Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1880, Page 4

j i 1 tf 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. Wednesday evening occurred 22 seconds later The Tribune. | TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. edition. one Fear... 2-00 year, 0 x onday, and Saturda; S99 ‘Monday ‘ednesday, and Friday S00 Saturday or Sundar, 3-59 Ang other das. per year. w ut of te, Specimen copies sent free, Give Post-Oftice address in full, including State and + County. {emittances may be made either by draft, expross, Post-Ottice order, or in letter, at onr risk. TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Svuily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cemts per week. Daily. delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison und Dearborn-sts. Chicago, UL POSTAGE. Evctered at the Post-Offce at Chicago, I, as Second- Cluss Matter, Ferthe benefit of our patrons who desire to send single copies of THE TRIBUNE through the mall, We give herewith the transient rate of postage: Domenic. Fight and Tweive Page Paper. Siateen Page Paper. Ficht and Twelve Page bixtecen Page Paper TRIBUNE BRAN OFFICES. ‘THE CHICAGO TRIRCNE has established branch oftces for the receipt vf subscriptions und advertise- mente as tolot Fappex, Manacer. W,. Scutland—Allan’s American News Renfield-st. ‘, Ens.—American Exchange, 49 Strand. SOCIELY MEETINGS. APOLIO, COMMANDERY, ‘NO. 1. K. ‘T.—Special Conclave Tuesdas evening, March 2%, 1eQ.até o'clock rowpt. The Order of the ited Cross will be conterred. een ‘ot Apollo most appear us Hed Cross Knights. Sir Rnighis of oller Communderies sre always wel- come. By order of the Eminent Commander. iL. TLYFANY, Recorder. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, NO.@, It, A. 3L.—Stated Convocation Mondar evening, March at 3 o'elve Ayr work ony the a 1, YY. M., pre fre E. : ea aba a {iuitinge companions are courteouste” ( OR Ot ee eHiORERT MALCUM, ALB. HL P. JOHN 0, DICKERSON, Secretary. NO. 18, K. T.—Special Conclave Monday evening, Sareh 218i) at 7 o'clock, “Business of impyriange. A full stvendance enieh are courteously in- JOH H. WITBECK, EC. CHICAGO COMMA: Fequested. | Visiting Sir Fite order o HIRAM 4. JACOBS, Recorder. A. F. and A. 3L— Special Commun Tinthian Hall, 1s hiost important business. The members are requested to be present. Visitors eurdially invived._ Br urder or Geo. aA. Wait, Wo WAL KELL sec. J.ADY WASTUXGTON CHAPTER, NO. 28, 0. ES. will ea ar ani evening, March tt postponed from 2s inst). Guy evening, MATURS RATE CREED, Secreiary. NO.%, R.A. M—Hall 76 Convocation Monday ‘evening, wo'eloek, Work «1 the M. M. Degree me. By order of. WAL K. FORSYTH, ME. HL P. Secretary. WAL J. BRY AR, IC. HAPTER, NO. 1%, B.A. M.—Hall 134 See eaten cecal’: Centoortion” Moudey arenty-secund-st—Special evening at 7 o'clock sharp, Work on the M.. P-. and M. fc. Desrees, Visiting compantons cordially invited. By order ot the MEH. BLY SMITH, Secretary. EXCELSIOR LODGE. NO. 3, KNIGHTS OF PYTHLAS—ive their annual ball at Greenebaum’s ‘i, Members of the Fraternity ure ex- Eitedat uke dour.” Youmresuectfalie tw PGs Be ed at . Yours respectfully tn F.C. a Ors NOERECUTIVE COMSITTTEE. NATIONAL LODGE, NO. '3. A. F. & A. M.—Stated Communication Tuesday evening. March 21 iss). Im- Portant bupiness and work, Visiting brethren cordi- thy i et if ailsinsited. By omer ol Ww. OSTRANDER, W. ML A.C. WOOD, Secretary. D.C.CREGIER LODGE, NO. 65, A. F. and A. M— Re: Communication Wednesday eventog, Marc -welock sharp, for business and work. Visi ren curdiills invited. By onier of the W.SL JOHN GINOCHIO, Secretary. FAIRVIEW CHAPTER, NO. 161, R.A. M.—Regular Convocation Thursday evening, March 35, 1590, at 7:30. Visiting companions are always welcume. ILS. TIKFANY, SCE. HL PL MYRON HARRIS, Secretary. D. A. CASHMAN LODGE. NO. 68, AF. & A. 3 The funeral of Brother L. ‘t. Clark will be heid ut his residence. No. 86} West Monroe-st., at 1p. m1. 10<ay. The brebren are requested to Ge present, mad ws many ns desire to attend the body to Graceland. GEORGE W. SMITH, W. 31 e order OUND. at CARI M.D, Commander. J.0, DICKERSON, Recorder. SNUDAY, MARCH 21, 1990. Costox Congo tea, which sold in London at 26 cents last November and 2 cents in January, now sells at 1534 cents. Tue Connecticut Legislature has refused to pass the bill giving women the privilege of voting on the license question. ‘Tre principal English sporting papers agree in saying that Paroleshould be awarded first place in the race for the Liverpool Cup. Tue King of Greece is under the necessity of forming a gew Cabinet. In consequence ot the adverse vote recorded a few days ago the Ministry has resigned. A Lovistana bank Presiaent named Ed- ward C. Paimer has been convicted of em- bezzling the funds of his bank, and sentenced to taree years’ hard Jabor. A senrous railroad accident occurred at Halle, Saxony, yesterday. Two trains col- lided. Result, the killing of seven passen- gers and the smashing of several railway carriages. Tuosas B. Leccet and Daniel W. Leeds, two ex-officials of the City of Elizabeth, N. J., were found guilty yesterday of conspir- ing to cheat that city by buying bonds at low figures and turning them in the Sinking Fund at par. PROBALY asa preliminary step towards the expulsion of the religious orders, the French Commissioners of Police have been instructed to furnish a detailed report in re- gard to those orders residing in Paris and the provinces. Gaxnon, a discinile of Denis Kearney, and one of his most blatant Hicutenants, yesterday received the same sentence as his chief, and followed the example of that doughty personage by taking an appeal io the higier Courts. THERE was another row in the Italian Chamber of Deputies yesterday, during which the President left his seat and offered his resignation, which was not accepted, however. If this kind of business continues the Democratic caucuses must look to their laurels. =e Taere is apparently no rest for Senator Ben Hill. Miss Raymond called at his resi- dence yesterday and created quite a scene. She said that it was her intention to leafe her child, Tommy Ifill, with his father, whom. she insisted was none other than the Georgia Senator. Oscar Locknean, a Flint :(Mich.) bank bookkeeper, was yesterday convicted of em- bezvling $4,700 of the bank funds and cover- ing up-the transactions by fraudulent entries. The least sentence which Lockhead, who was a Colonel of the State Militia, can re- ceive is five years in the State Prison. Tae Thunderer has come forward again. with gratis advice to the Government of the United States in reference to the Panama Canal. It states that the Monroe doctrine hhas never been recognized as a principle of differently about this matter, and are ready to back up their convictions when the occa- sion demands it. The United States needs ho