Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1872, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNES TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERME OF mscx{grom (PATABLE IN ADVANCE). sily, by mail.....$12.00 | Synda .$2.50 B &80 odsy it Parts of a yeor t the same rate. To prevent delsy and misteke, bo sure and give Post DiEico address in full, including State and Conty. Remittances mey be made cither by draft, expruss, Post Difice order, orin registored letters, at our risk. TERMS To CITY SUDSCRIERE. iy, delivared, Sundsy excepted, 25 conts per weck. aily; deliversd, Sunday facladed, 30 conts ber week: ‘Addres THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Commer Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, TiL. TRIDONE Branch Ofice, No, 469 Wabash-av., in the Booketore of Mossrs. Cobb, Andrews & Co., whero mdrertisements and subscriptions will bo received, and frill have the same attention as if loft at the Main Difice. — CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S TRIBUNE, FIRST PAGE—Fires; Burning of Barnum's Maseum— A Carniszl of Flame Throughont tho Conntry. BECOND PAGE—Tho Christmas Rose: A Story for the Time. TLHIRD PAGE-Tondon Lotter—Christmas Pooms—Ad- vertisements, P FOURTH PAGE—Editorials: Christmas; Tho ' Now State Houso; The Louisiana Committoe's Address —Current News Itoms—Notes and Opinion—Amuso- ments—Personal. FIFTH PAGE-Local Matters—Christmas—The Law Courts—The Sunday Saloon Law—The Chicago Pub- lic Library—**Shasto Butto—Sanitary Matters— Telegraph Markets and Railroad Time Table. SIXTH PAGE—Mcnotary and Commercial. BEVENTH PAGE—Now York Lotter—Porils of Travel— The Minnesinger of Germany: How They Lived, and How They Loved—Goorge Eliot—Personal Recol” loctions of Mr, Groeley. £IGHTH PAGE—Tho Weather: Remarksble Atmos- pheric Changes Daring the Past Throa Days—Mis- cellancouns Local and Telegraphic Nows. — TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. APVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison strect, between f$tato and Dearborn. Engagement of Miss Charlotte T **Guoy Mannering.” “Afternoon and evoning. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE-Randolph streot, ba- Tween Clark and LaSalle. New Comedy Company. *Tho Lancashire Lass." Afternoon and evoning. AIKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue, corner of Con- gress strcet. Engagement of Lawrence Berrett. #¢Julius Cesar.” Afternoon and evening. ACADENY OF MUSIC— Halsted street, sonth of Pladison. Engagement of the Carroll Family. New Sen- Eational dram, entitled *‘ Our Mother.” Aftarnoon and evening. HYERS' OPFRA HOUSE-Monros street, between Eta‘e ond Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton & Komblo's Ainstrel and Burlesque Troupe. Afternoon and evening. GLOBE THEATRE-—Desplaines strect, botweon Madi- Pon and Washington. The Leon Brothers. ** The Union Beont." Afternoon and evoning. NIXON'S AMPEITHEATRE~Clintonstroot, botween Washington and Randolph. Engagomentof Zoa. After- Roon and eaeaing. BUSINESS NOTICES. ROUGH SKIN MADE SMOOTH by USINC JUNIPER Far Soan, menufsctured by Caswell, Hazard, & Co., ew York. FORDYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, DEPRESSION of Spirits and General Debility. the Torro Phosphorated liziz of Calieaa Bark (Calliava Bark snd lron), fs tho best tonic.” Made by Gaswell, Hazard & Co , New York, &nd sold by Drugglsis. CHRISTMAS DINNER FOR THE BOYS, MARK AT, Gutes,, ha: urchased the iaterost of Johnny Cooley in” tho. weil-known saloon; Nov. 5 Clintoniste, opposite Nixon's Amphitheatre, will cclebrate his open- g, to-dsy, with a grand dinner, in which his friends are spectfulls invited to participaté. The beat of liquors will be found in tho bar. HOW UNNECESGARY THE ANGUISE MANY persons undorgo from rheumatism, gout, nenralgis, Foothache, and eazache. We say uBnecessdry. becauss &ho application of Mcxican Mustang Linment o the af- Kilctod part, or a fow drops of it in the ears o tooth, af- Fords istantansous, and what 18 Detier, pormenent ro- ief. -For cuts, wounds, bruises, swel s, and all inju- o9 or discases which roquiro trostment externally, this Hiniment is cverywhere regarded as the most potent and Felizblo healing agent in existonce. For all external in- Juries, or ailments of horses and cattlo, it is infalliblo. THE UNITED STATES WATCH CO. (GILES, WWales & Co.), employ 500 hands in their works, iop, N. J.. and are turning out 250 of their celebrated imokodpers daily, or one wateh per da Dands employed ; thelr working timo is 10 hours per day, ‘or 600 minutes, producing a fine watch complets every two 1nd half micntes, and & littlo more, and even af that Ero wasblo fo keep) paco with, tho constantly increasing demand caused by the extraordinary records the watchos are making as accursto and reliablo timopieces, an in- tance of pationtand perscvering enersy and enterpriso rewarded by prosporicy which we are glad to soo. " The Chicags Ceibune, A¥ednesdsy Morning, December 25, 1872. ‘Tn Signal Service predicts that we will have southerly winds and a rising temperature to-day. Emencipation of slavery in Porto Rico is not fobo & eham. As it 1 Joubtfal whether the :Spanieh Government will adupt the policy of ‘compensatory emancipation, owners of elaves fin Porto Rico were making arrangements to gell their chattels to Caban slsveholders, but this the Spanish Governwent has forbidden. The New York Herald publishes an official list of stockholdersin the Credit Moblier. It in- .ciudes Oakes Ames, Trustes, 93 shares, with =2zgregate dividends of $151,935 on eaid shares, 2nd Charles H. Neilson (son-in-law of James Brooks), 150 shares, with dividends to a corre- .sponding amount. Some of the overland telegraph lines were uilt by the aid of the land grants made to the “Pacific Ruilroads. The Government is taking ‘Jegal advice as to the rights this fact givesitin ‘their ownership, and it is intimated thatthe 'opinion of counsel will be, that the Government ies & valid claim to control in the lines of the “Dnion Pacific, if not in others. A Committee of the Directora of the Public ‘Library have issued a request tothe citizens of "Chicago for holiday gifts of books. Although snsny works have been contributed, most of them from Earope, tho number is still insufficient 10 enable the Library to be thrown open. The reading-room, ps sanounced before, will be _opened New Year’s Day. ‘Vhat is called the Court House Legislatare of Alsbams has suthorized thoe issue of Rtate bonds for £2,009,000, and has despatched an pgent to negotiato their sale ut the North. The Daily Register of Montgomery, & Democratic Ppaper, warns capitaiists against this loen, for the com- prehensive reseon thab tho assemblege which ordered it had no legsl or