Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 22, 1880, Page 4

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The detective who ar- rested Patterson, alias Williame, says that he confessed his crime, ana adds that he intimated that he was about to give himself up to the au- thorities. —_—_—_—_—_ Cnarnes Farris, ayoung man of Fin- castle, Va., had a dispute with the daughters of Peter Dandriage at a frult-canning ostablish- ment near that point yesterday. Tho father, an old man of 70, came to the assistance of the daughters, and the whole family was about to demolish Farris, when he used his pocket- knife on the old man’s breast, injuring him fatally. _ Donrxe the year ending 30th of June fast 457,243 immigrants arrived in this country. In the month of July of this year 40,922 came. The yearof the greatest immigration in the history of the country was 1873, when 459,603 arrived. ¥rom present appearances the immigration for this year will largely excced that number. Ger many id Ireland contributed the largest quota on both occasions. Prixce MrLay’s recent interview with the Entered at the Post-Ofice at Chicago, Ti, as Second- Class Me our pairons who desire to send ‘TuIBUNS through the mail, we give herewith the transient rate of postage: * Forthe beneft of single copies of THE TRIBUNE BRANCIU OFFICES. i * qe Cmcaco TRIBUNE has established branch offices for the receipt of subscriptions and advertise- ts o8 Tullows: PSEW YORK—Room 2) Tribune Building. F.T. DEN, Manager. - i ‘GLASGOW, ‘Scotland—Allan’s American News Foz.—American Exchange, «9 Strand. y MEETINGS, CHAPTER, NO. 69, R.A. M.—Stated Convocation Monday evening, Aux. basiness and work vn the Mark Ma suing Companions are als 3, tor important el By order of RECOM, ALE BLP. Secretary. F& A.M is, dvmoce at thelr JOHN 0. DICKELSOX {DEN CITY LODGF. No. mae Sener ae hereby ‘notiiied sont to Europe. Austrian and German Emperors at Ischl has been productive of an understanding by which Sorvia will for the future give its adhesion to the now publicly acknowledged Austro-Gorman alliance. That this is the case is evident from the announcement that M. Ristics, the chief of the Servian Cabinet, and who was hostile to Austrian pretensfons, is about to resign. Tre revenue recelpts of. the Canadian Government for the fiscal year 1870-'s0 were $23,408.585, and the expenditures were $25,161,712. Tho deficit is therefore $1,093,144. By bringing forward tho surplus revenue of the previous years the Canadian Ministers have managed to make it appear that the deficit is only about $400,000. The Canadians are said to be much displeased and disappointed at this showing. ———e In consequence of the colored exodus, there is a great scarcity of Inborers in Louisiana and Texas. Agents from both States have been sent to Kansas for the purpose of inducing the colored men toreturn. They are offered $1 per day,—women being paid the same a3 men,—on condition that they shall return and work. The Planters have come tothe conclusion that bull- -dozing does not pay; Agents have also been ‘Tue Hares and Rabbits bill passed through Committee in the House of Commons Friday Joake the purpoce of a iauatng the faneral Ofour | night, notwithstanding the opposition of the Tory ay Breton, LeGhbert, Members of sister Lodges | aq Whi squirearchy. After the third reading, lacie ts A. RUSSELL, W.3L | which is a more matter of form, the bill will go + LL, WADSWORTH, Sec’y._ to the House of Lords, where it is prodicted it i. : EXCELSIOR (UNIFORMED) ENCAMP- | will mect with the fate that the Irish Compen- . O. F. 1 . —Te vorner of Washington und tee eee Lit BAIS, C.P. E. D. RELNEBS, Scribe. APU! IMANDEKY, NO. 1, KNIGHTS TEM- phan inscs will be NO Conclave Tuesday Eren- g. 2, rder of the Eminent Com- Bede By OMe! GIEFANY. Kocorder. sation bill met with, English, like Irish, farm- ers have no rights which hereditary legislators feel bound to respect. Tur How. C. B. Fanwetr announces him- self a candidate for tho Republican nomination for Congress from the Third District, He says SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1880. * Jupez Geonce T. Garrison was nomi- ‘Snated for Congresa yesterday by the Democrats of the First Virginia District. ‘Tue cgtton-weavers of Bolton, England, to the nfimber of 1,450, have struck work be- cause their wages have been cut down 5 per, cent. ——— Cuter Signal Officer Gen. Albert Myer is not ill from heart-disease as at first reported, but from nervous prostration. He ts now considered ‘out of danger. B. FE. Larxen’s satinet mill, at. Auburn, Mass., was destroyed by fire last night. The en- tire loss is estimated at $80,000. The insurance on the building and stock was £40,000. _ In the ball games yesterday the Chicagos again worsted the Bostons, the score standing at the end of the game 11 to2 in favor of the home nine; the Clevelands beat the Troys, and tho Worcesters the Buffalos. —————— Mn. Crasron B. Annort, of Beloit, was telected yesterday to lead the Democratic for- ‘torn bope in the First Wisconsin District. Tho Hon. C. G. Williams carricd the district in 1878 .3y 4,630 majorty. He will carry it this year bya still larger one. Tue Anglo-American, the ‘Direct United States, and the French Aduntic Cable Companics . have resolved to pool theirearnings. The Anglo- ‘American Company will receive 68 per cout of the gro3s earnings, and the other Companies 16 per cent each, - * Dunune the year ending June 80 the Chi- cago Internal Hevenue. District contributed $5,990,614 to the Tnited States Treasury, and the Peoria District, which is the second district in tho United States, Cincinnati being the first, contributed $10,324,0 Tne 2:25 race at the Springfield course the bas no personal ends to servo, but that he is deeply interested in, among other works of im- portance, the construction of a canul between Lake Michigan and the Miasissippi Rivor, and shall, if elected, do all in his power to secure the codperation of the General Government in ef- fecting this much-needed improvement. Senator LocAx, who returned from Maine to the Republican headquarters in New York City yesterday, says the outlook In the State is very encouraging for the Republicans. All the sfvetings which he and other speakers addressed were large and enthusiastic, The at- tempt of the Greenback-Democratic coalition to steal the State has nerved the Republicans, and has gained for them the support of the inde- pendent voters. Senator Logan will take the stump in,Indiana in a few days. A SENSATIONAL report, founded on the statement of an ill-informed :physicinn, was printed in the evening papers throughout the coubtry yesterday, stating that a case of Asiatic ebolera had