Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1874, Page 8

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. e (- SUBSCRIPTION (PATABLE I¥ ADYANCE), Partsol a yeerat the same rats. Taprevent delsy and mistakes, be surs and giva Post O coaddress in fall, inclading State aud County. Remittances was be mada either by draft, express, Post Ofiice oider, orin registered lotters, at our risk. TIME TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dafls, deliversd, Sunday esceptod. 2 cente por weck. Lz0y, elivered, Bunday incladed, 30 cents per week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-ta.. Chicago, Til. TO-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS. MVICKER'S THEATRE-Madison streot, “botween Desrborn and | State. Engagoment of Edwin Bootb. “Richard TIL" "Y'S THEATRR—Randoloh _street, between RS Taal sgementaf Jarrect & Palmors a0 o, Combinstion. ** Unduve, ACADEMY OF MUSIC~Halated street, botwoos Mad- At o, ncezerent o Brak B Alkea. ““ Mausico: or Monse-Trap Hock. A A S lement: an o o Haven Siators-" ‘Lo-La, aad the De Glorians. MYEES' OPERA-HOUSE Mouros strest, between Siate. Arli m, Cotton, and Kemble's P aed siteAoircion, Siher i7d, Komtich Black.” 2 £ Desplatous street, betworn Mad- e atamemant ot tha yex Bocahars 's Pantomime Troupo. **Toe Wil DR, KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MOUSEUM-No. 14§ Bouih Clirk strcst. Science and Art. The QChitagy Cribune. Sundsy Morning, March 15, 1874 AFRAID OF “HUTCE.” In pursuance of its promise to aid the provis- jon-Jealers Committes in investigating sour meats, Tee TrmoNe has 1sid before that Com- amittee some very complete statements from the provision men of Philadelphis and Baltimore, some statements from dealera in this city, which would bave been mora complote it they (the | dealers) kad not been afraid of * Hutch,"ands statement from an official Inspector of Pro- vigions. The Committee will bear vs witness that our reporter labored bravely and indus- iriously toobtain information, but, a8 the packers were afraid of “Hutch,” snd the provision dealers were afraid of * Hutch,” and the brokers wore afraid of ** Hutch," and the Committee were afraid of * Hatch,"—everyone except our report- ex, apparently, beingafraidof * Ratch,"—ho made very Jittle Lieadway. Ha was taken into remote corners and mysteriously whispered to, 50 that 4t Hautch ™ might not hear. Pickets wore thrown out to give the alarm if *Hutch " ehould be seen besring down upon them. The brokers dd not like to give their namee, because *Hutch' wonld see tuem in print, and, finally, Dow re- fused to serve on the Committee, because he ‘waan't afraid of * Hutch.” Here, then, we have one element which euters into the sour-mest business,—the fear of * Hutch,”—and to this point we direct the attention of the Committes, suggesting to them that, if they can contrive some way to disarm *“ Hutch ™ of his terrors and insplre brokers and doslers with & little pluck . snd indepeudence, the prospects of good meat will improve, and pork won't sour 80 readily. The Inspector himself furuishea some valua- ‘ble testimopy. He says: ** Wo bave bad an un- favorable season for curing joints. There are shonlders that run very bad, but there is no de- sire, aither on the part of packer or inspector, to work them off 28 anything but what they are. ‘What we want in this city is arule as to what percentage of ‘sour in a pile of meat shall make i unmerchaniable. When s course of grad- mal decsy scta in, as it does in sick: lots, no man'a imspection can arrest it.” This § testimony, =lso, we commend to the Committee, with the additional eng- gestion that they investigate and see to what sxtent the fear of “Hutch” dominates the In. spoctors. As we have already said, the state- ment of the Inspector shows that **some sour " a0 go into a pile of meat without making it un- merchsntsble, and that the amount {hat can go ‘mis left to the discretion of the Inspector. Hence, the Inspector is very anxious to kmow fst what percentage of sour he must pat in, in arder not to lose his place. Solong asthe In- ector is liable to be dismissed, and the fore- nan of the packing-house to lose his dace alse, if they allow sour mests © sccumulste on the premises, 1t should e definitely settled whether mest shonld be all tour, or half sour, or one-third sour to be mer- :bantable, and whethera percentage of sour less than one-third can be ventured mpon without danger of “ Hutch.” Some decision on this point should be made immediately, not oaly for the relief of the Inspectors and foremen, so that they can be sure of their places, but also for the relief of packers themselves. It is distressing fo them not to know what percentage of * sour " makes » lot merchantable. Listen to the story of Mr. Calbortson's woes. Ho says: T will Iastrate this matier so that the public may at tzce ses the point of my remariw, though wa cannot tell the why and the wherefore, Our houso last week bought some shonldars from another house, and sent our private inspectar, who has had & large snd varied sxperience at the business, 0 inspect them, Our in- spector worked sbout one day, and got but about two earlosds of mest, 2nd, in doing this, be rejected from 25 to 50 per cent as sour. We, of conree, refused 10 accept any but what wore sound. The aboulders which the {nspector bad selected and sccepted were removed to one of our-storehouses, and within two days the sme {nspector again went over them, and foand thxt 40 per cent of those which a couple of duys ‘bafare had found to be swoet Were now sour, Insemuch as 80 per cent soared ono day, and 40 per cent two days after, 1t is fair to presume that the remaining 30 por cent lost no time in souring. 