Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 21, 1872, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 187 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION (PATABLE IN ADVANCE). Daile, by mail. 5 Lri-Week] 0 Parts of a year at the samo rate, To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and givo Post Offico address in fall, inclnding State and Counts- Remitiznces may be made either bydraft, express, Post Ofce order, or in resistered lotters, at oar risk. TERME 70 CITT SGBSCRIDERS. Daily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents por weok: Daily, delivered, Sunday jncluded, 30 ccnts per week. Addross THE TRIB COMPANY, Corner Mcdison and Dearbora-sts., Chicago, Il TRBUSE Branch Offico, Rookstoro of Messrs. Cobb, Andrews & Co., whero Lévertisaments and subscriptions will bo received, and il hevo tho samo attention as if loft at tho Main Difice. CONTENTS OF TO- FIRST PAGE—TWashington and New York News by Tele- e~ Railrod Men Snowed Up in NorthernMinne- sota—Advertisements. SECOND PAGE—Periodical Literature—A Web of Cir- cumstances: The Mysterions Poisoning of tho Ror. Dr.J. B. Smith—Remoring Broadway Eye-Sores— Paris: A Prodigal Metropolis—Strike in the Penn- sylvania Coal Mines—Destructive Fires—Tho Lexing- 1om, Bo., Homicide—General Nows Items—Per- soal. THIRD PAGE—Chicago's Murderers—OfScial Votes for Tlinois Representatives in _Congress—Eranston Matters—StatoStreet Bridge—The Board of Trade 2nd the Mann & Scott Case—Tho Great Inundations in Italy—Maznsard: Something About tho Great French Architect—Railroad Time Tabio. FOURTH PAGE-Editorizls: Minority Bepresenta- tion; The Warchouso Frauds: The Caso of Peri; How to Annex Cuba; The Crisis in France—Car- rent News Items, FIFTH PAGE—Our Horses—Ths Law Courts—Adver- tisements,, SIXTH PAGE—MMonetary aad Commercial—3arins In- telligence. SEVENTH PAGE—A Dummy for a Horse—A Substitute for Baptism—Small Advertisements: Real Estate, For Sale, To Rent, Wanted, Boarding, Lodging, ote. EIGHTH PAGE—Forelgn News—Miscsllancous Tele- groms. = — TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MVICKER’S THEATRE—Madison street, between Stzre 2nd Dearborn. Miss Maggie Mitcholl, supported by Mr. L. R. Shewell. *‘ Pearlof Savoy.” ATKEN'S THEATRE—Vabash avenue, corner of Con- gress strect. G. L. Fox Pantomimo Cembimation. ** Bumpty Dumpty.” FOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Rordolph street, be- tween Clark and LaSalle, John Allen, Little Mac, aad ‘es Alice Harrison, sapported by Aixon's Company. ** Schneider; or dot Old House von der Rhino.” ACADEMY OF 3USIC—Halsted street, sonth of Madi- pon. Eogagement of Charlotto Thompson. *‘Ore Wite.” MYERS' OPERA HOUSE-Xlonroe strect, between Eiato and Deashomn. Arlington, Cotton & Kemble's Minstrel and Burlesgao Troupe. GLOBE THEATRE—Desplaines street, between Mzdi- 0w and Washington. Vauderille Entertaiament. E@Tfi @hisnge Tribume, Thursdey Morning, November 21, 1872. A rigid inspection of New York markets fails todetect any evidence that the distemper hed, 23 rumored, attacked ponlt It will be remembered that Rafferty and Per- teet, the two Chicago murderers, after being tried and sentenced to death by the Criminal Court of this city, were grented new trizls by the Supreme Court. Ycsterday it was decided that thege should take place in Lake County for Refferty, and Will County for Perteef. Thirty murderers, among whom are Foster, the car-hook marderer, and Stokes, are confined in the Tombs, where some of them have been for more than two years. New York grows res- tive under this evesion of the halter, and begins to talk of Liynch Lew as a substitate for that in which murderers seem to find only protection. Ever the staid Evening Post suggested yester- ay “a fow doses of lamp-post justice.” Commissioner Douglass proposes that Con- gress zbolich the offices of Assessor and Assist- £nt Aescasor of Internal Revenue, for the very sensible reason that their work can be done by the other employes of the service. This will relieve the Treasury of the payment of £5,000 a ear o anch of 230 Asseseors, and of S5 & day to each uf 1,300 Assistant Assessors,—zn annual economy of over three millions of dollars. Boston was startled, yesterdsy, by another fire, which destroyed one of the largest printing estatlishments in New England. The previous fire had afforded opportunity for street improve- ments, of which crooked Boston has long felt fho need, and, curiously, the bailding which yes- terdey's flames carried off stood in the path of a projected estonsion of Washington street, and was tohave been removed by less destructive reans. Eight Lucdred tracklayers on a Xlinmesota reilrozd are snowed up and believed to be perish-' ing of cold and bhupger. In order to sccuro o valuable land grant for the Winona & St Peoter Railroad they hed pushed their work forward one hundred miles beyond the white scttiements, and are at this moment buried without provisions in ‘the impeesatle drifts of a enow-storm which has glready lasted six days. Every attcmpt to reech the unfortunate men with relief trains has been ‘bafied Ly the terxible weather. It has been considered a congratulatory fea- ture of tho Boston fire, that it did not consums anything thet was of permanent valae, or which could not be repleced in time. As irvestigstion into the losses has proceeded, howeser, it has been found that somo things Lave been de- stroyed the loss of which is irrepareble; and among them ore the letters, papers, and menu- scripts of the historian Prescott, which had becn stored by the fawmily into whose pessession they hed come, during their zbseacs in Europe, m one of the fire-proof granite warchouses wkhich was destroyed. Among these papers were & werge number of cxcient and suthentic docu- ments concerning Spain and tho two Americas, all of his privato corresponderce end Literery memoranda, including several of the finest por- traits ever painted by Copler, the father of Lord ZLyndhurst. Such aloss is total, and is a heavy calamity to the literary world. A leading citizen of Boston writes to a friend in this city, in relation to the aid proffered from this and other cities, as follows: * The news- papers reprosent the public sentiment here, on the subject of taking pecuniavy help for our poor, better than the action of the Mayor and official committees does. The only real argument in favor of taking the money is, that, if wo refuse, it will appear as if we aro too prond to do it. Now, Ifor one, would not Le too prond to accept the help, if we really needed it; for I believe in the ‘givo and take’ method. But the simple