appeared at Erie, Pa. An investi- gation was made by competent physicians, who have pronounced the disease cholera morbus of fan aggravated nature. The health of Erie is pronounced to be excellent, and the people of that city are very indignant at the false report and at the physician who was the author of it. Tue recent storm on the lower Texas and Mexican coast was much more destructive than ‘appeared from the first accounts. The Mexican city, Matamoras, looks asif it had been bom- barded. Over 300 houses were demolished, and the streets are strewn with débris. At Brazos. Point isabel. and Brownsville, the results were, equally disastrous. At the latter city the Go' ernment barracks, the convent, a largo machine shop, and several other buildings were unroofed, and a tug and twostcamboats were blown ashore and wrecked. The loases at ‘the various points are estimated: Brownsville, $250,000; Matamoras, $500,000; Point Isabel, $200,000: Garrison, $50,- 000, Several Mexicans are reported to have been drowned, Ir has been frequently asserted by Demo- cratic organs and orators that the” Republican yesterday was won by Dan Smith. The track ywas quite slippery, and lattie Woodward wrenched herself across the loins in the second heat and was withdrawn. It is feared that she wilt not be able to trot again this season. THE Paris Temps announces with evident satisfaction that the Ber of Tunis has granted a Freach company the exclusive right to construct und operate all future railways in bis dominions. The Italian press may be excused for not being -sery well pleased at this announcement. Mn. Guapstone has well deserved the graceful offers of the King of Italy to place two of the Royal villas at his disposal should the distinguished statesman go to Italy for the ben- efitof bis health. Even monarchs can afford to be grateful for favors done their peoples. ‘Tne Lancashire cotton’ manufacturers have refused the 10 per cent advance in wages demanded by theiremployés. They assert that in the present depressed condition of the cotton market they cannot afford to make the advance. A strike will probably result from the refusal. _——— ‘Ie Czar will receive the Chinese and Japanese Ambassadors Saturday. This is re- garded as again opening the way to a peaceable settlement of the pointe in dispute between Rus- sia and China. The former Power wants to keep put of trouble until the Greco-Turkish frontier question is settled. Axour $70,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from the residence of Gen. Sehramm, near Saint Denis, France, a few evenings ugo. This, with ‘the $100,000 robbery from the Earl ef Eldon's residence, in England, Inst week, indicates the presence of a species of superior cracksmen across the Atlantic. Trent isa very gratifying prospect that Hendrick B. Wright, the Democratic Fiat- Workingman-Socialistic Congressman, will be retired to private life by the voters of the Twelfth Pennsylvania District, and that Mr. James Scranton, the Republican candidate, will be elected in his stead. Ir is stated that Gen. Alfred H. Terry, of “the United States army, now commanding the Department of’ Dakota, hus been offered by President Hayes the position of Commander at West Point, and bas ceclined it. Gen. Schofield will donbtless be retained {9 command until after the inauguration of the next President. A pispure between circus men and the Sheriff's officers took place sat Morristown, Tenn., last Friday evening, which resulted iu two of the latter, James P. Morris and Ben F. Richardson, being fatally injured> Mr. Loop, ‘the Sheriff, was. dangerously wounded. The cesidents of the town are greatly incensed against the circus men, and threate to deal with them in a éummary manner. Ir is said that over 1,000 political speeches will be delivered in Vermont between now and the time of the State election. The Republicans want to swell their majority so as to encourage the other Northern States to do likewise, and the Democrats will make a desperate effort to reduce the majority. The Republicans claim that they can carry the State this year by 27,000. _ . Murper will out. A man who has gone by the name of John C. Williams, and who has lived on a farm near Belle Prairie, in this State, Yor eleven scars, wus arrested yesterday for baving murdered his neighbor, James S. Clark, at Carthage, Mo., twelve years ago. Williams, whose real name is J. W. Patterson, was then arrested, but broke jail, and was not beard from party has a larger Know-Nothing element than the Democratic party. The Republican Cam- paign Committee have been at pains to look up the vote by which Fillmore was olected Presi- dent, and haye found that the Know-Nothing vote was relatively much larger in the Southern and Democratic States than in the Northern Ke- publican States. The Democratic party has been the party of proscription in every case where it was safe or politic to be so, and the Democratic leaders at the present day are just as intolerant: of naturalized citizeus as they have ever: been, but they manage to conceal thelr animus, Asa case in point, it might be mentioned that Ly- man Trumbull, the candidate for Governor: of this State on the Democratic ticket, who hud a prominent seat on the platform beside Mr. Dav- itt, the Irish agitator, at the Ogden-Grove picnic Saturday week, refused potnt blank to even allow his name to be used as a Vice-President at the Parnell meeting held in the Exposition Build- Ing bere last February. The Purnell meeting ‘was to express sympathy and to obtuin material aid for the faminc-stricken and for the landlord- oppressed people. The Ogden-Grove ceicbra- tion was to raiso monoy for the O'Donovan Rossa skirmishing fund, or rather for the fund about which O'Donovan Rossa and other Fenian chiefs are carying on a wordy war now in the New-York newspapers. What do intelligent Irishmen think of Mr. Trumbull, and of the party which he represents? Do they suppose his presence at the Ogden+Grore niecting meant any sympathy with their views? THE WATER-WORKS QUESTION. Two propusitions are pending before the City Council in relation to the water-supply. One is, to make an appropriation to purchase two additional engines and provide the ad- ditional buildings for the West Side Water- Works, thereby increasing the capacity of that establishment from thirty millions to sixty millions of gallons of water per day. The other fs, to purchase a suitable piece of ground near the river, on the South Side, between Monroe and Polk streets, and there- on erect a central pumping-works, if these were alternative propositions, there could hardly be two opinions among in- formed persons as to which of them should be preferred. The