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

PN i) / THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1874. 8 7 : - - e —— offorts of all thre often resulted in the outlsy of | form of government that they have come down ROME AND GERMANY. = TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. YEBMS OF SURSCRIPTTON (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). RefpapetnS g0y Parts of & year at the same rate. To prevent delay and mistakes, b sure and civs Post Off ce ddress in fbll, including State and Couaty. Remittances may be made either by draft, express, Post Offce oxder, or in registered letters, at our risk. TERMB TG CITY SUBSCRIDERE. Dagls, delivered, Sunday excepted. 2 cente per wock. Tatls, celivered, Sunday included, 3 cents per wook. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts.. Uhicago, Tl TO-MORROW’S AMUSZMENTS. WVICKKR'S THEATRE-Madison sirest, between Diactors sad Sator Eazasemcat of she, Biuddut Company. *ho Long Strike " and ‘A Dombination o ¥ Dangerous Toy." HOOLEY’S THEATRE—Randalph _strect, hetween Clark and LaSalle. 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A large and welleclcted stock of goods_can bo Zouad at our slore, Tribune Luilding, corner of Madison &nd Dearborn-sts. Uhe Chicagy Tribune. Sunday Morning, February 8, 1874. RAFFERTY'S STATEMENT. Baflerty, the murderer of Policeman 0"Meara, has st length, after his long reticence, made s detailed and deliberate statement of the facts connected with the terrible deed, and of the pre- liminary troubles which led to it, going a5 far ‘back a8 the time during which he was working in the Bridgeport brick-yards. Tho statement has been printed in Tre TRIBUNE in his own language 2nd withont comment, according to his request, that the public might have the benefit of his version withont prejudice. We have read the stateraent carefully, and wo think the public +ill join us in the opinion that, while it prescnts 2 different vereion of the affair from that which appeared in the sworn testimony, it does not offer any facts which change the nature of the crime or make the enforcement of the penalty which the Sapreme Court has pronounced any the less imperative, whether considered as s 3 Ppunishment for violated law or as a measure for the better protection of the community. The two points which Bafferty makes in ex- tennation of his crime sre: 1. That the warrant was void, and that he discovered that thdlofficers bad norightto arrest him before he fired. 2. That he was assaulted both by Oficers Scanlan and O'Mears before ho had offered any resist- - ance. There sre seversl factd which militate, hovwever, against both these pointsand make them improbsble. He says with regard to the " warrani ¢ Scanlan walked up to me, and says, “ Chris, I want Fou.” Saysl, “What for?” Hesays, “I lavo gots warrant for yow” Says I, *If you have got a warrant let's bear you read it.” 5o he took out & piecs of paper which had o writing onit, Ilooked at it and saw it hadno name or anything else signed toit, When I saw that I got down off the table, and says, wall, if T have got to go I must go, and X pulled out a revolver. In considering this statement, it must be re- membered that Rafferty can neither read mor write, and is, therefors, incapable of declaring whether & warrant is made out in due form or not, or of knowing a word that is in it except a8 it is read to him. Bat, even had he been able to resd and write, was he in a condition to know the contents of this warrant, or whether it was properly drawn up? His own statement is the best anthority for the condition he was in that wpight. On the Saturday preceding the murder he was released from the Ammory on bail and spent the whole day in drinking, ending it by a street-fight Fith one of his {friends. That night he went over on the West Side and stayed with a German Triend. He arose at 5 o'clock on Sunday morn- ing and went out and got threedrinks. Then he =ame over tothe South Sideand dranka pmt of whisky with another friend before breakfast, After breakfast he went toa saloon and spent .so bour or two drinking. In the safter~ noon he bought a bottle of whisky, and he and another sot drank it. The drinking was kept up steadily until 9 o'clock in the evening, when Rafferty staggered out into the street and fell into the ditch. Bow loog he lay there he does mot know. He lost his coat, but how ho does not know. Fortwo or three boure he must bave beendead drunk. The next thing he remembers is that he was in Mrs. O'Brien’s saloon in such a miserable, besot- ted, and senseless condition that even Mrs. O'Brien, large a8 her hospitality or eager &8 her cupidity might have been, refused to let him have liquor. Was this man, who could not read or write, who was soaked through with two days’ incessant drink- ing, who badn't sense enough left to know even bowhe got into the saloon, in a condition to pees upon the legality of a warrant? And far- thermore, if this be true, how was it that he for- got such an important point when in his sober senses, and did not use 1t on his first trial ? With regard to the agsault upon him, Rafforty aays: ¢ O'Meara wes standing with his back towardsthe bar, and when he eaw me walking towards the door he ulled out 2 sling-shot, and put his back against the Qoor and stopped me. I was two or threo steps {rom bim, and I looked sideways and saw Scanlsn coming towards me with his hand behind him 28if he was getting Lis pistol out. Just as I turned sround, D'Meara grabbed me, and commenced beating me @ith the sling-shot. We had a tussle, and while ko was striking me I ehot at him. Scau- ln was coming toward me, and whils O'Mearn had hold of me I turned round—just my fand like—and ehot at Scanlam, and just then Le grabbed me. O"Mears used his sling-shot on me in the tussle before I shot. He struck me with it about the HmeI fired. Scanlan took hold of me, both had hold of mothen, andI fell, or he knocked me dowm, znd both of ‘them fell an top of me, O'Mezra the wost on top. I best O'Mears with my revolver and O-Meara beatma I didn’t know whether the man was dead. Istruck him with my revoiver. I don’t now where I hithim, Scaplan was beating xoe with his revolver, ‘We tusaled all around the floor, and I dropped my re- volver in hitting O'Meara. ‘The same nbje::?.'