Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1880, Page 4

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1880, Two more victlins of the New York fire of Monday dicd yesterday, making in all six fatalities, ‘Tine Governor of AJabama has appointed Luke Pryor to fill the unexptred term of Senator Mouston, deceased. ‘The appointee ‘was Mr. Houston's Inw partner, and hos never held office. Tue colored people acem to be having 9 monopoly of the extreme longevity business. At North Adams, Mass., yesterday, old Aunt Mager, a black woman aged 115, and In Chi- cago a negress nameil Rebeccn, Whales, with 110 years to her credit, both passed away. —————— .TnEe Atlantic & Grent Western Rallrond was yesterday sold under foreclosure pro- eecilings for $6,000,000 to a purchasing com- ‘ulttes representing the English bondholders, Dne of the linmediate results of the reargan- p vation of the road will bo a reduction to the standard, pau —— ‘Tue possibility of an almost total failure of the Iecerop Is giving the brewers of MIl- waukee nich anxiety, and large numbers of + laborers are at work getting in what remalns ‘of the fIne freeze of two or threa weeks agn, + which has-been reduced from twelve down to Bix Inches In thickness. It is expected _ hat a thriving trade will be enjoyed In ice- _’ ‘utting along Green Day, ns was the case two “), pears ago, and also that vessels wintering at Escanaba will load with lee for Chicago on L thelr first trip. EA ‘Tare Senatorial canvass in Ohio terminated fast evening in the unanimous nomination oy the Republican caucus of Gen. James A, Garfteld, present Representattve In Congress tront the Nineteenth District, which he has represented continuously since 186% ‘The ‘ tomination belng equivalent to an election, Gon. Garfleld will If ho lives enter the United States Sonate on tho 4th of March, »} 1881, a8 the successor af ‘Allen G. Thurman for a term of alx years thence following. * Republicans everywhere will congratulate Ohfo and Gen. Garfeld upon the result of the Senatorial canvass,—the State In securing so able and worthy n representative in the Sen- ate of tho United States, and the man upon attaining to a position which he is so cml nently fitted to Mil, A CONVERSATION Is reported by Judgo ‘T. J, Mackey, of South Carolina, as having o¢- surred between himself and Gen. Grant, in which a comparison was Instituted between the .nethods of warfare practiced by Gen. és Sherman and by Gen, Grant, respectively; H and the latter is represented as pointing to ¢, some blackened chimneys as “Sherman's ». monuments,” ond og following up this remark. with the statement that his (Grant's) soldiers never destroyed houses or private property, The conversation in question Is yery unlike Gen, Grant, who !3 not in the habit elther of oxalting his own military achievements or of belittling thoseof others; : and Ivast of ull will anybody bellove that ‘ Gen. Gut would by speech or by silence indorse such an attack upon Gen, Sherman. Judge Mackey evidently has a very poor memory for conversations, ‘Tu reckless paragrapher, who was wont te indulge ina little Ming at the alleged Jooseness of the divorce laws of Elinois and Indiana, has a new fleld opened for his po- cullartulent, Judge Anderson, of tho Vir- gina Court of Appeals, did it with his little dictum, If -appears that a maiden fair to see, 8 high-stepping FOF VY. married a ‘reconstructed Hebel named Lathan, When a girl, she admired bin for his deyotion to the Lost Cause, Lately he unhapplly became Infatuated with the idea tal N, and in proof of Ils dellver- ance’ from the slough of Staterights Joined the Republican purty. Her relatives, ‘ presumably bts mother-tn-law and others whom ahe could intluence, immedlutely shook”. him as a sort of local Benedict Arnold, and sade her tite © miser- ws wble: by taunting her with the apos- sy of hin whose nome she bore: Tho radical change in her husband’s polltics thus becawns the source of an Jnappeasable . fpcompatibiity, and the dlyorce court was that this country fs a Nation with a cnpi- | gordian knot. The learned Judgo in giving his opinion stated that the moral turpitude of which tho unfortunate Latham had been so porfidiously guilty In- flicted s taint upon her guileless sont which cout only bo deodorized by restoring hor to the condition of singlo blesseduess, thus affording her an opportunity to enter at will that “ best society” from which he was ostracised by his utterly indefensible political course, Judge Anderson should now write nbook on what he knows about “Unyoking Made Ensy; or, the Law of Divorce as Applicd in Virginia”? Gen. Mariana Ignacio Prado, President of of the Republic of Peru, left hls Capital by stealth n short time since, and Is now in New York, where he arrived yesterday. No def- {nite reasons are given for hissudden de- parture, but thore was a deeply-rooted im- pression in the minds of his Cabinot ad- visers that the President would -be safer ont thanin the country, aud that the sooner and more quickly he took his leave the botter It would bo for him, President Prado, it Is sid, will visit Europe for the purpose of ob- taining an fron-clad that can whip the Chillan armored vessels, but from the fact that his Treasury is bankrnpt, and European capitalists aro not in the habit of loaning theirfunds without some prospect ofa return, it ig rather doubtful if he sue- eeeds in raising much of a vayy. Thore Is evory Indication that the South Amertean allies are beginning to reallze the hopeles- nessof thelr cause, thelr recent damaging defents having tended to demoralize their army and sertously discourage the civil an- thorities. —_—_—_—— Ir Js reported in Washington that success hhas at last attended the efforts of leading Democrats to adjust the diferences which have split the party In New York State, Such efforts have been numerous and zeal- ous since the November election demon- strated the strength of Republicanism In the Empire State even under the most unfavor- able conditions, but up to this tine there has been no apparent prospect that ‘Tilden and Kelly could settle thelr quarrel upon any basis that did not -Involye the ab- solute retirement of ‘Tilden from the dictatorship of the