patronage from the nations of Continental Europe, and is not disposed .to guide its ac- tion accordmg to the advice of the London THE first County Convention of this State to select delegates to the Springfield Con- vention met at Geneva, Kane County, yester- day, and the victory was with the Blaine men,—seven of the thirteen delegates favor- ing the nomination of that gentleman. Eugene Canfield was indorsed for Attorney- General. | AFTER groping around for a considerable time Lord-Mayor, Gray, of Dublin, has at tength found an Irish constituency to adopt him asa Parliamentary candidate. He will Jead a forlorn hope against Mr. Kavanagh, the champion of the Irish landlords in what O'Connell once called the cul-de-sac of Ire- land, the County of Carlow. Ex-Senator CumistiaNcy’s friends state that there is not a particle of trath in the charges inade by his young wife against his honor and sobriety, and claim that she makes them for the purpose of letting herself down easy, as the evidence of her unfaithfulness is of such a character that. no Court cun refuse ‘to grant an unconditional divorce. Pror. Sawyen’s new electric lamp for household illumination is said to give 3 pure W YOR! Ttoom 29 Tribune Building. F.T.Mc-C steady light, and is very easily regulated. The cost of illuminating by means of this lamp is estimated at one-fourth the expense of gas. It is to be sincerely hoped that Prof. Sawyer’s discovery may prove of more gen- uine value than previously reported ones of the same kind “Tae Democrats of the’ Sixteenth Ward have broken faith with the- Republicans of the same ward placing-a candidate of action on the part of the Bourbons will be the election of the Socialist candidate, unless the respectable Democrats ignore the behests of the party bosses and vote for the inde- pendent candidat. Tse City Council tackled the Appropria- tion bill again Jast evening, and cut off the irem for extra police, reduced the appropria- tion for street-iamps, and made a few changes of minor importance. but still the total is $22,000 in excess of the 2 per cent limit. The Mayor intimated after the adjournment that the eagle-bird would apply its whetted beak to some of the items. A party consisting of abuut 130 of the solid men of the South arrived in Chicago yesterday and spent the day in looking over the city and visiting our principal business houses. They were filled with admiration at the beauty of our city and the enterprise of our merchants. They could not help con- trasting this city with the ex-hogopolis, much to the detriment of the latter. Jomx C.GRIBLER, whose case has occu- pied the attention of Judge Moran’s court for some days, was yesterday sentenced to two months’ imprisonment in the County Jail for contempt of court in bribing a juror. Judge Moran also promised to present the case to the Grand Jury for their considera- tion. This.incident may have a somewhat wholesome effect on the class of persons who hang round the courts and are neitber law- yers nor business-men. Tue Emperor of Austria told the British Ambassador to his Court that in conse- quence of Mr. Gladstone’s disapproval of Ausiria’s foreign policy he hoped that the Tories might win in the approaching elec- tions. This having reached the ears of Mr. Glaastone, he retorted with even more than his usual warmth, and denounced Anstria’s foreign policy in no halting terms, and the country itself as the unflinching enemy of freedom in every country of Europe, as a na- tion which in allits history could not point to one single place where it had done good. Were Mr. Gladstone Preinier at the present time there would be some lively diplomatic correspondence between EhglandandAustria, ‘Tue combat deepens in England. Liberal leaders are unsparing im their de- nunciations of the Tory Government and all its works and pomps. Speaking at Birming- ham last night, Mr. Bright denounced the present Parliamentas the worst of modern Parliaments, and the present administration as the worst ever brought up for judgment. Mr. Gladstone is equally bitter, and exceed- ingly prolific, his speeches occupying more space in the English dailies than those of all the other candidates taken together. The Tories are conducting a quiet campaign, and hope to succeed through a profuse ex- penditure of money, but the Liberals are con- fident and defiant, and dre carrying the war into the enemy’s.camp. The contest is one of strategy against principle, and it looks now as if strategy would fail One of the features of the campaign is the growing tendency to indulge in personalities, and it would seem as if the future American Dickens might have large material for a volume of caustic English Notes, THE CITY BUDGET. ‘The appropriations for the support of the City Government will this year be changed in their arrangement, and be classified under the laws of 1879. Thus, last year the appro- Priations by the City Government were made in the lump, and there was no limitation, save in the discretion of the Council, upon the. aggregate of the appropriations. The law of the last Legislature, however, limited the an- nual tax-levy for manicipal purposes to 2 per cent on the taxable valuation of the property in the city. This law limits the tax-levy, and, of course, the appropriations, to $2,357,000, But it has been decided by the Supreme Court that the support of schools is inde pendent of the ordinary municipal purposes, and, therefore, appropriations and tax-levy tor that object may be made in addition to the regular appropriations. Appropriations and tax-levies for the payment of interest ($675,- 000) and for judgments ($73,000) are also inde- pendent, and appropriations and tax-levies may, therefore, be made as large in thé aggre- gate as heretofore. The Board of Education has been most ex- travagant in its demands. It has asked fora tax-levy of $1,056,000 in addition to the $200,000 schoo! revenue it otherwise receives, making a total of $1,256,000 for schools for a single year! The Finance Committee pro- posed to reduce this a little by taking off $236,000, leaving the School Board still over $1,000,000 to spend; but the Council has re- jected this small reduction and voted the whole $1,256,000 for seliool purposes. This includes $60,000 for new sites and $260,000 their own in the field. The result of this ( ‘The ficulty. ‘There isa limit to the regular ap- propriations. The $2,257,000 cannot be ex- ceeded for ordinary expenditures, or the whole tax-levy Will be void. The Council has loaded down the ordinance with log- rolling appropriations for viaducts and new bridges, for increase of the Police and Fire Departments, for extra sewer construction, and various other appropriations, consider- ably in excess of the legal limit, The Alder- men have twice gone over the list of items, one after the other, but have been