Home-produced wool could not suoply the demand. 2. Imuperfect machinery, & Uunskilled management. 4. ‘Tho uuexplainod reason. that neariy everybody thinks what coinea from abraad & hetter than that produced at home. People wil gorge themselves o hash at & hotel, who would bo gingerly over the best roast turkey prepured by the wifo or mother In tho home-kitehen, "These causea ean bo avercome and rooted out, 0ATS, Tha cat-crop promised splendidly. Tt was ot fino quality and large in quantity: but damacing rtorms came amd Jargely reduced It when vearly ready forharveat. In 1877 the wrea wus 1,100, {60 ac; tho product 4,750,000 bushels, For 1878 elght coundles report an averags yield of thirty-uino and a half bushels net acre, which will irive, with tho area of 1877, o product ot 43,470,000 bushols,—a decrease from 1577 of 4,500,000 bushels. *Tho average price is 13 cents per bushel,—a deerease of six cents, Bixty-live per cent will bo equired for hame-conmumadon, which leave 15,207,000 hushels for export, pro- ducing & revenue of $1,970,035, VATLEY, ‘This 18 tho most unceriain of sll ceresls In Jowa. The croF. which promised well early In the scason, with extraordinury yield, was, by bad weathier In Juue, lirgely decreased fn E.u“"% and quality. Tue average yleld wus A00, bushcls, valued ot §1,010,000, Thu higheat price paid was 80 cents, the lowest prico 1lcents. Average ylld, 37 bushels per acro, K, ‘This coreal {s well adapted to Iowa, and sel- dom falls, With oll the unfavorable weathe: for thu season, tho product was but littlo af- fected, Thu urca fa placed at 43,000 screw; yield, 903,000 bushels; value, $07,020, Aver- nge yleld, twenty-ong bushels per acre; aver- sge prico paid, 84 conta; Lichest price, 75 oo lawest, 225 cents, Highest yicld, forty busl lowest, cight, FLAX, ‘Tha Becretary evidently does not have a very exalted tdea of flax, and treats It yery suni- marlly. But he will Jearn his mistake some duy, "It Is growing every year In linportanee. He reports the averacs arca at 78,081 acres; wroduct, 520,880 busheis of seed, whicn, at 81,25, would produce $662,205, ENTOMOLOGINT. Jowa lins to acnd sbroad for all informatlon regarding losecta, whetlier they be injurious or not, ‘The Btate needs sn Entomologist, and wuat buye one. The State Agricultural Boclty will jusist oo it until such an ofticlal Is sccured. Hawkxra. EXPECTANCY, T've read and heard sweat etorles, Of maldens who wore blessed By lovera uoble ns the wea uf ol ‘Aund =2 Apollo falr, For such an one T wait, with hope, not pain: 'The hope, ke sunshine, maketh glad wy life, 1 5u0w desfre canuot exist fu Yalo— o Leuall be a Wiy, anifold, oud compare As walt the patient flowers for coming Spring, 50 wait I fur wy lover y ho Lo tkan the Spring, Fuirer thau May-time, Luen L. Brooxxsn, o wy fund hiart aud o ————— Cuilds of the Fhiladelphla Ledger, , King's Letier an Uoston dournat. Walt Whitian, tho *good gruy vact,” went out of the palatial oflico of Mr. CLlids of the Philadelphla Ledger as | entered it Mr, Whit wan had been to sceure for the car-drivers, who nge espectal pets of hils, sowe neccasary warig clothing for Coriatinus gifts, and If the poct dis- penses frecly at this season, 1t fs because the Heucrous uewspaper proprictor coables him to doso, M, Clild's charities ura lerion, and the mention of one year's Hitwould 61 the column of o lustre jourmad, Lich, and witl sll bis emplovea around him rich, the owoer of the Ledyer tecls it bis duty tu contribute to the veneral good. 1found blm, as usual, full of {nformxtivn cone| vernfug bublic men wud swatters, Just now Le 1s especially eterested I Gen Grant's project- ed tour around the world, ‘The whole of the ex-President’s European fourncy was planued in this exquisite otltce, aud ou the shelves of rich cubluets now lio many of his ;most valusble prescuts which the Geuern! has received, sud wbich bave already veen sent uuine, smong ther the costly gitt of the munlcipality of Lon- dou, a gold lmx‘fi\ which was Inclused Ehe paver sccundivg to Urant the trecdows of the clty. Lhere, too, are Mr, Child’s own art-treasures, chiva, and fvories,—of the latter the owuer of the Jublic Ledger has the fluest volieetion n Auierica,—and the hundreds of forws of bric-a bruc, which the tasto and lusury of halfa dozen Promivent nations have ereated for toe delecta- ton ot men of wealth, It bas been sald of Mr. Childs tbat he never secms busy, yeu is always at work, and this is emluently ‘trie. He car- ries on 8 colossal correspondence with public aud privato geutletaen fn the United States and Furope, hunts up manufucturers and sbop- kecpers who are poor, aod leods them a helplog- baud, vud 13 couversaut with all tho detadis, YHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 874—SIXTEEN PAGES. | even tho amallest—of his own immenso bnsiness —is metcoric In his appenrances in New York and Washington, and would very possibly be in FEurope overy year, if his home surroundings were not 80 pleasant that he can aearcely afford tofllov.:;wo them for more than a very sliort eriod. Thero {8 one emphntlc lesson to be learned from the career of Georeo W, Childs, and that 1s one which the advocates of Socinlistn never care to have thelr hearers know, It fs that there fs & tendency fn American life to make men wha accumulate large fortunes nss thein for the public goud In a manncr which few, it any, Eusovean capitallats would do, The cry of 'tho Boclalist {s that the moneyed mon oppreas the paor. The whole life of Mr. Chlldy Is an effective contradiction of this slander, Let the workman mect the moneyed man liaif way, and the world will go on all right, Desides, what splendid testimonial to the beneflcent working of vur Amerlean soclal theory is the fact tbat George W. Lhild, at the aga of 49, by sheer Industrs and pluck, has bull Lug a stitbendous fortune [n the town to whicl, at tha age of 15, hie came friendlecs and withont a dobar, Mr. Childs, liko President Haves and a good many other prominent Republicans, Isa Grant- taird-tern manj and he glectaliy told o of the preparations now in progress for the reception of the ex-Prosident when ho comos homeward from Ban Francisco, after his tour around tho world. The teneral will flnd every grent eity throtigh which he pases o1 his transcontinentst Journey next Muy ready to receive bim joyously, s a great cltizen for whom no forefgn honors bave been too good. ‘The towr around the world {s suro to be interesting and piquant, for although Gen. Grant s popularly supposed to take no Interest in pletures, or sconcry, or ancient temples, he extracts a yust amount ol Information from the people of every country, and fn conversation afterward shows that he 14 not only a keen observer but that ba luarps with murvelous rapidity. - —— OH10. Who Will Ba the Nowipecs for Govornor? ~bemacratic Hostitity to Thurman, Spreial Carrespondence of The Tribune. Cotuusus, Jan, f.