'This is 8 point also to which the Com~ mittee shomd give their esrnest attention. We have Jaid out sufficient work for the Com- mittee for the present. Their first workis to solvd the problem how mnoi to be afraid of “Hutch.” The second is to ascertain what per- centage of sour meat makes a 1o of meat mer- chantable. The thirdis how much sonnd meat an inspector can put into a car and keep his place, aud how much discount must be made upon ihle by the foremanof the packing-house, 5o that be akizll not lose his place. The fourth is the perverse tendency of shoulders to sour, as shown by Mr. Culbertson. When they get these ponta settled, in which Tre TrmuxE will help the Committee, not being afraid of * Hutch,” then other points msy be suggested, and thins the Committee and TrE TRIBUNE, going hand in band, may eventually work out the' problem kow tosell sound meat instead of sour meat. When thet is dons, then the provision men will no Jonger bo afraid of * Hutch;" then Mir. Culbert- gon will To longer have o lament the total de- pravity of stoulders ; then Mr. Counselman will haye suoceededin his giant enterprise of. curb- ing Calbert. “ A recent scene in the woman-injanction- ‘erusede. case st Lobancn, O., which was tried will have their.rights. Nine women sat on the bench with him, some of them in frout of him and some bebind him, sndseveral hundred more composed the andience, who hod filed into court to the ringing of all the bells in town. When the Judge told the Crier to announce that the Court would adjourn, & Mothodist clergy- mao aroso and interrupted the Crier, tolling him to hold on, as he had something to may. Having quicted the Crier and the Gourt, ho an- nounced the time ana place for a.icmperance meeting, tnd, baving done so, kindly allowed the Court to be recognized.. The result of these unique proceedings for a day or two, of course, was 8 decision in favor of the women. Not one of them wds arrested for contempt. Suppose, howover, that two or taree hundred saloon-keop- cr3 should undertake this method of brow-beat- ing & Court! THE COMMOR COUKCIL. The expiration of the Mayor's bill retires the Magor fiom the President’s chair in tiie Com- mon Council. The Council, therefore, will have to select & presiding officor at the meeting to- morrow night. Thero are soveral aspirants : Mr. Callerton, of the Seventh Ward; Mr. Me- Grath, of; the Fifteenth *Ward; Mr. Dizon, of the Second Ward; Mr. Lengacher, of the Seventeenth Ward; and porbaps others. These Aldermea are all Republicans, and Cullerton and McGrath are members of. the Legislature. They are all members cf the purty who carried the city at the last elettion, excopt Dixon. bers of the Council from whom a respectablo President might be chosen; but it is not likely that the 23" will permit sny but one of their own number to be electod. The minority of the Council have a dnty to perform which they must not shirk. While of themselves they cannot elect, they may Bave 1t in their power to control the clection to tho extent of = choosing the loast discreditable person named by the other side. It is poesible, foo, that, if presiding officer, wero presented, some of tho 423" might vote for and elect him. * We do not know what sort of a presiding officer Cullerton would make, but anybody in tho Board wonld be better than McGrath, though that fact alone may impel the */23" to elect him. In thatchoice no respectable Alderman ought to take part, ex- cepi to protest against it by his vote. THE PRICE OF BEER. We beliove that the caltivation of the taste for lager-beer a8 a substituto for the fiery alcoholic beverages used by the drinking portion of the ‘ments in the cause of temperance. If the com- pounds retailed at the bars in this city, under the names of whisky, brandy, and gin, and oven 18 wine, were snalyzed, the wonder would not be that men are poisoned by tho use of liguor, but that the number thus poisoned ia” not ten- fold greater‘thanitis. While we do mot advise any teetotaller to use bzer, weo thuwk it would be & happy circumstancs if tho consumption of the latter were doubled and that of alcoholic drinke diminished one half. When beer shall become the pational beverage, there will be an immense reduction, not only of the number of drunkards, but of those whose minds, nerves, and bodies sre seriously injared by the poisonous adulterations now sold in saloons. There hs been for soveral wecks & warm con- troversy going on between the brewers and the saloonists over the price of beer. Heroto- fore the brewers have charged $10 per barrel, but recently they advanced the price to $12, on acconnt of the eubanced prico of barley and hops, Against this the retailers united in s pro- test, and made s defensive alliance. They offer- ed to pay $10 a barrel and no more. After sev- eral weeks of resolsing and counter-resolving, the Milwaukes brewers. for certain political reasons, " caved,” and broke down the Chicago combination. Some of the latter, indignant at the bad faith of the Milwankee brewers, went one point Jower and commenced selling st 89, The question involved was ono of considerable’ importauce to the persons engaged in the businces. The internal reveaue taxon beer and fermenced liquorsis $1a barrel. Tho re- ceipts of internal revenue from this source dur- ing tho fiscal year 18723 were 8,010,823 for thie whole country, which represents, of coarse, the same number of barrels, The advance of $2 n barrel would have made a difforence of nearly §18,000,000, It was thercfore -no insig- nificant matter over which thesa men wore quar- reling. * Dut there is snother-party intercated in the fight, and that is the beer-consumor. Ever since tho Government resorted to s tax on fermented liquors thero has been & steady increass in the price-of the'barrel, and ss steady o decresse in tho size of the mugs. Tho latter have go dwin- | dled that at this time the avérage mug coutains less than half of & pint, and tho price is five cents. It is claimed by the retailers that the brewers make £2 a barrel profit when they sell at 910 per bamrel. Now let us sea whet the rotailers make &t that prico: Each barrel contains thirty-two gallons of beer, which gives 236 pints; this, retailed ut b cents per mug, and twomugsto & pint, produces s total of $25.60 per barrcl. Deducting the'cost, the net profit on each barrel is $15.60, Whero there is 2 brisk businese, and whero soveral barrels are 801d in & day, there is little or no wasto, and tho sales dro cash. Reducing the profi to $15 per barrel, the rate of profit is 150 per cent, and the capital required is very small. Some of - these establishments sell as mauy 8a & dozen barrols & dsy. The average eapital. required is' $53 for licende ; 850 for & month’s rent in advance; 500 for furnitare ; and $10 for beer. Selling one barrel of beer a dsy would, in thirty days, give $450 profit on §612 capital invested. Now, the consumers pay this enormous profit, and the consumers should imitate the action of the retailers, and refuse to patronize any estab- lishment that does not give at least one-third of a quart of clear beer for five cents. This would lesve tho retailers s profit of noarly £0.20 on every barrel, or nearly 100 percent. The amount of annual expenditure involved in this business is very great, and is on the increase. Assuming that the brewers get $10 a barrel, their gross ro- ceipts amount to nearly $90,000,000 & yoar. ' The retailers, upon the assumption that