Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1875, Page 4

€HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGEN TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. | RATES OF RUDECRIMION (PAYAPLE IN ADYANCE). Portaze ¥repaid at this Mniled to auy addrers FOUR WEEKS for. Bundsy Rdition: Literary and Pars of yoar st rame rate. WEPXLY EDITION, POSTPAID. Glab ot ive. peg cupy. Club of twenty. hor coj Tho postaze 4 13 ceats a year, which we will prepay. S copies seut free. To prevent delay 20d mistskss, ko sure and give Post-Ofice address fn full, including State asd County, Eemittznces may be nuade eithes by drafts express, Teat-Office ordet, regisiered lotters, at our risk. TCRMNE TU CITY BTRSCRIDLER, Dafly, delivercé. Sundsy exzcepiad, 223 cents per week. Daly, delivesed, Stadzy fncluded, 30 cents per week, Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, - Cornec Madison and Dearburn-sis,, Chicage, Il T AMUSEME 70-DAY. ADELPHI THEATEE—Dearborn sirest, corner Momoe. “Round the Worid in Exghty Days.” NEW CHICAGO THIATRE—Clark street, between Bandolph and Lake, * Becthoven.” McCOBMICE HALL—Ncrth Clark strect, carner * Kinzie, Lactureat O p.m, bty Judge H, N, Maguire, Subject : ** American Wonderland cnd the New El- derado.™ TO-NOREOW. XEW CHICAGO THEATEL—Clark street, between Psndolph and Lake. Cugagsment of* Kolly & Lean's Minstrels, ADELPHI THEATRE--Desrborm strect, oorner Mouroe, Varlel; enterisioment, ® McVICEER'S THEATRE—M>discn strest, between Dearborn tud S'cte. Engrgement of May Howsrd, * The New Mrgdalen,” ‘WOOD'S MUBEUM—2Mpnroe street, between Dear- bore and Btate. AfNlernood, “ Cgmille,” Evening, “ Bix Degrees of Crime,” PLYMOUTH CHURCH—Conoert by the Barnabee Lroupe. SOCIETY MEETINGS. WL B, WARREX LODGL, NO. 20, A F. & A ML.— | The annusl commuricsiion of this Lodge, for the slection of ofiicers, psyment of dves, and the transac- ton of other fmportant business will bo beld at Ori- «ental Hall, cp Saturday evening pext, Dec, 1L, A falt \ttendance s urgently requesied. By arder of tha W [ J. R DUNLOP, Sce. ATTENTION, BIR GETS {—Anuual Conclaveof | Apollo Commandery, .1, K. T., Tuesduy evening, Dec. 7, st 8 o'clack, in the Asylum, for the transaction | »f Annual Bustness, By order of the E. C, B. B. W. LOCKE, Recorder. ATTERTION, SIR KENIGHTS !—8tated Conclave of ~hicago Commandery, No. 19, K. T., Mondsy .:mng, i Dec. 6, 1876, for the transaction of business, Sir ly invited. By oxcer of the Em. Com. G. A, WILLIANS, Recarder. NOTICE.—04d Feltows® Hall, Nos, 900 and 902 Cot- 270 Grove-av., near Tairty-ninth-s., s to rent 1o re- spectuble partica tor Lectures, Amusanieats, or Society | | party-indorsement of the Governor's aspira- Moelings, _Apply to WAL WHITE, 5 Douglas-place, mmolxux?blaéxe. No. 47, L 0. 0. F. 5 OBICAGO LODGE, No. 55, L O, of officers for the ensaing term. JOHN GINOCHIO, X. G. J. B, Cramx, Sec’ Zhe Chicagy Tribune, | s | Sunday Mormng, December 5, 1875. | At the New York Gold Exchange, on Sat- | urday, greenbacks ranged between 87} and | 874, the bulk of the eales being msde at 67, | The two occan-cable companies have been | unsble to come to any agrecment on rates, &nd there is & prospect of a fight and a con- sequent reduction of the present high tariff. When monopolists fall out the public gets ita @nes. A mistaken impression has gained ground ; that the seats at McoVicker's to-dsy at the ingugaration of Prof. Swina's Céntral Church | are reserved. This is & mistake. Al the | seets for to-day are free, and tho earliest to come will be the first served. The plan for | ths disposition of the seats in the fature will probably be zonounced at to-day’s services. One of, the beautiful results of our com- plicated customs laws is that the Secretary of the Treasury has to issus semi-occasional cir~ culars interpreting different provisions. He thus practically mskes the law in many cases, Not long sgo, a circular from his office doubled the duty on washed wools, and yesterday a new circular revoked this one and ve-sstablished the old tariff. The Grand Jury of the Criminal-Court re- turned nine new election indictments yester- | dsy. Right were against judges of election and ons for illegal voiing. So far o good. Now let the trials be pushed. Justive is most feared when she strikes swift blows. If prison oells are stufied with fraudulent voters (ofl.hwifh, fewer ballot-boxes will be stuffed with fraudulent votes next spring. , Nevada has legalized gambling, and raises part of her revenue by the sale of permits to run “‘hells” for the blackleg fraternity and their customers. The Californis gamblers are about to ask the Legislature of that State $o do the same thing. It is odd that they should take this tronble. All they need to do, a8 their Chicago brethren could tell them, is to capture the government of a great city, and, by o littls skill in repesting, stuffing ballot-boxes, and appointing judges of elec- tion, keep themsslves in power. Then they can pluck their victims at their ease, withont fear of interference, and enjoy, besides, the pleasant thought that they are the ruling class. When they sttain this position they ean commit about any crime with impunity, —though the trial of Davis may show that the community strongly objects to bsing murdered in dstail The Financier of last weck contains an spon letter from Col. Grosveson to SBocretary BrisTow, in which a plan for specie paymnents within a yearis submitted. The Resumption act anthorizos the Secretary to eell 4, 41, or 5 per cent bonds at ‘‘ not less than par in coin.” Col Gmosvesos interprets this to mean that the bonds can be sold for greenbacks, pro- uary. Rye was steady, &t 68@68}c. Barley ! was quict and easier, closing at 840 for De- cember and 84c for January. Hogs were in moderste demand ai Friday’s prices, closing eesy. Sales were principully at $6.75@7.00. Cattle were firm and unchanged, at $8.00@ 6.00 for common to choice, The sheep trade was quiet atunchanged prices. