Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1875, Page 4

T CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATER OF SUNRCRIPTION (FAYADLE TN ADYANCT). TPostage Prepald at thin OMee. Dafly Fdition, post-paid, 1 yn voiininnn 813,00 Parts of yoarat, 1.00 300 600 To prevent delay and mistakes, bo sure snd gire Poat-Office address in full, Including Statoand County, Remittances may be mads eliber by draft, express, Poat-Office order, ot In regintered lettirs, at our risk, TRRAMA TO CITY AUDACALSI Daily, deltverad, Runday nscepted, Daily, delivercd, Sundsy included, 30 cents per weck, Address TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison snd Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Il s AMUSEMENTS, MOVICKER'R THEATRF—Madison streot, between Dearborn and State, Engagement of Barry Bullivgn. * The Gamester,” ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn atreet, eorner Monree, Evgzgement of the Kiralfy Troupe, ** Around e World in Eighty Days,” Afternoon and evenlug. HOOLET'S THEATRE-~Randolph street, betwsen Clark and LaSnlle, Evpegement of the Californls natrels, Afternoon and evening. KEW OHICAGO THEATRE—Clark street, botwoen Raudolph and Lake, Eugagement of Kally'k Leon's Minstrels, Afternoon aud ovening. WOOD'S MUSEUM-Monros street, between Dear- born and Btate. *Peep o’ Day,” Afternoom and T2 "SOCIETY MEETINGS. CIICAGO CHATTER, No, 127, B. A, M.—Annual convovslion this (Wednesday) evening ot 73 o'clok, n tio hall, No. 134 Tvnty-soconuaty, for ihe clectior of ofiicers and peyment of ducs, Visiting companions Cordially tnviteds ELT BSITH, foe, WAUBANSIA LODGE, No.160, A, F. & A, M.—The officers and wembern of thin Lodge are requeeted to nttond tho funeral of our late brother, ¥, 5. Showell, ghich takes plaea thle day (odnowitz) i, ifinadel: train leaves C,, B, & Q. De nt 0:.8 . Bpse TI08, 3. TUSTIN, W. if, £, 8T, JOUN, Sec, ATTENTION, BIR ENIGNUTS OF APOLLO COM. MANDERY, No. 1, K. To—You wlll report at your ar- mory at 9:0 a. m,, shiarp, (hin (Weduosday) morning, 10 aitend thin funeral of wur fellow Roight, Bir Freder: ick Soymour Bhewell, Spocial train at 10 a'clock sia G,y B, & Q. R, R, toiliandalz, Chicsgo and 8t, Ber- nard Commander.ca are fnvited. By order of th E, c Ji. B. W, LOCKE, Recorder, TSPERIA LODGE, No, 411, A lar. communication this (Werlneads it Maseule Temple, coruer Landolpt b Tulzd degros. Visiling brotbren oo el g 'al:/Am. 1. 1R “BUSINESS NOTIC COUNTY DRUGOISTS VISITING cfficAdQ shenld not fall to call on Feller & Fuller, ¥an Schanck, Stevenson & Refa, Lord, Smith & Co., }}4 humlnfi,fl,tszlhk Co., L, A Iuribu Oas and get o supply of Ur. 8, D, Howe's Arablan Medi- ciuei, You will havo the ratiafaction of getting threo of the finest proparations in the world to offer your custonia era for tho purposes they are intonded. And one bottle s0ld by you will rell a dozen more, The Chicagy Teibune. ‘Wednesday Morning, Decomber 1, 1875. Qreenbacks nt the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday rose, at the opening, from 874 to 874, but afterwards fell to 864. Lato in the afternoon there was a resction to 863, snd tho market closed quictly at 86§. War rumors sot aflgat by unprinelpled men wero tho cause of the unusual fluctustion, We mentioned somo days the ship- ment on a single day from this city of ments in bulk filling 176 cars, or 1,760 tons, or 8,520,000 pounds, Wo have now to record an oven greater day's work. On Saturday, Nov. 27, the shipments of meat from this city weighed 4,877,874 pounds, equal to 219 cars of 10 tons each. The French Assembly hos carried through its final passage the Electoral bill which has been pending before that body for several weeks. Tho arrondissemont systom of vot- ing, contended for by the Ministry, and vigor- ously combated by the nltra Republicans, is incorporated in the measure. Tho bill also allows ropresentation to all the Fremch <olonies except Cayenne and Senegal, Activity isstill the order of the day in all tho navy yards; the Navy Department hns issued additional orders placing in commis. sion more iron-clads,.and has issued instruc- tions to recruiting-officers to enlist all avail- able men for the servico; yot not one word of explanation has a3 yot been mado as to the menning of it all. Advices from Mndrid still have a very peaceful look; and if waris to come, there are as yot no signs of it in that quarter, S ——— A fine record of progresa is presentod by tho Bailway Passenger and Freight Conducts ors’ Mutusl Aid ond Benefit Assoclation, which held its Srstannuol convention in Chi- cago yestordny. Starting ono year Bgo with o membership of 97, the Association robter now contalns nearly £00 names, and the conduetors geem to Lave hit upon an admira- blo achema of solf-insurance ngainst suffer- ing and destitution in tho families of such g mgy be killed or become permanently disabled in thelr hazardous oceupation, e —— The letter of ex-Speaker Brawve on the subfect of the controverted roligious school yuestion will be read with interest. Tie is unquestionably right that, among the re. served rights of tho peopla aud of the States, the majority in any State in this country may establish n Btate religion and preseribo a re. ligious test. Buch teats provailed in wany of the original thirteen States long after tho adoption of the Constitution, Iio proposcy 03 a final settlement to apply the prohibition agatust n national establishment of religion to the several Btates, enlarging it so as to prohibit any taxation whatever for soctarion purposes, nor any division of money raised for schools between religious denowminations, e — In the Aveny trial ot 8t Louis yestorday Judge Taear ruled that Le should counsel tho jury to roturn a verdict of noquittal upon three counts in the indictmont, but held that the ono remaining count was good. Tho testimony offered by the defense was brief and related cliofly to good character. Be- fore the prosecution closed, still another mys- terious telegram from Gen. Bascock was in. troduced. That individual is out in o letter wassoverating his innocenco and his ability to explain all the telograms it nfforded the op- portunity. In Milwaukee tho sensation of tho whisky trinls was the unexpected appear. aace on the wilness-stand of an cx-Gauger who Is under indictinent, and who, it is be. lieved, will make a clean