Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1872, Page 4

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FIRST PAGE—Foreign News—Advertisements, BECOND PAGE-Our New Engine at the Water Works —The Contennisl Anniversary—The Boston Butch- ery—Business Prospects in Boston—A Sad Story: A ‘Rascal Elopes with Two Women—A Denver Banker Decamps with Forty thonsand Dollars of Other Peo- plo's Money—A Mad Girl: Supposed Poisoning Case—Suffering Africa. . THIRD PAGE-The Horso Disease in This City—The Law Courts—The Boston Fire—Work for oar New Bem bers—Winnetka—General News Items—Business Di- rectory—Other Advertiscments. FOURTH PAGE—Editorials: Speaker Blaine's Pennssl- vanis Friends; Stealing Onr Thunder—Nasby's Haonsh Jane—Political. FIFTH PAGE—City in Brief—Advertisements. SIXTH PAGE—Monetary aud Commercial—Railroad Time Table. SEVENTHE PAGE—The Republican Insurance Compa- ny's Difficulty—Obituary : Lady Beecher (Miss O'Neill), the Great Actress—Small Advertisements: Real Estate, For Sale, Wanted, To Rent, Board- ing, ete. EIGETH PAGE—Miscellaneous Tolegraphle News— Auction Advertisements. TO-DAY’S AMUSEMENTS. M'VIGRKER'S THEATRE—Madison straet, between State and Dearborn. Miss Maggio Mitchell, supported. by Mr. L. B, Shewell. **Fanchon.” ATKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue, eorner of Con street. G. L. Fox Pantomime Comblnation gress, ** Humpty Dumpty.” HOOLEY'S OPERA EOUSE—Randolph street, be- tween Clark and LaSalle. Third week of Abbott-Ki- raliy Pantomime Combinntion. ¢ Humpty Dumpts,” with new features. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, southof Madi- son. The ** Black Crook.” MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroe stroet, between State and Dearborn. Aslington, Cotton & Kemble's Rlinstrel and Barlesque Troupe. NIXON'S AMPITHEATRE—Clinton street, between ‘Washington and Randolph. The Georgia Lfinstrels— Slave Troupe. GLOBE THEATRE--Desplaines street, between Madi- son and Washington, Vaudeville Entertainment. PATTI-MARIO TROUPE—Erening Concert at Unlon Park Congregational Church. Friday Morning, November 15, 1873. Bismarck, and Gladstone, and King Amadeus are 4ll. Colonel Atherton, of Massachusetts, who was the first Union officer to enter Richmond after its fall, and received its surrender from the Magor, is dead. Legal measures are being taken to throw the Republic Fire Insurance Company into bank- ruptey, on the ground that in this way only can the collections of assessments be enforced for the settlement of unpaid losses. —_— Although not more than 300 families have ‘been unhonsed by the Boston fire, at least 2,000 sewing women and clerks find their occupation gome. For this reason, the Relief Committes of Boston have announced that they will accept 2ll contributions. The Chicago money-market continues strin- gent. Merchants are collecting in the country with moderate success, but the banks have ex- tended s great deal of temporary accommoda- tion to property-owners, to assist their building operations, and these obligations are not being promptly met. On the British cosst, nearly a hundred lives 2nd many vessels were lost in the terrific gales, Wednesday night. Stralsund, in Prussis, was flooded Ly the ses and twelve vessels were wrecked in the harbor; at Lubec, the waves gwallowed the Custom House, and all the Ger- man shores seem to have been devastated by storm and inundation. In the dropsical tendency and weakness of the kidneys of many of the horses, which seemed a few days ago to have recovered from the distem- pper, are eigns of a trouble that may be perms_ nent. The symptoms occur in the case of ani- mals which have been greatly weakened by the disease, or have been set to work prematurely, and are, Mr. Bergh says, the natural result of cruel treatment during their sickness. Other- wise, the general condition of our horees is good. Only sixteen deaths occurred yesterday, and by Monday the West Division and the North Dirision street cars will be in use again. Chief Justice Chase, we are informed by one 3n daily intercourse with him, is not going to California for his health or for any other pur- pose, and is not going to resign. His work epeaks for itself in the last volume of the Su- preme Court Reports as in the preceding. He has performed sbly and continuously his fall share of judicial work since October, 1871, and has been absent from his seat during the present term but a single day. He is in vigor- ous physical condition, and, after his long career of usefalness, firds his mind as clesr ag when he represented Ohio in the Senate, or administered the Treasury. — A well-informed correspondent, in one of the morthern counties of the State, writes that the friends of Mr. E. B. Washburne, in that county, make no disguise as to the fact that he will be pressed a8 a candidate for the United States Senate, against Governor Oglesby. The arga- ament is that Mr. Washburne had won a high po- sition a8 member of Congress; that he has gerved his country ably and well, and at a per- sonal sacrifice, as Minister to France; that the State of Tlinois should have its best men in the Senate, and that giving the office of Senator to Mr. Washburne, and that of Governor to Mr. Oglesby, will be an appropriate award of honors sccording to the fitness of the two gentlemen sometimes irreverently styled “Old Subsidy,” has apparently tri- umphed in Kaneas, Heis at the bead of the £roop again, all opposition to bim having been disarmed. Last summer, the Republican Con- ventions in half the connties in Kansss passed resolutions denouncing him, and declaring that o man should be elected to the Legislature who would vote to re-elect him to the Senate. Along Zist of charges against him, involving repested instances of personal and official turpitude, were