Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 13, 1875, Page 4

RET THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY JUNE 13, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. TERMS CF THE TRIBUNE. EATES OF STBSCAIPTION (PAYAVLE I¥ ADVANCE). in exch town and villige. th suca. ordinary laws of groed, rapacity, and extor- tion. The Philadelphia landlords are, of course, beyond the resch of the laws, but they aro not beyond the reech of public sen- timent ; and if the public sentiment of Phila- delphia does not reach the hotel cormorants i : heir extortionnts w, axd mako them reduco thei Bpccalacrasgements mege charges, they may xely apon it that the pub- Specimea capies at rco. pous. | lic sentiment outside of Philadelphia will b opreventgelar and mistekes, be d give Pout- g 5 % 5 Oferadtrediin full Inctuses Srate oo e quite unanimons in allowing that city to Hamittenoss may be made eizherby draft, expross. Poat- | patronize its show without any material out- Ofica orter, or 1= reglstered letters, st oar risk. 18 dssletunoe. o TERMS To CITY sTrRcAmyAL. ; Jafly, delivered, Suncey excepted, 25 vents perwesk. Datiz, deisvered, Buncay tnciuged, B0 cants pes wotk. TEE COURT-EOUSE BUILDING, Aadres THE TRIGUNE COMPARY, The controversy between tho City and Cerner Madison sad Desrborn-si., Chloagos IL | County Governments o5 to the choice of T — N . architects for the new City amd County. Blaci b buildings still progresses. The Common To-naT. Couneil have chosen Euax snd Trirey; the CERFLATPEATIE SRk Sors®s ™™™ | County Board have chosen Brnimva, hEAam, ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Hulsted strost, betwesa | and Kars. The county insists on having sdlansand Tacoord brbishe Bt three architeets, and the Couneil on having 70 0mzO. two. No compromisa geems possible. It is D i ang Sikter acieoment ot the en Fork | to be regretted that the controversy does not Fit Avenns Theaire Company. **Tha Big Bontams™ | torn npon the question of the ability of the wARET AR architects. The Council does not think ADELPEITHEATREDeesborn atssot, corner Moo- that the compensstion is large enough oo Veriety fntercciament, to be divided among three; °and g F_ roet, betwe iled gt Lol e S R B0 | ho comnty jnsists that ot least thres UL SR S i nationalities shall be reprosented in the SOCIETY MEETINGS. architectore. TiLres's plan for the entire T e o ye._a | building is, wo suppose, the most generally e emaieton i oo Sett ok i Sl & | liked,—that is, it is approved ss comparad A AT, PR i:,:."“‘.m with all others. But, then, Eaax haa a plan, it Dareo: Vikitons Basamliy vitage "ok °8 and 60 has each of all the other architects, BExF. Pvcr, Secratary, O B PXON, WAL | and the appointees have to decide on the N — plan of the future building. Altogether the Muncay eveulig, 13t iast., at Oriental Hall, 133 LaSallo: complication. Behind each architect is & o Siombara At atpec ok gulistaviad. Work ox Abi8 Liegres. Nironicrof W. | legion of expectant contractors and others, i SAM SRR RS0 | g the'ul:pecinl favorite. Sogat Conctare of | Tn the menatime the sesson is passiog 55 % | away. Materials, labor, and money sre all y “ | cheaper at this time than they have been for years. The foundations for the building might oll be laid this year, and with great Smamaay economy of expenditure. ) sz, Jone 1 at25: : The city has no available fands; the coun- hn_osc m”‘l?,;’fgo' 4810, 0 ll:::m:km’:n ty bas suthority to borrow.. County ‘bond.c ‘ti2ad the faneral esreme. | can now be sold at a premium. In view of ; the financial condition of the city, it would ASHLAR LODGE, No B BL¥. & A A mecuns | D 8 8000 stroke of policy to build he entire gommusiostion Toasiay crraing, Juse 15, for wark oaise | building in the namo of the county, and havo Pusd Dommsa. Fretemiyy cordill (avlied, v p gewy. | the city nominally rent such portions as it may nead of the new building. Substan- tielly the constituency of the City Govern- ment is the sume as that of the comnty. In the matter of toxation to pay the caunty -, .y - | debts, the cityis the countyin the propor- The Chitagy Tribuste, | toa ot seven io one + “ | Butinthoway of this proposition is the fact that the City Government would bs ex- cluded#rom the manipulations of the business. The expenditure of several millions of dol- lors is not an everydny evemt. If that An Americsn fshing-boat has picked Up | ymount of money is to be expended withont a2d broght into St. Johas, N. B., nine of | g contral by the Aldermen, of what profit the crew and three of tho passengers of 86 | iy it to'bo an Alderman? Hence, there are i two distinct political organizations, called governments, claiming an interest in regu- 870 been mado ont for the | e i of ths monoy, ooch Grein-Inspector Hanven and bia | pgying itg own depondents snd followers to bondemen. Tho smount of the alleged de- | g guartered on the public, Lleation i §25,415.96. Ths sult, however, it | “iug buiding onght o be began. The city s said, ie to be amicably sattled, 8o thet the | 1o noy gotrized to borrow, &ad it has futh sbout ke deposit in the Cook GOWNY | money, Tt has, howeser, property for which Buak will not coms out. it hay 00 use, from which it draws no reve- 5 - 1 | Bue, and which is withheld from taxation. To Tei Lotosx of wmorowwe Wl pye o pn thedityan B ifa il o pnhhsh(bmot}ler chapter i the histary of the | ¢y, vooroacaticerentastate, Lot it consult om0 noty Dack whilo uofer tho IantE™ | with the Ilinois Central and other railroads as e s [ Atzex. ppe: to the eale of part of the lako front. If the i o or B Ioply by QIn ALiavs New | iionsvill now pay the $800,000 for & quit, o2 pirimere 10 b cord pullished, v thin | v nian froen e diiy: Sl geis B ibs Paperafew Wesks oo property shall be taxalis, then let the city re- plenish its exhausted Treasary. Let it sell all the rest of the real estate for which it bas no use ; let it get out of