Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1873, Page 6

D11 CHICAGO DALY "IRIBUNiS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, igi, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMA OF BUBACRIPTION (PATATILE IN ADVANCE). Baity by mal, Hunday, a0 cokly.. S12.00 ¥ SUEEE 1 Wy b 'arts of a yoar at tho 10 rato, 5 ‘o provent dolny and mistakos, ha suro and givo Post ,Oico nddress in full, Including Btato and Caunts. ftemittancos may bo mado ofthor bydraft, oxpross, Post Offico ordor, or in roglatorod lottore, at onr rigk. TENMB TO CITY AUDECRIBEUS. Datly, dolivered, Sunday oxcontad, 35 cante por waok, Uaily, deltvorod, Bunday ineluded, #0 cents por waok, Adds THE TRIBUNI COMPANY, hicano, DL ) Cornor Madison and Dearborn-ats _@bg Chicage Tribune, Sundey Morning, Auguat 17, 1873. THE CITY STENCHES, Wolinve a choloraic, or somi-cholorale, disonse in tho clty, which is visiting coriain districts with considerablo goverity, It mattors littlo whothor 1t in tho renl Asintie cholora, sporadic cholera, or ‘cholorn morbus, It is somothing that dostroys fifo. Itis a dangorous disenso, and it is directly aggravatod by fllth, Xt might bo ronsonably presumed that, with tho prosence of such & diseaso in tho city, the gunrdians of ite hoalth would bo moro than ordinarily dill- gont. Porhaps they are so; but it is & fact that never boforo wero the sonses offended with 80 many well-doflnod and dreadful stonches. Firat—Thero {8 & largo aren of. the wost and eouthwest part of tho city which is not drained stall. This ia not tho fault of the Boardof Hoalth, Sowers willbo laid probsbly as fast ag 1a practieablo; but this ares roquires fraquont watching, and disinfocting in the more offonsive spota, Second—The varions stenches from the render- ing establishmonts and fotid sloughs of Bridge- pork wore movor 8o offensive as thoy are this summor, On last Thuradny night, for in- stanco, the wind ohanged to tho southwest sbout miduight, and brought o stonch with it across tho southeastern part of tho city that was almost suffocating, and lasted during the Iarger . part of tho night. This matter has, more than onco, boon laid beforo the authoritios. The Mayor has oxamined it, and declared it to bea nuisance, Tho City Attornoy hes oxamined %, aod declarod it to be a mnuisanco undor the Ilaw. Tho Board of Health Lag oxsmined it, and pronounced it to bo dan- gorous to the health of the city, nnd there- fore o nuisanco. Tho physiciana of the city are unanimous in the samo opinion. T Common : Council bag declared it to bo s nuisatco. Tho' Courts have decided it to be o nuisanco, and tho* ity ordinancos fully provide for the abate- mout of this particular nuisance, and yot it still romains, and overy yoar becomes a groater muisauce. This, howovor, docs not discharge the Doard of Iealth from tho duty of comstant effort. Thoro must be womo way of sottling the quostion that tho gon- eral public of this city has rights ns woll as this handful of sonp-groaso manufacturors, and of prevontivg the Iatter from ondangoring tho hioalth of the whole city morely to fill tholr own pockets; and tho Bourd of Health will eventu- ally discover the solution of the problem if thoy Xoep tugging awny at it. Third—The Bridgeport stenchos are now roin- sorcod by another stench from the same general quarter, which is worse than all the Bridgeport atonclios. combined. TFrom Twenty-fitth to Thirty-ninth stroot, along the lino of Clark strect, which is the route traversed by tho Michigan Southern asud tho GChicago & Rock Tslaud Railronds, there is o daily svor- ajze of nt least n mile of empty freight-cara standing on tho tracks, aud tho large majority of thoso are hog and cattle cars. The stondh from thoso, especially from the hog cars, is almost unendurablo. Ite effects are plainly manifosted in tho fact that tho greater purt of the choleraio sicknoss in the city is confined to this seotion ‘botween Clark strect and the river, where the peoplo aro brought into immediate contact with this horriblo stonchk. When the wind is from the northeast, theso people got the odor of the hog cars, When it is from the sonthwest, thoy got tho odors from Dridgoport. hus hemmed in between these two stonches,—for the wind raroly blows from any other quarlers than theso,—tho poople are scourged. With tainted well-wator to drink aud tainted air to brentho, what wondor that thoy sicken and dia ? Fourth—The restaurants of thiscity needrogu~ ating, not only tho emall and filthy ones, but the largo and apparently clean ones. The proprietors of the smaller ones Liave no pridoabout their oa- tablishmorite, and dump thoir rofuse-gatbage any- whero. The largor ostablishments koop up a cloan front and hide their filth in thonlloys. An instancs of this 18 afforded in the McVicker's Theatre alloy, backing on which are threo of the largest restaurants in the city. On somo doys, the siench from the barrels and boxes of garbage is almost intolerable, and it is inovitable that much of it must get strown about the alley and be left to rot in the sun, It iseafo to sy that the unfortunate individual who once passes by the rear of theso places will have little stomach left to go in by the front -of them, unloss Lis stomack is lined with cop- por. All over the cily, the smaller rostasurauts dump their garbage indigcriminatoly mto the guttors in front, or into tho alloy in the rour, as it happens to bo handiest, and thore tho foul stufl lies and rots In the sun and poisons the Bir. Fifth—Somo of our leading thoroughfares aro in a drendfully filthy condition. State stroet will auswer ns o snmplo for muny othors, Hore i8 n Jeading stroot which traverses the city from one end to the other. It is fillod with tems all oy long sud crowded with horso-cars, aud tho sidownlka are constantly thronged with pedes< trians. Buroly such a streot ns this ought to bo Xept cloan, if 1o others ave, and yot Stato stroot from Harrison to Twenty-second is one of tho filthiost in tho city. Tho guttors on eithor sido arostanding pools of groon, stagnant, mattor into which cabbago-leaves, corn-husks, chunks of watermolons, rotton tomatoes, and all worts of Qocaying vogotables and fruits aro thrown, | choking them up o that they do not ompty thomselves into tho sewers. A largo part of tho buildings on this stroet are small huckstors' |. shops and dirly ssloons, tho odors from which are foarful. Barrols of rotling stuff stand on the walks, waiting somotimos for dsys for tho scavengor. Bushely