The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-08-08
OURCHICAGO LETTER.
CHICAGO, August 8, 1857

passion for improvements, disposition
well calculated to promote her growing
greatness, but her efforts can scarcely be
said to be always rightly directed She
is rather unwisely fond Of gliding exposed
points and crowding all manner of filth
into the hidden places, but as to all rules
there are exceptions, so there Is an eX-
ceptlon here, prominent anl conspicuous
lnlqulty which no one seems to regard as
calling for reform. We build magnificent
school houses. and splendid churches, and
our g Armory'' or central police station is
kept in as filthy, poisonous and disgust
ing a state as possible so as either to give
criminals a horror for its cells or to kill
them if they go there often. Yet with
all these moral agencies and galore of
religious instruction, our city and county
authorities permit the existence of and
indeed maintain a school for vice a den
OF decentralization as bad or rather worse
than the vilest haunts of Wells street.
And this place, where the eyes Of the
adult arc outraged and the minds of the
young are polluted is in no by-way, no
dark alley, it is In our Court House square
in the very heart Of the city. in the full
light Of day. Our county Jail occupies
the basement and part Of the first story
OF the Court House, and at the grated
windows Of the hallway and the women's
rooms above, and of the corridors of the
men 5 department below, may be seen,
at any hour of the day the bad repulsive
faces of the criminals within Crowds
collect to gaze upon them, the majority
OF whom are children, and here hour
after hour the wretches inside, are per-
mltted to vent the foulest obscenity and
shocking profanity to make the most dis
gustlng and indecent exposures, to sing
songs which would bring blush to the
cheek of brass statute of Venus and to
converse with perfect freedom, with their
paramours and acquaintences who come
to attend their levee. Such shameless
and revolving display of hardened ripe
and rotten sin, it would be hard to find
anywhere else The voices of those de
graded wretches may be heard out on
fares, and over on Washington street
wherever, there is a momentary lull in
the roar of passing vehicles and it is rare
that one can go through the Park without
these creatures amusing themselves by
heaping upon him the most vile and ap-
probrious epithets and, if he glance in
exposures of the most brutal character
The stranger asks why this evil IS not
reformed? Well, nobody is interested in
it, apparently. The County will not
bulid new Jail on a less exposed situa-
ton: The keepers OF the prisoners are
used to such sights and sounds and don
mind them. Our good people really have
too much to attend to in the way of mis-
sInn aff
ralities. Besides, it amuses the children
and instructs them so that when they be-
come old enough they can in turn amuse
another rising generation in like manner
Chicago is becoming more and more
cosmopolitan and in stroll through her
streets now one sees representatives of
every class OF our country and almost of
every nation on the globe Even species
winch have been almost ext! net or which,
like Capre Wine would not bear transpor
tation, appear occasionally AS an in
stance OF this, as was going down street
the other evening, when | encountered
veritable ''Bowery b b'hoy'' as thorough
Nose as ever adorned the Bowery,
''bunked wild de hose company in Lizabef
street or sang Jake Keyzer." A fight
had just occurred between two draymen
and one has split the others head ooen
with dray pin. The cash seemed about
eight inches long, blood poured ou5 like
water from fire plug and twas thought
that the man was killed He was borne
into neighboring drug store and the
crowd rushed in after him Among them
was he Of ye Bowery. All were offering
suggestions as to what should be done
and he clipped in thus: ''Yah put a
oyster on it.. Could anything recall more
vividly the balnly days of big Six and
the perils Of him who ran wild de ma
chine
An important change has recently been
made in the Michigan Central r. r.
management, by the resignation of its
General Superintendent Mr.. r. \. Rice
and the appointment Of Nj r. f. Sar-
gent formerly General Ticket Agent in
his stead. Mr.. Rice has been connected
with the road for twenty years. The
Michigan Central is one of the finest
roads in the United States and one of the
most prosperous at this time 1t repre-
sents a capital of sic, 1000, 900, and as
slight indication Of its facilities for bus
mess may state that its rolling stock con-
slsts OF 100 locomotives, SO first class pas
senger cars, l9 baggage cars and ,450
freight cars, to which they are constantly
adding new palatia cars of the Pullman
pattern and day passenger cars which
cast far into the shade any thing the East
has ever attempted for the accommoda-
ton of railway travel. The formerly
assumption of the duties and responsible
tiles of General Superintendent by Mr..
Sa rgent occurred on the 18th inst. He
is an old railroad man, Of sound iudg-
ment and ripe experience and there need
be no fears of decline in the character
of the road under his management
At a State street boarding house the
other Gay, an injured wife from Indiana,
caught her husband 10. Bratton in the
arms of a Miss Howard, had the pa1r ar
rested and held for trial for adultery and
things
There have only been 61O deaths this
year in Chicago. whereas in the same
time last year there were 700. Taking
into consideration the increase of popula-
ton this is quite credit to the efficiency
of the new Health Department Of our
municipal government.
Three people were drowned in the riv-
er yesterday, one with difficulty rescued
from drowning, and one drowned body
found
Amusements are rather dull. The
Black Creek continues on the boards
at McVicker's Morgan, the greatest or
ganist on this continent has given three
concerts here this past week, the last
he intends to give in the west for years
te come.
Quotations on change to-day are as fol
lows = Flour. dull, S12,25 for White
winter, So, ,O0(61O,25 for Spring Extras
Wheat, dull, 50, 10(92,25 for No. ], ST.
10 for No. 2, 81 80 for No. 8, Red, 81, ,S3
(aIs5 for No. 2, S1,75 for No, 3. Spring
Corn better, Ss3g0ac for No. l, s44(9
soc for No. 2, 77(1sOcfar rejected Oats
unsettled; 5q@63 for No /, 6OC963c for
No q. Rye, 95(9l, 90 for No l, $50 |
90. e.. NJ. q NatI.:a= l.::..1x R...i,.-