Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 3, 1880, Page 4

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DICKERSON, Hecora Pe tion 4S a Ab vorat formwork onthe & Mt and ME M Bearees. Yishing . By if coebtslbe A sina OPP AOk a E's . 1.69, K. A. M.—Special ‘Oct. 4 at 7:30 o'clock, JOHN 0. DICKERSON, tary. CHICAGO COMMANDERY, NO. 19, KNIGHTS TEMPLAR—Stated Conclave Monday evening, Oct. 4, 1590, a 7:30 o'clock. Visiting Sir Knizhtsalways wel- come. By order of the Eminent Communder. IL T. JACOBS, Recorder. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1890. GEN. SHERMAN has telegraphed to Wash- ington that President Hayes and his party will not return to the White House till the ith of No- rember. : Accorprné to the Richmond Daily Dis- patch, the official census returns of Virginia give that State a population of 1,509,335, being an in- srease over the population in 1870 of 264,172, or about 23 per cent. Cot. Mapiesoy, of Her Majesty's Italian Opera Company, and the principal members of ais troupe arrived at New York, yesterday. Mr. Archibald Forbes, the well-known war corre- spondent of the London Daily News, arrived also. Mr. Forbes will lecture. TuE liabilities of Oliver & Robinson, the Richmond, Va., tobacconists whose failure was announced Friday, are placed at $188,000, The assets amount to $100,000. The failure is at- tributed to the- large sums of money paid for \nterest on borrowed capital and to heavy losses m trade. : Brockway, the. well-known forger, who plied his vocation so deftly in this city and other places to’ the loss of many citizens, is safely saged at last. He wassent to the Rhode Istand Penitentiary yesterday for cight years. Tho yang which he operated are now completely sroken up. Mr. PARNELL will be entertained by his Cork constituents to-day.” A grand banquet will be given in his honor, and speeches, toasts, music, banners, etc., will be some of the features of the occasion. He will address a mase-meet- ing in the afternoon and review a procession of Jand-leaguers. LAWRENCE R. Jerome, Jn, and his friends Patchell and McGibbon, the three high-toned young gentlemen who some time azo made too ree with $67,500 worth of securities belonging to Brayton, Ives & Co., Wail street brokers, were ndicted by the New York Grand Jury yesterday for grand larceny. * a Tre steamship Castello left Savannah, @a., Friday for Liverpoul, taking 7,18 bales of cotton. Thisissaid to be the largest cargo of cotton ever taken from any Atlantic port. The foreign trade of Savannah, and of nearly all the Atlantic ports, this year Is said to be the largest in the history of the country. Ey-Qures Isauexta, who has for several years Leen an exile from ‘Spain, but wHo has re- cently returned to that country in order to par- ricipate in the festivities attendant on the chris- tening of the oyal baby, will probably remain there, Her children are anxious that she shall do €0, and it is supposed thar she has no serious ~ abjections to comply with their wishes. ——— Tne steaniship Isaac Bell, when about to sail from Norfolk, Va., yesterday, for New York, took fire and burned to the water's edge. It had on board 750 bales of cotton, forty hogsbeads of tobacoo, and forty barreis of resin, and all were, totally destroyed. The sbip was built in 1808 and was valued at £230,- 200. The value of the cargo is placed at $411,000, Ar the end of the fiscal year, June 30, there were 104 postal offices, from which the mai] was delivered by 2688 carriers. The number of Pieces of mail handled at these offices during the year wes 932,121.84, being an increase of 122,267,778 pieces over the number hanpdicd the previous year. The total cost of the delivery, including the salaries of Special Agents, was $2,965,083. GARIBALDI's movements in Italy continue to excite the apprehensions of the Itzlian Min- istry. His course, and the measures to be adopted with regard to him, bave been discussed at three Cabinet councils during the past week. Garibaldi 1s still the stormy petrel of Italan politics. ‘Since the death of Mazzini “he fs the daring leader of the conspirators and revolu- Honists of the lovely land. ‘Tne jury in the case of Mrs. Mack, of Janesvilie, charged with the murder of her bus- band, after being out ifty-three hours failed to agree, ond were discharged yesterday. This is the second occasion on which Mrs. Mack has Deen on trial. She was convicted at the first trial, but the Supreme Court of the State granted anew one. The disagreement is considered equivalent to an acquittal. A Bupy of thirty armed men entered Dal- ton, Whitefield County, Ga., Friday night, and forcibly took possession of the property seized by Revenue-Collector Clark for violations of the United States laws. Acting-Commissioner Rog- ers has télegraphed Collector Clark to take im- modiate measures to identify the outlaws, and to call on United States Marshal Wagner, of the district, for assistance. Mr. Rogers also tele- srapbed Marshal Wagner to codperate, and not w cease until be has “exhausted every effort tosecure the arrest and punishment of the law- breakers.” For some time past the Georgia moonshiners have been rather aggressive. They claim that if Hancock fs elected they will be allowed to keep on making whisky which will never meet the gaze of a Gauger. - es —_—_—— A MEETING called for to-day at Paris to Protest against the intervention of France in Eastern aifairs cannot be held, as the promoters have not complied with the law regulating pub- Ue gatherings. It is not improbable that some of the’Radical members who yoted for the law are among those interested in getting up the meeting. Mrs. Groner Haaaiton, of Sacramento, Cal., last Friday requested an interview with her husband, from whom sbe kas been separated for some months. Mr. Hamilton complied with the request, and was shot dead by his infurjated wife during the interview. Mrs. Hamilton was insanely jeatous, Last January she shot at and Severely wounded a young girl to whom she fancied her husband paid too much attention. MENNorri GARIBALDI, son of the Italian revolutionary chief, has left Rome for.Genoa, where he expects to meet his father. It is said that he bears a letter from the Italian Premier which goes to show that the Ministry is terribly frightened about the movements of the ald chief, and are willing to compromise. Garibaldi, like his old enemy Pius IX., is very fond of the motto, non possumus, Secretary Tuompson, and Mr. House of Towa, addressed an immense Republican gath- ering at Terre Haute, Ind.,.last