The Sun (New York) Newspaper, August 14, 1868, Page 2

UN, FRIDAY, AUGUDSI 14 AMUSEMENTS, BINLO'S GARDEN—Ofendach’s Opera Bouffe, Barbe Bleve. ‘WALLACK'S—Fire Fly. Lend character by Lotta. BREW YORK THEATRE=Foul Uh New Com: pany, new scenery, Ae. Matinee on Saturday at arm. POWERY THEATRE—ramomime Troupe, The Red Gnome, and The Three Thieves of Marecillcs The Va" Sun. TE Rhines for AML FRIDAY, AUGUST M4, 1 Terms of the Saw, Parry. per year t Bron Wrexiy, per ‘Ten cop capes t0 006 a wo | er 19 Ove address smo | 1 + pAGhages, ot ChWO Fates Wyo RATA, Ferre cents Tromp Psar, p S ewnte Brrinuse d Ee, por Hive Hees Axapen Apvesr charged only for the pace reerned Ix Wert y—per tier « rider at their hones, sex ¢ per to Subscribers. s theif addres changod wit please Se Weenie, or Weemty, and vet Sta woucy and Uius save ag ——— Will Carboiic Acid Cure the Cattle Disease ¢ Carbolic eid is obtained from cont tar, It @ & wonderful proservative of wood and of Meat. It is supposed Ly some scientific mon to be what tho ancient Egyptians used to pre verve their mummies, Carbolic acid is callod by chenicts an noid only in virtue’ of its combining with bares It does not act on metals, as most acids do; it does not corrode them. ‘This singular substance Is said to have the effect of stopping at once the tendency to pu idity in matter. It arrests the progress of putrid sores, [f'n emall quantity is sprinkled about a room, it operates as a eure protection against cholora, 'Thore is some of it in the Preparation ordinarily applied to blocks of wood used for paving streets; and it is posi tively neserted that wi Prevailed in New Orleans, thero was not a Bingle case in any street where this kind of pavement had been liid down, Carbolic acid was used in Europe to check the progress of the rinderpest. ‘There was no otherromedy found to which that terrible ‘scourge yielded, Cattle to the value of many millions of dollars died of the rinderpest, Farmers were impoverished by it, Tho best medical #kill in the world was employed to ttay its march, but allin vain until earbolic acid was used. It is stated that where herds had already beeoine aff cted hy the disenso, and the carbolie meld was seattored amon | them, no new enses occurred, Professor Charles A. Secley, alenrnod che. mist of this city, has mn omuch att ntion acit—perlaps more than any this country, preserving: wood by 1 We think he also devised a plan for using it in the manufacture of soap, which | was adopted by somo of our largest soap makers. We are enrions to ree whether carbolie fcid can be used successfully to prevent the spread of the disease a Now causing so much un Dr, Hari has ordered it tried, and we shall soon know We do not sco why at least Profoazor Soe tey’s plan of putting it into soap should not be adopted by all the soapimakers who have bought the tallow of t In addition to the objections which we aave before urged to the soap made from this allow, there ix another very sorions one. This soap will be used, like other soap, In washing dishes; #0 that, after all, perhaps We mipht just as well ent the discared beef, and be done with it, and take our chances of the disease, a9 to eat some other moat off of plates washed in soap made from tho die. eased tellow. Prof. Gamgeo says that the T which bring the disease to Hlinois do not have it themeclves, Now it seems much easier to believe that the disease may be com municated through soap made of discased tallow, than that it may be communicated through cattle that a ever affected by it Then the question s whethe powerful earbolic acid would render the wo Git for washing disho: In other what is the efivct of carbolic acid on the stomach ? pllow fever ong enttlo which ts » disensed beeves n enttle in: word —— - Co-operative (Louse Building. Nothing tends more to adva: the welfa ofa young married workuian than to pro vide him with a separate home, The of ownership is one that gives indepe of character aud urges to new ¢ ; the pleasures of uw home circle tend to refine and improve ; and hence in many of the Eu Fopean citics associations have been formed which, by the aid of mutual labor, provide houses for me nies who would otherwise be obliged to live in crowded lody remain exposed to the various inconveniences of city life Weuld it not be well for our trade associa tions to combine their labor and capital, and build for thely members suitable dwellii ye’ During the continuance of a strike, while many are out of employ, this might casily be done. Those mechanics who are sustained Dy the common funds of the association might be employed in building, and thus both money and time would be saved, ‘There would be no enforecd Sdlonces, and an excel Jont work would be accomplished, In Edinburgh the plan has been triod with Great success, A few intel: mechanics tact together and formed an association, The capital of the company was $50,000, made up of subscriptions of $5. Each subscriber be- eame a member, and was entitled to purchase ‘one of the houses, paying for itin small or Jarge installmente. The buildings were small, ‘Dut convenient, and wold rapidly, and thus the @apital of the company was turned over sey- el times during the year and vaid « large intercet, besides adding to the comfort and independence of the members. Tn our own country, where the ekilled me chanic is 80 rapidly rising in social position as well as in pecuniary advantages, and whore every industrious workman is cert of abhandsome return for his labor, it would seem easy to carry out some such plan, and | apply the prin-iple of eodjperation to building houses On ths prinetple the laborer « aside a small part of bis carnings to provide Dimself with a home. The ‘company build the and, upon paying the first install | ment, the parchaser receives a deed of the | prope A bright future is opening before our work With us Inhor is honored, and, is well remunerated. The young Ve makes as mach money as the clerk or profesional man, It would add greatly to his comfort and his euccess in life if he could be early induced to become ah holder, ‘There are other excellent featares in ing classes ber thankful for the present tliat the great for: tunes of Americans have not, as yet, done | any mischief which is beyond repair, —— | That bold and powerful Democratic organ, the Freeman's Journal, thas accotints for the enormous majority just given to the Democratic ticket in Kentucky ¢ ‘The grand reason of this result ia to be found in the fact that the Democratic party of Kentucky took mand a disheartening com: gitecn months ago ¢t party ty that out a square apd ¢ ig platfortn of prin ciples, he Kentucky Hemocrats flouted all burgnin. | Ings with the bate and owls of the middle party! ed © definite nile a mon & Demoer tons maj tueky Deir It is certainly to the eredit of a party that it