Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1872, Page 6

L ik CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 187. ) TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. Tarts of a yeerat thic same rato. TTo provent delay and mistakes, bo sure and givo Post Offce zddress in full, fncluding State and County. Tenttances may be mado clther by draft, exprets, Post ©ffico oxder, cr in registered lettors, at our risk. - TERMS TO CITY EUDSORIBERS. el elivered. Sunday excepted, % cents per week. zils, delivered, Sunday fncluded, 30 ccats per weok. Addzess THE TRIBUNE CO3iPANY, ‘Corner Madizon and Deerborn-sis., Chicago, 1L 0. 463 Wibash-ar. kctoro of Mosers. Cobb, Andrews & Co., Wherd advertisements and subscriptions will bo received, and will have the samo attention z3 if left zt the Main OfEco, in the FD HANDS AND FACECURED BY USING -gfffi:ru Soap. Made by Ceswell, Hazard & Co., Now York. O AHA LOTTERY. —HIGHEST VRIZE 875,00, TN Nebrasks State Orphan_Aslum, 1o bo drayn B “a}»m';‘ic\s’:?’s,hix §f=u;mm for g5, Addroas J. M. T, el Omah?, STA, 1N TION, DEPRESSION of 5};}'1’;2&.??511:% oo Pspliorsid > Catiéayz Be: ), is ta 3 e i i s 00 Now Yorky @he (hieago Tribune, 1872. Sunday Morning, December I, THE AESTRACT BOOXS. Tho letter of Mr. Steelo, published in Tme TarsosE yesterday, was a timely response to tho guestion, What is it that the county proposes $obuy from the owners of the absiract books ?” YIr. Stecle staies s fact which will enlighten thonsande of persons who have had rather con- fused notions of what these books contain. The general impression has beer, that whenaman ap- plied for an abstract of titlo, the paper he received was & transeript of the entries in the books of the several establishments ; but this is not the fact. These entries are mera minutes, in which they state that on & certain date A conveyed to B certain lend for & cortain sum, as by deced recorded on cortain pages of ths public records. When an abstract is asked for, the entries enabled the sbstract-maker to refer to the original record, and farnish therefrom ths papers known as abstracts. So faras these several firms havo refained and nosr have copies of the sbstracis furnished their customers, such, «copics have considerable valuo, but tho other entries, which are meraly references to public wrecords which no longer exist, have butanin- considerable value. They ghow but in very fow cazes any of the minute particulars of the con- veyances to which thay refer, and are neither evidence themselves nor do they tend to estsb- figh eny facts. 3 This fact is of the greatest importance. There £re probably in this city, held by various persons, wbstracts showing the title to nearly every foot of land in the county. The owners of thesc papers will pgladly comsent to heve thess papers recorded. All the banks, in- surenco companies, andall other institutions which loaned money on real estate, have com- plete ebstracis of title down to the fire. Each oze of theee absiracts embraces not’ only the chein of title to the particnlar land then held by the owner of the abstract, butto large amounts of otherland. Nearly all the large owners of real esiatolave complete abstracts, not only of the tiile fo the land they now own, .but foall they have ever owned. If the county will make provision for recording all these papers frea of expense to the cwnerz, there will, within a very few months, be upon record 2s full and as com- plete a chain of title to all tho property in the city znd county ascanpossibly be shown by allthe booksof 2l the abstract men. To record these pa~ perswill notcost 10percentof thoprice demanded by the abstract mea for their books. Thousands ©f citizens have, moreover, their original deeds, o1 eortificd copies of dcods, and 21l these may bo “recorded, 2ad &1l will tend to make arocord of greater valuo ihan can be hed by the re- eording of 2l the books and papers of the ab- stract men. If tho County Commissioners will Incite this action by the holders of these ab- stracts, and provide for their recording 2t tho putlic expense, wo. aro confident there will be &n tmmediate and general responso. TIE POLITICAL RELICS OF THE REBELLION. Whether tho President in his message will ra- pent his former recommendations in favor of a 2l zmnesty, or the removal of all political ilities imposed by the Fourteenth Amend- ment. has cessed, in one sense, to be of any im- Pportance, beczuse the number o which such act will now apply is very small. After the Cincin- nati Convention, end just before the “sdjourn- ment of Congress, a Qill was passed removing Ppoiitical disabilities from all except *Senators end Representetives of the Thirty-sisth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judi- cial, military, and neval sorvice of the United Btates, heads of Departments and foreign Min- Istersof the Tnited States.” This language was cezsidered ambiguous at the time, but the proper tonstruction unquestionsbly retains under dis- ebility all thoso who were in the military or judi- el ecrvice in 1860-1, and who left tho seme to tako past in the Rebellion. The number of persons belonging to these classes now living has been greaily reduced by feath, and of the eurvivors but fow, if eny, Eave politieal aspirations. A correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal furnishes a list of the exceptions. In the list of disfranchised Benators are Fitzpatrick, of Alsbams, always s retiring man, zow of an advanced age, and O. C. Clay, who has long been a victim of bad health, end who lives in retirement in his State. Robert W. Johuson, of Arkanszs, has sbandoned poli- bes, endis practising law at Washington City. ¥ulee and Mallory, of Florids, have never taken 235 part in politics since the war; the former is President of 2 small railroad in Tlorida, and the othcr is practising low at Pensacola. Iverson, of Georgiz, is now & very oldmen, and has mot been heard of ; and, while Toombs is 28 great o ‘oarer as ever, and still refuses to surrender, ho bes ro foilowing in Georgia, where a now gen- eration las come to voting age since he wasa preat man. Of the Louisiona Senators, Slidell Es dead, and Benjamin hes become naturalized 2sa citizen of Great Britain, andis practising Law in London, Jeff. Davis is President of the South Caro- fina Life Insurance Company, and the