Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1877, Page 4

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M.— cular Com- 10cK_p. 1 Tz Bret \ io, See. 0. 543, AT, e i CHIPAGD WARKLT SUMBARY. 7he Chicazo produce warkets were more active k closed 2714@30c per brl 2, for November and Lard closed 10c ) for Norember Meats were e per b low- Iders and G¥ic for do ere quict and firmer, 33c for com to Bufiaslo, Wihisiy wae 1¢ hirher, 4l S1.06 per wation. Flour was duti. Wheat closed aUS1.06 for No lower, atS$s. wath eales at 2153.60@4.25, The exports (rom wweck included ‘22,430 bris four, 1. wheat, apd 525,000 bu corn. Received iu this city lastweek, trls 7,025 bu wheat, 610,829 bu corn. 302, 20,903 b re, 267,355 bu barlex, 7,643 and 17,987 Tiead of cattie. Inspected fita store m this city vesterday momme: 184 ears wheat, 216 curs and 7,500 bu corn, 29 cars and 6,200 bu oate and 4,164 bu rye. and 58 cars barley. Total (302 cars), 212.000 bu. One hnndred gollars in yoid would buy $102.623¢ in grecabseks at the close. Tn New York on Saturday greenbacks ranged at 973@4Y Unless a new trial shall be ordered, the sourt yurd of the County Jail will shortly be embellished with the dengling body of Az~ Best Cortis Syara, who was yesterday con: victed of murder in the first degree, ‘and sen- tenced to be hung. “ Pitching ” a beer cask seems to be npre- ‘munerative amusement down in Columbus. Some brewers were nt it yesterday, when the pitck took fire, generating gases within the barrel, which exploded with -terrific ef- fect upon one of the workmen. His skull ond chest were crushed, and he died within an hour. Cox, of Olio, las resurrected PENDLE- Tox's old scheme of having Cabinet officers sit on the floor of the House, as a responsible Ministry, ready atell times to answer ques- tions. Cox, this time of New York, thought the- plan smacked too strongly of a British institution to ever become practicable in this fres and enlightened county, and there the matter stands. During the fight over the * Army bill"a mew section crept in that will give general satisfaction fo all except those, perhaps, whom it most vitally concerns. It reduces “stel officers to their lineal rank and pay, cutting off the high emoluments and fat ra- tions these gentlemen ere supposed to earn by sitting around and comparing buitons. ‘On being told of the reform, Gen. Sseryaw Jndorsed it, and characterized the “ staff officers” as “ excrescences,” who are ““eat- ingup the army, and who ougat to becut ofl." A Congressional party by the name of Hooxses, bailing from the Jand of Kemper County, climbed to a perpendicular position yesterday and offered an amendment to the “Avmy bill,” prohibiting the nso of troops 1o suppress insurrections or protect order in auy State except on the demand of te Legislature or the Executive. Then wrose other Congressional parties, who re- spectfully but firmly sat down on him. One &after thie other the Southern Representatives ‘bumped his brainless bead, reminding him * thatin the withdrawal of troops from the Southern States tho President had manifest- . ed'a confidence in those States that wonld be l-requited by any expressibn of a lack of confidenee in him A Senate caucus of Republicans wes held yesterday, at which, to use o Celtic phrase, four Senators were absent. The Southern and Civil-Service policies of the Administra- tion, in their bearing upon the Louisizna question, were under considerntion, and the general drift seemed to be 1a favor of seating Kewroc, aud a refusal fo recognize the Loui- siana compromise, as compelling the party to accept Srorronp. CoNsLixg was’ par- ticalarly moderate and courteous. He did ot approve of the Louisians Commission or ge rccngu‘i:icn of Nicmorss, claiming that actszp should huve been officially recog- nized, but be did approve of the wili\i:::il f troops from the Southern States, — e tal Bangled, patched, and bleedi grievously stabbed * Army bill » W::‘a’gx'\t't: 3 rest yesterdey in order that its wounds may bebound up and its legs stenightened orp sufficiently to straddls a fresh horse fo.man Tow. The Texas delégation, whicl, after oil Bad ng interest ot Leart seve the protetion of the pigs and brindle bulls of A few constituents, went A squarel; back on their brillisnt record e); Friday, and. accepting a sop in the shape of four reg ments of 1,000 men esch to bhe stationed 01 the Rio Grande, ngreed to the moduication of the army to 20,000 men, But the most remarkable featare of the whole basiness is that these uble Congres- sional tactici tos find their functions are not limited to the crestion and psy of an army, but extend to the maneuvering thereof. They propose not only to limit the force, but to locate the same to suit them- selves. In their gyrations they have man- aged fo get the mensure into such a shape that it can be read forwards or backwards with equal regard to sense, and it will take the best tinkers in the National Legislature to hammer the thing out into sny kind of presentable form. Down among the mines of Duguesne, Pa., the labor difficulties have settled down into 8 sort of rehigious war between the Protestant and Catbolic elements, - So bitter bas been the strife that the adherents of neither fac- tion dared venture into the strong- holds of the other, snd mow oud then fierce conflagrations have sweph over the black-dismond pits as warnings of what might be in store hereafter for the gen- tlemen engaged in that particular locality. The local Fire-Marshal has been quietly in- vestigating, and yesterday he secured (he ar- rest of a number of winers charged with in- cendinrism. They are on the right road to o speedy trial, and there is o fair prospect that the reign of terror will be broken up. That perplexing and pestilential litigation kuown ss the ** Michigan University Chah- cery swt,” on the first trial of which the Judge admitted that when he got through he knew less than when he started in, is poking its head through the legal fence ngain demanding a new trinl, The motion is besed on alleged newly-discovered evi- dence, which is to the effect that * certain