evening. About 2,000 men took part in the torchlight procession which preceded the meeting. Senator Conkling ‘will speak at Terre Haute next Wednesday, when it is expected that the meeting of last night will be surpassed. ‘There will be a procession of the trades and illuminutions of various kinds on ‘the occasion. : : To! ie Spinners’ Union of Fall River, Mass., called on the treasurers of four cotton-mills yesterday to urge an increase in wages, but received no satisfaction. Subse- quently the spinners held a meeting and wisely decided not to strike. They threaten. to do 60, however. as soon as they find the mill-owners in a tight place. An extra assessment is tobe levied on the operators so a8 to provide for the threatened strike. THe Republicans propose to make a vig- orous canvass in Virginia. The bitterness of the feud between the two Democratic factions in the State gives the Republicans good reason to hope that they may be able to gain the Elect- oral vote of the Old Dominion, and two, if not three, Congressional seats. The Democrats are thoroughly frightened at the determination of the Republicans, but there is.no chance for a fusion between the factions now. ———_ Gew. H. W. Stocum, who commanded sev- eral Indiana regiments during the Civil War, is believed to be the dispenser of the Democratic barrel in the Hoosier State. Gen. Slocum was in Europe when the campaign opened, but re- turned on being cabled for by Chairman Barnum, He bas $30,000 to place.among the unterrified where it will do most good, and will remain in Indiana until he finds out that it has been placed to no purpose. Frou Vienna comes the news that Mr. Gischen, English Ambassador-Extraordivary to Turkey, will return to England in November, when he will relieve Mr. Gladstone of one of the offices which that gentleman now holds,—that of Chanceltor of the Exchequer. This news re- quires confirmation. Mr. Gladstone takes great pride in his management of British’ finances, and would be very reluctant to allow any other- man to even share with him the honors thereof. ~ —_— . ‘THERE was an immense Republican toreb-. light procession in Pittsburg last evening. Fully 10,000 men were in line, The buildings along the line of march were gayly decorated. Great enthusiasm was manifested. The Repub- lican leaders are confident that they-can carry Allegheny County, in which Pittsburg is situated, by 12,000 majority, and Pennsylvania by 30,000. There was a great turnout in Cincinnati last evening also, Ohio is safe for Garfield by 20,000 majority. ‘ —_—_— ‘Tne Southern planters are being justly punished nowadays for their brutal treatment of the colored people. Their crops are ready for being harvested, but they cannot get enough men to harvest them. The average Southern white scorns to lavor himself, and the negroes have feft the country. Superintendent Con- nolly, of the Castle Garden Labor Bureau, nas recently received several! applications from the South for immigrant laborers. Some have been sent, but most of the immigrants prefer to come ‘West. A Tre ceremony of unveiling the statue of Robert Burns took place in Central Park, New York, yesterday afternoon. Several Caledonian societies from New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Brooklyn, and Hudson County, New Jersey, were present. George William Curtis delivered. ngraceful eid feeling oration, which moved many listeners to tears. The music consisted of Scottish airs, and the ceremonies were appro- priately ended by the whole company singing “ Auld Lang Syne.” The statue of the Ayrshire Plowman is placed directly opposit that of Sir Walter Scott, ———| Mr. A. B. Mason presented = declaration of principles at the Sixth Senatorial Conven- tion yesterday, which was adopted. The dec- Jaration favors a reform in the system of State taxation, an investigation into the sys- tem of State churities, and the making of the Titinois & Michigan Canal into a ship canal. Mr. Mason and the Convention were opposed to convict labor, and do not like Mr. Cullom, because he vetoed the “Truck bill.” Mr. Ma- son, curiously enough, omitted to say any- thing about free trade, which the London Daily News credits him with being an advo- cate of to the extent of gratuitously distribut-" ing Augustus Mongredien’s free-trade pam- phlet among the people of this State. Why this silence? | : ‘Vick-ADMIRAL SzyMour, in command of the European fieet at Gravosa, has received orders totake no action until the 6th inst., when itis thought that some definit decision'will be arrived at. by the Powers. The Hungarian Premier, replying to a member of the Dict yesterday, intimated that no force would be used to compel the cession of Dulcigno. On being pressed for a’ definit answer, he said orders had - been issucd to the Admirals. of the fiects that there should be no disembarkation of troops. also that Austria favored peace. The public feeling mani- fested against uny coercion of Turkey in France and Austria almost precludes the possibility of force being resorted to by either Power, and it now iooks asif England will be alone in the de- termination tocompel the acceptance of the Bertin Treaty by Turkey. The Sultan as usual temporazies. He has made a sort of promise to the German Ambassador that he wil! cede Dul- cigno to-day, but under-conditions. When the time comes he will probably find some excuse for not executing his promise. _—— Tue Democrats of this city made their Legisiative nominations yesterday, and the nomi- neeg, with few exceptions, are as disreputanle a Jot as even the Democratic party of this city ever had the hardihood to present to the public. In the First Senatorial District the nominees for the Lower House are M. J. Wentworth, nephew to his uncle, and David Sullivan, a young lawyer who ought to practice alittle before setting him- self up for a Jegisiatur. Judge L. B. Otis was nominated for Senator in the Second District, where he has not a shadow of chante to be elected. If there was a chance to’ elect a Democratic Senator, in the district. it is safe to say that - the’ Convention would select a more congenfal candidate than Mr. Otis, The selection it made for member of the Legistaturo in the district is proof_of this. Cook, the nominee, is a ‘ buil-wnacker ” at. the Stock-Yards, without education, character, or ability.. He is the representative of the thug element of his district, and that no decent man could receive the support of :that element is, shown by the vote which Mr. Brown, a reputa- bie lawyer, who was a candidate before the plug-ugiies, received. Cloonan and Gorman, who are the nominees for the Lower House in the Third District, are utterly disrep- utable, and utterly unfit to hold any office whatever. .Cloonan is now a bridge- tender, and his and Gorman’s political educa- } Nomination of George Mills Rogers for, Senator in the Fourth District. Mr.