Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1873, Page 8

.82.50 SA.UU ‘Parta ol a yoar at tho samo rate. i To preveut delay and mistakes, bo sure and givs Post Off co address tn fall, Including State and County. ‘Remittances may bo made either by draft, express, Post Office arder, orin Seistered leum, 2t enrdlh Daly, delivered, Bunday sxcemes: B cesta X ) S roe! mgy[ geliverod, Bundsr neluded) 30 ecnta 3:;1\;» k. RIBUNE COMP! er Madison and Dearborn-st., Chisago, Lil. The Chitage Tetbume, Sunday Morning, May 18, 1873. ‘most part, of inetitationd rivaling thozo of Eng- 1and and Germany in ‘breadth’ aud depth—insti- tutions which' 'Yoluntary..effort is inadeguaté to furnish? But it was not for the purpose of dis-_ cuseing this question that we touclied upon Dr. Patton's excollent paper, for we deem it on the “whole one of the most enlightened contributions Lo'the sociology of the present day. - THE SUNDAY-BEER QUESTION, There is a disposition among tho Germans to hiold Msyor Medill personally responsible for the enforcement of the ‘Sundsy saloon-ordinance,, and the consequent crusado spainst the German custom of observing Sunday 24 a day of rocrea- tion. 'The only circumstsnce that could have whether either shsll force upon the other the.| adoption of the opposite sentiment. The Ger- ‘man issue should bo made up, not on the execu- tion of the Iaw as it is (abont which there can be’ 10 question), but on the maintenance or repoal of the law, which prectically deprives tho Ger-’ man citizen of the privilego of spenCing Sun- day—in an orderly manner of course—according to his traditions, habits, and proferonces, —re—— ‘MBS, STANTON'S BOCIAL REVOLUTION, Mrs. Cady Stanton, the champion * par excel- lence of Woman's Rights, in this conntry, an- nonnces that eho Lias at last discovered the plan by which tho Tyraat Man canbo forced to give to stoamers. Mr. Norwood bases his ‘ac- tion 'for libel upon tho statement of the book in . question, that Mr. Norwood was one of two or three of the House of Commons who were guilty of wicked, cruel, end criminal practices in connection with the mercantilo ma~ rine. This new phase of the question will give renowed interest to the guestion, and, as Mr. Plimsoll will now be put upon the defensive, it is probable that the subject will be as thorough~ ly investigated aa if Mr. Plimsoll had snccceaad m bringing it before Parliament. . FEMALE SUFFRAGE IN XNGLAND, | Tho Women's Disabilities bill was rojected for the fourth time by the English House of Com- views of Sundny observance; the question is | Kingston-upon-Hull,. and: interested in twelve | by the following extract from a recent London letter: E . : Wommsn as 8 voter is “an accomplished fact in Eng- land. Everywoman who occupies & dwelling in any diy ‘or town of England, Ireland, Walss, or Scot- land, bas o vote for Alderman, and town officers in general Under. Mr. Forster's new act, fn England, widows and “spinsters who pay rates have volss in the election of school - boards. In Ircland, every -womsn who psys any sum 88 poor-rate has a vote in the election of poor guar- ians. It s 8aid that the women excreise thess rights hearily, snd, in many cases where saloon-koepers rep- ‘resented tho wards of cities in municipal position, they ‘ware signally defeated by the votes of the women, :In London, 15 {3 well known, Mrs. Garrits Anderson, 3L.D., i3 one of the most usaful members of -tho School Board, and the same 18 trus of Miss Becker, of Manchester, The right of suffrigo scems to hava been conferred on the principle that, whera women pay a tax for any objact, they shal havo the right toa volco because the honors caznot be resigned, and can only cease by & failurs'of ‘succession.” It should, however,. be explained that Poerages are some- times croated only for the life of ‘the first Pgor, and others with succession only to heirs- male. Nevertheless, the running out’of these noble families of ¥ngland ia extraordinary enough to attract -general lfimhon l:d comment: in Europe. . _ MY MISADVENTURES ABROAD. - ° ; RE: BY BEX ADAM, E5Q. e 18] Whenever (in the course of .human svents) an American goos abroad, a decent ‘respect for the opinions of his countrymen requires him to write 8 book of travels. Not Venturing to disregard. this laudsble oustom, yet willidg to beas easy The Doctor punched my ribs and sounded i carefully, in order to dstermine the condition of my jnner “lights.” Then he oracularly ap. ‘nounced his diagnosis in oneword, *Bronchitis Much flattered to find that I had- so eminently Eueumad and molhad by strains H&a f.heu, 1 +raal able £o enter the consultation-room in my turn, as cheerfullp as one might ‘throw off the drapery of his conch and go down to breaktaat, espectable a malady, -1 listened carefully to the Doctor's instructions, These, briefly, were, that .| I should give up business and seek recreation; ‘ and especially by a chu:ge of ecene and Earopean travel. I ventured to remark that traveling was expensive, and that funds for such an enterprise might not be !unhmmmg congregation will give you leave of absence, and continus your ealsry,” said the Doctar, with & # Donbtless your - ‘Woman, the right of suffrage. In plain werds, tho war istobe carried into Africa, Every other resource having beon exhausted, and Laving yiclded nothing but dust and gshes, Woman now BELIGION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, suggested this assumption is, thst Mayor Medill The April number of the New Englanderhas | h28 beén the only City Executive, among all who 20 article (the lesding one in thie number) by have tried to do it, who has succeeded in enforc- the Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., of this city, on | ing the law without partiality or evasion. Thia e f the fands. ntha.d-unoflliun the fonl dubious smile. I hastened to correct the painfrl mistake into which he had fallen, and aseured ° .. 