Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1880, Page 4

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Corner’ Randolph ond State strects, Compliment- ary Bencfit to Miss Loutse Farrand. Hooley'n ‘Thentre, Nandolph strect, betweon Clark ond LaSalle. En- gagomont of Miss Dickle Lingard. “Los Fourecham- bault.” Olympte Thentre. Clark stroct, botween Htandolphand Lake. Engage- ‘mont of Goorgo Learock. “Pbillp Gordon, Miner,” Waralin’s Theatre, Clark streot, between Washington and Itandoiph. Engagement of Mr. Fronk Chanfrau, “ Kit, tho Are kansas Traveler.” ORRIGHTS OF PYTIIAS—All mombers of tho Inder are requested to be present at the Gra .odgo Tal corner of Las Suite wid Adauis-sta,, on Wednuse doy, Feb. 4, ot Jo’clock pen uur late iifother, Past Grit Kupreme itepresantative ‘Thorns’ rervlces will commonce promialy ut Su'clock, 3 hers in uniform ary roqueated to, bo present fifteen A riter. DD. KENNEDY, ict Deputy Grand Chancellor for Dist. of Cook, ASHLAR LODGE, NO, an, A. F&A, Sh meoting this (I'nesday) ovening for busin Important work, Unlcors are requested to, be ne Jenige-room at 7 o'clock sharp. "The fruteralty cor- Gially invited. Hall, Nu, 75 Monracest, ‘ C,H, CRANT, Secrotary. egular ey TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1880, AL pecision involving property amounting to $48,000 was rendered yesterday In the Pro- bate Conrt of Cook County, whereln the heirs of the Keegan estate and Bishop Ireland, of Minnesota, were the parties Hitgant. The decision wgs udverse to the Bishop, and the property goes to the heirs. Tne cause of “ Ireland for the Irish * was Hall of the Houso.of Representatives in Washington. He was introduced to a largo ered an address in which he predicted that Amerlea was to play an finportant though entirely peaceful part In the solution of the Trish question. Tux Cook County Board of Commilssion- ors yesterday voted to issue bonds to tho - Amotint of $1,158,500 and place them on tho market for sale, the proceeds to be upplied to the payment of the War-Fund bonds matur- ing May 1, 1880, ‘Lhe new Issite of bands ts to run twenty years, or less, at the option of the county, and to bear Interest at 5 per cent per annum, payable semi-nnnually, Araconference yesterday of persons in- terested In and opposed to tho erection of o bridge at Juckson street the advocates of the } project were largely in the majority, and no | oue present urged any of the numerous ub- Jections which will become apparent when the bridge shall have been built, except to mention the fact that It will be necessary to widen the river 50 25 to allow of the passage of vessels through elther dra ‘Vuner Hickox, one of the oldest among the surviving old residents of Iltnols, and for many years an active participant Inthe + political affairs of the Stute, though never holding any public oflice except that of Canal Coimmisstoner, died yesterday in Springfield at the age of 74. Itwasto Mr. Hlckox, lls | Intimate personal and political friend, that Stephen A. Douglas wrote the grand letterof May 10, 1861, declaring that the time when there could be but two parties, “ patriots and fraltors.”” eT Tox public-dubt statement for January shows a surplus revenuy of $11,014,203. ‘This Tins been obtained by the heavy Importatlons of duttablo foreign goods, ‘I'he !mportations in consequence of the sudden nnd reckless Inflation of American prices will continus te swell and increase for some time to come, ‘The revenue of the next monthly statement is Mkely to exhibit a still larger surplus from duties on Imports;and the tendency in Con- gress will be to find ways of spending it, _——— A BILy, waa Jotroduced In Congress yester- day by Mr. Fort, of Illinois, -providing for the reduction of the duly on printing pape: used for books, pamplilets, magazines, und newspapers, und for placiig on the free-list certain articles used in the manufacturo of paper gi and woolen fabrics. One effect of ho fil it passed will be to cheapen the cout of print vapor lo the publishers of nuwspapers and periodicals aud relleve them of the heavy burden which hag fullen: to thelr lot as the direct consequence of the “budiness boom.” —_— Tux Duke of Murlborough,-the Trish Viceroy, emphatically denies the statement of Parnell and Dillon that such Irish farm- ers us were In default in the payment of yent were excluded from the Mansion House tellef fund. They had advised the Averl can people not to send thelr contributlous to Disracl!'s Tory representative in Dublin, forthe reason that only those who had paid the Jandlords would recelye any ‘of the charity money. tis very probable that if Paruell and Dillon had said nothing and given no word of warning, the ‘Tory Duke and Ils Tory Committees would not have Jet those tenants havea penny who refwed or failed to pay thelr rackrents, ‘Ihey would Lave used the charity fund to reward those who bad beggared. themselves to the last crust of corn-bread ° 4 1) absentea Tory Jandlords, and to punish those of the farmers who had demanded a reduction of the rents or were In default tn Payment, But the warning exposure of Par- nel has stopped that little gume, If it wore Intended, and forced Its Grace to deal with the starving and distressed people irrespect- ivo of rent-pnying. Azone with Joel Parker, of New Jeraoy, 9 possible Democratle nominee for President of the United States, there was admitted yesterday to practice before the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States Samuel R, Lowery, a full-blood negro. ‘The two ap- Plicants took the oath at the same time, and the white and the binck hand were placed beside each other on the samo Bibles and, 03 if to add to the extraordinary character of the coincidence when viewed in the lightot less than twenty years ago, the black man ‘Was presented for admission by a woman, a female counselor in full standing before that august tribunal, _ In commenting on the chances of the Aldrich bil In the present Congress, aud tho Influences for and ngainst it, we overlooked the following Important paragraph in our Washington special; “Mr. Wilson had a conference to-day with Seerctary Sherman also, who sald that if his optnion was asked ha ‘should favornbly recom- wend the bill, and that tho hostile crittelsma which had beon mado by anybody tn the Treas- ury Department should not deter him from that purpose. Mr. Shorman suld that bo had always voted for such mnenaures while in Congress, and that he approved them now." ‘This places Mr, Sherman on the right