Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 18, 1874, Page 8

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MYERS' OPERA-HOUSE Monroa streef, botween Dearborn ana State. Arlington, Cotton, and Kemblo's Miastreia. ** & slp Day.” Minscrelsy and coud~ alities. CENTRAL HALL BUILDING, ROO 1—Corner Wa- baiy arenue and 1wentysecoud streot. Historioal lectare by Edwazd . Waters, A. 51 - BUSINESS NOTICES. VENTILATION—PURE AIR IS ASTBJECT WHICH ©ougbt to claim the caretul stteaton of every intelligent pereon in the commuity. 1f only a small portion ot the Bftention whica w yive alinost all ordinary wants of lifo be given to this all-important subject, much of sutfering and eichnews might bo ovolded. ~ Our priva‘e dwellings ‘and public buildings are lamcatably deficien. in regard to Toatation. 1n most cases, Lhe unly meansof obtainiag gum 2ir is by opening your Lranscmis sud skslights, there- ¥ afiording mo_protection against burglars and sneak- thieves, unlees rou havo ono ot Vroflensak's Patent Trao . som-Lilter and lock atached. Call znd cxamine. Tavusands now in use in tho ci'r. . F. WOLLENSAK, 224 LaNalle-et., Patentee and Menutacturer. b il Al Bhe Clitags Tribuae. Sunday Morning, January 18, 1874 THE OLD CUSTOM-HOUSE SITE. Mr. W. H, King, President of the Board of Education, in & commuzication published in this papera few days ago,-mada s general denial that the Board of Edvation, or any person for it, bas preferred a claifs for rent to be paid to the School Furd, as o 'rondition of the use and occapancy of the 0ld C1stom-Houso building by the Public Library, or'any other department of the City Goveroment. This general denial, which we are bound to sccept as true, and as warranted by ths facts, is certaioly at variance with the hitherto urderstood policy of the Board of Education. Ti:o history of the Custom-House tranefer is well femembered. At the suggostion of Mayor Medill, an appeal was made to Congress and to the Sccrotary of the Treasury for a transfer of that building and site to the City of Chicago for _ the purpose of a public library, the city giviog in exchange the lot on the river, formerly nsed for the Bridewell grounds, and which was more suitable 83 the location of s bonded ware- house. The exchange was authorized by Congross and the Secretary of the Treasury, on the ground that the Custom-House site was to boe devoted to the use of a public library; snd we question very much whether it would ever bava been approved had it been imagined that the transier was to be made to the Board of Education, to be held by that body as other Froperty, es ennron of revenue. We are certain ¢hat, had such pw:pose been szaomnced in Congress, it would not have been tolerated a moment. After the passtige of the law, and the ayproval of the terms of exchange, the Library Doard desired to have the building put to its destined uses. A confemance was then sought, and the President of the Board of Educa- tion attended & meeting of the Library, Board, discusced the mi itter, and, while express- ing o deeire that & cer tain portion of the build- ing should be devoted to tho uses of the Board of Education, declared his willngness that the Library shonld have. such portion of it as was needed, paying “ a { air and reasonsble rent™ therefor, the amounf, to be ascertained by an ap- proisal of the valw: of the property. Neither the Library Board,’ nor the Board of Education, nor the city, has lrid any money with which to put the building’ in order, g0 nothing has been done shout 7.he matter since then. The I;:mrd of Educatic n has been voluble in assert- ing its proprietort ihip, and it hes been under- stood_that, if t e Librery Gid mot occupy the building ot a fair and reasonsblo rent, the prop- erty would be le ised as & source of revenue to the schools. In' his letter to this paper denying that the Board ¢ ¢ Education has ever made any demand that it ¢ shall have rent for the building Mr. King sasae Y Ou tho 1st Ay’ of December, 1672, at s meeting of the Board of EX ication, the Chairman of the Commit- teo cn School-FA 1nd Property reported to the Board the proposition of ¢ he Building Committee of the Public Librezg; And 8 . wes then declared, aa tho sense of the at the . Bosrd of Education and the Public Library shall @ ceupy the building when it is fitted ap, joinily or othe rwise, as may bo agreod upon ; and that ¢ Eibrars I oard pay such annual rental for the por” tion occupied ' by the Library as may be eguitable and gust. . TLis statfamient coincides with our understand- ing of the muitter, viz. : that the Board of Edu- cation has 1sever, by its sction, nor thatof any of its representatives, rimitted that the Library could occupy that building exclusively, or join€3y vrith the Board of Education, without payiog suc h aonual rental as tte Board of Edu- cation ma § Geem ** equitablo and just.” Hence, weare jostified in eaying that, whenover the occupanc iy of that building for public purposes is discor sed, there comes the inevitable Board of Edus ;ation with its inevitable emand for rent, tobee racted from the city for tho use of city prope! ty. Tt appears from Mr. King's letter that the Gov ernment has not yet completed the convey- aucaof the title to the property. If this be 4o, may it not ba s well to have the titio made direct to the Public Library of the City of Chi- eago, instead of the Board of Education? In the ineantimo, the property belongs to the city, and the city should immediately put it to pablic uses, without reference to the Board of Educa~ tion or aoy other subordinate buresn. JE—————Y In = century or 8o, Chicago may have & good pictaro-gallery. She’can havo a yery valusble collection of statues somewhat sooner,—&at once, 1 fact, if ehe wishes it. A very few {housand dollars would give T8 plaster copies of all the famous stetuary in the world, These copies can be bad 80 exquisitely finished that & careless glance would take them for marble. A gallery with accurato replicas of the Faun, the Gisdistor, Moses, Laocoon, and the Apollo Bel- videre. from Bome; of tho * Gates of Paradise,” from the Boptistery, and the Medici tombs, from the San Lorenzo Sacristy, of Florence; of the Dians, and Venus di Milo, end the Prisoner, from Paris; and of 8 hundrod other tressures ‘in ‘bronze aud stone, would be & centre of art oul- et ] justice. THE CHICAGO DAILY 'TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JANUARY 1 e e e 1874, who go abrosd