Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1876, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATRE OF SUBACRITTION (PATARLE X ADBVAXCE): : Poxtnan prenal hin Ofilce Dally Edition, post-pald, 1 13.00 Tarts of sen iido 88 20 addeess FODR WEEKS . ‘:‘J}!'-dynm?l’lnm Titerary and Joilglons doubia G WEE agecpy, por yea BrboT e o copr Qilob of twenty, par cn! The postage i1 15 conls Bpecimen copits vent free. To pravent delsy and_mifatakes, o wure nnd give Post-Office addross in Fuit, dnctuding Statoand County, Ramittances may be made either by draft, oxpross, Post-OMece order, or t registered Intters, at our risk, TERMS 70 CITT SUBSCRATENS, Datly, delivered, Bunday excepted, 23 cent per week, Dauly, detivered, Sunday fuctuded, Addrem THE TIHBI Corner Madlson and Dearbol 0 veuts per woek. : COMPANY, Chicago, 1l AMUSEMENTS, MOVICKER'S THEATRE—Madiron street, hetween Dearborn and Blato, Engsgement of Gcorge lignold, w euty V" 1I00LEY'S THEATRE~Tandolph atroct, between Clark snd Lafalle, Eugsgement of ho Roilogg Opera Troupa. * Martha" REW QHIOAGO THEATRE—Clark strect, betwoen Tandolph and Lake, Engsgementof Callonder's Geor- s Miastrels, ADELPHI TIEATRE~—Dosthorn slreet, corner Monroe, * The Urgan-Grlnder,” Variety | erformauce, WOOD'S MUSEUM—Motroe street, Letween Deare born and State. Afiernoon, ** The Adventures of o Country GIrL” Eveulug, * Undorikie Ousdght.” ACADEMY OF MUBIC—Ifalated sircel, Velween Madison sud Monros, Euuagementof the Georgls Blinatrels, —— “socteTy ETING! COVENANT LODGE. No, 50, A. F, & A, M.—fpce eial Comsmuntestion this (Fridey) eveulng at 70 o'clock, at Corfntlian Hall, 187 E«st Kinrte st, for 'nrlanl;-hsgh Al.d‘)l)ru{c:)h ‘\"l»hlng Lrethiren cordisl- 0 W, AL L i V). RERR, Sec. WABHINGTON CHAPTER, No, 47, . A, M.—fpe. elal Convocation this (Friday) afternoon, Jan, 14, at 4 o'clock, for work on P,anil M. E, Deyrees, and at T iiade 7 ovlor L tho S 3., . 3y order of tho 3, E. 15, & Divigue besiely uuh B, WRIGHT, Bec. The @hieage Tribune. Friday Morning, January 14, 1870. Greenbocks at the New York Gold Ex- chango yesterdny closed at 8! Old Trob predicts clear wenther, with glowly.rising temperature, in this region to- day, ——— rages, with a slight advantage for Beck, who on the sixth ballot had 40 votes against 86 for Wrtuas, 25 for Lesue, and 10 for STEVENEON. The Senato yesterday confirmed the Prosi- dont's pominations of the Hon. J. RusseLs Joxgs as Collector of the Port of Chicago, and Col. Ropenr MacrreLy a8 Commissory- General of the United States Army, the Houso Comnmittes on Ways and Menns will be deferred until indications are at hand from the Committes on Appropriations as to the amount of expenditurcs to be provided for and tho degree of reduction contet. plated. Tho repenl of the Porsen law in Wisconsin is recowmended in the message of Gov. Lup- 1¥0T1GN, Who reminds the injudicious farmors that the effect of the law hias been to impnir tho credit of the State, and urges the necesi- ty of a carcful and thorough rovision of the existing enactments on this subjact. Sexaton Davis, of West Virginia, got started yesterdny on his wild-goose chnso nfter gignntio irregularitios in the nccounts of tho ‘Lrensury Dopartment, He hud weized upon & colleetion of apparent discrepancies, and theso he made the most of, carcfully omitting to apply to the Secrctary of the T'rensury for explanation and enlightenment. 3ir. Bovrwery, whoso experience st the head of the Trensury Department made it vasy for bimn to brush awny the cobwebs in the brain of the West Virginia Senator, began the lubor of clearing up the muddle, but was in- tarrupted by the prassure of exacutive Lusi. ness, The National Republican Couvention of 1876 will bo held in Cincinuati on Wednes. day, June 14, In the National Itcpublican Execeutive Committeo at Washinglon s stub- Lorn three-cornered fight was maintained be- tween the friemls of Philadelphia, Cincin- pati, sud Chicago, but many of the former, whon it beeamo apparout that they could not win, cast their strength with Cincinnnti, and Lenco the result, It wus not denied that Chicago offered the finost fucililivs and tho, largest attractions, but the Committee yield- ed to tho representations that the moral forco of the Convention wwas of more importance to Ohio than the mcre comfort and con- venience of delegaton, Gov. Kimswaon, of lowa, the United States Benator that is to be, in his messnge to the Legislature deals with tho pubtio school nnd surrency questions in straightforward Ile. publican fushion. o s agaius: any division of the school fund for sccturian uses, and favors a return to bard-moucy and a system of increased cconomy and frugulity to prepare for that state of values. His viuws on the subject of Ktate control of the railroads are by no means ultra-Grangerish, Ho regnrds tho mattor as an experiment nt beat, and nd. viges the Legislature to procecd with cautious deliberation in devising mensures for the so- lution of the chenp-trausportation question, A liboral abstract of the more important fone tures of the message is contained in our dis- patches, Josern Larack, the perpetratonof one of the most Lorrible murdurs ever known—that of the villago beauty, Juarz Lavasain, who was waylaid whilo on her way to school at Buncook, N, I1., and tho discovery of whose frightfolly mutilated romains and the intense thrill of horror which tho event produced throughout the counlry nre yet fresh in mind —was yeaterday found guilty of murder in the firat degree, oud sentenced to be havged ot the expiration of a term of ono yeur in the Btate Prison at Concord. Larack sullenly protested his inuovenca to the lust, snd though the ovidunce in tho caso was wholly eircumstantial in its uature,—for there way Do witness to the uwful doed,—everything pointed conclnaively to the brutish Canudian 83 the guilty man. 