Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 13, 1873, Page 8

TIIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNI: SUNDAY, JuLy 13, i873. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TERMA OF AUNACRIPTION (PAYATLE IN ADVANOR), S12.00] Sunia; i .00 Weokl Parta of uyearat the samo rato. o provent dolay and mistakes, bo gura and give Post e ddress in Gull, fuoluding Stato and County, Remittencon may be mado ofthor by druft, oxproas, Post OFRico urdor, ur n rogisterad lottars, at vur risk. THNS T0 OITE RUMCTIIERS. .+ dolltored, Bunday excoptad, 25 conte por wook, T:!L’ obivared, Bundny-ieludod, 00 conts per wook, Addien TIIR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madinan anid Dearborn-sts., Ohlongo, Kl BUSINESS NOTICES. ROVAL HTAVANA LOTTERY-WE BOLD IN e ot 250 Avril st the” GR0N0. brtze Ulvculars : 7, SEMARTINGZ & COLy B E:‘?{‘ et 10D, Box i, Now Yorke The Chitage Tiibane, Sunday Morning, July 13, 1873. [HE COST OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT, Tho Cincinnati Commercial has tho following In raforenco to a topic which is also commented apon in papers in varlous othor citios : The appropriation of $6,000,000 by tho City of Ohl- £30 1n ono night cauncs a futtering In that part of tho sountry, The taz-payors aro inquiring how it hap pened, Of couraa thoy know, for they eco that the way bs makn & clty prosporous a to borrow and colloct and sanens vost ks of money, and spend it, Tho squan- Qcring of millons maken livoly times, It was so during ho dayu of the war, when the Ifome Guards woro sav- Ing tho Nation'a Hfo, was it not? Thot mighty bless i2:g, tho National debt, was heaped up in that way, The appropristion of six millions of dollars ropresonts tho entiro sunual oxponso of the government of the City of Ohiengo. Tho ap- propriation {8 tho largest that has over boen piado in the City of Chicago, but it is not for thnt rosson to bo considored excessive. In1871, tho city mado its appropriations bofore tho fire, and loviod the tax theroon ; but, whilo the appro- printions were all expendod a8 mado, one-third of tho tax was repealad, nud & vory large pro- portion of tho rest was remitted beoauso of tho destruction of the proporty. A very large do- ficit was, therofore, loft to bo othorwise provided for. In our oxtromity, aftor tho firo, tho State genorously advanced to the city the amount of the lion on the canal,—somo $2,960,000,—and the esponsey of tho City Governmont, the interest turo to ropair its ravages and ronow ita doatruolion; and considering that tho ety 1 not allovod to borrow a dol- 1ar, but must ralse all its money by taxation, the poople of Ohicago have reason to bo grateful that the nocossary oxpenditure has not beon mado much largar, and that the Oity Council have submitted to tho rostraints and ro- striotlonn plnced by wiso counsel upon the exor- ciso of thelr unlimitod powor. Binco the firo the population of the oity has incronsod in a far groater rutio than at any pro- vious timo, Had thero beon no fire tha aupusl oxponditure would havo largely incronsod over that of 1870, Inocrease of population and in- cronso of businoss bogot nocossarily an increnso of governmentsl and other expendituros, To bave had $o robuild Chioago with & decline in business and a falling off in popnlation, to have attompted to robuild the school-housen and bridges and re- ‘pavo tho streots ; to supply now water-works, and, gonerally, to mako the city babitable and comfortablo, would have Imposed a burden in tho way of taxation diffieult to bo borno, But tho ofrcumstancos aro difforont. Wo havo growvn amnzingly since the firo, We have doubled and trebled our business in many branchos ; we have rostored tho vacant places and robuilt Ohicago, and our oxpenditures for public improvoments and city governmont have not increased but little boyond tho porcontage thoy would havo done had there beon no fire; and for that oxcesa of exponditure we have a now oity, bottor provided than it otherwise would Livo boon. 5 CAPT, HICKEY'S 0ASE. An informal investigation into the caso of Capt. Hickoy wag commonced by the Board of Polico on Friday ovening, “No charges wore pro- forrad. It was n sort of interview batwoon tho Commissioncrs, Onpt. Hickoy, and Suporintend- ont Washburn, Tho purposo of the Board—or of a majority of thom—was to find out all about tho nogotiations which led to the ro- turn of the stolen jowelry to Lizzio Booro on the payment of a cortain nmount of monoy. It was tho purpose of Capt. Hickey to toll nothing at nll about {t. The most on tho dobt, the maintonance aud support of tho Polics aud Firo Dopartmonts, tho construction of now bridges, and the restoration of firo-appara- tus, and various other oxpenses made necossary by the firo, have beon pald to the extent of that sum without taxation. Tho firo loft tho city without water-works ; and theso have had to be supplied. In 1870, the .mew Constitution put an end to the reckless system of borrowed money. Tho enforcemont of this prohibition was o little oppressive after the fire, but, a8 things have turned out, perhaps, on tho whols, it has proved as beneficial as it undoubtodly would bave been ad thero baen no firo. Wo havo, therofore, from April, 1871, until April, *i&i&,—two yenrs,—had an annual fax much lower than that of ordinary years. In that period of unusually low taxation the ity has boen practically restored,—and rostorad upon a scalo that induces the beliof that tho firo, notwith- standing all the destruction of praoporty it caused, hns boon a vast booeflt to tho city; the iucreaes in the valuo of ronl estato since tho firo Laing g-eater than the cost of the new bulldings ovected on it. The firo loft us soveral logacies or oxpen o which cannot be avoided. It loftus s large -uaber of stroots, the pavement of which was 8o badly injured that, after bearing the wear und tanr of tho work of robuilding, the work of repuvemont has become an absolute no- ccnsity. ‘The extension of the water-mains was also a necessity ag o flnnltudmbll!fflm oand a8 a picventivo from firo, ~1ho vast oxtonsion of tho residonco distriats”hos rendered sowerago ossen- sta1 1o public hoalth and comfort, and now, after two yasro f light taxetion, cut off from all loans and all external aid, we hive