red lines could nob bave been forged,” and that one witness has been swearing on all sides of the case as the exigencies demanded or an opportunity arose. It was supposed that if the parties would Lold the case still long enough, a law might be manufactured to fit 1t, but this new evidence of o disposi- tion to shift around puts the final scttlement farther off than ever, and threatens to make n fat thing for generations of lawyers to ‘come. e Foreseeing an adverse decision by the Commissioner of Iuternal Revenue on the petition of the savings banks for exemption from taxes, the counsel engaged on behalf of the beuks have determined fo seck relief from a higher authority. A bill has been prepared exempting such sevings institn- tions (except the State, already provided for) as shall became msolvent, from the burden of {axation under which they now rest. The reason urged in bebalf of the passage of the bill is, that the statute contemplates the as- sessing of the capital, profits, value of the franchise orother taxable entity, and that, asthe.act of insolvency destroys these, the cight must fall on the depositors or ered- ifors of the banlk,—elently an iujustice to those who are in no woy responsible for the destruction of the elements upon which the tax relies. Senator Davis bas charge of the biil, and our dispatches represent that le will urge it earnestly to a favorable consid- eration. 1S THERE A GOVERNOR IN ILLINOIS? Judge Moonz, of the Superior Court of this conuty, has been bearing arguments all the past week on the point of constitutional law : whether the Governor of Illinois exercises his powers as the Executive of {his State by ~virtue of the Constitution or by the graut of authority and by the consent of the County Court. The Constitution of Ilinois provides that **The Governor shall have power to remove any officer whom he may appoint, in case of imcompetency, neglect of duty, or malfeassnce in office; and be may declare his office vacant, and fill the same as is here- in provided in other cases of vacancy." TUnder this power the Governor removed several of the West Side Park Com- wissioners. 'Tlese officers are of that class D are appointed by the Governor. e removed them because of incompetency and neglect of dnuty; he declared the ofiices vacant, and filled the vacancies in the man. ver provided for such cases by the Con- stitation. Judge Mooxe is now asked to interpose ihe judicial arm to arrest the exercise of Executive power by the Gov- ernor. It is not a case where the Governor hies nttempted o extend his power beyond the line defined by the Constitution. It is admitted that he has acted in a case and for a canse defined by the Constitution. But it is claimed that, before removing an officer for incompetency or meglect of daty, the fact of such imcompetency must be established judicially,—~in other words, the man must be tried and convicted before the Governor can exercise the power of removal. The Constitution provides specific means for the removal of all elective officers, in case of official misdemeanor. But in cases of officers appointed by the Gov- ernor, the power of removal, for the causes stated, is lodged with him. He is mado the exclusive judge of the circumstances. =The power to remove in this summary manner was conferred upon the Governor {o be ex- ercised only in the class of officers appointed by him, and it was substitnted in that class of cases for the machinery of removal pro- vided in all other cuses. v Mr. Miztox Hay, in his argument sub- mitted to the Couzt, in defining the relative powersof the several departments of the Government, and especially the power of the Courts to control the sction of the Executive, laid down the rule in the follow- ing terms: The key ot thie whole arzument was the ‘consti- tutional definition of the powers of Governmeut in 1ns State, which were divided by the Constitu- tion into three branches. the Legislative, the Judi- ciary, and the Executive. But the Constitulion, not sntislied with that defnition, interdicted the exercise of any of the powers properly belonging 10any one of the departments of the Government byeither of the otliers. 1t went on 10 declare that 1o person or collection of persons, exercizing the duties and powers of one of theee departments, shall in any manuer interfere or attempt to exer- cite the powers that properly belong to the others, If the prepositions advanced in suppart of the oill were sound, and if they coula be muintained and -upheld by the Conrts, the inevitable result would be, inthe end, the assumption by the Courts of every power vested by the Constitution in the other co-ordinate departments of the Government. The Judiciary Department. in the exercice of its un- doubted right o apply the law, which was above Dbath the Execative and the Legislatare, had the power to review any act, eitherof a legislative of cxecutive chamcter, bul to what ex- tent? It bad the undoubled right to review 10 the extent of inquiring and ascertaining whether theactof the legislative body, if that should be in question. or the act of the execalive, if thal should be in question. bad been done or performed within the ecope of the power confecred Uy law upon the officer orthe Legislatare. 5 done within- Ahe scope of that power, it was 0 farther review- able. The powers of the Court went that far and B0 fartper, Al lag-writers on constitutionsl Iaw Jaid down the rale that tae result of attemots to interfere ‘with and control and intrencn upon the exercise of the proper duties of one branch of the Govern- ment by another would result ultimately in the ab- sorptlon in one branch of all the powers of the Government, & resuit that wonld be fatal to con- stitational liberty. When courts esercised that power of review there was a provocation and temptation, of which this case was an illustration, not only to question the power, but to call unon the judiciary to review the excrcise of the pawer; not only to call 1n question whetber or no! t the act was done within the scope of the power, but to call upan the court o determme ‘whether the act was vropetly done or not, and counsel maintained thar that was the forbidden ground upon whicn a courl conld not 2o if it bore properly in mind the consti- tutioual obligations. 