Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 4, 1874, Page 8

8 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4., 1874 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 2,00 | Sua: Taled G ! Weeid Parts ot a year at the srmo 2 Torrovent teiay and mittasc: : 0% 1 s acdrers in tall, e uding State and Coant:. Eemittancee may be made sittier by dratt, cxpress, Oes oeder, o1 1n registersd leriers. at ou sk, CEUNS TO CITY STHSCHIDE Daily, delivered, Sunday excepiea % cents per week. Daiiy. celivered, Suscay ineioded, 20 cente er week. Aaeress . THE TRIBUNE COMPASY, Carner Maditon zud Dearbora-sts.. Chicago, Il plididd A TO-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS. Le sure and give Post Pest Aadison streer, betweey Fement o1 ibo Kellose Ea- <4} Lammormor. MVICKER'S THEATRE Dearborn_and State.. bin, gliak Opera-Troape. ** Luci lated streer, betwaon Mad- it et Lawrence Barrait. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—) san and Monros. Eogagemt ** Richellen. HOOLEY'S THEATFE—Randoloh stceet, between Clark a5a LaSelle, °* 3=a of 1ho Day.™ ros_stesct, between RS OPERAIO! A ey periormanco Hermuaas, the Presudigitateu: mrm ERA-1101 jark street, ooDOsite BN R E G Feuw'e Minscre. EXPOSITION RUTLDING- Laleshore, foot af Adams ok e SOCIETY MEETINGS. PRINCES OF JERUSA- O e eun ition an Thunday CHICAGO COUN LEM-There wiil b evening uext, at OR] 12 LaSall b Oev e Flirorm cordially isiiod e smer. {0 Third Degree. ws. By orderof KTk, Secretary. i L a Paror feinck, for bus 150 o prsent. 1 COUR. Set. CALEDONIAN will be held in the next Tgusdas eves quasted to attend. XEY, CORNER OF s the Dhert and THE FIRE WALLS OF CUSHI rates and sioves 470 formed of cast-iron tu ST Ui, which, when aaed, cius 3 10 e miariona vry exen tomperature 18 produced. CO~HI Al [X Lake The Chiragos Tribune, Sunday Morning, October 4, 1874. THE INSURANCE QUESTION. In yestesday’s TnmesE were publisiicd certain statements made by Mr. Lisnkin, General Ageut of the Scottish Commercial Insuratce Compans, and Mr. Hope, Prosident of tbe Cotinental Tn- surance Company of New Yok, to a number of mercliants and other citizene, in relation fo the action of the National Board of Underwriters. These cxplanations are caiculated to remove many ucplessant impressious, ospecully the prevailing one that the dction was a special blow aimed at Chicngo. 1liissrelief to kuow from such high autbority that this was not the cace, and to know further tiat the same thing would Lave taken place even if the fie of July 14 bad not occurred. Mr. Raukin stated that the losses by fire had Been ®o great in all parts of the country that a #pecial examination of the causes of their de- structiveness had been ordered in all the princi- pal cities. It was an accident that Chicago was the first one investigated, and, from tho report mode of the condition of affairs in this city, it was deemed advisable, for the protection of the interests of the companics and their rieks else- where, that certain reforms should by made, orthe insurance should be withdrawn. Astaereports are received the same demands will be rade on other cities, nd it was by no means improbable that like notice would be served on more than one other city before Janusry next. Thoe National Board would have tsken precisely the same ac- tion 1n the case of New York or Philsdelphia. . Mr. Hope stated that, if tho total insurance premiums of the United States were placed in one column and the insarsnce losses in anotier, the losses would exceed the premiums by fifty millious of dollars. Ho justified the action of the Board upon grounds that must eertairly bo sccepted as reasonable. Insurance is a vocation, like any other business; it is notia benevolent institution. Unless it be profitable, men will witbdraw their capital from it and abandon it. The great fires of Chicago and Doston aud gener- ally throughout the country kad been o serious ibat apothier great confiagration would blotout what was left of the capital invested in insur- ance. It was further stated that at this time there is not half enough capital in that business to corer the rsks that aro offered. Incomscquence of the severity of the losces persons were re- Inetant to invest in the business; capital wos withdrawn from it to be placed in more profitable investments, and hence thers wss an absolute pecesaity to cartail the losees. The losses by fires must be reduced, or 1nsurence will bave to be abandoned. Fires aunibilato the capital in- vested 1n the property destroyed, and the insur- a0ce companies feel the neceseity of dovising tho mesns to save the cupital exposed in theso conflagrations. This is the work the XNational Bosard bad undertaken, not in Chicago alone, bus in oll the other cities. The insurance compa- pies and tho country could not afford theso con- tinuous snd wholesalelosses by fre. If Chicago were burnod up sgain, the tosurance compsnica all together would not be ablo to pay 50 cents on the doliar of the loss. The action of thio Board was prompred, there- fore, by the general loss of the insurance busi- Bess, sud not by particalar losses in Chicago ; aad theso loases were go great as to deter capital from eugsging in it, and threatened to drive tho eapital now invested in it into other occupations. 3t was foond necessary to surround insurance with sdditional protections. Tho specific faults found in Chicago were stated by Mr. Hope. In the =6 dquare betwoen the river acd Twolfth strect, in which was concentrated moss of tho valuanle property of Chicago, ho found but threa fire-engines. New York had forty-seven en- gines, and Chicago required nearly as many, be- cause it waa as Liable to a great fire 23 New York. He also found that, in the construction of build- ings in the business pars of this-city, 18 in other cities, thers bad been much attention paid to ermamentation ; high buildinge, with many open- ings and an sbeence of iron shutters. A third defect wis in the matter of fire wella above the. roof; chese walla bo considered shonld be 5 fest deep. In New Yok when such walls did not exceed 8 feot an extra chargo was demanded for their insurance, Tiremen on & roof could fight a firs from behind s 5.fvot wall whon & 8-foot wall would afonl