would vie with each other in send- ing it new casts. Once begun, it would grow Tapidly. BAIDS ON PROSTITUTES., The Police Commissioners have given notice that hereafter there will bo no midnight raids upon houses inhabited by abandoned women, coupled with the arrest of all the inmatescn a general charge of leading immoral lives. They announce their purpose to treat these houses and their inmates like all other houses and people. Until theroia Eome actual disorder, or violation of law, or public impropriety, the police are to let them alono; but, when any of theso: offenses tuko place, they ghall be subject to police ;visitation. For many years, dating back to the time when Chi- cago had but one-sixth of her present popula- tion, the policy of ra:ding these houses, and ex- torting fines from the unfortunate inmates, was in vogue, and has been continued with more or less severity ever since. ‘There have been times when this practice has been resorted to in order to_reise revenue for the city, and 28 much 28 $400 & wock has been cil- lected regularly from those wretched peo- ple. The whole practics has been illegal snd disgraceful, and should have been discontinued long ago. If the proposition were made to license these establishments there would be a very general remonstrance. Yet there is mo moral difference betwoen licensing these un’ fortunates at & siated sum each year and col- Jocting the same sum from them in the shape of fines at the Police Court. In both casesitisa mere question of revenue, and, When arrests aro mado, extortion is committed under cir- cumstances of great suffering and public gcandal. The sort of lifo which these people lead is itself punishment enough for all practical purposes. It is & punishment which has the merit and advantage of visiting all the guilty, and not a part only, and of awarding the cup of bitterness in exact proportion to the of- fense. The keeping of s disorderly houso is & misde- meanor that can be resched by tho regular process of the criminal law. Wherever any premisea fall nnder this designation there can be no difii- culty in bringing the guilty to such punishment a8 the law may impose. But thero is no more moral orlegal right to invade the domicile of these outeasts at midnight, without & warrant or legal complsint, and drag the inmates throngh the streets to be locked mp twelve or thirty-six hours, tban there is to enter any other hcuse and treat those found there in a like manner. The discretion to enter any house and arrast the inmates is one that the law with great propriety wittholds from tho offi- cors; if permitted, it would be an intolerabla despotism, snd would never be submitted to. “The great wonder is the¢ it has not boen resisted long ago. The same Jow which protects other pooplo protects theso wretched beings from ille- gal and barbarous arresl, and the violation of law in their cmses i3 simply disgrace- ful. If the police will repress dis- order, and arrest sll persons acting indecently in public, they will perform all that is expected of them in the absence of any logal warrant suthorizig them to do more. There is plenty of work for tha polica to do withont eugaging in illegal raids for tho mere purpose of swelling the rovenues of the Polico Court by fines upon an unfortunate and degraded class, whose steps, wo are told, “take hold on hell,” 2nd who sccordingly get ecorched from day to day sufficieutly to answer all the ends of — e THEE ECLECTIC RELIGION. There is nothing like eclecticism. It opensup new opportunities, broadens the views, diversi- fies the standard of comparison, ramifies into fle vast domains of science, physic, philosophy, politics, and religion. It is lucks for Chicago that eclecticiem hss an orgsn. Itialucky for the organ that eclecticism serves it in place of mews. If it were mot for the vagaries which the eclectio faith furnishes the Chicago Times, that journal would inevitably sink into the obscurity to which its filthy ten- dencies shonld long since have consignedit. Bat it has the field of eclecticiem all to itself, and thereby retains & certain notoriety which will tempt no ce to the gin of envy. First we had eclecticism in physic, then eclecticism in phi- Iosophy, afterward eclecticism in politics, and now eclecticism in religion. It is a wide range, and offers the great advantage of eclecticizing now ideas without the glightest reference to doctrines previously accepted or re- jeoted. Thus it is with the presont form of eclecticiam which the Times is running. Not ‘more than six months ago, snd during several years previonsly, the Times took up Spiritual- jsm, when it had nothing more indecent to han- dle, and made it the target for all the low witti- cisms tbat had accumulated in the neighbor- hood. It devoted scores of columns to exposi- tions of what it called epiritualistic frauds, It retained two or three young men of vaulting ambition and perfect self-assurance who made s speciolty of spiritualistic ezposes. Whether they had served as sssistants to the Davenport brothers, hadlearned slight-of- hand from an itinersat prestidigitator, had en- joyed an extended youthful experienco with the side-hows of circuses, or were naturally gifted with a talent for deception, exaggeration, and distortion, they claimed ali the same to be able to raproduce or explsin all of the apparent phe- yomena of spiritual manifestations. They clam- ored for a recognition - of their powers. They called for & jury of twelve good men and true. The smisble and kind-hearted pro- pristor of. the Times shared their as- surance, perfectly confident in the ability of his crowd to bamboozle the public, 1le then and there made a formal announcement in his news- paper that spiritualistic manifestations were either humbugs or susceptiblo of explanation on s scientific bosis, and thisno longer ago than the 15th of September laat. Dut a chango has come over the spirit of his dreams. Tho genins of eclectisism—perhaps the departed spirit of Victor Cousin—has baen hovering- sbout the precincts of the Times office; and the privilege of eclecticism— that twhich permits a frequent change of opinion—bas induced him to ‘‘go back on™ his materinlistic crew and proclsim that there is more in this thing than was ever dreamt of in their philosopby. The practical result is that the Zimes is now competing with the Religio-Philosephical Jour- nal, and endeavoring to occupy its field. It pub- lishes s Ssturday