Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1880, Page 4

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CREGIER LODGE, NO. 6%, AF. & A.M— Regular, ‘communication Wednesday evening, dan. ty at 7:32 o'clock, Sherr. instalindion of onicar: ‘Visit- barat TAMES KEATS, W. Af. JOHN GINOCHIO, Secretary. LL ‘COMMANDERY, NO. 1; KNIGHTS TEM- PLAR—Stated Conclave Tuesday evening, Jan. 6, nt 8 o'clock. . Special Conclave Wednesday evening, Jan. 7, at 6:30. The Order of the Red Cross will be conferred. By order of fhe Eminent Commander. TIFFANY, Recorder. PLEIADES LODGE, NO. 478, A.F. & A. 2L—Regn- Yar Communication Thursday evening, Jan. 8. Special f business, renting hall. _A fuil attendance is Soquested. e5S TOBE OUT. H-JENBING, W. St BUTLER CHAPTER, NO. 9%, ORDER EASTERN Stara hold their oa ene of officers ‘Wednesday evening, Jan. 7. : - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 1880,, Iris announced, on the authority of inti- mate friends in Rock Island, that the Hon. J. B. Hawley, First Assistant. Secretary of the United States Treasury, will be a candi- date before the Illinois Republican State Convention for the nomination for Governot. x ———— 3 _Gov. Emery of Utah reached Washington yesterday, having gone there for the purpose |: of meeting the charges of favoring the “Mor- mon element in Utah made against him, and securing his reappointment. He brings with him Jetters and testimonials from persons . reppesénfing nearly all the capitel,employed inh ‘Téixtipry,pll commegding “thie course pursued by him jn the adzhinistration of its affairs. es . hs Tne telegraph announces the death at Malden, Mass., yesterday, of Bishop Gilbert Haven, of the Methodist Church. He was at- tacked some weeks ago by neuralgia of the stomach, from which he recovered so as to be considered out of danger, but within the past few days a complication of diseases af- fecting all the vital organs manifested itself, ending in death. The dead Bishop wasa man of pronounced opinions, and not slow to express them. A sketch of his life will be found elsewhere in this pap 2 eet Panis was the scene of a fiood yesterday which at Jast accounts had done great dam- age in the. way of destroying property, and bade fair to continue the work. The Seine has risen even higher than in 1871, when steamboats were unable to pass under the bridges, and the drift ice, which the current carried along at the rate of seven miles an hour, is of so heavy a character that several of the bridges have been rendered unsafe, The sight was a novel and interesting onefor the Parisians, and the uninjured bridges were crowded yesterday with lookers-on. —— oe Tae Supreme Court of Maine rendered a decision yesterday in regard to the points submitted for its consideration by Gov. Garcelon touching the recent outrage sought tobe perpetrated by the Fusionist Council, assisted by Garcelon,—the éffect of which would have been to place in the Leg- islature a lot of men not elected to seats in | that ‘body. But-with ‘the facts of that matter the public is familiar. The Supreme Court, in its decision, tears away the flimsy screens erected by the Fusionists in the most ruthless manner, and enunciates in strong terms the idea that the object of the - law behind. which Garcelon and his pals sought: to shield. themselves was to protect- the voters, not to render their suffrages “pull ‘and void “because of -the. neglect. of some municipal officer to carry out the law in all its: small and un- important -details.. The Court held that where there is no return from a city the Gov- emor is given no authority by the State Con- stitution to order a new election, that instru-- ment providing that when the seat of a Rep- resentative is rendered vacant by death, resignation, or otherwise, it is the. duty of the municipal: officers to order a new. .election. If it shall. appear to the: House of Representatives that there was an’ election in fact, even though no return was-made to the Secretary of State, the Representative is not to be de- prived of his rights because the municipal officers neglected their duty. In respect to another point submitted, the Court held that in cases of returns where the constitutional requirements have not been complied with it is proper to supply such deficiency as niearly as may be. The Governor and Council should allow an erroneous or informal: return to THE CITY FINANCES. ‘ ‘There are now. two millions of dollars int the City Treasury; and in every broker- shop, bank, and grocery’in'the city are te be found the Controller’s irredeemable certifi- ‘ cates, otherwise called city scrip. With an overflowing Treasury the city is making a forced loan from its creditors, without in- terest, and payable at some indefinit time in the future. This fs a scandalous anomaly. It is the result of the scientific bookkeeping . which provides for. the accumulation of an average sum of $t,000,000 in the Treasury at all times,—it is now: $2,000,000,—and nota ‘dollar to apply to the payment due some needy creditor. , ‘When the city was in the financial distress which reached its climax .in May, 1876, and which ‘forced the city into a thorough system of retrenchment; when it was in ar- rear to its creditors nearly five millions of dollars, and the city scrip was under protest, | ‘there was, and had been for two years, a mill- ion of dollars in cash in the Treasury, on which the Treasurer was drawing 4 per cent - interest for his own personal profit. The re- duction of appropriations, the abolition of numerous useless offices, the reduction of salaries, and..other measures of economy, have enabled the. city, during the last three years and a half, to pay off between’ four and five millions of debt, and the back-tax law has had the effect to increase the balance in the Treasury from one to two millions of dollars. . Of course there is an inviting grab for this money. Numerous schemes for its distribu- | “tion are proposed. It belongs to the city., The scrip business, however proper when it was indispensable, has become disgraceful. With millions in the Treasury it is shameful that the city shduld still continue to issue this depreciated paper. The money from the back taxes is the property