side, and doubtless the Ways and Means Com- tulttee will give his approval the welght it is entitled to. Tue St Petersburg Golos, a newspaper which is frequently wounding the sensibil- ities of the Czar’s Government, has again run athwart the hawse of the Imperial Ship of State, and thereby gotten into trouble once more. The paper In question published. the fact that there were now contined In ons of the Russian fortresses an Archbishop aud two Bishops who have suffered martyrdom for oplulon’s sake,—the first named for twen- ty-six years and the.two latter for nearly twenty years, ‘The articleclosed with thesim- nle assertion that the Government had prob- ably forgotten these cases. Whether tho as- sertion fs true or not, it 1s quite certaln Im- erin! authority has neither forgotten nor forgiven the Golos for the remInder, as a decree emanating froin the Interlor Depart- ment forbids the publication of advertlse- iments in that sheet for one month, Irauy appenrs to be passing through o dreadful erlsis which falls with heavy welght upon the Inboring classes. Wages lave been greatly reduced, employment is very scarce, and taxes are rulnously high. The nattonat debt, it is stated, is $1,840,000,000, requiring the annual payment of $34,000,000 Interest, and there isa constant deficit, All the large eltles are heavily in debt also. Florence, with only 170,000 people, owes $30,000,000, and Naples, one of the poorest cltles In Eu- rope, $21,000,000, In tho cities workmen are ling on public charity, and in the country the peasants nre barely subsisting. The out- look Is almost hopeless, and discgntent is rapidly manifesting Itself in revoltitionary form among the people. Nearly all this misery results from the tremendous expendi- tures upon the army and navy, arislag from the desperate effurt of the Governinent to keep pace with Its more powerful neighbors. Tr appenrs to us that many of our con- temporaries are magnifying a molehill into a mountain In their discussion of the canal that M. do Lesseps proposes to build, and the prospects of n war between France and this country growing out of It. WHI it not bo tlme enough to assert the Monroe doctrine when It is certain that Mf. de Lesseps ts ‘going to build his canal? So long as there lisa well-grounded posslbillty that the canal will not be bulit, and a still better grounded prob- nbllity that 1f It is built it will never work, would It not be well to wait before getting into fighting heat? And meanwhile, If we are going to fight France and the rest of Europe, where 1s our navy? Te there fs to be a fight why not let Admiral Ammen and 3, da Lesseps, representing tho respective countries, haye itout together? As ML. de Lesseps says tho earthquakes will uproot Ammen’s canal in no tine, and Ammen says the rains will wash out the Lesseps canal fn still less time, there js provocation enough on both sides to get up a first-class scrinuunge between the two canallers, Tue Supreme Court has again decided the Newberry will ease, and again held that there ean be no division of the estate during the life of the widow. ‘Tho terms of the will provided that one-half of tho estate should be devoted to the founding of a public li- brary 1n Chicago after the decease of the last survivor, the testatur Jeaving his wife and two daughters ay hetrs. Upon their death the other half of tho estate is to be divided between Mr, Nowberry’s sisters and the chil- dren of deceased brothers and sisters. There fre many contingenctes.in which a present division might Jead to injustle, If the estate were divided now, and any of the ly- Ing nephews and nfeces should dle before the whlow, then the survivors would be go- prived of a portion of the inheritance which they would have reeelyed had tho distribu: tlon of the estate bean postponed until after the death of the widow, as required by tho terms of tho will. The birth of otherchildren during the life of the Widow Nowberry would also make a present division of the estute inequitable, ‘This 1s a case In which the tering of the will defeat a purpose to which all the Interested parties would agreo If they - could determine the matter. Lt would be of Brent publicadyuntagelfthe people of Chicago could enjoy the immediate benefit of thelibra- ry fund; the helrs are sald to be gencrally In need of thelr portion of the estate; and the widow is represented as not belng hostile to a division during her Ife. But this Iutest decision puts an end to the project for the present, and It will be by no means unreason- able for the widow and her friends, under tho circumstances, to hope that the actual’ establishing of the Newberry Library may by deferred for many years. Tue monthly ‘Treasury statement contin- ues to report legal-tender notes outatanding Ot $316,691,010, If we are notinistaken thesum Of $10,000,000 In greenbacks Is locked up to be used in redemption of $15,008,729 rructional scurrency, &% per cent of which Is worn out and destroyed and will never be presented for redemption, Ono month ago tho out- standing fractionals wore reported at $15,074,- 303, ‘Thus In a month the whole sum that has been pald to the Goyernment for post- age or tuxes, or has been sent In by the banks for redemption, only gmounts to the Jnsignificant Item of $5,579. It may bo safcly froetionals will ever bu presented for redemp- ton, For three years the Government has been collecting, redeeming, and canceling then, The bunks have guthered them up continuously Jn all stages of raggudness and defacement and sent them §n for redemption, obtaining greonbacks fur them. Its rarely now that one sees a“ fractional note,”—they have nearly all disappeared, ‘Ihe nearly sixteen imilllons stil! outstanding are pretty much all worm out or have been assumed that not a halt mfliion more of the } 1 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, F otherwisa destroye they will never bo presented for redemption, and might as well be marked off tho Treasury books. ‘They figure ag a part of the Natiount debt, but should be subtracted therefrom, as few of them will over turn up for redemp- tlon. A bill should bo passed declaring fifteen millions of the fractlonals lost or worn out by use, and beyond recognition, and directing the debt statement to be re- duced a corresponding amount, ‘The ten milllons, of greenbacks held idle in tho Treasury 03.0 redemption fund for these lost and destroyed “fractionals” should be or- dered by Congress to be Invested in the pur- chase aud cancellation of 6 per cent