Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1876, Page 4

-4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1 76—SIXTEEN PAGES. Tlhe Ertbwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PLYADLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT THIS OPFICE. TFéition, postpatd. 1 $12.00 Tavesr pern 10 1.0 3.00 6.0 9 1.50 ® &% 2000 Postage prejin Specimen copies sent free. To prevent delay and mistakes, be sore and give Post- Ofice address in full, fncluding State and Connty. Rerittances may be made either by draft. express, Pesi-Oflice order, or in registered letters. at our risk. FERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. @clivered, Sunday excepied, 25 cents per week. .ily, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Magisor end Dearborn-sts.. Chicago, Ell. e—— SOCIETY MEETINGS. — the susnpices of MaspRIeHIece I"'cnli.‘}n‘.dt:nrl A. M. 111 Ergiewood Lodre. No. 6% L, W 1::vton Helghts, op Saturdar, Aug, 26, KounGtrIpLek: and 12:20 Se: 25¢: focluding S leave Foek 1620 Depot st 8:408. m. o » \FLECCA LODGE, X0. 1, . S. B.—The sunual T!{SZE;%AEE‘D(ZECFHIEDL'I festival of this Lodge!:du ne hes y numerous friends and the re- P b soperal, 11 It raine, ickets wil ba Ogden's Grove, Sunday, Aug. 20, 1o which en-ctavle 0ud for the sdfournment. Commitiee. 0. 0. F.—Officers and there will Die aspeclal meeting to-morros Lustess of great’ tinporiance wil) come be- Al shouldatiend. ~ Per arder of L LEON SCHLOSSMAN, N. G. CTICAGO LODGE. DERNARD COMMANDERT—Attention, Sir te. You are réquested 1o appear at Michigan Pursenger Depot on Monday. Aue. 21, 31 7 e thara, 10 roceive the Oriental Soverelgn A alsiory S 1 home. Gosaliry GLITHGE SHUTH O WILITE, C. Gem S.—You are requested to sp- 2l rassenger Depot in citizen's 21 7 o'cleck, sharn. 0 re- m home. SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1876. At ihe New-York Gold Exchange on Sat- wrday the dollar grecnback represented 90}c in gold. Attorney-Generel Tarr'’s recommendation se to the pardon of the Chicago whisky sectas to have sctiled the matter. ¢ effort 1o induce a change of his mind and yesterday the President used to take any action in discord ‘The various bankers have ngents at Wash- inzton negotiating for portions of the new loan. The first amount placed in the market wiil probably be $50,000,000, end the im- pression about the Treasury Department is that Sevicaax & Co. and the Drexers will caaclude arrangements for the amount. i s Tnfavornble reports paurporting to come £rom Crooxs and TEpeY by way of & point in Ttah were published in Washington yester- day. Gen. Smemwax pronounced the story sensationel, and expressed the opinion that the chances are better for a general red-skin scattering than for the troops succeeding in accamplishing & combined attack upon them. The Democrats are very lond in their gs- sections that TrioEs was a Union man dur- irg the Warand loyal to the Government. 1If this be so, why do they not point to some pct of his that evinced his loyalty to the Union or his sympsthy with the soldiers who weore battling for the eountry? Surely, if TiLpeN were a Union man, ihers must be something in his long public record to show it. We have already shown that he wasin active communion with men who were trying to destroy tho Government. Will his friends ghow us one single act that shows he had any interest in the cause of the Union, or any sympathy with those who wers trying to saveit? The whaling-bark Catalpa arrived in New Teork yesterdsy with the rescued Fenian prisoncrs. They were nino in number, and, notwithstanding a hard voyage of four moxths, part of the time on short allowance of provisions, they appeared happy and smil- ing. A Reception Committee was hastily cred. and the emigrants were con- ted in state to ODoxovay Rossa’s hotel Their account of their escape in a whele-boet, and the chase of the Catalpa 1y a police-bost and the British steamer Guorgette, and the refusal of the American Captain to Lhand them over, seems to reflect siderable eredit on the bravery of the sper. who apparently was not grievously alarmed st the formidable threat of the Brit- jsh authorities to confer with the American’ vernment on the subject. G ‘The statement is now made that the new dry-goods house to be established in the Drake and Wilder Blocks, on the corner of Wabush avenue and Washington street, is other than A, T. Stewanr & Co. If so, ¢ firm displays in this instance the same rument which enabled its founder c¢ all competitors, and build up the nruest dry-goods Dbusiness in the world. It will pet be many yeurs before the Chicago wiill be the principal establishment the New York house thebranch. Chicago is in manyrespects already a more important centre of trede for jobbing and retail Dusiess than any other in the coun- tri. Our jobbers bring their goods direct fr.m the manvfacturers in Europe, as this country, boy in as «quantitics, and scll to better ad- The country dealers do not pass ough Chicago to go te New York or any Chicago has also becowe so ruch of a metropolis that the Iadies come e to do their fancy shopping from bun- @rods of 1uilesarourd, justas they used to go tc New York, Messrs. Fiero, Lrrer & Co., J. V. FanweLy & Co., and the two or three other large firms. could not expect to retain tLe exclusive benefit of this vast trade; but the fact is that the new house will pot di- m:zish the bulk of the irsde done by the otiwers. but build up an additional trade. P.e trade of FarwELL & Co. has gone on easiug while Fierp, Lerrer & Co. were brilding up theéir enormous busivess, and sizce the fire seversl other large houses have b. -¢ started without hurting those already wblisked. There is plenty of room for A Smewarr & Co., £ud for still others. In fzet, the more the merrier. The Clicago produce markets were-quiet turdsy. Mess pork closed 10c per brl her, ot $17.30@17.32% cash and $is. jer the year. Lard clesed 24c pér 106 lbs Iizher. at §10. £cler the vear. Lexy 8:¢fer do short ciears. Leke freights were i iic for corn to DBufalo. Rail ts were unchanged. Highwines were steady. at 110 per ive znd W eats