Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1881, Page 4

k3 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1831—EIGHTEEN PAGES - Dafly odition. one year,.. TFarts ofa year, por monil 00 Laily and Sunda, one ¥ Tue rsday, and Eatarday, por vear.. 6.00 2onda; dnesday, und Friday. per yeas .00 Eundar, cdition, BErFHuT- ... 200 Cne capy, per year Clobof five..... Trents-one copies. Specimen coples sent iree. - Give L'osi-Olfice sddress in full, {ncluding County and S Leuitiances mas be mace eithar by dra’t, oxpress, Post-Office order, or in Tezistered loiter, at ourrisk. TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. - Calir.delivored, Sunday excented, 23 cents per week. Lutly,delivered, inday included, 30 cents per weok. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANT, Corner Madison ant Dearbors-sts.. Chucago, (il POSTAGE. Entered at the Post-Office az Chizago, I, a3 Second~ Class Matter. Torthe benefit of our pairons who desire to sond #inele coples of THE TRINGNE throuzh the mall, Wo aiveberewith the transien: rata of postage: Domestiz. Eipktand Twelve Page Pape: Eixieen Page Paper... Per Copu. cents. Foretzn. Eight and Twelve Pago I Sixteen Pago Fape: TRIBUN] NCH OFFICES. «F CRTCAGO TRIBUNE has cstablished branch offices for the Tocelpt 0. subscriptions uad adverdse~ ments os follows: NEW YORK—Room 29 Tribune Bullding. F.'T.3MC- FADDEN, Mana; 2 GLASGOW, Scotland—~Allan’s Lmerican News Ascns Ienfleid-sc. -Arcerican Exchooge, 19 Strand. LA FAYETTE CHAPTER, 0. 2, R. A. M.—Special Convoation Mondny ¢vening, March 7. at 1< o'clock. Work on l]']. Nl;ldfil- l‘? degree. Visiting companions reicome. By ONOT (v g FoNSYTR, M. E.HLP. W.3L 3. BRVAR, Secréiars. RESPERIA 1LODG . 41, A, F. & A. M.—Mem- bers are bereby noilicd to uttend a rezular Com- munleation of te 1.0d:¢ to be held at the hall, cor- meref liundolph £hd Makstedais, Wednestus oen- ing, March Y, at 7:39 o'clock. Visiting Master Slas, arg corgians ihvited. JAMES SMITH, W. L CHAS. 1. BRENAX, Secretars. o CAMPMENT, N0, 105, 1.0, 0. F.— rdered to sppoar in futlnio dressat c un 1IDgELon-sis., DEXL Speclal_order of business fved.) Visitine Patriacchs GEU. B. PARKINS, C. P. PATRIARCHS, ATTENTION!-AIl Patrinrchs of Ixcelsior Encampinent, No. 184 1.0.0, F.. are re- uested to meet at Excelsior Hali next Friduy evon- ;, Murch 11, in fatigue dress. lmportant business. o L in fatigue drests EURIIS, " Cant: CHICAGO COMMANDERY FEMPLAR—Stated * Concl n7, et T 0 £ the * Pémplar_ Order.” Sir mpnderies always weicome. B. GOODMAN, Recorder. in hll;’ of sister By order of 745k Foxp, E. €. 1. C. CREGIER LODGE, NO. 63, A, F. & A, M.— Regolar Communieation Wednesduy evening, March ;fl ‘O'K::UC:‘ !B:Amn{flf W;lrk. Visitlng brethren i Trder o 5 fvled. 7 Onder JAMES KEATS, W. 3L JORN GINOCHIO, Eceretary. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, Zonvocatiun Monday eveninz, oricon the Pass and AL k5 M. degrec ons are cordlally invited. * By orde: s ARTHUR WARKINGTON, H. P. 3. 0. DICKERSON, CHICAGO CIIAPTER. NO. 1%, R A. 3M.~Hall, 154 Twenty-second-st.—Spectsl Convocation Wednes- duy evening uL:8) o'clock for work on the Past und ME. Desrees. Vishing companlons cordully invit- d. By order of the AL E. 3 R LI SMITH, Socretary. ecreta WAUBANSIA LODGE, NO. 160, A. F. & A M.~ Regular Communieation Friday erening. Mareh iL 716 Monroost_ nt 7:3) w'clock shiarp, The aitendance of every wember earnestly desired. iy ¥ 9JOLN . BAKER, W.AL FRED. W. PORTER, Secretary. MMANDERY, NO. 1 ENIGHTS pecial _ Conclave “Tuesday evening, 0L 7% o'clock. The order of the Tempic ts aro welcome. . 'ANT, lecorder. Mareh 7, 18] will bo conferred. Visiting Sir Knig] X5 order of theEminent Cony A= LANDMARR LODGE, NO.&2L A.F.& A, ortant business ora Fine Lectire Friday, March 1. A ruil attendance of members and brotoren 13 solictied. W. W. CHAMBERLALN, W.3L o 11, CHICAGO COUNCIL, OF PRINCES OF JERUSA- LEM, A A.". Scottixh Rite~There will be = ltesular Convention on Thursday ovening next. Work on the th #nd Lira Degrees. 8y ordor of the £, P. G. M. ED GOODALE, 52, Grand Sec. GEO. H. THOMAS POST, NO. 5 G. A. I, will give Party on Friday evening, March 1L, in their ball, 16 Wusizingzon-st. = All comrades und friends fraternally invited. Grand mareh, 513 sharp. Music by Prot. Carr's full orehestra. 5 SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 18SL §¥ixpow’s appointment to the Cabinet would naturally give Ramseyanother chance to enter the Senate; but it remains to beseen whether the people of Minnesota will care to give two Senators to St. Paul. One of the most popular men in the State just now is William D. Washburn, and he comes from -Minneapolis, as Inck would have it. v A cosnaTTER of the Spanish Corted has recommended the abolition of corporal pun- ishment in the case of slaves in Cuba and other Spanish colonies; also the release of all slaves not included in the registration made in the year 1870. The Colonial Minis- ter has promised to favorably consider the recommendations of the Committee. The ‘world moves. Tur vetoof the Refunding bill has had an excellent effect on the prices of Awmeri- can seeurities in the London market. When it anpeared probable that the bill would be- come law there was a sharp declive. Since the veto, however, all this has been changed, and yesterday all kinds of American stocks sold at as high prices as were obtained be- fore the decline. TnE Senate, in executive session yester- day afternoon, confirmed all the Cabinet nominations. Senator Blaine has sent his resignation to Gov. Plaisted, and his suc- cessor will soon be appointed. Senator Win- dow will send his resizuation to the Govern- or of Minunesota Monday, and it is not prob- able that Senator Kirkwood will delay send- Ing his resignation to the Governor of Iowa. Ix the new Cabinet New England gets the Secretary of State. New York the Postmaster-General. Pennsylvania the Attorney-General. The South tne Secretary of the Navy. The **Great West™ the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Interior. Gen. Garfield didnot underrate the strgngth and izportance of the West. AT the meeting of the Republican City Central Committce yesterllay, it was deter- wined to call the Convention for nominating candidates for city oflicers at the spring elec- tion for Tuesday, March 22. The primaries will be held on March 2. The basis of rep- resentation for each ward is one delegate for every 200 votes cast for Gov. Cullom at the XNovember election. By holding the Conven- tion on the day nawed, the Republicans will bave two weeks to make an active and thor~ ough canvass of the city, Tre TRIBUNE'S report of the inauguration ceremonies, the street scenes, and the even- Ing ball in Washington, Aarch 4, was far the most complete, graphic, and picturesque that was given in any newspaper in this country. 