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4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. hatch or sonsempTibs ipatadt.i w adtahoio. llall>,) s 11.1.11 $12,001 82.H0 TVMVoeil 0.0U 1 WcoUl) 2.00 PttUo: aycunttno mine rule. . , _ To rmcuv OoJny ami ml*uun, So »nro find tl»8 Post On cc MKheii in lull, Includingfclnta nml Count-,. l»o« KemliiAticoa roar boiniido oiliier by dr Aft, oiprefti, Ofi.ce older, oi in remetered le to ». at nut* rmk. maun to oitt fiunsonttir.ua. ralh.deli'erod. Sunday eiceuten 2.> cent? per weak. Dill'.cciltercd. Sunday Included, Ai cents per week. AddmV TUB TIUDIINB COMPANY, Corner Madlmn and Ocnrl'orn-tta.. Ohlcaco, 111. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. AOADKMT OF MURK?—Haia'p'l ■''rnnf.lifilnnon M*d tfiou and Monroe. Ktinncomcuiinf Mp* Katbariii* Roger* Kaudolph. “ Pygmalion and (inUtoa.” M'VICKKU'R TIIttATHR-Madlion MrenN between Drnrhornuml Htfitr. Kiigagnmont ot Ml»sO«rlotta Lo Oloroq. 1 ' School fur Scandal.” HOOLF.Y’S TUKATRK—Randolph between Clark and LaSalle. •* Tho Virginian." GRAND OPKRA-HOtTfiK—Clark afreet, eppoatw Boorman Houie. Kelly A Leon’* Mlnitrol*. JITEES' OFEUA-nOUaK-Mrimy. balvieii Stale and Dearborn. Tho Georgia Mlnitrol* and variety purlormauco. SOCIETY MEETINGS. Sid SONIC.—A ipoclalaiiombly of OrlenUl Conijitory, B. p R h . «IU be hold At ibolr rcndosvoiia thli (Thun *s>rTaxi!* LUblNiiSb NOTICbii. DR. McCUKSNEV, CORNER OP CLARK AND Randalith-aia.. warrant* tho titicil nml boatlull lei uf loach lor 48. tiatUtaotlon ftlyon or money rulutiflod. BURNT. IT'S KALLI3TON—" TIIIC BEST COS malic In tno world."—T/ri/udefpfua ihlltlln, •• limurf peculiar suttuus* uf tenure."— JJntlm Tram, " Perfectly hniilhy ncih-n of iho •kin."—ioifon Trut. *' Uoflvnka lor tno complexion.”— it'<m«*<er Tran*. •* la jciciv ly tulmircd an b cuimutio.”—.V, V, IIom«Jo\w» ".No I;.ay’n toilet complete without It.”—A. O , lYu» DiUa. Tor talc by all druggist*. ©Jit CPjittuje ©nkmc. Thursday Morning;, Ootober 29, L 874. Tbo Railroad Conductors’ Insurance Assooia tiou scows to bo going tbo way of all co-opera tive cntoiprisus iu America. The Secretary and Treasurer of tbo Association reported to tiio an nual mooting iu Bt. Louis yesterday that G3O members had withdrawn and 015 been dropped from tbo roils during tbo year. Tbo little towu of Naperville, iu tbo First Con gressional District, has been made a pivotal poiut of the campaign, Messrs. Smith and Caul bold having delivered speeches there on succes sive evenings. In proportion as decent people hour of and from Hr. Smith they will be Ins earnest supporters at tbo polls. Some instructive reading will bo found about ibid tiuo in tbo reports of tho safe-burglary trial at Washington. A valuable lesson to all knaves mid Instruments of knaves, to ring masters ami thou* servants, to rascally and derelict public officers, ib, contained iu tbo bistoiy of tbo unsuccessful attempts to smother this trial and save Nottloablp and Wbitely. The Committee appointed to congratulate President Giant on behalf of tbo Union Leagues tor his recent Cabinet appointments did its work iu a graceful ami becoming, though not severely logical, fashion. To say that tbo Union Leagues thougbout the country would bo heart uud soul with tbo Administration of Gen. Grant; if thoy exited, is more ammdj,; y«uw*- loous. Tbo Eplaconal ~wvjib tuuu Uio Jiouae of Bi-iliopa wal have passed upon the ami-Rumil amendment. The Convention bus boon kind to tho newspapers iu those dull times, and the newspapers iu turn have done well by the Convention. The termina tion of these cordial relatione is a proper oc casion for expressions of condolence. Tho admirers of William Cullen Bryant pro pose to givo him, on bis BUtb birthday, some testimonial of tho ondo and love which have been awakened by bis career us a poet and a pub lic man. Tbo design is to sccuro tbe money necessary for tbo purpose by popular subscrip tion. Tbo Allotment to Chicago is SSOO, of which S3OO have already been collected. It is not so much n duty as a privilege to join iu this memorial offering. A spectacular performance of unusual inde* toucy was given by Mr. Hour}’ L. Dawes iu Sa lem, Maas., night before last. Mr. Dawes exhib ited himself as an advocate of Qon. Butler's re election, Wo have already bidden good-bye to Mr. Dawes. Wo want no more of him. Ho has consorted with demagogues and political gam blers, and when ho asks to bo considered with them but not of them ho asks too much. It is really humiliating to think that tho man who to day pleads for Gou. Butler has had tbs opportu nity to bet raj* the confidence of tho respectable people to America. The inauguration of tho President and Chan cellor of ibo Chicago University to-night comes more like tho benediction after prayer than tho grace before moat. Both Dr. Moss and Dr. Bur roughs are well approved as possessing unusual qualifications for tho positions which they now occupy. Their formal induction to office is merely an occasion for tho expression of a part of the esteem iu which they ate hold by tho ftieuds of tbo University. Those who are weary of politics and long to hoar and 000 a now thing cannot do hotter than attend tbo services at Mc- Cormick Hall to-night. Chancellor McCraw, of Alabama, who is classed with tho respectable Republican demons of tho South, boa voluntarily certified to the Rood order prevailing in bln judicial division, which embraces nearly one-third of tho State. He says: •• The outside world is deceived by tho toniblo passion into which letter-writers' and political editors havo lashed themselves.” Wo may add that the letter-writers and political editors would not havo "lashed themselves" half so hard if they had known what tho effect would bo in Ohio and Indiana. Tho outrngo husinoss has been struck with a panic, and Is not likely over to revive. This much the organs aro almost prepared to admit. Tho Chicago produce raarkotu were stronger yesterday, with more business doing. Mess poik was in good demand end 250 per krl higher, closing at 810.00@10.25 cash, and 01G.72X@10.70 seller tho year. Lard was quiet ind 7Xo per 100 lbs higher, closing at $12.40@ 12.50 cash, and ei1.15@11.20, seller tho year. Uoats were quiet and firm at G%@Q%o for iboulfrre, for short ribs, and UX®ll%o for sweet-pickled hams. Ilighwinos wore moio active and easier at 070 per gallon. Lake freights were more active and firm at 4>£o for wheat to Buffalo, Flour was in bettor demand at the recent decline. Wheat was active and advanced lf*o, cloning at 84X° cash, Si%o for November, ami 85%0 for December. Com was active, and advanced closing at 70)£o cash. TOjtf’o for October, and for November, Gate were in urgent demand and 2@2Ho higher, cloning at ■ISo for October, and 4So for November. Rye wen quiet and ilrmer o: 81{3)82c. Hailey won In good domnnd and firm, cloning at sl.lO for October, and $1.07 for November. Hogs wore active ami ■strong, with Hales at S6.SS@G.