the market es adaily borrower, sud go on with the Court- EHousethis yeartothe extent of laging the foun- dations of the building, Next year, relioved of temporary embarrassments, & small tar oan be lovied for the further prosocution of the work, and thus gradually put up and finish this building, which ougltt not to be erected Legal ingenuity has discovered s new form | 00 78pidly. It will be a better and of libel. The Pittsburg Post said that Mr. W, | Stronger edifice if five yenrs be occupied in D. Mooz, of that city, Cusirman of the Dera- | bullding it than if it is pat up in helf that crstic County Comumittce, had not discharged | Hme. Let the city do something townrds Bis duties failifully. For this the Post has | S0BVerting the real estate into money and been sentenced o pay $10,000. If it is a | t0 taxable property. libel to csll 8 man 2n inefficient Democrat, - vy LS whet vords would describe the crime of call: | Chicago har bt v 1Ly, uader fhe ing him & thorongh-pacad Democrat ? xiver, intended for the pussage of vehicles e . and pedestrians ; these were built in response u:’;rl’:"‘“ li‘f“i‘l arg g;“mm‘a ‘: to public demand, long persisted in. The ; prerogative of divorce-grant- | o icability of the tunnels to take the place ing. Afew dags agotwo people in Indinnap- | of prigag tom o dispated question, which glis wers mesiad by a curions ceremony, om0 | 01 e scvered ont i one way, and that eatore in which was an agreoment that the | oy By bulliig s Counit Thobact oot Tarisgo should ceass whenever either of |y, ot ot Wachington strect, and was oo ot el of i This Grend JuiyBet ) o s vetinva the Sreswurs of Laves on imstrantod to indiet them. When divorces | o 703 1070 8 fhe Prestuit of travel on ira 83 cheap as they are across the border, | o y i o mase e s chesy 7 aen ! > | bridges. Tt was o movelty st first, but AN o to thick halest | 4 oan " huvitiyibe mald Ao hive éver bon =y Gl popular, This was attributed, however, to Further details of the grest earthquake in | 10 defects in the workmanship, owing to Now Grencds ave given this morning. Bo- | Whick there was always an inlet of water xides some extraordinury shoeks, which'made | TeRdering tho camiage-way very unpleas- mothing of swallowing & town whole in the | 20% a0d in winter creating an ice-pond. An- crucks iy opened, volcunoes opencd and | Other funnel was demanded snd was built at bombarded the country with balla of firo, | LaSalle street. This was a much batter pieco basides belching out fowing lava. Tho dis. | Of Workmanship. Indecd, it is mot open to triet injured was ons of the great coffes ro. | 89Y Objection on that scoro. Nevertheless, @ons of the world, so that consumers of the | it has never become popular ssa routs for frigraat berry everywhoro aro likely to | t8veL Neither tunnol s sed for heavily- eufer ‘in (helr pockets and palates by the | 100ded teams becauss of the grades, private disgusting conduct of the earthquake. Ne. | CSFTisges and buggies avoid them because of tare 524 human naturo seem o he equally | tho Roise and the dangers in cnso of a run- ad dows in Seoth Amesies. away, and foot-passengers will rurcly go plidis out of their way a single block to A fomale convict named Kare Cosserry | give tho tunnel preference to the recently escaped from ‘Sing Sing Prison by | bridge. The ordinmce of the ity loweriag herself from s window of the Pris- | limiting the time that the bridges shall bs o0 kospital with & rope. When 15 years of | 6%ung open for vessels has reduced the 8¢ &he escaped from Blackwell's Island by | interruption at the bridges, and consequently paddling sway on & gata. In 1869, she es- | the causes which produced the demsnd for caped from Sing 8ing by sliding down a | the tunnels do not now exist. The tunnels, lightning-rod. And yet there are people who | however Littlo use they may b as caxiliaries still persist in claiming that women have no | of the bridges, ars nevertheless of valae, and rights, that they are crushed down by the | of great value, as substitates for bridges in Tyrant Man, and that they are not allowed | case of sccidonts to tho latter. After the %0 do what they can do just as well as men. | fire the LaSalle street tunnel afforded the Ear Coxzrivs, however, seems to have the | only means of communication between the £acalty of enjoying ber rights of iife, liberty, | North and South Divisions, if we exclude the sad the pursait of happiness, notwithstand. | ferry-boats. Bridges avo Lisble to accidents ; ing all tha®fforts of thelaw or of mau to | they have to be repaired at intervals, and Testrain her, - have even to be renewed from time to time; o ——— in thess contingancies the tunnels will gl The Presof that city has been investigating They are m:‘mo\'er expensive. The Wash- 1.ua botel cn:::_\uuu. A:nfl {inds out that there ington strest tunnel cost sbout $520,008, and Lru W_er;ty-—xm}mu-u, anle t0 accommodate | the LaSalls street tunnel abont $570,000, or comes. The landlords heve lso beon investi. ,,,; ?’;f, o2t im:z:“ ! fi:mfl":‘m il e A B Mfi;" :z:tmclndmgt_haguh\daw%nchwfllnvamg& ud““‘““mni Ry ‘TM. e ot T “; he Ixem of fifty bu_mmnmmng conhnuwu'dy hacge €5 par g )'n ok Lj' & night and day el the year round We think the frah sond “2Y. = : i ¥ :mw thet whatever damufd msy ave existed for Prbably they 4o mot know them: | s ;:::;;:;fla?;. Pt g s, bot fump at L They amive st | of them. On 1o e sives o oy ow0ad conslueion, bowaver, by the | Lesndh, thare should ba at lezst oo bridge ATTENTION SIR Ky Chicaxo Commeadesy. No.13, K. T., Juos 1L 1875, for work on K T. Ordar. Kloni constesealy tasitad. Ty onive Suaday Moraing, Jume 13, 1875, The New York Grand Jury. unlike the New York press, snows no disinclination to attack “rospoctable” smuggiers. The Crarus have already been indicted, and now comos tize report thst several other prominent mer- chants and some of their confederntes in the Custom-House