Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1880, Page 4

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"Hila rest from tho labors of tho campaign bes ybeon brief, Trunrern ships with large cargocs and ‘many passengers ivft Liverpool last week for vre xious United States ports. ‘Tue English have met with snother re- ‘wersoin Afghanistan. The garrison of Dubrul has been anulbilated by native bands, ‘Tue wife of a German newspaper editor committed sulcldy.at) Omuba Sunday, The cnuse of the rash act {a not yet known, AN ordinance passed the City Council Inst svyening contining slaughter-bouses to a location 4n tho southwestern portion of the city. | A Post-OrFicr employé of Cape Town lins “‘beon'ureested for complicity In the recent dias mond robbery which occurred at that place, ‘Tire blockade caused by the recent show- Btornt on the Union Pacific Railroad has ended, and trains are now running on schedule time, ‘Tue steamsh!p Para, from Southampton for ‘tho West, ciidles, was disabled when in mid- ocean. She was towed Into the Azores by a Syautah steamer, which also touk the erew to Lisbon., : ‘Tne City Council at its meeting Inst oven- ing passed an oniinance giving tho Chicayo Steam Compuny the right to Jay pipes through tho streots to distribute steam for heating and other purposcs. sf | ‘Tne Senate yesterday passed a bill provid- . ing that whenever the United States Clreuit and District Courts hold sessions ut the same tino and place,ono grand and potit Jury will suftice Lor both Courts, ‘JAMES MILLAR, Who 1s ulso known undor many alinses, was yesterday arrested at Liver- pool for forgery on tho Wank of England. It ta , Delloved that he has beon coneerncd In affairs of alike nature in this country. Tue theory of tho Chivf-Engincer of tho "Tay bridge, that tho cara leaped tho track be- fora it gnve way, seems to be confirmed by the nature of the brenks ina pleco of luttico-work which has Just beon discaveres ‘Tue trial of Henry Greenebaum, charged with numorous violations of the National Hank- ¢4ng act during such time us be was Presidont of the German National Bank in this city, began ayostoruay in tho United States Distrivt Court. "Tne Macoupin County Convention selected ‘wn divided delegation to tho Springileld Conven- ton yesterday, Of the nine men chosen, four ero for Grant, threo for Blalne, and two for Washburne. The delegution ts sulld fur Itn- taker for Govoruui SEVERAL new cases of small-pox were reported yeaturday, and It 1s feured that, as tho alscaso bas this time attreked children who have ‘Veen attending sehoul, otbhur cases will follow. ‘Tho Health Depurtment arm uslug every etfort tocradicate tho digease before warm weather ‘sot In, ¥ Tue Turkish Goverment owes $1,000,000 ‘to army vontractors, Further aupplics are re: fused untll payment is made, but, 1s thore ure no funds in the treraury of the Portu, there la alittle prospect of prompt payment. Tho “ Sick ‘Man "is dying rapidly. Not even the skillof ‘Beaconsfeld could savo hin. Ti Christlan County Convention met yes- terday and selected six delvegates to tho Spring- ! feldConvention, Thedolegutes wore lustruvted ! Jor Grant for President, Cullom for Governor, “and Harlow for Beerotary of State. The Scott ‘County Convention selected two Blaine dele- nates. Thoy ary fur Culloin for Governor, Buarroy, the foolhardy St. Louls aeronaut, whe s0 narrowly escaped serioua injury Sature day, made anothor venture yesterday. to ascended at St. Louls, and after traversing the atmosphore for n distauey of 100 rites, during whith bo was almoat chilled by the cold, Ighted ‘on tho top of asycainoru tree near Curlinville, MenpxEnous outrages are becoming alarm: ugly frequent in Lewls County, West Virginia, \ The deud bodies of two victims have been dis- wovered luce last Friday, and several cases were proviously reported, Tho people of tho dlstrict- ~ ure talking of forming vigiluuce cotmiitteos, but , Bre yot ata loss as te whom to bring ta justice, Tne House yesterday passed o bill, re- 1 Ported by Mr. Cox, of the Foreign Affulrs Com- mittee, creating a corporation with a capital of $10,000,000 to take in hand the proposed Interne ‘Uonol Exhibition In Now York City tu 1683, The ‘Dill was opposed by Mr. Cariisiv on constitution! grounds, arid by Mr. O'Neill, of Philudelphia, on purely jooal and seliiah grounds, * {ux London Times returns to tha dlecus- aion of what jt considera the unwarranted as- sumption of the United States in reference to ‘the Panama Canal, doprecates tho proposed ub- yoyation of the Uluyton-Bulwer Treaty, and elsims for England aud for all European nations Having possessions in tho Amorican Continent the rightof anational and material intorest in ‘the cunsl project. . 4 : en £ AN Inijumali father of the West Side has ‘bee arrested on the charyo of starving to death his own child, a $-montheold babo. It appears to huve buen the practice of the father to ab- sbat bluself from bis home for days, leaving the dufaut without foot or attendance, Tho ac- {HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, APRIL 20, cused is 2 widower, and wns about to tako tinto himecif a wifo; but the intended will not be zo anxious to form on alttance with him whon sho toarna that he fa necused of having ncegiccted hia former wifo during her bast {iness, Tk Senate Committes on Approprintions have agreed to report the Army bill as it camo from the House without amendment, and it Is sald tho same course willbe pursued with ret+ erence to many other appropriation bills after they shall have been passed in the House, the dvalgn being to expedite business in the Senate asmuch as possiblo with n view to bringing about an adjournment by the tat of June. —— A very sorlous conflagration occurred at Bonver Falls, Pa., yesterday, Tho fire brokeout in the Weatern File- Works about 10 o’ctock, and tho building, stock, and machinery were totally destroyed, Tho fire is thought to havo been originated by a spark from a neighboring shov- el-factory, The loss is estimated nt $100,000. ‘Tho insuranco Ia onty $126,000, About 200 men will bo temporarily deprived of emplofmont through tho occurrent Tre Aldermen are already discussing thes} camposition of the Council Committees, and some are actively wire-pulling to secure “ fat" Chairmanships. Among the most assiduous in this pursuit, it Js scarcely necessnry to say, are blowhard Hildreth and bartender Lawler, The former, with an eyo to the eternal fitness of things, and perhaps to things more aubstantiol, wints