official existence, and, worse yet, d:d not heve g0 much as a quoram to give its action Parliamentary authority over its own members. Barnum’s Musenm and Menagerie hag bzen Aostroyed by fire. This is the third time the Great American Showman has been burned ont, &nd in each czse the loss has been tofal. The distressing feature of these disasters has been the burning of the animals, which become un- -manageable befors the flnmes. * In.the collection destroyed yesterday there were lions, tigers, giraffes, loopards, elephants, 5 hippopotamus, «camels, and many. less valuable enimals, all of which were burned to death, except two ele- phants and a camel. Poston is jubilant over the prospect of the early completion of the Hoosze Tnnnel, which is mnow set.down for the year 1874. The wonderfal precision that hes been sttained in civil engi- xneering is illustrated by the recent junciion effected between -two sections of this gigantio work. At a distance of 274 miles, it was fonnd that the toial error was & variation of only five- sixteenths of an inch laterally and 13{ inches in Jevel. To appreciate the sccuracy of this work, it must be known that the labor has been per- formed in darkmess and danger, emid falling been pursued incessantly for several years. The facts in relation to the suppression of the New Orleans Times by Judge Durell have not yet reachedus. The telegraph report said that it ‘was & step in the course of some proceedings in benkruptcy. The New York Herald says that it was suppressed “on g trumped-up charge of frand involving fifteen hundred dollirs, for which four times the amount was offered as security, while a hundred times the amount would have been forthcoming if necessary. The Times had been the foremost newspaper in New Orlézns+n opposing Judge Durell’s outrageons violation of law and decency in interfering with the election of the State officers and Legislature. —_— The present bitterly cold snap has had no parallel in Chicago since the Ist of January, 1864 On that morning, a furious wind and snow storm prepailed, and tho thermometor dropped to 30 below zero during the forenoon. The streots were almost entirely deserted of man and beast. No New Year's calls were made, and the few who ventured out of doorssoon repented it, and paid for their termerity with frozen ears and noses. The thermometer yesterday morning in some places marked as low as 20 below zero ; but, for- tunately for comfort, thewind was comparatively light. Had such a gale and storm prevailed as accompanied the cold spell eight years ago, it ‘would have resulted in virtuslly suspending both travel and business. The prospects are now that the cold will last with varying degrees of intensity until New Year's, and then we may ex- pect the regulation January tha The sum of 550,000 has been paid for 51 shares of the New York Zvribune Association. This would make the entire value of the prop- erty $1,100,000, which, the Tribune says, is by far the highest price ever paid for a nowspaper on this continent.” This is not exactly correct. Bhares in TaE Cmrcaco TRIBUNE were sold, before the fire, at the same price relatively, that is, on the basis of $1,100,000 for the whole. After the firo, when £300,000 of the tangible ‘property of the cstablishment had been destroyed ‘without insurance, sales were mado on the basis of $900,000. The New York Herald could not, probably, bo bought for $2,000,000, if it wero for sale atall. The New York Ecening Post is be- lieved to be worth over & million dollars, and the Journal of Commerce even more than the Post, =nd the Philadelphia Ledger more than either, The St. Louis Democrat sold recently on tne basis of about §500,000,—s ridiculously low price, as the sellers, Messrs. McKee & Housor, ‘have since admitted to themselves. The Chicago produce markets were very quiet yesterday, except wheat. Mess pork was dull and 5@10c per brl lower, at $11.50@11.60 cash, and $11.75@11.80 seller March. Lard was quiet and easier at $6.95@7.00 per 100 Ibs, cash, and $7.25@7.30 seller March. Meats were quiet and unchanged, at 33¢o for shoulders, 58e for short ribs, 53¢ for ehort clear, and 73@T34c for green hams, Dressed’ hogs were dull and un- changed, at $4.25@4.80 for 100 Ibs. Highwines were active and 34c higher, closing at 89}4c per gallon. Flour was quiet and steady. Wheat was active and irregular, advancing 18{c, but closed easier at $1.183{c cash, and $1.19 seller Jenuary. Corn was dull and unchanged, clos- ing “at 8040 cash, and 803{c seller Jan- uzry. Oats were Ifc higher, but very quiet, closing at 24%/c cash or seller January, Rye was sctive and 13fc higher, closing at 69}4c. Barley wasin better demand, and closed firm at 65¢ for No. 2, and 54c for No. 8.. The live hog market was duil and weak at the reduction noted yesterday, or at $3.50@3.75. Cattle and sheep were in limited request only, and sold elowly at former rates. The following were tho stocks of grain in store in this city on Saturdsy evening last: 931,212 bu wheat, 1,214,~ 882bn corn, 762,147 bu oats, 185,716 burye, 271,640 bu barley. 1f, according to the Bwedenborgian ideas as Interpreted by Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Diogenes i5 still going about in the mysterions realms of ether, with'a lantern in his hand look- ing for an honest man, he may as well give up his rearch. Diogenes’ avocation is gone, for the honest men'isfound. His name is Case, and he fives in North Canton, Conn. He might have gone through the world unheralded and unkpown had it not been for a brother who died, leaving & will by which he bequeathed to the said honest man §150,000 worth of property, appointing -him sole executor. Instead of placidly accepting this legacy in the sume broth- exly spirit in which it had been bequeathed, the honest man went to work overhauling the pa- pers of his deceased relative, and found = later will, by which the property was divided among various rellatives, churches, and charitable en- torprises. Not content with finding & document that et him off with a mero stipend, this honest Caso published this discovery and entered the new will in probate. As a matter of coures, Case was poor. It would bg s pretty justifica- tion of the old proverb that * honesty is the best policy” to have shown that Case was amply rewarded for his integrity by bushels of green- “backs, which were the accumulation of a series of honest acts such as he is' credited with in his brother's will. Unfortunately, such is not the fact. There are wicked people who will hold that Case is an escaped lunatic, and that he ean- not be returned to a strait-jacket any too soon. There may be unbelievers, too, who will say that Caseis too carofal a man, and that the later will raight have been exposed to the dangers of fire. As it {5, Case stands alone,—a poor Case, but not & hard Case,—a model for honest heirs in novels with a moral. The Automatic Telegraph Company have now a line in working order between New' York, Phila- delphis, and Washington.