of thé city. In the hours of mu- nicipal distress the city borrowed $600,000 of the City-Hall Fund. “Some portion of this has been paid back and.expended. In the same time of distress the city borrowed from the fund set apart by Jaw for the Sinking Fund. The city owes these debts at this time... In July next $751,000 of the public debt will mature. .That sum of money due to the Sinking Fund, if applied in July to the pay- ment of the maturing bonds, will reduce the public debt and the annual interest thereon. The remainder of the maturing debt, which now pays 7 per cent: interest, can then be re- funded at 5 per cent interest, and the saving will perhaps not be less than $20,000 a year ininterest. The money for this purpose is now in the City Treasury, and, whatever interest it produces, nothing goes,to the city. Shall the city continue to pay 7 per cent in- terest on bonds, while the money to pay the bonds is in the Treasury producing no inter- est—to the city? : ae The money due the City-Hall Fund was ob- tained from the State, in trust, to replace the destroyed .building. The new. building isin progress; and why should not this fund be made whole out of the surplus money now inthe Treasury? The application of money now idle in the Treasury is cheaper than tax- ation, and, 50 long as the city has the money in hand, why leave it in the hands of the ‘Treasurer and levy taxes for the same pur- pose ? 8 f 2 Whatever. sum of tliis money from back taxes may be in the Treasury after repayment of the City-Hall and Sinking-Fund debts should be held as a permanent fund to meet the semi-annual interest on the public debt. The tax levied annually to meet the interest on the city debt is not collected for eighteen months after the first semi-annual payment of the interest is due. The money to meet the interest is therefore from six months to twelve months in arrear of the time for pay- ment, and has to be borrowed. The making of any such loan for any such purpose is illegal, and, though there has been patriot- ism enough so far to advance this money to save the credit of the city, the time has come when the city should no longer be subjected toany such contingency. The use of this money, so far as it will go, to pay the interest on the public debt will enable the city here- after, out of current revenue, to pay the in- terest as it falls due, without making any Joan, or resorting any longer to the illegal and disreputable process of issuing scrip. ‘The Finance Committee of the Council, at the meeting of Saturday, agreed to recommend tothe City Council the restoration, out of the surplus of the back taxes, of the Sinking and Building Funds. This isnot only both wise and politic, butitis also just. It will greatly expedite the placing the business of the city on a cash'basis. It will put an end to the scrip business, and for the first time en- able the city to adapt its transactions to the re- quirements of the Constitution,—to contract no debt, and to pay every obligation on de- mand. : : ENGLAND'S NEW PERIL IN INDIA. A new peril has arisenin India, which is so seriously threatening the English rule that the Government and the pfess are very anxiously discussing it. The danger which confronts England at present is a revival of Mohammedanism in itsmostfanatical phases, which means a revival of fatalism and cruelty. No wars have been so horrible or bloody as religious wars, and of these wars none moré so than the Mohammedan. .Their spirit is reflected in the saying of Said Ali, Mohammed’s lieutenant, “Whoever rises up against thee I will dash out his teeth, tear out his eyes, break his legs, and rip up his belly,” The early history of the Mohamme- dan wars was characterized by horrible cruelty. Fatalism is the chief: characteristic of the sect, and, when. this attribute is ap- plied to a religious war, it produces a com- bination of ferocity ‘and ‘energy that is very difficult to overcome, as thé fanatics, utterly careless of life; hurl themselves upon an enemy. ae : oe : ‘The immediate danger to English suprem- acy lies in the wide-spread movement among the Arabian and. Indian Moslems, whoare known as Wahabitesand also Shiahs, for a return to the pure faith of Islam as dis- tinguished from thé: hetérodox doctrines advocated by the Turks, Both. sects are bitterly opposed to the Turks and to Enghsh rule. ‘The Wahabites originated in the mid- dle of the eighteenth century, and were -led by: one Abd-el-Wahab, who preached the restoration.of the primitive doctrines. He denied the inspiration of the Koran; and also forbade the worship at the Prophet’s tomb. preached total abstinence, the strivt ob- corrected by an attested copy of the record. | servance.of fasts and prayer, the renewal of ‘There. are other, points considered and re- a ferred toin the decision, butthese dre the vital ones, and in all cases the Garcelon party is found.to he in the wrong. ‘The decision of the Court was a unanimous one. : .“idolatrous pilgrims.” Mehemet Ali, under | fanatics of the most. ferocious description, the sacred war against’ the infidels, and the establishment of a central Empire in Arabia in opposition to the Empire which now - has its headquarters at Constantinople. ‘The Wahabites are a powerful sect, including | as they do.the majority of the Afghan, Indian, and .Arabian Mussulmans, and are much more warlike and aggressive than the other Moslems. They numbér over 30,- 000,000, and include such hardy tribes as the | Ghoorkas, the Afghans, and the Sikhs, as well as the thoroughly armed, semi-independent tribes in Northwestern India. Their record has been a very warlike one, and, in spite of all opposition, they have managed not only to maintain their ascendency, but largely to increase thelr numbers. In 1803 they took Mecca, and-in 1804 Medina, where they slew Jarge numbers of what they designated. command of the Turkish Sultan, under- took to check them, but did not succeed until 1819, The'attention of Turkey was then turned towards Syria, and, taking advantage of this diversion, the Wahabites reéstab- lished | their empire, and have not been @molested since. Since that time they have ‘rapidly overspread the East, added thousands to their