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $114.75 in green- backs at the close. Dr. Bex Mmrrr hss been congratulating Chicago upon its immunity from a serious visitation of small-pox, as compared with some of tho other large American cities. ‘There is one factor to be taken into account in explaining this comparative escape from smell-pox whick: hes not yet been mentioned. Some time ago the Relief end Aid Society insogurated a system of compulsory vac- cination of its ovm, by which it compelled all persons who received relief to take vaceina- tion, and secured in this way many others. In two years nearly 100,000 vaccinations were made under tho anspices of this Associstion, which thereby worked out ono of the best charities of the time. The effect of this system will be beneficial for many years to come, and if mainiained stesdily will ac- complish more for the public health in the avoidance of small-pox than any other pre- cautions that can be taken. In the Democratic Reprosontative caucus st Washington yesterday Micuaxn C. Kemg, of the Third District of Indiana, was nomi- nated for Speaker on the third ballot. His competitors were Sawory J. Raxpary, of the ‘Third District of Peunsylvania, and Samuer S. Cox, of the Sixth District of New York. Mr. Exea's nomination is probably the best that the Democracy conld have made. He is o gentleman of high ability and of large Congressional experience, and is on exrnest advocate of the two great princi- ples of Hard Money aud a Revenue Tariff. Mr. BaNparLy was very objectionable on the ground of his Protection and Shinplaster pro-- clivites, to say nothing of his connsction | with Back-Poyista. The candidacy of 1lr. { Cox ean hardly be considered in any other light than thut of a joks. He is a jolly fellow, with plenty of brightness, but utterly Iacking in ths dignity so essential to the office of Mr. Spesker. Kima's success is | & triumph of the friends of Gov. TILDEN, and { will be, by them at lesst, regarded as a strong tions for the Presidency. Mr. Eerm is a + lawyer, and resides at New Albany. 877 WITH- CAN COLVIN KAYOR 1 0UT AN ELECTION P Thers is little use in discussing the pro- prieties of the question whether Mr. Corvmx onght to keep his office eighteen months be- yond the term for which he was clected. No disinterested person will deny that such a proceeding will be in direct violation of the principles of popular government, which give the people the right to chocse their own public servants at steted intervals fixed by themselves. It is equally obvious that no man of any delicate sensibility would desira to retain an office by accident, trick, fraud,. or a technical construction of the law, beyond the term for which he was chosen, in the face of even the slightest opposition to him. But all these considerations may as well be dis- missed, as they ssem to have no influence with the present occupant, who hes obtained from the Corporation Counsel an opinion .that he can hold over eighteen months longer than he was elected for, and he las deter- mined not to budge unless forced from his usurped place by the mandate of competent | outhority. The only question that remains, then, is whether Corporation-Counsel Drcx- EY'8 opinion is correct, and we think there is sufficient doubt about this to justify bringing it to a judicial test. . The real point at issue is whether or not there is & vacancy in the Mayor's office. If there is, the charter of 1872 is ample in its provisions for filling it ; if there is not, then of courso CoLviv cannot be displaced until the regular election for Mayor in April, 1877, as provided by that clarter. Corviy was elected in the fall of 1873, and his term would have cxpired to-morrow under the old cl;.u—fu—. The new charter providegthat the Mayor shall be elected in April, 1873, and biennialy thereafter ; it also provides that, on the adoption of the law, “ the city officers then in office shall exercite the powers con- ferred upon like officers in this act until their successors shall be elected and qualified.” It is on account of this conjunction that Cor- poration-Counsel Dicker says CorviN may continue in offics till April, 1877. In reply to the citation of ths ccastitutional provision against the oxtending of official terms, Mr, DicxEy says : 1t Bas been suggested that such extension of certain of thess termns beyond the time namad in the old ehar- ter i n violstion of the Constituticm whers it says ¢ No law shull bo passed which shall operate {0 extend the term of any public officer aftr his elsction.” This 1sw wadoubtedly doss in onie sente oparats to extend the term of a publio officer, but it was not passed after the elect!on of these oficers, Tho meaning of that clause of the Constitution will be more spparentif the words be treneposad thus : “ No law which shall opere ats Lo exteud tha term of auy public officer shall be paszed after his election.” The words “afier his eleo- tion " refer clearly tothe ime of the puassgeaf the Iaw, and ot to the tume beyond which the term xhall not go, ‘We believe this is a fair presentation of Ar. Drcey's absurd opinion. In holding to the contrary viow,—viz.: that thers is a vacancy in the Mayor's ofice,-—we make the following points : 1. The charter of 1872, in providing for the continuance in offica of thoso who are office-halders at the time of its adoption, does not continue them till “ the next regu- lar election,” which would probably have been the language if such had been the in- tent, but only ‘“‘until their successors shall vided the equivalent of par in coin is paid for them. On this premise, he urges Bristow to place $200,000,000 in bonds on the wsrket, sell them for legal-tenders, and hoard the lat- ter. This emount of contraction would, he srguss, destroy the premium on gold, make the grecnback and the coin dollar coincide in value, und so bring sbout specie payments before the closs of the centennial year. But thisplan doesnot obviate the objection of the debtor classes, who object to paying 20 or 25 par cent more value than they roceived. ——— ‘The Ohicago produce markets were irregu- 1ar on Baturday, Mess pork was in fair de- mand and Ge par brl higher, closing at £19.12§@19.15 for December and $19.80 for February. Iard was quiet and 2}@se per 100 e highor, olosing at $12.15@12.17} for Decembsr and §12.85 for Februsry. 