Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1874, Page 7

Ry 2 THE .CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, 'MARCH: 22, . 1874. YOUNG CHICAGD. History ‘of The Chicago _ Tribune of 1840. | 'I'hc'First Paper of That Name in the County] Extracts from the- Salutatory and Valedictory of . the Editor. An Tdea of the Hotels, Lawyers, Etoy of That Primitive Day. Complaints About Bad Streets-- Appenl to the - Aldermen: Specimens of Election Returns---Birth of the New York Tribune. Poem by Lisle Smith. To the Chicagoan of to-day the ovents of the yearof grace 1840 sound like somethin, {hat occurred in thie ante-Christian era, especinl- 1r such affairs of tho year mentioned as had, Jocal bearing. Tho mutability of human affawrs —{lio uncestainty of bumsn life—tho endless sorrows, joss, dissppointments, and life. ars never so powerfully illustrated a8 in consulting the files of & news- | - onging to a past generation. It is'sad | F. C. Sherman, Dem. paitiogs, fortunes of man's paper bel to contomplate the bavoe time has msde with the editor who wrote the Jatored and, to us of to-day, soverely indigestible articles of 1810. It 18 also sed to remember that tho Tocal poets, whose *‘fine frenzy” relioved th mozotony of Chicago pioneer life, mouldercd into dust, that “the golden bow! 6t their youthfal promiso has been rodely broken, aud that the cypress, dark upon their wveted myrtle ‘And tho politicians of those times, whera are they ? “Tippecanoe and Tyler £a0™ bave boen laid to Test long, long azo, and their very names seem more distant from this day than those of the Faibers of tho Republic. graves, usurps the placo of the ‘uron their browa. almoet as thoroughly forgotten ss if they had never Lad an existence, except that the name of ‘the former is perpetuatéd amiong our man: Presidents and that iv embellishes the lamp- lics ¥ its mighty wings over nearly every Germa Site, whilo thoso of the French war-bird, whos pinions boro it for a_giddy moment over the glories of Mageots and Solferino, have been sadly clipped- 0 our own soil torrents of blood Lave been s6d aud more than 1,000,000 of our young men Zmost of them born sbout the Year 180—sleep | d in soldiers’ graves, above which the national ban- beights of AMonk Cenis to the nor waves with mingled triumph and-sadoes: The Ethiopian bas become a citizen—the elave- ocracy bag been destroyed, and # forty millions bless mot alone * the sire and sword of Buaker Hill,” but also the patriotism of Lincoln, aud Lhie gigantic ability of Soward asa efatcsman, of Shierman, sud Sheridan, and Thomas as soldiers, 2nd of all the brave who straggled or died for the Union. 5 Tut enongh of Tetrospection for this time— the business of tlis article is_to chronicle the cxistence of the p i : FIRST CHICAGO TRIETNE.— {he -first mewspaper of that name, €0 far as record can show. over established. This pro- cursor of Tue TRIBUNE of to-dsy was issue?, t hoisted Democratic colors of the *hard shell” pat- 80 to speak, to the maut,—its Prosidential nominee being Martin Van Buren, and its Vico-Prosidential, Hgeliard 2. us 3 weekly, on the 4th day of April, 1840 tern, and nailed them, Johnson. WHERE PRINTED. The baby journal was printed by Holeomb & Cor. \io oectpicd tho third floor of tho ' Sa- loon Buildings,” corner of Lake and Clax streats (Clark strect was spelled with afinal ‘e %Eesent oftice_of ‘e responsible hot, 2nd talented Democrat; now an cld, still ambi- tious, but somewhat faded, lswrer, in the neigh- not cliaige his principles when tho War cam, sod unng that cventfal straggle did not in those duys), the site of the Ir, Scammou’s newspaper. editor was Mr. E. G. Ryan,—then 3 young. Lonng City of Silwsukeo, . My. Ryan did his cour=e materially add to his, fame or to his fortace. * TIE EALUTATORY. The editor commenced business with a vory Jengthy Chapter on Names,” in which he as- eeried that, all other names having grown more or lece hackooyed, that of * Tue Taioxe” had d upon. Afier referricg in true 1o to the stereotyped -pasrages of Roman history, the editor thus rises to ox- been de sophomorical sty plain: u Yurious were the tifles that occurred to ourselves “oursclf ” was then unkuownl; Suricus 30 many those suggested by our friends, but ur views, and we pondered in sustracted fthe_contradictory noua met sileuce, u 1ol our parer and its name ‘whore approval, or dieapproval, our undertakivg. 5, % Then follows. eeversl paragraphs, excracta from Rollin or from Gibbon, afier which cam! the pith of the article, in this shape: il we were accused of being in_lovo ; an Tie palriciana were to continne in posecesion of the 1 offices, but the new ofiicers of the veople Lad power 10 intery.oke in vindication of their rights and their in- terests, and wers constituled in the Commonwealth tho advisers and organa of the people,—to keop watch over those who bad shown ihe disposition nd tho puwer Lo oppress {en ; to warn_them of the coming, be To their uncrowded graves, each of’ tnese old 10 counzel them in the present, danger,—in fine, to the guardian_of - their Liberties. To oiicern was gifen ihe name of The Tribune.” THE LOCAL MUSE. Hsviog thus faitly sunouvced the principles wlich it proposed to adhere to, * THE TurLuye went to work, nnd. fighting against the crudities of those times, turned out & very readable pa- per, devoting, however, much of its spacsto “literary miscellany” and the local ~muse. Among the chief contributors to_the lattor was Lisle Smith, the - geniol 2nd gifted lawyoer, 5 well remembered by onr veteran citizens: He Frow under the nom de plume of ** Leslie,” and Lis productions were marked, for the most part, ic rrace and a certain Dyronic fire, quite Poor Lisle Smith! Of lectritul iu 1ts effect: him it might well have been written: — I that » phantom name? An empty, dle churchyard sound, Ouce full of lifo and fume ? s On one of the numbers of the psper—tha sac- ond—there can be seen some of the poet’s haud- ‘writing, in penril—the_seutenca being devote 1o a cheracteristic anathema on the compositor.”. . 3 FOTELS. mmlnuing over the files, the reader is struck by & meagrences of the foreign news column--n0 telégrams—no Northwestern paragraphs—very 1S Tooul. bt Shandanse_of selacted matier, :The ad- and tho crive prest amusement and fearfally lopg-winded editorials. “ertising columns are quite intoresting, citizen ef the day can. by perusing them. At that time the old Git Hotel, of which Jacob Russeli—fathier of the Eesr.-ut Secretary of thé Board of Hefllthghwn.s it er- nifsce, stood where the more elegan! ;n‘m}iousa is at present placed. The advertise- ka,_ gets forth all the charms aad conveniences tuse concern—it is “ only a few steps from the £ 2nd s gified with "an sccom- . 