fact is, we can well aiford to take care of the poor here, and the pur- poses for which money is most needed are not those for which aid sent from sbroad conld properly be devoted.” We presume this repre- gents the general opinion of the citizens of Bos- ton. —— The investigation of the buming of the steamer Missouri, which involved the loss of 8o meny lives, although still pending, has proceed- ed far enough to unfold the secret of the dis- aster. A witness, on Saturday last, testified that a demijohn of spirits, which was tumbling abont in the locker, immediately over the boiler, finally became broken, the spirits took fire from tho boiler, and the flames immediately spresd over the ship. The rest of the story, with its terrible loss of life, is only too well knownto tho public. As far as tho investigation is con- cerned, it does not need to go further. It will be continued, however, to the end. A report will be made. . There will bo somo newspaper comment, and there the matter will drop. And yet hereisarecord of carelessness and want of ordinary precoution which onght to be visited with severo punishment. If investi- gations are never to be followed by any practical results, and not only eatail no punishment but suggest no remedies, it may well be asked, What is the nse of investigations at 1l ? There have been at least a dozen investigations of calamities similar to that of the Missouri, but has any one beon punished? Have any edditional precau- tions been taken with reference to proventing these disasters ? The Chicago produce markets were less active yesterday, and grain was generally easior. Mess pork was in moderate demand, and firmat $13.00 formew; $12.75@13.00 seller the month; znd $12.30@12.40 seller December. Lard was more active, and firmer, at T27c cash, 79¢c scller De- comber, and 774@Sc seller Mazch. Meats were quiet and steady at 434c for part ealted shoul- ders, 634@63¢c for do short ribs, and 634@7c for do short clear. Sweet pickled hams nominal at 93{@1034c. Highwines were quiet and steady at $9¢ per gallon. Leke freights were quict and steady, atllefor corn,and12¢ for wheat, by sail to Buffalo. Flour was in good demand and 3 shade firmer. Wheat was less ac- tive, and 1)4c lower, closing firmer at €1.08 seller the month and seller December. Cornwas dull and 34@3e lower, closing at 8174c seller the month, and 31%{c scl- ler December. Oats were dull and essier, clos- ing at 23c seller the month, and 233¢c seller De- comber. Rye was quict and steady at 55¢c. Dar- ley was less active, and easier, closing at 68c for No. 2, 06¢ for do seller the month, and 5lc for No.8. Thehog market was more active, and advanced 5@10z. Scles were at $4.00@4.25. Cattle sold slowly at about 25c decline from Monday's prices. Sheep ruled quict and steady. MINORITY REPRESENTATION. Tho first trial of the system of minority repra- sentation, ns applicd to tho election of Reprc- sentativesin the Gereral Assembly, took place atour recent State election. The results are before us. Inround numbers, the strength of the majority and minority parties in the State ‘was in' the proportion of 250,000 to 200,600. The whole number of Senators is 51, and of Repre- sentatives 153, Of tho Senmators who were chosen in the old style the Republicans have 33 and the Liberals 18, when, had they been chosen undor the system of giving the minority their proportionate number, the Republicans would heve had 28 snd tho Liberals 23. In the election of Répresentatives, the Republi- cans carried 33 districts, and under the ordinary system would have elected 99 Representatives, leaving to the Liberals 18 Senators and 54 Rep- resentatives. The actual result is 85 Republi- can and 68 Liberal Representatives. The result is procisely a fair representation of the two par- ties, according to their proportionate votes. The primary object of the Constitutional provision has been attained, with almost mathematical accaracy. Another object of the provision was to give the voters the opportunity of diserimi~ nating ageinst an objectionable candidate by doubling their votes for an opposing candidate. The voters have availed themselves of this priv. ilege to a large oxteni, and the effect is scen in vasious districts. As a rale the Senmators heve been chozen by the party polling the larger vote for Presidext in the sev- ersl districts, and, s o rule, the party electing the Senator hos also elected two of the three Representatives. But there are several escep- tions to this general result. In the Xinth Senatorial District, composed of Boone and Winnebago Counties, the Republi- cans elected all three Repreeencatives, thatbeing the oply district in the State where there was such aresult. In the Third Seratorial District, the Liberals elected their Senator by a smell majority. The Republicans nominated only oue candidate for representative ; but the voto ehows that, had thoy run two Representatives, oud divided their vote equally between them, they could hzve elected both. Inthe Fifteenth District, the Liberals clect the Senator, while the Republicans elect two Representatives; and, in the Thirty-seventh and Forty-Afth Districts, the Republicans clect the Senators, while the Liberals elect two Represen- totives in each district. In these districts the .result on Serator was duetothe personal popu- larity of the persons elected, who got more votes than their pariy. In the Twenty-sixth, Thirty-fifih, and Torty- second Districts, the Liberals elected Scnators, and the Republicans in each district elected two Representatives; while in the Forty-first, Forty- third, and Forty-fourth Districts, the Republi- cans olectod the Senators, and tho Liberals got the two members in each district. In theso six districts the majority parties lost the sccond member, becaues of tho zeal of the friends of condidates in making an unequal di- vision of the votes. Had the voters of each party given to the candidates oneand & Lalf votes each, the party that elected the Sen- ator would have elected two Representatives in that district. But, owing to the ansioty of ono candidate to secure his own election beyond all donbt, and to the discrimination of the voters, the minority party (politically) in each of these six districts elected two of the three Represewa~ tives. In the Forty-ninth (St. Clair) District, the result is peculiar. Tho district gives majorities for Grant, Koerner, Black, for tho Repullican State ticket, and Congressmen, and elects a Lib- eral Serator and two Representitives. But, after all these oxceptional results, tho nest House of Representatives will be divided politically