Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 4, 1875, Page 7

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: —SIXTEEN PAGES scholars. School will reopen the firet Mon- i iber. e . Warner left Wedaesdsy for the il“: They will spend the summer in pleasure- R \lary Philbrick, daughter of Goorge A. ‘philbrick, spends her vacatiou i the East. WINNETKA. Pe e citizeoe of this place are indignant over e Winpetka suburban ariicle in last’ Sunday’s £ Ever since Mr. Dodge has been Prin- oul of the school it Bas beon his castom to au entertainment st the close of the term ,‘f:m. amusemeut of the citizans, and after this the crowniog eflort of all, for jt was cor- iy the best eulerianment ever given in s, it ill becomes any oue to censure the gven if chicken-hearted enough to e dart by the reading of a littla school-girl fo . Thosa *moat estoemed and respected EXias” who were “'beld up for ridicala and Soalt " eay they were not badly burt, aud the overy of all of them s only a Gueation of sime. ley Mears having purchased the praop- A orhy Wrighis west of tho tradk, 1s cping a1 avepue 100 feet wide between Win- va aod Lakes:de, end will proceod at onoe to 2t everal houees on tre sama. % . Eddy has commenced the erection of a oo proesed-brick rusidence near the Academy. PROSPECT PARK., A match game of base-ball was played Wednes- sy sfiernoon. Tha gamo wes epirited one, and tho victasions side were puffed yp with vanity ¢ of their success. ‘The meil-ronte beiwoen, Prospect Park and ‘Bloomingdsle will very abortly be discoutinued. ‘Miss Emms Nelson, of 8t, Olaries, has been fhe gaest of frienda for the pust week, 5 ‘Toe frisnds of Mr.J. 5. Dodge wished bim uscres snd & ofessant " ourney on Monday Iset, yhen he started with seversl” companions for by totest thewr power in extracting ailver from ABs bosom of mother oarth, ———— INDIANA, SOUTH BEND. THE BEABOX. Epecial Oerrespandencs of Tha Chicago Tribune, goura Bexo, Ind., July 3.—The farmers of fius vicinity commenced their hay-making this week, and, nnleas the weather remaios unfavor- shis, the season will give them a larger crop {han will likely be required Tor consnmption dus- isgthe comimng winter. For s couple of days past the weather has been showery, which seri- ously retards the work and provents the cut hay from curing. The wheat crop is rabidly ripen- ing, and, in favorablo situstions, will be ready {or the reaper during the coming weck. In the portions the wheat-fields look quite spotied from the winter-killing, but the heads are lurge and well silled, and will give a much ‘Ierger crop than was anticipated up tos fow weeks sgo. The corn i Yory backward, but that saying {5's common one every year uati! the hot weath- erof July and August, when i¢ usually comes out growing so rapidly as to create an exclams- ise, and the result is good crops. tian Of BUIprise, There ia plenty of time yet for good corn. PERIONAL, 5 Clem Studebaker and family will sail for Europs on the 2th. on the steamer Califarnis, and wiule thers will show one of the Company’s wagona. which be has enipped for that purpose, He will sisointroduce there a discovery of an employe of the Gus-Warks hers for cles ‘g gas-retorts ; " this discovery eoables the el & t0 be cleaned s fo3 few moments, and it is ssid that it wifl be the means of materially reducing the costof | ufscturing gas, 'm"filn Duildisgs for the now iron works were ‘commenced week, with s Isrge force of liands, sod Ar. Oliver told me to-dsy that they =ill put into walls before the coming winter, four million bricks; and, should the season remain favorable, they mav use five million. manafsotories report & fa:r demand, while some sro daing aa well as beforo tho panic. ME, COLFAX -is bomo and hag closed his lecture seaeon ; he will, however, orate on both' eldes of the Fourth of July—on Saturdsy at Angolo, in this State, -spd on Mooday st Oarbondale, Pa.. and shortly atter will off tothe sea-sbore for the hot weathar. For the -hoolinf tournament which occurs here on Moudsy and Tuesday next, a oumber of abota from abroad bave signified their iutention of betag present ; eome of them are from Chi- “eago. mands. - The City Council this weel passed an ordinance :fin‘sflnx sheavy bcense-fee from peddlars, which practically serve to keep them away from this city while it remaine in force. Now, if they wii only pass ono nxi:urinx! _large fee from orgen-grinders, it will Lelp the Marshal to make ,somelhing out of them, or Leep them away al- topether, in either case producing a resuls for ‘wtich the people wili be thaakfal, The Fourtls will only be celebrated here by tha small boys with torpedoes. crackers and pistols, The elders who celebrate will visit neighboring towns to gee how they do it there. In this con- -dection, Laporte will do the handsome on Mon. das by giving a Fircman's Tonrnament, which will be sttendad by two compsnies from South Bed. who will competo for some of the cash - which Lsjwrto offers for prizes, Lieut. James H. Daytou, of the United Statos Favy, haa come hiome for & mouth on leave of sbeenco. He has Leen cruising most of the time Yr nearly two years. Srabois Death of an Eccentric Frencnmon. The Paris correspondent of the London Stand~ ~erdsays: * I'aris has juet jost avother eccentric celebrity, whose career was £00 curions fo pass over in silonce. I alludo to the strange person- 30 knovwn as the Abbe Constant, or Eliphas Levi. Brought upat St. Sulpice, hio had attained the rank of Deacon, when he was turned out of the seminary tor advoeating certain revolotion- wy theories, which led to some scandal. Thrown ou the world withont auy resources, and being of s wiid, romautic character, Lie went in quest of sdyentore, and cams asross & mountebank . 2amed Gannau, who endeavored fo from a ‘new Teligiots sect, in which he was joined by such e 48 Felix Pyat, Barbes, Blangui aod other fevolutioniets. The Abbe Constant soon distin- -gushed himself by the ardor of Lis new con- . Tietians, and he prblished & book entitled *La Bible o4 Ia Libarse,’ for which he was prosecuted aod sent to prison for several months. On - teaining his liberty he was deputed to go into e provinces and the *holy doctrine® of e new sect, but fiading it did mot pay be - shanged tactics. He gavo out in the papers that the Abbe Consiant was dead, and & few weeks Mier prcsented himself to Mgr. Ollivier, at Erreny, sathe Abbe Dersncourt. Tue Bishop Zeceived him well and invited him to preach fn bis tathedral during the month of May, which it sef mggfli&nmm:lm C;{u;alicuo(or the special e Virgin Mary. Qur hero scquit- . tod Himaelf most admairably, xnd would robably bave remained at tho cashodral in the midst of ‘bonor and elover but for the lg])ol-l’!-flou in the 2eighbarhood of the very Judge who bad sen- tenced him for his revoluhonary book sbove T Ho was recoguized as the *deteas- od° Abbe Constant, aod bad to skedaddle. He 4han returned to Paris and married & wirl of 15, oo Mlle. Noerni, who some yeass later made herself notorious under the Dame of Clande Yiguon. Two children were born of this_union, | - butthe wife Amding out that he was a Descon abaadaned him, and the marriage was declared > ;:lj 24 void on the ground of illegality, s man [ Boly orders* not being allowed to contract .| muimonyin France. The Abbe now ook the . bams of Eliphas Levi, and published several o0 Alchemy sud similar occult sciences, as Tl cue or two novels of very doubifal . which earned for him s little sad no- The geimong readers of that class of literature. Abbe Constant, however, repented of his owmpeat life at the' last moment, made s full mflym 20d resractstion, and died, s we are shere b the arms of the' Church.” The lady & T referred 10 is now tho wife of & radical S e Horses in Russia. wre a8 seven Crown studs in Russia and @ m.P:nh‘n% cnnhin‘l&g llwlgmhcer 8,602 brood orses, with twelve Crown stables Baming 845 etallions, | The Chrisnoy stud pos Yeirs ot the Crown thirty years ago from the o ©f Count Orloff, is divided into thres Beo- one devoted to pute English horses, an- 1o _maddle horses, and the third to troiting +Boesen, The Derkals stud breeds Eatin. carriage fll‘a. hl‘\’ev fienn\imy. s kind of half- res, the Bimarevsk thoroughbred m a0d the Strjeletr] Oriental Mdmomm light ay i .,gg Penburg stud, horses are bred for the and the artillery, R furthe 2414 private stads, having. 6,406 . abaut 70,600 brood e -wmmually 10 matket. QM‘C&“':W’“. THE FINE ARTS. Exhibition of Revolutionary Relics in Boston, 01d Honschold Art—Copley’s Picture of Paul Revere, and Other Portraits, Hamerton’s Portfolio.