Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1881, Page 4

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GLASGOW, Scotland—Allan's American Arencr, 31 Runflold-st. LONDON, Eng.—Amoriean Exchaogo, ¢ trand, * HENRY F, Unitio, Acont. WASHINGTON, 1. ¢, ¥o'T Me- News 419 I atraot, AMUSEMENTS. Hooley's Thentre. flandolph streat, botwean Clark and La Sallg, gocemont of the Comley-Harton Cowpany. vette." Ete "ol MeVieker's Thentre. Madiscn streot, Letween Etate and Uearborn. Enugewent of De Beauplan’s Froneh Opera Cowme uny. *laduive” @rand Opera- Clark street, oppasit new ment of ¥roderick aulding. Engago- tovouge.” Fiaveriy's Thentre, Dentborn street, cornor of Monroe. * Widow Hoe dott.” ¥ Oiymuic Thentre. Clark street, betwaen Lake und Randolph, Fne gngement of Hydo & Hohman's Comody Company. “3uldoon's Plente.” - Academy of Musje, Tninted treel. honr Madison, West Slde. entertainent. Varloty TUESDAY, MAROCIL 29, 1881, M. Wirt.Aun WoohaRD at a meeting Inst nlght said thut Mayor Hartlson's declaration at tho Palmoer House last Saturday that gombling aud prostitutlon could not be put down In Chicago was an iuvitution to every gambler nnd every licentious woman in the country to come to Chicago, aud Mr, Woodard was right. Irls proposed to establish s colored col- ony on someo lands belonging to floward Unlversity In Now Mexico. Dr. Ilurvey, representing the University, called on Presi- dent Garfield yesterday to ask for an escort of troops for a party to visit the lands [n question. The President stated hehad no objectlon to grant the escort it the rules of the War Department pormitted. O Ay 1\'1!4!;:.\3('.]. yyes says it would be ymaughty to drag the great enuse of Irish *Land *Reform futo tho olection. Ilow cnn that cause be dragged in? Who gave it prominence? Wasn’t It Mr, Uarrison hhn- self who refused to presido at an Irish mect- ing beenuso he was afrald Queen Vietorin wouldn’t ke it? When My, llynes begs people 1ot to drag the 1rlsh question In, ho adinlts that Mayor Hanrrlson gave reasou for offenso to tho Iris) M. HAnRsoN, Mayor of Chicago, sald in “his remarkablo specch to the Democratic City Couyention: 1want you, boys, to hold Domocratic tieket fn oue hand ‘and take their muncy with tho other, and when you huve got it drop your ticks ot in the bex, ery* Keno!" and you have ‘em. + This was the Mayor of Chicago speaking In public, So littlo sense has he of the dig- nity of his oftice, and so little respect for the honor of hls supportors, that he ndvises them to tnke bribes If thoy enn get them. Thera isbut n short step botween nceepting bribes and begging them, Perhaps Mr. llarrison wonld' Iike to have the * boys™-offer their votes for sale, md, if they can find anybody foollsh enough to buy, fail to deliver, John Clark would not talk in that manner, No man nominated by a Republican Conventlon would do so. No man fit to be Mayor woull degrade hhnself and insult his hearers by such an extraordinnry proposition. Mavor Hansox deelined to net as Clinire ‘man of the Purnell mecting on the ulleged «kround that such netlon would be regarded 03 an Indorsement of the movement In his «oftielal capneity ns Chlet Exeeutlve of the +-City Government, Buta littlo later ho ac- -cepted the Chalnnanshlp of the Democratie -Campulgn Committee, and served In that ca- pacity throughout the Natlonnl enmpnign, 111 0 word, e deellned to give his ofilelal 1n- kdorsoment to a movement of sympathy with jauoppressed and erushed peoplo beeauso it snlght offend the Queen of England, but Ireely gave that Indorsement to o vurely po- litical movement, on which his constituents 'were divided and waglng o bitter partlsan -contest. Inthoone euso he hid his personality ‘behind his oficlal title; in the other, o used "1ils ofticlal positlon to push the fortunes of a politienl party, By this uct he was nblo to beoereo voters, [t wasu gross abuscof power, }-an act upseemly In tho extrewe, and unex- “ampled, - In his enndidacy for retlection Mayor Harrlson asks the people of Chleago to Indorso this grossest possible exhibition of vartisanship of whieh le was gullty ohl- clally, Wil they do It ? SeNarton MauoNe veplied yesterday to ho onslaughts mado on hini last week by Benators Johinston, Brown, and others, nnd replied with marked effeet, too. 1l pointed out the inconslstency of the Bourbon Sen- utors representing constifuencles which scaled thelr dubls from $313,000,000 to §84,- 000,000 In attackinghitin beeause he wanted the debt of Virginia readjusted. Ile hod Tathor be called u Readjuster than be called 4 Repudiationist. 1le mnde a scathing ex- hibit of Senator Brown's record. Urown, though first 1o encouraga sceesslon, was first to moke overtures for surrender, After the War un ultru Radieal, un officcholder under o curpet-bag Governore he left the Supreme Beneh to become a ratlroad President, and Lecame & Bourbon Senater from Georgla through means which might bereudfusted or dealed with advantage to himself, Malone then defended his own course, saying that ‘while ie was sent to the Senute by the peo- vleof Vieginin to represent them, by was not svut to a caucus to obey Its dictum, On resmning s seat ho was warmiy congrat ulated by Conkling, Dawes, Sherman, and other Republlican Senators, Mavoi HAumsoN admitted in his specels to the Conventlon that nominated hiw that he cunnot stop gambling n thiscity. He adwmits thut he cunnot excoute the Jaws. What n confussion forowan to wake when ln the 'i‘flE'CI—IIC‘AGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, actof asking for power! 'The ofliclal who ndmits that he cannot executo tho Inws he Is chosen to enfores In effeet confesses that he does not try to enfores them., Mayor llar- rison's publie confession of his Inabllity to enforee the law ngainst gambling 1s notieo to all the gamblers in the country that Chileago 14 tho best elty In tha conntry for them to ply their base profession. 1t is notiea to foolish clerks nud beardless boys that thoy ean in- dulge the passlon for gambling without danger of molestatlon. Mike MeDonald latety mndlo oath that he is worth $400,000, ‘I'nls great fortune s the frulls of gambdling, MceDonald’s gambling-house doors are wide open, and Mayor Harrlson says he eannot close thum, IFrom one hundred and fifty to two lhundred and fifiy men and boys may bo found night- ly I MeDonald's den. Every nlght large sums of mouney are left in that place whieh ought to go to the support ot the fam- flles of McDonnld’s vietims, ‘I'he fortune of which MeDonald boasts is the price of the tears ot ngony of woumen and ehflaren de- serted andt robbed by thelr natural protectors, Dut Mayor Harrisoh snys: 1 cannot put a stop to gambling: 1 eannot exceuto the city ordinances against gambling; T cannot pro- tect helpless women nnd childron ugninst MeDonald's seductive appenls to thelr sons and brothers to wuste thelr substance In his wllded palace of sin. Citlzens of Chtengo, will you elect to the offlee of Mayor for two years wmore tho man who prociaims from his Nominating Conventlon