Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1873, Page 4

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FIRST PAGE~Washington Nowa: Troacedings in Gon. gress) Tho Juvestigation Comumittocs—Now York News—Miscollsncous Tolegran) BEOOND PAGE—Onr Iron Intarost: Tho Lnko Buporior Minoral Roglon—Tho Polico Dopartmont—Rranston Mattors—Ean Yranclaco Lottor—Tho Republic In- suranco Oompany; Shall tho Stookholdors Stand Anothior Assossinont—Itatiroad Nows, o ‘Fucker Olatm—Annual Report of tho Board of Inspeotors of tho Houao of Correctlon: County Affalrs—Tho City In Briof—Rallcoaid Time Tablo—Advertisomonts, TOURTH PAGL—Editorinint A Sovonty Miltion Dollar Clalm; Our Klcotoral Nystom Solfish Jaglsiation; Qurrent Nows Itema. FINTH PAGE—Tho Btato Capltal; Yoatordas's Proceod- tugaIn tho Tllinols General Assombly—Mackots by Tolograph—Advortisomente, BSIXTH PAGE—Monctary and Gommoralal. REVENTH PAGE-Tho Law Coutts—Porsonal Itoms— . Notes and Opinfon, EIGETH PAGE-Yorclgn Nows—Miscollancous Tolo- granis - Amnusemonty — Govornmontal Telograph: Lottor from Hon, Josoph Modili—Auction Advor- tisomonta. TO.DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, AIKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenus, corue of Oon- gross atroot, Almoo Opora Boufle Troupo, **Lo Petit Frust," - A'VIOKER'S THEATRE—Madizon stroet, botweon Stato and Dearborn, Xngngoment of _'Dlml Boucleault ond wifo. *‘Korry; or Night and Morning" NIy, tho 3ald with tho Milk-Pail."* * ACADEMY OF MUSIO—Hsltod stroot, sonth of Liadison. Kngagemohtof Josoph Murphy. **elp.! HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph streot, bo- cn Olark aud LaSalle, Now Comaly Company. 0.1 e MYERS' OPERA 1IQUSE-Monroo strect, Lolwoon Ftato end Deatburn, Arlington, Cotton & Komble's Iiiastroland Burlerquo Troupo. Kthloptun Comiealitios, GLOBE 7WIIEATRE-Dosplalnes atcoct, hotweon Madl-* tonand Washiugton, Dramatio and Mualeal Variotlos, NIXON'S AMPIITIATRE-Clinton, botwoen Wash- tugton and Randolph streets. Macalllstor, STAR CONCERT—Seguin Lnglish Opera Troupe. Zhichigau Avenuo Baptist Chureh. BUSINESS NOTICES. ANA LOTTERV—ORDINARY DRAW- \‘I’A‘\O'}‘{:}P AT Y kot 45 T Be SARIINEN & U, Bankers, 10 Wall-st., Dox 4,68 BATOHELOR'S NI DYE, TS SPLENDID Batelyo 1 1o, bost 18 tho world, 'Tho only truo and por- Savt %%, Tintimlsss, roflablo, and instautanaoti: o disa Paiatoent: o ridicaloun tits or nuploasant odor, Koy Bioa thio Al oifeota of Ladl dyus and washios, Broducos im- zadintoly wmiports bisck o nsturslirom, wnd oavey the ) sud boputiful. 4o gonuino, . e ter.” "Sold by &l _druigists. OLAMLES LUK, Proprictor, . The Uhicagyo Teibume, Tuesday Morning, January 21, 1873, The Lower Houso of the Legislaiure have pasced a resolution thot ut least one momber of thy Railrond ond Warehouso Commissionors should be u farmer. “Tho Scnate Naval Committce lave roported the House bill for the construction of uix sloops- of-war, with an amendment incroasing tho num- ber to ton. Tho Senato have bogun te discuss the bill, and will continuo tho dobate to-day. . Senator Cole, of California, sald yesterday that legiglation was neoded not so much to enlarge she navy as to promoto our commeoree, A drunkon husbaud, necording to & recent de- tision in this Btato, i8 $1,200 bolter tlan none— #f ho is killod. One John Lay, of Logan Coun- v, broko his neck whilo Intosicsted, and Lis ridow, under tho Temporauce Iaw, hus rocov- sred 21,200 from the ealoon-keapor who eold aim tho fetal liquor. It is not long sincoa romen in Yowa, widowed in about the same way, recovered a volunble homeatead ns damages {rom the rumaellor. e ] The Preeident of the Credit Mobllier Company (\r. Bidnoy Dillon) has beon bofore tho Inves- tignting Committcc. o yomombors Learing Ames sponk of Brooks as ono of the Congress- men who was to recoive stock. Ho also says o was approached by Brooks, who claimed to Do ontitled to U0 shares of ‘Crodit Mobilier stock in addition to the 100 Lold by Lis gon-in-law. The Committoe ndjourned to allow Mr, Dillon to re- frosh his momory, snd will continue his exami- aation to-day. ki e v The Banlaupt act was bofore the House yes- torday. A Dill wag roported from the Judiclary Comumittee declaratory of the meaning of the uet of 1672, which intendod, they sald, to make tho exemptions undor the National act identical with thoso undor the Btate laws, Asan amond- mont to thig bill it vus moved that tho Daultrupt iaet bo repenled aitogothor, This waa carried by tho largo majority of 129 Lo 60. A bill to ropenl tho Bankrupt law and all supplomentary and smendatory scts hag been reported to the Sonate by tho Judictary Committec, but not yot actod upon, A great deal io boing uaid In different quartors egainst exompting from taxation property liko that of roligious corporations, which considera~ tions of what fs called public policy have 1oft froo from faxes from time immemorlul, That abuses hevo followed some of thewso exemp- tions canuot Lo denlod, and in Wisconsin it is proposed to roform thio abuses by abolishing all tho exomptions, Petitions to this effect aro coring to the Logiulaturo from overy part of Jha State. Noteworthy among thom fs that of tho largeat Protentant church of Milwaukeo nglk- Ing the Legislatura to tax thoir proporty. The Boston Reliof bill haw hoen reported nd- vorsely by -the Senate Judiciary Commmittes. Thoy think it unconstitutional, for the reason that sll Statod aro ontitled, undor the Constitu- +jon, to oqual advaniagoes in trade and manufac- turos. Thoy furthor agroo that tho reasons urged in favor of tho reliof for sutforing by firo would apply to any other conmunity, and in favor of individuals as woll aa citics, To pnus thio Boston Relief bill would, they suy, sanction principle which would mnke ¢ Congress n yreat insurance compauy for 40,000,000 of pao- le” - A Now York journal thinks that the mutual congratulations of tho out-going and in-coming Lioutonant Governors of Illinols were vory af- svcting. It contemplatos, with unalloyed nd- wwiration, that Illinofs i to have a Lleutonaut Govornor (he is venlly to be the Govornor, but tho Now York Journnl didn't know that) who is *!in all respocts thu peor of the mightiost ininds of tho Ropublic." When tho snme jouranl pro- ceeds further, and roads tho in-coming Lieuten~ unt Governor's culogy in turn upon the out- going Licutonant Governor, it concludes tha’ thoro {o a tondorneay and §yostuosy about the e e VS U SOy whole thing which vominds it of two little boys licking molnsgos from the samo etlcl. A corrospondent, writing from the South, nnys that tho nogroos all through South Caroling (and in o less dogreoin sonmo