-Rogers will prob- ably get within 2,000 votes of a majority, and will not be made State Senator until be comes of age atleast. McMahon, the candidate for the Lower House ini the district, is now a Sidewalk ‘Inspector, and is scarcely fit. for that ‘position.. Of McKone and Mierolawski: little is known, save that they are printers. Sfiero- Jawskf, it {s needless to say, is a Pole. Mtr. Doug- lass, who was nominated for Senator in the Sixth District, is a railroad man, and Sexton, “who was renominated for the Lower Houee, is a member of the Crawford-Corcoran-Jim-McHale gang of the North Side, ‘Tue Rev. Dr. Cleary, of Dungarvan, Ire- land, bas been appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Kingston, Canada. The reverend gentieman is one of the most learned and pious men be- ‘longing to his Church. He was for several years connected with the Roman Catholic College of Waterford, and bas not been long parish priest of Dungarvan. During his pastorate there.bow- ever, be has had: occasion to do an act which might well be copied by ecclesiastics elsewhere. Dungarvan returns a member to the British Partiament, The constituency is very small,— about 250 voters.—and has been several times wooed by rich men. A few years ago an English ‘Catholic Barrister. named Mathews, visited the town, looked in on the voters, and was exceed- ingly kind and gracious to them. On his return tuEngland he sent Father Cleary a check for $500, telling him to use it in relieving ‘the dis- tress of his. parishioners. He also sent a dona- tion to a temperance society of the town. Soun after his election address to the “ free aad inde- pendent electors” of Dungarvan appeared. Father Cleary, rightly judying that the money purporting to be sent for charity was meunt as a bribe, raised 8 loan from. personal friends and sent_' Mr. Mathews’ donation back to him, and accompanied it with a scathing letter, which was very extensively copied at the time into the American. newspa- pers on account of its admirable character and elevated moral tone. He also caused the tem- perance society toreturn the money they re- ceived. Father Cleary has several times’ been offered a Bishopric. te has been forced into an acceptance this Ume. THE COUNIY NOM NATIONS. During the present week the nominations of candidates by both parties for the local offices in this county will be completed. The Congressional and Legislative nominations |. have already been made, by both parties, and the: Democrats have also nominated their county and judicial candidates, ‘The character of the nominations for local offices as made by the several parties will have a strong bearing. upon the general political result in this county, and -con- sequently in the: State. Chicago has had a bitter and a costly experience in bad, corrupt, and inefticient’ municipal govern- ment. A, long term ‘of dishonest and scandalous city government was followed by a season of even more dishonest and more. scandalous coulity government. So bad and disgraceful were these govern- ments that the people of the city and county were compelled to unite against the men in office as against a body of public thieves, and expel them from the offices they abused and dishonored. The Chicago voter, thus taught by experience the value of faithful local government and the means of securing it, is not slowto exercise his freedom of choice, and absolutely refuses to be bound by the decrees of packed caucuses and purchased conventions. “The Chicago voter of both parties, but particularly of the Republican party, has discovered, and freely acts apon the discovery, that the proper way to treat the nomination of an incompetent or im proper ‘person fora local office is to vote, against such candidate, no matter by whom he may benuminated. 4 We need only refer to the Jocal elections held in this county.for several years. In 1876 this county gave Tilden a majority of 2,402, but, owing to the better character‘of, the candidates fur the county offices on- the Republican ticket, all-those candidates, with + a single exception, were elected by handsome majorities. ; At.the same election the Repub- licans elected “their full Legislative tickets.: Two years later, profiting by the experiencd of nominating men who ought to be chosen, the Republicans again elected all their candi- datesincluding their judicial nominees. In a moment of weakness the Republicans, a year later, endeavored by appeals to party. fealty to make amends for objectionable can- didates, and the Democrats elected a full Bench of five more acceptable men as Judges, and by a majority that left no doubt as to the emphasis of the popular verdict. The, Republicans during this week will have to nominate four candidates for the Superior Court, five candidates for County Commissioners, a candidate for’ Sheriff, a candidate for Recorder, and one for Coroner. If the candidates for Recorder, Sheriff, and Coroner were to be selected separately from’ the Judges and Comnnissioners it is likely that there would be a positive unanimity asto who should be designated, but, owing to the possibility of all these nominations being put up together, there, will be trading and com- binations which arecertain to end notonlyin the disastrous and disgraceful defeat of the candidates ‘themselves, but also in greatly weakening and reducing the general vote of the party in this cityandcounty. . ~ ‘The Convention to nominate these candi- dates should’ meet. under ‘the full and thorough conviction that, if the: selections for Judges and for Commissioneis be weak; if they be made with a view of providing pen- sions for men who cannot otherwise earn a living, and not for the purpose of providing Proper persons to preside with ability in courts of justice, then their defeat by the people will be.prompt and emphatic, The public mind, even if this bea Presidential year, is determined to submit to no trifling in the matter of judicial or county govern- ment. The public have the right to the services of the ablest and the best, and will not accept any other. The list of candidates for judicial offices is appalling; not only because of the number of names it contains, but because. of a large proportion of the names themselves.’ While. there are men having the highest ability, and possessing all the recommendations person- ally and ‘as candidates to fillall the offices three times over, there are fullyas many more who cannot and ought -not to be elected, and whose nomination is within: the possibilities, of the Convention. With proper nominations, the candidates will be elected and the whole party vote be strength- ened; but. with nominations of any other character their defeat will be invited, if not secured, THE DISASTROUS RESULIS OF A DEM- OCRATIC SUCCESS, THe Tripuxe in a-recent article pointed out some of the injurious results that will ensue in case of the election of Hancock and a Democratic House of Representatives, erowing largely out of their absence from office during the past twenty years, and their consequent rapacity. It showed that an ex- tra session of Congress wil! be indispensable, and that the first measure to come before it will be the division of Texas into five new States, and the admission of New Mexico and Utah, thus reinforcing the Confederates with twelve new Senators, and throwing the Sen- ate into the hands of the South for a long time to come, The next: measure will ee to seize- upon the. Supreme ‘Court by packing it ‘with twelve. new Justices. Then would follow the raid upon ‘the offices. Though there. are scores and hundreds of tion, which was acquired behind a clay pipe ina wet grocery, consists in ability to run a primary and to lead voting gangs on election-day3. ‘The Democracy have recently shown a remark- able fondness for sons of fathers and nephews of uncles, which will probably account for the 1 Democratic Postmasters now under the Re- publican régime, no Hepublican Postmaster would keep his office a day after the nieeting of the Democratic Congress. “ The United States Marshals,” says the Cincinnati Commercial, “would be the fiercest of: the subordinates of the Solid South, and. they would have such swarms of Deputy Marshals on election-days as never marched in Judge Taft’s dreams.”? The internal-revenue offices and the, Postal “Department would be filled with the ex-Con- federates, devouring-the spoils and carrying out the behests of the party. It is as trueas Gospel, this that a contemporary says: Take Néw York City, and put the Custom- House into the hands of the shrewdest ,of the Tammany politicians, and bestow the’ Post-/ Office upon another af the same sort, and multi- ply the patronuge of those two uit political citadels, and Jet the official machinery of the Custom-Hoyse be applied soas toexuct from the importers half 9 million dollars tor any im- portant campaign, und what sort of persuasion could be employed to reduce the Democratic mujority—no matter what the party had done— in New York City and Brooklyn below 100,00? As for the use of Government offices and patron- age and the formation of corrupt riugs under the excuse that campaign funds were needed, the boldest thing “the most stulwart Republican ever did would become insignificant in compari~ son-with the magnificent scope of .the clutuh of. the Democracy upon the spoil prepared throuph the wonderful growth of this country within the last twenty years, for men with the advantages of office and the courage of their rapucity. There is another calamity which must fol- low the election’of Hancock and English, to which the Commercial does not. make refer- ence, and yetit is one of the most alarming dangers which will threaten the community in such a contingency. ..A clew to it may be found in a Washington dispatch to TuE TRIBUNE of yesterday stattag that 3,000 Gov- ernment employés, a majority of them ex- }- Union.soldiers, are preparing to sell their homes.in_ case of a Demo-Confederate suc- cess in November, knowing full well that they will be turned ontof their places to the last man. This wholesale dismissal of old and tried public servants, and consisting ‘largely of the-Nation’s defendérs, and the substitution in their places of raw and green hands,—ward bummers,—will be a calamity to the business interests of-every community which.the people should seek to prevent by every means in their power, Imagine the effect such a dismissal would have in this city alone. ‘ Three. hundred postal em- ployés, picked men, selected from thou- sauds of applicants, and a largé por- tion of them old soldiers, and who have learned their ‘routes, become acquaint- ed with their customers, and have famillar- ized themselves with the indoor duties of the office, will be bundled out atonceand thrown upon the community.without employment, to support themselves and their families as they bestean. The same thing will happen in the Treasurer’s office, and in the offices of the Collectors of Customs and Revenue, where hundreds,of men who have done their duty faithfully and “unostentatiously, not making themselves oflicious or obnoxious to any one, but. performing their work to the satisfaction of every one, will be pitched out ofemployment. "| Why should ‘they be sacrificed merely be- cause Hancock and English are elected—it such a misfortune should happen? The peo- ple of Chicago don’t want them dismissed, and yet nearly oné-half of them will vote to do it; will vote to put the public offices up on a grand raffle and to enforce the odious Democratic dogma, “To the victors belong the spoils,” which is doing more than all else combined to destroy the efficiency of public servants and to corrupt our political system. And who will take the places of. these expert and experienced employés? The ward-workers, bummers, scalawags, and whisky soaks who how! round.the.pre-. cincts and at saloon-meetings,—men not only without experience, but without qualifica~ tions, natural or sequired, and whom it will take .years: to learn’ their business. If the change were only- gradual it might not be such an unmitigated calamity, "but this can- not-be. The thousands of public servants’ will all go out at ones, and the entire service will be filled with unqualified men’ at once. Such a radical change has nothing to com- mend it. Itis wrong in its every aspect. It is wicked as well as-impolitic. ‘ It is an in- justice to the public and an injury to the’ business public. The people do themselves an injustice by countenancing it. They. might change the heads of departmentg, as is done in England, France, or Germany when an Adwinistration changes. -There “the: men who make the policy and lead the patty go out, but the rank and file of administrative clerks remain un- disturbed. Would it not