Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 19, 1874, Page 10

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUN AY, APRIL 19, 1R74, 19 ‘GuR IRISH. Something of the History and Habits of Their Fore- fathers, Trials and Tribulations of the Irish in Treland. Penal Laws, Abortive Rebellions, Famine, and Ignorarce. Tow the Ancient Clans Degen- cerated into Factions. Irish Colonization in the Early Days of Chicago. The “Corkonians,” the Kerrymen, and the Far * Downs.” fow They Fought, Broke Heads, and Carricd Elections, Charley O'Malley's Descent from Gran- vaweal---John Comiskey’s Di- vine Origin. Redections on the Past and An- ticipations of the Future. The Eifect of Education. *The Irish” have always been & proliflo theme for writers, historical and otherwise. The term applicd to natives of the western outpost of Europe does not sound badly to tho ear and Jooks neatly in print. Ireland isa preity name in all langnages, and friends aud foes havo eulo- gized tho beauties of the littlo islend itself. It Las been the theme of song and story, of prayer and of exceration, of horror and wonder, for many & ccutury. A Scotch chronicler has written that, for 2 smail speck of lsad, Ircland bag MADE A TERRIBLE NOISE in the world,during tho last 560 years especially. Ono day it was the stormy wrath of her headlong clans wreaking vemgeanco ome upon the other, while a common foo stepped in to devour tlie fate-led wranglers. The next it was &l Ire- land in open insurrection agaivst the powor and prido of England—the martial Celis—driving their proud oppressors to the last extremity in the field and, 18 usual, losing thoir supremncy when they Liad to encounter the subtls diploma- cyof the English statcsmen ; again it was the heart-rending wail of famine, ringing with fano- real melody, like wind whistling through a sep- ‘uichre, thronghout the island; then it was the heroic fidelity of the hapless race to the ungrate- ful Stunrts—then the monstrons iniquity, ber- barous ignorance, and midnight blacknoss of the pevel times, irradisted for o moment by tho «quickly clonded sun of 1752—anon the gallantbut futile rebellion of 1793, followed by the crushing “Guion”; then the mighty voico of DANIEL 0'CONNELL, “ full of pound and fary.” indend. hnt with na forked lightning bebind the human thunder- cloud of millions gathered at his beck; then the most dreadful wholesale starvation of mod- eru times, uuredeemed by a single deed of duriug on the part of the wreiched people, dragooned by “law,” and cowed by a despotic priesthood ; then the rocket-liko glare of “*YOUNG IRELAND,” blazing for a moment amid ke clonds on the mountaic-tops, and sinkiug forever from Ire- fand's sight in the convict eettlements amid the Soutlern eeas ; then tho greatest national ex- odus thet Las flooded tho carth since * through parted sea and desert waste ™ tho pilgrim of Sinai led the tribes of Isrnel from bondage to froe- doxm ; or since, Tetiring before tho Baltic floods, the barbarians of the North made havoc of =nt civilization ; and, lastly, the establish- west on thus Continent of millions of & race riellr endowed by nature with virtaes and vices, the former of which wers repressed by tho conqueror’s hnad, and the latter of which veic developed by the same_conqueror's vicious stem of State-craft, 2s undeniabiy displayed 1n overy dealing of baughty England with ber un- ate noighbo.. . “Uhis general introdnctior is necessary to show what Lind of ordeal the masses of the Irish beople resideut in America had to endure, ns a Prenarat, chool for their settlement in a free coeniry. They hnd had no national existence, o any tangible form, for many a generation ; ther weromado ignorant by statute, clannish by truditivn, bigoted by perecention, and obstinato by nature. 'Thus, filled with combustible mats- Tii, morally coueidered, thoy—for the most part, survivors of AN UNPARALLELED NATIONAL CATASTROPHE— 3 feast of ghouls amid the boasted light of English civilization — flad by mjTiads fiom the shores of their wretched country— poured recklesely into the eweltering holds of the emigrant ships—whoso pathway along the deep was tracked with human bones Iying on the bozom of the sub-marine world—in tho tat- tered raiment upon which the English fotter still loudly clanked. debarked upon our Eastern sea- board, und for the first time stood upon earth wiuch, though alien to them, was more friendly than from which they sprung. It i uot, however, to be taken for grantod that all toe Irizh emigrants of tho dreadfal famine years uuswered the descripiion spplied to the great mass. A VERY LARGE MINORITY left Ireland more becauee they feared what WS to come than beeause they saffered from what bad alresdy befalien tho land. This por- tion of the emigrants bore to America respoceability, in many csses culture, lib- erality of ‘sentiment, an appreciation of the blessings of & free governmeut, and loyalty to their adopted couniry which was only second 10 their hatred of English laws and English ol r o exercised in Ireland. This clement, ik the numerous Irish arrivala provious to the Hmmoth exodus of 1345-6 and*7, was tho ro- ceming alloy in the noody multitude which the !c‘-mel Policy of Lord John Ruscell's Government ompelled to geek refuge beneath our protecting 105 ot that theso sume starving massen were, m;r; arxvn,m ‘1‘53‘:"5"""" and savege,—although {0 Tatterm s lhnfifi‘:o the former and were A TNHAPPY crn : ‘which surronnded thege- sy 2ha 3 them—their wild aspeet, - f»‘é‘.f,%(’ess ""‘,f.?,‘i' miserablo pomrfy g Lon mmizmmhmd" them ~ appear 2 4 and Vaodals to the hhnifll:svl aye::[ tho .’(‘.‘::2: icazs in whoeo veins rup. jpo i Turitans—n class of gentlemen yrg ot oGl d 55 much a8 auy other evction o Toisiig e sl to bring about, in the days of Cromwell, tzu?a eplorable rosull 1o tao Tisk rao, o ey hin but agreeable visitation t ioAn e o the Americag ELL bas well enid, the Angia-Sasen of as well enid, the Anglo-Saxon of Ameries, - BoL o tho fitet to throw s stone at thess el tunate Celts, for, remembering what ol Auglo-Saxons had done in Irclsnd, by thoir prejudico and blood-thirstiness, they nhonld bow. Lheir heads in the dust when they eir this tern. blo effect of ancestrsl crime.” So, consider- ivg tlus, slthough astonished, the Americans, with considerable shyness ab finst, began to i encourage these poor but muscular Irish, ang the Celt in tho Americin body politic, as i» the ~Ametican matenal world, becamo a mighty -act, eme s ... _YOUNG CHICAGO— ta™tliotrand miles removed from the swarmin; Atlagtio " sesboard—heard of these peacefal, ough somewhat grotesque, invaders with rathes feint inferest.” Ble judzed that many years must elapse before these wild Celts conld reach Yier froniiers, Bs common report said they had no money, sod the railroa!fiaul those days wero neither numerous mor extonded between the ocean nud the Great Lakes. - But prime- val Chicago miscalculated. Her estimate of Irieh hardihood must have becn low, for the Cclt, given a fair fleld and o clear road, cen make time and conquor tpace with the marvelous colenty of Roman le- Rionaries. Tho ring of their pick-axes snd tho craeh of their pledges were eoon heard along‘the baaks of the Susqachanna and through the Mo- Liowk and Geneace Valleye. Thoy moved, AN ARMNY OF LANOR, o 8 along the Central and Erie Railronds, working