of tho othor Blates) are fnfocted with tho iden thnt thoy aro tborn loglalntora. ‘The lawa hnve constantly favored thom ; but, Inetead of taking udvantage of tho proferonco shown thom to improve their condi- tion, thoy hang nbout, n ragged, lazy, and worthless Bot of cronluros, overy flold-hand foasting o morbid imagination with snoditations on his pocullar fitnens to sit in logialative halts, Thera is reason to suspeoct that thoro s much truth in all this, and it lenves buts poor prospoct for tho progross of tho Houth toward rohabilitation, anda still poorer one for sny smelioration in tho condition of the coloredrazo, Garvey, who miado plaster o costly luxury for tho tax-payors of Now Yorlk, and, according to his own staloment, cleared a million of dollera betweon 1808 and 1871, has roturnod from uropo, undor promiso of protoction, to testify agafust Lhis follow thioves. Ilo wns ono of tho witnessos In tho Tweod trial yoster- day, Ho went away at tho roquost of Tweed, Hweenoy, Connolly, and Iank Smith. Ie told in dotail tho story with which the public are already familiar, con- corning the contrivances of margins and ovor- charges by which the Ring plundoring was dono. Twoed's coungel clalm that their cliont paid those marging, from which Garvey made his profits, out of his own pockel and r:ot out of tho City Trensury. Baptist Nool, whouo full nnmo is the Hon! and ' Rov., Baptist Wriothosley Noel, long known as ono of tho moat active of English writers in tho flold of polomic divinity, died yoatorday, at tho agoof 73. o bogan his ccolesinstical lifo as Chaptain to tho Queon, but resigned this posi- tlon in 1848, whon he soceded from the Istablished Church, Io thon joined the. Anaboptiste, and was ono of their ministers Juntil within a year or two, Asa preachor, philanthropist, and controvorsial writor, Baptist Nool hold o high rank. Somo of his bettor-known writiugs aro *Sormons on tho Tirst Tive Conturies of tho Ohureh,” “Chyis- tian Missious to Heathon Lands,” * Essay on Union of Church and State,” *Essay on Chris- tlan Baplism,” ¢ Freodom and Hlavory in the Uuited States,” and * Robellion in America.” Boston is sufforing from the worst opidomie of small-pox that has everbeen known in Massa- chusotts, There-nre now 3,000 cusos of tho dis- onsoreporied to tho suthoritios. Before vacein- ation was known, thero.were, in 1700, nccording to Cotton Alnthor, 1,200 futal casos in one year, but now small.pox patients, notwithstanding all the aids of modern skill, are dying at the rato of 8,000 » yoar, or 60 & week. ‘Iio mortality ronchos the frightful proportion of ome death in ovory four cages, which io worse than oven the #mall-pox postilonco of 18186 in Europo. ‘'I'ha suddon sprond of the disoace is attributed, in Massachusotts, to thoropenl of the “hond money tax,” which has thrown the Btate open to Canedinn im- wigration, which brings tho infoction with it. In tho nine months which have parsod since this repesl, thore have boen more doaths from emall-pox in Boeton than in tho wholo Btate in the precoding six years, The Chiengo pradice mnvkots wero gonoraily moro aetive yestorduy, oxcopt provisions. iless pork was dull, and nominally 5@10¢ per brl low- or, at $1L.70@11.76 casl, and 312.10@12.15 soller Darch. Lard was in modorato demand, At o do- clino of 10 por 100 lbs, closing. at 37.16@7.20 cash, and §7.45@7.50 soller month, Meats woro rnthor quiot and s shude casior, at 8%@4c for shoulders ; 53{@53¢c for short ribe; 63{c for short clear, and 7%¢c por 1b for 16-1b groen hinms, Drossed hoga woro in fair demand end o shade caslor, at §4.35@+4.40 por 100 1bs for henvy, and ¥4.55@4.00 for light, Mighswines were dull and stoady at 88c. Flour was activo and a shade firmor. Wheat was activo, aud advanced 2o, closing ot €1.26% cash, ond $£1.27) wellor TFobruary. Corn was moro active and declined @30, closing frm at 80)e cnsh, and 803¢ @80%6e sellor February, Oats wore quiot and n shade easior, closing at 253fc cash, and 2514 soller Fobruary. Rye wns stoady at 68c, Dar- loy waa less netivo; No.2 was 2o higher, but closed wenk at 80c; No, 8 was steady at 66@08c. Live hogs wero fairly uctive, and closed steady at £8.05@8.90. There was very littl doing in the cattlo market, Sheop were firm, Another phaso of tho transportation question is boginning to dovelop itself, which throatens to work & serious injury to Chicngo in one of Lior most important brauches of businows, Tho cattle trade of tho city is now in o vory un- healihy condition, uwing to tho inahility or the unwillingnoss of the managers of rnilrond lines leuding to tho seaboard to furnish suitablo and sufliciont facilities for tho whipmeut of cattle to the aut. Bollors nre compelled to look to shippors for the ubsorption of tho bulk of the cattle which cro sont to this market, and, when the shipping demnud is diminished nenrly one-lalf, as it i now, by tho ecarity of cars, prices, of couvse, must suifer corvospond- ingly, and tho loss falls mout Leavily upon pro™ ducors, The market knu now beeomo go gorious- ly ai¥ectod that some means thonld be dovisod at onco to romedy tho ovil, or tho stock trado of tho eity may receive a blow from which it will tale o long timo to rccover, Alroady, large num- bors of eattlo, which, but for thisdrawbuck, would souk our markot, uve boing forwurded Eastward through other chunuels. Chicago cannot ufford to ot hier euttle market Lo endangored in this mannor, A London correapondent conoludos, not un-~ nnturally, thut tho rosults of tho Hugllsh uys- tom of taxation should teach Amorleans (o put an ond to that “protective” system by whieh Ametican industry, irade, and commorco sro made to wall in fotters, nudlo do theirwork with ono hand tiod Lehind them, In England, your aflor yoar, tux after tux s takon off, nnd the ale ready vory small list of dutinble avticles wiill furlbor reduced, and yoar aftor yoar Lho rovouue bocomos larger. Industry Is unfettored and commerce is froo, and the less the people are taxcd the more money the Govornmont recelvos, 'he revenua vaturns for 1872 wese published on Jan. 1, and they ara certaluly the moat romarka- blo over publishod in uny country. ‘Tho total rovenuo has boen, ‘in round numbors, £77,700,000, or £888,500,000—nn increase of £6,470,609 over 1871l. The rate of tax of 1871 having produced n surplus, thore nag u reduction on tho tus, colteo, sugar, and oiler taxes, L'ho choaper tho things woro aado, the moroe the pooplo bought of them, and tho rosult was an increaso of tho ravenue to tho Goyornment, Fho rocolpty from gustoms wero LI UHILULGYU Daldlia LIWUSULYAY S LUnioDA G, JALUAR . 