ars toshare the same fate. W ars curious o see whether the CLAFLINS ¢ al. will ever be tried. for every two blocks, and over the north branch s like provision should be mads when the oceasion demands it. There is & demand now mede for a bridge at Washington street, immediately over the tannel. One objection to this is the possi- bility that it will necessitate the destruction of the tunnel. Another is, that there is not room thers to permit vessels and steamers to Lie at the dacks, or towaitin the stream for the bridges to open. That iffculty already existsin the small space between Lake and Randolph street bridges. But another roason, and a pressing one, is that bridges are wented at other points, especially one at Harrison stroet. In time, there will have to be some- thing done at Fourtecnth street. A tunnel is talked about; but when the railrosds have built viaduots over the streets on both sides Qucts may be found better than & tunnel. The half million of dollars that will have to bo expended in building a tunnel will bnild tenbridges, and will afford conveniences to the publicin the proportion of ten thou- sand to one. As part of the system of com- munication between the sveral parts of the city, tunnels have proved to be failures, and bridges are essential. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The snnual seports of the Pablio Library disclose the fact that, to tho extent of its means, it has besn more successful in farnish- ing reading matter to more persons than any similar institution in the country. It hos no means, and has not had for s year, to sdd to tho number or variety of its books. It nas been reduced to the hard-pan of bare ne- cessity in the way of current expenditures. The Committee on Finance of tho Common Council have now agroed to refuse all appro- ‘priations for the next year. Asan appropria- tion made in 1876 will not be collected until July, 1877, the Library will have no funds at all at the close of the present yeer, and will not have even the menns of paying its expenses. It will thercfore bs brought to o direct close for the want of means. We do not think it was the parposs of the Committas, nor do we think it is the wish of the Common Council, to closa the Publio Library. We are cortnin thatno consider- able portion of the public expect or desire such a proceeding. It would be a specimen of retrogression unworthy of Chicago, and wholly out of charscter with the intelligence and spirit of the peoplo. Such an act would bes proclimed the world over us areproach to the city. We maintain over three thousand saloons; and can we not afford 8 few thomsands of dollars to supply the fifty thonsand young people of this city who are at work all day, and haveno money to buy books, with reading matter? Itis objected that the boys and girls and young men and women draw out novels and other works of fiction, and that they resd fhese at nigit. Admit this to be true, and is it not better that they alould stay at home at night and read novels and juvenile stories, With occasional historics, travels, voyages, and matters of that kind, than tobe in the streets? Is it better for the boys and young men to be reading at home st night or to bo at the neighboring variety-shows, bill- iard-balls, or drinkingssloons? In be- half of thess young people who work for their living,—the honest, vir- tuous, ibdustrious class,—who are not able to buy books, we appoal to the Com- ‘mon Council for the few thonsand dollars nec- essary to keep this Library from locking its doors and closing its reading-room. This Li- brary furnishes better instruction, and toa is furnished by sny two of the public schools ia the city ; its pupils, s a closs, are indus- trions persons who have to labor during school hours; and we trust the Common Gouncil will not treat these persons with the cruelty of cutting off the only means they have of reading or of obtaining instruction and information. THE VERDICT IN THE BEECHER CASE. Mr. Beacm will probably concluds his ar gument by Tuesdsy evoning; and, as the. Judge’s charge will not occupy mof% than two days, it is slmost cortnin that the case will be given to the jury this week. The long agony will then be soon over; for, after the case iz submitted to them, the jury will not be permitted to keep bank and insurance hours, and spend the greater purt of their time outside of the court-room. They will b required to remnin 1n secret gession antil they retarn a verdict, or finally ngree to dis- ngree, 50 that the end cannot be far off. It now seems to be pretty certain that the greattrial will have one of two results,—either averdict in Mr. Beeomen's favor or a dis- agreoment of the jury. The chances are in favor of the latter, if the jury resembles the averoge sentiment of the public after a read- ing of the evidence. It would be dificult to find twelve men, good and true, outside the Brooklyn court-room, chosen without any provious knowledgo of their sentiments, who would agres on & verdict of guilt or inno- conce. For the porticolar jury inside the court-room to agres to a verdict on either side, would be for them to assume that they wero able, to the complete satisfaction and conviction of every ome of them, to sift tho mass of complicated evidence, and barmonize the contradictions, which have puzzled and divided equally intelligent men outside the court-room. The probabilities, therefore, are strongly in favor of a disagros- ment. It is very evident from Mr. Bzicr’s address to the jury that the most he hopes for is o disagroement. While his very strong intima. tion that influences outsids the trinl have been brought to bear upon the jury against his client may be regarded as indisereet and short-sighted, they are probably not so in fact. Thoy would be if Mr. Briom were not sure of his ground Bat, it he has sufficient ressons for believing that the jury has been tampersd with, bo kmows