Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 29, 1879, Page 4

THE: CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDA JUNE 29, 1879-SIXTEEN PAGES “"' : other Federal census will be taken, and if 475,000 inhabitants ard found in Chicago we shall have no grounds of complaint, when thie biickBots by fire and panic. the’ city. has: sustained since 1870 are-taken juto considera~ tion. Onr sdburban towns will exllibit a Dhe Cribune. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. RY NAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID. $12.00 | very large increase, as-there has beon a 1-08 | ieavy overflow into' them frorh the city since’ 3:58 | the fire. Thus,’Hyde- Pack numbered but ‘Sheet. sSatureay Edition, eiteen nazes. ‘WEEKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. 3,644 inhabitanta in 1870,.-but next year it will ‘show: between 10,000-and 12,000. The Political American’ people have erected for their own good and enjoyment, for the proserva- tion of their personal. and national liberty ? In point of fact, have American people de- generated into mere slaves, and left liberty ‘and freedom no frionds or defenders save the followers of the red fleg?. etceteras. which attend this sort of. business. The County Commissioners should care nothing for the men competing for this work; they represent the public. If the public service can best be promoted by con- solidating the whole job into one contract, even if the total be something more than the- aggregate of the fifteen: or twenty bids of doubtfal character made for the separate Portions of the work, then thoy should take the responsibility of so awarding it, and and .social fabric which the Of what liberties are Dr. Sonumpt and the Communists deprived? The utmost free- dom cannot be said‘ to be abridged when a coples sent irec. - : Speclor-omiee addréas In Tall including State and or aanoda may be made‘elther by draft, express,” Post-Oflice order, or in registered letter, at our risk. ‘TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. paity, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. ally, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week. ‘Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Comer Yadison and Dearbora-sts., Chicago, Tl. orders for the delivery of Tw Trincse at Evanston, Enslewood, end Hyde Park left fn the counting-room ‘willrecelve prompt attention. —_—_—_——————" TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. . Tnx CaIcaGo TRIZUNE. has established branch offices forthe receipt of subscriptions and advertisements as fol!ows: ‘SEW YORE—Room 29 7ritune Building, F. T. Me- Fapnex, Manager: ys PARIS, France—No. 16 Rue de la Grange-Bateltere. ‘#B. Maurer, Agent & LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 49 ‘Strand. Hexey F. GIiia, Agent. SOCIETY MEETINGS. LO COMMANDERS, NO. 1, K. T.—Special cattle rucsday evening: July 2, at 7:90. Ofcers please note the hour. The Order of the Temple will be Eonferred. Stated Conclave Tuesday eventng, July 1, Bt So'cluck. Members of Apollo why have Se eee comes Be beier of tue Eminent Cows sre alwi welcome. By or - inander. Hi. 8. TIFFANY, Recotder. ST. BERNARD COMMANDERY.:° NO. 35, K. grated Conclave -Wednesday ei Sieeceitesusly invited: Dy order of the & ma Sayaka “DICKERSON, Recorder. NO, 303 A. F. & A. M.—Reguler londay evening, June 30, at 8 o'cloc! soar gindar preihfos comeieig iuvieeds Dy onder k. _VWisiti Irethren cot Cike WM. eG. We ODONNELL, Secretary, CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, XO. 69, R.A. M.— spuclat Convocation Aigaday cvening” June 0, at 8 Oichek. “Work on the Mane Degree,’ Visiting, com- yrdially invii By orderof the M. Bppns are cordially vO PG ICRERGOM, Secretary. VAY RENSSELAER GRAND LODGE OF PERFEC- ‘TION will hold a regular assemb!y on Thuraday eren- ingnex By crder of : é AMOS PETTIBONE, T.’. P.* G.* 30°. BD. GUODALE, Grand Secretary. : PLEIADES LODGE, No, 478. A: F. & A. H.—Regu- te Copleation fides erent, SS ts a Fs duce Seoeae woe We. @. GOLDMAN, W. AL. BLAIR LODG! pmiaunication SUNLAY, JUNE 29, 1879. ‘The Senate Would not pass the Visr Silver resolution yesterday, and the matter had to & oyer until some Nture morning héar. _ he matter of allege jropulaites in-the thanagement of the latlGerman‘National Bank of this city has, say‘Qhe Coniptroller of the’ Currency, been full; Jooked intoby the Government, and it now mains for the local Courts to investigate tho cgrges, —_—_—_—_—_—_— ‘The Mayor having bepxn thes of ré¥cking licenses,—Me cases in Saysti being.--those:.<f-"some very disrepitaile saloons,—: city of othey,Tesorts which are corrupting the youth. / J The gage on 700 miles of track bebug ing’ to the St Lonis, Iron Mounpin’ Soutita Railway Company was’ chasged to the“egwlation width yesterday ix’ about seen hours. It was certainly a ery expe- atious piece ef work, and has.created a Brest'deal of wonderment in &%. Lous; in the ricitity‘of which’ town’ sii featé have heretofore been unknown: 7 /- The manner in which te Indian Ring tansed ‘the removal of th Poncs Indians from’.their lands to the. Indian Territory, against their strenuous protest, and in face cf all law and justice, » told elsewhere by one who has thoroughlyinvestigated the sub- ject. . It is but anothey instance of the dis- reputable doings of a sarty, of men who, un- fortunasely, have the influence to command Government aid in grrying out these nefari- ous'schemes for peisonal profit, at the cost of national honor. There will be another extra session of Congress. Tho President is determined upon his position regerding the employment’ of United Statcs Marshals in case of trouble at elections, and will veto the Judicial bill which the Senate passed yesterday. This bill appropriates money for the payment of. Nurshals, but: prohibits their being called into service at the polls, It is the Presi- dent’s determination that the bill shall go through without avy political riders, and he Proposes to keep the members at the Na- tional Capital until the Southern Democracy will concede the fact that Inw must be pure and simple, without partisan bias or brist- ling with sectional hatred. _ ‘The subject of transmission of disease by books again occupied the attention of the Public Library Directors of this city at their meeting yesterday. A lengthy Teport was. read showing that extensive correspondence’ had been ‘entered into with eminent phy- icians and librarians in various parts of the United States, and not one of the -scientists: who had responded—nineteen in all—set forth any fact tending to show that “ a case of contagions disease was ever imported by 8 -book from a circulating library,” and ovly one had ever read