West Siae works are supplied with water through the long or land tunnel, That tunnel basa capacity of one hundred millions of gallons of water daily at any point east of Halsted street; whut its actual capacity is at the site of the works at Ashland avenue we do not know, but that it is much less is not questioned. The water-supply of the city is furnished by the pumps at the northeast and at the south- west extremities of the city. The power -wasted In forcing the water against the fric- tion of one hundred miles of pipe running at all manner of angles is very great, arid the city is guilty of the wastefulness and loss of forcing water from. the extremities to the centre, instead of resorting to the more rational system of distribution from the centre. No one proposes, however, to abolish either of the existing water establishments; all agree to leave them as they are, but a Jarge portion of their power is now thrown away in the endeavor to force water to the centre of the city, when, in fact, the distribution should be made from that point. The long tunnel passes under the very part of the city where the pumping-works ought to be; the water is carried under the river within a few hun- dred -yards of the place where the pumps ought to be, conducted several miles to the ‘southwest, and there pumped into pipes, tobe carried back to the very point where the dis- tribution ought to begin. It the city is toengagein an expenditure for increasing the water-supply. and that in- creasecannot any longer be delayed with safe- ty, @should make that expenditure at the right place. The additional power should be put in force at the centre. A pumping-establish- ment in the centre of the city would relleve the demand now made on those at the ex- tremities of the city, would economize the present lamentable waste, and would enable the present works to distribute as much water as they do now at a much reduced cost. The most direct way to meet the com- ing necessity is not,to increase the power at the extremities, but to provide at once forthe sufficient and direct distribution from the centre, where the great deficiency of water now exists, and where the supply ought al- ways to be the greatest. The Mayor, however, bas taken it into his head that, because he proposed the increase of the pumping force at Ashland avenue, there must be no step taken with regard to central works. At a recent meeting of the Council Ald. Wickersham presented a me- morial of merchants occupying some of the largest buildings in the-central part of the city, in which buildings dre stored perhaps a hundred millions of dollars of property, urg- ing the erection of a central pumping- establishment, The only response made by the Mayor was that these petitioners were ignorant on the whole subject, and signed the paper without knowing what they were domg. The petition was signed by the. fol- lowing persons and firms: + Field, Lotter & Co., Keith Bros., U. M, Hender- son &'Co., Meyer, Strauss & Goudmun, Selz, Schwab & Co., Murk Kimpall & Co., Robert Law, North: Chicago Rolling Mill Company, Willain Dloir & Co. Burloy & Tyrrell, B. B. Penbody, Jesse Spniding, William Stewart, Murry Nelson, Enos Ayros, Couch estate, A. A. Munger, P. W. Gates, John Muson Loomis, Jobn Buckingbam, B. P. Hutchinson, N. Corwith, First & Bradley, Armour & Co., H. W. King & Go., Franklin Muc- Veagh & Cv. Sprague, Warner & Co., Furwell, Miller & Co,,@. A. Harding, John V. Farwell & Co., C. P. Xellozg & Co., Cabn, Wampold & Co.. Hibburd, Spencor & Co., J. B. Drake Co., and the Crane Brothers Manufacturing Company. These persons. as a class, if not.iudivid- ually, are perhaps as intelligent as the Mayor, and are not more likely to write or say things thoughtlesly or ignorantly, espe- cially ona subject in which they are imme- diately Interested for the safety of their own property and business, as well as generally interested as part of the community. To put more pumps at the West Side works is like patching a bad job. To establish a new and central works wi!l be to put our sys- tem of water distribution on a rational and intelligent basis for the first time, and one which being begun in the right place will ad- mit all the additional works as time may de- yelop their necessity. This sunject will be before the Council foraction to-morrow even- ing, and it is to be hoped the Aldermen will act upon it as intelligently and as earlesly as they would if they were appropriating their own money in their own business. THE POPULATION OF CHICAGO. That Chicago hin the city limits con- tains more than half a million souls, and in- cluding its immediate suburbs, which are counted in. the enumeration of inany large cities, more than 600,000, is a fact that frets and galls the leading spirits of lesser cities which have been persistently misrepresent- ing their own size and growth. Their humiliation and resentment find malicious expression in an attempt to impeach the cor- rectness of the Chicago enumeratiop. A fair sample of their chagrin may be found in the following paragraphs taken from one of the newspapers published in West St. Louis, Mo.: ‘Tue Catcaco TRIBUNE expands into a whole column of virtuous wrath over the consus frauds in the South, but, while It ty pitching stones so vigorously over Muson and Dixon's line, forgets its own glass house. There is no district in the South which can be charged with census-stuiliug with one-half the justice that the charge can be laid at Chicago's doors. there isto be any going behind the census're- turns Chicagu must not be leftuut. A recount in that city, conducted in the sume hostile spirit wito which St. Louis was enumerated und re- euumcrated, would make suco a mortality in its assumed bulf million of poople us has never be- fore been witnessed in the waole world. A strict enumeration ot Chicago's population, which its generous enuweraturs have put down at §0¥uW, would result in a literal ‘decimation, for It would wipe out one out of every teu mimes on the list und send back to their graves ut least 50,00 ghosts who were summoned from the cemeteries to ligne live ion for vensus purposes. After all, tho Chicago enumerators appear to have mitde a great mistuke axuinst thut olty In their Inte cuusts. ‘hey touk it at the time the Republican Nutional Convention was sitting, and when it wus estimated thore wero 1.0 strangers in the city from trst to last,—all of whom were included in the enu- meration. But the Chicugo pupers tell us that during the recent Knights Templar mecting thore were 20,000 visitors in the city froin tirst to last.” What 2 blunder it was ‘not to huve walted for the Knights ‘'emplar Encampment, which would buve increased the