that his client cannot gt a ver. dict in_auy case, and the only hope of de- feating any outside efort that may bava been msde to influence a verdict for the other side wasto give due notice that the effort was known and would be exposed if persisted in. Certainly the circumstances surrounding this jury bave afforded ample opportunities for tempting them. They have spent but five or six hours a day, for five days in the week, in the courtroom. Thoy have mingled with men in business or social connections all the rest of the time during the four months’ darstion of the trisl, and could not avoid hesring it disoussed They live in A oty where Mr. Brxczxn has his strongest hold; and it would seem scarcaly possible that they should escope & heavy preawnre in favor of Mr, Brzcues, even if there wore no deliberate effort to influence their verdict. Ba Mr. Bricn refers to something mare pronounced tban this ; and it will bo remembered that dodge Nansox, at ©ons point in the trial, was of the river, a bridge adapted to these via- | Iarger number of most deserving people, than | constrained to rebuke the jurr fm'.lheir reck- less association with BExCEER partisans. Mr. Beacn's seathing refereace to tha fore- man of the jury during Frides's speech scems tohsve been entirely warranted. Mr. QAu: PENTER (the foreman) Aeclared in his prelimi- pary cxamination that he was predisposed in BezcmER's favor; and, when he confronted r. Braon with an incredulous smile at one pointin his srgument, the latte#was fally justified in demanding a respestful considera- tion, and reminding the importinent juzor that he was under oath to give 8 verdict on theevidence, It is also alloged that this Mr. CABPENTER was chosen foreman contrary to the usual practice. " The disagreement of the jury m}l be a 1ame and impotent conclusion to a trinl that has arrested the attention of the whole coun- try for montha. It will scarcely atone for the demoralizing influences that it has worked upon society. We sce little reson, however, to expect anything else. The great trouble is that it will not put an end to the scandal. Even a verdict in fevor of Mr. BrecmEn would be received with suspicion, and those who%ow entertain doubts would still enter- tain them ; but such a verdict would be a judicial ‘vindication which would relieve him from tho necessity of pursuing the matter any further. A disagree- ment of the jury, however, will render it necessary to prosecute the criminal suit against Mr, Trvron for slander, for which ho wesindicted at the instance of Mr. BrEcmEr, The criminal suit, if brought to trial, will open the way for ovidence concering Mrs. Tr- Tox's confessions, which ave alleged to have been very numerous, and other testimony which was not admissible in the civil case. There will be a better opportunity for arriv- ing at the truth in tho criminal proceedings | sgainst Tevrox and MouxTox thania the civil suit, aud Mr. Berorrr will be compelled to prosccute in the event of a disagreement of the presont jury. His failure to do so will in- jure him more than any other circamstance in connection with the scandal, What the fing! result will be, no man can tell. CLUB-LIFE IN CHICAGO, Thera is one feature of metropolitan Life in which Chicogo has heretofore beon notably deficient,—life in the clubs. In almost every other rospoct Chicago has been in advance of ita age, population, and necessitiea Our people have been lavish in their expenditures for public improvements. No cost has been spared that would add to the comforts and enhance the beaaties of tho city. The disad- vantages of low, marsby ground have been overcome by reising a city alresdy lergely built up from 8 to 10 feet abova its original level Engineering works in the shapo of tunnels under the river for more rapid tran- sit, and tunnels under the lakefor getting the pnrest of wator, have commanded the admirs- tion of the world. Thedelightfulness of wood- en pavements was first generally recognized in Chicago, and the luxury more widely enjoyed than elsewhers. Tho most extensive and beantiful gystem of parks on the conti- nent was projected at an early day, and will unquestionably be completed when the city shall have attained sn adult growth. The Chicago hotels are known the world over for their commodious and elegant character, and for the excellent manner in which they are managed. The places of public amusement have gencrally exceoded in number the de- mands of the people, and have alweys pre- | sented the best attractions of the lyrio snd dromatic'stage. Tho investment in churches | has been racklessly extravagant, until there is no eity in the country, large or small, which can count the same number of gorgeous tom- ples devoted to an observance of a single day of the week. And 8o with every other ad- junct of city-life except that we have noted. The neglect of club-life in Chicago is ensily accounted for. Successful club-life is } pecuiiar to metured communities ; and it is only more general in large cities becouse large cities are usually old citics. Chicago is scarcely yet adolescent. Its time has been occu- pied with growing, and clubs were not essen- tial to its growth, as were the hotels, theatres, churches, tunnels, publio improvements, ete. Public caravansaries are necessary to tho accommodation of the immense tide of transient people who have flowed in and out of Chicago for the pa-4 twenty years ; thea- tres, opera-houses, &' public halls wero necessary to their amnsement, but clubs were mot. The attractions of Chicago as a place of residence have been of & mature entirely opposed to that of club-life, They have been chiefly com- mercial. The excitements and pleasures of the male population have been those in- cident to speculation and money-getting. Real-cstate and Board-of-Trads operctors have found stimalent enough in tho ups and downs of the market; merchants have been obliged to devate all their time and all their money to keop pace with the rapid growth of their business. Thero is wealth enough in Chicago, but it is not of the concentrated and hereditary character that eustains cluba. It is the wealth of men who have spent the best years of their lifs in sccumalating it, &od who have scquired habits i this work that have but little sympathy with the rdinary plessures | of club-life. Another renson why the growth of club- life in Chicago hns been retarded is that most of the clubs which have been started were loaded down with cumbersome timber, orbuiltup of sach light weight that they could not stand. The prass clubs have been weaklings that had no good claim upon existonce. 