bonds, thereby stopping $000,000 of annual Interest on the National debt, A sum of $003,720 might be held to redeem any fractionals that may hereafter turn up, and there will never be more than that sui will inke care of. ‘The Natlonal debt may justas well ag not be marked down by fifteen milllons of dollars, ‘The present monthly statements exhibit that much too high, An address has been issued by some of the lending men of Philadelphia for presentation at the Pennsylvania State Convention, which ineets at Harrisburg to-morrow, in which the signers, constituting oan elenient in the Re- publican party In Pennsylvania correspond- ing to the “Scratchers” of Inst November in New York, direct attention to the dan- ger of alienating the Independent Re- publican yote by the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency which it will refuse to support. The clusing portion of the address indlentes with allt clent clearness four persons némed in con- neetion with the Presidency neither of whom would recelve tha support of the Philadel- plia Independents, viz: Grant, Sherman, Biaine, and Conkling, who are obviously the aspirants alluded to in thisstriking sentence: “We sny briefly, that the number of Repub- licans is very largo who cannot be relied upon to support, on the ono hand, one whose candidacy would vivlnte the tradi- tlon which has become part of the unwrit- ten law of the Natlon; nor, on tho other, one who regards the skillful use of patronage for personal ends as the highest function of a statesman; nor one whose past Inubillty to resist temptation would put his supporters on the defensive throughout the campaign; nor one whose personal am- bition may lead him to regard the public service as-9 mere {ustrumentallty for fur- thering his own ends, and whose convictions are but expressions of temporary expedicu- ey.” This is a protest against more than Cameronism in Pennsylvania polities, as it includes three candidates whom Cameron fs not supposed to favor; and, whether it re- eelyes respectful treatment or otherwise at the hands of the State Convention, it will attract attention throughout the country as the expression of a class of men who prefer to oppose bad nominations in Convention rather than at the polls. THE TRANSPORTATION QUESTION. The promised war between the Pacific Mall Steainship Company and the Paelfle Rail- roads has been opened by an announcement that tho former will hereafter carry passen- gers between New York and San Frangisco via tho Isthmus Railway for $75 in the ‘first- elnss cabin and $35 In the steerage, This ate Incluces all the charges made by rall for transportation, slecping-car, and meals, which, from New York to San Franelsco, do not fall far short of $200 in the aggregate. It cannot be doubted that the new rate by steamer will divert a very Jarge proportion of the transcontinental travel from the rallronds unless the latter shall promptly accommo- date themselves to the situation and reduco their rates Iu proportion. A sen-voyugo of three weeks, in comfortable. quarters, and with « good table, Is regarded by many per- sons ns preferable to six days’ continuous ride jn the cramped space of 2 railroad seat, and tho forher accommodations will be the more attractive if they can be secured for something like $100 less. Tho steamers will obtain the putronage of tho public not only from New York and the neiglibor- ing cities, but from tho {Interior as far West ns Chicngo and St. Louis, and the entire Pacific coast, at tho new termy, If tho rall- roads shall maintain thelr old rates. ‘Lhe rall- road cliarge should not properly exceed two cents a mile, which would inake $75 0 fair rate between New York and San Francisco, for there is no part of the Journey which Is unusually costly to the railway service. ‘Thore has been no announcement of tho new freight rate ay yet, butif it be In the same proportion of reduction as the new passenger rate (about 40 per cent) It will secure for the steamships all the freight they can carry; and If ityleld the Steamsh!p Cotn- pany a profit, as can scarcely be doubted, new steamers may be added, Indeed, ft bs reported that the’ Company has alrendy ar ranged with Roach, the great shipbuilder, for a number of first-cluss vessels in the event that thelr business shall demand an {nerense, Tho great bulk of freight not per- ishablu within a few weeks will go by steamer toand fromthe Pacifle const, and tho trade relutions between the opposit sides of. the continent will be enormously enlarged by the maintenance of 1 new order of things. It would bo very gratifying to the general public, and especially to that portion of It which has been fleeced by the Union and Central Pacific Rallroads, if there were some assurance that these new ocean rates to and from the Paciflo coast will lust, becuuse their continuance would in the end force the rail- road combinations to make reasonable terns to the public. Unfortunately thore is no guaranteo of thelr enduring for any length of time, It is truo that the Pacific Mall Com- pany declares Stself prepared to make con tracts forthe entire your at the now rates; but contracts of this nature are broken with impunity by rallroad compantes, and {t Is Hke- ly that tho Steamship Company will not find ita dificult matter to evade thom whenever its own Interest shall prompt it to do so, ‘The danger‘{!s that Messrs. Vanderbilt and Gould, In comblnation with the Central Pa- eifle ring, will elthor make new terns with the Pacitic Mall Company or clse quietly buy up acontroliing interest In’ the latter corpo- ration; In elther cuse the monopoly wilt be restored, and the railroads will Snflict their old charges upon the public, with an added extortion to make up the loss of revenue (not of profit) incident to the transient term of competition. It is not hnpossible, Indeed, that the controlling owners of Pacific Mall have already fixed a selling-price on thelr stock, and notitled the ratlroad magnates that they must buy or takd'the consequences, In such case the public will suffer in the end ore than fe will beneflt from the present ro- duction, Congiess could scarcely have a moro strik- Ing Instance of the Injustice Inseparable from the present irresponsible transportation systemin this country, No such combina- tlon could be possible under the English Jaw us that which has been maintalned for years between the Pacitic Raltroads and the Paciie Mall Steamship Company, whereby the sormer paid the latter an agreed annual sub- sidy to