Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 5, 1874, Page 6

- - TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMB OF BUNICNIFT(ON (PAYADLE 18 ADYANGR), FAR s 1001 Sy :30 Parta ol asearat the same rato, To provent delay snd mintaker, b aure and give Post ©f s nddreas In full, inoluding Btata and Oaunty. Raiaittances may be made olthor bydratt, oxpruss, Post Olice otder, or tn reglatersd letters, at our risk TERMA TO OITY GURSCHIHERS. Taily, dolivorod, Bunday excoptoa 20 conte per weok. Viatly, delivored, Bundny included, R0 eonts por wook. Adaiosn THE THIBUNE COMPAN: Cormer Madiaon and Dearbor: Unloago, JiL. SOCIETY MEETINGS, 8T, GRORGI'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCTATION— 1l Uo held on Monuay ovon nr monthily moating ?}, 74, at Culodo Warliogton-st., &t 8§ ol Biinio ‘L;Euu:l‘:lrn‘w'l‘ll Sopurt Ghalr brogrom, ro; or's prosonce i dorired, 7 TemOre PR d! BURROUGUS, ooretary, OHIOAGO OATEDONIAN OLUB.—Tho _rogular LA A ot O8N T A, Fowuh Oatottaia BUSINESS NOTICES. PURITY 18 PRIORLESS, - WHY TUY TIE ehoap adultorated trash that {s vonded theoughe Sut Ta olty and gouniry ‘for Tens, Ground Gafloo and Ground Spioes, whou purs and nuadultorated goads 98 1o hiad for (aiF prions? " Wo tonst, and. grind aut own &ttoo dailys also, ‘irind our own Nploow, selocting tho Ohtonatrand Bost gontn. for this purnosd, which 1 th anly way aure to got Coltoo and bpices, "'A‘l" 37 runliy "Wioterato aud rotal grocor, Lind Blask,sor. auduiph and Aurkot TO'MORROW'S AMULEMENTS, ) M I~ nlstad stroet, hotween Mad- amo of Bpeculation ¥ aud ** Tha Criffa.” * HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolnh street, hatweon O o, S agngoment of Tons Prstoes Ve oty-Troupe, M'VIOKKR'S THEATRE: aasborn and Stato, I Troupo. ADELPHI THEATRE—Cornor of Wabash avenno and &ongress atroot, Jonolit of Luonard Grover, ~ Cow- edy, farco, and pantomime. ndlson streot. hotweon omont. of the Ligard LAKE-SHORE, TOOT 01 MADISON-BT,~Soullor's Teal Koman Hippodromo. TLDING--Lakoalor, foot of Adams atrean, O D At armuon and ovoni: TWENTY- .ST, BASE DALL GROUNDS-— Onaatmenin e batroen (ha Bostuas and Chlon The Chitane Tiibune, Bunday Morning, July 5, 1874, Lord's Prayor, “ For thino s the Kinpdom," ote. Mr. Fishor senys It is porfeotly cortan that Christ nover nitorsd thoso words, and he thinka that wo ought toave tho Lord'a Prayer aa it camo from Ilia lips, and not as it wag afterwards M fmproved " by some prosump- tuouw and fmpertineut copylst. The rovislon in basod, of courso, on tho Kihg Jamos vorslon, and makes no changen in that version unless ab- solutoly roquired, and then only slth the assont of two-thirds of the scholara omployed in tho work, 3 Among tho mistranslations, or ralher mis- prints, in our verslon, Mr, Fishor mentions that which ocourd {u the passage “strain at & guat and awallow n camol,” It should be straln out o gnat. Again, wo road that “if the ealthath lost hfssavor." In what way salt camo to bo an Englisl noun maseuline {8 ot apparont, and it in proposod to substitute “its® for #MLis" A vory awkward mistranglation occurs in Paul's specch on Mars' ITHl), Hois mado to ssy to the Athionlans, who bad orocted en altarto the Un- known God, "I porceive that yoaro fn all things too superstitions. . . . Whomyo ignorantly worsbhip, Him declare T unto you,” Tho original Greok reads “ very roligious,” instend of *too suporatitions,” and “unkuowingly" for *“igno- rantly.” A correct translation rolioves Paul from tho Imputation of discourtosy in tho ex- ordium of bis discourss, Prof. Fishor nlso cltes 5 number of Instauces whero the srtfcles aand the oxisting fn tho original arc omitted In the transfation, and whore not existing in the original are mserted in the translation, und where the is insorted for a aud a for fhe—in all of which the sense {8 more or less changed: by the orrors. A ocurlous mistake-ocours in the translation of the Greel word eis (into) In the baptismal gorvice, It l¢ translatod **in,” so tbnt we aro baptized “in tho mame of tho Fatlior," etc., instead of info tho namo of the Fathor. The two ldeagare entirely Jifferont, ns are also tho idens couveyed in tho two Greek words Hades and Gelicnua, boul of which aro trauslated * hell ” [n overy instaues whoro they oceur oxcopt one. Iu this one inatauco Hades is translatod “tho gravo," which, sccording to Prof, ¥ishor, ie us wido of its truo meaning as the word "*holl " is iv overy othor caso. Contrary to gencral expectatian, the Judges of : the Unlted Statea Circuit and Distriot Courls, +* sitting at Madison (Dovis, Drammond, snd Hop- Xios), havo decided tho Northwostern Railrond cage infavor of thoNtato guthorities, holding ! thatundor tho Wisconsin Constitution it Is com- v petont for the Legislature to fix tho rates of toll, 3 even to the oxtont of destroying the proporty of THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, The Chicago . Public Library opened its efreus lating dopartment on the 1nt of May, 1874, This , eirculatiug departmont had, therefore, been iu operation two smonths af the closs of the official Tibrary year, Juuo 80, The progross of tho in- i slitution in public favor is shown by tho facts ‘ stated in the roport of Mr. Poole, tho Librarian, “Tho total numbor of books in tho Library May 1 was 17,855 volumes. Of theso a large number are books of roforence, which ara consulted by the visitors in tho roading-room; ibis included, algo, thio costly colloction presented o tho Li- brary by its friends in England. The number of volumes availablo for use in tha circulating do- partment wad about 13,000. Duriug the nine weeks In which tho Library bag been open the daily avorago number of boolks given out was ng follows: First, 138; scoond, 260; third, 887; 4 fourth, 487; fifth, G55; sixth, 671; soventh, o' M0 oighth, 078; sulnth, 804 Durfug tho cighth weelk occurred the coruor-stono hali- dny, whon the Library was supposed to lave been cloaed. But few books were talken out on that day. Tho Boston Publie Library, at the end - of ita fifth year, had 84,896 volumes, uud report- " ‘ed & daily avorngo of 810 volumes loaned; at tha ‘.t end of the sixth year this avaraga had increnued 10 988 volumes, Tlo number of volumes and the . dally circulation inereased until, at the ond of its ! tonth year, with 105,034 books, its daily eircula- tion was 626 In 1873, the twonty-first yoar of the Likrary, with ovor 180,000 volumes, , ltadnily avorago circulation was 864 volumes, : The Cinclonati Public Library, at the ond of its ;_ fourth year, iu 1871, had 33,958 volumes, nud an . verage daily issuo of 877; in 1873, with 59,605 volumes on tho shelves, it had a daily aversge olrealation of 778. The New York Marcantile " Library, with 140,000 volumes, and ovor 10,000 i mombers, roports & daily avornge for the yeor |+ endiug April, 1874, of 664 volumos. . Commenting upon {hose figures, Mr, Poola is ustified in saying : 1t will Lo seen from those tatistica that tho Chicogo Tubllc Library, with its collection not half completed, and witbout a printed catalogue, kas, in tho fivst twe months ufter its opening, taken rank, for itu elroulu~ tion, with the largest nnd most suceessful public . ; lbraries of tho country, Thia position, there In overy reaton to bullove, It will hold aud {mprove upon, ‘With no compating ibrary in the elty, snd with pop- wlatfon of weasly 600,000 lovking to it for rending, it * scema now Impoesible to Ax any limit to the use which will be mado of its books whon tho shelves aro fully * wupplied, Ttis truo that in Boston and . New York thers are othor Jibrarics from which the public diaw books, but, nevertheloss, tha figures of tho tirat nine weuks of our Library aro nono tho less os- tonishing. To & large portion of our population - tho Library fa still unknown, and the mode of ~‘procuring books not understood, Tho number of booke is 4o limited that many do not apply ‘undor & conviction thal they cannot geb what I they want, or that whon there is Lut o single ropy of o book the chances of getting it are small. What is noeded fs more hooke. Un- forlunately there is but a very small fund wyailablo for that purpose this yenr, bul thereis an admirablo opportuuity for thoso who havo the + mesps to endow the Institution with a liboral » sum to that end. Iad the Ohlcago Public . Library the menns of providing 50,000 volumos I/, tor cireulation, thoro Is no reason to doubt that It would in & very short time bave a registry of N 26,000 book-borrowors,—thoreby contributing ploasure, entortainment, avd instruction to as many fsmilies, tho largér number of whom have probably no other means of obtaining books at o REVISBION OF THE BIBLE, Tn the July uumber of the International Re- view, Prof. Goorge I'. Fisher, D.D., of tho Yalo Divity Bohool, comoes to tho dofono of the Ribl- Rovigion now fu progrosa in Ingland sud \oeriea against the quorulousnees of some of a0 Tore oonservative ohurches, Who necessity "1 the revision, Mr. Wishor whows, grows out of dangos that have ocourred In tho English angusgo einge the prosunt trauslation wau nade,~mistranslations of somo passages, inter- Valations proved beyond the posuibility of n oubt j¢o be spurious, lnfalicitles of oxproasion “Yhich leavo important passsges of doubtful ! esning whora the origlual {8 parfeatly plain, to, The most important Interpolation whioh ized, Blahor uoklovn ia tho lash sentence n the THE OLD PEOPLE'S HOME. On Wednesday, tho 8th iust., the White Stock- ings aud Franklins will plag o game of baso bull for tho beneflt of tho Old People’s Lome. This oxcollont institution (formerly tho Old Ladies 1lome) is now erccting a new bullding on Indi- ana avonuo uear Thirty-nivth strect, and Js, of coursg, in nced of ull the money that can Lo ob- taived. Itis hoped that the bonofit given to it by these two Clubs will be liborally patronized. There will bo au opon-air concert on tho samo ovening, attho samo place, for the benefit of the Ingtitution. “Pho O1d Poople’s Homo, as its name implies, 18 a rotroat for tho sged of both goxos who Lave 1o bowmos of thelr own, It is supportod by tho contributions of the chinritablo and by the offorts of afow individunals, whoso Jabors aro worthyol tlio highieat pralse. Whilo the public sympathios aro largely drawn out, and proporly eo, for tho orphans dnd the foundlinge, very fow givo their attontion to thoso who aro old and poor; and yot o lot cun call moro loudly for pity. Tho 01d Pooplos lomo ls, of courso, ablo to tako caro of only o small portion of thoso who have fallon {uto this distressful state; but to the ox- tent that it is ablo to provide for them, and to smooth tholr way to the tomb, it diminishes the suffering in the world, and desorvos to Le crowued with glory and konor. SUICIDE AND LIFE-INSURANCE. It is usuzl to fusort futo policies of life-insur- anco a clauso to the offect that, if the nesured shall dle “by his own hand," ete., tho policy shall bo voil and of no offect. It would scom, at firut sight, that this clauso would vitiato tho policiea of all swicidos; for suicides dio * by thelr own hwnd” In contomplation of law, however, thoy do not always dle by their own bond, nud, thorefore, oven when such o clause ls introduced, thoir policies are not nacessarily vord. When tho suicido waw, ol tho timo ho took big life, so ineane that ho was driven by an irresislivle impulso to commit the act, or that ho was incapable of exercis ing Dis ressoniog powers ss to iis real charnetor, goneral offcct, and consequonces, his policy is not void, and the partics for whose bouoflt lio ivsured his lifo may recovar, Buckis tho Jow, 88 laid down in n recont easo in the Circuit Court of the United Staten for tho Tast- em District of Michigon, by Judgo Lovgyoar, in his charge to the jury. Tho eult was brought by Lottie A. Moore, wifo of Lvercts W. Moore, Lo recover tho amouunt of a policy issued by the Couneeticat Mutual Life-Insurance Company on tho lifo of Lor hueband. It was not disputed that Mooro committed sulcide, Tho case turned on the question whether he conld technically bo said to have dicd by bis own hand, The Court sald that * die by his own hand” snd euicido mean, in goneral, the samo thing, and thet tho Courte had so held. Bub whut was necossary to constltuto suicido or felo de se? 'The putting an end to one's own oxistoucoe, by a party srrived ot yeors of disorotion nud in his sensas, oore took bis own life, and was of yoara of diserotion, But was lio in s sonses ? On tho decision of the Inst quostion tho whola cako should turn,—1. 