Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 5, 1879, Page 2

woanda were bya white man. They are from the Crows. Lam not n Chief, but I am a war ior, and when I take the trail no man ever zocs in front of mo, Sitting Bull has ridden behind’ me, but never In front. MY WAR IAS DEEN ON THR OROWS, hover on the whites, Yow eco these young war, riors around you: There are tono amarter in ) the world. The warpath is 2 pleasure to them, but they are not to Injures white man, nor to " nteal. bis horses. They co to-war on the Crowa, Decanee they aro our enemics. ‘The Crows havo killed our young men while out hanting buffalo, Our trail.to the Crow country leads by many a white man’s topes, but not one of them has deco harmed hy us If you could “go to these white men's lodges they will toll you weuover stole the smallcat thing from thom. If wa wished to kill white men wo could find them everywhere. We would rather abake thelr bands. {We haya boen blamed for killing white men; but this whole camp knows + that thelr blood does not ataia my hands, We wanted peace with the Crows. ,We were will- ing togivenp tho wartrall. ‘They would not , oMaten to us,” * et “Are your peoplo urging the Crows to mako war against uel" i oo) Mi don's think 80," : “My people suppose sou to be north of the Tne." : », © Then your people are fools. If. your people think we are in tho White Mother's conutry, daow did you find out!" : <i #2 went to the Lancor, and he told me the Long Knives are ordered to take you If you * Heome to this side, and that they'bave not taken " “yan.shows they don’t know where you are.” +. “They do know whers we, sro, and they send - the Grows to fight us."? ‘ v1 don't think 60.” I think: you lle. But we are not afratd of the Crotey and wa, do pot want apy war with our peopled? : . Long Dog’.sat down upon the grass, and qlence reigned tain. S i ‘ THEN DMAR BONNET AROSE. : -| Af overs human botng was beiled by his face tt fa Boar Bonnet. Strongly ‘marked and deeply :soamed, his visoge is nots pleasant one. ‘Ho takes his namo trom the acalp and upper Jaw.of .weinnamon bear which ho wears for a head- dress, and which does not in tho least pre- posseasone in hie favor, Yet he ts credited with saving tho life of many a white, and all the whites who know him look upon. him as a friend -and ally. -Looking upward, with arm out- stretched, and trembling finger, be said: “You Americaus know thero is a Great Bpirit, and aodo J, ana to Him I took for my conusel. It is He who aliows ustolive. He gives to me the alr I broathe, and I know that it Ido wrong He will punish me. He gives me the sun by day and tha moon by night. Ho gives you thesun by day and the moon by night. Withevery sun and moon I try to ploaso Him. Why do not the Americans do the samo! If you did, you would not . send your Long Knives to drive us over the prairies. You Americans think you’ are strong, but you are weak to the Great Bpirit; In His haude is tuo strength, tHe was with us whea the Long-Hair came. He was not with the Americans. ‘There tai hand shaking His riftht hand that there Js no btood-atain on. Tam old—. " ~ ALMOST READY TO GO TO MY FATHER; but, during all my Years, I have never injured o white mon. The Long Koives Killed my aon, Tgave them his Iife without seeking revenge, for I belleve tho Great. Spirit Will punish those who kilicd him. I like the whites, and when I see one shake his hand strong. All L get for this fceling is to bo bunted. for ‘4% or sevon yeara, They wanted my country. “Yprayottto them. All Task of them Is to let “Jn aleep sound.” . : Benr.Bonnet !s considerable of a preachor among his people, aid fs respected by the whoa fribe. Ho hos a firm faith in God, and he bellayes the Unca-pa-pas to bo his special charge, When he ralecd tho,old question, On which side does the God of Battles array Hitneclt when two persons-contend?. the ancient Chief look- od liko.one inspired, and when lic resumed his seat a murmur of gratification ran through the army of warriors, who had Natened intently, - : PRETTY BEAR Bene “was the next speaker. He 1s a doughly war- rior and a Chie}, He brings even Sitting Bull to terms once in s while, and {6 tenred and sateamed tn the Sioux Nation. “I know we baye been blamed for killing tho whites in the Black Hills and other places,” eaid bo, ‘I don’s know that any man In this camp has done such a thing, I know there ore rascals among our young, and if they haye ever dono such a thing I wish Ue Amer- deans had them. Why should they blame mo for tho conduct of rascals £ cannot control! Should our women and children be punished for the actions of such people? I don't know tha ways of the Americans, but I do know the wars of, Indiaos, and I feel that it was wrong to make us fight for what othersdo agatost our wishes,’” * And then aroao WHITE GUT, © Pig the handsomest Indian of them all. Tall, straight, and spare, he looked in his ful] sult of ding leggings, shirt, and blanket, relleyed by the broad necklace of whito heads, asif he might have been a banker, His voice’ wag low, hls bearing diguified, and bls manner impressive. He fs tho best scout on the prairic, and Is Bittlog Bull's confidential triend, : cy Cola, Ihave but’ a few wordstonay, Lis- ten to me, I hayo been camped all winter ‘close ton Lancer whom I Jove to heaf talk. He advised moto return to my own country, aud gotoa'gift-house, He sald it would be bettor forme, and he talked with me long about tt. I went to the qift-house to seo how those who are alrendy there were treated. I found they had no moro to cat and no better blankets than we who huut wild game on. the = prairie, and were not as happy as we are. Leaw the Gift-House Chtof, und hesalds ' You are on Unca-pa-pa; you can get nothing here.’ 1 told him Ihad not come for anything, excent to sec how wy friends wore getting alopz. Ile sald: ‘You have white men's horses in your camp. If you will bring them tome my heart will be glid.! {told hin did not have white mon’'s horses. There were some io our camp, but we gavo them to the Lancers, I said there weresome that the Unca- pap-as were cocused of ateallug, but he would find them THERE IN 18 OWN CAMP, Before I left) saw some of these horses given to him by the Yaoktons, Thy Gilt-Houre Cnief told me the Loug Laucer had seat him o Ictter saying that T was an Unea-pa-pa, andto give we nothing, for I belonged to the white mother's country. Told lim he Hed; that the latter bad nover sent him snch aletter, I saw he did not want me, aud £ left him. Ten lodges came with we, and I expect that more will follow. I bave seen the Lancer. Ho told mo be never wrote suchalebter, That te the kind of treat- ——ooooaaeeeeeeeeeeaeaeee ,AGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, mente get at the Agencics,—the kind of Gov- ernment you offen” . BROAD TAIL rose tohis feet. The pressure of the outer ctr- cles was atrong upon the centre, for all were apx- fous to hear him: Cola, you sce me standing ‘here. I nave nothing but what the Great Spirit gave me. I cannot road, nor can I make pictures- of words, but have got a :heart to ‘feel, aud eyes to sec. I baye got sensa (lapping. his forehcad), and all know {¢ was given me by the. Great pir. - IE have tried) all my Iife to lvoe peacofally with tho Amert-' cans. They would not letme. Idon't know tho reason why, 1 cannot remember’when I evor angered a white mao. Wish your people know my heart. You say you will toll them, and I will tell you I am friendly to them; {cel kindly toward them, If they knew: us they | would vot try to destroy me and my people. ‘The Great Spirit put mo on this pratrie and «gave us this country. I thought I would bave {t forever (meaning for himself and children), but your peopto came, and’asked ina to sell. I told him I did not want to. soll my country. It was given meby my father. I wanted to koop It for ahome for my children. But thoy sald they must bays it. They seut, thelr Long-Knives agatnat us. You,havo your horse there, I want it, You must pive it tomo. If you won't -'ll aveak to these young men and they will fol- Jow you and: bring mo the bores, When your paople are told of it will they thiak J wae righ to keep your horse? If you will not soli tt I havo no right to take it from you, aud Kill you togetit. What right bave your people to Kill my people and take what is oure?”