population 3,- OW, making it 552,000! : For the benetit of Chicago people, and in- deed discerning people everywhere, it would be suflicient merely to reproduce the above utterances, which readily betray the animus behind them. It may be, however, that the unwarranted insinuations that emanate from West St, Louis, Mo., will be accredited with some basis of fact, as a lle’ may be retold su often as to take on the appearance of truth; and, consequently, it may be worth while to show how utterly such statements lack the elements of probability. Any comparison between the obvious cen- sus frauds of South Carolina and the actual increase of Chicago’s population is prepos- terous. In the former tase, the cities show a small increase, while backwoods communi- ties, which were Jess numerous ten years ago than they were forty years earlier, now claim an increase of 80 per cent! All the statistics of business, revenue, mail distribu- tion, education, etc., are almost in inverse ratio to the alleged increase in popula- tion, In fact, all the collateral con- ditions of growth are absent, while an increase is claimed in a_ pro- portion about double that of prosperous Western States. On ali sides there is ex- ternal evidence of fraud in the case of South Carolina and other Southern States pro- fessing an exaggerated growth in popula- Uon. In the case of Chicago the external evi- cences are all favorable to the extraordinary increase in population during the past ten years. The growth of Chicago has always been marvelous. The general Increase in population throughout the country during the past decade has been in the cities and towns, and there have been abundant signs all along that Chicago was growing more rapidly than any other large city. The busi- ness, the manufacturing, the consumption of food, the revenue and postal statistics, the overcrowded schools, the tide of emigra- tion,—all these elements, or evidences, of growth have been as striking in their abun- dance in Chicago as they are conspicuous by their absence in the case of the Southern States ag a whole. ‘The iutimation that Chicago’s census was swollen by enumerating some of the visitors to the Republican Convention, implied by the slur that Chicago ought to have waited for the greater crowd at the Triennial Conclave, affords an opportunity to clinch the fie that was some time since set on foot in West St. Louis, Mo. There are two circumstances that completely disprove this, insinuation— viz: (1) The concourse of strangers at the time of the Republican Convention, or upon any.occasion when a crowd is attracted, is housed mainly in the large hotels, lodging- houses,‘ and’ boarding-houses located. in the First Ward; but the Chicago census shows the population of the First Ward to be the smallest of any ward in the city, and notas large by. about one-fifth as that of some of the residence wards of the city. (2) Super- yisor Wright has stated explicitly that he ordered the enumeration of the First Ward to'be postponed until after the Republican Convention had been held, in urder to avoid: all ‘possible danger of including any transient *:non-residents in the count. As ® matter of fact, the enumeration of the First Ward, where strangers mainly stop, was far from being complete on ac- count of the well-known difficulty in secur- ing during the day an interview, with the ‘people who live in rooms in the business buildings. © The actual population of Chicago has probably been understated in the census to the same extent that it has in other com- munities where the enumeration has been made honestly and conscientiously, owing to tne obvious difficulty of obtaining all the ! names, At first it appeared as though the defects in the enumeration here Would be serious; but the attention of the people was directed to the matter in time to secure rea- sonable correctness. ‘There has been no provocation for fraud in this city; the growth was larger than had been predicted by Chi- cago people, and nobody was disappointed. Indeed, Chicago always outruns predictions, and henceforth West St, Louis, Mo., should confine its asplrations of rivalry to East St. Louis, UL * GOOD-LOOKING MEN 1N OFFICE. It is probably the title of “superb” which Mr. Dan Dougherty bestowed upon Gen. Hancock in the Cincinnati Convention, and the reputation which the Democratic candl- date for President enjoys for personal mag- nificence, which have led to some discussion of the influence of “good looks” upon a candidacy for office. Atallevents, a writer in the Boston fraveller has traced back the personal appearance of the various Presi- dents,—that of the later ones from his own observation, and that of the earlier ones from memoirs of their times. The sum of his re- flections would seem to be unfavorable to Gen. Hancock’s chances of success,—though the writer does not draw this couclusion,— since the line of Presidents has not devel- oped any strikingly handsome men, but has been prolific in plain and awkward men. The popular notion of Washington’s per- sonal appearance, drawn from Stuart's por- trait, seems to be somewhat erroneous. Josiah Quincy, as reported by his son, said that this portrait was “highly idealized” and “not a ‘strong resemblance of tho actual man in tha flesh.” ‘Thesameauthority re of Washington as having “the air of a ountry gentleman, a little stiff in-his person, nota little formal in his manners, not par- ticularly at ease in the presence of stran- gers.” Mrs. Quincy, it should be said, was. more enthusiastic in her recollections of Washington. ‘“ John Adams,’ as described by his grandson, “was not tall, butof astout, well-knit frame, denoting vigor and long life, yet, as he grew old, inclining more and more to corpulence.” Jefferson was very tall and in early life very slim, “with a good but nota handsome face.” Madison was a man of ‘tsmall stature, rather protuberant person in front, and small lower limbs.” Monroe is described as “ insignificant.” John Quincy Adams was a small man, “ with a stoop.” Jackson was +‘ thin and spare,” with a face described as “wan and thin.” Yan Buren’s chief personal characteristic was his bald- headedness,- which rarely enhances a man’s appearance, Pierce was a man who “would not haye been noted. for good looks in a ,crowd.” Buchanan had a face described as having “a semi- simpering expression that did not match 11 with his portly proportions.” Haww- horne said there was ‘ta kind of rusticity about him.” Lincoln was ungainly in figure and homely in countenance to the casual observer, Grant is well known asa short and plain-looking man. The’ ‘“‘acci- dental” Presidents seem to have been bet- ter-looking men than those elected directly