Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1877, Page 12

rz THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 8, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. NEWPORT. President Hayes’ Recent Visit to Rhode Island. De Sleeps Under a Cenfennial Satin Bed-Quilt that Covered George Wash- ington. And Washes His Fingers in the Same Bowl that Andrew Jack- son Used. $ Some New and Queer Names Amongst the New Arrivals---The Yacht Races. Prom Our Oun Correrpondent. ProvIpENCE, R. L, July 4.—With the coming of the President, Newport mav certainly be £aid to have opencd—or commenced its summer season. The owners or- renters ot houses here hurried hitherward, some at the very cleventh hour, to be present at the reccption of the Chief Magistrate. From New York, from Bos- ton, from Philadelphia, from everywhere in short, taey came flocking in “on time” for the crand galaday. From Boston especially the cleventh-hour guests were behind all the others on account of old Harvard’s graduation-day, which was such a great day this year. But they mauaged to fling out their banners on the outer walls, as well as the inner oncs, in scason for the President’s admiration. And never did the red, white, and blue look so fresh and fine, or make the scene so brillisnt, as herc in the famous island city. Boston d&id her best, and Providence also, but Newport doing mo better bad all that marvelous background of sky, and sca, and shore,—that wonderful *livi green of verdure which, like an emerald of purest water, flashes back its loveliness again and again upon the eye. and makes such cou- trast 1o the artificial as can be found nowhere else. The Presideut himscld, tired, and it must be AWFTLLY BORED, AND IAND-SHAKEN TO DEATH pretty nearly, plucked up fresh courage as he took in the charming scene, as he sniffed this life-giving air,like Browning’s “‘everlasting wash of air,” and rencwed himsclf for coming recep- tions.whilehe drove, and chatted, and bowed, and smilea. There were several interesting inci- dents connected with this visit: one of the most tellable was that where Mr. Courad Ellery, an old Newporter born and bred, and one of the dircct descendants of the famous sigoer in the Declaration of Independence, sent 2 beautiful satin bed-quilt, one of the heirloows of his fam- 1ly, under which Gen. Washingtou slept in the old Revolutionary days, for President Hayes® inspection, and also with the: request that Mr. Tayes would slecp under it while he was in Newport. Of course the President, who is ready to do anythinz and has done everything from rupning the risk of apoplexy in that endless round of dinner-eating snd driving to the pains and perils of a million or two of band-shakes. is not going torefuse such a hapoy offer as an invitation to sleco beneath any kind of a bed-quilt. But a Llue satin bed-uilt under which Washington slept. and under which no one has stept_since that time—wouldn’t an: President ol this day if he had 2 erain of senti- ment be proud and happy to eleep beneath jt? That President Hayeswas thus proud and happy, we get from the fine little note that MRS, HAYES WROTE TO MI. ELLERT, with her epouse’s _autograph appended. What the present President’s dreams were be- neath this iustrious quilt does not 'trans- pire. It ghosts can walk, sarely Washing- won ousht to have walked abroad in the dreamsof his successor, in the year ot 1877, Butif he did, his successor would merely 3 it to himself in this prosaic day, which would by N0 means entertain respectfully even the ghost of Washinzion. Another pretty thing was a pretty cut-glass wash-bowl and pitcher, brought froms Europe years ago by some ancestor of our present Gov- eruor, Van Zandt. These were used the last time by Andrew Jackson, that old fire-cater, who washed his fingers in the bowl once when he was the guest of the then owner, Lient.- Gov.Collins, grandfatherof the presect Governor of the State. The howl on this present occasion was filled with ros d Mrs. Hayes, when of- fered the flowers, passed the bowl of water to Mr. Hayes, and suggested that he should follow ‘Andrew Jackson’s example, which he did, by VASIING IUS FINGERS IN IT. And it was a pretty thing, too, and full of the oldflavor of oid Newport days, that when the Presiaential party first arrived and went driving 7ormal fashion, they should drop in upon the histonan Baneroft and find him in his rose-garden gatheringa bouquet of his treasures for Mrs, Hayes. To foliow all this visit by eye and car licre, not only in the City of Newport, but from Providence down the Bayand into tlicse quaint streets, scems veritably like a story out of the Arzbian Nights. And as Brunette, who came down on the boat with the Presiden- tial party. says: “If Rhode Island s not pufed Dy all the praise she has zot from her admiring guests of the past week, thenshe is more or less than human.” “Foritis not only the President’s party who arc running over with praises,” zoes on Brunctte, **bur all those army veterans are going wild and breaking into rapiar It was all verr line in Boston, very' grand iudeed, and I thrilled and cxuited a good. deal over our Harvard triumph. where Mr. Haves and Postmaster Key, and Carl Schurz, and Gen. Devens, and Lowell made beautiful specches about the country, and Boston, and 1 WAS AS PROUD A8 A PEACOCK when I went 1o the Avoilo Club Concert - and Lcard all that exguisite programme. And then the Tabernacie Concert betore. It wasn't so swell, you know, as the Apollo, so exclusive, but it was a very ig thing with all that dra- matic waving of the very old star spangled ban- per that waved over Fort Moultrie in 1814, aud that inspired the poem about it, we know, so well. Yes, I was proud of Boston way through, for I love Buston a great deal better than any other place, a great deal better than Khode 1s- land; indecd, I aou’t thin thode Island can hold a candle to Boston, but ali the same 1 con- fess that in = other I never saw or anythine quite €0 quaint and fresh. It was like Some- thing forcign, it was so jutimate. and close, and Tome-like.™ ““Aud that is beeause it has the east wind left out of it. The Buston stiffuces and “culture,” offers Biondi vho now and then *“jaws’ at he city of her heart. T this may be, it is certain that we all ) to little Rhody just now, as we recall the eventsof the past week. There has becn a verrc and abandon about the junketings -on the littleizland which scem to have charmed - But every summer all those of us can give in to Newport all the spoils of the winter, wherever spent. And this summer sees most of the old lovers back azain in the old haunts. One of these lovers is THE AUSTRIAN CONSUL-GENERAL, Mr. Havemerer. Mr. Havemeyer always hasa finelv-appoinicd stable, but this year he has thirty-two horses. Part of them, however, are for ibe usc of another official of the German Embassy, Mr. Hugo Fritsche. The Lawrences, oo, are here, and the Van Rensselaers, of New York. And the other day there came 2 new- nzme, which bas set us all to laughing and won- dering, yet at the sume time admiring— r MR. MORNINGSTAR and family. Think of it,—Morningstar. 