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10 OUB IRISH. Something of the History and Habits of Their Fore fathers. Trials and Tribulations of the Irish in Ireland. Penal Laws, Abortive Rebellions, Famine, and Ignorance. Eow the Ancient Clans Degen erated into Factions. Irish Colonization in the Early Bays of CMcago. The “ Oorkomans,” the Kerrymen, and the Far “ Downs.” !!ov; They Fought, Broke Heads, and Carried Elections. Charley O'Malley's Descent from Gran i! a weal —John Comiskey's Di vine Origin. .Reflections on tho Past and An. ticipations of the Future. The Elect of Education. “The Irish” have always been a prolific theme for writers, historical and otherwise. The term applied to natives of tho western outpost of Europe does not sound badly to the car and looks neatly in print. Ireland Isa prettyname In all languages, and friends and foes have eulo gized tho beauties of tho little island itself. It has been the theme of song and story, of prayer and of execration, of horror and wonder, for many a century. A Scotch chronicler has written that, for a small speck of land, Ireland haa MADE A TERRIBLE NOISE in tho world,during tho last 300 years especially. Ono day it was the stormy wrath of her headlong clans wreaking vengeance ono upon the other, whilo a common foo stepped in to devour tho fate-led wranglers. The next it was all Ire land in open insurrection against tho power and pndo of England—tho martial Celts—driving their proud oppressors to the last extremity in the field and, as usual, losing their supremacy when they had to encounter the subtle diploma cy of tho English statesmen; again it was the heart-rending wail of famine, ringing with fune real melody, like wind whistling through a sep ulchre, throughout tho island; then it was the heroic fidelity of tbe hapless race to tho ungrate ful Stuarts—then the monstrous iniquity, bar barous ignorance, and midnight blackness of the penal times, irradiated for a moment by tho quickly clouded sun of 1752—anon the gallantbut futile rebellion of 1793, followed by tho crushing “Union”; then the mighty voice of DANIEL O’CONNELL, “ full of coTinU o-ml fury.” indpArf. tmf. wiJ.L ■»>* forked lightning behind the human thunder cloud of millions gathered at his beck ; then the most dreadful wholesale starvation of mod ern times, unredeemed by a single deed of during on the part of the wretched people, dragooned by “law,” and cowed by a despotic priesthood ; then the rocket-liko glare of “ TOCNG IRELAND," blazing for a moment amid .the clouds on the mountain-tops, and sinking forever from Ire land’s sight in the convict settlements amid the Southern seas ; then the greatest national ex odus that has flooded the earth since “ through parted sea and desert waste ” tho pilgrim of Sinai led the tribes of Israel from bondage to free dom ; or since, retiring before the Baltic floods, the barbarians of the North made havoc of ancient civilization; and, lastly, tho establish ment on this Continent of millions of & race richly endowed by nature with virtues and vices, tho former of which were repressed hy the conqueror's hand, and the latter of which were developed by the same conqueror’s vicious system of State-craft, as undeniably displayed m every dealing of haughty England with her un fortunate neighbor. This general introduction is necessary to show what kind of ordeal tho masses of the Irish people resident in America had to endure, as a preparatory school for their settlement in a free country. They had had no national existence, m auy tangible form, for many a generation ; they were made ignorant by statute, clannish by tradition, bigoted by persecution, and obstinate by nature. Thus, filled with combustible mate rial, morally considered, they—for tho most part, survivors of A> UNPARALLELED NATIONAL CATASTROPHE— a feast of ghouls amid tho boasted light of English civilization fled by myriads from tho shores of their wretched countrv— poured recklessly into the sweltering holds of tho emigrant* ships—whoso pathway along the deep was tracked with human bones lying on the bosom of the sub-marine world—in the tat tered raiment upon which tho English fetter still loudly clanked, debarked upon our Eastern sea board, and for tho first time stood upon earth which, though alien to them, was more friendly than that from which they sprung. It is not, however, to be taken for granted that ’ all tco Irish emigrants of the dreadful famine years answered the description applied to the great mass. a test large anNcmnr left Ireland more because Uiov feared what was to come than because they suffered from what had already befallen the land. This por tion of the emigrants bore to America respectability, in many cases culture, lib erality of sentiment, au appreciation of tbo blessings of a free government, and loyalty to tneir adopted country which was only second to *.he.r hatred of English laws and English 'vuhTi.n B T,?™ rCiHC ‘ 1 T ill , Irclaud - element, rnaimr. i? U!De ™ a 6 arrivals provioue to tho deiS l Tn^n IO “ a 3. ISIS-Gnml’7, was the re cruel DolS'Sf 1 ? th ? multitude which the Lord John Russell's Government fog Kot th«t tl* refus ° 31 !! our protecting therefore 1 t flit™ bC ; e i? :lme B - 3r ™g masses wertT t many tho’ni^ reputable and savage,—although ) the Wmr-tat that ?ha° f ° rmCr and which "f°.T couth aucenu, s P cct * nn ‘. hopeless ignoranc^S’ 0 ,h° velt 7 3 ’><i like modem ho ® a ado tbe , m appear and Tsndals to tho astoniahli ~, Ootha leans in whoso veine run thl pw/ v An ;? r ~ l untans-a class of gentlemen w.™ d ,? 5 ,? nsllth did as much as any other section o°'p!firf b t'' aT ’ to bnng about, in the days of°rw^ st^ meQ deplorable result to the « CU ’ tlUa 'WENDELL PHILLIPS has well eaid, the Anglo-Saxon of America shnnu ; not bo tho first to throw a stone at these tunate Colts, for, remembering what other Ati£lo-Saionfi had done in Ireland, by their prejudice and blood-thirstiness, ther Hhould bow their beads in tho dust when they eiw this terri ble effect of ancestral crime. So, consider ing this, although astonished, the Americans with considerable shyness at first, began to i encourage poor bat muscular Irish’ and the Celt in tho American body politic, as in the "-American material world, became a mighty . act. .. ‘. 