Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 10, 1875, Page 4

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Py —_— vised Statutes can find out for themselves 3 iolent ] t; To-DAT, ‘MoCORMICK HALL—Xorth Clark etreet, corner of Kinzie. Lectare by Prof. Pepper st 3 p, m. Bubject: The Phonomana of Porized Light? TO-MOREQW, ‘McVICEER'S THEATRE—Xadfzon sireet, between Dearborn aud St:te. Engagsment of John McCallovgh, “The Glsdiator,” ‘WOOD'S MUBZUM—Monuroe_street, ‘between Desr~ born and State. Afternoon, * East Lynve,” Evening, * Led Astray,” HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randclph stree!, between Clarkond laSalla Engagement of the California ADELPHI TITEATRE—Desrbarn stroot, eoraer Monroa, Vamety performance. SOCIETY MEETINGS. ‘MASONIC—LAFATETTE CHAPTER, Xo. 2, B. A. M. ‘Heil 72 Monroe-st, Statsd comvocstion Mondsy evaning, Oct. 11, 88 7:30 okcloc, for business and work. B ord L : oeSeegrine E. N, TUCKER, Bec's. ORIENTAL OONSISTORY-—A spocial assembly will e bald ot thelr rendezvous on Tharedsy eveming, the 1ith inst., at 7:0 o'clock, to tzke nio considerstion ihe matter of our Socisbiés for the winter, B order of the Commanden-in-Cluef. T, T. GUENEY. ATTENTION, STR EXIGHTS - Special Caclar of Chicago Commandesy, No. 19, K. T., Monduy evening, et 35, 1075, for workon I T, Onder. Vieting it ] ualy dovit order o niphis oomsieouly Sorii ey T01 TAMS, Tecorder, LAXDMARK YODGE, No. 422, A. F, k A. Masons,— Wembers rxe requested 5 meet at theie hal tids (Sun- 1sy) moroing at 11:30 sbarp, 10 jo:n n the burial ser- vices of doceased Bro, Jols Cstrom, a late meam- scven Lodge. LR W. L CULVEE, W. 2L TUNERAL NOTICE—Members of Wm. B, Warren Lodge, No. 209, A. ¥. & A. Jaeous, sve herely notified 1o ssecmbie at Oriental Hall, 123 LaS.)le-si, this (Sun- ¢ay) morning, at 10 o'zlock, sharp, t0 2tiead the fune- raiof Iate Brother Jotu L Ostrom, by ears to Oak- wood Cemetery. Members of Lardmukand other cisfer Lodzes aTe fnvited to. be present, _ By order of the Maater, J. B. DUNLUP, Bec'y. ot M et dinorieb oo S Uhe Chicagy Tribune. Bundsy Morming, October 10, 1873, In the specie movements in New York last weelr thers was an excess of $311,535 in the imports over the exports. There waslittle fluctuation in the prics of greenbacks at the New York Exchange on Saturday, the opening and closing quotations being 853 Some few sales were made at 855. ——eee e Canads, having adopted the English prac- tice of having ceses of alleged bribery st elections seitled in the Courts and not by a partisan Legislsture, has found that it is easy to detect and punish this crime, and that there is plenty of it to be detected. At the last Parliamentary election the Provincs of Ontario returned eighty-seven members, Pe- titions sgainst thirty-two of them were filed. Tke Courts have already unseated eighteep. The Province of Quebecis in an almost equal- ly bad plight. If we had anything that could be called an investigation of contested elsc- tion cases, we might learn unplensant truths of the same sort about certain sections of onr couniry. The delegates of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce to the National Board of Trade recommeénded, some time since, thay the body they represented chould throw its influence in favor of introducing the postal-telegraph system info this country. This recommenda- tion has been hotly debated on several occa- sions, and has finally been voted down. The failure of the Western Union to swallow the Atlantio and Pacific, and the prospectof e third competitor, in the shape of the National Telegraph Company of Californin, have given the present system a new lease of life. If the whole telegraphservico of the country was controlled by one extortionate monopoly, postaldalegraphy might become, despite its patent defects, a pressing necessity. — Mr. Toomas Hoxz has sent to Mayor Oox.- ¥x his resignation as ‘one of the Directors of tho Public Library. It will bs seen froms perusal of Mr. Hoyse's letter, which will be found elsewhere, that ho has come to the con- clusian that the present edministration of the pity Government does not take s very lively interest in the Public Library 25 an educa- tional institution, and that he resigns becanse he believes that it is the deliberate intention to cxipple the resources and dofeat the useful- nees of the Library. While it is natural that Mr. Hox~x does not desire to be idontified ‘with any such movement, it is to be regretted that the Library will lose his energetic par- tisnpahip, which it meeds more than ever ander the present administration of cify wffgirs. The Interior gets worse and worse, Its in- ternal affairs eve growing so complicated that Tax Cuzcaco TrmoNe slmost desprirs of be- ing able to keep it longer in the path of re- ligious duty and charity. Iis very last issue rontains an editorial signed by ome of its editors, to which is appended a foot-note by the other editor stating that tho above does not expross the views of the peper. Before we undertake any longer to guide the Infe- rior, we want to know who is responsible for things in that office. Who is who, and what is what? Who expresses the vicws of the ? If Mr. MoCorauck is the umpire, why does he pot decide when the editors dis- ogree? This pulling and hauling in different directions distracts Tz TrmoxE in its eforts to make the Interior a power for good in this cammunity. The Chicago produce markets were gen. ercily stronger on Saturday, Mess pork was in good demand and 250 pea b:l higher, clos- ing at $22.80 for October and §19.15 seller the year. Lard was quict and easier, closing ot §18.20 cash and $12.05@12.074 seller the year. Meats were quist and firm, at 93@93c for summer shouldess (boxed), 13}e for short riba do, and 13}c for short clears do. High- wines were in bettir demand and fimm, at $1.14 per gallon. Lake freights were quiet snd firm, st 8¢ for wheat to Buffalo, Flour was in fair demand and sterdy. Wheat was less activa and 1}@1}o higher, closing st $1.09 for Octobar and §1.073 for November. Corn was quite sctive and steady, dosing ot 573: l:x“:dr and Bido for Novgm‘bn. Oats wers demand and fo Y, elosing o 3o cmsh and 82c Iarkoix*fim. By THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY OCTOBER 10, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. was quiet, at 72}@72}c. Badey was more ective and firmer, closing at 97%c for Sep- tember and 93jc for November. Hogs were fairly active, at about Friday’s quota- tions, closing steady at $7.60@7.55 for light and ot $7.50@7.90 for heavy grades. Cattle were inactive and easy, with limited sales, at $2.50@5.50 for common to good. Sheep were in fair demand and were steady, at $3.25@4.75. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $116.50 in greenbacks st the close. The bulk of the circulating mediom of China consists of small copper coins called cash, 1,000 of which mske $1. A cash is therefore worth sbout 1 mill. Between 1830 and 1860 this coin became scarce. The then Emperor, the celebrated Fre-ro-Foy,—HE-EN Fooxe was his real name, but our rendering is more easy of remembrance,—resolved to make money plenty and cheap. He thero- fore issned some millions of iron cash. The 16w coin was worth about half as much as the copper cash, but was decreed to be equal toif. The faith and resources of &ll China, ‘however, could not keep the debased currency st par. It sank lower and lower 25 the quantity of it in- creased. In April, 1857, 1,000 copper cash were worth 5,700 in iron. Despite the enormons issues of the false coin, prices rose faster than money could be struck of. A number of banks cameinto being. The pub- lic mint was supplemented by private print- ing-presses. The paper cash depreciated with even greater Tapidity than the iron ones. Farly in the spring of 1858 a copper cash was worth between ten and twelve in bills. Money was cheap, but goods wers high. Rice cost so much that a famine seemed near at hand. A somewhat rude remedy was chosen. Mobs sacked the banks, seized the Viceroy and bauled him around by his pigtail until the sufferings of Amsarom were wholly eclipsed. The demonstration secured its aim. The currency was brought back to par, sud the almond-eyed Celestials have since then been contented with chesp rice and hard P EVIL-FISH OF CHICAGO. Al readers of *The Toilers of the Sea” will not fail to remember that event{ul strog- gle of GruriaTr on the Douvres rocks with the brute forces of Nature. After the hurri- cane, the shipwreck, cold, hunger, sickness, and superhumsan lsbor and fatigne, came the crowning horror—the Devil-Fish. Chicago bas had its struggle with the elements in their most fearful shape—that of fire. It has struggled with tho storm, hunger, cold, wreck, and ruin, and now comes its crowning hoeror—tho Devil-Fish. The City Govern- ment is its Devil-Fish. Vicror Huco says : “ Bome living thing— thin, rough, fiet, cold, slimy—had twisted it- self round his naked arm in the dark depth balow. It crept upward towards his chest. Its pressure was like a tightening cord, its steady persistence like that of 8 screw.” This describes the City Government. It hasslow- 1y but surely twisted itself about the city. It has crept up to the very heart. It is now tightening thecord. It iz worming its way into the vitals of the city with the steady persistence of a screw. It has as much patriotism, desire for punlic good, honesty, and morality of purpose, a5 GrLiaTT's Devil- Fish, and no more. Its blood-sucking in- stincts ore the same. As it resembles it in all its attributes snd instinets, and as itis nameless, let us call it the Devil-Fish part; Vicror Hugo still farther describes it: “Its folds strangle, its contact paralyzes. It has an aspect like gangrened or scsbrous flesh. It is & monstrous embodiment of dis- ease. It adheres closely to its prey, an@’can- not be torn away.” The Devil-Fish party is & mounstrous embodiment of disease. It has paralyzed overything with which it has come in contaot. Its disease has spread through- out the community. The Devil-Fish party looks like Gmrisrr’s monster. It is gan- grenad, and scabrous, and festering with corruption, and it adheres as closely to its prey as its marine prototype. It has not yet been torn from its prey, because no one has had GruunaTr’s courage. There are still stronger and mors startling points of resemblance between the Devil- Fish of Chicago and that of the Douvres rocks. It slmost seems as if Vicrox Hvao were describing the former when hs says : It iy with the sucking apoaratus that it stlacks, The victim is oppressed by a vecuam drawing at numbar- less points; 1t 18 not & clawing or s biting, but an n- Qeseribable seavificstion. A teaving of the flesh i terrible, but less terriblo than s sucking of the blood, . . .+ » Theapoctre lies upon you; the tiger can only devour you; the Devil-Fish, horrible, sucks your 1ife-biood away. Ho draws you to him and luto him- self; while bound down, glued to the gronnd, power- loas, you feel yoursnf gradually emptisd into this borrible pouck, which iu tha monster, ' This elimy monster, the Devil-Fish party of Chicsgo, lies upon the city end envelopes it with its tentaclos, like an incabus. Its tentacles ave corrupt men in tho City-Kgll and in the County Building, Councilmen and Commissioners, contractors snd jobbers, dend-beats and bummers, thieves, gamblers, and bunko-steerers, saloon-losfers and va- grants, and all that mass of corruption, igno- rance, superstition, dishonesty, and criminal- ity which existe inside the party and hangs upon its skirts. There are the Council and its bummers ; the County Commissioners and their bummers ; the County Clerk and his ‘bummers ; the Recorder and Sheriff and their ‘bummers ; the Poor-House authorities and their bummers ; the Court-Honse Ring and its bummers. All these tentacles and more are wound about the city, holding it with their tightening cords, while the Dovil- TFish sucks and feeds upon the blood of the community. Look st the work that has already been accomplished by this festering mags of absorbeat corruption. It has sb- sorbed oll the dishonesty, and villainy, snd ignorance of the city. This would not be an evil of itself, but it did not stop there. It has absorbed all the offices, every depart- ment and branch of the City and County Government. It haa absorbed and devoured the faxes. It has swept into its pouch, “which is the monster,” all the city and county contracts, and has gorged upon them. It hes absorbed the whole system of out-door relief, and feeds upon the paupers, and erip- ples, and other unfortunates who have been dragged into its remorseless maw. It hes wound itsel? sbout