<IG. Cattlo wore dull and unaolllod. Sales fttSl.7C(ffi(J.lo. Sheep were unchanged. The Minors’ Convention at Cleveland Ib dis posed to imitate the example of the Engineers* Brotherhood, and disregard tlio advice of Its President. Indeed, tho President may bo thank ful if hu long remains at the head of tho organ ization on any terms. His offouso appears to bo good sense, and a willingness to exorcise it on behalf of tho minors. Ho has advised sub mission to tho terms of tho proprietors, ami argued tho reasonableness of bis views ably and iu excellent temper, ills addresuhas time farbad no effect, except to provoke the submission of resolutions reciting the in jury caused by tho em ployment of “ lazzaroni ” in tho mines, and call ing for tho distribution of arms among members of tho Union. It is easy to understand now why a President with brains and self-respect may bo troublesome to the Minors' Association. An absurd story has been started in tho Third Congiossioual District to tho effect that Mr. Le- Moyuo is a "Kentucky Copperhead,” that ho opposed the War, discouraged enlistments, and sympathized with tho South. Tho facts are those: Mr. Lo Moyne is a son of F. J. Lo Moyne, of Washington, Poun., who was one of tho founders of the Liberty party, and was, if wo remember rightly, a candidate for tho Vloo- Frcsidcuoy on tho ticket with James G. Birnoy. Mr. Lo Moyne, Sr., is still living, and his pres ence at tho Anti-Slavery Reunion hold in this city last Juno was warmly greeted by the other veterans of tho old Liberty party. His sou, Air. J. V. Lo Moyne, voted for Abraham Lincoln to IBCO, and again in 18G4. So far frotndiscomagiog oulistmeuts ho put a man iuto tho throe years’ service at his own expense at a time whan there was no draft ponding, aud subsequently ten dered his own services as a private soldier. If this kind of a record makes a " Kentucky Cop perhead,” it would bo bard to find any loyal mou in the Third District. A bit of sharp practice quite unworthy of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in exposed this morning by our special correspondent in Harris* burg. Tbs Democratic candidate for Congress in tbo Seventeenth District Is the Company’s Superintendent of Transportation, residing at Altoona. Ho has boon making an excellent canvass, and b&d an oven chance with tbo Republican candidate of tbc oleotion. The Re* publican candidate happens to bo also an em* ployo of the Railroad Company, and to stand higher in favor of tho management than the Superintendent of Transportation. So tho lat ter has been summoned to Philadelphia and forced to withdraw from tho contest.. The ovi* dent design of this move is to cripple tho Demo* cratu at a day too near tho election to permit of their recovery. After this account of tho cir cumstance it is refreshing to read in the letter of tho withdrawing candidate that ho is “an oflicor of a corporation that avoids participation in political conflicts.” Tho voters of tho Seven teenth District are hkely to complain that ho baa been an unreasonably long timo in making this ifter all, be tolling an un —.ug next. | . It is a mournful commentary on tbs caucus system Ibat the Republicans of the First Sen atorial District are compelled to continue Hr. George A. White as a candidate for tbo State Senate; and that they, as a party, are compelled to support him at tho polls against Hr. John 0. Haines. We are informed that Mr. White's friends actually enrolled, as a preparatory slop towards his election, some COO addi tional uamen to tho registry in the Elev enth Ward, and (hat a partial examination discloses tho fact that the residences given by many of these enrolled voters are fraudulent, no buildings of tho numbers given existing. Of coutso this wholesale Illegal vot ing will not bo confined to one ward; those same men may bo enrolled in covoral wards, or, adopt ing tho plan of repeaters, will vote in as many wards as they are paid for. Tho district is com posed of tho* First, Second, Tenth, and Eleventh Wards, and it will bo a reproach to tho dis trict and to tho city if this man White bo elected. There are considerations of fitness and of common decency that rise above all party con siderations, and wo trust that tho people of tho district will, for their own credit, see that that Mr. Haines bo elected by tbo solid vote of all respectable men of all parties. If there Is anybody who believes there is nothing in the Tbird-Xoria talk, wo refer him to Iho gatherings of ono day from miscellaneous source.! that boar on this subject. Wo print a couple of columns of multorings iu this matter, beginning with the utterance accredited to (ho President at tbo last Cabinet mooting. This is as sphynx-llko as usual. Ho attributes tho agitation of tho Question to tbo desire of tho newspapers for a sensation, and says that it would not compfirt with his dignity as President of tho United States to respond to such clamors. But bo does not say that ho is not a candidate, and loaves tho matter Just whore it was when ho Inst snubbed Vice-President Wilson and Senator Edmunds, Gov. Blx’s reference to tho question at Cooper Institute, which wo also print, and which was evidently preconceived, la of no doubt ful character. Ho is opposed to a third term for Gen. Grant "or any other man." The Wash ington Republican significantly says that tho office of President should never bo sought nor declined, and applies this generalization to a third term as well os a first. Gorrit Smith thinks that it may become desirable to renominate Gen. Oraut. Tho Baltimore Amer ican (Administration) revolts, and the Philadel phia Inquirer (Administration also) says that tho President must speak out. Tho