1 IOCSO CHICAGO— L a ihonpand miles removed from the swarming Atlantic seaboard—heard of these peaceful "_t hough somewhat grotesque, invaders with rather ; v faint interest. Bho indeed that many years must elapse before those wild Celts could reach her frontiers, aa common report said they had no money, and the railroafls of those days were neither numerous nor extended between the ocean and the Great hakes. But prime val Chicago miscalculated. Her estimate of Irish hardihood must have been low, for the Celt, given a fair field and a clear road, can make time and conquer space with the marvelous celerity of Homan le gionaries. The ring of their pick-axes and the crash of their sledges were soon heard along the banks of the Susquehanna and through tbo Mo hawk and Genesee Volleys. They moved, AS ABMT OF LABOR, along the Central and Erie Railroads, working like Spartans, singing, while they marched along the lines, like the Gallic legions—their ancient kindred —who followed the first and greatest Ca?sar, their conqueror and their friend, into Italy, and, sometimes, after the fashion of their fiery, clannish blood, fighting like devils for an idea, a boundary lino of a county, a wild name,' a favorite leader, amusement, anything for excitement—the only heaven of the true-born Celt. So the woods wherein the Iroquois and the Delawares, a century before, had battled for Braddock, and for Wolfe, and for Montcalm andDuQucsne, were reddened again with blood—brought from beyond the sea by a race of men who came nearer to the aboriginals in their factious spirit and innate ferocity thau any other tribe which sprung from Europe’s lofty cradle amid the Caucasian hills. The war whoops of the rod savage gave place to the FEBOCIOUS J3ATTLE-SUOUT3 of the “Far-Ups” ortho “ For-Downs,” —tho former, in Irish parlance, meaning the South of Ireland, or Munster, and tho other the North of tho island, or Ulster; of “ Connaught-man ” ana 4 * Corkonian,” or, fiercest aud blood iest of them all, the wild slogan, “ savage and shrill,” of “the roaring Tipps,”— meaning natives of Tipperary County. These absurd contests, which tho Roman Catholic clergy nobly, and finally wilh success, labored to destroy, spread consternation amid the quiet American hamlets situated along tho railroads and canals, irbere tho factiometa had everything in their own bands, and, for the first time, tho Irish name began to sound odious in tho Ameri can ear. Worse than poverty, worse than squalor, was this most insane display of brute pas sion exhibited by a people who carried withtbom into tho light of liberty a factious spirit that would havo disgraced tho most savage tribes of . Tartary. w nr was all this ? Tho matter is simply inexplicable to those who have not studied Irish his tory, and tho limits of this aitido will not permit of a long dissertation on tho subject. The system of clanship, com mon alike to the ancient Gauls, the Bolg®, the Cymiy, the Scotch, and tho Britons—all kindred tribes, —had loft its mark, after tho lapse of countless generations, upon the natives of that country most thoroughly Celtic of any in Europe, and most conservative in regard to its ancient traditions. With tho Irish, from time immemorial, “Clan” and “Chief” have meant more than Country and Cause, —a fact that ex plains their otherwise incomprehensible political misfortunes. In his eloquent “History of Franco.” the late M. Michelet deduce clanship as being an attachment to an individual rather than to a principle. Tne Irish have never united for any object, unless under Hugh O’Neill and Daniel O’Connell, simply because their STRONG LOCAL PREJUDICES blinded them to tho general good,—a disposition which tbe acute English were just tho persons to avail themselves of in the task of subjugating all Ireland to their yoke. Moore bos said of this spirit: “ While our tyrants joined in hate wo never joined in love,” and the talented Thomas Davis, an Irish Protestant patriot of O’CoimelTs time, in his song of “Native Swords,” thus forcibly expressed his ideas on the subject of Irish factiousness: Like river* which, o’er valleys rich. Bring ruin in their water, On Native land a native hand Flung foreign fraud and slaughter: From Dermod'a crima to Tudor’s lime Our dans were our perdition, Religion's name since then became Our pretext for division. The gifted Dr. Drenoan, who was the poet of the United Irishmen of 1793, in hia “ Wake of William Orr,” has this to say on the matter: Hapless cation! hapless laud! Heap of uncementing aand— Crumbled by a foreign weight, And, Ly worse —domestic hate ! Thus it will be seen that this business of Irish factions is by no means modern, aud, having so far generalized upon tho sebjeot, it is now timo to consider the question in its local aspect, .as developed IN CHICAGO. The tide of Irish ©migration flowed steadily westward, along the iron tracks of progress,— C&ual ouiX -t *' —i j 1 - A - t rinir n, — - «>«. 1.1 T -. .Ij bands, and these Ireland proliucally fumiehod. The advance-guard of the now cru saders entered Chicago some time after the commencement of the Illinois «t Michi gan Canal,—that much-botched water-and-mud thoroughfare. Gauge of Irish laborers swarmed at this work, and at all the public works subse quently started. Irish sailors manned moat of the lake vessels; Irish peddlers marched through the country, pack on back, with sturdy step, shillclah in hand, and making the welkin ring with strange burets of Irish song; Irish farmers began to settle on the borders of the city; Irish squatters commenced the erection of innumer able ebanties, locating chiefly along the main and north branches of the river, in the territory now comprised iu the Eighteenth Ward. Pouring in the train of the hardy laborers came the camp followers, their WIVES AND CHILDREN— the former iu red petticoats and calico “wrap pers,” just as they tripped m tue Connemara heaths or on the broad moors of Musketry; tho children, wild and noisy, after tho fachiou of all juveniles, particularly of tho youthful Celt, m whom native mischief is early displayed. THE MEN of tho race were chiefly stout, short, and strong, with brown hair, clean-shaved faces and steel-gray eyes. They wore soft felt hats and baicriecns— white jackets of uudyed wool—and strong boots, fit for rough usage. The women had chiefly black hair, tho color of a crow’s wing, and blue eyes—a Celtic peculiarity. They were not hand some, as a rule, but they had honest faces and virtue was their only jawoL These people were fresh, as they came from the old sod, and had not yet, after the impressionable Irish fashion, become impregnated with any of the corruption of the outside world. Whisky was not extensively patronized, for Father Mathew’s magic voice was atUl in their ears, and “ the pledge,” taken at home, hold them fast. Most of these early settlers came from the West ern province of Ireland, — CONNAUGHT, — a locality into which moat of tho broken Irish clans of the other provinces were driven by Cromwell, by William, and the other philanthro pists, who, in the name of England and of civi lization, committed wholesale robbery, rape, and murder in limes gone by. Consequently, these wore tho primitive Celts,—hardy, daring, fac tious, loving, fiery, jealous, pious to superstition, and suspicions to the verge of insanity. The Con naught people had things as they listed for many years; worked industriously for a living, and continued, after the Irish fashion, to raise largo families of healthy children. , ° But soon other emigrants began to show them selves—lrish, too, for the Germans and Scandi navians had not yet learned that there was too httle room for them In their respective father lands. The other Irish—tho new arrivals—were chiefly from the MUNSTER counties—from Cork, Limerick, Clare, and Tip perary. Their ranks were speedily swelled by fresh arrivals. They “ squatted ” and formed a settlement, so that two distinct camna were founded, —one tho “Connaught Hangers” ami tho other known as “Limerick and Cork’” and sometimes as the “Far-up” settlement. * Things wont quietly enough for a while, and doubtless, would so have continued, had not some of the warriors chosen to indulge in tho fatal fire-water, when, meeting in gangs at tho public works, quarrels wore quickly provoked, and some of tho disgraceful scenes enacted in other portions of the United States became fre quent