Jike Spartans, singing, whils thoy marchod nlong the lines, like tho Gullic legions—their ancient yindred—iwho followed the first and grestest Camsar, their conqueror and their friond, into Italy, and, somotimes, after tho fashion of their fiery, clonnish blood, fighting like dovils for an idea, a boundary line of a county, a wild neme,’ & favorito leader, amusoment, anything for excitement—the only heaven of the true-born Celt. So tho woods whersin the Iroquois and the Delawares, o contury before, had battled for Braddock, and for Wolfe, and for Monteslm and DuQuesne, wero reddencd with blood—brought from beyond tho soa by & raco of men who came nearer to the aboriginals in their factious spirit and innate ferocity thau any other tribe which sprung from Europe’s lofty cradle amid the Caucasiap hills, The war- whoops of the red savage gave place to the FEROCIOUS BATTLE-SHOUTS of the “Far-Ups” orthe *‘ Far-Downs,"—the former, in Irish parlance, meaning the South of Ireland, or Xfunster, and the other the North of the island, or Ulster; of *‘ Counaught-man ™ and * Corkonian,” or, flercest and blood- iest of them the wild _slogan, “savage and shrill,” of “the roaring 'I‘xpfs,"— moaning natives of Tipporary_County. These absurd contests, which the Roman Catholio clorgy nobly, and finslly with succoss, labored to destroy, epread consternation amid the quiot Amarican hamlets situated slong the railroads and canals, where the factionsts had averythiog in their own hands, and, for the firaz timo, th Irich name began to sound odious in the Ameri- can ear. Worse than poverty, worse than squalor, was this most inrane display of bratepas- sion exbibited by & paople who carciad with thom into the light of liberty a factious spirit that would have disgraced the moat savage tribes of Tartary. . WIIY WAS ALL TIIS? The matter is simply inosplicable to those who ~Lave mot studied JIrish his- tory, and tho limits of this mticlo will not permit of s long dissertation on the subject. The system of clanship, com- mon- alike to tho sncient Gauls, the Bolgm, the Cymry, the Scotch, and the Britons—ail kindred tribes,—had lot its mark, after thoe lapse of countless gencrations, upon the natives of {hat country most thoroughly Celtic of eny in Europe, and most consorvative in rogard to its ancient traditions. With the Irish, from time immemorial, *Clan” and * Chicf"” have meant more than Couutry and Cauge,—a fact that ex- plains their otherwise incomprehensible political misfortunes. ‘In his eloquent * Hutory of France,” the lste M. Michelet defines clanship aa boing an attachment to an individual rather than to & principle. The Irish have never united for any object, unless undor Hugh O'Neill and Daniel 0’Connell, eimply bacause their STRONG LOCAL PREJUDICES ‘blinded them to tho goneral good,—a disposition which the acute English were just tho persons to avail themselves of in tho task of subjugating all Ireland to their yoke. Moore bas said of thie pirit: ** While our tyrants joined in hate we never joined in love,” and the talented Thomas Davis, an Irish Protestant patriot of O'Counell’s time, in his song of * Native Swords,” thus forcibly expressed Lis ideas on the subject of Irish factiousness : ‘Lika rivers which, o'er valloss rich, ‘Bring ruin in their water, Nativo land native hand Fiung foreign fraud and slaughter : Frow Dermod’s crims to Tador's time Our clans were our pordition, Religiou's name eince then beeame Our pretext for division. Che gifted Dr. Drenoan, who was the poet of the United Irishmen of 1793, in his * Wake of Wulliam Orr,” kas this to aay on the matter : Hapless cation] hapless lsnd | Heep of nncementing sand— Crumnbled by a forelgn wedght, Aud, Ly worse—domestic hinto | Thus it will bo seen that this business of Irish factions 18 by no means modern, aud, having so far generalized upon the sebject, it is Dow timo to cousider the question in its local aspoct, as developed I crIcAGO. The tide of Irish emigration flowed steadily vestward, aloug the iron tracks of progress,— s pucrinalbes e Pl up i, thvu hands, and thess Ireland prolincally furnished. The asdvanco-guard of tho mnew cru- saders entered Chicago some time aficr the commencement of the Mhnois & Michi- gan Canal,—that much-botched water-and-mud thoronghfaro. Gangs of Irish laborers swarmed a¢ this work, and st all the pablio works enbso- quently started. Irish sailors manued most of the lake vessels; Trish peddlers marched through tho country, pack on back, with sturdy step, shillelah in hend, and makiog the welkin ring with strango burets of Trish song; Irish farmera Degan to sottle on the borders of the city; Irish squatters commencod thio orection of innumor- ablo shanties, locating chiefly along tho main and north braaches of the river. in the territory now comprised in tho Eightcenth Ward. Pouring in the trainof the hardy laborers came the camp- followers, thew WIVES AND CHILDREN— the former in red petticoats aud ‘calico *‘wrap- re,” just es they triupod m tue Connewarn caths or on the broad moora of Muskerry; tho children, wild and noisy, afier the fasiion” of all juveniles, particularly of the youthful Cett, 1m whom native mischief is early displayed, THE MEX of tho race were chiefly stout, short, and strong, with brown Liair, clean-shaved faces and stecl-gray eyes. They wore soft felt hats aua bawneens—. white jackets of undyed wool—and strong boots, fit for” rough usage. The women had chiefly black baur, tho color of crow's wing, and blue eyes—a Celtic peculiarity. They were not hand. gome, 88 o rule, but they bad honest faces and virtne was their only jewol. These poople were fresh, as they cams from the old sod, and had ' not yot, after the impressionable Irish fashion, become impregnated with suy of the corruption of the ontside world. Whisky was not oxtensivoly patronized, for Father Mathes's magic voica was still in their ears, and U the pledge,” taken at home, hold them fast. Most of these early settlors came from the West- ern proviceo of Ireland,— CONNATGHT,— alocality into which most of tho broken Irich clans of the other provioces were driven by Cromwell, by Willm, and the other philanthro- nists, who, in tho name of England and of civi- ization, committed wholesale robbery, rape, and murder in times gono by. Consequently, theso wore tho _primitivo Colts,—bardy, daring, fac- tious, loving, fiery, jealons, pious to superstition, and suspicions to the vergo of insanity, - The Con. naughit peoplo had thinga as they listod for many years; worked industriously for a living, and continued, after the Irisi fashion, families of healthy children. . But soon other emigrantsbegan to show them- selves—Irish, oo, for the Germans and Scaudi- navians bad not yet learned that there was too little room for them in their respoctive father- Jauds, The other Irish—the new arrvals—were chiefly from the to raise large % MUNSTER counties—from Cork, Limerick, Clare, and Tip- perary. Their ranks were spoedily swelled Ey fresh arrivals. They *squatted” and formod a settlement, 80 that two diatinct camps wera fonuded,—one the *Connaught Rapgers,” and tho other koown ag ** Limerick and ork,” and Sometimes as the *' Far-up™ settlement. Things went quictly enough for a while, and, doubtless, would g0 bave coutinued, had nob some of the warriors chosen to indulge in the futal fire-water, when, meeting in gangs at the public worke, quarrels wero quickly provoked, and somo of the disgraceful scencs™ enscted in other portions of the Gnited States bscame fro- quentin the vicinity of Chicago. To such a height did this ) BIDICULOTS BPIRIT OF CLANSHIP rise at one period that men who did not come {from tho same parish in Ireland felt estranged from each other. When one person introdnced another to a member of the Clan, in order to x‘ng_uhx;:bn warm {walco‘me,d be generally eaid: 7 0y camo from the door fernin: si!fl) me nthhlgmef' # (oppo- somothing outrageous was done by an Irish- man from the Waost, the “ Corkonian " wonld ex- claim, “What better could you expect from a Connnught-msn!” 