21, lose. e ——— T e eerepeememmen £108,760,000, which included only twonty-slx ar- ticlen. ‘Tho recoipts from boer and whiskoey wero $120,620,000, nu Increnue of §10,000,060 over tho lnut yoar, Thoe Amoriean oxperienco ias boon of n similar naturo, go far as reduction has bLoen trled. Yot, In tho faco of thoso facts, Mr. Bout- woll says that tho country con stand noreduction in the taxon, and the Protoction olemont of Con- grosy will not liston Lo any reduotion of tho tariff, A’'BEVENTY-MILLION DOLLAR OLAIM. ‘I'ho nows comes from Washinglou that all tho Sonators and Roprosontativos from tho cotton- growing Statos havo united in tho support of o bill dirocting tho rofunding of tho tax collected during the war on cotton. Tho wholo sum which thosoe gontlomon propose to draw from the Trons- ury fs 370,000,000, an amount which throws oven the magnifloont oporations of tho Oredit Mobilior in tho shado. This taxwas peid soveral yenrn ago. At that timo cotlon was in such demand that tho plantors received whatovor thoy nslked for it, Cotlonwas, in fact, King. Thotax, under tho clroumstancon, was nddod to the prico pnid by tho consumers. Nover bofore or siuco tho timo that tax was in oxistenco woro thore such pricos obtainod for cotton, Now comes tho demand that this tox bo rofunded,—that cotton shall not bo pormitted to contributo ite pittanco topny thodobtof the war. During tho four yoars of the war tho people of tho Southern Btates woro oxompt from taxation for tho sup- port of the Government, duct of tho North,—of tho flold, forest, rivors, and Inkes, of the mines, of the forgo or furnaco, that was not taxed, and taxed hoavily, not only to pay the oxponucs of the Govornment, but to mako good tho deflcioncy cnused by tho want of rovenuo from theee Cotton States. Tho wheat, corn, boof, and pork of tho great Wost wero taxod during that timo, and aro taxod yot, to pay that dobt. 'Uhis war-tex on tho agriculture of tho Wost has boen in operation ton years. It may bo countod at an averago of $70,000,- 000 mnnuaily, Why should we pay back tho war-tax collected for threo yoars only on cotton, and not the tax on poik? Tho fact that the tax on colton was called */ ox- port” in tho low does not chango tho eircum- atances, bocause the tax on broadstuffs sud pro- vieions ia an oxport tax in fact. Tho price of corn in London reguiates the prico of corn in the romotont villago on the frontior. The diffor- once bolween tha pricos at the two points is the cout of carrisgo, ‘The man who exchaunges his corn at 10 conts por bushel for cotton snd woollon goods, pays In corn tho tax lovied by tho Govornment on theue exchango producta. A million of bushels of corn in London is worth £100,000 to tho man who rained tho corn in Iowa. Whon ho undertakes to purchase with it cotton and woollon goods, ho has firsl to put ssido 210,000 for roturn froight from London to DesMoines; he then invests 815,000 in goods, and rotains tho other £45,000 to pay tho taxes lovied by the Government on all goods purchased abroad by an oxchango of corn and pork. Yor Lis million of bushels of corn, which ho soldin London for §910,000, ho receives, all told, £45,000 in woollen goods, ho having paid 570,000 for freight upon railroads to Now York,—snid froights belng oxtarted to puy taxos upon rails, ears, machinory,—and hev- ing pald 260,000 for ocenn froights, and $10,000 for freight upou bis handful of return goods. Yot the producor of this corn, who ling been taxed out of ono-half the valuo of hig products for ten years, snd who from prosent appearances is to bo thus taxed overy your for tho next half contury, is not considorcd as a tax-payer, while the cotton-producers, who paid 73,000,000 of tax in threo years upon an oxport having & veluo at the plrco of growth beyond all precodent, aro to bo refunded tho pittance which wae their first and only contribution to the oxponeos of the war. If the Credit Mobilior, with its prospective profits of $30,000,000, was too strong o tompta- tion for so many men, aud cminent men in Con- gress, what are we to expect from o proposition to divido $70,000,000—all cash ? Tho ownors of (hio tax-receipts on cotton are the commiesion agents, factors, and brolkers, whobought the cot- ton, paid tho tax, andsold it abrond, Thosoro- coipts havo beon bought up fora fowconts on tho dollay, and tho prosent holdora can well afford to dividoe £40,000,000 to purchaso the passage of this bill to refund tho cotton-tax, Tho record of votes since 1864 upon all Prcifio Nnilrond meas- ures has now becomo a mattor of deop intorost. Popular attention is now fixed upon all theése #chomes for tho deplation of the Treasury, sud ovory man who votes to take this monoy from the Treasury, to divide emong & gang of specula- tora, must oxpect to give bottor oxcuscs for tho samo than havo beon given so far by those who investod in tho Crodit Mobilier fraud. OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM. The proposition which Senator Morton, of Indiana, recontly made in tho Sonate, in conneo- tion with an olaborato roview of the subjoct, was that tho xoformation of our Electoral systom should be reforred to a Committoo authorized to it during the vacation, and inatructod to report ot the noxt sossion such measures as may be deemed neoded. 'Tho exigencios and dangers which beset onr progent systom beeame espo- cially notable in tho late clection, though the country wan fortunnto enough to escepa the se- rions consequoncos which might have ensued with o slight chiange in the circumatances of tho olootion. Among tho possiblo dangoers of re- taining the Eloctoral Collogo, the following aro obvious : 1. If M. Groeloy had received n majority of tho popular vole, and hud diad hoforo the Blec- toral Collogo mat, it ls enlirely probablo that tho Electora who would liovo votod for him hnd ho lived would have boen so divided in their cholce thut the Urant Xleotora might kavo-gocured n mujority in the Collego. 