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o THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1874. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TERME OF SUBSCRIFTION (PAYABLE IX ADVANCE). 12.00 Sundar. Par gt S 001 Wy Parts o a year at the rame rate. To prevent delay and mistakes, bo sure and rive Post Of: co eddress in full, including State and County. Remittances may be made eithier by dratt, cxpross, Post Ottios auder, or1n rogiatered letters. at our ruk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Tafly, delivered, Sunday exceptea 25 cents per week. Dall, aelirered, Sunday tncladed, 30 cents per weck. ‘Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANT, Comer Medison xud Dearbora-sw.. Chicsgo, Til TO-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison strest, between oarborn_and State. Engagement of the Lingard 'roaps. ** La Tentation.™ LEY'S_THEATRE—Randoloh street, between FOuna Lasale. \Engageimentof the Flich Aveauo medy-Company. ver Twist.” ADELPHI THEATRE—Comer of Wal na Congress strect. Variety performenco. Forty Thisves." EXPCSITION BUILDING. strost. *¢ Paxis by Moonlight. h ayenue “*The Lakeshore, foot of Adama “Atternoon and evening. SOCIETY MEETINGS. (BEAU LODGE, NO. £, I. O. 0. F.— Tg‘e?-cgfiia ‘a public installation of otticers on Wednos- day oveaing, July 1, at 8o'clock p. m., at their hall, cor. Madison lndll.hluud sl B‘m‘ vrizlndnl the Order and ardially invited. IADRES AR HENRY VENNE, N. G, P. B, CRErPEAT, Sec. UNTLET LODGE, NO. 4. K. of P.—All members are hTaor aatiBaq hatthe lection of oficers for the ing to: 11 bo neld Tuesday evening, June 30, at it AT marthwest cor. Lasalle and Adsmeata. Vis- #ilng brathren are cordially invited. By order, o Attest~J. W. AckEryuxy, K. R. 5. N LODGE, No. 310, A. F. and A. 3f. The B ey mtifed ihat bustness of Importanco will bs transacted at our mext regular communication, of CHAS. Y. iy eroaing, JulyS. By ordor o QAR R, Seo. BILWINND GE, NO. SIL A. F. AND A, M.— Py Cames O aussday evening, July?, for 1 2 to_al tha sarising of Biy-Lava. Hopber HRTTG The Chitags Cribune, Bunday Morning, June 28, 1874. LYING IN THE BEECHER-TILTON CASE. If Tilton's letter tells nothing but the truth (snd it readslike a straightforward, ‘veracious, and withal manly docament), it reveals not only that Mr. Beectier,—theman whom Dr. Leonard Bacon describes as “a treasure to the Church Universal, to his country, and his age,”"—has fallen from his high estats, but also that some members of Mr. Beecher’s Church bave an apti- againetit. It is rather curious that the Protes- tant members took no part in the debate. Tho bill was thrown ont by 251 to 292. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, The legal relations between the United States and the territory set apart and known a8 the District of Columbis, have very properly attract- ed the attention of the country, and should result in a clear and defined policy. The Con- stitution of the United States -contains, among the enumerated powers of Congress, this pro- vigion : To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases what~ soever over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cessiona of particular States, and the scceptanco of Congrese, become the seat of the Government of the Umted States. The purpose of the founders of the Govern- ment was to separate the political capital of the netion from the commercial or manofacturing capitals. The founders of the Government in- tended to avoid the ovil which had provailed in other countries, where the Government was ‘menaced and overawed by the population of & great metropolis. This was to be & government of law, and the Government was to be protected in the performance of its duties by the public respect, and not by force or the presence of & standing army, which of itself might be used as 2 meana of destruction. Tbat this seat of Gov- ernment should be romoved from tho jurisdic- tion of any one or more States, and should be absolutely ander tho jurisdiction of Congress, was felt to be an imperative necessity. Mr. Madison, writing in the Federalist, explaining and defending the clause, said: ‘Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings be interrnpted with im- punity, but a dependence of the members of tho Gen- eral Government on the Stste comprehending the seat of Government, for protection in the exerciao of thelr duty, might bring on the National Councils an imputa- tion of awe, or influence equally dishonorable to the Government, and dissatisfactory to the other members of the Confederacy. This consideration has the more weight, as the gradus] sccumulation of public improve- ments at the stationary residence of Government would ba toogreat a public pledge to be laft in the hands of & single State, and would create so many ob- stacles to 3 removal of the Government as still further 10 abridgo its necessary indepondenca. The subsequent action of Congress confirms this view of the original purpose. The seat of Government was located in what was then a primeval forest, the only ihabitants residing 1n farm houses widely scparated. The original owners had no idea of locating a city where tude for lying not inferior to that of some men who have spent more time in the Tombs than in listening to the eloquence of the tressures of the Church Universal, of the country, and the age. It was the lying abont Mr. Tilton that, at last compelled him to tell what ssems very like the truth, though not the whole truth, as XMr. Tilton evidently holds some of his powder inreserve. Mr. Shearman, Clerk of Ply- mouth Church, has prevaricated. Mr. Halliday bas prevaricated. [f Mr. Beecher did mot pre- varicate himself, he allowed others to do so for him, and thuos led Dr. Bacon to put his foot into it most wretchedly. More than this, there wasly- ing not only by individuals, but Ly whole Com- mittees of the Church, and there were lies which could not be traced to their source 28 well as lies that could. There has been lying from begin- ning to end, from Alpba to Omega. There was Ising by words, and Iying by sction. Thus, when Alr. West really wanted toinvestigate Mr. Beecher he acted out the