Springfield Republican asks some pertinent questions rela tive to tho foi motion of a Congressional ring to assist tho project, and the Louisville Courier- Journal says it has not boon killed by tho result of tho recent elections. Bo it will bo seen that, if the agitation of tho subject Is due to the news papers, it Is not confined to a few of them nor to any one faction. Tho Southern " tea-party " which followed that of Boston by nearly a year has boon cele brated in centennial at Annapolis. Tho little circumstance which was thou solemnly called to mind was not altogether unlike that of Boston. Tho Peggy Stewart was a brig, owned by An thouy Stewart, which orrivod et Annapolis in October, 1774, with a cargo of tea. Animated by tho example of their New England brethren, they decided to destroy tho sovory herb as em blematic of tho tyranny which they resented. They accordingly forced tho unfortunate trader to ran the vessel aground at Windmill Point, and THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE : THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2D, 1874. Bot fire to It Idmnclf in the presence of a great multitude of people. The celebration was bold' both at Annapolis, the old Capital, and Haiti nioro, tlio preeonl metropolis, and thoro, ou Oct. lb, with baumirs and decorations, cheers ami speeches, recalled from the dead past the uct of doilauco which they dared 100 years ago. ELECTION-REPEATERS. Wo are informed that a repealing organiza tion has boon formed to operate on election day in tho Tenth, Eleventh, Eighteenth, and Twen tieth Wards, tlio purpose being to secure tho elections of James Walsh, the convicted Alder man, George E. White, candidate for S:atc Sen ator, Charles!). Farwoll, candidate for Congress, and probably Johnny Corcoran for Alderman. Thcso four wards are contiguous, being con nected by tho bridges, and the repeaters,' sev eral hundred strong, propose to vote all day under all possible names, The registry of the Eighteenth and Twentieth Wards, on tho North Bide, and of tho Tenth and Eleventh Wards, ou tho West Side, have already been sprinkled with names, fraudulent and ficti tious, under which those repeaters propose to vote ou election day. This club has been organ ized by tho gamblers, who are especially Inter ested iu tho election of those throe candidates. Tho money to pay those repeaters has probably boon furnished by tho sovoiol gambling-hells, and tho whole affair is under their especial charge and management. We suggest to those who have tho manage ment of ibis election in their hands, both Re publican and Opposition, to take tho registry of each prociuct, and have tho came printed, dis tributed, and posted through those wards; that they mark thereon all fictitious names and fraudulent entries of residences, all of which can he ascertained in twenty-four hours’ inquiry; and that when any of those men present them selves on olcotlon day to vote they bo arrested then and there. Tho penalty for fraudulent registration is tho same as for fraudulent voting, and tho conviction and removal to (ho Peniten tiary of a few dozen of those perjurors will bo a great public good. The gamblers of this city have got desperate. This is their last card. Mike McDonald and John Corcoran aro working together with might and mam, and upon tho success of this repeating operation, by which It is oxpootod to poll several thousand fraudulent votes, now hang the hopes of Walsh, Farwoll, aud White. Lot tho lists bo piloted aud tho scoundrels detected, and if one of them dare show his face at the polls let him bo arrested. THE PEOPLE WHO DON’T VOTE. The problem. What becomes of tho American' voter? is oe intricate as the other, What becomes of all tho pins ? On tbo SOtb of June, 1870, thero wore iu tbo United States 0,439,200 males over 21 years of ago, of whom 8,425,941 wore citizens, native and naturalized. At tbo Presi dential election in November, 1872, two years and a half later, tbe aggregate vote polled, including fraudulent votes, was only 0.600,000 leaving about 23 per cent of tbo malo voters not voting. Wbo are those non-voters, and whore do they reside ? A recent census of this city for school pur poses shows 217,028 persons over 21 year* ago. Tbo male population of Chicago exceeds the fcmslo. In 1570, under tbo Federal census of that yoar, there wore in this city 84,114 males 21 years of ago and upward. In Cook County tboro were at tbo same date 97,045 adult males, of whom 60,007 wore citizens entitled to vote. Two years and a half later, when a largo propor tion of tbo unnaturalized bad become citizens, tbo aggregate vote m this county for Governor (which vote was greater than for President) was 50,209. The number of legal voters at that time was probably 76,000. Tbe school census doeu not classify tbo sexes, but tbo proportion of adults will probably be about 117,000 males to 100,000 females. Assuming that of tbo 31,000 adult aliens resident bore in 1870 tbrce-fourtbh have since completed their naturalization, and allowing a percentage of Increase for tbo natives wbo have become of again tbe interval of font years and a half, the aggregate of males of the voting ago entitled to vote m this county at this time can hardly be loss than 90,000. Yet tbo greatest vote polled la tbiu county was tho ex traordinary ono of 1873, when 00,000-voles wero polled. This general deficiency in tho vote oan bo seen by comparison of several States. We give tbo number of male citizens entitled to vote in June, 1870, and tbe numoer voting in Novem ber, 1672 1 „ .Vo. of voters Actual States. tn ’id, vote, ’72. Miine. 