Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 30, 1872, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO DAILY. TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER -30, 1872. WASHINGTON. Eighty Years of Lodging---Re- - opening of Willards’ Hotel. ©Old Taverns of Washingtcn w=Tallk With Fline Host. Profits of Eastern Inns-—-A Room-Clerk’s Nar« rative. From Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTOX, Oct. 33, 1372, 3fr. Geoffrey Chancer wrote one line which I always admired : In Southwark at the Tabard as J lay. That is about all I know of Chaucer, 2nd think Artemus Ward had more sense than he knew when he said that Chaucer couldn't spell, and ‘therefore couldn’t be & great poet. . On account of my respeot for that particular Jine, I went to see the Tabard ten years ago. It “was an old tavern, with & wagon-yard at the side, benches at the door, and the old sign of its ‘successor, the Talbot inn, Iying back against the ‘gtables. I think a railroad company had leased the inn-yard. And ount of this old place the Canterbury Pilgrims had proceeded, telling their ‘talcs. RISE OF THE INN-EEEPEE. All immortal literature is, in some way, indis- #olubly associated with taverns. The New Tes- tement begins in ome. Don Quixote end Bancho never seem truly themselves till they reach an inn. English Hterature proceeds out of the Tabard-yard with Chancer. The Shaksperean age and the John- sonian age are demonstrations that, at the close of hife, we must admit our truest welcome to have been aninn, In our age, the innkeeper is ‘the successor of the abbot and the robber, and a blending of both. His house is a8 big as the grest lodging-convents of the Middlo Ages, and Bs dear as the toll of & Bhenish robber-Enight. “The Republican innkeeper of Switzerland is gen- erallly a Magisirate; in Republican America, he is at the head of the second or great average rank of citizens, and sometimes well over in the Yirst rank. The religious sensibilities of clergy- men sgainst men who sell liquor necessarily while keeping hotels, appear to have been ap- peased for several years; for nowadays there is not & “ Conference,” annual or general, but the taverns are besought to tzke a, certain number of preachers as_ free guests. The landlord always does it, having & secret afinity for proachers anyway; they make the house re- spectable, and pray with the family, which is good for the children there, and they, at the same time, eatisfy the lzndlord’s own qualms about the liguor-question. I may say they are mutually prond of each other's society. Besides, the preacher is an innkeeper. No class of poor men is as much persecuted for food, raiment, medicine, and_money, as country clergy. Theé ‘beggars colonize on them like gadfiies on lean caftle. Tmpostors, whose chief piety consists in saying ‘‘ Amen” instend of ¢ That's what's the matter,” are alwaya lurking sround to make & - boozing-ken of the country-parsonage. If they can’t find & bed in the honse, they take it in the stable, and cecretly eat the oats of the tmvel!i:fi preacher’s horse. There ought to be perpet: Eympathy between & landlord and a clergyman. If that little bar @id not etand between them, their theologies wonld not differ & hair. OUR BEHARILITATED EXCHANGE. These remarks I am led to make because Will- ards' Hotel, the chief inn of Washington, is sbout to be reopened after more than a year's oblivion, and iestexday I walked throngh the mewly-furnished place with & gentleman who ‘knew some of the older reminiscences of the establishment. This might be called an almost immemorial hotel site, and there were some in- tentions entertained of tearing it down and con- structing another house upon the vast plan of our new Chicago hotels, or the Galt House at %hanisville. Tlmdi s,wo tbrot.hers ‘!32 u:; e property not sgree with e other,P and could not confer, and _the new hotel has been %ustpunedé and & Tease concluded with J. F. Cake, of Cape May, Yor ten years, which will carry this house over the centenary year of the conntry and on fo No- ‘vember, 1883. ~ For at least half of this pm!s:g— tive time, Williard's will be the main establish- ment here; for it will require from three to four years to build anew hotel, and this is the larg- est property of the kind at the National Capital. It contains 375 rooms, and stands upon the most central and general ground of rendezvous. It covers one-half a city block, and is valued, when emptied of furniture, gas fixtures, etc., at $400,- 000. At least, this would .be the inference from the fact that Henry Willard offered to purchase hhis brother’s half, one year ago, for §250,000, or ‘%o sell his own to'Josoph Williard for 00,000, To refurnish this house required $20,000 worth of gas fixtures, 15,000 yards of carpet, 500 spring mattresses, window curtains to the amount of 815,000, and $90,000 worth of stand- ing furniture. Had the house been a new mod- ern structure, it would have required no more elsborate garniture. Bath-rooms, the want of which made great complaint_before, have been added, and an elevator introduced. TAVERN TALK. For Willards' Hotel, Mr. Theodors Roessel, proprietor of the Arlington, offered 815,000 more than Mr, Coke pays per annum ; but he wished to take the hntel for only three years. The pro- prietors preferred to have a man who would not Tun their bouse as a succursale to & emaller one, and, as the politicians have it, Willards will “turn” the Arlington this year. The latter house is well described in a recent conversation. 4 Mr. Roessel, the colored Congressman of South Carolina, will come to the Senate, and ‘come right here for a parlor and- bed-room, with his wife.” Roessel : * Not for three dollars and a half a dsy. Ho pass his five gollars! ” “ That's the lowest 2™ Roessel: * Yes, sir!” “‘'What's the highest 2" Boessel: **That's what no fellow cen find out.” OLD DATS AT WILLARDE. The story of innsin Washington is the story of social aud political intrigue here. A very small proportion of Congressmen attempt to ¢ keep house,” either renting or buying. About one-third of the BSenators do be- comehousekeepers in nni.rregxazlu way. ACsbinet Minister generally tries to have either a dwell- ing, or & series of apartments comprehensive of omestead. But theinn is the real life of Washington, and whoever conld have kept a diary of Willard's since it opened, peeping in as if the hostel were unroofed, would have possessed the materials for a history of human motives and weaknesses during more than twenty event- ful years. e room No. 13, which stands at the corner of this house over the side-portal, was the place of meeting of the Rebel Commissioners, in 1861, who came with impudent_propositiods to treat with the United States. To that room, Mr, Lin- coln was taken by Washburn, when he arrived unsnnounced in ‘the Capital; and thence Bu- chanan, Lincoln, James Aléred Pearce, of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and Senator Baker, Geparted together for the inauguration. In thé dining-room of this hotel, Philemon T. Herbert ehot an Irieh waiter, Keating, desd, in the sprin of 1856. From tho bar-room, Licutenants Be and Williams departed after a quarrel to fight a dnel at Bladensburg. Here the Prince of Wales disported, and the Prince Napoleon. And, in room No.4, the greatest poker-games of ‘tho war were pliyed, between Quartermasters Gen- eral and all manner of cool and flush profligates. The exect site of Willards’ was first occupied by Edwards & Henry, in the fall of 1847. - They called the house the City Hotel, and the front art, which they set up, still remains. In 185, e {Villerd brothers bolught tho proporty, gavd their family-namo to the hotel, and kept it until 1861. Every leading General of the War stopped here. Here Mrs. Anderson feinted when she heard that her husband, in the besieged Sumter, had surrendered. Here General Sumner brought . Lircoln, in place of taking_him to & private house on Capitol Hill, and Lincoln eaid to Joseph Willard : © I am’ glad to get under your Toof, I assure you, sir!” Here Major Anderson and the prisoner Generals of Bull Bun were received. The word * Union” blazed in gae- ‘brackets every might during the War from the front of the hotel. Stray bullets, once or twice, dropped from the neighboring heights, fell into this hotel. The first session of the Court of Claims was held in this house, by Chief Justice Gilchrist; and, sccording to ‘Mr. Willard, here the whole project of Secession was hatched, in Room 13. the same room, every President has roomed. from Van Buren to Lineoln. A summer-hotel