them no protection. Tho prevailing high winds of Chissgo woie suviicr fte, The Dumbsr cf of the Chicago Mssonic | : 5. wooden buildings he did pot regard as go im- porfaut. As a great protection, he euggested a Digh wall a8 a fortitication, ehuttivg in the main businesa part of the city from the southand wouthwest. The great objection, however, and the principal cauee leading to the action of the National Board, was the condition of tlie Chicago TFire-Department. This city was far bebind New York in the efiiciency of its Fire-Department. ¥, this complaint is well-foanded, not so muck cecsuse of any deficiency in tho courage aud fidolity of the oflicers aud men of tho service as in it defective organization zud discipline. Tire Chief-Engineer and his assist- ants are mere workmen under the absoluto di- rection sud controt of the Board of Commis- sioners, who are, to say tho least, mexperienced men, and therefore unfitted to have such au- thority, nd incompetout to exercieo it. For this calamity there is no permaueut rémedy, savo legielation nest winter. There is bope, how- ever, of u presout temporary remody iu tlie xp- pointment of Gen. Shaler, of New York, as a member of the Board in piaco of Mr. Ayars, wio will resign. Gen. Sualeris distinguisbed, not a8 & firean, but as un executive ofcer, who ua- dertook, under somowhat eimilar circumstancos, the reorganization of the New Yor): Fire-De- partment. Out of disorder Lie effected the mcst perfect discipline, uud placed that department m s condition of efiiciency equal to any similar organization in the world. If the Fire Commissioners will concads to his judgment, be governed by his experienco, and givo legal forco to the discipliue and zuthority that he shall ask for, thera 150 question tlat, out of the material at his command sod which he can recruit, be can establish hero & counterpsrt of the thoroughly eflicient Fire-Brigade which now exists in New York. This depends, howeser, on the voluntary action of Messry. Sheridun Klokke, avd Reno, who have it in their power to promote this loug-needed reform. This esplazation, uuollicial though it is, by removing the impression that the action of the Nationsl Board was a mulicious blow at Chicago, will do much to open the eyes of our cifizens, and enable them to push ou the work of reform aod to make adequate provision for the protec- ! tion of the city agaivst fire. If the action of the National Board shall result in awakening public seutiment to the neceskity of iamediately doing that which should have been done long 340, then Chicego will bave resson to be thank- ful. We Lave been too reckless, and the whole country has been too reckless. In the headlong pursuit of gain we have neglected to guard against ono of the mork gigantic ovils that af- tlict the human race. Wo are mow brought face to face with the fact that wo are burniug up more property every year thav insursnce com- panies can replacs. The issurance companics sre brought faco to face with the fact that they must either ivcrease their ircome or diminish their outgo, and they bave wisely chosen tho Jat- ter. Facts are said to be the arguments of tho Almighty. 1t remains to be eeon wheiber the authorities and people of Chicago aro open to such arguments. We thiak they will bo so be- fore long. THE COMING OPERA SEASON. Ths Thomas orchestral season is over, and the players arenow en rouse to New York to fulfill the serious work of the fall and winter sesson, which will be dovoted to eymplony concerts in Now York, Drooklyn, and Boston. In comparison with all the numerous excellent concerts which this organization has given here, those.of the past week have boen the most admirable, both in the churacter of the music given snd in tho character of its performance. They will bo memorable features to look back to next spring, when the season is at #n end, snd the good wiches of sll true lovers of music will go with Mr. Thomss. We now tum to anotber deparimeut of music, in which similar succcessful results, howover, zre prowised. In- saxing gooa-by to Beothoven, Mozart, Liszt, Berlioz, and the other great weriters of instrumental musie, wo como to Dou- izeuti, Flotow, Gouned, Balfe, Wallace, aud the other writers of operatic. As far as can be Jadeed from tho outlook, the season, although three weeks long, will boa tipancial and musical success. A& to the latter feature, it can acarcely bo called coujectaral, becanss all the artists— Jes Kellogg, Mrs. Van Zaudt, Mrs. Seguin, Messrs.Castle, Campbell, Carletou, Teukes, Maas, and Seguin—zro well kuown lero. Tiesonames, with the execption of Messre. Castlo aud Camp- bell, reprosent the troupe of last scagou. We now have the eddition to the combination of those two favonte artists, snd a materially- augmented chorus and orchestrs; so that we are warranted in avticipoting @ correspond- ingly larger degree of success. Waat the man- agement may bave in reservo for the lust two wecks, we 0o not know ; but for the first week they havo wiseiy sclected tho standard and al- ways vopular works, mcluding ** Lucia,” Mari- tana,” “The Marriago of Figaro,” *Tho Lo- hewian Girl,” “ Faust,” aud *Martha.” Evers oue of theso works 1s o favorite, as is shown by the fact that the reserved salo is tho Jargest ever known here in tho records of English opera, which means s great deal, ag, ordinarily, tbe amusement-seckers of Clicago aro shy of making advancos, proferrivg to wait un- til the claracter of the performances is fised. The fact of this lsrge salo there- fore is mot only s bandsome tritute to Miss Kellogg, but also shows that the people have sbucdant confidence in our American prima donoa ot the head of English opera, o well as in the more crowded and heterogencoua rauks of the Italian. In her preseut position she appeals moro directly to the peoplo than evor before, Tho lamented Parcpa won ler greenest laurels in English opera, and we havo yet faith to believe that Miss Kellogg, with her indusizy, en- thusiaem, and enterprise, will mako her nsme and fame mote lasting in the same field than in oy other. The successes in English opera are just 84 permavent as those in Tialian. Tuo names of Parers, Richings, Seguin, Cook, Miranda, Milver, Prue, Wood, and Estcott