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V-,' ' ir^.. • J WEDNESDAY, JAtf. 9 <Hh, T8?8» JT. VAN 8LYKE, £ditor. tHR WAR. t)n Friday last the "Forelga tiew9 re­ ported that ft Peace had been patched up between Russia and Turkty. and that the war would Immediately close. INt now comt; news that it is M Not fifi Peace.**' A special dispatch from London, wider date ©f the 28th, says: •^.yHfe KiMBian demands will encounter Virions opposition from England and Austria. The latter Is-particularly op­ posed to a retrocession of Bessarabia, *nd to any conditions doing more tlian to cripple Turkey." : ** The Cabinet council on Sunday de­ termined to persist with the demand fir a supplementary vote. Summoning • Cabinet council en Sunday is regard­ ed in some quarters as an indication that the political atmosphere i» not clearing.** •*Up to 9 o'clock last night the Porte had no advice of the conclusion of the armistice, though orders were tele­ graphed the plenipotentiaries on Fri­ day to accept the preliminaries of pfcace% The delay causes apprehensions that the armistice may be accompanied fly onerous conditions." I "Russians, Servians, Roumanians, mud Montenegrins are pushing military operations with great vigor about Widden, Pri*rend, ^ake Scutari, and Silistrlft, and in Maritza Valley, east of Adrlmnople.r ' ft !" Suleiman Paslia's army continues to #abark, Six Egyptian transports Vive been ordered to Karala to assist fa the operation. Up to Saturday evening Safvet Pasha (acting Foreign Hinister during the absence on the peace mission of Server Pasha) persist­ ed in his refusal to inform Layard, the British Ambassador, of the terms of peape, showing that the Porte has been ifiledged by Russia to keep them se­ cret." 5* Thus it will bo seen that everything Jfl net lovely yet. Now the question is dare England step in to try and pre- r|pent Russia from picking the bones of il'urkey to her own liking? A very "few days will answer the question. 9S&*By our exchanges we see a lovement is on foot in different parts .'•f the Country to form a Working- toen's party. Before enlisting iu the • movement working men will do well v Ji> ask themselves how it is to improve ttieir condition and what possible re­ mits aro to be accomplished by it. It is a case where it will be a good plan ifr Make haste slowly. A Working- teen's party which lias lor its leaders i'lfhe political shysters and dead beats who have left other parties because *Httiey could not get all the loaves and nj^ghes, or been kicked out because they ":%«re too heavy % load to, carry ifimple represents the workingmeu by Jjlame, and dues more to injure their clause than any opposition party can.-- -:#ive these political dead-beats a wide •%erths, as their object is not to better the condition of the workiiygman, but : that they may themselves get their . <J|ands inio his pocket and iileh his Vi&rdeftriied dollars -1" ii i '< (fil tOK CONGKESB, 4th DUIi08t ' <>m The Elgin Advocate of Saturday Ijjfcst, has the following: Among the gentlemen who are likely i%#fp figure proinineutly uext fall for con­ gressional honors may be enumerated: Hon. William Lathrop. of Rock ford. • Hon. Charles W. March, of DeKalb. Hon.'Jose ph H. Mayborne. of Geneva Judge Theodore D. Murphy, of Woodstock. Hen. A. B. Coen. of Marengo. Judge Lawrence, "old man eloquent" of Belvidere. Some of tho gentlemen named above would, without doubt,, do honor to ^themselves and their constituents in ~sfJengrew. while thereare others named would be nonentities in every flense of the word. The man who rep- ^ iresents the 4th District for the next two years must bo a man of acknowl­ edged ability. The people have had their 011 of "slicks." I MA (WlW filillsltbtw. t It needs no argument to show which side of the money question is eager to sWtudle, and which side meditates bad faith and repudiation, A fair and hon­ est adherence to tho stipulatiopaof the original agreement, stands out plainly as thd purpose of one side, while the other, by its thimble-rig, shows as plainly that it alms, not at equity* but at fraud and robbery. The people have never demurred to Shy lock"s demand that they should pay him all that was "nominated in the bond." They have always cheerfully recognized their obligation to pay him precisely wh§t the bond and tho laws under which it was issued call for. But he demands more than the