in tho vicinity of Chicago. To each & height did Bug RIDICULOUS SPIRIT OP CLANSHIP nse at one period that men who did not come trout tho same pariah in Ireland felt estranged from each other. When one person introduced ano.hor to a member of tho Clan, in order to H l ®"®* warm welcome, ho generally said dhia boy came from tho door ferninat (•oppo site) me at homo.” ' 11 If something outrageous was done by an Irish map from the West, tho "Corkonian "would ex claim, I) hat better could you expect from a Connanght-man!" In a row, the Munster counties, if opposed to Connaught cohorts, gen ft^ U L alropor ; od eacU othcr . and a favorite rally. wL- >' 118611 , to be - “Howld ver own, Cork, fferryia comia toholpyo!” Th'o * ** Of , rEOI,LE rao 'l THE SOUTH adiorfre t n0 ’ rn “ “ F ardowners," generally adjeclived by & sanguinary word wero in tnn Wfagaassssf^a guise, as best they might, their Ulster accent Sf g S“ts maJ^Baia ° r theTeiy 1617 And all this faction arose between a neonle THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1*74. who came from an island in the Atlantic which has a total area of 32,000 square miles I ONE CAUSE of the absurd disease was that the Irish people, in the days whereof this article chiefly treats, weio, at home, aa much strangers to each other —coun- ties aud provinces—as though they were so many isolated settlements of barbarians in the wilds of Asia. They traveled very little, were, as before remarked, kept in profound ignorance, had no national policy since 1703, until O’ConncU aroso and allowed his revolutionary opportunity, in 1343, to pass bloodlosaly away; and, to crown all, confused tradition placed county against county, as, in other days, the savage ambition of the chiefs placed clan against dun. It la impossible for any person who sees the Irish people at homo and in America, as they ap pear to-day,—after a single generation of decent treatment and comparative education, —to realize the sod scenes in which many of them figured fivo-and-twonty years ago. TO-DAT, faction is quelled in Ireland, —it is dead In the United States. The Irish people, their eyes open ed wide by experience and enlightenment, have caught the broad national principle, ana look upon the factions of the past, for the most part, with horror and disgust. Two agencies hare been at work in bringing about this result, —the Roman Catholic Church, for the sake of religion, and the Fenian Brotherhood, for the sake of the Irish name and the salvation of the Irish nation. Those DESPISED FENIANS, with all their errors and failures, and oven fac tions, taught the Irish people how fatal the old system of clanship was. Tbo Fenians fought among themselves, it is true, but they differed on policy, not on counties or on parishes—a very material difference indeed. It is a fact that* since the establishment of Fonianism in Ireland and in tho United States, faction fights between Irishmen from different sections of the old country have boon almost unknown. For this much—if for nothing more—let tbo Fenians be awarded thanks. THE WORST EVIL that was fo befall the Irish people of Chicago watt when the politicians began to move amongst thorn. Those wore “ rod-hot ” Democratic days —the Whigs wore then acting as precursors to the Frco-Soilers and the Abolitionists, -while the Republican party was being suckled at the na tion’s breast. The principles enunciated by Andrew Jackson were used to capture the Irish, who, as in other parts of America, wore led into diametrical opposition (o tho party.. that was over in favor of curbing or exterminating slav ery. Here was ANOTHER nnsrc idiosyncrasy taken advantage of. Nathloss the Abolitionism of O’Couuoll, tho Democratic politicians made “thonoger” an object of fierce detestation in the Irish. the eyes of of Europe lent themselves—more, to do them justice, from an error of the head than of tho heart—to fasten tho fetters upon the black slaves of America. This is the worst record the Irish ever made. Only for tho gallant Irish blood that flowed so freely at Missionary Ridge. atAntietam, and at Fredericksburg, for the old flag and tho freedom of the slave, ©very decent Irish-Amoricau would blush to-day for the polit ical errors of tbe past. The Irish of Chicago grew very POWERFUL AT THE POLLS about the year 1847, when James Curtiss was elected Mayor of the city. They had signalized themselves on former occasions by taking pos session of the polling-places and knocking down voters who happened to represent tho Whiggish interest; but, on tho occasion of Mr. Curtiss’ election, they were in high clover, and, besides the Mayor, elected 13 out of 18 Aldermen on tho straight Democratic ticket. Tho wards, at that time, were nine in number, and ran somewhat as follows: SOUTH SIDE. First Ward—From tho middle of State street to tho river and lake and to the southern city limits. Second Ward—From State to Clark streets ami southward to tho limits. Third Ward—From river fo limits, bounded east and west by Clark and Wells streets. Fourth Ward —The balance of the South Side, lying between tho main river, the south branch and the city limits. WEST BIDE. Fifth Ward—Extending from Randolph street to tbe pumping works. Sixth Ward—Comprehondingeverything north of Randolph street to the city limits. NORTH SIDE. Seventh Ward—From the river to the city limits, hounded on tho east by North Wells street. Eighth Ward—This ran eastward from North Wells to North State street. Ninth Ward—Comprising the balance of the Northern Division from Ocate eiroob tu iho late. The Seventh .was the great irish ward down to the year 1957, when the Germans began to make their presence manifest. It used to bo known os ‘Mho bloody Seventh/’ and never failed to return the Democratic candidate or candidates for Aldermanio honors. John Dempsey, 0. Sloan, George Brady, Ezra Taylor, J. L. Howe, and others of that ilk. need to repre sent it in the Council. The municipal contests were generally very severe, and it used to bo up and down between the Whigs and the Democrats from 1845 to 185.9. In these con tests the Irish, of all factions, fought the Whig and Abolition candidates moat bitterly, and held the balance of political power in their hands until the era of the Germanic invasion, some few years before the War. Sometimes*, however, the fight would be made in the Seventh on the old issuo of counties, on which occasions the gentleman hailing from Connaught was al most certain of victory. The Irish also began to grow powerful in some other wards, bat, before they could make any great impression outside their peculiar ter ritory, the Teutonic legions occupied their ground, and Germanic names became frequent among tho Aldermen. In the year 1854 THE KNOW-NOTHING FEVER began to make headway in tho Northwest. In that year Isaac L. Milliken was elected Mayor on the Free Soil ticket, and tho Democrats were re duced to a miserable minority in the Council. Tho year following: Mr. Lovi D. Boone was elected Mayor on Know-Nothing principles, and with him tho following Alderman, who adopted his platform: Sylvester Sexton, First Ward; T. Alien, Second (two years); R. M. Hough, Sec ond (one year) ; Lorenzo Fletcher, Third: Will iam Colby, Fourth; C. N. Holden, Fifth; A. C. Ellitborpo. Sixth. Tbe following Democrats were elected; J, L. Howe, Seventh; Samuel