1t puts all the other fine names out. ¥ Fancy,” says® Ion Carlos, *being introduced to Miss Morn- ngstar, and asking Miss Morningstar to take a cup of coflee, or ice-cream; or what is more, to change tbat magnificent euphoniousness to Smith or Brown.” “Which, if I were the morning star, I should never, never do,” returns Blondina. Another odd name from New York is that of Luckey- meyer. But there is a greater number of old pames, we hsve been accustomed to year after year, than of new ones. The other day I came across a gentleman who told me he had been bere for some part of the summer every year for sixteen vears. The first summer was the first year of the War of the Rebellion, “and I remember,” be said, “‘of walking over from the Fillmore House, next door to the old Belle~ vue House, and listening to the band Lr{ing to play *Dixie!” They would get nalf tbrough when the fierce Northern spirit, which was just waking up then, would come out ‘WITH A SHARP HISS or a sharper word, and the leader would swing off into the ¢ Star-Spangled Banner,” or some other Northern favorite. I had great fun in asking for “Dixie™ every now and then; and I would preface my request with the names of some well-known visitors who, like myself, de- sired to bear it. It wasinvariably met with a ‘iss, however, until at last I couldn’t get the ‘band to play it for love nor money.” This erals of the Army of the Potomac told me the reminded me of what oneof the Gen- | other day, in regard to Bayard Taylor’s beauti- ful poem which ne recited before thie veterans at the Providence Opera-House. At the verse— One holier san awakes at last For North and South the blithe, bright hours; No more upon oar dead are cast The once divided gifts of flowers; But where the live-oak hides in moss, And where the plumy larches toes ‘Their arms above the maytlower's bed, And where wide waves of prairie crawl To meet, far-west, their mountamn wall, The People’s voice sava: ** Peace to ali! We honor equal dead.” a slight hiss arose from some of these fierce Nortliern spirits, but before it Lad a chance to grow, the group of officers who heard it com- menced a round of applause. Afterwards, one of tnesc officers, speaking to Bayara Taylor, commended his courage for that verse, AND DARING TO GIVE IT on this army occasion, when all the old memo- ries are fresh. Mr. Taylor's reply was that he had thought it all over, but that he ielt that he was right. and in the right he dared 1o zo ahead. It seems odd to us_who sit in the balconies of thesc ovcasions, and over whom Time has cast a little softening of the old war memories, that the 51d fierce spirit should break out on gala oc- casions like this, but the fierce war spirit of the last winter’s campaign shows us how sharp the memories of some of the old fighters stiil are. But to give another fact a little nearer to the present time_about Newport, let me tell how the hearts of the yachtlovers are to be made glad by the coming of the races this summer into Newport waters. I speak of the races for the Commodore’s and Vice-Commodore’s cups of the New York Yacht Club. Commodore Kaneis the Tgresent commander, and he loves Newport. ¢ late Commodore Kingsland did not cotron to Newport, hence the struzgle that. was alvmga going on_about coming here. And 50 with the races and whispered steeple-chases 2nd polo the season promises fairer than ever, and Newport beckous, on every side of her fascinations, to her lovers and admirers to enter her charmed precinets. N. P i REPLY TO GROVER. To the Editor of The Tribune. CmicaGo, July 6.—While I believe that a man should not heed the barking of adog, I fecl impelled to take notice of a letter signed by one Grover published in to-day’s issuc, not because I think his driveling will have any in- fluence with the people of our city, but simply because, as a matter of charity to Mr. Grover, Iwouldsave him from further exposing his folly and ignorance by proving ,him an i noramus and an ass in the light of his own ut- terances. Mr. (. has dipped into the subject of Judsism much 1s that young man on the Eatonsville Gazetfe studicd Chinese metaphysics (vide Pickwick Papers). He has read an articie in the Encyclopedia. That article does not save him from being an jgnoramus and an uss. His first fling is at circumeision, which he supposes to be a purely Jewish custom. Allow me to inform him_that thisis commonto ul- most all Oriental nations, and that Turl Arabs, and_other nations practice it to-da Permit me further to tell hiw that it is a pure Iy sanitary law (similar 1o the dietary laws in t{nis respect); that physicians of all nations have recommended the custom; that eircumncision ac- counts for the fact that svphilitic diseases are almost unknown amoug our people. Mr. G. next turns to marriages, and attacks the exclusiveness of our forefathers, who, fol- lowing the example of Abraham, marricd near relatives. Where did that man get Ins educa- tiou? If he had ever read “ Cornclius Nepos™ (a book accessible to the merest tvroinLatin) he would have known that among all ancient nations marriage between brother and sister was not ouly sllowed, but also commonly practiced. Themistocles and Cimon were buth married to their own sisters. So the ancient Jews only did what all other uations of the age practiced. But in connéction with these subjects this man Grover utters 3 maliznant lie. This in refer- enve tothe recent. conversion in Indianapolis ‘The papers fully stated that every effort was made by the Rabbl to prevent the oceurrence, and that thd operation was finally performe only at the carnest and persistent request of the convert. In fact,—and this is where Judaism is exclusive,—our religion forbids all proselytism Mr. Grover’snext misstatementof actual facts oecurs when he attacks the Jews for not freely intermal g with those of another race or faith, and again represents this as a purely dJewish custol Man alive! Does he not knoy that no Catholic will solemnize the nuptials of a Catholic and an * heretic,” unless upon the prontise of the couple to rear their children in the Catholic faith; that if a Catholic marry an heretic without entering into thnis obligation, the former is excluded from communion or ab- solution, and the marriage regarded as null and void by the Church? On the contrary, our re- ligion does not forbid such intermarriaze, and in late years it has become of rather fre- quent occurrence, though but rarely productive of much connubial felicity. Fie, Mr. Grover, your case must be desperately weak, that you ihink you cannot save itexcept by lying through a stone wall. > But the cloven hoof shiows in_ the real grist of Mr. G.s letter. According to him, the Jews arc fast absorbing wealth, and, ss money-lenders on a large scale, are laying all nations under contri- bution. ““And Satan came also.” Here speaks envy, pure and unadulterated. This last wail of yours, Mr. G., is cchoed by thousands. Every dissipated noblewnan abroad, who sees his pater- nal acres (wasted at the gaming-table and with lewd women) pass into the hands of the thrifty Jew, utters the same cry. Every gutter-snipe and sot too lazy to work, who sees the dilizent Jew get rich; cvery Communist and “ Petro- Teur” who is willng to live on his hard-working neighbor, repeats it. Faith, Mr. G., you have chosen a goodly company. As regards the standine of our race, or the scandal which has given rise :to all this corre- epondence, I have nothing to add. Where a Bryant has spoken, it but behooves us to listen. I am willing to rest our case and leave its decis- jon to our felow-men. But I trust that £ have shown that every Line in Mr. Grover’s letter was replete with ignorance and malice, and hence Mr. Grover is an ignorsmus and an ass, “quod erat demonstrandum.” Very respectfuliy, LEW FRIEDLANDEE. — ——— CHICAGO RIVER, [An Enumeration of Some of the Adeantages nf Chi- cago as a Smnwmer-Resort, and of the Invigorating In- Jiuences of Its Iirer.) “All praise to the river, the bezutiful river, That lazilv flows o'er the plains of the West: The perfume 6o rich on 118 banks, may it ever Increase in its fragrance and rareness of zest! The man<ions that ehadow its dark, cooling sur- ace, Reach upioward the clouds in their majesty thero; To clevate gram thelr intent and their purpose— In grandearso grand, O so shapely and fair! The houses that pack, 'mid romantic eurround- nae. In araceful dimensions arc epread o'er the plains; Pour out & red fluid in fragrauce aboundi Till its bosom 15 crimsoned aguin and ag; ain, © the virtue that