1‘» shed cuok.” Whether the sdjective rferred g :? mule or female, to a good compounder of food 420 & champion piano-pleser, bistory sayeth o0st-Ofiice, L vam hayo Since tho yoar 1840, not alore has the face of Chicago changed, but tho faco of the world bas chianged,—the map of Europo has been revar- piched aud rehashed, and the Rio Grande has becomo our frotitier line in the diraction of the halls of the Montezumas. Kingdoms and Empires bsvé passed away, and from their graves Ropub- vo grifen. Tho Prussian eagle has spread are Lefore the public, aro bfe and death to “intelligent as dleo the Sanganash Hotel, which w28 | nied Ly John Murphr, and-whicl réared its -+ Yery imposing proportions on the corner of. -Lakeaud Macketstreets, where the famous “Wig- then subssquently stood. The Tremont House, & poor-logking affair enougn, accordig. o 1 tho cat, wan ercotod vhero its beadtiful s s ro it meces- | thee a better lesson, ana i - S0 “altracts ho admirstion - of the Bights | ta, Shul coecrre W Juck E et scer to-day; and the old Lake Ionee, which re- mained intact, on the north gide of the river, until the groat fire, was then the chief hotel of Ira Couch was the pilot of the the infaut city. Tremont, and the Laki i Sromot sl is Taks House was gnidod by E. ., _ . THELAWYERS, In thoso days, oo, joint shinglo o3 **Counselors at Law,” aud by thielr after fortanes. junction with J. N. Bolsten, who has tnk: - sTaga Dw the Jand of the hereafter, ?'Iudgcean " same profeesion e tfmore. for whom_earth has now: no Tie rival journal was ‘ : ‘ THE AMERICAN,"” s Whig organ of the most advanced pattern, which TrE TBIBUNE felt bound to baves fling Jence. g s } cmicAGo MUD. On April 11, 1840, TaE TaibusE apostrophized out with a heart-rending question, as follows : goodly aity? | Here follows an intensely graphic description of our antique mud, téo loog, Thowever, for quo- “tation; but, even in those primeval times, the divine right of the * able editor” to growl was recormized just us much as now, a8 the con- cluding portion of the muddy article will show : nue, which, in these times, i8 no trifle, to bo ex- pended in making our'streots at least passable at all times? Whut say you, Aldorman — 3" Evidently the Cicy Father of that ‘era was con- roach to & blocklead, 24 the average City Father of to-day,—except when tho vearly Ap- & | propristion biil was on tho tapis. Here it may ba sppropriate to give the result of THE MOUNICIPAL ELECTION, s cratic candidate, was first elected Mayor of Chi- cago, over J. R. Gavin, the Independent” Demo- cratic nominee. sult: March G, 1841, MAYOR. . J. R. Gavin, Ind.... Sherman’s majority.. . ALDERM! Furst tl'u‘rJ Den. o | Gharics Follansbece. J. Devlin.. " | L. Nichols. 3, McCord, Foter Pago. B, Thatcher. 165| A, F. Edwards........ -J. AL Smith... © | "L W, Montgomery.. Martic Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson ar ‘ard. y No Whig candidates. posts commomorative of the father of wild “Jrince John,”, in some of our larger citics. J. L. Howe.... G. F. Foster. G. Murphy.. Tux TRIDUNE explsins that the vote polle oxtremely liEht.——ma weather bem§ very bad, aud many Whig voters entirely indi the result. foft unpoiled. n © | bard, forwarding commission merchant; . Golo, stationery aud books; S. D. Childs, mith, exchango broker, the largesf the kind ihen in tuo Northwesi; B. W. mond, and tie business and political transactions of that April 11, >~ | season could not bave been osermild. THE NEW YORK TUIBUNE. York Tribune, of the same year “What's in a name?” Wish you'd found another god-father, strunger, Greeley, howerer, if & Whig, gentleman of and acquireizents, and the name Rereabonts kuows passing well made the venture which, above =il othors, make s political sacrifice, which ‘ended fins] overthrow and lamentable déath. ORIMINAL MATTERS. . . The following will show tho status of Chicago Circnit, Court, 1541, Judgo Smith presiding : pStepen, Glessot ey, ony. sear Siatl's rison ; i | Sich intent to rob, seven years at hard labor ; son Emm:), Carthy. larceny, th=oe months in County Jail ; . snme penalty. John Yeterson, larcen: VEBSELS. The Buffalo and Chicego liné of side-wheel- ers Lad the following vessels and masters: Iili- nois, Capt. Blske; Missouri, Capt. Wilking; Great West, Capt. Walker; ~Rochester, Capt. .Allen; Madison, Capt. McFadden; Bunker Hill, Capt. Floyd. y 5 i ‘Lo Erio, of, the sama 'line, was burned on Liake Hurou during that summer. < Tt took some two weeks to get news_ through from New York, 89 all the communications were sieamer President, comedizn, Tsrono Power, Zuished poople, on board, fill several numbers. The roports are, dictory. 3 | safo in the Bermudns; auother places Ler on tho coast of Labrador;; still snotber in.Jamaica ; d | vears ago, the good ship President Lias not. baen e | found, aud her **jolly tass,” brave officers, and once 'hopeful passcogers ste, Liko L. E. L.s * fair coquette,” slcepin; Jow.” They met, if are wrapped in the —Atlantic, derk and deep— That wilderness of wuves, B ‘Where all the tiibes of earth might sleep DB, M'NEVIN. celebrated Irishmen’ and American citizeng of the old times. triumvirate of the United Irish Organizatioa, his confreres in zuthority being Thomas Addis Emmet and Gon. Arthur 0’Connor. The notice appeared in TaE Tripuxe of July 20, 18412 1t is with no common or hackneyed which occurred 1n the 0 | {Dr. W. J. McNevin), inst, A native of Ireland, New York on the 12th his participation in the patritic plans of Few York ; but while he thers fulfilled, every duty of an American citizen, he remaine every movement for her ‘Tegeneration. ranki of his profession, as 3 scholz, {he ripences of old age, d | him to bave been ronch older. {¢ Trinity College, Dublin, two yearslater wrote : Some on {ho shores of distant lands Their weary heads havelaid, And by the rérangers' heedless Hands Their lonely graves were mads ; But the' their clay bo far nway, ‘Beyond the Atlantic foam, . * * * Jo truemen, like you men, "Fheir pirit’s still at homel 45 . LIELE ST The partuership_betwcen 33 10, 18415 tlernam, complished friend, Lisle Smith. syecimen of M b unappreciated by the especially the survivors of [Pa; * the first settlers:" A% victare yLice, had victor’ Stead of the Turcomap, the baugk: with equal daring and '1ng Thade thee sufler many,, herd warzior zoplied; . 5ir. J.’ Young S and tho Hon. Norman . B. Judd hung out. their must have done a emashing business, judging 0ld Buckner 8. Morris, ‘more pupul:_nly known as “ Buck” Morris, then 5 dashing young limb of {he law, i con- e L ugh ¥ ey served clients in the City Hotel Building ; and there were many o’hcri of tlfn at with weekly precision and considerable viru- Chicago mud in a very lively fashion, starting Tas it heen your fate, reader, to travel, within the 123t ten doys, through any of the thoroughfares of this £ Qught uot a greater portion of our city, reve- sidered a6 much of & blank, and as close an ap- whereat tho late Francis C. Sberman, Demo- Here is tho ticket and the re- erent 28 Lo There was fully one-kalf of the vote . Tho names of such men es H..O. Stone, then in the general commission business; G. 8. Hub- aver, who is still in thesamo business; George t doaler of Ray- Grant Goodrich froquently occur in Tt is recorded that tho first boat of the weason —the Chesapeake—entored Chicago Harbor on 1840, which goes to show that the And here:is & Laptismal notice of ths New established .April 10, 1841, the pmiagraph being published fu Chicago on May L Horsce Greeley hau estab- lished u daily papor 1o New York, called Fhe Trivunc. ‘talents mizht be in infinitely Worse hands, as every troubled reader of Whig papers Thus it will be seen that TuE CrrcAco TRIDUNE was ectuslly established bafore ir. Greeley ren- dored ham famous, and which, after he had done ihe State all tho service in his power, led him to in his evil-doers at the June term of the Cook Conuty ‘Nelson Beelman (colored), same