Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1876—~SIXTEEN PAGES. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (PATABLE IN ADVANCE)} Postage Prepaid at this Office. Dally Edition, postpaid. 1year.. . 8$13.00 - 15 of ycarat seme rate. Matied ¢ K Bunday Editio 100 dress FOTR WEEKS ¢ Literasy and Religio QOne 1.5 Clubol Beeeper cop 81 Club of tweiky, per its o portage s 15 conts s sear, which we will prepay. Bpocimen coples sent free. To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Yot~ ‘Office address in foll, including State and County. Remittances may be made eitfer by drat, express, Post-Office order, or in registered letters, at our risk. TERNS O CITY STRSCRIBERS. Dalls, deliverod, Sunday excepted, 25 cents ver week, Daitly, delivered, Sunday incladed, 30 cents r week. dircas THE TRIBUNE COMBANY, ‘Corner Madison xad Dearborn. ENTS, s TO-DAY. P McCORMICE HALL—North Clsrk strect, corner of Einzie. Readings at3 p. m. by A, P, Burbank. NEW CEICAGO THEATRE—Clark street, between Randolph and Lake, * Parlor and Kloster.” TO-MOEZOW. ‘KEW CHEICAGO THEATRE—Clark street, between ‘Bandolph and Lake, Hooley's Minstrels, ADELPFHI THEATRE—Morros street, corner Dear- barn. Variety entertainment. HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph street, between Clark and LaSalle. Engagement of Salsbury’s Trou- ‘badours. “ Patchwork.” MOVICEER'S THEATRE—Madison lLr&t, ‘between Dearborn and State, * Merchant of Venice." SOCIETY MEETINGS. OBIENTAL CONSISTORY, S.-.P.". R S..82°, A, & A & 8. B.—Special Ascembly on Thursday evening, Biay 4, at Coneistorial Hall, 72 Monroe-st.” Work on Grand Elect Kt, Eadoeh, 309, by Second Lieut.Comd's John O'Neill, 52°. Resident members requested to 3 in uniform promptly at7:30 p. m. By order Ha W. Burnard, 339, JIL Coma'r-in-Chief. JAMES A, T. BIRD, 329, Gr. Sec'y. CHICAGO LODGE, No. 437, A. F.and A, AL—Stated ‘Tommunication Mondsy, May 1, 8 p. m., at Oriental rtance. Members are re- uested to be t. NATHAN HEFTER, Y present Secretary. ATTENTION, SIR ENIGHTS I—Stated Conclave of icago Commanders, No. 19, K. T., Monday evening, Tor buatness of importance. ‘A full attendan ce 18 de- aired. By arder of the E. C, CHAS. J. TROWBRIDGE, Recorder. APOLLO COMMANDERY, E. T.—Stated Assembly in conclave Tuesday evening, May 2, at & o'clock, for business and conferring the order of K. T. All 8ir Enights are tovited. LAFAYETTE CEAPTER, No.2, R.A.M., Hall 72 Monros-st.—Special _Convocation ' Monday evening, May 1, at 8 o'clock, for work. By order of the H. Pl E. N. TUCKER, Sec'. The Ghicane Tribune, Bunday Mornng, April 30, 1878. WITH SUPPLEMENT. At the New York Gold Exchange on Satur- day greenbacks were steady at 833. At the meeting of the Republican Cen- tral Committee yesterday it was decided to hold the Convention for the purpose of electing delegates to the State Convention on the 20th of May. The primaries are to be held on the 18th. A Washirigton dispatch, referring to the re- port of Examiner WaTsox on the condition of the suspended City National Bank of Chi- Gago, says it seems certain that the depositors will be paid in full, and that the asgets are in such a condition that the only question is how much the stockholders shall lose. If the assets are properly mansged it is believed that the stockholders will meet with very little if any loss. Those who have examined the state- ment sy that the assets ought to pay the depositors dollar for dollar. No arrangement, has yet been made for the appointment of & Receiver. ——— The London Saturday Review has started a project for a novel society to be organized for the purpose of stocking wuninhabited islands with pigs and rabbits, 5o that ship- wrecked sailors who happen to reach them may find an abundance of food awaiting them. It also suggests that huts shounld be ‘built and bailers deposited on them, just as similar conveniences are placed in the high Alps. The suggestion is a very humane and practical one, considering the numerous exigencies which ere constantly ariging in cases of shipwreck, and the actusl cases of starvetion that have occurred during the past year. A dispatch in the New York Tribune from ‘Washington gives some well-anthenticated details of a story which goes to show that ‘Wrzxes Boore made an attempt to take the life of President LrvcoLy at the time of his second inauguration, and that a member of the Capitol Police, Mr. J. W. WesrraLL, of New York, saved his life. When WesTPALL stopped Boorm on his way to the platform, he was not aware who he was, nor was it Xnown until some time afterwards; but, when the facts came out, WesTraLyL was promoted to be a Lieutenant of the Capitol Police force as s mark of appreciation of his vices. He held his position until the mee! of the present Congress, when, of course, he ‘was removed, as every other man has been ‘who has shown himself patriotic, honest, and efficient. ‘The Centennial Coraruissioners, after hav- ing considered the question in all its bear- ings, and being unwilling to offend the re- ligious sentiment of Philadelphia, have de- cided to close the Exposition grounds on Sundeys. This is in accordance with the views of thousands of staid Quakers of the city and State ; tbut the arrangement * runs across the hawse,” so to speak, of the many foréign exhibitors, who had laid their plans to play tho part of spectators themselves en that day of the week, and who are very indignant at the action of the Commission. A-nother Committee, to whom was referred the question in regard to the sale of liquorson the grounds, has reported'in favor of allowing the same ; but the Commis- sion is not satistied with the report, and has instructed the Clommittee to give the subject further attenticn. The contest between the lovers of the cup that exhilarates and the anti-dram men is said to be a fierce one, and the result un i The Chicage produce markets were less unsettled Satordsy. Mess pork was quiet and 25@30c per brl lower, closing at §20.77} for May and $21.0% for June. Lard was active and declined 17}@20c per 100 lbs, closing at $12.70 cash and $12.85 for June. Measts wers quiet and firm, closing st 7§c for boxed shounlders, 11ic for do short ribs, and 11jc for do short clears. Highwines were quiet and unchanged, at $1.07 per gallon. Flour was quiet and steady. Wheat was act- ive and 3@3c higher, closing at 98}c for Msy and $1.00} for June. Corn was less active and closed 1c lower, at45§c for May and 46}c for July. Osts were active and @ #c lower, closing at 303@30ic for May snd 80j@31c for Jpns. Rye was slow and easier, at 63@63ic. Barley was in good demand 1 and 1c higher, closing at 60c for May and 563@57c for June. Hogs were in good de- msand and were firm at Friday’s guotations, poor to prime selling at $7.25@7.90. Cattle were fairly active and steady, at £3.50@4.75 for common to prime. The sheep market was lifeless, the offerings being confined to a single car-load—quoted at $4.00@6.25. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.75 in greenbacks at the close. — TLovely Woman bas come to grief again at the hends of the Tyrant Man, this time in England. The motion which is introduced every year in the House of Commons in favor of Woman-Suffrage has just been defeated Dby a vote of 239 to 152. It was supported by the advanced Liberals, under the lead of Jacon Bricar, Hexey Fawcerr, and others. Joms BricrT strenuonsly opposed it, show- ing that the Liberals were not united in the matter. It isnot impossible, however, that by constantly pegging away at it the suffragists may get the ballot 1n time to cast it once or twice before the millennium setsin, when it will no longer be needed. ABOUT NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. It is not our habit to meke a parade of the business or circulation of TeEe TRIBUNE, or to assail that of our contemporaries. The pub- lishers are satisfied with the measure of pa- tronage which Tz TRBUNE enjoys. It has been the great advertising medium of this city for many years, because it is the business- men’s newspaper. It is taken and read by all classes of people who have any property or thing to sell, lease, or loan, or any money with which to make purchases or investments, or any useful services to hire or engage. It is patronized by all those who are in trade and commerce, banking, insurance, naviga- tion, common-carrying, producing and dis- tributing wealth, and consequently it has a very large circle of readers, belonging to the most intelligent, enterprising, and respectable classes of thé community. . One of TaE TRISUNE's envious rivals pub- lished yesterdsy & page of bosh, purporting to give the respective circulations of the two papers. It takes its own Saturdsy issue, which is double that of any other day, on sccount of the Poliwce Gazette and Day's Doings character of that issue, and compares the same with a fragment of Tae TRIBUNE'S circulation. In hundreds of the places named there are more copies of THE TRIBUNE mailed direct to subscribers than our envions contemporary reports as sold by newsmen. Thaus 2 copies are set down as sent to New York City, whereas upwards of 80 are taken by merchants and dealers in that city; 1 copy is credited to Buffalo, but more than 20 are mailed there. Forty are sent to Boston, but none is credited on that bogus list. There are 25 more TrreoNEs ssnt to St. Louis and 22 more to Cincinnati‘than stated by it. ‘Whatever may be the Saturday country circulation of that concern, it is very far in- ferior to that of Tme Cmicaco TRIBUNE in this city and county; and among the busi- ness classes in the country the same thingis true, as a rule. The Business Manager of TEe TRIDUNE has drawn off a statement of the circulation of Tae Trsuye during the past week, which shows that the whole number of Dawy TriB- uxes issued and sold for the week ending April 29, 1876, was 219,317, which is s daily average of 31,331 copies. The Sunday edi- tion, of course, is the largest. The growth of Tax Trrsue is steady, and its patronage permanent and first-class. oY OPENING OF NAVIGATION, ARD RATES OF FREIGHS. The Straits of Mackinac are open, and the fact marks two events: the departure from Chicago of an immense fleet of vessels loaded- with grain, and the starting of a fleet of other vessels from the Lower Lakes with mer- chandise for Chicago; and the no lessim- portant one of & decline in railroad freights to the ocean. The fleet began to leave Chicago on Friday, and will be all under way in a few days. Many of the vessels have been londed for several weeks, This fleet carries 550,000 bushels of wheat, 1,500,000 bushels of corn, 200,000 bushels of oats, and 30,000 bushels ofrye; or 2,380,000 bushels of grain. Within the last two or three days, over 1,200 cars have been engaged to move grain from Chicago, at the rate of 12 cents per ‘bushel, or 20 cents per hundred pounds. The contracts include the transportation of 400,000 bushels of corn, 150,000 bushels of wheat, and 100,000 bushels of oats. This is only for through freights, the grain to be de- livered at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston; if any js destined for New York, we have not heard of it. The shipments by lake, though chartered ‘before the opening of lake navigation, have ‘been ot very low rates, and now stand at 20 cents per 100 pounds by water to Buffalo and thence by rail to New York. This rate will not be reduced by canal rates, the rail- roads of New York running in closs compe- tition with the canals. The all-rail rates to Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston are re- garded as much cheaper than the charges to New York, because of the harbor charges and other extortions which are demanded at that place, and are not exacted elsewhere. But this is not the only danger which threatens the grain trade of New York. The Canadians are rapidly at work on their canals, and, as early 28 1878, promise to furnish the 1ake trade with continuous water navigation for vessels requiring 14 feet of water, from Lake Michigan to Montreal. This will give uninterrupted water travel to the largest vessels.