in the proportion of their respective votes of the two parties polled throughout the State. There are 2 great many pergons in the State who are disgusted with the result of minority representation. Nor are these confined to any one party. Tlere are Republicans who refuse to understand why, in a district with a clear Re- publican mzjority, the minority stould have any representation st all. On the other hand, thero aro Democrats who arve disgusied with the thought that s Demoeratic county should be represented in the Legislature by one Demo- cratic and two Republican members, 28 is the case in Sangamon. ‘There are a number of de- feated candidates who declare minority repre- scatation 2 humbug, and demand its repeel at the earliest possible time; but, on the whole, it has worked admirably; it has secured the great end sought, and has enabled the people, in many instances, to defeat objectionable candidates by the clection of better men. The principle of minority Teprescntation has been fully vindi- cated by ihe results, o r— THE CASE OF PESIL The Governor hes commuted the punighmect of Gregory Peri, now under sentence of death for murder, to imprisonment for life. This action is greatly to be deplored. The case of Peri was without an_extenuating circumstance. On thedny of the Great Fire, in the forenoon, he, without the slightost rational provocation, stabbed and killed two men. The act was cruel, malicious, and brutal. The men he murdered were peaceful, orderly, and respectable citizens. He was indicted scparately for each murder. The jury in the first case hed no doubt 28 to his gumli, or to the ab- sence of all extenuating or pallisting circamstances. There was no difference of opinion =8 to the guilt of Peri or as to the char- acter of the crime. But, exercising the power given them by, Jaw, the jury fixed the penalty ab imprisonment for life. He was subsequently tried for tho second murder, and the jury was equally unanimous in opinion as to his guilt and to the atrocicus character of the crime, and fived the ponalty of death by henging. The point was made by his counsel that, having been sentenced under the first conviction, the judg- ment in the second case could not be exccuted until eofter the espiration of the first. An cppeal was taken to the Supreme Court, and that body, which gave now trials to Perteet and to Rafferty, decided that in Peri's case there wasno legal defectin the proceed- ings, and that the sentence of death should be esecuted on tho 6th of December. The Governor hes now intervened, and com~ mauted this sentence to imprisonment for lifo. Under tho circumstances, this commutation is equivalent to a pardon for the second murder, as the commautation adds nothing to tho punish- ment imposed for the first murder. The action of the Governor is of incalculable injury to the causo of justice and of law. Its effect isto paralyze the arm of authority, and to cnconrage illegal violonco. There has been mno person convicted of murder in this district for meny years who has ‘been permitted to be hanged. From one cause or another, the convicted murderers have es- caped. The first great wrong was the commuta- tion of tho sentence of Walsh, the wife-mur- derer, That was o caso where the murder was without the slightest palliation. The Governor interposed. Murders have followed each other with fearful rapidity. Juries have in many cazes exerciged their power of clemency by eend- ing the wretches to the Penitentiary for life. In the cases of Perteet, who murdered his wifo, ard Rafferty, who murdered sn ofiicer, justice hos been dofeated by legal defences founded upon technical errors in the proceedings. Buf, in the case of this man Peri, thers was nmothing that sppealed to the most technical Iawyer or sympathizing friend. He had basely murdered two inoffensive men in his own house without the least provocation. If ever there werc & case whero the Esecutive should bave declined to interfere, or should have suppressed Lis objections to capital pun- ishment, if Le have any, this case of Peri was the one.* Justice, to command respect, must be im- partial. It may be asked, Why should Perteet Db hanged for tho mwder of bLis wife, when Welsh, who committed the same crimo, was not? Why should Rafferry, who, when drunk, Xilled one man, bo hanged, when Peri, who murdered two men, is sent to the Peniten- tiary. With what equity can juries or Courts hereafter ecntence men to be hanged when this man, convicted of a double murder of tho most atrocious kind, ia taken from the gal- lows, and given his lifo? The conviction of Rofferty, andhis ecntence, with the probable esecution of Petectand Peri, had for a time the effect of checking violenco in this city. Ruffianism thought that there wasa serious purpose to punish murder. The fight is over; thereis to be no more hanging in Chicego. After tho release of Peri, Pereet and Rafferty cannot bo hanged without treating them with & severity not shown to others moro brutal than they. e e HOW TO ANNEX CUBA. The New York Herald advocates & dizcriminat- ing duty of 100 per cent and upwards, on our importations from Cuba, as o means of abolish- ing slavery in that island, of so diminishing the revenue of Bpain za to render her willing to re- linquish it, 2nd of securing its transfer to the TUnited States. We think we have hoard dis- criminating duties ogainst the Canadians urged 08 a mode of starving the people of that prov- ince into seeking our fraternal embraces; but the operation, thus far, is 2s unsuccessful as that of theman who undertook to freeze his dog by holding him out of the window in a northesst storm. The Herald's argument is doubtless inspired either by parties interested in high duties on sugar or in Cuban annexa- tion. Itsays: In 1868, of the wholo six hundred and twenty thou- sand tons of sugar exported from tho island in nine ‘months only, from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, tho United States took nearly four hundred thousand tons, and during the same period, of three hundred snd thirty thou- sand tons molasses, we took nearly two hundred and twenty thousand tons, The sugar crop for the year 1870-71 wes five hundred and forty thousand tons, of which the TUniced States received three hundred and twenty thousand toms, We may safcly stato that wo consume om an average between sixty and seventy per cent of the Cuba crop of sugar and o greater percentage of tho crop of molnsses, This elave-labor sugar, under our present tariff, comes in direct conflict with our free labor, and realizes to the Cubans a larger profit than our own cit~ izens can