Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 27, 1874, Page 8

L8 THE CHIGAGO -DATLY TRIBUNE: 80 DAY, ‘SEPTEMBER 27, 1874 — TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 2aras OF STBCRIFTION (FATARLE B ADTANCE) 1 i 2,00 | Szndas 3 Faltpman. -S1E00 Wy 300 Trte o1 8 year st the same rate. Toyrerent delay and mistakes, be wure and give Poct Offce address 1n fall, ncloding State and Countr. Poss ‘Remitiauces may bo made elther by draft, expreas, Ofice ouger, Or n registered larters. at ourTHAK. (EXMS TO CITY SUDSCRIBEES. Daily, delivered, Sunday exceptea 25 cente per week. Datly. celtvered, Sunday inciuded, 3 cents per week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornsr Madison and Dearbora-sta., Chicago, Lk TO-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS. ERA-HOUSE—Clark _street, ooposlte BN O A W eon's Mkmsthel. IVICRER'S THEATRE-Madlson strect, between 0. Dearborn_and cagement of Joseph Jeflerson. ““Rip Van Winklo." 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By order o 2 - - SAST SERLEMAN , WHITE AND BLUE LOYAL ORANGE 1 BEDs, ek it hold a regular meeting to-morrox {Mondap) evenioi, at ino batl, southoast comer of Frank, un Buros-sts., Ab 1:45 p. m. aharp. o o aney. Bancroal sttondance s requested. Visit- Ing brethren cordially invited. This Lodze mests every el i Sonday fn eseh month. L o oo —— BUSINESS NOTICES. CHESNEY, CORNER OF CLARK AXD PR ey S Evsts tho st aad Lest Iuil ot of Zoeth for S¥. Satisfaction given or money refuaded. The Chirago Cribune, September 27, 1874. Sunday Morning, ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE LEGIS- LATURE. There never wasa timo pressed by the meed of good members of the Legisiature as now, We arc threateued with 2 loss of fire-insurance, without which business cannot be carried on for the want of a few re- forms which we sbould bave had years ago. Thero'are four Senators and twents-one Kepre- sentatives to be elected this fall,—three Sena- tors holding over. We think that, without any disturbance of the political balence of parties, a0 arrangement might be mado that would se- curo the eloction of proper Representatives to the Legislature. If not, something more de- cisive must be done. The First District is composed of the First, Secand, Tenth, and Eleventh Wards. This is unquestionably & Republican district ; tho two partios might each pominale » can- 2n this city was 80 didato for Senator, each putting forward some citizen of intellience and char- scter, thoronghly informed as to the embarrsssments of the city, 50 that whichever a8 elected the city would be faithfully repre- sonted. The politicsl preponderance of the dis- trict being g0 well determined, there might be w0 agreement that the Republicans nomivate two snd tho Opposition ono candidate. The election of these being thus rendered certain, the two parties might disregard sll appeats from the mob of bummers snd Joafers, and designate fit and proper pergons. The Second District be- ing also largely Republican, there might bo o fike sgreement. as to Representatives. (No Sen- stor to be elected.) The Third District is over- whelmingly Democratic. Here the Senator and two Representatives could be conceded by the Republicans, they taking the third man. In the Fourth District the Republicans can elect two Representatives,—the Senator holding over. In the Fifth District the Opposition will in all probability elect Senator and two Representa- Zives, as they will eloct the two Representatives in the Sixth District. What we wish to impress on the public mind 18, that the political or party majority in each of theee six distnets is so well estsblisbed that there is no necessity for a party coutest on metn- bers of the Legislature. The First, Second, and Fourth Districts ure decidedly Ropublican; tho others are 88 decidedly Opposition. If the nom- inating conventions will sccopt this plain and obvious fact, and apportion the representation accordingly, the election of all the nominces withont opposition becomes a certainty. This baing the case, neither party can be under sny obligation whatover to nominate improper or un- £t persons. at least for the House of Representa- tives. They can therefora select in each district toreo proper men who are familiar with the re- quirements of business ns regards firo legisla- tion; who are thoroughly posted in the matter of State and Municipal taxstion, and who have b ability to present the noedod reforms to the Legislature, and personal character to sdd ‘weight to their damands. ‘Though the vominstion and eelection of can- Qidates is foraign to the purpoes and objects of the Citizens' Association, the character of the men to be elected to the Legislature is un appro- priate matter for them to investigate. Without doparting from tho non-partisan character of therr organization, it is possible for them to ‘bring a potent influenco to bear on the political managers of both parties, and to induce them to 1ift the election of membere of the Legielature oat of the ordinary party mud-hole, aud enable them, without any loss of party etrengtl, to ob- toin candidates on both sides of personal char- acter, intelligence, and experience in public mat- ezs to represent this eity nest winter in tho Legislature. If the political pasties so far dis- rogard all considerations of pubiic interest and 3ecency in the selection of candidates for the Uegislature 23 they did two years ago, then it willbe imperatively necessary for the peoplo 'who have property and homes liablo to destruc- tion by fire to take this matter in hand, and, by united action, smash the slates of the Conven- Sone. It he, now been decided by admirers of Hans Christian Andersea to illamine bis old age with a Chbristmas preseat from old and young readers of his storice in tius country, instesd of sending bim driblete of money from the caehbox of the thrifty infarta. The Néw York Tribune is one of the dopoeitanies selected for tms plessant contnbution. What form the Christmas present skall tako ie 8 matter yet to bo decided. Whetb- eritaball be & pew suit of clothes, 8 full so- equns of the Deschar-Tuton scandal