be just asconsistent to discharge the rank and file of an army be- cause its leaders. are changed? Take our ova city for an illustration. Next spring a new Mayor will be thosen. Ought all the policemen, firemen, and employés of the pub- lic works, and clerks Of “the city offices, to be discharged because a new Mayor has been elected? Would it not work a serious injury to the interests of che city? But this would, beno more of a mistake than it will be, in case Hancock is elected, to throw out the Government clerks and fill their places with new men who have no knowledge of their duties, as rewards for partisan howling and bumming. The people should take a com- mon-sense view of this matter, and apply to the public business thé same rules they apply to private business, —_—_ ECONOMY IN THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT, ‘The relative merits of a Republican and a Democratic Administration in local affairs are brought into strong contrast by the financial reports of the County Board since 1878.. The Board had‘a Democratic majority from 1878 to 1877, inclusive. The Republicans gained control in 1878, and now all the fifteen members are Republicans. Admitting that the tax-levy has been. up to the constitutional limit, and that the refuntling of the debt atan unprecedentedly-Jow Fate of interest was due partly to the abundance of, money, theré are other items in the atcounts which afford a fair and exact basis of comparison. The ex- penses of the charitable instituuons of the county are items of thiskind. The tables already printed in THE TrupuNe. showed that the expenses of the Insane Asylum and Poor-House and the County Agent's office steadily -inereaSed_-under Democratic rule, and have as steadily diminished since the Re- publicans obtained control of ‘the Board. ‘The figures are as follows: Y z INSANE ASYLUM AND POOR-HOUBE. 1872, Rep 18i8, Dem, 1874, Dem. 185, Des 1876, Dem. 1878, 187%, Rep. 1880 (nine months), Re} COUNTY AGENT'S OFFICE. 1873, Dem...... ‘ 1874, Det 1875, De! 1876, De 1877, Di 1878, F 1859, Key 1880, Rep... 86 Estimating the last three months of the current Poor-House year, ending‘Dec. 1, the three years of Republican rule—1878, 1879, and 1880—compare with ,the three Democratic years—1875, 1876, and 1877—as follows: r Pouor- Democratic, three years. Republican, three years. Republican saving.... ....S100478 $226,878 ‘otal for both instita Oe DD The lean yeats and the fat years that Jo- seph saw in Egypt could not have: madea more startling contrast. Nor has the saving been only, or chiefly, due, as will doubtless be alleged, to the more general employment of labor, or the: diminished need of oatdoor relief. This cannot be the explanation of the sudden decrease trom $281,750 expended by the Democratic Agent in 1877 to $96,735 ex- pended in 1878, the first year of Republican rule, The restriction of outdoor relief indi- “cates not so much a falling off in the applica- tions as'a wise discrimination in passing on them.” It has been the practice of the present ‘County Agent to stop supplies largely in the summer months;’ and visitors are held to a@-much stricter account than formerly in recommending persons for reliet. More- over, an army of bogus paupers, owing their place on the country rolls to the personal favor or interest of Democratic Commission- ers, have been turned adrift.. One of the first acts of the Republican majority was the adoption of a rule’ prohibiting the distribu- tion of - rellef-tiokets by members of the Board; and to this salutary provision more than to any other single’ cause ‘was due the remarkable fall-off from $231,750 in the last Democratic year to $96,785 in the first Re- publican year, ~ e Republican economy has: become a com- mon thing in the Northern ‘cities and States. Voters and taxpayers, without regard to party, are in the habit of taking it, for granted that’ a’ Republican Administra- tion will disburse the public moneys wisely. and honestly, and a Demucratic majority spend it lavishly and corruptly. The reason for this feeling is not far to seek. It fs due to the fact that‘Republican local Boards to a great extent - represent the tax- payers, and the orderly, well-behayed, self- supporting elemeuts of the community; and Democratic Boards the pauperized, tax- eating, and criminal classes. ‘Not that a, fast and loose line can be drawn between the two parties, and one be. pronounced wholly vicious while the other is declared to be wholly virtuous, But the great preponder- ance of taxpayers is in the Republican party, as the majority of the other .classes alluded to is in the Democratic party. Aun illustration of the fact is found in the nominations for County Commissioners lately made by the Democratic Convention. Thesen- for morning Democratic organ is. compelled to admit that those nominations are of “very uneven merit.” They are, in truth, almost without exception, nominations unfit to be made, Not more- than one out of the five Men nominated would be put by any Demo- cratic business-man of’ this city in a position of trust or responsibility; yet they” are adjudged by a Democratic Convention worthy to administer the affairs of a county of 60,000 inhabitants, and to as- sist in the handling of millions of the public money. They belong,in short, to the class of political hangers-on who make it their business to spend the money which other persons contribute to the Public Treasury. Voters who-are at the same time taxpayers will find it to their interest this- year to as- sist as far as they can in defeating the elec- tion of these men, If they should obtain ad- mission to the County Board, their influ- ence and votes would be on the wrong side; and they might in two years more, if rein- forced by men of the same stripe, restore the old order of things. ee THE GERMAN AUTUMN MANEUVRES. The London Times of the 13th to the 16th inst., inclusive, contains the details of the annual maneuvres near Berlin, evidently written by a military man, which ‘in their way are quite as significant as the proposed naval maneuvres off “Dulcigno, besides throwing some new light upon the wonder- ful perfection of drill and the immense strength of the German army. We have al- ready devoted one article to 2 consideration of some of the general results arising from these maneuvres,- and once more aliude to them for the purpose of bringing out some of their more interesting details. - ‘The first day was devoted to a sham battle against animaginary enemy, supposed to be located at the villages: of. Britz