secure. On the other hand, Spain affords us no facilities or advantages in the Cuban markets, Her tariff discriminates against American imports, and the enormous duties are prohibitory of & great part of our products, Machinery and 3 few articles that can- not well be procured from home are the only things on which the Spanish tariff allows us & fair market in Cuba. Our Government thus dircctly encoursges the manufacture of slave products in our immediate nefghborhood, and gives life to the system of slavelzbor. If we wero to place s duty of 100 per centon theslave-labor sugars of Cubs, weshould at once do much to Joosen the hold of Spain upon the island and to strikio the fetters from the limbs of the slaves, The loss of the American markets would be fatal to the present condition of affairs, znd it would not be long before tho islend obteined its freedom or volun- tarily sought an asylum within the Union. At all events, it is o policy which should commend itself to Republicans, unless their concern for the lberty of the negro has ceased with the enfranchisement of those of the race whose ballots are cast in the United States, Supposing the Herald to be serious, let uscon- sider the effect of such a project on the prices and production of sugar and molasses; on the feelings of the people of Spain and Cuba fo- wards the United States, and on the institution of slavery in Cuba. The duties on sugar and molasses at present are almost strictly revenue duties,~the Ameri- can production which is favored by them being confined to Louisiana, and having a capacity of filling only one-tenth of the demand of our American consumers. These duties bring the Government some thirty millions of dollars and-| upwards aunnuslly, which the aunexation of Cuba would oblige us to raise by other taxes. To increase the duties from their present rates of from 1%{ to 4 or 5 cents a pound (which may e from 15 to 60 per cent on the invoice price) to duties equivalent to 100 per cent, or say from 4 to 8 conts per pound, would, as a Tevenue ‘measure, affect ourselves more largely than the Cubans. It would double the cost of sugar to ourselves, and 85 a protective measure would stimulate the manufacture of the inferior and dearer sugar that can be made from beets, corn, sorghum, and Louisiana cane. It would lessen the consumption of sugar in America ; bub whether tho decrease in the importation would be sufficient to lessen the amount of our revenuo wunder the increased duty, only the experiment itself would de- cide. The two-thirds of the Cuban product which is g0ld in the United States is nine-tenths of our supply, 0 that the effect npon our prices would be much more sharp and decisive than the effect on Cuban prices. While Caba would still havo the rest of the world to sell to, we, in order to prevent Cuban sugar coming to us through other channels, would have to putthe duties on all foreign sugars up to the same mark. Cuba would still supply the world, except France and the small part of Europe where the beetis mado to supersedo the imported article. Prob- ably, therefore, the selling price in Cuba wonld not decline at all, or only by o shede, while the purchasing price here would rise by some- thing moro than the duty. In short, in tho increased cost of our sugar, we would be toxing ourselves forty to sixty millionsa year, some portion of which,— how largocould not now bepredicted,—would go to the producers of beat, sorghum, cane, maple, and corn sugar lere, as ““profits” on those in- dustrics. The measure would irritate and em- barrass Cuban sugar plenters, and 60 would alienato their sympathies from us, but it could not possibly prevent them from coutinuing to raiso sugar ats fair profit, though they would got far less than we would pay for it. Whatever would appear to the Cubans like legislating to impoverish them would, of course, bind: them ‘moreclosely to the Spanish throne. The Cubans can mow see that if they were annexed to the United States thoy would send into this country, frea of duty, the sugar and molasses on which thirty millions of duty are now paid, and would share with American consumers the profit arising from a cessation of the tex. If this inducoment cannot win them to an annex- ation policy, it is quite certein that they would not be won_ by & tariff expressly designed to operate as & hostile moasure. Of course, what- ever binds tho Cubzns to Spain and cripples their industrinl progress, must, at tho same time, prolong the power of slavery. THE WAREHOUSE FRAUDS. . ‘Wo publish a letter elsewhero from a member of the Board of Trade, in reply to some strictures in our commorcial columns on the action or non- action of the Boord in cases of fraund like that re- cently discovered in the Munn & Scott Elevators. The writer takes various exceptions to theso strictares. Ho alleges, for instance, that, since the Legislature has taken the control of ware- houses ont of the hands of the Board of Trade, and lodged it in tho hands of & Board of Com- missioners and other officers eppointed by tho Governor, it isnot fair Lo hold the Board respon- sible for the management of warchouses. This may be very true, but the Doard of Trado s nome tho less responsi- ble for the character of its indi- vidual members, and it is none the less its duty to clenr itself of members who are guilty of fraudnlent practices, when such practices aro mado known and aro matters of general public information. The writer says, again, that, since Munn & Scott have voluntarily retired from the Bouard, they cannot be expelled. But they should not have been allowed to retire voluntarily. It was due to the genoral character of the Board for honesty and fair-dealing that they should have been expelled, otherwise tho hugest swin- dles moay bo perpetrated hereafter, with perfect impunity from the public shame of an espulsion and its consequent results, by voluntary retire~ ‘ment. The writer again says: *“No formal com- plaint has been lodged against themupon which tho Board con nct.” This may also be true; but wasit not the duty of the Board, or some indi- vidual member of tho Board, to lodge sucha complaint, or, at least, ask for an investigation of charges which were metters of public rumor, and which seriously affected the character of the Board ? Itis truethat tho State has assumed tho control of grainwarehouses, and has thereby relieved the Board of Trade of general responsi- bility ; but we do not seo theroby that the Board is at all relieved from responsibility for the character of its members. THE CRISIS IN FRANCE. There were ramors in Paris yestordny that M. Thiers