salary is hisozly incomer He is not 2n aspirant for polit- fe2l honors under any State or the Federal Gov- erment. His ambition is to live s the Presi- dent of {he defunct Confederacy. Albert G. Brown, the other Senator from Mississippi, has bezcn carnest in his efforts to reconcile the white end negro populations of the State, but has no political aspireiions. Hammond, of South Caro- fina,—the sutlicr of the famous * Mudsill” epithet,—is dead; Chesnut, the other Senator, is living. Nicholson, of Tenncssee, has nlready’ been pardened, and is now Chief Justice of Ton- pessce. Trasten Polk, of Missouri, is living Ruictly in that State. Wigfall, of Texas, is practising law, B}ason, of Virginia, is deed. Hunter, of the same State, is living, but has no political ambition, This completes the list of Senztors, showing only xmec.m living, one of whom resides in England. J. C. Breckinridge is the only member of the Thirty-Seventh Congress who s disfranchised. Of the Representatives who are yet under dissbilities, the list is comparatively small, The following is stated to bea full enumeration of them: 7. L. Pugh, David Clopton, George 8, Houston, J. L. A, Curry, of Alsbama ; Charles L. Scott, of Califor- nis, now of Alabama ; George S, Hawkins, of Tlorida; Murtin J. Cravwford, of Georgia; L. Q. 0. Lamar, O, RB. Singleton, of Missiseippi ; W, N. H.Smith, Burton Craige, of Norih Carolina; John McQueen, William Porcher Miles, M. . Bonham, of South Carolina; John H. Regan, of Texas; Thomas 8, Bucock, 8. F. Leake, ex-Governor William Smith, B. A, Pryor, H. N. Edmonson, of Virginia, There is but one ex-Judicial officer now dis- franchised, John A. Campbell, formerly of tho Supremo Court, and who is now practising law in New Orleans. Of the army officers, the following list is said o contain all the disfranchised : General Samual Cooper, former Adjutant General of the United States army, now living, in his old age, near Alexandria, Va.; General Jo. Johnston, now agent of various insurance companies, ot Savannah, Ga.; Gen- eral Besuregerd, now engaged in business at New Orlezns; General Sam. Jones, late o resident of Lonis- villo, now Professor st Oakland, Cal. ; General Gus tavei W, Smith, of Franfort, Ky,; General Hood, formerly of Texas; General B. §. Ewell; General D, ‘H. T, who led the North Caralinians ; General G, W. Qustis Lee, son to Robert Lee, and President of Washe ington =3d Lee University, Va.; General Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginui; General W.IL F. Lee, President of the YVirginia Stats Agricultural Society; Colonel Larkin Bmith, of Georgia; Colonel L., B. Northrup, ez-Com- missary Geaeral of the Confederacy; mow farming near Charlottesville, Va.; Profeesor AL F. Alsury, Pro- fessor ot Lexington, Va.; Captain Brooke, the inventor of the system of deep-ses sonndings; General I R. Jackson, of Georgia, former Minister 1o Austria; znd Iastly, General William Preston, of Kentucks, former Minister at Madrid, It will bo seen that the list thus given does not exceed 100 names, and most of them are now men of advanced age, and have probably had their ambition fully satisfied. The act of Congress in Juno last, it is estimated, restored to political xights over 100,000 persons, lesving but these 100 or less under the ban. These 100,000 rchels wera relezsed onm the eve of the gront election, but in no instanco was the public peace disturbed or liberty endangered. But few, if indeed oven oneof them, sought an election to any office, State or National. It is oxtremely doubtful if any considerable numkber of them voted. The country sustained the shock and no evil consequences resulted. Having now par- doned nearly every man concerned in the Rebel- lion, it is & question whether the National grace would not bo more magnanimous if these few ‘men were included. : TEE FROBLEM OF DOMESTIC SERVICE. Somo deys since Tux TRIBLNE contained a referenco to & public meeting that had been call- ed in Ifontreal to consider tho problem of do- mestic service. This meeting was held under the auspices of the Protestant clergymen of tho city, and the large attendance indicated that the question under consideration pressnted as many difficulties in Canada a3 ip the various cities of the United States. The specch- making was given over mainly the clergymen who +wére prosent, and it is consequently not surprising to find tha newspapers speaking of the occasion as develop- ing too great o tendency to sentimentalism, and 100 great an ignorence of the practical difficulty. If thero is any one thing of which & professional man is likely to bo more ignorant than of all else, it is the question of domestic service. However, the prectical gifficulties aroe Eo great, and the possible remedies Eo nearly impossible of application, that the charge of {heorizing, spoculating, and sentimentalizing could probably be made against any assembly of persons who should undertake to dispose of the problem. The discussion was divided into two parts,— the first considering the subject o2 family trein- ing, with a view to mect tho cxigencies of the social horror known as ““servant-galism,” and the second regarding tho moral clevation of servants. In the first case, Rev. Dr. Cardner, with a delightful and enviable ignorance of tho real troubles, suggested that a department should be established in existing schools, and other schools especially founded, for instruction is the domestic virtue of good cooking. We can imagine the Rev. Dr. Cardner to be a jolly old English gentleman, given to rich and juicy joints, plum puddings, and trimmings to corro- spond. It would be very niceto have regularly- educated cooks, though we imagino that tho ox- perienco of the kitchen would produce them much gooner than the theories of the school- room. But even in such caso, others would be puzzled, es much &s tho Rev. Doctor, io tell how poor girls, who are obliged to leavo home and work out on account of their poverty, would manage to take the necessary schooling; nor how the middle- clasaes, even wellfo-do, 28 the world gocs, could afford to pay the prices of skilled lsbor when they ave already complaining of the de- mends which tho unskilled general work girl makes upon them. Fortunately, all the sugges- tions of relief were not o far out of the way. Ono gentleman very Ecnsibly maintained that