'In a tow, the AMunsier couuties, if opposed to Connaught cohorts, gen- erally suvported each other, ania favorite rally- o cry used to be, ““Howld ver omn, Cork, 0177 is comia’ to holp ye!” The PEOPLE FRO THE NORTI of Treland, known as * Fardowners," generally adjoclived by & eanguinary word, weto in ton emall & minority to cut mach of & 4 very K;‘.iscxedxubls tnmsacliong. Ve Gok e care, hiowever, to avoid the rival especially aftor dark, and werg Casetut te s guise, 85 best they might, their Ulster accent. The snmé may be 8aid of the very few Leinster emigrazts. = " 4nd all this faction arose between a people who came from an_island in the Atlantio which Lias a total arca of 32,000 square miles | ONE CAUSE of the absurd disesso was that the Irish peoplo, in the days whereof this articlo chiefly treats, weio, at home, a8 much strangers to each other—coun~ ties and provinces—as though they swere 5o many isolated sattlemonts of barbarianyin the wilds of Asin. They traveled very little, were, ag before remaried, kept in profound ignorance, bad no national policy since 1793, until O'Counell aroso and sllowed Lis revolutionary opportunity, in 1843, to pass bloodlessly away; and, to crown all, confused tradition pleced ‘county against county, as, in other days, the savage ambition of the cniefs placod clan against clan. It is impossible for any person who sees the Irish poeople at home aud in America, as they up~ pear to-day,—after a singlo gencration of decent treatment and comparative education,—to realize the ead sceney in which many of them figured fivo-and-twenty yoars ago. TO-DAY, faction is quelled in Ircland,—it is dead in the UnitedStates, The Irish people, their eyes opou- ed wide by oxperience nnd enlightenment, have caught the broad national principie, and look upon the factions of thoe past, for the most part, with borror and disgust. Two sgencies have been at work in bringing about this result,—the Roman Catholic Chureh, for the seke of religion, 2nd the Fenian Brothorhood, for tho srke of the Irish name and the salvation of the Irish nation. Those DESPISCD FENTANS, with all their errors end failures, and even fac- tions, tanght the Irish people how fatal the old systom of clauxhip was. Tho Fenions fought among themselves, it i truc, but they difforod on policy, not on counties or on parishea—n vers materisl ‘diffcronce indocd. It is a fact thal since tho establishment of Fenianism in Irelan and in tho United States, faction fights between Irishmen from different soctions of the old country have been almost unkuown. For thia much—if for nothing more—leé the Fonians be swarded thanks. TIIE WORST EVIL . that wes fo befall the Insh people of Chicago waa when the politicians began to move amongst thom. Those were ““rod-hot " Demoeratic duys —tho Whigs woro then acting as precursors to the Freo-Soilers and the Abolitionists, while the Republican party was being suckled at the na- tion's breast. Tho principles cnunciated by Andrew Jackeon were used to capturo the Irish, who, a8 in other parts of Americs, were led into diametrical opposition to tho party. that was over in favor of curbing or exterminating slav- ery. Hers was ANOTHER IRISIT IDIOBYNCRASY taken advantage of, Nathless the Abolitionism of O'Connell, the Democratic politicians made ¢ the nager ™ au object of fierce detestation in the eyes of the Irish. The white slaves of Europo lent themselves—more, to do thom justice, from an error of the head than of the heart—to fasten the fetters upon the black slaves of America, Thig is the worst record the Irish ever made. Only for tho gallant Irish blood that flowed so froely at Missionary Ridge at Antietam, ond at Fredericksburg, for tho old flag and the froedom of the slave, overy decent Irish-American would blush to-dey for the polit- ical errors of the past. The Irigh of Chicago grew very POWERFUL AT THE POLLS sbont the year 1847, whon James Cortiss was elected Mayor of the city. They had signalized thomselves on former occasions by taling pos- session of the polling-places and knocking down voters who bappened to Topresont the Whiggish interest; but, on the occasion of Mr. Curtiss’ election, they were in high clover, and, besides the Msyor, elocted 18 out of 18 Aldormen on the straight Domocratic tickot. Tho wards, at that timo, were nine in number, and ran somewhat as follows : SOUTH SIDE, Tirst Ward~From tho middlo of State street to the river andlake andto the southern city- Limits. Becond Ward—From State to Clark stroets and southward to the limita. Third Ward—From river_to limits, bounded enst and west by Clark and Wells streets. Fourth Ward—The balancs of the South Side, Iying between tho main river, the south branch and the city limita. WEST SIDE. Fufth Ward—Exstocding from Randolph streot to_the pumping worke. Sixth Ward—Comprehending eversthing north of Randolph atreet to the city limits, NORTH BIDE. Seventh Ward—From tho river to the city limits, bounded on tuo east by North Wells street. Eighth Ward—This ran eastward from North Wells to North State streot. Ninth Ward—Comprising the balance of the Northorn Division from Biate nuroob tu tho IaEe. ‘Tho Seventh was TUE OREAT TRISR WARD down to the year 1357, whea the Germans bogan to make their presence marifest. Ii used to be known ns *the bloody Seventh,” and never filed to return the Democratic’ candidate or candidates for Aldermanic honors. John Dempgoy, O. Sloan, Georgo Brads, Ezra Taylor, J. L. Hove, sud othors of that ilk, used to repro- sent it in the Council. The municipal contests were geuerully very sovers, and it used to bo up and down “between the Whiss and the Democrats from 1845 to 1853, In these con- tests the Irish, of all factions, fought tho Whig and Abolition candidates most bitterly, and held the balance of political power in their haods until the era of the Germanic invasion, some fow vears boforo the War. Bometimes, however, the fight would be made in the Seventh on the old issuc of counties, on which occasions the gontleman bailing from Connanght was al- most certain of victory. The Irish also began to grow powerful in somo other wards, but, beforo they could make any great improssion outalde their pecaliar tor- ritory, tho Teutonic legions occupied their ground, and Germauic nawes became frequent among the Aldermen. In the year 1854 THE KNOW-NOTHING FEVER Legan to make headway in the Nortbwest. In that vear Teaac L. Milliken was elected Mayor on the Free Soil ticket, and the Democrats were re- duced to a miserable minority in the Council, The year following: Mr. Lovi D. Boono was elected Mayor on Know-Nothing principles, nad with him tho followiog Alderman, who ndor