riscs in vapor and mist From its cool, shady waters, in Summer-time's Teaven, 3 15 the boon of the babe, for it swells ont the list or !.h'fifl: fortunate ones that are summoned to eaven. Then ]n'lm could forsake it—that wee bonny vil- are ‘That lics on the banks of the Stream of the Bl ‘Whose lowlands it waters for husbandman's fl'l}‘- age, And woose air is o sweet as—O give us a rest! Trisuvs. ———— Tarkish Daintles. Temole Kar. A collection of sweet temptations much car- ried about in Pera, is of the “stick-jaw" de- scription; the black, brown, red, white, and yellow substances are disposed on a flat metal dish divided into compartments radiating from the centre, where there is a revolving stick which the appreciative twirl round, and the dealer, with an iron skewer that serves for all, scoops out 2 halfpenny or & farthing lick from the sweet at which the point may stop. But these dealers are ‘generally Persians; our Os- manli is of a superior order, and he gra 'waits the avgmach of customers; they quic gather round, among them two little Turkish girls under the charge of an old man in a cotton aressing-gown aud large white turban, The little maidens are on their way tothe day-school of the quarter, for their gold-embroidered school-bags are slung over their shoulders, but they stop soberly at sizht of the “scheker,” and enter upon a serious bargain on the subject of candy, exacting, with much show_of - expe- rience, the largest lumps obtainable for ten sams; they are, however, slightly distracted uring the negotiations by the rival charms of the “mohalibe ” which an Albanian is _dispens- ing at a neighboring house door. ¢ Mohalibe " is a sort of cold jelly composed of ground rice and milks it 1s served in saucers, powdered with ;L:g;:r ::gogpnlnmed rvflt]h rofematers in the e 8 lump of clotted cream, called caimal, is added. There is nothing prettier nl:& more tempting igmm the mohalibe “trays, when the white jelly i8 covered with a clean wet cloth and surrounded with gayly-colored and gilded saucers, while a richer display of ornamental porcelain rises in tiers at the back. Then there are the slim metal arrow-shaped spoons, and the oriental-looking tlask of rose-water with its slender neck. The costume of the *‘ mohali- bedji” completes the picturc: he wears the broad Albanian ez, with a ponderous dark blue taseel, and a large striped cloth is bound round him like an apron. .was my .had left Berenice, a party of armed LIFE IN. EGYPT. How the Orientals Get Rid of Ob- noxious Personages. Scientific Murder Through the Instrn- mentality of Dietetic Poisoning. Mussulmans Think It Sinfal to Kill Animals, but Take Human Life Without Scruple. From Mr. Senior's Journal. Mr. and Mrs. Lieder, Hekekyan Bey [an American who had held high positionsin Egypt] and his wife, and Mr. Bruce drank tea With us. 1t is & remarkable indication of Orlental mor- als that, of our four Egyptian guests, two— Mrs. Lieder and Hekekyan—believed themselves 1o have drunk poisoned coffec. In cach case it was deteeted by its peciliar and extreme bitter- ness, and not enough was taken ta do serious mischief. Mrs. Licder received hers at Nazich Hanem's; Hekekyan’s was given tolhim at Meneele Pasha’s. 1t was in 1840. He was at that time out of favor with Mchemet Ali; his boldness of conversation, and perhaps his bold- ness of character, partly natural and partly ac- quired in England, untit him for Eastern courts. Tle has scldom coutinucd long in favor or long in diserace. His talents, knowledze,and in- dustey foree him into cmployment; and some unguarded speech or the performance of some duty offensive to his master, or to his Minister, " oR TO IIS COOK, OR TO HIS BARBER, turns bim out: when they cannot do without i is recalled. h""“il:“lzs«io,” e said to us, ““after the bombard- ment of Acre, some weeks passed without any news from Ibrakim Pasha, or from his army in Syria. A strong suspicion arose that he had made his peace with the Sultan at his father’s expense, and that Mchemet Ali's reign and life were drawing to a close. “Iwas then the cngincer charzed with the defenses of the coast. We were expecting an attack from Sir Charles Napier, and I had been to Rosetta to inspect the batteries. It wasona tempestuous night that I returned to Alexau- dria, and went to the palace on the shore of the former Island of Pharos, to make my report to Mebemet Ali “The halls and passages which I used to find full of mamelukes and officers, strutting about in the fullness of their contempt for a Christian, were empty; without encountering a single attendant I reached hisroom overlooking the sea; it was dimly lighted by a few candles of bad Exryptian wax with cnormous untrimmed wWicks. Here, atthe end of s divan, I found him rolled up ina sort of ball, solitary, mo- tionless, apparently absorbed in thought. The wares were breaking heavily on the mole, and I expeeted every justant the casements to be blown in. The roar of wind andsea was almost, awful, but he did not seem conscious of it. #] stood beiore him nt. Suddenly he said, as if speakinz to himeelf, ‘I think I can trust 1brahim.? Again he was silent for some time, and then desired me to fetch Motus Bey, his Admiral. 1 found him and brought him to the Viceroy. Neither of them spoke, until the Viceroy, after looking at kim steadily for some minutes, said to me, ‘1IE 13 DRUNK ; take him away.” Idid so; and so ended my visit, without makinz any rcport.” + \Vas Motus drunk?” Tasked. «Hle was drunk,’” answered Hekekyan, * as all the naval officers were; they expeeted to be sent out to fight Napier, and kept. drinkiog to keep up their spirits. “The Viceroy,” he added, “1was not pleased at my having witncssed his cmotion or his neg- lected state; but what completetl my disgrace having alluded some months after to the events of that night. He immediately sent me off to Cairo, on a_trifling errand about the fortitications of ' the Citadel, and kept me there for threc months. “ At the end of thattime I received a sum- mons from Meneele Pasha, the man who has just returned from Eupatoria, who was the Min- gstcr of War. He placed me by him on his divan andgave mea pipe, but said nothing. Then came coffce. 1 juet sipped mine, and found it totally unlike anything [ had ever tasted before; it was nanscous and intensely bitter. I gave it back to the servant. Mencele looked hurd at me, but said nothing. I sat a few minutes longer, waiting for him to tell me why he had sent for me, and. hearing nothing, went awar, without a word having passed between us, Half an hour after Mehemet Ali arrived from Alexaudria at the Citadel. < «J cannot but suspect that I had become dis- acreeable, and that he had directed Menecle to dispose of me before his return to Cairo. It certainly secmed that the only purpuse for which Meaecle summoned me was that 1 MIGHT DRINK TJAT CUP OF COFFEE.” «But,” I eaid, *4if Mehemet Ali wisbed to re- moved you, might hic nos have had recourse to a more certain expedient?” “#There were ohjections,” answered Hekek- san, *in my casc, to the use of the dagger or the cord. 1 was not then, as I am . nov, alone: one of my brothers-odaw was his Primc Minfster, another was his first interpreter. 1t would bave been inconven- jent to part, with them, and they certainly would have quitted him. « [le wished me to dic, but be did not wish to be suspected of having killed me. I believe that it was for the same purposc that he sent mea few months after, at the beginning of the Tiot keason, Lo pass some montls in the South- ern Desert; and I am not sure that ne did not take means to iucrease the dangers of the desert. ‘The only place at which I balted was Berenice, in the Red Sea, where I spent a month,—time enough for my sojourn there to be known at Caire. A few days after I isharcem arrived there, inquired anxiousty for me, and, finding that I'was zone, followed me; Tuckily I left Komsko on the Nilebefore them, and in my boat I was safc, for the Bisharccm are not aquatie.”