tho proper mode of training should begin with the family aud not the domestics. If femalo servents were nob called upon to do more than woman's work ; if they were not exz- pected to leave their logitimate cooking or iron- ing to wait upon tho young ladics of tho house ; if they wero not subjected to the moro rigid discipline a5 to their company end hours than they would enduro at achool ; if they wero not expected to work night and day, rising early to carry conl and build fires, and steying up late to fnish work that proved to be too much for ono day,—it is not probeble that there would be ths same number of desertions without warning of which there is such general complaint. The remedy for all this is not any change smong do- mestic servants, who are no better nor worse than humans, but a change in tho habits of tho mistresses who espect too much of them. It is not probable that eervants would havo com- menced to make a demand for certain nights out if mistresses had not begun to demeand that they should never go out at all. The misfor- tuno which makes it neceseary for ono woman to work in the Litchen instezd of playing in ihe parlor should not bo made to deprive her of every comfort and enjoyment in lifo. Yet & visit to friends or from friends, gotting married, wearing out, becoming rich, or even dying, i3 regarded 2s o personal injury by mistressos, when it comes to scrvent-girls. One lady in the Montreal meeting suggested thot mistresses should take more pains with their servants, instructing them in household duties of which they were ignorant; and snother was of the opinion that con- tracts shonld be made for a longer term, and that tho mistresses ehounld take ad-~ vantage of this to render their homes dearsr and more permanent to their domestics. These Buggestions were the most practical of the con- ference. So long asnewand more desirable evocstions are opening to women, it is not to be hoped that they will adhere to the drudgery of domestic service. Yot homes might be made so pleasant for them thatthey would prefer anyrea- sonable amount of housework to needle service or factory life. Itisalsotioomuch to expect that girls can step out from the lower order of social life, where poverty has deprived them of ex- perience in good cooking and fine Iaundry-work, and immediately satisfy a family tablo or a do- mestic lingerie, where the tastes are above the mesns for employing first-class lobor at high prices. Ledies must instroct and help their servants. It the answer bo that, 83 goom 88 thoy are instructed, they abandon youw, the inferenco is that their places have not beenso pleasant as they might have been, for sensible girls will scarcely give up a good home for one of which they know nothing, Theke is undoubtedly & mania for chango among large numbers of do- meetics, but it is only the counterpert of & simi- lar mania smong mistresses, many of whom contract s Labit, which grows upon them, of changing servants whenever they can, and most of whom constantly think that they might do better, Other phages of the domestic quostion wero presented. One was the moral and -religious elevation of the servants ; but as the employers are largely Protestant and tho employed largely Catholic, it is as well that tho formor should as- sume no further responsibilityin this regard than that of showing a good’ examplo in Chris- tan character and gencral amiability. The pur- poso of establishing a uniform rate of wages was proposed, but without any action. Tho proposition is entirely impractical, as eensible people who can afford it will never per- mit a small difference in price to deprivo them of homo comforts, Prices are regulated by skill, industry, and devotion, and always will be,in spite of arbitrary tariffs. The meeting sdjourncd, as most moetings of this kind will be apt to do, without having decided upon zny plen of improvement. We are inclined to think that the problem of domestic service is one which overy lady will have to settle for herself. A general system of “ characters” or “recom- ‘mendetion,” such as prevail in England, would beof service to all employers, who would take painstoinsistuponthemand totest their validity. For the rest, we are inclined to believe that thoso ladies who are spoken of as * so lucky in their help ” understand the solution of the prob- lem much better than any genersl conference could determine it; and wo suspect that it con- sists in knowing when they have a gocd girl and bow to keep her. —— BTRENGTH AND BEALTH. Dio Lewis, whose wrtings on bodiculture, if they are not very profound, have, at least, the ‘merit of brevity and good sense, calls the atten- tion of the public, in *“To-Day,” to the prevail- ing fellacy that strength is & synonym for health. He knows intelligent persons who re- ally believe that you may determine the compar- ative health of two men by measuring their arms. Tho man whose arm measures twelve inches is twice as healthy as ho whose arm meas- ures but six. “This strange and thoughtless ‘misapprehension,” he says, ““has given rise to nearly all the mistakes thus farmadein tho phys- ical-culture movement. I have a friend who can 1ift nine hundred pounds, 2nd yet is 2n habiturl sufferer from torpid liver, rheumatism, and low spirits. The cartmen of our cities, who are our strongest men, aro far from béing the healthicat class, as physicians will testify. On the con- trary, Iheve many friends who would stagger under three hundred pounds, that are in cepital trim.” s Theso truths scem g0 obvious, when thus stated and illustrated, as hardly to rise above commonplace. Why, then, repoat them? Be- cause, by the vast. majority of “health-lift~ ers,” gymnasium-frequenters, end would-be athletes, they are either unknown or practically ignored. Every pale, sickly, pigmy-limbed man wanis to be physi- cally strong; to be a Horcules, & son of Anak, at least a small Heonan, is absolutely essential, he thinks, to the enjoyment of perfect health. £ ho cannot expect to Litt & ton, or to wall s thousand miles in a thonsand hours, he must, at least, be able to take a daily *constitutional” of five miles and back, or to raise fivo hundred pounds without bursting & blood-vessel. But what is tho meaning of the word ‘‘strong?” From the glibness with which some men parrot the term, one would suppose that nothing