by the people. Fillmore was what will always be called a-handsome man, and so was Tyler. Jonnson was by no means bad- looking, though somewhat coarse Inu appear- ance. Hayes is a substantial-looking man, but farfrom handsome. From all this it would appear thata fine- looking personal appearance is but a small factor in the making of ‘Presidents. Perhaps the same is true of the entire official class, though such a generalization would certainly be resented by a majority of those now in office and of those who have held. office. The dignity of offi- cial position and the importance given toitas arule are apt to give the tenant a high sense of his personality, which would include his “1ooks”; but, as a matter of feet, “good looks” count for very little in securing votes. It might be different it Wwoinen were voters and the men candidates; it certainly would be different if woinen ran for office and the votes were furnished by the men. But the average man has a sort of prejudice against beauty in his own sex, however much he may admire it In the op- Posit sex. This bias may be born of envy, or it may be the undefined result that striking- ly handsome men rarely haye mental facul- Ues to correspond. It is probable, therefore, that the title of “superb” will not attract any considerable number of votes to Gen. Hancock at the critical points, It is a so- briquet that would not be applied to Gen. Garfield, who would naturally be designated as & wholesome and intellectual-looking, rather than a “superb,” man. THE LOGIC OF IRISH AGITATION. i Many ‘good, easy, benevolent people, in view tf the recent disturbances in Ireland, which, by the way, are greatly exagger- ated,—have come to the conclusion that there isno hope fur that country; that the people are incorrigible, and that the British Government is justified in using all manner of repressive legislation in dealing with them- But when It is remembered that England has never yet made-any concession to the irish people except when they have acted as vlesly and behaved as riotously as pos- sible, there may be some excuse for the troubles of the past few weeks, especially in view of the rejection of a mere make-shift piece of ‘ ameliorative legis- lation by that irresponsible body of legislators, that “tradées-union of land- owners,” as the Spectutor calls the British House of Lords. The troubles which have been productive of concession—slight though they be—to Ireland were inaugurated by no less ‘@ personage than Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s. He it was who be- gan the agitation against the laws enacted against Irish trade and commerce, and, though his efforts were, only successful in a slight degree, they led, with those of BMoly- neux and Lucas, led to the. formation of the Volunteers, who so successfully backed up Grattan in wezning free trade and legislative independence for Ireland. Entreaties and Prayers and petitions were useless till the Volunteers lined the streets of Dublin, till their swords flashed in the face of the British Viceroy, and till he saw attached to the cannon’s mouth the motto, “Free trade or——.” O'Connell was not so fond of an- noffncing himself as a peaceful, legal, and constitutional agitator till Catholic emanci- pation had been granted, war might be averted. ‘Te tithe rent charge for the support of the Established Church continued to be collected from the peasantry until the latter resisted at the peril of their livés and contrary to the peace- ful- teachings of their “idolized” leader, O’Connell. Even the meagre Land act of 1870 was. not thought of, as Mr. Gladstone admitted, until a party of policemen and bailiffs were shot down in Tipperary while attempting to evict a farmer named Dwyer. The circumstances under which the eviction was undertaken were so unfeeling, so unjust, and the landlord behaved so outrageously, that Mr. Gladstone, in referring to the affair in the House of Commons, made use of language which was almost a palliation— cértainly not acondemnation—of theact. He intimated that the strong Cromwellian ele- ment in the most troublesome of Irish counties might be held responsible for the shooting. Even during his recent electoral canpalgn in Scotlund Mr. Gladstone said that the disestablishment of the Lrish Church did not come “ within the range of practical politics” till the Fenians attempted to blow up Clerkenwell prison, and in urging the pas- soge of the Irish Disturbance bill the other day he justified what the Tories called the “sweeping” and “confiscatory” tendency of the measure by saying that Ireland was in a condition dangerously bordering on civil war, In fact, no ameliatory measure has ‘been ever projected or proposed for Ireland with- out it was forced on the attention of the En- glish Ministers or the English people by the turbulence and violence of the Irish. The present agitation in that country seems to be more systematic, more devoid of vio- lence than any other which has been carried onin theisland. Phe Fenian organization, if it did no other good, introduced into the country some of the spirit of independence, and of the sysiem of the American agitation for the abolition of slavery. The people are better educated, read more, have more inter- course with free peoples, and are conseqtent- ly more Intelligent and more bold in the as- sertion of their rights. The Land League prowises to embrace the whole peasantry of the island, and the firm determination of the farmers not to pay excessive rents, and of the cottiers not to give up the crop grown from seed supplied by American and Aus- tralian charity, are evidences that Its teach- ings have been listened to and will be profited by. 4 The attempt on the part of the worst land- lords-to.take advantage of the prevailing distress and evict for non-payment, thereby depriving the tenant of all claim to compen- sation, if persevered In by them,—and the action of the British House of Lords indi- cates that it will be,—will be sternly resisted. Resistance is now the only means of calling attention to the iniquity of such proceedings. As the Spectator puts it, “It will be no pleasant position for an Administration to be placed in, to have to wield the whole force of the Executive for carrying out a law which they in their places in Parliament have declared to involve serious Injustice.” ‘This is really the position of the English Government in Ireland, and Mr. Forster and Earl Spencer, in denouncing the. land agitators during the past week, are some- what at variance with themselves, for they cordially supported a measure which was , forced upon their attention and which they were compelled to support by the men and the