supplement devuted exclu- gively to *Spiritism.” It has provided the works of Andrew Jackson Davis for the conver- sionof the perverseeditors, who'are nowrequired to write an averageof seyen ** Epiritist” editorials a week. It is ropresented at all the seances, of which there are something less than 4,000 & gnnf.hfl-onlflnnhxfin(‘uod. Our citizens | week in & city like Chicago. It modw over the same old ground which was worn ut journal- istically twonty-five yeers ago, when the Fox slsters wero tho sensation, but takes hold with all the-ardor of a new convert. There is an aroma of spirits about pretty much overything that appears io the Zimes of late. To what extreme this new tumn of eclecticiem will lead the venerable philosopher of the Times. we cannot say. We understand that he is now in communication with the late Horace Greeley, with a view to the improvement of i his newspaper, and that he carries about, and "dis- plays with unbounded eatisfaction, an sutograph Jotter from that gentleman communicated {rom tho spirit-world.” Being illegible, like all letters from tho spirit-world, it naturally bears a close resemblince to the late Mr. Greeley's mapu- seript. Tho editor who is still alive ought to givo the public s fac similexeproduction of this precious document from the editor who is dead. Thia also suggests that ho may make Spiritusl- ism profitable. Why not have all his editorials written in the spirit-world? He might secure the co-operation of s vast number of experi- enced journalists, and thereupon dispense with the materialistic wretches who now demand §l- thy lucre for writing filthy articles. Tho Legislature on Friday last did very wisely in recommitting tha question of sppointing & Catholic Chaplain to tho Penitentiary. They would have done till more wisely if they bad killed the proposition eatirely, and then sbol- ished the ofico of Chaplain altogether. The argaments which wero made agaiost the Catho- lic Chaplain were pertinent, 8o far a8 they went, but thoy did not go far cnoagh. The members avero considering only one sido of the question, namely: Whother a Catholic Chaplain should be added to the prison. If a Protestant clergy- man is to bo graoted the privilego of making converts out of ‘the convicts, then certainly a Catholic should have the same privi- lega; and if a Catholic, then a Jow ; and 8o on, throughout the entire category of religious de- pominations. What the Legislature should have dono was to bave sottled the question by boliskiing the office entirely, not only because itis impracticable to have all tho sects repre- sented, ' but because the office is uo- coustitutional, Tho Bill of Rights provides tnat “the froe cxorcise and-enjoyment of re- ligions profession and worship, without discrimi- nation, ehall forever be gnunizteed, and no per- son shall be denied any civil or political right, privilege, or capacity, on account of Lis religious opigions. . . . No person shall be re- quired to attend or support any ministry or placo of worship against his consent, nor shall any preference be given by law to any religious donomination or mode of worship.” Every oue of these provisions is violated. The convict does not have the Iree exercise of religious wor- ship. Tis attendsoco upon public worehip is compulsory, and in direct violation of the law preference is given to the Protestant form of worship. But the law is violated not only in its spirit, but also in its letter. It is not, ooly uncoustitutional to debar & convict from the {fros oxercise of worghip, and compel his attend- snce ot the ministrations of some particular de- nomination, butit is unconstitutional to appoint » salaried Chaplain at all. Sec. 3, Ark. §, pro- vides: *Neither the General Assembly nor .any county, cits, town, township, schocl district, or other public corporation, shall ever make any appropriation, or pay from any public fand whatever, soything in aid of apy church or sectarian purpose.” This clinches the matter, aod makes tho sbolition of the office & duty, and the further continu- ance of 8 Chaplain .in sttendsnce upon the Penitontiary, the other State institutions, and {ho General Assemblyitself, a palpable and open violation of 1aw. There is no resource left but to abolish the offices and then extend to the convicts, the inmates of other State institutions, and the members of the General Assembly, the privileges guaranteed by the Bill of Rights of attendance or non-attendance upon worship, se thes may see fit, withont reference to sny par- ticular denominstion, and algo stop at once the unlawtal payments of money for such purposes {from the State Treasury. It doewsnot follow from this that the class of our citizons enjoying the hospitality of the State at Joliet are to be deprived of religious consola- tion or instruction. Open the prison doors to all the mininters and sects in Joliet, There are sects enongh in that flourishing city to sccom- modate all the convicts. Let s Baptist have a chanco owe Sunday, a Methodist the mext, & Catbolic the nest, aud so on, and, if there are Jews in Joliet competent to expound Moses and tho Propnets, let them have & show elso. All denominstions should have a chance to convert the Penitentiary, and the convicts should beteft free to attend their worship or not, as theywee fit. This is not only anght, but it is an_obligation imposed by the Constitution, which is violated every week. The remeds, a8 we have said heforo, is for the Gen- eral Assembly to abolish the unconstitutional, unnecessary, and quarrelsome office of Chaplain of the Penitentiary. A GEOGRAPHY LESSON. At the annual meeting of the American Geo- graphical Society, which was held in New York on tho 13th inst., Judge Daly, the President of the Society, presonted a complete reviow of the geographical explorations in all parts of the world during the past year, summing up their princips] results, 8 briof ghance at which will be of interest to all classen of readers. The srchwological discoveries of the year have revealed the fact that the an- cient city of Rome was large and strongly fortified, and must have contained an immense population, which is contrary to the impression of modern historical eritics. Dr. Schlieman is confident that he has discovered notonly the site of anciont Troy, hut also tho Skaean Gate, Priam’s Palace, and tho great wall descnbed by Homer. His next excavutions will be in the Island of Bicily. A stone hag been found upom & farm m Para- hybs, in Brazil, which, upon examination by the Director of the Museum st Rio Janeiro, was found to be in Pheenician characters, thus proving that the Pheenicians had visited Ameri- ca at & very early period. The explorzticns in Asia have been onusoally productive of valuable results. Halevy's inves® tigations in the southern partof the Arabian Peninsuls have developed the fact that the firat civilization in Arabis was at Yemen, and was the work of & people who were not nomadic, bat who weresttached to the soil, and who believed in s plurality of gods, Halevy brought back 656 inscriptions from the monuments of Sabean civilization, and alsodiscovered the source of the River Kharid, which is alluded to in & passage of Strabo a8 having beon crossed by & Roman army under Zline Gallus, bafore it éntered Sabea. % The explorations at Jerusalem have revealed subterranean passages and galleries, aqueducts and canals cut in the solid rock ; but the attempt to discover the mite of Solomon's Palace has thus far failed. The survey of the Penin- sula of Sinai bas developed several important facts, among them that tho peninsula was the gcene of the ovents recorded in the Exodus; that the country, slthough now very wild and rugged, wes originally very fertile and well wooded, and its sides terraced with gardens; that Jebel Musa is undoubtedly the mount whence the Law was delivered, and that on the surrounding plain the people listened to tho words of Moses; and that the positions of Mount Nebo and Pisgal have been determined., The explorations in Africa are represented to be less fruitfal in valusble results than those of former years, The explorers, Liowever, arg very sctive, aud ono of them, Dr. Bastiap, who has commenced the exploration of the Loango, be- lieves, from information he has rececived, that they will reach an open country with metallifer- ous mourtains, where a peoplo dwell who under- stand the mannfacture of gunpowder, and that there is an indigonous race of dwarfs living in that countrs, like those seen by Du Chailla. With the results of explorations in our own country by the Coast Survey and the United Stales Geological and Geographical Surveys, under Prof. Hayden, Prof. Marsh, Capt. Joves, and Lieut. Wheeier, our readers aro more or less familiar. Great as is tho work which has been done, still groater remains, nnd tho Geographical explorers aro mot likely to be out of business 50 long a8 7,000,000 squaro miles surrounding the South Pole, 3,600,000 about the North Pote, over 600,000 of Australasia, 1,000,000 of Africa, and the great islands of tho East Indian Archi- pelago, stretehing from the northeastern corner of Asia to New Zealand, are still totally unknown tothe world. The arcaof s great continent, jo fact, still remains to be explored, and the maps which our children's children will study it would puzzle even Judge Daly to trace. A S THE STILLWELL HOMICIDE. The killing of Col. Thomas N. Stillwell, ex- member of Congress, at Anderson, Iod., by Mr. J. E. Corwin, has produced much excitement in that State. The facts leading to the homicide may be briefly stated: Stillwell was President of the First National Bank at Anderson, which, after a long struggle, was forced to closo its doors on the 17th of November, & Receiver being appointed. According to the regular report of the condition of the bank made Sept. 12, before the panic, tho assets of the institution were stated to bo £223,000. After tho suspension, in November, the statement then mado of the assets showed some 360,000 less. This led to charges of mismanzgement and of frand. “The Grand Jury, which met in the first week of January, invostigated the matter, sud indicted Stillwell, and also Mr. Kline, the Cashier. Tho first knowledge Stillwell had that an investigation was in progress was when the bill was found, and he at once gave bail. This was on Satarday, Jan.10. On Sunday Stillwell went into the country. As long ago as 1865 Col. Stillwell, then & banker, had some transactions with o man named Makepesce. Makopeaco de- posited €14,500 in greenbacks, and took s | receipt for that amount of 7-30 bonds, in order to cacape taxation. JIr. Corwin, then a resident of Indianapolis, married a daughter of akepeace, and, upon the desth of tho lattor in 1871, becamo administrator of tho estate. He sued Stillwell for the $14,000 bonds and accumulated interest; Stillwell denying that ho ever had any bonds, and claiming that Makepeace hind drawn bhis carrency long ago. The trizl of this cage was to take placo at the term of the Court at which Stillwell was indicted. The suit itself was an impeschment of Stillwell's integrity, and ho assumed that tho indictment was instigated by Corwin, and openly denounced him therefor . Stillwell returned'from the country at abont 4 o'clock in the afternoon, not only greatly excited, but especially embitteced against Corwin. His friends endeavored to quiet him. Afler s brief ~visit to his own house, where he detailed to 3 correspondent of an Indianapolis paper the con- dition of the affairs of his bank, and showed the impossibility of his baving embozzled 560,000, a8 charged in the indictment, he proceeded to the office of Mr. Corwin, in the ssmo neighbor-" hood, which he entered, closiog the door after him. In a few minutes pistol-shots wero heard. It seems that on entering the offica ho said to Corwin, * We may as well settle that difficulty pow;" that the parties grappled ; that Cor- win held him by the pistol-hand, and that when Stilwell's pistol was fired the ball entered Corwin's pantalooons pocket, doing him no injury ; that Corwin then swung Still- well's body round and fired two bullets into the back of his head. Stillwell fell dead. There ¢an bardly be a doubt that Stillwell® sought Corwin intending to have 2 fight with him, if not to kill him. That the lntter simply defended himself against 8 murderous assault is clearly established. e WIDOWS-IN-LAW. The mother-in-law is classical. Tho reader +who * draws from the pure well of English un-, defiled” will haul her up no less inevitably than he who searches the muddy sentences of tbe sellow-covered novel of to-day. She pervades our lighter literature almost ag thoroughly as she does her victims' homes. But the class of people Whom wWe may—by slight- Iy pervesting the phrase—eall widows-in-law—i. ¢., widowswho are involved in logal matters—are 1o less tha destroyers of domestic comfort. Tho two classes