Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1873, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DALY 1 THEY MUST PAY. Fronk Lumbard Tires of Waiting i for His Money, The Patriots Must Como Do\\}n and Sco HMim, Ho Wins Ono Suit, and His Appetite for Blood is Now Aroused. Tho reluctance of saltatory humantty to dofray tho oxponses of the musio roquisito to a satis- factory indulgenco in their pastimo has found oxpreasion in tho question nlways asked in nd- wance, ‘ Who paya the piper?" This reluctance Increages in tho snmo ratio with tho piper's bill, though that docs not necossarily bosr the somo rolation to tho pipor's sorvices. But whon the tunoful person is Frank Lumbnrd, aud whon it is patisfactorily answored by that gallant songater that bo oleoted Gon. Grant to his socond torm, and helped overy Iopublican ofilco-holdor to the position he has ocoupled sinco Novembor, one wonld suppose thnt tho mongra domnnd of $175 from tho Cook County Republican Contral Committeo was not oxtortionate, I£ it is an oxtortion, then tho valuo of thoso gontlomen to the community I8 just what all right-minded porsons Liavo sup- posod It to bo,—fractional, minuto, microscopic, But Frank Lumbard hag applied unto himeclf & proverb which is supposed only to have any divect forco with woll-to-do preachors, sud claims that * the Inborer is worthy of his hire," and that Lumbard wae a laboror of tho most sbusod typo, laving borno the burden asnd loat of tho lnst compaign, and lav- fng beon “Dilked” out of his just desorts, Ilo claims that Mr. Urinh R, Hawley, patriot, os-ofco-holdor, and staunch Ropublican, was Sccrotary of tho Re- publican Central Committeo of Cook County ; that while occupying this oxalted position Mr. Uriah R. Iavley ongogod him and his gallant company of vocalists, composed of John M. Humbard, basso; —— Center, alto; J. L. Rickoy, tenor, and Frank Lumbard, baritono sud lendor, to aid fu the capture of tho votes of tho freo and onlightencd people of the county. The siugors woro Lo sing for two wooks in Chi- engo., Ou his ropresontations Frank consonted to do so, but Mr. Uriah R. Hawley, with tino fidelity to his parly, consist- Ing of Uriah R.Hawloy, pald him only $2 in Inco of $200, It wasundorstood tbat tho Stato Jommittea would stand the eoxponso of Mr. Lumbard's musical efforts outside of Cook County, but the Stato Committeo failod o seo it in that light, aud callod upon tho County Corns milteo to pay its own pipor. Mr, Hawloy had Lomigod to lay it bofore his Committeo, and givo \Ir, Lumbard an answor a8 to whom ho should laok for reimbursement ou Oct. 25, upon which ovoning tho gront and gifted orator, John A, Lognu, would discourao upon tho necessity for orushing out the Rebelllon. On the aftorngon in question Mr, Hawley ac- tually did givo him $10 and told him to *‘go ahead,” ay it would be all right, o promisod Lumbard to pay tho bills himself, and, thus ou- couraged, Frank sang ** the {mrty“ to viclor;r‘ On another oceasion tho vocalist ‘obtained $15, making o total of 25, all ho roceived. Now I'rank could not stand this, Pntriotism in o grent thinzf. Yor patriotism Mr, Hawley anreed to handlo thousands of dollara for tho Committee. Tor patriotism Gon, MeArthur ex- hibited plenty of zeal for the party. . For patri- otism Col. Roynolds paraded tho streets in clothos that did nov bocomo him, 'fhese men wero all patriotio, _nand lo! thoy had theirrewatrd. But poor Frank, who was alao patri- otic, with an honcsl agreenient to furnish all the pririotism requirdd for so much & week, got Dothing but $25, « 8o be appenled from the ‘}mrly and patriotism of party to tho cold and dispussiouste arbitra- ment of law, and yestorday brought suit against l‘\)h'. Ur!:h R, Hawloy for $175, before Justico aggott. Tfin -Seerotary of tho Ropublican Central Committeo of Coolc County claimed in defenso that e only hired Franl for one night. He con- Gdueted bis own ensv, in order that ho might save »lognl exponses, exhibit his own wisdom, and prod My, Lumbard into a corner. Ho thereforo inquired of Frank how ho lad run up such an cuormons bill, Trank answored that tho monoy bad been equandored In beer, olectioncering nmong tho Germane, getting them to voto sgainst Greeloy and Kocrner, and for Grant. ‘Who authorized you,” said.tho patriotio Havwley, *to 3«;1..1 ‘monoy on the Dutch 7" Frouk roplied: “‘You told mo Ilnew more about olectioneering than you did, and eaid, * Go ahbead, I'll stand the expenso.' " Jlr, Hawlow bero claims that Frank was only puthorized to hiro hacks,—not of the political order,—and thore his authority cnded. Justico Daggott found for tho plaintiff, and Mr. Huowley was recommonded to hand over the mouey, aniugsucemdcfl in obtaining this monoy, Mr. Lumbard announces Lis intontion of similarly collecting tho trifle of $8,000 from Mr. Charle: Tarwolland tho State Contral Committeo for worl dono outside Cool County. Heis now proper~ Ing to nccept tho mission to St. Potorsburg, and cannot bo badgercd any longor, He wiil thoreforo commeuce Buit against tho patriot #bovo named on Lis first appenrance in tho city: Mennwhile Frank Las lob out some choico bits of seandal connected with the campaign, Ho avers that Col. Wilson, Superintendent of the Waostorn Union Telograph Company, hzs notboon sid that little $800 duo him for tolograms ; that ol Linlucuu: lins 1ot seon one dimo of tha €3,500 due bim for the uso of his battery aud tho expenses iucidont theroto, and that this ac- counts for the ndvertisomont that appeared in Tur TRBUNE a fow days 8go, offering tho guns for salo, He also brings direct charges of fraud ngainst the Committee, alleging that not only havo thoy noglected to iy ono hoeat bill (i tho intorout of Fatrlotwms‘ ut that they have paid bogus Dbills for hands which nover existed, and huvo pocketed, in vurious ways, 80 per cont of the compuign fund, Iftheeo charges are substantinted, thoy will bo 8 good guarantee of tho Loncsty of the gon= tlemen wlho korva the jeople. Frauk, lob us have all tho facts, evon if it dous hurt n fow pro- fi“fi“’""' Dpoliticiang, who refuse to pay their obts, e COUNCIL COMMITTEE BUSINESS., The Council Committeo on Firo andl Water met yestorduy oftornoon ab the City Clark's ofice, for tho purposs of considoring ordinancos 4u regard to lacating nn engine-Lonse on Halsted streot, Lotwoon Thirly-third and Thirty-fifth streob in tho Blxth Ward, and in regard to wooden signs on tho top of buildings, and otlior matters. Aldormon McGauniss, Stout, and Minor woro presont. Aldorman Btout declered himsolt strongly oppoted to loeating au_engine-hy wlxs‘r‘e Holio was ‘mhuml. e 1oute. it plana 4, McConuiss alwo expressed hi - posed to locating an eny riu(‘:-hmm; \:l:z::lftho wera only o fow housos nf‘ present, ml‘\\fltll 1‘::; ql:o“duclt?redlhlu 3ppanulon to tho r, it was thorefore devi adsorsély on tho ordinsnce, - 00 O FOPOrk Turegard to the ordinance for Proventing loco- motive engines from thrawing 8pnrkes and einders Ald, MeGionniss said that bo waw no necessity for such an ordinanco, a4 tho railroads woro all well provided with tke besl kind of spark-extine guishors, Lesides tho railvonds wero rosponsible Torall the damnge thoy were doimng, Ho algo stated thut the ordinance was gotlen up by o party owning n patent fire-oxtinguishor, Firo Marshal Willinme, nt the request of Ald- erman Btout, was_sent for, and atated that four firos wero causod by sparks from railronds, cnusing o Jumagio of fram $1,000 to 36,000, 114 admittod that thera was a {mmm oxtingulshor at Lis ofieo, which wau protinbly plnced thora by nm" arty in whoso interest tho ordinanco yay gotten up, Tho ordingneo will be raported on ad A Tho ordinanco pmh!bld‘xm \vuadm}v:r;m;yun the log of buildings was thon takon up. ~ After somo discussion, it was docided to rocominand that no eigns constructed of waod, oxcooding :x_wo"{oeb in bLolght, bo ellowed within the ilre imita, —_——— 0UR DEAD HEROES, A lnrge, cool room, and a fresh amell of ever- groons, attracts tho etranger who