Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 19, 1874, Page 8

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Acdiesa Curer Mzdison and Deatbor: TO-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS. \{° MUSIC—Halsted s!rect, betweon Mad- ok, nasseeout of 1os Siaims Harer 2brigl Grab.” LEY'S THEATRE-Randolch strect, betwesn SO T A T e ndaleh, et ooty * Day After the Wedding » *‘To Parents and Guard- 1aze, ™ ““Tae Pretty Housebreaker.” = M'VICREI'S THEATRE-Madison strost. botsreen erborn aat Suata T Bl esantelin by the Lisderkrata Bocfety. 5 B BE VARIETIES-Desglaiuesstreet, betweep Mad- RN e i g R Tt Troups, HMlio. Fontaibsbleas, Gaorge Daveapart, eic. ERS' OPERA-HOUSE-Monras strect, between D ang Saves Adiingian, Coston, aaa Ketoies Bigstrels. Minetreiry and comicalities. Burlosquo of #¥The Border L ADELPHI THEATRE-Gomer of Wabssh avcnue d Congress strect. Variety entertalamont. Alex. Bisus, Rir Lind, Logrenin, ots. | ERY QUEEN'S CIRCUS—Madison strect, SOCIETY MEETINGS. R R R S R BT Y mle i e Rt bratod cohdlazs Monds Srenion, Apri ), at 730 o'clock, forbosinessand drill, Visithig LANDMARK LODGE, NO. 42, A. F. & A, M.— Chanzaof Mesting Nigat~The roguiar commnnication will horeafter be hald at thoir hall, 710 Cotiags Grove-sv., §AEUDAY EVENING of exch wook, at £a'clock,sbarp! The fratoraity are cordially nzited. ' iy order of ihe W, M. . E. The Chivagy Tribnne, 'Sundsy Morning, April 19, 1874. CITY AND COUKTY POLITICS. The speech of Mr. Hesing before the Republi- can State Committeo was not the mere expres- sion of opinion by & man accustomed to rulo ;. it 'Was somothing more. Mr. Hesing was but giv- ing tho rousons which had led to the disruption of the Republican pariy in this county and State which had glready taken placo. In 1872 the Germen population were ripo for & soveranco from the Republican party. Mr. Hesing kner this, and be was able only to postpone it until after the election. Despite his personal exer- tions, this county, which gave Grant over 12,000 majority, gave Beveridge only sbout 800 for Lientonant-Governor. Wo give tifese figures to show that the Republicans who refused to vote for Beveridge (and they were all Germans) alono bad the power to blot out the Republicsn ma- jority in thin county. Tho defection of 1872, which was confined to one candidate, is mow complete, and includes substantislly 15,000 to 18,000 men who voted for Grant, and havo hithorto constituted the bulk of the Republican vortyin this county. Tha transfer of these votes to the Opposition nearly destroys the en- tire Republican majority of 1872 in the State, The severance of these men from the Republican parly is final, abeolute, and complete. Mr. Hesing's speech ™as s mere recital of the Teatone for an net long since accomplished, snd in which ho wes one of the Inst to unite. The Aefection of ihe German popalation cet— 4les the political fate of the threo Congressional, seven Senatorial, and twenty-one Assombly Dis- tricts of this county. Of theso tho Opposition have now one Stato Senator and eight Assombly- men, the latter elected under the minority-repre- eentatioarcle. The change will placoin the hands of the Opposition tho eloction of all theso Con- gressmen, all these Senators, and fifteen of the twenty-one Assemblymen. It gives them, also, the coutrol of all the county ofiicers elected by the people. Sheriff and Coroner are £o be elect- ed this fall, and both of these offics have been filled by Republican nominees ever since 1854 In one-third of tle legislative distriéts of the Stato the political majority will bo teversed. Tue fecling.in the interior in favor of a now deal 1s more iutense than in tho cities, 5o that, a3 far eshe elections of 167¢ go, the ascendancy of tho Republican party in Tilinois is probably de- stroyed mora effectually than it was last year in Wisconein. *.The sigaificance of the *break " in this county was elown in the remarks of Mr. Hesing con- cerning Mr. Farwell. Mr. Farwell represents the five northern wardsof the city, tho norther towne, and Lake County. Inanswer tothe ques- tion whether he bad agroed to support Mr. Far- well for ro-clection, he saidhe had not; that, while bo liked Mr, Farwell porsonally as much 2 ever, Lo wanted to know whether Ar. Farwell wag to bo the Republican candidate, sinco thero #asno Republican party now in North Chicago, The meaning of this is, thatin order to be re- fected e will Lavo to follow Mr. Hesing and the Germans out of the Republican party. This would not bo s gigantio undertaking for Mr. Farwell, if he conld transfer his baggsgo— the Federal office-holders—at tho' ssmo time, which would probably bo difficult. In the other districts thereis a squally outlook for Mesers. Rico and Ward, and their defent will bo but an incident in the general defeat that threatens the party in the entire State. Tt waa in the full light of this result that Mr. Hesing mado his speoch to tho Republican Committeo, and declared that that party had no longer any bond of union eave thet of * office.” H _——'»—'\NM CGOURT FOSCO'S TESTIMONY. Couzt Fosca has been to Washington snd Biven his testimony befors the District of Co- fumbia Investigating Committee, and Lizs come o8t with fiying calors. All accounts from the thrilling seeno represent that, in pointof de- portment and elofution, the Count was & model Fitness. On this ecore thero is reason for con- gratulation, because Chieago is sheq again. Wo faew bie would be tho moggy wifness, and that 80 ordivary investigating committes conlq soand Lis depthe; especially if Blorrs wag thers in the sapacity of counsel. Tm fact, we would back ‘Obittendensnd Storrs, fora consideration, against tho lawyers in both Houses of Congress, progg 15 we ato of Count Foeco, and gratefal g ye rre that he kept up tho repatation of Chicago in e made a contrazt to console futfitled his contract; and when be had done o Count Fosco's head was more erect, and Lis generons amplitude expanded under Brown's eheery infla- ence. Tho roses returncd to his checks. Ho was_exuberunt, brisk, vivacious, and Lis face ouce more wore that profound look which always seews to say, “Icould, an if T woul ‘But at what & price did Count Fozco racover his spirita? Echo answers $9,750. Wo are surprised at the Count’s paying 9,750 for epiritual conso- Iation, when he could have got it £o cheap clse- whero. A tilhe of that sum would have pro- cured him consolation from the Catholic Chureh, for jnstance, aud just as