Ashton, Eighth; and Samuel McKay, Ninth. Under this administration occurred tho cele brated “BEER BIOTS,” in which Col. Shirley and old “Capt. Nick” were respectively cast in tho parts of Ajax and Achilles. Tho Germans were worsted, and, as on a recent occasion, the other foreigners espe cially the Irish, sympathized with them. *A half coalition was formed, and, Know-Nothingism being on the way to its tomb, tho reaction was felt in 1856, whor the’ Democrats by one fell swoop laid out the Freo-Soilors and elected Thomas Dyer, Mayor, with a majority in the Common Council. The Irish did most of. the hard work in this contest. They kept the polls from morning until night, broke whateverheads it was thought advisable to fracture, patronized the Germans and bullied the natives, until, in point of fact Chicago was. for tho time being, in full posses sion of the Irish clans, who were nothing loth to make profitable use of their victory; In that movement all of them united, Charley O’Malley shook hands with Owen McCarthy, and John Dempsey with both of them. Munster and Con naught drank confusion to their enemies, and Denny Coughlin, a very importantchioftaiu, with tears in his eyes, declared that it was a great day for Ireland. John Prondergast was in the wildest ecstadef, and Owen Doherty was fairly in a way to jump out of bis clothing with delight. 3 Bat there must b© a climax to everything, and bo there was to Irish power in Chicago. Then as now, there were * TOWN OFFICES AND TOWN ELECTIONS. There were many ambitious men—all of whom thought that they deserved well of their country There were but few town offices, but there was a surplus of candidates therefor. Tho South and West Divisions were in the hands of the Americans, but tho North Side belonged to tho Irish race, whose dominions were bounded by tbe river, by North Wells street and Chicago avenue, with soma pioneer settlements on “ Goose Island.” Ambition enkindled the fires of faction, and let slip tbo dogs of war. * OWEN SI’CARTBY, THE STONSTEIt CHIEF whose ancestor was tho McCarthy iloro of Des mond, was the recognized loader of the Corko man element. He bad many faithful henchmen and was acknowledged to be a good General on election day. Connaught brought to the front the redoubtable CHARLES O*SIALLET, who was bom on a roex, off Acini! Island, on the coast of Mayo. This hero, whose knowledge of law is only excelled by his refined accent and his wonderful knowledge of English grammar and tharale3 of rhetoric, is lineally descended from Granua Weal, or Grace O’Malloy—the fa moos sho-pirate of tho reign of Elizabeth, who kept her galleys always m motion aronna tho Connemara coast, to the terror of all the manners. Grace was the Irish Cleopatra, and did not tho without finding her Antony. She was adored by one of the Hoßurgo family. She con sented to make birn happy, and bora to him & son on ship-board, who was christened Theobald Jfa-Lung, or “Theobald of the Ships.” Ho left descendants, who preferred the good old name of O’Malley to the Norman patronymic of Burke. So our Charley came honorably by hid romantic name, and inherited much of the ro mance which distinguished his famed female progenitor. Charley, at the period alluded to, was up for Justice of the Peace. “ Tbo Cork onians” shouted for McCarthy or McCarthy’s man—they didn’t care much which—it was all the same for the honor of Munster. There were other gifts in the hands of the people, but, in those days, O’Malloy was the bright particular star of the Irish firmament. Ho was supported by the O’Doberty, the O’Hempaoy, and the Preandorgast, all of whom bad at their back hardy Connaught clans. came, and novor did a more stormy political battlo burst upon Chicago. The worst passions of both parties were aroused to the utmost, and tho voting was the most industrious and xnox pUcablo over known—even at a town election. The amount of whisky consumed on the occasion can hardly over bo estimated— oven wore it worth while to makoan estimate, — and the number of broken heads patched np by tho doctors showed that tho combatants had not confined themselves to stuffed ballot-boxes or moral suasion—wet or dry. It was a day of terror, but, when the sun went down. Connaught 1 was overwhelmingly victorious, and Charley O’Malley, JohnS. Quinn and all thatfactioa wore placed In a position to squeeze the public pocket according to their own promptings, or those of their friends. Tho Munster men were driven clean out of the field, and faction completely . divided tho Irish political strength of the city. Thus history repeated itself. .Divided as they were, the Irish remained obstinate Democrats, while tho Gormans, swayed by Hosing and other leaders, deserted the sinking ship of Democracy, became Freo-Soilers, .fairly out-gcuoraled the Irish in tho elections of 1857, '53, and the throe succeeding years, until Frank Sbormau was elected Mayor, and established themselves, dur ing the War, as the firm friends of the party in power. Meanwhile), Charles O’Malley and many of his friends distinguished themselves bv acts in office which are generally known under the term “ malfeasance." They were arrested,- tried, and Mr. O’Malley, with others more ob scure, suffered six months’ incarceration in the House of Correction. This misfortune terminated his influence in politics, Prcndergast and Dempaovdied. Owen Doherty flourished for a little while, and John S. Quinn was hoard of for a season, but, with the accession of The white slaves LONG JOHN WENTWORTH to power, in 1857, Irish influence on the North Side went down forever. His “special con stables, ” exaggcraUvely numbered up to sev eral thousand strong, while there wore, in reality, only a few hundred of them, overawed the polls. Ho carried things with a high band, put a veto on head smashingduring election, pulled andburned down “the Sands"—an infamous locality—and made a hamo in the history of Chicago such as stern rulers always make—a name of terror to evil doers. Mr.’Wentworth’s reign astonished the city and nipped evil in a largo-sized bad. In 1859 commenced building their church on West Twelfth street, for, already, a largo Irish colony had sprung up in the sections which now com prise the Eighth and Ninth Wards. The German and Scandinavian influx—emigrants enterprising and thrifty, who bought up house-lots with their eaminga—drove the poorer classes of the Irish, especially the squatters, before it, and compelled them to seek quarters in other parts of the city, it is that tho Irish and Gormans, while they may coalesce for a political object, rarely or never mingle socially. Tho customs, sentiments, and manners of the two peoples aro essentially an tipathetic. The"thrifty German located in’ one epos and remained while the heedless Irishman moved from place to place. Hut. in our days, thrift is also becoming an Irish characteristic, and the number of Irish owners in &U parts of tho city is quito formidable. • The migration to tho West Side continnod un abated during the earlier days of tho War, and, as usual, political ambition was developed with numerical strength. It was then that arose in his young vigor to display Ilia skill os a wire-pullet aud Ids power as aleadlng Democrat. At that period he literally dazzled the Occi dental Irish, for ho had plenty of chock and voice enough for an auctioneer