Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1872, Page 4

'THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, is: TERMS OF THE™ TRIBUNE. TERMS OF FUDSCRIPTION (PAYABLE T¥ ADVARCE). aily, ail.. 2.00 | Sunday.. it 15:00] ey Parts of o yoar ab the samo rate. To present delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post Ofice address in full, including State and County. Temittances may bo mada cither by drat, cxpress, Post Ofice oréer, or in registered lottcrs, b ourTisk. TEmaw 0 CrTY somecHmEE: iy tod, 25 conts per week. Baile delivered: Zundey Saciaded: 30 conts per woek. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, 2% ser Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, il Dails, TRMCKE Branch Office, No. 469 Wabash-a., in the Bookstore of Messrs, Cobb, Andrews & Co., where advertisements and subscriptions will be receivod, and will bave the sime aticntion as if left at the Main Office. s CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE, FIRST PAGE—Washington, New York, and Miscellsno- aus Telographic News—Adrertisements. SECOND PAGE—Report of the Becretary of the Imte- rior—The Credit Mobilier Scandal—Deferred Tele grams—Scene in 2 Court-Room—Personal Ttems, THIRD PAGE—Tho Munn & Scott Expulsion—The Law Courts—Ratiway News--The State Insurance Com- pany—Board of Health—Railroad Time Table—Ad- vertisements. FOURTH PAGE—Editorials: Sccretary Boutwell's Re- port; Credit Mobilier Investigation; Anton Rubin- stein; Deposits in Bankruptey. FIFTH PAGE—Tho Driver Murder—Mausic and the Drama—Markets by Telegraph—Advertiscments. SIXTH PAGE—Monetary and Commercial. SEVENTH PAGE—Commercial Matters [continuedj— Marine Intolligence—Small Advertiséments: Real Estate, For Sale, To Rent, Wanted, Boarding, Lodging, &c. EIGHTH PAGE—The Greeley Obsequies To-Day—Riis- cellaneous Telegram: TO-DAY'S, AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, sonth of Madison. Lingard Combination. ‘A Life's Dream," with Lingard sketches. Afternoon and evening. AM'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison steeet, betweon Stato and Dearborn. Engagement of Miss Jane Coombs. ““School for Scandsl.” AIREN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue, corner of Con- gress street. Rubinstein concert. AYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroe strect, between State and Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton & Kemblo's Minstrel and Burlesque Troupe. GLOBE THEATRE—Desplaines street, between Madi- sonand Washington. The Lelia Fllis Batlad Opera Com- pany, and faroe of ** Poor Pillicodd: BUSINESS -NOTICES. WEST'S BAZ. 280 ANDY22 WABASH-AV., IS for presents, AT & CO. imporiers. ‘WILBOR'S COD LIVER OIL ANDLIME.-THE ration s great popularity of this safo and cficacious pre teributablo to its intrinsic worth. Inthe cure of Eonens: Cotde Bronchitis, Whooplog Cough, 21l Consamptive Symptoms, it Bee s Saprion it dqualy “Let. mo.oB8 nesleet th el symptoms of diseaso, whén an agent is thus at han which wil aleriate all complatntsof tho Chos, Lunes, ‘Throat. [apufactured ol . WILB Shemist, 165 Court-st.. Boston. Sold by all drugists. RURAL BEAUTIES AND CITY BELLESCOUN- try girlsare not a whit belind their metropolitan skters in the natural elements of loseliness, bat it must bo coaceded thetho cley belles best undorstatd tho ary dao attention to this important poiat. Toknow, for the fact s notorions, that, Hac NOLIA BALM to the skin's delicate, De pearance, unproducable by any other preparation urnder 7he sun. No matter how the cuticle may have been rough- ened by exposure or_discolored by tho sun, the B il reader it soft a2d plisble, and removes drery bien- e The Chicage Teibune, ‘Wednesday Morning, December 4, 1872. pecriy np- Justice Nelson resigned his seatin the Su- preme Court yesterday, and President Grant at once named Ward Hunt, of New York, as his suCCessor. Tweed's desire for 8 speedy trial has been again thwarted by his counsel, who consumed all day yesterdsy with Jong affidavits to show that the indictments against him had been im- ‘properly framed. The Board of Trade, at & full meeting, yester- day, voted to expel from membership Ira Y. Munn and George L. Beott, who constituted the firm of Munn & Scott, warehousemen. The vote was & decided one. Wall street, if its views are rightly given 1n our despatches, finds fault with the failure of the President to urge a further reduction of #axation, and with Secretary Bontwell for claim- ingthe discretion to manipulate the currency of the country at will. The President’s remarks sbout returning to specie psyments, and Comp- troller Enox's appeal for the removal of some of the restrictions on banking and a modification of the usury laws, meet with favor. The remains of Horace Greeley lay yesterday in state in the Governor's room in the New York yesterday. Afr. Halethought the vessels should be built, in private American shipyards, by con- trdot, and Mr, Sheilsbarger urged that additions to our naval force should all be made in accord- ance with one gene-al and harmonious plan. No vote was reached, On the motion to print & large number of copies of Secretary Boutwell's Report, Mr. Breoks complained of the mass of useless documents which lumbered the House, and threstened to move that they be .601d 28 waste pager. Mr. Merrick, of Maryland,” has been placed on the Credit- Mobilier Investi- gation Commitfee in place of Mr. Beck, who re- signed, because he had prejudged the case. The Chicago produce markets were tame yes- terday, and generally lower. Mess pork was 15 @20c lower, &t $11.873¢ cash, and $12.00@12.05 seller March, Tard was active and easier, at 73§ | @T{c cash, and T3gc seller March, Meats were 34elower, at 3%@3%ec for shoulders, 53/@5%c for short ribs, and 63¢@63¢c for short clear, all partsalted; green hams, 63{@7%¢c P Ib. High- wines were quiet and steady at 83c per gallon. Flour was active and firm. Wheat was only moferately active, and 24c lower, closing at 8104 cash, and $1.10% seller January, Corn was ¢ull and 3¢c lower, closing at 3094c cash, and 8lc sdler January. Oats were duoll, and X@¥c lower, but closed firmer . at 240 cazh, ard 24¢o seller January. Rye was quiet andlc higher, closing at 583ge. Barley was quiet wnd steady, closing at 62c for cash No.2; 61} seller the month, and 62¢ seller January. Tie hog market opened -dull and. weak, but after prices had been lower 15@20c the demand became active and continued so to the close. Belex were effected at £3.60@4.05, with the bulk at $3.75@8.85. The closing rates were $8.60@3.90. Cattle were quiet at sbout former rates. Sheep remsin quietand steady. Tho stocks of grain mow in store in this city are 445,075 bu wheat, 533,521 bu corn, 591,968 bu oats, 137,647 bu rye, 271,572 bu barley. The statement is made that one of the East- ern ingurance companies hag telegraphed to its Chicago agent to take no more risks on grain stored in Chicago warehouses for the present. This action has been based upon the develop- ments of fraud that have been made in the case of Munn & Scott, the grourd being that it is impossible to determine how much grain is actually stored in any one of the warehouses. If the statement is true, the action has been taken without sufficient camse. It does mnot follow, because Messrs, Munn & Beott were guilty of misrepresenting the quantity of grain in their warehouses, that all the other ‘warehousemen have been guilty of the same practices. On the contrary, the experience of the operations of Munn & Scott, and the public condemnation and punishment that have result- ed from it, will have the ‘effect of rendering warehousemen more careful and circumspect in their business than they have been heretofore. The fact is, that the warehousemen are now en- gaged in taking an actual messurement of all the grain in store, under the supervision of a Com- mittes, appointed for the -purpose by the Board of Trade. Messrs. Flint, Thompson & Co. haye 2lso requested that the Railroad and Warehounse Commissioners of the State shall assist in this special inspection, and it is said that the other ‘warehousemen have concurred in their request. In the case of three warehonses, where such an acconnt of grain has already been taken, the amount in those has tallied with the receipts as closely as could be expected. The assurance is also given the public that the warehousemen have coneented that the Registrar shall hence- forth cancel and audit all the receipts for grain that is teken out. In point of fact, grain insur- snce has never been on 8o sure 2 footing in Chi- cago during the past ten years as it is now. SECRETARY BOUTWELL'S REPORT. MMr. Boutwell, in his report on the finances, expounds the ides on which he has been acting to some extent during the past year, viz., that it is the proper function of the Government, or rather of the Tressury Department, to toke a benevolent and paternal charge of the business of private individuals, o the extent of making money more or lesa plenty, at various times and seasons. In developing this idea he assumes that money and currency are correlative terms, and that, in order to make money easy when it City Hall, and werse visited by nearly forty thousand persons. The coffin and the catafalque on which it rested were strewn with flowers, many of which were carried away a8 mementoes. As a tribute of respect to the dead, Senator Fenton sought to offer a motion, yesterday, that the Benate adjourn over the day of the faneral, but was prevented by the tactics of Senator Cameron. In the editorial upon “The President’s Mes- sage,” printed in our last issue, referring to the plans suggested for chesp transportation from the West and Southwest to the seaboard, a re- gret was expressed that no reference was made by the President to some plan which wonld af- ford direct relief to the Northwest. The article was based upon an imperfect copy of the mes- sage, which accounts for & seeming discrepancy. In the correct copy, the President calls the at- -tention of Congress. to the Niagara Falls Ship Canal project, which will be brought up daring the present session, as one of the plans for cheapening transportation from the West to the Atlantic. : Secretary Delano reports that 11,864,976 acres of Government lands were disposed of last Jear, an increase of 1,099,270 ocres over the Dumber tsken up the previons year. Patent Office reports are no longer issned in the style of the former annual volumes,—inaccurate, and several yearsbehind the datesof the patents they describe,—but in an official gazette, which is published within three days of the delivery of theletters patent. During the year 13,620 patenta have been granted out of the 19,587 applications. ‘There are 578 widows of Revolutionary soldiers still receiving pensions. During the year 33,838 applications were granted for pensions. Alio- gether, the Government has 82,229 pen- sioners, to whom it pays $25,480,578.30 a yea: By far the largest part of the Secretary’s revort concerns the condition of the Central ‘Pacific, Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific, snd other railroads and branches which have re- ceived Government aid in Iands or bonds. The House of Representatives has asked Sec- retary Boutwell to show by what right he in- flated the currency in October, and to tell whether he did so by using notes which had Jbeen withdrawn from circulation by order of Congrees, or by printing new notes without authority, General Banke' bill, introdneed at the lsst session, for the sappropriation of 83,000,000 for the construction of 10 steam ves- sels in view of posgible trouble with Spain in the Bult of Mexico, was brought before the House is in fact tight, itis only necessary to put out f more currency. The report of the Comptroller ! of the Currency, which sccompanies Mr. Bout- ¢ well's report, shows us that the National Banks ; had loaned to their customers, in the month of October, 872,000,000, with only $451,000,000 of i. currency of all kinds in their possession, a largo ! part of which they were required to keep in their own vaults as a reserve fund. Atleast two-thirds | of all theirloans and discounts were made with | something else than currency. This serves to show that money is not a correlative term with currency. The fact that money may be tight | when currency is plenty, is shown by the | present condition of the money | market. There is more currency afloat | at the present time by four or five millions | than there was six months 230, yet money was very easy six months ago and is very tight now. The reason is, that the business of the conntry— by which we mean the exchange of commodities which gives rige to bank deposits in the form of drafts, bills of exchange etc.