ted bis platform:. Sylvestor Soxton, First Ward: T. Allen, Second (£w0 vears); R.' M, Hough, Soo- ond (one yenr); Lorenzo Fletelior, Third; Will- iam Colby, Fourth; C. N. Holden, Fifth: A. C, Ellitborpe, Sixth. The following Democrats wero oleotod: J. T.. Hove, Seventh; Samuel Ashton, Eighth; and Samuel McRay, Ninth. Under this edministration oceurred the cole- brated ‘“BLER RIOTS,” in which Col. Shirley and ofd “ Capt. Nigk wero respectivoly cast in the parts of Ajax and Achilles. Tho Germans wero worsted, aud, as on 5 recent occasion, the other foreigocrs, 03po- cially the Irish, sympathizod with them. A half coalition was formed, and, Enow-Nothingism being on the way to its tomb, the resstion was felt in 1856, whor the Democrats by one fell swoop laid out the Free-Soilors and clected Thomas Dyer, Mayor, with a majority in the Common Council, The Irish “did most of the hird work fn this contest. They kept the polts from morning uatil night, broke whutever hoads it was thoughit advieable to fracture, patronized the Germans and bullied the natives, until, in point of fact, Chieago was, for tho timo being, in full posses: sion of the Irish clans, who wero nothing loth to make profitablo uge of their victory. s[n that movement all of them uuited. Charley O'AMalley shook hands with Owon McCarthy, sud Joha Dempsey with both of them. 3unsterand Con- naught drank confusion to their epemies, and Deuny Conghlin, a very important chioftain, witl tears io Lis eyes, declared that it wns a preat day for Ireland. John Prendergast was in the wildest ecstacior, and Owen Doherty was fairly in & way to jump out of is clothing with delight. Bat thero must be s climax to eversthing, and EO there was to Irish power in Chicago. 1 hen, 28 NOW, thero wero TOWX OFFICES AND TOWN ELECTIONS. There were many ambitious mon—all of whom thought that thoy deserved well of their country. Thcre were but few town ofiices, bat there wa3 3 gurplus of candidstes therefor. Tho Sonth and West Divisions were in the hands of the Americans, but tho North Side belonged to tho Irish race, whose dominions wera bounded by the river, by North Wells street and Chicago aveoue, with some pionesr settlements on o (A}::O” Islnm‘t;; " bition enkindled the fires of factior let slip the doge of war. Pl OWEY M'CARTRY, THE NUNSTER CHIE, whoao ancestor was the McCarthy Moro of Des- mond, was the recognized leader of the Corkon nian element. He had many faithful henchmen, n?dnwnsa lcknuc‘\'ledgedhto be a good General or election day. Connaught brought to th the redoubtable % i fon h bor CHABLES O'warLEs, who was bor on n rocx, off Achill Island, the coast of Mayo. This bero, whose kuow]cd?vg of Iaw i oaly excalled by his refined accont, sud his wonderful knowledge of English gracimar and the rules of rhetoric, is lineally descandad from Granus Weal, or Grace O"Malloy—tho fa- mous she-pirate of thio Teign_of Elizaboth, whe kept hor galleys always in motion afonag the Connemars coast, t6 the terror of all the marinars. Grace was the Irish Cleopatra, and dig not die without finding her Autony. ‘She way adored by one of the DeBurgo family. She con- sentod o mako him happy, and bote to him s son on ship-board, who was christened Theobald Na-Lung, or * Thoobald of the Ships.” Ho left descendants, who preferred tho good old Milesian name of O'Malley to the Norman patronymic of Burke. 8o our Charley came honorably by his romnantic name, and inherited much of the ro- mance which distinguished his famed female ‘progenitor. Charley, st the period alluded to, was up for Justico of the Peace. ‘“Tho Corlf- onians” shouted for McCarthy or McCarthy's man—they dido’t care much which—it wasall tho same for the honor of Munster. Thero wero other gifts in the hands of the poople, but, in thoso days, O'Malloy was the bright particnlar star of the Irish firmament. Ie was supported by the O'Doberty, the ('Dempsoy, snd tho Preandorgast, all of whom had at their back hardy Connagght clane. THE DAY OF CONTEST = came, and pover didamorn stormy political battle burst upon Chieago. The worst passions of both partics wera aronsed to the utmost, 2ad the voting was the mout industrious and inex- plicablo ever koown—even at a town- election. The amount of whisky consumed on the occasion can hardly over bo estimated— evon wore it worth whilo fo makesn estimate,— and the number of bro%en heads patclied up by tho doctors showed that the combatants had not confined themselves to stuffed ballot-boxea or moral suasion—wet or dry. It wasa day of terror, but, when tho sun went down, Connaught was overwholmiogly victorious, snd Charloy O’Malley, John 8. Eflinn andall thatfaction wero placed ina position to squeeze the public pocket according to their ovn promptings, or thoso of _their friends. The Munster men wero driven clean out of the foid, aud fection completely divided 8 the Irish political strength of the city. history ropeated itself. Divided as thoy wero, the Irish remained obstinato Democrats, while the Germans, swayed by Hesing and other leadors, desorted the sinking ship of Democracy, became Free-Soilers; fairly out-generaled the Irigh in the elections of 1857, *58, and the thres succooding years, until Irank Shorman iwas elected Mayor, and established themselves, dur- ing the War, as the firm friends of the partyin power. O'MALLEY'S. MISFORTUNES, Mosnwhilo, Charles, O'Malley =znd many of his friouds distinguished themselves by acts in office which are generally known under the term * malfeasance.” They were arrested; tried, and Mr, O’Malley, with others more ob- soure, suffered six months' incarceration in the Houso of Correction. This misfortune terminated his influence in %ohtic!. Prende: t and Dompseydied. Owon ohorty flourished for a little while, end John 8. Quinn was heard of for & season, but, with the sceession of LONG JORN WENTWORTH o power, in 1857, Irish influence on the North Bide went down forever. His ‘‘special con- stables,” exaggeratively numbered up to sev- eral thousand stroog, wlule there were, in reality, only a few hundred of thom. ovorawed the polls. Ho carried things with » high hand, put & veto on head- emashingduring election, pulled and burned down “the Sands "—an {nfamous locality—and mado ahamo in the history of Chicago such a3 stern rulers lways make—a name of terror to evil doers. Mr. Wentworth's reign astonisned the city and nipped ovil in & largo-nzed bud. In 1859 THE JESUITS commenced buildiog their church on West Trwolfth street, for, already, a larzs Irieh coloay had sprung up in tho sections which now com- prise the Eighth and Ninth Wards. The German aud Scandinavian inflax—omizrants enterprising sud thrifty, who bought up house-lots with their enrnings—drove the poorer classes of the Irish, especinlly thosquatters, before it, and compelled them to seek quarters in other parts of the city. 1t is A NOTABLE FACT that the Irish and Germans, while they may coalesco for s political ‘object, rarely or never mingle sncl:llg. Tho customs, sentiments, aod manners of the two peoples aro_easontially au- tipathetic. The thrifty German located in ono epos and remainod while the heedless Irishman moyed from place‘to' place. But. in our davs, turift is also becoming an Irich charaeteristic, and the number of Irish owners 1n all parts of tho city is quite formidable. - The migration to the West Side continned un- abated during the earlier days of the War, and, 28 usuulgohficll ambition was daveloped with numerical strongth. 