bravely states its principles and fights an honest battle for its real purposes, To such eredit the | Democracy of Keutuchy is fairly entitled, But | unless public sentiment is in favor of the prins | ciples and policy of a party,all the manly declara- tions in the world will not give it @ majority. | the plan of the European cotiperative eocio- ties, such as providing libraries, reading rooms, lectures, and various entertainments, which might also be imitated by our trade Associations. — The Moitipticntion of Great A resident of Hoboken died in Europe tho other day, leaving behind him property es. timated at #18,000,000, Within a year also one citizon of this city has died and left an estate of $11,000,009, and a er An C8. tate of $6,000,000, The fortunes of the living cannot, of course, be #0 acc rat: computed; but every one who has mixed for any length of time in mereantile society, can point to this man worth $50,000,000,that one worth $25,000,000, another worth $20,000,000, another worth $10,000,000 ; and as to those who are credited with the poseoss'on of something leas than the last named sam, they are too numerous to be specially werth remarking. In fact, a million today confers much leas distinction on its owner, here in New York, than a lundred thousand used to twenty-five yoara prtunes, Courage and frankness are virtues, but if they | are extubitod on the wrory vide they will be | down, What the tiumph of the Demo- cracy in Kentueky is the fact that a vast propon- | derance of the white mon who live there are on | the Democratic that none of them a the Con te servi nd the black men, who are generally Republi cans, are all excladed from the ballot, ‘The ew f things exists in Maryland, and Democratic majority there is also sure to be very large for the same r ‘0 it would be the Southern States, bad not the Re taken the precaution to enfian and to deny the right te ro conspicuous in the r insures are disfranchiaed for having bee fede as thousands of them wer those who were It is all a matter of | political management, and in this t one | party is the same as another, | In Kentucky the Democrats were making a and emphatic and in’ refusing to. trade with the vative Union men, well knowing that the latter must vote for their candidates at any rate, and that it made little difference whether they did or not, But if they pursue that policy every- where, they are sure to be beaten, Indeed, ty are already besten in the national canvass by pur- resp cafe in | platform, € equare wre | ago. Great fortunes have so multiplied that they have mate small ones still smaller by comparison, aud they continually increas. ing in namber and amount. The causes of thig frequent concentration of largo marses of property in the hands of individuals, in these Intter days, are not hand to discover, The whole country las grown rich during the past quarter of a century at an accelerating speed. Our fathers planted, and wo are now reaping the harvest. They suffered all the miseries of a new and savage country, explored and surveyed it, drove out the Indians, broke the chains of colonial do- pondenee, established commerce and manu- factures, laid out roads, and made eanala and railways, for many years, without receiving any great) recompense, Sudden! how. ever, their investments began to show their valac, ‘This Wostern wilderness, 80 long and patiently — cultivated, how proves its intrinsic productiveness, One cannls, railroads, farms, ninnufactories, and other machinery for creating wealth, have begun, Instead of absorbingy monoy and la bor, to pay back handsome retarna, and their individual owners have been made rich ac. cond Thus ithas happened that the rons of men who, while they lived, had hardly ineome enough to meet their ex: Ponses, aromiMionalres. City lots, the taxes upon which wore paid with reluctance, have dired fabulous values, Trond stocks ousidered worthless have turnel out dividends of 10, 20, and evea 50 per cent. per minnin, Lands oat West, which eould not Woeotd for $1.25 per acre, are now gladly Hourht ap at 25 and B50 per nero; and Where towns and cities have been located upon them thelr price Is beyond computa. tion, So mines and coal Innds, and other possessions of the same kind, which formerly ed to be not worth looking after, within a comparatively short period, riven hnmensely on the hands of those who Were almost ashamed to confess that they owned them, ‘This consideration alone is sutli itto explain the origin of mi of the fortunes to which we have referred. ore the legitimate fruits of ancestral toil and paving, Then, too, this accession of wealth, result ing from the development of the country’s rowources, makes it easier for now beginners who have had no help from their fathers to Dnild up fortunes for themselves. Where there is #9 much money to spond, shrowd yroadily profit by the sponding of it All commerce is an exchange of commodities, either dircetly, or through the agency of selling one thing for money, and with that men suing it in the New York Convention. If they had nominated Crise and Haxcock, every one fools that they might have succeeded. But they determined instend to e no half measures, and deal in no disheartening compromises "and unless rome great revolution in public fecling should arise to save them, of which wo do not ne they will pout as bad a li int at large as thoir opponents have just received in Kentucky, — Electoral Colleges for President, chosen by State Legislatures, were evidently in fe minds of the framers of the Constitution, but the march ie ideas of government #oon upset ‘The remnant of the system was kept alive in South Carolina till her old institutions went down under the blast but the attempt to revive the system in Alabama and others of th horn States is not in accord with universal suffrage. We can pardon much to the fears of the Unionists in those States, lest 8 popular election may bring bloodshed ; Lut we doubt the wisdom of taking this step. The Gov. ernor of Alabama has vetoed the bill in the same and the Legislature has refused to pass the bill over bis veto, This is well, Evening Post, in an obituary of Thad. Stovens, some portions of which are com: direct “As astitesmen he was sineatarly ignorant and narrow minded. © % © OF the questions of polit! eal economy, whieh necessarily during and since the war became an Important parc of statesmanship, he At Appen have He inast hownabsolutely nothing, # bin that he was not mach more jority of American politicins thom tl of both sides.” The remark of the Erening Poet in regard to prevailing ignorance of political economy among American politicians of both parties is ifectly true and just, Political economy is « scienee which they know absolutely nothing about, We have had a Secretary of ihe Treasury who did not know the meaning of