tho Chairmunship of the Gns Committee. Tawler wants the Hallrond Conmitter,—freo passes and other favors. Tne Democratic leaders are using every effortte induce Tildon to withdrnw from tho Presidential race, belny fully convinced that with the Usufruct as a candidate thore would not be tho Alightest vhance of success nt tho election, The varlous rumors in reference to ‘Tilden's fatended dectination are said to have orlginated In the desire of tha purty leaders to. get tho old man out of the way, but he persists in bis candidacy, and as be has the machinery in his hands and n barrel to purchase lubricating grense, It 1s doubtful if he can be beaten, AN unsuccessful attempt was yesterday made [n the House to call up and place upon its passage under a suspension of tho rulcs tho Dill ta pension voterans of the Mexican War, the larger portion of whom are ex-lebels,and nenr- ly all, ua Mr. Frye explained, are men of wealth who are fy no need of the pensions, while thon sands of needy Union veterans are walting tholr turn at the Penslun-Otfive. ‘The Republicans re- sisted tho effort to bring this bill forward on the eatendarto tho detriment of othor bills; and while professing entire readiness to meotitin {ta turn and at the proper time, they voted sol- idly agninat and defeated the motion to suspend the rules, Work on the approprintion bills 13 so far behind that many members are of opinion that Congress will not adjourn before August. The Senate, howover, appear to be very desirous of an early adjournment, and ns nn {nication of this the Senate Committee on Appropriations hus agreed to report tho Army bill as it eame from the House, The false econcmy of the Democratic House Is very Ilkely to re- riously ertpple the Departments, The appropria- tion for the Interlor Departmentis some &H0,000 less thon what {!s absolutely uceded, and it ta fenred that serlous Indian disturbances will tuke place during tho suinmor In consequence of ‘the Inability of the Government to carry out its agreement with tho tribes, owing to tho par- simony of Congress, ‘Tis fierce storm of yesterday morning did fearful damage to life and property in various pinces. Marshileld, 2 Missouri village about twenty-eight miles from Springfleld, in that Stute, was almost entirely domolished by tho storin. About elghty persons wore kilicd and about 200 wounded, Tho houses were leveled with the ground, trees torn up by the rvots, and hayeo was spread in every! direction, In the vicinity of Janesville, Wis., the storm played general havoc with dwellings, barns, and out- buildings, Cattle and horses were killed by the acore, Trult trees rendered perfectly worthless, and pleces of growing timber reduced to kin- diing wood, Fortunutely thore bas been no loss of Ife reported fron Wisconsin, ulthough aey- eral persons met with serlous Injury, while othors hud what might well bo called provi- dentini esenpes, The storm also visited Rock~ ford, Chainpaign, and Clinton, In this State, and Milwaukee,’ Manitowoc, Whitewater, and Holoit, in the Stuteof Wisconsin, The dam- nyo In this clty was very slight, and only one casualty, and that not a serious one, Is reported, —— ‘Two very bright men and ready debaters ran afoul of cnob othor in the Senate yesterday when Senators Carpenter and Blalue got into 0 contro- versy over the Geneva Award bill, Mr. Carpenter had taken occasion In the course of higurgument to express contempt for Mr. Hlnine's total Inck of legal learning, and to Intimate that in mat- ter resting wholly upon questions of Iuw only those versed in tho law should interfere, This suvage thrust was neatly purried by Mr. Hlaine'’s frank avowal that he did not pretend to ve nlawyer, and was returned with compound interest when be showed that during bls former term aa Senator Sir. Carpenter bad spoken and voted agninst giving the Insurance compunies any portion of tho Geneva Award on account of War tosses paid by them; wherens tho Wiscon- sin Senator was now so energetically employed in uryiug the precisely opposit view us to buggest that, while he formerly spoke as a Sen- ator in behalf of the poor ship-owners who suffered heavy loases-and pald heavy War premiums, he now spoke uf 4 lawyer for tho Insurance companies, Mr. Rlatne may not be much of a jurist, but he Is certainly very much of Sonntor, as be bes amply demonstrated whenever drawn Into u Nght by bis persoual or political enemies, SPECIE-PAYMENTS AND THE LEGISLA- TION THEREON. With the personal issue between Kecrotary Shermun and Mr. Medill we have nothing to do, und upon it we have no opinion to express. The question {s wholly a personul one, aud the con- troversy hug gone quite far enough. But the course of THe CHICAGO ‘TRIBUNE upon public questions {a a proper subject of comment, and the occasion 18 appropriate. “As for the attitude of tiy TutgUNE on the question of resumption there is yo room for the slightest doubt or dis- pute. It was violently ane panalonataty: agalost the exeuution of thy law, and angrily in favor of repeal, And notouly that. It has been and ie by Its generat bility by Ita leading position, an its profesaions of Republican. principles,’ the pee having thu most bancful intluence on Anunelut questions of uny published In this country.—doston Advertiser, ‘With the oplulons and estimates of the Bos- ton Advertiser ag to the *baneful lifluence” of Tur Citcago Trmunx® won tnaneial or other questions, we have no quarrel. ‘That paper Is as free to hold the teachings of Tur ‘Tiauuse “banetul” ag Tite Line is to have its own opinions of the general teach- ings of the -ldvertiser, ‘The two papers have widely-differing judgmenta'as to what ought to bo the National polley, and there is no aveming prospect of any agreement. The points of dliference are so well defined, the policies advocated are so clearly antagonistic, that there is no justification or necessity for either to mlsropresent the other, ‘The great crime ond otfense which ‘Tun Cu1caco Trinune has conmitted, and which fg regarded as haying had such a: banefal” effect upon the country, was its advocacy and succesaful support of the remonetization of silver, ‘Tho successful restoration and legalization of silver colunge defeated one of the most deep-lald and Infumous consptracies ugalnst popular righty and aguinst the in- dustry of the country that were ever at- tented, Silver belng demonetized In 1873 (It is wf. necessary to say how or by whom), the Resumption act was passed in 1875, at which time the {net that silver was no