Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1872, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1872 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. AECMS OF SUBSCRIPIION (PAYABLE IN AUVANCE). i, bymadl.....812.00 | Sunday. Tri-Weo ft R Parts of a year at the same rate. To prevent delay and mistakes, bo sure snd give Post Office address iz fall, including State aud County. Remittances may bo made either by draft, expross, Past Oftice order, or in registered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Daily, delis , Sunday cxce) 25 cents per week. Dl oo BudaY CACThioD: 20 cents bur week Address THE TRIBUNE CQAMPANY, Coruer Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, 1iL. 2.54 g xiti TausuNe Branch Office, No. 469 Wabssh-sv., fn the Tookstore of Messrs. Cobb, Andrews & Co., where zdvertiscments and subscriptions will bo reseived, and will have the samo attention as if left at the Main Ofsce. i —————— CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S TRIBUNE. TIRST PAGE—Washington, Now York, ond Miscella- neous Telegraphic News, SECOND PAGE—Saturday Night's Telegrams—The Farm and Garden—General Nows Items—Per- sonal. THIRD PAGE—Ransas Letter—Affairs fn Tonisiana— Cantempt of Court~The Apiary—Railroad Time Tablo—Tribano Prospoctas—Adrertisements. FOURTH PAGE—Editorials: Tho Touisisus Caso; Tho Credit Mobilier Tnvestigation; The Froach Floods— Current Nows Items. FIFTHE PAGE—Tho Pulpit: Scomous Delivered Yoster- day by Reve. Swing, Swazey, and Thomas—Adver- tisements. . SIXTH PAGE-Monetary and Commereis]—Marino Ya- telligence. SEVENTH PAGE—New York Letter—Literary Notos— TheLaw Courts—Local Communications—Small Ad- vertisements: Real Estate, For Sale, To Rent, Want- ed, Boarding. Lodging, cfc. EIGHTH PAGE-Bridgeport v. Stock Yards; Which is the Best Locality for the Slaughtering and Rendoring Establishments — Miscollaneons, Local, and Telo- ‘srephic News—Auction Adrertisements. TO-DAY’S AMUSEMENTS. FOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph stroet, be- Ik and LaSalle. New Comeds Company, “*Fuz.” Operatio Bagatello. THEATRE—Wabash avenne, corner af Con strest, Engagement of Lawrence Bareott. us Cesar.” Jai 2STVICKER'S THEATRE-Madison strect, between ategnd Doarborn.” Engagement of 2iss Jane Coombs. Lady of Lyons." ACADEMY OF MUSIC— Halsted street, soath of fadison. The isdia Thompson Troupe. ‘*Robin Hood.” MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroo street, botwoen Ftote oud Dearbormn. Arlingten, Cotton & Gamble's iinstzel s=4 Burlesque Troupe. & GLOZE THEATRE—Desplaines strect, between Madi 502 23d Washington. The Lelia Ellis Ballad Opora Com- pany. NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE~Clintonstrost, botweon Tashiagton znd Randolph. Morlacehi Trouve. **The Seout.” BUSINESS NOTICES. COD LIVER OIL AND LIME-THAT PLEASANT tise sgont in 1ho enro of all consumpire symptoms, bor's Compguad of Pure Cod Liver Ol and Lime, ol Liver 1 being universally adopted in medical practice. B e & WILADR: Chortiet, 165 Courteaty oeton. ALWAYS DSE LILLY. AL & POELAN'S AROMATIO Ligaid Pepsin for dsepepsia, indigastion, moraing sick- Dess, 2nd all stomack dera: ez eomen . A pint bottle wiilbe scnt hé ‘express {ree on ro- Corice St LILLY & PHALAN, Eviasvill, ol Sda tescimons in sesterday's Tribunc, sixih page, TSt cotamm. TIE HANVEST OF THE HEAD —WHEN THE comb zcts as & rake, bringing away a roll of parted fibers N Eore T pasey throtid: {0 hats, baldnoss wouldsoon by izevitable. But cven in this case, forlomn as it may Soamn the isciile! ¢an bo Brrosted, the loss Topairod: Eron's Barhatron, aidad by bisksppiicationl b brush 40 promote the absorption of the fluid by the scalp, £1dp tho thinniag.out process in lorty.<ight hours. The i 25 flaments wers ehod. wil soon 45 e dom L e o e et LR Tk of Tobes- B Rom S omuard the damage is compliel repuired, 824 the lusuriznt crop of hair mfimnbkfl never Slthor or fall out a8 long 28 the viializiag application is Fegulanty continued. Tl Ohieags Tribuue, Monday Morning, December 16, 1872. Tho Mutusl Life Insursnce Company has been forced by the outery sgainst the lowering of its rates of insurance to return to its old premiums. e ————— Tico President Colfax is in Washington, and tells his friends that bis acceptance of the chief editorship of the New York Tribune isstill a matter of conversation merely. R — Senator Sumner’s health is in so precarious & condition that, by the advice of his physicizns, o will gbstain, as far as possible, from all de- Pate, and, for the present, will allow his oblivion resalution to lie on the calendar. Trhether Civil Service Reform hasany strength in Congress will be seen in afew days, when cbate begins on areport, sbout to be submitted, in which the Civil Service Committee of the Touse will put the rules of the Civil Service Lommission into the form of Iaw. The newspepers of Central America are devie- fng o plan for consolidating the five States of Central Americs into one Ropublic £3 the thir- +een colonies of North America wero made ths TnitedStates. Our constitution is tobe their model. The Supremoe Court of Tennesses has decided 4nat the Iaw of that State prohibiting the sale of * spiritacus liquora™ on Sunday, does not apply to beer or other fermented liquors. Fris decision will furnish new ammunition for 2o controversy between our Temperance Bu- fe11 and the Personal Liberty League. Nope of our Indisn tribes haye been more in- tractable than the Apaches of Northern Arizons, s+ho are now being slaughtered by the United s soldiers. Two detachments of troops are hunting them down_ in every direction. One hunéred of the savages have been killed, a large number wounded, and their camps and stores Qestroyed wheraver found. Attorney General Williams tells Senator Spen- cer that his election by the Republicen Legisla- taro of Alobama is legal, and that no election % the new Legislatare is called for. Notwith- standing this utterance of the Fedoral oracle, #he-e secms £o bo a feeling in Alabams in favor of anew election for Senator, which Spencer does not fear, as he belioves himself to have s yoajonty of sev The Cineinnati Gazelfe hits the vitals of the postal telegraph scheme when it says ¢ that the whole pretence of making thoe mail servico a be- nevolence to $he poor and taxing the shiris on their backs to mako up the deficiency is & frand.” Not morp than one tax payer in & hundred uses tho telegraph oftener than wo or threp times a vear, or has any occasion to use it oftener. Yot