'The law of New Hamp- shire requires that oue year shull clapso be- tween tho sentouco and the oxecution of the death penalty, 50 that thero fs little danger that tho wrong man will hang, ——— The Chicago produce markets were very ir- regular yesturday. Meus pork was in fair de- mund and 2}@30 lower, closing at §19,20 cash and $19,82) for February, Lard wes modsveiale antiva pud 21 per 100 Ibs lower, olosing at $12.30 cash and 212,57} for Feb. runry, Mentawere less activa and easlor, ab 7}e for shoulders, boxed, 10} for do aliort ribs, and 103 for o short cleaw, Highwines were quiet and unchanged, at £1.08 per gal- lon. Flour wns quiel, active and unsteady, closing ab $1.00} cash and 990 for February, Corn was dull and ensicr, closing tame ot 4370 cash and 4230 for Tebrunry, Oats were quiet and firm, closing at 10jc cash and 303c seller Februnry, Ryo was nctivoat 66)@07¢e. Darley wns act- ive and irregnlar, closing at 8tc for January and 80{e for Februnry., Ifogs were dull and closed wenk at 20@25 decline, Into sales mak. ing at RG.80@7.20 for common fo extra. Cattlo were nctive and firm. Bheep wero firm and unchauged, One hundred dollara in gold would buy $112,62} in groonbacks at the cloge. e The celebrated Amnesty debato closed yes- terday for tho time being, the subject being referred to tho Judiciary with the nndes- atandiog that an amended bill is to be report- od embodying the form of onth proposed in Mr. Braisr's substitate, but making no ox- coption to Jerr Davis, Mr. Braixe ably fin- ished what ho so nbly began, aud whou he Diad resumed his soat thero was scarcely n shred left of Bex Hiz's fabric of falselicod respecting the infmman trostment of Confed. erato soldiera in Northern prisons, Even Our Canten and Bridgeport Banses—noither of whom wers ever famous far their sympathy with the Union cause dwing tho War— gradgingly vindicated tho onor of their con- stituents, and gavo the lio to the Georgia tebel's charges nsto Camp Douglas. And DLy the time Mr. Brarnghad finished, Messva. Cox nnd RavpaLy were mado to wineo under the citation of their record of 1864, whon they, too, raised their voices against tho hor- rors of Andersonville, Altogether it hns been n notablo debate, and the Republican leaders in the House bave achioved lasting credit and distinetion, Thera is o disturbance in the city police, There is o detective corps twhich insists upon being independent of all superior an- thority, It refuses to obey tho Superintend- ent or the Marshal, and the only proper counse to be followed in such o caso is to dis- charge tho whole corps. 'Tho deteetive force keeps ot best an exchauge shop, where thiaves resort to collect an agreed prica for the sestoration of stolen property, Thore would be no serious public loss if the detect- ives were discharged, and tho thieves arrest- ed, and the stolon property restored without chargo directly to the owners. Bupt. Hickey knows the whole routino of the business, and there is no man go calculated to break it up and provide o better policy. Marshal Goop- ¥iL can win some honorif he will brenk up the detective corps as an independent foree, and mnko the men uscful as privates. There should ba but one police headquarters and but one supreme anthority in police matters, BLAVERY ARD BECESSION. The speech of Mr. BEN Hivy in the Mouse of Representativos in defense of the Confed- erate administrationof affairs at Andersonville cnd othor military prisons during the War, when stripped of its oratorical coverings, mmounted to o distinet vindication of the right of Aocession and a wail over tho aboli- tion of slavery. When Mr. LiNcowy issued his Emancipation Proclumation the Confed- crato rage hvew no limits, This Mr, Hus, then s Confederata Senator, proposed as a retnlintory mensure ihe instant killing of every man taken prisoner on Southern soil in arms, and, though his proposition was not. formally adopted, it became the theoretical poliey of the Confederato Government from then to the end of the War. They professed to consider that tho emancipation of tho slaves waa an invitation and a licenso to tho negroes to assnult the white women of tho Houth, when in fact nothing of that kind ever took place; and upon this assumption thoy beld every * Yankee,”na they called the Union troops, a fit subject to be assnasi- nnted by poison or otherwise as n dog; and, though restrained by fear from exo- cuting that policy opeuly, thay did not hesi- tate to practico it by evon moro cruel procosa ot starvation and slow poison. They con- fined the Union prisoncrs in crowded rooms, where the men bad to take turns to eleep on the floor,—one-hnlf standing up whilo the other laid down to sleep; whero the sick and mutilated were conflued with the well, and both consumed with vermin; whero all wero ill-fed, and, ns in the case at Andersonville, {liey were deprived of water and otherwise deprived of tho commonest convenicnces. ‘The Rebel prisons were the slaughter-houses of tha Confedersoy. Thoy were at one and tho samo time pest.houses and torture- chambers, where, by nernelty exceeding that of tha rack and the thumbserow, human bo- ings had their bodics broken, their blood poitoned, their minds destroyod, and then, woro merciful than all else, their lives taken, Al Bex Hinx has not had au opportunity since ho loft the Confederate Senate to vent his oratory upon the Yankeo usurpations until o month ago he found himself in the Iouse of Lteprosentatives surrounded with old associotes in the Confedorscy. Each morning s he entered the hall he mot the same doorkeeper who for years kept the door of tho Confederate Congress. No wonder tho mon lost his hend, sud for the time dreamed that e was among the Confederates wlo once ko heartily greeted his denuncintion of tho Republican North. No'wonder that Lo uired hisvocabulary vindieating thut policy of the Confederato Government of which he wns a member, of treating every man who ventured upon sacred Southern soil ny a vio- lstor of tho rights of sovereign States, und his mission to free the wluves us o deliberato blow at tho very heart of Christinn civiliza tion, To trent theso mon as human beings was considered at the time by Mr, Hiry as asking too juuch, and in his speoch on the Amnesty bill ho showed ho had not changed Lis views. Becession was, according to the Richmond theory, a right inherent in every sovereign power. The right (o hold follow-men s property and to breed them for sale in the murket was divinely given. Ilenco the armed wmen invading the secedod Hlates was of the samo churacter as a pirato onthe high tens,— au outlaw by tho Jaws of mankind. Add to this the terrible liorewy that the men who bad been boru slaves weoro henceforth to bo ns froo as their maaters, and that this out- rage upon divive law was to be