? A young man” APRANG TO MI8 FEET. It waa Stonu Dog, one of the head warriors, and ono of the most influential in the nation. “'Can you tell why your people killed Orazy Horse? hedemunded.”. “I was with him, and saw bis blood runoingon the ground. I had my pun, ond was going to shoot his murderer, put the Great Spirit whispered ‘No, Crazy Horse isdead. Keep your bullet for your own defense. Lescaped. Your people know what the shinlugdustis. You havo lt for your acarch, for tt son every bill. Crazy Hore was shining dust to his people. Weloved him. We cannot forget his death. Tho ground he fell on must be gold.” : h ‘There wos something mournful, rather than angry; In the man’s yolce, and, as bo concluded, again deep silence fell upon the Council, and I arose to bid them good-by, “Look at me a moment, comrades, and tisten closely. I haye come into your camp; and I havo trusted you. I haye told you that Iam an American, but I have told you that sald a grout many thi n 1 and tell my people what. you have told ino, and they will judga bdy ‘your,,conduct whother you have spoken tha truth.” -4"4, we It was plain that tho half-breeds and Crees coutd-have oo comfort so nonr'the Sioux, and so they moved off some threo miles, and thut night Islept in a Creo lodge, well hidden, from any young buck who might have takeu a fancy to my horse and gun, The next morning, Tuesday, the 17th, we got under way.carly, and nsrived at Wood. Mountain Wednesday afternoon. ‘Vhere were great. many questions J wanted to pro- pound to SittingBull and bis Chiefs, but unfort- unately theap,Indiang have not become suill- clently civilized to understand the Interviewing system, If they havo anything to.eay they say. {t, aud wilt seldom anawer a question unless it be in the Ine of thought they arc pursuing, To ask an Indian a question calculating to elicit a fact Is to shut him up in an instant | So I bad to be contented with what I could got, and let the rest co until Lama Ittte etter acquainted with these gentry,” Staxuex IlONter. * POPLAT RIVER, THE RECHNT PANIC ACCOUNTRD FOR, : . ‘Boectal Disve'ss to The Tribune,” Portan River, Via Font Buronn, D. T., duly 8.—The steamer Gen. Sherman arrived at Poplar River Sunday with a gaudlly: painted account of death and distregs among the whites along. tha Missour! at tho hands of the rud- kins. The Indians from Poplar Xtyer to-Fort Benton, and from the Missourl to the Canadian Itng, are peacoable, in spite of tholr starved con- ditions and war fs an absolute {mporatbiticy, unless Ms brought on by. an attacking oxpe- rdition of troops. .The Bismarck Tribune, whieh rgached fiore Sunday, contulns o threatening account of trouble’ at this Agency; repreavnte the Indians as unmanageable, and procialms thut the Agency people have been driven out, it‘ reporte “that three-doad boaics have: been aecn lying on tha river bank, and that a white man's life is not safe lu thie vicinity. ALL TAHSE STATEMENTS ANB BRNONEOUS, About two weeks ago Black Catfish, Chiof of the Yanktons, complaincd that the Indfans wero unfairly treated at the trading-store, They thought higher prices should be pald tor furs and skins, and he fnally ordered bis people not to trade until figures wentup, He then went to tho Agent, Dr. Bird, and pointed out te him that tho Indians were In a state of starva- ton, and demanded of him that he locate the time when provisions woro to arrive. Dird could not reply, not baying any authority ‘over the contractors or the transportation, Black Catfish complained bitterly of the treatment he had reeolved at the handa of the Government, and clamored for food. Under lis unstructtona THE INDIANS ABANDONKD THS TRADING-YosT, refuaing to sull their stuff at the rates thay had been heretofore cuntented with, In order to restore harmony the trader, John Thompson, gave the head mou of the tribe o foaat, which coualstod of herd-tacts, sugared tea, ond a dance, They departed perfectly suttsiled, and the next doy the storo was thronged. Dird bas re- signed his position, and is only walting for hia Bu jor tg reileya him. Where thut successor is remaios u matter of speculation, , There are letters hore for him from the Indian Depare ment at Washington, as well os private cor- respondence, but he bas not yet turned up. When the trouble commencod at the store BIRD BRCAMS YRIGHTENKD, and sent to Buford for troops, Company RB of “the Bixth Infantry, Capt. Britton commanding, was ordered from Buford, and fs encamped near the Indlaus. Everything {fs quiet. ‘The Black Catdsh ig one of the most zealous in bis efforts to preacrye order. ‘The troopa are con- tering at the Old Peck Agency, where it fe ex- pected they will be jolued by Gen, Miles, ‘There will bean expedition, but probably a fruttless ono, as the Bloux can escape before the troops can seach therm, .- . Sam Tiiden's Country-House. Samucl J. ‘Tilden has leased for six monthe, with the privilege of buyliue: at a stated pri Ce the former reaidence of John 'T. i, kogy os “Greystone,” in Youkors, N. ¥, ‘Tho rouuds cover thirty-tureo acres, includ! jawnd, meadows, und forest. ‘Khe mansion an grounds cust $400,000. Nephew Pelton will spend the summer with his uncle, and o private telegraph-lne will be extenaed to the house, ‘ —————— Wo other Whiakcr Dye equals [ill's—30 cents, A MODEL FOURTH. The National Holiday Gene~ rally Observed as Such “in Chicago. The Eight-Hour Movoment Domon- stration’ Somowhat in tho Nature of a Failure, A Procession Which Did Not Come Up to Expec- , tations. Addresses Doliverad by Ira Steward and Dr, Ernst Sohmidt, The Charity Tournament at Dexter Park Well Pa- , tronized, Oration of Emery A. Storrs at Prineeton, Il. Charles .H. Ham the. Speaker of “the Day at Morrison, Ill. Revival of the Observanca of the Day at the South. CHICAGO. ey THE GREAT DAY. A VERY GANENAL ONSERVANCH. At 9 ofclock Thursday evening, when the ‘small boy took his last meteorological onserva- tlon, the prospects wero anything but flattering fora pleasant Fourth. A heavy rain andthe sky covered with dense clouds provhesied.s wet holiday and such tame smiuscmonts as the’ house or barn would afford. But the weather clerk fald himself out specially for the occasion, und the result was ono of the finest holidays Chicago has ever seen, at least as regards the weather, dust cool enough to inako ordinary clothing comfortable, the raln had laid the dust and Gainpened nil combustible substances, auch as dead leaves, shinzlcs, roofs, ctc., 80 that the danger from flreworks was reduced to a imln- {mun fs Tnside the city, however, the celebration was tame, very tame. The boys“have become used to the bonds of slavery att made Icas oncigetic yeslatauco to the ordiuance probibiting the fest- ive flre-cracker. Asa substitute, howevor,they took to a hardly Jess dangerous weapon, a cheap revolver, Tho Inw as to fireworks,“ hotever, wns not very stringently enforeed, und they wore sold and used frequently in the centre of the business portion of the city, und: almost under. the win- dows of the police hendquurtera, Somo outlet was afforded to the patriotism which