? “Arc they coarse or scientific poisoners,” I asked, “in Erypte" “8cientific,” answered Lieder. “ The poisons are vezetable, aud are not often intended to produce an immedfate result, or cven to operate by a eingle dose: they USDERMINE THE HEALTH BY FREQUENT REPE- TITION, The custom of giving coffec to every visitor affords great facilitics to what may be called dietetic poisoning. 1n Europe, unless you live in the same housc with a mau, it is difficult to poison him unless he dines with you, and, even then, without accompliees. The' accomplices cannot be casily obiained, and they would possess o dangerous eecret, which would make them your masters. You scldom can repeat the dose, it must therefore be violent. The fact of his baviog dined with you would be casily proved, and his death by poison connected wit! it. The poisonings of Europe, therefore, are kn_\ily-golsnnings. “In Egypt a man may drink coffee in the courseof the morning at ten different houses, A singleaccomplice is ail that is necessary; there is no difficulty in prevailing on him toaceept the office; it is as natural to him as any other sevr- Jve, He does not think much_about it, and is “nol likely totaik about it. If he does, vou oison him, or hsyve him stranzled and bury him in your garden. You run little risk by doing §0; nothing that happens ina man’s house is known. For most purposes, indeed for all purposcs, exceptopposing the will of the RSha, a man's house is his castle in_Exypt more really then it is in England. The reverence paid to the harem extends to evervthing that is under the same roof. The Egyptian thinks bimself well recompensed for being a slave abroad by being absolute at home. He would not aceept frecdom or security for himself if theé condition were that it sbould extend to his houschold.” . *Jn this country,” sald Hekekyan, * the dis- appearance of an unprotected man I3 NOT NOTICED. If I were to walk out to-morrow and not to return no one except Mme. Hekekyan would think about it. She woula b¢ alarmed the first night, and more so the second, and on the third she would give me up for lost. But she would infer that I had been removed by the higher powers, and that. if she made com- plaints or even inquirics, she would share my fate; and in a short time it would be forzotten, at least among the Turks, that Hekekyan Bey had ever existed. * “MIr. Lieder,” he added, “says truly that our ‘poisonings are scldom rapid. {\’hcn the exist- ence of 2 man has become offensive to the mas- ter, heisimpoverished ; his villages are restmed 3 claims agaiust him are countenanced; it is whispered ahout that it 1s imprudent to visit himor to receive him ; hesoon finds himself alone as if it were In the désert. A Mussulman who has no resources, who neither sports, nor gam- bles, nor converses, nor reads, nor writes, nor walks, nor rides, nor trayels, soon smokes him- self into dyspensia. If he be, what few Mus- sulmaus are. a man of quick seusibility and self- respect, he is also oppressed and irritated by the intolerable feeling of wrong. Then perhaps he is suddenly recalled. He is again in favor—he is 5000 to be again in power; at every visit that e pays to the palace or to one of the divans, he =T gets o cup of coffee stightly impregnated; the moral and the physical excitement combine. His"death follows an illness - 1 WIICH HAS NOT BEEN SCANDALOUSLY SIORT.” “The remark,” said Lieder, * that Oricntals are not to be judgead according to European no- tions, is 50 obvious that it has become trite; on no point is the diffcrence between the two minds more striking than in the respect for life. ¢ The European cares nothing for brute Jife; he destroys the lower animals without seruple whenever it suits his convenicnce, his pleasure, or his caprice; he . shoots his_favorite liorse an his favorite dog as soon as they become too old {for service, £ “The Mussulman preserves the lives of the lower animafs solicitously. Though he consid- ers the dog impure, and never makes & friend of him, he thinks it sinful to kil him, and allows the neighborhood, and even the strects of his town, to be infested by packs of masterless dogs whom we should get tid of in London or Berlin in one day. The beggar docs not ven- ture to destroy his vermin—he puts them ten- derly on the eround. There are hospitals in Cairo for superunnuated cats,where they are fed at the public expense. But to human life e is utterly indiferenc: be extinguishes it with much tess scruple thun that with which we shoota horse past his work.” “ Abbus, eald Helokvan, “when a_bor, bad his pastry-cook bastinadoed todeath. Mehemet Ali mildly reproved him for it, as we should correct achild for_ killinga butterflys he plained to his little grandson shat _such things ought not to be done without a motive.” “When Nazlch flanem,” I asked, “DBUKNT HER SLAVE TO DEATHL FOR GIVING HER COLD COFFEE, did her father interfere *No,” snid Hekekyan, * he could not. That took place in a hareem. The murdering the messenger at Shooora is another instance; it would have cost little to shut up the poor old man until any danger of his telling from whom he came was over: but it was simpler to drown him. Perhaps, however, in that case Mchemet All merely rollowed instructions which he mizht have thought it dishonorable to disobey. There was probably at the bottom of the letter some mark indicating how the person who brought it was to be disposed of, as we write, ‘Burn this note as soon as you have read it.’ " “That incident.” I said, *‘is mentioned by Cadoleone and Barrault in their history of the East in 1839 and 1340, and they aflinn that the messenger was drowned for having refused to disclose the name of his emplover.” “Tnat is a mistake,” said Hekelyan. “T was the only person present when Menemet Ali re- ceived the messenger. He was obviously o man of the lowest class, who would not have refused to disclose anything. Mchemet Ali asked no questions, and indeed had none to ask.’ e —e———— CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM, To the Editor of The Tribune. Cnicaco, July 6.—Like thousands of others, T have read with the greatest of interest your able articles on Civil-Service reform. In your polemic with Mr. Raster, of the Staats-Zeitung, regarding Mr. Ham’s fitness for the Appraiser- ship, Mr. Raster finally takes refuge in the most ridiculous equivocation. It matters not what Mr. Ham imay privately think of President Hayes’ Southern policy any more than it mat- ters to the German Government what its civil officers may think about the war between Russia or what they think of Bismarck or thought of Manteuffel. But it is of the most vital fmportance to the success of the endeavors of our present Admin- istration to reform the Civil Serviee whether its officers oppose or support those reforms. It will be next to impossible to carry them into effect with the ci ing them, sueering at them, writing and speaking against them, and using their influence for their defeat. As to the individual Ham, it is well known he is not at all en rapport with the Administration on that most important subject. He is, there- fore, not a proper person_ to Keep at tie head— nay, nor at the foot—of that or any other public oflice. Iwould like to ask Mr. Raster the following questions: 1. Would he, after having fully determined to bring up his children in the doctrines of Mar- tin Luther as the only true. faith, retain in his services or engage for lhnt}mrpusc any Roman- ist educator in the country? 