Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1874, Page 2

2 "EPICENE EDUCATION. Zndeavors to Make Its Success Less Doubtful, Tarnost Doliborations 1o This End of tho Detroit Conventions Prof, Orton Explodns the Vassar ol- lege System, Prof. Hosmer, of Migsouri, Speaks of Praotical Coeducation, Dr. Clarke's Address onthe Brain and Sex. It |s Another Blow, Oruelly Hard, at Woman’s Equality. G-rnduating Exercises of tho Woman's Department at Oberlin, NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CONVEN- TION. Special Dizpateh to The Chicago Tribune. THE NATIONAL UNIVERBITY HCHEME, Dernorr, Mioh., Aug, 6.—1To-iny's soasion of tho Educntional Convention commenced with 1o continuation of tho dincussion of President White’s papor of yostordny, Mr. Ilnmmond, of Alngeachusoits, opposed the National Untversity soheno, while Prosident Wallaeo, of Montmouth Collego, inois, austatued the viows of Yryosi- dont White. Trosident nys, of Jefforson Colloge, Tonn- sylvonia, bolieved that o Nationsl University would bo also & fitting hoad of tho Amorican publiv school system. Tyevident Whito, of Cornell, closed the discus- sion in nshort aund spirited speech, fu which, aftor disclaiming sundry attacks on spocial iu- stitutions imputod to bim, lo doclared that the eyetom ot emall and donomiuntionul oulloges was & bad one, and omght to bo abandoned for large univorsitics. U'rmo uni- voruity education caunot bo abtained at theso colleges, It uoludes far more than thoy can give, ond univensity oduoation 13 becoming ea- sentinl to success in tho compotition of the higher walks of 1ifo 5 that education must now iucludo claborato training for success in scientiflo and industrial pursuits, ss well s oxcellenco in clagsienl education, In concluding, he dwelt up- on thi Jast polut at lengty, and urged that all leading institutions should rmsms well-oquipped iudustrisl departmonts. ‘Tho judustrinl pursmits aro thus put un an oquality with the learued vrofessions, aud all classen of citizens will moio willingly contyibute to the guppors of such uni- versitica, 5 OUR BOMOOL AYSTE. Goo. Johu Xaton, Supenatoudont of the Nutional Bureau of Education, was thou latro- itced, sud spoke briotly upon Ameviea's high stauding on tho purt of its Lational educationnt i vests, mmw!lfll. CLARKE ON BRAIN AND SEX. The follewlng is_pu austract of the addrens delivered by Dr. Edward 1L Clarko, the woll- lipown suthor of * Sex in Eduention,” on **'Iho Building ot u Brain TWO DUTIES sre fmposed upon our civilization, Two problems are presented to our educators, Cho duties nre, Arst, to Becuro (e perpotuntion of tho ruce in Amerlen § und, seconily, to provide for the survival of the fittest here alwp, The problems ure, frst, to dovelop the judi- widual to the highest degree; and, secondly, to obtain this development without interforing witk the per- pelu.tion of the best. In other words, humanily de- Inands, nud our education wust give, Lotk the highest development of the imdividual, sud the perpetuntion of {l flitest, 1thos been argned with much ap parent force that these two resnlis are jmpossible, becanso the Lighest cerebral development, Lelug made at the espeuro of tho rest of ' tho ocganization, pierilizes tho individusls whoso braus attain such supposed magufivent proportion nnd quality, Tis 8 uot tho placey nor doen it fall within tho eeops of thifs pager, to polut out thio failacy of such o stute- uent, It s referred toonly for the purpose of caliing on to pbyslologlcal ervor thint hus alrendy beor fted nto onr system of education, and which ex- iutiuenco fn our conmon and ror of cxcusively doveloping g on at {he expenso of, aud Ly the rest, Every physlologint knows that one- jopment_is porsiie, aml muy be artificltly “Fho sthleto may develop his muscle, the iy criy its most pel hifgh #chools, viz oo purt of (o organl iy vl sitaned. i glutton his starach, snd tho sensualist his yower, at tii expento of tho bralng und, converscly, tho brain auay bo dyelaped ot the'expetieo of muzclo, stomach, uud roproduckvo forcos ond this fubarmotfous yrowl may be cartied £ far, by dwarllngg more or lews of the orgunization, as to Produce what phylology eills mone Ktrous brajum, stomachs, muscles, iid 1o 1ike,—that 1%, wonstzesftics, whicli, by o Lenetlcent law 0f Nu- ture, cannot perpetuste theniselves, 11w matich the literature, poiltics, and morals of tho world may have witfered from tho ebuormal jutio. cranial development of some, who, Uka Byron, Napo- feon, and Layols, havo compelied thi world's attontion, wo ymuy guess, but can e kuow, Shakspeare’s Drafn probably crowned o ervous ssatem s body fhiat pysented very lttla inharmioufaos growtl, onlitlees the samo tnay be enid of Mary Suinerville, Siragns rulo tho world snd tho Individual, T2 prot tem of the ugo which ediicntors 520 o solve, Wt all th light that sxperience, aided by physiology and re- Boctio, can give, 14, how 10 build ihe” hust Brains oat of the materlalu given to work witw, The demand of humanity I, Give mo tho best possible brain FOI MEN AND WOMEN BOTIL, Fortunately, the nccorsity of auswering this demand admits of No dwpute. o best pussivlo brafn s ui muchin neceasity 1or oo rox % for tho othier. Indeed, Jitch is tho divio alliunce hetween thosexc, that it i fmposeiblo to produce the best yossible ' brain for one sex, uuless you prodice the best possible brain for tho othor alvo, This constitution of humun na- ture,—tho futer-dependencs of {he soses, by which Iho bdvancu of on fs_coutingout upon the advance of Iho othier, o hest developmeit of tha masculino sud fowintuo' brain made to walt on cach other, Who to- wother can unlock the scereth of 1o wulvorso,—ia ad- mirabiy oxpreescd by Emerson, in languugo that i3 ug full of sliyalologieal truth au of pocilo beanty : “Tvom tho palr B nothing bidien ' the twala fa anuxht fwcbiddon 3and I hand 1o cumieados 4o, Yivry nook af naturo thraltih; Eaoh foF othcr woro they born: . ¥agh tho otlior best adorn, Bt o orgene, whoao norial growth sud evolution lead up to tha Draty, ste 1ot the sunodn mon and women, Conscruently thelr braine, thougl 2o in microsoplo structure, havo infused into then: differ- eut, 1lioogl Equally excolient, qualitios, 1 1 wera nvs o, Emerson’s uciswonld beabsurd ; #0x would bo n ‘myths men oud women would be I entisals and it would Ly folly to discuss tho relation of sex 10 ciluea tion, 1K BUILDING OF A DILSTN,— {1fs {8 to-day’s social problom; und tenchors are Targely chayed with fus nojation, 'When this s solved, all oiher problems will be easily disposed of ; for Tman brain 1 the last, the Lighest, tho consui- auata flower,” of Nature's developtaent ou this plauot, Tt cannob by made, excopt as tho crown of the rost of thio body, and to # large ostent out of (b rest of ko body, No perfect braln ever crowus an huperfoct Doy, When Michuel Augelo reatol 8, Peter's domo I tiso adr, ho mude every slone beneath voulribute ot ouly to this use and beatity of tho part ho put it i, but to the mupport aud power of tho dome, ‘o braln st bo bulle fu contioction Witk thy huldlug of thy rext of (ho body, rerombering constuntly that tho lin- porfections of the lafler relivet themseives upon the Toruiers Iu onio seuso Mo process of braln-busldlng bs ALIKH FOR THE TWO SEXI In_anothior eunso it is diferont, It Is tho mame for ‘both, iunmnuch o8 the process, which ovolves the best :afblo b, by iuedus of hbralaluta braii ser- ¢, inclnding’ cirebration, ont of the uudeslying or- ganfzution, is alilo In the wo sexes, It {u dierent for tho Lo, in so far u thero aro any orgaus o Loty of organs dn' ko Aruclure of ouo Hox Wit aro uot [ tho Hrusturo of the othur, Provided tho organization of hoth soxes I normul, and al) (el Funotions uormatly porformed, tho sanosort of brain- work will devoiop tho brain’ of gach, Lut 3¢ tho methoda of education render ubnormal auy yurt of the body, or juterfors with vy function, there will not only bo dutuuge to the part disturbod,'and friction i fia fuctiom, Bt thio biain will anfler, Juut it propor- Hon to thodmportunce of tho organy disturbed, und tho aiwount of the disturiauce. A WISE AND APPROPIIATE SYSTEXY of educatlon, tn s ettort to Luild u Lraly eltber for 1o wnuls or the fomuly organization, will sndeavor tu ald wud mitaty the procoss by which Nature per- furms tho same tusk, Ticroin physiology ean Teuder indlalto servico o sducation, servige that tho Iatter cannat alford to 10sa, 1t {6 impossibie, within tho limita of thla paper, to lyo, oell i oitine o (s wonderful prostes by that delieato nnd marvelas enging, (o Lumui iy da bulle up—un engiuo which {8 only w fow fuchel In dlametor; whowy wulght, onun average, i