were quiet, at 63c for at ciosed e lower, at jc for September. Curn closed e lower, st 442c cash and 4ije for September. Oats closed J@}c lower, at 303c cash and 30jc for September. Ryo was firm, at 521@33c. Barley was dull and easier, at G93c. Hogs were in good demand and ruled firm, closing at $6.20@6.25 for light and at $5.75@6.10 for common to prime heavy. Received, 4,000, ead for the week, 43,000. The cattle market was mod- eratefy active and firm, sales meking ona Dbasis of £3.00@5.00 for common to choice. Receipts for the week, 15,691. There were no sales of sheep. Poor to choice were quoted ot $3.00@4.50 per 100 Ibs. One hun- dred dollars in gold would buy $110.62} in greenbacks at the close. Trimmer HENDRICES is quite as vociferous in his demands for reform as Slippery Sar. He has of Iate been especially prominent in condemning the use of money in carrying elections, and hes commended the practice to the Democrats as an evil worthy of their attention. The srrant hypocrisy of the man in this regard can be shown from Democratic sources. On the 16th of November, 1868, Cemazres W. WooLLEY, 8 prominent Demo- crat of Cincinnati, wrote a letter to HoraTio | Sevaovn, which was afterwards printed in the New York Sun, Feb. 22, 1869, from which the following is an extract : In & few daye afterward I retarned to Kew York, represented the condition of affairs to all there to whom I haa access, wrote to Gen. GREEXE that onless something was done the State was gone, and appealed personally upon every proper occasion to your supposed political and personal friends to belp us to recover from the shock which T described. The result was that the State of New York, according to a statement made to me by Mr. Dixanax, the Chairman. of our ‘State Central Commiltee, contributed $7.500 to carry the greal State of Ohio in October that it might o for you in November, and sent $40,000 to the State of In- diana, when they knew that $25,000 had been raised in Kentucky for Mr. HENDRICKS, and 10.000 voters imported from that State to aid in securing his election, and that po money had been raised outside of our own State for us, and no voters were sought to be bronght into it. Judge BinerAx, of Columbus, O., the Chair- man of the Democratic State Central Com- mittee in 1568, openly admitted the truth of the statement made to Mr. WoorLey. Here we have the point blank assertions of prom- inent Democratic politicians that 65,000 were sent into Indiana to sid Hevpricss' election, and that a portion of this money was used in importing 10,000 voters from Kentucky. Did Mr. HExDRICES object to it? Did be urge reform then? Does he expect that the American people are gulls to swal- low his pretensions of reform =fter such developments, which are not campaign slan- ders, but statements made by prominent Democrats ? A SCHOOL-LESSON. There is, no doubt, = lesson to be lenrned sbout our public schools from the recent tragedy in this city; but it is not the one which was sought to be taught by the Rev. Mr. PARKHURST, in his sermon last Sunday. The difficulty with that discourse was, that it amplified precisely where amplification was unnecessary, and was lamentably brief where a good body of evidence would have been most appropriste. He was minate in his description of the particulars of the fatal Tenconter, told all that was said and done by everybody who was a party to the affair, or who walked past, or who had talked with those who were there. He also enlarged upon the general character end past proceed- ings of the Roman Catholic Church, and its designs upon the United States. He had discovered that the Romanists maintained that they held the Apostolic Christianity, and that they meant to bring over the American people, if they could, to the same view,—a fact about which it need only be said, in passing, that this is their right under the Federal Constitution, and that the Methodists, Baptists, Presbytericns, and Episcopalians are in the same happy and determined state of mind, and are yearly publishing statistics to show the degree of their progress. But where Mr. Pangmunst was unfortunately sparing of words was in adducing proof of his main point, to-wit: that the murder was inspired by the Romish faith of Mrs. Svrrrvay, who, with her hus- band, resented an attack on her as an attack on the Church of Rome. After carefully scanning all that he said, we find several repetitions of “I believe,” and the state- ment that Mrs. Surrrvaxy ““from her youth was trained a thorough Romanist,” snd ** has served Rome faithfully and well™; bat we fail to discover a presentation of the least proof of a connection between her faith and the murder committed by her hus- band. All that is really advanced is, that Mr. Papsnvest has no doubt of the fact; that he thinks it is simply the culmina- tion of the conspiracy to put the Bible out of the public schools; and that *“if you doubt that Rome is the inspiration of this wicked deed, pray tell me its caunse.” This is lame enough, in so serious a matter, and serves orly to show prejudice, and to stir bad feeling. But now let us come to the resllesson con- cerning our public schools which this sad crime suggests. Without impeaching any one's religious faith, or attaching credit to the interpretation which Mr. PankmURsT gives to the murder, it is yet evident that the management of the public schools furnished the occasion for the outbreak. The character and action of the Board of Education were under discussion when the private letter of Mr. Hixrorp was unwisely read. in which condemnatory allusion was made to the sup- posed agency of Mrs. Strurvay, in connee- tion with an alleged “ Ring” in the Board, which had operated, it was thought, in the interests of the Roman Catholic Church, in excluding the Bible from the public schools of the city. The impeachment of Mrs. Sor- zavax angered her husband, and the personal collision and the shooting were the result. Now. the references made before and since Loulders, 85¢ for do short ribs, and. | allon. Flour was less | the afiray to the Bible-in-school gquestion show that