Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 8, 1873, Page 8

LB e A e [SIVE W T - B amabur © Paily bymo,.... THE CHICAGO TLY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1873 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE “'TERMS OF GUBSCEIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANGE). -S12.4 ()OI Sundar. 82.50 “2:00 len!lymltmn et iy ‘To provent delay and mistakes, be surs ond give Post Offico address in fall, inclnding State and County. . . Remittances may be madcecither bydraft, express, Put Office ardor, or in registered letters, at ourrisk.. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Daly, delivered, Sunday excoptod, 25 cente per waek. Daily, deliversd, Sunday included, 30 conts per woek. Address THE TRIBUNE ccm?m. Corner Madison and Dearborn- Chicago, 1. BUSINESS NOTICES. ROYAL FAVANA LOTTERY -WE | SOLD TN Irawing of 24 April last th 000 Circnlars oar: Heformation. sivens " SO MARRNRZ 400, Bankors, 10 Wallst.. P. O, Box 4585 Now York, The Chicags Tribune, Sundsy Morning, June 8, 1873. = THE JUBILEE. The Jubiles is atan end. Ounr country friends tave gone to their respective hiomes, and, to all ippearances, they have had & good time during heir visit. They havo seen the new city. They sveheard the music. They have driven about the suburbs. They have been treated with due concidarstion, and, yznhb]y, there nover Was & groster festival where there wasless of extor- tion and swindling. The city will now go about its regular business as usual, and will commence 10 set itself in order, and get ready for the Expo- sition in September, in which it has a special fnterest, and for the success of which t is responsible. The Jubiles was 3 privite enterpriso, for which its mana- gers are alone responsible Whatever of success has attended it belonga golely to them; whatever of failure may have occurred belongs o them also. Thocity was » guest, equally ith the conntry, and had no part as host, except in ehowing the common courtesies of life to her visitors, and, npon this score, probably no fault will be found. 3| As a popular demonstration, the Jubilee was successfal. The object of the managers was to bring a crowd of people here and provide some- thing for their entertainment, while- they ex- ‘hibited to them certain enterprises in which they (tho managers) were peculiarly interosted. All these objecis were sttained. The crowd camein ‘goodly numbers. The entertanment Was pro- yided for them, and the crowd was satisfled ap- parently, slthough it had to endure & considera- blo degree of discomfort in its pursuit of ploas- e, which might have been obviated had the manegers boen less intent apon realizing large profit, and iaken ordinary pains to make the crowd comfortable. Themanagement also would have saved the city from very lavish abuse, in the papers of other cities, had they made proper arrangements for the convenience of the repro- sentatives of those papers, and: not compelled them to ehift for themselves. In these respects, * tho action of the. managers wes very shabby and short-sighted. For this and other ehortcomings, however, the city is not responsible. Tho managers pocket the profita; they must pocket the abuse. It was their show, Dot the city's. Judged from an artistic point of view, the Ju- bilee has done nothing creditable, and it will give no impulse to music in the right direction. Thero was plenty of material, both in the orchestra snd chorus, which was excellent, but it was not util- ized. It took four or five months to get the Bos- ton Jubilees resdy, snd it took six months {0 got the Cincinnati Festival started, snd six months of very hard lsbor. The Jubiles musi- cal features were nropared in & less number of .weeks. Consequently there was mo time for élaborate preparation or carefal study, .end the result was that the nerformances werscrude and nnfinished. They satisfied the crowd, howerver, £nd, 23 that was sne principal object in view, let them pass for what they were worth. Thers was, however, one encouraging feature in it. The larger part both of the chorus and orchestrs, . were from this city, thus showing that we have plenty of good musical ma- teriathere. Ifso larges chorus can be gath- ered together at such sbort notice and sing 88 . well as they did, withso Hitle practice, what may not be done when thereis plenty of time for work, and comptent leaders to give the.requi- gite instruction ? In this direction, the Jubilee has socomplished an important purpose, for it bas shown that a legitimate musical festival here isa possibility, which shall be devoted exclu- sively to musical results rather than & mere holidsy show. In ono other ‘respoct, the Jubilée did -a good work. It brought forward the school children, and afforded the public an opportunity to witness the remarkable progress which has been made in the depart- ment of musical education in the public schools. The display of proficiency was particularly grati- fyiug, especially 8o, as it did not include the best singers in the schoels, who are now getting . ready to gradnate, but only those in the second and third grades. In precision, stesdiness, aid espacially in expression, the children in reslity sang better than their elders the day before. Thfl school children of Boston and Cincinnati 'have eung at similar entertainments, and, in comparison, the children of Chicago are tnlly up «to the standard of those in Boe!on, #nd superior 2o those in Cjncinnati. Now that the Jubiles, with its noise and show, 18 over, the people of this city should get them- gelves in readiness for the September Exposi- tion. For that enterprise tho city itselfis re- sponsible, and, if it fails, or ia not in every way creditable to the growth and progressof the city, the city mustsuffer, Upon the various commite tees who are to superintend its details, only the most enterprising and energetio of our citizens shonld be placed. If there are to be musical features, then they should be placed in compe- tont hands. - Whatever is to be done shonld be commenced at once. It