neatly bound, or & version 6f ** Very Hard Cash ™ trans Iated into Danish currency, will depend upon tho amonnt of money contributed and the disposi- tion of the purchasing committee. Let nottheir number be six. The Committes of Six is an imperishable recollection. Ita patent should be Tespoctod- SHERIDAN ON IKSURANCE. Mr. Mark Sheridan, President of the Fire and Police Board, when called upon by the Citizens' Aesociation to discuss the present organization of the Fire-Department, made s speech, present- ing s own plan of insurance, which he pro- poses shall supersede ail other fire-insurance. It we rightly comprohend this plan, it is that a new branch of the City Government shall be es- tablished, called the Board of Insurance, which ch.rfl shall insuro all the buildings and property therein, collecting therefor a rate of insurance to be determiped by the Loard,—the premiums received for ten years to be set apart 88 aa in- surance-fund, and an annual tax to be lovied to pay the losses likely to occur during the year. When the insurance-fund shall become large enough to yield an aunual income equal to the Tosses, then the tax to pay the same shall be discontinued. L =This schome, which is n very old oue, is the very quintessenco of folly. The human mind can understand no greater encouragement to in- cendiariem than a standing offer to make good every maw's loss by fire. Ineurance is a busi- ness that hos engrossed the attention of sowe of the ablest minds in all countries, and, dospite thie experience and observation of centuries, the system has not yet been 80 perfected that, taking one year with another, the business can be made proStable. The 118 compauies doing business in this State in 1872, including the best compenies in the country, bad, in that yesr, o cash capital of $36,000,000. ‘Their gross receipts wero 364,600,000, aud their expenditures 306,- 900,000, leaving a deficit of $£2,100,000 for the year. Here, then, was an immense Uusinese, carricd on with all the care and skill that long experience could suggest, with an actual loss, leaving the immense capital employed without any profit. Thoe losses of the preceding year had consumed the capital of a large number of insurance companies. Tho business dobe in Illinois during 1872 was a prosporous and profit- able one ; but the business in this State for the five yoars anding Dec. 81, 1872, show a balsnco of losses paid'in excess of receipts of over 245,- 000,060. Mr., Sheridan proposes that the City of Chicago shall anderwrite all the property in this city, and that this business shall be committed to a Board composed of such gentlemen as Sheridan, Klokke, and Reno! These Commissicuers, of course, are to bo elected by the peogle, aud must include one German, one Irishman, aod one na- tive, in order to couciliate the differont « elements ™ that make up the voting population. The insurance of all the property in this city by a political Board would, of course, be a farce and a fraud. Each man would be taxed to insuro the property of all bis neighbors, not against eccident, but against arson. Even with the closely-mavaged business of ingurance by pri- vate compsnies, & large percentage of the fires may bo 2ssumed to have their origin in the at- tempt to sell the property to the insurance com- panics. Make the City of Chicago the paymmster and the Board of Aldermen and the Insurence Board tho guardians of tho tressury, and it is within reason to suppose that there would be a liberal consumption of insured property every twents- four hours. The rates of insurauce would be regulated by ward-meetings; the amount of in- sarance on property would be such a8 corrup- tion and political influence might procure ; and the city, in addition to all its other bardens, would soon be overwhelmed by the tax io pay fire losges. ‘There is one branch of the question which Mr. Sheridan does not seem to have studied. It is that insurance ig & busincss, like that of banking and manulacturing, that requires sxill and ex- perience, persoual integrity, and public confi- dence in the management. The rates of insur- ance to enable the company to pay losses and ex- penses are governed by the confidence that may be reposed in the Government of the city, and especislly of its Fire-Depariment. If Mr. Sheri- dan has any doubt on this subject, let him rosign and witness the effect it will have on the iusurance market, on rates, and public confidence. At the East, insur- ance companies have moro dread of Mr. Sheri- dav and his associates than they have of the wooden buildings and Manseard roofs. If Mr. Sheridan would resign, bo would restoro confi- dence vastly ; and if Reno and Klokke would show an equal regard for tho public interests, most of the distrust now felt in Chicago insur- ance would be removed. Wo have no doubt that these threo porsons in ofice have cost the owners of property in this city an sverage of ona-fourth of 1 per centonall the ingurzuce of thelast year. Mr. Sheridan, thorefore, can pro- Ppose no more beneficial plen of ivsurance, ana no greater sdvantage and prop to the public credis, than the resiguation of himself and his associates, to the end that their places may be filled by tbreo citizens baving the will and ability to reorganize the Fire-Department. LOCAL INSURANCE COMPANIES. A movement Las been inaugurated looking to the organization of a new local Insurance Com- pans. Mr. R. S. Critchell, agont for many years of the Phcenix Insarance Company of Brooklyn, is now receiving subscriptions to tho stock, with flattering prospects of success.. This movement is necessitated iu some degree by the action of the National Board of Underwriters in withdrawing from Chicago, butis not in antago- nism to that Board. ‘Lhe withdrawal of s large namber of the companies has created a demand for the commodity catled insurance, which de- mand wil be supplied by somebody at some price; end, if it is likely to bo profitable, our o Lusiness men mignt as woll make tho profit a8 aoylkody else. - There can bo no doubt that such s company, with & capital pailup in c2sh and not cousisting of stock- notes, morigages. cats