—The much-mooted gnes- tlon, Who shail Le the next nomineo for Gov- ernor on the Democratio ticket ! 18 coming much nearer a solution than appeared possible n week ago. Ihave hnd excellent opportunities for the past few days to see and talk with leading Democrats of the Htate, and, putting olt that I have gathered togather, [ am of the detiberate oplnion that Gov. Bishop will be the maa. Of courss thers sre many thiugs that may intervene to hinder the execution of this prophecy. But L speak simply from present ap- pearances. In the first place, Senator Thurmaa has great- 1y incensed certain strong elements of the party against him. He has nlmost rudely re- jected the nominatlon for Governor bes fore it was fairly tendered him. Fle has put on what hia party calls ‘“tho high head " over hls position, and carrled tho oplnfon that he would be gondescendlug to nceept the Governorship after once baving Leen Scustor. In orderto get the lights ot tho party in the Stato to- ietber tor & cousultation, and the ralsing of o little eothusinsmn for future use, tho dyqunz Denocrats of this city con- cluded to celebrato in a proper and hillarious maoper the anufversary of 8t. Jacksou's great- ent duy, the suoiversary of the battlo ot New Orleans. Tug TrinyNe bas called attentlon to the fact that a large number of leadinie Demo- crats of the Stato promptly responded to the {nvitatlon to be present. Ewing, and Pendle- ton, and Durbia Ward, and Bishup were there; they all made soul-inspiring spceches over the young men’s champagoe. Bt Thurman nade the trivial excuing of the col seather In respunse _to hia Invitation, and .o banguet wmoved off without him, while be uissed grent opportunity of this great, vear. 'The young men were much fucensed, and tho old war-horaes— Thurman’s vatural envimjes—made the most of thbeir opportunlties, aud “whooped up ! the cloquence iu N way that could not ~ fail to tell. They talked of Gen, Jacksons told of the future clary af the Democratic party; blew their own horns; did everything excopt fo talk of Thurman and udvance’bis intercats ln auy way in the coming race. ‘e day after the banguet | talked with sev- eral of the promioent gueete, whasa names, ol courso, it would not do to mention, and d-uly are to a muan free to say that Thurman {s less - popular than he was this nquet. Ono mald: “‘Churmen has rudely refected the Qayernor- alilp hefore it has been tendered him, and now [ very much doubt hls belne able to wet 1t I ho should try with oll his migat. L tetl yuu there 18 inuch fostile Teohni azutust him by that very class of men with whom o candldate lor sy oflice In this State needa to by povntar, e can veyer be a ‘favoritoson’ n the Dresl- dential canvasa, unless 8 mivacte futerveny in s tavor,” With a prominent member of the party 1 con- versed i the following munner in regurd to “*Your Uncle Dick,"" ths Governor, * Yon think, then, that Gov, Blshop will be renominated ' “1 do, by all you iy means, reasous in short he nhas” mude a very respectable Uov- cmmor, viewed from * the Democratie standpoint. Vo he sure, he has recelved a good many Republlean critfelsmas but what do they amount to, either wayl They would howl at an angel, In the weeond place, it §a the time-hon- ored precedent of the party to nomluste u wan the Csecond - tine, unléss there §s sowo valild reason why he sbould not re- celve the offico a wecond time, This alid reuson docs pot exist fn tha present fo- slance, and 80 the Governor should be revoimni- vated, Thia I8 a wide-spread oplnfun,” In rogard to Republican uominces, I also ob- tained opinions from leading Democrats os to their feetings, Icould find out whom they would rather not see nominated, very readily. They very wuch hope that by some hook or crook Gurileld, Foster, und Shermau will all drop out of tha ruce, aud some new man will drop In. The very thine that bas made so much talk lu the party-circles {s the fear thut somao truly popular man will be put up ou the Reonblican side, and swesp the Suato, nfl! Lo can easlty do with Bishop on the vtoer slde, 1t must he safd that, with nll the great effort of thu party-leaders to ralso the wind by means of huuquet and_song, nffatra were never more Lopetul for the Republican cause, ‘Thers is no talk that slgnifles inuch for any one except Foa- ter, und e will probably be the Republican nomiuec, Uany. and will _glive order. First, —— AN ATTACK ON THE SILVER DOLLAR. To IAe Kdltor of The Tritune. Ilrng PARK, Jan. 10.—~The future status of silver coln In our monctary evstem 14 o pro~ found Intereat, but at present of very unvertaln detinition, This uncertainty fs the resnlt of complex causes over which we have no legisla- tive control. Theever-varying relutions of sup- vly sud demand, with ity arbitrary reviston ot values, laone of the elements of doubt asto the future of slver. ‘The futuro polivy of finan- clal Europo with rogard to sitver as & comnmer- clal equivaleot canuot now bo very accurately furecust, but, wheuever determined, must have a decistvo offect ou the future of silver coln, Senator Allison spoke wisely! “That ft fs vam for us to bope to re-cstablish the status of sllver withuut the coucurrent acifon ot the leading cominvreial States of Europe.’