deception of wanting to wvesti- gate Mr. Tilton. And when Mr. Tilton declined to accept & copy of thecharges addressed to him, on the ground that he was not & member of the Plymouth Church, instead of a report of his declination, the Committee said that he had been cited to appear ; that he refused, and was therefore dropped from the rolls of the Church! The fact was that,” instead of having been re- guested to snewer the charges of having circu- lated scandals against the pastor, Mr. Tilton was veguested not to answer them. Next cornes 3Mr. Bhoarman, who, in reference to the Beecher-Tilton scandal, said that Tilton wsa ount of his mind, off his balance; snd thet? Mrs. Tilton had occasioned the whole affair while in & half-crazed condition, in one of her medinmistic fits; and yet he tfterwards comes forward and denies all this as untrue, thus branding himself as tiarin the firft instance. And mow comes the Christian Union and takes to lying like the Church Committes, repeating the very same falsahoods which the latter had origiuated, viz. : That Tilton had been oited to answer charges which he bad really been requested mot to soswer, althongh the articlein which the mie- representation was contained was written after Ar. Tilton's correction of the falsehood. It was waid of Mr. Tilton that specifio chargesof a grosaly unchristian character were presented against him by a brother in the Church, which chsrges he declined to answer—the very re- vorse of the truth. Again, on May 4, 1874, Mr. Tilton addressed letter to the Rev. Henry ‘Ward Beecher, the Rev. 8. B. Hallidsy, and Mr. Yhomas G. Bhearman, offering to restors 3o them an opportunity, which, it was said, had been thrown awsy, of vindicating Mr. Beechar's character, promising that he would sppenr, if cited by them, at any time within the vext thirty days, before the bar of Plymonth Church. Mr. Shearman wrote to Tilton, May 18, 1874, that his note of the 4th had been re- ceived, read by Mr. Halliday, and, with his con- ourrence, submitted to the Examining Commit- teo. Subsequently Mr. Halliday said that, if such ® letter had been written by Mr. Tilton, he kad no Xknowledge of it. Later the Brook- iyn Eagle published & statement saying thau the Trustees of Plymouth Church denied that Theodore Tilton had addressed such a letter to them, snd that the story that auch & letter had been sont them was false from beginning to end. This concatenation of untruths is the worst festure of the whole affair, andis calculated to fisgust those friends of Ifr. Bescher who would like to judge 25 leniently of his con- fuct ag the facte will enable them todo. A lie 1s the moat despicable and exasperating thing in the universe. Itis like a stone in the cog of a besutifal and delicate piece of machinery. It throws everything out of gear forthwith. We beg all those those who have not yet lied in ihese premises to withdraw from the case when- sver their side of the coatroversy requires a false- heod to balster it up. Paria would be the Iast city in which o Jook for Paritans, and yet one of them turned up the cther day in the Assembly, the Baron de Chau- vazd, who introduced a bill for ths better relig- lous observanca of the Sabbath.' Among the features of the bill it provided thst on Bundays and other Church holy days ths post-offices should be"open only three hours, that there should be but one letter delivery, and that the zaflroads should not run goods trains and only s oertain number of passenger trains. A long de- ‘bebe ensued, the Republicans opposing the bill #a ths gronnd that the peopla would revolt Washington now stands. The lands for the Capital City were purchased under the condition that the city should be laid off by the Govern- ment with streets, squares, etc., under the direc- tion of the President. The President was to select from the lands so laid off all the sansres, tracts, and other portions of the territory as ho might deem proper for the uses of the Govern- ment, and the remaining lots, ete., were to bs equally divided between the Government and the original proprietors. The lots thus obtained by the Government were to be sold from time to time, - and the proceeds were to constitato a fund from which the cost of the original plan of improve- ment was to be paid. The Government was thus made absolute own- er in fee simplo not only of all the large reser- vations sod public squares, blocls, etc., but of the streets and avennes and one-half the build- 1ng lots in the city. The Government also re- tnined the absolute right to regulate, from time to time, the. materials and etyle of all private buildings in the city. The plan of the city adopred was exclusively made in reference to the uses of the Government, and the exclusion of any convenience of the people who might reside there. The city wss lsid off upon a scale previously unknown in any country. No population of any mere political city could be expected ever toimprove and mzintain it upon such aplan. The avenues and streets were of & width, and placed at such extraordinary an- gles, 28 to precluce all thought of trade and com- merce. These streets and avenues are also in- tercepted by immense 'reservations for public use, destroying all continuity of any thorough- fare on which business might be attempted. ‘There are 260 miles of streets and avenues, and these range from 90 to 160 fcet in width,—the streets and avenues actually embracing one-half the area of the city. The extent of this part of the plan may be judged from the following com- parative area of the streats to the whole area of & number of cities: The streets are of four classes,—of 99, 110, 130, and 160 feet wide. The latter class are the The regular streets run north znd south snd east and west, crossing esch other at right angles. The avenues zre divergent, form- ing, at the intersections in the streets, numer- avenues. ons triangular spaces. The reservations of ground by the Government were most expen- sive. They included not only all that has ever been needed for the' public buildings and grounds, but originally included many large blocks, one to be held for each State, and others for the residences of foreign Ministers, and for colleges and churches. ' In fact, it was to be a national city, of which the Government was owner of more than two-thirds of the entire area. It never was intended that this magnifi- cent city should be under the coutrol of any mere local Government, or that the plan should be carried out at the exclusive cost of the small resident population. The Houso Judiciary Committee had this sub~ ject referred to them, and s month ago, throngh Judge Poland, of Vermont, mado & report in which these points were maintamned: 1. That Congress has sbsolute legislative authority over every rightful suject of legislation within the Distriet, without any reservstion whatever to any State or States, or to the people within tho District itself. Any local Government erected in the District can only be regarded as an agency of the Federal Government. 