numbers-in Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan, and India. In 1860 their em- pire extended in Central Arabia alone dver3i6 towns and numbered a million and a half of subjects, and now it has spread all over Asiatic Islam. F It is this element which constitutes the! peril of England in India, They.have been greatly excited of late by the annexation of a portion of Arabia to Turkey, whose people’ they hate as bitterly as they do the English. | To this has been added another element of hatred in the recent execution of Shiah Mol- Jahs by Gen. Roberts ‘in Cabul. The last act has been the signal foran uprising in Afghan- istan and the unfurling and sending abroad .of the Islamite war-flag. It is reported that the Persian and Arabian Wahabites are rap- idly pouring into India, and that messengers have been sent from-Cabul to stir up the re- ligious element and incite a holy war. If the standard of revolt should be raised the loyalty of the tribes in India could not be relied upon, and. England would soon find herself confronted by 30,000,000 fighting in pursuance of one of their five commandments, which bids them to make war upon the infidel. In addition to their fanaticism they would be urged on by the recollection of centuries of misrule’ and oppression. The Spectator announces that’ there is reason to believe that the spring of 1880 is fixed upon for the time of uprising, and that already the “ chupatties,” or sacred cakes, have begun to circulate from hand to hand in the Punjaub and theDeccan. Every- thing indicates that England is about to pass through a’ very serious. crisis that will call for an immense force to avert its dangers. ‘WOMEN IN POLITICS. Some months ago Dr. Francis Parkman contributed to the North American Review an article on “The Woman Question,” which called forth a reply in the same periodical from five prominent advocates of female- suffrage, including Col. Higginson, Miss Anthony, and Mrs. Stanton. The, current number of the Revicw’ contains Di, “Park- man’s rejoinder, which, avoiding as much as possible the acrimonies of controversy, is an able and forcible reassertion of the bes; ar- guments against the presence of women in. partisan politics. ‘ This article ought to chse the discussion for the present, as no impartal person, whether male or female, can read tt without. being impressed with the notion tha; the advocates of femalesuffrage will be worsted in any further agitation of their hobby in this particular direction. In reply to the statement—upon which Dr. Parkman’s critics seem to agree—that the reasons he gave in his first article for oppos- ing female-suffrage were not original, he ad- mits as much, and turns the full force of the parry against his antagonists by claiming. “an éxpression of the convictions, more or less distinctly shaped, of the great majority of the sensible and thoughtful persons of both ‘sexes.” It can- not be doubted that a mass of old arguments which have received the approval’ of the multitude is a stronger array than a collec- tion of new theories; so that charging a want of originality upon Dr. Parkman was not the best way to weaken the position he had taken. Much the same result follows upon the state- ment made by the woman-suffragists, that the only reason given why women should not take a direct interest in politics is, that ‘which is destined to occupy 3 conspicuous they have never done.so. This is not the only reason, but it is certainly one of the, best reasons, since, in all the manifold mu- tations of government, “from the earliest records of mankind down to this moment, in’ every race and every form or degree of civilization or barbarism,: the relative posi- tion of the sexes has been the same.” History shows that there are always suflicient oppor- tunities and temptations for political revolu- tions and agitations: without introducing a new element of discord. The champions of woman-suffrage dwelt mainly upon the many virtues of women, and evidently intended this showing to be a complete answer to Dr. Parkman’s sugges- tion that the intriguing women would come to the front in active politics. But they ig- nored the fact that the private virtues which now exercise so potent an ‘influence upon public affairs might be neutralized by the fewer women who are bold, unscrupu- lous, and adventurous, and who would be the very ones to take the active leadership of women in politics. The shining qualities of the best women in a womanly sphere might be ineffective in ascramble for political place and power. The same consideration answers Col. Higgitison’s suggestion, that woman’s sway in society denotes hér power. “Why, then,” asks Dr. Parkman, “dethrone her and drag her down to the dirty ropes and wheels of the political machine?”.- Col.. Higginson virtually admits the correctness of this posi- tion when he exacts woman’s vote “as a duty”; but the feminine: advocates of .fe- male-suffrage- take a different. view of thé matter, and claim the ballot. as a right. If it is a question of duty, we may trust wom- en to reajize it sooner than men, and. the proof of such realization @il be found ina general willingness among women to accept the’ responsibility in place of their preser’ general indisposition to assume it. : “Dr. Parkman draws attention « the fact that his meaning has been Perverted in some instances, and eyen bislanguage misquoted, by his feminine <ritics, while they have in other casos deliberately misinterpreted and misapplied’ the writings of Dr. Johnson, Franklin, and others.«'Perhaps this very cir- cumstance is significant-of what would be apt to occur in political discussionsif women should personially: ard- controversially -entez! the domain of politics: Nearly every man can recall some private, experience -with the shrewd and riot ovérserupulous way In which ‘women, without any conscious violation of ethics, are accustomed ta get the best “of an argument.. One-of the, ladies, who cham- | pioned female-suffrage was unfortunate, however, when she invoked St. Paul in favor of “equal freedom for’either sex,” as Dr. ‘Parkman quotes the:Apostie to mgre~ direct. purpose when he-wrote:.