3r. Townsend has not his equal in the ranks of journalism for the description of such scenes as those of Friday; and his dispatehes were supplemented by those of other coms petent writers. A Chicago morning news- paver seizes the occasion to glorify its pos- session of **a special wire ”*; but I was inace placed ata great disadvantage as compared with THE TRIBUNE, on ncconnt of its sole dependence o that means of communication, TRE TRIBUNE, when it needs them, has ten special wires. It can take more news and at later hours than any journal which depends on a solitary wire, however *“special ? it way be. Ilence the inauguration-ball, occurring at a late hour at night, was reported fully only in the columns of ‘this journal, while iasiz- nificant and trivial details occurring early in the morning of Inauguration-Duy are given in the *special-wire” newspaper, which must keep its line employed by sending dead uatter, or let it lie idle for hours togéther. Josern CowEN, with thesturdy good-sense and love of truth characteristic of the man, denounces as ridiculous and absurd the | stories published ‘in certain London news- papers about the prevalence of trichine in American pork, and _pronounces as stupid and foolish, if not malicious, the attempt of the alarmists to réstrict the importation of the pork into England. *“The absurdity of the outery,” says Mr. Cowen in his paper, the Neweastle Chronicle, “may be gathered from the fact that America scfids annually to England 700,000,000 pounds weight of prod- uce, and yet not & single case of death from trichinosis has ever been proved to have oc- curred in Great Britain.” . Miss Many Er Jereay that was, Mrs. Gordon that is, was afickle lass. She was the betrothed of young De Jarnette, the tele- graph operator who shot his sister In a bugnio at Danville, Va., last summer that he might <« preserve the family honor,” as he said, and who is now awaiting a seecond trial on a charge of mutder. She was very attent- ive to him immediately after his com- mittal. Recently, however, her con- duet indieated a echange of heart, and last week it was anuounced that she had become engaged o a young man named Bonhaw, who wooed but didu’t win her when De Jarnette pressed his suit. Mr. Gordon, another ardent admirer, was not dismayed by the news of Miss Murray’s en- gagzewent-to Bonham, but called on her Iast Aonday, and urged bis claims to her hund and heart with such persistence and elo- quence that she surrendered both at dis- cretion, whereupon the young man, anxious lest the fickle lass might change her mind, procured a license and a Justice of the Pence, and Miss Murray thiat was is now Mrs. Gordon. Y, . VicE-PRESIDENT AnTiUR's refusal to dine at the White-llouse with President Hayes, Vice-President Wheeler, and President-clect Garfield, the night before the inauguration, may be excused on the score of inexperience, but in any other aspect it was a totally inde- fensible act. To say nothing of the bad man- ners of the thing, it was a sinking of public in private feelings that afngurs ill for the suc- cess of the Vice-President in his new sphere of duty. The affront was intended for Presi- dent Layes, but it fell equally on Viee-Presi- dent Wheeler and the President-elect. Mr. Arthur may be quite sure thiat the invitation was not extended to him out of personal re- gard, and it was supremely egotistical for him to look at it from a personal, point of view. The courtesy was offered to the oflicer, not to the man, and it ought to have been ac- cepted out of regard for tho dignity due the oftice and the courtesy becoming in the of- ficial relations of the Vice-President to the Chief Executive of the Nation. Prestdent Tlayes can bear the odious comparison that rthur has invited. THE NEW CABINET. President Garfield sent to the Senate yes- terday the names of the persons he has chosen to form his Cabinet, as follows: Seergtary of State—James G, Blaine, of Maine. Secrétary of the Treasury—Willfam Windom, of Minnesota. Secretary of War—Robert T. Lincoln, of Ilii- mnois. Seerctary of tha Navy—William H. Huat, of Louisianu. Secretary of the Interior—Samuel J. Kirk- wood, of ITowa, Postmaster-General—Thomas L. James, of New York. Attorney-General— Wayne MaeVeagh, of Pennsylvunin. ‘The Senate promptiy confirmed the ap~ pointments without reference to a comunit- tee. Asthree Senators are included in the Jist, their resignation will be required before they can take the oath of office, but there Is no reason why the uew Adwministration should not be fully organized and ready for business Monday. The Cabinet thus composed will afford geneéral satisfaction. It meets all the require- ments of locality, giving three representa- tives to the East, three to the 3vest, and one to the South. 1t hasa high average of abili- ty, unquestioned integrity, and in its collect- ive capacity a very unusual experience of public affairs and knowledge of the duties permaining to the several offices. The new Secretary of State is, in one sense, a truly National character. Ileis an Eastern man with a Western temperament. In the discharge of his official duties he will con- sider first the interests of his own country, and afterwards thesmall social amenities which have heretofore played so important a part in our diplomacy. Joining to an unu- sually quick and vigilant mind an extensive knowledge of human nature, a conrteous and deferential manner, and a strong will, he unites most. happily the characteristics that the head of the Foreizn Office should pos- sess. Ile will, moreover, give President Garfield the benuflk of his judgment and calm counsel whenever he may be called upon to advise what the general conduct of the Administration should be. ] William Windom, the new Seeretary of the Treasury, a Minnesotian since 1854, is an Ohio man by birth, snd is now in his 54th year. Ile practiced law in his early man- hood, but has served Minnesota twenty years in Congress, ten years in the Lower Ilouse and ten years in' the Senate. In point of ability Mr. Windom ranks high as a sound and clear-headed thinker. The veteran Ben: Perley Poore, who has studied public men in ‘Washington half a century, once said that the Senator from Minnesota, in his judg- ment, ranked next after Edmunds, Blaine, and Conkling as an orator and a statesman in the broadest sense of that term. 1dis sery- ice has been pruicipally on the Appropria- tions Committee, and, though his duties did not brinz him into such intimate relations with the Treasury as those of the Finance Comumittee would have done, they had stilla very direct bearing on fiscal and economic subjects. Mr. Wihdom’s greatest public work has been his transportation report, which still stands as a monument to his diligence and clear avprehension of a most intricate subject. We do not question that he will speedily master all the de- tails of his new office, and administer it with striet impartiality and sound- ness of judgment. He belongs