Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1875, Page 4

| i | i | fa ate a nl enema bbebiihcealts sthetns he is Mami dati ie ws ae 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1875.--SIXTEEN PAGES. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RAVES OF SUDICEIPTION (PATABLE I ADVAXCE). Pestage repaid at this Once. 3.00 | Weekly. 2 year, 65 Gi5u | Five coples. 188 14.00 Parse! a year at the eatae rate. ‘WantEp-—Une active agent in cach town and Village. Syro'a! arrengements made with auch. Specitaeu coptes gent froo. ‘To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post Otien address tn 12, including State ard County. Romhtances may bemade oither by dreft, express, Post- ‘Obios order, of in registered letters, at onr risk. TERMG TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Daily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 ceate per week. Dalls. celivered, Sanday included, 30 conta por week. re THR TRIBUNE COMPARY, ‘o GhTIENTION. Sue EHLERS Ee be ord ights sourtsously. nied as us ze Oe. RINTHIAN CHAPTER, No, 69, R. A. M.—Regu- avon Monday Bente ‘larch Work cn the Mark and Past M. Degrees. ‘WAN DFCLARED-ONLY £8 TO THE NATIONAL Conta: oaly $8 4a) ScCheeneys and settee wit srvultpeat ain Term, Hineclasy esta ilies "wz Rlundeds“Gontor Giark aod Randolpoeste Che Chicana Tribune. Sunday Moz , March 21, 1875. Oxford has won the annual race, Cam- bridge's defeat was foreseen. Odds of three to ove were given on the dark-blues. As ustval, ali London went to see the struggle. ‘The illustrated papers of this week will be filled with pictures of it, unless, indeed. the wood-cuts that have served for the last dozen ‘years are at last worn out. It is now definitely established that the Sioux treaty was affirmed by the Senate April 29, 1868, and was proclaimed by Axpr Joux- son Feb. 24, 1569. This disposes of an at- tempt to evade the stipulations of the treaty and get into the Black Hills region upon the ples that the treaty was never ratified. It is furthermore stated that the President will soa appoint three Commissioners to visit the Sioat country to discover whether that tribe is willing to negotiate for the cession of the Black Hills country. Inasmuch as the Gov- ernment has now done all it can to open the Black Hilis country to those who wish to go there, it is incumbent upon the Black Hills expeditions now fitting out to awsit the result of the application to the Sioux. Joun Mercaxn is desd. The clectors of ‘Tipperary will find it difficult to discover an- other such man to send to Parliament, They ean say with truth: ‘We ne'er shall see his like again.” A rebel against England, a con- vict and s parole-breaker, as the English al- lego, shrieker for Irish freedom ond for negro slavery, a traitor to the innd which gave him shelter,—these facts are not often united in the career of one man. Mircuen threw his life away. He might have done auch for Ireland by peaceful means, but he preferred figtting ané did worse than nothing for her. He was able to carry a green flag on a St. Patrick’s Day parade with tolerabie grace, and covld make a flowery specch about the -shamrock tnd the harp of Erin, but beyond this he can make no claim to remembrance. Hoe failed as a Sghter, failed as an Irish poli- ticinn, feiled ns an American citizen, failed even in the role of an honorable convict, ac- cording to English reports. His successor in Vatlioment will probably be his son. The Disgarta Ministry is relieved from the task of ploying at battledoor and shuttlecock with Tipperary by sending back its rapre- sentstive only to have him returned again, ord Parliament is tormented only by Ky- wraxLy, who is represented, in one of Punch’s Inte cartoons, as saying to Mrromen: “ We must draw the line somewhere, sir, and we have decided to draw it at convicts.” The amended text of the bill for the im- provement of the mouth of the Mississippi bas been printed. Capt. Eans is to construct jetties 100 feot epart through the South Pass, The work is to be “substantially began” within eight months, and a depth of 20 fest must be secured within thirty months. The channel is to ultimately be 30 feet deep and 810 feat broad. By the time this depth and breadth have been permanently secured, the United States is to pay Eaps $5,250,000, in installments of $500,000. The latter is to guarantee and maintain such a ebannel for twenty years, and receive $100,000 per annum therefor, or his responsi- bility and his remuneration are to cevne together, with the payment of tho gross sum. This is at the option of the Govern- ment. The bill is hedged about with guaris against fraud or feilure to fulfill the contract. It has been drawn with great care, and its passage may fairly be taken as reasonable ground for the belief that the Mississippi will ere long be freed, at its mouth, from the shifting sand-bars and sunken snags which now delay commerce and so check the growth af New Oxleaus, The whole West and North- weet have reason to rejoice with tho South. ‘Tho improvement will be of especial value to Chicago in view of our great and growing frade with New Orleans. We hope that it may oven infuse new life into the sluggish basinoss of St. Louis. = * ‘The opponents of the new City Charter, in order to create prejudice, insist-that, if it be adopted, the Mayor wilt appoint all the heads of departments, who will for thet reason uecessarily be his ‘‘ tools and creatures," and de obliged to unite with him in any scheme of plunder cr robbery that he may desire. Does it follow that every person xppointed to H office must be the ‘‘tool and cresture ” of the Person sppointizg him? Mayor Convrx ap- Pointed Mr. Haxes, Judge Dicer, and Mr. ! Lovzs Wauz to the important offices they fill, Are these genflemen his ‘“‘tools and cres- i tures?” The Mayors of this city for many ears have sppointed persons to each of these offices, but no one ever supposed or assumed that any such appointees were the “tools | and creatures” of the Mayors appointing them. If neither Mr. Mares, Judge! Dicser, nor Mr. Lovie Want can be! accused or suspected of being the ! tool and creature of the Mayor who ap- | Pointed them, is it to be supposed that other Mayors may not be able to find other gontle- ; men eqvally free from sach s suspicion, and : who woah] be as independsnt in the ex- | ercise