‘‘Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection; but I suffer ngt a:woman to:teach, nor, :usurp au- |: ‘thority over the man, but to be in silence.” It is the pertinence rather ‘than’ the’ literal Application of this quotation upon which we areinclined toinsist: = One of the Parkinan arguments most vigor-; ously assailed by the woman-suffrage cham- pions was;' that the right to vote should not be separated from the ability to fight. This was construed ij, ‘individual’ application, which would exclude: certain professional men who are physically as weak as yfom- en, the lame, -halt, ‘and blind amiong’.the ‘males, and such ‘others as are not able to -shoulder a musket and march to the field of battle.. Of course this is quibbling. Ingen- eral, sex is the dividing line between com- batants and non-combatants. Dr.. Parkman is right when he’ contends that no Govern- -ernment can ever sustain itself long which cannot command the physical force of the Nation; and it is by no means an impossible case he ‘supposes in which:.the majority should consist chiefly of women, and the de- feated minority of men; in such case the Government would be powerless to enforce its laws against the resistance of the minority defeatéd’ nt the polls, There are other strong arguments against confer- ring the ballot upon women which Dr. Park- nian restates, in a remarkably.clear fashion. “Women haye great special tasks assigned them in the work of life, and men have not.” It is not only because women will discharge their. full duty and do their best service to humanity by giving mental and bodily sound-- ness and careful rearing to their offspring that they should confine themselves to this special task as much as possible;. but because, if American women. negleet it, the natural: struggle for existence may give the foreign classes a growing advantage in population and force. With the ‘ballot in the hands of women, it is not unlikely that there would bean effort to dispose of the social evil by political enactment; and such an effort, Dr. Parkman says, “would be a calamity worse than civil war”; and he adds that it would be to open ‘sewers and “cesspools, and poison the air with moral typhoid.” Mar- riage, divorce, free-love, and other kindred subjects would. still further complicate the’ partisan ‘issues 0? the country.’ Civil discord would be moe imminent than it is now fromthe clashing of labor. and ‘capital, place in American politics in any event, be-. cause the wives and daughters of the rich and the poor would: edd ‘to the present dis- sensions the prejudices of caste'and the jeal- ousies of social distinctions. A curious and interesting part of Dr. Park- man’s . latest paper js that in. which, he'ang-" lyzes the motives which prompt a small pro- portion of the. American women to seek the ballot. Some of them are misled by a false idea of progress; others are influenced by the notion that a participation in politics will make women more ‘serious and sober, not- withstanding it has so frequently an opposit effect on men; ina few instances there is a sentiment of self-sacrifice, which is nearly always attractive to womanly nature; others are dominated by 2 desire to rule for the purpose of working out reforms:which should lave ng place in politics. Altogether, a very cear distinction is drawn everywhere be- tren practical and sentimental government, ‘The largestsingle payment of gold coin in this city was maie on Saturday by the First. National Bank of Ohicago. “The bank paid out in. settlement +f its Clearing-House balances $1,650,000. Ot this sum $1,500,000 wwasin goldcoin.. This-con was received from New York in twenty segs, each keg weighing 300 pounds and contaning $75,000. The transportation’ through ‘he streets was attended by five ‘men to hindle and guard the treasure. By an arr: AD eenent be- tween the banks and: the ClearingHouse officers, the gold was delivered directly at the several creditor banks. -By this arrange- ment the transportation and handling were’ Simplified. This coin was sent hither by Mr. Keene in payment for wheat, and,.with other remittances of like character, will largely enter into general circulation in the city. The balances at the Clearing-House yesterday were $14,816,000, being about $2,000,000 “greater than the clearances on Friday, whieh were greater than on any.preceding day in the history. of the city. In anticipation ofa “general remittance of gold coin-to this city, the Clearing-House will probably adopt some the “decide afterward system of deposit in the safety-vaults and the transfer of certificates in settlement of balances. ‘There can, however, be no rational excuse given why this and all other gold coin may not be deposited i, the Sub-Treas- ury in Chicago, as it is in New York, and large greenback notes sssued for if through the Treasury Department. ASTRONOMIC, . Curcaco (Trrrons office), north latitude, 41 deg. 52m. 67s,; west longitude,” 42m. 188. frote ‘Washington, and 5h. 50m. 30s. from Greenwich. The subjoined table shows the time. of rising of the moon’s lower limb, and the official time for lighting the first strect-lamp in each circuit in this city, during the coming week, unless or- dered sooner on account of bad weather. Also the following times for extinguishing the first lamp: . + Light. oon. * Monday; sun’s upper mb rises-7:27 a. m.’ Souths Sm. 85s. 8 p.m.’ Bets 4:43% p. mi Friday, sun's upper limb rises Souths 7m. 19s. 4 p.m. * Sots 4:47k0" 4. Sidereal time Thursday noon, 195- 10m. 40s. 0. Moon's last quarter th. 9. onday. Perigee iday ,-a00n Sunday, Jan. 1, bs grad hearse f. x ‘itis new moon the sun will ,-ed to observers in the North Pa- cite Oveg a8 the ,western’ part of the United State Lt will begin at Denver at about 4h. p- ey focal time, and at nearly the instantof sun- set atSt. Joseph, Mo. Kansas City, and Baton’ Rouge, in Louisiana. 5 + + Merdury is near the sun; rising before him. * ~. Venus isa morning star. Thursday she rises at4h. 6m. a.m.; souths at 9h. Om. a. m.jabout two-thirds of her discis ilummated. Shoisnow approaching the sun.