-.ltems Respect. ing the Cost of Statuary. Water-Color or Crayon, - REVOLUTIONARY RELICS, ‘ OUB GRANDNOTHERS' DAYS. The following lotter needs no explanstion s Boszow, June 36,—T send by this mail a catalo of the “Tievalutionsry Relics™ on exhibition at No; 6 Doscon strect, Ticy ure composed of ancienf potures, engravings, documeuis, house-furnicure, Socking” ani Sbls tienals, WeiFog Epard, ofas. ments ot sl Knd e alrordsy spues, wnd taadsl, and the catalogue will (il the rest. The' colloction 14 interesting in many aspeots, In tieso centennial days, we are all glad to form or renew an acquainiange Witk thie pictured faces of revolutionary heroes, and to ex- amine the originsl eketches, however made, of the Bcenes of Concord, Lexington, aud Bunker Hill. The old spinning.whecls and hund-wrought. bed-quilts of their'grandmothers remind YOUNG LADIES OF THE PRESENT DAY, “who toil not neither do they spin,” wiatever other resemblance they bear to the lilies, of their emsncipa- tion {rom the hard mapual labor of the olden tiwe, inthe abeurd high-hegled shoes, the while {hey fing ;nm‘(’fim&m the cushfoned snd pawdered hair century age, 8 paraliel far any'folly of modern- “Tho ekull of a British eoldier,” and * the ball that abot the above-named soldier,” and ¢ the buliet taken from Gen. Warren's body,” no doubt ffard a grim sat- isfaction to s large class who attend funerals for tle ‘pleasure of seeing the corpse, while GEN. WASRINGTON'S GRAVY LQAT AND CUSTARD cor must excite in the yopinful hreast the highesten. thusissm to emulate the conrags and patriotism of the Fatber of bis Country, And this reminds me of the pressntaion many years ago to tho United Btates of the cump chest of Gen. Washington, which was anid to contain the very condimenta in his actual yse, on which solemn cocasion Senator Hale, of Now Hampshire, suggestod that ho thought the memory of Washington might Ppormbhly be preserved without the. aid of pepper and Balt, Thih levity. in s Fres-Boiler was ve shocking tothe feelings of many Southern Senstors, who were pnxious £ pay tithes of mint and cumiu, Dbut were even then ready for rubellion and disunion. These re) however, are trivial and unworthy. Canamus mafora,—lot Us sing a Dhigher strain (or “ qugjores "~—let uS sing our ancestors,—it you please). Lek us oo whot practicsl lcssony this ‘2xhibition of & hundrod years sgo teaches. And first aa to UOURE FURNITURE. + Besuty is the action of function™ and rests mainly on uplits. The cld settlc, which was in your grund- {uther's kitchen, and which is shown in this colloction, 18 & wooden bench, il » back of tight boards oxtead- ing & foot or twp above the heads af tho sibters, loog sccommodsta about two boys gitls, and boarded in fromt iho swt to the floor. This scat, placed before the huge blazing wood-fire, pro- tected you from the drufte of air Tushing in from be- bind o supply the grest chimney, while you enjoyed the direct rays of whe fire, Of course when ono eide of you got heatod, yon were obliged to turn tho other, 80 taat the bere board wsa not so hard as it would seem if you cowld aif stil & few min. ntes. But “generally, looking at the fivo old chairs, with bal ond elaw-feet, at the embroidered screens, the high post bedsteads with Tofty canopies, at tho finely-wrought silver bowls and qutchers and taspots by the famous Paul Bovere, and the furniture then common 10 the ouses of thy &ns- tocracy of Boston, i WE ¥IND LITTLE PROGBESS TO BOAST OF. The lamp of truth ahone on the old-faskioned hand- work. Tnc old desk with its slanting cover, which turns down for » wTiting-table, exposing ite variety of drawers of ull sizzs, is (wday 8’ mOra convenfent ar- rangement for use in o private library than any mod- ern invention, Its Lrass handiys wero made o pull, and its hinges, almost inisible, are strong and endur- “ing, while at & show of ~ Esstlake " furmturs in Bos- ton recently, whero thoy talked of * sincera” work, I saw on & grand mdeboard a most elaborato and showy sct of shaih brass unges on which nothing turned, be- nesth which was 8 Jair of common butts which par- formed the houest * function ” of hinges, Wile o all the apyliances of war, (D¢ oentury hag tan en 0 ica yomghian eative chasge, in Uhe raical e of Cassion lock ook the place of tho ojd Aint within & half ceutury, and the Lrvech-loader, though invented long 2go, can:e {uto use but recently. Many of the muskets used at, Bunker Hill were but' small ‘bore ehot guns, and 3 single battery of modern ariillery, on either side, in that battls would Lave routed the’ cnemyin ove minutes. . Tn painting, the Lest feature of the exhibition e WHICK ARE PRESENT IN LARGR Many of them are fumilicr to lovers of art, Many otlets, vafuable especiclly us early specimens of Lis work, 'Liave Jrobably ever bean on public exhibi- ton,’ Among theso aro fwo, very much dew faced, but very curious ns illustrating the costumes of the time, sud the evidently early effort of tho ari- ist. They are catuloged s~ Cadldren of the Revolu~ nd_exhidit the pos and girls from 5 to 10 yoars old. The date does not appear, but tha cos tume and the details of the draw{ng, especially of the ds, ‘are so nearly like Copley'a porirait of tho boy ‘Willism: Merchans, which Lears the date of 1755, as to eatablish them among his esrlicst works. Upon refcrence to Perking’ List of “some of the ki of Copley, in] theso pictures are not pamed i it this colalogue (No. 47-48) thoy are entered as being contriblted by * Misses Robbina.” Both bear marke of hard urage, being badly torn, and onohas no frame, but there cin be 1o doubt of their gennineness, or of thelr great value in a collection of the works of this distiuguishod artist, whero. thoy properly belong. 3 ‘THE POBYRAIT OF PAUL BEVERE, AT HIS WORK 18 & silvérsmith, {n his ehirt-gleeves with a bowl in his hand, 1s oLe of the most strikingof Copley's palutings, Tt shiows o rugged, determined, round-feature intelligent faco of a strong, good-huinored man, ready for an order from Gov, Hancock for o punch bowl or for o widnight rids to Lexington and Concord. 480 through the night rodo Psul Revere: And eo turough the night went his cry of ajarm Toevery Middlesex vilisge and farm, Acry of deflance and not of fear, & vofce in the darkness, knock at, the door, ‘And & word that ehall echo forevermore.” Tiis tools lis on_his bench before him, and his fin. ihed work, at which he is looking, reflocta from ita ‘polishod surfacs tho hand wlich Lolds it,> The light Fallastrongly on the right s1ds of the face, leaving the otber half in,deep shadow. Revers was born in 1735, In 1756, he was a Licutenant of artillery af Fort Ed- ward, near Leke Geoige, In 1775, ho engraved the plates for the paper money ordered by Cougress, aud s also a manufacturer of guapowder. Copley was born in 1757, and left. America never to return in 1774, Evidently Bavere w2s 40 years old when ha sat for this portrait, 80 that the picture 15 no doubt one of Copley’s Iatest in this country, In an adjoining roota s A PORTRA OF THOMAS AMORY, three-fourths length, 10 & brown coat, leanlngon & staff, holding a giove in his hand. 1,~aod s friend moré competent o cridcize in_art,—both remarked the striking resemblance Jn tonoand color between this portrait and that of Revere, and especially how in both tho strobg light falls frof nbove on tho right side of the face. Tiey are evidently smong Gopléy's best pictures, and probably painted within & year ‘or b ey Josk porioss By bim, before. saling The St ports y [ore &1 or Earope, i that of s, Amory, wife of Thomas, & well-known picture not here exhibited, which ho feft unfinished. The moral of all this detal is, that Coploy was very much like all other artists, and Although he paintad tolerable portraits when ho was 17 years oid, improved constuntly by closs study snd careful prac: oo Lill hio wad 48, HFEF e THE PORTFOLIO, THE JUNE NUMBEE. i The Portfolio, an arsistic periodical, edited by Philip Iilbert famerton (published in this country by J. W. Bacton, N. Y.), is ont for June. ‘The trontispiece is an etching, * Heads of An- gels," vy of Sir Josbua Resnolds. Bir Joshua Cear- “hibited this picture s < 3 Child's 2ot veral Views ; a study, * the subject being autifal little daughter of 8ir Willism A.raon, painted in five different views. Thisis -umber eighteen of a seriés of etchings from ** The National Gsllery,” in pro- cess of publication by the Porifolio. An article {from the pen of Rent Menard npon the famous French painter, Gerome, is _sccompanied by a in COPLEY'S FICTURLS, fac-simile engraving, & . “ photogravure,” of s painting which has not been ex- hibited _or . reproduced in