Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 19, 1872, Page 4

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE—Washington News : Ountline of Commis ‘sloner Dougles' Report ; the Chicago Marino Hospl, tal Frands—Forelgn News—Special New York Markets. ¥ SECOND PAGE-Reminisconces of the Late William H, ‘Seward—The Tennessee Trianglo—Franklin Corwin: His sotion 1o Regard to the Support. of Soldiers' Families—Froude's Speech at & Complimentary Din- ‘Dor Given Him in New York—IndianTroubles~Rob- bing 8 Prima Donna—Missing Explorers—Mark Twain and tho London Publishor—Head Dress: Ar- rangement and Color—General Nows Items. THIRD PAGE—Local: The Quakers of Chicago; Swa” denborgta® Convention; The Law Courta—The Presidential Contest: Frauds in Pennsylvania— Appeals from the National and New Hampshire Liberal Republican _Committees—Miscellansons ‘Parsgraphs~Rallroad Time Table. FOURTH PAGE—Editorials : Moneyand Trado ; The ~ South Garolina Eloction—James Anthony Froude— + The German Catholic Gonflict—Onrrent News ltems —Political. FIFTH PAGE-Local : How Immigrants are Swindled snd Fleeced by Sharpers; City in Brief; Liberal ppointments. > SIXTH PAGE—Monetary and Gommercial. SEVENTH PAGE—Local and Telegraph Markets—Ma- rine Items—Miscelisneous Advertisements: Real Estate, For Salo, Wants, To Bent, &o. EIGHTH PAGE—The Campalgn: Speach of Senator Doollttle, last evening; Political News by Telegraph —Miscellaneons Telegraphic News. — AMUSEMENTS TO-DAY. M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, betwoen ‘State and Dearborn—** Married Life." Matines at 2 Pm. ) : ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted, strect near Madi- sou—** Whose Wife 1" Matinee at2 p. m. MYERS' OPERA HOUSE~Monros streat, between State snd Dearborn—Azlington, Cotton & Kembie's Minstrels. Matineoat2p. m. AIERN'S THEATRE~Wabash avenue snd Congress ‘strect—Mrs, James A. Obtes' BurlesqueTroupe. Matince at2p. m. GLOBETHEATRE—Desplaines, betwesn Madison and ‘Washington streets. Varioty Entertalument.. Matinee st2p.m. NIXON'S—Clinton ‘street, between Washington and Randolph. 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GILES, BRO. &:CO.y There was one murder and one suicide in Ten- messee, and one murder and one stage robbery in Montans, on Thursday. Ex-Governor Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, has been appointed Consul to Liverpool by the President. At the Louisville Trotting Conrse, two Mam- brino yearlings contested, making, it is eaid, better time by 9% seconds than is om record. ‘The time given is 3:185¢. The Hon. J: A, HEsoRIcks, Liberal Governor- elect of Indians, is announced to deliver £ive po- liticsl addresses in this Btate, commencing at Chicsgo, Tuesdsy, Oct. 22. The Irith Catholic Benevolent Bocieties, " which are holding & Convention in Philadelphis, Tefused to strike out the word *Irish” from their title. The majority prefer to be exclusive - than be general in their charity. An epidemic has been raging among the horses in Ontario, Cansda, for some time; it has ‘become so great that all farm work requiring + horses has been discontinued, and the horee Tailways of Montreal have been embarrassed to find horees fit for work, The disease is mot fatal. : The Superintendent of Police gives public notice that on and after to-morrow, Sunday, Oct. 20, the police will enforce the law against all perdons who shall keep open their saloons, bars, ‘billiard halls, or other places where lignors are s01d¥ on Sunday—dey, or night. The provision of the city ordinance on this subject, as well as the opinion of the Corporation Counsel, are set forth in the Superintendent’s notice. . ~It’seems that the frand concerning the bids for material to the Chicagd Marite Hospits) building hes been known at Washington for some time, and that, despite the efforts made “here to prevent it, the Treasury peremptorily . dismissed those concerned in it. It seems, also, “{hat Mr. Rankin was sent to Chicago to super- intend the erection of the Government buildings becage of tho inability of the Government to trust any of the local rings or.managers here. . The Marine Hospital fraudi§ to be prosecuted Defore the next Grand Jury in Chicsgo, and the guilty parties are to bo indicted. Money has been tighter in Chicago, ddring the Iast three weeks, than for any similar period in balf-a-dozen years. Bank deposits had been largely reduced, and good commercial paper eells in the street at 134 to 2 per cent por month. Bat capitel is freely offered on mortgages of * . first-class real estate, at 9 to 10 per cent per an- num. There has been, also, a perceptible im- provement in the tone of the commercial money market during the last few days; deposits are increasing, and the inoreaeing receipte and ship- menta of hogs and cattle ave making an incresse ' of funds here. The Grant Tressurer of Olmstesd County, Minnesota, has been loaning the county cash to his friends for speculative uses. Thereat the unreasonable Grantites of that region are wroth. They say that ho must give up his office. Yet these men have probably been beating the festive drum and firing the loud-mouthed can- non, to celebrate tho guccessful ballot-box stuffing that mede Hartranft Governor of Penn- sylvania. It would take the proverbial Phila- delphia lawyer, duly bribed with Cameron's cash, to fell wherein the Olmstead County Treasurer is more guilty than the present Audi- tor, and fature Governor, of Pennsylvania. Several charges have been made against the management of the National B ank of Marshall- town, Tows, Chief among them is that of usury. It is reported from Washington that the Intter charge has been proved, and that the bank will be forced, on account of it, to go into liqui~ dation. We know nothing sboub the righto® wrong of this particular case, but mention it, be - ¢uuse such & punichment for usury will estab- lish & very important precedent. The violation of usurylaws is of constant occurrence. Thisis a patent fact, Money, like water, finds its own lovel. It seems unjust, therefore, to force one bank into liquidation, for this reason alone, and give tacit consent to the violation of the law