Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1880, Page 4

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Inatdisdlon Wednesday evening, Dec. 8 at 7:50 od order sleek. By order Uys p, M. CARR, Commander. 3.0, DICKERSON, Becorder. CHICAGO COUNCIL OF PHINCES_OF JERUSA- LEM, As. A-. SCOTTISH BITE S1ASONS—The an- pus! Convention of this Council will be held at Con- ristoria! Hall, 7¢ Monroe-st, on Thursday evening Bezi. jor the vlection of oficers nnd suc other busi- Dess as may properly, be brows Brerderg! Erb, YOBEY, Me Bo Ses Ges Me ED GUORALE, Gr. Bec. WASHINGTON CHAPTER, NO. 43,R, A. M— Epecis! Convocation Friday evening. Dec. 10, at 7:30 clciock, for work on the Hosal Arch Decree, “Special: Convocation Saturday evening, Dec. 11, at 7:30 o'clock, Ten Ore un tne: Wounell Decreas: Visiting Compan- jons curdisily invited. BY order c 7 OFAMES KEATS, HL P. CHAS. B, WRIGHT, Secretary. NATIONAL LODGE, A. F. & A. M.—Annusl Com- munication Tuesday evening, Uec. 7, at 12 o'clock, corner Randolph and Halsted-sts... for the election of oficers and payment of dues. Visiting Muster Ma. suns cordially invited. Byorderof . W. OSTRANDER, W. M. A.C. WOOD, Secretary. : APOLLO COMMANDERY, NO. 1 KNIGHTS TEM- PLAH—Anopual Conclave Tuesday erening. Dec. 7, 10, at 8 o'clock, for the election uf officers and par- ment of dues, “A meeting of the corporate body wilt ‘By order of the Bainent Commander and Chatrman of the Board of Trnstees, HL 3. TIFFANY, Recorder and Secretary. 8T. Atth Dec. RICHARD COLE LODGE, 6% A. F. & A. M.—An- xual Communication for the election of officers and ayment of dues will be held at their ball, No. 2 Evciey-ae. Thorsday evening. Dec. 9. A full ationd~ Bace is requeste ‘order of CHLAS. A. MATTHAY, W. M. 0. M. EVANS, Secretary. ~ LA FAYETTE CHAPTER, NO. 2, R. A. M.—Hall, TG Monroc-st.—S; 4! Convocation Monday evening ee clock ioe work oy rhe A; Hearee: Visiting mpanions welcume, ‘By order 0 OWS. FORSYTH, M. E. HL P. WM.J. BRYAR, s CHICAGO PTER, NO. 127, R. A. M—Talt i Twenty-second-st._—Annual Convocation Monday evening, ‘Dec.6 at 73 o'cluck, for the election of Officers und payment of dues. Visiting Companions ft the M.&. IL P. cordially invited, By order} ELI SMITH, Secretary. D. A. CASHMAN LODGE. NO. 686, A. F. & A. Mi— Rezalar Communication Tuesday evening, Dec. 7, in ‘their Hall, corner West Madison and Hobey-sts: ‘Work and reading of the reports of Treasurer and Secretary. Members should be present. Visitors welcome. 7:3) sharp. G. A. DOUGLASS, Scerctary. ASHLAR LODGE, NO. 33, AF. & A. M.—Regnlar meeting Tuesday evening, Dec. 7, in their halt. 76 Monroe-st., fur business und work. The fraternity cordially invited, C. BL CRANE, Secretary, EXCELSIOR ENCAMPMENT, NO. 10, 1. 0.0. F. ‘will assemble at the tent, corner’ Clark and Washing- ton-sts. next Friday evening, Nec. 10. Business of importance, | Visiting Pat inrited. By order D. REINEHS, Scribe. Li BAIN, CP HESPERIA LODGE, NO. 41, A. F. & A M—Tho members are hereby’ notited to attend. x regular Communication of the lodge Wednesdar evening, Dec. & at the hall, eurner of Randolph and Halted- sts, Master Masonsof sister Lodges areatso cordial:y invited. JAMES SMITH, We SL. CW. BRENAN, Secretary. BLANEY LODGE, NO. 771, A. F. & A. M—The stated Anbua! Communication will occur on Wednesday evening, Dec. 8, at 7:8) o'clock. Every member ex- cl pected. Visiting brethren fraternslly i Present. By order of tno Weak nt? mvited fo be HL DUVALL, Secretary, CORINTHIAN CHAPTER NO, @, R. A. M.-Spe- cial Convoeation Monday evening. Dec. 6, at 2:30 o'clock. tur workon the Mark Master's Degree. Vis- jung Companions are ulwaya welcome, Ry order of . ROBERT S1ALCOM, M.E. 11 P. JOHN V, DICKERSON, Secretary. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1890. Jupce Gresias, of Indianapolis, has written to Gen. Chapman, a State Senator and one of his warm supporters, that he will not be a candidate for Senator McDonald’s seat. Judge Gresham was one of the most formidable competitors of Gen. Harrison for the place, and his withdrawal strengthens the latter’s position. Toe French Government has decided to sell the crown jewels and to devoie the pro- ceeds to the improvement of the National Museum. The Ministers say that the jewels have no historic value, at which statement the Bonapartists and Orleanists must stand aghast! The Republicans are determined to Temove as far as possible all the insignia and trappings of the Empire and the Kingdom. Lasr spring, before the Erie Canal opencd, the rate for wheat from Buifalo to New York was 12 cents, and for corn 1ll¢ cents. From March 22 to Nov. 20—the period of canal navigation—railroad freights were nine cents on wheat and eight and c half on corn. Nov, 2 they advanced to 104% on Wheat and 10 on corn. Further argument. Ought not to be needed to demonstrate the utility of the Erie Canal. ‘VESSELS arriving at European ports from this country, and at our ports from Europe, Teport having encountered very stormy weather. Many of them have been delayed over a week, and have suffered the loss of a Portion of their machinery. The vessels en- gaged in the trans-Atlantic cattle trade have Jost much of their cargces. It would seem that shipping cattle to Europe at this season of the year would hardly pay. —— Murs. CrmisTraNcy’s friends are not satis- fied with her vindication from the charges brought against her by her husband. They are determined, if possible, to have the par- ties who conspired to rnin her character as a& modest and virtuous woman discovered and punished. Most persons will nope that they may succeed, The history of the case is by no means creditable to the ex-Senator and his immediate personal friends. ee Tre monthly report of the Secretary of the Treasury states that at the close of No- vember there were outstanding silver cer- tifcates to the sum of $35,077,280; on the Ist of November there were silver dollars num- bering 25,843,201 in circulation; the whole silver coinage up to Nov. 1 was $72,847,750. Allowing $2,500,000 for the coinage in No- Yember, this would show that over $60,000,- 000 of silver has passed out of the hands of the Treasury into the hands of the people, leaving not over $15,000,000 of silver now in the Treasury waiting distribution. The old and oft-repeated story that no one would take silver is now exploded; sixty out of seventy-five millions are already in circula- tion, Tr is notable that the amount of silk ex- ported from France to this country hasfallen off about one-third recently. This