organization which they have dencunced. There is no question that the agitation, if properly conducted, if restrained within due bounds, will result in a large measure of remedial legislation,—all the larger.because the agitation is more comprehensive and better orgnnized than any preceding one, and is conducted by men of greater spirit and determination, . ‘HE CONCLAVE MUSIC. A correspondent writes to THE Caicaco Trinuse: “I heard many of the bands from other cities. Our city bands were totally eciipsed. I now think that we have no band worthy of the name. The appearance of the men, the style of playing, and the selection of music prove that we are a long way be- hind other cities. Then again the so-called grand concerts! What a miserable failure! Bach’s orchestra of Milwaukee was much superior to Balatka’s, although the latter was much larger.” A correspondent of one of our morning contemporaries says: Chicago's orchestra bas aguin allowed a grand opportunity to go by withuut doing itself credit or improving its unenviuble. reputation. We have good musicians bere, and the Knights fur- nished ampie means, muking their urringe- ments mouths ayo, that the musical purt of the program might be properly curriedout But they were most wofuily disuppointed. Especinl opportunities were offered ut the reception on Monduy, and at the concerts on Wednesday evening. It is too aggravating thar, when mu- sleul Hterature olfers so much that would be in perfect uccordance with an occasion of thia kind, and with the idea of Knight Templarism, we are served mostly with pieaie (or worse) music, rendered so badly that we feel tke re- doicing that ouly a few works of any value were attempted. Unquestionably there is a great deal of truth In the complaints of both these corre- spondents, and, “pity ’tis, ’tis so.” It only makes the matter more aggravating that there was amnle time to have prepared good music, and the allowance for the music ($12,000) was also very generous, There were over 100 military bands here and three well-equipped orchestras,—the Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Chicago,—in all over 3,000 instruments, and yet there was no music one can look back to with any pleasure. The combined orchestra was one of the largest ever organized in this country, numbering 160 pieces, ten more than played in the Cin- cinnati Festival, and yet did not playa single number worthy of the reputation of the players. The playing at the Jockey-Club Park and the so-called ball was lamenta- bly poor, and ithe procession music was mainly distressing, as the bands were located so near together that their music was almost a constant dissonance. The three concerts on Wednesday night were flat fail- ures; not because the orchestras were poor, but because the programs were poor and the players were exhausted. The men were marched three or four hours in the blazing sun on Tuesday; kept playing in ‘the intoler- able heat of the Exposition Building Tuesday night, and.then during Wednesday had to play at the Jockey-Club Park before going to the concerts, with the additional burden of having to play on the Lake Park hali the night after the concerts were over; and all this on two of the hottest, days ever known in Chicago. If it were an outrage on the Templars to.stand two hours in the sun and then march three more, what would they have called it if every one of them had been compelled to blow horn or trombone all that time? But all this isa thing of the past and is ended, and there is ‘no use in erying over spilt milk.” But there is a matter pertaining to the future that deserves sume comment, because itcan be and should be remedied. ‘The Conclave music, unfortunate as it was, has definitly settled these facts: first, that We have no military bands in this city that can. compare with any of the bands from other large cities, or with some from the country towns even; and, second, that our orchestra is not only greatly inferior to the Cincinnati orchestra of Michael Brand but ds also excelled by the Milwaukee orchestra of Christian Bach, though the latter is much smaller, and was compelled to playin Far- well Hall, where only salamanders. could in the words | have stood the intolerable heat. These are might as well be looked in the face un- Ee ee content to play second fiddle to other cities. It. adds to the aggravation ot this inferiority that it is not due to an absence of good material. We have just as good players, and just as many good players, as other cities. So far as string and wood fn- struments are concerned, we have the mate- rial fora first-class orchestra, and the defi- ciencies In the brasses could be easily made up. But.the trouble is, that we have no or- ganization. There is, in reahty, no Chicago orchestra. For ten years there has not been a stated number of players who have played together any length of time or long enough to become accustomed to each other. Dur- ing that time no large work requiring orches- tral accompaniment has been performed in this city that the orchestra was not patched up for the occasion. Our players have been just as unfortunate in conductors during this time. They have been continnally changed. Fuchs, Sir, Hand, Schmail, Hoffmann, Loesch, Rosenbecker, Balatka, and others have taken the baton only to lay it down again in a very short time, Thus there has been neither head, body, nor tail to our orchestral organization, no paying concerts to keep them together, and no en- couragement to work, and the men have picked up a living helter-skelter, iu beer gar- dens, street adver-ising, and theatre orches- tras. Itis time that Chieago set about the work of getting a good orchestra and giving itenough to do, and this can be done ina manner that has already been pointed out in Tue Trwune. ‘The Cincinnati Orchestra, a fine body of players, stands ready to come here, forty strong, and could easily be re- cruited up to sixty from our best players, who are willing to join it under Mr. Brand, its present excellent leader, or any other competent musician. We should then have an orchestra second only to Mr. Thomas’ Philharmonic, and one of whicb the city might be proud. As we have intimated in a former article, this result rests with the good will of our music-loving citizens of means. The opportunity is one which should not be lost. The musical disaster of the past week ought not to happen again. GAMBLING IW CHICAGO. The City of Chicago was uever so overrun with gamblers and thieves as it is at present. The Mayor professes to have a list of all the gambling-houses, great and small, and of their owners, managers, and runners. If this be true, and we have no doubt it. is, be- cause the police