tomeot this increaed, aud in gomo instances oxtraordinary, exponditure by taxation. The total sum to Lo raitiod by taxation is shout §6,600,000. Tho pur- prsos to which it is to bo applied are of soveral kinds, as follows : 1. PERMANENT InrProveMeNTS—Ropaving in- torsections of stroets, $191,875; new bridges, $48,579 ; land damagos, §£66,101; viaducts, $16,« 010 ; now fire-apparatus and siations, $160,445 ; now police-stations and lots £58,205; school- buildings and lots, 9327,80; fire-tolograph, £10.800; oxtension of witor-maine, £400,000 ; 1.2 sowers, 700,000 ; sidevalks, 283,300 ; publio DLuildings, 913,000; paws, €05,000. Total, £9,208,995. * 2. ManTENANCE—Strot-cleaning, $815,000 ; Chicago hurbor, §74,450; bLridgo-ropairs, $24,- 0085 tunnels, 818,408 ; cometory, $5,000 ; Hoslth Department, £88,150 : Bridowoll, $46,000; Polico Conrts, €3,000 ; legal oxponsos and judgments, $25,500 ; printing asd library, £65,000 ; streot- Tamps, 2500,000 ; repnirs of fire-apparatus and kode, §65,138 ; cloating North Branch, $200,000, Total, $1,425,000, 3, DrrartyENT ExrENses—Tiro Department, €286,420 ; uchools, $449,545. Police Department, €318,900. Total, $1,284,855. 4. Pusrte Desr—Contingont fund, $10,000; interost honded dobt, £385000; intorest on miworago debt, $368,108 3 redomption of bonds and certificntes, $25,000 ; sinking fund, $82,000, Total, #770,108, Tho appropriations for theso four classes of urvico aggrogale §6,668,874, Tho balance of the approprintion—about $400,000—covors the genorel and apecial oxpouscs of the administra- ct tho City Government. 1t will bo seon that over two millions of the #nm appropristed are for improvements of a por- menent charactor; things absolutely noeded, visible to tho eyo, baving a property value, and essontial to tho businass, health, and comfort of tao city. Tho socond class of nppropristions ia for tho maintenanco and repairs of tho publio property already constructod and paid for, and a0t up nearly ono million and o Inl¢ of dollars ‘I'ue: cout off tho Fire, Police, and School Dopart~ meuts is oue miilion and & quarter, while the in- torent and sinking funds of tho publio debt call for £770,000. Tho expenuea for enlaries and sup- plies for tho varioun oxecutive dopartmenta of the City Glovernment aro dofrayod by the spocial revonuo from licenson, ‘The nmount to be ratsed by taxation is about £5,600,000, Tho ordinary valuation of the real and personal taxablo proporty in the cily is about °400,000,000. Tho real value, orthe valuo nt which tho owners would alone part with ity is ahout $550,000,000, Tho tax, therofore, nocecssa- 77 Lo raiso this smount of revenus will be abont 1 per cont on tho actual value of the Pproperty taxed. Considoring that two-fiftha of tho money toba rainad fs to be applied to tho construoction of permanent improvemonts ; considering that for two yoars tho tax for city purposes has boon far lena than it was bofore the fire ; considering that tho fire hav nocessitatod & largo expendi- ho would do was to make & genoral donisl that he had over received any monoy from Lizzlo Mooro—probably intonded to mean that he por- sonally never acoeptod money from het, For the rost, hio claimod that ho had paased his word of houor not to roveal tho names of tho partics who returned tho properly ; and subsequont quos- tioning uttorly fuilod to olicit anything from him oither in regard to the porsons who returned tho proporty or tho circum- slances under which. the negotiation for the return was conduoted. He ‘was what Lucotto Myors, detained in the Goodrich mur- dor caso, declared horself to bo,—'‘A parrot that never talks,” Capt. Hickoy chattored a good denl, buthio gave sbaolutely no informa- tion, Ho claimed that his word of honor was a8 binding upon him as his oath of ofiico, and failod to appreciato the fact thnt passing his word of honor to conceal a transaction that wag in flagrant violation of tho rules of the Polico Daopartment, as woll as of common morality, was tsolf a violation of his dutios of offico. If hie had deliborately violatod this without any prickings of conscienco, it would seem that ho might Just a8 reasonably recall his word of honor given to thioves or the nesocintes of thleves, Capt. Hickoy did not take this view of it. The pointa of defense which Hickey has endonvored thus far tomake out aro: (1) That hohnd tho authority of the Superintondent for his action ; (2) that thoro wap Dothing wrong in diokering for tho roturn of stolen property whon the thioves wore undoy arrest; and (3) thatit hos beon the custom of the Polico Dopartment, which ho (Hickoy) had followed frequontly, to nogotianto. or stolon proporty, Theso points aro all controverted by the evidence, or by law- In rogard to the firat thero is a flat contradiction botwoon Hickey and Washburn, Hickoy enys that he triked to tho Buperintendont about tho cage, axd told him that ho thought ho could se- oure thio roturn of Lizzie Moora's property ina secrot way, and the Superintendent told him to do it. Washburn engs that this is not true. As batwoen Hickoy and ‘Washburn, the public will prefor to beliove the Iatter. In rogard to tho second point,—that thero sas nothing wrong in negotiating for the Pproporty aftor tho thioves wero under arrest,—it in o vory susplolous circumstance that only ono of the throo thievos arrested was bronght to trial; that thero was nobody to Proso- cuté the casos excopt Capt. Hickey, and that tho “fonco” was kept in tho back- ground all the timo, T'he return of the proporty socms to -have boon made about tho time tho thieves undor arrest wore virtually pormitted to ogcape. As to tho nssertion that this caso is but ono of a large number, and that it has boon tho practice of tho Polico Department to negotiato for tho roturn of stolen proporty, it doos not, if truc, help Capt. Hickey's caso. If Hickey and othor mombera of tho polico forco have boon in tho habit of treating with thioves, * fonces,” and their go-betweons, such treatios must buve beon made on the busls of somo quid pro quo—porhaps not oxactly compounding a felony, but next door to that. It noods no argumnent to show that such a practico is oaleu- lated to encourags thieves and promote robbor- ies. The polico forco Is not maintained ata largo publio expenso for this