breast of it and con. tributo sowe important developments, Tho Chicago produce markets were steadicr Festerdey. Mess pork was quiot and 10c per brl lower, closing at §10.25@19.274 for the year, and $19.46@19.47) for Februpry. Lard waa in good domand, and 5@7o’ per 100 Ibs lawer, clodlng a4 §14.80 anab, and 812.45@ | 12,47} for Februnry., Menats wero less active and steady, at Tie for shoulders, 10jc for short riba, and 10{o for short clear, all boxed. Highwines were in fair demand and steady, closing at $1.11 por gallon. Flour was dull and casfer. Wheat was nctive and firmer, closing nt $1,034 cash.and $1.04} for Jan- uary, Corn wns nctive and Jo highor, closing nt 46Jomeller tho year, and 47jo for May, Onts wero quiet nnd unchanged, closing at #0}o cash and 30fc for January. Ryo was dull ot G8@68}e. Barley was netivo nnd jo higher, closing at 83c cash and &3} scller Janvary. Hogs were active aud 15@200 low- or, closing steady al $6.75@7.00 for packers’ grades, Cattlo wero fairly nctivo and firm, Bheep were in demand at $3.00@4.62} per 100 Ibs. On Saturdny evening last there wns in wtora in this city 1,363,045 bu whoat, 448,002 bucorn, 372,759 bu oats, 134,884 bu rye, and 814,607 bu barley, One hundred dollars in gold would buy $115.12} in greenbncks ot tho close, —— ‘There s little wonder that Mr. Dixten, who hns been engagod by the Citizons' As- socintion to assist tho State's Altorney in prosecuting tho indicted clection judges, should bxpress surprise that tho trial of one of them had to Le postponed becausa that person was sorving ns a juryman himself ina case on trisl at auother court., Mr. Dexten might have gone further und expressed very decided indiguation therent. Possibly no in. cident could have ocemrred, howevor, which would have better illustrated the looseness witk which jurics are impaneled in this city, 'The subject has been brought to tho attention of tho public in several ways of Inte, and should not bo dismissed without some radical reforms, The responsibility rests in the organization of the Shoriff's atafl, and tho Sheriff should be required to remody the evils, Tho Judges themselves must take some cognizance of theso abuses, and insist upon their reform, If thero is not an improvement, there may possibly bo a Grand Jury organized some day, omitting tho standing clerk, which will sift tho matter in such a way a8 to forco Sheriff Aaxzw to ne- count for the abuses in person. — GROWING UP TO SPECIE PAYMENTS, MMr. Senntor Fennv, of Michigan, hns in a recent intarviow endenvored to present his views on the financinl question to the publio. Some years or more ngo, Mr. Ferny wns conspienoua as an infintionist, he lending the advanced body of thoso who thought the country was suffering for more and chenper money, He wns then demanding an issuo of $3800,000,000 of legal-tenders, receivable in payment for duties on imports as well as in payment of all other debts, public and private; and he was cspecinlly opposed to the legal suggestion of any duy when specio payments might bo resnmed. He was there. foro tho advocato of a legal-tender issus which wps to bo permanently irredeemable. Alr. Fenny has, in addition to being an in- flationist, been an extremo protectionist. ITo belongs to that clnss of statesmen who argue that, when o tax is laid upon an im. ported articlo, it is the foreigner who sells it to us and not the consumer who is compelled to pay tho tax; and that if we had a tariff rigutfully adjusted wo could make the peo- ple of otlier countries pay all our taxes, In the recent interviow, in defending his propo- sition to make greenbacks receivabla for duties on imports, ho mado the following re- marknblo statement : If the Government wants gold 1o pay its delis, let 1t go and buy it, Just as the merchant does. Then the 1oss In tho premium would bo distributed over ail of big rich country, instead of falling unjustly upon onyclassof men, - Can it be that Mr. Ferry imagines that the importing merchant loses whatever preminm ho has to pay for gold with which to pay his duties, and that he does not distributoe it over the wholo rich country? And how is it that the foreigner, while actually paying the duty, cscapes tho promium on the gold with which ho paysit? Wo bave o lively recollection of the ability with which Mr. Fenay has demon- strated that o duty on lnmber is not o tax up- on consumers, but it is a tax paid by the forcign producer. But this is a small matter, Jr. Frory, while retaining all of Lis original inflation ideas, is not disposed to disturb the law of last session,—which law, by the way, is wholly innacent of any force or operation, Ho accepted that lIaw as n compromise, and ho added : I wasin favor of puiting off = date for resumption a8 long a4 possible, In fact I opposod any date ab all, 1 Lelfeved resumptlon would be arrived st more casily by the natural growth of trade, and by encouraging the proaperity of the country, This is a rovival of the old and long-ex- ploded theory of * growing up” to spocie payments, The War was closed nearly eloven yeard ngo, and wo lhave been **growing up” to specic pnyments over ginco, ‘The growth hins been irregular, and soemingly is ad'short of tho desired measurement as it hos beon nt any time since the War, We lhave moro greenbacks outstanding now than we had in 1868, aud the greenbacks themselves are now sold ot the streot corners and by auction for less than thoy brought in 1870. In the ueantime, the productions of the United Ktates have grown Lugely since 1805; & million of peoplo who were then morely consumers and destroyers have become pro- ducers; the mecans of transportation have been nearly doubled; there is no branch of human industry that las not been developed; wo have within threo years sold of our surplus productions nenrly five thou. sand millions of dollars, adding that much to our national wealth, 8till, wo bave not grown perceptibly towards spocie paymonts. In March, 1870, greenbacks sold in Now York at 90 cents in gold; the price at various times in 1871, 1872, and 1878 advanced as bigh as 8¢ conts, Greenbacks have ruled during the last six months from 85 to 90 cants, aud yet Mr. Fenny thinks the country will grow up to spocie poyments, particularly if the duy for resuming bo postponed indefl- nitely, After the thorough aud painfal exposuro of Mr. Wexvriy