presented by members of hie own party, and these charges were mainly supported by the tes- timony of his own letters. _Against this stream of opposition Pomeroy battled successfally ; he has impeached the credibility of his own signa- ture, and now, applauded and supported by his former opponents, he stands higher in Kansas, they say, than ever before. The next session of ihe Kansas Legielature promises to be a reel love feast, in which there will be an sburdant table spread, and the hungriest members will not go empty away. —— Brigham Young heas taken a new departure. ‘While the people of the United States have been ‘busy with their political campaign, a grand for- ward movement has been made among the Mor- mons, in the establishment of & mission at Jeru- salem, to which the intractable Baints are to be sont. The firat colony has already left New York for the Holy Land, headed by “George A.," 88 he is known in Utah, and Miss Eliza Roxy Bnow, who was the spiritual wife of * Joseph,” and since, by proxy, the “wife” of Brigham Young. With them are associated Ferrylittle, Young’s nephew, and several others. The ob- ject of Young is to resmscitate Mormonism in TUtah by getting rid of those who do not sgree with him, and, at the same time, he may have the idea of founding an asylum of refuge in Paleetine, provided the United States Govern- ‘ment should at any time request or enforce hig absence. The new President of Mexico gives some hope that that country is sbout to lay aside its revo- lutionary practices. Forthe first time in its history, the President was elected without oppo- sition. Ordinarily, there are half a dozen, and often more, aspirants, each of whom always claims to have been elected, and forthwith re- sorts to arms to enforce his so-called rights. The late President Juarez had five competitors at the election in June, 1871, and up to the day of his death these five men were at the head of 29 many revolutionary bands, seeking to depose him, and at the same time pillaging and plun- dering the country. Upon the death of Jusrez, the Chief Justice became temporary President, and has since been elected without oppo- gition, all of the rivals of the late President burying their pretensions in his grave. The new President has evidently heard of the scheme to establish an American protectorate over Mex- ico, and it is just possible that the unanimity that prevails in Mexico at this time may be due in some measure to the alarm felt at the threat- ened absorption of that Republic by the United States. Certain it is that the revolutionary epirit that has prevailed there for so many years hes become quiet, and Mexico has become united as against some exterior and common danger. ‘The Chicago produce markets were less active, in the aggregate, yesterday, and the average of prices was lower. Mess pork was dull and essier, at $14.50@15.00 for old ; $13.25@13.50 for new ; and §12.25@12.30 seller December. Lerd was quiet and steady, 2t 7i{c per Ib, cash or seller December, and 79/@7%c seller March. Meats were in fair demand, but quoted easier, 2t 4340 for part salted shoulders ; 65{@63{c for do short ribs ; T{@7¥c for do short clear ; and 10%4@ 1lcfor sweet pickled hams. Highwines were quiet and a shade easier, at 90c per gallon asked. Lake freights were active, and a shade easier, at 936@10c for wheat to Buffalo. Flour was more active, and steady. Wheat was dull, and 13%e lower, closing at $1.01 geller the month, and $1.013{ seller December. Corn was less active, and 1¢@3c lower, closing st 813c seller the month, and 303{c seller De- cember. Oats were in fair demand, and a shade easier, at 2lc seller the month, and 22¢ seller December. Rye was quiet and strong at 52c bid. Barley was active and irregular ; No. 2 ad- vanced 8¢, closing at 64c ; geller the month was dull, cloging at 61c; No. 3 quiet and steady at 50@51c. There was more activity in the hog trade, and prices were firm, though not quotably higher. Bales were reported at £3.95@4.25,— chiefly at $4.00@4.15. Cattle were in good de- mand and commanded foll yesterday’s prices. Sheep sold to a moderate extent at £3.25@5.25. A meeting of the creditors of the Mutual Se- curity Insurance Company is called by Mark Kimball, Esq., Assignee, atthe office of Register Hibbard, for the 23d of November. The object of the meeting is to hear the report of the Assignee, and to make a dividend. The burnt- ount mechanics and widows who hold policies in this Company should know that the Hon. J. Young Scammon, of Milwaukes, claims that he has in the hands of Jonathan Y. Scammon, Esq., of Chicago, Treasurer of the Company, some $40,000. This neat little sum Mr. Scammon, of Milwaukee, is trying, by = quibble of law, to offset sgeinst the losses of the banker and capitalist Scammon, of Chicago. The Hon. J. Young Scammon, of Milwaukee, is doing his level best to have the policies of the Hon. Jonathan Y. Scammon, of Chicago, paid in foll. The Milwaukee Scammon is deter- mined to put into the pocket of the Chicago Scammon two and 2 half per cent of the mon- poor men who had & two thousand-dollar policy on his home and little grocery must, if the virtnous Scammon, of Milwaukeo, can have his way, contribute $50 for the benefit of the capital- ist Scammon, of - Chicago. If Mr. Scammon, Treasurer, would haod over to the Assignee the cash which he has seized, the Assignee could add two and 2 half per cent to his dividend. It may be very convenient for Treasurer Scammon to have the uge of that forty thonsand dollars; but can all the casnistry of the Hon.J. Young Scammon, of Milwaukee, convince the policy- holders of the Mutnal Security Insurance Com- pany that it is right for Mr. Scammon, of Chi- cago, to keep their money ? The Philadelphia Press rejoices to know that, under our