it is proposed to tax all fheso in order to fumish chesp telegraphing to brokers, produce dealers, nowspapers, merchants, and bankers, who have | not petitioned for a postal telegraph. The testimony of one of the servants of tho | Fifth Avenue Hotel, in the investigation of the cause and mansgement of the five, indicates great carclessness of human life by the proprie- tors and employes. Tho girl testified thab when she Jeft her room, there was no fire on fie stair-landing onteide, sud that she ren d>vn to the laundry without meseting fire. This included 2 passage throngh three separate sto- 1ies, &t each of which she gave the alarm. When gbe resched the lavndry she £aw men adjusting | If this statement §5 sccurate, it the hese. warning of fire to the people in a house of more than 500 rooms, Gambetta and the other Radicals of the French Assembly have been badly beaten in their move for & disgolution of that body. In the hot de- bate which took place on tho petitions which they presented, Gambetts asserted that the Monarchists could not find any respectable King to accept their offer of the throne of France, and, if they could, would fsil to get the support of the people for him. M. d'Audreffet Pasquier, Chairman of the committes which drafted the hostile reply of the Asssembly to Thiers’ mes- sage, charged the horrors of the Commune upon tho teachings of Gambetts, and Minister DuFauri beld him responsible for the present crisis. The vote against dissolution was 409 to 201, The Cincinnati Gazele says that © the Gree- ley Electors were not limited in their choice to Domocrats; the North Carolina Republicans wore. The Greeley Electors choosing betwesn such men as Trumbull, Adams, snd Palmer on the oneside, and avowed Democrats on theother, preferred a Democrat. Tho Ropublicans in the North Carolina Legislataro had to chooso be- “bween to Democrats, Vanco and Merrimon, and they took what seemed to them the lesser evil.” Argwo to understand, then, that whenever the Republicans are in & minority they are to vote for somo Democrat for Senator? This is a new rule—an altogether modern invention in poli- tics. It was first put in practice whon the Democrats in Connecticut returned Ferry to tho Senate over Hawley. Wo do not see any great harm in it, to bo sure, and we only note the Gazette’s indorsoment of it a8 a sign of the times. The Chicago produce markots were all slow on. Satarday, except wheat, with few changes in prices. Mess pork was quiot, and steady at 811.50 cash, and $11.87% seller March, Lard was in fair demand, 2nd firm at $7.10@7.1214 per 100 16 cash, and 87.50@7.55 seller March. Meats were quiet, and steady at 334c for part- salted shoulders; 51¢@534c for do short ribs; 5%@6e tor do short clear, and T4@7%c for green hams. Highwines wero strong at i¢o advance, closing at 90c per gallon. Dressed hogs were in good demand, and & shade fimer at $4.50@4.55 per 100 Ibs. Flour was quiet and steady. Wheat was spoculatively sctiveand Ichigher, closing at §1.133¢c cash, and 1,145 seller January. Corn wes dull at Fridey's prices, closing at 81c cash, and 313{@83134c seller Janusry. Osts were quietand weak, declining ${@1c, and closing at 2434c cash or seller January. Rso was quiet and steady at63c. Barley was quiet; No.2 firm at Gl}4@02¢ cash, and 62@ 6234 seller January; No. 3 dull st 493¢@5134c. The cattle market was dull, at unchanged prices. Live hogs were active and firm, with sales at $3.65@3.90 for good to choice, Sheep remain unchenged. . The termination of the first prosecation which has been bronght in the ity Courts under the new Liquor law of the State, is calculated to destroy confidence in the practical enforcement of the law as it now stands. A men named Tarner, the bar-keeper st the Douglas House, was indicted for selling liguor to Daniel Hana- han, aperson in the habit of getting drunk. It was proved that Hanahan is an habitual drunk- ard ; that he fails to contribute anything to the support of his family; that Turner know him to be & drunkard ; that liquor was sold to him over Turner’s bar; and thet Turner had given his assistant explicit Instructions not to sell him liquor. The counsel for the defence main- tained that the Jaw was unconstitutional, but it does not seem that this point was considered in determining the verdict. The Court instructed tho jury, that it is material for the prosecation fo prove & knowledge of Hapahan's habitual intoxication ; that evidence showing Hanahan tobein the habit of drinking liguors, or that he had been intoxicated once or twice, is not suffi- cient ; that, if it had been proved that Turner ‘had specially instructed his assistant not to sell liguor to Hanahan, and that the assistant had done so without the knowledgo or assent of Turner, defendant would not be linble; and, " finally, that a case of this kind is governed by the same rules of law and evidence which apply to prosecutions for other crime; that is, that the offence must be proved beyond s ressonable doubt. The jury failed to agres, soven stinding for sacquittal and five for conviction. The construction that the Court has put upon the Iaw, which seems entircly just and reasonable, throws & burden of proof upon the prosecution which it will always bo difficult to maintain, The same difficulties have been en- conntered in the progecutions that have bcen commenced in Ohio under the eame law. THE LOUISIANA CASE. An onrnest desire that the second administra- tion of General Grant may be characterized by & more scrupulous observance of law than the firat, carries with it the obligation o mote any departures from such observance, and especially 50 in cases where the consequences of non-ob- servance are fraught with peril to our system of Government. We lay down the broad principle that the United States Government has no right to interfere with the domestic affairs of a Biate except upon the request of tho Legislature or Executive thereof. This is written in the high- est Iaw of theland, and po circumlocution can void or explain it away. We lzy down another ‘broad principle, that, while this law remaius un- repealed, it cannot be violated, or departed from, without impeiring and weakening that respect for law which constitutes the very essence and substance of & Republic. With these pre- mises we invito attention sgain to the lstest movement in Louisiana, to wit., the ac~ tion of General Emory in demanding the sur- render of the Siate Arsenal at New Orleans. That he dia this pursuant to orders from Wash~ ington merely places the responsibility tipon the Government at Washington. The case is too glaring, and the question too importsnt to be allowed to proceed without a firm protes, Tho State of Louisiana bag & complete Gov~ ernment, executive, judicisl, and legislative. This Government hos becn recognized by the National Exccutive and by Congress in every mannes known to thelgw. It jg, or was, in full operation. Wermoth was Governor and Pinch- pack Lieutenant.Governor. The recent election A majority of the peoplo of all parties, tired of the Government of ths adventurer Warmoth, cilizen of Louisiana.’ There have heen no sttempt was inade to defest it by an eppesl to ghows that the propristors snf mansging em- | loves wore grossly negligent in failing fo givo | np obigetion, Tho Courts of Louisiana 80 fuc w3 held under tho State laws and Constitution. | united fo defeat another sdventurer from Iili- nois, named Kellogg, and to elect » reépectable | charges brought against Nr. McEnery's charac- | ter. When the returns were to be counted, sn | o3 they had jurisdiction, were called upon to determine questions merely between citizens of that State. While these State Courts were con- sidering the question before them, Kellogg and his friends resorted to the Judge of the United States Court, one Durell, from New Hampshire, who promptly forbade the Supreme Courtof the State and all other Courts from acting on the matter; forbade the Governor and the other State officers from exercising the duties imposed on them by law; declared half & dozen persons officially nnknowa to the laws of the State to be persons entitled to declare tha result of the elcction; declared the persons who should.be announced by these men to have been elected to be duly elected ; forbidding the members of the Legislature announced by the Secretary of State to have been elected from meeting at the State House on the day appointed ; ordered thoUnited States Mershal to employ force to exclude such persons from meeting or sitting as membors of the State Legislature. Thus protected by the Federal Court and Federal bayonots, the porsons desig- nated by the Durell Court made proclamation that they had canvassed the returns, and that they bad been informed by afiidavit that several thousands of persons who had not voted on election day, would have voted for candidates who had not been elected; that, by counting the votes of these non-voting persons,and adding them to the returned vote, they found that Kellogg hed been elocted Governor, and that & Logisla- ture composed of very different persons bad been clected. This Legislature thus declared to have been elocted by the voles of persons who bad not voted, met under the protection of Fed- oral froops. Their first act was o adopt articles of impeachment against the present Governor, whose term does not expire until January, and then declare that pending the trial ho was de- posed, and Liocutenaunt Governor Pinchback was Acting Governor, In the meantime, the officers of the State, in the exercise of their sworn dntics, had published the roport of the canvass of the election returns, showing that Mr. McEnery had been elected Gov- ernor. Pinchback immediately reported tfo Washington, and the Attornoy General answer- ed that the Président recognized him as the Governor of ihe State, and the Kellogg Legisla- ture a8 the Legislature of Louisiana. This Legislature had also directed the seizure of the Stete offices, including the State Arsenal. This building was guarded by a Compeny of State Militia, who refused to obey any orders except throngh the regular officers of the State. Whereupon, at the request of Pinchback, Gen- eral Emory proceeded with a force of United States troops to the arsenel, and, upon his de- mand, the State troops surrendered There havo been cases of ‘disputed State Gov- ernments, and ot least one caso of Federal inter- ference, but thera is no precedent in fact, and no precedent even in the wildest claims, for such intervention as the President has ordered or au- thorized in this case. Trwelve or more years ago there was an election in Wisconsin for Governor and State officers. As was the case in Louisiana the law appointed & Board of officers to canvass the returns and declars the result. This was done, end W. A. Barstow was declared electod Governor by & small majority. An appeal from this decision wag taken to the Supreme Court of the State, pending which Barstow was sworn in, and his competitor, Bashford, slso took the oath of office. DBoth claiimed to be Gov- ernor. The Supremo Court of isconsin, after o full hesring, decided that it had authority to revise tho official canvass, and did 80, theraby electing Bashford, Barstow was & Democrat, and Mr. Buchsnan was President. ‘Hed Barstow, pending the hearing of the case, applied to the United States Court for an in- junction probibiting the State Court from sct- ing on the caso, ond another prohibiting Bash- ford from acting as Governor, and declaring Barstow clected, and directing the Marshal to employ Federal troops to sustain bim; and had the President ordered the troops to carry out the orders of the Federal Court, and forced upon the State of Wisconsin & Governor whom the people had rejected, then there would have been a precedent for the Louisians case, and, probably, a precedent for & popular revolt in Wisconsin that would have startled the whole country. But the President left the en- forcement and interpretation of the laws of ‘Wisconsin to the Courts of that State, and to the decision of iis Supreme Court there was prompt obedience. In this Louisiana case, where the questions involved were purely as to the construction of the election laws of the State, the Federal nuthority was interposed to provent the Stato Judiciary from hearing ordeciding the question; was employed to prohibif the prosent legal and de facto Government from exercising its Consti- tutional duties; was employed to instal a new and revolutionary ~Government, to do- pose the present Governor, and to seize and hold possession of the State House, Govern- ‘ment offices, State Arsensl, and all othior depert- ments of the State Government. All this was done by an officer of the United States army at the head of & force of Federal troops, scting under the orders of tho Presidont of tho United States. Such a departure from procedent, such o perver- sion of authority to destroy & State Government, 2nd to erect and estsblish an usurpation, cannob be permitted to pass without