'him that I had never been licensed to make men wretched " by ‘preaching prosy sermons;.; that, in my youth, I had been, like Samuel, “in= mons, on the $0th of April last, by & majority of 67, which snows a gain of 12 on the voto of last year, when the msjority against it was 79, the aggregate vote being the sume each year. The with the public as possible, I propose to publish my namzative, in the first instance, by moderate installments; and only to increase the dose aa: the patient appears able tostand it. Instruction ‘will be judiciously blended with amusement ; not THE INFLUENCE OF WORLD'S PAIRS, The German press, and particularly the Berlin newspapors, aro engaged in discussing the in- fact, however, does not warrant the cohclusion the * Religious Element DlEdncnhun and the Public- 8chool System.” The positions taken by Dr. Paiton in this paper are mora ¢ advdnced,” as the phrase is, than those held by the majority of the eecular presson this subject. Although not now presented by the writer for the first time, they are argued in this paper with a degree of force and precision suited to the high charac- ter of the periodical in which they appesr, and to tho gravity of the subject treated. Dr. Patton bolds that the time is not faF distant when the question of the right of the State to tax indi- viduals to suppost & system: of education into which a particular form of religion is woven must b6 met snd decided. It cannot be staved off much longer, end it behooves those who ara most etrenuous for religion to examine the ground -whereon they stand; and be prepared to ‘meet the issue when it comes, The duty of the Btate 1o provide & system of edacation sufficiently broad to ensble the futaro voter toread and understand the ballot which he casts, snd also to° perform intelligently the ordinary sud common duties of life, is assumed 83 one of the axioms of' free government. Can tho State’ omit' to teach, at the same time, the common principles of morality, such a8 trathful- nese, honesty, obedience to law, benevolence, the eoundress of ‘an oath, etc., which, equally with spelling, gramar, and arithmetic, lie at the basis of civilization and-free government, and which ol religious sects and all non-religion- ists profess to Lold in the highest esteem? Clearly not. ~ Theso considerations are too im- portant t5 be neglected during the impressible years of childhood and eardy youth. Osn the State go ‘beyond this, and introduce religions instruction; eupporting the same by means of public taxes, or st lenst maintaining it in euch way that no parent csn send his child to the' common echool without darger of coming in contact with it? If yes, what form of religion shall it bo? If it be practicable to lamp all Protestant sects together, shall the Bomen. Catholics be taxed to support somie form of Protestant tesching? If it be possible to unite sll" Christian sects togéther, shall the Jews be taxed to support s form of Christian teaching, and aflgr*67aer that their t0_SUEA“Hsyavoid & religions biss which they deem pernicions and mislesding? Finally, shall the Rstionalists, who now number two or threa ‘millions in the United States, composed largely of German ‘immigrants, be compelled against thoir will to support sny form of religious teach- ing ont of the proceeds of taxation, to which they contribute according to their numbers and their property? Dr. Patton findsnothing in the Constitution to watrant the imposition of taxes for such & purpose, mor ®anyihing “in the principles of equily to wamant the exclusion - of &' portion, , however - small, of the community from the benefit of the pablic gchools nadar penalty of inoculation- in some of religious belief opposed to their own. e case is as troublesoms when confined within ‘the pale of Christianity as when it embraces the_ whole popalation ; “for then comes the conflict between the vericus denominations, .Roman Catholic and Protestaat, avlngellal and un- evangelical.” Bo much for the common schools. If we con- clude thst justice, no less than the spirit and letter of onr Constitution, forbid the favoring of one sect above another, and thus logically con- fine the common schools to secular snd moral® tuition, upon which not only all sects butall’ citizens agree, what about the State tniversities 20d other institutions supported in whole or in part out of . the ‘public funds? Can history; philology, “law, snbient snd modemn lLitera- ture, and metaphysics be taught with- out some -kind of religions or irreligions | bums? ALl these branches of learning are more orless interwoven with religion, and will receive. more or’ less coloring from the in- structor or the text-book. The exact sciences sasy, perhaps, be' tanght without such coloring. Technical instruction may be imparted without it. Bat these constituto only s small part of 'a liberal education. The conclusion which' Dr Patton resches is, that, although religions sects bave the privilege of , establishing colleges of their own, the Btatehas no right, by the exar cisis of the taxing power, to build up institutions which shall dwarf. aud belittle the voluntary ones, by virtue of their grester endowment and more magnificent buildings, libraries, and ap- parsius. These State institutions, he observes, immedistely “becoms 'objocts of strife among: religions eects; the sects rush into thio arens of politics to get pnsuwon and control of them, and, so_far-as thoy are successfal, they impose wpon all “other socts the necessity of contributing to .empport, or at least to give -undue -sirength and prqm:nanw to, a form of xehgmna ‘beliet with which they are. more or loss at variance. ‘It must be admietcd that this is thi history of most of. the Stote uni-: versities. The University. of -Michiganis the only one which has acquired sufficient promi-. mence to overshadow the denominational ool- leges; but the principle it is 2l the samie, wheLher the State university be n greut effair or only a emall one. The evil and injustice' of -which- Dr. Fation complsing must be sdmitted. Nevertheless it is. mitigated by the fact that the religions bias of youih who have resched the adwsnced age Te- quired for “admission to_college is. generally fixed before they enter. There aro some excep- tions of course, but, as a general rule, & yonng man who goes. awsy from howe to sttend col-. lege will derive “his religious instruction from the church he i5 in the habitof attending at that he approves of tho ordinance in the form in which it stands on the statute-book, or that it was his desiro to give it an offansivo construce tion. It means simply that ho has been pleced 1n different circamstances from his prodecessors —circumatances that”“seemed to requir tho ea- forcement of & law that had been allowed to fall into disuse during a period of nearly twenty years. It is diffcult to ses how Mr. Medill's personal preforences could have entored into -the controversy at' all. ‘Whether he were in full accord with the local Temporance