and dogs, would pay largely, and would command business in other cities, a8 toe Traders’ Insurance Company now does. If we bad 28 many home companies as St. Louis and Cincinnati possess the Netional Board would treat us with much more respect than they now do. The fire of 1871 destroyed these home companies and brought home insur- anco into disrepute; hut tho circumstances now ensting are such that homo insurance is & necess1Ly. There can be no doubt that soon after tho meeting of the Stato Legislature we shall have a building law enzcted, snd then,Nf not before, reargaunizaticn of the Fire-Dapartment, while the work of replacing the water-mains with those of larger size will continne. These reforms, whieb shoald have been consummated long ago, coupled with the uqul:am vigllance which s withdrawal of insurance will: necessitace, will combine to reduce the losses of insarance com- panies to & minmum, and correspondingly in- crease their profits. The business of both the Traders’ and the Globe is exceedingly profitable, and & new company, or half a dozen companies, if based upon a cash capital and properly con- ducted, would be no leas so. We trust that the stock of tho company which Mr. Critchiell has commenced orgauizing will be apeedily takon. el i A GANE OF BLUEFF. All the signs indicate that Beecher's body- guard have made up thair minds to browboat public opinion. The tremendous effect produced by Tilton's last atatement has only served both to reveal and embolden this policy of despairing bluff. In fatt, Tilton has silenced every gun of tie Plymouth fortress except this, and it is not to be wondered at if this one should mako almost a8 much sputter and smoke 88 has hitherto been made by all the guns in chorus. Wa read.of tho advance of & wholo army being retarded by the ekillfal rapidity with which a G-pounder was Landled by the retreating force. Nor was tho little guu any the less effective for being mado of brassl Beocher’s unsilencod gun 18 some- times loaded with his age, sometimes with his jocomty, sometimes with his robustuousness, sometimes with arguments drawn from the flowery charcter of his connubial nest, and somotimes with arguments drawn from the briery naturo of the same. DBut invariably the charge is mado up ckiefly of his intellectnal greatness. He is too great & genins to be held amenabla to laws of evidence applicable to ordi- nary mortals. Mr. Beochers' organ—the Cliristian Union—has Dot a wora to say in answer to Tilton's array of documentary evidence, but indulges in its weekly reiteration that tho accused is a ‘noble and great-souled man,” aud the accuser an utterly baeo man. Consequently * the world will not accept the portrait " of the accused as drawn by the accuser. So the die iscast; the stand is taken. Beecher is to stick to his denial, con- tionoe his jokes and bis prayers, keop up his “health” and bLis cheek, resume his preaching in Plymouth palpit at sa increase of salary (%30,000), and his lecturing at 3500 an evening, traveling by charterd cars to avoid public curi- osity. Mennwhile, how about the, trial 2 It is confidently expected that the jury wili, to eay the least, diszgreo, if under this argument of privileged genius they cannot be inducad to ac- quit. Bui suppose Mrs. Tilton makes another confession, 8s it is feared in Brooklyn now that she will, either under oath in courr, or before! One of the Beecber organs iu New York, which s beer: obliged to ery for quartor—that is, for a trisl by jury—anticipates such testimony, and pronounces it autrustworthy. Beecher's hand- organ is of the same mind, and says: *Tho un- happy lady bas been shown on every side to have beun 80 given to excess of omotion, and to lan- guago out of all proportion to the occasion,” that her word “must be taken with the utmost reserve.” But when Assistant Halliday savs he would throw out the testimony of Gabriel, and Iuwser Eracy says he would even challenge that of Beecher, if he criminated himself, we recoil. Vo might suspect the Archangel of *conepir- acy,” but—Beecher! How could we get over his rhetorical facility and bis fluency in prayer ? Driven from every other position which they undertook to hold, the Beecher body-guard has fallen back upon this one, which, alihough the ragged edge of despeir to them, gives them the advantages of the desperste, by drawing to them the sympathy which even the wicked vome- times securo whon they aro at bay. It was so in the case of Bishop Onderdonk, who died gameo and guilty after *fighting firo” for sixteen years. This, we must infer from present indi- cations, is to be the policy of Boech- er during that ‘fifteen years of work"” which, ho says, is “in him,” notwith- staudiog his momentary expectation of death. Onderdonk, it should be remembered, however, passed his life after his conviction no- der a cloud of public opprobriam. But it is evi- dently the purpose of Beecher's friends to create and perpetuate a public sentiment that shallup- hold him, guilty or pot guilty. No sentiment could be more mendacious, aud no policy more mischiovous. We lave maintaioed, and still maintain, that Beecher’s crimes, however numet- ous or odious, wonld not seriously damage the Christian religion or public morality, if, when proved, they sre punisted with the reprobation and abhorrence of the Chrstian community. But if his guilt shall be egtablished beyond a rea~ sonable doubt, and he shall still be sustained by any considerable show of pubiic sentiment, it will be & calamity to morulity of portontous pro- portions. It will shake eociety to its founda- tions. = ““THE RELIGIOR OF GUSH." As timo wears away, and the cxcitement over the Beccher scandsl cools, it is becoming more and more apparent that some very excellent re- sults will prow ont of it. We have already shown thac it will meterially change the social xelations bolsween pastors and parishioners; that the abomination of Free-Love haa received 2 stunning blow, from which it will not recover ; and that tho Woman-Suffrage business has re- ceived warning to quit. It is mow still fur- ther npparent tbat what the New York Zlerald aptly calls *‘tho religion