Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 21, 1874, Page 8

7 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1874, —_— TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TERINS OF SUBECRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). ally, by 1 i, Parts ot a year at the same rats. To prevent delay and mistakes, bs sure and gire Post 0% ce address in full, including State and County. ‘Remittances may be made either bydraft, express, Poat ‘Office order, orin registered lotters. at ourrisk. - TENE TO CITY SUBSCRIBELS. Daily, delivered, Sunday exceptea, % cente per week. Dails, aelivered, Sunday fncluded, 20 cents per woek. Adéreas THE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Corner Madison and tearbora-sa.. Chicago, Ll FY'S_THEATRE—Rendolph street, between oS eile, Escment of tho Fifth Avenuo Sbanty." medy-Comp ER'S THEATRE—Madison street. hetween szguxufi State, Engagement of Iatio Maybow. “With the Tide." SI1C—Halsted strret.hetwaen Mad- S e Faiazoman of Sioieua's Solty: Company. ~Vaudeville, pantomline, comeds, und farco. Wabash avenns ADELPHI THEATRE—Comer of Wabash nrenus eer Narioty porformance. The Jackley P R e rons tho paatomimo of Robiason Crasao.” * OPERA-HOUSE Monroo streot, between Do Hiater” Joth Hare's Cembnation. Varots yerformance. ** The Mulligan Guards,™ ote. —Lakoshore, foot of Adams nin, N BUILD! W OSSN it e B vroning: aris by Mooalight NGSBURY MUSIC HALL-Clark strzet, botween i ey Joiut enteriatament by A1t Eur- tt and Sol Smith Rus: "SOCIETY MEETINGS. SILOAM COUNCIL, No. 53, R. s aceetod tho fusitation of the & ents to participate in the ce g Stomeof the Now Covtom d procession, o c 12 Halstod.sta., Morday evening noxt, Juao 2, at 1§ Velock, for. the purmoso of making nocessary srrange- Bentar” All membors are requeniad t be preceat, aud & foraial favitation fv extended to all Itoyal and Seiect Wasters dosiring 1o jola with Stlonm Council on_ibat oo Jasion, to atignd ibe mesting on Mondey crening at sbore ‘ball and record their ma By order Th. TIL. i3l Assombly is K BIRD, Recorder. M.—Brothren 'wenty-olghth- o'clock, to join es and bat will bo Ieaves hail at 8% sharp. Members who cssibly moot ax hall can juin on Jake.st., west Exn, before nmnofl!unlmaram‘ l Akfl.f usxgl:x:‘l’ vening, & o'clock . at hall, Tuesday evening, BRIy, Ae A A.F. & APOLLO LODGE, No. 642, A assamble at Apollo Hall, Sixto an T, Wi ctey moroiug, S st rith Masonic procossion. Fora. et of Fran neath NGE INSTITUTION—Red, Whits, and Beoting to-morrow (Mouday) evening, June 2, Iall, southuest corner of Frapklin aad Van Hure: } 7345 p. m. sharp, for tho clection of otiicers aud o portant businoas. Punctusl attendanco is requosted. s Lodgo will moct barcaftor every sccond and fourth in 630k month. E. AULSE, Socrotary. No. 422, A. F. £ A. M. sers Intending o join in iko prucession a1 the laving of ibe corner-stone, Juno 24, aro roquested to moet at the room, 710 Cottage Grove.av., Wednesday murning RExociock sharp. | Hacons non:3ilistod, Foslding in ciuity, are kindly invited 1o join wit . rder a7 5B GHADWIOK, 'Sod'y. GARDEN CITY LODGE, No. ML A. F. & A. M.— LANDMARE LOD canals, Mr. Harvoy for nationsl shin-plasters, AIr. Wright for legal-tender soup-houses. The Tanff interest—that collection of macaroni and vermicelli mendicants, the begging Italians of the period—came as usual with its hand-organs and puppet-boxes, and only the big bully of Pig TIron laid at home in bed like a giant surfeited to sickness, Tho sunual gamo of subtracting here to add yonder, robbing Peter to pay Paul, cut- ting a shilling off the paper-makers to give four rponce to the flax-grindera, went on without an ides in the Congrossional noddle that both Ad Valorem and Specific were convertible nostrums drawn from tho same barrel and epigot. Investigations were copious, and here some results wero achicved in the way of proviug things known before. The %loiety bill, to cor- rect the system of governing the collection of custome and excise by Blueskin, Jonathan Wild, and Peepiug Tom, they dividing with their “counsel” in Congress, struck too keenly at the patronage to be tolerated. In the Sonate it was amended 50 as to retain most of tho pecu- lation, and tho House ecretly thanked Provi- donce that thers was & Senate to negative their own jiwoluntary righteousness. AMoanwhile, oneJudgein Arkansas, one in Kansss, and one in Ohio, resign without further prosecution, Judge Dureli iu partially whitewashed, =nd Judge Busteed remains to be busted. Custom-House reform, 8o greatly neoded, is scarceiy carried forward by tho grest personal success of tho session,—Gen. Butler's now Collector at Boston. The District of Columbia has been redeemed from & system of government imposed upon it Dby Congress in order to make more cells for of- fice-holders and obtaiu profitable contracts for constituents. The shumeless purchase of, addi- tional subsidy for the Pacific MMail Company has not beon officislly exposed, but the money has been withbeld, rotwithstanding the device of o grand excursion to the launching of one of the ships. have been reduced €30,000,000 as compared with last year, when they wore $22,000,000 greater than the previous yesr, making a net reduction of 8,000,000, which is one thing to bo thankfal for, though most thanks ars due to an aroused public opinion and the September panic. THE PROSECUTOR’S PROSPECTS. Tho outlook for Prof. Patton is auything but cheering. Every day since bis crushing defeat in the Presbytery tho clouds have beon gather- ing around his horizon. Tho winter of hig dis- content has been succeeded by a summer full of embers will meet at Uriental Hall atdo'clock 3. 1w ‘odnusday, Juro 24, 10 aselst in the coremouos of layiag B cornersiono of the Government building. Stare mmunicatior: at§ o'clock p. m. Work on the M. M. . Visiting brethron cordially invited to attend. 5 order of the W. AL H. ¥. BOLCOMB, Sec's. EEYSTONE LODGE NO. 69, A. F. & A. M.—3(EM. jors aro requested to attend at their hall, 62and 64 North Siark-st., at 8 o'clock &, m.. on Wedpesday momiog cat (21ii), for the purpose of joiniug in the Masonio cer monics at “laying tie coror.stone of the new Castom. ouse. . H. DIXON, W. M. BEN F. PRINCE, Seeretary. COVENANT LODGE XO. 2% A, £. & Yors aro notidied to ansembls af thoff ball ‘ednosday morning, Juse 24, at 9 c'clock sharp, to forra X procession and engago in the ceremonics of laying the er-etone of new Gosvenment Building, Special com- unicatlon Tussday evening for work order W. AL . G. A. A.