only nbout 40 0IICER s which contuins eolls and Rlires counted by hundveds of wililonw,—cells und flbrou that vary (u thickncos rom oucanlilfouth to oo thiroo-hundredtls of an el,—ui englis overy Heitiry fueh of whose gray uutter uitordy sulstvate for tho ovelutlon of at lut 8,000 registored und epuguto fdenss substrats (- th whols brain for eyalving aml uullk‘fllllilcuu of millions of them, he- sidus Uio power of reaslilig thet wnglar appropHint Rtinulus,—un enghio, parls of whisl bra moditivo 1 fpuumorablo Vibratonk in & sscond—uy wgie that trausmits sensation, emotlon, thought, and olltion, by dimliict fibree, Whowe' tateworing S oo n: genlousty ucasurod 10 Tractlons of o sicoud,—uu cu- THE CHICAGO DAILY TRINUNE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1874, e e e ging, a mochaniam, {hat ¢an accomplish thie, and ruolor wondors il without consclann felotion, pain, or_distubanco, 1f it {y_only properly built, aud its workitgs not fnterforad with, Not oven m‘ olitling vau Do given lioro of thia curfons prooess by wiiel Naturo builda (his_mochaniam of {nconcetvablo dei- ety and power, Ouly o fow mallont poiuta can bo dwolt upon, the* mny sorvo o hinta for tho edurator's guidanco; and theso cait bo presvuted only in the inont goneral wuy, 1 onee asked A BUCOESSFUL MGROIHANT and manufactirer, who hagl neoumuluted a Jnrgo for- tune, how ho maniged to ninke money at o time when all oftiora who wero eugegad in tho safuo busineas woro Tosiug §t, Ho replled, that Lo had practienily leared ovory detall and braucl of e bushiess ko thorouy mly that 1o could at any thve, € necoasary, fulio th piace and perforin tho aiechal Work of auy'of his workimon, Ty ouo, and a wost dmporlant sonko, he wan amnda hy undd oub of his business, Iie piora to practleally Jeurns ovory dutall il dovolopod bim, Hupnoss bis Vusiss branichiod ot info 100 dificrent ditections, terminuting i 100 difforent sorla of Ialos, eaclt aort of Ibor aifording ocoupation for amo of moro_ workmen, In Locoming nequalnted with each of theno 100 details, und fusnpervisiug o worknion that wrought i out, B sequired o knowledgo which no other oxperienca ot cilueation could givo litn, 8o far ho waa mado out of It busticss,—developed by it. 16, In Lfs preparatory tratning, o hud Luvned oiily utnely o elghty or fifty Of 1110 biunohes of bis busiuoss, lo’ would huva bocii, Pro tanlo, lows doveloped, 1fis’ Lusines couslatoll of thireo groat Alupnl'lll|rml,—lnnulll‘nwl"fl“"(- exporting, and imporilg, Tho manugemont of tioso vofleotedd Htself bick upan s ilovelopmont and charaotor, 10 o had neglectod, or nob acyiainted Iiusolf with, onp of these depuriments,—exporting, for oxample,—lo wold have been #0 miich (o' loen doveloped ¢ lio would bavu lost tho_spectal mowlodgo and_(raitilng that ot nequalntatico with the exporting port of his Uttstuiess woulid huvo given Tim, Thi8 Jos would, of course, boproportionately grouter than that yesultiug from fuattention to s single one of tho hundred do- tutla which entered futo tho reat whols of hfs busl< news, lin flustration proacnts in a rough way somo no- flon of Nuture's mothail of bratu-buildig, “ho bratn fw (ho uxin or coutral orgas of (ho Lody, Which, by jn- iornunoial fbros—tolegraphao wires—fs . connosiod with inuuniorably et} contres, callud_ganglis, aml with ovory purt of thokystem, ‘Lo gavgila, or wepar- ni0 centres of MOrvous PowWer, act MOro or 1ead aiitos matically, but ara respousiblo to, and iu connlant com- munication with, the brufn, Calling our uioraatittle friond tho Lrahi, hia workmen tie_gangiin, hiv Lai- nosy the labor of tho human argautzation, snd we slull got o notion of Naturo's way of tilticating—thu i, buildiug o brain,—suiliclontly accurato for oue Presont pirpose. Jisbos the mierchunt grow out of i busiuess by becoming nequalnted with und guipor- vising overy dotall of {t; a0 tho brai grows by takiug part an and supervising tho growth uud function of uvery orgun, 1f o sfugle orgat i wunting, or a siuglo function not purformod, Just so muck deay bruin do- Velopment renvits, ' Tluck ona thread, and tho web ye mar; Hreak butony O1 & thvnivwid koys, and tho palulng far “Furought sil will sun, Just 8a the morchiant, by Lis practien] acquaintanca witly overy detail of his husiness, wus ble to matugo D workinen better and obtain’ a bettor total result than bis compotitors, aud was alao hitsolf u more fully doveloped wman i conscquence therool; w0 the brain, Which hag o practical acquafutance with the working Of pyery ganyiion sl function, geta & butter total ve- wult out of 16o body than other’ brains do, and s also itaelf u etter braiu. As i the cane of tho morchunt, we recognizad s busiucss growth us ono fact, and tho result aiiained as snother and distinct fact, 4o i tho caso of tho brafu thera are iwo_distinck mutters ¢ ono ia the dovelopment of tho brain by rewson of it special conncction witih all the orgaus sud functions of the body, sud the other is (ke brain thus developed ; one'ls tho progressive dovelups snent, and the other 18 tho rosuit, As tho merchuut, ut- ter ha was mude ola by his bustuoss tratniug, could direct Lis onorgles in any divection ; 80 tho Lraw, after it 13 doveloped, can biaye 8 force turued in whatover daroctiou vivlution niny elecl, Onco more: our uer- caut friond bad learnod hia busiucss xa wall that be could, when necersury, repluco uny of his workuien, und purforus suy workiman®s labor, * Physiologista tell ua that tho conuection betwoen the braitt and the rest of thio nervous system—ici o Lho aympatuetio gaug- lia for inslunco—is so intimate, that, if wurgeons conid peitorm the snutomical Lrausposition, the brain_ could 1o aunde to tuke the placo und perform the labor of otlier purts; wnd, couverstly, other ports that of tho brain, ‘Au appropriste physiologieal $itnsiration of Nature provesy of bullding & brain, Whith we ure (rjing to ex- Joce, nsay be found {u the DELATION OF THE LEFT BRAIN to the right arm. and right xido of_tho body. A largs majority of the wurll are sight-iauded und right- wided. Tho right und, aud right arm, sre strouger and moro obedient o thie will than tho feft; so uro tue right log and right foot. The causoof ‘this xight- wideduesd 18 to bo found 1 the fact tuat tho loft brain iw th lurgest, Most of thonerves lenving tho brain decuseato, oud cross to opposite pides of tho body, ‘Tl Fightbrain sulmates and controls thoJeft urm aud Tand ;- the left brain unimates and controls the right arm und hond, Tho left ursi and right band, the right brain and loft hand, develop togoter. One afds the development of $ho otlier, Tho growth aud netion of {hio hund by 0n_neceseary to tho dovelopuent of tho Lorain us tho guidanco aud control of the brain Is to the uevelopwent of tho liand. In cougenital umbi. quxters, it is fafd thero fujess ditierenco between tho fwo halves of the brain thun in right-banded poople ; and that in left-hatded persons the diierenco is fesd still. Which starled tlrst i tho race of dovelopment s unkiown ; und wo newl not fnquiro, 1t is enogh for our purpose to know, bt i some” wey the_ growth, training, sud cmployment of tho baudi of thy young uid du tho Luilding of o braitt, Cut off _su urniin u- funey, or compel S8 40 Suclson, und thero will by lees Druin isaduitlife, Oneof the most embuent of Jiving physiologlets lias proposed the sysiematis training of the lefs hand in childrow, for the purposs of making tho right sido of tho braln equal to tho left, and thuy Iucreastug the intellectual power of the rsee, What s truo of tho baud s tene of all ofher organs of tho Dody, ‘They and tho brain nro doveloped by rucipro- cal action. ~Au umieed orgon calls onb less activity on tie purt of tho brain than u used one. A misused or- gan sy not only call out tnbealthy activity of iho brafu, but lead to pathological couditlons of t, Itiy necessasy for tho bulldiuyg of & perfeet brain, that wil thoorgans of tha bols aiiould huve tieir harmonious duvelopuent aud appropristo exerclse, CENERDATION, including provisionally in that term Infollection, emo- tion, aud volition, 18 tho bridn ot work. 1t i bralo activity, Lralu-exercise, bruuelobor, ‘The techmieal worls of the'sehool and collego or study 1s terebration, But study {s not tho wholo of cexebrution, auy more thun it 13 tho wholo of cducation, Appeopriate cxerelso of an organ ubls its development aud fucroasos il power, _Appropriate locounotion strengthens thy Jegs 3 yo does digestion thy slomel, und vision {ho oyo, Tho nornal performanco of o functlon ulrengthe ons aud deveiops tho organ thut performa it. The Draln fs not only no exeeption tu thiy aw, but e un ndmirublo lutention of it, Druin