163,1J0 J2OXIB New York M 1,387 820,402 Pennsylvania 77C.315 • fl7-* 428 Illinois. .612,633 420 073 iilcnlgau .274.152 217,301 In tho above list wo give tho vote for Gov ernor in Maine and Pennsylvania, that being largely in excess of tho vote for President. Here la a non-voting population of 20,000 In Maine, 120,000 in Massachusetts, 152,000 io New York, 10-1,000 in Pennsylvania, 72,000 in Ohio, 113,000 iu Illinois, and 67,000 in Michigon, and this does not include tho increase in the voting population from 1870 to 1872. A further comparison shows that this uon-vot iug population iu resident In largo excess in the cities. Wo give a few citations of those coun ties in which largo cities are located: „ .. CUUen Aetua Counths. xvUra. vote. Now York. 188,276 134.203 Philadelphia 143,07(1 11B.U0 Allegheny Cl,ooo 32,200 Hamilton (Cincinnati) 65,130 44 two City 64,702 44|150 Cook (Chicago) 03,077 00,203 bt. Louis 77,035 2y,s;o In those seven cities tho non-voting population was 191,000 out of an aggregate in 1870 of (131,- 000, which, added to tho natural increase, showed an average of 83 per cent of tho legal voters who did not vote at that election. Wo give tho like comparison in six counties In this State: Voting papula- Actual tton m *7O. vole, 13, Counties. Edwr.iUa.. McLean... Monroe,,, Hingdinon, Wayuu.,,. Watiasb... Sangamon has tho City of Springfield and .Mo- Lean tho City of Bloomington, and the non-vot ing population is 20 per coot in tho one and 25 per cent in tho other, while in the rural coun ties tho vote is proportionately larger. Never theless, the failure of a largo proportion of tho voting population to exorcise that privilege la general la all parts of tho country and In every locality. Who are those non-voters? As wo have seen, a largo proportion of them are in the cities, and that proportion would seem much greater were not tho number of actual votes polled largely increased by tho frauds which are not practiced and are not possible in the rural towns and precincts. In tho largo cities tho non voting class is made up largely of morohauts aud their clerks, all of whom are engaged at busi ness remote from their residences, Another OIIIBH ate the mechanics and laborers, who live in the outer wards, and who aro at work in shops anti elsewhere at a distance from their votiug plucos. Thcso men leave homo r. oforo 7 o’clock in iho morning, and, after wonting all day, have no time, oven if they had tho inclination, to go lo the pulls at night to vote. Another class are those who look upon voting as a personal strug gle with the professional voters, and avoid that struggle by not goiug to the pulls. To those must bo added the aged, iufirm, ami invalids, who, If they feel any intorcht hi an election, aro not able to attend. Alt thcso classes may bo generally considered as totally indifferent whether Jones boats Hrown, which is, unfortu nately, the average magnitude of tlio issues in volved iu tho olootlouu. Another question growing out of this nou-vollng by such a largo proportion of the public is. do those who do vote represent fairly those who do not vole? or, in other words, would tho result of tho elections bo changed if tho whole population entitled to vote dtd actually vote? Too bad aud tho worst effect of not voting, especially iu largo oltios, is that tho selection of candidates and Ihoir election is loft to those who follow that business for a living, and whoso interests ore best promoted by the election of corrupt govern ments, local as well as general. THE STRIKE OF THE LOCOMOTIVE ENQI- KEERS. Borne of tho Western railroads are considering tho expediency of cutting down tho pay of their engineers. If they decide to do so, there is u probability of a general strike. It is difficult to decide the justice of tho proposed reduction. Ou tho ouo hand, tho railroad managers claim, with justice, that tho roads must retrench, and that it is not unfair, under such circumstances, to ask their employes to work for the wages which their fel lows receive at the East and ou some of tho Wostoru lines. On tho ocher, the engineers doubtless arguo that tho average wage is higher than tho managers claim it to bo; that their present pay is, at any rate, uo moro than a fair return for tho skill and trustworthiness required in their profession; and they ought, not to bo tho only employes to share the sufferings of the companies. There is reason in all this. It is notoriods that men working on fixed salaries suffer moro in hard times than any other class. Tho resources of credit foil thorn and they cannot, by extra in dustry, increase their incomes. It is safe to assume, as a general truth, that salaried em ployes aro not receiving, in America, more than they need to Hvo upon. -Again, tho railway com panies are paying largo salaries to their chief officials. Tho engineers are unable to eeo why tho men who get hundreds of dollars per year should have their pay out down while those who got thousands escape. While admitting that brains capable of management should he well paid for, they insist that the long training they must un dergo. tho responsibility for merchandise and for lives they must undertake, and tho risk they must run,—a risk increased, in some sections of the West, by the possibility of death from a train-robber’s bullet,—make them, too, worthy of good wages. Whnpjmjnnnh wan bo said on both sides of . it la the part of prudonco to compromiae. If tho roduotiou of pay is really in contemplation, tho companies and tho engi neers will do the best possible thing for their mutual welfare by appointing a conference com mittee. It should bo instructed to prepare a compromise. If it is carefully ohosou, it might be given power to prepare and ratify such a measure. It is probable that if tbo managers showed their anxiety to act fairly to all tho in terests concerned by appointing their section of such a committee, tho men would moot them half-way. It is probablo, moreover, that tho good feeling caused by such an action on tbo part of tho companies would induce tho en gineers to agree to work for the avorago wages paid their follows in the United States. * When matters had progressed thus far, a'fair settle ment would be suro. It would be easy to find by correspondence what this average rate really is. When this was dincovered, It would bo adopted at once and tbo danger of a strike would cease to exiet. There would bo no interference with business, no wauto of money, and no creation of bad blood. Common sense dictates tbo expedi ency of such a compromise. CLEANLINESS AND MORTALITY. Dr. Lyon Playfair, an authority, if tliero bo ono, oa the subject of eanitary science, has, in his address boforo the Social Soionco Congress at Glasgow, reduced the whole subject to ono word, and that not an unfamiliar ono—cleanli ness, From timo Immemorial, moo bavo con nected nnclcantlnosa and disease os cause and effect. -Everybody knows that if ho would en joy health ho must bo no stranger to ablution. But it is only in tho presence