2 This covers the whole dostrine of the power of the Courts to review the official action of either the Legislature or the Exceative of the State. The popular doc- trine that the Conrs are omnipotent, and hnt tho Legislative and the Executive De- partments of the Government ere under the supervision of the Courts is whblly erroneous. In other words, while the Leglature and the Exccutive areclothed with certain powers, from theiracts performed within theso powers it is assumed that there is an appeal to the Courts. Mr. Hay points out that when the Exccative or the Legislative Department does an net, the power of the Court is Timited to the inquiry whether that act was within the constitutionnl power of the other Dbraveh of the Government, and beyond that inquiry the Court had no suthority to go. In this case, the Governor having the power to remove theso Cownmissioners, the Court could not inquire as to the wisdom, justice, or necessity of the act. i CHICAGO'S WOODEN PAVEHENIS. We understand that the Council Commit- tee whicls have had the subject of street im- provements wuder cousideration have come to the conclusion to recommend the cedar blocks os the most desirable pavement thal can be Inid in Chicago. We think there has scarcely been suflicient experiencs with the cedar blocks to warrant this general conclu- sion; certainly thero has not been in Chicn- go, and the prevailing testimony in Detroit, where the cedar blocks have been used wore extensively thunin any otber city, is to the effeet that they wear wéll on streets which are but little used, but that in thoroughfares of general travel they Inst no better than the ordinary pine blocks. There is, also, testi- mony to the effect that there is » eap ruoning around tho cedar posts from half an inch to an inch in thickness; wheéro the posts remain undis- turbed in the ground, as in the case of cedar fence-posts, this surface does not appear to deeny in such a manver as to effect the serv- icenble character of the posts, but, when sub- jected to the hard kuocks of wagoun-wheels and horses’ shoes, it chips off essily and tends to loosen the posts. There is reason to adhere to the theory that the block pavement of live pine, properly Inid, is the most ensduring of all the wooden pavements. At all events, the experience of Chicngo tenches this. The pine pavements that have been laid of late years ara not fair samples, as a fule, The practics has been to £ill and grade with 21l sorts of rubbish, then to lay down the blocks without other founda- tion, and fill them in with what is called Joliet gravel, but which is, in fact, the rich- est of Tlinois soil, and is caleulated to rot the wood more rapidly than any other material in which it could be imbedded. The pavements which have lasted the longest in Chicago, and which have given way wnder actual use, sud not decny, aro those con- structed of live-pine blocks, luid upon & fonndation of thick or double boards, and filled in with lnke-shore gravel, which is of a pebbly character. The experiments of re- cent yenrs bave not corresponded with Any of theso roquirements. The pine blocks bave frequently been made of dead or seorched lumber, they bave been laid with 1o fonndation cxcept the loosa earin, and they have been filled in with the rich soil known s Joliet gravel. All theso changes have been under the plea of improvement, Lut bave renlly been suggested in order to save time, material, and lebor in the work of construction. There is ono point still more important, <hich the Committee should impress upon the consideration of the Council, and that is the necessity for providing the necessary labor and material for the immediate and constant repair of streets newly paved. The maintenance of a ccuple of men, with a tar- barrel, 2 little gravel, and @ cart-load of blocks, going from one end of a paved street to the other, will make every pavement last two or three years whers it now lasts one, snd every doflar judiciously expended in re- paars will save $20 in repaving. Itis already too Jato to save many of the pavements in Chicago, which are now beyond the possibil- ity of ropair, but it is the strects newly paved which require this copstant attention in order to preserve them from speedy wreck and ruin. | No form of pavement has ever yet been invented which does not need constant patching in places in order to prolong its passable coudition. *OPTIONS” ON THE BOARD OF TRADE. The recent.decision of the Supreme Court in the case of LogaN vs. Mosick & Brews, involving a grain transaction on the Board of Trade, hasa general interest, inasmuch as it defines the statute prohibiting gambling contracts, and makesa clenr and final dis- tinction between ‘‘option ™ trades anad the purchase or saie of property for future de- fivery. In the case under consideration, Mosice & Brows, ncting s commission men, purchased for Lo, 0,000 bushels of wheal, which was to be delivered, uander the contract, before a certain date in the future. ‘The subsequent sale of the property showed a loss, which the commission firm bad to poy. The fim then saed Lacaw for the amonnt lost in the transaction, and the latter resisted the payment on the ground that the contracts were void under the statute. The Supreme Court has held that this transaction does not come within the meaning of the statute. The langusge of the statute is directed against the person who “contracts to hove. or give {0 himself or another, the option to sell or buy at a future time.” That is to say, the prchase of a prizilege to buy or not to buy at a fature date, or to sell or oot to eell at a fatura date, is an option pro- hibited by law, but the nctual purchese of property, where the ouly option concerns the date of delivery, is not a gambling contract, The distinction is a proper cne, and it fairly describes the legitimate business of the Board of Trada as distinguished from the illegiti- mate or “scalping” trades. There can