origiual agreement promised him, and he has 4|een, and still Is, at work by all sorts of tricks, stratagems, false pretences and corrupting influences, to bring about such stealthy changes in the law as will enable hian to extort more. He has now thrown off all disguise and openly demands, in a resolution of­ fered by Senator Edmunds, that the people shall pay him, not only What they agreed to pay and what he had a right to expect, but what he chose to think he could sxtort by sharp prac­ tice, «nd what, therefore, he can now claim he did expect to get! But it won't do to set aside the plain specifi­ cations of a contract, and the equally Ulain provisions of the laws, and in their place set up, as the measure of the people's obligations, a Shyloek's greed and his confidence in his skill and power to overreach. It "Is enough |f they keep the engagement as set forth in the contract and cotemporary laws. To demand anything else of them is robbery. Those laws permitted, and ©tir gov­ ernment has always availed itself of the option to pay its debts in gold or silyer coin, according as the one or the other was the cheaper or more attain­ able. It paid the interest on these very bonds for ten years in gold, when silver dollars where at a premium of three per cent over gold dollara. If it is not repudiation or bad faith to pay the public creditor In gold when gold is cheaper than sliver, it is not repudi­ ation or bad faith to pay him in silver when silver is cheaper than gold.-- There can bo no breach of faith or re pudiation in the matter, except, b abolishing one of the optional coins, o otherwise changing the legal measure of payment on which the contract was based. That is what the anti-silver men demand, and by that demand they convict themselves of meditating a crime as heinous as forging a new con­ tract over the signatures affixed to an old one. When they raise the cry of bad fr.ith, they ore only throwing themselves upon the points of their ow§f|F©rds. nonsense. It won't do to place tho balance of power over the destiny of this country iu the hands et" such a fe­ male element as Is npw clamoring for aj sixteenth amendment;and that's what it will do if passed when nine-teuths the real women of the country so plaint ly Indicate that they don't want to bei1 bothered with platforms and ballots. Some time i» tho near future we predict the American people will discover that amongst minor. If not the major, afflictions of our national life is the supporting of an expensive and rather useless navy. Since this item of Governmental expenditure has reached over #23,000,000 per annum in times of peace, and with the further knowledge that we don't happen too have too much of a navy after all, after subtracting the salaried officers on its pay-rolls--and that it is the most ex- elusive, snobbish and aristocratic branch of our public service and wholly undemocratic and unrepublican aud uncongenial--the representatives of tho people in Congress assembled could no themselves no better credit than to overhaul the wh^le department and put It on an economical and ra» tional footing. If this is not done] these said representatives may safely couut on a time when their constitu­ ents will give them an overhauling that will feec 'tji une njoy able *4* funeral. . 1 ' ' \ --AT THE-- Riverside House, McHENRt,H.L., , i „ Friday Eve., Feb. 8th. •ARrtAINSi UViiT* GENEVA LAKE, MH/r i PIECE0/rJi SIX HgKl'here Is a movement on foot among inventors looking towards the, abolishment of the agent's fee, exami­ nation charges and expense of models* which with other Patent Office fees, average about 8100 on each patent granted. It is proposed that patents be allowed to all who apply, as in En­ gland and Germany, and that all ques­ tions of invention or priority be deter­ mined in Courts. This will reduce th$ expense to the mere cost of the draw­ ing, the printed specification and ths patent, wbieh altogether would not ex- ? f. ceed #6. While this would no doubt increase the number of useless patents, It would undoubtedly be of great ad­ vantage to many poor inventors who have heretofore been forced to aban­ don their projects or transfer them to men of capital. _ ^ ̂Congressman ttmamr afolina, to the effect that there wa such arrest and Imprisonment no breach of privileges of the House, = , . Adjourned, 8esj|pi on ttie 26th to be for general deb*] ACublcMilS. E1egan%-fcn<f Bran New Cfos- tumes, the best of Music and a general goodJpjpr£ps!