leaders, or wholly opposed to them in private sentiment, could mako no dif- ference with his official duty. It is probable thet, with no hankering atter drink of any kind, he bns suffered more inconvanience than any six or sixty Germans, whether beer-drinkers or beer-sellers. But, whatever msy b his persona) ond private views, he had nothing elss to do as Moyor but enforcs the Sundsy ordinance, when the issue was pressed mpon him. Tho Mayor had nothing to do with making tho laws, but he was eleoted o enforco them, and took an oath that he wonld do so. He could not rightfully be inflnenced by the ciroumstances thst his predo- cessors had in part neglocted to enforce them It may have been natural to the excited condi- ton of the German mind to confuse ., the exacu- tion of the law with the law itself, when they found it enforced by Mayor Medill, though other Mayors had failed fo enfores it. This would bo s falso and dangerons issue to make a tho polls, however. * When people come to vote for men ‘who will not enforce laws, they enter upon uu-. safe’ ground. Their issue should concern tho 1aw itself, and their aim, from the German point of view, should be o elect men who will repeal the law. 9 We have made these remarks, so far as thoy are personal fo Mayor Medill, without any con- sultation .with him, and not in the way of apology for anything he has dons or omitted to do.. 1t ia well known that the law sgainst keop- ing'saloons open on Sunday was forced upon the Msyor'sattentionsfterong-halfof p‘fflflw "glhum Bad e¥RUeHGE, called by & prominent German citizen, Mr. Henry Greenebaum. One of the " most vigorons demands of this assembly of citi- Zens was that the criminallaws should be en- forced. - The meeting wis held at & time when the Iawless clagses of tho city were committing daily ontrages upon the community, and when the newspapers were filled with the chronicles of violent orimes. - . The popular demand for tho vigorons enforcement of tho laws was thought by 51l good citizens to be timely and proper. It ‘was then that the Temperance agitators stepped in and draw attention to the fact that one of the 1aws of the city required tliat all saloons should be closed on Sundéy, and ' they demanded .that this ordinance should be observed among the rest. Thera was no lawfal rotreet from the' po- Eition which they assumed. Nr. Greenébaum withdréw from the movement whe this element ‘was introduced, but it was not for Mr. Gree: batim, not for the Mayor, nor for any other citi-. zen or official, o say what particular laws should be enforced and what shonld be ignored. It was found mpossible to make & distinction under the law between the whisky-saloons and the beer- gardens. The * Paritan element,” as the Ger- mans call it, had the advantege of the law on their side, and they pushed it to the extreme. It is & peculiatity of this'element, that it makes its fight, it not. on religious grounds, at least witha strong religions bias,. and here, quite os. much 15 upon a differencs of tastes respeeting malt liquors, the issue is joined. It was this element, whose strength in the community need not be underrated, that beset Mayor Medill for the enforcement 6f the Bundsy-law, and there Was no choica for him but to comply. It is agninst this eloment that the Germabs have or- ganized, and are secking to secure the co-opera- tion of the Roman Catholics; and that portion of the native-borm population who have no special religions biss. - ' - “The “disposition to mske the Republican party responsible fnr ‘what is Jnown as the Paritan, glement, 58 the Slaals-Zeiting, the . Union, . 'and . most of the- Germams aro doing, bas just this justificstion, It is true that many of the most. prominent men in - the Republican party, and that portion of the rank and file which have confributed most to its Tespectability and success in- the country at Iarge, are of that way of thinking which the Ger- mans denominate * Puritanic.” The Republi- can party, as a political organization, carés not &’ ‘whit whether beer or whisky are sold soven dsys in the week, or only six. The'leaders genemuy ‘would préfer to hava ft;sold .eight days, if sny more votes could bs got by 'it. Novertholess, the “Purltan’ dlemgnt," as it is callod, can con< tzol thie party, when'it chooses to ‘do s0; in’ tho Btate at large, if not in the city, and the Ger- mans seem to think it nedessary to. give the | permanently wesken the influence . of - this ele- ment. This, we take it, is the rationale of thendw isto essumo the aggressive, Hitherto sho hes begged, entrented, implored, threatoned. -Sho hes sought the ballot upon bended knee. She has demanded it with objurgation. She hins ap- pealod for it with o forrout of words. - Sho has followed it asit’ flittéd liko an ignis fatuus through tho intricate Iabyrinths of the courts. She hes sought it by all the coaxing and wheed- ling artifices known to tho sex. Bright oyes havo languished for it in vain, Sharp tongues have threntened in vain, ~ The Tyrant, 28 5 rule, has turned o deaf ear to every ontrenty and to every threat, and gone on his way regardless of tho wrongs of tho sox, a8 it writhed in tho fotters athis fect. Ruminating upon hor wrongs, Mre. Stanton has at lost discoverod the panaces which is warranted to cure all the ills of Woman. That panscea is thé Social Revolution, and the details of itshe hes nnnounced very clearly. In ‘the Srst place, women are to asist themselves and take care of their wn fnterests. ~Tho Revolu- tion is to bo first inaugaated by soverely lotting tho Church slone. Thore are to bo no more neck-tio sociables and strawberry festivalsto ob- tain funds for carpeting the Cbarch. Let the men carpet it. Thers are to be no more fairs with post-offices, and lottories, and Jacob's wells, and cakes with ringsin them, end other soductive epproackes to the pocket. If the men want painted windows and melodious organs in the church, et them provide’ them themselves. There are to bono moro donation parties for the ministers, devieed by female ingenuity and en- trprige. Lot tho men hencoeforth eke out the minister's salary with the convenient flour, and apples, and onions ; the bed-quilts, Scriptural bookmarks, and services of plate. This is to be the first move in the Social Rovolution, but we do not spprehond thore is any scrions danger. in it. There aro two classes of Church-mombers. One of them cares very ittle for carpots, painted windows, or donation