Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1874, Page 8

-8 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1874. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TEAME OF SUBSCRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVAXCE). RIS 1888 Sy Partsof a yearat tns same rate. To preveat delay and misiatns, bo wure and give Post Cfce address in fall, including S\ato axd Counts. Bemittances may be mado elthier by drett, orpress, Post OfSce order, or in registered letters, at ourrisk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBRNS. Dafly, delivered, Sunday exceptea, 25 cente per weck. Dalls, aclisered, Sunday included, 20 conts per woek. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, TO-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS. HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randoloh street, between ek sad Tasuio, Btacemant of Tommmtsio Salviat ** lngos mac. ACVICKER'S THEATRE-Madison streot, botween mzflxgcxmd e ar” of Sl Mores: iy ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, botween Mad- n and Monroe, . Engagement of Haker And Farron. *Curia nand Lens.” ERS' OPERA-BOUSE. Monros street, between Do ey S Arlipgton, Cotton, snd Kemble's Minstrels, “* A Slippery Day. treley and comi- calitics. ATRE~Desplaines strest, between Mad- ‘cnrfi%%rm’x’n‘}f:n. ‘Eoksgement of Sharpiey, Sheridas 150 & Mack's Minstrol ADELPHI THEATRE—Corner of Wabaah svenns and Congross strect. Varloty performance. foot of EXPOSITION BUILDING-Lsks Shors,, foot of fdims stroet.” Dubule's Painting of tho 2." ZATIN'S MUSEUM OF ANATOMY—Clark streat, be® twoon iadison and Mpnros. The Chivags Trbune, Sunday Morning, Februsry 1, 1874. THE BENTERCE OF RAFFERTY. The final judgment of the Supreme Court in the Rafferty case, overraling the motion fora new tral, and fixing ths day for the murderer's execution, will have a more wholesome effect apon the criminal clagses in this city than the uddition of a thousand men to the police force. The caee of The People vs. Rafferty is peculiarly 4 case of the polics against the roughs. It has beon understood from the beginning that, if Rafferty cecaped, nobody could ever be kaoged for killing a policeman. The con- ~verss of that proposition, <viz.: that s Ioliceman's life, while in the discharge of bis duty, is as sacrod as that of any citizen, is now establishod, and the truth will sink deep into the bosom of every desperado in the community.. The Rafferty case has become famcus through the threo trials, three convie- tions, and three arrests of judgmeni that have taken place. The murder which he committed Wwas one of peculiar atcocity, the stnbbornness ©of the defense has given it additional celebrity, snd the points of 1aw involved have been dis- cuseed far and wide. All thesa facts conspire togive emphasis to the final judgment of the Court, which goes to insure protection to polics- meninthe exercise of their perilons and im- portant vocation. Itis evident now that the point relied on so strongly by Rafferty’s counsel,—and to somo ex- tent bythe Supreme Court inits former opinion,— that O"Meara, the murdered policyman, was en- gaged in assisting to make an unlawful arrest witha vold warrant, and hence that the killing w18 only manslsughter, was based mpon & mis- upprehension of facts. It1was shown in the last trial, by evidence deemed by ihe Court anim- peachable, that the two policemen, Scanton and O"Meara, were making their beat together about midnight withont any special intentions in refer- ence to Rafferty; that their attention wasat- trocted bya bright light in one of the Bridge- port dens, and that they wont in, thinking thero might be & fire there, which should be ex- tinguished. Ineide the room was Christoper Rafferty, who was known to O'Meara but not to Scaplon. O'Mears, happening to recollect that Scanlon bad & warrant for Rafferty's arreat, whispered to him a8 they went in, * Thero's Chris.” Beanlon then went up to Rafferty, tapped him on the shoulder, and told him, ins low tone, that ho had & warrant for him, but, adding that he didn't want to disgrace him be- toro his friends by resding it befors them, in- vited him to come along. Rafferty told him to sezd the warrant alomd, which he did. Rafferty then said he would go along, but usked permission to get his coat, to which Scan- lon assented. O'Meara, meanwhile, was stand- ing near the door, but not in front of it, and Beaalon at the other end of the room. Rafferty walked to the middle of the floor with the ap- perent intention of getting his coat, but whealed erourd suddenly, and, drawing a large navy ro- volver, threatened instsnt death to auy one who should lay hands on him. Withont waiting for another movement from anybody, ke shot O’Meara through the breast. The door waa then opea to him if he had desired to escapo, but, instead of running away, he turned and fired =t Scanlon, the ball passing throogh the latter's cost on a level with his breast. Cocking his pistol a third time, ke tool s step toward Scanlon and fired again, the bullet perforating the latter's pantaloons. He then grappled with Scaulon, and tno latter threw him down. In the meles which ensued on the floor, Rafferty succeeded in cocking his pistol & fourtn time and getting the muzzle slose to the pcliceman's breast, but Scanlon saved himself by putting his band over the per- sussion eap, 80 that the hammer came down on ais finger.. As the cap did noi explode, the second intended maurder was frustrated, bnt Raffarty escaped. Striding over the dead body of O'Mesrs, he fled in the darkness, but was eventuslly apprehended and brought to trial Tpon this showing the whole theory of the defense falls to the ground, and the facta die- close a8 bratal and fiendish a murder e8 was -ever committed since Cein slew his brother. fnstead of being engaged in resisting *an illegal 24 wholly unjustifisble invasion of his Liberty,” e was employed in the congenial diversion of killing Bridgeport policemen, as he had pre- riously threatened to do. 