Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1873, Page 2

CUR PUBLIC LIBRARY. First Annual Report of tho Board of Directors, Information for the Mayor, Coun- oil,; and People, The Grand Work Accomplish- ed in a Year. Over Ten Thousand Volumes Will Soon Be on the Shelves. The New Library Building-=- Financial Statomont, Y (he Honorable the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Chieago: ‘Tho Board of Diroctors of the Chloago Publio Library bog loave to horowith presont to your tionorablo body their first anunual report. The act of the Genoral Assombly of tho Biate, passod MMarch 7, 1872, by virtue of which tho Publio Library has boon established (8oo. 7), roquires that tho Board shall mako, on or bofors the - pocond IMonday in June of each year, sn annusl fiat duy of January roport to tho Oity Council, “‘stating the condi- tion of their trust on the firat dayof Juno; tho ‘yarious sums of monoy recoived from the Library fund, ard from other sources; and how puch monoys have boon oxpended, and for what purposes; the numbor of books and periodicals on hand ; tho nuwber addoed by pur~ ohane, glft, or otherwise during the yoar; the number lost ormissing ; the number of visitors #ttonding ; the number of books loaned out; and tho general characterand kind of such books, with othor statistics, information, and suggos- tions a8 they mny doom of goneral intoreat.” Theo Board of Diroctors, in accordauco with the statute above named, have compiled for tho pur~ poso the statistice in dotail, which are herowith presonted in the form of roports from the stand. ing committces of the Board, and statements ropared by the Scoretary of tho Board, showing gl dotail the progross the undorsigonod.have boen making in regard to the trust assigned thom by your seloction. ““As individuals, the mombers of your body nood littlo information as to the widely-pub~ lishod fact that * of the Library whe opomed (3 the people on ¢h of the Library was oponed to the people on the T e But, in moking this firat onfoial communication, it is only’ proper that the ‘public record should show what has been officially done. The undorsigned, there- | fore, bog loavo to stato that as soon as the Board of Public Works proceoded (under tho ordinance of April, 1872, passed by your body), establish- fng the Chicago P'ublic Library, ‘and set apart tho rooms now ocoupied as temporary quartors, tho Bonrd mndo the necessary preparations to open a public reading-room. Accordingly, & cat- alogue was propared of somo of tho loading pub- lications in Europe and Americe—consisting of poriodical, magazine, nnd newspaper igsuos— with which to furnish tho visitors, THE COST INCURRED was equal to o annual rato of abont $2,600, In moking which _thoy were assisted by he Comptroller, Mr, Burley, in anticipation of tlae " receipt ‘of moneys to be colect- ed from the tax "of 1872, to bo| sot apert under the Inw ms & Library. fund, aud which is to be oxponded under the diraction of this Board. Aa soon, tharoforoe, as tho rooms providod were turnod over to this Board, and at 88 onrly o day as tho same could Lo done, tho reading-room wad thrown open, aud tho 18t day of January, 1873, will always bo remombored in tho annnls of our city asa day from which will dato o brondor intollectunl oulture of the magsos of our population, BTATISTIOAL. ‘Tho accompanying papors appended, of tho stotistion of tho Library, pmfinrad by tho Bec- rotary, Mr. Wickersham, will show’ that sinco tho opening of the reading-room the total number of visitors has beon 50,088—that tho oumber has roached a duily avorage of 331 visitors; tho weekly averago has heen 2,819, and the monthly number or average has beon 10,007 up to tho1st day of June. ‘The \\'E\o]u numbor of issues of periodicals to roadors hins been 83,086; the numbor of daily issuos has been 226; wookly issues, 1,675; and monthly {ssues, 6,707, = Tt should bo noted a8 a fact in fsvor of the eo- 2088 atiending this movomont, so far, that the sork liag moro than realizod the expeotations of tho most sanguino advocates of the Free Library in large cities as an educational institution, In ao single instanco, within the knowledgo of tho Boord, has a citizon visited the roading-rooms :‘lnca tho opeuning without some expression of it} SULPRISE AND GRATITUDE at tho manifost beneficonco of which this mu- nioipal liborality is to be an inexhaustiblo source, 1t is supplying to thousands of the ynuu}z and ©ld of both soxes in tho ity the opportunity of that montal improvoment denied thom by a hard fortuno, or by penury &nd indigence., To whole clasges 1t afforda opportunity and means of om- sloying idle timo in the gratification of the most audiblo inclinations. And the essentinl charac- ter of the boneficence will always be in this : That ite blossings ctro distributed among the very classos who, thrown upon the world without other counsellors or friends than thosoe of books, aro ensily led nside into haunts og vico and folly—wasting time in places of ill roputation, contracting habits of crimo and ig- n‘omucu sucll ag disgrace our modern civiliza- tion. TUE LINNARY PROPER hins not yot been oponed to the goneral publie. Ttisopgn to any visilors, Lowovor, who dekiro to sos the progress the Board is making in the sccumulation of books, The ‘“tauk” is esti- matod a8 aqual to a capacity of holding 17,000 yolumes with tho shelves as now arranged. THE NUMDER OF YOLUMEY now on the shelves haa reachied a total of 6,852, This ehowa un inorense sinco the 1at of January of goms 4,000 volumes, We have s large num- Ler of valuablo pamphiots, amounting to 8,322, 0 tho books the Board Lave only pmhntxi 078 volumos—tho rest, some 5,874 volumos, camo as freo gifts to this Library from the poople of Eng- Innd, Germauy, I'rance, Ireland, Bcotland, and about 2,500 volumes are nearly all gifts from citizens of Chicago. FROM ENGLAND we have received, of the untional collection thero st on foot after our great firo, gomo 8,530 volumos, Thore ~ is atill to be. rocoived a spocial contribution of somo 1,000 or 1,200 volumes, the gift of Mr. Thomas Hughes, 31, P., and a few friends, I'he English Patont-Oficn roports, which havo been presont- ed by the English Patent-Oflice Commissioners, pumber some 2.800 volumes, the binding of which, in Loudon, this Board has ordered through its ngent, Mir. John Robson, at o cost of about 88,000, We aro not in possession of any procise data for estimating tho number of otlier volumes in the collection mmde for tho foundation of this Library in England, but wo aro advisod that soveral more cases, shipped by our agent, BIr. Robaon, aro now on thoir way to Chicago, 1t is probable that tho entiro English gift will when all the books are raceived, amount to n! Loast 7,000 volumes. Thoso, with the numbor of books lu the German colloction, ae woll as thoso regolved from other sourcos, will mako n graud total of some 10,763 volumes ; and tuis, too, itmay bo said, without as yet making auy considerable drlltdupan our Income, excopt for tho few nomed, Aud hore would boanappropriate place to form- ally oxpress toallthecontributorsabroad for their efforis In fouuding this Library in Chicngo sinco tho fire, as a ‘“‘mark of their sympathy,” the profound sonsc of gratitude so gonorally folt by all classes, had it not already been dono 88 well by this Doard, ‘s by tho Ohiof Maglstrate of tho city, Mr, Medill. It is for tho Common Council to ‘say what other rocognition o’r ackuowlodgment s proper uuder the cireum- stances. B Wo think it may bo safely assorted, in rospeot to all this colleotlon, that ravaly, it ever, has so large a collection of books beon made of rarer merit or graater valio than those now brought together in tho “Iron Yank," improvisod into a temporary place of rucuptfnn, under ciroum- atances which give to tho collection an intoreat neyer bofore atsociated with tho foundation of o publio library. YALUE OF HOOKS, The Board of Diroctors, In estimating the pommeroial value of the books