it is sald in all parts of the country at the same price it is sold in Chicago, receive an svernge of §25 for each barrel, 15 of which is profi. Putting the whole consumption st 9,009,000 barrels, the con- sumers expend in the sggrogate $225,000,000, which sum may be thus classified: . $ Browers” prots, RBetailers' profits, Coat of beer..... It must be said; however, that the retailers Bafors Judge Smith, was a curions foreshadow- | allege and declare that, whila the brewers psy a ing uf the good time coping when the weman | tax of 1. per -barrsl to the Govemment, the Thero are saveral other mem- { & gentleman like Ald. Moore, who is known ; to tho whole Board as a most excellent | community is one of the best possible move- | by delivering a° proportionate ‘amotnt’ beer. Thus, at $10 a barrel, the boer at thirty- t%0 gallons & barrel would net them 313 cents a pallon ; but, by putting only twenty-nine gal- lons in the barrel, they eave the tax, which is | theroby added to their profits. How far this | { allegation s true wo do not know, but ths cou- | | tents of a barrel of beer must, by law, conform | tothe logal standard, and tho retailors can pro- | tect themselves at any timo by baving s barrel | | ganged, and, it found short, have the browor | punished. i \ ; Unfortunately for consumers, thero is no | 1 standard of measure for becr-mugs, and the ro- | tailers can with impunity deal oat their beer at 10.0r 20 cents a pint, when it costs them only 4 cents, a8 tho war for cheap beér was bogun by the retailers. Wo think the consumers, who psy £2.25 for overy 72 conts’ worth of beer, being | the most aggrioved parties, ought to be the most | determined. Let them imitate: the beer-sellers, and suspend purchases ono week, and ‘they will win their victory, Just as the retailers forcod the brewera to sbandon the proposed increase, THE M'CARTHY SQUABBLE. The Usion Park Baptist Church has forgotton the injunction toko wiso as serpents. Since tha quarrel botween pastor and people began, both sides have acted as if their sole object was to bring sll possible dirgrace upon tneir church, their sect, and theirreligion. <Ihey hava washed their dirty liven in public. The reporta of their | mestinga aro studded thick with such terms of brotherly love as “lior,” “dirty, low- lived skunk” ete. Yet tho reporters have beon mercifal to the combatants. The latter nave leon .spared the humiliation of seeing their worst utterancos in: print. 1t is incredible that s man of decent self-respect sbould soil . Lis 1ips with fome of tho vilenoss over which the Council that tried McCarthy ; gloatod. Ono of the worst featares of. the case | was the aftendance at all the sessions of num- | bers of women who were not needed as wit- nesses or judges. Though warned that the tes- timony would be unfit to hear, they clung to their seats and listenod unblushiogly to'vilo ac- cusations bandied between their minister and their Deacons. *Sir,” #aid an attorney in & di- vorce case, * thia testimony is vory bad ; L move | your Honor that the court-room ba cleared of | ladies befors we proceed.” ' *¢Tho motion is un- | mecessary,” was the reply; “no lady would re- main, here.” We commend the incidont to the feminino attendants at the McCarthy trial, The trial Las 8o far been not only ‘scandalous, but unfair. McCarthy forfeited whatover slight claim hoe had on public sympathy by his disgust- | ing sermon in reply to his.accusers. He is con- demned out of his own mouth. * But the Council | that neard the accusations against bim was prob- ubly 28 unfair & tribunal as ever sat in America. 1t gagged the friends and checred on the foos of McCarthy. It refused to hear the latter, It actually declined to give him the specifications on which he was tricd, and then permitted bim to be calléd a lisr when ho eaid ho Lad not re- ceived them. Weo beliove the pitiful spite that I showed itsel? at first by providing bounteous | Tunches for anti-MecCartnyites, and lesving the | | opposite faction to starve, ran its conrse before the Council adjourned. The same apirit showed Ritselt, bowever, in other ways. i The ntter folly of tho whale proceeding will only be underatood when it is known that thia Council, after " raking over il the £lth that both | parties presout for its comsideration, can do nothing save advise the Uniou Park Baptists to sover or not to sever the pastoral relation. The former advice will, of course, be given. It onght to be. Then we shall have more mob-moestings of tho congregation, moro seandal, more hurt to religion. It is absurd that gotting rid of 8 min- ister ehould involvo such doublo toil and tronble. Tbe churches would be wiso should they adopt a rulo that the signing of & puper requesting a miniater to resign by a majority of the congre- gation should competely sever the bond botween pastor and peoplo. If this were part of the Bap- tist Constitution now, McCarthy could be ejected at once, without scandsl. The meeting which voted to retam him probably represented the congregation no more than a town-meeting in West Chicago represents that part of the city. A majonty sgsinst him could be easily found. How much better to get rid of & ministerial gin- per in this way than to suffer his misdeeds to embroil his whole congregation and himself such scandalous squabblca’ as the one that now disgraces tho West Side Baptists. Fortunately, wo sball bavo s breathing space till March 81. The Council has adjourned until ther 1n order to give McCarthy tima to prepare his defonse. What that defenso will be can best bo inferred from bia own statement that he csunot clear himsalf uoless ho shows that some of the mombers of his church are the ** worst villsins on earth.” SUNDAY-AFTERNOON LECTURES, The Chicago Sunday-Afternoon Lecture So- clety hss been duly organized. It proposes to 80 to work at once. The first lecture in its course for this spring will perhap be given noxt | Auodsy. Tho ebjsct & = P clety, as set sorth in its articles of aasociation, is * the sus- taining of Sunday-atternon lectures on relig- tous, ecientific, artistic, literacy, and hiatorical subjects,” Its meetings will be_held at such hours that they will not interfere with the reg- alar sorvices in the churches.. It s hoped that its membersbip will be 88 varied as that of the Loudon Sundsy-Lecturo Socioty, thich has on its rolls members of all the different denominations, orthodox and heterodox. While the Society will not attempt to dictate to itslecturers cither their subjects or their treatment of them, it will try toselect as speskers men who will be apt to mako