'The warrant shich Scanlon held for his arrest, although void for technical reasons, was in no way legally sonpected with the killing of O'Mears, for the reason that O'Meara was not assisling in the srrest. There was no oceasion to assist, for Rafferty had made no resistance, but, on the sontrary, bad promised to go along quietly. D'Mears did not go there to mssist in the srrest, mnor @id Scanlon go thers to nske the arrest. They went in toput out a fire. ' They found Bafferty there, and O’Meara pointed 2im out. As Judge McAllister, who has been loremost beretofore in stsying the senteaca of Jafferty, and who wrote the last opinion of the Court granting & new trial, now writes the opin- ion in which the day of his execution is fixed, it is to be presumed that all doubts upon this tech- pical point are removed, as sll doubts upon the character of the transsction in its criminal sspects were long ago set at rest, Ko zight-thinking parson will extlt oves the execution of even the most hardened felo Rafferty has shown neither contrition for his crime nor any epecial interest in bis own fate during the long period that he has been in con- finement, on trin], or under scntence. Ho has Teceived the soveral vardicts which have been rendered against him without emotion. He has eithor belioved, 28 most of his class do, that “Hanging is played out,” or has been endowed with the stoicism and indifference of an Indian. Yet the viow which we are compelled to take of his approaching eud 18 very different from that of oxultation. Wolook upon it as the solemn decision of society, after long and carefnl de- liberation, that when the community employs ‘men for tho special duty of enforcing the crim- inal law, and thereby exposes them to peculiar dangers and hardships, it is bound to accord them ample protection in the discharge of their duties. CRIME IN CHICAGO. During the last few days Tue TRIBUNE has taken occasion to run down and expose evidences that crimo and vice have boen on theincrease in this city during the past two months. A few days ago we printed an account of a number of bold and succesafal burglaries that have been committed under the very eses of the police, and, if we may accept their pretonse of ignorance as genaine, withont their having discovered them. The information which wo have given the public has been obtained outside of the Police Depart- ment, which ie ominously silent, if not absolute- Iy ignoraat, concerning what has been going on. ‘Whether the police are actually deaf, blind, and dumb, or whether they conceal the facts in order to cover up thoir own inefficiency or to negotiate with the thieves for the return of the ‘property, We cannot say positively, but either case is equally disreputable with the otber. To-dsy we add to the stock of information by showing up the increase and villainies of the faro-dealers. We give no directory of these places, for the po- lice know very well where they are, and we do not propose to help any others to such informa- tion. Incidental to the subject in hand, we print an interview that occurred same time ago betweon Msyor Medill and & well-known gambler, in which the latter presented the gamblers’ side of the case with 5 certain degzee of plausibility, but not enongh to induce Mayor Medill to order the raids on these places to be discontinued. The new Ad- ministration, however, seems to have espoused the gamblers’ side of the question, and, by an unprecedented laxity, is permitting these and other disreputeble resorts to increase in number and in the boldness of their operations. If we may regard the Staals-Zeilung ss the organ of the People's Party, it is not the sentiment of that party that their represontatives in office ehall tolerate and encourage the thieves, gam- blers, and vicious classes; forthe Staals-Zeitung, ins recent issue, denounces them, and calls upon the City Government to put additiona! restraint upon them. The matter is entirely in the bands of Mayor Colvin, snd he must account to the people of Chicago for the way in which it is treated. With his power under the Mayor's bill, which he is very anxious to lave renewed, he has the suthority to punish inefficiency on tho part of the police force by sum- mary removal. If he fails to make an improve- ‘ment over the present condition of things, it will be believed that his sympathies are rather with the vicions and disreputable classes than with the respectable people. In regard to the gamblers, wa are inclined to think that the Btate's Attorney had better take them in hand. The Btatolaw of 1872 is strong enough to drive them out of Chicago, it it is rigorously and peraistently applied. It provides not only a large fine, but imprisonment in the County Jail and the Penitentiary for repeated offenses. This law has alresdy beeo before the Hupreme Court, which sustained the construction that includes all faro-dealers under the gen- eral classification of ‘‘xeepers™ of gaming- houses. If the police were disposed to co- operate with the State's Attorney in procuring indictments, and the State's Attorney were willing togoto work in earnest, the gambling-houses could boclosed and the gamblers run off to other citien. It is time to put on the brakes, or, before we know it, the train of crimes and vices will ba beyond the control of the City Goveinment, and Chicago will have become one of the most dis- reputable cities on the Continent. Neither Mayor Colvin nor the Police Depart- ment can longer mako & reasonabls protense of ignorauce about the increase of crime and thoe aggressiveness of the vicions classes. What the police pretend nof to know Tee TrrmvNE has now pointed out to them; snd if steps be not taken af once fo suppress the disreputable places, drivo off the gamblers and confidence- men, and acrest the thioves and burglars, Mayor Colvin will be required to explain why they are not taken. OUR HOSPITALS. One of the most commendable movements which has been insugurated thia sesson ia the Charity Ball which isto be given next Thars- sy evoning, at Standard Hall, for the benesit of the Clicago Homeoputhic Hospital. The ox- collence of thia charity, and the important place which it holds in the estimation of all classes of our citizens, is shown by the fact that the ladies and gentlemen of the Committee of Arrangements, and the floor managers, headed by Lieut.