already on our shelvos, for the erpoul of iusuring agalust Bro, hiave directed & policy of firo insurance to Do faken out for 10,000, " Tho probable value fa - $16,000 or §20,000, But tho nxiugipel value of many of the worke -|'the building, that there ia m.ay *will sosrcoly bear any pocuniary ostimate, Somo ars editions or-\vmk! :I;l which no duplicates ox~ Ist to bo purchased. Thus, the Eunglish Govorn- mont sonds 313 volumos, largo ootavo aize,of their -momorials and clionicles and ealondurs of Stato [upnr!, of correspondence and publio transac- jons with all tho civilizod countrles of tho Rlobn, from the earliost poriods of thoir history, 'hose, publishied by tho Mastor of tho English TRoll, undor authority of o spoolg] aot of Parlia- mopt passed. in .tho yoar 1800, have .ocoupled hundreda of transoribora and translators in all anguegon, at o cost of timo and monoy which reclude tho uttor posaibility of such'a thing oing evor undertaken as a privato enterpriso, Thie comploto eot of tho Inglish Patont-Offico roports, with some 177,000 spocifications, and 2,800 volumos, beeides the annual additions of. 140 volumes onoh year, can searcoly over go fnto b private owner or pufxllallor‘u hands, and thero aro but thres or four completo sots in the publio libraries of thiscountry. Tho Univorsity of Ox- ford, that most anclont soat of Luglish lenrulng, lins mado up and sent to Chicago a colloction of looks, which—nside from tho Jitera: imerit of_the works sont—aro, n style of bind- ings and typographical npfanmncu and work- manship, of a value whiok, for the same number of books, could soarcely bo roplacod in caso of loss. 'The Doard feol, in view of all that has boan thus done for the city ¢ 1Y STRANGENS, In respoct to the Library, grontaunxioty ssto what ia yot to bo done bfi, oursclves. The real work of ‘oponing this Library hoa yet to bo ac- rmmplmmdlJ both a8 to books and binding, Bo- fore. the Librarycan bo oponod, 20 as to dis- tribute .books and becomo a lendor. to the thoussnds who will bocomo rondors of them, a Jarge sum of monoy—sny at lenst $10,000—must bo oxpondod in purchasing, to place upon the slelves somo 10,000 volumes of tho proseworka of flotlon, of writers of tales, novols, works of biography, and history ; or, in other words,- the oheapar popular literaturc of .the day. ‘Those works, nccnrd\nfi to tho oxparionce of other pub- lio libraries of this country, constitute 76 to 78 por cont of all tha works called for, and that are taken to bo rond by tho massos of & clty popula- tion, Of such worka we hnvo as yot comparatiyo), fow. Wo aro fortunate, howover, in havin already acoumulated moro in tho' valuo than in tho quantity of tho worksacoumulated. In such a’library as wo are ostablishing, the character of tho books alroady on our shelvos ars a proper nuolous in the formation of a firun metropolitan library ; and o necossary foundation upon which Lh‘u ‘:‘\vnlls" of tho futuro *edifico™ should be raigod. TIIE NEW DUILDING. Beforo the Board can open tho Library to tho goneral public, oven far tho purpoeo of rendhxfi the works in the rooms, s new building wit! more saplo accommodations isn nocessity swhich tho publio must accopt as inovitablo, Fortunatoly, the diffioulty of providing for thia want will prnl.\nb}; bo eolved .8 soon as the funds oan bo fouud to purohase thobooks necag- sary to begin its_opoerations in londing out to borrowers. The Doard have ' scquired suffioient Lknowlodge of the works of othor librarics, at Doston and at Cincinnatl, to bo' eatisfied from thoir dwn oxporienco that vory different accommodations be required for ‘agsistants from those fur- nished by the Board of:Public Works in the ppresont temporary quarters. ¥ IT 18 A FONTUNATE CIROUMSTANOE, in all this progress wo have boon making, that ‘public opinfon from tho very first indicated the old Post-Oflico -site s a gm&urlocntlnn, and the ‘Dbullding itsolt, as boing in dimensions and sym- flll all requiromonts of a now Public Libre; building.. “Upon an exemination of the condi- tion of tha walls ond foundations, they wore found oqual in strongth to o rostoration of o building in siylo and proportions tho samo as before. The United States, after selocting an- other site for ita futnre use, had no neod of the ono abandonod, oxoopt for an Appraiser’s ware- houso or store for goods, and this roquired for convenience & river or walor front, The sug- geations of the public mind wore at onco acted upon, and conveyed to tho . United Btates - Treasury Departmont by clitizens of Chicago, who at onca opened a cor~ rospondence with the Soorotary of the Treasury, w‘lt dum objoct of accomplishing what was do- sirad; ‘The effort,—in which the membora of your ‘honorably body, united with the Mayor, Mr, Me- dill, the mewmbors of the Bonrd of Lducation, and also the Board of Directors,—in an applica~ tion to Congress for an oxchango with tho United Statos of the Iato Bridowoll lot on tha Chicago River, for tho Post-Offico sito, and building, on the corner and Doarborn strosts, rusnnufi, ag your honorable. body iy -probably swaro, in tho passage of the act of Congross of Maroh 8, 1873, authorizing tho oxchange to bo mada by the doarotnry of tho Treasury, and tho appointment of & Commiasion to ascertain tho difference in tho vahie between the two pieces of round. Juriadiction Laving boen coded to the nitod B of this Btate, lccm‘diu$ tions of the act of Congress, tho Boc- rotary of tho Tronsury sppoiuted _ tho Hon, Thomns Drummiond and Norman B. Judd, the Commissioners on behalf of the Govern- ment, and the Mayor appointed, with your con- curronce, Thomas Hoyne and Edwin If. Bholdon on tho part of the city. 'I'he fonr Commission- era thus appointed choso as the fitth person the Hon, John G. Rogors, who then organized, and tho first 6tep was thon taken in the procoedings, This Commission, after sevoral sessions, and the careful oxamination of soveral exports in kunowlodge as to the valus of real ostata in Chi- cago, recontly submitted their full report in writing to the Becrotary of tho Treasury of tho United States, and the same is now bofors him, subject to his n{provnl. ‘The Board do not en~ tortain & doubt but that tho Becrotnry will pe- copt the judgmont of the Commission appointad to ascortain the value of the property. Aud thus it will bo settlod that tho exchange intend- od by Oongress and the munieipal authoritios, ws well as thie wholo munioipal public of Chicago, will soon. follow in full consummation of theso procecdings. ‘The two ncts, the act of Congross and the not of tho Goneral Assombly in this Biate, in further- ancoe of the general objeot, are about to be rati- fled by a concurronce of all intoroats, Btate and National, in which thore sooms to have beon a unLtnimny of action rarely attainod from the Bome to tho condi- This Board ontertain the moat ronsonable and well-grounded confldenco that for several yoars at least, with a propor adaptation of the aren of space contained within the present wall of the old Post-Offico sito and building, that itarostora- tion can bo mado to furnish ample and con- vanient acoommodation for all the Lusiness io be done, and for bueiness assistants, bosides a1~ lowing the nacessary lialls, rlcoves, and gallorios, in which the shelves and books of the Library can-be arranged. But, whilo oxpressing this opinion as to what may bo done for_soms years to come, lot us mnot bo understood.as saylng thet, with o well-arranged roading- room eoqual to tho qrusnnt domand,—fitted up ifor the general public on tho main floor of more room i present than what may bo noeded, taking into account the nature of the work to bo done with- in the first ono or two yecars in proparing tho goneral library, with » viow to the oxtent of the public demand, and the accession of now matter “within that timo. ! ' VINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE LIDRARY, The Boord now call your atiention tothe finan- cial condition of this trust. ‘hie iaw requires wo should