is ensicr than to define it,—that the proposition thet aman is very strong is as simple as the proposition that he is six feet high. The trath is, however, that the word is embiguons,—that under its seeming unity there lurks s real dual- isT of meaning, as a few facts will show. In the firat place, one of the most obvious tests of strength is the power of exertion. But great power of exertion may co-exist with ex- treme dolicacy of organism, and even with or- ganic disease. Napoleon, who slept four hours ardwas on horseback twenty,—who toiled so terribly that ho half-killed his secretaries,—un- derwent fatigues that wonld have broken down ‘nine out of ten “strong” men ; yethis diges- tion was always delicate and easily deranged, and he died of an hereditary organic discase 2t the 2go of 55. Julins Cmsar was mot what is popularly called & “strong ” man; yet ho was a prodigy of exertion and endurance. Agnin ; it is o sbriking fact that great power of exertion in ono direction doos not slways imply its existerce in another. There are hundrods of men who can perform tesks that severely tax the muscles, and endure with impunity a1l kinds of exposure and herdship, who collapse under a continuous and severo strain upon the eyes, the brain, and the nerves; and the converss is ns often seen. Dr. Elam, the author of that deeply- inferesting work, “A Physician's Probloms,” tells us that not long ago a friend reviewed with him tho namesof six or eight upper wranglers at the English Universities for the lsst twenty years, and that, with wery fow exceptions, these and nearly oll the *“double fist” men were alive and well; whilo, on the other hend, on reviewing the his- tory of two boats’ erews of picked men, of whom they had full and accurate informeation, thoy found that not one of them was slive. Surely, such hevoc as this was never found among mental athletes. Look at the amount of work whick that dwarf, bunchback, and invalid, Alexander Pope, contrived to perform! Whenho got up in ‘the morning, he had tobe sewed up in stff can- vass stays, without which he conld nob stand orect. His thin body was wrapped in fur and flannel, and his mesgre, spectral legs required three poirs of stockings to give them & Tespeotablo look. Almost literally & pigmy in size, he was so deformed that his life was one long disease, Look ot brave Samuel Johnson, so focble as o child that the physician snid he never knew another raised with such difficalty,—struggling all his life with & severe gerofulous disorder, that twisted his body into strange contortions,—and with & con- stitutional melancholy and hypochondris, “a vile melancholy,” that Lept him, as ho seid, “‘mad helf his life, or, at least, not sober,”—80 languid at times that he conld herdly tell the hour on the clock, and yet, with ono pair of ‘hands and one brain, doing the work of en acad- emy! Bee, again, the giant lobors performed by Channing, with his frail, clayey tabornacle; and note the vast amount of writing and other ‘usefol Iabor performed by those physical ghosts of men, Professor Goddard, of Brown University, and the late Professor Hadley, of Yale! Need we 8dd to these the caeos of Torstenson, the Bwedish General, who, afflicted with gout, had to be borne on s litter, yet by the rapidity of his movements 2stonished -Europe,—or that of General Wolfe, who, though the seeds of sev- eral fatal diseases were lnid in his constitution from infancy, yet wrested from the French the Gibraltar of America ? Bat, some one will ask, has that spectral-look- ing lawyor, orthat statosman, who apparently performs such prodigies of labor,—that pale, lean man with s face liko parchment, and noth- ing on his bones,—a constitution? We answer in the words of the London Times to & similar query some years a30,—* Yes, he has; he hasa working constitution, and a ten times better one than you, my good friend, with your raddy face and strong, muscular frame. You look, indeed, the very picture of health, but you have, in ro- ality, only a sporting constitution, not a work- ing one. You do very well for the open air, and get on tolerably well with fine, healthy exercise, and no strain on your brain. Bat try close air for & week,—try confinement, with heaps of con- fused papers and books of referenco, blue books, law books, or books of roferencs to get through, and therefrom extract liquid and transparent ro- sults, and you will find yourself Imocked up and fainting, when the pale, lean man is—if not “as fresh as a daisy,” which he never is, being of the porpetaally cadaverous type,—nt least as unaf- fectedas a bit of leather, and not showing tho - smallest sign of giving way. There are two sorts of good constitutions,—good idle constitu- tions, ard good working ones.” Another test of strength is the power of en- during hardship, touching which we see repoated the peradox we have alroady noted. Far from being associated invaricbly with great musoular force, this power is often found in union with extrems delicacy of organization. Who, in catastrophes and seasons of great peril, has not seen ireil, delicato women, who would scresm and smost faint nt the sight of = mouse, bear 1p under toils, perils, and sufforinga which would Lill the stoutest men? Who has fagotten the lignum-vitm toughness of Dr. Eae? Though s sailor by profession, he mever vent to sea without suffering from sen- sickness; ho had a heart-disesse and a chronic rheumaism; yet he had s vitality,—an iron en- durance—which enabled him to go throngh sufferings in the Arctic Seas under which big, ‘burly soilors, and other men specially trnined to endure such hardships, sank into the gravo, William I1L., of England, was not a strong man, nor was Luxembarg, his fiery opponent in the Netherlands; yet it is doubtful whether among tho 200,000 men whom they commanded, there was one with greater power of endurance than that of tho hunchbacked dwarf that led the hosts of France, or that of the asthmatic skele- ton that led tho hosts of England. Among the tests of strength longevity must be considored one; and here we aro confronted by facts that mako the explanation of *strength” ®iill more difficult. Had we space, we could cite the names of numerous thinkers, than whom nono have ever exerted a greater influence upon literaturo, history, and philosophy, who lived to the average age of 90 years. Yet many of them, it is well Inown, were prodigious workers and voluminous anthors, and not a few of them, there is renson to bolieve, would be regarded by our modern physical-culturo men as weaklings, Ascertain the united ages of twenty-five of the most eminent farmers the world has seen, and is it probable that the sum total would amount, 23 in the case of these thinkers, to twenty-two ‘hundred and fifty years ? 