Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1875, Page 4

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The Clicage Tribune, Sundsy Morning, May 3, 1875. Montpelier, Vt., tried to emulate Oskkosh yesterday; but the arrival of fire-engines from the meighboring cities prevented any real rivalry. Only half a mile of the prin- «cipal sireot was burned. Codfish will bs caught with the help of rified cannon this summer. The French and English fishermen on the Newfoundland Benks {fireaten to use each other for bait, and both nations have tharefore sent gun- boats to the spot. The pnblic debt was reduced $2,325,346 last month. This item of good news is eclipsed by snother, also furnished by the Tressury Department. Brisrow has directed Srovyer to burn $1,195,140 of the greenbacks on hand. This wipes out so much of the warst form of the national debt, and reduces the rag-currency to $378,051,760. Oshkosh appeals for aid. It is announced that a meeting of citizens will be called hers to appoint a committes to take chargeof the matter. We notice references to the or- nithological phenomenon - known =25 ihe phesnix in- connection with Oshkosh. A century hence, when fire-limits and building laws are taken care of, the fabulons sala- nander may take the place of this fabulous bird 88 » stock metaphor. The sooner the Dotter. g There will be a mass-mesting at MoCor- mick's Holl to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock, to give voics to the publis - indignation over the unblushing frands of the mock election of the 23d ult. Itis the duty of all good cit- izens to show, by attending this gathering, their condemnation of the municipal dis- gracs, now ten days old. Matters have come 4o such n pass thet the bare right to vote is now denied us. The bummer and scalswag, Dy dropping uumberless ‘ballots in the box, nuilify tho votes of honest men, and so prac- tically deprive us of the franchise. This is something not to be endured. It presents cns ‘of the finest possible opportunities to fwfill the Biblical injunction to be “angry oad sin not.” Good speakers will address tae mesting, and the wrath of the publis will be, s it should be, hot and heavy. —— The pinth snnual Congress of the Co- opcrative Bocieties of England and Ireland was recently held at London. One sugges- tion made during its sessions has attracted considirable atiention. A delegate, review- ing the oo-operative wark of the Grangers, urgad the great Englishisocieties of working- men to buy a couple of ships and run them between Livarpool and the Mississippi Valley, in order to exchange the products «f English workingmen for those of American farmers on mutuslly sdvantageous tarms. Something like this exchangs, although on & much smaller scale, is now going an between the Eastern and Western States. A Grange ships flour o some club of mechanicg in the East and receives manufactured articles in return. The gain is said to smount, in some cases, to 20 or 40 per cent st each end of the line. The newides, there- fore, simply proposes s broader application of anold and successful acheme. If it is taken up in earnest great things msy result from it. The English societies have plenty of capiial to invest in this wny, if they wish, and they have hitherto been prompt to seize upon chances of gain. The wholesale Co-operstive Society of Manchester, or the head Co-operative Socisty of Leeds, or any one of helf-a-dozen other such organizations which might be named, could readily afford o send & vessel on s trial-trip to the Missis- &ippi. Its cargo, composad of selscted En- glish manufactures, would reach our farm- ers free from the tolls now imposed uwpon such goods by the importer, the jobber, the wholesaler, the ' half-dozen brokers, and the retailer, who handle them before they reach the consumer. The return- eargo would be composed of flour and grain and pasked meats, and the saving on it to the English artisans would be very great. Co- gland, and fnternationsl eo-operation may werk more miracles thers and here. A good joke has been perpetrated at the expenss of the New York Sun. Ithadan editorial on ths subject of the recent appoint- taent of an American Oardinal, whick elicited the foliowing letter: Do Ohe Jablior of Gos Now York o Sra: In your “Oxninad ¥ articls ef this mosning I @otice tha following suttences ¢ %i 7k Siguity o Cirdinadis e highest to ¢k= Romen | B -escheat to the Bisio? Catholic Churel, ihe Pope alane ezcopted. They hold also the rank of Princes.” A Art. 13 of the Ocnstitution of the United States pro- pi led States shall “ Tnit e o bile of oLy o homo, R T e i wieves frbcs any Emossor, Kiog. Prince, of foreign power, such person_aball cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding 20y oftce of trust or profit under them or either of . It would sppear, therefore, that Oardinal MoCLOSKEY. ‘has lost his citizenship, and query, does his real estate B.T.F. The Sun published this letter, and then re- plied, explaining that a *“Cardinal” was not a political Princs, ete., ete. The joke is that there is nothing in the Con- stitation of the United States like what is quoted as ¢ Article 13.” The only provision relating to that subject is in the seventh clause of 8ec. 9 of Art. 10of the Constitution, and reads : No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without ths consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, offics, o title of any kind whatever, fram any King, Prince, or foreign State. ; It is not, therefors, impossible for any American citizen who does not hold an office under the United States to accept any pres- ent, salary, or office, or even the title of Count, Baron, or Duke, from any foreign Government that may choose ‘to confer it. There is at least one Count” in New York, and there are hundreds of Americans who are in the receipt of