1exts were quiet and mn & 7o for shoulders, 10810}¢ for short ribe, and 1040 for short clears, all boxed. Highwines were in fair demand and stesdy, at $L11 per sallon. Floor was dull and easier. Wheat was more sotive and 1jo lower, closing at 43¢ cash mnd §1.00 for January. Corn was wors astive aad irregulr, closing at 4536 for md {Gje for May, Oate were Cutler, tloeing &l S530 cach akdl 504 for Jau. bo elected and qualified.” This languags clearly contemplates a vacancy in the city oftices, to be filled at the earliest mioment consistent with the’public good. In the case of the Aldermen, and with a necessary re- districting of the city to intervene, it was right enough to wait for the next regular election, which was oniy a few months after thoe expiration of their term ; but the same reasoning will not justify a failure to fill the vacancy in the Mayor's office for eighteen months deyond the term for which CorLvy was chosen. Manifestly, if there is a vacancy in the Mayor's office, as the language of the law would indicate, the most fitting time to &1l it is when the general election for Aldermen is. bald, which is next April, 2, Another reason for belioving that the law contemplates a vacancy in the city offices is the provision that the persons in offoe at the adoption of the charter *“shall exercise the powers conferred upon ks officors in this sot.” It does not suy tbat the persons then in office shall oontin:- '~ hold the offcss they cocapy Ull the acie Licce genoral election under the charter, but simply par. mits them **£o exeraise the powers conferrsd upon ks officers " untll thair 'susoossors shall be elocted The hogusge is olsoore, kad It eould have blet tidde just s plain and unmistakable the other way if it had been the intention that the Mayor should hold over till tho next general election for his office, and be the actusl and not meraly acting-Mayor until that time. 3. Not only does the language of the charter of 1873, asquotsd above, contemplato a vacancy in the city offices upon the adop- tion of the charter, but this purpose was probably adopted in compliance with the constitational provision that ‘No law shall be passed which shall operate to extend the term of any public officer after his election or appointment.” If there had been no such congtitutional provision at the time the Gen- eral Low of 1872 was passed, the terms of this law might possibly be distorted into . meaning that all the officers may hold over after the: adoption of the general charter until the next succeeding regular election for their respective places under that charter; but, as the constitutional provision stared the Legislature in the face st the time it passed this genaral charter, it is mors proba- blo that it was framed with the express par- poe of not violnling the Constitution. 4. Mr. Drerey’s construction of the const- tutional prohibition of the extension of of- ficial terms is certainly not warranted, but is strained, forcod, and illogical. The point he tries to make is, that the law was passed be- fore Mr. CoLviy was elected, and therefore does mot cover his case, bosause the law moans, he says, No law which shall operate o extend the term of any public officor shall be passed after his electon.” But Mr. Dicgry has no warrant for concluding that this is its constraction. It is more likely that the Constitution mesns just exsctly what it says, viz.: *No law shall be pessed which shall operats to extend the term of any public officer after his election or appointment.” That is, the prohibition intended is not in the passage of the law, as Mr. Dioxey’s para- phrase would have it, but in the operation of thelaw. Now Mr: Dicxry's construction of the clarter of 1872 would make it operats to, extend Mr. CoLvi's term, and therefore such- a construction is unconstitntional as well as fer-fetehed and absurd. 5. The spirit of the constitutional provis- ion as well as its letter favors this plain con- stroction of its phrasing. It was obviously intended to provent men in office from using their positions and inflgence to scheme for an extension of their term beyond the period ; {for which they had been elected or sppointed. Now it is notorious that Cownviy, while May- or, did use his influence to secure the adop- tion of the charter of 1872, and it is generally believed that he did so for the purpose of extending his own -official term. If Mr. Dicxey’s construction of the constitutional provision were permitted, here would be & flegrant viclation of the spirit andintention of the Constitution, which we do not believe the Courts ever sanction. These are some of our reasons for beliov- ing that Mr. Diogex’s opinion is thin and er- roneous, and that thers is now a vacanoy in the Mayor’s offica. - If thers is a vacancy it is & duty of the Common Council to call an election to fill it under the charter of 1872 (Art. IL, Sec. 2), which provides: * When- ever a vacancy shall happen in the offics of the Mayor, when the unexpired term shall be one year or over from the date when the va- cancy occurs, it shall be filled by an eleo- tion.” If the Council fails to do its duty, or does not believe this to be its: duty, the sim- plest way of disposing of the natter is to ap- ply to the Supreme Court at the Springfield term next month to issue a mandamus com- pelling the Council to call an election. The Supremo Court hua original jarisdiction, and such an application as is proposed will finally disposo of the question one way or the other. Unless CoLviy will agree towallow an agrzed cass to go to the Court next month, the Citi- zens' Association, or soma other combination of citizens, should take the matter in hand and see that the application is made, A BAMPLE OF DEXOCRATIC REFORM. Tho representative Democriacy ars having a lively time in Washington over the contest for Bpeskership and’ the incidents thereto. The city is filled with an excited crowd, com- posed of such elembnts ns Jomy MoRrisszy and his New York bruisers, the bummers and rowdies of Philadelphia, the blood-tubs from Daltimore, and Brur, Arren's ragamufiins from Cincinnati. ‘but more particularly in that congenial Dem- ocratic resort, the bar-room, the fight waxed lively,—a fight so vulgar, corrupt, and dis- gusting, that even the uusavery FemNinpo ‘Woop was compelled to drop out of the con- test as a’candidete. Al day and all night, the great nnwashied crowds of the rock-rooted snd mountain-buttressed Democracy eat and drank, and