perpetrated by Unlon troops, directed by a Republican Administration, and the wmeasnre of Coufed- erate suffering was filled to its utmost capaci- ty, What was the suffering of 30,000 bLrave nnd gullant men behind the stockades at An. dersonyille to that of the Southern gentle. man who was to bo deprived of bLis fifty human slaves, partly iuherited aud partly ncynired by marriage, and which wero to coustitute the wmarriage portions of his Qaugbters! Whut were tho #lth and deadly poisous of Libby when cowpared with Whent was tnore | THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1876. the prebahility of Southern gentlemon boing compelled to Inbor! My, Hirr, when he nddressed tho House vindieating tha Cone federate policy at Andersonville, but ex- pressed s gense of tho great outrnge of the ninctectith century, the abolition of human slavery and the overthrow of the doctrine of secession | : Tho exhibition by Mr. Mt was such ns might be naturally expected of him, but not moro so than the nnanimity with which the Demoerntfe party nccepted nnd applouded the speech which so fitly expressed their own sentiments, Mr, Ifiy was thelr champion. 1Mo did at Richmond and sgain ot Washing. ton nomore than express tho snmoe senti- ments they expressed during the War, 1t has been o long timo sinco slavery and gecession lnd a champion in the louse backed by o majority of the body, and Mr. 1f1ut's speech was not only a raro trent to tho Democracy, but they took paiua to show how thoroughly they enjoyed it THE CABINET AND CONGRESS3. One of tho fimt papurs rend at tho recont session of tho American Socinl Science As- sociation was by Mr. Gamavien Bravroap, aud wag devoted to the advocacy of that geotleman's favorito schemo,—giving the Seeretary of the Treasury a soaton the floor of Congress, with the privilege of participat- ing in debates, but without the power of voting. Jr. Brapronp traces tho financial doings of the Forty-fourth Congress so far and finds that they hove Leen singularly con. fuscd and contradictory. In tho Sonate, thero lins been o dobate which Lns ilustrated the mechanical privciple that equal forces applied in differeut directions result in no progress at all. In the Houwso, tho Cummittce on Banking aod Currency hns secured one slica of tho subject of resmmption and the Cowmittes on Ways ond Means another. This, says the writer, i very much ns if, ina case of dangorous illness, tho control of onehalf of tho pationt's Lody should be given 1o one plysician and that of the other Lalf to another.” 'l'o get back to specic-payments wo must have o sin- le, comprebsensive, sensible plan, not a com- prowise cooked up in caucws, uot o conglom- cration of sowmebody's confused notions of what somebady else says iu some book. As matters are at present, every “‘statesmnnn” considers himself bound to introdueo two or threo bills for specie-payments st each session of Congress. On this point Con. gress is composed of CavLyieins, The bills are legion. ‘'Fhe mass of scribbled pages is dumpud on the tubles of ona or two Committees ; a little of it fu read; the lobby worky vigorously ; the nuthors bore the Com- 1mittee-men—each one of whom has a series of plans of his own, snd thereforo considers all others as sheer drivel—to the vergo of distraction, Finally, towards the end of the session, there are majority and minority re. ports, each of whick is & compromise, and therefore imperfeet. When these aro fair- 1y submitted, everybody who can get the floor 1moves to strike out everything after the en. pcting clauso in each and insert Lis poet bill, Tho majority report is amended, emnscu. lated, roversed, beheaded, has its tail ent off end its iniddle removed, and is generally ill- trented to an alarming extent, When, if uver, it is passed, engrossed, and signea, it resembles its original sclf about as wuch as Iav did Jacos, If thie changes were the result of argumentative debate they might be for tho better, but thoy aro really brought nbout with scarcely any debate that anybody listens to, and by means of bargains, trades, cayeuses, cowmbinations, and compromises without end. Tho idea of Mr. Bpavrorp is that the presence of the Sceretury of the Treasury ou the floor of the Houss would bring order ont of this confusion, Ne would presont to Coungress, at the beginning of the sesgion, u bill emovodyiug the financial measures which ko deemed nccessary to restoro prosperity to the country, The fact that he proposed it would jusure it respectful treatment by cresting a prosumption in its favor. 'Thoso who dissonted from it would be colled upon to show fust why sod where- fore. It would be dobated gravely, If it wera rojected, those who voted against it would beealled upon by publio opinion to propose something better. It may ba that this would all come to pass, bat why would a bill proposed and n speech mado by the Secrotary of the Lrousury in the House ba moro eflicacious thau a bill proposed and an argument made in his annual messngo to tho Xlouse ? OUR CORONER, If any ono of the readers of Tue Tnisune neglected to read the aununl roport of Cor- oner Dirrzscy, which wos printed in our Inat ixsue, wo recommend him to do so withont dolny, since it is not only tho best report ever mado by a Cook County Coroner, but hy any other official of the county. It is o model in its way,~n gem of the first water shining among the pasto of our official liter- nture, It is snch a report ns might bo ex- pected from a geninl pod vorsatilo gentleran, and its humor, satire, and learning, ny well ag its torve statement of facts and pertinent comments, will be all the more appreciated when we recito the cataloguo of his varjous nccomplishients, ¥irst of all, Coroner Dirrzscnt I8 & poet of no mean pretensions, whe cau sing the lay of a troubrdour or the martial struin of a soldier. e is an agreeable proso writer and an admirable fouilletonist. As a humorist he is very genial, and as a scholar learned without affectation, both in olnssical and modvrn lore, As a public speaker ho ia stir- rind and enthusinstio; s a politician ko s n courteous, high-minded gentleman. He has drawmatic nbility of o high order, and more than once hay delighted his German friends in comedy ond burleaque, As a mu. sicinn ke can Loth sing and play, and as a critie is remarkably