! llcoca the sii- ver conference at Iarfs. The historical basls on which silver und gold were coined Into the money of account was (o the tixed ratio of abso- lute equivalvnts, Whenever this absolute wquivalency ol value becawse disturbed, us hus often oveurred, a Jegal readjustment of the rutio has always restored the equilibrivi of the essentlal values of comed money. The tundamental fdea of metallic mouvey befug that of un absolute essentiul cyulvalest ja value, it became a practical necessity to adjust the unitary value of the two colns o the basis of essential equality, 1t was reserved for our wodern st naacier todiscover that o fractlonal vart {3 equal Lo ihe whole,—thut coing of un- equal value are equalibrated by virtue of legal detluitious,~that s comed fiction s’ qulte as valuuble us & coined fact, Nevertheless, i¢ will probably be found true, as of uld, that a perfect uuity of value must be vestored to tho gotd and siver units before this silver questiou con be rightly seitled, “The real problem of Anancial statesmanship ls to impart to our scveral forms ol money a per- fect unity and convertibhity of valde. lcis neediess 10 say that Lhe pronsisciious cotage of 1old and stiver units of boequal essentlal value 13 uot In the directlon ol moaetary uuity, and nyust result ultimately ju the expulston of gold cult 1rom GUF wonwlary sy “Thiis 13 ong of the axlomns of expericnce. ‘This result will re- duce us to the siugic-standard basis, Will 1t bo any better for the vouutry than the siogle gold standardd The two great Empires of the warld—the British and the Germanie—have adopted the siocle guld standind, Thev desire to secure wore perfect unity ang lubml{ of wouctary value. ‘The two great Iepublies of carth— France and Aucrica—staud with besitating res- ulution to the dual standard, Frauce bas aban- deted the woluage ol stlver sud declings Lo stiu- ulate ier futurs solley, OF her £400,000,000 of riiver coln, one-thind Hes 1dly vaulted in bank, fully another third Is securely hoarded {n the stocking-legs of her Proletalre, It requires masterly financlering to keep the balance at cutrent valus with her rold and paper curreney. AL this pofnt, whers French finuoclal wlsdotn ! and experience admonishes us to caution and eareful action, America rushes into the rapld cofnage of insalvent dollars with the plausible ; pretext of bulling the silyer market. The very acme of folly fs now to he nperpotrated ULy the oncning of our mints to the deposit and storage of sliver hulllon for all comers for frec cotnage. The hinmedlate cffect of this measurs will bo to draw all the surplus silver coln and bullion of Enrohve into our mints, Tho coin vertificates to be issucd therefor wiil be exchanged for our gold, our cottan, wheat, and provisions, at par value. Tu effect it fa a proposition to buy $500,000,000 siiver bullton of Hotchschilds at G0 pence per aunce, when Ita market ¥alue ls but 50 pence per ounce. The profits of the transaction—n trifle of £100,000,000—will go to swell the inflated pocket ‘of that ¢ bluated bondholder.” Thus doces Nepublican folly pamper the greed of aris- tocratic avarive, | The pretext that the people desire s eflver - currency {8 n phantom of absurdity, The late lsmented dotlar of the [athers was a tegal | myth, From 1776 to 1878 bat 8,043,819 wero cotned tn onr minge, while the gold colnage ex- cccded 81,000,00),000 (ses report Director Mint, out 1878), These poorelght miliions of pater- nal dollars never made familisr acqualntance | with the people, but suffered exportation unsoll- ed by Democratie palins, The peopledon't want afiver—ncver wanted . The papular demand for it existe unly in the maunt lmwagination of unlucky debtors nnd dead-heats, We are em- phatical I{ s gold-worshiping people, a8 the do- tuzs of the mint shundantly stiow. Tt It fs assumad that there Is s shortage of gold for tinsneial uses,—in fact, it Is gravely as- serted that there Jsa *‘cornce™ on goldi It there 18 # corner ongtold, [t will harm no onebut eumbling *shorts.” But the fdea that the gold of the world Is " eornered s too absurd for discussion: $1,000,000.000 of ' zold can be bad at auy moment on demand at the counters of the three principal hunks of Europe. If that 1s not enourh to break any real or phantom * corner,” the umount can be easlly uoubled by the asking at the cash vaults of tho'commercial world. The stock of gokl coln has fully doubled within thirty years, Previous to 1830, for a century, the annunl gold vroduct of the world averaged rearely $16000.00. The yield s now cloas on to $1U0,000,000, and " stoadily Increus- fng, though far below the “* placer " days of Californta and Australis. Our own gold-ficids are puod for about 850,000,000 an- nunlly, A supply of about §15,000,000 per year was found sufliclent for the uses of the en- tlre race of man up to say tnm,d 0, For n long pertod previous to 1 W the world's annual supply of both gold snd silver 4 not exceed (according to P'arllamentary Re~ port) an averaze of 255,000,000, It requires & great store of metalllc assurance to rt that Ameria is to be ruined by 1imnitations to threa tines the amount of gold that was found amply suflicient for all tha commercial and Gopncial uses of 1,000,000,000 people st the beginnlag of the present renerotivn, Ona thing fs certalo,— it nnymlnF 13 cortaint that our current produc- tlon of gold s Jargely in excess of a suiliclency for all tho demands of finauce and cominerce of our country, If kept at homna und utilized. But, 1t it I8 to b banisiied to forclgn sbores by up- friendly discrimination In favor of tho **fiat dol- lar,”" ‘our entire gold product will oe Jost to us for domestic’ monetary uses i1l assurcdly intime become tho sols real money~—ol both Jegal and com- mercinl account. Who isto reap any benetle fram this Pagan reactlon except the silver-gam- blera of the Pacific Coast, and Rothschilds, the proposed boneficlary of **free coinage!’ 