salaries from foreign Gov- ernments for professional and official work. i et FRAUDS IN POPULAR GOVERNMENTS, ‘Wo again call the attention of the people of Chicago to the serious consequences of tolerating for one moment the abuses of fraudulent elections. We do not speak of this evil because by such frauds one man may obtain an office to which some other man is entitled. We think the loss of office and of its profits and emoluments to the man honestly clected, while an outrage, is of itself but & small portion of the crime of fraudu- lent elections. So far as it deprives & man of ‘honors and profits to which he is eatitled, it is & robbery of an individunl; but this is a limited part of the crime, which reaches di- rectly the political and personal interests of the whale community. In other Governments the people are pro- tected by the strong hand of power, employ- ing for that purpose the professional soldier and standing army, subject o the 'arbitrary commsand of a hereditary execative. For standing armies, hereditary executives, arbi- trary suthority, and royal prerogative, we have the sole defense and protection of wnt- ten 1aws, expounded by civil magistrates. To. mske these laws the people elect representa- tives, and to expound and exscute these laws the people choose civil magistrates and other officers. An election, therefore, in this coun- try is something more than the mere choice ‘between individuals ; it is the popular exer- cise of the power to make laws and establish governments for their own protection: ‘While the general mass of citizens are in- different as to the personal question whether Syrra or Boown holds office, they are all keen- ly interested in the honeat and faithful ad- ministration of the laws, and in the enact- ment of wholesome laws to promoto the public welfare and protect the rights of person and property. They are, for instance, deeply-interested in the question whether the men temporarily in offics be dlothed with authority to impose taxes necessary to meet all honest and necessary expenditures of the- Government, or whether guch persons be clothed with unlimited power to tax, and un- limited power to expend the taxes thus levied and collected. In an election to dstermine this question stuffing the ballot-boxes and making forged and fraudulent returns are matters which have no placs, and which, if practiced and tolerated, must destroy publio confidence in elections, bringing Govern- ments into dis'epute, and inviting & resort to violence to defend the public rights against subversion by the criminal elass. The ecase of the vote on the 23d of April for or against the charter of 1872 is ens in point. For several months it was conceded that that charter was not to be adopied. It ‘was never discussed, and never published; the Common Council did not even take the pains to submit the gquestion of ita adoption or rejection im a le- gal form. Assuming that no ome would vote for it, the submission of the question at all was regarded a8 & more pro forma matter, necessary to get it out of the way. But, se- creily, and within a few days beforo the eleo- tion, the oriminal elasszs, nided by soms members of the Common Council, resolved to take advantage of the gemeral impression that it was to be voted down, and force its sadoption. For this purpose these people se- lected the First, Second, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, and Twentisth Wards in which to perpetrate such frauds as, if suo- eesaful, would secure & majority for the char- ter. Torender this fraud more shecessfal, thero were no clerks sppointed, and no lists of voters kept; in these wards there was comparatively but & small legal vote polled, and, taken together, the majority of this le- gal vote was against the charter. But the returns showed a different restlt ; theyshow- ed that an unprecedentedly largs vote wns polled, and that there were several thousands ‘majority for the charter. It is unnecessary to repeat the dotails of the illegal manner m which the election waa conducted. What we wish to call attention to is theuniversally con- ceded fact that in these wands there were several thousand votes counted for the char- ter which, if cast, were illegal, ox, if not cast, were thrust into the box dizhonestly and counted. The effect of this proceeding, if tolerated, is tenfold more serious to the peo- ple of Chicago than the election of alegion of dishonest and disreputable officars. What is the result produced by this stuffing of the ballot-boxes, er the scceptancs of illegal votes? If tolerated end upheld, these ballot-box- stuffers have abolished the existing charter and laws of the Gity of Chicago, including the legislation of many years. They have not only abolished and repealed the charter and ccmstitution of the city, but in a single hour have substituted therefor an entirely new constitution, which practically revolu- tionizes the City Government, transferrmg all power from the pecple, Mayor, and other elective afficers, to & majority of thirty-six Aldermen. That msjority will consist of ninefeen,—a number that is both historical and ominous in Chicago ! Here, then, is a complete revolution in the Government of a eity of 450,000 people, with $350,000,000 of taxable property, acoom- plished not by the votes of the people, nor by the votes of smy considerable portion of tham, but by tho so-called votes illegally de- posited. Tt is, we supposs, not disputed ne s fac by any ome, cven by thoss who want ihis charter dselared adopted, that more than half the vobe retarnud ex given for the chsr- tor was illegnl; frondulent, or ‘never polled. class, who, under the forms of an elqetion, have imposed this charter, this entirs new constitution, wpon the people of Chicago, 2nd who, in the exultation of their crime, in- sultingly and defiantly deny that the 70,000 