longer a legal-tender and that the coinage of sllver dollars had been repealed was unknown to the country generally, and ontside of a Himited number of capltallsts wag unknown except tu those privy to the act of 1873, It dld not become known generally until the colnage of subsidiary sliver and the retlre- ment of the fractlonal currency called the attention of the country to the expediency of colnlug silver dollars, During the Presiden- Mal election of 1876 the silver question was not discussed, because it had to some extent even then become a sectional and pot 4 party question, After tho\iuauguratiod of Predl- dent Hayes in March, 18v7, Tk Cuicaao Triwune began the discussion of that sub §ect, and from that thne until a year Inter, when Congress passed the bill remonetizing silver over the Executive veto, this paper never ontitted any proper occasion or proper argument to urge and nidyuente the remoneti- zation of silver, All other questions wero subordinated to that, We carried on the dis- cussion editorially and with the afd of com- munications from many of the ablest writers of the country. . We treated the sub- ject as) one of Nattonal polley,—not as on Republican, but as. an Amerl- ean policy in the success of whitch the whole conntry was deeply interested. ‘The remonetization of silver was advocated by Democrats and Republicans generally tn the States west of tho Alleghenivs, and op posed by the Democrats and Republicans tn New England and New York, At that thine the following were the existing facts: (1) The Resumption act provided for the redemption of the legul-tender greenbacks In coin, (2) Under the law as It then stood tha only coin possible to by used in redeeming the greonbacks was gold, (8) ‘The amount of gold in the whole country did not exceed one hundred millions, (4) ‘The construction pinced upon the Resumption act by all the Eastern Republicans and Democrats was, that upon redemption the greenbacks wero to be withdrawn, The Secretary of the ‘Treasury, though often appealed to, refused to negative this construction. (4) The green- backs belng withdrawn anda silver being de- monetized, there would after Jan. 1, 1870, be no legal-tender money in the country save gold, Ju which dear. and scarco metal all depts, pubic and private, including bank- notes, would have to be paid, Under these circumstances Tire Citicago Tiwunk advocated not only the remonetizn- tlon of the silver dollar, but alsoits free coln- age, ns something essential to the resumption of speele-payments in January, 1879. We urged the impossibility of resumption in “gold alone’? We denounced the contrac. tion of the currency by the redemption and withdrawal of the greenbacks, and of neces- sity ot the bank currency, and of the general wreck of business aud property by the at- tempt to make gold theexclustye legnl-tender and debt-paying money of the country. ‘These views were presented In this paper day after day, the one lending Iden being that the remonctization of sliver was an ab- solute necesslty for the resumption of specic- payments, and that without silver it would be impossible te resume specic-payments nt the thne named in the law. We were couscluus of the powerful influence exercised by the money-lenders and money- shavers, of whom we never foiled to ac- knowledge the sdvertiaer ns one of the. ablest organs, and urged that, when Congress inet, If it was found Impossible to remonetize silver and provide for tho largest possibile coinage of silver dollars, then tho date fixed for resuunption should be postponed, because it would be impossible te resume specle-pay> ments in gold alone, all other legal-tender . money being abolished. ‘That was the positlon—"baneful” as the aldvertiser claims—of this paper when the Mouse of Representatives, at the extra ses- sion, passed the bill providing for the recoln- age of silver dollarg, ‘The bill passed with such a majority. and under such circum: stances that there was a pronilse of it meeting n Uke approval In the Senate, On the sk or 2ith of November, 1877, the House slso passed o Dill repeniing so much of the Re- sumption Iaw as required the redemption of greenbacks in January, 1879, On the 25th of November, ‘Tire ‘Trruny, commenting on the passnge of this bill, nppenied to the Sen- ate to postpone it indefinitly orto reject It, becanse, as {t was thon evident that silver would be remonetized, « specle-payinents would follow as a matter of course, even bo- fore January, 1879; that then there would be no contraction, that gold, silver, greenbacks, and National-bank notes would all haye the same money value, and: the prosperity of the country on a restored specie basis would bo firmly established, Woile ‘Tue Tapuxe was in November, 1877, thus urging the defent by the Senute of the House bill to repeal the date of resump- tlon, the Secretary of the Treasury (who was opposed to silver) had in print, to be de livered 9 week later, an appeat to'both TMouses of Congress asking varlous modifications of the Resumption luw, and among otherg one granting the Secretary the power, in caso the contemplated resumption should fail for want of gold, te temporarily suspend specte- payments. Even while ‘funn Tiunune was urging Congress to defent the bill repeating the date fixed for resumption, the Seeretary’s falth In resumption in gold alone wasso weak that he was appealing te Congress to vest him with the power to suspend specie-payments if the stock of guld he expected to have should fall or should be exhausted. Congress dld not vote the Secretary the power to suspend specie-payments as asked by him. It followed Tak ‘Tripune’s argu iments that to attempt to resume in gold nlone would prove u. disastrous failure, It vetoed tho scheme to redeem and retire the grevnbacks, and, to make specle-payments practicable and easy, it remonetized the sil- yer dollar and provided for Its Immediate and continuous culnage, Congress In all this atlopted almost to tho letter, and despite the wild and frantic protests of the Seere- tary of the Treasury and the veto of the Executive, and even the cultured solicita- tlons of the sldvertiser, the polley so long and persistently advocated by ‘Tux Ci CAdO TRIBUNE, ‘The gold corner was broken, the gold con- splracy was destroyed, nnd thero was no con- tragtlon of currency; gold andailyer, aud grdenbacls and bank-notes, beenme convert- ible forms of ctirrenoy, all having the samo legal yolue, So far as this paper alded in bringing about this result, Tue ‘Tnmusxe elatis to