the municipal im- provements of every kind, and they rzs made to supply it with blood. It has now fastened upon the public schools, and is seoking to con- trol teachers, buildings, and supplies, for its corrupt purposes. . It has commenced upon the Fire and Police Departments and Board of Public Warks, by filling them with its cr.enturu, or, to earry out our eimile, by winding its tentacles nbout them, and these will soon be swept into * the horrible pouch.” Do the peopls of Ohioago recognize the peril that environs them ? Do thoy not see that the Devil-Fish s grappling thom more and tors oloiely ? Are thoy going o fres Gumddlva, or ke thiy belred with the spathy of despair ? Gruimrr freed himself from the monster, even when in his death £rasp = 1o bad plunged the blade of Lia Enife into the fat, slimy substane, and, by s r3pid movoment, like the flourish of & whip in the alr, describing a circle round the two eyes, ho wreached the hesd off 23 & ‘man would draw s tootb. The struggle was ended. The folds relaxed. The monster dropped away, Hks the slow dstaching of hands, The msssasnk {o the bottom of the water, Grutiarr teaches the people of Chicago a lesson. Slash off the tentecles and arms of this Devil-Fish party, and then cut its head off. It will be ahard task, for the monster has secured a firm grasp, and its slimy arms have wousd ihemselves about the whole city end county ; butif it is not done soon it will be too Inte, for every effort will ip- creaso the effort of the Devil-Fish, and every struggle will increase the tightening of his ligatures. The peopls must strike now to froe themselves. BUILDING AND THE FIRE-ORDIRANCE. The only opposition encountered by the ex- tension of the fire-limits after the great firy of 1571, and again after the fire of the sum- mer of 1874, when the fire-limits wero medo co-cxtensive with the city-limits, was partly solfish and partly sentimental. The selfish part of it came from epeculators in outside property who desired to increese its present value by the rapid comstruction of cheap houses, whereby it was thought that it could be mode & residence locelity more quickly than otherwise. The sentimental part of it came from those who ostentatiouslyspoke for the *poor max,” and insisted that he should have the right to endanger the whole city by setting up cheap frame shanties on wooden pins, The experience of the past year has completely demonstratod the falsity of both pheses of the opposition to the general fire. ordinsnce. Without consulting comparativa building statistics, we think we may safe- ly assert that thers has mever been a year during which so large a number of dwellings, accommodating o large s number of people, have been erected. Of the 1,500 or 1,000 stractures built within a year, the great bulk were either dwelling-honses, or dwellings and stores combined. But tho un- usually large number of new buildings is not the only evidencs that the firc-ordinance has ‘been no hardship. Rents ave much cheaper. A good brick house can now ba rented for about the same price as, and frequently for much less than, a frame house two years ago. The substitution of brick for weod is eco- nomical inavariety of ways. Menare willing to invest their money in houses who pre- ferred to use it in some other way under the old system, for the investment is safer than it was before. The dangez of destruction by fire is decreasing with every year and every month. Every solid brick louse that is erected is practicslly 8 mew fire-wall. The result is that fires aro decroasing in numbers, and very msterially in the amount of property destroyed. Insurance rates are very much lower, and the valuo of insurance pol- scies largely enhanced by the increased prob- ability of their being paid in case of loss. The cost of repairsis considerably lossened, and the valuo of the buildings more perma- nent and uniform. A brick house that has stood five years is worth about as much as when it was first constructed, if the cost of material and labor remain the same, while & frame houss five years old has hardly balf the value of its original cost. Finally, it has boen ascertained that the cost of brick bouses may be kept within 10 per cent more than the cost of wooden houses of the same gize, Theso sre some of ths reasons why thers has boen so much building during the past year. There will be still move building in the fature in propor- tion to the prosperity and incresse of busi- ness and populstion, becsuse capitalists have learned to content themselves with lowerin- terest on their investments in consideration of groater security. All thego tendencies are vital helps to the steady growth of Chicago, with which every resident, whether rich or poor, capitalist or Inborer, is fully identified. In the face of this experience, it is not likely that there will ever again be en important agitation for & return to the old and fatal sys- tem of building frame houses. Every change in the future will be in the direction of in- creased protection from fire as dictated by econamio considerations, LIGHT WANTED. ‘Thers is something queer about the break- up of the School of Natural History on Peni- kese Island, which Jomy AxpErsoN, of New York, founded, and which Prof. Acassiz con- ducted during the last year of his life. AMr. AxDERSON, 8 noted tobacco-manufacturer and a man of eccentric and great generosity, one of whose acts was to settle 8 pension on Gan1- 3ArDI, gave Penikese Island, his summer home, for the' gite of the school, and added $50,000 88 “ the nucleus of an endowment fund.” Prof. Acassiz planned the school- buildings and drew up a schedule of the fur- nitare, aquaris, microscopes, and other mova- ble property needed. His plans were fully carried out. The buildings cost 828,000 and the rest a frifle less than $10,000. The school, which was intended omly for the instruction of teachers, was a great suc- cess. Acassiz said, in a8 letter to an Englich scientist, that he considered it his 'most satisfactory achievement in the cause of scientifio education. When he died, $10,000 of the AxpErsoN fund remained. The school ‘was conducted by his son, Prof. ALEXANDER Acasstz, during 1874, When it closed, in November of that year, there was a deficit of nearly $1,500. The Trustees, who are said to have steadily snubbed the founder of