—3fem- 187 Kenziest., on Third Degrea, PITgiN, Body, ORIENTAL CONSISTORY 8. P. R. S.—The mem- ors of thiu body aro notified to appear at their all, or ffonroc-st., o’ Wednesday moruing nest, at 9 o'clok fally oquipped. Visitiog brethren will also ropors d place. By erderof the Commandar- ¢ tho B.gpigimo noorn T.T. GURNEY. B.Chief. J. H. MILES, Grand Sec'y. OEICAGO IADGT, NO. 45 <Spectal enication Menday eveain 5. at actordia B Noe 1% 300 14 foast Toam Work om 31-M Sogves, Mumbors will attond, .\ birees, cordially 10t . Byorderof W. M, SAM SEELZ. N, Sec'y. APOLLO COMMANDERY, KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. EABoT i B tn dseemblsof Sl Kaighte foe o o5 ening at8o'clock. . By arier o nsnder, CHARCES HOMAN HIROWEL, Caplain-Genéral. WM, B.WARREN LODGE, NO.20 A.F.& A.2L.—Alf bers'aro’ rvquested to meot Wednesdsy morni. uno M, at 9 o'clock eharp, at Oriental Hall, to partici- #as in the cercmonios of the day. By urder of tho W. Af. J.'R. DUNLOP, Soc'y. 1CORINTHIAN CHAPTER-—Companfors are notified to Jppear at Corinthinn ‘Wednesday morniuz at & ‘clock, 10 ursist, in tne 1ayihg of the corner.stone of ths orerniment bullding. W. KERR, H. P. LA Monroe: FAYETTE CHAPTER, No. 2, R. A. M ~Hall @ egular convocation Mondsy evoning, June ‘clock, for busincss 3ad Work ou the R. 4. De- tors ‘cordially invited toatiend. By o E. N. TUCKEK, Sec' _CHICAGO COMMANDERY, No.19, K. T.—Atten- Sir Knights—Speciul conclave Monday evening, at 72 oclock, lor workun K. T. Order. und Wisiting Sir Knights invited. By order of the ‘Com. GEO. F. SINC] Recordor. PLEIADES LODGE, 43, A. F. & A, M.—The oficers }24 membors are requnted to incet at their hall, No. 932 est Twelfth-ut., st Bo'clock a. m. sharp. Wednceday, June 4, to participata in tho ceromozies of tha day. C. G. HOWELL, Soc'y. %95, un: rill, 1. 0. O. F.—ATl members of ths Order whose Laiyes Jre not Lo turn out in a body, 2re invited to assomble at the Goneral Head Quarters, Tremont Hoase, on Wednes- 437 morniug at9 o'clook, sharp, whon thes will ba s tigned W a position in the procihsiin. J. WARD ELLIS, Marshal. @bx Chitags Tribuye., Sunday Morning, June 21, 1874. —~— ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS. The Congress jusy adjourning has trimmed, lopped, and rectified here and thero withous hav- Ing finally closed out any comprehensive evil. It has not distinctively abandoned any false politi- 2al tenet, nor issued any bold declaration. It bag been & Congress of Expansionists controll- #d by a President influenced by the business i terest ; a Congress of Subsidists held in check by an empty Treasury; a Congress where the jobbing interest has slept on its arms, not sbandoned the field ; & Congress of patronage- Brabbers only too closely watcled by tho coun- bry; & lavieh Congress whipped to sullen thrift ; ® Congress whero demagogery hes hastened to obey somo public sentiment. but without the overzeaching eense of patriotic purpose or the somposure of legislative experience. Tho reasons for the above summary are plain enough. The bulk and influence of this Con- gress had been composed of the offenders of the previous ones, who cowered beforo a public in- digustion with which they had no exrnest sym. pathy. The general demand for retrenchment and back-pay restitution was named “ clamor.” Nothing that Congress has dono has been dono with alacrity. Tho Lobby and the House, looking with sympathy b eack other, bave whispered together against the conntry 88 if it were possessed of = devil and had withheld “rights ” prevjously belong- ing to the political and Jjobbing class. Some stops backward have been taken. The Civil-Ser- vice seedling and the Indian Commisgion have boen extirpated. The first was stamped out; the second eagad out. Both disappearod amidst the derisive laughter of Congress. It was only when something verging on a di- vision of epoils came up that evory ear was thrown forward and the Congressional faco ex~ prossed the 1dea— By tho pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes 1 Take tho Alsbama indemnity and the Bank- Tuptey bills. Then Mr. Builer, Afr. Tremain, r. Conkling, and the great lawyers, were right up, like counsel in court. Then the assiduity of bedy and the brightness of intollect came for- ward: And the currency and bond-makers wera equally alert,—Mr. Kelley for & convertiblo bond, Mr, West for levees, Ar. Windom for ominous forebodings. Tho stars in their courses fight against McCormick and his new reaper, who finds it difficult, 8 the Seriptures intimate, toremove tho tares of heresy without pulling up thewheat of truth. So the new reaper prom- ites to bo far more expensive, and to meet with far less demand, than the old one. The inventor, or the ostensible invontor, who presides at the factory, has been overtaken with the fatality which follows the caso. He suc- ceoded, it is thought, in keeping himself quite under restraint at the trial. He was always visi- ble, but never audible. He did not squirm even when Brother Trowbridge was bringing down the house with his excoriating witticisms. He merely looked on with that imperturbable intel- lectuality which reigns in his countenance, but does mot rein in his temper. The most for- bearing disposition, however, may reach a point whero forbcarauce ceases to be a virtue. MMr. McCormick's did. He could enduro enything bat the sight of the man who cracked & joke at the expenee of his new self-acting heresy reaper. Take any shaps but that and his firm norves wonld never tremble. That is the reason why he said—or sent s subordinate to say— ““Hence, horrible shudow!” to his fellow-presby- ter, Trowbridge. And the horrible shadow henced. The nows of this little raid has gone far and wido, and works againat The Prosecutor. The Prosecutor's raid in the Ascombly at St. Louis turned out no better. One of his obscure captains undortook to *feel the enemy” by op- posing tho confirmation of Dr. Patterson as Professor in the Seminary where The Prosecutor teaches the youbg theological idess how to shoot. His captain might as well have attempt- ed to lead a secession of the whole delegation of parsons and elders over to the camp of Brigham Young or the Dunkards, The ** Nestor of Pres- byterianism,” who is also an old and revered cit- izen of no mean city, towered