2, Wouid he, as a member of a Board of Edu- i ing fully determined not to permit ‘hastisement in its schools), re- tain_onits force the best of pedarogues who would persist in whipping schol he, a8 a wood business-man, after having fully determined to henceforth do a cash business only, retain in his employ the best salesman he ever had, if that salesman persist- ed in selling goods on time? 4. Would be, as Chief of Police, after having fully determined to drive the gamblers from the city, be fool enough to think that he could make any headway in this dircction with Captalos, Sergeants, and patrolmen for the execution of his orders who should insist that 2 gambler has a perfect right to fleece a citizen out of his money in cstablishments kept for that very purpose? 5. Would he advise his wife, after she had fully determined to muke some radical change in her system ot housckeeping, to retain in her service an otherwisc excellent servant who was directly opposca and wouid refuse to conform to this change? 5 6. Would he—>but let this suffice for the present. Let him answer these and he shall have more, from one who is thorouzhly imbued with, CivIL-SERVICE REFORM. —_— ERNST PRUSSING. To the Editor of The Tribune. CmicAGo, July 7.—Were you not a little se- vere upon Mr. Prussing in your reply to his communication of Friday morning? Can the public blame Mr. L Prussing, and his “ think- ing part of the community,” for being diszust- ed at the supreme impudence of Mr. Pickard in offering his resignation to this august represen- tative of the ** thinking partof the community,” giving only the flimsy and—to the majority of the Board—unmanly reason that his asststant had spit in his face at least 365 times cach year during his occupancy of the position of assistant, and that the ‘“freeze-out maejority ” of the Board had patted said assistant on the back and said * do it again.” Mr. Pickard objected to this as be- ing insults of the most palpably intentional kind. But *the thiuking part of the commu- nity” doubtless rightly construed this treat- ment 1s a part of the legimate emoluments of the office of Superluteni?ent. and Mr. L. Prus- s(ng is doubtless justly offended at Supt. Pick- ard’s refusal to take his pay in this cmrent coin %repnred by the immaculate majority of the oara for his especial remuneration. However easy it may be to ‘‘ manufacture public opinion* (according to Prussing), Mr. P. will find it rather difficult to manufacture sufli- cient public opinion to keep ** The Great De- troit Freezer " in the position of Superintendent of Schools of Chicago. It remains to be scen whether the incoming members of the School Board will stand in with the remaining Ring members to carryout thelong-cherished scheme of appointing the *‘Freezer” to Mr. Pickard's place. - It is rumored that the Mayor has tried to cover up bis part in the scheme by appowting a_majority of Doty men and just™ a suflicient number of anti-Doty men to make a show of pood faith.” A prominent man among a certain_element of our voting eattle said to me a few days ago that the Mavor would no more dare to appoinut a wajority of anti-Doty men to the School Board than to remove Mr. Hickey, and that the Mayor thought too much of the votes of this clement to do o. If the Mayor is catering to that clement now Is just the time for the tax-paying citizens to find it out. SELDEN Fism. REST WANTED. To the Editor of The Tribune. Carcaco, July 7.—Will you do a numerous class of unfortunates a favor by givingus short space in your paper? There are hundreds of ug in this city looking for work. Wearce strangers here, and mostly good mechanics, and willing to work at most anything. We get afewodd jobs once in a while, that keep us from starving, but we have po decent place to sleep in, unless we dive into oue of the 10-cent hells, where sleep is impossible. These places are infested with vermin and by the worst of characters. - Is there no one here that would run a clean and comparatively select place where we can rest at night ! The new vasrant law prevents us walking, the streets: what arc wetodo! I am sure it would pay, and bea blessinz to those whom force of circumstances and hard times compel to be numbered among the | “TraMPs.” —_—— TO THE POLICE OF CHICAGO. Gather us in from the silent steeet, Alley or doorway, where'er we mcet; Drag us in from o cheerless home: For the broken laws, let a fine atone. Gather us In; {he power is given: We have no friends, ualess in Heaven. Drag us In o weary and worn— The eport of the Judge, and rabble’s scorn. Yea, gather nsin: “tis a noble deed, ‘To crush azainia broie-cd reed— * 'l:n scarca and hant the city o’er, That fallen women may 1all yet lnwer, i Tuc Erciva, 1 to love her very dearly, and then eve EUROPEAN GOSSIP. The British Royal Scandal==-=A Fairy Tale Thereanent. A Cosack Sentinel-How & Cossack’ Treated His Unfaithful Wife. A Noble Lady Crusading Against Herod i§ =--Bathing in Wallachia. A FAIRY STORY. Lucy Harner's Paris Letter to Philarlelphia Tetegraph. A tremendous scandal in high life has recent~ 1y set all London to tattling. The details there- of have only reached Paris within the last few days. Possibly, they may not yet have crossed the Atlantic. . Ot course [could not think of giving them, but will tell you, instead, a pretty Tittle fairy-story. Once upon a time a lovely Princess came out of the North to marry a gallant young Prince, who was heir to the throne of a great nation. Now the gallant young Prince nforesald was not quite so steady as his doting mamma and his fu- ture subjects might bave wished, but everybody said, O, the Princess is so0 beautiful and gentle that he will be surc y- thing will be sure to go on right.” But, in- stead of devoting himself to his charming wife, who was so good andl gracious that. there never was anything In the world seen like her, the Prince went a what-you-may-calling after strange goddesses, and was not a bit betteratter bis marriage than ‘before. At last he fell very sick, and everybody was sorry for him, and the Princess nursed him tenderly, and everybody said: *““Now he will be a better man forever- more.” Lut, like another potentate of a very hot country, who, when he fell ill, resolved to enter a mouoastery, and, when he zot well, re- nounced all thouzhts of monastic seclusion, the Prince soon went to frolicking a little worse than before. Andso it cha the Princese, his wife, happening to drop in to pay him a little visit, fovnd one of the strange goddesses aforesaid installed in that innermost shrine which she had considered consecrated to her own image. Whereupon she thought it would be a good idea to take a to sec her brother, who was little trig King of the Isles of Pocsy (the same where burning Sappho loved and sung), with intent to journey omward to her own northern home, and never, never to come back any more. So she went away in a very great hurry, and cvervbody sald, ** Why is the Princess in such haste to go and see her brother?”” However, the trouble was soon found out. But the poor, pretty Princess was not suffered to return to her own home, and take refuge with her father and mather, as a wile of meaner degree, who had been so insulted, might have. For the Royal | mamma of her husband, and the Ministers “of the Court, and all others in authority, sobegeed, and praycd, and commanded her return, that she came back at last. And the Prince met her in Babylon the Great, and they were scen at the theatre together, and went bome together tothe capital where the Prince’s mamma refizns, and of course the Prince will recommence the same game at the very first opportunity. It is wonderful what curious thingsdo happen in fairy-land sometimes. London. Correspundence New York Times. Society in London continues to make the notorious coolness that has existed for some time between the Prince and Princess of Wales a subject of comment wherever it meets to talk and otherwise amuse itself. The eekly Dis- patch has referred to the subject through the ‘pen of a