s protest, and & solemn warning as to the grave and serious con- sequencos. f THE CREDIT MOBILTEB INVESTIGATION. Thongh the Committeo of Congress charged with investigating the Credit Mobilier scandal have hold their sessions with closed doors, the xeports that have been made public of the pro- ceedings so far are probebly correct in the main. According to theso reports, the investigation has already made considerable progress,—sufficient to contradict tho charge that the scandal was s ‘mere campaign canard. Thste heve been four witnesses before. tho Coniiittes,—Speaker Blaine, Colonel }'Comb, . Oskes Ames, and John B. Alley, who appesred in the order of the names ‘mentioned. Bpesker Blaine's testimony was fubstantially the same as ‘the statemonts which he had already made, ex- copt thst ho said Ames offered him somo stock in the . Credit Mobilier which ho rofused, belioving its acceptange would be incompatible with his public duties. Colonel M'Comb's testimony was a8 straight- | forward &nd consistent as possible. - He asserted | that be had not sought 9 bring the matter be- | fore Congress or the people, but thet hia pur- Poss i jpstitnting a suibin the Courts wes fo _ascertain what had bocome of certain Crodil Mo~ bilior stock belonging, 6 he claimed, to himself. He zeiterated before the Commitigg what he had alrendy sot forth in the affidavit filed in Gourt. Ho produced the originsl Ames lettérs, copies of the Coprts. So for as jbis was legal, there was | wpich bave been widely ppblished, and swore thab tho list of names covied on the back of ong b 1 of tho letters was written down by him.from Oskes Ames' statement that he had actually “ngsigned” to these gentlemen the amounts of stock indicated. Colonel M’Comb did not know that the stock had been 8o “‘assigned,” but only kmew that Oakes Ames had so represented. AMr. Ames and Mr. Alley were in the Committee room, Colonel M'Comb was giving his testimony, and the latter turned to them apd defied them to controvert his statements. During his testi- mony, he was asked if ho himself- knew of any Congressman who had owned Credit Mobilier stock, It is reported that henamed a prominent ‘member of the Fortieth Congress. We presume that this gentleman was Mr. Boyer, of Pennsyl- vania. In the Saturdsy sessjon of the Committee, Mfr. Ames and Mr. Alley were on the stand. The reports of the proceedings of that day sre now vague and unsatisfactory. Itis stated, on the one hand, that the testimony conflicted to some extent with that which haa already been sub- mitted. This was to be expected, perhaps, from tho attitude which Messrs. Ames and Alley bore toward Colonel M'Comb ot the time the latter was testifying. On the other hand, it is said that Ames, whose testimony is not concluded, will not attempt to shield snybody, and it.is even intimated that his evidence will involve same of the gentlemen who have denied that they ever owned sny Credit Mobilier stock. Mr. Ames' purpose is now said to be that of freeing himself from the imputation that he porsonally appropristed stock which he repre- sented 1o have distributed among others. The proceedings of Saturday are also stated to have implicated & Congressman from New Englsnd who is spoken of as * one of' the wealthiest snd most respected of the members of the House.” This may or may not mean Mr. Samuel Hooper, of Massachusetts, whose name appears in the list of stockholders filed in the Davis law smit 3. having received dividends amounting to $140,000 from Credit Mobilier stock. The conclusions that maybe drawn from thein- vestigation thus far are these: 1. That Mr. Oakes Ames proffered Credit Mobilier stock to certain members of Congress, at a price much below its sctual value. 2. That his offer was accepted in some cases and rejected in others. 8. That the list of names given to Colonel M'Comb by Oakes Ames doos not indicate that these gentlemen ac- tually. took the stock. 4. That Mr. Blaine cer- tainly, and probably others named in the list, refused to take the stock. 5, That other Con- gressmen, whose names have nob yet been pub- licly mentioned in connection with the scheme, will be implicated. 6. That Oakes Ames has al- ready been convicted of conduct that unfits him for o seat in Congress, to-wit, tho altempted bribery of his fellow-members, and, 7. That the investigation should proceed, without foar or favor, to ascertain who are the other Congress- men who have been as guilty in sccepting as he was in offering the stock, at the price and under the circumstances thaf have been indicated. THE FRENCH FLOODS, It is but a few months since that the cable brought the news of the overflow of the Poand Tiber in Italy, and the-disestrous inundation of villages on their banks. A few wesks ago the nows came of another serious storm, during which several rivers in Germany and Denmark overflowed their banks, causing grest destrue- tion of property, while the English const was swapt of its shipping by the same storm. And now comes intelligence of = third storm, which hes dono great damage in London, Paris, and Versailles, Asan incident of the gale, tho city of Nantes, on the Loire, 269 miles southwest of Paris, is partislly under water, caused by the overflow of that river. The city is so laid ont 88 to be peculiarly lisble to an inunda- tion, being partly built on soveral islands in the Loire, with which it communicates by means of bridges. The quays of the city are two miles In length, adorned with elegant man- sions. Its prominent public edifices ere the Cathedral, tha Castle of the ancient Dukes, the Castlo of Bouifay, the Hotel de la Prefecture, the Exchange, and the Mint, Itis also famous for ita public squares and promevpades, its schools, and its libraries. Besides its heavy business in ship-building, the city contains numerous manufactories of cottons, muslins, and woollens, cannon-foundries, sugar-refin- eries, potteries, dtilleries, etc. It ia one ofthe best-built cities in France; has an extensive ‘maritime commerce ; and, in history, will be re- ‘membered as the birth-place of Anne of Brittany and Fouche, and as the place where the famous edict wes issued by Henry IV, April 80, 159, granting religious rights to the Protestants, and making them eligible to all civil and military employments,— an edict which was subsequently revoked by Louis XIV. The same despatch indicates that, in the Northeastern Department of France, the heavy rains have done immonsé damage, inundating the country, submerging bridges, and destroying