of stinking oystor-sholls vary the monolony of rotten vegotables, aud dd to tho stouck. In nuany placos, tho old, decaying framo shantlos aro lower than tho streot, and are mounted only & fow Inchos above stagnent pools of wator, ‘What is in tho alleys In tho ronr of thewo whan- ties it Is impousible to describe. We liave euggestod enongh to occupy tho at- tention of tho Board of Hoalth for some time to oome, Just at prosont, tha omployoes of tho Board seemn to bo dovoting their attention to ashos. Tho unlucky housoioldor who has a pile of aslics on his premisea is allowed no penco till ho ro- moves ft. o may loavo a pilo of stinking gar- bago in front or boliind his promisos for a wook and novor bo notifled to romove it. It might be wall, thorofore, for tho' Bonrd of Toalth to in- form Its omployos that thoro ia notling un- henlthy in & pile of ashos, but that, on tho othor hand, nshen aro & disinfoctant, and absorh filtly, and that thoy muat glvo their attontion to the romoval of garbago nnd the disinfoction of filthy localitien. MR. HOAR ON THE BALARY-GRAB, Mr. Goorgo F. Hoar's nnawer to Gen. Butler's defonso of tho Congrossional salary-grab, though pungont and indoed poworful in othor respects, is considerably weakenod by tho necossity of de- fonding his own naction in tho promisos, Mr. Hoar is n momber of Congress from the Worcos- tor Distriob of Massachusotts, IIo opposed tho bill incronsing the salnrion, and belloved the rotronctivo fonturo was unjust and immoral, According to his own statomont, he consulted with other moembers who had oppoesed tho moasure, and found a disposition among thom to draw tho baok-pay. Their Tlrgumunz waa that thoy would havo heon the sufforors if tho snlary hiad beon reduced; that they hnd done their duty in opposing it; and, now that they wore entitled to it by law, they wore justified fu taking it. If tho “lenders of tho opposition” to tho bill, whom Mr. Ifoor says he consulted, hold this opinion at first, many of thom subso- quontly changed thoir minds and covored tho money back into tho Tronsury. Mr. Hoar, pre- sumably on the same grounds, decided to draw his pay; but ho was so thoroughly convinced that it waa wrong, that he also doclded to bestow it upon somo public euterprise. Ifo selected tho ‘Worcestor Instituto, an oducational institution {roo to all rosidents of Worcestor County. Mr. Hoar turned ovor £5,000 to the Trusteos of the Tustituto, an smount roprosenting the bnck-pay, on condition that tho residents of fivo town- ships, outsido of Worcester County, but included within his district, should enjoy tho priviloges of tho fund. Mr. Hoar justifios his action in a' plausiblo wauy. o says that if Lo had covered this money back into tho Treasury whilo other Congrossmen lept their share, Worcoster County would have contributod an oxcoesivo proportion of the publio rovonue, 1is purpose was to so disposo of tho monoy that the pooplo of his dis- trict should have the bomofit of it. Ilo disclaims oll intention of manufacturing pubilio sentiment in his favor, or, as Gen. Butler puts g of buylug glory instoad of butchor's meat. 4 If wo admit that Mr. Ifont's motivos were per- fectly disintorested, he cortainly made’ & sorious mistake in judgment, The money which ho drow out of the United States Tronsury did not belong to the pooploof Lis distriot, but to the peopls of tho United States, If he had adopted Butler's original plan of roturning three conts to every votor in tho district (which But- lor, by the way, did wob keop wup), it would have beon a moro equable division of tho monoey than to have given it to an educational institution whoea advantdges caunot reach all his constitnonts. But tlis would have been oqually an impropor disposition of tho money, which eithor belonged to Mr. Hoar or to the poople of the United Statos. 1f ho had succeed- od in rotnurning to every tax-payor of Lis district a fair proportion of the * grab," he wonld have givon the poople of Worcestor County au advan- tago ovor tho reat of the tax-payers in this coun- try. Thoy had paid no more than their propor- tion of the Govornmont taxes ; they were enti- tles to no robate that wns not likewise distributed among the other tax-payers of tho country. 'Tho simple fact of the eago iy, that, if Mr. Hoar belioved e was not justly ontitled to the back-pay, hio had morally no moro right to disposo of it, or exercixo any coutrol over it, than ho had to keep it for his own use and ben- efit. To concedo thoe justice of Mr. Hont's defense of his disposal of the back-pay would bo to ac- knowledgo tho right of ons man to give away another man's money. In Mr. Hoar's caso, the fact that the law authorized him to draw tlic monoy makes no difference since Lo garded it as wrong in spite of law. His oxample wne pornicious. Other Congrossmen followed it, giving tho monoy to a school-fund, to the Washington NMonument Association, to o State Treasury, or to County Troasurios, or some other institution where they thought it would do thom most good. Thus there has been several instalimenta of the back-pay bolonging to the United States Treasury distributed without authority. Tho tomptation to be lberal with othor poople’s money is vory much stronger than to bo liberal with ouo's own. Tho practico is tho moro dangerous becnuse it is linble to be imitated. If politiciana como to bheliove that their sins can bo atomed for by a judiciousbestowal of the public fuuds, thore is obviously no ond” o the number of ondow- ments that can bo voted out of the Tronsury. Mr, Hoar's money was not dishonestly obtainad, for the law authorized it, but it waa immorally usod, since he, himsolf, rogarded the back-pay ns not bolonging to him, Tt will bo n diflicult mattor in political circles to draw tho lino be- tween the immorel uso and the dishonost obtain- ing of public funda, is oxample was the more pornicions, bocauso ho stands on o highor podos- tal than the averago Congressman. The nction of Mr. Hoar and all the other Congressmen who Lave imitated him in disposing of their back- pay is simply o modification of the daugorous sud pornicious practico of glving awny other poople’s money, which, in one form or unother, is nccountuble for most of the dofalentions, breachos of trusl, mercantile immorality, and socinl extravagance of tho dny. e do himn the Justico, howovor, to notice that tho tenor of his lottor implics that, if ho had taken a little moro time to think of the matter, ho would Lave loft the monoy in the