- The automatic pro- cess is 8o much more rapid that one machine and "oe operator £an do the work of two machincs and two operators, with two distinet lines, under the Morse process. . The messsgs is first written out by & machine, in #n incredibly chort time, in characters, which consiss Of perfora- | tiong in & strip of paper. It requires bui One movement of the hand, touching a certain key, to make each letter, while, under the old process of dots and dashes, several movements of the operator’s wrist are often required for the for- mation of one letter. After the mes- sage is transeribed in perforations, tho slip of paper containing it is placed ons zoller worked by a wheel; and, as it is turned, » pen passes over it, making the circle complete at gach perforation. A similar pen re- coives the message at the other end, which is then passed through a printing machine; and & copy is obtained by a much more rapid process than 1t conld be written out by the operator tak-. ing it from the wires. As an indication of the opidity of tho new process of telegraphing, & message was sent from Washington to Philadel- phis, and repéated back, all within the space of two minutes, the process of perforation for fifteen words requiring only fifteen séconds. The projectors of this new system of telegraphing are porfectly sanguine of success It is a matter in which they will have the best wishes of the public, for it will reduce the ex- pense and rates of telegraphing, Already, the Company has fixed s tariff between New York and Washington, by which they send messages of twenty words for the same price that is charged for ten words under the old system. The West- ern Union Telegraph Company, however, make lightof the invention, and contend that, although transmission by the new process is more rapid than by the Morse instrument, the work of por- foration and transmission together is slower, so that on the whole it possesses no advantages over the Morse process. ——— CHRISTMAS, For the twenty-seventh time, THE TrImUNE has the pleasuro of wishing all its readers; big and little, rich and poor, & Merry Christmas, and of expressing tho hope that tho Christmas tres in each house is well loaded with gifts, and that upon each table, this noon, there will be & smolk- ing-hot goose, a pudding well stuffed with plums, and plenty of good old ale. For the twenty- seventh time, also, it bespeaks a bounteous Christmas charity for the poor, to whom this day is specially sacred by virtue of the memory of the birth of our Lord, whose father, the'car~ penter, was likewise poor; and rejoices that the world is one year nearer that time when il the nations shall repest the song of the angels, which the shepherds heard on the Bothlehom Plain—* Glory.to God in the Highest ; on earth, peace and good will to men.” Thoreis & very pleasant custom smong the young people of hanging up the stocking -on Christmas Eve, and an equally pleasant beliof that during the night, while they aro sleeping, Senta Claus drives his team of rcindeers athwart the housetop, and, tethering them to the chim- ney, descends with well-laden pouch and fills them full of Christmas gifts, And while the children this morning are examining their stock- ings, it mey be both pleasant and profitable for us, who are clder than they and have outgrown the quuint old Norwegisn legend, to look into the metaphorical stocking, and see what it con- tains this Christmas morning of the year of grace and of our Blessed Lord, 1872. The gifts with which the stocking of Chicago is filled are numerous and various, and may be clussified a8 follows : Ttem—A now city which has sprung up like magic out of the ruins of the old, with a completo outfit of magnificent stores and warehouses, with its railroad communications in perfect order, its commercisl machinery running smoothly, its schools and churches in operation again, and room enough for every man to do business. Last Christmas, wehad 2,600 acres of battored brick and stone, twisted iron and jagged walls, tho embors of the October calamity, in our stocking. Item—A large assortment of thermometers, marking from 15 to 25 below zero, according to their ability todo justice to tho subject. As incidental to this low mercurial habit, plenty of burst water-pipes, exploded ranges and stoves, demoralized kitchon help, and hilarious plumbers, Ttem—A collection of tax-bills of divers sums and sorts, peculiarly adapted to produce a feel- ing of chéerfulness upon the part of those who have to pay them, and a donbt whéther it would not be better and more economical to turn in the property at once and take a receipt. Ttem—A tight money market and a generous supply of notes in bank, and a fine opportunity to study tho question how not to pay them. Jtem—A good ico crop for next year's juleps and creams. Ttem—DPlenty of fat beef and mutton, conva- Iescent horses, and one-horso cars. Item—Coal at 12 por ton, and coal-dealers who agree to deliver and never do so. Jtem—Plenty of good and chesp gas, of dif- ferent kinds. Jtem—Some abatement in the Bridgeport stink, Ttem—Better acting at the theatres at higher rates of admission, and a whole week without an amateur concert. Jtem—An increase of marriages, and a pro- portionate increaso of divorces, showing how beautifully Nature always establishes an equi- librinm, Jtem—Quails, neck-tio socisbles, fluting-irons, Congressman Snapp and the shirt of Nemesis, ey in the horse-cars, copper boilers, iced side- walks withont ashes, Shrewsbury oysters, no beer Sundays, Theodore Thomas in TFebruary, Lueca in May, connty taxes in December, South Park assessments in January, buffalo steaks, roast goose to-day, and dyspepsia to-morrow. For these and numerous other Christmas blessings in our stockings, this morning, lot us be duly thenkful and ever devoutly pray. If wo find it difficult adequately to cxpress our grati- tude for all these gifts, Ict us make good the de- ficit by remembering those whose stockings are empty. In this bitter cold, there is more suffer- ing than we can ever know, in the hovels of the poor. Bysomuch 28 we make the fire burn more brightly on their hearths, and add to their comfort in fable and store, shall we find our sing of omission and commission shortened on the Final Day. Remembering that He whose birth we celebrate to-day was born in s manger, lot us also remember oll the poor, to whom this dey belongs, and make their Christmos o merryone. In every home whero it goes, Tae TRImuNE bespeaks a merry