Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1872, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1872, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TEOUS OF SUBMCAIPTION (PATSBLE IN ADVARCE) Biprolntt - S13:00)| Spnday-- =S58 Parts of year at the same rate. To prevent delay and mistakes, be ure and give Post Ofice address in fall, incloding State and County. Remittances may be made either by draft, express, Post Ofice order, o in registered lotters, at ourrisk. TERMS TO CITY slmscngml-u . n cepted, 25 cents por week. Bally Selivered: Bundr gnemhich: 3 Sk Por ek Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Tll. TRBUNE Branch Office, No. 469 Wabssh-sv., in the Bookstore of Messrs. Cobb, Androws & Co., where Bdvertisements and subscriptions will be reccived, and will have the same attention as if left at the Main Or: e CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE—Washington, New Yook, and Miscellane- ous Telographic News. § SECOND PAGE—The Records of Title: Tho Proposi- tion to Purchase the Abstracts Considered by the Gounty Commisslonors—Boston Lotter—Great Firca —r. Darwin's New Book—Hartford-Chicago-Bos- ton—The Indisns of the Central Superintendencs— Art: An Unprecodented Display of Foreign Paint- ings. THIRD PAGE—Tho Gsuses of Crimo: Reportof & Sub- Committeo of Our Committeoof Twents-Five—Tho Law Courts—Business Directory—Railroad Timo Table. FOURTH PAGE—Editorisls: The Abstract Bool Lamp-post Justice; Ministerial Influence; The Si lian Hurricano; Harvard College—Curront News Items—Political. Academy of Design. $IFTH PAGE—ILocal News: Gounterfelting; The Yonng Men's Christian Association; City in Brief; Adrertiscmenta. SIXTE PAGE—Monetary and Commercisl—Marine In- telligence. SEVENTH PAGE~Periodical Literaturo—Ald for Den. mark (communication)—Small Advertisements: Resl Bstate, For Sale, Wanted, To Reat, Boarding, Lodging, ete. BIGHTH PAGE—Europesn News—Miscellaneons Tele- grams. T M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, between State and Dearborn. Miss Maggie Mitchell, supported by Mr. L R. Shewell. ** Pearl of Savoy." AY'S AMUSEMENTS. AIKEX'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue, corner of Con- gress street. G. L. Fox Pantomimo Combination. * Humpty Dompty.” BOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph street, be- tween Clark and LaSalle. Jobn Allen, Little Mac, and Mias Alice Harrison, supported by Aiken's Company. ** Schneider; or dot 014 Honse von der Rhine.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, southof Madi- won. Engagementof Charlotte Thompson. ** Victorine,” MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroo strect, between State and Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton & Kemble's Minstrel and Burlesque Troupe. GLOBE THEATRE—Desplaines strest, between Madi- -onand Washington. Vauderille Entertainment. STAR LECTURE COURSE—Union Park Congrega- tional Church. Lecture by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stantons Priday Morning, November 23, 1872. The reported resignation of President Thiers and election of Marshal MacMahon, was a fabri- cation, originating in New York. MacMahon, it s said, refuses to accept the Presidency in the event of Thiers’ resignation. One of the Brothers Browles, who have been doing business in Europe as ‘¢ American Bank- ers,” and have failed, has been arrested in Lon- don, charged by an Italisn banker with the fraudulent conversion of securities, Aid is to be sought from the General Govern= ment for the improvement of the Ohio River. A memorial was adopted by the Ohio River Im- provement Convention, before its adjournment, asking Congress to appropriate two millions from the National Tressury for the work. The ground on which the States interested ask for helpis, that they contain 85 per centof the population, yield 45 per cent of the produce, and ey one-third of the revenue, of the nation. The Buffalo Board of Trade has unanimously :recommended that the Erie and Oswego Canals be made seventy feet wide and seven deep, with double Iocks west of Syracuse, and that the former should be made navigable from the ‘Buffalo River to the Lower Black Rock, They sask the Legislature to pass a bill, drafted by the New York Chamber of Commerce, which will put at the dispoeal of the State sufficient funds to improve the canal, and make it &8 nearly s free canal a8 possible. Concerning the desperate eituation in which -yesterdsy’s news placed 800 tracklayers on the ‘Winona & Bt. Peter Railroad, its Assistant Superintendent declares that the men are in no .danger whatever, as the snowfall has been light, and they are within easy distance of some of the ichest granaries and stock farms of Minnesota. He confesses to anxiety about their supplies, ot because he fears starvation, but because, if not well fed as usual, they will quit work and endanger his contract. Penneylvania is extensively engaged in the .pardoning business. The Governor having re- Tensed the notorions scoundrel and convicted murderer, Mara, togother with Yerkes, the President has now extended the Exccutive clem- ency to Mr. Percy B. Spear, a gentlemanly for- ger. Mr. Spear was appointed Indisn Agent some time ago. He required bonds, and, not be- 4ng sble to procure genuine ones, he offered a €purious article in which he had forged the names of a number of gentlemen of large wealth. Mr. Percy B. Spear became & martyr and went to the Penitentiary, where he remained ill after the Presidential election. Messrs, Flint, Thompson & Co, have author- ized a statement that, at the close of the month of November, they will have the grain in their warehouses weighed, and an account taken of their outstanding receipts. They ask that the Board of Trade znd Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners will bo represented =zt such ex- amination and weighing. Tho Mesers, Bucking- ‘ham, Armonr, Dole & Co., and other proprietors of elevatorswill probably adopt the same course. Had such proceedings been the rule during the last few years, the extraordinary transactions that have disgraced the warchonss business dur- ing that period would have been impossible. Among the very first reformafory measures brought before the Constitutional Convention of Penneylvanis, which has completed its organiza- tion and begun its deliberations, is the regula- tion of the pardoning power, and the appoint- ment of a Council, as in New Jersey, to act with the Governor in the matter. Other propositions extend the terms of Governor, State Represen- 2atives, and Senators, with biennial sessions of the Legislature, prohibit appropriations to char- itable