party In New York, and from all protensions to the Presidential nomination. A Washington dis- patch, however, aflinns that a treaty of peace has been negotiated through the mediation of outskte Democrats, and that both factions have given assurance that they will support the Democratic nomlnce whoever he may be. ‘Tilden claims this result asa yalunble victory for himself and as greatly strengthening his hold on the nomination; but itis not untike- ly that John Kelly has a totally different iden, and that when he promised to support the Democratic nominee he felt perfectly well assured that it wouldn’t be Tilden. THE STRUGGLE IN MAINE. Gov. Garceton and his associates and back-* ers in the Maine Returning Board frauds were enabled by the opinion of the Supreme Court to retire in good order, if not with eredit, from the disgraceful position they had assumed, But the hope of still nehleving a partisan advantage has caused thom to for- feit this opportunity, and they seem deter- mined to- earn all the contempt invelved in their Infamy, even though thoy shall ulti- mately lose the priza for which they are con- tending, Gareelon and his Council haye initutained all along that they were reting under the strict instruction of the Constitu- tion and the laws, and that they have had no desire to execed their powers or do injustice toany one, It was ostensibly in this spirit that the action of the Returning Board was submitted to. the review of the Supreme Court, Ciarcelon had all the advantage of submitting lis caso In his own way, and in- proved It by so framing his questions as to secura an approval of the position he had taken if such approval were possible. Mand the correctness of his . position been affirmed by the Court,-ho would have assumed ‘Jt to be the high and unimpeachable Judicial warrant for carrying out his program. But the sutherity of the Court is just ns strong In declaring Garcelon’s actions illegal as’ it would have been had it sustained him. Hence, If ho had been rently guided by an ambition to conform strictly to the Inw, he would have reylseil hig course so as to confonn to the Judicial construction of ‘hs duty, and would thus have saved bls personal integrity and his partisan associations from = contumely, In refusing to do go, he has deliberately pro- elnimed himself a conspirator agulust the Inw, and a willing tool In the hands of party muanngers who seek by revolutionary meth- ails to defeat the popular will, ‘The quibbllng of the Garcelon faction will not serve to trea them from untversul con- demnation. It fs {dle to say that the Govern or cannot recall the certificates ho has fraudulently issued and substitute the cer- titicates which he ought to have issued, If his nection had been final and trreyocable, what purpose was thore for submitting it to the Supreme Court? If what had been . dono could not be le wally undone, why Invoke oo mere pro forme dictum of the Court, which, it ndverse, would be impotent ? ‘This Incon- slstent attitude completely ignores tho legal maxim that fraud vitlates all contracts and all deeds, If the action of the Returning Board was not legal, then there was no action in the oyes of the Inw, and It was tho duty of tho Governor to begin de novo and of tho Returning Board to issue certitientes accord- {ng to Jaw. When Garcelon throws the re- sponsibility upon the Legistature, which nay coniirm or refuse to contirm what ho has done, he is not so submissive as he would have the country belleve, The Legislature to which he refers the opinion of the Court {s the Legislature of his own creation, and he counts upon a majority holding his cer- iificates to sustain his course for thelr own sukes. Itis not to the Legistature as chosen by the people to which Garcelon refers tha opinion of thea Court, but to a Leglula- turo which, orgunized under his fraul- ulent certificates, will have the samo solfish and purtisan rensous for, defy: Ing tho judiclal authority which have controlled Garcelon, Besides, even if Garce- Jon were right tn declining to recall fraudu- lent certificates and substitute genulne certificates, that would not excusog refusal to fauus certificates to the dozun Representa tives from Portland, Bath, and the other dis franch{sed towns, In these cases no cortill- cates whatever have been lasued, and heuce there are none to recall, The Supreme Court has sald that the law requires the issue of these certificates In spite of the technical de- fects In the returns; the elected Representa tives domand tholr certificates, and thore is nothing In Garcelon’s previous action that prevents him from complying with this de- mand. ‘The renson he gives for not recalling certifientes already Issued does not apply to these particular eases; he refuses to comply with tho Jaw because tha admission of the Republican members from tho disfranchised districts would destroy the theory of 5 Fu- sion majority which Is setup by the oxclie ston of these twelvo members, and would thus prepare the way for the honest and Inw- ful organization of the Legisiature. There ts senreely n doubt that the Re- publicans, under the warrant of tho Su- preme Court's opinion, and with the morat supportof public opinion, will secure the Legislature of Matne, and elect their Qov- ernor, In accordance with the popular vote and in definnee of the conspiracy to destroy it. How this is to be done must be deter- mined by those on the spot. Whon ft shall be accomplished, it will be the duty of the Republican Legislature to consider whethar thore is nots Inwful way for punishing the mon who have deliberately violated the law and thelr oaths of office for the purpose of defrauding the people of thelr rights. ‘The people of the entire country, too, will bo In- terested in deturmtning what share the Demo- erntic party, ng a whole, hrs had in the pro- ecedings which have been rendered so {n- famous by the opinton of the Supreme Court, of Maine and the subsequent attempt to defy It. THE FIREBRAND ORDINANCE, ‘The Clty Council on Monday evening was gullty of n great mistake. Its netton on tho fire ordinances was a weakness for which thore can be no apology or justification, It prnetically repealed the Iaw prohibiting the erection of