management of the Mint, there can be no such issue of debased coin as has just occurred in England, where the new gold sover~ eigns are received by the Bank of England itself ag eight cents short of standard weight and value, and where 20,000,000 shillings are allowed to be coined by a private firm which are exactly 9% per cent short in silver of the standard shilling. The evil is attributed to the fact that Mr. Lowe, Chancellor of the Excheguer, is also temporarily Master of the Mint, an office for the duties of which he receives no salary, has no time, and is not fitted. In our Mint, on the contrary, we have a Director, Chief Coiner, As- sayer, Refiner, and Engraver, all of whom re- ceive salaries, and hence the absence of all debasement in our "coin. Now, as coin itselt disappeared from our currency some eleven years ago, and instead thereof we have been producing paper money which is at a discount of from 50 per cent to 10 per cent, it isnot eagy to see wherein our currency is 80 free from the mishaps that befall that of England. Noris it essy to see of what particular use 80 many officers for the eys due the policy-holders of that Compary. Tho | pregervation of the purity of ourcoinage ars when the country has no coin. If we coin our gold for export, is it worth any more for export coined than uncoined? Certainly, our Director, Chief Coiner, Assayer, Refiner, and Engraver, all combined, bave not epabled ths masees of the American people to seo s coin for many years. Andyet we have a class of so-called financiers who want to see our circulating medium still further detased by reissuing §i4,- 009,000 of greenbacks, — SPEAKER BLAINE AND HIS PENNSYLVANI. FRIENDS. - It is gaid that Speaker Blaine hss writtena letter euggesting that ihe pext, or Forty-third, Congress meet on the 4th of March, organize bythe election of Speaker and other ofiicars’ have the Committees appointed, and then ad- journ until December. Senator Brownlow heg written a letter to the New York ZTimes urging the election of Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, for Speaker; and, possibly, between now and March there may be half & dozen candidates for that office. That there will be strong opposition to Mr. Blaine's re-election is certain ; such an op- position was declared last winter, and owes its origin to a striking fact in Congreasional history. The House, at the first or special session in March, 1871, by geveral direct and overwhelming votes, expressed its judgment not only in favor of the repeal of many of the more glaring sbuses under the fariff, but in favor of & gen- eral reduction of tariff taxation. The bills then passed by the House on this subject were not acted on by the Senate, At the meeting of Con- gress in December following, Speaker Blaine appointed the Committees, and upon the Com- mittee of Ways and Means he appointed & ma~ jority of those who, while in no sense free- traders, were opposed to the Chinese-wall policy. The advocates of a strictly revenue tariff were in a minority of the Committee, but a majority was understood to be in favor of & general reduction of the oppressive and destructive rates of tariff taxation. In this proceeding Mr. Blaine performed his duty. The Speaker is an officer of the House, and not an independent officer of the Government. He isthe organ of the House, bound by ite orders, and through ‘whom the will and wishes of the House find offi- cial expression. Ho is responsible tothe House, by whom all his acts are to be judged. In appoint- ing this Committee, he did not go as far in the way of tariff reform as the previons votes of the House would have warranted, but he did sub- stantially make the Committee in accordance to the repeated votes of the House on that ques- tion. He could have done nothing else without disrespect to the body whose organ he was. But the members from Pernsylvania at once got offended. They insisted that mno ‘mattor what the action of the House had been, protection was right, and that protection meant the liighest rate of duties that anybody desired, and that the Speaker should have appointed on that Committee & majority of men who would never agree to repeal or reduce s tax, but who ‘would maintain forever the Chinese system of non-intercourse, and prohibition of foreign trade. They at once proclaimed their purpose to punish Speaker Blaine. Part of this punishment was to oppose and defeat his re-election as Speaker. In this declaration of war, the Pennsylvanians were joined by Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, and by other zealous gentlemen from various parts of the country, who think that the welfare of the people is best promoted by producing the great- est possible scarcity of iron, and by stopping for- eign trade as much as possible. Mr. Blaine is in his second term as Speaker. The next House of Representatives will have a mejority of new members. Perhaps there is not inthe party to which he belongs,—certainly thers will not be in the next House,—a man so well qualified as he for the office of Speaker. In the rongh-and-tumble of the late campeign he was probably the most efficient captain of the party which won the victory. Itis doubtfal, however, whether these facts will disarm the opposition of those whose advocacy of' protection reaches fanaticism. They seek to inflict punishment for the past, and to secure the election of one of their own number as security for the future. In Mr. Maynard these Chinese economists have a fit representative. He- believes that ho wears the mantle of Henry Clay, and that it is his mission to uphold the * American system.” He believes in protection in its most withering and blighting forms. Should the choice of Speaker be made to turn upon Mr. Maynard's high-tariff notions, and Mr. Blaine's action