Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1874, Page 8

SRRETER e i i I i iy = R i i i i ; 4 t i A i 8 ‘ ’ ' THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1874. was rewarded for his paing by dismivsal by the | if it swept ot the Suapervising Architect of thes TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. Parts o1 3 yearat the same rate. To prevent delay and mistakes, bo sure and cive Post Qf ceaddress fn full, including State and Coants. Remittances may be made citber by dratt, oxpress, Post Occoider, o7 1n registered Jetere. at ousrisk. TLIAS 7O CITY SUBSCRIVEUS. Laily, celivercd, Suncay exceptod % cents per werk. 2.1, ciivered, Sanday included, 3 conts por woek. Adaress £ COMPANY, Chicazo, 1L TO-WORROW’S AMUSEMENTS. M'VICEKT'S THEATRE—Madison strect. botween Diarbora and Stete. ** Cisilization.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, between Mad- $502 and Monroe. Engagement o1 Schumann's Trausat~ 1zatic Novelty Company. HOOLTY'S THEATRE-Randolph street, between Clark and taSalle. fne Grest Adetpn! Compeny. 3in- strelsy, Farce, and Veriots. SOCIETY MEETINGS. E CHAPTER, NO, 2 R. A. M.—flall, 72 ceia] ooprugation S1ynday crusing Aig. < 3 oeder of Ly the M. T nedor of (v it fi e NTRAT CLUB bas postponed its mecting till Tt A 0. K tmaikbers ars epoeted Do reatat & o'elock b m. t S Madison-st: CUSINESS NOTICES. 0. R , COR warraiits tho Satiafaction wiv The Chivage Tribune. Sunday Morninz, August 16, 1874. OF ¢ tinest and or MR. BEECEER'S DEFENSE. The cross-cxemination of Mr. Deecher, as publistied by the Committee, 13 an elaboration’ of his original statement. It coutains one or two statements which must provoke, if they wero ot intended to provoke, & controversy for the future. Ho charges Moulten with baving ob- tained from him between June, 1671, and June, 1878, £5.600 in cash, and seversl checks for otber sums, making 2 aggregate of £7,000, and says, in effect. that this money was obtained by Moul- . ton to be paid out to Tilton to keep him quict. In other words, Le charges Tilion with having obtawed from him 37,000 bush-moneg, aud that Monlton was the agent employed to demand and rToceive the mones. This clesr and specific ac- cusation, which was not made, but merely alluded to, in the direct statement, brands both Tilton and Moulson with an infamy from which, unless the statement is disproved, they cannot escape. Mr. Beocher ovidently knows tho force of his accusetion, and acted accordingly. Neither Til- ton nor 3foulton can raise their heads again, un- less that statement be oxplained or disproved. Ir. Beecher, however, declares that, even af- e this practical extortion of $7.000 from him, $5,000 of which he ralsed by mortgage on his house. Lo had full confidence in 3fr. Moulton down to the time when the Church Council met. Then, he considered, Mouiton failed him. AMr. Beecher ays that the money was given to keop Tilton quiet, and, if Moulton demanded or con- gented to the payment of any money by Mr. Beecher for that purpose, then he must stand convicted of blsckmailing. Mr. Deechier must Liuve, al the time, regarded him in that light, and et he extended him bis unlimited confidence. Certainly, for the sake of common decency, Mr. Moulton must bo able to make some ex- planation of this disgraceful accusation. When it is romembered that the ouly wrong done by . Beecher so Tilton, according to the former’s statement, was tho basty advice to Mrs. Tilton to separate from her husband, and that it was due partly to his utterances that Boswen sudden- Iy dismissed Tilton Dec. 81, 1870, it will appesr perbapy strange that he submitted to ey do- mand for §7,000 to silence the mouth of o troublesome accuser. It is, however, hardly necessary to criticise Mr. Beecher's ststement, enlarged by bis so- called crozs-examination. He denies the main chiarge and its incidentals. He sccounts for the various letters quoted by Tilton in a manner wlich, if not entirely satisfactory, will probably be sccepted by his friends,—except 88 to the “apalogy.” That paper reads thus: Mz Dean Froonn Aovrros: I ask, through you, ‘Thecdore Tiltow’s forgiveness, and I humble mysclf Ucfore him as I do before my God. He wonld have ‘boen s Letter man in my circumstances than I have heen. T can ask nothing, except that he will remem- Ler all the other bressts that would ache, I will not plead fo: myself. Ieven wish that I were dead. But others must live fo sufier, T will die before any one bat myeelf shall be inculpated. Al my thoughts sre ruaning out toward my fricuds, snd toward the poor «clild lying tLere, and praying, witi. her folded hznds, She is guiltless, siuned aganst, beoring tho trane. gression of zuother. Her forgiveness I have, T Lzmbly pray to God to put it into the heart of her Lusbaud to forgive me. o Ihave trusted this to 2Moulton, in confidence. H. W. Beecmrn, This estraordinary paper, Afr. Beecher says, was written down by Moulton 88 & memoran- dum, in bLis own words, of the substance of what Mr. Beecher had told bim to say to Tilton. e (Nr. B.) declares he never read it, nor beard it read, excopt the last line. Ho therofore ropa- diates it. Mr. Tilton swears that Moulton wrote it s dictated by Beecher. Here, this vital point of the wholo case depends oa tho evidence of Moulton, who put the paper in writing, who un- derstood its object, 2nd now holds the paper. Tie denial of Mr. Beocher transfers the burden of preof upon Tilten, and, wntil Moulton gives another vension of the matter, the “apology " must be concidered as. rejected, and no fonger bearing any evideuce of guilt. Tho charge stands, therefore, a8 sufficiently repelled by Mr. Beecher to call for the additional testimony enid to be in existence, and held by Moulton. Al Tilton's statements rest upon evidencs’ 3@ 10 exist, and held by Moulton. r. Beecher refers to 80 much of this evidenco #8 is produced by explaining s part in & way that will probably eatisty his friends, and branding the rést 88 a fraud, 8o far a8 it assumes him to be responsible therefor. He follows this Up by charging Joulton snd Tilton with beving extorted §7,000 from him. For the present, therefore, despite the glar- ing incompleteness of Mr. Beecher's statoment, the case may be considered sufficiontly answered and silenced to compel - Tilton and Meuiton to prodnce their further tes- imony or to retire from the field. ‘Tikian’s position in this matter is at this time ma{at tainful. He made his