combustible plug buildings within the city Mmits. It hus taken a long step to- wards destroying the great reform to which new Chieago owes so much of her grentness and prosperity, It permits the erection of two-story pine sheds, stables, and barns all over the elty, and this ig dene with the fil knowledge that to the unlmited exercise of this privilege the city {s indebted largely to two conflagrations involving a loss of more than two hundred millions of dollars of property. ‘The arguments given for this lcenso to erect Inflammable buildings aro not only weak but wholly absurd. ‘Iho theory that 0, “poor man’ is any more interested in and benefited by a fire than isn rich man is one of those claptrap contemptible statemonts whieh are unworthy of repetition even ina Board of Aldermen, During the six years that the present ordinance has been in opern~ tion more progress hay been inade in the erection of pemnanent building fmprove- ments than ever before. All overthe clty, In all the wards, and In oll localities, bulldings of all kinds—stores, dwellings, and barns— have been built of brick, or stone, ‘or both. These improvements have given a greatly in- erensed value to all the property in all, the neighborhoods in which they have been erected. All thesa buildings have been erected under the solemn - legal pledge of tho City Government that thelr safety from fire should mover be endangered by the construction of new wooden buiklings. Under this pledge the permanent charieter of the buildings in all parts of the éity has greatly advanced. Now the Counci! has authorized tho erection of fraine bubldings sixteen feot high everywhore in tho city. Every alley and side strect, and the rear of all lots, will herenfter be filled with rowa of these sixteen-feot-high fire- traps filled with hay, shavings, and other combustibles, Mon who havu crected sub- stantial brick buildings under tho Tegal as- suraney that no ‘such shed or wooden build- ing should evor hereafter bo built in the clty may find that their dwellings, or stores, or rows of brick and stone bulldings can be fanked on afl sides with Incendiary frane structures sixteen feet high, atfording the finest possible food for rapid aud sweeping fires, This ordinance of Monday night will prove a serious injury to the city. “It will inflict a heavy aninual tax upon the people in the shape of increased insurance rates. It will tend to arrest tho bullding of substantial improvements, and subject the entire prop- erty of the elty to tho denger of repeated and widespread contlagrations, As was stated In the Cuunell, the smallest probable advance in the rate of insurance caused by the passago of this ordinance will inflict a tax of $750,000 a year on the cllizens, ‘This sum woitld pay for the erection of sub- stantlal brick barns in placo of all these wooden sheds and tenoments,—because that they will all become inhabited tenements all experience shows fs inevitable, The city is stitlin great danger from the mnas of wooden bulldings In the West Di- vision and Fourth and Fifth Wards, erected before the extenstun of the fire Nmilts, The greater number of these are owned by that class of persons 80 often referred to by the stnall demngogs in the Council as the “poor men,” ‘Lhesa “poor men” inhabit theso houses,—their homesteads, If they are in- sured, thls ordinance will cost them heavily; taking the nctunl outlay for the Increased Insurance whieh these "poor mon” will havo to pay beeause of the construction of the forest of wooden sheds sixteen feet igh, would moro than double tho difference be- tween tho cost of erceting brick barns and sheds and tho cout of ereeting these wooden fire-traps and food for confligrations, ‘Tho increased cost putd by these “poor men,’ owners of wooden buildings, for increased insurance will equal ‘annually — half the cost of the Fira Department, ‘Those in- cendinry barns and atables, erected anywhere and everywhere, In all parts of the city, are an Aldermanic provision for the substitution of fires coverlug large areas—fires by tha acre—for tho small contlagrations which have been the rule of lute yenrs, It Is understood that the passage of this ordinance fs dug to a log-rolllng combination between the Iumberuen and the standing op- ponents of the fire ordinance, The lumber- mon are Interested Inn pending ordinance regulating tho gtorago and piling of lumber, So on Montay night the two reckless Incen- diary interests combined and passed thls law Heensing the erection of wooden buildings “for the promotion of fires, and the lumber ordinance will now follow, ‘The Mayor of Chicago {fs not a representa: tive of the lumber or any other special busi- ness; a8 Muyor he represents the entlro com mnunity with all ita Interests, Mayor Uarri- son, notwithstanding some occasional idle syncrasies, hus shown a reliunce upon the support of tha whole public rather than that gained by catering to any spocial interest, Wheu the lumber ordinance comes up the "iE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4%, Mayor will deal with that on its own merits, ng he avill undoubtedly deal with this one, This fs the first blow nt the firo limits, Hf it become fn Inw, then tho wholy Iinitation of wooden buildings will be swept away, and the building of permanent fmprovemonts in the city be arrested. ‘The ern of wooden houses will be renewed. The Mayor ennnot afford, ns the representative of the entire Interests of this clty, to alluw this ordinance to become a lw so long as he has the power to arrest {t, Io fg not bound by any log-rolling combination. which may oxist in the Council, and the pub- Ne wilk expect that he will at least give tho Counell the opportunity of reconsidering thelr ill-advised and dangerous action, ee RAILROAD REGULATION, If we may judge from the reported ex- presstons of some of tho local rallrond sollc- itors who hinve been discussing the proposed National regulation of Inter-State railroads, there is a singular and perverse mlsappre- henston of the purpose of stch legislation, One theory advances that it 1s proposed to prevent mon Ike Gould and Vanderbilt front absorbing and centralizing great rattroad luterests, and the legislation is antagonized onthat ground og