Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1880, Page 11

HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, + wD wT UND AY SEPTEMBER 26; 1880—SIXTEEN” PAGES. /’REAL ESTATE, ‘gnvestors Waiting - for the . Presidential Election, A Big Boom Sure if Garfield : Is Successful. ‘ The Sales Few—Holders Firm: * —Building Improvements, - Still Further Discussion of the Street Pavement Question. sae. THE MARKET. ‘The market for rea) estate exhibits uo special Aeatures different from our last week's report. ‘he sales are mostly of small,cheap parcels. There is much inquiry, and even some toreign fuyers have been noticed in the market; but so Jar as we have heard there are no speculative Gealings or purchases of considerable blocks of at improving prices. These must wait iil the financial policy of the Government be- comes settled for the next four years. We havo heard off several trades declared off—notably one for $100,000—tili “we hear from the polls in November.” Stocks, too, are tumbling, and real estate and all investment values are unsteady and doubtful. These facts are exactly as we findthem. Tie TarpunE is no croaker.’ It be- eves firmly that the people will not hand over the vast interests of this country to the men who fought with fiendish desperation and ceaseless Inulignity for four years to destroy it. The bare possibility that sucha calamity will befall the Nation is what causes the feverish - condition in investment values, This uncer- tainty cannot last beyond the ‘next four weeks. Till then holders and investors will wait for whatever developments are in store for us. Awalk among the real-estate men shows no change to speak of from the situation last week. ‘Ithas not been aweek of activity, so faras many large sales are concerned, but there has been a reat deal of inquiry and many millionsof dollars ‘are waiting to come into Chicago to pay for ‘property, ‘but the would-be purchasers and own- ers are wide apart in many instances. Property- » owners are inclined to think that the tide fs still upward in its tendency. There are several large transactions nearly closed, but there have “yet been no papers made, and as‘no actual sale “bas yet been consummated the agents decline to amake terms and locations public, E.§. Dreyer * & Co. have applications for the investment here ‘et nearly $5,000,000 in real estate. Tho ‘capitalists are from California, and are anxious to get in on Chicago prop- but owners and purchasers somehow can'tcome together. The same firm are likely {to close a transuction amounting to about $100,- {Qu this week, comprising a piece of property on ‘the North Side, unimproved, east of Clark street tend south of Lincoln Park. Up to yesterday the ies were $10,000 apart, but they hoped to @ transfer will no . peplit the dliferenge, and th | doubt be made. iteversaleshave been made during the past week, with one or two exce| + tions, have been to partics who intend to build immediately, either for idence or ren’ purposes. There have been no speculative deals, srany of a general character. ” ‘The high price of building material has yetarded contemplated anc jive improve- ments. In this connection a correspondent of a St. Louis paper has recently telegraphed that within the past two weeks, with no operations of g specially large character, the transfers of real estate have aggregated in round numbers $1,- 200,000, as against $651,000 in 1879 for the corré- sponding week. Dwelling on improvements, be says: “A mot ona busiuess block is a rare rtgare . exception, the present holders being generally Bolid men of the city or wealthy corporations. The-boom in the build! market is such that teamsters get $2.a thousand for hauling brick, and make from £6 to $7 a day.” ‘The fact is, building material is entirely too’ igh, and has high, anc scared several buyers out. of the field for the time being. There is also a desire on behalf of some parties to hold off until after ‘the election, Delis say tee things will be unset~- ued if a Democratic ident should happen to “beelected. | E THE LOAN ‘e - The market for real-estate loans is good. A _Breat many loans were madethe pastweek upon iaside improved property at rates varying from &% to % per cent. Several loans’ of $15,000 and = $30,000 were made at 7 per cent, and there was a and healthy inguiry. In this connection it might be stated. that a prominent real-estate ‘rm has received a letter from a well-known New York capitalist who has some $3,000,000 in- vested in Chicego, in which he says that it would. be a calamity to change our National Ad- ministration at this time. While he was nota Republican, he regarded it imperative that the Republican ticket should receive the support of all thinking men who have the rity of the country at heart, because, if a change wasmade, It would unsettle values again for another year at least, make people diffident, and consequent- iy injure business. = Mr. Dreyer seemed vo think that more would ‘be done in real estate this fall but for the com- ing National election. Holders are decided! firm, and believe in holding on, and, as Mr. S. H. Kerfoot remarked, “ Buyers must be educated -bp to that point.” NEW BUILDINGS. There are many improvements in contempla- tion, but, a8 stated before, parties are holding Of for lower prices. : ". Two stories, thirty-five feet in hight, are be- -fng added to the Portiand Block. Messrs. Burnham & Root are the architects, and Mort- ‘imer & Tappan, who are building the Grannis Block, are putting on the improve- ments, which will cost about $40,000. ‘The archi- tectural design of the present structure will be :tollowed in the hightening, and, with the stories added, will be one of the loftiest office buildings | ~in the city, reaching over 100 feet high. The elevator will be run up, and by the additional Stories sixty new offices will be added, all of Which are already rented. The sixth story will ~Pelareely occupied’ by the Chicago Literary Aub, ; : Opposit the Portland Block, on the southwest _Sortier of Dearbornand Washington streets, a Mansard story about fourteen feet high is being - added to the Kendall Block, and will contain be- tween thirty and forty’ new offices, and will Provequite ‘an architectural improvement to . the structure. The framework is of iron, and Will be cove red with slate, thus being rendered Uterally tire~proof. -, W. L. B. Jenney, the architect, bas now un- er his draughtsmen’s hands the plan of an ele- kant residence to be placed on the lake sore of -the North Side whic! Porras of $30, of alcoves and ful curves in the interior, made Mir. Jenney’s work so popular. bas his table full of dra and plans for new buildings, but they are held back of high prices. Mr. Jenney is also re- -Modeling the Bates House, in Indianapolis, and - the new portions are being constructed fn the ;Modern English Gothic style, and fitted up in that manner, thus becoming an ornament to ‘the Hoosier Capital. -> Haverly’s Theatre fs likely to become a thing Of the past by-and-by in ite present quarters, i€ rumors ‘prove true. It is stated that the First fatonat z is anxious to nocure: the Dear : lonroe street property and put upo! ita handsome building to accommodate Sts large Sng, increasing business and safety-deposit Siessra. Treat & Folz, the architects, have buildings in process of construc- “ton under their supervision: :_ Apartment building for 5. B. Williams, on the ‘oruer of State and Ontario streets, 83 feet on Ontario and 87 feet on State street, six stories and basement, containing twelve apartments. ‘The building will be nearly fireproof, having fire lath, and being cemented between the Hoors and ceilings throughout. There will be two fron stairways and brick partition walls to the roof. ‘The building itself will be of uric With stone tri Interior finish will be of natural woods, with hardwood floors... Plate md colored glass in all the stories. It will be > heated and ventilated by Mills’ new steam appa- Fang and the cost of the improvement will be BE rr Mr. C. P. Libby has nearly completed a resi- dence on the southwest eae of Michigan ave- e house, Fazer the lot, are heated with steam by one of ; Haxtun’s boilers placed in the cellar of the barn, <Jome fifty feet from the house. The building fagone of Crane's water. elevators Fanaing from ent a story, and e1 modern = : Fealence in the Thane of electric