-that can enter our lake harbors. ‘When vessels leaving Chicago can proceed without delay direct to Montreal, and there discharge their cargoes into an ocean steamer, and at once receive a return cargo of mer- chandise for this city, it is no improbable that grain will be delivered between these points at 8 to 10 cents per 100 pounds. This will completely cut off the grain trade or New York during the season of lake navi- gation. Bat the winter #rade is also in as great periL. The New York railroads last winter entered into a combination against Chi- cago. They sought to punish us by fixing such rates as they thonght would break up the grain trade of this city. The rates were 8o arranged as to offer s large profit to ship- pers outside of Chieago to send grain direct to the East without coming here. In this way 8 large amount of grain was kept ou:. of Chicago, and, to accomplish this punish- ment of this aty, there was established the pooling of freight receipts with roads that were much shorter and could afford to do the business cheaper. 'The game was a bold one, but at the same time it was costly. TheNew York roads did not profit by the operation. They made no money, and drove the grain trade elsewhere. New York ought to under- stand that it must depend for its grain trade upon Chicago and Milwaukee. Any diversion of grain from these points must be a diver- sion to the shorter and mare southara zontes, with their termini at Philadelphia sr& Balt - more. The late combination, while it divert- ed grain from Chicago, diverted it also from New York, and, so far as the latter city is concerned, the diversion promises to be per- ‘manent. 1t will not do to hug the delusion that the low rates of all-reil transportation can only exist during the season of lake navigation. The Grand Trunk Railroad must, in the neces- sity of things, have its terminus in Chieago. It is now as remote from the great volums of business of the Weat, as if it had no connec- tion this side of Montreal. There are twenty- five and more railroads entering Chicago from the west and southwest, bearing the products of the great States and Territories they traverse. The Grand Trunk Railway has no direct connection with this trade, and cannot have until it can run its trains from Chicago ond Milwaunkes, and thus fornish these cities with a winter route independent of combinations with the bankrupt roads of our Eastern States. When the Grand Trunk Road is thus completed to the west side of Lake Michigan, then the Great West will have the great water route from April to No- vember, and the all-rail routes to Philadel- phis, Baltimore, Boston, and sl New En- gland, without touching New York, or being subjected to the exactions and extortions ‘heretofore so persistently practiced. The * punishment ” inflicted upon Chicago at such enormous loss to New York, and to its railroads, has hardly been felt here in a pecuniary sense, and its repetition is not likely to occur. The business at this point promises to be greater this year than ever "before, zed the very means employed to bresk up the grain trade of this city will have the effect of providing protection sagainst the possibility of such a proceeding again. Unless New York can provide some new water route of enlarged capacity, with deep water, shortening the time of passage, if not the distance, from Bufialo or Oswego to the Hudson, and make that route free, it may consider the Western trade lost, and may place the responsibility therefor upon the insane policy of its railroads, and its own indifference to extortions and monopo- lies. . THE FIBRST OF MAY, It is rather fortunate that this, a day of rest, comes just before the bustle and tur- moil of the First of May, that men and women may repose their souls in quietness, —some to return thanks that their Lares and Penates are to remain where they have been domiciled for the yepr past, others to prepare themselves for putting off the old and taking on thenew quarters. There has always been acertain excitation sbout the First of May which, varying according to individual cir- cumstances and climatic influences, stirs up the emotions. Itis a moving time of year. It is hard for city-folk to enter enthusiastic- ally into the rustic enjoyments of the season, which are for the most part tradi- tional in a crowded community and a winter climate. The only suggestion of the May- polo is the rod which the ruthless auctioneer plants at an angle of 45 degrees, with asoiled red streamer at the end of it. The only dance is that of the hilarious carman on the top of your piano or favorite sideboard, in anticipation of the shekels he expects to extract from you for the annual privilege of breaking your furniture. The only Queen of the May is she who traces her ancestry back to the days cf Briax Boru. With soap-suds ready mixed and a scrub-brush at the side of her bed, shé will lie down to-night to sweet visions of Sapolio and broken window-panes, gently murmuring: You must wake and call mo eaxly, call mo early, mother dear; To-morrow "Il bo the happiest time of all the glad new eary of ithe glad new year, mother, the maddest, mer- riest day, For 'm to be Queen o' the Aay, mother, I'm to b Queen o’ the May, In point of fact, May-day in the city hasa good many advantages over May-doy in the country. Though the clouds do not shed as ruany May flowers when Jupiter smiles on Juno, the city people have the best of it when there happens to be, as there usually is, a fall of raininstead of ashower of posies. Thereis something in a rain-storm entirely in keep- ing with the humor of the moving masses, especially if it rains cats and dogs. In fact, most people s0 confidently anticipate a rain- storm that they are disappointed if it doesn't come. They will probably nof be disap- pointed, but rather take a grim satisfaction s they watch the muddy boots of the ex- pressmen Jeave their. marks on the newly- scoured floors, and as they contemplate their bedraggled carpets and limp curtains de- posited in a huge and ungainly mass. There will be 8 rare opportunity for practicing in forcible