and Buckow, on the plain south. of Berlin. ‘It’ would be impossible to give in brief the: details of the movements So that they would be compre- hended, but some of. the results may be pointed out that bear upon the changes made by the “German military leaders during the past ten years, especially in the sterdy and perfect drill of thé barrack-yard. The first day’s operations particularly developed the wonderful rapidity with which the troops of all arms could get over the ground and the silence and sureness with which they moved, and as‘a speciai result that upon broken ground cavalry can attack infantry and even artillery in Joose order. On the second day the maneuvres were continued,.but the great-feature of the day was the parade of the Guard Corps, number- ingin peace 22,000 men and in war 40,000. Tlie correspondent writes that no such large mass of troops in the world could show such even symmetry, such steadiness of move- ment, and such perfection of drill. “The men are of large stature, being picked from all parts of the Empire. Their.ranks are as regularas if ruled by the hand of a giant mathematician, and their movement as rhythmical as if one single mind animated the whole mass.” Upon this phase of the parade the Times’ correspondent comments as follows: : Solidity, as a preliminary to the rapidity of movement requisit in modern war, cannot be tuo strongly insisted upon. Every experience of the German army confirms more strongly the justice uf the views expressed many years ago by the Duke of Cambridge as to the neces- fy of constant. stendy drill, aud points out how much success in modern war depends in the first luce on the rudimentary. instruction of the rill-Sergeant. This ts fully recognized at Ber- lin, where it 1g glndly allowed thai the skill.of. Moltke or the organization of toon would have been of little effect bud not each battalion, each company, and cach squad been long, patiently, and thoroughly practiced in the most clementary principles of the barrack-yard. The horses of the cavulry of the Guatd Corps are described as strong, muscular, and well up to weight, a result owing’ to the.care which the Government has given to re- mounts and the studs of breeding-chargers it has made, in which are stationed some of the best sires that the English turf lias produced. Asa speciinen of the endurance of. these troops, it is stated that some of them had to march eighteen miles to, the place of as- sembly, maneuvre four or five hours, and then march eighteen miles back to their billets. Evidently German musters are not. holiday pienics. ag ‘The maneuvres of the third day were con- fined to an advance of the Guard Corps to attack Berlin from the south, the advance being disputed by a skeleton force covering the approach to the Capital. The advance was led by the scouts of the Guard Corps, riding as single troopers, supported by two half squadrons, followed in turn by the whole’ of their respective regiments, and these in turn by two regiments of cuirassiers. The scouts, coming in contact with the enemy’s Squadrons, which had been sent forward to protect their. pickets, were not strong enough to force them back. They fell back and the two regiivents of cuirassiers prepared to charge. ‘The - correspondent writes: “It was a grand sight. ‘Twelve hun- dred horseieny armed with cuirass and hel- met, at a sharp trumpet call sprang forward to the attack, and rushed fike an avalanche of steel upon’ the foe. The’ pace at which they went was marvelous, for each horse carries a weight of ‘at least eighteen stone, and the ground was deep and wet with rain. But the horses are well bred and well chosen by means of the Government studs, and it is doubtful whether any troops in the world could ‘have stvod the brunt of that assault.” The charge was supported. by au advance of Uhlans and dragoons, and: thesé in turn by the horse artillery, ‘the horses galloping like greyhounds, although the soil was sticky.” The Times’ correspondent was par- ticularly struck with the enormous advance made by.the German artillery in the past ten- years, its material, equipment, and tactics having been entirely remodeled, and he im- proves the‘occasion to read the English tail- itary authorities the following significant ee : find that the uni- It is.extremely mortifying to fint versal opinion oe foreign olficers ig that the Brit-, ish artillery, which some twenty years Seung it adopted the Armstrong gun, was the most ad- vanced in Europe, is now the most backward in | the world, not excepting that of China or Japan. Nor is this, unfortunately, the opinion of for~ eigners alone. Itis shared and has lately been openly expressed by the most distinguished en- gineers and metallurgists in our own country. who assert that not only is the pattern of our ordnance faulty, but that it is not even con~ structed of metal equal to that turned out for the arsenals of Spandau or Kieff. The unhappy result is that the British artillery, armed witaan obsolete wenpon, instead of being, a8 formerly, the ndmtration of Europe, is now the laughing stock of all the scientific soldiery of the world. None are ao rendy to admit this ds the officers of -our artillery, who bnve to use the guns, but their views are ‘overridden by the peduntry of of- ficiats. Nor. .are our artillery officers un- fortunate in the nature of their armament alone. They are ‘hampered with** range-tind- ers,’ which are, doubtless, charming mathe- matical toys, but’ which. for all practical pur- poses in war, are about as useful as kaleido- scopes would be. The sole practical method in war to find a range is by a trial shot, as is done German service, for battles are not in, the Germ foygnt on billidrd-tables, hut on rough and broken ground, where such refinoments 23 range: Augers area hindrance and not a help. In the last dispatch of the Times’ corre- spondent he sunis up his opinion of the mili- tary service of Germany, and the strength and efficacy or the troops as compared.with those of the ‘other Powers, which. have already been commented upon and do not need further attention except as they em- phasize the opinion already expressed that Germany is the foremost military nation in the world, and is rapidly making. herself in- vincible against any attack from without. — 2 THE NATURAL ZED VOTE OF COOK COUNTY. Reports from Southern and Central IHinois indicate that the Republicans have made more progress in those sections this year than at any time during the past eight years. Competent observers who have traveled over