writer who is known in private society asa strong Conservative, givinghis political views to the Globe and his gossipto the Dispatch. At the Horse Show on Thursday the public arecting of the Princess in the Agricultural all was most enthusiastic. Her Majesty’s subjects never lose an opportunity of showing their especial esteem for Princess Alexandra. ‘The Prince and Priucess were accompauied by their threo children. When the royal lady ap- peared, the great crowd which surged to and fro in all parts of the cnormous hall cheered again and aenin, The Princess Louise was. with the party, and when the Prince of Wales led his wife' to a seat beside his sister, the shout of welcome > went on, repeated from floor. to mallery. Demonstrations of this kind shouwid give the Prince a pause. The people want to tike him—they try 10 believe int him; but they don’tcare to see seé- ond-rate pretty actresses sent for to receive his compliments, when real talent, masculine and feminine, is overlooked. He was expected at the (iaiety vesterday, to be present at Mr. Con- way's benetit. **He'd have come,” said a man in the pit, *if Vance or ‘Jolly Nash' had been acting Juliet.”” The play was **Romeo and Ju- liect.” It is not pleasant to hear these tnings said and applanded. Perbaps it may be consid- ered unkind to repeat them. But cxalted rank has exalted duties, and the Prince of Wales carries a heavy responsibility. His manners and tastes make the fashion. If he smiles on uxor- ious plays, they become popular; if he iznores the sanctity of the domestice hearth, license ana loose manners break in hish pluces, to be reflect~ ed bazk in the lowest ranks. It is hard work to be a successful moral Prince, but it has got tobe. doue, and tie Prince of Wales does not lack the incentive of a pretty, graceful, and amiable partner. COSSACKS. Correspondence London Standard. Approach to Giursevois now forbidden by Cossack sentries, good-tempered but inexorable, perfectly stupid, but firm as fate. No one i§ suffered to approach without a pass from the Russian authorities. Every footpath even is guarded, and the Commaundant de Place him- self hastaken up his quarters in the reilway station. Iconfess that Cossacks are to me a source of delight everlasting. Their good-humored inso- lence, their self-possession, their pleasant disre- gard of the mere foreiguer. are traits umweary- ing to observe. It would have been impossible for any human being other than a Cossack to smile so blandly for such a length of time asdid one of the sentries who stopped me yesterday. A burly mereenary he was, with good broad 1ace, burnt red, yellow hair, ana bleached mustache. Tle stopped my horses with a poaderous hand, came to the carriage door and smiled. 1 pro- duced various papers, all of which he took with wood-humored contempt. as one takes a toy when a child insists. He studied them—upside down—with ing affectation of interes - and smiled more broadly, more amiably than before. 3 T thought all was right and told the driver to proceed. The Cossack, all his teeth on view, said one syllable, which meant “no," and stood there, erinning in the kindest manner, but fixed as the god Terminus. A crowd of unfortunate Roumanians surged round him, each provided with a pass in_the native tongrue. He honored these also with 8 passing swmile sometimes, but his best attentions were all for me. I talked, argued, entreated, and reviled him, without Jess- ening for an_instant that beam of complacent amiavility. Not a word did hereply, and I grew silent, hushed at length by the fascination. Then was suddenly conv 10 me the interpretation of that mystic passaze in *Wonderland,” where the Cheshire cat leavesa grin behind even after he had vanished. ‘The Cossack’s ** bright smile haunts me still.”” ITe nad, however, a companion of more serions cast, who finally was persuaded to inform us that a1 oflicial might be found some miles away across the cornfield.. Thither we drove, pursued to the very town by our Cossack’s beaming fea- tures. And at the camp we found Col. Orloff, who received us with that perfcet courtesy and soldicr-like frankness wherein Russian oflicers are distinguished «bove all whom I have met. His was the regiment shelled yesterday, and he rave me the account. Under guidance of his orderly we reached the town across the corn- fields, and_to our great disappointment were dcebarred from triumpling over that Cossack Jjester, Correspnndsnce London News. The Cossack cavalrymen are all comparatively young men, and bave young wives. \Whenever toey set out on a campaign, they buy 2 white scarf or handkerchief to take with them. At the clzse of their period of service, they return to their villages, and are met by the whole pop- ulation. Now a wifc Who las been unfaithful to her lord kneels down before him in the road, puts her face in the dust, and places her hus- band’s foot upon herueck. This is a confession ilt, and nt the same time a prayer for for- If the husband then covers his wife's h the white scarf, it means that he for- aives her. and agrees to forget her fault. If the white bandkerchief is not produced, the woman returns straight to her father’s house without azain entering her husband’s dwelling, and a divorce is :pronounced.. A tragical story was told me by a soldier: A returning Cossack was informed’ by a mali- cious neighibor before he reached his home that bis wife bad becn unfaithful. His comrades perceived that he had all” of a sudden taken to drink and dissipation, although he was. not a man Ziven to these vices. \When ho reached his village his wife, as he fearéd, came forward, knelt down, and put her Iuc?' in the dust at his ) i cod that, one day, feet. The spectators saw him look at heras she lay in the dust for a long time. Two or three times he put his hand in his breast for the . white handkerchief as if be werw going to cover the repentant woman's head,—two or three times the movement was restrained. Finally, as if driven by a sudden “impulse, he drew his sword, aud with one stroke severed her head from her-body. The punishment for the crime was two months’ imprisonment, while the ma- lelous nelzhbor who had taken the trouble to informn him beforehand of his wife's misconduct was sentcnced to Siberia for three years. SAVING THE INNOCENTS. foncure Contouy's Londan Letier to Cincinnatf Com- ‘mercial. A very interesting, and at the same time un- obtrusive, work, has been going on in'London through the devotion of a truly “noble” lady— the Countess Ebersburg. Some years ago this Countess lost her two babes, and she then con- seerated her fortuneand her life to the sinzle -work of saving the lives of children. As she began to.cxarine the subject, she met with the statement that in England 200,000 children die annually under the age of 5, and of tiese 3 per ceut die of preventable causes. She wrote to tie Registrar-General to ask if this rate of in- fant mortality is really true, and received con- firmation of it. ‘Then sheset herself tothetask of going around and visiting the poor and con: versing with mothers. She found these poor mothers so hopelessly ianorant of the most pri- mary laws of health, and, if they knew them, so cntirely unable (from dradgery and poverty) to practice them, that shie (the Countess) gradual- 1y felt her way to some kind of practical method. In the first place she iostituted weckly mother’s-meeting, which might be attended by those who were able, at which she gave them instructions in economizing their voor means, and in the kinds of food most nourishing, and answered, from the best author- ities, the mothers’ questions as to treating their own and their children's ailments. The Count- ess is highly cducated and quite able to impart information. As an iflustration of how mifute- 1y she studies the situation of these mothers, 1 may