could not expand ftsclf in guopowder by the numerous excurstons by ratl aud water which were bonn- tifully’ advertised; and:'liberatly patronized. ‘The stores woro very gencrally shut, with the exception of those whose custom fy increased onaholfday. The cane men were ont in unus- ually strong force, nnd a stranger visiting lure wattld have stipposed it was the festival of canes. ‘The blmd man and bis hand-organ was very plentiful likewise, ond his success in getting where he was moat in the way was moat tiatter- ing. One of him, or them, took rvot’ tear Te Tawmont Buildingsind ground out n faint imita- Mon of the © Rlua Danubo” gntil tho enforced hearers were bluer than ever the river was, It ts Suggested—freo—thut soma enterprisiny corpse shouht fasugurate the custom of having band. organs.ata funeral, There is no kind of music —not even a band of Juvonile amateurs rehoars- tug for * Pinafore’--that would bu ao cifectual invedueing the -apfelts 6f a company. to- thit denth of woe which [s supposed to be appropri- ate to thd occasion, two good hind-orgais conyeiileatly placed’ in the — back-parlur vad driven at different rates of speed. Not- withstanding these drawbacks, however, the colobration went on ina very mild war. ‘ "The lack of bunting was remarkable, the dis- Play of flags belny chielly confined to street: vara nnd lager-beer wagons, At Is left to those who delight to discover the causes of things to show what relation there Is between a street-car and the Fourth of Jrly.. ‘There ls one.improve- nent that might be mace iu the observance of the day, and that would be to have tt come enrilor in tho Weok,- A holiday nucessitates the spending. of monuy, and a young man wha hos an extra 50 cents on Friday morning, ofter . he’ has seen the lundlady, washerwoman, and tailor, or they lave ecen bim, as is more likely, ls a young man tobe envied.’ Tho fevllngs of the youth who finds his sparo change just 10 conts less than the prive of two fee-creains are so weil Known as not to need an extended description. A well- known Judge of thiseity (who will be a enndt- date for re-election next fall, by the way) stated {t emphatically as his opinion, “Thursday, to a reporter, that {t was a erent mistake to prohibit the uso of firecrackers und other flroworka to hecity onthe Fourth, It was a great pity Portland should be burned, but It was more nce essary that the youth af the presopt ceneration should bo taught to observe the day ut all hazards, The truth of this proposition will be recognized by ail the boys, und it is to be hoped they will reciprocate by fnducing their fathers and elder brothers to vote tn fayor of one of such philo-juventic opluions. As for the doings at the baee-ball grounds, the trotting park, and the theatres, af) of which were wall visited, they aro recorded elucwhere, BIGHT-HOUR LAW. 1B OGPEN'S GROVE DEMONSTRATION, ‘Tho leading feature of the day was the plenie nt Oadton’s Grove, gutten up by the friends of the Eight-Hour law, though it by no means came up to the expectations of Its. getters-up. ‘The procegsion, whic was to hayo. been so great, and indecd so tremendous, a demop- tration a8 to show fle nations of the earth, be- yond cavil or doube, that the people were wat- ing up in thelr might, camo off partly ns per programme, It was a qulct, orderly af- tulr, with little enthtsicsm = shown hy elther participants of spectators, and fn view of tho exaggerated anti¢ipations of the Communts- tie leaders it can only ba considured as a full. ure. Inplaca of the immense army of fifteen or twenty thougaml that was expected -to be prea- ent, Were Coll into ling, wll tuld, less thau 9,000 men and autne 70 women, ‘The dreaded guns of the Lehr nad Wehbe Verelo, the sanguinary ban- ner of the .Commune, and the exe puctod army of — Soululista, were all consptcuaie “by thelr absence, tt was aimply oa quiet, humdrum’ uffair, noticeable chighy for the respectale appearance of the purticlpants, and it tuilod tu allract any great Amount of attention from sicbt-scers, BHOWELY ARTE U-de My peanle hegan to gsvemlla-at the old markot place on West Kondolpte street, aj an the course of the next hour several thonaand of quen, Wornen, snd children lined the vereuts, Lt was nearly 1} o'cluck before the processivo ot under way, but the best of good feeling aud or- der provailed amt: nubody gruadled at havin yo wait. ‘The weather buying cool wid plousant, and the distance to be traveled not very great, there was no special oceacion lor hurry, and the crowd filled tn they tune inthe ysnal way with Jokes and Inughter, und gticeses os to the size of the gathering, By actual computation the processign ducluded in its conks 143 men, not counting the intislelaus but iyeludlng all others ‘on toot or tn carrlag Enthusiastic friends of the party cattinated the processton atall aurte uf figures trum §,000 upwards, fut this fs the agtual count. Owing to the absence of distluctive banuers or buduee it was somewhat diilieuls tyr spouta- tors to distluguigh the yurlous trade orgqnjed- tions wand socleties, ihe puea programe threw little Jight on the subject, aud it wus, only occasionally iat the society uliliations of the men could be determined. Neurly all wore the badge of the Soclallat Labor party, with tts nitfals stamped upon ft, thea entitiing therm to free adinissiun to the plenic grounds. A pleua- ytly couspicuuua feature of the’ procession whe the pynber of real old-time Ameri can fags ‘The Stars und Stripes were there {u wll thelr glory, and unimarred by any contact with tha red: tlagot the Commune ‘There were w few red Mags carrled, ft is true, but they were olmply the ordinary dogs of trade JULY 5 1879—TWELVE PAGES,’ societics and kindred organizations, with tho names of such soctettes Jottered upon them. Morabal J. 0. Bohloradsky and his Asstataats, i. B, Stahl, Tin O'Meara, Henry Prosser, an one or twoothers, rode up uniddown the lines and areanged the onler of the Journey, First came the Marshint “of the Duy, then a number of mtsicians, and then about 120 mem- bera of sume trade organization, but without banners or regalla. A four-borse wagon follow- edt sacred to the tae of the Letdertatel Lageallo. and on this rode a young Jady with yellow balr atrmounted by a brass coronet, and fittingly attired Inwhite, The mythological significance of this tableau remains unexplained. THE NEXT NOTICEABLE FRATURD ‘of the procession was " Grat Toby's Battery.” Tohy blineclf, a larga: dog of — uncer- tain breed, tolled palnfully along drag- ging 4 pated = papers cannon and ercurted by half n dozen in queer red caps. ‘Then came a wason with the Chteago Working- women’s Tableau and bearing foseriptions ap propriate to the occasion. Sixty-four ladies, marhung two by two followed, and seomed to greatly enor themselves, tien came the Scnleswig-flolstein Verein, alxty strong; then a wagon with banners and mottoes in praise of eight hours as a normal day's work, After {his came the Wood-Caryers, and Upholsterers’ Unions, with a wagon ornamented by more in- ecripllons, ‘The 'Tallors, Carpeutera, Stonacut- ters, Bricklayers, and other Unions wero represented, ‘Fhe Typographical Union sported fn small press ona waon, wit Its members in- dustrionaly distributed copies*of a band-bill published for the ozension. Among the typos marched a solltaty member of the Letir und Wabr Verelu, or at least a man dressed {n somuthing Uke the uniform of thut body. Ho carried : A QUAKER-GUN and a big wooden sword, and marched as prond- ly a8 & new militia reernit on tralning-day, alr. Sam Qoblwater Jed on the urmy of cigar- imakers, of whoin there were about 100 In line, and then came the Chicago Seamen's Union ghich presented the Dest