purposo, and the practico can bo bost broken up by the dismissal of Capt. Hickoy for his share in it. Though Hickoy was very guarded in his com- munications, he did not fail to commit himsolf broadly iu ono {nstance, o says that ho nogo- tiated for Lizzie Moore’s proporty bocauso ho came to tho conclusion that it was better to get tho properky bmek than to lot it bo taken away from the city and be do- stroyed. Further onin the convorsation ho ad- mits that it was his undorstanding that tho property had been taken sway from tho eity, Lizzlo Mooro, it will bo remembored, sworo bo- foro tho Grand Jury that Hickey reprosentod to hor that tho proporty was in Pittsburgh, and roud tohor a lottor concorning it which purported to como from a pawnbroker in thatcity, The golf-contradiction of Mickoy in thls re- apoct s mot caleulated to give his “word of honor" tho oredit which ho is anxious to eatablish for it by refusing to roveal tho cir- oumatances of his negotiation for the roturn of stolon proporty. A ourfous foaturo of the {nter- viow of last Friday was that Commissioner Blior- iden spoko of the informant who lod to tho dig- covory of tho stolon jowolry, as though Lo knew him, saylng that Le (the informant) is ** as ro- #pectable & man as thore §8 in the City of Chi- cago,” Oan it bo that Commissloner Bheridan rofers to tho * fenoo " in this cago who Las boon indictod by tho Grand Jury ? And, whethor this is the samo person or not. 18 i} not tho duty of Commianionor Shoridan to toll what Capt. Bickoy rofunod to tell? Or husho, too, ‘¢ pasgod Lils word of honor ?" If Capt. IMlokey's case shiould never be moro thorouglily ventilated than it s now, it Ia cortain thiat ho hns violated ono of ¢tho rles of tho De- partmont, which requiron that all stolen proporty shall horoturned through the Buperintondont, This i sufMclont to warrant hig dismissal. It is also cortain that he has boon in tho labit of bargaining with thieves and thoir roprosontatives for the roturn of stolon proporty, and it is probabla that othor police-ofiicors havo boen similarly engaged in this pornicions and unlawful practice, The dis- ‘missal of Capt, Hickoy for this cazo world bo n notico to tho wholo Departmont that the de- moralizing practics must bo droppod. — THE POST LIDEL-SUIT. - The Linda Gilbort libol-suit against the Chicago Post torminated yeaterday in a vordict of aix contd damages, If wo undorstand this metter correctly, the Post nssumed aud charged that tho schemo dovisod by Misa Gilbort and hor ns- Bociates, {n the namo of & prison-library charity, was nothing moro nor less than a lottery, and thoroupon donounced it as a frand, and tho por- #ons concorned in it as parties to » fraud. If this wero the libol,—and wo undorstand that was tho substanco of it,—the vordict {a not only sufli- ocient as o moasure of damagos, but s, porhaps, opon to tho objection that it was six conts too much, All lotterion are frauds. They aro illogal in this Btato, Thoir tondenoy ia to corrupt and de- bago publio morals, Being such, neitlior the nominal objeot for which they are proposed, nor tho, charactor of thoso who lend their namos to tho schomes, can relieve them of the odlum which justly bolongs to them. While charity covereth a multitude of sins, it never scoks to Justify thom. It does not suggest ovil practices that good maycomo. OCharity may cover what- over offenso tho mauagers of a lottery may com- mit, but it cannot justify tho lottory, nor make that whicl is oriminal lawful and honest. Had tho jury givon a verdict for any substantial amount of damagos, it would have boen a justi- fleation of lotteries by a sworn jury, which would havo boon a logal non sequitur, oo woll as & groat public injury, DR, RADCLIFFE ON THE DEVELOPMERT THEORY. The evolution theory, more commonly known 28 Darwinfsm, has bocome the leading topio of ecientifio investigation and strife. And woll it may bo, for, if truo, it is tho most startling dis- covery ever mado, transconding in impoktance oven those of Copornicus, Kepler, and Nowton, If man is eimply tho result of a *dovelopmont” from an oxtinct fish of a former geological period, or if ho is & dovelopment of any kind from any other animal than himsolf, thero s unfoldod to us & ecliemo of tifo universo a8 difforont from our proconceptions aa the solar systom of Newton is different from that of Ptolomy. Itis perfectly cortain that the conm- troversy now raging botwoon Agassiz and his allics, on the ono hand, aud Darwin and his disoiples, on the other, will go on until one or tho othor sghall havo achleved a sub- stantial victory, or uniil ench elell have permanontly puzzled the other. The Popular Science Monthly is thoroughly ime bued with Darwiniem, and Prof. Youmans, its oditor, fights its battles with o forvor worthy of o bottor cause theu that of proving his romoto ancestors to have boon apes, Prof. Marsh, of Yalo, is delviog into the unoxplored realms of paloontology toflnd material that will *8ll up tho gap.” Agassiz has lattorly stood alono among the emi- nent savans in opposition tothe dootrino, though it was he who denionstrated tho likonoss to the fish, reptilo, and bird in the development of tho human cmbryo. A now combatant hasnow appesred, in the per- son of Dr. 0. B. Radoliffe, who haa dolivered o lecture boforo tho Royal Collogea of Phy- slcians in Euvgland on tho subjoct, and printed it in tho London Lancet, Dr. Radoliffe's viows havo tho grenter forco in that ho agrecs largely with Horbert Spencor’a evolution philoso- phy, and sympathizes with the doctrino of unity in mattor and spirit. Io does not beliovo, how- over, that this principlo of unity justifies Mr. Darwin's genoralizations that ono organ is de- veloped into anothor organ, or one animal or Plant into anothor animal or plant, He holds that, if thors is eny conncction botwoen them, tho ides of unity ronders tho no- ceptanco of tho ovelution theory tho moro difienlt. Ho agroes with Prof. Agassiz that the procoss of the devolopmont in tho em- Dbryonic life of higher animals does not prove that theso highor animals passod through o sue- cession of different animals, each a little moro porfect than ite predecessors. Theso rosem- blances—always moro or loss remote—aro not roslities, but simply bear witness to tho