swore and fought, and bought end sold. Ssys s Democratic correspond- ent of a Democratic newspaper: *‘Thosa who are old in Washington ways de- clare that the contest for office never reached such o ferocions -stage of min- gled mirth and mud as this between the decent Democracy on the ono band and the Ring element on the other. Outside of New York .m Twxzp's day, or Chicago in CorLvin's doy, such scenes are not seen as the Capital is now enjoying. We have whatever is of ill repute and evil report, blustering by day and carousing by night.” All this disgraceful ‘business goes to show the folly of suppesing that human nature, espeocially Democratio” human nature, can ever be reformed, or that the composition of men, especially ** Damo- crats,” can be chunged. It is now eighteen years—irom 1837 to 1875—since the Democ- racy clected a Speaker and have had control of the House'of Representatives; but in these eighteen years of retirement they have not changed. Tho leopard still has all his spots. Promptly they reappear on the scene from which they have been absent so long and re- commencs their old tactics and practices. The contest for the Speakership, the third office of the Government, is imme. dintely turned into a gambling opers- tion. Morrisssy, ex-member of Congress and notr momber of the New York Senate, ex-prize-fighter and now gambler, opens his gambling-louse snd sells pools, which are liberally patmnized by the Democracy, upon the result. Money is lying around loose for purposes .of bribery. YVotes are open- ly bought and sold. Tox Scorr and his, crowd and their motley following of other corrupt lobbyists and adven- torers mix in and are purchasing in this great Democratio market votes for their sohemes. Committees are already bought snd sold upon conditions end for considers. tions. Heads of committees are promised forall sorta of values received. And thus the great corrupt, unwashed erowd spent ita time, buying, selling, bribing, swindling, chesting, mating, drinking, carousing, awear ing, and fighting. -And this is & sample of the promised ** Democratio reform 1 This is one of the outcomes of those bonstful prophecies and promises of the purity, respectability, de. ostioy, aud inoorruptibility which for & yoar wast Detioerstis naWspabers asd dudingugos Inthe streeis, and the hotels,” have been promising would succeed the Re- publican resignotion of power! But if this con happen in the green tree, what uisy vot happen in thedry? If the Dem- ocrats commence their gambling, and swin- dling, and corruption before Congress is or- goanized. what may we™ expect when they get to work in the House? If the lobby- ists and political hacks can bribe and pur- chsse now, what will they not do when' cor- rupt Democrats are in the open market with their votes? It is not a hoveful outlook; but the result will have its compensation if it only convinces the people of the insincerity of Demacratic pretensions and the impossi- bility of Democratic reform. ABOUT TENEMENT.HOUSES, The tencment-house is an outgrowth of ‘what we call civilization, and a disgrace to it. It is only as weelth accumulates, as land grows. deur, as population is concentrated, that the tenement-house comes to exist. The savage has his own wigwam or tent; the poor fermer has his own house; the poor artisan occupies one room in a crazy building that reors its steined and meny-storied front in defiencs of every law of Lealth, reasdn, and decency. It is not so very many years since a regular tenement-house was much unknown in Chicago. It is now, uufortunately, one of our comnmonest sights. Tenements linemiles of unpaved streets and filthy alloys. House- drains and sewers are either unbuilt or nn- used. “Water-pipes sre leaky, and the water-supply is ofien tainted with foul gnses from the adjacent vaulis. Doors heng from a single hinge, or do 7ot ex- ist. They have been spiit up into fire-wood, sharing the fate of stair-rails, fences, and sheds. Some of the rooms may, perhaps, show a distant approach to cleanlinoss, but the halle, unlighted, unwaoshed, used by everybody and cered for by nobody, are ina simply borrible state. Garbage is scattered about them and on the scanty plots of land in the rear of the buildings. Children, *the loxury of the poor,” swarm in the passages in numbers great enough to make the shade of Maxtuvs sick. They are dirty, of course, vitlous, equally of course. The air they breathe is Inden with curses, and heavy with foul smells. The *three Ds "—dirt, dis- oase, and ‘death—are supreme here. It has been ofton and eloquently said that the house is the basis of civilization, and that every flower and fruit of modern life has its roots around the hearth-stone. There ara no homes in a tenement-house ; the rooms are hells, The comparative cheap- ness of land in the ontskirts of Chiesgo has partially saved us from the curse of over- crowding. Many of our tenements are one- story shanties, with oaly two or three rooms, and throe or four families in them. But this elight gain is more than counterbalanced by the unpleasant fact thot these shanties are often G or § feet below the legal lovel of the street, lifted by rolten bits of wood o few inches abova the greey scum that covers the ‘stagnant pools around them. We are not exaggerating these wa Mchell details. The uncolorsd report in Tme Tnmusz of Saturday of the condition of paris of the city shows that the actual state of aoffairs is even worse than this sketch makes it out to be. And it is easy for the doubter to satisfy himself. Let him spend a morning in walking throngh the districts where tene- ments sbound, end eye, eer, and nose will unite their testimony to support the indict- ment against the men who own these wooden horrors, the city which permits their oxist- ence, the roligion that bendsits energies to tha erection of costly churches for the few, and never lifts a finger to save the many from such want, and wretchedness, and woe, The recent files of Tee TRIBUNE contain full accounts of the more notable successes in tenement-reform. Sir Sypy¥Ex Warerwow's company has found that it pays, in London, to pull down pestilence-breeding houses and put up clean, light, and airy homes. It has foundthat, with proper hygienic precantions, a given