irritated feeling abides, and leads to mutual recrimination. And this will al- ways be the case until a settled policy shall be adopted which shall forever rule ont of public-schoo! management religious ques- tions &5 extraneous topics. If one riding in 2 car unfortunstely gets a cinder in his eye. he may as well understand that nothing will bring relief but its complete removal. He msy wait an hour or two, in hope that the sonoyance will cesse. The annoyancs will simply increase to au inflammatiop and a pain. He may carefully bind his hand- kerchief about his eye to exclude the lighi, but he will still be conscious of the presence of the intruder, and one i cannot always go with s handkerchief | around his bead. He may indace his com- | panion to press apart the lids and inspect | the surface of the eye; and the report may | be that nothing is there, except & very mi- nute speck, which no healthy eye ought to mwind. end which is really a needed stimulus to the watery secretions; but the report and he theory will not cause the aching to cease. ecisely one thing will give permanent re- i lief,—remove the irritating object, which kas i no proper place in the humau eye, whatever i value it may possese elsewhere. | Religious questions are necessarily an irsi- | the Rationalists, backed by the liberal por- | i | H tating presence in connection with the pub- lic schools of & mixed community. We must legislate in view of facts as they are, and not a3 they were, or as wa would have them be. The time was, in New England, when the population was homogeneous as to race and religious belief; and then no one felt ag- grieved, although the Bible was not only read, but was explained, in the common schools, and the Calvinistic Shorter Cate- chism of the Westminster Assembly was repeated by the children at the regu- lar visits of the parish minister. Besurrect | one of the citizens of that day, and he would be astounded at the impiety of schools which only read a few verses of Scripture without a word of explanation, and with no catechism for doctrinal instruction! Nothing like that ancient arrangement, in which all at the time acquiesced, could now exist,—a fact which 1o one is foolish enough to dispute. Possi- bly there may come in the futurea millen- nial age when unity of religious belief shall ba restored, and the Christian faith shall be taught by common consent in the public schools. But at present such a diversity of view prevails between Protestant and Ro- manist, between Christian and Jew, liberal and skeptic, that no religious teaching or ex- ercises ean be introduced into schools for which all are taxed, and to which all send children, without interfering with some onc's rights of conscience. In such altered cir- cumstances it is no compromise of principle, or evil concession to Romanism and infi- delity, to consent that the schools shall be made purely secular. Only thus can there be co-operation with- out incessant irritation and strife. If the Protestants insist that their version of the Scriptures shall be read as a religious exer- cise of the schools, claiming it as a right, then there will be continual agitation, Liow- ever the decision may temporarily go, in this or that locality. If the Bible is retained on that ground, the Romanists, the Jews, and tion of the Protestants, will not cease to de- mand its exclusion,—uot necessarily from any opposition to it as a religious book for pri- vate reading and for church use, but from a constitutional principle of opposition to religious teaching by the State. Of course, the exclusion will be followed by indignant remonstrance from the other side, as if in- sult had been heaped on the Bible (a per- ! fectly gratuitous and most unwise assump- tion), and measures will be set on foot to secare its restoration. The Biblo will thus be a shuttlecock between two battledoors; only it will not be a pleasant game in prog- ress between friends, but in reality a battle of embittered foes, and in the hard counter strokes the sufferer will be the unfortunate shuttlecock! How can there be an end to the controversy and theresultant bitterness? ‘We sea only one way. Discussion and sad experience will convincethe great majority,ere long, that either we must surrender our pub- Hc-school system or we must secularize it. This latter course must then be urged and sccepted, not 8s & verdict agrinst the Serip- tures, in any possible sense, but only as the declaration of the obvious fact that a mixed community has such different religious con- victions that it is rendered necassary, to re- | jieve the State of all responsibility of judg- | ment and action in that matter, and to re- wand it wholly to the spheres of private life and ecclesiastical operations. Then we shall | have peace, and secular schools will be sup- ported by public tax for the benefit of all | the children of the community, while relig- ious schools will be set up for daily and Sun- day use by individuals and by churches os they may see the oceasion to exist. M. C. KEER. The Hon. M. C. Kerr, Speaker of the House of Representatives, died at Alum Springs, Va., at an early hour last evoning. Micraen C. Kerr was comparatively a new man in Americen politics. His public life has not been a conspicuous one. He was born in Titusville, Penn., March 15, 1527, and he was something over 49 years of age. He had an ordinery school cducation, greatly amplified by subsequent study. Was ad- mitted to the Bar in Kentucky, and settled in New Albany, Ind. His first official life was 2 two-years' term in the Indians Legislature, beginning in 1856. During the War he served as Reporter of the Supreme Court of the State, being appointed to fill 2 vacancy. It was not until 1864 that he was heard of in national politics, when he was elected to Congress, his term beginning in 1865. He was clected again in 1866, 1868, and 1870. In 1872 he was nominated as candidate for Congressman-at Large, and was beaten by less than 200 votes by the Hon. G. S. OrTr, late Minlster to the Court of Vienna. During the later years of his serv- jce he served on the