unwilling to reduce the total within the limit allowed by law. ‘The friends of special jobs and grabs refuse to yield a dollar, and now, at the last moment, there is a combination to strike out the $100,000 for the canal pumps and purification of the Chicago River, risk- ing the creation of a pestilence in the city, and leading to legal proceedings by the cities and towns along the Nlinois River to compel the City of Chicago to carry its sewage into the lake. Such proceedings would operate to the injury of the city to the extent of mill- ions of dollars, besides poisoning the entire water-supply of the inhabitants. ” ‘There are appropriations for bridges now in: the ordinance which nine-tenths of the Council know ought not to be there, and have been only inserted to aid certain unde- serving, upopular, and unfit Aldermen to be reélected, and which every member expects the Mayor to veto. But these appropria- tions, nevertheless, swell the total toa sum beyond the legal limit, and the total appro- priations cannot be reduced and made legal by the Mayor’s veto. The City Council should suspend this ehild’s play. They should act like sensible anen, They should strike out all the appro- priations for objects which can be postponed. a year Jonger; and the public will hold: those who refuse or reject the appropriation for the pumps and purification of the river toa strict responsibility for their sacrifice of the public interest. : THE CHINESE. In nearly every discussion of the Chinese question too much stress has been laid upon individual] objectionable features. Itis either the immoralities of the Mungolians, their dis- eases, uncleanness, vicious habits, pauper labor, or their condition as coolies, that are urged as reasons why their reception among us should be discouraged, if not prevented. enough, not only against the Chinese, but would be just as strong against any other nationality that seeks our shores, if it could be shown that they were possessed of them. Nevertheless, all combined haye not the force of the more general phase of the Chinese question, namely: the antagonism of two totally dissimilar and irreconcilabie systems of civilization, as an argument why the further spread of the Asiatic system should be stopped, by every method of peaceful re- sistance. This broad and philosophical view of the subject is-at last beginning to attract attention, and was recently discussed in the Californian magazine in such a forcible and dignified manner that we use some of its points in presenting the subject to our own readers. ‘These two civilizations which have met on the Pacific Coast are as far apart from each other as the two peoples. It is apparent at a glance that their elements and character- istics are radically diverse, and are so grounded and established by the evolution of centuries that there is no point of contact between them that is not hostile to the hope of unity or even of sympathy. Neither can absorb the other, and in the course of time one or the other must in the nature of things give way. The Chinese have now been in this -country for thirty-three years, during which time they have been subject to the influences of our Government, laws, religion, society, and manner of thought, and are to-day as unin- fluenced by them as the inhabitants of the moon. They have brought their own re- ligion or superstitition, and set up their owa temples and gods. They hold themselves amenable to their own Chinese laws, and subjects of the Chinese Government. Their modes of life are the same as:those of their ancestors of forty centuries ago. Even if they were willing to’ adopt the forms of our civilization, which they despise, they are in- capable of doing so, owing to the force of the habits and heredity which have been im- pressed upon them through immemorial centuries, running far back of the birth of the Anglo-Saxon civilization, Other peoples come here and readily adopt the methods of our civilization, become Americanized, take their places in the great mass of humanity as good citizens, and in course of time are in- distinguishable from the native-born. The Chinese, however, remain Chinese, and do not absorb a single characteristic of our civilization. The writer in the: Californian to whom we have alluded illustrates the rapid spread. of Chinese influences in a very forcible man- ner. He shows that the first who came were laborers of the lowest order, who only worked under the direction of superiors, and the superiors at that time were Americans. Now there are thousands of Chinese proprie- tors and managers who direct the labor of their fellows, and who have entered into competition with American employers, com- pelling them to employ labor of the same grade. Wherever they refuse to employ Chinese labor it entails loss, and only serves “to multiply Chinese proprietors and new openings, and the Chinese continue to pour in as before.” They are learning to use the accumulations of years as capital stock, and are already controlling nearly all the shoe and cigar factories of San Francisco, and driving former employers from their business. In the way of garden- ing none but a few Italians are left to con- tend against them, and they even begin to appear as farmers and landed proprietors. “Even the American who employs Chinese ag. laborers finds that he caznot compete with these, because the Chinese farmer brings raw recruits from China for his farm, by a Process unknown to the American; and, being bound to him by contracts made in China fora term of years,~—which to break involves more to them than life itself,—they gladly and faithfully work for three dollars a month.” What is the result of all this? White emigration to California has come to & standstill, and thousands of white laborers are quitting California and moving into the Northern Territories, where but few China- men have yet penetrated; for Chinamen are never pioneers, but wait until others have pre- pared the way, and then come in and thrive. The process of displacement has thus begun, and unless Chinese emigration is stopped it must coutinue at the expense of the white race; for it is oné of the lessons of experience that, while the higher type of man may con- quer-the lower and govern him for a time, if the lower can produce.as much by their labor,” produce it cheaper, and live on much Jess, for new buildings, and some $100,000 addi- tional for furniture, etc. This is wild, reck- Jess extravagance and unwarranted by the needs of the city and by its means of pay- ment. It is justified on the pretext that there are 20,000 children clamoring to get into the .public schools for whom there is no room: but the fact is concealed that 15,000 of this number are attending Catholic schools, and that neither their priests nor parents would allow them to attend the public schools, and . that a considerable part of the remainder are. attending private schools. “ international law even in its most restricted sevse, The peoplé of the Uuited States think But the Council has met with another dif- the superior race will in time become like them or disappear.a This is the core of the problem that con- fronts the American people unless Chinese emigration is checked. At present we are en- couraging the peopling of this country with an inferior race, and one which always will be inferior; with a race which has nothing in common with our civilization, and never can have; with a race which can almost work for nothing and subsist upon nothing: with a race that is loathsome and filthy to the last degree; and with arace which in six thousand years has not yet attained to the All these characteristics are objectionable‘ { moral sense or possession of a conscience. If this emigration continues it can only be at the expense of the Anglo-Saxon race. The Chinese will not but our own people will, and, as the opportunities open for their coming, they will pour over here in still greater num- bers, for the capacity of China as a breeding- ground is illimitable. ‘They increase by nat- ural laws faster than they cau leave, and every thousand of them who come here must supplant an equal number of our white peo- ple, and degrade their: labor, if they do not starve them out. The tide of emigration from other and more desirable countries is large enough to supply the wants of this country. Is it not time, therefore, to dis- crimninate against any further accessions from the most undesirable people on earth ? There is probably no form of social irrita- tion more exasperating than meddling, what- ever may be the intentions of the meddler. They may spring from a sincere desire to be of benefit, or they may arise from mere vul- gar curiosity, for curiosity is always vulgar; human nature always resents it as an in- yasion of personal rights, and the nose which inserts itself into the affairs of its neighbor nearly always carties away some external sign of the neighbor’s protest. The nose may even fancy it is doing the neighbor a benefit, and may be innocent of any offense, and yet this does nof mitigate the force of the tweak it receives. There are various forms of this meddlesomeness, the worst of all being that practiced by the curious busy- body. Her mission isto interfere with the domestic economies, to pry into the affairs of the household, to observe who comes in and who goes out, tu watch the deliveries of goods at the door, upon favorable occasions to invade the house on various pre- texts, criticise the furniture and the pictures, make suggestions as to the management of the children, bring gossip from other houses and gather gossip to take away, to furtively examine contents of closets and drawers, when the opportunity offers slip into the kitchen and question servauts, raise dissatis- faction in their minds by intimating how much this one gets and how handsomely that one is treated, investiggte wardrobes, and in gen- eral interfere and pry into everything in the house, Hardly less exasperating is the gos- siper, whose interference is not less active because it is indirect. Gossip needs no foundation of fact. It arrives at its decisions by inference, and it. matters little whether the premises are true or false. It can invent the most elaborate ‘fictions upon the very thinnest of materiaL ‘The victim of gossip is usually a pérson who has no oppor- tunity to retaliate, and whose chief de sire is to .be Jet alone;, a quiet, unpretentious person, who nefer meddles with the affairs of others, and yet is made the constant butt ot small talk, rumor, and malicious tattle. ‘The more resolutely he may strive to keep his purposes to himself, the more persistently they are discussed, and the more courageously also, because the vic- tim has no way of vindication or resentment even. There is another sort of interference, which comes in the way of advice. The in- tention may be entirely charitable, and the adviser may be influenced by a sincere motive to benefit the unwilling recipient. It takes various shapes, sometimes in a business way, sometimes in social suggestions, more fre- quently in the persistent devotion of benev- olent old ladies ,to wayward youth of both sexes, in the matter of informing them how much better things’ were done when they were children, There is no question that the youth ‘of to-day needs ad- vice from its seniors, but, unfortu- nately, there are tgd many of the seniors who make it a kind of professional duty to interfere with everything that young people do, bringing them up witha round turn at every step, the result of which either is, that the youth gradually becomes a weak and docile nonentity or a headstrong, fractious, passionate remonstrant, who ultimately kicks himself cfear ont of the harness and runs away. hese disastrous results come from the ignoring of personal rights, an idea which is very strong in youth,—as well asof liberty of judgment and action, which every young person likes to exercise. They do not ‘like authority even in those whe have the Tight to exercise it; still less do they like it in outsiders, who, as they fancy, have no right to exercise it at all. There is no form which meddlesomeness. can take that does not meet ‘with violent remon- strance or resentment, and yet probably there is no form of social irritation which has more laudable motives behind 1t. The misfortune is,that it becomes a kind of habit, exercised so long and so persistently that it fails to make the proper discrimina- tions as to the urgency of the situation or the propriety of its exercise. Its principal cause of aggravation is its utter ignoring of per- sonal rights and its assumption of personal authority. Because A does not act as B would, therefore B assumes to advise or meddle with A-without once considering that A thinks he has the right to act so. Every person has certain peculiarities, cer tain methods of enjoyment, certain habits of his own to which he claims undisputed right and any interference with which he will al- ways resent. . The cases are very rare where aperson has a safficiently philosophic tem- perament to let such interference have no effect upon him, There may be cases where aman is rushing upon his ruin, or is acting in such a manner as to interfere with so- ciety, and in such cases meddlesomeness is proper; but, as a rule, it only provokes trouble, arouses fierce opposition, and Plunges everything into confusion, and Teallyethwarts the efforts of benevolent people who are bent upon doing good. Pos- sibly in some distant utopian phase of soviety there may come 2 time when the meddier will have noth- ing to do, but at present there is little prospect of the suppression of this most aggravating and irritating