on a windy day. Hr. Comiakoy Buffered in his name. It did not sound Irish, but smacked strongly of Poland, It was very strange. Nobody ap pears to know which part of Ireland Sir. Comiskey honors with hia claim of birthright. Tradition says that he came from the neighbor hood of the Giant’s Causeway, and that hia fam ily was of divine origin. Hare is the story: having an attack of the blues, to which he Was not often subject, thought that bo would take a run over to Ireland and see the giants at work upon their bridge, for the Causeway is only the abutment of the structure wherewith they in tended to connect Ireland and Scotland. The pretty little daughter of one of the giants camo at noontime with her father's dinner, and Comus fell in Jove with, wooed, and won her. They wore married by a Druid priest—the Druids, by the way, taught immortality of tbo soul to their people— and Comus was happy for an entire week, living in an ocean cave and feeding on crabs and her rings. When the week was up, Jupiter got im patient that hisiester should be so long absent, and ran" hia bell by hurling a thunderbolt that shook all the spheres. This startled Comus, who knew that his master should ho angry and that be might not again return to his love on the earth. “ However, when you die, my adored one,” said he, ** your soul will go to heaven. As a token of my deep love I leave you this key to ! which yon may enter unobserved and' I shall en* | fold you to my breast 1 " The poor girl fainted, : and, while in that state, the god loft her, having first left bis name, written in old Gaelic charac ters, Time passed and the giant’s daughter boro a son, who was.christened, In memory of hia father and hia present, “ Comoakev," which modem‘depravity and. no doubt, “the Saxon,” corruptcdmto Comiakey. At all events the family flourished, after the mother wont to heaven, and John, the present representative of the race, has tho true Comas month, an i can laugh from ear to ear when he wills it. Ho had god like energy about him, too, and flounced every thing in thooldTenthWardforaimmbor of years. Afterwards ho represented tho now Seventh and Eighth Wards, and, finally, under the new organ ization of tho city into twenty wards, attained in 1869-70 tho dignity of President of tn© Council. Since that time he has dropped out of sight, like many other Irish “leaders"; for tho Irish are 1 notoriously fickle, and sometimes, without proper cause, drop a man “like a hot pota to." Comiskoy made a hazv war. record, some people called him a “War-Democrat,” but a majority preferred tho stinging epithet—“ cop perhead." With him hare also sank into comparative ob livion 11 Dave ” Walsh, “Pat ” EaCfcrty, “Bed " Sheridan, and other local chiefs, famous around Blue Island avenue and its divers arteries. of faction has almost entirely died away in this city, and men are now judged by the Irish more on their record than on their sectionalism. A “cheeky” fellow may lead the Irish once or twice, but, if he is a genuine iraud, no people discover the ~ secret sooner. Hen who make a “splurge" can deceive them for a brief time, but woo to tho " light-weight,” when the day of discovery comes. One by one they bavo dropped their old “leadors.”HoCarthy, O’Halley, Quinn, Dohertv Dempsey, Co miakev, Onahan, Baffcrtv’ and Walsh, have played their little hour upon the stage, and have disappeared, simply because they have. expended themselves. Oua'- ban and Combkoy hava some hopes still, but * their dream of prido is o’er,” so far as can now’ be seen. Some of the others mentioned are gone to a place whore there are no elections and somo are politically dead. A tow ’ P-VLTHT ALDEB2IEN T* 1 Weßt Si ? e Iriall now. The two Bailers, Jim O Bnen, and Senators McGrath and Kctioo are “ the guiding lights ” of to-day. A few years will find most of these in oblivion, for ihev have already about put in their work. Tne Gorman coalition brought to the surface more prominently Dan O’Hara, Austin Do vie, and a few others of that school, but that will fall to pieces too. Decomposition is setting in already. , 6 Jj lo have settled in the Sixth Ward a.and by Mark Sheridan, but his defeat for the Chiei-Marahaiship on Sc. Patrick’s Dav goes to show that, outside of his own district,’ Mark, although a man of fair ability and not an igno ramus, is not so popular as ho might be. And. upon the political horizon, there appears to bo . , yt >*o LEADER ‘Jf 8 of these political invalids— this dopo: battalion of the halt and blind, who have led the Irish, “on and off,” for so long a effect op education. ihe ia abroad, ” said Lord THE DAY OF CONTEST O’jIALLEriS MISFORTUNES. THE JESUITS A NOTABLE FACT John coanairET THE GOD COMUS, THE CELESTIAL JSACK-DOOB, this old-tixie spiarr Brougham, In a speech delivered in the year IS2S—just preceding Catholic emancipation. He ufed tbo phrase in a prophetic sense, and that prophecy has borne rich fruit, es pecially among the Irish people in Ire land and elsewhere. The schoolmaster Las been abroad, and, more potent than all the mis sionaries from St. Columbkille and St. Patrick to Father Mathew and Friar Burke, baa given the Irish people know!edge { and, with it, self-re spect. Half a generation will not pass over until the Irish element in America shall have cast aside every unworthy prejudice and risen to au eminence in this Republic which their best friends could not have hoped for thorn a quarter of a century since. The Irisa have, with advancing education, grown, as a rule, so ber and thrifty, and are daily becom ing more Americanized. It is no fault of the political hucksters, who have been having and selling them, that they have not. been ruined politically and socially. Only the inherent vigor of the people saved them from utter demoralization. They are not all cured yet, but around this city and throughout this State we see them daily advancing in wealth, re finement, and worth. The crimes and errors of the past should bo their buoys amid the hidden rocks of the future. Faction and bigotry should belong only to savage tribes, and civilized beings should scorn to follow a man who represents no principle, and who has none within himself. When the Irish have fully recognized that THE NOBLEST DUTY OF AN AMEBICAN CITIZEN is to unite all interests for the welfare of the United States, which is the home of all. creeds and nations, the words of one of thoir best poets will have been fulfilled: And oh, it ia a gallant deed To show before mankind How every race and every creed May be, by Jove, combined ; May be combined, yet not forget Th 3 fountains whence they roars, As, filled by many a rivulet, ' The etatolv Shannon flown. LITERARY NOTES. Harper's Magazine for May (Harper A Bros., New York) concludes the forty-eighth volume of that periodical. .