6., on tho sanity or insanity of tho ussured at tho thne ho took hig life, Of courso tho sanity of the assurod was to bo pro- sumed until tho contrary wus shown; aud tho faot of sulcido s not ituolt ovidoncs of insanity. Nor will all insanity exeune the suleide, It must Lo of auch & dogroo as will mako the company liwblo, Anger, joalousy, shame, prido, dreud of exposure, fear of povorty, may be, In a senso, insanity; but euch fnsanity doos not oxempt & suicido from tho consoquencos of self-dostruce,| tion when the act was dono dellberately sud iu- teltigontly. In order thut ho muy be exempted thore must be meutsl disorder amounting to fuvanity; ond not till angor, jealousy, or tho dread ot poverty, hias induced suck o mantalstote do they excuse tho sulcido. Whon such o state of mind Las boen produced and wsufoide follows, tho act is not the party's volun- Lary, intelligent act, and ke doow not, teohnienlly upouking, dio by bis own hund, Em- berrasemonl fu business, drawing clocks with- out having.funds on which to draw, committiug forgories whon exposuro was imminent, distrers of miud arishug from thove and othor causcs, aro uat avidencey of that dograo of {usanity whicls wauld reuder the compuuy linblo, Huol causos do not incupacitate n mon fiom using & rational Judgment in regard to thenct of wolf-dostruotion, Phoy do not imply an insaue Impulso such sy the reaton might uot roeist, nor that his fuoulties woro #o impsired that ho could not nuderstand the moral charactor, the paturo and consequences of tho act is wan sbout te commit, Judgo Long- yoar wau of opinion that dofonuca to eulcido sro placed an the neme ground, 4o fad & the moral . oharactor of the act s concernod, aa dofonsen for murder. Tho dograo of insanity which ©oxousos murdor oxcuses aulclde, and makes it 1ot by ono’s own hand, Whou a party Is o in- 8ano that Lo eannot distinguish botweon right sud wrong he caunot be convieted of murder, nor sliould any consoquoncos of his suicide bo visited on his helrs or others olaimiug undar him. Under theso tnstructions tho jury found thnb Mooro wns Insano to such a dogreo as not to mako the act by which Lo took his lifo his own rational act, and they bLrought in a verdics for tho full amount of tho policy, with intorest. Tho substance of Judge Longyear's daolsion {a that o suicide docs not die by hlfs own hand whon lio is insane to such a dogree a8 would excuse Lim for taking tho tife of another ; that,in such cage, hia policy may ba recovored upon, but inno othar, BTOPPING THE LEAES, Tho now Becrotary of tho Treasury sooms to be devoting £ho summor vacation to business. ‘Whtlo the othor oficinls aro off to the watoring- places onjoying thoir offum cum dig., or propar- ing to go, Secrotary Dristow, liko a prudont, sonsiblo navigator, 18 dovoting the tme durlug which his Dopartmont is in dry dock to stopping up tho lonka mado by bia caroloss and atupld prodecessors. One vory largo loak was recontly stopped which will, of {teolf, stop a groatmany in future, Blortly aftor entering upon Lis dutiey, ho discovered that the Chiof of ono of bis Butosus was travoling In Furopo, Nothing romarkablo in that. The Chiof of a Burcau is Just ns frmly convincod ho ought to traval in Europe as a clorgyman fa. But when tho Beore- tary looked into the matter o littlo further, he found that bis subordinate was not ouly travel- ingin Buropo, but that his salary was going on, at tho rato of $5,000 por annum. This was comfortablo, Ho looked o little further, and found that his prodocessor had conjured up somo idenl worlk for tho Chief to do, by which 1o received £25 a day oxtrn in gold snd milosge. n other words, ho was allowed to go to Europo, draw his snlary, and bavo all his oxpouses paid, —a programme caleuluted to make Europoan tours very popular in tha Troagury Departmont, Secorolary Bristow, however, failed to ses the praprioty ar justica of such proccedings, sud stopped this Lok at onco by prompuly outting ol the remittanco and orderiug the tourist home again to sttend to his businoss sud enrn his salory. Tho constornation with which the tonr- it will recoive this order will only be equaled by the constornation which will seize other heads of Bureaus contemplatiug visits to the Alps and Roman ruins upon Treasury businees, Tha new Socretury Laving stopped up the large loake, hins also determined to clean out the Trans- vy atablos, ovidontly impressod with an fdes that o stablo attached to the Treasury Dopartmont is obout 68 necessery a8 a Bunday-sehool would bo. Acting upon this impression, he s ordored’ his Chief Clork to take his broom and go in and swoop out all tho landaulets and horses which tho young gentlemen at tho heuds of Burcaus have been accumulating thore, owing to the bad examplo set by the Attornoy-Gonoral with Lis laudaulet. This will occasion both woopiug and wailing among those who hiave boon koeping horaos and cursinges st Govornment oxponse, ond who will now have to fuot tho bills them- selves, or ride in the horss-cars like human beings who aro not Leads of Burosus, In all thoae dircctlons tho action of the Bocrelary Is Loth proper and commondable, aud tho people will bo glad to goe him kaep at it in future, even 1t it does vet give hirm timo to fuvent or enun- ciste o thoory of finauce, DBut thess ure, afler all, little leats, Thero is & groat leni fn tho Do- purtment which ho hes not yot closed up. It s & lorgo leak, & constant leak, a leal which the wholo public hns noticod, aud o leak with which the wholo public is inding fault, That lealk is Mullett. Why dou’t the Secrolacy stopit up? It 18 ono of tho most disgraceful and ruinous Jeakeln his Dopartment. When that louk is stopped it will be much easier to stop the littlo onea. THE KECK-JOHNSON CASE, Tho second trial of this cass fu tho mattor of 8nles of merehandigo undor contrnets eells for n buief resum of tho fucty aud provious proceed- ings in Cowtt, In Julv, 1872, J. L. Keck, of Cinciunatl, sold 2,000 Larrels of mess-pork to Johusou & Co. under an agreement which road o8 follows: Tought of J, L, Feck, of Cinelnnatt, 0., 2,000 bar- zeln of messrork, to bo oither Mekieehun & Evaus', Buinuel Davis, dr., Jocoph Ransom & Sous', or It Lcneford & Cos brands of Cluclunatt 3 dato af pack- ing and mumber of pieces (o be hrauded on tho head of .oach barrol witl atenel or brauding-iron; pork to e delivered ou cars at Cincinuati, O, in good mor- chantable slippivg_order, for which we agreo to pay 14,76 por Lurrel at Cineiunatt, O, J, Brooks Jousson & Co, 3, L. Kok, Cntoaao, July 26, 1873, ‘e above coutrsct guaranteed by ua an bebalt, of 3, Brooks Johnson & Co. I, L, & I\ B, JonnkoN, Ieck hind tho pork hauled to the railroad-do- pot, and delivered it to tho Rallrond Company; tho Compauy lssued its recolpts therefor s do- tivered in tho form known ag “dray-tickots,” Tho receipts wero in this form Reeeived of McKeehan & Evous, ot Olnolonati & Dayton Raflroad depot, fho fallowing urhicles in good order, to by forwarded vis Richnond to Chicagos Artlcles, 31 barrels wmcss-pork, 43 barrets mess-park, uarkod R, Beusford & Co., packers,” “hoso dulivorion wora on Aug, 8,0 and 10, 1872, On tho 10th (Saturday) sn aceonut of tho pur- chiago monoy was prosented to J, Brooks Johnson in Civclunatl, and payment demanded, tho rail- rond recoipta Leing tendered. Payment was refusod, Johnson enying that the pumber of plecos was not correotly branded on the barrols, and roqulring a guaranteo that thoy would count out right in Chicigo. On Monday the railrond receipts or dray-tickets were presonted to tho Toilroad Company by tho agents of Keck, and tho namoe of B. F. Murpby & Co. was insorted as consighoos in tho dray-Lickots, and billa of lading wero jssued to Keck, with B, F. Murphy & Co. named as consignees. In the meantimo the pork was on ita way to Chicago, arriving boro on Sat urday, Bunday and Monday, aud all cawme hore woy-billed to J. Brooks Johnson. The freight agent notifled Jolneon, and inquired what should bedone with the pork, Under Johuson's instrno- tions, given Monday morning, Aug. 12, It was dolivered at tho warohouso of Thorne & Co., and tho lattor lusued tholr werchnuse recaipts thore- for to J, Brooks Johngon & Co. 