the crops. In this section of France, the groat commercial city of Lille has ‘been submerged by the rising of the Deuls, 5 canal connecting the Scarpe and Lys Rivers. Lille derives its chief importance from being the principal seat of the French thread and cotton mannfsctures, its products being calicoes, cob- ton handkerchiefs, printed goods, tablo linen, fine linen cloths, thread lace, stockings, and gloves, which are known the world over. It has, also, important manufactories of brondeloths, serges, cassimeres, velvets, hats, paper, beet-root suger, and mineral acids, and also possesses tobaeco and gunpowder factories, and an extensive coinage of gold. The suburbs of Lille are covered with bleaching grounds, oil mills, and beot-root plantations, which give employment to & large proportion of the popula- tion. The telegraph indicates that most of the factories are closed by the inundation—s circnm- stance which must give rise to much suffering among the operatives. - In fact, the recent ca- ‘| lamities by fire in this country sink into insig- nificance when comipared with the distress oc- cagioned by these sforms. An appeal for help, which the German Consul-General st Now York has just issued to his countrymen and all charitably disposed- persops in this country, Seta forth the lamentable condition of the German Baltic provinces, 'He ‘says inhis appoals To o larger extentstill than the Danish Tsles, the German lttoral of the Baltic, from Schleswig to Eastern Prussia, o tract of nearly 430 miles, 2s been devastated by the floods of the12th and 13th Novem- ber, for miles {nland, Bwesping oyer the outlying islands, the ses has submorged thoe towns, destroyed tho villages, covered the flelds 50 as to mako thept In many places unfit for cultivation, killed the caitle, crushed tho ships, deprived the fishermen of all their implements, and drowned hundreds of people. -Not Hor centiuries Litn such fury of the waters been heard of. Germany is ndt t1iss in her duty toward the un- fortunate. Governmint'sld is ¢o-operating with pri- vate exertions. But the provinces néxt concerned sre 1mostly poor, and succor cannot come abundanitly spd quick enough fo a population utterly destitute, in & rough climate, i T Acalamityof this kind is worse even tsn | war, for its destructive results are much more complote. Itisrather remarkable, that while, during the past year, our calamities hsve been exclusively by fire, those of Europe have been exclusively by water, and that, whilo our season has bardly ever beforo been so dry, that of Europe has been wet to a degree not known for years. Whether this may be ascribed to an effort of nature to restore an equilibrium in the average supply of moisture for tho earth re- mains for tho ecientific men to determine. Tkere is one thing, hLowever, that does not need investigation : At the time of ouwr fiery calamity, all Earopse came spontaneously to the selief of Chicago, and indirectly to the relief of the whole country. The distress in Furopeis a thousand-fold greater than ours. Hundreds of lives have been lost. Numerous villages have been destroyed. The manufacturing interests of grent cities have been checked. Thousands, if not millions of acres, have been sweph of their crops, and, in some instances, the veryfields have been rendered unfit for cultivation, and the shipping of Europe has suffered & terrible loss. both in life and values. Such wholesele devas- tation makes a general charity imperative. A NOBLE CHARITY. The announcement that the lato Edwin For- rest has left his entire property, even including his wardrobe and large dramatic library, and sixty acres of ground within the limits of Phila- ‘delphis, to be used for the fonndation and main- tenance of a Home for Disabled Dramatic Ar- tists, will create even & grester and more genu- ine admiration for his memory than his dramatic genius inapired while he was living. The good that he has done will thus live after him; the evil will be interred with his bones. It wasa favorite ambition of Mr. Forrest's to establish a nstional school of acting and a national drama, snd his lifo was devoted to thet purposo, with a partial success in the one direction, and a failure in the other. In his death, however, he hasac- complished something nobler and grander than either. The announcement will sfrike the gen- eral public with enrprise, for his brusque and iras- cible disposition, and his rugged and sometimes almost brutal charncter, gave little indication that he was possessed of those finer and more humane traits which would lead him to the execntion of a deed 50 generous and sympa- thetic, And yot those who wore intimately ncquainted with him, who khew that, notwith- standing his overbearing and sometimes bully~ ing way, he was an honest, outspoken man, and that, notwithstanding his rade repulses of some charitsble appeals, ho was often very generous, and never refused to aid his own profession or to respond to any appeal which had not & creed behind it, will not be surprised. A character- istic incident is related of him in this connection. Heo wa# once acting in a Western city, and waa greatly annoyed by one of the minar actors, who, night after night, repeated the few lines he had to say in & very dull, listless manmer. At last, during a rehearsal, Forrest got in & tfowering rage, spd stopped the actor, ordering him to repeat the lines as he would—enunciating them with the foll strength of his majestic voice. The actor, in sheer de- spair, retorted: “If T had $50 per might, in- stead of $6 per weel, I would talk that way.” Forrest asked: “Is that all you get?” The actor replied in the affirmative. ‘‘Say them as you please, then,” said Forrest. The next dsy he sent him & check for $40, with a recommend- ation to act up to the worth of it, The little incident is characteristic of the man. Although bo was very imperions and exacting upon the stage, and often bullied managers snd company alike, he had an intense pride in his profession, and was always quick to defend it. He had no family, or near relatives, and, in lien thereof, has adopted the entite profession, of which he was 6o distioguished & member, snd, henceforsard no scfor in America need have the fear of coming to want or being unprovided for in his old age. Such 2 shining deed as this crowns the great actor'’s life witha ‘besutiful halo, and makes ample atonement for whatever may have scemod harsh and cruel in his career. His last role ishis grandest, and, ‘when the curtain rang