statement, and pointed to Moulton as the depositary of all tho cocumerts and.alithe facis, Now, ifoulton, ‘with his whole statement in witing, Eeeps away, Is slent, and will not speak. It Tifion hes been fulsrepresenting him, or he hos been daoceiv- Tilton, truth demands that the whole ehall now be made pablic. Moulton mmust now defend himself and prove Tilton's ca8e, or avaw imsélf to bo a fulse accuser, a blackmailer, ang gencrally & most disreputablo clarcter. Hig fatars silence can be construea only as proot of infamy, and, uotil he speaka and gives all the fats to the peoplo, the verdict as to Mr. Beecher st b Mot proven.” If the casosbonld nayer be carried beyond its present status, there might still be doubts in, the minds of msuy pooplo as to Mr. Bcccper‘! ipnocence, but his friends would bo justified in maintuining their confidence in him, and ke could pursue his work without {he reproach of crimiualit THE CHENEY CASE. Judge Williams yesterday rondered a decision in the case of Whitehouso vs. Cheuey. It will be remembered that Mr. Clheney was Rector of Christ Church ; that, ecause of certain alleged want of cLeervance of the liturgy, he was first admoniehed aud then formally presented before & court of the Protestant Episcopel Chureh ; that by this court he way found guilty. After a reasonzble time, & eecoud coart was convoned, whiclh renderea judgment, aund the Bishop formally deposed him from tho ministry. A bill was then filed in tho Circnit Court asking tunt 3r. Chieney bo restrained from using or holding tho clurch, which was the property of the Protestant Episcopal Chureb, of which ho was nolonger a pricst. This was in 1873, Tho caso has been elaborately argued sinco then. Judge AViiliams holds that all churches in the United States aro regarded in law as voluntary societics, having their own laws 2 1 regulatious, aud that theso laws and regulations aro the stipulations goverping all the relations of the members. Thet Mr. Chenoy was Rector, and holding his oflico by and eubjeet to tho cauons of tho Cliuzeb, he was bound by them and sub- ject only fo them. That, under tho canons of tho Protestant Episcopal Clintch, the Orst court was constituted of five Assessors, but only four attended tho trial; that such & court more nearly resembles en arbitration than a civil court ; and that, by tho law gosverning arbitra- tions, all thie arbitrators must be present at the hearing of tho case. Underthese circumstances, Judge Williams bholds that, one of tho essential members of the court not being present, it was not & court at ail, within tho meaning of the Church csuou, and its action was void. The proceedings upon the second ¢rial, resting upon what took place at the first, the Court bad no jurisdiction, sud of course its sction was also void. 1t follows that the subsequent proceediugs by the Bishop, o Dnving no power to [ronounce & sentence oxcept ou the finding of a proper court, and thero being no valid coarsin this ease, were all equally il- legal, aud not warrauted by the cauons of the Clurch. Cousequently the sentence of deposi- tion prononnced by Bishop ‘Whitchouso falls with the discovery jthat thore was no court ca- nonically held. The bill was, therefore, dismiss- ed for want of equity. This ecision leaves 3r. Chonoy legally & min- ister of thoe Protestant Episcopal Church, from | which body be Lis since withdawn to join thoe Reformed Epiacopnl Church, in which he is now & Bishop. What new form the controversy about the possession of tho Christ Church property will now tako will depend largely upon the new Bishop. Au appeal may be taken on the preseut dccision ; or, which is more likely, Mr. Chioney’s sbandonment of the Protestaut Episcopal Chureh may form the basis of a new suit. There was an effort. fo introduce this feature into tue lato suit by o supplemental bill, but 1t was thrown out after elaborate argument. A JUDICIAL VERDICT DEMANDED. . The conduct of the Boecher-Tilton caso by the Brooklyn Investigating Cominittee, whatever else it may bave demonstrated, has demonstrat- ed this: That a voluntary court, bound by no law as to its course, with no principles to guide it but such as it improvises in each indiyidual cege; with unlimited freedom to sct at its dis- cretion ; whose code of procedure is its own eovereign and undisciplined wiil; which Lasno power to subpena iritnesses, compel their attendance, or to punish their refasal to sppear and testify,—cannot reach any vory eatis- factory conclusious, or come to nay intelligent verdict on the question before it. Itis not al- ways that o regular court, even guided by those rules for the reception and exclusion of evidence tho wisdom of which has been tested Dy the practice 6f generations, with ample power to compel the presence of witnesees, and to elicit from them the evidenco in their possession, can clear away all doubt, or arrive at truth. If this bo 8o in the case of reg- ularly-consiracted courts, how muach moro in the cage of & committee such as that which has been trying Henry Ward Deccher! The peoplo have all along feared that the verdict of the Brooklyn Investiguting Committeo wouid be open to suspicion, for the reason, in the first place, that it is mado up exclusively of Boocher's friends, and then, because, even if they wero auxious to obtain all the evidence, they had not the powerto compel its production. The fears of the public arenowconfirmed in the Iatter respect. One of the most importsnt witucsses for the rosecution—Miss Anthony—bus not even ap- reared befcre the” Committes, Frank Moulton declines to lay sl the evidence at his command before it. Mrs. Stanton says that Miss Anthony told her that Mre. Tilion confeased sho bad hed criminal joercourso with Mr. Beecher. Col. Anghony, Miss Authony’s brother, corroborates Mrs, Stanton's statement. Miss Antbony nerself docs not deny it, but will mot volunicer to testify concerning what sho beard in confidence,~i. e, if sho heard anything at all in confidence,—unless forced to do so by a court posscssing the author- ity to uneeal her lips. Here is ovidence of the very greatest weight. which might possibly chango the whole aspect of the caee, but which the Comuittee is perfectly powerless to obtain. The eame is truo of Moulton's evidence. Aloul- ton bas been & pencemaker and mediator be- twoen Beecher and Tilton for soveral years. Surely ho must know what the trouble between Beccher and Tilton was. It is absurd to supposo that