uppearance of all, the men marching steadily and looking well, "The‘rear was brought up by a straggling band of tradea- men, some of whom carried gaudily-peinted banners ilustratliys the evils which flow from the existing capltalfetic aystem, ‘The procession occupied exactly U{teen minutes in poselng the corner of Clark and Michizan streets, and pre- served throughout the ne of march anounced iu Tis ‘Tihwune yeaterday, . STEWARD’S SPEECIL. . THE PROCESSION REACHED THA GROVE Abont a quarter to, entered, and disbanded, and the component parts thereof proceeded to mingle with those already on the ground. The main stand was given up to the band and the decorators, aud, while the regular out-and-out picnickors were tripping it on the dusty floor, waa tricked out with some of the various flags, legends, and mnottocs;which had been seen in tho procession on its route te the grove. ‘ The usual assortment’ of picnls amusomonts were {n do- maud, the beor stands flourished like groun bay trees, and for a couple of hours it was all plenic and no demonstration. Over In one corver of the prove, however, was a little gathering which ‘might, in Gne sense, be said to be seccders, It was made up principally of members of the Seamen's Union, headed by Richard’ Pawers, who mounted 2 table and ‘addressed them at Jength on the peetlinr manner in” which the lente hud been advertised und the {llecrepancy between the promise and the reality. been understood, he said, that this was to bo a purely eight-hour demonstration, but It apnear- ed, both from the procession itself as well as from the tickets to the grounds and other facta, that the affair was belny : _ MUN BY THR SOCIALISTS and in thefr interest. He was an out-and-out clght-hour man, but he wasn't s Communist, und the reason ho had called the seanien to- paihen was to publicly set himeclf right beforo ie left the zrounds. Having done this, Mr, Powers branched out upon the rights of labor aud the hardships endured by the masses, ond forgot not to denounce Mayor Harrison for overriding the will of the peeple in dismissing Matt Bennor. ‘The speech wos recelyed with consideratie applause. Mr. Powers was fol- lowed by one or two agitatora, anxious: to hear themselves talk, aud tue crowd gradually de- serted the corner, leaving the ambitious orators -without au audienca, : cu 8 BPRAKING OF THE DAY was.to haye boun started at bnlf-past 8 o'clock at the main stand, but it was conalderabl nearer 8 before everything was in: readi- ritas to begin, ‘Ve’ chief speaker, imported for the purnoay, was'Mr, dra Steward, of Boston—a_ short, pleasant-looking gentlemart, with a bald forehead snd long’ gray back-halr and beard, without any of the traces of ‘Kearneyinin either fu his make-up, bis manner, or higtatk, Ho has’ bron a lavoragitator for some years, having dayoted his attention tleularly, however, to the slght-hour question, du fact, he'fs looked up to among’ the wage- workers, pod fe so advertised In tho various labor Journale, as the best-pested man on this particular subject in the Jand. When he speaks, therofore, he apeaks ag ons having authority: and, a4 sure degree of detinitencss in statin, the question from the cight-hour nsdvocate’s point af ylew would seem to be necessary, ‘to tie end that in treating the question from’ an adverse pont of view there will be no knocking down of a man, of straw, It is perhaps well that he was invited ‘to fayor the occasion with: some authoritative utterances, ‘ - MR. STRWARD, # as he declared to the reporter beforchand, when. asked fur something of a skotch of his career us a favor agitator, was i 1849 un apprentice under the twelve-hour 8: Ilo began’ agitating the question of reducing the houra of labor in 1350, anu ofuses to undertake to represent that achool of thought which concentrates the whole power and strength of the’ Inbor move> ment upon ureduction of the ‘houra of duity labor, Mr. Steward ts Preatdent of the Boston Aight-Hour League, and ianow writing s work on Which he has been engaged for somo yeard, nud which is to be entitled "The Political Economy of Eight Hours,” which, he says, will undertake to state the queation fully, fairly, and explicitly, ‘AC the bugle-call the crowd gathered ground the matn stund, prepared to be exhorted. Mr. Steward waa introduced hy George . Schilling, Secretary of the Committes ou Arrangements, and, although not possessing 4 stroug voles, wauazed to maky hinwolf heard und under. stu, at least to those in hie immediate vi- cinity. “ 11H BTARTED OFF 48 HOLLOWS? Mn, Cuamman ano Lapis anp GENTLE men: { shall first read what posatbly you may eall the second declaration of indepundence—at any rate a declaration quite aa jmyortant for the second century of (he Rupublic ag the firet one, that wax signed by Jolin Hancock, a phiuse.) ‘This is the 4th day of ily, ou when ‘the algnilcanco ot this occasion {s thoroughly understood, it will seem clearer to everybody lint no two words shalt be apoken toysther go often ag the Fourth of July and cigut hours, First, then, for the dvelaration, or the pronunciamento, My. Steward thereupoa-pracesdey to read the followtug resolutions, which were recelyed with wetoral tamences and only alittle occasional ap- planses t Resolved, That the practical question for an American Pourth of duly ia not between frecdoia and atayery, lug betwoen wealth and poverty, Vor if it fe truo that lahorers ought to bave au little as pomlble of the- wealth thoy produce, South Carolina slaveholuere were Fleit and, Nas chuactts abotitionita were wroug. Becuave, wh the worsing clues are dented overythiug but the harent neceauities of Hfe, they have no decent use for linerty, And a Jong ga mankind are kept duetitute and poor as thy Fuling classes pave gen y believed to be neceswary to. inwure thentac]yes comparative woalth, nuthinw bul the most remorsas Jews and fron-hapided deepptivin can matntain order and prevent the terrors uf anarchy or mob-law, Slavcey la thurefare the ahild of poverty, inatuad of poverty the gluld of slavery; and freedom te the chit of west, Instead of wealth the child treadan, The only road, therefgre, fo wulycreal freedum in the rond that feads to wniversat wei mth ers Reaolved, That witle the Fourth of duly wi alded a hundred youre aye Jy the wame of 1. we now herald this day in behalf of the gr ecungwle ienayre af Hight dlours, of shorter Ouy'a Work for wapaworkcre every whe fuss houre each day mean, me tw decrease Edichews — jucrous nhorter auye’ — worke worgs, bucatiea more lelwury, reat. and thougnt wil cultivate bebity, — custaniy, andexpendituees that meun bigher wages: and the world'a highest paid. Inborers naw furnish ence other wilh vastly more occhpations or days’ works than the lowest paid workors can vive to one Auother. Qesulved, That otght hours will increase the vro~ duction of wealth, because it will tocrceso the vrice orcostaf buman or yaud Jabor; sy more highty pad or expensive Isborers will increase mas chingsy, suit wore, machinery mea till more rapht and abandgut braductioi of Yes Heavteed, ‘ThA tho ewilter and iar ware boant!