keep up such rates us would enable the railroads to overchurge, All such agreements In England must be public and inust be ratified by the Ratlway Com- missioners. It is needivss te urge that any uyreement so palpably designed to rob the public would neyer recelye tho approval of un oflelal Board representing the public in- terests and responsible to the public for tts acts, Indeed, tn no other country on the faco of the earth would publlo corporations be permitted to Unus play fast and luose with wublic interests, and place nn embargo upon business to gratify the greed of those In con- trol ofa monopoly secured through public franchise and alided by the donation of public moneys. Itisa disgraceful reflection upon the American Government that protection ngainst auch abuses fs only being discussed by the National Legislature and may be. tne definitly delayed by the intluence of tha cor- porations, —— THE AGITATION FOR AN OPERA-HOUSE, The completion and snecess of the Central Musle-Iall has given afresh impetus to the agitation for a new upera-house in Chicago. If we are to have opera, Were 1s no question of tho neccsstly of a fitting house tn which to give it, and there Is equally no question that we have now no such house. No one nequainted with the history of opera in this city will deny that the best, most elegant, and tnost profitable sensons of opera were given in the Crosby Opera-Honse from 1805 to 1870, ‘That structure wasin every respect, one of the finest, If not tho finest, auditoriums In the country for its special purpose. Every- thing about {twas planned for that object, and the result was the most remarkable sen- sons of opera Chicago has ever known, However excellent our theatres may be for dramatic performances, they are not adapted for operatic, Tho opera isa luxury; and a luxury, to be thorouglily enfoyed, inust have approprinta conditions of comfort, con- venience, elegance, aud — ventilnatlon, as well as thosa appointments which ara necessary to lyric and dramatle requirements. These are not to be found in any theatre in Chiengo, Moro than this, the theatre ts always n temptation to managers to give opera ona cheap scale,—not in prices, but in performances,—while an opera-house always calls fora higher stand- ard. It presents inducements for ‘great artista to come and to give us thelr best work, and it necessitates grenter care npon the prt of the manager in mounting hts operas. If the opera ts a luxury, It is just as true that the patrons of opera are luxurious in their tastes, and much more disposed to pat- ronize opera when itis given in the highest style, such as is attainable when it is pre- sented In an elegantly appointed opera. house, than when it 13 cheaply put upon the stage In a theatre. It 1s a cheerful indication of popular senti- ment that many of our leading busIness-men and enpitallsts are agitating this question, and have quite freely pronounced in its favor, It will awaken fresh interest in the subject, tho announcement that some leading New York capitalists have signified to Mr. Mc- Vicker, who fs now in that city, their wiJl- Ingness to advance capita! for that purpose, provided tho bullding is constructed upon no commercial basis, and tliat Mr. McVicker is giving the matter his thoughtful considera- tion. ‘This {s the only safe bnsis upon which fn opera-house can be built in Chicago, and upon this basis there {sno question but that itean be made to pay, It fs useless to look to the auditorium proper for any return from the investment, because it must He Idlen large part of the year; but itcan bo made to pay from rentals as well as any other busi-, ness block, To secure this result itshould be erected In the business section of tho eity, where rents are in demand, and where at the samo thne i, will be easy of accoss from all parts of tho city. Such a building, containing aniplo store and office rooms, with an auditorlum that is comfortable and convenient rather than showy, and with a stage large enough and thoroughly appointed for tho heaviest grand operas, woukl ungiestionably pay # hand- sonie interest on the investinent In the way of business rentals. Of Its need there ja no doubt, always adinitting that opera is a necessity, Wo hayo one of the finest musle- halls in the world, which ling been erected upon a purely commercial basis, and which at the very outset offered such induce- ments as an investment that our business- men were not slow to take advantage of them. An opera-houso can be put up Inthe same manner and be ninde to pay equally well, if our business-men will put thelr heads together and lay tho foundation for it ina business-like manner. The hint from New York ought to be a spur in this diree- tion. OVERCROWDING THE RIVER WITH BRIDGES, There aro Indications, wo regret to say, that the City Councll Is abont to depart from ® sound policy on the subject of bridges on the Chicago River, and to enter upon another whieh will certainly Interfere serlously with the navigation of the river and greatly in- erease the annoyance and interruption of travel resulting from the opening of bridges. The law now provides that the bridges shall not be kept open longer than ten minutes at one thine, vor closed if vessels be walting Jonger than the same thne, During the time the bridges aro closed to enable passengers and vehicles to cross, the vessels which may be waltlng to pass have to remain within the space on the river botween the bridges. Ata very early day, oven in tho tine when the bridges were exclusively floats, the englnecrs and othors arrived at the conclusion that to expedite and even allow the safe passage of vessels, and to shorten the time of keeping the bridges open, there should be a bridge only at the alternate streets, and not closer togather, Though the numbor of bridges has increased during lato years, the original policy of hay- ing a bridge not nearer than at alternate strects has beon adhored to firmly, It hag" been a sound and in fnet indispensable pol- ley, As the number and Jength of the vessels in the harbor have Increased, the reasons for this policy became stronger, ‘The length of all vessels ling gréntly increased, and the Propellers, and barges, apd other vessels en- tering tho river of to-day are one-fourth or one-third longer than they were twenty years ngo, and the necessity for greater room be- tween the bridges Is now eyen more Impera- tive than it was thon, It is now proposed to build a bridgo at Dearborn street, midway between Clark and State