—has received a temporary check. **Deposits” constitute the larger share of & bank’s ability to loan money. These deposits represent property in iransiu from the producer to the consumer. They may ‘be large when the amount of currency in circa- Iation is small, or they may be small when the amount of currency is large; and money will be easy or tight according to the reference to the volume of the currency. This fact is proved, as we have already remarked, by the existing condition of the money market, It isnot true that the annual movement of the crops tends to make money tight. It has the very opposite tendency, for its immediato effect is to mwell the volume of deposits and enlarge the ability of the banks to lend. To ascertain whether the movement of the crops tends to make money tight, it is only necessary to inquire what would be the effect if they were mot moved. The volume of the currency might re- main stationary, or might be doubled, and yet the non-movement of the crops would, in the space of 2 few months, make money so tight that a financial crisis and general bankruptey would ensue. il The objections to the Government’s under- taking the job of regulating people’s business are 50 numerons and broad that they need only. to be stated to secure the condemnation of .all reflecting persons. The scheme presupposes infinity, wisdom, and virtne to be lodged for- everin the Chief of the Treasury, under the chances of the caucus and the auspices of uni- versal euffrage. No man that ever lived or ever will is fit to be entrusted with such powers. It ismo discredit to Mr. Boutwell to sny that he is not fit to assume such a task, but 1t is somewhat to his discredit that. he should suppose himself fit, ’ THE CREDIT MOBILIER INVESTIGATION. r. Blaine's resolution, calling for an investi- gation of the alleged connection between certain members of Congress and the Credit Mobilier echeme of the Union Pacific Railroad, was very proper, and was not unexpected. The gentle~ men whose names have been associated with thst of Mr.Oakes Ames in this scheme aré smong the most prominent in’ the country. They include Mr. Blaine, the Speaker of the House; Mr.: Colfax, the Vice President of the United States; Mr. Henry Wilson, the Vice President-eléct; Mr. Boutwell, Secretary of the Tressury, and Messts. Patterson, Scofield, KEelley, Eliot, Dawes, Fowler, Bingham, and Garfield,—all gentlemen who have held promi- nent positions in Congress. The connection with the Credit Mobilier which has been impnted to them was first ade public by afidavits in & law-suit, which con- tained copies of letters that Mr. H. §. r'Comb, a wealthy citizen of Delaware, testifies he re- ceived from Mr. Oakes Ames, a member of Con- gress from Massachusetts, a large stockholder in the Credit Mobilier, and a brother of the then President of the Union Pacific Bailroad. These Ictters were written to tell what had become of certain B!iqeu of stockin the Credit Mobilier, which Mr. M'Comb claimed as his own, and Mr. Ames stated that he had “assigned” them to representatives of several States named—the inference being that they were members of Con- gress. From the clause in one of the letters saying : “TLet them have the stock at parand profits made in the future,” it was inferred that the shares of stock had been, or were to be, “assigned” at par at a time when they were actually worth from 200 to 400 per cent, and that even this par value was to be paid out of the profits that should accrne after the transfer. Ar. M’Comb also submitted the list of names of members of Congress given above, with the par value-of stock that was said to have been transferred to each of them, claiming the list to be & copy from & similar list read to him by Osakes Ames, and taken off by him in pencil- markon the back of one of Ames' letters. ‘We print elsewhere the Ames lettera and otner information which will recall the case more fally. Neither the public nor the gentlomen whose names have been mentioned could afford to have this msiter ignored by Congress. The charge is either true or not trne. 'We presume it is not true as to those who heve publicly de- nied it. Perheps it is not true as to the others. It not true, then it is the duty of Congress to take cognizance of Mr. Oskes Ames’ action, which he himeelf has indicated in his letters to Colonel M'Comb. The most that Mr. Ames has said in regard to the matter is, that he never furpished A'Comb with the list which the lat- ter submitted in the Court. He has not yet denied, however, that he wrote the letters, copies of whith MComb submitted, claiming that he retained the originals in his possession. If these lotters are genuine, they prove that Mr. Oakes Ames, while a member of Congress, was either endeavoring to bribe other members of Congress, or was repregenting to a partner in ‘business that he was using stock for this pur- pose, while he was, in fact, keeping it for his own profit. Either issue would prove that Mr. volume of the deposits, and not at all with. Osakes Ames is not a fit person to occupy & seat in Congress, and would demand his immediato expulsion. Thus the proposed investigation is one that is imperatively demanded by the public welfare, whatever its result may be. The resolution offered by Mr. Blaine was very fair, especially as accompanied by the request that the majority of the Committee shonld be made up from the minority party in the House. Mr. Cox, Chairman pro fem., appointed Messrs. Poland and MecCrary from the majority party, and Messra, Banks, Beck, and Niblack from the minority, to serve on the Committes, which will strike the public as a selection of competent and trustworthy men. DEFOBITS IN BANERUPICY, Sinco the Nationel Bankrupt law went into operation in this city, the deposits of As- signeos have been kept, with scarcely an excep- tion, in the Mechanics’ National Bank. The order under which this is done, if we mistake not, was made by Judge Drummond when he was District Judge, and, under Judge Blodgett, no change has been made. Solong have these dogosits been kept in one bank, that neéarly all our banks, lawyers, and business men suppose that the order is imperative, and, unless for cause to be filed under oath before the Conrt, ‘unchangeable. Bection 92 of the Bankrupt mct reads as follows : ‘When it sppears that the distribution of the estate may be delased by litigation or othier cause, the Court may direct the temporary investment of the money be- longing to such estate in securities to be appraved by the Judge or Register, or may suthorize the same to Do deposited in any convenient bank, upon such inter- est, not exceoding the logal rate, os the bank may con- tract with the Assigneo to pay thereon, . It will be noticed that the provision in esch case is permissive, not mandatory, The words ere, “may direct,” *‘may authorize.” Of course, it is perfectly proper that the Judge should designate