any way before. It is called “ African Hounds,” and represents & young Egyptian grandee walking in s garden among tropicsl piants, with half s dozen bunting dogs about him. The text, by Iene Men: the " well-known editor of the Gazefle des Beaur Aris, gives an interesting sketch of Gerome's career, of his gsy, frec, Semi- barbarous, and at the same time bighly civil- i stuaio in Paris, and especially of Lis conrss 88 a painter, aud his most important pictures. Opeof the pictures mentioned in this articls, *The Death of Ctesar,” it is a satisfaction to be sble to eay, belongs to a public coflection in this mun:rfi(the Corcoran_Gallery at Washington. It is & life-size figure of Ciesar, alone, Iying dead at the foot of Pompey's statue. Engravings from Gerome’s pictures are in svery art stara, A large engraving, * Golgoths, " is noticesble at Cogge- shall's (corner of State and Van Buren strests), # rugged rocky bitl, a colzmn of Roman soidiers H in .the distanco, thrown across the foregronnd, Whith s Just been finished. Hamerton himself contrihutes an artiole on the painter Etty. Thare i an etching afterCop. stable by Chattock which it mll take o lover of etchings to admire. An_illustrated erticle on * Drawings by Albrechit Darer in the Britgh Mugaom,” and soma * Techs Notes,” mgke up the unmper. Trom the Intter 8¢ ‘The first iy from David Cox, by " Mr. " Wrld, respecting watar-color painting. ~ “He ' used to _ say. ¢Play with cobalt and light red”; apd I believe thesa clements, cambined with Indian ink snd gam.. bage, mada his most delicate grays.” . “L'ho other, also from Mr. Wyld, relates to th painters Deasmps and Troyon. I believe that Bpeithar of those two had sny fixed plan,” any preconceived intention, of how he should- work at a picture. I have secn works of theirs in al] a:gé;us, from = first outline to the last tquehes, 804 R0 two have ever sppeared tometo . ke he. guo in the same way_or worked ont by sairiler ke two reported means. Same are bagun by a thick impasto, as’ if laid-on with a trowel, (lthcm by a slight glaz- m§—eeekmg for an effect by meraly transpareny color, the canvas acting ag white. They varied in this way sheir procekses ad infinitum. THE ACADEMY OF. DESIGN. - ITS PICTURE SALE. The picture sale annaunced at the Academy of Design for Thursday night was postpoved until Triday on aocount of tad weather, TFriday eve- ning, though the .attondance was rather slen- der,—perhaps forty or fifty persons,—tho salo proceeded, sod sales were mado gown to No. 15 or 16 of the list, besides some piotures called for and soid out of order. Of these sales tive or six wern genuine, and the remainder fictitions. This is to be regretted, not only becanse it shows thai Tae TrIUNE'S sermon on honeaty st Sun- day fell upon stony ground, but becauss, though oustomei ;, this course reduces the Academy at ouce ta the lpvel of ordinary pioture dealers and suction rooms. Nor was any temporary gounter- balancing gain mads, since the sale wae on the whole a failure. 3 The auctioneer in opening the salo made re- spectful allusion to Tae TRIBCNE's suggestions, and atated that while the conditions under which many of these pictures were presented wouid prevent & definica yaluation being put upon them, the essential point would be obsery- ed, und the sale would he unreserved aud bona fide, excepting where notice was given of limita- tions. No limits were mentoned. Whsthorany valuation or appraisal ehould be made of the rinureu' or nut waa of course unimportant, bt ihe opportunity to ipstitute an honest series of piotura-aales in Chicago ought not to have baen lost. An mnotioneer is of course govarned by the oxpressed wishes of his’ employcrs. I this cade he simnly followed tha almost universal usago of anctionsers,~s0 umversal thet it is unposaible to make a profesaional auctioneer gee 2uy harm in it,—aud 2 far =s the auctioneeriug was concerned the salo was congducted with more tact end apparent knowledge of pictures and the mariel than auy recent sale that has been held here. $ ’ The poblic will do well to bear in mind that auctioneers consider it too absurd 6 talk about o mpposa it thioy will sella pistaro, or any valuable article, at a matorially lower price at anction than it is worth at private. sale. They will therefore *bid in”? withont ecruple, and the buyer loses tho wholo' suppossd sdvantaga of auctiong. Thelaw does nat require gales to be made unless thero are two bidders. Where there is only ona bidder the mare rcputable auctjoneers will inform the purchaer upon inquiry, and will not hoid him to his bid unless he chooses, but they will not'zo out of the way to give informa- tion of this character. ° Puroliase at private sale 18 thorefora by ail means preferable. % If & straight-forward sals is aver discovered it eball be made known. The Exposition has the next chancs to do the square shing. y ——— 0ODDS AND ENDS. Harriet Hosmor is to send to the Centennial a et of golden doors, a copy of s superb conceit ordered by an English gentleman, who has allow- ed her to duplicate them for America. Meissonier speuds two years in painting a pio- ture less than a foot aquare. A test work of,this size, representing s halt of- horee in tho dsys of the First Empire, sold for £24,000 in gald. Buny, tho scuptor, has completed the model of his colossal statue of Liberty, which is to adorn Philadelphia. The statue is 21 feet in beight, and- around the lofty pedestal will be ranged forty-cight female fgures representing tho various States and Tctflh"u' The goddoss stauds in reposo, her sfandard forled in her grasp, and rosting upon hor shiold. A Story's labor for four yoars on this statue, had onlyat the cost of reliuquishing lucrative commissions, ia & free gk, 3 Louis I. Mengor, of No. 22 Dey strect, Now York, sgout of the Fing Art Departmeut of thé Louisville Industrial Exposition, has issued a circalar letter to artists and others, soliciting palutings for the autumn exhibition which will open Bept. 1. T'ho call is the third which comes from the West this season.- The agent of the Chicago Industrial Exposition begau canvassin, among the New York artists eatiy in May, and an agent of tho Cicciunati Exlubition Association was 1 New York on the same errand week befors last. John Rogers, the sculptor, and author of the famous ** Hogers’ Gtoups,” bas been experiment- ing during tho past winter with different kinds of artificial stons, with a view of using it in the production of statuary for the lawn, He is so well satisfied with Lis experiments tnat he hag determined to use artificial stono f£ar lawn pur- poses aliogether, and will sgreo to replace any groups that have not withstood the weather at the end of the year, Thus far Mr. Rogers hay preparod thres groaps for the Jawn, entitled re- spectively, “ Hide and Seek,” ** Hide and Seak— ‘Whoop," and ** Bubbles.” They are between 40 and 50 inchos in height, exclusive of the pedes. {als. ART BALE. The following items are taken from a liat near- 1y a column aod a balf long in the London Times of articles sold at Christie, Mavson, & Woods' during the week ending June 5: The first two are pictures; Dotheboys Hall—the Drimstons and treaclo scene, by T. Webstor, R. A., from the collection of the late Charles D for ‘whom it was , messuring sbout 7 inches by 10 inches—c00 Gs. In'the .aale of Mr. Dickens' coliec. tion this picture sold for £510. “ The Children of the Mist,” by Sir Edwin Landseer, B. A. ; thie sume ize an ihic dngraving by T. Lendseer; exhibited at tho Art Trourres Exhibition, Manchester ; sold now by order of tho representatives of the late ‘Mlr, Thomas Lloyd, C.B,~£1-07 105, A pair of very fine flat-shaped vases, with scroll handles, painted with pastoral sube jects’ of children In heart-ehsped medallions on maroon ground, with folisgo mounted with silvergilt, by Garrard, the cover surmonnted by Chelsea pensioners, from the Countess of Porte moath’s collection—E440; 8 palr'of beantiful dark biue and gold oviform vases, painted with allegorical subjocts and pastoral figares, and medsilions of pirds, peu-work necks and covers, 11% inches high— 750, A largs cup, cover, and sadcer, with richly-jeweled oruaments on whita ground, formerly the property of Marle Antoluetté—cl05. A pair of fine tulip-ahaped uplds tn medalli Tases, Beautiully painied with Cupl o on green ground by T 12 ing Bl 070 Tho Basbesint Vase, tha A40H of tha atty made by Wedgwood, from the famous antique ase I the 'British © Musewn, kuown ax the Port jand ~ Vasa _when fn possessi the Duchess of Portlapd, the figures being in white upon the usual pale blue of the Wedgwood ware oct specimen of Wedgwood, being grouad, This pere { without a iniglo faw of any Xind, was considered to be unique, and Tetched the high price of £294, It be. fongod to the late Mrs. Mlactiaest, and wasnow povght Mr. Agnew. Ty o Florentine cablnets In tortolse-shell of az. chitéctural design, 1lald with engraved ‘fvory plaques of hunting scenes, with centre figure of Fiors, £703 10s.; & besutiful old Florentino sbony aud fyory cabi. not laboraiely inland with arsbeaques and columns with carved fvory capitals, £139 105, The total real- ized by this remarkable collection of ‘decorative works of art, which was removed from & mansfon in the court~ try, amaunted to upwards of £15,000, COST OF SCCLPTCRE. . - Persons curions respeoting the cost 6f Benlp- tare will find tho following items interestiog : Thomas Ball reccived $9,000 gold for his colos- sal equestrian statue of Washington in the Bos ton Pablic Garden. He took the commission at $12,000 before the war, and was paid when gold wis very high. Bince he was occupied three years upon it, he must have depeuded more on reputation thaa pay for his sward. Thres of the four statues in the chapel a¢ Mt. Anburn Cem- “stery, marbie statues of life size or more, of J. Q. Adams, Otis, and_Wiythrop, cost .