their trust, asked Mr. Axperson to make up this deficit. Ho atonce did so, but declined to contribute further. He has since been bit- terly assailed in the Boston press for what the Hub is pleased to consider his niggardly churlishness. No Massachusotts man, how- ever, has added a cent to the resources of the school. There has been' ho session of the latter since Iast November. A few days sgo it was announced that & great debt had been incurred,—hov, no- body knows,—and the movable property was sold off at saction, doubtless far below its valug, in order to realize funds to meet this debt. The proceeding is tha more curious inasmuch as the school-teachers of the coun- £y contributed @ memorial fund immediately after Aoassrz's death, which amounted to nearly $9,000. It wos ennounced that this fund was for the Cambridge Musspm, “‘in connection with the AxpEnson School at Penikese.” The fund was duly psid into somebody’'s hands at Oambridge, but the con- mection, if any, it has had with the school is yet to ba discovered. Not a penny of it was used, it is gaid, to prevent the macri- floe of the apparatus of the school A letter in the New TYork Zven- ing Poit, which i editorially deelared to be *an suthoritative presentation of Mr. Aspzrsox's relations to tho enterprite,” and fromt which we bave taken the wlleged faots gifes abbtre, mukel 8 pirilneh grasy, ‘“Might not a small portion of this fund, thus obtained, have been applied in batter feith and better morals to the extinetion of any trifling indebtedness, rather than that the Trustees should have trodden, as they have done, on the memory of the grest man who instituted the school, and insulted the gentleman whose generosity had ensbled him to do 50 ?" The Trustees certainly have one of the finest possible opportunities to explain. It is to bs hoped that their side of tho story mny show that this splendid gift to scientific education has not been mismanaged, or worse. THE MUSICAL SEASON. The musical season of 1875-'76 in Chicago will open this week with Tiroporr THOMAS and his incomparable band, accompanied by Mlle. Maprraxe ScEILLER, a pianiste of most excellent repute. He will give seven con- certs, two of them matiness, in the Soath and West Divisions, with diversified snd at- tractive programmes, notwithstanding the long-winded screed of one of our contem- poraries abusing Mr. Tmoas for maldng his programmes 8o classical and heavy. As a matter of fact, they are the lightest and most popular programmes Mr, Tmoamas has ever ‘mode, and were written with special reference to attractiveness, only those numbers having ‘been chosen which have proved most popular in New York during the past summer-season. There is every reason to believe, therefore, that our season will open in a very auspicious ‘manner, and present to us a week filled with the best music performed in- the best manner, saod that our mnsicn;. pub- Lo will give 3rx Tmomus 2 warm ond hearty welcome, The remsining fea- tures of the sesson are mot numerous, but they-are possessed of more than ordinary in- terest. The Trrrens concert troupe will probably be here in November, and will in- |.. troduce not only this great artiste, who for 80 meny yoars has been tho reigning star in Epgland, but also Arisenta Goppaso, the pianiste, who will make her first appearance in the West, and Orzaxprst (baritone), Bis- crorF (tenor), and Ssumner (violin), the lat- ter threa being woll known here. Following Trrress, we shall have Voy Burow in Decem- ber, who probably stands ot the hesd of all living pisnists, and is recognized as the most skillful and intelligent interpreter of Berrmo- vEX's music. His appearance will undoubt- edly ereste a8 great s farore as that which was aroused o few yesrs ago by RUSENSTEIN. He will playin conjunction with an orchestra led by OCanu Brseaaxy, who i3 mo stranger here. Next comes-a German opera troupe in Januery, headed by Wice- TEL as “the bright particular star.” The preliminsry anhouncements are to the effect that he will be strongly supported, but, as these nnnouncements are always to be taken ¢ with & grain of salt,” wo must wait the re~ sult. The Germsn season will bring us squarely up to the English season of Miss KrnroGe’a troupe in February. This troupe comprises all the old favorites, and, slthough coming Iate in the sesson, will undoubtedly prove as strong sn attraction asit did last season. Trowas, Trrrexs, VoN BULow, ‘WacaTzer, and Kerroce are the five cardinal points of the campaign; but there will be many losser stars of interest, smong them the Mendelssohn Quintetto Club, the Boston Philharmonic Club, the Riomves-Bemsann operetta troupe, the OaTes and GRAv opers- ‘bouffe troupes, the Casrmra Usso troupe, and the ADELATDE Prrirers opern troupe. At homs, the Apollo Club, and the Bee- thoven, Orpheus, Liederkranz, and Ger- mania Societies, will present n very at- tractive army of concerts. The Lieder- Yranz, which did so well last year in « Masaniello,” will essey ¢ The Merry Wives of Windsor ” this fall at McVicker's Theatre, the cast being filled ont with home talent. The winter therefore promises to be a very busy and pleasant one. Whether it will be profitable to the managers remains to be seen. The prospects are not very flourishing, to say the least. NEWS FI REEY. Ottoman finances have not hitherto been an encouraging or favorite theme of discus- sion, but n recent financial decree of the Sublime Porte ought to be received with hearty praises by the inflationist press of the country. The S.P. hes risen to the occa- sion, or half-way there. The plan be has adopted for mecting the over-due lipbilities of his Empire is worthy of his title. Itis sublimo,—sublime check. From the 1st of next January the interest on the Turkish dobt is to be paid holf in cash and half in & per cent bonds. This arrangement is to re- main in force for five years. All bonds which are due now or which become due within that time are to be ““redecmed™ in the same way. Thisis a very near approach to the American inflation programme. The Porte is evidently almost a convert to the Ohio Dem- ocratic platform. He has foolishly decided to redoem half his promises to pay in cash, ‘but he i fo give other promises in exchange for the other half. The new promissory notes, too, are payable in gold, principal and interest. Here, -then, are