Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1880, Page 4

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STEVE MAXWEsL, who won the two first heats of the 2:25 race ut Hartford Friday, took first money yesterday, winning the third heat andthe race. He trotted it in 2:21%. AN express train was thrown from the track at Little York, near Charlottetown, Prince Edward's Island, and all the cars fell over a smallembankment. One passenger was killed, another had his jaw broken, and several others ‘were very seriously injured. Tne Yon. Robert McClelland, of Detroit, atone timo Governor of Michigan, and Secre- tary of the Interior under President Pierce, was stricken with paralysis last evening, and was unconscious at last accounts. Ho is in his 73d year, and it is believed that he cannot recover. Mr. Wasnineton McLEAs, of the Cincin- nati Enquirer, is reported by his physician to be “worth a dozen dead men.” His condition has so mucha improved that ne converses freely with b's family and friends. He will not be re- moved from his quarters at Long Branch for some time. A cumovsir constructed factory at Law- rence, Mass. took fire yesterday, and two men, Patrick Moriarty and Michael Lanegran, per- ished in the flames. The building had neither door nor window, the only entrance to it being through a skylight. .A building inspector is badly needed in Lawren: A Nomen of delegates while proceeding from Sutton, N. H., to the Free-Will Baptiss Convention at East Ware, stopped ut the house ofaman named Daniels for refreshments, and ‘were poisoned by eating potatoes on whose vines Paris-grecn had been used. Four of the parties are ina very dangerous condition, and the pro- prictor of the hou: {r is believed that the Emperor William ‘will not offer any objection to the Prince of Hohenzoliern accepting the heirship to the Prin- cipatity of Houmania, offered bim by the reign- ing Prince. It wil! be remembered that out of complications arising from another Hohenzoll- ern Prince's acceptance of the Spanish throne grow the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. Mr. Grapsrone left Plymouth, England, yesterday for Dublin. The distinguished gentle- man goes to Ireland ostensibly for his health’s sake, but itis freely intimated, and not denied by bis associates, that while over there he will Inquire into the condition of the people, and try to ascertain for himself the true state of the re- tations beween the tenantry and the landtords. ML Le Prne, lately French Minister of the Interior. speaking at Avillon recently, said that the decrees ayalust the relisious orders would be strictly enforced, in accordance with the de~ sire of the Chamber of Deputies. This indicates that M. Le Pere and his chief, Gambetta, do not propose to support Premier De Froycinet’s meusure for the regulation of the religious con- gregatiuns. Suocrp the European Powers make a na- val demonstration arcinst Turkey, the fect en- gaged in it will consist of three iron-clads each belonging to Englund. France, Russin, and It- aly, two Austrian fronclads, and one German ironclsd. From tbls it is evident that the dem- onstration will not be a very Imposing or for- iidable one. Turkey could get up aa largea eet to oppose it. $ eee Braprorn, Pa., is once again a sufferer from the lightning’s havoc. A 25,000-gullon tank was struck by the electric shaft yesterday, and is now blazing. Several hundred men are digging trenches around the monster vessel, in the hope that the tlames muy be prevented from communicating with the other tanks in the vicinity. Two smaller tanks were also struck by lightning, but there is little danger of the flames spreading in their vicinity. 4 Tse value of the exports for the month of July of this year exceeded the value of the im- ports by $13,718,303. In July, 1879, the excess was only $9,614,319, The exports for the seven months ending July 31, 1830, were worth $4,- 878,178 more than the imports, while during the curresponding period of 1872 the exports ex- ceeded the itnportsin value by $124,690,900, The this year, however, was much in excess of the valueof the exports during the corresponding period of Inst year, but, owing to the increased demand for Juxuries, the imports inereased enormously. ‘The increased importation of specic has also elightly affected the figures. In July, 1850, the excess of: the specio imports over the specie exports was $325,219, but in 1670 it was only $59,273. “ Teopork Mansn, a clerk in the Girard National Bank of Philadelphia, when ascending a stairway leading to the Moncy-Order Depart- meut of the Post-Office of thut city, yesterday, was jostled by three men and robbed of’ $1,543. He did not miss the package containing the money until the robbers had made their escape. The increusing boldness of the robber element in the cities of the United States is becoming quite alarming, and calls for strong measures. Dr. Ben Jonmxstox, 2 member of the Vir- ginia chivalry who wanted to avenge his wound- ed honor by fighting a duel with Cupt. Wiso, also a member of the chivalry, was placed under bonds of $6,000 yesterday to keep from shedding anybody's gore. Capt. Wiso, through his coun- sel, promised to be a peaceful citizen and to give bonds to that effect. The easo with which Johnston was captured is suggestive of a lurk- ing desire for peace on his part. ALL is not peace in the Democratic camp in New York yet. John Kelly's. braves are only partly satisfied, and the Irving Hall Democrats are quite jeatous of even the partial favors bestowed.on Tammany. It looks now as if it would require considerable future effort to reconcile the young Democracy to tho new order of things. In the meantime the respecta- ble Democrats through the State are becoming |; disgusted, and the Republicans are working well and harmoniously. ff Cuter Ouray, of the Ute Indians, is dead, and in his death the United States has lost a valuable ally. He has long striven to induco his people to accept the terms offered them by the Government, butso farthey have obstinately refused. Hisdeath at this juncture will scriously coinplicate ‘affairs. The Utes are demoralized, aiid are 50 much afraid of being entrapped that they will not under any circumstances sign the treaty presented by the Commissioners until they have. selected Ouray’s successor. There are already several candidates, but the choice |- will probably fall on Sapovonara. ———=a= ‘Tre coal-miners at Jackson and Straits- ville, in Jackson County, Ohio, are on a strike, and, as Js usual with stcikers, they threaten all persons who are willing to work on the terms