wholly neither to the Western nor the Eastern school of finance, though he voted for the remoneti- zatian of silver, in the face of a sevgere press- ure brought to bear to influence him on the other. side. Both Mr. Windom and Mr. Blaine will promote by every means in their power the success of the forthcoming bi- metallic conference; and their appointment may be accepted as comnitting the new Ad- ministration thoroughly to the support of the double standard, aud actively euploying the influence of the Republic to extend it over Edrope and America. Mr. Robert Lineoln has been obscured by he shucow of 2 great nawme, and stil more by his ownmodesty. Those who know him as 1ho people of Chicago do will not need to be assured,that he .is a good lawyér, and that his whole life has been marked by an unu- sual degree of fidelity and adherence to principle. He is scrupulousy exact, methodieal, and business-like in his own practice, and pbssesses all the qual- ifications for a good executive officer. e has had some military experience in the Ad- jutant-General’s office and on’ Gen. Grant's staff, and in this respect is better fitted for the War-Oflice than most of thosé who have held it. Ilis nge is nearly 40 years, so that he cannot be_considered too, young; {md his knowledge of Washington life will protect him from the mistakes that too often result from Inexperience. We do not wholly re- ject the sentimental ground in considering this appointment. It was a graceful thing for Gen. Garfield to. honor the son of the preat Illinoisan. The people of Iilinofs will thank him forit. It is well that he has done 50, too, as seems to be the case, of his own motion, without suggestion or ‘urging from any quarter. . g William 11 Hunt, who has been appointed Secretary of the Navy, has been a member of the Court of Clalmsnt Washington since May, 1878, ¥eis a Northern man by birth, but has resided In Louisian® and practiced law thero since the War. Ilis character has never been questioned, and, as he had an in- timate acqualutance with Gen. Garfield, tho latter had the best opportunities of judging of liis fitness for the ofiice. Samuel J. Kirkwood, the Secretary of the Interior, has been deseribed as “a home- spun man.” Ile is regarded in Iowa with some of the same peculiar affection that was bestowed in Illinois upon Abrakam Lincoln, whom he resembles both in his figure-und his manners. His inexhaustible flow of good- humor am his countless anecdotes have de- lizhted many Western audiences. Mr. Kirk- wood’s public experience began in the Ohio “Constitutiondl Convention of 1850-'51 (though helisanative of Maryland)., Ile lhas been three times Governor and twice Senator from Towa. Ilis removal will makea vacaney for the ambitious young men in that State:to scramble for. As he is now in his 67th year, he had less reason than Senator Allison to look forward to or desire another long term of service in the Senate. ! Thomas L. James will bring to the Post- Oftice Devartment the highest order of fitness and practical knowledge of its requirements. There never was a Postmaster in New York who discharged the duties of that office to such general satisfaction. Mr. James willbe the Postmaster-General, and will not delegate his duties to assistants. e will rip open the rotten, foul, extravagant * star” service, and repair the mischief that Key through gross negligence perinitted to be done, It is under- stood, moreover, that he has several reforins which he desires to introduce; and the recent example of Postmaster-General Fawcett in England shows how much ono able man can accomplish in this direction. 1 WayneMacVeagh has been noted In a so- cial way as the “young gentleman who mar- ried Simon Cameron’s daughter in spito of him.” To this illustrious achievement he has now added the other of defeating his brother-in-law, the Senator from Pennsyl- vania, in the matter of the Cabinet appoint- ment from that State. As Attorney-General Le will be a worthy successor to Mr. Devens, and higher praise than that he can scarcely hope to enjoy. Mr. MacVeagh has been at- torney for the Pennsylvania Railroad; he has a large and very Iucrative practice, and an enviable social position.in Philadelphia. I will be a sacrifice in more respects than one for him to take the place. On the whole, the Cabinet should be re- garded as a fair compro:nise between all the various elements of the party. While neither Conkling nor Cameron got all he desired, they were both awarded ali they were fairly entitled to. Windom is & compromise, nat only on the money question, but as between Blaine and Grant. The Blaine people are represented by their chief and Mr. Kirkwood. Robert Lineoln and probably Mr. Jumes, who has the largest patronage to dispose of, were supporters of Gen. Grant; Judge 1Mfnt is simply an original Garfield man, and Wayne MacVeagh was in the first instance for Sher- man, but was better pleased with the result than he could have been if his first choice had been approved. With such a Cabinet and such a harmoni- ous opening of his Administration, it will be surprising if Gen. Garfield does not fully satisfy the expectations of the American peonle as their Chief Magistrate. A FITTING CELEBRATION OF THE GREAT FIRE. ‘We print elsewhere a communication from James L. Alien, Esq., 2 member of the Pub- lic-Library Board, suggestinz a plan for the celebration, orrather the observance, of the anniversary of thoe Great Fire which can be heartily indorsed and ought to com- mend itself to the attention of the pub- lic. Mr, Allen’s plan, in brief, Is, that the world’s generosity to Chicago in her time ot calamity shall be commeuorated by a great public subscription, ip which every man, woman, and child who desires may take part, the proceeds of which shall be devoted tothe erection of a capacious, permanent, and fire- proof building as a home for the Public Libra- ry. He suggests, further, that the matter be placed in charge of a committee of promi- nent citizens, with the Mayor at - their head, and that subscription-books be opened in every merchant’s office and store, and that the contribution represent not alone the munificent gifts of the wenlthy but the small donations of the workingman and the widow’s mite. Ile further snggests that the city dedicate to'its use the old City- Hall lot, or some other site that nay be still more available, and that on the 9th ot Octo- ber, 1881, the corner-stone be laid with such rejoicing and pageantry as may be appropri- ate to give expression to Chicago’s remem- brance of the noble charity extended to her. Among all the provositions that have been made for the observance of this anniversary, none has been more practical or appropri- ate than this. To celebrate the calamity itself with' street-parades and general non- sense and hilarity was too "~ absurd for serious contemplation, gnd we pre- sume that by this time even