of gush” has also received ita death-blow; and tho strongest proof of this is tho fact that the re- ligious newspepers bavo been the first to observo this now turn of the tide. Even thoso religtous papers which have been tho staunchest support- ers of Mr. Beecher Lave no diflicolty, now that the statemeonts acd docnments are sll in, and Iir. Beechor's gushing platitudes and hypochon- driscal nonscnse are relieved against stern focts and reslities, in discovering that much of this wretched business hag grown out of tho religion of gush. Ir. Beecner for years has preached a vory fancifal morality, but one without any rigid tests; s good, easy-going religion, but ono without any penalties: a comfortable creed, but ona without metesand bounds. No man's conscience has tor- wgnted him much under the droppings of Ply- mouth eanctuary ; no womsan has been mortified by stern rebuke for her besetting sins. Al tho ways leading from the pulpit of Plymouth Church have been primrose paths, snd all were free to stop and pick the flowers. Of all the posy-gatherers, Mr. Beccher himself has been the most industrious, and he has tied them up with pretty bluo ribbons and love-knote, and reed the langusge of flowers, and distributed them about the congregation. The most callons sin- ner felt casy under Mr. Beecher's presching, and all the women feit good. Men conld laugh at his jokes and commend . his moralitics, snd women conld dote upon his beautifal senti- menis; sad thus the thing went on until this religion of gush bore ita accustomed fruit. ‘fhe only safe method of gushing is betwoen man and wife. One men cannot gush o anothes, 8a {8 shown by the fallats of the ma- toal gustling between Boocher and Tilton. The female memburs of the congregation must bo partoers in the gash ; but universal gushing of this kind soon leads to individual gushing, and individusl gushing leads to a cave of gloom. Guah, when distributed over a whole congrega- tion, may do no harm, except that it nmally cre- ates & longing upon the part of somebody to iry its particular effects, and the opgortunity in alwaya easily found. " The lesson is a timely one. There are many more gushing ministors in the Church, and there sro plenty of women who sre liable to gush with them. If these men have discovered that the pulpit ianot the place for gash, thon tho Boechor seandal has subserved one valusble purpose. If thoy are now convinced that lifo hasite duties 25 well a8 its sentiments, its penalties as well 28 its pleasures, its solemn revelations as well as its fantasies, irs worship as woll as its affiuities, then Mr. Beccher's fall is npot altogether un- profitable, If men snd women have dis- covered that the decalogue and doctrine are moro important, even if not ns pleasant, a8 gush, and that the pastor 18 » little lower than the Master, thon has tho Brooklyn scandal been a blessing, outside the parties immediately con- corned. Tho only safety for those tender and romantic souls who must gush is to gush at home. The only safety for a min- ister is not to gush at all Relig- ion and gush have no sflinities for each other. Religion is Gcd-worsbip: gush is man-worship. Religion is » matter of disci- pline; gush is a matter of lawlessness. Religion is measured by unalterabte law; gush knows no restraint. Ieligion is upiritual; gushis sensual Tho gushing mivistor desecrates the pulpit in whicis ho stands and betrays the Mester whom ho pretends to serve. Nine times out of ten the gushing minister ia s hypocrite; the other time L 15 a fool. R THE CONVICTION OF ANDERSON. Wo cannot but regard the conviction of Ander- son on tho chargo of incendixrism £8 of great advantage to the city. The crime is one always &ufficult to prove boyond all guestion, and An- derson's case rested on circumstautial evidence alone. Though his attorneys mado s strong de- fense for him, they could not overcome the testimony of circumstances againat him, and the jury had the courago to bring in & verdict on their moral conviction of his guwlt. Anderson's provious reputation has been good, and, 1f guilty of the crime of which ho stands adjudged, he +was most likely betrayed into it by that indefina~ Dle contagion which prevails in times of grast esciternent, and in epidemics of great crimes. Thero may bave been a hope, too, that the con- fugion of the city and the prooccupation of the authorities with matters growiug out of the July fire would save him from detection ; and this hiope proved to bea greater temptation than lie had before been subjccted to, thus developing 2 Intent disposition to crimo that might other- wise never have been discovered. Dut whatever the motive or the process wiich lod to bis crime, bis conviction may be pointed to in the future, wien firo breaks out, or when communism slows its teeth, or when any other great and confusig public danger exists. We can sxy with exact force and good effect that the Chicago courts will visit sure punishment upon all of- feuders. In this way Anderson’s conviction i8 pretiy sure to serve s a valuable deterrent ex- ample. THE UNITARIAN CONFLICT. In the Uniterian Convention which was held at Saratoga, Y., recently, a direct issue be- tween the radical and conservative elements iu the denomination came up, which wag decided in favor of the latter. The struggie was confined to two resolutions offered by tiie Rev. Jumes. Freeman Clarke, and” ono by Dr. Bellows. The first expressed sympatby with the National Con- grogational Council, which will meet shortly in New Haven, for its effort to secare relig- ious indepeadence and freedomr from theological restrzint. Tl resolution prevailed, but not until after much warm discugeion. The second rzsolution, Lowever, expressing sympa- thy with the Freo Religious Association, created unusual excitement, especially as the ablest’ men in the Conference were arrayed against cach otber. The result of the discussion was that Mr. Clarko's second resolution was ‘tabled by a large majority. The Rev. Dr. Bellows, who kad been the priucipal opponent of the resolution, then offered & third, virtually indorsing the Uni- tarian Society of New Bedford, whose