good consolation o8 Brovn's. We fear that for onco Homer nodded, and that tho Rev. Brown, 28 & pavement lobby- ist, got into Count Fosco, and swindled Lim on the lot of consolation which he sold him. There is another fact in Count Fosco's state- ments which we cannot accept. Ho says: “If it bo inquired why I paid to Mr. Kirtland $72,000 in notes, T v this, among other answers: I Dbad no expectation that it or any part of it would bo used for the purpose of official cor- ruption.” Tbis is peculiacly high bred. It may do in the District of Columbia, bus it will herdly wash in Chicsgo. Thers aro too many proba- bilities in the way. The range of legiimate ex- pebses to which £72,000, got out of o paving contract, may be applied is al- together too emall, too infinitesimal, to induce’ us to fake o largo amount of stock In Count Teseo's oxpoctations. Wo aro Toth to believe also in £uch an astonishing dogree of tender innocenco and confiding susceptibulity, a8 mon go in this wicked world. Such abnormal purity as this is dangeroue, and the posseszors of itusually die young. In the technieal but expressive languago of tho street, it is “tao thin," We prefer to believe that it was a doli- cate pieco of irony on tho part of Emory Storrs ~—one of those little jokes in which ho indulges sometimes in his sportive moments. Wo aroa littlo surprised that the Committen should have swallowed it, and not appreciatod the fine tex- tura of Count TFosco's counsel's irony. But the Count bad * other reasons,” like the man who borrowed the brass kottlo, and this was only ono of them. In' one of his letters to the late W. S. Huntington, the Count naively observed: ** As vigilance is the price of liberty, 80 ia activity and watchful- ness the price of a paving contract.” Tho in- vostigation secms to show rather that the price of a paving contract is §72,000, plus activity and watchfulness, the cost of liberty bemng thrown into the bargain. But there is such a wide Tange for the imaginetion in tho other poesible reasons for the expendituro of $72,000 that we abandon that field in despair. There is one other point which will occasion some sadness among Count Fosco's numsrous friends and admirers, and that is, his indignant denial thet ho wns going to Lelp pay off the national debt with the proceeds of the paving contracts. This lets the Count Fosco down a peg. Asa financier, a patriot, and a statesman, ho must suffer m tho estimation of Lis conntry- men. We bad pinned our faith to Count Foaco for his debt-paying tendencies, and wo do not like to be disabused of the idea that, in procar- ing this paving contract, no pont-up Utica con- tracted his powers—but that the boundless na- tional debt was bis'n 2nd not ours. Instoad of this, he was squandering the money on spiritnal coneolation and such small truck s activity and watchfnlness. We had regaraed Uount Fosco as aman of different mold; but it was ever thus! One after another tho illusions of this world fade and disappear. Nevertheless, aithough Count Fosco's testi- mony may b thin, it is consoling to know ho was the model witness, and that the Committes conldn't get ahead of him. "Ho bas upheld the reputation of the city, a5 wellag of his native heath, and ho will como Lome with fiying colors, A FOREIGN VIEW OF TEMPERANCE, J.do Armas Cespedes, & Spanish writer of considerabls roputation, both in Spain and Cuba, bas contnibated an articlo on tha present temper- ance crusade to the Galaxy, which is pecaliarly interesting, because it presonts tho views of a disinterested foreigner. Tho writer aceepts tho proposition of tho crueaders that the vice of in- toxication is alarmingly prevalent in the United Btates, and 1dds that, during half & contnry of effort, Do important sdvaucement has been made in correctingit. On this sccount, howeser, bo doea not believe that ail practical effort should cease, and entiro dependence be placed upon prayer. Ho thinks thero aro ways, which are not the ways of tho roformer, that may provs sue- cessful. Ilo assumes that thera is something in the pbseical organization of man which demands stimalants, and in all nations, from the highest to the lowest, tho sccrets of, nature have been invaded to' obtain them. To prevent this cras- ing, and to suppress intemperance, prohibitory legislation hus been tried invaw. It is, thero- fore, impoesible to abolish tho uso of liquors, but it does not follow that their nse cannot bo rogulated. Upon this point the writer saya : Neither Amerivans nor Englshmen drink moro Bpirita than tao French, Spaniards, or Ttallans. Sta- tistics provo the fact,and yet, fo England and the Taited States, drunkcaness is 100 per cent more prov— alent than in France, Spain, or Italy, A long residenca fnallof tho conntries referred to, and some study of the question, has led tho writer to the conclusion that thers are wo causes for this. The first of theso 18 that tho English snd Americans, especially tho lat. ter, do mot kmow how to drink ; and the second, tuat in both England and the United Statos the Houors aro most excerable in quality, To modify this evil there must bs a radical chango in the habits of the poople. This the writer does not deem impossible, becanss Ameri- cans havo no inconveniont prejudices, and adapt themselves readily to circumstances. His - first step towards this result is liberal legislation to reduce © the price of liguors and improve their "quality. Ho belioves this legislation would result in tho sbolition of the manafactories of poisoned liquors to a cer: tain extent. - There is also the consolation of knowing that this i3 & braach of industry which it is not very desirablo to protect. As to the question of revenue, the reduction of the dutics on imperted liqnora will bo followed by such increaso in the quantity imported that the revenue will not materiatly be diminished. Larger importa would enbstituto pure liquors for dultersted. On this point, he saya: “In- toxication is very infrequent in those countries 20t leaking, nevertheless we are constrained o srofest against some parts of his testimony, First, in regard to **Brown,” who, losing his quotation marks, becomes the Rev. W. Colvin Brown, American Consul st Hamburg, and for- merly en Episcopal clergymsn. When Comnt Fosco met Brown he (the Count) was vary much 3opressed in spirits, for the affairs of the De- Golyer Company were looking very blue, and Pavement No. 2 was a drug. In his sadness the Count met Brown, sud