streets, and also a bridge on Jackson atreot, between Adams and Van Buren streets, 'Thdse propositions are strongly urged by private Interests, aud there fs un- tortunately a danger that the Jobbylsts of both propositions, combining, will carry the measures, and thus involve the city in the serlous consequences that must follow, ‘Tho perils of naviguting the river at State strect are sufticent at present. ‘Tho sudden turn In the river ut that fotnt renders it dit- eult ot the bast of tlmes for large loaded veasels to pisa the bridge with snfety, there being practically but ono side of the bridge on which long and heavily-loaded steamers, and sailing vessela can get through, Between Jackson and Van Buren streets the river is not straight nor wide, nor is the distance as Jong oven as that between Statu and Clark streets, If a bridge be bulltat Dearborn street, and another ot Jackson street, the space left for mooring vessols will be greatly reduced, necessitating the greater crowding of the shipping at tho docks, and narrowing the channel af tho river through which vessela must pass, At present when a vessel passes through Statostreet bridge going west the Clark-street bridge can be | EBRUARY 3, 1880. swung In tlmeto allow the vessel to pass through without delay, and before 1 ling passed Clark street the Statestreot bridge can be closed and travel resumed. Butit n bridge ke built at Dearborn street that bridge must bo opened simultaneously with the State-street bridge, and thus the two bridges must always be opened at the same time, to the interruption of travel on both streets, When there aroa number of vessels passing both ways at the same tine all these bridges must be kept open in order to give a suMl- cleney of rooin, But that fa ot all nor the worst. Long propvllers and four-mnsted salling vessels cannot livin the apace between two streets, and such ships with not, as now, be ablo to lie to and walt between bridges to allow the execution of tho ten-minute rule. Thus, if the proposed bridge at Dearborn atreet 3 closed ten ininutes to let teains over the bridge, and a long propeller comes in from the lake, it will Ile in the draw of State- street bridge, keeping !t open and stopping travel for the ten minutes the. Dearborn- street bridge ty closed, And, if a long four- master ora long propeller {3 going down the river to sen, it will He tn the draw of Clark street while Dearborn Is closed, ‘Thus, while travel is being accommodated at Dearborn, It §s shut off at State and Clark by veasels walt- ing for tha Dearborn-street bridge to open, ‘Thus two nujsances will be created to over- Ualance one benefit, And the same trouble will happen at Van Buren and Adams with long vessels under the ten-minute rule, which rule fs absolutely necessary, if n bridge is thrust across between them at Jackson. In ease of a number of vessels passing ench way at the same time, the certainty 1s that there will be inextricable Jams, during which not merely one bridge, as happens now, but three bridges, will be kept open, to the Inter- ruption of travel on all three streets, Great os Js the delayand ineonventence expertenced now by keeping a single bridge open and the suspension of travel on one street ata time, the evil will be gfeatly aggravated when the bridges shall beso close to onc another that the closing of one will necessitate the opening of tivo bridges to nccommordate the travel on one. ‘This would be such an annoynnes and nutsance that the public would not submit to It, but would remove the obstructing bridge, or force it to be kept open during the season of navigation, When the people of Wash- ington’ street. clamored for a bridge, the Council gave them a tunnel costing half a million of dollars rather than ereet such an obstruction nt that point, and so of La Salle street it was deemed better to spend another half million than to create a bridgo nulsance’ at that point to Interfere with the crossings at Wells and Clark. ‘The space for moving Vessel is ultogether too small now, and what will it be when the bridges areas numerous as the streets? Tho Iability, the probability of collisions of ves- sels, and of vessels with bridges, and the losses of propurty and life will be largely In- creased, and this, too, without Increasing In tho least the facilities for travel from one di- vision to tho other, «+ It is to be hoped the City Council will hesl- tato long before ft authorize elther of these bridges, and that, recognizing the wisdom of tho present policy, it will adhere to that pol- icy firmly for the future, { THE EDISON LIGHT. Mr. D. F. Boughton, the Superintendent. of tho Wisconsin State Hospital for the In- sane, sends us a copy of the Phuanber and Santtary Engineer, md calls attention to an article upon Mr. Edison's electric lght, which 1s devoted to showing that Mr. Edison hing been traveling over rond that has been explored by others in the past. Before re- plying to ft, we reproduce the substance of whatisclalmed, Itis shown that in 1815 an American named Starr took out In England apatont for producing light by electricity, which contained the following description: “Tho invention hag for its busis the use of metulltc conductors, or of continuous carbons, heated to whitencss by the paseuge of the electric current, Tho best metal for this purpose Is platinum, the best carbon is retort-curbon, When curbon 1s employed, {t {s useful or nc- count of ita affinity for oxygen at high temper- atures to cover St from air and wolsture.” ‘Then follows a description of the glass vessel, iu which yacuuim hs been formed, containing the thin rod or filainent of carbon, Itisatso shown that in 1853 M. Jobart con- tributed to the French Academy a paper in which be set forth the clits of M. do Changy, a chemist and physicist, and among them the following: In his taboratory, where he has worked along for tho pust elx ycurs, I suw a battery of twelve Bunsen elements producing a constaut lumi- nous are between two carbons, in a regulator of his own Jnvontion,—thts regulator being the moat simple aud porfectI hayoever scen. A dozen sinull miner's tamps wero also in tho olr- cuit, and ho conid, nt pleasure, light or oxtin- gulsh wlthorono or tho other, or all togethor, without diminishing or Increasing the Intensity of tho light through tho extinction of the nelgh- boring lamps, The lumps, which ure inclosed in hermetically-soaled yluss tubcs, ure Intended for tho Ughting of mines In which thore is fire- duinp, and for thaatrect lumps, which