are just a8 fresh in memory as the pames of tho Ttalisn artists who have passed off the stuge, 20d their conquests are recalled with an equsl degree of pleasure. English opera, elthongh it Bas been before tho public many years, is even et in its infancy in this country. Tts possibili- ties bave never been fully developed, its resources have not been thoroughly developed, its im- menee repertoire has hardly been touched. Miss Kellogg, thercfore, bas an amplo fature beforo her, snd need have no fear of exhausting its resources. Sho has the additional advantage in bor favor that, while tho Italian opera shows signs of decadence, aud Mr. Strakosch today is making & hazardous experimeut to save it from one of its dangers, English opera is 8s fresh and vigorous as ever. Both for her past efforts and for her fature plans Mics Kellogg will meet with & warm weleome, and will flnd that the peo- ple are diaposed to support bes, and to sympa- thize cordially with all Ler offorts to give En- «lish opers 2 substantial fooung. THE EPISCOPAL CONGRESS, The so-called ** Cougress ” of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States will 2s- semble in New York City to-morrow, at Calvary Church, Fourth avenue, iustead of in Cooper Uniou, as was first proposed. The annual Dio- cesan Convention of New York hus boen iu ses- siov during the pest week; aud the triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church of the United States will bo opened in the samo city on Wednesday, at St. Joln's Chapel, Varick street, sud will Lave for its chisf oficor the Rit.- Rev. Dr. Smith, of Koutucky, presiding Bishop of the United States. The holding of the Chureh * Congress ™ just on the threshold, as it were, of the General Couvention, Las not been without design; uud the opposition of Bishop DPottor, of New York, aud Bishop Coxe, of West- eru New York, to the **Congress,” on sccount of its suspected purpose, hus been sforded ado- quute opportunity for informal exprexsion in the Diocesan Assembly. This ** Congress” iy nothing leas than a cau- cus of the same clement in the American Epis- copal Church which hes suceeeded 1 securing, througi tho Arehbishop of Canterbury and the Tory Premier, the * bl to pat down Ritualsm and, while we hsve no court with Ben Butler— owr Lord Ponzauce—st tho lesd of it, to put the bill into force, theso American Low-Churchmen hope to secure & fresh start for their peeuliar views, both in doctrine aud rubrics, by compelling the Goueral Conventiou to place itself ou record with regard to both; and tho caucns is Lield to aseartuin their strength aud prepare = prograwwme. The General Cou- veutions, from the day when Bishop White's prayer-book thronssued o commotion until tho prescut timo, Lave been run on extremely con- servativo principles,—leas, perhaps, for tho sake of edification, spirituslly speaking, than behalf of traditiou aud dignity, kumanty speak- iug; and it isto be regretted that certain dio- cescs in the West capuot be iuduced to transact their public business in tho same spirit, out of auy wotive whatever. Tho General Conventions, while nominally for the discussion of doctrine und the suttlement of questions of practico aud discipliue, huve Leen, in fact, con- voutious for the avoidauce of discussion and the sottlement -of nothing. To bave 1t suspected that sny question way likely to create discus- sion, bas been sufficient causo to bow it out of the ouse. To discover that any motion would open the door to debate, was enough to make the motiou lie on the table, ip as much agony as Polycarp,—provideq, like Polycarp, 1t Leirayed notiug to the public. This everlasting con- dition of suppression has, at leugth, grown iu- tolerable, and all the factions feel 1t impationtly —High-Chwichwen, Low-Churclumen, Ritualists Romaniss, Evaugelicals, Puseyites, Cheney- ites, Augticans, Awericans, and the unclussilled, who comprige no insignificant part of the Epis- copal Ciiuzrch. Al theso bave been mattering their discoutent in the 'Geueral Couventious, and tatkiog about it openly everywhers else, aud each has maintained s threatening attitude to- sward all the rest, implyiug that in the uext Gen~ eral Convention—* next,” however, being pure- Iy indeterminate—ic would compel them to fall into line, and accept an unequivocsl doctrine and s uniform and compulsory ceremonial. The Low-Churchimen have at lsst found tho uecessary moral courage to taks public, but, as yet, unde- fined, action, sud, by gathering 1uto this caucus 2!l the antagonists of the Ritualistic tendency in the Church, they proposo to turn tho fuce of American Episcopalianista away from the setting ¥un of Papal infallibility, tosard the tising sun of evangelical uuion. MATRIMONY AND BUCISHOT, Southiern ideas of wiiat coustiutes civilization are, to suy tho least, uuique, ecceatric, aud bi- zarre. The socwal code, the code of honor, and the code of personal warfare are alike marked by cheracteristics which in the North would consign aman to the deprivauion of bhis hair, striped pantaloons, snd mush and pea-coffeo for a term of seurs at tho State'sexpense; but in the Sout, the mau who carries out theso codes becomes a tiero, mot & conviet, and is looked upon as a paragon rether tha a pest. In Kentucky, it au fait to shoot your adversary i the court- room, ang, if the Courc objects, to shoot the Court also. In Tenncsseo, it is tho correct thing to sboot & negro or two before breakfastand have & street matinee of whites just before din- ner. In Arkansas, when a man gets a now bowie-knife, he inaugurates it upon :ho first gen- tlewan he meets after stepping out of tho store. In Mississippi, sy wan is en regie who dies with Llis bouts on. In Miszouri, on the other hend, ho must have his boots off when ho gocs to the bourne from whence, ete. Tn Lonisians, if you ruu sgaiuss 8 man iv tho crowd, or lock at him scross the stroct, the ofiquetts of chi ry requites you to go over into sippi with him and shoot him or po- litely allew him to shoot you. it is the prevailing fashion tomake a pic Fuest to carry a bowle-knife, a brace of pisiols, 2 ghot-gun, and if possibls semall howitzer, and keep up tho mercuncut until all tho guests aro dixposcd of. Civilization in Alalsms i3 best