or educational uses, make attendance at ‘public schools compulsory, and authorize juries to render verdicts in case of the agreement of 4wo-thirds of their numb —eee Members of the Extreme Left of the French Assembly support Gambetts in demanding the dissolution of the present Assembly as the only remedy for the difficulties that beset the ad- uinigtrafion of the Goyernment, A more mod- l erate policyis accepted by the Left Centrs, which unanimonsly advocates the appointment of a Committee of Thirty to frame = scheme of Constitutional Government for France, the ex- tension of President Thiers' term four years longer, the addition of a Vice President, the creation of a secorid Chamber, and the enforce- ment of Ministerial responsibility. ‘predisposition which many criminals receive with their blood, or from their early associations, there is, in the opinion of the Sub-Committee of Five appointed by the Com- mittee of Fifteen, no cause which so directly excites to crime as the indulgence in intoxi- cating drink. Widespread statistics are cited to support their conclusion that the crimes of a people are in proportion to their facilities for becoming intoxicated, and they assert that, if the lianor traffic were properly rogulated, there would be a diminution of nearly 100 per cent in the number of crimes. —— The stringency of the money market, which is unabated, is not excaptional in the case of Chi- cago. In New York, prime commercial paper sells at 1 per cent per month, and, according to the New York papers, is hard to sell atthat. In Philadelphia, first-class business paper cannot e negotiated outside of banks for less than 1 to 13§ per cent per month. In all the chief com- . mercial cities, the banks are scantily supplied with loanable funds, their deposits have dimin- ished, and their losns are high. Notwithstand- ing the large crops, high freights have left the producers little to pay debts or buy more goods with. The expansion of credit also, by which useless railroads have been built and trade stim- ulated, seems to have reached its maximum ten- sion, and the natural reaction has begun. gt S Mr. Douglaes, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, claims that the entire discontinuance of the Assessors’ departments is feasible, and that all the business which is now transacted by them can be dome by the Collec- tors, with their assistance. He pro- fesses to believe that £4,000,000 rev- enue will be saved which would other- ‘wise be lost in carrying out the plan of limita- tion set forth by o law of Congress passed dur- ing thelast session; and that his plan would dispense with 230 Assessors, and 1,300 assist- ants, costing the Government £3,000,000 annu- ally. If the increased expenses of the Collectors department, under his system, should bo £1,000,000 annually, the change would thus save $6,000,000 to the Government for the first year, and $2,000,000 overy yesr after. It is entirely reasonnble to suppose that one organization would cover the field of asesessing and collect- ing, and it would dispene with one set of chiefs, delegating their work to less expensive subordi- nates. ——— Inreading all descriptive accounts of the in- mates of mssne asylums, itis anatural com- ment that vanityis the most fruitful sonrce of all mental aberration. In the asylum on Black- well's Island, one inmate is s religious enthusi- ast, who believes that the Supreme Being visits him and confers with him every night; another imagines himself & great military man, and dresses alwaysin the fatigue uniform of a United States soldier; here is s Duke, there Queen Elizabeth; and a eailor, who had been a pirate, has now become an Admiral. The same ten- dency to greatness or distinction is found to prevail among the inmates of lunatic asylums everywhere, and no circumstance could illustrate more fully the general vanity of mankind, Itis probable that, in most cases, the insanity may be traced to some other cause than that of vanity,— | some great grief, dissppointment, or physical suffering,—bnt, once insane, vanity is the ruling passion. Tt wonld probably be a good ‘ courso of mental discipline for sane people to study out what particular vanity they would be apt to develop if they should become insane. The Chicago produce markets were moderately active yesterday, and prices averaged higher. Pork was quiet and steady at $13.00@18.25 cash, $12.25@12.40 seller December, and £12.25 seller January. Lard wasin good demand and firmer 8t TH@7%ec cash or seller December, and 73{c seller January. Meats were steady at 43dc for part salted ghoulder ; 634c for do short ribs ; and 69%@6%c for do short clear. Highwines were steady and more active at 89cper gallon. Lako freights were dull and Ic lower, at 10c for corn and 1lc for wheat, by sail to Buffalo. Flour was active and firmer. Wheat was ective, and 2l¢c higher, closing firm at $1.12 cash, $1.113{ seller Decem- ber, and $1.12}{ seller January. Corn wasmod- erately active and e higher, closing firm at 32}¢c seller the month, and 32¢ seller December. Oats were dull and steady at 23)¢c séller the month, and 23%@23%c seller. November. Ryo was quiet at 3gc advance, at 55@55)c. Barley was dull, declining 3¢, and closed weak at Gic cash and 64c seller the month. Hogs were in good demand at yesterday's prices, or at $4.00@ 4.25. Cattle remain dull, and prices further de- clined. Sheep wero unchanged. — The action of the Chicago Aid and Relief So- ciety, in sending a messenger to Washington to dun the authorities of that District for an un- paid balance of the subscription made by them & year ago, is attracting sttention in many other places. Acting mpon the impulse of strong sympathy, many cities and towns mede subscriptions which afterwards were found to have been illegal, because of a want of power to doso. In some of these cases part of themoney was forwarded. When the announcement was made that Chicago had enough to ensble her to support those made destitute by the fire, these unpaid or ° pertly paid subscriptions twere dropped. It isnot now pretended that the Relief and Aid Society want these unpaid subscriptions to meet any destitution here becanse of our fire, The money is needed to enable the Society to pay its own subscription to Boston. The Gov- ernor and other authorities of the District of Columbia have & very large and extremely desti- tute population to take care of every winter, and we suppose there are not many of our citizens who do not regret the demand that the Relief &nd Aid Society has made upon that District. The subscription of that District, however, was made subject to the demand of the Msayor