wandors past No, 165 Fifth avenuo, for horo aro gathered thio ladivn whose nimblo flngors are woaving the floral decorations for tho soldiers’ graves. That Ja, tho ladies wore presont yewterdsy wmorniug under Mra, Gon. Smith, their nimble fingora woro there aleo, but tho overgreons, to givothem employmont, wors not forthcoming. Nonrly ono Lundrod ready-mnde wreaths had been sent in from tho country, and these furnishod tho frosh perfumo of eypross and pine, As tho room was cool, Ue Indies romnined 1o gosslp, but, aftor wisting an lour or two in moroly lvngunf oxOr- olng, foft until this morning, whon thoy can mako “F for lost timo, Mre. Smith alono ro- mained to ghvo Instructions. Iionco thoso ladles who wish to participato in the proparations may presont themsolves, to-day at No, 105 Fifth av- onuo, 3 Proaldent KRing, of iha Board of Education, {un(ur(h\y issued the following ordor to tho enchiors of the public achools : WHERRAR, Tho Mayor of Chicago lan femted his B‘l;uelunmllnn directing all eity and ol publie offices to closed on Devorution Day, and requosting all pat- Tlotlo citizons to alono thulr ToApctiv6 pucen of buel- ness on that cecnsion § aid | Wisniiag, Tho Gonitnon Council s reueated that lo publio” schools Lo clorod on tho day aforessiil; thereforo, 1 ordor Olifeago o closed oL direct hat tho i 1 Decoratfon Dny, May Wi, 10, Troskdent of tho Boatd of #ehools of 0, 1 —— THE COMMITIEE OF SEVENTY. Roport of the Speelnt Committes, Sube mitted by Judge Gookinu, To the Comwrittee of Scventy : Tho 8pecinl committeo to whom wna roforred tho plan and scopo of tho aims and objeots sought to Lo attained by the conslituoncy ropre- sonted by the Committco ot Soventy, with in- structions to roport theroon, bogloave to submit tho following roport : It ls not, in tho opinion of your Committeo, dosirablo or expodiont to limit tho offorts of this organization to tho advance- mont of o singlo reform, lowover desirablo that roform may bo. Tho viclous priuciplo, or, rathor, want of principlo, will ‘which socioty i8 pormented at tho prosent time, domand of overy citizon & caveful and dispage sionate conaidoration of tho nituation, and'n firm purposo, manifestod by systematlo and onorgotio action, Lo correct tho provalling ovils, and save our boloved country from impending ruin, . Thero arc thoso of groat experience in pnblie lifo who oponly declare that our Govornment is moro corrupt than any other in tho world. We do not need ‘to nceept” this conclusion as abso- lutely truo; but that_corruption and wrong nre ¥ifo in our land, and_that thoPsbplo havo tho poywar, it thoy have the will, to purify the body Eolitlc, and corroot the provailing ovils, no intol- igent porson will deny. % High oficial positions bave become tho sub- jocts of barter and ralo. Logislation Lns beon controlled by bribory so fraquent ng scarcely to bo denied Dby tho vonal and corrupt factora through whoso agency tho wrong bns boen dono., Municipal affairs havo been managed by corrupt rings, who liave stolon millions of the people's money. Corporations haveboon managed in tho interost of privato individuals, in fraud, not only of thowr stockholders, but of the peoplo at largo, and that, too, when the highost judicinl authority of {ho nation has over and often de- clared thom to bo of o publica character that the citizon may bo compolled against his will to aid in their construction and maintenanco ; and orime Lias_ becomo 80 common that uo ong can opon tho daily nowspaper without his eyo falling upon thoe rovolting and sickening dotails, and wo foel an impulso to costthe papor aside in disgust, or to oxclude it altogother from the family cirolo. Thore are indications of o healthy renction in tho body politio against these enormous wronga. Organizations huve been formed, and efficiont work has boon dono in the correction of abuses, ‘Wo congratulate the Stato of Now York upon tho success of tho roform movement iu tha olection of an upright Governor.. We congratulato thoe City of Now York upon a liko success in tho elec- tion of an houost Mayor, who, we beliove, will oxecuto tho lawa. Lven in our own citytho pop- ulat fooling hias shown itsolf in public meatings of large numbers of citizons, who, sceing the provalonce of crimo, have clamorod for tho execution of the laws against of- fonders, blindly, to be sure, by donouncing tho orhiiunl instead of tho mstrumontality that mado him such ; but atill healthy in tono, Bhow= ing that tho popular mind wns in & measuro awake to tho provailing ovil, Now, it is in the bolief of your Committeo thot no entisfactory result can’ bo atteinod by singling out oue of tho abuses_and niming our blowa, howovoer vigorously, ot ‘that alone.” Wo must work upon o bronder basis, Honosty and purity aro cognato and co-oporativo, as also nro Traud aud crimo, and their promolive causes. Lot tho forcoy of ench array thomsolves, and, if Traud and Orime are strongost, let them win. If Houcsty and Purity are strongest, let themn win, Tho forcos of ovil have thoir union and concert of action ; that is nocossary to the iri- umph of any causo,goad orbad. For oxamplo,thero is an organization in this city calling thomsolves “Tho Liberal Citizens of Chicago,” Their businoss is to promoto & branch of trado which every intelligont man knows canses from four- fifths to ninc-tenths of all tho crimo that is com- ‘mitted. Theso citizons aro no doubt ** liboral” in their way, liboral in the manufacturo of erime ; but tholr “liborality” is much like tho extension of the * nven of froedom” which one sociion of our country somo yeara ago clamorod {for, in the aunoxation of territory whereby ‘Tho avea of frecedom was made vastly bigger With each frocman free {0 own his own,niggor, But when wo turn to the estimates of oxponsos for support of the City Governmont for the cur- ront yoar, and soo that_$868,600 s tho sum de- manded for tho Tolico Department, with the cor- tainty that, ot the current rate of tho increaso of cerimo, tho demand, a year hence, will be at least §1,000,000, the ‘“‘liberality ™ to those who pay tho taxes that goto mako up this sum is not vory apparent ; and then thore are wives boaten and thrust out of doors, with tho weather at zoro, and children_oducafod for tho stroct, tho poor-house, the prison, and tho gallows, all the rosults of {his liboral 'traflie. In’ coubrast with this we can point to a county in this State whero this “liberal " trafilo in prohibited ; whore crima acarcoly oxists, and the poor-houses aud prisons aro empty. It now.remains for the poople to chooso for thomsolves which of the two courses theywilladopt, whothor thoy will join tho “Jiboral” movement or unito with tho forces of law and ordor. What wo urgo upon every man who loves hiis country, and desires to maintain her institutions in purity, Lonesty, and true prog- perity, is, that they unoquivocally and unquali- lledly demand for every oflicial position men of prouounced prineiples, mon of intogrity,and men of will, who, knowing their duty, will do_it. That thoy combine to purify tho ballot, and to savo thoir land from the power and intluonce of dighonesty, fraud, and orimo, aud to guaranteo to overy man, swoman, and child the protection to whidli, under Divine Providence and tho laws of tho land, thoy aroentitled, Respoctfully sub- mitted ou bebalk of tho Committeo, B. B. Guoxins, Chinirman, —_— THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunc: Bm: As I hovo boon a constant reader of your valuable papor for the last five sears, will you kindly allow mo a placo in its columus to say a fow worda for tho firat time? T live roforonco to the piece which appoared in Triday’s issuc, about tho Sunday Times. ¥ agreo with this *Woman," in giving the Rov. Dr. Sullivan praiso for ejecting tho Z%mes ro- porter from his church, but I do not agreo with hor in regard to tho Toman Catholic roligion, Ah! little docs tho poor, ignorant person know what sho is talking abont. But it is roally too bad that this *Woman," and tho claus