$5,000 apiece. The other, of Judge Story, by his. son, W. W.Btory, cost §G,000. The marblecutting would cost perbaps £1,500, leaving 3,500 to 24,500 to the artist. The bronze Franklin in front ‘of the City-Hall in Boston was $10,000 in %uld. The price of Power's * Webster” at the State-House was 312,000,1bnt the original be- ing lost at sea it cost in all 319,000 to get the final copy in place, of which nearly 316,000 went o the artist. Story's “ Everett" was also $12,- 000, (‘nid in 315,000 of peper mopey. 1. Q. A Ward commands, the highest prices at present, £20,000 for & single figure, James Jackson Jarves mays: ‘‘The cost of making ao ides! bust in Florence, including the marble, like the usual run of fancy hesds, is 250 10 €100 by contract. A portrait bust, life size, costs higher and is less remuverative, because seldom repeated ; but $200 wonld cover the cost of the bust, including the time in taking chy clay model, A heroio-sized statue in marble costasbont 82,000 to make; repotitions ‘of tho ordinary parior statnes, Eves, Greek Slaves, Judiths, and their like, trom $800 to $1,000. ‘The profit on large rionuments i8 o large -asto turn towards sculpiure considerable ardinary business talent, which, as regards art, kad better be Jef: to its comnmon pursuits. The Cavour’ statue, secopd quality, of Carrara marble, 16 fest high, imposing snd- respactabls, lagsly erected at Leghorn, cost, by coutiaet, 25,000 francs. We often pay- 310,000 for statues no Deuter ezecuted, af ardinary. Lifo-size.” WATEZE-COLOLS AND CRAYON. ‘The sams ‘correspondent who wrtes the ac- count of Reyoluijonary relics in Loston makes the follosig inquiry : Will Tz TRIDUNE please answer meafew que:tions? Copley's portrait of Jozeph Green (No. 147) ta 5 colored. crayon, and Perkins says of it * The coloriug s s fresh aud perfectas if Just from the artists hand.” Per- Lins” Jist maentions soveral other portraits by Ceploy, ip crayon, There is at Chester, N, H., “ The likeness of the "Rev, Ebenezer Fiagg, taken being in the 6t year of his age, by 8978 cie writing on the back. This portrait has slways fean caljed o waterscolor, hus Focently oua who ought, t0 knaw hua pronounced it u colored craypn, It has never been glazed until within a year, and the dady who owns ir, now 03 years of age, sud who saw {t painted, e2ys it waa ouce carried to Bingor, Me., with- out a frame, ‘and brouglt bick sgam :n o runk, 1t iy stul ino fuir state of preservation, through ol fhis bard usage, The question is, Bow laug have colored crayons aud huw long have wacer-Cobis been in use, and is that old fauuly portralt a cayox or water- cojor g 3 Both water-colors and orayaas -have heen in use long enmough to coyer :be hiptory of this porlrai,, the former having teon the cxclu- sivg medium of all tho -early Itjlian painters, while the art of pastel painting, which is another pame for colored crayon, origicating in Ger- mavy, was much promoted by the French artist Grenze, who was born 1n 1726, ard died 1n 1805, 1t would be presumptuous to prmonnce on 80 slonder evidence upon, the character of the picture in guestion, espacial~ ly in "the presence of & ‘‘person who ought to know.” In the absence of this laag testimony, it would Jook as tuougk the picture must be a water-color, since a crayon would or- dinarily be altogether destroyed b? traveling in a trunk and havging unprotected eighty ‘years on 8 wall. It is by ho means easy to distinguish the character of such pictures whin defaced by time, and closely franied and glazed. ‘This gives opportudity to say thit THe Trrs- u¥z will gladly be made tho medium of inquiries and answers upon artistic subjects. PEGGY BLIGH'S VOYARE. You msy ride in an hour or two, 1f youwil, From Hallbat Toint to Bescon Hill, With the sea beside you all the way Thrgugh plessaut places that s the Bay ; By Gloucester Haybr and Beyerly Beach, Salem’s old steeples, Nahant's long reach, ‘Blne-bordered Swarnpscott, and Olielien’s wile Marshes, laid bara to the dronchiug tide, With glimpse of Ssugus spire in the West, And Meriden hills in tnelr dreamy rest, All this you watch idly, snd mors by far, From the cushioned soat of a railway-cir. Lut in dsys of witchersftit was noz 50; City-bound trayelers had o go Horseback over s blind, rough rosd, Or 88 part of a Jolting \sagon-load Of gurden-produce and household-goods, Orosaing the fords, half lost in the woods,—= Ty the feur of redsking haunled all duy, And the roar of lions, somo historics 837, It ever for Boston s craft set sui, Few to sectre passage would fall, Who bad errands to do in tho threa-hilled town: And fhey migt return ero the sun weat dowa, So, one breery midsurhmer dawn, Siapper Nash, of the sthoaner Fawn, Bails amay with 8 arowded One of his passengers cranes her neok Qut 6f her z=arlet clouk-wan eye Liko 8 smouldering cosl had Ueggy, Bligh— And looks ot ber townsmen, 10pka B the Somy At the crew and the akippar; what ¢anit be That hincers their flinging Der bold glaaces back T Many wife bath an oye a8 bisck . Anda elbak asscarlet,” Ay, put she— XNobody coveta her company } . Nobody meets that strange look of heri, But » nameless terror within him atirs, 11is Lieart-etrings flutter, Lis nrves they twiloh— *Pis a0 ovil eye—it will blight and bewiioh, ot S e, e arow and the gkipper, Lodked up dismayed whes Sbourd 6bo came, And the voyagers whispered arousd her name, ‘And gazed askance, as agart she slood, $yaing them under her seavlet hood. A falr wing wafted them down tho bay; Iy noo at the Boston wharves tney lay. +We shall sail at three,” tho skipper cried; Save Peggy sll were awaro that b lied, For along the deck hiad boen passed a word, Waicn only spéaker and listener beard— ‘How he meant o give tho old crone the alip By an hour or 80 61 the Lomoward trip. ‘Errands all finfshed and anohor welghad, Out of t5e harbor her way sho made— The schoouer Fawn. ‘Buf who haatens down To the water-side with a shout and a frown, Angrily stemps with her Ligh-heeled thoe, Audibly curses the ¥kipper and crew, * Flutters hcr cloak and amca with her aye— Who but tho witch-wouan, old Peg Bligh? “WeT! give her the go-by I says Skipper Nasz, And Ianghs at Lis uchooner's scarry aed dashy But hers aud thore ons nitered, * Ho’s raah ] As good right has Peggy,” said oms or two, 4o a homoward passuge as I or you; For what has the good old boldame dozs Thatany man could Iay finger.on, Worse than Hving alono in a tumble-down bt . And speaking her mind when she chioss to? s Tho speaker atopped to follow the atary O! bis listeners up through the windy alr, A monstrous gull bore down ou the blast ; Once it poised on the schooner’s mast ; Once it flapped in the ekipper's foce; Scarcely it veercd for & moment'a space From the prow's white track iu the teething brins; _ Ita sharp oy gleamed with a stecl-cold Blixs, 3 ‘And ong of the sailors averred that ho saw ‘A red atrip dangle from beak to claws And ail the voyazers shrunk with fear To see that Wild creature s-swaop 80 nesz, As they hovp in sight of Salem tawn ‘A fog came up, and the brevza went down, They could almost hear the farm-folk speak, And emall the magnolias at Jutres's Creek, Alreast of the Half-Way Rock once more, With the Misery Island just off shore, The gull gave & shriek, and flow out of sight, And—there they lay iu’ the fog all night, They dared niot stir nattl morn was red, And