would by thig aystem be all Nghted or put out at the same timo on tho circuits being opened or closed. “The trina that have hitherto been made, with the object of producing an clectric light by meuns of heated platinum, buve failed on ace count of tha molting of tho wires. ‘Tole ditt: culty hus been overcome by M. de Cuangy’s dividing rogulator, The cost of the ight is eati- inuted to be huté that of gus, A lamp placed ut the masthead of a ship would form a permanent slgnal for about six months without tho necessl- ty of changing tho platinum, With several such lights, pliced in tubes of colored glass, it would ‘bu ensy to telograph by night, us thivy could be extinguished and relighted rapidly from the deck," Admitting the truth of all that Js contained in the claiths of both Starr und Changy, and of the dozen others also who lave modified orlmproved upon thelr general plans, the question still recurs, What of it? One of theselnventors, thirty-tlyo years ago, and the other twenty-two years ugo, clalin to have produced an electric Nght? but where Is It? ‘They never Hit any workshops, houses, mines,* ships, or streats, ‘Chere Is no record that they ever puta lamp in practical use, There Js no record toshow that these Inventors ever applled electricity to MMuminating purposes except the descriptions and models which are lumbering up patentoffices, and the fact Itself long ago faded out of the public mem- oryand would never have come to the sur- face again had It not been for Mr. Edison's practical experiments, which have awakened the jealousies of ils envlousand disappolnted competitors, Mr, Edigon has nover claimed to have dis- covered this wonderful quality of electricity, Ho shmply claims to have applied it sugcess- fully, and that the carbon material which ke uses {9 new. But asauming that there Is nothing jn his system which was not anticl- pated yoars ago, he still hos the right to elalin the credit for what he hus done, and the world will not be slow !n giving It to him when his lamps are burning In our houses and streets, and that credit will be ull the more enthuslastio because he has ae complished his success Iu the fucw of the fallures bf othors, If st could be shown that any ono of these sclentists had made hia Jump burn so thatlt could be brought into practical use, Mr. Edison's claim could be dented, But they discovered tho system and never applied It for want of Ingenuity or Inck of intelligence, We has applied ft, They did not make thelr lanips burn go that they could be used. Wis have been burning with- out Interruption for weeks. They couldn’t make it go aud he has made it go, All the theorles nnd all the arguments in tho world ara worthless by tha side of oneof those little lamps burning day and night for weeks and showing no alana of giving out, ‘The qistnke that Is made by an impatient publis Is in demanding too much of Mr. Kuison in too shorts space of time. Even After it was found that gas could be used for illuminating pnrposes, it was years before It was brouglit to its present state of perfec: tlon, It was scores of years after Watt dis- covered the motlye power of steam that it was brought into anything like lta present practical uses, Electricity 1s even a more subtle agent than steain, and yetit is ex- pected that Mr, Edison will tutradues Ills lamps atonce snto common use. Io has solved the great problem of making them burn continuously, and now time should be givon him to perfect the details of his machinery so as to make them ns practical and economical as possible, That he wilt accomplish this noone who knows hits in- domitable perseverance, cournge, and in- dustry willeven doubt. Where others hava falled ho hag suceceded, and for that much credit is due to him without any refer- ence to what others havo done before him, It he succeeds in bringing his Nght into common use, the world will give little credit to othor inventors who can show no basis for thoir claims except the moldy ree- ords of patent-offices, What the world wants fs a Jamp whicti will burn and n lamp which itean use, Mr, Edison has solved tho first branch of the problem. Give him time enought and he will solve the remainder of it ——— ATLARGE party of Mr. Seymour's personal and political friends have been in Washington, and while there gave ont oracularly what Bey- mour preferred, and what he would doin a cer- tain contingency. First of all, Mr. Seymour ts not nenndidate for tho nomination, and docs not Intend to bo under any circumstances. But ff the fight between tho factions in New York continues, and ff Tilden and Kelly refuso to smoke the plpo of peace and bury the toma- hawk, and ff Tilden ts defeated by the two-thirds tule, and # Bayard fails to get the support of Western Democrats because of bia financinl views, and (f Thurman fails to. unite tho Enst- ern Democrats for a similarrenson, and (f Pen- dloton fails because he hasn't 9“ bar'l,” and if itis thought Hendricks would prefer to siton the top of the fence, and ff Hancock would do objectionable to tho South because he “ft” for tho overthrow of tho Confederacy, and tf Grant should be nominated by tho Republicans and tho establishment of the Empire was immi- nent, and ff all the children in the Bolid South should be found crying for Seymour, and {f Mr. Seymour's candidacy would heal all dlacorda in the Domoeratic party in Now York and else- where, and {f tho nomination could be tendered ina manner practically unanimous, and if his success could be guarinteed,—thon, in that caso, aud not othorwise, Mr. Soymour would conde- seend to get down. off his high horse and say, with a bland smilo; ‘God bless you, gontle- men, Tam the identical person you are looking for," ‘Tre healing waters of Mot Springs, Ark., havo made many remurkablo cures in tholr time, and aro noted for removing the recds of disease from tho human anatomy, The most remarkable curo, howevor, that hag been mado du that locality is found in tha ease of the Tel- egraph,a paper printed there, that herctofore has been of the red-hot Bourbon dort, as might bo expected. Tho virus of Southarn Democracy, howover, bag been completely washed out of it, and {nits issue of tho Zist ult.