where tho moneys of bankrupts should bo kept ; but ia it safe or right for him to place the hundreds of thousands of dollars of ‘the funds of our insurance companies forced into bankruptey since tho firg . all inonobank? Has hoever compared the strength of our city banks, as-shown by their reports to the Government, as to the-amount of their capi- tal stock, or'their cosh means, in Pproportion to. their liabilities ? Their last report, especially in Teferenco to the latter item, is specially worthy of attention. With so many powerful banks in the city, where the money of bankrupts would unquestionably be safe, and among which it surely would be better to distribute these funds than to have them all in one bank, is it quite right to favor a single institution in & mat- ter of so much public interest? We venture to ask whether Judge Blodgett has reflected upon the responsibility he tskes in suffering tacit continuance of the old order, under which the deposits of bankrupts are now mado? By so doing, does he not practically ignore all the leading banks of the city? Is it right for him to thus favor a single person, or, at most, three or four, to the disadvantage and virtual discredit of our largest and best business men,—the stockholdars and officers of the leading banksof the city? A wise, o prudent, and, as it seems to us, a just course towards creditors and our . citizens generally, would be to dis- tribute the fands of our bankrupts among all tho stronger institations. Inthe earlicr opera- tions of the law, this matter of deposits was not of any considerable importance; but, since the fire, it has Assumed huge proportions. There is nowin Mr. Seammon’s bank $130,000 of the funds of the policy-holders of the Mutual Security Insurance Company, besides nearly 950,000 in his hands as Treasurer, and stock notes, the payment of which Mr. Scammon is contesting. On this account a large meeting of the policy-holders petitioned Judge Blodgett, - on Baturdsy, Nov. 23, immediately to order their money removed to 8ome other bank. As' yet we have mot heard whother His Honor will comply with- this re- quest,—one which they asserted & sense of jus- tice to themselves and their self-respect requir- ed them to make. The Republic Insurance Company has just- boen put in bankruptcy. Nearly amillion of dollars must pass through the hands of the Assignee. Isitmot duetothe creditors of this Company that its large capital ehould ‘b’ placed in our strongest and best banks? The ‘creditors of our bankrupt insur- ance companies are all justly anxious on these subjects, and it is to be hoped their reasonable expectations will be respected. Then, 88" to tho matter of interest, the cred- itors of our bankrupts are inquiring whether Mr. Scammon’s bank ‘pays .their Assignees in- terest on their deposits. Wo aré told by somoe of them that, .80 far as they are concerned, it does not. The Assignee of the Mutual Becurity Inkurance Company made nomention of such an item from that source on Saturdsy, the 23d of No- vember. What right has Mr. Scammon to the use of this money gratis, and at the expense of screditors, when other banks would willingly have paid & very considerable sum for it? . From the law asabove quoted and the facts' above stated, the public will look anxiously to the Court for a readjustment of thiswhole deposit business, and. doubtless their just expectations will soon be realized. y — ANTON RUBINSTEIN. The advent of Anton Rubinstein, the grent Belavonian pianist and composer, in this coun- try, marks the commencement of a distinct mu- sical era. There have beon two such eras be- fore. Twenty years ago, Jenny Lind revolu- tionized vocal music, paved the way for scores of great singers who were to succeed her, changed the system of instruction, and pre- pared a solid basis upon which opera might rest. When Theodore Thomas organized his orches- tra, &nother era commenced. That admirable organization has accomplished two important results : Ithes educated the people to anap- preciation of classical music, andit is now do- ing the same work for the new school of music of which Wagner, Rubinstein, Liszt, and Von Bulow are representatives, which had its foun- tain headin Beethoven, and which was brought to such besutiful perfection in song by Robert Schumann. Tho thid era now commences, and Anton Rubinstein is the leader of a new movement, which is destined to revo- lutionize piano music, and elevate that instru- ment to a higher plane than it has ever occupied before. Itisno secret that the piano has al- weys stood very low in the scale of musical ipstruments. For solo- performances, it has scarcely been tolerated,—a fact which is due perhaps more to the everlasting thrumming of thousands of neophites, turned out as artists by boarding-schools and seminaries, than to any other reason. The best artists who have been here have never been ableto master the entire resources of the piano. They have dis- played perfection in s single detail, and have made their roputation upon that detail. For instance, Gottschalk excelled in cantsbile playing, BSanderam in oc- taves, Thalberg in melody and acoympaniment, as developed in his woaderful operitic fantasies, andgoon. Thomost thatcan be| said for the piano is, that it has been exceedirgly nseful for accompaniments. Rubinstein, hoyever, unites the qualities of all other players, aid illuminates them with his brilliant genius. He makes it interpret not alone the mere scon of the com- poser, but the sentiment also. Ivother words, hemakes the piano orchestral, and gives the idea of the music in such s manner.as to call the attention of the listener to the muso rather than to the musicln. The compose! is speaking through the executant, and this lsoneof the highest provinces of art. i Anton Rubinstein was born Nov. 80, 1830, at Vechwotynetz, a village in Pussian Bes- sarabis. His parents owned luge estates in Wallachia, but lost them in law-suits with the Government, to which fat we are in- debted for this great representative of music. His mother was an excellent pie.n}‘st, and gave ‘him Iessons on the piano, in which she was so succeseful that she removed to Moscow and adopted music s & profession. At the end of two years’ study with -the great matstro, Willo~ ing, Rubinstein was so far advanced that he per- formed eolos in & concert at Moscow, which gave him a reputation all over Earope. In 1839, then 9 years of sge, ho went with his teacher to Paris, and gave two concerts. At the second, Liszt was prosent, and, after listening with rapt