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It is interesting to rcnl tl o statis
tics of tip wages received n i il the
number of hours of labor consumed
by laborers hi different countries.
Such statistics have, recently been
collected in England through the
British Consuls (if various coun
tries, and they may lc regarded as
correct indications of tho condition
of the laltoriiis classes in the coun
tries from which these reports were
taken. Beginning with Austria
we find the agricultural laborer re
ceives from twenty to thirty dollars
a year. Mechanics receive from
40c to 81 50 per day. A good
shoemaker gets 80c a day ; weavers
70c. Builders, though in great de
maud, receive but 70e a day. The
average wages of type-setters is
SI 25 a day often hours. Tu most
of the other trades the horns of
labor are twelve a day.
The wages in Belgium are lower
than the average in Continental
Europe. Workmen in the country
receive from 30 cents to -10 cents
per day. The average in manufac
turing districts is GO cents. The
hours per day are twelve.
In France blacksmiths receive
from GO cents to 1 GO a day:
bakers from 15 cents to $1 ; shoe
makers from SI to $1 20; carpen
ters $1 20 working twelve hours.
Skilled dressmakers receieve $1 10,
while unskilled get from 30 to GO
cents. Printers are paid from 10
to 12 cents the 1,000 letters for
piece-work, or from 81 to SI 20 per
day. House-painters obtain $1 20
a day. Farm laborers receive from
50 to G2 cents.
In Denmark from GO to 75 cents
arc paid to carpenters, brick layers,
&c. Janufacturing hands and
painters get about 75 cents, while
shoemakers receive 55 cents a day.
The Kingdom of Italy pays skill
ed mechanics from 30 to GO cents
per day of e'evenhours. Ordinary
workmen get from 20 to 40 cents.
Printers, poor fellows, receive only
from 20 to CO cents a day.
Sicily requires hei laborers to
work from sunrise to sunset, and
pays them from 20 to 35 cents per
day.
In Rome 33 cents is the wages
per day of a common lalwrer.
In Norway from $1 25 to 1 75
x?r week is paid to the agricultural
workman, or about 25 cents a day.
In woolen and cotton mills wages
reach from 25 to GO cents per day.
Printers receive from 50 to 80 cents
a day.
Portugal pays her field laborers
from 15 to 22 cents a day. -Mechanical
labor, skilled, is paid from
25 to 50 cents.
In Prussia common manual labor
is from 18 to 25 cents per day. The
hours are 12 to 13 In summer, and
8 in winter. 7'hc price of skilled
labor varies from 30 to 55 cents per
day.
Russia has only 202 working days
in a year, there being in Sundays
and holidays 1G3 days. Agricul
tural laborers average G5 cents per
day here which must keep them in
holidays. Skilled workmen get
from 50 to 90 cents. Tho holi
day limitation works oppressively.
In Sweden the average wages of
an artisan in the largo cities is
about fifty cents. The pay of a
foreman sometimes reaches one dol
lar a day.
Operatives in cotton, flax and
woolen factories in Switzerland get
irom thirty to eighty cents per day.
Printers receive from forty.five to
eighty cents, and lithographers from
fifty to eighty cents.
In view of theso statisticaPfects,
is it to bo wondered that lalmr
strikes are now transpiring in cfifc
ferent countries of Europe? Tho
poor in England, on accountof tho
cheapness of tho wages and want
of labor, are kept in ignorance, pov
erty and crime. In Belgium one
fifth of the population are paupers;
I one-third of the children are b m
I illegitimate. Many of the poor of
Belgium toil from year to year, liv
j ing upon the cheapest of (bod, en
I during the severest hardships, never
having time for recreation. 71iis
is true also of the poor in other
countries of Europe. They toil
from generation to generation, from
twelve to fourteen hours per day,
live m I'Miorancc and destitution,
and dying leave a like inheritance
of poverity to their children. While
this is true of the poor, however,
the paraphernalia and extravagance
of the titled, the luxuries and shows
of the h rdly and crowned, are fully
maintained. What a commentary
is this on the-selfishness and hcart
lessness of monarchy? It is to be
hoped that the strikes and labor
agitations now occurring in Eu
rope, as well as in our own country,
may result in greatly improving
the condition of ti e laborer every
where. Ilia Ifcnsou.