bore. He will probably continue his work though he gets no thanks for it, and interpose himself in others’ affairs in!which he has no interest, eventhough he meets the fate of the go-be- tween who manifested an interest in the quarrel between the husband and wife and received a joint,pummeling from them for his pains. The only remedy is to cultivate a placid, philosophical disposi tion that pays no regard to interference, letting it pass by as the idle wind. It is useless to attempt to suppress it, for the despair of the situation is, that, while nearly every one is disposed to resent meddlesomeness with his or her af- fairs, nearly every one feels called upon to meddle with the affairs of others. THE SECRET OF NIHILISM. In our last issue we discussed the purposes and aims 01 bilism, as gathered from its newspapers, Pamphlets, and public pronun- ciamentos, showing that the destruction of the Government is its principal purpose and that assasfuation is recognized by it as a legitimate agency for the accomplishment of that result. The news contained in our foreign dispatches, that the Government is wavering in its support of Gen. Melikoff, the new Dictator, and is inclined to adopt amore pacific policy, aswell as a more liberal pro- gram, in dealing with the grievances of the people, lends new interest to the considera- tion of Nihilism, because if this news be true the Government has taken a step that suffer,’ will go far towards suppressing Nihilism by arraying the Russian people against it. The last number of the Nation calls aften- tion to 2 series of remarkable articles that have recently appeared in the Revue des Deux Mfondes upon Russian life and politics, writ- ten by M. Leroy-Beaulied, one of which touches upon Nihilism, and goes more deeply into that mysterious subject, than anything we have seen before. In formulating their designs against society, and especially against the Government, they have progressed no further than anarchy. Nihilism is simply 2 horrible nightmare, It literally means an-~ nihilation. It would strike down the present régime and destroy the existing condition of things, but it suggests no substitute. It offers no reforms, no plans for a better condition of things, but simply pro- poses to reduce everything to anarchy first through the agencies of assasination, incendiarism, and violence. Its membership is mainly composed of young men who are afflicted with that pessimistic idea so common among certain classes of educated young men that everything which exists is wrong, and that they have beén designated as the agents to set it right. According to M. Le- roy-Beaulien, the Nihilists, instead of using the existing social and political machinery to effect reforms, would destroy it. Their first step is annihilation, Beyond this they have nothing definit in view. Having reduced everything to indiscriminate ruin, then they will proceed to inaugurate some new régime of which at present they have no idea, Everything that can be called a social insti- tution—government, society, family, and re- ligion—must first be overthrow® and de- stroyed. One of them, being asked what his doctrines were, replied: “Take the earth and heaven, Church and State, take Kings and Deity, and spit on them; that’s our «doc- trine.” - Turgeneff, the novelist, says that at Heidelberg a Nihilist paper was issued by Russian students who had been expelled from their own colleges, the motto of which was: “I spit on all comers.” In seeking for the causes of Nihilism, Af. Leroy-Beaulieu finds them located in the wild hopes and utopian ideas that were stimulated first by the emancipation of the serfs and afterwards intensified by the in- crease of college education, which in its literature has given the widest scope to the wildest social speculations as to the great changes which are to occur in the social sys- tem. Curiously enough, much asthe peasant class has suffered from the injustice and op- pression of land laws as burdensome asthose which weigh down upon Ireland’s prosperity, and warmly as they would welcome the possibility held out to them by Nihilism that they might, become the owners of the land they cultivate, its doctrines have made no impression upon them, and it has never re- eruited' a single. adherent from their ranks, As the Nation says: They have generally been students, or Gov- ernment employés, or small shopkeepers, or traders, or old 4ldiers. ‘The core of the move~ ment seems to be composed of students, both male and femule, in whose pessimism the recent reforms have sown the seeds of an immense und funutical faith in the possibility of a sort of ma- Teriglistic heaven on earth us soon as the ground hus been cleared of existing institutions. And this faith hus many of the charucteristics of a religious enthusiusm of the old sort. Many of the young inenand women on whom it hus seized. are knowti to have given up wealth,.and social position, and iuxury to become part of the peo te Whose misery they expect. w put an end to. They have made themselves laborers and arti- sans, and entered: workshops on small daily wages, so us to have a full sense of the sorrows and privations of the people; and most of the propagandists of this sort ure, as might ve ex- pected, women. In fuct, it is among the women that the new faith shows itself in tho strangest ways. They have furnished Nibilism with its Most courugeous missionaries and martyrs, and with the most auducious expression of its ‘con- tempt for social conventions. Retlecting again the spirit of M. Leroy- Beaulieu’s deductions, the. Nation says: ‘The more probable explanation, if explanation iteun be called, of the phenomenon is, that we are witnessing the display in a very striking form of some of the pecullarities of tempera- ment of the Slay race, uf which, in spite of the large space of Europemn soil it bas covered ever since the fullof the Roman Empire, but very little bus as yet been known. But it ‘is certain that there is no other great division of the pop- ulstion of the western world in which race chi ucteristics have been preserved in such puri which bas been go little madified by crossing with other breeds, and in which the earlier founts of feeling and motive have been so-litde affected by modern civilization. The growth of the Russian Empire, which now furnishes the Great mystery and murvel of recent bi: . rought this race for the firrt tine prominently into view, and it may be that Mib'lism is but the first of the surprises which its fui contact with the ideas ot the older world nus in store for us. In estimating the effects of the acfion of the Government, especially of the new pa- cific policy, should it prove to be true, it must be taken into account that there is an- other class of the Russian people, far ex- ceeding the Nihilists in numbers, who are discontented