sttention, rushed up to the young virtuoso, and kisging him, exclaimed, **Here is my heir.” It is pleasant to remember that Liszt hag lived to sca his statement corroborated, for to-day Rubinstein is the foremost pisnist in all the world, and one of the greatest of living com- posers. Liszt at once took such an interest in him that he assisted him in his studies, and he Temained in Parisa year and ahelf. He then startéd on a three years’ tour through England, Holland, Bweden, 'snd Ger- many, which was marked by a con- stant succossion of triomphs. In 1844, he went to Berlin, and studied composition with Déhn, where he also made the acquaintance of . Mendelsgohn, whose teaching had the happiest of influences in maturing his art, and perfecting him for the important mission mpon which he had entered. Abont this time his father died, and the family was deprived of the means of sub- sistence. Young Rubinstein went to Vienna, where he earned his living by teaching. Tho political events of 1848 drove him to St. Peters- barg. On the way he lost his passport and his musical manuseripts. The latter, which were found, were believed to be treasonable papers in cipher, and he was arrested, and would bave been sent’ to Siberin bat for the interference of the Grand Duchess Helena, who had heard him play in Moscow, and who secured his liberty. Better than this, she appointed him her special pienist, and, shortly after, he was made Chapel-Master to the Empress, His good fortune now com- menced. He was furnished with ample fands, 80 that he was enabled to visit England, Ger- many, and France repeatedly, and also to pub. lish his compositions, which by this time in- cluded oratorios, -operas, symphionies, sonatas, and concertos. In 1854 he made ome of the most brilliant tours of Europe ever made by & musician, both #s pianist and orchestral leader. St. Petersburg, the Russian Musical Associa~ tion and the St. Petersburg Conservatory, of which he was appointed President, and which he managed until 1863 with such success that it is now known 28 one of the best institntions in Europe. In 1865, he married at Baden-Baden young Russian’ girl, named Pauline Vestnoy, a beautiful and accomplished woman, whoga fail- ing health, in 1868, induced him to quit Russia and travel in’ more temperate climes. These are in brief the principel events in the life of Rubinstein, and it only only remains for us to bid him a hearty welcome to Chicago, and | to bespeak for him that cordisl and hospitable reception which his great genius deserves, ‘We specially commend these concerts to the pianists of;the city, and to every student of the piano. They will not do wisely to neglect an opportunity which may never occur sagain, of hearing o great pisnist and great com- poser interpret the best music that has been written for the piano. While we regret that our went of an orchestra prevents us from hearing his own concertos, it is a consolation that we are enabled to hear the best works of such masters as Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, Bach, Chopin, Schumaun, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Scarlatti, Weber, and others, performed by an artist whose powers of conception and execution are equal to the work he is called upon to perform. Genins of this stamp, which exerts its divine power to make the world better, to elevate and refine mankind, and to prepare for them the purest of pleasures, - deserves the recognition of all," and in this recognition it meets with “its ' best reward. For flowers and wreaths, and the usual trumpery which the public is apt to bestow upon artists, Rubinstein cares nothing. His work is accomplished when he has so interpreted the music before him that he has succeeded in impressing it upon his au- dience, 8o that they have received it appre- ciatively, and thereby are ensbled to rozch a higher, more dignified, and more refined stand- ard of art. The mission of such a man is of the highest and noblest character, and to them the trifles which please lesser mem are of small account. His reward is found in devotion to his (art and its growth among the people. Such men are 8o rare that it does not become us to pass them by without recognition. MR. FROUDE'S MISSION, Mr. James A. Froude, the English historian, in coming to America, took upon himself the mission of re-educating the American people upon the subject of British relations to Ireland for the last 700 years. In his letter to the lecture managers, he assumed that the Ameri- can people wero either ignorant of Anglo-Irish history, or had received what information they possessed from prejudiced or partisan sources. His misgion, therefore, was to lay the truth be- fore them, thatthey might know that,!in the long centuries from the days of Henry II. to the pres- ent time, England had been comparatively the just and generous, but rude] parent, dealing with a perverse, unrnly, ig- norant, and rebellions child, He assumed that he had thoroughly mastered sll that was Imown on the subject, and that he was prepared to tell the stary of ' Anglo-Irish rule without any prejudics, or any of that lingering hatred of the Irish which hag characterized all previous Eng- lish writers. Mr. Froude, however, has been but afew weeks inthe country, and has delivered but a portion of the series of lectures, when he finds himself placed on the defensive. Inatesd of converting the American mind, he finds himself arreated by flat contradictions of his assertions, plain asseults upon his conclusions, and a gen- eral and growing impression that he is, perhaps, more unfair, more partisan, and more reckless in his treatment of the subject than any other writer who has preceded him. Mr. Froude had the fortune, or misfortune, of mnot com- ing to this country a stranger. His history of England has been extensively read here. Our people had eagerly sought it. We are, in the aggregate, sufficiently removed from the animosities, religions and po- | litical, which have stamped themselves more or less upon English history, and sufficiently in- different to the traditional jealousies of the va~ rious British schools of politics, to be able to appreciate and enjoy an honest, comprehensive, and candid history of the land from which we have derived ourlanguage and institutions. The general feeling after reading Mr. Froude was one of disappointment. Hie history bears not only many of the marks of extreme partisan- ship, but also of bigotry, which is but poorly disguised under & forcible and dignified diction. In treatingof