'Thexe roceipts, aubsoquently indorsed, were recoived In tho rog~ ular courso of Luslnoss by Young & Co, upon purchiases mado by thom of sevorsl lots of the vork in question. It wan not disputed thut Young & (o, were bona fide aud lunocent pur- chugers, for & falr consideration, In ordluary course of Luslness, xud without notloo of advareo clsim. Johuson hud tho pork ropacked by Thorne & Uo., snd the number of pioces robrauded upon each barrol, Al thin had boen done, and isspeo- tlon cortiftoatos wéra deliverod with tho waro- honke rocolpts to Young & Co, whon they pur- chosed tho pork, Afterall thin, and while the pork woa iu warobouso, Kook replovied the pork from Wiorne & Co, aud Jolinson, and Yonng & Co. brought aotion of raplavin againat the Shorift, making Thorne & Co. and Kock do- fendanta, On thotrlal of tho cose, undor the ruling of the Court, the Jury rendered & vordlot for Xock. Young & Co. took tho onso to tha Bupromo Court. 'I'he Supreme Court raversod the deciefon, lioldlng that tho facts amonnted 1o a dolivery of tho pork to Johneon iu Cincin- nat, under tho contract, 8o far as to bring tho eago within tho woll-gettled rule thnt s dolivery of parsonal proporty under a contract of salo by an unpaid vendor to the vondeo pasues titlo so far that an innocent purchasor will ba protestod, irrospoctivo of tho contraot or the intontion of tho partioa, Tho yeoond trial {ook placo Jast wook, before Judge Jamoson, who, in s strongly-stated raviow of tha faots, gave judgment for plaiutifr, his reasoning covering tho same goneral views oxpresaed by the Bupreme Court, The two poluts maintatned were that {hore was o dotivery at Cinclunali in contemplation of the rulo as- wertod Dy tho Supreme Court, sod that Kock & Co., at any timo from Saturday to Monday noon, by telegraph, or oven by lotter, could have ar- restod tho delivery of tho pork to Johnson & Co, Instond of this, thoy walted a waok, in which Limo thoso purchavers, without notice of adverae claim, purchagod, in good faith aud for s valu- ablo considoration, the propert; JAMES BUCHANAN, J, 8. BLACK, AND E. M, BTANTON, e A wrilor 1n the New York Sun publishos a narrativo throwing some light upon the history of tho last threo months of the Adminlstration of Jamos Buchanan, Much of thia history haa bithorto been socrot, and neatly sll the actors aro dead; among thom, Buckanan, Cobb, Floyd, Caas, Toucoy, Btanton, and P. F. Thomas, of bis Cabinot. J, 8. Black, Thowpson of Misafs- sippl, Gon, Dix, and Judgo Holt stll survivo. ‘When Coperess mot, Decomber, 1860, thore was oan undofiued Impression that mattors could bo sottled sud war avoidod. Mr, Lincoln hnd so Loped, £ not Intimated ; and Congross promptly voted down all billa looking to war, and all bills tonferring additlounl powors upou tho Prosidont, to bo uded in an omergonoy, President Bu« «chanan had peculisr notions about ** coercion.” While Lo bolioved the Geuoral Government had power to anppress revolls and lusurrections, sud that uo Stale could withdraw from tha Union, ho drow u distinction botween such & revolt and the unanimous revolution of the poople of 'a Btote; Lo theroforo sbrank from the idea of makiug war upon a Stato, or ** coorolng o Stats,"” a8 jt was thon calted. Ho ombodied theso views in his Aunus! Mossago, and, whon it was rond to tho Cabluot, Mr. Cobb aud Ar. Thompson dla~ sented, beoauso it doniod the right of socession. Cass objeoted that tho denlal of the xight of Congress to declaro war against u Btato was not strong enough. Mr. Floyd was loud aud vo- Lemont ou tho sido of the Union, and Toucoy and Black agrood with the Prosident. Ou tho 28th of Docombor three poraons, repra- sonting themsolvos as ** Commissloners of South Caroliua,"uddressed tho Prcsident, offoring to ex- hiblt their crodontials, and proposing to troat with the “Government of the United States.” Whila those Commissioners wero on thoir way to Washington, Moj. Avderson bad, under s plain order, vemoved bis small force from Fort Moul- tle to Tort Bumter, and the Commissionors throatoned to suspend negotiutions until Auder- son's proceedings should Lo eatisfactorily ex- plained. At this date tho Calinet bad beon changed. Cobb lad resignad, sud Thomes had boen mado Secrotary of the Treasury. Casshad rosigned, and Dlack bnd been transforred from tho Attornoy-Genoral's offico fo the State Dupart- mout, Edwin M. Stanton lhad been made At- toruoy-Genoral. Toucoy was in tho Nuvy, snd Tloyd in the War Dopartmont, ond Hoit way Postmastor-Gonoral. Tho prococdings of An- derson, and the reply to be mado to the Commis- slanerd, wera digeussod in Cabtuet till tho morn- fugof tha 8lst, Black dofduded Anderson, sud ingisted upon the productlon of tho order by whicl that ofiicer was suthorized, in his disore~ tion, to chauge his forco from one fort to an- othor. Tloyd insiuied that all the troops should bo withdrawn from Obarleston harbor; but he re- caivod uo countenanco. On tho 24d of Decem- ber ne had beon notifled to resign, but did not do sountil atter this affulr, which be used aa & pretext for doing 8o, ZLate on Baturday, Dec. 29, the President Inid efora tho Cubinotn copy of the roply ke proposed to make to tho South Carolina Com- misslonars, Ono member of tho Oabinot, ‘Coucey, opposed it. Thompson opposed b bocauso {t was t0o hoslils to the olaim of South Carolina ; tho othors allopposed it. Action was postponed. On Buuday, tho S0th, Black informed Holt, Toucey, sud Btanton that Lo cousidered the Drosidont au fixed in his purpose, sud, thorofore, bo (Biack) would rosigu, This, coming to Bu- chanan's ears, ho seat for Blaak, Tlia rosult waa that Bluck was roquosted to pul in writing hiy viows, which ho did at once, in Stanton's offico and prosonce, As this dooument is of historical valuo In izselt, snd exposes tho weaknoss into which tho Prosidout bad fallen, it is hors repro- duced Heworandum Sor the Prestent on the sublect of the paper draicn up by it {n veply (o the Commiseioners @’ Suuth Carolin : 1, Tho first and tho concluding pavagrapli both spem 10 uckimowledye thy right of Houth Carolina (o Lo rep- rosented nour this Qovernmout by diplomatio oflcers, Tt fmpllos thit shio {anindogondent watlon, with uo othier relutions to the Guyernmont of tho Unlou thay wny othor forelgn Power, 1f such be tho fuct, thon sk bus acquired all the rights, powers, sud