amount of ground ean give comforta- ble, healthfal slielter to twice the number of persong who starve, and steal, and die in ordinary fenements on the same area. This has been shown by the Peamopy and the Burperr-Courrs buildings also. A singlo woman—Aliss Fay—has done a wonderful work in the worst district of London, where sho met with far more opposition thah any rival of her gocd deeds would here. The State Charities Aid Association of New York City bas republished her papers on the sub- ject in ‘one substantiel pamphlet, which can be obtained for 25 cents by writing to the Association. It is a mine of informstion and valuable suggestion. The recent legislation by the English Parliament, —the Artisang’ Dwellings act,—and the at- tempts by the maunicipaiities of London and Birmingham to use the powers thus conferred upon them, offer valuable hints as to the limits of law-making in such matters. The Society of “United Workers” in Hartford, Conn., has done something in the way of mitigating the curse of tenementlife. All these, and other gallant effits, have been editorially discussed in Tmz Tomune. A paper can do no more. Individuals must do the rest. We have told the community what to do; we have now shown them the urgent necessity of doing something. Our task is done. That of the community, we are sorry to say, has not yet been begun. ‘WOMAN IN TEE CENTENNIAL. . The President of the Women’s Centennial Executive Committes, Mrs. E. D. Gruresrre, has issued a circolar setting forth the circum- stances under which the Women's Depart- ment of the Centennial Exposition was or- ganized, and giving a sketch of the general ontlines of the work that the women of America will represent on that oceasion, and also extending a very cordial invitation to the women of all other countries to forward arti: cles of their workmanship for exhibition. ‘The outlines, a8 presented by Mrs. GruueseIE, are of a very practical charecter. It is pro- posed to confine the exhibits to represents~ tions of what woman bas sccomplished in scnlp!uro, painfing, literature, engraving, telegraphy, education, and inventions of all kinds, including the finer kinds of needle and lncs work. Thess representaticns, of them- selvos, not alone in education and invention, but also in the arts, will undoubtedly fill the ‘Women's Department very liberally, and will | make an exhibition of unubual interest; but the work of the women will not stop here. It is. proposed to have » volume ‘published, contsining short bio- graphical sketches of eminent women in the United States, This sortof personal litarsture hasheretofore been considered a masculine van- ity, but the same vanity may iow be predicatsd | of lovely woman also; and, as heretofore the publia has been astounded at the discovery of the immenss number of eminent insn in every city, town, and viliage of whoss exist- ence it had hardly been aware bafors, sq next yoar we may expsot to be .astounded at the irbmertse nubir of aminkul women who thia year are dwelling among us as plain Mrs. Ssora or Mrs. Browy, with no suspicion that they have halos around their brows or lgurel leaves on their buresus and toilet-stands. ‘We do hope, however, that‘the women of the country will not be raised to the same dizzy heigh's of eminence occupied by the men by the same vulgar financinl considerations. An- other most excellont feature of the Women's Department will be the compilation of a vol- ume of American cookery, the women of each State contribating not more than twenty and not less then six receipts. If the full number be sent from each Stato, as will most likely. be the case,—ns any aversge housekeeper can muster twenty good receipts,—this will give the'country 740 receipts. It is to be hoped they will cover the ground of good, plain, healthy cookery, and that the gastro- nomic trestisq will teach the women of Amer- ica how to make good bread, cook steaks, chops, and cutlets, make pies that will not ruin the stomach and coffce that will not cloud the heed, prepare vegetables that will not be groasy, and teach the young and bud- ding housewife how to prepare a menn and arrange a table to be attractive to the eye as well as inviting to the palate. Scch acon. bummation is much mere desirable than the thousands of receipts which now crowd our cook-books for the manufacture of ornament- aland indigestible fancy compounds which no one ought to eat, and the preparation of outlandish and bizarre dishes which no one does eat. Such a volume, if devoted to the- preparation of the solid, substantial, and healthy viands, such as fornish forth the av- erage American table, too often in an un- healthy wey, will be productive of inestima- ble good to tho national hen'th and temper. Re.form is nowhere ¢ much needed as in our cookery. If the women can institute such a reform, the Centenninl will not have been held in vain. Lastly, the circular suys : In order to obtain s definito {dea of the charitabls imtiiutions carried on by women, photographs of these instifutions, with a short sccount of tho same, are respoctfully solicited from the womoen condacting such institations in forelgn countriesas well aa in Americz. A addition to the building will be pre- pared for educational purposce, the Kindergarten ; object, teacking and any otlier bronches of education for which women are epocially adapied will be here exbitited, i This department is 2lso of the highest con- sequence, and the results which have been achieved, when they are- placed soas to be seen ot a glance, will, we doubt not, astonish the country. Thoe scheme for the repre- sentation of woman appears to be an sdmira- ble one, and its development will be one of the most atiractive and interesting features of the whole exhibition. It is & little re- markable, but at the scme time very plens- ant, to observe that the typical woman's rights shrieker does not figure in the pro- gramme at all. While this may provoke some opposition from Miss AxTHONY and other warlike ladies of advanced minds, there will be some compensation in the fact that their gentlo war-whoops will not be heard—at least in the Woman's Department. The purchasq of the stock of the King of Egypt in the Suez Canel by England, and the possibility that she may assume a