of, thoir duties as are these gentlemen ? ; Is it not to be expocted that the next Mayor | ‘wil bs as able to find respectable and com. | petent men for thexe offices an Mr. Cotvis or } any of his predecessors? And men just , aa incapable of being nsed for any scheme of . oficial or personal dishonesty ? ' Another point made ix that, in case the : Mayor be guilty of misconduct, the new : charter contains no provision for his removal. Taste is no occasion for cach » provision: : dread of the present Common Council, | the Revised Statutes, page 383, | of the Criminal Code, reads: Soction 208 | that it should be submitted to the | them to draw on the Secro people of Chicago, or the people of any tary of State for gach stationery as they may need. The Gov- with a view of having the proper men } i i i tor , ernor, Every person holding any publio cffics (whether | other city, on their own motion, to adopt oe sah important duiy, will, under such ! state, county, or munfcipal), trust, er employment, | | Sho shall be guilty of eny palpable omission of duty, ! or who shall be gui ty of diverting any public money i ' ¢rom the use or puTpose for which it may have been | appropriated or set apart by or under anthority of law, | | or who shall be guilty of contracting, directly or indi- | rectly, for the expenditure of a grester sum or amount \ cf money than may have been, at the time of making ; j the contracts, appropriated or set apart by law, or su- { thorized by law to be contracted for or expended upon ; | the aubject matter of the contracts, or who shall be : | guilly of willful and corrupt oppression, malfearance, ! } or partiality, where no special provision shall hava | ' been made for the punishment thereof, shall be fined i ;, not exceeding $10,003, and may be removed from his ; | office, trust, or employment, H 1 This provision is even more stringent than ; | tho one in the general charter of 1872, and is ! | ample authority for the punishment and { removal from offica of any Mayor who msy ' act corruptly or improperly in office. H SELF-GOVERNMENT 1N CHICAGO. The real secret of the opposition to the i | bill now pending in the Legisleturo for the ¢ } Yeorganization of cities is to be found in ms ? ani ‘ their newspaper organs, to go before the : peope with the issue whether Chicago shall : | beso reorganized or not. The hue and cry ! raised against the bill have been resorted to » | for the pnrpose of depriving the people of ; ' the right to determine by ballot under what - ' form of City Government they prefor to | i live. It is the boldest and most shame- less effort ever made to niullify the fondamental principle of a republican form of government. It is in direct contravention of the provision of the Consti- tution applying to the reorganization of cities under a general law. It is a determination to deprive a self-governing people of the right of self-government, and force them to abide by aspecial charter which hos no advantages | except for cliques and rings. It is directly in ' the interest of continued jobbery inthe Com- . mon Council, which neither the people nor the Courts have been able to check under the present monstrous and irresponsible system. ‘The position of Chicago relative to the bill now pending is defined by the following : Where the legislative authority of any city, prior to the pasega of this act, hes appointed’ a time =ftor April 1, 1875, and prior to the taking emfect of this act, for holding an elestion to determine the question as to whether such city shal become organized under ths act of the General Assemtly entitled “An Act for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages,” and approved April 10, 1572, and when at such olection such ques- tion shall bave been determined azainst such organi- zation, there shall be held in such city on the 10h of August, A.D. 1875, an election at which shall be sub- mitted to the voters of said city the qxesifon ahether such city aball reorganize under this act, and that ‘withoct any further petition fram the voterd, ‘The Common Council of Chicago having, at the petition of the requisite number of voters, fixed a day next April when a vote ‘ shail be taken on the question of reorganiza- : tion under the act of 1872, the passage of tho present law will enable the people of Chicego | to determine one of thres things, ss followa: | 1. It may be voted not to reorganize under the law of 1872, in which caso there will neo- essarily be another vote in August to deter- mine whether there shell be reorganization under the act of 1875 (the present bill), when the people may again determina whether they will retain the present chartcr or adopt the Reform charter. In case the present act fails to become a law, the people of Chicago will be limited to a choice between the existing charter ond a general law which affords no more protection in the case of Chicago than tho present charter. 2. It may be voted in April to reorganize under the General Law of 1872, in which case Chicago would be in the same position as other and smaller cities of the State which have already voted to reorganize under this law. The new charter would be that dofined in the law of 1872, in addition to all the laws and ordinances and such provisions of the old charter as were not repealed by the Gen- eral Law. 3. But if the people of Chicago vote to re- organize under the, General Law of 1872, they will still have the same privilege of i adopting the provisions of the law of 1875 as | that possessed by other cities in Hinois which - have already organized under the law of 1872. It will then be necessary, however, for one-eighth of the legal voters in the city to petition the Mayor, in the | manner prescribad by law, to submit the question. In case of organization first under © the law of 1872, and subsequently under the ° law of 1875, all the provisions of the General Lawof 1872 will be retained which are not re- pealed by the latter Inw, as provided in the ! clause that any city reorganizing under this | act ‘shall not, by such reorganization, be deprived of any of ite former corporate powers, functions, or rights, nor shall any provisions of its charter be thereby repealed or changet, excepting so fer as the same my be modified by or are inconsistent with the pro- visions of this act.” 7 Thus it will be seen