2. The Capital was to be a city where all improvoments made snd expenses incurred were to be for the benefit of the whole people. The burden of expenditures ‘was never intended to be placed npon those citi- Zers who might temporarily or permsnently take up a residenoe at the Capital. The original management of the city was by Commissioners appointed by the President. Sub- sequently there wasz corporate Government, the Mayor being appointed by the President. Up to 1834 the Government had received §741,000 for city lots sold by it. All this money was used for the erection of public buildings and none for the improvement of stroets and avenues. There be- ing no trade or commerce save & small retail business, and these being excluded and manu- factures disconraged, the population of thocityis necessarily temporary, or of persons living upon their salaries, which do not permit themto be- come property-holders, There is, therefore, no sourcs of revenus upon whick the city can un- carry out the original plan of the National Capi~ tal, The proportionate expenditure of the Localand Geaeral Government (exclusive of the public buildings) since 1600 for the improvemont of the city, and maintenance of Government in the Dis- trict, is thus stated : By Local Goverpment. ‘B General Govprument Excess by Local Government, ... oon... 813,425,777 It is an unquestionable fact that mo popula- tion such as is resident in Washington, and ex- cluded from commerce and manufactures, can keep the streets and avenues of tbat city in ro- pair, much less grade and improve them, with- out considerable aid from the General Govern- ment. It being & national eity and not a local oue, it should be governed dircctly by the Gen- eral Government, and its affairs placed, liko those of the Indisns, the coast survey, or the public lands, in the management of a Commis- sioner under the Interior Department, and this Commissioner should be made responsible to Congress a8 the oxclusive legislative authority, and to the Executive Department generally. A local Government in the City of Washington is sudmust be o farce. No such thing was ever desigued, and, now thatthe original plac of the city is really accomplished, Congress should step in and take absolute and exclusive chargs of all the affairs of the District, and impose whatever taxes it may be decmed equitablo that the citi- zens should pay. THE CHICAGO AND OTHER STINKING RIV Chicago does not boast the only mal-odorous river in the world. Streams ansthing but sweet- smelling, it would seem, are the penalty. that ‘metropolitan towns usually bave to psy for their grentness. The inhabitants of London complain of the Thames; those of Berlin of the Spree; and evea the Seine is not univer#ally praised for its purity. Of less important streams, therepn- tation of the Veslo at Rbeims, tho Mersoy at Liverpool, the Irwell at Manchester, bocome at timeos, like our own, public puisances. Not many years ago the Board of Health of the Town of Wakefield recéived from certain of the in- hebitants a letter written with ink of a rather light color informing that body that, without its formal sutnorization so to do, they addressed them & fow Lines written with the water of the Calder, taken from the quarter where the city sewage had its outlet, and expressing their re- greta that the odor in that quarter could not bo made to accompany their communication in the nature of s supplement. An official report says of the condition of the Irwell “that, after it haa carried away the sewage of 10,000 manufac- tories of every description, a8 well as the filth of the cities aud villages which it has passed through, it i3 as virn- lent and black as the Siyx. Eogland has been forced to consider the question how to remedy thess river-nuisances. Inquiries bave been ordered to ascertain the best methods of purification, and numerous edbays have appearad on the subject. France is endeavoring to profit by the expetience of England; and in the last number of the Revue des deux Mondes there are a8 many aa three works on subjects related to this question reviewed by Mr. R. Randan. Ac- cording to the reviewer, all the efforts hitherto made in Eugland prove the nesr connection thas exista beuween the disinfection of foul rivers and tho utilization for fertilizing purposes of the sewage now carried to the sea. These are, Mr. Randan thinks, two terms of ono and the same problem. The utilization of sewage for agri- cultural purposes is the only natural, rational, and practical method to protect rivers from the consequences of their proximity to large towns. The Commissions appointed by Parhament in 1865 and in 1868, as well a8 the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of Scionce, are agreod on this point. The Commission appointed in 1865 paid most attention to tho condition of the Thames, the Ayr, and the Calder; that of 1863 to the condition of the Mersey and the Ribble. Poisons of the worst kind were found in the waters, especially arscnic used in the manufac- tare of sulphuric acid. The methods hitherto proposed for the purifi- cation of infected rivers may be divided into three classes : 1. The filtering or elutriation of the water. 2. Purifying the dissolved matter by some chemical process. 