is proba- bly owing to the fact that the silk-manu- facturers of New Jersey and other places are able to supply most of the silk used in the United States. The discovery that silk- worms can live on other leaves than those of the inulberry-tree will probably lead to the growth of the silk manufacture in this coun- try until there shail be no occasion for im- porting any. Tn Patent Office has a surplus revenue of $200,000 annually, ‘To this extent there is a tax on Inventions. As the number of patents taken out last year was 20,000, the averase tax was §2,000. ‘The cost of getting valuable inventions examined is often very ontrous. Has it not occurred to the Com- missioner of Patents that it might be well to reduce these expenses, so that the fees shall rot exceed them very imaterially? ‘The Patent Office was never intended to be a source of revenue to the Government. So long as it is self-sustaining. the country will pe satisfied. Tnene is a prospect that little Delaware may cease to be a Democratic pocket-bor- ough. Mr. Houston, the Republican candi- date‘for Congress from that State at the last election, has given notice of his intention to contest the seat of Martin, Democrat, who received the Goverifor’s. certificate. It is said that the evidence is ample to justify the unseating of Martin and giving his seat to Mr. Houston. The Democratic majority in Delaware has been growing small and beau- tifully less in recent years, and but for the absurd election laws of the State it would ‘| havo disappeared altogether long ago. ee Gen. HeNpenson, the Representative of the Sixth District, says that itis the inten- tion of the Illinois Congressmen to make a strong effort to obtain an appropriation fér the widening and deepening of the Iinois & Michigan feanal during the coming session of Congress. One of the obstacles in the way of the appropriation seems to be the fact that the Canalis owned by the State, and some Congressmen think that it would be im- proper for Congress to appropriate money for the improvement of State property. There are those who think that this difficulty willbe gotten over bythe transfer of the eanal to the National Government on con- dition that the appropriation be made. a Tue organization of gangs of youths of Trom 12 to 15 years of age for the purpose of robbery is just now becoming known, and their practices coming to light, in the North Division of the city, These scamps roam the streets by day and by night. When they meet a youngster not of their tribe they seize him, hold him up, go through him, take whatever he has of value, threaten him with vengeance,. and then depart hastily. Many of these juvenile robbers are armed with pistols and knives, and with the proceeds of their robber- ies they regale themselves with beer, cigars, tobacco, and other manly stim- ulants. Of course this is only practicing what will quickly grow into a profession. The next step is to rob halls and stores, to look out for unfastened doors and windows, and engage in the plundering of houses. This is a practicing school for thieves and burglars. Even these boys find ready sale for all they can steal at the so-called pawn- shops, which, in fact, offer the greatest en- couragement for robbery. Parents are com- plaining that their children are robbed, on their way to school, by these young ruffians; ‘and the police ought to be able to break up these gangs without much trouble. ‘THe new Court-House building has pro- gressed so far towards completion that it is now heated and lighted, and several of the Judges’ rooms will be ready for occupancy on the Ist ot January. It is to be hoped that the Board of County Commissioners will not adopt the policy of waiting until the whole building is completed before taking posses- sion. On .the contrary, the Commissioners should order the removal into the buifding of the various officers just as fast as their re- spective rooms can be finished. Nor should there be any haste in the matter of providing new furniture. The present furniture in | use may be movedin, and can be made to answer all purposes until the county is pre- pated to gointo that business by wholesale. We understand that at least two of the new court-rooms can with proper‘diligence be put in order, and at least two of the Judges open court in the new building, by New-Year's, Why should they not do so? When the United States Courts and the various offices were moved to the new building ou Clark street the rooms were not all completed, the halls were not finished, and there wasan immense amount of work to be done. Not an article of furniture bad been supplied. The Government officers, however, moved ininas quick order as they could, carry- ing with them their old desks, tables, and chairs, and went to workin their new quarters. Our county officers ought to be able to do the same, and we are sure the Courts would gladly wait a year for new fur- niture if they could be provided with room at once in the new building. In point of fact, the proper way to occupy the new building is to occupy it at once. Go in and take possession just as fast as possible, and this should be done, room after room, until all the county offices can be gathered from their present various quarters and collected under one roof. We hope the new Soard will at once order that a beginning be made. WALL STREET recklesness and fimpudence have never gone farther than in the demand of the bulls that Seeretary Sherman should help them out of Jay Goula’s embrace. For siximonths the speculators of New York have been using, to rush up prices, all their own money, all the resources of the banks, all the margins they could get out of the fambs. Every dolr of gold that has come from London or Paris through New York to Chicago, and has becn sent by Chicago to the farmers of the West to pay for wheat and pork, has been specu- lated on by Wall street. These operators have absorbed the funds of the New York banks till they are millions of dollars below the reserve required by law. After using every other financial resource, tothe point of collapse, these Wall street bulls have the ineffable effrontery to demand that the funds of the Government shall be used for their benefit. Secretary Sher- man has yielded so far as to raise the price he is bidding for the 6’s of 1980, and an- nounced that he would buy $3,000,000 at the higher ‘figure. This afforded no relief, and the Secretary is roundly abused tor not giy- ing notice that he will buy the 6's of 1881 in such amounts