up impregnable in tae Assembly, not in person, as Le would if he had been present, but in character and renown. One divine declared that the man who questioned the soundness of Dr. Patter- son ‘‘lid lus hand on the spple of the eye of manvin that body.” This was gal- lantly indorsed by Mr. McCormick's pastor, amid tumultuous applause, which indicated that, if Dr. Patterson was the mature apple of the oyo of tho Assembly, Prof. Patton was the unripe Ppersimmon in its mouth. The provincial brother quailed before the fire he had drawn, and there was not a negative voice or voto on the con— firmation. This repulse, takon with the capit- ulation of the Assembly to Miss Smiley, who, by preaching the Gospel to Dr. Cugler's sinners, became the occasion of The Prosecutor's first prosecution, makes the overthrow of the Mec- Cormick-Patton alliance at St. Louis complete and disastrous. To vote overwhelmingly that Miss Smiley may preach to a Presbyterian con- gregation, and unanimously that Dr. Patterson may teach in & Presbyterian Seminary, was passing upon the two ‘¢ most painful duties " of Tho Prosecutor's lifo in a manner anything but nssuring to that gentleman's assurance, and anything but enconraging to his future cam- paigns. Nor ia this all. Not only have these two reconnoisances been driven back on tho main body in great disorder, but the desertions from the main body are considerablo and formidable. Several organs of Presbyterianism have gono over to the enemy. The animadversions of the press are no longer confined to tho profane newspapers that cater to the natural heart of the world's poople: they are now shared by tho journals whose being, end, and aim is, not sub- scriptions or advertisements, but the good of souls end tho glory of God. The cantious and ortiodox -old Presbyterian Obserzer, after ob- serving a masterly inaudibility during tho trial, has epoken, and sgamst The Progecutor! It begs him to take up his nose and abandon the hunt. It has consulted ten leading Old-School Presbyterian clorgymen. all of whom are very decidedly of its own opinion. The Eoangelist, which has also been mum ss an oyster hitherto, now pronounces tho appeal to the Synod *“a great mistake,” and adds: *If wo know anything of the temper of the public mind, tho feeling of regret is likely to give place to the stronger ono of diegust. Our Trothor Patton should think twice beforo he cxposes himself to this general condemnation.” But Brother Pat- ton is one of those men whodo not find it neces- sary to think twice about anytking’; he knows too much sbout eversthing. And as for ©goneral condemnation,” that is of the devibes of the arch The Government expenscs, howover, | adversary who is capable of docoiving 1o very | er's insanity. Tt is stated that tho potition witl eloct. The Ecangelistsays: *‘If ho will leave the pursuit of heresy, and devote himself to the duties of his office,” it anticipates for him a very ueefal career. This admonition will probably bave the same effect upon The Prosecutor that BMr. Chuzzlewit's had upon Mr. Fecksniff. “Charity, my dear, when I take my chamber caadlestick to-night, remind me to be more than usually particular in praying for Mr. Anthony Chuzzlewit, who has done me an injustice.” The Prosccutor ip regarded by the mass of Presbyterians as a comet of direful omen loiter- ing about their abode. And o, a8 the swmmer rolls away and the autumn drawenesr, the comet will be watched with increasing anxiely. If it should do no more damage when it strikes next than it did when it struck last, the anxiety will bo adjourned to its next strike, & yoar hence, at Cloveland. If it should meet with & rebuff, or rather a rebound, then and there, it will—or at least any other comet would—retire into those inaceessible fastnesses'of Nowhere oxprosslysot apart for exploded comots, oxhausted prosecu- tors, unsuccessful reapers, and fading Systems of ‘Thoology. THE MURDER OF ROSE JACKSON. The recent death of Rose Jackson calls for or Jjustifies an appeal to the public conscience re- specting the trade or profession by which she was killed. Rose Jackson wasa comely, pleasant, and industrious girl under 20 years of age. Bhe ‘was one of three sisters, one married in this city to a man named Flagg, and the other married and living in Now York., Flagg kept s barber- shop on Lako street, near Western avenue, and this girl lived in the family, doing the domestic work, for which she was paid wages. The family atteuded the neighboring Methodist Church, and she appears to have been known to tho membory, at least by sight, from her regular attendsnce. So far as tho neighbors are aware, she had no male companions or associates, ex- cept her brother-in-law Flagg, whoseems to have exerciged a careful supervisiou of her acquaint- ance. Whon sho was attended to church or elsewhere, it was invariably by Flagg. Sndden- 1y, and seemingly without cause, she abandonod her place with her ;, and the npext that is heard of her is that she is at a house on Jeffer- son street kept by a Mrs. Heiland, and is sick. From that place she wrote to Flagg, asking bim to call. Ho did so, and from herself he first heard of her condition. Hoe protests that he ad- vised her to resort tono unnatural proceedings ; but ehe avowed her purpose to do so, even if she died. From her, he says, ho heard that she had already, at the office of Dr. Earll, submitted to an operation to destroy sn unborn child. Nine days after it she died, having in the menntime apparently got well enough to walk about the house. She was attended at the house of Hei- 1and by Earll, who boro messages to and from ber and Flagg. The Coroner's jury found s vordict that Earll had committed an abortion, that Flagg was an acceasory before the fact, and the woman Heiland an accessory after the fact. The law of this State makes tho offence, whero the person dies, murder. It is notorious that in every largo city there are a number of persons who are kmown to the public as professional abortionists. Thero are als0 & number of lodging-houses where persons desiring the services of such professionals may find temporary homes. Notwithstanding the statutory penalties for such offenses, and the public odium which attaches to the trade, these villains evidently do an extensive and profitable business. Men and women do not follow unre- munerative trades ; and the scores who practice this