Prmues’ ignorant state- Jnenty concerning tho flnancial affairs of France by Mr. Scnunz, Mr, Frary, like the iuflation orgaus, repeuts the fallacy., M Yrnry gets off this statornent : Thu curtency I would havo given tha poople would bave kad tho quality of receivalility by the Government. a8 well a1 by the people, 1t wuuld liave beun a logal-ten- der to the United States Treusury ns well as smoug the people at large. Had the Governiuent vefusod to dincredit 1la own paper, ita paper wonid ot Luve do. proctated, Had wo donous Franco did, Laken our pa ver ot the Gustom-11duse and for sl debts wud pay. wenta to tho Government, wo wbould Lave secn cup greenbacks a8 good as the notea of the Bunk of France werw all hrough the recent fnanclal Wistress of thay country. Mr, Fenuy omita to mention that the notes of the Bauk of Irancs made legnl-tendor wéro issued with the distinet agroement that they should be redeomed and pald within a specified period; und that the Bank itselt fixed a dato whon spocie payments should bo rpsumed. The Goverument bomrowed the bank notes under a contract to repay the Bauk in rupid installments. The Gorman fn. demnity was all paid in 1873, and on tho 1at of Novomber of that year thers were ont. standing legal-tender notes to the amount of 8,071,000,000 fraucs, or $614,200,000. This included the ordinary or ante-war cirenlation, to the extont of R306,000,000; this sum the Government agreed to ropay in seven inatall- monts. The Government has singo been on- goged in paying the Bank, ‘Two monthr ago it had paid Lo {he Bank $141,000,000, and bank noten Lo that amount had baen destroyed by the Bank. Within less than two years, abont one-fourth of the legnl-tenders in cirenlation Tind been ealled in and hurned, rendering.hea yond all question the certainty of wpecie pay- ment {n Januory, 1878, This is the way in which Fravce has been “growing up"” to apecls payments. She tixed the day absolutely, and at once begun the canceliation of legal-tenders nt the rate of §70,000,000 a year, Iad Mr. Frrny been in France, he wonld have endenvored to re- lieve tho industries of the country by dupli. cating tho amount of currency and prohibit- ing the mention of any day for resumption. 1le wonld havoe clectrified France by proving that n cheap and plentiful currency, having a fluctunting valuo, was the best that could bo invented, especinlly if it was mado interconvertiblo into Londs, payable in turn in currency. That is something they nover thought of in France. Over there they hod tho old-fashioned notion that tho best way to got rid of n deprociated currency was to tako it up and not issue it again; and that the best way to rosume specie paymonts was to fix a day for that purpose, and then pro- ceed to got tho currency ont of the way by that date. Franco is growing up to specie payments, has actually kept its currency nearly at par by the assurauce of its coin re- demption on o dny fixed, and long boforo tho day specified specie payments will bo a fact, Wo in this country are ** growing.” FERNANDO WO00D'S WITHDRAWAL, It is impossiblo yet to nume the man with certainty who will win in tho race for the Speakership of the Houso of Representatives, but if the reports from Washingion be true, it i possiblo to namo ono man who will not. bo Speaker, namely, Fenvaxpo Woop, this gentleman having withdrawn from the con- test upon the ludicrons plen that it in incom. patible with his sonse of dignity, IFrnvaxpo puts his withdrawal upon tho ground that ho cannot train with men who are begging for oflice and soliciting votes in common bar- rooms. It is a little singular that ho should have mado objoction to the well-defired prac. tice of the Democracy from time imracmorial, and perhaps indicates that he W getting high-toned and gilt-edgad s he grows older, ond that ho looks back with contempt upon his wire-puling and can- vasging in the bar-rooms of New York City. Liko our own Jeffersonians, he has ovidantly joined the swallow-tails, and donned kids and ruffles, and will put on a cloau shirt through tho session, thus setting at definuce all the time-honored precedents and traditions of the Democracy. 'Thero is a suspicion of truth in the nnnouncement, because it was mado pub- lic somo time aince with considerabls flonrish of trumpets that ho was going to Washington to open an clegant and well-stocked estab- lishment with future references to tho Spenkership. Sinco his elogant mansion, fine wines, private card-tables, and generous outfit lave not made any impression mpon the Democracy, and the other candidates have preferred tho geod old Democratio precedent of ryo and Bourbon, such ns mny be found in the simpler and less smbitious bar-rooms, and at cheaper prices, tho fastidious Fen. Navpo sbrinks back in horror from such associations, and will not soil his saintliness with such common contact. There will not be wanting those who will apply the fabla of tho fox and the grapes to FerNaxpo, but wo ara content to believe that he is honost in his doclarations, and that he is no longer a Short-Hair, but o Bwallow-Tail. It is sad to reflect, howover, that this ends his usefulness 08 o Democrat. THE LAXE-FRONT PROPERTY. The domand of the Aldermen that thers ehould be o direct proposition for n purdhase of the threo blocks on the Inke front hasbeen answored, in order to put this phase of tho controversy at rest, by Mr. Dovaras' offer to the Comptroller. But this offer presents o new complication {n the qualifying phrass that the sum of $800,000 shall *cover any cxponses or costs ocensioned by litigntion or claims.” This has been misconstrued by #ome of the Aldermen to menn thnt the city shall gunranteo the Railroad Compaxy, at the time of transferring‘the property, sgainst all other clnims than those which tha city has, Wo do not beliove that this is tho intention. To begin with, the Council hus no right to go . outaldo of the city's claim, and would scarco- ly do so if it had Tt i mot likely, thereforo, that Mr. Dovaras would ask on impossibility, Tho prop. osition probably means that Mr, Dovoras is willing ta pay $800,000 for the city’s quit- claim, but doos not wish to buy a lot of law- suits. If met in tho proper spirit by the Council, their position shounld bo that they are willing to scll tha city’s title to theso threo blooks for $800,000, but not willing to