Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 18, 1877, Page 4

“X%m a few Democrats wos referred to an THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SfiNbAY NOVEMBER 18, I877— SIXTEEN PAGES, The Tretbane, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ‘BY MATL—IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGE PREPATD. Thouble Sheet Saturday Edition, tweive ] Tr-Weekly, one year.. Fartsof & Vesr, per mo! WEEKLY EDITI! Ope copy, per year. Club of Tou men coples sent tree. e -Ciice address in fall, Izcludiog State snd unty. t‘?’l:e;;mmcu maybe made clther by draft, express, Past-Oflice order, or in registered letters, ot our risk. H TEEMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dafly, delivered. Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Dafly, delfvered, Sunday ncluded, 30 cents per wees. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANT, ‘Corner Madison and Dearbora-sts.. Chlcago. Tl Orders for the deitvers of Tig THIDTSE it Evacston. Errlewood, and Hyée Park left fn the couutlug-room ‘willreceive rompt attention Thursday” evenfos, kast Mocroe-st.. for busin d Degree, ** Suviime Trince of -d memibers of the Urder arc uniform at7:30. By ordy 2. Com . 1, KNIGHTS TEM- nclave i, onTuesdny even- at hatr-; J0ck, prompi. 1L is jcer, aiid 8 Many Mmemibers 38 can he hour named. clock. The Order ors always wel- DUNLOP, Lecorler. ke Wil e C come. By urder of the courteously BURN, E. €. RK CITAPTER, h Clurs aud Ce! y e : shar. 1ons courteul T, Stated gelock. " iuain VIR o5 ‘Ww. M. BUEBANE, E. C. 3. 0. DICKERSON, iecorder. LAFATETTE Monroe-et 3 veventn = 3 At 70 'l fork va he M. M. Désree Vislors cordially mvited. By order W. H. REID, 1L P E. N. TCCKER. Sec. 5 A, F. AND A. ZZunlcation Taesday evens Two candidates SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1877. CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, The Chicago produce markets were quiet Satar- aay, and mostly casier. M & closed 5@7ic 2. 0252 5 for November and $12.20@ 1222} f per 100 lbe lower, at $7.57% 7.87% for January. Meats were easicr, at 5e for TLoxed shoulders and 6Xc for do short ribs. Lake freiglte were less active and tirm, at 432c for comn 10 Buffalo. Whisky was quoted at $1.00 per gal- Yon. Flour was steady. Wheat ciosed ic loswe at £1.07% for November and £1.053 for Dece ber. Comn closed casicr, at 454¢ cash and 144@ 44%c for November. Oate closed steady, at 2513¢ cash and 25%c for November. Rye was firm, at BiYc. Barley closed strouger, at 6] cash and 625@62%c¢ for Decembe: 10@15¢ Jower, closing at $+.30@+.50. Catile werc dull, 977 bu wheat. 643,205 ba cor: ‘bu oats, 26,007 bu rye, 169, bu barley, 145, Thead live hogs, and 18,384 cattle. Insoected into gtore in this city Saturday mormng: 214 cars 22 cars corn. S5 cars oats, 13 cars rye, and rles. Total (560 cars), 217,000 bu. One hundred collars in gold would buy $102.75 in greenbacks at the close. In New York on Saturday your greenback dollar represented cents in gold. After a long and trying struggle, Mer- CALFE, the Republican Representative from Alissourd, has been sworn in. A protest appropriate committee, and the dispatches indicate that Fsost may carry his cheek far enough to get up a contest. Mr. Bage, of Auburp, N. Y., fell into a slight error yesterdsy. He was arraigned for trial on a cherge of murder just as the jury impaneled in the casz of Miss Cona Yooxs, accused of the same offense, came in with o verdict of zequittal. Ir. Bane | thought it & good enongh verdict, and started for the door, while Miss Cora farther com- plicated matters by fainting sway. 3ir. Bann was bronght back in sackeloth and shockles, and there is .a prospect that the verdict he tried to escape o is the only one of acquittal he will ever bear rendered. A sombre pall of secresy still hnogs over the Republican Senatorial caucus. The Committee appointed to entrap the Presi- dent into giving his opponents the bulge on him reported yesterduy that, after a loug and stormy conversation on the subject of ap- pointments, they had left off a httle behind where they began. Most of them were in- clined to cling to the Presbyterian view of sclection from the pol i cleet, but found 20 consolation in the ouly concession offerad, vhich is thut the President will assign rea- :d removals. Ewise has be- come callous to misfortune his Mt exploit bids fair to Lresk him up. Confidently pecting that his anti-vesnmption il wouid come Uefore the House and afford him sn opportuuity to retrieve himsclf. e invited a mzuberof 1adies to hear bis speech thercupon. But his enemies were rumercus and his bad Juck omnipresent, snd the Honm. Trowas Ewxo sat with ciafing spirit while his op- pouents enterizined his sudience with ori tions und almost every other object than his pet mensare. Manifestly Lis lines are cast in places where the fishing is not satisfac- tory. Tdentification with the Judiciary appears to be atteaded with porsonal discomforts in ibe Lone Star State. During the trial of Esconzpo,~wko, by the way, is cquitted of tho chiarge of filibustering,—Judge Alonerr made some remarks which were assumed by l‘{-hldge Russers to be a reflection upon himself. . At the conclusion of the trial, Res- resting-place there was a mute recognition of the loss that falls heavily on a community thet will long remember, with regret for his misfortunes, the man whose life was remark- gble for its earnestness and usefulness be- fore it went out in gloom and. disappoint- ment, ! Still deeper grows the mystery that haogs over the disappearance of the Pittsburg law- yer, Grn. It was claimed in the Orphans’ Court yesterday that he was one of the exec- utors of GrLsox LignTcap, Sr., and that he had made off witn §25,000. This is inex- plicable, in the light of the fact that he left behind him several hundred thousynd dol- lars, for which a writ has been issued to sat- isfy the claim of the LiguTcap heirs. An anecdote in councction with the Paris Exposition bill credits Maryland with ex- traordinary discrimination in the selection of Congressmen. One of her Representatives, Swaxy, though a man of