'The inducemonts {0 join one of them was the promise of & free burial .after death ; but even this brilliant promise to an improvident and genernlly impecunious class failed to sttract. The miscellansous clubs started in Chicago have died in their infancy because of an utter lack of a raison detre. But one club orgenization has ‘maintained o hold on life long enough to assert a claim to permanency, aod even this institution hea been subjected to considerable. criticism of ono kind or snother, and has been threatenod with dissolution from time to time by chron- ic absenteeism. We do not include under the name of club-life the social arganizations of the two sexes for dancing, of which the city hss had groat sufliciency, but the male clubs, which are a sort of Anglo-Bazon ‘heirloom. The failure in the past of tha various at- tempta at clublife in Chicago cannot be taken asa rule for the future, Already there s 8 project on oot for the ersctionof 4 hand. some club-house which is to be built and awned by a hundred gentlamen, and is®there- fore, in 1o sense a money-making enter- prise. The projoct is 50 far advanced as to lesve no doubt of itg sucoess, and it is worthy of note that the List of subserib- ers elroady includes the names of gentlemen who sould have rosented such an application 40 them a3 an insult & fow yoars ago. Thess namos, found among the Tist of sabscribers %o baild a club-houss, ars indications of & re- markabla changs in ths sentiment of our moneyed closs. It is & sign that money-get- ting and money-keeping are no longer the sbsorbing and exclusive sentiments of those of our people whose means open up the en- { joyment of clublife to them. There isa hope in this sign that the thoughts of Chicago men may turn more in the future than they have in the past to the arts, esthetics, and quieter pleasares of city-life. The erection of one clab-house is likely to lead to another, and in 8 few years it is not unlikely that Chi- cago’s clubs will be as notable institutions in their way as Chicago's Rotels, theatres, parks, tunnels, and other institutions. Political clubs will probably attain & more respectabls | position than the *Cosmops” promise to take. Wo shall likely have prototypes of the Manhattan and the Union Leagua; we hope we shall escape an imitation of the Americus. ‘We elso hope that literature, art, and music will acquire sufficient Ioval strength to build up clubs like the Century and Lotos of New York. 3 It is not necessary to discuss the merits of club-life on moral or social grounds. There is something to be said against them, but also very much to be said in their favor. We should say, in 8 general way, that the bal- ance turns to their side in a large city, where they may act as & corrective of the bhabits | and vices of city life, and exert o healthful restraint upon men in business and society. Baut it is sufficient that the clubs are among the necessary acoessories of metropolitan life to note their probable success in Chicago with a certain dogree of satisfactfon that may be shared even by those who have no desire to be identified with them. THE WATER WASTE. Complaint about the deficiency of the water-sapply bas already st in, und we may expect to lear it ingessantly throughout tho summet unless the Board of Publio Works tako enorgetio steps to check the tasts of the water. This is the whole troubls. The Chi- cago River itself does not containgwater enough to supply the city if every hydrant in Chicago is turned on and the water allowed torun. The moment that the warm weather commences people all over the city start the water running if their front yards and back yards, on the sidewalks and streats, in the | bath-rooms, end everywhere that they think | it will cool of the atmosphere for their indi- Vidual comfort, and with an atter disregard to the wants of others. If the Board | of Public Works desite to check this Teckless waste of water, they will have | to institate s more rigid inspection of the | uso of water. They should adopt some sys- tem of neighborhood meters, 0 a5 to be sbl to determine whera and by whom the water | is wasted But it will not be sufficient to as- { certain this much ; after tracing the respoa- ture can only be overcome by panalties ; and, water without paying for it, they will use only what they roquire, aud then thers will be an ample supply for all parts of the aity. Every complaint made in the future &bout a deficiency of water will be & complaint, in fact, thet the Board of Public Works are nat doing their daty. e EDGCATION IN TAE SOUTH. Allusion was recently made in these col- umns to the fact that i Arkansas and other portions of the South o deliberate attempt is being made to suppress the oducation of the i masses ; that the schoolhouses ars being closed, one after tho other; and that the tax. support, in consequenca of which, not onlyt the blacks, but the poor whites, are now do- | prived of the means of education, and are leading a life of idleness and dissolnteness. The real motive of this ill-advised and anfor- tunate action is apparent ot the very first glance. It grows ont af the fear of the aris- toeracy, the lind-owners, and the ex-planters, that