impracticable, 1t is hard to believe that the railroad men ns a class actually construe the popular demand for National regulation as having any such ob- Ject. Thera ts no thought of attempting to preyent by statute any man from acquir- ing railroad property; but there Is a de mand; that men who enjoy great and valuable public franchises shall not use their monopolles for the oppresston of those who furnish theirbusiness and by whosesufferance they have acquired their exceptional privi- leges, Thero Is no intention of blocking the way of any man or any sct of men in their efforts to oxtend thelr ownership of railroad. stock, but only the demand that, by whomso- ever owned or managed, tho railronda shall serve the Amerlean publle ot a fair ond rensonable compensation, and without dis- erlinination or favoritism. The peoplo of this country, after a long and costly experience with ratlroad combinn- tions and the evasions of the State laws through Inter-State connections, have be- come satisiied that there should be n Na- tlonal system of regulution such as prevails fn one form or another in all other civilized countries, and they demand that Congress shall provide such a system under the con- stituttonal authority for the regulation of commerce among the States. The reason why railroad attorneys and tallrond managers are unable to seo the Justice of State regulation is to bo‘found in their long-standing habit of looking at mere- ly one side of the question, They have grown so accustomed to an arbitrary dictation of both sides of every contract thoy make that they seem to be utterly nnable to percelve- that the great public have transportation rights as well as the corporations, They can- not understand why every railroad company should not be permitted to exact all it pleases, to change {ts rates, regardless of the Interests of the public, every few days, to charge more for less service thon & greater one, to dis- erlminnte agalust persons and places, and to combine for the purpose of extortion. ‘They claim all these conditions as “rights”? Tho public. deny them, and. the principles of law and practices of civilization are on tha side of the public. Tho very nat- ure of the business of tho common carrier Includes the right of public supervision, Him- itation, ond regulation, and, in addition to this, tho value of tho public franchises, grants, and privileges enjoyed by tho rall- ronds carries with It an accountability to the publie’s rights. ‘Thera is no disposition among tho American people to discournge tho bullding of railroads by making them unprofitable, but there is a determination that the men or corporations controlling tho railroads shall no longer enjoy the peeultar privilege of using the public highways to rob and oppress the people, When railrond nen admit that a Bureau of Statistics” might be established to advantage for the collection of trustworthy reports, thoy confess that the public has a right to know whethor ft is cheated or not; but when they stop at this point ani deny the right of furthor Inter- ference thoy virtually contend that the pub- Me, whenever it hns Informed itself of an ex- tortion, has no right to protect itself, ‘Uhts Js palpably iogical and Inconsistent, ‘The question of rallrond regulation now ngitated ig not new. ‘Cho principle tins al- ready been established by varlous State legislation, which ling received the sanction of tho Supreme Court, But It has been found that State legislation 1s powerless to correct tho abuses that continue to be prac- tleed by rattronds running between. two or more States and by combinationa of rall- roads that span the Continent. The people now demand that the established principles of State regulation be extended Into Natlonal regulation that shall Insure uniform fairness and an easy remedy for extortion and dls- crimination everywhere within the domain of the Government, Tho railroad manngers and attorneys will better serve the Interests of the cotnpantes they represent by meoting this agitation ina broad, public spirit than by misconstrulng the purpose or antngontz~ ing the inovemont, eens A FALSE WITNESS ON THE IRISH QUESTION, A dispatch to Tim Cirtcaco ‘Tumuxe from New York, dated the 6th, says: “Acablegram toa Now York Journal saya: Tue London Times, Commenting on Purnotl's visit to the United States, suys; ‘ Purncll’s pol- Joy of placing tho Irish. tenant farmers In pos seesion of the lands thoy titl may picasa Incon- sidurable crowds of thoir emigrant countrymen, but It fy rejectud by the firm, Boliereminded ine dlvidualisn and strength of tho United States, Wo have already seen that the most powerful orguns of public opinion have condemned Par- nvlt's policy as revolutionary and ruinous to Ireland.’ Tho Pines docs not xeo the usoof the Parnell movement, us tho Amorionns are always —to tholr honor—Uberal and prompt in helping tho neey, and do not require Mr, Parnell’s ine tervention. The Times wishos Mr. Purnotl suce cess In any charitable work ho may lneptro for tuo benoUt of the distressed distriota of Ireland, but hopes ho will not misrupresent the laud- lords." Tho original dispatch referred to in the above was sent to the New York Ieratd, be- tween which paper, owned and controlled by young Bennett, who ls playing toadyto the English aristocracy, and the Loudon Tinea there Is a very cordial mutual admiration upon the Irish question, Tho agsertiqn was recently made by the London 2Nmea that if the lands In Ireland were sold to the tenant farmers they would goon sell them back to the landiords again, ‘This nonsensical asser- tlon was telegraphed tothe Heruld by anagent of » ‘Tory landlord, was favorably comment- ed upon and indorsed, and the comments wera thereupon telegraphed ta the 7'tince, which cordially indorsed the comments, of cauni. | fornia, Paith and courage never duscrted him,. 