other voters of the city have any redress or remedy. The form of &n election, they in- sist, is complete. It canmot be eorrected, and the people of the city have nothing left but submission to the fraud committed by & mere handful of unprincipled operators. £ such s notorions sod undisguised fraud as this, whereby the whole machinery end system of government of . Chieago, and the entirelaw of the city, is abolishedand another system, and machinery, and law, substituted, can pass uncorrected, and unrebuked by the Couris and public opinion, then what is to check or prevent therepetition of such frauds ona larger scale, at all other elections, thereby transferring to & few hundreds of criminals the exclusive function of government, from the primary meeting to nominate candidates. to the highest Courts that administer . the laws ? i HESREW PAUPERISH. . Jewish charity, as a rule, does not much ex- tend beyond the limits of the one race, but within these limits its work is wonderfully well done. The Hebrew's strong pride in his blood makes him unwilling to see an Israclite beg his brend, and he spends his substance with really lavish generosity to prevent any such disgrace to his community. Has the reader ever seen a Jewish pauper ? It is safe to say that there is no such person in any ocounty poor-house in America. The Jew cares for his own. ’ The *leading great charity in Londom,” according to the Pall-Mell, is the Board of Guardians for the Belief of the Jewish Poor. This is the largest of the 100 benevolent so- cieties maintained by the 30,000 Hebrews in London. Instead of = encournging: pauper- ism, ‘as the Christian Associations - for poorrelief in London . do, this' or- gonization encourages the poor to riss above pauperism. The -Board of Guardians is divided into four Comunittees. One of these is charged with investigating the real condition of applicants for relief. It does its work thoroughly and promptly. Ko red tape chokes it. One of its members is often at the home of ‘an applicant befors the latter can get back there himsclf. The Vis- iting Committee makes regular roundsamong the recipients of relief, hears eomplaints, and renders judgment thereon. Then there is the Lozn Committes, the germ from which the whole orgenization grew. This ad- vances small sums of money to poor Jows in order to start them in business, pay debts they have contracted at usurious rates of in- terest, eto. These loans are repaid in instellments and without interest. The Industrisl Committes . is the most impartant of all. Its original duty was to lend sewing-machines, but its workis now much wider. It is trying to persuede the poor Jews to apprentics their children to car- ‘penters, upholsterers, masons, etc., instead of putting them sll at tailoring or cigar-making, as they donow. The necessary apprentice- premiums are peid by the' Committes, but still the indigent Israclite clings to the trade of his father and grandfather, and, 28 s rule, prefers the unhealthy pursuits of eigar-roll- ing and cloth-stitching to anything else. Tho Industrial Committee, however, is extending its operations every year, and is producing a permanent improvement in the condition of the Jewish poor. The Board has under its care an institution called the Jewish Home, to which the aged poor retire; and ia which they find all the necessaries and many of the luxuries of life, The sverags wealth of the Hebrews is probably greater than that of any other race. This fact, in conjunction with their compaz- atively small numbers, makes’ the problem of poor-relief much easier of solution for them than for others. Nevertheless, their methods of solution are 50 mueh better, simpler, and eheaper than those most in vogue with chaz- itable organizations that they demand atten- tion. 'The eost of manngement in their char- ities is usnslly an utterly insignificant per- centage, whils it often eats up half, snd more, of $he receipts of other societies, THE MAN WEOQ MOVES, Happy was the man who yesterdsy ecould write upon his front door ‘‘Moving post- poned until the first fairday.” Unhappy and ‘wretched he who kad to pack his household £ods upon an express wagon sad expose his domestic divinities to the fierce nsszults of wind, rain, and snow, landing them: by the mnew fireside moist, unpleasant ‘bodies, There has been alegend long time ourrent in poetical collections, akind of myth allowabls by the license permitted to these tender and melancholy idealists who do the world's shyming, thot May.day is consecated to the waking up of Nafure fram her long winter sleep; that on. this day she throws off her whits counterpane and springs out of bed all garlanded with- flowers; that the skies put on their most - delicats blue, the sephyrs blow most balmily, the blue-birds and robins pipes up their prettiest' tunes, and all ths trees array themselves in lustrons em. erald, in herhonor. Young maidens are sup- posod to request their mothers to wake and call them early, that thoy may dance sbout ths festooned May-polo and entico the unsus- picious and suscoptible village swains, Corydon is painted reclining under the umbrageous elm, playing pensive pastorals t Thyllis, while the cows crop the young and juicy grasses, and the lambs gam- bol on the green. Troops of young aund inno- cent childron arrayed in white are supposed to scour the meadows and woods for May flowers. ‘There is no end, in fact, to the bucolic bun- combe with which the posts hsil the advent of May; but the man who moved yesterday, nureing bis griefs to-day, and the man who | didn't move, thanking his blessed stars to- day, Imow how delusive and unsubstantial ig this postical ideslizing. . They know that the young maidens’ mothers had -more sense than 40 call them early. They know that, if the young maidens had danced about the dripping May-poles, they never would