-Gen., Sheridan and mem- bers of his staff, comprise the very elite of the city, who have consented to nse thewr infinence snd contribute their active lzbor for the benefit of the Hospital. It is also a notable fosture of the undertaking that those who have been appealed to for assistance hava menifested none of the narrow prejudices which eometimes grow ont of the conflicts between schools of medicine, but have cheerfully tondered their 2id, without roference to the question of large pilds or little pills, or the correctness of Hahne- wmam's formule. They have conceded the work done at this Hoepital to be a work of general good and indiscriminate relief. This work now languishes for lack of funds. With- out fands, it is not only impossible to place the ‘Hospital upon & substantial basis, and scatter its benefits as widely a8 possible, but it is also imposaibla to meet the daily demands which such an institation ought to be sble to eatisty, within its present limits. The result is that many cases must be turned away, mot for lack of room, but for lack of money with which to procure appliances and skilled attendance. Tho Hospital managers therefore are cramped in their designs, ‘however large their good will and ability may be. To meet this emergency this ball has been de- vised, and it is fair to presume that the hall will be crowded with those who are eager to dance their dollars into the treasury of the Hoepital, aud throngh the medinm of their own recreation bring recuperation o the unfortunate. The appeal of the managers of this and other bospitals, who are struggling to preserve the effi- sisacy of thew institations fram boing tmpaired, | does ot sitempi o contral it the monoy in ag | suggests an important question, namely, hy the county itself has not a hospital sufficient in all, respects to relieve the lesser institutions from the burden placed upon them. Itisutterly impossible that hospitals like the Homeopathic, 8t. Luke's, the Mercy, the Alexian Brothers, and others, admirable ss they are, can meet the gen- ernl wanta of the community, as nearly all of them depend, of mnecossity, more or less, for their support, upon cbarity. Their sphere is re- stricted oven though sdmissions may be free, as in the case of the excellent institution in charge of the Alexian Brothers, The County Hospital should fill thia place, but it does not ; on the other hand, falls farshort of it. Itisa badly-bailt structure, old and dilspidated, and going to decay. It has nons of the modern con- veniences, and is entirely unprovided for any ex- traordinary emergency, which is lisble to happen any day. Its resources are not even sufficientto give proper care to the minor casualtics which occur every day in this city. It has not even an elevator for taking sick and injured people to their apartments. In fact, it does not answer the purposes for which it was built in aoy ro- spect, and in its present condition is & disgrace to the city and county. When it was built, ocighteen years ago, it answered the then existing demand, but, meanwhile, the city has grown to extraordinary dimensions, and tho Hospital has remained stationary. Thenecessity for a new Los- pital increases every day, and, as the first duty of avery, community is to provide for the wants of its unfortunate, there is no more importaunt ques- tion than this which can engsge the attention of tho county authorities. Pending such time as this county shall have & hospital worthy of it, it is incumbent upon our citizons to help sustain thoge institutions which are seoking to reliove the unfortunate in their respective spheres. In this connection, we trust that the entertainment which the man- agers of the Homeopathic Hospital have de- vised will result in o donation which will enable them to carry out their charitable work in the Iargest practical and comprehensive manver. THE FOUNDLINGS' HOME. Among all her charities Chicago hes not had, until within s comparatively short time, s home for foundlings. Dr. Shipman, of his own motion, s few years ago, opened such & home, and now, aided by the voluntary contribations of citizens, a permanent building, erected for this exclusive purpose, has been provided. It is & charity that appeals fo all. Tt is of equal rank with the orpban asylum, and in eome respects has bigher claims. It umtes two charities,—care of tho helpless waifs, and care of the dostitute and helpless mothers. It is a preventive of murder by offering a humane means of avoidiog it. It offers to the unfortunate who con- templates fcticide, involving the risk of her own life and desth of her child, & meaus of saving both ; it {spreads the broad mantle of charity over her, and bids her live and hope for & better fatare. To the poor as well a5 unfortunate who have no mesns to support either themselves or offpring, it offers & home for the child, and nourishment and comfort for the mother in her days of trouble. In either case it {8 o refugs for helpless mothers and more helpless babes, and, in the name of common nsture, it appeals to every human being. Tho institation has o far been supported by the voluntary contributions of the public, and it is to be boped that 8o broad a charity will forever Dbe kept freo from sectarien or other exclusive control. The whole community should ses to it that the Home does not want for means of sup- port or for the means of extending its charity. ‘Weare awaro that there are riany excellent people who look upon Foundling Homes with disfavor, regarding them a8 vicious because encouraging or countemancing crime, Thoy argue that to provide homes for tho offspring of those who are mot married, is, in effect, an encourngement to the unmarried to continue in sin. They regard the unmarried mother s a criminal, and her child a8 no ‘bettor, and insist that both shall be punished rather than made the objects of buman care and sympathy. We do not propose to discuss the moral or theological questions involved; wo ‘prefor to look at the practical question, whother infants, no matter of what parentage, shall bo left to bo murdered by desperate and etarving mothers, or taken and kindly nurtared; and whether mothers, hardly able to maintain their own existence, shall have a refuge for their belpless babes in their extreme infancy. Leav- ing out of view altogether the consideration of the sinfulness of the parentage of theso waifs, ordinary humanity dictates that the children shall be taken caro of, comfortably lodged, sod provided for, and that, whenover the mother stands in neccssity, she, too, shall have food and shelter until she can