a year ago, it may be that & majority of the Republican ceucus will venture to eet aside Mr. Blaine's ability and experience and take an inferior man, but such & proceeding will at once create a new isste, and prepare tho way for that struggle npon tariff reform so long averted, but which must come sooner or later. STEALING OUR THUNDER. Now that the smoke has lifted from the Bos- ton fire, and that the tables of losses and in- surances are corrected, the real facts arc made apparent, and these real facts, reduced down to their ultimate, tend to make it manifest that Boston has been indulging in an expensive at- tempt to rival the Chicago fire, the absurdity of which is probably before this very clear to the people of thatcity. The events both during and since the fire point to this very clearly. The first news which Boston sent us was that her loss was two hundred millions. That was our loss, it will be remembered. We made the same claim, and we established it within six millions, while Boston has fallen off one hun- dred and fifty millions. The next news was, that the fire had demoralized the insurance interests of the country and excused the majority of the companies from doing business any longer. It will be remembered that Chicago accomplished this result very satisfactorily, andnot only wound upmost of her own companies, but several others through the country, not forgetting New England in the distribution of her favors. Ttnow appears that the Boston fire has done little harm to insurance, and that those compa- nies which have closed up business have been mainly country companies, not accustomed to city conflagrations. The measures institnted in Boston in regard to relief, while they were based upon ours, failed to-approach them in resl grandeur of extent or elaboration of detail Boston could not even achieve a Cincinnati sonp-house. It has not enjoyed the edifying spectacle of a Beacon street millionaire taking ‘’his place in the procession of applicants for the purpose of getting an overcoat, nor of shrewd mendicants coming round twice in the proces- sion, on the same day, and duplicating cooking stoves and sewing machines. On the other hand, having met together a few times, the people are uncertain whether they want any relief at all, and g0 were reluctantly obliged to yield the palm again to Chicago. There.is another fact which goes to show the FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1872. attempt to rival Chicago, and that is the use of the same accessories which were part and parcel of our fire. We had fire-fiends, lurid demons, flery monsters, carnivals of flame, Lucifers in the naked majesty of Hell, enow-atorms of burning cinders, fornaces of white heat, draper- ies of smoke, millions of stars studding the black brow of night, forked tongues of flame, Toars of ten thousand batteries, hissing and eeething billows, vortices, whirlpools, abyases, craters, and maelstroms of fire, and a general rattle, srap, and crackle of all sorts of things, all of which Boston has appropriated without credit. We had our gas go out in good earnest, and 80 Boston makes an ineffectusl atternpt to have hersgo out. Oneof ihe most dramatic features of our fire was the hanging of incen- diaries to lamp-posts by the infuriated populace. The amount of hanging of this sort which was accomplished by the infuriated populace of Chicago, it will be remembered, was literally immense. Those were mnot wanting, men of unimpeachable veracity, who would make affidavit that they had just come from the hanging of three incendiaries to one post ; that the posts all along State streeb were adorned with these pendant fire-bugs; that even in the burnt district, where there were no posts, they wereall full in like manner; and that the military had just bayoneted several scores of incendiaries, whom they had caught on. the Pprairie setting fire to the tall grass. We all re- member well enough how many exemplary tail- ors, shoemakers, editors, and servant girls, who were obliged to be out at night, were chased from block to block by the citizen police, armed with revolvers, shot-guns, clubs, carving-knives, and pokers, and how these unfortunate individn- als at one end of the city were served up at the other end, the next morning, as incendiaries, and by the time the story had travelled from Lincoln Park to Cottage Grove, theso persons were invariably represented as having spent the night hanging from the everlasting lamp-post. Bosten, inlike manner, has attempted this kind of thing; but we know all about it here, and we have no faith in the afatement. It won't do. In the parlance of the day, it is too thin. Then again, it will be remembered that, for a week or two, Wwo were regaled every morning with the an- nouncement that the trains, the night before, came in loaded down with thieves, burglars, and all sorts of plunderers, bent upon stealing every- thing that was left, where everything was barned up. In like manner, Boston has sent us graphic acconnts of owl-trains, coming from New York and elsewhere, with assorted selections of thieves, who were to swoop upon the smoulder~ ing heaps of brick and granito, and carry them off. That's some of our thunder, too. The saturnalia of thieves and the carnival of crime originated here, and clearly belong to us. Another palpable attempt to come into com- petition with us is of an historical nature. Many people, even at this late day, possess proofsin their libraries or in their attics that sundry his- tories of the Chicago fire were written, and helped to dd to the miseries of that fearful October. They were graphic narratives of the fire by eye-witnesses, who were in Eankakee or Evanston at the time. They were illustrated with engravings made from drawings on the spot in New