assumo sy law.suits, Thove are only two parties who claim any rights outside of tho city. Onoe is the United Status Govornimont, which 8 represented by the injunction in Judge Duusyonp's Conrt. No transaction can bo mado while this injunction holds; but thero {s overy ‘renson to beliovo that tho United Btates Government of its own mo- tion will not reaist the dlssolation of the in. janction, There will bo no particular cost or trouble for the city to move for such dissolution. ‘There only remains, then, the opposition of & few ownoers of abut- ting proporty to dispose of. A largs majority of these property-owners —fully divo-sixths, we bolisvo—bave already roloased their claimy, and it is bolieved that the othors will do o after further reftoction. At all eventy, the Railroad Company has definitely ond @nally announced that it will not pay ono. dollar townids those claims over and above Lho §800,000 it offers for the city's gnit-claim, und it is equally certain that the ity will not pay them a dollar, nor sssume auy lisbility for damages, d This is the situation then : The transfer of tho three blocks on terms conceded to be favorable to the city dopends simply and sole- 1y upon the aoquiescouce of three or four por. sons who formerly opposed to it, but whose interests should now dictato & contrary vourse, Tle only claim they could have un- der any circumstauces is one of damego for tho obstruction of a depot erected upon grounds sct apart originally as an open, pub. lio upaco in front of thoir property, ‘There s mot an Lonest and compe. tent realestate owner or doaler in Chicago who could swear that thes Michigan &veuue proporty fronting on those thres blocks will be worth leya after the erection of @ depot than it i now, Tho groat mafority e willing (o teatify that the erestidy of such e ] — = -1 a depot will give that property a salable value, and that it has none ot presout. Fx- perience will unquestionably demonstrato this, 'Thers enn, therefore, bo no excuso for any owner of abutting property in further opposing A srde which will yield tho city $500,000 (whir:h s sorely noeded) and which will benefit their property, ‘Thers is no temptation fae these owners to hold out for the purposo of getting paid for their release, because nobody is going to pay them— neither the city nor the railroads, If thoy indulge in petty spito or obstinacy, thoy may sucooed in defenting th salo now and post. poning it indofiritely, but it will be to their own detriment and that of the city, and we can searooly conceive of o silly a thing. As to the point raised in the Council con- corning the taxation of the property and im- provements in case itis sold to the INlinois Central Railroad, it will bo well for the city's counsel to examine the question. Though the Tilinois Centrnl Railroad is cxempt from local taxation by its charter and on account of the 7 per cent of its gross-carnings which it pays into tho Stato Treasury (of which Chiengo enjoys its full proportion by tho ro- duction of State tnxation), it is s question whother the acquirement of new property, not contemplated by the charter, does not earry with it a now obligation to pay local taxes. DBut whethier it does or not, wo mn. derstand Mr, Dovctas to admit that any portion of thw property oceupied and used by sny other companies will be subject to local taxat'on, even though the wholo Is owned by the Illinois Central Company. It this is true, then it makes little differonco whether tho property is purchased or not by the Illineis Contral Company slone or tho threo or four or five companies that aro to uccupy it. It is certain that tho Illinois Cen- tral Company has no intention of occupying more than a fraction of the ground for itself. ‘We aro also informed that there is n socrot movament on tho part of {he West Division to defoat the sale of the properly in tho be- lief that the Burlington & Quincy will then locato its depot on the Wost Side. If there is any such movément, wo havo only to re- mind the West Sido property-owners that between $300,000 and $400,000 of the amount which the city would recoive from this eale will bo =nssessed upon West Side property to go toward the cost of the new Court-House, and that the location of the Burlington & Quincy depot in tho southorn part of the West Division will bo of no bensfit to the West Sida except por- baps in the caso of n fow blocks of contigu- ous property. Such a movement on the part of the Burlington & Quincy would bo inde. pendent, and the Ballimore & Ohlo, Chicago & Erie, Illinois Central, and Michigan Central wouldnot followit. The West Sido Aldermen will wofully misconccive and miaropresent tho interosts of their constitnents if they op- posa tho snbe on any pretext of this kind. Wo do not doubt that nine-tenths of the West Side property-owners wonld voto in favor of o rdleass from the 300,000 or $100,- 000 taxes which the salo will give them, if thoy had tho opportunity, There is nothing now to prevent the sale except somo indi- vidual obsfinacy, which can vnly bo o damage to thoss who indulge it, as weil as {o tho city at large. CONCEALED WEAFONS. Thero is a statute of this State which pro- vides that “whoever shnll carry concenled ‘wespons, or in a threatening manner display any pistol, knifo, slung-shot, brass, steel, or iron knuckles, or other dendly weapon, day or night, shall be fined not exceeding ome lundred dollars.,” Under the authority of tho city charter there is an ordinance which provides that * all pergons within tho limits of the City of Chicago aro heroby prohibited from carrying, or woaring under thoir clothes, or concealed nbout their person, any pistol, orcolt, or slung-shot, or cross-knuckles, or knuckles of lend, brass, or other metal, or bowie-Imifo, or dirk-knife, or dirk, or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly wenpon.” ‘Tho same ordinance providos that any police- man may, without a warrant, arrest any per- son found in the act of carrying such con. cealed weopon, and doetain such porson in joill until & warrant can bo obtained. The Justico is required to confiscato the weapon, and moy sontonce the convicted person to pay & fine not cxoeeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the DBridewell for six months, or both. Now, hore is ample law and suthority for the active intorposition of the