&^, ,.,,£11 tff# invited. ; v$8'- tMw •<?v*- i TICKETS offer the our stock of Overcoats at Cost. Gloves and Mittens at greatly reduced prices.-- Flannels and Woolens a%i lower prices than ever be fore known. Nubias an Scarfs at half their value.-fr Call and examine and getp prices; WilL^make it your advantage to buv o US# >• n t. V?4' ; i l i 4 ' * I ' t f ' I ( i f orn •Mm, % 'Iff'tiHiM f f t J# tW|,: Buy Your ; • Goods for W°. am fi i 1 We will make large reductions on all Fall and Winter Goods for the remain $er of the month in order to reduce stock before taking our annual Inventor* January 1st, 187ft. We herewith annex a partial Price List of goods most i* demand for the season. ggrGold is wobbling between ItH and 102, and some people suppose that this brings us within two per cent of a specie basis. But the smallness of the * premium is duechlefty to the fact that ,w« are on a legal tende# currency basis, . and to the consequently small demand 43|ifor gold. If that demand were wiped -'fttt'out by coining a. full, supply of silver dollars sufficient to pay duties and '••'pother coin obligations, the premium on • would totally disappear. Tho prospect of .such a supply is the very thing that is reducing the gold pre mi- ^nin* ^ ̂ ie 8Hver bill should be ^e^®aUfd and tlie greenback oorrency -f. 15.^ Withdrawn, we would soon see gold ^ high as it ever wasin this country, 'ii and be compelled to trausact our busi- , ; ness with suspended bank paperrirr«- dcemable and net a legal tender. * BQTSome mcyfea' oraat a silver * ceats in gold. re saying that they illur, if any, worth 100 Yet these are the very *-m men who aro trying to have affairs so managed as to have a gold dollar worth anywhere from 110 to 115 cents In sil­ ver or currency. They are the loaners. ii 1 A full stock of Germantown balmoral yarn aud Zepbyn at Perry & Martin's. i*. ' fc.H - 1 : rti' M W8MAMB SVFjrKAG%^^ Those "plain, earnest-eyed women with small knobs of native hair at the backs of their heads,n would make more headway with their Sixteenth Amendment if they could hit upon some method of proving conclusively tbat they represent a majority of the women of the United States--in other words that the women desire the right to \ote, and would exercise {%, i€ they had it. The average purity, intelligence andie patriotism of the women of Americr®®* might be a great addition to populaS^' suflrage, and tend greatly to elevatkcm its moral tone aud the standard of it| verdicts. But when only a few hen , aud there are asking the right to votcL( We have no assurance that a majority\)r of the female sovereigns would vote if they could; and it would not be whole- Nwmo to enfranchise tho whole sex merely to confer power upon tho least womanly and the most crochetty and Rick-brained element. Now, we all know that very few un­ married ladies under the age of thirty could be Induced to confess themselves over 21 years old by marching up to the polls with a ballot in their hands.-- Most, married ladies would be kept back by household duties and circum­ stances incident to motherhood; others by a natural indifference or aversion to political strife; and of the remnant who would vote there Is grave reason to suppose that a majority would only do so for the pleasure of helping Tom or Dick, or some other "dear fellow" to elect his tickct. There can be no safe­ ty iu trying this woman suffrage expe­ riment until a majority of the women show some strong dispo«itiou to yote by demanding the right. There is no evidence that a tenth of them second any such demand. If the question of woman suffrage were submitted to a poll of all the women of tho United States,and all who failed to vote for it were counted against it, the proposi­ tion would bo defeated by moVo than fifty to one. Until their own views and wishes on this subject change, it would be uugal- laut, impolite and wrong to impose up­ on the uuwilliug ladies of the country the trouble and responsibility of guard­ ing the ballot box against the mischief which some of their eccentric sisters would have afoot at every election.