he does not. Ho holds'the key tothe whole controversy, and refuses to givoitup. He has it in his power to throw s flood of light on the whole question, and will not. Solong as Moulton holds back his evidence, Beecher cannot be, and ought not to bo, fnally condemned, howerer appearances may beagainst him. But there is anothier aspect to the affair, Solong as Moulton refuses to tell the whole truth, & cloud must hang over Beecher's charac- ter. If Beecher is guilty, Moulton must speak the word that shall convict him. If Beecher is innocent, Moulton must epeak tho word that shall soquit him, vindicate and reinstats him in tho good opinion of the American poople. On the other hand, if Tilton has been a slanderer of Beecher, it matters notin how slight a degroe, Moulton alone can prove it. If Tilton has been the patient and suffering man he protests he has been, Moulton alone can establish it. But Moulton eays that he will not voluntarily pub- lish to the world what he recerved in coutidence, ineinuating tnat, if compelled to by a civil court, the Investigating Committes to a civil court, with power to compel bis attendance and the production of tho evidence Lo posscsses. Deecher’s ecquittal by s court of justica would e, in all probability, a completo vindication. It JMr. Beecher is wise, if be cares for his good name aund the gocd name of his children after Lim, ho will bave the case trupsferred to tho courts immediztely. Thero aro various ways to do this, Deecher may be indicted for adultery, or Tiltou for libel; or Baccher may sue Tilton in & civil action for demages for defsma- tion; or Tilton may sue Beecher for damages in alienating his wife's affections and destroying Lis home. Each has tho power to bring the watter into court. Once before the courts, Miss Authony snd Moulton could bo compelled to appear aud tell what they know. It would then bo known certainly whether Beccher was guilty or Tilton a slendefer. The roputation of both parties now demands a judiciul inquiry into all the facta of the case. Unless such an . inquiry §e instituced, Beecher will still bo suspected by thourends of bis countrymen us a bypocrite and debaucher; ‘Tilton by as many more as a blackmailer and slan- derer. It is not possiblo that both Beeeher and Tilton are crimials. Io i9 not possiblo that both areinnocent. Let tho innocent party trans- fer tho wholo controversy from the Brooklyn Tu- vestigating Committea to the courts, aud then o eatisfactory judicial vordict may be rendered, after all tho evidenca is offcred. WONAN-5UEFRAGE AND LIQUOR LEGISLA- TION. Next October, the Ansociation for the Advance- ment of Women i to bless Chicago by holding its Congress héro. In order toavoid onf sudden conversion, en masse, by the suflragists who will gather hero then, we will do well to con- sider the question beforeband. Nosinglo articla can cover ihe whole ground. We propoks to takio the subject in detail. Our theme to-Guy woman-suffrage considered from tho stundpoint of liquor legislation. The position the State should assume ia re- gard to the sale of alcobolic drinks is perbaps tho greatest politico-social question of the day. It enters mors orloss into evory campaign. In En- giand and America, each political party Lids for support by taking up, now one side, now tho other, of tlus vexed poiut. Our Western States bave just suffered from & eo-calied * crusada” aguinst the eale of liquor. which para- Iyzed business, promoted bLypocrsy, incul- cated contempt for the low processes of the law, and paved tho way for s great reaction. The question is one of cspecial weight in the United States, becauso a large mi- nority of our population have come Lither from their Fatherland with very pronounced views, already formed, agaiost auy probibitory legisla- tion on the liquor question, or, to speak more particularly, tho beer question. Common sense teaches us that we should find ou, before granting womsn-suffrage, what 1ts offect upon this momentous point of liquor legislation would bo. Thero is, unfortunately, little doubt. Women would, with very few exceptions, cast their votes for prolibition. Fho “crusade” was emphatic- ally a feminine concern. The only man promi- nent in it had to ba paid for his services. A cir- cular was recently gent to the womes of Michi- gav, asking them whether they wished to vote; whether, if they l:ad the Lallot sud did not gen- erally use it, they would vote on tie temperance issuo; and whetker, if so, they would support probibition. Of those who answered, & minarity said *yes™ tothe first query, & majority said “5es™ to the second, and a majority of the Iat- ter eaid ‘‘yes™ to the third. It is a priori probable that women wouid array themselves in tho probibition ranks. They suffer especially from the effects of intemperance, and are, ticre- fore, the more rendy to take any extremo meas- ures which they ignorantly suppose will chack the evil Moreover, they are intensely religious, and they make total abstinence part of their roligion, despile Cone of Galilee. Again, they are emotioual, 2nd an appeal to their feelings outweighs all the argu- ments of cold, calenlating reason. The prohibi- tion theory is the emotional ope; the licenso theory the reaeonablo one. And, finally, they are ceven more iguorant then most men in regard to the facts taught by = scientific treatment of this subject. Given, on ono side, & physician and u statesman, armed with argument, and on the other a minister and a ‘‘reformed drunkard,” overflowing with emotional rhapsodies,—znd tho latter couple will persuade pine women out of ten. ‘Wo connot afford to have a prohibition law forced npon us by feminine votes. 