and the City Government of Chicago, and it is mot likely that the Mayor of this city will ever, under the circumstances, make the de~ mand for the unpaid balance. They money al- ready received from the District of Columbia amounted to a munificent charity, and to treat their promise to give more as a contract will hardly meet with public favor. It is now understood that the gopd people of Boston donot standinneed of anyrelief; that the wealth of that great city is amply able to provide for the comparstively few persons rendered des- titute by the fire, and it looks unpleasant to be usipg the eubscriptions for Boslon ssa pretext for dunning other gities for their unpaid sub- scriptions to Chicago. As neither Chicago nor Boston stands in need of any further relief in that form, it would be well to let all further proceedings drop, THE ' ABSTRACT BOOKS. The Legislature, at its last session, anthorized the Cook County Commissioners to borrow $1.500,000, which amount will carry the county debt up to the estreme point allowed by the Con- stitution. Thisis the whole sum out of which the county is to build the new Court House, new Jail, and meet all other extraordinary expendi- tures incidental to or resulting from the fire, a8 well 28 to meet all the new expenditures for additlonal public works. A portion of the members of the Board of County Commissioners propose fo pay $750,000- of this money to the owners of the abstract books; that is to sy, they propose to issue to them bonds ‘bearing 7 per cent interest, and running 20 years, to the amount of §750,000. In other words, the proposition is to pay these abstract owners $52,500 annually for 20 years, and then at the end of that time $750,000 more. A year has in- tervened since the fire, and in that time the owners of these books have had full time and opportunity to duplicate all their entries. For all practical purposes, 8o far as their business is concerned, they are now prepared to hand over the first copy of their entries, and go on 2s nsual with their business with the second copies. In ‘point of fact, by retaining a copy of these books, they merely furnish the county a copy,—being the first one made by them. Their books are not original papers. Their books con- tain entries made by them, copied or taken from the original records. The original records are destroyed, Having duplicated their books, they sell the first copy to the county, and for this de- mand the enormous sum of $750,000. Should the Board of ‘Commissioners be weak enough to vote any such sum, or even half that-sum, we trust there is courage enough in the Judges to veto any such action. ¥ LAMP-POST JUBTICE.” 1t sounds strangely enough to hear of the New York Evening Post, of all journals, suggesiing ““a few doses of lximp—poat Jjustice” as the only adequate means for checking the riot of murder in thet city. Buch s suggestion,-coming from such & source, is s striking indication of the reckleseness of humsn life which has followed the failure to enforce the legal punishment. It is stated that the murderers’ cells in the Tomba are overcrowded with criminals,whose trials have been delayed by technicalities or postponed by favoritism. New inmates presont themselves every few days. It is not now considered worth while to attempt an escape from arrest. Sean- | 1an, who murdered Donshue two or thres weeks ago, and King, who has just murdered O'Neil, gave themselves wup without a struggle. Their murderous acts were commitied in such o mamner a8 to complete indifference to the law of capital pun- ishment. They evidently believed, with a Chi- cago murderer of some years back, that ““hang- ing is played out.” When Foster, the brutal street-car agsassin, can drag out the slow process of justice until public indignation has subsided, and the murderer of Fisk can live on champagne and fried oysters in the confidenco of acquittal, it scems to be pretty well established that murders of high and low degree are to be equally treated with ilmmunity from justice. Recent exercise of: the Executive clemency, in New York and else- where, has also increased the murderer's confi- dence in escape.. In New York, murderers and abortionists have received Executive clemency or new trials after clear conviction ; in Pennsyl- vanis, & scoundrel named ‘Mars, twico guilty of murder, has been twice pardoned ; in Tllinois, “new trials were granted to two convicted mur-~ derers, while another man convicted of two murders, and sentencea to be hanged, was allowed to go unbanged. ‘These are someof the., facts which make up the chain of circumstances that has led the New York Post to’ suggest the application of Lynch law, and the New York ] T'ribune, which hes been opposed to capital pun- ishment, to say-thet, while hanging is the pun- ishment prescribed, it is necessary for the good of society that murderers shounld-be hanged. Tt is not difficalt to comprehend that the neg- Iect to enforce the laws, resulting in the wanton increase of murder everywhere throughout the. land, shonld tempt such moderate men and mod-- erate journals to think of taking the execation of the law into their own hands. A calmer con- sideration of the results; however, guickly shows the unwisdom of such' a proééeding. 1t is not necessary to argne the matter on moral or legal grounds. - Even those who have taken part in Iynching have never claimed any sach Jjustification. * The mob law is but little removed from the mob, and the mob still less removed from the individual murderer. It is more to the point, howover, to consider the matter in the light of experience. Itis not long since Chicago has had what was called “‘ A Popular Movement for the Suppression of Crime.” The history of that movement, if it have any worth recounting, simply teaches thatsuch a movement is & failure unless it is organizod into & Vigilance Commit- tee. The Chicago movement, which has not been heard of since election, drifted away into all sorts of vagaries. There was an outgrowth of religious enthusiasm, which reduced the broad question of suppressing crime to the narrower one of temperance, and found expres- si6n in denouncing the saloon-keepers. The re- sult was a drivelling disintegration, the piaces ‘being so widelyscattered a8 to be now entirely lost to sight, and not even clear to memory. Suchresults cannot but leave the impression of popular Wankixeas, which must give more en- couragement than alarm to' the dangerous classes. The result of the people taking the law into their own hands is a more practical way ; availing themselves of the accessories of hemp and lamp-posts is even more dangerous to the cause of