ths vrojectors themselves recognize the silliness and incongruity of their proposition. If anything is to be celebrated it is the gen- erosity of the world, not the recollection of a painful calamity, and if we are goingto celebrate the menerosity of the world it should be by the erection of some permna- nent monument that will forever testify to, our gratitude, and not by a day’s jamboree that would perish with the setting sun, squander thousands of money, and make the city a laughing-stock. In looking about for such a permanent monument, what could be better 6r more appropriate than a fire-proof buifding for the use of the City Library? It was the immediate outgrowth of the fire, and it expressed generously and dloquently one phase of the world’s charity. Itisone of the few great free institutions of the city. 1t is our greatest public blessing. It fur- nishes education and entertainment to all classes of our people. Commencing from small beginnings, it has not only grown into a mag- nificent collection, . but ‘has outgrown its present quarters. More than this, it is now exposed to destruction by fire at any time, und, ouce destroyed, theloss would be almost The way to do a thing Is to do it. irreparable, and oneagainst which Insurance, would be of little avall. We believe thata popular subscription - of the kind alluded to by our correspondent would be hailed with acelamation by all classed ‘of our people. ‘There are several of our wealthy men who would unquestionably consider it a pleasure to hedd the subscription with $10,000 each. A half-million of dollars would e amply sufi- cient to give the Library a homne where it would not be' exposed to danger, and that would be amply -commodious for-all time to come. Onco established in such quarters, it would grow rapidly and ex- tend its usefulness more universally than it can now in its present cramped, dirty, and inconvenieit quarters. If a celebration or a pageant Is needed, it can readily be had with any degree of splendor and pomp in connec- tion with thé laying of the corner-stone. Those who have been canvassing the feasi- bility of a celebration should give this mat- ter serious consideration. If there are any objections to it, let them be stated; if not, why should not immediare action be taken? THE LAKE-FRONT AND THE BAILROADS, We find in n New York paper a letter signed by a person cailing himself * Counsel for more than 100 members of the' Chicago Board of ‘Trade” who protest against ‘the passpge of the Senate biil granting to the City of Chicago the right to sell and to quit- cluim two blocks of ground the technical title to which Iy in the United States. In this lettor the following statement is made: The objoctions which those members of the Bozrd of Trade urge against tho bid are that it is designed to give vaiuable publi¢ property to the Ratlroud Company for u grossly inudequate price; that it is covertly fntended to fucilituto the c¢nforcement of claims which tho Compuny has been nursing for uenrly twelve years to thg cntire luke harbor of Chléngo to o distance of one mile out from shore; that it gives indirect butsubstantial aid to to'convorsion of a mero &:‘:; of way ulong tho lake-shore which tho ownership of the soil fiself, thus putting it into the power uf the Company permmnentiy 1o ob- struct communication between the city and its barbor; and thut all theso grants, favors, and facillties ure bestowed upon u private corpora~ ton forever excmpt from wunicipal taxauion. In brief, the grain’ merchants of Chicsgo nsic Congress not to pass a bill which wlil deprive o commerelnl comwmunity of the commou use of its own harbor, nor deprive the City Trcasury Zorever of the revenues dorivable from the con- trol und mauagement of the harbor by the municipulity, ‘These allegations and others of similar purport undoubtedly contributed to the pre- vention of a vote on the bill in the House. If Alr. George R. Davis and some other mem- bers had not opposed the bill it would have ‘been taken up by suspension of the rules and passed. It now goes over until next winter. ‘The statements in question, made by an at- torney representing respectable and in- telligent citizens, “betray such an extrav* agant want of knowledge of the facts, and as perhaps - one-half our population have come to this city since this.case was one of general notoriety, we arcinduced to believe that a statement of the actual facts may not only be news to the public of 1851, but will Dbetter enable all to understand the effect of the postponement of the bill which failed to pass Congress at the late session. All that land lying east of Michizan ave- nue, south of Randolph street, and north of Madison street, being the two blocks occu- pied by the base-ball clubs, was part of Frae- tional Section 10, and formed part of Fort Dearborn Reservation, and was the property of the United States. When the United States sold the land in the reservation these two blocks, then largely covered with water, were set apart for public uses and forever to remain open. The purchasers of the adjoin- ing blocks and land bought with this ease- ment or use attached thereto. All the land east of Michigan avenue, south of Madison street, and north of Park row was purt of Fractional Section 15, and was included in tho lands given by Congress to this State to ald in the construction of the Lllinois & Michigan Canal. This land “was also partially submerged by the lake, and was reserved from sale by the State for pub- lic purposes. The two picces conneeted, ex- tending from Randolph street to Park row, have been ever since called and known as a public park,—Lake-Front Park. In the meantime, under the charter and by the ordinances of the city the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad Company obtained a rightof way along the lake-shore across these two fractionnl sections to thw sites and for the uses now held by them. The fee to that part of Sec. 15, and the fee to the land under the waters of the lake out to the navigable depth, vested absolutely in the State of Illinois. In 1869 the Legislature of Illinois, by an act which passed over the veto of the Gov- ernor, made a wholesale disposition of all ‘this property in See. 15, from Randolph streot to Park row, Including the riparian rights or property of the State to the land then under water in front of Fractional Sec- tions 10 and 15. That disposition was as fol- lows: 1. Ceding all the right and title of the State inandto the-land in Sec. 15 north of Park row and south of Monroe street, extending 400 feet east of the west line of Michigan avenue, to the City of Chicago in fee, with full power tosell and convey all of said tract, leaving said avenue minety feet in width; the sale of such land to be upon such terms as the Common Council by a vote of three- . fourths ot {ts meibers might provide. +2. The proceeds of such sale to. be n park