stuto the varlous sums of money received from the Library fund, and how the anme hag been exponded : Briofly, wa may stato that tho Boardhas drawn from tho Library fund forall expenuos up toJuno 1, including costs of the purchnso of books, §7,- 2b4.44 ; and thoy hvo expendod o gimo smount, i'tho report of the Beoretary, nocompanying thig ireport, will show el the differont items of this expendituro, your honorable body {u awaro, the future succoss of tho Library, in & great mousure, will idopend on tho lovy “and colloction of tho tax i provided by law, not to exceed tho one-fitth of & ' mill upon tho valuation of the taxablo proporty of tho city, and to ba collocted and set apart an- nually as o Library fund, As n rosult of the firat year gB'lfi!) ‘6inco"the act took effect, the tux. shoul Ymducu the sum total of £50,839.49 on o fotal valuation of a city property equal to 8284,- 97,430, 4 shown by roport of our Committos on Finatico. The amount sctually collected on the first Jgae (4873) and erudited to Library fund by he Comptrolive to Juno 1 is,. $20,007,71 And deducting our exponses.. T,20444 Thora sliould bo a batanco now in flie Troas. ury, subjoot (o tho ordor of this Board, of o bum of..ve But tho Oity Comptroller fools mpellod, under tho order of your hoorable body, passed some timo ugnh to ohargo ogainst this bal- suce to our library fund some $14,428,02, lnvln%npruont balanes against our fund of $726,85. ‘This churgo againut the Library fund ia to reimburse the city the oxpeuse inourred in fitting up the provent *temporary quar- tora" gocuplod in the Tavk aud over the tompo- rary Oity Hall, for rondl:lg-roomn sud libra: purposed. T'he sum thus deducted and charge: sgawat (his fund at any othor Bmad in liha existence of the {ustitution could bo borne with losu dotrimont thanat this early stage of its progross, but now it proves & matter of serious embarrassment, ‘The samo sum oxpended in books for the Library at this time, it the build- lug aforded tho wnocessary accommodation, matry of style and aroliltooturo, adaptod to ful- | And tates by an act of the Logialature’ | THE CHICAGO DAILY-TRIBUNE: TUESDAY; would'onable tho Doard to opén nnd 'put ilio books of- the "Library into ciroulatlon. “Tho Board deom it neconsaty, to a propor dischnrge of tho trust roposed in thom, to lworo iutorposo dofinitoly . - TNEIR ORIROTION TO TIIS ONARAE, " In doing so, they dosire to impute no blama ta any ofllcer of the city, or your lonorabla body, in” respoot to tho mannor in shich-1t Lns arlson, 'The whole onterprite = of tho Hbrary from its first. incoption has recolyed tho most cordint uuxvort of all branchos of tho Clty Governmont.- And to tho Mn{or, espocinlly, tho Bonrd of Publio Works, and tho Oity Comp- trollor, for thoir promptitudo of apirit and fer- tility of rosourca in promoting this work to the utmont oxtent of thoir abllity, this Board now ‘oxprosy, as thoy have always dono, their pro- found senso of the obligations under which thoy havo boou placod as to.tho succoss that lins o far attondod thoir offoris. ‘Tha question is ono arising liarity of circumstancos in w {taolf placed. TIE HONOR AND OREDIT of tho municipal gnwmmum Was nooessarily ongngod to accopt the munificont gifts offerad by & foreign peoplo and govornmont to ostablish afroo library in Chicago after our grest fire, Tho organization of this Board after tho move- mont abroad Lad boon sot on foot, and ita im- portance undoratood, was a way out of the diM- oulty, and the Froo flhrnry Law was enacted a8 tho work of tho poople. 2 By roforonco to tho ordinance of April 1, 1872, establishing a Froo Library undor tho Btalo Inw, it is exprossly deolared: *That thore shall bo rovided nud set apart, under tho dircction of he Board of Public Works, & room for tho rs- ocoption of any books that may bo donated or rocurod for such library, until a pormanont ocation bo othiorwizo provided.” It will bo found that this Board is vested by tho law of thelr organization (Soo. 5) ** with ox- clusivo control of the expendlture of all monoya collocted to tho oredit of tho llbrnr‘{ fand, and tho ‘construction of any library building;” and tho same soction doclres that **all monoys re- colvod for such library shall bo kopt soparato and apart from othor moneys of ‘suc) cu{ and drawn for by the propor. officors of rald city upon tho pm);nr]ynuthnnuunmd voualiers of tho Library Board.” % In n simply technical and legal point of view, tho-Board cannot rocognize & chargo or.oxponso which waa nevor inourred by thom as & Board in tho construction of oither s library building, or the accomplishmont of any othor ono of tho soveral objects within the lottor or purview of tho atatuto. This Board do not fool “nuthorized 10 nssumo a chargo ngainet their trust, in viola- tion of Inw, nor any charge, uvless the cloarest suthority oxiats to authorizo it, ‘Tho Committeo of Finauce, through the Hon. 8. 8. Hayos, to whom was committed the spocial examiuation of tho subjeot as Chairman, has re- portod agalnat it, and wo trust that, nudor all he circumstances, the whola chargs -may bo paid out of tho fnnar:u tronsury, Your honarablo body, in viow of what has nl- roady boen said in this mlmrt]uv toa * Now Libra- ryBuilding,” thaprobability. of an earlyabandon- mont of tho prosent ** tnm&lornry quartors,” and that tho cjty corporation will take the. buildinga tho grousd upon whioh thay stand bolonging to tho city, and maka the proporty and rooms avail- ablo for other purposes, This Doard. sre with- out either the authority to act or tho moaus of making oither land or improvement usoful to tho library, Upon the latter fund tho wholo $14,000 capital oxpouded falls a8 a dead loss without the roturn of o cont on the investment, it Is undor such circumstancos as thoso that this Bonrd submit it as s question of 1aw.as well 28 of aquity, whethor tho whole oxpeneo of _tho tumlmmry quartors, fitted up by tho Board of Public Works mnrdlug to the. oxpross language of the city ordinanco, ‘‘aaa room for. the re- coption of any books that may bo donated or proourod for such library,” shall now fall u * tho ¥Froo Library Fund,” or romain 2a it hay hitherto romainod—tho gift of the corporation in behalf of.tho gonoral object 7 Aud, oven if this be not a froe gift, it is atmost a question of ront that should be charged for thotomporary occupation of city prop- orty, and with this exprossion of the views on- tortained by tha Bosrd, the wholo queationis rospoctfully submitted for your consideration as ono vitally offecting the constituoncy you re- presont. out of the poen ch tho city found IN COXCLUSION, it may not .bo considercd hnpropor to ssy that while this fs tho first oflicial roport over made by this Board to tho City Council, it may bo the laat in rospoct to tho ofticial existenco of some of its mombers. According to tho constitution of tho Bonrd, the torms of oflico of throo of ita ‘membora aro ubout to oxpiro on tho 1nt day of July noxt. Wa eannot-claze tho connection that haoa existed without o tondor of onr congrutuls- tions that such an institution as the Publio Library has boon founded by your offorts. The presout administration of our f{unicipal Govern- ment, coming in_immediatoly after tho great fire of 1471,—had it uo othor claim upon tho gratitudo or romombrance of posterity P—will always romain associated with tho origin and “catablishmont of tho most imporishable momotial of our present civilization, as well as tho epirit_and onorgy of our sovely-chastoned and over-to-be-loved city. Laowmartine, twonty-fivo yoors ago, writing in utfor despair of tho condition of fho working- men of Franco, on accountof their low tastes and imporfect intolligonco, crios out: * Libra- ries for tho poople nre wauted!