“My Mother, and I,” by Mra. Craik, and “The Living Link/* by Prof. Do Millo, are continued; “Hkley,” by Moncure D. Conway,—giving reminiscences of Robert Coll yer’a' early days,—is concluded. Other leading papers are: “A Naturalist in-the Heart-of Africa,” by Helen S. Conant; “The Flower- Mission. ” by Ellis Gray; “The Fur-Seal Millions of the Fribylon Islands,” by Henry W, Elliott; u John of Barneneld.” by E. H. Stoddard; and. 41 Tho Skeleton in Modern Society,” by Dr. Sam uel Osgood. Constance F, Woolson and Frank Lee Benedict have stories; and there are noems by Harriet Prescott Spofford, Mary Phelps Dodge, James Maurice Thompson, and Nelly 51. Hutchinson. The number is profusely illus trated. —The Atlantic Monthly for May (H. O. Hough ton & Go., Boston) has farther installments of T. B. Aldrich’s “ Prudence Palfrev,” Charles Dudley Warner’s “ Baddeck and -That Sort of Thing.” and William M. Baker’s “Moae Evans.” James Russell Lowell has an eleven-page poem on “Agassiz.” Thoroareatoricabv JaneG. Aus tin and Will Wallace Harvey. Jj W. De Forest' writes on “ The Cats of Antiquity; and Thomas S. Perry has a sketch of “Iran Torgenioff.” Tho minor poems are by Edgar Fawcett, Emma Huntington Nason, J. T. Trowbridge, and Celia. Thaxter. —Tho Galaxy for May (Sheldon A Co.,' New York,} gives continuations of “ Linloy Boch ford,” by Justin McCarthy, and “ Linguistic and Literary Notes and Queries,” by Richard Grant White. Among tho other articles are ; “Tho Americana in Paris,” by Albert Rhodes ; “Scandinavia,” by Clemens .Peterson; “The Temperance Crusade.” by J. De Armas Cespedes; stories by Theodore Gift, Kate Pntnam Osgood, and Fannie Bopsr Foadge ; and poems by How- j ard Glyndon, William ‘Winter, and Ujalmar | Hjorth Boyeseu. . .. —ln LippincoiCs Magazine for 'May (J. B. XiippiucoU A Co., publishers), “ Tho New Hyperion." by Edward Strahan, is continued: as also are “Malcolm,” by George Macdonald,” “A Modern Cresaida,” by; Francis Ashton, and “In a Caravan with Gerome the Painter ” is .concluded. T. Adolphus Trollope writes of “A ‘Meet’ in. the Campagna;” Fanny Roper Foudge on “Burning and Barring in* the East;” and B. Davoy on “A Visit to Pasta.” Sarah Winter Kellogg commences - a story on “ Life as a Book-Agent;” and poems are fur nished by James Maurice Thompson, 1 Titus Munson Goan, and John Boyle O’Boilly. - • —Other periodicals received: HcmoresCs Monthly for May ».W. Jennings Damorest, New York); KorlhicestO'n Beviexo for Anril (R. B. -Dcarden, Chicago); Medical Investigator for April'(Chicago) ; African Jtepatiiory for April (American Colonization Society, Washington); Wisconsin Lumberman for April (Milwaukee); Spectator for April (New York and Chicago).. —Senor Castelar baa just completed a novel, entitled “The Story of tho Heart.” —James H. Osgood A Go. have made arrange | moots with Karl Baedeker by which they become tho publishers of his Guide-Books in this coun try; and an edition bearing their imprint will • very shortly be offered to the public. There are nine of these volumes, devoted to those portions of Continental Europe moat frequented by travelers. —A volume of poems by George Eliot is in the press, and will shortly be issued by Messrs, Blackwood A Sons. —P._W. Farrar's new “ Life of Christ” will be brought out in this country by E. P. Dutton A Co. It will contain two original illustrations by Holman Hunt. —Prof. Proctor’s new book, “ The Universe and the Coming Transits,” will be published sim ultaneously ia London and Philadelphia by J. B. Linpincott & Co. —The Loudon Academy finds in Prof. Petit’s “History of Mary Stuart," which ia written from the Roman Catholic point of‘view, facta and ar guments which well deserve consideration. —The Lippincotts are abont to bring out a his torical account of ancient' and modem sects, parties, and opinions, from the foundation of the Christian Church to the present day. —Henry Wikoff has a new book in Lippincott’s press, entitled “ The Four Civilizations of tb© World.” —“ Men of tho Mayflower,” and other lectures, ia Ponshon’s now volume, to bo issued by Estes A Lauriat —“The Foar-Loaved Clover” is the new story by “ Saxe Holm,” to appear in the Juno Scrib ner's. ■ ■ —Philip Bourke Marston, the latest disciple of the Pre-Raphaelite poets, is to publish a second volume of poems. —A now biography of Poe, which is being pre pared by John H- Ingram, is to contain letters hitherto unprintod, rebuttiag-tbo attacks ,of hia former biographer, Dr. Rufus W. Griswold. —Prof. John Nichol, B. A., LL.E>., of Glasgow University, an elaborate article on American Literature,for the revised Encyclopae dia Bntannica. —Mr. J. A. H. Murray haa in hand for the Early English Text Society the “Rhymes and Prophecies of Thomas of. Flrciidoano. commonly called the Rhymer.” ■ —Editor Howelle’ now etory, will commence in the July number of the Atlantic. Itia to be a novel of Italy. —Victor Hugo, besides bis now novel,'has also finished a new drama, “ Torquomada,” but at the entreaty of his friends has put it back in his writing-desk again. It is said to contain even more extraordinary political and religious para doxes than “ Ninety-Three,” which is hardly possible. . - —Eveliu Jorrold writes from Paris to tho Academy; “Hicheiet died with bis work com- Elotod. The fourth volume of his ‘Histoirodu 'ix-Nouviomo Siecio ’ is published, and, I believe there are but a few addenda wanting to complete’ the work—one of the moat powerful analyses of tho Bonapartes’ influence in France that has yet been given to tho world,” —A now edition of Adam Smith’s “ Wealth of Nations.” which has been oat of print for two years, is in press at. Putnam’s. Wo are author ized to contradict any rumor that the reprint Is caused by a Congressional demand for the work —Ae?c York Mail. —The literature of tho temperance crusade, m addition to tbe-storics of Mr, T, S. Arthur and the Rev. E. P, Roe, has been enriched by an alhterativelv-titled book, “The Women’s War on Whisky, M by Mr. J. H. Beadle. Dio Lewis writing tho introduction. As a farthorcomribu- Uon to the cause of temperance generally, .though not particularly to tho late “movement ” Messrs. D. Lathrop & Co. are to reprint the 250- gmnea prize-essay, “ The Temperance Reforma tion : Its Claims upon the Christian Church.” NEW “AMERICA.” God bleaa our women pare; Long may they Uva lo lure Strong men from eiu. When from their homes they strait "Where Satan leads the way. And grow thoy day by day Impure within, Then may our women wise In mighty strength arise With tongue and pen. And make of home the spot Where evil comelh not, Where love shall cheer lot. And saro the men. Mae. W. G, WasiiQE. THE ESPLANADE. How to Utilize the Bcaudes or Lake Michigan, The Grand Eesort for Sultry Nights, Some Suggestions for Benevoleni Citizens. A Pew Figures on tire Cost. If Chicago has any natural beauty to boast of, it must be that it overlooks the shimmering, ever-changing, cloud-reflecting Lake Michigan. It might almost ho assumed, in fact, that a body of clear water is tho moat beautiful evidence of Nature’s handiwork. Contrasts need not bo drawn to prove this. There Is nothing that un dergoes the variety of change that is incident to a translucent lake. The sea is craudor, Dut not so beautiful. It thrills with tho sublimity of its power, but it gives back no restfuhaoaa. It is a picture of life, of turmoil, immensity, of things not understood; but looking upon a piacid lake, girt round with meadow, and forest, cultured flelds and the homes of men, wo come to some thing that the mind can grasp and utilize cither as a power or a sentiment. It 1b a thing of beauty and a joy forever. It glows in tbe sunshine. It sleeps in a deop slumber. It raves in tempestuous wrath, or ripples In the moonlight, tracing upon its bosom a path of brilliant hue, that can almost bo fan cied to lead to brighter worlds beyond. These are tho pictures