by others. In the National Board of Trade, the first ques- tion discussed yesterdsy was the recommenda- tion of a treaty for reciprocal trade with Canada, with a condition that the Government of the Dominion shall enlarge the Wel- land and other canals. The debate took & wide range, in which reciprocity onthe basis of free trade, reciprocity on the basis of a reduced tariff, and reciprocity without the enlargement of the canalg, were all consider- ed. The New Yorkers do not like the project of making the St. Lawrence navigable, as it will divert trade from that State. The original recommendation was adopted. After a long de- ‘bate, the ship-building question was postponed till next year. Henry H. Armstrong, a well-known and wealthy citizen of Medison, Ind., was killed at hie own house on Thursdsy night. He and bis wife have not been living amicably together, and he had been sbsent in New Albeny. At 11 o'clock he was either murdered or shot himself outside his back door. His wife states that he entered the house with- out disturbing any person, took off his boots and placed them in the parlor, then ascended to her room, where he beat and abused her, finally dragging her down stairs; that she then screamed, when he released her, she returning up stairs. A few minates later ehe heard the pistol shot, and s neighbor found Armstrong dead ontside the back door; he had not put on his boots, and his hands and person indicated that he had had s severe struggle. The Coroner is trying to nneover the mystery. The Chicago produce markets were a little more active yesterdsy, and generally higher. Mess pork was steady and quiet at $14.50 cash, and $12.50 seller - December, cr seller January. TLard was dull at 8%/@8}4c for winter, and 7%@ 8c for new. Meats were quiet and unchanged at 6@624c for shoulders, and 10@10{¢ for short ribs. Highwines were quiet and steady at 88c per gallon. Lake freights were guiet, but strong, at 1c advance, closing easier at 17c for corn by sail to Buffalo. Flour wasquiet and steady» ‘Wheat was more active, and 24c¢ higher, but closed easier at $1.11 cash, am_i_ £1.10% seller November. Corn was more active, and averaged 8 ehade higher, closing tame at 8034 cash, and 8134c seller November. Oats were active and ¢ higher, closing 2t 213¢c cash, and 22}4c seller November. Rye was more active, and }4c high- er, at 51c for fresh receipts of No. 2. Barley was active, and firmer, closing at 64c for No. 2, and 48c for No. 8. The hog trade was more active, but prices were without improvement, ruling steady at yesterday's decline, or at $4.30@4.60. Cattle were in good demand at unchanged prices. Bheep met with a fair local and ship- ping demand at $3.50@5.00. = ‘Itis & significant fact that the people who never see an Indian, except when some very stc- cesafal scalper is taken to Washington a8 & Te- ward for his prowess, believe in the peace policy, and the people who are liable to send their hair to Washington dangling from the successful ecalper’s belt, don't believe in it. Here is the Prescott (Arizons) AMiner, which celebrates its tenth anniversary by ssying that it has recorded, in every week of its decads, atleast one murder of a white man by Indisns. It ia safe to say that at least two-thirds of the victimshave been*killed with United States ammunition shot from United States guns by the red-handed robbera to whom mistaken mercy had given these means of mur- der. A white man who stabs auother in cold blood is (sometimes) hangefd; s woman who coolly shoots & man for loving his own wife is let out of jail by a sobbing dozen of idiots; and a red man who rossts his victim alive is not even put in jail, but receives horses, and knives, and guns, from the country whose citizen he has tor- tured to death. Can 5 reason be given for these scandalons distinctions ? MONEY AND TRADE-WHAT MUST BE DONE. 'The present course of ‘business and the ‘money ‘market has quite eclipsed the *political sitaa- tion™ as dn bbject of interest, 80 far, at least, as this city is concerned. Very few persons, ex- cept candidates for office and their immediate friends in either party, can get up any spunk for torch-light processions or public meetingsona tight money market. With corn at 30 cents and oats at 20 or thersbouts, farmers poor, country merchants behindhand, city merchants applying for discounts which they cannot get at the cus- tomary rates or to the desired amount, it is no wonder that politics comes to be-looked upon by’ business men as & noisarce. - ‘There is good rezson to believe that the pres- entcramp in financial circles is only temporary, and that the worst of it has been seen (there was an evident improvement yesterdsy); for, not- withstanding the stringency in commercial ‘paper, there has been little diminution in the amount of money offered for mortgage loans, or in the amount secking investment in real estate. Indeed, there bas hardly been a season when the activity in suburban property was greater than it hes been this fell. Business property is rela~ tively dull, because it is believed that the re- building operations of the present year wil suffice for a while ; but acre property, both west and south, has constantly been in active demand at sdvancing prices. These facts show that the capital of the country seeking invest- went is nnippaired; and thet the sirivgency in commercial circles is due to temporary causes, the principel one of which is to be found in the condition ‘of the grain market. Agriculture represents five-sixths of the industry of the Western States, and (connting cotton and to- bacco) probsbly three-fourths of that of the entire conntry. Wo in the West have to deal with the cereal and meat crops, and only incidentally with the productions of the Southern States ; and we Liave to observe firat that the prices of grain are, on the average, 83 per cent lower than they were last year—in consequence of the fact that the quantity raised hag been much greater than the previous year. The grea increase of shipments (equial o 39 per cent upon the year 1871) has had the effect, also, to put up the rate of freights both byland and water, so that the farmer