that every step in the progress toward a reformed City Government @epends upon a voto of the people. The’ efort to defeat the bill is, thersfore, plainly an effort to deprive the people of Chicago of the privilege of determining their own form of City Government. If there were general satisfaction with the present cherter; if it were admitted on all sides that our present system is the best adapted to the needs and | protection of the people ; if our municipality rested upon the development and improvo- ment of ages, then it would be entirely prop- er and commendable to oppose any project for a change as unnecessary end dangerous. Butit is s matter of common notorioty that the very opposite of this-condilion exists. Our present system is an ineougruous and distort- ed growth of a term of years, during which special legislation enabled politicel cliques and corrupt rings to fasten their appliances | upon the City Government. Chicago is not singular in this respect. Municipal reform is one of the greatest political problems of the day. Asoldacity as Boston is engeged in sserious and laborious effort to solve this problem, Nearly every large city in the Union which is not actually striving after o new system is waiting anxiously for model. There are few citics in the country, howevor, which are loaded down with snch a jumble of incongruities ond political devices as are“ contained in the charter under which Chi- cago is governed et the present time, With this condition of things in Chicago end throughout the couztry, the Citizens’ Amociation undertook the work of releasing Chicago from the prevailing emberrassments; and, with the help and advice of some of the best minds in the city, and actuated by the « purast motives, they propared the bill which has pagsed the Honse snd is now before the ‘ Senate. The one underlying iden of their project is direct, porsonal, and concentrated . responsibility on tha part of the Execntive, ; with such legislative checks as aro provided ; by the Federal system of two Honses, It ‘was pot proposed, however, to force this project upon the people of any city; bat it was provided in tho bill reject it. The opposition to the bill is, there- fore, not mere!y an opposition to a project ! for municipal reform, but it is an attempt to debar the people of the privilege of deter- mining whether they will keep up in the progress of other cities toward botter govern- ment, or remain in the old rat of ring Jegisla- tion, fall of jobbery, incompetency, irre- sponsibility, and corruption. The defeat of this bill would consequently be a practical nullification of the right of the people on their own motion to improve their own palit- ical condition. : MALINSKI POISONING. The ses of the poisoning of the Marrvext family, in this city, is a peculiar one. Tho family consisted of Manmvsxt, his wife, and four children. They were poor people, but not destitute. The husband had been out of work for several weeks, was naturally de- pressed, but the family was not reduced to actual want for food. On the evening in question the whole family partook of 6 hearty meal, of which pork and coffee were items, The husband states that he did not drink any of the coffee, In the morning tho wife and one child were found desd; during the day a second child died; the other two children were greatly prostrated, but ero now in a fair way to rocover. ‘The husbard was in no wise affected. The ex- planation given by him was thet, after he had eon in bed for some time, the infant child woke them crying; that the wife took the child, which had been asleep in the cradle, into the bed with her; that subsequently his wife complained of being sick, and had placed a pail near the bed, into which she vomited; that he fell asleep and did not wake until after daylight; that after he was dressed he sought to awake his wife, and found she and the child were dead. “This is allhe knew of the matter, and he could give no information Jeading to any explanation of the cause of the sickness, This statement or ex- planation of the case is very unsatisfactory. ‘We do not say that it is false, or inconsistent with the truth ; but it leaves the whole mat- ter in a cloud of mystery. These people were honest; they were moral and well be- haved. They were religious, sober, and in- dnstrious, The dead mother and her chil- dren sre silent. No one can tell the tale of their suffering 2nd agony during that long winter night, with the husband and father within the room, but so sound asleep that their cries and groans failed to arouse him. When discovered, tho two other children were unconscious, and for several days the oldest of the family was considered beyond relief. It is possible that these, when suffi- ciently recovered, may be able to tell some part of tho story of that fearful night when the five beings lay pros- trate snd perishing for the want of aid, and each unable to help the other. It is possible that the eldest child, Joszrma, may have witnessed some of her mother’s sufferings, may have had some conversation | with her, may be able to explain much that ia Ieft to conjecture by the father’s story, We do not mean to say that the evidence as it stands criminates the father; but the fact that all were woll at the time of taking that last meal together, and that of the whole fom- ily of six he alone escaped; that three of tham died in the room without his knowledge, and the two others had sunk into wnconscionsness, will roise presumptions and lesd to infer- ences of which it is possible these ehildren may be able to relieve him. Fortunate, in- deed, will it be for him should their recovery : from tho very pangs of death lead to his vindication. Various theories have been suggested as to the causes of the death of these people; and in excluding all guilty mowledge on the part of Matixsx1 the neighborhood attribute the | sickness to the use of diseased pork. This ean, to some extent, be determined by the chemical analysis, as well as the analysis of the stom- achs of the deceased which has been or- dered. The theory of the presenco of trichi- na, even if true, can hardly account for the deaths, which followed within five or six hours after the eating of the meal, The ‘ effects of trichina are not thus rapid, and ; ordinarily do not appear im less than & week, Unless these children can