rospousl- Uilities of . soparate Govuruniout by the mers ovdis Danco of sucession whicl passod Lier Convention & faw days ago, But tho Presidout kns always, and partivu~ tavly 1s s luto message Lo Cougress, dented o Tight of eecesston, snd nsserted that uo Blat could throw oft hier Foderal obligattons in that wuy, Morover, tho Prosident haa ulso vory dlstivotly doclared tiut, oven §f & 8tat could sucoda and go out of the Union at pleass ure, whotlior by rovolution oF in th oxerciya of a cod- atitutional vight; o coutd uot rucognize lar tudepends euce without betng gailty of wauspation, I ebink, thorofore, that overy word sud seuteuco which lmply that Bouth Caraling s 1n 80 attiudu which euables tho President to ¢ troat " or negotiste with b, or to To- colvo hor Commiesioners in the chiuraoter of Diplo- matlo Miufsters or agonts, ouglat to bostrioken out and au oxpliclt docluration wubatituted which would re- ausert tha principles of the mossuge, It s suroly nob enough (hut (e wordy of tho micssnge bo transcribed it tho doctrluo thoro snuouucod Lo prastically wbaue Qouod by carrying on b uegotiution, 2. T would strike out all vxpressions of yogret that the Gominissfonurs sro unwilliug to proceed with tho negatiatious, sluco it lu very cloar that thore can be uo uogotiation with them, whethor thoy are wiling or ooty 4, Abovo all thiugw, it fs abjoctlonable to fntimate & willluguess tu negotists with the State of Souths Caro- liun aboat the posscsion of w milltary post which Lo~ longs to the United Btatus, or tu proposd any adjuast mont of the wublost or auy srrangeicnt wbout it, The forty 1 Oierluaton Lrbor belongto this Goverument— aro ity own, sud canuot s glven up, 1t lutiuo they nught bo wurrendocad to & suporior forco, whotlior that forco Lo in tho worvice of & socoding Slato of u forelgn uation, Bt Fort Bumter bs mproguablo, uud cannob ba tuken if dofonded a6 3¢ should Le, 1t v thing of tha st lmpartauce that 1t sbiould bo tauiu- taiued 17 all tho powor of thiv uation cun do {t, for the comiand of the hurbor sud the Prestdouts ability to wx0culo tho rovouue Laws may depoud ou 1t, 4, ‘Tho wons “ cooroing » Blate by force of arms to romaln 1u tho onfuduray—b powar which I do uat be- Loy thie Cou skitutivs bas ocufescsd e Oungreas,” TR OHIGAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1874, ought esrlafnly not bo rotained, Thoy sre 00 vagus, and might havo tho effect (which T am stiro the Pres- tdeut dues not fntond) to mislond tha Commissionera concerning hts sentimenta, Tiio powar to dafond the publlo proporty—to resiat an asssiling forco whicl un- Inwfully aitompta to drive out the troopaof tho United Biates from ono of tho fortifieattons, and to uro mili~ taty and naval forcen for tho yurpose of atdlug the propor officera of tho United Biates fn the exccution of (1 lawn—this; us far ny 16 goow, I4 coereion, aud may very woll bo called “caercing n tate by force of arms to remain {n the Unfun,” 'Tho President hina alwagn assorlod bl right of cooreon to that oxtent, 1o mroly doutea tha right of Congrees Lo mako offouslyo war upon a Slate of the Union, s aucls might be made upon n forolgn Goverument, . 8, Tho fmplicd assont of tho Prestdent to tho aceuns ton which the Commisslonors muke of a compact with Bouth Caroling, by which he was bound not to tako whatover mossures Lo snw fit for tha defonsa of tho forts, ought to ba slricken outand s flat douinl of auy such borgain, pledge, or agrecment, inscrted, Tho paper slgned by tho Jato membera of Congress from Bouth Carolina does not bear any such coustruction, and thin, ta Tnaderstand, fa thoonly transaction bee tweon Soutls Corolina and him which bears upon the aubjoct elflior directly or indirectly, I think it deaply concerus {ho Presidonts roputation that be should contradiot thla statement, siuco It it b undeniod it Duts bim in the attitudo of an cxeentivo ollicor who volutarlly disarma himeclf of tio power ta posform Iis duty, ond ties up bis bonds so that he cauuot, witliont breaking Lis word, prescrve, prolect, aud defend tho Constitution, and keo tho laws faithfally ox- couted. The fact that ho plodged bimaolf in any, such woy catnot e trug, Tho Commissionors, Do doubt, Liave beon 40 Juformed, Dut thoro st b sume mis take about it, Tt arouo doubtloss out of the Prestdent’s anxious and laudablo desiro to avold civil war, aud bis ofton oxpresscd.detormination not oven to furnisl su excuso for nn outbroak at Cbnrleston by rolnforcing 1a), Andorson unioss It was absolutely Rucessury, 0, Tho remotest expression of o doubt about Maj, Auderaon’s perfect, 1opricty of behavior should bo carefully avofded, Ho i not meraly a gallunt und mer- Mtorlous oticer who I outtiled to 8 thix hearfug boforo Lo ds condemued, o bias suved tho country, Lsolomnly beliove, whien i(a day was darkeat and its porils moa extreme, Ho has dono eversthing that mortal mun could do to repulr tho fatal crror rbich tho Adminls~ tration Lavo committed fu not sending down troops enough to hold all tho forté, HoLus kept the strougust ono, o athl) commands the herbor, Wo many atil excouto tho laws §f wo try, Besldes, thero fa nothing #1s tho ordors which wora sent to him by tho War De- portment which 18 {n tho slightest degreo contruvouod Ly lla act of throwing Lis command futo Fort Sumter. Even if tiose ordern, sent without your knowledye, did forbid him 10 leavo u placo whiuro his teu wight. have perislied, and shelter thom undor a atrouger position, we auglit all of u to refoica that ko broko auch orderr, It is practieally a prohibitory Inw, novertholesa ; and, at thosame timo, It confors upon women the virtual exorcive of suffrago in rogard to the llquor queation, though they aroe still denled the right tovote on othor quostions. Tho law Is, thorofore, as much a concosslon to the principle of fomnle euffrago ad it {a to tomperance roform. e — SHALL WE HAVE A MUSIOAL FESTIVAL? It will bo a ploasaat announcement to lovera of muslo in this clty that thoro I8 a prospoot of & great musleal fostival i Chicago next spring, A mooting of dologates from tho prominent mu- slcal Bocioties will bo kield at tho Borman House on Thuraday ovening of this wack tocanvass the prospeots for such o fostival, and, of it ts conntd- eored practicable, to arrango the detolls. Even should tho festival not be upon as largo n cale g thoso which bave Litherto boen givon in Bos- ton, Now York, and Cinoiunati, we Lopo that the commnittoos Wil docido upon some programmo of arrangements which will sesure o musfeal suo- coss. A lnrgo and successful festival hore nuxt epring will do » gigantio work for tho cause of muslo o Chicugo. The featlyal hald in Cincionatt & yonr ago bhns boon of incaloulable bonellt to that olty from & mustosl poiny of view. As to tho