parties. An uncarpeted floor, & plain glass win- dow, snd o minister without donation martics would suit them, S omday slumbers or their en- Jjoyment of religion. Inthe case of tho other class, they would pay ther money diractly for the theological luxuries, rather than through the medium of neck-tics, strawberries, pound-cake, onions, and book-marks. The Church tactics in the new fogial Revolution, wo conceive, thers- fore, would have Littloe weight in vwinging the ‘ballot from the relactant haud of man. . The other featurs, however, of the Soc:l Revolution Lus a plausible aspect, and may in- timidate some mon of pacific disposition. We lot Mrs. Stanton speak for herself: ¢ Carry the war, if need be, into your own femilies ; let the baby go without bibs, the husband's shirts with- out buttons, the home witkout care, until the men givein. When they find their comfort de- pends on allowing us thoe ballot, they will wheel into line and give it to us. Women have too long petitioned and begged of men; let them now make siego and cary the war into their bomes. It is coming to that, sirs, and it is going to be dear picce of busi- ness for yon. Wo are going to vote—peaceably it we can, but with war if we must.” Whew! This is sufficiently drosdfulin stefement, but when it is sifted down, we doubt if it is sny more serious than the Church movement. Sup- *pose that Lovely Woman allows the baby to go without bibs, and the dear little creature there- by adorns its mush frills with ‘milk and eggs, and engar and molasses, snd other compounds, what gort of & roputation for neatness will the rebellious . materfamiling make for herselt ? BSuppose she allowa the head of tho houde to go to his businees without buttons on his shirt ? ‘How long would it be before some other sympa- +thizing femalo would take pity on him and sew them on again? There is another solution to the social problem. Suppose that Woman, in an ill-considered momont, refuses fo perform the duties of the house, and, in revenge, Man also refuses to perform Lis? Bup- pose when sho refases to sewon ks shirt-bat- ton, he refuses to provido her with a' new spring hatl What then? Sapposo, when sho rofuses to keop the juvenilo ‘frontispiece cléan, ho re- fusos to provide 2 rozst for dinuer, and goes off to get his meal ot ‘o rostaurant! What then? Supposo, in fine, when she assumes tlic deflant and rebellzons Stantonisn position, &nd raises & rampus in the house, ho immed:ately places, the houso in state of siege by allowing the gas and water to b twrned off! How loug will th bo- sieged hold out ? ~Mrs. Stanton's plan would-be ai admirablé one, provided two'couldn't play,at the ‘same game. - There i8 .o theory in -sociel economy, howaever, which she does not ‘séem'to ‘have condidered, mamely : {hat comfort in the household is reciprocal. If ‘the woman secks to make it hot for tho man, the man. usually malkes it bot for tho womsn, ‘and vice 'cerm, bill which Was thus dofeated, after & very long and very exciting debate, was introduced by-Ar. Jacob Bright/ who hes also- been the champion of the Lill during the last'threo years. It intro- duced n6 new principle into the British Consti- tution, but simply déélared that so far ss tho clectoral franchige is concerned women ‘ehall have the same privileges ns men. In the United States, such a bill would have a very wide and comprehensivo bearing upon elections, wheress in England its effect would be quite insignificant. = Its prac- tical operation would-be to give.the fran- chiso to women, who, whather as single persons’ or widows, were actual householders and rate- payers. The number of women, it is stated, who would be added to the rogister, would prob- ably not oxcacd 200,000. As it now stands, wom- en who baye their names upon the rate-book are already entitled to vote for Guardians of the Poor, for Municipal Councillors, and’ for School Boards, ato eligible 53 Overseers, and are in vary active demand as members of School Boards. ‘When it comes to voting for members of Parlia- mént, howaver, they are prohibited from exer- cising the franchise, and it was simply to remove this disability that Mr. Bright offered his bill. Small 2s tho matter seems, it provoked & bot discussiop, in which many of tho most prominent members of tho House of Commons pasticipated. ' Mr. Bright, in moving a second reading of his bill, urged the claima of women from'a political and moral point of view, lsying special stress upon their comparative abstinence’ from crime, and their goneral good conduct in all civiland eocial relations. Mr. Esstwick, who seconded the motion, combatted the argument that women were unable to face the daties sad dsangors of war, and cited maby Lustunves Where they had done 5o, and acquitted themselves with groat horoism, Mr. Bouverie moved the rejec- tion of the bill, and contended that women could au equality of rights unlese th«y were able to underere an’ equality of dutics. Boing physically weaker, this was impossible, and, 08 no amount of education could supplythe deficiency, that was an end of tho quostion. Tho Houso, howevar, did not ro- gard the question ended, and the debate went on amid great oxcitement. Mr. Sherlock thought that, when they fonnd women' exercising- the right of suffrage on municipal and educational affairs with moderation and discrimination, their request for voice, 2 well as influence in Parlismentary elections, shonld not be denigd ; ou the other hand,Mr. Scourfield saw 1o po- litical degradation in tho exclusion of women there lmlhg little relative difference in the degtcen of heat. “The, result of Mrs: Stanton's tactics would bo an -~ immediate dsad- party & shock which shall 80 far alarm it as to.| SE¥ lockin every household, the issue of which “ould be that Man of nocessity wonld find other German movement. ‘It hus probably. been con- sidered also, that,: the: slavery quostion being sottled, the Republican party has: lost ita raison delre, ‘and’ that,:in the . . general ‘breaking upof parties, the constituent a“lements will be. protty.. sure’ to diverge when- ever mew isemes are made wup involving their organio - Gifferonces.. This' is pro- “cisely the case in Chicago ot the present time. The immediate point &t issue concerns the right of the Germans todrink boer on Sunday, butthe contest includes the general uestion, whef.har, under our form of Governmient, those who favor home. And, if he is not in the habit of ‘attend- ing ony church, he Will hardly be lisble fo nave his faith-or want..of - faith - ehaken by the infiltration of dogmeas into'the cumcnlnm of the university. . Itis an evil—-rather a glaring one in fact—thet sects ghould defile themulm with pohhnl in the effort to et control of ynh].