trade or profession attest by their numbers and their profits that they have plenty of cus- tomors. This castom is not only drawn from the popmlation of tho city, but from-all parts of tho Northwest. Attempts have been made in various places to brenk up this infamous and murderous traflic in human life, but they have failed. That there are hundreds of women thus murdered annually, of whose fate no one ever hears, is unquestionably true. Thoee whose cases are brought to light are exceptional, and their discovery is generally due to accident, In this case the body of this unfortunate gir! had been sent to Wisconsin to be buried, when an accident led to the investi- gation, which has disclosed & caso of cruel homi- cide. Thereis difficulty in prosecuting crimes of this kind, because the victim, who alone could tell the facts, is in her grave. The crime i commiited in secret, and the grave closes over the only witnosa who could have farniehed the whole evidence. The fact that these operations are frequently per- formed without fatal consequences romoves {rom the minds of the victims much of the ap- prehension that would otherwise deter them from risking such a death. Instances have oc- curred where persons Lave submitted to this torture on several occasions, and have at last perishod. Prosccations have failed here, a8 they have failed elsewhere, because Courts and juries have lesitated to convict 1n cases where the evidonce was indirect, though the guilt has been notorious. We do not wish to préjudgo this case. It is assumed, perhaps unjustly, that the man Flagg was the father of tho child, though the evidence is weak. The murdered girl, even in her Iast moments, geclined to give any infor- mation on that point. Of the man Earll, howover, there is more to be said. This is by no means the firat fatal case in which he has appenred as operator. Indirect- 1y, he has been oxtensively sdvertisod for years asa professional abortionist, and the time has come, we think, that the fact whether he is or is not should be judicially tested. If he is really guilty, and this murder of Rose Jackson can be traced to him by sufficient testimony, he should be sent to the Penitentiary for thelongest term that the law allows. ‘Thoscenca at theso dens of infamyare shocking. Thovictims aro generally females wholivoby their labor,2nd who cannot command the money to ena- ble them to go elsewhers and become mothers, They flock to the ofiices of theso brutes, and, paying them all their hard-carned savings, risk thoir lives upon the success of a foarful opera- tion. How many go to their homes and die without disclosing tha fact that they have been murdered, no one can tell, and the abortionist, reaping a golden harvost, cares nothing, Dead women tell no tales, and this day’s horroris swept from the public mind by that of to-mor row. Lot the suthorities try sll these parties, aud punish them according to their several de- grees of gmit. John 8. Campbell, an eccentric farmer £ 3ia- comb County, Mich., recently deceased, mado & will in which ho left €4 to be equally divided smong his four children, the balance of his property to bo used in establishing a Magdalen Hospital in Detroit. The heirs of the deceased seot the document to the City Council with a petition that the Council decline to accept the bequeet, as they entertaln no doubt of its mak- Probably be granted. The treatment of the leirs was shabby emough, butif the Macomb County farmer was insane, there was at least 8ome method in his madness. As the beirs and the attesting witnesses, however, are both satis- "fied of the testator's insanity, the will will prob- ably not bo admitted to probate, and the Magda- lens of Datroit will go without their hospital. Itis not surprising, howover, that four heirs, with only & dollar apiece, should coma to the unanimous conclusion that the testator was in- sane. OUR FOREIGN INDEBTEDNESS, Edward Young, Chief of the Buresu of Sta- tistics, furniahes an estimate of our foreign in- debtedness, from which we extract the follow- ing facts: In the fiscal yoar 1862 the value of our exports exceeded that of our imports. Hence Mr. Young begins his investigation, to ascertain our actual foreign indebtedness, with July 1, 1862. Dec. 81, 1873, is the date at which the account closes. Tho total imports for tho eleven and a half years embraced between these two dates, including merchandise, specie, aod bullion, amounted to 85,061,756,262; oxclusivo of specie and bullion, $4,857,~ 737,185, In the same period, and while the net imports were represented by tho latter figures, the exports of merchandise were valued at £3,817,201,414, leaving an excesa of im- ports over exports of £1,010,535,721. From this must be deducted an export of specie and bull- ion amounting in value to &681,946,067, which leaves £353,599,654 excess of imports over ex- ports, Another element in the computation must not Do lost sight of, however, viz.: an estimate of the amount of smuggling and undervaluation. Mr. Young, from a careful examination of tho subject during four yoars, has come to the con- clusion that su addition of 3 per cont to tha to- tal value of imports is ample allowance for smuggling and undervaluation. His reasons are these : Neither bulky uor free goods are smug- gled, and merchandise paying specific dutios is not undervalued. The kinda of goods most likely to be smuggled are precious stones, jewelry, watches, silks, laces, etc. The oflicial returns of tha port of New York show that the total vulue of free and dutisble merchandise which entered into consumption during the year ending July 80, 1873, was $433,000,000, 8 per cont of which is £18,140,000. The imports of precions stones, jewelry, and all manufactures of gold and silver, watches and watch movements end materials, silk dress goods, the articles most essily smuggled, amountod in value to $93,101,770, and with fine laces and embroideries probubly to $26,000,000. The 313,000,000is, therefore, equal to one-half of the value of theso articles that paid duty. ‘Mr. Youog thinks that 3,000,000 will cover tho value of the precions stones, jewelry, watches, loces, and embroideries, and that £8,000,000 will moro than cover that of the smuggled silk goods; £13,000,000 will therofore more than cover both, i e., an ad- dition of 3 per cont to the valne of the importa- tions will covor all evasions of the revenue; and 8 por .cent of the whole importations be- tween July 1, 1862 and Doc. 81, 1873, amounts to §146,861,754. The value of the imports being the value esti- mated at tho ports of shipmont, the amount of froight to tho sevoral ports of the United States must be added thereto; and Mr. Young thinks that € per cent on thoe total value of imports is an estimate of approximate accuracy. This will increase the estimate of import values by $211,- 882,456, The froights on exports to United States ship-owners must of courso be deducted {from the aggregate of freights carried by foreign vessols. This Mr. Young estimates at 987,000, 000. The intercst which has become due on the dobt while 1t has been accruing is supposed to bo not less than 277,000,000 nor more than $290,000,000. 