to which sho belongs, cannot put n etop to this most torrible of ol ovils, tho Roman Catholic religion, =~ They have tried in various ways to ‘put it down; but, the moro they m?' tho strongor ft Locomes, The Catholica will live in epito of them, This * Woman (sy is seon by Lior artiele) knows nothing about tho Catholic Ohurch ; and my motto is to lot _all sub- Jects which wo aro not” nequainted with aluno, and, if poople cannot speak the truth ubout things, thoy should keop wlill. I ama Ioman Catholic, avd am proud to bo one, I would nd- Yido this “ Woman" to go to nome of tho Oatho- lo churches, and soe for horsolf the nctions of tho low Irish who ehio thinks attond them. Hho nood not bo afraid, or got herylifo Ingurod, for thoy will nat hiarm hor. oy would not stoop #o low, And, if tho goea I am suro ehe will flud runl‘ln thore who are s far ahove her as tho sun i abovo tho earth,—paopla who would not delgn to notico hier, and who think {hewmsolves fur above such as this “ Woman.” Allow me to sub- seribo myvelf A Roarax Oatnotia anp A Lavy, To the Editor af The Chicago Tribune ; . Bint Xask aleating in rogard toan article In to-day's TninoxNe, hended *'T'ho Chicago Timoy and Dr, Sullivan,” and signod * A Woman." I trust that tho porson who subscribed hersolt A Woman " is able to support, with proof, her awooping remarks in rogard to tho * Roman Catholio Church." 1 say, J trust shio Is ablo, for, what a doop dobt of gratitude will then bo duo ber, whon she can conviuco the millions of Ontholics on tho globe that, for pask sgoy, thelr “farefathiora havo haon, and thoy now aro, living in & Church whoso “ignoranco, suporaiition, corruption,” oto., aro about to be *‘unearthed.” What n glorious vietory awaits * A Wonian 1" Brilliant mindy havo studiod the history of tho “Tloman Catholic Chureh,” know all of iis tonchlugs, Lollave in, aud Lave defonded their bolior in thom! That Churoh has baen the study aud admiration of agos, tho pillar and ground of trouplo from its Founder to the prosent day. It wag founded by Obrist whon ho enid to Potor, “/I'hou art Pator, and upon this rock T will build my Church, nnd the gatos of Holl ghall not provail ngalust it.” Andnow YA Woman" s anxious that this Church should bo “ unearthod " by the Sunday Times; that tho *ignorance aud suporstition of tho most corrupt nnd infamous fraud upon human intellect that this nineteonth conturyean Loast of," shall bo subjacted to tho “ esplonago of tho reporter of Lhat infamously mondacious shool,” “Jlow tho ‘Catholie Church ™ munt tromblo for its agos of truth | By one of musical {nsto It is onelly “doteoted this woman ia sing- ing in tho wrong koy, and, indeod, has ot hor yords to tho wrong pfoun of music, Indignation and bigotry keop up quite a discord whon an altompt to'mnko ono of thom inmade; Lthoy woro 80 ontiraly opposito tht thore’s no use trying to blond thom ; ono will predominate, and, in this cngo, 'Lis pluin to be soen, looking from nmuaical poiut of vielv, that tho formor was only used as. a prolude for the moro bitter song of bigotry. ‘A Woman” in ;unl\ indignant that tho sacred- noss of n church’s wafts should have boon onterad by roportors of iho Chicago Sunday Z'imes for tho p\eruHo of making its mombora tho subjects of public critivism ; yot, in tho same broath, shows how enraged sho is that tho ¢ Roman Catholie Church” has not beon, assho torms it;un- oarthod, and, by way of encourngoment to tho Times, giver the Introguctorylanh toithoraolf,and starts out for a walk imoug tho_churchos fn a manner that sho will, no doubt, torm '‘scot froo,” and, aa 'tis alrondy known by hor own words, um[rn]y amprovoked and uncalled for. As for thogo *low Irish fanatics” sho spoaks of, I twant hor fo know that, it sho al- luls to thoss of tho Irlsh Catholics who love their religion tothe giving of theirlives forit, I belong to that class, and rovero Ire- land #8 tho land of my forofathors and Awmevica 84 tha lund of my birth, and for cither of which Xwould not deom auy honorablo ancrifico too reat to mako toobtain or maintain their liberty. fn thoro & counlry in tho world whoro froodom ia onjoyed as in this glorious Republio ? Yot * A Woninn * alluded to this ** so-called " freo-coun- try, Mothinlks sho noed compluin of no want of froodom, atleast of spoech, judging from tho manner in which sho denounced & Oburch tho teachings of which sl is cither ignorant of, or, kuowng, is blind to tho truth of. Bho also says, * Tho quostion may Lo asked, how much monoy has the proprictor of this pa- per recoived to lab iho Catholic churches of this oity go * mcot freo 7’ What n relief this suggoes- tion will bring to the mindsof many ! The quos~ tion ncod no longor be nasked, Why doos not tho Zimes aitnck tho, Oathotie Chureh? Wo will now suppose its silonce hns either boon ‘bought, or 'twas waiting forthe oncouragemont and suggestion of “ A “Woman.” In the open- ing of fxermmnrlm, n sweoping cut fa givon to all'theso ministors whose churchics hinvo boen attacked, and who have imaintained silenco. Sho says, : *Iam glad to see that ono of Chi- cago's duspul-miuimem ling tho courage and good principlo to defond himgolf and congrega- tion from tho attack of thet most disgracesul and scurrilous paper, the Sunday Times." When thoso ministers, urged by her advice, start out, a la Lydia Thompson, ‘‘to rodross their wrongs at tho hands of their Ioary-honded vituperator,” will thoy bo nided by * A Woman,” or has alio not, in attacking tho ** Roman Cath- olic roligion,” boen guilty, without a provoked cause, of wiint sho accusos others of, and thoso othors tho Tinics reporters? Can she, in_con- gistency, uso the lash ? Will it not rebound and_ striko tho striker? 1aa sho not also commonced’ “Walky among tho churchen?” Tustead of reading tho *‘Suaday Times from weok to weok,” would it not bo wiso for ‘A Woman" to look ovor the history of tho ‘ Roman Catholia Church,” traco back its origin, study its dac- trines, ind whon shio Inows thal 'tis_ ¢ ignorant, superstitions,” otc., then inform its mombers what a state of chnos they are groping m? e~ thinkas she will be bolter ‘employed in this woy than in reading the * Sunday Times_from wwoo to woolt,” and allowing its ‘*slandorous com- aflents " ou other donominations to fill hor with chagrin that tho ** Roman Catholic Church” has Dbeen let go *‘acot freo.” p A Woman " hus said of tho Church in which I fimly boliove, that 'lin one of *'ignoraunco, Buperstition, tho most corrupt and iwfamous frandupon humun intolloci Lhat this nincteenth century can boast of.” I deny hor assortion. "y falge, and I challongo lor to prove it is truth, ~ Tho Catholic Church is as pure in ils toachings mnow us whon it was establishod by Chvist. If the Church conld orr, theu Chrint's word is as naught, and the Bible o book of decait, for it paya, *¢ o gaten of Ioll shall not provuil apainet hor, and the Ioly Ghost shall teach her all trutn.” Wheu A ‘Woman” of the * ninetoenth contury ™ can, in public print, call the Chureh that I befieveinand roverouco au ‘* infamous fraug” suother wom- au, & Catholio Irish-American, of ihe samo contury, asks the privilego of, througl tha same rons, contradicting that assertion. Tho Catho~ io Chureh, which has stood the Eamo for over eighteen hundrod years, is not an “ infamous fraud,” nor iy it stocped in *“ignorance and su- perstition.” T am, very rospectfully, Curcaao, May 23, 1873, A Catnonto. THE CCUNTY BOARD, A small Amount of Unimportant Bnsi« ness 'Transacted Yesterday Afters noon. ‘Tha Board of County Commissionors met yes- terday afternoon, President Miller in the chinir. Prosent, Comuissioners Gellowny, -Jones, Ash- ton, Doguo, Lonergan, Ruesell, Crawford, Bingor, Clough, Havris, Horting. TheSuperiutendont of County Chariticn recom- mended that a safo bo bought for the jailor, in ‘which to placo the valuables of prisoners. T. T. Orcutt asked tho Board that the county might, as owner of the Reform-School Grounds, contribute Lo tho erection of a depot nt Forty- Third