1 It the impetuous ndvocates of tha defanct sliver dollar wish, as thc{ profess,to re-establists the former relations of equivaloncy between gold and silver units of valug, they must con- wont to unity their vslue rekardless’ of the old ratlo of specille grayity. The supreme, essen- tial Idea of money ts “that of value,—{nherent equivalency, The cireumstanca of weight Is but. a luctuating Incldent, subject to perpetual re- adjustment, ‘That it 18 a matter of prime con- cernto tlnd and establish @ unitary ratio be- tweon the two metals on tho basis of which they may circulate on the plane of equal valug and - universal convertibility = fs very evilent to all thoughttul “men, It such ratio can be found and fixed by con- current action in tho mouetary system of tha most fnfluentisl nationa of ' the commerclal world, then a double stundard of money valuy 1n both practical and_desirable. But It auch ratfo cannot be 8o aprced uponm, then stlyer nust sink to 8 subordinats position of versatlle and undeflnable valug in the world: of trade. By confesslun of “&ilver authority, sfiver i al- ready practleally demonetized fu Fronce, and she only awalts the opportunity thnt our Free- Colnaze " act will atfurd her to selt ont at par hier vast store of depreelated cotn, and with the golden {)ruccedn proclatin the singlo gold atand- ard. ler Immensa stock of gold cuin puts her 1n better nositiun to dlscand miver than that of any other European Power, and all the indications .pugrest that she will sub- ordinate sliver legally, at an early duy. ‘I'nta_resuit need not exclte our apurehension, for ahe will not need to draw on the world's nulwlk, belug already sbundantly supplied ith golds ‘The pangs of alarm that haye sclzed a portion of vur people about an lmvumllnr dearth of gold n‘ru not Justiled by tho sulid facts of the sltun~ tlon. Mensured by the most sensitive anid ncenrate testatlat it le possible to apply, it will be found that gold hos noy, ‘save ln phenowmenal cases, appreelated in volie for a Jung tine .past, 'Tho only conservativa test of the vatuo of au . 'clo of useful, fixed property fs its productive ca- pacity, Vo ask what Income will hlock ot buildings, a farm, a share of stock, yleld? Tho answer fs'the test of the solid value of the prop. erty. Take nationn! secncities, as heing tho farthest romoved from the disturbing fnflu- ences of the law of supply and demand, as the moat sensitive and trustworthy test of the com- parative purchasine power and fncrement value ol gold, and 1t will be found that thers has been no appreciation of wold at wil, but rather & marked decling of 20 to 33 per cent. ‘I'liis 16 verliled by the fact that we are now re- funding hundreds of mitlions of 6 per cont yola bouds Into 4 per cents. Alvo by 8 correaponding declension In conmerclsl rates for money, which runged during many consscutive months the vast two yeors fu Now York at 1642 per cent per aupuul on thirty-doy call loans, 1t fs also evideuced by the Yery material decline in the purchasing power of gold for Uove ernment bonds snd other stable securi- tieas during by pust -ten years, A careful comparlson of tgbles offcommerclyl values witt also show that gold hax Jost on an averure 1569 ) per cont of Its exchangeable value the past thirty years, 1t fs not the gold unit that hes necrded fo valus fu late years, but it is the yower of combinod and_enfranchlaed gold that has grown so threatening to the public weal, Very waturally, at 8 tine of %vencml reaction from i foreed and detfrious {ufintivn, of contrac tlon of credit, of notles of payment in llea of universal borrowing and debt cuntracting, of profound distrust und Insolvency, there comes a pressing temporary demand for all the real solvent money of the commercial world, T'his demapd {s epliomeral, Tne momeot that clear- suces are orranged contidence reappears, par credit reyives staly, ond tha demand for volned noney declines Lo lnsignifizant proportious, Thero bs an exaggerated popular notlon that we require a4 large o rativ of money as France, Bhe has 330 per capitas we 320, perhaps, ‘Uhe French are a dlstrustiul, miserly people. They lon't hank, but loard, “Fhoy vay cash in hand, money credistes sluggishly, aud much {4 re- quired todo o little business, ‘Ilie deposit reports of the French banks in- dicate thot tully 90 per ceut of all business pay- ments org mude i uctual cash Lransfers,und vot throuich bank, With us, however, at Jeast ) per cent of our business transactlons are cf- Tected by puyment {n evidences of {ndebtedness rather than in coloed mowey, Over 60 per cent of (s goea throurh bank, giving creat celerlty 1o transactiong, gl clfuctive o large econumy fn the use of money. ‘Then our telegraphiv transfers of credit,” Clearing-Touse canceblu- tion, poetal-order travsfer of money, Nehtning expressare by seaand laud, give such volueity to uur Bnaucial transuctions that oue dullar is made to du the work of three or fous dullars In phiezounic Germany or miscely Fratce, V\:lul.'li{ al virculation rather thun volume must deicninlue the smount of mouey ver eapita that s required by a people te eXpress the value of thele busiuess exchanges, Keon- wmy so complete In the use of colnad muney und cwancipation from its plochiog despotism uust be regarded 88 the most consuwwate achievement of American elvilization. Such s the econotuy und veloctty of our finan- tial methods that we require not to exceed §15 per capits to fully accomnwdate all legitimate demands of busiacss. §700,000,000 of par cur- reney will require & coin basis or e serve of pot 1o exceed §250,000,000 as n practical carnest of redemption, To ac- commmodate aod malntain such = Lasls in #uld cuiu frows the uurlfervus wealth of the Pu- wille Coast Is @ task of the ptmost vase, Wo bave only to fear ratber too ¢reat an uccumu- latlon of coln rescrye to bo uselul or profituble to the country s lung as tbe forcigo-exchange balanco runs persistently fn our favor, Colued money 1 excess of su mnple dasls for currency redeniption b a wunton extravigauce and stupld wastefulness ou Loe part uf Aoy peo- vie who fudulze fo §t. Oursliver zealots don't appear to appreclate the fact that the coluaco of every hundred willion of siver cutails a tax on the people of $3.000,000 per aonum fnlerest vatue b it cost, wud wnother wstlon for wn- nual abraston and Je , besldes an equal amonnt of costlcag natfonal curren- cy of far greater conventence and value to the neople. C. B, Kixa. " SPIRITS. D#. Charles Beecher on Rpiritusl Manifesta= tions=A Took that Will Create Talk. Rotton Letler 10 New York Herald, ‘The first book of the new year will be Dr. Charles Beccher's * 8pirftual Mauifestations,” which Lee & Shepard will