commanding stat- e, is marvelously defective in voice, and it is related of him that he cannot bLe heard three feet from his seat. This precedent is recommended to other States. A judicious choice of Representatives who can’t be heard three feet off could only be excelled Dby the selection of men who can't be heard ab all, and wero the election of mutes to become general, we should have a Congress which, like the gentleman’s bread pill, if it could not do auy good, would at least be entitled to recognition as harmless. Thera is o prospect that the Mexico-Texas question will find a solution through the agency of n number of amiable and self- sacrificing Indians. - The New York Sun and popers of that ilk have smused tho country with solemn prophecies of terrible disaster consequent upon the invasion of Mexico by United States soldiers in pursuit of thieving redskins. Now it appears that the savages have crossed the border into Texas, obviating the necessity of sending a force into tho land of the Greaser. It is doubtful whether we are at liberty to con- gratulate ourselves upon this new aspect of affairs, for the depredators are described as being uumerically strong, o fact that is creating no little unessiness in the invaded quarter. On one occasion, at least, intemperate Labits havo been attended by desirable ro sults. The Army bill, as passed by the Sen- ate, went through the Ifouse yesterday, leaving its opponents to explain that its pus- sage was effected by the absence of a number of gentlemen engaged in the Democratic pastime of getting drunk. The Ifouse agreed yith the Senato in refusing to station four regiments on thie Rio Grande border by 2 vote of 140 to 126, and fixed the numerical strength of the army at 25,000 by 134 fo 130. Itisto be hoped that the good work inaugurated by the constituents of the demi- john will not stop here, though it is lamenta- ble that Democratic Congressmen can only De brought to & correot view of their duty to the nation by the potent arguments of the whisky-bottle. THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT. The netion of the Board of County Com- ‘missioners during the last week has been in keeping with the past record of that beds. Though the people of this city Lad unani- mously rejected the five members of the Board whose terms expire this fall, and had with almost the same unanimity pronounced . judguent of condemnation on the majority of the Board, by refusing to vote them per- mission to sell bonds, the proceeds of which were to be expended by the Loard, the me- jority was as reckless and defiant as ever. Tie union between the Doard and the Court-House coutractors and operators was as strong as it was before the people had branded the past record of the Board as in- famous and dishonest. Ilow the county debt iz irncreasing. and the extent io which it has alveady reached, may be judged Ly the nppropriations for next yest. Thus, o tuxlesy is made for £101,905 for interest on the county debt existing prior to Angust, 1870, and o tax-levy of $203,405 for interest on the bond- et debt created since August, 1870. It be seen that the new debt is now in exc of £4,191,000, and thet we are fast approach- ing the constitutional mum, . The moment the gang of dishonest consurners of the public funds were driven frow the city offices and Government, they tur: the County Government as aff- ficld for harvests, and one with aircady exbausted. Four quarter of new dubt mark the progeess has been wade 1n thel branch of the pablic sarvice. The Cons m promdes Uit the tax for crrrel il for P eXprAes interest oa debt cesated since August, 1570, shall exrecd 73 cents on the £199 of asees<ed valne of taxable ha County Board bas been 0 17y taxes to the utmost Jaw, It hns 5o maonged the con s that the whole levy suthorized | by faw isnot wore thun cquul (o meet the current expenditures, Ext ce und swindling huve swollen the expenditures so enormonsly that uothing is left 1o apply on the Comrt-House. o, without reducing act- ual expenditures, the Bourd & year ago re- daced the appropriations for a1l the county institntions, and used the surplus for the Court-House. A consequence of this is o large deficiency, now represeuted by a float- ing debt. Here are some of the items shov- ing the operation of reducing appropriations without reducing expenditures: P70; | Appropri- Erpendi- atrans., tures. Tneane Asylum £11:1,000 County Hospit: Shenifl's omce Dicung prisoners L County Clerk's of Total..... Here, in these few instances, has been an excess of expenditures over appropriations srLL demacded a retraction, which was re- fused, and he thercupon smecked the wearer of the Judicial ermme ncross the counte- . mance. So far gore hes poured only from E:e smitten nose, but there isn prospect that me shooting around will be dore before s>, ‘each gentleman can express himself as Ligh- Iy gratified at the conduct of the other. From out a sorrowing household and fol- lowed by o long iine of mourners the re- mains of Wittax F. CooLsavcn were taken yesterday and committed to the grave. The last rites were characterized by touching services, sad music, and tender scenes. A iea of flowers softencd the funeral drapings, and testified with fragrant breath ‘to the ' Wndly and regretfal recollection in which the unfortunate man’s memory was held by a legion of friends. In his address the Rev. Mr. BaBTLETT paid 8 pathetic tribute to the - life and services that had made the departed * 8 conspicuons spirit in the business world that knew him, and an ornament to the . social circles that grieved over his ashes, and . in the procession that followed him to his amounting to $357,000. This sum is repre- sented by o flonting debt bearing interest, and the money has been voted to various friends of the Board for' *‘ extras” ond other work on the Court-House. That sharp practice’ has been egain adopted. The ‘majority of the Board last week took advan- tageof the brief time left of their official cxistence to repeat this proceeding. They cut down the appropriations for next year until they compare with the actusl expendi- tures of last year as follows : Appropri- ations, ZEzpendi- Insano Asylam Poor-flouse County Clerk's Shentl’s ottice. Dieting prisonert Total........ - o0 §424,280 740, Similar reductions were made msx :ll‘:zg ilems_ of avpropriation where the actual ex- penditure is proportionately greater, and the deficiency between expenditure and appro- pristion will be represented by a floating debt of nearly balf a million of dollars, This was done in order to vote a large appro. priation to pay off the contractors on the Court-House. e The new Board will not take charge of af- fairs until December. They will find all the appropriations and salaries for the next year fixed in advance by the old Board. Their proper courso will be to abolish all useless ofiices, nnd to reduce expenditures as far as possible to the sums approprinted. This can Dbe dene by a thorough and radical overturn- ing of the present system of contracts in- gugurated by the dishonest Ring. ) TThis County Government is perhaps the only instance in this country of a legislative body levying taxes and running public cherities by its own members. The Board ot only appropriates, but -its own members ezpend the money of the public. The plan has been proposed that, instead of letting contracts for supplies under the direction of a committee of the Board, a_ general agent be appointed to make all the purchases of supplies for the county. This practice has been adopted by the Bonrd of Education for many years, and its success has been un- questionable. Of course, for such an office a man of incorruptible integrity and experi- enco is needsd, otherwise it would be a new source of fraud. At all events, “the County Commissioners should not be allowed personuliy to expend one dollar, or to contract for auy expenditure; but we are satisfied that a competent person, strictly honest, could srve for the county at least 25 per cent in the expenditure for supplies. If {he new Board con find such & man, such a saving woald be eminently desirable. It is notorious that the county for years has been |- plundered in tho quantity, quality, and prices of all its supplics, and something ought to be done to correct the evil and cut off one large branch of corruption. The new Board will have a large work before it to unio the evils already established. Tt will require cournge znd perscverance, but it may rest assured that in every measure of reform it will have the cordial support of the public. —e THE ANCIENT BRONZE-WORKELS. It was a rade period when implements of stonehad gone out of fashion and iron had not come in. The people in some parts of Europe lived in grottos, natural or artificial, and in other regions had curious dwellings built upon piles over the waters of quiet lakes. This new metal (bronze) was o mys- tery to them. ‘They neither knew whence it came nor how 1t was made. They could only tell that it was brought into their midst by odd-looking foreigners, of swarthy com- plexion, sturdy frames, and a keen commer- cial spirit. The brenze-foundrics had forges and erucibles, but there were o blast fur- nuces in those days. The metal came in in- gots from some far-away land. All of it evi- dently hud the sameorigin, for its composition was always the same. If the scientists of that dey bad knovn how to make u quentitativo ad qualitative analysis, they would havo dis- covered that copper and tin were invariably present in bronze in the seme proportios. ‘Ihe approximution has bzen made to the ten-thousandth in modern times, and in no instance has there been found any variation. The foreign workers in this curious metal were clannish. They established themselves in gll parts of Europe, but it does not appesr that they ever fraternized with the people that surrounded them. They had not only foundries, but tressure-keeps, or armories, where they deposited their finished products and exhibited them for sale. MMany foun- dries have been discovered in Europe, par- ticularly in France, Savoy, and Germany, Fourteen hundred snd eighty-five picces Wero taken from the foundry at Larvaud, doting from the close of the age of bronze. These foundries are remarkable for their uniformity., They sre usually placed near the banks of rivers, aud were probably nob £ar from ceutres of population. An un- portant foundry of tie new-stone period has been discovered at Pierre-en-Chastre, in the forest of Compiegne. Five hundred objects in bronze were iaken from it in 1860. The treasure-keeps, or warchionscs, are even more interesting then the manufactories. Many of them iwve been found in the Alps, and : twenty-nine, which yielded Wjects re new and have Sometiwes several of the \cd together, just as they from the mold. They are found near s froquented by travelers, Anti- s icve (hat the deposils were col- iong wmde for trade. The esistence of trewsure-keeps with {heir stocks still d. and the fact that the deserted foundries arc left with all their machinery ntending, suggest an inquiry as to the fate of the once industrious workmen, It may be that they grew rich too rapidly, and excited the jealousy of the people ameng whom they dwslt. They may have kept their se- crets too closely, or Leld their wares at too high 8 price. Even in the age of bronze, no doabt, monepoly was estcemed odions, and the law cgainst unjust discrimination was not the less severe becanse it was unwritten. Perhaps the Grangers in the age of bronze mads things uncomfortable for the capitalists of that period. They may have called it o deadly olense to engineer acorner in bronze. Their tariff of maximum rates, if it could be found, wonld possessnot only archrological but contemporaneous interest. Whether these suppositions be correct or not, there caw be no question that the original workers in bronze were driven out of their workshops by the enraged inhabitants. In some in- stauces their stocks were confiscated; in others they were overlooked and buried, to come to Jight thousands of years afterwards, and provoke the imagiuntions of the learned aud the curious. The bronze-makers were dispersed through Europe. They were, in spite of their