\on might bs urged against this statoment a8 sgainst the other. Being in such & besotted, senscless condition at the titne of this serimmage, how does he remember with such minuteness every detail of his ‘‘tussle” with the two officers, and howis it that they have oume to bis memory so lste? Why is is thut [ 3rs. O’Brien and the two men who were in the ! saloon at the time, and were witnesses of tho in their tes- affair, moke no allusions timony to any asssult whatever up- on Rafferty, although they appesr - to. bave been old friends and acquaintances of his ? Strangest of all, if this stafement be true, why did not Rafferty inform his coumsel of these facts in some of his trials, and not al- low himself to be convicted three times without once Jetting his counsel know of the strongest plea in oxtenuation which be could bave made? No man could ask for s better, more skillfal, or more dignified defcnse than Rafferty has bad. His counsel exhamsted the law and tho facts in throe ecparate trials, and the Supreme Court has reviewed the evi- dence from first to last, and has declared the verdict to be warranted by the ovidence, and or- dered the enforcement of the penmalty. With such a counsel 88 Rafferty had, it is incredible that be should have failed to inform him of the most important point of his defense, and im- poesible that so skillful a counsel should not have discovered it in the preparation of Lis case. THE POLICE AND THE BURGLARS. Police Superintendent Rehm has issned an order forbidding the officers of the Department giving information sppertaining to police busi- ness to any person outside the Polica Depart- ment uotil it has been transmitted first to the General Superinterdent. On its face this order is unobjectionable. It is proper that informa- tion of this character should go to headquarters first, and, if not intended to fnsure sccrecy for the purposo of promoting settlements with thieves, no objectior: can be made against it. It is apparent, however, that it can be mado avail- able for this flegitious practice. We shall see, in timo, whether tho effect of the order is merely to secure to the Superintendent the earliest knowledge of robberies, or to suppress informa- tion to the public altogether. It is a well-known fact that a vast amounnt of money is raised by thieves through a sort of blackmail operation. Valuable property is stolen and withheld for o time. The owner is then confidentislly informed that, upon the pay- ment of & cortain sum and & promiseto ask no questions, he can recover his property. Wo can- uot blame the victims of these operations for ‘being satisfied with the recovery of their stolen goods at a comparatively small cost, when their refusal to settle would prevent them from ever recovering. It is too much to expect of the average citizen that he will suffer pecuniary loss to maintsin a principle, and it is this imperfoction of human nsture upon which thieves depend for their profits. The worst festure of the case is that the me- dium most frequently chosen for these ettle- ments is the police authority of the city. The Lizzie Moore case ia & nototious instance. Jew- elry was stolen from a woman of this name, and ail offorts of the police wore apparently fruitless torecoverit or to apprehend the robbers. At the expiration of some weeks Capt. Hickey re- ported that Lizzie Moore could racover her prop- erty on payment of & sum of money, about ono— fifth of its true value. 1iss Moore paid the money to Capt. Hickey, and received the jewels in return, 2nd was pledged to secrecy by the of- ficer. It is needless to point out the demoralizing effect of such s system upon the police force, Whether or not tae virtue of the officer in- trusted with the dulicato duty of scting as go- between is sufficiently firm to prevent his accept- ance of “gratuity” from either or both parties, 18 a0 open question. Assuming that it is, how- ever, the city has Do right to expose its em- ployes to apy such temptation, Atthe same time, tho police anthority of ihe city is gailty of the crime of compounnding felony in every such instance, and is degraded by acting the part of agent for the enemios of eociety. It is useless tourge the advantages acoruing to the party robbed, for the successful result of one such bargain encourages its repotition, and every such compromise effected s the parent of & dozen others. There appeara to have bcen no effort made to defend the systom openly. Mayor Colvin set his face against it squarely. His ob- jection to Hickey's reappointment to a Captainey +was based upon his aversion to the principle in- ~volved, not upon any belief in that officer’s cor- ruption, and he feared to nominate a man who bad been connected with such a bargain, lest his sction should be construed ss favoring the sys- tem. Grosat care has Jately been manifested to with- Told from the press any important acts of rob- berry, the excase generally offered being that tho guilty parties would be apprised of the vigilance of the police, and make good their escape. This implies that the thieves who infest Chicago have forgotten the cxiatence of the police, and 8o far is plausi- ble enough. The excuse, however, reflects so- verely upon the efficiency of the Department. The true reason is that, by the publication of the facts connected with a robbery, public inter- est is immediately aroused, and the case is ear- nesily watchod until the thicves are appre- hended and sentenced, or, as more fre- quently happens, till some new act of violence diverts attention from it. To at- tempt a settlement in public would be too much for the modesty of the Deopartment, and to wait until public interest has subsided taxes the paticnce of both thieves and victims. Viewed from the standpoint of the thieves, the publication of robberies is dangerous, inasmuch as it puts bouseholders on thewr guard, doubles the diffi- culties in the way of obtaiuing plunder, and im- perils the operations of all perties. Afr. Rehm claims that during one month of his administra- tion more stolen property has been recovered than Mr. Wasbburn had restored in six months. Tho