1t was then that JOIN COMISKEY arose in hisyoung vigor to display his ekill as a wire-puller aud his power as &leading Democrat. At that period he literally dazzled the Occi- dootal Irish, for ho had plenty of cheek snd voice enough for an suctiouesr on a windy dsy. Mr. Cominkey suffered in his pame. It did not sound Irish, but smacked strongly of Poland, It was vory strauge. Nobody ap- pears to know which part of Ireland Mr. Comiskey honors with hia claim of birthright. Tradition says that ke came from the neighbor- hood of the Giant’s Causeway. and that his fam- ily was of diviue origin. Here ig tha story: TIE GOD COMTS, v Thaving an attack of the blues, to which he was Dot often subject, thought that he would tako a run over to Ireland and gee the giants at work upon their bridge, for the Causeway is ouly the abutment of tlo structure wherewith they in— touded- to conncct Ireland and Scotland. The protty littlo daughter of ome of the giants came at noontime with her father's - dinner, and Comus fell in lose with, wooed, and won her. They wore married by & Druid prisst—the Druids, by the way, tanght immortality of the soul to their iuuph»— and Comus was happy for an entire week, living in an ocean cave aud feeding on crabs and ber- rings. Whon tho weok was up, Jupiter got im- patient that his jester ahould be so long Absent, and rang his bell by hurling n thundarbole that shook all the spheros. This startled Comus, who kuew that his master should be angry and that he might not again return to his love on the carth. * Howevor, when you die, my adored one,” eaid he, “ your soul will go to "heaven. As ‘o token of my deep love I loave you this key to THE CELESTIAL BACK-DOOR, which you may enter unobcerved and I shall en- fold you to my breast ! " The poor girl fainted, and, while in that state, tho god left her, having first left bis name, written in old Gaelic charac- ters. Time ‘passod and the fi:mt‘s daughsor boro a son, who was_chrietoned, in momory of his fathor and his present, ** Comuskey,” which modern depravity and, no doubt, *the Saxon,” corrupted into Comiskey. Atall ovents the family flourished, after the mother went to heaven, and John, the prescut rcpresentative of the raco, Lias tho true Comns mouth, anican langh from eur to ear when he wills it. Ho had god- like energy about him, too, and flounced every- thing in theold Tenth Ward fors number of years. Afterwards ho represented the now Seventh and Eighth Wards, aud, finally, under the new organ- ization of tho city Into twenty wards, attninod in 1869-70 the dignity of President of tne Council. Bince that time he has dropped out of sight, like many other Irish “leaders; for tho Irish are notoriouslv fickle, and sometimes, withoat proper cause, drop s man *like s hot pota- to.” Comiskey made a hazv war . rocord , some peoplo called Lim a ** War-Democrat,” but 8 majorlty preferrod the stingiug epithet— cop- perhead,” With him have also sunk into comparative ob- livion ‘“Dave” Walsh, ** Pat ™ Rafferty, * Red Sheridan, and other local chiefs, famous around Blue Island avenuo and its divera arterios. = THL OLD-TINE SPIRIT of faction has almost entirely died away in this city, and men aro now judged by the Irish mora on their record than'on their sectionalism. A “cheeky” fellow may lead the Irish once of twico, bub, if ho i3 & gomnine irand, Do people discover the - secrot sooner. Men who make & ‘‘splurge” can deccive thom for a brief time, but woe to tho * light-waight,” when tho day of discovery comes. Ona by one they have dropped their old *“leaders.” McCarthy, 0'Malloy, Quinn, Doherts, Dempsay, Comiskey, Onahan, ' Rafferty, snd Walsh, have played thar little hour upon the stage, and have disappearcd, simply because they have. expended thomselved. Oua- hanand Comiskey hava ome hopes still, but {“ their dresm of prido is o'er,” 8o far A8 can now" be seen. Bome of the othors mentioned are gone tosaplace whoro thers are no electione, and somo ore politically dead. A fow _ PALTRY ALDERMEN lead the West Side Irish now. The two Baileys, Jim O'Brien, and Senators McGrath and Kehoo are * the gaiding lights " of to-day. A few years will find most of these in abhrion,y{or ihey}lmva already abont put in their work, Tue Gorman coalition brought to the surfacs more promineutly Dan O'Hara, Austin Dogls, aud a few others of that school, but that will fall to Ppicces too. Decomposition 1s setting in already, Ine Irish who have settled in the Sixth Ward stand by Mark Sheridan, but his defeat for the Chief-Marshalship on Si. Pstrick's Day. goes to show that, outside of his own district, Mark, althougha man of fair ability sud not an 1gno” Famus, is not 60 popular as ho might be. And, upon the pohuui Lenzon, there appears to be NO LPADER ply the place of these political invalids— opo: battalion of the halt and blind, who thi::. led the Irish, “on and off,” forso long a to su this EPTECT OF EDGCATION. “The schoolmagter is abroad,” said Lord -very shortly be offered to tho public. “the July number of the {dantic. -though not particalarly to tho lato movemen ‘Brougham, ina speech deliversd in the year 15235‘u& preceding Catnolic cmancipation. He uvod tho phraso in a prophetio seuso, and that prophecy Las borne rich fruif, es- pecislly among the Irish ]{\mpl_g in Ire- Jand and elsewhero. The schooimaster Lies been abroad, and, moro potent than all the mis- slonaries from St, Columbkilie and St. Patrick ta Father Mathew and Friar Burke, has_given the Irish people knowledge, and, with it, self-re- spect. Half n-generation will not pass over until the Ineh element in America shall have cast geide every unworthy prejudice and risea to an eminence in this Ropublic which their best fricnds could not have hoped for thowm a quaster of a century since. The Irisn havo, with advancing education, grown, 88 a rule, so- bor and thrifty, ond are daily becom- ing more Americanized. It is no fault of the political hucksters, who have been buving and welling them, that thoy have not. boen ruined politically and socially. - Only the inberent vigor of tho psopls saved them from utter demoralization. They aro not all cured yet, but around this city and throughout this Btate we seo them daily advancing in wealth, re- finemont, and worth, Tho crimos and errors of the past should be their buoys amid the hidden Tocks of the future. Faction aud bigotry should belong ozly to savage tribes, and civilized beings should scorn to follow a man who represents no principle, and who Lias none within himself. ‘When the Irish have fully recognized thnt THE NOULEST DUTY OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN ia o unito nll interests for the welfare of the United S:ates, which_is the home of all. ereeds and nations, the words of one of their best poots will have been futfilled : “ L And o, it i8 o gallant dced To show before mankind How every race and every creed May be, by love, combined ; ay be combined, sat not forget Tha fountains whence they rose, As, filled by many a rivalet, The stately Shannon flows, LITERARY NOTES. Harper's Magazing for May (Harper & Bros., New York) concludes the forty-eighth volume of that periodical. .