Brown, beingof tender and sympathetic nature; folt for the Count, and | where good liquora are chesp and sbundant, snd where they ate used in every household as a Docessity, a8 not seldom the result of religions Procept. Ou the other hand, in those countries where spirits are desr and bed, and drinking them is considered a sin, intovication takes the Proportions of a mationsl calamity which threatens to dostroy the foundations of society, Inthe firat, the people are taught how to mse good liquors; in the secord, ‘desr prices, and social, it not legal, prohibition, have onlr suc- ceeded in teaching the People how to abuse bad oneg.” Ex-Mavor Medill's letter trom Naples, important " tostimony to the same purport. Ho says: The Naples winea contatn an average of 43¢ por cent of alcokiol, which is about one-tenth of that coutainsd in Chicago snlent, though euetu:tizlly theswmo as that in Inger-beer. Throughout Iialy tois mild s:mu- Lant s the common Leverage, In conncetion with coifco and milk; eud the people think it no more harmfal to imbibe tho one than the atlter, for the simple reason “that nelther ti:e fact nor theidea of intoxication is con- nected with the dinking of wine, moro than with driuking coffce. One may travel over Italy in every direction for a wholo year, and not sco or hear of & ne- tiveinastatoof intoxication. Tho bost Lest of the ustteris found in the polico reports. In the citics of tho United States, nine-tenths of the arrests made by the policoare for *drunk and disorderly,” and other asslgned causes tracesblo to whisky. In Italy not one srrest ina hundred is, or can be, attribnted to intoxi- cation; and the few “ drunks " are mostly sailors, and they chiefly English, Irish, and Amorican seamen, The two principal points of the Spanish writer —a radical chango in the method of drinking and legielation on thbe principles of free-trade—aro certainly worthy of serious consideration. The facts which support them are very significant ; and, unless somo means can be discoverod of do- ing away with tho na‘ural demand for stimulus {which is ecarcely to be expecied), the most practical method seems to be to regulate that appetite by providing pure liqnors and modera- tion- in drinking them. These are problems worthy of studs. THE BIBLE O WINE. Tho Alliance of yesterday contains a noticeablo editoriul on **Wine and the Bible,” It indorses tho view muaintained by the Rev. Dr. Thomas in tho Methodist Ministers’ moeting lest Mon- day, Lolding that the Bible-condemns drunken- ‘mess, intoxication, excess, agd that it nowhero’ condemns moderate use of wine. * The curious argument that the Greek 0in0s mesns fermented wine in some plices and unformented in otbers, is rcbuked by sound scholurehip. The wine mado from water at Cana of Galileo could not | bave beon unfermented, for & reason whick the Alliance givos in-detail. Tho guests at tho wedding feast had atready “well drunk,” yot they pronounced tho last wino affered them the best of all. If this wero 8o, it could not bavo beon molasses and water, or tho insipid jnice of the grapo fresh from the press. I¢ would Lavo thon lacked that much-prized flavor which only fermentation and ago can give, and would have boen inferior to tho wine pro- vided beforo. The Alliance shows that Christ himself was & moderate drinker. Ho was even called & “ wine-bibber.” To say of & Jow of that age : ** He drinks wine,” wonld havo been 1o more of an sccueation than to say of some- body now: “ He drinks coffes.” The fact that Jobn the Baptist was accused of being poszessod | by 2 dovil becanse he drank ‘nothing shows how universal the habit of drinking was. ' At the Last Supper, Christ with his own hands poured out wive fo his Disciples. Protestant winisters imitate him in this to-day. But they riso from tho communion-tables to preach that Christ did nof neo wino, IIs taught, by constant oxample, true tomperance, bat not abstinence. Paul, the great Apostle, adviced Timothy to “ Drink no longer water, but use o littlo wineJ’ The few denunciations of atcohol found in tho Bible all condemn éxcessinit. Nono of them can be fairly intorpreted. in view of the nctions ro-. ¢orded and tho advice given in the New Testa- ment, to command total sbetinence. The Alli- ance very fronkly admits tho trath of this the- ory. It urges meu to stop drinking becauso’ they can thus put tamptation antof their neigh- bora' way. e — STRIEES AND CONTRACTS; The trouble between capitalists and laborors is growing to an alarming extent. A special tol- egram to Tre TarposE, from our corrospondent at Pottsvillo, Penn., & fow dsys sinco, coavoyed the intelligence that 10,000 iron-workers wero on a strike thore at that timo. We have no dis- position to guestion tho.right of laborors to do what they can to better their condition, or to obtain for their work the Lighest possibla com- pensation. Although a strike is always to bo rogretted, insemuch asit checks the prospority of the community in which it takes place, there is Do, repson why tho strikors should be intor- fered with by the Btate simply becauso they are onasiikd. The Iaborer hns s right to domand whot be will for his Jabor. Labor- ers bavo a right fo combine to bring sbout en incroase in their wages. Al this is conceded. But thep,-surely, thero aro some rights which. employers have, and which employes are bound to respect. If & manufac- tarer makes 2 contract with a Iaborer, he is ro- sponsible to him in damages if ho fails to keap it. Should not this laborer bo held. résponsiblo in some way if he faila to keop his part of the contract? The sovercign power of the Stato hag always watched over the performance of con- tracts, and sometimes undertakes to enforco contracts specifically. Way ehonld it not see to it that laborars keep their contracts with their employers? When the torm of their contract hos expired, Tot them strike for higher wages if they will. Until it has oxpired, they should keop their agrcoment. Werepeatit, there aro some rights employers have which employes aro bound to respect. Emplogers havo s right to tho performance of contracts made botween thom and their employes. Tho lsborers of this country are intelligent enongh to know that contracts are made tobekept, and that the violntion of a contract is visited by civil linbilities. The breach of contracts by Iaborers in the form of strikes is an evil which i attracting at- tention clsowhero. A remedy against such vio- lation must be sought.” The