or heard of any such case. Still nearly all the correspondents unite in the’ opinion that, to guard agninst anxiety, it would be well to refusa to allow booxs to go to houses “where there are any s6-catinl contagious diseases.” It will, no doubt, be on the side of safety for the Board to cairy ont the, recommendation of the Committee to loan no books to residents in. houses in which thero are such diseases; and to thoroughly disin- fect such *as may be returned from families where diséases may suddenly develop., ———_—— Thé new City Directory for 1879 is ont. It contains 7,677 more names than that of last year, the number being 161,212, against 153,- 607 for 1875. At thres inhabitants for each, name, the present population of the city would be in the neighborhood of 483,636, which estimate is probably too'high. A reg. | lst census, if taken, would find in thé neigh- borhood of 440,000. We think not ‘more, The usual method of directory computation of three and one-half inhabitants 1s a large exaggeration, that may answer in the latitude of St. Louis for purposes of beasting. But next year tha Federal cénsus is,taken, and ebloviation claims of population'will bs ex- posed. We notice that the Journal estimates the present population at 537,000, which is nonsense, as there is no such number of peo- dle xesiding in this. city. Previous to the census of 1860 all the blowers put down 150,000 8s the very’ least mamber wo had; pat the United States Marshals ccala only and . 109,000 names. .Acain, in 1870 the directory-makers claimed 375,060 to 400,000, ind would not jisten to 350,000 as being a ‘iberal estimate. But the census-takers were 39! able to find even 300,000, and only re csrned 298,577 names, A year hence ‘Town of Lake returned only 3,860, but” will” next year return more than: 12,000. Cicero had‘1,545; it has twice that many .now. Lake View, Evanston, and Jefferson. will: each show large gains. If the suburban villages of ‘this ‘county whose citizens find employment in the city but sleep in the “country ” were annexed to Chicago they would raise the total population to just about half a million. z : billsfor services are flowing in. upon the Louisiana Investigating Committee, which recently undertook the task of showing up Senator Kextoae in-the light of a briber, and succeeded in bringing out the blemishes on the political career of Senator SporrorD instead, there will not be money enough left either to fasten all the guilt,on-the latter or develop the slightest evidence. against: the tS A220 fol Judging from the manner in which the former. Thera were $10,000 appropriated for this purpose, and Half of this sum has gone to pay witnesses,.and stenographera, and as yet the case has made but litttle prog- ress in the direction: Sporrorp desired it to take.. The Democrats ‘should learn wisdom from: experience; and sot apart big money when they know beforehand what a pack of unprincipled liars they have to deal with. WHAT DO THE SOCIALISTS MEAN? We briefly commented on the speech made by Dr. Scmapr, late Communist candi- date for Mayor, at the picnic of the Jaeger Verein on Sunday, the 15th inst. The dis- turbanca and shooting by the Communist Bohémian Sharpshooters. at: the- picnic on the following Sunday have given a -deeper significance to this: speech: of the: Com- munistic leader, and force’ upon the’ public attention the inquiry, What does this speech mean, and what do these Socialists mean by their demands, their threats, and their fisg? That there may be.a better under- standing of’ this" matter we reproduce this spéech. “Dr. Somsmpr said: ‘*My Farenps: Vigilance is the “price of liberty: At this time, when a body of swindlers has taxen possesion of the Government, and is laboring to deprive the peopie of: their’ last relic of. freedom throogh the: artifices vf lawyers, it creates an elevating impression to eve a body of men who are determined to be vigilant md to esponse the cause of freedom. Your. Union ‘has noble. printiples, and hence you stand forwied, nnmoved and an- terrified, for those principles..pince: ouly through persistence can. you: reach. your aim,—the emancipation of the oppretged., You have inscribed ‘Liberty and Enqtality’? on yonr fing: his isan abomination to tne ruling band of swindters, ‘and nbrotere thoy ‘Wave’ étiacted a “f i aye Dracticing the-weq of arms; but ‘Lortpiga thie emus vit to bots oe bolanes tepvéry citizen’ of this country, They ive not od: continue and parge the 0 contage:to deny this, bat nevertheless week, <hrongh the Militia Jaw, to hinder: yon from jeo- tecting yourselves by the use of arms:. Is not this jtidicnlous? Are there two freedoms, one on paper and one it erty, since thére is but one. liberty, and that the right todo. They propose to leave you this ap- parent paper liverty, but to deprive. you of tha right of usinig-armé,” in’ order that they’ may the better enslave and pluntier yan, The chief, swin- dier, Gor. Ccitow, “has signed the’ Militia bill under the advice of the’ monopolists‘and plunter- | ets, and the same man a few dave afterwards vetoed the prily usefal law which the last Minois Legislature bad passed,—the Truck’ bill; bot I hopé to live to eee the tlme in which there’ will be a reckoning with these betrayers of the people, and 1 indulge the hope that the despicable sbyster- ing tricks of these swindlers and traitors will be: come a by-word. Ihave never had respect for an official title or for epaulets, ‘snd therefore I can pay no reverence to the title of Governor or to the eold-laced swallow-tafis and epaulets of the mili- tia, who are, it: appears, from now on to singly represent the military power of thia State. “*My friends, as longa you- keep the peace, as‘ you have done, no one bas any right 10: take from you-your arms, or to deprive you of practicing their use. Icannot, therefore, refraim from branding as scoundrels and dogs all those who drew up. voted Jor, and signed this Militia Dill which is 60 un- Sriend:y to the people. Be firm in your efforts and in’ your organization, since some day, when this plundering of you becomes too severe and too un- endurable, you ‘will be able to use arms in the service of liberty. We live ina time ip which the ruling -cliqae’ of plunderers has’ thrown: off all duties which tend to the maintenance of the State on the shon|ders:of the pvor, aid have taken to themselves all rights which-involve no duties, ‘This cannot remain so forever. ‘Equal duties and equal rights’ is the motto of your-flag,—the flag of humanity and justice. You have chosen the red for your color. It is the color of love, of solidanty, and of freedom for all men. Keep this flag pure’and’ uplifted so Jong as there is separkof life inyou. Red is the color of blood. ‘When you see the red flag, think of the blood of the noble ones: who have fallen for liberty in Germany, Itely, Hungary,-Poland, and’ France; and, if ever an attempt is made’ in: this country to rob yon of Uberty, then remember your duty, which is to make a way for liberty. The red flagis the fiag'of the proletariat, Its meaning. is the approaching morning dawn of. anew and better epoch, and a better time, in which there will be no oppressors aud no oppressed, but everywhere only men, —free and happy men. Therefore, “by all which is dear, and valaable, and high, and holy to you; remain ‘trae to the: principles of Sociaiisth, hold’ the red .flag-in honor, protect it with your bodies in good .and evil days, and be aééured that your cause—the cause of manhood asainst corruption—ie certain of ¥ietory. Bat *Eternal vigilance is the price of Wiverty.’ Therefore; be. always prepared. You have anoble position, Defeudit-as befits men.” It will be seen that the special denancia- tions are hurled at the Governmental author: ities and representatives of. the people, and - tha Socialists are advised to hold themselves in readiness to"defend their liberties and the libertiés| of the proletariat. ‘Who are these Socialists who claim: special liberties? In the first place, this speech was: delivered ina, foreign forigue, to an association of ‘professed. foreigners,’ mostly aliens, and. to a body of mer who would not have understood a word ' of it if delivered in the language of the laws of the country of which they’ pro- fess to be special regnlators. It was a speech delivered to-a, body of armed men weering a uniform and a name of ‘foreign significance, and bearing a flag which is not only rinknown to the Inws of the’ United States, but which is held in abhorrence among all civilized People-as the symbol not only of confiscation, but of unauthorized and un- civilized warfare, It is the symbol of blood, the flag which dénotes- assassination and massacre; ‘which’ signifies the torch and petroleum as weapois, and the sleughter of law-abiding citizens, the spoliation of their property, | 4nd the murder of prisoners. This is the foreign organization, which hera in the United States, where the Government is one of law, sets. aside the American banner of Stars and Stripes and raisés the red flag of assassination and confiscation, and announces itself a8 arrayed in arms=-to do what? It is announced that the Government is laboring to deprive the people of “ their last relic of freedom.” Who are the: people of the United States? Do the stroggling alien gangs and bands of foreign’ birth who parade our streets and carry the red’ flag of the Commune constitute the American ‘people? Are the — forty-four millions of Ameri. | can people dependent “upon the visionary Bemi-barbarinns,* ignorant ~of =the --whole “ . i in reaiityt Liberty on paper is not [ib-- gang. of aliens, bearing an- alien flag, can parade: the streets and proclaim the over-, throw of the law .and the. Government.’ Certainly these men cannot complain thai: they do not enjoy the utmost freedom of speech. & The State of Illinois has enacted a consti- tutional law establishing ‘a well-reguls.ted militie,’—the militia composed of citizens of the State. It has by this same law provided that: there shall be uo other militia and no other armed military orginizations petmitted in this State, except the militia of Wlinois, or’ the troops of the United States, without the license of .the Governor. Every able- ‘bodied-man in Ilinois is at liberty to join the ‘militis.of the State,’ No physically fit man is prohibited. ‘Tho military organization of the State is free to all citizens. This is a nation where the law is supreme, where the Government is a creation of Jaw, and where themilitary power 1s of necessity subordinate to the law and an auxiliary of the law. No State-or Government on earth has ever or will ever tolerate a military’ organization not ‘subordinate to the law thereof, and not un- der the command and control of the officers of the law., To tolerate any military force ‘which owes no allegiance to the law, which repudiates the law and its authorized officers, would be to invite rebellion, insurrection, and civil’ war, and would be’ a constant menace to the public peace. ‘ When these Communists declare that they are “threatened with slavery” they. are not authorized to organize an alien. red-flag army in this State, hostile tothe’ Government, and with the avowed purposo of destroying the Government and overthrowing our social institu- tions, they réverse the truth of the situation. Equality before the law is the right of the citizen. These Socialists are given the same rights under the law that all other persons are given, and they are entitled to no more. No one proposes to deprive any man of the right to bear arms. These Socialists can ‘keep. their arms, as-all other persons can, but they cannot organize and parade as a mili- tary force unless they are licensed by the legal authority of the State. If that be an enslavement, then it is a slavery shared by the whole American people, aud in’ force in every State of the Union. “The military power of the State” is that created and sanctioned by law, and under the command and control vf the: officers appointed by the Constitution und laws. Against’ whom are these Socialists armed? Against whom do they demand protection? In what does the law or socicty oppress them? Have they not ;every. right which -any..ather citizen can claim or possess? Are ‘not the polis and the courts as open and as free to them as to all others? Are they not as free to orate, and resolve, and -eat and drink, as all other people? Why is it that their tights deniand special troops, a special flag, special bayonets, and special bullets?. ° Let’ these men know,’ once: for ‘all, that there are no persons in this country who can lawfally claim the rights and privileges of American citizens unless they are Amer- ican: citizens and conform to the laws, They are allon an equality before the law. If these men are Americans ‘they should be subordinate to. the law.. If they are not “Americans, then they are aliens, and liave no lawful voice in either appointing or over- turning the lew, or making’ or overturn- ing the Government, If they are not part of the militia of the State, subject to its legal command, then they can claim no tol- eration asa military body. . Before these Communists employ their arms, and raise their red flag, the symbol of blood, let them state what it is they want, what it is they menn by their harangues, and what special liberty thoy demand for them- selves which is not possessed and enjoyed by the whole American people. 