the word tari, just as we have had a Secretary of the Navy who did not know the meaning of the word oak. uni; and there are many members of Congress eqnatly ignorant, Vetit is of the greatest practical importance to the p thot their representatives should un- derstand political economy, Without this kind of knowledge it is impossible for the Government to pursue a wise financial policy, Men who know nothing of 1 ec y enn never adjust taxes equitably, nor levy them in such a way as not to make them unnecessarily burdensome, A great part of the difficulties under which we labor now results from ignorance of po! economy in our public men, Labe to labor more hours and for sma this account, They thus are obliged to suffer for itif they send ignorant men to Congress, Republicans aud De there is nothing to choose between the pect. There is ample vom for improvement for then all, seid eo Notwithstanding the threats of civil war in ease the laws authorizing negroes to vote in the mini money buying another thing. In these ex changes, which aro constantly going on in vilived community, he who ean a really desirablo article, it at a profit, cannot help rich, One does ft by fur. nishing the fashionable world with silks, tins, and Jaces ; another by solling tobacco, or champagne, or whiskey ; anothor by mau iring cotton cloth ; another by building Evidently, tho greater tho expenditure of society on all such arti- cles, the larger will bo the total profits; and 80, now that we are thirty millions of people, anlaro stocked with all Kinds of factories, railroads, and machinery, those who ean make money at all,can make it faster and moro of it than they could when we were fewer in number, and had not got our property into a paying condition, every produce and sell rotting. nifiue houses, and 80 on But it still remains » question whether this inerense in the multiplication and growth of private fortunes is ors nota benefit to society, Looking at the subject without pre- judice, it must be apparent that eveything depends upon the manner in which thoy are usod. They are like a great steam engine, or other piece of machi which may bo made to act just as the ian who controls it chooses. ‘here are many good as well as evil things which the possession of large means makes easy of accomplishment. Great mining and manufacturing opera. tions, for instance, can only bo carricd on by the aid of a large capital; railronds can only be built in the same manner, and many branches of commerce would be idle were it not for the wealth of those who engage in them, Besides, Peter Cooper and George Peabody are shining examples of what good a rich man may do in # benevolent way which @ poor man cannot, We must trust to the spread of education and religion ‘> take care of the question suggested, and bo Southern States are not set aside, we are glad to notice a general dispositi em men to make fr among leading nds with the blacks, onth. if possible, to gain their support for the Democratic party, ‘There is scarcely a Democratic meeting of any importance in the South in which the colored people do not take part, aud the most extreme leaders of the Southern Democracy, like Wave Hasrroy, do not hesitate to pledge them- selves to tho doctrine of giving the ballot to all hegroes who possess a certain limited degree of education and intelligence, We find also in the Richmond Whig, now a positive Democratic aper, @ catechism which the negroes are invited to read, from which we eopy the following pas- sages Who t of suffrage tn Now Yorke Mite Who presided dverthe Convention which gave (Mt Privilege to wegrocs? Martin Van Ho a Dime erat Who legte ofthe United siatea? Who married'& neg Jatto cblidren ¢ Kiglard at “Wivo elected Richard M. John#on Vice-President of the van Buren Presitent | efivet. candidates, We are glad to notice the signs of © general adoption of that method, thongh the idea of that fanatical blockhead, Wade Hampton, | not to employ any laborer who doesn't vote his ticket, is a rather disgusting feature of it. The country has had enough of civil war, and doesn’t | want any more at present. The Cincinnati Board of Health has re- cently caused an inspeetion to be made of the | quality of the milk sold by the various milk: deal- | ersin that city, Of three hundred and seventy: seven stores from which samples were obtained, one hundred and twenty-two were found to have an article of the propor standard, one hundred and sixty-eight sold a mixture ¢ontaining from ten to twenty per cent. of water, fifty-eight had | nixed from twenty to sixty per cent. of water, while twenty-nine only sold milk that had been previously skimmed of its cream. It appeared that many dealers wore in the habit of putting about four pounds of fee into every two gallons , to keep it cool, Aa each’ pound ef ice, when melted, makes @ pint of water, t amounts to the addition of one fourth part of wator to the milk, The naines and addresses of the dealers, with the quality of the milk fur- nished by them, are all published in fall in the ( ers, Our Board of Health ber: it nee , might institute a similar exam nation, and publish the result, with excellent Tt would be a capital advertisement for honest dealers, while those who are dishon. of cours of having the ple truth told about them, anata Southerners used to complain. bitterly, in former times, because Northern ministers mixed up polities with religion in thelr sermons, but ie of the poople of Toxas seem to be now not fur behind the worst Northern fanatics, A con. gregation in Anderson county, in that State, sam. moned one of its members, last March, to answer the following charge : Brother W. 11, King, a rerular member of our church, and enr former clerk, with having open Himoetf ae a Tack Repablicnn and. Radi~ ‘ting of the appolatinent ns e ity clerk we multary authority, M1, M. MORRIS, In the letter conveying bim 1 sation, he was told: "The church will not fellow. ship a Radical.’ He did not appear to defend could not compl bg the fear of exporure, A eimilar pian world no doubt Mueceed in this city, and if conducted officially, Would no doubt have great weight with the ¢omma- nity, A large amount of onhealthy food is constantly exposed for , particular y in the poorer Metricts, and the lower classes are the greatest #ufferers, from their ignorance of the danger, and the temptation which the cheapness of eich artietes Indacos, ‘The legal power of the Hoard of Health ts ample for the purpose, and,with the warning from the present cattle plagne, no time should be lost in instituting | some system for checking this very eerlous evil. | —_—_— $a -- — Horatio Seymour on the Bigh-Mtour Law the Curreucy-An Old Letter now First Published, The sadjoined totter from the Hon. Honatto Sry. xotn, written four years Ayo, lias beon furnlehed to Tun SCN for publication, by the gentleman to whom it was addressed, Strate or New Yorn, Executive Derantwext, | Aumany, Oct. 1, 1804, f Dran fin: T have received your letter of the ath Inst., and I recall the Interview which Thad with re- gard to 9 bill pending bere the Legivtatuee, and ihe conversatton wo then had about the relationship be- tween capital and labor. With rourd to the particular measures of which you speak in your Ieticr, viz.t The reduction of labor to elglit hours, &e., Thave only to say that ft isa clear right of all classes of mon to improve thelr con- dition, and to urge aud secure #uch netions and laws ne are best fitted to reach thelr object, Taleo hold that those engaged In different pursuits are the boat Judges of the measures which ore for their good. It 1s their right to xpeak for themaclvos, aud thelr views and wisher should be taken a8 the beat evidence as to what their Interosts demand, When large elasros of men have decided for themselvon In, the Hglt of thelr own experience, wlint Inwa they with, sneh Wishes should be met, untoss they do harm or wrong to others, The number of hours during which men shall tofl cach day, t# clearly a question for themselves to decide, No one ean rightfully ob- Ject to this; neither ean objections be made to a leg Jative decision as to the length of time that shall make aday's work, for the purpose of securing unl- Jormity of action, Our statate books are flied with laws having there objects in view with revpect to a erent variety of Dueiness purwaites, ‘Thus fir all imitations of the hones of labor have been for the public welfare, The time of labor has not been shortencd by far aa fast an the currency with whieh It 8 pald has fallen otf in value, Beyond the subjects to which yon cull my atten. himself, and was expelled without further cere- mony. This is as bad as anything which over heppened in New England. Thaddeus Stevensns He Was, one of the obituaries of Thaddeus Stevens which welave read have sketched Iiim faithfully and Vividly as heveally was, He war an extraordinary man,in the natural elements which made bim up. His peer bus not died since Dani 1 Webster, In tome traits of eharaster he was superior to Webster: in unselfishness and unswerving devotion to princ- ple, Tn breadth of intellect and profundity of thought Webster has had no equal among American states- men, The ardor and impetuosity which Webster ed in Lis earlier epecches, characterized all Mr. Stevens's efforts, even his Litest, ‘The mort brilliant performances of Mr, Stevens were undoubtedly rt the bar; and they are preserved Dut fintly and iinperteetly, and mainty in tradition, was at the bar that he *pent almost his whole life, ‘Over fifty yours he pructived at the bar, He was em- ployed In the greater part of tho suits where he lived, on one side or the other, Tae power of his satire and sareasin is deseribed as something terrific. In one of Nis carlicst perches tn Congress this was manifested Iu a wonderful degree, ‘That speech ie probably remeubered by but few now, but there hax seldom been such a speech delivered on the floor of Congress, During Mr, Piilmore's administration Mr, Stevens way one of the counsel for the defence of twenty- one persons indicied for treasoa in avslsting at the rescue Of a fugitive slave in Pennsylvania, The trial took piace in Philadelphia, All the prisoners but ‘one were colored, They were brought into court together on one occasion, ae it beenme necessary that one of them ehould be identified by a certain witners, A shrewd scheme was practised by the defence on this occasion, ‘The long row of blacks appeared dressed In a peculiar uniform, They all Wore highly-colored scarfs of the same pattern, Every one had his halr parted and combed very ela borately in the same way, The puzzled witness looked them over and over again in a vain attempt to identify the one fn question, He might as well have anderiaken to swear to one of twenty similar White beans whieh he had seen six months before, Mr. Blovens was devoted throughout bis long life to two great principles with unchanging fidelity and the warmth of religious enthusiasm, These two principles were human liberty and common school education. ‘There was no sham about him, His belief was not a cloak which he wore for his personal aggran- dizement, On the contrary, his fidelity to principle kept him out of office the greater part of his life, It was this self-sacrifice to the welfare of mankind, this self-abnegation ino labor of love for the whole huwan race, which gave a grandeur to his character. Mr, Stevens was a firm believer in future rewards and punishments, When Judge Taney died, he re- marked that the Judge had doomed himself to eter- nal infurny by the Dred Scott decision, and he feared toeternal flames, On one oceasion, in animated de- bate In Congress on the course to be pursued toward the leading rebels, Mr. Stevens exclaimed that he Would sentence them to the Penitentiary of Hell, Tle was always full of fre and passion, Mr. Stevens was aman of a noble and chivalric nature, Ho held ali manner of meanness in influite contempt. An evidence of this was the spirited let. ter which he wrote on the occasion of Mr. Buchan un'y funeral, expressing himself strongly in favor of every demonstration of respect for the personal, pri- vate character of his old political antagonist, For many years Mr, Stevens appropriated a large Part of his income to redeeming slaves from bond- age, This was done without ostentation, and gen- era.ly without being made known by him to a except the partics concerned, Mr, Stevens hobbled Ustough life, like Byron, with A lameness occasioned by a deformity of one foot, One of the most dixpraceful things in the newspaper literature of the day hay been an occasional nnfect ing fling at this physical defect—showing a much greater moral defeet tn the person capable of such a meanness. Stevens was very fond of playing cards, and frequently sat up very late, and sometimes all night, engaged {n this diversion, Tle was strictly a temperate man, and never tasted Aiur or wine, He lived and died 4 bachelor; but he was not in sensible to the charms and faseivations of woman, He will be luld to rest in his fmal abode In Lancas- ter on Monday next, ‘There ‘Thaddeus Stevens and James Buchanan will sleep thelr last sleep in the sane town where they both lived for more than thir- ty-tive years, What different characters! How dif- ferent their histories! How different thelr fame! ——— Public Food Luspection, By their prompiness and activity in treating the prevent cattle plague, the Board of Health have gained deserved praise, and restored public conf. prea Hess atte party faident V iutsdicdy ana Richard M. ident, whig wound neve Gecoume aie wilstress of the White House? This hegre won Vi te the negro a citizen of