two important errors. His Highness should issue a supple- mentary and rectifying decree forthwith. The provision for half-paymentin cash should be stricken out, and even the one for the re- demption in anything but paper of the new paper that is to make the other half-payment. Then how easy it would be for Turkey to clear herself of any financinl trouble. A turn of the printing press and the thing is done, Gov, Arrnw, who used to know the great-grandfather of the Porte, will probably write to the latter at once~he will have plenty of time for letter. writing after next Tuesdsy—and explain the defects in the first decree. So we may hope to see them remedied. At the same time, he sheuld not be blamed for his failure to fully ‘meet the requirements of the occasions Asa heathen, a dweller in darkness, a monarch bound Géhennawards, he could not be ex- pected to think out as perfect 8 scheme for cheating his creditors as the enlightened citi- zens of the land which is trying to Christian. iz his dominions have devised. And he is en- titled to the credit of having already put into practics what as yet is only preached here. What the Ohio Democrats want to do, the Tarkish despot has done. He hes repudinted part of his indebtedness,—only part, to be sure,—but there is hope af his completing the task hereafter. If the Inflation-Dilntion-Re. pudiation party corries the day here, an offeosive and defensiva financial alliance should at onces be concluded between Turkey and the United States. A notable event of the presentlectureseason will be the appearance in Chicago of the ven- erablo Arzxaxper H. Strraexs, of Georgis, who speaks twics in the Star Lecture Course, onoe on the South Bids, on the evening of the 25th inst., aad once on the West Bids, on the evening of the 28th inst. Probably no mab praviinéntly idemtified with the bod fortauied #f e Sotthiaa, Otifeladcy bib Tretained so large a degree of the respect and confidencs of the entire American people. He opposed secession vigorously and to the last; he was strictly honorable in the ad- ministration of the public trusts he essumed after his State seceded; and he is one of the few Southerners who have entered heartily into the work of reconstruction snd the restoration of perfect harmony. His energy and earmest devotion to his people have cnabled him to overcoms physical debility and advanced ags, and to continue his' work. The selection of his subjects is characteristic. He speaks firston *“The Centennial of '76; or, Tho First Bundred Years of the American Union.” Of this lecture he says: *“XMy idea of taking this sabject for one of my addresses was not with reference to the Philadelphia Exhibition next year, bat to take as a theme the work- ings and career of tho American Union for the Inst hundred years of its existence,—its origin and purpose in oll that tends to ad- vauce civilization, materislly, intellectually, and morally,—embracing a view of its past unrivaled glories, with hopes of a still brighter future, with peace, harmony, and fraternity binding all its parties.” His sec- ond lecture is on “*The Present and Future of the Sonth,” of which he says: ‘It would e agreeable to me aleo to msake an sddress wupon the material resources of the South, and the present condition of those resounrces. As stated before, my chief object is to do good in bringing about a better state of feel- ing and a better understandiog between the peopls of the different sections of our great and common country.” With such senti- ments, Mr. Steeaevs will be sure to find a hospitable and cordial reception on his visit to the Northwest. THE LAW OF ELECTIONS. Tho Constitution of the Stato of Illinois provides far the election of various officers, State, county, district, and town, under such Iaws nud regulations as may be provided by law. Thelaws of the State, therefore, with the exception that they may be repealed or amend- ed by the Legislature, have the same force as if written in the Constitation. “When we consider that the Iaw-making and law-executing officers of the Government, including the judiciary, are chosen by tha people at elections ; that these officers lovy taxes, callect taxes, expend taxes, and con- sume taxos ; that the rights of property and of person, and the protection of person snd property, depend on the character and in- tegrity of the men clocted to office, it follows that elections in this country ure of the ut- most importance to the whole people. The depravity of man has not spared the ballot- box. Fraud has become 8o general that State Legislatures have been compelled to smround the ballot-box with every description of re- straint and requirement to protect it from frand, and the statute-baoks are filled with penal enactments providing punishments for violations of the honesty of elections. In this State there have been such lsws from the foundation. We have recently bad the various election laws revised and re-emacted in a single law, 20 83 {0 express in a clear and straightfarward way the msoner in which elections shall be held in this State tobe legal. The whole law concerning elections in Tlinois may bo thus stated: 1. All elections shall be held on the day appointed by law for that purpose. 2. The election precincts in each county, or city, shall be established by the legal authorities of such city or county, who shall also designate judges of election for such precincts. 8. The judges of election for each precinct shall appoint two clerks; and both judges and clerks shail be sworn. 4. Thirty days’ notice shell be given of all general elections, and twenty days’ notice of any special election. 5. The polls shall be opened at 8 . m., and close at 7 p. m. ; C. Each clerk shall keep a poll-list, on which the name of each person voting shall be entered, and opposite his name the num- ber of such voter, and the ballot of such woter shall be indorsed with a corresponding number. 7. The result of such election shall be re- turned, which return ghall be signed by the judges and attested by the clerks. 