offense - | aod liko punisbment ; David B. Taglor, assault Samuel Lockridge, arson, two_years; Elisha Boulbard, forgery, five years; William Wilkin- Iatceny, two years; Catharine Mc- by lake and canul. Accounts of the missing with the colobrated Irish and other distin- us nsnal in such cases, contra- ~'Ono story makes the missing vessol but, from the hour slio steamed out of the ** Nar- Towe,” until the prescnt, some three and thirty w3 thousand fathoms sudden, au easy death, and Here ié an obitnary notice of one of the most Dr: McNevin was oue of the that wo notice the death of this venerable patriot and gchoisr City of Whenca o was drivedy by the British Government for the ¢ United Irishmen,» Dr. McNevin had long bean a resident of with honory 1o thie last an ardent lover of the unbappy lsnd of his - birth, interested with o boyish abandon of devotion in In the first distinguished amongat scholars ‘accomplihod and urbane, he has died i honored_and 'respected by all who bnew him: His age la stated at 9, but we beleve Dr. McNevin was ono of * the faithfnland the of 93, of whom Prof. James H. Ingram, of = Mr. E. G. Ryan avd M., Charles N. Holcomb was dissolved on April and, thenceforth’ the Tribune until it Sisd. was ran exclusively by the Arat-named gen- “sm, who was occasionally asuisted by his ac- The following T mith's poetical talent may not readers of to-dsy, ¢ 22, 1541.—When Romanus Diogenes, the Gresk e, wes interroguted by his “conqueror, Alp % {0 how he would have acted had e been {n etry .country, “tho atiewer, nnd if Leepiug 8 Iglg In purple robed with Jowel le robed, with jowels crown: R or s il o, 4 The stern Romnnus glanred sround, While wurrio: welcomes roso: ‘With Late repr.ssed be mct the Chief As the caged tiver~man | B €old was court sy and brfef,— Hail to thes, Alp Arslan] . Fot thus to meet the conq'ror wills— Free us tho summer wind Sweeping the broad plains and the hilla Tl fathors left behind, s generous words—to 80otho and chieer Tho vanquished savereigm's pride; The haughty captive defzned to hear, Thea coldly turned aside. The banquet waite—from thoso falr lands The rapid Indus laves To the dak Euxine—from the sands Wasbed by Sabean waves To fair Chorasmia's valleys dim— In wild profusion there Each climate’s luxury for him Thie Lands of foes Preparo. Vain honor to the unwilling guest ost thankless from bis focs, For Gzep within his suguished 'breast Lag feats of future woes,— Defeat and shame, tho traffor’s suare, Spread where his rule should be, With none to coursel—none to ehare His long captlily. Vatn banquet ! filng the wine to eazth, Lat musics voice 0 Juoze Mock with triumplant sounds of mirth What Fate of Glory aborel i houghts are by the azure seas Where, brightis mirrored, ghine The golden domes—tho pelades + And towers of Constantine,’ But in the glow of that free hour Tho gritant victor spoke,— « Had fortung beat us to thy power + How light liad been the yoke 7' #Qu theo Barbarisn 10 ferce the words Of that proud captive ran, “To many a strife, Leforo thy hordos, Idoomed thee, Alp Arslan " Deep flushed the noble victor's chec! o Amoment brct and e - miling o tho imparda) Gredkn .~ e calmly rpoks sggin': R “Thy Clikplanre , as T hava ihought, . Commanc, tter gave, .. o S gt X griove that on 80 brave Bkould cherish in a galiant heart Tlat base, unwortay glow— The cowsrd maxim—tyrunt art— Ta,crush o prostrats foe: Thy Prophet’s rule wy counsels guide— Tho law of men to man— i Go free ! herexfter let thy pride Keepfalth with Alp Arslan t? Music] * heavenly maid," was mo longer oung when Mr. Bmith wrote the foregoing ‘Poom, but the Chicago muse of that poriod was S<ceodingly infantile and, unfortanately, ‘our flat situetion and general unromantic ‘sppear- ance has kept our local Genius of Doetry in Ler baby-clothes over sinco. In s flat country po- s vory flat. Holland is & vory unpoetical and Chicago has not & Lill much over 50 feet high within an srea of twenty square -miles, ‘In considering the poem of Alp Arslan, it must bo remembered that Chicago was very many feet lower then than pow, and duo allow- ance must be made for that. After the city i graded up anothar couplo of hundeed foet” her crop of poots may increasc,—as sbo stands to- day, pork-packers and warchousemen aro in- finitely abesd of followors of Father Homor. 178 DEATH. The Tribune, of the days when Chicago was tip the lowlands, low,” suspended publication on Ang. 21, 1841, when it wes anuounced that,— “With the current number, the publication of this paper ccases—for the present.” TThe latter part of the senteuce msy be re- garded as semi-prophetic. At sll events, the rediction has been rezlized to an’ extout that Alr. E. G. Ryau conld not then have dreamed of. Tho editor wrote a very fecling valedictors, in which he bade his friends an affectionate fure- well, and reminded kis focs—defanlting sub~ seribors, to wit that nawspapers could not be Tan witlout money—a fact that mavy peoplo in this city, since the epoch alluded to, covered to their cost. Had Mi Mr. E. G. Ryan's subscribers manfally paid their just debts, that talented gentleman might not just now_ be suf- fering tho slow torture of life in the villago of Milwaukee. - And now, seeing that Mr. E. G. Ryan 8aid rale to Chicago journalism_thirty-three vears 2go, Tur Crrcado TRIpure has pleasure ‘in winting vale to the Rysn of to-day, and ivecribing Requiescal m pace on the tomb of the genera- tion of 1840-41. TREES IN WINTER. 0 leafless trees, son stand 8o atill ¢ Yo look ¥0 cold, 80 ghostiy chiil § What do you waat 7—What iz your will 2 Al ! grim, and gaunt, and motionless, Yot uot bereft of loveiness, You yearn to Heuven a5 in distreas, As zoul to soul do you commiine, Taik with the stars, and moan the ruln,— Ten thousand of your brethren strewn. TWhat ¢ the story-telling Lreezo Should coms to yon, across the geas, With hlithe worils from thoheaven of trees ? Would you not speak s single word, Put silent etill,jas songless bird, Lt all its grace bo as unheard:7 And you, O pairirchs | yon seem Wrapt up in Thought's rezretirl dream Of youihful love by bablling stream. Oh 1 Biithely, In the long ago. Your song a3 music swcet did forv, +Knd thus we learned to Iove you so. The sunny hours, 83 bashul fect ©Of maiden coy, oid Time did gzeot, and in our heirts we 8xid, “'Tis meet.