take care of hersolf. It isnot for manto judge in such cases, Food tothe hungry, shelter to the homeless, drink to the thirsty, are matters which appeal directly to the hearts of all mon, end de- mand instant action, no matter how they affect theological definitions of sin. This Home for Foundlings, therefore, is not a religiousinstitution; noris it sectarian; nor does it deal in abstract moralities. It gives food and shelter to homeless, parentless, destitute in- fants ; nourishes them in their helplessness, end, when old enough, sends them out with faith in the charity of their fel- low-mortals. Such an institotion is worthy of the eupporc of all people, and it is none the less 8o because the knowledge of its existence cheers the heart of the expectant mother, and silences all murderons suggestions. To those who have means which they wish to place whero it will do good, this Foundlings' Home offers an inviting opportunity. BECTARIAN COLLEGES, In an editorial on the University of Chic Ag0 in our last Sunday's issue, we said: That the Tniversity s not a financial success, aad, a8 & consequence, not an educational success, is due to radical defect which Tequires & radical remedy, It is & goctarian institution. This may be dented, buttho fact remaing unchanged, snd, wherever {t s known at all, it is Jnown as s Baptist univeraity, Thedsy of denominational schools and colleges has gome by, They are s relic of the pust, us is attested by tho scored of atarvingcolleges of that kind ucattered all over ths country, During the week wa have received and pab- lished two lettera in reply to this paragraph. Dr. Burronghs, ex-President of the Uaiversity, 88578 to prove that that institution is not & sectarian college, but that the day of such col- leges has not *gona by,” inasmuch as Harvard, Yale, Amherst, and Williams are * strictly sec- tarian schools, severally controlled aud taught, almost or quite exclusively, by men connected with one particuler Chureh.” Another corre- spondent, who eigns himself *Cush,” echoes Dr. Burroughs' first statement, and then pleads that a college, to be succcesful, must be founded by & sect, =nd must not be sectarian, If a ecct chooges to endow & school, and then 80od a8 any other money, and will be, no doubt, & powerful agent in promoting growth. But no sect ever dreams of doing any such thing, and therefore *‘Cush's” aseertion that a collego should be fonnded by a sect, and shonld then bs unsectarian, i a centradiction in terms and must beruled out of court. As for the University of Chicago, 28 we said Iast Snnday, * Wherever it is known at all, it is known as s Baptist univer- sity.” Itappesls for subscriptions in Baptist churches on this gronnd; it is only a few years since its students were compelled to always trans- Iate the Greek ““baptizo” by the word *“immerse”; it hos been advertised ssthe greatschaol of Westorn Baptists; the majority of its Trustecs must bo Baptists; and tho controversy lately raging over its affairs was essentially a Baptist quarrel. Noverthelese, wo recognize the fact that no roligious test is applied among its Faculty. These, however, are minor issues. Our mair statement of last Sundsy amounts to this: A college that succeeds nowedays must be non-gectarian. And this we are prepared to stand by. Tho principal educational institations of the country are Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Michigan. Probably no other col- lege in tho country approaches, in popular estimation, in number of bona fide students, end in quantity sad quality of work, thess four. They are the only institutions that can bear comparison with the English uni- versities. Despito Dr. Burroughs' statemont about Yale and Harvard, neither of these four in » eectarian echool. Marvard declined under Congregetional rule. When the Unitarians gained possession of it and froed it from its former scctarianism, it did no more than keep its ground. Bat when it lost the nameof an Unitarian college ; when it elected men to Pro- fessorships and Trustceslups without knowing or caring what waa their creed, orif they had any creed ; when it took charge of two radi- cally different theological schools and so showed its utter disregard of sectarian tics; and when it abandoned even the pretense of teach- ing 1ts mon-theological students rolig- ion by ceasing to compel their attend- ance at church, it began its wonderful career of progress. Yale does not represent herself as » Congregational university, Her divinity-achool teaches diluted Congregational- ism, to be sure, but men of other denominations fit there for the ministry, Her non-divinity students are taught no religion whatover, ssve such a8 those of ‘them who do not go to other churches choose to listen to on Sunday mom- ings in tho chapel. That chapel itself is given up to meetings of other denominations, and the Univereity furnishes warmed and lighted rooms to non-Congregational sssociations among the, students. Dr. Burroughs was s student there thirty years ago. The tmes and the college have changed since them. There are men of all faiths and mno faiths among the Professors and the Trustees. The majority of the latter are Congregational minis- ters, but this soleciam will not long continue. It is already bitterly attacked. Anditis a sig- ni'ficnnt fact that, as eectarianism has lost its hold, the collego has grown. -An index to the catholicity of spirit among its leading minds is given by tho recent attondance of ex-President Wolsey and Presdent Porter at the laying of the corner-stone of the Roman Catholic Cathe- dral in New Hoven. The ultra-Protestant press generally condemned the action, but it was an omen of good to the University. The official Regiater of Cornell University for the current yeur has this paragraph under the hend of *“ Specis] Features ™ : 6. The unsectarian character of the Institution, The Tniversity seeks, s ita highest aim, to promote Chris- tan civilizstion, But, as it was established by a Gos- ernment wltich Tecognizes no distinction fn religious belief, and by s citizen who bolds tho same view, it would b false to its trust wereit toseck to promote any ereed or to exclude any. The Stats of New York, in desfgnating it os the recipfent of the bounty of the Geaeral Government, haa also declared the same doc- trine. By the terma