—Baoks in the hands of tho womon, the girls, and tho children by onch firoside! | Books' to bo mado_tho vial- tors, tho hosts, the guosts, and thoe friends of the workmau's home! Books in evory house in the ovening hours,—in rain, and in wintor,— meking home the ceutre of nifection and virtuol Plonsing communion must bo found with the groat minds who, in all nges, have best undor- stood, folt, written, or sung the human heart!! To do this, books must bo made chesp, and cost little," otc, 3 Thus, what this Food man and great writor proposed to accomplish, by choaponing the cost of publication of books, in_Franco, will soon bo accomplished in this city by the Freo Library Laow, without any cost whatavor to the people. The troatures_of all kuowledge contained in books will ho disponged in freo and oqual abund- ance to all,—tho sameo as the sun disponsos ita light,—and tho infinite. magnificouco of Heavon 1y within the reach of all ages, and every human intolligence blessed undor that of God's. Tuos, HoynE, Prea., ELLIOTT ANTHONY, JUL1US ROSENTHAL, Jas. W, Burauax, 8. B, Haves, Ropent F. QuEAL, Danien L, Suoney, WirLanp Woobanp, HEnMAN Rastem, Bonrd of Trustoos Ohicago Publio Library. 0Oricago, June 4, 1673, —_— e THE TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. Drcazon, 1U,, June 6, 1878, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: 8rm: As tho smoko passea away, we may be- gin to look over tho battle-feld, and count up tho glain, and bury them. s Thapponod to bo in Springfiold when they woro forming the now judicial cirouits, and I was thon nmazed ot the unanimous conaent of both political partios in fixing up the Twenty- firat Oircuit, Tha! was the ono strong Domo- oratic district in tho Stato, and it was, witha smilo and a bow, gracofully handed over to the Doniooracy as n suitablo placo to elact a Domo- oratio Judgo. o In striob pursusnco of that little srrangomont, tho small party wiro-pullers in the soven eounties of that district wont.to worl, and packed a Dom- ocratic convention, and, with a yawp and guzzle of tho genuine * old god-corn " nominated their mau, Then commencod all tho old party war- cries, gogs, and tricks, Tho cliques wero like littlo boos, and all the old Democratic stand-bys were loudly callod upon to * stand by tho nomi- neo, " * don’t bolt," and, **if you do bolt, never mind, wo'll remember you." Aftor the firat hoop-la was over, sonsible Dam- ocrats bogan to spoak out, and sny, *' I objeot," and s0 tho froemen wont to worl, put tho Hon, J. 0, Allen on tho track, and olectod bim. Bo- hold the result ] Tho democratio Snrty in this stronghold is dead and buried, and the Ropub- lioan party wont down in tho same graye. 'Tho people mre now .to tho front, and I doubt if purely political nomineo can ever again be eleot~ od in‘any township in thoso sovon countios. I oxtend you, my doar TriuuNg, my hand on this political fuucral, und scknowledge the ju- valuablo aid that wo havo received in this noble work from your able, fearloss, and independont Apor. P topublicans now cannot get enough of _tholr claqueurs togetlior in Bouthorn 1linols to hold & convention, and the old Democratlo loaches have Just been wiped out in the most mevciloss - ner. Thorefor, thanking a kind hoaven, Iam your Anttous, The committoo which Ia being formed at Lon- don for the m"lm“ of promotiug a momorial to the late John Btuart Mill will most likely include Mr, Gladstone, Lord Doerby, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Balisbury, Bir M. Mayno, Mr. Forater, Mr. QGoscheon, Mr, Btsusfeld, Mr, I, Bpoucor, s Piof, Oalrnose " WASHINGTON. * The Next Presidency—Morton .af, the Spring; ‘Repairing - Hig Botler. Tho ‘Chief-J usllcesmp---Mootcd llfen t Ioar, Drummond, Curtis, - Cushings - The Grangers' Revolt-s=Transpor= tation Skittle-Sharps. An Account of Barlikon---Tho Arkansas Tooth-Plicking Dench---Points of Interest. ' From Our Own Correspondent. ‘WasHINGTOK, Juno £, 1879, * THE NEXT RACE FOR THE WHITE LIOUSE, Thore aro some who belleve that old party linos may be maintained as far off as 1876, and theso spend timo diacusaing the probabihtica of the succosslon, The first quostion put ‘is, whother Grant will run agatn. Thoso who arguo that he will, hold that ho Lins tho passion of offico, no #onse of coynoss, nor rospoot for the hablit of provious Prosidonts, and can roly upon his pat- tonago and the joalousy of other aspirants, for & ro-oloction, Such ronsons bolong, for the maln part, to that wing of the Democratio party which is 80 accustomed to defeat that it nover scos a bit of blue sky, and believes the worst to be in~ evitablo, Gon, Grant probebly ontertains no notion of running again, and, if ho did, ho would bo obliteratod. Within his party are mon who will rolinquish the chanco for the Prosidency once out of turn,—never twico; for four years isa great division of human life' to an Amorican politician at the poriod whon * ono gota tne pros- pact of tho White House in his focus, Gray haira, shakinoss, stiff joints, and the symptoms of apoploxy, and wait fouryoara? Forbid it, the Providenco which watohos over Morton, Conkling, Blaino, and— HAMILTON FISH. Do you know that old Fish is amongst the volunteers for tho Presidoncy ?” sald a high offolal to me n wook sgo. ‘‘ By Goorgo, his prospeots are 18 good a8 any of them. “Bupposo the money-intorest of tho country throws tho vote in'76, as it did without division in '72, wouldn't it pitch upon Fishas abont "tho safest man in tho Cabinot? And he has got to ovory honor by the silent elide which he scoms to bo walting to take now. Governor of Now York, Benator, and Bevrotary of State, ho occupled all thoso. places almost without o oanvass. His place is about the only one In the country whero ho might havo a positive polioy, and at the right time, by s pop st Mexico, or somo other part, got tho veoring and volatilo balf of mankind: onthusiastic for him. And do you notico that, whorons he had given up his houso, and doclaxed in solemn carnost that e would leave Washing- ton at tho boginning of the socond term, he has now rotakon tho Morgan mansion, and his wifo hies orortod horself this winter as novar bofore to entertain with cost and splondor unequaled horo? Grantin giving Fish more of his timo than ho used to. They ride out togother, and look owly.” “Thero's hothing now in that Inst,” emid I, # It comes from gotling up oarly in the morning to study the Constitution and the Manual of Congress— —water.” And hos it como to this, that the Socrotary of Stato, with all that family-tree behind him, ho- gluning with Petrus Stuyyesaat's wopdon‘leg, and running down through Preserved Fish, —one of tho noblest 13iders of the hed who over blow Lis noso belwoon Penlms,—has bo boen playing possum 7 - In that high, colummar heard, in tho tnlipy rudesconce of that intorminable nose, do wo gea the worn in tho bud, {he Presidoncy on thobrain? “And ho said, *Follow moe, and I will make you Fish-ors of men!'" GOV, 3OnTON has gono out to Hot B(len s, taking along his clork of committce and private secrotary, Mr. Hitt, of llinols, a shrewd, secret-keoping, politc man of affairs, When Morton wenl aforatime, ho Littlo Hock fo tho Springs. Now bho dictatos lotters and Liaugs on to the empyrean with strong-willed hopo, Nothing can compen- #otc o man for the private station so much ns the sufferings of an ambitious man closo at hand to the Presidency. lere is n Benator and Goyer- nor, whoso grip, away, and force all admit, labor~ ing ot tho rough wildornoss springs, in brolen health, not to pacify Heaven, but to bo Prosi- dont,~—to join that mighty lineof citizon-magis- tratos which is, on tho whole, the bost avorago Iot of rulers known to history,—the cloancst shaved, the most round-hoaded, and tho loast bloody-minded. It'is s big smbition, and this man in portioular is big enough to také & hand In the match, Tho'ablest trait, as woll as tho now~ ost, in Morton's character, is his _truce- doing. Other mon quagrel st critical times of prido; Lo concludes peaco in tho moment of victory, and turns the balance fo tho account of fame. “Ho can suffor without losing fortituds, ond be full of mental pain without despondence. Renewal is the powor of tho highost vitalitios,~— to