which they refuse with dire punishment. The Sheriff of the county being unable to protect the working miners, has called on Gov. Foster for n company of milltia, and in response the Sill Guards, of Chillicothe, O., left for tho scene of the trouble at midnight. The strikérs will prob- ably be brought to terms, and will return to work in a few days sadder but wiser mon. AN imposing political demonstration was held at Wheeling, W. Va., last evening, Gen. Stewart Woodford, of New York, and the Hon. George C. Sturgis, Republican candidate for Governor of West Virginin, being the speakers. It is estimated that 10,000 people were present. Great enthusiasm was manifest, and it was freely predicted that West Virginin’ would re- turn to her Republican allegiance, and cast ber yote in November for Gen. Garfield. ‘The Re- publicans are making a very spirited canvass of the Smte. They are determined to deserve and win success, Mr. Enerisn’s barrel will not be the only one opened in Indiana during the campaign nowin progress. The Eau Claire (Wis.) Free Press professes to be in a position to state that the Democratic National Committee bus made an assessment against the Badger State of $100,000 for use in Indiana alone. Several of the local lenders are busy collecting the funds, and it is said that the whole sum is expected to be put where it can do most good in the Hoosier State in a few weeks. Proportionately large sums have been assessed against other States. Tho Democrats are going to make the campaign io Indiana one with money in it. MOooNSHINERS are numerous and aggres- sive in Arkansas. The United States Marshal recently asked Gor. Miller, of that State, to allow the revenue officers to use.the United States arms in his possession, that they might the more effectively enforce the Revenue law, but bis Excellency of Arkansas’ would not con- sent. He excused himse!f by saying thathe would be driven from the State if he surrendered the arms. The United States Marshal has since applied to the Internal Revenue Bureau for tho requisit rifles. Gov. Miller's conduct is highly: reprehensible, and he should be held to account for it. ANOTHER gunpowder plot scare is re- ported from the enterprising and sensation- loving city of Cork. A Tory newspaper, pub- lished in the rebel city, as it delights to be called, says tho police authorities had received information that there is in existence a plot to attack the Ballincolly powder-mills and bar- racks, with what purpose it is not stated, but probably to obtain possession of a goodly quan- uty of powder and some firearms. The Tory organ further intimates that the men in posi tions of trust at the mills are Fenian ollicers. The story lacks all the elements of probability, and is doubtless the creation of the scared imagination of the Cork landlords. AN officer of the Southern Claims Com- mission, which hasexpired by limitation, has made an important discovery which goes to show thet should tho Democrats ever obtain control of all branches of the Government there isan extreme probebility that many ot the re- jected Southern ciaime will be agnin presented. When the Commission was about to close its labors, it transferred the papers on which claims were paid to the Treasury Department, and the applications that were rejected, with the documents on which the rejections were based, tothe War Claims Commftco of the House. Recently the officer in question wanted to {ook. over some of these documents, and found that in nearly every instance they have disappeared from the files. It will thus be easy to renew the applications, and with a partisan Democratic Committee, and in the absence of ducuments proving them to be worthless, it is not improba- Die that the applicants-will be more successful than they were before the Claims Commission. Tuar most extraordinary political acrobat, Lord Beaconsticld, is said to be advising his fol- lowers to prepare to resist the recnactment of | the Ballot act, which will expir@ by limitation next year, The reason which he urges for the discontinuance of the law is that the election petition trials of this year have shown that wholesale corruption was practiced in the En- glish boroughs during the recent general elec- tion. It was.thouht that the Ballot act would do away with bribery and intimidation. It hus | answered expectation as fur as the latter prac- tice is concerned, but it appears that the small English boroughs, and some of ‘tho larger ones, like Chegter and Oxford, are thoroughly corrupt and rotten, ond that no man without a well-filled purse can bo elected to the British Parliament from anyone of them. But, notwithstanding tis fact, itis evident that tho Ballot act bas dono | some good, and it will certainly be reénacted, | notwithstand|ng the efforts of Beaconstieid, Salisbury, Sir Stafford Northcote, and their fol- lowing. ‘Tue House of Lords will probably -pass the Employers’ Liability bill in theshape to which they have reduced it by nullifying amendments. | The various labor organizations throughout En- gland have already entered protest ugainst the ineasure in its present shupe, and have called on the Commons to refuse to coucur in the Lords’ amendments, to send back the bill in its original shape, or to abandon it altogether, and reintro- duce a more sweeping measure next session. This latter course fs the one which will in all | probubility be adopted, There fs no question as to tho refusal of the Commons to concur in the j Lords’ amendments. In reference to the Hares and Habbits bill, it is stated that, though the Lords will not absolutely reject tha mexs- ure, as Lord Redesdale wants them to do, they will amend it so that landlords may oblige the farmers to contract them- selyes out of the benefits intended by the measure. Such a course would render the absolutely worthless, and the Commons or | the Government cannot afford to consent to the | change. Already have three important Govern- ! ment measures been rejected or mutilated by the Lords, and apparently on the advice of Lord Beaconstleld, Lord Salisbury, and other Tory chiefs. Itiscertain that the next session will responsible legislator Mr. Gladstone, Mi Bright, and their radical colleagues and sup- porters are not the men to submit tamely to the obstructive tactics or the ‘childish tinkering’ of the Lords, us they have shown in the case of tho Irish Church act and the Army Purchase pill. Measures of an equally radical character —in all probability of a more radical character —will be introduced noxt session, and the Peors will hardly dare to oppose their passage. It would be