8. Two legal votors shall be sllowed in the room where the election is held, to act as challengers, and the same may remain until the votes are counted and the result declared. These are requirements of law for all legal elections in the State of Ilinois, and have tho same force and anthority as if written in the Constitution. The distinctive features of alegal election'are: Notice; sworn judges and clerks; list of voters numbered, and numbered ballots ; returnsof election certi- fied by clerks, with the ballots and poll- lists; the presence of challengers while the election is progressing and while votes are counted. But it has been formally decided by the Courts, in a controversy involving the whole governmental mechinery of & community of half a million of people, holding several hun- dreds of millions of property subject to taxa- tion, that an election held without notice, without clerks, without sworn judges, with- out any list of persons voting, without any record of the number of votes polled, with- out any returns attested by clerks, without apy retwrn of poll-list, is just as legal, as vai~ id, and as conclusive, as if the law had been complisd with. We will not add that the election whose validity wes questioned in this judicial in- quiry was marked by the grossest frauds,— notorions stufing of ballot boxes with ballots never polled, the destruction of bal- lots polled, the prohibition of challengers, and the exclusion of all witnesses from the roomswhers the votes were canvassed. Ovor- whelming proof of these things, it seems, has no weight in vitiating an election, and there is not apparently power enough in the civil authorities to punish the: criminal violations of law. We do not ghestion the purity, the fair- ness, or the legal sability, of any of the Courts, local or supreme; wo contede that they have in this matter acted witl scrupa- lous fidelity to both law and precedent. Our purpose is simply to show that mere legisla- tive ensctments to protect the ballot-box and secure honest elections are of no legpl valus, If an election withont a poll-book, -without sworn judges, without clerks, with no list giving names or number of persons voting, be as valid 88 one with these things, then why should the machinery of elections be incumbered with them any longar? Why have, for instance, in Chicago 180 dlexks of election to keep the list of pames and the number of persons voting, when an dection ig just as valid withoat them? Why tresort to the usclesa dstail of duplicate pidl-lists whon they are non-cssentials as svidaiee of an cleotion? Why persistin the forinality of notees of $hs tims, places, and objebis o} a advoilit, Whiess volasd by Lobking ¥t the tio. ‘when and where an election is to take place, and whet the clection is about? If the honesty and purity of elections here- efter are to depend exclusively on the in- tegrity of the officers who sonduct them, and not upon a compliance with the laws of the State, then let the sttention of the Legisla- turo be directed to devising some plan by which men of personal honesty and intelli- genco may be selected for that purpose. In Philadelphia the elections for many years bad degenerated into a notorious fraud. The most scoundrelly persons were selected as in- spectors and canvassers, The general result of the election was determined beforehend, and the number of votes to be returned for each candidate at esch precinct was all ar- ranged before the election. ILaws were. in- operative, and elections in that city were gbsolutely controlled by the dishonest man- agers of both parties. The Convention which framed the new Constitation put an end to this disgraceful busi- ness, by reforming the manner in which the judgesof election are appointed and the votescanvassed. The elections there now are as honest as they are ordinarily else- where. Something of this kind is essential in this city if we are to have elections here any more. At present, the judges of elec- tion are practically selacted by tha candidates, and candidates in large cities are often of the most desperate and dishonest charecter. The ‘manufacture of election retarns is incidental to elections in large cities, and, as the Iaw of eleetions is no longer efficacious in prevent- ing freuds, the natural remedy and prevent- ive is to have honmest, competent men ap- pointed to conduct the elections. This can only be done by making the selection of the judges of election in some other way than that now provided by law. "HROWHSON'S REVIEW—_THE ROMAN CATEOLIC PRESS AKD FEOPLE The October number of Brownson's Keview aonounces that with that number the publica- tion will cesse. OnesTES A. Brownsox has had & remarkable career. He was bora in 1803 io Vermont. In his early years his exclusive read- ing was the Scriptaresfand such Calvignistic lit- erature as kappencd within his resch. In 1822 he formially united with the Presbyterian Charch while at school; but 1n 1825 be sbandoned that Church and became an Universalist minister. Ho preached throngh Now England and New York, snd wrote voluminonsly for various relig- jous periodicals. Ho entered warmly into Rosgar Owex's scheme of social reform, and in 1328 tool ‘part in the organization of 3 Workingmen's party in New York. In 1832 he became aa Unitarian ‘minister, and entered largely into the study and discussfon of philosophy and theology. From “this time until 1843 he was a prolific writer upon all questions of theology, producing & number of works. During this time, he has since de- <clared, he had accepted and vindicsted pearly every error into which the human race bad ever fallen. In184% he joincd the Roman Catholic Church, and for thirty years has lahored to ad- ~vaaca the doctrines of that Church. In 1845 he started Brownson's Review, which, exceps dur- ing a temporary suspension, ha hsa published ever since. Intellectually, he has been conspicuous not ooly in this country, but in various States of ‘Europe. Hid books and treatises have all beon reproduced abroad, where his famo as & philoso- pher and publicist has been wide-presd. MIr. BrowNsox has had uo bed of roses in his religions associations. He has beon no Jess an. extremist in the Catholic Church than ho was when & Calvinist. With him thers hes nover been any middle courss, nor any toleration of n difference of opinion. Asa Calvinist, he would have joyfully sacrificed SeRvETUS, and 88 & Cath- olio would have been in his glory as a Minister of Pmure the Second of Spain. But in all his wrilings before and sineo he became a Catholic, he has commanded the sdmiration of the world of istters for his