incident to a lake. ADDED TO THESE ENDUBINQ BEAUTIES, which arc as ancient as the hills, and might have been enjoyed in the days whoa the waters of Lake Michigan gently beat upon the siltiriaa beach, traffic and commerce add new charms al most as picturesque in the shipping scenes that tell of industry as well as of inanimate beauty. There is no prettier sight than the broad bosom : of an expanse of water cohered with a fleet of ‘ vessels- going and coming, faffing into the dim horizon, or coming into port, aud growing larger and more lifelike as they approach the harbor. ; The little boats that hug the land, the wheezy , and energetic toes, and the myriad numberof sail and row boats that ply near the shore, also add to the pleasant aspect of the scene of a summer : evening,and give the whole thoform of a full-toned ' picture, replete with animation and beauty. This is the appearance that the harbor at Chicago fre quently presents. That is to say, the scene which may bo conjured up by the imaginative upon this alight suggestion would give oao as pect of the varying picture. Now, although Chicago is a city of trade, and does not confess to much taste for sentiment, yet it will scarcely be denied that there is AN UTILITY IN BEAUTY of this kind which goes far towards the culture and improvement of the mind, not to speak of how groat a joy it is to the heart, We pay an involuntary homage to the lako view by holding 1 residence sites upon Us accessible margin at higher prices than ground elsewhere, and of sultry nights when trado has laid aside her scoptro for the time being, aud we either confess to tender er feelings, or to a disgust for close quartsis, it , ia the common habit to stroll along the streets adjacent to the lake, seeking not only cool air, but quiet amusement and recreation. Thus is Lake Michigan a conservator of the peaceful and unobtrusive arts, and more of au attraction chan any of our parks, which have their drawbacks, our drives, which aro for the few, our other places of resort, which aro wearisome. In fine, Lake Michigan is the chief attraction and beauty of this city. WHAT WE HAVE NOT. But it is not for the purpose of pointing out this somewhat apparent fact that it id now allud ed to. It is a atrango thing that in in all our schemes to add tothonumberof breathing places about Chicago, there has boon so little attention paid to this fact, and bo little effort made to make use of the advantages spoken of, for the beoolit of the people. In boaport towns, where any pretense ia made to having a place of public resort, it is built with an especial 'lew to taking advantage of the water-scene and the cooling breeze that blows from the sea. TUB OB QUAY"' • is the common pleasure ground! In Havana, for instance, it becomes at evening a sort of as semblage place to which the people repair, and ■whore they moet in almost the only general so ciability they hare. This, of coarse, would be neither necessary nor agreeable here, and it is not to bo expected that any such startling innovation will ensue, but it would be exceedingly agreeable; and it seems as if it would bo practicable, and compara tively inexpensive, to have a quay or terrace, say rsoat TWELFTH TO TWESTY-SECOXD BXEEET, running out into the lake two or three hundred feet, and sufficiently substantial to give a road way for carriages and a promenade ground for those on foot, that would answer the purpose of a down-town park or esplanade, which would bo accessible to all, and would combine, the rarest advantages of sight-seeing, comfort, and beauty —an artificial park overlooking the lake— ft place where the great multitude would throng of summer nights to breathe the fresh air, and to enjoy the many scenes of beauty, and sights of j interest that have been alluded to. Such a> re- | sort would have a number of other advantages in its favor which scarcely appertain to any other spot set aside for the purpose. In tho first place, it is central; it is but a step there and bac£. Again, it trespasses on no one’s rights. It would be an advantage to property in tho neighborhood, or, at all events, no detri ment. '.there is uo chance for a speculation in it. It admits of A VARIETY OF ARTIFICIAL ADORNMENT. It could bo built, for instance, high above tho water, with an inner driveway, and an outer promenade, where rustic seats might bo ar ranged. In the centre would be the band house, ami, if it were desirable, the comers could be built up as ornamental refreshment-sa loons. A fountain could easily bo constructed m another part. Covered bathing-houses might bo attached to it, and, in fact, a number of feasi ble projects might be thought of that would adorn, and at the same time pay the expenses of the improvement. Its chief advantage, however, would herbal it would give au esplanade or promenading ground for the public. • THE COST. ExperimoDtolly, it could bo built for about $25,000, on tho following basis, which will also give the proportionate cost of extensions, if it should afterwards be deemed advisable to en large tho area covered. The cost of building a walk 800 feet iu length, covering the epaco from Twentieth to Twenty-second street, running out 200 feet, the walk to be i 0 feat in width, is estimated as follows: 30,090 feet of piling, at 40c par f00t.,... . ' 100.000 feet oak. 12x12, at S4O 30,009 feet pins. 3x12, at S2O * . 290.000 feat pine, 3 inched, labor and spiking, a bo at .T. . 4QTO 4,000 feet railing, about I.OJO ... " $21,609 If it were built in this way, the form would bo & simple .parallelogram, or hollow square, with rounded comers, lu this shape: Lake 600x40 feet. lie San || o Shore. » B«nd-Hon«; bb Elevated walk; oc fountains. The coat of the conatraction being s2l GDO would leave $3,400 for tho building of the band house, erection of fountains, and other im provements, and still keep tho figures within the estimate of $25,000. This, however, wouid give no opportunity for A BOADWA7. To make the plan comprehensive enough to include this latter desideratum, it would be nec essary to extend ita limits longitudinally and build that part devoted to the drive more sul>- stautially. This would entail a largo additional expense. It would probably coat SIOO,OOO to build it twice the length given, with a road for carriages of 40 feet in width, within the circle of the promenade, or if found leas expensive, the space conld be filled in with debris, as in the case of the Lake Park, and the structure be built over it. The foregoing gomowlut rads and hasty oat- lino of the improvements possible to be m.e. „ this (lircction. are piven with the hope that pnbhe bouefactor will ari.