Drown of the Democrat says the
reason why the last election was
carried by the Republicans, was be
cause "falsehood, misrepresentation,
bribery, intimidation, false promises,
trickery," etc., were usedj in every
county. He says saloons were pur
chased, hotel keepers, manufactur
ing effablishments, etc., were bought
up, and so on and so forth. Accord
ing to this, Democracy were on a
regular "sell out." A few weeks
ago, from Brown's own pajwr, one
would l ave supposed that the
"Democratic Klaus" were too puri
tanic in their virtue to be bought
and sold like oxen ill the shambles;
but, alas! it would seem that the
influence of the almighty dollar has
been too much for their integrity.
They have gone down before it like
corn-stalks before the hurricane. Xo
wonder our susceptible neighbor
grunibles and weeps. To think his
brether'nig in the fiiith should be so
inconsiderato of his feelings. Of
course no Democrat by progressive
enlightenment can change his polit
ical principles I No matter how
strong his convictions iray become
that the positions occupied by the
Democracy are wrong and those oc-
c
npied by the Republicans are right,
he must not yield to those convic
tions. If he does, according to
Brown, he has been "subsidized,
purchased." Brown is well quali
fied to tell how this changing from
one party to another is brought
about. 1 le knows how it is himself.
There was a time, we are informed,
when he blew the editorial bellows
for ft Republican organ in Iowa;
but now his wind inflates a Demo
cratic. Of course tho motives
which induced him to change were
satisfactory to his sense of honor. If
he were honest, what right has he
to impugn the motives of Democrats
in this State for changing ? Should
he not give them as much credit
for honesty as he claims for him
self? And then there is this about
it: Ifbrilies were given in this
State, the man who takes a bribe is
just as much deserving of condemna
tion and execration as the man who
gives one, if not more so ; and in the
wholesale charge which our neigh
bor makes, he reflects equally as
hard upon his own party as he does
upon the Republican party.
An exchange says : Speaking of
the Republican party, Aenato,' Sum
ner said : "I stood by its cradle; let
me me not follow its hearse." Con
sent. The vigorous infant has no
notion of dying at present. If Mr.
Sumner desires to wrap the drapery
of his couch about him and make
a cold body of himself, tho infant
aforesaid will give him a first-class
funeral on short notice.
The Richmond (Va.) Whiff is:
very jubilant in its support of Gree
ley. It says: "In our deliberate
judgment, tho election of Mr. Gree
ley, under existing circumstances,
would be a thousand fold better,
both for the South and the North,
than that of Jefferson Davis him
self." A little son of Mr. Herrin, near
Salem, fell from a gate post on !
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Prrplrxtng.
Some things are always uncertain
and eo.tsoquent'v perplexing. Not
among the least of these may be
properly ranked the status and in-
tentions of the Democracy. 7'licir
exact position is as difficult to de -
tcrminc at any one period as it is
to keep track of the olitical situa-
tion of poor -Mexico. All we know
f Ar . . , . . m . . ,
anarchy ; and that is about as much
as we know aliont Democracy. Im
mediately after the results of the
Cincinnati Convention were known,
the Fast and South, especially the
latter, seemed to lie highly pleased
wUh the ticket and platform, and
although many Western and Slope
Democrats were quite cautious, they
were not very outspoken, and the
general drift was towards an in
dorsement after a-while. A little
later, however, and some journals
which were at first rather inclined
to adopt, came out emphatically
against " White Bat," and it began
to look again as if the Democracy
were intending to go it a'oue. 7'hc
speech of Dan Voorhees in Con
gress and the growing lukewarm
ttess of some of the prime movers
in the possum movement, seemed
to have produced this subsidence.
Now, the indications are in favor
of an indorsement again Within
a few days a number of State Demo
cratic Conventions have instructed
for the ffrooley ticket 7'he tide
has set in again briskly, and it does
look as if Democracy will surety
take quarters aboard the Cincinnati
craft- We believe they will, though
there may lie several ebbs and
flows before the Baltimore Conven
tion meets. 1 he drift is in that di
rection sure, just at this writing
Our neighbor will certainly blow
that Creelcy-l'rown toot horn
Certflhily he will. Co-rect.
MUoi'llancoiis.
Michigan men are fast getting to
bo the be.4 horse-raisers in the
nion.