® Aye, sometime you will sng the same, The blrssed song uoknown to fame, That fong ago 80 sweally cams, With noto of tizd, and frogrant braeze, And cricket-chirp, sud buta of Le:s, -+ Within tho boundicss realin of treenl 2 DuBUQUE, L1, W. B. Paryxe. o g oST ¥rydrate of Chloral. In an article reviowing thé evidence which from timo to time bas been brought forward for, and against the usc of hydrateof chloralss o therapeutical ageut, tho editor of the Journal of Chemsiry declared it as his opinton that it is 8 perfectly ato articlo for_any intelligent -physi- ian to- employ ; _tbat it produces a sound; ‘re- freshing sleep whon used in cases of nervous wakofulinoss, lenving the brain and digestive or- gans in & perfectly normal conditior ; bt thete, 16 no organ or function of tho system rhed | by it, ovon when its use is long continubd cyand that it has the singuisr property of nof-losing ita therapeuticu] influence when persistetly eme ployed—the same doso given to tho'spimo pa- tient, for a period of neasly, thre invatiably produced tho game réfreshing aleep, cach night. The editor of tho Journal asserts, lowevor, that it is useless and -improper.to give tho agent to relieve prin—it beiug only yalnable s o hiypnotic in sleeplessness unattended by.pafn —and that the dose emplayed by mbo¥ 1\41, - Ccians is insufficient ; ten graingbaye usual ut littlo influenco upon au adult,itwenty often fail to prodace sleep; but thirty or forty scldom fail —medium doses being bettegeat first; tode re- pested a8 reuired. - il . The Change of Ministry in England. All the Gladstone, Miuintry- wont down to Windsor Castle, two weeks ago, each one with s seal of offico in s litt!e bag or caso. Eight of them, with tbe Lord Chancellor at the head. Thoy laid dovn their precious burdena solemnly on o table, and retired from the Quecn's august Presence, They roturned to London por rlsay ; Phero was a crowd at tho Windsor station, but they were waiting for the now Jinisters, who were coming on the next train; ex-Postmaster T.owe took & third-class ticket, the others trav- eled first-class. ‘ Now this,” says the Graphic's Sorrospondent, “ bapponcd 8t Balf-past 1p. m.; and for more than an hour afterward the Queen was left alone with the seals, and Euglaod was ot a government { Her Majesty mighthave done anything: she liked with the seals: she might have made ber faithful retaiver, Jobu Brown, Lord Chancellor ; she might Liave thrown all the zeals into the fira; sho might have locked e 1o in 8 closet snd refused to give up the Koy Happily, sho did none of these things.” e What Constitutes & Gentleman. bat conatitutes a gentleman is often amus- bk £33, sccording to s lato ingly misunderstood, and Dracesdinig in‘an English court, the hno is drawn to pohtical changes. In ith curious adaptation rxc‘:‘:ze which cnmpe before_the Daster “of the Rehia, Mr. Bsgshawe, Q. -C.,- having spoken of one of his witnesses, Who w88 & licensed victual- o o * this gentloman,” His Houor asked tho Tobned counsel, ~Since when has it become the foahion to designate s publican asageatlemsn 2 ‘*Qince tLo last general election, I supposo, was the eignificant snswer. This appreciation SF the power of the liquor:interest, recalls Dr. St hnsonns recoguition of tue growng influence O e mercantil class when Do deiued 8 mer- chant as & mew species’ of gentleman. Carlyle made a good deal of fun out of the explanation of the witness 1n an English court of his n'i'ea of eepectability. _* Wiy, ir, he kept 3 gig,” wae mu-_ nm: respectable thers is no resson. yhy a license victusller should not, a8 auch, he deemed & gen- tleman, = * ¥ = + have dis- yeoars, having: | THE NEW ARMORY. Suit Against the City by Peter Marr. His Statement as to Why He Was De- prived of the Contract, The Manner in Which the Money Was Paid to Sub-Con- tractors. Commissioner Prindiville Lays the Blame on Kir. Marr. The Court Will Have to Decide. Mr. Poter-Marr, a building contractor of some note, who lives at No. 354 West Cougress street, undertook some time last July to do the meson work on the new First Polico Precinct Station of” this city, and made & formal contract with the .| Board of Pablic Works for the same. As it turned out, the contractor became dirsatisfied with the conduct of some members of the Board, and the latter becamo dissatisfied with the con- tractor, tho result being an uupleasantness all around, which Das resulted in a suit at law against the city, now pending in the courts. "o Mr. Marr i8 % man of gome experienco and intelligenco, Tz TRIBUNE thought it worth wliile {0 bave him intorviowed on tho subject, and o reporter was detailed for that duty. The following is tho result of the conversation : THE WORK. Reporter—Mr. MaiT, what part of the contract for building the First Police Precinct Station did you have? 2 Mr. Marr—All of the mason-work, and the sub-contracts were all It by me. Bush & Ho- zan were the sub-contractors for tho cat-stoie, Tom O'Counor for the plastering, and the As- phalt Paving Company for that branch of the bunainess. 3 TRoportor—Were you bound to tims for the completion of the mason-work 2 Mr. Marr—I was, and would have had it all rigkt, only I was delayed sbont twenty-eight days on account of the other mochanics. and also by the tardiness of the Board and it Su- perintendent. Mr. Wilson. v THE FATLURE TO SETTLE? Reporter—\Why did not tne Superintendent settle with you ? Mr. Marr—Wwell, T can't eay definitely. He refused to do 80, but made out a kind of state- ment, which was not perfect. > Reporter—Whera is that statemeat now? Mr. Marr—It is in the bands of my attorney, and T wish you to understand that I could go mora into detail, but I'am acting under legal ad- Jico, and do not wish to givemy oppononts an unfair advantage. MONEY DRAWN. Reporter—Did you give the Superintendent or the Board any power {0 nse your name with the Comptroller? ) Mr. Marr—I never did, and vet they had the tcheek" to uso my name with the Comptroller soveral times, entirely without my consent or kmowledge. R—How much monev did you draw from the Comptroller on your own account ? Mr. Marr—Spmewhera abont $12,000. My contract amounted to $21.500. "R.— How much was drawn without your knowl- edgn? 3ir. Marr—Well, Bush & Hogan got about $1,200; Thomss O'Connor sbout :£1,000 ; 2ud fho Asphalt Paving Company abont ' $800. The Suverintendent Lias a larga baleoce on bLand, Shich o refuses to pay mo. The exact Sgures aro in the hands of my attornes. THE RLAMEWORTIY AN, . Reporter—What member of thie Board do you ‘most blamo for this business ? T, Marr—Thompson especially. Mr. Prindi- ville has alwaya treated meina very fair aud Seutlemanly spirit. Mr. Wall, the new Com- Tmissioner, has had nothing to do with the affair. Tho wholo blame belongs .to Thompsa, the Superiutondent, and the srchitect, one Arsen- al. - wow srudke 15 DUE? 2 Reporter—How much money does the Board owe you now ? : Mr. Marr—Somewhere about £9,000. Tt's & regular * gonge gamo.” Reporter—What kind of Superintendents {1d thoy givo you for your work ? Mr. Marr—Some of them did not know much. Thoy had them changed soveral times, and that *as one canso of tho delay. Reporter—Did you ever fore ? Alr. Marr—I nevor did, aud I hope never todo any again—at least for tho samo parties. If thoy alwavs act asin this instance, how can & man expect fair play 2 2 Reporter—You intend, then, to fight the thing throngh in the courts ? Afr. Marz—Undoubtedly. The case comes u on the firat Monday in April. T'll fea whether am going to be robbed with impunity. This ended the interview. THOMAS 0'CONNOR. 