Tronsury, whoro it belonged. Ho ovidontly regrota that he did not dowo. Ifero, and horo only, doos Lis lottor on the selary- frab show to battor advantage than Butlor's. re- tho The Fronch papers are now narrating a touol ing story of fullan royalty. Au aged negro} always rospectably drossed, and very reticent in his monuer, hns for « long time boen o mystory to tho people of Do Mantgoeron, Recently, how- ever, o gontloman named Didier succeeded in making his sequaintanco, Iuono of thelr con- versations, M. Didier was informed by tho stranger that ho lived wunder the nome of John King, but that King wag not his res! namo, In s subsoquont conversation, he learnod furthor that tho negro, forty years ago, was King of o tnbo in Blorrn Loono, and lost his crown by tho treachery of #omo of hils ambitious chieftains, who botrayed him to the English Admiral Hope, who took him to London. In Londan, he followed tho acon- pation or o dock-1aborer, and, biaving amassed & in tho onvironn of Paris, whoro ho rontedsn smnll placo in the woods, which remiudoed bim of his matlve Jand, ' More thaw this M. Didicr could not discover, Itccontly,’ however, M. Didior misaod his friond, and was’ not & llttle astonished Lo racolve the following lottor from him, DrAr Bin: I have Hived long onough, T shall bo to-nfglit In (ho ltivor Yores, and I do not wish to bo taken out of ft. Do not forget entirely the poor vkl King, and boliovo me yours traly, Koxno, Amid all ho faded splondors of royally and alt the touching oventn which liave marked the varylng fatos of Fronch monarchs, there {s noth- ing moro touching than this brief history of poor old King Konibo, 1 ‘WIHY OUR AMUSEMENTS ARE COSILY. * As n rulo, supply and demand may be trusted to rogulato pricos of labor as woll ns of com- modities. But thero are excoptions Lo tho rulo, Congraxemen, for instanco, who flx thelr own compensation, have facilities for turning supply and demand topsy-turvy. The “slars™ in the dramatio and oporatio professions have also n way of playing havoo with the people's money. Thoy rocoive pay out of all propariion to tho smouut of work, and frequently to tho talent, which thoy offer, Tho prices paid to tho leading lights of ' public amusomonts aro 8o largo nowadays that they nro o proper subjoot of public concorn and tho poo- .plo of Clicngo, ae the most liboral in their patronnge of amuscment-placos of all communi- tios in this country oxcept Now York, have a spocinl interost in it. Tho coming scason fs ox- pected Lo prosont four opers companios,—two Ttulian, one English, and ono Frogeh,—and the usual auccession of dramatic attractions. For all thoso tho people will lny outa very large amount of monay. It is not cuough to say that, if tho pricon aro too high, tho peopla have the right to stay ot home. Yublic amuscments are a matter of public coucern. They oxercise an important influonce on tho chracter of .o people. They form n conspicuous cloment in popular education, Of a good character and at accessiblo pricos, thoy contribute materinily to. the -culturo and rofincment of a community. An oxcossivo incronse of prices, however, doos not keop peoplo away from them &0 much ss it oncouragos oxtravagant oxpenditures. Many people spond more money than they can nfford, and the good that might be dorived from intel- lectunl or musieal onturininments is moro than countorbalaneed by the ovils incident to all ‘ox- penditures of monoy over and above the limit of an income, : Managors are generally blamed for the high prices cbarged at public amusement-placos fn times of speoial atiraction. ‘They are only indi- rectly respousible. Whilo thoy tako groat risks, thoy rarcly make auything like as much money. a8 tho stars, who tako no risk Whatever, Edwin Booth, as an actor, carus probably $150,000 » yoar; as the mauagor of Dooths Theatro in New York it Is not likely that Lo ovor secured & fair interest on his large invostment. Tho enormous prices paid to the louding aitraotions nocossitate the pricos asked by tho mauagers, Mme. Lucea is said torecoive £1,200 a night, and certainly enrus as much as 5,000 o woolc with the four or fivo performances in which sho takes part. Mme, Nilsson reccivos as much, Tiven Miss Kellogg is paid from $400 to 2500 por night, When a maunger makos up an oporatio company with one of these prime donne nt its hend, it is necessnry for Lim to engnge muother of mnewrly equal prominence to secure o respectable attendanco on the occasions when tho star of tho troupo docs not appoar. Tho eamo practico provails of paying onormous salaries to favorilo mombors of the dramatic profossion. Mr. Booth demands from 50 to 60 per cont of tho gross receipts in all his ongago- monts, and the manager hos to puy ull bis ox- pouses of company, thealro, advortising, ote., out of the remainder. Mr. Jefforson, with his single play of “Rip Van Winkle,” makes torms oqually exacting. The managor who cugnges Chorlotts Cushman must pay £500 o night clesr, no matler what bho may take in. These are alto Mr. Fechiors torms, and it is altogother likely that Salvini, tho renowned Italinn tragedian who visits Amorica this season, witl receivo quito as much, or moro. W'nere is an impresgion that Americans are ro- sponsibla for this high scalo of prices, but it is not altogother corract. Thoy ave regulated, par- ticulnrly in opora, in Europo, Mmo, Adolina Patti will not come to this conntry until tho de- mand for hor in Europe declines. In addition to tho enormous pay sho receives, hor prosonts aud fayors from the crowned hesds and uobility figare up so as to ovorbalance Amor- ican prodigality. Tho prices for tho firste clags placos in European opora-houses range highor than here. Yot Mapleson in London has always bean on the verge of bankruptey, and no- body has ever succeeded in making the Italiens pay in Paris, The Government contributions for tho support of ‘amusgoments in Conlinental Europo are exhausted in the payment of: oxces- slvo walarios, und the people derive littlo bonefit from them, though thoy ultimately como out of tho people's pockots. "Tho bardships of this system of excossivo pay fora certuin clasy of artists are principally two- fold. In tho firat placo, the manngor canuob afford to fill up hin company with rospectable actors or mingers, and the performanuco, s & wholo, loscs moro thun it gaina by tho engage- ment of tho Ligh-priced attraoction. In tho sec- ond placo, the amusements of tho highor chnr- ncter are open only to thore who happon