at Norfolk was kept by the Wil- lards, as accessary to one; but it was seized as a hospital at the capture of the city. ‘Every room in Willard's. probably has- it le- gend of sacrifice or deception, purity or folly; and I was gensibly impressed with the prospects of the establishment ‘in the way of romance for the future ten years, when the Room-Clerk, ghorwing me th_mng;rh, told me to jump on a mat- tress and test it. The whole of the concert-hall of the hotel was, at this time, full of bran-new ‘mattresses, #This is ig the great DeGraff & Taylor mat- tress,” he said; ‘the idea for it ceme from Cal- ifornia. It'll et high and elastic, like that, for ten years, as if the sleeper were supported by an atmospheric cloud.” et 1 lay down for a moment, and as many visions came to me as Mahomet 68% in his onc night's trip from Mecca to, Jerusalem: the calculating schemer, counting up the points he had madeon & Senator ere he dropped to sleep; the den Congressman, tired ‘of telling coarse stories, plunging into's swinish snore with his clothes on} the Indian Chief, gazing at his paint in'the mir- ror, and indulging in an_intoxicated cddress to his Great Father, as he fell acleep in his feath- ers, like a beheaded turkey-cock; the hundreds of brides and grooms, weary of perambulating the town arm in arm, full of the Banguine pat- riotism which exists in the happy honeymoon of life. “De Graff is a good magician,” I said. ¢ Like an angel he bears them up’; no Procrustes s he. How much to occupy this ?” “The parlor is 810 a day,” eaid the Room- Clerk ; “ ndding the bed-room and two persons, §19 8, day. Shut the parlor off, 591" “TN take both rooms af that rate for 15 i ’x,xten, and expose you in & newspaper-let- ter.’ FHE PAST OF WASHINGTON INKS. Seated here in & room all set with Persian car- ots, mirrors and bronze mouldings, s writing- sesk eelected by the efficient lady-mistress of the house, and all the other finery comporting with therates, I made an effortof the memory as to the past career of Washington hostelries. An English traveller, Isaac Weld, speaks of the first hotel in Washington thus disfinctly: * The only public buildings carrying on, as yet, are the President's Honse, the Capitol, and & large hotel. * * * The hotel is & large building of brick, ornamented with stone ; it stands between the President’s House and the Capitol. In the beginning of the gen 1796, when I last saw it, it was roofed in, and every exertion making to have it finished with the utmost expedition. It is anything but beautifal.” ‘his hotel was probably the Indian Queen, or Gadsby's, part of which remains in the present Metropolitan Hotel, The stages stabled here from Baltimore, and left threo times a day. Beforo this hotel was opened, the stopping- Jaces of Cougrossien gfixfimo&k‘u, on New ersey avenue, itol Hill, in Georgetown, ' more than two mifis distant. The Admgnima- tionof Adams was_first resident here, andits supporters selected the Capitol neighborhood, while the Southern members rode in omnibuses from the Georgetown country-hotels. Blodget’s Hotel, which occupied the site of the Post Office Department, reccived the Thir- teenth Congress, at its third seasion, on the 19th of September, 1814, The Capitol had heen burned by tho British. To reliove Congress from these close quarters, the citizens built the block of houses on Capitol Hill, where Senator Trum- bull afterwards lived, now occupied by General Daunn, Curtis T. Hillyer, and Judge Field ;* and it became, about 1817, one of the iargest board- ing-houses in Washington, kept by Mrs. Linden- berger, and afterwards by Henry Hill. Here died Peter E. Bossior and Jokn C. Calhoun. Amongst the buildings destroyed by the Brit- ish, in 1814, was ¢ the large hotel belonging to Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, and others, and rocently oceupied by Mr. Tomliggon.” 'This probably occupied a place” in the Cipitol Hill square, where Carrol 's property wis eitusted, near the subsequent boarding-house of Mrs. Caster. In 1819, thero was & hotel on this equare, called all's, where Decatur break- fasted on his way to the fatal duel with Barron. Fuller's Hotel, nearly on the site of the pres- ent Willards’,—and a part of it still standing,— divided nearly the whole of the patronage, sfter 1820-25, with Gadsby’s, on the gite of the Metro- politan. The one was known as the Mansion, the other ‘the Indian Queen. John Tyler, in 1844, removed from the White House to Fullér's. Polk retired to the Irving Hotel, now extinct as such. The National Hotel was fhe first building of largo dimensions for publicaccommodation,— & few-rods from Brown’s, or the Metropolitan. Brown's was the first fo establish & bridal-chamber, and here Xossuth’s com- atriots went to bed with their boots and ats on, after getting very drunk st _the Nation- Clay died at the National, and Buchanan took the mysterious sickness there. Af Brown's, James B. Clay, Henry Clay's son, was struck in the face by General Cullom, of Tennessce, and a bloodless duel resulted at Bladensburgh, in 8. OLD AND NEW WILLARDS'. The brothers Willard, of Vermont, had the mgesc house inthe city when the war began, and they made & very_advantageous lesso of it. In their house, the Peace Convention of 1861 was held. That hall has been turned by Mr. Cake, the now proprietor, into s_reading and music room, which will probably be the_place recherche, as the goung men with pale neck-ties put it, for soft and non-percusgion theatricals. The present proprietor of Willarde’, belongs to the race of xmify magistrates, dignified, in- dustrions, snd sgreeablo as & Bishop. It isa grest moral advance, .if mo more, to see the old, tawdy horse-racing race of inn-keepers dig- sppeer, and public men and their families, an patriotic folks who visit the Capital, receive the entertainment of quieter and more demure and responsible hosts. ~ Persons familiar with Wash- ington hotels will be interested to hear that the new Willards’ has & grand marble and walnut office, a billiard-room where the bar formerly stoud'. & ladies’ cafe over the office, where used to be *“ Camp Sykes ” (a lumber-room), and the long and gawky sitting-room has been dissected, and half of it made & ladies’ promenade. OTHEE WASHINGTON HOUSES. The Ebbitt House, of this city, has also been taken to pieces, raised up with jackscrews, and & large, domed office made in tho centre of the block, 'This house has sbove 200 rooms. Iis new dining-room is particularly light and spa- cious. The National has also 200 rooms, and the Metropolitan 160 rooms. At the latter hotel Mr. Cake—who has now resigned it to his gonngar partners and associates—cleared 350,000 last ar, and cleared 18,000 in twenty-nine days. This Dotwithatanding the place had been ran down under the old management. - 'PROFITS OF ATLANTIG SLOFE HOTELS. Bome days 8go, I met Mr. A. H. Haskins, a widely-known Room-Clerk, whose oxperience is probably equal to any one of his svocation. In ‘& communicative moment, at Willards’, he gave me the following figures 25 to the profits of the leading hotels of the East. I took them down at the time, and believe them to be as nearly correct a8 anything of the sort obtainable : Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York—Rent $200,- 000, not inclusive of &tores beneath it; profits £350,000. The greatest business in America of the character. Twenty years sgo, the ground was offered for 99 years for 500 per annum. Metropolitan Hotel, New York—Rent at pres- ent §105,000. _Just resuming and recovering from {Ionng ed’s management. 8t. Nicholas Hotel, New York—Rent 287,000 ; annual profits rising £175,000. Hawks, the pro- prietor, has leased the new Windsor Hotel, Fifth avenue. Continental Hotel, Philadelphia—Rent $80,- 000; profita above $75,000. Grand Central Hotel, New York—Very cheap rent,—eaid to be the cheapest for the opportu- nitios,—only 865,000; profits $150,000. Astor House, New York—Rent 875,000, Very Profits £85,~ agcassiul on the European plan, New York Hotel, New York—Rent $60,000. Profits 90,000, being full of Boutherners all summer. Parker House, Boston—Owned by the propri- etor. Profits 8135,000. Gilsey House, New York—Enormous rent, £85,000. Profits, $40,000. Hoffmsn House, New York—Profits, 875,000 Arlington Hotel, Washington—Rent, $40,000. Profits, $75,000. The following hotels clear $50,000 per annum: Brevoort, Clarendon, French's, New ;ork ; Tay- lor’s, Jersey City (d0es tho larzest bar business in a}]l;e United Btates); Cataract House, Nisgara Falls. 