pro- tectorate over that country, or possibly annex it, hes given o new interest to the question of Egyptian finances. A statement of these finances for the year ending September, 1874, has been published, from which we take the following facts: The revenue for the year was $49,555,000, in which appear the follow- ing items: Landtax (the heaviest item), $20,265,000; tax on date-trees, $910,000; railway receipts, $4,390,000; salt-works re- ceipts, 81,230,000; . octroi on tobacco, $2,500,000; customs, $2,970,000; and re- oeipts from Nile barges, $900,000. The ex- penditures for the year were $44,080,000, the principal items being interest and man- agement of debt, $20,735,000; tribute to Turkey, £3,330,000; Khedive's civil list, $1,500,000; expenditares on public works, $2,500,000 ; railways and telegraphs, $2,580,- 000; publie instruction, $260,000; war, $3.530,000; merine, $445,000. The debt is divided into three classes: General loans contracted by the State amounting to $246,- 351,900; the personal debt of the Khedive, which is in the nature of a public debt, $63,871,000; floating debt, $88,000,000,— making the entire debt $3:i0,223,200, for which England is the principal creditor. The telegraph snnounces that the court of inquiry asked for by Gen. Bascocx to investigate certzin charges sgainst him has been appointed by the President; that he has designated Lieut.-Gen. P. H. BEERIDAN, Maj.-Gen. W. 8. Haxcocs, and Brig.-Gen. TereY to compose the Court; and has named Dec. 9 as the time, and Chicago as the place, for the trisl. This trial, of course, is in the nature.of a court-martial, has no legal connection with the civil suits at St. Lounis, and will notaffect or interfere with them. Col. Bascock is & Major of Engineers i the regular ermy, and as such was bound to ask for a court of inquiry to determine whether his honor as a military officer was impugned by these charges. While he might be acquifted by a jury in a civil suit at St Tonis, this would mnot prevent his being found guilty by the court-martial and cashiered from the srmy; and while he might, on the other hand, be acquitted by the military court, it would not interfere with his conviction in the civil tribunal The two trisls are entirely independent of each other. Wo hope his complate innocence will be made to appear befoze both the civil and the military tribunal, not only for his own sake and that of his host of friends,.but also for the sake of the country. The deacons of Plymouth Church are evi- dently like Othello,—plain, blunt men, not blessed with set phrase. Wea have already commented upon Deacon Wesr's outspoken letter, in which he put the direct, incisive questions that should be examined by the matusl council: ‘Is the Rev. H. W. Bexca- 8 guilty of adultery?” and “Is the Rev. H. 'W. Brzoger guilty of perjury?” And now comes good Deacon Duxcaw, who, being an old salt, speaks right out liks an old salt. Dencon Doveay, like Deacon Weer, has been absenting himsolf from meeting, conse- quently the censors determined tg call him to account. He obeyed ths summons, and they put this question tp the ancient mari- zer: * What is your resson for absence from church service?” To which replied the an- clent mariner: “It is due to the fact that, on evidence which is satisfactory to my own mind, I believe that Hexry Wazp Brsoxea is au adulterer and a perjurer,” and the cen~ sors therenpon departed, esch with s liv_d'y flea in his ear. And the ancient mariner bauled up his waistband, shifted his plug, | and went his way also. He was not troubled again. The very quintessence of tha recent tendency of Amezican publishers to de up valuable aril eles in small parcsls bhas bssm aftalced by Hoaszs. J, B. Osacos & Oo., of Boston, whe hats harna ihdt snblixtion af salichd cliisios in what they call the ‘‘Vest-Pocket Edition.” ‘Wairriee's ¢ Spow-Bound " ts s sample, It is Ppublisbed in a littie bodk about 6 by 8 inches in dimensicns, which can be literally putin the vesc-vocket, and it is beantifallv printod on tinted paper, with meny of the original illustrs- tions; in a muniaturo way, it 18 as .elegant snd at.ractive 28 the superb edition of **Mabel Marten,” Mr. WmTTme's latost production. Some of the favorite works of LoNasELLow, Exxrsox, Wmrrries. Bast HARTE, aod the most popular American writers, are to bo published in this “ Vest-Pocket Edition,” and’ there is mo doubt that so creditable an effort to bring the highest literary excellence and the best style of printing within the reach of the masses will bo in every way as successful as the * Little Clas- sics,” which'include in sixteen small volumes the best short stories that have ever been writ- ‘ten, and which probably suggested the new “Vast-Pocket” series. OBITUARY, EX-UNTTED BTATES SESATOR IRA HARRIS. The telegraph on Friday announced tha death at his home in Albany of the Hon. Ira Harmts, at one time a very prominent public man in New York. He was bom 1n 1802, in Montgomery Couanty, N. Y., and graduated from Union Col- legoin 182¢. Duriog the succeading seventeen years he practiced law with gress success. In 1844 and 1845, ho was elected to tho Assembly, and the next year to the Sepate. In 1848, ha ‘became Judgs of the Saprems Court, and held that position until 1860. In 1E61, he was elected to thé United States Senate against Mr. Evacts and Mr. GeEeLzy, after a long and obstinate siruggle. He was an ardont supporter of the LINCOLN saministration, and ssrved on the Com- mitteo on the Judiciary and Foreign Relations. 1In 1867, e became a member of the Conatita- tional Convention, and sinco that time had Lived in comparative retirement. 