Christmas dinner and a fat Christmas goose; s merry Christmas tree loaded with Christmss gifta; morry young faces and old; a merry day filled with good wishes which shall all be ful- filled ; and & merry night of good Christmas music, and wassail, and cheer. And once more, “ Gloryto God in the Highest ; on earth, peace and good will to men,” as the angels sang, while the glory of the Lord shone all around, For 5 Christmas comes but once a year, and after Christmas the sun begins to ries higherin the benvens. - THE NEW STATE HOUSE. o have received & copy of the report made to the Governor by Mesers, Jacob Bunn, John T. Stuart, and James H. Beveridge, the State House Commissloners, on the 19th inst., accompanied by a report submitted to them by Messrs. Cochranoe and Piquenard, the architects. These reports indicate that much better work has been accomplished during the last year than at any time since the beginning of the new Btate House. It is gratifying tonote that the construction, thus far, has kept within the limits of the estimate ; and it is promised ex- plicitly that the entire work shall not exceed the amourit fixed for it by the new Constitution. There have been threo acts in regard to the: new State House, The first was passed on Feb. 25, 1867, and sppropristed $450,000 from the State Treasury, and $200,000 from the sale of the old State Houmse. The second, passed March 11, 1869, made an additional ap- propriation of £650,000, reduced the number of Commissioners from seven to three, placed their appointment in tho hands of the Governor, and limited the entire cost of the building to $3,000, 000 in addition to what had already been ex- pended. This sct also provided for s Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives, to whom estimates for the ‘whole work should be submitted before proceed- ing any forther. The plans and specifications on wkich this estimate was made brought it up to £8,031,040, or $81,040 in excess of the limit prescribed. It was concluded, however, that certain modifications could be made which would bring the cost of ‘the structure within $3,000,000, without materislly detracting from its general appearance or stability, and the plans were approved Aug. 26, 1860. It was not until after the following winter, however, that work could begin in earnest. The founda- tion was comploted in September, 1669, and the ‘basement story, including the iron beams for the floor above, was finished early in 1871. The General Asgembly made a third appropriation in June, 1871, of 650,000, making = total of $1,700,- 000 available :funds which have been voted for the enterprise. In the accompanying report of the architects there isa statement of expen- ditures, as follows: g Expenditure for year ending Nov. 30, 1867..$_6,568.72 Expenditure for year ending Nov. 30, 1868 Expenditure for year ending Nov. 30, 186 Expenditure for year ending Nov, 30, 1870 Expenditure for year ending Nov. 30, 1871 Expenditure for year ending Nov. 50, 1872, Total expenditure......vees vesssees +.§1,697,456.87 The amount thus expended has brought the Btate House to this condition : Three-fifths of the walls are now complete and ready for the Toof ; the stone required for the completion of the outer walls is paid for and ready for ship- ment from tho Penitentiary, and the greater part of it could have been in the walls by this time, it there had been sufficient money on hand to do the work ; it will require nearly two years to prepare tho State House for occupancy by the Btate officers and Legislature, and four years for its entire occupency. To this end, the Commis- sioners ask an appropriation of $1,000,000 for the yoars 1873 and 1874. They say that the ap- propriations already made will be exhausted be- fore the meoting of tho next General Assembly. Under the law, the Commissioners must have their eppropriations before continning tho worlk. It will require several months to construct the iron frame-work for the roof, which cannot even bo ordercd until the necessary appropriation shall have been made. Hence, the Commission- ers urge the necessity for fixing the appropria- tion as early as possible after the convening of the Legielature. “With no intorest separate from that of the people of the State,” they say to the Governor, “and with no desire but to carry out the will of the people s expressed through their Representatives, we present this matter, asking that you male such recommend- ations to the General Assembly as your judg- ment may dictate,” From the details of the report,we discover that many changes for the betier have been made, as the work has progressed. Alost of the contracts having been made prior to the advance in wages and the cost of building material, caused lergely by the Chicago fire, it has been found feasible to intro- duce these 1mprovements without going beyond the limit fixed by law, or exceeding tha estimates which were approved. The Toof, gal- leries, and many of the ceilings are to bo con- structed of iron, the architects holding that the Chicago fire ‘demonstrated the superiority of iron over brick arches. Finding that the work of the basement-story had been done under the eatimated cost, the decorations of the building willbe more elaborate than was at first pro- posed. Tho columns and wainscoting of the upper part of tho rotunda will'be of granite, in- stead of iron, as will the columns and arcades around the "grand staircass. The architects recommend & group of statuary for the front pediment, representing the ad- vance of the Btate from barbarism to the present point of civilization, and also bas reliefs for s large frieze inside tho ro- tunds, ropresenting the most important points of the State history from its colonization to the present, time,—these to take the place of fres- coing. According to the estimates, the archi- tects might have expended the sum of $1,343,- 928 on the work done thus far. They have actually expended, however, only $1,278,450, ‘which includes values equal to those represented by the suthorized sum stated. “In fact,” say the architects,” as soon 28 we have found that we could afford, without exceeding the estimate, to do better, stronger, and finer work, without any regard s to the extralabor it may give'us, we have changed all the drawings, and made them anew to suit tho better class of work.” The report is certainly ag favorable as any one could havo anticipatod. Tho most general good fecling seems to have prevailed among Commis- sioners, architects, superintendents, and con- tractors. And the work appears to have been of 80 much better character than that which inau- gurated the construction of the new State House, thet thereis reason for congratulating both those who have been engaged in the work and the peoplo at large. —— THE LOUISIANA COMMITTEE'S ADDRESS, The nddress of the Louisiana Committee can- not fail to commantd public attention. .The persons composing it sare not office-holders nor office-seelers; thoy are not mem- bers of any party; they are not political or per- sonal friends of Warmoth, or Kellogg, or Pinch- back. They are citizens of Louisiane, enxions for the establishment of pesce and order, and honest and responsible Government. They rep- Tesent that, during the last four years, the State Government has been marked by extravagance, ‘prodigality, dishonesty, and waste in the public expenditures. The public debt has been enor- monsly incressed; the State credit has been given to speculating corporations for dishonest aims, and the taxes have been 80 incréased that they may ba called rents paid by the proprietors for theuse and occupency of their property. The State nee..