streot, It wes roforred to the Iinanco Committac. Tho Suporintendent of the Blind Asylum at Jacksonvillaforywarded an Auditor’s warrant on tho Treasurer of Cook County for $175.77, and nsked thav tho usual forms bo gone through with, ‘I'ho bids for buying and removing the build- inge and dobris ot the Reform-Sehoal Grounds woro opened, . Wm. E. Wheeler offored $1,100; M. B. Bailey §1; and F. Muvson $100 for the greon-honses and hurn, Thouso of & room in the Cily Hall by the Amorican District Telograph Company, was granted on the recommendation of tho Commit- teo ou Public Buildings. The same Committeo reported tho sidewalk around tho now jail bad to bo two foet wider on Dearborn and oue on Illinois streob than was contomplated in the original coutract, M. Deekman Liad proposed to do the oxtra work for 81,025, and it was racommended such a contract Lo mnde with him. It wau 5o ordered. "T'Lis in- crensod ux]))cmllluro avises from tho fact that tho Board of Tublic Works hny widoned the side- wall, I'ho architects for tho jnil ront in & communi- eatlon, stating tho coniractors had roporied that tho work on tho foundalion was dono, and nsk- ing their cortificutos for the balance duo, amonnt- ing {0 80,200, ‘Tho architects wish to mnke a tinal inspection in connection with the Commit- tee and any othor membors of the Bourd who might wish to Le preeont, Lefore progonting a cortifleato. Mr, Ashton offered a rosolutlon, which was ndoptod, ordering the payment of tho balunce on the praroutation of the propor certificalen, It waa aleo vesolved that tho Lourd inspect the foundation nt 2 o'cloek this nfternoon, Tho Committeco on BEquulization of Taxes ro- orted fuvorsbly on (he nrpliunllunu of U.A, inl, the Northwostorn Forti lzing Compuany, M, Hoffmau, Trogo & Bmith, R. O, Lisher, Thomas Yeeri, and Adam Weuyor for rofundiug of taxes, and the report was concurred in. M. llnr{lnx offored the following, which was adopted ¢ Wirknras, Somo 400 nbafracts of {itle have Leon ro« corded {n the Recordor’s oflice ; thereforo Resolved, That the Rocorder b, and ha {3 heroby, il roctad {0 propuro a suitablo fndex o uch sbatiacly, so that persons applylng for coples cun ancortau what lunda or lots aro coutained in such nbstracty, Mr, Jones offored o resolution, which was ndopt]«)sd, to closo the county ofilcos on Docora- tion Day. Mr, G¥nwlard offored tha following, which was adopted ¢ Reyolved, Tuat a Commilteo of five, of which the Obalrman of this Board shall be Ol nan, shall bo appoluted totako in charge tho laying of tho coraers stono of tho Juil and Orimiunl Court: Luilding, now i Gouruo of conatruction ou tho coruer of Mlchighty Dearborn, aud Ilinolu structs, Tho Chulr appointed Mexsra, Binger, Crawford, \Clough, and Jones se such Commiltos, Tho Board adjournod, THE JUDICJAL ELECTION.. A Onrd from tho Tomporance Burenun Addressed to the Law=Ablding Oiti- ZensesMr. Borber Declines to Bo o " Candidato for Olgonit Juilgoe. To the Editar of The Chicags Yribune : Bin: Will you plensoeall tho nitontion of 'l Inw-abiding and - ordor-loving oitizenn to the fact that on Juno 2 an olection for Tudges will bo hold, and tuat Tucsday and Wodnosday, 27ih aud 28th, nro the Inst days for tho reglstratlon of votora, “ Mnny citizens, ns usunl, have changed thelr placos of rosldenca on tho 1at of May, . and con- soqitently thoir namos will not appoar upon the 1ist of votors at tholr propar polling-placos. A tull and correct list of voters is rendored tho moro necessary, aa tho lquor interests have dotermined to dofant ono of the bost Judges of tho prosont Boneh, bocauso ko has docided ques- tions of low affecting them honestly and so- cording to the bout authoritios. It is to be hopod that tho mnasson of Eoml citi- zons will bo aroused from their apathy in sesson to re-clect all of Lhe prosent Judgos, and thus show that_the pooplo aro satisfie with honost Judges, who will decido questions of law with- out dicfation from any eolfal intorcst: t s I will send you n synopsis of authoritios upon tho point above alluded to nhnrtls. Yourn, truly, M. 0. Keruey, Managor Chicago Tomporance Bureau. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunes ' Sm: I dosiro to expross my:thanks to tho mombors of tho Bar for thoir vory generous sup- Horb on Saturday last, and, to avoid any misun- erstanding, to ey that Iam not in the ficld ns 8 candidate for Cirenit Judgo. Dy giving this publicity, you will oblige, youra truiy, Hinax Banpern, Jn. Cutoaco, May 26, 1879, Proceedings of tho Farmers’ Convens tion for the Sccond Suprome Judicial District. E ErFmnanax, I, May 23, 1873, Parsuant to a call of-the farmors of the Soo- ond Grand Judioial District, to meot on this day, at tho City of Efingham, in Efingham County, tho Convention met in the Court-Room at Ef- finghinm ; and, on motion, tho Hon. Jonathan Hooks, of Efingham County, was chonon por- manont Chairman of tho Convention, and Louls Harvey, of Cumberland County, and J. W. Ross, of Fayetto Counly, woro choson Becrotaries of tho Convontion. . Onmotion of Benator Voris, of Bholby Coun- 1y, the Convention procesded ton call of tha couatles tomprising tho wnid Becond Judicial Distriot, in auswor to which call tho following counties responded, viz : Cloy, Richland, Lawronce, Crawford, Effing- ham, l:‘nyutt_o_, h_lncuuph;, Blolby, Cumberland, Montgoniory, Olarl, Greor, Olestisn, Modison, ond, On motion, ordorod that the ropresentatives of tho respective counties prement in this Con- vention bo ullowed to cast the voto of their county, * ¥ ‘I'ho following roeolution was then offored by Bonjamin Myoss of Crawford County : Resolved, That tho Convention "have nushaken confi denco b tho nbllity and Integrity of tho Hon, John Heholficld, and n hin unwavering davotion to tho purity of the Judiciary of Iilinots, and tho mnclples of equal and oxaat_juatico tosll men and all interosts, sud that we cordially rocommend him to tho people of tho Bccond Supromo District of Illinofs as eminently qualified in ability and chsractor to puccoed Judge Thoraton on tho Supreme Bonch of Illinofs, aud to adorn tho judiclal history of the State, Tho Convention thon proceoded to yote on the rosolution by botlot, the following countics vot- ing for tho adoption of the resolution, viz : Counties, Grawford. . Lftingham, Fayott Shelby Qumberland,. Juspor, Jersoy, Cally not ropresentod, Upon motion, John Beholfleld was unani- mously declared tho choico of this, tho Farmers® Convention, for Supromo Judgo of tho Socond Judicial District. s Thomas A, Apporson, of Cumberland County, Williom Middloworth, of Shelby County, and John Jackson, of Lawrence County, were ap- pointed by the Convention to draft an sd- ;lr_mzu totho farmers und laboring men of tho dis- rict, John B. Briscao, of Olark County; W.IL Gilmore, of Bitingham County, and 8. }3. Hynes, of Montgomery County, word ‘appointed to wait upun tho Hon, John Scholtiold, and inform him of his nomination by this convention, In response o ‘& call, tho Hon. Thomas Brower adldressed the Convontion upon the vital quostions touching the interests of the farmers and laboring men of the Btate of Illinois, which remarks mot with the appreciation of the Con~ vention, as was demonstrated by the frequont npfi\unuu during tho addross, 'pon motion, thoe Convention adjourncd. JONATHAN Broors, Chairman, Lewig Hanvey, J. W. Ross, Socrotarics. THE BENDER FAMILY. What o Chicago Correspondent of a KansasPaper Knows of tho Fiends, Undor dato of May 20, & Chicago correspond- cnt of tho Lawronco (Kausas) Democratic Stan- dard, comniunicatos the following about tho no- torious Bondor family : Toubmit tho following for what 3t is worth: In 1865, thore resided at — North Wolls ptrest, Ohleago, o Germen fawmily consistiug of fivo persons—man kud wifo, daughtor and two sons, Tho ifo was under- stood a8 o second wifo and the daughter was Ders, and thosos his, Tho mau ws o atrong-built, heavy-sot, Lard-logkiug customer, aud evidently Uhén 30 years old, and an imported, euuamd convict from