grow green and new upon the dead stump of & formor self, nathis manis sceking todoat the Hot Bprings ; to bridgo over the gap botweon paralysia and the scoptre, nnd onter tho course amonge, tho stud with a broken limb llko *Long- fellow’s " last game encounter., Morton is fortunato in his locality us_a Prosi- dontial mdplmut. Indinna has nover had o Prosi- dont, and it is the dividing Btato of tho prosont Union, midway botweon corporations and i:mnggm, capltal and agriculture, and bat- or situated toward tho South, of which Louiaville is tho Koy, than any Repub- lican State. Norton is relatod to formida- blo quostions of the hour by this fact; while Blaine, Fish, Conkling, and tho rost aro bottor soquaintod with the needs of tho British Prov- Incou, Io hms sbout cloven the sconce of Mr, Cnukllnfi already from the Nave to the Chaps, and got his head upon our battlomonts, where § can bs soon vory well curled. It would therefore soom that, if party lines continue as at presont, and Iygois grants hor favors to this old gallant, Morton will stand at tho pole in the next race. ut John Logan says ho sbon't be Prosident, His gooso is thorefore cooked. Thare is no more uso of his scalding himself in boiling water; for Logan ssys he shon't be Prosident. Ho kicked the gront martyr Oaldwell in the bona and cuticlo of persecution, and for this Mr, Lo~ gan has rogistorod a Methodist oath that ho whan't bo President. THE CUIYP JUSTICESHIP, ‘Who sball be Chiof Justice? 'This question is of concorn to the logal fratornity wheraver the Xnglioh langusgo provails. It passos tho boun- daries of theStates, and goe to Europo, whero we. owo £3,600,000,000, A sordid, soggy Administra- tion moy bequeath itsolf to postority in a Ohiof Juatico morely amensble and worthless, aud offensivo to his brethren, A very considerable body of silent, Eufl.mpu influentinl, gontlemen hope that Judgo Hoar, of Masenchusotts, ‘mny receive this honor. Tt in urged in his favor. that ho has the experionce, the loarning, and the health to illustrate the rouk, and romain long in it, He has boon Judge, Attorney-General, Oongrossman I think, :au was nominated Justico, but wil wn because of the opposition of tho carpot-baggers, 1o is very nearly handsome ; that is, lio has oloar, tmgblun aiven 3 rosy color, alive with tem- Fnrnncn; & manly, well-proportioned body, over 1o bottor size ; and teoth & lttle too whito and Carkerish, If this bo s compliment to tha den- Liut inatead of the Judge, forward & bill to both of them. Judgoe Hoar's head iy both full and lovel. He {8 orthodox, mothodical, reflactive, aud of bold, out-npoken charsotor. New Engiaud has hiad but one Chiof Juatics, Ollver Ellaworth, and he was of Conneoticut, A Westorn cnmmunlt{y of lawyers and ll;mon, of quiotudo and apprecfetion, not unlike Judga Hoar's woll-wisbors, hopo that Judge Drum- mond, of Illinois, may take up Xr, Chase's mantle, Without doubt, tho bLottor opiuion of tho country s inquisitivand to these two men, CONVERSATION, Tho Pronidont," sald & Justico recently in my hearing, * vays ho will appoint the bost man ho oan flnd with tmm;axl to qu‘l) l‘l,l]enli‘on,uu:;: rlg::::_ regard to party, He probal oot thfin 3 for‘pu h% Atd, thore could be but one man to namo,” H“And that is——>" . 4 Bonjomln Cuxtis, of Dogton, & Democeat, I bad o ecalvary escort from opinfon, Ourtls uaed 4o be on the Bupromo fourt Bonol, and ho loft it to make some monoy ab tho practice of Inw, Iaving mucceodod In this, Imippose he.wounld. now. accopt -tho Ohlef. thufloashvp but thero {8 no chanco of Grant ‘alving 1t £6 him." “~ Iinquired of this Justlco as to the Iawyer-like .Bonntors of our dny, - _“OhI" said ho, '*nobody -In the Sonate practices _law bofore..the ‘Bupreme Court oxoopt Edmunds, Hondricks used to load rogularly whilo in_the- Benato, and n fing dawyorhe is, Rovordy Johnson waa oven moro oconstant at our Qourt, ' He is 4 natural Inwyor, It anybody will open, and Lie oan como in sacond to mako tho maln Argument, Lo will say about all that there ls in tho caso, just picking it up by enr, and constructing his argument in tha court- chamber. ‘Cho moat anxious men on the Banch for tho Ohidt Juatiooship ars Millor and Sivayno but Millor has gono ta Lurope, and probably lost his ohance. Wae told him 8o befora ho atarted.” ‘' Hag Caleb Cushing any prospoct of tho suc- coesion 7" < ** It would bo hard to sny what ho hoas not n prospect for, if he .was not sbove 70 yoars of age; for nll poriods and Prosidonts” appear to bring grist to his mill. ‘Ho does not, howaver, answor Grant's roquiremonts, in that hois not s lawyor. I ehould call Quehing n loarnod layman, Dot a Jearned lawyor. His hoad I8 full of a'groat many things, of which tho law 1s not tho most porfectly ncqnfnxh 1 romombor loaving court with Ohlef Justice Tanoy whoen I firgt hoard Cushing pload, and I anid that it must bo my fault, but I could not sdo & jurist, or a lawyer oithor, in Calob Cushing, Why," ro- sponded Taney, ‘mo lmv;oz agousos Cushing of boing o profound lawyor.' " i tho prosent state of tho struggle botweon corporato {)pwor and producers, location in the Chiof Justico bocomes a notablo pojnt at issue. ‘Weatern man, uncontaminated with railroads, might naturally losn an oar to the agrionltural Funple‘l ory. . A certain type of .Esatorn nwyor regards the Grangor movoment ns Jacobin “in ita oharactor, snd would como |, to the Bonch with ag inaurmountable n preju- dico ninlnal it a8 .Obiof-Justico Taucy ontor~ talned toward Abolitioniata, ’ e COST, OF NOUSEKEEDING M. 0.'8. ' Horo aro the house-ronts of somo of the magnatos who eannot live: without the 'ad of back pay: Mr, Boutwoll, board ‘for solf and family, 8140 a 'month. Bomator Snrgent, * Califor- nis, houso-rent ' 1,000 = per sonum. -Mr. Morroll, of Maino, new houso cost 914,000, or about $%00 n yoar, Honr( wl.faon, Vico-Proaident, boarded at the Vuhingum lougo, for many yoais, at the rato of $70 o month. Ditto Bingham. Mr. Douglas, Com- misaioner of Internal Rovenue, pays $1,200 o luu- housg-rent, furnished. John Shorman oards at Hamilton House, with wife, for $180 o month. The nvorngo Congrossmau spends in Washington Oity, during the yoar, ahont §4,000 5 and noarly ail the Eastorn and part of Wostern mombors Bavo and take home sbout $2,000 per snuum, - Mon like Chandler, 8tockton, Hoopor, and Stewart spond probably 812,000 to $20,000 por annum, but are oxceptions, - o ANRANSAS TROUDLES. ' Youmay got out of the fog ns to the Iate Arkansas muddle . by remombering that the wickodeut man in the United Btatos, mensurod oat tion by his offlolal ras}wnniblllty, s Jaclk McOlure, | lata of Ohio, Chiot Justico, Public Lrinter, an editor of the official organ of Arknnsns, Theso throo positions ho holds at the same timo, At- tonding prize-fights in open dTF' and bagking at | -r night at what fa'called ¢ the of cort-snloon, wherg partially-denudod girla quit tho stage to -sorve decoctions, McCluro has put the ct\rutouo on his fame by standing singlo and alono in n Bupromo Bonoh'of six mon, and dis- sonting from thoir vordict, that thoy had no jurisdiction in the case of Gov. Baxtor, Bexter ia a native Arkansos man, whom Clay- ton had nominated last summor for tho purposs of withdrawing Robol votos from Brooks, tha Greoloy candidato for Governor. Brooks was elocted, but Baxtor counled in. This put’a skoloton in the uburper’s closot, and ho knew thot the samo gang which counted him in hold tho proofs of hia defoat, and might admit their own infamy to got rid of him. Honco, when MeCluro blustoringly Xrac]n!mcd that only ono man could rule in Arkangas, Baxter or Jock NecClure, the former turned the militin Genorals . off, and propared to mako a fight of resistance. McOClure, stopping at nothing, got ready to uwong‘mxmr out of the officc, and move up tho Liboral Governor by tho ofmmtlon of tho Courts, _But Powoll Clayton folt that not ovan ho could countenanco a thing 80 unblush- ing, and tho Chicf Justico was loft In lonoly con- splouity, as