have danced sgain. Xf Corydon had reclined tnder the umbrageous elms, Corydon would have had to leave for the Hot Springs to-morrow {0 remove his rheumstism. If the young children kad trooped through the woods in search of Msy flowers, il is probable the majority of them in a few days would have been- cherubs, with the May flowers growing.over them. All f which goes to show that your post is a falsifier, whoss rhymes are to bs taken with a grain of - salt. . fairest of skies, the man who moves: is aman to be pitied. It is hard te bresk up old nssociations and erockery ; to encounter the lonelivess of the new house and the chim- ?znythstm'tdmw; to say good-bytoold nsighbors and looking-glasses ; to_feed npon and eold victuals ;- to -feel *; thatthe Inst link and “the list sugar-bowl s broken ; to encounter the annual storm of fate and the curious inquisitiveness of neigh- bors, who, looking through window-slats, criticise the quality of your furniture ; to find your fairest expectations unreslized “and your best suit packed 8wsy in a slop-barrel. All _this. is sufficiently dis. tressing, -oven among ‘blossoming. trees, sud caroling - birds, and balmy zephyrs. Paint the situation as favorably as you may, the man who moves is an object of pity, flee- ing from the ills he has to”others that he Inows not of. He knows he is the symbol of distress ; that, perched upon an express wagon, with a clothes-pole for & bowsprit and a wash-tub for a rudder, he is the flag of humen sorrow ot half-mast. He knows that other huran beings are inclined to gloat over his misery, that he haslost his dignity; that his native msjesty is buried under kettles, and pans, and old barrels, and ihat, instead of being a little lower than the angels, *those feathered crenturesare probebly hoveringabout him in . supreme disgust. He knows that he is doomed to meighborhood curiosity, to rll sorts of rumors and gossip which have reached his new house before- him, to the chaffing of small boys, to thermometiical, ‘barometrical, plavial, plumbial, gastronomical, sgartorial, and socinl miseries almost . without number. W e ; And if the man who moves wakesup ons bright May morning with- such feeliigs a8 these, what must have been the feelings of the man who moved yesterdsy, when he woke up in, the morning and found the heavens shrouded ‘with clouds, the skies weeping floods of tears, the . earth steaming with fogs, the chimney-smoke hang- ing low, ‘thie soot falling everywhere, rain pouring through the morning and snow sift- ing through the afternoon, the burly winds roaring sbout his house and whistling through the vacant stovepipe-holes all sorts of mourn- ful and ominous tunes? The man who moved yesterday reached the very scme of humen wretchedness. If he survives it, he is proof agninst anything in the -fature. :Lifo can have no further terrors for him. He can staro Fate in the face with complacency. Hes has seen the very bottom: of Pandora’s box. We forbear dwelling upon his miseries. They belong to that category of private affliotions which are or should be sacred from the inquisitive eye. We have not alladed to the woman who moved,—the woman with the soiled calico, the sore knees, the sooty nose, the splintered fingers, the aching back, and the towd round her head,—a sick and sorry Rigolette. We have not the heart to. Why this crowning sorrow should have been added to the female repertoire of griefs is ome of those mysterious dispensations which may never be explained until we reach that blessed bourne whera May-days sre never decaptive, and the man and woman who move will move no more forever, but always bé at home. . Every clond has a silver lining, however. The maan who moves has the consolation of leaving a souvenir of torn wall-paper, broken window-panes, old hats, oyster cans, burnt out stovepipes, and heaps of dirt, dust, soot, and slops, for his successor. “ THE POUGEREEPSIE PLAN.” The latest proposition of the Roman Cath- olics of New York with reference to the union of their parochinl schools with the public schools, familiarly known a8 the ¢ Poughkeepsie_plan,” is only a presentation ' of their original proposition in another form, aiming ot the same purposes, and, if accepted by the Board of Education of that city, des- tined to bring about.the eame results. The details of the Poughkeepsie' plan are sub- stantially ag follows: The Board of Educa- tion leased the Catholic parochial schools for ten years at 2 nominal rent, the right to can- cal the lease within a certain time being re- served by both parties to the lesss. The teachers, who were mainly Sisters of Chaxity, aftor passing examination by the Bosxd, were reappointed. The text-books-im use inthe public schools were adopted. During the school hours, occapying hslf the day, thero are no religious exercises of any kind, but after their expiration, and- safficient time has been devoted to cleansing the rooms, then they are used for religious instruction and devotions. This plan the Catholic clergy are industrionsly pressing upon tho iNew York Boerd upon .two grounds: first, ‘that it hos thus far worked -well in Poughkespsie, and given noground foreom- plaint, and, second, that it is in the nature of & compromise, and & geerous one at that. The first recson has very little weight. Poughkeepsie is & small interior locality, where tho working ¢f +he plan would not ‘manifest itself with any degree of elearness 85 to results, end; even if it would, the adop- tion of the so-called * compromise ” is too recent to afford any opportunity of judging its merits. The second reason is only amake- shift. The Poughkeepsie plan is in po sense a compromise. It is the old proposition in snother -shape, It would be absurd fo -sup- pose that the Catholic clergy have abated in the smallest degree their determination to meke the State assume the expense