unity of plan in all forms of animal lifo, An argu- mont which Dr. Radoliffo makes that will com- mond itself readily to tho ordinary understand- ing s, that man, in big strugglo for lifo, ** has nover turnod his opportunities for natural selec- tion so far to account a8 to mako oven tho slightost advanco toward physical improve- wmout," Tha fact soems to bo that the phyaical condition of man has rotrogradod, it wo take mugoular prowess, powor of enduranco, health- fulnous, and longovity as fair points of compari- son, E The moat formidable opposition which tho svolutionists have to encounter isin the con- #tant ovidence of backward movements as cloar and plain as that of progrossion. Dr, Radeliffe rofers to somo peouliar instancos, Tho breod- ing of tho pigeon produces obanges which constituto differont variotios, though theso changos mnovor go so far as to make up o now spocies, DBub if tho variotios thus produced aro mllowed to take thoir own courso for & few gonorations, tho rosult is & ro- turn to the common pigoon, and perhaps to tho wild varioty, 8o tho dog may bo modified in gonoral charactor, but bo nlso roturus to tho primitivo condition if lot alone, Dr. Radeliffo cites tho infortility of tho mulo as the indication of o barrier botwoen difforent spocios of ani- mals which provents ono from passing loto the othor. 8o, in tho case of the simplest forms of lite, tho bacteria, ‘which may bo doveloped from what is to all appearancos fuorganio lifo, become unstablo in the higher forms of existonce aud broak up again into baotorial units, Thus tho rotrograde movomont is as olearly mniked as the progrossivo movement. Nor does D, Rad- oliffe think that tho facts of astronony and geology usually cited in favor of the ovolution theory give it auy pormanent support. The nebular hypothesis, which had much to do with formulating tho theory, he s inoljued toregardon excoodingly nebulous and hypothotical. To the geologleal proofs hio makos auawer that tho end- losa ages wefe nocossary to the evolution claimod ; but that, if such a vast oxtent of timo bad elapsod, overy trace of organization would, have docomposod ‘and dlsnppoared boforo tho animale could have boen coverad up in tho bods they now ocoupy. He rofors also to the faot that somo fossils are found out of placo,~in strata where thoy conld not bo it living thinga had mado thelr appearance in the ordor laid down in tho daotrine of, ovolution. The dritt of Dr. Radcliffe’s Idona is worthy of vory sorious consideration bofore glving ovolu- tion tho Ligh suthority which ltaadvooates are already boginning to claim for{t. The lino of rensoning is much the samo s that adoptod by Prof. Agaselz, with tho differonce that tho lattor is.moro solchtifie and tochnleal, and tho former more roadily comprohended by tho untrained Hiladi — THE GORDON FANFARONADE, Tho speck of war on the northern frontier promises to furnish excltemant for the peopla of Minnesota and the British rosidentsin Manitobs, for tho goason, and it {a possiblo that tho British and Amorican Governments will have to intor- podo in order to prescrve tho peaco. The history of the riso and progross of this fanfaronado s poculiar, and may bo thus briefly stated : Bomo yeara sgo thoro appeared in this country an Eng- lishman ealling Liimselt Lord Gordon Gordon, and cladming to bo s relative of Lord Byron. This titled Individual turned wup in Now York, whoro, upon the strongth of lottors of introduction and & Iavish porsonal expendi- tufo, he mado tho acquaintance of Jay Gould and othor financial operators, Ho succeeded in making Gould beliove that ho was the confiden- tinl ngont of tho English holders of tho Erio Railway stook and bonds, and, after considerablo sharp diokering, ho induced Gould to place in his honds, in trust for his alloged principals, soouri- ties to thoe value of half a million dollars, Bub- soquontly, Gould, botter informod, or distrusting His Lordsbip's honeaty, camodown upon him, and got most of the proporty back. QGordon was hold to ball, if not indoed indicted, for swindling, and Horaco F, Olark and A, F. Roborts, who had slso boon deceived by him, becamo se- curity for his appearanco in tho sum of £87,000. It is noodloss to add that Lord Gordon Gordon haa nover prosonted himself in Now York for trial, and that his bondsmon are hold for tho ponalty. Tho next thing hoard of him was that ho was at Fort Garry, in Manitoba. This coun- try is sottled mainly by Bootch, and among thom Gordon was at homo. Ho was of thoir kith and Lin, and folt cortain they would nover lot him be takon by tho Yankees. Somo time ago, Gordon was robbod-of $41,000in greonbacks, and it was soon aftor announced that tho thieves and the money had boen captured at Minneapolis; but this robbory and essy capture of tho robbors has boon supposed %o bo o mero rugo to induco Gordon to cross aver the lino into tho United States, whoro ho could be arrosted by his bondsmen. If this woie so, it failod, and His Lordship proforred to lot tho monoy go to taking any risks on tho southorn side of the border, About the closo of June, Mr. Roberts, having obtnined from some sourcs & logal opinion that & fugltive from justico might be arrested by his bail wherover he might be found, hired two Min- neapolis policomen, named Hoy and Koogan, to g0 to Manitoba snd arrost Gordon. Mossrs. J. 0. Burbank, Fleichor, and Merriam, well-known and rosponsiblo citizens of Minneapolis, woro in TFort Gnrry on July 2, whon Ifoy and Keogan roached thoro. The officers had lotters to those pontlemon explaining tholr mission, but tho lat- ter in no manner taok any partin tho proceedings that followed. Tho officers found and arrestod Gordon about sovon miles from Fort Garry, ‘on Wednesday evening,-July -2, and started with him for Minnesota, Tho'arrost was mado known at Fort Garry on the morning of the 84, and tho British Attornoy-Genoral telegraphed to the Custor-Houso on the frontior to arrest the porty. This dispatch was received by tho British Oustoms officor fiftoen minutes before the Amorican officors and Gordon reached the bor- dor. Thay were promptly arrestod and carried back to Fort Garry. Gordon thon madoe come plaint that Morriam and Flotchor woro parties to the abduction. Burlsnk wos sbsent at tho time, and