fund; to be divided among the several divis- ions of the city. 8. The third section of the law provided as follows: The right of the Tlifnofs Central Company un- der the grant from the Stateln ftscharter, which said grant ceastitutes n prt of the considera- ton for which tho said Company pays to the State at leust 7 ger cent of s gross carnings, and under and Dy virtue of its nppropriation, occupnney, use, and control, and the riparian ownership incideny to such grant, aporopriaton, oceupaney, use, and control in and to the lands, submerged or othorwise, Iying cast of the suid lino running paraliel with and 400 feet east of the west line of Michigan avenuo, in Fuctional Sections 0and 15, is hereby contirmed, and ail the right and title of the State of Iilinois in and to tho subwerged lands constituung the bed of Luke Michigun and lying east of the trucks and breakwater of tho [Hinofs Central Ruflrond Com- pany for the distance of one tlle, and_Letween the south line of the South Pier extended enst- wardly and n line extended enstward ‘from the south line of Lot -1, south of and neur to_tho roundbouse and muchine-shops of said Com- pany, in the South Divisivn of the City ot Chi- cago, are hereby crunted In Tee to the Said il nols Central Railway Company, its successors and assigny, 4. The State cedes all its title in and to the lands, submerged or not, lying north of Mon- roe street and south of Randolph street, be- tween the east line of Michigan avenue and the track and roadway of the Illinois Central Railway, being parts of Fractional Sections 10 and 15, to the Illinois Central, Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy, and the Michigan Central Railroad Companies, for the erection of a passenger depot thereon. . 5. In consideration of this grant, said Com- pauies shall pay to the City of Chicago $6800,000; of which $200,000shall be paid within three months from the date of the act, $200,- 000 within six months, and the same amount in nine months, and the. balance in twelve months. The money to constitute a park fund. & €. The City Council of Chicago is author- ized to quitclaim and releade to the Railroad Companies the land north of Monroe street (three blocks) within four months from the date of ‘the act, and, in case the city shall neglect or refuse to do so, then the Compa- nies shall be discharged from all obligations to pay the unpaid balance to the eity. This act is suficiently sweeping and definit in its provisions. It cedes absolutely to the Railway Companes all the rights and title of enjoys on sufferance into a claim of & the State of Illinois to_the land, submerged | or not, from the South Pier to Twelfth street, and for one mile east of the railway tracks It cedes absolutely to the city all of the Lake Park south of Monroe ‘street to Park row. Ivcedes the three blocks north of Mouroe street to the Railway Companies, thus cover- Inz two blocks the fee of which ‘was in the TUnited States. 7 ‘The owners of property fronting on the two northern blocks, or parts of See. 10, ob- tained leave to, filea bill'in the name of the United States to enjoin the execution of this act, so far as it authorized the closing of the open view' of these two blocks of United States ground which ‘extended from Ran- dolplr-to Madison street. The Court, holding that the owners of this property could not be deprived without their consent of this right, which they had obtained from the United States, granted the injunction. - In the meantime the Raflway Companies tendered the first payment of $200,009, which the city refused to accept, asit refused to execute the deed,and it has never maden quitcialm deed, as the act required. Thus the matter stood until the Legisla- ture, by the act In force July 1, 1873, uncon- ditionally repealed the act ot 1869. In 1831 all the property-owners in whose behalf the injunction was granted, by an instrument properly executed, gave their consent to the proposed cession by the city of the Blocks 1 and 3 to the Railway-Compa- nies, and the City of Chicaro, by the.bill which has been pending in Congress, asked the United States to cede to the City of Chi- cago whatever reversionmy claim the Gov- ernment might have in those. two blocks, so that the city might dispose of them, with one other block, to the Railway Company for a great passenger depot. Inthat act Congress was asked to cede the land from Michigan avenue to the railroad tracks, and nothing more. . Such are the facts of the case, and it is a question for those who opposed this bill to answer ‘how far the defeat or passage of that bill conld have changeéd the legal aspects of the case, except to delay the improvement of the property and of all the property on Mich- izan avenue, to delay the expenditure of a million of dollars for labor and materials, and to delay the receipt by the city of three- fourths of a milllion of dollars net and by the State of a largely increased revenue. ‘fhe question of the rightof the Illinois Central Company to the submerged land east of its track along the Lake-Front, under the legislative act of 1569, is one that must he eventunlly determined by “the Supreme Court of the State. The bill pending before Congress conferred no title or privilege on the Railroad Company east of its ratiroad’ tracks ot south of, Madison street which it does not possess now. The blll simply re- moved o technical restriction upon the city from rece{ving for three blocks of useless land §750,000 which it could not receive others, wise. Thoe whole claim to riparian rights- on the Lake-Front was left precisely asit stands now. ‘The city was expected to ex- ecute a quitctaim tleed to the three blocks only, leaving all the legal questions to the Lake-Front east of the railway tracks to be determined by the Courts hercafter. The bill before Cotgress melther improved nor injured the Illinof Central claim thereto; nor did it weaken any defense or objection this city may set up against that claim. The Illinois Railroad Compuny claims all rights &ast of its tracks under its charter, its ariginal grant of land, and especially the act of the Legislature of 1869. The ounly claim of the city to the fee of any part of the Lake Park is under the same act of 1869, If the repealing act of 1878 abolished any rights of prope: %, then it deprived the city of its fee in the Lake-Front between Monroe street and Parkavenue, and wipes outall claim east of the tracks. If the repealing act of 1878 is valid, the city’s right in Lake-Front Park is merely what it was before 1860, which at most was that of public common or park, and how rar subject to the control of the State we will not now stop to inquire, The Railroad Companies by their tender under the act of 1869 matured their title to the three blocks, sv far as that act could give titte. The authority of the State, as owner of the fee, to sell the south one of the three blocks will not be questioned. How far the tepeal in 1873 of that act of 1869 ‘affected rights completed during the intervening four years is purely a legal question, whieh in'no- wise was affected one way or the other by the bill before Congress. Whatever rights the parties have now would not have been in the least affected or changed had the bill passed Congress. The only loser is the City of Chicago, which loses $750,000 cash for a quitclaim deed to three blocks of ground to which it has but a sort of park or open-view title, -« ‘Whether the Railroad Company has or has not any title east’ of its railway tracks ean have no direct or property interestto the Cit¥ Government. 