bells, speaking tc, A. 5. Walker is building a three-story brick arelling on Indiana avenue, near ty : street, to cost $12, id Being con: A store and apartment, buil for C. S Dodaes B net will pe 50 pat .S of Boston. k eet, and tour stories in hight, with basement, 8nd will contain six apartments ve the stores. The front will be Berlin sandstone and stron cornice. , A C.Judd is putting upa residence.40 by 50 feet on Delaware plac between State street and param avenue, vit will be of St: Fouls ressed ie aa mile sae. ings of Berlin sandstone,, '-B. Waite is building a block of three stone- front dwellings on Astar street, west trout, near, Division, ‘They will each have a frontag y fect by. 62 feet deep. They stories and basement each, and cost $17,000. Airs, Anna Langyuth is putting up a dwelling on Fredenck, west of Clark street, two stories and cellar, brick and stone frimmings. Tt will Pe etek with an addition of 14 by20 feet, Louis Schafer is erecting an apartment house, brick and stone, three stories high, North Clark, near Sophia street, 25 by 60 feet, to cost 5 ‘The Rev. Herrick Johnson is to have a’ brick and store Gothic residence built at the northeast corner of Cass and Superior streets, three, stories high, 30 by 58 feet, and to cost $12,000. J..N. Maynard is about to erect three brick and stone Gothia. front aye Spel age! and: ") acl x60 feet, on cust, near Clarl Street, to cast $13,000. oe: x Messr3. Treat & Folz are also preparing tho plans for a large number of new buildings which will be mentioned hereafter. The factis, Whe shows that a great eanty atte Sooo ‘@ great mai are contemplation of erection. es = The beneficial influence of the laying ofa street railway track is nowhere more signally illustrated than on North State street. Prior to the time when the North Side street railway put down and began operating its - tracks, it was practically dead asa business street, there being but few stores of auy consequence. open its entire length. That portion of it from Chicago avenue north to Division was worthless for residences property, the lots on tho west side, which was pretty empty, being so very shallow as to make it impossible to put up good. Balidings there.” Now, however, all it is changed, and the street has taken on an appear- ance of ‘life and activity which is surprising to those who knew ft in its former depressed and forsaken condition. The special advantage which the southern {portion of the North Side enjoys over .other sections of the city is that it is so near to tho business, cen- tre. That has. led to the filling up of the streets, both north and south and enst and west, with boarding-nouses. The laying of the tracks on State strect, and the opening up of swift communication with the heart of the city, have given an impetus to this pusiness,and it has also made a use for the property north of Chica- goavenue. It will not be very long before the iter portion ot that is covered ‘with fits. ‘oF buildings of, that sort, where no yards are needed, this: shallow strip, which it Was at one ume proposed to take for the purpose of widen- ing the street, fs of sufficient width. The putting down of the tracks has also started a number of “stores, so that it will not yery long before pretty much _ the -entire distance from Ohfo south to North Water street will be filled up with them. Prior to and in an- Hcipation of the buildings were erected, and are now nearly ready for occupancy, at the northwest and northeast corners of Llinois street, The follow- ing buildings are in process of erection on this thoroughfare: : On the northeast corner of State and Kinzie Streets the foundations are bemg laid for a block of three stores, with two stories of flats above, and basements beneath. The store: will have an ay gate frontage of 60 fect on State a depth of 41 feet. The front will be of brick and cut stone. The block is being erected by John Johnston, and Henry L. Gay is the architect. Ls One block above, on the northwest corner of State andAMichigan, Martin McNulty is erecting a block of four stores, having a frontage of 100 fect on State street. The building is to have a stone-front, and there are to be two stories of flats above the stores. Mr. Zittellis the archi- Directly across the alley, toward Iiuois street, Adams & Spaulding are erecting a two-story and basement stone-front store, having a front- age Of 20, feet and a depth of (2 feet. H. Oviatt is improving his land on the northwest corner of Ohio street by the erection of four stone-front .dwellin, facing on Ohio street ana one double house. on . State street... Tho former are large three-story and basement dwellings, having a frontage of twenty-five reet each, and the latter is. three-story and basement house, baving a frontage of fifty feet on State street. ‘The houses are being built to rent, and J. H. Zittell is the architect. At the southwest corner of Ontario street the foundations have been laid for a large building on the plan of the “ Beauverage,” to be known asthe “Ontario,” It is to bea six-story, attic, and basement building, with pressed-brick front and stone trimmings. ‘The inner walls are to be of brick, the stairways of iron, and it is claimed that the building will be absolutely fireproof. The flats are to de conveniently agranged, heated by steam, and there will be two elevators in the building. ‘The frontage on State street is eighty- seven feet, and the depth eighty-threet feet. S. B. Williams is the owner, and Treat & Foltz the architects. Mr. F.C. Link is erecting, on the west side of the street near Chestnut, a_ two-story and base- ment dwelling having & frontage of twenty- eight fect and a depth of fifty fect. jesides these buildings in process of erection, the ground is being broken in a number of places, and in the spring it is probable that the many gups along this thoroughfare will be filled up. BUILDING PERMITS. ‘The Building Inspector issued 104 permits for new buildings last week, aggregating $115,000 in value, of which the following were -the prin- cipal: John Johnston, three-story store and dwell- ing onthe northeast corner of State and Kinzie streets, to cost $10,000. G. W. Pittsin, four-story factory on Clinton street, near Van Buren, to cost $13,000. W. Johnson, two-story dwelling on the corner of Superior and Cass streets, to cost $11,000. . Long, three-story store and dwelling at 181 North Clark street, to cost $10,000. H. 8. Mills, two-story dweiling, on Indiana avenue, near Thirty-sixth street, $8.000. i J. W.. Patten, four-story factory, on Clinton street, . R. Rejnhardt, three-story dwelling and store, on Hazrison street, near Foster street, $5,000. Samuels.Beers, five two-story buildings, on Bloom street, near Twenty-fourth street, $5,000. E.-D, Fisk, four-story factory, on Twenty- sixth street, near Western avenue, $20,000. ° John Muebler, two-story dwelling, Nos. 624 and 626 Sedgwick strect, £7,000. P.C. Brooks, two additional stories on Port- land Block, corner uf Washington and Dearbora Streets, $30,000, “Among the building permits issued yesterday were the following: One to A. Booth, to erect an ice-house, Nos. 12 and 14 Michigan strect, to cost $2,000; one to k. M. Meadowcroft, to_erect two four-story stores and dwellings, No. 96 Glark street, to cost $40,000; one to Thomas Fal- lon, to erect a two-story dwelling, No. 155 North Union street, to cost $3,000; one to H. Lewis, to erect a three-story dwelling and barn, No. 305 Tilinois street, to cost $18,000; and one to H. ‘Willlams, to erect a two-story dwelling, No, 417 Hurlbut street, to cost $4,000. SPECIMEN SALES. . ‘The following are some of the specimen real estate sales‘of the week: Nelson Mason has sold through Garneit & ‘Thomasson and A. Loeb, five acres in Mason & McKetchen’s addition to Edward Paulding for $2,500 an acre, or $12,500 cash for the tract, which is situated corner of Drexel avenue and Fifty- seventh street. - Edward Goodridge sold for James Turner the buildings and lot No, 93 South Halsted street to Joseph Hartley, Sr., for $8,500. Jacob Weil. & Co. have soid for the United States Express Company their old stable-prop- erty to Max M. Rothschild for $02,000, all cash. ‘The lotis — feet front by 190 feet deep, front- ing south on Monroe strect, between Fifth ave- nue and Frankiin street. The property was sold with its improvements, which will be