Germany, No'ono could toll what o did for a livelibood, though he waa gono much of hia time, in Towa aud Kausas, and it was roported thatlo \wos 8 jowolry pedaler, though I novor eaw him bavo any. Wlulo residing in Ghlcago hfs worldly housohold gooda wero wortl pore haps - $260, sud ho eomelow obtaived a- largo insufanca policy on thom, mo _doubt witls tho intention of burning up tho buftding, but tho trick was discovorad by tho Jandlord or sgent, and lio bad tho policy cancolod, Ho then rofnsad to pay his rent and vacate the premises, but ta the contrary, ho went boldly to tho agent's ofico and looked bim squara fu thoeyo, and told bim that if ho gave him auy trouble ho would “ pmt a bullet through him," Yoit will, coolly repliod the sgent, at tho sume time draw- ing his six-shooler on him, aud at tha eamo Line gly- ing bin distinotly to undorstand {hat no person cauld scaro bins, aud that £ hodfd not imimodiately ait down, Leep quilof, and pay over tho rent, ho *would mako & holo throtigh him,” Builige 3t to say that the reut ‘was pud on tho Bpot ond . rocelpted, witl {ho reply from (lio German tuat, “ you nood have no further fears, Put up your pistol, for I seo that ou are 6 man of narve and mean business, I rather ko you, ud If you will go down. with sno I wil. b a Lottle of wine and wo will drink it togather, » ¢ All right,” gald thoagent, The wino was bonght aud drink ay ¢ @idow's, " and tho Germsu took Lfe leave of Lis Yankeo ¢n\lllll, evidently with {he lden that he bad once ju hia life inade & mistake. Thot was tho last soon of him by tho ugent, for soon thoreafter ho shot st auid wouded a Ghicdgo polleoman in tho arm and fumped (hocity. Now fan satfete in my own mind {hat this and tho Bender famlly uro tho kae, and that {f sald Vondor ad bad bis deserts Lo would buvo beon hianged long 5go, B.M, —— e CONSTERNATION IN THE CRIGINAL COURT. At sbout 1 o'cloclk yestordny aftorncon a quan- tity of stone, from the noriheast corner top of tho ricketty relic of tho Court-House, which is oceupled asa jail, Criminal and County Court, ote., foll upon the ground below, smashing tho solid stono walk bonenth ns it it were of porco- lein, Abouta ton of tho matorial is caloulated o hova departed thus suddonly from its clevated position. 'ho commotlon in tho Oriminal Court way somothing indescribable, The progress of tho maes of stone from roof to oarth waa distinetly audible from its slriking on and dotaching fragmonts from tho projoot- ing window-sills, and tho orash, ws it roachod the ground, was the signal for & gonoral rush for tho door, DBailif Willinms lod the vau with & colority that suggested tho ldoa that ho hiad & dozon vonuos to sorve beforo dinuor-time, followed by mon, women, sud childron, who, disregarding the nuunga-wu{. clambered vvor tho uhsiru and benehies in an incongruous masa, Moeting at the door tho motloy crowd, by dint of cllmgiug ovor one sunother's ‘shouldors, suf- ficiont reliof was had to_onablo them all to os- capo into Olark stroot. During tho nolso, the volco of Judgo Treo was hoard to beg the peopla not to_miove, while the * Doo" called upon Shorift Bradley to call for ** order,” As soon o4 the donsoe clond of saw-dust had oleared away sufliviently to flicw of the use of eyesight, it was found that the ritonors on tral Wero wafo: (> that 3Ir, Buroh hind stood his ground’ manfully, tho only‘damaga huin? tho fracturo of somo half- dozon bonchios and the partition-wall which is supposed to soparato the idle on-lookers from thono whoso buniness calla thom to thoe court. In fittoon miuutes ordor waa rostored in court, tha eano procoeded, and the mass of fallon atono, which had altractad the gnzo of a numbar of [;nuuum-by, wny wheol-barrowed westward and dumped on the hngo plle of Court-Iouso debris lott by thro groat fire. LITERARY NOTES, - APOCAT.YTTIO PROTITECIES, Tho Inte Rov. James Do Pal, a Chaplain in the United States Army, mado propheey a subject of close study during the twonty yoars of his min- intry, nnd propnred o numbeor of discourses on this mubject. They are publinhed in book-form by Olaxton, Romson & Haffolfingey, of Philadal- phin, undor the title, “An Exposition of tho Trophecics of tho Apocalypse.” For salo by R, D. Ruswell, No. 148 Btato streot. TR PARSIONA, T.ovo and libortiniem era subjects which it is vory dufficult to treat in mecordanco with the maxim of Arlstotle, ' to say what should ho sald, o sny only what should bo sald, and to say it as it should be eaid.” TFronch writors are vory fond of making such attompts, and, like tho savagos who amuso themselvos by soeing how near their victims thoy can throw their tomshawke without outting tho slkin, theso writors take a pride on tho doxterity with which 'they can verge on the indolicate and impuro withont touching tho quiok., It cannot bo denied thet the rolations of tho soxes &re discussed to-day in genoral socioty with & froedom that would have shocked a generation gone, and that thore fs s domand for bold but puro trontmont of thoso topics. Tho succoss of such & srork ns Dumas fila' ** Man-Woman * in in point. Another work of the aamo character, of lesa gonius and fullor dotail, isthe treatise of Dr. X, Bourgeols, Lnureato of the Academy of Modicine of Parig, which has been translated by Dr. Howard F, Damop, and publishod by James Compboll, Boston. Ita titlo is “Tho Passious in Their Rolations to Health and Disoagos.” ROWING, g Frederick J. Engoflmrdt, the boating-oditor of Turf, Kicld, and Farm, hag propared a Row- ing Almanac and Oarsman's Pocket-Comprnion,” wlhich i to bo published ns an annusl. It con- taing o record of all tho American races since 1811, summanries of collego rognttas, timo-tables of annunl local rogatias, Englieh collogo racos, with o grent deal of information of interost to aquatic sportsmen concerniug rogatta rulos, bot- ting rulos, the dimonsions of boats, onrs, and sculls, trainiug, rowing, and sliding,and thelike. 1t ts publishes Turf, Field, and Farm. ' TUE OTNLR GIRLE." Mrs, A, D. T. Whitney, the Eupu]nr author of ¢ Faith Gnrtuu;"u Girlhwod,” hins writton o new story, ontitled *The Othor 'Girls,” {n which the Bogton fire plays n part as one of the scenioc of- feeta. It io fllustrated by J. J, Harley, Orgood & Co. are the publishors, ~For sale by VY. B. Koen, Cooko & Co., Chicago. DE ROTO, s John 8. C. Abbott,"the biographical novelist, has fssued another of his eories of Amorican pionoers and gntriuts, which is being ublishod by odd & Mead. It s {;m lifo of Terdinand Do Hoto, the dincovoror of the Mississippi. Of him ho pnya that cereful investigation has rovealod Do Soto to be by no means sa bad-a man a8 ho had sup- oked im to bave beon, nud he- finds much in Eia horoio but melancholy carcer which calls for charitablo aonstruction nnd sympathy. Mr, Ab- Lott is cortainly right in his ethics which teach him that it is 83 wrong to traduco tho dead na the living ; but ono of tharcasons whichhe gives for haudling the lieroes of the pnst with tonderness has an nlmost comically pru- dentinl charactor, Ho says ono who s alding to inn‘n?ubllc opinion respacting another who has left tifa world, should remembor that ho may yot moet the departed in the spirit-land ! 