-- What a tr^nendous mess of religion, chari ty and social reform, some of them would always be trying to make of our politics! And if the more sensible ones did not help us eut, our affairs would soon be turned upside, down, and our legislation deluged with sentimental PROF. BERNSTEIN, an eminent nab uralist in Berlin, Germany, gives th< following graphic description of one German geographical cubic mile (one mile equals 10,126 yards) to illustrate the size of our earth, which contains only 2,662 such: "Imagine a box on0 mile each way--long, wide and deep-- and let us try to fill it up. Berlin is handy, we take the city as if it were a toy and throw it into our box. We gq to Potsdam, pick up all the villages oa our way also, and put all in . The bob# torn is not covered yet. We will take Paris, with all her columns, towers an(f churches, which helps.little, so we musfe take London also. Vienna must go i(| too, and, not to disturb the peace, St| Petersburg follows next. All this stuff lies at the bottom. We begin now to take up all the cities, towns, village^ forts, farms, everything that humaii hands have built in Europe, and all th ships floating on the sea. It help nothing! We must go to old and new worlds, throw in the pyramids of Egypt and the railroads and factories of America, and everything else made b; men in Asia, Africa, Australia &n America--lo! our box is not half fu' yet! We will shake up the things little to make them even, and as are bound to fill the box, let us sec hetlier we cannot do it with peopfy and lay them in like herrings. Oft row will rpinnire 12.000. and 4,000 row* -^M>OQ AAA if LATE DAIRY MARKET. ' Ifew York, Jan. 26tln--BUTTER. EC- ceipt8 for the week were 20,741 pack­ ages. Exports, 830 packages. Busi­ ness generally Is very blue. There' was one 80 package lot of ice-house western stock sold here at 7Jo. and other parcels offered at 7 to 8c. Win­ ter make state and western butter sells at 12c., 15 to 20c., as In quality; flue fresh western creamery make, 35 to40c.; finest selections of State, fall make, 30 to 35.; fair to good fall butter, 23 to 26c.; fresh western factory or mill but­ ter, 18 to 20c.; old flavored do„Nl0 to 13c.; entire State dairies, southern and middle counties, fine, 25 to 27c.; entire do., fair to good, 20 to 23c. CHEESE.--Receipts for tho week, 13- 669 boxes. Exports, 21,302 boxes.-- Fancy October make is getting out of stock and buyers bid up for' it, and this causes greater firmness. Stock moves less glibly to home trade, but freely for export, and there is generally more confidence among holders. We quote: Fine September and October make, 13 to 13£c; fair to good do., 12 to 13c.; early made good to line, 10 to 13c. CASH, at ' i * - BUCKLIN & r id iha llest Ginghams .8 to 9 cts. regular price 10 to 12.& »rwn Sheetings. .6 to S ctfc. " " 7 lo 10e. Prints 4}i to •» •« $ to 8 Cotton Batting--11 to 16 •• " 14 to 20 A lull line of Black and colored American and . French Cashmeres 36 50, 78, 86, and flr iegu- ar price 45 to #1.25. •acihc corrleil Alpaca 15cts., regular priec23c j leavy Grey Flannel 20 cts., regular prW-.e 30c rleavy Western ck Flannel *8 cts. regular jricc 35 cts. Icavy Red Twilled Flannel 2S cts., regular n ice 35 cts. _ -leavy Red Plain Flannel 2t ets., regular sricc '.'8 cts. Men's Knit Jackets (double) (1 regular . price , .1.. . . . Two Button Kid Glov*»7lct«^ regular £prlee Ladles Beav«/r Union Cloaking, double w id til $2 regular price $2. 50. Ladies Felt Skivtu $1.15 regular price tLSQ. Mens Suits !?s7.fi0 worth 9H Mens Suit* *10 worth ? 12.50, Ment Suits 812 worth $15, ° Mens Suits $J3 worth Mens Suits $14.50 worth $17. Mens Suits $10 worth #18. Mens Overcoats worth $6.80, Mens Overcoats sfi worth Menu Overcoat* $s,60 worth $10, Mens Overcoats $10 worth $12.50. Mens Overcoats $12.60 worth $18. Mens Ovcroouts $15 worth $18, Mens Overrate 18worth £2. «so a full line of Youths and Boys Suits and reductions. ' Ovei-uoats at corresponding Youw Truly. P. D. SMITH, F . G . M A Y E S C H A N T And Dealer I L O R , And Thereby To Consumptives. THE advertiser, having bean permanently cured of that dread disease, Consump­ tion, by a simple remedy, is anxious to mate known to his fellow-sufferers the means of cure. To all who desire it he will send a copy of the perscription used, (free of charge,) with the directions for preparing aud nsing the same, which thev will lind a sure cure for Consum ption, Asthma. Bronchitis, Ac. Par­ ties wishing the prescription, will please ad* dress K. A. Wilson, 194 l'ciin, St., Williams, burgh, N. Y. W • j.. ~ Dfiiiq-jw PIMPLES. 