- ful results of machinery cap be alworugd or cone sumcd whea lavor ta ‘sulflciently rewarded. Or, MW the worker's powor to buy tucropsea with bis pawer laud, gransrica anid Warahopses will erunty nei products, and farms aud factories SL up wit produce A HiAnd those who way that costly laborers meau cuat- ly pruauctions, do so becanso they bay not euttl- clently conaldgred the yaut amount of wealth (hat natural forces will create for nothing os fast oe inlilious of workers increase thele compensation and advantauesy for machinery iy born ty ag at mosphere of high wages, but ie exotic tn an atmus~ phere of low wayes. Kesolved, ‘Yuut those wha denounce elgbt-hour laborers for claiming tea-hour pay must remen- ber that wo are vow doiuy ten bore’ work for lees thau eight boure’ pay, and out of this fact moro aaye? qnforcel and the Administration not, has been croated the fortanen of Vanderbilt, Rothachild, and other capitalistic chieftains, Resolved, That public opinion and legielation manat ovarswhera unite In behalf of elght hours. ‘That legtelation must erin with all labor om- ployed at public axnense, whether fer the Nation, of for States, counties; oltles, or towns, And we heraby denonnce tho Prealdent of the United States, —Rutherford 1, Hayes,—and every momber of hie Cabinet, especially John Sherman and It. W. y thelr infamous and outrageous vio- National Hight-Howe Inv. upon overy Inbor And wo cal ‘Umited States to atercotype and publish constantly or frequently the nanics of every membor of Con- grces whore yotcs have Mnatatned the luwicenness of thia Adminictration, ro that the rising and growe lournaliat tn the ing indignation ofthe people may peraue them withoat merey or compromise wntll further elece tions ehall drive every ono of them back to private Mito, whore all helong who cannot compretiend the Immediate neceanity, wiadom, snd political econ- ony of a reditction of the hottrs of dally labor, And we call to the workers of the whoto civilized world, eapeciaily those of France, Germany, and Grent Weltnin, to Join hands with the liborera of the United Stater in this mighty movement. ‘Thue ehall eight hours provatl; carnings and daya’ Works, wealth, and bneiness prosperity in- arearcs financial ravoracs be mado {mpussibie, ant he whole bugian taco emancipated or evoluted rom the capitniiatic desputiam which ta mado pos. ae necesaary by the poverty of the most of mankind, s ‘On tuo preliminary teane of eight hours, there- for or teas bours, we Join hands with all, rogard~ jers'of volitice, nationality, color, rellgion, or sex; knowing no friends or foes except as they ald or oppose Unis Jong-postpaned and world-wide morement, + And for the soundness of our political economy, ag well aa the rectitude of our intentions, wa con: fdently and gindty appeal to the leer statesman- ahip of the civillzed world, it was apparently not thought wecessary to adopt the resolutions, the natural presumption being thnt their reading was equivalent to an udoption,. After promulgating. te pronuncl- mento, Mr, Steward Hi PROCERDED 48 FOLLOWS? An open-air meoting ie not the place, perhans, conaldering the fecblcness of my voice and the surging of the crowd, for avery Jencihy statement af the philosophy or the intricacies of this croat question, I hope before leaving your creat city to havea petter ‘opportunity, So {content myself, amid the crowd of speanere who await you. with calling your nttentlon tea few almpic polnia, 1 uniertake to say that intelligently or tn- atinctively—perbaps more instinctively than otherwlee —wheu the confnston of tho prosent.clenre up, it will be conceded on all hande that the stateemaneniy of this land finds here te largest and best -teneesentation. ‘The only atntes- manship that js thoroughly. comnrchonalve and world-wide is that which to-day halls in the naine f eight hours,’ We have got to take o broader view of this movement than hae hitherto becn taken by either capitalistic of Iabor classes, The capitalist clasres oro narrow. - ‘They reaeon this: that, when they are prosperous, We necezsarily are prospering, ‘That ie, onr prosperity is always inclused in thuirs, Tut this is about as uneatis- factory to the laboror oa it would be to a lamb to be ineluded in a Now {laughter}, and when the la boring cinesce = havi becoine wuffictently broad in their views of thi matter, thoy will see that overything that te dont for thu svorking claaces must be done with refer. ence not only to the civilized world, but to the whola human race., So whon the movement for eluht bours prevails you have one which tles on to ‘fact to which [can point, Hf you were over in the South Sea Islands orin Varrloboolagha, The eight. hour movement mesne dealing with the habits of mankind, ‘The great mistake mado by the atatesmansiip of tho whole clvillzed world is'that it undertakes to deal with the intelligence of the hunian race. But, out of the thirteon hundred and fifty millions of people on this planet, for all practtcal purposes there fe hardly a million of thom who can vo reachod throuch their intelligence. You ‘must ps your ordare through the habits and the cna- ome of the human race, or they nover will hear. Go Into the cars, —the stedty cats of: atherwit go In any direction A tew,dniles and look ai peupte you mect. Look ME the honecs and“ sco wnat A ¥! namber of peoplo there aro living, evon here near abont you, who never sec @ labor journal, or, perhaps, even thedally paoors, who uow nothing whatever of what you are ,doing. There Ig but one way to reach the whole human aco, and that is through the lat of Javelin pricos routing, a6 prices and Inbor do, upon the habits of mankind. Yon must raach these elements—thoso great facts tn hnman affairs—bofore you can expect to reach their cyca, or thete cars, oF their condl- tlon, Anilthe fret thing for you to dons you begin to mana up your powor is to concentrate it upon thove whose opportunitica have ocon thrown away, when they might have been better usod tn your interests, Now [ am to read to you the names of eight gentlomen—elght honorables—siz of whom, I helleve, Hepsiblicanis, and two of them Democrats, who undertake to represent the rroat Beate of Mlinoia in’ Washington tn the House of Ttepresentativea. . On tho Sth of last May the quca- tion came up in the hose’ of Representatives whether the National Hight-Haur jaw fre id atalne ond, eight out of your nineteen Nopfeaentatives 'yotad agajnat you; and-at the next Congressional election In Ilinols thoae eight mon must bo defeat- edatall hazards, (Groat pusientes Thelr names in, of Auroras Robort DL. -A. aca John .d. bh arw: Nawk., of Mt, Carroll; Puilip C, Mayos, of Morris; Greenburg L, Hor 8 Lacou; Benjamin F, Marsh, of Wayaaw; Joseph G. Cannon, of Danville; Will+ tam A.d, Sparks, of Carlylo; Willlam R. Morrison, of Waterloo, Those men hayo, by thoir yotes, made you undoratand that labor lide nothing to guln at Washington. Your votes must make them un- derstand that capltaliste. will have pathiag: to gatn in Ulinols. [Applauee.] You’ want to seo to it that tho. names: of thosa men are = =omado . guficlent!: notorious and the Btate so hot forthosn that thay will be driven back npain to priyate life, Lappisaee. Of couree, if there men are honcat in thele opposition to elght honrs, they have the right to cnjoy that opinion, snd Z would defond them in the enjoyment of If But let them’ enjoy It at home as respectablo fel- low-citizens, and not in Washington as your hon- ored representatives. (Appiause, } Why do I attach the importance that do to eight hours? This ls the proposition: if eight houre do mean, g8 we claim, higher wawes ani a greater roduction uf wealth, and if is ie true that arFer praductlon of woalth bi he mast to do with human freedom, then, in standing hore this Fourth of July for elght hours, I am alinply ualng another word for frecdom, = {Applause,] In brief, my proposition fs that thore ean be no wach thing aa freedom, or Mberty for the masson, without wealth; that the shortest road to freedum fe to a barrel of flour; and incontending, aa wo are, for Joss hours, and higher wages, aud moro wealth, wo are almply contending for more free- dom, and to that wa haya the sanction of tho stateamanship at least of tho United States, if not that of other lands whero royalty still prevails. {Applans a