1880. This interchange has been golng on for sonia time, Jim ~ Bennett smoothing his way as an flunky fnto English society by Indorsing. averything the “Z'hnes snys against the Irish, and the ‘Zimex copying and indorsing everything tho Herald says as reflecting the sentiments of the American people! Tad tho editor of tho Times been present at the immense Par- nell meeting held in New York on Sunday night, and heard the prolonged groans, and Asses, and oven curses, which wore indulged in by tho ten thousand people present every time the Herald was mentioned he might have changed his opinion as to the manner in whieh some of the American people at least regard the utterances of that paper on the present systein of persecution and cruelty which English Inndlords have fastened upon. the Irlsh tenants, Ie would have discovered tho real regard in which people in this coun try hold the Herald’s course, which thus turna upon the very people out of whose pockets {ts owner as built up his paper and mado his fortune. : In the course of his speech in New York, Mr. Parnell gave utteranes to many senti- ments that will at once commend themselves tonll classes of the American people, none more 80 than the following: “In 1817 and subsequent years, when tho gront Trish fumine took place, Amerien came forward | first nmonyst tho nations with unexampled ibe enullty; but did that Mberality provent famine? Did (t proyent milllons from dying of starvation or tho pestilence which followed? Dit it provent the banishment of many more imilllons? Did it prevont distressing scenes in Iro- land in those yonrs, and on board aml- grunt ships? Nol The charity that can be given by Amerlea will not avall to provent Irish distress. That must be the duty of tho British Government, and wo must sce that wo shame that Government into a sense of Its obligations, Are we to be compelled continually, every ten or twelve yeura, to appear na mondicants before the world? Then [ say to tho people of this country: If you wish to rescue us from that position, help ua in destroying the system which brings it.on. America subscribed, and sub- scribed Mberally, in those years; people of Ire- Innd living In this country have been subscrib- ing ever since. Every cunt of their hard-carned monoy sont over thoro with such trite devotion to thoir fellow-countrymen has gone in payment. of excessive rents and in bolstering up this tor- rible aystem.”” if the London Times could innke a can- yass.of the American peoplo It would find that they Indorsa this sentiment almost unanknously, They know that the milllons of inoney collected from the people of this country to relieve the wretched, poverty- stricken people. of Ireland have not gone into their pockets, but into the pockets of the absentes Isndlords, and that the more pro- fusely thls monoy has been poured into Ire- Jand the more rapidly it has found its way to the lnudiords in the shape of increased rents, thus compelling the tenants to soll all they produce to incet thelr charges, and leaving thom nothing to live upon. ‘This drain upon and ho confronted denth with a brave hoart and unsubdued will, Col, Hamilton was a inn of great natural ability, a good education, and correct personal habite, Io was {niifferont to the convention all- ties of Hfe, and pald tio attuntion tu tho clalms of nociely. Slovenly and carcless In his dress, he was yet clennly in bla porson, and tho gontlo- man always shone out from under his somes what uncouth garb, Unitor oll this oxtortor ho wore n gotdon heart. He was the soul of prob- ity and honor. dust, liberal, honest, and gen- eros, his hand waa always 04 open as tho day to. deeds of charity and tenovelence. Tie was a politicinn of the old Whig achool, and always tho londing minn of hie party In South- western Wireonsin, clected nt different thes aa Member of thé ‘Territorial Assambty and 'Terrl- ritorint Council, Without pretenses to oratory, ho was yot an offectiva speaker, sharp, Inclalve, and dirvot. Ho was one of the best-known char- ueters In tho carly history of Wisconsin 'Corrl- tory, and Jt fs fitting that some friondly hand should trice his personal and political history as connected therewith. Nomum could do this bot ter than Mr. Woodman, Ho and Col. H, were realdonta together many years in the same county (fowa) iu Wisconsin, and woro steadfast frionds, Mr, Woodman was thon of the firm of Washburne & Woodman, of Mincral Point, bank- ors, lawyors, and tand-ownors, and no man know Col. Hamilton better than he did, Retiring from business with a largo fortuno, a man of educn- tion, culture, and rofluemont, Mr. Woodman could do nreal sorvice to tho Northwest by giv- ing ts neketch of Col, Hamilton, Wo feel as- sured that the Chleago Historical Society would ‘be most delighted to hear him on such a subject. Col, Hamilton was nover murcicd, — ‘Time death of Dr. E. 1B, Wolcott, of MH- waukeo, wis ninotnced in a brief dispatch to Tus Trung yesterday morning. Ho was one of tho oldest, most prominent, and beat: known physiclans and surgeons In Wisconsin, having settled in Milwaukco before tho Stato was nd- mitted into the Union, and being personally known to all the lending mon for oyer a quurter of a century. Dr, Wolcott was very eminent as taurgeon, and In difficult cases of that kind was sent for from all parts of the State, and bullt up an extonsive and lucrative practice. Ife served for many yenrs os Surgeon-Goneral of tho Stato, and hell that office at tho time of his death, Hv was ono of tho Directors in tho Soldiers’ Ilumes, and took espeetat pride and interest. in tho ono located nt Milwaukee, In polltics he always topk an active part; was an original Abolltionist; helped to organize the Republican party In Wisconsin, fought its battles, and re- juived over ita yleturles, His personal appears aneo wus very striking, and he was a conspicu- ous dguro in all public nssembluges. Physically he would huve been u fue model for tho Grcetan artists to copy for n god. At 76 ho posscased the agility of the cit combined with tho strength nud cournge of the lion, By his death tho med- fenl profession loses ono of its brightest ornn- ments, and tho Republican party one of its most stalwart mombers. Tne proprictor of the London Times is Mr, Walter, 0 mombor of Furliamont from Berk- shire and elected to bls seat by’ tho Liberal party. His paper for some the past hns been opposing the Liberals and supporting Benconsield and the ‘Tories, Tho consequence ls thut hls constitnents haye enlled bim to account for his course. Says the Speetater: Yesterday week ho attended n mocting