hardships, too fond of their adopted country, and too teacious of it, to leave it for a whim or a small matter of per- sccution. They stood by their rights, and their descendants are to-day famous in Hun- gary s Tsigancs, in Italy as Zingar, in Frauce as Bolemiaus, in Greece as Gyphtes or Egyptians, in Spain as Gitanos, and in England 05 Gypsies. Whence did they come? Where was the storehouse from which they brought their precions ingots? ‘What route did they travel ? Theso are the questions that Jr. Jomy AvsTny STEVENS sets himself to answer in a recent number of the Galazy, bis article being a compendium of the view of M. ExmLe Buayour, an antiquarian of the high- est authonty. Ifis theory is that all the bronze in ancient Europe came from the Peninsula of 1lalacca and Banca, which are to-day the centres of pro- the | duction of this metal. The reason for believing that bronze could not have been smelted in Europe is that no pure copper and very little tin is to be found, while all over Europe bronze has the same component parts. “‘This uniformity of alloy, estab- Lished by analysis, proves an identical origin, aud that it was all imported.” The objects wanufactured by the rudimentary processes were ornaments, arms, and tools. When bronze was firsi introduced it was scarce and costly was bartered for amber, fur, and other products, and was worn as jewelry and amulets by the inhabitants. Arms next made their appearance; and, finally, when bronze was a drug on the market for m.l:er purposes, it “was handed over to the smith, and took its place as the first and highest of the useful metals. Tracing back the relics of the early periods, it is found that bronze articles were common in Northern Europe long after they had been superseded in the South, an indication thatthey werointroduced from below. The division of Europe which contributes to the Gral formation drew its supply of bronze directly from Asia: tho Danubian provinces took theirs from the ' middle or lower regions of the Danube, while that of Savoy, France, and a part of Switzerland came from Italy by the Alpine passes. Everything indicates that the route of bronze was from Asia, and particularly from Southwestern Asia, where, indeed, it is known that metals were first produced. M. Bunxour, shows, by the process of elimina- tion, that Caucasia, Tartary, or Egypt could not have supplied old Europe with bronze. Narrowing the circle, he is led to look npon Asia Minor gs the way by which the traflic in brouze passed, and India as its place of orgin. But India is extensive, and it im- ports its bronze from without. Thus the route is traced to its source in Malacca and Bonea. As bronze drove out ihe new and polished stone, 50 was it in turn driven out by iron, which came in, as bronze did, as a precious metal, and ended in performing all the drudgery of mankind. THE FRENCH SiTUATION. The political situation in France has reached a crisis that promises peace instead of strife. Thirty members of the Senate, belonging to tho Right Centre, have waited upon Marshal MacMauoN and informed him that they will not support the Cabinet inany policy of resistance, and that they will nob agree to auother dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies. They hold the balance of pow- er, and their action is very similar to that of the moderate Democrats in our own Con- gress, who, rather than plunge the country into civil strife last winler, voted to refer the Presidential question to the Electoral Com- mission. Their courso checks MacMaroy in his rackless policy, and males it inevitable that the present Cabinet must band in their resignations, which they bave doue, leaving MacMamo all at sea with his programme. He bLad intended to dissolve the prasent Chawber, if the Senate had consented, but e cannot do it without such counsent under the law. He effected the -previous dissoln- tion upon the assurance of the Administra- tion that the people would sustain him. The majority of the Seunate, being monarchieal, acquiesced in the demand for the dissolution. An appeal was takens to the people, and for- five months there was the most exciting political canvass the French peoplo have ever known since the Revolution. Both the Government and the Church Dbrought all their tremendous power to bear upon the people. The Church promised and threatened, aud the Govern- ment prosccuted and persecuted, arrested Republican editors, suppressed Republican newspapers, and even threatened the use of the army. It wasall of no avail, however. The people proved that MacMamox had promised more than he could fulfill when he seid tho people would indorse the dissolu- tion of the House. They gave a majoriiy of 760,000 for the Republic, and they elected over 100 majority of the members of the Chamber. The rebuke did not nlter the rash nnd violent policy of MicManoy, nor did the second election to the Conncils-Gen- eral, which body in turn will eldet a certain number of Senztors in January. He still determined to. press matters to a revolu- tion, and, if the Senate Conscrvatives wounld consent to break up the House again, de- c'are martial law, and thus by the use of ab- solute personal power force a majority in the new Chamber at an election uest spring. The thirty members of the Right Centre, holding the balance of power, Lave refused in advance, and have thus completely blocked the Jarshal's game, besides securing the resignation of the Cabinet, and he will now be compelled to select a Cabinet more in ne- cordance with the sentiment of Parliament. The outlook, therefore, is favorable for an avoidanco of civil war, and there is a pros pect that the French may settle their d culties without fesort to arms. They are now passing through the same experiences that the English did 2 few years ago in the matter of Parlinmentary responsibility. It will be a great point gnined if Micdlanoy is com- plled to govern by majority rule or in se- cordance with the sentiment of the Chamber of Deputies. It will be the first solid fonn- dation of French liberty and self-govern- ment that has ever been laid in that country