5 ‘The following hotels make £40,000 per an- num: 8t. James, New York; Coleman, New York; Sturtevant, New York; St. Cloud, New York; West End, Long Branch; Grammercy Park, New York; Rovere House, Boston; Tre- ‘mont House, Boston; Metropolitan, Washing- ton; Ebbitt Houso, Washington. The following hotels make profits s append- ed: Albemarle, New York, 280,000; Westmin- ster, New York, £30,000; Grand, New York, $80,000 (vent reduced to $45,000); Clifford, New York, £25,000; United States, New York, ‘816, 000; ‘Belmont, New York, $30,000; Merchants', New York, $35,000; Mansion House, Brooklyn, 825,000; Everett, New York, 950,000; Pierrer point, Brooklyn, $25,000; American, ' Boston, 830,000; Congress Hall, Cape May, 36,000 gsn); Btockton, Cape May, $57,000; 'Congtess all, Saratogs, $75,000. The largest hotel in the United States, as to room-capacity, is probably the Grand Union at Baratoge. Mr. A. T. Btewart’s new Woman Ho- tel, New York, has above 600 rooms. The new.| ‘Windsor, New York, has about 400 room?; . GATH, THE IMMIGRANT QUESTION. Its Agitation in ¢ The Tribune * Likely to Produce a Re- form. Immigrant-Runners and Hotel-Keepers Badly Frightened. The Proposed Refuge Outside the City Limits, The article which appeared in a late issue of Tae TRIBUNE, describing the treatment accorded to immigrants "passing through this city, and which has caused considerable sensation both in this aswell as in Eastern cities, has already accomplished some good. Through its publica- tion immigrants were put on their guard by their friends, and one immigrant hotel-keeper was compelled, as has been pre- viously reported, to disgorge $400 which he had wrongfully obtained from an unsuspicions immigrant. Since the publication of the article above referred to, the Michigan Central Railroad Company have car- ried the immigrants passing over their line on express trains instead of on freight trains, s had been their custom heretofore. With this im- provement this rosd now affords equal facilities for carrying immigrants with any other one leading from the East, and but one thing remains to be done by that Company, and that isto guard against the corrupt prac- tices of some of the agents in their employ, who are said to be acting in unison with the hetel- runners. These dishonest agents should be im- mediately discharged by the Company, their own interest and reputation requiring it. It seoms that at no other depot in this city are immigrants subjected io such dsnger of being robbed and swindled a8 at that of the Michigan Central Railroad. Last Fridsy, four car-loads of immigrants ar- rived at that depot, composed in the main of families having through tickets to points fur- ther west and northwest. Inquiring for their ‘baggage, they were told by an sgent it had not yet arrived, and might not arrive until the day following. This was. & monstrous lie, as the baggage was at the time safely lodged in the Company’s yard. In this way these im- migrants were played into the hands of different runners, who pounced upon them like & pack of hungry wolves, and, forcing them into their wagons, took them to their respective hotels. One runner would cap- ture the father of & family, another the mother, and a third the children. Some of the foreigners were taken to South Side hotels and others to West Side, and even to-day some of these im- migrants ‘can_be soon wandering penniless :ihmugh our streets hunting for their lost rela- ves. Mr, Parmales, of omnibus fame, has algo in- stituted a reform in his peculiar branch, though it does mot seem to benefit immigrants very much. This gentleman heretofore charged the railroad companies 35 cents for a transfer ticket, while the immigrants were com- pelled to pay the sum of 50 cents. But the spirit of justicehas impelled him to raise the price of tickets to the railroad companies to the ‘same amount that he previously and still charges the immigrants. Rome was not built in ode day, nor can Mr. Parmalee make 2l the reforms necessary in this short Epace of time. Still he msay, ere long, follow with others, and, asit is to be hoped, more beneficial reforms, one of which would certainly be the discharge of many of the corrupt agents in his gmploy. The ruaners as well ss the immigrant hotel-keepers have been very careful and cau- tious since the publication of our immigrant article, but nothing short of entire suppression or & thorough supervision can extinguish these fetlows and prevat them from taking sdvantage of the ignorance of their own countrymen. 1t bas been & constant theme of discuseion by our leading citizens how these matters could best be Tighted, and the immigrant be assured the same protection as is now afforded him in New York, here things used to be 2s bad, if not worse, than fhey now arein this city. The plan sug- gested by Tee TRIBUNE, to build an immigrant refoge, similar to Castle Garden in New York, at the ‘Junction, where a large transfer depot is now being erected, met with general approbation, and mainly for the Teason RREC3t weo actually neceseary to = hsve such depot outside ‘the city limits, a8 & sanitary precaution to the city itself. It is a well-kpown fact that immigrants have arrived here, and bronght with them the small-pox and other contagious diseases, and thereby endsn- gered the health of the entire population. Such things could not happen if immigrants were forced to disembark and undergo examination at a place where all the necessary guarantees of aid and protection could be given them before entering the city, while those having through tickets conld easily be transferred from there without extra chargo or delsy, thus removing the danger of their being swindled in s trange city, neither the langusge nor the mannera of which are comprehensible to them. - A movement is now on foot to petition the Legislature to enact a law, creating & Commis- sion, or Board, for the purpose aforesaid, and to provide measures and means for its support. A similar movement was made last year by leading citizens of all the large immigrant depots in the country, who felt dissstisfied that New York alone should have the use of the 81.50 commuta- tion money collected from vessols hrmgmg immigrants to that city. Theymet at Indian- apolis, Ind., about one year ago, to take measures to have Congress pass suniform National immi- t 18w 5 t the United States should collect e monoy now collected by the State of New York alone, and distribute the same to all the immigrant depots in the country. A permanent National Committee on Immigration was agpningad by that Convention, and they intend ° to meet at Philadelphia during the next session of Congress, and renew their efforts in this direction. ~George Bchnei- der, one of our most respectable ‘wealthy citizens, is the President of that Committee. This gentleman is the President of the National Bank of Illinois, and, at the same time, Chair- man of the German Bociety. He ‘“‘knows how it is himself,” and therefore spends much of his time and money to secure better ireatment to immigrants arriving in this city. He thinks the ides of Tre TRIBUNE i6 the best yet ;xafiunzod, and, if adopted, would obviate most of the evils now exisiins. H Claussenius, the German Coneul, and Robert Schnitzler, the Consul of Austria, are of the same opinion, and will do all in their power to advance such s project. Mr. Clausgenins says many of the . evils are the result of inattention and carelessness on the part of our Police Department. A few years ago, when President of the German Society, he frequently requested the city authorities to de- tail special policemen who conld speak the lan- uge of the immigrants, and station them at the different depots where immigrants arrive from the East, to protect, aid, and advise them in their couree, but in every instance his request was refused, though no reason for such refueal was ever given. Immigrants are often abused and swindled in the very presence of police offi- cers, who quietly stand by and enjoy * the fun.” Motives, not st all honorable, are ascribed to them in this connection. Ttis a common ssying that the firstimpression made upon a person 18 always a Iasting one. 1t is therefore the duty of the citizens of Chicago, regardless of nationality, to_endeavor to give the immigrant & good impression of our city. Chicago owes to immigrants much of her résent greatness and prosperity. Some of our Foent ‘taxpayers and most enterprising citizens arrived here a5 poor immigrants. There is for instance, Conrad Seipp, the weelthy brewer, who started his financial career as an immigrant hotel-keeper. Peter Schuttler's father came to