1In this cnse, the yo- litienl sontimont of the majority of tho people would linve been defoated ; und 1t i not difiicult to conceivo the effect upon tho popular mind, 1I. Bo loug s tho system of clecting tho Prou- idont through sn Rluectoral Colloge prevails, there ia dunger of bribory, fraud, and a be- teeyal of tho trust, Ihero {8 no doubt that the orlginnl iden of the systom was, that tho choico of Prosidont should bo commiiled fully and finally to the Electoral College, Under tho pro- valling praolico, howover, the Eloctors slm- ply roprosent cortain political parfios, the chiolcs of each parly for Prosident boing cloaly indicated in ndvance, 'Tho Tlectoral Collego i simply » voting muchino, with the differonce that it los in the power of tho mon comprising it to botray tho trust that Iy confidod to them. IIL In tho Btato of Loulsinua thoro woro two Electoral Collegoy, oach claiming tho right to cast tho vots of tho Btate, Mr. Morton natu- rally concelves that, if tho choce of Prosident wore tu be detormined by the vote of thia Btate, tho rospectivo olaims of the opnteating Colloges There Was not & p1o-" would excita tho paoplo to such nn oxtont that n declslon” elther way Would be likely to'caudo n popular uprising. Such & contlngonoy might arino at any time, y 1V. Tho practico of recelving and counting tho Eloctoral voto s full of danger. - It now rontn ontivoly with tho Vieo Prosident to dutormine the justico in overy caso whoro tho Electoral voto of a Htato In in disputo, Congroas hus do- cidod that ita only duty in to count tho vote prosented by the Vieo Prosldent, Tha final responsibilily of choosing the Drenldent, then, moy root with one’ man, undor cortain clrcum- stancos, Undor s rule of Oongross, adopted in 1865, tho voto of o Btate is subjoct to rojection at any timo ‘by a combination of polittcians, ‘Whon an objoction is mado to the counting of o Blato voto, it in provided that tho Bonato shall retiro, both bodlon shall deliborato soparately, and, unloss tho two Illousos shall coucur, the vote shiall not bo countod. It will not Lo donied that thomo dangors aro formidablo; and, an tho Xlectoral Collogo is no Iongor o principal, but only a cumboraome, agont in tho choico of Presidont, somo satisfactory monns for disponsing with it would be accopta~ blo, It doca not follow, howaover, that the prac- tico of voting for President by Btates ‘shall bo sbendoned bocause the Electoral Collogo ought to bodropped. Mr, Morton favors the method of olooting the Prestdont by the mejority of the popular voto, but fools that such a proposition would not bo sustained by tho,country. Iio, thereforo, revives the proposition that the peo- plo shzil vote by districts’ in Prosidontinl eloc- tions. s plan is that oach Stato sholl have Prosidentinl Districts to correspond with tho Congressional Distriots, and that the vote of the majority ot theso districts throughout the Unlon shall olect the Prosident. Tho peoplo would hesitate bofora agrecing to so radical a chango, To drop the Eloctoral Collegos, hut to retain the uystem of voting by States, would not affect tho original intention of thoso who formed tho Governmont. But to oloct the Pros- {dout cithor by s majority of the popular vots, or by n majority of districts iuto which the whole country would bo eubdivided, would be utterly ignoring Btato linos and Stalo positions 83 integral parts of the Union. * It ucoms, howover, that the plan of voting by districts may bo adapted to the purpose of abol- ishing tho Eloctoral Collegd without falling into tho fundamontal orror of Mr. Morton's plan. Lot oach Htato have n number of Prosidential votos equal to, and correkponding with, tho Con- grossional Districts, and let cach district witlun a Stato count its popular vote for Prosident,— tho majority of tho districts to dotormino tho voto of the State, Each State may then cortify 1ts own votes, oqual to the number of districts, diroctly bo Congress, In this mattor, each State is tho jndgo of any contest that may ariso os to the majority, which it may yofor and sottle, us it docmsbo st, it boing simply roquired to return its votes to Congross by a certain day, undor ponalty of forleiting them. Buch a plan would render an Eloctoral College entirely usoless, and would doprive the Vico Prosidont and Congress of their presont facili- tios for determining the Prosidontial vote under cortain circumotancos. Congross would have nothing to do but count the votos roturned to it. Buch a system, too, might opon tho way ovontually for an application of the Minoxjty Toprosontation plan of voting within . the’ Btates to tho Prosidential electiony, “if fits merits should prove sufficient to warrant its adoption. But, at all ovents, it scoms to do away with tho sbusos that aro posoiblo undor tho prosont systom, without mutilating tho in- tegrity of the Btate Governments in their rola- tiona to tho Federal Union. The plan which ghiall best accomplish this purpose must be tho object that tho Congressional Committes should keop most prominently in view. BELFISH LEGIBLATIOH, It often takes tho experienco of yours to dovelop the influence of special legislation upon tho interests of tho public. Tho beneficial offects, for instanco, of some great public im- provemont aro seriously impairod, sometimes destroyed, by the solfish schomes of thoso who are detormined to line thoir own pockets at tho exponso of the people. For moro than twenty yoars it has bieen a won- der how the projoctora of tho lllinois and Michi- gan Canal could have beon go stupid as to dig o “ narrow ditch ” for u hundred miles from Chi- cago to the head of mnavigation on the Illinois Rivor, making it necesaary to have long, narrow boats, with comparativoly light tonnago, which, when loaded, could bo towed up and down thoIllinols only whon the river was high, while, with lss exponso, by © sortos of locks and and dams up 8o far ns Lake Joliot, porhaps to Lockport, and thoneo to the Chicago River by a brond, shnllow eanal, steamers from tho Missis- sippl, with moro frelght thau o dozen caunl- boats could carry, could heye como directly to tho docks of Chicago. The enrly history of the canal shows that ita frlonds fully approciated tho great sdvantagos of slackwator navigation over thatby anarrow diteh, Thero was much discussion and sn netive and bittor canvass botween the two parties. Tho frionds of tho slack-wutor projoct sont to Now York sud procured tho sorvices of the most ominent civil enginocor of his timo, Mr, Wright, who made a survey botween Ohicago and Poru, snd demonstrated boyoud a question that a systom of locks and dams, and a broad, whallow canal admitting tho passage of atoamors from the lakes to the Missivsippi was not only far tho cheapont, but that it would be worth vastly more to tho commorco of the Mississippl Vulley than the narrow ditoh, By it, a gtosmor might have come from the . mouth of tho Yollowstons, or from Bt. Paul divect, to Chicago, In faot, no man can now ndequately ostimato tho advantrgo such o canal would have boen to Ohieago and the entiro Northwost, ‘The friends of the rival pro- Joets woro boforo tho Logialature with their ro- porty, and their focts and figures ; thore had been tho usurl amount of huncombo spoeches ; but, 80 manifostly did the * broad gauge ™ finprovomont hiavo the advantage, that the bill paased