York. They were wonderfully similar in contents, showing that the gifted authors had access to the same sources. They all commence with the massacre at Fort Dearborn and ended with an eloquent description of the great fire at Moscow, carefully copied from the same encyclopedia. We do not remember how many histories were written here, but it wasa large number, and they appeared in paper, in cloth, and in Turkey morocco, and were trans- lated into several languages. Their eternity of fame was so brief that we have forgotten the names of the historians, but, as we remem- ber these works, they were foarfully and wonder- fullymade. A great many of them are still ex-~ tant. The publishers have s great many, the paper-makers have some, and the public hasa few. As Boston has already gone into the his- toricel business, we suggest to the historians that the Chicago histories can be bought cheap- 1y by the pound, and, with the simple alteration of names and dates, they will answer the same purposes for them that they do for us, and will save the historians much trouble and expense. ‘While Boston, with a mere bagatelle of a fire, has attempted to ontdo us, and has coolly appro- priated our perquisites, we are rejoiced to think that there is one feature of our fire which she cannot duplicate. No mention has been made yet of relics. She has no Mra. O'Leary’s cow to ‘e cut up into little bits and fashioned as orna- ments for cabinets and what-nots. She has no Court House Bell to melt up and recast into little bells to hang from watch-chains and tintin- nabulate in horse cars, concerts and churches She just missed the opportunity for a splendid asgortment of relics by not burning up the Old South Church and Fanenil Hall. It was an oversight which will undoubtedly be rectified at the next fire. Meanwhile, we congratulate Boston that she didn’t lose a8 much as Chicago; that she will collect more insurance; that she didn’t need any relief ; and that she didn’t have such a fire as Chicago, however hard she may have tried. —— NASBY’S HANNAH JANE. Brother Nasby detects, with sufficient accura- ¢y, the sensational topic of our time, by seizing upon the infelicities of marrisge and the pangs and heartrendings of divorce as the theme of his last lecture. We seem to be approaching a time when lectures must be either on marriage and divorce, like Mra. Stanton’s, Biss Edgar- ton’s, Mrs. Woodhull's, Fheodore Tilton’s, and the liks, or by people whose notoriety is con- nected with divorcs, like the late Mrs. Forrest, Lola Montez, the Honorable Mrs. Yelverton, and half a score of others, or by sages who, like Froude, have written up from a new standpoint the histories of very much-divorced grest men and women. Nasby's *“Hannah Jane™ is the pathetic picture of a martyred wife, who, while her husband rises into greatness, lingers beside the cradle of his children, only to find herself outgrown by her husband intel- lectually and socially, and in due time distanced by & younger and more * intellectusl” competi- tor. She sinks into the tomb, of course, &. martyr to his indifference, and leaves him free to pursuoe his more spiritual affinity. His second marriage weds him to a sort of blue-belle, who ““combs his hair ” with the pisno-stool, bursts him up with bills, and, having badkrupted his purse and broken his health, leaves him to die while she goes off with her own afinity. We half suspect Nasby aims to administer to the gentler sex the most delicate of all flattery, since, next to being deemed a beauty or a seint, 10 ambition so easily enslaves the feminine mind as the thirst to be enrolled a martyr. Of course, every lady auditor of Nasby will 8ee in “Haanah Jane” the type of the suffering 80X, while the fomale high-fiyer who succeeds to Hannsh Jane’s hueband, and who in real lite sometimes marries him before Hannsh Ji ane gels there, is not regarded as a being for wham the gex at large are responsible. ‘We do not doubt that there are cases whers s man's intellectusl growth after marviage carries him far out of the range of his wife's sympathies, and lifts him above her intellectual companion- ship. There are some cages, also, in which a woman equally ountgrows her husband. In all these cases, doubtiless, the preservation of genial companionship between them becomes mutaaily difficult, perhsps often impossible. The error, or half-truth, in Mr. Nasby's lec- ture, consists in assuming that the offence he describes is a peculiarly maeculine one. Thers is a Hannah Jane whose career and martyrdom are af a different sort fzom I;hst he describes. Inheriting from working parents a wealth of physical resources which needs expenditure in some active field of exertion, she finds heraelt wedded to a husband of intellectual, professional, or business pursuits, and consequeatly relieved from the necessity of personal exertion. While his mind is ocoupied by business, hers has no proper field of useful effort. Her children, if she ‘has any, are the cars of servants, She and her husband board with their domestics. In a few years a breach begins and widens. The husbzud, strained and 4rained of his energies at every point by the necessity of performing all the labor that Nature intended should be dividc& evenly between them, becomes an invalid. Per- ‘haps it is consumption, paralysis, or something else. She, with her energies undrained by labor, 1 dissatisfied with an invalid companion, and, after o few years of wrangling, elopes or is di- vorced. What shall be eaid of this Hamnah Jane ? One of the most inexplicable maladies which has ever afflicted mankind is the mania which persons euffering under an overdose of geogra- have for dying by freezing. There are now no less than ten expeditions of this class of scien- tific suicides who desire to escape death by