- split: -. . Mars is an evening star. Thursday souths at ‘Sh, 41m. p. m., and sets at 2h. 51m. the'following | morning. About nine-tentks of his uiuthinated sdisc is turned towards us. -Hé is about-13 deg. \southwest from the ‘Pleiades. ; Jupiter is an.evening ‘star. Thursday sets at Fra 10m. p.m. He is alittle east of south from {the Y of Aquaries. we aoe oe : Baturn ig an evening star, nearly midway be- :tween the apparent places of Mars and Jupiter, jand situated east of south from the ‘southeast jeorner in the square of Pegasus. Thursday he ‘souths at 6h. 28m. p.m.,and sets at lh. 3im. p. m,” The breadth of his ring system is apparently about one-seventh of-its greatest diameter. Uranus souths Thursday at 3h. 30m. a.m. He is just visible to the naked eye in aclearskyj but not favorably situated for evening observa- tion, . ; Neptune ‘souths Thursday at 7h. 18m, p. m. Right Ascension 2h. 30m., and Declination 12 ‘deg: 53} min, north, He is invisible except jthrough a telescope. Tue Frith of Tay bridge railroad disaster. .was one of the most shocking that has ever o¢- curred in the world since railroads were construc- ‘ted, but the loss of life has been as greatin afew ‘other notable instances, . In June, 1864, the draw in the bridge over the Richelieu River, Quebec, was open and an emigrant train dashed in, kill- ing and drowning over 100 persons, An -engine .Plunged into an open draw at Norwalk, Conn., in 1853, drawing in an excursion train and entailing afearful loss of life,.*At Ashtabula, O., in De- cember, 1876, a bridge gave way and neara hun- dred persons lostthgir lives. An excursion train on the Missouri & Pacific Road broke through a "bridge and killed twenty and injured over fifty. Avi excursion train on the Chicago & North- western in 1859, near Fond du Lac, ran over an ox, and fifteen persons were killed and many more injured. Many of the battles that have been given a prominent position in history, and ‘their issue decided the fortune of warriéra and the fate of nations, have not presented a larger Ust of killed and wounded than somé of these terrible railroad disasters. ‘The accident at Tay is peculiar because there is not a single survivor ‘left to tell the tale. oe 4 ‘THe Demo-Confederate organ at Washing- ton is a credit-to its party.. Itsays that “Mr. : Hayes, as acting President, is the typical repre- :Sentative and fruit of the groatest perversion of , the people's prerogative ever known. If Gov. Garcelon’s legal acts were all that Mr. Hayes al- leges, he would have no more right to cry fraud than a professional burglar would have to revile q bandkerchief-snatcher.” Mr. Hayes has been called afraud so often by the Bourbon press that no doubt many people believe it,—like an oft-repeated lie it becomes at last crystallized in the mind for a truth. But these two overwhelm- ing facts will stare the student of history for- ever in the face: (1).That Mr. Hayes received a majority of the Electoral votes. (2) That an Electoral Commission, duly appointed according to an act of Congress passed by the votes of both parties, declared Mr. Hayes entitled to his office. ——oe Tne Richmond State (Dem.) avows the true inwardness of the Confederate feeling on politics with great directness and plainness. It says: Anything forConfederate success; no mat~ ter about candidates or platform if the National Republicans can only be defeated and. State- sovereignty Domocracy elected. Ittalks thusly: ‘The South is solidly Demo-Ceufed. and will be in. the next election, no matter what the issue may be. whether for greenbacks, silver dollars or gold, a tariff or free trade. We ure not making platforms down here, just now. We leave that to thy North, as also the: candidate. Any platform, and, for that matter, al- most any candidate, willdo for us, so only they will socare the defeat of the National Republican party, and the restoration of the Government to the State- rights Democracy.’ In this respect the South ia very like the New York fireman when the question of the color the engino should be puinted came, up. He didn’t care a tle what color they painted “der ma- sheen,” only so it was red. And you may give us an} sort of a platform, with almost any sort of a cand{- date, only so he {s 1 Democrat, and we will vote all same. Our odfect ts to secure our t, and ow we Will cook It. a ‘Tre Secretary of the Ottawa GlassCompany writes us: - In your roview of trade in Chiengo for the year 1879, paderthe head of “Oils, Paints, and Glass," sou say, “Pittsburg isthe great glass centre of the Country, more than half the glass produced in the United States being made there.” This refers to window-giass. The, ‘giass in this country is very prodaction of window-¢ New York State and Massachusetts produce about.-I-7 taken to“ boss’* the business of their employers. Thoy demand that the omployers shall furnish the-work. and wages and that the hands shall run the business to suit themselves, or, rather, to suit O'Connell & Co., The terms dictated by O'Connell are wholly inadmissible, and will be resisted to the last by the pork-packers. They see that it would be impossible ta continue their business if they allowed an, irresponsible secret society. to control it. They must either quit pork-packing in Chicago or resist the impudent and preposterous ‘demands ‘of the O'Connell gang. : Tue New York Hérald, that is always ready to give advice to every one, tells Mr. Blaine that the Maine imbroglio isa sortof a test ap- plied tohim; that what the people want who are talking about having ‘a strong man” at the head of the Government, isa man who has: strength and sense enough to ‘prevent disturb- ance, and not one who is gable to’ quell it. It- , thinks Mr. Blaine is the leader of the Maine Re- publicans, and that if he manages the case well : now, and avoids an outbreak, and at the same time secures the rights of bis party, it will re- dound greatly to his credit and help his Presi- dential boom.” ‘Tae Trupuve has no reason—it is con- |” fessed with shame and confusion of face—to felicitate itself upon the success of its sugges- tion that Gov. Garcelon ‘be the Democratic nominee for the next President, none of the Jeading Bourbon organs in the North taking Kindly to the gratuitous hint; but bere comes the Altoona Sun and exclaims, with emphatic unction, “If it had only been Alonzo Garcclon instead of Sumucel J. Tilden in 1876.” Sure enough. And yet the warlike and sanguinary Mr. Watterson denounces the foolish course pursued by Gov. Garcelon. Tue Vicksburg Commercial is willing to stake its last dollar on the success of the Demo- nearly as follows: New Jorsey und Bultimore produce;about.... Pittsburg and vielalty produce about. ‘West of Pittsburg produces nbout... 