discriminating, Ho un- derstands drugs as well ns Romeo's apothe- cary. o hos studied cookery as an art, and takes commondable pride in his Wiener schnitzel, beef a la mode, broiled snipe, and gatuds that wonld be ruined by s drop wore or less of condiment. He is n delicato and fustidions counoivseur in the wines that grow upon the Ifockheimer, Rudesholmer, aud other bergs, as well ay {n the spaskling vintages of tho Marne sud Eperuny,—the red wines of the French Chnteaux or the golden wines of tho German Schloenser, As a turn. or, he fs an athlete, In bhis personal contact with men he realizea the very essence of the untraoslatable German Gemuothlichkeit, To speak of bim in a ‘Teutonio sense, be iy o Johaun of all trades. It might bo expected that such a man would write 8 good report, and he has done it. As compared with the ruports of other county oflicinls, it is an onsis in the desert, a groen inle in the soa, & palm.tree iu a barren land. Whilo ko does not omit any pertinent fact or statistle, e bas filled it with so much Liard sense, pertinont comment, agrecuble hu- mar, and gentla irony, that it is very inter- esting in a literary sonso, nlthongh written in his adopted tongne. 1t is clegant ns well ns suggestive, ornnmontal as well a9 usefal. Quidquid tetigit ornatit, Witnews his briel moralizing upon suicides : Among forty-nine mals suicidos, only onn conld be found of whoin 1t was xchually damonetrated that it wes love—disaprotnt. &, Jilled love, Whin fmpled him to end bia miseratlo exiatence, Verily, the tinics of lero andl Leander, of Juuet and Zomco, bave Rgonie by § nnfortunate enthustaata who dfs for lovo's #ake havo bocomo A8 rara a8 cometa among the Ughte of the firmament, and whn they do appesr, alsal de- tilon {a what they meet with mors frequontly than sdmiration and pocticsl glorification, Hero is & bit of satire which Juvexan might have written : Of the fourtean peraona seeused of murdoe and hold for trial at tha Coroner's Jury, a feve aca cujoylog & Lriof but rather agreeabls sojourn at Joliol, but T aliould not be surprised to sco s Legialature, actuzled by what sccma to isve become tho accepted fntaryro tatlonof American pltlantropy fowards Monsiours ihe murderers, put promium upon the takioy of htiman liver, Just as we have premiumn for the kiiling of wolven or Iyuxcs, Tula sonld legitfmatize tha “aport " of murdering, the puninhuient of which scems (o Lave grown out of fasklon. And horo is something moro in tho style of the playful Honaer: In assuming this perplexing array of diffcrent pube He duties, ehortly sfier my election, I was greatly enconraged by the magniticent benevolencs Lostowed upun mo by the people of Cook Cuunty, for which I am truly thonkful, snd fu recognition of whicls 1 iava not apared any effocts ta taing my lelsure time or tha perfection of my tochnfeal knowledge of matters cone nected with the olfice, 80 that, sficr Lwving been tho Guron £ far two years, 1 sball probubly havo mastered all the intricacios of the ollice, and shall then bs fully qualified—to make roox for s succersor «b unucruaint- & with tho duties of tho oflice sa T was when clocted, - Wo would liko to make more extracts from this remarkable report, for it is o garden full of flowers that tempt oneto pick them,—cle. gont roses and lilies, ns well ps useful snge sud catnip,but it would be unjustiothe rendor, Wo lear much in theso lattor days of the scholar in politics, but hero is the scholar and gentleman in politics, aud those unfor{unnto people who propose, during tho comiug year, to shuflle off their mortal coils without wait- ing for untural dissolution, ny woll ns those for whom the fates aro preparing violont denths, con hisve the consolation of knowing that o genial gentleman nnd jolly good fullow will 8it upon them after they are gone. It is wlso cheering to know that corrupt jurymen, iguoraut physicians, stupid druggists, quacks, prelenders, and chiarlatans of all gorts have no sympathy from our Coroner, who is too good a druggist, chemist, and physicion him- welf, ns well a8 expounder of the law of ““Crowner's quest,” not to know when he is denling with o humbug. Our -pancgyrio would be incomplete did we not stlude to the fact that he is nn anomaly amoug Cook Coun- ty oficials,—an honost man. The Coroner is an oncient and hooorsble officer, In En. glond he hos been traced back ns for ns the charter of King Arnrrstan, 905 A, D., and in Scotland still further back, having origi- unlly come from Germany, nnd thence down to us, in which descont wo rocognizo n proof of the Darwinian theory in the survival of tho fittest. In tho midst of all the corruption nnd disgraco that hangs about the Sherifi’s offico, with its mob of bummers, loafers, and vagabonds, and in the midst of all the plun- doring and thieving practiced by the County 1ing, it is pleasant to look upon the cheery, honest face of aur Coroner, although ho is in tho ranks of our political oppoucnts. Long may he sit. e s e - THE 8MORE-NUISANCE. The most noticeablo and obvious difference between tho average American city and tho avorage European city is in tho mattor of cleanliness, Wo allow dirt to recumalato in our streets till tho rondway is balf liquid and the crossings sukle deep with mud, except wlien the frost has congealed tho accumulated filth or the summer wind dried it up, and we permit every owner of a steam-ongina to vomit ns much black coal smoke upen onr ‘beantiful and health-giving atmosphore a8 he cun crowd through his chimney every twonty- four bours, Among tho civilized nations of Europo neithor of these naisances Is tolerated, ‘Thero the streots aro swept not merely ovory dny, but aro kept clenti throughout the day Ly scction-men, who pounce upon any de- posit of Slth aud put it out of sight beforo it gots mashed into the interstices of tho pave- mont. And this yule prevails in the small villoges as well as the largo towns and cities, ‘The method of dealing with the smoke.nui. sance jsquiteas summary and offective. Every largo consumer of conl is roquired to use an npparatus for burning his own smoke, and it iy made the duty of the police eithor to arrest nny porson violating the smoke-ordinance or to report him to the nearest magistrate, who forthwith brings him up and fines him as for & misdemennor, A few years ago tho City