the only man on the American Bonch, #inoo Barnard left it, who could do the boldness and the orime of removing o Governor to make himsolf & despot. F Arkansas is n sort of Paraguay. Bad in old days, it is, if possible worso in the poriod of froedom, The sents of both United States Bon- ators wero purchaged. Tho railroad land-grant vystom has been a careor of felony, repudintion, and impotonce, And the history of mankind may snfely bo challongod to find such o Bonch as McCluro prosides upon. THE TIREE GUABDSMEN. Dolahay, Bhorman, Duroll,—the throo District Judges of the United Btates who kuve roceived tho decoration of the Order of Demierit,—aro candidatos for Congressional action in Docom- ber, Dolahay is- alrondy impenched, and is ex- pected to rosign; Durell's case will como np for early notion; and nobody knows whother Sher- man con bo made to tesign. Ho is eaid to hold that his brother John does not possess tho qual- ificationa to locture him upon._ thoe duty of rosig- nation, having taken o haud in nearly all the whisky-cases which were settlod about 1800-'69. And, by tho way, Peter Swab, tho head of the whisky-ring in {hose days, who resided at Hamil- ton, O, is now a mero laboroer, dispossoesod “of overything, In his doy he was admitted to poli< tioal’ consultation with the groat Warwick of tho West, Wash, MoLaig, “and * with ““Qontloman Qeorge.” Now," plucked aud turned out to pasturo, the groat distiller chiews tho cud and meditates upon tho woos of Nobuohadnezzar, Ledt & Stocking, too, the bonded warchouse men have soparatod, as the ‘business could not_suport two such magnates, Tha lane {s long which nover turns, 5 ITEMA, i Walker, the battlo-paiutor, has been paid 295,000 by Gon, Josopl Hooker to paint a_par- tralt landsoapo of tho Battlo of Lookout Moun- in ; and Donn Platt has an engagemont to write the Goneral's lifo, 3 Attorney-Goneral Willisme is building « house, and appoars to have it on Lismind; for, ina loctura befors the Law-School, a fow nights ago, bio anid that & Judgo or Bonater could not build o house nov-a-days without having it put in the pu{urfl. Is it thus? 'he great pile” of the Btate Dopartment is proceoding amain toward complotion, and~ ono slde of the Prosident's grounds is filled with vost mnssos of Lown anite. Tho south wing of tho building i8 up 0 tho third story, and the foundations of tho centro and north wing sro laid, This edifico is the only one of Mr, Mullet’s construction which han ogeapod critfcism. It is in a light, graceful, and almost florid atyle of classionl renaissauco. Tho now coment stroots of Washington ara now on trial under a Juuo sun, and they feel to tho foot like Indin rubber and becswax. . Tho Bonrd of Publio Works ?rovoa to be o good form of organization to rueh thinge, but costly to koop about tho houso, I do not believo that anybody’ knows tho precige financial condition of tho city, but we aro all agrecd that the Governmont owos i ua a living, and we shall expoct you to support ue, Perhopa you never thought what you :would bo without o Onpital 2 Porbaps you don't ‘caro a——nything nbout what - tho Europesn dospot says of tho Ropublic as Lo secs it - stancod in the great city of the rulors ? Por- haps you are not ashamed of yoursolf that ‘Washington is smaller than New York! In that cago, it is ploin to be soon that you aro un- worthfi of & Board of Public Works, and we hear with delight that you are unablo to_melect o }lll:‘l)l (o,r( a Olty Hall, Let us lend you Mullet or cock. - A homellke little abuse in those days is tho bullding and equipping of private rosidences under the covor of now publio buildings, -About two-thirdsof the Bmithsoninn Instituteis the clo- ant hebitation of Prof, onry's family. Without ‘lonye of unyhmy, tho Agriculiural Commisaloner and fomily rosido fu the now departmont of that namo. Finally, the Ohiof of tho Coaat-Burvey has mado himself & realdence in the now Const- Burvey building, And I tho new Btato Dopariment wore built with rosl- doncos for tho Boorotarios of War, Btato, and Navy., This is, perhaps, not objectionable, if it wera not done in asubtle, hiddonway, and with- out authority, B Gon, Grant has l|ilwsn a blow to Washington Ol*y roater than all tho favors conforred upon it in his Administration, b{ogoiug D\VI{ absolute- Iy from May until October, or noarly Lalf the year taking the Courties and the lobby with him, and Joaviug dosolation behind, Evety succood: ing Prosident will avail himsolf of the oxamplo, sud mako Washington liko an Arctio yoar, ono day and one night, and the night longer than tho day, THE GRANOERS' MOVEMENT in the Weat satonishes tho politiclans, The ,&-aln of mustard has becoma a groat trae, aud 0 birds of tho alr—which meant buzzards— lodgo ju tho branches theroof, ar would lke to -do g0, It I8 the aim of Blaine, Morton, Ogloub{, and the rest to take this movemont under thelr wings, and cozen it out of any genuine advan- t8gog, by fendering 1t achomod of national rall oom " of & con- think nohd ‘o i‘-mmmmfin JilL Baltisny thi. woyn built oastward with anbsidy, Mr: Windom, Limsolf a North Pacifle mat, i looking at such frivolous piocos of extravaganco s cahnl-exton- slong noross ‘tho Alloghony Mountains; and - tho Chosnponko- & Ohfo - Canad. 1o now under advisomont,—a concern whioh hins cont $12,000,000, and’ involved labor from 1780 to 1845 to got it from Goorgotown to Cuin- sborland,~‘he Jamos River & Xanawha Oanal nearly broko the ''ronsury .of Virginia, The COoosn & Tonnossco schemo s purely a lobby smdvomont. = Nolthor ia it nooensary to bulld no- tional linou from the mauluc{}lpi Enstward, Tho Poubsylvanin and the Now Yorle Centrel Ronds aro laying four tracks, and tho Daltimore & Ohio threo; mo that, botweon the grain-flold and the ‘conat, thoro will bo in reallty fourtoen tracks by mext fiplombur or tho yoar . following. “Thoro is this in tho Grangers' movement,” snld a dis- tinguialiod jutist'to mio: ' No man iill ‘diapute that it can rightfully claim that a bushel of grain sball bo'‘carried “ovor an intorvening dis- tanco. na - choaply 88 Detweon torminal points, And I think we have ronched tho point whoro massed capital, incorporated, and organized produotion must have their battlo. It looka to mo as if the farmera would go undor in tho contost; for I vory much doubt whothor the; can make nlogicnl proposltion reasonablo enong not to alarm the othor interoats, or flnd expo- nonta - which tho railroads canuot bribo, The workingmen, bosldes, mnst ultimatoly antagon- ize tho garnn ors on tho Eight-Hour law, which, oxtondod to tho farms, wmfid bo ruinous to pro- duoers. What ‘tho farmora want, first, ia logal counsol to Eo ahioad without foolishuoss ; for it is cortain that thoy aro dotormined.” 2 THE QONSTRUQTION COMPANY of the Toxas Pacific Railroad appeara to have hoen o soll to ontrap peoplo of ersy conscionco and small capital. Hoventy-five por cont of the subscriptions have been called in, and tho howl of tho wounded, and tho despairing looks of the eloin, aro pitoous to sco and hear. _In this Com- pany tho great ol M'Comb had 100,000, ox- Gov, Qook, of Qolorado, £50,000, and 8o on. THE ION. JORN DARLIKON. Amongat the annual guests at tho Exocutive Mansion, our old friond sbove named is stoad- fast, and : tho confidonce in him unshaken, - He occasionally visita the city dnfl“fi tha sosslon of Congross, but, with a pralseworthy discornment of tho fitnoss of things, comes infroquontly and for ghort. d?nrlm]a whon the public business crowds his distinguished friend. “When Congress adjourns, howaver, Mr. Barlikon flics to his be- loved like tho beams of Hero's lamp to her enamored Leandor, ‘‘ Como,” says ho, ‘ftheso responsibilitios (ofton gronter than you oan boar) woigh you lown, Fly with mo, .and .the frionda of the Barlikon firm, fo enjoy a dny's - shooting, They disappoar. Thoy ‘flah; they hoar ancedotes; they love oach “othor's company, until they grow woodeny of look, and their loy on tho bivouso are on- tangled like children's