cxorcise, that is cerubration, strenjthions und dovelops tho braiu, If quality v Well o8 quantity is fueluded in deyelopuient, o Lnilt can yet Lo assiged 10 the extent of th latter, and consequently o iimit tothe manifeatations of ine telloctuat aud splritund power that may pour tirough thedrul, ILmuy bo that we lavo 10 concoption of what ‘{ho Lumus brain will yet sttuln to, Come rared now kot fnstrusment wWith what it witl bo ages ence, when both men aud Woruen are appropriately eduvated, when braius shall bo Luftt onk of mascutine and fomibine organizations that have been approprie ately troined, and from which hereditary ovils have beei oliminatid, contury ofler century, by thosur- vivul of the fittest,—tho braln of (o-day, compared ns an fudtrument, Wil that bran of 4o ftme ft for the use of u god, 16 v rudo and Iuporfect os tho Joniey of 200 yeurs ago'are, compared with tho wicroscopes of tho present day, 1t appeary, from these phystological considerations, thut tue uethod by which Taturo constructs & brajn 1§ THE BAE FON TUHE TWO 6EXES, Tnboth, the braiuis evolved from {ho organization, Lu both, all the organs of the hody aro connected with the brafu by mteritunelul fibres,” In both, (he brain, by meuns of thero fnterntnclul Obres, suporvises the moparato and united functions, In both, the supers viston snd comtrol ure eesentlal factors in buflding o brafn, - In th, tho nor- mal dovelopment of an organ wids the vormnt growth 0f tho brain, and tho almormnl th of an organ reflocts 1t orror back ujou the 1 both, tho brain b favorably or unfavorably afertid by the normal or abnormal porformiico of ail tha functious. In botb, tho highest dovelopmont of the cerobm 44 contlugent upon, sud, fu poiut of fime, secondiry to, tho normal dovelopment of tha seat of tho brafi, 1n botl, liratn esercise, or corobru- tlou, suoh us stidy and intoliectual nelivity, develop tho 'bruiy, andthrow down upon ull tho' inferior orggans 1 heallby uml conservativo {nfluence, Lho paratiel {-complets between the soxes, Thn mothud that buikls o maws-bullils nlso u woman's brain, Hut this Ideutlly of wothd in cerobral architeoture, which requires thet every orgat uud fwnction lu botll soxea shonld liwve appropriuto dovelopment and oser- clwe, ag B part of brabbuilding, fuiplies, or maiher necersltoles, o dierence du - educition between tho soxes, Just o fur s thero s n dfferenc in organtzation votween thom, and 0 furiber, dentical edweation of fho soxes {8 in tho lusi unalysts_cquivalent to an unjust diserimiuation bu- tween theus thelt approprioto uud _consequengly yarjod oduention 8 equivalvnt o the samo methiol‘of brain-builtiug, ©he object of education for the soxes in {bo mame. ‘The phyulological principle which wbould guidy heir education—ikint fs the approprinto dovolopment of tho wholo organization, o us o ovalyo tho beat brain—is tho sumo, The” spplication of thla principlo to Lomo, sociuly aud tebool 1o e mands “divorsily of munugument. The samo law, but divorsity of application, ¢ TIE ONLY DIFFERCNOK Lotweon the soxed §5 sex 3 but this diiference fa radi- cal aud fundumontal, aud exprosscs ftsolf u .radical audl fundamontal dfferouoes of orgautzation, that ox- tend from tho lowest (o tho highest fart of Hfo, Progreas f fupossiblo Without acconting snd seapocting difercuco of yox, Thut it s philosopiieally powslbly o " diminisi 3t by an o edueaton ar- raged for thet end, © ‘no physiologist can donbb: mor £ bo doubtod thal iulgutieal mofhods of oducatluy the spxes, ritcl a8 pro- vuil in wany of our uchooly, tend. (it Wy, QUG re- sutlt of & wolioul uyntorn, wuimated by wich wothode, s Lo nuko & vory paor kiid of mew ot of woien 3 gl 4 very poor Kuil of women out of men, TFartinato for o Republie,Af no Musteations of the tratl of thiy Tewmnrk coildt by'found within it horders, Tho bost quulity, noblest power, and supremo boauty of the two ek oy ot of Welt alsanilariy, ok oui of tele Identity, Difterentiution s Noture's muthod of usvent, W stioild eltivata the diforence of th vexew, ot try 1o hldo or uovileli 3t When » gurdence 8coks 10 pro= ducy thy Lest puzsiblo upple oF peachy ho selocty ono Whoso beunty or Havor 18 destrable, sud eultivates (ho wolocted diderunce, Nuture Jius wblocted dinleronice of 40X by which {0 givo huyunity its eholeest basuty and quality, The pertvotion of aila sox fu wunttuiuabio by tho'other, Hach lovew und revercnees fu the athey what it vunnot attadit taulf, and despiscs iy fmiine tiou, Lot cducation vespich und oultivato Nature's welgcted difevence, "o first wop i the practieal appliuation of thewo principtes b8 to hevd tha yolco that Toll ou Poter's sar, andl echaes bl fn oury, bidding ws call nothing com- Won or wnelean thit beir a dwinostamp, Chs whalo Orynization wid all is functlons suust Y litjurl wbove 1 tow plane of uniiual fnsthict, and contided o tho obarge of rouson, Hexund its functiony wue be reo~ ognizod 88 factora in cducation,—s8 afils In brain- bidlding, Samothing has heen dono in this dircation, 80 faras wompn ara concernod, by tha disounstons of tho past year fn Europo nnd this country upon the Derodieily of the feinnlo constitution, The sccree; and mystery that reatad, liko an inculmn_or ovil spoll Mtpon lt. linvo hren wretiched from our. Ameriean elyi- lization' and eduestion, sud willuover bo put on agaiu, “Tho noxt top 1 (o atiulre o completo nation of THI VALUE OF PERIODICITY an an eclemont in femslo education, This muet bo dona by ascertatning tho ovil that follows a .disregard of it, andd tho good that follown fta normal action, ‘Whou this has Leen accomplished, it will Lo easy to aaslgy {0 portodioity its propor positicn smong tho gllier factara, aucli ua uteltion, corabration, aid fho 1iko that helong to education, and contributo ip the hlllhllm‘ of o braip, 1t {a ohbivious that the factor of periedicity must bho atudied with rogurd to womnn alonp, for tliero is noth. ing iiko 1t In fho nialu coustitutfon, " And it v equally obivious that, ‘n ardor to carry on this jnvestigtion auccoesfully, the commmulty must bo provided with cinga of fulplligont and well-pduentpd fomalo physie ciung, 'The ovila thal man Jnours feom n dlsrogard of hia oontinr uiganiaation urp not the eame ow Lhoso that onot tha yill of woniau s itk ey aeo not Tun fer riblo than horw, In thls vegard his oduontion musl bi eqully cirenntapect, bup yery difforont, Wi cansldor the discaros P\'uudlll}j rottuness in tho flowl aud bones, degen orations of thoe brain, imbeeflity, impotenco, —aidprematuro death, With which Naturo puninhes Ia vrrors of prsulo wonsualily, we cannot Jintly say thot, oven ap far na sox 8 cous corned, wWotan {n unfajrly wolghtod for tho raco of 1fo In gomparivan with b, Au spproprisfe ednon- ton (of hoyw nnd girle) will rocognize the spectn) dif- feronees, ginrd agniust tho spocil dangers, snd obe tutn fhio spiacial henedits that fpring from sex, ADDRESS OF PIOF, ORTON. ITo wns tollowed by Prof. Orton, of Vamsar Callege, wha rond & paper on ** Four Yoars in Vasnar,” giving tho rasult of his obsorvation and oxporicuda thore, 'Tho followlng are tho mora yntiont points of his nddress: Vaswar i far Lrom bolng an idenl colloga for women, but it {s fuir to stato thab e shortcomings arose largely from slonder provisjon for the thorough propira- won of girls, ~ Whoover adyances tho argumont that mon's collu‘:’uu onght to bo open to tho othor sox shnply bocatiso they aro the best,. does not undorstand womon's adieation aw it s, Phe Qoors of Harvard are virtually closod by ior own nnfltness to eutor, To examine nndi- dntos with procisoly the samo sirictness s can- didates for Yato, wonld not glve us hatf-a-dozen studouts, Tho Taonlty of 6us~nr-flollugu wilt adtvanco tlio staudurd Just ns fust as womon will follow, B8til, Prof. Orton olaimed it is not now very far, ‘Thot Vawsar courso of study, whilo projected with special roforence to sex, is hard, oud deop, and thorough enough for tho averngo young man, 1t js not so ornne mental, ns fundamontnl esthetics tako « proml- nent but not prodominant pince. Whe doad languages and abetract mathematics are not banisuod on the principle that woman should bo oxcluded from the bost moans of the highest culturo, The course s a rognlated one, but ot infloxible, It not ouly stnnds midway botweon Yale and Ifarvard as to the number of electivo studies, bus it iy nltered every yosr to ment the growing judgmont>as totho best mothod of gecuring tho highost disolpline. As 10 the mothod of tenching, no pocnlinr siyls is roquirad, Wo do not usk fominmo quossions, I'he utudonts are not trontod as possible candi- dates for teaching or marrisge, but wo aim to eularge andonnoblo woman's spliore by strongth- oniny and rofluing hor faenitiey, A principle is considerod wortls more than its apphoation, and :zm power of thiuking of more value thau orudi- on. VASSAR PUPILS ARE DRAWN TROM ALL CLABSES in tho community between Ualifax oud San Fran- cisco, 'Fhie standard 18 too high to make Vassar o fashionable rosort. Tho daughtors of vory stylish paronts enter socioty so eurly, and aro 80 jnnocont of iho four fuudsmontals for nadmiksion, that thoy nover got fo Vasear, During the post yoar wo had five resi- dout graduates, 230 undor-graduates, 148 pro- anluu’, aud twonty-one special students, lotal, $11. It is o healthy sigu that the number of residont graduntos and undor-graduates iy in- crensing, whilo tho numbor of irrogulars s di- minishing, It has boon donbted whethor a true collogiate standard could bs mamntnined ina woman's collego. 