and at such prices as to-pour enough Government money into Wall street to support the present inflation, and blow the bubble larger. There should be but one an- swer. Speculators who presume to ask Government help should be booted back from Washington to Wall street, and every time the boot fell it should lift them forward seven leagues. The country wants norepeti- tion of Secretary Boutwell’s blunders on Black Friday, or of, Secretary Hich- ardson’s reissue of Tet eee Secretary Sherman do the legit- imate business interests, of the country no better service than by withholding any pos- sible relief to Wall street stringency. "There isone-interference the Treasury Department ought to take the responsibility of imme- diately. Controller Knox should at once notify the New York banks which have allowed Wall street loans to deplete their re- serve thatthey must without delay call in their loans and restore their reserve to the figure required by the law. JopcEe Hawes will begin his judicial life to-morrow in the Second Criminal Court, A court-room has been provided him, and, fur- nished with an Assistant State’s Attorney, he will begin work on the criminal docket to-morrow, There will thereafter be two Courts engaged in -hearing criminal cases, aud the result ought to be that all the prison- ers in jail shall betried, and acquitted or con- victed, during each term of the Cour All the business on the docket should be dis- posed of at the end of cach month, and, while the prisoners and other accused should have tair and patient trials, the in- dicted parties should have the justice done them of being discharged without delay when the State is unable to establish their guilt. With two Courts in continuous ses- sion the criminal docket, despite the new business, should be pretty well cleared up at the close of each term. If the Legislature can be induced to remedy the great abuses practiced under the present law, whereby changes of venué for purposes of delay and for the defeat of justice are accomplished by the most glaring and’ notorious perjury, the adininistration of criminal. law will be greatly improved in this county. The great element of justice certainly will be measur- ably secured by promptness in the trial of indictments, ‘Tie progress of the Land League of Irish farmers in the attainment of its purpose is something astonishing. It set out, among other things, to force down the excessive rents exacted of the tenants to Government valuation, which would be a reduction of at Teast one-third to one-half on the existing rack-rentals forced out of the people. In the whole island it would amount to more than thirty millions of dollars. Land valued by the Government as worth a rental: of three, five, eight, and ten dollars an acre, has been screwed up by the landlords to-paying tive, eight, twelve, and twenty dollars an acre._ ‘The result is, frightful poverty and misery, and chronic discontent and hatred of tho British Government. The people find, by long and bitter experience, that they cannot pay the: rents demanded by the feudal land-robbers, and live. The American peo- ple, and the Irish in this country, are con- stantly called upon to donate money by the millions of dollars to help pay those out- rageous and impossible rents; and they are becoming weary of the never-ending neces- sity forso doing. Attast the farmers have “struck” against their oppressors, and formed a League to compel them to lower the rents toan endurable limit. They have resorted to “ Boycotting,” with astonishing suecess. They are stopping the heartiess eviction business; and many of the landlords are voluntarily coming forward and reducing the rents to the Government (Grifiiths’) valu- ation. A cable-dispatch says: It isa noticeable fact that many landlords aro accepting Griffiths’ valuation. A Boyle corre- spoudent says that Lady Louise Tennison, Lord Defreyne, Col. Ffolliott, and other Roscommon landlords’ are giving in'and nceepting the Gov- ernment valuation; also, the -Exri of GHinmél,:| | profiles, fitéd a page of Te ‘Trmcne of Sir John C/Carden, and Mr. William Burne, Tipperary.. jee tareess Hala ao We And’thisis a highly important - cant bit of news: Lonvon, Dec. 3,—It is said now that Gladstone, the Lord Chancellor, has in hand a Land bil in- tonded lo enable Enylivh tenants occupying farms tu convert their terminable tenures into a perpeluad, tcnure, on certain conditions, and subject toa moditied rental. This mdusure, of course, will rally the Conservatives in a body agrinst the policy of the Government, and open the real contiict, of which the Irish contest has so far been but the preliminary skirmish, and bring on the long-threatened county-franchise meusure of the Liberals. Discussing the subject of the misery of the Irish farmers, the New York Nation (edited by a Protestant Irishman) remarks, in its last issue: ‘The latest support of the case of the Irish ten- antry bas come from some very powerful letters in the London Daily News from Mr. Russell, Q. C., one of the leaders of the English Bar, but an drishman and e member ot Parlixment for an irish constituency. ‘They are but an amplitica- tion of the propositious laid down by Prof. ‘Thorold Rogers, which we quoted last week. We would strongly advise those who are dis- cussing the subject on this side of the water, in the puipit and elsewhere, and are disposed to settle it out of band by ascribing the present turmoil to the character of the Irish peasantry, ‘and particularly to their improvidence and lazi- ness, to read more of the evidence about it. The land question in Irelund in no way ditfers from the Wad atestian, everywhere. Norace hus ever submitted tong to the tenure under which the Irish peasantry live; and it 1s a true of them as it was of the I’rench peopie in Sully’s day, that their turbulence and mutiny are due not to patupal purres iy. but t2 “ impatience de souf- frir.”