drowning, hanging, consumption, liver com- plaint, horso disease, and, above all, the peacea- ble death of a Christian in his bed, by betaking themselves as near to the North Pole asis necessary to extinguish human life. The pre- tence that these oxpeditions mail northward to make discoveries was exploded. nearly a century 8go, by the last man who conld, in the nature of the caso, make & discovery, for he discovered that there was nothing there to be discovered. Bince then, it is clear that the motive is-death by freezing, which is said to be a peculiarly charm- ing and felicitous mode of making one’s exit from this world. Mr. Hell's Amevican expedi~ tion has reached Tessiusak, the most northern Danish settlement in Greenland, where it is trying to purchase sixty or seventy eledge-dogs to carry it further. It is said that our Danish friends in Greenland think that our American expedition will succeed in reaching the same point reached by Sir John Franklin and his crew, viz.: death by freezing. The Swedish ex- pedition, which sailed in July from Tromso, is stopped at Spitzbergen, and will start for the Pole byreindeersledgenext spring. A Norwegian expedition is also circumnavigating Spitzbergen in search of the freezing point. A French ex- pedition has put back, and failed, owing to breaking the screw of the vessél, while another Norwegian expedition failed, owing to, it ina- bility to find an opening in theice. Mr. Octave Pavy is goiog from San Francisco to Wrangell's Land or tothe bottom, on & monitor raft. Mean- while, all the information of value which bas been obtained concerning the Polar wastes has been picked up by the Norse snilors and whalemen who have in the regular course of their fishing dis- covered that the Siberian Ses, to the east of Spitzbergen, and sround Nova Zembls, is warmed by the waters of the Gulf Stream suffi~ ciently to keep it open nearly every summer. So far a8 yet known, a vessel might sail through to Behring's St~ait in a single summer. i portance made in Arctic explorations of late years, would have been made just as soon had Do expedition whatever been fitted out. The London Athenzum szys “no more significant fact has been added to our knowledge of Arctic geography of late years,” and this factis ex- tremely insignificant, as even if & vessel comld sail through from Spitzbergen to Behrimg’s Strait in one summer, it would be of no con- sequence, as there would be no reason svhy any vesgel ehould do it. Altogether, therefiore, it is clear that it is not the value of the discov- eries made or anticipated that stimulate to Arctic explorations, but the ecstacies of detyih by freezing. —_—_— Mr. Charles Mathews, the veteran comediarm, contributes an article to the November number of Tinsley’s Magazine, on Sheridan’s play of #The Critic,” in which he takes occasion to jus- tify, to some extent, the use of * gags” on the stage. “ Gag” is the slang term in the thestri-- cal profession for interpolations made by the actors, and the introduction of phrases and local “hits” not to be found in the original text of the play. It has been the custom of critics to decry this practice as ome of the most pernicious of the profession; yet Mr. Mathews, an actor whose ‘legitimacy” will scarcely be called into question, comes to the defence of the practice with some excellent arguments. For instance, Sheridan’s play of #The Critic,” in which Mr. Mathews has acted Puff & thousand times, was essentially local in its humor, and abounded in pertinent imperti~ nences, that were funny at thetime of its origin- al production, but which would be simply incom- prehensible to an audience of the present day. Certain local characters, including even the man- |- ager of the theatre, were made the objects of | good-natured ridicule. Mr. Mathews contends that it is only by supplying the place of these antiquated jokes with new ones, suited to the time and place of performance, that the interest of the play can be maintained. Besides, there are stage traditions of * business,” or action, that are handed down from one genera- tion to another, being originally the artistic ad- ditions of some great actor that contributed to the success of the play. It would be absurd to discard these because they are not to be found in the text. In spite of the dictum of the crit- ics, Mr. Mathews sssures us that the authors are exceedingly anxions to have the actors con- tribute additions of value to the text or action of their plays. He tells us of the rehearsalof a new piece of Dennery’s upon a particular occa- jon when Bouffe, the famous French come- dian, bappened to be in & bad humor. He contented himself with reveating the lines -of the piece until Dennery cried out impatiently: ¢ Mais gjoutez donc, Bouffe ; wous n'ajoutez rien.” Even Madison Morton, whio is regarded ss the best English farce-writer, has been known to complain when his favorite actors failed to contribute some- thing of their own. Of course, Mr. Mathews condemns reckless interpolation, but we can understand, from his revelations, that s play frequently owes its success more to the actors than to the aathor. —_— The spread of cholera by railroeds is attract- ing universal attention in Europe. It is not long since that Mr. Radcliffe made a report to the English Parlisment, calling attention to the manner in which the development of the Conti- nental railway system was aseisting” the propa- gation of the disease. M. Fernand Papillon, an eminent French physician, has just made a re- port of similar character, which contains some interesting facts. He describes the measures which have been taken to stop the inroads of the disease from Arabis, Egypt, and Constanti- nople, and he credits both the Turkish and Per- sian Governments with a considerable degree of energy