natural conclusion would b {hat more prop- erty had been stolen under r. Robm's nose in one month than under Mr. Washburn's in six, and the long list of burglaries and robberies pub- lished in Tre TRIBUNE recently, not one of which was farnished by the police, confims the sus- picion. If the newspapers, by reporting robberies, can scare away thieves, by oll means let the fullest publicity be encourzged. If & paragraph can protect thecity from the depredations of one burglar even,—by sending him back tohis own stamping-ground,— it is surely of more service to tho community at large than o police force which exhibits its ef- ficiency rather by buying back stolen property than by capturing criminals. We shall expect Mayor Colsin to see to it that the new order of the Superiniendent be not perverted to the pur- pose of suppreseing information in which the public are vitally interested. B¢ Louis wants the Grangers to build their headquarters in that city instesd of iu Washing- ton or Chicago. The bare idea of having a 850, 000 structure put up there seoms to have driven bp preas quite wild with excitamsnt. It is in-~ citing tho- merchants to bribo the Order to stey tirere. Tn one of these frantic pleas, the Demo- crat cries that Bt. Louis onght to be the head- quarters becauge she is **full-blooded.” ACCESS T0O THE PARES. The Commiesioners of the South Parks have before them for decision tnis week the question whether they will admit or exclude the railroads from the right of way throngh suck parks. The decision of that question is of considerable in- terest. The South Park on the Iake shore is nearly eight miles from the Court-House. Un- 1qss these parks wero intended a8 & local plens- ure-ground for those who in time may live in their immediate vicinity, there must b some means adopted for easy and expeditious access Y6 them, or thoy might as well be located in Joliet or at Michigan City. Tt will be many years beforo horse-cars will run there, and, when they do, they will be oflittlo use to the public. The time taken in tho journey to and from the park will consume the botter part of the day. To render it possible to visit the parks and spend some time in them, there should be smple and rapid ‘means of communication to and from them, and this can only be done on cars moved by steam. A train of cars containing 500 persons can bo movedto the park in twenty minutes, picking up passengers at convenient points all along the route through the city. Theso trains, in the season of fair weather, could be run at all houraof the dsy. To nincteen-twentieths of tho people who would visit these parks and enjoy them; this means of reaching them is the only one poscible. If the Park Commissioners -ghall decide to exclude the reilways and confine the parks to those, who can get there by private carrisges or on foof, they will practically close them to tho great bulk of the community. Such a result was not bargained for when the people voted to tax thomselves $5,000,000 for the various parks and boulevards of this city. The argument which ‘most commended them to the public favor was that they would be forever freo to the public, and an unfailing pleasure and enjoyment. So far as the public are concerned, the Commission- ers may a8 well erect toll-gates at all the en- trances as to forbid the establishment of railroad transit to and from them. The theory that the parks are in apy scnse the property of those owning the sdjoining lots is simply frivolous. They were intended for the whole people of Chicago, and every facility should bo granted to make them accessible. It is not pretended that the admission of the railroads will in the lesst interfere with the internal arrangements of the parks. It is conceded that they will add to the general appearance of tho landscape, and that the handsomely-constructed viaducts' will re- move all possibility of danger. It would be o great convenience to the public if trains for these parks could be farnished by all the yail- roads leading ont of the city. This will possibly e done hereafter ; but for the present the ques- tion is whether railronds be admitted or ex- cluded, or whether the parks be kept for the exclusive pleasure of the few who bave private conveyances. This is tho real question to be decided by the Commissioners ; and we have no doubt they will take the broad view of accommo- dating the public, rather than the codtracted one of cutting off the muititude from all means of ever visiting the parks. THE BOSTON EOTEL-RATD. When the women of Ohio are attacking, with misguided fervor, the use of beer, ale, wine, and ardent spirits indiscriminately, and when the Massachusetts Constables sro carrying into effect a tyrannical law by robbing the Boston hotels of thousands of dollars’ worth of wino, it ia time for ccmmon sense to make itself heard, to point out why prohibitory laws have always hitherto failed and must always hereafter fail, and to show what sort of a liquor law can best promote the welfare of the community. The eame State that paseed the law now being enforced in Boston bas a Board of Health, one of the fanctions of which is to report upon the liguor question. In tho report for 1872, the Chairman, the moted Dr. H. L Bowditch, of Boston, submitted & paper which is so full of facta and figures, and wise inductions there- from, that it ought to be in the hands of every man who pretends to know the A, B, C of such legislation. By means of on extensive eorre- spondence with persons in all parts of the world, Dr. Bowditch has accumulated the facts upon which bo Lases these, among other, conclusions: Stimulants are nsed everywhere. The sppetito for them is universal, and * cannot be annihi- lated.” This appetite varies with the climate. At the equator, drankennoss ia rare and licen- tiousness common. As the observer goes north, the former increases and the latter diminishes, This general law is modified by the influence of race, fashion, and legislation. Thus it is a gen- eral rule that peoples living between the isother- mal lines of 77 deg. and 50 deg. Fahrenheit uso much beer, ale, and light wine, but little ar- dent spirits. But in the United States, which lie wholly, save & bitof