is only thres months to September, and it will be folly “to dofer prepara- ,tions and crowd all the work into s féw weeks, wmidst inevitcble hnrry and confasion. It is charged that there has already beens # ring formed to run the Centennial Celebra- tion at Philsdelphis in 1876, ** Rings " are just mow such favorite political jewelry that people sre gengrally disposed to credit their existenco whenever and wherover ihey are slleged to hove beon discovered. The charge of the existenco of s Philadelphia Centeonial Ring" comes from Indians, end hsas been occasioned by the fvestment of the Yudisna Commmissioner, It wes the declared intention that every Btate in the. Union ghall bo represented, and that every Commissioner shall e a resident.of the State which he represents. . A man named David M. Boyd, Jr., was -first ap- wmbd Commissioner from Indiana, and i Was mb_-equnfl} ascerteined thathe had not resided in that Jiete for sumnyws,nndwumammm efl-haPennb lmww & dricks addressed a letter to the President setting forth these facts, and _suggesting Mr. Franklin | 0. Jobmson, of New Albany, as & fic person t0 represent Indians, ‘Mr. Johnson was then ap- pointed in Mr. Boyd's place, but, when he pre- len!efl his mflanhn!.u ‘to the Executive Commit- ‘fae ¢ Philadelphis, he_was rejected, and Mr. Boyd was { n,ecupted 28 the" Commissioner. - THe Indiana people claim now that thare is & *Con- fonnixl Ring” in Philadolphia. ~The -incident does not warrant 80 broad a charge ss_this, but, it it has been properly ropresented, the action of the Executive Committes was certainly very singular and ought o be explained. . MONSIEUR TONSON COME AGAIN. The complete letter-writer, Gen. Spinner, the man who ngnx the greenbacks, having written to almost everyadult person in the United States and Enghnd, has now begun upon the inhabi- tants of Australia, His correspondent on the cther side of the globe is Mr. Thomas Canby Riddle, of Geelong, Victoria. Br. ‘Epumax in- flicts upon the unfortunate Australisn ad ‘essay upon “the cheapest wsy to pay o public debt.” Mr. Spinner’s idea of the cheapest way to pay & debt is to apply the heaviest taxation that will be borne withont s revolution, and use the toveime thus taken from the people to psy off the ‘debt before it matures. This plan of Mr. Spinner is substantislly to find out, &8 near a8 possible, how much of each man's earnings is necessary to feed and olothe him, and take sll the surplus to purchase at a pre- mium bonds bearing interest at 6 per cent. It is immaterial to Mr. Spinner that the money, if Jeft in the hands of the people, would earn per- haps twice_or three times 6 per cent & year; Mr. Spinner insists that they shall give it up to'pay off & debt which now does not bear over 51§ per cent on the average. It is in- material to Mr. Spinner tha, in order to psy the annusl and ‘regular taxes, families have to dispense with various ordinary comforts ; have to retrench and economize in their food and their nppu-el ‘have to submit to various incon- veniencés in their dwellings and habitations, and that there are thousands who have to mortgage their 1ands at 10 to 13 per cont perannuim to pay the taxes levied to pay off the debt which bears 51¢ per cent interest per annum. The burden of a debt consists precisely in the charge upon the public to pay the interest on it. Our national debt at this time does not deraand much over 5 per cent for annual interest ; that, thereforo, is the burden which the ‘people have tobear. Mr. Spinner writes to the man in Aus- tralia that the true policy of the United States i to take from the poople all thoir surplus earn- mgu,—worfl: to them 10 to 20 per cent per an- num,—and apply the money to take up the debt, which bears but 5 per cent interest. 1t is immaterial to Mr. Spinner that this policy is opposed tohe judgment and thedearly-bought experience of every nation that has everhada debt on the face of the globe. What does Mr. Spinner caro for tho exporience and knowledge of other nations and other peoplo? What does he care for the . experience in - this particalar of our own Government? ‘When the War closed, the hand of taxation was Iaid upon every article produced, bought, and sold, and on every agency for the purchase and gale or transportation of products—upon the living end the dead. Under the pressure of 8 Presidential election, a large mass of these specific taxes were repealed, but tho revenue in- creased. The repesl of taxes waa followed byan increase of production and an increase of reve- nue. Every time the taxes have been reduced, there has been an increase of revenue. The payment of taxes ia the sole burden of the debt, and each time these taxes have been reduced the money thus left in the hands of the people has been applied fo the increase of capital in private hands. - The Government had nevertheless collected, in addi~ tion to the sum necessary to pay the yearly in- tarest, 100,000,000 annuslly to purchase the ‘principal of a debt bearing - an svorage rate of interest of sbout 5'per cent. This £100,000,000 thus taken from the people annmally, if leftin their hands, would be worth to them twico or three times § per cent, and yol Mr, Spinner in- forms the Australian gentloman that to take money which, if employed in produc- tion, would. be worth, iy, 12 ‘per cent, to pey 8 debt- besring 6 per cent interest, is the cheapesi Way to pay the debt. It is not meraly the most patriotic, high- spirited, and jolly, but sctuslly the cheapest ! The surplus revenue of the year ending June 80, 1873, notwithstanding the repeal Of the dutios oni tes and coffee, will be groater than in any preceding year. If Congress would repenl taxcs to an amount equal to the surplus revenue of 1872-3, leaving the one hundred and more mill- jons with the people in the form of productive capital, the revenue from the remaining objects of taxation would increase to anextent that would leave o surplus at the end of 1874; snd if this reduction of taxation was continued annually to -the amount of the surplus of the