of main- taining their dogmatic schools, and diverking the school fund from its present unsectarian spplication. They relinquish none of their claims in presenting this plan. If they did, they wonld convict themselves of insincarity. The real meaning of the Poughkeepsis prop- osition is thet, after the pupils of these paro- chisl schools have finished their daily secular studies, then they shall be instructed in the Roman’ Catholic dogma, and these ‘instrac- tions shall be given in a building maintained by the State or city, and by teachers who are to be paid out of the publis treasury. This isonly the old proposition revived. It is all they have ever claimed or expected. The only . difference is that they seek to reach the samo end by another road. The determined opposition of the better class of papers in New York, without refer- ence to their partisan character, makes it ap- parent that, if this plan is ever &dopted, it will only huppon after a Jong and obstinate | H. - sopranos ; Miss Axwie Loviss CARY and Miss resistance upon the part not only of Protest- ants, but also of a large and well-informed classin the Catholi¢ laity, and that this re- sistance will be based not only upon religious grounds, but slso upon grounds of eommon equity, economy, and educational ndvantage. ‘There is no middle course in the matter. The schools must either be sectarian or nnsects- rian. The proposition to make them unsec- ‘tarian half the dayand sectarianthe other ‘half is simply absurd, xnd in the case to which we have .alluded “its only effectisto make them Catholic schools. supported at the ex- pense of the general public, The hostility of o majority of the peopls to this covert plan for making -them’pay for instruction . in- veligious dogmss and creed does not grow ot of any hostility to the Ro- man Catholics s & body. Other. sects—the Methodists, Baptists, Prosbyterians, or Epis- ‘copalians—have ths same right to make this demand, and, if it were adopted, Methodist chitdren would go te Methodist schools, Bap- #lst te Baptist, and se’ on,*snd s’ Sists wonld be obliged to support the long array [ ter this one is over Boston will have to look of sects, with their jarring creeds,—s step which~would entail endless confusion and involve the cause of popular education in speedy ruin. In this case it is significant that it is only the Roman Catholics who are trying to moke public taxation the means of support of ssctarian instruction. Had the proposition come from' the Meth- odists, or Baptists, or any other Protestant sect, the opposition would have been fen- fold stronger “than it is in the case ‘of the Catholics, although there is mo suf- ficient. reason why it should be so. It grows out of the settled oconviction of the American people that they will not pay for | sectarion teaching in the public schools, and this conviction is one which they will never surrender to accommodata either Oatholio or Protestant sects THE ‘ECHO OF LEXINGTON. Some of the shorter speeches at the Lex- ington and Concord celebrations were quite a5 good as the Iabored orations. Gov. Cram- BERLAIN, of South Carolins, who hag really almost redeemed the dubious record of the past, made & decided hit by his plea for a ‘more perfect reconcilistion, and Gen. W. F. BarTrerr, who is now living at Richmond among the soldiers who shot him to piecés during the War, handled the same theme in away which fairly earried his suditors off their feet. His words found an echo, it seems, in Southern as well as Northern hearts. Last Thursdsy evening he was serenaded at his residence in Richmond by a large number of ex-Confedorates. When he appeared to ackmowledge the compliment, Gen. Braprey Jomssos thanked him, in behalf of the soldiers of the South, for his “manly and eourageous” speech at Lexington. Gen. Bastrerr said in reply that it regquired no courage for him to say what he did. Tl truths he spoke at Lexington wera all pleasant ones. “‘They were the most wel- come tidings received on that dsy of jubiles.” And 50, indeed, they were, It would be but a melancholy joy to celebrate the Centennial of the birth of a nation while the national life was in danger. And so every word which shows that the great arteries of friendship, and business, and good-will, so ruthlessly cut apart by the War, and so imperfectly kit together just after the War, are healing s0 thoroughly that the nationsl pulse beats as vigorously in Virginia as in Massachusetts, in Georgia as in Tllinois,—every such word thrills the national heart. ‘What a eontrast there is between Braorex Jomnsox thanking the crippled soldier of the Dhnion for his public declaration that the ex- Confederates have buried the passions of the War and are sgain devotses of the Union they mistakenly tried to destroy, and bar- ‘barian Braureaarp awaking the buried pas- sions by boasting, ten years after the War, that he had proposed to raiss the black flag and ‘massacre every wounded prisoner too far gone 1o resist an nssesain’s stab. © The barbarian is the one man who gighs over the fact that he was prevented from murdering Union sol diers. Had his policy been carried out there might now be no BaeriErr to try to heal the wounds of the War, and thers would cer- tainly be no Braurcaxp .to tear open the wounds. An indignent people would long since have disposed of the barbarian. Gen. BARTrETT'S speech in response 1o the serenade was repeatedly interrupted by ap- plause, The factis themoresignificantbecause the speaker did not stoop to fiatter soctional prejudice. He spoke from & national stand- point. He rejoiced in the downfall of slavery, condemned disunion, and urged that the task of cementing the Union more strongly than ever wea the most solemn duty of these Cen- tennial times. In 1865, such aspeech at Rich- mond would have sounded like mmeering mockery. Now it is gladly hailed