Montans, betwoen these two lines, the English, who live to the north of the 50 deg. line and 8o in tho zowe of ardent spirits, brought their habits with them, and we bave inherited those habits. The foolish fash- ion of *treating” leads in many cases to an ex- cessivo uso of stimulants among us, and the leg- islation which has taxed foreign wines 8o heavily has forced whisky into use to supply the appetite whick would have been satiafied with wine, Ar- dent spirits iojure tho physique, and lead to “crazy drunkenness " aud its resulting crime. On the other hand, beer, ale, and wine, if not used immoderately, are beneficial. They rarely cause drunkenness, and, when they do, it is of the kind which shows itself in singing and ‘merry-maling, end not in bratality and murder. Thero are important lessons to be drawn from this testimony, thus publicly given by one of New England’s ablest physicians. Prohibitory 1aws try to prevent the gratification of an ap- petite that is nearly universal, and that cannot be annihilated. In large cities their failare is rendered more conspicuous by popular hos- tility to them, and by the facilities for evading them. For the same reasons, they will always fail. Bince the causes remain, the effect must also remain. Aloreover, such laws, by making that wrong which very many men regard a8 right, by pressing more heavily upon thg poor than the rich, by unduly interfering with private business, and by arbi- trarily confiscatiig property, put the State in the light of an oppressor, encourage the break- ing of all lawa by making the bresking of some seem like a manly protest against tyranny, and demoralize the community. The law which' is to promote ‘tempérance should ie tarecfold,—nationa), State, and local. The nation should lower the duties on foreizn light wines, 8o that by their cheapness they could come into general use. The State should remove sll special restrictions on the sale of besr. o5, and wine, so that their froo use might satisty the sppetite that now gluts itself- on ardent spirite. And the Tocal laws should provide as rigorous inspection of drinkables as it does of eatables. As bad meat is seized and destroyed, so adulterated drinks should be. Guinrd the consumer from being poisoned, but do not brand whatever he wiehes to drink, except tes, coffee, milk, and water, as poison perse. This willleave much to be done outside of thelaw. Tho grape-cul- ture should bo promoted, and the use of light wines encouraged. Centurics ago, Scan- divavian voyngers found the New En- gland shores 8o thickly covered with vines that they called the coualry *The Good Vineland.”. The Jesuits were 50 success- ful in growing thp grape in Louisiana that Franco ordered thom to stop, lest the trade of the mother-country should be injured. Ohio and California have succeeded in the culture, and Dr. Bosditeh believes thet it ean be tried to advantage throughout$hocountry. At all ovents, no good, but much mischief, will follow ffom such aids s that which took place st Boston last week. Constables’ clubs ara tho worst temper- ance-persuaders that have cyer been devised. The announcement that Edwin Booth has gono into voluntary bankruptey will be received with unmixed regret. His failure is a blow to the cause of true dramatic art, for 1t yill be hard to find any other individusl who, by the exercise of genius and the liberal uso of his earnings, can do 80 much to elevate the drama as Edwin Booth hog done. He has beon an enthusiast in Lis art, and, in bis 6fTorts to better its condition, has lived & life of comparative poverty and per- petual labor, in strong contrast with that of moat succeesfnl actors. The fact that all his eamings for the past eight years have been swallowed up in the ‘erection and esteblishing of his thoatre, is safficient indication of his devotion to tho dra- matic art. While the announcement will occa- sion surprise tomany, it hasnot been nnexpected by Mr. Booth’s more intimate friends. Tho sen- sitive nature of the devoted player bas shrunk {from tho diegrace which he has falsely conceiv- ed to attach’to bankruptcy, and he has poured ‘'his hard-earned money uneparingly into the en- terprise which scemed "ulterly insatiable. In- deed, almost from the start, the theatre has been supported at his oxpense, owing to the ex- travagance of the original investment, sod the lavishness which has attended its manage- ment. Although tho actor’s name is new associated with the bighest achievements of the stage the world over, he has been prominently before this country only sbout ten years. He kad not met with that finiversal recogmition subsequently sccorded him until - 1864, in the winter of which vear he became associated with Messrs. Clark and Stuart in the managoe- ment of the Winter Gardenin Now York. In 1866 he bought out Clark’s interest in the enter- priso, and very shortly afterwards the Winter Garden was burned down. The loss to Ar. Booth was very heavy. His wardrobe was de- stroyed, and he was left with about §40,000 with which to start apew. So far, however, from do- spairing after thls catastrophe, he resolved to realizo the one great scheme of his life, which was to erect in tho metropolis a theatre in which to present the standard plays of dramatic liter- ature according to their merits. His inténtion was to produce every piece with the most minute historical accuracy and impressive grandeur. Kesn had made s similar attempt in Lon- don, and had failed; Macready .had” fol- lowed his ‘example, and only escaped disaster by retreating in time. Undaunted by their failores, however, Mlr. Booth set him- self earncstly to work, determined that the re- sponsibility of failure, if such ehould be'the con- sequence, should rest upon others. He pur- chased the valuable property at the corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth -avenuo for an enormous sum, and built upon it the beautifal theatro which bears his name. Building and ground together cost 1,200,000,—a magnificent sum, truly, to invest in so precarious an enter- prise. s partner was Mr. Robertson, of New York, manager of thp great business house of Oakes Ames & Co., who furnished the capital the understanding being that Mr. Booth should