the long-vexed question of the character of Mary Stuart, Mr. Froude transcended sllhis English predecessors in blackening the character of that unfortunate woman. There ‘was nothing that was vile that had been uttered or published of her, in the centuries of religious fanaticism that have intervened, that he did not use, distort, and magnify, in order to make oub his case, that Mary Stuart was the basest of his- torical women. The publication of this part of Mr. Froude's work provoked an American writer, Mr. Jaimes ¥. Meline, to publish a reply, in which he most unquestionably eshibited tho deep-rooted’ projudice of Mr. Froude; his reckleseness of statement, hisunfairness of cita~ tions of authorities, and general and exaggerated vilification of the Scottish Queen. Nor was this all that was calculated to inter- fore with the success of Mr. Froude's mission. There happened to be in the country a Rev. Thomss Burke, an Irishman by birth and edu- cation, & profound scholar, and gifted orator. As the Israslites preserved their ‘history through the long captivity, and have preserved it through ages of wandering and persecution, so have the Irish preserved, during the centuries of English subjugation, their history. The ‘manuseripts of their echolars have been hidden in caves, and almost buricd with the dead; though the torch and the sword havo often done. their work with terrible completeness, still Irish history of Treland has mever been wholly destroyed. The record of English legis- lation for Ireland stands open to the world. English oppression of Ireland does not owe its origin to religious differences. It dates far an- terior to the Reformation. The old CatholicKings 0fEngland differed but littlein theirestimation of thelrish from their Protestant successors. When the change did come, it eerved merely to givo o religious sanction and = religions motive to pol- icies that had always been brutal. The contest was always held in England, and is to-day held by thousands, to be the right of a ‘“superior race” to reduce the inferior to absolute sub- misgion. Thoronghly familiar with the long record of what [England has donme in this way Father Burke was prepared, upon the first utterance of 1Mr. Froude, to respond. The two gentlemen, treating each other with “Wednesday next. men of character, have been alternating in their lectures for some weeks. Reports of these lectuxes have been published in the papers. It it needless to say that both have their friends and partisens. But Mr, Froude has aroused another class hardly less influential than the eloguent Dominican Friar, The London Satur- day Review has questioned his accuracy, not merely as pertains to Irish history, but general- ly, and has thoroughly reviewed him. Other writers have come forward with their proofs, taken from his works, of his inaccuracies; his want of that information pertaining to geogra- phy and philology which are indispensable in & historian. Ris defective knowledge of foreign languages, even of the dialects of Scotland, is pointed out with copious frequency, and, generally, Mr. Froude is pretty severely handled in the country to which he has appointed himself a ‘missionary to instract. TFather Burke, alone of all those who have controverted Mr. Froude, acquits him of un- worthy motives ; but the review of the * facts” upon which the English historiin founds his theory is merciless in its logic. Nor is Mr. Froude happy in the offer he has frequently made, to refer the questions in eontroversy to & commisgion of arbitration. Mr. Froude spesks 28 a historian, and must maintain what he as- gerts, not mfiraly before & committes of arbitra- tion, but before the whole world. —_— Tt turns out tha the report made by General Btarring upon Mr. George H. Butler's adminis- tration of .tho Consulship at Alexandria was, to all intsntg and purposes, precisely what Tme TRIBUNE announced somé weeks since. The ‘Washington correspondents have at last hada glinpee at it, and find that it contains the most severe animadversions upon Butler’s personal and official conduct long before he becamo in- volved in the public row which induced him to abandon .his post, and ‘also long before Butlers confidential man, Strologo, made his confession of the abuses pre- vailing . under Butler's administration. Bat the most eerious feature of the whole affair is, that General Starring’s report was permitted to lie in the Department archives for many ‘months before Butler took his * French leave” from Alexandris ; and that, in spite of this re- port, made after thorough and official investiga~ tion, there was no indication of any inten- tion to remove Mr. Butler until after he had felt the necessity of removing himself officially, as the only means of saving himself physically.| Emotional insanity does not seem fo be at a premium in Paris as an apology for crime. A young man in that city, named Oliver de Kermel, actuated by jealousy, recently killed his brother and at once surrendered himself to justice. The defence urged in his case was that of hereditary insanity, but the Court declined to admit it as a valid excuse for the crime, and condemned the prisoner to servitude for life. The case was then appealed to the Court of Cassation in Paris, ‘which confirmed the sentence of the Conrt be- low. A few instances of this kind of justice in the American Courts would go far towards pre- venting the frequency of this plea, which is now the first resort of nearly every assassin in the land, and in almost every instance a successfnl Tesort. The spirit of rivalry which. §t. Louis always manifests in everything appertaining to Chicago has now broken out in a new direction. Jealous of our reputation in the divorco business, the Supreme Court of Missouri recently decided that the parties to & suit for divorce are compe- tent witnesses in their own behalf. This decis- ion has been handsomely improved, and, on the 27th ult., twenty-nine divorces were granted by the Courts of 8t. Louis, most of the plaintiffg being women whose husbands were drunkards and had desérted them. We gracefuily and will- ingly acknowledgé ourselves beaten. THE CITY IN BRIEF, Everything. The County Clerk issued fifteen marriage ki- censes yesterdsy. Colonel 8. L. Woodard, U.8. A, is at the Gardner. Judge 8. Wilkinson, of Peoris, isa gnest at the Brigga. Governor E. M. McCook, Montans, is enjoying the hospitalities of the Sherman. General J. M. Tuttle, of DesMoines, is at the Tremont. George A. Perrigo, of the Galesburg Free Press, is st the Tremont. Hon. 8. Corning Judd, of Lewiston, Chan- cellor of the Episcopalian Diocese for the State of Tllinois, was in the city yesterday. 