3Ir. Thomas O'Connor, the sub-contractor for tho plastering-work in the etation-building bo- fore mentioned wes interrogated relative to his purt in the business. Hig statement was, in sabstance, as folluws : s He had contracted to do the work with Peter Marr, and not with the city; r. MaiT told him that hie should get paid by him, when the money came duc; despite of this, he was obliged to lake (he monoy on the order of the Board of Dublic Works from the Comptroller's oftic: he received in_all 91,203, the amount of his esti- mate with Peter Marr: Superintendent Wilson acted all along as if he did not want him (0’Conmoar) to do the work ; he waa impeded in his business by the slowness of the Superintend- cnt in furnishing salamanders to dry tho plas- toring, a8 ngreed upon: he did not havo any par- ticulat complaint to mako agaivst the mombers of the Bosrd—none whatevor against Commis- sioner Prindiville; he tbought that Mr. Marr bad not been fairly dealt with, und that be was unneccssarily ~ delayed in bhie contract. Tho architect was just ns disagrecablo as the Superintendent, and to their want of good feel- ing tho whola delay might be attributed. COMMISSIONER PRINDIVILLE. The reporter next lighted upon Commiesioner Prindiville, and had & brief talk with that gen- tleman on the eabject. Reportor—Mr. Prindiville, have you any ex- planation to make of the dificulty between the Board and Petor Marr? SMARR'S SLOWNESS. Ar. Prindiville—I think Mr. Marr was very muck to biame. He kopt the work dragging Hong in & manner that Was Veryannosing, £o the Poard were compelled to take tho work out of his hands and push it through thomselves. THE MONEY-MATTEES. . Renorter—Ho complains that partis wero paid do any city work be- -money for sub-contract work without his orders. ‘Prindivillo—That is sl true enough, but e bimself is to blame, for ho allowed people to draw indiscriminatels, and the Board, by way of protestion, had to interfere. - = Reporter—You don’t mean to ssy, Mr. Prindi- ille, that Mare overdrew the amount of his con- act Mr. Prindivillo—No, indeed, for we took good caro that nothing of the kind should occur. Ropoiter—Then you are entirely of opinion that Marr's charges ogainst 3ir. Thompson and Mr. Wilson are without foundation? Hir, Prindivillo—\What charges docs ho mak®? The reportor stated tho substsnce of what 3r. Marr hod already advanced. 3ir. Prindiville— don't {lunk_there is any ground for_the charges,—none whatever. The Board acted without prejudice, aod ir. Carter, of whom no_complaint is msde, was the fore- most in tirging that Marc's coutract should bo takenup by the Board. However, I supposo the courts will settle the matter. — - ASPASIA. Tothe Editor of The Chicano Tribuns: Sz If you will let me have my little say in answer to your fair_corréspondent (it's but fair to call them all fair), who, under the sbield of four stars, breaks s spirited lance in defense of her frail sister of antiquity m lsst Sundsy's TRiBUSE, I will promise to quit the field, and let her have the liet word if she wauts it. There were two. questions in my brief commu- nication: first, whether, in point of fact, the snéient bistorians are in error in characterizing asis 88 a courtesan; sud, second, whether, admitting, .88 your correspondent does, that she stood in the relation of mistress, not wife, to Pericles, she onght to be beld up as an cxsmple to her sox, and her character pronounced “ pure ” and irreproachable. Asto the first point, but one opinion is ex- pressed by the ancient historizna. While aeknowlodging her beanty, talent,- and influence at Atbens, they place herin thocategory of sbandoned women, who, like Cleopatrs, csred little for reputation, provided they could secure 25 lovers the most distinguished men of the time. .Among her contemporaries, and -thase livivg & few geperations lster, hor disaolutomode of life was 5o well knowr that it had passed into & proverb, and witty and wanton women Twere ‘called Aspacias. A notsvle examplo of this is afforded in_the career of the Younrer Cjrus, who lived s little lator than Pericles, snd who gavo the name of Aspasis to bis favorite concu- bine, thongn her real nanie was different. Such a fact 2s this outweigbs a volume of the speea- lation of - those modern writers who hold that, becaueo this rmarkable woman had an eloquent tongue, and drew around her & host of rdmirers in the fashionable and learned world, she could not, therefore, be lax in her morals. This i# too, too thin, and is very mnch like the effort of tho lesrned Roacoe, who tried to make the world believe, saveral generations after Ler timo, that such & rioral leper as Lucretia Borgia was 'a much injwred and maligned character. Unfortunately, the world is, and alwsys hes been, full of women in whore souls wit and wantonnees seem to struggle for the maatory, or, rather, 3id each other in achioving evil con~ quests. On the other band, there were in nefant times, s there are in modern, & larger class of truo and puro womon, bright and bean- firul, witty and wisc, who aitracted around them the most Tofined circles of both sexes, lectured uton the highest themes, and, by their penius and virtues, elevatod onr common bumanity. Una of the brightest examples of these was the colcsrated Hypatis, of Alexandria, daughter of itho lesruod Thoon.—besutiful, modsst, graced with ~all the learning of her time, “ho, in =n_ ago of - general cormn- tion, gaye public lcctures upon Philasophy and Afathematica, which wero attended by gll the beanty, fashion, and intollect of Alex- andria. Why do not .our lesrned women, both lecturors and writers, hold up to the public gaze and sdmiration such an example among tho ancients ag this 2 Why waste so mnch breath and ink in trving to bolster up doubtful charac- tery, to say the leeat of them? Is a female of degraded or doubtful reputation a better subfect for the lecture-room or the columns of a nows- paper than ouo whose life end charactor aro un- gullied? Can'sho better point a moral or adorn atale? Oris it ndt the prurient fmate of the thing which induces our learned sisters. “led by some tortuosity of mind,” to prefar to handlo pitch rather than cleaner objects.—to wade throngh sinks and slonghs rather than walk on solid ground ? = But T basten to eonsider the other point in this controversy.—the * purity " of such a woman a8 Arpasia i8 admitied to have been. On this point your stellar correspondent is quite to- pacious, snd, it must be admitted, throws some pecaliar light.—s light that is calculated to dis- el the ** opacity_of moral visidn ” of all such blundering mortals a8 bolieve with * Justice " that * modern monagamio TArriage " is the highest form, yet discovered, of the rolazon be- tween tho sexes. Her definition of puritv. it it means anything, eans simply that, in this re- woman ehould be guided by matoral jmpulse. | © Purity is of the heart snd natnur and, thoush it would un- doubtedly be proforable for a woman, if porsible, not to contract what sho ia pleased to call an _“irregular marriaze,” Jo, if she doss s, ** ehe is nok nocessurily im= T avo, thongh careless tonzmes may call ber so.” This is the very doctrine that ¢ careless tonames” esll one of the forms of froe-love, and such ss is illustrated in the lifo of Mrs. Woodhuli ¢t id omne genus. According to this doctrine. the forms of marriage are non-essen- tial. Let nature.” eople simnly follow tho ** haart and is the true and only test of 1 do not dissent from any just and proper application of this great Hoatiine, Taken in connection with the prin- ciple of natural selection, it teaches us that, in Hira progress of civilization, which s constautly foward higher and highor forms of good. not ovil. the acquisitions and habits of former goner- Stions, derivod tbrongh long experiemce, be- ome the natural endowments and_heritage of Succeeding omes. But this doctring finds no anch illustration as tho defender of Aspasia tries to make it servo in her aliusion to formonicm. Snch a svatem could find no foothold among the pooplo.of Ulinois, much less becoms & part of our public policy. Your