to have the most money, though thoy ure not always, nor even gonerally, tho pooplo who appreciato thom most. T'he rosult {s that tho botter kind of public entortaliimonts are fowor than they { would bo - under & fairor dlstiibution of prices and moro reasonablo admission- foos, Wo lave s wook's opera where wo might havo 2 montl's, and a dramatio soason is flllod up with trash that might othor- wiso bo disponsed with, Tho effect in tho muslcal and dramatio professious is doprensing, for the reacon that fair talont is obscured and koptin the background. High prices, in one word, aro in tho intorcsts of tho fashionallo pooplo alono, who must sharo with the *stars® tho responsibllity for tho hardships thoy put upon tho people at lurgo, not evea including the wanagors, —— ‘Tho Bt. Louils Kepublican has a corrospondont with tho Yollowstone expedition, who relatos an incidont that hos o favor of old war-times, Iis slory Is that a suiler from Fort A, Lincoln Joined the Btanley command, and, with a hiboral esthunto of tho capacity of tho atufr, tho rauk and the fllo, took a dozon barvels of ‘whislky with bim. ‘This was against the rule, But the sutlor, who Lad ovidently hud somo oxporionce in army matters, decided to sub- mit his liquor to personal inepoction at Load- quartors, About this time the correspondoent considorablo suin by Ly tcll, took up his quarters | says thut * Gon, Btauloy felt impelled by tho gripings of an internal disorder; which would b groatly alloviatod by' a Httlo apititual consola- tion, to acospt’ the timely ‘proposition of Mr; Butler Diokey." . Thion follow n succoesion of suspicious not to hny oloquent auteriske, whicli 15, ‘porhepn, & motaphorical way of saying that Clen. Btanloy eaw stars, Tho rostilt of hid ox« verimont, howevor, was, that somo of the youngor officors of tho command held o coun- cll of war, ‘and Liout. Ray, the Com- missary, waa ocommissioned to vanquish the {naidious onomy that hiad cropt into camp by knocking the hesds of-the barrels in nand lotting Mothor Tarth absorb the liquid fire, Whisthor' this aotion was takon because Gon. Stanloy pronounced tho whisky bad, or bocanse ho did not ask his subordinatos to dritik, or be- eauso he sot & bLad oxample by drinking too much himsolf, {a not very cloarly ot forth. But thora saoms to liave ‘boon-somo lamontation at thin summary diuposal-of tho ! commiskary,” fn which Liout.-Col, Fred Grant is represonted to Lavo jolned. A RIVAL TO BROWN. It sooms to bo Inovitablo to evory mortal that, tho momont ho finds' himsolf possosded of any unusual gift, porsons possessed of similar gifts bogin to spring up like mushrooms all nbout him. * Ho hasno 'sooner bogun to onjoy tho priviloges and immunities and roputation; growing out of his gift, than thoso othor envious Vislngs at once doprive him of them by showing that thoy huve long had the samo gift. The Fox sistors, for instanco, hind no soonér. bogun to mako o lucrativo seneation out of tablo-tipping and spirit-rapping, than tablos bogan to tip and spirits to rap all over the country, and the Fox. sistors had to do something olso for o living. Blondin might have mado a fortune in: walking tight ropes had not rope-walkors appoared in’ overy village in tho land as soon as ho commenced. A man cannot In- vont. o curious machine but that the same machine is invonted in acores of other places at tho samo timo, The astronomor ruus across a. ‘planot which he ia confidont no oye has scon but his, and bo sungunces tho discovery and christons his planet, ouly to find out that tho sturry strangor s an old ncquaintanco at half tho observatorios in the world. Now-a-days, o child cannot bo born with three loge, but that suother child is born’ in"tho same streot, noxt day, with four, It is an envious world—a world full of jealousios—a world which is' bound that 1o ono shall be happy any length of time in tho posecsslon of any distinetive priviloge, It is but a fow days ago that wo described the raro talont of young Mr, Lrown in findiug ont what is going on in other poople’s honds by simply placing thoir hands npon his own hond. ‘Wo described the advantages and disadvantagon of young Mr. Brown in tho exorcise of this gift, and tho rosult is that {he onvious poople aro already beginning to appear. Mr. Brown has hardly made the possossion of this gift publicly known, and now comos a lady in Davenport who profosses to have the same powor. Sho, too, can find hiddon articlos, and ovon resd a por- son’s thoughts by slmply placlng the subjoct’s hand upon hor forehoad, Not content “with rivaling Brown, she goos & stop fur- ther. Bo - powerful is the control which her husbaud has over hor intellec- tunl fuculties that ho oan control lor actions whon sho i out of bis sight. e hns boen known to slt in the gardon while tho lndy wns busy with the houschold duties, and by n meve act of volition has ouforced his wishes. Now, if this statomont bo correct, end if the thing iy going to spread, wo submit to the advo- catos of womon's rights that their cansoeis in danger. What becomes of* the indopondonco of woman if her husband in the back -garden, or in tho office, or in a neighboring town, can direct hor movomonts by simple volition? In compnri- son with tho present freodom of woman, the prospect is by no mesns a pleasant one for them. Now thoy aro masters of all they survey. The lord of tho houso may order them about, and take it out in ordering. Tlo may sliout Lis wialios, scream his wishos, command them in an imperious tono, threaten with loonine flerceness, wrinkle his mujostic brow, shoot angry lightnings from his oyes, got mad, staud on his hoad, or do anything clso sublime, forocious, or ridiculous, and lovely woman only atanda by and emiles, aud then affectionatoly inquires if ho foels any bettor, or advises him fo do it over again. e can do evorything oxcopt to enforco obedionce, al- though in thelr spooncy davs she promised to ovo and oboy, sud sll that sort of pleas- ant fiction which young women indulge in when undor the iufluence of laco veils and orange flowors. But hero is a Davenport man who can send all sorts of mandates to his wife, ovon when ho is not at homo, ovor his mental tolograpl, and sho immodiately knows what ho wants lier to do, and goos aund does It without once calling him n monstor or threatening to go to her mother. Happy Davenporter! No family jars, no household mutinios to quelll "No sconos in the family sitting-room, 1o floods of tours, no exlibltions Lo ohildron