of tho News bury Liberal Axsgclation, at Newbury, to dofend hint sulf aint his diseatiaiuld constiiaonts. About 20 outluinen Wery Presenl—Mr Goorge Palmar, M. By thy ehuir—and dr. Waiter imide a lone epuectiy tha Mlstuf which ovua (hut ut first he was notatall fovorablu to the Turkish holley of thy Government, find ynye thom fale nouve that he would not sanction having passad botwoon thom for ao long a tim, fa not Mkely to molt or brenk away In presonce of a looming-up Presidency, With thom, tho river of friendship appears to have frozen to the very botton, and no “January thaw" comes to svt the wators of plonsant Intercourse free, Tne New York ‘'rtbune says that Davi Davis “ted fn constarnation"’ recontly when nowapapersman asked him about tho legay aspeots of tha Maino imbrogilo, Just think of that amount of “corporosity" fleeing from q reporter, or “fleeing " under nny clreumstances| —— ee Tur Pittsburg Chronicle says that Chi. eago's commerce and manufactures make q Mnourrny of Aguros for the yonr just vlosed, Lut that, cnormous as tho fgures are, "0; inust seo with his own cyes what Chiong doing to understand tho greatness of that city,’ ‘Tre Washington Post (Dem. and haunted by tho third-term spectre) feels in Ita bones thas, the Grant boom Is growing wonker and wonker, and that if he is nominated at all it will bo ag the cud of a very bitter contest. —— ‘Mr. IALSTEAD says that hils-morning and evening prayer is that Grant muy not be nom inated, Grant may well focl unconcerned when ho reads in the Good Book that tho prayers of tho wicked ivailoth nothing. | Ir fs stated on the authority of the Phily delphia Record that u large number of the Unioa Longue in that elty aro 8 much opposed to Grant's nomination that thoy will not vote for bblm 1£ ho {8 nominates ‘Tue Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad patd some attention to Civil-Servico roform and strict bus. ness principles when It re-elected John W. Garros President of tho corporation for tho twenty. second time, Srensan Clubs ary being rapidly formed inOhlo. Tho clubs are generally made out of tho old rails with which John Sherman was ip the habit of monding bis fences. ‘Tre Litchfield (1) Monttor gives {ts reas sons ut considerable longth for destring the nomlontion of E, 1. Washburno for President, all of which are ominently sound, Tr is said that ‘Lilden approves of tho Bayard resolution on the greenback question, and sys that the financial interests of the coun- try demand its passigo. Iris said Tilden Ig trying now to check+ mate Thurman by getting Goy. Bishop, of Ohlo, to try and “imuke tho rlilio” asa candidate for tho Vico-Presldcnoy. that place for the year 1879 mado over 15,000,000 gallons of spirits and consumed 3,800,000 bushols of corn. Tr Is greatly to be feared that tho decison of the Maine Sirpreme Court will not help atong the Presidential prospects of Gov, Gurcelon. | word to Goy. Gureelon that bo was indorsed by tho Club, und that he must stand firm, Tur Democratic party in Maine haa gono Into bankruptcy, Tho Democratic party of tho Nation will foltow suit In November. x the Aponding OF 8 Donny te prolong thy existonce of Vurkvy, but that nftorwarde, whan lt cane tw supporthug oF opposing tie Adglo-'Turktsh Con= Venton, and. to a question of rustatiig Hustla in Afghanistan, he chunged bly tind, and ought te be herd Tree to do wo, ins there in” n vory Tholted number of Hnglinnuen suficiontly oduented, or competent, to form opinions on those geent Nines of palley whieh tte tluonce our relations with foreign countries,” Expo- cially in regurd to India," thore 1s so ninch Iunomnes, novanly it the country, but inthe House of Com= mons,"—Mlght nut Mr. Wulter have added, and es- poctnfis in tha mind of the trims Alinistar? tut an Iidependent man has a right to his indepandenco and Ae, Waltar had exorcised jis ncconiingly,—te co. wrong. ‘The mieeling was not sialsilud, and wi in Waltue and his friends jett jt amid iaingted choers And Iisses, It was resulved to find B better Livorul to ropresunt Berksutre if pussiblo. ‘ana the working people of America to relieve the distress of the Irish tenants has been go- Ing on for many years, but still the poverty and distress inerense. English londlords have enriched thomselyes upan these sym- pathetic American contributions, ‘and still rents remain unpald, tenants are evicted, their personal property fs sold, and every thne a crop turns out poorly famino stares them in the face, This tax has at last become so heavy a burden upon tho American people that they are now begin- ning to serfously consider whether they should pay if any longer, and whethdr the English Government has the moral right to enforce Inws of & nature that require tho levying of such contributions upon the people of this country. They perfectly agree with Mr, Parnell that thoy do not longer want to entertain appeals that only result In satisfy- ing the rupacity of landlords, not In relloving the distress that cries to them for help, They have arrived at that polut of dissatisfaction, if not of indignation, where they believe the English Govermnent has no right to require them to pay the rents of Irish tenants, ‘The greed of alien landlords acts not only direct- ly upon tho Irish, but indireetly upon thom, ‘and the more Mr. Parnell exposes this point and guts the Amortean people ‘to understand it, the stronger will be the pressure they will bring to bear upon the English Government, and the more persistent the demand that It shalt do Justice to the Irish, curb the rnpacity of the landlord, modify its Land laws, and conse this levying of double rént, one-half of which has to .be paid by Amerlean working- nen, This fs tho rapldly-growing sentiment of the American people, the London ines to tho contrary notwithstanding, Young Bennett, the toady, reflects nothing but the sentiment of the English Jandholders, into whose society he is seeking for admission. If, ins word, the London Zimes wants to know the real feeling of tho American peo- ple, it is Juat this—namely: that the Irish tenants are held In p starved, peeled form of feudal serfdom by thelr landlords, against which the humanity of the whole world cries out In indignant protest, and