1t is likely that, at ths next election, tho polls would be taken possecssion of by men who would pot suf- fera single woman to reach the ballot-box. As long 38 woman-suflrago means tho passsge of & luw which canuot be enforced ; which, if backed by physical force, would at once be resisted, at the risk of a revolution ; and which is an un- warrantable, unwiso, . and unscientillc interfer- ence with individual tastes, 8o long is woman- eufirage unadvisable. When women are odu- ceted to bo citizens, and not merely to bo capa- ble of marrying citizens, their claims to the fran chise muy be differently considered. THE MYSTERIES OF LUNACY. The yery romarkablo statement of Mr. Plnm- ‘ridge, which we published yesterday, brings up the whole question of insanity. Passing from this case of alleged unjust confinement on the grouad of inseity, which we commend to tho at- tention of Mr. Charles Reade, we find that the elemont of tho mysterious in lunacy is very large, whether wo consider its csuses or its con- sequences. In some cases, for exsmple, it is wvery difficult to determine whetber: 3 a bless- ing or acuree, but inno case can it be called punitive or refor .ury, It may be, snd gener- ally is, tho rosuws, immedisto or remoto, of mental anguish originating exclusively in the mind, or growing out of s physical disorder ; sbut it can hardly be regarded a8 & punishment it its victim is unconscious of it. Consciousness of punixhment is essontial to its eflicacy. Only the sane may feel the stings of conscience or the upbraidings of on enlightened uoderstanding. And the suffering of the inano is a varisble ex- perience. Some of them do undoubtedly suffer Leenly, but many again, perhaps most, are freo from torture, while others give us every reason to believe that they aro much happier out of their heads than in them. That many persons are far Jees mischievous when they lose theirminda than whilo they are in possession of them will also be admitted. One of the moet conclusive evidences that the wicked are not visited with lunacy as a punish- ment of their misdeeds is tho fact that ko many of them, in passing from sanity to insanity, pass e would do 0. Thero is no option, then, left to Baecher or Tilton, whichever of them 18 in- jured by the suppression of Moulton's evidenoe, bub ‘to trsusfer the case from from a state of absolute wretcheduess to ono of positive enjoyment. The remorse which de- thrones the resson at the same time silences the conscioncs. It would ssem a5 though the arrow of retribution had overshot the mark. The man [ who deserves to pine away in & peuitentiary for bis crime reigus aa a + monarch " in a lunatic asy- lum. Instead of the cousuming mortufication under a striped suit, Lo rejoices haughtily in his night-cap for a crown, and an umbrella for & sceptre. Some of the Tammany ring, instead of sharing in tho shavo that was visited upon tho dovoted head of their cbief, aro strutting about on Blackwell's Liland in all the paraphernalia of 2 lunatical imagipation. Ald. O'Drien, who was Tweed's mght-hand man in his depredations upon the public treasury, now has the satisfac- tion of believing bimeelf a peacock. In hie mind’s eye no city father now in office, whether in New York or Chicago, can boast of tail-feathers such 28 he has been rewarded with for his ardu- ous devotion to the pablic service. Ald. Murry, too, has apartments at the Blackwell retreat. Ho was jester to the Boss throughout Lis regsime, and oft was wont to set the tableina roar. Altbough we may well aek where be his jokes now, he is not without lus flashes of merriment, aud, for aught thero is in bis bebavior to the contrary, he may epjoy tho hallucination of being the buffoon of the Kingof the Canribal Islands. Stevens, onco the President of the Tweod Board of Aldermen, is now an inmate of a8 Jersoy resort for tho demented, where he prob- ably hss the gratification of feeling himself pre- eide over tho destinies of the entire force of Federal office-hiolders, Frank Drady has proba- Liy misen, in his own estimation, from 2 Thirteenth-Ward politician to the auto- crat of the whole Blackwell domain, and knows ‘that ho bhas ouly to whisper his command, “Voto early and often,” to insure o tull turn-out of the lunatics who always rush to the polls in obedicnce to their leaders. T'weed, 5o far as wo can hear, is tho only one of tho ring who is compelled to endure tho full possession of all Lis faculties. Buch ia what may be called tho irony of lunacy. Tho ecstasy of egotism which enters into the experionce of some of tho religions can only be cxplained on the theory of aments] aberration oramorbid impulse. Their oxalted moods are the hallucinations of arrogance. They can sit in the seat of the scornful, or mournful, accord- ing to the object they have in view. The Rev. George Francis Fulton, of Drooklyn, must bave been long in tho enjoyment of an un- sound mind to bave iunformed the Lord in his prayer that “Ho knew” that Mr, Fulton’s son “Liad been brought up 10 a Christian. family un- der the best of Christian influcnces, and that this will only makoe Lell the hotter for him.” Alas for tho leds who dopart this life after having #pent it under the “influcnce” of so Christian a parent! DBut dehold the plessures of lunacy! Thoy may reach so bigh a pitch that & Christian shall find as much enjoyment in consigning his child to animaginary cremation ss the Alderman- ic peacock dces in shaking out his gorgeous tail. We recommend to this divine the veszetation diot which G. F. Train, Exq., found 80 quicting to his tongue and Eo exorcisiog to his im- pudence. Wodo not wish to be uderstood as prescribing lunacy to any of our follow-citizens, whether in or out of office ; but it is plain to be seen that it is & groas reliof to thoso who seck a. charitablo solution of the cruelties inflicted by the intolerant upon the victims of their pros- elyting zeal. To hold them accouotablo is to make their guilt greater than any one man ought to bear ; to look npon them as lunatics it for hortor to give plece to pity, ana angry raproach to paticut expostulation, THE WARS OF THE WORLD, The American Peaco Saciety ought to be in s happy frame of mind. Thero are but two wars and a speck of war to agitate it. Spain and the Carlists, Japan and the Corecus, bave moro or less of fighting on band, and thespeck of war rises on tho horizon between Turkey and Egypt. None of theso affairs, however, are very serious, sithough they figure slmost daily in the foreign dispatches. The recent atrocitics of the Car- listz bave led to tho recogmition of Spain as o Tepublic by all the leading Powers of Europe. The Government at Madrid hes to thank the Car- Linta for agsassinating s German military ofticer, who was actihg as 8 newspaper correspondent in the rear of tho army, for this recoguition. The otlier Powere, which were only waiting for Germany to take t"0 Iead, have not been slow in iesponding, thus sccuring to Spain a moral sup- ‘port which will be of incaleulablo advantage, if she has the ability to improve it. It will exer- cise its most powerful influence in France, where Don Carlos has a host of fricuds smong the par- tigans of the House of Bourbon and the Ultra- montaves. The encouragement