and eervaut-girlal Tho Lliappy Davenporter hias only to wish, not oven to epeak, and bohold it is done, While all this Davenport folicity has an ugly look for the ndvocates of woman's rights, there i consolation for man in the fact that the boot is mot on the other leg. ‘This accommodating and altogethior model lady in Davouport of courso is aware of what iy gomg on 1n hor husband'seliond, olse she could not know his volitions. But suppoge for n momont that, in addition to tho fuculty of kuowing his thonghts, she alao possessed wufliciont influenco over bim to mako him oboy hor, by this samo ot of volition. What o wroteliod life this Dav- enporter must inovitably lead! Ylogots down to tho ofice in tho mornlug, and ho Iy immodiately rwaro that his wifomust have o now bonnot. Of course ho must sond the monoy to hor, Before tho mossenger can. got to his houso, ho gots auothor signal, and this time ho iy aware that a second cousin of hor, whom he nover liked, and who 18 & muct: Lotter- looking man than himself, has como to lunch and spend thoe aftornoon, and ho must imme- dintely sond to tho market and order somo tonderloine, of which that second-tousin i vory fond, Thon ho receivos a messago that o cow lus got into the flowor-garden, or littlo Johuny for tho fiftioth time has followed an ice-cart and got lout, or littlo Busio has just fullon down- atairs, or tho servant-girl has just given notico that cithor sho or hor mistross must qult, and #0 tho poor mon s kopt in an agony of oxpoctation and torturos of obodlonce all dny. As it.comos night, he thinks ho will have & little rooroatlon, & quict sup- por st his favorite restaurant, s bottlo of wine and s gamo of piteh with a fow congoninl spirits, whon suddonly an intimation pops into his hend, inspired by lis wifo, that he had bottor not o It, i ko Iy wantod nt Lomo, and bomo ho RO08;~WIIl he; nill “Theté 16 16 rert for the Davonpottor, Evbry;. aiggoblion tending toward wlittlo porsonal comfort or qulok rolaza. tlon that comes- into -hila hosd fs immodintoly known at homo, and countermandod by the ine oxorable operator at tho other ond of tho montal tolegraph. ' Asit is vory evidont thal Brown s not golng {o invo this faculty all to himsolf, it becomes in- toroating to the publia to know how and whoro this faculty may be procured. If tho Daven- port man hns o roctpo for tho docilily of wives, thero aro plonty of people who would probabdly poy him handsomoly for it. If it'can be com- munieated by incoulation, he can do.s wholosalo businesa in Chieago. Wo implore him not to be soltlsh in thin respoot, 4 — i At Inat ‘sccounts, Dr, Kenealy, one of the coun-, sel for tho Lichborne olaimaut, was on his sov- onth dny in Lis opening speoch for tho dofend- ant. Tho burden of tho dofense is poculiar, Tho prosecution, whatever elso it recomplished, ostablished boyond a donbt that the claimant s 8 low, misorablo wrotcls, without any culturo, morals, mannors, or sonse of docoucy, Pro- clsoly, aays Dr. Kenoaly, tho ciaimant is all you have shown him to be, and worde; and all this is proof that ho s the gonuino Togor Tichborno. Ho fs just what his early cducation "'mado lum—nn idiotic boast, Dr. Kenealy contonds that tho claimant cannot bo tho Wapping butchor, bocauso the lattor * had n more poworful - intollect.” Ho also rofors to Arthur Orton as the good, sound, substantial Protostant Ortorf," in contrast to tho imbecila Catholio bofore him, whose mind had been ruined by Lis early associations. o pointa lus “fingor contomptuously at the olaimant to satisty the jury that ho is “a complote and porfact donkoy,” and throughout his speech in- dicates that ono of tho strongost points Lo oxpeots to make in favor of tho olaimant is that Lo 1s a poor, miserable, igno- rant, and bosotted boor. A mauwill go grodt longths to roach s fortune, and suffor many prosont hordships with the hopo of future re- watd, but tho Tichborno claimant will havo pur- chasad his acquittal from tho chargos of forgery’ ‘and porjury vory doarly at'tho cost of boing do- nounced to the world by his own counsel and frionds as tho vilest specimon of humanily in alt England, . The trial of Gon. Bazaino is likely to furnish s oxtousive -and just about as intoresting n fund of literaturo as somo of our Amorican court-martinls or thoe reports on the Ku-Klux cagos. Thoe preliminary report of Gon. Riviers in Baznino’s caso fills four octavo volumos. This igboforo the trinl hascommenced. It comprises an account of tho battles about Motz, a volumo ou the artillery, another on food supplies, and s fourth on the communications. roport nccuses Bazaine of liaving cspitulated without" having oxhausted all his means of do- fonse, and of having caused his troops to lay down their arms beforo Lo had mado every offort in lifs power to avert this disgraco. ‘I'hese of- fonnos, according to tho code of military justico, are punishable with death and military dograda- tion. Tho Dills ihat perish by the adjournmont of tho British Parliamont are all classed &a Tho Blaughter of the Innoconts,” Among thoss that gharod € fato of tho Inst adjournmont was ono introduced by Six John Lubbock to limit the hours of lnbor in shops to twolve for womon and young porsons. Novertholess, tho bill recoived great popular favor, as well it might, and it s likely to bo rovived. Whenover n nation of shop-keepors insist that women and immature porsons shall work moro than twelve hours in thoe day, it is time for tho law to inter- foro on tho score of humanity. An argument in favor of the measure was, that labor:of more than twelvo hours decreases the efticioncy of the work to tho oxtont that moro is lost thun gainod Dby the oxcossive torm of servico. —— The Euglish Paulisment can sometimes got gown to very smoll matters. Rocently, Mr. Vaughan introduced & moasure, which caused quite o debato, for suppressing a nuisanco—that {8, tho invontion of startling intelligenco by nowsboys in order to sell papers which they fiud on Land Iato ot pight. Mr. Vanghan had boou disappointed sovoral times in looking for “a grand massncro on the Loire,” and on another occasion ho was caught with * the deathof Glad- stono.” o thought it was nothing but o nui- sance and o Bwindle. Mr. Vaughan, howover, mot with but very littlo sympathy, and Is still linble to bo gulled by the Lighly-imaginativo lite tlo gmning, who magnify thoir wares just as thoir elders do, when trade is dull. ‘Clorical Misbehavior. Theroe scems to bo & mania amongst English