that the En- glish Government must be forced to emancl- pate them, A GREAT MAN'S SON'S GRAVE. Bor Uiolust twonty-nino yuars tore bna bean «nano twas weave tu aur City Contutary, but yosterday aftor- noon an party uf gentlemen, conslating OF Larual Lace, Goorgo T, Mich, und W. C. Sarnaworth, of Sacramento County, and thé dun, George Harstow, of Ban Wrine siseo, who caine up hore for the purpono, placed two bounliful tablete of botlahed Quiney graitit upon this yo. tha hioaiatone benting the following aL Willlum 8, Hamilton, born in New California ii, and Ika ‘Insizo und fowture, tt talonts wad charactor, he mugt roaumblod “ik iustrioux father, ao irlend’ oructe this stonu, ‘The friend. ta Cyrus Woodinan, of Cambridge, Mors, whoxe agent Mr, Barstow ix, ‘There arv not a few iow living in Nace: tnento and Ban Francisco whu will romembor Hauntitan and thy eircunuitencos of ils deuth nt Ghd airect, betweon Bixth and Soventa. ‘The rouble Coda ay and ‘vhere ian surnion In this tele tlstery. When Gan. Hamilton stood as the centr) tury of Gen, Washing: ton's Callout, diatinguintod by his great talonte and followed by crowds of worshipors, he in all proba. Dility Nitta (roamed that ason of his would Ho burt ‘Tho old avtttors of tho Gulona feud nines, who knew Col. Humilton so well and honored hin so much, owe a dobt of gratitude to Mr. Wowdlman for rescuing hia burini-place from oblilyion, This gencrous and thoughtful net of Mr, Wood- nut 18. a4 creditable to hin as the failure of tho fully of Aloxander Hamilton to mark the ghave of the youngest son of that distinguished man is disoredituble, “In size and feature, in tuulonta and churacter, ho much reaumbied his i+ juatrious fathor," says tho inscription upon the tablet, And what 0 bitter Irony of htetory. For twenty-nine years no stone or slab indicated the “Inst resting-pluce bf Col, Willinm 8. Hamilton, When tho carcless gravedigyor throw bls shovelfuls of carth on the ooitin in tho nowly- mado gnive probably he Ittlo youllsod that ho was closing in, and forevor, tho mortal remains of asonof the most illustrious man, in many respeats, that over shone out in the annals of our history. In J40, whon the tide of omfyration sot in for California from tho Galona and Wisconsin load mines, Col, Hamilton joined the throng. Ho wus ono Of the carlicst suttiors of Wisconsiy Terr tory, and bad oxtensive mining and amelting works at what was then called * Hamilton's Dig- wlogy," now Wiota, Lufayotte County, Wis, The mining Intorest In Wisconsin’ becoming much depressed, ho concluded to try his fortune in Callfornig. The fatigues of the trip and the change of climate proved too much for him. His beulth soon began to fall, and be lived but Jtttle more than u year aftor his arrival in Call- A number of Aldermen thoight they were achloving popularity by voting Monday night to break down tho fire-Iinits ordinance and allow- ing tho erection of story-and-a-hnlf pine sheds, atables, burns, and outhouses all over tho city. Thoy did not stop to considor the fnot that thoy Injure and offend the owners of dwellings, shopa, stores, and nisnufactorics throughout tho olty. Probubly thoy did not care, but they disvover that other people do care, How mony men in Chicago, owning residences or otber buildings, desire n multipiicution of flre-shods nud stables alxteon feet bigh nll abodt them, tiling up the side streots and alloys? How wuny citizens do- aire to have their riske from fire increused, and how muny want to have tholr rates of Insurance advanced in order to necummodute porsons who wish to ercot incenMnry structures close to or against their bulldings? Tho Aldermen who voted this ordinance through the Council huve committed an outrage on the citizens. Ibis not Ikely thut it can bo passed by a two-thirds ma- jority over tho Mayor's veto, and it fa his duty to. protect tho clty ut largo against thls monuco to it gafety. ‘Tire control of the ‘Lory party In Great Brituin acoms to bo. gradually declining, 18 fs shown by the specint oloctions to fll vacancies in Purllamont. ‘Tho following from the London Spectator of tho 20th ult, Isa“ etraw "1 ‘Tho Donugul vlection was n great victory for the Liboruix, being Not merely the gain oF si Trish sunt, dit the ulin ob an Iriwh wont for n Liberal whe hna not Hodxad hinsvlf t@ the Mumo-Hulers. Mr. Lea, tho Libera, balled 2:13 volun wmainal waly Laslwivah for Mr. orkell, tho Vanavryutive, At tho Inst olvetion, ‘Augunt, Isr, Ale, Whison, the ’ Conservatives puller Hig votus, waalnst only Li for Str, wo that Me, Kaen ina nd oniy polied LH mare, votes that ne htm gulf polled on tliat vccuslonm but iS more tan bly ope boil stpuli have bean onent pulled, ‘That suc solved Iiburnl unpiedged to Home: Bula, hivyed by wo Oyun in Uisdur, 8 youd umon for Krish polities, ‘Tun Galesburg (111) Republlean-Regtster, ono of the best informed and most enterprising Journals in tho State, saya: “Tur Ciicadu ‘{uiuune of the Int comes tous in a coinptete now dress, looking ug nico ns a young kidy full dressed for recolying New-Year calls. The name ber before us contalus 112 columns of mutter, fitty-#lx of which are devoted to a review of tha business of Chicago for Inst year, Wo soarcely know which caused us tho most wonder—the immense aguregntoe of busincas In that im- portant city, or tha reat sizo and beatiful ap- pearance of Tite LRIBUNE, eis Tum Fond dn Lac Commonwealth re minds Tux Trmune that Gov. Pound of tho Elghth, and Quorge ©, Hazelton of the Third Wisconsin District, will probably put in an ap penrance whon tho tine comes oa canditates for tho United States Sennto in plucgof Angus Camoron, But Ts Trinuxe covered ull tho ground whon ft said that * Probably other mom- bors of Congress will bo found carvlcsly stand- ing around in the pluce whore: Nghtulng is ox-« pected to strike.” —— A‘ Broominaton correspondent says that’ anothor evidence of the prosperous times fs found intho fuct that mout people have quit borrowlng money, and that thore [s searosty any domand whatever for loans from Mellonry County peuple, and those who havo loans aro paying thom off dully, in three cases out of five before they.ure duo. Mi, JIALsTEAD says that If Grant fs nom- Inated, and 4 bid man is put up by