of London was as sooty and smolky as tha crater of Mauna Loa, To-dny, by the ecnergetio nction of her au- thoritics, her atmosphiere has beon purified to the highest degree attainable by human skill, Ier clinato, especially in the winter, in mofat, cloudy, aud foggy, so that the sun is seldom scon belweon tho months of Novembor aud April, The diflienlties she has to contend againgt in dealing with the smoke-nuisance aro thus greatly nggravated, ‘They may be et down, in fact, ns five to one in comparison with thoso of Chicago, whore a clenr sky and brisk winds almost always prevail, Never- theless, the perseveranco of tho London au- thorities in dealing with smoke and soot bas been seuch that from April to October thero 8 no more discoloration of the atmosphero in any part of the city than is noticed in tho natural haze of our In- dian summer, During the winter months the air becomes somewhat infected with the prod- uct of the munerous chimneys employed for leating private houses. This cannot be avoided, but the nnisance is quite inconsid. erable as compared with the dense, blinding, aud choking volutnes that wore formerly thrawn out by mauufacturing establishments, and which mado o London fog as impenetra- blo to the vision as a stone wall, Wo havo alluded lo tho experience and practice of London in order to show how en- tirely practicable it Ia for tha City of Chicago to do away with her smoke.nuisance, which In incrensing from year to year, to tho great discomfort of her ocitizens aud the irrcparable defacement of her avebitectural elegance, The pall which hangs over the business por- tion of tho city grows moro sombre every yenr, the wisp of smoke that enters your oyes and mouths, oun every stroot corner grows more nauscous apace, tho falling soot that dee- orates our noscs snd leaves its trace on our linon becomes more and more disgusting ns each new loviathau of soft coal is added to our civic resources; aund yet mnothing is done, Marble frouts are blackened, costly goods are spoiled, valuuble books and papers are defuced, washing bills aro multiplied, and ovetybody mode uncomfortable, in order that & few persons nay not be put to the incon- venionce of attaching a smoke-cousumer to their evgioes, We presume thot wmost of those who aore indulging in the luzury of emptying their surplus soot on the heads and into the open doors and windows of their cheerfully comply with any regulation deaikned to abate or mitigate the nuisnnco, if it wero made universal and com- pulsory, Ench one, howaver, ia justified in adhering to Iia snurky practices if everybody olre dacs. One or two ora dozon moro or Tosa would mnko no difference in the obsour- ity of the atmosphere or the grimincss of tha publio thoroughfaros. Nothing losa than a city orlinance rigidly euforced will eure tha ovil. It is nol necessnry that the ordi- nanco shonld specify any particular devico for the consmunption of smoke, Thintcan bo nnfely left to the sinoke-producera themselves, But it i3 neceasary that somothing should ba done, if Chiengo i3 to continuo a decont city to live jn. INFERNAL MACHINES, The recont drendful disastor at Dremer. haven, cnused by the flend Trnoxassey, hing induced the London 7%mes to investigata the mavufncturo of infornal machines, as they sre techuically called, for he sinking of vossols, and the developments which it printa display o degreo of fiendish malics in human pature which it % almoat impossible to be. lieve. It finds that about three years sgo o machino very similar to that of TuoMagsen's was found on board n French steamer, con- sinting of a chest containing a poworfal cx- ploding compound and an exploding appara- tus, the principle of which was that of the ueodle gun, the needle being driven iuto o primed eartridge by clock-work, In the Tromassen machine, instead of the needie a hammer was used, which was intended to slriko the explosive materinl, ‘The Zimcs tnore than intimntes that TiroMAssEY construct- ed the firsb-unmed mnckine aud in tho secoud substituted the hammer for tha ncedle, from tha fact that the mechaaism of tho first be- came publicly known, The sccond mnchine described by tha Z'imes is tho *conl shell,” a hiollow brass casting, painted to resemblo n lump of conl, and filled with an explosive compound. Theso are intendod to be thrown amoug tho coal in the bunkers, and with it shoveled into the furnaces beneath the boil. ers, where thoy will explods and in all proba. bility causo the loss of tho vessel. It will be remembored that the Confederates, in our own War of the Rebellion, nttompted the use of conl shells, but without any serious re- sults, probably beonuse they were as bunglingly constrncted s the torpe- pedoes with which they so plenti- fully planted tho Mississippi River, ngainat which the entflsh and suckers rubbed their nosea contemptuonsly, Suy- Lock's nssertion that ¢“that thero bo land rata and waterrats” has o paralled in the * jron ship rat” and the ** wooden ship rat,” both of which ave viciously destructive. The iron ship rat consiats of a block of iron known as “Koutlodge," with a tubular boring tool con- taining an neid inserted in it. By tho notion of a lover worked by the motion of the vessol the tool cuts into the ship's plates, the action being promoted by the acid. The process, though very slow, workswith certainty, The wooden ship rat is so ingenious that we copy the description of it: 1t conslste of » box, in which are placed a pair of vertieal cylinders, one at cach end of tlis box, and spaced about 6 feot apart. In tho ceutre, between tho two, Ia & horlzontal cylinder haviug o plston worklng fntt, the rod passiog through = stufug-box, The outer ond of tho piston-rod works o ratchet drili or auger, the suger belng welghted, The two vertical cylinders are oach Lalf filed with wator and commnu. ieata with the horizontul cylinder by pipes, each bav- ing its own pipe leading to the end of tho horizontat eylinder nearest toit. Tho consequenca Is tist an tho elip rolla the wator slteruately quits and returns to tho varitcal cxiinders, and, acting frvt un ona side sud thien on the otber, communicatoa a reciprocating mo- tion o tho prston-rod. This motion 1a converted $nto & rotary motfou at tho welghted augeh, and fn dmo 4 Liole 1s borod through the planklug of tho ship, wilch