ability, his learning, his bold~ nees, and tha vigor of his intellectual qualities. The worlk of his Revicw Las been almost exclu- sively performed by himself, and the collected volumes are a monument $o his genius and his industry. In his valedictory he thus announces the olose of the Review : ‘This number not only completes the third volume of tho present seriey, but closes tite Review itself. The Pecicw ears 80 much of the personal charucter of the editor, is 50 complotely the expreseion of his_ singlo mind, that noue could continge it after him, or would be willing to attempt it. The Review originated with Toe. Though I huve had much of valuabla assistance in conducting it from dear {riends,—moat of whom, 1 trust, are 1n s better world,—~for which 1 am duly grateful, it must die with me. Others may publish 3 Quarterly Review far more valusble thon mine has aver been, but 10 other man can produce Brownson's Quarterly Review. Hundreda may produce a_beiter periodical, but nO 0pe can yroducs it, This msy be 1o causo for regret, but it is a reason way my Zeview must die waen I cesss to conduct it. He states that he closes it becauss of his pre- carious hesttn, the failure of his eves, and ar- cumstauces which render it inconvenient to keep & secretary or employ an amanuensis. Though durmg much of his time unable to hold a pen, the whole of the October namber was written by bimeolf. Ho refers to & Jettor he had recsived urging him to become an *“OId Catkolic,” acd promising bim immeose poplority and profit. ‘This he represents a8 an invitation to *damn his soul,” and declares that, while he knows he is ‘messurably unpopular with Catholics, he has never songhs popularity, but despises it. The articles in the present nuwber are: 1. Protest- snt Jowrpalism; 2. The Family, Christinn and Pagan; 3. Hill's Eioments of Philosophy ; 4. ‘The Public-School Systera; 5. Home Politics ; €. Literary Notices, etc Al thess are marked with great vigor of thofiht and expression. In the articlo reviewing & book on Protestsnt Jourpalism, Mr. BRowNsoN thus speaks of tho Catholic branch of the religious presa: Wao will ouly add, that the sccomplisted suthor meed not have confined his remarks exclusively to Protestant journals, even incloding uuder that tarm Geculur journsiim, bat might have exteuded them to certain ‘so-called Catholic journals of this coautry, wisich, 83 far 88 we can judge, are 85 uncaudid, ss ui- {air, 23 untrutafol, in segard to thore who difer trom them fn opinion, e y ou mational or political questions, a4 cuy Protestant journals wo knaw of. und 1ar fesa conrteous cnd gentlemaniy, a8 woll 88 more violeut and abusive, They can {=wn crouud and tosdy rich or infiuentfal Proteatints, but when it concerus & Catholic who refuses o rids their hobbies, they cun only vituperats and blackguard him. When huhand was in, thie author might have given thess intensely patriotic journals tap of the shillaiah, for, i€ not pro- fessedly Erotestant, tuey are decidedly anti-Catholle in their spirit and induonce, aud do more shau Lhe most decided Protestent journals to leasen the re- spectatility of tue Casholic population of ine coantry. 1In the articlo on ** Home Politics,” he dalivers bimself of a terrible brosdside against the Roman Catholic Iay population who take part in politics. Of these, after speaking of the ocor- ruptions of party, he says: The large Cathalic tionof the country, by SHEhEd ot Democeeco st Sufhs Dave o salutary moral influence on that party ; but, g0 Zex a8 we bave obsorved, poiltical Catholics ste not & wulk bettar, more honewt, or more devoted to princigle, than non-Cetholics. A intelligent Cathallo fricu, Dorm and beod in Treland, vaya ey na lovs s, sndd that they have coatribated ielr fail sliare to the cor- rupticn of partics. We regret that notz fow amoug em hase ot only 1o sound political knowledge, bul Euvo nover been inatructed in tho frst principls of morals, to say nothing of religion, Theaa sdd, to the politicd corruption they brought with them ffom the Ol1d World, ke deeper corruption acquired from our own demagogues. We are sorry to say such things, sad would ngty If the porsons fn question had aay modeaty, and dd_ not claim for thomselves, af loaat i their journais did not claim for thew, every virtuo un- der Heaven. They may cry out Know-Notbing sgainet us tl their tarcits are saro, for what wa care : we Enow the truth of what we sy, o have rulied, and still rely, on_ocr Cathalic popu- Iation ¢ fntroduce «n element of Lonesty cnd integrity into our politica; but nob s few of tham, inatad of e R o S o, 13 o8 it falot thoosica of tho COUBLEY, . folbw 46 et o v 03108 shey are the Jeast r_e.’.mln:,n;a -T:A.u&. ind {bs moat Huscrupaivod of Amy e T e Gl T R 1€ Catholica would take the pains to meks g, selves sufficiently acquatated with the ¢ jaer (2% ernment to perform intaliigently thelr da o st % icsn citizems, and perform them with hopes 8delity, theg conld soon nfuse & nobler syt g Demncratic party, and maks its aocession fo pool? Dational boaedt. ' But, todo this, they must e 3 ruise the moral standasd of tho party Jorans L% 4 ering themselves ta ita lavel, and elavishly Zollunte g inits crude opinions, formed withoni g% intelligence of the nature o purposes of govessos. & They aight dowo, and wo kops, theywi (ous tough, we fear, not &Il 1t i3 t00 late 0 ava e 2b pablic, which without them is lost. No Leparin > stand withoat religion, and they Bara et properly so-calied, there ia in the covnt~y. s B tudy to anderatand =nd perform th «uitey, sy 28 t5 understind and claim ibe Xgals, o7 fegrd citizens, and all may yot go well, e _Air. Browxsox is supportad by an ampie (o vision wade for him BcIe Years ag), sod huy one dependent on bim but a sister. To ooy o bis articles ho mentions incidentally tha g, ‘widow of on3 of his sons—s Romaa Cazhiolip—y a descandans of oue of the 2ive rmall chiling and one st the breast " of the Jem: Roozus vy was burnt at Smithfield. A fow days 220, We printed a lelter writts Queen VicTorIA's Privata Secreary to 9 3oy, modore of the Rorval Victoria Yach: Club, iy which the Queen—speaking in view of thg: disastrous colligion in the Snlent—requ!stcdm yrivate vessels to keep out of thy way of thy TRoyal yacht, else thers might b * Ligagty, results,” This letler, despite the u:.!w:.,z; losalty o~ Her