if they pass this erisis successtully. FIRE-LADDERS AND STAND-PIPES, TPerhaps it wes Just as well that the pro- posed ordinnnce in regard to ionary lad- ders or fire-eseapes fatled, since it was too general in its terms, but it is also well that motion to reconsider will afford enother op- portunity for discussing the subject at to- morrow’s -meetiry of the Council. It is proper that a modern. progressive, and bean- tiful city like Chicago should be supplied with every possible protection against fire, aud every approved mesns for a rapid ex- tinguishment after fire has broken out; sta- tionary ladders properly locuted on the high buildings are au important auxiliary in fight- ing o fire that has its origin in the top stories and also valunble as a mesus of escape. The Council will do well to cousider at the snme timo_ whether buildings that obvionsly quire stationary Iadders should not likewise be provided with stand-pipes. But in both cascs a general ordinsnce does unol an- swer the full purposc. It is requisile tallest buildings sbould heve their ladders fited at the proper places, oud that the location in every instance should Le known to the Fire Department. The proper way to proceed, then, is for tho Couneil first to order & general survey, under a commission consisting of a representative of the Building Departnent, the Fire De- partment, and the Underwriters’ Association, with the authority to locale these ladders, and, perhaps, stand-pipes also, under certain restrictions. When this shall have been done satisfactorily, the Council czn adopt an ordi- nance which shall specify andlist all the build- ings of four stories and more that must be provided with Indders and pipes. The usefulness of these nccessories has been repestedly demonstrated, both by their oxistenco and their absence. In the case of the recent burning of the MMuseum, whick backed up against the rear of McVicknr's Theatre, it was the ladders and stand-pipes attached to dcVicker's building which en- abled the firemen to gain the roof of the latter, command the fire opposite, throw full streams ofwater, and prevent the spread of the conflagration. In the ecase of the recent F1eLp & Lerrer fire the firemen liad no means of reachivg the too storv. where the fire broke out, and the streams which they brought to besr were thinned snd scattered into spray, and of course in- efficient to do the work which a steady, heavy stream could have sccomplished. The Chicago engines, even the smallest of them, have sufficient power to carry a full head of water through a stand-pipe or a hose to the top of the highest building in the city, but they cannot reach even the fourth story wher throwing the water through the air ; lience the necessity of means for carrying the hose to the highest point on the build- ing isas urgenta plea for the adoption of these ladders s is their possible use as life escapes. The ladders themselves ean be provided at comparatively small cost. They consist simply of u succession of strong iron rods, protected from rust, secarely riveted, and running from the ground to the roof. Their proper location is at one side of a tier of windows opening on the series of hall- ways in the various stories of a building. As a rule, the hallways in ali large buildings are constructed one over the other, and in this way rendier and surer access can_be afforded at all times than by ladders which should conduct into separate rooms. All buildings used for hotel or temement purposes, and those which contain manufacturing estab- lishments cod are four stories and wore in height, should be required to furnish these ladders, if not stand-pipes ; but there should be diserimination as to the size of the build- ing, as to the number of ladders, as to their location, as to the fira-proof quality of the buildings and their use. For these reasons, a commission shouid be sappointed and 2 survey made, ns we have suggested. The proposed improvement will in every case be profitable to the owners of buildings in the avoidance of loss from fire and the reduction of insurance rates. A NOBLE MEMORIAL. The great building founded by the late Arexavper T. STEWART, and provided for in his will, known as the Working-Wormen's Hotel, is now so ‘nearly completed that the New York Z'imes gives the details of the structure and its internal arrangements. The building is a little more than 200 feet square, and seven stories in height. There are 502 private rooms, of which 115 are double, and all of them are furnished in the most elab- orate style. Each room is connected by wires with the kitchen and dining-room, the janitor's and porter’s rooms, s well as with the office. Thers are bath-rooms and water-closets on every floor, accessible from each room, and every apartment will have its own gas and hot and cold water. The dining- room will have a capacity for 600 persons ut a time, and the parlor und reception-rooms will be very spactous and elegant, each of them baving a first-class piano. ‘The library will be arranged for the special comfort of the guests, will have 2,500 volumies on its shelves, and will contan a complete selection of newspapers and perodicals adapted to women. It is also intended to ornument all ‘the public rooms with paintings, and statuary, and other works of art. The kitchen is to be n model in every respeet, and will be presided over by a French cook. Everything will bo marked down on the bills of fare at cost price, and the restau- rant will not only furnish mealsto the regu- lar boarders, but to all working-women who want to take food home. The hotel is sv built that every room in it has well-lighted windows and good ventilation. ‘The inner squaro is laid out in wossic work, adorned with trees and flowers, and has a fountain in the centre, and negotiations are now making for the purchase of a large tract 1n the rear of the hotel to be laid out as a park for the use of the guests. ‘Lhe building is as nearly fire-proof s it can be wade, no wood being used except inthe doors and window-fremes. ‘I'he basement floor is of stone, snd the rirst, second, und third of