used towards building a first-class five-story.and basement stone-front building, which willbe commenced at once, and will cost about $40,000. It will be occupied by the wholesale ‘clothing house of E. Kothschiid & Bros., of which firm ‘the ‘purchaser is a partner. Ira Brown has sold six lots in La Grange to Samuel J. Reynolds for $600; | eight lots in same lace'to Otto Birkhahn for $900; four lots in Bark Ridge to William H. Dilley for $1.200: and six lots at Lake Side to T. H. Wallpail for $600. ‘The following is the total amount of city and suburban transfers within a radius of seven tiles of the Court-House tiled for record during the week ending Saturday, Sept. 25: City—-Sales, 3; 1. $492,257. North of city lim- 182; consideration, Y git m= of the tracks stone | nal st ft n of Ewing, o f, 20x ft, dated ‘Aug. 1) (Ml. Pre tees J. and J.'E. rto nO Canal st, san ei 4 rs (Alonzo Fran din to Peter Devine) 2250 Fulton sti ite of Curis, st, Si to 3%, inted Soph (Cand S-9. BolltSitenaaee nell 2,700 HAte anted Aug. iL H MeBride to Alois | South Halsted st, ig ti" n of Monroe, 6 f, Bigxits fe improved, dated Sept. 28 (ames - ‘Turney to Joseph Hartley), 8,500 Ilinois tt, nw cor of Pine, s f,i00x nt ‘Ang. 10 (Masver in Chancery to the Connecti cut Mutual Life Insurange Company).....-.. . 8,000 Hilinois st, same lot as the Above, dated iB (Connectient Motuat Life insurance Com- pany to Henry ‘Tewes) 9,600 Howneuy wEE Suark to Samuel MILES OP TUE COURT-HOUSE. ey to Judah West). is ‘ ms Kearn a boulevard and Eandaie avenue, The lot on Drexel near Forty-fourth street, for $0,000, reported Satur- gay morning, Sept. 25, should read Andrew J. Cuoper to Dennis Ityan, instead of Andrew J. Coyie, which ‘was inserted by mistake. JAMES H. REESE. ‘The death of James H. Reese was appropriate- ly noticed early Inst week. His long and most honorable position in the real-estate business of the city makes mention of him entirely proper in this connection. Noman ever enjoyed—and more justly—the entire confidence of his fellow- eltizens. With integrity far above the shadow of suspicion, millions of money passed through his-hands, and always to the entire satisfaction of his principals. His genial and courteous nature made him always dn acceptable compan- ion, and if our younger men aim at marked suc- cess they cannot find a better exampler than James H. Reese. . STONE VS. Woop. @ Te the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. 2 Caxcaco, Sept. 25.—Piease allow me space enough in your valuable paper wherein to make’ a few remarks on the subject of street pave- mont, partly to confirm, and partly not, the let- ter written to you and published in your issua of the 19th inst, from,“ Chicagoan ” from New Yors.’ In beginning, {I want to thank tho gen- tleman for bis information relative to’ different kindg of material used in the Eastern cities for, pavements, for, never having been any further East than Michigan City, 1 am almost entirely ignorant. But regarding Chicago, I am better Posted,,and desire principally to satisfy. my own. feelings. I fully'agrée with him: that cobbie- stone is not exactly what we want to drive our horses and buggies over,to have them com- pletely racked and used up in a very short spnce of time. Mr. Jones may run his horses over them as much. as he chooses, especially during the winter season when they are all sleet, snow, ice, cte.; but I sce very-clearly that * Chicagoan” (as well as myself) prefers something else. Doubdtiess Mr. Chicagoan fs in, or closely con- nected with, wood-paving business, while I am an unfortunate “stone man,” and when he.ob- jects to stone in any form, why that tramps on my toes and compels me to speak out, I should like to have the gentleman carry ine in his bug- gy over some of his blocked streets,—Loomis, ‘Aberdeen, Adams west of Halsted, and a great many more I could mention if space would per- mit,—and should it happen to be on a cold, trosty morning, he doubtless would be com- pelled to cal! on- bis carriagemaker to insert a new _ pair sp} to ride over the “modern” Nicolson; pavement after it has been down two or more years, which cannot be easily repaired without going to the expense of tearing up and repaving with new material all over. .But I must acknowledge that the modern way. in. which some of our streets are blocked is by no means in accordance with the original method invented by Br. Nicolson several years previous to: the great fire—viz,: to first prepare the roadbed with ood sand rolled evenly with a heavy roller; secondly, tolay two-inch plank firm and solid; next, and most {mportant part, blocks whosa mean hight exceeds four inches, jaid carefully by hand, and not thrown in by the load, well tilled with gravel, thoroughly packed, and boiling tar poured in, ‘The above 1s, to the best of my knowledge and yemembrance, the original way of laying the Nicolson pavement, and u8 for our modern way of murdering the gentiemun’s valuable inven- tion, the reader can judge for himself. So much for wood pavement; and now let the gentleman take a ride with me over some of our macadamized roads, for instance Ashland avenue, south of Madison street, built some eight or ten years ago, which Is in ag good condi- tion to-day as when built, without any repairs worthy of mention save alittle dressing of fine stone, put on some elghteen months ago, and the property-owners generally, I believe. wre proud of theirstreet. . Likewise Warren avenue, from Hoyne street west to Oakley. Wewill now goto West Chicago avenue, from Wood street Out to what fs known as Grand avenue, and be- hold how it stands heavy teaming. ‘This macnd- amized road was built some two years ago under the supervision of Mr. 0. H..Cheney, and tho road is to-day in nearly as good condition as when the contractor left it,and, to use the Innguage of the inspector, “all “he would ask is to live as long os that road lasts.” And, as to its dirability to stand heavy londs, Gan State from personitl_ knowledge that east of Western avenue from 100 to 250 ice and stone wagons pass over it daily with from 6,000 to 9,000 pounds net weight per load. Having first rolied and prepared your road- bed, then pave it by hand with large stone, from seven to ten inch cubes, Jald with the flat side down in close contact with each other; then put about eight inches of maeadam stone, size from twoand ahalf to three inches; then roll thor- oughly untif the stones are closcly packed. A little coment, I think, sprinkled in wiil add con- siderably; and, last, top out the road, put two inches of fine stone screenings, then roll it as before, and you will have astrect fit for your carriage, truck, or omnibus to piss over for yeara to come, and, with a very little expense Once in a year or, two of dressing and rounding .up the ‘oad, you will bave a road which costs but’ avout 50 per cent of the price of blocks, and lasts more than twice a3 Iong,—really a saving of about 7 per cent on the whole to our property-owners, saving the taxpayer’being nssessed | every six or seven years for special tmprovement in street-paving. Several lurge Chicago capitalists who huve be- come diszusted with the general way in which our streets are blocked at present with hemlock and pine blocks are now tearing up the old rot- ted wood and in piace using macadam stone, and, furthermore, I think our city is adoptug tho stone and advertising for bids on mucudum more than most any other kind of material for streets, which I think bears me out in my asser- tion that at present the stone is taking the lead, and not, as the gentleman saysor thinks, that 13 time pfdgresses the people will throw out stone entirely, for it will not be in his day or nine. Yam just as proud, I know, as he is or can be of being aresident of Chicago; for I am and have been for a quarter of acentury, I may not be as old nor hav@ had as much experience ashe, but still I am a voter and tuxpayer, and feel deeply interested in the welfare and progress of our young, fiourishing, and Hosper ‘ous city. G. W. Re ENGLISH STREET-PAVEMENTS, ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, CHICAGO, Sept. 25.