put his earnings into the theatre and psy off tho debt. And, from the inception of the project up to dat, Mr. DBooth has poured all his earnings, minus his own small personal expenses, into this property He has been earning since 1867 about $80,000 & year, and has, therefore, turned over more than half & million of dollars. His own expenses were small, as he has livedalife of faithful economy. When in New York ho has resided in rooms in tho theatre-building, and, when travel- ing, has cut his cxponses down to the lowest rensonable figure. Anidea of his devotion to tho project may be gained froth the fact that in one brief season under Ar. McVicker's manage- ment, last year, in Chicago and other Westsmn citios, o earned upward of 260,000, of which he drew for his private expenses the modest sum of $1,500. The balance was psid in to his. Now York theatre account. Two years ago he bought out Mr. Roberteon’s interest in the property, and, since that time he has been bearing tho burden alone. The expenses of the theatra have been enormous. It was Ir. Booth's ambition to put every plece,upon the stage in a style of unparal- leled magnificence, and, to accomplish this, the most extravagant sums have boen ‘expended. The mounting of *“A Winter's Tale” alone cost £26,000; and ‘‘Romeo and Juliet,” * Hamlet,” “Richard IIL.,” * Macbeth,” * Julius Cresar,” “Mnch Ado About Nothing,” *The Fool's Re- venge,” sud ofher pleva which have been pro- duced with elaborate preparation and effects, bave each cost nearly the eame sum. It isa fact worth noticing that, while many of the best stars now on the stage have played at thie the- atre, Mr. Booth's seasons wore szlways the ‘most profitable. Mr. Booth's fotal indebtedness probably amounts to $600,000, of which 400,000 is secored by s mortgage on the theatre property, and $200,000 is personal indebtedness, The jewelry meotiored in the dispatch from New York as worth £3,000 is probably stago property. Alr. Booth was alwaya anxions that tingel and tawdry sbolfld‘ be wanting in his thea- tre, and Lis crown for * King Richard” alone +was valued at nearly 4,000 Thero is probsbly no causa for the remark that the management of J. B. Booth and the introduction of the light drams aro in any way responsible for the failuro of the theatre. Itis rather due to the fact that 3ir. Booth Was paying out to support tho theatre more - than he took in at the box-office. His enthusiasm was greator than his judgment, 2od Lie hana the misfortune to infuse the eame gener- ous disregard for money into hisassociates. Thus his extravagance was utterly unchecked. Measrs, Rovertson and McGonigle were always as ready 6 Mr. Booth $o inour esperise, and the united §20,000, whero half or even a third of .that amount would have suited the purpose of the thoatre just as well. ¥ . When his affairs shell have besn adjusted there will, perhaps, bea small balance in his ‘favor, as the thestre property, which cost £1,200,000, will pay off an indebtodoess of 3600, 000, though it mayleave little beside ; but, toa man of kis nature, it will be a great consolation that Lis faiiure will bring pecuniary loss to lum- self alone. To the drama the losais incaleula- ie and universal. The earnings of nine years of censcless toil are gone, and Mr, Booth must stert afresh, a disappointed enthusiastin a noble canse, The dream of his life has abruptlyended, aad his offorts in behalf of the clevation of the drama will honceforth be confined to tho dis- play of his own Listrionic geniua. While lifo and health remain to him, there 18 satisfaction in knowing that bis work is not ended, and per- haps the very misfortunc that has overtakon Dim may 2id his purposo by awaking the pub- lic mind to a full appreciation of his mission. Chicago has a special interest in ‘Edwin Booth apart from the fact that bhe has slways met with a hearty response from the patrons of tho drama here. His intimate domestic relations with Mr. McVicker, aunother earnest and daunt- less laborer in the same fiold, establish his claim to sympathy in this city most clearly. A fortnight from to-morrow Alr. Booth will commence his engagement at McVicker's Theatre, snd our cit- izens will bave an opportunity to express their sympathy as they have Leretofore expressod their appreciation. Mr. Booth plays at Detroit for one weak, commencing to-morrow night, and at Toledo the following week. It will be a cheer- ine reflection that every dollar that he earns hereatter will be his own, and that such an artist can wever bo poor while his brilliant intellect remains vigorous and unclouded. AR I0WA SERSATION. They havo a somowhat romsrkable sensation over in Jowa. Some time in 1873, two men, named Penny and Balthis, got up a grand lot- tery scheme;; they were to sell cliromos at one dollar each, and for every chromo purchnsed there was s ticket given entitling the holder toa chancoe in a distribution of prizes worth 3100,000. These prizes consisted of 210,000 in cash, a farm worth 29,000, several 40-acre lots, xnd various tosn and city lots, steam-engines, boilors, dwell- ing-honses, etc. The business was extensively advertised, but proved a failure, sud was aban- doned. 'The only persons investing any money in the transaction, and that very little, were the firm of Waldron Brothers. This firm, some time 820, sued Peuny and Balthis on & note for $€0, and upon the trial it was declared that all, or mearly all, of the real estate adver- tised s prizes, worth 80,000, was the property of the Hon. C. C. Cole, Chief-Justico of the Supreme Court of Towa. The sensation grows ont of the suspicion that & Judge of tho Supremo Court has boen engaged in the lottery business, and attempting to dispose of his prop- erty at excessive valuations. Judge Cole ap- peared in court and said that one of the Wal- drons married his niece, and hedbeen assisted in business by him; that, undor ono pretext or eaother, Waldron had obtained a list of the Judge's real estate for sale, and had used this list in getting up the prospectus of the lottery. The first knowledgo that Judge Cole had of the transaction, ho snys, was in reading one of tho Iottery handbills at JTowa City, and on his return he spoko to Waldron about it, who