1t is not true that Pullman sleeping and din- ingcars areto be put on the West Division street railway lines for the accommodation of passengers to Western avenue. Dr.J. C. Sweeny, Mrs. V. C. Oher, and Miss M, E. Hughes, of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, &t Normal, are at the Tremont. The adjoumned annual meeting of the Mana- gers of the Old Ladies’ Home will be held at the imstitution, No. 1245 Indiana avenue, at 4 p. m. to-day. Miss Frances Willard, of the Evanston Ladies’ College, will lecture on “Tha Pyramids,” to- night; before the Winnetka Literary Association, in%nst_ihlw Hall, in that village. The German Relief Committee of this city is re&uestefl to meet at the Mayor's office at 2 o'clock this afternoon, to receive the money re- ceived, yesterday, from William H.' Appleton, of Now York. Miss Sarah Smileywill give another Bible Lec- ture, this evoning, at the parlor of the First Congregationalist Church, corner of Ann and Washington_streots. Subject, *‘The Second Coming of Christ.” Allareinvited. Seats free. Prof. B. Melville Bonham will give one of his drawing-room entertainments on Thursday even- ing at the . Reunion Presbyterian . Charch, on Mitchell street, near Throop. The entertain- ment consists of songs, readings, and character delineations. e Dr. McSlynn's lecture announced efroneously in these columns for to-day, will occur on Therefore, 1ot all who antici- pated hearing it to-night prolong their anticipa- tions for one week. & " A still alarm was given to the Williams En- gine, at half-past 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon, for fire in_the basement of No. 31 West Lake street. The loss of the occupants, Russell & Turer, restaurant keepers, was about $30. Tho origin of the fire is unknown. % The ladies of the various churches are inter- ested in the Foundling’s Howe. So fervid are their wishes for the prosperity of the institution that they find no difficulty in giving hot dinners to the hungry at Nos. 116 and 118 Franklin street. Their motto is, **Buy and eat.” Two sleeping apartments in Anderson’s Euro- pesn Hotel were entered by a thiof on Monday night, and tbe occupants robhed of watches and money. _Access was gained throngh the tran- soms, which were left open. The robbery has been complained of at Police Headquarters, The effects of the biting weather of a few da; 8go are observable in the high coloring of the nasal protuberancesof several distinguished gen-~ tlemen of temperato habits, whose professional duties kept them out late af night during those icy bours. That is what they say. Louis Strahacker. & man who has been in_jail for some time on suspicion of having committed perjuy and frand in obtaining sdjudication of ankruptcy, was brought before Commissioner Hoyne yesterdny, and discharged from custody, Mr. E. E. Kidder, who saved Mrs. Lingard from an ugly accident on Sunday at the expense Oof her drapery, leaves to-dsy for Milwaukee. "The ladies on the train will feel secure against any railway disaster, conscions of the gallantry and intrepidity of their fetlow-passenger, . The young English Evangelist, Henry Moor- house, pranzhed TRt night in_ the First Baptist Church, and will preach to-night and to-mor- oW night in the North Side Taberncale, corner Wells and Ontario strests. The many who heard Mr. Moorhouse during his visit to this city, some three years since, will be pleased. to heer of his rearrival. Horetumed to Bussia in 1858, and founded, at | courtesy and dignity becoming echolars and [ At the annual convocstion of Chicsgo Chap- ter, No. 127, B. A. M., the following named g;r- 8ons wero elected officers for the ensuing Ma~ 8Sonic year: E. Grifiths, H. P. ; R. Z. Herrick, E.: T. C. Borden, 8.; . C.-Wallace, C. H.; E. . Tobey, P. 8.; Wm. Aldrich, Treasurer: EJ Smith, Secretary; N. J. Messenger, R. A. Co.; Thos. J. Tustin, Wm. King, A. Haynor, Masterd of the Vails, and Isaa: Parker, Tyler. +_ The following were luxuriating at Anderson’s European Hotel gesterda : Wm. J. Brown, New York ; Mrs. Chas. H. Dean, and Miss Dean, Peoria ; W. J. Gilchrist, McGregor, J. A. Swasey, Boston ; Geo. M. King, Monson, Mass.; L. E. Nogo, Boston; A, Fisher, Cincinnati; B. C. lock, Warren, A man named. Patrick Corcoran, boarding at No. 429 Canal ritreet, was knocked down near the corner of South Clark and Eighteenth streets, between 1 and 2 o'clock yesterday morning, and robbed of what money he possessed. The as~ ssult was committed by two men, neither of whom can be identified. The following registered at the Sherman yes- terdsy: G. B. Wilson, Philadolphia; W. L., Van Ness, Louisville ; Wm. H. Whitls, Council Bluffe; John Benny, England; Thos. Whitman, Pittsburgh; I. B. Gibson, Cincinnati; W. C. g]r:rvz, L :’Em'?]“ f; N].)C.g})vge, I%OHOB ; F. B. . Pavd; I.. D. igby, New Orleans ; John C. Hanson, Texas. & A?ntlamn interested in building material and the other sex was observed yesterday eye- ing, with rueful aspect, a heap of rubbish on Dearborn street. A friend remarked that the stone from which the rubbish came must have been unusually goft to crumble in that way. “Soft!" indignantly exclaimed the Colonel, ““The stone was all right, but a blessed Irishman an & wheelbarrow against it, and, of course, it smashed to smithereens.” The following were at the Tremont yesterday = *T. H. Johnston, Washington, D. C.; George H. Bartlett, New York; J. S. Palmer, New Lon- don, Ohio; Don A. Sweet; wife, Quincy, IlL3 J: G. Baker, Bt. Louis, Mo.; J. Dart, Peoria j 8. 