haso somo points of resem- blance: A mother-in-law considers her husband &3 the ono exception to & race of ingrates and vipers. A widowis apt at firet to imagine that all men will treat her with the loving care she Los hitherto received. She confides in them, andis roundly cheated. Sho is surprised, tesr- fnl, aogry. She will assert her rights in the Courts. At this stago ehe becomes s full- ‘blown widow-in-law, end embraces the belief al- ready mentioned with hoart and soul. Another point of resemblance is, thst both widow and mother-in-law commence their re- vengeful career by assorting their rights. The thirst for revenge comes when their idess of thoso rights are mildly quostioned. Thea the mother begins her petty torments; then the’ idow begins her great ones. Herhusband once ownedland. The Inckless busers are sorved with notices of the existence, of a claim for dower. She knows that ber husband meant to sell the land outright ; that it is dishonest, how- ever lawful, to prosecute ber claim. Sach ideas have no waight. She thinks she can make the tyrant sex give her thoir goods, and she displays s resolve to et her booty that would squeeze blood out of & stone. Bhe monopolizes her attorney’s services, keeping him busy every minute iu filing bills, snd cross-bills, and pleas, snd replications, and rejoinders, withous end. When her victory ia gained, she knows no meiy. Bhoe collestahier legal dea to the nttermost farthing, and spends the remnant of her years inmousing among old documents, 1n the bope of finding another chance for plunder. Widow and mother-in-law are, perhape, most strikingly alike in the fact that they never die. That s, their victims, who live in the fond bope of some day beiog free, never reach that state. They perish’ before their torentors do. A Gower-widow and s mother-in-law are, to all in- tents -and purposes, eternal. With them, 3 thonsand years or 60 seem but as one day; with their subjugated foes, o day sometimes has & painful resemblance to a thonsand years. WRITING FOR THE PRESS. B PBOF. WM. MATHEWS, OF THE USIVEBSITY OF . cmcaco. Almost every person who is & known con- tributor to the press receives, niore or less often, Jetters like the following: “I am mot earning cnough to pay my expenses, and, to make the two ends meet, Iwould like to write for the presa. Can you give mo some hints?” The number of persons who, when a their wits' ends, in despair of eking out & living in any other way, Jook to journalism os last resource, TS LEGION. The passionate appeals which are made per- gonally or by letter to the managina-editor of & leading journal, berceching him to buy articles, uine-tenths of which are utterly worthless, and ninety-nine hundredths of which conld not be got into the paper, were thegever 8o interesting, make his place anything but 8 bed of roses: Even in the old-fashioned rewspaper-estublishments, where four or five steep, dark, and dingy- stair- cases must bo climbed to reach the editorisl den, ome would-be contributor, male or'female, may bo seen panting up the eteps almost hourly; but, in the modern offices, in which the steam- elevator hgs placed all the floors on & level, the swarms of writers that beset the manager, coasing, imploring, almost inewsting, that their MSS. ghall be used, render his situation abso- Intely aopalling. To nivety-nine out of every hundred of these persons ho must retarn AN INEXORADLE XO. No_ wonld-be contributor, however, dreams that he is doomed to be one of the ninety-nine; and becauso it is uscless, therefore, to begin with Puncl’s advice to those about to marry, “Don't! " we offer the following suggestions : First, consider well whother you have the peculiar qualifications required in a newepaper- writer. Writing for the press has grown to be an art by itself; it is ono whose rules and prin- ciples, like those of music, sculpture, and paint- ing, must bo mastered by intenso, patient, and persistont study by those Who_ aspiro to success. ‘o write a really good editorial or contribution i8 liko scaling an Alp, which, in its clearness of atmosphere, seems g0 near, and yet is 60 far and 50 inaccessible. IT IS A GREAT MISTAEE to suppose that, because the grester includes the less, tho talents which qualifya man to vrite a first-rate book will make him s good article- writer. Many an suthor of reputation, who has reasoned thns, has started off brilliantly in tbo careor of journalism; but, after w little smart writing and display of bookish sbility. has *fallen flat and shamed his worshipers,” because he could not seize aud condense the epirit and moral of pasamg bistory. As Carlyle compleins of tho needlo-women of England, that there are seam- stresses fow or none, but botehers in abundsnce, eapablo oply of *a distracted puckoring and botching.—not sewing, only a fallacions hopo of it, a fond imsagination of tho mind ;" 8o in liter- ary labor, cepecially journaliem, it is but too truo that there are many botchers, and few skilled workmen,—very little good article-wrt- | ing, ond s deal of “distracted puckoring and botching.” It is true there is Do mystery in tho craft when we have once learned it, as there is none in waliing on a tight-rope, turning a double back-summereault, or vaulting through & hoop upon & running horse. The diflicalty is,— TO LEARN. 1t may seem a very essy thing to trim & bonnet; but hundreds of expert workmen, who can do things far moro dificult and complicated, fail utterly when teey try to trim & bonpet. A man may bo s brilliant reviow or magazine writer, and yet not show a particle of skill or tact in conducting & daily or weekly newspapgr. It is one thing to elaborate an article at leisure, “tyith malico prepenso and aforethought,” in ane’s study, hiedged in by books on every side, with other applisnces and means to byot;” and quite soother to cope with the hydrostatic prossure, the prompt selection of ealient points, nd the rapid, glancing treatment of them, de- manded by s daily journal, . Which, indeed, aro tho most popular papers of thedsy? Isit the journals that are filled mainly with long eod ponderous disquisitions that smell of the lamp; articles crammed with statistics. and useful knowledge of the * penny- magazino " stamp, which it is moro painfal to read than it was to write them? No; they are, almost without exception, those whose merit lies in condensation ; which, with full reports of news, and a limited number of elaborate discus- sions, give