police in re- moving one of the greatest producing causes of murder and violence. One of the first things which o man does whon entering upon tho life of o gambler, thief, burglnr, ruffian, or rowdy is to provide Limsolf with a re- volver, and such additional arms in tho way of knives, slung-shots, and knuckles, as his particular line of business may suggest. Tha possession of these arms is followed by their use upon the least pravocation. All thatis uccessary to produce provocation is-a fow drinks of 40-rod whisky, and all the iuduce- ments and provocations and means of mur~ der and violence are conjoined. A man with & platol or o knife in his pocket is ten thmes moro liable to got into a fight or disturbance, or to kill or bo kilfed, than ho would be if unarmed. Telgipg on his weapons, he never scoks to avoid the oceasion of a fracas; on the contrary, if stimulatod by whirky, ha pushes himself into the disturbance, and either shoots or stabs, or is shot or stabbed, purely as a result of his being armed, But tho carrying of arms by the professedly criminal class {8 the worst form of crime. These persons aro naturally despernte, and boing armed aro all tho moro desporate. Thoy live at opon war against sociely; they bavo engaged in occapetions fn which thoy dofy law, honesty, and society, To them a violent death is but incidental to and one of tho probabilities of the life they have chosen. ‘Tho use of arws, tharefore, by them is but & part of their ordinary business. CQurrying arms s a crime, but it is essential to the businoss of @ thief and burglar, and of & gamdler, who oarry their lives in their hands. Qurry- ing arms g a crime, but it is no worse than that of robbery by force,—the pistol, or knifs, or slung-shot is essontinl o the footpad or tho assassin, or tho coarely brutal bully who commita violence for violence kake. Disarm these people, and the ueaswary implomonts of their trade would be takeu from them. Doprive the budding ruffawm and rowdy of his pistol and his knife, and he will tako pains to ovold tho occasion of viakence. ‘Wo have tho law prabibiting the carrying pf these weapons. Wo havo tite luw author. izing tho arrest, wRhout wairaut, of every wan carrylng, concealed, weapons, the coutisoation of the weapons, aud the fine and imprisonment of (fho offond. orB. Bupt. Hicsey desarves universal commend- otion for his order cBrooting the ywolics ta ar- rest all the criminals and wagrahte found any of those on the ptrecta, In nlmost overy instanco of tho arrest of such persons thero will be fonnd concenled weapons: Let him nlso direct the summary nrrest of all rowdies nnd ruflinos in tho strecta and hanging around saloons and bar-rooma whenover there is renson to suspect tho possession of arms. A thousaud revol- vers and a3 mony dirkkpives and other dendly weapons conld bo confiscated in a week if the polics would exerciso their su- thority and enforco the law. THE LAKEFRONT PURCHASE, Wo invite the eareful attontion of the city officers, the Corporation Counsel, property- owners, and citizons genorally, to an article wo print this morning giving an abstract of tho titla to the property known as the Lake- Front, This article ia written by one of the ablest lawyers in 1llinois, and by a gentleman who hins nover beon, snd is not now, interested professionnlly or pecuniarily in any question connoeted with tho property. As a citizen lis wholo interest would be in saympathy with Chicago. Inthe courso of his professional business ho had to investigato and traco out this titlo, and he gives us the benefit of his rosearches that we may Iny it before tho pub. lic. We mako this explanation to show that the paper was not prepared in the intorest of any party. It will bo reen from thia abstract that there is considerable misapprelension on this sub- ject, and that tho claim or titlo of tho City of Chicngo to any part of the three blocks north of Monroo strect is totally insubstantinl, Tho title to the two blocks from Randolph to Madison street is now, and alwnys hns been, absolutely and unconditionally in the United States. To the land embraced within those blocks tho city and State have no titlo whatover, and thero is no riparian right nttaching to that part of the land at all. Tho title to tho block of land betweon Madi- son and Twelfth streets was the property of the Stato when the Lake-Frout bill passed in 1869, 'Tho Stato then granted so much of said tract as lics between Monroo strect and Park Row, Michigan avenuo and tho tracks of the Illinois Central Railrond, to the City of Chicago, and that proporty the city now holds in fee. The snmo act granted to the Niinois Central Railrond Company in fee, with all riparien rights, the submerged and other lands enst of thoe railroad tracks, ex- tending from tho south pier of the river to tho Dlinois Central round-house. Tho third grant mado by the act was to the throo mil- rond companies of tho three blocks north of Monroo street, extending enst to the railrond tracks. Two of these blocks belong to the United States; the other, until the dato of tho Lake-Front bill, belonged to tho State. ‘Those grants to the Railrond Company wero made upon tho condition that £800,000 should ba pnid to the city. The repeal of the Tnke-Front act by a subsequent Legisla- ture is not regarded as legally rovoking a grant which has been accepted and acted upon, The absolute ownership of the block betweon Madison and Monroo streets is in the Railroad Company, and the injunction of Judgo Dnusyosp does not apply to this block. 'The non-nceeptanco of the $800,000, or tho rofusal to give o deed, by the city, can in no wise diveat the Railrond Company of its rights to the land outside tho railroad tracks and in front of all the land lying be- tweon tho river and Twellth stroet. Trom this rovlow and abstract of the title ta this land it will be seen that the city hns roally nothing to sell. It is denied that tho city can cloim that the repeal of the Lake. Front nct restored things to their previous condition, and therefors the city must look at the question g if that nct had not been ro- pealed. According to this obstract, all the city has o right to claim in the promises is the payment of the $800,000; and it has o clnim to this, not in consideration of its conveying any right or titlo to any part of the three blocks, but because the paymont of that sum to the city is part of tho consideration required by tho State for the several grants made by the Btato to tho Illinois Contral Railroad Com- pany. 