and vigor- ously applanded. The first Centennial cele- ‘bration has borne good fruit. THE CINCINNATI FESTIVAL. The May Musical Festival at: Cincinnati promises to bs the grandest event which has yet taken place in this country, from a mu- sical point of view. The first ome, whith took place two.years ago, was a remarkable success, and did a great work for legitimate musical progress in the West and the whols country, but everything indicates that-the second one will be a still greater suceess. The programmes embrace a higher elass of musie, and much longer time and harder work hes been given to their preparation. Thé advices which XMr. Troaus bas received from Mr. Smices, his accomplished drill- master for this occasion, are very en- couraging, and Mr. THoxas himself will be there several days prior te the inauguration to put on the finishing- touches. Tho musicians, and, in fact, the entire public of Cincinnati, have taken a commendable pride in the Festival, and have spared neither money nor work to make it a succesa. The principal vocal numbers are ‘Waenmr's “‘ Lohengrin,” Bramus' ‘grand eight-part * Triumphlied,” MENDELISOEN'S “Elijah,” Mozanr's cantats, ‘“Praise of Fricndship,” Scmunser’s * Die Allmacht,” Bacn's “ Magnificat™ in D, and Laszr's «Promotheus,” besides numerous op- erastic and oratorib selections for the ‘matinees. The principal instrumeat- al numbers will include BeerHOVEN'S Ninth Symphony, with Mm H M Surrm, Miss Axze Lourse Camy, Mr. ‘Wovcr, aad Mr. RemnreeTs, in the quartette; Somunerr’s Ninth Symphony in O; Waocxen's ¢ Walkuero ¥ music ; BeeTeoven’s * Conse- cration of the House”; Iamer’s Second Rhapsodie ; Lussx’s * Fest Overture”; Scherzo from the ‘¢ Reformation Symphony " of Mzxprrseomy; and the ¢ Tannhsuser” music. In the performance of this splendid series of programmes, Mr. Troras will have the aid of the accomplished Cincinnati chorus of nearly 1,000 trained voices, and an or- ehestral forco: of sbout 125 pisces, of which his' own band will be the nucleus, and the following soloists: Mra. M. Saorm snd Miss Asnre WeHDNNERY, Eansa CRANOE, altos; Mr. W. J. Woior and Mr. Auxx. BisoHorr, tenors; and Mr. M. W. Werrssx and Mr. Fraxz Bexarntz, bassos. To make this organization as perfect as pos- sible, Mr. Duprzy Byck will preside at the largo organ. Witk such an army as this, headed by such a lesder as Mr. TaoMus, vic- tory is certain, and it does not need the gift of prophecy to predict that at the elose of the Festival Cincionati will plume her- self upon it. It is pleasant to know that she will desarve her success. y If Chicage furnishes any eriterion, it may: safely be assumed there will be an immense arowd in attendance.” Large numbars of our musical eitizens are intending to go and re- main through the week, and the same news comes from other cities, The first Festival was somewhat experimental in character, but the experimont wos s0 successful that it natinns with a determination to rensw i s faine has spread throngh ths evantry, and a- to itslaurels. We wish Chicagowere in acon- dition to have soma concern aboutits laurels also. MICHIGAR ABANDOHS PROHIBITION. ‘The Michigan Legialatare, which adjourned on Thursdsy, introduced s radical chaoge in the ‘Bystem o be adopted in desling with the lignor question in foture in that State. For twenty yoars prohibitory legislation has been tried in Michigan, and, it baviog boon found a failare practically in checking the sale and consamp- tion of liquors, & system of tsxation has now been insngurated and will be tried for the twe yeara which will elapse before the Legislature again meots. The Constitution of Michigan for- bids the licensing of the liquor traffic, but it is thought that, under s recent decision of the Su- prems Court of the State, & eystem of taxation will prove to be valid. Rqtailers of spirituous liquors are to pay 8150 per annum, while retail- ers of ale and beer will pay $40 per annum, thus making the tax onretailers a uniform one, without regard to locality or to the smount of business transacted. Wholesalers and manufacturers of liquors psy $300 per sanum each, and whole- salers of malt liquors $100 per annum esch. Manufacturers of malt liquors pay, according to the smounts manufactured yearly, from $50 to $200 per annum. A coustiiutional amendment was also provided for. to be voted upon by the psople in the fall of 1876, giving the Legislature entire contrg} over the matter of regulsting the liquor traffic. Thers is very little doabt that the people will decide in favor of this amendment, and at the next ses- gion of the Legislature it is not improbable that a license law may be enacted. This will, how- ever, depend somewhat upon the success which is found to attend the practical operation of the Tax law. ‘The latter, a8 passed, is by no means partect, and ig not ontirely sstisfactory elther to those who finally favored its passage ar to those who opposed it, but it was sgreed upon ss a compromise moasare, and ¢an be remodeled two years hence as may be found neceszary. This change in the system of desling with the question of regulating the salo of intoxicating liquors is the more noteworthy because Michigan has been ons of the few States which have for a long term of years adhered firmly to s system of prokibitory legislation, and ita sbolition at this time is undoubtedly the abandonment of that system as a practical failuro. Tho Tax Iaw en- acted distinguishes largely in favor of the sale of ale and beer, & policy which was approved by almost all the members of the Legislature in tho event of ths pagsage of a tax law. A law has also been enacted, forming the complemont of the Tax bill, forbidding and punishing the sale of liquors to minors, drunken persons, and babitual drunk- ards. Both laws were givon immediate offect, and are now in force, though, of course, some little time will be required to put them into corm- ‘plota operation. Mr. WeNDELL PHILLIPS is not exactly the man. 