can furnish such 2 list at any time, the question naturally arises why the Mayor does not take aay steps to break upthese establishments. It is notorious that panes of faro, keno, and every other kind of gambling are in full blast every day and night, and this with seeming confidence of exemption from police interference. So notorious are these gambling-establishmenis thut any policeman can point out toa stranger twenty places on Clark street, and can tell the kind of game played und the names of the owners in @cb. It would be unjust to the Mayor to assume that he does not know as much as one of his patrolmen, or that such acondition of things could exist in the city without his knowledge. Being possessed of a knowledge of all the places where crime is continuously enacted, a failure on his part to interpose his authority of necessity raises the presumption that allthis crime is perpetrated under his toleration and his protection. No person who knows Mr. O'Donnell, the Superintendent of Police, will attribute any exemption from arrest snown to the gamblers to unwillingness on his part to perform his duty; but the Superintendent is . subor- dinate to the Mayor, and the Superintendent cannot be expected to arrest any of those who were the Mayor’s colleagues at the last State-and National Democratic Conventions, without direct authority from his‘ superior ‘ofticer. Itis given out by those who profess to be in the Mayor’s confidence that his Honor is trying a new scheme, and that, instead of ar- resting the keepers of common gambling- houses, as the Jaw directs, he has taken the giumbling fraternity into bis confidence, and proposes to “regulate,” but not suppress, i B severity the poor, or a great loss of mote tomar ri3ks are paid for at igh rates, and tee De clent “inducement for » lower claag of 8% lenders to enter the field and auppiy the wr of borrowers. The Imprupricty of chor at? candidate for Vice-President from this! note-shavers is sufficiently clear, ang Mt so when that candidate himseif Pretendey “The Poor Man's Friend.” Tho gist of no? merciat’s article, after all,’ wus the eye gave of unnecessary narshness and'a ing e? riclous disposition on Mr. English’s pias his dealings with bis poor debtors. fay —— ASTRONOMICAL, Chicago (TRIBUSE office), north latitude’ 62m. 5: west longitude, 42m. 184. from ington, and dh. 50m. as. from Greenwich, ‘The subjoined table shows the time of of the moon's lower timb, and tho offer oe for lighting the first street-lamp in ach at ‘t met cuit in this clty, during the com ordered sooner on account of bad wens Raley the following tmes for extinguishing tag 22 lamp: fing 00 p. m, Bn OD. m. 9g RS 00 p.m. yoagh® 00 Dm. JOSS Bo (Op m SGR Aug. 29. He p.m. 6:50pm gee ‘The moon will be in her last quarter bien m. Friday, and in apogee at about 4 aot Sunday. She will be about 7 degrees noni ee Jupiter Monday night, and 7% -degrees fra from Satarn Tuesday afternoon. Tho ca ing of Tuesday, before sunrise, she will fom nearly equilateral triangle with thee =? planets, and far enough from them to fae their being prominent objects, ‘though, ped bright than if she were absent. The sun’s upper limb will rise on Monday sg 5:16}; a.-m., south at 2m. 15.93, 64i% pm. ey et abe ‘The sun's upper limb rises Friday next a. m., Souths at Im. 0¥.13. p. p.m. ‘The sidereal time Thursday mean 10:1im. 27.703. Bee Tbs Mercury will south Thursday at He rises more than an hour before the day, and may easily be scen early in ‘hey hg just before sunrise, by those who have not ity lake for their eastern horizon. -There Is ttug hope of seeing him if one has to look across Lake Alichigan ; still it is sometimes clear ‘enough even there. Mercury is now passing towards his superior conjunction with the Bux, Which hy will reach Sept. 17. Venus will south at 0:49 p. m. Thursday, butety at 7:16 p. m., or only 36 minutes ufter the sun, she being ubout 3 degrees further suuth thats, Venus is moving very slowly toward the ‘posttiog of evening star; she will be a bright evening o> ject in the winter sky, disputing the paim wi Jupiter next February. Mars is now practically out of the way of ere ing observation. He will south Thursday at is P. mM. and set at 7:30 p.m., or only about 0 min utes after the sun. Jupiter will rise Wednesday at 8:28 p. mma south Thursday at 2:5234 a.m. He cuntinuestp grow in brightness, and will do so till early iz October, being a decided success as un evening Star. Those who are given to swearing “by Ju- piter” may now have the satisfaction of know ing that he. if not It, amounts to something. & must have been at a time like the present, when simultaneously near perihelion and in oppo tion tothe sun, that he received the name ot Zeus Pater, God (the) father, or the Fatherofthe Gods, of which the word Jupiter is undoubtedly acorruption. Unusual as this event may sea to the casual observer, it is frequent enough u admit of being noted by the ancients assye temutic. We now know that Jupiter coma ‘round to the perihelion point of bi- orbit once in about 1.82 years; so that at intervals of a littie less than a century thereart twoor three years in succession in which the plunet is about as bright as now. Theioterval Was not so great but that the event could be noted a3 a matter of repeated history, banded down from one generation to auother. At 9:50 this evening the . second satelite’ will cease a transit of the planet; end at le. . im. Monduy the first will. begin a treagt, ending at 3:12 a. m, At 0:21 iam. Tuesday the first satellite will reappear after occultation, and at 3:57 a. m. the third will begin atransit. At 9:39 p.m. Tuesday the frst will leave the limb of the planet. Saturday at 1:27% 2. m. the second satellite will be ectipsed; and at 4:338. m2. next Sunday the first satellite will be eclipsed. Satura will rise Wednesday at 8:68 p. m., and south Thursday at 3:90} a.m. He is therefore anevening: star now; he will ocoupy the ve Pertine position through the remainder of the year, being especially brilliant in October. ant November. His opposition to the sun will occur Oct. 28, aftor which time he will be an eveoing Star fn the usually accepted sense of the term ‘The greatest diameter of hia ring. system isstil about four times the diameter of its minor att | both being apparent measures. até: m. and sets at fig Bem gambling in Chicago. We are not informed as to the character of thése regulations. We suppose the keepers of these establishments, in consideration of immunity from police in- terference, are to be limited in their win- nings; that they are not to take more than SO per cent of their gains, returning the other 20 per cent to the victims; that they are to deal