that he Is powerless to prevent tho open practica of eriminal pro- ceedings? CONKLING DIOTATING TO THE PRESIDENT. The indieations polut to the probability thnt Mr. Conkling and his Asslstant Senator from New York—DPlati—propose to mako war upon the Administration beeauss of tho appointwent of Judge Hobertson as Colleetor ofNew York City, These gentlomen are said to demand the withdrawal of Robert- £0’s name In order that the President shall thus furnish undoubted evidence to the country of the surrender of nhls constitutlon- al privilege to them so far as New York ap- polntments go. 1t ks slmple folly to presumo for one moutent that President Garfiehl will neeedo to any such demand, It would be the most hwmilinting submisslon ever made by any President of the Ufted States. Pierce and Buchanan yielded to the dicta- tion of the oligarchy of the South: but in those cases it was the dominution of o great sectlon, ud not of any singlo individunl, that wasrecoguized, In the meantime, and proba- biy tinder the condition that Garfield will not stultlfy and. weaken his Adminlstration at tha very outset, the Now York * Boss” i re- ported ns stirring up dissenston in the Sen- ate, seeking alliances with the Domocrats, and endenvoring by all manner of doevices to assure the rejection of Judge Ltoberlson’s nomination, Hisehlef henchman—Mr, Platt— hus returned to New York to organize re. volt agafnst the new Administration, while hils oftielal duty requires him to bo st the Nn- tionat Capltal. ‘The New York Vice-Presi- dent Is also sald to be Preparing the way for nullifylng whatever influenco ho might have hoped for by tnking sides azalnst the Prosi- dent; and Postmaster-General James, whose advont In the UCabinet was horalded ns an ns- surance ot & business-llke administration of the postal service, 13 sald to be mixing up in tho aflair, and may thus be furnishing good enuso for his dismissal, ‘The Irreconcilnble and dictatorial attitude which tho arrogant * Boss” Conkling seems to be nssuming 18 not merely un unwarrantn- DLl interference with tho constitutlonal pow- ers of the President, but Is in itsolt nn utter- Iy unreisonnblo lmpertinence. President Garlield gave notice by his early appoint- ments of ndesire on his part to treat all fae- tions of {he party falrly, 1t becamo ovident to everybody that hie proposetd, if possible, to conclliate and satlsfy all who had good clafms to recognition. Nearly overybody wns satlstied. There wns o goneral admira- tlon of the Ingenulty which the new Presl- dent displayed In his napportlonment of tho Government patronnge. Conkling was among thoso who wéra rpparently content with the new order of things, Now York recelved n conspleuous pluce in the Cablnet, and a gentleman was selected who had been classified with the Conkllmz men, Tho so- calied Grant element in the party recelved abundaut recognition. Conkling was radiant with delight at tho first appointments that were made for the Government service In New York, beenuse they were all of his fol- lowing. But hebristled up aud was ready for war at the very moment n elnglo nomina- tlon was mude from among the Republleans of New York who do not fall down and wor- ship Conkling, Tlis occurrence rovenls Conkling’s purpose. 1o does not propose to be satisfied with the [lon’s share. 1l does not intend to count any of the concessions mado to him or remember any of the favors oxtended to his friends, ITe wants overy- thing, Nelther tho retention of the patron- nge ho already controlled nor material aceessions thereto wilisatlsfy nim, 1letakes the position that no ane must bo recognized I New York who does not wear a Conkling collar. 1lo demands that the nine- teen distriets amt the 200,000 Tepubliean voters who refused to submit to Boss ruls In making up thelr representation at the Republican Natlennl Convention shinll be shut out from the presonce of the Chlef Maglstrate, and. that their revolt agninst Conkling-dictation shall be & suflicient war- rant for thelr exclusion from uny and all the benefits of Ropubllean suceess, Mr. Conk- ‘ling would require tho Presldent to subseribo to this proseriptive polley nggan conditlon of his (Conkling's) support, We belleve it Lo be n fortunate thing forthe Athinlstration that this Issue has beenmade ntso early n date, Tho result will be to de- termine from the outset the course that may bo hest pursued with referenco to the Conk- ling crowd, 1f the New York Senator—who 15 Just now nsortof Trinity, slnee ho controls threo votesin the Senata lnhis one volo—will rest content with u fule proportion of the patronnge, tha Presldent has already Indl- cated that ho may have that. But i€ Conk- ing proposes to fheht unless ho can have 1t all, then it 1s well that Prestdent Gartield shoull be forewarned 1n order that ho may fight baek, If Conkling persists In his effort to defont the confirmation of Judge ltobert- son It will bo n notlco to the Adminlstration that ho Intends to rald the Prestdent whon- everany Now York appolntment shinll be wmade without previously sceuring his con- sent und approval. In such un ovent the President should inaugurate o syston of re- prisals, Ilo should not permit Conkllng to o all the fighting, but should i turn make war upon Conkllng, Let James be retired Yrom tho Cablnet Just us soon us 1t shall bu- come ovident that he 18 devotmig his thne to Conkling’s interests and not to the business of his Dopartment. Lot the bheuds of the Conklingites who ara In oflce fall in the busket ns rapldly oy thelr terms explre, or at the very wowent they tuke part in the contest, From the time when war shall bo declared by Conkllng, no mora Conkllng men should be appolnted, ‘Fhera vre enough good men smonk the witi- Conkling Republlcans to 111l ull tho offices in New York acceptably, Inu wurof this kind, Conkling will bo euslly vanquished before President Garfighd’s torm of four years shall have expired. Even the great ond ostenta- tious Conkling himself moy be retired from vublic life by an sggressive polley of this \ RCH 29, 1881 —-TWELVE PAGEMN, kind. The Imposition of his personality at every step had beeome olfensive to the peo- ple, amd the 'reshilent may safoly count upon popular support it he shall refuse to tolernty any future interference from the New York “Toss” and rlghteously punish the futer- ference of tho pi THE SILVER COMMISBION, ‘T'he Imputation conveyed n certain quar tery thot tho Amerlean members of the Inter- national Monetary Commission are incompes tent and half-hearted in the misslon which they hnve undertaken 18 palpably unjust, It I3 nbsurd to say that Judgo Thurman *hns s very superticial knowledge of the question,”” and nlmost equally ridieulous to predict that AMr. Evarts will go into the Paris Conferenco With o purpose of urglng such n ratio as witl Inerenso the welght of tho American silver dollar to 420 gratus, when the present weight of the Awerlean dollar—412Y% grains—Is in highor ratlo than that of any European couns try. Itisnot In tho Intorest of any country, and