1f the grantsnadeby theact of 1809 fora consideration were final and irre- pealable, that is an end of the matter as to all property east of the railway tracks. If those grants be declared void by the Courts, then all that propercy under water reverts to the State, and not to the city, and if sold will be sold Yor the benefis of the State, and not of the city. ‘We think that, in the lightof all these in- disputable facts in the case, there will be an agreement of opinion that those who ob- jected to the billin Congress ceding to the City of Chieago. the color of title of the United States to the two blocks have biuh- dered,—have stood in the way of the Inter- ests of thecity, whichis thesola vietim. They delayed or defented a great publie improvi ment, under pretext of defeating legisla- tion which was not Intended, nor asiced, nor desired by anybody. OPTIMISM IN POLITICS. Optimism is, and always has been, the vice ot American politics. Webster, and Clay, and Douglas, and their assoclates were so blinded by the fatal delusion that they never ceased to struggle for harmony between the theory of equal rights and the then existing system of slavery. To the student of history this bootless struggle presents a foreible il- lustration of the follies and weaknesses which dim the lustre of great minds. But no patriot yet ever dreamed of wielding the sceptre of a divided State. The great men who, up to the time of the Rebellion, aspired to the Presidency, belicyed that the disputes between the Northand the South could be .compromised. Why? Because they wanted them to be compromised. And here we have a true picture of the opiimist, whether in politics, religion, or morals,—the wish is father to the thought. . When Lincoin declared that the Union could not long continue to exist half slave and halt free, he was not an aspirant for the Presidency. He was capable of profound philosopbical insight and travk observation. Butin a short time circumstances converted the philosopher into ‘an optimist. Mr. Lin- -coln was chosen Presidesit. He entered the Capital in disguise to, avoid assasination. Alrendy the Union was practically dissolved. The naw President was. surrounded by an atmosphere of -malignant hate. On every hand - there were signs of trea- son, and rebellion was openly threatened. Philosophy would have dbspaired at the prospect, but optimism saw a way to reconcil- iation. In the faceof the scowling multi- ‘tude of malignants; all the more desperate and dangerous because they half believed ‘they were in the right, looking into the very eyes of the conspirators who would have murdered him then and there had- they not felt confident of their ability to capture him and . destroy the Government he had just taken a solemn onth to maintain,~—there, on the steps of the Capitol, Mr. Lincoln uttered these memorable words: B We are not encmis, but friends, We must not be cnemics. Though passion wmay have strained it must not break our bonds of affec- tion. The mystic chords of memory, strotching from overy batclefeld aad pairiot grave tocvery living henrt and henrthstono all over this broad land, will_yot swell the chorus of the Union, wher aguin touched, as surcly they will be, by the better angels of our nature. “1¥e must not be cnemics,”—this is the central idea of Mr. Lincoln's exquisit, touch- ing appenl for reconciliation. Years before lus clear, lozical mind enabled bim to foresee the irrepressible conflict, to sce how futile were all the efforts of the compromises to create an enduring peace between right and justice on tue one hand and cruelty and oppression on the other. But now he held the sceptre, and he .could not bear to think cither of drawing the sword or of a divided- empire. There never was a better illustra- tion of the hallucination which resuits from aloving hopefulness. -Looking into the eyes of his would-be murderers, Mr- Lincoln fondly said: “We are not enemies, but friends”! ‘Then follows that beautiful invo- cation to the spirit of patriotism which, in both sentiment and expression, is unexcelled in the English language, butwhich fell upon dull, cold ears so faras it was intended to avert the catastrophe of war. Twenty years have passed away since the solemn occasion of the inauguration of the first Re- publican-party President, and Gen. Garfield lately stood where Lincoln uttered his prayer for peace. The new President is not unlike the great Lincoln, who was not only sternly logical but tenderly sentimental, and with- al almost superstitiously relizious. Gen. Garfield has a great brain and a great heart. is great brain tells him that during the twenty years which have elapsed since Lin- coln gave utterance to the promptings of his heart instead of the lozic of his mind—* We are not cnemies, but friends ”—the South through its. representatives has given no good evidence of friendship for the North- ern people, or of loyalty to the National Gov- ernment. . . But Gen. Garfield wants pence and recon- ciliation. Hewants the Southern people.to become loyal to the Nation, and, above all, he 1wants them to love, honor, and respeet him as a man and as Chief Magistrate. So.in the spirit of ootlmism, stauding where Lin- coln stood, he says countrymen, we do not now differ in our judzment concerning the controversies of past generations, and fifty years hence our children will not be divided In their opinions con- cerning our controversies.” Ilere ' the heart speaks,—it is the assertion of the optimist. Then follows an appeal, almost vathetic in its earnestness, for reconciliation, which of course is a confession that there i3 still something to be reconciled. Well, what isit 2. The whole country knows, and Gen. Garfield knows, that the Southern people ob- Jject to the political, constitutional fact of the negro’s freedom and his right to vote and hold oftice. - The Southern people want to be reconciled to this condition of things to which they object Ly being permitted to plunge their hands deep iuto the Treasury and pay themselves for their grievances with large sums of public money. The country need not fear that President Garfield, with all his tenderness of heart, will suffer reconciliation to come by this method. Ilence