precoding yeur, the millions now taken under Spinnor's “cheap” system would be multiply- ing in the hands of the people. It should be botne in mind, also, that the tax on imports that produces 100,000,000 for the Treasury, takes from the people some $200,000,000 in addition to pay the bounties tothe protected classes. The repenl of protective taxes, which now produce 100,000,000 revenue, would be equal to tho re- peal of $300,000,000 of actual taxation, ButMr. Bpinner disregards such trifling facts o8 these, snd insists that the cheapest way to psy off a debt of §100, bearing 6 per cent interest, ia to take 8300 of the surplus products of the country, worth 12 per cent per aunum, give £200 away, and pay the prineipal of tho debt with the re- mainder. The' mecessity for checking ths dsngerous practice of carrying conceeled weapons has just been illustrated simultaneonsly in New York and Chicago. A conple of youths in New York; both under the infiuencs of liguor, gotinto a wwordy altercstion in the presence of the mother of one of them. Revolvers wore speedily whip- pod out by both, and - one of the :young men fired, killing his mother instesd of the compan- jon st whom ho aimed. The dispatches bring the information that this youth has been dis- charged, witha mere censure for carrying s deadly Weapon. meusdemmdad!nmefl:mgmmathm this.. The ltercation wasof a nature that would bwe passed off in ainvisl dispute, or'at most in & few blows; which Would have sobered both combatants, had they- not been possessed of wWeapons 8¢ hmfl, nflerlng a constant temyt,fiun to use them. Thnresukm. that & son killed Jis mother, ' A ¢ass il poing was presented in Chicsgo & few dayi g0, in which 2 hack, con: ‘taining tnnr oFfive” loafers; deliberately ran down and overtu.med sbuggy, inwhich a gentle- mmsndhdy were riding. The outrage was so ndplbh thlt some penonl who saw it followad tho carriage with the purposo of identifying the rowdies. The lattér, as soon 3 they P ived that they were pursued, pnued out their revolvers and bogin firing st their pureuers. It . was. & mere chance that nobody waa hit: Aside from the rare éases of deliberate murder, most of the deaths from violence are +the direct result of tho ‘common snd pernicious ‘habit of . carrying concealed weapons. It is 80 general, in fact, that no fashionablo tailor thinks of mn]dng apair of breoches withont & hip poek-' ot at the rear,to sccommodate the revolver. Itis quietly assumed that ayerybodyhu need for such sccommodstion, Many a dispute, hich would otherwise have beon harmless, has resulted serionsly, if not fatally, from the gen- eral convenience ‘of having 8 pistol or Imife handy. Nearly all the Btates have statutes prescnbmg pénalties for carrying deadly weap- ons, but ' there seems nowhere to be any dispo sition to enforce them. — An intoresting discussion hes sprung up since the death of Mr, John Stuart Mill, on the atti- tude of that great thinker toward the Utilitarian eystem of morals. Tho subject is mnot well suited to thecolumns of & daily newspaper, but, as other American journsls aro tolling what they Jnow, or don't know, about it, wesball takeleave to do tho same. Wo remarkod in a former articlo, in opposition to tho commonly-received opinion, that Ar. Mifl could not be properly classed asa Uti tarian, This was Mr, James Martinesu's opin- ion, 28 expressed in his Essay on Mill, and such 18 the opinion of an able writer in the.April number of the New Englander, whose article on «Moral Intuition ve. Utilitarianism” is well worth reading. Such, also, is the opinion of Prof. John Stuart Blackie, whose work, enti- tled “Four Phases of Morals,” i3 one of the healthiest books of the season. Utilitarianism is that system of Morals which denies the existenco of innate ideas. It isa branch of the system of Philosophy which de- rives all idess from tho operstion of the five sonses, and denies that any ideas exist, or can exist, which are not born in thoorgans of seeing, heasing, feeliog, tasting, or smelling, of whick Lockeisreckoned thefatherin Englishspeculative philosophy, though the eystem is as old s classic Greece. To this echool of philosophy Mr. Mill did undoubtediy belong. Ho places the bounds of human knowledge within che limits of Expe- rience, and defines a Cause to be * invarisbility of sequence.” Wher. the sun shinos upon the ‘ater, evaporation is tho invariable sequenco. When we place auacomin the ground, un- loss disturbing forces come in, - an - oak tree is the invariable sequence. We know these things to bo facts, but we do not know (accord- ing to Mr. Mill) anything about “the causos of .ovaporation or generation. Those things are be- yond the limits 6f our experience, boyond the reach of our senses, and therofore unknowable. In short, there'is no such thing 28 a canso in his system of philosophy, but only an existing ordor of events. Logically, therefors, Ar. Mill sliould Lave been a Utilitarian, for this branch of the general _system derives all moral " concep- tions from Experionce, and denics that there ever wes, Or ever can be, a moral idea obtained from any other source than the aggregato, tabulsted, obsorved results of human conduct. There is nothing virtuous per sc. Chastity only becomos a virtuo after the evil effects of unchastity have becn observed. A lio ia better than the truth only beceuse the ten- dency of alie is to produce confusion, uncer- tainty, hatred, war, and other inconvenience. Benevolence is better than selfishness becanse benevolonce results in the grostest happiness to the greatest: number. Of course, such s system must have & beginning somowhere. 