least of all the United States, to depreei- ate the value of silver for colnege purposes, Lven England, which fs furthier committed to the stugle gold standard than any other country, would oppuse any Iiereaso in the welieht of sfiver colns us # basks of an inter- natlonal rativ. England probably has In tho nelghborhood of $100,000,000 of shlver coln In eireulation, which serves the purposs of fogal tender In smatl transactions and bears the relatlon of 5% {o t of gold, En- gland would hardly consent, and certainly would not insist, that n higher ratlo e adopted, the only result of which would be to compel n recainage of Engllsh stlver atn heavy loss. "To agree upon the ratlo of 1534 to 1 would leave nil tho silver colu of Europo as it Is to-day, nnd. would sufticiently en- Tinnee the valuo of American coln to afford & ready market for it elsewhere or pay the cost of recolning to meet the fiew standard. ‘I'he theory of an Internutional standard 13 to glve sllver coins an equal and ablding value as money all the world over. Such an agreement would accomplish the desirod re- sult at tho rate of 1510 1 as caslly ns at the rate of 2 to 1. There are two rensons why the rate of 15!¢ to L hns the preference— viz,t (1) Becanse that 1s tlie historleal ratlo, and hns been proved to Lo ‘tho nearcst average value of silver as com- pared with gold; und (2) beeause it is tho ratio now In vogue all over the world oxeept in the United States, where It proved to bo so high before demonetization that the Ameriean colus disnppeared from elreuln- tlon. Thersis no foar that Mr, Evarts will fail to represent the American sentiment as to silver fairly and’ intelligently. 1llo Is too good n Inwyer to do anything else, 1o govs to the Purls Conference as an advoente for International recognition of silver ns n mone- tary ngent at o fixed value. If lie Is deflelont in his knowledge of the subject hio will 1n- form himself, just ns he would In regard to any other ease e might take in hand, lle will not proceed in any way likely to damngo the Interests of his client, Moreover, ha I8 lknown to have expressed the convietion that the new Conference will be suceessful in se- curing the purpose In view, and he whl take a speclal pride In bringing whout the deslred result, becauso the Conference is In Iargo part due to his own actlvity in the matter while ho was stlll Secretarv of State, GRAB AT THE LAKE-FRONT. There is hardly any one of the lnrge citles of thls country that has not nt some time in its history been subjected to demands by ndventurers and speculators elalming owner- ship and possession of Inrge tracts of tand under somo pretense of anclent, neglected, and forgotten title. New York, Boston, Philadelphiln, Baltimore, Piitsburg, Now Orlenns, Cineinnati, St, Louis, Albany, and other older cities havo all passed through this stago of munlelpal history, and havo at great cost and nt much disturbancs and In- convenience been compelled to resist such demands In protracted litigation, The City of Chleago, though yet compara- tively young In years, has not cseaped this Inflictlon. 1t has ind at lenst one case of this kind, where an attempt was made and vigorously prosccuted to claim title, and possesslon of o lnrge nud valuable pleces of Innd In the clty under what Is known as the Valentine serip. ‘Uhiat clainy so for ns tho Courts could do so, hns been crushed out by the emphlatic judgment of tho Supreme Court of the United States; but that it still lives to give further trouble Is evideneed by the energy with which those Interested in It lobbled against the clty's iuterest in the matter of the Lake-Front bill at Washmgton, "T'he Intest attempt to plunder the City of Chiengo Is now making at Springfleld, in the Leglsiature, and shoula it thero 1ecolye rec- ognition, then the City of Chicago will be- come n porty fo protracted litigation in ‘Wwhich it will nave to defend ftself against the State of Iilinols, Some two years ago the Canal Commls- sloncrs of this State, instigated by whom we do not kuow, applied to tho lnw firm of Law- rence, Campbell & Lawronce for an opinlon as to the right of property in the Canal Com- mlssionors, for the State, of all the land lylng cnst of Michigan nvenue from I'ark row to JMudison street, that land having beon orlginally Inelnded In tho lond granted to the Stato of 1lfinols to ald in the construction of the ennal, and which portlon of land was reserved from sale by the Canal Cotumilssion- ers, and set apurt, whnt there then was ot It, ns public ground, Of course, tho Connnls- sloners stated the case with-a view of obtaln- g «n opinfon faverable to thelr elaim, and, ns is now the general fashlon In glv- ing legal opinlons, thoy obtalued exaetly what they sought, tho logal firm of course protect- mg themselves by mauy “ifs”’ as to the statement of tho caso presonted to them, ‘Fhis oplnfon was totho effect that the title In that land was In the State, for eanal purposes, und that it was subject to tho Jurlsdiction of the Cannl Commissloners ‘as part of thelr trust, : Acting “on the strength of this opinlon, tliere has been n revival of certain old clalms ugninst the State preferred by sumo persons who wers contractors on the canal some- where between 1883 and 1844, The Blate In 1837 entered into tho grand selieme of Inter- nal lmprovements, In which schemeo the construction of the canal wus Ineluded, *It had hardly got under way beforo thero wans n goneral suspension of all the banks in the country. 'I'lie work wus con- tinued, howaver, the. canal contractors tnk- ing what was known s “canal serip™; this serip the State, so long as it wos able to bor- row money frow Its own suspended banks, wad redeemed, but thobank notoes soon depre- clated as inuch us the serip, until finully both sunk vory low, so far as thelr purchusing power wasconcerned, 'Lho contractors werc pald in serlp, and the workmen and luborers were paid In sorlp, which finalty became the principul currency along the lue of the canal, Fiually, the whole creditof the State collapsed; tho bauks woro closed, the Statd abandoned alt 1ts works, und went into suspenslon itself, Ot course nany persens—indeed, the whole peo- vivof the State—werosuffurers by this general destruction of credit. The State found ftselt covered with an enormous bLonded debt, a largy flonting debt, and o mass of outstand- lug canal and other scrip; with this it had an empty Treasury and no rovonuc. Afler some years of praotical suspenslon the State, under Gov. Ford's wiso lead, resolved to be honest, It called In all s debts of what- ever forw, Including all the outstandiog cu- nal serlp, and funded It In new hond: aeted with serupulons fidehity, It Teft no tnwinl debt unprovided for, 1t tuniled vven all the Interest which had acerued on il its debts, and from 1847 to January, 1881, the people of Hlinols taxed themselves rigorous- Iy to pay all that tebt. ‘The total payment, Ineluding Inferest and dobt, exceeded per- haps 35,000,000, During tho timo the eanal was tinder prog- ress, Bomo of those contrnetors, na they now clatm, hud to soll some of tielr serlp for less than par value, whereby thoy elahn they sufered losses, 'T'his Is trne, but every workman and laborer on the eann! suffered m the same way, ‘Iho State was not to blane for this, Payment in this serip was purtof the contract, Subsequently the State red®emed every dollar of that serlp ot par, fgsuing therefor Intercst-bearing bonds, which bonds and Interest were pnid by the State. The State redeemed its obligations to the last penny. Now theso claimanis who hnve figured out thelr damnges ot 800,000 are before the Legislature nsk- fng that the State selze and take pos- sesslon of the lnkelront from Madi- son street t3 DPark row; that ity tho sme oIl into bullding luts, st sell them, und that out of the proceeds of the sales it puy off these elalms, anl apply the balance, it any, to caunl purposes. 