sees his candle burn- ing at both ends. He gets less per bushel for his grain, and he pays more per bushel for send- ing it to market. With five-sixths of the indus- try of the Northwest in this situation, the other sixth gennot be really prosperous. Nevertheless the shipments of the three lead- ing cereals are enormous in amount, averaging 350,000 bushels per day,—fully 30 per cent higher than the average of former years,—so that the amonnt of money or property coming from the Erstern and foreign markets ought to be abott 89 great ag before, minus the excess paid. for freight this year over last. The English_de- mand for our breadstuffs is likely to be larger than usual, since the crop of the British isles is damaged by excessive moisture. This ig o material help to us, and islikely to go s long way toward tiding us over the present pinch. The cattle and hog crop is now coming forward in unexampled abundance, and prices are pretty well meintained as yet. The outlook in this quarter is hopeful, and, unlees the marketis overstocked, the returns from this branch of trade will soon be perceptible in increased ease in money.” Two facts stand out prominently in the pres- ent condition of Western trade and industry, ‘We must have new outlets (that is, channels of transportation) for our products, or we must materially reduce ourgrops of cereals. To re- duce our grain crops will be to change, or remodel our largest branch. of. industry; =snd sl such changes are necessarily slow and costly. To enlarge the Canadian canals, and opens new route down the St. Lawrence, would practicably doubla our facilities for transportation ; and this the Cana- dians are perfectly willing to do for ,ua if we will renew the Reciprocity Treaty which was discontinued by ouract in the year1864. It does seem impossible that any human being in this country can longer oppose the renewal of that treaty, which never harmed a soul during the whole period of its operation. At all events, we hope the Northwest will make itself heard in thunder tones at Washington this winter on this sobject. Meanwhile, let us hope that the Na- tional Board of Trade now in session will take the initiative in demanding this measure of re- lief, 80 inexpensive and g0 easily granted. THE SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION, The Iate election in South Carolina furnishes & more striking proof of the great revolution which the country has passed through during the last seven years than any other thing that has yet occurred. In no State, previous to the war, were political privileges so carefully guard- ed. The right to hold office, to represent o dis- trict in the Legislature, and even to vote, were limited by restrictions and qualifications which ‘were required no where else. The majority of thie people were blacks. In 1860 the negro pop- ulation was 412,320, and the white 291,300 dur- ing the ten years that followed, ‘the colored people had increased to 415,814, and the whites decreased to 289,667, The slaves in 1860 num- bered 402,406, being mora than four-sevenths of the whole population. The white population of South Carolina was weslthy and edncated ; its Government was singularly free from cor- ruption, and its affairs were conducted with sbility. Official integrity was so thoroughly cultivated, th&t officers dared not brave public opinion by any sct of questionable propriety. Of course this is all apart from the monstrous crime of glavery,—for which we of the North were not wholly guiltless. After the war the colored people were invested with equal politi- cal rights, and many of the former white rmlers were rendered ineligible for office. The condi- tion of the slaves in South Carolina had been more abject and degrading than .in any other Btate. They were denied education of anykind; they were denied any intercourse with whites, or blacks from other States; the negroes of one plantation wero strangers to those on the next,—the policy being to keep them as isolated and as nninformed as'possible. The election on Wednesday last exhibits the revolution which hadbeen accomplished. There were two tickets nominated by the Republicans, and voted for, made up as follows : 7, Irreqular, , Irt R. Tomlinson,” Lt. Gove H. Cleaves,} J. W. Hayne.f Becretary State.H. E. Hayne.t Allen. Tresgure? .....F, L. Csrdozo.t E.F. Gary.* Comptroller ..., L. Hoge,* J. B. Freemsn,* Bupt.Equcat’n.J, E, Jillson,* B. L. Roberts,t Att'y General..§, W, Milton,* J. T. Green.* Adjt. General. .H, W, Purvis.t P. E. Ezedel.t Cong.-at-Large.R. H. Crain.t Joseph Quash,t “ewaite! tColored. o aurt Three of the four district candidates for Con- gress, J. H. Rainey, A. J. Ransier, snd- Robert B. Elliott, were colored, and were elected with- out opposition; in the other district, two can- didates wore run, both whites. Of the 13 per- sons elected 8 are colored men, including four Congrossmen. Three-fourths of the ‘members of the two houses of the Legislatureare colored men. An United States Senator is to be chosen by this Legalaturo, and Robert B. Elliott (col- ored), st present o member of the Houso of Representatives, will probably be chosen. The Convention which nominated the Moses, or suc~ cesaful, ticket was composed principally of col- ored men, as was 2lso the Convention which nominated the Tomlinson ticket. The latter was supposed to be a shade better than the for- mer. i South Carolina, therefore, is at this time in that condition predicted by Senator Morton, & few years ago, a8 the inevitable re- sult of negro euffrage, completely Afri- canized. In that celebrated speech of his the Indiana Senator proclaimed thaf no white man could be blamed who would'refuse . to live in & State.officered and governed by men of the negro race. Rutwe donot consider the present em- barrassment of the State due so much to impar- tial Buffrago as to other causes. The previous degraded condition of the slaves, and thelr numerical majority, united with the fact that Bouth Carolina was free of debt, combined to make her & promising field for adventurers from the North, They found the colored people honest and &redulous. They found the negroes thoroughly