i throw some light on the subject, sand explain the painfal circumstances of that night of desdly suffering, the mystory that surrounds this case promises to be per- petual The man’s previous good character, the affection which seemed to exist among the members of the family, and his evident | griof ond distress when brought into tho presence of his ocffined wife and children, ' tend to rebut whatever presumption may arise from his escape from the general poison- ing of the family. Let us hope that, should an explanation over be given, it will relieve him of all suspicion of being the author of : this cruel and wholesale murder of his aon- fiding wife and little children. TBE STATZ ELVENUE sSZSTEM, Tho State Senate of Ilinois on Friday voted down 2 joint resolution providing for the appointment of a commission, to be oom- posed of four Senators and five Representa- | tives, to report to the next Legislature tho results of n thorough investigation of the | Revonuc law of the State, and such amend- ments as would remedy the defects. This resolution was rejected, not because the ad- visability of the Commission was not evident, ‘but because the pay of each of the Commis- sioner was limited to $5 por day for forty days, The Legiclatare will edjourn (proba- bly) about the Ist of May, and the Commis. sion would hove until Janvary,1877,—a period of tweuty months,—to make their report. It was therefore proper to put some limitation | on the aggregate compensation. But the | resolution ought to have been rejected for other reasons. , The proposed Commission is too large. Five Commissioners, or even three, would be infinitely better than the larger one of nine members. Another, anda very serious, ob- jection is that it provides that the Commis- sion shall be composed of nine members of the present Legislature. This is an assump- tion of an exclusive capacity and intelligence on this subject among the members of the General Assembly which is wholly negatived by the past and present history of revenue legislation, Woe do not mean to say that there are not nine members of the General Assombly competont and fitted by informe. tion for the duties of such a commission, but the chances are not greater than one in twenty that such persons will be selected. If the Legislature really desira to havo s : commission to investigate this revenue busi- ness, and make an intelligent review and re- port to the Legislature on the snbject, let it pass a joint resolution authorizin-: the Goy- ernor to appoint three or five Conus ioners for that purpose, who sbell serve without compensation beyand their personal expenses, not to exeood $160 each, nnd author | resolution, take them in whole orin part . : from the members of the General Assembly, | or from among the citizens generally, many ‘of whom are doubtless as well informed aa ' gre the members’ of the General Assembly. ‘Such a resolution would, atleast, give the Governor the opportunity of selecting the most competent men for the duty, wherever he could find them in the State. : The idea of 8 roving commission of nine members of the General Assembly, to Inst twenty months, without any restriction of psy or mileage, is not promising of either 4 studions or even earnest consideration of the subject. A commission composed of mem- , bers of the Legislature would be made up of a majority and a minority, each having fixed views and “each anxious to promote its side . ‘That is not what is wanted. of the question. ‘The Commission is not to report whether Mr. Coxsxouus’s or Mr. Cusnunas'’ notions of taxation and revenue are right, but the Com- mission is to report ‘whether our present revenue system is defective, in what it is de- fective, and why it is defective; what are the true principles of taxation in a State out of debt and in receipt of revenue from other © sources; how the assessment and collection of State taxes may be severtd from the as- sossment and collection of county aad other local taxes, and if such severance is advisa- ble; how the cost of collecting revenue, State and local, may be reduced; how taxation may - be more equitably distributed; how its col. lection may be more effectuslly insured ; and how far objects of taxation, now unknown to the law, may be fairly, justly, and propor- tionably resched to the benefit and relief of the whole, Also, how the State of Dlinois, - by a system of taxation s0 modernized and so freo from the crudities and ignorance of past and exploded theories, may be made self-supporting in all its departments and municipalities with less extortion from the . substance of the people, and with the bur- den of taxation so lightened and the cost of ite collection so reduced that property and capital will seek the State for that freedom and profitable investment aforded by the laws of no other part of the country. ‘When the taxation of any State reaches that point that men oan no longer hold Jand and cultivate it and live without sinking in debt, and to save what they have must sell out and fly the State, it is time not only to consider the grievance but to apply the most radical reforms that the necessity can de- mand, even if todo so require tho repeal of the profits of every offico-holder engaged un- der the revenue system. If the Legislature consider reform neces-— sary, and that reform should be preceded by an intelligent examination and report by dis- interested and competent persons, let them authorize the Governor to appoint the Com- ' mission as we have suggested, and not provide © nine additional offices, at a heavy cost to tho : State, to end in nothing. : BESSIE TURNER'S STORY. | ‘Whether it be trua or false, Bessrs Tenner, the protege of Mr. Tiron and the school- ' girl whose tuition for several years at Steuben- ville, O., Mr. Bexonen paid, has told a most . , remarkable story concerning the domestic life of Mr. Turox. True or false, it does not - i affect the question of Mr. Bezcasn’s guilt or innocenoe one way or the other, but, if trae, it will have the effect tg reduce Mr. Truron’s claim for damages in $100,000 down to the minimum of about one cent. If these little ‘ episodes concerning the ‘red lounge,” the i conversation with Mrs, Tron in Brasm's ! presence, and with Brssrz in the absence of “ any third party, and the extraordinary carry- | ing of Brserm: from one room