~ >0 bonest and responsible Gov- ernment, and not one to enrc: T8cAlsor to per’; petuate their power; and to secure this o was the purpose of tho union of men of all par- ties at tho late election in favor of Mr. McEnery for Governor. That election has been over- turned by the Judge of the United States Court, and the proceedings which have taken place have no parallel in the history of this country. There i8 no law which gives the United States Courts juriediction over suits brought by one citizen against another citizen of the same State. The act of 1870 provides that, when s parson claiming .to have been elected to an office has been defeated bocause of the rejection of votes on account of color of the voters, the TUnited States Court may heer and determine the fact in a suit to recovor the office. But this law expressly prohibits any jurisdiction or any in- quiry by a Federal Court in any case where the office claimed i8 a Presidential Elector, member of Congress, or member of the State’ Legisla- ture. Judge Durell, howaver, took jurisdiction, and, by an order in chancery, upon an ex-parte statement, declared who was elected to the Leg- islature,—prohibiting any other persons, claim- ing to be omembers, from meeting directed the Marshal to wuse troops to soize the State House ; toseat one Legislature and exclude the other, and to enforce the orders of the Legislature thus constituted by him. One branch of the Legialature then presented articles of impeachment against the Governor, and, pend- ing the trial, it declared the Governor suspend- ed. Italso declared Pinchback Lieutenant Gov- ernor,—an office to which he had never been elected, and to which the Legislature had no suthority to appoint any person. Having mede him Lieutenant Governor, it then declared him Acting Govornor of the State. Having thus de- posed the Execative, and placed in the office of Governor a man of their own, they then proceed- ed to reform their own body. They expelled several members who objected tothe revolution- ary proceedings ; they declared the seats of ab- sentees vacant, and admitted to membership other persons to the places thus vacated who never claimed to have been elected. Thus Judge Durell, by his usurpation of the power to decree by chancery order who should constitute the State Legislature, has created & body that has in turn usurped all the other branches of the Government. In all cases where the Judges of the State Courts were considered as unfriendly to this usurpation, they have abolished the courts, and have established new ones officered by their own friends. Nor hag Judge Durell's chencery order stopped here. It reaches to the new Stato officers whose terms begin on the first of January next. He has prohibited the Governor-elect from attempt- ing to enter upon the duties of his office; has instructed the United StatesMarshal to use force to place in office the men who were notoriously rejected by the people. In fact he has, by the mere indorsement upon & petition in chancery, destroyed the existing State Government, has erectod & Legislature of his own, and has decreed anew Government to succeed the present one after the first of Janugry. Now comes the Iast act of this judicial func- tionary, which, if correctly stated, equals any- thing in the usurpation line yot enmacted. The New Orleans Zimes has with great fearlessness discussed all these matters, and denounced Judge Durell in fitting terms. A demand of some kind for $1,500 was made against the pro- prietors of that paper, which they refused to puy, whereupon the claiming creditor charged the concern with bankruptey, and applied to Judge Durell for the usual orders in such cases. The proprietors of the paper, denying the allega~ tion of bankruptcy, tendered security for the amount claimed, but Judge Durell, rejacting all defences, and declining any inquiry into the important fact whether the concern was bankrupt or not, eppointed an assignes to take possession of the property and ¢ stop the publication thereof ! To stop the prblication of a newspaper is to destroy thevalue of the property. If thisis a state- ment of the case (and it is the only one that has et reached us), then this latest act of Durell is something exceeding in infamy all his preceding acts. The disguise of an order in bankruptey is entirely too thin to hide tho real purpose. In the darkest hourof the civil war, Mr. Lincoln would not permit the suppression of nowspapers, even when ordered by department commanders, and we question whether there is on record another inatance, since the days of the sedition laws of the elder Adams, when a Court has un- dertaken to stop the publication of a newspaper except for Indecency or violation of public mor- als, in pursuance of law. Is there no relief and no remedy for such pro- ceedings? Are personal rights, and pablic Tights, and the rights of property all at the morcy of an irresponsiblo and tyrannical Court, snd subject to the decres of a single Judge, without o hearing, without a trial, and npon the ex-parte statement of any person who may com- bine with him ? This is a matter which addresses itsélf to no particular party. IZ it be allowable in Louisiana, it may be repeated in'any other State. It may be repeated in Pennsylvania, or Tllinois, or Wisconsin, or anywhero else, when a Judge of the United States Court can be found who will imitate Durell, and, like him, take s Jjurisdiction and exercise an authority regardless of Iaw. Aro the partisans of the Administra- tion in Congress so paralyzed and subjugated that they dare not spesk when acts are being committed that threafon their own liberties? Mr. George P. Putnam, who fell dead in his store in New York last Friday, was sssociated with the first publication of some of the best books in American literature. Among the stand- ard works which have