gradually flls and way Lo lost befora the suat of tho fesk (s dlacovored, Such aro some of tho infernal dovices for dostroying vessuls with their precious freight ol human lifa for the snke of cbiaining in. surance, Tho degreo of devilish inlico which ean prompt o man to such a deed is inconceivable, and gow. tar to establish tho old theological doctrine of the total depravi- ty of human natare, It will not tend in the future to mako the traversing of the ocean a vory agrecabla prospect if wholesale assasei. nation is to be added to all the other porils of the ocean, cspecially if tho statoments of tho Loudon Spectator bo true, that there is o gang of these assassins engaged in hLoavily insuring goods on tho great lines of tho French and German packots, 't'he baro pos- sibility ot suck an event ought to attract tho immedinte attoution of all commercial na. tions, or it mny yot happen that commerce may be paralyzed by the impossibility of ob- taining crews, not to montion the decreaso of ; travel. The Congressional Library containg 2¢ 3. 607 volumes, and is Increasing at the ra¥ , of ubout 1,500 per month, During tho thir ;teey months ending Jan. 1, 1876, 16,297 copy. rights wero issued, The work of indo ging js going on slowly. 'The large and v ,lugble colloction of originnl French doour sonts in relation to tho Fronch discovery ¥ g gottle. ment of the Northwestis aboutt o bo pub. lished in six octave volumes ¢ ¢ (0o pages coch,—n rather useless expense, ’ jpannch ag F'raors PAREXMAN'S books conts’ ji g digest of tho whole, Thero is no room f or jnors books on tho ovor-orowded sholve g, and the Li- brarian, Blr. A, R. Brorrouv | gays that, un- loss moro space is provided, he will soon bo placed *““in tho unbappy pr glicament of pro. siding over the groatest cb pog in America.” Wo print a communic ation from an * In- dependent " votar on th o yubject of tho Am- uesty bill now ponding st Washington, 'The writer overlooksthemy iy point in tho presont controversy, Ordiuw 17y (hero would bo no opposition to an sct zrnting amnesty to all concerned in the Re 1 ¢llion, 'Thoe Republican party had nover ref 4504 it to any porson who hos aakod forit. 9 olnss of persons now under political /i gabilities is, numerically, n small oue. It I# I anited to those who, as miem- Lers of Cougree s, or officors of tho United States, membr ixr, of Stato Legialatures, or as exeoutive or j uctiolal officera of any State, had tuken au oaf i to support the Constitution of the United £1t stes before engaging in the Re- bellion, M« ;o participation in the Rebellion does not i pogy pny political disability 3 that is the resu' t of having violated an officlal oath of fidelllt s, Even the roquirement hitherto onforced {lnt the party shull ask to have the disabilit ¢ romoved might, as suggested by Gen. Gnawr, bo dispensed with, But in tl 45 case Nanvar’s bill grauting amnes ;{y was ostentatiously presented and urge 4 to remove Jery Davia’ disabilities, wit gout subjecting him to the morlifieation of gking the favor. Itis true, the bill in. ¢l ades everybody ; but it is notorious that the b [Il woa a9 much intended to be a speoial act ! umaving Davis' digabilities a8 if it nomed "k 41n and no other person. It was o form of " Democratio triumph, It was & Democratic mods of compelling the Republicans to make a special exomption of Jery Davis from the l request for pardon exacted of Srxruxys and e e ———— all tho othor parsons of the same olass who linve voluatarily sought politioal rehinbilitn- tion. The bill was not a moro amnesly monstre, It was n Dill granting politieal restora’im on spocial terms not herotoforo extonded to nny othor porson, and n bill, witllo it wna genornl, was intended to moke Davis' easo an exceptional one, Under theso. circumatances Mr. BraiNe wus right in insist.. ing that Jerr Davis, tho respousiblo author of the Andursonville atrocitics, shonld bo excepted Dy any specinl not of amnoaty. While we agree with our correspondent in. hin estimate of Domocratic stupidity in pro- posing this bill, wo insist that tho Repub- lienns were fully warranted in opposing and defenting the bill, QEN, GOBDON ORANQE—!L Tho tologranl, a day or two since, mentioned tho death at Bnuta Fo, New Moxico, of the gal- Isnt woldior, Gen, GonvoN GnaNaen. Ho way Vorn in New Yo:k City m 1823, and graduated frum tho Military Academy In 1815, At that time he jolucd the Hocond Infuntry, sud in July, 1816, was transforred to the Mounted Nullow, 1nn the Mexican War ho took partlu all tho principsl battles, sud carnod bis brovet sa Firet Lioutenant for gallantry at Chorubusco. Aftorwarda ho did garrison duty on the Westorn froutior nutid the Wer of tho Robellion brovie out. He wss made Capiain shorly aftor tue fall of Bumtor, and then was aes gned lo Alae CreLuax's stall. Upon lus trauefer to tho Waut ho pariicipa.od in the Missowd unitics, nud was wade Brovet Major for lus gallantry at \Wi,eon's Creok. In 18.4 ho took part 1u the miiitary oporations that led to the tall of Corintn, In the epring of 1804 bo had command of the Aty of Kemueky, which way subsequently merged in the Army of the Cumberisud, oftor which 10 had an amportent command in the battle of Chienmaugn, whero ho was instrumental in Luroluz tbe tida of battle lu favor of the Unlon ammy, 1o was promuted {0 the rank of Beevet Ligutennnt-Colone) for tis gorvicos in this bate tle, and ufterwsrds to Brovet Uolouol for his bravory at Mission Kidgo, The next yoar ho waa at Kow Otlenns under Gon, CaNny. Ho romain-’ ed i tho Utnou army untd tho ond of the War, aud in Morch, 1856, was made Drovot Major QGenaral for his sorvicea at Mobile. In January, 1808, bo was mustored ottt of tho voluntoer sor- vice, aud in July of that year was appointod Colonel of tho ‘I'wonty-fifth Infantry. Iu De- vember, 1870, ho was transforrod to the Fif- teanth, with which rogimont Le was at the timo of bls death, lo his doath ono of tho bost aod bravest ofticers in the army bas passod away, ——— 1t was enuounced somo timo ago that the Indy to whom Hexny WiLsoN was engaged sl tho time of lus death had written a momorinl sketeh of him. Tlue itaasince bacn pubdslied in the Atlania (Ga.) Sunny South, A writor in the lon ¢ Independent allogos, and shows by paraliel qr: o- tations, that ono-fourth of the proton: fod origibel matter of tho