1t is bad enongl for a gensitivo nuthor to meab tho critics of this world, but, it Lo bas to ro- strain his pen in awo of tho critics of tho world to como, thore’ might ns well boan end to tho making of books. It is not Lo bo oxpectod, hiow- ovor, that Mr. Abbott or other writers will al- ways gharo the futuro lot of thoso thoy misrop- rosont, If thoy find - themsolves in” company horeaftor with the bad men to_whom thoy have given good charactors, thoy will be surc to os- capo é‘m good mon whom thoy have attacked with their praise, ~ But his most sorious danger Mr. Abbott has, fatuously enough, overlookod. Doea Lo not expect to meok any of Lis readors in the Kingdom Coming? How will he dare to faoo tho iudignant thousands who went to Hosavon in tho firm bolict that thoy would thero {lud Napoleon I in the shining garb of an Arch- angel, or chenting hymns with thoe Cherubim and Seraphim around the Throno? THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, An argument for the truth of the Chrlstian religion ig presented by tho Rev. Dr, TRobert Baker While, in his work on “Reason and Redemption,” published by Lippincott, nnd for salo in this city by W. B, Keon & Cooke. The Tloy. Dr. W. A, Scott, of Sun Francisco, contributes a profatory lottor, in which he says that ho has rend nino chiaptors of the book in manuscript,*~of itsolf & tribute,—and that ho finds the stylo frosh, onsy, and gimple, and rising sometimes to tho sublimo and eloquent in argumoent. Bvery day calls for its own authors and proachiors, 88 well as cach day calls for its daily broad; and ho thinks Dr, White’s work, in which the necossity for sal- 'vation aa it offerod from tho Croes iy oxceoding- 1y woll prosented, will do a great deal of good, BIIORT-UAND. Another system of short-hand is presonted by the Rov. W, L. Scovil, M. A., of 70 Willinm stroot, Now York. Hoclaims that his mothod is a8 loglblo na the plainest writing, and requires 1o toachor but the book. It is accompanicd by o number of cortificates from roputablo gentlemon who linve found it easior to use and to road than tho systems of Pitman, Munson, and the others. ‘* THE ISLES OF BIO0ALS,” Colia Thaxer apologizes for *‘Among the Isles of Blioals,” published by Osgood, as fragmentary and inndequato skolches; butrenders will not bo apt to sgros with this modest ostimato of its cbmracter. It {s written in singular harmony with tho sea-broezes, the bare rocks, and the” delicious, soothing air of tho Isles of Bhoals, The vory sound of tho words suggost soa-dashings and droamy skios. For sale by W, B, Keen & Cooke, Chicago. “'IER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.” John Estor Cooke has turned nside from tho fleld of American fiction to wark in foroign quarries. His last unovel, published by Lilmin- cott, is entitled, Her Majosty tho Queen,” and tho acencs aud charactors are drawn from that woll-stored magazine for novolists,—thoe English Civil War, through which Mr, Cooke's nucostors boro o noblo part, in which tho story follows them, starting from the old family-seat in War- wicksbiro. AN OIIO KTORY. Judge Riddlo, of Washingtn, hina writton astory of Americau lifo, undorthetitls of “‘Bart Ridgoly." 1t hag achioved o widae succoss for its racinoss of narrative, and for ito skotolios of mon like Josh- uu . Giddiugs, old_Bon Wado, and_other. dis- tinguishod citizons of Obio, wliore the sceno of tho story lies, who move through tho story, and pluy parts of its drama. A 1e0ra olaborate re- view ig reservod for anothor occasion. JEAN JACQUES NOUBSEAU, John Mosley, whose * Life of Voltaire," pub- lished lnst year, was, without doubt, the finest piceo of biographical litorature that hns lntoly appoared in tho English lauguago, has written o lity of Rousseauy, in two volumesn, published by Clapman & 1iall, of Tondon, It'lsn fact, huta alrango onoe, that, familiar as the namo of lous- seau 18 to the goneral [mbllr.-, and vast as his in- fluenco on the political and soolal welfaro of tho masgos Liag beon, this ig tho firat full account ot bis lifo and writings by any Lnglish writor, M, Mosloy's work will be an opportuno contribn- tion a3 well to Lronohstudouts of tho gravo soolal probloms of govornment and oducation of which Rousscau wroto. M. Baint Marc Gtirardin bogan n series of papors on Rouasean, in tho Revue des Deux Mondes, twcntfl yeurs ago, but novor finished them. Fronch Jliteraturo hog nothing olso concorning the life and work of ono of tho groatost of Fronchmon that is \vorlbi of note, excopt tho formulas and crudo work of Mussot-Pathey, which was published over fifty yoars ago. - 218 Y DANDURY NCWS" mAN, The name of tho funny man of tho Danbury News is J, W, Dailey. Bliepard & @l aunounco that thoy have iu press "' Lifo in Daubury,” whioch coutaius the beut of the hnmorous articlos by him thet bavo apposred in tho News during the post threo years, togothor with some skotehe ' cs novor bofore pubi(nhed. ‘“oNLY A PIN." “Only a Pin"is the titlo of an instructive, morsl plory, translated from tho Fronch of J, I, do Balnte-Germaino, and published by tho Now York Catholio Publishing Booloty, PROY. HMONAE, Dr, Irentwus Primo, tho editor of the New York Observer, heaadded to his many other litorary labors the task of writing the life of I'yof. 8, Ij, F, Morse. 1o I8 doing this uf tho requost of tho oxcentors of Mr, Mozse, who have givon by the .author, st tho offico of him nccons to_all the lottors aid papors of tho -decensed, Tha work wl_ll Do ‘ready oarly intho fall, A WONDERYUL BTONY. ' Twonty Thoueand Loaguos Undor the Bon," Translatod from the Ironch of Julos Ferno, An imnginative dosoription of his travels hononth the waves, writton in tho first porson, under the namo of Prof, Aronnnx, who is in soarch,of knowlodge concorning tho inhabitants and vege- tation of the wators, He, acoompanied by his falthful sorvant, Conaoil, hot aut from New York in & United Hlates sl'flp, which was sont in soaroh of o soa-monstor which lind beon infesting the ‘walers, ‘deatroylng and sinking ships, aud terrifying all into whoso vi- cinity 1t camo. After a long, wearisomo, and vnin search, it wan at last mot with in tho North Paciflo Ocean, aud proparations wero mado to battlo with and vanquish i, As always pra- viously, tha result was injury aud loss to tho assailing ship; and, in addition to that, the loss ovorbonrd of tho Professor nnd' sorvant, and o Canadian harpooner, namod " “Nod Land, Al throo finally found refugo on tha Dack of- tho * monster,” which thoy found, to their surpriag, to bo composed of sheots of iron, firmly rivotod togothor. lioving it to bo some kind of boat, undor tho command of human bo- inga, thoy sought to arouse their attention, and wora finally admitted, by means of the slipping of ono ot tho sheots of .iron. ' Thoy were confined in a ooll, whore thoy wore visited Captain, who told b, tho thom he huf docided to allow thom to romain on ‘board, inatead of drowning them, as Lo could onaily have dono by diving and loaving thom nt the meroy of the waters, gl‘huy woro then fod and clothed, and provided with luxurious accome modations in this “mnfiu Duat, ealled tho * Nau-~ tilus,” which contained a mnfnmcnnt Bilaan, a fino l’ibrn.r{ and all tho convenioncos and luxurlos which could bo found anywhoro, It was lightod, warmed, and propollod by moans of eleotriolty. The coofidng algo was scoomplishod by the samo agont, For somo ronson, which {snovor oxplain- , Capt. Nomo apd his followors had sbjured tho world, and nover intondod returning to it. Provious to loaving it, thoy had constructed this boat, Tho diftoront parts'of it had been manu- faoturcd in widely-soparated portions of tho globo, ~and finnlly Lrought to, and pub togothor upon, o des- ort-island ; after which, having dogtroyed by firo all' traces of their work, ghuy ombarked, nover to sot foot again among {holr Tollow-mon, Capt. Nomo informod the Professor and party that their fato was now linked with hin own, oud that he should nover set them at liborty, as bho would allow no moana load to his discovery. He also statod that ocen- alonally, without giving them any roason for so dolng, hio mlght wish to confino them for a short timo. To this thoy agroed ; nnd thon commenc- od a most wondorful voyage. Over tho wayes, and undor tho waves; on the consts of olvilizod countrics, and near tho shores of cannibal islanda; promonading in wator-proof clothing, with small resorvoirs contajuing condensed air upon their shoulders, and eloctrio lantorns at their sides ; upon tho Lnnom of tho ocoan, gaz- ing through tho thick but clear windown of the snloon upon tho strange denizens of tho waves,— thoir oyco and minds woro constantly ocenplod ond ontortained, They visited tho South Fole, whoro thoy barely esoaped crushing to death by tho menns of Ico, and mot_ with many strango and startling