warble, and between every second room there is abrick wall twen- ty-four inches thick. ~The main walls, even at the top of the seventh story, are thirty-six inches thick. Nothing seems to have been lett undone that will minister to the comfort and convenieuce of the guests. ‘They will, for the low price of 35 per weel, really have better accommodations, furniture, food, at- tendance, and entertunment than they could liave 1 any first-class botel inthis country at $5 perday. With regard to the internal man- agement, the 77mes suys : Any woman of good character will be accepted as. 2 guest; buc she wast be 4 woman of £ood chare- ter. Kuch guest may bave a emgle room, or two may t double room together at double the price of a stngle roum; Or auy Zucst who cuooses may occup 4 double roon if she pays forit. The hotel wiil be well ufticered and watched. Of course, the Supermtendents will be women. The saw ] regulations will prevail as prevail at all Grst- s botels. Lake them, the management will re- 1n the rizht to dizcruninate ugainst objectionabie bearaers and visitors, There will be plenty of reception tooms for the entertainment of the sueste’ company. and the s s will be enfore- ed for the prevention of di le uccurrences 1 the hotel as ed ut all arst-cluss hotels, ant the same Steps laken for checking them. It 13 suflicient to sty that the same social supervision willobtam i the Women's Hotel as obtaing in any really good hotel—no more and 1o less. The same business exactitude will be observed. Gneets will beexpected 1o be certan sud promvt iu the pa ment of their bills, or their apartments will be re- A, 1L is not a chantavle institution fu any ILwall be conducted on business principles. 1tis intended to belp those who heip themselses. “Lhere does ot seem to be any doubt that the mission of the Women's Hotel will be successtul. 1f so, it will be an elegant nnd enduring mouument to the memory of Mr. StEWART, and one which will surpass a1l other of his memorials in practical usefulness. Ic will not ouly be a hotel but a home, and one that will be a blessing to thousands of work- ing-women. GUILTY OF PERJURY. Counvictions of perjury have so seldom been obtained and the penalties provided by Iaw have so seldom beon enforced in this country that the cvime has lost something of its ancient charncter. People have come to regard it in many instances as a techaical offunse. se swearing has been considered morally wrong or not in a cerlain propor- tion to the piety, nlleged or presnmed, of the perjurer. It as been by many estcemed only odious to be detecled in the commission of the crime, while the successful cheating of justice by a freudulent afliduvit or a false onth has been secretly connived at, if not ad- mired, by too mnny professing to be influ- enced by a high commercial sense of honor. In certain situntions, as when the reputation of a woman is iavolved, it is considered obligatory upon . * gentlemen” to commit perjury. In otber cases, chances of perjury are recklessly taken by men of unblemished reputation in the assurance that it is “a mere matter of form.” The facility with which the oath is administered nnd. the fee pocketed gives support to the impréssion that ignorance of facts, which the affiant cer- tifies as being within his own knowledge, is some excuse for perjury. No doubt these wrong notions have been assisted in their origin and growth by the careless habits of Iewyers, who from familiarity with afidavits and oatbs have ceased to regard them as of any account, and who, knowing the extreme culty of convicting of perjury, feel that in no case will the personal liberty of their clients be placed in jeopardy. The conviction of Ronese L. Case, Presi- dent of the Security Life-Insurance Com- pany in New York, on a charge of perjury may belp to correct public opinion on this subject. Alr. Caseis 63 years of age, and, before this trinl, had borne sn unblemished reputation. As President of the Security Company he attached his name to a sworn statement of the assets of the Company whick was frandolent in many items, and intended to deceive the In- surance Department and the public. The Company was credited in the state- ment * with $175,000 cash in bank, whereas it had but $900; its real estate, which was bought in 1875 for §180,000, was put in at $450,000; worthless agents’ ac- counts were used to swell the assets, and other frauds were perpetrated, so that the Company, which was $2,000,000 in arrears, was represented as being i a solvent condi- tion. The defense set up on behalf of Mr. Case was that he had no personal knowledge of the affairs of the Company, but was merely a respectable figure-head, whose du- ties were limited to drawing his salary of £10,000 per ancum. The lawyer for the de- fense, in his extremity, went so far as to say that his client had lspsed into a condi- tion of senih't):, and was not com- petent to understand complicated business affairs. The prosecution maintained that it was preposterons to say that Jr. Casg, who had been a Director in the Bowery Sav- ings Bank, and one of the incorporators of the Security Company, could be ignorant of the falschoods contained in the statement of the Company ; and that, admitting his igno- rance, the defense was not sound. In this connection, Judge Davis, of the Oyer and Terminer Court, who presided, said : As to the prisoner’s claim that he was iznorant of the falsity of the report, if he swore as within his own knowledge to facts which he neither knew nor had reason to belteve the subject covered, he was not 1o be protected. Any officer of an insurance company or bank who 1s required by law to make a etatement of the condition of his institution, suf- fers himself to make oath to a statement which is, in fact, faise in respect to its assets without inves- tigation, which he is able to make from the records which are constantly under his eye und control, his oath 15 not only moral perjury, but all men could clearly see it was lejzal perjury. Whether he knew the statements were false, or made them recklessly without knowledge, it was a willfully false