trades-unions are 80 powerfal and 80 numerous thet they may work infinite mischief if the men Who compose them canvot be relied upon in any instance to abide by the terms of their agrecmonts. Btrikes are a comparatively now feature in our social life. Thero is little law concerning them. What pro- duces them is really little understood. It wonld ot be emiss to instituto an inquiry to ascer- tain the numbor of trades-unions in {ho countrs, the causes that produce them, the strikes that havo taken place, and. their reasonablencss or unreasonableness. Only on acourate information can anything like a rational judgment be passed. To Germany we motico s commission has been created to institute such an inquiry, ‘and it is now prosecuting its work, When the results of its investigations are made public we think they will throw unoxpected light on the question of the relations between capital and labor,—~perhaps suggest s remedy for strikes in some cases. In tho meantime, £3 German Government has proposed a bill to Parlizment making it a criminal offensn for & laborer to vio- Iate his contract with his employer, and for the master £o violate his contract with the Iaborer,— a breach being visited with punishment in a cor- rectional establishment. Whether this is justice ornot, we are not propared to ssy. The breach of uo other contract is punishale in this man- ner, at least in this country; and it may be donbted whether s conjract between & manufao. ‘| which appears to be the Divine name. .over that is. turer and his emploves should ba so punished. It may be, too, that thero isnomeed for snch action just yet in this country. Germany is forced to do something,~for the trades-unmons bave there assumed formidable -dimeusions. Work in certain branches of industry bas ceased simultaneously over the whole of tho Empire. Whatever the remedy, cortain it is that tho breach of contract by laborers is a great evil. The right to combiue into unions does not imply the right on the part of strikers to violato s con- tract. What wo noed is a definition of tho con- tract which the ordinary relations of employer and employ constitate. HERESY IN INDIA. In these days of denominational differcnces and abruipt religions departures, it is checring tolearn from India that the Brahmo-Somaj, or Bociety of Hindoo Theists, aro likely to undergo gome important modifications. They seem 20 bo forming an allisnce with tho Chaitanyaites, or followers of Chaitanys, tho Proplet of Nuddea, who lived about four centuries ago. We have little knowledge of the Brahmo-Somsf, or of the Chaitanyaites, but from all that we can gather the Prophot of Nudden was o fort of Sabellins in his ideas, differing from tno lstter party, how- ever, in tho fuct that he was & mighty dancer,. and that, while dancing, he was accustomed to call out *Haribol,” or some other horriblo word, Prof. Keshub Chunder Sen istheleader of the Brahmo- Somaj, and slready there are complaints emong thomoro consorvative Somajors that Keshub s us- ing ambignous Janguage in regard to fandsmental doctrines, and giving Chatanya the samo chance in tho Buddhist Heavon 55 Remmobun Roy, who was an approved Buddhist theoretically, but a dreadfully bad man otherwiso; aud that be is lending his followers into erratic pathe. One of the Caleutta professors has slready charged Keshub with haresy, and, ¢ is under- stood, will formally indict bim beforo the rogu- lation Brabhmo-Somajers, Tho case, in fact, bears & vory striking resemblance to the diffi- culty between Profs. Swing and Patton, and, it Prof. Swing could only put himsel? in communi- cation with . Prof. Keshub Chunder Sen, undoubtedly the two Professora might bo' of mutmal service to cach other, and Prof. Patton and the Calcutta man might also move more intelligently after s mutual consul- tation. Bleanwhilo, it is pleasant to krow that Chicago is not alone in her trouble, but that Cal- cuttais likely also to bo agitated. We shall await tho issuo of theso two contlicts with somo impatience, and we hope that they will not bo complicated with any othor heresics, until it is definitely settled whether Prof. Bwing is a Se- bellinn,—whatever that is,—and whether Prof. Keshub Chiunder Senis a Cbaitanyaite,—what- i THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN. Herbert Spencer, in his first book, “Socisl Statics,” gave some startling viows of the rights of women and childron. Perhaps he never showed moro clearly his curions incapacity to adapt his social thaories to tho circumatances of hisage. Itis doubtful, kowever, whother his idea of infantile rights was any more extreme, .in one direction, than some poople’s 1dcas ara in the other. The instinct of parental lova is, in too many cases, an insufficient safeguard againgt brutality to body or mind. Hideous cases of cru- clty come fo light from time to timo. In almost overy such cago, it appears, upon investigation, that tho nelghbors have known of tho outrago for s long timo. To the average mind, the ides. that every man's house is his castle scems to in- olve tho beliof that tho lord of tho castle czn tortare his subordinates at will. It was on this theory that the people living in 135 West Forty- flrst street in Now Yofk City scted. A chanco .charitable visitor heard the screams of a child, and promptiy interfered. Mary Ellen wes taken away from the two brutes with whom she lived ~—or slowly diod—and was brought into conrt. Thero she told har pitiful story. She was an orpbian. Sho called Mrs. Connolly (wifo of the male ruffian) mamma. She wns whipped con- stantly. © “I dow't know why,” sho said; “memma never said anytuing to me when sho whipped me.” It was notacase of aword aad a blow. Tho blow cimo first. She had nover been in the street. At night the Conuoliys ometimes lot her go down into the back yard. She had never slept in & bed, had nover had any fiaanels, had never had any clothing save a calico dress and a skist. Once, though, she had a pair-of shoes. It was 80 long ago that she did not remember the time. Tho black and blue marks on her body were made by blows of & whip. Jfrs. Connolly had used scisgors to cut out the piece of Her fore- head that' was wanting. She didmot dare to speak to anybody, because sho was always ‘whipped when she did. “Ihave never beon taken on my mamma’s fap, caressed, or petted.” This pititul story has, of courso, secured the sad little walf protection. Nobody knows who sheis. The Connollys were liberally paid