1If there are 1o innate moral ideas, where can we gt & start- ing-point for any system of miorala? The Dtili- tazian finds it in tho desire of happiness,—a uni- versally-diffused—we had almost said instinct, but the system forbids that we should have in- stincts,—a universally-diffased fact. The real motive of all our actions is happiness,—that is, selt-intorest, more or less enlightened. With the vicions and the selfish this motive is apparent, but it is none the less active and omnipresent in tho virtnous and tho benovolent. The virtnous man kmows that virtue will most promote his happiness. He excels tho vicious man in knowl- edge, snd in the ability to postpone a present good for & grenter future good. Virtue is pru- dence—vice imprudence. The benevolont man Jknows that he may some timo stand in need of help ; therefore Le gives money and time to help-others! The Christian -believes that by faith and works, or perhaps by faith alone, he shall gein heaven and avoid hell. The motive of self-interest iz all the’ same in his case, although the expected rewaid is post- poned beyond the present life. The only examples which tho world furnishes of virtue pursued for its own sake, without tho hope ‘of reward or the fear .6f punishmont, are found among the Btoic and Buddhist philosophers, who werofools! Take out the underpinning of self- interest and the Utiliterian system, go far s it eeks to explain tho origin of moral ideas, falls to the ground.. So far sait seeks merely to olagsify,—sbowing how moral idess tend to promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number,-it is an important branch of moral science. But this 16 not what is under- stood by Utilitarianism, To bo a Utilitarian, one | must affirm that there are no innate moral ideas, and that all moral conceptions arise from ascer- taining how tho greatest happiness of the great- est number is practically produced, and codi- fying the results of the inquiry into such me- chanical attributes as virtue, truth, benevo- Ience, justice, honor, ete. In order to determine whether Mr. Afill was, or was not, s Utilitarian, it is only necessary to find one deliberate utterance of his affirming tho existence of & moral idea having its origin inde: ‘pendently of experienco, and not founded nearly or remotely upon Belf-love. It would be casy to find many such. In his review of Bentham, the fiist paper in his “Dissortations and Discus- sions,” and the one which set ‘all'the Bentham- jtes pouting, he ssys that we naturally feel pain when we see ‘one of our fellow-crea- tores in pain, and that this sympathy eannot be traced to any selfishorigin whatsopver. We do not feel pain in such s case becsuse we fear that we, t00, may suffer pain. We feelit because s sentiment of pity—an emotion of benevolence—has beenimplantedints! Again; the writer in tho New_ Englander, to whom we have flreuiy referred, adduces a remarkable paasage in his Benaw of Sir William Hamilton's ‘Philosophy, in which Mr. Mill gives a side thrast ocm:u of ne!.\giouu Nesdenee, to- I!.lqsludn( m"gmumng-n that thers exletn 8 mmvhamd}mwmuu which ‘the highest Ifllfi -able to us; T:am informed that the world is, 'ruled by a. Being whose attributes aro infinite, but what they are we canmot learn; nor what are the “princigles” of Tis™ government, excapt that the ‘highest human. morality does not sanction them ; convince me of it, and T will ‘bear my fate aa best T may. -But whenIam told that I roust belove this, and st the samo tims call thie Belng by tho names which express tho highest human moral- ity, I 8ay in plain terms I will not. - Whatever power . euch & Balngmay have over me, thers s one thing Ho shall not do; He shall not compel ma to worahip Him., 1 wiil call no Being good who s not what I mean when 1 apply that term to my fellow-creaturos ; and if such 4 Buing can sond mo {o hell for not yo calling Him, to ‘hell T will go. 'This is anything } hflbUhl.\Lu‘ln-nxSnL The self- intercat, or greatest-happiness” principle, - which culminates in sending & man to bell of ‘his own accord, has no place in the categories of -Bentham, or Hobbes, or Helvetius, or the illus- trious sire of John Sinart i ] “The genen.l tendency of Mr. Mill's pol.ltic& _and social writings, thongh making the largest _account of utility, and of the.* greatest-happi- .| ness " principle, is not Utlitarian, * Utilitarian- ism,” ‘ss Prof. Blackie justly observes, is & misnomer for the systom which it .rep- tesonts. © Externalism ™ is the proper phrase to designate 1t. - Christianity is utilitarian: in tho sense of being usefal. 8o are Btoiciam, and | Platonism, and Buddhism. A system which de- rives moral ideas from those things which are external to us, as opposed to the system which ‘makes account of innate. ideas, should be called Externalism. By adopting the word utili- tarian, it 'has, in somo measure, stolen & march - upon the world, Mr. Mill's eth- ics, on the wholo, are mnot based upon Externalism. To tell the truth because it is true, not because the greetest happiness of the greatest number is promoted by it, nor because +you will go to hell if you don't, is the strongest impression left upon the mind “of his readers. He conld not otherwise have acquired his great influence upon the thought of tha present age. We close by quoting a passage from the last chapter of Prof. Blackie's “ Four Phases of Morals " : Among llvlng thickers there is none who stands be- fore the pullic more prominently ss the exponent of the Utilitarisn ethics than John Stuart Mill... But whatever msy be the merits of this distingnished writer in the domain of logic, polities, and economics, which seem most_cognate to his genius, there can be little doubtin theminds of thoughtful persons that bis book on Ttilitarianismy bhas done more to under- ‘mine than to sustain the doctrine which it professes to expound, Andthe reason of this lics in a cause which is not less condemnatory of the doctrine than it ia complimentary to its champion. Mr. Mull is too good 5 man to be the cansistent advocato of s system which, as compared with other systems, is fundamentally bad, He is too carnest an spostle of the real moral progrees of man tobe & thorongh-going champlon of o school whose Datural element is epi- curean ease, sensual indulgence, snd prudential calca- lation. Hlis heart revolted agatnst tho degrading ten- dency of & philosophy which gave a primary impor- tancoonly to what is low, and left the highest elo- ‘menta of human