as much as their privileges are worth to do so. ‘Tur little Court-House at Nicholasville, Ky., was on Friday the theatre of # scene which can only be enacted in the United States south of Mason and Dixon's line. Whilo Mr, Bronston, the Prosecuting Attorney, was prooceding with his specch to the jury in the case of James H. ‘Arnold, charged with the murder of his brother- in-law, Little, at Richmond, Ky., last Do- cember, he was intorrupted by Sen- ator Voorhees, the counsel for the de- fense, who pronounced a statoment mado by Bronston untrue. The latter repeated this statement, and Voorhees again said it was untrue. A third time was the statement mado, to be ngain contradicted, and yet the Judge (Buckner) never interfered. Suddenly there wus ‘a noiso in the court-room, which was filled with the partisans of Arnold and of Little. A man sprang forward with a pistol in bis hand and with an angry imprecation attempted to shoot Mr. Bronston. Fortunately the excited mun, ‘Arnold’s brother, hnd ‘not cocked his pistol, and after a struggie with the officers of tho Court ho was disarmed. During the oxcite- ment, which was intense, the prisoner, with his wife, was shoved into the jurors’ room, 2s it was feared that tho inflamed parti- sans of Little would Jay violent hands on him. When his brother was arrested and taken be- low, he returned to the court-room, accom- panicd by his wife, who sat on his kneo and refused to be séparated from him. Arnold wis acquitted yesterday, and a scene worso than that of the previous day was throntened. Ar nold had tu be removed from the court undet'a strong escort, and his devoted wife clung with her arms around him, so that sho aight save bit from tho scowling and threxton- ing partisans of his vietim, ‘ It is feared the end isnotyet. Little’s friends demand satisfaction. Arnold's brother was tined $1,00) yesterday, and sent to the State’s Prison fora year for his ss- sault of Bronston. A HIDEOUS CRIME During the past week there have been two arrests in this elty for the commission of one of the most hideous crimes in the calendar, —attempt at pre-natal murder resulting in the shuughter of the mother. In the one case the accused is an old offender, who has been arrested several times upon 2 similar charge and was onco convicted. He is a profes- sional butcher. In the other caso the evi- dence points to an equally incompetent, un- scrupulous, and callous practitioner, with previous experience in this worse than brutal pursuit. The two cases, coming so closely together and indicating the prevalence of a crime that thrives largely upon coudonation, should excite a degree of public indignation that shall spur justice to extraordinary vigi- lance and merciless prosecution. There is a moral and a utilitarian way of looking at the crime of abortion. In the former view, there is no extenuation for the crime, even in those cases where the desired result is accomplished without publicity and without outward signs of injury to the liv- ing. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to trace the crime in such cases to its respon- sible source. The woman who submits is then an accomplice instead of a victim, and rarely reveals an act that would implicate herself criminally along with others, The utilitarian view of tho crime requires, there- fore, the most condign punishment in every case which comes before the authorities by reason of fatal result to the guilty mother. The woman in such -case naturally and properly becomes an object of pil matter how large a share of responsibility she had for the commission of tho crime; she has paid the severest penalty for her wrong-doing, and the only way in which law can sustain morals and give the living the protection it purports to give is to-visit the penalty of murder upon those who have assisted in the fatal work. So long as pas- sion shall betray women into illicit relations with men, so long as credulity shall make victims of others, and so long as greed or vanity shall tempt others still, there will be those who seek or submit to abortion in or- der to escape shame or trouble. The Jaw, to be efficient, must hold their accomplices guilty of the must heinous crime, and punish it with a severlty more relentless than is shown to any other class of murder. Some years since a sensational newspaper in this city, which is inclined to pander to depraved tastes, published an article pur- porting to expose the professional abortion- ists. The list included a dozen or twenty quacks, more or less known as such, and we believe no libel-suits ever came of the publi- cation. The inference is that the practition- ers thus exposed feared to bring their repu- tations into court. It is pretty certain that every large city contains a large number of persons, calling themselves doctors or mid- wives, who undertake the crime of abortion for almost any fee that may be offered them, or for a piece of jewelry or other thing of yalue in the absence of money. - The exist- ence of this class and the impunity with which its members pursue their hei- nous practice denote some; serious defect in ‘the orgunization of society for the suppression of the crime of abortion. ‘Che license which is taken by abortionists has been attributed frequently to a false public sentiment, which is indignant only in cases fatal to the mother, and even then is modified by a knowledge that the practice is conducted with comparatively few fatal re- sults and sometimes with the knowledge or connivance of regular physicians. If this be the real explanation of the prevalence ot thetcriine, then it is nigh time for all men and women who revolt at the atrocity, for all public teachers who assist in molding public opinion, for all physicians who re- spect their profession} -and for the public authorities who are intrusted with the execution of the Jaws, to cry aloud aguinst the fiendish practice, and lend their best efforts to the full punishment of those who are apprehended in the crime. ‘There is reason to believe that some other influence besides public indifference to the practice of abortion operates to condone the crime, The execution of the law is not in the hands of the public, but of the offi- cers, the Judges, and the agents of the pub- lic. These persons should not require a con- stant scourge to keep them in the line of their duty, and they need fear no protest nor restraint, but may expect the reward of public gratitude, if they prosecute every case that comes before them to the full limit of the law. The law itself may be made a power in the way of suppressing the practice of abortion if it bestrictlyenforced. Wequote the most important section concerning this particular crime: , Whoever, by means of any instrument, medi- cine, drug, or other meuns whatever, causes any woman, pregnant with child, to ubort or mis- carry, or attempts to procure or produce an abortion or miscarriage, unless the same were done «8 necessary for the preservation of the mother’s life, sha!l be imprisoned in the Peni- tentiary not fess than one year nor more than ten yeurs; or if the death of the mother results therefrom.’ the person procuring or causing the abortion or miscarriage shall Le guilty of murder. How indifferently this Jaw is enforced is evident from the results of trials In which criminal abértion has been clearly proved. ‘The man Earll, now under arrest for one of the recent crimes, was, upon former convic- tion, sentenced to only one year’s imprison- ment, or the lowest penalty contemplated by- the statute. In another case he escaped pun- witness an obstinate and prolonged conflict be- value of the exports for the seven monthsof ; tween the Qymmons gad the hereditary and ir- ishment altezether simply boeanse nis vietim gotwelh A cyuple of other abyitignists ; ra wore sentenced, we believe, to two yt prisonment. This is mere trifling. amounts to positive encouragement for the practice of abortion. What is needed is hanging. ‘The law provides the extreme penalty in every case where the death of the mother results from the crime, and, as a rule, itis only such cases that come into court. The hanging of one or two abortionists would make the regular yocation of abortion- ist as rare as thatof the professional and hired assasin, ‘The cases now before the public offer an excellent. opportunity for inaugurating a stricter enforcement of the law against abor- tion. Each case has been brought to the notice of the authorities through the death of the mother. In both the crime has been committed for sordid motives, so far as tho pretended , “doctors” are concerned. In both, too, so far as the Coroner’s inquests have revealed, the evidence is unusually clear and pointed. Both mothers met their death under circumstances that are exclu- sive of every theory of justifiable abortion and conclusive of the most criminal intent and tho worst results of the act. Let the law be invoked, then, to its utmost limit. . 1f Earll and Cream be the guilty persons, as seems to be the casa from all the evidence at hand, let them hang! ‘This is the surest remedy against the prevalence of abortion as a practice, THE CHICAGO DEMOCRATIC BOSS. The boss gambler of Chicago, Mike McDonald, is also the boss politician in the Bourbon camp, and, with bis “terriers,” and “tramps,” and batlot-box stuffers, is a power to be drended und courted at the same time. AicDonuld is a sort of John Morrissey. He controls soventy-tive to 100 saloons, and scores of gambling hells, and-virtu- ally owns 1,000 voters. He is open and above board in his operations, and glories in his in- tumy. In his way he is quite x genius, and has great force of character, which accounts for bis influence in part. A few nightsago the swal- low-tailed Democracy of one of the respectable wards denoviaced him and bis methods. Tho next evening his followers, to the number of 400 or 500, rallied and adopted long-winded resolu- tions extolling his many virtues, and declaring him to be the purest and the best. All the thieves and thugs of bls ward were there, and 1 tougher mob never got together. The meetin: was held in the Palmer House club-room, nn when the crowd piled in Pottor Palmer sum- moned all tho detectives in town to his rescuc.— - Chicago letter in Indianapolis Journal. Some weeks ago we called public attention to the fact that this city was at that time lit- erally swarming with gamblers and their fol~ lowers, as.it was also with thieves and burg- Jars, both fraternities being attracted hither by the encouragement offered them by the Mayor of Chicago. The reader will find in the extract we have given from the letter to the Indianapolis paper a statement of fact whose only fault is that it underrates the im- portanee of the person named, .and under- rates the unanimity with which the whole body of Democratic managers of this city re- sented the insult offered to the man whtse yalue to the party far exceeds that of a dozen Harrisons. z We do not propose to repeat the sug- gestions then made on the leniency shown by the City Government to, these classes of peo- ple; all such suggestions are thrown away when addressed to the Mayor; and until he consents to actin police matters the police are as powerless as infants, both in the ‘way of arresting criminals andin the suppression of gaming. What we desire particularly to call the attention of the public to is the degeneracy and degradation to which politics have been brought in this city by the Democratic party when this man McDonald is its recognized leader-and in many respects dictator. What is said of the extent of his business is not ex- ageerated, and his potentiality in politics is universally established and recognized. No Democrat who has aspirations for office ventures to make any effort in that direction without, directly or indirectly, seeking the favorable support of McDonald. He governs or controls all Democratic nom- inations for offices in this city and county. No map can be nominated for Mayor, Sheriff, Judge of any Court, Coroner, her branch of the Legislaturs, or for Congress, whose nomination is not previous- ly made satisfactory to McDonald. Ife con- trols all nominating conventions of the Dem- ocratic party, and, fora proper consideration, might be induced to elect any ticket of dele- gates in any ward for any convention of any other party. Wo be to the Democratic can- didate who may in any way obtain a nomina- tion without McDonald’s consent, or who persists in being a candidate after being made aware that McDonald supports some other person for the office. Considering the great indifference shown by the mass of citizens of all parties to the selection of delegates to nominating conven- tions, the existence of such a person as Mike MeDonald, who kindly takes uvon himself the management of the whole business, as well for his own as for any other party, may bea public convenience. The presence of a Boss who wants no office for himself, and who is governed in his selections by no con- sideration of personal friendship or ties of kindred or race, but who always does busi- ness on the strictly commercial principle of buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market, may be in some