English, and those who have favorite oaths mny prepare to swear them now. Some consolation may be found, nevertheless, in the reflection that even this celebration of the First of May is preferable to dawdling on the wet grass and taking cold in thin shoes and white muslins under the delusion that spring-time has come. y The people who move may still find ad- vantages over those who do not. To begin with,. they usually do not own houses, and have no taxes ‘to pay. They enjoy all the advantages which tepants have over land- lords. They are not especially troubled when the children whittle at the stair-bannisters or display their early artistic talent on the white walls, They escape the trials of an account for repairs, and can bully the landlords to their hearts’ content. It is just possible, if they are experienced tenants, that they can .avoid the payment of the last month’s rent in the house they have abandoned, and can get an‘allowance of the first month's rent in the new houss for.putting it in order. There is a certain pleasure in the exercise 6f that al- most superhuman ingenuity which is required to make old carpets fit a new houss of an en- tirely different size, and to evolve order out of the chaotic condition ‘which the ruthless smasher of furniture leaves when he de- mands his money. There is also an admira- ble opportunity for the exercise of the Christianly virtue of patience in dealing with the plumbers and gas-fitters. In addition to all this, an excellent excuse is furnished to the pater-familias to stay down-town to din- ner, in order that he may not inflict unneces- sary work upon the mater-familias, and this in turn gives the mater-familias the welcome occasion for giving the pater-familias the usual curtain-lecture. The people who do not move generally en- joy this merry month of May by cleaning house. Then they wish they had moved, and left the annual accumulation for their suc- cessor to dispose of. If there is a more cheer- ful way of celebrating than moving, it is by !wnse-cleming. That degree of discomfort is reached which makes it simply exquisite and ecstatic. A mental and moral condition is superinduced which renders all other sea- sons of the year tame by comparison. Not even the enlargament of the head consequent upon an industrious series of New Year's calls, or resniting from the most assiduously patriotic celebration of & Centennial Fourth of July, affords quite so much excuse for the delirious indulgence of & domestic jar. The First of May is mot awarded its full dignity smong the dsys that date the beginning of new eras. Other days relate to arbitrary divisions of time, or cele- brate historic events, or signalizo the cheap virtue of patriotism ; but the First of May denotes the new domestic yesr, the fiscal year of the household. It isthe time of year when gallant old bucks don their spring suits, blossom out in new kids, encase their throats in stunning collars, and exhibit them- selves on the fashionable promenades. It is the date for burnishing upold things, getting rid of the rubbish, and discounting future incomes for the gratification of display. Confiding landlords and trusting tailors suffer more or less, bat it is under the fond illusion that they are doing a spanking trade. The excitements of the season are essentially in- vigorating, and the quiet and peacefulness of to-day will enable those who propose to par- take of them to prepare themselves to accept the blessings of the First of May with be- coming moderation. —e— MR. BTOREY'S GRAND JURY. The late Grand Jury, which gave up the ghost yesterday, seems to have been a family divided against itself. Mr. Wmsue F. Srorey led the majority faction, and signs his name as foreman to the majority report. In the course of that report he refers significant- Iy to the circumstance that the parties who were being investigated and the witnesses ex- pected to testify were informed from day to day of the proceedings of the Grand Jury. Per contra, two of the jurors, in a minority report, say to the Court that there was evi- dence that their foreman (none other than Mr. Storey) had been engaged in an attempt to bribe Aldermen in 1869, and, while the case is debarred from presentment by the statute of limitations, they regard it as highly reprehensible, . It may be concluded from Mr. Stonevr’s lengthy and learned roport that, if he had not been embarrassed by a couple of recalci- trant jurors, he would not have failed to in- dict the County Board and the town bum- mers who attempted to seize office by stuff- ing ballots. But we may infer from the minority report that, if two of the Grand Jurors had not been embarrassed by Mr. Storex’s presence and the statute of limita- tions, they would have indicted their own foreman. But as Mr. Storer, with twenty other *good men and true,” was arrayed sgainst the small minority, and the minority of two were arrayed against Mr. SToREY, the public welfare falls between two stools, and no indictments are reported sagainst the county rascals who take bribes, nor against the foreman who was said to offer them. There is little doubt that there is a great deal of truth concealed in the copious flow of elegant diction which distinguishes the ma- jority report. The substance of it is that, while the Grand Jury have not been able to get sufficient evidence on which to found indictments, there is enough to create a moral certainty of systematic corruption. There are three instances cited. One is the letting of the contract for the Court-House fqunda- tions to a man, not an expert in this work, at a price exceeding another bid by $20,000. Another is 8 contract for additions to the County Hospital, which was let in bulkto a man named SExToN at a price many thousand dollars in advance of other responsible bids, who subsequently sub-let a portion of the work at a figure for which the sub-contractor bad offered to do it for the county. A third was in the contract for light- ning-rods on the County Hospital; the higher bid was accepted, though there was no choice as to the