1SAA0 WELSH. Isasa Wrersm, the State Treasurer of Ohio, died 2 few days since in Belmont County, aftar s long illness. His torm expires on the 10th of January next, when the Treasurer-alect, Jaues M. Briurze, takes the nfiize, snd wilk probably also bu appomted by the Governor to fill the vacancy until that time. The Cleveiand Herald, #ay8 of Mr. Wersn : = ‘The avocatiop of Mr, WELSH wus that of a farmer, He had been locally promiuect in politics for many years, and in 1871 wos nowinated bptne Republicans for Stite Treasurer, and elecied, In 1373, he wau re- nominated, and again elected. During his two terms of service he succecded Lo winning the respect sad es- teem of men of tll purties by his scrupulous hon:sty, his abuity, and his uniform couriesy und kindiness to His death will be all with wuoza he czme in contact, very gonerally regretied. — e It has been proposed that the Senate should eloct Bome oue who 18 not & 8enator to the posi- tion of President of the Senats pro tem., with the duty of sasuming the offico of President of the United States in case of GeaNT’S death be- fore tho expiralion of his term. This carious suggestion is publwhed in the Wsashington Chronicle. The reason givan for the departure from settled customis that the accession of o Bcoator to the Presidency, in the evect of GRanT’s death, wonld too greatly diminiah the Repubiicaa majority in the Upper Hoaso of Con- graes, It may be that, a8 the correspondent of the Chronicle save, there is no conatiintional prohibition of the election of & pro tem. Presi- dent of tho Senste who is not a membar of that body, but the unwritten law of custom may well be takea as decisive on that point. Occe befora in the history of oar polizics an attempt bas been made to induee the Senata to boldly choose s President of the United Sintes, The success of that scheme Was not sucl a8 to encourage even a moditied repetition of it. 1t was n 1801, when JErvERsoN and Buna bad cach 1aceived 73 electoral votes for the Pregidency, and the olection, therefors, devolved upon thé House of Representatives, The Fed- ersiists, who coniroiled hzif the Siute deloga- tions. were unwillig to elect either candidate. They wished to prevent any election and then induce tho Sepate to chooes a Presidout. The pion was boldly denounced by their greatest lesaer, HaxirToN, although JEFFERSON'S request to the then President, Apaxs, to veio avy bul for tho porpose thac mught be passed was refused. The danger seemed 8o imminent that JEFFERSON went 80 far as 1o threaten armed resistauce. At last, enough Feds:alists caat blank ballots to make Lim President. i PR O ‘Those who go down to the ses in ships bslong- ing to tho Pacific Mail Cumpany have iately zone down into the sea 1oside the ships with alarm- ing frequeucy. Babsidy-scheming and seaman- sbip hava not fitted in woll together. The Com- pany Las sorved Mammon too faithfully at Washingion to serve the god Neptauoe well Davy Jones' locker has received the passsn- gers who sailed in sbips paid for out of the coffers of Uncle Sem. Nevertheless, the Com- pany showed soma indigoation when s rivah Line, the Australian Steamship Company, placed & stentorian-voiced, brass-lunged person in frons of the Paciiic Mail office at San Francisco aod iostructed him to eroet every intsndiog psssen- gor with o howl of “Doo't yer go in that steamer! Bhe’sacofin! Prepare to mset yer Ged! Insure yer hte! Saygood-bye to yer folks!™ The hired howler bes been arrested. bat hia em-~ ployera bave retained the best criminal lawyer in California to dofend him, and will pak in a plea of justitication. If thus succeeds tho idea may prove contagions. If ihe grocers who adul- torate their goods, and the doctors who kilt their patients, and the Iawyors who mismibage their cases, and all other Luainess iucompetents, shouid be tiested in the samo wsy, what s frightful expowura there wculd ba of the tricks of all trades. The rough plan might have its advantages. A crier in frout of a boarding- housa would insure the speedy improvemen: of tho bach, and one in the vicinity of & mill do- voted to the manufacture of ‘‘pure coffee” would check the demsnd for pess, beans, and chiccory. _— A pew field for advertising is being opemed. It is in the obituary Line. ,A receat number of an English paper contamns & death-notice of & centenarisn, which ends with the sentemce: “For the 1aet tweive months of her existoncs ghe lived exclusively on ——'s pnre extract of meat; country papers pleass copy.” This is ingenious, bat yet ouly & mers hint of the possibiities of the futare. Ere long, ths aversge obituary may read in somsthing of this way: *Died, — ——, 8ged 97, Ris excellent table was always supplied with meat by ——, and with fine groceries by —. Tho funeral will take place to-morrow. The satin-lined coffin is furnished by — & Co., and the embroidercd shroud was one of s pumber imported by — & ——. The corpse will be rosurrected ten days from date by the celebrated body-spatching firm of —— & —, who have alrezdy sold it to the Iown Medical College, whore the bighast prices are always paid for eadavers. Country papers plesse copy.” Other details can be inse1ted in the same way, 80 that meritorious tradesmen will actually gain, instesd of loain) by the desth of a customer. . The women of America do not seem to yearn for co-cducstion, at least as far as Wesieyan | University, a: Middletown, Cona., is concerned. In thue institution it may be that the remark1s trus only of feminine Methodists. At any rats,only ope woman has entered the College in each of the last three yoars, and there are now bus eight famals students ont of 200 in all. The fact that mo vote was cass in the Demo- eratic caucus, yesterday afternoon, for BarNzy CAULFIZELD a8 the nomioee for Speaxer, sesms to {ndicase that the Bridgeport rapresentative was Bot prasent. He may have been too busy in writing bills to ateand the canous. Any womsa in Minuesots who is 21 years old is eligible to any school-office and cau vote for school-officers or on any messure reiatiog to public edocstion. These privilegss bave besn conferred by the adoption of & constisational smendwment al tbe late electicn. The useiiiog- aess of any woinba leds iban B0 yeark of agu le, . admit that she is flmymm the exarcise of the new powers for & desady 80 in each particuler cage.” ¥ —_—_— PERSINAL, Vice-President Wilsou's Iife h.wv 83,500, ety 1t is the man with tizht boots who 4 violantly of the eternal fitucas of Lhing:h e Mr. E. L. Godkin writes to World that ho has no eunnufion“:iz!? “g.m’:: or any other University. Cuarles Reade says that the childr glaad require longer tims tlean wz':::ux:: | thoe children of other countries. _Jonnin Miller says that Cincinnatj birtbpiace, a2 neac as ho knoms; may put him down 2s born thero. Bepjemin P. Avery, our le i China, was a Califoruis Journalist, mr 2 time editor of the Ocerland Monthly, - The