-a ead name and win the grautade of an oftetto-iX-* bested commnmty by tabing upon V biulcl it, or if tho Citj Fathers should reaiiv Eire to present the public with a raSSifcj token of their esteem, tint they may consider tho many pouofiia to bo bestowed by this method “ LET US ALL BH UNHAPPY OH SUNDAY* A Lyric for Saturday iTJffht, Am—“ Ifebipcua, maJe up of fraielatt* Wc up of stiff cUy, The aour-lookhig children of sorrow • While not ovor-joliy to-day, * licjoite to bo wretched to-morrow. Wo can’t for a certainty tell What mirth may molest us oa Monday* But, at least, to bogiu tho week wclL * Let lia all be unhappy on Sunday. That day, tho calm season of rest. Snail como to ua freezing and frigid; A gloom ail our thoughts shall invest, buch as Calvin would call orer-rigid, With sermons from morning till night, WcTl strive to be decent and dreary * To preachers a praise and delight, * Wxio ne'er think that sermons can weary. All tradesmen cry np their own wares; In this they agree well together; Tbs mason by atono and lime awoara ; The i.inner is always for leather; Tho smith still for iron would go; The schooanaaier stands np fur teaching* And the j-artion would tu.va you to know** There’s nothing oa earth liko his preaching. The face of 3dnd Nature is fair; But.our eyatem obscured Ua effulgence; How sweet Is a breath of frssh air I But our rules don’t allow the indulgence, Thefct; gardens, their walks an.d green bower* Might bo free to tho poor man - for one day; But no, tho glad plants and gav fi owers Mustn’t bloom or smell sweetly t'n Sunday, TVhat though a good precept wa strain Till hateful and hurtful we mife* j ■What though, in thus pulling the rein. We may drew it bo tight as to breakltr Abroad w forbid folks to ream, For foat they get sodal or frjliy; Bui of courts they can ait still at boms. And get dismally drunk upon whisky. Then, though we can’t certainly tell How uilnlx may molwl us on Monday * At lea-st, to begin the week well. Let u» all be uuiiuppy on Sunday. -Blackwood?* Jlwjazint, On the contrary—riding a mule. —Lead astray—Bullets that don’t hit the> mark. —lf there is one time more anothei when a woman should be entirely aloae.lt is when a full line of clothes cornea down in tha, mud. —Banbury Sexes, —A Detroit paper noting the fact that a mans fell down dead while combing his hair, utb • “ And yet there are people who will persist in that dangerous habit.” —A Maine debating society is now wrertlfap with the question ; “ Is a Sabbath-school Super intendent justified in wearing a red Deck-tier 1 — Boston Transcript. —On Wea Praiiie, near Lafayette, Ini, is %. little hut 4 feet high, with a 40-foot lightning rod on it. The proprietor, being naked if h» was afraid of the Ifglr.nhar, replied: “Not a. bit; but it keeps those cussed lightning-rod fel lers from striking.” —“ Don't prevaricate, sir,” thundered a Co lumbiad Judge to a'witness from the mine. Can’t help it, Judge,” answered the minar.- * 4 Evor since I pot a kick from a mule that knocked my teeth out, I prevaricate a good dual.’* —A man named Button died recently in South-* em Berkshire, Mass., and when tha sexton start ed oat with pitk and shovel, somebody asked: him what ho was going to do. “ Going to make a Buttonhole,” was the not very grave reply. —Johnny, walking with his mother in ths country, the other day, and spying some black-- and-white spotted pigs lying down by the side, gravely inquired if they were coach pigs. —An Uiinoisian wrote to Horace Greeley several; times anking him what was good for catarrh, and finally Horace got out of patience and re> plied; “Chop your d—a head off.” ; —‘‘Nothing,” said an impatient husband, “ re minds me so much of Balaam and bis ass as tws women stopping in church, and obstructing the way to indulge in their everlasting talk.'* w ßat you forget, my dear," returned the wife, meekly, “that it was the angel who stopped the mj t and Ualaam and his ass who complained of it" —An inebriated individual precipitated him faelf down the depot-etairs, and, on striking th» landing, reproachfully apostrophised hiustir with : “If you’d been wanting to coma down stairs, why didn’t you say so, you woodec headed old fool, an* I’d a coma with you aa‘ showed you tho way," —Cabby (to stately-party, who had given ha his lesrai faro) —“ ifakin*' vor fortune, sir, no doubt!” Swell (not exactly catching the ra* mark) —“Eh/" Cabby—“ You're a layia’by* good bit o* money, sir. I’ll be bound I”' Swell (indignantly)—“ What d’yon moan, air?” Cab by— •* \VTiy, youdou’tspeud much, eoemin’lyr- Punch. ‘ : —Discontented Cabby (to ladies, who, wiihicr .to get rid of their small change, have tendered him one fourpenny piece, two threepenny di&v one penny, ouo halfpenny, and two farthings— the sum total amounting to his proper fare): “ Weil! ’ow long might yor both a’been a Baring up for this little treat ?”~J‘unch. —While a youthful couplo were being joined in wedlock m a Justice’s Court, in New York, recently, tbo damsel rather astonished a munbet' of spectators by suddenly breaking out with, “I want to know whether we are going to keep house or board, before going into this thing? 1 The Judge ruled the question out of order, and the ceremony proceeded. —ln Marysville, Cal., the other day, a New foundland dog walked into a market, dropped a 10-cent piece out of his mouth and walked oS with a whole salmon. The butcher says some folks may call that dog intelligent, but he thinks that & dog that can’t distinguish between a -10-ccnt slice and a $5 fish hasn't got even com mon sense. , —Papa had made several unsuccessful at tempts to procure tickets for a recent popular entertainment at the -Boston Museum. Coming home disappointed one evening, he announced to his wife that there were no seats for “Lit-*e Em’ly” that night, and ho didn’t fcobere there would bo for a week, at least. Mamie's quick sympathies were enlisted at once, Papa?” she inquired, compassionately. ‘Woni her farcer let her eit down?" ~ . . • . —As a traveling party were riding through Palestine, the attention of a certain American was called to the reputed seat of Moses’ loino. “ Moses who ?” says Jonathan. Why thegrwi Moses who led the Children of Israel through the desert for forty years.” “How far ia that ‘‘Three hundred’iniled. maybe.” XJpon* which the American remarked: ‘‘The Chicago 4 Northwestern would have taken’em threngh,! guess, in eight hours.” 7* A SONG OF NATURE. Id each life there ts some goodaew. In each soul bvi;j« hiJclni grace,— All Ue*pito the reeming i adeaesS, Or the stern, foruidding /ace. Though wo turo away in borrow, Striving hard to hide the tear, We shall lind the good to-morrow, Never fear. .$12,000 . 4,000 . COO Oh! the world seems all the brighter Aa our faith in good grows atrongf And our burdens at*, the lighter - As our hearts art* nded with song. Ay, wo may not look for beavch, Sutq wluxin the inner life,— Bom of lore, au treasures given, Free from strife. Oh! for words that are unbroken By the bitternci j of Labi: Oh I for love that is unspoken To the souls that 44 watch and wait.* Somewhere in th<» bouatilesa measure Of the Universal G-uJ, ”VTo shall find the source of pleasure Understood. Let ua list to Mother datura, Learn the winsome song aho sings,. And bo stamp on or’ry ftatura All thegraces that *he brings ; Thus shall we forget our sadneas In the beauty of tbaseng. And the world lu very gladneis Move along. For the heart, in ita completeness, Does net bjat for tc!/ aioue,— r.i>e were lire reft of its sweetness. Else wt-ro truth u orerthrovrn. - *Tia to each wan s brother, Though the sunbeams maj not shio*» *Xis tohveforca* aautatr— Tha;’<* divma, DCBCQUE, lA. LOVE’S sc;. ! & Together, my love ami I, enng we J 1 to her, shit to me; A httlo b s *"* in the tre« above Took up again onr song of love* And chctriiy sang wa three. ■Weary and waiting I still sing on; Ike little bird has long since flown. And I think that she in heaven abort Takes up again my song of love. As I sing it here alone. •Graphic. HUtfon. ■w.3 .TxuO*