they will lose control of the blacks and poor whites if they are allowed to be educst~ ed. The right of suffragc has already stripped them to & certain extent of political power, and they can only see in education an in- fluence which will elevate the lower classes, and confer upon them the blessings of equal- {ity. With their short-sighted eyes, they can 1 500 mo other wey to retain the power thsy held in the days of slavery—when their hol:d both upon tho negro and the poor white was absolute—than by keeping them in igmo- ranco. They fail to sce that, while this was practicable in a condition of slavery, it is dangerous in a condition of freedom,—that the negro could be kept ‘an ignorant chattel 50 1ong as ho was an article of property like a horse or an ox, bat that they are turning the edge of a very dangerous weapon againat themsslves by attempting to keep him in ignorance when they have 1o title of property The dnngers of *a general condition of ignorance ought to be apparent to the Sontherner by reference to its effects else- where. In Europe, the most powerful countries are those which have enjoyed the highest degree of educational culture, like England, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, and they are not only the most powerfal but the most prosperous. They en- joy the highest conditions that éan result from wealth, scionce, literature, and art, Their civilization is based upon the highest type of mosality and religion. On tho other hand, those nctions, like Spain for instancs, which have discouraged or neglectod educa- tion have fallon to the rear in the march of progress, and are no longer possessed of any influence or power in tha great family of tiations. How is it in the United States? Are not those States the most powerful and prosperons which have enjoyed the highest degree of education? The gchool-house, the academy, and the col- lege have been tho principal factors in the moral, social, and material growth of New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, and they ato the agencies’ which are helping to build up the great West in its wonderful growth. It is the absence of these which is keeping the South back, and, whers ignoranos is densest in the Sonth, thereis no growth, but, on the other hand, stagnstion, and stagnation slways involves decay and deatruc- tion. Theso are facts which are so palpable and 60 universally conceded that we do not neod to dwell upon them. Southern men bring up wo reasons why 587, the negroos and poar whites, if they are allowed to go to schools and obtain education, will be looking for higher things and will not work in the fields, and thus the agricaltural interests of the Sonth will suffer. Wo might answer this by asking the quastion, Do the interests of the North sulfer beoause laborers have tho advantages of education? Does the farmer find that his flelds are nntilled because Lis sons and his Iaborers and his Iaborers' nels, mine coal, and engage in other forms of labor which are even mors toilsome than the labor in the cotton-field or on the su- Haa the Southern aristocrat not yet learned that wherever there islabor to dothereare men todoit; that, if the negro will not do it, some one else will; and that edu- cated labor produces more than unedacated Iabor? Bat again, sny the plantation-owners, we are few in number, and we have to pay the taxes, and they are too omerous. Why should we be called upon to educate all theso negroes snd poor whites? which they make in this form of argument is the assertion that they pay the taxes. real tax-payers are the lnborers, who are the real producers. They furnish the money which goes to support the and pay the ernment. The gar-plantation ? of the Gov- capitalist furnishes brains ; the Inborer, the strong arms which carry out his parpodes and produce wealth. Without him tho capitalist would never pay any taxes. As ho, therefore, makes it possi- ble for the former to pay taxes, thé for- mer owes him a dsbt which can be caricelled inno better way than by giving him the ‘means of education, so that he may not only enable his employer to accumulate wealth, but also accumulato some for himself, and help contribute to the general support. If one thing is plainer than another, it is that the South will never be prosperous and enjoy the advantages of the North until it hag learned the simple lessor that the discourage- ment of education iz the encouragement of idleness, Jawlesaness, poterty, and crime, For the evidences of this it has not to look beyond its own MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS. The question of the best form of manici- pal government has really become one of na- The sbuses which have marked the administration of afiairs in nearly every American city have brought wide- sproad discredit upon our wkole system of institutions. The English press groedily catches up every bit of civic scandal here that comes to its notice. This is quoted and requoted 85 & conolusive proof of the ntter rottenness of American politics. The re- proach burts, partly because it is untrue, partly because it is tiue. ernment is the foundation of our system. Whatever impairs it, impairs the whole. And s0, while much of the wrong in it has about ss mach to do with Republicanism ag it has with Buddhism, it nevertheless in- jures Republicaniam, disgusts the intelligent and prosperous classes with any active par- ! ticipation in politics, and gives the mob and tional importance. Local self-gov- | the demagogae au unheslthy prominencs in local affairs, which they often use in matters sibility, tho persons who indulge themselves | of national moment. 