of the Charter, no Trustee, Pro- fesgor, or student can to accepted or rejocted on ac- count of any religions or political opinions which he may or msy not hold, The University of Michigan owes nothing to sny sect, and paya each sect just what it owes it. Thus, of the four chiof colleges of the coun- try, not one is sectarian. Two of them have been. Two centuries 8go, when colleges existed only to prepare men for the ministry,—~wore, in fact, only theological schools,—Harvard and Yala wers founded. Of course, they were sectarian then. The Colonies in which they were estab~ lished were sectarisn,—so much so that thoy drove Roger Williama into the wilder- mess because he was not s sectary. No argnment drawm from those times applies in these days. Sectarian col- leges flourished then, and so did witch-burn- ing. The spirit of the ago is against the union of religion with education. The opposition to the insignificant modicum of religion taught by the reading of the Bible in the public schools shows this. This change in popular feeling is a revolation which will not go backwards. The day of denominational colleges has gone by. The efforts of the University of Chicago to shako off sectavianism prove this, perhaps, as conclusively os any other fact we have mon- tioned. T00 MUCH PREACIING. The current issue of the Alliance has s very eensible editorial article upon “Too Afnch Preaching,” which, however, will undoubtedly present a fresh sonrce of grievance to the other religious weeldies. The Alliance assumes that the existenco of & custom does not imply tho wisdom of a custom, sud that among the cus- toms which belong to the history of folly is the enormons amount of preaching done by the ministers of the Gospel. Inthe course of its presentation of this fact, it throws out the im- portant suggestion that the vast bulk of the present pulpit’ talk must have originated in the daya when thore wore no books, newspapers, or public cducation, aud the ministers ware thore- fore obliged to mako up tho total deficiency on this poiot. Tho Alliance says: Thousands of books, dally and weekly newapspers, publio education, the Sundsy-echool, the Wedneaday evening meeting, have combined to rednce ths quau- tity of pulpit work ond greatly o change ita quality, The themes which remain for the pu'pit are fewer in number and more fundamentzl and dignified. The clergymen who should attempt now ta seo how many eermona he could preach on the text about Peter's wife'a mother,” would soon Teach the consent of his people that the pastore] relation should be dissolved ; but this kind of presching was common when the Cizurch set out upon thiz great taiking career, Thore is a great deal of truth and good sense in this saggestion, and it is one which should receive attention from the clergy with the view of acertaining whether they themselves would not be fresher aud healthier, and their religious teachinga would not be more valuable and prao- tical, with one sermon a day instead of two. The rapid progress of knowledge in all its departments has made it imperative for a preacher who wonld keep pace with his congregation to expend much study and thought the preacher laboring through two sermons on Sunday becomes either a talking-machine, a8 the Alliance calls him, or, if be labor conscien- tionsly and try to fulfill the demands made upon him, he soon commences to wear ont, and fails both in body and mind. As s substitute for the evening sermon, the Alliance suggests : 1f Sundsy evening were get apart to s religious call~ ing upon fricnds, or to s religious visitation of the poor and the sick, or to hymns and songs from house 1o house, or to cultivating a Christian friendship, Christianity would at onca bave a time to talkand 8 time to obey, a timo for learning Christ and a time for acting Chrst, whereas, as the world is now consti~ tuted {n its Christian department, Bunday is given up 1o words, and the week to business, and the deeds of religion haveno hour for their own. Asa result, we hove s ministry over-worked, a Christianity talked to death, snd a Christian life that has never been tried, A BRAN-NEW RELIGION. A short time since, we printed s proposition from s young Parsee, who hed s new religion he wished to set up. Enthusiastic as he was con- corning the importance of his discovery, he neglected to give any particulars concerning it, poesibly fearing that some one might infringe upon it before he conld get out a caveat. AMean- whilo, & bran-new religion, 8o far s§ the publio knowledge of it is concorned, bas been discovered in the Orient, that celebrated birthplace of religions, by Dr. Eitel, famous Chinese scholar, and he has made the world acquainted with it for the first timo through the columns of the Pall AMall Gazelte, altnough it has flourished sinco the twelfth century, and has been the inciting cause of many of the Chineso revolutiona against the Governmont and of the opposition to missionary enterprises and the march of modern improve- ments. The name of the new religion is Feng-Shui, and it consists of four cardinel principles: K, or the creating breath of nature; Zi, the laws which regulate the order of pature; Lo, the mathematical principles exhibiting the numerical proportion of the universe; and Yeng, the phenomena of naturo, sud her outward forms of appearance. Tao most important features of the new religion are summed up in the first two principles, K¢, or the creating breath of nature, contains a two- fold eloment, male and female, which permestes all creation, known in China as the ‘‘azure dragon™ and the ‘‘white tiger.” The Chi- nese find the existence of these two currents of the breath of nature in the conformation of hills and mountains, and they always seek to locate themselves whero the benign influence of the two currects isin the ascendsnt. Solitary rocks rising abruptly from the ground are reparded as bad omens, sndarock of this kind which rises over the most dissolute part of Hong-Kong is worshiped Dy those who profit by the immoral practices in that quetter of the city. The leading prm- ciples of the Li, or the lawa which regu- late nature, aro three-fold: 1. That Heaven rules the earth. 2. That both Heaven and earth influence all living beings. 