'The City of Chicago haa no other claim in the matter than to receive s0 much money as tho Btate has assigned to ber; the Railroad Company receiving its titlo to the riparisn rights and to the throe blocks direct from the Stato, and not throngh the city at all. Wo ngain invite the attention of all citi- zens and of the Common Council ta thia can. did stateraent of the case from on entirely disintorested person, fully competent and ex. perienced to give a judgment thereon. It {s woll to understand fully the actual facts of the subject before indulging in any wild or extravagant action. The crusnders will read with horror that a brewing firm in Philadelphia has contracted with the Contenuial Board of Divectors for tho monopoly of tho £alo of beer upon the grounds, for which they aro to pay $50,000. ‘Tho capacity of the establishment is 185,000 barels per annum, and, as they calealato to dispose of 800,000 barrels, thoy are alroady muking contracts in other cities to help thom moke up tho deficlency, The crusaders, however, will take a little comfort from the fact that, in addition to the price they have paid for the contract, there is a rumor that there is to bo-a royalty of $4.60 on ench barrel sold. If this rumor be true, there can be no profit in the contract, unless the monopolists .ralso the prico to 10 cents a glass, and how they can do that with tho acres of beer-snloons just ontside the grounds that will sell at’i cents is not apparent, In sddition to tho pangs of the monopolists, it is intimated that no royalty is to be charged upon wines and strong liquors, If these ru. mord are true, then the Philadelphia boer cstablishment has paid a most ruinous price for its privilege, and the boer-venders out- side the grounds will be in clover, Bishop McQuape, of Rochester, N. Y., has given tho Buffalo Courier (Dem.) & statement of the plans of the Roman Cgtholica about the school question, of which the following 18 tho substance: Our object {a to gather in the childron in large citios, ‘whoss parents are, msny of theim, 100 iguorsut or lack “time to glvo them propar (1) instruction. The Biate caunob Teach all these childven but we can {compulsory oducatlon i3 tho law 1o New Yark}; snd we do not sk tha Btate to pay for the religions influsnces we {hrow around theso childyen, bus aimply for the secular teacking they recelve. We eroct the butldings, provido the teachers, who aliall, howovar, be subject to the oxaminations requirsd by the Btats, and then fors nominal routal we sliow the Btats full contral of theso schools during the ordinary school houss, in which tune ouly socular instruction shall be given, Beforo audafier such hours we propose to give the puplis aoch religlous [Pepal] toaching ae we deesm easential i tha cducation of youth, All thls isa vory * pussy-cat’ and clover woy of whipping the dovil around the stuwp, ‘Ihe Bishop does not give any guarantee that he can gethor in theso children, whom the Stute cannot reach, boyond lis own auser. tion, But even assuming that ke can, ke disavows sny dedre to give them a secular education. All tbat he wishes to do Is to givo them a *‘roliglous™ edancation, But, if ho can gather them in for scenlar education, hio certainly ean collect thom also for religions edueation, Why, then, should the Stato ho taxed in order that Dishop MoQuapr may Do enabled to have a place in which to tench the dogmas of his Church at public expenso, for this is all lhis proposition to build and rent school-houscs o tho Btate amounts to? The State has already amply provided locations and ro- sourced for meculnr education, where secta. rion dogmes are mot taught. It Tishop MoQuane can gather children togother, let him gathor them juto the existing school- houses, and after mohool howrs Lie can teach thom whatover dogmas he pleases, 'The pre- text which ho makes is altogether too thin and Jesuitleal, Tho Btate will nover pay the Chtliolio* Church ront for places where ho mny preach and tench Romauism any more than any othor ism merely for tho considern. tion of giving the pupils a secular education in tho somo places. The proposition is hard- 1y craditable to the Bishop's intolligence or o fair estimate of that of the public. HAYES' IDEA. A reportor of Tne Tnincyr called upon Comp- troller 1lAvke yosterday in order to ask him what was his understanding of thio worda * to cover any expenses or costs occaglonod by lti- gation or clame,” swhich qualify Me. Dovasas' offer of §800,060 for tho Lake-Front property. Said tho Comptroller: ** Tho conatruction I put upon 1t is that thoy aro willlng to accept the quit-claim deod of tho property and pay the money whon it s in the shaps that meots thoir approval,—that 1s, I suppose, when clalws of parties for damages In caso of a ealo or uso of tho property shall havo been ad- Justed or declored to bo invalid by competent nuthorities. They do not ask the cily to warrant the titls, but they intend to judgo tuemeolves whother tho proverty is ju & sbape that they will accept, and, when it is, thoy will take & quit- claim and pay $800,000 on terms to bo agreed upon, In regard to ‘oxpenses or costs occa- sioned by litigation -or claims,’ those oxpenseca can bo determined before tho irade is made, I undoistaud the meaning to bo that whon they accopt thelr doed thoy want to sottlo the whole matior, and thot tho entire oxponses to them shall not bo over 8600,000. DBut when tho degd ia nccepted, tho clty or individuals will have no clalma on the Railroad Company of any naturo whatovor, That ls tho way I understand their proposition,” —_—— Prof. NATHAN Buerpanp, of Chicago, had s rathor poculinr l?mrv unpleasaut experionce COMPTR! in Philadelpbia @ ! Mouday night, Cranvrs Brapravon bod S announced to lecture in that city, but at {lie st moment ho falled to ap- pear, ploading flluess and sending his oxcuses by telograph. The' manager of the lecturo- courss accordingly made his excuses to the sudi- ence, and announced that Prof. Sierpanp would ba substitutod for Mr. Bravravan. He omittod to say that thoso doshing it could hnve their moooy refunded. Prof.. BurrpArp bad hardly ‘begun Lis lecturo boforo signs of dissatisfaction