pastor was dropped a vear ago from the list of Unitarian clorgymen, for tho reaton thathe declared he was not & Christisn. Thia resolution stirred up another exciting debate, and, although it wag supported by such champious as Clarke, Hale, Collyer, and Bellows, it was defeated by s large vote, This three-fold action of the Conference can- ‘not bo looked npon in any other light than as an emphatic victory for the conservative element of tho Unitarian deaomination, and a very decisivo condemnation of the Froe Religious proclivities of many of its members. In itssym- pathy with advanced Congregationalism, a8 ehown in the first resolution, and its emphatic rejection of advanced Unitarianism, ag shown by the defeat of the second and third, it not only evinced its determinstion to establish itsell a8 o distinctive Chnstian sect, but also showed 8 disposition at least towards ovangelical standards. It shows that the major- ity of the denomination are scckinga tenable anchorage and some distinctivo form and condi- tion, and that they are tired of drifting about from this theory to that theory, and running af- ter evory new firefly of science. There can be no doubt that the scramble for science in that denomination has been the prominent cause of its decrense in intluence and its standstill in numbers. The search has undoubtedly led manyinto the Unitarian denomination ; bat it hes fed them still further in many cages. Numer- ous thinkers bavo chased the new lights so far that tney have lost all track of Unitarianism, and have never found their way back, and this class has grown so rapidly that the conservative element has at last opposed it. and, by dint of sheer necossity, has compelled the denomiga- tion to get back to firm ground before its identity is complotely lost. Tho result of the sction of the Conferonce is 3 virtual disavowal of Freo Relizion and a reirograde movement toward tho evangelical standards. The Free Religionists may call ihemselves Unitasians, but the Unitariaus have declined to call themselves Free Religionists. By thus establishing o more distinctive organization, and by the establish- ment 6f mor rigid tests, the drain upon Uni- tarianism whick has been mada by Froe Religion will be stopped to a certain extent. In thie zon- Dnection, it is & noticesble fact that the Gniversal- ist denomiration algo shows unmistikable signs of a leaning toward evangelical standarda. Coupling the two facts, there is at least ‘a- hope that some common bonds of sympathy msy be eatahilished betwoet the evangslical and unovan- golical denominations. The former sre certain- Iy growing more liberal, the Iatter more couser- yotive, and they ara thus npproaching each other, Itisa great ways from Prof. Patton to Robert Collyer, and, although these axtremes may pever moet, there is & great multitude be- tween them who would be glad to cowe together upon a common ground E P THE FATIONAL SUNDAY LEAGUE. The Lnglish believera in rational recreation upon tho firat day of tho week bave organized & National Sunday Lenguey Its headquarters are in London, bat it has a strong staff of honorary agents scattored threugh the provinces. It has threo main objects. The first is to secara the opéning of libraries, museums, and art-galleries on Sunday. The second is to run cheap Sun- day excursions during tho summer. The third is to provide *Sonday evenings for the poople,” asits prospectus phrzses it,'during the winter. Altbough not identical with the London Sunday- Lecturo Society, it co-operates heartily withit, In tho report submitted to the August meeting of the members, the Council of the League sy8: The effects of what we have done have extended far and wide, Only this week a Chicago paper [Tz TRbUNE] has resched us with a lengthy report of 3 series of “Sunday aftervoons for the people™ ihere, institated, ss they £ay, upon & programme of the same character as the *Sundsy evenings™ in London. Wearohappy to say that their yuccess en- cotirnges them to greater things next season. The Leaguopublishes a sixtoen-paged monthly paver, the Free Sunday Advocale, from which we get a record of good progross. The effort to securo the opening of museums, eic., Bpon Sundsy bas notyet had very great public re- sult, although the constant preaching of the folly of closing tho institntions provided for public edncation on the ono dsy of public leisure has doubtless dono much to change the views of well-meaning men who shut all doors on Sunday except tuose of the saloon and the church, and then wonder that the working- men should wuse their leisure hours in gotting druck. Since the Leaguo began its work, the Birmingham Free Library and Art- Gallery and the Manchester Aquarium bave been opened on Sunday. The experiment has worked 38 well in both places as it has, on & smaller acalo, in Chicago. The Sundsy escur- sions havo been & great success. The best one of the season was to Stratford-on-Avon. Onthe last Sunday in July, ubout 700 Londoners went to Stratford and back for 10s. apiece. A special train carried them. The party, on arriving, vis- ited the birthplaco of Shakspeare, the church in which he i buried, and all the objects in the town connected with his great name,—all, that is, except the *“ New Place,” admission to which was refused by the owner. After dinner, AMr. F. J. Furnivall, the celebrated Shakspearean scholar, delivered an address on Shakspearc's iife and writings to the excarsiouists and & number of the towns-people. A visit to Anue Hatbaway's cottage closed tho day. The most perfect order prevailed. The terest excited has caused the forma- tion of a Sunday Shakspeare Society, which will study the works of the great poet on the Sucday evenmgs of the coming wWin- ter. Imagine a coteris of American artisans studying Shakspearc! The League has just won a great victory over its opponeat, the Lord's- Day Observance Society, by defeatiugtho latter's attempt to have the running of Sunday excur- sion trains probibited. It is notowortby that this controversy, like all otbers in which the League bas beer éoncerned, was carried on by it with dignity sod decorum. Xt does pot