3. That the fortunes of {he living depend also upon tho good-will and genersl influence of the desd. Accopting these articles of faith, the Chinese believe that eversthing earthly has its proto- type in Heaven, and Heaven and earth aro rec- ognized as the soul and life of the universe, bearing the same relation to it that soul and body doto man. Out of this has grown the ancestral worship peculiar to the Chinese. Dr. Eitel states the ressoning of a believer in Feng- Shui as follows : My own snimal spirits s the animal spirits of my pregenitors, Death has only dissolved their dual na- tures, which have returned to thioso general elements of nature whence each derived its origin. Their souls aro, therefore, 2a omnipresent 18 Heaven and earth {bemselves. And since it is only natural to suppose that the identity of the spiritual basia of life which exists between my ancestors and myse!f should couse {ho anni of my ancestora to hover round my dwell- ing, while their material or animal elements remain imprisoned in the grave, it becomes my duty to pay every respoct to the former, and to be atudionaly care- 1al that Do evil tafinences should interfere with its frea egross and ingress from and to the resting-place of the ‘body. The abovoe gives the more important features of this new religion, which, as the reader will observe, is rather a natural than a theological science, representing the groping of the Chinese mindin the dark after a religion which will reconcile Heaven and earth, in which respect tho devotees of Feng-Shui do not differ very ma- terinlly from many of the eavants and theolo- gians of the Occident. The editor of tho Chi- cago Times, being engaged in the same disconrag- ing affort, will undoubtedly feel grateful to us for calling Iis sttention fo Feng-Shui, which scems to us jfust the article for which he i in search. The extract, indeed, which we havo printed above, and which is one of the basic elements of Feng-Shui, con- tains the same formulm which he recently ex- pressed under the head of * Psychical Teleg- raphy,” and le will therefors hail this new re- ligion with peculiar delight. For our own service in pointing out to him the religion for which heis in search, we claim no reward, Tae ‘TRIBUNE being always ready to aid others who are groping shout in the mist of unbelief, with- out sny sure foundation or abiding-place. Hav~ ing expreesed bis intention to abolish all the churches, wo advise the editor of the Timesto tie to Feng-Shui and set his ancestors to work at once upon his newspaper. THE STORY OF JEAN LUIB. Among all the strange developments of the Tichborne case, none is stranger than the story of Jean Luie, the witness for the Claimant, whose testimony came near settling the suit in fovor of Orton. The imposture of the Claimant himeelf, intricate and ingenious as it is, is not more remarkablo than that of his convict-wit- ness, Jean Luie. In September, 1852, Jean Luie wag arrestod in Bristol for stealing a bill of ex- change, and from that time up to March, 1873, he was in prigon, most of the time for varions crimes, mostly in the nature of ingenious swindles. - He was liberated during the Iat- ter month on s ticket-of-leave, and went to Paddington, where he found some of his old companions, borrowed some money and clothing from them, and then disappeared. In July, 1879, he tumed up in Brussels and makes his first appearance in connection with the Tich- borne case. Here he mot Mr. Whalley, 8 mem- ber of Parfiament and one of the Claimant's {riends, who first gave Lim the ides of coming forward a8 & witness to prove that ho assisted in rescuing the Claimant and the other survivors of the Bells in the mid-Atlantic—which fact formed an important link in the testimony which had been hitherto wanting. Luie con- sented for & price, snd Whalley then pre- pared his testimony, which ILuie epent three months in committing to memory. Nover wes = lesson learned better. The coolness and composure manifested by the Clsimant were outdone by his witness. He baffled the akill of the astute lawyers for the prosecution. With the most searching cross- examination, they were unable to mske him cross his tracks or to find & weak spot in his evidence. Instead of impugning his teatimony, his crogs-oxamination strengthened it, and, al- though his story had not & word of kruth in -it from the first to the last,—the statement that ha b2 done business on Seventh strect, Chicago, boing a8 pear the trnth as anythiog else ho #aid,—ho made a complete revolution in the caso, dumbfounded the lawyers, and turned the tide of popular opinion in sympathy with the Claimant. The discovery of his perjury was mainly accidental. The officers of the Crown were cautious emough to retain him in England until they could send to New York to ascertsin thoe truth of some statoments he had made. Meanwhile, Jean Luia had become the lion of the hour. Ha was s greater hero than even the Clsimant himself, and crowds pursued him to got s glimpse of the witnoss who had appeared so mysteriously upon the scene and established the right of the Claim- ant to his property. While he could day efter day withstand the searchiiig examination of the best lawyers in England, and successfully hide his imposture, he could not withstand his sud- den popularity. It turned his heed, and his van- ityled him to have his photograph taken. It was soon in all the shop-windows.of London, and it wos not long before the prison anm- thorities recognized him as the notorious swin- dler who was in Bristol Prison at the very time be swore he was saving the Claimant on the Atlantic. This was = discovery against which he had made no precautions, and, with all his cunning and cooloess, he could mnot stand up against it. Tt was the one weak spot in his elaborate and ingenious fabric of testi- mony which tumbled it down in utter ruin, and exposed him a8 an impostor and perjurer,—a fact which he had grace enough left to confess, thus ebivering the hopes of the Claimant, snd consigning himself to the possibility of a con- wict’s cell once more. The ease with which Jean Luje maintained his imposture, and the success wWith which he defied the rigid cross-examination of one of the best lawyers in England, is not a very consoling 1fact to litigants, especially whers a large amount of property is at stake. If he could sustsin ‘himself ‘so successfully in & case ns intrieate and