—I noticed in your issue of last Sunday a communication’ signed “Chi- cagoan.” It was so. full of inaccuracies and misrepresentations that tho party had efther written without sufficient data or had designedly withheld his name. The burden of ‘this communication was a Jaudation of wooden-block pavement, and the atreets of Chicago especially as “ the best on the American Continent.” If we were not’ living in this city we might think there was some truth in the statement. But facts do not agreo with it. Take adrive from one endof the cityto the other, and uniess you drive on. the street-car tracks you will think every minute your buggy will be knocked’ to’ pieces. The only good smooth roads we have are the boulevards, and ; these are not wood-block pavements. Our ex- perience is that wood pavements are good only for a year or two, and then prove a miserable « failure, indapable of repair. No one recommends: cobble-stone pavements for strcets, and in England, where I have heen making ronds for thirty-five. years, [never [uid cobble-stone street_pavement, or saw one laid. Yet it is with this style of pavoment that your 6; consideration. 5. cy a Sg tacone, oe comareney, fie | Sicepmenie West of ci by es * | In Liverpool they have laia miles of strects in Fe ee cm taeconea toe rie, | Raanae, feat tie fue carte iDte, foundation, the pavemen: ing blue ‘els! "The following instruments were filed for rec- | stone, set about six inches deep, four inches ord Saturday, Sept. 25: wide, and six or eight’ inches long.—-bolling tar, CITY PROPERTY. f pite, and gravel being used to fill up the joints. ‘North Wells st, s e cor of Schiller, wf, ue ft, | In Liverpool the draft horses take the heaviest Shities R Grevecaerececceceneaeaazgag’ STW | Hoads Known, and this #8 the easiest, Payemene ‘ y ‘dats’ ‘or B v! 5 TRO PremiSs Nous W. Marsh t Georse es nsive—about $5 per square Clapp). a a Gite ue we Raree k ‘Nol is? thi dated dations of the streets have “Ben, ise Goun W-liarsn to Geode. 4, | nen properly and substantially made from tine vig Rava i geen NP | MAN ema, at of a onion ae ae a . 00 | Streets are macadam surface. ‘The moi ‘W ft, dated rantiaee Pare proved. dave Sept. 24 (Wiillam Wahner to Ray st, 300 fuw of lumet ay. n yo X. tt, Z ‘ainted ‘Sept. 22 (Master in "Chancery ‘t Henry Bass)... sas sesesave ne: Ta sera RASS ER ‘man to August Anderso! 1,00 Be. Arnold st. 54 ttn of Thirty-ni , ft, dated Sept. 24 Jeremiah yan to J. m1 West Ghyboure-pisce. i wang’ DOM. 1, Sigx11S ft.dated Sept. 10 (Lyman Baird EbLiney Welles).csccreuas coneseenserre= 2.000 if Leavitt, 5 7, agi fe ‘Kiliza. ibbard st, nw cor 0: meee re re- cently made streets—made through alterations —are formed * with a concrete. bottom of burned ballast, ‘such as the Chicago West Park Commissioners ure now having made for |, Dougias boulevard—-seven parts of” burned bal- last and one of cement, to make the concrete. ‘They have insome instances put wood pave- ment on the top. The -wood ‘used ey ch apart and the space filled. with hard. blue- ieone Cuippings well iamiped. in. The whole of the roadway is then filled with asphalt. The use of the wood isonlytokeep the horses from |- foundation, with the wood pi slipping. A road of thisdescription wearsmany years, Dut Tulls.on¢-third of tis stone and. as- alt, If the Chicago wood pavement was put nin two-inch strips, as above, on # ‘proper pickled in boiling tar; it: would last. three or four times as lot aslong. = 3 . In the outskirts of-London the roads are all made with burned ballast foundations, nine to es thick, with’ a good. .bard stone P, ang in some” instances this top- dressing is mixed with pitch and tar called tar-macadam, - one Derby, Birmingham, Barrow-in-Furness, and many: other towns’ are adopting this tar macedam top. | But for Chicago, where there is a aidienlty, in obtaining hard stone top dressing,’ machine; round stones ‘should never be put in road, ag they are bound to work to the top. however deep’ they hive been Jnid, and more especially in this country, Where the winters are 80 Very severe. All roads lift a little with frost, and when round stones are thus lifted the gravel trickles beneath and invariably raises them to the top and makes theroead uneven, The object in making a road ought to be that if frost lifts it a Uttle it will fall-into its place again. z Wit1am Davy, Corner Farty-sixth and Dearborn streets, $$ THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Reform it, Mr. Palmer, ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Crrcaao, Sept. 25.—I would’ through yourin~ valuable sheet call the attention of the proper autaorities to the fnpargrabie condition of the street m front of the Palmer House, arising from the-cab or hack stand. I know of no well regulated city that would for a moment. suffer such an annoyance. - : ‘The curb is offensive from manure, the side~ walk from the expectorations of the drivers; and ladies do well to wear short dresses passing on inet Sas of our principal and busiest thor- One word trom in the ear official should renieuy ihe evils” "ahem t F Street-Car Ventilation. To the Eattor of Tes Chtcago Tribune, Crrcaao, Sept. 25.—I crave space.for a word in the interest of the horse-car traveling public, and for them to protest aguinst the use of the transom ‘ventilators over: the car doors, This ventilator is one of the most cunningly con- trived inventions for the propagation and gen- eral distribution ot sore throats, catarrh, head- aches, colds, and thelr consequepres ever put in practice In an intelligent comm@aity, When the car is in motion with this death-dooroponed, the strong draft that enters does not go through the contre of the vehicle, but instantly divides, and is sucked along the sides ot the car, oassing across the backs of the necks of all the passen- gers. Now what a cold draft ou the back of the neck maintained for ten minutes or half an hour can do in the way of taking one’s measure for an overcoat it is needless to remind sensi- ble people. There is no need of this mode of yentilation, “It was adopted first in the old- fashioned cars that had no other ventilation except through open doors and windows. Most of our present cars hate domes with abundant ventilation through the roof. ‘Most of the cor- rupted air, that Inden with carbonic acid, fails tothe floor’and escapes at the door, and tho roof ventilators give escape enough to all the rest, and with no draft. The transom ventilat- ors ought to be all nailed up, never to be opened again, { Oxx oF MANY CowpLarnants. Execution of Boys. . . To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cricaco, Sept. 24,—The boy being led to the gallows—who has fed him? “ Nobody. In his cradle he was no strangér to want; and, when he could sit on the floor, how feeble his frame— how pallid his countenance—how plainly the marks, of gnawing hunger appeared! And, during his childhood, he wandered from house to house, from door to door, from alley to altey; ‘and how few supplies, and how scanty, met bis imploring gaze,to give strength to his feeble, fainting frame! hig During his lifetime {t is probable—nay, it is almost certain—be never sat down to a full, ‘warm, generous meal of the sweet things of life; and, when night overtook him,he and twoor three of his miserable associates tried to rest themselves in some box, or car, or haymow, though hungry and tired. And, if nobody has fed him, who has clothed him? Nobody. He never hada decent suit in his life. while he saw other boys~and many of them—clothed in the richest and finest, he had nothing but rags, and not enough of them to hide his nakedness. ‘And many g.time he has fled from view to hide his mortification and to weep in solitude over his wretched condition. He has come tothe years of youth, and who has taught him? Nobody. Can he read?—can he write?—can he cipher?’ He has no more power to do either than he has to square the circle. To him even the very elements of knowledge are locked in concealment. And, if his intellectual powers have been so neglected, what is the character of his moral? Who has taught him toreverence his Maker—to regard tho rights of his fellow-be to restrain hisanger—to be honest, . industrious, and saying—and to avoid the enticements and allurements to evil practices’ and: habits of the vicious and profane? Who has ied him to the Church of God—to the Sabbath-school—to the prayerinceting? “Whohas:warned him of the coming abyss? Without restraint, he rushes heedlesly on. He mes entangled with wicked companions: and from words ther, pro- ceed to blows, andin the encounter he kills his assailant. He isarrested, tried, convicted, con- demned, and sentenced to be hung;'and, os he goes to the gallows, no father, no mother, no brother, no sister, are near tu comfort him as he ascends the scaffold of death. Soon he is bound, and the cap{s drawn, and the light of day is extinguisbed—and in a moment the trap fails, and the light of life expires. If the gallows must have victims, det them not be taken from the cradle, AS. Redistricting the City. To the Kditor of The Chicago Tribune; Cricaco, Sept. 25.