seek to carry its points by sneering at what other people hold sacred. It is not in the Lianas of infidels, but of men who believe that educating the peo- ple by pictares, and books, and sight-seeing, and lectures, inasmuch 28 it i a virtue from Monday morning to midnight of Saturdsy, ages not be- come & sin onc mipute thereafter. THE MONTPENSIER PICTURES. The splendid collection of paintings loaned by the Duke de Montpensier to Boston was opened last Monday at the Boston Athenieum. No such gallery has ever been seen in America. The crities, with raro exceptions, praise it highly. It would be difficult to find in Europe, outside of Spain, a finer representation of tho Spanish mas- ters. They have always been héld in euch high honorin their own country that their works, savo the fow that have been occasionally bought from baokrupt grandees, and the more that have beem stolen by the foreign- ers who bave overrun the country, sare found only on the walls of the Escurial and the palaces of the nobility. Marshal Soult stole JMurillo’s ** Immaculate Conception ™ snd sold it to the French nation for $20,000. It is now the glory of the Louvre collection. It could not be bought. Fragco has few other Spanish master- pieces. Italian galleries contain somo notablo portraits by Velasquez, but are naturally devoted almost exclusively to the works of tho Italian school. The great gallery 6f Dresden Las but & poor showing of the artists of Spain. Some Gypsy-faced Madonuas of doubiful parentage are ascribed to Murillo, but the display is de- fective and disappointing. The great artist is known in this country chiedy by his ** Immaculate Concoption,” because unhappy Spzin is almost a terra incognila to the American tourist. Our countryman abroad coufines bimself to the beaten pati. He talks glibly of the regularrou- tine of sights, but makes 0dd answers to ques- tions aboat anything outside of that. Dread of confessing 1gnorance explams tho reply of a recont tourist to the question ** Did you seo the Dardanelles?” “Yes,—met them in Paris,— charming family.” It is because the regular tour does mot include Spam that we taketho “ Conception,” which, fine as it is, is far from being tho best of Maurillo's works, 4s his master- piece. European connoigsours regard his Fierge auz Langes as much soperior, and others as finer yet. The Vierge auz Langes is now in Bos- ton—g0 are some of the best works of Velasquez, Rebera, and both the Herraras. The managers of tho Athenzum expect to keep the collection about one year. Thea it will go backto Europo, —or 1t may come to Chicago. Our suggestion that this city shon!d avail it- self of the opportunity to secure the losu of this (in America) unparalleled gallery is undor con- gideration, we are glad to say, by some of our prominent citizens. Its accomplishment would probably not be dificult. The Duke de 3font- pensier would doubtless be willing that his paintings should be on exhibition in Ghicago in- stead of being boxed up in London. His ready generosity to Boston may well encourage us to aek for imilar kindness. The only expense neceesitated wonld be the payment of fire and transportation insurance umpon the esfimated valae of the collection. The amount needed for this could be readily raised. We have now in this city, in 3. H. W.Derby, the mansger of the Exposition Art-Gallery, perbaps tho fittest person o conduct.tbo necessary negotistions with the Duke 4nd the adthotitios af the Boston Atheprum. We may safely depend upon the co-operation of tho Athoneum mansgora. Cal- tured Boston will be glad to serve Chicago. A year hence, when the Hnb'l‘ loase of the paint- ings bas oxpired, our Exnosition for 1875. will bein full blast. The triumphant success of the wurt-show of this year proves the popular appre- | ciation of tho good paintings which we get 80 fow chances to see;” If_ the Diroctors can secure the Montpensier pictures for next year, they cancount on thousands of spectators. 'The collection will be on exhibition for the whole Northwest, not for Chicago alone. The Committee which has done so much for us this year can do more next The chance shonld not be neglected. THE S0ULS OF ANIMALS. The Rev. James Freeman Clarke, who preaches to-day in Robert Collyer's church, believes that snimals bave souls. In s recently-published es- say, he argues ably and ingeniously in support of his belief. . So far aa the goul is regarded as merely the vital principle, it is evident tbat not only men and snimals, but plants have it. When we rise onestep higher, to the consciousness of self, apimals and men are atill on an equality. The soul-characteristica of observation, memory, im- agination, the senso of approbation, affection, and reason are shared in common, though not in equal degree, by apimals and mankind. Mr. Clarke gives many instances in support of this assertion. It mll, however, scarcely be dis- puted. The old beiief that reason was denied to brutes is no longer tenable. A eingle exam- pleof animal ressoning quoted by Mr. Clarke is good proof in itself, and could b supplemented by tneny otheis. An elephant following an ammu- nition-wagon saw a mau fall from it just beforo tho wheel. He would inevitably have been crushed to death had not the animal rushed forward of bis own motion, lifted the wheel with his travk, and beld it in the air until the wagon had passed over tho man mithout hurting bim. “Here were combined presence of mind, good-will, knowledga of the danger to tho man, and a rapid caleulation of how he could be saved.” The superiority of man is not to be wholly explained by his | greater command of some of these qualities, or by physical circumatances, such s the exquisite formation of his hand, the eize of his brain, bis eroct structure, his greater independence of climatic considerstions. etc. The secret of his superiority must be sought in the radical differ- ences between him aud the animal. He las powers of tool-using, language, self-culrure, progress in civilization, and religlous develop- ment which the brute has not. The baboen uses a stone to crack & nut, but has no imple- ments made or kept for general use. The