3r. Young uses the larger figure in his computation. The problem then stands 28 follows: Excess of imports over exports for 113 Allowance for merchandisesmuggled, and for undervalnation...... toie.. 48,361,754 Freight on importsto foreign ship-owners 211,932,436 Interest.......... B 290.000,000 $1,007,333,864 Loss freight on exports to United States ship-owners. . $ Aggregato, From which it appears that we owed Europo on Dec. 81, 1874, o debt incurred since July 1, 1863, equal to 920,000,000, In computing tho aggregato of the debt, however, it is necessary to beer in mind that our securities sold at an average of 80 cents on the dollar, our credit abroad not being assured during the first half of tho period undor reviow. The par value of our debt to for- eign nations amounts to $1,150,000,000. Patting the ante-war securities, the bonds of the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania, of Mussachusetts, and other States owued in Europe at $50,000,- 000, wo have an aggrogate foreign indebtedness of nearly $1,200,000,000. The estimato made by r. Young i8 unofficial, but none the lesa inter- esting on that account. VERDPS LAST WORK. Pending the production ofdRichard Wagner's “ Nibolungen Trilogy " at Baironth, in 1876, the great ovent in tho musical world is Vordi's 2an- zout * Requiom,” which was produced for the first time at Milan on the 23Q ult., in commemoration | of the first anniversary of the death of the great Italian potriot, Allessandro Mavozoni. It was written upon a commission from the city author- ities of Milan—* ein provincialeo Kicin-Paris," 2s Hans von Bulow calls it—and 20,000 people were prosent to hoar it. As Verdi has reached an age when, in tho natural order of things, it cannot be expected that he will write anything more, at least npon a large scale, this Requiem haa been regarded as his swan song. Thero are not wenting those who declars that it has been his ambition to seize the laurels of, Rossini, by writing & piecs of church music which should excel the **Messe Solennelle,” the last of Rossini's compositions ;ond the fact that Verdi is going immediately to Paris with hig Requiom gives some color to thecharge. As this is tho event to which all musicians are looking, and as Strakosch has already commenced, nego- tiations fora copy of the Beore, 80 a8 to bring out the Requiem next seasdn in this country, we are glad to be able to farnish some dotails con- cerning the porformsace of it. We have before us copies of the I7 Secolo, published in Milan, andof the Allgemeine Zeiung, published at Augsburg, and, althongh the sccounts differ widely, they willbe read with plessure. The German version comes from the pen of the great classical vircuoso, Hans von Bulow. Tho Secolo draws a gravhic pictrroe of the solemn 20d imposing aspect of La Scala, and, with true Italian gusto, dwells long upon the elegance of tho audience, the coup d'eil afforded by the or- chextra and chorus, the beanty of the solo. sing- ers, Signore Stolz and Waldmann (both Ger- man, by the way), and the charms of their toi~ Lettes. Conoarning the musla itself, i aayulittls, Jesus, Agnus Dei, Sanctus, were vociferously encored ; that the audience was enthusiastic to a degree of ecstacy ; that the composer was pre- sented with a golden crown ; and that the music was at once sacred and dramatic. It reserves itself for a panegyric upon Verdi of the most clos- glowing and gorgeous description, ing with the following ~very remarka- ble piece of musical bombast: *Verdi, the illustrions Verdi! the grandest representa- tive of the musical glory of Italy!! the grandest representative of the musical glory of the whole world” {11 It is rather refreshing, and, at the same tirne, rather surprising, to turn from this gush to the cool criticism of Hans von Bulow. His letter touches upon two musical events: First, the Reguiem, and, second, the performance of tho national Russian opers, ** The Life of the Czar,” written by Michael Glinka. This opera has en- joyed a wonderful popularity in Russia for thir- ty-five years, like “ Der Freischuetz” in Ger- many, and was given in Mian the night be- fore the Requiem, for the first time out- sido of Russis. To Von Bulow the op- ers 18 a much more interesting event than tho Requiem, and ho savagely scores the ‘“Italian theatre-mob ™ for their scandalous performance of it. Von Bulow has no eye for the crowds, the spectacle, or the solemnity of the pageant. He sddresses himself solely aud severely to the music and the composer, and the vardict of the cold Northerner is in striking con- trast to the gushing rhetoric of the Secolo. With him Verdi is not the representative of the musi- cal glory of the world, but “the all-powerful corrupter of Italian art-taste,” and the Attila of throata.” Although his work is in his latest stylo, “which Berlin and Vienna have come to know through his *Aida’” (referring. of course, to Verdi's futile attempt to imitate Wagner), there is much school-boy writing in it, much that is commouplace, and *‘some things that are positively ugly.” The best thing that he can say for it is that there are signs of diligont labor in it, ““which will surprise many & German musician.” To Hans von Bulow, Verdi's * Re- quiem" i3 *‘the cold-blooded but artistically- arranged triumph of Roman barbansm.” He also notea the fact that Verdi is going to Paris with tho Requiem, and, although it might prove financially profitable to German theatre-man- agers to produce it, he hopes it will remain in Paris. Botween the two criticisms there is a loug distance. Upon the world of music at large the criticism of Yon Bulow