be nothing unlawful or immoral in the nctual purchase or actual sale of property, wheth- er grin or other commodity, under the agreement that it shall be deliv- ered within 2 certain time in the foture. A Chicago merchant may sell a cargo of grain to b delivered in Buflalo; the property caunot pass from seller to pur- chaser immedintely, because it requires time to send the grain from Chicago to Buffalo; at the same time it Is nataral that the pur- chaser should protect himself against un. necessary delay, and thereupon the agreement is made that the property shall be delivered in Buffalo on or before a certain date, and a | failure to comply with the terms of the con- tract subjects the seller {o the payment of dsmages for the loss the purchaser may suffer by reason of such failure. As o mat- ter of fact, two-thirds of all the corn that Lss come into Chicago within the last few ‘weeks has been purchased under these con- ditions, The Chicsgo merchant buys.of the farmer or country dealer 5,000 or 20,000 bushels to be delivered within tho next month, and the farmer or country dealer sends the corn forward in lots es it may bo most convenient or ndvantageous to him. The contracts which properly fall under the statute prohibiting gembling transac- tions are those which do not contract to de- liver a certain amount of property at some fature time; but which merely sell the priv- ilege or option of delivering. In the one case there is an nctunl purchase, and in the other simply the purchase of o right to pur- chase. “ho Iatter is nothing more nor less than gombling as to what the price of & certain commodity may bo at a fature date:” it is mever expected that there shall be any actual delivery of property, but it issimply & et between two men, involving $25 or $100, as to,the future price of prop- city that will never prss through the hauds of cither of them. Tt is the transec- tion koown on the Board of Trede as o “put” or a *call,” whicls properly comes under the statute probibiting gambling con- tracts, sud there have been recent evidesces that the Board intends to do everything pos~ sible to break down the practice of dealing in these ‘‘options.” In fact, this sort of irading has becowe so disteputsble of late that the Board of Trade should take an act- ive part in the effort to expose and punish the men who follow it. It has gone so fav that newsboys, peanmt-venders, and apple wommen are solicited to invest their carnings, no matter how small, in these risks;.in all these transactions, tha rule is ' that the agent who transacts the busi- ness for the ignoract and credulous outsiders Leeps the’ money if he wins, so that the poor people who trust are the victims a~d losers in avy event. If the Board desires to eseape the disgrace of hav- ing all its transactions confounded with this skinwame, it will make specinl efforts to crush out the practice saltogether, and the quickest way to do it is to institute prosecu- tions under the statute aguiost every man who is apprehended in any such transaction. Fortunately, the Supreme Court decision will Go much to correct the®general misap- prehension o5 to the charzcter of all the business done on the Loard, and it will effectually prevent the greedy outsiders who seck the Bonrd for purely speculative pur- poses from swindiing the commission men whom they employ by pleading against the paymeut of 10sses a ctatute which does notb cover legitimate contracts for future delivery. CHICAGO IN FICTION. Mr. Winniax Brack, the wellknown Scotch novelist, is contributing a novel in serial form tozthe columns of the London LEraminer called * Green Pastures and TPicadilly,” the forty-first chaper of which Innds his hevoes aud leroines in Chicago. The impressions which they hava of the city, nud the very remarkable influence of the city upon them, will have a very decided interest ns well as cousiderable novelty for our renders. In describing the city, they find that * the huge blocks of buildings look liko the best pert of Giasgow infinitely ex- tended,” apd that * the smoky sky is streaked with a black rectangular spider’s web of tele- graph wires.” Tho heroes and heroines are very hord to suit, for they find that the ho- tels are *‘snmptuous, vast, but gurishly fur- ished.” They are very foalish, for they are possessed of u desire to speculate in empty lots. We fancy, had it been known to our renl-estate denlers that they wanted to specn- late in lotg, they would have been accommo- dated to their hearts’ desire. Tf there are apy fictitions or live heroes abroad who want to invest in real estate here, there are plenty of holders ready to make casy terms with them. Nothing would delight them more than to feel that Mr. Bracx's Leroes were typical of English feeling with regard to Chicago corner lots. There seems really to be no limit to the desires of these people. They would even like to build for themselves o mansion more gorgeous than tbe mind of man can conceive, with horses to shoot along these wide drives like afiash of lighting.” Thereis nothing new in the sublimity of these ideas, for every one in Chicago bug them. We all want to build honses of that sort and own horses of that rate of speed, and we come as mear o it as woean; butit shows how the atmosphere and “ the big, enger genius” of the city, ns one of the heroines expresses it, afects the avernge tourist. The North Side, however, does not fare very well at the hands of Mr, Brac’s tourists. Wo are informed that they give themselves airs, that they read books, ond tallc criticism. The South and West Sides can rather plume themselves on this. But what will the North-Siders say to the declaration thet they will bave no dealings with ‘a system of local pgovernment coutrolled by 30,000 bummers, Joafers, and dead-beats "? Where are the bummers’ conventions usnolly held? Where is @ the bar'l” kept ? Where is the County Building? Where do the rings revolve? Where is the Hatch House? Where is the old maxim “Vote carly and vote often” more relig- jonsly observed? For once, Mr. Brick's tourists are caught napping. But we are not through with the