and sympatby which he has found among the officials on the French frontier, and the direct supplies of arms and ammaupition which he has received from tiem, have alone enabied him to defy the XMadrid Government, and to coapel it to keep a large army in the ficld. Now that Franco haas recognized the Spanish Repub- Tic, however, Don Carlos canmot expect to keep Lis bage of supplies along tlie French frontier. He is compelled to fall Lack upon bis own resources. If his atrocities continue, the recog- nition will probebly prove only the preliminary step to direct interference in tho nama of humanity. So far, theraforo, there is aray of hope tbat things will mend in Spain. The Japauese war against Corea, which has been declared becasuse the Coreans seized the crow of a wrocked Japancse junk the other day and chiopped their Leads off, will not be a very drendful affair, although the Japauese are mak- ing proparations as formidable as if they wero about to commence a crusade against the wholo of Chins. A large army has been raised, which is being drilled by Chinese officors, who in turn were 1nstructed by the French ; new vessels are in process of construction ; and new forts, armed with the best cannon from Europe, have been arected all along the coast. Theso preparstions will probably insure & sherp and swift punish- ment of the Corean murderers. The telegrsph has intimated several times that there 18 trouble between Turkey and Egypt; but, as usual, has furnished no indication of the cause of it. This the foreign mails at last supply. The difference between the two Posers scems to have erisen from the efforts of the Kbhedive of Egypt to obtain possession of Crete. When Mohemot Ali becamo ruler of Egypt, e found that, in order to maintain him- eelf and his successors, he must have a strong. naval force, and he made repeated but sbortive efforls to get possession of Crete, Bhodes, Cyprus, and the Morea, all of which places have abundant forests and harbors. His suc- cessors made mo esttempt to carry out his | Viceroy came : plsas until the present into powor. He hag striven to obtain the neces- sary harbors by annoxing Crete, and in this be hasbeen sided by the Mohammedan population of tho island, who would be glad to come under -Eyptian rule, sud by Nubar Pasha himself, tio ruler of §f. Tho lstter, indeed, attempted to .n'bmn’ it fot Egypt by diplamatic moans, and Sultan, who will not hear of =ny enlarge- ment either of the fleet or of the territory of Egypt. If the. Khedive, therefore, wishes Crete, he will havo to take it by force. This he throatens, aud hence tho speck of war. Beyond theuo thres squabbles, the world is sub- stantinlly quict and taking a breathing-spell. Its placidity is only disturbed, as Old Probabilities would &ay, by local areas of disputes, which gen- erally rage with more fury where there is little danger that the combatants will get at each other. THE ORIGINAL CATHERINE GAUNT. On the 29th of June, 1871, Mrs. Tilton wrote to Mr. Tilton from Schohario K. Y., a letter con- 1aining the following words: **My Dear Theo- dore: To-dsy, through the mystery of Miss Catherine Gaunt, s character of fiction, my eyes have been opened for the first timo in my ex- perience, so that I seo clearly my sin.” In this connection, it will be interesting to trace the story of Catherine Guunt to its source, el:hough there is but little parallel between the mystery of Elizabeth Tilton and tbe mystery of the original of Cutherino Gaunt, escept that in both cages a priest figwes prominent- ly. Tho origioal of Catherino Gaunt was Mme. De Chauvelin, of Narbonne, a widow with five children, who, in 1687, married Louis de la Pivardiere, tho youngest of thico gons of & gon- tleman of noblo lineage. Afler two years of their wedded life, ho went into the army. Dur- ing his long absences, s prior of tho neighbor- ing abbey of Miseray becamo s froquent visitor at the house, and scandal was coon busy with the fair famo of Mme, Pivardiere. It reached tho carsof her husband, but L only contented bimself with making longer absences away from home. Meanwhile, ho made the acquaintance of Mlle. Pillard, an inn-keepor's daughter, and married her, trusting to his distance from home that his first wife would not hear of it. They bad mony children, and, after the birth of cach child, be visited Mme. Pivardiere and ox- torted mouoy from Ler by threats to expose her. At lust she diccovered bis second marriage, and wheu he again visited her to procure money she taxed bim with it. A violent scene ensuod. He remained in the house that night, but, fearing for Lis life, be suddenly disappeared at day- break. One day the Police-Lisutenant of Clat- illon, who bore a malice agmnsi both Mme. Pivardiereand the prior of Miseray, instituted an inquiry which resulted in the arrest of Mme. Pivardiere for the marder of her husband. Two servants gwore positively to the murder, and she was convicted. She thercupou potitioned the Chambre de Vacations for a fresh process ; her petition was granted; and the Judge of Remorentin prosecuted & mew inquiry. Mean- while, she kept np s vigorons search for hor hus- band, and found him at Auxerre. He madea clean breast of the whole affair to his second wife, wno advised bim to go immediately to Nar- Lonne and save his first wife's life. He did so, aud identified himself; but thiy only led to his own arrest for bigamy, then punishable with death. At this juncture, the second wife went in person to Louis XIV., who interposed his au- thority. A fair trial was obiaived, Mma. Pivardiere and tho prior ware acquitted of tho crime of murder. The influence of Louis X1V. secured the discharge of Pivardiers, who there- upon quit both wives, went into the army again, and was finally killed in a battle with the brig- ands. His first wife died shorly after. Tho prior of Miseray died at a good old age. Tho second wife, who appoars to have been tho ooly onein the strange history appearing to advan- tage, married twico afterwards, and enjoyed many years of peace and happiness. THE DECAY OF THE GHOSTS. The ghosts of to-day are very commonplace beings, somewhat valgar, very uselees, and fond of trifling tricks. They smash crockery and tumble furniture around. They tap on banjos and rap upearthly nonsense out oo tadles. They send acattered bauds floating through the air, and they untio ropes with sailor-like dexterity. Sometimes, like the famous * Katie King,” they allow