—The County Commisston- ers having added twenty-one more voting districts to the city, it will afford much relief to the voters, but it is far from enough. It was said that “if the Committee had had more time” it would probably have recommended 170 or more polling-piaces, instead of 123,—that is, fifty-seven in addition to what is now con- templated. Good gracious! how much time do they want? ‘It is four years since the last dis- tricting. New York iaw says that when a dis- trict contains over 800: voters it shall be divided annuaily. However, it is to be hoped that ag soon after the Presidential election as possible the Commissioners wilt take time to give us the fifty-seven or more additional polling-places in view of our spring municipal and other elec- Hons constantly “occurring. Taxpayers ‘will cheerfully pay to educate all of the children of the State and the expense’ of sutliclent yoting- Places for all to vote conformably to thelr wishes. . 3 And here just one thing more: If we are cramped in voting at 123 voting-places at the election, what can be thought of having only one primary in a ward,—eighteen in all— the system adopted by both parties? Comment is unnecessary. Yesterday, being in the neighborhood of the polling-places in the Twelfth Ward, one Repub- lican and one Democratic, I stopped to see the fun. Thoy were divided by “ Hoyne street,” the party that ” Phil” represents being on the west side, and ‘* Tomi’s” on the east. Approach- ing the “unterrified” poll first, numberiess tickets were thrust at me; but observing to the thrusters that I was a Republican, I was assured by each party separately that **it didn't make a damn bit of difference." Crossing the street the ticket fiends again besieged me. I was a fib separate and apart from the other), buton repre- senting: that i lived on the South Side, and was a Republican, it became apparent that I was re- garded us a heathen of no possible utility. There were two “lager” nsatories to enliven the voters, both og Tom's side of tho street. Ihave written so much for fae-TriBune and ial on the absurdity ot single muss primaries (by both parties) in ws of late Years that I shoud not again have mentioned it but in connection with ‘the redistricting of the city for election purposes. The selection of delegates by “Boss " ward clubs is odious. The selection by “ districts” isthe true way, and if ‘each yoter would vote direct for each candidate he prefers (tho Crawford County plan) a single ward delegate could carry the certified result to the Convention, which on beg added up from the districts would be the voico of the ward pure and stmple. It would be the same as voting direct for President, etc. TL, Wirson. Developed Christianity. ‘To the Editor of The Chteago Tribune. Cricaao, Sept. 25.—I believe I have, alt unwit- titgly or unknowingly to myself, as it were, solved a great problem. Not mathematically solved it, for I could not say that units are al- ‘ways put under units, and tens under tens, and so on; but the result is the same.- ‘Most of the following I wrote after read‘og an extract from “Summer Land,” published in one of our city papers. J do not like figures to designate the distance of ‘the other world from this, ar. the other coun- mor¢'like a boat that ever ana anon touchés at our shore, taking on and letting off passengers: therefore it is sometimes more and sometimes less distant. : £ ‘Thatithe inhabitants thereof do pervade my dwelling I.do know,—coming, in going out at pleasure.’ I neither bid them come nor go. I sec them with my eyes open and with them shut. In the broad day or in the darkness of the night. Lsee them at some of their employments and at their pleasuring. Sper Both their smiles and their works ‘are a bene-: diction. é ‘a T behold, also, a world of the ‘greatest variety,’ beauty,..and -grandeur, so -that Ican no longer say,- “If God bas made our earthly home £0 Deautitul, what shail our’ heavenly be?" Ido not Took through a gloss.dimly, but eye to eye and face to face, see upparently as I do any-. | Husbandman has Ba in thing: piggented for observation. .Jeall this my growth or evelopment having nothing to do with Spiritualism. Ash tree, put forth branch after braneh, bud. sind blossom: ut this is the culminating fruit which the great made perf ie ee ect, gee-in these visitations of which EI speds try a3 I'more frequently call it. Tome it seems |. Fear nothing but sin—and cack morrow. some of my relatives and friends, also many ple. J never saw before; and now I know. ‘rom actual sight that “the hairs of our heads, are all numbered,” and that. “not one of them: shall perish.” . I speak of our spiritual body, which has not been subject to the decay of the natural body, but lives, and moves, and bas its being in a more rfect form of the natural. Their ‘Gress: ta as ening and varied as our own. I believe in the Bride Chamber, which we will call Heaven. All missions are not made public, but all haye the sanction of. their’ work from AY believe tn table-dpping a i leve in table-tipy raps, and writing,— that such things have been 2a ore, But years ago I saw the evils which might, could, or would result to many from them; I therefore asked my Heavenly Father to show me some more re- Mable or conclusive way, the great truths of immortality. Ifeel that 'He hes done so, and in a way that no man can gainsay-or rebuke. Jesus'said unto Peter: But whom say thou” thatI am? Thou art the Christ, the Son of God.: Bessed art thou, Simon Peter, for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto you, but my Father who art in Heaven. * “Upon this rock (Divine revelation I think it must mean) I will bufld my Church.” This, which I have written, I do dedicate to the bereaved of “ali nations" and the doubt- ing of whatever tongue or people. “And all things shall be put under the Fat even the Son, that God may be all and in all. “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manne.” Tr. “* A MAMMOTH. Discovery of the Skeleton of a Mam-= moth i Lee County, Mlinois—How the Find Was Made~The ‘Remains About Fiye Feet Below the Surface— Through Ignorance of Its Value the Skeleton is Almost Completely De- stroyed. Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Menpora, Up. Sept. 19.—Some laborers, while recently excavating for an ice-pond on the property of Mr. George Lindsey, in the Village of Paw Paw, Lee County, Il, un- covered the entire skeleton of a mammoth. ‘The excavation was on the border of what at one time was a large marsh or shallow lake. ‘The remains were found about five feet be- low the surface, imbedded in a sandy clay. When first exposed the bones were quite’ soft and easily broken, f ‘The man, recognizing the probable char- of the “find,” reported the circumstance to the owner of the ground, who, with a de-. plorable lack of appreciation of the ‘*find,” told the man that he wanted oneof the teeth, and that he, the laborer, could have the bal- ance of the animal. The man worked all day-and uncovered nearly the entire skele- ton. By this time it became noised about the village thata monster o2 some kind had been found in the marsh, and soon some thirty or forty people had gathered around the hole, and gazed with intense eagerness at the ex- posed bones. They became seized with a desire to heip, regardiess of the great risk in which their ignorance would place the precious relic.. There being no one present to prevent it, the work of destruction began. All who could procured shovels, or anything to work with, and commenced picking away at the bones to get out as much of the prize asthey could. aconsequence, what would undoubtedly have been a magnificent speci- men of our early monsters was soon irre- coverably spoiled and scattered.’ In com- pany with Dr. Everett, of Troy Grove, I repaired to the. spot as soon as 1 learned of the find," but too late to more than get a glimpse of portions of the skeleton. Four teeth were got out in good condition. One of them, I was told, weighed over seven pounds. It was about nine inches Jong, and three and a half. wide across the articulating surface. . One gentleman has one-half of the inferior maxillary with tooth -in situ, in quite ‘good coudition. It was broken anteriorly at the symphysis, and posteriorly at the ramus, It was about twenty inches in length, and’ at the Alibekent, Part about eight ‘inches in di- ameter.” Mr. Lindsey nas in his possession a femur four feet and four inches in Jength, and ‘about seven inches in diameter at the smail- est part, 4 ‘ No tusks had been found when we left, al- though the earth had been dugall around for quite a distance. The skeleton was lying on its side, and the animal seems to have mired in the soft mud while wading in for water or food.’ - As.shown by the teeth, it be- | longed to the genus Elephantis, and, jideing from the closeness of the enamel plates, co the species Elephas primigenius, or mam- moth. It is to be regretted that the public generally are not better informed as to the scientific value of such discoveries and the importance of having them taken out by ex- perienced hands. J. D. Moopy. NASBY. Mr. Nasby Has Heard from Maine, and, as Usual, Takes Prompt Action. Toledo Blade, Governon’s IsLaxp (wich is in the State uv Noo York), Sept. 15, 1860.—Gineral Han- cock and me heard uv Maine this morning. We rejoiced. Gineral Stinger uv Mississippi, who served under Lee from the time that grate man took command uv the Confedrit forces to the final surrender at Appomattox, wuz affected to teers. ~ “Thank God,” sed hey“*for Maine. The country is-safe. Maine stands up for the Yoonyrn.” And he and Gineral Hancock shook hands solumly, and retired to the next room, wich they emerged from wipin ther lips. Patsy O’Shaughnessy, with his voice trem- blin with emoshun, remarks that Maine hed spoken. He wuz so joyous over this triumf uv purity that he shood throw his bar open to-night and drinks would be free to all troo Dimekrats in his ward. Itwuz too glorious. Itelegraft the glorious nooze to Deekin Fogrant a the Corners and his anser cum ack quick: * : “Itis too much. Bascom is illuminated and we hev cleaned out. Gvery, nigger for tive miles. The boys are still at it.” Gineril Hancock. took: it_with the cam im- passivenis of a soljer. ‘The noose ‘is glo- rious,” sed -he; “weve won the first skir- mish, but not the final battle. It is time for decisive ackshen, for the real struggle comes off in November. Now is our time. Nasby, git them Greenback documents together and shove ’em thro Maine. Hev me announst— a ateines oF in favor uv onlimited green- acks,”” Whoso bleeves Hancock isn’t a statesman don’t know very much.” i He immejitly sent a letter to Noo Jersey, insistin on high protective tariff; and another to Injeanny holdin that the prosperity uv the kentry demands free trade. Senee the Maine eleckshun Hancock hez woke up and is displayin remarkable capas- sity. Lnow hey faith in him. foney is comin in good. We hev $200,000 to yoose in sendin Kentuckians to Injeanny to vote in October, to make shoor uy carryin fiat State RY coarse ef we carry Injeanny at settles ‘The skies is brite. Ishel once more hey the postoflis at the Corners. Perro.eum V. Nassy (Jubilant). BIDE ON! For The, Chicago Tribune. ‘When the heart ‘neath its trouble sinks dcwn, ‘And the joys that misled are gone— When the hopes that inspired {t are flown, And it gropes through thick darkness alone— Be Faith, then, thy cheer— Scorn the whispers of fear— ‘Look trustfully up, and bide on! ‘When Fancy’s bright meteor-ray ‘Allures thee from duty to roam, Beware its bewildering way— , ‘Abide with tha soul in its home, And hearken its volee— Let the stream of thy Joys From the Fountain of Purity comet ‘When, by failures and follies borne down, ‘The future looks hopelesly drear, ~~": And ench day as it ies with a frown, Tells how. helpless, how abject we are,: ©.” Let nothing dismay aa) .-, Phy brave effort to-day— Be patient and still persevere! Be steady in Joy sind in sorrows». -. Be truthful in great and jn small: Heaven's blessings w . In worst tribulation - z chars the Ged that éoes ali! it e vos And trusi eo a 7 se n thee will falls In the Southern and Southwestern portion, of our’ country, and in the yalleys‘of: our, at rivers, a8 well. as-in districts nearer’ home, Fever and Ague, Dumb Ague, Fevers, and severe Dilious attacks hold high: carni-. val. All visiting such localities should take: with them Ham! ag Drops,—a sure prevent- ive and enre for al! Bilious-disorders, espe- cially Fever and Ague; Dumb Ague, ete. - IRISH AMERICANS. ‘An Irish Nationalist Talks to His Fellow-Countrymen. The Folly of Irishmen Supporting the 5 Democratic Party. The Alliance of British Tories and American Demo- erats to Destroy the Union. ‘To the Edttor af The Chicago Tribune. Carcaco, Sept. 25.—I am an Irishman that takes little interest in partisan. politics, but Would like at this time, on the eve of a Presi- dential election, to say something in your col- ‘umns that might be read by some of my fellow- countrymen. Why the majority of Irishmen vote the Dem- ocratic ticket, has ween a wonder of nearly twen- ty years to me; but, before going any further, permit me to say that I am not a politician in any sense of the word, I never either sought or held a political office of any kind, and never in- tend to. Of all other nationalities on this con- tnent, the Irish have is THE LEAST CAUSE OR REASON FOR BEING DEM- OcRars, Not one of the European peoples that come here comes from an oppressed or downtrodden nation, except the Irish alone. Perhaps I might have said, the Poles.excepted. There are, how- ever, so fow Poles in America that itis hardly worth while to make an exception of them, ‘The great mass of the Irish here are filled with an undying enmity to British rule; they carry their hate of England with them wherever they go; and, in every instance but one, every nation that is England's friend is their foe, and vice versa. Not only that, but every -party in every nation, but one, that is friendly to England, comes in for the abhorrence and detestation of the Irish. The only one nation that the irish dislike for being unfriendly to England is the American Nation, for I maintain that disliking - the Republican party is exactly the same thing . as disliking - the © American ‘Nation, because the Republican party is the Na- tional party; it is it that rules the country; it was it that freed the slaves; it is it that England Tories hate; and it is it that hates Tory England. ‘Never in the history of politics have a people MADE SUCH A BLUNDER AS THE IRISH HAVE MADE in their blind adoration and senseless following of tho Democrats. If Germans or ‘Scandinavians were mostly Democrats, it might perhaps phzzle us to account for ft, but it could hardly fill us ‘with wonder. Germansand Scandinaviansleave no “skeleton in the closet” bebind them when they come to Ambrica; they look forward to no Possible time when they may have to call on v4 wills American sympathy orhelp for the oppressed: kindred they leave behind them in the old land. With the Irish it is quite different: they are secking political allies everywhere; their cog try is {n ruins; her woes and her wrongs huve been heard of to the very ends of the earth, and she knows that unaided she can never gain her rights, or even a mitigation of her sufferings. Jobin Mitchel said again and again that Ireland could never be freed except from with- Cannot any moderately sane person see that, of all nations on earth, the one most likely to be of service to Ireland in the future is America? The best-nformed men in America have estimated the Irish elements in it. at not less than from 13,000,000 to 18,000,000. Of all nations on earth, what one would be sq likely to interest herself about Ireland in the future as that one in which at least one-fourth of its inhabitants are Irish elther by birth or blood? ‘And it is this Nation which, by our sheer insan- ity, we are turning into an enemy! Heaven help us! We have only to choose between being put down as the greatest fools on earth, or a race of canting, hollow-bearted hypocrits that don’t care three cents for Ireland! ‘The Democratic party S ARE FRIENDS OF TORY EXGLAND, and