have Inbored for the best Interests of the country, although {¢ regrets that the aldvertlser considers it as haying exercised “the most baneful Influence on fnaneint questions of any paper published ‘in this country.” When tho Advertixer represents this paper ns violently und passionately against the ox- ecution of the Mesumption law, and angrily {n favor of Its repent, the Advertiser labors under a delusion, If {t will say that ‘Tn Tiununy advocated theromonetization of sil- verasa means of carrying tho law Into elfect, whiels was otherwise impossible, the adver (ler will enjoy the sathyfactlon of haying stated the casa HOW THE MINORITY MAY DIOTATE, A number of newspapers. have become simultaneously impressed with the Injustice of making up National conventions upon the basis of Congresslunal representation, with- out reference to the varying party strength of the different districts represented, ‘Chere Js certalnly something Incongrious aboutthe system, On the Republican side the present prospect fs, that, if Gen, Grant’ shall receive the nomination of the Chicago Convention, it will be through the support of instructed delegations from States which ho caunot hope to carry In the election,—such States as Missouri, Kentucky, and Arkansas, On the Democratic side thore is a conviction that ‘Tildon’s changes for the Clneinnatl nom- ination depend upun delegations from States that will voto the Republican tleket no matter who the Democratic candidate may be,—such States a3 Pennsylvania, lowa, and Michigan, ‘The result of the systent in ’ either enso is, that ‘the minority of the party will have the naming of tho candidate, and thus help‘to swamp the majority In tho struggle for success at tho polls, 1b cannot De denied that the party which is forced to sitceumb to this minority dictation will he at n serious disadvantage if the opposing party «shall escape It. The Demoerats are better protected than the Republicans against minority dictation. ‘Tho two-thirds rule, which is ocenstonatly denounced as unfair by thogo to whom It is an impediment, {s a formidable obstacle In tho way of a. combination from Republican States to nominate a Dem- oeratic candidate, “In a Republican Con- vention, whero on bare majority, suf- fices, an agreement among tho delegates rep- resenting the minority of Republican voters may almost always prevall over tho represent- atives of a majority who ore apt tobe divided in their preferences, A conspicuons Instance of the injustice of the present system may be obtalned by comparing the influence of Ohlo In the Chicago Convention with that of Missouri, and Kentucky. Ohio will have forty-four delegates In the Convention, but notone for the third-term candidate, Tho State is n close ongat best, and itis the only | State In the Union that will hold a preilmi- nary October election. The sentiment of Ohio Ig and will be in the Convention that it will ‘be very difficult to enrry the State for Gen. Grant owing to the antagonism of the Ger- man voters to the third-term movement, bit the representatives of Ohfo will unite in guaranteeing a Republican majority both in October and November for any other candi- date whom the Convention may designate, ‘This peculint condition of things oughtto give the Ohio delegation a voico at least in the exclusion of any candidate who will threaten tho logs of the State as agninst the influence of nny other delegations that cannot promise asingle Electoral vote for any Republican candidate, ‘The fact is, however, that Mis- sourl and Kentueky, which have already selected third-torm delegntes, will over- balance with thelr fifty-four delegates the forty-four delegates of Chilo, though the latter represent twenty-two Electoral votes for the Republican candidate, under cértain condl- tions, while the former practically represent. twenty-seven Electoral votes for the Demo- eratic enndidate under any and all clreum- stances. ‘Ihe oporation of this system fs, that the loss of twenty-two Electoral votes Is risked In Ohio without the most remote hops of gaining o single Electoral vote from tho two Southern States which neutralize the influence of Ohio in tho Republican Conyen- on. Perhaps tha Injustice of the present basis of representation {n the party Conyention has never been so npparent as It is now because there has never befofe been so deliberate and determined an effort to secure the nomina- tlon of a Republican candidate through the agency of Demoeratle States, Theres no why to help the matter in time for the Chi- cngo Convention except by appealing to the Justice and generosity of the Republican constituencies which are hopelesly in the minority, and we fear such appeal will be futile, If the Republicans who live in cor- tain Southern States where thelr votes are counted merely.as 6 matter of form were genuinely enlisted In the party cnuse, they would be anxious to cast thelr Influence in favor of the candidato most likely to carry tho Republican and doubtful States. Upon this principle, Missourl and Kentucky Re- publicans would say to the Ohlo Republic- ans: “We feel that the vote of your State is essential to Republican success thts fall, and we know we cannot carry our States in any ense; hente, if there is the slighest appre- hension that Gen. Grout cannot carry Ohio, we will gladly agree ypon some other cand!- date who will unito ll. Republicans-in- Lis support.” Instead of taking this posttton, the Republicans of Missouri and Kentucky and other Democratic: States combine to force upon Ohio Republicans a candidute they do not want, and Republican success is put In Jeopardy py men who can contribute nothing to It in any ense, ————— DEATH IN THE POT. ‘Thera appears to be a race of belngs, most- ly of n seientific turn, who take a special de- light in inaking others unhappy, upon tho pretense of announelng some important dis- covery or adding to the general stock of knowledge. A favorit fleld of operation for this elusy $3 thatof gastronomy. ‘They curl- ously and with a flendish sort of satisfaction pry into and scrutinize with microscopic and other tesis the comnion articles of diet, to show that some fraud has been perpetrated In their preparation, or that mercenary trades- men haye been turning dishonest pennies throngh the medium of adulteration, and they are usually successful in thelr quest, as hu- man nature, even in this day of rellglous en- lightenment, Is only tolerably strong agniust temptation, Iaving succeeded in thelr inyves- tigntlons thoy announce them