1t is strange that nons ot the expense of others should be made to | of the many students of politics in this suffer forit. The selfishness of human na- | country have taken up this important branch of the subject and worked out a good, clear when people fud that they cannot waste | systom for municipal government main thing needed is time and the critical faculty. The materiala are many, and expe- zience is sadly abundant. Tho matter should be studied by collecting and collating the charters of the principal cities of America and Europa. The result of this study would give a firm groundwork for the new plan. In nemly every city some one or mors things are provided for with practienl perfection. By culling these fea- tures and grouping them together, much could be done. The Cobdcn Club Essays for 1875 would farnish many valusble hints oa tho msin principles which must anderlie any ood ic) ? j payers rofuse to coutribato anything to thei | e mi"f ;f&;?fig;‘:fiefizxfi | tracted not a tithe of the attention it deserves, contains eight essays on local government and tasation in England, Scotland, Ire. land, the Australian Colonies, New Zes- land, Belgium, Holland, France, Russia, and Spain. The ninth is on *Local government considered in its historical development in Germaoy and Eaglaad, with special refer. ence to recent legislation on the subject in Prussia” Altogather, the book is a sing qua non to the student of this subject. After all this work of collection, collation, end eriti- cism has been gone through with, there is the inestimabie resource of conversation. There are few men of the world who have not ideas | they will do ths most good. worth heating on this topic. It is brought bome 100 often to every property-owner to suffer him to escape thinking about it. Then, contemporary literature teems with sugges. tions on the subject, most of them very bad, a few very good. Notsble among theory recently broached in the Nation for carrying local gov- emment to its legitimate outcome by allowing—to take the case of a new pavement 8s an example—the residents of each block ;’;dl:"ifw":";:’l:‘::; fi:‘fifi:’y"":fi;’;‘: | yoars, thus insuriog the safety of the explorers work. A very simple bit of legal machinery would provide for such cases. A few monthg of such discussion, after s year or 80 of the preliminary work wo have sketched, ought to bear fruit in a monograph on manicipal gov- ernment that would become & classic and do & wozld of good. THE POTATO-BUG. It never rains but it pours. We no sooner getrid of one misfortune than another fol- lows closely upon its heels. Whilo we are gazing joyfolly upon the rear ranks of the grasshoppers, the front ranks of the potato- bugs havecome insight, threateningthe whole East. The potato-bug started on Lis winding way from Colorado, sad he resched the Ais. Ho is s slow bat very sure traveler, making only from sixty to eighty miles a year, but he has been traveling many yoars. This year, Delaware, New Jer- sey, and Western Now York will entertain bim ; next year, Connecticut and Vermont will have him, and in 1877 he will probably get over the larger part of New England. The entomologist of the United States Department of Agriculture has been at same pains o write h biogrphy of the potato-bug. His family name is Doryphora decemlineata, and he belongs to the Cliryswomelida. He isa handsome little bird, half an inch long, oval in shiape, of a yellowish cream color, with ten dark-brown lines running down tha wing- covers, which concesl a pretty little pair of pink wings. Tho reproductive power of the potato-beetle is one of his most wonderful characteristics. The matron bug deposits about 1,200 eggs upon the leaves of the po- tato-plant, which hatch in & very fow days, they are opposed to eduoation. First, they | the young larve taking their rations immediately and geiting their growth ) weeks. After this, they go into the abont & fortnight they resurrect as bestles, They begin’ reprodaction in snd on the fourtsenth day the fomale de. %, 50 that it takes about ffty days for the bug to go throughall its changes from egg to egg. It is estimated that n pair them is the souri River in 1865. posits her egg of average energy try if they were left to reproduce wnm, lested. It will bo remembered thay g, grasshopper at last met his fatality iy the sbape of small red bug. The potatotng, Lowever, has some twenty voracions g emies, the sole object of whose is to consume him. The lady eat ap the eggs. Twelve different sortg o plant beetles eat up the larve, while the of o parssitic fly lives iu the body of the larpy. of the beetlo, and a wasp carries it of for food to its mest. For kecping them dowy tho entomologist recommends hand-picking Paris green, and cternal vigilance. They are some few drawbacks, however, connocteg with these recommendations, as thg Potato. bug has a careless habit of poisoning the pe. son who picks him, and Paris green, whigy i the only thing sure to kill them, may gy kill the person using it. Fortunately, Tingy hashad herinvasion of potato-bugs, and during the mext two or thres years New Eugleng will be the principal sufferer. According g the religious newspapers aad many of th, ministers, Missouri got rid of her pers by proying them away. This is s hint to New England, and, a3 New England heg much more theolegy than Missourd, and is 5 much more moral place, perhaps it might prevent the invasion, and thereby not only farnish more valuable testimony as to tn efficacy of prayer, when applied to extomol. ogy, but also maintain the integrity of the Potato, and svert a calamity from the potato. esting descendants of the Puritans. — Some weeks ago, we published the report of the Mastor in Chancery appointed by (b United States Circuit Coart to inqaire into the condition of the Rockford, Rock Iiland & St. Louis Railroad. It will be remembersq that the Master reported that the sygregata bonded debt, with unpsid interest, exceeded $11,000,000, and that ihe assets were aboat $1,000,000. In his report he stated thats large sum in bonds had been distributed by the Treasurer to purchase influencs in selling the rest of the bonds. This morning