the eky showed » Wluo streak overhead ; Then glad on the cleariwave sped the Fawn ‘Homevwnrd again through a breezy dawn, Axnd the skipper sliouted, ** The vessel arrives In season for breakfast with your wives 17 But some o clse had arrived before; Who is that by the hut on the hore, ‘Milking her cow with indifferent mien, As if no schooner was yot 0,bo een ? By the side glance out of Lor small biack eya, It must itis-Pog Dligh! , ‘How she got there no mortal conld fall, But crew and passengers knew right well Th?t 8ho had not ue Toot upon deck or hull, *Nor the mast 27 About that you. may ask the gull, Well, the story goes on to say Toat Skipper Nash always rued the day Vhen he left old Pey on the wharl behin ‘With her shrilt cry drifting along the win. H For he lost his schooner, the childrensdied, And his wife and his catile and sheep bealda ; And his old age found him alone, forlorn, - Wishing, no doubt, he had never been born, ‘What Peggy Bl to do with his case o is hurd £0 see in our time and place. How things hight have struck ns we. donot know Had we lived here two hundred years 3 When the thougbts of men took a wei ahape ‘Than any mist that hangs round the But this moral's a good one for all to mind 3 His own heart is the curse of & man unkiad, —Lucy Larcom, - J The Waltz, . Mr. Raikes tells s that *‘no event ever duced 5o great s eensation in English society as the {utroduction of the German waltz, in 1818." Tp to that time, ha writes : *The Evglish coantry dance, Scotch steps, and an occasions! Highisnd reel, formed the school of the dancing-master, and the - evenin; recreation of the British youth even in_ the firs| circles. But peace was drawing near, foreigners were arriving, and the taste for continental cos- toms and manners became the order of the dsy. Tho young Duke of Devonshure, as the magaus Apolio of the drawing-rooms in London, waa at the head of theso. innovations; and when the kitchen dance becamo exgleodafl at Devonahire House, it could not long be expected to main- tain its footing even in the Jess celebrated 3s- scmblios. In ' London, fashion i8 or was then everything. 3!& and young ro- turned 0 gchool, and the morn- iogs which had ' been dedicated ' to lounging in the park, were now absorbed at homa in practicing the figures of '» French qua- drills, ‘Or whirling ‘s chair round the room, to learn the step and measure of the German walts, Lame and impotent were the first efforts, bat the inspiring airs of the music, and the not lessin- &piring aire of the foreigners, soon rendered the Eaglisk ladies enthusiastio performers. What acencs have we witpessed in those days at AL mack’s, ete. What fear and trembling in the debutsntes at the commencement of & waltz : what giddicess and confusion at the end! It Was, perhaps, owing to this last circumstance that 60 violent an opposition soon arose to this new ovation on the score of morality, The enti- weltzing party took the slarm, cried it Gown, mothers forbade it, and every ball-room became s gcene of feud and contention ; tus waltzers continued their operations, but their ranks were nos m!'od with 80 many recruits as they ex- THE QUO WARRANTO, An Ymportant Decision by Judge Booth. Tho Thres Pleas of the Defense Stricken . - Qut. . The Judge’s Opinion on énhmltfing the Question of Minority Repres sentation. He Believes fhe Mayor and Council Shoeld Have Given It More Aftention. The Defendant Given Leave to Amend, . At the Criminal Court yesterdsy morning, Judge Booth dolivered Lis decision on the quo warTanto case. Judge Lawrence and Ar. Penca werc present in bebalf of the Citizens' Associa~ tion, and . the Hon.J. P. Root represented tha city. Following is the fall text.of the opinion: 1 hava Dot been nble to give theso quOstions the at tantion which their importance demands, in copse. quence of the pressure of other business ; but T will state the conclugions at which I have arrived. Tho counsel for the defendsnt have fled thres pless to the information in thix case, the ssme which wero befora me un mation 1o strike [he firet &nd second of thesd pleas from tho file, The State's Attorney bas now fled & demurres o the first and second of thess pleas, and #iX geveral replications to the third plea, Couneel for the defeudant huve Sled demurrers to each of the mx. replications, assigning sundry various special causes of demurrer, 1 ahall consider first nter MENERRER 70 T2 Fimer rLEs. dgo Booth then read tho plea, Which denied that the city had used any of tho privileges, functions, or frunchises cenferred by the act of 1572 He contin- ued:] 1t seems o be conceded—ak ladst I dan’t thing it can be successfully denled—that this ples At came mon law would be inadmissable. At common law the defendant iu o quo warranto procoeding Is required elthor to disclaim or ta justify,—(0 show by what war- Taut or sutliarity ho sssumes 10 axercise the franchires charged in th infornution, But it Is claimed on the art of the defendant that our stutute hos chan,ed the practice,—thut if has taken proceedings <, this kind out of the category of eriminal or quasi-crminal proceedinge, and hLus made 1t attogother a iyl pro- cueding, aud that defeudant is at Lbarty to vlead us mauy conflicting Pless in 3 quo warTatd proceeding as ho may in any civil suit. Un ihe purt of the people it is claimed that, although the nuture of this proceed. ing ‘may_have boen changud, snd undoubtedly is changad, by our statute, yut. ft i D0t 80 far cbangad as fo autlorize, tho defendait 0 pload any plea of & class which would be inadimissiule st common law; that ho 13 stili bound to plead in & manner appligable to the no- ture of the proceedings, and shot Lo is wtill te quired sither to disclaiu or to justily, Thers could, of course, ho conceived cases where tha defendant might put i two or mare pleas by way of justitication, lo may olaim to excreise the franchisvs complamed of by virtue of two or more separate statutes, or by virtle of prescription, so that there would stlll be ecope for the application of our criminal rule allow- ing parties to plead several distinct and soparte pitas Dy way of justification. I don’t understand tnat this queation haa besn distinctly deelded by the Supreme Coust, altliough there has een ncuso in which pleas I contradietory and conflictiug in fheir charace ter as those in this case were before tis Court, and wera mado the subject of discussion, thdugh the question as to their appliea- bility was not raised, 1 am inclined to take, in tho abaence of sny other authorities on thia polnt—aithough there are cases de- cided by other States—s practical view of this case, and hald that the rule of common law is etill in force 80 far a8 it requires that the pleas should be appropriate and applicabls to the character of th Droceedings. The city of Chicago is st the present time governed either under the old statate and its amendments, or ‘under the act of 1872, 1f those who are in suthority claim tbat they are administering the affairs of the Government under tho old charter and it amendments, it is perfectly easy for them to &ay 60, and to discleim that they are acting by virtus of the act of 1872. And if, on the other hand, they are administering the city’s affairs under and by virtae of the act of 1573, it is per- fectly easy for them to present that question o that it can be determined clearly, It seems to me that to present sry fsene of tlis charucter, calling npon the people to prove that they are acting under and by vir- :ue of tho statute of 1812, is an unwarrantzble practice inso graveand seriousa matier. Whatever may be the views of those who are in authority in the city st the prosent time, controlling and ‘managing its municipal affairs, the people of Chicago waok 10 know whether their rights, civil and political, axo controlied by tho old charter aud s am or whether they are under the act of 1812; and thoy ‘want {0 know that as soon 3a posaible under the cir- ~cumstances, I shall, therefore, suytaln the demurror to this ples, and proceed to consider. g 2%, 200D PLEA. [In his ples the city denied that it had for the space of seven days next preceding the filing of the infor. mation in the proceeding uaed any libertics, privileges, {functions, or franelhises other than suchosit en- josed und, by law, cossessed, sud had tho Iawfal tight fo use by vitiia of fhd laws of tho State of 0l8, ather than the act of 1572, escept such libers tes, functions, privileges, and franchises as are by that act conferred on every city in the State of Tlliaois, whothier such city 1iss oF oy not ats proper election] decided to Lecomns orgauized