and intelligence in the premises. Tha Shah of Persia has placed every possible hin- drance in the way of the movements of pilgrims, who have hitherto been carrying the pestilence with them and spreading it at their own will L. Papillon thinks that the most danger is tobs feared from the Rueeian side. Turkey and Rus- sia between them are powerless toeffect any sort. of quarantice. The railways defy control. Whila sbout 20 psrsons disembark daily % Odesss andare placed in quarantine, about 400 arriveby rail and enter the town uncontrolled, and the same s true of Turkey. Thera is & vigorous quarantina for all who come by water, and the result is that travellers go from Russia to that country by rail, although it is a longer distance. Ag the Russo-Turkish system of railroads is be- ing rapidly developed, it is easy to see that it is only farnishing greater facilities for the spasdof the peatilence. Unless some form of railroad quarantine is established, the world is being daily brought into nearer contact with the birth~ place of cholera. i M. Saint-Gormain Leduc, o French advocate of woman's rights, has just publihed a long and stupid novel, under the title of “M. le Comte et Mme. Ia Comtesse,” which is intended toadvance his sentiments and assist in the emancipation of French women from the trials they suffer after marrisge. Mow, M. Saint- Germain Leduc and his dreary novel to the con- trary notwithstanding, French women after marriage do mot need half the emancipation that French women before marriage ocught to have. The married womsn in France is about as independent & creature as can be imag- ined in petticoats. She is free to go where she pleases and do about what she pleases, and there is seldom any comment upon her actions. She trequently retains the property which shé brought to the marriage in her own right, and disposes of it 23 ghe will. According to the Catkolic service, she is not even obliged to pronrise that she will “obey.” 8She is sbsolute mistress in her own house. The ecivil contract makes every French marrisge & mariage de contenance, in which the rights of the wife are diatinctly defined. It is rather the unmarried womean of France who isin need of emancipation. The French girl is the product of the convent, a poor, weakly hot-kouse plant, that is nipped and withered by society when ghe is brought out to'be pluck- ed. Ier schooling is not practical, her sar- roundings are narrow and cramped, her imagina~ tion is rendered morbid by depriving her of con- tact with the world, and she is in every way pootly prepared for the life upon which she is thrown at an early snd immature age. RL Seint- Germain Leduc should rather write a novel called “The Daughter of M. le Comte and Mme. La Comtesse.” ‘While thepeople of the United States have been comparatively indifferent concernting the recent settlement of the San Juan boundary dispute, and but very few of them have the remotest idea of the real question at issue, the English have got very excited over the decision of the Emperor of Germany, who was the arbitrator appointed by the Treaty of Washington. The comments of the press are very pointed. The Spectator ssys * the Emperor of Germany's des cisionis & very dissgreemble factfor British Columbia, and an unfortunate one for the popularity of arbitration in Great Britain.’ The Morning Post thinks the decision is ‘‘dam- sging to our interests and to our diplomatic rep- atation, as well as to the character of the Gov- emment.” The Telegraph berates the geographical ignorance of the Eng- ish megotiators. The other papers swallow the pill with as good grace as they can. In the meantime, that our readews may know what it is which is 80 exciting the English, we may state agein that it is the decision of the question as to the boundary line between Vaa- couver's Island and the American territory, south of the forty-ninth parallel. The decision of the German Emperor fixes the line along the channel between Vancouver's Island and the TIsland of San Juan (the Haro Chaoncl). The only particular advantage of this new line is the fact that in case of war a fort could be construct- | ed on San Juan Island, which would cut off com- discovery, the only one of any estimahle im- | munication beétween Victoria and the continen- tal part of British Columbia. —_—— A curious and rather significant occurrence took place recently in the little French village La Chatre-Langlin. A violent thunder-storm Qevastated the fields of the pessantry, yhich the perish priest hed previously blessed, assuring them in doing so that their crops were thereby gecure. The exasperated people resolved to ’hold him responsible, forced their way into the church while he was there, thrashed him soundly, end then tore down his dwelling. Fourteen of them were arrested and condemuned to pay fines of various amounis. The verdict against them seems a hard one. It is difficnlt to see what moral responsibility attaches to people who would take stock in such security as was offered them by the perish priest. The mnegroes in Africa have long reserved to them- selves the right to beat their sorcerers if they did not prophesy rightly,—a practice which tends to make the latter very careful. The responsi- bility in the French case ought to have been divided in some way between the priest and his flock. . The use of the “cat,” in punishing criminals, is just now being discussed in the various British journals. A correspondent of the Pall Aol Gazelte suggests a novel substitute. Heis in favor of the use of the galvanic battery, and «contends that while a current may be run ‘through the criminal, sufficient ¢ toresemble the “breaking of bones or the touch of hot iron,” it «could be stopped at once, and all pain would in- stantly dissppear, leaving no “lacerated flesh, - or livid welts,” as souvenirs of punishment. “We doubt very much whether this form of pun- dshment would be sufficiently shocking to deter 2 criminal from his villanies, however much it Tnight astonish him for the time being. et ety POLITICAL. In answer to inquiries, the vote of Galena wae—Greeley, 841; Grent, 620. In 1878, Grant had 5 majority. —1Wo believe it is not contemplated to elect a United States Senator by the Indiana Legisla- ture until the regular sesgion in January; but the caucus resolution indorsing Morton was required to relieve members from importunity, and let them attend to the business for which the special session was called. —The vote of San Francisco was: 1868. 