the npices rerum, the CREZAM AND QUINTESSENCE OF THINGS § whose pithy parsgraphs, squeszed ato the smallest possible spaco, may be taken in by the ese while the reader is occupied in discussing a cup of coffee, or devoured like & sandwich be- tween two mouthfuls of bLread and’ butter. These are tho papers which are sought for with avidity, and devourcd with keen relish 5 which are passed from hand to hand, and read till they are worn ont ; and to serve up the spicy repast they farnisn, is a Sisyphan task. which requires ceaseless industry aad s peculiar combination of talents which not one educated man in s thou- wand posscsses. i Tvis tho lack of these talents and the neg- Ject of thiese principles which explain the failare of 8o many newspapers and NewspAPLr-wTiters. Tho rock on which they split is ignorance or forgetfulness of. the very end of & newspaper. Tho first thought which should bo uppermost in tho miud of every writer for the pressis that this ** map of busy life” is a thing not to be resd or atudied, but to * BE GLANCED OVER. Tho contents most be such o8 atonco to catch thie attention. Take care, thep,at the begin- ning, not to Irighten the reader by along arti- cle. Rig guns make s lond noise, but rifte-balls often do the greatest execution. A tremendous thought may e packed into o, small compass, made as solid ss 8 cannon-ball, aud cut dosn everything before it. *A briof ejaculation,” says South, *may bo a big aud a mighty proyer ;" and & ten-line parsgraph—s singlo thought, pungently presented—may chango s man's convictions in politics or religion, or be 8 seed-corn to fructify through his wholo life.”” As Virgil says of farma : ** Admire long articles; cultivato short ones.” % To echiove this, make sure that yoa have something to sa¥, and say it only when you aro in the vein,—in your bost mood. Are you clergyman? Don't write on * blue Monds, when you feel like a mouse in an‘exhausted re- ceiver. Why rush before 50,000 readers when you feel so stupid that You can't prepare a ser- Tnon for 500 hearers? Waste no time an intro- ductions. Don't begin by laying out your sub- ject like a Dutch flower-garden, or telling your motives for writing. Nobody cares how yoa came to think of your theme, or why you write npon it. Sink rhetoric, and throw Dlair and Campbell to the winds. Copy Milton, who does not stop to invoke his Muse till he haa first an- pounced his theme, *‘of man's first disobedi- pnce, add the fall.” Plunge at once into THE VEBY MIDDLE of your sabject, sad ** pluck out the heart of ita mystery.” - The first end is to excite aten- tion. 7The keynote should be struck, if possi- blo, in the very frst sentence. A dull begin- ning often damns an grticle ; & Bpioy ome, thai whets the appetita by,s primo, juicy slics zight . out of the middle of the coming jeint, often commends an article to both editor and r:ader. Be brief snd crisp, giving results only, not pro- cesses,—saggesting argument ratber than stat- ingit. Dou't serve up with the pearl tho oyster and the shell. Put your points clearly and sharply ; don't cover them ‘up with verbiage, but let them stick |* ont. Let yoursentences be electrically charged. TLet evory word leap with life, and blot out every one which does not help to clench the meaning. CONDENSE—CONDZNSE—CONDENSE. TIgnore all inferences, and regard explanatory sontences a8 3 nuisance. Some writers always oxpluin a thing to desth. Throw subordinate thoughts to the dogs. Thin your fru't that the tree may not be exhaubted, and that some of it may come to perfection. Above all, stop when youare done. Donlt let the ghost of your thought wander abont after the death of the body. Aim to be suggestive, not oxhsustive, and leave the reader to draw many inferences for bimself. Take for granted, after all your condensation, $hat your article is TWICE TOO LONG. * Cutting it down may require norve, but 1t is the compactness which makes it do execution. Lastly, lay aside” your paper, if pos- sible, for & week, and then retonch it; strengthen its weak points, and polish its rough omes. Too many article-writers grodge the toil which is necessary to porfect their contributions. They quote Taine, who condemns transitions, elegances of style. *‘the whole literary wardrobe,” to the old-clothes shop. *“The sge demands ideas, mot arrange- ment of ideas; the pigeon-holes are manufac- tured; £l them.” True, in & cortain sense; but ideas, liko soldiers, owa their force largoly to their anangement. Thoughts become differ- ent thoughts when expressed in different lan- guage. Otber newspapor-writers believe in fast writing, which i geriorally apt to be hard read- ing. 'The thought, they say. should be struck off in tho passion of the moment; the sword- blade must go red-hot to the anvil, and be forged in a fow seconds, mot by piece- meal, 1f you would bave it of hoavenly temper. Granted; but, after the forging, long and weary polishing and grinding must follow before your sword-blade will cat. What would you think of a cutter who shounld say, *“I turn out knives with great facility, bat I cannot stop to give them an edzo?” Cassius Etruscius boasted that he could write 200 pagas before dinner, and a3 many after. He was burned, s he Jeserved to be, on A PILE OF HIS OWN ¥RODUCTIONS. Wo havo said nothing of the mechanical parls of anarticle. That it should b written legibly, on one side of small-sized sheots, with careful punctuation. and spelling, and_plenty of paza- graphs, i generslly known. We might add other msefal hints; but enough. Follow the direetions wo have given, and, if you have a soul that firos with great thoughts, and fears not to utter them frecly, you may wield with the pen 2 power that mo scopize canrival. But, if yon have no enthusiasm or inspiration, and can't put fire into your writings, you would better put your writings into the fire. 1f you don't do so, and your article goes to “Balaam’s box,” don't fiyinto & passion and call the editor u fool. or assert that he is prejudiced. Mothers aro al- ways partial to their deformed children, and aathors think most highly of their rickety lite- rary bautlings. Don't waste s moment’s time in Sindicsting your productions against editors or critics, but expend your energies in writing something which shall NEED NO VINDICATION BUT ITSELF. - TFinally, do you feel, on reading these hints, ss did Rasselas when he bad listzned to the de- tail of the qualifications necessary to s poct, and