hod resigned, and that Marshal Mac)Ma- ‘hon was his successor. Whother this be true or not, there is unquestionably a crisis in the Gov- ernment of France, nd M. Gambetta may claim the distinction of prime-mover init. This gen- tleman is an agitafor, and prone to opposition, ‘because it gives him a prominence that he might not otherwise attain. During his brief career e has been found on all sides of French poli- tics, and has vibrated between the partisanship of the Empire and the leadership of the Com- 'mune, always eloquent, but never steadfast nor statesmanlike. His speeches, delivered in the provinces before the recont French election, were the hinge upon which the threatened Gov- ernmental crisis is to turn. They were of;e character to alarm the Conservatives, and among the first acts of the new Assembly wags the mo- tion of M. Changarnier, a Monarchist acting with the Right, that M. Thiers should be censured for his failure to suppress Gambetta’s ulira utter- ances, and even to rebuke him for his needless sgitation of the people. President Thiers, avail- ing himself of his privilege of addressing the Assembly, defended himself from the aspersions of 3I. Changarnier, and demanded a vote of con- fidence, The result was not flattering to the President. Tho vote was postponed for & time-by dilatory resolutions, and, whon it was taken, at least one-third of the Deputies refused to vote at all, while one-third of those who did vote voted in the negative. The inferanca was that, if all the members had voted, President Thiers would have had a bare mojority with ‘him—perhaps not even this. Tt is not unnatural that M. Thiers should be dissatisfied with this result. The telegraph tells us that he has possed sleepless mights, and asked for another vote. The action of the can- cuses shows that the President is not en rapport with either faction of the Assembly. The mem- ‘bers of the Right announce themselves as op- posed to the proclamation of the Republic, though promising to sbstain from any combination for the restorstion of Monarchy. The position is decidedly equivocal. If the Right were honest in their promised abandon- mont of Monarchical schemes, tho surest way to £ave {hemselves from temptation, and to satisfy the people, would be to favor the absolute decree of the Republic. On tho other hand, the Loft know that they cannot command the sym- pathy of M. Thiers, who, while ho msay not go out of his way to crush 1L Gambetta (and he seems to have acted with good judgment in not doing it), is dovoted to whet tho French under- stand by Conservatism,—that is, & strong Gov- ernment, with paternal charncteristics, and an army orgunization to onforce them. 3, Gambetts has not, so far, shown & desire to renew in tho Assembly his oratorical strug- gles sgainst the existing Government. Ho is reported as smiling significently, and shragging his shonlders, as if content with the mischicf ho has already done in the provinces. Nor does the Loft feel itsclf strong enough to stend by Gambebta’s nltra position, and it has even indi- cated a willingness to introduce certain consti- tutional messures, whose adoption should com- ‘pensate for the feebleness of the vote of confi- dence, and'render o second vote mnnecessary. On the other hand, the Right have declared their willingness to make M. Thiers President for life, if he will teko Conservative ground, by which is meant war upon M. Gambetta and his sympathizers, reorganize his Ministry, and forego his privilege of taking part in parlismen- tary’dobate. M. Thiers will scarcely accede to the latter proposition, and may yet find himself more in accord with the Left thon with the Right, which would be 2 curious state of affairs. There seems to be sufficient concession on both sides to warrant & hope of compromise, which wonld result in & pertial chango of Ministry, the meintenance of the army strength, sud tho con- tinuation of M. Thiers’ Government, with about the same complications that have sur- rounded it heretofore. 1L Thiers will hesitate long before actually resigning for the same reason that prompted him to threaten resi gna~ tion frequently. He fecls himself to be indis- pensable to the interanl peace of France. The conclusion is inevitable, howerver, that a Repub- lic must look forward to s dangerous crisi sooner or later, when its existence depends upt one man, and when a change of Government cannot be contemplated without referring, as 3. Thiers does, to the fact thet the army is strong enough to insure an orderly transmission of power. ' The American interest in the Industrial Expo- sition, to te held in Vienns, in Mzy, 187, will be largely incroesed if tho proposed protocol to the treaty between the United States and Aus- trin shall be made and ratified. At present, tho only protection afforded to American inventors and patentecs in Austrian territory is whken the patented article i3 manufactured ond sold continuvously in Austrin. Under these circumstances, no American inventor can take his property to Austria for the purpose of cxhibit- ing it, offecting o salo of it £r that kingdom, or sscertaining whether it will be profitable or not far him to start a mennfactory of it there, with- out ranning the risk of losing his exclusive right to thebenefits that should attach to its invention. ‘This condition of things has acted as a warning to American inventors who have been asked to forward their inventions to the coming exhibi- tion, and it is now proposed to make a supplementary treaty gnaranteeing to them the protection which they would have at home. Whilo this will Iargely increase Americen repre- gentation at the Vienna Exposition, the results of such atreaty will bo mutually beneficial to both countries in the future. The Austrian people will have the benefit of a wider inspec- tion of American inventions, and American in- ventors will beable to introduce their articles to see whether they are adapted to the wants of Austris, without first incurring the expense of establishing factories or the risk of forfeiting their rights. et The appearance of Bronson Alcott’s Concord Days” rominds the Galary magezino of the curious contrast which the “Concord Philoso- phers,” among whom Emerson, Thoresu, and Hawthorne were chiefs, with Alcott as scribe, present to the generel characteristics of Ameri- can life. They have, in their several ways, made constant protest against the materialism, the overwork, and intense application of the American people. Hawthorne’s province wios to cultivato the imagination, incite an admiration for the mysterions and beeati- ful, and led his