the ground maintain that if ‘Cook County and the northern districts of this State poll -the full Republican vote Garfield and the State ticket will have a majority in Llinois ranging from 30,000 to 40,000, It is not nec- essary to the purpose of the present article to recount in detail the circumstances and conditions that have led tosuch a conclusion. It is sufficient to say that the fact is attested by the meetings, the turnouts, the organiza- tion, and personal canvass of the southern and middle districts to the entire satisfaction of those who are most directly interested. If the reports from other portions of Illi- nois be correet, then the result of the Illinois election will simply “paralyze” the Trum- bull party,—to use a colloquial butexpressive: _Americans appreciate such a condition more frase,—for there is no reason to donbt that Cook County (provided, of course, the County Convention Tuesday shall nominate a ticket that shall command confidence) will give a Republican majority of 8,000 or 10,000. There is every reason to believe thatadjoining coun- ties in the northern part of the State will go Republican in the same proportion. ‘The confidence which may be placed in the prospect of a Républican majority in this county, unless some great etror shall: be made in the selection of a focal ticket, is justified by. the manifest inclination of the foreign yoters, and particularly the German~ American: citizens. 1t is ‘safe to estimate that as large a proportion of the German voters“ will support the Republican ticket this year as ever voted with the Republicans; that more of the Irish will vote the Repub- lican Presidential ticket than at any time since they first voted for Grant; and that the other ‘naturalized elements, notably the Scandinavians, will give Garfield the bu! their vote. What is true of Cook County may be regarded as equally true of the other northern counties. The reasons why the Germans will so gen- erally support the Republican ticket this year in such vast numbers may be easily de- fined.. The Germans of the Northwest, and indeed all citizens of foreign birth in this part of the country except the Irish, are, naturally Republicans. Their ‘sympathies were always with the National Union, for which they foughtso valiantly, and theirideas of government and finance are in harmony with the Republican policy of honest money and economy. There was a serious defec- tion among this class of citizens four years ago, and 1t was entirely owing to such defec- tion that Tilden was able’to car ry this “coun- ty, and nearly the State. The willingness of the Germans to vote for ‘Tilden and Re- form” was due principally to three cirenm- stanée—viz,: (1) Dissatisfaction with :the Adhninistration;,.. (2) hard times; and (3) Tilden’s persistent defense’ of the Germans against John Kelly and the Tammany Celtic clans’ in New York. No class of citizens resented more than the Germans. the scandals and abuses that were developed under ‘the preceding Administra- tion. In their zeal they were disposed to hold the Republican party responsible there- for, Tilden’s effusive promises of reform responded to their own desires, and they ac- cepted them in good faith. The long period of commercial depression had also borne | down heavily upon them, and they were eager to welcome a change which might bring relief. Finally they recognized’ in Til- den a champion of the full recognition of the Ggrmans in the political arena of New York, and his candidacy naturally aroused 4 senti- ment of pride and gratitude that gave him thousands of German Republican votes ‘all through the country. Four years have changed all these condi- tions. They have demonstrated that the Re- publican party possessed the vitality and de- sire nécessary to a proper reform of official abuses, and to such a reform as would insure a clean Administration. President Hayes and his associates and his advisers have given the country a prudent, conservative, and prosperous Government, and no classof fully than those of German antecedents. .The recovery from the hard times -has been achieved, not only without the assistance of the Democrats, but in spite of their opposi- tion to the policy arid measures whereby the renewed prosperity has been reached. The currency of*the country is now sound and of acharacter which the mass of the Germans were edu cated: to trust. A dollar is worth 100 cents, whether it be- gold, silver, zreen- back, or bank-note. There is an abund ance of this good money.. Business is active, and there is ample employment for all grades of workingmen at fair wages. The very same thotive which prompted so many of the Ger- ties have un! in a protest against the > ceeding. ‘Tilden has no longer an acting ‘terest in defending the rights of the Gere in New York politics, and the Trish 3 American Democratic ‘politicians hava phy tically excluded the Germans from a? tion in the benefits of party patronage, fact cannot fail to exert an influence gy ithe political sentiment of the ‘Germigy “throughout the country. sais A careful scrutiny of the variouseondihe:* that have been enumerated cannot fall. impress the intelligent observer with the @: viction that the great bulk of the Ceras, vote which went over to Tilden will = back to Garfield this year, and will sd creased by the new growth of citizens wip will cast ttiefr first vote under the influeng of German associations. Many of the de cumstances which are operating to th1§ cag: -among the Germans will Similarly influeney, other foreign elements in politics, Thiy man citizens to desire a change four. years ago. now prompts them to “let well enough alone,” and to oppose a change that might easily. be for the worse. So ‘far as Mr. Tilden influenced the Ger- mans four years ago.