told him the thing had been abandoned. He denied any knowledge of the business while it was alive. However plausible this explanation may be, it does not seem to be satisfactory. At s meeting of the members of the Bar held at Eeoknk, it was unanimously recommended that the Legis- Jature investigate the transaction, and ascertain whether it was true or not that a Judge of the Suprome Court had been ongaged in any transac- tions derogatory to the character of an officer of that high position. It is assumed thatif Judge Cole was knowing to tha fact that his property was advertised to be given away to credulous people ho might pay & doilar for & paltry picture and & ticket in a lottery, he has beon guilty of conduct unftting him for tho place he holds. [t is also assumed that a lottery, based upon his property, could not be advertised two months in his own town and throughout the Stete withou! his knowing perfectly well the character of the en- terprise. OPERA IN EURCPE. The recent statements of the two oporaticman- agers, Max Strakosch and Max Marotzek, with reforenco to the cost of opera, although they were evidently somewhat exaggersted, have, nevertheless, given the public some ides of the extraordinary expenses attendant upon the representations of opers, and explained thoe reason why they sare such expeusivo luxaries in this country. A .re- cont French work, by M. Moynet, furnishes somo figures touching tho cost of producing opors in France, which aro extremely intorest- ing by way of comparison. From this author we learn that the famous dallel comique de la Royne at the Court of Catharine de Medecis cost no less than $1,200,000. The first repre- sentation of Lulli's opera, *Temple de la Paix,” at Fontsineblesu, 1 1685, cost about £3,000. “La Tour Enchanter,” & ballet performed at Veraailles, June 20, 1770, on the occasion of the marriage ot the Dauphin, cost $50,000, and the production of the *Bellerophon,” threo vears later, £70,000. In 1807, the opera expend- od £54,000 in the production of Lesueuar's *‘ Tri~ omphe de Trajan,” end, in 1822, * Aladdin ” was given at a coat of $37,000. Coming down to re- cent times, from the 20th of Jane, 1881, to the 23d of February, 1835, the oxpenses for scenery alone for twelve operas, among them * Robert the Dovil,” ¢ The Masked Bell,” *‘Don Juan,” and ** The Jewess,” amounted to £60,000. The ballet known a8 * Lz Source ™ cost about $7,000; “Don Carlos,” $25,000; Gounod's * Faust,”" $23,000; 2nd *Hamlet,” $20,000. The French author gives the items of expense in the last Accessorios Decorations. Costumes. Last year Peris produced ten mnew operass among them” Gounod's * Jeanne D'Arc,” at an averago of 50,000 francs, making in round num- bera $100,000, and the new opera-house thus far has cost 80,000,000 francs, From such figures a8 these a slight idea may be gained of the epormons expense of giving operns on the Continent, and the lavish manner 1 which the varions Governments spend monoy to keep their people amused, It is undoubtedly owing to this fact that European artists come to this country with sach inflated notions a8 to their value. The experiences, however, of two artists at least—Tucca and Nilsson—have been such under the Bopuujean to Republican prices. Managers, of necessity, learned the lesson long ago. A BELLIGERENT VICAR. Eccentricities are by no means confined to American clorgymen. The average English cler- gyman can discount his American brother any time in getting into trouble. Scarcely an Eng- lish paper arrives here that does not have's nar- rative of the misfortunes of the cloth. The latest of these is contained in tho touching story of tho Vicar of Barnoldswick, near Skipton. This Vicar, Iroson by name, had occasion to preside ata fupersl. The sexton had dug the grave in the wrong spot, and, whero he dug, the gronnd was slready too fall. Tle Vicar, instoad of pro- hibiting the interment, which woul@ have beon an infraction of the laws of healtk:, chose to allow it, eod to assess an additional foo. This tho relatives wonld not pay. Withont it, howerver, the Vicar would not resd the service, 8o the corpse remained in the church all night nnburied. When Sunday came the ob- stinate Vicar met with a little reception at the hards of his flock, who greeted him with hoot and yell, and then commenced to pelt him with mnd. This operation, howover, was inconti- nently suppressed by the Vicar, who dresw & re- volver and feced his persecutors, whereupon they fled as precipitately aa did Zerlina's fnends when Don Giovauni faced them pistol in hand. There are two facts in this little story which will at once strike the American reader. First, ity of the Vicar, who of all men should bave beon the most thoronghly impressed with the solemnity of the business he had on haud, “and to respect the sanctity with which desth is regarded by otbers. Whatever failings Ameri- can clergymen may have, thers is no instance on record where they have specnlated in dead men, or sought to grind’s few pennies out of the sur~ vivors by refusing to bury their friends. The sec- ond fact is the singular woapon which this Vicar kopt in his Christian armory. Fiction of the Charles O'Malley sort, for instance, now and then draws a picture of a pugnaciouspriest who carries a blackthorn with which to correct his unruly parishioners; but this Vicar is the first clergyman on record who has gone into tbe pal- it with a six-shoater in his pocket, and used it to keep his flock in subjection. Good old Peter Cartwright used sometimes to descend from his pulpit and flog the ungodly in s rough- and-tumble, snd make good use of his muscle in the service of the church- militant. Had be only been provided with a six-shooter, how he might have extended his spliere of usefulvess by bringing in six at & time instead of one, What wonders the McCar- thys also might perform in settling vexed ques- tions with their congregations! The Vicar of Barcoldswick has set a bad example in the style of Christian armor he has adopted, sud must have hadinmind the party whose tombstone John Pheenix mentions, who died by shooting himself with ““a pistol of the old-fashioned kind, brass- moanted, andof suchis the Kingdom of Heaven.” Union