7 We repeat that the preservation of the public and personel liberty of the citizen is, in this country, in the hands of the people, to be by them exercised as they think proper through the agency of the law and the con. stituted authorities, These people have not delegated their authority to the mob, nor to an association whose symbol isthe bloody flag, under which assassination, Pillage, spoliation, and savage brutality are called liberty and fresdom.. The American people . can do their own fighting, and regulate and control their own‘affairs, without leaving it to be done ‘by an organization whose foot- steps are anarchy, and whose history is writ- ten in the blood of the weak and defenseless, re . COUNTY CONTRACTS, The County Commissioners have been straggling for a week or more over the mat- ter of Jetting the contracts for the completion of the Court-House. Seemingly an effort has been made to anticipate and evade the law which takes effect on the ist of July, and which requires a two-thirds vote to let a contract of this magnitude. A mere majority may act to-morrow, and the awarding of the contracts bas been set for to-morrow. ~ There are two’ classes of bids pending, (1) Those which ‘include’all, the work speci- fied, and (2) those which are limited to each particular kind of work. It's admitted that a number of the bids for detached portions of the job arenot dona side, or made by per- sons irresponsible and without the means of doing the work at all. Some of this class of bids are probably honest, but others are evi- dently put in ‘as riders, to be used in cases of the failure of othor designs, or to be sold out for a consideration. Of course the old Ring is presént in force, even if its hand is not visible. It ispossible that, ‘as the work to be~ dont is finishing the interior, in almost every particular there will bo variations and aljerations of the specifications, involving that most demoral- izing branch of all building operations, the allowance for extras. We have. no knowl ‘edge or interest in this matter which is not open to the public. It is stated in the de- bates in the Board tliat ‘there are bids ‘by several responsible and competent persons’ for the whole work. Mr. Sexron, who is already contractor onthe building, and who 38, We suppose, fully responsible, is a bidder for the whole work ; and it.may be, perhaps, far mote economical for’ the ‘Board to‘make 4 contract of this’ kind withhim or some other person, and thus havé one responsible aud competent contractor, and only one firm to deal with in the ‘matter of extras, than to parcel the job out -among twelve or fifteen small.contractors, each in conflict with the others, each doing business in his own way’, and at his own time, and each having his claim for dimages shd- extras, “ani all the because ‘thereby avoid. a deluge of separate claims. for extras, and avoid—what seems to be in- evitablein this case—the failure and breaking down of the smaller bidders. Of course in letting-the whole. work in one contract -full. care should be taken that the contractor is competent, is experienced, Hing the means to do the-work, and is: personally xresponsi- ible and can furnish the proper guarantees. In stich case the choice will be governed by the oxamination of the total outlay required. If, however, the Board cannot act wisely to-morrow, there oughtio be no hesitation in rejecting all the bids, and advertising for new offers, to be acted on hereafter unde! the new la GAMBLERS’ ALLEY POOL-ROOMS. + Whe neighborhood of Clark and Washing- ton stteets is infested with crowds of pro- fessional and amateur gamblers,—the former living and thriving upon the: ignorance and gullibility of thelatter. There is no attempt to conceal the nature of the disreputable and jllegal business’ carried on under the name of “¢ pool-rooms,” and theré has been no effort on the part of the Mayor and police, so far as we know, to break up these dens or to arrest the proprietors and managers thereof. Chicago bas never been’ disgraced by so open and shameless an exhibition of con- tempt for’ the Stato and city laws against gambling’ as it'is to-day. The ‘inauguration of the present City Administration seems to have béen ‘construed by the gambling frater- nity as Convre’s election was, and the “sports” and blacklegs have come here by the hundreds with some sort of assurance that they will encounter no interference in their lawless and swindling practices. -The faro-banks are ran as “wide open.” asthe pool-rooms, and all alike appear to be acting under some pledge or understanding of im- munity. There is a regular carnival of gambling in the town, end neither Mayor Hannison nor the police seem disposed to put any check upon it, ‘The pool-rooms are the most corrupting of all gambling institutions, because they are operated as though pool-selling ware a legit-. imate business, and thus attract the presence of young men who would not consent to ea- ter a faro-bank or keno-den. Ingenuity and enterprise have extended the gambling facili- ties of pool-selling so as to accommodate the smallest and the highest gamblers. Nota day passes that does not afford gambling risks all the way from o few cents up to thousands of dollars, Pools aré sold .on horse-races, base-ball matches, walking matches, rowing matches, or elections,—no matter in what part.of the country these things are taking place. There are “ auction pools,” ‘French pools,” ‘ combination pools,” and, for aught we know, various other varieties suited to tho different tastes and means of those.who patronize the pool- rooms. ‘These rooms are crowded almost all the time, and the apparent authority under which they are run attracts business men, bookkeepers, clerks, ‘and all manner ‘of people. ,Bar-rooms ara connected with all these institutions, and rum stimulates and émboldens the inéxperiénced and timid ones; the beginners’soon' become confirmed gamblers. Those who win money are led into vicious excesses of all kinds to spend it; those who lose are tempted to borrow. from friends, pawn their offects, rob tills, and raise.checks. The evil has become so wide- spread that many,of the leading merchants, bankers, and employers have actually engaged the services of, detectives to watch these rooms, and to report to them the names of any of their clerks and employes who visit tho places to gamble. This fact will explain to a good many young men who occupied re- sponsible positions how they came to be sud- denly discharged, and it should warn other young men in similar positions to avoid these money-squandering, disreputable re- sorts. If the authorities will not close up these gambling haunts, the merchants and business men must take measures to protect themselves from the losses which the gam: bling of their employes always threatens. . An appeal was made to tho late Legislature to pass a law specifically bearing upon the pool-rooms ; and itis a notorious fact that the gambling interests had a lobby-agent at Springfield and supplied him with money to defeat the proposed law. There is not a reasonable doubt thatthe failure of fhe act prohibiting this species of gambling was due to corrupt influences brought to bear. on committeemen. But it is equally certain that the city authorities have the power un- der the existing laws and, ordinances to raid and break up the pool-rooms, and their failure to do so will, after s while, be attrib- uted to the very same inflnences which proved. so potent in the committce-room at Spring- field. The following section of the Criminal Code undoubtedly applies to pool-room gambling ‘ 2 Sxc. 196.