with a gusto, and triumphantly inform the unscientific thousands who hayo been enjoylng the bliss of Ignoranco. and eating what they supposed to be innocuous and healthy food that they are brenkfasting, dining, and supping upon polsonous minerals and drugs, and drinking all kinds of flery, stomuch-lestroying com- pounds, ‘They tell them that thelr cotfes is only beans, their ten 1s colored with polson- ous greens, their sugar is sanited, thelr mitk is chatked, thelr flour ts full of white earth, their mustard 1s turmerte, their sirup is flu yored with old boots, thelr vinegar is sul- phurie acid, their butter 1s oleomargurine, thelr wine is, prineIpally made of stuffs that never saw a vineyard, and thelr whisky Is benzina and fusel oils, So they go through the whole category, condwuniig every- thing ns adulternted,—not | only ndul- terated but unhealthy, not only unhealthy but absolutely poisonous; and they triumph- antly point te the rupli inerense of oll dis- enses and tho origin of new oneg ns proof positive that thore Is death In the pot, In the caster, In the augar-bowl, In the dlou-baprel, everywhere in the pantry. Ilitherto these vandals have let meat alone, and the unscientific thousands, while sadly conscious that the other dishes of the break- fast and dinver were polsons, never once suspected that thelr steaks, chops, and ronsts wore not honest, healthy, and life-giving, Now come the scluntific veterinarians, and With the same triumphant gusto tell us that nlarge share of the meat we ard consuming is diseased and unhealthy, and the despalr or” the situation is that nu one but a veterinary surgeon can observe the disense, Beef per- haps, next to bread, is. the malnstay of human Ife, and they tell as that tuberculusly {8 a yery common disense ninong beef-cattle, and that consump- tive cows and oxen are nearly always to be found In the markets of the cltles, and that the effect uf tho disease is very tnjurious upon human health when the meat or milk of diseased animals is taken ns fool, But of what avail ls this to the consumer who has no jeans of kuuwlng that tha Inte do- ceascl, whose remalng ho fs eating, took cold, that the cold settlud on his lungs, and that he gradually went into a decline, and whon he was knocked on tho head was full of tubercles? ‘The samg authorities now tell us that tuberculosls fa.i1tot tho only disease that renders beet harmful. the measles, und so do, hogs, ‘Tho measles develop tape-worms Inboth, the difference boing that whilo the beef cattle have largor worms, the hog; or ho wouldn’t bo a hog, has more of them, Theonly sure death to. the > Beet cattle havo’ 1880-—TWELVE PAGES. tape-worngthnt lurks In the juley stent or aucettent fudertoin Is thorough cooking. Tut what Is the tnscfentiile consumer to do? ‘Tho physician tells him he must ent hls beof rare, ns it will give Nin health and strength, The velerinnry surgeon tells him he must have it well done or It will give him a tape-worm, with all that that wriggling horror Implies,— tenant of whom every onc wants but Hite, and no ono wants that little very long, It Is not nlone tuburguiosis and meastes that sct- ence fs hurling at herotofore happy ignos tance, but anthrax also,—anthrax being 0 species of Dlootl-polsuning that pertains to beef cattle and anakes the meat unilt for food, Not content with undermining con- fidenco in beef, the anul-carnivorous savants nso (ell us that much of ourmutton is braxy, and that a braxy haricotor chop Is Just as bad ng an anthrax steak, mensley fillet, or tuberculous ronst. It is of Httle consequence to the unsophisticated that braxy fs an {n- tlammutory disease to which the gentlosheep 1s addicted, when there ts no possible way for iim to know thatthe gentle sheep had the braxy before ho departed this life. One of these investigators, Dr. Nonh Cressy, who {3 9 voterinary authority in New En- gland, also attacks the popular confidence in yeal by showing that numerous calves have blackleg, which unflts them for the table, and that’ per cent of all the Western hogs have the trichine, 4 Fortunately there is but Mttte left for theso vandals to work upon, ‘The vegetable king- dom remains, It may be that with careful investigation they may yet discover that pota- toes, bevts, parsnips, turnips, and nll the concomitants of the bolled tiinner, as well as tho fruits thatserve for dessert, aro full of active poisons, have ‘tubercles and anthrax, or contain trichina and tape-worms, Having demolished vegetables also, witl they then. tell us what we can ent that will not send us to premature graves and spread discnse througn whole communities? Would lt not linve been better to hove allowed us te go on'in our innocent ignorance? In this world of trouble, where there 1s so Ittle in hich wo can hayo confidence, why was It necessary to spoil our breakfasts with sus- pictons and our dinners with galling uncer- tainties? When the imngination has so much todo with disense should -not these gastronomic iconoelasts be held Mable for much of the unhealthiness that exists? Did braxy mutton or anthrax beef ever trouble anyone until some meddling surgeon dis- covered that they wero unhealthy? It ts probable that mankind has been enting tubereulous beef ever since the days of Noah without any special detriment, becauso it didn't know ft. ‘The whole matters summed up in the general facet that if we knew what we were eating wo probably: wouldn't cat anything, The man, therefore, who informs us gs not o benefactor of his kind. ———— AN AMERICANIZED FRENCHMAN. If tho name, genealogy, and career of M. Jo Compte de Lesseps dtd not stamp him asa Frenchman, his recent appearance and utter- ances in Paris would be suillclent to warrant the conviction that he wasn Yankee In dis- guise, During his vistt to the United States this gentleman was recelved with ail the con- sideration due to his eminent position os a eivit engineer and tho successful entrepre- aeur of the Suez Cannl, “Nevertheless his presonce here, which was avowedly In the interest of the Pannma tide-water canal, was the occaston of the most decided protest against the particular project which ho rop- resented. It brought out from President Hayes a specinl message to Congressiu which the Monrvo doctrine was expanded In such mmanneras to include American resistance to the construction of any interocennic caual with fortign capital of: under foreign aus- plees, A Specin! Committes of Congress re- ported resolutions about the same time which embodied substantially the