publish (o » few days, and which {s likely to cause somo coni- Frezzolini), the distingutshe lawsuit with her. degsamaker, arfs. A ball dress'fvas to be for & solece, but none camne, so that Mme, Vigouroux (horriblo to reiate) was obliged to ga in a costyme whichahe had worn at the samo house onca before. “In her rage she declared that Mme, Brunct was in the babit of pawning the dreases confided to her, Ilence a sult, Hrunet against Vigouroux, for slander, Tho Correctloval Tribunal of the Sejne ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 25 francs. She ap- pealed, and heat Branet to tatters, for it was finally ordereil that the ex-cantatrice should pay nothing. Pen canoot describe the celestial sa- isfaction which must have filled her bosom at nger, has had a Mme, Brunet, in, delivered in tima motion In orthodox circles In spite of | this victory, :hu l“!h‘:n'l npllcl;. de}c‘l‘nnl{:n "flm: e —— he speska only for mae 10 O] as tho represcntative of ~the ' Church SILVER. visible or Invisible, nor of bis profcasional bretbiren, nor of bis kindred.” He begins by augerting that Bpiritualism, or rather the be- Ae! In spiritual communieation, scems no mora improbable that agreat many sclentific hypothe- #ed. And says that there never has been in his mind any scnse of the fmprobabillty of tha existence and agency of spirits, sod avers that the abstract probability that lrlr(n exist anid act 18 equal to, If not greater, than the probality that there ars really such things as ultimate particies, which nohody claim have discovered, while a grest many personi y that they have seen spirfts. lle Apeaks ol the many family historics of mys- terlous occurrences which he has encountered while performing his pastoral dutles, Nnding that there ars few housthiolds In which thero is not somo strauce tale which tlne{ shrink from making pablie. He bering hy felilng a stary which was rexuh:d to hitn bfi' Prof. Aus- tia Phelps, of Andover, and which has some curloua pointa of resemblance 1o the tale of the ghost Jellrey that vexed the Wesley-family. In 1851 Prol. Phelps’ father requested bim to come to 8tratford, Conn,, to ‘investigate certain strange phenomena which had from time to time aopeared in his house, Says Prof. Phelps: “The tirst thiug that took plice ol an unusu- Al natiire was on a certalu Sundar. ‘Tha fa:aily, including tho servants, mccordiog to custom, had been to ehurch, leaving the house slocked up. On returning thoy found the front door wide open, The tirst thought wus that robbers Its Relationn to!¥inancinl Prospefity, To the Editor of The Tribune. Qarxsnura, 1k, Jan. 0.—Tig Tripuxg has takea the lead in the sitver discussion. 1n the abllity and fairness of ite editorials on this sub- Ject It cortainly has (aken an enviable position In Amerlcan journalism, All uoblased minds will accord tho meed of prafso due it. But so far the contest Las Leen one for tha existonce of this precions metal an a measurs of value in this country at a time when the mon« eyod power of the natfon has been arrayed against silver money. Demonctization of sliver and disregard of the positise and strongly-ex- pressed will of Cougross ars both stiil in the heart of Wall street moncy-mongers; thercfore, there must he no withdrawa! of forces from the ‘conteat until the question is finstly and safely settled, The Immense Importance of this silver coln- age a8 o factor {n the permanent resumoption of specie pagment, must never be overlouked for amoment, A large sccumulation of allver fu the Treasury vaults alone will sustaln resump- tion whon trade revives. As long asbalance of trade s larquly ln our favor there fs lttle danger of runs on the Treasury, ‘The dasvger bad been, there. No s however, of lies ahead, when prosperity comes and forefen thele presence appeared unti they v:»nm. trade and local speculations are active. We to my father's toom, and there they | might have resumed years ago If sliver found three full sults of his clothes, stuffed out with old clothes, etc., snd lald out side by side upon tho floor, with boots, huts, etc., sowe- what a8 I have seen them after a rallrond col- lision, This sccmed very strange, but the mencral impression was that i might be the roguish trick pf the boys or of some one unkaown. In the tourse of the day, as my father was walking across the parlor, uo other erson beiog In the room, a key was thrown rom behind over his nead and fell on the floor at hiis feet, He plekea it up and put it In his pocket. Hoon after a nail was thrown In the samu way. In the svening, as the family wero sitting together, suddenly 2 turnip fell from tho eelling fu thelr midst, Then they bevan to hear Jittle rapsin various directions.” Thuy tried 1o trace them, but could not.* Atr, Phelpa’ bacn was inyateriously burned in broad daylight, when no uiie was near it, 8o far as was known. An Ienited nowspaper was found under thie mattress of a cot bed occupled by one of the childrun who alept in Mr. Plhielps® room. One night when the nolscs were ver troublerome Frof, Phelps and bis uuele fol- lowed them untll they came to the room ot Mrs. Phelps’ oldest daughter, and then one stepoed foslde the door and the other remained outslde, and the kuocking came on tho door between them, each thinkiog it upon the sur. face furtbest from himself. As Prof, Phelps stenped back into the room a balrbrush flung from the door fell at his foot, o thing which suggests to an unbellever that very posaibly the bad iittle boy who had been *followed - by the knockings " 'had grown tired of rapping on the door-casing at E'rof. Phelps’ fect, and had fung the bruah at him a8 & crowning performance, Moreover, not only was the kuock-pursucd amall boyin tho houss to account for wnany things, but aiso @& womao suffering from the first approachies of & malady which fnally de- stroyed her rcason, apd that woman dlsliked Stratford, and was anxfous to move to Phila- delphia. This was Mr. Phelpa’ sccond wi'e, to whom and’to hor children tho disturbance was attributed by the uncharitable. ‘She was much grieved st the charge, and denled 1t solemnly, & fact which, considering her muntal atate, has no weight at all with the most credu- lous