4 Editor TRfjRSDAY. OCTOBBR 10, 1873. Letter from Ohio. Cincinnati, Ohio, ) October 13ih, 1873. j Dbar Advocatk: Arbyon not glad that tTie agony is bout over? Iu fact it wilt bo completely over by the" timo this reaches yoa, nnd tTie good quiet folks nil over Hie land can have a season oi rest, and release from this everlasiiug bore of politics, which 19 the mainstay of the average American, and, at the sain time his bane. What would he do without' his regular dish of political hash, served up all seasons, 'and reeking with filth and scandal and trickery of the other party. l'leaiuut associations broken, friends, estranged and memories embit tered, the result of our insane tnania for political excitement, constitute about the sum total we attain, rn the present mode of electioneering and electing. It is not my place, perhaps, to ..attempt a lecture. Political howiletics are Dot my fortey oo d if they were, I'm too much disgusted, just at present, to ascend the pulpit: I've just left a political meeting at Mozart Hall, and perhaps tbot may account for my present frame of mind. I won't intimate which party was holding a lovefeast. They aro all tarred with the same dirty stick, and the slang flung nt the Democrats is pretty generally re paid in kind. Perhaps it's jus: ns well. By and by the people will bcin to re alize tho great nccccssity for their1 tak ing an active part in affaiis which con cern themselves ' and the luturc : but they will need a great many terrible re minders, beloro they rise in their strength, and, cleaning out the filth of the political stables, at the same time do away with the leeches aud vampires eut ing out their substance, and ciushing out their manhood, whether" they crawl under the name of. Credit Mobilcr asso: ciations, Salary grabbers, Custom House or Court Ilouse Rings. When the peo ple do this, and refuse to be leu routid by the nose by any man or set of men, the country-at large will be the better for it. Not until then. For the prea errt, thank goodnoes the politicians, teDt is folded, aud all over the labd be is silently stealing away, which is true in a double sense I'm not blood-thirsty but am about ready to consent that the Royal North American Republican found only within the limits of the States should be led outside and very carefully slaughtered. THE PANIC Still shakes its grim visaged front at us, and when the end will come and what it will be no one can foretell. 0n 'change the announcement is daily made that the financial out-look is growing brighter; and so far as this assertion goes, the same out-look by this time should be too bright to look upon. While our Ranks are paying out, as usual, to their depositors, the ugly fact stares us in the face that the great man ufacturing establishments of the city, are either closing entirely or running on half time. A great many thoughtful people here, look on this panio simply as the forerunner of the storm. There has been so much extravagance I am not now speaking as a partizan in the National, 'State; County and'Muncipal governments ; so much wi'd speculation in stocks, so great extravagance, 'especi ally on the part ol women, in our do mestic ecoDomy,that a day of reckoning, I think, must surely and speedily come. Nations are but men of larger growth, and in their political economy should be gnided by the rules which in bis domes tic economy gives the individual a healthy prosperity. One good effect of this panio, will undoubtedly, be the death-blow to fancy stock dealings. Till! MELANCHOLY DAYS have come, so far as regards any news items. which might bo of interest. Prac tically the election Is over. The un wonted crowds on Vine Street, to-day, (Sunday) in tie neighborhood of the Enquirer office, and a like gathering on 4th St., near the Republican Headquar ters, in their feverish looks, aud nervous actions shew the final struggle is at band. There is more earnest determiua tion shown this year, perhaps, than at aDy previous election. The two old parties are, most undeniably, exercised over the front the new and lately despised People's Party, is showing. It is equally undeniable that the ablet speakers and most experienced stumpers .and wire pullers, have joined this new movement. On the Democratic 'side we miss such men as ex-Seoafor Pugh, Judge Cald well, the Eiving family, Judge Headley and Oliver; while the places which . were filled by. Fred. Haussarek, a most brilliant speaker and a man of genius; Enoch