same view of the matter. ‘There was not, so far as external evidence sliowed, any proffer of capital, sympathy, or good will for tho French cannl project. All the clreumstances of M. de Lesseps’ visit, oxcept the merely formal courtesy extended to hin, inspired the belle that he would go home either entirely discouraged or prepared to tell his peoplethat any cayhl under French auspices would encounter the most stubborn opposition from the American people and the American Government, M. de Lesseps has not taken so gloomy a view of the case. In public letters and public speecheshe tells the French people that he hins found encouragement overywhere, Writ- {ng to the Figaro, the popular and sensational newspaper of Paris, ho says that “all ob- stacles have been removed by the will of the American people as expressed In public meetings and to the American Government,” Inaspeech delivered at the Sorbonne, ho announced that “ $00,000,000 francs are awalt- Ing him at New York for the prosecution of ils enterprise.” If he wero an American “mine-sharp,” seeking to place tho stock of some untried and perhups undis- eovered deposit of silver, ho could not be more sanguine nor more prolific in promises, What American enpital- Ists have guaranteed BI. de Lessops $60,000,000, or miro than one-third of the catimated cost of his Pannina Canal? It ts true that gigantic speculations are often organized secretly, and ynst amounts of money sometimes collected for a speciile purpose without publie proc- lamation, Hence It might be conceded as possible that M. do Lesseps hind actually enlisted ‘the codperation of the Vanderbilts, Goulds, Belmonts, Astors, and other Amer- feans who control grent fortunes in this country, if ho had been content with start Ing the public with that announcement alone, But itis notorlous that thore has been no great and sweeping expression of popular opinion in favor of the Lessops Canal, a3 the projector lias represunted to his countrymen, and con sequently it will be concluded in this country that his stutemedut fs as Inaccurate In one particular as itisin thaother, If there had been town-meetings hold throughout tho United States to encourage his project, the euterprise of the Amorican newspapors fs 5 warrant for belloving that tho first Informa. . tlon thereof would not have come by way of Paris nor through MG de Lesseps, ‘Cho oxtravagant accounta which M, de Leasops 1s giving the French people of the steccas he has had In the United Statesmust be traced to something else than the natural enthustasm and elusticity of his French character, Thero {s something more than a couleur do rose about his letters and speeches, They read very much as if they were prompted by 9 keen, shrewd, and in- gentous Intent to deceive the French people, ‘Tho French do not keep themsclves very well Informed ag to the detalls of American nfulrs, 31, do Lesseps’ porsonal statements wilt probably bo accepted by the masses as eeurate, ‘Che number of people in France 1s extromely Himited who. are informed as to the President's message and tho Congres- glonnl resolutions antagonistic to all canal projects under forelgn protection, It is yrobably ‘unknown in’ France outside of « very’ small clrele of diplo mats that It is the purpose ‘of the ; American Government to terminate the Bul- wer-Clayton Treaty with England fof the ox- press purpose of leaving the ,United States free to assert a preponderating jutluence in any Interoceanto-canul ‘project: thatmay ba undertakeu. But the French ara a reapon- sive and enterprising people, and if AL de Lessops can Lupress upvu them that he has I the good will, and may depend upon tho active assistance, of tha Aimerieans tn tho conatruction of his proposed canal, his coun- trymen will bo prompt and Mberal in thelr subscriptions, and his scheme will. recelyo 0 powerful backing and Impulse hefore the Amerlean opposition thorete ean be practle- ally manifested. Ie evidently desires and hopes to proceed with the Panama Canal in mitch the samo fashion as he proceeded with the Suez Canal in the face of English oppo- sition, and with tho atdof his own people push it so far that it cannot be stopped. In the meantime he has stolen American thun- der by adopting tha American speculative system of brag and misrepresentation, ee Tim St. Louls Globe-Democrat oxplains why {tis thnt the third-term candidate has no doubt of having a majorily in the Republican National Convention, That paper, which is the original third-term organ in tho country, says that on tho first beilot Gen. Grant will have tho instructed delegates from tho following States: 16) Missouri... 00; Kentucky . Caroling Total from Democratic States. Ard from bulldozed State: Necessary to NOMINAL. ..creoseseersesvecsecee eT BurplSs.ce sees sececoessneeneeeene seores MO Of course those sixtcon ex-sinveholding and Democratio States aro not expected to and will not givo one Electoral vote for any Republican enndidate, They will in Novembor next givo tho Democratic candidate, no matter who ho inay be, 138 Riectoral votes, leaving that candi- date to get at the North only forty-seven Elect- oral yotes to be elected. The Mepublicuns of Ohlo and of Indiana, of Marsachusetts, Rhode stand, Connecticut, and Michigan, unanimously devlare that in no event can a third-term enndl- date get-the Electoral votes of those States. These States have sixty-nine Electoral votes, from which the Democrats havon chance to gain the forty-seven needed Electors, leaving thom Now. York, 8; New: Jeravy, 0; Callfornin, 0; Oregon, 3; and: New Hampshire, 6, aa n further resorve. If tho 207 delegates from the Solld South who In Convention shall force an candidate upon the party in opposition to the protests of the Hepublican States of Now England, Iowa, and Ohio, coukl oven give one Electoral yote for tho man they nominate, ft would reliove tho monstrosity of tho disaster; but, when these States shall nominate tho candl- date, thoy will leaye the battle to clect him to the Republicans of tho North, whom they have outraged and overwholined. The crowning vie- tory of the Hrigndicrs, and of tho whole Rebel host, will be the nomination of o third-torm candidate at tho Chicago Convention by the so- ealled representatives of the Solid South, who will not givo that candidate even one Electoral yote In November, <<< Soste effusive advoentes of the third term need to be reminded that the South is solld, and Ukely to remain so, We subinit a statemont of the relutive strength of partics in the Southorn Legislatures on joint bullot, to show how much probability there fs of dividing theSoltd Southon athird-term issuc: ‘ - Legislatures. Rep. Dem, Alabama... a nO Arkanens.. 