with the Government on ac- count of its absolutism. They desire repre- sentation and a constitutional form of gov ernment similar to those in Western Europe. They chafe against the suppression of indi- vidual freedom and the refusal to. grant po- litical liberty. They have no sympathy with the violent processes by which Nihilism operates or with its policy of plunging the Empire into a condition of anarchy, and yet, without lending their help, remain as passive spectators. Should the Government, how- ever, inaugurate the political reforms they demand, unquestionably they would ral its assistance, and with their help Nihilism would soon cease to exist, as nearly the en- tire Empire would be arrayed against it, ASTRONOMICAL. Chicago (TRIBUS office), north latitude 41 deg. 52m. 5is.; west longitude, 42m. 18s. from Wash~- ington, and 5h. 50m. 30s. from Greenwich. ‘The subjoincd table shows the time of setting and rising of the moon's lower limb, and the official time for lighting the first street-lamp in each circuit in this city, during the coming week, untess ordered sooner on account of bad weather. Also the following times for extinguishing the first lamp: Light.- Extinguish. 430 a.m. 1:40 a.m. ‘The sun's upper limb rises Monduy at 5h.58{m.- a.m. Souths at 6m. 46.23, p.m. Sets at 6h. 15m. p.m. ‘The sun’s upper limb rises Friday at 5:51% a. m. Souths at Sm, 32.3s. p. m. Sets at 6h. 20m. p. m. Sidereal time Thursday noon, Ob. 14m. 14.723. The moon will be at the full next Friday, tho 26th, at Th. 33m. a. m., being the first full moon after the vernal equinox, which occurred last Friday. Hence next Sunday will be Easter,—ac> cording to the rule of the “Christian” part of the world. Mercury is near the sun this week. His ine ferior conjunction wilt cteur next Sunday. Venus is a morning star, rising before the sun. Thursday she will rise at 4:57 a. m., and south at 10:2 2. m. Aen Mars is an evening star, but a less interesting object thana few weeks ago, as his distance from us is widening, Thursday he will south at 5:0f p. m., and set at 0:45 the next morning. He is a little té the northeast of Aldebaran, and the end of this week will be nearly between Beta, and Zeta, the two horn stars of the Bull. Jupiter now rises a few minutes before the sun, baving been in conjunction. last Monday. Next Thursday he will south at 11:37 a, m. Saturn is an evening star, but is near the sun, southing Thursday at 0:52 p. m., and setting at %:10 p.m. His conjunction will occur April 7. Uranus will south Thursday at 10:16 p. m, when he will be 14 degrees east, and &% degree north from Rho Leonis. He is, however, too near the moon this week to be of interest to naked-eye observers; the two bodies will be nearly together Wednesday morning. Neptune is only 2 hours away from the sun— to the eastwasd. than the time calculated from the lunar tables, after applying all known corrections for posi- tion of the observer on the earth’s: surface. ‘The moon was that much “slow,” as she was 25 seconds slow nt the time of the solar eclipse, July 29, 1878. The indicated correction needed in the equations of lunar motion in the orbit, is an increased value of the function depending on the revolution of the nodes. The longitude of the north node is now about 29) degrees; which means that for nearly nine years past her average declination bas been greater than tho mean, The result is that the earth's equatorial protuberance has operated less powerfully than the average, and has not pulled the moon round quite so rapidly as the averago motion. This difference of position of the moon with respect tm the earth's equator has been allowed for in the construction of the Innar ta- bles; but it uppears that the effect has been slightly underestimated, the continuous slowing up during nine and a quarter years and the acceleration during the succeeding nine and a quarter years being estimated at a very small fraction less than the truth. It should be re- membered that the twenty-two seconds above referred to is the accumulation of results of re- tardation during a great number of revolutions, the quantity for any one lunation being so small as to be scarcely detected by the most delicate measurements possible with the improved in- struments of to-day. Those who belicve that the condition of the atmosphere at the date of the equinox is an in- dication of the weather for the .ensuing season maybe interested in knowing that at 23 minutes past llo'clock last Friday night the wind was blowing slightly from the southwest, with an upper current from the south, clouded sky, and mild temperature for the season. —_—_— THE REGISTRATION. ‘The Inst Legislature amended the Election law in such aa@ray a3 to provide for the registra- tion of voters “fur all elections, whether gen- eral, special, local, or municipal,” “in towns which lie wholly within the Umits ‘of an incor- poruted city.” ‘There seems to be some misun- derstanding in regurd to the basis of registra- tion. The law says: Xt shall be the duty of sald Board [of Hegistra- tion] to enter in suid lists the names of all fa ose sons residing in their election district wi numes appeur on the poll-list kept in said dis- trict at the last preceding election, . . . and for this purpose suid Board are authorized to tak from the vilice in which they are filed the potl- lists made by thé judges or inspectors of such district at the election held next prior to the mak- ing of euch register. “ The last preceding election ” in this city was that of last fall, when county officers were Oflicials themselves have construed the law to mean “ the last preceding election” of the same kind as that which is coming on. Hence, the poll-lists of the city election of a year ago have been taken as the basis of the present registra- tion, and the poll-lists of lust fall remain undis- turbed in the custody of the County Clerk. Many voters whose names were on the list in November, but not in Apriln year ago, may go to the polls this year expecting to vote, and be surprised to find that they are not registered. It would be well for all such voters to see next ‘Tuesday week that theirnames are registered In due form. ‘The action of the judges in taking out the old city lists, instead of the county lists, is cer- tainly contrary to the letter, if not spirit, of the Jaw. The intention of the Legislature plainty wns to provide for a complete and uniform registration for “all elections, whether geu- eral, special, local, or municipal.” ‘There is nothing to indicate that the Legisiature meant to provide a diferent registration for each kind of elections,—a town registration, a county registration, a judicial registration, and s0 on. The law expressly provides that “the poll- list kept in said district at the last preced- tg election” shall be the basis of registration; and this