(and his influence was important), his personal retations to the pres- ent campaign call out resentinent of the Ger- mans to the Democratic party.. Tildén was not merely dropped by the Cinéinnati Con- vention, but the Democratic machine in New York is. now run by the very men whom Til- den antagonized for 80 many years in behalf of the Germans. So much of‘a compromise as has been patched up between the Tam- many and Irving Hall wings of: the De- mocracy in New York has been at the sacrifice of “the Germans and: to the honor and profit of the Irish. The partition of the New York spoils which has been agreed upon discriminates so broadly against all citizens of foreign birth except the Irish that the German Democratic socie- part of the vote will ‘determine the Tesult ig Cook County. It will give the Repnbliéay: from 8,000 to 10,000 majority if there beng errors in making up the local ticket, Itwit swell Garfield’s majority in- this State ty something like the old-time figures, and i will elect the local, Consressional, and Stay tickets by an overwhelming vote, —_—_—XX— SEARCHING FOR THE SECRET oF LPR: Prof. George F. Barker, the retiring Preg.: dent of the American Association for the! Advancement of Science, delivered an ag dress on “Modern Aspects ofthe Lite! Question,” at the late Boston’ meeting, address is printed in fullin the Jast number. ofthe Popular Science Monthly. It ig markable not only for its’ startling conc. sions, but for the entire fearlesness of the. thor, who does not hesitate to put his. eo jectures on record by the side of established, scientific truth. See ee “ Life is now universally Tegarded,”. Prof. Barker, “as a fenomenod of matter: and hence, having no separate’ exiitende™! Not content with this bold assertion, he de? clares that the definition cf life which makes! it synonymous with mind.or' soul has been. “evolved from the. human Jousness,” while science only conceives.of life as “the: sum of the ‘fenomena exhibited:by. a livmg: being.” A vital process, formerly thought to be insoluble, is found by. research to‘be. simply one that is not understood: and’ “the. prophetic vision is already bright which will! witness the solution of the mystery.” ‘The first result of recent work has beeu® that the living organism has been Nona absolutely within the action_of the law the conservation of energy." The mi ical or intellectual work of a living bei measured by the amount of food rath the atuount of tissue which is barned., energy-evolved daily. by the human-body; would raise itto a hight of six miles. The: work a muscle does, Prof. Barker contends: it does In contracting; and -nuscolar-eor traction'is of the nature“ of an. electri¢; Gs charge. This last position, which -wilPbe: Tew to many readers, is‘ supported. by-' : nious reasoning and by“a great weight! scientific authority. In a ‘similar wa iy, the: neryous system is said to be “controlled by; electrical impulses.” ‘The nerve cell andy nerve fibré are ucdupied solely in the recepy: tion and transmission of energy, which; in all probability electrical. Prof. i considers the objection to this theory. -bas on the slow propagation of nerve energy; and shows that animal tissues are the: worst possible conductors, having. a conductiviigz:, only one-fifty-millionth: that of copper: angi that nerve action is sufficiently rapid. to:ber electrical. - The true living being is not to be fc however, in complex organisms such human body. ‘Even in thé highest anit there is nothing living but ‘protoplasm’ ¢r germinal matter.. Prof.. Barker bellevess| apparently that “life is a property of projae' plasm.” The properties of bodies, he sarge ies! are the characters by which we differentiate: them. Two bodies having the aan to i: ties would be portions of the same substancée;: Because life, thereforg, is unlike. other props: erties of matter, it ‘by no means follows that): it is not a property of matter. “To statement of the vitalist that there is*no; evidence that life is a property of matter,’ may reply with emphasis that there is the slightest‘proof that it is nol.” : The nature of “protoplasm, is partially der termined by the fact that, in the last analysisgs it is always found to be-of vegetable origiti¢ ‘The protoplasm of animals is identical with? that of vegetables. While the assimilatiya 3) function characterizes the plant, the distipgw: tive function distinguishes the animahy: Hence it .is the function of the plantto storg=, up energy to produce the highly complet protoplasm. This consumed by the animal as his food continues his existence as a living: being. It’ follows that every inalvidual sab: stance found in the animal—save only thos@: which result ‘from’ degradation—must be, found in the plant upon which it feeds. AIL: the properties of animal protoplism, and of? the animal organism of which it constitutes: the essential part, must have a previous exe isténce in.the. plant; and the solution of the life-question in the lowest plants will solve the life-problem for the highest vertebrate. “The source of vegetable plotoplasm, or¥ | talized matter-in its “primary form, Prof Barker conceives, maybe ‘the motiod of the 2! ether which fills all space. A cubic mile of. etiver, according to Thomson, would wel only one thousand millionth of ‘a pounds: Herschel has calculated that if an amo of it equal in weight to a cubic inch of air be: inclosed ‘in a cubic inch.of space its reaction: outward would be upward of seventeen wiley fon pounds. The ether is an enormous storey house of energy which. is continually ing to and from ordinary matter. “It contains. all the force which. ts necessary to acco! for the origin of vital fenomena. - But itself-could not, on this hypothesis, be farded as the final cause of life. “The st 38 supposed to be the great reservoir of our Unt} verse from which energy is derived, and th@% ether an instrument ‘for transmitting. the? same “It is a beautiful conception of: science,” says the Professor in his conclusio! “which regards the energy manifested 0! the: earth as’ having its origin in, the sun”. He lays this down distinctly as a conjectures: but the address, by its tone and method, indt cates that it is the interpretation of the. wy: tery of life which seems to him most reasoz able, ‘ . ? he The address of Prof. Barker is a step. advance of; anything that scientific men this country have ever attempted. It takes, the doctrine of materialism for granted, aes proceeds to consider not whether life is seprE arable from matter (the'contrary is affirmed), but whether the science of life can be ascer=aq tained in any ‘material fenomena.. In co! parison with speculations of, this nature ths. theories of Tynaall, Huxley, and Darwin mu: appearto theologians and preachers of the 01 thodox school innocent and attractive. Fo! what is the doctrine of the origin of species}: in comparison with this new gospel of tha Origin of Life, which ise final symptom of&. scientific sun-worship, more dangerous, be cause more intelligent, than that of the. Pagans of old ? : 4 s A NOBLE effort is being made by som Patriotic Lrisnmen to dispel the fatal blin ness which keeps their brethren in the Dem’ ccratic ranks, It seems very strange that any effort is required. The Democratic partY. * has always treated the Irish literally as vot ay a)