article 18 an almoat cer- batim tranecript from MAJAULAY'S c8asy on JonN flaxrpex. The memorial sketeh sbhown ! good deal of memory—rather too muel, in fa st—for tho reputation of tha " author.” PENBINAL, Oakey ITall liax rontod now offices 1 sud ia look- ing for now clients. Ho passosaway tho glory of the world, Paul Casnagoac {8 ruunlog for * dqpator fn the Vosgos Departmont, Ho will probably rus through vy candidato who dare 4 opposo lum. Dizraoll growa fat fast, Ho neops and wails, gives alms lrico in tho dn' ; driuks vinegar, atd woars corsety, but all bi g endoavors run to waste. Doon Pistt and Congr’ waman DBanning aro among tho hoirs of thelar 5 Tinotliy Kirby, of Cinclanati, whio bas loft 1 roporty valnod at bo- twaon $2,000,000 and $3. pop,000. . Longtollow's poem, ¢ 7Tue Hanging of tho Crape,” waa BuRgesiel’, by p visit, ten or a doze on years g0, 10 4L0 b oo of Air. aud Alrs. T I, Aldrich, who wote tt an pewly marriod. Mr. Dana (Blukf |, that, whon war is declared, residont Graut ' | gxarcive bis caastitutionat rights nod oppoin ¢ ap tie bead of cho army of tho United State , Gon. Phiip (L. Shsridap. The Ttev. M. ' ; Bayage proaclied s sormon fn Boatou tast Su. aday on the public rchools. Tho UOWAPBPOTE B Ly (¢ was full of comtnon-senso, It must Lave br ygn g pretey bad sermou, then. Sally Vor! ,, » Ksnuas girl, was marriod tho othor day —gonjugated in al) hor moods and teuses, ¥ 5o spank, Ve predicato tho husbaud will 8nd por nu uctive Vorb, bea: pardod wlon b fe 17 | the firut pordon singular, In ¢ pe of his mowmentd of onthualesm Mr, Mool ¢ gald, *'Telograph sbead and securo & T00W |, i neavon.' Is it possible thet bowron s BOW gtimed full, or ate certaiu rooms cousidered mo ro oligtblo thau otbors ? Miss Vieuns Domorest, tho deughtor of tho ! nmous modiste, bas abandoned all ides of con- tinulug her careor as & publio sluger. Tie qual- ity of her voice still unimpaired, though it scems to hiave lost all pawer, Mr. Gratiot Washburne baving beon appointod Becrotary of tho United States Logation at 8, Dotorsburg, has been succeodod in the post of Hecond Hecretary of the Amcrican Logation at Paris by Mr. Henry Vignaud, Mayor Lowis, of New Ilavon, while making his New Yoar's oalls, was shut In a door as to his cost-taita in such » manper that ho ceuld not reach tho bell-pull, and bed to remsin in that unpleasant predicament 1ill tho next caller ar- ived, Ays, Vau Cote, the famons revivalist, is aver- wholmed with kiuso4 frows or fomale frionds &t tho close of each sorvice. Bho begs them to dosist, but withiout avail; and ic is hocoming & sorioua quostion wWhether tha awiul cooso- quences of hor preaching aro,componsated by & fow brands plucked trom ¢he Lurmng. . A Baptist nowspapor in tte East is publisking asderial story entitled **Mabol Groy; a Lioudav Bhoteh,” The Jndependent, an anthouty in such mnttory, rogards tho title as unfortunate, joas. mueh as ¢ the only iabel Groy the world kaaws of was & noted Londou courtossn, for wham the celebratod * Mabol Waltzos’ woro writton by Dan Godirey,” Tha Independent pnaya thore s no truth o the roport, wtarted by Tue Tuinuxe, thet the oditor- ehip of tha fortmor paper was lately offered to Drof. Swing, Thoe atato aent came ditectly from Mr. Clarence Doweu himsulf, passing through but one mouth on ita way to this oflice, Bowen ngalnst Bowen ia good authority, A dopial fiom Prof, Bwing {8 1 ordor, Br, Lincoln used Lo tall fo lns inimitabls way s story of & Winchester convertod Coufederato, who was so overjoyud wt receiving his pardon that s oxclasimeds **Thaok you, Mr, President ! ‘Thavk vou! Now I'm pardoned, Is'puse I'm 88 good a Unlon man as any of you—cwphatically ouo of you again. Dut didn’t Btonewall Jackwon givo ua boll fu tha valloy 7" The Hartford Courant thinks Gen, Bovaton's discussion of Shorman’s * Maomuirs™ Is becomng almost as monotououd “a¥ thasin relation to college wepiet woclutiod or tho withdrawal of yalo from tho Rowlug Association,” There s an extrema of wonotouy and dullnoes which the discuselon Lae nhot reackied ; it is aa ya tivelior resding thun Chatles Dudloy Warner's lobtors from Prague to tho Courant, Tom Bcott s pushing bl plana for securing belp from Congreks, tho Now York Times thiuks, 2817 bo wore vute of hie game. Ho I8 maklog all morty of stsurancos to the Bauthern people as to the muuner in which the Texss Pacific ord wiil be operated when 1t {s completed. We shall have to perform an operstion ou Col. Seott with ao Investigating cowmittee, one of thoso dags. Wilkie Collina esys: ‘*No men ara 8o entirely beyoud the reach of women ss the men wlose Lives are passed i the cultivation of thelr own physical atrength.” Thera s muoh sonnd phie Tosophy in this obssrvation, A pair of clube and two G0-pound dumb.bells will aws slmont any waman into roapactfut silonce. Aund how much wisor [t la to maintaln ono's position in the, housohold by such means sa thoso than to offor Lrute violonce to the wife of one's bosom| Itis DLottor rar to rule by Jove than foar, TMOTEL ARRIVALS, ~ Bherman Houst—Col, B, B. Conleon, Plitahurg, P, 8, M, Hovey, Bostuy, hinss.s J, O, Haynes, New Lors the Hian, J. Kichardson, Bimirs, N, Y,; W, 8, Gonkley, itindelphin, Pa,: W. JI, Rinney, New York; Jame Ear's, Pltabirg, Bs.; Goorge 11, Wel Rutland, Vi iy For, mtro‘l':: Touort Nowton, Jeraeyville, b, ; Thomns Qauliy Ber] s 7 remont Howus Mih " —Tuo Hon, Clifford U, Smith, Naw York; OoL J. 0, Bimmnons, Davenport; the Hon, 3. ¥, Cume mings, Toston 3 D, Cliyton, Alton: ' 3. W, Trodell, Jry Cincionall: Qen, T N, ‘Haltimorat thse Hon, J. 1. Hagerman, Yliws anry Daten Buftalos '3, 1T, Van Horn, Jack . F, ock, Helens, Ark,: York; Osborn Watson, Virgina Micll . K. Builoy, Unit Forget, Montreal; Wilifa F, Goopor and wife, India mesto: K. O, Hungerford Walertown, N, ¥ Van Weoks, Germi apt, O, den. T, F. Winslow and_Judge'J, Russoll Parnane, Hoosac Fu 3t % Thoman L, Kimball, General Freigut Agent, and N, I, 1f, Clarx, General uerintendeut, Union Parifia Taflosd ; the Hion, Willlsm Barnum, Fraaidéat Mise auurl, Kanaas & Toxas Rallroad, D; od ay, Bsn POLITIOAL NOTES, Harper's Weekly distinacly says it would op pose Gon. Grant it bie snould be revominated. Tha iTon. Joun Hforrinaey Is & member of th, Committen on Ratronchment of the New York Seonte, Clicago proposes to ** [old the