North Side yet, for they find ‘that the North-Siders get some smattering of music, drawing, and other fanciful acd fashionable but practically use- Iess urts, but are utterly incepable of earning an honest living, because they are as igno- rant as South American Hottentols of prac- tical arts ond sciences. As the Inmented EccLes was accustomed to say, ““This ces 'ard” on that strip of the North Side be- tween Clark street and the lnke. It will rec- oucile the South and West Siders, howerver, to their more humble lot. They will be content not to put on airs and talk books and criticism o long as they are not as ignorant s Hottentots of the practical arts and sciences. Such nre the penalties people must pay for living in the fashionable and avistocratic purlieus of Pine and Dearborn streets. There js one of the tourists, how- ever, who takes a more rosente view of Chi- cago. She thinks it must be a delightful place to live in, as most of the people live on wheels; referring, we presume, not to the chariots of the North Side, but to the "buses, street-cars, and express wagons of the South Side. She likes it because the cosl winds come in from the lake to temper the summer hent, aud red sandstone and yellow marble combine to pleaso the eye, nnd there are ‘‘charming villss in the gordens.” In fact, this charming creature s0 impresses the rest of the crowd with her ecstatie de- light that “ we all began to admire Chicago, and quite envied the ranch woman who was able from time to time to leave her home in the savage wilderness for this centre of the arts and civilization.” We do mnot exactly understand who the ranch woman is, but it is quite evident from tha general tenor of tho experiences of Mr. Bracx's party that markable, however. It has often happened to other people, especislly those from St. Louis. 2 THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS. ‘The meeting of the South Park Cowmis- sioners on Friday afternoon was the occasion for a vigorons display of foul linen. Com- missioner MorGAx and Commissioner SIwAY wero the prinoipal operators, though the other Commissioners all contributed to the general exhibition. As in all family quarrels, the belligerents were vindictive, and indec- “orous language wasfreely cxchanged. Sifting the discassion of all its personalities, we find that the charges made, and perhaps estab- lished, were substantially as follows : 1. Chat Cuauscey Bowex is a defaniter, the defalcation partaling of the character of an embezzlement, nnd that long before this was made public it was kuown ta one of the Commissioners, who kept the matter secret from the other Commissioners. This charge, —whatever it amounts to—seems to be ad- mitted, Mr. Smway justifying is conduct on grounds of public advantage. It now turns out that Bowex took a number of park bonds with bim to New York ; that, baving private dealings with a New York bank, aud being indebted to the baak, Bowey hypo he- cated the bonds for a cortain sumn of money, and fiad the money credited to bis indebted- ness to the bank. The bank now claims to have bought these bonds, and holds them as an investmeut. As Bowe's disposition of them was wholly illegal and without author- ity, the Bonrd of Commissioners repudiate their transfer and refuse to pay the interest on them. 2. Itis farther charged that a portion of the Commissioners have undertuken to con- struct streets and boulevards outside of the park system, and against the legal opinions of the attorneys of the Board. SiDWaY opposed nll this business, and attributes the controversy to his rerusal to consent to this diversion f the park funds, 3. A third nccusntion is that Stowas, as Auditor, allowed certain bills and paid them without the previous consent of the Board, and that he audited the claims of a certain person, and bad the money credited on a note due by that person to Sowar’s bank, and that Sioway, as Auditor, wes too costly and expensive, and was therefore bounced. We shall not undertaketo render judgment on these or suy of the minor allegations. The majority of the Board evidently feel cool towards Mx: Stoway, snd it looks as if they were trying Lo freeze him ont. There is a sad want of harmony in the Board, and a few more exhibitions like that of Fridoy afternoon may suggest to the Governor that 2 Board containing irreconcilable factions is not caleulated to pro- mote the public interests. The prec- edent set by the Governor in the case of the West Side Park Board met with such universal popular approval that, when a like case shall occur, the Governor might feel disposed to npply the like remedy. The Park Commissioners are likely to do for tbemselves what their enemies failed to do when there was a legislative investigation, While the Board are cogaged in this busi. ness of blackguarding cach other, and mak- ing accusations of official miscondnct, of trenchery, frand, and jobbery, they shomld make a foll disclosure. Let every member tell all he knows about 2ll the other mem- bers ; let each establish the misconduct of all liis associates, and then, placing it all on vecord, let there be a general resignation, that new men, having no park record, may be appointed. SHAKSPEARE THE POET. The poctry of SmssspEsrs is often lost sight of by those who know the plays prin- cipally throngh stage representations of them. A debt of gratitude is therefore due the an- thor of an article on * The Non-Drawatic in Snasspeane ” ip the lnst number of the fn- ternational Revicw. The people should bave a botter acquaintance with SEAssPEARE, and we do not seo that they are likely to get one, in the present condition of dramatic art, by attendance upon the theatre. The play is decidedly not. the thing to which reverant students of SHARSPEARE ROW attsch the most Yalue. Cuances Laye's dictum, that the plays ought never to be scen on thestage, sonnded like blasphemy when uttered ; but it is now received, if not with perfect acquiescence, at least with respect, by the majority of think- ing people. No one who is familiar with the history of dramatic literature will underesti- mate the obligations of