sluuplnq on ‘picnie, A henling; henrty, homely friend is Mr. Barlikon, Rus[mnnlbll.lti 8 ofraid ‘of him; ho oxoreisos it with his bulbous wand, and ho is o groat mimio oud story-toller, You should hoar him bogin tho reoitation : Twan ot tho royal foast of Porala, Thin ploce hio can recite botter than little John Dryden himsolf. Mr, DBarlikon, to look upon, is ruddy, short, broad, and with a stomach which is in itself an invitation to roposo, Ho lliterally ‘shakes when e Inughs, liko a bowl full of jolly.” Tis mator- nal grandfathor, Mosbach 8tillo, Esq., was & pioncor in Bourbon County, Iky., and con- structed tho firat mash-house in thoss Enrla. Tho mnsh-houso waa dofonded y o stockade, and the bold fron- tiersmon of that dny handled their rifies nnd tholr mashing implomonts with equal epirit, 80 that John Barlilion, the helr-at-law, is ano of tho wonlthiest Amoricans, Ho was brought up in the old Xentucky way, and his father sont bim on o tour with tho famous atallion, * Mint- Julep Eclipse ;" but John divorted tho pmgorty into o raoiny-lold, and broko half the noighbors, roturning his wonimal to the old gentloman with the procoods. Ho could have been electod to Congross any timo within the past twenty years, but ho hnano lovoe of honors, and dovotes his 1ifo to praotical jokos. Tho other day ho isanld to hayomndoup o dummy of ono of the mosat. distis shed mon in tho country, and ridden the wholo length of the ‘Avonuo, driving n pair of blacks, and rotonding to support his friend in the seat. {uc}dl ,&u clito (I boliove that is the word) wore'all out of town, and tho shopkaeopers were too obtuse to goo tho joko, I can assuro you, lowever, that it was tho most artistic dummy ovar driven through our stroots. Jolin's Linbits aro free, not to say.outre, Ido not kuow what outro moaus, and, therefore, use it with confidonco. Ho was soloctod by his dis- tinguished friend, s fow weoks ngo, to ontertain Gen. . 8, Hillyor, Hillyer is counsol for tho immortal 3oGorrahan, wiiom many think to bo the yeritable Wandering Jow. The wayhe can lie eliould not wendor if')’ andlive on, {8 paralyzing. Hillyer had an engago- ment with Mr. Barlikon's distinguished friend, nnd Barlikon porsurded his host to take oul tho blacks aud leave him to disponss tho hospi- tolity. Whet thoro was botween thom, I reck not of, Not knowing tho signification of rock, ‘of course I could not. Whatever thoromay have boon betwcon them, tho mn’or part got into tho Genoral; for, wherons ho loft “tho hotel clean- ohaven, bright of oyo, tidy of dross, and walking both upon his heols and tho balls of his tect, ho roturned limp, distraught, oval, and rocking 1iko s pilgrim_{ravorsing an enrtixqi‘u.ko. They put himin his littlo bed, and night drow hor #ablo curtain down nnd pinned it with & star. But now mark how a groat humorist rovonges himsolf, They asked the Goneral whers ho hod bacn on this memorable interview. Ho avowed, with his hand extendedin the region of the zenith, that ho had beon nowhore but fo the White Houso, “*Whore did you yot your bonzine ?" said tho romorsoless physiclan, 4 There,” satd the Genoral. ** I left hero full of cologne, and mlyx mustachos syere waxed, ‘When I come back thoy wore untwisted, and I smolt liko a wash-houso,” “ And,"” oxclaimed tho client, ¢ an ensmy hath done this ?” * # No, veeily,” mnid tho Goneral, *'twasnot! it was—2" #'Twas whom " *'Twas Barlikon! But if my oonditlon Is thus, ha! hal ba ! what must be his " The disposition of the Barlikon family to lin- gor too lato at tho Exocutive Mansion procipl- tatod the promature romoval of the Capitol to Long Branch, Wo mas cnn&;mtu]nm ourselves that the gontloman of tho old school is fixing up tho mattorof a third torm with 08 much haste as i consstont with expediency. QAT THE REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribuna : Bir: Graut me n small spacs of your valuablo paper that I may make a remark or two for the bouofit of * E. 0., and such others as supposo tho poople of Dritaln have gono over to Ropub- licanism. Tirst I may ask, what fmportance should be sttachod to tho ‘procoodings of some fiffy-flve mon gathored &S a convention in & great city like Birmingham? And next, why take notico of & man of anch a atamp as Bradlaugh, a politioal dis- turber, a proved turn-coat, a monoy-taker, and a follower of any causo for & name? Ropublican- ism is admired by the meny of the old country; 'but, a8 Joln Bright 8o woll puts it, **To make a .chango in our Governmont -when We are gotting on so well, would bs fooligh,” ‘Thio insinuations of * X, 0.” rcu&mctlng John Dright's motives noed {uut ono word : As all tho world knows, the Court camo to Bright ; he did not sook tho Court, Noarly ‘all tlio great ‘moasurcs (Freo-Trado, the abolition of the Coin laws and Churoh-ratos, the Reform bill, the dis- eatablishmont of tho Irish Oburch, and the Irish Land laws) having boen passed, it became poasi- :ble for him to join tho most honost and liboral governmont Great Britain has ovor knowa,” Updoubtodly England will nsed Ropublicanism when tho Bradlaugh class of poople rulo, and thoir Erhm{{llus aro accopted in' place of thoso of Bright and Qladstono; but,” from present ;p ]nmnuou, tho timo {s far off, Yours fuith- ng'nuo, Juno 9, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: By Allow me to roply, in part, to tho com- munication of E. O., published in your Monday's Issue, Ho displays n lamentablo ignorance of tho mainsprings from which the Ropublican move- mont in England to-day gains ita strength, or he 1a strongly projudicod in avor of tho Bradlaugh wingof tho English Radicals. Does E. 0, for- get, whilo to-day ho ewoara at John Bright, that, had it not been for the groat “ Quaker of Rooh« @alo," In 48, it is more than probable that tho horrora of the Trench Rovolution would have beon duplicated in. England? Ohart- ism, a8 tho bulk of- ita followers u deritood it, meant Rovolution, a5 wi noss tholr bloody attempt in Nowport and Birmingham ; and thus Bright, b{ drawing to l\(mnl} tho “moral-forco” Chartlets, neutral- ized the hupending dangor, and proved that men could be radical without bloodshed,—not the least of his distinguished sorvices to tho Libor- ols of Englaud, It 18 too lato now for men to awear at Bright, and uso oxprossions regarding Lis conneotlon with Gnlll’l‘l‘lnd Ql\l.!h'\ut.‘x 5 Doen E. 0. forgot tho manly protost (of which Bright was author) agaiunt tho silly custom of drors for prosentation to-tho. Queon,-and, -wilh- tho sama independenco, rofuaing to bend lfin po- litieal opinions to sult his thon assoclatos,—an Indopondenco which to-day impola him to rofuse offaring ald of sympathy to Dradlangh or his fol« lowors, on tho ground that Euglanfi Is not now, and will not bo for yonrs, ripo for a Tobubliont As gincoro o lovor of Ropublicanism s B.. 0, himsolf, I, as an Englishman, should bo. norry to ace its pronpects injured, and its progross ro- tarded, by tho coming into political powor of Bradlaugh' and his associatos, Your posltion, Mr, Editor; {s the correot ono ; snd no amount of gnuuonmlung on the partof hot-hoadod fanatics ‘will evor convinco sonsiblo men of the prosont foasibilly of & Ropublic for England, Finally, thelr cause will nover bo helped one {ota by {nnusndoes and fll-natured flings againat him of whom Whittidr wrolo, “Tho shouts of (enfranchised millions, an thoy lift tho untitled® Quakor of Roclidalo’ into tho Dritish Cabinot, toll mo of a timo that's ;:"hccgm!ng ot for l‘;.