the State of Maine? cratic Jaw tn Mi chusetts? The Kro® right to vote in New Hamp> shire? “The Democratte party. Who permitted covery colored perion ownine $258 in New Yo mee yoler? A General Assembly purely Ds Who rep 6 laws of Ohto which required neg Cr . ‘urity Delure settling Lb that State ? pat Who made nutattocs local voters in Ohio? A Domo- sate Supreme Court, of which Keubea Wood was of Justices Wit becsine of Reuben Woot? The Democratic party cloctod tin Governor three mes, rho helped to aie dco negroes the right to. vate in ‘Tennessee under We Constitution of Li? Gen, Jack Was Gen. Jnckson @ good Democrat? He generally Passed ak much, When leading Democratic journals of the South address arguments of this kind to their negro readers, and when the negro is invited to partici- pate in Democratic meetings, and even promised that Democrats will go for giviug him the ballot horeafter as soon as he can read and write, it is not likely that a civil war will really be set on foot to deprive him of the privilege of voting now. Itismuch eusicr to honestly accept the sitnation. and tev to wet him fo vote for the right dence in thelr watchfulness, It sto be hoped that they will take the mecessary precautions to prevent 4 recurrence of the danger, and as @ means to this it 4s Important thata systematic aud thorough inspe tion of public food should be instituted, The ques- tion has already been considered by the Board, and a plan of a Burean of Inspection has been proposed, with power to puulsh by fine all persons dealing in unwholesome articles of food, ‘Tho need of such an organization is evident, A system of inspection ts carried on in a small way by the police, but there is mo adequate supervision of the public food. Hence we see everywhere exposed for sale unripe and decayed fruits, diseased meat, and stale fish, which, as Dr, Harris stated in is iast Weekly leiter, have a large share in increasing the city mortality, ‘There ts also an immense amount of adulteration in all kinds of groceries, milk, liquors, and other articles, which might be greatly lessened by proper supervision, Some years ago a private gentleman in London undertook » series of chemical analyses of different articles of food, which he published from (me to time ine leading medical journal, with the names of the dealers from whom they were pur- chased, The effect was almost instantaneous; every shopkeeper ceased to adultorate, and for a long time they were induced to sali articles of @ proper quality Sn tion, there are other questions afeeting the laboring classes growing out of the violent fluctuations of our currency which have caused mo great anxiety, The prices of labor are slowly adjusted to the value of the money which i used in it# payment, or for the neces- sarles of life. Extreme and sudden changes in the value of such currency disturb and injure those en- gaged In every kind of business, ‘The losses than caused arc heavier than the burdens of taxation, for they fail upow every daily transaction of lite. Ik is clear that those who are to make the laws of our country are to be perplexed with the most trouble- tome questions growing out of our eurreney. At this thme no man knows at the beginning of the week what will be the value of the pay which ne shall receive wt its close, Some standard must be found o measure the worth of money, of labor, and Of provisions. The fluctuations in those values are coustantly becoming more rapid und extreme, and they will soon be felt in every workshop, every household, and they will tell apon the comfort and happiness of every fimily, ‘To make Inbor cheorful, it must not only be waved from over-toll, but abo from anxiety with rewird to its rewards, Thope your arsuciation will consider thoee ques- tions, for they must be met, They will be forecd upon you in your rents, {m your food, your clothing, your fuel. They will be the disturbing problem which will most engage prblie attention during the coming years, Teyond all others thoy eause me the most anxiety in the position which T now hold, and they will be most perplexing to those who shall here- after administer our publie afairs, Truly yours, MORATIO SEYMOUR, To B, M, Fowsra, Fag. iz ——— Better How * for those who Work, To the Buitor of The Su. Si: In the sensible and well-digested view which you take of the tenement house system of Iiv- ing, you state, In speaking of high remts to which the middling clovses are subjected, that An income of nat leew than $5,000 a year is nected to Hveeven tolerably, and rent abeparate haute witli two.or three niles from the ceutre of business. t# # * Whats the result? Many youn 0 Hie thors who do and eannot endure to marry berd With others in erow Clies are settling in Whe subside, Now, thongh you suggest a good, rueticable remedy for the almost i Rouse vulture that. te daily ‘preyin nd Abeonventent domi: upon the me valuable sinews of the borly poiitic, the workingmen, k, it jot you do not point out an alternative for the el he cashier, the salesinan, and the professional many cach with & numerous family dependant upon his labor, I think there is one, and one which Lam sur prised to sce has never been received with favor upon this island, Trefor to the Freneh system of building and living In rooms en suite, Krom the very nature and construction of our houses, different fumilies With Anumerous Progeny cannot, as you exprens it, “endore to herd with others in erowded and incon. venient domiciles.” Were this the systeaa of living, they Would have to use a com- mon kitchen, and in fret baye everythi in common. It ts plain, then, that until the energetic spint which bas given us the Mabie nud” the ‘hdtean dex Fleure—luxuries—also exiends to the comforts of life, and imports to America the eheup and desirable mode of living in vogue in France, we ant till the irremediabic ewindlc of the honse agent's monthly eal. Depaw row, on Bleceker street, the property of A. ‘T. Stewart, is a Freneh house, Uioush In eon. in anit ot ‘They live independently of Hances in comnmon, But France will remember lias been every one Wh the splendid accommodations wileh Wiese houses atlord Should Mr. Stewart over build, Feannot donbt hut that he will follow a plan whieh #0 weil economizes space, affords ample revenue, and is at onec an cle- kunt dnd cheap mode of existence. My object iu writing Is to. Jol cous AKL if not averte island, has, with its influential voice and senten- cox, sald many things for the pupile now say a word Tor that class that poverty and wealth DULL HEAD, Asrou'’s Oxvrnan House near Heipeinrna.