1t is customary, where a secmingly feeble man, tortured with disease, showa a durability or toughness which an athletic man lacks, outliving and ontworking him, to explain tho mystery by saying that the former has o bettor constita- tion ™ than the latter. But does this solve the riddle? Evidently not. It simply gives it another name. What is that thing which we, for convenience, or to hide our ignorancs, call “ constitution,” which may be constantly im- paired, but has the ability to withstand go many shocks? It has been well obsorved by a thoughtful writer that o table would not bo called strong if two of its lega were cracked and soveral of its joints loose, however tough might be its materials, ard however good its original workman- ship. But i tho tablo ghowed & power of holding together and recovering itself, notwithatanding every sort of rough nsage, it might well be called strong, though it was ultimately broken up; and its strongth might not unnaturally bo measured by tho quantity of ill-usage which it survived. It is precisely in this power of self-repair that the difforenco between a body and & mere machine resides. The difficulty of seying what is moant by physical strength is in the diflicalty of dis- tinguishing botween the mechanical and what, for fault of a better word, must bo called the vital powers of tho body. Look upon tho body 83 a mechine, and the broken arm, tho tubercles in the lungs, or the cancer in the liver, prevent you from calling it strong; but, if it goes on acting for yeurs, and wonderfally recovering it- 8elf again and again from the catastropho which these defects tend to produce, there must be a strong something somewhero. What and where is that something " HOW A PATRIOT WAS TREATED. ““Are wo soon forgot when wo aro gone?” Poor Rip Van Winkle's touching and prophetic question was never moro sadly anewered than by tho career of General’ C. 0. Loomis, the dead artillerist, the remains of whose remeins have just been interred in Detroit, Ho was ome of tho most brilliazt and successful of all the vol- unteer officers in the war against the rebellion. Ho went out at the head of the famous Cold- water Battery, and was made Chief of Artille- ry on Sherman's staff, where his ser- ‘vices were among the most valuable inthe army. During the war. and during the short period of patriotio gratitude which followed, ho was the martial hero of all Michigan. Yet two yearsago found him reduced to poverty, which 1was fol- lowed by partiel insanity. He was sent to the Soldiers’ Home in Milwaukeo, and from “thare was transforred to the National Asylum in Wash- ington, where ho died, during tho heat of tne Pregidential campaign. He wag there 33 @ psuper, and, TUPoR his death, his remains were buried in tno paupers’ field. Politics had supplanted patriot- ism, end there was nono 80 poor 25 to do him homage. It was eaid of the politicians that they had need for living men but not for dead, and there was not & protest against this ignoble treatment of oneof Michigan's noblest sons. It was only the newspaper correspondents, find- ing in his neglected ashes a topic for comment, that directed the public attention to the shame- fulness of mneglect, and, all of & sudden, Detroit developed o sudden interest in the fallen hero. Public meotings were called, committees were appointed, funds were raised, and it was decided to bring poor Loomis’ corpse back to his native Stato. Municipal rivalry did what popu- lar gratitude failed to do, and Coldwater was spurred on to similar action by the proceedings in Detroit. Then there came g rivalry botween these two cities, such as there 'was aboat the birth-place of Homer and the last home of Cervantes. The people ‘who had wilfully neglected the stricken man living strove with each other for precedence in rescuing him dead from the pauper’s grave to which they had permitted him to be con-~ signed. The Detroit Committee resched Wash- ington first, and the romains were disinterred and sent forward. Instead of being taken off at Detroit, as they should have been, they were carried by, end wero in tho express car at tho time it took firo =at Niles a day or two sinco. Ilere the remains, though encased in a motallic casket, wero so charred and disfignred that they conld not be recognized. It was in this condition, after. having undergone the vieissitudes of inhumation, exhumation, and cremation,—neglocted and abused through oll,— that tho ashes of tho gallant Loomis were rein- terred in Detroit on Wednesda; THE LAST OF DUPRE3ZOIR. Just ono month ago the famous Kureaal of Baden-Baden was closed, and in one month morae the similar establishments of Wiesbaden, Ems, Hombourg, and Nanheim will be likewise closed forever. When tho Prussian Govern- ment issues an edict now-a-days, there is no farther doubt about its enforcoment, and the fascinations of rouletle, and fronfe- el-neuf will bo missing henceforth at the German spas, until & change of Governmental sentiment or interest ehall prompt & revoeation of the order for their sup- pression. The new Prussian law provides a severs penalty for making a business of gaming, ~—a fine of 2,000 thalers and imprisonment for two years, besides dopriving the gambler of his rights as a citizen. Itis not probablo that .3l Dupreseoir or M. Bageja will caro to test the efficiency of Imperial Police regulations. They will avail themselves of this opportunity to take what has furnished an excuse for thousands of thewr victims—a change of air. It is conceded already that the attractions of the gaming-tables aretoo irresist- ible and too profitsble to be zban- donod, end M. Dupressoir, the king of Baden-Baden, with his retinue of crou- piers, flunkeys, and special police, Las his oye on s little principality Iying between Austris and BSwitzorland, which was so smell s o cecape the notico of all the Emperors and Kings in their frequent divisions of European territory. 