involved gs the Tichborne suit, what amonnt of deception is impossible in simpler cases, whero unecrupulous counsel can be found to Pprepare evidence for swindlers who make s liv- ing by preying upon the community? What precaution will be sufiicient to gnard against it? A CONGRESSIONAL FANFARONADE, The presentation to Congress of the memorial drawn up by the Carponters’ Company of Phila- delphia is 8 very transparent and totally an- called-for piece of buncombe. This memoarial sets forth that * the near approsch of the hun- dredth anuiversary of tho nation’s birth renders it befitting that thesurvivorsof those who froely offered Carpenter’s Hall to the Continental Con- greee, when even the time-honored State-House was closed sgainst them, should commemorate the nation’s advent st that place;” therefore Congrees is invited to assemble in Carpenter's Hall on the 5th day of September, 1874, the hun- dredth aunivereary of the meeting of the firat American Congress, and order such ceremonies s they in their wisdom shall deem bost. There are three reasons why Congress shonld not com- ply with this memorial from the patriotic Car- penters of Philadelphia: 1. There are other Jocalities more deserving of the recognition of the birth of liberty than Phil- adelphia. Thirteen years before the Continental Congress met, James Otis, the Advoeste of the Crown at Boston, resigned his office rather than enforce the *writs of assistance,” and mado an opposition speech to the people, of which John Adams eaid: ‘‘American Independence was then and there born.” Two yesrs later, tho Virginia Legislature, led by Patrick Henry, op- posed tho Btamp sct. In 1770, the first col- liion occurred between citizens and British troops in the streots of Boston, snd in 1773 the pseudo Mobawks hold their tea-party in Boston Harbor. In 1761, the Massachu- setts Logislatare issued s circular inviting all the Colonies to send dalegatas to a Congress at New York on the first Tuesday of October of that year. This Congress met, drew up a declara~ tion of rights, s memorial to Parliament, and & petition to the King, claiming the right to be taxed only by their representatives, and the Colonies approved the proceedings of the Con- gress. Thus the birth of independence was in 1761, and the first Foderal union of tlic Amorican Colonies was in 1765, nino years bofore the ‘meecing of the Continentat Congress in Philadel- phia. If Congress is going fo manifest its pa- triotism in a peripatetic manner, we submit that it is only consistent for it to go to the fountain- head, snd hold its spread-eagle session either in Boston or Richmond. 2. If Congress shall meet in Philadelphis in Boptember next, on the spot where the Conti- nental Congress met one hundred yoars ago, tha associntions connected with the occasion must inevitably revive memories of & painfal charac- ter. Oune hundred years have elapsed since that Congress met and issned those world-famous potitiona and declarations, which elicitod from Pitt the enloginm: ‘‘For solidity of reason, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion un- der s complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia. The his- tories of Greece and Romoe give uanothing equaj toit.” During these handred years, the United States has grown into a mighty Republic, and has mado gisnt strides in commerco, mechanical industries, science, and the arts, but whet haye we now to show for statesmen ss compared with the men who met in Philadel- phia? What has politics done for us? For George Washington we have Simon Cameron; for Patrick Henry, Zachariah' Chandler; for Bamuel Adams, Benjamin F. Batler; for John Jay, Wiliam D. Eelley, and 80 on ad libifum. It wouid be sad to complete the parallel. The men of the Continental Congress represented the dignity, intelloctuality, eloguence, and states- manship of the age. 'The portraits of the giants of 1774 would stare in astonishment at the pigmies of 1874 in their geats. The parallel drawn which would inevitably follow such s gathering of paliticians into the seats of states- men would not be difying. 3. The last and-most cogent resson of all why Congress ehould not go to Philadelphia is because it ia simply a piece of bombast, de- signed as an advortisement for the Centennial, which had much better stand upon its own morits. In ita present susceptible condition, Congress shonld not placa itself in the way of the tompta- tion which must inevitably result from the local pressare, spread-eagle enthusiasm, splnttering fire-works, and bawling crowds, which will be brought to bear upon it, for the sake of secar- ing an appropristion from the Public Tressury. If Philadelphis wants & memorial hall let her have it by all means, and le$ har pay for it 12 | longer. Congress is going to build memorial halls, thery aro other places which take precedence of Phila. Ei g delphia, 18 wo have already indicated, I What- & ever else it may do, it has more important work to do than making itsslt the town-criar for thy Centennial Exposition, & LIABILITY ON OFFICIAL BONDS, Acase has been just decided by the Supremg Court of Michigan upon the question of the Jig. bility of the signers of an oficial bond iy cases whera the defalcation of the oficer extendeq over more than one term. Edward §, Leadbeater wag elected Treasurer of the City of Detroif three times, and died during tho third term, g three bonda were signod by difforent indivigualg, that is, while some names were on two or um; ‘bonds, other names were on only one bond. It was found that he was a defaulter at the time of his death in the sum of 823,518, For thig euny the city brought suit on the third bond, Tpoa the trial it was proven that at the closq of his second term he was s defautter o the amount of 323,124, which sam he haq balanced onhis books by false entries of payments, It also appesred that during hus thind torm his de. falention bsd been increased 8384, for whieh sum only the jury gave a verdict, The Suprema Court upon ppeal sustaized the verdict. The Court held that each term was distinct from the others, 85 much 50 a8 if s different individaal had been elected each time, All that the ‘bonds- men undertook to do was to be responsible for all the public money that camé into his handa during that term. It was truo that in his third term he actmally