down for the final time, it shut out his past misdeeds, whatever they may have been, and left with the public only this gracefal and blessed act, which had been an in- tention of his life for thirty-five years; for charity coveroth s multitude of sins. Of the necessity for an asylum of this Lkind there can be no question. There is no'such in- stitution in this conntry, although England has long possessed one, which has sccom- plished & great amount of good, in the management and success of ‘which Mr. Dickens was always deeply interested. Actors, as & class, are pecaliarly lisblo to come to want in their old age, from the surroundings of their profession. Few of them have talent enough to make their profession remunerative. The large majority of stock actors labor very hard, load lives which aro naturally wearing and unheslthy, draw small sslaries, and are carpless in expenditure, Some of them cannot lsy ©p anything, as their stage expenses are very heavy, and others who can, do not, while the very uncertainties of the future make them reck- less and careless in the present. Their life is iso- lated from society. Their only relations with the public are those of the stage, on which they ap~ pear as fictitious Kinga and Queens, heroes and slaves, between whom and the public there is no affinity beyond the thin relation of spplause. Out of their mimic world they live comparatively by themselves. Now and then, one, by the sheer force of genius, compels an admission into society, but the great majority, by reason of acruel prejudice, are debarred from eociety" The result is not only social exclusion, but an absence.of any sort of provision for actors when they become indigent or disabled, slthough every other class of the community can find an Mr. Forrest's noble bequest supplies this want, and it is to be hoped, fortho sskq of harity and common humanity, that no litigation will be allowed to interfere with the operation ot his last beneficent act, but thot every detsil of it may be carried ont according to his instrie- tions. He can have no nobler or more enduring monument. Not all tho triumphs of his career apon the stagecen so besutifullyor lastingly porpetuate his memory ss the erection of this home for sctors, to which hehas devoted the sccumulations of bislife, His fortune, which e has left, amounts to nearly 2 milkon of dol: Iars. Death of John Frederick Hensetts The news of the death of John Frederick Ken- sott, which was brought by the telegraph yes- terday, will be received with sadness in the art ircles of this country, and by all who take pride in “the progress of American art. As a land- scape painter, he was ona of the few American artists who have echieved destinction in Sheir | profession, and made their names known zbroad, 8s well as at home. He was born in Choshire, "Conp., March 22, 1818, and first studied engraving with Alfred Daggett, of New York, for many years executing bank-note vig- nettes fora living, snd now and then painting pictures as & pastime. He made such progress with the brush, that, in 1843, while in England, he resigned engraving, and determined to de- vote himself exclusively to painting, His first picture, a distant view of Windsor Castle, was exhibited inthe Royal Academyin the spring of that year, and wss purchesed by & prize-holder in the London Art Union. He then spent two winters in Rome, sendjng home several pictures of Italian scenery. 8 first pictures which brought him prominently ‘before the American public were his ¢ View on the Arno” and “Shrine,” which were exhibited at the New York Acsdemy of Design, in 1848. He remained abroad seven years, aud then came home and settled in New York, where he resided, industriously practising his profession up to the time of his death, which occurred very suddenly, in his studio, on last Saturday afternoon. With his progress in srt, and the position whichha bas for years heldas a landacape-painter, the art-public is familiar. His works have not been 80 frequently or ostentatiously exhibited as those of somo other artists, partly because his commissions were so numerous that he did not necd to exhibit, but the mere announcement of & mew work by Kensett has always been sufficient to awaken & lively interest among conuoisseurs. As an srtist, he held even rank with Whittredge, Durand, Gif~ ford, and Gay, of Boston, and in ono department of landscape work, that of coast scenery, he hag hadno rivalin this “country, and there isbut one artist whose works of this class have been worthy of comparison with his—those of Gay. Besides his fine color, he had the rare elements of feeling and truth, which invested the bare, bleak sea-beaches with such naturalness that they have been for years favorite pictures with intelligent purchagers, He algo excelled in the representations 6f mountainous regions of New England and Now York, and, among these, the following have been, perhaps, the most pop- ular: ‘View of Mt Washington from North Conway,” (1849), ‘“Franconia .3oun- teins” (1853), “October Dsy in the White Mountains” (1855), Hudson River, from Fort Putnsm” (1856), “Falls of the Bus- pish” (1859), “Esgle Cliff, Manchester, Maes.” (1859), and **Sanset in the Adirondackt” (1860). During the past ten years he has painted many views on the Genesee and Hudson Rivers, snd ZLake George, and s large tumber of coast views, which have latterly grown so much in public es~ timation that they have ocoupied neaily all of his attention. In 1859 hewas appointed a mem~ ber of the Nationsl Art Commission, heving charge of the ornamentation of the Capitol at Washington, and the superintendence of the works of art deposited there. At the time of his death he was a member of the National Academy of Design, and President of the Artists’ Fand Society, of New York. Mr. Josish A. Noonan, a well-known e¢itizen of Milwwaukee, who has been an active and re- spected business man in that city for 25 years, has recently placed himself voluntarily in the Bankrupt Court. He has for several yeara been engaged in menufacturing paper, and, 83 one of tho proprietors of several paper mills,hag been involved in lawsuits concerning leases of water power. In answer to & friendly reference in one of the papers concerning his banlkruptcy, 3fr. Noonan has published a letter in which he describes the eepsations and experiences of a man whose affairs hsve reduced him from affiu~ ence to the Bankrupt Court. He accepts the - situstion with considerable philoso~ phy. Referring to the litigetion