this country a poor journeyman wagonmaker, opened & little wuionahop at the corner of lin and Randolph streats, which he gradu- &lly enlarged until it bocame the largest wagon manufactory in the West, and at the time of hi death he was considered one of the wealthiest men _in _the city. _ The father of John Raber, ome of our wealthy tax-payers, came to this country with s few hun- et Gotises In Lis possession, with which he bought resl estate on Archer avenue, which to- day 18 worth over $200,000. Rosenfeld & Rosen- berg, who now count their wealth by the million, came to this city a8 poor as church mice, an commenced their career by peddling dry goods, hich they oarried on thair shoulders through the couniry, and being honest, frugal, and in- dustrious, Soon made enough moncy to open a goods store, in which business they amassed their present large fortunes. Michael Diversy, the lately deceasod brewer, left & fortune of over half”a million of dollars, He came to this city venniloss, had been & noor farm- in the old country, but, nevertheless, through hon- oty engxfi,mmz}mdutry, roseto prominence and wealth in this city. “Henry Greenebsum began a8 a clerk in a banking house; to-day he is one of our leading bankers, and ore of our most respected citizens, C. E. Prussing became rich by making vinegar, and L. Boldenwick in the Inborious occupation of cutting stones; and there are many others, who, in different pursnits of life, became rich and prominent, who, like those already. mentioned, wore men of in- tegrity. These men, originally immigrants, pay alarge share of our taxes, and they proudly gou_xt to some of our noblest mansions, largest usiness houses, and most extensive manufac- tories a8 monumenta to their ekill, experience, and judgment. Men of like stamp have been daily arriving in this_vast receptacle of travel, who will, ?mmhly, in the future, be prominent, and of credit to some other city, and who, if their impressions of this city had been of & better quality, might bave been added to the list of our inhabitants but for the raca of human vultures, who, 88 Tepresentatives of Chicago, display the worst features of our Gov- ernment. But for these rapacious agents, run- ners, and_employes, who seem to have made & study of the art of robbing strangers, we might to-day number many hundreds or even thou- sands of industrious inhebitants that have given us a wide berth, and no doubt carry no very. pleasant recollections of this city with them. Among immigrants who now reside in tho far West, the pame Chicago has not the ring of intedgfity it enjoys by dint of its proved caveer, snd with them it is more of s reproach than an honor to live in this community, and all on account of 5 few rapacious men without feeling or shame, It now remains to be seen whether Chicago, that has received the evidence of the good will of foreign countries in the shape of substantial benefits, will continue to ellow herself to treat the representatives of those countries in & man-~ ner a8 unfriendly and unjust as heretofore, and whether by a policy as dotrimental to her own intorests as anything can well be, continue to pen a wound that as yet shows no signs of LIBERAL MEETING. - Decatun, Mich,, Oct. 28, o the Edftor of The Chicago Tribune: The Liberals of Van Buren County held & grand mass meeting here on Saturday of last week, which was attended by upwards of 5,000 people, and was, as Governor Blair remarked, ¢ the best one he has seen in this State during the present campaign.” Thero were dolegations from Hamilton, Keeler, Volinis, Paw Paw, and Porter Towns present, making o grand displey. The whole procession, &s it formed at noon, was a8 follows: Dowagiac Brass Band,—the best in the State; followed by a car of thirty-six young ladies, dressed in the national colors, with & Goddess of Liberty, bearing a large national flag; next, a car of thirty-six littlo girls, fol- lowed by another of small boys, all of whom were appropriately dressed; then, the Hamilton delegation, 82 in number, all on horsebacks itk b lue ghirts and red and white trimmings; thZ¥, sn eight-horse team with a car o old’ men, bearing s banner with the ins geription,’ * What I know sbout farming,” on it; then, a delegation of horsemen from Keoler, numbering 836 ; then, another car of ladies, with tho Kalamazoo Band, and Volinia horse- men, 56 in number ; thon, another car of ladies, and 86 horsemon, from Porter; then, the Paw Paw Band, and 29 horsemen from the same town. The procession was closed by about 100 teams, each of which was filled to its utmost with men and women, sll eager to psy homage to our candidates. The fown was splendi decorated. Numerous banners, with appropri- ato inscriptions, wero_strung fcross the main street. At the junction of the main street with Delawaro strect was s triumphal arch, on either side of which was ‘‘Reconciliation” and ¢ Honest Government.” Flags snd mottoes of every description were hung from the principal stores of our village. Bpeeches were given in the afternoon by Goy- ernor Austin lair; the Hon. F. Liver- more, of Jackson; Joseph A. Hollen, of Baginaw, candidate for State Trensurer; the Hon. Charles 8. May, an Dr. Foster Pratt, of Kalamazoo; which were listened to with great interost, and received with repested and Learty spplause. o tho evening ‘most of the store windows were illuminated, and & torch-light procession, consisting of 200 horse- men, followed by 100 footmen, headed by two of the 'bands, paraded the streets, and drew up in front of the Decatur House, and were addressed by Governor Blair for a short time, when three rousing_cheers were given for Horace Greeley, ‘Austin Blair, and the Liboral cause; after which the crowd separated, feeling thet the day had been well and profitebly spent, and that our canse was safe Inthe hands of euch leaders as we have, and under whose guidance we must finally rest in victary. B. WOWAN-SUFFRAGE IN CONNECTICUT. Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune, New Yorg, Oct. 28.—A letter from Connectl- ot says : ¢ Old Norwalk to-day admitted to all the rights of an election Mra. Sarah M. L. Hunt- ington. The lady appeared before the Board of Belectmen,—Megsrs. James P. Hanford, Androw Belleck, William H. Bouton, and Henry K. Sel- leck, Town Clerk,—the officers by law required to oxamine and admit all persons legally entitled to suffrage, and demanded her rights, by virtne of the Constitution of the United States. Her argument was clear and logical, and could only be answered by the plea that, in the opinion of most persons, the law did not contemplate womens voting. Mrs. H.so sbly and dexter- ously ‘knocked aside this argument that the Board wers forced to ~a unanimous judgment that she had proved her- self equally entitled with negroes to vote, under the Fifteenth Amendment; and Belectman Selleck administered to her the cus- tomary freeman’s oath. Her name was placed by the Town Clerk upon the voting list a8 s le- gally-registered voter, and nothing can now pre- vent her voting at the coming election, as sho is resolutely determined to do. Thus Norwalk will be entitled fo the distinction of being the first place in any State in the Union where a fe- male has been permitted to vote, and advanced to all the rights and privileges of an American citizen. Two years ago last April, our State sloction occurred, just as the passsge of the Fifteenth Amendment was promulgated, and our Board admitted negroes to voto, althongh they were denied tho privilege in every other town in the State. Subsequent decisions of our ablens lawyers confirmed &xa legality of that ac- ion.” SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAYS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sra: I am glad to see that this long-needed re- form has been sterted; and, while engaged in the present Sunday-law enforcement business, will not some of our humanitarians keep the ball moving? Thousands of young men in this city ero actively engaged in some confining business from Mondey morning until Saturdsy night, with not an hour for recreation in daylight,— numbers of them having even to delve by candle- light to meet expenses. What wonder is it that Bunday is' made more a holiday than a day of sacred rest? What can we do? Nature de- mands recreation, and must have it. The Amer- ican people, 1 belleve, have five holidays in the year, New Year’s, the 22d of Febru- ary, tho 4th of July, Thanksgiving-Day, and Christmas. Five out of 865! How is.it with other nationalities? With gcarcely an excep- tion, they have frequent holidays; and they are obsorved, too. Not a8 with us, who generally have to keep our doors open until 13 o'clock, and then have the afternoon for recreation ; but, when they have them, they enjoy them in the full gense of the word. 3 As we imitate our Eastern rival in 8o many things (her annals of crime, for instamca), why can't we go_still higher, and imitate her better class of citizens by granting this small boon to the clerks. Won't 8ome of our public-spirited citizens lend their influence, and keep it going until this matter is accomplished ? 