particulars a public benetit. ‘Thus ina convention of one hundred and fifty delegates, having forty candidates seeking the ten nominations to be made, it is an immense saving of labor and of moncy to a candidate to be able to go to a single responsible person and with him ar- range for the nomination, instead of at- tempting to deal with the one hundred and fifty irresponsible delegates. Under the rule of a Boss of this kind, the nominating conventions are generally harmonious, and the enthusiasm.is unlimited. ‘They show the power of organizauon and discipline. Boss MeDonaid has no prejudices. Ne has no objection to a silk stocking because it is a silk stocking; nor has he any vulgar prejudice against education and per- sonal refinement. Ie would as ‘soon nominate the ablest lawyer, the pro- foundest scholar, and most cultivated gentleman for Judge of the Supreme Court as he would another person wanting in all these particulars, provided, always, that other things be equal. Other things being made equal, it is possivle the Boss would give the preference to the man better qualified to fill the office. On the occasion referred to in the letter of the Indianapolis Journal, the persons sent to the meeting were not selected because of any lack of respectability in the sources of, their income, but simply that, in case physic- al strength should be needed, the vindication should wot fail for want of inuscle. The fact that McDonald is now the all- powerful chief and dictator in Democratic Politics in this city is not questioned, His personal history, his business, his resources and general surroundings are too well known to be a matter of controversy. What the oftice of Democratic “Boss” is worth financially we have no means of knowing; but to a man who enjoys the exercise of power, who revels in having those who affect to despise him, who denounce him for moral shortcomings and speak of him with contempt, bow down to him and erave his patronage, and pay substantial tribute to his authority, the enjoyment is exquisit. When the silk stockings, the dig- nitaries, the merchant princes, and the Jearned and eminent of the Democratic party + of Chicago pay personal court to and rec-; oguize him as the party autocrat, then Mike McDonald ts compensated for all the abuse and Insult offered him, and in his heart he despises the respeitbles who fawn at his 1 friends. [f he make them pay roundly for the gifts he bestows, they have no reason to complain so long as they submit to his authority. It is not to be denied that down among the mass of Democratic voters, those who follow honest employments, and live upon their own earnings, and want no~offices, there is a strong protest against Mike McDonald as the representative and .chigf of the Demo- erntic party. But among the Democratic politicians, the men in high offices or who follow politics for a business, among the ex> Generals, ex-Colonels, ex-Majors, ex-Govern- ors, ex-Judges, and ex-honorables of all ranks and degrees, the protest against the leadership of McDonald is too weak to find expression. ‘The only feeble whisper of dis- content was, as we have seen, overwhelmed by the storm of vindicatlon at the Palmer Tlouse. ‘There is not a man in the Demo- cratic party, from Judge Trumbull, the can- didate for Governor, to Mayor Harrison, who has the courage to openly revolt against and repudiate the leadership of Mike McDonald, and so the Democratic party of Chicago becomes more and more, day after day, the personal property of the ‘Boss.’ Even those who cry out the loudest against what they call the disgrace stand with uncovered heads and in silence when Mike orders con- ventions, appoints delegates, nominates candidates, and requires them all, on their allegiance, to vote the whole Democratic ticket. Itis not surprising, therefore, that the criminal population, the keepers of gaming-houses, the proprietors of dens for receiving stolen goods, all of whom are under the protection of McDonald, find under Democratic government in Chicago a tolera- tion and a freedom from disturbance un- known elsewhere. To dethrone McDonald from his Bossship of the Democratic party of Chicago would be followed by the .defeat of overy Democratic candidate for office, and Mayor Harrison and his associates are not prepared for such a sacrifice as that, even to win the applause of the whole community. —————— MASTODON OR ELEPHANT? Is the Fowler street mastodon a mastodon, orishean elephant? This is the problem which now confronts the savants of the Academy of Sciences. Humiliating as it anay be, Chicago looks to them to do their duty in the premises, and if the mastodon is nota mastodon, but an elephant pure and simple, she will expect them to come up like men and acknowledge it, and not palm off an ordinary beast, which is a standard article in the market, for the antediluvian monster ‘which cannot be put upon the market, as there isnow uo known process for its manu- facture, In deciding this question, the Academy of Sciences must take into consideration the statement of the old citizen, whose veracity must be accepted until it is satisfactorily shown: he cannot be believed, that he re- members thirty years azo a circus passed along Fowler street, and that the elephant got mired, and was left there to perish by the proprietors, who were not so inhtunan as night at first-seem. As circus companies do not carry life-saving apparatus, and as the elephant, by reason of his great weight and the unusual force of his gravity, would rap- idly descend through the soft, unctuous, and treacherous subsoil to the liquid depths be- Jow, it stands to. reason that he could not have been saved, and that, however painful the sight may have been to the camel and the giraffe, the giant and the skeleton, the queen of the arena and tho peerless bare- backed beauty of the ring, the lem- onade peddler and the clown, and all the other friends of the deceased, as they saw him wave a plaintive but de- spairing farewell with his rapidly disappear- ing trunk, which fate had checked for the end of his underground route, they were absolutely powerless to save him, Had it been the small monkey, the human caunon- ball, or even the sacred bull of the Ganges, something might have been done, but the un- fortunate wretch who should have tried to stay the descent of that prodigious mass of flesh would inevitably have gone down un- derneath the elephant, and thus our acade- my of savants would have been more than ever distracted wiih the discovery that nan existed even before the mastodon, and irrey- erent scientisis would at once have