| The wildness and absurdity of their po- Jitical aspirations wust not blind Us to tho. evils of thelr economical condition—evils which really make thom seem under the circumstances remarkably thrifty and industrious. The * nat- ural-perversity” theory bas been for uges a favorit defense of bud government, but we be- lieve it has never yet stood the test of experi- ment. No race which has left the savage state has ever yet fniled to Inbor and save when cer- tain of security and justice. THE application of Parnell and the other Members of Parliament indicted with hin for postponement of their trials was refused yesterday by the Judges of the Irish Court of Queen’s Bench. Chief-Justice May, who delivered the opinion in the case, made one of the most extraordinary stump speeches which ever emanated from a Judge. Me pre- judged the whole case of the defendants by saying that it was at their instigation and ow- ing to their speeches that Ireland was in such. a state of anarchy as it is; that Parnell, Dil- Jon, and the other members had themselves to blame if they were in anawkward position in regard to parliamentary duties; and much more to the same effect. ‘The decision is not atall surprising when the composition of the Queen’s Bench is considered. ‘The Chief-Justice is a Mr. May, who held the office of Solicitor- General under the late |, ‘Tory Government, His chief claims to his present position were that he wasan Orange- man, anda rather ready spouter at Tory gatherings. At one of these gatherings he made a speech which so abounded in curious thetorie that it was hawked around the streets of Dublin, and sold by-the newsboys | as a literary curiosity, under the significant title of the “Flowers of May.”* The Associate Justices are Fitzgerald, Barry, and O’Brien. Judge Fitzgerald was a member of the “Pope’s Brass Band,” the most detested politieal faction that ever Ireland produced: ‘Lheir loud professions of devotion to “ our Holy Father, the Pope,” cominended them to the late Cardinal Cullen, who took them under nis protection, and anathematized alt who opposed them; who in fact carried his advocacy of them to such an extent that an Irish Catholic writer, A. M. Sullivan, says that a schisin in the Catholic Church was threat- ened in Ireland. Fitzgerald was elected member for the County of Clare at the cost of some tenant-farmers’ lives, on account of his supposed devotion to the “ Holy Father.” He was the associate of the now infamous Keogh during the Fenian trials. Justice Barry was a Cawtholic Whig law- yer, who owes his Judgeship to the efforts of his creditors, the wine-merchants of Dub- lin, as well as to the exertions of the Cawtholic Whigs among the priesthood. “As sober as 8 Judge” would bo a sarcasm when applied to him, Justice Barry was the law- adviser of the Crown during the Fenian trials, and lost his seat in Parliament on ac- count of the bitterness with which he con- ducted the prosecutions, Justice O’Brien is a Protestant, and the only fair-miided man and the only lawyer onthe Queen's Bench. He is very old now, and his resignation is anxtously expected by several placc-hunting barristers In Dublin. ‘The decision on the application for post- ponement is bad enough and absurd enough, but the decisicn on the application of the in- dicted for an attachment against the Tory organ, the Evening Muil, for publishing articles prejudicial to them is just as absurd. ‘The attachment is denied, yet the proprietors and editors of the Muil are told that they | must not write articles of the same character as those complained of between now and the time when the trials commence. Now, the trials were pending when the articles com- plained of were written; if they were fair comments, why should they be thus con- demned; and if they were not fair comments, why should the puplishers be not punished? But anything may be expected from Judges who owe their 'clevation to the peculiar cir- cumstances attending thé appointment of Juiges in Ireland. 1t would seem as if it were foolish for the prosecuted to spend any more money in their defense. Judge May has condemned them already in his judicial stuunpspeech. If the Crown lawyers can pack the jury as effectually as the Bench has been packed the indicted will undoubt- edly be convicted. ‘Tn term of Sheriff Hoffmann expired yes- terday. His service has been eminently cred- itable to himself and to the party which put himintooftice. There used to be a superstition inthis county that nobody but Tim Bradley could anage the Sheriif’s office. This gave way In time to : similar delusion that Mr, Charles Kern was the only person endowed with the necessary qualities of a good Sheriff. Under this mistaken impression many Re- publican lawyers, constituting with the Democrats perhaps a majority of the mem- bers of the Bar, voted for the redlection of Sheriff Kern; ard, when Mr. Hoifmann was chosen in his place, these gentlemen in- dulged in the ‘most dismal forebodings. Yet there is not one of them now who will not confess that Sheriff Hoffmann has been prompt, efficient, and honest, and his sub- ordinates as satisfactory as those of any of his predecessors. In the opinion of most men who have been in a position to judge, Mr. Hoffmann has been the best Sheriff Cook County ever had. He has certainly been one of themost economical. The expenses of the ollice during histerm and those of Sheriffs Agnew and Kern compare as follows: Agnew Kern. Hoffmann Hoffmenn’s saving over Kern, $4,430; over Agnew, $52,611. ‘The new Sheriff, Gen. Mann, elected by the same party, and a rep- resentative of the same ideas as those which put Mr. Hotfmaun into office, will, it is con- jidently believed, continue and extend his policy, and retire at the end of two years with a reputation equally as good. ——— ee THE NEW SEWERAGE SCHEME, TO COST IWELVE MILLIONS. x Readers of Tue Triecxe interested in Chicago matters have doubtless read the ro- purt of the Committee of the Citizens’ Asso- ciuuon proposing a new scheme for the per- manent drainage-of Chicago, and the estab- lishment of a permanent,system of sewer- age. This rgpdrt, with the diagrams -ands |-Dee. 1, The subject is of such direct im- portance to all thésinbanitants of this city that any efforts made to reach a permanent and sufficient solution of the great problem of what to do with the sewage of the city cannot fail to enlist public attention. Here- tofore what has been done in the way of re- lief has been of a temporary character. ‘All the other temporary schemes having proved insufficient, the Committee has en- deayored to devise a scheme which shall be permanent and sufficient forall time. As the plan they recommend is one requiring sev- eral years to complete, they urge that the pumps be erected at Bridgeport, and the water of the South Branch be pumped into the Iakgto the Mississippi River. The canal enlargenent is essential to make all the past expendture available, All that has been ex- pendedivill be comparatively wasted unless onal River be sufficiently connected with He lake by this canal, When itshall be couiptead there will flow