under said sct] I Lave sxamined thia act somewhat critically from Leginning to end, and Lave been unable to discover any provis ions whatever wheruby any city in the State of Illinoia 18 enlitled to any of ita benefits or comes under s #cope in 10y way, OF can in any othar mode than by becoming incorporated under it in socordance with its provisions, I confess, therefore, Iam st a loss how to undesstand this portion of the ples wherein it is statod thst tho city has not used soy Uberties, func- w'na, or franchises, other than it enjoys, and by law potecuses and haa the lawful right to use by virfue of v 1aws of the State, except such liberties, IIIDE‘IJDRD‘ prisileges and, franchises 48 are conferred by that acl on gvexy city in the Stato of Illinois, whether such ity s or has not had a proper olection, and docided to become erganized under said sct, Soc, 6 of azt. L. has thia provision: “ All courta in this Btate sball tako judicisl motice of the existent of all villagay and cities organized under this act, and of tho changs of the organization of any town or city from §ta original organization to its or- gusization undsr thisact ; wnd {rom Wis time af such organization, ur chunge of organizatian, the provixions of this act sball be applicable to such cities and vil- Iages, and all Iaws in corfliet therewith ehall no longer Do applicable. Dut all laws or parta of-laws uot fucon- slstent with the provisions of this act shall con- tinuo in force and be applicable to auy Buch city or Vil 1age, the sme ssif such chango of organization had ot taken place.” The provisions of this act aro made spplicable to the cltyor to the village when the city or villsge has becoms incomporated in, pursusnco of 58 ach aud not before, This objection, therefore, bisides being objestionable on the ground of apparently raising an isaue of law, is objectionsbls, an it scems to me, upon tne ground that it is meaningless, I think, therefore, that this plea i bed for other reasons than the oue whioh T have already stated as bei und on which I sustain the demurrer to the first plea., The deraurrer, therefore, is sustained to this second plos also, TO THE TIIED PLEA plafoti® bas filod slx several replications. That plea is a8 follows : {The Judge then read the third plea, It set fonrth that one-eiplith of the legal voters of . the city petitioned the Mayor and Common Council to submit the question as to wietsr the city ould become fucorporated under the act of 1872 to & voie of the clectors of the city; that on tho 4th day of Tanuary, 1815, the Common Counctl pasted o resolu- tion, which was approved by the Mayor, fixing upon Aprlt 23 as the time for holding such election, desig- ‘nating the same voting-plazes and judaes of election asut the November election of 1874 that proper no~ tico of such eloction was published ; that on te 234 of April an election was held pursusnt to eald petition, resolution, and notice, ¢ which the question of or ganization under tho act of 1872, and the question of mincrity represttation, were voted on ; that returns of said election wero msde by the’ judges: and that on the 3 day of May the Common Council can- vaused the sreturns, sud) ascertained that 3 majority of the votes cast at suzh election was for city organiz- tion under the gener) Inw and against minority rép- resentation in the City Council, and caused the ro- snit of said canvass {0 bs enlered on tha rocardsof the citz]. i THE FIRST REPLICATION 1o this piea is s follows : [Jodge Booth resd the repli- cation, which averred that {he question of minority reprosentation in the Common Council was mot sub- mitted to the electors for adoption or rejoction st the pretonded election by resolution of the Council, or wade a matter of record of the city, He continued :] i e defendant has demcred, and ssigas overal causes of demurrer ; that the said rophication sttempts %0 put in issus 10 bo trisd soma matter of Inference, to swit, whether tbe said qu of minonty represents- tion was or was ot submilted by virtae of said reso- lution ; that it tencers ag immaterial issue, whether or not {hat questton was submitted to the electars for adoption or Tejection at tho election held on the 23d April, ete, T have axamined this replication somewhat carefully, and have come Lo the conclusion. that these polnts are well taken,—that the replicftion is objectionable for each and all of these canses in the form in which it is dravn, BUT THE GREAT QUESTION then comes up whethor the demprrer miist not be car- ried buck to the third ples, and that depends upon the questlon whetker it was necessary tbat the third plea should bave urged that the question of minority rep~ resentation was submitted ta tho people. I iiave ex~ amined that question as carefully & my apportunities would admit, and have considered the argument of the coundel on bebalf of defendant at the bearing of this demurrer, Mr. Tallsy argued, with & good deal of plauaibility and ingenuity, that this stat- ute, sofar za'the minoxity representafion provision is coucerned, 8 tudefivite in its character, sud that it re- quired no action on the part of the Mayor and the Council. It is clear that is the plea there is no allega- tion that this question was submitted. It might be inferred that the matter was brought before them in some way, becanss it is sllezed in the demurrer that votes for minority representation in the City Council and sgainst minority representation 1n the City Coun- cit were polled, and the result of that vate ia stated in theplea ; but there is no allegation whatcver that this uestion” was submitted to the people, and X on't understand thot that was intended in the argument. -On the contrary, counsel on behalf of the city ineiated that it was not Decesaary. Now, I am not abie to concur with counsel in that respect, and X il bricty sive my rouo ‘?fi.;'h;;vfl?’ Bret dection, with which we z-c all familiat, es: * That any now existiog in this Stsle msy become incor-- porated under this- pct fn the manner follwing Whenever onz-cightt of the legal vutors f ¥uch sity, Yoting at the last preceding muwcipal ele-tion, shall ‘petition tho Jiyor and Cofinzil thereof to submic the question aa to whether ¥uch city eball becomo incor- porated under this act 10 3 vote of tle elecions in auch &by, it slall bo the daty of such Alayor and’ Council to submit such questiun sccord- iugly, and to appoint a time and place, ur places, 3t which such votu may be takon, and to disigias tho persons who shall such question shali not "be submitted oftener than ozce in four yeare.” Now, the provision in regard to minority representation fol'ows in the sixth secticn of Azt. IV Lut I apprebend it makes Do difiersnps whatover whery its location in the act is, and shall irest it procisely the ssme as if inlerposeq dipvetly after Ses. 1, At T, and shall 7ead and pu 3 con- struction o it the same ua if it ocenpivd that place in the utatute, It i3 as follows: “Whenever this act shall bo submitted o the gualified clectors of sny city for 3doption there shall by submitted at the same time, for adaption or refection, the question of minar- ity representution in the City Council or legislative bu- tiority ofauch city. At the suid election the ballots sball b in tho foliowing form : * For minority repre- suntaticn in the City Council,’ or ‘Aganst minority Tepreacutation h the City} Council.’ And at any sub- suquent time, on petition’of the logal voters equal in Blaber ta oue-elght the nomber uf legal votcs tast ut tlia next preceding general city elcetfon, the C cil ehall cause the, guestion of minurity repre: $o ba submitted to the legal vaters of said ¢ Dallota shull Le in ferm 3s provided in (i provulod, that o such question of representtion shall bo submitted moro than once {u every two years. Now, in .the first place, if tns act wero | designed to self-executing, whate ever that expression may meau,—if na notice was 40 ba reqoired by the Mayor and Jomwon Cotncil in eulmitting the question to a voze of the electars of the city, it 8cema to me that 3 didfervnt plrasecingy would bave Leen adapied by the Legwlsture, The Grit sec- Hon provides that it siali be Tho duty of the Mayor and City Connctl to submit such queation, appoint 3 tima and gilaces for holding the election, ete., and that such questiun shall not be submitted oflener than onco in faur Sewrs, whenever the act shall Lo submitted to $he votera of the city foradoption. Toacity existing ict ds judges at euch election; but r ynder an old charter, thero * shall he submitted at the some time for sdoption or rejection the quezdn of minarity representation,” - ' THIB LANGUAGE I8 PLAIN,— at Joast it s0unds 60 10 my esr. I nothing was toba done by the Mayor and Common Council in the matter of sulmittiog this_questton in regard o minority representation, ohiviovsly more sppropriste phrase. olugy would Lave been used. The age, “ Thers ahall bo submitted at the ssmetime,” and 8o o, cloazly enough to my miud indicates that there 1 Lo Seaction: upon quostion by somebody in aubmitting the q.cktion to the people ; and by whom i that action to Vo taken unless by th Mayor 3nd Comunon Couneil? It is to be borne in’ mind that the framers of this Btatnto contemplate that the first attempt mado to in- corporates city existing under an old charter under ond by virtue of this act may fail If iho first attempt fals snother may bo made ab sho expiration of four years; but ilio Legislature _provides {3t whensver this ack ahall be_submitted, whether ot the Grst, zecond, third, or any eubtequent attempt, there ehall be submitted at the same time this question of miuority representation, Counsel on the part of defendant srgued tnat becauseit ismot in exprera terms hero stated that this subtaiesion shall be by tha AMayor and Common Council, and because tals pravis- ion appears in s suliseuent vlauss, for that reaon tis statute wust be_considered self-ezecuting, inasmuch asin thofiwt clauseit doesnot say by whom the question shall be submisted. It moay be Welito refer 10 the general scope of this stacute in saccriaining whether tuere is any forcoin tho argument of mot It provides not only for the relacorporation of eities alrendy existing by virtus of their present charzer, but 880 for the ncOrporation of tovns of mot less thau 1,000 fuliabitants 1n the Stste, and fur the incorpors- tlon of uny ares of contiguoas tarritory not exceediug 4 square miles, having 3 Tosident popuiation of ot foss than 1,000 {nhabitants, ~Now, it 15 0 bo observed that, where aych contiguoua territory makes spplication to ‘becomenoorporated as u city, ihe mode of propeeding i8 necessarily different to that which is {aken by towns and cities, The application must be made to the Conn- ty Gourt, and the natic: of the clection mnst be given by ' the Judge, there belog no existing city authority “to perform that servioe. And it is also to be observed that this provision in regard to minority representation dces not apply in such a case. In the first instance, if the poople of a contign- ous territory dasirs 10 becoma incorporated 8a a city, they canuot_ vote, at the time they voto upon such quéstion of iucorporation, npon this question of mi- wority representation, because by the terma of the sec- tlon it is coufined to sxisting ciles. ** Whenever this act shall be submttted to the- qualified electors of any clty for adoption”™—that fs, any_existing city—* ther £hall be submitted,” and 6o forth. But at any subse- queut time, when this coutiguouk territory sball have Leen thus incorporated and become a clty, on petition the legnl voters to the Dumber of ono-eighth of the votes cast at the preceding geeral electlon, the City Council—the city Daving become organized under this_act—shall canse the question of minority represeatation to be sub- mitted to the electory, provided. the question sball not ‘o submiltea more than once in every two years. Tlicto ia a propriety in this being speciaily mentioned in this connection. 1 do not, therefore, &6 the fosce of the atgument. Again, I 18 NOT REASONABLE, knm{{ml.nd,l-h it the Legislature should havo pro- ~ided far the submission of the guestion of incorpora- tion, pointing out by whom the submistion ahall made, snd the modo by which it shall be done, by the Council, sud shonld have at the stmo time lett this question of minority representation to take ita chances, It seems {o me that there is guite os Much propriety ihat this question should be submitted fo the people by regulur notice, so that they ma; have fall opportunity and time to become acquainte wwith the importance of the meastre on which they are expected o cast their Yotes, as upon the other. Qquestion, because, if minority representstion is wdopted, the lagislitive body of the city is copstituted in & manner materially differing from what it isif ro- Jected. Aud a very impurtint section, providing fur tho districting of the city and the_qualification of Aldermen under the minority clause, if minority roo- rescutation is rejected, Lecomes of no forve whaleve: ; but, if it is adopied, thien that becomes a part of the organic law, It is a part, then, of tho charter of tio city upon which tho people are 'called upon to sote, I don’t think the Courta are called upon to adopt # laose construction of this statute, It sesms to me thaywhen the people aro called upon to express their opinion by vots upon » guestion of this importance— when they areto determine whether they ghall sy asido their existing charter and ameddments, nnder ‘which their municipal aftairs, their rights, civil and political, £0 far 28 connected with the municipaiity, Iave been controlled for many years past—wlen they are called upon to my"um chaiter salde, ond sdont an untried experiment, every reasonable opportuuity #hould be given them 10 act intelligently, and to be come fally aware of the measures upon wiiich.they sra 1o vote. And I-don’t think the Court would be justifed in adopting » loose construction of this statute—to lcave. » quesilon of 80 great import- ance a8 that of minority representution at loose ends to takeita chances of tha people becoming scquainted with the naturg of the measure upon which they are called upon to vote, or of becoming informed whother that question is before them or not. Undoubtediy this question of minority representation in the minds of some citizens might be the primary resson for adot- ing the nct of 1872; with others, of course, it would Ls ditferent. At all events, it soems quits cleaz to my mind that the peoplo should be. informed, and that the question should be submitted to them wih the samo formality oa the question of adopting or becoming incorporated under the act, oe- camse it s a of the system, ~ And 1 feel entirely clear in my own mind, upon looking this statute over, that {t was the intention of the Legis- Iature that this question should be aubmitted by the Mayor aad Comimon Councll at the ssme time that the question of adopting the act was submit. ted. 'That belng the case, I think this urrer must be carried back and sustamed (o tho third ples. Iam satisfled that Ky THE REPLICATION 18 BAD. If this plea had in any form espresaly stated that this question of minority representatiun was submitted o the people, thu connsel far the peopls might then have accomplishied what would seem to Lave beun their ube Ject by serting forth, as they hase done hers, tho res olution and the notice, nverring that that was the only form of submission, and then made a spectal traverse, traveraing the fact of the submission, and tho question would then bave besn fairly before tho Court to decide whether or not this resolution and notice smounted to submission of this question of minority ropresentation, The view that I take of this uestivn renders it unnecessary for we to procecd urther in reference to the other replications. I have looked them through with soma care, azd it seems to me that the pointa taken by demurrer sro sound in some respects, but it is not necessary for me to express 4Dy opinion upon them in detall. The demurrers on ‘Debalf of the people o the first and second ples are sustained, and the demurrer by the defendant to the first replication {s carried back and sustained to t third piea. THE NEXT STEP. Mr. Root—What is the order of the Courtas to the demarrers to the other five reptications ? The Court—I don’t think it is nccessary for me to mske any. = MIr. Root—The third plea is out of tha csee, and there is an {ssue of record now to be dis- posed of. The effect 60 far is to eliminate this first replicatiod. ‘The Court—The third plea is out of the case. Mr. Boot—§o far 88 the first replication is concerned. The Court—It is out altogefher, Mr. Root—Then, if the Court plesae, we ask leave to smend, and then desire time to deter- mine what we shail do with regard to the prop- ositions as they now stand. Mr. Pance—It scems to me there ought to be a disposition of tha other issues of the replica- tions. - Boppose it shonld turn ont that the posi- tion of the Court upon the firet repl is not sound ? I think we ought to bave judgment on the other replications also. . Judge Lawrence—Porbapa the reeult may be, if they amend by inserting an averment in their plea that the question