nature to make 8 respectable show be- foro men with a barrowed and secondary vitality, But atthe same time' he was s disciple of the sthool, and theson of Lis father; and tbus, by education anda sort of intellectual heritage, his hend was committed 10 a doctrine for which his heart was naturally a great deal too good. And thus, while ho defends ‘Utlitarianiam succesafully, 50 far a5 résults go, ho has succeeded only by throwing overboard all that s most « Qistinctive in the doctrine, and adopting secretly all fuat is most peculiar to the tecchings of his oppo- nents, e THE WISCONSIN BORGIA. It has been left for ‘Wisconein to discover & jury that takes no stock in emotional or percep- tional insapity. Thero has never been & more ingenious plea of moral irresponsibility, or & moro plausible and well-connected story of hal- Incisiation, than that presented by Mrs. Lamb, ‘who admits that she poisoned her two children, and an old woman, and & man named Royal Gar- land, and who is aleo suspected of having poisoned her husband. TYet the jury bronght in s vordict of guilty, sotting the case as one of murder in the: first degree. Capital punishiment having been. abolished in ‘Wisconsin, Mrs. Lamb will not suffer death, but will bo sentenced to imprisonment for life, and stay in the Penitentinry until some sentimeatal Governor shall conclude that her insanity has passed off, and that she may safely rosume her place in society. However, the result of the trial is a vast improvement upon the customary vordicts in simlar ¢ases, and it is more likely that Mrs. Lamb will be kept out of harm’s way in the Penitentiary than if she had been tarned ‘over to an insane asylum or permitted to go free. Mrs. Lawb’s was a case of perceptional insan- ity. - According to her version of tho series of Qeaths which. shie caused, sho was irresistibly impelled to the acts by a prompting spirit that appeared to her from time to time, and insisted upon her killing these people as & religions daty. The digease which occasioned the perceptional vivacity which enabled har to ses tho epirit that 1o one elso snw, and caused the perceptional obliquity to all moral scruples, appears to have been of long standing. A physician who had lm.-nded tho woman when she was a girl, twnnty -three yom ago, testified that she had these insane xpul!s then, at which times sho im- sgined horsel? talking with some familiar spirit who wantod her to kill-somebody. Bhortly after this, the epirit abandoned her and did not sppesr until the day of herhusband's death. While she waos holding his head ixi her arms, ho oxclaimed, « T gee Jegus,” and died. At that very moment, she saw the apparition, and, from that time on, jt-haunted her. It began by upbraiding her for mourning over the death of her husband, who was happier than if he -were alive. It then mnde her believe that her son was overworked and weary, and that it was her duty to put an end to his toilsome life. -SoMrs. Lamb yielded, and poisoned the boy. Then the spirit per- suaded her that her littlo daughter was too good and innocont for this world, and thatit was equally her duty to put this child beyond the trinls snd tomptations of s wicked world. Mrs. anb consented . to do this also, and folt the wusual - consolation of ‘s pious goul that has followed its religions prompt- ings. Thon the spirit told her' that she must relieve other_peopls of their earthly migeries. She resented this, 83 she concluded that ghe had not the same interost in the happiness of stran- gora ag in that of her own family. Thereupon the mu.ugl‘ble essénce grew very angry, and, partly in fear, partly in religious enthusissm, sho extended her charitsble work of sendmg peoplo out of this vale of tears by first killiog -Mrs. Ottman,. snd sub- sequently Mr.' Royal Gu!md. After hav- ing pouonad these persons, Mre. Lamb felt a serene consciousness of well-doing, and basked in the nppxovnl of Her presiding genius. She would have gone onin her good work, but-the promphngapmt snddnn!y dmconfinnedhm visits, pmhlbly thinking that she -had done her share in hdpmg mm!nnd to shufle off this mortal coil. & **If it bo admitted that this Hallucination !_'flfly afllfisfl,—_fild it is much more credible than that doctrine of .insanity based upon momentary emotional :bmflun like that of young Wal- wonh-—fiunnuufluuluw\:mwh-thcm signmg her’ such a chain of circnmsunm 88 vua set up ln Mra, Lamb's dehnne, it was’ the result of ig— norance and superstition, It would be a danger-' ous preoudant to admit- that the law may be sus- punflad for these causes.’ Such a, docbrlno would ‘undermisie the. whols edifica of Society. Mrs. Lamb's will was fn'ita normal condition. It is admitted that lhevaombliad tho ‘promptings of the epirit which suggested the murders. ‘Though her perceptions =~ were -passibly by .. fanaticlsm, .to the extent that she actuslly behaved 3 epirit was attending her, ‘she had roason enongh to atgue the ease with her intangible adviser, and willenoughtore- gigt his pwmptmga for o time. " If she penmttnd “heér reason and will to be finally overcome by a flood of superstition, then it was time for: the law,tostep in and supply the deficiency. Tho Wisconsin jury bea set & good example, one that ‘may be imitated with' conspicuous advantage by all juries who are called upon to compassionate ‘People convicted of deliberats and intentional murder by reason of emotional - or - perceptional CITY NUISANCES. ‘Tax TmBUNE gave some saccount, & fow weeks since, of & caze in Paris in which the au~ thorities took official cognizance 6f the pisno nuisance. A single gentleman, occupying bachelor apartments, had spplied for protection against the.incessant drammiug and banging of the piano by & young woman who lodged in un- comfortable proximity, and whose musical per- soverance tortured him, as ho thought, be- yond the measure of his sins. The Paris Justice, 'who possibly kmew how it was himsolf, prescribed certain hours in which young and industrious pianists, lodging in houses where thin partitions prevail, may