over- ont. There were several of these places, the finest one being ‘at the intersection of Madison and Dearborn streets. If this busy locality should be excavated down thirty or forty feet, a great many interesting remnants of countrymen, Eastern speculators, horses, mules, buck- boards, hay-riggings, drays, and possibly an omnibus or two, would be found in the strata of 1850. If these light objects could sink, does any one pretend to claim that an ele- phant could cross such places In sefety, es- pecially when it is’ remembered that Fowler street was very remote in those days, and probably had no signal of danger posted ? ‘The various strata in which these bones have been found are thus defined by the seientis Modern soil, six inches. Loess, eight feet. Peat and muck, four feet; mastodon; trunksof trees, grass, moss, cte., otc. Gowlder-drift, irregular depth. Quicksand, irregular depth. They find that the bones lie about thirteen feet below the surface. We propose to show that they are mistaken, and, like all other scientists, have made a fatal error in their calculations by reasoning from generalities. That fs, they assume the general conditions of the Chicago strata without.any reference tothe great principle of gradual accretions, with which Nature has nothing to do, and then reason direct to this particular inasto- don, or more probably elephant,-and locate him in peat or muck twelve feet six inches pelow the abnormal! soil, when in reality he js inno such strata, but is probably resting very near the original surface. The thirteen. feet of superincumbent earth is very easily accounted for when one considers the prin- ciple of municipal accretion and the gradual but sure ascent of grades since 1850, when the old citizen’s elephant was mired. Tho real classification of strata between the pres- ent pavement and the original soil of 1850 is nearly as follows: + Present pavement, one foot. . Débris of the fire, four feet. i ‘Tin-cans, old hats, hoop-skirts, ete., one foot.: Old pavements, four fect. . Munielpal fillings and refuse of the neighbor- hood, two feet. ‘ Nature's swales and accretions, one toot. Which makes a, total of thirteen feet, and brings us directly to the resting-place of the supposititious mastodon, or more probably the elephant that belonged to the circus, coming into the city via the West Side, as circuses always came in those days. We throw out these hints as matters for consideration by the Academy. As thero is no money in the City Treasury with which to continue the excavation, the Academy should prosecute the work from its private finds. 1fit proves to be aq elephant they should manfully acknowledge it. Lf itbea mastodon, then they must show how a mas- todon happened to be on Fawier street about the time it was laid out and was contempo- rancous with the Administration of Mayor Curtiss. ASTRONOMICAL, Chicago (TRIRUNE office), north latitude 41 deg. « 52m. Sis.; west longitude, 42m. 18s. from Wash- ington, and 5h. 60m. 30s. from Greenwich. ‘The subjuined table shows the time of rising of the moon’s lower limb, and the ofticial time for lighting the first street-lamp in each cir- cuit in this city, during the coming week, unless. ordered sooner on account of bed weather. Also the following times for extinguishing tho first Jamp: rsday. Friday .. Saturday.... 6:04%2 p.m. Sept. 5...... 6:30 m. The new moon will occur next Saturday at Tl:@2a.m. She will be near Mercury Friday afternoon, and pass. 6% degrees south from Venus next Sunday nicht. ‘The sun‘s upper limb will rise on Monday at fu. m., south at Om. 15.3s. p. m., and ses at i Pe ‘The sun's upper limb rises Friday next at 5:27% a. m., souths at 1b. 38m. 59.45... m., and sets at 6:20%5 p. m. ‘The sidereal time Thursday mean noon will bo 10:49m. 0.223. Mercury is now west of the sun; the distance Thursday will be 12% degrees. He will south that day at 11:10 a. m. Venus is east of the sun. Thursday she will south at 0:53 p.m. She is stilltoo near the sun to be seen without the aid of the telescope. Mars, also, is too near the sun to be of interest ox thrown the whole Mosaic narrative of the Creation. It will bé useless for the cavilers to say that the date assigned by the old citizen is too remote for circuses. Thirty years ago is only 1850. In that year Chicago had the opera, and before that time Charlotte Cush- man, Edwin Forrest, the elder Jefferson, and other great actors had been here. Innumer- able, concerts had been given, and church choirs were squabbling, and there had been many exhibitions of fine arts. Now, in the development of civilization it is a univer- ‘sally conceded fact that the cireus is the pioneer. It always preeedes the theatre, the opera, and the art displays, and may be called the foundation principle of popular esthetics which kindles the.first aspiration for anusementin the youthful breast, inciteseven the smallest impecunious boy to the flagrant crime of crawling under the canvas at op- portune moments, and heralds the advent of higher forms of diversion. Having estab- lished this fact, we now clinch it with the declaration that the files of Tae Cricaco ‘TRIBUNE for 1850 show thata circus came kere that year all the way from La Salle via canal, and that the citizens were very much distressed because the show was delayed en route by abreak in the canal. There having beena circus here that year, it follows, as night fol- Jows the day, that there was an elephant here, beeause there never wasacircus from the time that Noah started on his tour down to the own 4nd only greatest on earth that did not have'an clephant. A circus without an elephant would be a delusion that would to the naked-eye astronomer, though he (or she) were as skilifulns Hevelius. The planet will south Thursday ut 1:03'% p. m. Jupiter will rise Wednesday at 8:02 p.m. and south Thursday at 2:3 a, m. His apparent dinmeter is now 45.7 seconds of arc, or about equal to 14 inches scenat the distance of one mile. In consequence of his great brilliancy he appears much larger than this to the naked eye, his rays being spread in passing through our atmosphere. He is a very brilliant ob- ject—bright enough to cast a shadow, when near the zenith, in the absence of the moon. At 9:35 this evening the second satellite will ‘begin to transit the planet,and will pass off at O:lla.m., At2ita.m. Monday the tirst satel. lite will begin a transit, and will pass off at 4:59 a.m. At1l:01% p.m. Monday the first witl be eclipsed, und it will reappear from occultation atz:07a.m. At:13 p.m. Tuesday the first will Degin a transit of the planet, which willend at 