to another while * she slept soundly, be true, Mr. Trurow hasnot ! beon damaged one penny’s worth by anything + Mr. Brxones has done, even admitting that ‘he bas done the worst things charged against ‘him. If all this be true, then Mr. Trxron’s | atmosphere is a very elastic one, and his 1 mode of life and thought is bomb-proof | against harm, so far as it ean be measured by } dollars and cents. Worse than this, it ex- j poses Mr, Trnrox to the chargeof being | mercenary man, seeking to make a pecuniary ! good thing out of reports affecting his wife's ' chastity. It places him in a more degraded 1 Position than Mr, Basouse, even admitting { thet Mr. Brecwen is guilty af adultery. It ‘ exposes him to the contempt of men and women, and no jury will award him more than one red cent. It is impossible, however, to read Bessre’s * story, delivered in all its nastiness with bold mien, glib tongue, and unblushing face, and with s degree of self-control not usually charaateristic of the mddesty which pertains to young ladies of her age, withont instinct : ively asking tbe question, Can this be true ? and without feeling that when Judge Forzzn- roy gets hold of this witness he’ will reduce her to a very limp and sorry-looking Brssr. Her record, it must be remembered, is not igo straight that we ean place im- ‘ plicit relianca upon what she says. It : has been already shown that her eye ; sight is treacherons, or, at least, that she has place. Perhaps her other senses are equally unfortunate. A young Isdy who could see "Miss Axraoxx upon Tuxoponr’s knee when | ‘she wasn't there, and who can be carried ; round in the night-time from room to room without knowing anything about it, is cer- j tainly linble to make some dreadful mistakes ‘with regard to domestic matters in the household which happens to be blessed , With her pretty presence, In any event, it is morally certain that Miss AnTHony did not sit upon Tueopore’s knee, and that “the silly, balf-witted school-girl,” as Susaw affec- tionately called her, did not see the venerable maiden in that undignified position. Having been caught tripping in the Awrsonr story, how can we place implicit reliance in the Trr- Ton stofy? But time will tell. Perhaps Bes- \stpis right. If so, what a cosy picture of Trrowtan life she presents us! Contem. plale that pretty procession of the . white souls. Turonoze grows restless, tarna : over, and remarks to Exnrapern: “Sonl of _ my soul, my inmost heart, sleep forsakes my eyelids, I must seek another couch.” Then, | ike the miller who drew the Cnosnr Opers- | House, he rises in his long-tailed night-shirt. ; Extzanera replies: “My lord, I follow thee,” and che arises and takes the pillows, and j the march of the white souls commences, | Where is Orrenpacs, to set that march to ap- ; Propriste strains? Brsstz hears the steady | tramp of the two, and springs from her couch to seek another, lest she may be surprised by | Visitation from Tuzopone en deshabille, | But she is not long at ease, for in a few | minutes the tramp is recommenced, ‘and she j bas to change again, and thus the poor girl is kept oscillating like a pendulum from one room to another, until at last the one white soul finds the couch which suits him. The other white soul drops the pillows with a fancied she saw something which never took | sigh. Taxopone invokes a benison upon her -hend, commends her to angelic ministries, and disappears between the sheets, Brsare, * confident that slie is secure, resigns herself to sleep, and Exrzanera goes back where she started from, and there is quiet in the house. _ Thus, night after night, these phantoms in white disturb the slambers of Besstz, and keep her hopping up and down, and gliding about from chamber to chamber and bed to -bed, to escape that “ white soul” in the long night- robe who is so particalar about his dormi- tory. But, inasmuch asthe other ‘white ‘ soul” always followed with the pillows, no ‘harm came from it, If Besste’s story be !trne, Taxopore had other nocturnal freaks ‘ which he performed in his single garment. He not only headed the regular procession,. but he was accustomed to arise in that nether garment, which will now probably be intro- duced in evidence, and change pictures about ; and somehow Bessre was always on hand to see the performunce when she ought to have been sound asleep. Besstz appears to have been extraordinarily wakeful when Taeopory and Exizaseru marched round the house in the under-garment~parade, and no sleep could come to her eyes when he arose “at the witching hour of midnight to change the pictures on the walls, But one night this nocturnal prowler, if we are to believe Bessre, arose and she didn’t know it. He came into her room and she didn’t know it. He tenderly gathered up her 130 pounds avoirdupois and she didn’t know it. He carried her out of the room, through the halls, and into his own room, and she didn’t know it. He placed her in his own bed and sho didn’t know it. Then be con- Siderately waited until she waked up, when she was so surprised that, instead of rushing from the room, she engaged in a long conver- sation with him before she marched back to her chamber ; and all this timo that good ‘man Horscs Greetz was in the house ard ‘ might have defended her. No wonder that Tueopone closed the dialogue with the re- | mark: ‘Bessre, you have some very sin- gular ideas.” {It will be impossible to pass any final judg- ment upon this most sstonishing testimony : until Bessr has bad her little interview with Judge Forzentos and he has obtained from her some explanations which are needed to round out her testimony and make it credi- ble to people who don’t travel about in their under-garments trying different beds to ind which is softest, and who don’t hang pictures at midnight for nocturnal amusement. AU this necds explanation ; also Mr. Txurox’s al. leged remark to Besse that “ This is the common practice among people in high life.” | If it is so, let us know it. If thisis the occu. ‘ pation of Calumet, Prairie, South Park, ’ Michigan, and-Wabosh avenues at midnight, i the sooner we know it the better. It opens © up a dresdful vista of possibilities. Canit be that our millionaires have processions at mid- night, and that their comfortable and queen- ly spouses, who sport their liveries in the day- ; time, meekly carry