onedny, just boforo dinner, by a mujority, if wa rightly remember, of four votes. But, to tho surprise of avery ono, a8 poon as tho Loglslnture assambled -intho aftornoon, & reconsideration was moved, and thocounter project was adopted by a majority of ono or two voles, 0Of course, the quostion is portinent, by what baloful influence & chango co injuriouns to our city, and to tho comuorco of the country, could hava boan offocted ? A fow sohoming self- ish politiciaus ownod tho land at LaSallo, whoro it wou proposed totorminate tho * narrow ditoh" and to build & groat city, It was believed mrod charged thut cortaln lots and blooks on the town plat of LaSalle changed hands hotweon tho slttings of tho Legixlatuto, and with that came & chango of tho roquisite numbor - 'of votes Lut tho offort to ontlch & few political echomers has cost our city and the Northwest millions of nionoy, Tho Northwest will nover hnve tho commorcinl faoflitios absolutely carontial to ita prospority (ill thio origlnal plan s cartod out, and by s sysiom of locks and dama on the Illinols Tiver and the enlargemont of tho eanal from Tookport or Joliat Lake shnil admit tho pssago of steamora botwoon tho lukos and tho Miwsin- sippl. The gauge of tho rullways in tho Northiern and Bouthorn Hintos Is so difforont,—n part, no Qoubt, of the schomen of tho Routhern politi- clans boforo tho war to eatabllsh n SBouthorn Confodoracy. Tho gaugo of tho Grand Trunk and othor Cenndinn railwnys is 6 foot 0 inchon, whilo that of the ronds on thig side of the lino 18 4'foot 8%¢ Inchon, This is asourco of much an- noyanco, and oxponse ss well, to tho commerco belweon tho Dominion sud tho Staten. This: difforonce in gaugo hind Its orlgin in unmitigated solfishnoss, Whon tho Grand Trunk was pro- Jooted, tlio pooplo of Portland, Mo., propored to build a connecting line to tho bonndary bo- twoon Cnunda nnd tho United Statos, and leaso it to. tho Grand Trunk at 6 por cout on tho cost, provided that the Directora swould adopt a gaugo of " 534 foot, and the “brond tread " was carriod. Tho roal objoct of Portland in making the broed gauge an ezaential requisito, was to effectually debar Doston from any share in tho Canadian trado. Thoy thought that the cont of transhipmont would forover givo thom amonopoly of that businesn, © But an oxtrs rail has long sinco, it womistake mnot, given the cars of the Grand Trunk diroct acceas to Boston, Exporionco hay demonsatrated that it costs much moro to run s wido than n narrow gaugo rond, and wo hoard tho membern of the Oanndian Parlismont, two yoars ago, discnea for & whole ovening the quos- tion wlhother they would save onough in the run- ning of tho road to pay the interost on tho cost of changing ils gaugo, Theso ozamples are given to chow how immensely a whole people may bo taxed and Inconvonionced: for n genera- tion, in order to bonofit & fow selflsl schomers, | [ Tho lest foroign mails bring the intolligenco of the closing of tho famous Wiesbaden gaming oatablishmonts, which took place at 11 o'clock ou tho night of Doc. S1. As the timo ep- pronchied, tho rooms becamo 80 donsoly crowdod that the directors found it nocessery to admit visitors by tickots only, Tho profits during the year have beon enormous. Aftor paying sl ex- ponsen, 5,000 franca & day, including the yearly tax of 200,000 florins to tho Prussian Govern- ment, tho eheroholders have received intorest on thoir capital at the rate of 107 per cont per oonum. A correspondent of the London News uways that some of tho croupiera, now that thoir occupation is gone, Liave boon rotainod by M. Blano, tho former pro- priotor, for sorvico at Monaco. Others are go- Ing into trado, and all will soon bo nbeorbed in tho whopkeeping and commoreial world, This correspondont eays: ‘ These croupiors, as o rule, are & woll-conducted body of menj any- thing but tho ferocious crontures of Gustave Dorc's picture, In appearanco thoy aro the type of the banking clork. Tho same habit, for long yonrs, of montal calculation and of incesaantly hondling money, hus given the sxmo aspoct to both. It is ‘a good thing thot play is coming to an end, Evon tho croupicrs do not regrot it. More than one has said tome, ‘I havo loat tho bost yonrs of my lifo in this Ignoblo service, and I should havo dono ‘much better in every way for myself and my family bad I beou engagod in & moro respectabls calling.’” . Tho effect of the stoppage of play, itisthought, will nct difforontly upon Hambourg and Wics- baden, Inmbourg will beeemo again the quict villago it wus before M. Dlane transformed it, in 1842, futo tho motropolis of the Gorman gaming placos, Wicsbaden will fmprovo by the chango, | s many respoctzble familios intond soitling thero, who would not have doue so undor the former staté of things. B The London Times has rigon to the dignity of belag sued for libel by o Government, the libel boing that tho Times publishod a communica- tion, elloged to have boen signed by the Turkish Miniater in London, contnining untrue ctate- monts wilh referenco to the financea of tho QGovernmont of Turkey. With all duo deforence to the Sultan of Turkey, thers aro very fow people who will not congidor that ho has mnade an ass of himself, whatover the atate of his finences may bo, Tho T'tmes should now como into Court and establish tho goneral bad charactor of tho plaintiff, and show thet hia statomonts aro not worthy of be- liof, Lot it produco testimony to show that ho slts crose-legged, 88 no gontloman should; that ho eats opium and keeps himoelf stupefied with coftce and {obauco; that ho conapols Lis subjects to undergo tho diurnal torments of a Turkish bath; that o keeps a hnrom in deflanco of his duties to tho Sultana ; that, whon lie gets tired of ono of his concubinos, he tios ber up in a snck and throws hor into the Bosphorus, ns food for tho fishos; that he bowstrings his subjocts whonover ho feols like it; that ho is constitu- tionally lazy, and uttorly contomptiblo inthe oyos of everyone; that Lo is n religious and po- litical dospot; that for such o man as this to sue & respectablo newspaper for libelis a clear case of contempt for the Céurt in which tho actionis brought, and that the ovidence of such n man cannot bo believed. ——— Wo print olsewhoro a communication with roferenco to tho rocont’ burning of tho Firat Congrogationnl Church, in which the writer, who spesks witl suthority, puts o difforent con- structlon upon the causos which lod to tho dootruction of the churoh, or, rather, leaves tho real cause in mystory. By the writer's own statoment, however, it appenrs that thore was a wooden duet for tho oscape of foul sir noear by