adventures. * No emorgoncy arosg, howover, to which tho Nauttlus was nat equal. Shoped ~1like o cigar, and construoted of ~ solid from, its sailing qualitios being, much euperior to = thoso of any othor oat, it srould, it wished to vanquish, tgmyul iteelf dircctly thirough the bottom, and then sivk it with all on boerd. It could also slaughtor sea-monstors in tho same mannor. At last, by means of o small bont, tho threo wero enabled to mnake their o8- enpo. Thoy came to tho ' surface in the midst of tho Maelstrom on tho coast of Norway, but wero miraculously eaved. This 18 a very ingonions and fascinaling story, Although many storios have boen- written ‘in which the imngination renched wonderful improbabilities, this diffors from thom in boing quite novel iu its character. * LITERATURE AND DOGMA.” Matthow Arnold’s last book, ‘¢ Litoraturo and Dogma,” is an cssay townrd a botter appre- hension of the Bible." Tho author maintaing that the timos demand a new rendering of tho Dible ; - that tho massos—that is, the * lapsed * mnkgos, 48 some lhoolni;lnns enll them—aro cast- ing eido the Biblo and its roligion, on account of tho fact that, in asking tho ‘‘ropson and authority of the thinga thoy have boon taught to Leliove,” thoy do "not roceive satisfactory an- €wors, oithor in tholr cwa minds, or from othors who profess to rend undumtundlni:il&. Ho says that mon should learn to rond tho Bible with the understanding that its longuago is ** fluld, pass- which is the first step towards its true compra- hension. Ho states that tho valuablo mode of judgmont is that which is founded upon: truo romsoning, which can only bo carried on by means of knowlodgo of the “best which Las boon thought and snid in the world,"” whioh gives a wide and rqmllhu- acquain- tanco with tho liuman spirit and'its productions, showing how ideas and torms aroso ; and that thig is much bolter than the berd, abstruse ren~ soning which deponds only upon logic. In speaking of tho word God, ho says that tho .gcientiflc and litorary mesuings are confounded in such s mauner o8 to lead to miscomprohon- sion. In tho scientifio sense, a8 genorally used, it moans tho Firat Great Cause, the moral an Intelligent Governor of tho Univerae, including Jesus Christ, consubstantial with Him, "and the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the two. |In a literary sonso, it can bo used meaning Morality or Perfection, = The objoct of religion is con- duct, which makes three-fourths of lifo; the cosfost thing in the world as rogards un- dorstanding, but, 8s rogards doing, the Linrdest. Right conduct, in other words, righteousness—is the true cb’]s:ct of roligion, and tho groat concern of the Bible. Roligion ‘*means simply oither & binding ‘to righteoua- nosy, or else n sorious attending to righteousncss nnfldwnllinfiupon it,” “The truo meaning of roligion is thus not vimxfly morality, but morali- ty touchod by emotion.” * And this now olova~ tion of moralitly, otherwiso rightoousness, bo~ oomes the word of religion, morality the word of philosophio disquisition, and conduot tho word of common lifo, The lunguage of the Biblo is not eciontifte, but liternry, We should endeavor to trace tho effoct of roligion on tho languago of tho mon from whom wo rocoive the Biblo, As s fllustration of tho differance between litorery and sciontific, he gives this: *\Vérdsworth calls tho earth * Lho mighty mothor of mankind,’ and tho goographers = call hor ‘an ob- Iate apheroid.” ‘Wordsworth's expros- sion i8 moro proper and adequato to convey what men feel about the earth; but it is not, thorefore, tho more sclentifically oxact.” A oientific torm Is ono which is certain and vor~ illable, and & litorary term is one which ** throws out at an object not fully grasped.” “ Goidl isa tendoney which is not ourselves, but which ap- poars in our consciousnoss, by which things fulfil tho roal law of their being,” "This Lo intorprets A rightoousnoss, supporting all by seriptural quotations aud arguments. Io tclls us that what in usis ‘“natural,” is really *‘rovosled.” Wo awako to tho coneciousness of it, and the differonca is only in degroe. *‘ A system of tho- ological notions about personality, essence, ex~ {stance, consubstantiality, i artiflcial roliglon,"” and *in no.sovso rovealod, just because if is in no sonko natural; and yovenlod roligion I so .named just in Prcpm't(nu ag it is in n pro-ominont dogroo natural, Tho religion of the Biblo is, thorforo rovonlod bocause tho groaf natural truth, ‘Righteousnces tendeth to Jifo," Is thoro recognized,” *The prodigies and the marvol- ous of Bible roligion are common to it with all religions ; the lovo of righteousnoss in ita ominency ia its own,” A proper rouding de- pends upon “ undorstanding the mnnnor in which men have thought, their way of using words, and what thoy moean Dy them,” - By tho words God and Etornal, thoy meant ““tho on- during powor, not oureclves, which makes for rightcousness,” ¢“Thoy meant more by thouso namoes which thoy could not frasp, baat thoy moant and grasped this fully," “Ts this ro- sorvedness of aflirmation about God loss \wrlh( of Lim than the astounding particularity and liconeo of aflirmation of our dogmatisty a8 if Lig were o man in the next stroot? ' Whab is required is what is indlcated by the exprossion “opiolleln,” or tho *‘gwool roasonubloness” of Jesus. ‘The nuthor goos on to illustrate, by many Seriptural paseages, the difforont signifi- eatlons whioh words may bear, finding out the reagonablo ono, o mnintains that tho_culture and knowlodgo of literaturo are requiredin the causo of roligion ; that it iu essontinl for & mind, in order to grasp tho full meaning of tho Sorips tures, to pouscsy itrolf of tho bost which has boen thought and snid, constantly bringing frosh Inowladge to ite store, and sitting tho samo un- til, uhifting imporcoptibly from one platform to anothor, it finally reaches tho point from which o clear knoweldge and insight may bo goinod, “¢ Aw, for tho rl‘;m inculeation of right- \eousness, wo mnoed tho insplring words of Isvaol's love forit,—that is, wo neod tho Biblo; 80, for tho right inculeation of tho mothod an Bocrot of Josus, wo noed tho epicikoln, tho sweot reasonablonesy of Josus,” Iu ordor to reach any conception of tho idons advanced b‘y this author, 4ho book should ba rond most carefully and cone sidoratoly. 1t ja impossiblo, in roviewin it, to ’Fvo auy adoquateiden of its contonts or () aorlps, 'hio suthor statos that tho ocoasion of hia writin, tho book {s his porcoption of tho beginnings nufi sigus, which he thinke all must reoognizo, of an Lmpending evolution in roliglous matters, to exist which might*| whonoyer it camo in contact with any craft which. Iug, and litorary, not rigid, fixed, and scientifio ;. THE CORN CROP. An Estimnte that This Yenr's Product Will Not Mo Mich Moro than Kunlf that of Lonst Yonr. i ' ONaAnaa; Til, May 23, 1873, To the Kditor of The Chieago Tritune : - o Bin: " Observer,” In your iasuo of tho 21at, has o short communieation in rogord to the proapocts for a corn crop in sovoral counties in this part of tho Btate and, so far ag Iroquols snd Tord, and a part of Livingston and McLoon Countios, nro concernod, X can confirm his ton timony. 