friends, as ho allowed himself to be led, into the realms of dream-land. Thoreau has devoted himself to opening up the beauties and enjoyments of Naturo, the peace and happiness to ba found in out-door life, and the thankfulness for life which communion with God's works ought to inspire. Emerson's range haos been thetof intellectusl thought, and he has traced the intricacies of metaphysical in- vestigation in a way to fascinate his followers with & like pursmit. Mr. Alcott, in his conversations and writings, has aimed to be the interpreter of the general school which these gentlemen have followed, esch in his own way, and, though lacking their strength and vividness, has furnished hints and sugges- tions for the spread of the common philosophy that imitates in modern times the thought of Plato and Plutaveh. —_— Tho Boston conflagration” was the gomeral theme of disconrse in the New York pulpits last Sundey, and it is gratifying to see that, with but one exception, no references were made to the peculiar virtuo of Boston and the peculiar vice of Chicago, as being the cause of the fire, most of the clergymen contenting themselves with drawing moral lessons from the fire, such as the fact that the rich are in reality no more inde- pondent than the poor, and the mutual depend- ence of each upon'the other. The one excep- tion was Rev. Mr. Graham, of the Soventh Avenue Presbyterian Church, who was inclined toregard the fire as a visitation of Divine wrath, which, of course, led him to the inevita- Dlo comparison mith the Chicago fire. The in- consistency which the comparison involves he escaped in the following ingenious manner: Tt will boprovidential to the people of that city if they remember that God’s honor and God’s truth are far more important than the truth and honor and in- tegrity and intellectuality of Boston ora thousand cities, Boaton, with all its morality, was no better thzn Chicago, with all its wickedness, Here are two extremes, The one exceedingly wicked, and the other remarkablo for morality, but for no genuine, Godlike, or Christianlike religion. In other words, we presume that COhicago is to understand that, as her loss was four times greater than Boston’s, therefore her wickedness is four times worse than Boston's morality, withont any religion figuring in either case. A8 xisusl, we are ahead again, -— The English newspapers have innugmtgd 2 wer against the practice of expessive tea-drink~ ing. The Lancetgives throe notable reasons why tea is unhenlthfal, 1. The large x_m_munt o't hot water that is swallowed is prejudicial fo_ di- gestion, and, if continued, to gencxn! nutrition. 2. The lgrge amount of theine witich it nont_n-ms —n substance which is extracted by the ‘boiling process, is 8 narcotic poison, and acts power- folly on the merves. 8. The large amount of pstringent matter that en- ters the body, which restrains th's free flow of the secretions, and operates directly as a constipating agent. The ZLancet holds that the symptoms arising from excessive tea-drinking agree perfectly with whst might be expected {rom tho properties perteining to_its ingredi- ents as deseribed. Tes-drinking, then, in the eyes of the new Prohibitionists of England, is only less injurious and hatefal than the habitual use of aleohol in the eyes of tho Prohibitionists of this country. Fortunately, however, the mod- erate use of tea does not threaten the excess, nor the excess tho extent of eyil, that the ordinary use of alcoholic drinks endangers. Printers are becoming arfists. We have seen the most astonishing diagrams prepared for newspapers in order to illustrate some particu- Iar topic, when there was no time to secure an engraving, made up fromlines, dashes, stars, and the ordinary material of s composing room. Now the rigid rulo of a prominent New York Jjournal, prohibiting the use of display types in the advertising columns, has been successfally eyaded by the ingenuity of the typos, who have taken tho small agate and made it 2s availa- ble for the purposes of display as the largest job type could be. In one column there is an attractive succession of large stars, made 1p from little ones, beaming forth the name of the advertiser. Inthe next there is a succes- sion of pyramids; then come gracoful Little signs, made from & combination of dashes. A system of marginal notes renders the next column unique, while another has the most grotesque variety that it is impossible to im- agine coming from the use of one kind of type, —aoven large displey letters being made up by an arrangement of the small and unobtrusive ones. The ingenuity of cdvertizers will overcome all rules. THE CITY IN BRIEF. Lvervthing. A. D. Simmons, Commercial Editor of the Kansas City Times, is at the Tremont. Hon. Chas. A. Eldridge, of Fond da Lac, Wis., was at the Briggs yesterday. William G- Corning, Albany, N. Y., registered at the Tremont, yosterday. The Hon.T.W. Ferry, U. 8. Senator from Michigan, was at the Tremont, yesterday. J. A. Morey, of the Rochester Union and Ad- xeériiser, was ot the Sherman yesterday. Judge M. A. Merril, of De Witt, Iows, regis- tered at the Briggs House yesterday. Hon. Charles Carpenter, of Hudson, N. Y., en- é:yed the hospitalities of the Tremont yester~ Y. Gereral O. C. Barton and the Hon. A. C. Bare- stow, of Providence, R. L, were at the Tremont yesterday. Hon. J. F. Farnsworth, of St. Charles, TiL., ‘was among the arrivals st the Briggs yesterday. H. M. Holden, President First National Bank of Kansas City, Mo., was & guest of the Tremont House yesterday. C.Tovnesend, of the Townesend House, Ocon- omorwoc, Wis., was 2t the Tremont House yes- terday. Irs. Stanton’s lecture, to-morrow evening, is one of tho regular West Side Star course. ge&- gon ticket-holders will be cheerfully admitted. The following were at the Briggs House, yes- terday: A. L. Conger, Akron, Ohio; W. H. Briggs, Battle Creek, Mich.; B. D. Boynton, Boston; B. L. Armistéad, Nashville, Tenn.; O. R. Post, Columbus, Ohio. Miss Smiley, the Quaker preacheress, will give 8 Bible lesson, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, to the ladies of the West Side, in the parlors of the First Congregational Church, corner of West Washington and Ann streets. The West Division Strect Railway lines will experience a mild epizootic attack this morning. They will *‘ run” from the different barns firat. It is to be hoped, however uncharitable the hopo muy seem, they will run all over indefi- nitely. . A young man, named J. J. Robertson, was ar- rested by Detective Tvrrell, yesterdsy, on the charge of having robbed & boarder at the Briggs Pouse of 8100 and