—Whoever shall play for money or any other valuable thing at any game with cards, dice, checks, or at billiards, or with any other article, instrument, or thing whatsoever, which may be used for the purpose of playing or betting upon, or winning or losing money, or any other thing or article of value, or shall bet on any game others may be playing, ehall be fined not excecding $100 and not less than $10. The next section of the Criminal Code provides in terms equally comprehensive for the punishment by fine and imprisohment of the keopers of the house in which gam- bling is tolerated. _ The duty of the Mayor and his police is further defined by the fol- lowing city ordinances :° Cuar. 28, Sec. 11, Laws and Ordinances.—No person shall have, keep, or permit'to be used, in \any building or place within this city used, occu- pied, or controlied by such person, any ‘*E. 0." table, keno-table, faro-bank, shuille-board, baga- telle, plaving-cards, or any other instrument, de- vice, or thing used for gambling, -whereon or with which money, liquor, or other articles shall in any manner be played for, ander a fine not ex- ceeding $50: : Ssc. 12. If any verson or persons shall keep adisorderly or gaming aonse, such person or per- zons shall, for each and every bifense, forfeit and pay 8 penalty of $25, and also the further penalty of $25 for every forty-eight hours during which such person or persona shall continue to keep the same after the first conviction for any violation of this aection. . Sec. 14.—Any person who fs a quenter, visitor, inmate, doorkeeper, ‘ soifcitor,\ ranner, agent, avettor, or pimp of or for any house, store, grocery, hall, foom, or any other place where are keptany ‘E. O.tables, keno-table, faro-bank, shnifle-board, bagatelle, playing-cards, plgeon- holes, orany other instrument, device, or thing used for gambling, whereon or with which money, Nquor, or other urticles shail be played for, shall, upon conviction, be fned in sum not less thin $5 and not exceeding $100, or imprisonment in the House of Correction fora term not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the Court before whom such conviction shall be had. It shail be the duty of the Mayor forth- ‘with to revoke any license given to any person.or persons’ who. shal vidlale any provision of the } , third, eleventh, taselfth, and fourteenth sections of this chapter. : The applicability of the sections quoted, both from the State statutes and the city -ordinances, is neither strained nor . far- fetched, so far as the pool-rooms go. Checks and other devices are used in those rooms as a@ means for parcoling out and determining the risks taken on a horse-race or a base-ball match, so that the language- applies tech- :nically as well as im spirit to this particular : Kind’ of’ gambling. The decisions of the higher coarts’ relative to the breaking in of doors and arrests without warrant do not wenken the power of the police in this case, because the gambling goes on with open doors, and the police may arrest on view any one who is caught: violating the law. The police’ may ‘raid these institutions at any time and arrest all they find present, but they donot. The Mayor’ may revoke the license of the men who own” and- ran them, but he'does not. The religious agitators and reformers who are stirred to the very. depths by the question as. to whether horse-cara shall run on Sunday-might do more sérvice tothe cause of morality by concentrating their influence against gambling ; but they apparently prefer the usoless crusnde against harmless and almost necessary pursuits, The whole community, with the exception of cer- tain business men who fear robbery as a re- sult of the gambling. and debauchery in which their clerks are engaging, seems to be callous to the'real extent of the disgrace and danger involved in this toleration and quasi indorsement of the easiest, the most allar- ing, and most dangerous of all gambling de- vices, This condition of things is now a scandal, but, if tolerated much longer, it will prove an injury to the material welfare as itis already to the moral welfare of the city. ; ' Tune is Mayor, Hanrrson going to do about it?- = RUMORED BOULEVARD VETO. The public has been under’ the impression that the passage of the Michigan. avenue ordinguce by the Council inst Monday even- ing had finally disposed of the matter, but now there is an intimation that Mayor Haxnison proposes to postpone the desired improvement still further by vetoing that ordinance. Any such action on iis part. will merely amount to s vexatious postponement, for, sooner or Inter, public sentiment will force him to yield, or else it will secure the passage of an ordinance by a two-thirds vote, which will render. his veto impotent, We should give no credence to the rumor of his hostility if he had not withheld his approval so many deys, since he must be convinced, “unless he disregards considerations of public good, “that tne, boulevarding of ‘Michigan avenue is demanded by all the people who can possibly be affected by ‘the proposed transfer to the Park Commissioners. | In vetoing this ordinance Mayor Hannison. would be really trying to -play Governor before being elected to that position, for such action would be tantamount to a veto of the law passed by the Legislature, which the Common Council has simply ap- plied in this caso. One of the reasons as- signed for Mayor Haznison’s threatened vetc is, that he labors under a preposterous ap- prehension that the Park Commissioners might use their authority ovér the boulevard to exclude trucks and business vehicles from crossing Michigan avenue at points where ‘it is intersected by other streets. No such prohibition, even if the power existed, which it does not, would be promulgated