— A letter in the Methodi the Rev, Dr, Abel Btevens, of New Yor his visit to places to and aveund: the of Heidelberg, in Germany. Among others he wont to Waldorif (Forestville), tho hamlet where John Jacob Astor. w: where ho planted and endo ved an Which Is not familioriy known in this country, isthe rtiys “Lhave wince been to Waldorit vee ib from the railroad station at Wieslach, are struck by the superior aspects of its public ith you in which wit eed pestilence aud auar- edifices, Av orpian howe Ie is most eon wpleuors ( This mstitution i economleaily uilt, Is but t 'storics high, Dut planned with pe- venicnee and health, Iwas nt Superintendent through and was struck with the ervibing about ft, Son i Y here sheltered and edne: ted. The unearpeted fore (carpets pre an ano in Germany) are white with ciewnliness; th the Asylum is large € lic a8 Well as Prot Brty orpnan ly farm of d thorongbly cultivate tant ehildre adialtted aight Im separate schools, that may be no rievance to the indred, Astor's donation was hal enough for ail the orphans of the vill and more, for xome from neighboring towns ai received. ‘The Protestant eburch of the place ts an imposing Gothie structure, the best I have yet scin in any village of German Its spire ty seen in ull the neighboring country. My host atthe vith hotel told me that the * Gemeinde the Dutt At, aided by A clock rang the hour with three wi tower, * Astor gave that clock,’ @ host, ‘thas by @ comparatively small’ portion his mo: the poor boy of Waldorf, made a merehant Ja the new world, appeals’ hourly to t membrance of the children of his old felic mon, and shellers all their paventiras litt How euviable ure the capabilition of weniih | doing! Low preposterous the who live only * unbo themacives ! a Rosstay Surenstitions anovt Rar, P72, 0f Hie. ways that the pewsants of w ne ‘ng district hid.reeourse the other day to asneut mode of procuring rain. ‘They dug up the coon of member of the oct of Old Believers, who had di last December, out of the eburchyard, afer which one them opened the coffin, und ralsiug the corpse strack it om the head, saying, “Give us rain.” "At the same time several’ other peasant ‘on the body; it was then replaced in the con, and buried again in its old place tn the churels ‘ard. In other parts of Russia the peasantry believe that a drought 1s eaused by witches keepin the rain In tubs, und this superstition hae proved fatal to many old women who were believed to be witelies, Another mode of bringing rain ts for Bumber of women to drag an empty cask to 4 jearest river, und after filling it, to return with it to ¢ village, ‘This plan 1s believed to be Infullible, In Bervia it is the custom daring a drought for an bl ll Tporuz) to go from village to village witha green bough in his hand, with witch he execs clses bad spirits, “He is usually accompanied by one gr more girls, who sing in. chorus wile be performs the ceremony, In Wallachis rt on that witehes have power over ‘Weal ‘Tuesdays aud Fridays, e ‘ people ~ While he was spenting, 0c ical bells from) Cie And oured water Prightful Accident at Manchester, From the Putt Mall Gazette, Aug.\. A tortible accident occurred last night at Man- chester by which some five-and-twenty persons lost their fives. From various sovrces we glean the fol lowing particulars: The scene of the accident was © music hail in Victoria street, frequented by the lower classes, and known as Ren Lang's.” A bene fit performance was announced to come off there lw night, and the attendance was very large. Whilst the performance was going on a number of bo; he pit stood upon the and to hs es fram fall dant. Tie weight upon the and Ted to an eeen, of the ¢ 4 tt move A, the ery of upon the eto the statrease, Peteens Were, peel at tue button Xo fewer than twenty ken up dew y were mostly young men, apparently nictory operatives. A number wore were injured consider ably, and thirteen were carried to the Royal In- frmary. Bleven of these injured persons were males and two fernnlen he Manchester Examiner of this morning soys: The performances commenced at half pant si. Atl Went weil til! about nive o'clock. Shortly wfter that our some of the youths who wore in the back part of the audience tn the pit, in their eagerness to ots tain @ better view of what wos going en upon the singe, ted themeelven ty the jee pendants, theve fo evil conseqiences Of whieh wert soon broken off. have followed had not somebody In the pit ‘alsed aa cdarm of‘ Fire! There was tmmediu'ely Tush ty the staircase from prer xabieries, The atnirease {5 aix fe ap between walls trot the ground Boor to stuge on each floor, Th to leave was torrifie, and appears e Kole cause of the lows of | Ciiiiord rose mp on the ware, and did allay the panie by tolling the people t ing to fear if they would k ir pive Mon and women precipi thor down of pressure at the et that out of an a in two galleries, weareely 1 ac to the common'staireass, ‘Thi half of dience, who were in the pit, wo Comparatively safe mre from a AL tho time this account was writ it was not cerialned how many were injared from the crush 0 stairs, or how mauy by the attempts to sive fuewelves Crouch Jumping from the win From a qmuter past 10 to It o'clock 96 4 dies were received at the infirmary, A tnrue muni her of severoly Injured caves were alan tuken to the infirm: f which 19 or 4 were Hered a9 ferions that they were rent for trentinent to the ur- gleal wards, OF these weveral cre net down ne day Kerous cases, Kight persons, after receiving trent Mont for braives and contosed wounds, were Shortly after the aceldent over foun ay information of ies serious ni t and ns e haat hot fine to spread, a large and deeply excited crowd gathered ontside the tulirmary gates, many of who Were Who, belleving that their friends mit be among the killed, made clamorona and weeping entreaties to be admitted to the dead house; buc up fomidnight it was impossible to admit any oe with tn the walls, aud wone of the bodies had bera ideati- ————— Evoursn Wowen at rine Racm.—The Pill Mull Gandia sry: & knowledge of lures soeme nown- days to he only a swall part of the “nay fa ents Tequired In & racing reporter, if we may judce from the following tasteful and learned disquisition In the Sporting Gorette’s article on Goodwoot : ‘The fret seat on the bank, noar the entrance Fate, is occupied by the Princess Edward of Saxe-Welmar, the Duchess of Manchester, and the Countess of Co Ventry; and the Duchess'’s white lace skirt over black eltk throws up the crimson. and black tace and Heh mauve moire of hey companions with fre efter t. ast beyond are Maria, Murchlonest of Allesbary, in white mosiin trimmed with manve; the Hon, Aira Curzon, In white, trimmed with bluc; and Mr. Pow lott Somerset, in black and blue; while jist below them the Countess of Wilton, In a gorge rose sit; Lady Grey de Wilton, in Alex andra blue satin (both richly trimned with Ince Lady Royston, in a rtd f white gla With, & profusion of smal and “Lady Chelvea, in French th lavender, formed’ one of the attractive groups on the