mention that she found that, in_their de- sire to make their littls means go as far as pos- sible, they were pretty geaerally in the habit of buyine a salt-herring Tor breakfast, becanse it can be bought for a penny. But the herring makes the husband or son thirsty, and after it he zoes and spends two-pence for beer. So she ersuades the mother that the berring is a de- usive cconomy, and the instruction bas been justified. The Countess nextd drew upon her own means, and those of her friends, to provide Malted Food Extract and similur things for ail- ing children, and, by spending about £400 a year in this wav, saved many lives. The ill-spelt, tear-blotted letters of gratitnae showered . upon _her by grateful mothers are pre- served by her as proudly as any warrior preserves the medals that reward his sucvess- ful slaughters. No cry of mother or chila has ever been unbeeded. Gradually shic has extended her plans to include a Chil- dren’s Retreat in the country for babies whose lives depend on a change of air, and a day nursery, where women may leave their children in good care while they are at work. Her work is now arranged in districts amid the poorest parts of Loudon, and she distributes some 9,000 pounds of baby food per aunum. Instruction as to health is ;Irivcn in four different centres. A great many leaflets containing simple san- itary instructions are also distributed. The crusade of this gentle Countess azainst Herod, though it has attracted no attention in Rogal circles licre, scems to have been heard of-clsc- where, and’ the Empress of Russin last year sent the Countess a donation_for her work and a2 warm letter of sympathy. The Grand Duchess of Baden has this year done the same. Ifa few more ladies in London were to zo and do like- wise, especially those wealthy and titled ladies who, the physicians say, are often invalids through sheer lack of interest in anvthing at all, the Reaistrar-General’s ugly statistics woald 500D show a crange, and the annual massacre of the innocents assume less frightful propor- tions. It israther a singular example of the difference betiween the laws of cause and effect in the physical and the moral worlds that the death of 1wo babes in a home of luxury should bave led to the salvation of many in the homes of poverty. ITIE DETHRONED SULTAN. Correspondence Philadelphia Press. CoNSTANTINOPLE, June l.—Whatever the English may think of Midhat Pasha, he does not here rank very high for scrupulousness of purpose. The mysterions death of Abdul Aziz has clouded h.5 reputation, and no lapse of time will restore its lusture. Tobe Sultan is kindly disposed toward his dethroned brother, Murad, and would willingly give him his liberty, but he fears that a party might be formed to replace ‘him at the head of power again. He never was as incapable as he wassaid tobe. He had still brains enough left, and with alittle repose could have resumed the relns of Government. This was not permitted, for he saw_himself sur- rounded by his uncle’s assassins. The spectre of his tragical death was ever present to his imagination, and he recoited with horror from contact with men who might betray him as they had done Abdul Aziz. Poor Murad! He now lies. really a prisoner of state in the gloomy Palace ot Top-Kapou, on the Seraglio Point, a residence_haunted with blood and crime throuzhout the Byzantine and Ottoman annals. He lives, but he knows not at what moment his chamber may be entered and he may be strangled, or, what he would re- zard as equally bad. be drazged forth to be again placed on the throne to serve the purposes of conspirators, who, whenever it suited them, would turn their swords against him. His mother is constantly by his side. She tastes his food before it touches his lips, and allows no one to approach him until she knows the object of hisvisit. His beautiful daughter Blanche, the Circassian, whom he had rearcd up toan Europ.an education in the family of his private physician, is with him also. As soon as he was called to the turone he had a part of the harem fitted up for her exclusive use in a style of the most luxurious splendor and expense. Her apartments, whose embellishments cost nearly 100,000 francs, was just finished as Murad was forced to abdieate. With her refined and culti- vated mind she must keenly feel the solitude to which she is now condemne:l, unless she tinds consolation in sympathizing with the sorrows of Lier fatber. A WALLACIIIAN BATH. Cirrespondence London imes. About Galatz there is stauding water that on- Iy dries up late in the summer, and the hot air smells like the fat sterlet they zive you for din- ner,—a fish which, in the Danube, tastes like muddy ecl, only muddier and eclicr. One more example of this curious compound civilization. Asking for some means of washing ofl the dust and slime which had risen’ from the road and the water through a long, hot journey, [ was told that the only bath I could have was a hot one, and, accepting joyfully, I was shown to onc’of u range of rooms with plunge baths in the corner. A sturdy Wallachian damsel of 2 or so was the autendant. She spoke oply .a few words of German, just cnough to ask whether I would have soap and ailes. Secing that there was nothing to dry oneself with. I vonsented to have ates, though with some misgiving as to the ultimate result. She told nie Lo get into the bath and ring when T was ready for somebody to come to me. I rang accordingly, when she herself appeared with soap and towcls, bare feet, and bare, mighty arms. With some ditliculty I succeeded in eliciting the fact that thelarze piece of fiannel she held in ber hand was intended to be used in cleaning me thoroughly, and used by herself. ‘The offer was made in perfect simplicity; there was not a tonch of coquetry about_her, and_her baby outside was calling to her. In vursuit of Tier legitimate business, with the brawny arms which gained food for -her child, perhaps for a lazy hushand, shc proposed to wash me thoroughly as ke would have washed a child or a eroom would clean a horse. To prevent one- gelf from laugbing a iittle was fmpossible as she stood there with her broad honest face and gigantic limbg, but the laughter was at mysell, not =t her. There we were, the cxact counter- part of a drawing I remember having scen in Stratt’s Antiquitics, only in the sketch of old English manners it is a lady who sits in the ‘bath, and an armed knight Who stands or sits and talks to her quietly. There is no reason to find_fanlt with these people: they are just as good as we are, only in a different stage of civilization. THE SONG OF THE DYING. And novw my day of life is almost o'er: Death comes—Ei step e’en now is at the door; He comos 8 welcome guest. Go, bid him enter, with no lurking thought Of ‘grict or hatred; but disturb me not: : T'm Weary—let me rest! The day has been =0 long—its noonday heat, 1ts morning cold. ro hard to bear; my feet Such croel thorns have pressed; And, neath the storms that beat nuoon my head, "Twas hard to walk with firm, unfalt'ring tread: I'm weary—let me rest! Come near, my friends, and eay a last Good-aight. Good-night! ‘All fades away—no socnd—no sight; Slezp comes, and I am biest. A day’s glad end proclaims yon sctting san: ‘Weep, friends, no more, but rataer joy that one So weary now can rest! Lopa, 1l HarTie MATEER. GAS OR OIL. How Shall Our Streets Be H¢ after Illuminated ? | That's the Question Delibersted b; Special Committee Yesterday. ; 1 » [T Action Postponed---Another “Meetin, Be Held To-Morrow. to The Special Committee of the Council,! ap- pointed to report on Ald. White’s resoiutjon, directing the Comptroller to advertise for bids to light the street-lamps, now in use in the ity with ofl or gasoline. held a meeting at the City Clerk’s office yesterday afternoon. Theri: wwere present Ald. White, who