justice, and the lives of innocent men. There may have been cases in pioneer life and primitive times, when outlaws have been conquered in this way when there was no law to | reach them ; but the serious and deliberate con- templation of Iynching in & city like New York, while it suggests some dire emergency, is dan- gerous and repréhensible. Meanwhile, people inquire anxiously, *What isto be done? Are weto lookon coolly and submit to & reign of terror? Shall we do nothing to save ourselves, nothing to guard our lives from ,the murderers?” The rem- edy rests with the people themselves, but after a different fashion. It is not in the organization of mass meetings for the glorifi- cation of individual petriots; it is not by the appointment of committees, nor the discussion of temperance, nor the agitation of the Sunday law, nor the partisan interests in politics, that relief from incrensing: crime is to be found. betray & kind. It comprises the elevation of the jury system; greater ability and Imowledge of law among public prosecutors ; possible modi- 'ficnficns in the technical delays afforded by the statutes; some limitation of the pardoning power ; the repeal of the obsolete laws which hamper and retard the execution of good laws; and, finally, the election or appointment of men who will execnte the laws which such revision provides with promptness and courage. Neither ““lamp-post justice™ mor “popular move- ments " will supply the lack of these improve- ‘ments. MINISTERIAL INFLUENCE. In aleading article, in the last number of the Christian Union, on the * Decline of Ministerinl Influence,” Mr. Beecher says : The controversies of past generations Iast longer ‘within tho walls of theological schools than they do snywheroelse, What, to tho living mind of our time, is tho controversy hetween Calvinism and Arminianism, or betwoen the substitution and governmental theories of the Atonement, or the discussion concerning origin- alsin, or Edwards’ theory of thewill, or the mets~ physics of the Trinity? We do not say that such subjects should be ignored. They should bo studied +attentively, as phases in the mental ifo of the Church in times past, and with a considerable infiuence on the present. But to make them tho chief subjects of study, to equip and drill students with main reference to these, 18 liko dressing soldiers in medimval armor who have got to facerifled cannon, Mr. Beecher doés not designate what the rifled cannon are which the theologian and minister of the present dsy have to face. Should he do so, he would doubtless regard the 8pirit of science, materialism, or the indisposi~ tion fo believe in snything that conld not be tested by ecientific methods, as Prof. Tyndall recently proposed to test the efficacy of prayer, 28 one of the first of these modern rifled cannon which the theologian and preacher must face. A second is the complete preoccupation of the mind of our age in materisl advancement and practical business. We do not 8o often deny or admit theology as decline to think aboutit. But, 23 this is exactly the process by which the Greek and Roman religions passed into oblivion, it is well to consider whether, if an account of stock were taken to-day of theo- logical truth, it would be found that so considerable & quantity as Mr. Beecher enumerates of the ideas that met with a ready market a century agoare now wholly unsalable. Is theology a kaleidoscopic science ; a thesis found- ed on perpetually changing premises ? If we sup- pose the real present theological conflict to be ‘between the Evolutionists and the believers in spocial creation, between absolute materialists and those who contend that there isa spiritnal government of some kind, without being nice as to its nature, between the advocates of a Divine standard of morals and those who believe that -every man i8 to do what he conceives will most promote human happiness ; between thoso who believe Christianity to be a completer revelation .of duty and destiny and those who deem it only a phase in the evolution of religions thought, we cannot state tho question in this form without concdd- ing that materialism, rationslism, and secular- ism have made great progress, relatively to that of religion, within the past half century. Numerically, financially, snd socially, the in- stitutions, whether churches, colleges, news- ‘papers, or eocieties, which, to use a commercial expression, “bank on” and essume thetruthof & Christian theology of some kind, are at least as strong as] they ever were. Nor, on entering the churches or taking up the religions journals wherein theyaddress the people, will we find any recognition of the fact that their conflictis no longer a fight with the *princes of the powers of the air,” but with Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, and Tyndall. Trae, there isavast deal of modern preaching which does not aim seriously at any- thing more than to afford an interesting histor- ical or poetic or rhetorical treat. The preacher himself seers to have outgrown theé dogmatic epoch, and discourses of some Tfeature of patri- archical character or church history with barely a polite suggestion that his hearers may find therein a hint to a higher life. Now, 88 ever heretofore, the churches rest not on intellect snd disputation, but on the ois inertia of menkind; on the desire for moral and mental stability and the disinclination men feel to subject the rules of social order and the precepts of moral duty to the shifting sophistries of reason, biased, as it must always be, by passion. The standard method of the Church, therefore, is to assame, or, if it argues at all, to argue only from the premise of its own assumptions. The mission of the modern minister is not to prove that any special theological issue is abso-~ lute truth, for a conviction has insensibly crept into the minds of nearly all men, including min- isters, that trnth is Protean, and assumes many guises and disgnises. His aim is to conduct public worship in & manner that assumes tho truth of all the essential tenets of his faith ; the special efficacy of prayer, the personality of @ spiritnal God, the exclusive inspiration of Christinity, its benign and beneficent inflnence over individuals and commaunities, and 1ts ne- cesgity as a standard of morals and & conserva- tive power to prevent the world from running off into the chaos of sensuslity, vice, and un- restrained passion. Its sermons are retro- grade rather than stimulating. They carry us back to the slower life of the past, of patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, of shepherds | and herdsmen, while the inflnences