8.,1‘“ A Carcaao, Oct. 28, 1872 —— PRECAUTION AGAINST FIRES. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: Beéfore Chicago had becoms so compact and combustible, we used to have persons going the rounds once & month to inspect houses to ascertain their safety withregard to fires. _Now, when they are needed, no one sees them. Whers are they ? is & question of importance. There are some families I could nasme living in the most reckless manner, and endangering their neighbors, besides subjecting them to_ lives of torture from fear of being burned up by them. 1 would suggest, if there is not so importanta personage as an Inspector of Houses, that one for each side of the river, or one for the city, be sppointed. I think if this plan was adopled, with & fine for the delinquents, tnere wonld be less fires. CavTION. Czxaaco. Oct, 28, 1872, THE LOCAL CAMPAIGN. Speech of Sidney Thomas, Ecq., in the Fith ‘Ward on Saturdny Evening-—Review of Col- onel Eastman’s Recent Address. ~ On Baturday &vening last, before & large mass meeting held in the Fifth Ward, M. Sidney Thomas delivered the following powerful ad- dress: ! Mz, CHATBMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS OF CAIOAGO : ‘Whenever an isano i8 made with corruption, and c ruption wins, the whole cause of virtas sustsins 8 loss, The extent of the depends upon the conspicu- ousness of the case. Buppose, for example, it is & na- tional question, and the charge is that the CHief Execu- tive is & bad example; that his whols success is & for- tutious eovent; thmt UPOD 3 mominal salwy he ‘becomes naire; thst he is the embodiment of n selfish ambition; that he shuns the Boclety of statesmen and associates with gamblers snd fast men ; that in the interest of a speculation involv- ing the title 4o one-soventh of tho £oil of a distant island, ho anchors a hostile flect in a friendly port in contempt of all isw, and that to_secure Congressmen snd carry elections he suspends “the sacred writ of ‘habeas corpusin times of profound peace. And then suppose that every one of these specifications are sus. tained by the facta, and etill the man is upbeld and de. fended? What would be the effect upon the peoplo? et the moralist answer, who has the well-being of so- clety at heart. Let the patriob answer, who bas the glory of his country in ew. Let tho father amswer, the "fate of whos sons is largely determined by the models get before them in exrly life ot home. " [p- plause.] . A fearful price is Grantism paying for & new lesso of power, ' Already it has sacrificed nearly one-half of its old majorities ; while the romainder, dissatisfied with its candidate and nshamed of his Administration, is growing rapialy and beautifully less, Whether Gree- y or Grant will be elected, is, to-day, an uncertain question ; if, by a frown of Divine Providence, it is to bo the latier, thiere will be nothing of which any man can boast, and very much which everybody will des- ise, When Cameronist made it possible for 500 New ork oughs, with their headquarters st 208 North Broad streel, Philadelphin, to incresse, by re- peating, tho” Grant oto by, thowssnds, it wis ut_another instancé of sewing the wind where the harvesters shall yet reap o tempest, What do you think, Christian patriotsof America, of a victory pur- chased at such an_infamous cost? I declars to you there is but one resson why Sumner was kicked out 2nd Colfax thrown overboard, and that is that this Ad- miniatration i3 uncomfortabls 5o long 53 single Lon- est man remains in its ranks, and who might possibly lauge,] The last prob- become communicative. [A) lem ws 8 bold one, Pennsylvanis was deemed in- dispensable, The commander issued the order. Eighty thousand office-holders glanced at Philadelphis, snd the deed was done. Shame upon tho American who can exult over this novel triumph, Shame upon the American who can now falter on this summit of oppor- ‘tunity, and sacrifice his senso of duty upon the altar of his narrow prejudice. [Loud applause.] ‘When the box of Pandora was openad on earth, find Miscry's triamph commenced gvor Mirth, Hops was left, was she not 7—then tho vote which you cast In the coming November may conquer ab last. Thousands of men, Iam persuaded, who havevainly tried to imagine every Southerners Wirz, andevery Liberal o Carap Douglas incendiary, will now close this unreasonable and unholy opposition and rally to our call—a call which, in my opinfon, is 28 grand snd as £acred 08 the first drum-beat of Liberty on the streets” of Lexington. [Cheers.] Many, no doubt, will continue o vote the regular ticket from force ofhabit, Bome Republicans aro worse than_the Democrata msed to be.,- They are as confirmed in their habits at_ fhe ~Hoosier’s chickens, This man wrote t0 his brother that he would so many times one season that whenever his chickens saw o covered wagon ap- proach they would lay down, stick up their legs, ready o be thrown in, What a life-like picture of very many amiable, virtuous, and confirmed Republicans on tho spproach of an eléction. [Applause.] T read speech, yesterdsy, {rom our devoted Post- master, Probably no clasa Of our citizens feel a live- ler interest in the approsching election than Post- maaters, [Cheers.] Of the many virtues which con- spiro to make this particular Poptmaster great, nono ehines with s purer flame or casts its light & greater Gistance, thap, b modesty.. Thte, Bo bashully ssstires us o specch, s 'the only resson Do has remnined silenf so.long.. Jogging away at this fetter like a chained tiger, at last it broke, landing him in the middle of the ring, under the auspicesof a double summersanit, Holding aloft in one hand a couplet from Dryden, and in the other & quotation from Arthur Help, he seems tosay : Gomo one, como all, this rocl shalldly From {ts firm baso as soon as I. ‘Beneath his majestic tread lies the prostrate form of Greeley. In broken fragments around him is scattered a1l that now remaina of Civil Servico Reform ; while ‘before his imagination rises up in grand proportions the unapproachable ‘statesmanship and uoparalleled virtues of General Grant, Approaching with the tread of o gladiator every man who presumes to beliovo that Genera] Grant ‘“uses the service of this Governmentas a machinery of corruption snd p uence,” and taking him by the nape of the neck and the seat of the brecches, he lands him outside mngmy that “‘put down the Rebellion, poys the public debt, canses the sun to shine,” etc., etc., etc. [Applause.] Now, at the risk of befng taken by'tho siape of tho meck: eicy and landed, etc., I would like to know whether the report now current, andgenerally believed, is trne that a political 2ssignment was levied upon the Chica- 0 Post Office, down to the very delivery clerks snd tiex carriers. And I would also like to' inquire how long the official hiead of the eaid Postmaster vould re- main on his obedient shoulders if ho should dare to falter in bis admiration of General Grant. [Loud ap- plause.] And I doubt whether hedare in iho privacy of his own homo even hint to his most in- timato friend that ho doubts tho _propriety of Postmaster General Creswell’s course in the Chor- penning matter; and yet Alr, Creswell stands con Victed before the world of deliberately giving his ofi- ¢lal aanction to one of the most infamous frauds ever sttempted against the Tressury of the United Statés, [Loud cheers,] There is not o Government_officer to- day who dare refuse to bend he suppliant Inee a the feet of Grant. Such & man would remain an officer Just as long aa it wonld take lightning to travel from Washington, and no longer. [Cheers,]- So far as I know, our Postmaster is a perfect gentleman snd a g00d Citizen, and I know he expresses himself ele- gantly from'tho platform. Idonot censure him, Ho Was probably ordered to make the speech hedid. I do not charge him with wiabiwnifi to make it, nor with Hctating {ts contents, And I sny this much for him, that he conld Have hardly have waited longer wit.haut;uuhag by the election, and he scarcely could Bae s les wilhiont remaining entisely siest. (47~ plause] Granitism 1 not old-fashioned Republicanism, This will a) , no matter how you opply the test. If Fou turn to'ons Living statesmen, Graat bas bt ong supporter out of President Lincoln’s first Cabinet, and that is Cameron, whose dishonesty 8o far surpassed that of all other men that it was 50 declared by an act of Congress. Turn to the moral attitude of the party, and imagine the following not improbable conversation | ‘between a_Government oficer and an Irishman: 0, Can1 de you to_vote for General Grant? 