J Greeley is very sanguine of elec
! tion.
j Ex-rebel Postmaster General,
I Reagan is a Creeley man.
iluain li. sewaru has pro
nounced in favor of Gen. Grant
The personal expenses of the
Grand Duke to the United States
were about $200,000.
Thirty-seven Republican papers
of California are for Grant.
Professor Agasscz and party at
last accounts were in Patagonia.
They had discovered oysters a foot
in diameter.
Serious trouble from tho labor
movement was threatened at Ber
lin on the lGth.
Gen. Sickles has gone to Madrid
to present his letters of recall. No
successor will be appointed until
several matters in controversy, in
cluding the liberation of Dr. How
ard, have been adjusted.
The IleraliPg London special
says a Bombay telegram contains
information from Arab sources that
Livingston is well, and that Stanley
is at Ijijiji and is coming to the
coast with Livingstone. From let
ters it appears that Livingstone had
traversed to north end of Lake
Zaragameryaka on his way from
Moniyurna to Fjijiji, where obtain
ing stores, he returned to Unydun
demendc. He refuses to leave the
country, intending to explore an
underground path between lakes
Unyamende and Xyassa.
The ISoston Jubilee opened on
17th in the afternoon with a prayer,
after which Mayor Gaston made a
speech of welcome. Gen. 7anks
delivered the inauguration address,
and was frequently applauded. The
first performance was Old Hun
dred, by a full chorus of sixteen
thousand voices, an orchestra of fif
teen hundred pieces and the grand
organ.
Rev. J. J. Thompson, formerly
pastor of tho JVethodist Chapel at
Cincinnati, now of Leavenworth,
was fearfully gashed with a hatchet
by a young man named Bauer, in
tho former place, whose sweet
heart Thompson is said to have
kissed on leaving her father's house.
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xu livo winvu.
EAVTKRX 5SEW8.
, complaint against Jay Gould,
i 01 ftew 1 ork uawu " c"ft,--os
I mn, ns I'1Jof Erie road,
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Five thousand machinists, iron
j moulders and boiler makers, of
1 '.rooklyn, were among tho strikers
, ,j . jlours 0f labor or ton hours
pay, on the 14th. 7'he employers
would not accede to their demands.
(Strikers in Xew York city were
driven from the vicinity of Stein
way and other large piano maim
factories by the police on the
15th, before an outbpak occurred.
Strikers took possession of a piano
factory on bity-second street, and
had to be driven off by the police,
who used their clubs freely.
The German Imperial Hand and
Cornet Quartette of Emperor Wil
liam, of 6'ermany, with Heir
Struss, Madame Pischas and I.eut
ner, arrived at Xew York on the
14th. The wife and daughter of
Horace Greeley a'so arrived in the
same vessel
7'he Iowa Press Association,
comprising 100 persons, were on their
way to Salt Lake on the 14th.
The Terre Haute Journal of the
Kith, contains ,t direct and emphat
ic contradiction to the report tele
graphed from here that Dan Yoor
hees was defeated ill his own dis
trict for the position of delegate to
the Baltimore Convention It says
he peremptorily declined to accept
the nomination, which was urged
upon him by members ; and also
says, Yoorhees has been approached
by strong Crceleyites in the district,
and urged to accept a nomination
for Congress as the only means of
saving the district from the Repub
licans. A heavy sulphur shower fell at
Sarratoga, X. Y., on the 13th. The
ground in many places was covered
The State Temperance Conven
tion of Pennsylvania has nominated
a State ticket. 8. P. Chase, of
Susquohannah, is for Governor.
7'he ceremony of awarding dip'o
mas took place at West Point on
the 14th. Secretary Belknap de
livered an eloquent address.
7'he Internal Revenue receipts
tor the fiscal year ending June 15th,
are over twenty-five millions, and
exceed the estimate for the entire
year. The probable receipts to the
30th inst. will be full five millions.
It is believed that tho murderer
of ex-Secretary of State Tindalo, at
Springfield, 111., has been discovered
in the person of James Canedy, a
convict serving his term in the
penitentiary for swindling. The
evidence against him is so strong
that Governor Palmer pardoned
him on the 15th, when he was im
mediately arrested by the Sheriff of
Sangamon county and taken to
Springfield for trial.