of statistics that ono is apt to realize tho force of this truism. Those Prof. Playfair furnishes. In his investigation of tho question, whether or not wo are making satisfactory progress in our sanitary measures, ho answers that, if wo date > the standard of comparison far enough back, wo shall find a marked improvement. Thus, tho doath-rato in London from IGGO to 1670 was 80 in every 1,000. For tho last thirty four ycaro it has boon only 22.4 in every 1,000. That cho moan ago of tho whole population, in decade after decade, remains tho same, is no proof that sanitary science is not improving, but only that the causes of mortality aro increasing Were it not that hygienic improvements keep pace with tho increase in tho caus es of mortality, mortality itself would of course increase. Tho steady convergence of population to largo towns has a tendency to increase tho causes of mortality, especially where hygienic measures aro neglected. But largo towns in somo countries are healthier than in others, and tho doath-rato is greater just in proportion to tho neglect of Military measures. Thus, in London, where tho health of the city Is closely attended to by cho municipal authorities, tho doath-rato is 22 per 1,000 per annum. In Glasgow, whore, os in moat largo towns of Scot land, sanitary measures are neglected, the death rate is 80.4 in ovory 1,000. It follows from this that there die In Glasgow, overyyear, nearly 4,000 people from the criminal neglect of the authori ties to look after tho sanitary condition of thoclty. This is not all. Statistics show that, for overy person who dies from the effects of sanitary neglect of tho municipal authorities of Glasgow, thirty-four persons ore ill, on an average of eighteen end a half days, from tbo same cause i that is, there are la that city alone over 160,000 cases of siekneos annually which might bo pre vented. The only requisites necessary to insure tho health of largo cities are, according to Prof. Playfair, clean houses, clean water, and clean air. This was rocogulzed os long ago as tho times of Homor and Moses, Heroin is to bo found tho philosophy of the ablutions In uso in the ancient religions. The epidemics of (ho middle ages, the spotted plague, the black death, the inventing sickness, the dancing mania, the innwiug mania, and the biting mania, had their origin In (ho neglect of personal cleanliness uulvouaHy prevalent at that period. Pro/. Playfair did not confine himself to the hinloiioal phase of Ids subject, lie throw out practical suggestions which are worthy of con sideration everywhere. Ho reminded his hearers that wo allow garbage to bo only partially ox idized, and thus save U from being made harm less. Wo dig holes and store it up whore it cannot bo fully oxidized. Wo poison our livers by pouting moro matter into them than natural, agents can roach and break up into inoouuus elements. Municipalities and manufacturing establishments should bo prohibited to use rivers for purposes of drain age. Next to this measure, ho would forbid over-crowding, and urge tho thorough ventila tion of all buildings. By adhering to those sim ple rules, 4.20J,000 cases of illness might, ho thinks, bo prevented in England every your. Of course, to carry out tho measures recom mended by tho Frofossor requires money. But the cost would bo moro thau saved in tho im proved health of nil classes of tho community and Che otViolonoy of their labor—tbo source of wealth. KELIGIOUS-NEWSPAPER EIBICS. At least ouo religious newspaper bos boon run to earth in the matter of tho corrupt use of its columns to further tho sale of railroad bonds. There are vague suspicious hi tho public mind that others have been receiving money from the same illegitimate sources, and have devoted ono portion of their columns to tho elucidation of morality, and tho other to tho interests of Mam mon by bargain and sale to railroad corporations having bunds to dispose of; hut, however dark appearances may bo, they are entitled to tho benefit of a doubt until tho facts are proven. In too case to which wo havo alluded, tint of tho Now York Independent , uo d'«ubt oxlets auy longer. Tho A 'ation has hunted it to its hole,’ smoked out tho animal, and now holds It up to tho public view with its brush cut off. Tho matter in controversy was that favorite invest ment of tho religious newspaper, the Northern Pacific 7-30, which specially commended itself to these organs of public morality, from tho fact that Jay Cooke had done much for tho cause, had lavishly entertained clergy men at bis villa, aud had built numerous chapels. The Nation having plumply charged tho Inde pendent withcorrup.lou, tho Independent at first as plumply denied it. Tho Nation then established the fact that there was u contract between Jay Cooke and Mr. Henry O. Bowen with regard to tho Northern Pacific Railroad. Tho Independent, of which Mr. Bowou is manager and owner, then acknowledged tho contract, but, says Bowou, “it was for labor, and for the personal aid and services of several other business men associated with Mr. Bowou and not connected with any newspapers.” Tho Nation promptly exposes the quibble in this statement, and rises to explain, and wo may add tbat the explana tion is very satisfactory. Tho contract in ques tion is in the hands of Mr. E. R. Robinson, tho counsel for tho Trustee in bankruptcy in Now York City, aud ho has hoou instructed to sue Bowen on it on tho ground that it Is contra honos mores (“ against good morals”), tho reason why it is opposed to good morals being that it stipulates that Mr. Bowen shall giyo to tho salo of tho Northern Pacific bonds “ ■the exclusive interest and influ ence of his money aud his editorial columns .” Tho Ration furthermore explainstthat(t t( tho sev eral other business men associated with him,” alluded to by Mr. Bowen, are his nephew and a Mr. Kibbey, both of whom aro in tho office of the Independent} that Mr. Bowou subscribed $56,000 in bonds aud $160,000 in stock of tho road, but paid no money; that ho thou entered into tho contract with Cooke, and under it paid for $50,000 in bonds and $160,000 in stock by tho services described in tho contract, namely, 4< tho cxclueivo interest and influence of his money , and his editorial columns / ” and that Cooke then gave him a receipt in full, as if for cash, a