their sayinga 28 popular and ss practical as possible. The lectures on scienco will bo illustrated by exporiments ;. those on history by maps and diagrame ; and those on art by pic- turos, Religious (not theological) subjects will bo treated of from time to time, though the especial mission of the Society is to prench truth rather than faith. In order to meet the ‘wants of the bearéra as fally as possible, a box will be placed in the lecture-room to receive requests for particnlar speskers or subjocts. Due sttention will be paid to these. A pmall ball in the southwest part of the city will bo hired, to begin with, This' locality is chosen becausa It is comparatively destitute of churches, and becausa it is near the homes of the men whom it is eapecially desired to reach. Any pretense of patronage orof charity will be jealously guarded against. The lecturers will be paid. An sdmission fee of 5 or 10 cents.will ba charged. Members’ tickots, which will be transferable and good for all' the lesturas of the year, will cost only 8L * They can be’ ob- tained for six months for 50 cents. A care- practice s to collect the dollar oat of tho barrel ful' socount of recelpts and = expenditures will be submitéed to: the Boclety, It | ‘therd ahotld huppen a$ any tihs to be & surplus, . it will bo used in extending the Sociaty's nsefulness. | ... - ‘This movement deserves popular support. It is an honest offort to do good. Itisnola covert atteck apon Christisnity. ~The Cheistisn Union sphere of the is even now considering the expediency of giving | such a coursoof loctures its#lf. The Sunday-Af- ternoon Lecture Society aims to reach the 300,000 | men, womon, and childron in this city for whom the churches have no room. It Lopes to keop men away from the aaloons by giving them an inviting place in which to spend their Sunday afternoons. To do the good it seeks to do, it mist Lavo moral and moneyed support. We trust it will obtain both. - CAN A BUILDING BE MADE FIRE-PROOF ? In 1830 a huge warchouse was built in Lon- don. Tt was intonded 88 8 storeroom for the laces, aud pictures, aud jewels, and rare farni- ture, and costly carriages of the nobility and gentryof Eogland. A recoptacle for all tho arts, it was approprialely enough named the Pantechnicon. The utmost caro, was token to make it absolutely firo-proof. Tho iron pillars were golid, and reated upon one another, with no intervening floors, 8o that they formed a seriec of columns reaching from foundation to roof. Thewood floors were covered with iron plates resting on felt. Tho ceilings wero Iathed with iron, aud covered with a concreto that | was supposed .to' be able to resist the fiercest heat. The chimnay flues were lined with iron.” The stairs were of stone, The doors were all of wrought-iron. Tho party-walls were eitber of brick or irop. Four iron walls ran scross the building from east to west, Like the walls Which dividoa vessel into com- partments. Each of the five spaces thus bound- ed could be entirely shut off from the others. | Each' was divided, by thioner iron walls, into | warchouses snd singlo rooms. Porsons whoso goods filled & room Liad the %oy to it themselves. Tho only gasin the building was in the offices at the ontrance. The place was generally closed at dusk. The only lights used in it afterwards wero safety-lamps. It had water-tanks and hoso, but no hydrants, Tho goods stoted in it Wwore worth millions of pounds. At 4 o'clock in the aftorncon of Friday, Fob. 13, & alight firo was discovered in one of tho in- | ner rooms. There was s scarcity of water. Tho fire spread. Thealarm was given. In fifteon i minutes the London Fire-Brignde was at worl. The water-supply continued scanty. Boforalong tho hope of saving the buildiog or its contenis was given up. At 4 o'clock Saturdsy morning the fite died for inck of fuel. Ouly pioces of the outside walls were left standing, and * the whola place seomed to have crumpled in.” The Enghsh papers and reviews sre fail of editorials and correspondence on tho lessons taught by such a fire. Chicago figures, of course, 28 an awfal waming. The Saturday Review thinks we will . probsbly burn wuwp again, while the Spectator says, with that delightfal accuracy which always marke English statemonts sbout this country: “Trinity Church, Chicago, building of red brick only, stood the fire out bravely, though the flames licked its walls and felt none the worse for & scorching to which it hod been mcclimatized.” English architects, tuilders, and editors seem to agreo on the fol- lowing points, which we commend to the attan- tion of & ¢ity waich was burned for lack of atten- tiou to them: Jron, 28 a protection agsinst fire, ie a delusion and & gnare. Irou pillars aro wholly untrustworthy, because they bend when hoated. When conted with plaster, their resist- ing capacity is more than doubled. Iron beams expand very quickly when exposed to fire, and 80 throw down walls. Wooden beams, properly protectod, sometimes stand heat much botter thaa iron ones do. CGoncrete sud tile floors ara Detter than stone. Brick is by far the best firo- resister. Yet it is vain to expoct to savo build- inga which contain combustiblo goods from con- fagratious, though wa build with greatest care, unless there are hydrants on every floor and a great pressurs of water within them. TROUBLE IN TEE MILWAUKEE CHURCEES, 1t is consohing to know that, while Chicago has s monopuly of almost exersthing which makes life desirable, sbe has not & monopoly of charch dispatations. So, when we review the present condition of religious affairs in this city, we do not despond at the gloomy and the perturbed as- pect that is presented, but Jook abont over tho land and behold other cities and communities rent and torn by dissensions in like manner. The heresy-hunters are not ail ¢n the track of Prof. Swing and Dr. McKanig,—other ministers besides that “broth of & boy,” the Rev. Flor- ence McCarthy, have trouble with their congre- gations,—thero aro other polomic editors besides Patton and our- brotber of the Advocate, who writes for a salary and puts his trust in an ad- vertising agent ; and thore are other religions troubles that Drs. Everts, Collyer, and Chenoy know pot of. Down (or up) in our neighboring village of Milwaukee, whose quiet ways and rural shsdes ara especialiy provocative of pastoral postry end religions meditation, the uneasy spirit of doubt Lias got abroad smong the churchos, and the thioologicnl bayonots bristio and flash in tho light of the setting sun. They have in ono of their oldest aud wealthiest Congregational churches s