lawn, Strikingly © are the lain canary stik and bonnet Of Lady Cecilia Bly pats, Who ai of Stradbrok mauve an’ i we; and Lady W yond them ts La Mai n by her it lavender; and just ‘Tempest, who attra patoral classe b y rather t tume of black net over violet inces# Boltykor’, is the * eynosur no wonder, for however her © und pil hor costume, quite exéeptionsi—one Worth's most macs —white sith («hort imson veivet hie 1 ie te Larige, edged with plu Taylour, aud the white muslin of ¢ whose coterie, ax ut Ascot, Was most extensive. Sloane ulsitely udinir ey allracted tion, ud foremost among the belle place the two Missca Staunton, in wh {ralus over canary silk, with short, sy lace Jackets ; Eyre, ina very p biue and white stripe dl nil costume ; Miss Herbert, ia whit em Exousn Pores wool yesterday, and we should must have wished, ihe Duke been anywhere else belore t ‘There wax not needed any furt the fuct that fashionably drosed peop evodingly Vulgar when they ehowse, b better example given than in Duke, who wished ed to enjoy the be in, peace, was dogged persons who sta crowded eles all oppearanée engaged in making Tooke and. tietentog to what, he wort! while to read @ lecture up but a few more cases of this sort w embers of blic amusen, Family of wy Hall Mold Gasetle Ressta mw toe East.—What are the Rus ans about In Bokhara ? Bamareand was 6 4 on the 14th of May, and it has since been ert, LOU that the eity 0! ite, jv aud India 1, no a, jews makes this that the hands of the: Rission. gen tully oceupied otherwise from the Lith of M from Kuy i 2h of Juve, Strong detachments w occupy the country’ about Samar chiotly the fortresses to the south und wert road to Shebr-lSebz, a semi-indeps tof Bokwura, the road to the capitalitsctf, There were at least maemeaty in the end of May and be ‘at Onrgbout, southeast, and Kara epe, southwest of Samarcand, nod at Keil! Kurgan, abou! 40 miles to the west, nearly half-way to Bok: ova, the latter aftair being the most) Impottant, Thess engagene une by a gra art, ¢ ted a few tulles to the west. of Ketileur, toke part In which Samarcand was alinost stripped ofits gurrlson, hardly « thousand men being E The Vattle was one of the most cousiderable tha yet occurred In these cau s. the killed In igmy of Bokbars being ‘reck acd at 1,000; Russian victory was of course con) at “meanwhile Samarcind was Des: oth or divislon of t piviots, retnfore Nile by the fugitives of the defeated ua rely nearly’ retaken, Reinintng by en, h wulmann’ only relieved t ly resfsted,” <0. n * herole on the It is now telegraphed from St, Peter that peuce has © dy that tho It " to be paid half a mii of roables i y, and fre to evacuate th ne of Hokhara whiel tc have oceupied. I true, the lowed very quiekly on seribed, so quickly as tu b distrust is so great on by We ‘should als peace must Iv bostiiit he sidtes that tts finality | doubt very Je all the towns they has ter a great deal, nit's consent to be a PERSTITION IN otwithstanding the tprend of education, stustling Indications arg” fre quently cropping up of the prevalence of the most nt nnd besotted superstition, not mercly in Villages, but even in the midst of towns ime it ts in old woman who is persecuted as t another, a whole neighborhood is thrown 4nd confusion by the reported visitation host. Knowledge comes, but wis: rs," and thongh most ‘people can Fead and write, that dovs not seem to clear thelr mind of’ superstitions folly The Cocklane ghost has just found a successor the Bermondsey ghost, During the present week ; crowd of from ® thousand to two thon: nd persons has assembled outside Bermonitse7 ehneeh re which is said to haunt the y which had been found in the fod tn the dead-honse there al yesterday before the South Parochial oficers, and the po- cmselves in Vain to disperse tie ) Larger every night, —2all Mal irom what Was wark magist rat hice seem to e+ crowd, Which ut Gazette, July vi aS ll, ngamarn's toxpirtow, — The | Independance felge, depreeating the impertinent enriosfty which haa een manitested in regard to the private life of the ex-Kmpress of Mexico, und stigmatizing as pure filwehoods most of the stories current on the subject, announces in general terms that the condition of the unfortunate Princess has undergone little variation since she set foot on her native soll, Her physica strength is perfectly restored; her intelligence even {s often Inecid and complete ; but every now and inexplicable eceentricities sliow that the stute of her tuind is yet far from satisfactory, ee Cuametoxs.—A pair of chameleons bel to the Honorable Lady Cust, of Leasoye Choshire, have gwen birth to nine litte chamcl anda paragraph in the T¥mes of Wedneada ow to em, as thelr parents show no active terest in their futo It Is. clear, wn: fant ampelvene fener ie an aj ablie be fed ls not considera success. Porhaps, really waite on public vpinion, eh Arte . If so, re ideals of the uews + dewree avee of the modern in: ve very patient apres sit jent’ appetites, jon ata Now tiicy ought to too dilatory a method for however, their cliameleon nature id wishes to be It from th jb ntiaton | sity for day | fom the photograp! SUNREAMS, - —Tostée has come to stay here a year. —Ex-President Fillmore suffers from the gouty and frequently cannot walk without support, yoleon TIT, is said to be engaged upon life of Charlemagne, —Piles have been driven 160 feet in San ran cisco without fmding hard bottom, —A splendid day yestorday—as cool and cleat as one of the days of Paradise, when the gerdeu of Eden Was tM perfect and man was innocent. —The new Geo; ator is condemned, throngh the epieal tastes of his sponsors, to bes through fe the name of Homer Virgil Milton Mitte -Mra. Lingolu, having abandoned her pro- Jected Buropean tour, wil pad the remainder of tke summer at Cresson Springs, Md. —It is estimated that Mlle, Nilseon receives ten fous, OF balla frane, for every note she atters of the tastes —The King of Sweden has sent four oil paint. ings (painted by bimecit) to the Exposition of Pine Arts, which was opened at Stockbolin last mo —Waagen, the German artoritio, and profer sor of art history at Berlin for twenty-dve years, died the other day at Copenhagen, aged W years. =Mr, Boucicault mnnounces that afer bis Present encagemout in Dublin he will withdraw frow the tay twithstanding the severity of last winter, it fs believed that the English sparrows are twice am humerous in our city parks now as at this time Inet year. ‘The crop of Fronch wines in 1965 was 68,- 900,000 Lectolitres; in 1805, 68,000,000; In 1804, 6°. (000,000; and It ts estimated that it will be for 1868 72,000,009 heetolitres, —The famous wine-prodacing estate of Chateau Lantte, which wes withdrawn from the auetion «ie two months ago, will be again offered for sule, ‘The price ts limited to 8,000,000 fr, —Mrs. Estello Anna