responsi- bility of the bidders. The inference of the Grand Jury is entirely warranted that the Board is subject to corrupt influences, and it is a pity that dissension in the Jury itself de- feated the purpose of indicting the corrup- tionists. The report singles out one Joserm Hocax and C. F. PEntoraT as controlling the only doors that open to the County Board, and as forcing every man who passes them to pay a heavy admission. Of Pxr1oraT him- self the report says that he 18 ‘“a persistent blackmailer of a most persistent type,” and that the Board, if honest, would rid itself of his guardianship. We fear that he can only be put down in the one way which the Grand Jury have failed to provide, viz.: by his in- dictment, We shall hope for s salutary moral effect from this report, which we print else- where in full, and which sets forth some interesting and significant ex- tracts from the testimony taken. These extracts fully warrant the conclusions which the Grand Jury have reached. Yet the Jury are at a loss to recommend any for- ther procedure than the continued investi- gation of the official scoundrels by the next Grand Jury, which meets to-morrow. OUR HOUSEKEEPERY’ DEPARTMENT. The column or columns of Tae TRIBUNE which we devote weekly to the science of housekeeping, with special reference to its culinary department, are attracting attention far and near, as is evidenced by the commu- nications which pour in upon us from every part of the United States, laden with the ex- perience of expert housekeepers, not only in the general management of households, but slsoin the manufacture of fabrics of orna- ment and use and the preparation of dishes for the table. The bearing of these commu- nications upon the culinary question—which, after all, is the most important subject in the domestic economy, since 8 badly-cooked dish produces a disarranged stomach, and a disar- ranged stomach unfits a man for his duty— is very intimate. They are virtually the re- sult of a conference among experts with re- gard not only to the preparation of fancy but also of standard dishes, and they have already reformed the dinner-tables in numerous households. The advantages of such an intercourse among experts, and a friendly comparison of views and experiences, are too apparent to need specifying; but one result is of great importance, name- 1y, that these recipes from actual housekeep- ers, skilled in home cookery, are infinitely better than the recipes of professional cooks in hotels and restaurants, because, however good they may be, they involve an expense which is beyond the possibilities of people of ordinary means, and they are not usually de- vised in the interests of economy and the using over of materials. In this respect the American people are far behind even the French with their generally expensive cook- ery. One of the highest triumphs of the art of the cuisineis to place the same material two or three times upon the table, always having it palatable, *suffering a sea change into something rich and strange,” and yet place it upon the table in such & manner that the eat- er shall never suspect having seen it before. In this art we, &8 a people, are sadly defi. ! cient. The United States in this Centonnial year, whatever progress it may have made in other directions, has no reason to be proud of the condition of its cookery. Our best efforts, as a whole peo- ple, result rather in a wholesale waste of material, a delugo of grease, the promotion of indigestion, and the inability to makea little money go a great ways. In these re- spects other nations, like England, France, and Germany, are our superiors. France has a world-wide reputation for its cookery. Its finer preparations of delicate and luxurious dishes are undoubtedly ecxpensive, much more s0 than the average American house- keeper would feel herself waranted in un- dertaking, but in the standerd dishes, such as soups, meats, fish, poultry, and game, the French ars more economical than we, and not only produce cheaper but more palatable dishes. The late Preree Brot in his valunble lectures to American ladies, and Soves in his recipes,which he has left as his gastronomical monument, taught this secret, but it was wasted upon the desert air. A few enthusi- asts may have profited thereby, but the great mojority of American housekeepers go on in the old way of waste, and grease, and bad cookery. There is one great and important festure of cookery which these men and others eminent in the cuisine have taught us, and which the example of Enropean nations is constantly teaching us, which we seem determined to neglect, name- ly, the preparation of palatable and healthy soups. If it were possible, there onght tobe s law passed compelling every American housekeeper to preface her dinner with soup, —first, because it is healthy, and, second, be- cause it is economical. It does not add one cent to the expense of the dinner, becauso it can always be made from what is otherwise wasted. The importance of this subject can hardly The connection between physiology and morals, between the physical What- ever disturbs a man’s physical nature is bound to disturb his moral nature, and noth- be estimated. and the moral man, is a subtle one. ing disturbs his physical natare more quickly or thoroughly than bad cookery. We have no doubt that & cunning ‘analyzer might often trace a crime back to a certain bad dish. We have no doubt that vice lurks between the covers of a mince pie ; that the seven deadly sins flont in greasy frying-pans ; that roaring and devouring passions have been unloosed by coffee-pots ; that ignorant kitchen-maids have broken up the peace of households ; that heavy biscuits, soggy bread, soaked with saleratus, and steaks burned to crisps have thwarted the pulpit’s work of grace. Cas- stus’ question, * Upon what meat doth this our Czsar feed that he hath grown so gfeat?” is true in more ways than one. It is not al- together a figure of speech. We have no doubt that most of our representative vices come from our representative cookery. We