Le managed 0 got away, or he too would have been arresiod. Tho four Americana aro now held in Fort Garry upon a chergo of Lidoapping ; they have becn examined and com- mitted to jail to awaittheir trinl, and tho foeling that has beon arouscl is such that they will probably have s hard time of it. Thdro aro two questions of law fnvolved in tho matter. The firet is, whothor & fugitive on bail can bo ar- rostod by his bondsmon wherevor found, oven in & foroign courtry, Tho American officers woro 80 advised, and, doubtloss, erroncously. They did not soen to have placed much faith in tho advico, for whon they got to Fort Garry, in- stoad of asking tio aid of the Dritieh officors, thoy kopt their purposo secret, and, when they arrestod Gordon, started with him hurriedly to the frontior. The next question relates to tho logality of tho arrost of tho two officers, It scoms that thers is some doubt whoro the oxact boundary lino is. Thore is & boltof territory which is claimed %y both Governments. The two oficors wero arrcstod on this disputed ground, and claimthat they wore on American soll. In the moattime, tho frionds of the two morchants and o tho oflicors are snxious about ‘them, and tayo renson to assumo that tho British courts will treat thom rigorously, and punish them goverely, for tho forcible ab- duction of o British subjoot, ZLooked at dispassionatoly, tho officers woro guilty of a grave offense. Had tloy got Gordon juto this country, it would have Lo TECessRTy ¢o roturn him, Their conduct vag illogay throughout, nnd thoy may, porlinps, be punished sovoroly. It the two merchants wore mt guilty of partioipation in the kidnapping, they will un- questionably bo rolensod in due timo. It isthelr misfortuno to have beon mixed up in tho matter, There aro some oxoitablo peoplo who want Gon. Shorman to march the Amorioan army to Fort Qarry to rosouo tho imprisoned partios, andon tho othor eldo therois a lond roaring of the British Lion, domanding vengoanca for tho out- rago upon Gordon Gordon, & Dritish subject, But it {s far from boing a casus belll, —————i The Progres of Lyons, France, waa sup- prossed in a vory curious way, In ono of iisis- sues, apropos of tho procosslons of the Felo Dieu, & lettor was published, purporting to have boen writton by the Bishop of Lyous to the Profeot of the Rhone, in which ke renounced all tho priviloges and mensuros of toleration horetofore granted to Catholio worakip by the Btato, and ordored that the solomn processlona of tho Foto Dieu should not take place, Al- though the lotter waa a hoax, dated from the Valloy of Jehosaphat, and signed by M, da Bonald, tho predecessor of tho prosent Dlskop, who hias beon doad thros yoars, the authorities failed to poreolvo it, and summarily suppressod tho papor; and, after dlacovering tho hosx, ro- fusod {o annul the ot of supprossion, The hoax of the Progres, thereforo, war a good joko upon overy ono but itsolf, A BTORY WITHOUT A MOTIVE, Tho London papors aro just now commenting upon & singular story, which is all tho more sin- gulnr as it is o atory without motive. Nothingin moro common in criticlams of romances and dramaa than the comment that tho horo or horo- ino wna not {rue to natura, becauso he or he ia without motivo; and that the situations are _hn- probablo, and could not Liave happeued in resl 1ito, becauro in real lite thore is alwaya a reason- sble osusa for overy action. Tho story in quos- tlon, howover, onco moro proves tho truth of the old saylng that truth s stranger than flo- tlon, and shows that our noxt-door neighbor, undor certain olroumstancos, i3 just sa liablo to do things without any ostonsible purpose as tho atage horo or the heroine of the romanco. Tho story turns upon a law-suit, in which tho valldity of a wall was at issue. Some four yoars ngo, tho tostator, who was tho son of a Bcotoh merchant, camo to London after living somo time in Ohina, Ho was woalthy, and hold a high soolal position, Home timo after his arrivalin London, ho mot a Welsh gir], who was llving with ono of hia frionds as lady's maid. Sho was very attractive, gracoful, olover, and bosutiful, but {lliterato nnd of low oxtraction., By his por- susslon eho lofs hor situation and lived with bim as his mistross for a cortain timo, ab the expiration of which she was lawfully married to him in Glasgow. This should bo tho natural donouemont of tho story, and thoroaftor, by all the rules of custom and precedent, hor life should have been & quiet and unoventful one. Bho had attaiued her purpose by marrisgo, and by tho samo act had sttained a oloar right to bo froo from scandal or roproach. Like Lady Twiss, and numorous othors, she should, during tho roat of hor life, have condonod for the er- rors of the past by leading an irreproachablo 1ifo and commending herself to socloty both by her olovernoss ana hor goodness, Thore was no longer any nocessity for tho decoptions and con- conlments which wore necessary whon she was liviog 88 & mistross and trying to couvinca tho world that eho wes & wifo, And by ovoryrulo of ordinary experience, sho might have epent tho romainder of hor days in happi- noss and quict, Instoadof that, eho deliber- [ stely envoloped hersolf in & tissuo of decoptions, for which there was no reasonsble motive, and which wero all the moro inexplicablo from the faot that thoy wore liabla to be oxposed at any moment. Inthe first place, she was marriod undor an assumod name, after having livod as a miatress under hor own namo. Then she Topro- sonted horsolf to bo tho daughtor of a clorgy- man, wheroas sho was tho daughter of & Welsh farmer. Bho’ Lad w strong Welsh ac- cont in her spoach, and this she turn~ od to account by making people bolieve 8hio wag of foroign birth, and that her accont was Gorman, As sho was s poor writer, sho om- ployed some of her friends to writo for her. Sho porsuaded her husband to countonance hor de- coptions, and Lo gave out that sho was of aristo- cratio birth, Thon she announced Lor intention of making 5 visit to hor noblo relations in Ger- mony, whereas ghe in renlity wont to seo hor mother in Wales, and, when sho ro- turned, sho brought on infant with hor, which shio roprosentod to bohor own cluld, Her decop- tions woro vory succossful for a time. Sho wan admitted into aristocratio _ socloty, end hor husbaud brought her to Lon- don, whore thoy lived in handsomo apart- monts in Colvillo Gardens, Sho convineod her husband and hor friends that sho had prosonted the formor with an heir. In 1803 the husband died, leaving the proceeds of his proporty tohis wife as long es sho ro- mained unmarried. By tho conditions of tho will, however, if she marriod she was to have but £100 a yoar. Almost any person analyzing the curions conduct of this woman would eay at onco that she had carried on this systom of de- ceptions for tho purpose of socuring the proper- ty, but this theory ia at onco exploded by the fact that, two yoare after her husband's doath, she married a Captain in the army, in the faco of tho provisions of the will, thus deliborately throwing away the handsome proporty, and ro- coiving but a paltry hundred per annum, In 1809, tho womsn herself died, and then the Trusteos bogan to look a littla more particularly to the history of tho case, as & suit was brought which turned upon the parontago of the boy. A very briof invostigation showed that tho boy was tho son of a woman named Alston, whoso husband was o copchman, and that he was born in Bays- wator, in 1860. The horoino of tho story went . to this woman and induced hor to part with her son upon condition that Lo should bo adopted by her and handsomely brought up. Upon this showing of tho Trusteos, tho Court docided that tho brothors and sisters of tho tostator wore ontitlod to his fortuno. Horo is cortainly a clear caso of absonco of motivo, There is no ap- paront cnuso why this onco ledy's mald, after having bocome tho wife of the rich morchant, and having apparently attained tho objact of hor ambition, should have doliboratoly commeonced a serlous of cunning de- coptions which wore, as far as can be discovered, absolutely without motivo, The motive of money, which usually explaing all social mys- terien, did not apply in this case, becauso eho doliborately and of Lher own freo will throw tho wholo property away by mar- rying & sccond timoe, The only othor motive loft is the lovo of adventure, but why should a womsn comfortably situated choono to indulge in & serios of adventures which rosulted in no benefit to hor? Thoy had no flnancial advantago. Thoy did mot gratify auy amorous inclinations. Thoy did not chango her poeltion, or give her any soclal advantages, ‘which sho could not have Liad at nny timo, Hore- attor the writers of fiction may at any time jus- tify thoeir horoos and herolnes in any absurd ec- contricitios they may chooso to display, — The coal-aupply question etill continues to at- tract oarncet attoution in England. A moloot commttoe of tho ouso of Commons is at pros- ont invostigating tho question, and at.ono of tholr recont sesuions somo Interesting facts woro dovolopod touching the condition of tho coal- minors in Yorkshire, Ono of tho hoavy proprie- tors testifled that fifteon yoara ago thers was soarcely s minor who could writo Lis own pame, Now they are eduoating thomeselves and their ohildron, Harmoniums, pianos, and porambu- Iators aro to bo soon, and the miners oclub ‘together sometimes aud get a bottlo of cham- pagne, “‘to sea what it i like.” The men generally work oight hours a doy, wages aro managed to bocome the owners of thelr housos. The collier now oarns £1 114, 6d. whoro ho used to got but £1per wook. Concorning tho prices of coal, tho following oxtract from the tostimony Is of intereat: “Thoro wore too many hands botween the producor and the consumer ; and, to his mind, it was A ehamo the London mor- clinnt should have it in his power to soll 1,600 tonn o day at o proflt of £1 por ton, Bix montha 8g0,ho bought tho best Bilkstone at the pit's mouth for £1 & ton for a friend in London. Tho duca and oarringo cost 12s. 62, and tho carlago 4s,, making £1 108, 62, & ton, nnd yot at the snmo poriod tho price in tho London market was 4£2 108, o did not any thoro was any combina- nation amongat the morchants, but thoy always bad an underatanding about the prics to be oharged to tho publle,” ———— e ———— GEN., HOWARD AND THE APACHES, In addition to the difficultien of & financial nature in which Gen. 0..0, Howard has hacome involved, growing out of his administration of tho Froodman's Buroau and the Howard Univer- sity, tho Alfa Galifornia makes & serious sharge egainat him in reforenco to his troaly-making with tho Apaches, It cites, in tho firat instance, tho act passed by Congross, March 80, 1808, pro< Libiting military . officors from acospling any diplomatio or consular position, undon penalty. of boing considered ss having rosignod thelr officos. On tho 16th of July, 1870, another act waa passod providing “‘that it shall not bo lawful for nny officer of the Army of the Unitod Biatos, on tho motive list,to hold any civil offloo, whother by cloction or nppointment; and any such officor accopting or oxerolsing tho funotions of w civil office ehall at once cease to bo an offlocr of tho army and his commisston shall be vacated thereby.” In violation of thls provision of law, Gen, O.O. Howard has held civil ofico, both ns Commissioner of the Froodman's Burcau ond as a Spocial Indian Oommisslonor to Arizons, With the financlal irrogularities which occurred during his admin- istration of the Froodman's Buroan, tho publio 18 famillar by general roport, , and theso will bo mado moro oxplicit whon hiscase is brought Governmont., Concorning bis sdministration of Indian affairs, how- to irlal by the ovor, tho public Lknowa vory lttlo, from tho faot that they have beon kopt mystori- cusly seorot, This much Is known, however. Inhis capacity as Bpocisl Commissioner to the Apacho Indiong, ho made treatiea with various {ribos of that natlon, among them one at Usmp Grant, in May, 1873, and one with Cochluc's band in the Dragoon Mountains, in Octobor of tho samo yoar, Those treatios wore rocognized by tho Govornment, and in pursuance of thofr provisions, some littlo childron were remandod to barbarism, and Cochigo haa raided at will upon the people of Sonora, spreading tor- ror whorever ho has gono. By this treaty tho Apaohios wero not enly onabled to pursue their trado of murder and robbery in Sonors, buts number of them wero locatod within twelve milos of Moxican torritory, so that thoy could raid across tho bordor without diffienlty,—s fa- cility which was all the casior of attainmont bo- causo they woro mnot subjected to those chocks which had beon placed upon them The result of this hns been that Gen. Crook is conatantly hampored in his operations againat the Apaches. 