Samoan Constitation, Temarsstha “ 8 field .qubbwn. is chiefly noticsabls for thy prominence it gives to God and Stainbarger, ‘Gen. Logan was reporied as much better fagg mght. and t;:ndily improving. Thers are At &D0f woek will see him g again. iy pe ul 4o Richard Grant White is showing hig tom, the Galary ; aud, for * a refined nlntln:t & scholar,” as the New York M‘lfll“fl.h‘n‘h uses pretty nasty language. Itisstated thas ths Rev. Dr. Helmer, of Ctg. cago, recently called to the Tompking Aveang Preabyerian Church, New York, has sceeptag. He will reccive a satary of 37,000, Alr. James Whittaker has gona to Baffalo oy wisit. After the 1at of January Mr, Whittake and family will resids in Chicago durmg the wioter. Their absence will bo much regreity here. Mr. Stewart despairs of keeping dissenters of his now Atalantis, which he calls tha Gu-d.m City. If he had his way none bat Equscopaiian would be allowed within it limita, John Henry hopes that his wife will wraage it this year g0 that the but for his Chrisimas pres ent need not come in for a month or two. e would like to keep up the itlusion for s whila, Over the porchof the old Seath Charsh (9 Boston is chuseled : **Behold! I have set betors you 20 open door,” and under, on the docr, s painted in emphatia letters, ** Positively nosd mittance.” A maiden once said, “ I'll not mate With & man who has not fortuns gresb® 80 he pouted and walted, And scorned to bo mated, Bhe's 3 maiden yet—age forty-eight, The Suoday-Lectare Society has besn e velled to anmounce the postponement of the lecture for to-day, Charles Dradlaugh bavisg been takea seriously ill in New York. New Sunday Fred Douglass will lecturs om Johy Brown, The Courfer-Journal observes that s dog, af- terall, is but the ninth power of x. Hencs i X 9 equals 1 dog, x1x's equals 3§ dog; 8 xmy equal one dog. Ths may not be mathe s by 05ha, vy matically correct, batic 18 an approximatica ot the truth, . Belot's Vennads Gordes * at the Ambignia Paris wos universally condexnsd by the crities forita gross immorakty. Consequence: A home crowded with ladies, each provided with lage fans, which they found .usetul {0 psep ovriy the naughty placea. The New York Sun is to make ita first Sundsy issue to-day. The Telegram, evening tenderto tho Herald, slso comes out oo Sundsy moming; and for the last week the daily cdition of the Sk hae been filled with advertisements of the Tei» gram. Everything 1s not lovely. An African Prince oncs offered Du Chailla bis choice of = wife among 850 girla. To prevant jealousy he took them oL As he conldn’s hin spartments for such & crond, he was obligsdto camp oot with them, and be says it surpassed anv strawberry festval be ever attanded. Jobn Brougham, the actor, makes the worsi puus lo ths world. Oakev Hall eapecially ad- mirea Aas Dyae. Last week at the Losos Clab in New York some ono asked Brougham in whad play the ex-Mayor was going to sppear: *0, Round the World in Aas Dyus, of courss,” i sponded ths fiend. A Willismsburg man, the father of seventees children. found a basket as his basoment-door the other morning contaicing a littla goldene baired cherub about 2 weeks old. A tagsp pended to the handle of thiPbasket bare this legend : * You sppear to bs fond of children ITwn't. Please accept this one.™ : New York Herald: The fact that Heory Wi 200's brain weighed more than theaversge it rise to the renewed statement: that weight of braio determines & person’s ability. A Loudoa cartman had the heaviest brain ever welgbed Quality, Dot quantity, gives greatuess. A ooff has & bigger bran than @ mosquits, bub she coulda't keep s man awake half the night tryiog o hit her all over. " Emily Faithfail esys that New York masiesd critwiac is & hissing and a by-word to the Eo= ghsh press * becanse the theatrical aod critiques, the markes reports and reports of trials, the street accidents, and the gossisng talk, aro all the work of one man "—which coly goes to show how ignorant s thing Mise Emily Paithfull s, and how little gualiied totrestof any subject pertaining to American pulitics Sir Jobo Beomotsy the Aldermsn snd wel- known watchmsker in the City of Laedon, ds livered s lectaro tho other dsy, during waich b8 made the following happy metsphor : “Youcss stop a clock at any moment,” he ssid. "Im!‘: cannot stop a watch. Eo it is with the talk men aod of women. Maniss nutuiy.u: machine, but you can silence bim. Wmm'“: besauful, fragile, jowoled thing—hetsbs run on till ehe stops of berself.” A youog man namod Gould, at Cumberland R. L, was appoin:ed Treseurer of the Mlthflfl-l; Church, and made wole custodisa of 825 spent half the money in purchasing 8 IW“‘ to defend the rost witkal. Lo the desd of o a cunning burglar stolo into the room 20d t:; tared both shot-gun and teasure. Now young man rajoices that ho was not 810 takes, and in fature will Iay op hisshot-guns in Hesreds where moth and rust do not corruph, do not bresk through and steal ) He waa swolliog around town whils the b waa taking on freight, and, comiog 0 ':;"' fonr or five men ust undor an awniog, b 65 out his hand to esch i tarn sod remir « Shake, stranger. Although I'vestood 'hl;" shiot fell aronud me like rain-drops in & ho¥35y I want reconciliation now,—geonine p-fl-d “Ahl what battles were you in?" nqné_ffl‘m the mon I wasu't in sny, misKE hot stranger soberly repiied; **it wasin Lh: e tower at St. Louis the shot csme so (st the crowd went over aftar e SIS it B v 1 Lagrot, Otz st : 3. AL len, Hertford; A, H, Lictla, Philade) bot, Furst Life Guards, England: Loudon, Eng. ; W. H. Taylor, Bosto! inson, Applaton, Wis.; J. Y. tarles, Joun Bryson, Washington; E. C. D. Ciark, Detruit; W. waukee. ... Frand Pactjic—W. ) g £ & B e, e €. B. Hawkins, New ivement lious—E. M. Cooper, Gasey, Wheeling, Va. ; G B e o Orteani £ il . i.{agawoou, Ne o 5 W. D. : i A."hef;, New York ; P. Yates, s;rxnndnd‘.d fl:h‘ A” Douglass, Coldwater ; Wendeil 2. Hood, Bed. B 3.0, Walliag, Ausors Anthooy, Siiws Brerman Huiss—Tue Bav. 5 Hon, 2. M. Whitlock, Cleveiandy the Hon. C.Bo% Maaaillon, U.; Col. J, Pattison, Staring, Ikt L0 rp £ Sy By, P, M i Seaton: las Hon 3. A Adama, ‘Texsa ; F. 7. Btesls, ley, Vermoot; J. 8. Watls, Yokobacua. ... Genisd A iy Louis 1530, Har’;qo;u_- oo, 8 B Laow Ml“ BS 2 e, iore Yecky