mortals to foel their hearts beat, and dis- tributo fragments of their ghostly garments as souvenirs. According to Robert Dale Owen's Border-Land,” they thrust two fingers out of “ g luminous cloud ” that waltzes through a par- lor, and then clutch s flower from the piano. Or, more prosaically, they drop in a casual way upon o table two livo lobsters. This, by the by, is the one usefal thing in the catalogue, If & gnost could be induced to take & contract for supplying one's table in retusn for an occasional puff in the papers, he woull be a valuable member of so- ciety. Agit s, tito first thought at the close of & protracted seance is apt to be: “What weak fools these spirits are.” In olden times, asan English review points out, it was not go. A ghost was gomething great then, and stood upon his dignity. Ho was no romping, hilarious, mischief-making goblin, but a Bpirit with something to do and with sufficient gravity to do it in an awe-inspiring manner. After the spitit of Lord Tyrono had visited Lady Beresford, the latter asked to touch him. *It is not for spiritual bodies to touch mortal fleeb,” replied the ghost. And when Lady Peresford persisted, her visitor touched her wrist, which quivered with pain. ‘The grasp left ** an indeliblo mark as if & pair of Ted-hot pincers had griped me.” As Lord Tyrone bad then been in this world for somo hours, the place he came from must have been pretty hot. The Bov. John Jones, of Holiwell, Elintshire, was saved from the attack of a bhighway-robber, carly 1n thia contury, by a_celestial visitor, who suddenly appeared by his side, mounted on a white steed. The ghost roda along with him until the danger was past. He deigned no reply to the Rov. Jones' continued questions, until the latter asked : “ Can it for a moment be doubted that my praver was beard sud tbat you were sent for my deliverance by the Lord?" Then the splirit eaid “ Amen,” and quietly vanished. If he bad been of tho tribe of to-day, he would have rapped three times on the nearest fence-rail, turned into s luminous cloud, and floated through the air playing on & banjo. Tho Cock-Lane ghost was an exception to the old rule of dignity ; but he, she, o it appeared only & few times, and was doubtless summarily squelched by some ghostly patriarch, who was ¢ wroih at his, her, or its frivolity. Those were the grand days. Tempora mutantur. Familiari- ty has: bred contempt. The ghost of to-dayisa harlequin. | The telegraph contiunea to bring us news of tho wonderful doings of the new broom in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury,—how it i is sweoping out this dopartment and that depart- ment, and cleaning up all the rubbish which has been accumulsting o long. But how is it that this wonderful broom somehow doss not reach AMcllett, and sweep him and his patent-roofing an 3 gas-pipes dut of the Department? The now brpotn would Be appraciated much mors highly Troasury Department. Is the Architect strong- er than the broom ? e THE CRESTON TRAGEDY. Tho telegraph has already furnished pretty full details of tho tragedy at Creston, Iovia, but some edditional facts have come by miil of & very remerksble oature. It will bo rem::mbered that the murderer was J. P. Buruett, and the murdered man, J. L. Brister, hisstep-t.on. Mrs. Drister, ginco the arrest of Burnett, has made an afiidavit which invests the crime with a new and very singular character. In her affidavit, she snys that she formerly lived in Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio, whers she matried Brister. In tho spring of 1874, lier hasband in- formed her that be had sold her to James L. Burnett, and that thereafter she wounld have to ghare bis happiness. Bubsequently, in Bed- ford, Iows, Burueit czmo into her room ome might and told her that he had given her husband one-half of his property and now owned her. He cohabited with her that night; aud the next day, Brister, apparently tired of bLis bargain, abused ber for submitting to him, and went away. Burnett, however, con- soled his remariable property by assuring her Lo should defend ber and kill Bristerit ho ever came back. Meantime, Brister weut to Chariton and wrote threatening letters, which 80 fright- ened his wife that sho begged to be sent back to Ouio. Burnett, instead of 60 doing, moved with her to Creston. Ho soon tired of his property. Drister came back to Creston, and had un inter- view with Burnett, which resulted in an agresment botween them, for o certain sum loaned by Bur- nett to Drister, that the Iatter should again take possession of his wife. Brister refused to sign the papers, because thoy drow interest, and Bur- nett then seized upon tho first opportunity to kill Brister, which ho accomplished by cutting his throat. The tragedy is one of the most re- markable on record. The ignorsnce and weak— ness of the woman are hardly more amazing than the fiondishness of these two brutes, de- libérately taking advaotage of ber ignorance to buy and sell the possession of her body. ~While great pity will be felt for the wretched woman, she is the only one who deserves any commis- eration. Her brutal husbaud bas met with a fate which ho deserved, and when the noose is around the neck of the murderer he will meet the fato which he deserves. It should be some consolation to her, then, that she is happily rid of both. ‘The subject of corporal punishment now znd then excites a commotion in England, but the practice of flogging boys is one of the ancient traditions, and only the extent, not the princi- ple, of the pupishment is called in question. The Winchester *tunding,” as will be remewm- Lered, resulted in tho sappression of this bar- barous smusement. Shrowsbury Grammar- School has recently been the object of public in- terest, and 1ts head-master of general execra- tion. Oncof the scholars, aged 16 yeare, had been guilty of conveying ale and porter to his study, aud there enjoying it doubly because ille- gally. Hia father, ex-Mayor of Shrewsbury, was immediately sent for, and the lad made to submit an humble apology. Four days later the offender was sentenced to a flogging with the birch-rod, and sctually reccived eighty-eight strokes from it. The American public is havpily not familiar with a ** birching.” The rod is com- posed of long wiry birch twigs, loaded with buds, and bound tightly together at one end, making & weapon 3 or 4 inches in diameter at one end, aud & perfect broom 3 feot long. Tho offender is