8. Theirrigation of poor soils by means of the ‘water charged with the refuse of organic life. No means of filtration has yet been discovered which, in & short time and at & small expense, is capable of purifying a large bocy of water. The process of elutriation has not been any more successful. Allowing impure water to stand does not by any mesns improve it. Of methods to bring about the precipitation of the foul matters held by the water in suepension, some sixty have been proposed since the last century. Tho most that can be said of even tho best of these methods is, that they do the work very imperfectly and then only st grest oxpense. The only method found at all practicable is to spread the foul waters over tho fields. Tho sewago of Edinburg has been uaed for ovor a century to fertilize large sandy tracts. This plan has been tried in several cities of England and Scotland, in Bntish India, in the plain of Geoopnevilliers near Paris, at Dantzic and Borlin. It was objected to this method that lands irrigated in this way gave rige to missmas; but the English Com- missioners say that there is no danger of this provided the wators are not permitted to run in open canals. The land shoald not be saturated with an excess cf liguid, and eare shomtd be taken to provide drainage to carry it away when superabundant. 1Mr. Frankland, the well-known chemist, and Mr. Morton, Commissioners of 1863, nro satisfied tha: the success of this irrigation process is due to the fact that the soil immedi- ately produces the filtration of the water, the direct consequence of which is a slow oxidation or combustion of the organio substances, and the production of carbonio acid, water, and nitric acid. ‘Where there is not Jand enongh to absorb the sewage, recourse is sometimes had to intermit- tent filtration, which permits the sowage to flow on a piece of ground, well drained and divided into four parts, each part to receive the sewage during six hours. This system is used at Mer- thyr-Tydvil and at Wallon, and is to be em- ployed at Birmingham. As to tho question what waters are healthy and what are not, the recent researches of M. A. Gerardin, under instructions from the Min- ister of Public Insiruction, show that the criterion {8 neither color, nor tasts, nor odor, nor chemical composition, but the poseibility of vegelables and animals livioag in them. Where fish cannot live, the water is not pure, Organic matter in & siate of decomposition deprives the water of oxygen and renders life impossible to beings endowed with a high organization, It xedqfu the dertake to impzove the stroets and avenues, or l sulphates in ths watar, ehanges tpui ato sulphurets, and produces exhalations of sulphu- rotted hydrogen. .When, iustead of allowing such waters to undergo a process of patrid fermenta~ tion, they are sprerd over a lsrge surface and aerated, the orgacic mattor contained in them are oxidized by satursticn, and ko= Se water froed from the refuse may bo allowed to flow back ina purified condition to the river. The minutim of the operation can of course bo learned only from ths works specielly devoted to the subject. Whother the system which has proved successful elsowhere might bo made of servico bera in Chucago, is » question which ex- perts must decide, CLOSE OF THE AMUSEMENT SEASON. The musical season may now bo called faixly over, and the fiddlors, and horn-blowers, and singing birds, are leaving for the seaside, tho northern lakes, 2nd the mountains, for rest and recroation, proparatory to commencing their la- bors agsin in Beptember, when the gay world flocks back again and gets ready to be amused. We shall have no more concerts for two months t0 come, excopt that Gilmore, the Jubilee bero, will be here in July and seek to mitigate the fervent heat by giving s series of promenado concerts to the stay-at-homes in the Exposition Building. Other tban this, the dsughtersof music are leid low for a two-months’ furlough. The two American musical societics—tho Apotlo Musical Club and the Beetheven Society—have adjourned until Septembver, and will then com- mence upon their winter work. The German societies, which are enabled to eundure bot weather by virtue of beer and Gemuetiichkeit will probably keep at work all summer and give some of their bilarious smamer- nights fests ; while Tuirner Hall will continue to shock muckers and wasser-semples by its Sun- day devotions at the shrines of Gambrinus, Strauss, and Couradi. The theatres also will probably e*ruggle along through the heatedterm aad succeed in losing some money as the reward for secking to entertain people who do not want to be entertained. ot ‘What we sball have next season it would be as yet premature to say in detail. Wo may expect, however, & season of Italian opera, for which Max Strakoach will bring over nearly all the ar- tists whom his brother® has had wunder contract this seadon in Paris. Like most Italian opers sea- song, it will be a rather incongruous one, a8 nearly all the artists are German, the best parts of his repertoire are German, and the Manzoni Requiom Mass of Verdi is to be made the crowning feature. So long, how- ever, as we get good music, wo need not growl st its pams or color. The fash- ionable world must hiave its gilded bait to entice it ; and if they will go to see ** Der Freischuetz " or “Lohengrin™ dono by German artists by calling them Italian opera, or if Verdi’s Requiem christened Italian opers will bring them out, it is all right. They will Loar some good music, and it need not disturb any one that they fancy thoy are doing the italisn. It is hardly possible that wo shall have a sesson of German opors, legitimately so-called, for the hero has not yet risen with courage enongh to attempt it, although the aur is thick with rumors that Mme. Pauline Lucca may make tho desperate effort, with the aid of Theodore Thomas. T. T. bas too long s head for such reck- less undertakings. We shall bave, however an Eoglish sesson, with Kellogg at its head, and probably s competing troupe in the field en- listed under Grau's banners, and the Opera Bouf- fers will be here, with Aimee at their head. Caroline Richings-Bernard also has some large musical ventures on hand. Adding to these the offorts of