\e institutions of learning. - It-is an evil that they. should succeed in doing 80; butis itota greater avil that e should be deprived, as we ate for the the' Puritsn or English observance of Sundsy mey force their customs upon those who favor the Continental observance, Thisiss quaal.mn ‘which it will be necessary to decide at the polls, . and it is a8 well ‘that it should come \zpnowls st any other hms‘ With these facts in view, it is the duty of all citizens to give them serious considerationas s part of the political qaestions which they liave to decide. Both the Puritans and she Germans ere conscisntious in their places whero shiri-buttoss can be sewed, other places where meals aro - prepared, other plices where comforts are dispensed: Woman of nec- essity would be obliged to stand by the wreck, and, although she might have the comfort of & vocation from sewing on buttons. and perform- - ing other duties of this sort, how long would - ho be able to hold ot without & spring - bonnet 2nd & seat at the dpera; ‘without some one to pay the bills, 'to chop. the wood, intimidate the, kitehen-girl; and lock up the houso nights ? Mirs. Stanton evidently must try again before she can successfully insugurate her Social Revo- Intion. Sheis fortilein Tesonrces, and may yeb succeed, if she has-patiance, i in har fight with -this old-timo prejudice. 3r, Plimsol), the member of. the English Par-" ‘liament who recently printed a work called “Our Beamen,” to which referonce has been made in these columns, was recently sued for libel by a fellow-member of Parlismeut, Mr. Norwood, # heavy managirz owner of ships 2 from the franchise, inasmuch s they were €x- empted from the onerous duties which devolved wpon- men, snd closéd his argument with the strongest point which has yet boen made, viz: that & vast mojority of the women themselves don't want the franchise. Mr. Latham made & very sentimental ‘argument against the bill, based upon the danger of the dastruction of. the womanhood of woman. ~His opposition was based upon the assumption that it was a quostion of the right and duties of ona sex claimed by the other, and that what thoy would get by tho passage of the bill would be “ that monstrons and repulsive creature looming above -the horizon—le femme homme Mr. Latham added: * If thinbill were carriod, what was to prevent .women not only sitting in that Houso, but from occapying seats on the Troas- ury bench itself? Perhaps the House would like t0 800 5 blooming. sud engaging First Commis~ sioneress of Works, or s lively and sccom- plshed Postmistress-Genoral. Or, what womld the Houso think if & grest measure were stopped bocause the learned Attorney-General had eloped withtho learned Bolicitross-General, orif the public busine:s were suspended on sccount of the accouchement of tho Primo Minister 2" Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen followed Mr. Leatham, s0d also contonded that God had made s grest difference beiwsen man sud womsn, andhad assigned duties .to thésoue which could mot be performed by the other, and that it was im- possible to give women additional rights without imposing upon them additional respongibilities which they wero nob sble to bear. Mr. Bruce followed in & similer sirain, and contended that, | inasmuch as womien were ‘unable to perform all the political duties which fell upon men, they should not have all the political rights of men, and closed bis argument with the sssertion that women wero wanting in the inventive ‘and creativo ¢ faculties, although it is . pob ewsy. fo sco what possible connec- tion that fact, even it it wero true, had with the bill., Mr. Fawcett, . the distinguished. politicat economist, in the Tost brillisct spoech of the Qebate, disputed tho. lstter point, sciting Rosa Bonheur, Fanny Mcndelssohn, ‘and others, es | instances of women who had succeeded in the arts, and then passedto s general consideration of tho bill, and took tlio broad ground that, liv- ing under a- ropresentative govemmenl ‘women Bbada vight to express their yiows upon ques: tions which directly and particularly concerned them.- He believed that the faeling ‘in fasor of the bill was ‘steadily increasing throughout the country and that it would continue-to spresd if there were forthcoming no more solid reasons n"Nast it than hed been adyanced in the parlia- mentary dobate. The debate was closed by Mr. ‘Henley, the member for Oxtordshire, who had on the three previous occasions voted sagainst the bill. He had carefully watched the manner in which the franchise had been .exezcised' by females in the case of School” Boards, and the result had been g0 beneficial that he desired to see the franchise extended to Plrhmanluy alections. The dobate, s roported in the English papers, i3 an extremely interestirig one, and fairly ex- bausts the rguments pro and " con. upon the whole question of extending the franchise to women, in its political, social, moral,and physio- logical phases.’“If the majority against the bill continues to decrease a8 it . has during -the past £wo, years the advocstes of the bill are not far off from victory. What has already been accom- plished in tha way of female suffrage is shown finences which the Vienna Exposition is likely to' have on the peace ot Europe. ‘Lie sentiment is by no means tinanimons ic favor oftho popular notion that a World’s Exposition is & great har- ‘monizer of nations. " It is customary for Amari- cans to regard everything which carries the word “1nternational” as calculated to cement the bonds of continents and promote tho policy of universal harmony. There has never yet been a0 intornational boat-race, or an internations boxing-match, or an international congress of sny description, which Americans have - not| heralded as a harbinger of universal pesce and a promotor of good feeling. The Berlin nowspapers take ‘amore practical view of the matter. They congratulate the Austrian Em- peror upon the possession of so industrious and enterprising s peoplo; they congrstulate the Austrian poople upon having #o good sn Em- peror ; and they congratulate both upon the prospect of euccess attending the opening of ‘the Viennsa Exposition. At