pillows all night behind their fastidious lords, and keep young ladies in the house hunting new quarters at such | unseasonable hours? What are we to be. lieve? Who sball say? If these stories! be untrue, then wes Mother-in-law i ! Monse right when she kissed Txeoporz (even + this mother-in-law hed caught the kissing 1 fever), and said: ‘ Taxopoze, what a mag. nanimous man you have been!” If they be true, then was Mother-in-law Monss right when she said: ‘I will grandma you, you ' + infernal hypocrite and scoundrel. I will pub- - ! lish you from Dan to Beersheba!” ‘ THE VINELAND MURDER, Vineland is 2 New Jersey town which has + been regarded as the fruit of an attempt to « i start e private Garden of Eden, with reserved / < seats and corner-lots, clothing adapted to a! : colder climate and to prevailing prejudices,— { ‘ in short, Eden with all the modern improve- : ments. Among the improvements was the ; ‘ serpent, in the shape of a newepaper. Until ! ; this began to hiss venom, peace, joy, and ‘ ‘love reigned in Vineland, or were supposed | to do so. Tho corner-lots sold at good : | prices, and the ‘' Father of Vineland” and ; , owner of tho lots aforesaid, Mr. Caanurs - :K. Lawns, beamed upon his children : ignd their cash, and subscribed $5 n° | year to send missionaries to the rest of the j world, amid the universal acclamation of self- i conceited Vineland, The town had leanings « | toward reform. * When a whisky-seller opened ' | his doors, the men of Vineland shut them up ‘ again, and saved him the trouble of carrying , ! away his stock by pouring it on the ground. | The women of Vineland have ideas on the ! franchise, dress-reform, and other topics of . ‘ equally fascinating interest. The frequent i bloomer” strides elong the street. Noy, ° ‘ pantaloons and petticoats, the former long | ‘and the Istter short, are not unknown. ; . The long-hsired man and the short-haired | } woman meet in this Garden of Eden, and ‘ neither tempts the other to oat of the for-,' ‘ bidden truit. The mild-mannered vegetarian | abounds in Vineland. All isms feed fat and | } grow rank and strong upon its kindly soil. , 1 It is a region of tea-partics, ‘of singing: ‘ school, of “ meetin’.” The spelling mania ; j rhges with periodical violence, and the winner receives Watrs’ bymns or a half-peck of iapples as s prize. It shuns dissipation. | { The strolling minstrel never strolls that way. No troupe rehearses the drama there. No j theatrical ‘‘star” shines. A biennial lecture | on “ The Holy Land” at one end of the town j | and an occasional Spiritualist seance at the | other fill up the sum of orthodox and hetero- i i dox amusement. Such, at least, wes Vine- ; land a few years since, We fear it is sadly ; changed now. A newspaper was started in : it, The editor—we must break through the | rule of nil de mortuis, ete.—is snid to have j been “indecent and libelous.” His name 1 waa not Sroruy, but Carurmern. In on evil ; Moment, Laxprs, ‘the first manin the new - | Eden, its Avast, woke toa consciousness of * | the old Apa withim him, became angry at i the slanderous sheet, interviewed ite editor. and punctuated his remarks with a bullet, which put s full stop to them and to Canurnyr at the same moment. His plea will probably be ‘The man tempted me, and I did shoot.” His prototype tried to ; shift the responsibility in much the same ! way,—on the sfternoon of March 13, 4023 ' B. C., as the old Scriptural almanacs tell us. i The “‘ Father of Vineland” now figures in : the crime-columns of the press, between ; Wiis Cuxnixouam, of Newark, who } promised a mon $1,000 if he would remove | Mrs. Connrsanat from the face of the earth, } and Jesse Pournoy, of Boston, the boy with | & murderous mind and a whiteeye. Itis , Rot very good company which Mr. Laxpis ‘ has chosen, but there is no disputing about : tastes. Perhaps he wanted to complete the parallel between Apax L and Ap- ast II. There is every prospect of his doing so. As there is no jail in Vineland, he will have to ba removed from the modern * Garden of Eden, and, if his sentence bas a clouse:about “labor ” tacked on to it he will j Shares and $240 on his loan. At the end of j shares will cease, and he will have $1,000 to : then own his home, ' hereafter earn his bread by the sweat of his ; well as the gentlemen, with special ad ‘brow. Perhaps, however, he will be acquit. | vantages on their part for “owing up.” We ted. Shooting an editor may be murder or ‘ manslaughter, or neither. Cela depend. Since writing the above, the following dis- i have no doubt that there are ag many ladies {today in favor of a statate Providing a ! penalty for drawing one card to “threes” | patch has been rectived, which indicates that | as there are in Kentucky, where such a statute ! there may be no necessity for hanging any { was first proposed. We do not ge ! one: Vinztanp, N, J., March 20.—Eminent physicians are now in attendance on Mr, Can=Tuze, editor, sbot yesterday by Laxpzs, founder of Vineland, and there | iu aadd to be a possibility of his recovery. SOMETHING FOR WORKINGMEN. ‘The artisans of Philadelphia deserve the ; ly successful scheme for the benefit of their | class. Some years ago, the first “ Co-opers- tive Building and Loan ‘Association” was ox- ganized in the City of Brotherly Love. Since { then, the work has gone quietly on, until now { stndents of social scienco are amazed to hear j that 600 of these societies exist in Philadel- i phin alone; that their aggregate capital is , 3150,000,000; and that many, very many, of ' their members, who have always worked and | still work for day-wages, now own houses (ond land worth from $10,000 to $15,000. ' Only a small per cent of these associations has failed. ‘They are all organized on substantially the same plan. A share is issued to every appli- cant. One dollar per month is psid on each share. Each month, the money on hand is loaned to the shareholder who offers the - ' Targest premium and can give the best se- | No loans aro made except on real : curity. estate. The premiums bid sometimes amount § to 25 or even 50 por cent. ‘This is one source of income and the monthly interest is another. eurred, but rigorously exacted, are still an- other. In eight and o helf years, the amount paid in will amount to (102 months at $1) ; $102. Profits, interest, and fines swell this to $200, the par value of each share, The shareholder then receives this sum, thusmak- ing 8 uet profit of $98 on an investment of $102, or, if he has borrowed money, his mort- yageis cancelled protanto, A mancanholdany number of shares. This fact erables the laborer to-buy his home. Aman who takes five shares in one of these societies will ac- cumnulate $1,000 in eight and one-half years, by paying $60 per year. If he borrows $1,500 as soon as he becomes a stockholder, at such arate that he pays an average of $140 a year in premiums and interest (this is the usual rate on a loan of $1,500), and buys with this sum a house and lot, which are pledged to the society as security, he will pay, each year, $200,—that is, $60 on his eight and one-half years, his payments on his his credit on the books, which will cancel two-thirds of his mortgage. He will subject to a i i i Fines, small in amount, rarely in- | i so for as to say that no fashion i able household is now complete with. jout a set of poker-chips, and no sociaf : entertainment a success where the gamo ig | tabooed; but we do say that it is no unum} | thing, as it would have been ao year ago, te | ; find the game of poker played at s credit of a thord&ghly practical and thorough- { cEigtg Oe } cial entertainments, that the chips are spread out on parlor-tables at houses where it would least be expected, and that ladies lend the grace of their presence with considerable tact and perfect familiarity with the clang phrases incident tothe game. We presure that the progress of poker in polite circles ig j mot peculiar to Chicago, but that the sane phenomenon hss been noticed in other cities ‘We cannot help thinking that fashion iy responsible for the social countenance which poker hasreceived of late. We have an idea that it may be traced directly to the notoriety : attained by Gen. Scuenox’s pamphlet. ? fier ; our Minister to the Court of St. James hed been roundly abused for writing an essay on : the game of poker, with rules for playing it, the fact came out that tho treatise was pro. | pared for private circulation, and at the spe. cial request of some titled lady. Itisa very common thing in English society to play whist for a small stake, and many Indies ara as much given toitas the gentlemen. Gen. | Scrence introduced poker into these circles asan improvement on the silent and slow. going game. It seems to have been appre. ciated, and he was requested to write ont the rules of the game ag a means to its more general introduction. He .complied. Tho rales were printed for private circulation, but soon found their way into the newepepers, In this manner the rules themselves, rnd the circamstances which produced them, attained wide-spread notoriety, and the game ci poker socn attained a social recognition which had previously ‘been denied to it, Americen society began to discover that it was not cou. sidered outre to play for ‘‘amall stakes" ix English society. It was discovered st ths same time that even the English recognized poker 2s more fascinating than whist for this purpose. The result was its sdoption in many households where it was formerly oxcinéed, and the practice has sprend with o rapidity which fashion alone can achieve. ‘We do not propose to discuss the morulities or proprieties of this new mania. In the abstract, poker, like all games of chance, is utterly bad, and itis the more demoralizing perhaps on account of its peculiar fascins- tions. "But whether its transfer from the saloon to the salon, from the bacl:-room to the parlor, from gentiemen alone to a mized company of lsdies and gentlemen,—whether mortgage of only $500. If he now takes three more shares, his annual ; . dues will be $36 on them and about: S44 interest,—$80 in all. In eight and a; ‘half years more, his shares will be worth ; $600, which will cancel his mortgage and ; give him $100, cesh. He bas thus bought | his house and lot in seventeen years, by ' paying $200 per year for half that time end | $80 annually thereafter. This is $2,380 in: all If he had rented such a house, ho would : have paid $200 # year rent, or $3,400 in the i seventeen years, and would then have owned : nothing. If he can afford to take eight . shares ot the beginning, his house will be paid for in eight onda half years. Thousands — of workmen have become small capitalists in | this way. Thesa societies are organized, controlled, and menaged by workingmen, This explains their success, as it explains that of the great co-operative establishments of England and of Scuurze-Detrrscn’s ‘People’s Banks” in ‘ Germany. A summary of the report of one building and loan society, ‘The Artisans’,” shows that its receipts last year wera $88,622; the loans, $68,872; and the profits, $19,749. ‘The total property is $252,112, and the mort- gages held: amount to $227,600. The er- pense of managing this businces was only $873, This is simply marvelous. One or two associations of this sort among the foroign-born citizens of Chicago have been * very successful, Similar societies of Amer- ! icans here have been, we believe, failures. The resson for the difference is to be found ' ‘in the plate-glass and black-walnut farnish- : ings of the offices of the latter, and in their ; long lists of salaried officials. : FASHION AND THE GAME OF POKER. ‘There is nothing new in the assertion that fashion is a social despot which exercises un- restrained power over its subjects, whatever | form it may assume. Buta new and curious | illustration of it is to be found in the recent , very general introduction into city social cir. cles of the enlivening and poculiarly Amer. / icen game of “poker.” It is not very long ! since poker was placed on a level with faro, | ‘ i roulette, bunko, keno, and the other mares “that beset the unsophisticated Granger who visits the town. It was referred to, if at all, in polite society with a contemptuous curl ' of the lip, an elovation of the eyebrows, and | the most vehement denunciation of langnage. } | Uphold the Boman Catholic religion. this change will tend most to diminish the evils of poker or demoralize soristy to a greater extent,—is a matter to be @tcrniized by those who have the latest frshion thus squarely presented to them. Archbishop Lrxcm, of Cauads, read a pastoral on St. Patrick's Day, which must bsve sounded in the ears of the