11:35 p.m. At%:064 p.m. Friday the third sat- ellite will reappear from eclipse, will puss be- hind the planct at 8:57 p.m, and re- appear .from occultation at UW p. m. At a. m. Suturday the second will be cetipsed. On Wednesday und Thursday eyen- ings the third satellite will be fur enough to the westof the planet to permit it to be seen with an ordinury opera-glass. The fourth satellite will also be neur his greatest western elonga- tion Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evon- ings,—far enough from the planet tobe seen with the naked eye. It may be interesting to many to look for those objects. They mny be readily picked up by first looking at Jupiter past the edge of a board, or the projecting’ cornice on the southwest corner of a buildin, and then move the head to the left just far enough to shut out the view of the planct him- self. The fourth satellite certainly, and prob- ably the third, will then be easily recognized, and once scen muy be kept in view in coimpeti- nowledge is not to be of the necessary to save life seta Kitna thas ts Utilitarian_knowled; people flow to preserve] rarer Puch, instructs and dcil intelligently with practod a peut, decried in these institutions as vuigae sett ted for educational purposes. “Keone Cae courses OF study are made Gerald and he quite other objects. © UP with reference tg Jt is a question whether this and whether, if it be so, the asa true, follow are accurate. For all that appears hick contrary, Princoton College would bare ee liable to an epidemic if it had been a ment! institution as it was under the éizcumsie Ignorance of the laws of health was not cause of the epidemic, but ignorance of thew istence of ordinary germs of disease, Le tilating apparatus of one of the college fig ings was out of order. That was all. Chew studies did not cause the disorder, nor scientitic studies have prevented it. "The ™ lar Science is nearly righ and more ingenious in rH wenemy of Bisbop Harris’ xddress at the coo mencement of Michian University. Bishop upheld the classical and decried what was pleused to call “ the utilitarian” eae? The Popular Selence editor shrewdly obeer that the studies which Bishop Harris speciat, advocates are utilitarian for gentlemen of, protession. “Greek and Latin, rhetoric us logic, and’ mental and moral philosophy, wir Bishop Maria would palm off upon the Mion? boys as giving the only true educa cg been the bread and butter of Doctors of Diviniy ever since divinity becamo a regular busine? Lot Bishop Harris confine his pot-botling eo riculum for preachers to the technical schools of the profession,—the theological ser inaries, Isis high time that general education wore rescued from this slough of specialism and placed y; loftier grounds.” pan, or A youne buck in London bet £5 witha fricnd that he could walk from the Criterion to the Gaiety Theatre in any costume which hig friend might prescribe without being molested by the police. The costume prescribed Wary full suit of bed-chintz of various colors, and high-crowned hat. The eyebrows of the unfort unate young man were painted black, white the lower part of his face was daubed with req. He carried a rifle in one band and an umbrella iy the othor, and a sword &nd pistol in his waise belt. He was arrested long before he had come pleted his walk, taken before the magiat severely reprimanded, and compelied togive vonds for his good behavior for six months, ‘The young nian had a bigher opinion of the law, it seems, than it deserved. He should not hare Deen molested. His weapons were not con cealed, and his fantastic dress did not constitute “disorderly conduct,” according to the ordinary meaning of tho phrase. i a - Tue lengthy correspondence on Hancock's cruelty and inhuman treatment to his soldiers, which was published in THE Tiapoye a few days. since, has been scoffed at and asserted to be untrue by the Democrats, The following letter to Chairman Laker, of the Wisconsin Repub- liean Stute Committee, from J. 8. And Manitowoc, is only one of the hundred of lik character from “those who were there” and know the statement to be positively true and not overdrawn in the least: Some of us here were in Hencock’s brigade (myself among the umber) when Dr. Castleman wu3 in it, and the Democratic attacks on the old Doctor’s memory make us feel as though we jad one or two old scores to pay off. The mat- ters in the old Doctor's diary, as published, are strictly true, and 1 can certify to it frum per soual knowledge. a THE repudiation of the American lady, Miss Moulton, by her titled German husbant was easily done, and the fact should bea lenon to tuft-hunters in this country who are looking out for brilliant foreign matches, The marriage laws of ull the Continental countries are totally different from our own. No foreign woman can be married to aFrenenman in France unless she has lived there three, and sometimes elght, months; and she nrust, besides, turnish a birth certificate. In purta of Germany and in France a nobleman under 80 must obtain the consent of his parents to bis marriage, and must notify, them three times, or the marriage is not legal. It is a very risky business seeking to many titles abroad, except, of. course, in Engiand, , where there is a fair field and no favor. a ‘Tne New York Sun, a violent Democrati¢: |. newspaper, has this to say of one of the Repub- Means mentioned in connection with tho Coa: grcssional nomination in the Thind District: It is not unlikely that when the next Congrest coines together the spectators in the galleried may see uguin the once farailior face of the Hon. Elihu B. Washburne. His Republican od. mirers in the Third District of Mlinols are at: work to secure bis nomluution, and he is said to have told one of them, just before his departure for Europe, that, while he did not want it, be could give no good reason for declining it. Dure ing his previous service in Congress, Mr. Wash Durne distinguished himself, and earned the cordial ill will of sundry greut railroad and other corporations and their lubbyists, in and outot the House, by his stubborn resistance to thelr schemes tur enriching themselves. at tho ex pense of the peopic. i - Iz has been stated ina cable dispatch that an immense crowd gathered before the bavor Chapel in expectation of the marriage of Lady Burdett-Coutts, and was dispersed by the police amid groans for the Baroness, “who would gare been pelted in truc British fashion bad she ap peared.” On this the Springtietd Republican re marks: “Once ina good many yenrs we resdot a‘horning’ in some back country Yankee vil Jage on the