borne his imprint are the writings of Fenimore Cooper, Edgar A. Poo, ‘Washington Irving, and Bayard Taylor. He was tho first American ; ton, who began the importa- tion of English books on & scale commensurate with the domands of the American reading pab- lic. The periodical which he established under the namo of Pufnam’s Magazine, with the as- sistance of George Willism Curtis, was for years the leading festure of American periodical literaturo, and did excellent service in enlisting the public in the enjoyments of current litera- ture. Mr. Putnam was an ideal of tho better class of publishers,—a couneellor and a friend of the literary men, as well as their printer. He was himself poisessed of high gualifi- cations as a writer and critic. While in England, many years ago, he published a book entitled *‘American Facts,” which did much in the way of removing false impressions and dif- fusing correct information regarding this coun~ try. He was the compiler of & work entitled “The World's Progress; or, Dictionary of Dates,” which, shortly before his doath, he had revised and brought down to the present dsy. His recollections of literary men were among the pleasanteat, as his associations with them were always intimate and cordisl. In fact, Mr. Putnam ywas too genial and open-hearted for his own success in & worldly sense, but his purity of life, and the respect which he commanded in literary circles, may hayve been dearer to him than the greater profits that have been esrned by other publishers. He lesves & daughter who has inherited a talent for literature, and who has even extended her studies into_the medical science, in which she has earned distinctions Botao. “ocorded o her sex, st AP NOTES AND OPINION. The Presidency of the Illinois Senate will be- come the second place of honor and succession, when the arrangements with Oglesby and Bev- eridgeare fulfilled; and therois, therefore, much interest in the selection of & presiding officer ‘upon whom may devolve the duties of Governor. The candidates are : John Early, of Rockford ; John H. Yager, of Alton; John €. Short, of Danville ; James G. Strong, of Dwight; and Georgs W. Burns, of Quincy. ~—The new apportionment of seats, inthe In- ‘under the Conshitational provision, and it Iature, tested by the votefor Gov- emnor, in October last, gives this Testt: 184,- 00O voters have 80 seats in the Senateind 59 in the House ; 185,000 votors have 20 in thiSenate and 41 in the House. 5 % —The declared majorities for the Reptlican nominees in Florids sre: Governor, Ossn B, Hart, 1,599 ; Lioutenant Governor, Marcelly T,, Stearns, 1,656; Congross—Josish T. Wi, 1,622; W.J. Purman, 1,726. The Republicys count 2 majority in the Senato, and 5 intg House. To accomplish this result, roturns wer rejected or amended to suit the * emergency.” —John T. Wait, of Norwich, will bo a can date for Governor in the Republican Convention of Connecticut. —James F. Dever, Collector of Internal Reve- nue at Atlanta, Ga., and late candidate for Con- gress, is Teported s defaulter in the paltry sum of $12,874.46. He had been using public moneys for private purposes; snd, worse than all, had been defrauding other fellows in office. —It has been telographed from Washington that several persons are setting up a little game on the Winnebago Chief, in Pennsylvania; but the Harrisburg Stafe Journal of the 20th says : General Cameron has no known publicly announced rival for the United States Senste, and most likely the field will be clear to him when the timo for re-election arrives. —General Simon G. Grifin, of Keeno, N. H., is quite likely to be nominated as the Republi- can candidate for Congress in the Third District, where he was beaten.by 127 votes two years ago. —The Albany Evening Journal has probably heard by this time how tho thing works in Ala- bama; but on the 21at it said: The resl disposition of the Administr-tion wus shown in this case. The conflict did_not proceed to thesame extreme as in Louisiana, and thero was not the samo public and legal requircment of decisive ac- tion. In Louisians, it becamo & question of peaceor violence, and the Administration proceeded 88 the law required. Thero wasa formal call for ita protoction, ond- ed, 31 was bound to do. But in &1abams there hiad been no judicial determination of the difiicalty. There were simply two bodies claiming o be the Leg- islaturo, Both sppealed to the Administration, and 1t reaponded with the suggestion of & compromisé which opened tho way [2] to an honorablo settlement. —The death of two persons in the station- Houses of this city under circumstances that imply gross neglect, if not actnal maltrentment, might, at any time, excite inquiry. But it is particularly important now, when under laws ostensibly directed against Southern Ku-Klux respecable citizens are seized and imprisone in those station-houses, by Special Doputy Marshals, selected from the refuse of mankind, for service on election day. This happeued in the October election in this city, and though, after the polls were closed, the kidnapped citi~ zens were set at liberty, it enhances our objec- tion to the system that it isgsubject to such abuses a8 are mow discoverod.—Philadelphia Age. Whils President Grant is deniying st Washing- ton sny intention or dosire to tyrannize over the people of Louisiana, or to interfere with tha free government of the State, the Federal an- thorities in New Orleans are committing out~ rages to which no people with a spark of man- hood in their breasts can patiently submit. The Btate Government overthrown, State Courts abolished, or the rightful Judgesdriven by force from the Bonch, and now the suppression of the independent préss, are the outrages that mark tho progressive steps of this infamous violation of the gfmshitnfion and laws.