Irishmen present as celestial music. He gave an historical account of the separation between England and Ireland in mat. tera of feeling, which are in many reapccts mat- tera of teligion, and explained it by saying thst God specially raised up the Irish to apred and He come pared them to the Jews for the persistence with which they have preserved thew individuality, : and for the stripes and the sorrowa which bave been inflicted upon them as a means of prepara- : tion for a Divine mission. One failing of the Irish natare, which has becomo al- most national, the Archbishop referred ta and- explained on an eseumption placeitle enough, though not rigidly scientific. Hoe said that the frish do not drink more than other peo- + ple, but are leas able to bear the effec:a of stroog liquors, His language waa: ‘Their blood is so hot, and their nature so fervid and exuberant, that, by adding to it the firo of alcobol, the Irishman becomes more degraded than mon of other and more plodding temperaments.” Tha discussion was-exceedingly able, ard, on the whole, candid; but it was uot alto-other ua- prejudiced and dispassionate. Both the man and tho hour were disposed to make an estimate of the Irish character quite ag favorable as the ! circumstances would permit. Some time ago we mentioned the effort being put forth in Virginia to have Gov. Kzi sent to England in the interests of immigration. ; The plan was to bave him goas the Goserucr of the State, for tae purpose of talking to the peo ple of England, either publicly or privately, of the attractions and advantages offered to settlers in Virginia, It wag not propored chat he shoud act as on accredited Immigration Commissioner. ‘The whole acheme has been decidedly set back, if not irretrievably defeated, for thia year. Tue | sanction of the Legislature to the abserce of } tho Governor was required; and this has been refcsed. A resolution giving the desired per- ; mission game upin the State Senace last Wedaes day, avd, after a long debate, was rejected. The novelty of baying 5 real live Govern: ip England aa s recruiting agent would furnish fresh topic of conversation and disenssion, and might even lead to international complications, more or lesa delicate and perplexing. ‘The Washington correspondent of the Spring- It was associated with the bar-room lonfers, | .neig pepublican suggests that Mr. Soucaz is 100 and thonght of as one of theamusementsof the lower clesses. There was a time, it is true, when it attained a sort of delegated respecta- | bility in Washington by the devotion of a : large number of Congressmen to its excite- ments and pleasures. We remember hearing ! astory related of one of the most prominent statesmen of s former gencration which de- fines the status of poker at that time, This gentleman was especially enamored of the . game, and his wife was once asked if she did ; not feel very badly because her husband : stayed out late o’ nights and played poker. ° “No,” she replied philosophically, “he never loses.” But all husbands are not equally for- tunate, and, at the best, poker was regarded, in good society, as one of the most dangerons devices for keeping husbands away from home at night, and for shortening the allow- ance of pin-money. It is notable, therefore, that, within the last few months, poker bas received a certain social recognition. We chronicle it not for - the purpose of encouraging it,—for we depre- cate alike a devotion to poker and a devotion to fashion,—bnt simply as a curious and re- : markable instance of fashion’s power. It is! fact that, in gocial circles which cannot be denied the possession of wealth, some culti. vation, a great deal of fashion, and perfect respectability, the game of poker is today a common cceurrence, It is a fact that at : many receptions, tea-parties, “ kettle-drums,” and other special entertainments nowadays, a room is sct sside not merely for cards but for poker. handsomest residences of this city, where some of the handsomest entertainments are given, ‘contain a set of poker-chips, which are : set out 2s much a matter of course as cards. ‘The game which used to be the special allare- : ment of husbands and the bane’ of married life is now an amusement forthe ladies as Many of the. honest fora party man; and solemnly afiras, asif he knew all aboat it, that there is not # State in the Union from which Scuvaz could be chosen, for he is not enough of » Democrat to suit the Democrats, or of a Republican to suid the Republicans, “This is a rather sad con mentary upon the condition of American prli- + tica,” saya the correspondent. Yes, it is end; | much sadder than it is witty or true, Mr. Scuuss was elected once, when his character for hooesty ‘Was quite as well known as it is to-day, by» Re- publican Legislature, and if the People’s move- ment, embracing the Repubticans’aud Indeyeod- ente, had carried Missouri last year, he world : have been elected again. | Buxser Cox recently talked toa lady-rerorter | in Washington about reporters, and, asa ms * ter of course, the roguish fellow deat larzelr in ; palaver and blarnev. ‘I know,” he said, “thd reporters are a bright set, and moat of thounass ; very ‘square’ men. They bave bean shamefaly abused by some Congressmen who havo bee afraid to have the truth told. I wish thro were more ladies in the gallerz, though I thins thelr tender mercies are preferable sometimes.” Tbe Isdy-reporter came down handsomely with bet tender mercy when she wrote out the account of the interview for her nowspaper. Itis onl¥ fair to say that Mr. Cox's good-will towards tis reporters is heartily reciprocated. psamboat Liha i lies Washington property-owners wish to resize | some profit and honor from the celebration of the nation’s one bundredth birthday, and, with : this object in view, they have conceived the idea | of a Centennial Musical Jubilee, to be held a i that city. This is something of ap infzingement ’ on the Philadelphia patent, and it is eapecially od- noxions because it bas taken place in the ort i headquarters of authority and jaw. ; The Louisville Courier-Journat saya, in To * gard to Western rail freigbta: “The Ubicez? : tariff seems to have been selected for revisiom ! rather on sccomnt of the fact that that city is the . Main object of entorprize with the BR & 0. i the western terminus of its line, than 03 3°