1 How should I know what yezcan do? I'm not your bosa., ~ 0. How does it happen that your countrymen al- ways vote for bad men 2 1. Sure it’s Horace Greeley we voto for, every moth- er's son of us,—isn't his carrachter good ; ain’t overy farmer within ten miles of his house a Liberal 2_ Divil & bit of the cratur dis heever drink, and it's himsel that never como tight and bate the auld woman, and when they were starving in suld Ireland wasn'tit his honor that sent a ship load of bread across the ocean to the dying 7 Horace Greeley is a gintleman, he fab- bery ,2nd bad Iu]r.k %o the spafpeen who says he ain't, ud spplause. 0. You must not use such langusge to an officer, sir ; I hope you will bomoro respectfal, Do you not know that Horaco Grecley isa temperance man? I hope you have read Senator Conkling's speech sguinst Dim on that subject 7 I. It's precious littlo T cares for thelr timperince Iawe. Its mysel’ that can get my own whiskey, pleasa God, and divill a cint will X give yez or Senator Conk- ling aither for pleading my cause, 0. Bt do you not know that Mr, Greelsy used to asbuso you and call youbad names ? I, 1athat your bisnees 1—guro it's no dacent mam, it Deis an officer, that will go about the sthreettelling one gintlemsn what another gintleman says about him to see if ho can’t kick up s dirty row. [Cheers,] 0. Have you forgotten that Afr, Greeley hos always ‘Dbeen opposed to the Democratic party? _You must 860 that you cannot consistently swallow him, 1. Thin Tl swallow him inconsistitiy—I take him straight and f its eick I get its mysel’ that can bould my ovn bead and do my own pulsing, [Applsuse,] . Do you forget that Grant took Richmond 2 1. Sure and I thought ho had help—bow long had he captured it before the army got there— 0. Your ignorance, sir, annoys me; did you ever study political economy 7 1. What's that—is it a book—does it tell how much s o vossel costs tho Governmontafter it is paid for—or how to make a million dollars off from s little salary— or how to prove that a gift is no bribe? [Loud cheers], 0. T shall waste no more time with you—you are not capablo of understanding government. Good day. 1. Good day, Misther Officer—may yez soul ba in Diven a fortnight before the divil knows you'r dead, [Prolonged applause,} Itis generally dangerous, seldom necessary, and never pleasant, to be personal. But the great simi- Iarity between the two platforms seems to justify a comparison of candidates. Permitme then to spesk of President Grant 18 o representative man. If ho loves his country, that love is selfish, for he is capable of mo other, If he loves our clear sunlight, it is_because bemesth it the grape purples for the vintige and the corn grows yellow for lstillation. If he loves our inexhmistible Teaources, it is because they yield him an sunual for- tune. If heloves our soil, it is becanseit can be ma- cadammized into sea-shore drives and fancy race courses, If he loves our navigable waters, it i8 becauss our steamboats have state-rooms wherd ho can sail in bach- elor style with such men a8 Jim Fisk, If he loves our citizen soldiers, it is because their yalor placed epaulettes on his ghoulders and 5 sword in his hand, [Applause.] 4 poet, iaspired by his inimitable character bas writ- on : a “There is not {n the wido world pleasure so swoot ‘s fosit by tho soa-shoro and 1l ap sous foets " Bway af uba whose flavos a X gaga ot the worla owiat g daes afyour boots.” He feirly forces npon us the Kentucky Judge's defin- tion of adultery—* The ight man o the WIORE lace.” Or perhaps ho is better indicated by Poe's Raven: “Perched above o bust of Pallas, Sat and perched, and nothing more.” [Loud spplzuse.] Look at the estimate he puts upon his country—note the words hia country. For the mission to Belgium, he takes from Mr. Jones Chicago City Railway etock tnd acro property mear the western lmits. For the Secretaryship of the Navy, be receives from 4. Borio & residénce and a lot in Philadelphis. For signing the bills which convey the people’s lands to Western monopolies, he becomes the owner of raitroed bonds, For the Attcrney Generalship, ho Toceives {rom Mr, Hoar 5 $100,000 Library. For the Sub-Treas- ury in Now York, ho receives from General Butterfield $100,000 in gold ; and for the collection of customs st Now York, he gets a residence and two lots at Long Branch. For plundering and bankrupting nie of the ‘balanee of his country, God “only knows. [Applause.] And yat, by some strangs infstuation, Which soma ara pleased to call a “chioico ‘botwean ovils,” thero aro ‘men who say they must vote: {or,g:mml A o:fl. A s t they crop the gol , The possibilities of another term to General Grant sresimply inconceivable, One word of command and “his vaseals Tie prostrate before him ° Ome stamp of his foot and every Indinn Agency, Custom House, Post Office, Government Contract, San Domingo Scheme, and Carpet-Bag Government will yield him a fortune, The masterly manner in which he has improved the chances of the first term renders exsggeration as to the second impossible, [Applsuse.] You cannot think of General Grant withont breath- ing an atmosphere of speculatlon, and feeling the cold infiuence of his supreme littlencss, Yesterday he was a plain man, distinguished only for his devotion tohis pipeand his inability to purchase cigare. Yesterday, when the Great Kossuth landed upon our shores & friend of liberry and s guest st the wineless tablo of Horace Greeley, our noblo President,in the artlessness of his nature, was playing seven-up at cards for the whis- ey ot one of our Western forts, Yesterdsy, when the grént compromiso messures vero shaking thls country rom centro to circumference, and the eyes of the civ- ilized world wero fized upon Webster, the great Da- fender of the Constitution; st that awful moment, ‘when civil liberty was in peril, and the hopes of man kind seemed trembling in the ce, our illustrions Chieftain was rowing o Winnebago squawls canoe to- wards a whortleberry swamp. [Tremendous applause.] But whyshould I dwell upon this. man's character? He is known, and will never be forgatten, -Beneath the obloquy of his official career- shall lfe hid from mortal sight whatever he moy have accomplished as o soldier, and long after Vicksburg, and Pittsburg Landing, snd. tho Rap{dan shall be forgotten in tho annals of the WOrlds history, Sumner's name shall live undimmed by time, and hs immortal phillipicehall be read in all mz;fi:z, ]whmln stands Grant pilloried for the ages, wlfig:. n!m fora xm:mené.l fodtie Jengrable New York wn great candidate, bending this very da; over the death-bed of his aged wife, [Smgndon.]ry Cra pled in poverty on the bleak hills of New Englind, he enters upgn the unequal contest of life with no patzone sge or influence behind him, and nothing beforo him batsn uncharitable world ‘and & desperato future. Tired and footsore he enters the grest metropolis s stranger, and begins life s humblo compositor ata rinter’s case. By industry, temperance, and economy e raises speedily into notice, triumphs over every ob- stacle, and by universal consent, the first editor of his age, {Chears,] Behold his cireer, how grand, how sublime! See him as he enlists in tha causo’ of mercy, beforo the hangman is dis missed or scaffold destroyed, him os he enlists the cause of justice before the creditor’s heart relents or the helpless ebtoris released, Seo him ashe exlists in tho cause of tempersnce beforo Father Mathew landed upon our shores or Neal Dow'a fame had left the pineries of Maine. Seohim as he enlista in the cause of liberty long before the Republican party was formed. And Dehbold him now as the people’s champlon, intelligence glowing in his face, love_overflowing in his eyes, his snow-white locks stresming in the sunshine, upon his Dead the crown of honesty, and on his lips the word “ Reconciliation,”—the sweetest thought ever waited from hesven on the wings of inspiration. [Loud ap- plause] And then tell mo if he has not received the right discipline, and does notembody such