hard-meaded people know what President Garlield’s strong common- sense teaches him: that bitter differences will continue to arise between the North and the South for many years to come. In re- gard to suffrage the President says, among other things: * A bad local Government is certainly a great evil which ought to be pre- vented, but to violate the freedom and sanctity of suffrnge is more than an evil; 4t 48 a crime, which, if persisted in, will destroy the Government itself. Suicide is hot a remedy. If in other Jands it be high treason to compass the death of the King, it should be counted no- less a crime here to strangle our sovercizn power and stifle its voice.” This is true in fact, and splendidly and strongly stated. The crime which President Garfield describes is com- mitted by, wholesale at every-election held in numbers of the Southern States. If this crime stands on a level Zwith the crime of treason, it ought to be punished the very next time it is committed. What will the new Adininistration do about it? Will it trust in an optimistie way to its dying out, or will it strangle it? ¢ Astronemlcal, Chicago (TrisuNE office), north latitude 41deg. 5%, 573.; west longitude 42m. 163, from Waghington, and Sh. [im. 50s. from Greenwich. The subjoined taole shows the time of set- ting of the mobn's lower limb, and the of- ficlal time for lighting the first street-lamp in each circuit in this city, during tho com- inyg week, unless ordered soouer on account Of bud weather. Also the following times for extinguishing the grst lamp: Day. Al Light. Ezxtinguish. Mareh’ 0:60% 05 p.m. 5 4 The moon will be In her first quarter at Pp. m. to-morrow, and fn apogee near midnight of Wednesday. Sbe is nearly full at tho close of the week. ° ‘The sun's upper limb will riso on Monday at 6:25 2, m., south at1im. 04.0s. p. m., und set at 5:58 p. m. ; The sun’s upper Hmb rises Friday mext at 6:19 2. m., Souths at 10 02.62. p. m., and sets at 6:023% p.-m. X The sideren! time Thursday mean noon will be 238, 14m. V0.163. Mercury is now near the sun, setting after him. Hewill be fn inferior conjunction with the sun next Fridny morning. Murs wilt rise Thursday at 4:50 2. m. and south at9:4a.m. Hels visible asa morning star in the early twilight. Thursday he will bo nearly midwuy between Alpba and Delta in Capricorn. Venus, Saturn, and Juplter are now a little more spread out than last woek, the birst-named buving left the other two behind in her ecast- ward progress aong the stars. They now form a triungle, with Saturn at tho obtuse angle. Next Thursday they will move as follows with reference to our meridiun and horizon: & South. Set. Jupiter . 07 pom, . 8:38 p.m. Suturn. 3 pom. BT pl e Venus. :52pom. 9:3% pom. ‘Venus is now near the earth, and shining all tho more brightly as she i in peribelion to-day. She was at her greatest elongation from the sun Feb. 20, but will continue to Increase in brill- iancy till the Zith of this month, when her ap- purent diameter will be 383 seconds, and her distance from tho earth about 41,000,000 iniles. Jupiter and Saturn are now passiog farther from us. and the latter is becoming quite faint, espeelally by comparison with his brighter neighbors. Uranus will south Thursday at 11:36 p. m., be- inz then i right ascension 13 ‘hours 523 min- utes, and north declinntivz 8degrees 04 minutes, He was In opposition to the sun lust Tuesduy. Neptune will south Thursday at 5:25 p. m. Rizht ascension 2 hours 41 minutes, and north declination 13 degrees 50 minutes. The peoplc who persist in making the spring quarter begin with the st of March, contrury to the universal astronomical usage, have been rather pitilesly sat down upon this year. Some of the worst weather of the winter was experienced auring last week. Astronemically the spring doos not begin till the sun crosses the line, which occurs’ on the 2th instant,— nearer 1o the end of Marchi than to the begin- ning. The Idea that thespring season began last Tuesdny is especially unsuited to thig ex:’.‘ where the. winter lingers longer thag g gop miles west on the same parafiel of latitude, ; ————— Crematlon. * The Cremation Socizty of the Berlin, Germany, a3 published its annyy port for the year 18%0, from which it nppe."" that the number of members fnerenzeq mu thirty-three to 107, and that tho npni(caflnm‘(m membersbip are -coming In fast. The re o also states that it is not merely the object of Baclety to cromate human bodtes, butalsotopre. vent tho dreadful danger of burying pe alive. Scientificauthorities, as well as praciteing * physicians, bave proven the fact thar there jg but one positively cortain sizn that death hgy occurred, and that 1S gencral decompositigy of the body; all othor signs ure, without any oy, cuption, very problematical, and 1o absolute rg, Manco can be placed on thew. lustaneg are on record where persons fa a state of trine did not awake even when their skins wery burnod witl red-bot Iron rods. If the pulse entlrely imperceptible, it breathing hag g pareatly ccased altogether even to the exam, iniag pbysiciun, If we Lmbs are SUL nd polg if the opening of a vein draws no blood,—ayy these sizns are not surcand reliahle proot g death, and the possibility still exists thas patient 13 laying in'a trance. The lndxcmzfi' of gencral decomposition do not appesr ow mapy corpses untll long atter the legal Nmitgy threo days, which the body must be kept aftey - death, has exoired. From scleutifio sources j we know that, in the course .of. twenty-gys years, there were 090 cases of traoce discoy. 1 ered in Amaterdam; in Hamburg, 107 .a fre | yeurs; In Now York, six out of 1% (g | per cent) were found to be in a trance; £ g ! : City ot mane Soclety in Londoa has dQuring twey years restored 2,135 perions who were i ntrance to life. Dr. Bonbler. of Paris, mentiogy fifty-three fnstances during bis pructice in thg city whero the bodies showed Signs of returning lifo while they were in thoir coffins, The re. maios n fift5-two collins dug up in two con demned and abandoned graveyards lnside thy limits of the City ot Paris showed unmistakanle signs of naving been buried alive. Thig fat becomes evident when tho rewaius in the cofiy are found in a position which demonstrates thy desperate exertions wade to gain freedom from the terrible mprisonment. It the gures in the cuse of New York above mendioned are applieq 10 Germany there would be about 134 persons buried alive anoually’in that country. R — Tre New York Nation sheds these erogo. dile tears over the late Senatar Carpenter. Thy Dbiographical skketeh cannot be sald to be consol atory to his frieads nor calculated todecpen thy poignancy of grief at his departure from thy halls of Congress: The death of Senator Carpeater, of Wisconst on Thursday of last weels, took from the Be::& licuns ull hope of controilinz the orgunizution of the Senate after March 4. But it canuot be snid that the