tho loeslity where the fire was discovered; that this fluo oxtonded to the roof, and that ita covering on tho top and its valyes wore open. The writor's communicution, while it corrects somo statomonts in tho oviginel erticlo, which wora supposed to be correct, does uot affoct tho losson wo sought to convey, namely, that no building should bo built with woodon fluen, wooden olavator-ways, or wooden dumb-waitora, They aro at bost but tire traps so constructed s to convey flamos from tho basoment to the roof in tho shortest possible timo, and in the most direct manner. ——— The London Lancet has somo suggestions to ofter upon tho question of cash and credit in the modical profosuion, with tho view toimprove upon the universal custom among goneral practition- ers of sending in bills aunually, as this practice compoly them to buy on credit noarly overything they desire, and gots thom ontanglod in running nccounts with patients who are purveyors of noceusarios, ‘Tho Lance urgos that tho profes- slon should teke sdvantsgo of tho growing pub- lie opinion in favor of cash tramsaotions, and aboliuh the sunual system entiroly, It also rec- omntonds that every medical man who is not woalthy should make & doduction 1u his charges to thoso who would pay him promptly, The first proponition would undoubtedly bo very pop- ular umong the profession; the second would bo very popular among the people. —— The Olty Physiclan of Springfleld, Mass., 18 & woman, It is suid thnt sho has not mude a singlo blunder during her offleial caroer; that gho Lias attended 100 mioro.pationts then any of hor prodocessors in tho snmo longth of tiuo, at $100 loes oxpenso ; and that, soting ay nurse ag woll as doctor, hor practico amoug tho poor hns boon spocially bonoflefal, It &l thiy in truo, we vonture to say that sho will bo ro-clestod, THE COUNCIL. Atother Veto and Another Recon- sideration, Washburn's Twolve-Hour Ordor Tolked About, Dr, Rauch’s Garbage Contractor Called to Account, A rogular meoting of tho Council wes hold last ovening, Ald. McAvoy in the Chair. There wero prosent: Ald. Dixon, Warren, McGonnias, Cooy, Sldwell, 8tono, Pickering, Tracoy, Schmitz, Cullerton, McClowry, Clowry, Dailoy, Powaell, O'Brien, Olork, Sweet, Kohoo, Heath, Minor, Bherwood, Mooro, Oloveland, Quirk, McGrath, Eckhardt, Stout, Mahr, Longachor, Sohnffner, Carnoy, Caunon, Ogden, Brandt, Woodman, and Qorcoran, THE REMIASION OF FINES, Tho subjoined communication was recolved from tho Mayor: GENTLRMENt T roturn, without my approval, the or- der pasacd on {ho 13th of January, 1574, ordering iho City Comptrollor to pny to Jamen Doylo tho sum of £0.50, for romlssion of fino §mposcd at the Bouts Sldo Yollco Court on Dec, 17, 1873, for violating the ordi- nanco concorning voliiclon, Tho rocord of thio Gouncll proceodings show mo cause or reason for tho Teturn of sald fino, Tho roport of tho Judiclary Come mitfee simply statcs tbat thoy *recommend ia paes- sge.” In order {o supply this omisalon, T have fnstis tuted somo inquiry, and find the followlng stato of facta: 1. Tho said Doylo was arrested by tho polico for "drtving a tesm without tho namoof tho owner snd tho uumber of his llcenso displayed on his vehiclo, ond also for driviog without n license, in' plain violstion of Buctiona 8 and 5 of ‘Chaptor 47 of tho Rovised Ordinances. 9. The ordor dirocta tho repayment of 30,60, wherens thho utn recelved by tho city Wan only £5, ua'sliown by the record of the Tolica Court, which Jodkw aa it tho delinquont was trying to more thau rolinbureo himself attor his violstion of tho ordinance, . If this fine 18 Tepald, on what grounds of justico, can all tho other flucs imposed for nimilar violationa bo withbold? For theso reasons, I roturn tho order ta your houorablo body for furthor consideration, Respectfully, Joserit MEDILL, dayor, Tho voto by which the ordor was pnsnod wos roconsidored, and the ordor recommittod. TILEY WANT TILE FOR THEMELVED, Ald. Dixon prosontod o potition, signed by 450 citizons Lvmlk:nmeu), complaining of tho now rules and rogulations of tho polico force, com- pelling them to be on duty for 12 hours, and po- titioning tho Council to look into tho orders, and havo somo change made by which they may bo allowed somo timo to thonmelves and somo to thoir families, +Tho potition wns roforred to tho Board of Po- lico Commisgioners. * MORE OF TIE BAME, Ald. Cullerton proscnted tho following ordor : Resolved : That tho Doard of Polico Commisaionors bo, and thoy aro heroby requested to roport to thia Council, at {ts nuxt reguiar meoting, the number of bours thet cach palroimon s, by tho rules of tho Bourd, or by tho order of tho Buperintendent, required to do duty i cacli of tho twonty-four Hours, both on tholr beais and in tho polica courts, Ald, Schaffnor did not linow what tho Common Council had to_do with the ordors of the Com- missionors or the Superintendont, The Council could not dircet tho Board in its orders. Ile thought tho order was an orror, but any sction ou the part of the Common Council wes n folly. The resolution was ndopted, TAX BALE TO DE ANNULLED. Ald. Btone presented n petition from Willinm Van Olonder, asking that ©37.77, pnid by him on proporty used as n streot by the city, bo refund- cd, and that & tux sale cortificato ownod by John TForsyth, who gm‘chnaod tho property ata tax salo for 240.30 ba cancolled, The potition was roferrod to the Committeo on gtreots and Alloys of tho South Division, MORE. YET AOUT POLICE MATTERS. Ald. Tracoy askod the prssago of tho follow - %1%, which was roferred to the Committeo on olico : ‘WiengAs, Underthe last genoral order {fssued by tho Superintendent of Police, it will bo impracticable for members of tho police foreo of this city to spend nh}' tinio with thelr familics ; thorcfore bo it teoaleed, By tho Gommon ' Qouncil of the Olty of Olifeago, that tho Board of Poli co be, and thoy aro Dereby, ' {nsiructed o couco eaid gemoral order to Le €0 modified that tho members of tho polica forco ehall not be required fo bu on duty for norg than six hours at uny one time, so that when thoy have beon on duty fof twelve hours 1hoy ebali be off duty for the noxt succeoding twelve Lours, AUST THEY DUY THEIR DELTS AND CLURG? Ald. Tmcez offored the following, which was reforrad to tho Clork for éngrowmetit: Wireneaw, Tho polico forcs of Chicago hinvo lately beou cowmpelled to purchaso tho belt and olub to ba worn by them whilst on duty: and, Wiznzas, Safd eits and clubs oo not o, portion of tho_regular uniform of sald policemon; therofore, o 1t Resolved, That the Comptrolier be, and ho ls heroby, ordarad to'refund thoamount paldinto the Gity