state- meut within the law. The jury, after being out half an hour, re- turned a verdict of guilty, and Mr. CisE was remanded for sentence. A motion for a new trial will be made Tuesday, and, if it be not aranted, sentence will then be pronounced. Au unportant feature of this case was the part pleyed in it by the Notary Public before whom the oath was taken. He testified that, to the best of his knowledge and be- lief, defendsnt was sworn. An attempt was made by the counsel of the latter to show that the outh was not administered. The Court called attention to the essential char- acter of this dispute, advising the jury that an oath lawfully administered is requisite 1 acharge of perjury. *The signing of an uffidevit which afterwards receives the sig- natare of an otficer authorized to administer an oath, and is afterwards used in a legal proceeding, does not constitute perjury. ‘Lhe oath must be actaally administered. If the jury has any reasomable doubt whether an oath was administered, they must acquit.” ‘The jury in this instance preferred the tes timony of the Notary to that of the officers of the Company other than Mr. Case who are under indictment, and on this ground brought in theirverdict. But, whatever the practice may have been in the Security Com- pany, it is true that many large corporations keep Notaries as convenient shields against the penalties of perjury. These Notaries are required, and consent for a small extra fee, to affix their seals to documents that have not been sworn to. The practice is not in- frequent in Cook County, where the Grand Juries have been confronted with precisely this divided respousibility as between an ap- purent perjurer and an unfaithful Notary. There 1s manifestly here a defect in the law, for, solong as it is possible by collusion of this deseription to make apparent affidavits that will answer all the purposes of real ones, no confidence can be placed in any published statements concerning vast financialinterests. Some penalty in addition to the one which at present exists ought to be provided for the wrongful atfixing of the notarial seal, as well as for the siuning of forms-of affilavits in- tended to deceive. The conviction of Mr. Case will unques- tionebly have a wholesome effect upon the community in which be resides. It ought fo induce the hends of insurance companies and similar corporations which stand in a fiduciary relation to the public to be careful liow they carelessly sign statements for pub- lication. The position of such officials is peculinrly responsible. Their kuowledge of the affairs of their companies 13 taken for granted. If it were not, their testimony to the financial condition would be valueless. The excuse of ignorsuce is for them worse than nmoue. It is a confession of infidelity ouly less serious than actual malversation of funds. The law: holds, and the Courts are disposed to_Lold, that such ignorance is criminal; odd, when a fow officials have been punished for it as they deserve, no doubt it will be found less widely prevalent. No punishment that the law permits can bo too severe, and no disgrace too public for ofticials who by careless or deliberate 1n- dorsements of lyiug statements promote schewes of fraud. In defining his position to the Senatorial Committee sent to pump him President Haves bases himself upon that section of the Constitution which provides that the President, by and with the advice of thefSen- ate, shall appoint, etc. Heo construes this to menn that the President shall nominate and the Senate do pretty much as it has a mind to on bis nominations. He looks upon the grave aud reverend Seignors as a Court established to, amoug other functions, pass upon such cases as he shall deem proper (o call their attention to. They have nothing to d> with him nor he with them antil he shall have exercised his pre- rogative of nomination, and their duties commence where his leave off. To him it bears tho aspect of grave impropriety when a member of Congress approaches him upon the subject of an appointment. If he wants Congressional advice ke will seek it, but un- til he does ho respectfully submits that it might properly be withheld. A long and bitter controversy has raged in St. Louls over the price of ga The city hasa legal right to take the Gas-Works at a valuation, out that involves the question of the cost ana profit of making gas. Pending the determina- tion of the dispute, a Receiver was appointed a year torun the works. He has just made his report to the Court for a year’s operations. The price charged for gas was $2.50 per 1,000 feet. The cost of coal was 20 cents per bushel, or about $5.60 per ton. The receipts for the year, as compared with the expenses, were asfol. Tows: Expenditures Receipts .... $104, 751 62, 40000 Profts for one year, 3358, 73 y 3353, 730, The amount paid for coal, at 20 cents ;3 bushel, was $170.255. The amount received for coke sold was §73,463. The citizens have per;. tioned the Court to reduce the price of as to figure that will not allow over 13 per cent profi on the investment. The expenses and receips are thus itemized: 3 e 1§ rep T XRENDITURES, ing and repaining 3,400 s ¥ repates of Gae-Woria. o rreet lamps§ 13,301 New attachments, etc. Taxes, 157 New mains. Saiaries, expen: %u!m: albfl:l;-}\ 0 i §52,277 bushels coal at 20 Handling cosl, €16 s rsms ?.":'..l.’“.’ L Total ... .50 ‘The Receiver includes also the sum of 23 Texal cxpenses and remuneration of it oficals. Shu RECEITTS, Cash, 207,000,000 fect private consumers. Caeh from city, gas furnished 3, lamps, Cash from ci Cae for col voonn Cash for new uul;xchmems. Cash for rents....