person. Prof. Phelpa himsalf thinks that the presenca of bad spirits is tho most proba- ble oxplanation of the affair, & fact that scems to Indlcate as little skepticlam as his remark that nobody was near the barn when it was birned. Asa rule, incendlarieado uot sit. down on a campstoot and watch the progress of their work at & convenlent distance, and it {s posal- ble that whoevor aot thafire preferred to go into the house and walt for further develop- monts, Conversation was carried on with the spirit by raps, sud the fact tnst he was in hell and would like & plecs of pumpkin ple was oliited, and a great many ideas ‘‘like Swedenborg's”’ wero obtained. * Mr. Phelps’ religlous convictions were unchanged by all this, although his viewa on Heriptural demon- ology were more distinet, and his belfef that both good and bad **splrits bave acccss to us waa strongthened. ' 3 Tha second chapter contalna same revelatlons made by the apirit of the Duchess -of Suther- land, throuzh plauchetts, to Mrs. Stowe. * e feor,"” said Ler Grace, *'sorruw will come upon £orisnd before many vears.!” “ What sorrow {" “ Qur Qucen will come to us, and you know in what hands the Government Wil then be. Edward Albert 1s not all he should be. e has not the strength of cnsructer neceasury for s ruler; but, poor boy, lat be charftable. 1le a noble wifo; he may still bo lbad been colved In reasonable quantities to taka the place of the large Rold balance fn the United States Treasury, thus enabling the Treasury Depnrtment to re- deem 6 per cent bonds with the gold in Ita pos- scsalon, and thereby put the gola Into clrcula- tion. ‘Thus the natlon, would have saved mill- fons in Intcrest, and by the same operation thrown so much gold on the markot!as to destroy the premium on it. This wonld bave bren vir-i] tual resumption; while we shonld have avolded the damagoe our trade und commerce has expe- rienced all theso vears when we were sutlelpat- ing and discounting the tinal fixed dato of legal resumptlon. Pust errors cannot be remedied now. Our Goverument financlers bavd erred on the side of salety for the Treasury and natlonal credit, without scope and comprehension enough to ncludo tho 50,000,000 of peopls who form the constitucut clements of the Governmentt ‘Thera may be an honest difference of opinfon fn regard to the hoardiug of gold {n the Treas- ury during the past decade, but thero certainly need be none for the future, 1t is this one fdea I would Mke to sce discussed in your columns, and only wish to hint n subject which soutns {nportant 12 itselt, 1 short, cannol this limmnenss accumulation of gold, 11 proper) handled, bring about a new era of prosperity (u our touotry skin tv that period stbscquent to the discovery of gold in Califuruial Cannot we aafely inflate with yold, and be permancotly bene- fited by such fnllstiont Every busluess mun of maturs years reqiembers 1o what a low polat thepricoof all products fell prior to the Influx of Culifornla g Wu also remember how stendy aud healthy was the uppreciation of values ns the precious metal flowed towards the States after 1819, Real estate soou felt the fu- fluenco and took au upwurd turn, snd reached a polut which has neser sinco been pers tmanently lost, Now, Iz It not possiblo to gecure the same solid Intlation by utiltziog the mine of wealth, fu solld evined gold, which now Mes dormunt in the strong chests of the Tronsu- ry, and which 1{s as uscless os when burled n the quartz hills and river sauds of California} We hardly cum]:u-h«nd what nvast ansount a quarter of' a iilun of go'd dollars represent, Iy requlred years of tofl and hardahitp, on the part of thuuaands bt ‘onr boldest and hardiest citl- zens, belore the golden grains which repreacut this immenee autn could be gathered from Lheie hiding-places along the Pacitle slones. Its value at the time was not in the uguregate hoand it constituted, but in the fact that it was put into circulution and Hke electrie sparks galvautzed tag whole nation. Agaln, after thirty years ot time, in wilch, by war and the evits consequent, this great nuttoi acenumlation of weaith in zold lias been scattered to the four quarters of the globe, it has by tho attractlon of econvmy and retrenchnent” returncd azatn to our coun- try, and, by a strunge providence, boen gathered into onw depository,—the Unlted States Treas- ury. To rematu thers fn such l‘unnllky for any length of thne would operute_the sanie as con- gestfon in_the human body. It fs financlal con- cestion. We aro forcing the natural cirentation of the nation nto the vaults of the Treasury, and paving bondholders [nterest ou the unuat- ural accumnlation. i tlow to get this Immense treasure ont of the natlonal chest without damage to speclo re- sumption, for which the natlon Las alinost 1s young, and has suffered destructlon, s tho problem redcemed.’ to solve. Only one pian suizests itacli, which *1a tho Queen unwell now 1" is, inote atad'a coln, Beuin to displace gold b{ [y by buying silver bulilon with gold coln. Mint the silver and lock It up—a hundred milllons ot it. Make silver scarce and dear, just as gold bas been made searco and dear, by Loardiog it. Does ony one Imnagine that, i'a guarter of n billion of sflver dollars wers under the lock and key of the ‘I'reasury and tho sume omount of goid was unlocked and thrown on the market, innt gold wonid siand thirly days or thirty hours at a premium over silver in New York!t told stapds above silver to-duy {o the world's market, becauss tho pold of tho world ls Bhe Is not strong, 11 FEdward Albert could or woull be moro like his blessed father she would pbdlcate in his lavor.” “*How strange that he shonld be such 8 char- acter, when he was 50 carelully educated by hils Iather and mother,”” » “Cortatniys but too many children are born, flm ,lz'lmll as many others, should never have ved. » I donot understand that,” 4] mean Lhgt the elna of tha father are visited upon the chitdren, even unto the third andg fourth generation, and constitutional passion | lovked "up and made searces cvrrl' one and the dlsposition of tho pareuts are some- | knows that, Buppose all tho pork that times apgravated in the children, Do [ make it | has entered