illastrated by the story of Sloss of Tuscuwmbis, likewise Mrs, $loss, and Miss Sloss, sud r. Loug, formerly suitor, and now hasband, of Miss Sloes, provid- ed 3r. Long still remains in the land of the Ziy- ing,~a fact which cannot bs guaranteed, s he eoma to be man ot Lovg for this world, It will be remembered that, in June last, Sloss of Tuscumbia returnod boms from Copgress to find thet Losg had bLeen circulat- ing some scendal ebout Miss Sloss. The Alsbams code roguired that Sloss of Tuscumbia should shoot Lovg, bus Long being & man who also was ade dicted to shooting, losa _of Tuscumbia became master of ike situstion by strategy. Pouring a bavdful of buckehot into each barrel, le took his litle shot-gun with him, and in- trencliod himeelf bohind a sceond-stors window, and waited for Long. When Long eame along, he made short work of Lim, Ho blazed away with both barrels, and succeoded in putting thirteen buckshot iu various parts of Long, who thereupon 12id down, and was subseguently taken home upon a shutter, The community zpplauded the sirategy of Sloss of Tuscurabia, and then prepared to give Long & haadsomo funeral, but Long was no such man. He did not propose to die with his boots on or mortify bis rolatives by dying with thirteen tritling buckshot in him. In fact, subsequent developmen:s make it very apparens that if it ever becomes necessary to remove Long from thia valo of tears it will hava to be done with 2 cavalry regiment, & bsttery of ar:ilery, or by putting him up ssa target for tho heavy-shell practica of the monitora. Ay Mr. Loog haa the thirteen buckshot ia bim which hia new father- ludaw gave him lust June, hae been dragged throe-qustters of & mile under a tram of cars | firat councils to the brawl: bangiug to the brake-rod, hxs bad his face Laid open with a razor from his eycbrows to the chin, and Lss had his throat cut from cur to ear with the same kind of weapon peculier to our colored brothron, it will be sean that, befors be can be gathered to his ancestors, dosth will have to lay sicge to him in rogular form, surprise him by regular ap- proaches and parallels, and then sileuca bim by s combination of Lis most poxitive and fatal ro- sources. But to return to our mattons. Long got well, and with s rapidity that must bave beon disgust- ing to Sloas of Tuscumbia. Bofore ba got out on the street again, however Sloss of Tuscum- bia was sway canvassing his district, * Mrs. Slows kept . strict watch on Miss Sloss, for the tatter bad manifested somo affection for the backshotted Loug. But love defies mothers as well 2s locksmiths. Ono day Miss Sloss disappeared. Tho proplietic soul of Mrs. Sloss at onco disclosed tha where and the why of the disappoarance. Sloss of Tuscumbia twas away, and the duties of Mars devolved upon 3frs. Sloss in his absence. Sie did no:go toa sceond-story window, bowever, with a shot-gun. She armed herself with two pistols and for aught we know may have had a third concealed somewhoero. At Auy rate, she bad & pistol each tiand, and, thus fortified, the wrathful ap- parition apposred upon the streets of Tuscum- bia, tho podestriang respactfully making room. Ou it strods until it resched the Squire's oflice, where wero athered Mr. Loug snd Mrs. Long, nee Sloss, in the first flush of hymencal joy, the buckshotsed bridegroom looking s baudsome as be could with the disadvantages of razor-slashes and bullet-holes about him, sud the bLiushing bride radicut with hsppinesy, although no marriago boll way rioging and po bridal feast bosproad tho board. The friends were gatberod about them cougratultivg them, when thy apparition entered, a pistol in each bhand, demanding her daughter or sho would shoot- said the courteous Court, and introducod Mrs. Long. Hero was & rituation. He came & buchelor and went away s Benedict. She came a muden sud went sway @ wite. Mcs. Slosa camo s mother and weut away a mothor-iu-law. And, to the segret of all, thera was no shooting, which might bave made such 8 plessant denouement to the affair. Whea Sloss of Tuscumbia returus, will 110 50 to the second-story window sgain with his shot-gun, or will he succumb to circumstancos ? It emains to bo secn. Whatever Sloss of Tus- cuwbis way do, thia Littls opisode, running from June to Sep:embor,. is characteristic of Alabama civilization. Social position depends very lurgely upon the numbar of buckshot you may happen to havein yo, und two or three razor-slaslies across your countensuce ahow 2 degree of cultwre and chivalry which the slow- going aud low-down Northeruers can hardly Lopoe to reach. THZ DIOTREPHESIANS. 1t 18 noteworthy that awong all thie sects, big and little, tkat have derived tueir pame from the New Testament, theto is not oune named after Diotrephes. Some claim to be *‘of I'aul,™ some of Apolios, and some of James, but noue of Diotrephes, who, in “loving tho pro-cminence,” had an object of attachment more common than any other amoug Christians. Some egain, who tae tho New Testamout at second-Laud rather than be at the trouble of investigating it for themselves, betray a feeling of vehement satis- facuon in sboutiug for Luther, or Culvin, or Armenius, or Brigham Youag, or Smith, the founder of the English Anabsptists, but not a man or woman of them all ever lifts a voice for Diotrephes, or drops a tear upou Lis grave, or devotes a sermon to his memory,—unless it Lo to repudiate bis conduct, while imitating his ex- smple. And yet who of tho whole rapge of Bibiical colebrities has so many followers ? What man of them can pretend to compare with this lead- ing member of the early Cnureh, who **loved tho pro-eminenco ™ for Limself, more than e desued ascendency for his Master? In fact, there can be no more counclusive evidence of this than thut of there being so mauny banuera and shib- bolaths in the camp which hus grown up since the days of Diotisphes. If any ope sbould wonder why tho Apostie Paul did pot indite an epistlo to tho Diotreplesians, lot it be remem- bered that all of lus letiers are freighted with edmonitions for that tiging body of Ciristians. They are oo unintermittent espostulation with those wao scck their owu advancement at tho exponse of that of tho Chuteh. ‘Thoy are_full of forchodings whiclh have been