through it and into the Ilinois River a stream of pure water from Lake Michigan which, being continu- ous md in large volume, shall keep the Chi- cago River as harmless to eye and smell as is the lake itself. - " Now this scheme is to borrow. $12,000,- 000 ard expend it in building an independ- ent cmal or sewer, when’ by the expend- iture af that sum the present canal, with dimensions equal to those of the Chicago River and adapted to steamboat naviga- tion extending from the lakes to the Mis- sissippi; can be completed and made one of the finest woxks of inland navigation the world has ev§¥:2cen. Why expend $12,000,000 to build a new, small, and underground canal when the Steamboat canal, on which $12,- 000,000 hag already been expended, may be completed for as much more money? It Chicago is to tax herself to build a canal, why not expend the money on the canal al- ready half completed ? ‘The Committee make the objection that the current in the enlarged canal, when com- pleted, will be too great for navigation! The times have moved away from that theory, The navigation of the EHinois & Michigan Canal éven now is mainly carried “on by steam, dispensing with the mules, When the enna Shall be enlarged steam will be tho exclusive power, and it will meet no ereater, resistance from the current than is found in the Mississippi and the Ohio Rivers. To build a small canal alongside the large one would*be to imitate the philosophical man who cut a small hole alongside a large one in his door, so as to let the kitten get in and ont as weil as the cat. ‘The scheme is utterly out of all reasonable consideration. The: duty of the city Is-to have the pumps ordered last spring put at work pumping the water from the river into the canal or into the Desplaines River; this will answer every purpose for five years or ten years'to come, and, in the meantime, it is to be hoped the Congressional delegation from Chicago may be able to enlist the aid of Congress in the completion of the river and canal improvement. In the discussion of the subject last spring it was demonstrated that the proposed pumps would give neces- sary relief for a number of years, and in the meantime the permanent enlargementscheme can be pressed forward. ; INTEMPERANCE AMONG THE IRISH. A meeting of five of the Irish temperance societies of this city was held last Sunday afternoon at the Church of the Sacred Heart to listen to addresses upon the evils‘of in- temperance, delivered by Bishops Ireland, of St. Paul, and Spalding, of Peoria. The audience was a very large one, and was very deeply interested, and the only regret con- nected with the occasion is that the auditors of the reverend gentlemen belonged to the non-drinking class of ‘Irish, whereas those who really needed their admonitions were absent. Bishop Ireland spoke in a very pointed manner, and addressed himself to his own nationality, boldly declaring that the evil of strong drink had done more to injure the Irish people “than any other agent of Satan,” and that it had broken up more homes in Ireland and sent more men into ex- ile even than the curse of English landlord- ism. As illustrating the plainnness of Bishop lreland in dealing with the evil of whisky-drinking and its disastrous effects j upon the Irish people, we quote from our re- port of his address: ‘Roo many Irishmen were inthe asylums, re- formutories, and poor-honses of America, and they could only blaine themselves for these lamentable facts. And be could say, before God, that he believed this state of uifairs was due greatly to intemperance. He could not 6x- plain why it bad taken such ahold upon his countrymen, but he supposed it was because their temptations were so greut. The Devil had tried to conquer the reason of the Irishmen, an be had succeeded by means of strong drink. An immense number of Irishmen in our lurge cities isept auloons, and this they would not do unless it puid. Drink had always been prominent at all the socin! happenings ini the life of an Irishman. There was drink at his’ christenmg, drink at marriage. and drink to distribute among the mourners at his funeral. Wheneyer un fish man’s name appeared in the newspaper Polfce- Court reports drink was at the bottoin of it nine times outof ten. Nothing humiliated him so muci as to see an Irishman's name in the court reports. Whut was to be done to suppress this the canal whenever the same may be needed. The plan is to dig, excavate, blast rocks, and construct another canal in the im- mediate neighborhood of the present ditch and of the Desplaines River, but independ- ent of these streams; this new canal fs to connect the South Branch with the Illinois River at Joliet, and'is to be of equal depth with the Chicago River, so as to drain from itat the bottom as well as atthe surface. This canal or sewer is to be of capacious dimensions, and able, say the projectors, of performing the following service: Having set forth the guble yards to be ex- cavated in the above sewer, including earth and rock, with the probable eost. 1 will proceed to state the cubic feet of water which the sewer is expected to pass at a point opposit Lock No. 1, with a clear width of 2) feet, a depth of 10 fect, a fall of 1 foot per mile, and’ a-wid.k_ at uppor end of sewer of 49 feet, and widening from Lick 1to head of sewer at’ the rate ot 1 foot per mile, as compensation; with this area of tow of water, say WW feet by 20 fect. making a “wet line" of 40 feet, we huve reason to expect a dis- e of OR; cubic feet of water per second, 37,947 cuble fect ina minute, 2.276.820 cuble fect In ant hour, and in twenty-four hours 54,603,680 cubie feet. In seven miles length of Chicago River [havo estimated 53,734,080 cubic feet of water trom tho datu furnished me, and henes we deduce it as a theoretical fuct tat the sewer will discharge the entire amount of water in the Chicazo River in twenty-four,hours, and then draw about 1,000,000 cuble fect of clear ‘lake water through the sewer beside. But'as theory is sometimes doubted as nguinst practical experience, we can afford to assume, with the light we bave, that in twenty-four hours wo can drain the Chicago River. 