correspondent is led astray Ly trying fo mako the principle of heredity sorve an illegitimate pmrpose. No doubt, amoag the. rudo and izrorant people, when ihch an institution aa “communal’ muriage provails, polyzamy might tako root and flourish For & time, because it marks the advancement of 2 race towards higher and better things.. But this would afterwards - be eucceeded by the “puror and pobler syetem of monogamy, . Yetitisnoless truo that, whean you come down to individusls in any given socicty, yon i1l sometimes find this principlo to be reversad. Thore are not wanting those who sigh for the g0l old timea.” They are not happy except in® retrocression, and an abnormel davelop- ment. Such o disposition is to be ac- “ounted for on tho principle of *roversion " to some ancestral typo of character. But, for- tunately, like the principle of monstrosit, it is confined to & few individuals, and does not affect sociory ot large. The great body of the com- Tonnlty move on in the Rettled conviction that. Tith respect to marringe, tbe modern practice and legielntion are right, which réstrict it to two individunls, give it legal ranction, all otlier eexupl rolationships, of every name and mature, to te Lcentions, impure, and detri- rental to gociety's best intereste. Invain tho fe- Thalo reformer comen along, and tries to reversa this decrea of modern socicty, by first holdingup fo view, a8 a brilliant and distinguished example of personal prrity, ono of Lier own gex who lived fn scknowledged illicit connection all her life, +d then by arpuing that it indicates only 0pa- city of moral vision” in others not to zee such eublime “purity.” Yes, let uscall things by their right names, and ' call this doctrine the doctrine of frec-love. JusTicE. AN ECONOMICAL WIFE. Our Grandmothers Not SNparing-of Thetr Husbands® Parses. Tho following letter from Lady Compton to her husband, Lord Compton, cfterward Earl of Northampton, written in the vear 1610, tke® eighth year of James L, shows that our grand- fothers were not so sparing of their husbands® Durses, after all, as some would Lave us think tho! My SweeT LIFE: s Now J have declared to you my mind for the settling of your state, I suppoze it were best for me to bethink and coneider within myself what allowance were meetest.for Me. Ipray and bescech you to grant me, your most Lind and loving wife, the sum of £4,600 (%13,000) quarterly to b paid. Also, I would, besides that allowance, hava £600 (£3,000) quar- torly to be paid. for the porformance of charita- ble work ; and those things I would not, neither will, be accountable for, Also, I will have threo horses for my ovn saddle, that nove \hall dare to lend or borrow; monc lend vut I, none borrow but you. Also, I would bave two gentlowomen, lest’ one should be sick, or have some other let.- Also, believe it, itis an andecont thing for a_gentlewoman to stand mumping 2loue, when God hath blessed their 1ord and lady with a_great estate. Algo, when 1 ride s-hunting. or a-hawking, ot travel from one house to another, I will havethem attending ; €0, for either of those said women, I must and will bave for eitherof them a horse. -Also, I will ave six or eight gentlemen ; and I will have my o conches, one lined with velvet to mysell, ek four very fair horses ; and a coach for my women, lined with and laced with gold, other- ise with gcerlet, and laced with silver, wih four horses. Algo, I will have two coachmen— ono fGF my own coach, the other for my women. Ao, for that it is nndecent to crowd up myself, Sith'my gentleman-usher in my coach, I will have bim to have a convenient horse to attend me, either in city or country. And I must have iwo footmen. And my desire is that you defrsy &l the charges for me. “ And for myself, besides my yearly allowance, Iwoald bave twenty gownsof apperel, kix of thiem oxcellent good aneg, eight of them for the country, aud six of them very excellunt good ooes. “Also, I would have put in iny purse $2,030 (510,000} and_you fo paymy debts. I would have £6,000 (§30,000) to buy e Jewels, and £4,000 (£20,000) to buy me & pesrl cbain. Notw, seeing I have been, and am, so reason- able unto you, L pray you do find my children apparel, and their scnooliug, and sll my sorvants WA wages. Also, I will have all my houses farnished, and my lodging-chambers to he suit- edwith all such farnituroas is fit, as beds, sicols, clairs, cushions, carpots, silver’ WaIming-paus, caphosrds of plate, feir hansings, and such-like. S0 now that I bave declared to you what 1 would have, and what it is that I would not Lave, Tprav yon. when you be an Earl, to_allow mo £‘g,‘l‘;(.\0 filD,DDfl) more than 1 now desire, and double ateandance.” u and declaro- AMBNG THE _NEBKTIE-MAKERS. How Keckties Are Made, and What the Makers of Them Earn. Injurious Effects of * the "Bright Silks Tpon the Eyes of the Operafors. The hitle, pretty Lich looks so charm- ing when combined with a clean white shirt- ‘bosom and collar, is a branch of industry by itself, and farnishes employment to hundreds of women. Tho ties arc usually made in shops es- 1ablished for the purpose, tho propristor prefer- ring to pay his workers by the day rather than by the picce. In some establishments, howover, they are all given t6 women and girls, who take them to their homes, when they aro paid by the dozen. : Ta a novice, who zees for the first time the dainty pieces of silk of which they aro made. on one tatle, and the clegantly-finished, fashion- sble neck.tics on another, 1t looks like pretty, neat, desirablo work,—kuch sn_occupation as any one compelled to work for a living wonld be glad o follow; but, upon sitting dovn and watching the monotonons running and listening to the constant whirr of the sewing-mechine, it becomes EXTBEMELY WEARISOME to the spectator, who, of course, cannot be ex- pected to take the same interestin it 2s one whose amount of daily bread depends upon tbe nomber she manafactures of these little arti- cles indispeneable to a gentleman's toilet. f any gentleman will take off his necktie and esaine it closely, he' will probably bo surprised at the number of materials of which it is com- posod, and the number ef pieces it takea to make one of these pretiy littlo ornaments. The out~ side or showy part is made of silk of every hne and shade, to suit the taste of the individisl wearer. This silk is cut in pieces of the requisite gizo in the shops, two sides of each piece, which form the ends,arestitched on the sewing-machine. Anevw beginner usually stitches theso pieces sin- gly. and , after this part of the work is dane, and she comos to put the pieces together to form her necktic, she selects ono.of the ends, and, by neglegting to keep them in pairs, ehe has now to search through the whole quantity of stitched pieces to find its mate. An expertat the ‘busi- nees will always stitchher onds in pairs, thus sav- ing much valuable time. Theinmde lining iscom- posed of millinette, which the m kor cuts herself to suit theouteide. The outer lining is eilesia, which the maker also cuts to suit herself. The novice cuts her silesia as the silk is cut, and stitches each piece separately ; and it is gener- ally some time befare she discovers that she might just as well eut » pieca of liuing the necessary width as long as her cloth will allow, stitch it on one dide, then fold 1t