our home singersand clubs, and the transient swallows that will light here now snd then, there will be plenty of attractions to whils away the sutumn days and the cold winter nights, Until that time those who can get away will undoubtedly enjoy themselves with gun and rod ana watering-place nonsense, snd thoso who stay at home will experience all the delights of Chicagoas the greatplace of summer resort, and very pleasant intercourse with the worp-ont people of St. Louis, who are now coming here in large numbers to enjoy our pure water, oool, bracing air, delightful monus, avd other luxuries which thes cannot have at home, SPONTANEQUS COXMBUSTION. The Committee of Underwriters appointed to investigate the circomstances attending the re- cent firo in the building occupied by M. D. Wells & Co., on the corner of Madison and Mar- Let streets, bave made a report. They find that the building was first-class in every respect. It was furnished with & stand-pipe, with hoc at- tachment upon each story; and that there waa a tank 1o the fith story with a capacity of 1,500 gallons of water. § The cause of the fira they attribute to the spontaneous combustion of the oil and greasy waste and other sweepings of the factory. Theso aro taken up every might, put in & box, and sent down to the boiler- room once & week. On the Baturday night before the fire this box was not sent down as .usuoal, but left on the fourth floor, near the windows on the west side of the building. The box contained all the materials for spontancous combustion. Heat was genersted elowly, 50 that at noon on Sun- day the foreman who visited the factory did not discoverany fire. Intimetho heatburned through the box, thence through the floor, and thus slowly along until, when discovered at 4 o'clock Monday a. m., the fire burst out of the windows near the box. Air being thus admitted the fire spread rapidly to tho fifth floor, burned the floor under the water-tank, and hastened thie destrne- tion of the building. The Committee claim to Lave verified this theory of tho fira by visits to other factories { there they found Larrels of cotton-seed o1, eans of linseed oil, and others of turpentine; they fonud oily cloths fall of oil and blacking ; they found also that these were awept up aod kept in a box which is emptied weekly. In two of these other factories thoy found the same comstruction of stairways, which in the case of the Wells building, through ignorance of such construction, rendered it impossible to resch the fire. Thes Committee deduce from the fects that— 1. In every building where thereisa factory of any sort there should bes watckman ands watch clock. Had there been oue in the Wells building the fira could have been essily extin- guishod. 2. In every shoe-factory the rubbish should be gathered into an iron box, raised from the floor, and covered, and this should be emptisd every pight. 8. That the use of cotton-seed ofl should Lo discournged; that s charge in the way of extra insurance should be - = Je for the use of kerosene- oil lamps in factories, sufficient to prohibit their use. 4. That the iron etand-pipes should haves coupling cutaide the . building for the nse of the Firs Devartment, and.thad the commanication [+] between the flcors shonld nover be concealed. The Comuittes state that if a fire shonld gain any headway in the fourthor fifth story of & first-class Luilding it is & matter of some doubt whether it conld be extingnishod. Hose-elava- tors are rarely of any service, and men cannob work with hose directly in front of windows through which fire may be bursting. They con- fess that the sure means of escaping great loss from fire occurring in the upner stories of high buildinga is not yet discoverad. BEECHER'S SILENCE. Theodore Tilton has arraigned Henry Ward Beecher before the country and the world on the charge of having committed agaiust him an offense which he forbears to namo or character- ize. The precise natureof thisunnamed and uncharacterized offense the geneial public do not know; but they do kmow enough of its nature to warrant ihem in sayiog that, if Mr. Hoonry Ward Beecher is indeed guilty of the crime laid at his door, he 18 not a fit person to oceupy a Christian pulpit, or to teach morality to any one, or anywhere. ‘They know, too, that, if any reliance can be placed on MMr. Tilton's veracity,—and wo 8ee no reason to doubt it in this instance,~the offense was no venial one. It was not simply such an offense (s Mr. Shearman, a friend of Beecker's, commenting on Tilton's letter, contends) as one gentleman may apologize to another for. Were this all, bow explain Mr. Beecher’s letter of Jan. 1, 1871, in which,indeed, ho does ask Mr. Tilton's forgiveness, but adds that hs humbles himself bofore him as he does before his God ; that he will not plead for himself; and that he wishes be were dead! Now, men do not humble themselves before God for a mere breach of etiquette; nor do they wish they were dead when the misfostune that has overtaken them is sach 88 can be cured by an apology. It Mr. Boeecher wrote the letter above mentioned ; if it is a correct portraiture of his conscience at the time he penned it, it proves that, whate ver be Mr. Beecher's offense, his con science is not as eared one ; but then it proves, too, that it was at the time violently dis- turbed; that it racked him ; that its qualms wero great—so great that he wished he were dead, and Mr. Tilton and wife in Europo. The letter in which Mr, Beocher makes these confessions 18 8 plea of guilty to some grave offense against Mr. Tidton. The offense is admitted, but not named. That it is a grievous offense, Mr. Beecher’s own lstter proves ; and that it amonnts at loust to the sttempted seduction of o manied woman, is established by a mase of circumstan- tial evidence too convinciny to be overcome. The country calls on Mr, Beecher to come for- ward and in express terms make affidavit of his innocence, or confees his guilt. Mr, Beecher, however, intends to keep lus own counsel at present ; but he cannot be silent long. Were ho like Tom Brown or John Smith, he could afford to be silent. But he is not hke Tom Brown or John Smith, and cannot