Lewis, poctess, formerly of this elty, is now living in Havre is bee trothed to the Count. of Robelia tuarvied next winter, —In Nevada, a ative Digger Lo sat watching a party of base ball players, who seemed bin to be working very hard, Turning to one of thom, he asked: “How much you got one day No portion of the building in which the great exhibition of Parts was held last year is now Champ de Mars {« still newrly with the débris of the strnetare, away ne quickly a* possible, —Mrs, John Wood was hissed on her first ap. pearance at the Princess's Theatre, n London,becanse she was thonght to be an Ameri Bat they ave Getting to like Ler; perhaps because they have dis covered (hat she is an Kaglishwoman, —Iu celebration of the evinp!etion of their last great national work, the “Cyclopedia of Useful Knowledge,” the Messrs, Chambers, publishers, of Falinvurgh, gave a bunquet to the contributors, of about one hundred were in attendance. Murray, the London publisher, will shortly bring out a history, by Karl Stanhope, of the reign cf Queen Aune until the Peace of Utreeht, whieh will bee connecting link between the conclusion of Lord Macaulay's history and the bezivaing of Lord Stane hope's (Lord Malion’s). A fac rimile has rece pray Which was executed just 100 years ago by aul Revere, of Boston, representing the Britivh troops landing in that eity, Friday, Sept. $0, 170%, for tho purpoye of “ supporting ye dignity of Britain apd chastising ye insolence of America.” —Congress is to be petitioned to extend the Hght of suffrage to women in the District of Colum ‘The Central Committee having this matter in ree consists of Mrs, A. H. Gibbons, Mie, Horace cley, Mrs, E,C, Stanton, and Mise 8, B. Ane thony, 97 Park row, New York, ~Oue Nathaniel Appleton, of Vermont, foand, on riding up to the house of his beloved, that bis rie © Was hitched ut the gate, Unhitebing him ond giving hima very smart stroke with a rawhide, he walked in and inquired whose horse that was cantering down the street, It need not be said that he fomnd the coast clear at once, —The war-pressure has been so great in Brazil thot the Emperor and Empress have contributed a er of thelr income to help the public pure the other members of the imperial family on Huth of theirs, At the same time, the Emperor Wy refused to have any exemption from the tax of three and expects to be ered It will be clewed been made of an ene | per cont, on all earnings over $600 yearly, and pays Uhat proportion on the revenue allowed bim for t support of his state as head of the Empire, —A novelty in photographs is promised u pictures visible only in the dark--portraits that must be taken Jato the coul-ecliar to be admired, There ara certain compounds of phosphorus which, after a short exposure to light, retain a certain amount of lumino- dd even Weeks afterward, ‘The tmaga or’s Jens is allowed to fall upon a plate covered with one of these preparations ; the ligt excites the surface to phosphorescence wherever it falls; the shadows of the Image produca noefiect, When the plate is removed from camera and brought to the light, nothing ts vistu! upon it; but if carried into utter darkness, the pice ture develops fteelf with an unearthly glow, as if it had been drawn with the polut of a lucifer match, —Cardinal de clis, Archbishop of Fermo, and Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Chureh, belonge to the reacliouary party, but is a just and good man, During a recent visit to Rome he looked into the Working of the different branches of the adminis and made them the subject of confidential re- ports to the Pope. The result of us investigations ye gathered from a remark he dropped in pub! he whole Kingdom of Italy docs not contain one half the abuses which exist in Rome." Cardinal de Angelis is to be the reactionary candidate for the Popacy, and this gives a significance to the attend once of the Sacred College on his departure, which lias greatly offended the Pope, “Behold,” he ex- almed, on being told of the incident, “how they ten to worship the rising sun {"* —There was a rule among the Scotch judges ind the senior members of the bar, when on circuit, that they only had the privilece of drinking claret ; the juniors were limited to sherry and port. The cueuit was at Ayr, and Brougham happened to just under the salt. ‘Phe claret came down to him,ar Wien crossed the table, but eaeh time it did so Broug- hom fille’ Lis glass, ‘This had been observed by the President. “Do you see,” sald his lordship ta hie fiends on the und left, “that young impudent fellow Brougham helping himself to claret t If he tries it again, I'M speak to him." Round came the claret, and Brougham, a9 usual, Oiled a bumper, Malster Brongham,” exclaimed his lordship, ore rotundo, “that's claret!” “I know itis, my lord, and excel Jont,’? waa the reply, —The Paris correspondent of the Home Journal reports a brilliant wedding of Americans in that gay city: “The bride is the noted belle and beauty, Bist Mary Burnett, of Cincinnati, and the groom M Joseph Foulke Stone, son of Harry Stone man quite widely noted in the Beau monde, The sox has ranked a8 a grand parti in both European and American hymeneal courts, and now, as a parti pris, honored by the preferences of such a lady and bride ‘Mrs, Mary Burnett Stone, his good fortune should be complete, At the ceremony the toilette of the bride was a robe of rich poult de sole, full train, trimmed en fablier with One poiut d'Alengom, and headed with satin bows; sash to match; am exquisite ince veil, covering entire dress; diamonds in ‘lace,’ and necklace in same style, Her appearance was ex seedingly lovely and bridte-tik —Queen Fatouma, from Mobely, in Madagas car, 1s now in Paris, trying to get Napoleon's help ta find her lost husband and restore him to the throne, She is small in stature, copper-colored, black-eyed, Her teeth are brilliantly white; her hair concealed Ina kind of golden helmet. Undor her white mantle she wears a scarlet vest,and her cloth pantaloons ave fastened below her knee, Her boots are of the latest Parisian fashion, the high heels of which seem to embarrass her, which Is nob surprising, as at home © generally goes barefooted, Her brother-in-law is an immense nogro, aged 20, dressed like a ‘Turk, and earrylog the sword of state, ‘The cook ts an Im tant functionary, wears a fez, a scarlet vest, and long linen robe; he 1s a negro, and also marches with drawn sword, She Is attended by one lady of the bedchamber, Who wears pantaloons, enormous car rings, and a cheek-colored cloak of home-made cloth, On arriving at her hotel, the Queen took a bath, and the cook, according to the Mobammedan practice, bo. headed, in the name of thy Propet, a chicken with his sword, and handed it to be cooked by his assist nts, Excepting driving out, Her Majesty lives quite retired,