in the mattor of thiseclght-tour question, you men of Chicago ought to be proud and thank(at that you are leading the whole civilizad world, No other placo on this Continent I have wo donut al thiv hour con abowa algbt eo grand and 50 Delght as thia mighty uprising of the working- mon.of Chicago for eight hours, Itwill bo iny privilega to go hack to Maseachuso! ul report yon and your énthusiaam, and to say to thom, If You will allow me, that the movemont has begun, And will not stop nntll It shall reach tho wtatesmen Hi the rating clasacs of every civilized nation on jo carth. OTHER ORATORS, ‘DR. ERNEST SCOMIDT was then Introduced to orate in Gorman. He said that from this great day of independonce, whan the Amorican Colonios throw off the yoke of English tyranny and oppression, dated tho real discovery of America. Un that preat day America was won to tho world, and from that day America becamnen free homestead where the oppressed found shelter ands safe haven, ond where the oppressorg could nat reach nor molest them. Ig relorred to the great progress made during the Inst 100 years, and how the country had been developed. ‘The world had nothing Ukett, Butat these splendid achicye- ments the vermin of time were gnawing, aud the way things were carried on now it wos .casy tq catenlate -when these vermin would hayo destroyed all that had beeo accomplished in these Jovy years. [£ the friends of tho country did ot destroy the vermin yery soon everythihg would go to ruin, and nothing will be loft but chaos, ‘The highest Executive fiver of tha cquatry no longer held tho titte to bis olllcy accordlug ta constitutional rights, but by trauq. te was placed in his high poal- tlon by transactions fu whieb the two gregt po- litical ‘parties tried to outwit cach other, aud in which the Republican party was successful, No one cond tell to what yosult such outrazes wleht load, and the next clectlon might bring about dleastrous resulta, : Wherever they cast thelr pyes there was nothing ae corruption, fraud, and chicanery, The Lolalatures were ju the hands of ahyeters swindlers and perverters of, the laws. In fuulclel positions were found men whe allowed hogs who hud stolen tnithong to ¥a free, und even shook hands and: bobn fh while the eame dudges sunt & poor inay who stole a loal of bread to save his furjly from starvitys to the Venitonttary for years, Courts Honres and Post-Ollices were being built that cygt duuble the money for which they could be fionestly erected. Never in God's world could, they get thelr rights from thu capltallsts who were now yang us with an isuy hand, ‘Thieves, ewindlers, gamblera, apd other law-breakers were protceted by the police, while wo wercy wee shown ta the honest poor worklugmen. If railroad monopolies Tan their tracks right through the rooms of the poor laberlug men, they had to atand it, ‘They gquid net logk tor aldor gupport to the press unless they had thelr pockets 1ull of money, Michigan uveuue waa boiug transfuraed into a boulevard for the sale benullt of die rie. ‘The pyor had to pay for the improvement, und yet they were probibited trom riding on {t, While the press bad hoot, peraecuting blin during the last two weeks ag if he were some wild beast, It hod no words of condemnation for such out- rageous swindics. fa change for the better could tako place tn- til the people begau to sco the wrouge luiiicted bed with them, upon them, and took menat evils. ‘Then corruption, fraud, and oppression would be at an end, snd they would enjoy the liberty and freedom guaranteed them by our forefathers, ‘Tho law, called the Militis law, to cover upits real intents, was framed to deprive them of their hollest rights and to keep them In subjection. This band of oppressors weronow looking forward with delight when they can Iny bunds on aud. suppress free aneectt also, These newspapers did not hesltate to fill thelr columus with assignation notices, and ad- yertisements of quacks, and_ other frauds, but they had no apace to défend the rights of the poor nud down-trodden, aud but for the fear of chiastisoment from an outraged people, they would go still further, ‘They all must agreo with him that from these capitaliata and press-bandits nothing could ba expected. -For 1,000 pteces of silver Judas Iscariot sold Christ, but these press-bandits were a hundred tines worso; for & they would scll their God, Tt was but right and prover tot. this greav eight-hour movenent should be made on inda- pendence Day. By this they showed that thera wan no rotrograding, but progress. It also proved that they understood their duty as citt- zune of this country, Noone could judge bet- ter than hiinself whata blessing it would be for the workingmen to have thelr time of labor re- duced to elght hours. Then they would lave a few houra after, returning from thelr work to devote to their familles, | ‘They not live for themselves now, but for uthers, There was no chance for them now to enjoy their ex- fetence. ‘They would gain much’ by the two hours and have some time to devote to them- selves and their famnilics.-. They mugt bring to naught the’ prophesics of ther chemics and show by their actiona how falsoly they were slandered. It was thelr holy duty to contiiue to work and build, to re-crect and 1epair this Republic, shattered to its foundation, and wake it agalu what our forefathers Intended it to be, Ho was followed by ‘MN, DENLORADBEY 3 with ‘a speech in tha Botemlan lan- guage. He sold they had again glyen proof that If oveu the entire press of Chleago and the country went acalust them, they could better thelr condition if they were united and acted in harmony, ‘ They had nothing to “hope from the preas or capitalists, but must look out for them- selves. “Much tad been said and written about. their party during the laat two weeks, but they had shown those corrnptlonists tat they were able to secure their rights in a lawful way. No surprise iced be inanifested because the Bu- bemian Sharpshooters did not particioate, They proferred to keop-shady so aa not to give an op- Portuutty to.the caplteies press to how! somo about them. Everrbody wanted his rights and that was all they demanded, Aud why should they not ‘bayo their rights when they wero guaranteed- to tlem by the Constitution? ‘They dla not work for thelr own vatlonatity or auy other nationality, ‘but forall mankind, na matter where they came from. i right to demand justice, and asked that elaht hours bo made o lecat day’s work, -In making this de- mond they did not aste for as much os the cap- {taltata had who worked much Ices than eight hours, and many.of them not at alle What yrould all “those capifallete like - Vanderbilt, Storey, ete., do if the workingmen did not work for them? There was no power in the world that could preveat them: from getting their rights. Hospoke at length of the Militia Jaw, and denounced ft tu the severest terms, That law, he sald, was simply gotten .. up to prevent the poor. men from securing thelr rights and to keep. them in subjugation and slavery, Ho would ask tne Governor by what right be permitted the Ancient Order of liberotana to carry arms through the streets, while the Lehr and Webr Verein und the Bohie- milan Sharpehooters were prohibited from doing, Ukowise? If they had a Svcial government, every ane would. be better off and every class would bo protectod und treated alike, To gain this kind of Government they would continue fo worls from the beginning to the end. ‘The following characteristic letter from JON BWINTON : . was announced as haying heen recetved, but, ss ue eromd was getting tinpattent, it was nos read: 124 Kase Titnry-sianta Stnset, New Yorn, July 1, 1878.