23-7 ‘There is as much .window-glass tates of Ohio, Indiana, Ulinois, and in Detroit and St. Louis as in the State of Pennsylvania. Also, the proprietor of Prussing’s Vinegar Works writes: i. :-- es ‘ -Our own snlés; assfell asthe capital invested in our business, are alone far in excess of the total figures you mention in your statement. Tne Dwight Star asks this historical conundrum of its readers: “Do you know that one hundred and ten years, four months, and six days ago there was not one white man in what is now Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, or Mlinois?’ ‘Whereupon the end ‘man down at Bloomington lays down his banjo and rises up to correct his (D)wight brother by saying that Fort Weyne and Post Vincennes, in Indiana, were established long before the time indicated. There were in Ilinoia as long 2go 81741, " in the French settle- ments about Cahokia and Kaskaskia, by actual count, two thousand white people. This same settlement sent a battalion of French volunteers to'the English border in the last French and Indian war.” a Tre Washington. Post (Dem.) is quite de- lighted at the evidence it’ sees of the decadence of the.third-term boom. It says Grant's appear- ance in Washington recently .did not create as much excitement as th. arrival of. a circus would haye done, and, since the Capital of the Nation is a place where political enthusiasms are easily produced, the editor of the Post hag been able to sleep soundly at night, inasmuch ag the General was allowed to come and go without any formal reception or formal demon- stration. The Post assures the country that the Grant movement has no substantial basis in the hearts of the people, and that it is the money of interested parties that makes all the show. THE Cincinnati’ Enquirer rélates the fol- lowing in regard to indecent talking through a telephone: : A young lady’employed in a telephone exchange re- Ported that some very indecent language had been ‘usbd by some one talking into a telephone located at one ef the lending business houses of the city. An agont wor it to the piace of business referred to, and he Was there told that the offense against decency ‘Was commnted by a subseriber who did not belong to the establishment, but bad happened in and used the telephone. W! agent asked 60. be furnished with the name of the visiting subscriber, he was told that It was none of his business. At no cone message epavates front, and n ms notice was serv upon the Telephone Company to i uunaulreds eine ame me Goubtiess create somewhat ofa seusations A WASHINGTON hewspaper broadly hints that Mrs. Hayes is not indifferent to the matri- monial interests of thé young ladies under her charge, and that she has four marriageable girls in the White House this winter from Ohio whom she will introduce to society, and seo that their beaux are well received at the Executive Mansion. © These ladies are 2 daughter of ex- Senator Matthews, two daughters of Mr. Jones, of Cincinnati,—an old personal friend of Mr. Hayes,—and Miss Lucy Cook, a cousin of Mrs. Hayes. The girls think it is real nice to be under the wing pf so excellent and accomplished a lady as Mrs, Hayes. . Tue Cincinnati Gazette tells of a pretty quick courtship and marriege that occurred a‘ few days.ago at Batavia, in that State, as fol- Yows: ithe quickest courtship and reco! tte vidalty occurred here yesterday, isa Lucy Rob: frtsa£ this place, and Mr. Lighter, of Findlay, O., be- He contracting parties. Mr. Lighter, who Is a Foune Yacksmith, came to Batavia yesterday on busi- Pag Bo orig held aight, Soke! ‘Bea ce, Proposed, was ac- married her instanter, Esqu! petformedthe marriage ceremony.- The FO= gegdines dianot occupy more than three hours.” Miss Hoberis isa brunet, very fascinating, and bas some poration asa musician. The young married couple semicd for Findiny immediately after the ceremony, res! sere, inex ide, with many good wishes for - Iris not often that ‘the Inter-Ocean feels good-natured enotgh to sny a pleasant word aboutits neighbors, but Tum Trrsuxz’s pew dress “takes the rag off” of anything it ever Saw in that line, and {ta editor is cordial enough to Bay so. ‘In yesterday's issue it was quite pro- fuse with its compliments to our good looks, re- ferring to the subject twice, and in terms alto- gether too much for our modesty. But, as it all happened nearthe begining of the new year, all these kind words are recelved as tokens of good-fellowship and fraternity, and a dctermi- nation to turn over ‘a new leaf in the line or neighborly appreciation. - SrRIKES.are nearly always inaugurated either for an increase of wages or to resist are- duction, . But the. hog-killers’ strike at tho Stock-Yards is carried on for neither purpose. ‘The proprietors are not trying to force down wages nor the men to force them up. A gang. of .Communists, with one O'Connell‘ at their head, have got control of the “ Butchers’ Union,” agd through that Jahor orgqnizdition have under- oratic ticket, if Horatio Seymour is at the head of it. The Wilmington (N. C.) Star. is so certain that Soymour can be elected that it thinks itis the plain duty of the party to nominate -bim. Tne Seymour boom in the South seems to be booming, which is a broad hint to- Mr. Tilden that Col. Pelton is badly ueeded in that section of the country to look after his uncle’s interests. Moytcosxery Buam has had another at- tack of the nightmare, and he writes to the Pittsburg Post that “it is:to Grant, the man of iron hand and iron will, all [Republican] eyes are turned, to go on with the suppression of popular Government.” If tho poor old gentleman. could only find something that would quiet his nerves and dispel these frightful forebodings, what a comfort it would be. But alas! who can minis- tertoamind diseased? ‘Tue followers of O’Connell have taken to threats, intimidations, and violence against the men who are peaceably working