1n proximity to Amorican towns. A copy of tho troaty has mover been furnished him, although ho commands the Department of Arizons, nor to Gen. Schofiold, commanding the Division of tho Pacific. The latter has made ap~ plication for it to tho Socretary of ‘War, but s failed to obtaln 1, counvyuently thels upers- tons to proteot tho sottlors of Arizons against the Apachos have to bo made in tho dark, and at overy turn thoy aro confronted by somo troaty guaranteo to tho Apnches of which they aro ig- norant, and which dofents tholr intentions, Why Isthis treaty kopt @0 socrot? Why aro the of- fleors of the army, who should be informed of Gen, Howard’s ofiicial aots for thelr own guid~ ance, be denied all knowledgo of the provisiona Has Gen. Howard in his favoritiem to Apaches s0 committod the that publiclty would expose of this treaty? Government the disgraceful situation of afftairs? Has Gon. Howard such an exceptional geniua for dealing with savages that hia official acts are not only to pass unquostioned, but to bo kept strictly socrot, also, while officers of tho army who aro i pald wookly, and not m fow of the men have actual eervico arc to bo oxposed to tho caprices of this Brigadior-Goneral, who is drawing pay without performing the dutios of his office ? — Alexandor Manzonl. Nearly ninoty yoars ago, Manzoni, the great poet who died on the 223 of May, 1878, firat saw the light. ‘Ho was born in Milan, to whoso won- dorful minstor Lis gonius has been comparad by ono a8 familiar with the poot as with the world- ronowned cathedral of his native placo. The oyo of tho travoler riding overthe plain on which the fair city is situated la attracted by tho mighty structuro tong before the ses of housos out of which it springa is oven visible, Its hundred smaller towers are notyet visiblo $ but tho emsemble of the work is Inexprossl- bly imposing. Arrived at the piaza del duomo, howaver, the feoling of sublimity awalonod by its magnitude gives way, gradual- 1y, to ite charms of dotail. The minutost part of the great wholo is charactorized by the most porfoct symmoiry and completencss. Sublime a8 a wholo, beautiful in overy part—such is tho Oathodral of Milan, Buch, too, s Manzoni, ‘Agnin, a8 the vast tomple towers above tha ordi- nary habitations of mon, so Mauzoni towers abova contomporary Italian writers. Heo was of noblo birth, Lis father being Count Manzoni and his mother tho daughter of Bec- caria, tho colobrated savan. It seoms thatat ono time e was a disoiple of Voltaire, but soon rovortod back to the faith in which bo was born and of which ke continued tho rest of his days a forvent adheront. Bomo timo ago, ospecinlly i Ger- many, it was tho fashion smong aclasaof critics to call Manzoni o **bigot." Roman Catholics, on Ao other hand, olaimod Lim as tholr exclusive property, Tho former accused him of prosti- tuting his muso, of giving that to party which was meant for mankind, Buch, howevor, wag not tho view entortained of Manzoni in his own country. Thoro Lo was honored by all partioa aliko, Wherovor an Italian is to bo found, no matter what his faith or hig political creed, tlawe too ia to be found an admiror of Manzoni, Thero aro thoso of his countrymen who do not think snything tho more of him for his dovotion to Mothor Ohurch, but oven thoso, it thoy did not caro for Manzoni tho Catholio, loved Manzoni the poot. And, it may bo added, tho world at large fools aa they do, All true lovera of art pay to him tho homago duo to tho roal post. All pay him that homage who oan do howmago to his groat countryman Dante, Dante, too, was & Roman Cathollo, Had he not boen & Roman Onthollo, tho Divina Comedia had novor beon writton, Manzoul {8 a brilliant oxcoption in tho history of modorn Italisu litorature. Ilis contom~ poraries worefor tho most part negative, rovolu- tionary, dostruotive, Thoy could dostroy, but wero powerloss to build up, They desired tho rogeneration of their country, but sccomplished nothing. Not by urging tho destruction of all that s, but by a thorough reformation of tho bLoazty of his countrymen, did Mangoni hona to —_— e accomplish anything for thom ; and with that viow hie wrote, Our suthor was distinguislied in evory branch of polite litorature, aa a lyria poot, a dramatist, and & novelist, His first appearance .bofore the - public was in his 21at yoar, in his Ode in Aorti di Qonlo Imbonaté, written on the oceasion. of tho death of an intimnto famlly triond, Thus sorrow and not 1ovo, a8 18 ‘the ¢aso with most young poots, gavo to his lyroita first inspiration, This was in 1808. In 1810 ho published hia - Inni Sacri,—five sacred pooms or hymns, called roapootivaly Tho Birth of Obrist, Tho Paanion, Tho Resurrection, Pentecost, and The Namo of Mary. The publication of theso pooms placed Manzoni at onco in the first rank of tho lyrie * poots of his country. Ho had now found tha basts on whioh toraise tho fabricof a lastingTop- utation, But two roads lay opon before him— the road which $iyron, Heine, and Sholley after- ward traversed, or tho road of Faith, Manzonl could not travel the former. Ko ohosa the lat- tor. He choso fobongreat Itallan and groat Catholio poot. Yet ho was Catholio In no sec- tarian sonso, His hymns are bymus liko the Slabat Mater or the Dies Ire, hymns which spesk to tho universal hoart of mankind ; ton of feclings that for conturien bave ntirrod the heart of Ohristendom. Tho Iaat and greatest of Manzoni's lyrica was hia woll-known I Cinque 2Aaggio—~hia ode to Napoloon—s mester-ploco, worthy to rank with the very fineat lyrio efforts in any language, an. clent or modorn, Anatragio poet he ranka firnt among hiy countrymen. Indeed, before him Italy had na tragio poet worihy of tho name, unloss, perhaps, we excopt Alflorl. Certain it Isthat bofore Man. zoni's day Italy possossed nothing that could be oalled a National drama, His most colobratod dramas are his Conti di Carmagnola and Adelchi, No dramatist ever knew bottor how to contro the Interest of