of ‘business, of modern amusements, of art, and especially of material science, hasten us forward in a career of change that ig everywhera too feverish to be wholly sane. The proper misaion of the Church is sedative, soothing, subduing, calming. It is not what it proves, but what it is, that holds the attention of men. In this sonse we seeno evidence that ministerial influence in the aggre- gate is declining. In churches, as in other modern institutions, the corporation lives on aqd flourishes, whatever may become of the in- dividuals which serve it. But thisis no more true of ministers than of governments, rail- roads, and other chartered companies, and of the press. As the organization of society becomes more complete and pertect, the importance of the individual to its outward movement lessens. Newspapers live on though their editors may disappear or die. Great rail- roads are unaffected by the loss of their found- ers. So the various Christian organizations be- come the mausolenm of the men who have la- bored to build them up as the'coral reef absorbs its insect architects. But this decline of indi- vidual influence relatively to that of the organi- zation indicates no decline of the aggregate in- fluence of .the varions Christian ministries. ‘Where science, materialism, secularism, and the forces of social revolution and disorganization, combined, all of which, whether for good or ill, have an affinity for each other, could raise one temple for their worship or advancement, the faiths that stand allied with epiritusl govern- ment, moral standards, and social order counld Thomeans is of a doeper aud more serions to-dsy 1alse ope million temples, The dispro~ 'port.inn betweea the two contending forces, in financial resources, is no greater than must be expected always to exist between teachings which have no moral standard and those which have. THE SICILIAN HURRICANE, The narrative from the London Zimes, de- scribing the ravages of the hurricane at Palaz- zolo, Sicily, and which was printed in our last issue, is one of peculiar interest, as it recolls & very similar calamity in this country, which hap- pened some twelve or fifteen years since. Ac- cording to the accounts, but very few buildings were left standing. Houses were rent to pieces or were dilapidated in the most mysterious styles. Lamp-posts were forced from their sockats, and trees were uprooted. The contents of stores disappeared entirely. Libraries, after the hurricane haa passed over, had nothing left of them but loose leaves which were flying through the streets. A pillar of & palace was moved forward a foot without bresk- ing. In some places, & houso was stripped " of all of its rafters; in others, tiles weretorn off and shattered to pieces. Several persons were killed. - The hurricane came guddenly in the night, and many of the dead were found where they had been sleeping, and were fearfully disfigured, the whirling sand baving been driven into their ears and nostrls, and even piercing through the flesh. These details vividly recall the destruction of Comanche and New Albany, in Towa. A closer parallel in disaster conld hardly be drawn, ex- cept that, as the Towa villages were almost en- tirely constructed of wood, the destruction was more complete. The hurricans at Palazzolo oc- carred in the night time; thatin Iowa in the day time, and yot, by & curious coincidonce, the loss of life was, if Wwe remember rightly, precisely the same,—thirty-two in each case, and about half that number injured,—showing that the suddenness of the blow left no better opporta- nity for escape in broad daylight thanin the night ime. The phenomena of the two were also nearly identical. In the Jowa towns, those houses which were in the direct line of the tor- nado were torn literally into splinters, but those which stood on the edgesof it were rent and twisted in the same mysterions manner as the Sicilian houses. The streets were choked up in the same manner with rubbish. The pillars of palaces which were moyed forward with. out breaking find their parallel in small tenements which wers moved forward two or three feet without breakage. In this re- spect, however, the Iowa calamity surpasses that 1 Sicily, as one house in Comanche, & brick ong, was turned round with but slight damage, 80 that it faced a different point of the compass after the tornado had passed. The fiying leaves from vanished book-covers recall the fate of the law library of the Circnit Judge, who lived in Comanche, and after the tornado looked about for his library, only to find the warped and twisted covers in his recent garden, and the leaves scattered to the fonr winds of heaven. The bodies which were recovered from the ruins of Palazzolo, if placed side by side with those in Comanche, conld hardly have been told apart, as the peculiarities of diffigurement were precisely similar. The distinctive force of each seems to heve been abont the same, Although more property was damaged in Towa than in Sicily,—a fact which may be explained by the circumstance that the Towa towns were built almost entirely of wood and sitiated upon s level prairie, where the tornado met with no obstructions in its course. The only material difference lies in the fact that the Towa tornado was a phenomenon in itself and disconnected from any general convul- sion of natare, while that in Sicily was but one phase of & wide-spread storm twhich inundated towns and cities in France and Germany, de- stroyed villages in Sweden and Denmark, and swept the English coast of its shipping. —_— Harvard College. It will be a matter of some surprise to.the general public that, as one result of the Boston fire, Harvard College is about to make an ap- peal to the American people for help. There has always been an impression that Harvard College was wealthy, and was abundantly able to meet her expenses from her income. It is now stated that a considerable portion of the wealth of the University is in its buildings, which, of course, are unproductive; in bequests, which have always been made with reference to specific purposes, and cannot, therefore, be of any avail for the general uses of the University; and in the tuition fees of students, which only go to meet current expenses, and leave little margin for profitable investments. The" real weallh of the University, how- ever, was derived from rents and interest on loans, secured by mortgages on buildings which were destroyed in the fire. The other sources of income were far from availability in mesting the expenses of the institution. The loss by the destruction of the real sources is va-. riously estimated at from $300,000.to £600,000. The income from this for the current year which has been thus suddenly cut off would have amounted to at least 350,000, This income, as well a8 & considerable portion of the principal, Harvard College will shortly ask its friends to replace. The necessity is obvious. Without it, it will be necessary to reduce the gelaries of Professors, which are already disproportionate to the services they render, as is the case in nmearly all institutions of learning. It will furthermore be necessary to stop at once all outlay for apparatus of every description, for an increase of the library and all improvements which have been outlineg, thus seriously interfering with the various cofrses of study and crippling the efforts of the University to increase its sphere of usefulness. We have no doubt the appeal ‘of the Univer- sity to the country at large and to its thonsands of alumni in particular will meet with a hearty and generous response, Harvard College is one of the few great seats of learningin the United Btates which has more than a local influence, Its blessings have radiated far and wide. Its liberality in education and its influence upon culture have given it a name even in foreign countries, and in the litersry world it holds the same relation to the United Btates that Oxford and Cambridge do to England. Any reverse which happens to it, therefore, is, to some extent,s national re- verse, and it will undoubtedly be a matter of national pride to provide againat any damsge to its material interests, or any lapse of its educa- tional usefulness. The entire sum to be raised is, we understand, 8250,000, and we have no doubt that this sum can be raised among its immediate friends and graduates, who are scat- tered all over the United States. In the event that they cannot, the fact that Boston itself seems to need no special relief growing out of the fire, but is abundantly able to take care of those who ere in need, will leave the general public at liberty to respond very freely to the call of Harvard College, and thus prevent this great national seat of learning from pausing in its beneficent work. ® a The problem known under the general term of “Bervantgalism” has reached Montreal, and taken such formidable proportions that it is to ‘be digcussed, and, we hope, settled, by a public mecting. The meeting haa been called by a number of the prominent Protestant ministers of Montreal, which will give it dignity end im- portance, It vould have had an aspect of i . greater fairness, however, if the Catholic prelates had been asked to take part, as representing more fully the servants, The differences be- tween employers and servants can ucx.me!ybe sottled by ex-parte action on either side; it would too nearly resamble strikes among work- ‘men against capitalists, or combinations smong capitalists against workmen, neither of which enjoy permanent success. The 'Manh_enl mgab— ing, however, is called for general discussion. Bubjects have been ailotted to various gentle- men. Rev. Dr. Cordner is to introduce the ques- tion of family training, with a view to meet the exigencies of the csse. Rev. Dr. Douglas and Rev. Dr. Donovan are to express their sentiments on the duty of mistresses to domestics,—a subject in which they will find & fertile suggestiveness, and a phase of the prob- lem which merits the most serious consideration. A kindred subjectis found in the matter of econ- omy of service, which includes the more intimate relations of employers and servants, more indus- try among the former, and an elevation of char- scter smong the latter. Aside from these set speeches, there is to be a chance for all persons to bring in their practical experience, to show the varions ‘causes of complaint and suggest the necessary remedies. It is intimated by the press that there will be an effort to rid society of the ides that there is something degrading in & young lady doing the work in her own roomof & morning, and also to teach the importance of looking upon domestics as something more than ‘mere meaials, #hd furnishing them with greater comforts than they ordinarily enjoy. ‘Wheeling is ambitions to become the capital of West Virginia. With thesad fateof Albany, Harrisborg, Columbus, Springfield, Madison, Lansing, and other State capitals befora its eyes, Wheeling should know better. Still, it advances its claims through the newspapers, and gives gpecial prominence to the fact that it possesses & large hotel, which has two halls for the Legis- lative sessions, parlors for the Supreme Court, ante-rooms for Committees, and nice Litle private rooms up stairs for the members’ per- sonal use. This will never do. Legislative Iuxuries are not to be enconraged. They are ex- pensive. Expensiveness is conducive to corrup- tion, and there is corruption enough already. AR i, POLITICATL. %ho Champaign Gazelle , Mr. George Scroggs’ newspaper, hoists the name of Oglesby for Benator. —The Toledo Commercial says: Indications seem to paint to the election of Gglesby £o represent Illinois ixi the Senate for the. comli,-&usghc years [7], provided that the almighty Trumbuil con Benta to Telire, g The Harrisburg Telegraph (Cameron) says: In Illinois we look for astruggle before Trumbull s defeated, The Cincinnati Times, however, says : The proposition to elect the Hon. E. B, Washburne 5 Senator from Ilinols, instead of Governor Oglesby, will be favorably regarded by the Legislature of that State, we trust, as it is by Republicans elsewhers through the country. Oglesby has just sccepted an election to the Governorship, and should serve out his term ip that office. —Clayton having counted in a Republican Legislature in Arkansas, the candidates for United States Senator are: Governor Hadley, Judge Bowen, ex-Senator McDonald, and Colo- nel Dorsey. —Of the sitnation at Montgomery, Ala., the Louisville Courier-Journal says: All the Radicals want is 8 muddle. There is s Badi- cal President. There i8 a Radical Congress, Thers is & Radlcal Governor clect in Alabama. A muddle, & disturbence, & Committee of Investigation, a Presi~ dential edict, » Congressional act; and wwof goes the Democratic Leglslature, and Mr. Senator Spencer isa ‘made man. —Patterson, the man with money, is apending it freely to corrupt the colored members of the South Carolina Legislature, and Sawyer, the ont-going Senstor, is giving them magnificent suppers; but Elliott, -the black Congressman, announces his inflexible purpose to go to the Senate, and the few white Liberals have promis- ed him their votes. —The vote of New Orleans, as published in the Republican of the 19th, was : Liberal, ‘President, Greeley. Governor, McEnery . Lt. Governor, Penn. . Congress, at L., Sheri Congreas, dist, 1, Laurence 9,691 Sypher, Congress, dist, 2, Gibson,..10,821 Sheldon —Edward Booth, elected to the Louisians Senate, shouts aloud, proclaiming to the people of New Orleans: Happler times, T hope, are in store for us; times which will, by their prosperity, union, and confldenc remindus of the days of Peters, and Baldwin, an Johnson, and Mouton, and Crossman, and Caldwell; days when to be a8 Loui was an_ honor ; when to Dave a city or State bond was better than to have it face in gold on the Exchange of London or the Bourse of Amsterdam or Paris ; days when the officers of Stata ‘were the friends of the poorest; when the humblest Iaborer, if honest and sober, was the peer of 8 Burn- side, a Tulane, or Slocomb, merchant princes of their times, —The Legislatures of Towa and Ohio, elected in-1871, hold adjourned sessions this winter; and the newly-elected Legialatures of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesots, Nebraska, Eansas, and Missouri, will also be in session. The Indiana Legislature, now in special session, will go along in regular session after the 1st of January. —The State Journal, st Sringfield, IIL, makes the msjority of Ray, Republican, for Congress, in the Tenth District, 1,519 instead of 1,066, by transposing the vote of Schuyler County. Of such blunders is the Stafe Journal's “ official table made up. —The Chattanooga (Tenn.) District gives Grant 1,448 majority, and elects Crutchfield to Congress by 1,029. At least 10,000 white voters took no part in the election. —Senator Pomeroy tells the Washington people that, during the Presidential canvass in Kansas, “The campaign cries were Pomeroy and anti-Pomeroy.” The cries at Topeka this winter will be “Ante! Pomeroy,” till Pomeroy antes. * —The New York Times gives warning to Scott, Reed, Spencer, Sawyer, Clayton, and all that class, of the impending downfall of carpet- baggers. w5 —Judge Settle, of NorthCarolina, who isnamed a9 the probable successor of Judge Nelson inthe United States Supreme Court, thinks, since the South has had no representative on the Banch for some years, he may be appointed to & North- ern Circuit with as much propricty as Northern men have been appointed to Southern Circuita. —The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention fills vacancies in its membership upon the nom- ination of the majority or minority parties, to whichever the seat belongs. Mr. Buckalew was thus provided for; and it 18 now proposed to in- vite Chief Justice Thompson totake part in the proceedings. —The friend of the colored man will find in TLouisvills, Ky., three candidates for the Mayor- alty—all Democrats—who ignore white folks altogether, and go for the black man with the precipitancy of desire, if not with the ardor of convictions. The negro’ is indeed something. more than an event ; he is an element. —At s meeting in_Cincinnati the other day, to consider the expediency of starting a new par ty, M. Emil Rothe, editor of the Volfafreund? sfitg: He did not believe in the World’s doctrine that the Democratic party would live. Ho himself a life-long Democrat, did not even wish it. A staté could not form & new party. —The Florence (Ala.) Times (Conservative) sdmits that the name ‘‘Democrat” must be drapped from politics, and sannounces that, if Grant i8 a candidate in 1876, it will be wise for the South to give him & nnanimous vote, —The one important issue before the Tennes- see Legislature, soon to meet, will be that of Free Schools. The Nashville Banner says : More people than heretofore are be; to realize that the State needs free school 'y schools, night schools, normal schools, manual labor schools, Sunday schools,and all conceivable schools, Thus dossWest Ter. Tesgoo echo back the demands of the friends of education in East Tennessee, and Middle Tennessa can point proudly to the splendid school system of the Capital of the State. It is an investment that would begin to tell financially before another Presidential election. —We givo elsewhere a third-term pro- Emm_nekvna developed in the brain of some- ody in Washington, If any patriotis alarmed about it, he may take comfort in the thought that there are four years before the next Presi- dential election, and that a great many unex- pected things, fatal to present programmes, will doubtlest fuko place during fhose. yeATEr Cincinnati Commercial, ‘requested to send her a copy of the °| ed an Academician, and the " ACADEMY OF DESIGN. e . Annual Meeting--Adoption of a . Constitution, ‘Election of Officers--A Board of Trusc tees Chosen to Act for Life. 5 . - The n'djomed annual meeting of the Chicags Acadeniy of Design washeld in the club-room of the Gardner House, yesterday afternoon. Thore were present H. C.Ford, President ; J. W. Dodge, Secretary ; Charles Peck, Troasur~ er; H. A, Elkins, P. Fiske Reed, J. H. G. Reed, Frank M. Pebblcs, D. F. Bigelow, G. 8. Collis, A. F. Spread, C. Schwerdt, D. F.-Culver, Paul Brown, and John Philips, _ a President Ford called the meeting to order. Secretary Dodge then read gthe minutes of the 1ast moeting, which, upon motion, were adopt- ed. ‘The President then called upon Mr. Peck to report the result of Miss Faithfall's lecture. That gentleman said that he was present at Miss Faithfoll's, lecture, and that the k) attendance was not as large a8 had been anticipated ; that ir wes respectable, but limited. He eaid, that therefore, the result ‘was that the society had not made a thomsand dollars, but that it had not run in debt. President Ford then said, that according to .| notice given at the last meeting, &% wounld ba presented for the consideration & the members & new Constitution, and, after ©%%me remarks, the Secretary was requested to read it. i _ After s lengthy discussion, the new Constitu-~ tion, with a few unimportant amendments, was adopted. .It is identical with the old, with the exception of Article 3, which provides that the money and” propesty of the Academy shall be held and be managed by the Trustees. There are to be Honos Academicians, citizens of Chicago, who shail hold their ofices for lifo, un- less they hall remove from the city. This ar- ticle was modelled after the Constitution of the Academy of Sciences. _After the adoption of the Constitation, the So- ciety proceeded to the election of officers, which resulted in there-electionof President Ford, with J. W. Dodge, Vico President, and Charles Peck, Recording Becretary, The Society then proceeded to the election of Councilmen,” with the following result: John Philips, O. Schwerdt, J. C. Cochran, Pebbles, B. F. Bigelow. The