in the packing- houses. Such lawless conduct brings them within the reach of the criminal laws, and ren- | ders them lable to indictment and severe pun- ishment. Tne editor of a Western newspaper has read what it calls Mr. Beecher’s attack upon the Bible, and classes him now with Bob Ingersoll., It will be a question in most people’s minds which will feel the worst over such association —Beecher or Ingersoll. Ir Mr. Don Cameron undertakes to put the whole Republican party in his trousers pocket and walk off with it, he may possibly find that it isa bigger job than simply controlling the sleepy old State of Pennsylvania. iu Tue hog “strikers” are already out of pocket over a quarter of a million of dollars in Joss of wages since they undertook to ride rough-shod over their employers and boss their business for them. e Tue Cairo Bulletin places Mr. Beecher outside of the pale of Christianity. Bir. Beecher will please take notice and govern himself ac- cordingly. 4 Mr. Dor Casrexon should not mistake himself for the entire National Republican Com- mittee. _ PERSONALS. Mrs. Colt, of San Francisco, who is consid- ered one of the wittiest women on the Pacific Coast, is in Washington. : Statistics show that women’s teeth decay at an earlier age than men’s, which conclusively proves that gum is more injurious than tobacco. We see by the New York Tribune that “Electricity has been applied in France, by M. Dalmas, to the destruction of phylloxera*’ The spectacle of a man putting up jobs to have a lit- tle phylloxera struck by home-made lightning must be an interesting one. The ladies of Pennsylvania, having suc- ceeded in purchasing the mansion which Gen. Washington occupied as his headquarters at Valley Forge, have now started the movement to buy the 2,000 acres adjoining, in which the old breastworks are still in good preservation, and then erect a soldiers’ home there. . Unless Mr. Edison can arrange some con- trivance whereby his electric light can be turned down to such a point as to be practically extin- guished and still be instantly turned on by means of a string connecting with the sofa in case the old man is heard in the hall, he can never hope to make it popular with young people, * ‘Mary made a little pies’. _ Tho upper crust was tough; .’+ But Mary’s brother chewed away, ‘And couldn’t get enough. She tried a piece herself one night, And, strange as it may seem, ‘That simple.chunk of pie- * Became the fabric of adream. ~ A young lady who signs herself “Ogden Avenue” sends us a verselet commencing: : Should we meet, across the river In those happy summer-days? It depends. If he lives westof Ashland av- enue you are lableto miss each othér unless you putupajob with the driver.and “snipe” the car on which he comes down-town, but un- der other circumstances you ought to be able to capture him nearly every morning. F The recent extraordinarily cold weather in Minnesota was the means of introducing a new and popular game in some of tho first families onthe WestSide. It: is entitled ‘‘ Minneapolis,” and. isplayed by the eldest daughter and her young man,—the latter personating an infant, .While the girl plays the part of-the mother de- except when her pa happ in and’ furnishes the storm. st = The glamour of romalice which has en- shrouded poets for generations is being rapidly dissipated. Mr. W, W. Story basa poem in the last Atlantic which gives him away completely. It is all about asleigh-ride that he had with a girl some yearssince. Passing over the highfalutin ; part of the effort, which relates.to the walls being “‘o’ersurfed with snow,” we extract the business portion of the idyl, which reads as fol- lows, and shows that, althougha poet, Mr. Story was also one of theboys: ° - a ‘tis only to keep ea warm, "4 We talk, and then we are silent; Titgopedssoula help Rt-you litted your face We Eissed—there was nobody nigh.” S Many an old man, as he reads these verses this morning, will feel as if he was a boy again— and then take measures to prevent his daughter's going sleigh-riding with any young fellows. ‘Gambetta is a bachelor; but he has not lyed so long without having at least cantem- Plated marriage. The story of his engagement to an heiress in Western’ France, and its sudden breaking off, givesa fresh glimpse of his char- acter. From the time of his leaving his humble home at ‘Canors till his rise to the highest rank of public personages, Gambetta lived witha faithful, loving, devoted aunt, who had followed him to Paris,and who made,.everywhere he went, a pleasant home for him. She was at once his maid-of-all-work and his congenial compan- - ion; and he was as deeply attached to her a3 she tohim. His engagement toa handsome and ac- complished girl with a dot of seven millions was a shock to the good aunt, but she yielded gracefully ‘to tho inevitable. When the arrangoments for the marriage were being discussed, however, the fending it from the spre a nice game— +| young lady took it into ‘her ‘head to make ita condition of their unfon: that excluded from the new estabushment, Sues scarcely elegant enough to adorn Gilded salons. Gambetta explained how much his aunt bad been’ to him; the rich beauty was only the more obdurate. Gambetta took up his hat, and, witha profound bow, # Adieu,” said he: “we were not made to understand each ” Aud the marriage was put off forever, - ~ ae PARNELL, The Distinguished Visitor Devi Yesterday to Recupération| ay Barring a Reception Accorded to ai Delegation, is To Whem He Talks at Length Céitcen} " ‘ -' Their Native Meath, “=:::! Comparing the English Lang with That cf America | A Visit to Chicago Promised’ “Faby and Dillon. 4 y THE MEN OF MEATY, PARNELL’S REPLY To Tum : Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribus, New Yons, Jan. 8.—Mr. Parnel} ing: on having a day’s rest to-day with the tion of two hours, which he allowed forg ception, The principal visitors were 4 Hd . approved the fu | tions, will best aid them.” * | secure as larae a meeting as possible a. gation from Boston, headed by John O’Reilly and the men of Meath, wii: County Mr. Parnell represents in Parlay In reply to an address. of welcome Me, nell said: ele “T thank you for your kindn sideration in specially welcom| ee & country: It is. undoubtedly fitting ri exiles from Meath should take Special pans the present great movement.