1872, —There are 95 lawyers among the 133 delegates in the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention. —The Iate Legislature of Tennesses 8o dis- tricted the State that it was thought impossible for the Republicans to elect more than one Con- gressman; and, especially to defeatMr. Maynerd, the Knoxville (or Second) District was made 250 miles in length, to extend from North Carolina to Kentucky, and to run over into Middle Ten- nessee. This was regarded the perfection of partisan wisdom; but vengeance turned up on the wrong side. . —The vote for membors of Congress in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) districts was: Liberals, 2. Schumaker...... 13,34 IP Rf‘m Oiteras, Goodrich. . - 10,096 | Crooke. —The Pittsburgh Gazetfe says House of Representatives will be a House of great promise.” Then it won’t differ much from its predecessors. —The Moberly (3Mo.) Monitor proposes Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indisns, as the Opposition candidate for President four years {from the recent National voting-bee is, that the ‘Republican party is an nnusuzlly big thing. . —If Colonel Jack Brown has been elected tc Congress, as now secms probable, in the Thirc Georgia District, thers will be one—and only one—Straighout Bourbon member of the nex Houso elected by Republizan votes. —The Springfield Republican says: Mr. Georga Wilkies, wo learn, announces a fixe: purpose toabjure President-making for tho fature and devote himself to making 3 good sporting news- paper. Heis understood to have simultaneously log Dis interest in politica, his confidence in humsn ns ture,—he suspects Mr. Greeley of unsounduess on th one-term_question,—an@ 5 number of election-bets Tishort, he has discovered that the world is hollow and its dolls mainly stufed with sawdust. —The Baltimora ‘Sun is in something of . andary with rogard to the effect the recen election will have upon party organization, thinks new parties are likely to be organized o suggested by time and circumstances, withon stopping to 1nquire what the effect will ba. ILLINOIS. osticial Returns from 94 Countiess 158, 6. 1. GOVERNOR, Counties, PRI 3 |58 i3 |i¥ & 09| | 33 1E 1,538 ot 1,003 }lm Zool| 346l %3l Le B o5 1S b e 2,585| 2017 26| 2,79 L 158 1,718 179 13 13| 1% 1,53 1570) 1559 1749 247} a)e58i| 4l 19,104| 27,527 1,377 1,150 134 Lol 15| &0l 3,41 €07 130 163 1,58 by 1,356]| 1,123 60| 2,350 &9} 2508l 29,1800 s3] il ey 1,68 Lzl Lo 55 71 70i| L1 123 2107 Lei| i €| 1,189 3,35)| 352 32 ... 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Ler 2,405 5105 1,854 1,3 43t 1,090] 2,551 i 5l ,2% 5,439 6,231|| 8,936 5,0i5|| 4,2511 6,00 L1755 Lol 1,130 1,101 1,12 LiL 158 Slos|| Lol 27oa| Law| g6 212 B8l Lesl S| fio| sl 1oz 2oisl| Ll ais| Lows| e 203 2mll 2wyl Toll a1 g gl 38| Fms Teen| 5390 g gesl 419 ool Zemi| Lowl Sk 10| 21l 29| B3| Tgiel 2o 1,532 1,934 139) 1L28(| 1,209 1,541 o B8 T 7 2 2,7 7 Lo gl Tosor 28051 1108 e 883 5895)| B0l 5eb|| 863 & Loss| Loss!| Lus| em|| i e L el TES U LR 20l 2,173 Taisl 9,218 e L2 oy Ses Sl 8| sk fm 1,145/ 857 1177 955!l L9 Lo 1507 el Lau| som)| 13| wi 423 gamll Som| Ze0| ol B %3 Tial|l Lug) Las|| Lisl Laer aditl S o HE 288 38 )| 5,88 2 533! 1,151 .| s [ ia| 017 1| | ol 8 @ 1897 1,983 1, s0l| 1,29 1863 L3l rel b il L3 L Lol gl Lew sl Ll S 113l Loaf I Tl Lwol 1 4,85 43l 4 9l 4453 4171 viel L Lil Laoll Les| 19 Ll 1| L ot Liml eir S| Leall o 4 L& sl 1,708] et B 8,28 45ull 4, 4,40| a8 530 sl 215 86l Sy 2sio s gl 2 21 238 £ 528 U o5l 1R sin w1l 7 | "sosl s, 1,98 28| Leitl 2,404 1,658 2,450 Lo Lestll Lol Day) Lasl Les vas| Dol 13 Ll 1) 1,753 L 1,24 7 144 8,59 L 3,163. 1,337| gl 4200 20| 421001 30 LS8 Lae| L3l LERl| 15 i 4,561 Baall os 9, L865/| 16 Total.,... 199113 J ‘The aggregate vote in 94 counties for Presi~ dent is 362,284, against 386,295 in the same coun<’ ties for President in 1868, as followa : Greeley's less than Seymour's. . The aggregate vote in 89 counties for Govern- or s 846,997, agninst 843,863 in the same coune ties for President, as follows: 3 President. ‘Hardin, Jasper, Mason, Mercer, and Pope are to be added for President, and these, with Clinton, Fayette, Johnson, Kane, and White, are to be added for Governor. TUnofficial reports from the counties above-named would indicate the ‘majorities will finally be 56,000 for Grant and 43,000 for Oglesby. The Cook County vote i3 now being canvassed, ‘THE CHICAGO LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS. The Board of Revision of tho returns of the recent election, yesterday completed the count of the ballofs cast for members of the General Assembly in the Firs, Second, Third, and Seventh Legislative Districts, and annoance the following official” figures : PIRST DISTRICT. REPRESENTATIVES. TOE]| [ g ] L w0 ave wdien oy il g I “uow! <LrustEetiel v hence. —It i5 said thet Mr. Jesse Gront, Postmaster of Covington, Ky., not having very good eye- sight, dropped in a ballot for Judge Arthur, the Liberal candidate for Congress. % —~The moral which Senator Anthony draws 4y 3 € 3 ® il H o 3 Thoraton. o Worth. 16 Total ... 14715 YT Majority. |8 444 =8 e