afford to be silent. He ia the foremost preacher of the Gospel in tho world. Ho is supposed to teach the doctrings of Christ &nd to live a life like that of Christ, pure and spotless. If Mr. Beecher does not livesuch a life; if while he preaches purity he practices the arts of the eeducer, and attempts the run of other moa's wives ; if, in other words, his preach- ing and practice do not agree, he is a hypocrite, 1t while preaching purity by word, he is preaching lust by act, by influence, and example, tho best use that Congregationalism can make of Lim is to dismiss him into the shiades of private life, to afford him &n opportunity to humble Limself still more before God. Let it not hold him up any longer a8 & model Christian minister 2nd teacher to the young men and women of the country, Let Congregationalists show Mr. Beecher that on the question of his innocence or guilt of the accusations brought against him by Theodore Tilton ho cannot long be silent. A pure man in Mr. Beecher's place would not only not be silent under those charges, he would resent them, just a8 & pure woman wonld resent the solicitations of a liberiine. Let Afr. Beecher come forward, confess his guilt, and retire from s pogition which no one but a pure man shou 1@ fill. Or let him refute the charges brought sgainst him. Let him show that tha fetter in which heis made to declare that he humbles himself before God and wishes that he +was dead—a letter which poiots to some great wrong committed by him—is a forgery. Mr. Beecher has been a kind ot Pope among Protestants—at least among the Evangelical sects. His words have been looked upon as oracles and accepted as infallible—though not defined to bo so by any Ecamenical Council. He has been the most prominent Protestant clergy- man in America—nay, in the world. He 18 known and read in England, in Switzerland, in Germany, in France. His influenco for good or evil is co-oxtensive with his reputation. And this is another reason why ne should, if it be possible, come out of the black cloud in which Mr. Tilton's accusations have involved him. Beechor bas inveighed, time and again, against impurity in every form. Oneof his most powerfal discourses described the dreadful consequences to the soul of o lowd imagination. Let Mr. Beechor demonstrate that such an imag- ination was never his. And when he comes for- ward to vindicate himself, if ho ever does, let him not follow the courre of his and Jim Fiek's attorney, Mr. T.G. Shearman, and say, a8 the Intter gentloman Las #aid for him, that he (Beccher) never did anything very wrong; that the most that can be said against him is that he made improper advances to the wife of Mr. Til- ton—as though that were a light thing for a clergvman. 4 There are some people in the world who think that, when o man looks upon 2 woman to lust after her, he hath committed adultery with ber already in his heart, and that mere failure to ac- complish his intentions, while it may be fortu- Date for him, does ot lesgen his guilt ina moral and religious point of view. It seems that, practically, the Nationsl Bank- rupt Iaw is repealed ; since, without the consent of the debtor, it will be impossible hereafter to put any one in bankruptey. The law as amended _requires that ‘‘one-fourth in number and one- third in amount of the creditors™ must join in & petition to put & debtorin bankruptcy. Suppuse & debtor commita any number of acts that should bring bis affairs before the Bankruptcy Court for adjudication, and his estate for distribution. Somae creditor gets soveral parties to unite with him,and they swear that, * according to the best of their information and belief,” they are *‘one- fourth in number,” and liold *one-third of the amount of tho indobtedness” of the party. In the meantime, tho debtor, seeing the coming storm, goes to his personal friends and borrows 85or $10 from ten or ffty men, who will, under no circumstances, consent to his being put in bank- ruptcy. The man who is & creditor for $5is a8 much entitled to his numerical positiou, 85 op- posad to the bankruptcy of Lis friend, as lhe man who %olds £€50,000. If this view is correct— and we can see no fallacy in our reasoning upon the plain wording of the law—the Baokruptey Courts may as well disband. Their occupation is gone. PNEUMATIC DRAINAGE. The current number of Good Words contains an article on *Pneumatic Drainage,” which seems, npon its face at least, to present a very satisfactory solution of the sewage gquestion. The article is written by Dr. Esdaile, who has given much attention to the subject and is en- thusisstically confident that the proposed plan will be adopted. In general terms pneumatio drainage is & system by which dirt can literally be blown out of every house, unnoticed by the inmates, and be conveved to the country in such a form that agricultarists will engerly compete for the possession of it. The invontor of poen- matic drainage is one Capt. Liernur, a Dutch- man, and his invention professes to remove from houses humsn excreta, and to supply these to the agriculturist, undiluted by water. The plan by which this feat is accomplished is as fol- lows : In a bullding, in any convenient part of a town, is placed s stesm engine, which drives an atr-pump, 80 24 to maintain about thres-quarter vacuum in certain cast-fron hermetically~closed reservoirs below the floor. From these reservoirs central pipes rudiste in all di- rections, following the main streets. On thesa central pipes sre laid, from distance to distance, strect reser- Yoirs, below the pavement, From the street reser— voirs, up aud down the street, are main pipes, commu- picating by short baanch pip:a with the closets of exch house. All the junctions of pipes with reservoits are furnished with cocks, which can be shut off or turned on at plessure, like wuter-mains. The vacnum created in the centre bullding reservoirs can thus be communiczted to any given street reservoir, 50 s to furnish the motive power by which, when the connections with the houses are opened, all tho closets are simultaneously emptied. When thelr contents reach the central reservoir they are in like manner forced through the