T. Carson the shrewd politician ; Judge Stallo and ex-Governor Cox, both men of profound Bcbolardhip,andof great ability as lawyers, in the Republi can rauks are now vacant. And all these men tie working heartily and daily in tho ranks cf the People's Party Henry A. Parsons, Jr. There can bo but littlo doubt they and others of less fame, working with them will carry enough of their Legislative ticket to give them tho balance at Col umbus. Tbis means the shelving of Senator Thurman and olumbfts Delano, both aspiring to tho Senate, and the probable sclcctioti of Judge Ilendlcyor Tom Erving. Jr. A tolerable good point wus made on this immaculate People's pary by Senator Thurman at Mozart Hall latnly. Ex-Senator Pugh, in one of his speeches, gave as a reason for the establishment of tho new party, the terrible corruption of both tho Re publican and Deuiocrutin parties. And that corruption was described as only Pugh can do it. A little further on, he.snid', tho People's Party recognised neither Democrat nor Republican ; but expected and intended, from those par tics, to found the new organization which would have as its platform ''Re form; and future honesty in publio af fairs." And just how they were going to form a perfect honest party, out of two parties described as foul, rpttcn cor rupt and notoriously dishonest, was, Thurman said, what he eould not com prehend. I think so too. There are, undoubtedly, occasions wheo party trammels Bhouldtbe pitched over board; example, w.heu a ring or clique obtains control of party machinery for party ends, instead of the good of the people. These great refiners, howeverrit seems to me should have set to work, inside their respective parties, aud thrown off the corrupt and dishonest leaders; for the masses, whether Republican or Demo cratic are neither corrupt nor naturally dishonest. And this moJe would have attained puYity and lasting reform in tho body politic, mu'ch more speedily than by the formation of this new party: which, its leaders say publicly, will not, perhaps, for years, control the country, and, knowing this tact, these wonderfully pure men aro willing to see the country robbed ani plundered, while their honest rosebud, growing from (as they say themselves) a dishonest root, comes to maturity; instead of scraping off the mud they profess to see on the two powerful engines already fitted for the sreat work and using them. Reform a tion should have been begun at home. Rut . we shall see.. If any good come from this Nazareth no one will -be sorry. THE YELLOW EEVER is sending Citizens of Memphis, by the hundred, to Cincinnati, where they arc received kindly, and have their needs generously supplied. By all accoun's the fever is raging with the greatest violence in Memphis. Tiie Howard Association, the Sisters of Mercy, and the various , Masonic bodies in the stricken city aro evidently doing the nobless service of charity. The hospit als under the care o' the Sisters are already overcrowe'ed with tho dying and; the dead. Their Orphan Asylums liave been converted into temporary Hospitals, the children having been sent to the country; the good Sisters whom words never can sufficiently praise and, in deed, they do not labor for worldly praise devote their time inside the Hospitals, while the Howard Associa tion and Masonic bodies give their time to the noble work of seeking out the sick, and removing them, if possible, to the Hospitals; or, if the patient bo too far gone, they relieve him, to the ut most of their ability, at his house, aud see that he receives decent burial. The Hebrews, too, always noted for their charities are in the van in the good fight. Truly is the virtue ef charity the greatest; in the face of a terrible death gentle women do not flinch, aud men forget their annimosities of race and religion, seeking only the good of their. neighbor. In times of publio ca lamities, such as we witness now, and as wc saw in the burning of Chicago and Boston, how contemptible becomes the cry of the pedant that "mankind is daily degenerating." Perhaps ho is physically. But there is a fountain in every heart, aud the cry of distress uever fails to start the pure stream of charity. These are the times to make us proud of our r&ce; and the Almighty fcelH not that it repented Him, that He had made man. There is no degeneration of the hcarf L. J. B. A man recently appeared in Doyles town, Pa., driving a bor&e which U de scribed as being without a panicle of