clorgymon, just now, for getting into all sorts of troublo, Hardly an English paper comos to us whiol does not sot forth the improper and un. clorical doings of some ministor, - Tho lntost number of tho London News containg two in- stances of this sort. Tho fivat cnso is that of the Rov. Dr. Rouben Berson, who was arrcsted for bignmy, and who scoms to have had a most oxtraordinary career. Itiwas shown by the pros- ccutfon that o March, 1871, tho prisoner mar- Jled ono Emily Gambior Kidd, the daughtor of a Justico of tho Poace, sud that In 1878 ho was agaln marriod to Emily Snthnulton' tho daughter of & rotirod naval officer. Duwing the trial, it was shown that the prisonor was an Auptrinn Jew, and a ministor by profossion, In 1869, ho was at Oxford, but only romnined thore o sliort time, and among his papors was o sum- mons in bastardy for arroars due to the mothor of Lis illegitimnte child, In 1870, ho wae on- goged to amother girl by the namo of Allondor, whom ho succocded in roducing. In 1870, Lo started a Gorman class at tho TRoyal 8chool of Armagh, and thoro succcoded in marrying Miss Kidd, ‘who ho subsequontly brutally desorted., Dur- ing tho same yoar, Lo soduced a young girl of Armagh, aud thon desorted her and went to Gibraltar, and on his return married Mise Boul- ton, whioch lod to bis arvost. Tho prisonor was of coursio found guilty, and was sontonced to five yonrs' penal sorvivudo, Tho second cuso was that of the Rav, O. IT. Nowbold, Vicar of Hindloy, in Tnncagluro, and o faithful adheront of the High Chureli, An inquiry was recontly mado into his charactar by tho Bishop of Choster, which doveloped thp fact that ho had oftieiated at o funeral while drunk; that he proached in,church while drunk ; that ho was often brought home drunk, and whila in thie condition swore like s pirate. Ann Audertun, ‘who bolonged to tho choir of his church, tosti- fled thut onco In the singing gallory Mr, Now- bold acized hor by the arm, when sho turned round and said: “ What are you doing?" Ho roplied: “1 bog your pardon.” On auothor occasion, on the doorstop, he pinched her arm and it was sore for some time. Bho told him tho noxt timo ho did it ko would go intochurch with n pair of black oyes, Numorous othor inutancos of. simi- lar uumninintorial conduet were proven, attor which tho Dishop announcod his declsion that the charges of drunkennoss woro proven, and al- though indecent and immoral behavior had not hoon cstablished in & logal aud tochnical *sonso, the dofoudunt’s conduct had becn most improper, intomporate, and highly roprohonaiblo, o wag ausponded for throo years and condemned in couts, Thoso and numerous othor similar casos almoat constantly tranapiring in Englaud show that thorols sad nced of an clovation of the mfulstorinl staudard in that country, “Auatomy, The conclusion of tho, ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. ) i LIFE OF ALEXANDEIL VON. ILUMPOLDT, Com- tled, 4n-Commomoration of the Centonnry of 11in irth, by J, Lokwenneno, 1, Avx, TALLEMART, fud ‘J}xi:n%:;nuo’n: ‘*1 tod from tho elbn 2 olfi, 8v0. Lotidon: Longmans, Green & Go, fon and Now York s Len & Hhoprira: - 1475, A blography of Mumboldt has long hoon a do- alderatum. Bo far an wo havo boon ablo to dis- covor, thoro did not exist provions to the yoar 1873, in any langunge of Iuropo, anything ap- pronching to a worthy history of hislife. Of tho thousands to whom his namo in familior, thore aro but very fow who havo any iden of what mannor of man tho author of thoe **Cosmos" wag; very fow mon who aro ablo to ostimato him justly, to toll precisely in what g merits consist, or what place ho s likely o hold , in" the history of aclonco. Whe worlk boforo ua, n translntion of tho German biography above roferred to, will afford the rondor the best information to bo had concorning the life and oharactor of Alexaudor Von Humboldt, The Iabor of rondoring tho boolt into English wus porformed Dy the Misses Lnssoll, tho accomplishod translators of Schol- lon's “Bpeotrum Annlysis"—n guarantgp of the acouracy and cloganco of tho work. It would bo difiicult to find a moro dififeult lifo to writo than Humboldt's. Soventy years of it wero devoted to tho iutorosts of scionco, aud-| honco it in that only a aclontist can do it Justico, oifly » nclontist na. many-sided Ton- 88 was Humboldt himsolf; for ho was truly no spocinlist. Ilo eprond himaolf, so to spesk, over an immonso surfaco, and 8o groat was his ambition that thora was nothing in the whols rango of physical phonom- onn, and searcely anything in soctal or political phenomens, which he did not mako a subject of original investigation. Aristotlo and Lelbuitz aro the only two mon in history that rival him in multifariousnoss of knowlodge, Neithor Goog- taphy, mnor Astronomy, nor Botany, nor Geology, nor_ Meteorology, nor Magnotism, nor Climatology, nor Zoology, nor Comparative nor Lttmography, mor Political Economy, nor Philology was foroign to him, Mo hed studied them all, o had writ- ton om most of thom. In fow of them was thore in his day & higher authorily than himsolf. No wonder his biography—which in tho caso of Humboldt means mainly sn no- count of his sciontific lnbors, ainco of bis homo lifo thero is not a groat deal to bo anid—has boen delayed, andno wonder that, now that it appears, it comes not the worlk of ono man hut of several, 1t neoded mora pous than ono to sppreciato bim ab his truo valuo. Alexnnder Von Humboldt was born i Berlin, Sopt. 14, 1760, snd oducated on tho Tegil estate mado famous by his brothor Williolm, whoro Onmpo was for & time his tonchor. 