7 ut ww kit 25 TOs cccsserescsersceesreosesseeeth — LTHh In tho fifteen Btates nbove mentioned to Ite- publicans have but one United States Sonator,— Kellogg,—and his seat {a now contested by tho bulldozers. Tho Solid South sends but threo Ite- pubiloan Representatives to tho Lowor House of Congress,—Martin, from North Carolina; Houck, from Tennessoo; and Jorgonsen, froin Virginia. The Democrats, on tho: othor band, olect from those States twenty-nine United States Sonators and ninoty-seven members of the Lower House. ‘The division of tho Solld South in Congress Is: Senate House, Demoerata... vi Ttepublicaus ; 1 f Demooratio majority... oF On Joint ballot....... Pree td No sano man who knows how partics aro di- vided In tho South and realizes that tho terrible cleotion machinory of that region {s completely in tho hands of the Democruts can look for ono Eteotoral yato for the Republican tokot in any of the Southorn States. It would be madness for tho Republican party to nominato a candidat in the hope of carrying any Southern Btate, and In so doing risk Ohlo, New York, and Now Hamp- shire, which are essential to Republican success this fall. Tre want of harmony -between Gen. Grant’s own uttoranees In tho South and tho pleas of somo of his Northern supporters on hig behalf is quite noticcable. An illustration of this inconsistoncy {a afforded in Gen, Logan's apecch at the Chicnyo.mnass-mecting and Gen, Grant's speech at Culro, which may bo com- pared thus: Logan at Chicago, April Under Grant, — my| countrymen, itis not— I say, under him, a Grant at Cairn, April 16, It has been my good fortune to have ie weacd through a Ittio ny it of every one of tho eltizen of tho United|Southern Btrtes Intel: Btates will not have tolin tho Robeilion, and ft move tnta the land of|is gratifying to me, and Merico in order to clatm{! kuow it will be to you, protection. under tho|that in every ono of powers of this mighty|thom scenes, decora- overnment; butundertions, and speeches its own Nag be cnn have} woro much tho saine as rotection; and untiljwe sco and honr to-tiny, his Government sbull/Tho Stars and Stripes rotest ita citizons Injworo touting ovory> holr constitutional rights undor the Con- tho spenkurs in stitution and Inwslovery Instanuo were everywhere, it fails to]/mon who in the conillat portorta thut duty that}wore the gry, and the clonga ta & govern-lspeeches which . thoy ment to be performed|made show their pres- towards ita oltizans.Jent dovation to the ting: Under Grant, those du-jfor which we fought, tea, in my Judgmont,|and whch ts alt we axked will bo performed, and ee them, and that thoy tho wholo Nation will|should respectand hon- go on growing prouder, for the flag and becomo and — mightlor, anid} good citizons, and hero- stronger thin it ts toe jitter If it should be ns- sitiled by a forolgn foo that they should unito with us na one people. . From. the assurances: thoy give I bullove they. jure siucerc, ——— }. yesterday told several falschoodts e EF ES days Tur I, about tho delegates already olucted to tho Ilit- nols Convention, reversing the truu figures 60 astogive tho third torm a majority. Tut this need not surprise those who havo followod tho remarkable courso of that paper during tho presont canvass, Thotrue tally 18; Sherman... Tux Trisut As wt presci by mako oither in regard to tho State or tho Nay tlonal Convention, It simply gives tho nows, thus several times printed a tally of tho dclo~ gates vlected by countics, and no contradiction of its ostimates has beon reucived from any quarter, ———— Timex Republican County Conventlons in Tows adoptod anti-third-term resolutions—soott, Floyd, and Grundy, ‘Tix Trinunw has alreudy published those passod iu Floyd and Bcott, Me- low are thogo adopted in Grundy: i Resoloed, That the doctrine of a third term for auy Preaidont 1s un-Amorioan, and violation Gf the wise prooudont eat by ‘Washington in bis Furuwoll Address, and followed by Jefferson, Madison, Monrov, and Juckson, which has, by uniform acquiescence fora hundred years, bo- Smet purt of tho unwritten luw of tho Ko- public, Y Reaolved, That the bright prospects of tho Re- publican party, us shown by the last olection, do not puarraah any doparturo from this time-hon- orat a Mr, Dunxety's vote In favor of the paper monopoliats is not defended by any of the ie- publican papers of. his district, and somo of thom denutnoe it in strong tor: ——————— . Agkeat ado 1s made by some persons over the Electoral vote of Florida, and the possibility of carrying It for the third term, Florida bes Just four Electoral votes, or the same number ag Rhode Island, There are some persons, as ot whore, A yroxt portions Mr. Btorra observed, who scom to ‘be nlwayg looking through nm inverted tetescdpe. The: can seo thd infinitly simul but not tho infinity great, Thoy cun obsorve tho tnecot on tho tons mane, but thoy cannot sce the lion atall. The enn magnify the Inconsiderable vote of pete: Fiorlda, but thoy ennnot weigh tho Amportance of Ohte, the only October State which casts tron. ty-two Electarnl vates, and 16 n hurd-fonghtfel4 In overy election. Mayes carried Obto over all by only 3,747 majority in 1870, and over ‘Tilden by only 7,600 plurulity; and Hayes Wasa mich stronger eaudidate In Ohio, his own Btato, which, ho hnd served faithfully as Governor, than, we fear, n third-term cansd{date would ba, SS Tne careful New York correspondent of tho Philadelphia Ledyer says of the toport that Mr. Tilden has written a letter to be read before the Byracuse Convention withitrawing his name from the Presidential ennynrs: Your correspondent, simply as matter of news, and without avy partisnn purpose whataoe ever to subserve, fs inn pogition to asset with tho utmost emphasis, that those Atatomentreet without the shadow of truth, dtr, Tilden, soy may pele ‘pon it, has written no such letter, and has made no statement, verbal or otherwise, to Any person, warranting any such inferenco: nor dots he intend to write any such letter to. ‘the yracuse Convention, nor to the Cineinnatl Cone vontion, nor to any other body or porsans. et Nontm Canoraina, according to young Stephen Douglns, 18 trombling in tho, Datance, and nothing but a third-term nvminntion will savo lt, Tho interested patriot turns at once to tho olection roturna toseo what North Carolin, is doing