Committee of Ways and DMeane In 1874 he was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of his district. Tho State Democratic Con- vention adopted a platform demanding the payment of the national debt in greenbacks, and in favor of an increased issue of greenbacks. Mr. Kerr disclaimed all responsibility for the platform, and avowed his purpose to vote for specie payments and hard money, and against in- dation. The District was a Democratic one, and the Grangers, and the inflation Demo- crats, and the Republicans united in support of & Democrat in opposition to Krrs. Dar- ing the long campaign Kenr refused to sur- render his hard-money principles, and was elected. His brilliant conduct in this cam- paign, his ability, and especially his courage in opposing all paper-money schemes, gave him a national reputatien. He had, however, during his service in Congress, won an hon- orable standing for personal integrity and personal purity. At the meeting of the pres- ent Congress, notwithstanding . the inflation- ists were in a majority of his party, he was nominated and elected Speaker. In no in- stance was the force of a high and honorable reputation for personsl integrity more con- spicuously shown. It enabled him to tri- umph over the adverse politics of his own party. Hardly had he been elected before he was prostrated with illuess. At times he has apparently regained a portion of his strength, but bis service as Spenker has been only at intervals. He bas enjoyed the per- sonal respect, confidence, and sympathy of | the members of the House of all parties. ‘Within & few weeks he was accused by 8 man uvamed HarNey with having accepted $430, m 1866, for obtaining the appointment of a man nemed GREEN to s Lieutenancy in the army. From the nature of the charge, it | rested largely on the afirmation of HaryEy. against which there was nothing direct, ex- | ¢ cept Mr. Kern's personal denial of ever hav- ! ing asked for or received that or any other | sum of money. After the first surprise ard ! shock, public opinion anad the opinion of the ! House seem to have settled down to an unanimous acquittal of Mr. Kerr, and | a repurt to that effect was adopted by the Committee investigating the charge. In his private life the late Speaker was constituents held him in high regard. He died at an early age, and when his intellectual porwers wero in their ripest vigor. His dis- ease was consumption in one of its many forms. He struggled long and hopefully against the destroyer, but gradually wasted before him. Mr. Krae was the twenty-seventh person who has held the offiée of Speaker, and the first who had died while in the ofice. There have been vocanmcies by resignation, but in no case until now has the office been vacated by death. TEE MONTENEGRIN CAMPAIGN. It is now morally certain that unless the Great Powers interpose, the Turco-Servian war must result in disaster to the Christians. The clouds hang heavily abont them; but in all this gloom and hopelessness the courage and prowess of the Montenegrins shine out with more than ordinary splendor. Had the Servians with their Iarge army fought with Lalf the courage and skill of the Montene- grins with their comparative hundful of men, the war wonld have ended before this time in a Sclavonic triumph. The information furnished from officinl sources is now suffi- ciently intelligible and reliable to show the results which heve been achisved by these hardy mountaineers in their campaign against the Turks. The ultimate design of Prince NigrTa was to effect a junction with the Ser- vian corps upon the northeast frontier, along the Drina. To do this, however, iie must fight the strong Turkish army under Muge- Tar Pasma, which occupied Mostar. He might have passed around Mostar or pushed on to Novi-Bazar, bnt this would have ex- posed his own territory to the merci- less ravages and fiendish cruelties of the Turks, who wonid bhave overrun it without hindrence and speedily depopu- lated it. This Turkish army lay in his way, and before he could help the Servians he must fight it. His army moved very slowly towards Mostar. and 3[urnTan Pasma, im- patient at the delay, moved on the 27th of July to meet the Montenegrins, and that night entered Bilek, {0 miles to the south- cast of Mostar. The nex¢ morning, after a three hours’ march, he attacked the Mon- tenegrins at Urbitza, and, after a fight of an hour and a half, was driven back in disorder to Bilek, after having lost five guns, a great quantity of provisions and ammunition, and between 5,000 and 6,000 men, nine battalions having been literally decimated. It appears that it wes MoxaTak Pasni’s intention to penetrate between the Montenegring snd their line of retreat, but, in complish this, he was virtually cut off from lis own line of retreat and hemmed in among ravines, precisely as Ceoox's troops were caught by the Sioux at Rose- bud Creek. TFrom the sides of these ravines the Montenegrins assailed the Turks with comparative immunity tothem- selves, their entire loss being only about 300 mmen. The nest day the Montenegrins ad- vanced towards Bilek and mennced the Turks with blockade, fearing which they withdrew and fell back Dbehind the strong fortifications at Trebinje to await reinforce- ments. 