will have great effoct, although it bears unmistakable marks of the strong prejudice of the German against the Latin Tace. It still remains to be determined by critics less gushing than the Secolo, and less prejudiced than Von Bulow from a national standpoint, whether or not Verdi has won the laurel of Rossi THE FACE OF SHAKSPEARE. In Scribner's Monthly for July thers is an interesting article by John S. Hart on the “Bhakspeare Death-Mask.,” The articlo is all the moro valuable, as the writer went to Ger- many himself to examine the mask, and had every opportunity to do so. The mask, if it m- deod b & mask, of Shakspeare, affords the only undoubted information as to the great dramatist's earthly lineaments. Alr. Hart sifts the proof of its anthenticity and trustworthiness, and seems to agree with the verdict passed upon it by Baron Pollock, who, after examining the testimony, said: “If I were called upon to charge a jury in regard to this point, I should instruct them to bring in & verdict in favor of the claimant.” The mask in question Mr. Hart found in Darm- stadt, 1 possession of Dr. Ernst Becker, Private Secretary of the Princees Alice of Hesse-Darm- stadt, who permitted him to examine it, take measurementa of it, and gave him valuable in- formation besides concerning it. The cast came into possession of Dr. Becker with other effects of his deceased brother Ludwig. The latter dis- covered it in 1849 in Mayence. Going afterwards to South Auetralia, he left tho cast in charge of Prof. Richard Owen, tho Anatomist and Curator of the British Museam. Ludwig perishedin the Bouth Australian expedition, and thus the cast fell into the hands of his brother Ernst. Connected with the history of the mask is that of o small oil-painting which is known to have been owned by the family of 2 German nobleman, Count Francis von Kesselstadt,who died at May- ence in 1843, but whose ancestora hiad resided in Cologne for many generations previous. This pictare had always been regarded by the family as a portrait of Shakspeare, and bore the in- seription: *¢ Den Traditionen Nach (according to tradition)—Shakspeare,” and the date, 1637. The picture represents the subject lying in state on a bierand & candlestick dimly seen in the background. Mr, Becker and -others infer- red from the appearance and from vari- ons peculiarities of the picturo that it had been painted from an older likeness, or probably from a deatt-mask. Mr. Becker went, therofore, in search of the originat, or the mask. He found that s plaster-of-Paris cast of some kind Lad been in possession of the Kesselstadt family, but that it had not been much valued by them. After a two years' search bo found the mask in & pawnbroker's shop in Mayence, among = Iot of trash, Every- ono who has compared the picture and the magk says thot they are representations of the same person. The letters and figures on tho back of the cast are such as weromade two centuricsand 8 half ago, and the inscription is, to all appearance, of the same sgo as tho cast. “The experts of the Pritish Museum were satiafied that the inscription was cut at the time the cast was made. There is no possibility that the cast can be a forgery, even though it bs not acast of Shakspeare. The inscription on the back of the cast is this: . +Ao Dm 1616, which signifies died in the year of our Lord 1616 —the year in which Shakspearo died. That the cast, therefore, is related to the Kesselstadt pic- ture, that the latter was painted from it, and that it is the cast of some one who died the same year that Shakspearo did, is certain. The point of difficulty is that there is no showing positive- 1y that any member of the Kesselstadt family wag ever in England, and it is not known, therofore, how tho cast got from England to Germany. Ludvwig Becker supposes that some affache of the German Ambassador poking about among the rubbish in thie shop of Gerard Johnson— the tomb-maker who execnted Shakspeare's monumental bust—saw this cast where it had been thrown aside and, struck by tho efiigy, bought it or beggoed it and carried it home with him to Germany, where, after a timo, it turned up in the Kesselstadt family, When Hermann Grimm saw the bust, and before he was told whose it wss, he satd it must bo Shakspoare’s. Bayshe: * At the firat glance I thought to myself I had never seen & nobler countenance. What s noble, clean-cut; squiline noss; what 8 wonderfully-shaped brow. I felt except fhat three of the numbers, the Domins | that this must have been an in ‘whose brain dwelt noble thoughts. I inquired. I was told to look at the reverse of the mask. There on the edge, cut in figures of the seventeenth century, stood A. D. 1616. I could think of no one else who died in this year than one who was born in the year that Michael Angelo died—Shakspeare.” The face is that of a cosmopolitan. There is nothing in it characteristic of any particular na- tion. The lines that make up the countenance are exceedingly fine and delicate. There is no marked feature 1o any recognized picture of Shakspeare that cannot—allowance being made for tho idiosyncrasies of the particular artist—be traced to the casat. Mr. Page, in his portrait of Shakspeare, made & 8CaT & prominent feature in it. In the mask there is ovidence of a wound, but not of tho character of Mr. Page's dent. Midway between the arch of the eye-brow and the top of the dome is a line about two and s half inches long—tho remains of s flesh-cut which had been sewed up audhealed. The fea- tares, Mr. Hart observes, have & manly boanty of the intellectual type. There is sbout them an expression of sadoess which every one no- tices, 2nd the observation of which drew tears from Fanny Kemble. The hairs of the mous- tache, eye-lashes, and beard, found in the cast are of areddish brown or auburn color, which was, according to other evidence, the color of Bhakspeare's hair. The nose is thin, delicate, slightly aquiline, and the profile very beauti- fal. Mr. Hart's article is s valuable contribu- tion to Shakspearean literature. e ——— A WORD FOR THE DOGS. Henry Bergh, the President of the Society for the Provention of Cruelty to Apimals in New York City, is proving himself & hero in his do- fense of the brate creation in general and of dogs in particular. For some time past he has reasoned with the keeper of the dog-pound againat the cruelty practiced mpon the dogs brought there: but, his suggestions not baving boen heeded, e has now notified him that, it theso scenes ‘are repeated, he will prosecute him under the statute which declares it a misdemeanor punishable by & fine of $250 and one year's imprisonment in the Penitentiary for any person *to torture, torment, deprive of ‘necessary sustenance, or needlessly mutilate or kill any living creatore.” Not satiafied with this, Mr. Bergh also brought the matter before Ro- corder Hackett, who, to hia credit be it said, came to the help of Sir. Bergh, sent for his Grand Jury, and charged them as follows : Within & few weeks, againat the remonstrance of the Soclety for the Prevention of Cruclty to Animals, and against tho expressed wishes of the Board of Health, Backad by the unanimous voice of the medical faculty, the Common Council, aiming to guard against hydro- phobis, has suthorized a rald upon dogs found in the streets unmuzzled. I am unableto find fu the charter or the laws any proviston giving them such powers of ordinance. But be that 2s it may, certain other per- #ons who clearly act without any authority of existing law, and in & spirit rather belonging to an age when women were burned and drowned for witcheraft than 1o the present one, have assumed the right and power to kill large numbers of dogs by problematical and precarious suffocation, the reports whereof, as they Teach me, and accompanied by details of carcless and inhuman treatment, seem to indicate & violation of the State statutes respecting needless cruelty to animals, besides appearing to establish s public nuisance, T therefore invite your attontion to the subject and com- mitit to your charge. The charge of Recorder Hackett is a noble word spoken in the interests of humacity. The New York Herald, which has more than once ridiculed Mr. Bergh, now comes to his assist- ance, and says : A dog {3 s much the property of s citizen as his hat or his overcoat, and as much entitled to the protection of thelaw, Evenif wo seize upon it and keep it in custody, a8 we may claim to do as a matter of munlci. pal precantion, by what authority do we destroy it? What right have we to offer fumunity to every thief who chooses o enter our houses and carry away our dog—not only immunity, but reward for the crime ? Is it at all consistent with good morals or with honest government to throw these terribls temptations in the way of hundreds of young folks, who will gladly enigh steal dogs during this warm weather, and, profiting by the lesson, turn their attantion in the winter to other articles of property 1 ‘With the courts, the press, and Mr. Bergh to look after hia interests, the New Yorlk dog is comparatively safe. If any animal Las earned considerata treatment by courage, fidelity, and affection, it is the dog. The one taint of hydro~ phobia which rests upon him has been greatly exaggerated. It i still a matter of grave doubt among eminent medical authorities whether there is such » disease or mot ; but, even grant- ing that there is, why should every unmuzzled canine be exterminated because there is a possi- bility that oue dog in a thoussnd may runmad? What guarantee against hydrophobia does such wholesale laughter afford? The Ro- corder of New York and Mr. Bergh mot only deserve thanks of all humane people, but also of Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart for their noble protest against this revolting practice of cruelty. The dog hasdefended man long enough. It was time somebody came to the defense of the dog. ‘WITCECRAFT AND WITCH-BURNING. Both the telegraph and the mails have recent- Iy brought accounts of the burning of two un- fortunste persons at the Merican village of Con- cordia, by the local authorities of the district, upon the chargae of witcheraft, thus show- ing that this old and oruel superstition has not yet disappeared, but still holds sway in some places, like its kindred superstition of the human vampire in some parts of Germany. The victims in Moxico who wers bnrned wero chargod with bewitching sundry citizens by ‘means of little idols, consisting simply of stones dono up in cotton and paper. It is creditable to Mexicaa justice, however, that the superior ac- thorities have arrested these murderous and superstitious fanatics, and are trying them for tho crime of murder. In view of the fact that this horrible superstition - still exists smong the ignorant, it will be interesting and profitable to glance at the times when witch-burning was common everywhere and considered a religions duty, and the witch-burners thought they were doing God service. For 1,500 years it was universally belioved that the Bible established the reality of the crime and provided for its punishment, and the leyislators of almost every land enacted lsws with refer- ence toit. Mr, Lacky, in his *Rationalism in Europe,” gives numerous instances of the frightful manner in which the persecation of these poor, ignorant beings raged. He atatea that 7,000 were burped at Treves, 600 by a sin- gle Bishop of Bamberg, snd 800 1n a single year in the Bishopric of Wurzburg. At Toulouse 400 perished for sorcery at a minglo execution, and 50 at Dousay in one year. Remy, a Judge at Nancy, pat to death 800 ‘in sixteen years. In Paris M. Thiers says the executions were al- most unlimited, and those of the victims who escaped to Spain were thercseized and burned by tbe blpody Torquemads. All through the Sonth of France the fanaticism roged with fearfal ferocity, the holy men of that day betieving that witcheraft in that region wes attributable to the great number of “orchards~tho devil havidg an especial power over spples. Ia Isaly a thousand Persons wero execnted in 3, and the cruelties of the i-qfis:f:" duced s rebellion. In Bitzerigny s, LF> tho seme scenes wero enactag. T Gm Sary alleged witches were burneq by u,,! i throo months. - Forty-eight wers puegg 32 stance, and elghty in the itl oy gr o Beventy persons were condemneq j;, 8 e 1670, sad & large proportion of ey Tho Romsn Catholis Charch gng, nerve to stimulate theso exacutiong, u:,d 3 the doctrine thst £0 8pare & witgh ey s tothe Almighty. In 1484 Popy ey 25 iesued a bull which increased gy Tk tion, a0d commissioned tha Inguisgy ;"*' : ko aondemned hundreds to deagy gy Similar bulls wero isaued by Jujgy 17 ) *% E and by Adsian VL in 1523, Al gy g o 14 FTitten in favOr of the execations gy ;T4 by ecclesiaatics, and the Churey