—New York Her- ald. —_— . " PERSONAL. - Senator T. W. Ferry, of Michigen, &5 st the ymont. E Colonel William Long, of Iows, was at the Tremont yesterday. g General Jamos D. McBride, Washington, D.C., is at the Garduer. H. V. Ireland, Esq., of Montrenl, is at the Gardner. ] Hon. M. V. Bell, Detroit, was at the Tremont yesterday. - Captain J. W. Cuylor, United States Army, is et the Sherman. &= Edmund Yates, Esq., of London, England,was at the Gardner yesterday. # Hon. Daniel G. Fort, Oswego, N. Y., was at the Gardner yesterday. : . MMiss Viola Pomeroy, & San Fradcisco canta- trice of muck celebrity, is spending o few days ‘in Chicago. Mrs. and Mrs. O. M. Harris, of Nos. 812 and 814 Weat Washington street, were, last evening, prosented by a number of their friends with an elegant silver water-service. Giles, Brother & Co. gave their employes o handsomo Christmas supper st the Tremont yesterday evening. The table was spread with the choicest eatables, and & general good time was indulged in. The following were at Anderson’s European Hotel yesterdny: C. C. Kellogg, Princeton, 1lL; B.’S. Branard, Cedar Rapids; O. A. Smith, St. Louis; E. J. Scofield, New York; J. D. Kelly, Champaign; J. W. Porter, Urbana; ‘Henry Snyder, Indiana. The following were at the Tremont yesterday : D. V. Bell, Detroit; E.D. Fisher, Texas; V. B. Bacon, Kansas City; Clark, 'Ft. Scott; T. B. Faber; Now York; G. D. Swing, Washing- ton, D. C; E. Everctt, Buffalo; F. J. Mead, Naichez, Miss; J. H. Mayfuot, Darlington, Conn. TThe following were at the Shermin yesterday: E. Campbell, Iowa ; F. A, Clark, Denver ; H. M, Ciark, Pittaburgh ; G. M. Anthony, Now York; F. Androws, Cincinnati; _George Thornton, Newark, N. J.; Geo. B. Livingston, Albany} Chas. J. Thomas, Buffalo; C.B. Davis, Hart ford, Conn.; T. V. Pollock, Montgomery, Ala. s fallowing wero ak tho Briggo yostordsy : John Means, Jr,, Boston; C. H. Hurlett, Kan- 883 ; George Blaine and family, ‘Louisana, Mo.; 8. Graham, New York; G. D. Reynolds and family, Parsons, Kansas; L, J. Hawks, Bloom- ington; W. C. Mac and wife, Gridley, Ill; J. g: Proviace, Quincy, IiL; H. 8. Cole, Paatucket, L According to an annual custom, which Tom Foley appears unablo to forget, he presented to the boys in the morning newspaper offices s domijobn of his excollent egg-nog, for which ha has the thanks of the boys. For 'a similar evi- denco of regard in the shape of champagne, Messrs. T. Kendricks & Co.. of the Cen Enropean Hotel, have our ackncwledgments, The following were among the arrivals at the Gardner yesterday: J. Littleton, Peoria; H.W. Treland, Montresi; M. G. Austin, Kalamazoo;. C. F. Watorbury, Cloveland; John_Bullem, Jr. New York; J, 1. Echfeldt, Sen Francisco; C. Moore, Quiney; D. Nelson, Towa; Georgo M. Darnell, Lexington, Ky.; W. H. Aldrich, Boston. Mr. Harry Scovel, the veteran news editor of ‘TuE TRIBUNE, was feized by his editorial asso- ciates, yesterdsy, and presented with an elegant silver snuff-box as a Christmas gift. Therewas very littlo said on either side. The donors reférred to the many enjoyable sneezes to which the contents of Harry's ancient box had given rise, and hoped that they would bo sccorded the privilege of taking many friendly pinches out of the new one, Mr. Scovel replied by pasaing around his accumulation of Maceaboy. Professor J. C. Webster and lady entertained their friends from Chicago_and_ vicinity at their residence in Wheaton on Monday evening, the occasion being the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding. The affair was very ploasant, and a large numbor of friends assembled. There was a presentation of appropriate gifts, and speeches by Messrs. Claflin, Pierce, and othors, to which the wusual happy responses were made. 3r. Thomas D. Snyder, of the firm of 8nyder & Lee, renl estato agents, being about to depart from the independent life of & bachelor, gavo s farewell supper to his bachelor companions recently. merry two hours wero spent, nothing occwrring to detract from tge festivities of the evening, except the re: grots experienced by the * old gentlemen ™ pres- ent that they conld not enter into the life Mr. Snyder will soon enjoy. 4 : A very handsome Christmas gift was presented by the employes of Field, Leiter & Co.’s retail establishment, corner of Market and Madison streets, £6 therr gentlemanly and obliging super- intendent, Mr, J. M. Fleming, last evening, con- sisting of o gold watch and chain bought &t the jewelry stors of Messrs, Roseberry & Falch, cor- nor of Madison and State streets, i testimony of hip merits 28 an occupant of the trying posi- <+ “=ean employr and employed, and in tion botwe.. i willing acknowleagmi—+ °f the justide, i and moderation of his manageméis. I cipient was very appropriately addrossed by Rf. R. J. David. Dr. Ben C. Miller, Superintendant of Public Charities, got a Christmas present zsstard@y from nfiasi}tfia Bennett, who gave herself fo him in the holy bonds of matrimony. The cere- ‘mony took place st the residence of the bride's parents, No. 116 Cottage Grove avenus, and wag & quiet and select performance, There Were no cards. The happy pair left in the evenin their bridal tumgp_ E‘he ‘many friends of m.gagfi Mrs. Miller will wish them good luck on their matrimonial voyage. AMUSEMENTS. M'VICEER'S THEATRE. The effect of an improved state of temperature was observable in tho increased attendance at McVicker’s last evening, thongh Christmas Eve is one of the home nights of the year. Concern- ing the AMeg AMerrilies of Charlotte Cushman thero is, and can be, but one verdict. Columns ‘iand volumes might be written analytical and ex- Planatory of the unanimous finding, showing. reat length, wherein and why it is eo, but 1 of all is that it 18 grost, and that it is o hifow things on the stege at the present Whiy can bo traly ealled great. To thoso DOW eq Migs Cushman act for the first time 2feg torilies appears a creation almost su, b whilo those who remeniber the renoww r ne as ehe was twenty years ago, are non. thelesstryck by the wonderfally vital geniua which By withstood the ravages of time. That there sbuld po no percoptible. ovidencs of weaknessy tong or physique in an actress now more than yree-seoro years of age, excites won- derin the nods of all behclders, the more so that they hay gxpected to see the decadence, not the fultes, of power. Nobodyis called upon to meke Yowanc:s; on thecontrary, those Whose memory nables them to mako the com- parison bear witegs. thas the role is enacted to- day with s vigorand force oven beyond that which characterizy her former offorts. It has been urged as an amment against the *star” system in theatres, \as the presence of a great and_shining light jrves to eclipse the lesser luminarics, causing iem to appear duller than they really are. Whasver the cause may boe— and it may boe donted whether it ia cor- rectly stated above—ks Cushman’s support by the members of McViker's company in . Guy Mannering™ is decidely tame and inferior, There i8 not_an averazationg charncterization in thelot. This estim is not the effect of comparison with Mies &shmon's magnificont impersonation; it arisesom actual shortcom- ings. Why 3irs. Allen ad Mrs. Myers, ordi- narily g0 sprightly aud plesiug, should saunter through their assignments-ith so little effort to do justice to them, dows n¢ clearly appear, but it is certain that they 2ra opn to such comment. Ar. O'Nelll, a3 Dandie Diont, notably fails * in ccnvt‘!f'l.ng anything like 4 adoquate ides of the droll and brawny Scob. Ta does not make up the characier distinctively; and he overdoes the drunkenness. Dandie wasonly a littla con- fused in tho head by his potions; he was not staggering, blind druuk. The omission of dialect deprivea thc part d much of its strepgth, but it is Lotter Smitted than badly attempted. Tho clof difiiculty with Mr. Lanegan's Dominie Samison, consisty in the fact that g0 much is seen ol the former, and go little of the latter. Greater distinctness of utterance—not a louder tone ofyoice—would be an improvemocnt. Mr. ‘Powers es Henry Bertram, end Mr. Barron as Coloncl Mannering, both furnish ing oxamples of how not toact. That Mr. Blskeisnota good Glossin is due to a voice which refads to bo vil- lasous, and that Yr. Pendleton is nite success- ful Dirck Hatlericl: is owing to preciely the op- posite resson. Extra attection hs been be- stowed upon the musical features of the play with -an’ extremely creditablo result. 