7 Since that time the Turkish afmy at Kuci under MerryED Pasna, one of Mukn- TR Pasns’s Generals of Division and com- manding the First Corps, has met with a crushing defeat. This army, like the other was surrounded in the ravines on all sides. | The battle lasted all last Monday and ended in a repulse which amounted to a rout, the "Purks losing 8,000 men and i¥arge guantity of arms and war material, and being pursued to Podgoritza. where they twere protected by their artillery. The Montenegrins having no artillery, except a few light field-pieces, were avidently unsble to follow up their advan- tage. Both these victories inflicted serions dam- rge to the Turkisk armies in Southern Bos- nia, and, had they been supported by victo- ries in Servia of a similar cheracter, the power of the Turks would have been broken by this time. The Alontenegrin victories, however, come too late to affect the general result, as all of Central and Southern Servia is occupied by the Turks, and even Belgrade is menaced. The prowess of the Montene- grins is none the less admirable on this ac- count, and it isonly to be regretted that such splendid fighting qualities as they have displayed should be expended to no purpose, owing to the inefficiency or misfortune of their allies. THE PROGRESS OF THE STONE JOB. The Building Committees of the Board of County Commissioners, the week before last, reached a decision to adopt Lewmont lime- stone for the Court-House, and to accept ‘Warker's bid. The three Lemont limestone bids pending were: Warxer, $695,000; McNemwu, $540,000; TFaxsiNe, $585,000. The action of the Committeo evoked such a storm of popnlar indignation that no report was made to the Board, and all last weeck was devoted to another wrestle with the sub- ject, and on Friday, by the same vote, given by the same men who had pro- viously indorsed WALKER's bid, they adopted McNemr's Dbid. This was a concession of $150,000. It is proper, however, to understand that McNEmLL's bid is really a second bidof WarLker. He offered the stone in one bid at 87 cents per cubic foot, and in the McNeL bid the stone is put at 65 cents,—a falling off of 22 cents per cubic foot. Mr. Fivvixe, whose bid was still lower, was whistled out of considerstion, the Commissioners threatening to kave him indicted by the mest Grand Jury, they . having the selection of both stone- contractors and the Grand Jury. As the case stands at present, Warger and McNEwLL are to have tha contract. In Faszmyo's bid there was an offer that the price should be reduced 25,000 if the columns, pilasters, steps, ete., should be of granite. In the bid adopted by the Committee there is no such reduction offered. In the one contingency Faxvixg's bid is £5.000 and in the other §33.000 less than the one adopted. We illustrated the other day the ut- ter absurdity of the whole business of bidding for contracts with Cook County. Hexry Harys was let the contract for laying the fonndation of the county half of the building at $§4,000. In case of change in plan he was to be allowed in proportion to the increased work. There was & change in the plan, and the result of the job was that Hanos' bill reads : Due on original contract, £54,000; due on extrs work, §70,000. To- tal, £154,000,—an increase in the cost of the job of 84 per cent. Now, under these cir- cumstarces, the main thing is to get the ontract. no matter what the price. Warger and his associates hinve reduced the price of the stone as laid 25 per cent, and, taking the Harws cosiract as a precedent, he car well afford to do this and still have a large profit over his original bid. His origi- nal bid was $695.000; his reduced bid is £3540.000. Add &4 per cent for extras, as in the Hamws contract, because of changes, and his bill will smoant to £993,000, or over greatly respected. His own meighbors and | $300,000 more than his original offer. Ir. ving to sc- deed, Mr. Warxzn could well have afforded to teke off another $100,000. But that the possession of the contract is the grand end to be secured, no matter at what price it may be let, will be readily un- derstood when it is remembered that the courty contract is merely for one-half the | building. Tho city cannot build, and will not be able to do so for some yecars. Who- ever gets the contract for the stone for the county half of the building must of necessi- ty get the contract for the city's part | of the building. Tho stone must be of the same quality, color, and texture; and this can only be obtained, it is claimed, by taking the whole from the same quarry. Mr. WaLken, by securing the stone for the first half of the building, will have an abso- lute corner on the stone for the other half. Holding the one quarry, he can demand of the city whatever price per foot for the stone that ho may demand. The city will be at his mercy. Where he is now content toteke 65 cents per cubic foot, he may then demaud , and there will be no second shop,—no other quarry,—and it will be imposible to use any other stone. In getting the contract for the stono for the county half of the building, Warker sccures beyond all perad- venture the necessity for using his stone and from his quarry for the other half of the building. This franchise is alone worth to the contractor $100,000 cash. Herein is one of the disadvantages of erect- ing a building part at one time and part at another, the ownership to Dbe divided. If hereafter, when the city is ready to build, WaLkER shall demand $2 per cubic foot for his stone, the city will have no alternative but to submit, or build the west half of the building of stone of another color, and per- haps otherwise dissimilar. The fact is, the plans and materials of the whole building | should be determined upon at the same time, and the whole building should be erected at the same time. The whole Board of County Commission- ers ave to act upon this recommendation of the Committee. It only requires 3 votes to carry this McNELL-WaLgER job. Five mem- bers of the Committee, viz.: Creary, Can- roLL, CoNvLy, McCarrFreY, and Jonxson have expressed their opinions, and the other 3 votes are to be had from Messrs. HoLpEN, Axars, Murror, Tasor, and Hertive. The other five members are on record against the swindle. Whick of these five members weo have nemed are prepared to challengo and defy public sentiment by givinptheir approv- al to such an iniquitous and self-evident job? BISHOP PURCELL AND THE SCHCOLS. 