a character asyou can delight to honor; and such an example as you are willing to set before the young men of Ame- rica. If not, where shall that example be found? In what land, in whatage? If npon the altar of party you are ready to sacrifice all that is noble in character and sublime’ in statesmanship, then was the Father of his Country right -when he said that party epirit was the chief enemy to civil liberty, Concerning our local polities allow me to say & singlo word. Tho Republican ticket is substantially the eama it hos been for s long time. Theso gentlemen have relgned for more than ten years, There is pointin official life where anxisty for the public Welfare ceases and personal ambition begins ;.and there is stillanother period where the voice of conscience is lost in the bold struggle for dollars and cents, The first of theso pointe, I fear, has been resched and passed by this organization—sometimes called a ing. In the admin- istration of law there should ever be s lively sympathy for the unfortunate, and justice should be {empered with mercy. More than this, over the entrance to the temple of justice should bo inscribed in_characters of Bouthern States, members of.Copgress ate ret: to 40 his bidding,” And what pFica he has fxed on the iving light, * between the poor and the rich there ehall be no distinction,” How very soon an officer learns the omnipotence of money and the power of patronage. ‘Eight years of practice at this bar has given me sotns opportunity for observation. Letme state o cese, ale most touched wifh the eolors of romance, and yet ap- pealing to us with the irresistible force of ‘truthi, One dreary day in autumn, a friendless girl landed in this great city, Without money, and jgnorant of the dan- gers which beset ber on every e, clie el into the ands of & wretch, and, before the third sun had set ©n her city life, she was drugged and ruined, anda dark shadow cast across s distant threshald, Aster recovering from s bed of pain and sickness, whers death would have been & blessing and a relief, ehe came and told the story of her wrongs. Twoof our most eminent magistratea ingnired into the case, and, after listening {o the evidence and to the defence, aided by able counsel, they bound the guilty man over to answer the charge. When the case was reach- ed, this poor girl was not permitted 5o much as to state her’ evidence, and the case was dismissed. Broken-hearted, she idh the Court House, made by the law’s indifference, as well as by a villain’s crime, an outcast forever on the earth. What her fate has been I Imow not. But, before the fire, while she lay Elck with Der young babé in » rude_tenement in that part of the city known as “ Conley’s Patch,” our nobls Dr. N. 8. Davis, alwsys answering to the cry of the distress ity atravaed hees Sios e fre T have, el nothing from her. | Perhaps sho had not the strength to fiee with her and the great fire, more:sympe- thizing thsn man, and more merciful than “buman Justics,” wnm its loving ayns abont her and ended every pain. [Great scnsation, and a voicein the crowd, %1 know about that case.”] ‘The great responaihilifies of the election crowd npon. us. Thepurest and loftiest stateamanship bears us on toduty. In ouxrsnksare mony of the mostilius. trious men of the age. With us stands the renowned Chief Justice of the United States, Balmon P. Chuel of Ohio. With us ds the enterprising merchant and unrivalled cler, Alexander T. Stewart, of New York, With us stands the immortal . German states- ‘man, whose tongue has mastéred the eloguence of two langliages, and whose name is famfliar in all, ‘Carl’ Schurz, of Missouri, With usstands the confidential en ‘the unerring adviser, and the trusted executor of the last will and testament of the -martyr Presi-. dent, David Davis, of Tlinois. With us stands ths co- equal of America’s greatest and purest statesman liv- ing or dead, Tllinois’ honored son, Lyman bull, [Apphuae.] And by our side stand more than fifty of ho bravert Genorals whp commanded the Unlon forces in tha late war, bi ‘mission of peace and Iabor Listen_to the clear voice of among the hilla of Pennsylvania, Listen to the clarion ‘notes of old Hooker tounding m down the Pacifio Coast, [Cheers, ] The hour approaches I hear the rustlo of the coming storm, snd the firm tread of Americs’s electors, six millions strong. Can I refase o vote for the great prophet of Amnesty and Reconciliation? No; not while reason holds her eeat, and love is stronger Tesentment; not while confi dence and brotherly love wait in exile a welcome back {0 this blood-drenched land. Until then let me defend the honor of Horace Greeley ; let my feable voice advo- cate his cause, snd my ballot be adorned with his nsme, Our banner—the- bright ensign of & more per- fect union—mpy b trailed in the dust to-dsy, but to- ‘morrow, borne by strong hands and loving hearts, it shall float victorious over every hill-top in the land, Then, with shouts of Joy and tears of gratitude, %o shall behold the irresistible splendor of a Union re- stored, Reform triumphant, anad local self-government vindichted. (Enthusiastic snd prolonged applause.] _— THé POLITICAL GANVASS--WISCONSIN. Rrrox;, Wis., Oct. 21, 1872, To thé Bditor of The Chicago Tribuns: Bm: From the Radical orators and ranting mountebanks, we learn that the country is in a prosperous condition ; that the times now are equal to the ¢ two-dollars-a-day-and-roast-beef” days. Bat, from the monetary articles sppéaring daily in your paper, I think the times are any- thing but good. In your SBaturdsy’s edition, you say, “The demsnd for accommodation is far shead of the ability of the banks to meet yet, and plenty of good commetcial paper, with two ngus Gods speed in onr love. [Great applause.] Hancock echoing names, is forced into the open market,” etc., etc. | Now, this is a flat contradiction to the stump- orators of the Radical party, ‘There are hints, also, of a further issue of greenbacks.” No reflecting man, it seems to me, can contemplate such & move without dread, With gold at -118, no one at all acquainted with financial matters can caleulate on its being any lower with a greater issue of greenbacks. Those having the interests of the Grant Administra- tion at stake may rant as much as they please, ‘but they can never make the times better while gold is worth 18 cents more than the paper dol- lar. The laboring classes do mot get two dol- Jars & dsy and roast beef when & two- dollar eenback is actually worth only e dolfar and seventy-four cents. Instean of " receiving - twelve dollars for six days’ work, the lsboring min i3 only receiving ten dollars and forty-four cents, cash value,—gold ‘being the standard. Yet Secretary Boutwellde- plores a return to specie-payment as an injury to the laboring classes and the indusiry of the country. Itisnot impossible to mske all' classes see how they are imposed upon by the. political tricksters now perambulating the country, de- claiming for one of the most reckless Adminis- trationsthat ever cursed this or anyothercountry. To such & pitch have we arrived, that, no matter how extravagant or_reckless thé Administratior: of Grant is lkmown to be, there are those who, while professing better things, and deploring extravagance and recklessness in other persons, yet shut their eyes when committed by hi In iy estimation, consistency is a jewel with which they are not blessed. As to the political complexion hereabouts, it is thus : Quite a number of the wealthiest and most . respectable citizens of this city and vicinity have joined the fortunes of Greeley. and Brown, while I have yet tolearn of one Democrat who will go the Straightout ticket. If the secession from the Republican ranks is a8 great in other parts-of the State asin this county, Wisconsin will surely iq for the Reform ticket. The vote in Fond du Lac City will sur- prise many. While Eldridge, for- Congress, will Tun far ahead of the ticket in that city, the Rad- ical ticket will show & gain of at lesst one hun- dred and fifty. This esin is from the dark- complexioned *Tanners” who have been, and are being, imporied there from other parts of the State. The colored vota will show s falling off in “every locality Where they number enough to spare fifteen or twenty each. The money i8 furnished under the suspices of * Bismarck” Keyes, of Madison. . There will be, I think, an anti-Administration goin of at least three Congressmen this fall. Mitchell, Eldridge, Smith, Marsden,; and ons other will ‘succeed, if nothing more than now - appears turns up to oppose them. There is an under-current at work in some of the lmi“ Radical counties that the Administrationists lit- tle think of. Time will show them how easy it is to be over-confident. AMERIOUS. THE JARRETT-MARETZEK OPER To the Edilor of The Chicago Tribuns: Br=: "In yourissue of this morning, thersis an editorial headed * Operatic Failure,” which is, in some respects, so unjust and one-sided as to- call for an immediate protest against its injustice. Having taken your ideas from the New York Herald, and having no other source of information, it is not to be wondered at that you should fall into error. For reasons best known to Mr, James Gordon Bennett, the New York Herald, since the commencement of the Jarrett~ Maretzek season, has’undertaken to write up Madame Lucca, at the expense of every other ar- tist connected with the troupe; and it isbecausa of the Herald's fulsome laudations of Luccs, and its ontrageously-untruthful criticisms Kellogg; that much of the trouble has occurred.. 