Rov. Mr. Dudley, whose Sunday morning discourges have had so much pith n ‘them that they have been phonograpbically reported for ons of the daily papers, and their gentiments have atiractod considerable attention among all clagses of people. Having some originality, ho is set down 88 o beretio by one portion of the community, and is sharply eriticieed for the irreverent way ho has of treating what he con- siders the allegories that exist both in tho Bible and in the different systems of religion that bave blessed or cursed the world. Recently Mr. Dudles preached o sermon, in which he stated that nobody bolieved nowsdsys “ that Lot's wife wag turned into a pillar of salt, or that Jonah spent three days in the whale's belly.” Where- ‘upon there comes forward newspaper correspond- "ent Number One, who cites chapter and verss to ehow wherein Christ and the Rev. Mr. Dudley disagroe, asserting that— ) = Inthe17th chopter of Luke’s Gospel we find the Great Teacher told his hearers to take warning from what befell Lot's wife; and in the 12th chapter of Matthew Ho eaid : * As Jonas was thres dayd and threo nights in the whale's belly, 80 shall the S8on of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” This was almost as uncomfartable s fix for Mr. Dudley ss it was for Jonah, for it is unpleas- ant for & ‘professedly ‘orthodox minister to be shown to be in antagonism with the expressed words of the Savior; but hers comes newspaper correspondent Number Twoin the Sunday News, #ho defends the pastor, and frankly sdmita that Mr. Dudley and Christ ** disagres, eapacially con~ cerning the legends in regard to Lot's wife and Jonah and the whale's belly ; but s iarge major- Ity of intelligent peopla to-dsy, in the Christisn cbureh ‘and ont or & will' sgre” with Mr. Dudley,.no, mattér: -whiah_ #ida ; Ghrist is traditionally roported : to. have. been on.” - This -correspondent goes on “to eay, inlanguage that must bo condemned for its’ slang, that very fow people “ balieve inthe myth- ical yarn about Eve's apple dicker with the ser- pent in tho Garden of Eden,” and those that do not, he contends, “ cannot honestly lsy claim to the name ot orthedox, for the whole theory of. John Calvin rests upon our fall in Adam, and las that rotten pipkin tor its undorpinuing. Destroy that improbable story and the whole superatructure comes tumbling down like a boy's cob-honse.” Hoadds: Mr. Dudley has shown i3 his Two Views of Salvation that Johin Calvin and his cotemporarics, havinz started wrong by laying down a falsé premise, went on wEong | tothe end; and that the whole orthodox mysiem is what 3r. Dudley ssye of tho hymns of the present da; 1t s tho snd refrain of a lost cause,” The Bible ia unquestionably book coutaining much that 18 good, Dut therofs in 1t also o largo smount of straw ‘and chiafl, a5 well as wheat, and if 3Mr. Dudleys winnowing ‘mill blows the dust and ehaff in the eyevof the sudi- ence sometimes till they can’t sce his effort to got at the grain, it {s not kis fault. So of the 9’.!(!!:(‘(2[1 .ma e promident in The Dook., I stapect David wonld not have fared well at the Long Branch West End Hotel if he had appéired thero with Urlahs wife and endeavored to socure sccommodations.” This correspondent, having made & similarity between the teachings of Hosea Ballon, Thoo~ doro Parker, aud the Rev. Mr. Dudley, brought out “newspaper correspondent Number Three, who slashea with his theological cleaver "in this i way: ‘There ia mot s0 murh similarity, in esnentials, be- tween Mr, Dudley and Hoaca Ballou, 88 there s bee tween Eallou and John Calvin; both of those teachers derived their “stock ia trado” from * Adam's fail,” and made man's salvation & “commercial transao- tion 3 with this differenco only: Ballou’s transaction was & wholesale purchase, “ buyer's option ;" Calvin’ purchase a rotafl trade, * scller’s option.” The deil was the vendor In both cares, and the sattlement of the estate of a bankrupt who had *'hung ont more than he could dry " being the caasa of the sale, Purk- er believed man ‘18 “{oo good to bo damned,” and hence thera i no future punishment, Now Mr. Dudloy teaches that the devil never had any interest in man, ‘ave 18 man's voluntary partner; that he acquired 1o title to the raca thrigh Adam's “laches ;" that, while man s not an inhoritar of dam- nation, he incurs it through violution of the laws of his being, and thore ia no dodging that “he that playa must puy ;7 that Curist come in the fullness of time “to mzke knovn tho will of The Father;” toshow ‘men how to avold the devil—that 15, by Ietilnghim sovorely alone ;" and to help the broken, It is not often that one sees so much Chamber of Commerco siang and legal jargon’ made avail- ablo in a religious controversy, and W make the suegestion free of charge to our dignified brothers of the Interior and Adrocale 'that they immediately change their bsgo to the radical and freo-thinking City of Milwaukee, and teach those cream-colored polemica good manners, even if they cannot improve their doctrines. A LOST RING. Kings who have lost their thrones are not nn- common nowsdayu. - Europe is stocked with played-out Bourbons. But a King who loses bimself, disappears from gight, and then comes up 28 one of the great army of ** claimants,” is a raxity. - The Courts of Franca have just beon busy sgain, for the fifth or sixth time, in find- ing out whother tho Dauphin, the son of ‘Lonis XVI., did or did not die inhia cell in the Temple. Tho evidence on both sides is strong, Official reports show that “the young Capet” was treated with shocking severity by his failor, Simon the shoemaker. He was keptin a dark room, algne save for - the occasional visils of Simon end his wife. When ho ased for toys, he was given » small guillotine, He bad to clean Bimon's shoes and do the most menial offices for him. He was savagely beaten, strack -in the faco with his Jailor's iron-heoled shoes, kicked, sbused. When the name ** Young Capet” had lost its power to insult, the aobappy Prince was called *‘ wolf- cub,” “viper,” and “tosl” His condition when Simon was removed is thus described : Tis bed had not been stirred for six months, and he had not thought to make {t himself ; it ran slive with vermin, His linen and person were covered with them. . . . His window, which was ocked as weil as grated, was never oponed, and the infections smell of that horrid room was 80 dreadful that no one could ‘bear it for & moment. No boy of 8 years could stand such treatment long. The Daupbin did not, according to the reports submitted to the Convention. Simon's succoesors, Lasoe and Gomain, troated the haif- dead boy with kindness. They were watched by » member of one of the Paris Commuttees,—a newman every day. The little prisoner died on Juno 8, 17¢5. A few moments before life fled be took Gomain's hand and kissed it, whilo the joilor prayed. He was asked if ho felt much pam. "¢ Tes, but not 8o much ; the music is so fino.” “ Whero do you hear music?