7'hc floor of the Christian
Church at La 6'raud, Ivy., gave
way under a congregation at a fune
ral service on the lGth. Several
persons were injured, but none
killed.
.las A. Garfield, of Ohio, has
been appointed Commissioner to re
move tho Flathead Indians from
Hitter Root valley, Montana, to a
general reservation in the same Ter
ritory. All tho piano makers of Xew
Haven, Conn., struck on the 14th.
A number of clockmakersand brew
ers also struck the next day.
A tornado in the vicinity of Mil
ford, Pa , on the 13th, uprooted
houses, uprooted trees, and killed a
quantity of stock.
A terrific storm of wind and rain
. , , . , , -,
visited Ringhanipton, V i ., on the
13th inst. 7'he tents of Robinson's
menagerie and circus were blown
down while tho show was in pro
gress and full of people. The cages
of anima's were overturned and the
people greatly frightened. Six
buildings were struck by lightning.
At Rawlinsvillo the ligntning
struck the school-house, killing a
little girl named Merritt, and stun
ning several others.
In New York, on the 14th, thirty
j persons were dangerously, if not
fatally, poisoned at a boarding-
house bv eating custards.
On the 18th, in Xew York city,
fertile Adela, a Frenchman, whose
wife left him on account of his dis
figuration by small pox, and was
living with another man, went to
her residence with pa pen of separa
tion "for her signature." She re
fused and fled. Be caught her,
grabbed her by the ba r, put a pis
tol to her head and shot her dead.
He waited until the police arrested
him.
Tennie C. Clatlni was elected,
! June 13th, ( olonel of the eighty-
seventh regiment, Xew York.
By the falling of a stack at the
West Cowshokeu furnace, Phila
delphia, tin the 13th, fifteen per
sons are reported to have been kill
ed and wounded.
Florida clergymen speak against
the habit of church members carry
ing revolvers.
There is a wine cask in the col
lars of the Kellev's Island (Ohio)
Wine Company that contains 4,000
gallons of wine. It was carried to
th Island in sections.
The funeral of James G. Bennett
took place on the 18th. The flags
throughout Xew York city were
half mast.
A train on the Erie road, X. Y.,
ran into a group of telegraph re
pairers on the night of the 12th,
killing one and wounding others.
7'he Democratic State Conven
tions of Alabama and South Caro
lina have instructed forGree'ey and
Brown.
It is stated that the British Gov
ernment has satisfied itself through
secret agents, that the Geneva tri
bunal is inclined to give damages
to the United States.
John ilorrissey supports Greeley,
and thinks the Democracy ought.
The War Department is strength
ening the forts on the Southern and
Gulf coast. The Xavy Depart
ment is accumulating largo supplies
of stores All the naval stations
on these coasts in accordance with
the desire of the Government will
be prepared for any emergencies.
The Secretary of the Interior has
appointed Gen. !!. 15. Cowen, John
L. Delano and J. W. Wyam, a
commission to visit hostile Indians
threatening the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
A Washington special says that
tho supplemental treaty article
adopted by the Senate, concludes as
follows : "After consideration the
President has, with the advice and
consent of the Senate, consented to
the establishment of a new feature
in International Law for the guid
ance of both nations, to the effect
that neither of the contracting pow
ers shall lie held responsible for acts
of its citizens as against either Gov
ernment in favor of any belligerent
Power with which either (r'ovem
nicnt may lx) at war, and consents
that he will make no claim on part
of the United States in resect to
indirect damages as aforesaid ljefore
the Tribunal of Arbitration at
Geneva."
At the Democratic'Convciition of
Indiana, on the 13th, M. C. Kerr
and John S. Williams, were nomi
nated to Congress for the State at
large. The Convention adopted
resolutions endorsing the Cincinnati
platform.
In Xew York on the 10th inst.,
Mntheson it Weycher's sugar re
finery workmen struck for an ad
vance of seventy-five cents per day.
Being refused, the men threatened
to destroy the officers. The police
had to be called, who drove the
mob some distance with clubs, when
the rioters made a stand and the
police were obliged to draw pistol
i 1
and disperse them. Several rioters
were severyly injured by clubs, and
one policeman badly hurt.
71 ic crop reports from over one
hundred points in Missouri, Kan
sas, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska
say that the winter wheat is very
poor.