1t should be stated that in 1800 the Legislalure, ylehl- ing to o pressure from these clabmagts, while denying nll responsibillty for any such elaim, voted, out of eharity and ns o perpetunl ex- emption from all farther demand, n sum of money in full satistaction’of thesoe elalng. "Thly money whs gratefully accepted and the relense to the State granted. 1t 1s hardly necessary {o puint out, In view of these clnims, the insplration that produced the legal opinton of Lawrence, Campbell & Lawrence. Tho old clafins nre at the bottom of this Intest attempt to rob the city. ‘The clnim for damages for depreclatlon of the eannl serlp forty years ago has not half s mueh equlty as would claim by the con- trnclors of the last War to be now pald by tha United States for losses sustalned by them In the difference Letween the value of the greenback at that thuo and the value of gold eoln. On an old, stale, worthless, - equltablo elnhin like this the Leglslature 1s asked to plunder tho elty of this tract of land, on which the city has expended more than the entlre valuc of the land Itself, 1t THE ENGLISH AND THE IRISH. Under tho heading of * Wit Is the Ilope for Tretand 2*” the London Pall Mull Guzette of March 12, ono of the most advanced Libernt papers in England, discusses, gropingly, the questionas to whatean be done with Ireland, Like all the English Journnls, tho situntton in Ireland i3 viewed not sp much from the volnt of whut ought to be done, nor what woutll be just and proper, and what publie neeessity demands, but what will bo the effeet ot dolug all this on England, Nat- urally, the answer would be that what lg Just fn Ireland will also be just In En- gland and Sceotiand, and if we fincd It neces- sary to reform matters fn Ifeland we must bo propared to extend the same retorms so fur as they are applieable to the samo clusses similarly situated In England and Scoltand, But sueh an answer Is more difienlt than Americans suppose. A very larg portion of the Liberal leaders ave of the old Whig clnss, whoso strong polnt lns nlways been the de- fense of tho Inndowners. Somo of the per- sons owning tho lurgest Ianded estates In England and Scotland nre members snd con- spleuous lenders In tho Liberal party, and some of them are members of the Gludstone Administration, If the pacliication of Ire- Innd’ require, . gomplelp rovolutlon of the feudal tenure hy “'h,{ch lands are hield in Ire- Iand, and this'is now. conceded, why not n Ilke revolutlon In the Innd tenures of England and Seotlund? If the Irish tenunt s to be clothed with protectlon ugalnst the exaeling aud confisenting demands of the landlords, and If he s to be vested with the slght of owning mul holding such lands as he may be able to purchase, why not the snme protec- tion nnd the same privileges for the Scoteh and English tenants? This Engllsh Liberal paper polnts out to the Engllsh people tho populnr revolution which s taken placo In Ifoland. It says that there used to be two great bodles of men who, whatever eso thoy dld, conirived fo control the Irish people. These were the landlords and the clergy, ‘Theso classes woere by no means frlendly,—In fuet were hostlle; but ench represented n consolfdat- fng Influcheo, binding tho mass of people into n sottled and established community. Both landlord and priest wete antl-revolu- tlonary, were autl-republican, aud favored the English connectlon, A great change has overtaken this conditlon of aitairs, ‘The Land act and tho Dballot have shaken the power of the landlords, nnd new legistation, which on other grounds s Iney- Itablo, will completo thelr fall. T'he Coun- ty Board ns n substitute for the Grand Jury and an equalized franchise will destroy their socinl and politienl control, 1n Iike manner tho ballot hins broken the polltienl control of he clergy, At the Inst election the Parnell eandidates wero as suceessful when opposed by the clorgy us when supported by them, Hoth landlords aud clorgy have lost thelr control over the vcoplo of Ircland. Unre- strained power has been transferred to the 1nss of tho people. 'This 18 the prosent con- ditlon of populur sentiment in Irelund, Ire- land has boen rovolutlonized from top to bottow, ‘Thls has been accomplished not merely by Irlsh agltators, but by English stuteamen, Under these clrcumstanves the Guzetto nsks; ‘Thon, what noxt? Ono thing is cortaln, You £an 1 MOFS replico the eystent which 18 10w so rapldly tappling aver mmto tho dust, thuu you could rostore slavery In the Southorn States, ar thun you coutd resiore tho temnorl power ot tho Popu in Rome, Thoro nre sumu things which whon oneo done can nover be undong, and thy overthrow of uscomloney o Irelund 18 ong of them, -Nothing thut any Beitish Parllamont or uny Conservatlve Minlster cau now possiby do wunld lvut the landlords baok into their old posi« tlon, Peoplo who think you can do this are on 4 lovel In political titolligonce with the Fronch Legltimiste, In fuct, nobody thinks It That lms\llun was alwnys artiflelil; It wus the crons fon of forelgn condquest, and It has boon uphelil by tho mothoda of forelgh vonguest, It isupheld to-duy by thirty thousaud troops, by Cocrolon bilis, aud all the pest of tho u\).pnrnml for haliling down o weak poputation by i urmuf, m Theso are very hateful ‘truths, but se siblo Engllshmen hove 1o deslro to live in o fool's parsdise, or to shut tholr oyes to truths beenuse thoy huppon to be morilfying, It 18 concelvabluo—we do not lke to speuk of it us possiblo—that Treland might bo deprived of its purtiumontury representation and reduced (o tho position of u Crown colony. Hut what s not concolynble 1 thut this teeriblo step should bo takuon In the Intereat of the Juudlonls, Tho Ene Htish and Seo ngtitucncles may 10 rash mo- ment of exusperution subject Irolund to nbsotute Rgovoernmenti but wo venture to say that they will nover put thy wrotehed tenant ek ngali un- protocied ss o wus before the actot 1570 or bes fure tho hoped-for and yremter set of 1841, When great terpitoriul Consorvatives like tho Dukes of Itichmond aud Bucclench ofticially ad- it that tho Lewislaturs ought to interfore 10 protect the tennnt