birched on the bare ; the wiry rods and their buds cut deeply in, bringing blood and leaving wounds which remain for weeks. One cat wih a birch on an American boy would, hap- pily, create & riot. This unfortunate lad received eighty-eight. So great was the scandal that the Governors of the school—a peer, a clergyman, and a Queen’s counsellor—were directed to look into the matter. They did so, and reported that tho head-munster “hnd not inflicted excessive punishment.” The young gentlemen of Shrews- bury Grammar-School must sleep cowfortably at pight, with the poseibility before them that the coming day's mischief may end in punishment not less severe than the cat. —_— The moet heartlesa case of kidnapping oc- carred in Cincinnatl. It was cruel, because the person kidnapped was desd and could offer no resistance. ‘The pérson who kidnapped Lim was an undertaker. Tho corpse was that of & poor old man who died suddenly and was taken to the Aorgue, whera the undertaker found him. The latter then tcok the body to his store, equipped it for the grave, snd awaited a claimant. The body was subsequently recog- nized by a son of the old mav, but tho under- taker refused to give it up uatil 2 billof 40 had beeu paid on it. ‘I'be son secured it eventually by & writ of replevin. Taissortof body-snatch- ing is more disgustiog than that of the profes- sionsl resurrectionist. The secret of the matter was that the nndertaker was a city official. Oregon enjoys some extraordinary natural advantages. Tho yield of wheat this year has been excellent, the wool-clip bas been gocd and commands good prices, while the selmon yield alone amounts to netrly $2,000,000. This latter industry is growing rapidly. There are already thirteen canning and curing establishments in operation at Portland, and two more in course of erection. There is little danger, if proper pre- cautions are used, of exhausting the supply of these delicate fish, for one full-grown female lays 6,000,000 eggs every year, aud, if but a small proportion of the family reach maturity, tho supply will cxcead any demand likely to bo made in many years. Blessed with an inexhaustible supply of salmon, and the absence of Joaquin Atiller granted, what else can Oregon aak for! Denver is a progressive city. Its inhabitants kmow more than its newspapers, and decline to allow the latter to impose on them. When the Denver Tribune published a telegraphic dis- patch dated Berlin, Aug. 8, to the effoct that Bismarck's son fired throe shots at Mr. Sarkss- wan and kitled lum, an excited correspondent immediately detected the errorf insisted that the duel occurred July 20; that only one shot was fired by each party; thatthe whole story was mixed up. Kitchen-Poisoning. ‘The recent poisoning in New York, caused by the reckless use of vermin ‘ extermiuator,” de- serves the earnest attention of housekeepers. Three peraons died, and several others were se- riously prostrated, from the effects of this pro- posterous blunder, The developments at the inquest give a startling exhibition of_the ignor- anco and carelassncss of servante, and show bow liable families are to fatal accidentin the kitchen when conatant supervision i8 not exerciged by the miutress of tho house. The particular ex- terminator used in this case was Paria green, one of the deadlicst of mineral poisons, and the testimony shows that it was employed in eutire ignorance of the dapger ivcurred. Enough of tie aubstance was scattered about the kitcben to kill & regiment,—the only excuse for such an invitation to disastor being & desire to rid the premises of rosches. Yers likely the roaches were killed by such vigor- ous treatment, bat it is a wiracle that tne whole family was ot as summariiy disposed of. As it was, the consequences were sniciently dread- ful. Tho poison was found scatiered every- where,—amoag the dishes, amoog the knives and forks, and on window-#ills, whore a breath of air might ecatter it 1nto articles under process of cooking. Such foothardiness is almost i credible, and the carelesuness of ihe head of the family in perniitting such practices equally so. The travail of “looking after ” servants is often & serious one, mpefllncs constantly shows that it in safely or comf t it cannat, ty azt, bo OUR WATER SUppLy, = _— Considerations th, . the Locationazf];\:::;mma Pipes, _— The Way the Water-0fice Track of Hs Gustomers, B 4 Is a Grealer.“ Fead” of Water iy Chio cago Desirable or Practicable Keeps Much has been written, and mors b, i thought aud felt, sbout tho hayp:“ been tion " of the portentons probley L city's water supply which hag beep oy Ot Chicago. The practical ekill, and ggger, o and courage, with which the city's .m‘f,"":”- finaacial and scientific, have achieved thyt Lo tion, have in thew large elament of the 1" from which the desperate needs of tha cify sort tracted but little. The pmec'uonanhamj,;:"b' mont, so far &5 tho purity. a0d eficiency of supply are concerned, has often been foy. is » matter of world-wide notoriety, Jt sy MATTER OF CONGRATULATION that the radical thoroughness which < ized the action of Chicago in her iy, search for pure water, presented the sigy of halt-way measures, and relegsted “outside barbarians ™ the old o get 1id of the impuritios of turbid, poisey nanseating water, which only was procuagy ‘While other cities construct vast Teservoiry, 1 protact themselves sgainst 5683003 of droggh, and {o give disazveeable impurities & changy precipitats thomselves ero passig. into thes tributing oipes, or cause their supply to po: tinough elaborato scieutific liters, in the ‘3“ hiope o strainiug out porsonons subutaaceshef} in solution, it was reserve for Chicago to me than rival tho old Romau_prodigabty aad . vondeut, to all tenta and purposes, ‘of “rp. fall,” or *drainage’ Burface.” or *gaclogiey formations,” or of all possiblo deflement, g bring within the sbeolute control of 'ty foeblest dwellers within her borders, an abon. dant supply of pure water. Tho goueral mathd by which this is done ia familiar o aul the worl, but it is thought that A . tAl::msznvu:w an is usally taken of tho water-syat Cliiesgo _will Lot be aninteresting, even to” 1or own cltizens. Tbe lecation and use of the erb are well know, but it i8 not o well kuown tin by a peculiarly ingenions constraciiontho wates supply of the city is obtained from tha cold, clear water of tho bottomof the laks. Thy “gates” through which the water enters the sliaft that