'The Cathotic Telegraph, printed in Ciucin- nati, publishes a deliverance from Arch- biscop PurceLL, which we copy elsewhere, defining the attitude of the Catholic Church in reference to the public.school system of the United States. With much, the good Bishop says, there is nothing to object; the toneof the letter is fair and conciliatory. There is only one passage that seems to re- quire any comment. It is this: No donbt justice and cquality would entitle the Catholic people of this country to exemption from taxation for the eupport of other schools, or toa share of the public-school funds in proportion to the number of pupils in the schools, but even this claim we are disposed to waive in your favor. ‘We cannot but regard the manner of ex- pression adopted by the Archbishop as sig- nificant. ¢ We,” ho says,—by which he evi- dently meansthe Catholics,—* waive thigclaim [i. e., to a division of the school moneys] in your favor.” In whose favor? In favor of the American people and their support of a free and non-sectarian system of schools ? Are we to infer thet Archbishop Purcrrn draws a line of demarcation between Ameri- cans asa class and the Romean Catholics as aclass? Does he mean to, convey the ides that the interests of the Roman Catholic Church are naturally scparate, distinct, and | independent from the interests of the people of this country? Doeshe mean that the mem- bers of the Roman Catholic Church owe | an allegiance to their Church which is at least independent of, and perhaps superior and antagonistic to, the allegiance they owe the American Government? It is only upon some such theory that many persons can ac- count for his deliberate separation of Catho- | lic citizens, speaking of themas *‘we,” from | the general American public, whom he ad- i dresses as “ you.” It is an unfortunate and dangerous classification ; it is too much like the position assumed by BeN Hixr in Con- gress when speaking in behalf of the ex- Confederates and justifying the horrors of Andersonville, during all of which he con- stantly spoke of ““we” and ‘‘you,” thus separating the people of the South from the people of the North. It is not any wiser for Archbishop PrrcELL to establish a sectarian distinction between the Roman Catholics on the one haud and the American peopie on the other than it was for Bex Hrun to maintain the sectional distinction between the Confederstes and the people of this nation. Itis difficult to believe that Archbishop PuaceLL’s concession is very sincere, so long | as he believes that *‘ justice and equality entitle the Catholic people of this country to cxemption from taxation for the support of other schools [that is, the American free schools), or to a share of the public-school funds in proportion to the number of pupils in the schools.” If it is the sentiment of the Catholicsof this conntry that they are entitled to this by reason of **justice and equality,” then there is no question but they will assert their claim whenever they feel strong enough to enforce its recognition. No peo- ply, with both might and right on their side, ever yield to weaker antagonism which they beliove to be in the wrong. To do so would exceed the capabilities of human generosity. Properly interpreted, therefore, the declara- tion of Archbishop PURCELL seems to mean that the Catholics waive their claim for the present, in order to avoid a controversy in which they might prove to be the weaker party; and that they will bide their time, waiting for an opportunity to insist upon what they claim as a right. But what considerations of ‘‘justice and equality” warrant the Catholics in setting up 8 “‘claim” to part of the school funds for their dogmatic schools? Have the Method- ists, who are a very powerful body, claimed any share of the funds to maintain their dog- matic schools? Has any ‘portion of the school fund in any part of the country been set aside to support Episcopal, Beptist, Lu- theran, or Presbyterian schools? Are the Jews released from their proportion of taxation for and independent nation, that they can prop- erly claim an exemption from taxation for public education which all other inhabitents of the United States have to pay in proper proportions. While it is evident that Archbiskop Poz- CELL's purpose was to allay public apprehen- sion in regard to the intentions of the Roman Catholic Church upon the publie-school sys- tem, wo cannot but think thet he has fur- nished sdditional reason why the Constitu- tional Amendment prohibiting a division of the school moneys (which Archbishop Pour- cELL claims es a rightof the Catholic Church) should be submitted by Congress to the States and adopted at as ecarly a moment as possible. THE STENCHZ NUISANCE. & It is strange that Dr. dIcViczar should think it necessary to organize Smelling Com- mittees to nose out a theory of the South Side stenches which are most desirable residence portion of the city of hot nights, when the facts were ascer- tained years ago. It is strangor still that gentlemen of scientific pretensions should be misled by mere local smells of ponds and gutters, which they find under their nose when they reach Bridgeport, and conclude that they have discovered the origin of the awful stenches which fill the air in the garbage, and filth, and animal refuse which they see lying around the Stock-Yards, and in the gutters and slonghs of Bridge- port. The smells that come from this stuf do not waft beyond a block or two, are alweys confined to the neighbor- hood which tolerates them, and rarely trouble anybody, for the reason that the neighbor- hoods are inhabited by people who have grown accustomed to them, or at any rate would rather endure them than teke the trouble to make any other disposition of the garbsge and offal. But these aremot the smells which infect the residence portion of | the South Division east of State street, and | are carried for miles in the direction of the wicd. If they were, the nuisance would be continuous and the smells would be as pal- pable in the daytime as at night. But the fact is—and everybody living in the southern part of the city knows it—that the insufferable stink which is the real object of complaint is moticed only in the ovenings and nights, comes suddenly and in amass like a cloud, and is almost thick enough to ent with a knife. If an attempt is made to follow it up the strats will be ex- hausted long before the place where it orig- inated is reached, and the establishment which sent it forth may be found apparently clean and pure. Between the years 1S71 and 1873 thess stenches were thoroughly investigated, their cause