material, thero nood bo wo apprehonsions. If the proper Inducemonts aro brought to bear, from 600 to 800 Rood voicos ean bo muatorod In Cilcago alono, and, if neces- 801y, 200 moro can bo found iu tho suburban towns, Thie will moke s chorus eufllciently Inrgo for any purpose, or for any building we bhave in the clty. Eight hundred voices, indoed. aro amplo for the aceasion, and the nuclous of an orcliostra suliclont for thia number of volee may also bo hod hero, Whether this material can bo utilized doponds upon the musiclans, and tho luorality aud tho local pride of our citizens, Tho singers and playora must muke up thowr minds to onduro & grost desl of hard work, andslok all jenlousies and detire for precedonce, or tho profest might as woll bo abandoned at ouco, It canuot succeed unless every one I willing to go into the rank and fllo, and serva 7. Tho ides that o wroug was committed ogulue: South Carolina by moving from Fort sloultrio to Fors Bumtor ouglit to bo repolled & frmly na may bo con- sistent with a proper respect for tho Ligh cuaractor ¢ (he gentlomen who composa tlio Sauth Caroltug Com. wission, Itds a strango assumption of rightou the part of thut Btato o sny that our United Btates trooys muat remndn fu tho weakest position thoy can find in 1o Liarbor. Tt 1a ot o meuncu of Bouth Carolina o of Charleston, or uny menaceat all, It (x atuplo solf-de- fenso, It Bouth Carolina does not stlack Maf, Ander- son, nohumun Lelng will boinjured ; for thura cortain. Jy cau bo no reszon to believe thut ho will comnenco houtilitles, Tho apparent objcction 1o bis buing in Fort Bumter 18 tlat ho will bo Jeau Nkely Lo full an cavy prey tohis ausatiauts, “Ihose aro the polnta on which T would advise that the puper bo aimended. Ium aware thut thuy ure too radicul o permit much hopo of thelr udoption, It thoy aro adopted the wholo paper will need to bo so- cast, But thezo u oue thing uot o b overivoked in thla torrible crisis, T onfreat tho President to order the Brooklyn aud the Macedonjuy to Charicston withe out thie luast deluy, and u the meantime sond & trusty messenger to Mu), Anderuon to 1ot him know that bis Govornment will not desort him, The reluforcoment ot trooys from New Yotk or Old Point Comfort shoutd follow mumediately, If this bo dono at ouco all muy yot bo nat well, but consyaratively safs, 1f not, X cun seo nofbing before us but disuster and ruin to tho country. Thess * abservations” wero fully approved by Mr. Stanton and by Judgo Holt. Stanton would avo rosigned with Black, if tho President Diad not changod. Upon Floyd's resignation, fol- lowed by that of Thomas and Thompson, Holt was transferrod to tho War Dopattment, and tho Calyinet cansisted of Black, Dix, Lolt, Toucoy, Stanton, oud King. Theso continued in porfoct harmouny to the end. TEMPERANCE V8, WOMAN'S RIGHTS, The temporauce roformors at the North may not bo awure thnt, iu some respocts, they would probably consider the lsws of Misaiseippi far fv advanco of thoso of any othor State in the Union, 1In 1871 the Legislature passed a temperance law modoled on the plan of the Illinois law. The sollor of liquor was mada responsible to tho wife and children of his customer for all the damage thst might aceruo to them from the oifocts of it. At the last session of the Logislature an amend- mont was ndopted, by which It was mado prece- dent to tho granting of o license to sell liquor that a pudtion for it signod by a majority of the men over 21 and of the women ovor 18 years of sgo should bo prescnted to the propor oflicors, Thst our resdors may understand tho oxact provisions of tho law, wo copy it in full Lo it enacted by the Lepistalure of the State of Mis- aisaippr, That Hoc, 2,459 of tho Revised Codo of 1871 be unit tho samo fs hereby 80 amended that hereafier 1u all casos of applicatious for liceusoto retull vinous or spirituaus liquors, or for tlse renowal of such lceuso, 10 aich licenso uhull be grantod or ronewed uniess the polition therefor shull be sigued in tho gennine siguas tures, or atteatad fu tho gounine murks of the yetition- ere, 18 tho caso oy Le, of & wafority of tho mals clii~ 2zens over 21 years of ago, aud & majority of the femalo citizens over 18 yeurn of age, resident of the Supes visor's distilel, or of the fucorporated clty or town where such liquors aro to besold, aud ali such pe- titious, after beiug preseutod and led, slull lay over one moutl for conslderution, and tho reception of connter-petitions, Leforo ' bolug scied upon, and auy nome3 of eltlier 1nuo or fouula petitioners fouud o botls potitions shall be counted agalnst the grunting or renuwal of such lcensy; sud it any Supervisor’s dis triot or uny incorporuted town or city shall, by & ma- Jorlty of such wmalo cltizeus over 21 years of age, and Zemulo cittzous {resldculs) over 18 years of ugo, lving within thie linits of such Bupervlsor's district or such ingorporated elty or town, polftion agajust the gront~ 4y or renowat of such licensc, it sball not b grauted or renewed to uny applicaut withiu tho bonuds or bm- it of such Incorporatod city or fown, or withln the lmits of such Buperview’s district, for iwo yests aftor such petition 1 80 greseuted, 8E0, 2, Lis it furtiicr enucted, That any Mayor, munio- ipul otiicer, oF Clerk of tho Boned of Muyor uud Alier- ‘men of auy Incorporufed toww or clty, or any mewmber of any Buurds of Buporvisors, o tho Clerks of such Boards, or any othur parsou, olther soverally, or Jolutly With uny other person, who shall fssnn or Touow any lcense to refadl viuous o epixiiuous lquors, or causy tho #a1no o be dono in violation of ths Urst eoction of this aet, slallbo Uablo to ludictmont therefur, uud upon conviction shull by fined in uny sum not less thun $100 nor woro tian $1,000; aud du sddition to ‘such fine shall bo dmprisoned {n the county Jufl not less thon one month nor more thuu six months, Beo, 3, Lia it further enucted, That all acts and parta of ucta i conillot with the proylsions of thia ct bo and the samo uro Liereby repesied, nnd that this sot take effect upon its passago, Approved April 6, 1674, Col, Allen P, Ifuggine, of Aberdeen, Miss., writes that very fow, if any, licouses have boen granted in that Btato since tho passuge of the law. In ovory caso whero it is proposed to liconae, the womon at onco rally to tho rescuo, and dofeat tho liconss by an averwholming ma- Jority, This {s & now and very significant dovolop- meont of the dootriue of woman's righis. 