—Comrade George A. Schilling, Sec retary of the Chicayo Piente Committee? Tt grieves me to roply again this yonr, ns i repiled last year, to your tempting Invitation, by saying that it {s out of ‘my power to visit Chica: peaker at your festival on the Fourth of July,, I hone thst the tine. will yet come when I can bo with yau at one of those groat festivals which aro cortain tobecome (pmouys in the listery of our moyemont, Our Chiengo comrades of the Social Democracy aro now farin the front, aud wo watch with swell- ing Interest your lufrepld advanco, - From vou tra draw strongth and hope—from you who are men of both falthand works. Welcomoto us{ethanews that ‘aur power te manifesting iteelf; that multitudes te Chicago recognize the'reasu7ablencas and right fulneaa of our principles; that your sections aro ‘zeaious: that your speakers are atardy: that your ‘press is truth-telling; that your festivals fouriah; that you havoclected membora of the State Legias lntare and of the Olty Governmont; that in April Jant you sppeiret at tha polla woven: theqeand strong; aud that you have takon hold of the prac tleal businose nearcet: at hand, and neccesary to repare the way for the great things subsequent! fa be undertaken. ‘The Social Democracy of Chi- one has shown Iteelf ‘*yital in every part,” and full of the forces ito, manifes- tations = make York feel, anid our rejoleing over them, as thong wo were laggards, unworthy of such comrades, Your position in Chicago, your pot and your Prospects give an impurtanco to your action anil to your mothods that cannot wotl be overrated by the party throughout the country, If we hava reached he time in which, beside promulgating out prin- ciples, we must undertake to establish thom as the law of the community and as tho government of tha Republic, it ls of the utmost consequence that we take far-rqaching viows, mark well our ways, adopt the couray most anvantageous, and advance with reenon, conrago, harmony, and ‘momentum. apprehend that st is you of Chicaga, frat among tho Soclal Democracy ofthe United States to energizo the resources of the ballot, who will ho foremost in abowing the all-guiiclenty uf theea regourccs in the prosecution of our work. ‘Tho fecundity of tho baliat, the soveroign endowment of the ballot, Liaw not yet been fully apprehended by thuea whose benoit {t must now be made to aub- sorve, uni against whose’ righta {t- has herey tofore been turned. If thera was a **apoee! in the belly" of the "old to correct theso 0 a ta we New bh Nebraska bill, thera is s world in tho bally of the baly lot, The Government and all ite enginory are In the belly of tho ballot; fAers are th Jexialation and laws of the countrys % Conuress and its Presidout; there are its revouns and Ite ‘Traaauty: there aro the departments of Admintetration; thure aro its Courts and Its judg- ments; there ure ita army und: mnvy; there sre Brecnaley there, In stort, aro all thapowera and ail the means by which the affairs of the country are directed, All thesa we can wield by winning!the mantery ofthe ballot; aud thon ft will be ours to show how thay ca be made to promote the public welfare, Let the Soclal Democrats thronghout the country take cxumple of our Chicago comradce in tho matter of the ‘ballot; and may our Chicago cores soon show Mpeping fruila of the allot, Tam glad to seo that, in many cities of the coun~ try, our party is this year celubrating the Fourth of July,—the anniversary of the Nevolutionary Declaration of Invepencente, How great are the rineintes of that document, ever-Ilving, ever- Frutttul |. evor-applicable, flow urand are those *+self-uyident truths which it proclaime. I wish wo hada thousand speakers throughout the cown- tey who would take them a6 the text of thelr Fourth-of-July this year, and enforce them upon the maltiiudes to wharu they would, If carricu out, bring safety and happiness. Joun Swinton, During the alternoon the Conunittes of Are rangemonts, through Secretary Schilling, drew ‘up and sept : ‘THE VOLLOWING DISTATOIL to George Gunton, the labor agitator at Fall River, Masa. ‘Phe workingmen of thie city, in mane sesombied, aend erecting to the Fall River spinners, We observe their procecdinge with the most profound solicitude tory ele friumphaat auccesg, ‘The speeches and the business over, everybody did pretty mach as he or sho pleased to pasa the tine, The games, the danging-Aaor, the besr- wells, and all the usual modea of enjoyment were resorted to without stint, and for awhile everytolug was ordosty enough. But the flower {ng of go nuh beer, to say natbing of the other Hquors gold on the ground, produced its natural resulta, Several soung oieg became unduly hilariows, ‘Thero wera nymarous ejgctions for refusing, a3 was alleged, to pay for beer, pop, ete., and for disorderly conduct, the traner gressor boing uniformly taken hold af by both shouldera by a couple of pig-hended mombers of the Soctalistic * police," who would Hsteu to no explanations, but always agaumed that the state mont of same money-vething beor-slinger was the true one, and run out of the Grove double- quick, Fram their Wooten batons there was Do avpcal. Ong of these alleged preservers of the peace revealed all thas was brutal withla him whou he STRUCK A YOUNG GIRL WITH W139 BATON over tha bead, and then proceeded to bustia her out iy short metre. She was dancing with her “fellow,” and made somo remark or other which be (the fellow”) didn’t like, and to which le retallated by pouring upon her a nass of wordy filth that would have disgraced Siler avenue, following it up br striking her. Sho was about to retin the blow when the afore- said luokheads with badges on thelr coats interfered, anu the more brutal of the two bangs ed her over the head with his club and puahed oer gut of the Grove, While bis yallant comrade dl the saute thing for the man. ‘The girl may have been mnishehaving, but the Committey on Are rungemunts would do well to seo Uhut ite body of peace-preaervera cuntalus uo women-strikers. Asto the treatment of the mau, nobody can Hud any fault with,that, Mut therg this brute sbould have stopped, and not have disgraced the better olement of his party, os he did. THRUM Was ADOTHER CRYING AUR, which the Committee on Arraugementa should correct before today’s plenic, aud that was the are hear bim, bofore he leaves, refaeal of the ticket-takers to give checks to people going out. ‘The result worked bardship Ir the cases of those who were compelled or do- sired to go out, and who, on trying to re-enter, wero obliged to plank down another quarter, ‘The phe of this refusal to give checks was to prevent commerce fo them on the outside, buy a 1 good deal of just complaint grow out of ft, and the Commltteo would show some. scnec withdrawing the obnoxfous restricton for the future, It it {s not. abrogated, the Kicking will .continue, and the suspicion will wrow stronger that the managers, lotent eimply on maktig money out of tha thing, are detere mined to rake in, by this) meaw the extra quartora they can. ‘The fact 19 that the attond- anca vesterday fall far below: tho.usual figure, ‘The members of tho procession “dead the shuw,’? snd thelr number was 1,940, crowd, outside of them, would not have made the total attendance for the whole day more than . Possibly the. achene of refusing checks was conceived in the brain of some unustally ahrewd monoy-maker in the party, and played for all it was worth jn order to raise the receipts, -Bub. tt didn't work well for all that, the general discust at this snap game overcoming in most cases tho desire to re~ site the Grove and take another whack at the fun. 2 os ‘The remainder of the day and ovoningy with the exception of occasional scrim: ' mages “between the