exclaimed: * Who, then, can be o poet " We confess it is the picture of an ideal article- writer that we have drawn; but, though the conception that haunts our brain is one which wo bave been utterly unable to realize,—thongh our ideal, after many weary years’ pursuit. wtill flies before us like the horizon, and mocks us with ita unattainable charm,—we still have tho satisfoction of knowing that onr readers yawn less frequently than if we had adopted a lower and more ecsily-reached standard. sesosion sty The lato Sir B. A. Glass, whose death was an- nounced by cablo s day or two since, was inti- mately connected with tho progress of ‘tole- graphy. Ilo was born in Bradford, England, in 1820, and commenced life os an accountant. In 1845 ho became identificd with Mesars. Kuper & Co., wire-rope manufscturers, with whom he carricd on business many years. In 1832 he first adapted tho wire covering to submarino cables, applied it o the Dover and Calais cables, and afterwards to others. Ho then entered into a partnership with snother wire-rope mapufac- turer, and. at the works of the firm of Glass & Elliott, which was afterwards merged in the Tel- egraph Construction and Maintenance Compaoy, 1,250 miles of the first Atlsntic cablo, half its entiro length, were made. The cable of 1866 was wholly made under his supervision, and on the successful completion of the undertaking, which took ten years, ka received the Lonor of Knighthood. In 1867 he quitted the Tolegraph Coustruction znd Muintenance Company, sod afterwards became Chaitman of the Anglo-Amer- ican Telegraph Company. Successful as his business Iifo was, and houorablo as was his con- nection with the progress of telegraphy, his only political aspiration was an unfortunate ome. Ho was clected to Parlisment for Bowdley, but a8 unseated upon the charge of bribery. Anumberof mon will get drunk to-dsy. Some of them will be arrested and fined ; 5 good many of them will lose the first day or two of the week's work in recovering from their debanch. It is all very well for blue-coats and black-coats, policemen and preachers, to do what they can to alter this state of things; but there is s simpler, gurer remedy than anything s club in thohandsof & policeman, or the thunderbo It in the L:ands of apreacher, caneffect. Thisis to pay these men, hercafter, on Monday evening, in- stead of Staturday. The temptations involved | in having plenty of money ona dayof leisura are thus avoided. The plan bas been somowhat extonsively tried in the East, snd with the hap- piest results. In some large Mossachusetts manufactories, it is said to have * completely Dbanished dronkenness.” —_——— ut Alexis on America ” is said to be an enter- taining book. The Grand-Duke praises the ‘good and langhs st the bad with equal vigor. He says that the tune played by the New York bands, during his reception there, wad not the Russian antbem, s was suppoed, bat the « Dirge of St. Catharine,” which is performed in Russis only at the funerals' of the Imperial family. American manners struck him 28" 8 little awkward and anguler, but frank.” At Omaha, he had the extreme pleasure of mesting the Nebrasks Legislature. . One of its members asked him if it was slways cold in Russia, and another ‘congratulated him on his father’s sue- cess in the war against France | i skl e o OO The New York Graphic wes'sbout to publish » portrait of Mra. Williams, but yielded to the Attorney-Genoral's request, sod did not do so. ‘fhe Graphic wishes it nnderstood that it yielded only a8 o matter of courtesy. It claims the right to publish the portrait of any distinguished man or woman, and asserts that it will hereafter ex- erciso that right without regard to objections. Some feminine faces arc already such works of art that all tho Graphic's resources can scarcely make them more s0; but it seems hard that a 1sdy should bo forced to have her picture tacked up in a thousand bar-rooms because her bus- band is & politician and a daily journal wants a new sensation. Here is a newly-reported mot of Talleyrand. As soon 58 Paris had read “ Delphine,” Paris exclaimed that fadame de Stael had portrayed ‘harself as Delphine and Talleyraud as Madame de Veruon. When the wit and the suthoress next met, he closéd his congratulations on her suc- cess by saying : “They tell me we are both in Lhe ook, you aad 1, disguised a8 wOMEn THE LAKE PARK. How We May Meet Both Com. mercial Needs and Es- thetic Tastes. A Picture of What Might Be Thirty Years Hence. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Sm: The Lake-Park question scems to in. volve s conflict of intereats of such vital im. portance as can only be satisfactorily seitled by a compromise. To any one who has a just ap- preciation of the importance to the fature wel faro and beauty of the city of preserving thig parkasa PUBLIC ORNAENTAL GROUND, the proposition to dispose of it Tor auy other purpose seems as atrocious as & saggestion of the commission of a felony, and fortunately the bulwarks of the law afford us ample defenss agaiust the perpetration of such vandalism, On the other hand, the peceasities of railrosd and lake commerce demand imperatively 2z sa- largement of capacity of dockage and transfer at the river's mouth ; and. to facilitate this ob- ject, & portion of the northern extremity of the park is desired by'the Railroed Company as a site for o passenger-station. It is obvions that 2!l the adjacont region must, before many years, become one of the most important commercial districts of the city. If the portion under dis~ cussion be preserved for ornamental use, . i must of neccssity be so swrrounded and trenched upon by the elements and accompani- ments of commerce as greatly to detract from its merits 88 a pleasurc-ground ; whereas, if occu. picd ‘23 a site of & passenger-station of such architectural character as would ‘comport with its sitnstion and intriusic importance, it would form an ELEGANT AND DMPOSING ORNAMENT of tho park, and serve a8 an sppropnate snd graceful connection between the emtlems, on the one hand, of the commercial grandeur, and, on the other, of the esthetic tastes, of the city. The breskwater which is in process of con- struction by the United States Government runs parallel with the shore at s distance of more than balf a mile. Its object is to secars a roadstead, or harbor, in which vessels may take refuge or lie at anchor, safe from the effects of storms, which they can now only esespe