1t has been done at Vausar for oight years,and the Faculty lnve yot to recoiven petition for » lower standord. Tho sverage #tu- dent does not exhibituny peculiar weakness befora tho highest probioms or tho deopost laotures, Bio wnsters trigonometry quite as readily ns young men, She dotormines an colipse, not in a givl's way, not in & boy's way, but 1n the right way, aud sl L @ spociat aptitudo for_tho ln- guages, such as ina Yalostudont would be called warked Hgalstio taiont, . THE QUESTION OF HEALTR hins not had a fair trial ab Vossar, In 'the frat placs, all tho sludents live underonaroof, Ithink mysell this Is unfortunate. I should preforsov- eral twe-story butldings to the ono palatial edifico wo have, that statis might be reduced to amini- mum, ud that overy room might bo bathed sunlight and puve air. Besides, thomeroLkoowl- edgo that 400 porsons are in the sama house, above, below aud on ull sides, produces an over- wheluing foeling of rostraint nod opprossion. Constant forca of companionship s extzustivo, Again, Vusknr Collegols conducted ou tho Lomo system, which experionce hrs proven to be, on tho wholo, tho best system. No college would nugumo tho poouliar renpowsibility for girls away from homo withoub rotamning a more coustunt control than js oxorcisud over boys. — But this union_of domostio urrangement with the educational nocossitatos o complioated polity, demaudisg s largo excoutive foreo and multi- plied socinl and sonitary regulations. The re- sult is that tho studenty’ time 18 worlously brokon up by o host of littlo duties not ju the line of siudy, and compagatively little timo is loft for gonmne reorention. This lends mo to speak of another druwbaok, THE LACI OF OUT-G¥-DOOR BPORTS to supplomont tho gymnastics within, They have boating, skating, and walking, but what are theso alongside of ths multifarious menus of diversion onjoyod b3 young men? And yot, notwithstanding this poverty of racroation & in the open air, and tho oxcitement of an ovor- | prosent crowd, Vassar has a8 fair o hoalth-roll ag any college in the land, During the past year 11 por cent of tho undor-graduates of Vassnr bhuve beon kopt from collego duios more than ton days ou necount of illness, white at Amherst, where' thie physcal education of tho young mon Is more carofuly attonded to than at any otlor collage, tho purcontago was 21, Trot, Orton fully- advocated the oduoation for womon as A MENTAT, AND PUYAIOAT: PREFERVATIVE, andsnid: 1am convincod that the mind |s not hotmaphradite, Tollowing tho same Iaw af other members of tho body, the law of correla- tion, the brain partakes of every constliutionil diffarenee, #o thet the radieal aud inorudieablo distinetions of sex are stamped upon tho brain, presonting » femnine elomont in gue and a may- ouline eloment in the other. Tho young ladiey af Vasuas work liko horoos. Nervously anxious for approval, they will drop’in the track rathor than 1all to do what is expected of them. But, in dowg their utmost, thoy leavo uo enorgy in vesiervo, ho result is that, whilo brillisnt on the march, TUEY ARE INCAPADLL OF TUAT BUSTAINED EFFORT Dy which the young man finatly outstrips hisdel- icately, formed rival, They are in fovorish Lasto o gel through, Bho who becomos a paragon of ‘mhuncn in widdle lifo, is impationtn her teens, Wlilo boys aro inchinod to scopticisn and dobato, guls are too rondy to boliove, &o that it becomes much mote important to eocitre accurate, careful weachers for thiom, than for the other sox. Lrof. Ortou also chiarncterizod most of tha talk about whnt educuted women would accomplish as moro fustion, and not borne out by facts, and closed as follaws: TILE PEMININE ADVOUATES OF CO-EDUGATION aro nok studenty of Vassar, but middle-aged women who know not what & colloge coursy is, Whilo It tho main tho bost studies for dovelop- g the moat wérthy culture of young women aro {dontical with thogo required for young mien, it is ndmitted that a vollogo gourse ahould be moro olustic, if doslmod for loth uozes than for ono, Wowan will alivays bave hor povuliar neods, aud man will have bis, and, theveforo, co-education fuvolvey an expansion of tho comuso, Dut an unduo freedom of election l‘fi!fil’fl{” the distinctiva purposo of a colloge, which s atrictly dinciplinary, and if co-education nocessitatos this for the snko of the ladies, thon I think tho ogitution of tlie subject hns so fur been an vl 'The trnth iy, howovor, that very fow women could olect the smme conrwe an tho mou, so that tho opening of ostublished collogos to the othor sex conld result not iu eo-sducation, lmtxin the co-ox1stence of two vollogos uuderono roof, TROY. I, X, MOINER, of Missourl, followed with the dlscussion of the wholo mubject of oo-cducation, and denlt with {t without gloves, Ilo unid thnt the uestion ~ of co-eduontion of tho soxes had’boen sharply discuesed of late, wud tho phisological sido of tha matter hind boou the most promincnt, Whon Horace Munn was askod on his doath-bod if he consitored oo-edu- cation succossful, lo replied yes, bub it hud boon with & cure and suporvision that was noxt to omumseionco itsolf, 'The opponents of the arguient roply that, to tnsire sicooss, passion, and Iatont wiokeduoss must bo bunishod as if by u wngivion's wand aud o millennium Introduced, To plava thero soxes Logethor nt thumons ntlam- muble poried of their lives was indeed A HANARDOUH EXPENINENT, Ote prominent case wis olted nb full longth, At amestlug of one of tho socistios of the oullogo, a5 which all the pu‘uln Wore presoht, & young auan dullyored o leolure on tho ovils of tight- luolng, u which Lo rovlewnd tho injurles result- Ing 40 the abdonunal parls of fownlos ln an ex- . ical rveasons, nocespary coeducatlon, clective. hntatlyo mannor, A momber of the faculty mat spell-bound durlng tho locturo, and his pationco was I)ut to n furthor tost by ono of tho famalo pupils. nlsing ot the ond of tho_ lectura and thonking the sposker for his nble apor and its yalunblo wuggoations. Lo feculty congulted, and declded that tho lino ghould bo drawn somowhero, and forbade the rocurrenco of simifar spoochics or soenos in tho futuro, 8uch pacurronces, Prof, ITosmor ad- mitted, mado the managomont of mixod colloges & mnttor of great respoustbility, but still he thatight thab the cconomica] aid othor nrgit- mouts {u favar of co-cducetion overbalanced the othors. While tho sketch horolofore given nhaws Lhab to 1egninto the lifo of & mixed fuyti- tution jo not always eosy for the faculty, tho re~ suli to ihe young porsons subjeated to ib Iy good In inost cames, Ib I8 yery oosy to pross tho argumont too far. ” It fi overannguine to bollovo that cooducation will oxoralsa ontiroly thio spirtt of mischlof und rude- noss, Ihe wrlter hes not found it 8o, nor hnyo others, Boyoial years hpve poseed sinca women woro admitled o tno Universlly of Michigan, during which Lima tho woyld Lins hoard that thoy hiave made their matk s echolars, nid oxortod au Influonco in many gaod ways. Wo iy doubt, howover, if the gzonotal tono of student- 1ifa has heon much raised wheu ono of tho worst Drutalitios of onr colloga lif . *aAzING is o rifo that It ns beon neceasary to expol a Inrgo pmwmbor for partio:prtion or eannivanoe, In what woy csn [I)u Dost resnlta bo secured whon Lha two sexos nro broaght togothor? Whoro | thoro is combinod with tho dormitary systom tho bonding of the twa wsoxes b n comnion table, tho maximum of dungor and ombarraes- mont will bo ronched. "o wrlter thinks but Jittlp of tho dormitory system. Tho minfwum of danger to voung lndies and of ombarrassmont to tho ndmimnm‘ulou will bo reached whan tho youug Indles live In thoir own bomes orin fam- illes “whoto scnso of discrotion can bo trusted s yot ovon (hen watchfulnoss alono will insurg proper decorum. It 4 enld that young women, ronlly