Chicaro since October = bad r to you! 1'm afrald not.” How does Gud_Judge chitdren who thus jo- herit conatitutional tendencics tu evil 1 s Daes He not tell you iu His Word that charity is thegreatest of all virt: flespcaks wh.z 'I'n does kuow and bec: He has so much, “‘Rut Prince Albert was a perfect saint," “Yes: but his graudfnther? Parents, you know, cannot be teo careful, The Princo was not fmmediately responsible for Edwant Al- “bert's sins} but he should have looked into the past and contemnplated tho future befors bring- ing hie sou Into the world, " 2 Thls gives tho reader the fmpression that planchetio supposes Queen Victoria to be the dauehter of Georgo IV,, 88 fts heathen dark- ness v regard to the Prince of Wales' name makvs such ignorance more probable, Char- lotte Broute, spoaking through the same mo- dlum, imparts the news that Emily Bronte is happy, thus Bramweil may be in Hades, and buught and held by men as able to hold that product as the Rothschilds aud others of the Eulennlcn of the world! Burrel pork would w up in the twentles by this thme (napite of the Ereas surplus, ‘There 13 to-tay o surplus of one of the richest of American products, namely, silver, ‘The heavy nien poth shlva of the Atlantle have combined to bull the wrold market und beay tho allver market, It would have been lesa disas- trous It they had chosen ony other Awmerlcan product for thetr operatious; Tor when 1t com to the question of the gilver product of tho country the average Intellect becomes beforzed and the matter is left us an dbatruse question Tor Fmru leplslators to scttle, while every apecies of property. from the humble swine to Chlcago busineas palace, shrinks fu valuc, ‘Tho precubacks are, o-du)y. largely In the vaults of the National banks, it as u reservo for the redemption of thelr own clreulution. Que-half of the !»mem. coln reserve fn tho ‘Preasury—il in sliver dollars—would be safe that “Thackorsy i very "loval Dr, HBeecher mays thiat Prof. Btowe ‘q seer,’ d belleves in the reality of splrit intercoursy, and that he hasscen and touched adead friend, and the writer by nomesnos accepts Ur, Clarke's way of accounting for such an appearunce. The doctrinal part of tho book s cleverly heyond contingency for redemption of the rue now in circlation, There §s one thing better than consolldating the natlonal debt on a 4 per cent basts, and that {8 tu pay off 8 humired millions or more of the U per cent bonds with gold, and save all the Ju- written. The uuproved sssumptions are rather | terest, and then take i another fnstallment as 100 numerous for a gzood arzument. the siver reservo grows by colnage, Wo are e —e—— vroud l‘x‘i" nz'ur i :;l !m:r ucvnu‘" are so rapldly absorbed. 18 not pos- WISCONSIN TRANPS, sible that ft is a bad sizn after The Governor of Wigconsin in his message thus speaks of the profesalonal tramps who fu- lest that Btate: . 1t {n tho larger citles they aro somewhat re- straincd by s vigilant polive foree, fnthevillages and towns they have become tho Jluy dread aud nizhtly hotror of all well-dispused persong, ‘The Iitewe gird on her way to and froni school, the farmer's wifs busy with houscnold cares, the aged and fulfirm are alike the victins of thelr cowardly aod lcentlous violenve. Whatever may be urged In extenuation of other crines aud vices, the respunsibility for this crime of vagaboodage, which may now be juitly sald to {nclude every criine known to the law, fs upon the fodividua! sod not upon society. In July last o small army of these” self-made soclal outvasts turned thelr faces toward Wisconsin, snd thelr advonce puard, faking possession of railway trains, dictated the terma upon which they might proceed. Itis un{mportant that the terms propused were only thut the invaders should bo farnlshed free transportation: for, If that much had been con- «eded, then wmore would bave been demanded next time. Fortunately, the good judginent sud firw determivation of the Superintcudent of the Madison Divislon of the Chicago & Northwesteru Rallway epabled the citivs of Beloit sod Madison to mect the {ssue of lawlcssuess azainst law fuirly upou the werits, aud with wost satisfactory results for the time belng.¥ The Qovervor asks forlegislation that will puulih these wiscreants whereves they way be ound o the State. alithat the coln of the country is flowing Into the Unitod Btates Treasury for 4 per cont Inters eat, {ostead of going fnto legitimate businessf ‘Tne Governinent demaud onca stopped,’ mougy will seck other luvestments in natural chanucls of bualness, Manufacturers can borrow money up set their looms und trip-hammers oviug aain. Operatives, now flle and stary- ing, can be emploved at living wages, and _can alfurd to cat our beet und pork again, Real astato will feel the gencrul clrculation, and en- hauce {n value, sud pecome a favorite invest- ment, as it always bas been untit within & very few vears. Oune pranch of judusiry rovived uts in motlon other branchies, uutil prosperity ccomnes general, Cheap money, worth 100 conls on the doliur, will sccomplish wpnde Covron. e Chiness OMMcint Almanac, ‘Tha Decetber number of tho American Jour- nal of Sciznce and Art coutalns an articie ou the Chinese Omticial Almanac, of which 1t {s sakl that ¢ {218 Issued anouaily in Decemocr, and s carefully prepared b(»;'luu Hoard of Astronomy, an important body, Imperially_appoluted, pro- sided over by a Prince of the Royal blood, anl equul fu dizafty to any other Government hody in tue Emplre.” ‘IThe Almanac 13 bestowed asa bpectal sct of firncc by the Emperor on the Coreans, Loochovans,” Annamites, snd other tributary States, As tais publication Is so high- 1y respected by the Chinesc it may fairly be cou- sidered a3 the Yopreseutaclve of the bighest stute of astronomicul kelence reached by them.” A lura«‘yul of the astrotogival portun 6f the Al- wanac s fntended for o *practleal gulde fn the common affairs of Wfe.’ A tronslation s given of the admoultions for the rst duys ol the cur- rent vearus tollows: Wl st dav 14 tavaralle for sacritics ond for su- A Fominlue Quarrcl. Furlous Las becn the quarrel between two Puristun women Muwe Vigoaroux (lute Mila, tering school; at noon 1t ts 2 bathe, 1t in unfayorabla for A n(n'( of changing reslaence, ‘The second day iz favorahle It iz nnfavorable for starti for sacrifte tarting an l']c‘.:! may receive or mak At 7 8, m. maydraw un‘t‘o’v‘.