a watch. The exact number of bills were found upon him, and the victim of the theft claims that they are his. On the Gardner House register yesterda) were the following names: T. H. Tilton anc wife, New York; V. S. Judd and H. M. Smith, Minneapolis : Jas. F. Woodmen and J. D. Car- ter, Salt Lake City; H. F. McClosky and _wife, Galena ; S. E. Mervin, Jr., New Haven, Conn.; Geo. J. & 8. P. Plant, St. Lonis. Two infant children belonging to Wenzel Pankort, resid.in'i on Twenty-ninth sireet, be- tween Wentworth and Shurtliff avenues, dicd suddenly on Tuesday morning from an attack of infantile convulsiona. They were of different sexes, and aged between 1 and 2 months. Anin- quest was held yesterday. Citizens of the West Side are not of a skepti- cal turn of mind. On the contrary they are will- ing to believe almost anything short of the evening papers. Butone can searcely expect them to give credence to the announcement that the West Division Street Car Company intend running out several vehicles to-day. A man whose name could not be ascertained fell into the basin at the foot of Twelfth street, Yesterdey, while attempting to jump from one Tailroad track to another. He escaped drown- ing, owing to the shallowness of the water, but was injured internslly, and had ome of his fingers_broken and badly frozen. A policeman assisted him to the County Hospital. The Literary and Debating Society of the Chi- cago Christisn Union will hold its regular woekly meeting at the Union Rooms, No. 758 Michigan avenue, this evening. Theprogramme includes music, reading, and conversation npon some topic of general interest. The club had considerable accessions to its’ membership roll, including many ladies, and promises to be & decided sucoess. The Board of Public Works issued the follow- ing buildin germits vesterday: John H. Kedzie, 4-story and basement stone’ front, 50570 feet; Nos. 120 and 122 East Randolph street; Brown Bros., 4-story and basement stone front, 23576 feot, No.129 Dearborn street; Brown RBros., 4-story and basement stone front, 25380 feet, No. 119 South Clark street; H. B. Hard, 5-story and basement stone front, 34x135 feet, No. 52 East Lake streeb. Professor Youmsns, the brillisnt _scientific writer and eloquent lecturer, who has lately done so much toward popularizing the sbstruse rinciples of scisnce by Lis managément of The opular Science Monthly, is announced to de- Tiver the next lecture in the South-Side Star Courso, on Mondsy evening, in the Michigan Avenue Baptist Charch. B It is claimed that further evidence hss been found to prove that Michael Hogan, the sailor who has been_before Commissioner Hoyne several times during the past week on_ tho charge of passinga countorfeit $50 bill, has been dealing oxtensively in this sort of money, and has succceded in victimizing several small tradesmen. He will be examined by the Com- ‘missioner again to-day. old-fashioned New England supper will be i7oh tin evening at tho Ada Strect g[eflmdi;t ‘piscopal Church, to be followed by a musical and literary entertainment, in_which several of our best amateur vocalists and elogutionists will fako part. The tickets of admission are only 75 conts. The proceeds of the entertainment are o be devoted to tho completion of the church ‘buiiding. Has not the Superintendent of the Western avenue strect car barn rendered himself open to & chargo of insanity. He declared to a reporter, yesterday, that the West Division cars wonld commence running to-dgy. ~Such trifling, such extrovagant language, must lead one to imaging that the recont afflictions of the Company have turned the;Superintendont’s brain, or rendered ‘bim utterly reckless as to-what he saya. ‘When the epi-zootio first attacked the poor ‘horses of this city, the warning sounded through tho coluums of Tue TRIBUNE was “Look to your horses.” This warning must again be giv- en, for different reasons. The West Side Car Company intend running two or three vehicles on their main lines to-day, and so unusual a sight upon those thoroughfares is liabla to scare the horges inta permanent insanity. The raising of the dead to life is supposed to be beyond the skill of modern humanity. But why ~ehould we despair of achieving it now, The West Side Railway Company, which has been so long defunct that dts car tracks ara buried ‘beneath the superincumpbent soil, fathoms dawn, has been resuscitated, and two or three oars are expected to run be run bebween State street and ‘Western avenue to-day. Tolearn that the very valuable property ad- joining on the east the Chamber of Commerco is to be immedistely improved by Mr. Colebour, with & building worthy the site. The Washing- ton and Exchange place fronts will be devoted to very handsome suites of offices. The great size of the lob gives alarge interior 8ren, which it i3 proposed to devote to o largo il 'The billiardists are naturally after it, but wean bat hope that Mr. Colchour will carry out’ hother ides of 2 beeutiful and commodious Mo Hall in this best of all possible central locatus for the purpose. Our public woald make thinder- taking = paying one. No institution habeen more needed in Chicago for the past fowears. A terribly fatal acoident_occnrred o5 thistoro - of J. W. Middleton, No. 55 Stats strect, ahalf- past 8 o'clock yesterday moming, wherein boy nsmed Andrew Nolen, aged 15 years, w in- stantly killed. Whilo engaged in movingome boxes, on the fourth floor, he accidentay fell through an exposed hatcliway into thebase- ment, 5 distance of nearly fifty fect. Hibody was frightfully crushed, and the flesh watorn from his limbs in many places, The ragins were conveyed tothe homeof his benmved parents, No. 41 Goethe street, where an inuest was held. Tt is not a rare thing in Chicago to find nu~ snal enterprise. The wonderful segacity o1 her citizens, and thoir intrepid ventures in iany ways, have rendered them abyword to the nrid. To chronicle even their mightiest achieverrnts would be sn awfal undertaking. Lot us row the world in fow words what a cify wo are. Jnly a week after the South and North Division road Gnm%nies ‘have resumed business on their lines, the West Division Company, supposd by the world to be dead, 2nd buried deeper thaipo- Titical honesty, o the tomstiawk between Mesrs. Storey and Bcammon, promise torun {w or three cars to-day. Mr. Goodman, s member of the Tolleton ~ Club, shot & remarkable bird in in the maches near the club house afew days since. Thile waiting for some ducks to rise he obsere’y the strange creature standing ons mud rap house a short distance off. Staled % hi presenco, it took wing, and flow £5¢%: Fim. fired and brought it down. It pRAZS, to bs an immense snow-white pelican, mE>”.qring eght feot ten inches from fip to tip o7 wing, seren feet from base of bill to end of tail, seven feot in height. The bill ia_twenty-two inches in length, and is omamented with a bag of suffi- lc:e}lfi cnpmtbyd fio ).