by any Park Commissioners possessed of a grain of common sense or of an ordinary amount of respect for public ‘opinion. Nothing short of pig-headed malice as to the interests of the community could prompt any such action, and it 1s scarcely less foolish to be- lieve for a moment that there is any likeli- hood of such an order. No such rule applies to the regular boulevards and roadways under jurisdiction of the Park Commissioners and outside the city limits, oud it is ridiculous to assume that it would be attempted with spe- cial reference to Michigan avenue within the city: limits.' Moreover, the Park Commis- sioners would have no authority. to make such & prohibition ss to crossing the inter- sections, Their jurisdiction ‘would be ‘con- fined to Michigan avenue, while these inter. sections are- parts of - the cross-streets, over which they will have no more control under the new condition of things than they have now. ‘Their authority will be confined to the new boulevard, and they cannot take any action affocting other streets, - Another reported objectionis, thatif Michi- gan avenue is confined to light vehicles it will divert too much heavy traffic to other streots, In answer to this objection it may be replied that Michigan avenue is not a business but is exclusively a private residence street. From Jackson to Thirty-fifth there is not, we believe, a manufactory, shop, or office on it, and hence no heavy trafilc that belongs to it will be diverted from it, For the uses of commercial - traffic there are Market, Wells, LaSalle, Clark, State, and Wabash. The grest business thoroughfares are Clark and State, and, south of Twenty-second street, Cottage Grove avenue. If Michigan avenue escapes the heavy trucks that now cut it to piéces, it will have to take more of the light, vehicles, So there is no merit in the second alleged objection. B The reasons cited ‘are so far-fetched: that they will not ba accepted by the public as the real motives in cise Mayor Harrison shall veto this ordinance. The public gen- erally will regard the veto as catering to the Communists, who alone are opposing the improvement of the avenue, as they oppose all improvements 'in which they have not some. selfish interest. Many persons will suspect that the veto will give a certain class of Aldermen another opportunity for de- manding money which they failed to get for the original passage of the ordinance. Either of these two theories will be highly discred- itable to Mr. Harrtsoy. - Nor will he en- counter the opposition of the South-Siders alone. The veto of ‘the Mickigan avenue ordinance will compel him to veto similar or- dinances for boulevarding streets in the West Division ‘leading to Central, Douglas, and Humboldt Parks. If his veto should prevail, the operation of the new law would be de- feated altogether, and Chicago would be a3 effectually shut off as before from any decent approach to.any of its parks, with the single exception of Lincoln Park, which is now accessible by the Lake Shore drive from the Water-Works. The people have millions of ‘dojlars invested in these parks, ond are paying hundreds of thousands every year for the maintenance and improvement thereof. It will be regarded as 8 piece of impertinence on the part of Mayor Hazerson if he shall use his veto%o prevent or retard the scheme for making thesé parks accessible; and we can scarcely imagine that he seriously con- templates any such action. The chain of circumstantial evidence which the police of New York wore weaving about the aged Dr. Hutu was almost completed when the wae murderer'was ‘discovered. Had ‘the necro Cox escaped, as he so nearly did, or had be even been intelligent enough to fall in with the theory of the police after his arrest, an innocent man_ might have been hanged. Dr. Huxx‘came very near the gallows as it was. “The police had be- come convinced that he was the murderer. A candle, partly burned, in his room was shown to: be composed of precisely the same kind of grease found on the couateryane’ of the bed in which ly, a8 if it-had been held near the head of -the. dead woman. Letters were discovered which indicated that Dr. Hutt lived unhappily with nis wife, and was jealous of her.’ ‘The police were agreed that the jewelry found in Boston had been sent there by Dr. Hut to be pawned. If, therefore, the negro :Cox, Nore arrested, had. been clever enough to say'that Dr. Hou gave him the jewelry foand. upon, his person, he would have coiifirmed the theory of ‘the police, and probably handed the Doctor over. to the hangman. : Fortunately for'the cause of justice, the negro did not know how to read, and bad not learned from the newspapers that Dr. HULL was suspected. ._ é + The New York elevated railroads, while a great accommodation for ‘‘up-town’? people in a hurry to reach their places of basiness or resi- dences, are terrible nuisances to those who use the streets they occupy, and very damaging to the owners of the real estate on those streets. In regard to the agitation of the speculators for more eléyated railways, the Vation remarks: We hove there are rey, few residents of New |. York who'relish the idea of any further extension of the elevated ratiways, even the most justitiadle. It seems incredible that any one should be content to surrender another rod of-street or avente-to a system which nv amount of use can make anytaing but'a neceseary nuisance. It may have to be dune. but it ought to ve done with s wry facé; aud, woea it is proposed to destroy one of the three rewain- ing central avenues, we ought not to be expected to forget that it was the compurative inferiority of rd and Sixth avenues and their connections which made the existing railways secm at all -tol- erable. But with w rupid-transit opuncction at the Grand Ceniral Depot it canuot oc pretended that there is any necessity for a Fourth avenue line, the result of which, if not dixastrous to property values on the avenue, conld have but one elfect on the blocks intermediate between itand Third avenuc. As for the Fitty-ninth street ronte past Central Park, it condemns itecif, ———— ‘fhe examinations: for admission to Harvard held in this city during the past week were more successful than the authorities of that insticu- tion supposed would be the case. Nincteen candidates presented themselves,—an unusually large number, in view of the fact that this isthe first year of. the examinations and that Chicago is nota strong Harvard city. The examiners brought on only twenty sets of papers, so cer- tain did they feel that the numiber’ of candi- dates would be many below that number. As it was there. were: only one set of pavers to spare. -The Yale examinations in Chicago were also held last week. There were only fourteen candidates this year; not balf so many as last year, and’ probably 2 far less‘number than may be looked ior in the futare. 