*“My Mother. and I,” by Mrs. Craik, and “The Living Link,” by Prof. De Millo, are continued ; *Ilkley,"” by Moncure D. Conway,—giving rominiscences of Robert Coll- yér's“oarly days,—is concluded. Othor leading pepers are: “A Naturallst in- the Heart: of Africa," by Helen 8. Conant; *The Flower- Mission,” by Ellis Gray; * The Fur-Seal Millions of the Pribylon Islands,” by Henry W, Elliott; “Joha of Barneneld,” by B. H. Stoddard; and, ‘*The Skeloton in Modern Society,” by Dr. Sam- uel Osgood. Constance F. Woolson and Frank Lee_Bencdict have stories; nud there are poems by Harriet Prescott Spofford, Mary Phelps Dodge, James Maurico Thompson, aud Nelly AL Hutchinsou. The number i8 profusely illus- trated. —The Attantic Monthly for May (H. O. Hough- ton & Co., Boston) has further instailments of T. B, Aldricl’s *Prudence Palfrev,” Charles Dudley Waruer's * Baddeck ‘and That Sort of Thing.” and William ). Baker's ** 3fose Evans.” Jemes Russell Lowell has an elavon-pige poem on ““ Agassiz.” Thoroare storicaby Jane G. Ats- tin and’ Will Wallace Hervey. J.W. De Noraat wirites on *“The Cats of Antiquity; aud Thomas 8. Perry has a sketch of *‘lvan’ Turgenieff.” The minor poems are by Edgar Fawcett, Emma ;rzsu:iugzon Nason, J. T. Trowbridge, and Celia. i e ST —Thoe Galazy for May (Sheldon & Oo.,” New York,) gives continuations of * Linley Roch- by Justin McCarthy, and * Linguistic itezary Notes and Quories,” by Richard Grant Whita. ~ Among tho other articles are : ‘*The Americans in Paris,” by Albart Rhodes ; “Scandinavia,” by Clemens Petersen; * The Temporauce Crusads.” by J. Do Armas Cespedes ; etories by Theodore Gift, Kate Patnam Oagood, aud Fannio Ropsr Foadge ; and poems by How: jalmar srd Glyn: William Winter, snd Hjorth B 5 —In Lippincoits Magazine for ‘May (J. B. Lippiucott & Co., publisiers), “Tho New iTyperion,” by Edvard Strahan, i continued ; s algo are ““3lalcolm,” by George Macdouald,” ‘A Modern Cressida,” by, Francis Asbton, and *‘In a Caravan with Gerome the Painter ” i concluded. T. Adolphus Trollope writes of “‘A *Moot’ in the Campagna;” Fanny Roper Feudge on “Barning and Bursing in' the Enst;"” and R. Davey on * A Visit to Pasta.” Sarah Winter Eellogg commences' a story on ** Lifo a3 a Book-Agont ;” and_poems are far- nished by James Maurico Thompson,' Titus Manson Goan, and Jolm Bogla O'Reilly, | -~ —Other periodicals roceived: Demoresf's Monlhly for May (W. Jennings Demorest, Now York);” Noriawestirn Review for Avril (R. R. Dearden, Clicago); Medical Intestigator for April- (Chioago); African Repasitory for Aprl (American Colonization Society, Wsshington); 1Wisconsin Lumberman for April (Milwaukeo): Spectator tor April (New York and Chicago).. —Senor Castelar has just complated a novel, entitled ** The Storr of tne Heart." —James H. Osgood & Go. have made arrange- ments with Karl Baedoker by which they become tho publishers of hig Guide-Books in this coun- try; and an_cdition bearing their imprint will 'here are nine of theso volumes, devoted to those portions of Continental Europe most frequented by travelors. —A volume of poera by George Eliot is in the press, and will shortly "be issued by Afomsrs, Blackwood & Sons. —F. W. Farrar's new “* Lifo of Christ" will be brought ont 1o this country by E. P. Dutton & Co. It will contain two originalillustrations by Holman Hunt, . . ~—Prof. Proctor’s new book, “The Universe and the CominiTmnsita," will be published sim- ultaneonsly in Loodon and Philadelphia by J. B. Lippincott & Co. - —Thoe Loudon dcademy finds in Prof. Petit's “History of Mary Staart,” which is written from the Roman Catholic point of view, facta and ar- gumeonts which woll deserve consideration. —The Lippincotts are abont to briug out & his- torical account of auciont’ sud modern sects, parties, and opinions, from thoe foundation of the Christian Church to the preacnt day. —Henry Wikoff has a new book in Lippincott’s was!. ntitled “Tae Four Civilizations of the 5 el —** Men of tho Mayflower,” and other lectures, is Panshon’s now volune, to be issued by Estes & Lauriat. = . —**The Four-Loaved Clover” is the new story by “ Saxe Holm,” to appear in the June Scrib- ~—Philip Bourke Marston, the latest disciple of the Pre-Raphaslite poets, is to publish a second volume of poems, —A now biography of Poe, which is being pre- ared by John H. Ingram. is to contain letters itherto nnprinted, rebuttiag-tho attacks of his formar biographer, Dr. Rufus V. Griawold. —Prof. John Nichol, B. A., LL.D., of Glasgow TUniversity, has writton an elaborate article on American Literature for the revisod Encyclope- dia Britannica. —Mr. J. A. H. Murray had in hand for the Early Eoglish Toxt Society the *Rhymes and Prophecics of Thomas of. Freildoune, commonly called the Rbymer.” ¥ ~Editor Howells’ now story, will commence in ltistobea novel of Italy. - : ~—Victor Hugo, besides his now novel, has also finished a new drama, “ Torquomada,” but at the entreaty of his friends has put it back in his writing-es azain. It is said £o contatn even more extraordinary political and roligions para- doxos iban * Ninety-Threo,” which -is. hardiy possible, e —Evelin Jorrold writes from Paris to the Academy : **Michelat died with his work com- leted. ““fho foarth volumo of his * Histoir 6 da ix-Nouviome Siccle” ia published, and, I believe, tliero are but a fow addenda wanting to complete the work—ono of the most powerful analyses of tho Bonapartes' intlaonce in Frauce that has yet been given to tho world,” —A now edition of Adam Smith's * Wealth of Nations.” which has_been out of print for two years, i3 in pross at Puinam's. Wa are anthor- ized to contradics any rumor that the reprint is caused by a Congresaionsl demand for the work, —XNew York Mail.- i - . —The literature-of the temperance crusade. in addition to the'storics of Mr. T. 8. Arthur and the Rey. E. P. Roe, has'been enriched by an slliteratively-titled book, “The Womeu's War Whiaky, i i Mesars. D. Lathrop & Co. are to reprint the 230- guinea prize-essay, “The Temporance Roforma- tion: Ita Claims upon the Ciristian Church.” NEW “AMERICA.” . THE ESPLANADE. How to Utilize the Boauties of Lake Bichigan, The Grand Resort for Sultry Nights, Some Suggestions for Beaevolent Citizens. A Few Figures on the Cost. It Chicago has any natural beauty to boast of, it must be that it overlooks the shimmerimg, over-changing, cloud-reflecting Lake Michigan. It might atmost bo assumed, in fact, that & body of clear water is the most beantiful evidenco of Natare's handiwork. Contrasts need not bo drawn to prove this. There is nothing that un- dergoes the variety of change that ia incident to a translacent Iake. The sea is crander, but not 80 beantiful. It thrills with tho sublimity of its power, but it gives back no restfulness. 