SEARSPEARE, in com- ‘mon with all the poets of his period, to the stago ; nor will any frequenter of the theatres deny that of late years it has done much to elevate and purify the old versions of his works. But therc wos a time when it tend~ ed hopelessly to degrade all that was fine in Smasspease. The patchings of Drypes, DavexayT, and itile Davy Gazrics were in their day misteken for weavings of the poet's own genius; or, if the interpolations were noticed, they were not regarded. It was es- teemed nothing out of the common that Garnick should presame to write a dying speech into ‘‘Macbeth,” while Cinper's reputation ns sn improver of SmaxspEAm has extended toour time. Ouly a few weeks ago, when Mr. Boota played the original version of “Richard IIL” in this city, he found three-quarters of his audience groping about hopelessly for the familiar lines of CropeR, which they had always mistaken for the coinage of the poet’s brain. It was to some of them like * Hamlet” withont Hamlet to have Richard IIL” .Chicagu was too much for them, and that the idens with which they were inspired were too big for them to manage. This is not re- without Zlenry VI.; and it was a service withont doxology or benediction to play without * Of with his head ; so much for Buckingham,” snd * Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.” This peculiar ig- norance of any but the stage versions of Smaxsreareis not peculiar to our own times; indecd, is less now than it was when the plays were written, or when they were played, in the last century, by the greatest actors the English stage has ever known. MMrs. Porrceanp, who is called the best Zady Macheth of the stage, is said never to bave Tend any more of that plsy than her own tional Review, slready referred to, contends thot the lofty poetry in which the plags abound is the truest expression of the mind of the poet, These passoges are often not: in keeping with the character, not suggested by the circumstances in which he is placed, and not growing out of or into the action, That famous panssage in the “Tempest” beginning “ And likethe baseless fabric of this vision” yould have been as appropriate i the mouth of Lamlet o that of Prosnero. 'The worldly wisdom of Ulysses was not required to evolve the thought in « Troilns and Cressida,” * For time is like a fshionable host,” etc. It is not Claudio but SmansrEaRe who says in ¢ Measure for Measure Ay, but to die, 'and go weknow not where; To lie in cold obstruction, sad to rot; This sensible, warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside Tn torilling regions of thick-ribbed ices To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence roand about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thonght Imagine howling; 'tis too horrible! SHARSPEARE, we fear, was not strictly orthodox, but he found it convenient in his day to saddle bis notions of hell upon Claudio, who, as an Italian, was not amena- ble to the discipline of the Protestant Queen. Observe in this passage such expres- sions as ‘‘cold obsiruction,” *viewless winds," and “ thick-ribbed ice,”—the whole being suggested, perhaps, by a vision of Daxre’s “Iuferno.” Ageiy, that fearfal satire upon justice of the nged Lear: - Plate sin witu goid, And the strong Iauce of justice hurtlass breaks; Arm it in rags, u pigmy's straw Qoth breakit, is the fruit of SuaRSPEARE'S bitter reflec- tions, and may have dated from his arraign- went for deer-stealing before Justice Shallow Lucy. Sussserare,. like all other geniuses, wns not *‘z hard thinker.” He was a rapid, spontaucous, felicitons thinker. If we could trnce Lis thoughts to their crndle, we could aualyze spirit itself, and constitute imaginz- tion by a chemical combination. We bave direeted attention to this article in the Juternational, not because it is new in form or novel in substance, or altogether correct in conclusicn, but becanse it per- forms a good service in turning popular attention to Smarsreare the poet as dis- tinguished from Snarspeane the dramatist. ‘Tee TRIBUNE takes the liberty of commend- iug S=axsPeARE egain to those who have not read himn, or have read him, as most Jo, care- lessly aud in a perfunctory manmer, Gen. GRaNT was right in saying at Stratford-on- Avon that as many persons rend SHARSPEARE in America ss in England; he was wrong in assuming thét ns many read SEAESPEAZE s might witls profit doso. There is nothing in the whole range of poetry which it is so essential the scholar, and the professioncl man, and * the excellent business man,” and the man ‘‘with no ncesense about o and the laboring mar, and all the women .showld know as the poetry of Wrmrias Suarserare. They will never know it if they depend upon the stage for it, or if they skim lightly over the golden pages. GLADSTONE'S JRISH VISIT. Itis s somewhat notable cheracteristic of Mr. GLADSTONE'S present visit to Ireland that he resolutely declines to meke speeches, althongh it is bis first visit. It was generally expected, when his visit was announced, that he would make some public declarations on Irish affairs. He has always been the politi- cal friond of the Irisk from an English stand- point of view. He has more than once ad- vocated their measares, and he broke down in bis vigorous effort to make the University of Dublin still more national. The only ex- ception that be has made to his rule of silence was upon the occasion of his visit to the University, whero his reception was so enthusigstic, and the demands of the students so persistent, that he spoke a few words, whieh are principally remarkable for what was left unsnid. The only pertinent sen- tences in his very brief address are the fol- lowing: 1 cannot tell you what ¥ thin’ of the wefzht and moment that attach to Trinity Coliege and Dublin University. Atall times, in whatever T huve in- tended or meditated, [ can assure you my desire hos been to eee this ancient, and great, and dis- tinguished cstablishment uttract to itsclf more and more as & centre the whole youth of Ireland, and ascend more and more to that lofty position in which it skould discharze by the confession—the delighted confession—of all men the functions of a National University. 