fulfilled bo- yond anptbiuy their autbor couild bave anticipated. Tuo Apostle John warned his renders againgt the Diotrophosians, who were nothing less than auti-Clrist ia his estimation; Peter accuses tham of teachung “ dammnpable heresies” for their own aggracdizemeut; and Jude plainly intimates that tho dovil was 3 Dio- trephesian when contouding with Michael about the body of Moses. The Apostle James arraigued the Diotrephesinns for beiug the cause of ail the **wars aud fightings” that meuaced the unity of tho new socicty. Mo told them that they talked too much with their mouths, and, s if detecting the pew eystem in its incipiency among the scattered tribes of tho Chrisuan Israel, cautivned them agaiust social dis- crimmpation in the public sssembly. Hig reprobation of “gold rings” in the Church was equally caustic eud prophotical. Nothing could be more decisive or incisivo than this Apostles opposition to & coruer on pews. Waen he enjoined his readers not to be ** many masters ™ ho had an eye upon Diotrephesianist, swhich, although then onlyin tsinfancy, gavo omi- nous prowise of growiug bolder as it grew older. The fouuder of Christianity exercised the same foresight sud forcthought toa divive degreo, His most treuchant roprimauds were poinded at the Diotrephesiaus of bis personal following. When they disputed by tne way as to who of them should be greutest, be told them that if they perecevered in tlis Diotrepheriauism at the ex- pense of Lis little ones, it wero better that a ‘millstono were banged about their neck and they were caat into the sea. This was becauwe in so far as they were Diotrephestans thoy wero mak- ing themselvea & millstone to tho CLurch—which they havo been ever sinco. Christ's veto of the Diotrephesian spirit which thas early and impudently asserted itseif is one ot the most effectivo 28 well 38 unmistakable incidents to bo found upon the pagesof the Sow Testament. Aud yet what ariso and sgread the Diotrephesians have had, boginning thus, there, and then, in the very preseuce of the au- thor and finisher of the meek and lowly Chris- tian religion! From the firsz Catbolic Pope down to the lsat Protestant Deacon, how have the Diotrephesians msganified and multiplied their ofices ! From the rows in the churches at Corinth and Roms, to the rowawn tha ckurches at Genovs and Clicago fxom the brawla i the | g in several ecclesing- what » his- tical assemblies bhereabouts, rophes n- tory bave the disciples of Diotrepl ficted on the Church of Christ! Was vir s political tyrsnt more persistent in his purpoue to saddle a nation of poor devils for his own riding than these ecclesinstical Dioh‘uplj\c- sians have been in equippipg thomselves with whip and spur, and the rest of tnedisciples with saddle and bridle? Extract the Diotrephesiau motive from the breasts of afl who ere *called Rabbi,” or Dishop, or Doctor, snd all wio love the uppermost pewsin the swell congregation, and what would become of the Lord’s army in which these Diotrephesians fecl it their daty to cnlist as—commissioned officers! With tuem, although greatly given to praser for Divins assistance, Providence always takes the side 0» tho highest salary.and the most conspicuous position. Henos when the Pulpit Comunittee of tho city church’ conspire to entice away the promising provincial neophiyte they generally succeed. They seduce him from the place whero b is moderately useful to one whero he will bo (a8 thoy Lope) immoderately oruamental. The Diotrephesiaus may revudiate their uame, but they cannot gat rid of it. They do mot see themselves as oihers wee them, and henco do uot call themselves what others call them. st sty AN TMPCRTENT EELIGIOUS MOVEMENT. A movement is now ou foot in Europe, in the foligious world, of more than ordinary import- ance, looking to the union of tho OId Catholic, tho Anglican, rma Greek Churches, not muteri- ally, but in & mutusl recoguition of orthodoxy. The Conference, now in session at Boun, has devated its enrire attention to this great work, and Las already made decided progress. Amongt those present aro Dr. Dollinger aud Bighop Reinkous, tho leaders of tho Old Catholic move ment; the Bishop of Winchester ; Dean of Chester; Canon Liddon; Dr. Nevin, American Chaptain w Rome; Dr. Lavgdon, American Chaplain in Geveva; the Rov. G. Broads, British Chapluin in Dusseldorf ; sud Prof. Mayor, of Cambridge, representing the Anglican Chimireh ; snd M. Kerief, Aide-de-Camp of the Grand Duke Constantine, who is Secre- tary of the Fixicnds of Spiritusl Enlightenment in S, Peiersburg; and Prot. Rhosin, of Athens, representing the Greek Church. The gist of the proceedings of this Conference Jooking to- wards reunion is contained in etght propositions submitted by Dr. Dollinger, all of which were accepted, and adopted without besitation. These 6ight propositions are substantisliy as follows: 1. That the apocryphal pooks of the OId Testa~ ment aro et of the same canonicity as the books contained in the Hobrew canon. 2. That no translation of ‘tho Scriptures can claim an autharity suvetior to that of the origmal text. 3. That the readiug of the Scriptures in tho yul- sar ongue cannot be lawfully forbidden. 4. Tuat tho liturgy should be m the tongue understood L tle pevtle. 5 That faith working by love, and not fuif b without love, is tha means and condition aif mav's justification before God,—a point which was iuvolved in the Patton-Swing controversy. G. *Saivation cannot e merited by merit of coudignity, because there ia no pro- vorton between the good of the salvation promised by God and the good of man’s woris." 