Treas- ury Ly said police force for safd cluba and belts, Ald. Hoath thonght it would not bo wise to pass the reeolutions, If the policomen wero not paid onough to purchree olubs and bolis their Yn{ might be raised, but tho opinion of the Superintondent and Polico Commixsioners was that tho clubs and belts should bo purchased by tho momnbors of the forco. The resolution was reforred to the Clerk for engrossmont. WOSE THAN TNE PERTILIZING BMELLS. Ald. Bailoy prosented the following, which was roferred to tho Committoo named. Tho attention of tho public, na you sro well awaro, within tho pust ten daye fas Deen called to the ret ‘movel, or attompted removsl, of the Yertilizing Com- pony’s works from Ainsworth. Thoattontion of this Council §5 reapectfully valied to a nulsauce’ likely to prove mora terribio to tho citizens of Chicago than ia tho Feriilizing Company's works fo the peoplo of yde Purk, I rofor to tho manner in whicl: thdgar- bugeof tho city is being collected by tho Board ‘of Iealtls througl thoir contrac 1 havo tine and again called tho attontion of Dr. Rauch to this matter, bLut bhove so fur been uuablo to discover any chango in tho colicction of such refuso, ‘Wholo strocto in tho Elghth Ward have not recelved a call for tho last elght months, cousequently tho streots sud gutters prosontau appeatanco st prescut uot vory plezsing to' tho eye; but wheu we contemplate thie early spring, coming of warm woather, wo hav tho ‘plensing usatiranco that tho dreaded cholers, nowin tho Braty Wil causg u dopopulation gratifytog enly to ournoble Bosrd of Health oud their contractor, X would recommend that the matter of enforcing this contract for removal of garbago and mattor kindred to it Lo referred to the Committeo on Strects aud Alloys, Wost Division, PAYING ALDERYEN. Ald. Tracoy presonted thefollowing, which was adopted : Witeneas, Thoro fas desiro on tho part of the taxe payers of this city that the Aldormen should bLe puid a &alary sufticient fo compeusate thein for the amount of timo Tost fu tho sorvice of the city ; thorefore, bo it Itgsolved, That tho roprosentalives of Cook County in tho General Assombly o, and they arolbereby, request- ad to usp thelr influenco to sccuro tho pasiago of an act providing a salary for tho Aldermeu of this city, of ok cse thatk $1,000 & yent s and bo it furthor Resolved, Thnt tha City Clork be, und fa bereby, To- qucated to furnish a certified copy of thia resolution to wach of the members of the Geucral Asscmbly, CLEARING TIE IDEWALK, Ald, Schnitz prosonted an ordor dirceting tho Board of Public Works to causo tho romoval of lumber pileg now lying on tho sidewnlk on Six- teonth stroet, botwoon Arnold nud Grovo strects. Tt was roferred to tho Board. STORING BITAVINGS IN THE OITY LISITS, Ald. Bailoy prosentcd an order dirocting the Board of Polico and Firo Commisgsioners to pro- hibit tho storing of shavings in tho city Hwits. Roforred to tho Committoo on Polivo. TIIE DEARBORN STHEET EXTENSION, ‘The Board of Public Works presentod & roport upon the Dearborn atroot extension, stating that an ordinance upon the subject would bo pro- sonted at tho next meoting of tho Council, It waa placod on filo, WIDENING THE BOUTI BRANCM. The following commuuication wus rocoived from tho Board of Public Works : In fllugcmfl 1869 nnl 1870, appropriations were mado by your houorabla budy for th purpose of widening tho Bouth Brauch of the Chicago River at Twonty-soc~ ond etroat, 8o s to give a chuuuel along tho west side of thobridge, ‘Tho riverat thin pout beiug narrow aud crooked, much troubls and_inconvenionce was caunod to tho pussago of vesucls, Batisfuctory srranges 1nonts wero mado with tho owners of the proporty aud & portion of tho work cowmpleted, but tho damanda of o lenseholders wcro buch — (in' one instanco) that the Doard wero unwilling to comply with them, Theso lewses have now oxpired, and the psmo proposition from tho owner of the 1and hias beon renowed, witha stipulation that the dock to bo built aud tho land taken bu removed before the opontng of navigation in tho spring, The Board cons s{der thio propoition a favorublo ono, und would rec- ommiend Its adoptiou and 84 early o considoration by your houorablo budy as 1 posatbloto givo it, The conelderation to bo paid for the laud ia $5,000, tho city to build a good substantial doclk on the river {n front of tho proporty. Tho ap- proximate smount of dredgling 18 7,000 cublo foot, which will cont £8,600 ; and 270 linoal faut of dook ut 3800, aggrogating $3,100; total, 1t waa reforred to tho Committeo on Harbora and Bridgos. UE NEVISED ONDINANCES. Tho epecial order of the ovoning, tho consid- oration of tho rovised ordinauces, was then takon up. The ordinanco eniftled “An Ordinanco for | 8200, Tovising and Coneolidating tho Ordinancos of tho City of Chicago’ wns taken up and passod. BYECTAL ORDER FOR ONDAY EVENING, Ald, Schaffoor moved that the roport of the Spocial Committrs of Niuo bo made tha spocisl ordor for noxt Mondny ovouing. Adopted. EXTENDING EXTINGUIGHING FAOILITIES, The ongrossed ordinnnco nuthorizing tho pur- ohare of Dubeoele engines and tho oroction of boll towors, heretafore published, was takon up. Ald. Medrath movod an amondment providing for the purchano of an engino of tho Ahron's ot Cinoinnati pattern. Tho nmondment adopted. Ald. Bhorwood roveroly eritiolsed the Brionock enginos, ftor conmlderablo dlroussion, a vetlo wad takon on waiving the ongrosmnont of the ordie nanco, which resnlted in tho nogative. It wag thon reforrod to the Clorle for ongrossmont, and made the special ordor for Monday ovenjng at 10 o'clock, wog 19 1T LEGAL, Ald, Plekoriug offored tho following, whick was adoptod : Resolved, That the Corporation Coungel bo requeatod to report fo thin Counatl, nt ta noxt regular mooting, in writing, whether the police forco can o legally fue creasod at thin timo, ANTICIPATING A FRESRET. Ald, McGrath presented the following, which wan edopted : i ‘Resolued, Thnt tha Board of Public Works bo, and thiey aro lierchy requested to canso to bo romoved from the ditchen, calverts, und caich basina in tho outsido districts of tho city 'all tho accumulntions of asher, Lioune-rlops, nnd garbago, in ordr that o freshet w3y Do avoldod during tho approaching spring, Tho Council adjourncd. CONSECRATED TO TERPSICHORE. Turner Hall Now Completcly Dedicated. The Grand German Ball of Last Evening. Why it Was Unlite tho Ono of § Sheridan’s, The dedication of tho now Turner IHell, on North Clark street, which was commonced St~ urday aftornoon, was onded ¢ an carly hour this morning, having beon going on, with occnsional intermissions, for about thrae