1 am sure thut the distin- #aished men who presice over it will do all that in them lies to realize those bright unticipations, and that you, gent'emen, who have the haopiness of studying within its wally, will teel that 8 call is made upon you to strive for the deelopment and the improvement of all the gifts with which Provi- dence has endowed yon: and there is no country in which the youth are more richly endowed than the country in which I bave the happiness to be now. ‘The studied reserve of JMr. GraDsTONE has naturally attracted the sttention of the English press, and has become the subject of very general discussion. The London Times nssigus two or three motives for it. First, he may beve thought that the affairs of Ireland will for the present derive more advantage from silence than from being dragged into political controversy, as would have been the case had Mr. GrapsToNE dis- cussed them. The other motive for his reticence is that he may have come to the couclusion that there are more difficulties in the way of settling Irish affairs than there used to be, and that he prefers to see more of Ireland and await events before he makes any ‘public declamtions. What- ever his motives are, the Zime: and the other English papers aro very much xelieved that he is keepingsilent,—the former declaring that *“it is difiicult to conceive any usefal object which cowld be served by Mr. GLADSTONE'S intervention just now in the controversies which occupy attention in the sister island.” The most significant sug- gestion made by the Zimes is to the effect that the University bill met its defeat in 1873 becauso it was considered to be the re- sult of a tacit slliance with the Roman Cathdlic Church in Ireland, and that, as Mr. GraDsTONE's Opinion on the relations of the phblic to that Church have undergons mod- part; and there was another great actor of those times—3AckLry, we believe it was— who played a patched version of Macbeth " for o lifetime in blissful unconsciousness of the fact that it had been altered from tho originnl. Affairs are not so bad with us. Thasks to the efforts of such conscientious actors as Mr. Epwrx Boors and M. Macres- by, who have supplied by zesl and in- telligence many deficiencies of Nature, the drift of the stage now is in the direction of & serupulons adherence to the original text. But this, after all, isonly a tendency, which, even if it should reach its legitimate conclu- sions, would not make the stage the best ex- ponent of the thought of Smaxspeane. Until dramatic art can qualify & number of actors tospeak the sublime poetry of SmaxspEare intelligently, so that in any one cast there shall not be from two to ten marplots, the poetry of the plays can only be -admired as it deserves in the closet. The author of the article in the Jnterna- ifientions, ** it may have dispelled the illu- sion that Irish differences can be sccommo- dated by an arrangement with the Roman Catholic hierarchy.” As Mr. Grapsrove, however, has given 1o sign that such is his opinion, the expression of it by the Zimes is evidently in the nalure of a hope which it derives from his silence. The musical season in Chicago will fairly open to-morrow cvening with two important events. Tue first 13 the great testimonial concert to Mme-. Rive-KiNG, the eminent pianist, who. s our readers kpow, has made Chicago ber home. There aretwo significant features of this con- cert. The openinz day's sale was the largest ever known in this country, amounting to over 2,000 scats. Again, the list of artists has never been surpessed.” Tlie programme will be miven by the first soprano in this country (Miss TroRspy), in solie respects the first alto (Miss Draspiv), the first bass (Mr. WiITNEY), snd the first pianist (Mrs Rive-KinG). In additlon, it will call from our local taleot Mrs. KesteroN, ‘Wwhose reputation asan artist is known all over N 4 the conutrs; Mr. WOLFSORS, whose fan, more than loal; the Avollo (o and the Madrigal Club. Surely gqy a combination of American talens ;2 mever before been effected in this country. On the same evening onr g season will be-naugurated by the Gcmnnn:; Italiun troupe, at the head of which stand yp, Parrssueist and Mr. Cuaviss Anays. o, former is woll kuown as a finished artisy, the fatter, althouzh he has not sung in Crje. for many years, will still be remembereq many of our older concert-goers as g sq : tenor. The troupe was organized by r. i s himsell with special refercace to the py duction of ap extraordinary repertoire, inclum:: the “Huguenots,” *Robert le Diavle" oy delio,” *“Lohengrin,” “The Flsing Dutchmans +Faust,” “Tannhauser,” and other works g grand opera. Mr. Max MARETZES, thap Vet erau of the baton, bas coatrol of the musin] force; and, s the sale has been a larze o there scems to be no reason wiv the sm::: which lasts two weeks, should not. be a progy, able one to all conceracd. It is certainly a sigy of better times when our people commence tag amuscment season with such a vigroas doter. mination to be entertained, regardiess of ez~ pense. — A Washington dispatch savs that ex-Senato; HENDERSON (of Missouri) has profered some advice to the President on Civil-Sersice ro form which lies made a serious impression upoy bim, viz. ' ‘The weakness of the Presidents positio his predecessor lelt the 0Tices all Elleflm&uc:z?