1t is a pictare of life, of turmoil, immensity, of things not uriderstood ; but looking upon a piacid lake, girt round with meadow, and forest, cultured flelds and the homes of men, we como to some- thing that the mind cen grasp and utilize eithor 48 3 pover or a sentiment. It is & thing of beauty and s joy forever. It glows in the sonshine. It sleeps in a decp slumber. - It raves in tempestuous wrath, or ripples in the moonlight, tracing upon its bosom & path of brilliant hue, that can almost be fan- cied tolead to brighter worlds beyond. These . are tho pictures incident to a lake. ADDED TO THESE ENDUBING BEAUTIES, which aro as ancient as the hills, and might have been enjoyed in the days when- the waters of Lake Michigan gently best upon the silarian beach, troflic and commerco add new charms al- most a3 pictaresquo in tho shipping sconcs that tell of industry =s well as of inanimate beanty. There i8 no prettior sight than the broad bosom of anexpsanse of water covered with a flect of ' vesgels- going and cowming, fading into the dim ‘horizon, or coming into port, aud growing larger and more lifelike 28 they approach the harbor. The little boata that hug the land, the wheezy , and cnargetic tuzs, and tiie myriad namberof sail and row boats that ply near the shore, 2lso add to the pleasaut aspect of the scene of a summer evening,and give the whole tho form of a full-toned " picture, replote with animation and beauty. This 18 the appearance that the harbor at Chicago fre- quently presents, That is to say, ths scene which may bo conjured up by the imaginative upon this slight suggestion would give one as- pect of the varying picture, Now, although Chicago is s city of trade, and does not confess to much tasto for sentiment, yot it will scarcely be denied that there is AN UTILITY IN BEAUTY of this kind which goes far towards the culture and improvement of the mind, not to speak of how great a joyitisto the heart. We Jer an involuntary homage to the lake view by holding ' residencesites uponitsaccessiblemarginat higher prices than ground elsewhero, aud of sultry nights wheo trada has laid asids her scoptre for the time being, aud we either confess to tender- er feelings, or to a disgust for close quarters, it i3 the common habut to stroll aloag the streots adjacent to the Inke, seoking not only cool air, bat quist amnsement and recreation. Thus is Lake Michigau a conservator of tho peaceful and uncbtrusive arts, and more of au astraction than auy of our parks, which have their drawbacks, our drives, which aro for tho fow, our other Elacas of resort, which aro wearisomo. In fine, ake Michizan 19 the chief attractionand beauty of this city. WHAT WE HAVE NOT. But {t is not for the purpoao of pointing out this somewhat apparent fact that it 13 now allud- edto. ILisastraugo thing that in in all our schemes to add tothonumber of breathing places about Chicago, there has been so little attention paid to this fact. and so little effort made £o mako uso of the advantages spoken of, for the beuotit of the people. 1n woaport towns, where any pratenso is made to baving a place of public rosort, it is built with an espeeial view to taking advantage of the water-sceno and the cooling breeze that blows from the vea. THE RMPLANADE OR QUAY ia the common pleasure ground. 1In Havana, for instance, it becomes at evening a sort of as- comblage place to which tho peoplo repair, sud where they moet in almost the only general s- cisbility " they have. This, of course, would "be neither necessary mor sgresuble Lere, aod it is not o bo espoced that any such startling innovation will eusus, but it would be exceedingly azreeablo; and it seems as if it would bo practicable, and compara- tively inexpensive, to have a quay or terrace, say FROX TWELFTH TO TWENTY-SECOND BTREET, running out into the Iake two or three hundred feet, and sufliciontly substantial to give & road- ‘way for carriages and a promouade ground for those on foot, that wouh? answer the purpose of a down-town ‘park or esplanade, which would be accessiblo to all, and would combire, the rarest advantages of sight-secing, comfort, aud beauty —an artificial pars overlooking the lako— & place whers the great muliitade would throng of summer mights to breatho tho fresh gir, aud to enjoy the many sconcs of besuty, and sights of interest that have beeu alluded to. Such a ra- sort would have o number of other advantages in ita favor which ecarcely appertain to any othior spot set asido for the purpose. In tho tirst place, it is contral ; it is but & step there and back. Again, it trespasses on no one's rights. It would bs an advaniags to propertyin the neighborhood, or, at all events, no detri- ment, There is nochance for a specalation in 1t. It admits of A VARIETY OF ARTIFICIAL ADORNMENT. It conld be built, for instance, high above the water, with an inner driveway, and an outer promenade, where rustic seats might be ar- ranged. In the centre would be the band. house, and, if it were desirable, the corners could ba built up as ornamental refreshment-sa- loons. A fountain could easily b constructed m | another part. Covored bathing-houses might bo attached to it, and, in fact, & number of feasi- ble projects might be thought of that woald adorn, and at the samo time pay the oxpenses of the improvement. Its chief advuntage, buwever, would be that it would give au_ esplanade or promenading ground for the public. L THE COST. Experimentally, it could bo bilt for about $25,000, on _tho following basis, which will aiso give the proportionate cost of exteasions, if iz should aftorwards b deemed advisable to cn- hrg: the area covored. The cost of building a Yalk 800 feot in longth, covering the epaco from Twenticth to Twenty-second street, runniug out into the'lake 900 feet, the walk to’ be 40 feat in width, is estimated as follows : 30,090 feet of piling, at 40¢ per foot. 100,000 foet oak, 12x13, at $40. 50,000 feet pins, 3x12, ot $20 mg;:lflflthot pine, 3 inches, abor and epiking, 4,000 feet raiing, . 21,009 I it were built in this way, the form would bs s simple purallelogram, or Hollow Equare, with rounded corners, in this shape; G cRake Do 800340 foet. 208, plor. *191d 13,00 Bhore. & Band-House; bb Elevated walks @ ¢ fonntatns, The cost of the construction beiug $21,600, would leave 23,400 for the building of the band: house, erection of fountsins, and other im- rrovem_onte, and still Lkeep the figures within he estimate of 325,000, This, however, would God bless our women pare ; Long 1a3y they liva to lura Ytrong men from sin. Then from their homes they stram, XF:;N s:mmm the way, grow thay day by day ‘Impure within, Then may our women wise In mighty strengih arise . With tongue and pen, s And make of Jome the spof s Where evil cometl not, Where love ahall cheer thelr lot, And savo the mea. 2iss, W, G, Wazazox, give no opportunity for T A BOADWAY. . To make the plan comprechensive enough to include this latter desideratum, it would be nec- essary to extend its limita longitudinally and build that part dovated to the drive more sub- stantially. This would entail a large additional expense. It would probably cost $100,009 to build it twica the length given, with 8 rozd for carriages of 40 feet in width, within thecircle of the promenade, or if found less expensive, the space could be filled in with debris, a8 in the cago of the Lake Park, and the structure be built over it. l The foregoing somewhat rude and hasty oaj- line of the improvements possibia to b thts direcion, aro riven wIth the hope asiat 2 publio bonefactor will arisa ead parpathsse Bame aad win the graiitade of an ofien gra;, beated community by tafing upon hunsels 1 build it, or if tho City Fxthers should reaily qe sire topreseat the public With 3 substndg token of their esteem, that they Ay consider the many beuefils to bo bestowed by this method. —g Y “LET US ALL BE APPY 0d SUNDAY» A Lyric for Satorday Night. ATE—Y Tie bipnis, made up of fraflclag ¢ caslots, mae ud of £2iZ el y, Tiie sous-looking children of s orrow,. * While