'Tho choruses are nicely executed, and the lullaby song by Ars. Myers is given with admirablo feel- ing and expression. The subsequent rendering of the same song by Miss Cushman is & surprise to those who have supposed that ballad singing waa not among ber accomplishments. ‘¢ Guy Mannening” will be given at the Christmas mas- inee to-day and evening, and the remeinder of the week. ACADEXY OF Irusic. The Carroll Family, ina play called “Our Mother,” are drawing fair honses at the Acad- emy of Music. The play is of the made-to-order class 8o numerous nowadays, having beon de- vised solely with referenco to the capabilities of the Carrolls. Consequently, no cne shonld ex- pect to find anything to enjoy in the drama itself, which is employed merely as the vehicls for the introduction of a few specialties. Tires precocious juveniles and an Irish comedian of medium capacity make up the Carroll Family. Tho boys are extremely clever in their tongs and dancoes, Little Dick being a decided favorite. e} AIEEN'S THEATEE, The increased patronage at Aiken’s is a grati- fying indicat:on that 50 fine n performance as ¢ Julius Cemsar,” and, above =i, so masterly en impersonation as Lawrence Barrett’s Cassivs, il not be slighted in Chicago. All the warm commendaticu which bas been elicited by the production remains in full force, and those who are seeking fine Christmas entertainment this afternoon and evening will findample repayment of & visit to the corner of Wabash avenuo 2nd Congress street. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOTSE. The ‘Lancashire Lass,” one of the best of Henry J. Byron's productions, and giving John Dillononeof thestrongest parts of his repertoire, I'Bd]'mvinfc large sudiences at Hooley’s Opera House. will be given twice to-day, afternoon and evening. . MYERS' OPERA HOTSE, The boys in black at Myers' Opers Houss should not be forgotten, for thay are givinz & capital minstrel performance. Mackin and Wil- son, Clarenco Burtor, Bill- Rice, Arlington, Cotton, Kemble, and the whcle companyof sable artists are in the bill. There will be 2 grand Christmas matinee io-dsy, besides the usual evening performance. —_— WHY DO FLOUR-RILLS BURN ? To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: The writer has had oceasion to pay some attention to the origin of fires, and finds a re- markable confirmation of kis own conclusions 2s tothe combustibility of flouring mills, in the extract below. Some two or three years ago, a mill was burned at Milwankee by bringing 2n open light too near a feed-spout from which middlings were being discharged from bins in an upperstory. Ths blaze ran up-the spout asif it were filled with coal-gag, and destroyed the mill. A fow weeks later, & mill was burned at S, Lonis from s similar cause, only, in this case, fire caught from the flame in & globe-lamp ; and the result was equally rapid and disastrons. ‘Various theories were started and discussed as to the cause of these fires, though but little was definitely known, cxcept that mills-were very 8pt to burn, and most insurance companies de- ined to write on those where open lights were permitted to be used. The following extract ‘may, hence, be of interest to millers and ander- writers especially: On the 25th of last month, before the Royal Scottish Soclety of Arts, Dr., Stevenson MicAdam read a paper tending to show that Jouz-mills aro almost as danger- ons neighbors 2s gunpowder-milis. The chemical components of grainare combustible when burned in the ordinary way, and 80 consumed with greater Tapidity when diffuced as a clond through tho air. When flour is showered through u sieve placed above 5 gas-flame, rapid combustion takes place. Indeed, tho tlour burns with explosiva rapidity, and the flame ficks up the flour-shower somewhat in'the same way that it flaehes through s mixture of gis and air, or that it treads along a train of gunpowder. When burned, the flour Tesolves jtsclf into gases. The carbon, by mixing with tiio oxygen of the air, becomes carbonic oxide or carbonic acid, and tke hydrogen and oxygen become water, vapor, of steam. The volumo of these gases is much increised by the high tempera~ ture at.the moment of combustion, The conditions required to bring about a flour explosion are some- what similar to thoso which cause o gas-explosion. Flour agrees with coal-gas in being simply combusti~ blo when unmixed with air, and equally agrecs with coal-gas in being explosive when mingled witn air; but the fine, impalpable dust must be diffused through the air in definite proportions in order to constitutean explosion when s white heat, such 1s a flamo or spark, . is brought near. In order to bring about an explo. tion, it is alio mecessary that. the four-mix- ture be more or less confined within s given space. The moro common way of the production of the spark or flame which firea the flour-air explosive mixture is the feed going off the stona doing work when the stones set down on each other, and, as they are of a fiinty or other hard silicious rocks, and are ro- olving at from 100 to 160 revolutions in o minute, they quickly strike fire and become very hot, Tho feed may go off for wantof grain in the hopper or any obstruction in the fecd-pipe. A spider’s web ac- tually stopped the feed in one case, and lod o & vio- lent explosion in an English flour-mill. Afr, MacAdam suggests variona expedients to be adopted for avoiding flour-mill explosions, such ag the Temoval of exhaust~ ‘boxes, stove-rooms, smut-rooms, and other receptacles of flour-qust, to the outside of tha mill, £ Crcaao, Dec 20, 1873, Opening To-Day of the Home Billiard .~ Parlor. West Sicers will ba ghd to know that @ frst-class ‘billiard hall has been opened at 507 West Madison Atreet, nnder the Bishop Court Hotel, where Mesars, Davis' % Co, will bo pleased to seo all Iovers of th game, Opén on Christmas, A —Prof. O. E, Stowe was at the honseof 8 friend at Farmingham, Mass., & week 250, when he was taken dangerously ill’; but he i DOW Te: ported quite comfortable,