absoluteiy proved, a remedy dis- covered, and for a time they were prevented by a vigilant enforcement of the remedy. But since then the vigil- ance has been abandoned, and even the philosophy of the smells seems to have been forgotten. They are simply the gases gen- erated by the- rendering establishments of Bridgeport and the Stock-Yards, and set free at nights so ss toavoid discovery. They have no connection whatever with the local gutter and garbage smells, or Healey slonghs and Ogden slips, discovered by the Committee who have been recently engaged in investi~ gating the subject ; and the conduit which is talked of, thongh it might cost a million of dollars, would not one whit abate the nui- sance or diminish the particular stinks which furnish the principal cause of complaint. Dr. McVicear will serve tho general public bet- ter, therefore, by turning back two or three years, and recalling the results of the | investigation at that time. If, then, he cad secure the active co-operation of the Mayor and police, the remedies then ascertained may be applied with relief until a better one shall be discovered. Eech of the thirty or forty rendering es- tablishments in Bridgeport has one or more large boilers from 6 to 8 feet in diameter, and from 20 to 25 feet long, which stand wp- right. The animal and carrion refuse gath- ered from the adjoining slanghter-honse, and consisting of the entrails, trimmings, and every part of the slaughtered animals that contains fatty substance, is emptied into these boilers from the top. Steam at a high temperature is introduced into the boilers, and begins its work of separating the gases from the fat. Then it becomes necessary to get rid of the gases. The easiest, quickest, and cheapest way,—and, therefore, the way generally adopted,—is to let them escape through a valve into a pipe, thence into a chimney, and so into the at- mosphere at considerable elevation sbove the ground. The gases, being hot when they es- cape, rise reedily, and rre emitted into the air without any disagreeable effect in the im- medinte vicinity of the establishments which make them. They cool and condense after they are freed, and, blown away like smoke, they settle down in & noxious mass at a distance of half a mile, more or less, from where they start, and are then out thelocal smells of Bridgeport; the real trouble is the rendering process itself, aud the men who are engaged in it should be compelled to adopt a scientific means for getting rid of the gases they generate with. ! out destroying the comfort aad injuring the heelth of the communit y. THE CITY GAS-SUPPLY. It begins to look es if the people of Chi. cago, in their corporete capacity, may be able to coerce fair treatment from the gas companies. If this great triumph shall b accomplished, it will be because the present Mayor and the majority in the present Coun. cil have gone_ at the matter with the single and honest purpose of compelling a recog. nition of the rights of the public. Thers is litile doubt that, in most of the previons discussions of the gas extortion during the past two or three years, the persons profess. ed upoa tho | ing to represent the public were really rep. resenting themselves, and that they derived the only benefits that accrued from the ogi- tation of the subject, while the public was fleeced still more to pay for the blackmail, The gas companies seem to comprehend at last that they heve now a different set of men to deal with, and that tLey cannot wheedle or purchase the privilege of get. ting $700,000 per annom out of the tax-poyers for lighticg the streets of thig city. Still the hope of a concession on their part may be delusive. They may be feigning a disposition to acquiesce oaly to gaintime and seek some new device for maintaining their advantage. The corduct of the gas com- panies in the past in dealing with the corpo. ration has not been of a character to inspire ‘much confidence in their good intentions. It is evident that the only safe way for the Council to proceed is mpon the reputation the gas companies have made for themselves in former dealings. The Committee, then, should not hesitate, at the very nexi meeting of the Council, to introduce the following resotution, which it is understood they have prepared : Resolced, That the gas companies now sapply- ng the city with gas be, and they are hereby, re- quested to reduce the price of gas which they are new fumishing the city to the sum of §1.50 per 1,000 cabic feet, with a 3-foot Lurner, the same to commence anid take eflect from and after the 1st day of September, 1876, and, nnless this request is complicd with, that then the existing contracts shall be abrogated and the 3ayorand Comptrolier shall be, and they are hereby, directed to advertise ! for bids to light the city with whaie oil, petroleam, or any other illuminating ngency, the said bids to be submitted to this Council; and the #aid Council shall then determine how und in what manzer the streets and pubiic brildings shall be lighted, and after the same #hall be determined, then the con- tract shall be let to the lowest bidder, upon sach terms and under such restrictions as may be agreed upon in accordance with law. This resolution, adopted by a large vote in the Council, will bring matters to a crisis. Tt will compel the two gas companiesto indi- cate promptly and decisively just what they are willing to do. The resolation unques- tionably reflects the sentiment of nine out of every ten men-who pay taxes. We may much better submit to inconvenience for a time than confess ourselves-at the mercy of a couple of corporations that have grown rich and overbearing from the substance of the people of Chicago. If the managers of these companies were intelligent men, and not blinded by the greed they have developed in the ybars they have had everything their own way, they will recognize the fzct that the people will no longer submit to their ex- tortions, and that they have now men in office who will insist upon their rights. In such case they will quietly acquiesce in the adjustment of three-feet burners