convinced of their own want of poli- tical knowledge and experience, and when these erafty acoundrels told them that their inforiority e el e o DA st i A e ST SR RRAAASTR VElENN W%, o was more technical than real; that in 1 aet they were as well prepared as any b oy to hold ofice and make laws, 25 the white race, they joyfully accepted the infor ma- tion, and looked upon these carpet-baggors. as entitled to their eternal gratitude. The Cor 1sti- tution was framed ; certain white men gra sped the lesding offices, and they designated - their associates from the colored people. To p lease the ambition of the newly-made citiz(sns, & vegro wag made Judge of the Bupreme Court, end others were assigned to places equally responsible. The original plan, of givirg offices to a few colored men, while the whitrs held sll the others, soon broke down. The majority, made between the Bishop end Bismarck, Itis intima ted by the Kreuz Zeitung that the salary of tho .Bishop will be stopped, and at the next ‘meeting of the Reichsrath, Bismarck will devise some me: \n8 for the more completo subjugstion of the (latholics. Meanwhile, the Ultramon- tane leade I8 aTe preparing for the conflict. The Bishop bt 1'fayence, in an interview with & news- paper corres pondent, laughed at the ides that Bismarck could harm the Church, and said that the most he could do would be to take awsy the revenues of the Church from the State, which were not & gift from the State, but only the return of the Church property sequestered during the wars which followed the French Rev- proposed to practise self-governmant, Beside the offices constituting the State Governmen, there were places in Congress, in both. olution. Meanwhile, one by one, the Catholic Bishops are dropping off from their allegiance to the Government. The Archbishop of Breslau ‘branches of the Legislature, in the county and | | has provoked the anger of the Government in perishgovernments, andinthecities. For. allthese. offices, from Chief Justice down to "lawn Con- stable, from Governor down to CaZamon Conn- cilman, there were aspirants frorg the ranks of the shape of a legal trial for arecent inflammable speech. The Archbishop of Cologne is set down for & similar trisl for similar reasons. The Pruesisn Archbishop of Posen and Gnesenm, the enfranchiged, and, having tae numerical me- § Count Ledockovski, who haa hitherto been & Jority, they had no difficulty in getting whateve © they wanted. Al this, however, was compars = tively harmless of itself. The white adventurers 1 did not go into this business from motives of * | patriotism alono. 'They practised the lesson seb forth in General Logan'sfavorito Scriptural pro- cept, that “he who provideth not for his own * household is worse than an infidel.” They were not infidels, and they songht to pro- vide for their own households. The land and other property in the State was mostly held by the whites; therefore taxation was popular among the blacks. South Carolina owed no debt and enjoyed credit; therefore it was easy to vote bonds, easy to sell them, and easy to divide the proceeds of the sale. Holding seats in the Leg- islature was honorable; why should it mot be | profitable? A hundred and seventy or more. men, drawn largely from former slaves who had’ been employed in field Isbor, found it a vast im~ provement upon the old way of doing thingr, to | board at hotels, and havenot only the pr.y and perquisites of legislators, but to bave moagy, in sums ranging from fifty to a thonsand dallars, forced'into their pockets to vote sye or i3 vote no. So long as voting taxes wupon other people's property, sand voting to issue and gell State bonds meds ‘money plenty, the newly-made legislators apprciated the science of political economy. Notwithstand- ing that & large proportion of these men could: not read or write, it was not in humsn natare fox them, having once tasted the profits of office, to return to any other mode of earning s living. This distribution of money among a class of’ people hitherto strangers to its use, had axw effect upon the social life of the State. Tha fficiala became an envied clags ; they wera akle to dresa better, and live better than their former aseociates, and a social aristocracy, founded on official rank 8nd income, was the result. This soon came into collision with another class. The | white Governor, Benator, Judge, or legislator had no difficalty in sssociating officially, and, to somo extent, personally, with his colored col- leagues ; but it was another case when tha wite and daughters of a whito Secretary, or Sen ator, or Representative was not at homs, and refnsed to return tho call of the wives and daughters of the colored officiale. To escape this collision, many of the carpet-baggers (as in various other | " States) left their families at the North; but this expodient was soon seen through and resented accordingly. ‘ After nearly five yoars of government, more [ riotous, perhaps, than any known to ancient or | modern civilization, the credit of the State was stranded upon a debt of twenty-two millions of dollars, represented by bonds, legal and illegal, regularly issued and stolen, and Sonth Carolina stands to-dsy without moneyor credit. Tha remedy proposed and accepted by o great body of the colored people at the late election was to got rid of all white men who &id not recognize the social equality of ' the . ruling race, and to reduce the debt by scaling it,—that is, repndiating one-half | or two-thirds of it. In the State Convention which nominated the ticket which has been elected, every candidate nominated, white and [ black, was denonnced by name a8 having come mitted perjury, robbery, or forgery; and the only answer made, and it was decmed all sufi~ cient, was that the accusers had participated in. the crignes, and shared the profita.. Public opinion in. Sonth Caroling, among the ruling population, does not yet understand how the stealing of public money by men in office car be. a crime ; to their present understanding office— holding means plunder. This is the condition;. moral and political, of South Carolina at this time, and the ticket elected