1AL Dupressoir may not ba ablo to firo off any cannon there forfear of shooting on foreign territory, but he will have room enough to provide miniaturo lakes and mountains, an opera house and a church, & promenade and an orchestra stand, a hotel and a Zursaal, and these are all the accompaniments that are found requisite to the chief attractions of the green tables. Tho ball will roll, tho cards will be shuffled, the croupiers will sit in state, Ger~ man flunkeys will jabber bad French, M. Duprossoir will line the pockets of the local Prince with a small part of the gold which he will take out of the pockets of foreign Princes, tho French demi- monde will obey the centrifugal and centrifital forces of tho season, and, by next summer, it is entirely probable that a visitor will not recog- nize the difference between Baden-Baden as it was and Lichtenstein as it will be. The past season-at the German watering- places hes been nnusually brillisnt. To road an account of what Dupressoir hes dono for the visitors ot Baden-Baden i3 almost enough to make one forget the meens by which ho obteined the money to do it. There were concerts, vocal and instrumental, operas, plays, spectacles, fireworks, races, and fefes without cessation. Among the artists he presented wera Carlotta Patti, Rubini, Mallinger, Monbelli, and dozens of othor less known to fame. Hans von Bulow and Johann Strzuss were smong the dozen or moro celcbrated chefs dorchestre, whose bafons picked out delicious strains of harmony. M. Dupressoir kept a newspaper to herald theso sttractions, and to chronicle all the interesting incidents of tho season ex- cept the suicides, which invatiably resuited from disappointed affections, and had nothing to do with the gambling. Aside from the professional entertainments, there was a constant show of Emperors and Empressos, Dukesand Duchesscs, Princes and Princesses, who supplied any bril- lisncy which the Parisian ononyma failed to contributo. Baden corrospondenco ‘tolls us, howover, that all theso greatnesscs wero mot “in ab tho death.” The last nights wero marked by & loss of the rigid decorum which was always Ppreserved, that thers was a rush of the “ vulgar,” whoever they weroe, toreach the tables, and a genoral grabbing for stakes. The local tradeapeople and the peasan- try of the surrounding country were admitted on tho very last evening, and they had s chanco to realize how gracious M. Dupressoir had been to them theso many years in dopriving them of his luxuries, 25 they luid down their gulden on his green cloth mever to sce them sgain. Tho closing scome of all wes a grand banquet which the King of Baden- Baden, Dupressoir I., gave his rotniners, proba~ bly from the proceeds of the last hour of play. ‘The problem which is now troubling the peo- ple of Baden-Baden, Ems, Hombourg, and Wies- baden is, whether or not they will bo able to sustain their character as fashionablo resorts 2nd the profits which portein to it. Thero scems to bo some differenco of opinion about this. So far 25 Ems is concerned, aboat the only place of all whero tho waters bave any great curativo virtae, it is claimed that its usefaluoss and profit as o sanitarium will bo increased by taking away tho ment of gaming. For the rest, thereisa belief that there will be large number of Ger- man families in attendance when the demi-monds ehall have abandoned the resorts. On the other hadd, it must bo remembered that it is not the staid and economical Germans who eustain the expansive amusements, the fres lux- uries, the grand hotels, the superb gardens, the wonderful restaurants, and %o forth, and the Russian Princes, English snobs, and American ependthrifts will follow tho demi-monde and gaming tables, M. Du- ‘pressoir also withdraws, with hig rouge-et-noir, the annual sum of sbout: $250,000, which he paid thelocal Government. Hemaybe able to. clear his miltion gomewhers else, but Baden-Baden will bardly recover its quarter of a million from any other resource. The *banks,” too, had gained 8 reputation for charity, their donations to the ?Oflr. snd even to the churches, hay. g proved to be good investments. Thero may by fower broken hearts ab Hom- bourg, fewer snicides at Baden-Badon, fewer in- nocents exposed ‘to the fascinations of Qorrup- tion at Ems, fower empty pocket-books, and ImOTe pure air at all the Germsn resorts, but the local burghers will have less money and less leisure. They will not relish g retarn to indus- trial pursuits, and the loss of many better men will be less regretted than that of 1L Dupres~ soir and his confreres. DROWNING FEMALE BABIES. In the last Sunday issue of Taxr TRIBUSE wo ool oceasion to aliude fo a proclamation issued by Yen, the Prefect of Hang-Yang, in the Prov- ince of Hupeh, China, which summarily’ squolched the squeezing of tenants by ava- ricious landlords, and encouraged the propaga- tion of very young Clinese children. We also, at that timo, took occasion to commend the even-handed justice of this worthy mun, and to hold him up a8 a bright and a shining light to dispensers of justico outside the Chineso wall. Another proclamstion by this seme upright magistrate of Hang-Yang, in the Provinco of Hupeh, has como to hand, which still farther illustrates his cloar ideas of juatice, as well as his philanthropy, porticalarly with regard to fomelo children. His first procla- mation was intended fo protect and- en- courage children of ‘both sexes by proventing discrimination against them. The second is devoted to the interests of femele children, and is fally as stringent as the first. 