in which he hes been involved, he says, that, seeing no end to it, and having already expended 100,000, he concluded to let the lawyers take what they could gt in a fight with his creditors, while he, at 60 years of sge, would begin his life of labor sgain. He comforts himself with the assurance that his wants will not be as greatas they were when he was younger, and that, in the ordinary course of pature, those wants will not be long. He suggests that if anyhody wants to test hu~ man nsture, let him go into bankruptcy. In that investigation there will be found illustra~ tions of eelfishness and heartlessness that fall “below any lower depths of mesnness” to which the imegination has ever extended. He sdds ¢ = And you will find it, perhaps, more than Dere else, in the very midst of those you have counted as your friends ; with those to whom you had yendered unnumbered’ favors, to whom you are in nowiss indebted, and whose extended hands, warm hearts,and gympathizing glances you would expiot to be the frst 10 greet you._ On the other hand, you would be cheered. by kind words, and generous offers from sources from which yon would have but faintly expected them, or .u.rpxisy:a at meeting them at all, s Among the consequences of his bankruptcy e regrots the temporary interruption of his ‘business relations with the publishers of Wis- consin, Northern Towa, Minnesots, and Western Michigan, with whom he has had constant rela- tions for 22 years. In this business with them,” mostly on credit, and smounting fo millions of dollars, and extending over neatly » guarter of a century, hqstates bis entire loss by bad debts was less than $10,000. He questions whether a like showing conld be made of the same smount of dealing with men in any other business or profession. Upon this point he says : 1 have many times felt my blood stir faster when I ave presented the note of a customer-publisher, to & bank to be cashed,—outside of my place of business, 2 {0 have somé pinched-upsquirt of a teller, cashler, or Prosident, look up with that e sinister and ‘supercilious emirk, known only to those of that calling, and inquire, 418 the maker of that paper sn editor 7 When told ho was, then to hear bim say, 4 We dont 1ike those conntry printers’ notes. _They &rp not gon« eraliy paid.” The poor devil, in all probability, was, st tho timo of the dialogue, shinning around {0 raise Theans to cover up some of his own wheat or stock gumbling losses. Thero yero more braia, business tegrity, and tact in the northeast corner of the coun- try editor’s head, who made the note, than there ever wag under the skulls of any three generations of the self-sufficient and narrow-gauged whelps who put the question. ‘He has been gisteen years in litigation, and naturslly reaches the conclusion thet the coun- try is *‘lawyored to death."- Ho states that the expenditures and costs of Litigation in Wiscon- sin exceed in the annual aggregate the Btate and ‘National taxes, including all the expenses of the common schools, and all the colleges, academies, and other ingtitutions of learning. ‘Misgouri has arather singular case of corrop- tion, ,swhich sfose ont of the location of the Northwestern Lunatic Asylum. The cholce of the Jocation waa left to-the five Commissioners of the Asylam, who selected Bt. Joseph, in Buchapan County, by & voto of 8 to 2. Some weeks after, an order of the County Court of Buchanan County was discovered, which ap- propriated $15,000 to the benofit of the Asylum in case it should be located in St Joseph, appointing John L. Bit- tinger - as agent, to whom warrsnts should ‘be issued, and who shonld turn them over to the Commissioners of the Asylum, after the Asylum had been definitely locsted pccording ta the terms of the appropristion, Tho Commis~ gioners held & meating as soon as this ordor was found, and all claim to have been entirely igno- rant of there having been any such order, Mr. Bittinger was called, and testified that he had sccepted the agency in ignorance of the terms of the order; that the $15,000 was first placed in his handa to be used as he might think best in the way of securing the Iocation of the Asylumat 8t. Joseph; that ho refused to take the $15,000 on these torms, but that he accepted it on the understanding that he might place it inthe hands of some other person as sn attorney; and that aid it to Cofonel Claiborno sfter the ‘ers hed located thé Asylum. ~ Colonel Qlg appeared and said that he had also beon in igno~ he . zauce of any order of this kind; that Lie wes an attorney end had begn emploged ag sych to se- cure the location of thy Tnsane Asylum &t St. Joseph; that ho was toTeceive 915,000 as s fee: if he should succeed; that he hod so received the money, bad invested it on his own nccount, and had mot divided with Oommissioners Judges, Bittinger, or anybody e thess statements were x:aflayu.ncfii‘ eg‘f;',xza' the_rs was an amoust of jgno-ance on n]_l’m:d which might Dot be exhibited in gworn ste ments. The order of COUN appronyigtin D Toney was studiously subpressed, g it o and the $15,000 BaS 0m%, 1 tho Intg \ry. pry would 32y, *whare the woodbie L o T Fisk —_— The English newspspers bive Ve _ yperiodical discussion of the praciice of flo:gg’_ug by printing & mass of communications, variously condemning and favoring the custom of “ fag~ ging,” which is still retsined a¢ Eton, Rugby, Winchester, and most of the older schools of England. Thoss who have read Thackeray need not be told what this custom of * fagging” i85 his descriptions of it alone should hava been sufficient to bring it into such contempt a8 tc secure its sbolition. It is the practico of tie elder students to make servants of tho youngsr: The rule is for every advanced student to adopt some one Of tach him to his personal service. The younger boy is then knovn as & “fag.” His dufy is ta run errands, brosh clothes, black boots, and character. elder students of punishing any_rebellion on the sticks, which is occasionally varied by kicks and blows with the fist. It seems incomprehensi- ble to the American mind that men could ap- are printed in favor of it are about as numera: as those which condemn it. The force of cus- tom probably has much to do with the retention of 50 degrading & system, but it is not pleasant to think of custom as stronger than civiilzation. ing after him should likewise bo o “ fag.” Itis mors probable, howaver, that the disposition of the “bully,” which i to be discovered in Iater years, is rosponsible for & custom ntterly at