Tho House delegates at Wash
ington have unanimously passed a
bill making eight hours a day's
work and two dollars a day pay of
laborers for the district.
TOKENS SEWS.
The tribunal for the arbitration
of the Alabama claims met at noon
on the 16th, at the Hotel de Villa,
Geneva. All the members were
present as follows : Count Schlops,
representing the King of Italv Pres
ident of the Court; Charles Fran
cis Adams, arbitrator on part of the
United Stales; Alexander Cock
burn, representing Great Britain ;
Jacob Stemptlin, the Swiss Gov
ernment ; and Barou Ditiguba,
of Brazil. Summaries of proof and
arguments in support of the case of
hingland and the United States,
were furnished to the arbitrators by
the respective agents of the two
countries, Lord 7enterdenand J.C.
Davis. Court of Arbitration soon
after adjourned to Monday next at
2 P. M. Further than as above
stated, the proceedings of the Tri
bunal are secret.
The Government of France has
completed a draft of a Postal Con
vention with the United States, and
Minister Washburn has invited
France to join the emigrating Con
gress, to be held at Washington.
A Protestant Synod in session at
Paris passed through a discussion
which resulted in a schism in the
Church, fuizot, leader of the or
thodox party, maintained the au
thority of the Scriptures, while Rev.
M. Coquerell, leader of the liberal
party, justifies certain resolutioi s in
relation to the divinity of resurrec
tion of Christ. The liberals de
murred, at which the orthodox ma
jority withdrew from the Synod.
A bill was being prepared in the
Federal Council at Berlin on the
11th, providing for the expulsion of
all Jesuits from Germany, even
though natives.
Unexpectedly on the 10th inst.,
the British Embassy presented to
Emperor William, as arbitrator un
der tho Treaty of Washington, their
answer to the American case on the
San Juan boundary question. Min
ister Bancroft submitted a replica
tion on the 12th. Roth parties Lave
requested a speedy answer.
A treaty giving Germany the
working control of Luxembourg
railways has lieen signed by France
and Germany. The Germans are
never to use the roads for transport
ing munitions of war.
Cen. Sherman was in Vienna,
Austria, on the 13th, and was pre
sented to the Emperor.
Xewspapcrs of Spain state a coa
lition of Carlists and Internationals
are forming.
The Waldo's Fair was opened at
Copenhagen by King Christian on
the 13th ins.
The famine in Persia is represent
ed as worse than ever.
Gariba'di is growing old very
fast. He now can walk only with
the help of crutches ; his fingersarc
distorted by rheumatism, and he
looks as it he never again would be
able to leave his residence, except
in a litter. Be is still cheerful in
spite of his crippled state, and his
face has 'reserved its fresh color
and genial expression.
IJOIUCE CtUI.KKXGKS TIIK PTO
TUBS. While Alfred Livingston was
foreman ot tho Trtbmt composing
room they took down the stove in Mr.
Greeley's old-t'a-liioucif. dingy sanc
tum, where ho was wont to it on a
very low chair, with his chin resting
on ft very high desk. The store-pipe
had gone straight through the celnig,
and after its removal no provision
ba d been made for closing tho hole.
Above, in the composing-room, were
three printer's stands equt-distant from
the hole. Printers are proverbially
tobaeco-chewer.'i these three were to-naeco-ehewerscxtniordinnrv.
Jlavlnir
covered the Boor with tobftCCO-jllldC,
liny alternately endeavored to spit
down through Hie stove-pipe hole,
using It as a target. It was a warm
May day, Mr. ( i neetey sat underneath
and, worn out with his labors, had fall
en into a gentle anil Innocent slumber,,
lie had on a white waistcoat and a
clean shirt. His dreams were sudden
ly disturbed by a pattering on his foro
heftd. lie awoke, half blinded with
the nicotine visitation, and seeing hh
waistcoat and shirt soild therewith,
and suspecting the source from which
it came, he started up-stairs at a gait
that would have startled Startle. The
printers, bearing him approaching,
and fearing trouble, scampered to
other parts of the composing-room.
Mr. Greeley appeared on the scene in
the character of the 'Gladiator,'"
shouted, with an outburst of profanity
that gave a sulphurous odcr to tlw
apartment: "By ! where Is the man
tliat spit down" that hole? I can lick the
man that did it! Where is lie?"