8. Blaschard, Boston; F. E. Taft, Uxbridge, Mass.; H. Briggs, Pittsburgh. Dr. Hays iilustrates his lecture on “A Win- ter's Adventure at the North Pole,” to be given at the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church to-mor~ Tow night, by a Iarge map, twenty feet square,. drawn by ‘himself, which shows the latest. dia~ coveries in the Arctic regions, and is the most accarate chart ever made of the cold and cheer~ less polar country. The gambling tables capturedin the recent ex- tensive raid have been put to_good nse in the. yarious offices about tha City Hall. One of the Mayor's apartments is decorated with an ele-- gant polker table, the Comptroller has a *lay- out” or two, and the other davices of the Devil are scattered around where they are most need-. ;fl to keep important books and papers off the: oor. Among the arrivals at the Brj esterday; were the following : A+ M. Teece, %\gagding' e V; J. H. Hubbell, New York; H. B. Utley,. Sterling; James Anderson, Muscatine, Tows s W. H. Miller, Bay City, Mich.; A. H. Wcod worth, Moline; C. C. Small, Pittsburgh; J Havley, Dixon; J. 0. Cushman, Plymonth, Tndss; W. H. Graves, New York; T. H. Lauranca, Car- lisle, Pa. The police authorities of this city were nofi- fied recently by the Chief of Polics, Cincinwati, that it was generally understood in the Jatter city that certain thieves were making ar-ade— ments to rob a leading Chicago jewelry b ouse at an early dati. Superintendent” WashY,urn has notified all the principal stores of that character, and no doubt the meditated depradat’,on will be indefinitely postponed. i Amony the numerous cases of domestic dis~ cord which were tried before J7stice Banyon yesterday were three of wifershipping. The cowardly culprits were disposed of as follows : Andrew Boalen, of No. 116 Boy'th Market street, 8100 fine, and $500 bail to 'keep tho peace; Patrick Levy, of No. 303 Bwmside streef , 5amo. fine, and same bonds; Patrick Flaherty,’ head of a Bridgeport family, sawe fine, same bonds. Among the arrivals at Yao Gardner, vesterdsy, the following were prominent : C. K.'Wel.lingtun‘ and wife, Syracuse, N. ; J. S. Newell, Boston 3 8. W.Wood, Denver ; L. H. Eames, Ottawa ; H.. E. Hart, New York ; 0. 8. Lee and wife, New York; B. B. Secloy, Boston; R. S. Ely and' wife, Morrigon; A. J. Sloan, Philedelphia ; Miss: Granger, Pittsfield, Mass.; K. Mastin, Detroit. The effort msde at the South Side Politer Court, yesterday, to prove that William Taleott is the proprietor of a gambling-saloon near the corner of Twenty-gecond street and Wabash avenue, was not a_ rising success. Justice Banyon got even with Talcott, however, by fining him” $25 for being found in a strange house. Four others were fined similar amounts for ke~ ing inmates of the same house. * William Euright and Billy Green, two of the. roughs who assaulted and beat Policeman Rich- ert, and shot Officer Ole Johnson in the head, at. the corner of Canal and Kinzie streets, on Mon- dsy afternoon, were arraigned before Justica. Scnlly, at the West Side Police Court, yesterda morning. They were each held in $3,000 bert.. and committed in default, to answer the charge: of assault with intent to kill. ¥ The Mayor, yesterdsy, received s lettor-from- illiam 5. Apglaton, 11’ New York, enclosing 2 eck for $4,500. 3 leton is Chairman of (:!;efl!;%w Ymg{n Reliof %;nlgmea, i of the painti contributed by the Dusseldort " artists for the g:nefit of the ggmm of (Btb.ign-' 80, Who were burned out in_October, 1871. The. amonnt mentioned was realized from & sale of a. portion of the paintings, the remainder being yefifi in the possession of the New York Com mittee. ._The enthusiastic person_who went out sleigh- ing yesterday, and stopped to ‘‘make & call” om State street, was comE;Hed to resort to extreme- measures to secure his return in safety. The- horse appeared to bo well, but the cutter didn’t Tun 88 well a8 it had. On mature reflection, he decided to wait until the next snow-storm before. returning. His name is,—there arelgood rex~ sons for not giving his nume, but his residence. is at,—his family request that his residence be withheld. The new Recorder of Deeds wishes the generat public to distinctly understand that he is not & perambulating employment burean. He cannot possibly engage everybody who asks him for a situation, because he has'no situstions to be- and had charge. stow. His office is full of ladies and gentlemen. who are capable of ger{orming the dnties re- quired of them, and he intends that thoy shall remain there until they prove themselves un- worthy. A German named Enrick Plumer, residing at No. 155 Augusta street, cut his throat, yesterday morning, with a razor. Whon found by his landlady, he was lying on the floor, partially insensible, with the wezpon in his hand. His clothing was covered with blood, which issued from the wound in the neck, Tho woman did what she could for him, and restored him to consciousness. He then became violent, and. endeavored to rehack his_windpipe, but without success. Dr. Sloan was called in, and pronounced his condition dangerous. Plumer was removed. to the County Hospital. He is 66 years of age, and s macon by trade. When asked why he de sired to kill himself, he said all his friends hed “ gone back” on him. . Ten of the gang of 1ads who havo'for a long time been making raids on tobacco stores, apple stands, and .small shops, were arrested yester~ day by Policeman Mcbahon. These boys were in the habit almost every evaning, of demolish~ ing the glass in the ehow windows of stores,. and appropriating the goods displayed. They-. are not news-boys or boot-blacks, but members of an organized gang of thioves, and have had tho ageistance of some receiver of stolen prop- erty in dmpnsmg of any article secured. Six of’ these boys boarded ata Canal street hotel for- severa] weoks, but their occupating becoming: Inown to the proprietor, he turned them into. the streot. Nearly all of them lodged subse- quently at No.39 West Adams stret. They will have a hearing beforo Justice Scully this morn- ing, and will probably be sent to the Bridewell Comptroller Burloy tells the following story = A day ar two %go he was waited upon in hig office in the City Hall bilding by a roughly dressod, dirty-looking individual, who it trans~ &*‘;fld’ was the driver of a coal delivery wagon. e object of his visit was to put ina claim against the u'tly for damages sustained by a de-- fective sidewalk, Inbacking up his cart tounload Lis coal, a loose board flew up and hit himin the 1ace, causing a material ement and discol~- orztion of the nasal argan and its vicinit?, but otherwise producing no i .. “Well,” said the Comptroller, after having takencareful note. of the prominent fealure of the case,, “L dow’t thi X can entertain. s claim for damages so slight as these.” *But,”’ insisted the man, “I've ost my place by it.” “Lost your place! How can thatbo? You are- able to work as well as ever,” was_the rsg]y of: Ar. Burley. +‘Yes, I could work I s'pose,” said the conl pedler despoudingly, but as a bright. thought came to his 2id he exclammed with great earnesiness: ‘‘But look at my face, Could I° deliver coal to ladies on the avenue with such a face?” This view of the matter was so novel and- unexpected to the Comptroller that he had some icultyin keeping his countenance lon, enough to end the interview by once more declining tor * entertain the clai ) —_— Efgci@q from Pittsburgh indicate that fina: is rising in price,