{t dcolares that the Democratio party has outlived ita useful- nesa nod is managed for the benefit of a fow in- dividuals, Tho next day it went even further, and indfcted the Demoerntle party for treachery, imbeclllty, and cowardice, Tho third day it holsted tho nume of Gen. Grant for President, and advised tho South to cut loogs from the pur- ty which had nover yot dono anything for that scotion. There aro varion® othor Southern oditora who might go to the Springs with profit to thomsclves, oven !f thoy ald not support Gen. Grant. It would make thom now men, if thoy did not accomplish anything more than gotting: rid of Lourbonism. a AN old settler of Morgan County writes to tho State Register n description of tho first wed- ding ho attended thore Jn 1825. IIe says: “This was in reallty a double affair. Nanoy Colo and Joe Colo wera murried to Joe Porter and Nancy Porter respectively, Tho first ‘day Jou Cole and Nancy Porter were murried. On the next day Joo Porter and Nancy Cole were married. On tho third day an infare was given by Gwin Porter, who Ived at what is now known na the Dr. Lurton place, in Arcadia ‘Townshlp, Morgin County, at bls residence (conslating of 0 enbin of one room). A pincheon-table groaned boneath the weight of the good things that day, The menu was: Lyo hominy, dricd venison, bolted venison, fried venison, wild turky: riirie chickens, pork in overy atylo, wild onoy, dried pumpkin, turnips bolled ‘and raw, tho utter being a substitute for apples, of which we had nono; hickory muta, walnuts, pecans, and whisky, brought from Naples on horgeback. All were invited for miles around, and nobody sont thoir regreta, but turned out en masse to tho nuinber of twenty or thirty. Bam Bristow, a *forty-galion’ uptist, performed tho igarelage Fiten atthe woddings and was on hand at the infare, Wnen the sprightly Nttle News grows Digger, It will smilo in retrospective contempla- tion of tho thimbleful of nows It gnvo ita read- ers. Still it gives enough foracont. Tho public can't expect moro for the moncy. In agreat dally Hko Taz Tribune onch class of tho public can find fully sot forth what it 1s intercsted in, and can pass over tho reat, If it sollkes, Whon anything Important happens (and that ts overy day), of which tho poople want the details, there ig room to print it, There aro so many impor tant things occurring all the timo on this grept globo of ours that thoy cannot bo compressed” Into the spure spaco of cont sheets chielly filled with ads, ——— Says tho Pontine Sentinel: “ Considerable stir hus been occasioned in political circles dur- ing tho part week by the annovncoments, ap- Parently made on authority, that both Wash- ‘burme and Oglesby would be candidates for Gov- ernor on tho Republican ticket. If thls bo true it will materially change tho complexion of affairs. If olther of the gentlemen named actually come out for tho pluce In good faith (t 4s vory likoly that Col, Fort will-not bea candi- date for the position, and it will push aside all other aspirants, leaving tho two men named to make tho race agalnet each other, The northern part of the Stato would be almost solld for Washburne, and thus inauro him tho noming- tion.” —_ Water meters are belng Introduced tn Now York as unexpediont to stop tho recklosa waste of water that his become such an ox ponstyo evil in all lurge olties, But thetr intro- duction la being attended by a large amount of growling because euch tenant 1s charged 837 por annum for the uso of the motor, ‘Thus, tho man who pays only $15 water (ax for the yoar now, la naturally dissatisfied when hls bill for the year amounts to ®, Inoluding the uso of tho machine that the city supplies for monsur ing the water, Conaumers say that those who soll goods gonerally furnish thelr ows measures ‘and senlos, und that tho city ought not to make thom pay for menauring the water, re * i ‘THe Nashville (‘Tenn.) American: “Wo predicted long ayo that Washburne would bo tho dark horse, Watch hin, Nobody talks Washburne, Ho nelther pushes himeclf nor is pushed, but he gently uttracta attention to the fact that ho {4 not doad by coming out for Gov- ernor in Hlinole. When {t appears that Orant ts dead, which {a rapidly coming to puss; that Shor- man has the South, but no'streoyth in the North, outside of Obio; that Blaine can't get the Bouth- orn voto,—Wuahburne will take tho ray off the bush." el AN luattentive or careless reader writes as follows: % ai ery oi oi (cago “omokaes Feuer 2 note with alutm the Proposition outlined in_ yesterday's paper to False the prico of Tim TRIBUNE, oR un altor Free 10, Foducing tho size by omltting the sup? ‘Tia Trunw distinctly stated that there would be no changu jn its rates. {¢ will continue to be delivered to city subscribers for 26 centa a wook, and 4 cents oxtra for the Sunday edition, The reall price of singlo coples will remain ata nickel, GeEoncx W. ALLEN,“of Milwaukea, ono of the Honost-Money Lesgue sulf-constitu! Committee that went to Washington to hulp Mr, Bayard "wid do legal-tenderizing ob do gropn- hack," and the spokesman of rt turned, and tells tho editor of the Mcrae te Honator Miainolssoundon the Sannciat a tion, and that he will bo tho next, Prosiientay tho United Bfates." Mr. Allert introdneed Mane aa * tho nogt Prestdont of the United state A Milwanke uudionco tn 1872, bd Ir would be 9 good thing If tho Ohta R pnblicans would pool thelr issues on the Pro” dential question and withdraw five uy tholr candilates, and give the othor chance. Tho pall of the Cinelnnaty among the prominont electors hns io Bherman, Garileld, Hayes, Matthows, Dennison ns the first choles of some, Grant was born In Ohl 0 Prog. FBX of States Farety veloped Foster, ang And eve Tne Pittsburg Lost (Dem.) has Noted presenco of Senator Wallace in the State, figu: ing ngainst Titdon, Tho Port says tt does ae hellave he can control tho Pennsylvania detoga tlon ngalast Sly Sammy, and that tho peopte of tho Stato “are honestly against the fraud of ts and for Tilden In 1380." i —————) In the fowa House of Representatives thoro are twico ns many farmers nsof ANY other calling or professton, tho number being tory, alx to twenty-three Inwyers, ‘Iho Indies tary found out thut alx of thom are bachelors, ———— A. cAut Is out for a State Convention to be held og: the 10th and 17th of February at Day, Tox, to discourngo the exodus movement bw Kansas, and to ostablish a colony of colored Peo plo itt Northern Texa © ——— Ir Js estimated that more miles of new mip road will be built in 1860 in tho United stateg than ever before in one year. Tne Albany Journal says that Sento Conkling will not boa candidate before tho tak eago Convention. *Ir has been so warm up in Maine this wie tor that the Ice crop will be leas than usual, ee PERSONALS, Mrs, Ann S. Stephens 1s the oldest livin, Amorican authoress, and