we pub. lish & repart of the evidence of the Treasurer, to the effect that he thus paid out 120 bonds of $1,000 each, the bulk of which were given to three persons, whom he names, connected with newspapers. He paid forty bonds to Mr. Hevey C. Bowsw, editor ond pro- pristor of the New York Independent. Hs paid twenty bonds to Davip Mrin, writer of tho money articles in the New York World, and sixteen bonds to Mavmtoz Mran edic tor of Handels-Zeitung, of New York, a com- mercial paper circulating largely in Germany. Ho states that these bonds were given to write up the character of the Rockford, Rock { Island & St. Louis Road and its bonda. Mrmris, he soys, exchanged his bonds far cash. Ho says thess persons all applisd fo him in o pecaliar way, leaving no doubt in his mind that upon hisgiving them the bonds depended whether he should havs their op- position or support. S ne———— Fonrth of July torpedoes, torpedo-boats, and the terrible ongines af destruction which have lately fcund » place in naval warfare, are famil~ iar enongh to the ordinary observer, but & new, and carions, and usefal inveation is & torpedo- chicken. This fearfal bird is working great bave oc among the colored people of AMemphis and vicinity. Itissaldto bs an satomaton of tha ehspe &ad mze of an ordinary barnyard fowl, 80f% to touch, flexible in the logs, aad game from the crest of ita ccrsl comb to 1te spur of steel. Iis stomach is flled with guopowder, which ex- plodes when tho lega of the infernsl machine ro bont. Ono of theso patent clickens lately exploded fn'k Memphis hen-house wish tecrible effecte. The f8wls on th sams 7003t were suat- tered in pisces; the body of the pat- ent bird had also disappeared; but, Am- II Iy clasping the lezs, which remained intact, va8 found & black hand, bloody sod iusz, aad showing tho bato lizaments aad blood—ves. sols of o largesized chicken-tiief. This improvament of the torpado may bs extended in sll directiona. Clildren msy be taught to keep their hands oat of the cake-basket; servants to leave the wine-closst aione ; peripate.ic bozes to respect the sanctity of newspaper ordcas; rural visitors as fairs to admire, no: henale; dtvnk- ards to shan the intosicating cup; peity plun- derers to beware of strango mone;-draners, avd sacrilegions ruttians to praiss ana prai—all by the judicions distributions of to1pedues where The new Arctic Expelition, which sailed from Portemouth on the 30:h of May lsst, has better proepecis of success than any Lerotofore dis~ patched from suy guerer. W.th two strong veasels completely squipped and prov:sioned, & commander exporienced in Arciic cavigation, aad the benefit of recent diacovaries as to the most foasible passage, it will be strangs if resulta are not attained far in edvance of uoything yetrealized. A wise part of the jlan is tha an- nourced iotention of the Brizish Guvernmont to dispateh a relief vessel at the ex irativn of two a3 far asit deponds upon humas forethought. The route ta be taken by the expedition will be that of Dr. Kavz and Gapt. Hawz, throogh Batiin's Pay and Smith's Sound. Tha Alert and the Disoovery are the uames of the vesscls first senc out. At the eightioth parallel the Alert will bo lefias adepot of supplies, and from tist point the Discovery will be carried as far aa tho ico will permit. Sledges wid then be used to reach thepole. This 18 aaid to be tao irst expe- dition soat ont by England avowedly sad sololy for the puspose of aacorlaining aud fixiug the exact posizion of the pole. The Northwest pass- sge, formerly the chief object of cxplorstion, is now ooasiderod not worth looiizg for. A correspondent of the Christian Thion, writ ing of the Moop and SANKEY meotings 1 Lan~ doa, gives the latter goatloman a large messure of crodit for the resulis that have thus far been reachod. No doubt the music conducted by Mr, Saxxxy iy largely 1 nenual in excizing the emo- ti0nd of the audience, sad placiog it in sympathy with the speakera; but Mr. Moopy's preschiog scoms £o be, after all, the mun attraction. A carious interforance of the diverse bat nok Op- Pposing feelings aroosed by tha preachiog a0d singiog respoctively lately occmrrel o omoof the meetings. Ia the vory midst of alr. Modpr's sormon, $70 or threo quickly-sacceeding shrieks came {70 the middlo of the audience. Iostsot- Iy the apesker stopped, and promptly gave ons & verse of ‘‘Rock of Agos, Clait for Me,” Tbe sudience jolned in the sorg, tha tumult quisted, s0d when the [ast note had died sway perfess Peace and calm had been restored. “Bix PYRass"—who nssumés Lo be 8 DAf- tcuar friend of Hzxmr Wamp Dexcsrs— saserts, through a Chicago paper, thsh in the pending ftrial, ' Bespectalilisy b sl on ome uide. Even ‘thorougnbreds’ smong the sporting men go for tbe clergy- man who for forty years has beon lea liog bis fellow-mon upward and coward.” This tiustre tion of “ respectability " shows that * Lr1" is improving in the guality of hia jokes.—Ia this condection it msy not be inapproprista %0 quota & remark made by the Indisnspolis Jour- If that ouserable fraod, ‘Ewu Pre- is on the terms of intimsoy with Mr. Brzoues that he professesto be, it is the strong- eat evidenca that bas yet appeared of tbe Brouke Iyn pastor's dmnaralization. Bud it is protable that Erx liss.” and enterprise will pro- s0ns can go to schaol? Do grest public tudying and will oot earry shovel dir, dig in sswars, excavate tun. duce 60,000,000 indivi¢unls in & season, an works languish bocause laborers are a3 they all have e A plenty of energy and enter. Ppriss, we can faintly imagins the numbsr of Potato-buge that would swarm over ths coun. Tha splendid obalisk known as * Clsopatra's Keodle,” presentea by Mamoxzn Arz Pasus o the English pation in 1820, ss an soknowleds~ ment of sarvives rondersd to Bgyps, has beca, lying prostrate whase i fall, aver since. Maj. Ao, B e e e e LT SN e e T BRI RS IS ST - me 2P PDEGYNREELISYE