prac- tise the scales to their beart's content, and other hours when - man's inalienable right to eat and sleep in peace shall not be trampled down by mausical amateurs who abound in all large cities. Tt may bave been this liberal application of the common law which prompted & resident of & London suburb to apply to the Hammersmith Police Court for protection against the scresch- ing of & peacock at untimely hours of the mcrn-' ing, from the precincts of & neighboring back- yard. If anything under the sun conld be main- tained in & court of justice it is that a peacock’s notes are shrill, piercing, discordant, and vile beyond description, and that it is the habit of this fowl to indulge his musical villainy at even ‘more unseemly hours than the amateur pi:.nista. It devolved upon the camplainant, however, to prove this, and the result showed that there are two sides even to the argument ona peacock’s’ vocal atiractions. The complainant set up that ho had an invalid wife whom this saw-filing bird was killing by inches. The attending physician was called and testified that tho sereaching of the peacock, which began sbout 3 o’clock in the morning, was really injuring his patient. Per contra, the defendant’s-counsel contended that tho sight of so handsomo & bird was conducive to health and longevity. One witness expressed himself delighted with the masical achiovements of the peacock, and the defendant’s daughter stated that she and her sister were sccustomed to wake up at the first sonnd'of the peacock’s voice, and then turned round and went to sleep again.” The inferenco from this is that a peacock’s song is a sort of s natural soporific equal to hops or hydrate of chloral. The Magistrate finally dismisged the caso. If we should take only the rosult in the Paris case and that in the Tondon case, tho conclusion would be that per- sistent and vigorous thramming upon s piano is a greater nuisance thanapeacock’s vocalization. This is possible; but the London Magistrate seems to have been convinced that there was good cause for the complaiot against the poa- cock, and ho only refused to suppress the melo- dious bird because he could find no statute or precodent that wonld justify such action. Peacocks and pianos are not the only metro- politan nuisances which cannot well be abated, and Paris and London are not the only cities where thoy prevail: George Eliot says that a cock crows early in the morning just as if, for- sooth, the sun had got up on purpose to hear him. This is a sample of the characteristio con- ceit of all early-risors. It has beon condensed into the proverb that the early bird catches the worm. It is also significant of the arrogance with which the staple metropolitan nuisances assert their impertinent and irrepressible char- scteristics, There is the musical enthusi- ast, who sorapes and scratches on his violin of & Sundsy morning when he onght to go to church and let his neighbor stay st home in pesce and quiet. No neighbarhood is completo without & dog that bays at the moon, or & cat that gathers in a select party of acquaintances for a midnight concert, or & goat that brings his perfamery or pokes his pertinacious nose into your ‘back-yard. If there are none of these, there is sure tobe a steam whistle two squares distant, or & next~ door parrot that provokingly learns to call your _servants or your children, or s mocking-bird that viciously imitates cat-calls and the yelping of doge, and sings best at midnight. The inemtable hand-organ has of late years been supplemented by small troubadours who scrape & violin in sbout the samo position and manner they ‘would saw s stick of wood and twang on a harp after & befogged, fashion that would set David raving mad. The number of peddlers—the rag-man, the fish-man, the orange-man, ete.—who make early morning hideons, increascs with the growth of every city, and they cultivate s monotony that extends to all the various trades and to all quartors of the globe. . Whan the cry of ** Freeh fish!" is beard n 5 o'clock in the morning, mlspmnnm:ced 80 ‘that it sounds like Driod beef!” one may imeg- ine himself in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin... It sounds slike in all languages and all cities. There is & sort of tradition sbont it. banded down 8 Jong line of generations and dif- fusing itself wherever thepernicious custom ob- tains of driving around carts snd feeding horses on the new trees you have set ‘ont along your sidewalk. It Sancho Panzo, who said “ God blss the . man who invented sleep,” had lived’in s city withits variations on pianos, peacocks, fiddles, hand-organs, harps, -dogs, cats, parrots, pets, goats, peddiers, steam- whistles, ¢t id genus omne, he would have relig- jounsly cursed the metropolitan Macbeths wlm ‘murder - sleep. If there is any excuse for pro- fanity or taking the lawinto one's own hands, the most severe ‘moralists w:llndmxn.hnn&m tobe “panton-sta to'Sirius, the-brightast star in the: Greater. Dog, waa similarly suspected for. many years bofore the minute speck of light was first: soen, in:1862, through the glass:now in the “cquatorial refractor at Chicago. Bince the n.rnnl] _of the glass in this city it has flnna no -work. In the hands of our Astronomical Socmf!