otker distinctions are perhaps self-cvident, although Lord Bscon cousidered s dog's reverence for his master as s rudiment of religion. The dog, like his master, worships the greatest power of which he is conscious. The five differences are all explainable, as Mr, Clarke contends in a convincing argument that is too long to bo transferred to these columns, by the fact first enuncisted by Locke, that animals caonot, and men cac, bave abstract ideas. Since this is all the difference, since the bruto has all the other soul-characteristics, Mr. Clarke con- cludes that they bave souls, lower than ours, but noge the less souls. *1f we are souls,” he #ays, ''so gurely aro they.” The question of their immortality remaius. They have many heroic qualities fitting them for a higher state. Justice perbaps demands that thoir sufferings on this earth should be requited by happiness elsewhere. It is impossible, moreover, to think of life as destroyed. That subtle principle that escapes our senses persists in bodies that are changed in all their particles every seven years. It molds each particle as it enters the fiesby frame. When it ceases the process, and death oecurs, it is the death of the body. That de- caye, but thero isno sign'of the decay of the principlo. The latter has simply ceased to mani- fest itself to us in one particuiar way. ““We have absolutely no reason at all for saying that it has ceased to exist.” This is a8 true in regard to plants and animals as men. According to 3ir. Clarke, at tho moment of death the principle of life * probably has reached s crigis which consists in the putting on of new forms and as- cending into a higher order of organized exist~ once.” Martin Luther belioved in animals’ souls and in their immoriality. He consoled & child grieving over tho death of her dog by telling her that she should havoe her pet to play with in Heaven, and that it would have a golden tail! Itis to be hoped, however, that the *‘higher order of organized existence™ will bo a good deal bigher. We may bo prrdoned for willing- ness to believe in the eutire annihilation of the mosquito, and mothers in Israel who are aiso housekeepers on this earth svould doubtless pre- fer not to meet in the New Jerusalem the spirit— ualized cockroaches that hatoe * gone before.” The aversge Briton is not generally credited with a stong attachment to theories. Ho is not sufficiently mercurial to risk his lifo for the vin- dication of a theory or propzgation of an ides. But ope of them has been found, who risked his lifo to teach others a mothod of preserving it. It was one Prof. White, a champion swimmer, who consented to drown himself in order that his theory of resuscitation might be tested for the benotit of tho London Humane Society, who were present 1o witness tho experiment. After laying dowa certain rules for holding a drowning persou in the water, he plunged into the river,—the Serpentine, probably, iz Hydo Park,—and remsioed ander water long enough to bo partislly drowned. His son then dived after him and brought him to the surface in an apparently lifeless condition, ad- hering strictly to the principles laid down by his perent. The breathless body was then turned over to one of the Huwane Society’s oficers aad put through the course of treatment recom- mended. The Society had the satisfsction of sceing Mr. White revive, snd in a wliort timo re- turn to tho water without apparent unpleasant consequences, thus proving his theory by illus- Conrt docided that ft must proceed i o o order, snd detained the defendsas ipge bail. This comes of children playing a7 toola’and iwitating their ellers, ~ - e e N - Even in England a mob of women collectad without violence beiag done, gr rato threatoned. As in this conntry, g 1! tho most trivial provocation wil call g 3ok reasoning crowd of women prepareq ,u"‘ most desperate encounter. A mation ‘“ur by 050 of tho Hartlopool Town-Tmprey Commissioners to extend the cematery, Aff’-‘ one, Mr. Turnbull, gave notice that gy the next meeting make a motion in (m,z"ffi mation. When the day of meeting taps = women of Hastlepool, to tha number of ;»‘h more, mobbed the Commissioners, 'hfiufing the immedizte cremation of Mr. Turbqy ';'_‘l,? the modern-improvements of tar and Detrol 2 while in the same breath they shrilly M;& Christian burial for themselres, agg yie.t fixed datos. Tho Chairman of the Boe™ sured them thst the Commissioners cogy establish cremation, and dismissed the "_11 from the building. The crowd of wome creased to 2,000 by the end of the Meeting, ?‘ the unfortunato advocate of £0 aad fugy et rowly escaped a practical trisl of the sy Cremationists in this country have orerlacey the bigoted oppositio of ths ignorant, syd yy, perhaps, never thought of the formit might .'L\ when the gentler and weaker sex wers m;: stirred up on the subject. J The consequence of appointing to i unqualified for it is illustrated by s Littlo iy A New-Yorker was knowp by the Custon Emg, authorities to be in the habit of smugging s, monds into the country. He made no semateg it. The revenuo agents of the Governzmaify Liverpocl warned the Custom-House Nuthoricey every time he suled with lot of jexg, bat the searchers failed to recovera single sims At one _time, after searching hia person mgg ellectually, 3nd hearing him bosst that bs vy about to retarn to England by the same ste: they discovered - that a valuable assortmen; ¢y jewels had becn jeft in his state-room and vy Temoved by his wife and asughteran oz fore the steamer left port. Another tms artfal smuggler sewed 2 string of glass disnoal; on his vest. The searcher found them, supposyy them to be genuine, and contiscated them. Thgy true value was establisted next day. Mesnebls, the man had the truo stones under s plasterey his back. Yorexperts tho searchers showtuy little ingennity, for both tricks were simple. bl Ao They have been indulgiog in a religions s dal in the Levant of a high!y-disgraceful desery- tion. Tho trouble is 50 uiterly grotesqus e one cannot repress a smile over it, theagh ty judicious certainly ought to grieve. It ssemy that the Christian pilgrims to the