1Ilis fathor, who wns Chomborlain to the Prussian King, died whon tho boy wns only 10 yoars of ngo, leaving tho caro of his cducation to his mothor, o woman, it would scom, of a rathor stern charactor, but who suw that he did not noglect his studics. Young Humboldt, in aftor yoars—and it is no credit to his charactor— seoms to have romewmbored his mother only an an old lady, aun invalid, o cause of isolation and restralut to Limsolf; and to Lnvo heard the news of hor death, in 1796, whenr Lo was 27 years old, with tho utmost indifferouce ; so much so that, writing to a friond on the subject, ho could sny : “You know I do not take it much to heart; wo havoe been strangors for many s yoar." Aloxander was not a precocious child, Fow men of marked ability, perhaps, aro. Perhaps it is in the montal as in the physicnl order, and that the inertin of great -minds is in the direct ratio of their mognitude; or, as in tho organie, that tho mind which goos through its poriod of intellectual gestation in & vory short timois rel- atively low iu tho sealo of being. Bo this as it may, Humboldt's facultics were slow in weking, Hia elder brother—his sonior, howover, by only two years—ronowned aftorwards as a historinn, ntatosman, and philologist, soems to havo boen delighted and astonishod nt the youth's first m- dications of mental vigor, and prophested, though not in words that give evidence of much onthusi- asm, Aloxander's futuro distinction, At this po- riod of his lifo, and, iudoed, nt All others, our author does not keem to have beon notod for his amisblo qualitios, Ho was vain, fond of dis- play, sarcastic, and bad, as ho continuod aftor- wards to lave, a great desl more head than henart. As yet, ho had givon no intimation of tho love of sclentific purauits which charnotor~ izod him later and through tho rest of his life. Ho waa vory thoroughly prepared when in his 18th yenr ho was sent to Fraukfort-on-tho- Oder, to the University, to study, but whore ho romnined not more than oue term. Aftor leaving Frankfort ho went to tho Univorsity of Borlin, where we flud bim engnging in tho study of Greek and of DBotsuy, the Iatter of which studies romained over aftor one of his favorito: pursults. Au insight into tho ohnractor of his mind is obtained whon it is known that, searcoly had ho boon indtiated into tho mysteries of this scionco, when ho concoived tho ides of writing au oxhnustivo work “on the forces of plants, thoir lionling forco oxcopted,” in the composition of which it wns his intention to nssociato v num- ber of otlior writers with himself. The cighteenth contury had not witnesgod tho principle of tho division of lubor carried out in the groat workehop of Scionce. Tho boundless- ness oven of tho known, or of what might bo known, was not sufiiciontly apprecinted to induce men, a8 a gonoral rulo, to devote all their onor~ gies to the oxploration of a singlo doprrtmont. It was, na it hns boon aptly called, an * encyclo- pedic ngo,” when every scholar endoavored to gragp tho whole world of science ; aud Hum- boldt did not escapo the provailing spirit of his timo. Ho aspired to o kuowledgo of back toScionco his thoughtn ovor revorted. Tha Invostigation of isolated fncty was not at all in hnrmony with the charnctor of his mind. Ho way o natural-horn genoralizer, and thorefore a nntural-born dizelplo of Bacon,—for corroct gen- .oralization supposen the truth of tho Inductive mothod,—ovor in - scarch of rolations, , rosom- blancos, and conneotiony Letwoon phenomonn that to othor minds seomod sul generis, ovor in soarch of wunity in tho variely of appear- ancen - about him. Thus in 1703 wa flud him ongagod on a map - showing the cone nectlon of all tho snlt-springa of Gonmany," and in 1793, brooding "over a work to bo fiuished in twanty years, tho dosigh of which was to doscriba “‘tho vogotablo crontion In its rolations to the reat of nnturo, and in itsinfluonce on man consid- corod 08 o sentiont being,” and -othor projecta of 8 similar nature ocoupied his mind about tho Bumo thmo, In 1796, ho wroto to Pictot that he Lind concelved tho idea of n coamic physics ; from which wa may infor that o had alroady the germ of *“tho Conos in his mind,” A word hero of Iumboldt's concoption ot Naturo, Iumboldt's views of Naturo woro do- oidedly objective, rosliutic. Ile was nolthor a drofmer nor a moro speculator, although in hi, doscriptions tho pootio i by no moans wanting, Yot Lig object was not to oxplain the world so much a8 to paint it,—but to patat it, it womny bo allowed 80 to oxpross it, in s mannor which in our day might bo called somi-geientifio,—and as awholo. In ITumboldt's day, acholars wero nct yotin woarch of any such unifying principle of physical phonomons s hns siuce boon found in tho doctrine of tho conservation and corrolation of forces, or in Bponcer's thoory of ovolution. What tho mon of Humboldt's tima woro In goarch of was the wsthotic unity of phy- sleal phenomonn,—not u motaphyaleal or philo- gophic unity; and this Humboldt gave them, It may bo quostioned whothor this was not mora tho idea of tho ago than of tho man: It appoars to have beon the iden of the Lrillinnt socloty of Weimar, to which Humbold{ was futroduced by his brothor William. Herdos had nlroady roforred to it in ono of his worka, and Goetho was by no monns & tranger to it Bat, although Humboldt's coucoption of the world was rathor msthotic than what would ba cslled sclontific in our doye, his mothod waa moro clontific than artistic, Lo did not trust to iutuition, but to Iabor, to dovolop bis views, Ho had the faith of & eciontist.in tho balance, and confided moro in tho inductive mothod thon in imagination, ITo was a rigid oxporimontalist, and ono of tho Afirut; for ho camo at & transition poriod. Ho was the last of oncyclopedio sciontists, Ifo was the first, though an unfinishod, spacimon of a echool of acientists roprosonted in our day Ly men like Faraday and Huxley. Humbolat's travels in Amoiiea teom 1709-1804 wero of great sorvice to him; but his sojourn in tho Peruvian Cordilleras of tho vory greatest in tho production of his Cosmos. In lis own words, tho Cordilloras are “the part of tha earth's surfaco, whore, on a minimum of surface, Nature attains o maximum of power of oxpression.” Iloro ho found & musenm gathered by Nature's own hand to illustrato hor plan and laws—a world in miniature, Tho heav- cus soomed to bo the only part of all Naturg which ho could not hero study. In fact, ho nover accomplished vory much for astronomical sei- enco. His knowledge of mathomatics was too limited to onable him to do much in that dirce- tion, To tho study of the magnotiam of {ho earth, Iumboldt dovoted special attention, Ho traced tho lines of equal inclination of tho magnet and -of equel maguetio intensity, and was the firat to oounciate tho Inw that tho lattor decronses from the magnotio polo to the magnotic equator. Itumboldt is to be crodited not only with what ho did, but with what he caused tobe done. Thus, in 1829, Lo induced tho Russian Govern- ment to malko valuablo observations in the inter- ost of the scionco of moteorology, if acience it can b callod. In goology, his namo is connccted Wwith no permanent theory. In carly lifo, ho was decided Vuleanist, but was convertad to Plutou- ism by Lis examinations of certain voleanic formations nenr Quito. In botany,—hin favorito study,—though ignorant of the physiclogy of