against arbitrary In- creaso of rent, let ue ull frankly makeo up our mindd thut tho old base upon which soclety Iy Ireland bus been bullt sud By restod 18 palvers 1zed und worn uwuy, The sime paper states that Knglish opinion biolas that no practicubly Luand bt wlil now sutisfy the Ivish pebple, who will go on In thelr demands until Englund will weary of keeping u standing army and whole flects go midntain Engllsh ascendency. ‘I'nis may truo to somie extent. “Tho Land il which the Brltish people and Government of 183t are willlug to concude to Ireland o3 a matter of undeuniable justico vught to huve been grunted Sty years ago, or o century ago. But It Is nonothe less Just and necessury now. In measuring the tewper of the Irish peaple §t must be borno lnmind that they are asklng the right to llve, the clzht o exist, the right to avert oxtiepation by famine The ovlls and horrors of land tenure havo heen aggravated, vspeeinlly during tho Iast five yenrs, by the falinre of erops aud the avarleo of remorseless Inndlordlsm. Itls o demand for life,—for the right by labor (o produce food enough to sustain life, 'I'ere i3 tho land, and there are 5§ milllons of peo- ple dependent on that Innd for vxistence. Tle- tween them amd the Innd stands the British Uovermment, with its troops, and fleets, und 1ta nrmed constabulary, engaged in earting ot In one direction the fould produced by them fromthe Iand, and carting off Iyanother dlrectlon the unfortunate people whose labor s produced the scanty food which they are not permitted to eat. ‘The wonder 13 not hat the Irish people haveemancipated them- selves from all influences, elerieal or lnnd. lord, saclal or political, which bind them to nn obedlence to such o Government, but that tho resolition hias not taken even the desper- nte formof reslstanceaven by famine-stricken liamds to such exterminating eruelty, 'I'here has nuver been u concession In the form of humunity to tho people of Ireland hat was not delayed so long that tha net loat whatever claim it might have had to gratle tude, A donation of food delayed until thoss In need liad died from starvation has Deen the polley of Grent Britatn oven durlng the modern perlod, when renson and humans ity have taken the place of the scaffold, tho drumhead court-nartial, snd the brutal massacre of whole communities, Even now, when dread of popular sentiment restralns the forelble eviction of ong or two millions of people from tho land on which alone thoy must dopend for food, English sentiment esitates whetlier this namitted act of justice, areformof the Jand tentre, shonld bo now granted, lest English and Scoteh tenants mny ask to have sowme of their hard bur- dens removed. Did It ever oceur to the mercantilo mind of tho Dritish public that I£ the 860,000,000 or £70,000,000 of the produets of Irish lahor now taken sway from Ireland annually to pay feudal landlords were left In the hnnds of the Itish peopla there would bo that muel greater market in Ireland for British manu- faetures; that the surplus earnings of Irish Iabor wonld Lo exchanged for the products of British labor, and this commereial Inter- courst would be even in a money sense more economical than the expenditure for mnin. taining nn army of 10,000 troops and o navy of thirty crulsers to keep the people from esenping stacvation by laboring to produce food from the soll? ‘That therois n deep- rooted hatred of British oppression in Ireland Is unquestioned, but the way to overcome that, If It ean ever bo overcome, 13 not by de- Iny in resnoving it, but tn the speedy grant to those people of the right to exist. Grocco nnd Turkey. An amieable seltlement of tho pending dliHeulties botwoen Ureece and Turkey secns to beout of the question, All olforts on the purt. of tho Ambnssndora of tho great Kuropoan Powers to bring nbout an arrungemont have beon futllo. Turkoy, which ns fac bick ns Jdan- uary conceded to Groeco tho frontler Provinees ot Eplruy and Thessaly, bos” withdrasn ‘thiy proposition, and now offers instead tho Island of Crete, o change which neithor satisfies the nmbltlon of Ureeco nor meets with the appro- hution of o mujority of the Powers who took part In the Dorlin Couforence, Tho lote fer ara willlng to accept for Groeco the Provineo of Thessly and the Istund of. Crote, leaving the Irovinve of Eplrus In possession of the Porte, But Ureeco 18 not satistled with this proposition, and inelats upon tho cesslon of all tho territory nd~ Judiented to herat the Heritn Conforence. It tho moantime both belllzerunts nre perfeeting tholr military orgunizntions from day to day, and thelr urmics confront ench other on tho borders. Turkey, fearfully crippled by tho Into war with Russin, I8 wuklog herculean of- forts to plnee her army and navy on nn excollont. war footing. Dut the want of fuudg sadly in- terfores with hor attompts In that directlon,—s0 much g0 that the concentration of tho redifs (militin)in the Viludot of Byrni has boen greutly delayed for want of transportation and proper cotnmissary stores. Nelthor oan thoir men-of- war leavo tho Portof Sinyron for the lack ot conl. Iut evorything is bolog done to romedy those dufleloncles, Propurations for war are ¢n- orgetlenlly continuid, Extenslvo orders for ammunition, bardtack, cdnued monts, cle., havo beon forwarded to Americu, Its tho in- teutlon of the Porte to relnforce Its army ata- tioned in Thessaly, Eplrus, and Macedonia untll 1t numbera at Jonst 110,000 affectivo men. Accordine to tho Prisstan Milltary VWeekly, which recelves ita nows from relinble sources, the Greek Department of War is fu tho hands of Ger, Mayromlichnlld, who stands also at tho head of the Gonoral Stall, Tho strength of tho forees under hia command consists In thirty-ono infantry reglnents of the line and nino bat- talions of ritles, togothor 678 men; three regimonts of eavalry, 2487 mon; four regl- ments of artillery, with sixteen battorles or ninoty-slx gund; o battalion of sappors aund miners, togethor 4,000 men; inaking a totnl strougth of tho Oreck forces, including 56,1512 1luld polico and othor troops, uf 82,077 men, 6,481 horges, and 7,100 muleg. Tho samo paper cone clhidos nu artlolo on this subject s fullows: Whother the quulity of tho troops and thelr oflicioncy i tho flold corrusponds to the hopes the Ureek poople have built upon thom st remain an opeu question for tho present. Tho roports on tila ‘subjuot which reach us from Atnens and tho * frontler territory of Itous molla are not very fuvornblo;” at lewat, they nro contradietorv, Ho mueh I# cers taln: tint tho diwolpling amonyg the Turke i6h troops excols by fur tho discipline provofling In tho Ureck nrmy. In military serviea and ux\mrlunuc tho Tarkish (onerals aro aldo suld to be suporlor to the Urook com- manders. Thoe Girouk wuthorities bave ordered w1 dnerouse of tholr army until it rencbea tho number of 113,061 elfobtlve mon, which 1s to bo accomplished through the orgunization of tho Nutlonnl Guntvis, Ot course a pencenble solution of tho Orlental question ls not entiroly outslde