1t is also notable thet he proceeds to work in the same broad and catholic spirit. Before com- ing to his conclusions, he Iays down his premises ina golid, comprehensive, and logical way, in which not even Confucing himself conld have found s flaw. Listen to Yon, tho upright Judge : “Whereas, first, there are men and women— then husbands and wives—resulting in fathers end sons—and, as the want of women would re- sult in no men being born, etc., there is a direct- ness and conciseness, & pith and point, & cres- cendo of effact in this brief dictum, which are beyond all praise, and which we commend to all concerned in‘execntive proclamations, and to all others, suchas Aldermen, County Commusgioners, and State legislators, who bury their needles in haystacks of whereases and prefatory bosh. The above words are all that Yen, the Prefect of Hang-Yang, in the Provinco of Hapeh, employs in reaching his conclusion, ‘which follows thus : “Now it is reported that an sbominable custom exists in many families in this prefecture of drowning female children when torn, and this is especially bad in Husng- Pi.” Before he pronounces condemnation Yen moralizes as little: *Even the fierce tiger does not devour his offspring ; how much less should mon? Passers-by have pity on any one fllen into a well ; how much mora 8o should & man do 60 for hig child!” Having now established tho fact that women are essential to population, end that even the brato beast has compassion npon his young, ewiftly as Luoifer desconded from Heaven, the upright Yen descends upon the in- fanticiders of Huang-Pi, as ho before descended upon the squeezing landlords of Hang-Yang. Tho condemnation is & climax of ju- dicial suthority. It wurges tho duty of religion. It appeals " to the in- nate sympathics of human nature. Itexhorts to moral teachings. It pleads, threatens, warns, and then defines the punishment. Listen to & the worthy megistrate of Hang-Yang in the Province of Hupeh Wherefore, all yo inhabitants of this place are to know that, whether tho children to ba born are to bo s0ns or danghters Tests with tho docree of Heaven ; and how then can any of you havo it In your heart to Xill what you have yoursclf begotten? This wicked- ness must henceforth be specdily changed, nor must femalcs bo any more drowacd. If any wives or women are ignorant of this, the elders or husbands should ex- hort them, and tell them to bring up their children to completeness of their mankood end their heavenly na- ture, Any one daring to go back to their old paths will, if discovered, bo arrested and punished even as for the erimo of murdering sons of grandsons. Yen has o way of indorsing his proclamations which not only gives them an enacting clanso, but 2 manner of enforcement which is complete of itself. It is plain, from the appendix to this proclamation, which is identical with that of the landlord proclamation, that no tricks of lawyers, no changes of venue, no errors inthe court telow, no vrits of supersedeas will be of avail to the wretch who drowns the female child. Yen is the first and lnst scurce of appeal. His decree is ultimate. He is the fountain-head of justice, and with him alone rests the issues of life and death. Thero i3 no higher Yen to decide that the lower Yer is incorrect in his judgments. Thero is 1o Yen in the neighboring provinceto do the work which belongs to {he upright Yen of Heng-Yang. ‘Thero is nmo Stato Executive to pardon the wretch whom Yen promomn- ces guilty. His lifo isn't worth o copper Chinese cash after Yen passes upon it, and the culprit cannot complain that ke has not been notified of the consequences of his crime. Listen to Yen : “ No morcy will ba shown. Let all tremblingly obey. Do not disobey.” Every word strikes like 2 eledge kammer, and has the foreo of nitro-glycerine. Happy Chineso! Thrico happy Celestials! Ecstatic Oriental femala bobies, thus rescued from wntimely graves in the rolling Hoang-Ho and the turbu- lont Yangtze-Kiang! No longor will tho Hoang- Ho merit its old-timo sppellation of * China’s Sorrow.” There will be & sound of rejoicing under the tallow trees of Kiei-Chow and among the banyans of Keang-Se. The Chinese woman is gettingherrightsatlast,—therighttolive,toenjoy her shark’s fins and puppy-dog soup, side by sido with the pig-tailed tyrant, Man, to shorten her feet and lengthen her finger-neils, ¢ to salute the, age and ascond to the eky” in short trousers and the finest ILianchan coffin, with fire-crackers enough to stock an American Fourth of July, popping end fizzing about her, at 2 ripo old age, instead of floating down the Choo-Eeang, to feod sharks, stur- geons, and cormorants, before her diminutive slmond eyes have had & *square ” look at tho malborries and bamboos in tho back garden. Happy i the land which possesses such magis. trates as Yen of Hang-Yang, in the Provineg of Hupeh. If we had & Yen in Chicago, would it be nec- cssary to have a Socicty for ths Suppression of Crime ? The crimo of infanticids is not en un- common one in America. At times it reaches such proportions that the community becomes startled, whereupon tho moralists write essaya and the ministers preach sermons against it, but still the crime goes on unchecked and un- punished. Whero is the American Yen to utter, “No mercy will be shown. Lot all tremblingly obey. Do not disobey.” R The recent nitro-glvcerine explosipn near- Yonkers, N. Y., exhibits in » strong I2ght the. tremendous posers of that agent as explo- sivo, and tho singular ignorence of k na-- ture displiyed by those who hsd left thie nitro-- glycerine on tho scens of the catastrgphe. It bad been placed, in cans protected By wooden: Boxes, on thy line of & proposed railroad, and the place wa: surrounded by s board fenes, on. each side of wtich was this nol.ice:‘f DANGER! DANGER!! DANGHTIIL Let nothing temst you to touch or ovenzo near the contents of the enclosure, Itis mitro-glicesian, Women, men of £ years of age or upwards, retired voterans of tho army, or heroes of the navy, would have been as greatly startled. at meeting such = sign in the open fiolds as was the old Iady, soveral miles away, who, rushing out of Der house on hearing tha explosion, saw & board descending with part of ihe above inscription, ““Danger! danger!!” and, supposing it & eupor. naturel eign, fainted instantly. But to allay ‘boyish curiosity, and induce the sdventurous 5pirit of south to pess on without blowing itself- into the tops of the not very adjacant forest trees, tho inseription on the onclosuro should have been: Y BAFE! SAFT! SAFE! The only substance in theso cans is cold water, them and sea, Or the enclosuro might have been still moro of fectually Iabelled; P, gl Bead] T may save your bamortas sontt o TAE! In cither aasa tha four boys, Doanelly, Terry, Cellagee, and Hill, fogether wita tzo nitro-gly. cerine, would Lave been saved. Thoro is & gose tain stagoin lifo when youth seok dsnger os saturally s ducks tako to water. I7 thoy are £0 be repalled, it must be by some indication that 2n effort is being mzdo to lead them into (s poth of eafety. The