central tubes to the reservcirs under the central building, and thence transferred to a closed tank above ground, from which they are decanted into birrels without any escape of foul air. Thnisis done every twenty-four hours, be- fore the excreta ferment and become offensive, xnd they are at once converted into poudretle without ex- ‘posure to the air. Pneumatic drainage is not altogether a theorv. Prof. Ranke has testified to its use in removing excreta from the barracks at Prag with success, and it has been applied to many towns in Hol- land, Austria, and Germany, the cost being only £2 per head of the population, aod the profits 48, per head, after deducting working expenses and interest. The inventor has figured upon the possible expenses for some of the English towns, and calculstes that Glasgow, for in- stance, would receive an income at the rate of 108. per head of its population of 500,000, or £230,000 annusily. As to the use of this ma- pure by farmers, the promoter of the scheme has no doubt. It has long been in use in Japan, Hungary, and Bohemis, and tho great objection toits use hitherto has been the vaat quantity of it that was necessary. When, however, the farmers can get it carefully and inof- tensively packed in barrels, and undiluted, be is sure that they will gladly welcome it. He says, in rogard to the financial features of the plan : **I do not first construct conduita to get fecal matter away from the town and then look aronnd for means to disposs of it. I com- mence by entering into contracts with farmers for delivery of certain quantities of uodiluted and fresh excrota. The pneumatic tubes are then laid to get the matter I agree to furnish.” ‘The proposal hag made & deep impression upon the minds of the English authorities, and in Liverpool and some of the otber large cities of England steps are being taken to inspect the workings of the plan, It is certainly worthy of a careful examination. If itisall it claims to be, it not only provides an admirable plan for utilizing sewage, but it may perfact the ssnitary systams of large cilies and work magical changes 1n the publio health. b REGULATING THE RITUALISTS. The Cburch of England is again convalred with the Ritualistic controversy. ‘A bill for the regulation of public worehip bas passed the House of Lords.” It mesans the regulation of the public worship of the Ritualists evidently, for the telegrams inform us that they * are fu- rious about it, and declare that if it is carried the immediate consequenca will be tho secession of & large number of both clergymen and lay- men from tho Established Chorck, and the or- ganization of & Church of their own, with one or two of the ex-Colonial Bishops at their head.” Itisalso “rumored™ that * the bill has been prepared under the direct inepiration of the Queen.” This is very improbable, partly be- cause the Queen has never beeu in the habit of bestowing her *direct inspiration” upon Par- liamentary measures, but mostly because she is o lady of pronounced Broad-Church sympathies. VWhile her aversion for both the abstemious Lows 2and the excessive Highs is probably as vehement =8 any other of her animosities, it would be in- consistent with her policy ss a Constitational Monarch, and 88 & Broad-Church head of the English Church, for her to “inspire” her Pri- mate to the extent of a bill, or bull, designed to “regulate” the Ritualists. True to the attitude of the Broads, sho would rather tolorats all par- ties than amputate any of them. There can be no doubt that the conduct of the Ritualists bas been enough to harrow up the souls of their Evangelical brethren. For ex- the wisdom of the Archbishop's bill, i with roference to the umty and stability of English Church, is very doubtful, As M, b said about the late Franco-German m”"fi‘fll time is ill-chosen.” In Proportion as thy .g o gelicals would be placated, the Ritualipty v be exasperated by the interforevca, A,M London Times says: *The Church iz in iy position for remodeling its Constitating, c/: ] fasion confronts ua on every gide.” 3 people less satisfied with things a3 the Church. and never in less the remedy to be applied. There j cumbent in the Kingdom who l:;:; :",‘h' r,flndcred amenable to the law for some ou;‘. sion or excems of observance By gy can be done without undoing everythin, While the Ritualiats are the most Tefractory, l.hnotbq Nerer wery they arg i *gToement 4y ¢, - parties bave their grievances. Th S5t imitate theAmerican Episcoplm::h:::::’.h-w the Prayer-Book of the Athanasiag Creed, e the Dean of Westminater 478 Athansgigy i saw, but which entrances ths ey o purey. who rolls its “damnatory clansegn iy % morsel under his tongue; aud thy Lows ,,n:;; like to modify the regeneratiys Muing which occars in the service for the baptisy of infantg, It is extremely unlikely that the b i, & ita presorit ehape, pass tho present Hoe o Commona. If it should be awallowsi by Dis. Taeli it will hasdly be digeated by his party, gy is ovident from the fact hat it bas incurg g displeasure of hic Becretary for Todia, the vitrj. olic Marquis of Salisbury. Bug, if the bill shogig pass tho Commons, the Ritualists would bempey move likely to sulkily acquiesca than to retinafn, & miff from the Establishment. Tnevhzovvu-, well that a coxch-and four can still be driven through.an act of Purliament, especially a coach which is at once so satisfsctory to its Ppassengery and go intangible to its puremers as theirs, Py sides, *“one or two ex-Colonial Bishops™ wouly Dot be a very imposing showing for & moveman| that depends for 1ta success upon its sppeal ty the senses. And the act of secession wonld do prive them of their endowments, their churches, and their prestige. They would sbandon they share in the social aecendency of the Englisy Chburch, a loss which has been disastrons toall, and fatal to some, of the ecclesiastical soceasiony in England, where no sect can grow strong withe out striking its roots deep into the social lifs of the country. i i 1 '3 4 CHAPMAN'S SARCOPHAGUS, ‘We have raceived Circular No. 2 from Mr. Z M. Ohapman, Sterling, IiL, seiting forth the merits of lus new sarcophagus, to whichwebsva once before alluded. At