tho sphore of possibilities. J3ut ¥o muoh soonts to bo a sottled faot: that nolther one of the two bulligerent TPowera I8 {n possession of such resources and in such n financial condition na would enablo itto remaln in this armed stato for any length ot time. It will not be long bofore both will have to decido botwoan tho two ulteruntlyes,—elthor todisarm or to sottlo thelr quarrels by declulve Llowa, ——— Hungarian Agriculturivts and Ntooks Halsers In Amerlca, A number of Mungarlau industrial gen- tlemen, land-owners and ugrioutturists on o Inrgro seale, ure at present truveliog in the United States for the purpose of exploration, ar, In othor words, to gco what thoy can soe, lonrn whnt thoy can learn; so that thoy may prulit by It on thelr return home, They hove “donu" New York and ransncked the eastorn countles of Ponvsylvanis, where thoy closely lnspected tho furms and mines, After a short solourn in Pbiludolphla, they have gono to Washington, whery cxhaustivo stutistical abe straets in referenco to our Amorlean systems of wyrleulture ond minlng ure being prepared for them by the HBurcnu of Agrloulturo, Thence they will vislt the farmns, meadowi orchurds, und mines of tha Nurthwoat, Bouths weat, and Boutl, Uno of tho chlef objeots of theso Intelligent and woll-posted gontlomen 1y to noqualnt themselvus with our modo of ralsing wheat on a large soalo lu the West, and to look with tholr ggwin uyws npon our vast prulrics aud pluins, whore wo ralse the milllous of cattly which furnish heof for tho world at tho lowost of prices. Thoy aro awuaro of tho truth that American competition in breadstutls, cercals, and mcats in Buropeau marketa has mude tho oxpurt of the samo artlvles from Hungary unprotitable, to say nothingof tho fact that that sumo compotition 18 oven dangerous to them within tno boundatlos of thoir own country. On the subject of Awerlean com- petition those Hungurian gentlemen are sven more solicltous thun the Englisb, tho Qermuns, or the Freuch, 'Thoy wish to satisfy thewmselvos, d occulus, whothor or not those dungers which threaten them ot a gradually increaslug rato from Amerien aro really porwancnt or ooly tumporary, and whethor or not our abundant ‘whoat bervosts are obtained—as it 1y atatod in Europe—by o stvady and reckless system of ox- baustiou of tho soll, which sooner or tater will “use of reduco Itaolf to mmaller dimensions, Ihut, as Tnstern prpors state, those gentlumoun have alrenly seew onough to couvines thom fhat it §s not alono the inexhnustible fertiiity of our lauds which nbiley Ameriea to siecosafully compoto with Hurope, but nlso tho grent business pluck and apeci- lative genlus of tho people of thiscountry, They alrendy ndmit, from what thoy huve seen and loarned, that, in consaqueiico of the elimato, tho land, oto,, It 18 Impossiblo for Huneary to suceessfully competo In the ralsing of eattle and wool with n country where during tho winter no Atablog, no stall-foeding, and no othor care I neewasury, but whero the stock remnsins out fn tho open airnll tho yenr round, They are be- coming graduuily convineed that tho Huugu- rinns crn only compete with Aincrien whon thoy combino tholragricuitural pursults with thoso of other induatries, whiioh fact hos nlready been recognized by Hongland and Germnny. A vunsiderablo numbor of theso gontlomen now traveling In Amorica belung to the oldust nobility of Hungary, For instance, Count U. Andrassy, J. ood 8, Bzouhonyl, B, IToyvs, and Iarun Uudormos, each of thom posseastng Lthou- sands upon thousands of acres of land, und vast horda of horses, cattle, und shoep. In thoir company travels Dr, It, Moyer, who In Gormany, as woll ns in Austrin, has the roputation of being an authorlty on natlonal esonomy., In consce quenco of the long winter In tho Northwest, thoy will first visit tho Houth beforo paying thelr compliments to Chicugo, Tholr noxt puint of destination s Flork ——— Another Letter from Fleld=MXarshal Moltke. The lettor adilressed by Field-Marshal Moltko to P'rof, Ittuntsehll, fnn which hudeclares thut war fenn tustitntion ordalned by Provideuce, wna published by Tie Trinuse some time sgo. Thig lettar (or rathor the slugulae ldens ndvancod thereln) has {nduced a Mr. Gonwnrelt, membor of theBoeloty for tho ltetorm and Codliteation of In- ternationnl Luws, touddress unothor oplstiototho taciturn, grim old warrior, In which ho (Uoubare) nttempts to demonstrite the fallusy of somo of the views and propositions advanced by Moltko. The latter hias now responded In anothier lotter, which ean also Lo regarded a8 an answer to those who assert thut the Flold Marshil is gullty of gross Incousistonoy, a3 seews to appenr from s letter to o possant In Saxony, whoreln ho pinloly stated that overy war, oven o victorious one, I8 u grent misfortunoe for tho people. Ho rolterates the enmo statement, but nlsu shows that the truth of It will not provent noople from going to war. Yollowlng is the lotter: Mr. Guubareff, Beaulleu, France—Dean B You wero kind “enotigh to send mo n memoran- dum contulning your thoughts and views i ro- Iutlon to the grave questions which oceupy tho serlous nttention of the present nge, kud ut tho same time you sk for my opinfon (n roference to them, Lmust contont mysell with nusworluyg your views about war from my own stand- point. You *lmammlounll)' declire war to bo nerimo, aithdfigh It hns beon glorified m vorse und proso. I regiid war s tho last, but entirety Justitinble, means to munlntuin the oxistence, the Indepondence, and the honor of i state. [t i3 to be hopod that the ll]l{nllunllon of thoso last meuns witl beeome less frequent us we progress in cuituro; but no State oun discard or renouce war nltogethor ns o remeidy umler certaln cireumstances, 13 not tho 1fo of u hn- men belng—yed, of all nnturs—n contlnuous conlifet botween that which Is beloyg oreated nnew and the existing? And does this not apply to tho llu\'nlupluv.-;“ and oxistonco of peoples and vutions uy weli? Who would dure to deny that ovory war, oven o victoriuus one, I8 n mistortune for the people, beeause no ncquisition of propurty or Inuds, no millinrds In monuy, are u remunerution for the lossof huwan life and the decp sorrow and ungalsh onused to fnilics? But who in this world enn wsenpe misfortune or tho demands mado by ne cesity? ave not both ordidned b{ Providenco to bu conditions ot our tarrestrinl uxistonee? Not the lips of Wallenstein, but those ol M, our great poct (Sehlllery ug, *War 18 torel- Lle like Henven's lagien; but it Is good, be- cause, fiko those, It I8 fute” Aund thut war hn ity good sides, that 1t awakons uwd develops virtues whioliwoult otliorwise have stumbered, or perhups might have boen sxtingulshed for- wver, hardly uny ote witl atcempt th dispute, OF‘eonirsu I 13 0 by far easler task to run into cestasy over tho biessings of pence than to ud- vidu aud stiggest how pewce ean be preserved, v order to hirmonizo the nntugonlstie fnterests of nittions, to settie thoir quarrels and contro- versies, you propose o put o pluce of diplo- maoy u pormunent Congress of ehusen dolegates of all natlons. 