not ovar-joliy to-day, Ticzoive fo bo wretched 10-aorrow, wt fora certalnty (ell may molest us on Mondayy But, at 0 begin the weels wall, H Let v ali o unnippy on Sandsy, That da, tho calm season of reat, Sl coma to us freezing and frigid; 4 gloom all our thoughta snall juvess Such as Calvia would call over-rigid, With sermons from morning til night, We'l atrive to be ducent snd dreary + To preaciicrs a praise and delight, Wuo ne'er think that sermons can weary. All tradesmen cry up thofr own wares; In this thes agTee well together ; The mason by stona and lizos sweirs ; Tiae tanner i9 aiways for leather; ‘Tho smujth stili for iron would go; The schovimssier stauds ap fo7 toaching; Ani the jarson woull Lave you to know Tisere's nothliy on eartis ik his preaching, The faco of Xind Natur i far; it.ons cystemn obecures 1ta & ; How swost is » brasih of fresh ‘kn{'amu ? But our rules don't allow the indalgenca, These gazdens, thelr waiks an: grean bowers, Might s frea to tho poor map' for one day; Buc 10, tha zlud plants and gay i owers Aastw’t bioom or smell sweetly «'n Sunday, What thongh a good precept wo at Till hateful and Burtfal e maaks ] What though, i thus pulling tio reis, We may draw it 0 gt an to break It Abroad w -forbid folks to roam, For fear they got social or frisky; - But of coursa they caa sit still at home, And get dizmally druuk upon whiaky, Then, though wa can’t certatnly tell How wiril: may mol=t us on Monday + At ieast, to begin the weeX well, Let us ail be unippy on Sunday. ~Blackucod’s Muyuzine, ——— HU#oR. On the contrary—riding a mule. —Lead astrey—Bullets that don’t hit the mark. —If thers is one time more than anothes- when a woman ehould be ecntirely slone, it is when a full line of clothes comes down m ths, mud.—Danbury News. R —A Detroit paper noting the fact that s may foll down dead while combiog bis b, sam: v yet thero are peoplo who will persist i that dsngerons habit 2 —A 3laiue debating cociety in now wretlng with the question : * Is a Subbath-school Supers intendent justified in wearing & red neckekis 1. Boston Transcript. @ —On Wea Praitie, near Lafayette, Tnd., i3 s Littlo hut 4 fest high, with 2 40-foot lightning. rod onit. The proprietor, bewng ssked if he was afraid of the liy] g, replied: “Not a bit; but it keeps those cussed lightning-rad fel— lers from striking.” 2 —* Don't prevaricate, eir,” thundersda Co- lumbiad Judge to ulwitness from the mire. “ Can's help it, Judge,” auswered the minsr.. ““Ever since I pot a kick from amauls that: knocked my teety out, I prevaricatea gooddeal.™ —A man named Batton died recently in Sonth- ern Berkashiro, Mass., and rwhen tha soxton start-. od out with pitk and shovel, somabody zsked him what ho was going to do. * Gomg to make a Buttonhols,” was the ot very grave reply. —Johany, walking with hi3 mother in_ the. country, the other day, Spying soms biack.. and-white spotted pi s down by tho road~ side, gravely inquired if they were coach pigs. —An Iiinoisian wroto to Horace Greoley soverat. times axking bim what was good for catarrh, and finally Horaco got out of patiouce and re- plied: * Chop your d—a head off.” 3 Nothing,” said an impatient husband, * re- minds me so much of Balaam and his ass a8 twy wonen stopping in church and_obstructing ths way to indulga in their everlasting talk.” **Bat you forget, my dear,” returnod the wife, meekly, “that 1t was tho sngel who stopped the way, and selasm and his ase who complained of it.” —An ineoriated individual precipituted hin- self_down the depot-stairs, and, on striking the Innding, reproachfully apostrophised himadr with : . * If yon'd been wanting to come down stairs, why didn't you say 80, you wooder- hesded oid fool, an’ I'd 2 come with you an’ showed you the way.” —Cabby (to stately party, who had given b his leal faro)—* Makin® yor fortune, sir, 1o Swell (oot exactly catching' the re Eh?" Cabby—You'ra a lsyin’ bya good bit o’ money, sir, I'll be bound!” Swelf (wdigoantly)—* What' d’von mean, sir?" Csb- By—* Why, yon don’t spead much, seemin'lyl"— Punch. —Diacontentad Cabby (to ladies, who, m to get rid of their small change, have te him one fourpenny picco, tw0 threepenny diko; one penny, oue belfpenny, and two farthings— the sum total amounting’ to bLis proper face): ““Well! 'ow long might vor both a’ been a saving. up for this little treat " —Funch. % —While a youthfal conplo wero being joined in wedlock “m & Justice's Court, in New York, recently, the damsel rather astonished s numbe.’ of epectators by muddenly breakmn: ont with, “1 waut to know whother We ara going fo kesp house or board, before going into this thing? The Judge ruled the queation out of order, and the coremony proceeded. oo —In dlaryuville, Cal., the other day,a New- foundland dog waliied into a market, dropped s 10-cent picce out of his mouth and w: off with a whols salmon, ‘The butcher says some folks way call that dog iutelligent, but he thinks thot a dog that can’t distinguish between a- 10-cent slice and o $5 fish hasn't got even com: mon eense. ; —Papa had made eeveral unsnccessfol ale tempts to pracuro tickets for a reccnt poptlar entertsinment at the Boston Museam. Cam::é home disapvointed one ovening, be apsonn to lus wife that thero swere no seats for s . Em'ly” that night, and he dido’s beliove thero would bo for a week, atlessi. Mamies quic sympathies wero enlisted atooce. !“Why ok gum 2" she inquired, compessionstely. on er farver let ber sit down 2" . D —As & travoling party were ridicg ‘hf“.“&_ Talestino, the attention of & cortain Americs was called to the roputed seat of Moses' fo! ** Moges who?" suys Jopatham. ** \Tu.flfiflsx:‘n: Jloses wko led the Caiidren of Isracl thro By + How faris that i the desert for forty yeara.” d “Threo hundred miled, magpe.” Tpon: ¥hich the Amorican remariced: “The Chicso & Northwestern would Lave taken 'om shraugh guess, ic eight hour i S i A SONG OF MATURE. All dexpito the feerin Or thie stern, forvidding fsce. Thutgh we turn aw., Striviog hard to hide the tear, We suall find the good tu-morzcw, Nover fear. Oh! the world seems all the brighter A3 our falth in good grows stroug; And our bucdens are tie ligister A8 our bedrts are with song. Ay, wo msy not louk far besven, Suve wittin the fuuer L Born of love, &y tr:xsures given, Free from strife, Oh1 for words that sre unbroken oD o bitterncrs of Liats: 4 1 for love that is unsguken To the mouls that * watch and wait¥ Somewhere in thy Loundless measure Of the Uuiversal Guud, Wo shall Sad the source of pleasurs Understood, 3 et ua list to Mother Neturs, y Learn the wingame sou s5o mogs,. And so stamp on ev'ry fustura All the graccs that eho brivga 3 Thus sliall we forget our sadnesd I the beanty of the sons, And thie world 1a very gladness ; 3ove along. 2 For the hezrt, in ita completeness, Does not b/t for gzif lone,— Li-e were Life refi of ils & Fiss wero truth as overthzown, "Tis 16 sl exch man & brother, ‘Though the sunbeams may not ahind ;- “Tis to Iise for on» auutaer— That's diviza, W. 8. Panxah LOVE'S SOiE. Together, my love and I, sng wa i X kaug to her, she £acy ta me ; A Litlo biv jn the trew abovo Took up 2gain onr soug of luvdy Aud cheerity gang wa thrce. Weary and waiting T still sing on; The Little bird has Tong since fowl, And T think that sbe in heaven above Takes up again my song of love, As I sing it here aloas, Vi Grapluc.