supplies tho tunnel are near tho sure. face it i8 true, but the openings or sluices by which the - well " of the crib 12 sapplisd ara jusy above the bottom of tho lake. Al orthodos de- scriptions of the tunnel give its capacity nader different ** Lieads of water.” But the uninitisted often fail to understand where tho “comes in" thai affects the flow of mater through the tunnel. Alter the water pasces through the pumps and into the distributing. Dipey, it is commouly and easily nnderstood, that **liead " is furnished by the stand-pigs Ioeated in the tower of the water-works. Lt its jofu- ence caunot reach beyoud the pumpsin thedi. rection of the lake. The tuonel at the shors end terminztes in a pump-woll, in which the water naturally rises to the lovel of the “zoure of supply,” or the surface of tho lake. Whey the pump begins to operato, the lovelof the water in this well is lowored, aud the differmos of water between the suiface of tho wr in the pump-well snd tho surface of the lake is the ‘*head” which regulales tae rapidity, and cousequently the amoust of tho tlow through the tunmel. Vibe this dufference of lovel is 2 feot, the capacisy of tho tuonel ia 19,000,000 gallons dauly ; wheu itis 8 fect, 33,000,000, and witen it 18 13 foot the cse pacity is 57,000,600 gallof$ daily. When tho water supoly of the city first came through the tunoel in 1867 there were in uss 150 miles of wain aad distributing pipes. Siuce that time upwards of 20 miles sdditional bave been luid, aud such pipes are now Inying at the rateo) more than 40 miles per year. TUE ALTHOD by which the cits sccomplishes this very com- plicated and difticult work is worthy of mvesti- gation sud attention. In this age, which hat arigivaied 8o many economical improvementa in every department of busiuess sod of life, n prominent featura sod general charactonstic of all comprehensive operatione, is that principle commoly kuovwn 85 tho division of labor, by which _eact: ageucy employed performs a definite and well under- stood portion of the work. Accordingly we find in the water deparcment of the Board of Pablio Works in this city s Littlo army of clorks ad workmen, who smoothly snd eiciently accoms plish a0 smount of work which, viewed in the Bggregate, 18 littla loss than prodigious. THE ECCENTRICITIES of resl-estato speculators, und the singulstly erratic naturo of Chicago's growth, prevet e most astute observor from knosing positively, or with any considerable degreo of cerat 3y, the probable extent of the dovolopment of any given neighborhood, but eusblo the most inattentive to know that the actnsl sum of the wholo progress is enormo 1t is therefore & problem of no Littla diiicalty ts judicionsiy and justly detesmino the best local- tues in which o ospend tho limited annual sp- proprations for the laying of water-pipes. Tio linbilisy to grievous annogance from the solicits- tions of importunate epoculators to lay pipes {hrough desert strects to resch some favorus subaivision, is sel(-evident, To protect itsell from tais annovance, as well 33 to Go_justice more deusely populited neighborhoods & REGULAR PROGRAMYE i is marked out by which pipes are laid on new streeds, When aman_ lives on a street in which there isno water, he is entitled to patition the Board of Public Works to lay_water-pipes in the stroeet. ‘The Board before acting on the pe:ton, eends an ageut whose special business it 180 ex- d forererty question of gy examine the locality to which tho petition refers. The object of tie examivation is 1o aucertain the Pprospective revenue to be derived from the pro- posed improvement. Inasmuch as the smoust of the ordipary water-tax depends upon tbo number of housgs, sud not upon the amaunt oF valua of the real extate, or the number af inhab- itauts, it is comparatively easy to make tha re- quired estimato. Tie usual practice of tho Toard 18 to lay tho Dipo on a streat whenever the number of houves thereou is sufficieut to 0c- cupy one sida of the eweet. I early days, when tho principles of sanitary science wero less gen- erally understood than now, tm)u petition fr water was often accompauicd or followed by HEANONSIRANCE on the part of those who had excavated good wells. So far aa the collection of regular wata rates is concerned, it is a matter of no copso- quence whether a house Las the Waki or uot. The rogular ratcs are Pai apon vacant honses the same as if oceupied It, hence, scemed a bardship to.parties, wko perbaps entertained a traditional reverenco for the ** moss-covered bucket.” and who had gore to tho trouble and expenze of building well, to relegata them to the jurisdiction and memory o the past, and to embrace perforce snd atonce the new aystem. No difficulty of this kindi3 now experienced. It is bow only s question o decidiog botween the claims of "different nn_xx!:— borhooas more or less distant aad inaccessibid in accordance with the sanitary and financial io- terests of mrl city, not forgetting in the lstier its secarity from ** igneous ngencies.” Afcer hearing from their examiner, tbe mfi ‘passes upon each petition for wazer, and in event of favorable action, the proper officer b the pipo drswn wpon the ground, and agoef agent looks after the LAYING OF THE PIFE. i The Board has adopted a uniform rule i the placoin the street of all waier-pipe io o city. On all north or south streeta that placé 3 line is 6 feet eastof tho centre of thslh’l‘h Oa the aast and west streots it a G feot DO of the centro of the street. All this wor L carefully and accarately doue. The plsty B records in the oflice of the City-Engineer s2% tho charscter and Jocation of every inch of Fir? connected with the system. The pipessrd ! gurded with uncommon care aftor they e 1L To pers;n, plunber or otherwise, is perittod to “*tap” fhem except the expert agents o! Board. I therefore becomea nccesgarg, ¥Beh & citizou wishes to introduce the Iake wWatesid his houss, to S APPLY FOR PERMISSION t0 connect his premises with the water-svstem of the city. The Loard roquires that all qrdmfl service-connections be made with lead pipe of 5 specific weight, proportioned to_tho work mm. done. It slso ntipnlaies tho depth belo¥ he surface this service-pipe ia to be laid, in ax\lelxw 2 escapo all frost difficulties, which depth mustnot bo lcss than 4 feet. The piumber whos 'J cenas places him nader heavy bonds sn":ha o for tho correct performance of bis work, is | respoasille for the fulillmesd of these y l t v 1 R N