3 X have takon partioular caro to naueitaln, by obsorvation, and communicating with porsons whom I know to bo good farmors nnd men of | Bound judgmont, the notual conditlon of the land; and my own oxporionco aa a. prairie- farmor sinco 1850 onablos mo to Judgo of the valuo of tho testimony. | ‘Throughout this groat corn-bolt, the drainage 1a much bottor, along tho stroams and bolts ot timber, than on the broad prairios; and the old- cat settlomonts and bost improved farms 1o ad- jacont to thoso localitios, The farms, too, in addition to this bettor drainage, aro bettor ‘manurod and stockod; henco, planting is much moro forward than on tho nower farma, Witk these old farmors, in many onaed, two or thras wooks suffico to put in their corn erop ; and but vory few. of thoso farmers ever sell any corn. onthe othor Land, it fs very difforont on the nowor, outlylng praitio farms, from which the bulk of the markot-supply comes. Very fow mon soll 0orn who have monns to buy cattlo and hoga to oat thoir {farm-products, Among thoso now farmors, they count on put- ting in from 40 to 80 acros of orops to each foam; I think the avorago is noarly 60 acres per tonm'of two Loraes or mules; honco, ot loagh {or&gnod working days aro required to put in o full crop, and, among this cluss of farmors, but fow have commonced to plow for corn at thig dato; and all agreo that naarly all tho plowiny and planting that hus boen dono Lias been laraag snd promavwe, or, as they oxprops ik, “Tho I'md turug over sticky’ and sad-like, and if on't seom to dry out noithor,” Many Lavo said to mo, “T have lantod sq much, but it ln'lny dryot ii'x"d’ and I don't know an got on o' my _{la T 5! gobon to my, fat'lonc, and ot is For $woy0ars, the seod-timo has oxtond: March to fnuo, and avery slough and ffnschi:):: boon plowad and planted, and this flat Jand Lins yiolded from sixty bushols por sero upward, vhile tho high Inuds have produced from forty bushols por acro downward; and tho rosult i, the average yield hns been un )ncodeutndly’ large. Now, a Inrgo portion of this land cannot bo ‘])]nuludtl':lu yearat oll, and much of what will bo planted will be worked when too wot, without doubt, and will not produce much. It is mnld by somo (I thlnE I have scon such statomonts in your paper) that corn isa safa crop ?ll‘n(ml up to tho 16th or 20th of Juno. This 18 not. mx' exporionco, thouglt I have raisod good, ' sound corn planted on the 7th of Juno; but it ‘would not grads as No. 2 the same year ; nnd, in overy cago (of such Into springs), but a very small por cont of tho crop evor came up to grado (No. 2), I bo- liove, hiowever, that, fhis spring, planting will continne na lalo aa tho 30tk ; but § am fally por- sunded that not over two-thirds as many aores will bo planted In this filly miles squaro of torri- tory ns was planted last yoor, nud the avornge rar acre cannot possibly bo morg than two-thirda lnt of last year, o8 tho land that cannot bo g}nnted, or, if planted, will bo put in in bnd con- tion, 18 tho richest and best corn land, nnd cannot Do, cultivated as thoroughly as horeto- foro; and I boliovo thiais truo all over the State. Tor ‘goveral years Esnk, the crop was put in oarly, and farmors had abundant time to cultlvate thorouglhly three, four, or fivo timos. The year hayiog nnd harvest will come on Fusb iu cultivating time, aud tho cropa must bo Joft uncultivated.” Somo will oultivate thomufihly doubtloss, but I apeals of tho mnasoy, —whicl will bo the rulo, This is on tho suppo- sition that wo have good weather from this time on; bt tho ground is thoroughly ssturatod,— lovel full. With o fow drying _days, the surfaco may bo workoed ; bul overy ordinary shower will stop work for days, whero, last yoar, tho carth would absorb It as ast 08 it foll, and work go on 88 800N A8 tho rain csanod. 1 think I have shown how it lmgpons thatthere aro such conflicting statements, From the older= sottled moctions we hear thatplanting is progresne ing finely, whilo, from other soctions, nothing has boon done. o I diffor somowhat from tha genorally-necopted gonclusion as to the amount of corn still in the hands of the farmora. I am filly porsusded that it is not a8 largo s Inst yoar at thia time, in this part of tho Stato at loast. The wintor has been longer and much more sovere, Much more Las baen fod on-this acoount, and much has been wastod " bocauso it wag o chonp, bosidea vory largo quantities that hayo beon burned. With corn at 16 to 20 cents por bushel, sud coal at 25 to 80 conts, vory many who live from G to 15 milos from markot thought it would not pay to do tho hauling to make tho exchango, cspo- clally na corn is much the nicer fuel. Anothor couse of waste is the large amount that has Iain out nll wintor. I was vory much surprised to learn Liow much is atill standing in the field, I amconfident that, atthe commonce- ment of this weok, about ng much of the old crop was standing in tho field as had boen plant- od this spring. I havo just read tho foregoing to a Ford County farmer, to get hlsx:SIniuu, sod ho thinks Ihavo “drawn it rather mild ;" at any rato, I Lliavo not intended to overdraw the picture; I belloyo what I have writton. ‘Wo havo had threo uncommonly largo crops,— unprecodentod, Moro than two have boon con- gumed. Lmst year our exports wore ouly nbout & per cont of the crop; tho year boforo, less than 8 per cont. Tho rest - has Deen consumod &t home. This year, the aggregato crop cannot much oxcoed 50 por cont of that of last yoar; but, suppose it does amount to two-thirds as largo as Inst onr, it will still bo hundreds of millions of ushols less than hag boen consumed annually in our own country foreevoral yoars past ; thore- fore, I would eny to the farmera: Savo your corn ; donot wasta it ; it will all bo neoded to mako up the doficioncy of tho noxt crop, Farmera gonorally aro at work patching, as thoy sny, —solecting tho dryest spots. This, oo, will mako bad work whon' they come to * ten it," as tho *‘patches™ must be “tended " nm they are planted, which is vorymuch alower thun to make long rows. Insome places, I am told, tlia recont Lioavy showors havo stoppod work on- tirely. Inoquots, —_— The Pulpit and the Press, o ths Editor of the New York Timea: In your paperof Monday is nn article from Chicago, hended ““‘Tho I'ulpit and tho Press,” which closes with tho followiug statoment: #Tho clorgyman's lack of dignity is severely commentod upon.” ‘That any ouo who hns lived in Chicago for tha past year could mnke auy commont unfavor- ablo to Dr, Sullivan for ‘his " just and -desorved robuko of tha.ZUmes of that city, is vory sur~ prising. You aro_doubtless awaro that It is a apor, and the only ono - thore, that condescendn 0 i1l 1ts columns “with disgusting and grossly exaggorated porsonelities, having for their foun- dation tho most trivisl and commonplaca traneactions, which nroe dressed up in tho moat sonsational atylo to attrack attention, and mado so pointed that na one familiar with tho social or businoss life of tho city can fail to know who ia tho attacked arty,” For sovoral months past the Sunday usuo of this papor has beon publishing, asa preparatory oxerciso for its rendora before going to divino #orvico, o sories of the most scurrilous and nbusive attacks upon tho olorgy of tho city, snd the prominont membors, both -malo and fomale, of thoir congregetions, I think it safo to say thot thero is not rospectable porson in Chicago, whothor church-goor or not, who hna not denounced in the soverost torms thoso un- conscionablo and vile asssults, made without diserimination upon every church i the oity, ox- {)using tho mombors individually to the notico of ho public, and displaying in ‘a ridiculous and falso light overy act of thoir lifotimo, "That ono Christian ministor of the Chicago Fn]pu‘-n man that is far abovo reproach, hoth n bie privato and olerical unpueuy—-lmu stood up and in tho nativo dignity of Iiis soul thrust out from his prosonca tho uncloan roprosantative of an utterly uncloan thing, whom lie kuow was sit~ ting there in cool effrontery, for tho baso pur- posa of misintorproting {uu words, misropre~ sonting his acts, and maligning his congrega- tion, i8 a dood that I fool Bafo in snying will moot tho hearl) nrpmvnl of tho puro-mindod oitizons of that city, and Dr, Sullivan will bo looked upon as the man who dares do_sa well ag preach justico to tho puofixla to whom he 80 con= selontioualy and acooptably ministors. OuICAGOAN. Naw Yonxk, Tuosday, My 20, 1673, ~A Pooria woman lately seut 11,500 old post- ago atamps ton friond in Now York, to ull) mnko up the number of 2,000,000, for which quantity a gontloman has aFroml to build' an Episoopal chapol in hor nefghborhood, Thoy aroutilized {n Europo in tho manufacturo of g 1 epoolal guality of paplor Bmvhv; \ \ 55