presided, Kirk, and E ‘Thompson, of the Third Ward. The first subject of conzersation was, natsjral- 15. the recent decision of Judge Drummorif ro-- earding the gas contract, and the expression was unanimous that, there being no cootyact now with the West Side Compaor, thebity could burn oil or anything it saw fit. $ 4 Before doinz anything, however, they desfred to find out how the experimentzl Kerogene lamps on the West Side, the. fmmediate: cjase of the injunction which led to the Judgi's; de- cision, had avswered the purpose. Had ghey given satisfaction or not? was the question jthe gentlemen wished to be answered. i Nuneof the three koew anytning abontithe lamps, so Lapt. James was sent around to khe Department of Public Works to tind some one who had the desired knowledze. i Ald. Thompson remarked that, when be ivas up in Waukesha receatly, he noticed that: oil - was used there in the street-lamps, Thelisht | given was * first-rate,” and the cost.was a nicre trifle, The citizens were delighted., s £ Ald. White mentioned the experience'of, his native town—Millbridge, Mass., where thers * were from 10,000 to 12,000 inhabitants. ‘Heul- light oil was used there, and the coet of pagts, £ lamps, cleaning, vtc., was $12 a post u year. Th % ofl gave entire satisfaction. In other t B gassline was used, every lamp. having a q voir. and these also were satisfactory. ! ‘Ald. Thompson said he understood: Rawleich to say that the lamps used on West Side were a fizzle. . At this moment Capt. James returncd and re- ported that the manof information was ‘fon duty"—in other words, somewhcre about town—and was not available. Ald. Thompson suzgested that tbe Commit- tee first find out what the gas compauies intend doing. Tbere would be no necessity for pute ting in oil lamps if the cormpanics would COME DOWN TO A PROPER FIGURE. Ald. White said nothing had been heard fror them yet. They could “explain® to the Cium cil when the question was in agitation there Ald. Kirk didw’t sce how the Commiftes could do anything at present. i ~ Ald. Thompson asked Ald. White if he \vas in favor of recommending the passage of the riso- Ilution without going turther. Ald. White replied that he would justi as leave adjourn until' Monday. He didn’t want to take any harsh measures, in case the cfm- panies cut down the price to the lowest fizuyes. Ald. Kirk—What would you be willing; to contract with the West Side for? 3 Ald. White—S2. Ald. Kirk } K some of the money Billings has beat the ¢ity out of. v Ald. White—We might compromize and pet- tle for $2 on the West Side, and $1.50 or $1.75 on the South Side. & Ald. Kirk believed the Council conld maks o | new contract for the balance of the year. #lis father made better ras for $1 and $1.10 a thou- sand feet than that furnished in the city, hnd he did oot believe the cost to the compadies was over ST cents. ' Ald. White remarked that the cost in Detyoit was from S1 to S cents. S Ald. Thompson didn’t know how much the as companies had made out of the it =25 they had divided a rood deal with rious partics.. He related the well-k fact, which, however, new to him, that and other gas oflicials were in the Grand Jury of 1571 was overhanling the Council, and did not get through their businest in that city until after toat body adjonrned. : Ald. White believed in giving a * fair liviog price,’” .and was pot in favor of **cutsing throats.” Ald. Kirk thought the Companies ouxhf; te “whack up "’ out of what they had receifed during the last six or seven years. - Ald. Whitc repeated his prices. He was jrike ling to pay $2, but would o a8 much lower as, the balance of the Committee were in favariofa For the South Division $1.75 was fair. i Ald. Thompson inquired why there shouldibe a difference between the companies? H Ald. White didn’t know, but it was clalmed, and, he thought, conceded, that it cost more ; TO MANUFACTURE ON TOE WEST SIDE. Ald. Kirk did not see how that was posaible. His understanding was that there wasmore leakaze on account of the greater length of the pipes in the West Division. The oder was eer~ tainly fearful when the streets were torn up. Ald. Thompson thought the companies were to blame for the leakage; they should lay daiwn tight pipes. i Ald. White said the consumption was noti so grenz to_the square mile on the West as o outh Side. ¥ After some further talk of an_informal hae ture, Ald. Thompson said he was in favor of kd- journine until Monday, unless Whito wanted to make 1 demonstration against the gas comgpa- nics. I Ald. White replied that hc wished to conyar with the balance of the Committes, but his wish and desire was to advertise for bids for-oil lamps. The expense would be smail. Audhis object was merely to sec how much better iha city could do, and whether the partics woald give bonds to Turnish a zood lizht,or 2 better yue than that now supplicd. This wouid force im- mediate competition. - It was then decided to defer action until Man- day, Stewart, of the Department of Pudlic . Works, to be summoned to appear on that day and tell what he knows about those West-Sde ' oil-lamps, and Ald. White. in the meantime, & callon the officers of the gas companies 3na get their views regarding pricvs. i In connection With this subject it may:bo | stated that the Chicago Gaslight & Coke Cim- pany has received onlv $1.50 per 1,000 feet for gas” from the city since the quarter epd- R B¥ ing Sept. 31, 1576. For cat cnding D 381, 1876, their bill was $31,82 3, B d for fhe next one,ending April 1, 1877, $32, bill for the present quarter will not be seat for a month yet. The Pepole’s Gaslighi Coke Compuny, on the contrary, has not ubaged one cent on their price. all their bills calling jor $3 per 1,000 feet. There s due this Company a. balunce of $26.626.67 for the quarter endipe Dec. 31, 18 Their bills for 1875 amount ;to L $250,940.08; and for tke quarter ending Apri}1, 1877, §35, ; making the total amouutof their claim $363,434.40. 1t wiil be scen that there have been no payments made to thgm since December, 1875 19§ 1875, o) MY SISTER. 1 saw to-day upon her faco “The shade of coming care: 0 shadorws, find some other placs- iy And do not Iimger there! HE All other things 1 can endare, And I will not complain: - It strikes my heart beyond all carey C That youthful look of pain. Tere is my heart, already made For sorrow, used to care: 0 shadows, give to me your shade, And do not linger there! D boller, 40 hurse: 130 horse: 18 upright boflzr, 10 horse: 1 portable 110 horse; hors upricht eniine, 10 horse; tent soap cratcher, eievator platferm; 1 caldron; I 36a) andlve pump: 1 hand elevator: Bakes, Knuwiesi eavy B%Il’!(l holeting emflr: 1 vod an ) ALE—FIRST-CLASS POT: i ALy hovde pOWCES IO, Fo E— TAND NO. 3 STURTEVART exhaust fai 0. 4 Stilwell heater, small npzighc Arill; saw tables, emery wheel with stand, wood tu ing lathe, first-class 19 engine lath2, shaftiag, pulle chesp. HI: i g Rangers, all fn sood order and PRENTICE, 37 South Canal-st. Oft SALE—_ENGINE 13X20, TN, FIRST-RAT der. Can he scen runnlng Chicago Uatmeal Milingss North ilaisted-ss. 1 OB SALEMACH Ol TNG_PICT(iRE- I trame finings. N 12, Tribuze ofice. O SALEZVERY bio. 333 Sta CHEAP—ONE TRON SA! 701 SALE-FIVE TORSE POLTABLE wild bo.der; ulso lot of wood and iron tanks. Michizag-3t. L SALECT EXGINE LATHE, NEARLY VEW 1556 foot bed, 30-foch swing, with screw fdd:§ ther latnes, ranglug tn price rrum S50 to 32532050 puwer punches snd shears; 1 new loiler, 5¢ by I 8 engin>k. 4-inch flues; several portable botlers and gt ba ulieys. shaftine. haagers et 80 LRIN “¥drd, 54 to 63 South Cllaton-st. 100 OOO WORTH OF LATEST IMPEGVED . iron and wood-working macliinery 1ii store and for sale at manufacturers’ prices. A1 c cut-0ff snd plain siide ¥alve stesm eng) ma spedhalty. We have the best of goods in our DERACE &' Con 08 a2ty Lakens 3N 4t0= 2 H i H i