7 Pete In plain English, this plan is ld a new canal, to be used exclusively dS"a Sewer, It is to be about thirty-seven miles long, and necessirily built of masonry. ‘The engineer who proposes it estimates the cost of excava- tion and contingencies at 36,$49,3%3, and the Commnuttee estimate the total cost of the work at $12,000,000, the interest alone on which would execed half aanillion 2 year. «Phe dis- trict drained by the sewer is to be included inadrainage district, and a Board of Com- missioners are to issac bonds for the amount needed, which bonds and the interest thercon are to be paid by taxation. This, in brief, is the scheme. ‘The City of Chicago is now connected by & canal with the Illinois River. For twenty years and mbre the drainage of the city has passed through that canal. For sixty years the construction of a canal between Lake Alichigan atid the Illinois River has been the grand project of engineers and statesmen. If, in the days of John Quincy Adams, the commercial importance of such a canal was so recognized and admitted that Congress granted 2 quantity of land to aid in the construction of the connect- ing water-way, that importance is far greater at this time, when the country has beconie peopled, and the roads and high- ways are clogged with merchandise which the railways argunable to move. The State of Ilinois: has ¢xpended from first to last, $12,000,000 upon this great work, It1s still incompiete...The canal needs an expendi- great evil? It was allin their own hands. God wag with them always. The way to do it was to declare war against the enemy, with the war-cry, “Death to Whisky.” This strong language from the good Bishop unquestionably goes to the very root of tifa evil, and his picture of the disastrous influ- ences upon the Irish people of the sale and consumption of whisky is not overdrawn, but his remedy is not as specific as it might be. There was an opportunity for him ‘to have deiivered a lesson to the Catholic clerzy of Chicago which he failed to improve, and a Jesson of the greatest and most practical im- portance, since the remedy for the evil lies Jargely in their hands. If they would use their powerful influence in the direction of temperance as energetically and imperatively as they use it in other directions, there is no question that they could stop nine¢-tenths of the whisky-~drinking and whisky-selling among their laity in this city. Bishop Ireland has banished and extirpated whisky-selling and whisky-drinking from the large Irish land colony in Minnesota, to the great pecuniary and moral benefit of the colonists; and what he can do there can be accomplished by other Catholic clergymen elsewhere. The control of the Protestant clergy over their laity is infinitly less than that of the Catholic clergy over theirs, since the Prot- estant Church is based on the right of in- dividual judgment, and is composed of a Membership who think cach for’ themselves and act upon theirown will and judgment, and do uot accept creeds or dogmas that are Not in consonance with their own reason and investigation. And yet the Protestant clergy have sufficient influence, and the rules and regulations of their churches are so strong, that they will not tolerate the running of gin-mills and whisky-doggerics by members, nor alluw them to sell intoxicating liquors to the other members, 1f members of Protestant churches engage in the drunkard-making business, out they go. They can’t run a rum-mill and retain their membership. We call the attention of the Catholic clergy to this important fact as one worthy of their consideration. ‘The Methodist Ghureh isa very large denomina- tion, and cbntains in its membership perbaps a larger representation of the middle and working . classes than any other of the Protestant churches. How many Method- ists are engaged in whisky-selling? How many Methodists of Chicago or of Iinois are patronizing whisky-saloons kept by the Inity of their Church? How much money is squandered in whisky-shops by the Meth- odist brethren? The Presbyterian Church also is a large and strong. denomi- nation. How many of its members are en- gaged in retailing intoxicating liquors? How many of them are found quarreling, fight- ing, cursing, drinking, and loafing in rot-gut saloons run by Presbyterians? ‘The Baptists and Episcopalians also reckon large and in- ture for deepening ftito the level of the Chi- cago River, and for widening it to the capaci- ty of tha/steamers thgt do business on the great rivgrs. The printipal cost of this en- largemesé will be the ro, k-cutting north of Lockpo& The canal hasbecome part of the Tiver igprovement, by which contin steam pavigation will be thaintained fiom Fs fiuential memberships. How many of then are engaged either in drinking or in selling whisky? If the clergy of these churches, which comprise the bulk of the orthodox members}fip in every community and State of.the Union, can keep their entire laity out of saloons'and prevent their members from peddling liquid damnation to cach other, why cannot the Catholic clergy, who have infinitly more power over their flocks, exer- cise the same strong and beneficent influ- ence upon them? If they, -headed by their new Bishop, would open a crusade against whisky-selling and whisky-drinking, and follow it up with the energy and determina- tion of Protestants, before the New-Year ex- pires one thousand Catholic whisky saloons would be voluntarily closed in this city by their proprietors, tens of thousands of Catholics would place their names upon the temperance roils, and millions of dollars of earnings would be saved by the hard-work- ing Irish with which to get homes, educate their children and place them in positions of usefulness and respectability, where they would acquire wealth and win the respect of the whole community. The whole whisky- selling business would become so contempti- ble and-disreputable that only the lawless classes and those outside of the pale of the Church would be found peddling liquor to the laboring classes. It is a very simple remedy, and one clearly within the power of the Catholic clergy, to apply in the most ef- fective manner. It the members of Protestant churchesare found engaged in the business ef running whisky-shops they are “bounced” out of the Church without ceremony and are notallowed to defile the membership with their.presence. Why do the Catholics not act in the same effective way? It is not many years ago that one of their number, Father Mathew, a sin- cere, honest, courageous Catholic priest, grappled with this giant vice of intoxication and accomplished a great and glorious work, saving multitudes from this debasing evil and bringing happiness into thousands of homes. Why are there not men of the Cath- olic priesthood ready to engage in the same useful work and to bring their tremendous influence to bear upon the