-‘ who detest reform, and wien Mr. Hsres hid if down as one of his con-titationa! principles 1 man shall not be removed from oflice but forcype the thoasan.ls of officehulders wh detest. his Iy delizhied. Sixty tnoy " tain thei places and epend tae Ieivure tiwe n spitting pon the Adminitratio, “There ure hundreds of clerks in the Interior De. Mr. Senrzs, tmt with coniempt, Tiat their partment who not. on! they Sp n ery man who is disrespect?al to ‘e So. 190, 1 the at were (o annotince hix purpose 1o remov nt oflicials not 10 hearty a-cord witi by ard 10 reloem in the serice, hons haking ainonz the drs Lones. Tho o1d party leaders who bave therr friends 5 Bl tho best places Would ke, The alome 220 drately. Itisraid th:t the Senste would dejear any xuch parpose on the part of the Pro-d oty pa i cannot if ne ia dead in carnest. Letall hus pey nominations be like that of jonX WeLsi. and the Semte amor efeat one of them. Tt i st men ea wood and p patic and Gapartisan Sendte dare not rejuct them. L —— Only once—twice if we count the case of Mr. SEELYE—Ccan the ofiice be fairly sald to havs sought the man, and that—marvel of marseis! —was in New York City. Indeed, the man in question was elected almost azainst his will, It was CasPER BAADEN, an honest Duteh baker of New York, who was nominated for State Senator aminst Tammany. He rezarded the woole canvass with incifference, if not with profound skepticist, and when the canvassers came around, and the strikers, and the men with the hats, and the workers, be said sol- emuly, ““Nein! Nein!*" and hid bis pocket- book in the bottom of a cracker-barrel. Finally the Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem. ber came round. BAADEN was clected, 20d am excited and exultant delegation rushed off to apprise him of the fact. But the hosest Dutchman seized a club, and, erying, *No, no, you don’t zot no beer out from me,” drove out the del 3, shat up the shop. and wens to bed, wakening next marnioZ to discover thathe bad indeed been clected Senator. - —— Asg Hewrrr finds 1o the New York Tribunes warm friend to bis * American kichen* or hot corn scheme for the Paris Exposition. The Tribune says: Asthe comis 1o be cooted under the personyl snpervision of a Commissioner-General. *re noul- nate the flon, Saxter ., TILDEN 10 tht o, Let us send bim over to Paris as Chiel missioner-General, and before nest Seatember compatriors in_Paris will be abic tu pride o a long line of flaneurs and petits- atrolling slonz the bouicvards, anewivg at the smoking cub, while the cry of **fiut-corn:" wil bt into dredms of, home. Besides, peper cap and 3 ke sizhts of Paris. Co Suavity of manaer anse. be' will succeed in conver. ing his favorite product into the most prejioled stomachs. and openinz channels of consumatoy which would no dout remain obstinately clowd azainst o le-s adroit and determined uperst 1ull them at . TiLD 3 will be one of the Sacke, ut to a ratiway trem i B mething worth living —————c— The New York Graphic, speaking of the elec- tion in that city, remarks: The German vote in New York seems to hre Deen 1n the neichhorhood of 11,500, It is cla:med that there are 30000 German votes in New Yore, but the orzanization which s represented by Yr. QrrEsROLFER has Tecently fuiled to secare all, o even a mujority of it. This 1saccounted for by the fact that the Jewish element is especialiy stropzin the OTTEXDPOLPER orzanization, and three-quarters of the go-called German candidates belong o thit race, Justice OTTENBOURG i8 a Jew; Coroner Ei- LINGER i 3 Jbw: HEss, who was deféated for Rez- teter, i«a Jew: Kocn, who ran fer Mari Judge, is 5 Jew, and fell considcra ticket} ECCLESINE, the Senator-clect, is adew. Allthe men appomted (o positions o Comptroller GREEN uncer OTTENDORFER'S advice, and who were removed by Jouy KELLY. are fe —at least such is the statement of the German ma! contents, and the reason they nssign for nat co- operatin edectively with Mr. Orrexpunren. It is certain that the German vote will not_count for much hercafter in Dewacratic caiclations. The Irish efement again has the upper hand. ————————— A potent weapou employed against the Re- publicans in the canvass in New York City was the ery of “disfranchisement.” There was 00 trath fu the charge, which was one of the rea- sons why it was so popular with the Swn,asd ltke journals. It is indecd proposed, if the Legislature accedes to te proposition s the 108t one did, to submit a constitutional amead- ment vesting the eelection of the Board wiict will levy tuxes in the cople who Day ta%es, owning oroperty, and nobody but a professional tax-cater can oppose such a proposition. Mr. Daxa would not, perhaps, relish an attempt on the part of his reporters and printers to fix the rates of wages' be should pay them. or, to put the question in a form familiar to the Tammaoy statesmea of New York, it is not meet for tvo bummers to say what the saloon-kecper ¥bo amns the whisky they drink shall charge for it rone. for, ‘The railroad from auese Government 317 i tractors and managers were all Englishmen. As there were no heasy grades. deep cuttings, or other extraordinary expenditures ol construc- tion, and labor is cheap, it is believed there was 2 net profis to the builders of abont 3100,000 per mile. 1t begins to dawn on the understanding of the Japanese that they’ paid high for their railroad privileges, and they are mot bappy aboutit. In fact. the Epglish bave recently srown as unpopular with them as the people of the United States are unpopular with SITTING Boww and his warriors. ————— The New York .Sun has printed a Jopg article to prove that the year's elections indicate that the Republican party is dying and tue Hares wing thereof quite dead. It gives a list of the “States that have voted this fall for zeneral tickets and which went for HAYES last yean” the first name on which is that of Califorais Tnasmuch as California did not sote this fall for o zeneral ticket, one’s faith {n the accurdcy of the Sun's statements and soundness of its conclusfons is somewbat impaired at the outset- e A Frenchmsn has perfected a scheme for stopping runaway horses. An electro-maguct s placed under the driver's seat, and connected with the bit by o wire running along the ok mal's spine. A sudden shoci will briog up the wildest horse and make him define his pos:tios- Such a contrivanze might be beneficially intro- duced into politics, for apparently there s 00 holding this ‘“dark-horse™ business Within pounds. ——— Whatever influences contributed to the Re- publican trinmph over the Ringsters, one thinZ s certain, the Journal’s contribution did 80% amount to a spoonful of mush. ——— One of the pooular errars which fs enter tained by every one who speaks or writes of the devil-ish now on extibition 1w New Xork— a popular crror which, in the interests of