va- —_— A ourious case has come up before the Lon- don Coarts, which, in its general results, agrees with many former cases, showing that the ac- cumulations of misers are exceedingly apt to be misused. In this particalar case, az old 1e7 had sccumulated a property smounting t0 nearly §550,000, and, having no relatiws to whom ehe cared toleave it, she bequeathel it all to an aged widow named Mrs, Baker, th: of & lodging-house where she had bes lLiving. Mrs. Baker hed always bean a quict, economical, care of the little money she could earn. But her *good fortune” seems to bavo utterly revo- Iutionized her character. It required but two years for her to Teduce the legacy to sbout $50,000, How sho managed to get rid of so ‘much money in g0 short a time does not appear from the trisl; but, from this timo on, she de- termined that what was left should not go in the pamewsy. She therefore chose another way of doing the same thing, and, instead of distribat- ing her wealth, she adopted s male guardian. This gentleman, ono r. Loader, porformed his duties 8o faithfully that, in a few years, ho hed secured sctual possession and title to there- ‘maining $50,000 which had been left to Mrs. Boker, and had pensioned Mrs. Baker herself, at the age of 80 years, on an cunual stipend of one hundred pounds. At this time Loader diedy and Mrs. Baker thought that she would like t¢ recover what he had left of her 250,000 Sh» ‘went into court, and the Court compelled Loader's widow to deed baclc all the property which con* be found. Whether Airs. Baker will now {0‘ ceed in her original plan of distribatin:ho money among numerous swindless, ins3d 0f bestowing it in bulk upon oze swindler, SmAins to be seen. Modern philosophy consists of statistice. There may be speculations, but the tako their rise from the ascertained conditio Of society. How fruitful, for instance, migit be he mar- cise percentage of married and unMAITIed. Deo- ple in the different countries, and thy varions average ages of both sexes when marringeis gontracted. The applicatios of euch facts tc tke existing state of morals in che soversl commu- nities would be of more practical valne than any : given amount of abstract moralizing, The an- ual number of marrisges vary greatly in differ- ent countries. In England, if is 64 in 1,000, and. are not B0 much of & marying people, the number is reduced to 52. Ve should say that the dispassionate natures of a ‘porthern climate account for the fact that there are only 86 marrisges to every 1,000 people in Norwey, it we did not find right seross the way in Denmark that there are 59 marriages thero to every 1,000 inhabitants. So the philosophers +will have to look for some other explanation. Thero are general principles, howarer, whichre- main the same in all the countries. Men marry morefrequentlyeverywhere thanwomen, becausa cases a8 widows. This is an eloqueni refutation of the insult of Sam Weller's warning to *‘bavare of vidders.” The marriage statistics also show that the young men Who marry under 20 almost invariably marry women who are much older ; in middle life, the :.van.is agesof man and wife are sbou the same; in the sere and yellow leaf, old men'marry young women and old women marry young men,” ' < The Prussian Government threatens to make the Church as completely subservient o the civil suthority in its dominion as it has been for & century or more in Russia. There will always be the difference, of course, that the German Emperor will not consider himself the head of the Church esdoes the Russian Emperor, but the control of the Church by the civil autheority will e almost as absolutein the one country as in the other. The German Government's bill, recertly presented to the Diet, defines ecclesiastical pen- alties, and prohibits clergymen and church dig- nitaries from decreeing any others. No bull of excommunicstion will be recognized, for in- stsnco; mor can & clergyman be deposed, as this would bo regarded an unlav- ful interference with his mode of earning & living, It is also provided that every ecclezi- astical punishment must be absolutely secret in order that the secular reputation of the offender ghall in no wise be injured. The Church is not permitted to inflict any ecclesiastical penalty ot rebyke for anything that is done in accordauce with the Prussian ¢ivil law, or any omission in ‘matters which are forbidden by the civil Inw. The State assumes a practical control of the Church by preseribing severe punishment for sny infringement that its officers may make in these established relations between Church and State. A fine of 1,000 thalers, imprisonment for two years, and disqualification for office for five years, may be enforced in the case of any violations of the provisions which the Prussian Government prescribes. SR London is in o dispute over the adulteration of coffee, 83 well a8 the pernicions effects of ten-drivking. On the one side, certain news- ‘papers have charged that it is next to impossible to obtain pure coffea from any dealer, and that the articles nused in adultersting it are hurtfal. On the other side, the dealers claim that they are ot résponsible for the adulteration, such as ibis; that people, o8 rule, do not like puro coffee and cannot aiford to use it; and, finally, that nothing is uscd tomix with coffes except cbicori, because there are mo erticles chosp enongh to take its place. It is maintained tha chicory i3 not even so hurtfal as coffee, and that the practico of mixing 1t with coffee js o decided improvement upon a poor article of the latter. i — The Mayor and several Alermen of the City “of Mexio were recently si8pended fram offico, by order of the Goveraor, for attempting t6 commit frands at tbe Inst municipal election, In oir more’ civilized communities, tho deed itsglf goes unpunished, and neither the attemps nor_the deed " confcand us. In view gf whi Toud not a little f tho Aesioay Dabariam be praterable o, our bomtes arsa and civilization ? e juniors and at- . perform gervice that is uiterly menial in irs The privilege is accorded to the part of his “fag” by beating him with ash’ prove o system of thia kind, but tha letters that It is also said that every man who has served as - # “fag” in boyhood thinks that cvery boy com- . and prudent woman, sbundantly sble to teka . risge statistics of Europe, settisg forth the pre-' in France 57, while in Paris, where the people I ] rianca with the decendies of & civilized country. - widowers marry in three or four times asmany ~ H