occusion of un unpopular marrisg® but we do not read of them in New York, which is tho nearest thing we have got to London. And such treatment from tho London mob to & woman who bas spent many thousands of pounds for their benefit can only be fitly charsce erized by the favorit British epithet, * beastly.” $$ Tne Cincinnati Gazette, which has been clamoring fora new census, has not the prac to acknowledge itsel? in error when it is clearly: - proven to be sv. The recount showed an im crease of only 561 persons in three wards. Sup posing the new numes to be all entitled to ety, and thesame rate tobe maintainéd for the rest of the city, the total gain would benearly 5,000. But neither of these suppositions bas much, probability. And if both bad, the object of the census is not to obtain the population ia the latter end of August, but simultaneously i June. Yet the Gazette has the courage to say> “It certainly scema that the Federal census should be retuken.” It certainly dues not sec 80 to disinterested persons. = Burcwens of a ‘speculative turn of mind have put up a refrigerating warehouse ncar Smithiiela markets, with a view to testing the possibility of bringing fresh meut from Austrar lin. The passage by steam-vessel requires forty days. if meat can be kept for that time in the model refrigerator the importation will at one® begin, and American dealers will suferfrom & considerable competition. The plan contem- not be tolerated in any community, least of all in a community like Chicago, where cir- cuses have always found a hospitable wel- comeand remunerative patronage, We have now, as we think, satisfactorily demonstrated that there was a circus here thirty years ago, with an elephant. Was he mired? Ifwecan show that he could haye been mired, then there is nothing abrupt in the decision that he. must have been mired. Even later than 1850, and in the memory of the- present writer, there were numerous localities in Chi- cago, even in its thickly settled portions, where there was no bottom. It was the habit of the City’ Government at that time, which had more pride in its streets than the present Administration, to warn strangersof. their perilous condition by planting signs with tho legend, “No bottom here.” It was not necessary to notify citizens. Even Lisle Smith, Dr. Egan, Judge Meeker, or Dob Blackwell, coming home from roystering times at the Tremont on the darkest nights, could steer clear of them, but newcomers from the East were often caught in them be- fore these signs were placed, and it was no uncommon thing for people who were out. early in the! morning to find the surface of a streét dotted with strangers, some up to their, Knees, some upto their waists, some up ta their necks, and in some cases only their hats visible, but all stuck as immovably as if'they were in a huge vise. Those who tried to cross in wagons usually went out of sight in the twinkling of an eye, and no svarghvyas made Zor them, but those tion with the glare of the planct. Both are lurge enough to be easily seen but for the in- tense brightness of their principal. The luter in the evening the better will be tho chances of success in looking for them, It has been suid that not more than three or four pergong ever saw. a sutellite of Jupiter with sho unaided cyo. The'third as well as the. fourth is not difficult when the position is favorable and the person knows how to took for tho object. A Ppostul-curd trom those who succced in seeing oue or both this week will be welcome to tho astronomical department of Tux Trivne. The bright spot of Jupiter will be turned directly towards us at about the following times during this week: Monday at 12:0t p. m.; Thursday atln2a.m.; Saturday at3:2) u. m., and at 11:10 p.m. Saturn will rise Weducsdny at 8:31 p. m.; and south Thursday at 3:02 1. m., or 39 minutes after Jupiter. His apparent cquatorial diameter is only 18.1 seconds, or four-tenths thatof Jupiter; but his ring system presents a greatest diameter of 43.2 seconds, with a least diameter of 11.5 seconds. The earth is now 1514 dezrees south from the plane of the riugs, giving a very. favorable opportunity for studymy them ee the telescope. ranus is now with the sun; i conjunction Wednesday morn it Bein Neptune will south Thursduy at 4:02 a.m. His right ascension thea will be 2h, 49m. 24s. and declination 14 degrees 2t minutes north. - * er ‘Tue editor of the Popular Se - ly embraces the Reeaaiouy of the mete ee eae young men from malarial fever in Princeton Colicxe to attack ferociously the whole theory of @ classical education. We do not precisely sce the connection between the subjects, yet this brave editor has no hesitation In usserting that these young imen were “sacrificed to an educa- tlonal theory.” ‘The theory to which they were ollered up, he goes on to suy, “is that college i plates the constant runing of 3 machine which manufactures Ice artificially at a costof 20 cents Aton, and whether it succeeds or not, so far #3 Australia, 1s concerned, it will find immediate application on the American lines. $< ‘Tne night medical service in New York is in full operation. ‘The act of the Legislature provides that aregistry of physicians willing to give their services at $3a visit at night to the deserving poor shall be kept at each pollce st3* tion. If the persons requiring uid ure unable 10 pay the amount then the Polico Captain of the rict is to certify that tact, and the physiciall Lecomes entitled to receive the sum from the publié treasury. Three hundred und twenty. seven physicians have up to this time been em rolled. ——>___—_ A Loxpon correspondent of the New Yok Sun enters upon a very able and ingenious de | feuse of Guida's “Moths.” He says it isa trathy ful representation of a certuin ‘set In gocietys © and does not picture vice in an alluring, but 1a ; a most odious, form. Of course the great Prince once or twice mentioned in tho novel is the Prince of Wales. $$ : Cot. Gorpon resigned his position as Sceretary to the Viceroy, it is now ropo! Ja obedience to n hint from the Home Goveraments . aad his tirstemploymentis likely to bethe active - command of all the lund forces of the Chinese Empire. of course without the direct authority of the British Government. <<< Trrere will be other chiefs of the Signal f Service; but there will never again be an “0 Vrobabilities.” ‘The people bestowed that nam? upon Gen. Myer at first playfully, and then af fectionately. There may be some who remem- ber that the. President, in introducing Gem ° Myer tothe peopte on his Minnesota trip, sald ; “This f¥the gentieman who has been called