on the : lamp-posts, and make out their bills at the rate of $1.50 per 1,000 feet, at which there is little question but they cau umko o fair profit on the capital actually invested in their business. If, on the contrary, they continus unreasonable and grasping, the city should try lighting the streets with oil; and we think that the occasion will soon lead to ap- plying the principls of the ‘“stuadent’s lamp™ to the street-posts in such a way as to give fully as good & light as we now have ata cost not exceeding one-third that which the city has been paying for the last year or two. If the gas companies acquiesce in this proposition, we think Ald. Troxpsox’s sug-- gestion regarding the manner of making out the bills to be a good one. The city shonld pay for an amount of gas consumed at each lamp estimated by the capacity of the three- feet burners, lighted and extinguishing ac- cording to the time-table adopted, and for no more. This will put an effectnal stop to the running up of bills at the rate of 5 feet at certain lamps when the city only desires 3 feet. The gas companies can have test- meters of their own to see that the gss consumed is not more than 3icet, and the city can have test-meters of its own to see that it gets what it pays for, 50 that there is no renson why the arrange- ment should not be fair and satisfactory for both parties. In the mesntime, however, there is every reason why the City Council should refuse to hold off any longer for the gas companies. The passage of the above carried in the direction of the prevailing wind. This is the whole story. Now as to the remedy. It was found that these gases conld be cooled, condensed, and run off through cold water. By discharging them into a tank in which a large stream of water is poured, in order to countoract the heat of the gases, the latter are transformed into a sort of liquid whicly may be carried off with the water the same as any other sewage, and withont allowing any of the stench to escape. The Turvers ) also claim that they have in active operation at their establishment another means for dis- posing of these gnses and utilizing them. By this process the gases are passed through charcoal and other purifying medinms into a retort, and are then in a condition to be burned either for illuminating or heating purposes. The practical working of this process would be superior to the water proc- ess, as the gases would be entirely consumed and made useful. But the owners and managers of the ren- dering establishments can only be compelled to apply these remedies by constant watch- ing and a strict enforcement of the penalty for the nnisance which they otherwise com- mit. The men who work in this business become indurated with the stinks in which they live, and their mentaland moral natiires seem to grow as hard and dead as the olfac- tory merves. The machinery necessary to the process of condensation or. purification costs something ; the water or charcoal they may have to use costsa little something school purposes in order that they may be free to establish their own dogmatic schools? | Can Arclibishop PurctLr cite any particular ' sect or denomination that has been endowed with speciel exemption, or been given a part of the school fund for sectarian and dogmat- jcuses? If not, then how is it that * justice . and equality " entitle the Catholics to @ priv- | ilege not enjoyed by say otbersect? He | begs the whole question. It is only ! upon the assumption, indicated by his use of ‘“‘we” and ‘“you,” that the Romen Catholics in America form a distinct mitted to do so. | more; and the process itself costs a certain degree of trouble and labor which they will always avoid as long as they are per- But they can be | compeiled to apply the remedy if they are strictly followed up, and this is the business ' of the Health Commissioner, who ounght to ! find n willing co-operation from the Mayor | and police, and also from the State’s Attor- ney, if it becomes necessary to indict the ! fellows who commit the nuisance in order to make them nbate it. There is no use. then, | in discussing the propozed conduit zornosing | resolution will be an explicit notice to the gas companies of just what the city is will- ing to do, and they will then be compelled to decide definitely whether they will accept the ultimatum or not. That is all the peopls want to know for the present. The advance in the price of silver con- tinues. Under the panic caused by the aps prehension of large exportations from thg United States and a general demonetization, the price foll to 4G} pence in England per ounce. This, however, was only temporary. The price during the last week advanced to 4 peuce per ounce. 'This makes the old American dollar, if we had such dollars, equal to 90 cents per cuncs in gold as builion. It is remarkable that, while silver has been down, there have been but trifling, if any, ex- ports of the metal from the United States. The quotations in London were for the most part nominal, the sales being exceptional. The authority to coin 00,000 of subsidiary coin in the United States has opened 8 market here for that amount. The delay and difliculty in execut- ing the German scheme of demonetization has removed much of the panicky feeling which existed, and the agitation of the re- monetization of silver in this country has had a tendency to give firmnessto the mar- ket. It is more than possible that the price of silver will continue to advanco slowly but steadily, until it will resume its general relative volue with gold. In the meantime, the general remonetization of silver in the United States would greatly hasten its in- crease, and give a permanency to thatin. crease in value. There have been rumors about wown some doys that ex-Alderman and ex-Gauger Hii- DRETH, who is now summering in Canada to avoid a trial for whisky-stealing, hns been threatening to *‘squeal” on the local ring which is supposed to have been in existence during CoLviN’s term of office, unless the in- fluential members thereof bestir themselves to secure him immunity. It is also said the