'we should chooso out of ten thorsand fo lecture the American people on polite manners, bat, in- asmuch a8 he has nominated and elgcted himself tothe office, it may be worth while to mnotice what he says. 1n 2 recent letter to the Boston Advertiser ho makes three distinct sccasations againes the biue-blooded “smobs” of New En- gland society. These are: (1) That CEARLES SuNn was treated wish disrespect by President Fovtox at & dinner given o tho Prince of Wales; (2) that Gov. Banks and lady were noglected and bumilisted at a similar entertaioment offered to the Prince pz Jorxviiza; (3) that President Grawr was insulted oo the occssion of the re- cont Centennial banquet at Concord The offense in_ the last instance consist- od in the omussion of Mr. Collector Bru- oxNs’ name from the liat of invited guests. Col- lector SraxtoNs, Mr. PEILLIPS 8ays, & the official reprosentative of the President in Massachusetts. A proper degres of respect to the office, if not to the man, would bave secured his invitation to a poblie dinner in that State st which the Presi- dent was a guest. Mr. Pmuries has, perhaps, allowed zeal to outrun his discretion. He may be misinformed. Mr. W. W. Goopwix has un- dertaken to answer the letter, and he has shown that, so far at least as the SuawEm matter is concerned, Mr. ParLLIes is ignorant if not mali- cious. Further investigation may do a8 much for the SpoNs affair. * The poem read at the decoration of Confader- st graves 1 Moble was greatly admired st the time. The firat atanza was 88 follows "True,—rebels they wore, firm and strang. But not &5 8 pitiless foa history and song, Portrays them and smiles at the weo Their desth in its train bronght along ; Notrebels o honor, not Tebels {0 truth, bels £o faith, and not rebels to rath— 1 they were The degign of the poem, we are informed ina preface, was to repel ** the oft-repeated celumny that the Confederatea were rebels and traitors.” ‘This kind of enthusiasm, wuich makes no aoc- count of the meaning of words, is quite refresh- ing, and certamnly the most satiafactory te its possessors. —_————— Mombers of the old Irish family, descended from :the ancient Kioge, the O'Smavamsessys, will be pleased to know that a noted character of modern times derives his name directly from them, BmickwasTy JiM, Capt. JAck’s chief aid, was originally O'Smavonnessy Jos. The fact hag been fairly established by an ald Califor~ daclared thatit was dictated by the spirit of Cicexo, aud there has been s coolness between herand Ciceno's spirit ever since.—Brookiym Argus. “*Don’t talk loud on the street liko thase vol- gnr American girls,” is the motherly sdvice of the Empress ot Japen to the future motliers of the almond-eyed heathen of that country. A Weld County, Col, man sold his wife for $2,000 cash and 3 farm valued at $3,000. Nxm- TUCHADNEZzAR made & worse bargsin than that, but there is a difference in wives, they ssy. JouN HAx is writing a posm on * Blind Baz- TREUS,” but it will tako more stanzasof that than JorxN can write in his lifetime to wipe “ou$ the disastrous effects of * Little Breeches.” Thare i no affliction without its corresponding nian, who writes to one of the papars and gives the yaluabla information quits gratuitously. FPERSONAL Epxearycan talk & man o death in seven langunges. By Evxrson, the mizstrel, is ab the Sher- man House. The free-lunch system haa been introduced in fashionable Parisian stores, Morwik ArieN, of Napa, Cal, can split & pistol ballet an a knife-edgo at ten pacos. Miss KaTiz Mavnew, the well-known aciress, wrrived yesterday a: the Bherman House. Gen. Custer and party, and Lient. AL M. Maxox, of the U. 8. A., arrived yeaterday at the Palmer House. Viorsrza Corviiie, of whom so much has boen heard, is going to mako hs debusin bar- lesque after all. i B. GeaTz Browx has built twonty-two hand- some residonces in St. Louis, sud mow wants somebody to occupy them. Mr. N. Marsox, ef the jewelry firm of N. Matsox & Co., lies sorionsly ill a¢ his boms ia Lombard, 20 miles west of the city. The Superintendent of the Oincinuati Infir- mary recommends placing & ean of nitro-glycer- ine in the graves around Ann Arbor and Chicago. Bmiamax Youxa says. that in the prisons, gambling-shops, and other dens of infamy, one sees the results of educating children in the free schools, away from their parents. Boston sighs for a CarzsTsRrIELD {o suswer the question whether & man who sita behind a throe-story hat in theasre is mot justified in roosting on the back of his seat. ‘The police of Paris have suppressed the sys- tem of *‘speculating"in theatre tickets. The police of Pans seem to be engaged in suppress- ing evarything bat actnal crime. BouoicAuLT wrots two * Shaughrauns.® The firat was so like **Clancarty,” by Tox Tarrom, that at WALLACK’S request he re-wrote it The second version occupied him eleven days. An enthusiastic Peari-Axprews Pantarchist, Iately in the habit of awaking at all hours of ths night under the impression that ihe spirits were tickling him, has been able, after a little patient investigation, ta discover the pioneer bed-bug of the sesson,—Srookiyn Argus. Junias HAWTEHORNE wanis Harvard to send another crow over to beas the Oxfords. Jurs, stick o your movels and eook-becks kil yoa lsarn somothing. Brpearn confesses that he dosm't understand allevistion. Evenifit did snow yestarday, the First of May, Lyoia TmoMesoN has begun to doubt the propriety of returning to the States. Cmnres T. F. Wraax Cuntis, of St Louis, took a bottle of Iandanum because the light of his eyes had left the city, but what could be ex- pected of & youth whose name was so frightfally cutup? A Dabuque printer received the following note from his girl : **May I git yanked out of bed a$ midnite every nite by a cuss lixe THEYDORR Tre- ToN, an’ carried upp a million pare of stares, iff ever I sese to love you, Jnr.” Many years sgo, Miss Berre Smeranx, of 88 George'’s County, Md., attended Jomx W. Bxpa- wicK, of Washington, during & sickness which followed & fall from his horse. ' In his will he has left her $10,000. Jour Hawppex ig in jail. Don't marvel; he is the man who maintained the fiatness of the earth, aud libeled those who dissgreed with him. He will remain in s cell during one re- wvolation of the terrestrial disc round the sun. Mr. Georex K. FontEscue, the actor, of this city, bas written and perfected a drama,—**Col- orado, or East and West,"—which he will first produce at Indianapolis, Monday, the 16th inst. 1fr. . will be supported by Mrs. ForTzSoUE, & part having been prepared especially for that talented lady. Jurtus Duxoax, the German reporter of & Brooklyn newspaper, Who sens & note to the Coroner stating his intention of commiting sui~ cide, a8 the Brooklyn trial wastoo much for him, has turned wp alive. His constitution, he says, was stronger than the poison, and the defenss Las rested its cass. The Bev. Epwarp Ecoreston is going to have his revenge on FurrzrroN. Ha threatens in a published card to put himinto & novel, * his shaking forefinger, high cheek-bones, polite sneer, air of omnisciencs, voice cooing te & badgered witness like tho soothing melody of & quartz-mill, and all.” ® A statue of Jomx the Bapsist has been une earthed in Pisa. The suthenticity of the thiog seems to be somewhat donbted, and yet it haen't oceurred to the nsually quick-witted Italisns to crack open the work of art to see if thers are any remams of locusta and wild honey in the stomach.—8t. Louis Republican. A memorial thestre is to be built in honer of bHAESHEARE, at Stratford-on-Avon. More than Dalf the sum necessary for the enterprise has been raised, and two acres of ground have been given. It is proposed to establish a dramatie training school and college in connection with tho theatre, if ths funds hold oat. The Bev. Davip Haznis has been called to the pastorate of the Calvinistic Methodist Church of this city. While in Columbus, O., Mr. HARRIS did much good, eepecially among his conntry- mon from Wales, and the Welsh people of Chi- cago are to be congratulated upon their suscess in"secunng him to look atter their spiritual wel- fare. An ingenious Italisn has invented am sarth- quake indicator. It fires off a gun when the earth begins to quake, and then every man who has provided himself with su indicator kno that an earthquake is going on; while those whe carelessly neglected to provide themselves with this useful invention have to’guess at it.— Wor- cester Press. Young Bex SrrNxer’s lament in the Courier- Jousnal: **The reason why that the 4th of July is so short is becanse they signed the Declara- tion of Independence sll on one dsy. If they only had went slow, and been three or four days sbout it, then wo would have had s longer pull at the fireworks, and plenty of time to make thiogs likely most all the week.” The Bev. Troais BARNARD, an English clergy- man of the Established Church,. got rather drunk in London, sod in that condition went te the Globe Theatre, where Lipi THoxrsox had been playiog m burlesque. A new piece was produced that night, and Miss Taoxesox did not appearinit. The clergyman was so enraged by disappointment that he shouted and hissed, and therefor was arrested. An old vag stopped a pedestrian on the street yesterday and asked for two shillings to pur chase s dinner. “Can’t do it,” replied the pedestrian. *Well, one shilling, then.” “No —can't doit. *Well, gimme five centa.” *‘Not s Ted” “A chew of tobacco.” *“No, sir.” 47Vell,” continued the vag, i despairing tones, “you will at least tell ma whether yon think wo'll have another snow-storm this week.” Hs got the man’s opinion.—Detroit Free Press. Miss Ipa GREELEY, the elder daughter of the 1ate Horace GREELEY, was married in New York yesterday to Col. Nicholas Smith, of Covington, Ky., at the Tesidence of her aant, Mrs, Jomx £, Crevetasp. The Rev. Father Famnxri, an ald friend of the GREE.EY family, performed tke ceremony, according to the rites of the Boman Catholis Church. There were present s largs number of invited guests, including Judges acd ‘military and professiozal men. After the cero- mony the bridal party embarked in the steamce Abyssinia for Earope. New York letter : Genaral joy! A rnmor pro vauls that Mr. MoxTAGUE and Miss Rosz Massry are again reconciled, and that the exposurs of that trips 20d onion infelicity—that feass of garlic, and that flow of flannel—is all forgivexn, all forgotten. The apartments of Mise Massey, near the Lyceum Theatre, are once more the re- sort of him who stood on the verge of bresch of promise 8o considersbly * chope ” falien. Even it is said that be whispers to hia friends, **Ly Jove, old man, you ought to go over and see s charming acwress now plsying Henrieits with great success ot Mra. Coxway’s Theatre—Rois Mussey, you kuow.” HITEL ARRIVALS. Sherman House—E. A. Baoker, J. . Fairbanks, New York; J. Alex Finley, U, 8. A.; Wiliam Homes, ;.:.m;': J'o’h;il.’i:d&r], Now York; C, E. Hig~ , Now 3 Jol ; W, 3itchell, New Orleans ; A. &mw" x.:% C. Hamiiton, Philsdelphis ; Charies Deane, Bosto: Spencer Day, Des Alols . H. Howland, New Yor! 3. itler, Jr., Balttmore ; 'A. F. Griswold, Erle; M. Minkler,’ London; A tier, Texus; W. Beu R Philadelphis ohton, Albanys B . Shreve, Louisville E. H. Seaver, Boston; 0. Francleco; ¥, B, Dodge, cinnati; H. B. Oleveland, Scotland ; e York; Duniel Osverley, ; 3. C. York} Williem E. Bulbert, Connéeticuty, . - 8 word of Latin, sod the question agitating Bos. | Jiz Louisile: B‘;flm&lw T, P Ciinten, day ton ) Who wrule thsd talagram? Bister Pavioen | ark) Freak @, X oyes, e e e e L AP TN Y Y 41T V1 A Mt e