1t Is olaimod thsat they are tho largost, and certaluly tho most ivnocont, sufforors by Iutomperauce, aod this fa tho firat thmo, 80 far b8 we know, that they have Lad an opportuuity to malko thoir influence (in & logal way) folt in tho supprossion of tha trafiio in jutoxicating drinks, As the law wes passed In Apil), It is probably too soon to form®an oplnion as to its practioal workings, or whothor it is likely to en. tiroly suppress tho evlls lis designod to romedy, Dut ay It haa its bauls in the sentiment of each community, it can probably be rondered more offective than any othoer problbitury lquor law thiat bay ever been dovised In any of the Biato and work there as {f the whole fostival dependad upon him alone. The Cinciumati chorus was compogod not ouly of the boest musical talont of that city, but aleo of tho leading ladies of its socloty, and they worked with s will, day snd night, upon thelr tasks, without any otlior ob. Joct In viow than enccossfil choral-singing, It this shall bo tho rulo Lore, ona groat elemant of success 8 nssured beforehoud. Much of tho success. of "tho festival will slso do- pond upon the liberality of our citizens in rogard to the finavcisl risks of tho un- dertaking. If, howover, the musloians can furnish flzst-class collntorals on their part, wo liave not tho slightest doubt tbat our woalthy citizens and business men will indorso thoir papor, As to tho conductorship of the festival, tho committoss cannob be oo carotul. Au incompetont man may rutn {ho best-lald plans and tho boartiest offorts of thosa ongagod. Wo beliove, howaver, that it those who bave charge of the proliminaries are prudent and sensible in arranging them, sud if thoss who talie part in {he fostival are nctuated gololy by the dotormina- tion to succeed, the festival will bo = groat suc- cese, and & crodit to tho city. Chicago has not haa au important musical festival since tho last Swongortest six or eight yoars ago. I we go into 1t now let us not undorrate the work, nor ,commmenco too Jate, ENGLAND'S DECLINE. Tu & formwor asticle wo reviewed Mr, W.R. Grog'a viows on tho firet national danger threat- oning England, viz.: tho political supromaoy of the laboring classos, In the presont article wo intond to tuke o brief survoy of his thoughts on the secoud national davger, 28 given in tho Con- temporary Review for Juno. Tho secoud dangor, or“*rock ahead,” Mr. Greg considers to be: Tho approaching industrial oxhuustion, or uceline, of Groat Brituin. Threa ndvavtages thore aro which have given Great Britnin ite meuvufecturing supromacy, ' and enabled it to produce what overy country in the world wants botter, apd cheapor, and moro sbundantly than any othor country. These sro: 1. Abundent con} nud iron, both chenp and in proximity. 9, The dofatigable lndustry and excellont workmanship—i. e, the blended skill and in- dustry—ol hor artisans, 8. ler enormous smount of capital, In all these pointa Mr. Greg shows thnt England is losing tier rolative, sud, fn some rospects, hor positive, supromucy. England's coal 18 In prooess of oxhaustion; her irom, of courso, follows sult. English workmen labor fower hours, with less steadiness and coneclon- tiousness, than they wero wont to, Yoralgn skillod lubor and forelgn ontorpriso ara improv- ing, as compared with England's. The cost of production of articles of English munufacturo is, thorofora, inoreasing. It j8 lncreasing both a5 compared with what it hog boen In England and what it is Lo other countties. Tho prosout congumption of coal in England {8 about 120,000,000 tona yoarly, which, dedust- ing tho amount axported, leavos 108,000,000 tona consumed fn tho countey teelf. At thistats tho total resdsve of conl {u Groat Britain would bo oxhausted in’ 1,200 years. Tho quantity of coal existing in Anown English coal-folds is 00,000 million tons, This includes all that exists down to & dopth of 4,000 foot; snd It is not yot domonstrated that shafts deepor than 8,000 feot can Lo worked. Bhould the manufacturing productivences of England continue to advanco at the sawo rate as hitherto, ita aunust cousumption of coal, fnstesd of ro- mainivg at its prosent guro (120,000,000 tons), would be twice, thrice, or four times that nmount, and the available conl-flolds of Great Dritaln would be worked up Iu 630, 860, or evon in 100 yoars, Still, the question {8 not how soon will English coal ba worled out, but how soon her cheap coul will bo worked out; not how muoh conl she may raise, but how wmuch it will pay toraiso, England Is now working ber rich- est ond most onsily-nccossible volus as the vhatts go deopor the cost of working will fo- croaso, 1. 8,, the oost of produciug the coal ; or, in otlior words, ita natural price will Incrorso, Oheap coal {8 indisponsable to England’s productives noss § but cheap cosl cannot loug bo ssoured, sinco overy year it bLocomos necessary to dive deoper and doopor Into the bowels of the earils for it, aud, therofore, to pay highor wages to obtamn it. Itis, of course, within the power of tho pooplo to coonomiso the usa of fual, #o as to lowor tho prico, but then it is made a quostion whothor that igurn would atlow suficient wages to men, or adoquate profity to mastors, But, no mattor how the evil day may ba postponed, Mr, Qroga shows that it connot Le averted, England 1s moviug towards it as suroly 2a fate, Tor sup- ply of coal ls not inexhiaustible, snd ita produo. tion must become more sostly all thie tlme, Dut Eugland ia nob only exhiauating Ler con) supply ) s vluracter of e Latkivk labuser o dotorlorating. Byhls charncter, 3r. Greg menng bis ofliclonoy and consciontiousncss, In times past tho quality of English labor could ba ralled on, sud its willing and porsaveriog enorgy hiad no oqual. But thie is no louger the case or, ab least, it {8 fast ceasing to bo true of Britlsh Inbor. Tho chlef aim of tho operatives fn many deportmonts of industry fa to work as short hours ns they cam, and to doas little In thoso hours as posaible, In factorion tho hours have beon out down from sovonty-two hroura 8 weok to fifty-four, aud the demand for an elght-hour law is geworal, Mr. Grog doas nat take any atock in the argument that a roduction in tho hours of labor docu not Inyolvo, as a rulo, s corresponding diminution in the produce of labor, In tho caso,whoro mae chinery s the roal Isborer, aud man only directs 1t, tho absurdity of this assortion s apparont, With the diminished productivencss of labor comos, of courso, tho cahancod cost of tho artl- clo produced, and, with an increnso In the cosb of production in Eugland, aa comparod with what it haa beon, England’s Induatria) decline, “Trados-uniona hiunder men from putting forth thelr full atrongth and skill, discourage place- work, ondenvor to ouforco & uniform rato of wages without any rogard to the capacity of the worker or the quality of big work. Worse stll aro the etrikos in which the great clements of productivo Industry—Ilsbor and capilal— allke llo idlo, The consequenco of the Inorosse of the cost of production in England will bo to givo tho advautage to