g2 demoed thousands to death, ' L % The Roman Catholic Churw monopolize this dreatal gy ™™ ddng formers ehared the samo setizey, “fif Be exclaimed: “I would hava ng gy, - LUber thoo witches; T would bur theg g P2 the Reformation established ifselt y 5, " it was the signal for a fresh outbresy, cutions. It then spread intoSeq! Reformed clergy had gTeat power ang the ple wero notorioualy superstitious, mfint persecutions propor(iuu(elymam:mm T ablest defender ot tho belief w3 Glaoyil, e grmsn of tho English Eetablshmes, oy b the most influential was Bugger & E greatest of the Puritans, who conld adrpy ak burniog of women and write the Suy 2,y i without any compunctions of conscienny, gy F- John Wesley, the great religions leader of e cightesnth century, was ons of Hs most ey supporters. The Puritans brought the ety with them to this conntry,lndCctranhh,, has comoe down to u3 ss the great Amaigy witel-burner. - Detween 1648 aud 1655 cighge sons wero execated at Salem. Ths axcitemgy rapidly increased, aad in ono year twenty yen executed, among them a clergyman ang sevend of the most reputable citizens of Massachuse, 3 There wers also 130 in prison and 20 secua when King William vetoed the witcherafi s and put an end to the hideous work, in wiiy the Rev. Cotton Mather, the Rer. M. Noyes of Salem, and Incresso Mather, Prosident of vard College, wera the most active lezdsrs, The general cirilizidg and intellectual tonden, cies of this contury have banished this homibls superstition from general velief, And yet 1 is trne only of the educated, or of thoss whoxry - not sunk in gross ignorance. Thereisno douty & that the ignorant and superstitions peopls of the Concordia district in Mexico wers honeet in the belief that their victims had practied vitdh- craft. Thero is probably not & schoal<istristia the Sonthern States to-day, among the gt ignorant negroes, that does not name itsos juror, of whom the other blacks stand in oy and the fearful Vaudoo orgies are frequenfly practiced in Lonisiana. Thers is no doubt tik the belief still exists smong the fgnorant overy- where. Time has not influenced itatall. Itis a superstition which can only be removed by the progress of civilization and the increase of knowlodge, and, were another Dark Age tosprerd its pall over the world, thers can ba no ookt that this belief would crop out sgain sad tht these persecutions would rage witn il fhels original ferocity. Se————— OBITUARY. JULES JANTX. Jules Gabriol Janin, the celebrated Frencheritly and miscellaneous writer, whoso death waa e nounced in our cabla telegrams yesterdsy, wu born of Jewish parents at Saint Etienze, Depart ment of the Loire, Dec, 24, 1504, and was, thers fore, 70 yearsof age at the time of his death His father was & lawyer. His education was be gun at Seint Etienne, but he waa put to ths Ch Jege of Louis-le-Grand to complete his- studies, Ic soems that he dd not stand very high in hif classes here, being more remarkabie for hisresd; wit and his extraordinary conversational powert Cay ot i than for diligonce or proficiency. Ht studied law, but, finding little to do it his profession, he sbandoned it i took quarters in the Raedu Dragon, in the Lait Quarter, where ho angaged as a privats toldl and assisted young men to “cram™ for thei degroas. The period of his life spont ben Janin afterwards vividly described. The mo notony of a tutor's life did not pleass bim, izt he launched into journalism. Ha becams s e tributor to thc columns of the Figaro, an 01po sition paper, and also to the Royalist jourask &4 Quotidienne. While servi_g in tha conuectiot he, togother with & number of young me founded the Journal des Debats and the Joursd des Enfants. He contributed the dramations tices to the former of these papers,—a specH of literature for which he had remarkailt talent. ‘His first romance was L'Ane Mol et la Femme Guillotince. His tales, o and sketchos were very successfal. The iy humor, and imagination with which thef sparkled caused them to be sought afier from the first. He married a rich heiress, o1 immediatoly after wroto an article in the feuile: ton of the Journal, ** Le Mariage du Crin'_qut, from swhich he was for a long time known in ¢ periodical litersturs of Paris as the Critic. The number of articles for nowspspers, journals, magazines, etc., which he has wrilten within the last forty years, to say nothiog of th prefaces, introductions, etc., is marveloss. Among his works is Rachel etla Tragedie, o5 sidered the best criticism on the genius of (b8 great actress. Janin was elected a member the French Academy in 1870. JOIN MONTESQUIEU BELLEW. Many of our readers will remember Wik pleasure the readings of the eminent English elocntionist, J. M. Bellew, in thia city, last fall and will regrot to learn that the famous artish who bas dolighted so many thoussads, is desd Mr. Bellew was of Irish descent, and was borB in Lancaster, Eng., in 1823. His early ysss wore spent in ihe North of Englsnd, wher he made tho scquaintance of Wordawerh Bouthey, Coleridge, and Wilson. In th: yoar 1842 he removed to Oxford 28 entered 8t. Mary's Collago. As s student he wasdistinguished for his classical attainmentsy and, on the conclusion of his collegiate careet ¥ he took orders in the Charch of Englaad. I3 1348 bo was ordained curate of Bt. Andre¥i Worcester. In 1851 he sccepted s chaplaincy 18 Indig, sud became attached to St. Jobn's Catbe dral, Calcutta, He aleo acted as editor of th8 Government organ, the Hurkaru, He remained in Calcutta until 1355, and then rem'nfld;: England and accepted & temporary charge st lished & volume of ermons entitled Life and Life in Christ;” in 1865 *Shaks Philip's, Rezent street, London. Seven years Iy known as a literary man. In 1860 bepab- peare’s Home in & New Placo;” and io * Blount Tempost,” o novel. Ho slgo wrote i¥¢ later ha was the incambent of Bedlfl!:'fl In addition to bis Chnst i volumes of poems: * The Poet's Corzer,” Chapel, Bloomsbury. k pulpit reputation, Mr. Bollew soon becama wide~ 1864 scd “The Seven Churches of Asia Minor,” snd mflc: edan edition of Bret Harte's poems. Inad tion to his other duties, ho fllled .p_ouxunn of tue editorial Btaff of the JiMorning Fo% with which he was connected 8¢ th9 time of his death. In 1868 Ar. Bafl‘; retived from the Church of England and iden fied himself with the Romian Catholic Charch. From thus time ho devoted himsalf to Litarstars 5