short time before his failure. This contract was found among tho bankrupt’s papers aud is now in the lawyer’s hands, with instructions to submit it to a court of law, upon the ground that Bowen obtained tho bonds and stock under an immoral agree ment and without adequate consideration. Tho Ration suggests that Bowen should pub lish tho contract with tho lawyer’s certificate of tho accuracy of tho copy, as thero aro four classes of people entitled to see it: 44 (1) The creditors'of Jay Cooke & Co; (2) tbo bond holders of tho Northern Pacific Railroad; (S) tho subscribers to tbo Independent ; (1) tho divines and moralists who, by contributing to Mr. Bowen’s papor and lending him tho uso of their names, make his 4 money and editorial columns * worth pur chasing.” Thero aro others who may not bo on titled'to see It, but they would bo gratified to understand Mr. Bowen’s idea of newspaper eth ics, about which ho has been prating so much of lato; for instance, the public in general and other religious newspapers in particular—tho former, to fully comprehend how such a truly good man as Mr. Bowen could act contra bonos mores, aud tho latter, to ho fully posted before they com mons upon tbo Iniquity of Mr. Bowen’s conduct, and to boo whether their own counting-rooms have been in pari delicto. Tho fato of Bowou has a double warning:: first, to otbor religious newspapers ; second, to him self. It is a warning to other religious newspa pers, which have boon tho most zealous advo cates of Northern Pacific, to hunt up their advertising contracts and boo if thoy ore contra bonos mores ; to establish a moral cordon about their oouuting-rooms, lost poradvonturo tho onomy has stolon upon them unawares. It is a warning to them that, whoa such a truly good man as Hr. Bowen is tempted and ensnared by tho devices of Hammop, no ono is secure, and that thoy cannot bo too watchful. Wo aro loth to bollevo that any moro of thorn havo boon act ing contra bonos mores, or that thoy have not boon acting solely for " tho causo" in helping lutlato tho Northern Pacific bal loon, but when such a truly good man as Bowen goes to tho bad, it malms one fool nervous about everybody. It is a warning to Hr. Bowen that if ho hoops on at this rate, associating himself with scandals, oven one so truly good as bo may at lant got soiled. Ho al ready has at least half a dozen suits pending, growing out of tho Beecher business, to ostub lish his character, and now ooiuoh another ono. Ills tripartite contract with Beecher and Tilton, and his dual contract with Jay OuoUo, and the sad plight in which thoy havo loft him, should bo a warning to him horcafcor to eschow con tracts or make them with Henry 0. Bowen. Tho latter form would not bo contra bonos mores, lie will always be safe iu giving Hr. Bowen 11 the exclusive interest and influence of hia money nmi bio odltonol columns.” MATTERS IN AKIIAHSA9. Wo have received from a trustworthy cor respondent a long letter on Arkansas affairs, which ao arc unable, for lack of space, to pub lish. lie calls attention to the fact that while the North in constantly informed of fictitious outrages on the Macks, all mention of real out rftuns on the whiles is carefully suppressed. These latter offonnos, in Arkansas, may bo roughly Classified as political and pecuniary. Under (ho fouuor head our cm respondent con tributes something to tho popular stoak of knowledge about Arkansas politics. In 1872 tho Republican party in that State split. Joseph Stocks led one faction. Powell Clayton and Clilol-Juslico (“ Poker-Jack ”) McClure led iho other. Tho Ai'kamiae State Gazelle, in a moment ol Inspiration, remarked that Brooks 1 complex ion was like that of a brindlo yearling, and nick named him “Old Brindlo.’* Tho name took. Tho Brooks faction has since boon called “ Brin dlotaile.” Another paper retorted (hat tho editor of the Gazelle was once a negro minstrel. Tho Oiayton faction at once became tho “Minstrels.” Tho Brindlotalls called a Republican .Slate Convention to moot at Little Bock, in Juno, 1872, to nominate a State ticket uud to oioct delegates to tho Phila delphia Convention. Tho Minstrels called their Convention two weeks earlier. Tho negroes wore supposed to sympathize with the Briudlcs. In order to got them to attend tho first Conven tion, those selected for delegates were sub poenaed to attend tho United States Distiict Court, then in session. This was done without the knowledge of the Judges. Tho sham wit nesses wore, of course, never called upon to testify, but wore paid off and discharged when tho Convention was over. By such means it is said that tho Minstrels succeeded iu gelling together a largo Convention. Its nominee, Baxter, was counted in, although the Brindlo tail candidate, Brooks, was elected. Now, os every one knows, Brooks, hungry for office, has clasped hands with tho men who confess that they counted him out in 1872. Ho is making speeches in support of tho proposition to disfranchise forever all men who took part in the Rebellion 1 His party will hold a sham elec tion lor Stem officers Nov. 8, and will appeal to Congress to put its nominees in tho places held by tho men who have just boon elected by 61,000 majority m the first fair vobo cast in Arkansas uiuco tho War. Our correspondent brings grave pecuniary charges against tbo United States Marshals and their deputies. Carrying liquor into the Indian Nation is prohibited by law. Before the War tbo Indians kept a mounted police on tbo border. Bart of its duty was to seize and pour out nil whisky smuggled across. After the War the law was changed. Its enforcement was commit ted to the United States Marshal; the property found in the possession of a convicted offender was ordered to bo confiscated; and half tbo pro ceeds were granted to tho officer making the ar rest. The merchants of North Texas used to ship the goods thoy bought to Fort Smith, on tho Arkansas Bivor, and then haul them by wagon to Texas. Tbo wagon-road runs for some distance through the Indian Nation. It is said that tho Deputy Marshals made a practice of secreting wltfsky in those wagon-trains before they crossed the border. The officers would afterwards pursue and overtake them within tho Nation. Search would reveal tho hidden liquor, aud tho trains would bo confiscated. This nefarious game