younger snd + more’ lively portions of tha two sections, and frequent cjoctions for ceriain —bredches of.:what ‘the Socialist “police called good order, pasaed quietly enough. In the evening there was s creditable dlaplay of freworks from the main stand, to the great delight’ of tho picknickers. By 10 o'clock tha Grovo was practically deserted, the hardy son of toll wo ng Home to brace up for another demonstras tion to-day, and the general plcofe crowd drawing off to thelr reapectiva places of aboda with beads larger than they were in the morn- ing, but subllinely happy as they thought of the regular old time they had had of it, ‘Gne of the incidents ot the day was tha curl- ous turalug-up of CARTER UW. HARRISON, Mayor of atl Chicago. Ho rode out. to the grounds on horseback—just to look around. When he got there, some indlscrect person pro= posed tliat he should be invited-to address the ercwd, but thy Committce of Arrangemonts sat down upon him, nnd the speech remalned une spoken. Bomehow or other Mr. Harrison did Notcetover into the particular corner where Richard Powers told bis hearers \rhat he thought of the Mayor for bouncing Matt Benner. + Mr. Steward, as he fotimated in his remarks, will have qnojier opportunity to address the ! worklug clusaes, and aj] others who choose to Fle will speak noxt Weanesday ecyoning ot Farwell Hall, and tho workingmen are counting upon Slarge turn-out. DEXTER PARK. SUCCESS OF THN TOURNAMENT, Yesterday did not dawn tn o bright and cheer- ful ‘glow of aunllsht; Indeed, it lookad like rain during the early portion of the forenoon, aud the managers of the tonrnament at Doxter Park wero fearful of a gloomy day. Howover, the sun came out along toward noon, and the people began to throng witnin the inclosure to the extent of several thousand. ° - ‘The tournament was announced for the bene fit of the House of the Good Shepherd, with R. P. Derlckson os Preaident, John Mattocks as ‘Treasurer, and T. H, Keefe as Secretary, The Grand ‘Marsbal of’ the Day’ was Capt..3f. 0. + Hickey. ‘There was a lone list of “Judgesof tha’ Day,” repregonting nearly every prominont man in the city, bit nearly every one-of theas. was conspicuous for bis absencs.,- This was likewlso the casa with the milltary, the ‘Hirst: Regimenb« and Sixth Battalion -belng advertisod to bo presont, whien In the case of one of the orga izations an invitation was not extended., This promiscuous advertising fs not relished by ‘the public, ascould be platniy seen by the remarks inade in the crowd of ' disappointed ‘sizht-seora yesterday at this place, ‘But notwithstanding the slight discrepsacy In the programme, the Tournampnt was a decided success, financially nnd: otherwise, und the House of the'Goqd Shepherd will reap @ bar vest. 8 : ; THB PROGRAMS was 8 finc onc. At7 a.m, o national salute was ‘supposed to have been fired, and if, it was not it made no diference. But Gen, Mc- neame . & Dowell was the: Orator of the'’Day, and be did) mako a stunning speech of welcome at 0,0’clock. He was followed by'Mr.C. We dacob, of ‘Terra Haute, who recited au original foom, entitled, aes Flag,” which received considerable aps JAUSG,. 5 ‘At 10:80 a. m. thera was a boys’ raco, free for all, 100 yarda, prize 63; won vy WV. Brayton. At THB the pedestrisn race commenced, with a flyemile tramp, in which thare entered, George Wall, John Wilson, Matt Fellan, ‘Axel ‘Aslourg, J. G, Ridley, and 8 J,N. Elder, ‘There wore three orizes, as follows: First, $15; sec. ondg, 10; and third, 85. The first prize was wou by dobn (Vilson, the second by Hellan, and the third by Islder. ‘At the same hour there ‘was a men's race of 100 yards, priza $5," which was woa by D, Charles lerson. ‘There wero ninc entries in thia race, Next camo a three-legged race, This was performed by menin patra, firmly lashed together, ao that two lers should step a8 one. ‘The entries wero Messrs. Willlams und Burke and A. and W. Conway. ‘Ihe lattur toam won the prize af $5. ‘ ‘Tho noxt was a men's aco of 200 1 yards, prize: $0, Thore wero six entriog, and the raco was bs Anderson. won by D. G.. Then snck race, — prizes ant $2.50, won by Peter Burka und P, Higgloa. ‘Another men’s raco took place, distance 400 yards, -with a prize of $7; won by Richard Les,- ‘The noxt was 8 potato-race, lu which twenty> four potatess werg ranged at o ‘dlatanco of a yard apart, with a ring at one ond, in which cach potato was to be deposited singly, similar to the ald English ezg-race. ‘There wore twa prizes for this race, oue of $0 und the other of $3. Conway won the first and Brayton tho seo ond prize. : . » A WRESTLING MATOIL yas the noxt thing on the prokramme, in which there wore {x entries and two prizes, one of $20 and the ather of $10,‘ Mesers, Brink and Moore won the orizes, Moore’ sald he was sick, and ylelded the first to Brink. | A’mile racc took placo, with five prizes of $20, $10, $8, $5, and $4 ‘Tho frat waa won by Moore, the secood by’ Dwyer, the third by iO Bela the fourth by Casey, and the Oftn by Darring. ~ » ‘Then came a trotting match for horses of the 2:80 claaa, in harness. ‘The eutrics wera Sain Crok’s Josopbine end P. Johneau’s Marion. * Marion wan the Grat and third heate, and Joao phing the second, No oficial timo was taken, and tho prizes wero nominal, THY DOYBLE-TRAM RACE excited the most Interest of any of the horse, races. ‘There wore entered Charles Avery's team, Josie Manadold und Aunie Logan; Charles Adama’ team, DuPage und mate; and Tanac. Waixel’s tenia. The latter was driven bya professional driver, and this Prodneed ‘w kick on the part of Mr. Avery, who stated to the Judges , at the stand that he had consented to enfor for the trot with the distinct underatanding thas Mr, Wale! was to drive hisown team, and hq should not trot unicas the canditions were ful: filled. Upon this, Waixel’a team wae with Graw), Which left tha raco betwoon Ayery and Adams, ‘The latter won tho firet beat, und the former the socond the third, In this race no official’ tine was taken, but -someboly timed the second heat, and mage it 3°40}4, ‘The pnze consisted of an English driving-whip. ‘Then Waixel'a team trotjed egainst time, and the best heat was marked down at 2:40, ad the bd bent Mb 15134, only two heate being rotted, Sf Nexe came e 9350 raco between Brennock’s Billy Bashaw, J. C. Cullom's Tearaway, , and Jack Carter, agen extra race, ‘Tho rave. was won by Hashaw. ‘An exhibition of lady and rentleman eqnese triantsm occupled the thne for balf an haur or more, the ladies belug rewarded with premiums, Mra, Ames wou first, Sirs, Bowbart second, aud, Mra. Ferguson third, with a apecial prize under this head for Tom Keefe, which excited a great dea! of laughter. ‘The prizes consisted of a gold, medal sat with # dianioud as fret, and two plain gold nyedals ag second and ynird prizes, . ‘There were several acrub running -saces, tree for all; then caine 6 grund cavalcade, which closed the exercises, there belug no mllitary display, although the Sucond Regiinent was upon thg all day, {p order, as the commander, Col. Quirk, aaid, to keep the bors together. - Among the notsbles op the grand-stand were noticed Judge Dickey, dudge Moran, ¢x-Bherlf® Kern, Justice Scull , Justice Morrison, the fon. Joha C, Dore, Berbard Caltahan, Geo, J. T. ‘Worrence, Charles Copeland, i, ¥. Kames, and ours, ILLINOIS, PRINCETON, BMBAY STORK’ BYBECII, Byecial Plapuich ja The Trioune Prinoaton, Jil, vuly 4.—This was a wala day for Princeton. Fully ten thousand people worg out to enjoy the Fourth, ‘The procession was nearly a wile in length, comprising two come panies of militts, ouo from Kurauec, and threo companies of cadets, four-flro and hook and ladder coupsolea, cavalry, vetcrang, aud carr