wore avident. Fist ouo gentleman sittlng in front rose and walked heavily down tho aisle and out of the houso ; nuotbor followed, and an- other. Tho locturer was as funny aa ho could bo, but nothing would appeaso the audience. Finally, 2 man sitting in the rear of tho housa roso and vocifarated : ** Whoto's CzaRLES Brap- ravon?” From this point wo tuke the report of tho Philadalphis Times vorbatim ¢ The loctare continued, Again rang out that clarfon volce: *“Look, you, gentiemen, givo me CHARLES Brapravonu or givems 25 cental ™ “ Put biin out— down-stalrs witli him " resounded on nil aides ; but that follower of tha radical Lnglishman again eried : *Am I not to be auswered when 1 nik for CHARLES DRADLAUGI 2" The mavsgor politely, £nd for tho second time, read the teleyram announcing Lmab- ravow's flness, Dt it wae 7o use. * Refund my 23cental” stormed tho irate man in the rear, *If you are o gentleman,” said tho mannger, ** you will be Guiet or go out.” This was applauded by the sudfonce, who mads & rush for an_objoct that was seen fitting through the main door, followeil by & horizontal coate tall, **Ladies and geutlemen,” said Br, BREpranp, 41 thank yom for tteating me ss & gentlelan. It's ard to cet. the Lumarlst, though, under tho cireum- stances,” The rest of Lis lecturs procoeded in quiet, aud a{ its closo bis hearers vvlnced thelr approciation “by bearty apploutc. — It is not genorally known that Chicago has tho crodit of the iuventlon of the * wood- cameos " 80 largely used in tho art furnituce manufactured nowadays, A correspondent of the New York Tribune, in describing tho housc- hold-art soction of (Lo last Exposition, gave tho idea high pralse. The Independent has eince dono the same. Dr. ArpLeTON, the editor of the London Academy, aays in a recont private lettor toa guntloman inthis oity, that the Academy will goon publish s detailed description of tle now application of art. The wood-cameo cone siats of a series of thin voneors of natural woods glued ono mbovo the other, with a dosign cnt in strokes of varying depth, so that the different colored woods produce the effect of an ordinary stone-tameo, magnified. Tho now ides has been oagerly soized upon by inforior workmen, meny of whom pasto a rude picturo on the wood. follow its linea with n chigol, wash off tho pavor, and thus produce the ‘*cameo.” This process was doubtloss responaiblo for some of the tasto- 1cas desigoe shown at the Expouition, outside of tho housohold-art dopartwont, Thoro wore beds which horritied tho boholder of cameo-out~ tings of lank greyhounds smelling hats, and uondescript nude figures bathing In very wooden wator, The artistio artisan who invented tho wood-cameo draws his own dosigns upon tho upper panol, which is ususlly of holly, and fol- laws thexs, 8o that the whole work Is his croa- tion, It ianot often that Chicage can lay claim to artistlo orlgioality, but sho can do so in this case. : Benator LooaN is lylng seriously {ll at bla ho- tolin this city. The 2Ymes, with characteristio malico, takios this occasion to misrepresent his action with regard to the proposed romoval of Supervisor Muny, of this city, to another reve- Due distclot, last year. Tho order redistributing tho Bupervisors of Internal Revenus was promul- gated just aftor Bupervisor Munn had removed his realdence to Chicsgo fiom Cairo in order to be bottor ablo to attend to the duties of s office, 1o was ordored to Now York, and thia wecond removal of his large family would have soriously embarsssed him, particulsrly as Le was comparativoly a poor man, Bupervisor MOUNN ropreseted those facta to the Benator of Lla district, aud Benator £,00AN, bellsving fully in his Integrity, as ho does atill, went with him 10 Commissioner Dovariss and obtained por- mission for Mr. Muxy to romain bero. Eenator Loaax did this as ho would bave done it for any other of his constlsuonta that ho had reason to trust, This is all thero is in the matter, whioh the Times no unjustly distorts snd exeggerates, —_——————— o of tho ordlusnce requiring the cl’t:ymn::v.v‘:ys to place conductors on ali theic cars after Jan. 1 mext, notwithstaoding the Mayor's veto, would ssom to indicate that there Is no longer tho enlenls cordiale botween the Council and Mayor that led them both to make common cause in the adoption of the hybrid chaster of 1872. If thlu bo tho caae, it is not im- possiblo that the Council will conolude that it was not the ibiention of Lhis oliarter to carry the Mayor over a year or mare boyond the extra term It gavo the Aldormen, sod socall a special election for Blayor about the mame time they go out of office. 8iill the bresoch msy be marely temporary and * for this occasion only.” An editorfal on ' Baturday Payments,” pub- lished lo Tux Trisuxzof Thanksgiviog Day, has borue fruit in inducing several employors to change their pay-aay to Mooday or Tuesday, Wo bave sinco recelve) & private lottor from the manager of & largo wanufacturiog company at Ottaws, 111, fo which ho says : * Within s year from thie time our woris were startod, I adopted the plan of payisg ou Tussday, Iam conviaced that it ls much bebter for the workmou thaa to recaive thelr wages Saturday eveuing. Woam. vloy 160 to 160 men. Uasa pald on Tuesday to sbout Revon vears, and after this experiency 1 am wure wo would not ho willing to roturn to (py ancient custom of paying on Batarday plogora iwva s poseer to o good in e matre which fow of them soem to suspect. And popey sud reaponsivility niwaya go togethar, Tha Milwaukeo papers publish 8 number of intorosting facts about tha Whinky Rivg iy Otber cities, but havo not yet discoversd $ho ovidngyy - of the Crenm City Ring, None 50 blind as Ly, that won't 6eo. A prophot miay be withont honor in his own country, but tho profisa of ifely gig, tiing are oridently held in high honor by 1py Milwaukeo pre PERBONAL. Qov, 1. 