Grove, Racine County, Wis., could not afford to gee cities like New York and Chicago reveling in the luxary of ministerial scandals, and has been compelled to pui forwsrd its champion, in the person of tho Rav. James Jones, & Congregational clergyman, Mr. Jones® delinquencies were of a very commonplace type. At his trial Inst week, he found himself con- fronted with the very ordinary charges of slan der, untruthfulness, bypocrisy, and fraud. To acquire tho lust distinction, Mr. Jomes was compelled to doff the cloth in a meastre, and condescend to speculations in whest and wool ; to giving promissory notes of a valueless character; snd drawing chacks against banks in which he bad no funds. In his capacity of clergyman he issued other worthless paper assalling the character of members of his congregation; in that of mill-owner he has re- ceived the equivalent of about 817,000 without paying anything forit. This is all very common- place and unsencational, and wonid not rescue his name from the oblivion to which it would paturally be comslgned. But when he said from tho pulpit that s member of his congregation, snd his family, bad “lied about him like.their father the Davil,'" and subsequently threatened to *‘lick” ome of Lis Deacons, Union Grove thought it bad a prat- ty good thing in the way of rofractory ministers, and eatered him sgainst all competitors. A clerical jury, however, have smoothed. over his offenses by mild phraseology, and only fina that hohas “been guilty of conduct anbecoming a minister; that he has not handled the truth with sufficient carefulness to meet the demands of voracity ; and that in his business relations he has unhappily yielded to strong temptations.” Notwithatanding this gentle correction, the Council have suspended him from the ministry indefinitely. e Adolph Satro has been busy for years in driv- ing into Mouat Davidson a hugoe tunnel, which is to drain all the mines in thatrich neighbor- hood. Several of the companies agreed to pay him €2 per fon of all the ore they got after the drainoge began. At present rates, this roy- alty would amount to $20,000 a day. In 1866, Satro got from Congress the right of way for- ever, the title to 1,250 ncres a: the tunnel's mouth, the title to all mines, not then owned, discovered by the boriug of the tnnnel, and & provisicn that every mining company, whether or not it bad pgreed to pay the royalty, should be obliged to do so or should lose its title. This last sweeping provision ronsed the companies to resistance in Congress and elsewhere. Despite their efforts, the law has remained unchanged, one-third of the great bore is donme, and the $8,500,000 needed to comblete it issaid to be guaranteed. Alast effortis to be msde. The San Francisco Chronicle publishea an agrec- ment signed by abont thirty companies, which promise to raise & fund of $200,000 to bo used in lobbying at Washington. One renson of such determined opposition is said by the Chronicle to be the fear that the Tunnel Company may bo able to vitiate the titles to all the great mines,—may drain them and their owners. Since the 1aw of '66, all the companies have began working new ore-bods, They claim that they are but continuations of the old ones, but some experts beliove that they are wholly distiuet. Should this be 8o, the tannel, since it will cut them, will establish the Tunuel Com- pauy's right to them. Hence these fears and this lobby-fand. AP The report that Secretary Fish will decline to sond to the Senato Foreign Relations Committee the ecorrespondence sbout the Vienna Exposi- tion scandal is scarcely credible. The Ameri- can name has never been 8o disgraced abroad as it was by the unseemly squsbble between Jay and Van Buren. The State Department sustain- ed Jay at the time. Van Buren was publicly, contemptuously dismissed. He was not even suffered to resign. Tho gravest charges were made against bim. The German press recounted bow Minister Jay had found out that the Ameri- can Commissioner had sold himself for a few hundred tbalers. If he was gnilty, his nomina~ tion a8 Consul to Kanagwa was an fusult to the country; if ke is innocent, let the State Depart- ment say 8o and prove 80,—not damn him with the faint praise of a minor office. Why does not Van Buren himsclf speak ? Seven months ago he 'was savage a8 Cerberus. Is this pitiful sop to console him for a ruined reputation? - In answer to numerous inquiries, we state that the new Order of the Sovereigns of Industry can be reached by a lotter addressed to ““J. C. Ab~ bott, Sacretary National Council of of Industry, Warcester, Aasa.” ROM UND DIE DEUTSCH] founr. Berlin, 3 oo VoR 3. €. Bupms, In tho brochure named above, Dr. Biutsehy —probably tho greatest international lawyer living, and Professor for many years in the T vergity of Heidelberg—traces the cauflictno; raging between Rome and Germany to its orig; in history. Although not as radical ss Bismascy, Bluntechli indorses Bismarck's policy towarg, thie Church ; and, indeed, it would ot be popy. laror safe for any public man in Germauy at preg. fi-fll todo otberwise. The Professor's politica) views are best indicated by a word which ha was the first to intraduce into Germsn poliica, -, * Liberal-Conerative;” but thea hois also aug of a school of statesmen to be found, we think, _nnwhexahuz in Germany, and of which Bismarck is perhaps the greatest living reprosentative,- men who draw their potitical inspiration FROM HISTORY; who obtain from historical data their and proceed forthwith to carry them oug, _whethex thero be any present means for enfore. ing them or not, s, on the whole, tho best thizg to fl_o. ‘We may call them sciontific politiciang; their actions being dictated not 80 much by th, desire to meat presont emergencies as by what they consider unduubted sociological principles, To illustrate : One principle of the school is the so-called ** Nationalitats princip,” or the masig that every veople speaking a coramon language, having the same customs, literatare, cfe, should constitute one political organization tiat such langusge, customs, etc., constituty the natural basia of the State, provided, of course, that the people using them inhabit ‘oe continuous territory. Edaucated