next dopositors of cans of nitro-glycerine will do well, thezefore, to marls them with dus regard to the principles of hu. man nature, Ty _The raport on the Criminal end Privato Luna- tic Asylums in Ireland shows that there hes beon & decided increase of insano peopls, thangh the population of the country hes decreased, during tho last few years. In 1846 thers wes o population of 8,175,124, while the census of 1871 sbowed a population of enly 4739, or a do- crease of 2,772,365, But tho inssre peoplo of 1846 only numbered 12,397, while those of 157X numbered 18,377, or 2n increase of 5,970. It is thought that the difference may ba accounted forin part by the moro completa system for making up the statistics; which can now scarcely escape any number of tho afficted, while the means for collecting information wea formerly very untrastworthy. —_——— Niagara Falls Dry for o Doy, The winter of 1813 had been intonssly cold, pnd the ice formedon LakeErio wesverthick. ~Thig wasloosened arouand the shores by tue warm da: of early spring. During the da¥ a ptiff east wind moved the whols tield up the lage. Abont sundown tho wind chopped suddenly azound end blew o gale from the west. This bronghs . tha vast tract of ice down sgain with such iremen: dous force that it filled the neck of the lake, end the outlet, £o that the outflow of tho wate: was_very greatly impeded. Of course it only needod a very short spaco of time for the falls to drain off the water below Black Rock, The consequence was that, when we aross in the morning at Nizgara, wo found that our river was nesrly holf gone. The Amoriean chanmel had * dvindled to & respectable creek. The British chanel looked o though it bad been smitten With a.quick ecns sumption and was fast passing away. Far up from the head of Goa: Island, and ontinto the Canadian Tapids, tho water was gone, as it was alzo from the lower end of Gost fslahd, out be- yond tho tower. The rocks wero bare, Liack and Torbidding. The roar of Nisgara had eubsided 2lmost to & moan. Tke sceno was desolate, a2a but for its novelty and the certainty that it would charge before many hours, would have. been gloomy and eaddening. Every porson who. has visited Nisgara will remember a beautifal jet of water which gkoots up out of the water. bout forty rods south of the outer Sister- in the great rapids, called, with a singular con~ tradiction of terms, tha “ Leaping Rock.” The vriter drove a buggy from mear the head of Goat Island out to & point above end near to that jet. With & log cart and foor horses ho dad drawn from’ the ontside of the onter island o stick of pine timber, hewed twelve inches square and fort, feet long. From the top of the middle islan: was drawn & still larger stick, hewed on ore side, and sixty feet long. Thero fro few plecos on tho globe whera a person would ba loss likaly to g0 lumbering than in the rapids of Ningara, jast above the brink of the Horse-Skoe fall, Al the people of the neighborhood were abroad axplor- ing recesses end cavitics that had nevor boforo Dbeen exposed to mortal ees. The writer went somo diatance up the shorg of the river. Largs fields at the muddy bottom lay bare. The s galar syncopo of the waters losted all the day, and night closed ovar tho etrange scene. Dut ia the morning our river was restored in all it strangth, beautr, and majesty, and we wero glad to welcome its swelling tide onco more.—Zfol- ley's Ntaggara. B Sayor of Wyandoite. INich., Elopes With a Young irl. . From the Detroit Frez Press, Nov. 98, Thomas Jowell, of Wyandotte, was always con- sidered a jewel of a citizen, snd, since laet spring, has filled the ofiico of layor to evary- body’s’ satisfaction. Eois oman of temperata habits, was looked upon 03 an exemplary Chriss tian, and had the fuli confidence of his follow- townsmen. Living in the suma village, wasa young lady of 18, named Collen, who is possexsed of considerablo properiy, sud had upward of £4,000 in money in tho bank, No omo hzlever observed that 3Miss Cokien and the Mayor had anything further {nan o epeaking acquaint- once, but it is now charged that Le Letrayed her, ond that thoy Lavo Leen on terms of closo intimacy for z year past. The Mayor Ias' 2 wifo and six chillren, which fact prevented any suspicion. 2liss Collen drew her monoey from the benk the other day and left for Dotroit, to male tome purchases. The next train eoming this wey broaght tho Mayor, wha exeuscd bis absence from Eomo on e pies of busizess. It was not kuown for & day or twa that tho two hed plauned an clopement, but they are known to have met heve, to havo proceeded Tsst 28 man and wife, and fobe somowhere in New England together. Parties wero hera yes- torday to sec if (hoy couldn’t get a clue to the runaweys. They rcpors ihot news Las neerly Lilled Jewell's wife, who is & fine and highly- Tespected woman. It is also sisted that Jowell wes rether forced inio the elopement, as the girl was in a condition which would hae result- cd in an expose before many wecks. There is a good deal of excitement in Wyandotto over the aieir, as oll the parties staxd high in coclety. The frionds of the girl propose to arreat Jewsll if they can troce him. —_—— 3 Wio Was the Thief? Tho Pittsbargh Gezelte gives tho following: pert explanction of what haa long beon a mys- tel The *# Soveral months ago & very valnable lens, or object giass, was stolen from tho Allegheny- Obscrvatory, and every cffort mado to find tha thief or lens proved futile. Yesterdayour Chiof of Polico bronght tho glass into tho Mzror's office and deposited it in the safe. The rcader will naturally esk, ‘Whero wes it found ? and who stolo it 2’ The caso is wrapped in consider- able myatery, and no little curiosity hos been avinccg to discover tho bold adven- turer who stole the £4,000 lens. As far as has been asceriained, tho guilty party an- pears to be ono Gordon Johnson, who held a position in the fire alarm telegraph’ offico somo time ago. He, it is alleged, stole the glass and hid i€ in his fathor’s stable for safe-keeping, but o ‘pal’ whom ko had talren into his confidsace, named Billy Donaldson, it is alleged, subse- quently stolo tho glass from the stable, and has not been heard of sinco. The AMayor-and Chief are using their best endeavors to securo the par- ties guiliy of ke Tobbery, and that they will sucgeed is Mot probable,