for keeping her. Thoy refuse to tell by whom. Her case is doubtlesa only atypo of many. It is horri- blo to think how utterly defouseloss children are. Ttaly legislates and the American press argues in vain sgainst tho Londage of Italian children in this country. Numbers of peoplo had known of little Mary Ellen's sufferings, but only a chanco saved hor from dying under them. Wo trast an example will bo mado of her inhuman foilers. Tbey, and brates like them, should bo taught by physical pain that children havo gomo rights which adults aro bound to respect. — THE GOSPEL OF SELF-DENIAL. The Daniels who cometo judgment mowa- dass scom to base their teachings on ono adego + “ When you want to do thing, don't doit.” It & man would grow stout on the traditional trio of bread, beef, and becr, . D Dio Lowis shud- dors at the gross diet and suggests half an ounce of bran-bread and s ‘tablespoonfal of beef-tca. If tho stomach sighs for Sauterne and sherry, o0 army of physicians discourso on the powson. of aleohol, and extract from their books an ap- palliog array of cctosyllabio diseases caused by itsusé. Iftho vietim “betakes himself fo tho smoking-room, ho speedily discovers tho un- trathfulness of the old refrain ; E For a cheertul cigar, Like » shield, will bar The blows of caro and sorra, The parer he is idly glancing over contnins a diatribo against tobacco violent enough to con- vinee a hater of the delightful weod that Satan bimself is embodied in it. In that case, itis grati- fsing to know that the smoko of his torment goes up forever. The anti-tobacco ticts and sermons, and essays, aud theses, have been sonu. merous from the time of King James’ ficreo (and fatile) falminstion, and have all so striking- Iy resombled that manifesto, both in ferocity and futility, that it is wondorful that anyono ehould care to print them nowadays. They do no good except to make smokers ‘Tneomferiable. When 8 man js hoynd to puysue s cerfain Prag- | furuish many examples of fortanate marringes “the tice, what is the’ uso of sh 7 atbim. Yet fominine frionds are ever eo ready to speak this word ont of seagon and reason that it is strange that the American humor whieh "dubs ‘aleokolic dilutions “ forty-rod whisky,” in-lightning,” etc., fo delicate roforenco, to : their ability to kill, has not yot translated ** Take acigar?” into “Paralyze with me?” EX aman should foolishly become converted to the new gospel, Le must abandon all the little creature- delightful, and comforts that make lifo | must transform himself,” s far 28 pos- - sible, into o machino which riges at s stated instont, * drestes in 60 many seconds, eats eo many ounces of dry and dis- tasteful food, moistened with such a quantity of wator, exercises eo long, works 8o long, recreates #0-long, slecps so long, and repeats the mo- notonous round day atter day. This is pot tho teaching of Nature. Tho apostles of when-you-want-to-do-a-thing-don't- do-it calmly assumo that man is a machine. His body is. But his impulses, bis feelings, bie whims, are not mechanical. They deserve recognition as much as the material man does. There i3 no nced of crushing them. Wa do not live in order to look well in our coffins. Animpulse is most commorly Nature ' asking for somethi It may spring from dis- ense. It may be gratified to excess. Some ono has said that our vices are but our virtues car- ried to oxcess. But its existence is, in the ma- jority of cases, n reason for its moderats, lawfal gratifieation. Itis botter, ina word, to culti- vate, instead of destroy, the senscs; fo develop, instead of constrain, the whols man ; to Jive for tho sake of rationally enjoging life rather than for tho sako of shunning death. Bhakepearo Lar pronounced in favor of “love at first sight.” The romancesof the Rebellion srranged without auy sight at all. Kings and Princes are compelled to marry on trust. New Jersey hins 5 senvation in which all theso phusca aro mingled, with an undesirable termination in s suit for-bresch of promise.- A melsncholy buchelor, member of & church, mourued his Ionclivess, and, deeming it not good for man to bo alone, determined upon a second and finel matnmouial ventuwre. Bofore deciding tho matter, be appealed to brother church-momber for advice. The brother recommonded. him to lose no time, and oven suggested that, in case tho widower had no especial choicoin the matrer, e would fiod him & smtable companion. The ‘loncly man cobeenting, his brother in tho church wrote toan acquaintance in Eogland, and bade her sail for New Jersey forthwith. The 1ady sold all her property at o pacrifice and sailed without delay. Mesuwhils the widower had found the lady of his choice 'mnd married her, 8o that when the bride-elect arrived sho found no vacaney.. The ox-widower plead- ed that he never regarded his brother's propo- sition a8 serions. The lady was not appeased by his reply, and brought suit against him for breach of promiee, with assuranco of satisfac- tory rosults. Sentimentally viewed, the lady was & victim. Rationally considered, her ex- treme anxiety to Le married and the interven- tion of a go-between were in equally bad taste, and deserving only of the ridicule of sengible people. S M- Ban Francisco has been vizited with what the Bulictin aptly designates *s curious and blosdy epidemic.” such as occasionally breaks out in atl large cities and leaves a gory track behind it 1 newspaper items and speculetive articles. The epidemic commenced with a highly dramatic suicide by a young artist engaged in a desperate love-nffair, from honorebly terminating which ho was prevented by poverty. The manis spreading, it has carried off three or four victims daily by murder and euicide, and generally by both togetber. The most carions snd suggestive points of the present opidemic are that the mur- derers, suicides, and doublo murderers aro young men; that practical joking has plaved &n im- portant part as an incentive; the fre- quency of o dual crime, and the still more striking circumstance that tho epidemic is con- fined to an area of o few blocks, just as would ‘be tho case with an’epidemic of cholera or small- Ppox in its earlicr'steges. There exn be no doubt of the infectiousness of the disorder through the medium of suggestion. The killing of one man is o hiot to nll other men, and, though tho circumstances of the case heard of, or read in & newspuper, may be entirely forgotten, thoy nn- consciouely influcnco the thoughts of the