matura and solf-yespeeting, aro In Jittlo dangor of falling fram docorumn, The eago of tho esany on **'light Luclu;{" in worth hoading, No nhivarsity is kaly to bavo for studen:s young ladies moro matuto, moro carnest, mora noble-purposod, than somo that wore led into orror thore, In fine, It 18 the wrltor's bolief that to do- ny women university culture is unjust, is iudeod disnstrouas that, for coonom- tho highost oducstion makes "Tho cooducation of tho sexos in univorsitios is pbssible, “even to somo oxtont desirablo, on account of cortain good influences. The sexos muy exist upon onchother. That coeduontion Is w matter of no diftioulty wo are not to beliovo, mitch less that ls to bo accopted ag tho power which 18 to praduco ut:lnlghn\'ny & willonum of purity and good ordet. Without any disenssion of theso papers, tho Qonoral Convention ndjournod until evening. DEPARTMENT DISCUSSIONS. TIn dopartment work !this afternoon, the De- partmont of Higler Education listoned to o ‘mnur by Piof, Jamos D. Butlor, of Madison, Wis,, on ‘*Classicil Btudtos in Migher In- stitutious of Education,” which ho dopended tho study of ‘'tho classics 08_n sourco of oulburs which could nat bo digponsed with, Drof. Patlorson, of tho Uni- veraity of Koutuoky, also spoko vn * Univarsity Lndowment,” and these two (‘umlonu wore dis- ocussed at somo longth by Presideut IReed, of Muysouri ; President White, of Cornell ; Dr. - mound, of Massnchusotts; Ireamdont’ Hays, of Washlngton College, and othora, The Deflnrtmcm of Llvmontary Instruction dovoted tho outire nftornoon to n vory able paper upon * What Shall Wo Attempt in~ Our Ele- imentary Schools?” by Mra. A, O. Martin, of Boston, It was largely technical in 18 churac- ter, but still of great value to the prolession. % ‘the Department of Buperintendenco ' reoom- u:lum{fid that tho Natioual Burceu of Iducation shoul in ADOPT THE STATIBTICAL TADLES propared by Stato-supt. Harvey, of Ohio, tupt. Ltickoll, of Cloveland, submitted o tnbla for roporting sintistics, iutonded to bo used chiofly n eities, 1t was recommonded for gen- eral adoption by tcachors, und tue fullowing Committee wero lppulutm{ to circulnio thom : Alessrs, Doty, of Detroit ; Creery, of Baltimore, and Willes, of Zanesville, O. ‘Lhiy dopartmont whon sdjourncd to meot in tuo City of Waslung- tgn‘ at such time as should be fixed by the Pres- idont, * 1ho Department of Normal Instruction de- voted most of tho aftornoon to listeming to aper apon, **Iow to Make Buch Institutlons ’rmeun[unnl," ront in by Prof, Louis Soldan, of 8t. Louis, which was also dizcussed somowlul Drietly by Profs. Hailmnun, Jones, Beard, and Bellows,” The following'Commitieos wus appoiut- od to formulate aud print tho course of profes- sional fustruction to Lo discussed at tho noxé >, . 1, Bellows, Michigan; J. 8. Jouos, Indinua; and Larkin * Dunton, Boston, Au- other committeo was nlso appomted to conslder thie relation of natural scionces and the profed. wion of teaching, to roport at tho uext mooting, ns follows: J. H. 8. Jubouot, of Missouri; L. MoLouth, of Michigan ; and Prof. Phelps, of Minnesotn, Al depurtments adjournod sinejdie this afeernoon. e GERMNAN NATIONAL PEACHERS' AS- SOCIATLON, LAST DAY OF TIELIL MEETING, Specral Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, DETtnorr, Mleh,, Aug. 8,—The National Ger- man Tenchors’ Azsocintion mes at 9 o'clocl this morning, The roport of thie Committeo on Nor- mal Schools was handed in. W'wonty-one gon- tlomen from differont States wero appointed to act ag o committco to raise funds to establish a Normal Somipury for Germun tenchers. ‘U'ho Central Committee for tho ensuing yenr wag thon eclected, it being composed of Mossrs, TRosenstongel, Schuetze, and Donal, who aro to nppolut tho pluce of the next meoting, oto. Prof. Clemm, of Cloveland, read a paper ou the intioduction of German into thoe publio schools, Prof. Behuotze adidressed the Assovia- tion on the relutions of children to tho fumily, and Prof. Fick spoko nt length of the mothods of drawing. Aftor passivg tho ous- tomary voto of thanks the Associntion adjourncd sloo dio, 1ts members will reman lore, how- ever, till to-morrow, and to-night they aro at- tending » festival mn therr honor at Tuiner Hall, and to-moriow thoy go on an oxcursion up tho river. e OBERLIN. Correspondencs of Tha Clireapo Tyibne, Ouznray, 0., Aug, 4, 1874, 01 course, Commencoment-Day i thio crowning Tonturo of the college-yoar., Btrangors flock in- to tho placa in battalions, and ovorything pro- sonts a sceno of livelinous, Cownected with It, however, and sharing in its importance and in- torent, is what is known os “*LADIES' DAY." It is the oconsion of tho graduating exercises of the Ladies' Dopartment. It i, in fact, tho fenst-dny of tho scason to the conutry around, and to tho troops of straugoers who make Obor< lin their abodo at the cloeo of tho colloginto yaar. ‘I'le young Indies, under tho direction of tho Lady-Principal, Mrs, Johuston, form inte n procession, sud, while the chapel-bell tolls, macch from tho hail to tho First Ohwreh, where tho ox- ercisos nro hold, Vessar Collogo may prosent wometbing ea gaod, but it is doubtful if sho can rinosuperior to this procossion of youug ladios. Whts year, a8 usual, all (vearly 200 m number) wora decked in white, sud, ag thoy promenaded through tho Tavk, undor tha sholtoring olms, © vory picturosquo seono was progonted, As they eutored the churoh aud wora peated in tho amphitbeatro, tho body of the oditico was rapidly filled, and every avallablo position tuken, ‘Tho docorations wera suparb. Ploges of statu- ary ware placed on picdouches noxt sho organ, All around tho church, wrewthy und festoony of greon weore suspendod, and’the platform wen surronnded by rava and bonutitul plants, giving o tloral sppearanco to the whole front of (ho building, ~ Oloxiuias with thelr handsome flow- ory, bogonias and goramumy in full bloom, add- od (x\rguly to tho atbractivoneas of tho scono, On the platform were tho Presideut, soveral Professory, und tbo Ladios’ Bouvd of Maungorn. The oxercjsos conslstod of fitteen essnys, ol tive or six mimytes ouch in lengeh, mtorsporsod with muslo, ‘Lhe yonug ladies vond with romarkuble distinctvoss nud omphasis, and the oxercises wera thronghout gratnylug to the gudionee, aud ougourpging o the fionds of tho ingtitution. TIE HON. JAMES MONROE, oneo Profossor in tho Institution, now Roproe Houtative in Congress from this distriot, volutes the followlng s ~Aftey his deciion to study nt Oberlin, ho ealled ou a good I'uvitan fumily nenr his homo in Ovunogtiont, ‘the *howd ™ of the Lamily soid to himi ¥ damos, Ihear you aro comg to Oberlin, Do you kuow that you will have nothing to eal thore but brau and * skime milk 7 When you got through you will have no Bueoess W any, prolusston, for graduatos of Obor- lin ure not muoh thought of,” ‘Phat mude Jomes sorions. In the cornor nt the good wifo of this farmor. Bhe had more regurd 101 thivs spizitual and lows for the wmalerl, * Well," said shio, * 1 wouldn's miud them thnngs 80 much, it Oberlin only bolioved in original sin, Llig troubloy wero uot yoi oyer, ‘Lhore wasan Loy «Dr, Kolly, of Oxford, old bachalor thoro who sald, *I will tell you an- othor thing: If you go to Oborlin you will havo to raolte your lofsons In tho preacuce of Indies, That information dld not produca the cffoat in- tanded. James had novor soon the Facnlly, nud did net know how_formidablo thoy might bo: but young ladies lio lind soen, and ho atarlor Oborlin-ward, Oberlin students find no difflculty in_obtatu- ing positions of honor and trust, Tho Inst graduating class from tho CONBEYATORY OF MUSIO Love nenrly all boon_ givon mppofntments as nusloal Instructors and ‘dirootors, Miss Lotlio Tingham, of Oloveland, who graduated from four departmonts of muale, viz.: Pinno, organ, winging, and theory, takes :‘mrgo of tho musieal dopartmont in o Indios’ BSewifuary near Ihila- dolphin, Dir, . 1. Qoer, who graduated from the esamo departmonts, has Eunn appointed Protessor of Musio at Tabor Collogo, Town, Miss Clnrn Buxton, who Jird taken platio, »lnE(In y and thoory, is invited to Boron Collogo, Kentucky. AMr, Howard Cartor contimies with hls studies hove, aud, at the snmo thno, acts ny organist of tho Iirat Cburel. Of tho grrduates from tho Conservatory lnst yonr, Miss Fronces Fronok has an appointment io toko uhnrém of tho Musionl Dovartmout of the Lndies' Sominary at Goshon,-N. Y, Miss Lilln R, Biubop s planlst and organiet Tor tho Philhnrmonic Bootety, Mondviile, I'a. Miss Mary 8. Smith {s organist of the church at Mausfiold, tiis Biato. Messrs, Willard Kimball and Calvin Cady bave both Loon utudyluq nt Lolpele, Germany, during tho lnat yosr. 