represents crime founded upon ignorance as completely as tha Government of any ssvage tribe on the face-of the earth. THE GERMAN CATHOLIC CONFLICT. The German Emperor and Prince Bismarclk, in trying to steer their way clear botween the 4 0ld- Ostholics” (Anti-Infallibilists) and tke Catholic Church, by putting both under the operation of the same general laws and refusing | to supply material aid to the one or interfere with the revenucsof the other, bave run against an unexpected snag in the person of the Bishop of Ermeland, who is making s stubborn fight in his own behalf. Bome time ago the Bishep of Ermeland excommunicated the priests in his di- ocese who refused to sccept the dogma of infal- libility. Bismarck protosted sgainst it at the time, and there the matter restod, until the cen- tenary celebration at Marienburg, which took | place & few weeks since. The Emperor William was expected to attend this celebration, and the Bishop of Ermeland improved the opportunity to Tequest pormission of His Majesty to be present, and renew his allogiance to the Empire, ag the religions head of his province, The Em- peror replied by asserting that the Bishop had assumed a position antagonistic tothelaws of the Empire, and that it was necessary for him to acknowledge the supremacy of the laws before e conld be received, to which the Bishop replied by denying any intention of violating sny laws of the land. At this stage of the proceedings, Bismarck took charge of the correspondence and replied to the Rishop's last letter by informing him that hie had disobeyed the lawe by pronounc- ing the excommunications, and that if he wished to be received by the Emperor, he must first publicly acknowledge his error in excommuni- cafing his priests without the consent of the Government. The Bishop sent two replies, one to the Emperor, informing him that it would be - impossible for him to attend the celebration at Marienburg, and one to Biemarck, accusing him of falsifying his letter and giving it meaning it did not contain. Bismarck had the last shot, and answered that whila the Bishop was professing obedience he was practicing disobedience, and thus tho mat- ternow stands. It is evident that it cannot re- main pending long ; for the issue is squarely e & protege of the Emperor, ia now at the head of the Ultrsmontane movement. The laity ere fally as determined in their opposition to Bis- marck’s policy as the clergy. A correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from Mayence, reports some remarks made by a priest to mem- ‘bars of his flock in & beer saloon: “Homald thero wia “every prospect of the striggle ending in o catastrophe of some kind, but that Catholica of show!d do all thst within them Iny to avert it without sacridcing any principle, That they could never sub- mit o Bsmarck’s dictation in matters of conscience, and pevr Wonld; that they would oppose to his every +§ effort a puesive but united and stern resistance, which Bbevwonld fi'ud it very difficult to overcome. Bismarck Tnfight take a Vay the revenues of the Church, Let him, The Church can get on without-them, though the ZBixih0ps should ‘have to beg their bresd from door to vdooy, 1f Bismarck wants to drive out their Bishops “and( ihut up theiz churches, he can d0 80 at the point 0f th 2 boyonet. But the Cathalic population of Ger- many is twelve million eouls, and if the Government thinks it can mndortake the next war without that pop~ ulation . it will ind itself mistaken. It will bo glad to turn fos - support to the Catholics, and glad to grant them jm itice,” Tho discourse was received with quiet but earn est marks of approbation, after which the moeting3 roko up, sdjourning at the eatly hour of 10 o'cloek. The co nflict has now begun to assume dimen- sionasand;, 80 earnestness of spirit on both sides ‘whitth give: it more than & local interest. The straggle bet ween Dr. Doellinger and the Church is already a lmost lost sight of in this mew stroggle beta Seen the Church snd Bismarck. The:sympathy: of the latter for Doellinger, and his e:omparative ly small flock, while it hss not matarially helpect Doellinger, has got Bismarck into = ‘“toil and trouble” with the regular Chu rch, which.is b eginning to sssume a very in- tere sting shape, and Will be watched very closely | outs side, as well 28 ingide, of Germany. [RE— JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, Y 10 lecture field of America is becoming rap- idly, Anglicized. It has been evident, for the pasty two or three seasons, that the people are tiring - of home lecturers. The majority of them have been comparatively unknown, and those who vere known have had nothing new to offer theircsudiences, The netspapers and the cir- culatit 1g libraries have literally rnined the home Jecture business. The people have just as ready accessnto sources of information as the lecturers; -and, as. far a8 entertainment is concerned, the ‘Jecturesndom has been a dreary place compared ith the dhoatro, the concert, and the opera. To save the business from bankraptcy, _the managers bave sought for mew attractions. The great msjority of American lecturers have simply’ reflected other peopld's ideas. The manegers!, therefore, have reversed the progizamme, and sought for people Who have idess of their own, and are disy 08ed to sell tirem, and have made themselves ‘ma sters of special topics. To compasa this re- sul t, Englend has been levied upon, and has an gwered in & very satisfactory manner bv send- in gtousMr. Edmund ¥ates, the novelist; Profes- & r Tyndsll, the savant ; Georgo Macdonald, the 3:eligions romancer, and James Anthony Fronde, * the historian ; all of whom are ‘already better “known in this conntry by their works than nine- tenths of the American lecturers who have ap- peared before the public during the pastfew “years. The interest which was excited, and the . sharp discussions which have grown out of Mr. . Froude's recent historical work, especially the «complicity of Mary Queen of Scots with the tmurder of i)umlsy, which has been so sbly -criticized by Meline, has brought the historian before the people of this country with more prominence