0. Warmoth, New, Orlonns, is ab thy Palmer. Gon, Goorgs T, Kimbark, U 8, A, 18 at 1y Bhorman, Carl Bchurz Ig lecturing evety nigt, Sundagy excepted, in Now England, Mr. Forster compfains that thoro Is no poli. ical activity in Qreat Britain, Prof, Proctor {a drawing fathor and fathe away from Mosos and tho Prophets, IL, B. Lodgarde, Assistent Genoral Mansgy Aichigan Central Railroad, is at tho Tremopt, 8. Codwallnder, Assistant Secretary of Staty of Wisconsin, ia at tho Tremont. ‘Iho ofticors and Divectora of the new narroy. gaugo ronto—~tlo Chicago, Millington & \eyt. ern—aro at the Tromout, M. do Lesavp's biatory of tho Suez Camal #8id (o bo as lutoreativg 08 » novel—one of Ay thony Trollopo's, for {netanco. Lucy Stone remaina firm In her opposition ty tho Contennial: Bho saya it is an insult in the men to ask women to havo anythiog todo with the Contonnial, A Missourian named Cash has sued a neighboy named Poett for tho amount of o small by, Cash hisa Toott in flue fronzy rolling, sud Poely has no Cash to pay withal. Tho London Spectalor says Joaquin Miller'y *'Btoriea of Wild Men of the West” Incks (hy grace and dotlescy of handliug which Breg Harto alono cau give to this clasa of literatars, In tho line of ** How to Bring Up Parents” js the spoech of tho little boy who said, Father, 1 thiok you sbould give up swearing or family prayers,” The boy recognized tho fituess of things. Bismarck nover saya * yon'aro mistaken” { man, o brings down Lis fiat justead, and yally out, *Youlia]” All of which shows liow much batter it is for him to live 1 Gormany tuanin Americs, Tt le repqrted that sovera! sell-known men o Now York have determined to send au expedi- tion to tho Arctio regiona oarly noxt spring in tearch of tho records biddon by Sir Johh Franklin, ‘Whichard Rant Grito was brought tobed by aa intorual strugplo ovor the questions: Which is right—I am sick; or, T am sickening; or, I sick- en; or, Iam beivg eick; or, I am well; or, 1 am wolliog ; or, 1 am beiog welled ? ‘Taino's forthcoming book on tho **Origin of Contemporary Yrance " conteins an oxace and minute description of French soctet in tha time of the Rovolntion, *and, it is esid, demolishes somo popular lcgonds coucerning that worlds famous event. Kato Fiold declares that tho London World Iy rightvin pronouseing the Merquis of Lorne's poem ** shockingly bad stufl.” ** Had an obscars poraon written the poem it would bave been dis missod with o fow worda of ceusure or passed by unnoticed.” The Now York T'imes improves the accasion ot . Onkoy Ha'l's ombraclng the stagoas a professiou to say that it doea not believo ho evor shared fo tho profita of tho Tweod Ring, It promises not to follow him into tbo domnin 0f the museste fight over again its battles wi:h bi, 3Mr. Ward Hunt, First Lord of the Admiralty, roso at the Lord Mavor's banquot and congratu. Iated the pooplo because there twora no lives lost by the Vanguard disngtor. It might have been - worse, you know. Thisls one of the sorrosl and most threadbare excuses for stupid blunder ing that ever woro invented. Miss May Howard, tho well-kuown astresa, hay arrived {o town, aod 18 stoppiug at the Tromont House. Sho fills an eagagement at McVickar's ‘Yheatre noxt weok. opening Monday bight fn *The New Magdalen.” Bince leaving Ohicago Miss Howard haas played star angsgomonts fn San Franclsco, Australls, and mauy of the prio- cipal cities of the United Btateu, Victor Tissot, the amusing Frenchman, who wroto that sarcastic buok on the wagps of the modern Teutons, was lately very nesr boing ar- rested for the same on Bavarlan soll, whithi has gono to colleot maro iuteresting fact: itoms, Threatonod with arrest for tellivg the truth, he very speodily and proporly cut stick aud ran out of the Fatherland's unfrliendly do- mains, Berlin bears him no love. Jennfo Juue doscribea Miss Alcott nas tall, slender woman, who looks a8 1f eho might bave boen handsomo in her youth, and atill preserves s etriking appearance, yondered interostivg br her beautiful brown oyes and ehort but abund. sot browao outly hair, 8Sheis somowhat reserved, not to say bruaque, In ber manner, and doea not always, therefore, produco the favorsble impres. vlon upon strangers which her gonuine gocds bhenrtedness and truth deserve. The Washington correapondent of a Minnead: olis paper seked Walt Whltman the other day: + Do you think tho beat pooms are written by liard labor and study, or by imapiration?® ' Well,” gaid ho, ' that i a bard queation to anawor,and it rominds me of tho story of a mille er who sald hodld not care whothor his whest camo from tho Nosth or Bouth, the highlaud or tho fowlaud, so it wss good, sound wheat. It maked no difference how & man writes Lis poous, 8o thero are tiuth and fooling lo thom.” Tha following appropriate lines were bung on s bauner scrosa & sticot [0 Baltimore, aloog which tho body of tho late Vice-Prosldent puwed I0“'- Henry Witson, Vice-President. Anold man broken with {bhe storms of Elate, Though from a humble stock, undoubiedly, Was fashloned for wuch Londr from his cridle log wise, fair spoken, and persusdiog, 3la gave Lis honars to the world again, s bleased past Lo usaron, n —8hakspsare—lienry VIl The lotellectusl wod fasnlonsble young men of New York are generally wearing *tho ablri~ pin equirt.” This beautiful work of art costs about 26 cents. It consists of & hollow Lresste pin, connected by a rubbertubs with s small globe filled with™ water and concealed ia the pocket of tho wearer. Tho plu iu generslly io some grotesque shape, When the attestion of any ope 18 attracted to it, and ho lesns ovor @ oxamine it more olosely—whiza! fizal ol strenm of wator proceeds from the staring eyes or gaplug mouth of the pin-bead straight lote tho face of the inguisitive person, It is & noble amusement, Col. John F. Gowan, stopping at tho Tremont House, {8 & man of note. Iu his profession of civil and constructing enginesr he has beeu con~ nected with many great entorprises. After the declaration of pesoo betweon Russin sod Eo- glaod and France, Col Gowsn was employed to ralse the Russian mon-of-war which Lsd been sunk i the port of Bobastopol. The sk WaS performed satisfactorily. Ho afterwards becamo interested in the conatruction of railwsys o Ruassis, and bad tho contract for bulldiog sev- eral imporcant loes. To the United Btates b! skill bas also beon brought into requisition, 88 Lo bas at different times oontrasted for militas? rallways snd caosls. Quite yecently he W amandod tho oontsact for raslog sine B Ush iron-clad, Vanguard, ! gy & colislon §o sno Britlsh Oun: He fu present in the city at this time fu olq““ attend s meoting of the Directors of the CIH“:, Millington & Western Narrow-Gauge w'cd: he being tbe coutrscior of the it Gowaa Is 00 tranger hore, He englasersd conatrustion of s old lake tonsal. E