7. That the doctrine of opera supererogatioms and of & thesa.urus meritorum sanctorum,—i. e., that the overfluwing merits of tiie suints can be transferred to others, either by the rulers of the Chureh or by tho suthors of the good works themselves,—is untenable. The last propasition we give entire: Zigith—(a) We acknowiedge that the number of sseramenta was fized at seven firet fu the 12tk cen- v, and then way received into the general teaching of thie Church, Dot a8 a tradition coming down from thie Apostlos or from the earlicst times, but as the re- result of theojogical sp lation. (J) Catholic theatogrzne (e, ¢, Bellarmine) acknowledue, snd we ackuowledge with them, it baptism and the Eucharist are princivalia, vrecipus, eximia salutatis noitrce saeramenta. It is also reported that both Dr. Dollinger and Bishop Reinkens made declarations in favor of tho validity of tha bishops' and priests’ orders in tbe Auglian Caurch. This action of the delegates is not ouiy important as indicating & union of the Eastern and Western Churceh, but also as bringing a new element into the strugglo between Old Cathioli- ciem and Ultramontanism, namely, tho recogni- tion and moral support of the Greek and Anglican Churcbes, which the Old Catnolics will bave. Heresfter they will fight with spiritual allies ; aad the very fact of knowing that they Lave the sympathy and recoguition of two other powerful Churches, and are grounded in tho same orthodosy, will undoubtedly ivspire them to more determined cfforts than ever. RUSKIN. “There is but one Turner, and I am his prophet.” This gospel according to Ruskin has converted the people of Eugland. He preeched it to a world which went iuto raptures over Clande Lorraine and turned its back on Turner's misty shades with their stray gleams of dazzling color. He hfted up Lis idol and made his bear- ery worship it. Then Le dissccted Claude Lor- raino's style, pointed out bis too-ovident faults, hoaped ridiculs upon bim, and finally murdered his reputation and established his own. Sab- sequent works in criticism made fum 3 very Pope in the eyes of wsthetic England. is painfully-ludicrous essays in polizical economy marked the beginuing of the decay of his great powors,—a decay that is still going on. Mo sauk ika Carlyle, whom he in some thingy strik- into a common scold. “‘What- ever is, is bad,” became Lis crecd. One dsy ho ragedin a columa letter to 8 newspaper against two Americrn girls who ate caudy in sight of Juliet (mythical) tomb, The nexthe published an app=al to Oxford students to dig ditches for tho seke of the Beautiful with a big B. A week afterwards. he bad abandoned this scheme and was busy at sometbing else. Still, despite this erratic round of triviality, sparks of the old flaie flzeb out, mow and then, in the monthly numbers of his * Fors Clavigers.” Its last issue has & magnificent arraignment of tho ruters of England, in tho midst of which the writer 8ays, with 8 pride nobler and greater than the pride of blood which ho mocks: **Who am I that I should challenga you, do you ask ? My mother was a sailors daugher, g0 plenso you; ons of my aunts was a baker's wife—the other a tanner’s; and Idon't know much more abont my famils, except that thero used 10 be & green-grocer of the name in a small shop noar the Cryatal Palace.” There aro fow Englishmen who would dare to pen such & paragraph. Later on, Ruskin bursts oat agw, saying: “ Here am I, seer and prophet; I tell you, Englshmen, that in worshiping Mammon ratber than tho Lord of Hosts you are going headlong to destruction; the prophet who says so is » prophet by virtuo of himeolf alone, 2s was the Son of the carpenfer.” The “Lord of Iosts™ in this passage is Ruskin's Theory of art. e wasonce almost 3 dovotes. Sama of his eazlier art-ideas wers based on texts ingly resembles from the Bibie. Now be Las rejected the God of his vouth. He rejects his fellow-men. They have littlo in common with bim. His isolution shows jtself in tae strain of usdness which runs tlrough his later works. Itis pitiful to have tliis passage come from the pen of & great man: Ifeel the separstion between me and the peopls around me, 8o Litterly, in the world of my owa which Abey cannot euter; and I see their entrunce to it now barred so abusluzoly by (heir own resolves (they bav- fpg deliberately 2nd self-congratulatingly chosen for themselves the Manchester Coiton Mill iustead of the Titian), thit it becomes overy hour more urged upon e that I shall have to leave—not father and mother, for they have left me; por children, nor lauds, for T Lnave one—but ut lesat this spiritual laud and fsir do- main of buman art and uatural pesce—because I ama en of unclean lips, and_dwell ip the midst of a peo- ple of unclean lipe, end therefore am undoae, becanse infne eyes Lave keen the King, the Lord of Hosts. T 5 kay it, and boldly. Who else 18 there of you Who can stond with me, and say the same? It i3anageof peogresy, you tell me. Is your progess chiefly in thls, that you cannot see the King, the Lord of Iosts, but only Bual, instead of Him 7 The vital fauls of this philosophy i its failure to see that the worship of Baal—material prog- ress—must precedo that of tho Lord of Hosts, — that is, Art. The absorption in money-making, over which Mr. Ruskin grieves, is the necessary prelude to the wathotic culture for which tho ‘money, once made, will provide the opportunity. A striging incident in tbe present condition of the corn market was 1n the fact that, on Friday last, corn was sold at the Stock-Yards tothe own- era of cattlo at $1.25 per buskel, or 2} coats per pound. On'tho same day corn was eellihg in Livernool at 36s Gd per quarter of 450 pounds, or at 2 cents per pound in currency. This took place within 4 miles of the City of Chicago, in tho e of illinois, the great corn-proaucing dis- trict of the world. WHO D!SCOVERED AMERICA : AMERICA NOT DISCOVERED BY COLUMBCS: A MISTUIICAL SKETCH 0¥ THE DIsCOVERY OF AMERICA BT T Nors ¥ ane Tixry Cestony, By K. B. ANOERNON, L. M., of the Unversicy of W consin, §2mo., pb. 164.” Chicago: 5, C. Griggs & Co. Prof. Anderson writes with the enthusiasm of 2 Norseman in estublisbing the claims of his countrymen to the daring and disputed discovery of Awmerica; yet he writes with the candor requisite to the historian, and with 2 togieal strength of argument that indicates careful prepuration. The mystery that surrounds Newpcrt Tower, zad the Dighon Writiug-Rock Inscription, and tne skeleton in armor exhumed near Fall River, tease the curi- osity, and excite interest iu any iogenius story that promises to account for their existence. Prof. Anderson’s esshy is but a sketch— an outline merely ; yet it is skilifuliy traced, and made firm in all the outlines. The filling-up of the pieture—which, for lack of authentic ma- terials, wust be accomplishied eolely by the imagination—be has wisely not