for tho Republican party, and {s sur. Prised to And that the Turpentino Btato sends two Temverats to tho ‘United States Senat seven outof elght Democratic Congrossinen ¢ tho Lower ‘House, and has a Logisttare more, than two to one Democratic on Joint bullat, Yet, wenre toll that North Carolin must bo our “main hott” in this election, and not Oblo, o¢ New Humpshire, or New York. as Mu. Stonns. drew an affecting pictnre of the negroes of the Bouth wading through ocenns of lon! to cast thelr yotes in favor of the thint torm. Buthodld not oxplain whnt would be como of thozo votes after Domocmtic Judges of elections and Demovratio.lteturning Bontds bad counted and “oorrcuted" the returns. Wo saw A abort thine ago whut tho-Duemooratio party was capable of in the Puritan State of Maino; buy this was a more circumstance to what they will accomplish, if necessary, In tho Bourbon Com. monwealths of tha South, —————__ ‘Tie Democrats have ordercd for onmpnlen Cireulution 100,000 coples of Gen. Ewtig's specth on tho rider of tho Army bill, Spoaking of this speech, the correspondent at Washington of the Richmond State remarks: ‘ ‘Tho polut of his (Ewing'a)-remarksml, been blunted n Ittlo if itoheson had rl ch mitted to rend an extract from n musty ol book hic had fished out af the ‘Congrosatonnl Lt. reed in OWL Hiekores ene, taking Pee tho opposit view of “iw same question, Pe = aes New Haars gave «n majority of but 3,000 for Hayes over Titden in 1870. Prosoott hat a majority of 4,04 aver Morey for Govornorin 1877, but in 1878 Head hada plurality of but m1 over thn two opposing vandidates. ‘Two sucece sive Republican Conyentions in New tHampsblre adopted strong nntl-third-torm resolutions, Now William &, Chandlor desires to know what answer the Republicans of that State enn mako if those resolutions are thrown In their faces next full, = Tur Democratte party in Virginis Is about evenly divided on tho dobt-prying {ssuc, but ne bave no ovidence that.tt {a at all divided on the Presidential issue, It-does not seein to be clear- ly apparent that tho clection of Gen. Grant for a third terin would agstat the repurtintors of Vir ginin to cheat thoir ercditors out of whnt fs just- lyduethom, Hoenco they have no motive to vote for Republican Alectors. Young Steptoe Douglas should take this kink out of his argue ment. ee ‘Tnx Galesburg correspondent of the Chik engo Journal writes ns follows: ‘Tho Knox County. ster emtiaa to tho Ropublican State Convention “ts claimed by the frionds of both Grant and Dinine, The fact is, that, al though the County Convention instructed the delegates for Binine, yet the individual prefer- ences of tho delegationare as follows: Nino for Blaine, two for Graut, and two for Wasbburne, The entira..delozationwill, however, voto 26,8 ‘unit for Btutno. a Tre eltizens of Illinois will bo called upon to voto next fall for n constitutional aniend: ment extending tho term of the oflices of Sherif and County Treasurer to four years, and prov viding that no such olticial shall bo vligibta to re election to sald offico for four years aftor tho oxpiration of tho term for which he shall hare been elected, a Briain dclegntes are belng very generally choson in Wisconsin and Michigan; and n strong Maine sentiment is developing in Minnesota. No ono of theso States will be for tho: third term. Tllinols will bo tho solitary exception on thatalde in tho whole Northwoat, tf, indeed, It should be delivered over accordiag to contrach —<—<$———_$§_— A BTALWART prayer was offered at tho opentny of tho lowa Republican Convention ‘The boys stood It woll enough until the Chaplain camo to his “soldicr-and-sailor" resolution, when thoy burst Into wild applause. ———————§— PERSONALS, 7 Poker-player’s epitaph: ‘“Icaven has enlled him." Home-Role fs a success only when applied to American horsca that get homo first. Old gong reconstructed for Mr, Tilden’s bonelit: “I cipher a day that is sitertand gone.” An English journal says that Melssonler paints very slowly, Probubly tho old gentleman is working by tho day, “Sing hey tho merry bu lldog and her pa,” istho way young mun who went tosco the maiden and didn't, put it © Ohlo Journalist”—You would not bo far out of tha way ‘in printing nocounts of boate races and ball-gamos undor tho head of ‘iidu- ontional Notes,” A enblegrim announces that tho physicians of Gortschukof have not givon up hope; but tho old man's friends gave up Gortschakoff tho minute thoy lourned that four Imperial doctors had been called, It ts pleasant tolearn that the King of Siam that will shortly visit Amorica {s tho First King, and not the Becond, The people of this country don’t want any old worn-out potentates rung J on them ns first-class monarchs. “Young Lawyer”—We doubt it the {all ure of the tulorto deliver your pants on time could be construed into broach of promise. If you aro really detormined to begin an action suo him for unfulfilicd promise of breeches. ‘The Italiqn brigands who recently captured Col. Bingo and obtained $20,000 ransom for him now have in custody Dr. Marniis, n Gorman naturalist, and dumand $5,000 for his rele ‘The Binged brigand ovidently doca not dreadthe fire, ‘ ’ By carefully perusing 9 recent number of tho Now York 24mes, wo leurn that “golden aun: Nyht now ateala over tho wostorn bills and kissee the rippling waters of tho purling brook.” A yery pleasant companion-pieture to this would bo 8 atrong-linbed mon stealing a club somo where and wearing {t out on tho author of the abovo-quoted sentation. . For the purposo of spoiling the break(as! of uby morricd man who may happen to reed this, wo reprint the following from a fushlod fournul: “Novelties in Ingorie are constantly appearing. Among tho nowest aro allk pettl coats cut out ou the border in equarcs, In cack of these open ploves is a small iuserted puillog- Some of theso skirta are made of bluc Surah. with inserted puftings of light bluowatio. The squaro ploces which are cut cut of the lower part of theso skirts aro not moro than alx inches tong, and theyo aro a number arount tho skirt A dasbing young man {in Bt, Paul Loved a maiden oxooodingly tall; ‘Two nighta in tho wock Ho would muster up check And msko the fair croaturoa call, Ono day her pa shouldered his gun And went out to discover the aon Of a sca-oook who would On a young heart intrude, And say he was only in fun, He mot the young man ina store | Aud blow bim out through the front 400m -¢ Afuther-in-law jury Let him off in a hurry, : But tho boys shunned that gir! overmorty '