plants, ho was particulurly nt homo. Nor wasman foreign to Lis studics. Tho historie and cultivat- od races intorcsted him moro than the snvage triben. During all thoso yenrs, Inmboldt continuod an untiving colloctor of matorials. Aftor bis rotun to Europe, in 1805, lio was appointed by tho Era- poror his Chamborlain,—a position which ho retained till his death, but which he ecoms nover {o have cared much for. Tis attachment to his country wes small. IHig long lifo of travol hiad made s cosmopolitan of him, Of the doctrine of historic progross, Na- poloou's succoss had made him vory skeptical. Napoleon novor cstimatod Humboldt very highe 1y, and Humboldt had no love for Napoleon. Yol Puris seoms of all places to have been the denr- st to him, Tho sacrot of his attachmont to the placo lies, porhaps, in the fact that Paria was tho groat seiontitic contro of the ago. Ho was deoply in love wilh French socioty ; and, in company with Guy Lussac, Arago, and others, epont tho bappiest days of his Jifo on French territory. Gormany was not at thia pe- riod o3 distinguished for scionco as it is now. Indoed, philology was the only brauch that liad as yot roceived any vory great development in that country, This was suflicient reason why it should not bo n very plonsant Lome for Hum-~ boldt, Kt Borlin way spocially displeasing to him., Froderick IIL he could baroly tolorate, while his fooling for the fourth Frederick was & mingled one of love aund pity. Tho substance of his Cosmon he had given ta all thet was to bo known, Porhaps it in woll that it was go, for, had his ambition boen loss, whatover clse he miglt havo accom- plisked Lo never could havo written * The Cos. mos,” Unliko most young students, howevar, whoro ambition is too comprehensive, Hnmboldt ovon in kis carlier years showod o marked dispo- sition for oxhouslivo roscarch in overy subject Do Investigated. Thoro was one nubject, how- ovor, in which he never mnde any grent headway —tho mathemalies ; aud ho secoms to Liave had no goniua forthon, In 1789 and 1790, wo find IIumboldt at' Got- tingen with Heino as o guide in tho clossics, Blumonbach, Kacstner, aud Lichtenborg his mastors in ecionco, It was at this time that ho composed his first work of any importanco,—* On the Basalts of tho Rhino,"~tho result of tho labors of a vacation spont by him on the banks of the river, Hum- boldt's nequaintanco with Georgo Forstor was ono of the most important events in his life, Through hia intorcourse with him, IIumboldt's love for natural scionco was dooponed and strongthenod; and it was during thoir travols togolher in Belgium, Holland, England, and Franco (hat Lio acquired tho tasts for the expo- Qitions on » largor scale which he aftorwards plannod and made, Ilnd bhis oducation beon finished, it s very probablo that young Humboldt would have immediately embarked in undertakings similar to thonoe which ho cnrrled out in Intor timos, But his education ‘was not complote, nor doos ho scem as yot to havo entertained tho thiought of pursuing sci- anco oxclusively, or othorwise thun as a means of filling up such lolsuro as ho could stonl from other duties, That he had nob up to thid date declded, or thought it practicable, todevoto him- self to sclontifio pursuits alone, is evident from his cugaging in tho study of fluanco with & viow to Governmont omploy. .In 1790, lio apent somo time in Ilamburgh, ongaged in moreantilo pursuits ; but sooms not to have rolished thom over much, Humboldt's studios with a view to Goverumont cmploy woro not lost; for o little later than this ho devoted as many ad five yoara of his lifo to the civil sorvice of his country ; and with ao much oredit to him- solf and satisfaction to his Government that it wus with tho groatest regrot his King partod with his servicos In this capacity. Part with them, however, ho was obliged to. Humboldt bad givony his fat Jovo to Roiouco, nud the world bofore it appeared (1846-1862) in lec- turos, It appoared too late for tho learned world, ‘too'early for the popular favor. Unoqual in its parts, iucomploto as & connoeting link betweon art and wcienco, nutiquated nlready, it is still poorless, the most perfect and couscientious cod- ification of contemporary scionco which avy ono man ever gave to tho world. IHumboldt canuot bo strictly called o classio suthor. German critics do not allow him that placo, Yet Lo was the first of a most usoful class of writors, — a class whoso endeavor it ig to mnko scienco ne- cousiblo to tho mnot professionally scientific. hough called by Lis contomporarios tho “ Crowned Mounarch of Scionce,” he does not appoar to have boon a happy man. The elo- ments of & man's happiness must bo found in his moral charactor,—in the quantity of *awcot- noss and Jight " that enter into its composition., Tn Iumboldt’s thore scoms to havo been but littlo of oithor. Ilis moral char- actor was, - in truth, complex. Side by slde with much of what was good, thero was « groat donl which was moan, and somathiny tho cynic, Like most mon, lio Lad pl much more than ko accomplished. o bolisved his lot to hiave been cast in an era of decling. 1lis_home lifo nover was tho happicst. Ha livod to the good old ago of 90. Dut old ngo i no unmixed blossing, One of its ponal- tios Is the solitude of friendloseness; for Donth, tho reapor, is always busy smoung the loved. Humboldt died May €, 1859 s —— BM.'»HING IN UNION PARK. T'o the Editor of The Chicugo 1hibune : B : Booing the suggostion in your paper, o few morninga sinco, concerning hathing in Union Park, I would like to offer a fow romarks in ro- gard to the same, In tho first placo, a vory largo proportion of tho housos on the West Sido have no bath-rooms; consoquently wo Wont-Sidera aro compolled to resort to the barbars' astablishe mouty, or dony ourtelves tho ‘inestimablo luxury of a uplaeh in tho eold wator with the thormome= tor lu'tho 80%. In London, where I eamo from, Lathing fu the parks is pormitted beforo 6 in the morning, and crowds of peoplo avail thomseives of the privilego, ‘Thore corlalnly can be noin- doconey in it at that hour in the morning ; or, a8 thins is & more wide-awake oty thau Loudon, put it back a half-hour, and mako it 5:30. Uhiy auggostion 1 thrown oul with tho view of »upplyfil a Wost Side dofleloncy, as you must romomber that peoplo living around Union Park aro ovor two m\‘ou from tho Inke, ~Iloping that Tue Tnmuse will give its fntlnentisl !ul]_lpurt to this dowund in tho intorcstn of clonnliuoss, I i, A Wen-Biozs,