'Tho latior has beon nppointed I'rofessor of Plano- Instruotion st Oberlin, and cnters upon his dution 1 tho courso of the yoear. At tho dedication-oxarcisos of Council Hall, President Fairehild rolatod a rominisconco of CINGINNATE HALL, thio ong erected for tho Lane socedors, Whon thio hinll was eroctad, tho boards wero frosh from tho mill, groon and wet, 1o was o boy at tho tmo, and 80 was not to blamo for his mistake in putting tho roof-boarda up and down, instoad of aeross tho taftors, Tho resulc was, the boards warpod, the shinglos gava way, sud 2 0 wan precipitated upon tho innocent sleopers bolow whenoyer a showor came up. Durtug somo of the meotings of tho last woek, PERYONAL DEMINIHOBNCES of Oberlin's carly days abouuded. One alumnus spoke of tho praction! times whon on MMoaday thoy put into practico what thoy heard from tho ulpit on Bunday, At ono time, by way of illus- ration, Prosidont Finney alluded in hig sermon to o cow that lhnd Dbroken into Tap- pan Bquare and ruminated to hor leart's antlelaction, “That cow,” aid tho preachor, ** ought to bo labeled, ! This cow is not ust,’ aud turncd out of town." Inn fow days, twenty of bis parishioners captured n bovino in the midst of hor deprodations, laboled bor as suggested, and turned bor horns toward tho Drosident's house, ‘Che upronr brought that gontloman out in full foree, who, though nonrly npsot at the remarkablo offect of his preaching. cowyprehonded the joke, mnd joined in the Juughter, DREWSON, —_— LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘The Wayne County, 1, Railronds Isonad Cusee Special Disputch to The Chicago Tribune. Fainrieny, I, Aug, 6.—~The Bupervisors of ‘Wayne County mot on-the 8d inst., to coufor with Mr. Freeman, of Springficld, in relation to takting an appeal in tho celobrated caso of Ken- nicot ov al. vs. Tho Supervisors of Wayngq County, lately decidod dganst the connty o tho Uuited Btates Circuit Court at Springficld. The caso i8 o vory important ono to tho peoplo of tho county, involving as it doos over 100,000 acres of laud situated ju tho county, and a morlgage upon thoir land was given by the county sovern! yors ugo to secure construction bondsssued by tho Mount Vernon ltailroad Compaby. ‘Lho Company nover built the road, and mado no at- tempt to do so. ‘I'he bonds wers hawked aud peddled about for land, whisky, horses, agrioul- tural implemouts, and othier things, but never had any markot valuo. .‘I'he couuty hiay resistod tho forcclosure, ‘Lho suit was begun by the bondliolders in 1865. Judgmont was onco ron- dered in favor of tho county, the cause taken to tho United Biates Supreme Court, rovised, and sent baclt tor anothor trinl, aud on the second trial woub agaiust tho county. Dlore than 8u4 citizons who aro intorested in tho lands, buving bought them from the county sinco (ho mortgage was made, were prosont at tho mooting of the Court. A vote of those pres- ont was tagen, aud tho unanimous voice was for taklog an appeal. Tho Cowst decided to take tho appoal, providing thoe Springtiold & Dlinoss Bonthoru Nuilvosd - Company, of their asigns, would sssume thelr Lull of tho respon- wibiity on tho uppoal pond. About oue- balt of those lauds were conveyod by tho county to tha lato Company, sinco the commencemont of thio suit of forcclosuro, for building n road through the county., Fot this ronson it was thought reatonnble thab thoy should assumo their sharo of tho responsibility, Mr, Freeman_ was instructed to prepare an ap- ou! bond for £40,000, . the amonut tixed by Lho uited States Court, to seouro the signatures of other interested partios, and to moet tho Super- visors ou thio 18th mut., ot which time tho bond, ir satisfactory, will bo signed by the Suporvisors on thio purt of the county. THE DENTISTS, Third Day’s Session of the Nationnl Awsoclation at Detroite Specwal Dispateh to 1'he Chicago Tribune, Dernorr, Mich,, Aug. 6.—The third day’s sos- sion of tho National Dontal Association was held in the Council-chambor this morning, comnione- ing at 10 o'clock, somo eighty mombora being prosont, Dr. F. I, Rolwwickel, of Chillicothe, 0,, Chinirman of tho Committoo nppointed last year to conler with tho Burgeon-Goneral of the United Btatos Aruy as to the appointmont of dontists . for tho army, roported that, owing to tho possible decreaso of and change in the army, it would bo better ta postpono the matter iudeil nitely. Accopted, Dr. Qoorgo M. Cushing, of Clicago, rond a papor upon heavy ve, light gold for l"llm filing of teoth, exproxuhuzg a proforonco. for hoavy gold and giving 1t us his opinion that henvy gold in tho hauds of @ skillfu) vporator will produce the best reaults, “Ihis was followed by n_lomg discassion upon operative duuliutr{, covering . Dr. Cushing's pa- per, and ono read Jusy night by Prof, Suoppard, of Boston, It was participated in by Drs. Kuapp, of Now Otleans; Jobu Allen, of New York; 0.; Dr. Kullv of Dayen- vort, Iu.; Dr. Rohiiokel, of Chillicoti, 0.3 Dr. Hoguo, of Now Yotk; Dr. Ifosmer. aud Dr. Judd, of 5t, Louls, but wag too colloguial und tecbuieal for raporting, Xesolutionn of regrot ovor the donth of Prof, Hiteheock, of tho Harvard school were adopled, aud thon an Liour's rocoss was taken, I'his aftornoon the Convention contiuned tho discussion of various quostions of operative surgery, participated in by Dre. Paloor, of Byr- acuse, Kunpp, of New Orleans, MeQuillan, ‘of Philadelphis, snd govoral others, The Com- mittoo on Dental Ami!mucuu algo reported, through Dr. Uoorgo L. Iliold, of Dotroit. ‘T'ho romaibtug afternoon business wus of an unim- portuut character. CANADA. Geonernl Nows from the Dominion, Speeiat Dispatels to Lo Chicago Trioune, 0T1TAWA, Aug. 5, ~Tho Canadinu Labor Loaguo begon ita eossion Loro youtorday, Mr. O'Don- oghuo, AL 1, presiding. Wholr businows will contlaue for & fow days, Cupt, Cameron, of tho boundary-survey party, in n lotter undor dato of July 8, states thatthero have been no ovideuces of unfriondliness on tho patt of tho Indiung, as had boen roported. Doliticnl msttors in the Irovince of Quoboo aro still in a vory distwrbod ocondition, aud con- HLAL ILNOTE Lo muulnt.' currenoy with roefercuce to the Cabinot. 'Thore isevery probability of the Congorvative Covernmout thote [following the courso of the Jata Dominion Government, Nova Seotia und Oupe Breton have produced over 000,000 tons of ooal during tho pnst half year, Special Dispateli (o I'he Chicaue T'ribune, Tonoxro, Aug b—A grand mass-meoting of coloro poopla sud roform domoustration wag hald at Ointhinm yostorday, and, besidons othory, wan addrossod by the llon, A, Mekollay, Con- missionor of Public Works, a strong friend of tho colaved raco, A son of Prof. Wise mada o balloon aeconsion at Buvatford yestorduy, rosching an nltitude of 18,000 foot, andgoiug O miloy, ———— THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE, New Yomx, Aug, 8,—1Iho Byaoklyn Boara of Aldorman buve volod $9,000,000 tmquulifledly for tho continumnce of the wark on the hiidge conuacting that elvy with New Yark, —_——— THE GRASSUOPPERS RETURN. Special Desuutoh fa T'he Chivans 7' ibune, 87, Au, Minn, Aug, 6,—2ho loousts, which bind complotoly dosorted Noblos Connty, wleor ocoupying it for two woakons, desoonded upon Worthungton and the viciulty, along the Sioux Olty Nullwav Baturday lagt, i0 groator nunbors then ever Lofore, Tho awarmy hava hoon In- cronsod by frosh atrivals osch day, nnd tho farmors, a1l mombers of the colony sottlement, ond composned of strict church-memnbora, for tho firat time commonced harvesting on Bullhny. ani aro doing thoir boat to save whut crops aroe loft, Iinving laat nob moro than Lt by thoso Datehed thoro in the onrly part of the season. Kxcopb that a comparntivoly small pwarm of locusts hns drifted off to Bt. Orolx Landing, o fow milos bo- low Itudson, thero is no trutl in tho roporty of thoir moving eastward beyond tho great bend of the Minnesola River. - S THE NORTIWESTERN STATES, Nows Itcms ‘Tolegraphed to ‘The Chis - . cngw Fribunes I1LLINOIS, A young man named Reot dropped down in Bpringllold, o short timesinco, nnd seourod aaltua- tion 1t & gonts’ fupniehing storo, Ils soon bogan driving fast horscs snd payiug sttention ton handeomo young widow lady ‘with whom ho bonrdad, A fow days ago Mr. Woldon, with whom loat was worklug, suspocted that Tt il was being robbed by tho latter. On Tuesday Woldou caught him ii tha act. and at onco had him arrested. Toot, howaver, borrowed £G0, which ho paid over to Weldon, protoeting that that smonnt was nll ho had taken, * Subsequent dovolopments showed this to be untruo, and anothar warrant wan sworn out, but Root nd