Americanmay astery of St. Gregory are rather s jolly set o fellows, who nerve themselves for their dem- tions with native rum. and generally resch ths shrine in that irresponsible condition known 11 “ blind drank.” Thoy carry bottles of vaki wity them, and usually. after swallowing their ccoe tents, smash them on the heads of the monky A very serions squabble occurred recently, it which several of the mouks were severely iz- jured. It is mow found necessary to sends body of soldiers to keep order during the vists of these drunken devotees to the shrine, andths extraordinary compound of rum, religion, sai riot yields only to superior force. Tite ides of making a Dounybrook Fair out of a Chritiny shrine is almost as ridicnlous as sscrilegions. We priot elsewhere the details of a movemst among our prominent citizens to tender Ths- dore Thomas a complimentary bonefit on S day evening next. The invitation was seot 1 him ou Friday, and his acceptance wss receivsl by telegraph yesterday. As this will be }r. Thomas' only visit this season, and mwsy be kit last one for a long time, as arrangements we G foot to keep him in New York permanently, thy testimonial should be a handsome tributs % him, both as 3 musician and a gentloman. 5o man has done so muach for masical progress £d cultare in this country as Mr. Thomss, aod 0 man has been so e to the highest sudbet standards of music. In these labora Chicagohss always been s warm sympathizer, aod haa s ways heartily recognized his great abilities &8 s conductor. The tribate which hag been ® gracefully offered bim will undoubtedly =et with the warm approval of all cur concer:-goes OBITUARY. BISHOP LXE, OF IOWA. Tho Rt. Rev. Henry W. Lee, first Episceptl Bishop of Iows, died 10 Davenport at 4 odut yosterday morning, of traumatic erysipelas, =l 59 years, Heory Washington Lee was born af Sex Hampden, Conn.. in the year 1815, How i son of Col. Roswell Lee, Superintendeot of 13 Armory at Springfield, Mass. ; and his aacestory, of English extraction, pad been inhsbitants ¢! New England for soveral generations, Ha vt takeo during infsncy from New Hsoi den to Springfield, where his earliest yo3 were passed. His education commenced i3 the common school, and was contiaged # tho Westfield Academy, Massachasetts. Afel leaving the Academy he became a teacher 1 New Bedford. While acting in this capscity 2 Isbored earnestly to fit himself for the mini& apd, without any regular college-course, ¥ found so efficient that ho was ordained by Bisho? Griswold a8 Rector of Christ Church, Spriot field, Mass., which parieh he organized, rexsis- ing in chargo of that congregation for BC0 years. TFrom this he was called to'ti Rectorsbip of St. Luke's Church, Rochestes N.Y., which, under his efcient care, becsid) oue of the largest, as it is one of theoldesh Episcopal parishes outside of New York Citfe After baving tole charge of this extensive P ish for seven years, he was chosen Bishop of Jowa, at & Convention held in Davenport, J5* 1,185, His consecration to the Episcopl &5 nity took place in St. Luke's Church, Bocheeieh Oct. 18, 1854 The sermon was prosched by the Rt Rev. Manton Eastburn, D. D from the words® Bishop of Massachusotts, it 1 preach o “Woe is me tho Gospel.” Bishop Hopkins performed (% act of consecration; after which the nely-msd¢ Blshop received the Holy Commuion, ia 6= pany with upwards of fony clergymen and #00° ‘merons body of the laity. g Coming to Towa in 1855, he took up bis F#% denco at Daveoport, and Ab onco comment) thoso earnest and unflagging labors which bs7 uato given cach prosperity to the Church in thet D> cese. Bishop Lee's first effort was (0 ‘g; an endowmeat for the Episcopate, sod be did chiefly by subsmpfihfi in the East to the amount of 7,000, ™ sum was invested in wild Iands, from the P Becuring tration at tho rixk of death, Such experiments with human life aro not zltogether worthy of repetition, but the purpose scrved was so singlo and humane that the Society should st least 2dd one more medal to those worn by the daring swimmer. a The bad example set by the daily papers of 8an Francisco in abusing each other bas oc- czsioned a ludicrous law-suit. The amatenr editorn of the city, boys mainly of the age of 14 and 15 years, have imitated their seniors, and burled blackguard epithets at one suother from the Pacific Youth, the Growler, and the Vin- dicator. The average youth is greatin slang. He can hurl epithets on the street with a fer- tility of device and directness of phrasoology thac would be creditable to a drunken stovedore or s wharfmsu. Of connse, his scyle is cramped and rectricted by imitation, but extracts from the Growler and Vindicator ehow the free- dom which still remaius to him. The editor of tbe Pacific Youth, after bearing this sort of ehing for 8 long time, finally sued the rival papers for libel, aad the case was actually brought into court. The counsel for tne defense intimated that a sound spsuking would bio tha best mode of seitlament, bul the | tal sale of which the Episcopal resideoc® valued at 20,000, wes erected,—lesving 1% and sccnrities Wworth to-lsy probably 83044 During the War, the Confederate prisoners SP%2 Rock 1aland wers objects of especial Chiif? interest to Bishop Lee; and he held m‘; among them until he sacceeded in obtaining appointment of & Chaplain for M: It is bardly nDecessary to refef ) the magnificent charch be camsed o be built, which remains as 5 noble m o the indefatigable Prolato who brought i completion,—thus giving to the State of I and the City of Davenport one of {he L% somest pieces of occlesiastical architectas® & the Northwest. d Bithop Loe was married to Lydis, d-nshwh; ex-Gor. Morton, of Msssachusetts, by W72 leavos three children,—Henry esiding Eaneas City; Caroline, at home ‘{"ilty and Wilkism, living 1o Salt Lake City. 1t wza in the latter par of Jame Mfil:i’: Bishop, at night, fell down the" mair3 O Epigcopal residenco in Daveapors, slightly rire ing bis haod. Although tho wor od o took but slight notice of it, 89 hus daily duties sz badoze. When be pain d astendsd ¥ e [ T Y Fa>e e EERD SR [ 2 BT : b hand- FS P o 3L, 7 > tey ot i ty P iy W