was played so oftou that tho Texan merchants have abandoned the route via Fort Smith, and now have their goods shipped by way of Kansas. Deputies do not despise small gains in their zeal for largo ones. There are two stories in point. A woman living in tho Nation was sick. She sent for a friend living in Fort Smith to uurso her. The latter borrowed a horse from a Dr. Barry, bought a pint of whisky for her patient, and started. She was pursued, overtaken, arrested, and brought back. She was tried, convicted, aud fined $5 and sentenced to one minute’s imprisonment. Tho horse was confiscated. All Dr. Barry’s efforts to recover it bavo boon in vain. In another ease, an Indian came to Fort Smith, got a physician to proscribe for a sick friend, had the proscription made out, and started homo. Quo of tho ingredients of tho mcdicino was whisky or brandy. A deputy discovered this. Tho Indian was overtaken and brought back. On his trial ho produced his pro scription. Nevertheless, ho paid $lO fine and was Imprisoned for five days. His pony was con fiscated. Our correspondent writes that tbeao aro but samples of tbo outrages constantly committed by the carpet-bag officials, and as constantly hmdiod up. If auy cue thinks it impossible for such corruption to exist, wo bog leave to remind him that ths expenses of tho two Judicial Dis tricts of Arkansas havo boon simply enormous, and that Attorney-General Williams has declared that two Marshals havo boon guilty of gross peculation. These charges are no worse than those against Senator Clayton, and Clayton, to rovongo himself on Baxter, has confessed his own guilt. When tho loaders run riot, are their appointees to refrain ? We have had a Lord or two nud & Qraud Duke as visitors, but not a Kiug for many a day. And now a Kiug is coming. Ho is not a monarch of very portentous power. His navies do not swoop the Southern sous, nor do his invading hosts spread terror and desolation thiough continents, lie is not the Kiug of (he Cannibal Islands, but comes very near deserving that lyric uppclhv tion. Hq is, so to speak, a King of shreds and patches, but whether ho bo a ono-borso or a six in-band monarch, u King’s a King for a' that. His name is Kulakua, and ho reigns in Hawaii. His visit to this continent is purely one of busi ness, for ho comes to negotiate a reciprocity treaty with the United‘States, ilia prede cessor was invited over hove two yours ago, but death out short his visit and his reign at once. I'ho Honolulu Gazette states that tho American Minister received a dis patch from Washington directing him to invito Kiug Kulakua to ' tho United Stales; that tho United Stales steamer Benicia was placed at bis disposal, and that ho loaves some time in Oc to bor, so as to arrive in Washington about the time that Congress meets. Kulakua in a bachelor, and will probably have time for pleasure ns well as business. Those young ladies who would pre fer reigning in Hawaii to sweeping carpets and kneading dough in those United Blatos had bet tor commence preparing tho caps they are to sot at him forthwith. Tho latest freak of the young and jolly King Ludwig of Bavaria is to go to Imiia topoilcct his artistic studios, and iho general answer of tho Bavarians over their hour is IFdrum nicht t Helms done many odder things than this. Ho has built himsolt a glass bouse on tho top ofhis palace, which ho has filled with tropical birds and plants, so that ho cun go to (ho Orient when ever ho pleases. Ho has arranged bullets to bo given to au audience of one. Ho has allowed Wagner to put his arms Into the Boyal Exchequer up to tho elbows to build his Balroulh theatre. He has mode himself the pat« roti of “ Dio Walkuoren,” " Tristan mid hmldo.” a-nt all too other music of Uio future. Uo li.>n blocked Inn palace-pernio Avilh whits naans. Ho ta building a philosophic al retreat to bo filled wiih old tomes. Ho has nmdo collections of mimical himrumouta. 110 has used hi>; crown for a smoking-cap and his Hcoptro for a walking-stick, Wliv not go to India and complete his artistic education ? What Ims bo to do with ruling Bavaria’ lie may propose, but BUnuaick dispones. Under such circuuiMlnncca itimnms that tan wisest, happiest, nmi most stumble monarch in Europe is Vouug Ludwig of BftVnrm. Tin* BUnh has been seized with the cacoefhes* ficribiwli, which seems ns inevitable to tlici trav eler as seasickness. 110 hnswiitlou auiaiv .f bis impressions during the late European lo.ir, and lias caused tho same to be published in 2U3 quorto pages of very bad print in Toiiorau. Tuo stylo Is tlie most childish and simple, and recalls tho earlier essays of imptossiblo infancy, 110 Ims condensed his English experiences to eigh teen pages, narrating ovoiy thing with the ut most brevity. Although noted for bin admiration of beautiful women, ho fails to treat extensively of those ho saw, mnrciydismisHing them with tho remark that “ London has some very handsome women; on tho countenances of both men a. d women arc depleted nobility, greatuosj, dignity, and strength.” When It is a matter of Japanese Juggleni, negrosaos, and cafe chantautcs, ths imperial barbarian waxes eloquent and commu nicative. Of Battl, who was engaged to sing at the opera one night, ho said : “ Patti, one of the colobraiod European singers, had been expressly brought from Paris. She sang very well; she is a very handsome woman} she took a large price to come to London.” This seems to bo a rather epigrammatic and sensible way of summing tho opera up. At tho Zoological Gardens bo taw tho hippopotamus, which was “ a won derful thing.” Everything ho saw which was now to him was dismissed with Uio same adjective. Tho cheering of tho crowd at this place tickled Ms vanity, and ho immediately recorded his impressions in a pleasant, half-sur prised way: “Really they cordially like me.’