* “Up there; liston, listen!"” Then be snddenly started, and said: “I hear my mother's voico among them.” Then be added: “I hope my sister hears the music.” A moment lator ho beckoned to Lasno, asying: *“I have something to tell you,” Lasne leaned down to hoar, but the boy Isy dead. This scemy like a straight story. There can be no doubt that it was gouerally be- lioved in Paris, despite the fow rumors of escape that bad been whispered around during the year preceding the Dauphin's desth. Nevertheless, haif-s-dozen men have clasimed ‘o be Lonis XVIL ¢ The pretender best known on this side of the water ia the Rev. Eleazer Williams, who died in 1853, Ho was a missionary among the Indians, and is said to have rally supplied their spiritual wants by fornishing them with the Word of God on Sundays and with whieky on week days. Bis claims excited somo attention in 1852, but thoro wes ecarcely a shadow of proof to rest upou. His boasted resemblance to the Bourbon family seems to have consisted in a certain dull stolidity of face. A person pamed Richemond appeared in Paris. during the reign of Louis XVII, and was promptly sentenced to twelve yoars' “seclusion ™ fer daring to pretend to be the dead Dafphm. Tho other claimants were mon of no note, with one exception. . It ia the son of tlud excoptional pretender who haa just lost -his “case in the courts. His advocate, Jules Favre, made 8 romanco of the case. In' his speech befors the Court, he alleged that the Dauphin was put into s deep sleep by & dose of opium, and smuggled into & secret place in the top of one of the towers of the Temple. First a lay figure and thon a deaf-and-dumb child were substituted for him. Polson was given to the latter, but his life was saved by an.antidots prepared by & ekillfol doctor. The doctor was then poisoned. A eick child from a hospital, warranted to die within & few days, was then substituted for the deaf-and-dumb ope. - The warranty held good. The body was packed into tho tower-top and the Daaphin was put in the cofin, On the wayto the cemetery, the boy-Prince got out, s4ones and earth were put in, sud the coffin was buried. Tho conspirators wore Josephine de Besuharnals, Pichegrn, Banss, Hoche, some of tha guards, and others. The -Dauphin wss taken to La Vendoe, and thence to Rome. Every- whers he was bstrayed and dogged by sples. He sailed from Roms for, London, but the vessel wws captured by u French man-of-war, aad he Immediately. aftervard he was caged . in Stras- bourg, but was again released throngh Jogeph- ine’s efforts. At this time ho was 24 years old, and had passed seventeen years in prison. He bad forgotten his native tongue, and had taken the name of Nsundorff: Misfortune followed him. Before he lelt Strasbourg he was attacked | by men, whocut aud slashed his face and rubbed corrogive acid in the wounds fn order to destroy tho resembiance between him and his. alloged father. Hewent to Prague and was stabbed. In 1815, when Lomis XVIIL ascended the' throne, Naundorff -asserted. his - claims, and consequently, went ‘straight .to prison. In' 1533 he got to Paris and was recognized by Madsme do Rambsud, fbe Dauphin's governess ; by M. do Joly. the last Minister of the Interior under Louig XVL.; and by others. Hls knowl- ‘edge of incidents of tho Danphin's early life was very great. He reminded M. de Joly, for instanco, that when tho Kiog.and Qaeen and Duuphin wore in the Assembly-room, he (Ds Joly) brought them'some food, and when the King expressed o fear that it was poisoned, the Dauphin said: * Never mind; give mo & spoon.” He began legal procecdings, was notified that the polico wero about ‘to seize him, and fed to London. Therohe was fired at. Hia it was decided against him in 1836, - Ho then went o Holland, whero he diod,—from poison, is 1s said. He left two children,—a danghter, and a son,” Adalbert Naundorfl, now s 'Lieutenant in the Datch army. They sued for their allaged - rights in'1851 snd lost. It 18-an appesl fronr that decision which has just now beon tried. The judgment of '51 has been reaffirmed. Ac- cording to the defense, Noundorft, the elder, was born in Prussian Poland, was s watchmaker at Spandau in 1812, was tried for arson in Branden- burg in 1822, and was soon after sentenced to three years' imprisonment with kiard lzbor for counterfeiting. There can be no doubt, how- ever, that many persons believed in Kim when he first showed himself in Paris. And there can be no doubt that young Naundorft will alwaya find persons to believe that he, and not the Count do Chambord, ia the heir by divine right to the Throne of France. The scent of the Bourbon will hang "round him still. R UNITARTANISM IN INDIA. Tho religious people of India are somewhst intorested, if not excited, over the zeal and activity that sre at presont manifested by the naw sect called the Brahmo Somsa]. The Sociaty seems to be essenually Unitarian in its faith and practice, and dates ita organization vo further back than 1830; but in 1865 there was a eplit, corresponding, in some aspecta of the disagree- ment between the two parties, to.the divisions that have rent in twain the Unitarian de- nomination in the United States,—one wing boing very radicat, and the other quite orthodox and conservative. The similarity between the movement in that country and in thia is still farther tracesble in tha fact that tho youog men are leaders of the radical wing aa they are bere, and Baboo Debendra Nath Tagore and Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen are to the Indis free-rolig- ionists what Frothirgham, Higginson, and Hale ara to the same class in this country. - The Brah- mos are thelsts, belivingin the unity and father- hood of God, the brotlierhood of the buman race, the need of conversion to God through faith sod prayer, and completod by Divine grace. They deny tho doctrine of tho endlesa punish- ment of the wicked, and aro opposed to what they call the “sublime egotism and self-nszer- tion” of Josus Christ. Indeed, some of thess Hindoo radicals are quite in sdvance of E. C: Towne and Jobn Wiess in the contemptuous no- tiona with which they pretend to view the merits of the Savior of the world. But they are pro- gresaive in other rospects