days, thus afford- ing a comploteness of * dedication which leaves but little to bo dosired. Saturday, physical cul- turo; Bunday, music and singing; Monday, dancing. To have medo it porfect, nothing wau Incking but o littlo dedieatory political meoting on Tuesday, the first of tho eories which will Lhoroaftor bo hold thoro. Tho ball yosterday ovoning was given, not only to consocrate the new hall to Terpsichioro, but to onablo tho Gormans to oxpross their joy st the complotion of their tabernacle. Their happincss manifosty itsel? as,naturally by danc- fug 06 did that of David, whou tho ark was brought back from its captivity, only their motions aro o littlo moro graceful than thoso of tho King of Israol. The dancors came from all parts of the city, from the robuilding North 8ide, from thoe South Bide, and from tho Weat, and ovon from those suburban towns where tha chill atmoi~ phore of temperance has not made it impossibla for & German to live. The now, frosh hall was not disfigured with docorations. A couplo of Amorican flags hung abovo tho musicians, in ordor to remind thom that ovory one of them was oxpected to do his duty, But whilo there was so littlo of tho orna- montal, the practical Gorman mind hed taken care of the useful. Asin the daysof old, tho spaco undor tho gallerics was filled with tables, ood thero sat tho old mon, tho dowagors whoso danein; dnys were over, and tho young ladies when thoy wanted rest botwoon the duuces. Tho waiters navigated sofoly through the crowd, thoir fingers enringed with glasses. Tha Turners, in their linon couts, folt thomsolves to be tho hosts of the ovenivg, and woro in u. constant state of effervesconco. Owing to their gymnastio training, they wero nnbled to shake hands fo an inerediblo oxtont ‘without apponring fatigued by it, with the cxs coption of onoyoung Tarner who had committod tho mud act of guumg o pair of white gloves which woro too small for him. Having goi itone half on, he found thas ho could noithor ndvance nor rocado; neithor take thom off, nor put them on, sud Tomained noutrplized during the ovoning, What originel ‘Tarner, Ceplain Qund, . was nlso -~ prosont, but ov- ing to thio late arbitrary ordor of Superintondont ‘Washburn, forbidding ofticors of tho police forcu to danco whilo on duty, ho took no part in the amusements of the ovening, oxcopt to keop tima to tho musio with his foot. This was not oue of thoso aristocratic balls to ‘whlel tho ladics go in cnrriagos ouly, but muny of thoso who wero present cemo by the siroot cars, and, thorofore, found tho gontly falling Bnow a great uuisance, spoiling thoir hats and wotting their foot. Dut for thiy, the atlendauca from distont parts of tho city would hayo beer much greater than it actually was, 8till, in spito of the weathor, the room was crowdod, tho musia admirablo, oud the dnnuim;s Was kofit up with vigor—there was no languid dancing thevo. %rdlnm-uy tho eseeutial part of a ball is to givo & description of tho drosses,—r labor of oat difliculty for ono who hos not enjoyed in~ imato relations with drossmalers, or Iind itom- ized bills roferred to him by his wifo. To trust another woman is imposaible, since sho has eyea for tho drowses of hor fricuds alono, They figuro in silk, laco, and initials, All othora ap- oar in plain stufly, poor luco, and names in Blnnk. But the new system obviates that por~ ploxity. Every Indy who desires to bo dosoribed writes off_her costrimo on & couplo of siips of paper, and has them hendy in her pocket, Dur~ ing tho ovoning, somo timo Letweon the firsf dance and the oystors, she soos A young manm who does not danco, whose black “suit seome to havo beon Lorrowed plecemenl from bhis frionds, and who chows & peucil. To him she beckons, Ho approachos, and sho asis if ho ropresonts o paper. Ho unfuhudooa. Bhogives him ono of hor slips, and glides off sorens, suroe of a ntistactory paragraph on tho morrow. Tha German ladies heve uot loarned this triclk, nor if they had, would thoir handwriting bo intolli~ giblo to American oyes. 8o in tlis caso itis nocossary to fall buok upon gonoralitics, to aay that all wero woll dressod; that all woze the bost they bad; that silk, poplin, alpaca, and all other dopartments of dry goods, werg u:tln(uctonls represonted ; that somo wore diemonds, au somo Attloboro jowelry; that some wore blondes, and gomo brunettes ; somo protty, some homol{. To namo the long list ovor would only be to foed the vanity of woman, hnd that i not the function of n papor. Tho costumes woro not as fino as thes were af Qonoral Bheridan’s ball, but, then, tho ladieg wero prettior. If one goes in for aristocracy nnd siik, wo havo to digponso with h““‘i and @ tresh comploxion, At the aristocrotic ball ona moats the samo old faces, known for years,—tho # gtanding-matter” of socioty ‘i;uautp. Dut at & Turper Hall ball ono ig troated to o guccession of charming surprises. The face of the young lady in blu s surcly tho ono ho saw behind a counter in the shop whore ho wont to buy somae buttous. That girl in plaid is idontified “with a grocory storo, Tho ono with dark lnir ig the daughfer of tho _houss whore his friond boards, and the ono moxt hor awakens vaguoe momories which ho cannot locato. Lheladies woro not pallid and dio-nway. ‘Thoir walats woro not mere hyphens connectin tho u})pur and lower parts of their bodies, bul manifost realitios. Much has been anid in tho past rolative to tho Gorman anklo, and all thatis nocosusry to bo snid now du, that 1€ hng not dete- riorated. Thoso ladies wero no sylphs, and thoy texed tho oapacity of tho hall to tho utmost. Thoy onjoyadthomeolves, and appenrod igno- Tant of the fact that thore wns such & thing as ennui. Tho supper wna an oxcollont one, and wa3 hoartily onjoyed, for nothing glves such anm appotito as ‘fmmxfl and Into howvs, It Iy cus~ toumry to publish the Lill of fare; but that would sorve merely to oxcito tho envy and the hunger of those who wora not fortunate enough to be prosent, The food meltod away like anow- flakes falling upon a lthine-wine river, It yiold- od to the attacks of tho Gorman knifc and fork s Fronch armies did before Gorman sebro_snd bayonot, Tho walters remained dospondent, and barely gloanoed o mouthful, 'Tho dancing was kopt up to an absurd hour, end, it any ono wondoris w!ay 80 fow pooplo come down from tho North Bldo this foronoon, ha must rotlect thet many of them did not got ta bod till loug after midnight. ot ey —All in favor of an honest morsuroment of tho work on the Nebrasks Penitoutiary will say aye. 'The taux-poyors, good, houest, patient souls, want to know what they hgye ao‘ for thelx Y00, 0mala Herald,