in this school, Bismarck adopted thid principle, aud his whols lifo has been devoted to realizingit. It was a gigantic task, but he has sccomplished it, Tho German Empire 18 THE RESULT. Once established, the nost thing was to insaro the perpetwity of the Empire. To effect this, every effort must bemade. The foandation of oational unity is unity of ideas; unity of lan- gusge, of literature, of customs ; homogeneity of political principle. This komogensity must bo effected. Bismarck asked himself, Is thera any element in the Empire ont of harmony with it,—a possible source of disumon? Yes,—the Roman Catholic Church. It alone is not Ger- man. I must be Germanized,—nationalized, ‘Till this is done, German thought is not, and caunot be, homogeneous. Hence the education of the Catholic clergy must be superintended by the State; Catholic schools must be under the control of the State; Catholic Bishops ap- pointed, or at least confirmed, by the State,—the State must, in a word, impress its character on the Chureh,— DECREATE IT I¥ ITS OWN IMAGE, Bismarck's scientific politics it was which die- tated this part of his course, as 1t dictated the firet; and noone will deny that, in following it, ho is, to say the least, logical. Bluntschli’s brochure is a defense of Bis- marck's course on the principles of scientific politics. He sces thres great moral forcesin the world, fashioning the doctrines of humanity: the Roman, the Teutonic, and tho Cluistian, Rome and Germany have been fighting for two thousand years. The present strogglo is only one phaso of an old and fundamental difference. The Roman spirit Lias a one time complemented the German, and at another opposed it. oth spirita allied themselves to Christisnity; but the one gave Catholic, tho othor Protest- ant, Chrigtisuity to the world Romes wasalways the centralizing spirit, Germany'sthe decentralizing. Ancient Romo was bent on eon- quest; to reduce the world to subjection to itself; to subordinate individuality to the will of Pow- er. The political capacity of Rome was alwaye remarkable. Its will was always indomitable, The Roman father was absolute master of his wife and child. Btill, Roman conguest had ITR DENEFICENT SIDE. The Romans carried their civilization with them. Culture, architecture, law, followed in the track of their armies; and, had they been less absoluate, less ambitious, less warlike, culture and refine~ ‘ment bad not been spread over the world, nor the way prepared for the refining sod cisilzing influences of Christianity. The toman Empire, however, meant one universal monarchy, the downfall of nations, and the slavery of peoples, Had the Empire lasted, Europe would have been only s province of Romo, destitute of all varisty, —another China,—and the forther development of humanity would have been arrcsted. It was for the interest of humanity that Roman ambi- tion should be checked. There was but one power that could do it,—~the Teutonic race,~ and principles, T DID IT. In the middie ages, the same phenomens re- sppear. Gregory VIL, Innocent IIL., and Boni- face VIIL., represent tho all-conquering Romsn spirit, which, in the contests of Pope- and Em-~ peror, received a shock from which it has not re- covered. But the Roman Church still claimed allegiance of mind and conscience. Germaey 2gain rose .mp, and in the Reformation shook off the yoke. The antagonism of Rome and Germany has given us the differentiation of the Christisp nations into Protestant aod Catholic. The present conlict is, tnerefors, pothing new. Germany snd Rome have never been on amicable terms. Bismarck thinka that all history pointa to the conclusion that they can- not be. ‘The antagonism between them must ba done away with by THE ANNTHILATION or Germanization of Rome. Against the order of Jesuits, especially, does Germany direct its forces ; for the Jesuits are the most Roman of the Romans,—therefors tho greatest enemies of the German spirit. Blual- schli's pamphlet gives us an insight into the plan of Bismarck's present campaign. Therels much that 18 plausible in the manner in which ihe sntagonism of the Roman to the German spirit is presented ; but it does not contsin the whole truth. If Germany has, in the past, been decentralizing in ita influence, it is now in con- flict with its history. A more lhongly-cullfl!' ized power does not exist in the world. 'Ihi has asserted the right of liberty of consciecs, is it not now INFRINGING THAT VERY RIGET? It it claime that it has been always haukofgll found on the eido of Liberty, it can hardly clsim that it is now. If it would look scross the Al lantic, it would find free churches among a fré® people, and & Government Which understazds Liberty in senue that will not allow it to in- torfere with the organization of » chusch When, under the pretenso of religious freedo a body of men violate the law, it is time enoug to call them to account, tut then DOt 28 a1 0F ganization, but as individuals, in which capscity alone they are amensble to the laws. _—— The Colt Company, of Hartford, is manufse- taring & new 2nd remarkable gun, 3 recent in- vention of Col. Taglor, of Knoxrille, Tenn. The gun is & sort of mitrailleuse, but its twenty-foof barrels are so inclined that at s distaoce of o yards the bullets will strike just a foot apart. partial revolation of the ‘breech-cylinder slfows the insertion of & case containipg twenty- {05t cartridges. When the cylinder is turned o the gua is resdy to be fired. The barrels c30 discharged singly or together, at a low or 8 ver¥ high rate of speed. A speed of 800 shots P minate has been sttained in the prelimins trials at the Colt factory. The mechsnism i very simple throughout. Oue of these g::; with a small boy to drop in cartridges, W . geem to be sufficient force to Oppose V;M regiment., The only improvement posaibie WO & bo an iron-clad satomaton to take the plscd g the boy. The oatposts of a fort would thex » studded with Taylor guna; at the nppr}mh =z the enemy the aatomats wonld be put into o tion by electricity; the elevation of the c;nnm could be adjusted in the ssme WaY; &2 for machine would proceed o deal out flmfluh- destruotion, When the enemy fairly fied, aud-blood soldisrs mght bo les loass 00 hidk