to the requisite sizo. and cut & dozen or more picces at the aame time. Sometimes & woman will work for months, and occasionally one will work for years, before sha learns all tue valuable, TTAE-SAVING METHODS, as it requires considerable ingenmty avd rapid- ity to mzke the articlea up in good stvle and malke the business pay. Wirgin is used to give the required etiffness, and cotton to shapa the pecossary puff to the piece of eilk forming the contro. The picce of pesteboard covered with cloth, to which the fastening of elastic cord is attached, s callod the shield. Two_corners of the ends are fastened toether with a needlo and thread in the old-fashioned way that was in Jogue before sewing-machines were invonted. The outer lining and_silk .are sfitched together on eachside of tho ends, when they are plaitea and fastened together with a noedieand thread. The ghield i likewiso sewed oo with a peedle and thresd, and, to one not itiated into the mys- tories of necktie-making, it scems rather a formi- dable undertaking to attempt to form an articlo oat of B0 many pieces of material, and looks liks 2 good deal of, work for but littie pay when the price of making is taken into account, which is 121 cents a dozon for the smaller ones, and 25 cents a dozen for the larger ones. TUpon inquiry among the different necktie- makers, it was_sscertained that tho average woman would do the machine-work on four dozen meckties in three hours, while it woald take el&h! ‘hours longer to complete them and Imako them ready for the market. This would givo hor, at 25 cents a dozen, 82 for twolve hours' werk; and, if the person bad the neces- sary strength to work eleven hours a day for six \;1;321 in the weck, she would earn in that time The smesllor ones. at 123§ cents, she could ‘make in one-third less time, so that the larger ones pay tho best ; but as it would not be fair to Five ail the largo neckties to ono_person and all the small ones to another, they aro about equally divided among the necktie-malers, which would gi\'s four dozemof the larger ones in eleven ours, and four dozon of the mnaller ouesin soven hours and twenty minuies ; and, as this is 28 much as most women can accomplish in tWo days, they will sversgo $1.50 per day, or 39 PER WEEK. As the msjority.of these women, however, have bouseholds and families, which demand 3 gofl-ion of their time and attention, they cannot ovote 8o many Lours to tho business, and, cansoquently, are unsble to esrn that ‘sum. They farnish their owa thread, which, although not a large item, stul takes a certain percentage of their earning. Expert hands, who have worked at - the bus- inews a long time, who have scquired habits Decousary to rapidily and dispatch, sud bave be- come acquainted with all the minute, time-saving details, will mako almost doublo that sum, and, if thoy could work constantly and uoremsttingly, ‘vould make it as remunerative as any branch of woman's work i at present ; but itis attended Hith one serious disadvantage, which precludes constant application time. The lightness of the sitks aad thedazzling colors of mapy of them are very 1¥IURIOUS TO THE SIGHT, and the operator is frequently compelled to stop 204 put hor handa bofore bLer eyes to skade them from the light and allow them torest fora ehort time. Sometimes the operator is nuable to sco anything for & short time, and i obliged to suspend work until ber eves are rested. In aadition to the dazzling brightness of the gilk, the table of the sowing-machine is derk and highly-polished, and offers no relief to the colors aronod, but rather serves to increase the evil. While the pay which women recciva for making neckties is a temptation t0 many to engage in it, yet the injury to the eyes 18 & formidable barrier to those who set a high value on strong, clear, bright eyes, and who wish to Preserve the procious gift of sight in their de- chining years. % “We would offer s suggestiop hore, that might boof use in mitigating this evil, and relieviog tho evo to Bome oxtent. A persod, in looking at bighly-colored paintings for any leogth of time, rows woary of their brightness, sud desires to fnok upon something devoid of color. If.in order todo this, be enters a room whose walla afe covered with bighly-colored paper, he cxperiences no _relief, but a feeling of still greater diszatisfaction, and closes his eyes to shut oat the sight of color which has thus wearied him, and created such a desire for somo- thing to ook upon which may rest his tired eyee. 1f be now enter a room whoso walls ae perfoct: 1y white, he feels sensation of relief, and i3 glod to sit down for awhile, perfectly satisficl Gl bis organs of vieion hove regained their wonted electricity, and aro ready to look upon diforent articles without feeling weared. Every one who has worked upon dark-colored objects at night krows but too well. what an inc jury itisto tho eyes, apd bow quickly it will Teaken the sight. Aaoy families who are aware of this fact always koep’ A WIHITE €10TH o spread over tho table Ly which they sit at work. and have found that itg whitences i8 & relief trom the dark shades of color apon which they are engaged ; and it hain some degree pro- Sented the injury which wonld otherwise have | ccearred to the sight. Wo offer this 28 worthy of the cousideration of tbe pecktie-makers, and idea of placing & of thoir sewing-mi- o rehovo the darker tnts npon wbich chicaz, i Shos wso constantly at work. Tho remeds s at 1east worth a trisl, 28 ‘the manafacture of neck- B O ore remrperative than many othor mrach steady machine-work 3a in -some parts of D s faustry, and steady labor ou 3 sewing- machine has been, fouud to be very injurioas to the operator. This is obsisted in the e ing of meckties, portios of the work pakinE Odone- with, the old-fashioned D e and thread ; and it is, upon the whole, or s i would bo if the injury to the eyes coald be obvinted, & good branch of business for women as_women's work is paid af present. Women nsnally hase to Iabor a great many bours T ry little pay, and _those who work ¢ th Lranch ot industry now under contideration aro Yor any grest length of | | very much dissstisficd, clfiming that they do not receive eaough to board and clothe thom. Tuey earn justabout euomgh, On an aversge, to pay their "board,—sometimes makiug enouzh to clothe themselves,—but are never able to lay by aaything for a rainy day. _ We can only saggest t0 them, 23 we di to tke shirt-makers, IE YOUR OWN MASTERS, work for yourselves, and whatover [i0fits azerne from tho 23l of shiris and neckties puc i your own pocketa. JMes, M. D. WINKoOP. g THE WOXEN'S WAR. A Tay of the Last Crusade. Well, Amos, I've been to the meetin’, we heald it ot Bare ker's to-night; 1tll you fho Lorase s oot fn ol o Tia pewer et ght. & The glad £ongs o' Zion arcringin’ in phices nat usad to the sonnd, boys bave been wastin’ their evenin's in ‘drinidn’ an’ loafin’ around. All over the land that we live in, in country a2’ town, everywhere, We're w-gow to give Mir. Tyndall 8 test o’ the powes o* DEayers T'ro been to the meetin at Barker's, we gin him a sud- den surprive ; When ho looked up an’ sean s a-comin’, I tell you bs opened his eyes. o stared at us over the counter, each eye looked a3 Lig aa the moon, But we wa'n't to be frightenod in that wag, we walked right into tho ssloon. He