have, therefore, great faith that the commu- nications of our housekeepers, which we are printing from week to week, will work great good if the American people will give heed to them. In this Centennial year there is no more beneficial reform that we can commence upon than the reform of our cookery. Let the American eagle from his mountain eyrie look down upon steaks, coffee, biscuits, and bread that are like Czsar’s wife, or what Mrs. Czsar was expected to be, and there will be hope for the future. FIRES ARD FIRE INSURANCE. One of the notable features in the history of American cities for the past decade is the marked edvance toward providing safeguards against loss by fire commensurate to the enormous value of the property liable to de- struction. In 1866, as shown by the data collated in the address of President Oaxrey, of the National Board of Underwriters, de- livered at the opening of their session in New York on Wednesday last, steam firz-engines had been introduced into only about a dozen cities, while in the remainder the inefficient volunteer compenies, with hand-engines, con- stituted what were styled the Fire Depart- ments. Now 275 cities and towns are pro- vided with steamers ; 78 maintain paid tde- partments ; and 90 have organized fire-pa- trols. Much probably yet remains to be done in the way of providing ample water-supply for any emergency in the lesser cities, but, in all, there are now sixty-five towns and cities having public water-works (pump- ing), and eighty-seven besides in which a good supply is obtaired by gravitation. In Chicago within that time, with the extension of the water-service, enlargement of the mains, and increased capacity of the ‘orks, the water-supply has been many times mul- tiplied, and, on completion of the new tun- nel-works, will be doubled; and in view of these facts it is gratifying to note the President of the National Board is con- strained to admit that “‘No city shows a more marked improvement in the organiza- tion of its Fire Department and increased water facilities than Chicago.” Within the same period, too, there hes beem & marked falling off in the construe- tion of fire-trap buildings; and in many of the larger cities—notably .in Chicago—the building ordinances now in force diminish greatly the hazard of loss by fire. "So far as this city is concerned; the contrast as to the substantial character of the leading struct- ures with those of European cities is less marked than ever. Solid brick partitions, metal and slate roofing, and floors laid in cement, with, in many buildings, iron joists and arched metal ceilings, are now here rather the rule than the exception. InLondon, Mr. OaxrEY reports he found many of the fanlts of the architecture of our cities obtained. But in Germany, Belgium, Holland, and France, he found that pine was discarded for oak and bard-woods for inside finish; that both floors and roofs were gencrally laid in concrete; that wooden partitions were un- known, and that lath and plaster were not used; while seldom buildings are erected to a height of more than 65 feet above the pave- ment, and flimsy ornamental cornice work of combustible material is notused. In conse- quence of this it is that he attributes the small outlay of European cities for Fire Departments as compared with ours. London, with nearly 4,000,000 population, and upward of 440,000 ‘houses, covering about 120 square miles, has but 26 steam fire-engines, 4 floating engines, and 85 hand-engines, and the total force of the Fire Department is but 400 men, In Paris he states he did not find a single steam fire- engine, the old hand-machines being relied upon, and successfully too, as has been dem- onstrated, for the extinguishment of the worst conflagrations to which, with their nearly fire-proof buildings, they are liable. The growth of the insurance business in this country, in the same period, is even more marked. The aggregate capital of the Ameri- can companies, which in1866 was $44,410,000, notwithstanding the immense losses entailed by the Chicago and Boston fires, has in. creased to $55,883,000. Notwithstanding, it is & notable fact that the annual premium re. ceipts are sactually greater by about nine millions than the aggregate capital of the companies. From §29,529,000 in 1863, they increased to $64,900,000 in 1875; and the risks taken for the last year amounted to $6,275,000,000, covering property to the amonnt of three times the national debt. TThe fact that the extension of risks has in no wise lessened the precantions of property- owners agaiost fire is evidenced mnot only by the improvement everywhere of the Fire Departments, but by the fact that the losses for the last year averaged less than 50 per cent of the pre- mium receipts, being for the New York com. panies but 43 per cent; companies of other States 52} per cent; foreign companies 41} per cent. The premium receipts of the for- eign companies were less than one-sixth the aggregate premiums paid, showing that there is a firm confidence among business classes in the solidity of onr home companies. The whole exhibit is gratifying as showing that there is yearly less ground for apprehen- sion of any such disastrons conflagration as the great fire in this city. Enlarged water- supply, improved fire department, and im- provement in building, well nigh preclude it. And it is no less gratifying in the exhibit as to the result of the business for the year of the underwriters, for it shows thatin event of heavy losses they would be able to meet them. but his brother married the Grand Duchegy of an Emperor. The crowned heads of two ! branches therefore overtopped her, and Fy. | press she would be, and is, 50 for as Tndiy iy i concerned. The English will stang B great deal of flummery, gold stick, gy | titulary nonsense, but they would not stang - an Empress, 50 Victonma hitched her titlg | upon her Indian subjects, who are go far away that it won't hurt them, and who gy not troubled probably with the appreciatioy of the fact that, as subjects of an Empresg they will be bound