than any of the others above men- tioned, and has awakened an interest in the great rival of Macaulay, which will ensure him thousands of attentive hearers during his Ameri- cantour. A preliminary sketch of Mr. Froude's life will thereforo be pernsed with interest at this time. His father wagan archdeacon in the Established Church, and his early days were spent under scholarly and somewhat clerical in- fluences. From Westminister School, he went to Oxford, where he enjoyed & very successful career. During his collegiate life, and sfter- wards, 83 & Fellow of Magdalen, his tastes in- clined Iargely towards theological questions, and for a time he was a follower of Newmsn, who was then the leader of the extreme High Church party, and eafterwards retired to Littlemere, Where he founded the famous semi-monastical «community which bears his nsme. During this ime, he wrote a work of Armenian proclivities, walled “Lives of the English Saints,” subse- quently developed his High Church tendencies ina series of stories entitled “The Shadows of 4he Clouds, ” and at last was ordained to the Jower rank of deacon of the State Church. Sud- denly & change came over him. He wrote and publishéd ¢‘The- Nemesis of Faith,” and its free-thinking characters g0 of- tanded the University that, like Shelley before ‘him; he was obliged to sever his connection with it. He then dropped polemics and turned his attention to history. He soon became widely known in England apd elsewhers ‘by his papers in the quarterlies and monthljes, especially in the Westminster and Fraser's, of which he was afterwards editor as one of the ot brillisnt of living esenyists. These papers ‘have been collected and published in book-form, wunder the title of ““Short Studies on Greet Sub- jects,” and are now familiar to all intelligent Teaders in this country. The great work, how- ever, which has given him a world-wide fame ishis “History of England, from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth,” in twalve ‘volumes, the first volume of which appeared in 1856, and the last in 1870. In preparing this work, he ransacked the archives ‘of the British Museum, the Paris Libraries, and the ‘Escurial, and had access to sources of informa- tion which other historians had not .been cnabled to consult. The result was that he eame into collision with preconceived ideas, and found many scholars and critics, who had set- tled their convictions from the statements of Hume snd Macsulay, ready to dispute and dis- 8ect beth his opinions and his faots, This wee specially true with regard to his estimate of Henry VIII., his justification of that monarch’s divorce from Catharine, and his palliation of his treatment of Anne of Cleves and Anne Boleyn, as well a5 the fresh and strong proofshe brought forward touching the complicity of Mary of Scots in the marder of Darnley. This oppo- sition, however, has made neither the man nor hig works any the less popular. Ho gracefully touched upon this point, a few evenings sirice in New York, upon the occasion of the reception tendered him by his publishers, Mesers. Serib- nér, Armstrong & Co. Mr. Froude said : ‘When I landed, last week, I had not a single perscasl scquaintance in this city, and now I find myself not only among my own people, but among warm and gen- erous friends. My literary career has been a checker- edone. Ihave been connected from the beginning ‘Wwith Bubjects on which pussion is still boiling. Thoss who handle hot coals are apt to burn their fingers. and Ibave now snd then burnt mine, Literature, how- ever, has also brought me many plessures, Of all these pleasures, not one has given me 5o much gratif- cation s the recognition which my writings have been 80 fortunate aa to raceive in this country. We aro all of us by nature such that we can swallow s large mea~ suro of fattery, but the digestive power even hero has its limits, You make me feel liko Falstafl before the battle cf Shrewsbury— " Would "twero evening, and all were woll. ‘Would it were a fortnight hence, when you have heard What I have to say to you, and your good opinion of 1me had remained unchanged, Mr, Froude hascome to this country to lec- ture on the relations of England and Ireland, & subject upon which he is thoroughly competent to speak. Inthe same speech from which the above quotation is made, Mr. Fronde says: ‘When at collage, I used to spend my vacations wan- dering in the Irish mountaing, Ihavelived in peas- snta’ cabing for montbs together. I was once Iaid up with severe {liness in the wilds of Asyo, and the poor creatures treated me with a tenderness which I shall never forget. Their history atiracted me. Thelr con dition persapally interested me, I kmew Ireland before the famine, I lmew itin the famine. I was in Ireland afterward, in 1848, in the Smith O'Brien insurrection. Since that time, I have been an Irish tenant. Indeed, Imay say I am sn evicted tenant. I have been turned out of my holding, and can sympathiza with the speoial ‘wrong of the country, as I was very ugswilling to go. His purpose is indicated in the following ex tract: When I was writing"my ¢ History of Euglssd,”I was led to look closely into the conduct of the Eaglfsh Government toward Ireland in esrlier times, When that book was off my hands, I began to examine into the action of tho celebrated penal 1aws of tho last cen- tury. Thad Tesd what very few persons have resd,— the mecret correspondence between the English and Irish Administrations during alf that period. Ifelt, inshort, that I bad something of importance to say, and T wished to say it. ‘Yousare connected equally with both the partles whos presence in Ireland constitutea the Trish difficalty. You can wish no fll o either. You are peculiarly fitted tomediste between them, whilo you are so-circum- stanced that the judgment of Americs, expreased through the press, through public spesches, in the thousand ways in which National sentiment car. make itself felt, will carry o weight which s almost {n- calculable, In regard to the influence of America in the premiges, Mr. Froude says: ** The judgment of America has more weight in Ireland than twenty batteries of