Js sald to be nlmoy, destitute, Ex-Goy. Reuben E. Fenton, of New York, is at presont In Arizona looking after some min. ing Interests of his thore, Josh Billings (Henry W. Shaw) ts 63 years old, and bas accumulated o fortune of 810049 by his bnd spelling. ‘Thoso two celebrated benuties—Mrs, Lange try and Col. Nick Smith—are not gotting us much ree advertising as they did a fow yenrs ago, Gov. Foster, of Ohlo, has been made an honorary member of tho Cloveland Light Ar - tillery, probably ‘in recognition of his recent successful boom, ‘Miss Iarrlet Hosmer fs still endeavoring to discover the secret of perpatuat motion, ant has rented shops nuar Westminster for tho pure pose of carrying on hor investigation. Ason of Minister Comly writes that th Hawallans generally “keep not only their own but overyboily else's holidays; they would like tomako a living keeping other people's holidays for them,” Canon Farrar recently preached In West: minster Abbey n sermon on the 81th annirer- sury of ita founding, and mado touching allustons to many of tho distingulshed persona Snterrod «within Its walls. ‘ The memorial chapel of the Prince Impo- tint is to bo crecsed in a garden between the Are deTrlompho and tho Invalides. Tho cost isto ‘Do $50,000, und tho money has alroady been sub- seribed. In regurd to the proposed yislt of the ex-Empross Eugénio to Zululand, it can only to anid that sho expects to start some thine during tho early part of March, and will be accompanied by Bir Evelyn Wood. Count Massena, a son of Napoleon’s Fle Marshal Mussona, died in the Poor-House fn Salt Lake Cityn few days ago, In an obituary of this man tho Snit Lake Trittne goes around tho maxim, “Of the dead speak nothing unlesd gdod," and asertves hia low end toa carcerof mennness and rapacity such ns marked his moet notorious futhor's fe, Tho wifo of tho deceased ig now a domestic {na Sult Luke family. , Ah Tong is an observing Celestial, who serves ni tho humblo capacity of dishwasher at tho Palace cating-stand. Tha Amoriean cock: tall boing a mystery to bim, ho has been watch ing its operations. This morning he explained; “Ono Mellean man he come In be say, * Dineby mo ketchum bleakfus.’ Ho dlink won cocktail, ho ny, ‘Please cook ma bleakfas.’ He dlink1w cooktall, he say, ‘Gimme bleakfns plutty quick? Plutty soon he dlink tle cocktail, ho yell loud, cyt hello! whero thunder my bleakfas?’ Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise, When Bishop Simpson once apologized to Gon. Grant for making n suggestion astos imilltary movoment, tho General repled: “Tho geveral outlines of a campalgn are matteract pure common-sense. Clviliaus cnn form just s6 good an iden asimilitary men, White a military education and oxperlenco aro casentinl to tha conductors of a campaign, as weil for tho handling of the nen ua for tho prepuration ef their supplies, accoutrements, transportation, ote, the gonorel thonght or plan Ja a imatter equally platy to man of good common-sense.” Mr. Wiliam TH. Vanderbilt has just mada Amuniiicent gift tothe University of Virginia. ‘The ollicints of that Institution, dealring to muko avallable tho ylift of Mr. Is. J, McCormick of bis noblo telescopes, authorized Gen.‘ George D Johnston to visit New York, and, if poselble, ob- tain funds for that purpose, Gen. Jobnstom after culling upon a fow gentlemen, had on In terview with Mr. Vanderbilt, doubtless wth some hope of receiving n dunution. Jus delight may therefore be Imugined when Mr. Vanderbilt at down and wrote him a check, which he quietly banded to him. Tho check was for $25,000. Gen, Grant, In ono of ifs conversations at sen with John Russell Young, alluded to certaln ofleera who were buried fn the ataff, and did not rise, “Ingalls, for instanco, remained Quarter: muator of tho Army of tho Potomsa durtng all the commands, and did a great work, Ingallain comnmand of the troops would, in iny oplafon, huve becomo u great and fam us Genorale I the command of the Army of the Poteau bed ever becoma vacant, I would have given It to Ingalls. Horaco Porter waa lost in tho stat Like Ingalls, he was too useful to bo sparc. But 08 a commander.of truops Porter would have rlscn, in ny opinion, to a high command. The introduction of Minlster Andrew Dy White to Count Bfottke, at one of tho courte tortalnmenta, was rathor amusing, ‘The gentle man introduced Mr, White by saying: “Count, lot me presont to you a gentleman from Ammer jen, who waa born fo Homer, Hyves in Syracteey and bas founded a university at Ithaca.” The upion of classical names ruthor puzzicd te Count... Mr, White oxplatned tho geographical inuddle by saying that the custom formerly bad beer in Amories to select names from antiquity for the niuiny new towns coming into existences but that now names of tho heroes of modem tines wero chosen, and that in the Far West of the United States there wero already places which bad heen christened Moltke, ‘Tho 3tinlt (or's neat turn of tho mattor ereated a general amila, in which the Count jolncd, saying that be should like nothing bottor thin to go ta America and visit one of his geographical numesakes. In Mmo, Do Rémusat's “ Memolrs of, the Private Lifo of Napoleon and Josephine” oe sone vory Interesting dotalls of tho Imper! household. Napoloon’s jnoaine wns about Fe 100,000 & your, oxcluslve of whut be took for tho sccrut servico and other funds, He allow’ himself $8,000 a yenr for hia drvs, Jo is ¥ t kuown that, if an artlelo of clothing did not aul hitn oxuotly, either {1 make or material, it condemned, ond that be waa greatly given fuking or grensing his white brooches, and t¢ burning his boots by using bia boot for a poker cepeciully when bo wus angry or excited. us usiully rogo at 7, If bo wakonod in the nish he frequently bathed, ato, or worked before 50 ing to sloop nyuin, Ho suffered from a f : stomuoh, and often fanctod that ho bad Lt polwonod. It took M, Do Rémusut a long time tench hin to shayo Limeclf; the Chusubertale was moved to this through Nupotcon’s vis! unteusiness when In the barber‘s hands. If 8 BOF mont did not please him, it was torn of ant thrown on the floor or.into tho fire, Jn trim ming te. nails, of which to was valle ul coustioss pairs of sclasora, that wore off-bund If thoy wore uot sbarp. The only Pe fume he was partlal to was colugno, of which required sixty bottles # month. Ho ste hae dryuk ttle, though bo was yury fond of coltee At dinner be had oyorything auved at once, A fod at bazurd, often taking onpam Ora awoots before touching the entefos