alipped away and could not ho found, —John B, Htlol, of 8, Cluly, was token to 8pringfleld for solling liquors and tobaceo with= out paving the revenne tax, and Wednesdny wag put undor £600 ball to nypcnr at tho noxt torm of the United Statos Court. —Drosidont Grant Lins deolined to deliver the address at tho dadication of tho Liucoln monu- mont in Bpringllold, but the Committon huve writton him agoin, asking bim to recousider his declination, —Licouso lins boon isaucd to tho Lewls Wator- Moror Company, of Olifcago, capltal, 8100,000; to the Co-oporative Moercauttla ~Association, of Chicago, capital, $100,000; aud to tho Victor Bower Gompany, of Balloylile, capital, 815,000, —Thoro was anothor splondid rain ab Jackson- ‘vighlf 'fucsday night, and corn1a doing splen- idly. —In Bloomington #omo time sinco n young negro named Jol:n Thompron madoe uway with a colored girl uamed Barah Horron, nged 18, in- tonding to marry a8 soon a opportunity offered. Wodnosdny tho irl's father found hor placo of concoalment, aud toole lor awsy. Soon after, Thompsou follawed 1feryon to hiy houso and do- manded tho gir), whon tho latter blazed awny ab Thompson with s revolver, but missed him. ‘Lero bas boen and {3 much excltomont among tho negrocs of thecity over tha mefter, sud troublo nny yot rosult. —An gocident happened on the farm of Alr, Stambaugh, of Burekn, by which Frank ILilt lost iy life in & woll on the rlncu by fire-damp, Xill wount into the well with the intention of cloaning it, and in order to malkoestho doscont had put & ladder down reaching to within fivo foet of tho top, aud to roach the Indder had caused himsell to bolot down by a ropo In the hands of another, e hed reuched tha ludder and began to dercond it, when he complained of lmlnf,' ez nud asked those nbove fo draw him up. The 27 v did 5o, but whon his hand was alinost within their grasp, all his strougth failad him, aud ho foll to the bot« tom n corpse. 1lis body was recovered by ropes. —1'he Llgin Grange, No, 604, will hold o picnic in Patrick 1ligging’ grove, nerthwast of Clinton- ville, Aug, 14, All noighboring Uranges aro in- vited to attend. —The dan across Fox River at Clintouville is hnlufi thoroughly repaired. . —A cryatal wedding took placo at the roai- donco of Mr. and Mrs. Denvis Lmwrouco, in Clintonvitle, last Mondey ovening. Prosonts in tho crystal lino woro numerous. —Tho twenty-third aunual fair of the Pike County Agricultural Bocicty commences ut Pitls- fleld on_ Tuesdoy, Sopt. 8, aud continuol four days. Five thousnud dollary in premiums are offored, aud overything is boing dono to iusuro o rreat success, Crops are sbundant, and agricul~ turists aro [eullu%hnm)y. —Tho trial of Patsoy Casoy for the murdor, last October of Pat Kennedy, at Battelgher's saloon, m Decatur, wus callad on Weduesdny in tho Clreuit Court now in sesslon there. Over 100 porsons wexe oxamined bofore a jury could Lo obtained. —John Morlan, son_of Capt. Morlan, a very prominent oitizon of Enfleld, jumped from n gccond-story window ol i fathor’s dwelling Inst night "whilo_asleop, and was very soriously injured. Young Morlun 18 steady and highly re- spocted. N —Tha doath of Theobold Ploiffor, an old and highly respected citizon of Peoris, wns an- nounced on 'Change tliera vosterday morning, Ilg died from a parulytic stroko white couversing with his physician in‘tho Iatter's oflico, ~—Oon Moore, ongincer of tho excursion train on tho Pooris, I'okin & Jacksonvilje Rall- rond which ran into n freight train near Jaokson~ ville Wednesday night, was badly burt and was unconscious all night, but will probably re- cover, The conductor of the freight train charges tho responsibility upon his brakemon, but will te bold responsivle, Sovoral passonger cars wore badly Injured. 'The damsgo to the ougino and cars is nbont 10,000, —At tho corporation_election on the liquor question in Exoter Weducsday, tho Antt-Licenso Jaw wiws defeatod by o majority gf 16 votes, aut » full Board of Wown Trustees Ior licouso was olected. e Masonio Eloniu hold yeslorday nt Cat- n Vermilhon County, was #n lmmonso suc- cess, All the Masonic, Odd-Follows, Kuights of Dything, Fenian, and Grangers in the county were out on mosso. An address by ox-Gov. John M, Talmor on ** Anti-Mouopolios,” aud one by Gou, Cliarlos Blnck on * Seerat Orders,” woro lintened to with marked attontion, 1t was estimated that thero woro 8,000 persons in attendunce. Dan- vilto seut a dologation of noarly 1,000, —Willinm J. Forguson, of Cliuton, Dowitt County,died on the streot yosterday morning from an overdoso of morphine. It issupposed that th suicido.wns a deliberate act, ilduced by montal troubles. Ferguson was & Iawyer, and st one time was a mombor of tho Missouri Legisloture, “'he Clinton_bur took chargo of tha romoius, which were intorrad yestorday ovoning. A strauger committed suicido b Dopno, Bu- yoau Couuty, Wednesday ovenlng, by lLavging Dumsolf. ~—YVery many strangers and pilgrims visted Aurorn yestordsy to tako pars i the sesond au- nual Stato Couvention of the Young Mon's Olristian Associrtion, Somo of these pilgrims aro from the ¥ Hub" from Now York, and away down in Maine, but thoy oll moan business, and their voicos soom to bavo the right ring. Last ovonlng thoy woro waolcomed Lo Aurors, by Maj, Littlo aud Eldor Jowott, To day they commenco worle, Thair seasions ara Liold In the Firat Mothodist Episco- pal Churels, WISCONSIN, Nearly §115,000 hnvo beon subsoribed to build o catton mill at Juuesville, and parties from the Enst are to put in as much moro, —A committoo of the Wisconsin State Bonrd of Chariles have met tho Indios of the Connty Viniting Commissionors, aud heard thelr com- plaints of the biutalitios charged agaiust tho mnunfi;um of the Milwaukeo Poor-Houns, Thoy cousidered that onongh was ndyenced to justify an investigation, which iy procoeding accord- ingly, - —Aftor a long-continned and almost unprace- onted droupht a covsiderable quantity of rain Lins fullon in Bololt, It comes tuo Inte to insure o full erop of corn and potatoes, but will do & grent rmonnt of guod, ~Tha full fair of Boloit is to bo Leld on Tues- doy, Wednesduy, sud Thursday, Sopt. 15, 10, andd 17, instend of tho lnst weold In August, s ot firab pru‘paned. Now buildings aro going up, nnd overything promisoes o groat success, i REUNABKA, Liout. Ring, of the Lhud Cavalry, roturned to Fort Mclherdon aftor fifteon dayi® scout and o murch of 864 miles in northwestorn Nabraska, ITo snw no signd of Indinns, oi10, ‘I'hoodoro Iiraniar, a huokman of Dayton,while roturning from tho eamp-meoting grounds on Tuesdny mipht was sitnoked by highwaymon near Mad Rivor Bridge,whon Kranior cummonced shoating at thom, searing thow wwey, —Uvuu;iaru roproxonting tho entiro county will meet ju_Dickoy's Blocl, Dnigmx Aug, 20, —The cditors of the Zore! ugh[. of Xenin, havo antered uult for libel agriust Messrs, Patton & Tidlay, publishors of tha Xouln (Fazelle, for n sum not known, but yoported us 50,000, Tho Gazelto mon Linve now twa suits for libol on and, —A fire Wodnasday night, 13 milos northonst of Bnoyrus, destroyad tho barn of James Wig- ging, Loss, 2007 no msuranco, —Isaug Meloalf, 8 young man, was horribly maygled sud erushed (o denth under tha wheels of bis wagon, at Galion, vosterduy, Ha was driving n load of housohold goods whon the toam boeamo frightonod at & losamoative il ran away, throwing, s from tho top of tho lond, s tiead ateuek on tha cnd of tha bridge, and wht ghourad off by the whaols, i faco and sealp woro stripnod from tho hpuos, ==~Iho Urbans olmp-mflflfllui s woll attonded, aud will continue unul Aug, 14, —A man namod ‘Thomas Downoy was instantly killed nosr Urbang whila at work in au excava- tion near lis placo, on the Atlantio & CGrent Weston Iaitvoud, yostorday, A bank eavod in on him, broaking his nook and buok, — o Rov. Wo M, Blmmons, tho Swisn Melh- odist ministor of tho Cinclnnatl Confarenco, iod ut biy posidonco in Xouiw, yoetarday mosne ln.m 8t 3 o'clock, nged 70, having proschod fiftye four yonrs, 1o was notod for lfiu gront docision of clinractor, phatica, vand denunciatlon of sin in all its An_unoconplod diytiiers of Negloy J. Atlin- #on, ki Luated 1 milo yast of Lo,:nuunm-t,' was de- ntru.