* Ho thinks tho English array small but well dr.U ed, well clothed, young nnd strong. Ho was struck by tho number of city and metropolitan police, and hia awo of thorn, sot forth in tho supposed penalty for showing disrespect for them, has already boon roared over as an h.gouious sotlro upon the potency of thess blue-bodied servants of tbo people. His description of English party politics is not so brilliant, but characterized by tho same simplicity of stylo which shines in tho well-known Juvonilo essay on tho horse: “A horse is a square boast with four logs, one at oach corner.” Considerable sensation baa boon created in Vermont with reference to tbo liquor-law agita tion in that State by tbo publication of a letter from an Illinois clergyman, tbo Bov. Duane S. Phillips, who was for several years Boctor of St. Potor’e Church, Bennington, in the former State. Tbo letter was written to one of tbo former members of tbo Vermont Legislature, and ia as follows: Kankakee, Oct. c, 1874. Mr Dear 8m: I fiend you to-day a copy of out "License law," us requested. X won tbo enmity of some of tbo unreasonable, loud talking, and little-doing temperance people at ouo of tbo “Crusade" meetings last spring by advocating this law, aud praising It above tbo Prohibitory law. I bnvo seen the working of both,—tho latter in Vermont, the former in Illinois, am) I do nut hesitate a moment In pronouncing in favor of the Illinois law. It is Just, reasonable, appeals to common sense, and perception of rvjht In all men, and therefore—most Important of all—is capable of being enforced. You cannot enforco your Prohibitory law. Heitor bavo nouo at all than a dead law, constantly disre garded. I hope you may have something like It in Vermont. You have played tho farce of Prohibitory law long enough. Very truly, your old friend, Dcane S. Pim.i.Ti'fl, Tho contents of Mr. Phillips’letter are not as remarkable as the fact that ho had tbo courago to write the letter with tbo knowledge it would bo m&do public and find its way book to Illinois. Tho statements contained in it aro as true as tho Gospel, but this fact will not dolor the Crusad ers aud other injudicious friends of temperanco from raising a very respectable cyclone about the reverend gentleman’s bead. AMUSEMENTS. ju’vickeb’s tiieathb. When tho public roads of tho revival of an old comedy at any of our theatres, the announce ment calls up foud recollections of ungainly per formances which, for its credit's sake, it endeav ored to think woro good, and which wore passa ble certainly, but full of faults. Thus it was with uo enthusiastic expectation that it looked forward to tho revival of tho best comedy in the English language, Sheridan's “School for Scan dal, *’ at llcVieker’s Theatre last evening. It was with an idea that tho same linos woro to bo road, the same points of professional “busi ness” woro to bo gone through, the same gestures, and tho same forced laughter. Thara was to bo something of change in oil this. Tim drama was to bo remodeled after the fashion of its presentation in cho East, and modernized s;j Car as elegant mounting was concerned. But with even this prospect, and tho hope that layJu tho untiled efforts of Miss LoCloicq as LaOj Teazle and J. H. UoYicker os Sir J*eler, wo can not admit any very sanguine hopes before tho niio of tho curtain. Those who went to Mc- Vicltoi's last evening with this fooling we. o destined to ouo of tiro most agreeable disap pointments that come to a playgoer once ortwi o m a lifetime. It was a brilliant poformaucc ; like most brilliant things, lacking uniformity m excellence, but so really good in the more im portant particulars that its success was signal. Before adverting to tho acting, a few wor.is about tbo drama iu its presout shape should bo said. It wus first produced in its modern garb about a year ago at tho Prince of Wales’ Theatre, London. Tho management of this theatre bad witnessed tho immense affect given to worthless dramas by u tasty and elaborate sotting, and decided to adapt this masterpiece of comedy to modern tastes and requirements. To do this it became necessary to banish the oudksa shifting of scones, and confine each act to one scene. Nothin? is more irritating than the work of tho scouo-Bhiftor, bat it was a difficult matter to tamper with Sheridan and modernize him. Wo are happy to suy that tho work has boon per formed with consummate skill. Tho entire d:u loguu bus boon preserved, but tho order of the scenes has been somewhat changed. It runs, however, as smoothly and as glibly os ever. Iu the setting it gains incredibly, and, whore all is gala and no loss is entailed, there can be nothing but pralso to bestow. It rmv bo fair in this, place to rofer to a rather audacious act of piracy on tho part cf a manager whoso name has become familiar o every playgoer. Ur. Augustin Daly,*by cou ug« and ability, has won a name as a benefactor o tho modern stage. Ho has enriched it In a meob uro br Ids literary coutnbulicni', but his fame rests rather upon tho superb galaxy of artists no has gathered at bin theatre than upon hie pti. In putting his name upon the back of tbo mm - omized version of “Tho School for Scandal” without so much as giving credit to tho Et g!Mi author, ho Ims exhibited uo very admirable ;as: , to speak iu tho mildest manner. But to the performance of last evening. V- j have alluded to it as a refreshing dicapp m.. • iiiotit, without intending to reflect upon t'-j reputation of Miss LoClorcq, than whom tan..* is no moro studious or accomplished lady o.i tlv.i American stage, of her yours and oxpod./itv. Her portraiture of Lady Teazle must, of co use, have been good. It could not have been o.hor wine, for tho part is one which every ambi iouj artist would like to play well, and has therefore naturally been tho subject of careful st '.dy. But she bus not been hitherto noted us one of the best Lady Teazle* of modem times. She proved lust evening that sho in far superior to any wo bavu seen witlnu tho past decade at any rate. She possoues a to mavkably ample maturity of form, a presence and manner admirably adapted to the part, a;;,I laciul advantage-) unsurpassed bjr anv lady who plays it. Her features are strong and moMlo, ami throughout every scone not an idea is ex pressed either by herself or the person to wi.ot.i she listens but finds adequate reflection In m e face. Her featmes are not er in repose. Cer tain mannerisms of expression repeatedly ehu.f thomtiolvcs, but the general expression is spir ited and powerful. There are two or throe ec-mcj given up to her which are usually rcgaulcil us tecta of an octrees—tho quarrel with Sir Peter the interview with Joseph Surface, and the oakeitropho of wbitla usually known as the soreen-oocoo. Tboco t ir«.-a wo ttuuiuleui to UMijp iuss LoOloioq as wi