suppression of a curse which is widespread among their laity, and more injurious to Irish morals, stand- ing, and pockets than all other evils pat together ? ee LIFE AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The City of Washington in the absence of Congress is like a deserted village without even The senfolidon’s voice that bay’d the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. During the few days immediately preceding aCongressional session ‘there is something like a general stir to clean up the hotels, lodging-houses, restaurants, and bars; but it is no more like the bustle of city life than the occasional renovation of a country store. The expected Congressmen do not put in an appearance - till the last hour. They may leave their constituents, and, perhaps, even their families, under the impression that they are hurrying to the Na- tional Capital to get their committee work ready for the opening of Congress, but they more frequently escape to the uninquisitive vastness of New York, to partake without reggraint of metropolitan pleasures and ex- citement, Meanwhile the routine clerk en- joys the mild stimulant of 2 promenade on Pennsylvania avenue between 3 ar@ 4 o’clock inithe afternoon; the conventional bridal couple huddle in a close car- tiage to .“do” the Capital’ and its suburbs in the alternate chill and sunshine .of a malarial climate; the Maryland team of four, consisting in part.of horse, mule, and cow, and driven with one rein, has an unimpeded passage over the asphalt; and the small politician endeavors in vain to get up a discussion in the empty corridors of the hotels. When Congress convenes, as it will to- morrow, the scene changes. There is then .2t least an annearance of bustle. The National Legislature meets in a condition more or less chaotic. The Committees then begin to get ready for work, though the individual Congressman is so overwhelmed with political affairs of his own, or errandsto do for his constituents, or projects of a pure- ly personal character, that he has little time for public affairs. The number of Congzess- men is small who can give a correct idea of the pending legislation upon any subject with which, by reason of committee assignment, they ought to be perfectly familiar. One gentleman may be absorbed with the inten- tion to offer a resolution demanding informa- tion from the Executive branch of the Gov- ernment concerning matters about which tne Executive is totally uninformed,—for in- stance, the details of the new treaty with China, Another may be equally determined to arrest the motion of the | earth by offering some constitutional amend- ment which, once relegated to the tomb of a committee-room, will never be again heard of. The average Congressman is about as narrow, contracted, and selfish in his views asthe average man in other walks of life, with the difference that he is apt to assume a superiority of intellect and a mysterious and hidden wealth of information and power which he does not possess. A ‘The opening of a new session of Congress ischiefly useful in intusing some life into the National Capital. The wheels of tlie machine are set in motion, and people who, previously existing in a condition that may be described as the opposit of Hibernation, begin to rub their eyes, stretch their limbs, expand their stomachs, and otherwise take oir the signs of animation. The Government expends about twenty millions annually in the District, of which the never-to-be-completed Washing- ton Monument marks the geographical centre, and thus supports during a part of the year a community which practically dis- appears from the population of the world at other periods. This community is partly artificial, partly routine, and partly nomadic. There are ornamental ‘chiefs who, upon emergency, sometimés develop brains, courage, and - capacity. ‘There are the actual and competent workers, who do the business of the Government, whose names rarely get into the newspapers, and who drag out a humdrum existence upon bare livmg wages. There are the jobbers, the schemers, attorneys, agents, and ad- venturers who hang on the outskirts of De- partment and Congressional circles. These area mass. One Department employs 3,000 of harmless, easy-going machines that copy papers, add up figures, belong to State Asso- Ciations, arid devote their spare time to in- genious devices for keeping their places in the face of {mportunities and machinations in the interest of another horde of similar in- offensive'and equally lifeless though neces- sary routine place-hunters. - Society in Washington presents many con- trasts. It is divided into cliques and grades that never assimilate. .There is an old stock that looks down upon the official classes, and affects exclusiveness. These people are relics of theante-WarSouthern régime. They harbor to some extent the retired army and navy officers, and even the young Lieutenants who marry rich wives have large and handsome houses built for them, and command the requisit influence to avoid distant assign- ments, The ancient régime has also left a ‘legacy of unprogressive, lazy, and illiterate people, both white and black, who revel in the superstition of haunted houses and would not cross a funeral for any considera- tion. This class provides a liberal allowance of cheap servants and lazy messengers, who are only overpaid when their services are brought in contrast with their modicum of compensation. The official circles of the lower grade tent themselves with mite societies, church sociabies, candy-pulls, and berry-festivals as substitutes for social dissi- pation. The higher gradealternates between big dinners and stiff, awkward, and uncom. fortable receptions of a formal nature, There is little of home-life anywhere, as it is under. stood elsewhere among the American People. Perhaps the circumstances of Washington life that have been barely hinted at here sug. gested in part the movement that was started, some years ago to remove the National Cap. ital to some other city. There are other rea- .Sons why the National Capitol should remain where it is. The*further removed the Amer. ican people as a whole can be from the Sense of being governed, and the less familiar they are with the combined slothfuiness ang variety of the business of Government, the more contented they will be with the Amer. ican system, which contemplates freedom from official constraint. Perhaps it is algo as well for those. who are engaged in the business of Government and