1 trill" mail (Free) the receipt for a simple Vegetable Balm that will remove T»n, Freckles, Pimples and blotches, leaving the skin soft, clear and beautiful; also instruc­ tions for producing a luxuriant growth of bair on a bald head or smooth litce. Address, Inclosing 3 ct. stamp, lleta VandpU Jt Col. SO Ann St., Sew York. ~ ~ CASH! CAS BUCKLIN * STEVENS. McHenry, Jan. 30£A, 1878* Foz River Valley Mills. R. BISHOP, Proprietor.: McHenry - • • - Illinois. CONSTANTLY ON HAND. ClJ^^CMSa GRINDING Done promptly, and satisfaction guaranteed Having just put in a new Feed Stone, capable of grinding sixty buthels of Feed per hour. I am prepared to do your grinding on short no- tlce. *5"The IligiiesttMarket Price paid for good Milling Wheal. R. BISHOP- McHenry 111., Dec. 11th, 1877. 157.60 Agents profits per week. Will prove it or forf -it $500. New ar- ;s jusi natented. Samples sent free to all ress, W. H. Ofaidester, stfi FiiICdb Mew Invites the public to an inspection of liis newly purchased Stock. JjHF"Prices to suit the Times and Qoods Warranted as represented* CUTTING PONE AS USUAL. . Store One Hwth af Gelby'to »*rug Mre. ' McHenry, III.. Sept. 12th, 1877. • Furniture! Furniture! I mm.now prepared to give better bargainft in Fnrnfttnre, Picture Frame* awl Leokimg Glasses than any other House in the county. Below we give s partial PRICE IV, Kxtnnalon Tables, Solid Black Walnut, Mf cents per foot. Bedstead* from $2 to $80. ftprins Beds from (.2 to f 10. Wash Stand Bureaus from f3 to*1. Bureaus from 9# to $14. Woed Keai Chairs from $2 to ft.50 per set Can.e Scat Chairs from #4.50 to 91& Single Lounges from f7 U* <10. Bed Lounges trom $10 to £14. ^Pictijuu I'UAMKS.-8x10 Uustic Frame complete, 20,vents. BusUe Motto Frames 8^x91, complete, M cents, and all other stvlcs and sizes at tho^ very lowest prieee. Looking Glasses from 16 cents UNDERTAKING. I have the most complete stock of Coffins and Caskets, ofall styles and sixes, the county, with Viumlngs to correspond, tnat I will sell at a very small margin. o be fond la Give me m call and I* wiil be pleased to show you my stock and *iye prices. •SfTo those wishing it I will give one years time on approved Notes at lo per peak John I. ®1fiA MONTHLY MADE. Agentt wanted f lUU County rights given gratis f»r the sale of seven well-known Standard Medicines needed in every family; reputation world­ wide; established many years; made oy a celebrated physician; proofs of evidence given. An industrious, energetic person can make snug permanent income and very liberal terms, by addressing with retereuce, Chestnut Street, Phliadelp bla. --~ TBAKSPABBNT TEACHIHO CABD8- In- :<striiction un<l Amuaementcombined. Import­ ant^ to<parents and teachers. Sfi dinoront ar­ tistic designs. The entire p»ck for '25 cts. currency or stamps. V an Delf ft ;Co.t 20 Auu St., N. Y. Errors of Youth. A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years trom Nervous Debility, Premature De­ cay, and all the effects of youthful indiscre- tion will, for the sake of suffering humanity, send free to all who need it, the recipe aud direction for making the simple remedy by which he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by the adviser's experience can do so -- -jerfect confidence 42 Cedar St., New York 1>roiit ny vne auvisei >y addresumg in perl JOHN B. OGDEN, is not easily earned In theftf times, but it can be made in thr## months by any one of citlier so*, in any part of the country who !• willing to work steadily at the employment that we furnish.-- <»<» persweek in your own town. Yon nee4 not be a way from home over night. Yon can givebyour wholctime to the work, or only your spare moments. We have agents who are making over $20 per day. Ail who engage at once can mukemoney fast. At the present timemoney can no t be made so easily and rap. djy at any other business. It costs no thiof o try the business. Terms and (A Oullii iree tddress at once, II. IIai.letx & Co, ,Portland Maine. NOTICE. All persons knowing themselves In­ debted to the firm of Smith & Snyder either by N«te or Booki Account, are hereby notified that the Books are now in the hands of H. Snyder at their •Hice. where nil Are expected to call within the next 30 days and square up. Those interested will please bear thu please bear thlv iu mind, as delays are dangerous. „ „ . & SMXDBB. Mcllcniy, 2w)V 5th 1877.