0Of the two ladies, Kelk;ig is by far the superior singer. Lucca has much dramatia force, but, in musical culture, is not equal to her sister-artist, and there i8 no jealousy on the part of either lady of the other. The facts are these: The management, taking their cue from the Herald, and being afraid of the powerof Mr. Bennett, tried to shelve Kellogg, and the result has been that the dear public would not permit the injus- tice, and- they, the managers, as well as the Herald, are amazed snd angered at the result of their dirty work. OrERA. Cmcaao, Oct. 25, 1872, i S ST LN SONS OF TEMPERANCE. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunes Smr : The Grand Division of the Sons of Tem- perance convened in Lebanon on Tuesdsy, tha 22d inst. Owing to » misunderstanding about the last Tnesday of the month, instesd of the fourth, the attendance was not so large as would otherwise have been the case ; but the occasion was full of interest, brotherly love, determined perseverance in the conflict for temperance, and * confidence in the final triumph of Right over Wrong. A large public meeting was essed - - by Mrs. M. E. DeGeer, of Chicago, and Dr. - William Roes, of Dover. The officers for the present yoar aro : Tho Ror. G. V. Hughey, G. \. P., Lebanon ; Dr. Willism Ross, P& WP Dover ; Mrs. M. E. DeGeer, G. W. A., Chicago; Thomas Moulding, G- Scribe, Chbicago; O. Sibley, G. Chap., Fairfield; .H. Brown, G. Treas., Lebanon ; &. W. Phelps, G. Cond., Long | Prairio ; W. H. Black, G. Sent., Lebanon. (CH104GO, Oct. 28,1872 MINISTER WASHBURNE. Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune. New Yomg, Oct. 28.—Mr. Washburne repofts Paris but little changed. A few public momu- ‘ments are missed, he says; but the public build- ings destroyed are being rapidly replaced. He thinks Communtst troubles. are not. likely. to . recur.. In his opinion, the Freuch people will get on well enough if tixey are let alone. They are intelligent and indnatrions, and there is no reason why they should notbé able to Eflvam themselves in a satisfactory manner. He de~ clined to express any views &8 to the probable permanence of the French ublic ; and re- . marked ; “ My return home is in.connection ith business entirely personal, one object be ing to visit my father, whom I have not seen for threo years. My coming has nothing whatever to dowith politics, thoagh I hope to cast my ballot for President in my native State. As goon, however, a8 my ‘business will ' permit,— - which I caloulste will not be befare December,— Iintend to return to my post in Paris.” —_— PERSONAL, The death is announced of Captain J. G. Breshwood,-who was in command of the revenua cutter at New Orleans to. which General Dix referred in his order to shoot any man who dared to haul down the American flag.- - - - —Tord Rosslyn has consented fo be once more put in nomination for the Grand Master- ship of Englis ‘66ma80Ns. - ¥ —President Juarez left a minute account of all sums of money’ received by him ' eince- his elevation to the Presidency. L o —XLord Chief Justica Cockburn, whdse_health is impaired by his lebors st- Genevs, must-500n - proceed to try the Tichborne claimant bn a crimi- nal charge; and itis hereupon remarked that Lord Chief Justice Bovill, whose health was im- aired by the trial of the cause of Tichborne vs. : ushiniton, ‘has spent & portion of his vacation at Homburg, and has derived ‘great benefit from the air and waters.of that place.. % —Barne; .Orickuflba 8t. L ‘monuments are the Conrt House, - the af House, St. Xavier's Church, and Christ Chureh, in that city, has just died. °. s —During Circuit Court at ; Ky, week, the Hon. Emery Whitiaker and the Hon. W. E. Wedsworth, two well-known lswyers.af . & “1ent for 7. Mr. Whittaker. Parties interfering, . Mr. Whittaker's craninm escaped iuim?. There waa no little excitement, and the Jndge ad- journed Court until quiet was restored. MISCELLAANEOUS. - - 4 Fifty new cars are being: built at-Depere, for. the Milwaukee & Northern Railroad. - ~—There are 2,067 persons in' 8t. Paul, Minn.; between the ages of 5 and 21, according to the echool census,—a considerable increase over last year. i g —The Atlants Sun doesnot always fill npwith - Mz, Stephens’ editorials. It is now publshing the Code of Honor, as prepared hy & gen! with & protuberant middle nsme. P —According to the -South Pacific Times, & French lady was recently turned out of the Cathedral of Lima.because .she came'to hear mass with & fashionable bonnet on her head.. . —Another National to start with- $200,- 000 E;E“n’ is projected at St. Payl, Minn. —The Milwankee & St. Paul Rall does mot accept the location assigned for s bridge at La- Crosse, and will appesal to.Congress. b & —aA candy-pull occurred in- Peru, TIL, lately, _ and the £wo-gallon pot full of blazing liquid was put out'in the back yard to cool, while the jollity went on inside, The cat’s corpse was removed, and the candy given £0 £hé poor. £ —Otge .:1% 2‘ o§h the h:vu ¥ hg;b—l’mnngnm war was ‘& fresh impet 0 the ity of miepns a0 5 drtke, Whon, ther Gertries overran the chmp;gqe districts of France, they foundthe wine 80 delicious that, now they have g0t back o Germauy, they cannds do without it hampagne is in more demand aver. —Governor Smith, of. Georgis,.will shortly is- sue invitations to the Governors of the Western and Southern States, to meet at Atlanta on the 19th of November, for the purpose of deliberat- ing upon-the subject of a- canal to connect the Tennessee River with .the Atlantic Ocean at or near Bavannah. £ 3 —A Mobile policeman, having ejected a per- son from a place of . amusement, the person met him next day. in the vicinity of & saloon, and the two then exchanged shots to the number of nine. One of the. ehots etruck a lamp-post, and an- other grazed the head of - an innocent spectator and broke & bottle. 'The Register newspaper Oéhmka' ks these little affairs. ought to be frowned own. 5 —We are enabled to annomnce, on the best authority, that there is not a single case of .yel- low fever in the Charity Hospital—where the diseasa is always to be found when it prevails in the city,—and that but one new case has been reported by the profession to the Board of q}]_s}:lfllh for at least a week.—New Orleans Times, 25th, —Few realize the ' immense im Louisiana fibres. The stock of the banana can bo converted into paper, and may be made val- ugeble for that purpose. The century gl:nz, or aloe, the palmetto leaf, stock and all, okra stock - and fibre, cotton stalks, cane bagasse, several wild grasses, wild cane, or reed cane and ramie, - ell make good paper stock. Louisians can]fl load fleets of vessels with these materials, ¥ ~—The important %‘l‘“tim of the western or Pacific terminus of the Northern Pacific Rail- , road was not settled. by.the .recent trip-of the execative -officials-of that -corporation-to ths Pacific Coast. They made & pretty thorough examing fihg{l of the various points proposed, - but the delision, we are inform ol be reached or disclosed until- a meeting of the Directors is held, in -New York, probably in’ the early part of the coming winter. —The -Third Congregational Church, of Ban Francieco, of which' mention hss been made before, has had & revival of religion, apparent- ly; ‘for, after driving n:ady its pastor by refus- e of ing to admit the converted Chinese who applied {for membership, it has st last voted unanimous- 1y to_sdmit kg_em, and its former pastor con- lucted the exercises on the dsy when they ems fered its sacred fold. that place, had some words of an--un| character, when the Iatter picked np_pfi&i’}u::d *