\cl! by liro “vesterday morning. Loss, 82,000 partly Insired, Tho firo was the worlk of ‘an incondinry, —A fire at Now Tarlg, carly yostordny morn- Ago manufnotory, with it'lml flull’m;lmod tllm earrls ho adjolntug shops of Metzlor, I Co, A linrnass-shan, ownod. by A?':lflgjr&gfif and soveral barns woie burnad, Molzlor, Tani. firaver & Co.'s lows I about £4,000: A, . Kooutss losA {4 000 ; othor losos ahont #4600, Tho ¢, Tant Biract-iel ~! . Panl Btroct-Nafiway Jowvad It linan to Lafayoito Buaw ey 50 108 Comb. wha tool possassion yosterday, —T'wo flres ocowrred {n Timeapolis night; tho first, slartod by an inoondiar, 4t bnrn of tho Pacifio Igtol, onue, Willimm Gould's _burn, Duchoen's nalng- shop, nnd o namber of sliods, The heaviest loks, &3,000, was that of Rublo & Co., on furniturs #tored in Gould's barn. * T'ho Minonpolla Baskot Company lost $0CD ; neithor wore P othors wora fully insured. Tive cows and & OAlL {:n tha hotol barn wora rosaucd aliva, but horrie Gty ochi o e, e by lghinng, ,000 wortl of for \'}'litlmcl(, Em“ & Co. S8l 3 bl —Tho northwestern part of Minneaots was yias ited Tuctday afternoon by o violont Linil-storm, whioh did groat amount of damage to crops, In Meokor Covinty, & dispntol uays the dostruos !(mx’ol tha orope'ts total in tholine of thostorm, At Frontonae, ou Laka Yapin, the Baptiat ohurch was atruck by lightning aud JoutmyndA —During Tucsday nlght o sovoro thundor. atorm, with 6 high witd and hadl in piaces, gnuucd over alargo partof tho Btata, In Mooker ‘ounty much dumngo was done to craps, In 8t Oloud, Ald. Bridgman's stable and con« tents worg hurned by lghtniy, i lons, $10,000; ineured far 33,000 in tho Hoputii, of Ghicago, Tho DLaptist Church, at Lroutennc, was also x:zr;n_lcuk“ug;l‘unll‘rfly Imrlnm!. l’t‘hu storm oxtonded o] niro, Wis,, where tho lij i ao'\i‘zi‘ml pln&nl h.\llh\': aity. Yalinlug struck 0 narthorn lacusts, witer ono day's halt tho eastorn part of Noblos Geunyty, durl}fig which thoy destroyed ono-half tho corn ‘and gore don crops, hayvo moved on southward, Pateiok Tiornoy, tho driverat a lamboteyard toam in St. Panl, was thrown from a foad yostor= torday, which was upaet upon him, Lilliog him luriEnuhyL otor Loas, n enloon-keepor of Linke City, for morly of Bt, Paul, commitied sulokdo Wodnéeiny night by strychulno; fnuse. domestic troubles, 10WA. A flra broke aub in noue-story frame dwelling in Davenport, occupled by o man named Frank Defrantroo, abont. 1 o%look Wednosday morn- ing, and complotoly destroyed tho houso and contents, Mr, Dofrantrco baroly oscapod with bis Mo and cuough clothes ta cover his nakodnoss. Tho firo communicated to tho rosi~ doneo of Mr. €. P. Clark, a short distauco away, which was alao completoly destroyod, Loss on tho Lwo houses, 80,000 ; Insurance, $2,600, ~—Baventeen moro soldiors from IFort Laramia arrived at tho Fort Madison privon on ‘Chursday, umlxlm‘:]:;c‘cél from ono toeight years for desortion and thoft. Tucsday W on Washinston s AICHIAAN, Two officers of Houth Bend, thmufih Hchooleraft yosterday on tho track of tvo hLorse-thioves who had “stolen n span of horsos and o buggy from Warner & I'ray, of Sl:mlg gul:ld. ‘%'ho thiuvdn: wnrlcln nujy ono flou- ahen io officors, and thoy hoped to overtal thom before darknons got in. s g —=Ttho Soventh Day Advantist camp-mosting commenced at Dattlo Creck yestorday.. Tho grounds nro boautiful and the Joeation uusur- possod, being sbout 3 miles weat of Baitlo Creek and adjoining the Miohigan Coutral Raile road tralus from ench way, which etop near tho grove. Over ninety touts are on thoground, and moro are constintly arxiving, Threo ser< vices aro held each day, besides businces moctings. Tho following prominent ministers and speakers from abrosd wero present : Eldera Jomod White, 8. N, Haskoll, Gaorgo I. Butlor, J. N. Androws, Mra, Ellen, atd G. White, Deop~ ost intorest wcoms to bo manifested. Servicos commencod to-day with a sermon by Elder But- lor, Progidont of the Gonorsl Conforenco, —1ho Health Roform Instituto at Battla Crook was entorod by burglars Wodnesday night, and 3Ir. Ira Abboy, the Suporintendoent, wos rolioved of a gold watch and $160 cash. At iy by CHILDREN STARVED T0 DEATH. A Ghastly System Srought to Lights Lrom the New York Tribune, Aug, 8. The death of an infant 18 days old, named Charles Coroy, at 8 *“ baby-farming " establishe wont in tho Losemont of No. 6u) West Nine- toenth stroot, was reported on Saturday to Dr. Elisha Harrls, Hegister of Vital Btatwtlos, and by him referred to Corouur Woltman for investi~ gation, Tho Coronor found that the establishe mont was kopt by & womun named Kutoe Kilbrido, nud that tho apartuents wore close, damp, an foul, “ho woman was feeding two omuoiated littlo ones with botties, while tho corpso Iny in tho room. In suswer to the Coroner's inqiuriea, she tatod that shoe hnd recoived tho throo infunts nabout two weolta before to murso with a obild of Lor own from the private lying-in ssylum of Mrs, Muary H. Dovan, and that sho was pud about &6 aweek (:%2 onch) for attending to thom. $3he was not ablo to give thom Jor own milk, and liad substitutod what shie called ** bought " mill Ind,, passed and soothing sirup, 8he bud had several othior childeen in hor cbarga beforo this, aud somo of thow had died, but she considerod that death had resultod from natural causos, and thera Lind nover boen uny investigation. Sowe of tha others nd boen taken away by charitablo peoplo, who patd hor mouey for thom, but sho did nof know who thoy were,'snd lud uop troubled hor~ Aolf about tho'cbildron gince, Doputy-Corouer Shino mado an pxaminntion of the body of the infunt, finding it much omaociated, I1fe found thab donth was osused by congostion sriving from improper trentment, Insuttlictont nourishe ent, and the uso of suotbing sirup. _ Coroner Woltmau visited tho lying-in catabe lishment of Mia. Doran, which wat found to ba wrotchedly fittod upasa hospital, with dirly struw wattresses and ragged bed clotbings, 1o young women who bad been delivered of child= ron within the past two duys were found in the wards of the *‘hospital,” aund six others wora approaching their coufinoment, All were une married. Ono of the mewly-born ohildren was fdven away o Saturday by Mrs. Doran to s lad) u Manhattanvillo for $25, and tho othor lxmi boon digposed of, but Low or to whom its mother could not tell, It was stated b Mrs, Doran chargod lier pationts ouly #6a weok for board, mnd 10 tor anttendance, with the understauding thatuho should have tho disposal of tho now= hory chiliiron, and by this mosus she inoreasca hor ingome gonsiderably, hoalthy bables bringiug in tho “adoption market " wstoady price of 25, and sometinios more, L'ko infant that caunot be sold wro ¢ farmod " to women like Mrw, Kil- brido, and aro taken caro of m thnt poculiar ac- coptation of tho torm which monus ** gotting nd of" Coraner Woltman will hold on 1uquest to- iy, aud sunounces bis intontion of invostigating thorougly this terrible system of **baby farm- dngg," witioh is snid lty pronuncnt practiciag ply= siclans to be comwon Iu tho cll{. 14 wud reportod to Coroner Woltman by Dr, Hurrs on Baturduy that William_IHoylo, ago 8 years, hud died at No. 930 Eust Fifty-sovonth stract, 1t appears that tho ohild was fnkon sicly with eramps on Fridny, and the paronta gave him sy excessivo doso af whisky, which resulted indoath yosterdny, Coronor Woltman will maka an _[nvostigation, Dr, 8uino mado o reguiar post-mortem oxams Ination yesterday ovoning, und found that, while tho face aud body of the® ohild were abugrmally full und ronnd, as {£ swollen, the arms, hands, and lJogs were sbiuukon, aud tho floh upon them wus almost transparent, Tho stomach and intontinea woro ompty, nothing whatever being found in thow that mdicnted nourishniont, aud tho walls boing s8 cloan aud dry as parohmont, T'ho brain was [ntovsoly congontud, the extrava. satad blood bewg almast black, ludicatiug the prosence of morphin 1 tho systom. Dr, Shing cumo to tho couclusion that deuth resulied from siarvation, Whon Coronor Woltman called nt the house fu Waost Twouby-sisth strovt on Salurdey atturnoon and annoutoed that ho wus tho Uoroner, ho wor Iopt waiting outside about tifteon minutes, dur- ing which he heard the yapid movameuty inglde, the shutting of doors, and the shuflling of foot, Supposing thae an t}wmpb was baiug mado ta lide «nummuufi1 tho "Uorvuer whon iinally ad< mittod pnsnod Lis way past & man who guarded the doarway. ‘This was Willinm Doran, wha oluima to bo the husband of tha propriotor of the syl ————— LOCOMOTIVES [FOR RUSSIA. New Youx, Aug, 0.—Tha stoamsbip Tague will carry out, a8 o portion of her cargo, ton poworful locomotives of Aniorican munufacturo, lio 1s bound for ‘Taganerod, Russls, ab tho oxe iromo northorn polut of the Bea of Azof. Fhese lacomatives were ordored somo menths ago fo) o flussian rallwey, ————— HAVEMEYER'S ANSWER. Arnany, N, Y,, Aug, 6.—~The anuswor of Mayo) Ilnvomoyor, of New York, {o the churgoes of ‘ottluial misconduct preferred by the Loard of Aldormen and w number of oitlzons, 8 publishoi to-uy, 1o pleads **uoy guilty," aud Justities ks canducty