resder. Dr. Brown-Sequard, in his recent admirablo lec- tures on physiology, has clearly shown the infla- ouco of imagination wpen the body, which sc- counts for many of the morbid phenomens of social as well as physical existenco. = —_— e The narrativo of the extrnordinary scemes which occurred at tho funeral of tho late Natheniel C. Bishop, of Now York, has attracted & great deal of attention to the case. Public-iu- terest was awakened in the matter by the con- duct of Mrs. Dishop. who adopted the striking expedient of leaping into her former hustand's new-made grave in ordor to prevent the deposit of his remains thero uatil they ehould have been placed in the receiving-vault. - The general impression was that Mrs. Rishop had for her object the forcing of her domestic dificultics on public in @ highly-sensational way. Later events show that she . was actnated by & very different motive. Tith the dogged persistenco of & slenth-honnd, she bas followed ap the case, and succeeded in obtaining an exhumation of the body. Its appearance Les givon rise to many conjectures, and 1t is confi- dently believed that Mr. Bishop was poisoned with arseaic. Tho case is now assuming as sen- sational an appearance as could be desired by the most depraved appetite, for Mr. Bishop was a man of great wealth, and s conspicuons member of the New York Bar. The indecent hasto with which ho was buried, and the theft of valmable papers from his office after his death, give color to the charge that ho was murdered. ———— The ilerchants’ Life Insuranco Company of New York was recently selected es the victim of ono of the most barefaced and bungling swindles ovor conceived inthe catzlogue of ways that aro dark. Ouo Dr. Uhbling insured bis life and that of one Louiso Germa with a reciprocal policy. The ireurance waa to goto the survivor, the sum being £10,000, with tho understanding that he was to marry tho girl in o fow days.. On April 1 ho presented an nffidavit of the death of Louiss Germs, and a ‘burial permit made out in her namo, upon-which he demanded the insarance, The officers of the company obtaitied an ordor to extmme the body of Loniso Germs, and found 2 coffin marked with the name and age of thogirl. When opened the cofin was found to contain nineteen bricks, carefully wrapped up in paper and gecured in their places with lath, Specula- tion tarned in tho dircction of a hornble crime, and the police followed up the case in the belief that a second Bowleby tragedy would bo un- earthed in addition to the bricks. The affair was determined by the arrest of the Pprincipals, Dr. Ubling, Lonise Germs, and the undertaker who buried the bricks. The contents of the coflin wera a fitting omblem of the extremely bard check of the would-be swindler. 5 S Mo e e A promioent newspaper-writor of Paris, 2. Louis Bossier, died s few days 880 from actual want. Hewss found dead in the wretched gar- ret he inhabited in the Faubourg' St. Antoine, and sppeara to have had neither friend nor rela. tive iu the great Capital. Liko the barristor who died of waat recently in London, he seems to have been too proud tomak his wants known, As in & groat city like Paris there must be work of some Lind for every man, it scems kike moral cowardice that this man did not ask forit. That 8 man shonld deliberately allow himself to die by the slow process of starvation, rather than a3k york, seems almost incongeivable, LY PROF. WILLIAM MATHEWS, OF TIE UNIVEESITY - OF CHIAGO. Many readers of - Tnr Trmewz remember Dr. Brlvester Grabam, the great onFinitor aud ex- pounder of the DRAN-RREAD S¥STEM OF DIET, and his theories. They 1emember how eloqrent- Iy ho inveighcd against the consumption of ani- mal food, and how he startled all tho old ladies, both male and femalo, turoughout the leugth and breadtn of tho liud, by telling them that tea was a slow poigon, which wonld infallibly shorten their lives. Itis eaid that one venorable old Iady, who had entercd upon her 92d year, abandoned with horror the delicious beverage, re- solved neverto touch the pizen " again, lest she should ot live .out half of her days. Many. was the stont Falstaf that pined awey to 2 skeleton under tho Gralam regimen. Robus- tions, corpulent fellows,—perfect Daniel Lam- berta in ponderosity,—who hod trundled elong a mountain of flesh before trying & pes-soup diet, were suddenly reduced go ibin as hardly to havo weight enough to turn a money-scala, or opequeness to cast a sbadow. Horace Greeley came near being reduced to a ‘* dried neat's tongue, a mere daggor of lath,” or second Calvin Edson. by the experiment. At one time, Gra- ham had some 10,000 or more deciples in this country, whe not only ‘were tho sworn foes of beef, pork, and mutton, but denounced Mocha .and old Governmeut Javs, scorned even Dr. Parr's compromiso concerning tea,—*non pos- sum tecum vivier, nec sine fe,"—and declcred, with Hood, that, * If wino I 3 polaon, 8o is tes, ¢ in ansther shavo; ‘nantter if orc die By caisier or grape? By long-eearching, Graham might now, if alive, muster a baxer's dozen of followers; but probably, if the wero marshaled, he would ex- clin, with Falstaf, “Tll not march through Coventry with them, that's fiat. Nay, and the villains marcl wide betwist the legs, as if they had gyves on.” Now, just as there are Grahamites who thiok | that, becanse thoy are virtuous, there shall be “no moro caltes and sle,"—living ekeletons, who* ! e —dlefy iy That which they love most tenderly ; 4 Quarrel with minced pic, and diaparage Thieir best and dearest 1¥iend, plum-porridge; ; Fat oxand goose iteelf onpose, ° Aud blaspheme custard through the nose,— €0 there aro i MORAL GRAHAIITER. TOO. Thoy have a certain courve of mental dietetics, which they declare to be most conducive to the ‘welfare of man, the microcosm, in his relations o the macrocosm. tho men who set their faces against the bigher and more difficult branches of education taught in our colloges; who prefer the wholesome bran- - bread of the practical eciencos to the ronst-beef and plum-pudding of scholstic loro, Givo us, thoy say, the man who makes a now mowing- machine, or s Hobbs-defsing, burglar-proof lock, barder to be opencd than the rid- dle of the Egyption sphynx; the man who can constract a tunnep under Lake Michigan,—who can build o railrcad across the Rocky Mountains, or a first-rate stecmship. Such men are the great benefactors and movers of the world. The poet Loogfallow, who makes Goldon Legends; his