provision is both explicit and reasonable. The electors at one kind of election are also electors at the other, and it is imposing an unnecessary restriction upon them to require shat they should register separately for each. vis now, perhups, too late to remedy the de- fect, evenif one has been committed, as the law provides that the first mecting of the Board of Registry, at which only names cun be insert- ed on information and belief, shalt be held three weeks prior to the election. THe Democracy are making immense efforts to improve the personnel of the Board of Aldermen this spring. They are putting forth candidates of whom they may well be proud us regards their literary and intellectual endow- ments, financiul responsibility, inflexible integ- rity, and high respectability. For example, they have placed Tom Stour ja nomination for the Fifteenth and Pat Tierney for the Seventh Ward. Par nobile fratrum! The manifest in- tention uf the Democracy of those two wards Is tobe represented by gentlemen having visible means of support. and they have succeeded to perfection! And then in the other Democratic wards there are such statesmen in training for the nomination as Demosthenes Hildreth, of whisky memory, Pat Carroll, and ex-Commissioner Bradley, who were always anti-ring (over the left) inthe County Board; and the intellectual PatRafferty, and the eloquent,Frank Lawler, the statesmen McNally, Joe Duffey, and Johnny Hannigan of the Tenth, and Sanders of the Second. It will be seen that the Democratic contributions to the next Council must afford lively gratification to all who especially desire honesty and economy in city legislation, as these Proposed candidates, if elected, will feel a deep interest in ascertaining how much taxation, tax- eating, and blackmail the citizens will stand, under the rule of addition, division, and silence. Those Democratic wards are about doing them- selves proud in the choice of representatives. —_—_—_ Ir may turn out better than present symp- toms indicate. But it looks as if the Kepub- Ucans of the First Ward were about to blunder on the Aldermanic nomination. We may as wel whisper to them in confidence that, if they do Not put up as good a man as Dr. Wickersham, the voters of the ward will return the latter. The First Ward is full of independent voters of Republican proclivities who “ vote for the best man” at locul elections; and the name of a certain person mentioned for Alderman doesn't fill that bill. THE so-called Democrats of the Fifteenth Ward have made a magnificent nomination for Alderman. Who does the reader suppose it is ? Tom Stout, of fragrant memory! Let the Dem- Ocrats of the Fiftecuth be heartily congratulated on the respectability of their choice. They are evidently in earnest in their desire to be repre- sented by a reformer in the City Council. Tom Stout; yes, he isa suitable person to represent the taxpayers of that ward,—over the left,—and it is to be hoped he will get left. THe New York correspondent of the Bos- ton Gazette says: The “Jersey” has renched New York, Perhaps you do not know what the “Jersey” is? Allow me to enlighten you. The “Jersey” ig a garment introduced into London by-Mrs. Langtry, and at once made fashionable. ‘To speak plainly, it is little more than a tlannel undershirt. It comes in eyory color, and ig made to fit tight to the figure, and reaches below the hips. It,is very much worn in Nincom- Poopiana. Tue local campaign shouldn’t be embar- rassed by party divisions on National questions. We are not going to sond Blaine, or Grant, or Sherman, or Wastburne to theCommon Council, bat some less distinguished fndividual who lives around the corner or across the street. There are two weeks andtwo days yet in which to work forthe best man and elect him. After that there will be time enough to chuose dele- gates to the County and State Conventions. Tre nice little faction fight in the Twelfth Ward progresses in the sweetest sortof way. One clan entnusiastically indorse Col. Hulbert, mine host of the Sherman. The other throw their hats into the alr for Mr. RP. Williams. Either gentieman will make a good Alderman. By both running it will help wake up the ward and bring the careless voters to a realizing sense of their duties in behalf of a country booming with prosperity. Let ‘em both run. Daives from home by the famine which has swept over their own country, muny Hunga- rians have sought our shores. Within a few weeks past about 700 of these people have landed at Castic Garden, most of whom are almost en- tirely destitute. Employment has been found for many of them in the Pennsylvania mining districts. THE little ring of persons who own dredge-boats and charge the city what they Please for dredging appear to have more influ- ence with the Aldermen than the Board of Pub- chosen. But the election judges and the county” missioner Waller tooth and natl,—| filanthropic motives,—simply wo ee ay from incurring loss. They don't make q = oe 38 or’ 40 cents a yard taking mud out of feet! for the corporation,—of course notin they lose money at it. Certainly they 4 i the sole motive that actuates these public's” ited gentlemen in “seeing” Aldermen ayo suading them to let the job remain in thee trol of the dredge-ring is an absorbing 1s2°°° in the city’s welfare andan antent desire so tect its cash-box! The Aldermen belie oP™ professions of distatorestedaess, an them another $40,000, for which the city, usual, will receive about $15,000 achat service. Senet =—_ Ir is reported that the Mayor is ; sharpening bis pruning-knife, and pation fine edge on it by. tho time the overloagere® propriation bill is presented to him bythe tes?” cil for approval He proposes to take somey the fat out of it, and pare it down to dimenat ct of the taxpayers’ ability to pay. ‘The Mine obese, and the knife should be put into its fakes tines, ‘no matter whose jobs and thereby. arabs wil ster believe thei 4 have soted Mayor Coorer, old Pete’s son, f; squelched the English Salvation Army fy 3° York City, by prohibiting its work in the sea" ‘The members of the bend say that they fing great many hardened sinners in this sou As for Mayor Cooper, Re says he cannot and ej not have unwary pedestrians swooped lone and garroted into giving up favorit sing gen vices which perhaps they may have been oe in acquiring. om METAPHYSICIANS have a theo seems long or short in proportion oot fine and variety of incidents that are crowded intp the individual experience. Whether this is try or not, the time does seem very tong sine, Mayor Harrison went into office. Yet it is still short of a year since he was elected. Can tt be that the number and variety, or want of it of his speeches have anything to do with the ime pressions referred to? ALD. THroop gave the young m North Side an excellent talk Friday nity ma hadn't anything