the close of bis circu- lar Mr. Chapman waxes confiding and philan. thropic, and says : ‘‘If you approve of ths sheve method of disposing of the dead, sod feel liks turning or being a benefactor to the human race 1n & dministering consolation to ths living by letting them know that their loved ones in death can now be placed in & casket impervious to decay, pleaso give the above oae o two insertions in your paper.” As it 15 great aim of Trg TRIBUNE to be & benefactor to the human race by supplying the latest inteili- gence and offering & good sdverthing medium between business men and the public, snd as Tax TRIBONE oan st the same time gratify Chapman, which is probably Chapman's idea of benefiting the human race, we hasten to comply with Chsp man's request, aithough we must respectfuly decline bis kind invitation to act as sgents for the sale of his sarcophagus, our present businsas beiog arranged with regard to the living rather tban the dead. The plan which Chapman proposes is simply to make the casket air-tight and water-tight by surrounding it with water-lime cement, snd thir sarcophagus, says Chapman, **is far superior 8 any ever used by ancient Egpytians or Estern monarchy, snd can be farnished at trifling e~ pense.” This is certainly no ordinary indnce~ ment. Thers is some compensation for this weary, bumdram, tirosome life in the thought that, after it is over, you can go to sltep in & much more elegant and eubstad- tial [manoer than Cheops or Cephrenes, apd that not even the Shah of Per- sis or the Khedive of Egypt, Wi all their gold and diamonds, can acquirs sach & sacophagus as you can get from Chapman for 8 Thoro are crowds of peoplo who die happyin tts thought that they can go to the cometery bebind 3 brass band and in frons of a procession of ther fellow-mortals with white aprons on them. Eaf much more will it 8dd to their pleasnre it thought that for $6 they can get from Chapmsa & sarcophagus more enduring than that which holds the dust of King XMaoeo lus, more gorgeous than that which re- ceived the swarthy dsughter of Egypts royal flute-player, wiose favorite instruments made such ravishing music as she sailod on (52 Nile. Again, saya Chapman: * You will havas sarcophagus that will be sound when the Pyrs mids of Egypt nave crumbled into dust.” ‘This, bowever, I8 too much. We do mot ses wha posaible use there is in such an everlasting par manence. e presume Chapman does nob pause to think that the Pyramids bave stood for thousands of years, and that they wmay stand for millions of yeas ¢ befors they crumble iuto dust. Itisnobcom~ ample, the Thirty-first Article of the Church of Englaud declares that * the sacrifices of AMasses, in the which it was commonly said that the priest did offer Christ for the guick and the desad, to have remission of pain or guilt, were ‘blasphemous fables and dangerous daceits.” All of which to the contrary motwithstanding, “a Afissa Defunctorum was celebrated” recently at St. Mary’s Church, Soho, London, for the ropose of the soul of tho late esteemed Vicar. The sacred ministers were in rich, black vestments, and the body lay with face westward in the coffin. Even the Ritualists, however, seom to see the nced of *‘regulation” in their doctrinal parsphernalis, for their organ (the Church Herald) saya: “‘The sltar was rituslly incorrect in its details. There wers 80 many casdles, instead of the two or six of unbleached wax, and such numerous bouquets, that ita ap- pearance presented rather the idea that the Ro- man Catholic rite of Benediction was goiog on than & solemn Mass for the dead.” Tha factis that, notwithstanding the inhibition which was 1aid upon the Highs & few yesrs ago, their #gacred mupisters " have become a8 obstreperous asever. Eventhe snub sdministered to them by the popular -Catholic preacher Monsignor Capel did not dsunt thelr High spirit. The candles disappesred from St. Margaret's only.to be replaced by s gaseous imitation. The chasu- ble still decorated the back of the priest, and the ** holy wafer " continued to be tendered to the kneeling commuricant. Neither confessions! nor processioual bave boen entirely absndoned, and the faithfol have never ceased to drop on one kneo In the sisle, and to oross themselves at every repetition of the triune pnraseology. But whataver the Inspiration or provocation, forting to Brown or Jones, for instance, o think that if they patronize Chapman they are lisbld to be dug up thousands of years hence by ihe cariosity-hunters, and exhibited in museums ¢ ssmples of & past epoch, as we now exhibit the remalns of the Post-Pleiocene period. Espe- cially will it ocour to Brown, if he shead happen to be rodbaired and froctid sod enub-nosed, that hs would nathat not be excavated in the yesr and sct up 88 & target for the jokes and soesr of the young ladies of that time with regsrd ® bis persons! appearsce. We donbt whetbs! there is any one who desires to last nntil the Pyramids crumble into dust, Chapmad b overdone the business in this regard. The P& ration of Chapman's circular, howsver, 0% bines rhetoric, eloguence, post-mortem Prog- nostications, and business, in the most Livelf manner, and in pathetic utility surpasses the L menting widow who chronicled her pusksad virtues and aonounced on the same stone abe would continuo hia bustoess at thy old stsad- Says Chapman: Shall we continne to bury our dssd, in tais eabghk ensd age, in that barbarous, carelsss, sod ind!ffaresh manner that bas charscterized all nations, o all ages ; leaving them submerged fn water 8 ot ofthe time, and constantly expossd to ibe tions of sats, smskes, and other vermin, wat! B crumblo into dust, ratber than sdopt the Ahfil'; method, at a cost of $8 to §12, to pay proper that caxket formed after the image of oar Orsst Dr_l; tor, and for 80 long a time containing the soul b3t imimortal, and now bauugin the supshinsof oar Great Redoemer And then, dropping from this sublimity, 5o denly waking from theso celestial misions, OE3P" man sbruptly proceeds to business with the ™ mark, " Addreas Z. M. Chspmas, Btarliog; T, 858 all orders will be promply Alled.® W fass, 1 e s 1 5 NIV ST s e 8 R P13 T T S g TPt e e e e e AT