‘ it is unused and unusable. ) *' A Washington dispatch to an evening ! organ™ in this city, at present representing the Pension Agency, ssys that the Treasury Departm ont: contemplates s flank movement . on Mesars. Phelps, Dodge & Co., and intimates that Secre- tary Richardson would bring a eriminal proceed-' ing ngainst the firm, which has not bee barréd ont by the compromise, if. it wers. not for *the desire of the Tresaury Department not to rendar itsolt linble to & charge of persecution in"this case.” A dispatch of this kind, communicated to' an Administration newspaper, looks as though there were persecution indeed. . It is nixml_x more of & persecntion of Mesars. Phelps, Dodge & Co. to spread nbroad the impression that the Gov- ernment might bring criminal suit, and is de- terred by motives of charity, than if such suit were lcmlly brought. If the Government thinks that it has & good case against these gen- +tlemen, or any of them, why does it not come into the conrts withit? Shall the Government g0t the example of compounding felony ? Oris it fair or decent to take sdvantage of its poiition to calumnists men's characters while it refrains from coming into court and making good its insinuations by proof? We have had enough of this irresponsi- ble blackening of character in the Phelps-Dodge case. The Government will not make itself any more liable to the charge of persecntion if it brings criminal suit than if it remains under the present strong suspicion that it has lent it- selt to belp informers, detectives, and spies carry out an infamous blackmailing scheme. Tho court is just where this case ought to have come long 8go,” snd the Government ghould Bave no hesitation in bringing it there. If the Government fails to do 80, Messrs. Phelps, Dodge & Co. shonld take the initiative. ——— Wo printed last week sn account of en at- tempted Lilling of one editor at Atiants, Ga., by snother. Mr. 8t. Clair-Abrams undertook to shoot Mr. Cary Stiles because Mr. Cary Stiles had eaid to somebody else that BIr. 8t. Clair- Abrams had negro blood in his veins. The kill- ing was postponed for the time being. On the samo day that this affair cccurred at Atisnts, there was an actual homicide at Opeliks, Ala. Mr.. Thomas Phillips, who had held various offices in that county, and was o moét estimable and honored citizen, was shot and killed by one John Hooper. The story of the causes leading to the killing runs that Mr. Phillips and his wifo end o number of colorsd per- gons were involuntary witnesses to some sct of indecency on the part of “Hooper and & young woman; that, next day, Phillips admonished Hooper on his conduct; and that, while Philiips made no fuxther mention of it, the affair was soon made public ; whereupon Hooper sought Phillips and shot him, killing him instantly. -The Iady involved was of respectable gocial standing. The Atlanta Herald published a full report of this affair; and now another Hooper, brother of John Hooper, has written & letter denouncing the Herald's correspondent a8 a falsifier, and demanding his name. The edi- tor of the Herald is the Mr.,St. Clair-Abrams who figured in the other alander case ; and, if horofuses to give up the name of the corre-. spondent, he will iave to deal with Mr. Hooper, and, if ho gives tho name, then tho correspond- ont will probably have to aitend to come shooting. Gon. Van Buren, the deposed Chlol Commm« sioner of the United States at Vienna, has writ- ton a letter to the New York papers which i cal- cnlated to strengthen the impression that be has been badly treated, so long as the Government fails o produco substantial evidence of his guilt. Heo calls attention to the fact that Mr. Jay said, in his dispatch to the Btate Department, that 4 Thore is nothing whatever affecting the integ- | rityot the Chief Commissioner, Gen. Van Buren.” ’He says that the only tangible charge which he can discover is that Gen. Mager, one of the sub- ondinate Commissioners, had borrowed money from men who had alresdy - secured places for the establishment of restan- rants. But, if the Government can ‘produce nothing more than this, it will be difficult to Jus- tify its conduct in.summarily deposing Gen. Yan Buren, blsckening his name, and bringing odium upon his family, and putting additional disgrace upon the American people. - Gen. Van Buren exprosses the fullest confidence that he will be righted in time. ‘*But what reparation,’ he asks porhnenfly, 4 can be made for the gross indagmty that has baen visited upon myself snd the gentlemen sssociated with me 2" - We be- liove that Gen. Van Buren is the kind of man to follow up his persecntors, if wrong bas been done him, and we hope that the responsibility of the “black smutch,” as Bayard Taylor has Margeret Holloway and@ R. Hollos her hus. -band, were members of the Odd Fellows Protes. tive Association of Conncil Bluffs, In April las the wife dicd- Oné Kipple; of “eokuk, held & Judgment against both- husband and wifo, and gamisheed the Association to which they bee l'ongcd. The| Associafion mnd answer thatit was indabted - to - Hollowsy. in- the eum of 21,000, but moved’ to discharge tho garnishee on the ground that it was a life insure ance company, and, fherefore, that it camg surange from lishility for tho, debta of sured. The sit was finn!!y carried " ap to the District Court, and- the Court. sustained thig view of the case. In the langusge of the de« | cision, *A wife dying whoso life was insured, the creditor of the husband, it the policy was -t favor of the husband, conld not reach the proc ceeds of the policy.” -The-case will be carricd to the Supreme Court of the State. ~ Tho New York Tribune having held up a8 s3 example to the American women who are visitt ing Enrope the. lady of - Charente who hired ou{ - a8 8 servant one year, sending her entire waged . to the National Treasury to help pay the Gexd ‘manindemnity, the New "York World calls atd tention to the fact thattheaverage coniributions of the American, women since the war. far exe _ceed those of the. lady of . Charente. .