didn't sttempt to oppoee us, he was willin? fo give us fair play 3 e Jooked all around him an’chuckled, but never 3 word did be say. There were lots o soung wanthers a loafiz’, T reckon - adozen or moro; # ‘When soro or 'em seen us 3-comin’ they slid vut ¢ Iectle Back door. 3 Some stood by the couniez a-drinkin’; they 13da't = stom o' shame, An’ those who waro pleyin’ st billlards went on with their impious gzme. The rest on em sot iere a-slppin’ fhelr whiaky, thels ndy an’ A-lookin’, aleerin’, s-winkin’, an’ waitin’ for us ia ‘begin. -l Igazed at the bright-lookin’ bottles bebind the tall connter displayed 1 thought o'-the livea they had wasted ; I ihought o’ the graves they bad made. » : 1 thought o' the Loy they had ruined by leadin’ ‘em widely astray; 0" tho wrongs they hsd wrought on the helpless by atealin’ their aubstance away; An’all o' the power within me gwept oyer my soul like » storm, + A, liftin’ my hauds, up to Hesven, I prayod fors While e tha mamitha ters; le, out 0’ the moutha o’ the sisters; who olermnl; Yuclt by me there, ) A hundred mpressivo ‘responses Jined in with'my onate prayer. Then we sang that glad hymn of salvatior, #0 tuwrn. Yo, for why.will e dia1” Sle A it Seemed to sy soal, in that;manent, God's glozy " was comin’ 0 nigh. - Wosang g the lovly Ladcomer, an' thoso that Mo pore ished to save, Az when the lst' Stanzs was ended, the room was still s the grave, ) Bill Bazker looked over his caunter, the prowpoct he didn’t enfoy 3 "Twas plain to be scem he was thinkin® o' those he had Delped to dostroy. 9 He glanced st tho row, o’ bright Eottles Lefofe his broad mirrararrayed, - % Likn one who is proud o' his power, nor esres for: the wrecks he has made, But soon o'er his hard-lookin’ features akinder sod softer ook stolo; angel ‘was tryin’ to soften his xia. ed soul, He looked sort o' troubled an’ worried, a’ stil ho had nothin’tosay; o e scemed to be quiktly wishin’ we women wero ont @ AIl was stil? i1l 2 wild-Tookin” woman, whose ice il 23 white o 3 shroad, L Crept steaithily oaté o' a corner, an’ stood 1o the midnt o’ the crowd, - 2 ' L ‘Her boller chesks spoke o’ starvation, her sunken syex told o' distress ;. Her quiverin’ lips o° Tuate anguish 2o language o ming can express. 5 ; e it bur iaon-tke fogers digh over her biad L eapair, Aw, walkia’ siraight up to this counter, she gazed at the Holooves st het pale, baggard featur tumned @ looked at. her pale, ha [eat a0’ turn with.2 shandder swuy'§ =% * ‘Ho spoke not » word, but ha listaned to noar what £14 Wwomaa would 833, «Look ! look! on your work hars, Bl Barker,” sk cricd with s paseionate wall ; 4 You have ruined my home an’ my busband, aad wafl ‘both my young boys 0 Jall. They say I atn mad 7 do you' wonder? Your liquos- ‘s brought all my Wou§ 7 1 tell you your time is pemin’, Gol’s judgmert ia cors . kit i i 2 Than, tarnin’ away from ihs counter, sho sluily ‘passed from the place; The rmseller’s consclenco ¥s troublsd, bo showed 1 all over hisface, o His mind seemedto be unzetlled, his feclin's i@ conlan't control; - Timow that a1 ‘powerfal struggle was a-tuggin’ away akl 5 ¥ An', Amos, I reckon, 0o langusgs can pictar the Wiy that he felts Heo looked kind o'orry an’ ‘amble, like one jest begine nin’ to mell An’ whep, In a few moments after, we §inad in 3 scae won o’ prayer, He silentlycams round the counter an' nofselessly Tho s el faebed_ their pla e men d their playln’, an’ drinkin,?* e e d by thawall, . T ! An" over their rongh-lookin’ faces tha teara ware bos ginnin’ 1o fall. ¥ S The sounds o’ the revel were over, the sir sesmed z2oT® pure £n’ serene; An’sll ou us felt in that moment i53-presics of me gels nnseen. . 3 A8 500 13 we finished our prayin’, Bill Barker 1022 Up from the floor, An’, while we stood wond'rin®an” gazia’, ho started an” opened the door, Then, takin’ & barrel o' liquior, he rolled it slong with s feet ; " H et ‘Ho knocked out its héad with s Lai_bst a0’ sriit it oub into the street. = Y A Then all on us turncd in an’ helped him to finish what he had begun 3 - o empicd bis br tie good work was done: Then, tarmin’, he said, #T'm -goin’ to close up BIF ‘business to-nigit. T'o made up my mind to be homest, T mese to 1y bard . andoright. T've ment more young men Tivin’ ht-looking bottles, uqr paused til to destruction than any man town, But I'm goin’ to put up my Abutters, und tear 10y old Yiquor sign down, I'm going to work, an’, God wiltin’, I be » respectalis. man ; Go on with'the gnod work you'rs dofia’, I'l help you a8 ‘much as I can.” s Then, when he was fhrongis with his speakin’, ve alk ‘commenced Mngin’ sgatn, An? *Nearer my God 10 Thee, neares toThee,” vas 0ur joyous refrain. An’ thinso who had been there 3.drinkin’ seemed moved by the power o’ prayer, An® sang, with the deefsnt o’ feclun’, the worils o* {hs- hesvenly air. An’, Agw,k!ymn‘h help believin’that music weat up to o riy, Tobe chanied an’ echoed in Heaven by ‘besutifud angels on high. Yrs, Amos, T've been to the meetin'; you needn’ Jook Alonbtfal por queer. That wo are a-golu o conques, I baywta donbt BOF & ear. 4 Youmsy Ligh an’ may say that wa women 878 crazy =0’ out v’ our sead: “That ye'd betier be dnruin’ our stockin's, a-sweepin’y or makin’ the beds. Bat woa goin’ right into the batile, nor will we give - up in despeir; It we snly g0 at it in earncst, there's & wonderfck power ja prager. Cricaco, March, 1874 sene J, Hull in the Fireaide Frierd. —_——————— Xcelnnd. Tho Danish Government has jout granted & very liberal charter to 3he Icelanders, who have Tong been clamorng for slmost catize sepaia 00 from the old couniry. The charter ia t0 g 1235 oporation o tho 1st of August next, whez will be cslebrated the thousandth anniversary of the colonization of the igland. In all masiers O Snerning tho island particularly, and not o Tonging to the Imperial Legislatare, Toelans mit s own. legislation sud Administraticn. The national representation is the Althing, con- sisting of thirty mexthers elected by popular EfTrage on a very Liberzl franchise ailaptod to tho wants of the country, and six nominated by tbo King. A minister for lceland, nom: ated b; tho Ring and responsible to the Alt Head of the Administration. The mlupendeu of the tribunals, freedom of individusls, iiberty of fzith and of fhe press, of public meezing sl equality of ritizens bLefore ths Jas, are all gharanteed, The Crown Princo of Deama:k Fill propably visit the island during the millea- pial feativitics. SRR P A Grand Cathedrad. A correspondent_wntiug from tiie City of Mexico, says: ‘I caunct pretsud o give & Jescription of tho cathedral. 1 never aw oo much gold ard gilver used as ornamer:s in the intericr of & buildibg 1n il my life—solid silver columus, ten or twelve feet high, suppori- ing golden candlesticks, surronnded every aitars bronze ralirgs protect the precious decorations from the cupidity of the dcroas werehipard. In every recaes was o2 sliar, at 5omO. of which dasing juy visit, ladias, gorgeously sttired. weo knealing on the bare flour besida the fliny Indian aying mass, sad each aiize dropping T It lwor Hitls, a tho caso might be— into tho goldou box which the priess deld out. Paintings oo the walls, gold trsppings aronud the P eorcs, and buroished #old snd silver in g-oat maeses bebind the oriccinal aitar, the inzerior 0ne scens of splendor. forthsoming number of QuP ka