- You is touched upon the ancient history of Imay, perhaps, be permitted to draw attention to the part which Meath hag fis in more recent politics. When other in Ireland have gone wrong, Meat always beta Fenarkable by the steadf; with which she has stood by the 5 roa mR DES en the priests and electors of : condoned the treachery of Jud; ze Reon at by that condonation assisted the Englithy wake up the independent oppusition : Tent ie ie Government pri people of Meath united, and assist and. pany in thelk reat work. th ve ay has always been so wil \ Meath, as I have said, presents ate a spectacle among the Irish constituencies. “It may, perhaps, be of interest to some, the native inhabitants of this country recommend immigration as a remedy fore Irish troubles to learn that Meath, the riche. county in Ireland, has been swept of its habitants. ‘That tha fertility, the alms excelled fertility, with which Nature hag : dowed her, instead of proving the supyq” and sustenance of the people of that ‘south: has proved their destruction by exciting tr: cupidity of landlords to make extengy clearances. Although Meath is admittsy the most fertile county in Ireland, alihom, rents of £6 per acre have been comma} given for the privilege of grazing builed ©. ere for six months, yet you may drirety miles and miles through that county with, peeling 2 single human being or seeing a gy “This may appear a statement scarce be credited, but it is a statement we as former inhabitants of Meath, will bara: outin. I should like to see the nextenim tion in Ireland taking place from:the my coasts of Connemara to the fertile plains¢ Meath, and when Meath has a popukts which she cannot support, then we may, je haps, talk about emigration to America. “Now, you have touched in this addres. fou have made a comparison between th and system in Ireland and the system hk has been adopted in America in z large quantities of lands to the great corporations in the West. Without attemp ing to judge as to whether such a course ta been right or wrong, I may be permitted te haps, to point out that the way in whichty system has been worked in America is similar to that in Ireland. é f “Yn Ireland the land monopolists im adopted a system of rent. In America railroad corporations have adopted them tem of sale, and even supposing, or evéat mitting, that the action in granting te large areas of Jand pa ne American Falls corporations was injudicious, yet J Toads, -.by .their.. action and. by the cyst ein in’ the way L and, Beans have done ‘very much to alleviate the et which some people might suppose from the ori action of the State ant ties or the United States Governmentint matter. #. : “TJ will ‘conelude, gentlemen, by ss thanking you for coming here to meet us. “T am proud to represent a county Meath. Icame amongst the people of Mat asa Stranger five years ago, and they ft me with the greatest trust that any Irishen stituency can confide. I have the Sati tion of believing that my conduct has be by them, and my highest duty: will be to try and retain thator, fidence which I now believe myself tops sess.” {Loud applause.] In conversation this afternoon, Mr. Pant said both Mr. Dillon and himself were « GRATIFIED WITH THEIR RECEPTIOS, which was more enthusiastic than theye pected. He declared there was no trot the report that a number of New Yorker italists had tried to induce him tosaymd- ing about the land question, but to cont his labors to seeking contributions to zelit the distress in Ireland. a It has been arranged for Messrs. Pamd and Dillon to visit Boston on the 12th inst " ‘The Chicago delegation are gratified st & declaration of Mr. Parnell to visit theitg at anearly date. They promise him avt come second to none. pane Be F OPINIONS. Eh WITH A LITILE ADVICE. New Yous, Jan. 3.—The World. says:. it is made plain that Parnel! and Dilloa- sire to raise money, not. to relieve, thee tress in Ireland, but to agitate for legishls at London, arid that the relief of Irish.@ tress is subordinate to promoting Irish tion, Parnell and Dillon may expect 28: home empty-handed.” - 5 ‘The Tribune advises that Parnell shi’. change his tactics and appear as an aged! an emigration fund. Ans ‘The Herald recommends :“ ono thing # time, Mr. Parnell, and, first of all, the @~ lishment of.an American relief fund. for &. starving people in Ireland; after thatls you insist, we will all go to the large), less pressing, question, on which you; have full hearing.” . The Times and Sun are silent, editor and Truth says: ‘To subscribe money, the Parnell agitation is surely a waste'st: the same time, it advises prompt relief be the present distress. u Cardinal McCloskey said tos reponé “The agitation in America of Irish poll questions seems unwise. ‘The political tn aise Be Q ests of our people are here, and in @ of their homes in America.” If Ireland their help in another way, there fs a 5#0 way of touching their (peneroshy a through political motive,—the simple : ment that their old homes are impovens “~ and that meat and drink, not political Ed The Committee that has taken char ‘Parnell here is not likely to be of much’ © to him against the voice of the press: Church, as given above. In the m * Richard O’Gorman, with other repre tive citizens, both Irish-born and native, 1 formied a coinmittee to receive funds Soe forward them promptly. to freland, ae the Emigrant Savings Bank, for the ro the existing suffering. Any one may intrust moneys with this Co: CHICAGO. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THB LAND-REFORM ASSOCIATION met in the club-room of the Sherman yesterday afternoon, Thomas Hoyné chair, and twelve members present. Mr. Hoyne stated that he had recel@s! telegram from Br. Stone stating th Parnell and Mr. Dillon would reach CHA: on-the 19th, and, speak on the 2th thought it proper to appoint aco! make arrangements for the rece] ‘meeting. * ‘The hospitalities of the Grand F tendered by Mr. Drake, were acceptediat party. ‘Mr. W. K. Sullivan understood thst Exposition Building was to be securth” could be had gratuitously,—a. which would be appreciated. In HAS ort?