the same time they. cannot refrain from hinting that Austris appears 1o better advautage in peace than in war; from recalling the last brief conflict between Austrla and Prussia, or from pointing out that Prusaia has taken the lead in shaping the destinies of the German Empire, and will not brook ang in- terfarerice. One of the Berlin newspapers. goea 50 far, in fact, 2a to make the opening of the Exposition the occasion for insisting that the Prussian navy, the wonkest featurs in this strong Government, must be moro fully récriited than over before. Al these hints and inginustions are covered up with nxpmmofli of triendly feeling for Austris'a progress, but they ave not strictly in the lie of Peace. %+ 1o @ question whether these Universal Ex- positions oxert any marked influence in main- taining friendly relations or briuging govem- ments closer together. Tho fact ia that they are purely commeroial institutions, and, as such, -atv calculated to stimulate compotition in trade, to illustrato the aavantages of & free interchango of commodities, and to teach the mercantile clasces that much is to be gained, in time of pecs, by enlarging their intercourse and working together. But the war pover of European nations rests with an entirdly different class, not generally in sympathy with those who contribute to the success of international exhibitions. Neithor royalty on the one hand nor the army on the other has any particular interest in theso fairs ontside of tho prido in tho pageantry sad the temporary brilliancy added to the crown un- der whose patronage one of them is held. These expositions ara a direct outgrowth of the Leipsic and Frankfort faics, which had more genuine international chsracteristics than the big shows of modem times, and which fur- niched the great annual and semi-annual marts for tho interchange of the rich pro- dncu of the manufacture of all na- tiofs. These fairs- did not prevent wars and dissensiong any more than their suc- cessors. Thore have been five of the grest ‘World's Fairs,—tho first held in London in 1851 ; the second in Paris in 1855 ; the third in London in 1862; the fonrth in Paria in 1367, andthe prosent one in Vienna. Interspersed among these were soveral important wars. The Cri- mean war followed the Exposition of 1851 ; the Italisn war followed the Exposition of 1855 ; the Austro-Prussian war followed that of 1863, and the Franco-Prussian war came close upon the heels of that of 1867. Viowed ir 0@ light of the past, therefors, it is imrwssible to conclude that these expositions are greatand direct agents of pesce, however important they ‘may be in Mastrating and advancing tho interests of commorce. There is reason to regard great international shows of any kind in the light of hollow fustian, except aa to the immediate object to which they aro devoted. - The enfente cordiale was thought to be fully established when King William, of Prussis, visited the Emperor Napoleon at Paris, and the evant was celebrated throughout Earops 28 an indication of perfect understanding and lasting peace between the two nations they rep- resented. ~Yet it did not oven serve the purpose of postponing the outbreak of international hos- tillty, of of lessening the vindictiveliorrarsof the war that followed shortly after. - The Treaty of ‘Washington, it is safe to eay, sccomplished moce, in the way of settling international difficul- ties withont warfaro than s dozen. Inter- national Expositions. Yat it is doubtful whether this plan could hove been successfally spplisd, under similar circumstances, beiween any two nations on thio faco of tho globe except England ‘and America. ‘World’s Fairs have much o rec- ommend them, though their main sdvantages sccrue to the benefit of the particular cities in which {hey are held; but the Germans are prac- tically right in refraining from the usual predic- tions of universal peace as a consequence. This s » rather visionary result at bent, and one in which neithor tho Viennese, Who aze making hay whilo tho sun shines, nor tha strangers, who are submitting fo exorbitant hotel charges and local extortions of all kinds, will be likely to put any confidence. | ~+ The rapid decay of the Enghah nobility 'is re- mmknhle. Binco Mr. Gladstone became Minis- ter, in 1868, he has added to the list of heredi- m—y l’nmxes 10 legs than 80, of whom two have, already become extinct. The persons elevated- by hum to the Peerage were eminant Judges, dis- tingnished diplomsts, and officers who had long and honorably served ift the' éivil service. In 1830, the Honse of * Lords contained 893 Peers; since then 217 have been added, and, of theso stter creations, only- 138 mnow ’exist.” "The ‘present nobility consists of Peerages creatod as followa: In the reigns of the Plantsgenots, 14; in that of the Tudors, 11; by the Btuarts, 45; of George' L and IL, 26; of George III., 131; of George IV., 435 IV., 41; and of *Qdeen ‘Victoris, . 89, Total, 401. The number of Peerages créated during this extended period of tunemnuy. B great. _In the reign of .George. IV., there wers 10 less than 400 Peerages created, of which 279 bave become extinct. The extinction of theso hereditary titles is the mora remarksble tended for the Church,” and my fond parents had of William in equal parts, but homeopathically, and in & high state of dilution, so that, it the knowledge im- parted shull not benefit my resders, it cannot, in any event, do them the least possible harm. Bhould these sketches meet with the approval thoy deserve, they will subsequently appesr in & Taore permanent form, with iliustrations by one of :ho 01d mastars. o i >¢iltng vver a your ago, I f6und myselt in trusted that I should one day become a Bishop. That I had, however, chosen the better part, and, instead of being a belligerent and a pro~ moter of gtrife, I had become s man of pesce . and & Upon this announcement, amarked inaresss of respect waa visible in tho Doctor’s manner. Ha requested pardon for his blunder, which was un- conditionally granted. In fact, the mistake waa wrlbsrfarthnpm {aesendition of the Turkish - ““gick man ”—with | not strauge. I have often experienced tha truth a %Mcatey in the ‘chest. Each of my. friends su25o2.6d a differant remedy; and, not withing to seem ungratefnl, I tried .them sll by turns. ‘At one time I'wrestled with a dozen bottles of Dr. Air's unrivalled Elixir of Life.” At another, my energies were tasked to put myself outaide of & barrel of tar-beer; a delectable compound re- sembling bilge-water or the refuse of a tanuery. Each struggle ioft me in & worse condition for the next encounter; or, at best, my exgarience waa like the Scotchman’s who ste fourteen larks to whet his appetito, without finding himself say buogrier than before. L One dsy I was painfally reminded of my in- creasing infirmitics. My son Jack (I call him that appesrances are deceitfal. Iam, if I know myself, one of the gentlest and most amiable of men; yet T romember thet, on ome occasion, while I w4 making & New Year's call, an intoxia cated young man introduced himself, and, shaks ing me warmly by the hand, thuz spake: Devlish - good fellow. I *vlong admired your literary pro= ductions. ~Often thought I'd make your 'quainta ance; but you have such a d—d repulsive conn~ tenance that mever could make up my mind ta e i Ben-Ad'm, yu're good fellow. “An audible smile Eroke npon the faces of the assembled company; With one exception. That exception -was myself. For the benefit of my Jack for short, -because hia.name. ia Obadiah,) f, younget readers I will relate the swift retzibu- waa, at that time, 14 years ald. Jack was slways | yion Shich followed this outrage. I sttached & troublesome boy. The activity of his in- telloct gave early promise of Yature emi- nence; but not agreeable. For example: after listen-' ing tos fantasia by Ole Bul, played upon & single string, his soul was so fired by emulation, that he straightway tied £wo cata togother by tho | g tails and strung them up on a clothes-line. When | parore Judge B._,,wn,_,u,’g iz pTIdQ, W be goprucu” tie paid one fine to Banyon (who put the money carofully into his inside vest-pocket), and anoth. er'fine to me, in order to have his name kept ont of the papers. Ifelt sorry for the young man, bat business is business, and the claims of jus- tice are paramount to all other considerations. This young man afterwards came to s bad end.’ the concert was ended, it ia. aimost noodless to _gxhanoked-——a] remark that the parformers worp, exbanch s e i ting presentod him with tho Book of Martyrs, horead it with such profit that he forthwith founded s private inquisition for the benefit of all the heretical animals in the neigh- borhood. After trying in vain to extract poor Carlo's teeth with s pair of tongs, he basted the foet of the wretehed nimal, and put him into | the stocks, proparator, co rossting him before & glow fire. Luckily this contrivance was discov- eredin time, and Jaok got & * basting™ him- self. To tell the truth, I was never re- miss in chastising him for ‘his various delinquencies ; and these became g0 numerons that I—boing fond of system and regularity— fell into the habit of flogging him every morning beforo breakfast ; partly becanse he was sure to deserve it before nightfall, and partly becsuse it afforded & stimulating exercise to both parties. By continuing the process during Jack's mi- | nority, T hoped to rival the Greek who learned tooarry an ox by carrying it daily during its calfhood. But this was motto be. One fatal morning I wielded the rod with unaccustomed languor, and was presently obliged to stop for ‘breath. Had Jack been like the good boy in the primer, he would have burst into tears at this evidence of his father's weskness. But, in fact, mysel? for tho rest of the day to that misguided 8 of Tut yomug man, and nagged him 8o successtully that its first manifestations Were | o speqdily got disorderly as well as drunk, sa that, in the interest of society, I was compelled to give him in charge of a policeman. * He spent the night in the Armory, and, next morning, ‘wiser and much saader md’»"fium’:vm;l once felt, can never % e X nttam]pd a8 chiaf. mourner, hope all my young friends will take waming Thia is all of this interestirz story which will be published in this number. It will be contin~ ned in the next Eundny paper. centa, Single copies, § ‘THE GERMAN MOVEMENT N CITY POLITICS. Tranalated from the Chicag Union. " Wo huve oxpresded. oue poatiaation that the | s, without, the dinect infnence af. polti- - ciane, and without distinction of party, had be- organizing in behalf of the princi) lsoime- jom ; we called that the flnu?sp Aiatis al that can be said in behalf of euch's mnnmnt. A second, much more important atep, id_necese sary—to Tnake the u-gnmzmun, not & one. but & party of Freed: =y Although we bestow our liveliest sympathi bo did nothing of the kind. On the contrary, | OB this "-Era of Pesce! auong the Ge”"‘“’n’d} bo suddenly doubled me up by Lutting his head | muperiiuous ; the sffort to wnito tho Germans i into my etomach, and then made his escape through the window, On the day of this unhappy incident, while walking down street, reflecting npon the muta- bility of earthly affuirs, I mot Simpking, Simp- kins is one of those intolerably healthy fellows who are always boasting of their digestion and. muscular development, and for whom thesa qualities stand in the place of all the cardinal virtues. If such people would be content to en- Joy their good luck withont conatsntly nagging their leas fortunate brethren, one might rejoice with them. As it is, I never see the beefy coun- Gang at that point where he bas stationed the most troops. x| h.mad, lnd 8- 'we o of B baraouin Germadn, n opposition party alond haa prospect of uo~ cesa. mans, 1o hope of securing the to the misundarstanding and, Tureatens our aims and vie those Americards if we included them in our opposition to the Temperance and Sundss = appears to us very much like the uxamun’l of a. eral to throw up the strongest fortificationg The essential thing, a3 we_have lon; ave said Tepeats gutaxd.ly, is . the Q elements, be they American, Irish, or Scandinavicn. Such even Not' merely have we, ntmdn:g dngly_-5mg righénception th::' tens us: thasten, etc., will be alien-- tenanca of my friend Simpkins without hoping, sted fromg would willingiy oppose these res that an apoplexy may suddenly smite him. | of # Hallo, old fellow!” ho cried, with & voice ]1:" & wrampet, *“how ill yon look! You failing fost. At this rate you =08 Histon- ing to tho celostial -~ Doublless those whngoesrlr"“ secure the best seats,” said I ¥ "peovish emile. “Stuff ‘and nmama' " quoth Bimpkins. *You don't want to be sn angel ; nobody does. Bird in the, band worth two in the bush, you kmow. Itis’ well enough to talk sbout ‘mansions in the skies,’ but they're too mnch like ¢ castles in the air’ to'my thinking ;" and he smote himself a resounding thump by way of applauding his own smartness. ¢ 3loreover,” continuod' Bimpkins | & with an odiouna chuckle, *one mever can tell what may happen after be shuffles off. You might find yourself out of tho frying-panandinto the fire, you know! Tell you what, old boy,” he continued, with sudden serionsness, “you ought to sce u doctor right off and no mistake ;" and Simpkins departed, after giviog me a hearty shake, which bad no ill effect boyond aynuung my wrist and dissbling three fingers. Notwithatinding this usage, the. wirning of Simpkins sank deep into my heart ; and, shortly after this interview, I found myself at the door of the distinguished Dr. X——.