- It takes -the case of the sunusl expenditare of & servantd girl in an York, as follows: Pins.. Sundry other articles.... Holalivasusrenssdivscas “Haxn This tax of $18.20 puid by the servant-girl sinco 1865 amounts in the eight years to $145.60, while the contribution of the woinan of Charents was §60. Whatis paid by this one girlis paid by all the other women of the country; accords ing to their expenditure. Under the French Iaw, the £60 of the womau of Charente ivent inta the 'Treasury ; while, under our law; of the $145.60 paid by each ‘American woman; only 840 was paid into the National Treasury,—the re- mainder being paid over to swell the profits of the manufacturers. ° i tevasens $5190 A faw days since, we credited the Gavammn( with an economical stresk in saving thoTreasury -several thousand dollars by the consolidation of ‘gaveral diplomstio Tepresentations to the petty Central Amrican Republics. There is evidently room for still farther economy. ‘The Treasury Department keeps two wagons to carry its maile and other’ packages. - One of theee is s two- horse office-wagon, and the other 2 one-horse wagon. It appears from the report made by the Superintendent of the Treasury building, ou Feb. 8, 1873, that © tho care of horses for mall and office-wagons and repairs of wagons and harness” for this Department coat the Govern- mont, during the last fiscal year, $11,667.46. Out of this amonnt, $2,699.93 were expended for repairing these two wagons, and the repairs of harness, '$1.151.88. In the aggregate, it had cost nearly $1,000 5 month to keep, these twa wagons running, snd $225 per month for repairt alone, although the work done is very light in ‘character. The smount saved in the diplomatis -department is almost offset by the smount - wasted in the official stables; S—————— < In commenting upon the late Boston fire, ibs Springfield Republican supposes ' that the Mas- sard will come in for the mihemnm&llnmdt -cases, but Suggests that it would bo'more ap- "propriate . to blame the practics 8 gxan furniture establishments in the flanlu} business portions of large cities: ~Tt was in ond of these repositories that the Iate *Boston firs originated, and also in a similar eaah!.\shmant that the ‘fire broke out which swept ab!od of stores on ‘Wabash avenue, inthis city, llnn- dny afternoon. There. is no douby that’ “thert would be great protection against fire In eity reguhtlon! that should prescribe limits for all great storehonses of especially combustible ma terisl. In the large !uxmtnm establishments it is customary to do the finishing part -of the manufactire, and the work is of ‘4 character o mnausly jeopardize swrrounding property. Fot selling purposos, it would not be necessary to 63 this work or to kep onhand so large ax amount of inflammable material on the same premiset with the stores. ‘ Ocean froightson grain have ‘been -dnndns at New York for some time, and Have stlust reached 13 pence sterling per bushel to Liver pool. This is equal to 2 cents in gold, Amm- can money. The reason for this advance iathe insufficient supply of vessels. We receive from Europe every year 100,000° immigrants, who 17!] for their passage hither in vessels owned abroad. All the freights wo receive from Europs, andall wo seud abroad, sro transported in . foreig: { ovmed vessels. Thongh we have the grestest L abundance of the best materisl for ship-build- }; ing, the law of the United States so taxes thil J material that we cannot build ships; the law prohibits our purchase of ships; sod properly called the whole transaction, will be traced to the quarter where it belongs. 1t is stated that there are already22,500 claims on file beforo the Commission on SouthernLoyal Claims. This Commission was -q:poxntmi uhder an act of March 8, 1871, suthorizing citizens of iho seceded States, who had remained loyal to the Union cause to present bills for property unnecessarily taken or destroyed by United Btates fflmu. The time for the yruenhhon of theso claims was limited o two years Griginally, but it is now intimated that Congress will make an extension, so that the list may yet be inaterially enlarged. The Commission. is mow 18sning & psmphlet containing & list and 'Iesmp- tion of the claims presented " thus . far, in order that the. Foderal. officers in various parts of the country may report on such cases as they may be familiar with. Itis mblble that there will be many efforts to swindle the Government ‘under the cover of these claims. ‘The Washing- +ton correspondent of the Boufnn Globe says that many of the honest advocates of secession are seandalized it seeing 80 many people who acted with them now coming forward to disclaim their Rebel attachments in order to take ldvn:nga of ¢ho present opportunity. . Ho cites one case,’ in which s Virginis lady was nrpeflodfmmnfioum- ern Methodiet congregation for thus forswear- {md in’ that ‘clasaof pmamcaa of which the Paris pisno case and the London pumckcue are th legu representatives. " Prof. Otto Btruye has succeeded 'in, obtaining | - asight of the companion-star to Procyon, the existence of which was announced eleven yeard g0 by Dr. Anwm. -m: ' mofnl u!:nlmm’: | il- ing her former sentiments. - The .gincere ex- Rebels may now do the State some service by exposing theas shams whaxevarthevfindtham. JE——————— An important decision was mdnred reeanuy In, the Council Bluffa (Tows) District: Court, which will be of interest to the order of 0dd Fel- !an The o-u 'm mblt n a8 Lom_mi the , means .of getting to and tiom Europe, znd of aendmg our exporis and making ourimports. We might be the ship-builddr fof all other countries, or m\ghz be the carrier of the commerce of the ocean; but fiw Iaw nyl" ghall not, and the country must submit. : — The Maryland Diocesan Convention._ of b9 Protestant Episcopal Church, now in seaxim 38 ‘Baltimore, has taken an ‘important step forward in repealing the_ canon of lay. discipline’ for bidding_ thoatrical exhibitions a3d’ other T ‘and light amusonients. The sction of tho Con vention meets with the approval of thelsits but the venorablo Bushop of Maryland, whols! got oo old to enjoy . amusements of a7 ¥ind, hes filed a protest ogainst_tho ropeal, snd” -8 clares that he sball not consider himself- wm‘ we aro indobted to other countries for i by the action of the Convention. mm—— ANOTHER SPECIES OF DEAD-HEADING. : Orraws, I, Juned, 191 WWEdWIUTABOhMWTfiWM. e Sm: 'Iam in possession of & species of desd: ‘headism practised by the Inter-Ocean. | ExCo% gressman Palmer-is franeing letters on { usios® for the office. Its written fnstrnctions o sentatives of the Infer-Ocean in_ regr han-retmma ‘were sent out in official envelopd f that' character, the upper nghb-hll\ m" bumg the frank of Palmer. sm-pmeeflfl' mly nnc by dead-heading on the cha ‘in s, that th h or go & one-l DflB s:fi-hnds tmket. Yours very mflv o