that entitle them.to credit and encouragement. They sccept truth from whatever source it can bé obtained; they havo taken s firm stand sgainst idolatry ; thoy go tor the abolition of caste; they are endesvoringto reform Hindu marriage customs, snd they ac- cept many of the traths which Christ taught, but stubbornly deoy Hia Divine Personality. The result of this movement miay not amount to mach as viewed from s Christian standpoint ; nevartheless, any system or organization that favors free and indopendent thought on the part of its followers is doiug & good service to a peo- ple aa idolatrons sud bigoted as thoie of India. Mr. Storey continues to writeletters to himself urging him:alf not to kil Dr. Johnson, but to prosecute Lum for libel in the courts of law, Mr. Storoy is rapidly distinguishing himself as tho Completo Letter-Writer, s Dr. Johnson had proviously won the title of the Great American Card-Writer. Here are & couple of Alr. Starey’s Intest offusions : DON'T XTLL HDX, (Ta the Editor.) DaRLINGTON, Wik., March 11.—The friends of the Tvmes bove are very deairous tiat you .should svold being goaded iuto Xiling the miscreant Juhnson, which, wnile it would indulitably be considered by a ma~ Jority of the public 2t lacge 36 a1 entirely justifisble pro ceeding, wouid necesearils involve the Nmes, throngh you, in difculites that might fmpalr its usefulness. < Of course, such a rewnls ‘aa this would gratify tha malice of.your enemies, and hance should bo guarded against most sedulously. T have long beon, and sl am, 1n my narrow ephe somewhat active friend of tha Times, and_shoul doeply regret to bave auything ocour that wonld ia anywise militato against it general success and well being, - X C. B, J, h Oy THE omnz,’ To the Editor,] Permit me o call the sitention of yourself.and your resders, {ucluding the editor of Tuk TRIDUNE, and ita friend, Dr. H, A. Jobnson, to the following @ofinition and punishment of Libel, contained in the statutes of Tliols: 4 lfvel is malicious dapf;»mluon. expreased cither by printing, or by algns or. pictures, or the ik, tending to biacken the. memory of oné who 18 dead, ot £ impeach the bonesty, integrity, virtue, or Teputs tion, or publish the’ natural defects of ope who s alivé, and_ thereby o expose’ bim or her to public batred, contempt, or ridicule, Every person, whether writer Or publistcr, convicted of thi Bo ozcceding ome vesr, In all prosec » the truth thereaf may be given in evidence in justifica- tion, escept libels tending to Llacken the memory of the dead, or 6xposs the natural defects of the Living, " Groas’ Statutes, Divinon 10, Sec. 9, pace 190 (rminal &0 BETRIPUTIVE JUNTICR. Code, Outcaco, March-10, 1t ia too tifin! Archbishop Pureell, of Cincinnati, has epoken upon the temperance question, and, although he i8 totally abstineot himself, he doos not main- tain the same position with the temperance agi- tators, and eays he. * caunot instruct or preach tbat it 18 & ain for aday-laborer, who has o earry the hod, on s broiliog hot dayin July or August, up & steep ladder, to the third or fourth story of & building, to restore his exhausted strength by aglassor two of beer.” With regard: to wine- drinking, the Archbishop says: e tho Archbishop cannot sska el Again, Blzsphema the Divine Authior of our Him why He made wine st Caps, fn Spirit teaches us in tho Bible that God made * wine to the heart of man?” Pa, 13. And tha vine toeak why it ahould desert its “/wine that cheersth God snd men.” Jud, ix, 13, Why Qid the dying Fatrfarch ‘under thia iaflugace of Divin toep! wish his s0n ¢ abundanco of wina1". Why, does n‘x.x{nu.lny-w tration he Holy Ghoet tell us thatitis & drink water, or wine, but {o mix them L, or sometimes 10 drink’ one and_somesimes the other 17 23ocb,, Jast versa of the Old Testament. - The position which the Archbishop takes i -that the licanse to sellintoxicatingliquora uhonld be an_ exiremely heavy one, aud that those vile bar-rooms where * bad liquor is sold to minors, drunkards, men or women, who aré now the pests of socisly and a disgrace to their iea,” shonld bo {nexorably closed by every penalty knows to -the law. 'The N'E‘h standing of the vanerablo Archbishop, and the fact that he is s total. abstinent Limsclt, entitlo his opinio; carefol nttoution in_sLs imidst of the was cast into prison. Josephine got him out. | ETZRNAL PUNISHMENT, What -Coes the Greek Wora “ Atop. " dos” Meant = Replies to Mr. Charles M. Coed’s . Article, s Letter from the Kev. J. W. Ix. o To the Editor of The Clacago Triunes o0 " -Bm’t Charlos H. Réed, Esq., in your' issib of last Sundsy, addressed the public cn the subject of ‘‘ Endless Punishment.” That 50 able a law. yer sliould acquit himself 80 poorly as a theolo- Rian, wea to have been expeoted, The shos. misker does his best work when he sticka to his last. The positions he assumed, and tho argu. meots he framed, were common cnongh twenty years ago; but they have long since been abap- doned’ by the' best dofonders of. the' doctting whose dofeuse he makes, having first been made untenable by Universalist expositions. Thess expositions are entiroly overlooked by Alz. Reed, who probably is unaware of their existence. Nob £0 know them, ia to be destituta of thie kniowladzs requisite to tlie defenss he volunteers. To know them aod ignore them, is to be equally defcient. Tho concession whith Mr. Reed makes at the start mh““l‘) to h.“ thnl{:lllo)!n.n From the lexi- cographers he shows, what Dr. Edward Beechar and himself admit, that the nonn At0¥ does not cantain the ides of eternity. The orig- inal signification of the word is *life," po. riod.” But, he adds : A There is another word—an adjectivo—used tn thy B e, ok b e 1k g ,” 4 constant,” « ar wal”™ This word ia aionios. g He does oot inform your readers who are not faniiliar with the Greek, that aionibs i3 the ads Jective derived from ihe snbstantive aion and that the law governing adjectives Limits it meaning to that of the noun, whenca it is ob. tawed. The word “ beautrful™ is incapable of meaning mord thaa, or different from, ** beauty," ita root. “Swaet " cannot exceed or differ from “swoetness.” No adjective can carry a scintilly more than its noun. "If aion means limited due ration, a8 Mr. Reed confesses it doos, THE ADIECTIVE AIONION cannot by any poasibility mean more. * Lang™ cannot exceed ** length ;" ** strong " canLot ex- coed ‘‘strength;”" ‘‘good” cabnmot surpast *goodness.” In copceding that gion denotes * limited duration,” Mr. Reed is foraver éatopped from claiming that it3 adjective denotes ““ende lesa duration.” i - Alr. Reed