- No sooner had the servant responded to my summons then I was essaulted by a villainous terrier who bed “a nipping and an esger air” (Shikspeare). I kiked the cur across the hall, and his Felp brought out the Dactor’s head from the door of the ‘consulta- tion-room,” He looked at mé with ‘an ominous scow], and seemed to mark me for his own. In- wardly dubions whether a dose-of cold poison might ot ‘réward my hostile introduction, I passed ; into. the waiting-room, where sat & score of melancholy . patients. . Not find- ing ‘much amusoment from ' 'this cheerful socloty, I lookoed out of the - window, and saw across the street a lawyer's sign, aunonncing that wills wonld be ‘drawn with neatness. and d.(zpntch. A funeral Pprocession Was turning the next corner, and I felti & vague curiosity as to +ho might be the quict gentleman who rode all by himself in te front wagon., When the pro- cension had pessed, I turned to some books Iy- ing on the table, end glanced overthem, Thay were not an. enlivening set. Mostly they. wero imedical works by Dr. X— himself, containing dresdfal . descriptions : of cases which® had come ‘under his practice. The pe:nsal of these dlmost msde my hair' stand on ‘end, “like quails mpon tho frightfal porcapine,” as. Shakspe: . Jr., ,somewhers . observes. Not finding in this reading any,of those “con- - solations of literature™ which Bosthius men~ tions, I’ songht distraction in a volume by my foyorite . author, Mr. Tupper, 'to rival whoso "Prvvaxblnl Philosophy” was the dream of my youth and the sspiration of my riper yeers. The book opened naturally, and as though the pas- of yesterds, Soventednth Ward, wo v i has uttatly smmspprehended the gbject of the mesting of nothing in it but s move of Mr. Hesing's, in: whom it bebolds s kind of commander of tha- German ‘inhabitants of Chicego. It is certainly correct, if it ascribés the sudden conversion of the above named gentleman to the circum- stance that longer remaining in the party fold threatened dangor for him, but, When TarmuxE puts him in the foreground as.tha ieader, and when it continually talks of “Sun= dey beer,” it has made a Rivos st such Jalse conelusio ‘more likely is it that this will be Americaus in general 7 : We must, theroforo, determinedly call atten~ . tion to the hecessity of agitation among English- - geshn ings ehnu be made general ones. The Committza ‘hsving charge of the movement should make it _ their chiaf quty to bring in_our non-Germas cit~ - igons, in onler that wo-may, in commor 0ppose - ‘Purithai Taws. - In this taini poscd, was -h-qnfi‘anuugh, the “After it large crowd of country people collected to 8d~ - mire it, 88 such s mi ‘been aul:m da;&m;uuon‘ ‘before. * e et spectatord were ing it, & very . was secalto fly slowly out of & neighboring - OHive lawa. It we take the leading articla of TuE TEIBUNE: y_concerning the meeting in the seo without evil: e German citizens. Tt - ve mistake. If such ly well-informed aheet how much e case with respectable and gen citizens, and urge, in the interestof cause, that these purely Germaa meet~ corruption, snd unconstitntional waoy alone’ can wo count with cer- . on 5 successful contest with the farces op- tons. & t 3 Curious Story About & Hawk. - | From the Baltimors American., . A curious incident occurred a few days sinca short distance from thiscity. One of ourwall- known merchants had goue out on'a visit fo & friond, at whose house tners, was a briy boy, and ‘one day, to please the child, he ufs htfll actured a very largo Lite, and, :.as . the. wmd rough, the ito was raised 8¢ noes 3d gone up nearly half s mile, & 6 agnificent toy had m:ml oand go directly toward the kite. Tha - Bavic ‘approsched within & few. fest of b8 - strangs-looking object, aod then circled under it for,” perhaps, five mmnies, lbon. tently for s short time, darted doy ¥ _striking the paper, paesed: diricth uumngh he “kite, coming out on he under atnnga: bawk vasf flection, but still keeping the kitein vieY . . being dupoud to gm it up 0, he Q¥ 1k zo- e oot hnt e e 6 long string of ra; at were 13 t0 the Lite, which o foro aud cal) ared fa ths ° ‘air in & 83yAge mAUDET. xd'leadauxde on'the part of tie or. Wllflx, wnm from whence he camu saya that.whenever ma)nvfitw would retreat” a little, Ttcangs bird was Go1ng bor o, . Affec: this ience, Which no doubt pmur a m ; ol oft s shost. dstancs o o this time f geng ‘ho becama snd flay &% 4y favm'd the 3 The BI; . 'Trecs :m Viealia, (CaL), ‘Ti s says the biggst = 1, vn't:;epax!of ed.!hncgl dark snd (M!W Interrupted the tals when haif tcid, and left the curi- ons resder chimney-top.. The same paper H. Thomas informs us that in the gxul on the Keweah there are at Icast on: troes as large as tha ¢General Gunfi,’_ sad of them are undvultedly much larzas. EEE Lot from his fate, and always be respectfol to news- - paper men, who are among the greatest benefac~ tors of our race. sage had ‘been {requenfly tesd, at a béautiful | tree in the Tulare” Connty forest of guu..} 5 ) 4 knoin a9 ¢ Gen. Grant” Tt measures 87 faat : ‘ 0N pEATH. - | 6 inches in diameter ; thi 5 would give, by ordia” mumama of lite; bereiniace the -marvelous | 877 estimate, & circumfer ence of over 17 feek. . The reader can imagine what an’ immense &3 mmsnmmmm:wnmmam that would bey suppoclag n section of tho fred Tt cut ont acd Jaid upe.n the ground. l‘,"““”“ rarvmwwmmu nmmmthlt death came at mordnmplomomw-: « double cotillon,™ OF R n‘f‘u&'n & ol & xuare, snd'a Torria ‘de- | £58 8818 saction wer. on edge, ogunst i g ol nrdm-r_vtwo-utar:’aufldm,itu xim wanll © Do above :the eawas, well %I_. 1t seex. he flew just sbove it and dxud around several times. Sudds ovuetl directly over the kite, and after okmgnltm- 3 4 lmwnfl, 2R w;mm«mmm A S o £ e