paid, from the monoy in his hands, the sums he had falsely credited ‘bimselt as having paid during his previons term, but the Court held, as far as the sureties on the thind bond were concerned, that his sctnal Paymenty during tho third term were to bo placed to hig credit, without reference to anything that ac. curred previously. On this point Judze Cocloy said: What have theso wureties to d0 with his fctitiony en. tries, m3de at & timo when they had not agresd tobe | responsible for his good conduct? What right have they ever {0 inquiro into his provious official action {f e accounts according to law for all he receives whils they stand his surcties? Asalresdy stated, the case i3m0 different from what it would have been if Lead beater had succeeded another person. Bupposa thaf £0 have been the case, and these surcties bad ahown that their principsl had Iawfully paid or acconnted for all the money recefved by him except the small bal. ance above atated, wanld any one pretend that the fact that certain amounts which behad paid over ta Boards entitled by law {0 receive them wero falsely stated in the scccunts of his predecessor to have been previously paid could prectude those sursties having credit for them 7 The ity having rocovered from the bondsmen all the money taken during the term for which they were sccurities, have now to proceed against the bond for the previous term, under which t* bulk of the defalcation took place. English scandal about Royalty seems to grow more venomous every year. Just before Christ- mas, 1873, the Prince of Wales was foolish enough to buy up at great cost the whole edition of a bitter, anonymous pamphlet, entitled *Tha Coming E——." He reaped the reward of hig folly laat Christmas when the same publishing. house issued a savage satire on Prince Albert, Queen Victoris, the Prince, ana others of tha Royal family. The new brochure is cailed *Tha Silliad.” Its every sentence stings, stupid ss the whole thing is. And now s hard-headed Scoteh Laird has written s vindietive pampblet simed at the Queen. It seems that the Duke of Athole is strongly suspected of embezzling soma £30,000, but the Government has, on varions protexts, staved off the trial. The pamphlet al- legea that this effort to save the Duke from in- vestigation is due to a secret sbout the Queen which the Athole family know. It esya: 1t ia well understood that it was a threat on their pard 10 v3e their charm which 50 operated oo Mr. Qlad- stone that he opposed the motion mads by Mr. Parker, L 2, for Perthshire, in the House of Commons for a3 ation of the Duke's conduct after the Homa Ofice had given its consent thereto. Indesd, tha Dowsger Duchess of Athole has been often heard ta 83y, “ I they dare meddle with us about theso horrid sccounts, 1 wll let the cat out of the bag.” It then goes on to give the pretendod secrot, which is of the most scandalous nature. It ia evident that the divinity that once bedgeda King is fast disappearing when such circumstan- tial and particular charges can be put forth over & man's own signatare and can find such a ready sale. Assoonas the attack appeared, s Radical Association, called ““The Patriotic Bociety,” bought » number of copies and began to circalate ¢ them. Thia bas been stopped, but the pamphlot ! is alroady in everybody’s hands, SRR Ceramic art seems to be the fashion nowadays. Tt has come into fashion 8 quickly as other faghions do. Only a few montha ago Mr. J. H, Treadwell published an essaykin on it in Serib~ ner, and followed this up with a book. This was substantially the first introduction to the American public of pottery ssa fine art. Sinca then thore has been a successful exhibition of ..: ceramic ware in New York, and two orthrea - translations of French works on the subject have been put upon the market. If the resut of the new-horn inierest should be to persuads people that a tea-pot maybea joy forever, nod only forits capacity as & reccptacle for tes- leaves and hot water, but for its beauty,it would bs most gratifying. Hitherto we bave been, a8 3 nation, the victims of crockery, the bare sight of which would have mads Bernard Palissy commit suicide. . The worst featuro of Trades-Unions has beea their porsistency in demanding equal wages for all their members, whether they were good, bsd, or indifferen: workmen. Most of the English Unions, and we presume most of their Ameri- can imitators, have rules against what is u“!fl * chasing,” that is, againat o man's doing wort more quickly and thoroughly than the average of bis fellows can do it. A more complets o staclo to first-class work and to the advancemen’ of first-class workmen could not be devised. It is strange that good men have subumitted for 50 long to be 8o heavily bandicapped in the a2 with their inferiors. Employers will be glad to hear that s recent etrike in London was quellsd by an offer on the part of the masters to PsY higher wages to any men who would show them® selves individuslly deserving of it. SO il Gray fur is fashionable. Gray rats swamia every Chicago street. Some farrier onght {0 get 2 fow thoussnd rat-sking, clean them, make them up into sets, and offer them for sale. 4 sign of *Latest from Paris,” a fow xdvexn!i; menta of the * now, expensive, and very atsl Selingo skins,” and a learned disquisition on t5¢ besuty and softness of the far of the nosly discoveroa Selingo, illustrated, perhaps, Wit 4 sketch of the mythical animal sportiog sbo the North Pole,—these would insure & w‘:; sale. Chicago streets wonld be thronged -fla‘ ladies wearing the skins that, with rata inside : them, had scampered over the same sidewslks . fow days before. Thus we would encoursg home industry snd disconrsgo home rats. Tho proposed Army bill appropristes M.SOD"; 000 for *supplies™ for tlie Quartermuster’s D partment and $5,300,000 for * mmdenf-l: = penses " of the same. So the Departmen l‘fl. be paid §1.18 for its trouble in spending iy Such an agency would be thought extravsga2 costly if it actod for anything except the Tres* ury Department of the Government. According to the Democrat, St. Lonis hss ;::-L 000 children, of whom 50,000 never go to ! o People to whom the non-interference lhea% b ‘been s fetish, and compulsory zdncnfiw;bo i fore, s terror, can find in this fact 20, % stantial raasons fos cleaving to theis < AN LT s