Tl prove it. This indeed is an easy task, - ‘Who are the Democrats? . They are the men who sought todestroy this Nation some nineteen years ayo; whose Very first move was to seek aid from Tory England; who got all the aid En- gland could give them with safety to herself; hands of England: ‘and for whom England would have drawn the sword did’she not think that she would have the satisfaction of secing America ocsirored more cheaply. The men who sought English aid were Democrats toa man! The men who would have hailed with delight the landing of an English army on their coasts,.to help them to tear fabric of Freedom that Washington had built up by gating against England, were Democrats toa man! The men whose victories over the Union troops were hailed with such delight in Englana that when they bappened doubie issues of the London Times and Standard were printed, were ‘Democrats toa man! I defy any Democrat on earth, Irish or American, to deny this. Aye, but they may say, Northern Democrats are not the same as Southern Democrats. There js an old saying, Show me_ your company, and I'll tell you what you are. If the Northern Democrats are not the same asSouthern Democrats, why do they keep company with them now; and why did so many of them SYMPATHIZE WITH AND AID THE REBELS DURING THE WAR? Even. in the matter of trade and finance, the friendiiness of Democrats to England js quite jain; they would admit English manufactures ‘ree or nearly free of duty, and leave American operatives to starve. If I haven't proved in the last paragraph that the Democratic party has been, and is. the friend of Tory England, there has never been any- thing proved by any one since the world began. Ineed not give authority for the statements it contains; they are known to the whole world: as well might I be asked for proof that the sun is over the horizon every day at noon. There however, one word in that. paragraph which I must apol for applying to the South; it is a holy ¥ord, and I love it; it is the word a 8 am 2 rebel, and was one since I came into the world. Tuma rebel against the Nation that misruies, strangles, stities, starves. and tortures the land of my birth; but I can never apply the word that sanctifies the names of Tone, Teeling, Emmet, and Fitzgerald to men who sought the alliance of tyranny todestroy liberty, and whose great object was to make the Insh, ‘the fetter, ‘and the branding-iron insignia on the banner of their new nationality. The Know-Nothing party are thought by most of my countrymen to have been one and the same with the Republicans. I would like to have some Democrat prove this. He couldnever undertake : A MORE DIFFICULT TASK. Iwas in this country during the time of the Know-Nothing party. If they were Republicans they had a curious power of showing themselves in aed where there are few Republicans now, and where there were still fewer tive-and-twen- yy years ago.- St. Louis, Baltimore, and Louls- ville made themselves conspicuous by the out rages “the Know-Nothings committed there; the horrors of “Black Mouday” im | Louisville enough make one’s bi run cold. no other city in America were such flendish ou committed on the foreign and Catholic part of - the inhabitants, I don’t deny that there were Republicans, or men who have since become Re- publicans, amongst the Know-Nothings; but I do deny—utterly deny—that the Republican party grew-out of Know-Nothingism, any more than that the Democratic party grew out of it. Allow me to point out afew instances of Re- publican dealings with the Irish; I cannot point out them all, for space would not permit. The Irish inhabitants of Chicago must have all either seen or heard of the great Fenian Fair held here in 1864 or '€5,—I forget which. At that time many things had to be taxed which are not taxed now; there was _o -tax then on such things as the Fenian Fair. If I recollect rightly, tho tax on the receipts of the fair was between ‘$30,000 and $40,000, # : EVERY CENT OF WHICH WAS REMITTED on application being made to the late Mr. Sew- ard. “Aye, but that was done merely as 2 pollt- ical dodge to catch Irish votes: so a Democrat will undoubtedly say. I don't know whether it wasor was not done for that purpose, nor it make any difference. It is an acknowledged axiom that we are not to question the motives of a good act. It was solely by the intercession of the then Kepublican Administration that an Irish priest and several prisoners taken in the raid on Canada in 1868 were not hanged. Coming down to modern times, did any Democratic Adminis- tration ever give the floor of the House, or ac- cord such a reception, to any Irish patriot. as the present Administration did to Parnell? Did any Democrat since the formation of the party, or did ail of them put together, ever do so much .to call public attention to tha’ tyranny. of .the ‘English land system in Iretand as has been done by Bir. Redpath, of the New York Tritune? If there is a man on ‘earth whom the English Goy- ernment: and thelr supporters in Ireland, hate More than any man clse, that man fs Redpath. Never in the whole history of trish wrongs has there bi such an exposé of them as that whicl’he has given: yet the very men who weep. with grief or ‘gnash ‘their teeth with rnge om zeaaing his‘ articles and lectures on Ireland, th a misguided idea which is downright political insanity, vote’ against’ the party that path represents; which is the Nationat party of America; and tho only one that cam ever ponent pend iDe ta, tho_R i “Yes, but, say the Irish Democrats, the_Repub- lcansdisiike the Catholic Church. Perhaps they ; |-doz-but, if they do. they have’. f 4 VERY CURIOUS WAY OF “DISPLAYING THEIR aos 7 AVERSION, 7 i |. I.have-shown: above ‘that the Know-Nothing party was’ not. the, Republican party:.and the action of the .Republicans since they came_into, power proves with logical clearness that Iwas ara Tf the Know-Nothing party and the | Re- ' publican’ party are or were on me, Their actions | aod principles must be the same. ) The Know-Nothing party ‘was founded on hatred of ali foreigners. but particularly of Irish Catholics. Have the Republicans, who bave run this Goyernment for twenty years, ever perse- jown the id (on, and occu: |. edge of the Gul —os cuted Catholics? Is there a countryon earth where the Catholic Church enjoys s0 much liberty a8 in this, or. has enjoyed so:much since the Republican came into power? Has that party ever tried to restrict the suffrage, or to deprive. foreigners of their vote? If so, would greatly like to know from some of my Irlsh Demooratic friends when, and where, and how ithas done it. I heard a Catholfe priest ac knowledge, not long ago, that the Church en- joys more liberty in America than in any othor ‘country, Catholic or. Protestant,—greater than fa Italy, Spain, France, or Austria, and greater than in England, or even Canada. - I pity the Irish Catholic Democrat who couldhave so ittie truth and manhood in him as not to feel. his cheeks burn red with shame at his own and his countryman’s abominable ingratitude when he thinks over these thi But, say my {rish Democratic friends, we want a change; it 13 wrong to have power.so long in the hands of one party. ‘There is some truth in this, andI agree with it in a great measure. If there wore no danger to the liberty .or peace of America by a return of the Demo- cruts to power, I wouldn’tcare a cent if Han- cock were elected; but any one of ordinary in- telligence knows that : | THERE WOULD BE DANGER. When we see a presumably honest man in com- pany with @ well-known desperado, we very naturally refuse to allow them into our house: it is his Southern friends that damns the North- ern Democrat. We know that,-when the South- emnera were In power, they builled und were ar- rogunt, and finally triédto ‘ruin the country at lanes we foe ern they willy: todo isa same shou! ey come into power again. cannot get back their War, and saddle the country th an enormous burden. The Northern . peovie will not stand and similar bulld and ‘war. the result will prebaniy te. another ci If any doubt could exist of what the feeling is at the South, one only has to read the speeches of Wude Hampton, Stephens, Lamar, and others. We are fo to believe that the advent of the Democratic party into power, backed by a solid and “soreheaded” South, would be fraught with infinit danger to