by en- tering the river. Tho original plan contemplated the coustruction of & pier from the southem extremity of the breakwater to the shore ; but, as the possible demands of the rondstead cannot, of course, be estimated at present, and s, in case of extension, the pier would not only ba unnecessary, but injurious, the Engineer in charge (Col. D. E. Houston) has very wisely recommendcd that the work be suspended on completion of the breakwater, till the question of future wants is decided, when it may be found degirablo to extend the breakwater B0 s to close a much larger epace than was st gon'.!cmphled. The effect of tho inclosure will e to - ADD VERY GREATLY to the attractive interest of the park, since it will present a constantly-shifting panorama cf vessels euteriug, departing, or lyiog at sochcr in the basiu ; while, in the distance beyond the breakwater, tho broad expanso of the lake wil be Bcen as ai presént, in all ita varying moods of sunshine and storm. The importance of thia park to the fo.ure city can hardly be o ostimated, and cannot now be appreciated wif out a effort of imagination, for which, hov- ever, the basis is as certain as anything can bt that relates to human progress. Withont attempting to fix the exact limits of thio park at its porthern oxtremity, let us iy ta look forward,— _ < SAY FOR TRIRTY YEARS,— the spsn of a single generation, and formaz estimate of the placa it will then hold as a sab- ject of local pride and affection in the heartsof the people. ‘W will suppose a majestic and elegant strus- turo on the norjh,—the depot of the great raile roads which tefminate there,—standing in the centre of an open space of such breadth as isin Leeping with a generons recoguition of thecom- fort and conv~nience of the throngs who will ba constantly srmving and departing throogh its portals. Eastward from this point to the mouth O the river, or rather to the rosdstesd, will bo s network of docks, filled with vessels of every description, exchanging cargoes with lines of cars, or with the elevators and warehouses whih lino the shores. West and south will lio a vastaud densely-populated region, devoted to commeres of every imaginable description, and iulabited Dy the tens of thousauds of clerks, mechanics, avd workmen, by whose labor, whether of hexd or Lands, the daily duties of the busy hiveers performed. The residences of the iwealthy Slasses will have disappeared from this pari of the city; but the portion of Michigan avenos fronting npon this park will be lined with tha ricliest and most beautiful shops ; aud the park itself, being peoperly graded, and tastefally sr- ranged, and planted with trees aod grass, will Tormn such a promenade as will have NO RIVAL IN THE COUNTRY, and bardly in the world. It will comprise the attractive coaracteristics of the Champs Elyae Jith the picturesque addition of the harbor.u lake, ith its moving panorama of vessels, far 3 background. To $ue iccoming passcogers the great railrond liues which terminate bete, the first impression on arriving would be s ro- frashing sense of delightful surprize, from the contrest which e0 pleasant s sceue would pre- sent, a6 compared with tho dirt and squalor which are the usual attendants of such pleccs, The importance of creating such an impression, which statps 1tself indelioly upon the mind a8 a0 aswociation with the genersl ides of tho city, can hardly be overestimated. Of tho value of the park itself, as a placoof REST AND RECREATION _ to the vast multitudes whose livea will bo psssed in the din snd tarmoil of the sutrounding Btreots, or the confinement of the stores 804, offices which line them, 1t is equally impossible to give auy just expression. o are making wise provision for future wants, by constructic great parks, which will be of inestimable valse to the health and beanty of the city in b course of time ; but we are terribly deficient in little open sreas and gardens, which ought to be reserved ut, frequent intesvals thronghont _ the city, ~ 80 a8 10 ensily accessible to pedestrians when the toils of each day are st an end. It will only beon an occasional holiday that the dweller in the ced tral discricts of the city will afford the time oo Ioeans to take bis family to those distant, €& cious parks. What he wants is simply 8 placo Where ho can walk or sic under the trees, ad refresh himself with & . GLIMPSE OF NATURE'S BEAUTY and = breath of -pure air, all mithin ] *| access of tho sceune of his labors. By reference to the map of Chicago, it will _ seed that, except this Lake Pack, the nearest piece 0 public oraamental grouod is Union Park, w P two miles from State streot, 2ad is 0ot ball large enough for the population which alreadyso™ rounasit. Nootheropportunityremains of secur ing ground forsuch purposeon the lake-shore, e2- cept by actual purchase at enormous cost. Is Would be foolish toderyto the room they need for the transaction of the bl ness which contributes 8o largely to the P"—‘;‘ perity of the cify, but there is noreason why ¢ Y neceasary railroad-stractures should not be © such saichitectural character as would _mflo; them ornamental festures in the general view the park. . Every citizen is interested in the SPEEDY DECISION OF THE QUESTION, which woull probably bo fotlowed by the i mediate improvement of the grounds. The parke grounds should be filled nt:l; lalve_l with Mic gas avenuo, with & very gentle slope : Iake, till near the line of the railroad, when % should fall oft more suddenly, and be sepals from the railroad by a concealed fence of hr«% "The effect yould be, that the railrosd wonld 500 bo gacn, from the svenue, since tbe line of i+ would pass directly from the edgo of LY grasey torrace fto the water beyond T Ghich it would seem ' to coonect cicdd le\;sl ares should ble lfl{:h enur:;ymml snd arranged simply wi Bp! 19 snd planted mmrnfi’y with trees. In toe sc!mr:‘ of time it would furnish sites for works?) in the form of m;uéf or fon;t.:'na',h:! 0 ;hlhfl; ter consistent with the digni! 3 no such costly decorations need be introduced : resent, and no second-rate works, of ches? {tations, should be ndmitted. ¥ 'NO JORE BACEED DUTY ot devolves upon us than the onetwe OWe to o enerations of preserving such areas W'hfl: =t itis yot possible, and in mo Way can 'il: . justly entitls ourselves to the gratefal UM tions of our successors than by: leaving such an inharitance, whicingy ;'w noothervis Oxsniac, i1k Tk @ i i | ] H i i i f