1 huvo more conlldence fu tho Intelligenco and power of Uoverntments thoms splves than ln such an arcopngud, The thme of Cublnet wars belongs to tho past, and to-day urdly nny raler of 11 Stute can be fonnd whi wuld tuko tho terrible responsibility upon his shonldurs to druw the sword withont w just vause, 1f only evotywhero thu Governmonts were strong enaugh 1o keep In check tho pis- Ahmls of thelr peoplo who ure elnmodsdng for war Your memorandum particularly emphosizos the warllke Inelluntion of the Udrmnule rade, Irequest that you should exnmine tho history of our century, and thon Juds fur yourselt whether Germuny innusgtrated any war” or not. Germnng hua uained its object] 1t 1o united, Uermany hus not tho lenst caifso or desiro for warliko “ndventures. But Germapy may bo forcod to defond Itself, und for such an emer- weney it nust bo propnred. 1 unito my wishes With yours, that such an emergonoy miy never nrlse. Very respectfully, Count v, Mowrke, Larrne does tho world think what tre- 'mondous capital (8 rogulrod to carry on It travel, tendlie, and comumerce. The rallrond not, woven nil ovor tho globe, consists of 200,000 miles; Asin, Australis, and Africn oan cinlnt only tho fourteenth part; tho othor tbirteen~ fourteentha velng nearly equally divided bo- twoon Buropo und America. Tho rolling-stovk In uso over this rallrond not cousists of 00,000 locomotives, 12,00 pussengor aud paluco cars, and 1,600,000 frolght curs. Tho vapltal investod In nll tho rallways Is estimutod ot twenty millinrds of dillars. 'Tho commorce on the scns 8 earrlod on by 12000 steamers and over 100,000 salle fng-vosdels, Tho tonnage of theao vessls numounts to over twenty million tons, Tels ograpbio communioation I8 maintalued by B0 nlles of wive, of which sbout five- clghtba full to Burope, two-oigliths to Amerlea, and fully onc-olyhth to the submarine tola- graph system, Thero aro 40,000 statlons, from which 110,000,000 dispatches aro sent annually, or on an averayo over {0,000 dally, According to population, Bwitzorlund does the most tole- grapling, thoro Loing ono dispatch sent an- nunlly tor overy Inhabitunt. This 18 undoubte cdly duo to the great unnunl Influx of travolors and pleasure-seckors, Noxt como tho Nuthor- lands, and thon Gront Brituin Russin stands last on tho list, as sho souds only forty-five dls- patches por annum for ovory thousand ine habltants, Tho transmisalon of letters by wmall amounts Iu rotnd numbord to about 4,000 millions. Accordiug to tha population of the suveral vountrios, tho Awmericans writo by fur tho most lettors; noxt como the Englishy then Switzerland, Germnany, the. Netherlands, Denmnrk, Austria, Franco, Bwedon, Norway, Bpuiu, Hungnry, Italy, 'ortugal, Greeoce, Ilug- sin, Hervig, Roumanly, T urkoy. et — e Ax exehinngo snys: 3 The new Prohibtion Iaw of Kanses I8 meotiog with the strongest opuosition from u quavter wheueo trouble wan probably leust uxpocted, Tho law absolutely forblits the wine in tho savrumout, punishing the mintster who so admiuisturs the sacra- wment ‘with two yours' {mprisonment in the Penitentiary, aud shutting up tho church itself 18 4 publle nuisanoe, according to tho Intorpro- tation of the Rov, Dr. Houtty, Rector of the Epls- copnl Church ut Lawrence, Lust Sunduy that clergymun administered the sacramont ng usunl, rogardiess of the consequences, baving proviously nnnounced to tho congr epution doterminition 86 to do, Ho sald: * Wo nro will- ing to_ronder Wntu Ciesar the things which uro Cueanr's, but swo will stlll glve to Uod tho thinge thut are Hie. 1 sy, us dld Toter, ‘Judyo yo whethor wo should oboy men rather thin God.' Of ono thing you muy bo us- sured, wo shinll nover recognlzy” for g momont tho attempts of human lugistuiion to destroy tho frunuuommumuur tho Christian Church.” it 8 probuble that the oy, Dr, Huntty's aotion will be fuitated by othar clergymen, and tho result 14 hurd to prodict, It will bo urgued that tho Hitato cannok permlt tho Prohibition law to bo opunly vielted by clergymen without urousing ustarm of opposition from those to whom ite enforcomont is & peouniary loss, and gn tho other band, that to conaten the Rev. Dy, Doatry to prison uud closo bl church ne m nuisance would glunu u shurp weapon o tho hands of those who want to 800 tho new law bowa down, rout und branch. ‘Thus it fe that blind {ptemporatd funaticlim 18 producing o reaction that will render ubortive all its coereivo tevtotuliam, et inc el ‘1tz London Guzetto of March 13 has tho following torribio ftom: A tragio story reaches us from Franklin Hare hor In Fouth Australin, Ou the last duy but ong of tho uld year Murtin MeCurthy, with four of bis song, leTe thelr thutched bomestead in tho Hlundred of Hunker 10 reap the wheat which stood ripe for tho sickle ut the distance of sbout 4 tile, Thoy notleed o bush-fire sbout a dozen wmlled off, but us the whil wus In tho opposit dirootion lho{ thought nothing of 11, und weat o reaptog Wil diunes-time, humedintely aftoe that pical, which thoy took in tho fieid, the wind veured round, and, rising 1o o bhurricanc, swept tha fire down upon tholr furt, Desporutely k:hm fuy through tho blindlug swmoke, thoy arely Muccoeded s galnivg w4 clearlog 10 yardy distant belore Buge toukucs of fivo ity feet Infih rushed past thom, roaring xud bisy- og as thoy Heked up cvery vestige of vegelus tion ju thelr coutan, Whon tho tlames had sub- alded, McCarthy, followod by his Loys, hastened with terriblo forebodings across the chnrred nud reorehlng plain, o ace tf any of bl tamily hnd been spived, As b ran towards e chiisney, shieh slonie remained to mark tho site of big swelling, ho stumblod over what ho took for tho atimp of 1 treo, but whioh ho hinmediately dise covered wns tho chiarred corpse uf hia wife, fi Ittt furthor on was tho body of his 7-yerr-ol: hoy, and round the . chimnoy lay “honped tho' blickened romalns of his five daugh- tera, Tho cldesty n gwirk of 19, olasped in her arma tho youngest, a baby of 2 yours old, Age cnstomod na tha colonlsta aro to buslieflrs, this unnsunl holoenust has cnst n gloom over the neighborbood, 2 B e ‘I'nk; prognosticatlous published somo years ngo with regard to the exhinustion of the En- irl1sh conl-flolds by tho rapid inerease in tho rate of cogsumption hnvo not upparently been verl- fled. On tho coutrary, the ceonotnles effected, culefly In connoation with the iron trade, have hud tho rosult of keeping the nnuual consump- Uon at o tixeld figuro,~It aupthing, it tns de~ clined. Blnee 1871 tha annunl saviog of conl n mnking plg-Iron has amounted to uearly 5,000,~ 000 tons, aud, ns similar reductions have been nade in tho stool and othor trades, it s clnimed thut thero 1s, oven now, in splto of tho strikes, o surplus of coal at bank, e ——— ‘Tur: Legal News of this cily, In ltg jssue of Inst Snturday, hnd this: All fulr-mindod men will say that the Judgo far this clrcult ought to o sclected from tfiu olreult,—not imported. Tho Hon. Stanley Mat- thews, ot Ohlo, wns nomiuated Ly President Hayes for tho position, and his namo has been nualn sont to tho Sennte by President Gnrfield, In cuso Mr. Mutthows should not be conllrined, four natues In tho district havoboon prowinents Iy montioned In ¢onneetlon with thia vilice: The Hon, Edward 8. Isham, the Hou. 0. B, Lawrence, ux=Chief Justico of tho Bupreme Coutt of {1i{~ nols, and the How. Jolin C, Jowott, o1 Chicago, and tho ilvn./Thomas M, Cooloy,ox-Chief Justice of the Suprema Court of Michiyan. Al of those four gentlemen nro ablo luwyers, honest men, and well qualified for tho vxaited position, ——— To the Editor of Ths Chitago Tribune Crircaqo, March #8.