to say about National pots but made it tolerably clear that the City Gor. ernment has been taking the beek track for about a year. It will ve easy to lose in another year all the ground that has been gained by four years of pinching economy and arduous labor, —_— eet Tue St. Gothard Tunnel wilt not be equipped with rails before August, about which time it will be opened for traffic. It {s tobe lighted by gas, and, being straight, Will ventilate itself by a strong current of air Passing end to end. bi Tue Cemetery Board of Greenwood(Brook- lyn) have sat down ou dead dogs. No more pet PUPS oF cats are to be interred in that graveyard. ‘The interment of the last canine in thst ground produced intense-disgust and indignation, . Psevomosma has been very prevalent and fatal this winter, and has carried off some of the best-known citizens of Chicago. ‘Too much care ‘cannot be exercised in this deceptive weather. Coox Cousry is undoubtedly strongly op posed to the third-term nomination, There ig no Organization and no considerable numberof voters who entertain the tdea favorably, ee Tue excellentarticle on “Tammany Hall,” printed in Saturday's Trrause, was erroneously credited to the North American Review. It was taken from the International Review. Harrwany, the King-killer, is coming to the United States; and the sovereign States and people trembie in their boots. Alf kinds of sor- ereignty, it seems. ure doomed. PERHAPS it would save time if the women on Clarence Davis’ route who haven't married him, at one time or another, would signify the same in a letter to the police. ———ae xe Blaine Club have responses from lead- ing men in all parts of the State that seem to indicate that four-fifths of our people are op- posed to the third term. Inxrsors and Jowa are waiting with breath- less Interest to hear who the Democratic States of Texas and Kentucky prefer for a Republican Presidential candidate. Oxe extravagant Common Council can spend all that four years of prudent adminis tration have saved, and not half try. ——= Tne time to hedge on the "Varsity race was providentially extended forty-eight hours, PERSONALS, “§. J, T."—Head up your barrel, and all will be torgiven.—John Kely. Ex-United States Treasurer:Spinner has become a permanent resident of Florida, Austin Dobson wrote no poetry until he was 25 years of age. In writing poetry, un fortunately, it is never too late to begin. - It is very sad to know that Mr. Tennyson, who writes so beautifully about the sweet- smelling violets and blushing roses, chews plug tobacco, but he does. Parole’s mother died last week, and it was very mean of the English to make a grief- stricken orphan carry 128 pounds and expect him to run straight with it. Lullaby, lullaby, baby dear; ‘Thy mamma is sleeping beside thee here? ‘Thy papa is trotting theo on his knees, Go to sleep, baby, or papa will freeze. —Tennyson.. 5 A Western paper, describing a young putting on her corsets, says she “went to work hauling in the slack of the cord something after the style of 2 raquero placing s.saddle upon a fiery, untamed mustang.” One of the lady teachers in a Reno public school a few days since was laboring with a0 urchin in the science of simple division. Thisis what came of it: “Now, Johnny, if you hadea orange which you wished to divide with your Jittle sister, how much would you give her?” Jobnay—"A suck.” Mr. Froude’s latest: It was a winter motning. Not only was this to be ascertained by s glance iat) the almabac. but Nature told its own story in words only too plain. Over the face of the Barth, that lately biossumed with Helds of Inughing grain, mossy und sweet-smellh meadows, bad fallen ® white mantle that lay lke a shroud, and the death-like silence thut penetrated ereywhere added to the pos mortem effect. ‘This mantle was the snow. Yes, the beautiful snow, that had come silently down during the watches of the night and kissed the Preece aden Earth until itresembled a makdea robes. THow ditterent, year later, when she !s red-tannel shirts on ite, with her tiny he fall of clothes-pins! But about the sauw: Jn the distance lay a little hamlot—the orisisal Burmict died some time since. Rustic simplicity w2¢ everywhere observable. Men and women xot agatan unbéulthily early bour, and not a woman ye From’ the cnimnvy of an hamble, foubly mortgaged, cottage Tose cohuron of smoke which curled inty fantastic shopey as it reached the air, In the stove below tlickered slowed a newly-made tire. ohat her ficker 3s moment, while the reader ge me into the adjoining apartment. On a couch, whose sheets und counterpanes rivaled in whiteness the snow alluded to above, lay # bead ful maiden whose life was slowly ebbiag away. O20 hand (her left duke) bad falien from her breast ing the restless slumber. that. always Pai sickness, and lay cold and ghastly on the wor Yes; she had ltd down her hand. ne Soon her mother—a woman whose careworn [se and lack of corsets tells too plainly that she is 1S trouble—enters the ruom. | ‘The girl wakes with § start, but presently a sweet smile plays serene around the corners of her drooping mouth, Hii ing her worn face with a strange und holy light. = Has he come." she asks. ee, { No, my child,” says the vid lady, in a husky v0! while sumething seems tw choke her. 4 20 Atty aculd baked putato she was eating, and BO Yonder her voice was husky. Hastily swallowing 7 fruit, the mother prepares the simple morning Me of drieu-upple shortcake and cold water. £183 Pansive dish, but not custly. With's weary sigh the girplaces her head on, tbe har elaborste | other pillow. while her emotion, tak brine,'which sllently courses de wn nose. pulled? Suddenty she arose, with 2 weary look, snd OnE pale of striped, stockings. in she went to bed again. widllst once the sound Of sleten-bets ts heard 38 merry tinkle plerves the allentatr. “He iG come, Joytully exch the maiden. * she grabbed ber bustie and began to bounce and harness heryelf. Hardly had ste anished BES loud rap was heard at the door. It was open! door, nut the rap) by the cursetless rouns man came in, was bandsom tee lke the forest oak, but his trunk was we 3 board was the most he could get 0 ‘The wirl fell into his urms with a clad cry: “Geor ¥ darling! Have you really come! ‘said the young “T should remark!" sa! je you, his vest pocket a tiny envelope and Handed i ot i Rirl, ‘She opened it with hervous baste and two slips of pink cardboard. Then, tna voice ‘with emotion und sbort-cake, ane sald: > sya par ‘Ob, George, and right in the front row of foray quetcircle, too; you are too aw Unto!" lic Works. These dredgers who have dug. so The occultation of Mars by the moon last deeply into the City Treusury are tighting Com- } 4 he ‘What profiteth ita man if he send bis girl to 2%. nigtinge and she firt with another fellow? Nota great dea), that’s a fact.