the Demo- erats, ae wi bo in the coniltion of tho durky when tho preachor doclared that thore woru two roads in this world, one leading to hell and tho other to damnation, “In dut case,” said tho colored brothor, * dis chito takes to de woods," Tue Hon. Joh wy Adams, in his: book on ruilroad uvchlents, suya that {f 0 man was born on the curs, und traveled 500 miles u day until ho was killed by un accldont, bo would ‘bo 000 yours uld before that evont would take place, And yot people continue to epend their monoy for accident policies. Tur Oshkosh Northweatern ts of the opin- fon that, Iuasinuch av tho lumber business is vastly superior to tho stoumboat trafilo on Inapy Wostern rivors, tho rafts of logs and lumber may bo consldered undor tho head of coinmorco, and cptitled toa right on navigable stroama tho same 08 boats and barges. Tux Moline Dispatch says: sarcastically thatif thoreure any more candidates for Goy- ernor of UMnols they should not bo backward in coming to tho frout, ee Bpzarina of Conkling’. motto, “ Any-! thing ta beat’ Blaine,” the «aq California says that the foe of thirtoon or morg years huylog lain butwoen the two, no intercourse nor courtesies Mu. Gancenon will probably study law— begtnning with tho reoent decision of the Muluo Supreme Court, | Tit Belvidere Recorder comes out for Gon. 8. A, Hurlbut for Governor, Aud yot thoro ig room. Irstlence gives consent, all the Democratio candidates approve of Gareelon's course,” PERSONALS. Gen. Shermnn’s Christmas-giftwas a grand child, presented by his daughter, Mra, Fitch, who {gs now tho mothorof four childron,—two girls and two boys, “By contesting his: father's will, John If, Liek will got $385,000 “more than his fathor ine tended that ho should hive. In this instance a Lick in time suved $385,000, In 1853 William F, Johnson retired from tho Gubornutorial chalr of Ponnsylvania, tho most inttuential politicnt leader in that State. His witow Is now an applicant for tho Kittune nlng Poat-Oflice, * ho Cleveland Herald says that Secretary ‘Thompson, when u boy, Intended to become 4 snilor; hut from tho fuct that he haa since beon pluced at the head of tho American navy St is ovidunt that he quickly nbandoned the Idea. Of the discoverers and conquerors of tho Now World, Columbus died broken-hearted, Role din and Bobndilla wero drowned, Balbou was behended, Cortez: was dishonored, and Pizarro wag murdered, Young mon with a tondenvy for exploring unknown parts of tho world should ‘Dew those cheerful facta In mind, ‘Tue Peoria Democrut says tho distillers of == r Ture Hendrieks Club fn Shelbyvilie sent - Poor Mr. Lotta, who clalms to have-been * married and then hourtlesly dosorted by Miss Crabtree, is still in Ban Franelsco, with four young children to tuke caro of, If this practice of ubandoning and refusing tosupport husbands Js porinitted to Inorense among netrossos, all the ehurm of marrying thon Will be gone, “Olivia” writes that Senator Booth is such ahnrdened bachelor that “sigh drawn frost and pure from the deepest and most capricious female bosom and applied to tho right place will haye no more effect thin a lyor-pad adminis tered for look), whilu a glunce from the moat brilliant eye falls Nke a suaboun on an abligas tor's buck,'” A pretty intss of 18, who belongs to a good family In Union City, lid. and bis boon well educated, bus recently beon rotoased froin fall, where she waa awalting trinl for kleptomanta, ‘Tho mout influontlal poople in the county united in an appeul for the dleraissal of the Indictment, and the Court gindly aequicsced ina nolle prosequl, : Wesee by advertisements In Tite Tamune that there aro plies In Chicuygo whore twenty elght diferent shades of silk can be proourcd, but persistent search falls to reveal the oxiete once of an Institution whore young women aro taught to muke bigoult that will not, when Hnished, strikingly resemble paving-stones In polnt of wolght and dousity, Itis dutly become ing moro eyldent that domothing noods Axing Io this country, A fashionable Judy of San Francisco at red horsete in a party dress, and bad a fulle lungth photograph taken, Buveloping her tightly-tuved flnory Ina balloon clouk, sho de- aconded to the stroct, hulted a stroot-car, and scgted herself within, When her street was snphed she motioned to the conductor, and nt- tempted to rise, Hut so tightly was tho poor thing hornossed that sho couldn't got up, and, blushing dearlet, sho told the conductor that aho would go a few blovks furthor, When tho torminus of tho Ilno was reachod, and the last gontieman had left tho car, the couductor asked her if she wanted to rido back, “No, air," sho repilod, with sweot alinplivity, “I morvly want some help, for Ican't yet up.” ‘The conductor sot her on her feot, and sho walked home & wisor woman. Expense Is nothing to Tne Trouna when dealing with Mtorary men. The prizo-packnge pooms furnished by Mr. Tennyson froquently: vost us $7 nploce, but {uo monvy Le paid choor- fully,solongns the rhyme utands the test of Our pootry yuujo, an Ingentous Instrument cons structed son tho principle of tho butter-tricr. Not long ayo: we published a short noyelet from the pon of Mr, Froudo, and to-day we have the pleasure of laying bofore our readorsan- other thrilling romunco by tho samo dis Uuguishod writer: Ikwae nite th by, maasos of pcloude Miasove teal Goma the ge aha ‘Der ng Commerca’ ihe slow clue’ an tho hi struck Hop-killors st thobtock ards hud siruck. fo. difprenoe of un tious boiwatn Citoage wad the Toma of dake line quver boon expiainad: Suddenly tie tall wad muted form of = man emeryoe {fom the shadows {hot Habliualy furk wiubia e-rucussas of tho Huge Vulldtug, cvustng tus oofuuins ie eae focus weird ‘and’ fintaaife shapes on Tileihe janiuor, und ho pete $40 a month, Boud thio wueady toed oF the take watchman | todas tapia vont dulye the two imea m9c chs z pity aon ie . fread ‘Morning, bal Neher ify," was watchman, @ jautiors sententlous ree my wintor this thus spake tho waichinait 1 [gjpyen tea ny such wintor berora. «What nor—" with’ dull Wud the body of the mlaguidea {auitor struck the pare. wad was soon A oo sate “uemer farsi aay ‘wrath, Gi, he who Suskitea fe Hable to Ket alugyeds Et © OPS Warns wit ts," enzes