—In yourunswer to our question in regard to tho cinnltinients of the ollice of Collector "of the Port of New York, (u to-duy’s 'PRIBUNE, you give only tho saldry, saying wothing us to tho nmount of fees, pers quisits, and so forth, which are supposed tg pertain to tho oflice 14 cnoluments. Aro thora any fees nnulycmnmm that holong to the Col- lector, and, It' 8o, what do they amount to per anuum? Lloase answer and obligo miny HEADERS, The feed of tho Callector of the Port of New York aro one-sixttt of 1 per cent per annum, but he caunot retain to exeeed $12,000 of thowm, which constitutes his snlary. t— * Wourn to God I could stop prostitue tlon!" oxolalnis Mayor Iarrison; but It can- not b dono,” ho adds, I3ut hos Mayor Harrlsou tried? Thorearo four hundred saloons In Chile cago which nro morcly tho vestibules of dena of Infaniy,—ronms whoro prostitutes of' tho lowest grao ply overy visitor with soligitnilons too vilo for description nnd publication. These snloons, where mon nre mada drunk and robbed nnd handed over to tho tender mercles of the Inmates of tho brothels of which thoy consti- tute the entrasiee, nro licensed by Mayor Hare vigon! It 19 too much for bolief, Butitlsa fact, e —— I'ne: Ropublican ratlfieation meeting at Tarwoll Hall to-night will be worth gowyto, Johin M. Clnrk, the next Mayor of Chicogo, 11l bo thore. Emory Storrs, Wirt Doxtor, and other good speakers will bo fu attendance, Themeot- Ing promlsed to bo livoly and wide-nwake, —————— ‘I'ms 1s the senson when Mr, Harrison re- enlls fomilly that ho I3 of Plutt-Deutsch, Scandl- unviun, Irish, Gorinan, Pollst, Itallan, Bpanish, Swiga, Hungaring, ltussian, Enst Indjan, Persiau, Chi~—, no! not Chlucse,~but atl othor kinds of uativity combined. e — T Queen of Lugland docsn’t seem ta care a8 much for Cartor oy ho does for ber. Wa hnven't hud w word from Vietorlnsinca thonote inutlons were out. ———— Tre Queen of England will not approve of Mr. Harrisun's specch to tho * boys," Pt i b i Bl Wit will Queen-Victorln say when she henrs thut Our Unrter was not reliected? e —— Remesnine tho great Republican ratlficas ton mectiog to-niuht. x e — Rearsten to-dny, This Is the last chanca e ——— PERSONALS. Gen. Buller Is on his way back to this country from Cuba, “Xamstlll dangliog in the balmy spring Ureeze."—Stanley Afatthew! “Iecannattell o e, ‘Clhere are only fout- teen gambling-houses ‘in Chiokgo. Wa would have noro, but thoro uro not suckers enougli to support thom,"—Carter Harr{son, A 1oble young man in Momenco Loved a maidon with ardor jntonse, Hor oruel pn'a oot Obltged him to scoot ¥ Turough the back yard and over tho fenco. Father Phelan, a Catholle priest of St. Louls, 18 displeasod with the natlon of the Pope it ordoring mnsses sald for tho reposo of the dead Czar's 56, but takes consolution In the thought that tho partienlar brand of mass or- derod 18 not much of o mass anyhow. A London papor says that Mrs. Langtry Is renlly golng to ndopt tho stugo ns a profession. She haa for somo timo been tuking fessons of 3r. Herman Vezln, au American notor reslding in London, and an engngemont has been offorea hor by Mr, Edwin Bruee, the well-known wan- ager. ‘Tite vortralt of Mllton which was once owned by Churlos Lamb bns Just been bought in London by Mr, Quarlteh for- 81775, It wus pninted about 1640, when tho poet was still dise tingulshed by that physioal beauty of which the world bus heard 80 much, but whicl fs missing 1n all his othor portralts. Queen Vietorln’s gold and silver plato which Is kopt at Windsoris snld to be worth $15,000,000, Wben tho Queen entortalned tho Into Czar shortly after tho marriago of his diughterto the Duke of Xdinburg, gold plate to tho valuoof $10,000,000. Tho custodiunsllp of tho gold-pantry nt Windsor {4 considored an oftice of great trust. A Chicago inusle houso las lssued a plece for the plano ontitled *‘Hounds of Bpring. That purt which ropresonts tho prominent olti- zons out with picks and stomn-plpes trylng tocloan tho feo from tho atreets must bo very touohlng, As Tennyson vory truthfully re- mnrked, “Spring {s tho tmost beautiful scason of the year"—(n Plorida. A fushilon fournnl says that *tho tabliers, Tovors, panold, and loug Vaudykes of ovening dresscs aro frequently covered with a brililaut cwmbroldery of gold, penrl, vut steol, aud Irla- culored beads” 1n Chicugo the "housos, lots, and personal proposty of the men whoso wiven wonr thoso dresses aro frequently covered with a brillfant ussorttmont of mortgages. ‘The Inte Czar §s sald to have been not so apprehonsivo of plots against bim during the lust few weoks of hislifo naho woa lnst yuar; ko that ho foll Into thé vld routine ho was ncous- towed to follow bofore the days of the duel bes tiveon Nihillsm and Imporiulism, 5l now wife, howover, had not an cary momont when bo was away from her. Atthough a womau of eusy temper und lymphatic, she was a proy to the sloomlest approhonsions whenover he went nbrosd, and his rotury wus always tho vecasin of o domestio festival, 1t Is unhealthy to wear your boots in the Uousoafior 1 o’clock a. m. The comuon plan Is 10 remova then [n the hallway, but wany of yur wost oxporienoed husbands prefer tho frunt stups. Ale Wways tuke 3 bool in onch band when golug up-stalrs. “Ihis plan gives you two sLots at tha cat aflur stopplng o lier. Nover say anyihiog to your wife on thoso uceuslons oxcopl *yes® and “no’ Kaung cloy pL 1o hmpeds tio spaceh. Nover compol yuur wife 10 go up frst snd bulld the fro. If she doesn't do 14 of hur awnuccord, g0 10 sloup agubi. Anolior way of socomplishing the sume rosult ls (o whivtle *Grondfuther's Clock” A truv wousn will alwavs get up undor such clrouinstanoes. When your duughiter gots blx onuugh to have yon- tluman visltors, give up the parlor 10 them chuerfully. It lswuch choaper to 1ot tho dog blta ther ¥iart fur home thed o scold the @ird ustil und then Lave tu buy ber u sealskln sacquy 23 ® suuvenir of your idiooy. Always romenbor your weddlug-dey wnd try W tuark the occusion by sowmo Itk romumbor It Coming buwa b nallzo the unuiversary 1 o warked but Inexpensive wunner. 3 Liring your s0ns up to sowe occupation that wilt vn- able them Lo goy o Nving when throwa upen thule owu resources, NOCHING mukes 8 yOUDK LU 60 velf- rollant as Baylug o trede of bis own, In Clucinoetd buuko stoorers froguontly make $10 & duy.—Frose “Hhinta $0 Young Housckeepers,”, by 8. J. Tiiden