is sn_scute lawyer; but, while dis- believing his doctrine, wo can give bim & muck better briof than he now holds _Let him assume that . aion is derived from aei on, *always bo- ing” (a derivation once held, but now aban. donqu, and lgl:;, th;re!ore,, ituxlnennn “ absolute eornity.” and then be can'with proprie o that aionios means endless time. The .'i.fié“p. tion has no good gronad to rest upon, but cer- tainly it is a great deal more lawyer-liko to ss- sumo'a point, snd_logically reason from it, than it is to make the fai dmission that a noun mesus one thing, and then claim that ita adjeos tive means something uttorly different. To say that aion means a * fimited duration.” and aion. {05 an'“‘anlimited,” is to say thal * sweetness* stands for “‘the saccharine quality,” but tad **aweet means *“ acid ” or “ saline. If any college is 1 want of to maké & ¢ = ‘:i tm i d make a “ new departure,” we can recommen Ar. Reod. Ho wonld bs in high' favor with ine dolent students. He would save them all perplexity of delving among Greek roots, Tl tips of thie branches—the adjectives—are ampla for hig browsing. Show him what an 2djecura sionld mean to sustain some theological do; and he at once cuts it (rom the root noun that bears and gives it all the life that it can posaibly coptain, s All lexicographers worthy of mention sgres that atonos always mean * conatant,” 4 sting, " & perpets uaL,” ¥ everiasting," “ of loug durution,” * eternal® No genuine scholar will, deny thix, Sophocles givee “ everlasting,” * eternal,” as ihe only definiions. “That i to sav, lexicogranhers * always * give the word’ several meanings. .A lucid exegoto, surely. In u given case, then, how shail we repderit? Eball we understand it ss8 mesaing “lasting,” “ of long duration,” or * eternal,” in any specified instauco? Manifeatly we- must be guided by the subject. The priaathood of Asron, the mouatains, and other thinga in the Rills, aro aionfos. They are T ** EVERLASTING,” BUT TRMPORAT. The priesthood of Asron is succesded by flhnrll; lagte “elan tiavity, and = “Evary mountain and shall ' be 'made low.” Applied . to God, afonios “has the force of “ende leas,” because it M:;tn!mu it from God Itis guch a word as gre We 83y a great fly, s t ship, a great planet, the grest God. In the last instance, the word great contains the idea of infinity, because it absorbsit from tha word following it. In the other instances it carries 3 different thought. Bo the word “ evor- Izating ” means “ endless” when applied to God, but, when applied to other subjects, . it means less. The themo treated determines the mean- 10g of the word. . Long duration " is the actusl signification, but how long is £ be assestained by what accompanies it. b A2 REED DECLARES: Wherever in the New Testament the doctrine futuro sternal Life 1 taught, this adjeckive. sionios i used, confoined with the Greek word zoe—**life "—ai some form or forns of awn with the proper Greal preposition. = s The doctrine of future eternal life is founded solely upan these wards in the New Testsment, If thay da not prove the doctrine of eternal kfe, then it cannot bt prosed in the Now Testament. This same word aion- To¢ 12 expressly used in tho New Testament to denots the futara punfshmont of the wicked. If it ' means *eternal® in relation to thelife after desth, italso Just 23 surely means “etornal” in relation to futare puuishment. & The first scntence above quoted is very fncor- rect, There aro-several worda applied -to the fature life that are unequivocal in ¢he meaniny denoting ** endlessness,” and nothing elso. b4 Pet.,i., 4: ‘“ An inhentance incorraptible (aph- tharion), undefiled, and that fadeth not sway® (amaranton); -Heb., tvii., 16: * After the power of an endless life™ (zoes akalatutou). Bence it follows that the second assumption is equally in- correct, namely : that the doctrine of su endlets life’ resta on the .word aionios. In fact, the hrage rendered ** everlaating” or * eterual life” loed 00t necessarily, or wruslly, mean * endlssd existence,” . = __ WHAT 18 TTEBNAL LIVE, »a the Bible describes it? John, v., 24t *Hs that beliaveih on the Sop hath everlasting ‘life.” John, zeii., 8: ** Thisis life eternal, to kmow Thee, the only trae God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hust gent.” “Applied to life, the word aionios denotes quality, and not duration. The gonuine Christian has everlasting life ** abiding in Him,” even though in s month ho-shookl Iapse into sin and loso it The phrase never of itself menns eudless existence. ) ) I will refer to ‘ouly ome verse to sustain, my “stafe- ment. Imight refer to many. Ths 46th versa of the 25th chapter of Maithew resds in the common versia thus: “andthese aholl go. away into everisstng punishment, but ths righteons into lifo eternal,” - Tha Greek wor 3 -here ‘used to denote -** punishment * 1# kolasin, the accusative case of and the GreeX word used to denote * Life * i zoem, the accasaive cs3 of zoe. The adjective used to denote “ everlasting,* ‘before the word * puniahment,™ s afe 1he aocte e sative cams of aionfos; and the same wi viz: alonion, {s used to denote * eternal * befocs word “life.” In both casea the adjective follows the Several facts in reference to this passsge 6o wict Mr. Raed of mnundmundinfmt. S First—The root of tho word Kolans, traas Iated * punishmoat,” PIGNIFIES *‘TO PRUNE." : 8o that, if we sdmit that aiorios has the force of *“andiess "'in some cases, it cannot have it here, inasmuch i Kolasis hml:nx{n mw:”n‘r' .u,?-' prune” is to improve, am or, s Bead bore, to” discipline. " The. sgriculturi prunés his tree to improve the fruic. means, i.m{mvemam the object and end. To b u?t mc& Yolasin aionion is to be disciplined till reforme Second—The reward of virtus is also limited. The “life eternal " here spoken of is not 60d- less sxistence, bat that spiritual condition whick results from ths parformance of deeds. The aame adjsctive is employed in. both cases, and means ths umo.—xg;r.?‘ endless” in eithes instance. 3 Third—The reward and the pepalty. in Msit, xxv., 46, are not given for luu:p in Chriat, but fo? benevolent deeds, Men aro rejected who did Dot */fesd the hungry,” and those are acop! ‘who succored the needy. The SALVATION 18 BY WOBKS. Fourfi—The sward here given is nct at & post-mortem asgize, and has no referance whai~ ever, to the world beyond the grave. If Me. Reed will sfudy the entire aircourss fram which thannoi-u.tncudi he will seo that the 24th and 25th chapters of. Matthew constituto one dis~ ciples; “W, and of the end A g ! H SRR AT | T TNE T T T B PN BATL T L b ST sl G