neighbor, Winlock, who scoops up new aateroids from the depths of space; Powers, who carves statues in marble; Bierstads, who transports us amid tho 1azrvels of the Yosemite ; Whitney, who detects the affinities of remote languages, aud Emerson, who cultivates divine philosophy,—find littlo favor with our Grahamites. Look, they. say, at Pollman and bis palace-restaurant-cars, and at Donald McEay and his big ships! Donald is the greatest man on our sea-board. And certainly, if Providence intended thai ship- building should be the end of our creation, he would be greater than Socrates or Plato, Shak- spearo ordlilton, and only equaled by Vanderbilt, James Fisk, Jr., or the late filibustering, lawless Goorgo Law. , DUT WHAT I3 TIHIS *‘ PRAGTICAL” EDUCATION “for which 8o many persons rre clamoring ? Are there any two persons among them who can agreo asto what it ia? If by practical edncation is moant that minimum of trainiag and teaching which will just enable a man to house, cloths, and feed himeelf,—to pay his bills, and keop clear of the poor-Liouse,—which is'summed up in the throe R's, *' Readin’, Ritin', and Rithmo- tic,"—then we deny that such an education subserves, in the highest degreo, even its own potty and solfish cnds. The wretched econo- my which tries to sift the so-called practieal {rom the true, tho good, and the besutiful, fails to get oven the good it covets. PBut the most popular idea of a practical education s that which regards itsa a training for a particular cailing or profession. Our colleges arc begged to treat Smith's eon.#s an incipient tape-seller, Brown's a3 an undeveloped broker, Thomson's 23 an embryo cngineer, and Jones' a8 8 budding attorney. Well, wo admit to the fuliest extent the right of Smith, Brown, Thomson, end Jones, juniors, to qualify themselves for any occupa- tionthey choose; but wo deny their right to de- mand of tho State or of our colleges a &pecial training which shall qualify them for buying eali- co, building bridges, drawing declarations, or specalating in stocks. Young men demand an education which - shall make them good mer- chants, lawyers, and carpenters; but they need, FIRST OF ATL.. andmore imperiously than all thingsclse, to bo educated 83 men. Of a piece of timber you may make a mast, & machine, 8 piane, or & pulpit; but, first of all, it must become fimber. sound, solid, and woll- seasoned. The highest and truest edveation is not that which develops, trains, and strongthens this or that faculty, but that which vitalizes and stimulates aXl the facnlties,—which does for the mind what the gymoasium does for the body: energizes it by robust and bracing exercises. As the dovelopment of a singlo member or organ of tho body is not trne physical cnlture, #o the inordinats development of the memory, the imagination, or tho ressoning faculty, is not in~ .tellectnal culture. The first condition of suc- cesefal bodily laboz is bealth; and, 25 2 man in health can do what £n wihealthy man cansot do, ‘and s, of this health, the properties are streugth, energy, agility, gracefal carrisge and nction, menual dexterity, and enduranca of fatigue, so, in like manner, general culturo of mind s the best 2id to professional end scientific stud, and the’educated man can do what the illiterata man caunot. - As Prof. J. H. Newman —himself s brilliant examplo of tho cnl- tare that comes from liberal studies—re- marks: “The man who has learned to think, and to reason, and to compare, and to discrim. inate, and to analyzo ; who hos refined his taste, end formed his judzment, and sharpened hia mental vieion, will not indeed st onco bo alaw- yer, or s pleader, oran orator, or a statesman, or & physician, or o good landlord, or & man af business, or n soldier, or an engineer, or a chem- ist, or a geologist, or an antiquarian; but he will bo placed in that etato of intelloct in which ho can takle up any ono of theso eciences or call- ings, orany other for which he has s tasto or Bpecial talent, with an ease, Rrace, & vereatil- ity, ,md 8 success, to which enother is 2 etran- gor.’ Let us not be misunderstood. We cherizh no |. extreme opinions ou tiis subject. WE HAVE NO SYMPATH® with those who think that all wisdom is sammed [P in a knowledgo of Greek particles,—with tho men who can give exactly ail the dafes of tho Petty skirmishes in the Peloponnesian War, and et have'always supposed that Hyde and Claren-. don were difforent persons,—or mea like Dr. George, who doubted whether Frederick the Great, with all his victories, could conjagato a Greek verbin mi. We cannot bat think s litile lees of Burke's genius, becanse, in the House of Commons, he accented the antopenult instoad of tne penult of vectigal; or of the Duke of Wel- lington’s, because, though he conquered Napo- leon. he turned Tound, when reading | The moral Grabamites are. givo us® his Chancellor's address mhuspered, I sar, i i Jaoo s Bat we do contoad that, o5 the recgr ot buman thought. ate many-toogued, 8o no an can Lo deomed edusatad—ced bo saud gy pacs 8 comple‘s oncyclopedic: culitire—rwio kngg o lavguage but & modern cue, and thay his own, I taere is any one faculty of tho mind whisy 1 miore vsluzhie than the others.—which is slag. lutely indispensable to saccess in everycalline. it is (ho judgment. Tt is tho master-principlyop businass, litarature, and_ scienca swhich quytiger ono to grapplo with say subjoct homay appy bimself to, and ensbles Tum to soizo the sty point init. TIow is this power to bo obtainegs Is 1t by tho stady of any ono_subject, homayey important? Assurcdly nor; but by study s0d comparison of the e opposite {hings; by the most varieg reading and discipline first, 8nd obserey. tionaftorwards. If thero i one well-nscortyy. £d fact in education, it is, that the man who hyy beon trained to think upon ono- subject v never be a good judge even in that one ; where. a8 the enlargement of his circle &ives bim jp. creased knowledge end power in & rapidly.ip. creaging ratio,—80 much do idess 8¢t nol e solitary units, but by gromping and combiny. tion ; B0 necessary is it to know something of 4 thousand other things, in ordor to kncw gy thing well. i It is, howerveor, i TIIE MEANEST OF ALL TIE CANTS OF 10Somicg to sesert that thero is aay incompatbility Ly, tweon.” business or practical - talents ang echolarship,—for the suecessfal booby o 8 Oxford, spg cry down accomplishmonts in tho cogar, ing-room or the. carpenters shop. Ay i cultivated intelligenco, 8dded to. safing, ment