undertaken. The argumeut beging with a brief resiew of the claims of the Lienicians, Greek, Irsh, and Welsh, to the discovers of the Western Cop- ! tineut, The author thinks it can ecarcel be doubted thac te Greek philosopler Pytheas traversed the Atlantic Ocean about 340 years beiore Christ. Aathet way be, by this discos- erv of Thule Jecland), he at least opened the way to Awesica for the adveuturons Norsemen. From tie Canaries, which wero discovered and colouized by tise Pheuiciuns, the path is short across the waters to America, and the theory is plaunible, whick some sustain, that these darinz sailers from the Slediterranean extended their vosages until thev touched the eastern-shores of our contivent. It is belioved by wany that the Welsh, under the leadersbip of Madoe, made a settloment in this country in 1170. In ihe Eyrbygija Sags, it is 6ad that a Norso vavigator, named Gudlief Gudlangson, undor- took a voyage from Dublin to lecland, sud was driven by wor:heaat winds far Lo the west and soutiwest, when bo sighted land, entered o good Larbor, and was greeted by s sirange peo- tle, who spokes lsnguage thst appeared to be the Irish. In the Saga of Thortin Kerisefne. tlus portion of Americe, supposed to include North and Scuth Carolina, Georgis, and East Flonda, is called Island eah Alyhla,—thet is, Great Iceland, It1s cloimed that the frish who vieited and inkabited Iceland in the latter part of the eighth century, snd wore found npon the Faroe Isles as estly us 723, made a vorageacross the Atlautic, and founded a colouy iu Americs loug before Gudlangson's voyage, which they caided Great Irelavd. ® But Prof. Andersop barelyr glances at thesc verious theories before turning to the main question under discussion, viz: Who were the Norsemen, and what part had they in the dis- covury of America? The Norsemen wers & branch of tbe Gotlic race, that at an early date emigrated from Aeia, and, turning their faces westward snd northward, fivally setiled down m the west portion of the Kingdom of Norway, Their lauguage was the Od Norss, still spokem in Iceland, and the base of the modern Norse, Danish, and Swedish tongues. They were a brave aad free people, and made themselves known cverywhero in the civilized world by their during as soldiers sud navigators. In the pinth century ther discovered Jeeland, sud estabiished a Republic there, which endured 400 years. From lcelindit was anear snd essy Sstep to Greenland ; and we find that, in the teuth contury (934), Enk tho Led surmoanted that step, and discovered the region to the west of which tempest-tossed mariners from time to time had broughit bome reports, A Rourishing colony waasoon growivgm Greenland, about Gardar, the capital city. - This colony, which be- came subject to Norway 1o 1261, maintained its connection with the motker-coun:ries for four centuries, and then disappeared aud was nearly forgotien. From the Icclandic Sagas comes car informa- tiou regarding tho various discoveries of the Norsemen. Those relating to their adveutures m America are included in tho celebrated Codex Flataecusis,—a book written oo parchment, and finished in 1357. *7This work,” saye Prof. Anderson, *wrilten with great care, and executed ia tho bighest siyle of art, is now preserved in ity integrity in the archives of Cupeubagen, and 3 carefully uted ¢opy of it iy to be found in Mimer's library at the University of Wisconsin, Tuese Sazas, whose statements aro copsidered by tho best authoiities as perfectly authentic, tell us that tho Noiscmen had excellent sea- going vessols, como of which were of large size. Olaf Tryggvason's Baga = describes ona of their slups, which was built of tho choicest material, which contamed tlirty-four rowing-benchies, and Liad a Iength of 140 feet in the keel. Its stem 20d stera were overlaid with zold. The $agas tell us, moreover, that tho Norsemen undeyatood tho art of navigation, and Lknesw Low to calculate the course of the sun 2nd moon, and 10 measure tina by the stsrs. Ia 986, Biarnoe, 2 man of enterprise and the owner of a merchant-ship, sct out from Iceland to vieit Greezland, the resideuce of hig fatker. o encountered fogs and severa nmorth winds, which drove him far out of his way, antil, io the end, ho saw the outlives of sa unknown landon tha weateru horizop. On uearing it, the shors way found to be fiat and covered with woods, sud baving a rm of low hills in the background. It was tco low, and too green, and too far south, for the country bowas looking for; thereforo Bjarue did not land, stood out to se2, and ssiled on two days northward. Land sgain came into sight, and still it was pot Greenlaud. Turning sca- ward once more, a third land was made after thiroo days’ travel, and yet Bjarno would not stop ashore. Thus they sailed on four daya longer, when they reached Greenland, and by chauce cast anchor near the spot where the father of Djarne hadsettled. Itcaanot bedetermied now what portions of the American comst came i view of Bjarae, but coajecturs poiats to Nun- tuckot, Nova Scotis, and Newfoundland, as tho piobable places. Whon Bjarns told of the lsnds be had sson, ! yhat human gonius and laudable enterp -the last expedition to Vinlaud. on b3 retura to Norway ventwrous epirits e ' Tox yun and explore those 1ads, and jsgry | taey bad to sield wp. Ac.:u:d‘if:fl: 500, 800 of Enk the Ted. tha g Greenlaud, set sailin Djaraey gh; uad bought, with a erew of men. They foand tha country w; described, 20, toucning first at Q'S;n e by foundland) aod Marataad (Nora Segis OF thes explored somewhat, they prgeg 2, southward uatil they reached Mougs o This they enteted, and, beiug pleaseq 1, Prospeet, they rosolved to siay ghrgr 3 wiater, ud o built thom & large g & noar what s now Fall uver, v %@ a5, & German, named Tsier, of g,,mo" Dacty, strayed avay, aad b comrudn 1 O3 hiad been Llled by the Tudiags. Tarsg: ing, lowevar, bo returned to tho e, g, up s0mo fruit in bus hands, aud ey L3 babbling German in a wild 15d drugte, He had found grapes in bis raoderin. 