permancat nierests of the party will sutfer by is removal. He first entered thy Sonate fn 140, and failed of reiection at thy end of his term, in 1835, In consequence of tu dissatisfation of a portion of his constituenty with his defense of the Crédit-Mobiller and thy Sulury-Grab. The'nest year he was tho Jeuding toun: Gen. Belknap's defense on bis jme peacament trinl. In 1878 he gut up a show of popular detmaad for his return to the Senate, uoe cepted it us iu auty bound, and was reciected iy February, 189, Durmg bis enure service by was a member of the Judiciary Commitiee, and it can be said of bim that, if he was not a yrest lawyer, his legal abilities were eminontly re. spectable, and would have Insured bim bod gereater fume and_greater usefulness had they heen directed and sustalned by n hizh moral cnaracter. His political careerhad its oconsions ul bursts of independence, 1S in his opposicon 1o the Potter Ruitroad luw, over which bus Stata lost its hend: una still more signully in hisatd- tude towards the double Louisiunt Govertimeas of 1972, when, in New Orleans and m his ‘seat iy the Senate, he coxently denounced the seton of Judze Durell which “established Kellogg , o power, and strove to have nnow election ordered by Congress. In & Specch delivered in Mareh, 1874, on account of which Scantor Morton ac cused bim of beingun enemy of PresidentGrant Mr. Carpenter predicted that Louisiana woul bea heavy load in the next canvass,und that her vote might settle the contest. Inother re spects, bowever, und at other times he w.s indls tinguishable frowm the rest of the **Senatorial Group.” in Junuary, 1872, be attreiad the Civils Service regulztions us impracticable aod uncoge stitutional: in.1S74 be wus an active intationist, and -by bis vote of March 30 was Instrumental in postboniug resumption three yvears; duriog s same year he opposed the bill'by whleb the cor rupt molety system was nbolished: znd fn 190 he relied, as he sild, on anoverruling Providence | tosecure Grunt's nominasion ut Chicago for & third term o che [aterest of virtue. - e SPEARING of the bravery of the Soulh African pro-slavery Boers vho aro fighting tw British, the New York Sun says: Tho successive defents encountered in_ his wmarch across the Drakenberg Range by a Britisy commander ncknowledged to be higaly nccois plisked in the military urt, und specially familiae with the conditions of South Africun- wurfure, will put « stop forever to the slurs which havs, for sowo years, been current with regnrd to the prowess of the Boers. Itwill be remembersd that one of the pretexts fog, Sir T\ Shopstoned furcible annexuticn of tue Transvaal in 157 wus the failure of the Hollanders to capture Secocoouni‘sstronghold in thelr irst assnult; but those who have dwelt upon tois charge hava found it convealent to forget that the British troops also fulled to distodye him from his rock fortress, and that for three years after the over torow of the Dutch Republio the Bapedi Chiet defied uil the efforts of Hritish military power The suly liction, by tho way, swhich nseribed cowardice to the’ Boers never got any support from those British officers who had served {a South Afriea during the lst Holland insursee- don in 180, The fight at Boowplutz in thed Jenr, where the Boees were groutly outaums bered, was declored by Sic Harry Smith, whe had seen war under Wellington in the Ponltsals und at Waterloa, to be onc of the most severt skirmishes evor witnessed; another ofhicer, wha subsequently went through tho tight at Inker man, descrived Boomplutz s the heavlest firs be had ever been exposed to. \When wesee, al30, to what disgrace und loss the Hritlsh wers subjected by Cetywayo, it is well 1o bear in mind the great battle, in 1840, on tho Black Umvolosl when the Dutch farmers utterly annihilated tha power of Dingaun, the uncle of Cetywayo, ata time whea tho Zulu Confederney bad reached the geme of fts strength and extenslon, But the Iiritish themselves were to spend thteeyeard in tho uttempt to capture.th Bupedistraoe, bold from which the Hollanders had been bat once repulsed. 3 As 1o the alleged appeal, the simple truth I that, out of the 80X cnfranchised burzhers i the Transvual Republic, just 55y were jnductd to sign femorials In fuvr of annexation, while 695Usigned the protests against. Such'f3the gross ignorance or gross perversionof fact atlowed to puss current in tho Dritish Legfsia: ture, which asstunes to deal with South Africsa nifairs, e ¥ ————— S4vs the Pall Mall Gazettcof Feb. 19 “Judyring from the dliliculties with which it meets atthe outset the course of Prince Bismarck'snet domestlc policy Is not lkely to rua swoats. He bad set his heart, it scems, upon the remissiot of £700,000 of dircet taxation. Tho sum Wi trifling, but the Government attached lmpore tance to the measure us biclng typicul of thelr. trenernt scheme,—the substitution of ndirect for dircct taxation and the reief of the loczl exchequers and the poorer classes from direcs contributions to the cxpenses of the State. But the same reasons which made the proposal fm- portant to the Government aroused tho Interest of the hostile partics, and for more than a montl abattle royal _has ocen raging over tho Ver wendungegesetz (Appropriation bill) both in 33 Prussian Lower Chamber and In tho Fioaned Comuiittee. 'Having at length passed thesd ordeals, the bill is now threatened with extine tion by the Upper House. This it was whicbod Wednesduy clicited Prince Bismarck's plafotise appeal and bitter complaints of the ingratituds of his countrymen. As Prince Rismarak lachiss mose s even more irresistible than Prince Bi marck menacing, the bill is pretty certaintd pass. But it is terrible to think what Is befure us if the Chancellor Is going to have recoursé 19 this ultima ratio whenever Le is opposed on 417 question during the ten years' *storm andst of revolutionary legisintion which he has fore” shudowed.” : ————— NOTWITASTANDING the large emizratiol to this country the popuiation of Prussla basio crensed by 1,527, 3lnco 1875, In that year th8 censusshowed a population of 25742404 Dec. 1, 187, when tho last census was taken, th8 - figures were 27.280,331. This i an incrensd not quite 6 per cent. If ofd Frederick the Grest could come back and see what his handiwork bt grown to, would ke be proud? hEEN The German Empire has made a comparative: - 1y rapld fncrease of population, taking all 4 intn consideration. We give the last three €19* merations: 5 Dec. 1, 187] Dec. 1, 187 Dec. 1, 1850, Tucrease in ten years....... This is o much faster incresse than m‘»-m France, which in 1572 bad 3,102,971 inbabitatth © and in 1876 had 35,005,733, and has now perbapss little uuder 37,500,000, ‘A part of the lncress® between 1872 and 1876 was ascribed toe tion out of Alsaco and Lorraine, as the popt ton were required by tho German Governiaest .- to take tho cath'of allegiance to the Emplrd.