hair, atid without maiu or tail, the ani mal's hid resembling that of an ele phant. A young man was discharged for Au burn prison last Saturday morning who had earned $400 by overwork during his four and a balf jears of confinement. He was a skillful workman engaged in a tool shop. The discovery is said to have been made that it is not necessary to groove a rifle barrel tbe whole of its length, but that a tew inches of grooving near the muzzle will give the bullet all the need ful amount of spin. Three cargoes of flour, aggregating 48,300 baraels, have lately been ship ped from San Francisco to Liverpool, and the Bulletin speaks of the movement as a novel and interesting feature of the export trade of that port. Columbus, -Ga., boasts of a young mm who is said to receive a salary of $1,200 per annum,' and has Baved since the war some 97,000. He boards at the free luucb counter and sleeps on the lee side of a fence. The Trade in Petroleum. Hardly one man in a hundred has any idea of tho extraordinary trade in petro leum between this city and Europe, con stituting, as it docs, at least one-third of our exports, and giving employment, in all its details, from its source in West ern Pennsylvania and West Virginia, to its final destination in the Old World, to a small army of workmen. The les son taught by this new article of neces sity is most suggestive. It is the only great product that may be said to be ex ported f. ora America in large quantities in a finished condition, and there is scarcely any pott in the world which is not supplied with Pennsylvania or West ern Virginia petroleum. Our petroleum ships trade between eighty-three ports ou both coutincnts, ao.i the growth of Philadelphia as the favorito depot may bo estimated from the fact that whereas, in 18G3, there were shipped fross New York 19,674,897 gallons and from Philadelphia 4,939,708 gallons, in 1865 there were shipped from New York 14, 393,586 gallons and from Philadelphia 12,714,585 gallons. Tbis proportion must increase in our favor in conse quence of the extraordinary preparations of Peter Wright & Sons to accommodate tbe trade at their great works and wharves at tbe mouth of the Schuylkill in tbis city, and also from our direct connection with the oil wells via the Alleghany Valley and the Penesylvania Railroad, and the fact that wo are one hundred miles by rail nearer water than New York. This oil is all shipped in a refined and finished state, and is ready for use immediately on its arrival in Eu rope. The extent of tho demand will bo realized by the number of ports to which it is forwarded. Take the great contrasting staple of cotton, which is sent abroad in a raw condition almost to the English, French, and German ports. Suppose, like oil, cotton could be ex ported, as it ought to be, in a manufac tured t-hape; suppose the Southern country had as many cotton factories as Western Pennsylvania and Western Virg'n'a have oil wells, is it not reason able to predict that we should be tbe rivals in many of the markets of the world with the British and French, and that hundreds of millions of dollars now spent for foreign fabrics wonld he kept at home? What more powerful argument-could bs presented in favjr of do mestic manufactures than this startling coutrast between finished oil and unfin ished cotton? Forney's Press. A number of young ladies of Macon, Ga., have resolved to attend the State fair clad in homespun. A Maine inventor is said to Lave pat ented a poly-morphous article of furni ture, combining a wardrobe, bedstead, dining table and easy chair, Ned O'Baldwin, the pugilist, has been scafen'ced, in Peiladulphia, to 2 years iu the Penitentiary for ag'jravtjd assault and battery. The nyiter packing trade of Baltimore is an enormous one, aud in connection with fruit aud vegetable packing the business employs a capital ol about 825, 000,000. A young Atlanta, Ga., . lawyer,, who was conducting a case in which his father was to make a plea, gracr fully, al luded to the old gentleman as "my dis tinguished associate." A large number of ladies in Spring field, Mass, huve been poisoned while gathering forest leaves this fall One physician has twenty, cases of poisoning by alder leaves. UTICA mi (Fomuslt Wood A ttura.) fj STITIOKIRY t PORTABLE Steam Engines. Tie Best & Most Complote Assortment in the Market , These Engfaes have alwuvn mawtMnod the rrry highest standard of excUerico. 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