Majesty’s subjocts,” produsay | £ §00d_deal of popular indignatior. which fory vent through the press. The iy resuys; to bo conveyed by this precious epistly that the fault of the fclent by trophe was attributablo m.loly ¢ % officers of the 3hstletoo; and consequensy that the officora of the Royal yacht wece entinys 8! blameless. And this cool stterpt foshitt gy 2 responsibility for the s3d oconrrence mg gar | patlic after the Coroner’s jury Lad ascartuzeg 84 and declared that the whole of that respouniiy _ rested upon the shonlders of Errfl:ja\:r‘.né_ gj cials. The Eoglish papers almost seanimony rebulked the Private Secretary for his scindiy ~ conduct. (Of course, under ths Dritiely the Qusen can do no Wrong, and 80 ker prid sy vanc bad to teke sll the censare, though iy action wss undonbtedly in accordasce with by 37 orders.) A8 s specimen of the jozrnalitisomy ment upon tho lotter, we give the foliwing fry : the London Telegraph, the most widely-cireulsny il daity joursal in the Kingdom: Y i i omlEial sommnioatiooe, ¥ bara arrer ol S porting to issue by Her Majesty's command with fog, ing of such surprise, A lady of gentle birth 1s nivg, adly drowned, along with'» vencrable aud warty Captain znd a'mate, who loaves & devendent 3 another honeat fello'w has his arm broten, 1nd » v | uable yacht, with all it contamad, is zatalls . Al this is wronght—for » Britial’ jury lus mid soe § 9t by the Mistietoe's steering, buf by the fanlt of ig Ro; officers; and now, a8 the officly’ . upon this Lmentablo buaifiess, eome one ks gud vm the Queen’s month s notice 0 all yuchtmes out of the way of Prigcs Liiningen vy hat dang L manders mo: i rak e aler’ of'n Queen and her subjec tn by goisg atfoiny . Specd through n throtged 04 narzon st ey tho fury olao kaid was that a good lookoat anght s kept in fature, which meant nothing if it ¢id s mean that the lookout on the recant ocuuzion bad ey Bad. Who then, we ehonld like 13 know, pas oo seled thia isene of separate warning laying theticy upon quite another ground than tha 6ze ajuisdy ™ pablic justice, and, worst of all, Fresume.) to o34 he august name to snch a redection npoD the diguir § lar e, g Darceil ssys ¢ *Thls pagns 18 Setly diiediomm mportant part which the ogicer orifivally fook ia Drosecution of thees offcnses wEich roscudls K Crown.” Did the prompter af th's mest tofeam Jotter not understand that ho was making the Qeom traverse and override the Queen’ own jusilee? i ‘The final result of this popular reprobatioove K that the leading London papers worsrequestsd | to print the fallowing spology : ! TnE QUERN AWD TR SOTTEZRY Ay, some misconcotion has arised ith e s et Tacarnar- uestod to state It was written th: o woess o, bt there was any reason o have expicled 3 seond s quest ; that it was intended solely to convy iz e lo Tequeat contalned therein ; that avy expreaimd opinfon upon the cause of the accilent wes sindiculy avolded, and no blame whatever was imszted £ £ ownur of tho Mistletos o to any ciherfenc. And now the British lion bas resumed hiszae al statd of quist complacency, and, “esqudy I 28 any sucking dove,” roars “God ms i Queen [™ 4 The Santa Rosa (Cal.) Democrat gived oo | interesting facts concerning tao vintageof 7 in that Btate, which it estimates will reschd Jesst 8,000,000 galions, divided a5 followw . +-Sonoms, 1,000,000 ; Los Angeles, 800,00%; & Iano, nearly 500,000 ; Napa. 703.000; El Dondy 600,000 ; Yolo, 500,000 ; Anburn, 400,000; Tl - Sacrameunto, and Marysville, 1,200.060; Colzs, 200,000; Santa Clars, 500,000; Sants Jarbm, . Venturs, San Bernardino, 8o Leis Obia . Montercy, Tehama, Lake, and cther conotesu® enumerated, say 1,500,000, iaking tbe wl sbove given.” It ia further eitimaed thtis thenext fow vears a larya number of visea e come into bearing, increasing the presest g = duction at least oue-half. Probibitoniszal fanatica of that class will read theae fizwreswih *, horror, but temporance, that is psople WOST o temperate, will see in the mrogpect of hed # yre, native wines & hope for temararascs 1 deliverance from the thralidomof acdent sy e o A peanut-vender in Indianspolis baa dorné | the remainder of his lifa to veogeascs, U o rocently obliged to romove bis stzod fromdt eidewalk, on the ground that Le was orsasd travol, acd sioce then he bas kept up sa D% | sant Warfare upon merchanis who leave Dozt and barrels out-of-doo:s. There i3 mfl'; heroic peanat-men in Chicago. Theiw:! this modern crusader in Indiagsrolis migit ¥ immortalized in verse, or in 8 ¥mai n; : goclety play. What a subject for a focalizsdos At 8 meeting of the Chleago clergy 3 Mm% e of the ministers present, who bad been Wi ““"d‘,, and SaNxE? in England, said that “ Thoniasdt S5 e o o a3 and pra; x her.” o ¢ to havo q":ua & anenviasls nnpuufimazd-i ome.—st. Louia Limes. i Christians pray for the possible, sud ¢ 8- pray for the salvation of Chicsgo. Lot i»‘.‘ w not pray for the tmpossible, and s they do 84, pray for the ealvation of St. Louis. 5 The misslonaries in Minnesota La7e m: 7 the Indians so that they nmng‘drk' Ldori Sabbath, but play poker ins practice s to stay away from busivess !&g 3 Qrupk. Thus the dsy of rost satiaiss 83 g ing demand of the human pature. ko & Sesiuit 2 Fifteen girls belong to-the freatsn st g Cornall. . John MeCulloagh, the eminent tragdisn ¥ the Tremont. b The Hon, Thomas Wightumss, of Now Tod g & guest =t the Tremont. 3 Tho Hon. T. W. Ferry, of Grand Hs™e ;é registered at the Tremont. - D. L. Pickering, General Supeinteadsst ¥ - Central Bailway, is at the Sherman. i3 Mr. Bobert Browalag’s new possa vil 96 lished during the comiry sessan. Tio Bav. J. B. Goode aod the Eer. 345 Ditcham, of British Columbis, sre the Grund Pacific. Yy Tho Hon. A T. 2 ot Eo Russian Government, St. Petersbars, 1 the arrivais at the Patmer House. ." The only Duie who resched Loog B summer is said to be pow buskigeors BT country to get money for the winsar pesscd- - * M. Goorge C. Clarks, the prominest 7% . agent, returned from the Zast % » bis family, and is stopplag ss tbe X cifio. o Eate Fistd writes that Behenckis * et Iy semembared " in London, sad 45 ¢ Argus gaesses that sha haanot 8 large L ance among poker-players. # 0'Connor Power, member of My‘ the County of Mago, Irsland, -m‘.dw-, i taosar 16 i Licge ball oF 1he S ¢ P letter addressed to Lord EXEris, wo bave bees 1 % 7 < * i