English cannn.” It is not only on this acconnt that Mr. Froude will attract great audiences in this conntry. All will want to hear what he has to Bay on this vexed question ; but &t tho same time they will be equally curious to see the man whom Oxford expelled for his free- thinking, and who understands the art and the fascination of English composition, as very few other English writers do. The appearance of such a manas Mr. Froude in the American lecture-room will mske compensation for the reams of trash, and rivers of words, with which the peoplo of this country have been affiicted during the pest few years. The mania for mining speculation, which has hitherto been confined principally to silver and 8014, has broken out afresh in diamonds. It is but o short time ago that the most dnzzling stories wera told of the abundancé of diamonds, a3 wellas of other precious stones, in Arizona and New Mexico. Some dinmonds brought from TLondon wero eshibited in the show-windows of San Francisco shops. Fabulous accounts were printed of parties who had shovelled them up by the pecks and bushels, and there was & popular fiction that untold quantities of them had been deposited in the Bank of California. A stock company was immediately formed, with re- eponsible men at the head of it, who had been indnced to lend their nsmes to the swindle, under false pretences, and the shares were put upon the market. Simultaneously dia- monds were eshibited in the principal large cities of the country, and every preparation was made by the originators of the scheme to realize on the shares, and then getout from under, when some parties in San Francisco, who were not as credulous as others, went to the spqt to ex- amine for themselves, and found that there were no diamonds or suy other valuables there, and then the humbng collapsed. The dismond ex- citement, however, is onge more revived, and, simultaneously, the public is informed that dismonds have been discovered in Nova Scotis and Nebrasks. With regard to the Inttor, the Omahs papers contsin reports of mysterious movementsof California diamond- hunters, supplied with large quantities of dis- 'mond specimens, maps, charts, government sur- veys, nd the most recent, decisions of the At- torney Genersl, in reference to entering mining tracts. This is but the old story over sgain, and probably the same old collection of stuff, which was used to work up the Arizons excitement. o the light of past experiences, it is sensibleto give any dismond operations s very wide berth. In the Independent of last Thursday, Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames says (what will be news to most. readers) that, in the midimval age, and before it, ‘women wers very often both physicians and sur~ geons. Shecites various books and manuscripts to prove this, and adds: *“It remained for boys of the nineteenth century to insult women who sought to practice the art of healing.” For the destardly way in which male medical students, in Philadelphia and elsewhere, showed their dis- like of feminine fellows, there is, of course, no shred of excuse. - For the dislike itself, there is every excuse. The profession is, in some of ita branches, pre-eminently woman’s work. We be~ lieve in feminine physicians. But we do not believe in fitting woman for this work by thrust- ing her into a dissecting-room, among reckless, dissolute boys. Itmust bea strangely callous ‘woman Who could desire scch a thing. Let the sexes have sefarate schools. It is not worth while fo sacrifice feminine delicacy for the sake of getting knowledge. S e PSS The meeting of the French Association forthe Promotion of Science, at Bordeaus, & few weeks 8go, showed a very unscientific state of mind among the members. ThePresident, M. Quatre- fages; gave a sketch of the scientific successes of the. last few years. He dwelt in glowing terms on the progress of truth in England, Bel- glum, Wales, and Denmark, but spoke not o word of praise for Germany. The hated nation was iguored as far 89 possible by eversbods. One man, M. Lefort, was candid enough to recognize the perfection of the Prussian medi- cal syatem. His eulogium upon it wes but coldly received. The principal fopic of discus- sion was how Ecience could aid France to reeover her nmilitary renown. The Strassburger Zeitung sums up its comments onthe whole eession by sharply saying that science, in the opinion of the Bordeaux meeting, no longer exists for her own sake, but only as tho handmaid of war. & e i S In England, the same manis often a honse- sagent and an undertaker, 50 that he not only ©oAn geb a oW tenant, but, if need be, bury the | old one. The Pallifdll Gazetle has been study- ing into the causes ¢ this curions combination of trades, and has fond an unpleasantly frank person who follows bth professions, because, a3 he says, they ‘“go together.” He explains the explanation by addng that peoplewho try to live in newly-built housq are apt to die in them, and that almost always, shen he, a3 & house- sgent, let such a house, I», as an undertaker, buried either the teman himself or some oneof his family vithin, & twelve- month. He farther says tlst a residence, to ba habitable, ought to be “lied by-six summer suns.” These are words of varning forus. I this man of experience spaks the truth, wa must beware the burnt distrat until 1877, else the new Chicago will be thedeath of the old Chicago residents. —_— The same method of taxatior that Genaral Butler used to give American sainrs, the pre= cious boon of eailing under Ameican bunte ing, is depriving them of ghips om which to fly this home-msde emblem. The last line of American ocean stesms ships—that which connects San ’Prancisco with China and Japan—is about to be displaced by a new fleet of magnificont English steamers. These vessels are to be propelled by scraws, and can berun farmore cheaplythan the psddle- wheelers of thePacific Mail Steamshi Company. Under our present fiscal system, which declares in effect thatship-building andnavigationare not American industries, it has been found impossis ble to replace the old paddle-wheel steamers with those equipped with modem machinery, or