of manners and systematio order, shonld accomplish less than undisciplined nativa power) —as if the Damascus blado fost its edge by being polished, or a3 if the_supportiag column of zo edifice were lors strong because its shatt iy flnted and its capitalcarved! Wo batiovo that s ‘might eaaily be shown thata liberal edneat which is only another nsme for intelligence, knowledge, intellectnal force, promotes sucresy in every Lonest calling, even though that calling *be to.cat choesie or open oyators,—or, even loey still, to make political Spceches and eloctionger for Congress. ‘But, suppose that it wera not sa; that ic did not contributa one jot or. it 1 success, in the vulgar sense of that word. Werg men designed to bo mere merchants, farmers, or mechanics, and- nothing marg ? Man is not a means, but an end M claims a generous culture, not becauza ha isto follow tho plow, wield the aledge, or buy sod sel) wheat or cotton ;. but becaueo he is man. Tno fact that the ordinary pursuits of Tifo are widely removed from liberal studies is of itself & cogect renson why thoso who aro to be incessantly desl. ing with material forms showld early foster 3 taste for thoso studies which, in the langnage of another, reclaim men from tho dominion of the senses; recruit their overtasked, energies; quicken within them the scnsibiliues of tasto; and invite them to tho contemplation of what. ever is lovely in the sympathies of oar common atare, splendid in tho conqutsts of intelect, ur Leroic in tho trials of virtae. Those who clamor for tho so-called *practiesl education forget that, antecedent to bis caling as merchant, engineer, or carpenter, thers is another profession, more important still, for which every man should be trained, ‘“‘TIE PROFESSION or HTMANTTY." | As Rouesean, in his famous treatiso on edmes- tion, which contsins many golden truths’ im- bedded amiong its errors, justly says: *Natars has destiued us for the offices of human life, an- tecedently to our estination concerning sociaty, To lize, s the profession I would tosch him [s south). ZLet him first be @ man; he will, on' o casion, a8 6000 becomo anstLing clse that a mag ought to bo as any person whatever. Farians may remove him from one place to cnother'ss Lo . will alwsys be found in We _believe in .‘“practical® education most sincerely; only we wonld use the word in its broadest and most com- prehensive senso. We call that educstion prac- tical which educes all » man's facultics, and ires him poesession of himself. W call that edaes. tion practical which givos o man a clear, o scions viow of Lis own opinions and judzznsts, and'enables him to develop them with fallness, to exprass theim with cloquence, and to'trgs them swith forco. . That is practical -édacation which teaches him to seo things ‘as they dre, ta g0 right to the point, to disentargl a skeinof .thought, to dotect what is sophistical, sud to discard what is irrelevant. That is practial educetion which onables him to ko his owz weakness, 1o coramand hisown Ppaesions, to sdart Limseif to cironmstances. to peracivo the sizuif- cance of actions, events, and opimfons, -Thst 19 practical education which opens bis mind, sx- pands it, and refines it ; fits it to digost, master, and uso its knowledge; gives it floxibility, tact, mothod, critical exactness, sagncity, discrimina- tiom, recource, address, and expression. Such: man is full of resources, and . TREPARED FOR ANY EVERT. Misfortunes cannot kill him, or Gizasters depress bim. He orgruizes victory ot of defeat, sad converts obstucles into stepping-stonas to sac- cess. Lifo to him is nover stalo, flat, aad - profitable; but. always fresh, stimalating, opulent. In. the words of the polished wrifer already quoted, **He is at home in any society; ho has common ground with every class; bo knows when to speak, cud when to ba silent; be ia zble to converse, ho is able to listen; he can ask a question perfinently, and gein & lesson seasonably when he hos nothing to impart him- self; heis ever roady, yet never in the way; ks is a pleasant companion, ard & comrade you can depend upon; he kmows when to be serions, and when 1o trifle, and he Lias a sare tact which eo- ables him to trifle with graccfalcesa sod to bo serious with effect. He has the repose of 8 mind which lives In itself while it lives in the world, and which has resources for it happiress at home when it cannot goasbrosd. Hebass gift which eerves him in public and supporia him In retirement, without which good fortzze is but vulgar, and with whick failure end dissp- pointment bave o charm,” ey s . 3Ir. Heary Meiggs—'* Honest ‘Hatry Meigzs," 23'ho was once called in California—having” b come s “Railroad King” in Pern, now wishes to refurn to California. Unfortunately 1o ** Honest Harry Moiggs " he is undec certain legtl disabilities. In 185¢ Mr. Meiggzs snd Lis femly eailed away secretly and by night {rom San Frsce citco. A fow weeks aftorward Mr. By Meiggs wasdiscovered tobe o defanlter, aforgS the swiadler of struggling widowe, and despolet of helptess orphans, szd . * Lopest, Haoy Meiggs " was spoken of only a3 a ratherclévet Ppiece of irony. Now that he is o millionaiy railroad king, and developer of republics,B wishes to have his legal disabilities removed: 4 bill for his reliet was before to Catifornls 1§ iglaturo, and, in epits of some oppo:ition, ¥IS passed. It ran againss & rack in Gov. ooty who bad tho audacity to veto it. *If-all B aro equal Lefore the Iaw,” argues- this Tsif Governor, “a bill which selects ono and piscs him above the law cannot be justified,” TBS sounds fair, thongh etrangeiy onough. “If 52 Legislaturo can prohibit the Grand Juries of 15 State from presenting any bill of indietmedt against one man, tke oath to be administerd shiould be changed to conform to the provisicss of this biil.” 3lr. Meiggs will prebably find it tle comfort during Gov. Booth's term. e e : The past fow sears have not beon profitsdid aes for royalty in Earcpe. Conspicuous 35§ the regal gentlemer out of a situation i8 Francis de Assisis, onsort of Queen Issbellaof Spain. This intellectual mouarrs, during years of his afiluence, was distingnished by & Iove for fast burses diamoncs, and cane-botwd chairs of delicato worimanship. He hadscol lection of paintings, too, which wss tH® envy of the world, but which he vaued only by their adaptability to a favorite pastime One famous Maurillo, which was valabd 8 83 almost fabulons price, has been fonad Pesfo: 1 i