\ntld s peck. The bird is eing prepare o taxidermisf il bo o bxbibition. ol i, Becguse of a broken switch there were no trains running north on the illinois Central Railroad yesterdsy morning from 7:30 to 10:30. Those passengers who waited at the various station-houses for two hours were not in & very pleasant mood, even when the train came by. Certain frisky merchants declared they would ‘patronize the road nolonger ; learned doctors of divorce-law talked of en action on the - case for damages ; and many school children feared that the result of the broken switch would be a whole switch over their backs. It is to b hoped the Ceniral Company x:'ill n.llm: no such delays, for, beside the results above noted, it is rumored that when a young married gentleman and 2 young lady are compelled to engage in a_two hours’ talk every morning, the result is infelicity in the home circle. An insano man rushed into Police Headquar- ters yestordsy morning, and; meeting Superin- tendent Washburn, informed him that he (the insane man) was the victim of & foul conspiracy ; that he was” being pursued by & relentless foe who was certain to murder him. In order to postpone his fragic death as .long as possible, he had purchased s revolver with which to assal the ememy, and, if possible, despatch him. He was afraid, how- ever, that the weapon would go off at both ends apor, the slightest provocation, and thus bring about the very catastrophe he hoped to avert. ‘The Superintendent assured him that there was no danger of such an zccident, as the revolver was, £0 all appearances, an extremaly well-reg, - Iated engine of destruction. It was sscertoined befors tho demented person loft that hia name was 8. B. Kehoe, and that his friends resided at the corner of Laflin and Harbine streets. They were sent for, and their unfortunate relative was removed to the County Jail, preparatory to examination before Judge Wallace to-dsy. The ,misersble street-car conductors might well exclaim, ¢ After tha epizootic, what?” ‘'he- reply was brought into TxE TRIUNE office by & fiend in human form. He did not resemblea flend, and but for his invention might have becn ‘mistaken for a clever sort of & mortal. But the - invention fixed his character at once. It is a: machine like s protracted boiler of smell size, with s dial inclosed, and & handle. - When a cash fare is paid, the conductor is supposed to push the handle, and sound the inclosed gong. The disl meanwhile marks one. Lvery time a fure is peid this process is continued, until “one thon-- sand” is marked. Then the automati¢ machino- starts afresh at ‘“‘one.” To. cheat the company, the conductor can do as follows: Sup- pose 100 fores to be marked. Let the conductor Tetire to the nearest alley, pull out the check, and strike up to a thousand. He can do thisin ten minutes at Western avenue, or Thirty-fourth street, and then add 50 more to show his _indus- . The other 50 fares he can_judicionsly ket. We would not recommend him to do is, however, nnless his_hands are dirty'and he is generally imprudent, for there is s torpedo concealed in the meachine which explodes when 1,000 is resched, and kills the operator promptly. BEAM, THE WARRIOR. How He Re-Fought tke Battles of the Rebel- , Lion Last Night—1s tho G. A. R.a Political Assaciation ? A public meeting of Ransom Post, Grand Army of the Republic, was held at Forrester's Hall, No. 83 West Randolph street, last even- ing. Junior Vice Commander Guild occupied tho chair, and faced sbout one hundred people. Tho object of the assembling proved to be & re~ union, and, as one of the speakers remarked, to congratulate one another on the re- election of their old commander, General Grant. General Logan was announced to de- liver an address, but as he failed to mske his appearance 8 Mr, Beam was introduced. The Iatter gentleman is very young and enthusizstic, and entertained (?) the audience for an hour and twenty minates, His speech was remarka~ ble for diffusencssand disconnectedness. He diwelt for a moment on the “‘snow-clid Lookout Mountain,” and then floundered cmong the swamps of Florida, recovering himself only to tramp through the cane-brakes of Soath Caro- lina. What he was trying to prove, or what he wishea to say, it was diffi- cult to tell. A sentence here and there seemingly led to the conclusion thet thers were still many men above ground who fought in the Iate war, and that they had been abused by gomebady for meeting at Pittsburgh end in- dorsing the nomination of General Grant. The gpeaker gave some good advica to the rebels. While edmitting that they had just cause to complain of the cerpet-bag rulors,—that the 'meanest sud basest men in the North had gone South,—he claimed that the peoplo sonth of Mason and Dixon’s line could blame no one but themselves for the manner in which they had: been trested. There were evilsinthe South, but they must remedy them themselves; the people of the North could do nothing except extend their morel sympathy. Ar, Beam spoke of negro suffrage, and, overfiowing with cloguence, ex- claimed: “If thereisa shotin the arsenal of Hell or & dose inthe laboratory of Heaven, it would;pake & sweeter meal for the peopla of Souh, ‘Carolina than- negro suflrage.” He eulogized; General Grant, and spoke disparag~ ingly of Mr, Greeley, nseorting that the Iatter was politically dead, and associating him with gome ancient individnal's dog. In conclusio heurged the soldiers of the country to stand. ‘shonlder to shoulder, and, if mecessary, to take their muskets from the hooks on the wall and draw their eabres from their rusiy scabbards to maintain the victory they had _ wom, ard the Reconstruction acts and the Fourteenth and Fif~ teenth Amendments ; they should defend them-~ selves when attocked by demagogues, and sus- tain the widows and orphans of the fallen. Comrade Rutter then made a brief address, asserting that the Grand of the Republic was not & politicel orgenization; charity was its corner-stone, He appealed to those present who were not already members {0 unite themselves with their comrades, that they might keep alive the associations and recollections of the camp. Genoral McArthur also mede . few roar atter which the meoting adjourned. . —_—— Fifteen to Twenty Dollars Saved. 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