to maintain competition with Erglish rivals. T G - 72 The plain of Satory, where the French army is etill detailed, every few days, for rifle practice, with live Communists for targets, bids fair ta livein history. Christendom revolts at the blood with which the foundation of the present nondes script Government of France is cemented. It seems, however, that these executions sre merciful. Satory gives speedy and probsbly painless desth; the penal colonies give & protracted, sgonizing lifa. The acconnts of the trextment of prisoners aro probably exaggerated, but there must ba some foundation for the terrible stories of ‘nsufficient f00d, 0 men rotting to pieces with soursy, of barbarous medical malpractice, of hospital beds with sheets of tent-canvas, of needs less cruelties of every kind. They necd & Libe eral party to carry reconciliation in France, A e Little credence is given in New York to the curious testimony of one Augnstus St. Clair, formerly a newspaper reporter, who declares, Stokes. 8. Clair excases himself for bis failurs to give this testimony during the trial, by the plea that ho wished to avoid incarceration ss & witness, and because he feared to make enemiog of Fisl’s friends. Evidence from any one who would ‘endsnger the lifo of & fallowe being on such pretoxts is to be ree ceived with cantion. Juries and witnesses are manipulated, nowadeys, very much like conatite uencies, a3 was shown in Mrs, Fair's first trial. Stokes is very wealthy, and puts high value on his neck, and the teatimony that will save it. ¥ im e Some months ago, we urged upon the attene tion of employers and employes, the manifold advantages, in the way of increased sobriety, economy, and industry, of the plan of puying workingmen on Mondsy instesd of Saturday. ‘We supported our view of the casa by citing the testimony of several great firms, in Enrops and America. The New York * Stato Congregationsl Convention,” now in session at Rochester, ia considering this question. It was but the other day that the Presbytery of Iowa resolved F favor of the restoration of capitsl punishme in that State. . Such attempts by representative Christian sssemblics to grapple with the grest social problems of the day are a sign of healthfal progress. Professor Tyndall mede his first appearance before an Americsn sudicnce, lsst Tuesdsy evening, in the dingy hall of the Towell Instis tute of Boston. He is described as of medium height, andelight build; his face is long, shrewd, and kindly. His manner of speaking is the rapid conversational siyle affected by Englishe men of culture. Two assistants were kept busy @uring the evening in preparing the materials for his cxperiments, which were confined to illnstration of the laws of light and hest, and are remarkable for the wonderfally brilliant, and et simple methods, which have ‘given him hig World-wide Toputation as the greatest living papularizer of- scientific truth. From far-off Portland, Maine, comes the an- nouncement that 5 weekly literary review, The State, will be published from the Ist prox. Itg publishers announce that it will be indeperident in everything, including politics,—althongh we fail to see how Dr. George B. Loriug, whois one of its promiscd gontributors, can assume the virtue of independence when he has it not. However, the new paper's prospectus parades seversl able names. e wish the enterprise a hearty God-speed. R e It is very touching to hear that Mr. Seward's last words were: ““ Love one another.” Itk really amnzing that grest Generals and stater men manage to say such neat little bits of sen- timent on their desth-beds. With reluctance, therefore, but with dne regard for truth, we re- veal the fact thet Mr. Seward gave this adviec some seven hours before Lis desth, and after- wards talked at length with half-a-dozen per sons, Nome of those who were at his bedside at the last moment remember what he did say. —_— POLITICAT. Ag usual, pending & Presidential election work ia very brisk in the Navy-Yards. —The Administration has published a pamph: Iot, for Tennesses circalation, -accasing Andrey Johnson of never having appointed & Confod- erate to office, —*Errora” are being discovered in counting the vota of Pitisburgh, but the Pittsburgh Ad ‘ministration paper, make light of the matter. I ‘was only & difference of some 3,000 in the vot: for Congress, and didn't affect the result. —Judge Poland has carried the primaries ir his Vermont District, after a fight unprecedentei in that State, and will secure the regular nomi. nation for Congress on the 23d. —The vote of towna composing Geners Banks’ new District, for President, in 1868, was Grant, 12,035; Seymonr, 5,564, Yet the Gener~ is happy and hopeful. s —The Philadelphia Inguirer says : e bave our doubts if General Grant recelves ha the majority in Pennsylvania which Hartrantt hss.” —The Greeley Electoral ticket in Maine it headed by William H. Simpson, of Belfast, edi tor of the Journal, and ThomssS. Lang, of Augusta. —One of Morton's colored friends from Ken- tucky, thonght he had a right to vote in Rising Sun, Ind., because he had just married = black gitl who lived there, and, of course, her legal residence belonged to him. Question respects fally referred to Susan Anthony. —Pomeroy bas his friends who are candidates for the Kanses Legislature say they would pre~ ter somebody elso for Senator if somebody elsa should seem to be the ckoice of the party. An@ &0, While & dozen gentlemen are being flattered to think favorably of themselves as the fortu- Date * somebody else,” * Old Pom.” will bag the game. —The worst-used man in Wisconsin, is the Hon. Fred. W. Horn, of Ozaukee. Fred. wanteq t0 join the Grant party early in the campaign, but the leaders thought they had better nse fom him as & Bourbon. Then Fred. was enconraged to come out as an independent Bourhon candi~ date for Congress, and {0 expect recognition om the Grant ticket. Now all his hopesaro blasted by the refnsal of the Republican nominati & and the Horn that was to have been euny s considerably down in the mouth, under oath, that he saw Fisk witha pistol in his ._ hand a moment or two before he was shot by