the fact which tay account for at least some of my countrymen voting the Democratic ticket so Pertinaciously. it is the low spite and hatred to the Irish that are shown forth certain publi-~ cations in the Eust. r’s itlustrated paper has certainly been the cause of LOSING A QUARTER OF A ACLLION oF IRISH _ VOTES TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. have seen caricatures In it so horribly insuit~ dng that ‘they would almost have justified the ish of New York in burning down Harper's entire printin~ works. An uneducated Irish- man would na<s ally imagine that, because the Harpers were Republicans, all other Republic- aus were equally prejudiced against them. That Bech & not the case, I think I have shuwn pretty plainly. a If the Democrats win this time, it can only bo by the help of those same Southerners who with English ald came so near destroying this Re- ene If the South be “solid,” that solidity a3 come 01 by intimidat and bulldozing tell me ‘that they would vote the Democratic ticket except through fear. [know the South and the negroes too well to believe it, They may hayebeen de- ceived by carpet-baggers, and disappointed and at not having been’ better protected since the War; but there is not a people on earth who see more clearly the position in whicb they are placed: they would vote the Republican ticket bomen meoait they were) noe aicaid. todo so; an ely perhaps, most of them prefer peace, rather than risk their lives by voting a3 they: wish. In my humble opinion, it was amere farce to set these men free without protecting them in ewery right they acquired by freedom. It should “have been done at the close of tho ‘War; it will have to be done yet, and may cost the Nationdear. © AN IRISH NATIONALIST.. a OLD PEOPLE’S HOME. ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, e: Cuicaao, Sept. 25.—In my communication last Sunday I endeavored to show that the Old Peo- ple’s Home by its charter {s not an asylum. for paupers, and that rules and regulations which discriminate against the honor, integrity, per- sonal security, and trae womanhood of its in- mates are absurdities, insults, and nullities. To the many who have furnished me with addition alfucts and assurances during the past week that my defense of these old people is timely, let me say that, while I have no personal feeling against any one connected with this institution, Ishall not hesitate to push this investigation ‘until every inmate of the Home {s treated with the respect which the aged always deserve. I have now to speak of the present management of the Home. Some time ago the officers of this institution caused an article to be pub- lished in one ‘of the daily papers of Chicago, in which they’ say, “The . public have rea Jearned that already we have a discordant element in the Old Peo- ple’> Home. The facts are these: Tho Homo discipline became too lax. The supplies tur- nished disap) ” .. . Mra. Parks will rejoice to know that a new and efficient Matron bas been obtained. . . . Every member of the Board of Managers as weil as ‘ail the ‘Trustees are ‘unanimous in her fayor. and desire that the public should know that they have entire confidence in Shankland’s integrity, truthfulness, and honesty, and above all in her good moral character, etc.” Amon; "the new rules we note the following: ‘All inmates taking their seats at the tabie at meals are required to romain in places until dismissed by the dining-room door will be locked until the bell sounds for meals. inmates will not be allowed togoto the basement without the consent of the Matron. Inmates will not be permitted food from the tabe to their m3, It is also provided ™ that the inmates will be required to treat the Matron and Managers with deference and respect, + . and endeasor, by a quict and lady-like deportment,: to diffuse an air of cheerfulness and good féeling throughout tho whole estab Ushment, . ._. and punctually toattend fam- ily prayers.” Thus it uppears that the Matron’s honor is above reproach. She is trathful and honest, and, above all, has a good moral char- acter. But how about the old ladies of the Home? The sunplies have Gisapp Auew Matron has been obtained. 10 dining-roum door will be locked until the bell rings. In- mates will not be allowed to go to the base-~ ment (kitchen). Inmates wili not be allowed to take any food to their rooms. All must remain in their seats at the table until dismissed by the Matron. All will ve expected punctu attend family prayers. - Certainly, if there anybody in. this sinful world who ought to at- tend family prayers it is an ol€ lady of 70 years: of age who is go depraved that she cannot be trusted to enter or leave a dining-room or pasa through a kitehen without being watched. Let me ask, Who are these inmates who, In this unmistakable manner, aro cba with dis- honesty? When they entered this place they had reached at least the ripe age of. 00 years. Every one of them brought to the Home a spoticss reputation. Not one of them was ever a pauper or deserved to be treated assuch. And yetatter they have entered this charmed spot, after they have at- tended 2 few family prayers, not one of them is to betrusted as far ns you would trust a dog with your diuner. And yet they are expected to respect the Managers and Matron, and by a quiet, gentle, and ladylike deportment diffuse an air of cheerfulness and good feeling through- out the whole establishment. How they can bo expected to thus affect the whole establishment when they are not allowed to go to the base- ment does not appear. And yet we are tol there is a discordant element that does not diffuge cheerfulness. How strange! This re- minds us of the Colorado photographer. Placing his subject in the chair, he directs close atten- tion to the end of the ‘camera, and drawing a revolver and leveling it at the head of his vic- tim he says, “Putona cheerful expression of countenance and a smile of good feeling, for L wantyou to understand my reputattonas an artist is at stake.” Cheerfulness and. feel- ing, kind Matron and Maungers, fan Geocities: a thing for every home, but flower that never blossoms in an - at- mosphere of suspicion and distrust appetite of ihe ared'is not that of the Foun. appetite o a not that e young. A crust of bread or a cracker sometimes in the long space between regular meals may not ouly be ngreeable, but really necessary. To be sure, it would be very homelike were they. fitted to go vo the dining-room or kitchen at-such times; but what harm or what expense would it be to allow them to take a piece of bread or a cracker to their rooms, or even something better? And yet this has been the basis of 2 charge, and, if I am not mistaken, the criminal has been con- yicted and now awaits sentence. At-least this is true in several cases where the charges ore more absurd and oppressive than this, as F shill show in my next communication. My time is gone, and I have but barcly noticed least objection which isto _be mude to the present management of the Home. Let mesay, in closing this article, that the inmates of the Home area magnificent company of women. Many of thom 1 know to be in every respect infinitly above tho petty: tyrants that rule over them. Some of them are competent to occupy any position, in the Home, and would do honor to. it. “ What have you,” says Water Scott, “better or more honorable than'age?” **1 love everything old,”* derstanding.” "And God said: *' up before the hoary bead and honor the face of the cld and fear thy God."—Lev., Tiz., 22. > Srpxey Tomas. The Ti. e-Ftsh. ” dima” Fish CoN POR Eo News - The Fish Commission steamer Fish Hawk has |. returned from # trip to the Gulf stream laden with natural bistory trensures, Among them were specimens of the “tile-fish* deseribed last |. year, from specimens collected for tne Commis- in immense numbers on the stream, in fccm one to three. hundred fathoms. It {s a fish of extreme beauty of coloring in Ife, gamboge-yellow spots, shades. on the fins of red, purple, etc.. Ita most char- acteriatic feature isa fleshy fin on the top of its head, somewbat resembling that on the posterior part of the back ofthe salmon. Specimens wera taken weighing from ten to twenty-five pounds; some of neurly one hundred having been caught en. previous Gxpe nai ons. ‘he ten is said to e of excellent flavor, somewhat that of the cod, : meen anid.