of minority representation was submutled, wo will thon take iseue npon that, or, as your Honor suggested, deny it vy ial traversa, and than the issaes sought to be made by the other replications would proba~ bly come up. It maynot benecessisy to dis- Pose of them COW. ] ‘I’h:‘Cdnrt—I will not give adscision thereon l:IILr. W‘ Then we shonld like to byve time to determine our course a8 to tho effect of the opinion of the Court thus far rendered. ‘The Court—You ask leave to amend? Judge Dickey (who had eatercd ‘the room while the decision was beinz delivered]—Yes, each of the thres pless. The damurrers have been sustained to all of them. - % The Court—Very woll. i The hearing of the cuse, io its new phass, was then fixed for-Thi moming. . tie - NAMES. The Queer People ‘Who Live in Chicago. & Representatives of the Animal ard Veg. etable Kingdoms, Andrew Johnson Ithe Presidential Favorite. - Economy in Names--The Jaw-Breakers, An examination of the directory of a great city like Chicago, whoso papulatiop ia.msdg up of such diverse nationalitics, revesls many stranga facts in regard to tho names of people. The general facts i regard to the amonnt of population, numerical strergth of trades and professions,-and number of times the most com- mon numes recur, huve already been published, but thero are ‘many other carious’facts. Ono wonld naturally expect that s city of Chicago's greatness wonld exhibit on the rc!) of its in. habitants MANY GREAT UEN. The expectation mill not b disappointed, for Chicago contains folly 4 George Toashingtons, and doubtless more are coming, There are 3 Andrew Jacksous, who will probably join the Cosmopolitan Clab, while there is- Sne Thomas Jefferson for the Jeffersoniane. Of all the Tay- lors there I8 not a single Zachary, bat thers are 53 Andrew Johnsons, Thers 1 Franklin Pierce, 13 John Adamses, 1James Monrve, 6 John Quincy Adamees, 3 William Henry Harri- #ons, and 2 James Buchacans. ‘Among the Tolks, the Mfadisons, the Tylers, the Tan Burens, the Lincolns, and the Grants, there are nono bearing the fuil Presidential name. It is frequently bossted that Chicago is ~ A COSMOPOLITAX CITY, ‘but probably tho full greatness of the assertion has nover been realized. An esamination of the directory ehows, 8s might beexpected, plenty of Deatchers, but singulazly enough there ia but one American, and he serves his country in the police force. Of the names of States and Terri- tories, Maine, Delaware, and Moniana appear, and slthongl thero is no Virginia. its Latin root appearsins Mr. Yirgo. Not only do we ses Deutacher, but also German, Austrian, and Ser- liper. This even does uot oxhaust tho hames of Teutouic or kindred nationalities, for we find Brunswick, Baden, Fianders, Holland, Dexmark, and Dane, Otber nations have nlgo thelr name sakes, for we find Ireland and Irish, Wales and Welsh, Canada and Kpglish, Franceand French. Thero is no Scotland, but of Scotes there are:n {Jlanh: no Bpanisb, bat seversl Spains; lee- and does nov appear. but Greenland does, and wo find & Japp and a Tark. ° . ©' AMOXG'SAMES OF ANDIALS one finds such as Shark, Btockfish, Bwan, Gosling, Eagle, Beetle, Hawks, Lamb, Pescock, Salmon, 8had, Pelican. Pigeon, Duck, Nightin- g2le ear, Béaver, Dicon, aad Boar. aking Bp TTE VEGRTABLE KINGDOX we find Boid, Blossom, Flower, Garland, Ar- bor, Leaf, Stom, Branch, Bow, Busb, Vine, Tree, Asp, Root, Sycamore, Eim. and Osk. We find Grass, Straw, Hay, Hayman, and Haycock. It 18 but natural that wo shonld find the Rake, Spade, Sickel, and Shears. With all thess pmota and implements it is a little surprising that we shonld find only the bpplsx,"f‘nr, Tinm, Peach, Cherry, Almond, Fig, apd Iast, bus not least, tha ministerial Bean. E OF ANCIENY AND BIBLICAL NAXRS we have fawer than some kastern oities, but"for quality we cannot be excelled. As for ancient 1amilies who can excel our Adam and our Noak, althongh the latter geutloman varies from the origival spelliog by dropping the *h,” Wehave Shem aud Hem but no Japhet, and we have both Eden and Paradise. We_have Baal as well as Judab, and both Sion and Jerusalem. The He- brew writers are Dot altogether omitted, as we bave Job and Hosea. There are twelve Christs and but one Pilata. Thero is a Pentecost, and Nestor appesrs to.remind one of another ancient nation. There are tweuty-thres Abels and thin ty-nine Cuinsg. Chicago i4 a maratime city, 80 it is proper that wo should have Sailors, aud Scow, Nkiff, Boat, Bark, and Ship excite no surprize. TIE COLORS are well represented. Besides the common Brown, Black, Green, Gray, and White, we have Purnle, Red, Lavender, Bine, Pink, Violet. Scariet, Ruby, and Rose. Wo bave no oil, but there is & Vyroish. Among others we have Virgil, Rous- eean, Berthold Aucrbach, and Guizot, Besides theso the most prolific aathar of tha age resides among us, whosa signatirz of Anou will bo found afiixed to a multipheity of productions covering 1ds of art, litorature, sud science. Her first name is Fanny. OF TILE GIZAT NAMES OF HISTORY we have Nero, Hannibal, Napolcon, Ney, Garle baidi, and Bismarck. We havb one who staggen under tho uame of Napoleon Nero. Of clebras ed battle-grounds wo_have Lodi and Watarloo. Thera is no Honry Ward Beecher nor Thax dore Tilton, but we find K:ss, Kissipg, and Letze kiss, snd_two Dormons. Among pames con- wected with religion ars also found Abbey aud Abbot, Dean, aud Archdoacon, Friar, Priest, 3onk, Biehop, Saiat, snd Angel. ' Among offices of the State are Sheriff, Admiral, Alderman, and Heneschal. There is 1 Mayor, 1 Noman, and 2 Blanks. ? 1IN THE WAY OF MUSIC, Chicago bas 32 Pipers, but only 2 Fifers, al- though there aro 4 Fifes. There ia 1 Fiddle and 1 Fiddler. As to the effect of thess on the poy- ulation we find 3 Sougs, Hop Sing, John Sing, Sum Bing, Loog Sing Sam, Hop ovg, and Sing n. Investigating on the subjoct of Temperaace wo find Negus, Punch, Chsmpagne, Deer, Lagor, Bodewasser, and only 6 Drinkwater, and one Temperance Branch. DIVISIONS OF TDIB s are represented. There are Day, Noon, Night, Spring, Sammer, Fall, sod Winter. Four sre High, 36 Low, 8 Jack, butnobody has tiamn, sithough 8 Gamble. Two are Sick, 1 Wail, ‘T'wo are Dull, 1-Duller, and 6 Duliurds. Thera sre many Bharps, bat only 1 Flat, according ta tho directory. = Thero ~ are Iox, sud Casket, FEggs and_ Yel, Stoza, Wench and Tady, and Tickler, Chess Cheseman, 8 Shillings ish, Angle and Fisher : 1 Bins and 4 Last, New. Newer, Old: 5 Doctors &nd 1 Quack ; Chick, Chicken. and Chicky ; Salt, Sabno, Salter and Brine: Candy, Sweet snd Swestman ; Goodman and Sesttergood: Saw, Sewing. and Bawyer ; Lie, Lies, Liebelist; Church and Nave, Alley aud Btreet: Sick and Nickel; Blood IIIJ Gory; Piate, Dickle, Pin, and Fork; Il an¢ Well; 8 Fuleaand 6 Filers; Clip and Chnpfl'i Bol, Hun, Sunday, and Fridsy.. There are Amens, 6 Damns, 1 Dern, and I Oath; 1 Times and 1 Qustivk. Solon is a capitalist, Fate s con- duwrm&;na a lockumith bas for a uame A There are lots of Chris- tiaps ~and but ouy Gentile. Thers are Favorits, Cilly, Darliog, Blesung, and Do- light. Peter Fupk is not s snide auction mag, as might be aupposed, aad Isgo is & care penter. THE FIRST NaME in the directory is Aal, tho lsat Zwisele, The shortest nams is You Ab. the lougest ls Theoph- ilus Czernegorceovich. The oddest name is prob- ably Cbristian Damlow; bat is & man named Ditto. Théro aru several pames with only two letters, such 88 Ei, Ei, and Ay. There are s large number of names spelied with only three Jetters, of which some of the moat curious are Aff, Aux, Alb, Avo, Wam, Wan, Wic, Ayd, Aye, Zuk, Zur, Ink, Nat, Nix, Nys,and Odd. Many of the longer pames present a FAW-DISLOCATING ARBAY OF ZONSONANTS, a8, for instance : Lubezyomuky, Bchnkabschuk, Bzchigobski, Gutbrarridsen, Gotzehkl, Gursthume ubaur, Sdmarz, Schvcker. A fow are all conso- nants, a8 Smrach and Smrz. ‘Then, again, some ‘present a remarkable array of vowels, as Cors- skeoura, Yosonz, and Komulus Gai. ‘There are two pames in the X's: Jannistcs Xenjsusteix and Fraocis X. Xavery. Opne won- ders whac the middio X ie for. Fleasant Amick has an amisble sousd aboutit, John Hefty is imj ive, Staphen Susan is epicens, and Gotte Ioib Everything is consoling. Damove is coba bly s misogynist. and Donttnchme s missn. thrope. Last of all we.come to Izzard and take # rest. i THE cup. A litlle wiih laoghing e Tirough ot s s Loty by, Beneath the starry 08, b ] e, dowsy and dfaak the o Thatfs s e oirp stome, Stralghtway & sughing yrith peeped m'hmkndrmn'xg}x Ber satd 2 : o Ner 52l : “Tia ‘thongh {t a1 Toe Erarie domare B peae ¥ Thelitiis mald mas deadt . & a0 dadms Lavaryis