to a more exacting qly giance than they were as subjects of 8 Queen, It was alittle ungracions to put this aqg; tional badge of servitude upon them after thy hendsome manner in which they have treateq the Prince of Wales during his visit, by it was necessary that Vicrorra should be 7y, press over something, even if it werg only Hindus. It will puzzle the latter somg t use the title, as they have no worg for Empress in their language. This ittt iy, culty, however, can be overcome by an egjs from the Queen ordering Prof. Max Mozrzz toinvent one. The whole affairis g very trifling one. Tt will not probably distarb 1 relations of England to other countries, gp interfere with the revolutions of the earth on its axis, but it isavery significant i, stance of the influence of VicTorm and hey children upon JomN BourL when they want that very unreesonsble animal to go in a cer. tain direction in which he does not wat to go. THE LAST GRAB. The present Common Council is not dis- posed to give up its powers and retire from office. The sum at which common rumor estimates the divides of the last yearis $100,- 000. Hence, perheps, the unwillingness to accept the dismissal voted by the people. 1t is significent, too, that the jobbers have no faith in the newly-elected Common Coun- cil; their only hope is to make the last days of the old Ccuncil as long as possible, and to crowd into thoss days as much corrupt legis- lation as possidie. At the meeting on Friday night the declaration of the canvass of the vote of the election was again postponed, and the Coun- cil decided that it had suthority to go on with legislative business. Upon the heels of this decision there was promptly reported an ordinance granting to the Garden City Rail- way the permission to lay down horse-railway tracks npon Dearborn, LaSelle, Jackson, Twenty-second, Fourteenth, Twenty-third, Thirty-first, East Adams, West Adams, East Twelfth, and West Twelfth streets, and on Third and Fourth avenues, Went- PERSONAL. Barney Williams® fortune is estimated topy worth $500,000. Mr. H. J. Byron’s new play, ** Wrinkles" iy severely criticised by the London papars. Mrs. Olipbant has written a novel which shy calls **Phwbe Junion, a Last Chronicle of Cyn lingford.” Sir John Roze, now visiting this country for a few weeks, is the head of the English houy corrasponding to the house of Aorton, Bliss § Ca. in New York. Dr. O. B. Frothingham's “* Transcendentalim in New England” will bring to the public for Brook Farm Community. Ar. James T. Fields bas joined ths Boston Bristow Club, because he belioves the Republis to be in danger, and belisves moreover that w have got the right man to save it. ) Carleton & Co. will soon publish a book frm the pen of * John Paul,” the racy and flippaa} correspoodent of the New Ycrk Tribune, unde the title or * Seaweed and What We Seed.” Those * literary fellers™ seem to be more pop. ::f;:th cuavenne,mmgmxdgsth c;n'enue. ularin Massachuseits Repablican Conventiony YR, .COMPORY F19 ik ity COmPAnY | ypop they are at Washington. Whittier ind is a mystery; Dot it is under | y,co) were checred when they crossed tho plu. stood that HroreTe, and perhaps other Al- dermen, and some of the other appendages of the City Government, are the ** company.” The ordinance is of course s blackmailing operation. If it were entitled an ordinance requiring the horse-railway compenies to pay to a majority of the outgoing Common Coun- cil $50,000 or 8100,000, its object would not ‘be more apparent than it is now. It hasnot been over two months since the gas compsa- nies were subjected to the same rack ; and these scoundrels do not propose to get out of the offices they disgrace without obtaining even a greater bribe from the horse-railway companies. That the jobbers did not believe that the people would so emphatically reform the Common Council is evidenced by the late day at which this ordinance is reported. Had they believed that the people would have so largely vacated the seats of Aldermen, this ordinance would have been passed long ago. Asitis, it is a notice to the horse-rail- way compenies to *‘come down” instanter, or somebody will have a franchise for 25 miles of city railway to sell during the next summer, The ordinance, however, if passed, will be so inoperative legally that it is not likely that any person will pay a dollar to prevent its passage or to secure the franchise. There isa contract made by the city with certain of the horse-railway companies—which con- tract has been affirmed and meade alaw by the Legislature—that on certain of the streets named there shall be no horse-railway tracks laid or cars run. There is a law of the State which went into force July 1, 1874, which provides that no company organized for the purpose of constructing a horse-railway in a city shall do so without the consent of the corporate authorities of such city, and then only on the petition of such company : ¢ Provided, no such consent shall be granted unless at least ten days' public notice of the time and place of presenting such petition shall have been first given by publication in some newspaper published in the city or county where such road is ¢o be construgted.” Itis possible that this Company may have given this notice of a purpose to present such a petition ; but we venture to say that the first knowledge that the public have had of any such scheme is the fact that an ordi- nance granting the franchise has been agreed upon in the Council, and is to be passed on Monday next, if the requisite number of votes can be obtained to crown the infamy of this historical Council. EMPRESS VICTORIA. “When a woman will, she will, you may depend on't, and when she won't, she won't, and there’s an end on't.” The old saw is very clearly illustrated by Vicrorm's victory over the English Parliament, press, and people. By virtue of her indomitable perse- verance and determination, aided and abetted by her numerous and equally persistent olive-branches, she is now allowed to add to her old title of honor, * VicTorn, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith,” the