with reasonable fairness, being cer- tain of the final outcome; that they are to let the loser win occasionally, so thathe may have atleastsome ‘sport’? for his money; that they are not to play with aman when he is too drunk to Enow one card from another; that they are to permit no robbery of the person, no violence, no pocketpicking; and that when they win from a public officer, or person having other peo- ple’s money, they are to give the man enough to enable him to get to Canada before his arrest, i The imagination can readily fill ont the whole code of “ regulations ” under which gambling and gamblers maybe tolerated in this city. é ‘The long-continued immunity shown to the “profession” has brought hither im- mense droves of gamblers, They have come to this city to enjoy that liberty which can only be found under the merciful reign of the “only best” Mayor that ever was elected. They. have become so thick that they crowd one another in the streets and in the saloons, and have begun shooting at each other in public places, in the Southern style. We suppose there can be nothing expected of the Mayor in the way of suppressing gambling or the gamblers until after the Jocal. Democratic Conventions have been held. There can be no conventions without delegates, and any serious suppression of the fraternity might prove inconvenient, if not fatal, to Deniucratic nominations this fall. Until these Conventions shall have been held Wwe suppose gambling must be undisturbed, except so far as It Is subjected to the Mayor’s regulations, Tne Nation just arrived has an amusing Paragraph on Mr. English’s cut-throat mort- gages ahd the Cincinnati Cummerciat’s exposures thereof: . ; Mr. English seems, like many other men, t in the hubit of investing considerable sited mortgaxe, which {3 usually considered a buai- ness transuction, the object of the morigage be- jug to cnuble the creditor to xet_ his y buck in case the interest is not pafd. Bue the cst teemed - Republican contemporaries seem .to think that the orate ia something which fg drawn up cither tor fuu orto save the debtor's dignity, and which no creditor fit to be Vice- President would think of taking seriously. So when Mr. English treats bis as rent security, and enforces it, they denounce him as a humbug and hypocrit, and as “no poor man's friend.” ‘This 13 x sorry business for a paper like the Cin- clonuti Commercial to take up, and would be each better sulted ae Denis Kearney’s organ. n the editor takes whut he does with it. EES ene Ne spondee Spite of the “smartness” of the Nation's re- ply there 1s a fallacy in it, as there often is In an ironical urgument. The fallacy consists in. tho assumption that loaning of Money in small sums to poor people, and taking advantage of thelr necessities ufterwards, Is a perfectly re- spectable and high-toned business. Itisuot. It is lawful business, but go isdealing in chettel- mortgages, or pawn-brokerage, or selling sew- ing-machines on time-notes discounted before- band at high rates of interest. ‘This skinflint business in which Mr. Englisn was engaged is not usually transacted by bankers or caplital- Uranus is now very near the sun. The to will be tn conjunction Sept. L. Neptune will south Thursday at 4:29 2. m. Bs right ascension at that time will be2h. 494¢m.,sad declination 14 degrees 2534 minutes nurth. Faye's comet, noted in our issue of last Sun- day, 13 too near the moon this week to be se? with the telescope, unless under exception cunditions. — Tue tide of emigration from Ireland § rising very rapidly. The Irish papers are fullot accounts of preparations for leaving and tht actual departure of greut companies of people. At Queenstown, it is said, the lodging-housel ure su crowded that they charge even forstané ing-room at night, and all the steerage passage? of the ocean steamers touching at that point engagea months beforehand. Nine thousand nine buggred ane fifty emigrants left that port during $pril alone, and the stream Is now in ful flow at the rate of 3.0 per week. A steamsblp line hus been started direct from tho porto Dublin speciutly to tuke care of the emigration from that port. An average of 700 emigrants weekly is taken ucross the channel from Dublin toembark at Liverpool. It is noteworthy that the emigrants ure'mostly from the better clast of the agricultural poputation, the peasantry not haying the means to pay thelr passage. The following shows the number of imuigrants who nave landed at Castle Guzden this year? It is estimated that about 69,000 of this mm berare frish. Probably it will reach 100.000 in the year, aguinst 22,024 in the year 16% largest emigration from Ireland was ia the years following the famine of 159/361, that of 1819 being 112,301; 1350, 117,083; and 1h 163,308. ———— : Tae Boston Advertiser tries to take com fort from the French Government report of the progress of agriculture in that country the lust twenty years. * The agricultural inter est,” it is said, “insists that it shall be bette protected by the tariif, that the tariff on mant factured goods abull be lowered if necessstit and that the tariff on cattle, fresh meats, pro visions, and breadstuifs shull be raised consider” ably.” We fuilto see in this demand the’FP’ Port and consolation which the Adcertier: *, rives from it.” A parallel to it would U8 memoria! from American farmers praying for 4 reduction of the tariff on our manufactures # an increase of the duties on farm product® a our farmers are the greatest political power cfr this country any such demand from them 4 nitly expreased would get a prompt hearing be obored; that is the difference between Amer ican and French farmers. ———$__—_ ‘Tum sewage of the little town of Aylee bury iu England ta carefully utilized. The Ne is done by 2 company, which receives A year in addition to the product. 4 works the operuting machines, which conse various combinations of clay, suipnurie 4 af and charcoal, all cheap, and the manner of application is said to be murvelously chesP, Aylesbury has but 8,000 or 9,000 populations it may well be that # process perfectly adap! . to Its wants would fail totally when applied on much larger scale. But it is certain that problem which Aylesbury hus so success solved must receive the ever-increasing atte’ ia tion of hygienic exgineers until they #190 hal found the true key to its solution. $a Mr. Anricr Anson's well-meéant resold- tion for the removal of the restrictions 02 be importation of American cattle into Great ain wasdefeated by the exposure cxeealt practices prevailing in the cattle-markets at Louis and Chicago. It was stated in Purllames’ that the stock-yards and feeding ald St. Louis were anything but what they a0