‘z’;’."‘ May not goons jor ound. y; may vialt, bathe, shave May not plant and sow. 40l ey Tha sixth day {s favorable for sacrifics, cop nnion, visiting, taking on a nes servant, s on & journcy, removing, matrying, ren-l,("t lmlhllm:, l»rlelxln‘xmland; ;‘t’ 38 m, .n.,,;“ up coutract, open shop, batter, soad seal, fou tho roll nd bucy, | 60 Breteny, he scventh day; may level roads, sart on & o:rna;. "m Dt mat oy 'lle cighth; 1way sacrifice, memoriall aftice, asaamo ceremontal clothes; at § o g Tt #it toward the sonthessts alno, favorable for 247 Jneal unon, visits, weddings, taking on | T ¥ervant, atarting on a journey, erccting unfln'; ng, temory g aud puttiog ou crussbeams, bulldy aoll, and bursing. The writer gives o fow ments as followa: And 5o It goea on for nearly every da, year, Enoughhas bees {rani l-'n 1’5‘:5:: excemive childicsaness and absnrdity of thiy (i principal part of the Imperial Al [ 17th ong” may bo treated for Hineas aud v, eactiea of Drovislons. On the 22d 1t 10 allgwra: to pull down old honees and walls, but dn; Tnet not bo opened or wells dug n the 71 Artertn shonla he made on the 2Bth: this 1y only favorable day in the month—a vory sl tory arrangement for criminals, Theta arp dlay on which one may cut out clothey, yy; the same nnmber on which one may sweep by clean np. It 14 advised tfo shave hth, 234 and 2uth, times fn the month. valn between the bath-ds; 3 heltever in the Almanac must wait from the 5ty the Iih, end from the thto the Zid. ey on the 1at, bathing in favorable AL An inconreriey hour, ¥ix,., woons the hour on the 2Wth (5 o'cie 18 much better, ‘Fhesg indications seem too sfily to nflftt senly nly ven| ‘mnrn Items, and coq, men, yot while the Chinaman {3 “not or iy, Lut actually ahirewd and keen, be guldén mog,f hir viore imporiant affairs by the Almanac poorer classos waich the Almanac casefully, o masry, bury, and do other things only when {1, vinea, and it In to be feared that the hetter edoeaiy 0 not start on & alnum! nor enter office except o fnvorable days, Houah It 18 & bo haped thep bathy, whave, aud clean ofteuer, = - — ARRIVAL AN DEPARTURE, OF TRIlg Fxrtanatiox or Rerenzxce Manxs.—t 8, esrepted. *Hunday excepted. ulnm'u~1l sty OHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RATILWAY, Ticket Ottices, 62 Clark-st. (Sherman onse) a4 y the dépatd. alacific Fast Lino. afloux Chiv & Vanki alubtiace DAy EX, v ubuque Night ir bliteen L, 3L, IPani o nd Fullman Jlotal Cars are run through, between G ulsln;d.' Cfilluncll Biuffs, on the trala” leaving l:hk.ml Noother road runs Pullman or any other fora o hatel cars weas of Chicara, u—Depot corner of Wellsand Rinzlo-ste, P—Depat cornerof Canat and Kinzie-ata. OHICAQO, BURLINGTON & QUINOY RAILBIL Depots foot 05 Lakeest., Indlana-av. end Blxteenn, and Canal aud ixtesaih-sis, Ticket Otices, 50l st. and at depots. Mendata & Galeshurg Expre Quawa & ifoatur Kaprea b Jtosktard & Brocport Expre 10: Dubuaue & 8fobx Clty Kxpresd'.le Facifio Faat iyl 384 & Colorado Kipi :30 Downer's Grave Accomm 100 Aurura D'ussenger,... 13 p Mendota & Ottawa Expres 4 urora Paasengor. 8imp Townce's irove Ac gispay Freapar :30 e Omahs 2103 pm ‘oxan Fast KXprest popm <ngsas 9i03 pin § Fullian, Calace Digfig-Cars and Tullman 10-vie! Slenping-Card are run Dotween Chicago and Omitin the Paclde Lxress. - CHICAGO, ALTON & BT. LOUIS, AND CHICA%) KANSAS CITY & DENVER BHORT LINER nion Depor, West Glde, near Msdiso: Tieldge, t3 et aind st 4 1EKE ces 153 HADIOITA: Leave, | Anbe. ¢ 3:33 pit e Tanans Cliy & Denver Fast Fx. Bt Louts, ~prinetield & Texns, MObilo & New Orivaus Rxpress 5t. Louls, Springeld & Texas, peois, urilngion 1 Fuat fxpr Reoli! l'.l‘\l’l . azo & Paducah 1Ll o, WaaRlniun K OHIOAGD, MILWAUKEE & GT. PAUL RAILWAT Uplen Devor, cqmor Aluison and Canalorte, 7okl Otlice, W) Boui B Clark-at., Opposite Bhorwnan Houe, sud at depot. % Teave. 1 Anive, Miiwaukes Expross... oy Wiscousin & Minnesota, 10:10 am * ¢:0p1 nm 03 sE e Towa Raprest imaukes Fayd 1 iy Wisconsin A:n.\lizlnlflol:‘n‘ W l,mfl"J e m’;fl‘il‘ull“.. $0:00nm_ T:WAR Mifwauxoe, Tickets for Bt bedl d Fraifia areguod elther vis \lulhu .\;!luan M i Miane @0 Chlcn, OF Yia Watertows, Lacrose, 1 1 o, A s t, foot of Liake-at. and foot of ‘I wuaiy-sei a0t e Otliess 131 HabGoII-st. Hoar Clark. Bt. Loula Fxpreas. B¢ 1.outs Fast LI Calro & New Uricaus Iixpres nCalro & Texas Kx Bprinzeld & Fpringel ida, Peorla, Burllagton & Murliniz n it runs o Contraifa ooy, $0n Baturday ik ruus to Poarla only, MIOHIGAN (ERTRAL RAILROAD: Depot, foot of Laka:st. and {0t ot Twonty-accou IeKot Ofice, 47 CInrk-Al., southonds car doiph, Grand Pacina F1ote), snd st Palmer Leave, s Tio0 ami 6 o Aat of il use. Mall (vfa Main and Atr Line) Wapres. P Sanasse Kalcnazoo Accolundation, . 100 1 1l Adlanijo e AGlA pintj B Kight Express... 100 p mite PITTSBURG, FE. WAYNE & CHIOAQQ BAILWAL Derat, cornur tanal and Maatson &) Glerk-at,, Paimier 1ouse, and ok | Loavo. |_Ariie. l 5:31. am?7: SHG pmil dwen BALTIMORE & OHIO, Tratas lears from Earosition Dulldtng, foot of Mosrer at. Ticket Oices, 53 Clark-st., or House, Grasd Pictnc, aud Depot (Exponltion B o Arrive. o FRE LAKFE, BHORE & MICHIGAN BOUTHERN, Leave, | _Amrirt. ‘Morning Mail=01d Lins W oatul i ATitaha Eabress iy i % Night Express.. ... PITTSBURG, CINCINNATT & £T, LOUIS B. B (Cincianatl Atr-Line and Kokomo Line.) Deoat, coruer ot Cliutan aud Carrull-aia., We T Lasve. | Atrie Cinclunatt, Todianapalis. Eouls-) Yille, Columbus bast Day Expioa,. Night Exprea. il 500 p ') 71982 EANEAXEE LINE Depot, foot of Lake st. sud foot of Twenty-sacond | Leave. | Arrive. u“.fl"b“"{"“.':.{"”" & Louts-| Vi "l’l‘n‘lvt;svn ROCK IELAND & PACIFIQ BAILBOAD Depot corner of Van Buren lmlbhenna o Tickeh Qiiee, 54 Clark-st., bhei Daven; Fapress.... Omabs, vavenworth & ALCh. & Peru Acconisodal Nt Eapres. ‘Al ineals 05 1hS Umabs car, 4575 Coutd Cacl, OHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS RAJLROAD *4 Dansiile Route.” s Tickes Oficos, 77 Clark-bl.. 123 bearboru-st, a4 D¢ by corer Cliutn sud Casoll-ata.