words, * Empress of Indin.” Now, owing ta her womanly grit, and by the Grace of God, she is defender of numerous faiths,—not only the Episcopal of England, the Presbyterian of Scotland, and the Roman Catholic of Ireland, but also of the Hindu, Mohammedan, Buddhist, Sikh, Parsee, and Christian of India. There never wes & permission more reluctant- ly granted to Her Most Gracions Maj- esty before. The bill was passed by Par- lisment in a sullen sort of way, which very nearly amounted to throwing the title at her rather than courteously presenting it to her. Itwas opposed by some of the strongest men in both Houses. It was denounced with passion by some and ridiculed by others. There was not a publication in England, daily, weekly, or quarterly, but ‘vigorously opposed it. Even the Tories voted for it with reluctance, but it was carried through, simply because the Queen notified her Premier that she wasdeterminedto haveit. Itisanempty honor, and reminds one of the squabbles of actresses and prima donnas over the gize of the types announcing their names on the posters ; but she was bound to have it because she was overshadowed by her own daughter and daughter-in-law, who some day, if they live long enough, may be Empresses. The Prince of Wales is only the son of a Queen, form Wednesday to doposit their ballots. The fonrth volume of the edition of the warks of Sbakspeare, put into French by thely Francois Victor Hugo,—the elder of thetw sons of Victor Hugo,—has been printed. 1lhe volume contains ** Henry V."” and “ Henry VL* JMr. Moody began his revival services i Augusta, Ga., last Monday. Nearly 5.000 v present the first night. All the exercises iy place in the open air, there being no buildingia the city large enoughto accommodate the g diences. Max Mauller wants Queen Victoria to call ha salf Adhirsjui of India, which he translias: *+ Over King, Supreme King, and Ruler of In- dia.” This proposition to adopt Oriental titls 2nd forms of greatnass s3ems to be full of ter- rible possibilities. Afr. D. T. T. Moore, the founder and for more than & quarter of 8 century the conductor cf 3Moore’s Rural New Yorker, has vacated his pr sition, and Mr. Andrew D. S. Fuiler, for macy years associate editor, has taken the editorial chair. The paper is distinguished for ability, dignity, purity, and liberatity of masagemat.. . The New York Herald says: * Since the pub- lication in the Herald some days agoaf Joha Swiston's appeal in behalf of fhs paralyzed post, ‘Walt Whitman. a large number of subscriptions to the new 10 edition of his collected warks, published by bimself, have been forwardd to him. The actionof hisadmirers in thsdty and London hascheered the old ‘Good Gmy Poet,”who, we are told, will welcome futther subscriptions to his new edition at his residaxs, Camden, N. J." A weaithy shoomaker of Bremen has hales cated life-size statues of the threo mostcsls brated shoemsakers in German history. Tw patzon of the shoemaker'’s craft; the econd * was the brave Hans von Sagan, who, irlsw, turned the tide of the great batile of tk Ger man orders against the heathen Lithuapans by bearing the Imperial standard into the sidstof the enemy, and the third was Hans Sahs the shoemaker bard. The narrative of Don Carlos’ voyxge froa Liverpool to Halifax is related with pua cir cumstantiality by a Mr. Terrill, one of the pas sengers on the steamer which it (8 Mlegd brought Carlos over. Many persors bliere that Carlos ia now in this country, an1 he 8480 many good reasons for leaving Eaglan and coming bere, and for coming privafely, ta i is easy to credit the reports. A geotiema who once knew him in Spamn clsims to bavsen him at church in this city las: Suniay. The Hon. Charles Hale says that therare 5o pictures in the palaces of Egypt. ‘- Yesbids young bridegroom to me, on his weddingjour: ey, who, with hig bride, bad found eveithiog couleur de rose, from the Pyramids to t) dod- keys; *‘yes, I will tell you the best thin&:fi Egypt; there are no confounded pictaref Now, when Mary 2nd I go about in the Etpesn towns we bave to stretch our vecks backill our heads nearly fall off, lookiog at the pictus; w must see them, every one of them, youynaw; but in ail Egypt there isn’t a single pictd!” A. B. Guden, of the firm of Peltier &uaea, Brooklyn, whose myaterions disappe: 8008 weeks ago occasioned much comment, hauroed — up again “ right a8 a trivet.” Hehsd S}W o his person at the time of his disapprsact, which was to be usod for the paymepf bis workingmen. Steppiog into s ealoon fd ghss of beer, he invited two strangers to drif Io- mediately he lost consciousness, aod {en B8 came to himself he was on board a stegr onl~ ward bound for Californis. and was infondthat he had shipped as a fireman. It ia beli that his beer was drugged. Col. Bristow paid his respects to Tsident Lincoln in Washington during the [r, sod was cordially received. Ar. Liocolasf: “I know you very well, Colonel—Benjag Helm Bristow. Your uacle, Benjamin Helmierk of the Hardin County Court, was one of e best friends I had when I wasaboy. Hsed %0 take a good deal of trouble to explain ogsin the office to me, and show me how bussa was done, and was very kind otherwise. Of when 1 came to town barefooted, he took me storé and gave me a pair of shoes, and brasmy good friend always io those days.” | The forthcoming second volume of lay’s Life and Letters " will contain markable allusions to Harriet Bee He wrote of * Uncte Tom’s Cabin” i ocomplimentary straio, but of her “ 8 ories in Forelgn Lands ™ he-said : foolish, impertinent book this of She puts in my mouth a great deal ofjf task Inever uttered, particularly aboat |aathe drals. What blunders she makes ! Bft Wak- pole for Horace Walpole. Bhaftesy, 9 suthor of the habeas corpus act, be ffonods with Shaftesbury, the suthor of * tica.’ Bhe cannot evensee. Palmers] whosé eyes are sky biue, she calls dark-ey{ I am glad that I met her sosetdom, aad sqiast met ber st all® first of these was the holy Bt. Crispithe . the first time, it issaid, the Constitation of thy !