fal!uwi‘::fi resolution was then presented and unanimously adopted : Resolved, That this Academy foal dee; lflss}hn“l‘.li& ZFaithfoll, for he"r effort mplzdg‘:;gnlfi cause of the Academy. Becretary be It was farther resolved that the Tesolution. Spread was then unanimously elect- name of Mr. Henry Conkling was proposed; but, owing toa defi- cent understanding of the by-laws, it was sug- geubg: that his name be considered till the next ndeeting. The following Board of ten Trustees was then resented and elected: Geo. C. Walker, Wm. . Doggett, 8. I Nickerson, Potter Palmer, Wm. B. Howard, N. K. Fairbank, Mark Skinner, Franklin McVeagh, Henry W. King, L. Z. Leiv ter, and the Secretary was instructed to notify the gentlemen of their election as Trustees. e question of location was deferred until another meeting. Avote of thanks was tendered to Messrs. Gardner & Gould, proprietors of the Gardner House, for the use of the club room. The meeting then adjourned. , F. Mr. H. J. An X¥ron Xsland—The New War-Ship Devastation. + From the London Daily Te k. That the Devastation isa s;kc:c’;:’x;, 80 far a8, ghe has been tried, is now admitted. The pon= derous monster, which squats upon the aston~ ished waters with a dead ‘weight of 10,000 tons,. takes any ordinary waves with stolid indiffers. ence, whether she receives them end-on, or- ©upon bow, beam, or quarter. The prodigious. bill of foam which her stem piles up when wnder waigh, washes, 8 was expected, clean over her- forward deck, and she is often submerged aft;. but her massive mid-section rides quiotly. enongh, and those on board her when an-- chored in the rolling tide-wsy at Spithead, soy that she was_ ‘‘steadier than tha- houses ashore.” She turns with great readiness, and in a emall circle, and her speed, a3 proved insix trials along the meas- ured mile, 18 not only equal to the promise of hor designers, but it oxceeds expeciation. The . mighty engines driving this island of ‘iron with an indicated power of 6,600 horses, with seventy~ seven revolutions to the minute, got fifteen Imots and a half ont of the ship, and her mean rate at full steam is thirteen knots and three- quarters. Here, therefore, is & craft which is vulnerable onlyto a very few guns, has the swiftness of a mail-packet, and the handiness— thanlks to her twin crews—of a tug, while she could utilize these qualities tohurl upon the sides of an opponent the awful force of all her 10,000 tons moving with the velocity of a spear. On board this remarkable man-of-war there are no less than thirty-four distinct and separato engines, and, indeed, the value which she represents is as serious as her fighting capacity. What remains to be learned is the behavior of the ugly giant in a real Bisca; gale; and whether or no the cul-de-sac whi she carries aft will or will not prove s mistakein * a heavy following sea. With stability assured ta 55 deg., with no top-gear to set her over, and with ~decks which can be hermetically sealed, ghe would be safe enough; but whenover sha does roll, or pitch, or scud, the rivets and fit~ tings 1’ her huge body will' be shrewdly tried. Except in the Russian monitor Peter the Great, nothing floating could resist or even challenge such & vessel, at once 50 strong and swift.” The torpedo, no doubt, may yet be so developed as to make the Devastation, and all her terrible sis~ ters, impotent against & defended coast. On the high seas at present she has no superior, though we suppose the day will come when even this amazing construction will be as obsolete as the; three-deckers of Nelson. A Queen with Wits. The Queen of the Netherlands is one of! those eminently sensible sovereigns whom form the earean rule of uneasy exception to tho SI heaflg. Her Majesty takes every g‘ossibla OPE,“- tunity of dispensing with the -divinity which hedges her, and does her best to enjoy life like any one else of sense and cultivation. A re- markable accomplished linguist and thoroughly, scquainted with the best literature, her especial delight is in the society of highly cultivated men. Holland is too small 8" country to afford: much. material of this kind, and, as Mr. Motley has, during his residence at the Hague good reason to know, any sccession srom abroad is equally- welcomed to the Queen’s pleasant home, the “House in theWood.” But everyyearthe takes flight across the channel for & glimpee of cultivated England, and, when she does so, what manner of woman her Majesty is may be clearly seen by noting who are her hosts. Thus, at the very time that the Prince and Princess of Wales yere tho guests of 2 yonug noblemsn who was mggfl; scribed s havigg “no back to his hesd,” and who, within & few weeks of his fother's death, was heavily fined by s polica magistrate for assaulting licge subjects return- ing from the races, and whose guests—froma Ligt selected by the Prince—were almost entirely comgoaefl of roues, spendthrifts and inferior- minded persons, the Queen of the Netherlands , was the visitor of Lord Derby and his accomp- lished wife, whence she was togo tothe Mar- chioness of Waterford, the gifted sister of the late Lady Canning, and perhaps almost the first amateur artist in England, and thence was to preson fo Scotland and stay some days with ir William' Maxwell-Sterling, author of “The Cloister Life of Charles the VI.” and probably . one of the twenty best-read men in the Gnited tKhmgdum. “By their friendg shall ye know em.” . A Celebrated Legal Case. The celebrated case of the Delaware & Hud- son Canal Company sgainst the Pennsylvania Coal Company was finally decided in the Court of Appeals, Albany, a fewdaysago. The case has been pending the last fifteen years. The tes- timony was taken before & referee, and extended over fifteen thousand folios, filling eight or ten large printed volumes. The case was heard at the’ City of New York before the Hon. Henry Hogeboom, ~ sole referee, and the leading members of the bar participated in the argu- ment. The referee decided the case in favor of the plaintiff, the Canal Company, award- ing one-fourth only of the amount claimed, and m-dmn§ that each party should pay its own costs (the total amounting to over 5200,000). The amount of the recovery for coal already transported equalled about "three-fourths of a million of dollars, but in addition to that it fired 8 ate of additional or supplemental tolls for all coal thereafter to be transported over the canal by the defendant, under a perpetual contract for the use of one-half of its capacity. Both partiea appealed from the judgment of the referee to the Bupreme Court, which tribunal affirmed the judg- megt on both appeals,