3 és —— In regard to. the rumored intention of Mayor. Harnison to veto the Michigan Avenue Boule- vard ordinance, his dtcention should be’called to the fact that $2 per centof the wholeSouth Park assesessment is paid by the vroperty-holders‘of the South Division, and only 18 per cent by the property-owners of Hyde Park and Lake. In view ot this fact, is would be monstrous ‘inins- tice to the taxbayers.of South Chicago to pre- vent them from having a decent driveway to the parks which baye cost them so much to par-. chase, improve, and maintain, They have already expended some millions of dollars for ‘those purposes, and they don’t feel like being exclud- ed from the use of those parks and boulevards, a Mr. Bereu attempts to demolish Dr. Extiorr Coves, the distinguished American naturalist, who, ten months amo, recommended the de- struction of the Euglish sparrows which have been foolishly imported into this country. Brrou hopes Coves “will be the.first sparrow shot”; declares that Gop has not created any- thing needlessly—not even Exiiorr Cours”; says that Cougs is an “enemy to Gop, whether he bea Zulu or an American savage”; and in- dulges in much other twaddle of. the same sort. Mr. Bereu has burt himself more by this pub- lication than all his enemies could hurt “him by their combined efforts.. 0 2 Brn: Pentex Poore, the veteran Washing- ton correspondent.of the Boston Journal, is to be made Inspector of Public Buildings for New England after the adjournment of Congress. Mr. PoorE has grown gray in the newspaper business, bas had an intimate acquaintance. with’ the most distinguished members of the’ Republican party, and has dobe the cause of Freedom much service. If it can be said of any man that he deserves an office it can be said of him. Z _—— Mr. Aporr Borr’s frantic efforts to dis- suade Gen. Grant from running for a third term aré a good deal laughed at in the East. It will be remembered Mr. Bonm said. he went to join Gen. GRaNt especially to warn ‘him against taking “the infernal office” again; and now Mr. Bore says that during a trip around the world ‘he did not find time enough to mention the subject to the General. - a 2 The Hartford Courant observes that the for- eign tris of railroad kings like Garzetr, Scorr, VANDERBILT, GOWEN, and Fizip seem to have a most exhilarating effect on the. stocks of the roads which they own. But the trips are invaria- bly made ‘for health and recreation only.” These railroad kings, it should be understvod, though they be on pleasure bent, have very fragal minds, << All the papers of the East Indian Company, from its start in 1599, have been saved. They have been turned over to Ur. Binpwoop, an English scholar, who has already unearthed some curious facts. He has discovered, for sfustance, that the Company was organized be- cause the Dutch raised the price of pepper from “three shillings a pound to six. a Dr. Bettows, of New York, was very easily elected one of the Harvard Alumni Trustees at the election Wednesday. This is the first excep- tion to the rule which hus required all. the Trustees to be residents of stassachusetts.’ It is presumed that a decision of the Supreme Court will be sought in order to make the elec tion a precedent for the-future. a The strike at Fall River began Thursday morning, The Boston Advertiser says: “It bas been forced against the judgment of three- quarters of the operatives of the city, and against the interests of allof them. Unfortu- nately the men who understand their interests have no yoice in the Union.” = “A colored man named Cox, with a tinge of rose in his cheeks,” is the Wation’s euphemism, to describe the mulatto who murdered Mrs. .Huty. This is really high-class writing. The Aation evidently does not despise the reporters 50 much as it pretends to. a Mr. ALBERT WEBER, the piano-maker, who died in New York the other day, was the first professor of an art that every newspaper desires to cultivate,—that of controversial ad- _Vertising, ‘ a el Mr. Bortz says that the Presidency fs “an infernal office.” There seem to be agood many Amcrican statesmen, then, who think it is bet- ter to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven, er The ‘Nation declares that dournalism is not a. Profession. Then Mr. Warrevaw Rasp is not a Professor. The absurdity of the conclusion proves the error of the premise. — If speech were silver, Mr. Harrison would already have more than paid the city debt. a ea Harvard must give Yale balf a mile start to make things even. 3 ———— The corner grows more contracted, and squeezes harder. a Mr. Bayany’s little pet about the Silver bill Loromises to be ruinous to nis Presjdéntial pros- Mrs. Hou lay. The cundle was burned uneyen- | pects. It is néyer gafe for 4 ‘statésman toay intoatemper. ~~" °° ” if = a PERSONALS. Mr. Ennis should tell his stomach to teks awalk, ; The Guffaw Honse is a fiotel in Ni braska, A laughable name; surely. *:. ga Murder will out if there is a Rewapape, reporter anywhere around. 7 zs We suspect that Mr. O"Leary’s, stomsch j om the other man this'time.’* Dota en We ‘are’ béginning to féel' sorry:'toy ‘Tilden, —1880 is rapidly shproschins: Mk An exchange has an article on “The Tor. nado Belt.” and perhaps here's beltthar wt qy ‘Mr. Lamar should consider that he Eas’t any to spare before tureatening to put a head 9; Mr. Conkling, a 2 Lamar had a royal reception on home,—everybody being overjoyed, di seehim alive... 0 ob . Horace Greeley ‘believed in Weston Detroit Free Press. Certainly he did. Didn't be say, **Go West-on"!? Bary Mr. Sankey is to’ be in New York within | a few weeks; to ald Mr. Sawyer in his temperancy work atCooper Union; © © - 0 6 ty Jerome Bonaparte does not want ty}, Emperor, and it is therefore plain that Mir, Boas, parte is not an Onio man. ia ‘ Mr. Moody does not accept urgent invits - | tions to return to New York, but will bezia ork af Cleveland in October. * : ee ;Jeff Davis having said that he never sa a reconstracted Southern woman,, we suspect their Clothes still fit him, ear ‘SWhy. do men. lie ?”. inquires a Weshing. ton editor... Beenuse they are Washington editors,, is part of the answer, we believe, iets ‘The last Mexican revo-ntion hss come to 3 sndden end. One of the revolationsts stoles mustang and eseaped Into Texas, 3 “A marble bust of Fred Douglass has been presented to the City of Rochester.’ Isn't marble; in this instance, somewhatof color? =. - ) - George Alfred Townsend’ has been telling the New: York editors that truth is migitty,=— mighty scarce, he probably meant. < - . Sarah Berohardt had rooms at Piceadilly, in which she exhloited some of her paintings which, she took with her from Paris to London. «* - Paul de Cassagaac will not avenge the @eath of little Napoleon by fighting Cetewayo, He has too high aregird for the colorline. | , The kind-hearted Judge McAllister doubt- lees thought the Bohemian Sharpshooters would like to attend s Sunday-school picnic to-day. | . The free use of. the policoman’s club-in New York is bringing to the front the question, Will the coming man have concussion of the brain? .., oe sh _ Thomas Edison has been made a Doctor of Philosophy; but we shall, nevertheless, insist that itis the electric light which needs the doc- “+ We have defeated the English at rowing, horee-racing, . and walking," says .an exchange. And let us add Kindly, but. firmly, ‘and at fighting.” . 2 ; pee An ‘exchange hints that Henry Watterson puts that-in bis month which stesla .away his brains. We judge from his editorials that he did it some time ago, : Mr. Tilden is evidently meking a good use of his barrel, ,and doubtless the old gentleman's motto is, ‘Take care of the barrel and the boom will take care.of itself." -. 2 = The St. Louis’ Globe-Democrat has been’ greatly encotiraged by.the recent expressions of Mr. Borie, and will fight it out on the same line,— tne tow-line, —if it takes several seasons. t In recognition of her services in’ furnish- ing money to encourage the study of ycllow-ferer last summer, Mrs. Elizabeth. Thompson, of New York, has been made an associste member of the American Institute of Homeopathy. . : A minister.of the Church of England ‘st Circhester, having refased to-administer the eac- tament to a Jady because she had married the hus- band of her deceased sister, the Bishop accided ag follows: ‘+ After haying carefnlly considered the report yon have made to me, it 1s my judgment land are both.explicit, you could not have actea otherwise, though Iknow well that it has given you great pain to have been obliged so to act.” When the Prince of Orangs was lying sick s0 many inquiries about his health were made at the door of the tenant of the lower floor that it be- came necessary to. put upa niscard, ** Pais is not where the Prince of Orange lives.” Some-one re- sented this and tore down the placard, which was renewed next morning, ** Please do not ring here,” upon which some aionymous mourner assnaged hus grief by tearing that down. and substituting an- other notice,. ** Please pull tie beli hard.” —— THE WHEAT DEAL. ° Another Half-Cent Squeeze on the Dears, ‘No disappointment - was experienced on *Change yesterday. when the.-bull clique made another advance of one-half cént on No. 3 soring wheat, either for immediate or seller-the- month delivery. The’ receipts’ were a little larger than was expected,—149 cafs, or. about 55,000 bushels,—indicating. that the country shippers had put their scrapers and‘ fanning- mills to guod use, but the combination was not abit dismayed ond took ‘everything ‘that was” offered at the price which they made. In their liberality they were willmg to scll 5,000- bushel lots’ at the same price. A large number of the outstanding deals were settled. on this basis, and an easier feeling was mani- fested than at any time during the past three or four ‘days. To-morrow ends the option,’ and before the close’ of "Change hours‘there willdoubtless be a good deal of shinning around to make things meet, though. the best posted operators do not anticipate that there’ will be any trouble worth mentioning. Some country- men, who have staked all their.ready moncy on the bear side,—aud their margins were log. since exhausted,—may take advantage of the Board of Trade rule, and plead the Baby’ act: The resulc of this wil! be an application to the Arbitration Committee to determine the. abso-. lute value of the property,—that is, what itis now worth for shipment in comparison with other gradés. . Ss Carre! The agents of the combination took vessel- room yesterday for about 400,009 bushels, but- how much of this was secured for No. 3 spring itisimpossible to Say,. as they arc also lame shippers of other grades -to both foreign and domestic ports. ‘The chances are, however, that the 2 propordian of No. 2 spring is comparatively small. The Joly option marketis still very unsettled. The winter wheat’ men who. have been on the short side, believing that the crop of this cerest would be as large as thatof last year, ave not s0 anxious to follow the deal, because of the fre-: quent showers -in the winter wheat sections: where the harvest is now in progress. and the persistently depreciated the crop of springy’ wheat, areat a loss what todo. ‘Lhey are fear ful that the combination, who took: in the great bulk of the June options at prices ranging’ from 90 to. 95,: are quietly ‘selling. out. July: options at the current figures, with the foten-; tion of making their deliveries on Tuesday oF Wednesdas, and hence the unsettled feeling- ‘The man up the tree, who calmly looks over the situation, cannot fora moment entertain this view. ‘Ihe indications. al!. point. to. the sup-: Position that the parties wao have engineered: the June corner will carry it all through the: month of July. .'They own all the wheat. worth: meationing. It is confessed that. the crop of red winter will not.be.as large a3 was expec! and the stork of No. 3 sorimg -is almost exX- hausted. ‘The English and Continental markets. are almost bare of supplies of all kinds; the stock on hand und the arrivals are just sufficient to meet the actual,consumptive uemand; the European harvests, ag well as the Americay, are very backward. owing to the late spring and re- cent cold weather, and whefe can enough breadstuffs be, obtained to. feed the teem millions in Europe unless in this country? : "The bears may growl as much.as they please at this . state of affairs, but they will be forced to accept the truth, and those who have sold for July de- livery at 97 or 98 cents may yet be obliged to fill in their shorts at-$1.20-or- 81.25. High. prices and a good. average crop. simply mean. good - times for farmer, merchant, and manufacturer; and they who haye confidence in the futare of evhanced . yalaes, erty what it is intrinsically worth, should not they come from California, or New York, or are “native and to the manner born.” ifany de- nunciation be indulted in, it should be awarded: : to those who have persisted year after year. in - selling down the market, thereby discrediting - the backbone ef Western prosperity. that, as the law of the Church and the taw of the - other bears, who have -for. the past two yeasts: - and pay. for, the prop-- be denounced as pirates, * whether -