8307, %0 -intoxicated with tho sight agd E'.:.:":.T‘ {roit that he shouted, in lus na ** Weintrauben ! Weintraab stance gave the namo of g country, and to Listory the fack that a G, Was ove of tho pariy of Eurapeaus thag, year 1,000, firut trod tho oil of Ameri Tlio following spring Leif Brikson reraryey Greepland. Two lat o years later, by, ‘borwald, to whom he lent bhis g 72 s voyzze to America, and romaized thary oara. " Bu: the eutorrise was fatal to Thors, for, in & baztle witk the ndians, uaatroy gie bis side, causing bis death, and ba way h;,::d Vinland. In 1852, the:e was exhumed, ney g Riiver, a skeleton in ancient sroor, Whoss s it, of ot Thorwald Ertkson's ? » Tu 1005, Thorstein, the youngest Thorwald, resoved to go o \‘:‘;mubm" 4 home tho body of tho buriod hero, Hi yer) wag manned with twenty-five men, andhis ng, Gudrid, sccompavied bita. Dot they toxesyg summer on the scas, 2ud fnally, when ke iand, it proved to bs, vot Vinland by gy western coxst of Gieculand. Hero Thuryes and geversl of bis men dej gy Gudrid returned home 1o Norway. & pu and-a-balf later, Guand marvied 3 weakby nyy sod s bold explores vamed Thotiic Racla: and,io the wpring of 1607, went wil bin Vinland. The expedition whith Thorin ey mended included 150 men aud ceven womm and herds 2nd fiocks of catle und ehecp. Tay reached their Laven in safety, and remsized o Vinland throe Tears, when bostilities wih the Indians compeffed the party to lease the oy, try. But Tuortinn and Gudiid tack ansf wig them a eon 2 years of age. Tuus Snorre Ther finaon, 8 the boy was called, was the fret cirg of European blood boru in Atweries. Promps says Prof. Auderson, Thorwaldson, the grat Dunish sculptor, 1 Lineally descendsd. Tp in. scriptidn on Dighton Writing-Rock bears tei. 1mony to the prasczca of Kerlsefne andlis cok ony in Tauntou River. The learnea Prof. Rusy travslates it 38 follows: “Thorfa, wit 11 Sorse seafaring men, took possession of ts fand.” “The Sagas give elaboiate aceounts of ol extediticns to Viniazd, viz: ono Ly Frey 1011; ancther by the Bishep Erik Usei in and atill tlers to Great l1elaud, or North souih Carolina and Georgia. The last epede tion recorded took piaco in 1347, at the begiasicy of the Great Plague that for thres yeus de vastated Euroge, and 1o that time reduced s iuhabitants of Norwas from 2,060,t00 to 0,00 It is evident, as Prof. Andersou remarks, thiia population enfecbled to this degres wu m louger in a condition to seod colonisis 10 3 distant couutry. To sustain the theory that Columbus kuerof the discovery of America by tho Norsemeats fore he set out in search of it, Prof. Aulry rings forward five propositions : Firsi—Cole bas visited Ieolard in 1477, cnly 120 yean s In bis enovza tions with the Dishop aud learned men of s island, what topic was' more likely to stise fa diseussion than the vovages of Noree vavigats to the great continent Iyivg westward ? S Gudrid,tl:o wife of Thorivu and mother of Szom, visited Rome after ber husbana®s death. By was deeply interosted in geograplicsl discort ies, and undoubtedly beard wich the lirel concern the storics Gudrid had to tellof b three years' residence in Viuland. Third—Fa Pasclial IT., iu 1112, appoiuted Erik Upsi Lishey of Iccland, Greeulzud, and Vinland; wl that Prelate went to Vinland a1 3 wissionaryin 1121, Fourtn—Thereis ovidsncs— uat, howover, abgolute—that Colambus bad o portunity to see a map of Vinlaud, which v precured f.om the Vatican for the Pimzocs Fifth—Adam of Bremeu, 2 canon ard histce of Ligh uthority, wko lived in thoelere ngz, in an addendum, a gesgraphical treatisic * On tho Position of Denmark a0 0t Regions Loyond Devmark.” Afier doscribing Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Tocland, acd Greea land, the author gaya : * Desides thess, Lereis sull avother region, which Las been sisited by any, lsing in that ocvan [the Atlantic], sk3 is calied Vinlaud, bacause vines grow thes spontancously, producing very good wine; e likewiso springs up there withous bemg soae “Ihis ve Luow,” he adds, *pot by fauhts canjecture. bu: from posizive statementsof 90 Danes.” Adam of Dremen's buok was publistel in 1073; and, according to tue argumest, Colem- bus, being au educated man, conld not harebesd iguoraat of 50 important work. Prof. Auderson csicems Columbus & grestT man for . a6 it 18 Lis Lelief, gatlered sl e iuformation accessile with exwteuce of s Western Contincot, e curing o firm foundation for his confidence® the renult of his ambitious eaterpriss, ere £ satted across the patifess decp in et of an uvknown land. To quote the P fessor's own words: “If our theor. ie% docy uot make Colambus ont as huo = wood @ map me the reader may b cousidered bim, wo sull imsst US it proves Lim & man of extraordinary Ul shows that bie discovered America by windy 5% research, and nos Ly accident snd inpirstl Care should ulways be taken to vindiutasuft vames from sccident or iuspiration. It defesid one of the most sujutary purpf?!):fixfilm ';]—Ifi; sy, whidhi a and biography, which is to furuish examp 00 accomplish.” These questiops coneeRdE Cotcabus, which Prof, Anderson sacgesth &% soud ones for debating eocietics t exercisd their ingenuity upon. g et tho. totereating hiciorical skeich wo bave reviewed, there i, iu the sa2 ':-flj" a upplementary essay containing the mm::, «hich different scholars have borne (0 th¢ torical, linguistic, exd literary valué of Seandizarian Isuguages. e VIOMAN-SUFFRAGE AND THE BEECHER SCAE DAL. To the Editor of The Chicagn Tridunes Stz Whyjtho “Wowman Question” B3 :: sbould have, received o serious set-bck 03 couut of recent deselspments, has not beeuud o clear by thuse who have reproachfuliy d*‘L o with the * Religion of Gush™ aud Fm-w“ u_:: and seok with glad hasto to cast it, Wi FE7 into the Embo of exploded theories, ‘tT grew tnto eminence hecause of Lis g1ett WL waich hio dovot2d to prizciples of Pereos er erty, justico, and love. 12 he bes failed i 11ate those principles in his ows private T8, he liss ignored juatice and disgraced lov3 £ wo cocdemnn the principles? trutls if ic cliaace to hare beea adv who is not true? Reason distiogaishes 3505, ) e philosophy and the mau; 80l 3% xphflw bappens that tha men 13 Lesser thao B PO phx, 50, on tbe other band, the philosopd b2 £ood, aud the man worshy of coadeBTE ) *Tlie wisest, grestest, moanest Of I Sy loft bomad bisi 3 wrstcin u‘)flchgfir aure foundation of modorn thoaght. “Tho great tidal wave of Persusial besty pest Py x|