“hbl, man to man, the wi % Shall Lrothors bo, ud o a2 o'er Frro. W. L. Yours respectfully, —_— THE FARMERS" MOVEMENT. Grnnd Mass-Convention at Lnwrence, Knnwe=Tho Procossion, Bannors, Spooches, and Resolutions, A grand Tarmers' Convontion was hold at: Lawrenco, Kan., on tho 4th inst., some 5,000 per- sons being prosent, Tho procossion was about throo miles in longth, and ¢he following nre some of the inscriptions upon the bannors : * Down with Danks, and Uj g # No Quarter o Moaopoly f"wm' s # Equal Taxation 1" Rt Lo i ——— 03 # Livo, and Lot Livo 1" SREh “ Monoy Rings, Daware 1" # Tho Ides of Novembor, 73 1" 4 Farmora Will Be ¥roo1" # Hnrmony {" :: No Mora Parasitos 1" Juyoee, Olicee, Less Laws, Leas Taxes, aud Moro B e R b L i ora e Front—Politicians to the Rear 1" 4 Poaceably if Wo Can—Forel U # Roform oyr Ravolution l"r bl ir e Atial § * Yox Popull ' # Paseos Up Balt River Freo |7 “ Fratornity, Equality, and Fatr Exchango I A donkoy drew's cart on which was mounted a box reprosenting tho United Btates ‘Treasury. A “ dummy" sat by the box, with his atm thrudt doop into the “ Troasury.” 'On the side of the . box was tho suggostive quory, * How is this for Lowe?” [Lowa is tho namo of the Topresonta- tivo in. Congress from Kunsas; ho voted for *back-pay.”] Abovo all wassa bannog,bearing tho inscription, ** No More Balary-Steals " Ex-Gov. Charles Robingon wad choson Ohair- man of the Convention, and delivered an address showing the situation of the country snd tho condition of the farming community. 8peochios woro also made by Mosars, Henry Brown, Alfrod Taylor, L. W. Hovor, Dr.. Lawrencs, and othors. ‘Tho following resolutions wero adopted : ‘WaEn] Farmers’ clubs, unions, and \nges of tho Paizona’of Husbandrys’ Bave. sommon” paad s F\Lrponeu to accomplishi, among which are the elova~ Hon of tho farmora’ status, by tho oxorcisa of tholr rerogatives in tho mattor of aflixing the prico upon olr products, inatead of abjoctly sccopting any prico dictatod by tho greed or avarice of thoso who deairo to grow rich on tho differénce betwoon what is paid - tho producor and what tho consumer pays, a6 well 8 fn o more respectable modo of disposing of tho same; leauening the cost of supplies ; demanding somo c formity in thi other labor and products ta tho price of tho prico of our Isbor and producta; simplification of government, ond n Teductlon of taxes by dispensing with safnecure offices and reducing the pay of ramnlnln% ones ton farming basis; a cessy- ton of all monopoly of tho paoplo's commjon nceda and nocessitics; o governmontal suporvision over every publio outerprise that the poople are taxed to muateln nd compaliod to patrontzo, among which aro oducation, jurisprudence, mall-sorvico, markots, and transportation; thorefora Resolved, That 8nid clubs, unlons, and grangos of tho Potrons of Husbandry sliould find moani {0 con- wolidate thelr offorts for the accomplishment of thesa onds; {hat they should politically and commaorclally afiiliste, in ordor that wa may realize as much as possi- blo tho boneit of all of our organtzed farmor strongth, for purposes of self-protection, and that only, Tiesolved, That we, the farmérs of Douglua County; ‘will to-day pladge olraelyes that, whonevor tho propors Iy suttorizad representativcs of our clube grasges, o unions, shall make arrangements with busincss honsos to roduico por cents of profite, in view of increasod patronage, we will faithfully glve stch business houses all of our patronage, l!ckgt in casosand under ciroume "ins?. that shall make honorablo excoptiona to this pledgo. Reaolved, That we bollovo tho practlos of candldates for ofico nominating and clactionering for themselves dotrimental to tho best intorcsts of freo governmont 3 that the offico sliould scek tho man, and not the man tho offlco ; and wo plodge each athior to ignore all pos Ltieal proforences and projudices thnt have governod us hitherto to our hurt, and support only such mon for oflioe a8 Wo know o be in our intorests, and in whoso integrity aud honcsty wo Lnvo the most implicit confidonca, Resolved, That tho dovolopment of, and tho beat {n« torests of, our State demands immediate logialation in reduction of froights and fare upon our railroads, upon o basis of justice to all parties, ; that tho time of tlio tax penally be oxtendod to tlig st of May; the abalition of sinocuro offices 3 tho roduction of salarics; rigid economy in public oxpenditures, snd_that the OPProsaIvD AT wnjust txxes HOW Asecated AGd Shargod uon the peoplo bo reducod to the needs of an oco- nomical a nistration of tho Qovernmont, e Resolted, That wo will call & convention of farmors 4his fall, ond put in nomination for oftice anti-ring, anti-monopoly, snti-capital, anti-corruptionist mou, for officoru for this county. e A PAPER OF LEGAL KNOWLEDGE. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bin: It is humiliating to tho lawyer, scd should bo to the publio, to read criticiapas;npon law-books by persons who Liave no acquaintanco with such topies, and who do not know tho mt“tnh“ gr rosidonoos of tho most eminent jurists of tho day. Thomus M. Cooloy edits a fourth edition of Story's ‘“Constitutional Luw,” and the soribblot~ for the Inter-Ocean, this morning, calls him Pro< fopsor of Law in Harvard Universily. Onas would think that o paper whioh pretends to. ropresont - Weatorn intorosts would know who Thomas M, Cooloy is: Professor of Low at Ann Arbor, Mich:, Judge of the Bupreme. Cours, of Mlchlgnn‘ and author of ‘‘Constitutional Limitations."- But think of o man writing crit- lcisms upon aw-books who does not know who Thomas AL, Cooley is, and does not know enough, to give due credit to the Wost. Lut of the same charactor aro the men who- pass upon the ability of our own Suprome Court Judges, and who rojoice to seo & person. liko Mr. Craig take tho place of such & man na Judge Lawrenca upon our own Donch. To such: shallownoss have wo como, * A LAWYER. Cuscado, Juno 9, 1873, S s SHALL WE CELEBRATE? To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunes 8r: The so-called Jubiled hes cyme.and-gonea As o financial scheme, we all kngw how saccess-. ful it was ; but, s o suitable celobration of tho firult robuilding, it was a failure, "We all know owover, that tho Oity of Chicago waa in no wise, accountablo for tho affair, any more than is. will be for the noxt cirous. * But the. question: now is, Shall Ohluu%o colobrate hor great ro- building? Eyery truo Oh(cnio man will say, emphatically, Yes | ‘Dnrlng tha Exposition to: bo beld next fall, 1ot us hold & grand public cel- ebration,—oue warthy of our cltF. Tho Oth of, October will witness the Exposition in fail blast, snd on that day—the sdcond snniversary of the fire—lot us lave a graud Jubieo concert, for which wo’ have plenty of tinio to propare. Lot us fire tho cannon, ring the bells, and illuminate our buildings; in & word, hold ono grand,: glorlous, nnd ‘genuine Jubiloo. Come, -Chi~. cagonus, show ‘8¢, Louis mnd our other rivala® what wo aro Invito tha: aro-Gipablo of doing, world to comlé’and make morry with us. : * Cutoago, June 9, 1873, Tarcon. —_— e e Tho Shah on ¥Mis ‘T'ravels. A communication from 8¢, Petorsburg, print- od in Qalignani’s Messenger', anys : * ThoBlhiah of Porsia is oxpooted hore to-morrow, May 42, and will occupy tho ground floér of the Wintor Pal- 800, for, according to the etiquotto of the Court. iof Tohersn, ho cannot bo lodged in a highor, story. Bixteen persons only of his suite havo{ the flgm of remaining undor the same roof as their Bovereign, so that all others will be acoom- modated in thoclty. All tho Ministors, oxcept the hond of the War Departmont, accom- Emn{ tbo Bhah, His Majosty wished aléo 0 bo followed by the ontire rogiment of his guard, and by his whole harem: but ho way dinsuaded from that courso, and only throo of Lia wives will soo 8t, Potorsburg, Tha sum of monoy dostinod by the Persian ruler for tho oxpouses of hin journcy in Europo amounts. to 9,000,000 gold pleces, worth 11 francs 88’ contimes each, or o total of about 106,000,000 france, It is, howevor, woll understood that whon o Lins onco set foot on tho Russian terri-. tmx' hig exponses will bo paid by the Treasury,| and n that way a sum of 200,000 france haa beo 8ot apart for hla roception at Astraklian. Con~ versation turns much on the rubles which the- Eaatorn Soverolgn is to brln;i with him, of in~ approciable size and water. ‘T'ho gala uniforme of tha Bhab, sll covered with diamouds, is valued at 8,000,000 france, [ i : B N ]