the publio in his hero than did Man- ronL . Italy is indobtod to the subject of thia aketoh for somothing more. It owos him the historical novel, Inspirod by Boott's succoss, Manzong wrota the ** I Promesst Sposi"—The Betrothod. Tho atory is full of charming doseriptions of Italisn oustoms, but partioularly celobrated for tho scene between Frederigo andtho Innominato, & scene with which thero is nothing in any othor litorature to compare for awe and sacrodnoss, The talo has boen translated into s great many languages, but nover with Buccuss ; not even into Gorman, whioh, on account of ita floxibility, in peculiarly adapted to rondering tho idioms of foroign Ianguages, This tale it wan whioh oxcitod the admiration of the groat master Gootho for Manzoni. Though suggostod by Boott, tho style o2 Manzoni's novel bhas nothing tn common with Scott but the name. Ot this work the author never lost sight, and na now edition of it appeared without receiving his corroctions.. Manzonl lived long enough to 8e0 himeelf tho recognized peor of the great minds in . tho history ot “his country's ltoraturo,—ot Dante, Tasso, Avlosto, Petrarch. e outlivod all hia family, His last ohild, a daughter, died in Ler §0th yoar; and siuco hor death the poot lived slone, olinging moro tenactously than over totho faith he had so boautitully illustrated. Hodied, mourned by all trus lovers of art, n Roman Catholio—such & Roman Catholic ag was Raphael | or Michrol Angolo, and a8 great almost a poot as they ware artists. —_— It seems that Gon, Grant’s inaugural has just renohiod Gon. Garlbaldi in his retreat in Caprera, and there finds about the first spontancous ro-. sponso that has beou reportod. Gen. Garibaldi eays, in n letter which he wrote on tho inapira~ tion of tho mossago, that ho agrees with Gen. Gront, ‘that Buropo will finally adopt tho Re~ publican form of government.” Wo have no intolligence as yot that this declaration, commg at onco from Geon. Garribaldi snd Gen. Grant, Las struck torror to the hosrts of any of the roigning monarchs of Europe. Hovwever, the prodiction hos timo enough for fulfillment. “Finally” is » long time under all circum~ stancos, and, under application to Republicaniz~ ing all Lurope, 1t will probably extoad much ba- yond the influenco of the two gentlemen who unite in the prediction. Whothor the European Ropublican form of government will be modelod after tho radical idoas of Bpain or the prosont conservative idoas of Franco, or whother it will bo inaugurated in Rusals under the Czar, or in Prussia under Princo Bismarck, s not yot etatod. Tho interminable Tichborne onse, which 8 bo- ginning tobo even more tedious than the dotails of tho Shah'a various journeyings and junketinga through Europe, is commencing to give riso to a brood of minor cases. Tho latest of thoso isa suit brought by one Hunt, a Captain in the Royal Artillery, against ono Goodlake., Hunt was & subscnber to the Tichborno Defenso Fund, a fund maintsined by s largo num- ber of very gullible pooplea to en- able the claimant to dofond’ himsolt sgainst tho oharges of perjury and forgory upon which ho is now being tried, The offonsa committed by Goodlake, who was not a sub- soribor to the fund, was the insortion in tha .| London Times of a communication charging that Hunt was not, and never had been, & Cap- tain in the Royal Artillery. Honco tho suit for libel and the appearance of another elaimant in the courts, whoss claim is strennously denicd by tho dofendant. e e Strange Rumors of o Proposed Entire Romodeling of the Map of Eastern Europe. Vienna (June 19) Correspondence of the New York Tribune, Btrange rumors are nfloat about an agreemont betwaen tho Emperors of Russia, Germany, and Austria to put an end to the political existonco of tho Bick Man of Turkey and administer upon his ostate. The last report is that an entire re- modeling of tho map of Eastorn Europo has al- ready been decided upon ; that the outlines of tho plan wore sketohed at the mesting of the ment of the detaila was the object of the recent journey of the Emperor of Germsny to St. Poteraburgh and of the Ozar to Vienna, Tho programme, 80 tho story goos, is as follows: The Austrian Empire ia to be dismembered, Bohemis, Moravia, and Austria Bilosia to go to Prussis; Gallia to Russia,; the vprovinces of Uppor and Lowor Austrls, Btyris, the Tyrol, Carinthin, and Car- niola to compose s new Kingdom or Grand- Duohy, under tha sovereignty of the Aroh-Duke Oarl Ludwig; the Emporor Francls Joseph to abdicato and to assume the sovoreignty of & grand Lastern Empiro, made up of Hungary, Orontia, Blavouls, together with all European . Turkoy, and the somi-independent Turkish de~ pondencies of Roumania (Wallachia and Molda- via), and Montenegro. The province of Galliols would of course bo loss than Russia’s {air sharo in this division, 8o she i to gat, ‘b- side all of Asiatio Turkn{, unlimited n]?nrllpl ty to push hor froutiors tn the direction of Tydia na far as sho wishes, The mngnificont diwensions of thia sochome of national reconstruction sur- pass bolief, and it soems incrediblo that vast countries, with millions of inhabitauts, are to!bo traded off and divided up by three unvnmlg'us, o8 coolly 88 robbera sharo thelr spolls. 'There aro clomenta of probability in the story, howovor, which must °~ not bes over- looked, * The provinces which are assignod to Pruseia aro ontirely Gorman, In, lnngunfln and charaotorlatios, oxcufl! Boliemis, which {6 part Gorman and parb Ozeoh, ~ Gallioia foll to_Austrla as hor share in the partition of Poland. 1Its language is Blavonic, and its aflini~ tiod aro with Russis. The Huugarians sposk a languago kindrod to that of the Turke, aud tha Danube, flowing through both countries, forma 8 'i“‘“ artery of commorce and intorcommunfs cation between tho two, and makes & geographi- cal propriety in their union. Tho new Austrian kingdom would bo a makeweight in European politics, the siropg German tendsnolos of the uogln boiug noutralized by the family tios of he Hapsburg ruler, I ask no one to bolieve this r‘:‘iujwr& whl:h n‘:-x bo‘ml‘(’en ;%Iy a8 on&:( I‘:):lu’ ications that somef TOW, ¢ bodon ua zoad to tho Ottoman i?mpkn g tho most benutiful oxprossions ever writs three Emperors last year, and that the arranga- * KOO We~.