other countries In the markets of tho world,—counirles whlch can ralse coal aschenply as England, and whoro the doposlts aro immonsurably groater. Mr. Grogs argumenta ato unanswersblo, They prove bee youd & doubt thet Englsnd's industrial supremae oy must congo at aomo futuro date, and that the mout Evglish statesman can do ia to retacd the erisly, and to mitigato its ovil when it comes, et An American gentloman, in a racont conversa tiou with Richnrd Wagner, exprossed to the greal composer his rogrots that the DBaireuth Feytival sbould have Leen postponed to 1876, tho dato of the United Statoa Couteunial, Wag- ner roplied that thote woro but few Amoricans ~hom Le should oxpeet to attond his porform- ances, Thero is n tinge of bittorooss in tho re- murk, and porbaps & bu)f insinuation thal Amere lcans are unsble to appreciste his operss, Auworlcans havo had very few opportunitios of healing his works, only *Lohengrin® and £+ Taynhauser ' having beon dono in this couna try, and, with ono exception, dona very paorly. The fragments of biy oporas performed by tho Thomay Orchostrs, howaver, Lave boen given with consummate oxcollenco, nud liave boen ap- prociated. Wagner could baraty doslto strongor friends than bo hus fu this country among the musicisny, or & moro zealons advocate than r, Thowss; but to expeot that Amorians will truvel sovoral thousand milew, at an oxponso of sovoral thousand dollurs, to hear a throo days’ performanca of opora, {8 expecting a httls tos much. At tho samo timo, thero {4 na want of admiration for the enthusiasm and iron deters mination of this old mun, who bas spont his whole Lifo in o war with Lie world, Princo Bismarck cannot bo recusad of partinlity in dealing with recusunt thuologians, o hos now sent the distiguisbed Prof. Ieinrich Ewald, a Protestsut, to keop compaty with the Cathiolic Archblshops, Prof, Ewald hns probably the greatest living namo In Gennun theology. His *Ristory of Istal,” which has fust boen transloled into English, bas long boen kuown to scholars, Eo {8 au uld and very outspokon man, 1u 1887 ho was ono of the famous soves profes- sors who Ioft the University of Goottongon as o prolest ngainet the arbitrary abolition of tho Hauovetian Constitution, 1fo has novor censed to protess agalnktthio absarption of Hanover into tbo dominions of Prussia. In arecont maga- zine-articlo Lo likoned Blsmarck to Napoleon IIL, io that “ho plcked out the beat possibla timo Ior robbory and plunder.” For using this langungo the old man haa boon sent to prison, White sush o course is a disgrace to the Govorn= ment, and puts Bismarck in the position of & man who s afiaid of a phruse, nevertholees it soema a8 1f jt'would have boon the part of prudence for tho Profossor to lot politics alono aud stick to theology. Gen, Spinner Inst wesk received from Chicago » commuuication signed “Borrow," aud inclos~ {ng 43 conty, the writer stating that he owes tho Goverumout that much, We sre glad to bo sble to record this romarkable lustauco of tho work- inge of cousclouco, A man whose conscicnce will goad aud worry Lim about 48 couts, and at lust compol him to restore it to its rightful ownor, 18 8 rara avis. There bas never bren suoh a case of conscionca known bofore, which only goow o show that Clucago is abead onve wore, —— MISCELLANEOUS' ITEMS. The Rocky Mountain Iierald, ot Donver, Col,, Low boen oularged aud fmptoved, and will heroa after publish & 1ogular woekly ' supplomont of fourteen columns. It nnuouncos that “*it will not be the peck-mule of citbor party, but the fres und feariess organ of the peopls, eparing no eatlye on corsupt Finge, yet glving tio dovis bis due,” —One of Darwin's missing links hes boon found at Elkader, Ia., in tho porson of a youth arho, when stauding orect, **can piace tho palus of Lis Lands tai on the ground," —An lowa paper predicts thatio five years overy barrel of Weatern flour will be sout Ened in barrels of paper, wade from the straw the wheet grew on. —Mins Lavinia Goodell, lately conneoted with Harper's Lax Loy boeu admitted to the Bax ud & practiciug attornoy st Junosvillo, Wis. aftor passiug & very croditable examination. ~—The tomb of Holoive and Abulard, in the catnatary of Pero-la-Chuivo, is about to to ree piivad. It was conatinctod fifty yoara ago by M. Leuoir, aud is in a deplorable stato of dilapidse tlon, Tho romuius of the two lovers bad been six timew moved bolore that time, ‘—Cuuan Kiugeley's foats 1 podestrianism have astonished the citizons of Donver, Col. Lho News of that place says of i : ¥ Siuce bo bo~ a0 to recover frow his rocont 1lluces, which ate tacued Lim fust #8 ho reachod Lionver, he has spent five or wix houra daily at Manitou in the most oxclting and futigning ramblos around the foot of Piko's Peak, slways accompaniod by hig laughtor.” ; -)buu of the Athol (ass.) schoolma’ms, says the local paper, adupls & novol modo of pu: 5 went, Otfenders of ofther sex and all agos wre compollod to lle down fiat on tho floor, face downwayd, with anws stretchod out at right augles to the body, ‘Tho victims are not nl- lowed to glunce midowsys, even far a moment, and “ nosing " the floor forms their only oceu= pation, And this sohool It one of the bent man- aged in the whole town, it ndds, ‘—fol. Rice, of the United Hiates Army, who tnvouted the trowel-bnyouet, hag juat cowmptated, iv connection with two otior gonctamon, w littlo applisnce for stacking arws, wuioh has mos with wiich upproval from militury won. —Au Luglsh writor reparts that divera rosls donts at Glm\n‘ld%n Univorsity have boon make iug exporiouts with a slogularly inappropriata gort of food, Bo far from wharing Mius Letsey Trotwood's prejudice againat donkeys, they have diuovarad thouo. amiabio animalu £0" bo_ overye thing an epicure could dosire, Thelr vordict that ronst donkey loows up lottily evan abovo beof ; that thore 18 a slight suggestion of vous 1mou about it, aud that the undercut fs sfmply suporb, _Al:ogother ho iw prouonnced dollciout. —Jucob lulsted, of Trouton, luv‘!wlml to ba the oldest man in_ stishigan, diod Juse 20, He was 107 yaard and 8 months old, Alr. Hulted's hoalth dld u&t begin to fail until quite rocoutly, Ho took hus st trlp on_ the cara sbout ivo mouths ago, going from Tronton to Dutrowt for tha purpose of nbtl'lulng » ponslon, e being » votoran of the War of 1812, —A now air-machine wnnlllolv&ut into opers. tion in tho British Ilousa of Cummous, By mouns of thls apparatus & cunstant supply of alr, woolad to any required degroo, evel ‘o ths waraeat weatlior, can be suppliod at tha rate of from 60,000 to 00,000 gallows "por mlunte. The louse coutains about 100,000 gallons of air, ve St wlion (he wyaratin {n wotklug at fle usxi mum, 1L Is posailide to renuw ke ale withoud wonuble Qendh wyesy bad LUK,