\.. Interest zod other account: Coke on hand and bills unpai Gas bulls uncollected... - ligEting Tamp: Total receipt Subtract expet Protits one year.. 3558 The cxpenditures, it will be noticed, ieluds nothing for interest on capital invested, or wear, rust, and tear,and very little for ey maios. How much capital fs actually investeq is not stated. —————— It is altogether likely that in a few days we shall bear startling news from England abong the TicuBORNE case. The Claimant has just been removed from Dartmoor toPortsea Prison the reason allezed beinz that he did not e along well with the officials of the former ins tution. Now, the discipline of Portsea is much milder than that at Dastmoor, and it is evideng toanyouve at all acquainted with the way in which British prisons are manazed that if the Claimant were 1ndecd misconducting . him- self le would come in for punish- ment—not for consideration. Rumors have been current of late at the London ciubs that ualy disclosures about tue famous Ticn- BORNE cae are in the possession of the authori- ties, and thisremovallends confirmation to them, Chief Inspector CLARKE, the great detective who worked up the case against the pseudo Sic RoGER, is now on trial a3 one of the oflicials who were bribed by the swindlers, BExsoy and KRR, to consent to or assist in their raugs, and if he should be found guilty of bribery aud perjury, itis hard to see, especially as the two female witnesses against the Claimant were bad characters, how the Crown could refuse a com- mutation of sentence. There would then be the serivus question to ‘encounter, What re- spect and reverence would contimue to be eo- tertained by the lower classes for tue law, especially when it is only a few weeks since the death-sentences of the four convicts in the PENGE starvation case had to be remitted or commnuted after Mr. Justice HAWRINS bad made a vigorous pleaagainst them in his summing-up? L ——— The ““small type ™ editor deems a word of cx- planation proper before dismissiug the Journal- istic unpleasantness. At the recent election Tug TRIBUNE supported a ticket and the Jour- nal supported a ticket. The former labored for the success of the Republican County Reform ticket; the laster labored “ For ” the §551,712.18 appropriation State-House-Ring tax ticket. The Journal worked for that ticket with all its mushy might, and its job oftice printed all the tickets *For? the iax, w wus a violation of both the letter aud spirit of the law. Tae did what it could for the Eepublican ticket, and oceasionally “bove a small at the Jowrnui’s State-Hou: tax ticket. The ticket supported by Tug Trin- UNE was elected by ** a large majority.” whereas the S. H. R. ticset fought for by the Lieutenant- Governor was sat down upon by a larger ma- jority. Since then the Journal bas been going round cackling like a wet hen, and “won't speak ¥ to Tne TRIBUNE—except in “had™ language, or words to that eifect. Tuz Trb- UNE is sorry for the plight in which the etection Ieaves the Journal, but it is not sorry at the pooular verdict on its State-Housc-Ring ticket. 1f this **amende honorable ”” is not decmed satis- factory by our neighbor, it must wait until the next election for one more acceptable. sieltesavo ddiind i All was consternation at the Vatican last week. 'The Pope’s surgeon had given him up, and there seemed little hope of his recovery, when a young Awmerican doctor voluntcered his services and amazed his confreres by crying, ©Take away the pilis; Jives czn bé saved with- out them.” *What shall we do, your Excel lency?” gasped the Cardinal CAMERLENGO. “Telegraph to the American Associated Press Aents that the Pope is dead. There is about seven hours difference intime. By 1oclod here—which is § p.m. over there—the Ameri- can writers will be at work on his obituary, and his Moliness will feel better. Three hours later comp jon will have begun, aud Ins coa- valescence will progress more rupidly. Two hours after thar the obituaries wiil all beset up, and mvy illustrious patient will be out of danger.” This singular advice was followed, and next day the Pope was upat 5 o'clock and received a number of pilgrims. Every one said it was a miracle except the young American doctor, who whispered sofily to biwself, +Didn’t I know all about CitarLes 0'Coxok! If they badu’c got tired of keeping VANDER- BILT'S obituary standing, and distributed it, tt¢ olu Commodore would be alive aud well to-dag- ———————— When the mobs were the thickest and the speakers did roar, during the labor riots last July, a demnagogic—ive mean Democratie, bud it is much the same thine—Congréssman down in Penosylvania, HENDRICK B. WriGnT by name, told hisconstituents that as soon a3 Con- eress met he would introduce a bill o distrib- ute $10,000,000 among.the poor workingmen of America. Of course this sum wouldn’t guite give each of them forty acres of Calumet lands and 4 mule, but it would be better than nothiug. Why hasn’t Mr. WriGnT introduced tnat bill? e e————— Mr. MorToY, when a young man, discovered that he could make a funny speech, and sternly repressed his humorous tendencies ever after- wards. He died oue of the leadersof agreal political party. SaMMT Cox cultivated bis #ift of humor, andlived to get two votes fur Speaser in the party caucus, and a berth on the Comumit~ tee on Library. if Sasoix bad bad MoRTON'S sense he might never Lave become a trip-ham- mer statesman, but he would urobavly hase been something more thanatack-hammerstates- man. ——e—— The late Commodore VANDERBILT, il the evi- dence of all his chiidren but one is to be be- lieved, was guilty of all the meutionable crimes, not to mention a lot of crimes that arc nob mentionable. We do not see how, if they entes- tain any respect for themselves, the vontesting heirs can think of sullying their lingers with millions reeking with vice. —————— 1t may perhaps be presumptuous on the part of TrE TRIBUNE to interfere in New York poli- tics, but it would like to suggest that, in view of his intlmate acquaintance with the Caval Ring, the Democratic Secretary of State-clect should change his name from BEaci to LOW- PATH. ———— Appealing to the stomachs of European con sumers by establishinza corn kitchen at the Paris Exposition may justly be called an argi- mentum ad hominy. Mr. Cox thinis the expense ‘would be too mush. ——ect——— The Journat's favorite drink, which is souf mash, is much better than its favorite dieh whuch is sour mush. S o= There is rather more rainy weither thanusnal in the patent-medicine almanac for 187, t0- gether with a good show of thunder and light- =