its necessary appendages that they should be separated from the bustling, pushing, crowding infin. ences of commerce, manufacture, and trade, ‘The official classes may be thus less tempted to unwarranted trespass upon the domain of the people. Washington is certainly exteri- orily attractive. The streets are clean and comparatively noiscless. Its public build- ings are looming up into magnificent pro- portions that shall before many years become the admiration of the world, and are already a matter of National pride. The distinctive characteristics of the Capital serve to impress the National’ idea upon the country. {t is the State of Government not fora State, but fora Nation. The people of the District look forward with cheerful hopefulness to an era of good feeling, prosperity, and progress under Gen, Garfield’s Administration. There is a com-. parative sense of security among the mass of Government employés, where there would have been a periect pandemonium. of doubt and apprehension in the face of Hancock's election. The old clerks and residents wno have little homes partly paid for now believe they will be able, to. re tain them. The President-elect has lived in Washington almost continually—as: continuously as anybody except an. anti-: quated negro messenger in one of the De partments, or an incorrigible newspaper cor respondent—during the past eighteen years, He is a -property-owner to the extentofa modest little home which isn’t quite paid for, and it is generally believed that hisinfluence will be favorable to the Improvemennt of the’ * city, the prosperity of the regular residents, the value of real estate, and such progress in social and material affairs as can be rea- sonably expected from the Capital of a Re public. THE ESTHETIC GROWTH OF CHICAGO. The census has proved a first-class adver- tisement for Chicago, not only in a commer- cial, but in an artistic and generally esthetic way as well. A glance at our amusement columns shows a general tendency this way of the musical and dramatic combinations, which always regard Chicago as a bonanza that will richly repay them. There has scarcely been a season that has offered such musical attractions as the present one. Our home societies are busily. engaged in the preparation of creat works. The Apollo Club this week will per-. form Handel’s “ Acis and Galatea,” Haydn's “Sensons,” for the first time in the West, Rubinstein’s “Tower of Babel,” for the first time in this country, the “Messiah” about: Christmas time, and Berlioz’s ‘‘ Dammation: of Faust” in February,—a decided advance over its old-time part-song concerts. Tho Beethoven Society is busily at work on the “Elijah,” which they promise to perform on tho lithinst. inaremarkuably effective manner, and with one of the best singers of the title part in the world. The German societies are hard at work preparing for their great Sanger- fest in June, at which thousands of singers will be present from all parts of the country to enjoy music and Gemuetlichkeit. This week the opera season will be inaugurated by the English company organized by Messrs. Strakosch and Hess, with Marie R6ze at its head, and numerous artists in the ensemble who are well known here. Next week the Boston Ideal company will be here, a troupe which includes such singers as Marie Stone, Adelaide Philipps, Karl, Fessenden, Frothingham, Whitney, Barnabee, and others who are familiar upon the concert stage and are known as the best of our home singers. They will be followed. by the Mapleson troupe, with Gerster at its head, and with Campanini, Cary, Galassi, and. the other artists who have made such suc- cesses here daring the past two seasons. Fol- lowing closely upon their heels will come the” Beauplan troupe with Mme. Ambre at its head, which will give vs grand opera in French style, with a full ballet and unusual attention to stage accessories.| Numerous © other concert and operatic attractions of . an interesting character will be here be- tween whiles, so that lovers of music will have their fill from now until spring. Meanwhile negotiations are pending of which We cannot speak at present which, if con- eladed, will give usa whole summer of music so attractive in its nature that noone will want to go away. On the other hand, Chicago will beso fascinating as a place of summer resort that it will draw larger crowds. than, ever here. It ig not alone the musicians who are flocking here. Theatrical man agers are also beginning to ‘TecoR- nize the fact that Chicago is the best-paying dramatic centre in the countty.. Chicago is literally becoming a city of thea- tres. They are springing up in every direc- tion, and she can-boast three at least of the handsomest houses in the country; and it Is’ whispered in theatrical cirelesthat the Union ° . Square company, of New York, may fold ap its tents in that city next spring and come- here to stay all summer, and bring out new plays. More than one musical work of prime importance has seen the light here for the first time in this country, and 1 now looks as if the playwrights would also select Chicago as the best and most reliable locality in which to bring out their new. works, The rapid growth of the city is - manifest not only in aimusical and dramatic way, but also in an artistic. There never was atime in our history when portrait an landseape painters and decorative artists were so numerous, They are coming here almost every day, and are finding their work lucrative. This remarkable progress indicates very clearly the completeness of the prosperity of Chicago, and the long step ahead it has taken. since the fire, because these are features ©! municipal life which naturally would be the. last to recover after such a disaster. In these directions .we have fully recoyered the ground occupied in 1870, when music, ana the drama were at the fleodtide of prosperity. What we need now promote and ‘emphasize this success tho erection of a first-class Opera-House and Art-Gallery such as we bad at that time. As there is a very general feeling of favor towards such an enterprise among our citizens, now is the time for some one to start the ball. ‘There never will be 3 better time to build such a honse than whem moneY is plenty and capital is willing to make investment. A city of more than half # million people ought not to be without & home for its opera, its artists, and its library ANormen link in the chain of evidenc® against Barnum is furnished by tho Bridgepor (Ct) Standard. It says that, about two W