Fort," whethe both of the Natioual Neumivativg Conventiomy como hare or uot. No surrondor | Tho Indirnapolls Journal is deevly grieved becauso Mr, Blsino has Catholics in his family. Thore ts no causs for mournivg. It is » good thing, vohiticalty, to have il gorts of religlon in tho family. Tho Cincinnatl Enguirer tondmly dropped Mr, Blalvo's apoech on Joff Davis and Andorsonvilte into tho wasto-baaket, thus paying bim the high. o8t compliment a newspapor can offer to » po Iiteal oppoueat, Taines ia playing Parsdise and the Pord, alone snd npaseistod, at Springfield. If Acting-Gov, Gloun over crosses the big Chicago snd 8Bt Louls bridge, only for & day, Hsiues will clap on tho loulgoin of Siato and become **Acting-Gov, IHainen " for life, ‘The Govornor of Masescliusotts manifosted in bls annosl message a. cordislity of feeling towards the womau-sullrage cause which pro voliod the aduiration of the strong-minded, whiort-haired somen and the wesk-miuded, looge Inirod mon througbout the Blate. Tho Ropublican memoers of tho Kentnoky Loglelsture, itia sald, hold = cauons to doter. mine whether a complimentary vote for Becre= tary Bnstow in the Souatorial ballotiug would ‘aid bls Prosdential chances, They doclded I would not, aud voted for Goodloe, Thora is &ome dtaposition to chafe at the time that is being speut 1 the Benato ovar the ques~ tion of tho presiding oficor’s status ; but » preo- odent cannot bo cstablislied in 8 matter of such sital {mpotiance any too scon, The dosth of President Graut might nvolve the Goverumont in vorious comolicatious if there woto no one rendy to tako the vacant place. The Dumocratio mombers of the Louisisan Loglslataro who bLave electod Eustis to the United Htates denate bave been gullty of no inconaistenoy, as tho newspaper corresponilents goem to imagine, It Is truo that Qov. McEuvery had nppointed Marr to the vscancy caused by MeMillan'a resigoation, but an apoointment of this pature could not hold good baeyoud the mosting of the Legisleture. William D, Kelley—8weat William—has beea invited by many promlnont men ot Philadelphia toepenk on tha curraucy quastion i thatclty pext Haturday night. IIe bas acceptod, of courso. Thoro may bo s bond of sympathy be- twoon the bigh-tariff, Texas-Pacifio, Centennial. oppropriution ntorcat sud the blind, infatussed party of thio name of Kelley, which advocates a dogrocint.d currenoy for ita own aake, Qon. Tom Ewlug thinks the Oblv Demccrats slould make somo concesslons to the Eastern wing of tha parts, and bo wouldn'y object to & platform which should take » bold stand i favos of tho nbolition of the Natiousl Dauke, o sub~ stitution of gioenbacks for National Bank notes, snd the repesl of tho Resumption nct, This s concession with & vengoance. It allows the Eaezero Democracy to play horae, while tha Onle Demociata play driver. Tho Indinnapolis Journal sava: ** Mr. Hod man does not dealra tho Democratic nomination for Governor, snd will culy take it 12 pressed oa biw {n o way ho canootdecline, He would prefes for thio present to romnin in Congress and take the chauces of fatare political promotion. It i aluo whispored in Domocratio cirales of this city that, if the Independenta nominste Landers, 24 itls now talked of, the Democrats will alio uominate bit. Leanders loome . Garflald didu’t rieo to tho fall helght of his great wrgonmeut, His speoch wan Loueat and wound, but, if the pross-report does It justics, - it was not eloquent. o virtually deolared him- solf a Blalne man by his eager participation n tha gamo of * follow-my-leader,” which began with the Juff Davis spesctt. It iy now conforned on a1l banda that Diaine has made the politioad ten-striko of the neason, Whatover may be thiouglt of the moral forca of his movemente, Mr, Beck's resson for aapiring to » sest In the Unitod Btatos Souato was oot simple ambition. Ho wan tolerably satiufled with his seat in the Housw,und wouldbavekoptit aslong ss heconldin bouor doro. But hie agreed, Lefore tho election of tho Forty-third Cougress, o retiro at the noxt electton in favor of Joaoph O. 8. Blackburn, and ho punctually kopt hia word, Mr. Beck thus found himself out of omployment, and wurned Lis sitontion to the Senstorlal olection as the bent opportunity he had of re-enteriug publio- Iife. Tlyg rensons for roliramant from tho Seastorisl canves which Mr. Harlau bopes *to be able to malte satisfactory " to hls friends, will be looked for with some interest. Perhapa they will never bo mado publie. We should Liketo know, as im- purtial apectators of the voufhet, whether Mr.! Hsrlan over bad'any chanca of winniog, aad how important » part his allogod convection with the Union Peciflo Reilsoad played in tha assauih of arms, . Kirkwood is & good man, and will hon-; orsbly ropreseat hils State in tue Benats, He avowedly scceptod the nomiaation for Governor with tho inteution of seeking au clectlon to the Souato ; and the people, by electing him to the tirst oftice, in some measure fudorsed his claim to the second. Cov. lilden srgued in his sonual messsge thot the gioat waste of oapitsl turough ex- ceatlve Goverumont expenditures was the chief cauge of tha prasout buawesa depression, The Now York Sun culuks the poiut ls admirably takeu. The Governor gives Ggures to ahow that tho Federal taxes por capita were 811.67 (enrrency) in 1870, as cumpared with $LS1 (gold) in 1880, and §1.72 (gold) in 1850, The (tovernor has beon somewbat famous in the past for ignonng tho Wsr, sud it is not surpriving that, in such an srgumeat, he fuds it ooo~ venient to persistin his old-time poliov. Ifhs and atl athor lukowarm Uufon men In the Noith hed assisted in putsing down the Rebellion the taxea might be lois por capita then they now are. EQYPT'S CENTENNIAL CONTRIBUTIONS. New Yonx, Jan, 13.—Egypt's cootributions be the Centennial Lxposition have arrived. Nearly the whole of the Egyptian exhibit ia the property of the Khiedive, Many of the cutious and coatly artiolos, euch as weapooa aud orusments frooe tho barbarous tribes inhabiting the remote regions of Cental Africs, jewels, :nlald work im ivory, precions metaly; and rch embrolderias In gold and sllver thread, produced by Arabisa. artisaus of Cairo, are taken from the Natlood Musoun; while the best specimens of sgrd cultural produots from the estates of s Khedive, : o N